Recaps

After Bai Ling and Yan Ji cleared Ling Yi’s zombie-apocalypse mission in a day, Yan Ji suggested that he disguise the Heavenly Devil Mirror’s secret realm as the Nine Dragons Secret Realm and lure in the Three Realms’ experts. Ling Yi generated the opening effects, which made the secret realm appear to open early and left him preparing to trap the experts who came.

• Bai Ling and Yan Ji swiftly wiped out the zombies, interrogated a zombie scientist, and retrieved the antidote from the laboratory.
• Ling Yi realized that Bai Ling and Yan Ji knew the Nine Dragons Secret Realm’s setting and password unusually well.
• Yan Ji suggested using the Heavenly Devil Mirror to imitate the Nine Dragons Secret Realm and lure experts inside, while Bai Ling proposed suppressing their strength and forcing them to complete missions.
• Ling Yi decided to create the imitation himself, spent 10,000 Imitation Points, and generated the secret realm’s opening effects for 72 hours.
• A pillar of light and illusory dragons appeared over the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty and neighboring dynasties, shocking countless experts as Ling Yi began planning his trap.

Ye Fan and Fifth Master traveled to Great Wind City in the White Jade Qilin Carriage, where Divine Venerable Ziyun appeared and subdued Ye Fan with a Divine Restriction. She revealed that his Protagonist Aura had attracted her and told him to stay by her side while the Nine Dragons Secret Realm was open.

• Fifth Master and Ye Fan rode toward Great Wind City, where Fifth Master hoped to find his ninth imperial sister and Ye Fan sought an old acquaintance.
• Divine Venerable Ziyun stopped the carriage, entered it, and placed a Divine Restriction on Ye Fan.
• Ziyun inflicted unbearable soul-deep pain on Ye Fan until he begged, then stopped and called his Protagonist Aura formidable.
• Ziyun introduced herself and ordered Ye Fan to call her Your Majesty, promising he could seek revenge in the God Realm someday.
• Ziyun told Ye Fan to remain with her during the Nine Dragons Secret Realm and said he would understand why when he reached its third level; Ye Fan explained he had never advanced beyond the second.

Divine Venerable Ziyun forced Ye Fan to accompany her through the Nine Dragons Secret Realm, while Ling Yi’s group discussed how Protagonists shaped its challenges. Lin Zhiyu realized Ye Fan’s luck could help them locate the Protagonist on the secret realm’s third level.

• Divine Venerable Ziyun warned Ye Fan that Protagonists could still die and punished him after he questioned whether he had to obey her.
• Ling Yi sent more than twenty-five thousand people bound to him into the Heavenly Devil Mirror Secret Realm each day to grow stronger and earn Imitation Points.
• Lin Zhiyu told Yan Ji that her former disciple Ye Fan had betrayed and killed her, and Yan Ji explained the protection and luck granted to Protagonists.
• Lin Zhiyu realized that Ye Fan could serve as a tool person by finding the Protagonist needed to clear the Nine Dragons Secret Realm’s third level.

Ling Yi and his companions discussed the Protagonists of the Three Realms and learned that the Nine Dragons Secret Realm led to the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds. As Divine Venerable Ziyun and the Five Ghost Divine Venerable agreed to team up over Ye Fan, the Nine Dragons Secret Realm appeared unexpectedly near Great Wind City.

• Lin Zhiyu explained that Ye Fan was the Immortal Realm's Protagonist, while Lin Yanran was the Spirit Realm's Protagonist.
• Yan Ji said Ling Yi might be an invincible Protagonist destined to rule the Myriad Worlds, and explained that clearing the Nine Dragons Secret Realm was the only way to reach them.
• Ling Yi decided to set his plan to trap the gods in the Nine Dragons Secret Realm in motion as hundreds of thousands of gods gathered in Great Wind City.
• The Five Ghost Divine Venerable arrived at Divine Venerable Ziyun's courtyard and asked to team up over Ye Fan, and Ziyun agreed to write a contract.
• The Nine Dragons Secret Realm appeared ahead of schedule, and the Five Ghost Divine Venerable and Divine Venerable Ziyun rushed toward it with Ye Fan.

Ling Yi used the Heavenly Devil Mirror to open his fake Nine Dragons Secret Realm and drew in more than nine hundred million cultivators from the Three Realms. Just as he prepared to close it, the real Nine Dragons Secret Realm appeared, leaving Ling Yi and Yan Ji wondering whether his imitation had drawn it out.

• For half a month, cultivators poured into Ling Yi’s fake Nine Dragons Secret Realm until more than nine hundred million had entered, forcing him to keep his Invincible Domain active to stabilize the entrance.
• Yan Ji questioned how Ling Yi controlled the Heavenly Devil Mirror, and Ling Yi joked with her while refusing to reveal his secret.
• Ling Yi explained that the sixth level and an Awakened who could lead people there were traps involving game helmets and Contracts.
• After another nine days, Ling Yi tried to close the fake realm but saw that another entrance remained.
• Yan Ji identified the remaining entrance as the real Nine Dragons Secret Realm, which had opened years ahead of schedule.
• Ling Yi wondered whether creating his fake realm had attracted the real one.

Bai Ling’s memories returned, revealing her identity as the God Realm’s only Origin God, and she let Ling Yi copy her immense powers in exchange for a promise he did not yet understand. After entering the Nine Dragons Secret Realm, Ling Yi arrived in a familiar version of Great Wind City and discovered he could remotely bind people there.

• Bai Ling revealed she knew about Ling Yi’s system and offered him her Origin God abilities on the condition that he take her away when he understood who he was.
• Ling Yi copied Bai Ling’s Origin God Origin, Origin Arts, Tianyuan Mirror, Origin God Armor, and Origin Crystals, becoming an Origin God.
• Ling Yi stored the tool people in the World in the Mirror and traveled with Bai Ling and the others to the Nine Dragons Secret Realm.
• Ling Yi and his companions entered the secret realm and arrived in a familiar Great Wind City, where his powers and system interface still worked.
• Ling Yi failed to bind the passersby around him, but system notifications then confirmed that he had remotely bound Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi and completed their Imitation Degrees.

Ling Yi and the others entered the ninth floor after Bai Ling cleared the earlier floors at record speed. Since the ordinary modern world seemed to have no Transcendent powers, Ling Yi proposed that they avoid using any and find work, leaving the group unsure whether they would really have to earn money.

• Ling Yi was pulled away from Jingtai Residential Complex and carried through the dungeon’s changing maps as Bai Ling cleared floors one after another.
• Bai Ling, Yan Ji, Lin Zhiyu, and the others joined Ling Yi on the ninth floor, where Bai Ling explained that Must-Clear Mode offered tenfold rewards but no rewards for failure.
• Bai Ling said she had explored the ninth floor’s ordinary planet extensively but had found no Transcendent powers or advanced alien civilizations.
• Ling Yi suggested that the group avoid using Transcendent powers in case doing so blocked the main quest, and Bai Ling agreed to follow his lead.
• Ling Yi said they should find a place to stay and make money, rejecting Yan Ji’s suggestion to sell Spirit Stones or use storage rings.

Ling Yi returned to the apartment he had rented in his previous life and found it unchanged, though his body was missing. Surveillance footage showed another version of himself collapsing on the sofa after a scream, leaving Ling Yi shocked by the possibility of mutual Soul Transmigration.

• Bai Ling led the others away to help them obtain identification, while Ling Yi stayed behind and later headed to his old residential complex.
• Ling Yi recognized the familiar grounds and confirmed that his former rental was still in Building Ten, Unit Three, Apartment 602.
• Ling Yi entered the apartment and found half-eaten instant noodles and his computer still running, but his body was gone.
• Ling Yi checked the surveillance footage and saw a figure resembling him scream, fall, and later emerge from the study before collapsing on the sofa.
• Ling Yi concluded that the figure was likely his other self from the cultivation world, and he stood in shock when the footage showed what happened next.

Ling Yi reunited with Yin Wanqing and Uncle in the Ling Realm after his memories were unsealed, while Bai Ling and the others found a different Ling Yi whose soul had swapped with him. The chapter leaves them pursuing the ninth-level secret realm’s likely solution as Uncle lamented the falling popularity of his novel and Yin Wanqing asked him to keep writing.

• Ling Yi unsealed his memories, left a clone with the Imitation System, and entered the vortex to meet Yin Wanqing and Uncle.
• Bai Ling and the others obtained identity cards, then encountered a Ling Yi who had no Transcendent power and said he had swapped souls with another Ling Yi.
• Bai Ling realized the two Ling Yis likely needed to return to their own worlds to clear the ninth level of the Nine Dragons Secret Realm.
• Yin Wanqing told Ling Yi that the world had been captured by the Ling Realm and that he had needed to max out his Plot Points before leaving.
• Ling Yi sensed that popularity flowing into the Bridge of Karmic Luck had fallen sharply, and Yin Wanqing asked Uncle whether he could write for another five years.

Ling Yi maintained his carefully ordinary high-school life while managing wealth and success in secret, waiting for a moment that had been ten years in the making. On his way home, he noticed a strangely positioned surveillance camera with a faint blue light and sensed that something was unusual.

• Ling Yi ignored Zhou Yun’s warning during class and concealed his ability by deliberately scoring 148 on a math exam.
• Zhou Yun asked Ling Yi why he kept his scores around the top ten, but he assured her he was doing his best and left.
• Ling Yi replied to messages about his bestselling novel, investment profits, and a property purchase, then asked an associate to find a small apartment near Dafeng City No. 3 Middle School.
• Ling Yi bought the evening newspaper and noted that City No. 3 Middle School would be the Eastern District’s main college entrance examination site.
• Ling Yi spotted a surveillance camera facing a crosswalk, noticed its faint blue indicator light, and crossed beneath it while suspecting it was unusual.

Ling Yi had spent ten years living under his third uncle’s roof while secretly building a fortune, all to protect the apartment his relatives coveted. As he turned eighteen, he faced the moment when his family’s agreement was due to come to an end.

• Ling Yi returned to his apartment and gave Wang Guifang the agreed-upon three hundred yuan in monthly living expenses.
• Ling Yi checked his encrypted bank account, which held more than 2.147 billion yuan.
• Ling Yi recalled how, at eight, he had recorded Ling Jianguo and Wang Guifang discussing a plan to kill him and used the recording to force them to sign an agreement protecting him until he turned eighteen.
• Ling Yi had used his knowledge from his previous life to publish seven hit novels and grow his stock-market investments to nearly a billion yuan.
• At fifteen, Ling Yi had anonymously invested in a newly founded food delivery platform.

Ling Yi reflected on his hidden wealth, unclear memories, and dormant system before facing his third uncle’s family as they pressed him to hand over his house early. After refusing to break the agreement, he considered their growing suspicions and kept the evidence he had gathered against them ready for later.

• Ling Yi recalled that his platform shares were worth over two billion yuan and wondered about his memories, the pale blue camera, and the system that had never activated.
• At dinner, Ling Jianguo and Wang Guifang urged Ling Yi to transfer his house before his eighteenth birthday, while Ling Xue'er watched uneasily.
• Ling Yi insisted the agreement would be honored only after his eighteenth birthday, and Ling Jianguo backed down when he saw Ling Yi would not yield.
• After dinner, Ling Yi concluded that his third uncle’s family might act out of line during the next three months and decided to focus on his college entrance exam for now.
• Ling Yi checked an encrypted folder containing recordings and evidence against Ling Jianguo and Wang Guifang, including a prepared report alleging attempted murder, but decided the time to use it had not yet come.

Ling Yi bought a secure, furnished apartment and prepared for the agreement with Third Uncle’s family to expire in three months. He remained wary of their future demands and of mysterious surveillance devices near his school, but focused on keeping a low profile and studying for the college entrance exam.

• Ling Yi visited a residential development and paid 870,000 yuan in full for a one-bedroom apartment.
• Ling Yi bought a move-in-ready apartment in the same development for 920,000 yuan and took its keys.
• Ling Yi bought a high-security mechanical lock and replaced the lock on his bedroom door at Third Uncle’s house.
• Ling Yi reflected that the agreement would expire in three months and expected Third Uncle’s family to make further demands.
• Ling Yi noticed pale blue-lit surveillance devices around No. 3 Middle School and returned to his math workbook, aiming for a good but unremarkable exam score.

Ling Yi kept his identities as the celebrated web novelist Reincarnation and near-mythical stock trader LY hidden while attending high school. After his teacher questioned his exceptional writing, he decided to make his schoolwork less impressive, then managed LY’s trades during math class.

• Ling Yi checked Reincarnation’s publishing success and sent his editor Old Zhao a manuscript update and a note about a future book project.
• Zhou Yun returned Ling Yi’s composition, praised its writing, and questioned how an eighteen-year-old had developed such skill.
• Ling Yi worried that Zhou Yun might connect his writing to Reincarnation, so he decided to keep future compositions around forty-five points instead of scoring near the top.
• Ling Yi received a trade report from LY’s assistant and ordered the assistant to hold Blue Fish Technology shares for three months and watch for a US Federal Reserve signal to increase securities holdings.
• Ling Yi reflected that he had grown his initial 80,000 yuan into nearly one billion by using memories from his previous life, though his precise early trades had nearly caused securities firms to freeze his account.

Ling Yi continued to conceal his identity as the trader LY while managing his investments and directing Flash Delivery from behind the scenes. He noticed a suspicious van near his school, but it disappeared by the time he left that evening, leaving the threat unresolved.

• Ling Yi reflected on his wealth and his reliance on intelligence rather than superpowers, then saw a newspaper report about LY's latest trade.
• Ling Yi exchanged messages with Flash Delivery founder Chen Feng and directed him to improve efficiency and reduce rider subsidies.
• Ling Yi recalled how he had secretly funded Chen Feng with a detailed business plan, turning Flash Delivery into a platform valued at over ten billion yuan.
• Ling Yi spotted a black van parked repeatedly near the school gate, memorized its license plate, and noted it in his textbook.
• Ling Yi considered the van, his uncle's family, the pale blue camera, and his still-silent system as he waited for events to unfold.
• Ling Yi left school late in the evening and noticed that the black van was no longer at the gate.

Ling Yi found the badly wounded Chu Ran in a dark alley and discovered that she was a superpowered individual when his system finally activated. He carried her to his apartment to keep her alive and fulfill the system’s two-hour contact mission, but he could not stitch her deep abdominal wound himself.

• Ling Yi followed the smell of blood to an alley and found Chu Ran, the school belle, badly injured and close to death.
• A system activated when Ling Yi was near Chu Ran and assigned him to stay in contact with a superpowered individual alone for at least two hours.
• Ling Yi realized Chu Ran was the superpowered individual and treated her wounds with strips of his uniform jacket.
• Ling Yi decided not to call his uncle or an ambulance because others would interrupt the required contact, and carried Chu Ran to his newly purchased apartment.
• Ling Yi cleaned Chu Ran and checked her deep abdominal wound, but he lacked the tools and skill to stitch it.

Ling Yi waited for the activation mission to finish while caring for the wounded superpowered student Chu Ran, who asked him to hide her. When the countdown ended, the Summon System activated and welcomed him back, hinting that it recognized him from other worlds.

• Ling Yi treated Chu Ran’s claw-mark wound, brought her home, and waited for the system countdown to end.
• Chu Ran woke and questioned Ling Yi, who revealed he had deduced she was a superpowered person and explained why he had avoided calling the police or an ambulance.
• Chu Ran accepted water from Ling Yi, asked him to hide her, and passed out again.
• Ling Yi considered what Chu Ran’s injuries and pleas suggested about superpowered people and the danger chasing her.
• The mission countdown reached zero, and the Summon System officially activated, welcoming Ling Yi back.

Ling Yi studied the Summon System and used his free summon ticket to summon White Bone Demon from the 1986 Journey to the West television series. She appeared in his living room and greeted him as her master.

• Ling Yi read the system instructions and learned how summoning, energy, the Summoning Space, and sharing abilities worked.
• He claimed his newbie gift pack, receiving a small energy crystal, a free summon ticket, and Basic Perception Skill.
• Ling Yi studied the system’s functions and chose White Bone Demon for her intelligence, transformation abilities, and tactical usefulness.
• He used the free summon ticket to summon White Bone Demon, whose strength was assessed as Fifth Tier.
• White Bone Demon appeared in Ling Yi’s living room and bowed, greeting him as Master.

Ling Yi shared the White Bone Demon's Fifth Tier power and abilities, then left her to protect the injured Chu Ran while he rested. When Chu Ran woke, she faced White Bone with a shadow ready to attack and accused her of being connected to the Kami Church.

• Ling Yi shared the White Bone Demon's strength and abilities, gaining Fifth Tier power and sensing that Chu Ran was Fourth Tier and had been wounded by a Fifth Tier opponent.
• Ling Yi told White Bone to pose as his older cousin and care for Chu Ran, while White Bone said she needed to examine the wound's residual dark energy to identify it.
• Ling Yi reviewed the system requirement to kill ten superhumans or invading monsters to reach Lv.1 and noted the approaching college entrance exam and his family agreement's deadline.
• At seven in the morning, Chu Ran woke and gathered a mass of black shadow in her palm as White Bone offered her porridge.
• Chu Ran demanded to know who White Bone was and asked whether the Kami Church had sent her.

Ling Yi and White Bone cared for the injured Chu Ran, while White Bone introduced herself as Ling Yi’s cousin, Bai Susu. After leaving for school, Ling Yi experienced another fragmented vision of a spatial rift unleashing monsters over the city, adding to his growing suspicion that his scattered memories foretold major events.

• Ling Yi confirmed he had saved Chu Ran, and she thanked him while probing White Bone’s presence and sensing something terrifying.
• White Bone introduced herself as Bai Susu, Ling Yi’s older cousin, and gave Chu Ran a bowl of warm porridge.
• Ling Yi asked Bai Susu to look after Chu Ran, then changed into his school uniform and left for school.
• At the school gate, Ling Yi saw a vision of a spatial rift opening over the city as black monsters poured out and people fled through ruined streets.
• Ling Yi connected the vision to other fragmented memories that had warned him about Ability User detection and an impending event during the college entrance examination.

Ling Yi attended school as usual while investigating his strange memories and the signs of increased superpower surveillance. After returning home, he offered the injured Chu Ran a choice between leaving after recovering or telling him what happened in exchange for his help, reframing it as a deal.

• Ling Yi told White Bone to stay home and protect Chu Ran while he went to school.
• Ling Yi overheard teachers discussing new college entrance exam detection equipment and suspected the Superpower Bureau was tightening its screening.
• Ling Yi revisited the alley and saw a memory fragment of a dead man in a black robe lying where Chu Ran had fallen.
• Ling Yi returned home and learned from White Bone that Chu Ran had woken briefly and was healing quickly.
• Ling Yi offered Chu Ran the choice to leave after recovering or explain what happened so he could help her, and called the offer a deal.

Ling Yi learned that Chu Ran belonged to the Kami Church and had joined to find her captured parents, who were being forced to develop a short-lived superpower drug. Chu Ran revealed her shadow-manipulating abilities, while Ling Yi recognized the Kami Church from a fragment of memory.

• Ling Yi told Chu Ran that he also had unusual abilities and let her choose what to reveal.
• Chu Ran explained that the Kami Church hunted superpowered people, believing their powers would help Kami descend.
• Chu Ran revealed she had joined the Kami Church after it captured her researcher parents and promised to disclose their location.
• Chu Ran said her parents' research could produce a drug that granted temporary superpowers at the cost of the user's lifespan.
• Chu Ran demonstrated her power by summoning a humanoid shadow, a shadow wolf, and a shadow shield, and explained that she could travel between shadows.

Ling Yi negotiated with Chu Ran for intelligence on the Kami Church and learned about its bases, a dangerous temporary-power drug, and a looming operation meant to cause chaos. A fragment of memory suggested the Church might target a school, while Chu Ran remained uncertain about Ling Yi’s reasons for helping her.

• Ling Yi offered to help Chu Ran rescue her parents if she shared everything she knew, obeyed his instructions, and did not lie to him, and Chu Ran agreed.
• Ling Yi, Chu Ran, and White Bone compiled intelligence identifying two Kami Church bases in Dafeng City and their known personnel.
• Chu Ran explained that the Church’s experimental drug granted temporary superpowers but cost users five to ten years of life per dose.
• Chu Ran revealed that the Church planned to attack an important location in Dafeng City to create chaos and conceal a larger operation.
• Ling Yi recalled a vision of students exposed to mutating gas and suspected the Church might target a school, though Chu Ran could not confirm it.
• Chu Ran asked Ling Yi why he was helping her, and Ling Yi said it was a transaction before leaving for his bedroom.

Ling Yi and White Bone raided a Kami Church factory, killed its members, and gathered enough energy to upgrade the system to Lv.1. After discovering a list that marked Chu Ran as S Grade, Ling Yi followed White Bone toward a basement containing more important items.

• White Bone sensed twelve Kami Church members at the factory, and Ling Yi began the attack while she took out the gate sentry.
• White Bone infiltrated the factory and drew the members out, allowing Ling Yi to defeat them and absorb their energy.
• Ling Yi’s energy reached 2,152 points, and the system upgraded to Lv.1, unlocking an expanded Summoning Space, Energy Detection, and Daily Check-In.
• Ling Yi found a Kami Church list that identified Chu Ran as Second Tier, S Grade, and pocketed it.
• White Bone told Ling Yi about a basement behind the factory, and he followed her to investigate.

Ling Yi and White Bone uncovered the Kami Church’s potion and its plan to use it at three Dafeng City college entrance exam sites. Chu Ran revealed how the Church had coerced her parents into developing the potion, while Ling Yi found the Heavenly Descent Plan’s target, scale, and exact time.

• Ling Yi and White Bone found maps marking three exam sites and test tubes of pale green Kami Potion in a basement.
• Ling Yi showed Chu Ran the potion, and she revealed that the Kami Church had kidnapped her parents and forced them to develop it.
• Chu Ran explained that the potion used Divine Blood from a Spatial Rift, consumed lifespan, and could cause genetic collapse that turned victims into monsters.
• Chu Ran gave Ling Yi a USB drive containing stolen Kami Church documents, including the Heavenly Descent Plan.
• Ling Yi discovered that the Church planned to deploy the potion at all three exam sites at 9:00 a.m. on the first exam day, affecting more than three thousand people.