Recaps

After the system upgrade, Ling Yi began a mission in Shuiwen City, but a mysterious force suddenly sealed his powers and left him terrified. The force vanished, and he and Yin Wanqing discovered the Ling Realm had advanced before questioning the author, whose censored chapters had apparently triggered the crisis.

• Ling Yi reviewed the upgraded platform's missions, points, and store, then set out to expose a fake beggar in Shuiwen City.
• A force froze the world and sealed Ling Yi's power across the connected worlds, leaving him unable to move and afraid he might remain trapped forever.
• The seal disappeared, and Ling Yi returned to the Ling Realm, where he and Yin Wanqing calmed down and noticed the realm had reached Chaos Grade and his Law of World Breaking had reached 11%.
• Yin Wanqing summoned Uncle, and Ling Yi demanded to know what had caused the sealing force before beating him for his evasive answers.
• Uncle revealed that several chapters had been censored; Yin Wanqing warned him that his actions endangered countless lives, then sent him back after he promised to avoid further censorship.

Ling Yi identified the curse behind Liang Hai’s murder and confronted Du Bin over his mishandling of Guo Meimei’s case. After cursing Du Bin so he could never lie again, Ling Yi resigned from the Investigation Bureau and left the case to the others.

• Ling Yi examined the footage of Liang Hai’s murder and recognized the Soul-Painting Curse, concluding that a novice had cast it at the cost of their life.
• Ling Yi deduced that the curse master was likely connected to a merchant at Wuwu Commercial Building and linked the murder to Guo Meimei’s death.
• Ling Yi challenged Du Bin over his failure to investigate Guo Meimei’s allegations and used the Soul-Seizing Curse to make Du Bin unable to lie.
• Ling Yi placed his service pistol and investigator ID on the table, resigned, and left the investigation to the bureau.

After quitting their jobs, Ling Yi and Li Yue began a relationship and visited Guo Xiaomei, where Ling Yi broke her self-inflicted curse and saved her with the Life-Pardoning Curse. The chapter left Guo Xiaomei asleep and Li Yue worried about the cost of Ling Yi’s life-saving magic, though he claimed his life force was infinite.

• Ling Yi accepted Li Yue’s offer to try being his boyfriend, and the two left to eat together.
• Du Bin watched them leave, hired a curse master to kill them, and obtained five million from his father after the Truth Curse made him reveal his father’s secrets.
• Ling Yi sensed a curse at Guo Xiaomei’s apartment and broke the Spirit-Sealing Curse on her door.
• Guo Xiaomei told Ling Yi that the Dharma Curse Sect still existed in a hidden place called the Curse Realm.
• Ling Yi used the Life-Pardoning Curse to restore Guo Xiaomei’s health, and she cried herself to sleep in his arms.
• Li Yue asked about the Life-Decreeing Curse, and Ling Yi told her that his soul, primordial spirit, and life force were infinite.

Ling Yi told Li Yue about his immense soul, immortality, and sealed past lives, then warned Guo Xiaomei that the Special Bureau would pursue her for killing Peng Hai. As Du Bin hired Master Zheng to kill Ling Yi and the Bureau’s director led a team toward Ling Yi, several curse practitioners questioned the director’s ruthless orders.

• Ling Yi told Li Yue that he had mastered the curses in Curse Master and possessed an indestructible soul and nearly infinite life force, while his attempts to see his past lives revealed only chaos.
• Ling Yi explained that he had refused to join the Special Bureau and defeated director Guo Daoming’s party, then promised Li Yue he would protect Guo Xiaomei from the Bureau.
• Ling Yi gave Guo Xiaomei a curse implement for protection and left her at home after she declined Li Yue’s offer to stay with them.
• Du Bin hired Master Zheng for five million to kill Ling Yi, while Old Lin confronted Du Bin after the Soul-Suppressing Curse exposed Du Bin’s contempt for him.
• Guo Daoming led six other Special Bureau curse practitioners toward Ling Yi, declaring that Ling Yi—not Guo Xiaomei—was their target and must be eliminated.

Ling Yi used the Mind Curse to force noisy square dancers to keep dancing for twenty-four hours whenever they started, then went back to sleep. After Lao Mao warned him that Guo Daoming and Du Bin were coming for him, Ling Yi refused to flee and planned to face them with Yue'er at his side.

• Ling Yi used the Mind Curse on the square dancers and destroyed their speaker with the Lightning-Summoning Curse, leaving them terrified as they danced.
• The incident was posted online and became a trending topic.
• Yue'er arrived after Lao Mao could not reach Ling Yi, and Ling Yi learned he had dozens of missed calls.
• Lao Mao warned Ling Yi to leave Dafeng City because Guo Daoming and Du Bin, accompanied by a curse caster surnamed Zheng, were coming for him.
• Ling Yi told Yue'er he would confront his enemies rather than run, and asked her to stay by his side.
• Ling Yi and Yue'er decided to go eat, while Ling Yi said Guo Xiaomei had her own path.

Ling Yi’s test curse awakened a powerful curse master hidden in Yue’er, who grievously damaged Yue’er’s soul before Ling Yi trapped her in a white cat. The curse master revealed that a Realm Soul Fruit could restore Yue’er and that the fruits would ripen in the Curse Realm in three months, but a sudden green light outside the window interrupted Ling Yi’s plans.

• Ling Yi tested Yue’er’s aptitude with a Spirit-Tempering Curse, awakening a curse master who had concealed her soul inside Yue’er.
• The curse master attacked with a Death Wail, and Ling Yi used simultaneous curses to pull her soul from Yue’er and seal it in a painting.
• Ling Yi replenished Yue’er’s soul power, then forced the curse master into a white cat and bound her with Soul-Locking and Undying Curses.
• The trapped curse master said a Realm Soul Fruit could restore Yue’er’s soul origin and improve her aptitude, and that the fruits would ripen in three months.
• The curse master told Ling Yi that the Gate of the Curse Realm was in Kunshan but said she did not know where it was or how to open it.
• A swath of green light appeared outside the window, and Ling Yi and the white cat reacted with grim expressions.

Ling Yi dispelled Zheng Xiaoxiong’s deadly poison fog, killed the poison curse master and his accomplices, and confronted Guo Daoming to learn how to enter the Curse Realm. Guo Daoming attacked him with a Soul-Seizing Curse but failed, and the chapter ended with Guo Daoming ordering six Special Bureau curse masters to kill Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi used the Golden Light Curse to disperse Zheng Xiaoxiong’s poison fog, then used the Soul-Locking Curse to drag Zheng Xiaoxiong, Du Bin, and the young man surnamed Lin’s souls to his home and crush them.
• Guo Daoming arrived and charged into the complex after witnessing the three souls being taken, while the white cat explained that he bore the mark of someone who had been to the Curse Realm.
• Ling Yi jumped from his third-floor balcony, confronted Guo Daoming, and asked how to reach the Curse Realm.
• Guo Daoming cast the Soul-Seizing Curse, but Ling Yi was unharmed and seized him by the neck to demand the gate’s location.
• After Ling Yi released him, Guo Daoming realized the six curse masters he had brought from the Special Bureau were only watching, and ordered them to kill Ling Yi.

Ling Yi killed Guo Daoming and learned that the Realm Soul Fruit could grant control over the Curse Realm, with its gate set to open in three months. Back home, he used a spatial curse inheritance from the white cat to craft a curse artifact, while Yue'er remained unconscious and injured.

• Ling Yi learned from the white cat that the Realm Soul Fruit controlled the Curse Realm and that a Fruit-Seizing Tournament would precede its ripening.
• Ling Yi killed Guo Daoming, bound his escaping soul with the Soul-Locking Curse, and devoured it with the Soul Devourer Curse.
• The Special Bureau members invited Ling Yi to join them, but he refused and returned to his apartment.
• Ling Yi worried about taking the unconscious Yue'er to the Curse Realm, and the white cat offered him a spatial curse inheritance.
• Ling Yi sealed the Yuan Realm Curse into a jade thumb ring, creating a spatial curse artifact.

Li Xuan revealed her origins in the Curse Realm and explained how she came to possess Yue'er, prompting Ling Yi to set out early for Kunshan to seek the Realm Soul Fruit. On the way, their coach was stopped by villagers demanding a road toll, and three curse masters appeared, whom Ling Yi suspected had come for him.

• Li Xuan told Ling Yi about the Curse Realm's three great clans, her life as the Li Family's ostracized little princess, and her escape after her siblings ambushed her and exposed her knowledge of spatial curses.
• Li Xuan explained that Yue'er's damaged soul essence could only be restored by a Realm Soul Fruit, and Ling Yi resolved to reach the Curse Realm early through Kunshan.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan traveled by coach from Dafeng City toward Kunshan, hoping to find the gate before it opened in three months.
• At around two in the morning, villagers blocked the coach at a bridge and demanded a road toll; Ling Yi declined to intervene while passengers recorded the incident.
• Three curse masters arrived in another vehicle, and Ling Yi suspected Du Yun Feng had sent them to avenge his son.

Ling Yi used combination curses to kill Du Yun Feng and his hired curse masters, then searched Kunshan for the Gate of the Curse Realm. After getting its coordinates from the Special Bureau, he prepared to blast the gate open, despite Li Xuan warning that doing so could unleash the Curse Realm on the mortal world.

• Ling Yi teleported the three curse masters blocking the bus into Du Yun Feng's study, where their lightning curse killed Du Yun Feng as well.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan searched Kunshan for a week before Ling Yi asked Lao Mao to have the Special Bureau contact him.
• Lao Mao told Ling Yi that hundreds of copies of a Complete Compendium of Curse Books had appeared in Dafeng City, prompting widespread chaos.
• Special Bureau director Deng Hu sent Ling Yi the Gate of the Curse Realm's coordinates, and Ling Yi teleported to the rocky valley where it lay.
• Li Xuan warned that breaking the gate could let powerful curse corpses enter the mortal world, but Ling Yi began forming a lightning-and-fire combination curse to destroy it.

Ling Yi destroyed the Gate of the Curse Realm, hid it beneath a dangerous curse formation, and entered Three Curses City with Li Xuan to seek the Realm Soul Fruit. There, Li Xiaozi confronted them, and Ling Yi’s overwhelming display of stacked curses left her afraid to challenge him further.

• Ling Yi broke through the Gate of the Curse Realm, learned the Realm Soul Fruit was in Soul Valley, and concealed the gate beneath more than two thousand curses.
• Situ Longcheng, Feng Bing, and Li Aohu investigated the gate, but the formation killed four testers and transported two others away.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan arrived in Three Curses City, where Ling Yi questioned whether Yuan Zun had created the Curse Realm by devouring others’ life and soul power.
• Li Xiaozi demanded that Ling Yi hand over Li Xuan, who identified her as the sister responsible for her suffering.
• When Li Xiaozi told Ling Yi to stop, he formed more than a dozen layered Fire and Lightning Curses, frightening her into silence.

Ling Yi and Li Xuan explored Three Curses City, then infiltrated a shipment of Soul Crystals bound for the Situ Family and seized control of its guards. After discovering the flying curse artifact’s advanced array of seals, Ling Yi learned that the Situ Family kept its secret curse-art scrolls in a guarded curse tower.

• Li Xiaozi left after threatening Ling Yi, and Li Xuan explained her history and her connection to Situ Yanmu.
• Ling Yi browsed the Murong Family Curse Artifact Shop, learned about Soul Crystals, and left after the sunglasses-wearing shopkeeper found him interesting.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan went to the Situ Family’s Soul Crystal mine and followed a monthly shipment aboard its flying curse artifacts.
• Ling Yi used stacked Soul-Suppressing and Soul-Control Curses to take control of the hundred curse practitioners guarding the shipment.
• Ling Yi studied the flying curse artifact’s 399 seals and learned from Li Xuan that the Situ Family’s secret curse-art scrolls were kept in a guarded curse tower.

The Situ Family learned that its treasury had been robbed and pursued the culprits as Ling Yi destroyed the curse tower and returned to Li Xuan’s home. Li Xuan revealed the Reincarnation Curse and the family secret behind it, while Ling Yi learned that its power could summon a past reincarnation.

• Situ Longcheng ordered the Situ Family to prepare for the fruit-seizing assembly and discussed the Realm Soul Tree, Murong Haoyue, and the declining Curse Power.
• A curse practitioner reported that the Situ Family treasury had been emptied, prompting Situ Longcheng to seal Three Curses City and hunt for the thieves.
• Ling Yi’s attack triggered an explosion and purple lightning near the curse tower, while three flying curse artifacts drew the Situ Family’s forces in different directions.
• Ling Yi returned with Li Xuan to her dusty bedroom in the northern district, where she opened a hidden passage and retrieved the Reincarnation Curse.
• Li Xuan explained that her mother had hidden half of the Reincarnation Curse after Li Xuan’s father betrayed her, and told Ling Yi that the curse could summon one of a person’s reincarnated selves.

Ling Yi helped Li Xuan destroy the Li Family and take over Li Xiaozi’s body before heading toward the Ancient Battlefield to seek the Realm Soul Fruit. When the Reincarnation Curse failed to affect him, he realized he had neither a previous nor a next life, while his research into the Curse Realm’s history raised questions about Yuan Zun and the approaching Month of No Boundaries.

• Ling Yi sealed the Li Family estate with a curse formation set to destroy it in three days, while sparing women, children, and ordinary people.
• On the way to the Ancient Battlefield, Ling Yi rejected Li Xiaozi’s pleas and helped Li Xuan replace her soul in Li Xiaozi’s body.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan set out for the City of Ruins, planning to find a way into the Ancient Battlefield without confronting the three great families.
• After the Reincarnation Curse had no effect on him, Ling Yi told Li Xuan that he had no reincarnation and suggested they stop investigating the mystery.
• While they rested, Ling Yi read that Yuan Zun had seized the Curse Realm and that the ancient histories concealed the identity of the beings who fought curse masters.
• Ling Yi wondered whether the Ancient Battlefield held clues about those beings and the Realm Soul Fruit, and suspected Yuan Zun had deliberately hidden the past before the Month of No Boundaries arrived.

Ling Yi studied the dangers and methods of curse mastery while traveling with Li Xuan, then reached the City of Ruins with her and prepared to enter the Ancient Battlefield. They entered unnoticed, unaware that Li Xuan’s borrowed face matched a missing person the Situ Family was searching for.

• Ling Yi learned that curse masters consumed their life force and soul, lost their innate origins, and suffered the Heavenly Dao’s abandonment, while Curse Talismans and Curse Treasures could store curses in jade.
• Li Xuan asked whether Mortal Realm curse masters could be brought into the Curse Realm, and Ling Yi warned that the Month of No Boundaries might make the realm dangerous too.
• Ling Yi used jade from the Situ Family’s treasury to make Curse Treasures, while Li Xuan watched and questioned his ability to form seals so easily.
• After traveling for over a dozen days, Ling Yi and Li Xuan reached the City of Ruins and decided to rest before entering the Ancient Battlefield.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan entered the city without being stopped, unaware that Li Xuan’s face was Li Xiaozi’s and that the Situ Family had issued a missing-person notice for her because she might know about the Reincarnation Curse.

Ling Yi separated from Li Xuan in the City of Ruins, then killed the Murong Family pursuers who tried to stop him before entering the Ancient Battlefield to seek the Realm Soul Fruit. The chapter revealed that Murong Haoyue was possessed by an ancient soul seeking power, and that the Soul Tree Seed—not the fruit—controlled the Nine Great Curse Spirits and the Curse Realm.

• A City of Ruins patrol recognized Li Xuan as Li Xiaozi and reported her appearance to the Situ Family Clan.
• Ling Yi gave Li Xuan a bracelet containing a thousand curse treasures and sent her away with a Translocation Curse so she could escape the clans pursuing her.
• Murong Family members surrounded Ling Yi at the city gates, but he killed them with his Fire Curse and a thousand curse treasures, then returned to the hotel.
• Ling Yi left the City of Ruins and entered the Ancient Battlefield as the three great family clans mobilized to keep him from reaching Soul Valley and the Realm Soul Fruit.
• Murong Haoyue traveled from the Curse Realm to Dafeng City, while the chapter revealed that an ancient shattered soul had taken over his body and sought life force and soul power.
• The chapter revealed that the Realm Soul Fruit had become nine powerful curse spirits, while the Soul Tree Seed held authority over them and the Curse Realm; the border Soul Mist began to dissipate.

Ling Yi reached Soul Valley seeking a Realm Soul Fruit to repair Li Yue’s soul, but discovered that the fruits were actually intelligent Curse Spirits. After isolating them with the Yuan Realm Curse, he used its power to attack the spirits and prepared to force them to help.

• Ling Yi crossed the ancient battlefield, fought off Soul Devourer Demons, and immobilized others as he traveled toward Soul Valley.
• Ling Yi spent nearly ten days sealing Soul Valley’s entrance with a powerful formation before entering and finding nine green fruits on a strange Soul Tree.
• Ling Yi used the Yuan Realm Curse to isolate the Soul Tree, causing it to wither and its fruits to ripen, but the tree shattered and the fruits became nine intelligent Curse Spirits.
• Ling Yi summoned Li Yue and demanded that the Curse Spirits repair her soul, but they mocked him and absorbed his curse seals.
• Ling Yi discovered that he could damage the Curse Spirits by changing the rules within his small world, then snapped his fingers to attack them all.

Ling Yi left Soul Valley with Li Yue and the nine curse spirits as immortal cultivators and curse practitioners fought across the Curse Realm and into the Mortal Realm. After sealing the Gate of the Curse Realm, he found Dafeng City destroyed, met the Heavenly Dao, and regained his sealed memories and strength; he then sent Li Daoyuan back into the Curse Realm.

• Li Yue woke with her memories of Ling Yi erased, and Ling Yi explained her condition while deciding to let her return to an ordinary life.
• The soul mist cleared, allowing ancient immortal cultivators to emerge into the Curse Realm and clash with its curse practitioners.
• Ling Yi and Li Yue left Soul Valley with the nine curse spirits, and Ling Yi sealed the Gate of the Curse Realm after reaching it amid the fighting.
• Ling Yi and Li Yue returned to devastated Dafeng City, where the Heavenly Dao restored the city and its dead and sent Li Yue home to her parents.
• The Heavenly Dao unsealed Ling Yi's memories and strength, and Ling Yi sent Li Daoyuan, who had possessed Murong Haoyue, into the Curse Realm.

Ling Yi began another transmigration to build popularity and karmic fortune for the Ling Realm, then entered the Heavenly Origin Continent as a sixteen-year-old who chose mercenary work after persecution cut off his future at school. After activating the Blood Shadow System, he left Cloud and Mist City to hunt, while Bai Hongjiang ordered White City to keep watch on him.

• Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing planned to gather enough karmic fortune to let readers enter the Ling Realm through dreams, and Ling Yi adjusted his transmigration aura so his hidden consciousness clone could choose new auras.
• After enduring years of humiliation caused by White City, Ling Yi left school and told Xiao Bo he would become a mercenary to seek a chance to grow stronger.
• Ling Yi registered with the Mercenary Guild, received a novice badge and mercenary phone, and activated the Blood Shadow System, which let him summon defeated beings as loyal Blood Shadows.
• Bai Hongjiang learned that Ling Yi had become a mercenary and warned White City to monitor him without provoking him, especially if Ling Yi contacted Situ Yun's people.
• Ling Yi accepted a beginner hunting mission, took an alloy shortsword, and left Cloud and Mist City for the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range.

Ling Yi hunted a Thorn Poison Vine in Poison Vine Forest, summoned it as a Blood Shadow, and upgraded the system as it devoured more vines. With a third-rank Blood Shadow and a second summon slot, he considered what more lethal beast to hunt next.

• Ling Yi entered Poison Vine Forest with a speaker emitting infrasound and cautiously killed an immobilized initial-stage Thorn Poison Vine.
• Ling Yi summoned the vine as a Blood Shadow, which became a first-rank magical beast and began hunting and devouring other Thorn Poison Vines.
• The Blood Shadow advanced to the second rank, and Ling Yi gathered enough Hunting Points to upgrade the system to level two.
• The upgrade raised the Blood Shadows’ strength multiplier to four and advanced Ling Yi’s Thorn Poison Vine to the third rank, granting it Shadow Walk.
• Ling Yi decided the stealth-focused Thorn Poison Vine lacked killing power and considered which more lethal beast to summon in his new slot.

Ling Yi upgraded his Blood Shadow System by hunting in the Poison Vine Forest and Bloodthirsty Swamp, gaining powerful Blood Shadows and reaching the peak Martial Venerable realm. As hurried footsteps approached, he hid in a tree after concealing himself and dismissing his Blood Shadows.

• Ling Yi advanced his Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vine to the fourth tier, then rode inside its protective vine cocoon to the Bloodthirsty Swamp.
• The Blood Shadow Thorn Poison Vine killed swarms of Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes, earning Hunting Points and allowing Ling Yi to summon a third-tier Blood Shadow Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquito.
• Ling Yi used his available summons to create three Blood Shadow Bloodthirsty Mosquitoes, which joined the Thorn Poison Vine in hunting through the swamp.
• Ling Yi upgraded the system to level 5, raising his Blood Shadows to the fifth tier and unlocking Blood Shadow Sharing and his attribute panel.
• Ling Yi reached the peak Martial Venerable realm, then concealed himself in a tree after hearing hurried footsteps and putting away his Blood Shadows.

Ling Yi killed Fourth Master Guo and the Blood Demon Sect-affiliated soldiers pursuing Zhao Zhenghai, then summoned Guo Ming as a Blood Shadow and learned more about Bai Hongjiang’s influence in Cloud and Mist City. After sending Guo Ming back to spy, Ling Yi returned to the city and decided to resume school and apply to a martial academy.

• Zhao Zhenghai, Wang Sheng, and Wang Ping fled into the Bloodthirsty Swamp, where Fourth Master Guo and over twenty Blood Demon Apostles cornered them.
• Ling Yi, concealed nearby, killed Fourth Master Guo and the soldiers, allowing Zhao Zhenghai and the two Wang brothers to escape.
• Ling Yi summoned Fourth Zhao as a Blood Shadow, ordered the Thorn Poison Vine to hide the corpses, and discovered that Guo Ming retained his memories.
• Guo Ming told Ling Yi that Bai Hongjiang had powerful allies, and Ling Yi ordered him to return and report on Bai Hongjiang and his son.
• Ling Yi sent his Blood Shadows hunting, collected a first-tier magical beast core, and updated his mercenary record.
• Ling Yi researched martial academies and decided to return to school, take the college entrance examination, and apply to one.

Ling Yi revealed his five-element Dao Master talent to his abusive teacher and classmates, making them fear the consequences of their past treatment of him. After learning Xiao Bo had left the city and checking his system, Ling Yi discovered his displayed realm was Martial Saint Realm, stage one.

• Ling Yi tested at the Mercenary Guild and learned he had Dao Master affinity for all five elements, including level-nine metal affinity, but did not apply to the Dao Master Association.
• Ling Yi returned to school, showed Jin Shiren his talent report, and announced his Dao Master talent to the class, leaving Jin and his classmates terrified.
• Ling Yi asked where Xiao Bo was, and Jin Shiren said Xiao Bo's family had left Cloud and Mist City with his maternal grandfather; Ling Yi then found Xiao Bo's email warning him to be careful.
• Ling Yi checked the Blood Shadow System and saw that his tier-six Blood Shadows had gained new abilities, including flight and a spatial void skill.
• Ling Yi postponed upgrading the system and questioned why his attribute panel listed his realm as Martial Saint Realm, stage one.

Ling Yi learned about the cultivation realms and discovered that Bai Hongjiang was accelerating a plan involving the Blood Demon Sect and an attack by the Thunder Demon Apes. After Guo Ming destroyed Cloud and Mist City's teleportation formation, Ling Yi left the city and set out to uncover Bai Hongjiang's hidden moves.

• Ling Yi discovered that his mercenary status had become that of an elite mercenary rising star and studied the differences between Spiritual Warriors, Genki Warriors, Dao Masters, magical beasts, and Blood Demons.
• Ling Yi made Jin Shiren treat Wang Bin equally in class, while Bai Hongjiang decided to activate the Blood Refining Grand Formation and ordered Guo Ming to destroy Cloud and Mist City's teleportation formation.
• The king of the Thunder Demon Apes ordered his army to march on Cloud and Mist City in half a month.
• Ling Yi arranged to leave the city, and Guo Ming destroyed the teleportation formation during explosions and fighting in the central district.
• Guo Ming warned Ling Yi that Bai Hongjiang intended to destroy Cloud and Mist City by involving the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range, then gave Ling Yi a formation-pattern key to pass through the city's defenses.
• Ling Yi told Guo Ming to prepare to advance to Martial Saint and flew out of Cloud and Mist City.

After upgrading the Blood Shadow System to level 10, Ling Yi gained new sharing and deployment features and led his Blood Shadows deeper into the Cloud and Mist Mountain Range to hunt for powerful creatures. He discovered an armed Thunder Demon Ape army linked to Cloud and Mist City’s defense troops, then launched an attack on its leader.

• Ling Yi’s Thorn Poison Vine and Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes used their new clone abilities to slaughter Fire-Patterned Giant Pythons while his Blood Shadow System reached level 10.
• Ling Yi reviewed the system’s new Blood Shadow Sharing and Blood Shadow Deployment features and recognized his growing strength, though he still wanted ranged attacks and area-of-effect skills.
• Ling Yi chose Thunder Demon Apes for their lightning abilities and Frost Azure Pythons as a possible mount, then flew toward the apes’ territory.
• Ling Yi found at least ten thousand armored Thunder Demon Apes carrying equipment matching Cloud and Mist City’s defense troops, and suspected Bai Hongjiang and his son had made a deal with them.
• Ling Yi approached the Thunder Demon Ape leader while invisible and in Void, then sent a Thorn Poison Vine and three Bloodthirsty Hidden Mosquitoes to attack it.