Recaps

Ling Yi looked back on his decade as an unsuccessful webnovel author, from his early failures to the guidance that helped him earn a living writing. After Dolphin's restrictions and Taozi's departure ended his last published novel, Ling Yi kept writing privately while building a business.

• Ling Yi recalled discovering webnovels through pirated books and flopping with three million-character novels because he favored traditional prose over storytelling.
• After losing his job in 2011, Ling Yi decided to write full-time, and Dolphin editor Taozi taught him how to outline and engage webnovel readers.
• Ling Yi published Player Hunter, his first novel to earn money, then wrote five more novels at Dolphin and gradually made a modest living.
• Dolphin forced Taozi out and imposed tighter restrictions and reviews, so Ling Yi abandoned his final novel after about two hundred chapters.
• Ling Yi partnered with others to run a company but continued writing in the evenings, producing five or six unpublished novels over the next seven or eight years.

After realizing he had transmigrated into the world of his own unfinished novel, Ling Yi watched the novel’s three protagonists get into their first fight and wondered why he had come to this world. He left his unbearable dorm for a cheap hotel and approached its owner with an idea for making a fortune.

• Ling Yi recognized Wu Shuang, Jin Kun, and Ling Feng as the characters from his novel and recalled that they could use Mir game skills in the real world.
• When another group of students demanded the computer, Jin Kun started a fight, and the internet café owner broke it up and kicked both groups out.
• Ling Yi returned to his dormitory but fled from its stench and found a room at the Xiaoya Hotel.
• Ling Yi, unable to sleep and struck by the owner’s beauty, asked her whether she wanted to hear his idea for making a fortune.

Ling Yi persuaded Song Jingya to turn her guesthouse into a computer-equipped business through a profit-sharing deal with a local computer seller. After securing Ding Peng’s cooperation, Ling Yi revealed he wanted to save money and become a distributor, offering Song Jingya a share in a company he could not register under his own name.

• Ling Yi proposed raising the guesthouse’s room rates by installing computers and sharing profits with a supplier who provided and maintained them.
• Song Jingya agreed to partner with Ling Yi for thirty percent of the profits, and they signed a contract with a confidentiality clause.
• Ling Yi rejected one computer seller because he disliked the man’s appearance, then negotiated a deal with the more cautious Ding Peng.
• Ling Yi and Ding Peng signed separate contracts, leaving Song Jingya annoyed that Ling Yi had arranged an additional deal for himself.
• Ling Yi told Song Jingya he planned to save money and become a distributor, and offered her twenty percent of a company he would have to register in her name because he was only sixteen.

Ling Yi expanded the Shengda Platform across Anonymous City, founded Shengda Network, and organized teams to take the business nationwide. After Song Jingya injured her wrist, Ling Yi unexpectedly awakened a Healing Technique that instantly healed her wound, leaving him wondering what had activated it.

• Ling Yi turned hotels into internet cafés and expanded his software to include payments, takeout, shopping, and fiction, then founded Shengda Network with Song Jingya.
• Ling Yi assigned Zhang Hai, Lü Bo, and Ba Xin to lead teams promoting the platform, recruiting merchants, and building logistics networks across the country.
• Song Jingya reported that the company had made over a million yuan in net profit, and Ling Yi allocated funds and vehicles for the teams.
• Ling Yi noticed Song Jingya's injured wrist and comforted her, then unexpectedly cast a Healing Technique that healed the wound without leaving a scar.
• Ling Yi saw a notification reporting the healing skill's effect and proficiency gain, while Song Jingya wondered whether he had awakened a superpower.

Ling Yi discovered that his system let him combine Taoist, warrior, and mage abilities, then rapidly leveled up by blasting an ant colony with Fireball. After Song Jingya tested several skill books, a mage book merged into her, leaving Ling Yi to wonder what class she would receive.

• Ling Yi inspected his system, found Healing Technique, Fundamental Swordsmanship, and Fireball, and explained his abilities to Song Jingya.
• Ling Yi planned to visit the Great Universe Country to investigate Mir, while Song Jingya arranged their travel documents.
• Ling Yi blasted an ant colony behind the company, gained two levels at once, and collected equipment, potions, and skill books until he reached level 19.
• Song Jingya returned with travel arrangements and a meal, then Ling Yi showed her the skill books he had collected.
• Song Jingya failed to activate the warrior and Taoist books, but a mage skill book turned into light and merged into her body.

Ling Yi pursued Song Jingya, used Light of Temptation to secure control of the company behind Mir 2 and obtain its licensing rights, then built Shengda into a major online platform. He later enrolled at Red Maple City's First University of Finance and Economics, where Ling Feng was also a student, while waiting for the Mafa Continent's monsters to appear.

• Ling Yi met Li Xiaoli at the capital airport and, with her help, confessed to Song Jingya; Song Jingya accepted his pursuit.
• Ling Yi used Light of Temptation to control the Mir 2 development team and company executives, securing sixty percent of the company's shares and the game's licensing rights.
• Ling Yi launched Mir 2 through the Shengda Platform, where it became a hit and earned him over 180 million in six months.
• Ling Yi launched Shengda Chat and expanded Shengda into a broad online platform with games, media, delivery, commerce, and lodging services.
• Ling Yi arrived at Red Maple City's First University of Finance and Economics, where Ling Feng had enrolled, at level 60 with a complete Heavenly Set.

Ling Yi moved into a dorm with Ling Feng, Su Jiong, and Yao Chunhe, who learned that he was the young boss of Shengda. As the roommates bonded over Mir 2, Ling Yi explained his plans for an anti-addiction system and prepared for their strict military training.

• Ling Yi met his three roommates, and Ling Feng recognized him as Shengda's boss, astonishing Su Jiong and Yao Chunhe.
• Ling Feng, Su Jiong, and Yao Chunhe discussed Mir 2, and Ling Yi suggested they start together on a new server.
• Ling Yi described Shengda's planned anti-addiction system, including identity checks, facial recognition, and limits on students' playing time.
• Ling Yi called Jingya with instructions, bought four computers, and arranged a dedicated internet connection for the dorm.
• Ling Feng and Yao Chunhe played through the night, so Ling Yi told them to sleep before their class meeting and military training at the barracks.

While Ling Yi attended university, the Shengda Smartphone launched with his Shengda System, and he began expanding free 3G access and digital payments worldwide to strengthen Dragon Country’s technological and financial influence. As his plans took shape and other countries grew alarmed, Ling Yi also prepared a secret force of Mir 2 ability users for the future.

• Ling Yi completed military training and started university, where his enhanced intelligence made ordinary computer science coursework easy.
• Ling Yi gave Ling Feng, Old Yao, and Su Jiong Shengda Smartphones, which would connect to the internet after Dragon Country entered the 3G era.
• Ling Yi used free 3G access, smartphone distribution, and digital payment plans to expand Shengda’s reach around the world, prompting foreign leaders to fear Dragon Country’s growing financial influence.
• Ling Yi pursued advances across multiple industries and secretly formed a legion of 900 Mir 2 ability users, using Light of Temptation to secure their loyalty.

Dum-E Dai livestreamed a nighttime visit to Green Vine Park and witnessed Superpower Department operatives use Mir abilities to kill invading centipede monsters. The captain announced that the Mafa invasion had begun, explained how people could gain power by killing monsters, and left Dum-E Dai considering forming a party to hunt them.

• Dum-E Dai entered Green Vine Park to investigate reports of a giant centipede while streaming to her fans.
• A helicopter delivered six operatives dressed as Mir classes, and their captain ordered them to locate the monster.
• The operatives killed a giant centipede with Mir skills, then fought off a sudden swarm that surrounded them and Dum-E Dai.
• The captain told Dum-E Dai’s livestream that the Mafa invasion was underway, monsters would appear more often, and people could gain Life Essence Qi by killing them.
• The captain revealed that the government had formed the Superpower Department to fight monsters and punish people who abused their powers, then led his team away.
• Dum-E Dai watched the centipede corpses vanish into white light and wondered whether she should form a party to level up by hunting monsters.

Ling Yi prepared Dragon Country to turn the Mafa invasion into an era of three classes and led the Mir Legion toward a counterattack. After Fushi Country’s spies murdered Dragon Country’s soldiers, Ling Yi revived them and declared that Fushi Country would be destroyed as he summoned tens of thousands of skeleton soldiers.

• Dragon Country established Mir Class Certification Offices and regulations, while Ling Yi’s thousand-member Mir Legion prepared to invade the Mafa Continent.
• Ling Yi explained that Dragon Country had occupied grinding zones abroad, while other countries struggled with the invasion and their spies targeted Dragon Country’s forces.
• At Floating Corpse Mountain in Fushi Country, Ling Yi learned that spies had killed several of his soldiers using a disabling gas and ordered their remains brought to him.
• Ling Yi used his level-five Treatment Technique to revive the fallen soldiers, then donned the Heavenly Set and declared, “Fushi Country shall be destroyed. Undead calamity.”
• Ling Yi activated his level-five Raise Skeleton skill, summoning tens of thousands of level-seven skeleton soldiers before the world’s leaders watched by satellite.

After destroying Fushi Country, Ling Yi told Song Jingya that their world might be connected to the failed novel he had written in another world. He entered the Immortal Realm through a huge Teleport Gate, where a strange system asked whether he wanted to exit the world, and he chose to stay.

• Ling Yi used two hundred thousand skeleton pets to destroy Fushi Country, then ordered the special forces stationed there to return home.
• Six years later, Song Jingya read Ling Yi’s old novel and realized their world might be the world of that story.
• Ling Yi explained his connection to the novel, and Song Jingya suggested he might need to gain control over the world or its Heavenly Dao.
• Ling Feng called Ling Yi about a huge multicolored Teleport Gate, and Ling Yi left for the Immortal Realm after reassuring Song Jingya.
• A system repeatedly asked Ling Yi whether he wanted to exit the world, but he selected “no” and stayed in the Immortal Realm.
• Ling Yi examined the silver-armored heavenly soldiers guarding the Teleport Gate and checked his own Mir data panel.

Ling Yi fought an Immortal Realm Heavenly Soldier and discovered that the Immortal Realm was connected to the Mafa Continent’s invasion. After wearing the soldier down and using Light of Temptation to control him, Ling Yi prepared to question him about the invasion.

• Ling Yi fled when the Immortal Realm Heavenly Soldiers spotted him, but their leader pursued him through Teleportation.
• Ling Yi learned that the Mafa Continent’s invasion was connected to the Immortal Realm, then attacked the lone heavenly soldier.
• Ling Yi found that his attacks barely damaged the soldier and that the soldier healed himself by tens of thousands of HP, so he used Teleportation and spell interrupts to grind down the soldier’s health.
• After reducing the soldier to a sliver of HP, Ling Yi successfully used Light of Temptation to control him.
• Ling Yi asked the controlled heavenly soldier what was happening with the Mafa Continent.

Ling Yi kept the Teleport Gate to the Immortal Realm open, trained until he reached level 65, and reunited with Ling Feng, Wu Shuang, and Jin Kun before the plot-ending countdown forced him home. Back in the real world, he claimed Teleportation and level rewards, then found himself facing the ongoing dispute with his business partner, Wang Chengjun.

• Ling Yi questioned Gao Song about the Immortal Realm’s Teleport Gate and ordered him to return as a mole for the Southern Domain Lord.
• Ling Yi spent months grinding Demonic Beasts, reached level 65, and acquired the Clone Technique and One Kill in Ten Steps.
• Ling Feng, Wu Shuang, and Jin Kun found Ling Yi after the government took over the Mafa Continent.
• The system declared the world’s plot complete and forced Ling Yi back to the real world, where he chose Teleportation and levels as his rewards.
• Ling Yi checked his phone and recalled how Wang Chengjun had tried to take back his ten percent of their company’s shares and stripped him of most of his authority.

After leaving his logistics company, Ling Yi reviewed the twenty-two novels he had written to prepare for another transmigration. He agreed to help his childhood friend Lin Ni as her assistant, just as his system announced that a new transmigration was about to begin.

• Ling Yi sold his ten-percent stake in the company for two hundred thousand and left, then discovered his cloud drive held twenty-two novels that might each be a transmigration destination.
• Ling Yi spent half a month rereading all twenty-two novels, including his cultivation story about Ling Fan, who gained strength by working different jobs.
• On his sixteenth day back in the real world, Ling Yi received a call from Lin Ni, his childhood friend from the orphanage, who asked him to become her assistant.
• Ling Yi agreed to go help Lin Ni after she appealed to their childhood bond and threatened to give him a thrashing.
• Ling Yi's system announced that it had finished charging and began a countdown to his next transmigration.

Ling Yi entered the world of his unfinished online-game novel and logged into Heaven, where his extraordinary real-world stats gave him overwhelming strength. After choosing the swordsman class, he discovered that his Teleportation skill could keep gaining proficiency beyond the normal level cap.

• Ling Yi recognized the novel and learned that he had been assigned a place on the internet café owner's gaming team alongside Lu Jia and protagonist Lin Kai.
• Ling Yi memorized the coordinates of all eighty-one worlds on Heaven's one-time star map and spawned in World No. 81.
• Ling Yi saw that his player stats far exceeded ordinary players' and chose the swordsman class.
• Ling Yi used Teleportation to reach a forest outside town and confirmed that the skill's proficiency could rise without limit.
• Ling Yi resolved to focus on strengthening himself rather than getting involved in Lin Kai's story.

Ling Yi rescued Linglong Cat from a pack of wolves and recognized her as a heroine from his unfinished novel. She followed him while he rapidly leveled through powerful monsters, and the chapter ended with her asking what cheat he was using.

• Ling Yi killed the pack of wolves that had killed Linglong Cat, and she revived and asked him to carry her.
• Ling Yi recognized Linglong Cat, agreed to let her sell his drops for a ten-percent cut, and accepted her friend request.
• Ling Yi practiced Teleportation and Thrust as he traveled north, while Linglong Cat followed and helped collect equipment.
• Ling Yi and Linglong Cat crossed dangerous regions and reached Demon Dragon Ridge, where Ling Yi continued killing powerful monsters in one strike.
• After three days in the game, Ling Yi called it a day, and Linglong Cat asked what cheat he was using.

Ling Yi left the internet café after beating its owner and used his knowledge of the novel to steal three bearer cards from a hidden stash in Yu Wind City. Meanwhile, Lin Kai discovered he could cast Fireball in the real world.

• Ling Yi logged out of the game, where the café owner berated Lin Kai for being unable to learn skills beyond Fireball.
• The café owner tried to slap Ling Yi, but Ling Yi dodged, kicked him down, and left the internet café.
• Lin Kai warned Ling Yi that the owner was calling people, then watched Ling Yi leave by taxi.
• Ling Yi teleported into Song Ronghai's hidden residence and took three bearer cards holding three hundred million.
• Lin Kai returned to his rented room and discovered he could cast Fireball in the real world.

Ling Yi discovered that he could enter Heaven without a helmet and had copied and enhanced Lin Kai’s game-related ability, gaining unrestricted skill learning and proficiency. After rescuing Linglong Cat from a horde, he decided to head into the city to pursue the Skill Necklace that had been the protagonist’s opportunity.

• While Ling Yi waited in a hotel, Lin Kai discovered that he could log into Heaven without a helmet and use game skills in reality, while the fatty regretted offending Reincarnation and Yaoyao prepared to enter the game with Linglong Cat’s equipment and loot.
• Ling Yi entered Heaven from the Boundless Area and realized he could copy and enhance the protagonist’s golden finger, learning and improving skills without Lin Kai’s restrictions.
• Ling Yi reviewed his newly learned skills, including Levitation, Critical Hit, and the God Grade Sword Qi, and noted that his Thrust had reached level 15 and could be charged.
• Ling Yi rescued Linglong Cat by killing the monsters chasing her with two Sword Qi attacks, allowing her to level up and recover her health.
• Ling Yi considered taking the Skill Necklace, which increased skill proficiency and had helped Lin Kai develop Fireball into a forbidden spell, then announced that they would go into the city instead of farming monsters.

Ling Yi took Linglong Cat to Black Tortoise City, where they listed powerful equipment and City Construction Tokens for auction. The auction drew immediate attention from players across the worlds, with bids for a City Construction Token already climbing to 30,000 gold.

• Ling Yi flew above the Boundless Area, spotted an NPC city, and returned to Linglong Cat after she found the skill book for Steal; he told her to learn it herself.
• Ling Yi teleported with Linglong Cat to Black Tortoise City, where NPC guards called them Heavenly People and discussed their early arrival.
• Ling Yi decided to focus on gaining strength, then took Linglong Cat to the auction house to sell equipment and pursue a quest.
• Ling Yi listed level 30-to-50 equipment at a starting bid of 1,000 gold coins for 72 hours, prompting notifications and excited reactions from players.
• Players began bidding on a City Construction Token, and its price quickly reached 30,000 gold coins.

Ling Yi and Linglong Cat completed the Skill Necklace quest and secluded themselves to raise their levels and skill proficiency, while Lin Kai discovered that his Fireball skill carried over into the real world and rapidly rose through the rankings. After Fatty and King.Fe drew the attention of Lin Kai, he decided to move, but Fatty arrived at his rental first, forcing Lin Kai to leap from the fourth floor and escape.

• Ling Yi led Linglong Cat through the maze-like Skill Necklace dungeon, defeated its level 25 boss, and completed the quest.
• Ling Yi and Linglong Cat left the city to grind monsters while Ling Yi trained Teleportation, Clone Technique, and Sword Qi.
• Lin Kai used traps to grind rabbits, raised Fireball beyond its usual limit, and confirmed that he could bring its power into the real world.
• Lin Kai raised Fireball to level 15, began one-shotting stronger monsters, and became a wealthy equipment supplier who reached third place on the player rankings.
• After learning that Fatty knew his address and had appeared with King.Fe, Lin Kai decided to move somewhere remote.
• Fatty arrived at Lin Kai's rental with a gang of lackeys, but Lin Kai jumped from the fourth floor and escaped unharmed.

Ling Yi reached Immortal Reincarnation, but the system’s completed-world countdown forced him out and offered rewards. Back home, he chose wealth and learned he had inherited 450 million from his supposedly deceased biological parents.

• Fatty brought men to Ling Yi’s home for revenge, and Ling Yi teleported them to the Arctic before hiding his body in an independent space.
• Lin Kai escaped Song Zhefei’s men by fleeing into the mountains and hiding in a cave.
• After another month of training and fighting, Ling Yi reached Heaven Reincarnation level 99 and used a Reincarnation Stone to become Immortal Reincarnation level 1.
• The system announced that world exploration was complete and expelled Ling Yi, who chose to keep his wealth, Clone and Levitation, and his attributes.
• Lawyers arrived at Ling Yi’s home with an inheritance agreement claiming his deceased biological parents had left him 450 million.

Ling Yi reunited with Lin Ni in Kangnan City and learned that her company was pressuring her to attend an investors’ dinner and accept a bad contract. After Ling Yi revealed his inheritance and promised to support her, Lin Ni considered leaving the industry, then got drunk at home and made a startling advance toward him.

• Ling Yi arrived in Kangnan City, reunited with Lin Ni, and met her manager Sister Hua and assistant Bai Tongtong, who objected to his becoming Lin Ni’s assistant.
• Lin Ni argued with Sister Hua, took Ling Yi out of the company van, and explained that her contract renewal and the company’s demands had pushed her toward leaving.
• Lin Ni told Ling Yi that the company had dismissed her former manager, Sister Mei, and arranged an investors’ dinner where she was expected to entertain potential investors.
• Lin Ni received a call from Liu Jun, rejected his plea to attend the dinner, and later told Ling Yi she was exhausted and wanted to leave the industry.
• Ling Yi promised to support Lin Ni and showed her his inheritance notification, giving her confidence to consider quitting.
• At her apartment, Lin Ni drank with Ling Yi, reminisced about their past, then climbed onto him and said she wanted to marry him before lowering her head toward him.

After Lin Ni and Ling Yi married and spent a week traveling, Ling Yi was summoned by the system into the cultivation world of his unfinished novel. He arrived near Send-Off Phoenix City, where the cautious protagonist Bai Chen and two rival cultivators appeared in the opening scene.

• Lin Ni quit her company after its largest shareholder tried to force her to sign contracts, and Ling Yi secretly protected her when two guards attacked.
• Lin Ni and Ling Yi obtained their marriage certificate, celebrated together, and planned to visit the orphanage director and travel.
• After seven days of traveling, Ling Yi’s system began its countdown, and he transmigrated while the real world froze.
• Ling Yi arrived beside a river, recognized Bai Chen watching a fight between Ji Chen and Li Yunhua, and saw Bai Chen retreat into the woods.
• Ling Yi bound the Strongest Worker System and checked his attributes before the two cultivators ended their fight and flew away.

Ling Yi tested his theory that the Worker System could help him start a company by recruiting the bandits of Send-Off Phoenix Mountain. After Li Yunhua agreed to help clear the bandits’ names, Ling Yi set off with all 721 members of the stronghold to Send-Off Phoenix City.

• Ling Yi decided to seek startup capital and workers at Send-Off Phoenix Mountain, where he met Li Yunhua, who asked how Ling Yi could fly at the Qi Refining Stage.
• Ling Yi introduced himself as an independent cultivator and reached the bandit stronghold with Li Yunhua, where chief Qi Hu explained that his people had become bandits after a disaster and government corruption left them starving.
• Ling Yi suggested that Li Yunhua use his standing to resolve the stronghold’s wanted status, then offered Qi Hu and his people jobs in his planned business.
• Ling Yi spent the night listening as Li Yunhua discussed the Dao and described the Immortal Cultivation Realm’s slow cultivation and small sects.
• The next morning, Ling Yi led Qi Hu and all 720 other members of the stronghold toward Send-Off Phoenix City.

Bai Chen worked quietly in Send-Off Phoenix City as cultivators from the Immortal Residence introduced modern-style phones and services, while he discovered he lacked spiritual roots. The cultivator Ling Yi, meanwhile, revealed that his worker system had made him overwhelmingly powerful and brought him close to tribulation and eventual ascension.

• Bai Chen learned that cultivators had subdued the Send-Off Phoenix Mountain bandits and heard that the next Immortal Ascension Assembly would test people for spiritual roots.
• Bai Chen recognized the cultivators’ gold-and-red Immortal Residence as a modern apartment building and kept his transmigrator identity secret.
• The Immortal Residence began selling formation-powered mobile phones and using the bandits as delivery workers, prompting Bai Chen to suspect the cultivators were fellow transmigrators.
• A year later, phone services had spread across the Immortal Cultivation Realm, and Bai Chen’s aptitude scan showed that he had no spiritual roots.
• Ling Yi revealed that his worker system had helped him build an operations center with over a hundred thousand employees and reach the Body Integration Realm, leaving him near tribulation and ascension.