Recaps

Li Yunhua warned Ling Yi that the Spirit Refining Sect was copying their phones, so Ling Yi went to confront the sect. He challenged its master, Lian Wudi, and their first clash ended with Ling Yi blocking a powerful saber strike with his bare fist.

• Li Yunhua told Ling Yi that the Spirit Refining Sect was imitating their phones, and Ling Yi ordered him to announce that the company would punish counterfeiters.
• Ling Yi vanished and traveled to Central Province, where the Spirit Refining Sect's leaders debated how to take control of his phone business.
• Lian Wudi declared that he would personally seize Ling Yi's Operations Center, but the sect's protective formation sounded an alarm as Ling Yi arrived and began striking it with his fists.
• Lian Wudi flew out to meet Ling Yi, and the two agreed to fight rather than discuss their business dispute.
• Lian Wudi's Heaven-Breaking Slash struck Ling Yi's bare fist, but Ling Yi blocked it, leaving Lian Wudi stunned and furious.

Ling Yi defeated Lian Wudi and arranged for cultivation sects to compete for phone distribution rights, drawing hundreds of sects to Send-Off Phoenix City. As the tournament preparations began, Bai Chen and a flower demon discussed Ling Yi’s growing influence and the worsening danger facing the Demon Clan.

• Ling Yi beat Lian Wudi, then offered the Spirit Refining Sect a chance to cooperate by distributing phones rather than competing to sell them.
• Lian Wudi agreed to pursue distribution rights, and his ancestors told him to befriend Ling Yi because Ling Yi’s strength far exceeded theirs and he had only sent a Clone.
• More than three hundred sects gathered in Send-Off Phoenix City and agreed to allocate distribution rights through a points-based tournament for disciples in three cultivation tiers.
• Ling Yi warned the sects not to disrupt the city, while the Heavenly Flame Kingdom sent over a hundred thousand troops to help keep order.
• Bai Chen lamented his lack of progress as cultivators filled the city, and the flower demon who owned his restaurant worried that Ling Yi’s phones would strengthen human sects and endanger the Demon Clan.
• The flower demon considered Ling Yi a possible chance for humans and demons to coexist, but Bai Chen dismissed the idea and she acknowledged that the Demon Clan’s own cruelty had fueled human hatred.

Bai Chen left Send-Off Phoenix City and became a deliveryman in Hidden Cloud City, while Ling Yi prepared to undergo tribulation transcendence. As Ling Yi’s tribulation formed into the legendary Nine Baleful Lightning Tribulation, he charged straight into the thunderclouds.

• Bai Chen left the flower demon and took a delivery job in Hidden Cloud City, where his system rewarded him with agility points and occasional cultivation techniques.
• A year later, Ling Yi sensed that his tribulation transcendence would begin in three days, and Li Yunhua tried to reassure him while discussing the flower demon.
• News of Ling Yi’s coming tribulation drew powerful cultivators and hidden elders to Send-Off Phoenix City, where Lian Wudi warned Ling Yi about lightning and heart tribulations.
• Ling Yi appeared above the city as black clouds gathered, and his power grew so intense that Body Integration Realm experts raised defensive formations to protect the city.
• The tribulation clouds turned red and formed the Nine Baleful Lightning Tribulation, which observers said could mark Ling Yi as a man envied by heaven.
• Ling Yi cursed at the brewing tribulation and charged straight into the thunderclouds.

Ling Yi defeated the baleful energy behind the Nine Baleful Lightning Tribulation and learned that it was born from readers’ negative emotions and had targeted him for replacing Zhao Feng. After sending the being to the Ling Realm, Ling Yi returned to find the realm’s karmic luck running low, while Yin Wanqing worked to trace a bridge to the outside world; a new transmigration then began.

• Ling Yi blasted a hole through the tribulation clouds, but their baleful energy invaded his body and mind.
• A red figure revealed that Zhao Feng had been the original protagonist and accused Ling Yi of replacing him and escaping its control.
• Ling Yi unsealed his power, dispersed the baleful energy, and threw the red figure through a passage into the Ling Realm for Yin Wanqing to study.
• Ling Yi returned to the Ling Realm, named an unexplained warping sheet the Ruleless Surface, and saw that its low karmic luck could no longer summon Author Uncle.
• Yin Wanqing told Ling Yi she had sensed the changing bridge of karmic luck and needed him to keep transmigrating to gather data.
• Ling Yi began another transmigration into “Journey to the West: Reverse transmigration, starting with the client turning into a demon!!” with a passive amnesia aura and an activated obsession aura.

Ling Yi witnessed White Bone and Sun Wukong fighting after the two were transported into his world, where their powers were weakened. White Bone showed Sun Wukong a copy of Journey to the West, prompting him to question his past and accept that many other immortals and demons had also arrived.

• Ling Yi accidentally drove over White Bone, who lifted his car and then faced Sun Wukong as he descended from the sky.
• White Bone and Sun Wukong fought until their strength waned in a world where Magic Power was scarce.
• White Bone summoned several female stars who surrounded Sun Wukong, then urged him to stop acting cautiously and recognize the opportunity of being free from the Buddhist School.
• White Bone gave Sun Wukong a copy of Journey to the West, and he read it, realizing the book described his life and laughing in despair over the Buddhist School's schemes.
• White Bone told Sun Wukong that immortals, Buddhas, demons, and devils besides them had come to this world, and he asked why it had happened.

Ling Yi discovered that White Bone believed his memories and identity concealed extraordinary power, and she offered to help him cultivate. After learning about the factions competing for faith in the Dharma-ending age, he grew wary of White Bone’s motives, while she planned to use the Heavenly Court and Buddhist School to investigate him.

• Son Goku renounced the Buddhist School and left, while White Bone dismissed Zhao Xiaogu and the others.
• White Bone’s attempt to erase Ling Yi’s memories triggered a sense of danger, leading her to suspect he had sealed his own memories and was far more powerful than he appeared.
• White Bone agreed to teach Ling Yi by taking him to meet someone from the Heavenly Court, and they went to eat while Xiao Ling guided them to a hot pot restaurant.
• Ling Yi reasoned that cultivation in this world depended on faith, and he rejected Buddhist cultivation because it required believing in Buddha.
• White Bone told Ling Yi she wanted to become his friend and left, while privately intending to let the Heavenly Court and Buddhist School test his identity.

Ling Yi activated Project Zero and uncovered that the transmigrated immortals and demons were killing or eating the celebrities whose identities they took to harvest faith. White Bone tried to manage a smear campaign and contain the Heavenly Court and Buddhist School, but Ling Yi’s investigation left him furious at their targeting of the Ancient Country.

• Ling Yi activated Project Zero, ordered surveillance of Star Sea Entertainment and the entertainment industry, and demonstrated his quantum abilities.
• White Bone warned Yang Dami, Song Zhuer, and the other women not to confront the Heavenly Court or Buddhist School directly and told them to protect their public images while gathering faith.
• White Bone discovered a viral video linking her to Ling Yi and suspected the Heavenly Court, the Buddhist School, or both of manipulating the trending searches to steal her fans.
• White Bone went to Xuanyuan Pavilion and confronted Taibai Jinxing, who blamed her for his show being suspended and his being blacklisted.
• Ling Yi said he had found Taibai Jinxing and, after investigating, grew angry that the transmigrated beings had killed or eaten the Ancient Country celebrities whose identities they had taken.

Ling Yi learned that Tathagata had gained immense influence by unifying Western religions, then sought out Tang Sanzang to ask for Buddhist teachings. Tang Sanzang said their transmigration and the continuation of the Journey to the West were fated, while Son Goku rejected surrendering to fate.

• Taibai Jinxing and White Bone told Ling Yi that Tathagata had built a vast Buddhist following in the West and that the Jade Emperor had resorted to livestreaming after being blocked from the entertainment industry.
• Taibai gave Ling Yi the Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Formula and questioned whether Ling Yi knew his true identity, but Ling Yi declined to explain.
• White Bone asked Ling Yi how he would handle the online publicity campaign, but Ling Yi left without answering and White Bone resolved to test him.
• Ling Yi visited the Wujie Chinese Medicine Shop, where he found Son Goku and identified the shopkeeper as Tang Sanzang.
• Tang Sanzang said their transmigration was not a coincidence and that the Journey to the West's fate would continue, but Son Goku declared that he believed only in his Golden-Hooped Rod and would rather die than submit.

Ling Yi invited Son Goku and Tang Sanzang to stay with him and proposed using technology and the Quantum Net to help Son Goku regain an advantage. After receiving their cultivation techniques and learning that other Journey to the West figures lived in Dafeng City, Ling Yi asked Tang Sanzang to help him find someone to experiment on.

• Tang Sanzang explained that transmigrators’ bodies and magic were suppressed, then suggested that technology could bypass the limits on cultivation.
• Ling Yi brought Son Goku and Tang Sanzang to his residence, introduced them to his AI butler Xiao Ling, and demonstrated the Quantum Net’s instant teleportation.
• Son Goku agreed to work with Xiao Ling on a combat module in exchange for access to the Quantum Net.
• Tang Sanzang gave Ling Yi a USB drive containing Buddhist arts, while Son Goku began reciting the Seventy-Two Transformations and Eight-Nine Arcane Art for Xiao Ling to record.
• Ling Yi asked Tang Sanzang about other Journey to the West transmigrators in Dafeng City and said he wanted to experiment on someone without killing them.

Ling Yi used his Obsession Devouring system on Sha Seng, unlocking the Second Primordial Spirit and draining several of Sha Seng’s ambitions. White Bone then revealed that Guanyin had come to the Ancient Country to restart Buddhism and the journey west, drawing Ling Yi’s interest in a dating show where Guanyin would appear.

• Ling Yi tracked down supermarket owner Sha Seng and used Obsession Devouring to gain 100 Obsession Points and unlock the Second Primordial Spirit.
• Ling Yi devoured three more of Sha Seng’s obsessions, leaving him listless and without aspirations.
• White Bone invited Ling Yi to join a dating show and explained that Tathagata was sending Guanyin to spread Buddhism and restart the journey west.
• Ling Yi learned that Guanyin would appear on the show and became interested in attending to gain more Obsession Points.
• Ling Yi asked White Bone why Tathagata could not simply convert ordinary people, and White Bone praised the question.

Ling Yi learned that coerced belief produced karmic force, then used Ling-One’s quantum technology to achieve godhood through technology. Three days later, he joined the cast of a livestreamed dating show, where he suspected the other participants were immortals, Buddhas, demons, and devils competing for faith.

• White Bone explained to Ling Yi that only freely given faith could be absorbed, while faith gained through brainwashing became karmic force.
• Ling Yi spoke with Tang Sanzang, who revealed his hatred of Sha Seng and Tathagata and hoped to someday beat Tathagata.
• Son Goku returned from fighting in a negative-first-level quantum universe, and Xiao Ling said the energy problem could be solved so the Parasite Project could begin.
• Ling Yi activated dark-gold armor and learned that he had achieved godhood through technology, though he said it was not yet time to confront Tathagata.
• At the Hearts in Harmony production meeting, Director Yao Yun explained the show’s scripts and livestream schedule, while Ling Yi recognized the cast as supernatural beings seeking faith.

Ling Yi recognized that the variety-show guests were powerful beings from Journey to the West competing for popularity and faith, while Gu Yue planned to use a prank to weaken a rival. Gu Yue abandoned his scheme after discovering Yin Zhao was awake, and the group went on to wake the remaining guests, including Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi arrived at the camera-filled hotel and realized the guests were demons, immortals, devils, and Buddhas seeking power through celebrity popularity and faith.
• Gu Yue received an early-morning mission to wake another guest and used a dartboard to select cold water, planning to secretly use his Weak Water Divine Ability.
• Gu Yue entered room 1103 and saw the golden light of Yin Zhao's third eye, so he abandoned his plan because Yin Zhao was awake and too powerful to challenge.
• Gu Yue and Yin Zhao woke Guan Si, then Mu Mu, while Gu Yue refrained from attacking any of them.
• Gu Yue and the others finally went to wake Ling Yi, whom they regarded as an ordinary mortal.

Ling Yi paired with Guanyin, disguised as Mu Lin, on a reality show while secretly asking Xiao Ling for help. Meanwhile, Tathagata prepared a Heavenly Punishment Plan from Little Thunderclap Temple, hoping to spread Buddhism in the modern world.

• Ling Yi and the other male guests drew lots, then paired with female guests for the show's city-day challenge; Ling Yi ended up with Mu Lin.
• Ling Yi recognized Mu Lin as Guanyin in disguise and arranged to find short-term work while planning to complete the show's task cards.
• Houzi and Tang Sanzang watched the livestream and discussed the struggle between Spirit Mountain, the Heavenly Court, and the forces behind the Journey to the West calamity.
• At Little Thunderclap Temple, Tathagata discussed Guanyin's limited progress and said their weakened group needed time to build support.
• Tathagata revealed that he had converted top scientists and planned to launch the Heavenly Punishment Plan once Guanyin had laid the groundwork.

Ling Yi confronted Guanyin about the Heavenly Punishment Plan and proposed restarting the Journey to the West Calamity to draw out the mastermind behind their arrival in this world. Guanyin revealed that the plan was to plunge the world into chaos with disasters and then save it.

• Mu Lin performed in revealing clothes for a variety show, and Ling Yi secretly used Obsession Plunder to take 1,100 obsession points from Guanyin.
• After the show’s romantic tasks, Guanyin visited Ling Yi at night and demanded to know what he had done to her.
• Ling Yi explained his suspicions that the Journey to the West World and this world had no connection, and that their visitors might be pawns or created characters.
• Ling Yi offered to help Guanyin restart the Journey to the West Calamity so they could draw out the mastermind, and Guanyin asked whether he wanted to do so to expose that person.
• Guanyin revealed that Tathagata’s Heavenly Punishment Plan aimed to create chaos through disasters and then save the world from it.

Ling Yi arranged to restart the Journey to the West as a livestreamed journey, while Tathagata agreed to prepare eighty-one trials and learned of a message claiming Tang Sanzang could lead the transmigrators home. Seven days later, the group gathered at Zero One Building to prepare for the journey, with Little White Dragon still missing.

• Ling Yi told Guanyin that the Journey to the West would be livestreamed and warned Tathagata to abandon the Heavenly Punishment Plan, then ordered Xiao Ling to activate the plan.
• Guanyin informed Tathagata of Ling Yi’s proposal, and Tathagata agreed to arrange eighty-one trials while considering how to involve the other transmigrators.
• An unknown message claimed Tang Sanzang carried a treasure that could let people travel between worlds, prompting Zhang Bairen and many other transmigrators to seek Tang Sanzang.
• After the variety show ended, Ling Yi gathered Sun Goku, Tang Sanzang, Tianpeng, and Sha Seng and announced that the Journey to the West would restart in half a month, with Little Thunderclap Temple as its destination.
• Ling Yi sent Tianpeng to an icy planet after he challenged the plan, then told the others to train with their new divine technological equipment while they waited for the journey to begin.

Tang Sanzang and his disciples effortlessly defeated White Bone and her forces, while Ling Yi met the stranded transmigrator who had summoned the Journey to the West characters. Ling Yi moved the world into the Ling Realm and transmigrated again, leaving Yin Wanqing to reset the world and observe how its story unfolded without him.

• White Bone demanded the Two Realms Pearl, but Tang Sanzang and his disciples attacked after the monkey challenged her.
• The monkey and Zhu Bajie killed Yang Dami and Song Zhuer, Sha Wujing destroyed the White Bone Devils, and Tang Sanzang smashed White Bone into a pile of bones.
• Tathagata, the Jade Emperor, and Mu Mu feared the travelers had regained their strength and decided not to act.
• A translucent youth appeared before Ling Yi and explained that his Myth Character Summoning System had summoned the Journey to the West characters before abandoning him and taking his body.
• Ling Yi brought the world into the Ling Realm and began a new transmigration; Yin Wanqing reset the world and accelerated its timeline to see how its story developed without him.
• Yin Wanqing examined a virtual map of worlds and circled a blank area between the glowing spheres.

Ling Yi entered a desert instance and discovered his Shadow Dimension ability, which let him summon and strengthen loyal shadow creatures. After building a small army of scorpions, he was approached by a woman asking him for help.

• Ling Yi logged into a desert instance with 120,000 survivors, where many players rushed toward venomous creatures to die.
• Ling Yi killed a desert venomous scorpion and activated Shadow Summoning, gaining his first Shadow Guard and access to the Shadow Dimension.
• Ling Yi learned that he could use shadows to travel and shelter, while his Shadow Guards retained their abilities and could resurrect or fuse together.
• Ling Yi killed dozens more scorpions, gained forty-two Shadow Guards, and fused them into seven larger scorpions.
• A woman called Ling Yi a Big Shot and asked him to carry her.

Ling Yi rescued the timid NH Girl Group member Jiang Ran and led her across the desert on his shadow guards. They raided a militant base for water and supplies, discovered the remains of Tony Stark, and ended the chapter recovering from the grisly encounter while Ling Yi resolved to keep clearing instances.

• Jiang Ran asked Ling Yi to take her along, and he agreed before pulling her onto his shadow desert venomous scorpion.
• Ling Yi fused his shadow guards into twelve level 7 shadow venomous scorpion guards and one level 9 shadow giant snake guard.
• As Ling Yi and Jiang Ran suffered from dehydration, his scorpions found an armed militant base in a desert hollow.
• Ling Yi ordered his shadow guards to attack, and they killed all sixty-three militants and secured food and bottled water.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Ran found Tony Stark’s dismembered body near a cave and vomited at the sight.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Ran discussed the need to kill hostile natives to survive, and Ling Yi said he intended to clear every instance.

Ling Yi and Jiang Ran freed Tony Stark and Yinsen, then took Tony hostage in exchange for identities, lodging, and money. After reaching a small town and meeting Rhodey, Ling Yi noticed that people reacted to him with different degrees of hostility and discovered a new use for the Shadow Dimension.

• Jiang Ran told Ling Yi about a theory that clearing dungeons might let someone take control of a dungeon world, and Ling Yi decided to investigate the idea.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Ran entered the cave and freed Tony Stark and Yinsen, then Ling Yi summoned a giant snake Shadow Guard and announced that Tony was his hostage.
• Tony agreed to help them get legal identities, a place to stay, and money, and drove them away from the cave in an off-road vehicle.
• A humanoid Shadow Guard returned to the cave and carried away Tony's laptop, blueprints, and unfinished Mark I armor through the Shadow Dimension.
• Tony contacted Rhodey, who arrived with armed soldiers and treated Ling Yi and Jiang Ran as enemies, while Tony defended them as his friends.
• Ling Yi observed that Tony resisted the world's hostility more than Yinsen, Rhodey, and the soldiers, then realized the Shadow Dimension had an even more useful application.

Ling Yi and Jiang Ran were attacked by soldiers under the World Consciousness’s influence, so Ling Yi slaughtered the military base and created a level 15 scorpion-man Shadow Guard. After traveling through the Amazon and building his shadow army, Ling Yi began testing whether Shadow Guards could fuse with living people.

• Rhodey twice confronted Ling Yi with a gun, and soldiers at the military base opened fire after Rhodey’s shot.
• Ling Yi’s Shadow Dimension made the bullets vanish, and his Shadow Guards killed the soldiers while sparing Tony, Rhodey, and their companions.
• Ling Yi fused humanoid and scorpion Shadow Guards into a level 15 scorpion man, then demonstrated its strength by cutting through a tank and lifting armored vehicles.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Ran left the base and traveled through shadows to the Amazon, where Ling Yi sent out Shadow Guards to kill animals and grow his army.
• Ling Yi released a captured young man and summoned a level 2 mosquito Shadow Guard to test whether it could fuse with a living person.

Ling Yi tested Shadow Guard fusion, helping Jiang Ran gain a bird Shadow Guard’s powers, and the pair grew stronger while surviving in the Marvel instance. When they headed for Old Bridge, the Ancient One confronted Ling Yi, prompting him to decide they needed to leave and investigate questions in ordinary worlds.

• Ling Yi fused a mosquito and then an ant Shadow Guard with a captive young man, confirming that fusion worked but could not be repeated on the same person.
• Ling Yi fused a level 9 bird Shadow Guard with Jiang Ran, who gained wings, flight, and the ability to use its powers through her body.
• Over the next month, Ling Yi and Jiang Ran slaughtered creatures in the Amazon Rainforest and expanded their Shadow Guard army to over a hundred thousand.
• After receiving a basic gene potion for surviving a month, Ling Yi and Jiang Ran chose to continue and flew toward Old Bridge, New Mexico.
• The Ancient One confronted Ling Yi near Old Bridge and warned that slaughter would not bring eternity; Ling Yi then released Jiang Ran and said they had to leave the world.

Ling Yi reviewed what he had learned from Instance Survival and weighed his plans for acquiring divine-power Shadow Guards before Jiang Ran came to see him. After her manager threatened her over refusing Young Master Wang, Ling Yi went with Jiang Ran to confront the manager and struck her down.

• Ling Yi recorded his findings about Instance Survival, including its plot triggers, the World Consciousness, its limited rewards, and signs that someone was manipulating public opinion about it.
• Ling Yi assessed his Shadow Guard army and regretted that the Ancient One had stopped him from targeting Thor and Asgard for divine-power Shadow Guards.
• Jiang Ran picked Ling Yi up and told him she wanted to terminate her contract; Ling Yi advised her to reveal that she had survived and use the possibility of joining MA to deter anyone who mistreated her.
• Jiang Ran's manager called and threatened to shelve her if she refused to serve Young Master Wang, so Ling Yi ended the call and offered to stand up for her.
• At the hotel in Red Maple City, Jiang Ran's manager insulted her, and Ling Yi slapped the woman across the room before threatening her into silence.

Ling Yi forced Jiang Ran’s entertainment company to terminate her contract, then smuggled her into a random instance world using his Shadow Dimension. They arrived in the world of Ip Man 2, where Ling Yi explained their status as invaders to Ip Man.

• Ling Yi revealed Jiang Ran’s Instance Survival reward and demanded that her company terminate her contract, prompting the chairman to pay her ten million.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Ran settled into Jiang Ran’s home, then entered an instance together after Ling Yi hid her in the Shadow Dimension.
• Two young men arrived at Jiang Ran’s residence, and the man with sunglasses went to her door with a flame burning in his palm.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Ran appeared in an old city neighborhood with thousands of other survivors and learned that the world’s hostility would grow over time.
• Ling Yi recognized Ip Man and told him that survivors were stowaways whom the world rejected, while Ip Man remained skeptical.

Ling Yi tested the instance world by inviting Ip Man to leave with him and learn Wing Chun, but Ip Man refused, so Ling Yi left him three gold bars. That night, Ling Yi unleashed his shadow army against the foreigners in Hong Kong City, and he told Ip Man and Hung Chun-nam that the attack was only the beginning.

• Ling Yi told Ip Man that his world might be fictional and offered to take him away, but Ip Man refused because he had a family and did not trust Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi asked Ip Man to teach him Wing Chun, then left after Ip Man turned him away; Ip Man later found three gold bars and a note from Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi sent his shadow army to slaughter the foreigners in Hong Kong City, and Ip Man sensed the danger and went toward the concession.
• Ip Man met Hung Chun-nam on the way, and they discussed outworlders as fires, screams, and enormous creatures filled the concession.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Ran met Ip Man and Hung Chun-nam near the concession, where Hung Chun-nam warned that the attack would bring retaliation; Ling Yi said they would soon appear in the foreigners' countries too.

Ling Yi tested the World Consciousness’s limits in the Ip Man World, then returned to the real world and entered another instance to grow stronger. As he reached Southern Wilderness Stone City, attackers set Jiang Ran’s villa ablaze, and a Shadow Guard emerged to confront them.

• Ling Yi confirmed that the World Consciousness rejected him but could not directly wield the world’s rules, then used a level 50 Shadow Guard to fly away from the Ip Man World.
• Back in the real world, Ling Yi had a Shadow Guard seize a black-robed man and told Jiang Ran to stay behind while he entered another instance.
• Jiang Ran entered an instance herself, while Eldest Young Master Wang fled after failing to contact the man he had been waiting for.
• Three men attacked Jiang Ran’s villa with fire and a barrier, but their detector showed that the target survived and was approaching; a black-armored figure emerged from a shadow.
• In a desert instance, Ling Yi fused nearly six hundred thousand Shadow Guards into one level 21 Shadow Guard and two level 50 Shadow Guards, then reached Southern Wilderness Stone City.