Recaps

Ling Yi revealed that he was both Fire Cloud Evil God and the White-Clad Swordsman, then fought the Five Greats atop Mount Hua and staged his death to end the Legend of the Condor Heroes World. Back in the Ling Realm, he sealed most of his powers and explored the system’s passive aura list.

• Ling Yi told Guo Jing and Hua Zheng his identities, congratulated them on their marriage, and set off for Mount Hua.
• Ling Yi reflected on his decision to rebel against the author after discovering that his strength and worlds were weakening.
• Huang Yaoshi, Ouyang Feng, Hong Qigong, Zhou Botong, and Yideng gathered at Mount Hua, where Ling Yi challenged them all.
• Ling Yi fought the Five Greats for three days and three nights, then staged his death from exhaustion to leave the world with a legend.
• Ling Yi returned to the Ling Realm, found the women watching nine enormous eggs hatch, and sealed his powers and most system auras.
• Ling Yi examined the passive aura list and discovered options including invincibility, favorability, hatred, and attention auras.

Ling Yi learned that everyone had to play Chicken-Dinner Battlefield, where players from countless worlds could lose valuable fragments when killed, and activated luck and proficiency auras to prepare for his first match. After returning home, he shared a warm moment with his parents, leaving him touched by a sense of family he had never known.

• A teacher reviewed Chicken-Dinner Battlefield's rules and urged the students to play cautiously, cooperate with compatriots, and compete for fragments and game coins.
• Ling Yi activated Passive Luck Aura, which raised his luck by 100.
• Ling Yi activated Passive Proficiency Aura and discovered that using any item or ability increased its proficiency, including ordinary bodily functions.
• Ling Yi returned to his parents, Ling Yun and Jiang Yunzhi, and naturally greeted them as Dad and Mom.
• Ling Yi's parents encouraged him about his first game, and he experienced the comfort of having a home.

Ling Yi practiced assault rifles all night, then entered the esports room and declined Ye Fei’s party invitation after suspecting Ye Fei was a protagonist. The two entered separate matches and each spotted a player who seemed unusually valuable.

• Ling Yi trained with assault rifles until his skill reached proficient rank, then rested before the official login time.
• Ling Yun woke Ling Yi, and Jiang Yunzhi and Ling Yun worried about the dangers and costs of the game as Ling Yi entered the esports room.
• Ling Yi examined the room and game, set his controls, and received a party invitation from Ye Fei.
• Ling Yi recalled Ye Fei’s strange behavior in the grove, declined his invitation, and queued for solo mode.
• Ye Fei’s perspective revealed that he was a transmigrated protagonist with cheat abilities, and he queued alone in solo-versus-squads mode.
• Ling Yi and Ye Fei entered different matches and each noticed a player who appeared valuable to them.

Ling Yi guided Uncle Nine through his first successful conversation and taught him how to play while they looted K City. Ling Yi killed two players and triggered fragment drops, leaving two pillars of light that were sure to attract more attackers.

• Ling Yi followed Uncle Nine into the match, realized how little he knew about the game, and patiently helped him learn to move and communicate.
• Ling Yi and Uncle Nine discussed the login device and feared that the game was preparing the worlds for a coming catastrophe, so Ling Yi taught Uncle Nine combat techniques as they looted K City.
• Ling Yi killed the lizard-headed player Suisite from Dark World after he crashed his motorcycle, and a fragment appeared as a pillar of light.
• A player named Brixton from Speed World drove toward the fragment, but Ling Yi killed him with his M416, causing a second pillar of light to rise.

Ling Yi survived the first match, collected three fragments, and discovered that his classmate Li Hongming had been his final opponent. Elsewhere, Ye Fei tried to use a flight cheat to kill Big Superman, but Big Superman shot him down before he could get a fragment.

• Ling Yi and Uncle Nine waited as the zone shrank and the other players eliminated one another, leaving only a prone camper besides them.
• Uncle Nine deliberately exposed himself to end the match, but the camper shot him into a loot crate; Ling Yi then headshot the camper, Li Hongming, and collected her lifespan fragment.
• Ling Yi added Uncle Nine and Li Hongming as friends after the match, while Li Hongming recognized him and called her mother to arrange buying back her dropped fragment.
• Ye Fei used a flight cheat to search for Big Superman, drawing attention from other players before finding him prone on a rooftop.
• Ye Fei missed his first shot, and Big Superman shot him out of the sky, turning him into a loot crate.

Ling Yi won a game and sold Li Hongming a lifespan fragment while refusing to get involved with her, then entered the gaming room and found Nami in a match. The chapter left Ling Yi confronting Nami outside the military base in the desert map.

• Ling Yi showed Jiang Yunzhi and Ling Yun the three fragments he had won, and Ling Yun checked his game results before embracing him.
• Li Hongming visited Ling Yi to buy back a fragment and asked him to carry her through a game, but Ling Yi refused to help her and sold her the fragment for thirty million.
• Ling Yi returned to the gaming room and entered a match in the world of One Piece.
• Nami was forcibly brought into the gaming room for her third match and jumped from the plane near the military base.
• Ling Yi followed Nami to the foot of a hill and spoke to her from behind.

Ling Yi persuaded Nami to accept his help, then formed a fixed four-person squad with Nami, Uncle Nine, and Li Hongming to grow stronger for the coming wars across worlds. Their next match began with Ye Fei, Young Master Zhao, and the protagonists of Chronicle in the same spawn area.

• Ling Yi explained that Nami could not protect her village from the Arlong Pirates by paying them and promised to help her gain the strength to defeat them.
• Ling Yi led Nami through a reckless match, collected many fragments, improved several game skills, and won, while Nami died in the final circle.
• After watching Ling Yi's match, Li Hongming repeatedly requested to team up, and Ling Yi accepted her invitation before adding Uncle Nine and Nami.
• Ling Yi told the squad that the game was a battlefield affecting the fate of worlds and declared that they would become stronger together and treat other players as enemies.
• At the start of their next match, Ling Yi recognized Ye Fei, Young Master Zhao, and Chronicle's Andrew, Smith, and Matt; Ye Fei had received a head-lock aimbot.

Ling Yi killed Ye Fei in the game, causing part of Ye Fei’s Cheat System to drop as a fragment that could activate a health-lock cheat in the real world. After the match, Ling Yi distributed the rewards to Uncle Nine and Nami, then left Li Hongming waiting for the final telekinesis fragment.

• Ling Yi redirected his squad toward the training base and ordered Li Hongming to follow his marked coordinates, threatening to remove her from the squad if she disobeyed again.
• Ye Fei used his head-lock cheat to kill Zhao Dahai and his teammates, while Ling Yi decided to make Ye Fei his target.
• Ling Yi shot Ye Fei, who became a loot crate as a green equipment fragment appeared and his system reported that its health-lock function was missing.
• Ling Yi collected the Cheat System Fragment and realized it could activate the health-lock cheat in the real world.
• After the match, Ling Yi kept the white attribute fragments and gave the other rewards to Uncle Nine and Nami, including the health-lock fragment for Nami.
• Ling Yi held the last telekinesis fragment out of Li Hongming’s reach and asked her whether she wanted it.

Ling Yi led Uncle Nine, Nami, and Li Hongming through a night of matches, helping them collect fragments and improve their skills. Meanwhile, Ye Fei and Zhao Dahai made separate plans to recover the cheat fragments, leaving both a deal and a scheme against Ye Fei underway.

• Ling Yi gave Li Hongming the fragment after she apologized, then told the group to split up in the next match so they could improve their skills.
• Ye Fei accepted Zhao Dahai's offer to help recover his fragments in exchange for carrying Zhao to chicken dinners, while Zhao Dahai planned with his father to make Ye Fei drop his cheat fragments.
• Ye Fei decided to seek out Ling Yi himself as a backup plan, while Ling Yi and the others continued farming fragments in separate teams.
• Ling Yi's group collected over two hundred attribute fragments, two equipment fragments, and six skill fragments, and Ling Yi gave the others all the non-attribute fragments.
• Li Hongming divided the fragments, assigning the Rabbit Talisman, Cloud Ladder, and Destructo Disc to Nami, and the Iron Sword, Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, and Mount Shu Sword Control Technique to Uncle Nine; she kept Wing Chun and Avada Kedavra.

Ling Yi refused to return the Health-Lock Cheat fragments to Ye Fei and dismissed his threats. After Li Hongming and several teachers came to see him, he used the law of plot to undo her killing of Teacher Song, leaving her curious about his power.

• Ling Yi gave the fragments to Ling Yun and Jiang Yunzhi, who decided to quit their jobs and use them to strengthen themselves.
• Ye Fei confronted Ling Yi and demanded the Health-Lock Cheat fragments, but Ling Yi refused and walked away.
• Ling Yi met Li Hongming and several teachers at his residential complex, where he rejected their efforts to recruit him for university.
• Teacher Song attacked Ling Yi from behind, and Li Hongming struck him with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, killing him.
• Ling Yi used the law of plot to revive Teacher Song and erase the group's memories of the incident.
• Li Hongming asked Ling Yi how he had changed what happened, and he teased her about silencing her to protect his secret.

Ling Yi learned that a portal had appeared near Cloud Capital City and rewrote reality, making himself the world’s protagonist and summoning powerful figures from many worlds. He explained that the worlds were real and their author was not their administrator, then sent the author back to his own world.

• Ye Fei grew jealous after seeing Li Hongming with Ling Yi, demanded that Zhao provide Ling Yi’s fragments and kill him, then used a cheat to win a match and obtain a Kryptonian Bloodline fragment.
• Ling Yi realized he could create a passageway because the plot had reached 45%, and Li Hongming told him that monsters were emerging from a portal near Cloud Capital City.
• Ling Yi used the laws of illusion and reality to make himself this world’s protagonist and raise his power to its limit, then created a floating landmass and a portal that brought in figures from other worlds.
• Ling Yi told the assembled figures that portals had appeared in their worlds and summoned the novel’s author, explaining that the world was real and the author was not its administrator.
• Ling Yi sent the author back to his own world and gave the gathered protagonists information about the absence of any mastermind behind their world.

Ling Yi left his family and friends to travel between worlds, then entered the world of Chinese Paladin III in protagonist replacement mode with his powers sealed and the Great Prison System as his golden finger. Hungry and dressed as a beggar, he arrested Tang Yi and learned that Tang Yi's 37 sin points represented 37 lives lost through his actions.

• Ling Yi said goodbye to Ling Yun, Jiang Yunzhi, Uncle Nine, Nami, and Li Hongming before leaving for another world.
• Ling Yi explained that he would travel to other worlds to resolve the remaining crisis, while promising Li Hongming he would return or send a clone if he was gone too long.
• Ling Yi arrived in Yuzhou City as a beggar with his powers sealed and inspected the Great Prison System, the protagonist's golden finger.
• Hungry, Ling Yi targeted Tang Yi, a 37-sin-point heir of Tang Family Fort, after seeing him wreck an old man's fruit stall.
• Ling Yi followed Tang Yi into an alley and used the Great Prison System to arrest him, discovering that Tang Yi's 37 sin points corresponded to 37 deaths.

Ling Yi discovered that he could grow stronger by stripping a resentful spirit’s abilities and absorbing malicious thoughts. After absorbing the vast reservoir of resentment over Yuzhou City, he unexpectedly broke through to the Golden Core Realm.

• Ling Yi ate at a restaurant, absorbed Tang Yi’s life and cultivation orbs, and learned his weak techniques were of little use.
• Ling Yi saw the young Jingtian at Yong'an Pawnshop, realized the story began years later than he had expected, and left the city to seek monsters.
• In a peach grove, Ling Yi captured and stripped a resentful spirit, gaining its malicious-thought-devouring technique, illusion skill, and Qi Refining Third Level cultivation.
• Ling Yi absorbed the resentful spirit’s orbs and gained dark red energy, realizing his ominous presence might make Mount Shu mistake him for an evil heretic.
• Unable to enter Yuzhou City without attracting notice, Ling Yi absorbed the malicious thoughts hanging over the city and rapidly advanced to the Golden Core Realm.

After reaching the Golden Core Stage, Ling Yi captured and absorbed a foul-Qi monster, gaining several evil ghost abilities and further darkening his cultivation. The next morning, he captured a powerful evil cultivator who revealed that Mount Shu was raising a Nascent Soul Stage evil cultivator, then stripped him for his techniques and cultivation.

• Ling Yi stayed in the peach grove instead of entering Yuzhou City, detected a Qi Refining Stage monster, and captured it in the prison.
• Ling Yi stripped the monster of its life and abilities, absorbed the orbs, and gained Evil Ghost Clone and other techniques.
• Ling Yi buried Tang Yi's and the monster's corpses together, then slept in the prison space.
• After waking, Ling Yi emerged into the grove and encountered a Golden Core Stage evil cultivator with a sin value of 16950.
• Ling Yi captured the evil cultivator, who revealed that Mount Shu was raising a Nascent Soul Stage evil cultivator and offered to introduce them.
• Ling Yi stripped the captive and gained Spirit Devouring Art, Object Manipulation Art, Middle Golden Core Stage cultivation, and 220 years of life.

Ling Yi returned to Yuzhou City and bought Yong'an Pawnshop, leaving Zhao Wenchang in charge and preserving Jingtian and the others’ livelihood. He settled into a routine of absorbing the city’s malicious thoughts and hunting ghosts and demons, steadily growing stronger.

• Ling Yi sensed the malicious thoughts of Yuzhou City’s residents and absorbed them as Golden Core power.
• Zhao Wenchang scolded and chased Jingtian over a smashed vase, explaining that he had paid its owner so the man could treat his sick wife.
• Ling Yi offered to buy Yong'an Pawnshop, and Zhao Wenchang went to Tang Family Fort to negotiate with Tang Kun.
• Tang Kun met Ling Yi with Xuejian, learned he had obtained a cultivator's inheritance, and agreed to transfer Yong'an Pawnshop to him.
• Ling Yi let Zhao Wenchang continue managing the shop, and everyone shared a meal to welcome him as the new owner.
• Ling Yi cultivated by absorbing malicious thoughts during the day and hunted ghosts and demons outside Yuzhou City at night.

Ling Yi continued cultivating his Chaos Golden Core while managing his prison farm and waiting for the Chinese Paladin 3 plot to begin. After Chong Lou went to Mount Shu for the Demon Sword, Tang Kun confronted Ling Yi over Yuzhou City's disappearances, which involved hundreds of criminals and ordinary townspeople Ling Yi had imprisoned.

• Ling Yi reflected on his Chaos Golden Core, his Five Qi cultivation, and the more than five hundred prisoners undergoing forced labor in his Prison Space.
• Zhao Wenchang brought Ling Yi the Wide-Sleeved Immortal Dress, and Ling Yi kept it after realizing the story's opening was near.
• Chong Lou sensed Feipeng's presence in Yuzhou City and the Demon Sword at Mount Shu, then went to Mount Shu to take the sword.
• Xuejian invited Ling Yi to Tang Kun's birthday banquet, but Ling Yi declined and sent Tang Kun an unnamed pill as a gift.
• Tang Kun visited Ling Yi and questioned him about the growing disappearances in Yuzhou City, suspecting Ling Yi had an evil cultivator's inheritance.

Tang Kun reported his suspicions about Ling Yi to Mount Shu, while Demon Venerable Chong Lou mistook Jingtian for Feipeng and challenged him to a future duel. Ling Yi revealed his extraordinary power to Chong Lou, and the two began fighting beyond the third heaven as powerful beings across the realms sensed Ling Yi’s presence.

• Tang Kun contacted Mount Shu through a spirit communication formation and told Chang Yin about the missing townspeople and his suspicion that Ling Yi was an evil cultivator.
• Qingwei and the four elders discussed repairing the damaged Demon Locking Tower with the Five Spirit Orbs and considered sending Xu Changqing to Yuzhou City.
• Chong Lou gave Jingtian the Demon Sword, mistook him for Feipeng, and set a duel for three years later.
• Ling Yi followed Chong Lou into the sky and agreed to fight him, while Jingtian realized he wanted to become Ling Yi’s disciple.
• Qingwei and the other elders, along with the Celestial Emperor, sensed Ling Yi’s unfamiliar power as he and Chong Lou flew beyond the third heaven.
• Chong Lou summoned his Flaming Wave Blood Blades, and Ling Yi unleashed the power of his Chaos Golden Core before their battle began.

Ling Yi fought Chong Lou to a standstill, then shared a night of drinking with him as they discussed Ling Yi’s strange power and the Celestial Emperor’s doubts. The next day, Ling Yi rejected Jingtian as a disciple and went out with Xuejian, where he used the Great Prison System to capture a group of wraiths attacking Mount Shu disciples.

• Ling Yi and Chong Lou fought across the cosmos, trading weapons and attacks until both grew tired and called the battle a draw.
• Ling Yi and Chong Lou returned to Yong’an Pawnshop, drank together, and Chong Lou asked about Ling Yi’s power while the Celestial Emperor wondered why the Heavenly Dao had not reacted to it.
• After Chong Lou left the next morning, Ling Yi stopped Jingtian from kneeling and told him to follow his own path rather than become Ling Yi’s disciple.
• Ling Yi considered how to make his Chaos Golden Core change, then headed out of Yuzhou City with Xuejian as demons and monsters appeared nearby.
• Ling Yi found three Mount Shu disciples surrounded by intelligent wraiths and used a conjured formation as a distraction while the Great Prison System captured them.

Ling Yi cleared monsters around Yuzhou City, backed Jingtian in reclaiming the Demon Sword from Mount Shu, and refused to explain his cultivation method. After leaving a note that he would return in two or three years, he went to Mount Shu and began clearing the Demon Locking Tower.

• Ling Yi killed the escaped monsters around Yuzhou City and filled his Prison Space with prisoners while Xuejian grew increasingly admiring of him.
• Qingwei and the other Mount Shu elders returned Jingtian's Demon Sword after Ling Yi backed Jingtian, then left when Ling Yi refused to reveal how he cultivated.
• Jingtian asked Ling Yi to teach him immortal arts, but Ling Yi said the time had not come and withdrew to avoid Xuejian's attention.
• Ling Yi left the Wide-Sleeved Immortal Dress for Jingtian with a note saying he would return in two or three years, then flew to Mount Shu.
• Xuejian learned that Tang Kun had reported the disappearances to Mount Shu and blamed him for offending Ling Yi; she later discovered Ling Yi had left and stopped speaking to Tang Kun for over a month.
• Ling Yi cleared the first level of the Demon Locking Tower into his Prison Space and transformed it into a modern villa with the Evil Spirit Illusion Technique, while the not-yet-formed Evil Sword Immortal trembled on the ninth level.

Xu Changqing descended the mountain as Yuzhou City was overwhelmed by a poison people outbreak, but Ling Yi arrived and saved the city. After everyone reunited at Yong'an Pawnshop, Xuejian sang to Ling Yi, leaving him with an ache in his heart.

• Xu Changqing was ordered to investigate the poison people in Yuzhou City and search for the Five Spirit Orbs, while Qingwei learned Ling Yi had left the Demon Locking Tower.
• Jingtian, Xuejian, Long Kui, Maoshan, and He Biping were trapped by poison people as Tang Family Fort fell and Xu Changqing fought outside the city.
• Ling Yi appeared, devoured the poison people's poisonous baleful Qi, restored them to normal, and resurrected the townspeople who had been killed.
• Ling Yi reunited with Jingtian and the others, then joined Xu Changqing in resolving the poison people crisis and received an apology from Tang Kun.
• After a gathering at Yong'an Pawnshop, Xuejian sang “Preference” to Ling Yi, and he felt an ache in his heart.

Jingtian returned from Mount Shu with the Evil Sword Immortal's box and Feipeng's helmet, beginning the group's search for the Five Elements Orbs. In Anning Village, Ling Yi spoke with Zixuan, who revealed why she was aging and what little she knew about her parents, leaving Ling Yi close to identifying her mother.

• Jingtian dreamed of Qingwei and found a mysterious box, then took it with Xu Changqing to Mount Shu.
• Chong Lou challenged Ling Yi, but Ling Yi sent a powerful clone to fight him and left Chong Lou determined to enter seclusion.
• Jingtian and Xu Changqing returned to Yuzhou City with the box containing the Evil Sword Immortal, Feipeng's helmet, and the Mount Shu Sword Control Technique; the party set out to find the Five Elements Orbs.
• At Anning Village, Ling Yi noticed Wan Yuzhi's Sin Value and later met Zixuan outside the inn.
• Zixuan told Ling Yi that she was aging because she had given birth to Lin Qing'er, and that she had been found in Nüwa's temple with a jade pendant bearing the character Yu.
• Zixuan explained that her parents may have sacrificed themselves to mend the sky during the end of the Sui dynasty, and Ling Yi connected her family's Yu surname to a known descendant of Nüwa.

Ling Yi brought Zixuan into the party, gave the group cultivation and skill orbs, and helped her confront her feelings for Xu Changqing. When Long Kui lost control and fought Xu Changqing, Ling Yi confined her and took her to the Prison Space to resolve the problem.

• Ling Yi offered Zixuan Life Orbs and asked her to pretend they were together, then returned to the inn with her and the Earth Spirit Pearl.
• Ling Yi distributed cultivation-method, cultivation, and skill orbs, but Xu Changqing refused to use them and argued with Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi and Zixuan discussed Zixuan's disappointment in Xu Changqing and Ling Yi's concern that Xuejian might be hurt by their act.
• Long Kui transformed into her red-clad form and fought Xu Changqing, so Ling Yi confined her and told Jingtian to retrieve the helmet that could awaken his past-life memories.
• Ling Yi took Long Kui to the Prison Space, where she turned red again after discovering she was inside a cell.

Ling Yi separated and then merged Long Kui’s two consciousnesses at her request, and she reunited with Jingtian after he regained his memories. After restoring the inn, the group planned to travel to Fengdu in three days, while Xu Changqing got drunk and flew away on his sword.

• Ling Yi removed the red-clad Long Kui’s consciousness and let the two Long Kuis decide to merge, after which Long Kui swallowed the consciousness sphere and emerged with a changed appearance and stronger presence.
• Jingtian comforted Long Kui, acknowledged his past as Long Yang, and asked her to call him big brother instead of royal brother.
• Ling Yi learned that the inn served mountain spirits and beasts from the Ancient Vine Forest, then used the Evil Spirit Illusion Technique to restore the ruined inn.
• Jingtian and the others planned to leave for Fengdu in three days, while Xu Changqing went to a village tavern to drink alone.
• Drunk and frustrated, Xu Changqing mounted his flying sword and flew away; Ling Yi urged Zixuan to follow him, then suggested that he and Zixuan have a drink.

Ling Yi left for Fengdu with the others, where his worsening entanglements with Zixuan and Xu Changqing pushed him to reveal that he was leaving the world. Before departing, he gave Zixuan the Great Prison System and distributed phones that let people across different worlds keep in touch.

• Ling Yi denied that anything had happened while he and Zixuan were drunk, then told her he planned to leave; Zixuan kicked him after asking whether he would return.
• After his memories returned, Xu Changqing accused Zixuan of falling for Ling Yi, and their argument ended her remaining affection for him.
• In Fengdu, Ling Yi beat Zhao Wuyan to death repeatedly, then confronted Xu Changqing when he noticed the latter's Sin Value and warned him to stay away.
• Ling Yi restored his power, revealed the Great Prison System's true body, and placed it in Zixuan's soul before telling the group he was not from their world and would leave.
• Ling Yi gave everyone phones connected through the Ling Realm and showed them how to use Myriad Chat to communicate across worlds.

Ling Yi, now a ghost with a fear-powered system, frightened Yuan Xiaozhen after discovering she and Shen Yan had plotted against him. He upgraded his magnetic control and watched Yuan Xiaozhen face police questioning, then decided he needed a bigger way to scare people.

• Ling Yi examined his ghost status panel and learned that fear from others could earn him points to upgrade his abilities.
• Yuan Xiaozhen recovered from the crash and argued with Shen Yan over Ling Yi's shares, while they threatened each other with evidence of their crimes.
• Ling Yi used Magnetic Field Control to send Yuan Xiaozhen a threatening text, making her faint and earning enough Fear Points to upgrade the skill to level 2.
• Ling Yi used his stronger magnetic control to put his phone in Yuan Xiaozhen's handbag before she woke in the hospital and dismissed the message as a hallucination.
• Yuan Xiaozhen pretended to grieve when police told her Ling Yi had died, while Ling Yi considered livestreaming to frighten more people.