Recaps

Ling Yi learned the basics of martial arts from Madam Hua and planned to try cultivating, while Zhu Zhishan was mistaken for Tong Pak Fu and brought to the Hua household. Madam Hua saw through Tong Pak Fu’s disguise and sent Zhu Zhishan to the woodshed with Sister Shiliu, then arranged a feast and was asked by Ling Yi if she had already known Tong Pak Fu’s identity.

• Ling Yi’s reputation as the God of Cooking grew, accelerating his cultivation and bringing benefits to the Hua family.
• Madam Hua explained the martial arts ranks and taught Ling Yi about dantians, meridians, and cultivating internal power.
• The Martial Champion brought Zhu Zhishan to the Hua household after finding him selling Tong Pak Fu’s paintings in Suzhou.
• Madam Hua summoned Wah On, and Tong Pak Fu disguised as Wah On tried to keep Zhu Zhishan from exposing him.
• Madam Hua sent Zhu Zhishan to the woodshed with Sister Shiliu and ordered ingredients prepared for Ling Yi’s feast.
• After everyone left, Ling Yi asked Madam Hua whether she had long known Tong Pak Fu’s identity.

Madam Hua told Ling Yi how the court’s campaign against the Jianghu had driven Qiuxiang’s martial lineage into hiding, then defended the Hua Residence from Prince Ning with her newly acquired Innate strength. After Prince Ning plotted to seize Ling Yi, Madam Hua and Tong Pak Fu staged a comic confrontation that turned into a joint poison sales pitch.

• Madam Hua told Ling Yi that Qiuxiang had been an Innate expert when she joined the Hua Residence, and Ling Yi connected her to the hidden legacy of Little Li’s Flying Dagger.
• Madam Hua explained that Li Yuncai’s attack on the imperial palace had provoked the court to crush the Jianghu, while the new emperor had recently eased restrictions.
• Prince Ning appeared at the Hua Residence a week later, but Madam Hua drove off the Innate Deadly Scholar while Tong Pak Fu helped save the Hua family and exposed his identity.
• Prince Ning and the Deadly Scholar concluded that Ling Yi was the God of Cooking and plotted to lure him to the palace and seize him.
• Madam Hua confronted Tong Pak Fu and pretended to offer him Qiuxiang’s hand in marriage, then ordered her men to arrest him when he admitted his identity.
• Madam Hua and Tong Pak Fu revealed rival poisons and jokingly promoted them as essential remedies for home, travel, killing, and silencing witnesses.

Ling Yi refused Prince Ning’s attempt to take him to the imperial capital and agreed to travel there with Madam Hua and their companions. When Prince Ning’s pursuers attacked, Ling Yi revealed his identity as Thor and destroyed them with lightning, then carried his companions away on a cloud.

• After Madam Hua learned that Tong Pak Fu’s Half-Step Madness with a Smile was fake, an imperial edict ordered Ling Yi to go to the capital, but Ling Yi refused to leave with Prince Ning.
• Madam Hua challenged Prince Ning’s authority to take Ling Yi, and the Hua Residence agreed to escort Ling Yi to the capital themselves.
• Ling Yi, Madam Hua, Tong Pak Fu, and the martial champion set out before dawn and stopped at a tea stall outside Suzhou.
• More than a hundred riders approached, and Madam Hua prepared to hold them off while the martial champion tried to get Ling Yi to flee.
• Ling Yi transformed into Thor, revealed his golden armor and warhammers, and used lightning to turn Deadly Scholar and the pursuing attackers to ash.
• Ling Yi healed the surrounding people with magical rain and carried Madam Hua and the others away on a cloud.

Ling Yi used the emperor’s support to spread 999 Dharma Bodies and cultivated to the Golden Immortal realm before leaving the Flirting Scholar world. He returned to the real world, where an online uproar immediately enraged him.

• Ling Yi explained his divine identities to Tong Pak Fu and Madam Hua, then devised a way to speed up cultivation by creating Dharma Bodies that gathered Qi.
• Ling Yi persuaded the emperor to commission 999 earthenware Dharma Bodies, cured him with Magic Power, and struck Prince Ning with lightning to deter rebellion.
• Ling Yi cultivated at the Hua Residence for half a year, reached the Golden Immortal realm, and prepared to leave the world.
• Tong Pak Fu complained that Qiuxiang repeatedly beat him, so Ling Yi gave him a leaf infused with God of Cookery Qi in exchange for two martial arts manuals.
• Madam Hua told Ling Yi that the emperor was coming south; Ling Yi left instructions about governing well and protecting his Dharma Bodies, then exited the world.
• Ling Yi returned to the real world, saw the uproar online, and flew into a rage.

After his videos were removed amid copyright and image-rights complaints, Ling Yi used his divine powers to control those targeting him, and his videos were restored. He returned to the Comedy world, planned to accelerate his cultivation by creating Dharma Bodies, and entered The Deer and the Cauldron as the young Emperor Kangxi.

• Ling Yi followed karmic threads to Wen Caixia, then tracked 312 hostile threads and took control of the people behind the attacks on his videos.
• Copyright holders issued licenses, Ling Yi’s videos returned, and the people who had smeared him publicly apologized.
• Ling Yi reunited with Lau Piu-piu in the Comedy world and learned that Tin-sau and Fangfang had married and that Pumen City’s return had been settled.
• Ling Yi refined slivers of Xiang Ming and the others’ souls, then asked them to help develop film scripts that could build fame for the God of Cookery and Thor.
• The system selected The Deer and the Cauldron, and Ling Yi entered the world as sixteen-year-old Emperor Kangxi.

Ling Yi abandoned the seven banner lords’ ineffective plans and set out to deal with Oboi himself, then disguised himself and encountered Wei Xiaobao at Spring Fragrance Court. After Hai Dafu discovered the emperor missing and returned to search his room, someone placed a hand on his shoulder.

• Ling Yi met with the seven banner lords at Spring Fragrance Court, but dismissed their plans to poison or assassinate Oboi as useless.
• Ling Yi told Hai Dafu to send the seven banner lords home and decided to handle Oboi himself.
• Ling Yi changed his appearance and watched Wei Xiaobao entertain a crowd with a comic story about Chan Kan-nam.
• Hai Dafu accidentally caught Wei Xiaobao when the owner knocked over his stacked tables, then hurried upstairs after discovering Ling Yi had disappeared.
• As Hai Dafu entered Ling Yi’s room to search again, someone placed a hand on his shoulder.

Ling Yi returned to the palace, revealed that Long'er was the fake empress dowager, and strengthened Hai Dafu before assigning him two secret missions. He brought Jianning to confront Long'er, ending by asking whose daughter Jianning really was.

• Hai Dafu struck at Ling Yi by mistake, then recognized him and learned that Ling Yi knew his hidden past.
• Ling Yi and Hai Dafu watched Oboi's forces ambush the Heaven and Earth Society; Chan Kan-nam was blinded by a dwarf and escaped with Wei Xiaobao through a dog hole.
• Back in the palace, Ling Yi told Hai Dafu that Long'er had replaced the real empress dowager and was responsible for several deaths, then ordered him to find A Ke and the twins Big Shuang'er and Little Shuang'er.
• Ling Yi restored Hai Dafu's body and taught him several martial arts techniques, winning his renewed loyalty.
• Ling Yi took Jianning to the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility, forced his way past Long'er's attendants, and identified her as the Mystic Dragon Cult's holy maiden.
• Ling Yi confronted Long'er and asked whose daughter Jianning was.

Ling Yi exposed Long'er as the false empress dowager, revealed his identity and plans to her and Jianning, and then began asserting his authority over the Qing court. The chapter ended with Ling Yi summoning Oboi after witnessing his contemptuous control of morning court.

• Long'er attacked Ling Yi, but he froze her with Magic Power and removed her disguise, then learned that Jianning was the daughter of Skinny Monk and one of Long'er's maids.
• Ling Yi calmed Jianning, told Long'er he knew about the Mystic Dragon Cult's alliance with Wu Sangui, and revealed that he was Han and had replaced Kangxi when Kangxi was eight.
• Ling Yi introduced himself as Ling Yi and said he would gradually replace Manchu officials, beginning by taking action against Oboi, while Long'er continued posing as the empress dowager and the real empress dowager remained imprisoned.
• Ling Yi returned to the Palace of Heavenly Purity and rose before dawn for morning court, where he watched Oboi dominate the officials and treat the emperor with contempt.
• After court, Ling Yi summoned Oboi to his imperial study.

Ling Yi killed Oboi and reshaped the court through force and controlled officials, but resistance from the Eight Banners grew. In the imperial garden, he met Wei Xiaobao, magically restored his severed arm, and sent him to deal with three rebellious princes while seeking a meeting with Chan Kan-nam.

• Ling Yi killed Oboi with the Turtle Wave Technique and handed the aftermath to Duolong and veteran officials.
• Ling Yi established a council, changed court hours, and opened the imperial examinations to Han people; after resistance, he executed six banner lords and many ministers to force the decree through.
• Ling Yi learned that the Eight Banners were secretly plotting to overthrow him, but he remained prepared to suppress any rebellion.
• Ling Yi recognized Wei Xiaobao in the imperial garden, cut off his arm, and then restored it with Magic Power.
• Ling Yi ordered Wei Xiaobao to deal with Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Kexi within six months, promised Duolong’s support, and told him to ask Chan Kan-nam to meet the emperor.

Ling Yi met Chan Kan-nam and revealed his godlike powers, offering him strength and immortality in exchange for helping Wei Xiaobao suppress the Three Feudatories. He empowered Chan Kan-nam, Wei Xiaobao, and Duolong, then sent them off to carry out his orders.

• Jianning suggested a game that involved making young eunuchs fight, and Ling Yi sent her back to the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility, resolving to correct her attitude.
• Wei Xiaobao met Chan Kan-nam at the Heaven and Earth Society's secret base and asked if martial arts could regrow a severed limb; Chan Kan-nam said they could not.
• Wei Xiaobao told Chan Kan-nam that Ling Yi wanted him to help deal with Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jingzhong, and Chan Kan-nam agreed to meet the emperor.
• Ling Yi demonstrated his ability to fly on clouds and promised Chan Kan-nam great strength and eternal life in return for helping Wei Xiaobao eliminate sources of unrest.
• Ling Yi gave Chan Kan-nam, Wei Xiaobao, and Duolong cloud Qi that strengthened them, then instructed them to deal with the Three Feudatories.

Ling Yi drove corrupt officials and regional threats into submission, then prepared to leave the palace with Long'er and the two Shuang'ers. After Jianning mistreated his new companions, he learned that Bond Affection did not change a person's character, and discovered that Jianning's affection had fallen to 80 and could not be removed from the system list.

• Ling Yi had corrupt Manchu officials executed, while Wu Sangui was killed and the other rebel princes surrendered under pressure from the imperial army.
• Ling Yi sent Chan Kan-nam and his companions to stir up trouble in the Rakshasa State, and welcomed A Ke and the two Shuang'ers to the palace.
• Ling Yi dismissed A Ke, Jiu Nan, and their companions, then made Big Shuang'er and Little Shuang'er his women.
• Jianning insulted the two Shuang'ers, but Ling Yi demanded that Jianning apologize and ordered her out when she refused.
• Long'er told Ling Yi she planned to return to the Mystic Dragon Cult, and Ling Yi decided to accompany her and leave the palace with the two Shuang'ers.
• Ling Yi checked the system and found that Jianning's Bond Affection had dropped to 80, then learned he could not remove her from the list.

Ling Yi and his companions traveled toward the Mystic Dragon Cult, but a large masked force ambushed them near Mount Wutai. Ling Yi turned the attackers against one another, killed their leaders, and left Zheng Keshuang begging for mercy while A Ke remained alive.

• Ling Yi, Long'er, the elder and younger Shuang'er traveled south at a leisurely pace, and Long'er said Shunzhi might be a monk on Mount Wutai.
• Several thousand masked attackers surrounded the carriage, and Ling Yi recognized Feng Xifan, Zheng Keshuang, and A Ke among them.
• Feng Xifan demanded the women for himself, but Ling Yi struck him with lightning and killed him.
• Ling Yi used “Sow Discord” to make the attackers slaughter one another, then killed the leader who suspected Ling Yi was Han.
• Only Zheng Keshuang and A Ke remained alive; Zheng Keshuang knelt and begged Ling Yi to spare him.

Ling Yi saved A Ke after she tried to kill herself, but her affection for him became permanently locked at 100 despite his confusion and lack of interest. After Long'er took over the Mystic Dragon Cult and became Ling Yi's fourth true woman, he prepared to condense his dharma body as the final matter in the world approached.

• Zheng Keshuang offered A Ke to Ling Yi to save himself, and A Ke tried to slit her throat in despair.
• Ling Yi healed A Ke, learned she was pregnant, and refused to help her end the pregnancy because doing so would bring severe karmic consequences.
• Ling Yi sent Zheng Keshuang flying southeast, left A Ke with the carriage, and flew south with Long'er and the Shuang'er sisters as A Ke's affection reached 100.
• Long'er became leader of the Mystic Dragon Cult, and Ling Yi spent the following days with her.
• Ling Yi reflected that only the treasure map in the Sutra in Forty-Two Chapters remained before he could take his final step and condense his dharma body.

Ling Yi expanded his influence as emperor by promoting Dharma Bodies of the God of Cookery and the God of Thunder, then left the palace to visit several worlds and strengthen himself. After returning to the real world, he discovered Wen Caixia was surveilling him, and by the end of his travels he had reached the Golden Immortal Pinnacle.

• Ling Yi deleted A Ke's Bond from the system, and A Ke turned her carriage southwest at a fork in the road.
• Ling Yi returned to the capital, spread news of his immortality and divine ranks, and oversaw the creation of Dharma Bodies across the empire.
• Wei Xiaobao told Ling Yi that monks were accusing him of demonic influence, and Ling Yi ordered Wei Xiaobao and Duolong to handle them.
• Ling Yi sent Jianning to the cold palace after catching her whipping a maid, then exited the world through the system.
• Ling Yi spotted Wen Caixia watching him through a surveillance feed and startled her by waving at her.
• Ling Yi visited Lau Piu-piu, discussed promoting divine ranks with Leung Foon, and absorbed Qi Ingestion from Dharma Bodies in the "Flirting with Qiuxiang" world, reaching the Golden Immortal Pinnacle.

Ling Yi entered the Axe Gang’s territory at Five Elements Mountain and witnessed Chun Sanshiniang cow the bandits with her reputation and magic. That evening, Joker tried to attack her while she bathed, but his assault immediately turned awkward.

• Ling Yi received system rewards that raised him to the early Pseudo-Saint realm, then ran to warn the Axe Gang that Chun Sanshiniang was approaching.
• Chun Sanshiniang revealed her peach blossom mark and conjured coins over the Axe Gang members’ heads, forcing them to kneel while Ling Yi escorted her to the bathhouse.
• Joker returned and berated the kneeling bandits, who refused to remove the coins because they feared their heads would roll.
• Joker learned that Chun Sanshiniang planned to stay until the person she awaited appeared, then drew his axe and attacked her as she bathed.

Ling Yi decided to save Fairy Zixia from the Buddhist School and the other powers, resolving to use his ability to restart and grow stronger. After secretly seeking cultivation knowledge from the Three Saints of Kunlun, he returned to find Chun Sanshiniang searching the Axe Gang for a person marked by three moles.

• Chun Sanshiniang defeated Joker and ordered the Axe Gang to gather at the mountain gate, while Joker's injuries worsened.
• Ling Yi avoided the crowded dormitory, reflected on his plan to save Fairy Zixia, and flew east to visit the Three Saints of Kunlun.
• Ling Yi returned before dawn with new cultivation gains and joined the Axe Gang as Chun Sanshiniang inspected their feet for three moles.
• Chun Sanshiniang ordered the gang to check everyone who passed through, and Joker proposed using Five Poisons Heaven-Dazing Incense against her.
• Joker's legs gave out as his Seven Injuries Fist wounds worsened, though he insisted he would not surrender.

Ling Yi rapidly cultivated the Seven Injuries Dharma Seal to Golden Immortal, while Joker recovered from his injuries during the Axe Gang’s chaotic confrontation with Chun Sanshiniang. After Joker entered her quarters, he emerged describing a bewitching woman, as Ling Yi anticipated Bai Jingjing’s arrival.

• Ling Yi cultivated the Seven Injuries Dharma Seal, reaching Golden Immortal in half a month by absorbing the world’s ready-made Magic Power.
• Joker gave Ling Yi a room and tasked him with growing stronger, since nobody else in the Axe Gang could cultivate.
• Ling Yi recorded the Axe Gang’s chaos as Chun Sanshiniang revealed her true form, and the beating Joker received restored him from his Seven Injuries Fist injuries.
• Joker sent the second-in-command to attack Chun Sanshiniang, but the man faked a fainting spell and left Joker to charge into her quarters alone.
• Joker emerged from the room and told Blind Man that the woman inside was a bewitching monster, while Ling Yi expected Bai Jingjing to appear.

Ling Yi watched Joker and Bai Jingjing grow closer while questioning the strange workings of the five-hundred-year cycle. After Patriarch Bodhi warned Joker that Bai Jingjing and Chun Sanshiniang were monsters, Joker asked Ling Yi to help investigate Bai Jingjing without revealing his strength.

• Joker shaved his beard and met Bai Jingjing at the bridge, where she mistook him for Sun Wukong and tested him with Samadhi White Bone Fire.
• Bai Jingjing realized Joker seemed to have no magical power, and the two argued before she left to stop cultivating.
• Ling Yi reasoned that Bai Jingjing barely knew Sun Wukong and wondered whether her arrival had caused the world's magical power and his cultivation to surge.
• Joker became more active as a bandit, and his relationship with Bai Jingjing grew closer while Chun Sanshiniang continued pursuing Tang Sanzang, who had not yet been born.
• A bunch of grapes in Joker's room transformed into Patriarch Bodhi, who gave Joker a Demon-Revealing Mirror and warned that Bai Jingjing and Chun Sanshiniang were monsters.
• Joker asked Ling Yi to help test Bai Jingjing while keeping Ling Yi's strength hidden, then said he would decide what to do if she proved to be a monster.

Ling Yi intervened when the Bull Demon King attacked Bai Jingjing and Chun Sanshiniang, then confronted Patriarch Bodhi about the nature of their world. Patriarch Bodhi revealed that Five Elements Mountain contained a real small world used to simulate the Journey to the West, leaving Ling Yi with the knowledge that many others were undergoing the same trial.

• Ling Yi caught the Bull Demon King's fork and used his divine statuses to suppress the Bull Demon King's strength.
• The Bull Demon King transformed, but fled when Ling Yi summoned a thunderstorm, claiming he had forgotten to eat lunch.
• Ling Yi called out Patriarch Bodhi, who appeared and asked Ling Yi to explain who he was.
• Ling Yi reasoned that Five Elements Mountain was an illusory world designed to temper Son Goku, but Patriarch Bodhi explained that it was a real small world where Joker had reincarnated through repeated trials.
• Ling Yi asked whether Tang Sanzang and the others were also being tested, and Patriarch Bodhi revealed that the world simulated the Journey to the West to prepare for the real journey.

After 9,999 restarts, Ling Yi began another run through A Tall Tale of Journey to the West, but his attempt to follow the plot turned into a battle across Heaven, Spirit Mountain, and the Sages. Back in the Ling Realm, he learned that a mysterious white sheet curled into a Möbius strip was blocking the Bridge of Karmic Luck, and Yin Wanqing said testing her theory would require Uncle’s cooperation.

• Ling Yi revealed that he had lived through 9,999 restarts, discovered the system’s 100-reset limit, and gained immense combat power and a words-become-law ability.
• Ling Yi snapped away the others’ memories of him, sent Patriarch Bodhi offstage, and moved the cast to the Silken Web Cave to restart the plot.
• When Fairy Zixia appeared, Ling Yi took her with him and fought the Heavenly Court, Spirit Mountain, and the Sages until the plot timeline ended.
• Ling Yi’s original body unsealed its memories, paused the world, and brought it into the New Ling Realm before reuniting with Yin Wanqing.
• Yin Wanqing showed Ling Yi the white sheet that had curled into a Möbius strip and blocked the Bridge of Karmic Luck’s influence, then said her theory needed testing with Uncle’s cooperation.

Ling Yi transmigrated in his own body into a world where game brands shaped daily life, and he concealed his overwhelming power while settling into the new setting. He took the identity of a boy recovering from a three-year vegetative state and joined a middle-school class, where he began learning about the world’s history.

• Ling Yi relaxed in Dafeng City's Central Park and considered how game brands had transformed society, its economy, education, and population.
• Ling Yi decided to find the protagonist and obtain an identity, then headed toward western Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi joined Class Six at Dafeng City No. 3 Middle School, where homeroom teacher Luo Yunhai worried that the new student’s years in a vegetative state had left him behind in class.
• Ling Yi told his deskmate Ye Fei that he had awakened after three years and explained that he had grown up in a welfare home.
• Ling Yi read his history textbook and learned that the game brands had reshaped world history, ended most wars, and led to Zhanpuneisi becoming a province of Ancient Country.

Ling Yi attended classes about Game Marks and practiced unfamiliar games alongside Ye Fei, whose boasts concealed the fact that he was a transmigrator with an Idle System. As the students prepared to receive their Game Marks and enter their first game worlds, Ye Fei claimed he would earn an S-grade talent and win the world championship.

• Luo Yunhai explained how talent grades affected players’ futures and warned the students about the danger of online competitive games.
• Ye Fei bragged that he would earn at least an S-grade talent, while Ling Yi privately recognized Ye Fei as the protagonist and revealed that he had copied his Idle System.
• Ling Yi spent the next month practicing games, including I Am the Principal, and struggled to earn high ratings in games with many fiddly tasks.
• Luo Yunhai bid farewell to the thirty-four students whose Game Marks were due, urging them to do well in the National Game Competition.
• Ye Fei declared he would get on television and eventually win the world championship, prompting the other students to mock him.

Ling Yi entered Vegetable Stealing Brawl and activated his fully automatic cheat, which discovered that planting and harvesting grass earned gold much faster than growing tomatoes. He checked on Ye Fei, who was relaxing in a different game, and saw that most players had planted vegetables and activated their Shields, leaving robot buyers unable to steal for six hours.

• Ling Yi entered the game and learned that his fully automatic cheat had generated a vegetable-stealing program.
• Ling Yi examined the game's rules, including mutual radar marking, robot prices, crop choices, and the Shield that protected three harvests.
• Ling Yi activated AFK mode, and the robot planted grass, harvested it in minutes, and earned him 80 gold per harvest.
• Ling Yi realized that growing grass was a hidden strategy that earned far more than tomatoes.
• Ling Yi checked on Ye Fei, who was lounging in a different game while his archer fought monsters.
• Ling Yi saw that most players had planted vegetables and activated their Shields, preventing robot buyers from stealing for six hours.

Ling Yi expanded his farm and sent armed vegetable-stealing robots to raid other players after their Shields expired. Song Zehui’s attempt to steal from Ling Yi failed when a native dog destroyed his robot, leaving the class monitor broke and sobbing as Ling Yi considered helping him.

• Ling Yi’s farm upgraded to level 4, growing to sixteen vegetable plots, five native dogs, and ten AK-equipped vegetable-stealing robots.
• Ling Yi sent eight robots to raid other players and posted a robbery threat in the Chat Channel.
• Song Zehui saw Ling Yi’s message, failed to view his higher-level farm, and repeatedly tried to add him as a friend before Ling Yi disabled friend requests.
• Song Zehui sent his lone vegetable-stealing robot to Ling Yi’s farm, where a native dog destroyed it and left Song Zehui with no gold or crops.
• Ling Yi recognized Song Zehui as his class monitor and considered helping him while thinking of an idea to test.

Ling Yi used the Fully Automatic Idle System to send armed crop-stealing robots into foreign players’ farms, while Light mistook the powerful attacker S8201 for German’s Yadali. The chapter left Light eliminated and convinced that S8201 had S-rank talent, unaware that Ling Yi was behind the attacks.

• Ling Yi’s robots planted grass seeds in Song Zehui’s empty plots, helping him reach farm level 3, though Song wrongly guessed that S8201 was his homeroom teacher, Luo Yunhai.
• After confirming that robots could plant crops in other players’ farms, Ling Yi ordered the system to seize foreign players’ territory and eliminate them as he prepared for the national championship.
• Light, an experienced level 10 player and Amaileken’s world championship team captain, built up his farm defensively and suspected S8201 might be Yadali from German.
• Two armed crop-stealing robots invaded Light’s farm, shot his rural dogs, and eliminated him, costing him one million game points.
• Light blamed S8201 and concluded that the player must have S-rank talent, mistakenly believing Yadali was responsible.