Recaps

Ling Yi entered the dark novel world as Luo Sheng, an extra destined to receive a Death God Note, and tried to decide how to improve his role-playing score. He played along with Fan Mei during their blind date as he waited for Lin Fei to arrive and the Death God Note to appear.

• Ling Yi saw that the second novel world had become available and read enough of its grim plot to understand the Death God Note system.
• Ling Yi transmigrated as Luo Sheng, received the ten-thousandfold returns golden finger, and learned that Lin Fei's Death God Notes rewarded their users with powers and attributes.
• Ling Yi recognized that he was in Luo Sheng's blind-date scene with Fan Mei, who planned to exploit him over his family's impending demolition payout.
• Ling Yi decided to maintain Luo Sheng's honest persona until Lin Fei arrived, then offered Fan Mei bracelets and a meal.
• Fan Mei accepted Ling Yi's offer and asked how much bride price he would pay if they married.

Ling Yi used the Death God Note's arrival to help arrest Fan Mei for her scams, then read the notebook's rules and learned how it benefited Lin Fei. He planned to seize every Death God Note and choose its owners himself.

• Ling Yi followed Luo Sheng's scripted conversation with Fan Mei until Lin Fei entered the café, then excused himself to the restroom.
• Ling Yi found a Death God Note by the sink and called the inspectors to report Fan Mei, whom they arrested at the café.
• Ling Yi gave a statement at the inspectors' station and later read the Death God Note's rules, including its death conditions, ownership transfer, and leveling system.
• Ling Yi learned that Lin Fei received most of the life and souls claimed by Death God Notes, while Lin Fei could neither harm their owners nor use a note himself.
• Ling Yi decided to seize all the Death God Notes and determine who would own them, intending to redirect their use beyond the Ancient Country.

Ling Yi created an information-gathering program called Book Spirit and began using the Death God Note to target influential people he considered enemies of the Ancient Country. The chapter left him heading toward Yuncheng Middle School, preparing to build strength before confronting Yi Zhengxiang.

• Ling Yi spent three days coding an intelligent program, named it Book Spirit, and set it to gather information online.
• Ling Yi searched for Yuncheng Middle School and wrote Hu Ergou, Bai Xiaolang, and Tian Xiaodie into the Death God Note.
• Ling Yi chose cerebral hemorrhages as the default deaths for the three targets because he urgently needed strength.
• Ling Yi planned to confront Yi Zhengxiang, whose next intended victim was a teacher Ling Yi believed had done nothing wrong.

Ling Yi investigated the Death God Note at Yuncheng Middle School and used his overwhelming power to take it from Yi Zhengxiang. He destroyed the names Yi Zhengxiang had written and left him trapped in an illusion, hoping he would change.

• Ling Yi had Book Spirit hack the school surveillance and teleport him to a grove beside Yuncheng Middle School.
• Ling Yi discovered that Ten-Thousandfold Returns had raised his Life and Soul stats to 3001 after he killed three people, while Lin Fei's system warned him not to provoke Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi located Yi Zhengxiang, who was writing names in his Death God Note, and took the notebook from him.
• Ling Yi tore up and destroyed the three pages of names, then criticized Yi Zhengxiang for targeting classmates and his teacher.
• Ling Yi created an illusion for Yi Zhengxiang and vanished, leaving him trapped inside it.

Ling Yi explained the world’s Life Force and Soul Power system while discussing the Death God Notes and Book Spirit’s rapid growth. After Book Spirit identified the Double Helix Society and Symbiosis Society as targets, Ling Yi set out to quietly weaken them, then collided with a fast-moving figure in blue in his apartment stairwell.

• Ling Yi explained that Life Force and Soul Power unlocked successive layers of human potential, and recalled why he wanted to gather the Death God Notes and stop the mass killings described in the novel.
• Book Spirit revealed she could read names in the Death God Note and that its pages restored themselves after being torn out.
• Book Spirit said the Double Helix Society and Symbiosis Society secretly controlled the Western Alliance, while the Mohist School had resisted their influence in the Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi ordered Book Spirit to find minor targets in the Symbiosis Society and to avoid exposing them or provoking the organizations prematurely.
• Impatient with the slow elevator, Ling Yi had Book Spirit block the surveillance and raced up the stairs in Transcendent mode.
• Ling Yi collided between the fourth and fifth floors with a fast, slender figure in blue racing downstairs.

After colliding with Wu Yaqin, Ling Yi learned that she was a mysterious Transcendent tied to the Death God Note plot and wondered which faction she was meant to introduce. He decided to keep intercepting Death God Notes, while weighing whether to pursue Wu Yaqin and resolve to earn enough Origin Points to bring people out of novel worlds.

• Ling Yi caught Wu Yaqin after they collided, sensed her formidable mental power, and watched her run away.
• Book Spirit identified Wu Yaqin as Ling Yi's upstairs neighbor and uncovered that her records before age fourteen were fabricated.
• Ling Yi recalled Wu Yaqin's role in the original plot, where she investigated the Death God Note and was killed after Yi Zhengxiang's power passed to his deskmate.
• Ling Yi suspected Wu Yaqin's mysterious faction might connect to the Mohist School, the Double Helix Society, and the Symbiosis Society, and told Book Spirit to monitor Lin Fei.
• Ling Yi chose not to visit Wu Yaqin because he expected to leave the novel world, then found that bringing someone to the Main World would cost millions of Origin Points.
• Ling Yi resolved to earn Origin Points and asked Book Spirit for several lists of names with photos.

Ling Yi arranged the deaths of five leaders of Amalican’s Symbiosis Society and watched Watanabe Saburo kill them at a charity gala. After Wu Yaqin invited him to lunch, Ling Yi had the footage prepared for posting on Radiant Water Country’s short-video platforms.

• Ling Yi copied the five leaders’ names into the Death God Note and set a broad death sequence intended to frame Radiant Water Country.
• Ling Yi agreed to meet Wu Yaqin for lunch after she came to apologize for their collision and thank him.
• At a charity gala in Amalican, Watanabe Saburo used a disguised gun inside his camera to shoot the five leaders dead.
• Ling Yi watched the live broadcast and told the Book Spirit to prepare the footage for Radiant Water Country’s short-video platforms.

Ling Yi sparred with Wu Yaqin, who revealed the Mohist School’s Chiyou Battle Armor, and used Telekinesis to overcome its strength. After they discussed the Death God Notes and fled the scene of their fight, Ling Yi decided he needed to grow stronger.

• Ancient Country’s netizens spread news about the Symbiosis Society, while Liaokudeng threatened Radiant Water Country and its prime minister apologized for Watanabe Saburo’s actions.
• Ling Yi and Wu Yaqin sparred in the woods near their residential complex until Wu Yaqin summoned the Chiyou Battle Armor and knocked Ling Yi through several trees.
• Ling Yi used Telekinesis to restrict Wu Yaqin and beat on her armor until she called off the spar.
• Wu Yaqin asked Ling Yi about the Death God Note, and he admitted using its power but concealed how the Notes appeared.
• Ling Yi and Wu Yaqin fled when footsteps approached, then went their separate ways after dinner; Ling Yi told Book Spirit to execute plan two.

Ling Yi considered using Amaileken’s fireworks silos to kill people and harvest their power, then learned Lin Fei was making a move and rushed to Yuncheng Middle School. Wu Yaqin discussed obtaining a Death God Note with her family, while Ling Yi found Lin Fei targeting the school again.

• Ling Yi considered having Amaileken’s fireworks silos strike Radiant Water Country and explained how collateral victims could also yield life force and Soul Power.
• Ling Yi reflected on how White Death God Notes could counter Black Death God Notes and suspected the two types had once been one system.
• Book Spirit alerted Ling Yi that Lin Fei was making a move, and Ling Yi flew toward the coordinates.
• Wu Yaqin spoke with her grandfather and Wu Yafeng about getting a Death God Note, staying safe, and the threat it posed to the Double Helix Society.
• Ling Yi reached Yuncheng Middle School and learned that Lin Fei had targeted it again because he worked nearby and was lazy.

Ling Yi confronted Lin Fei at Yuncheng Middle School and took control of the Death God Notes, deciding Lin Fei was unfit to distribute them. Lin Fei returned to his security guard job under Ling Yi’s orders, while his Death God System admitted it would rather serve Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi found invisible Lin Fei and considered whether to reveal himself as Luo Sheng, while Lin Fei complained that Luo Sheng was not using the Death God Notes quickly enough.
• The Death God System pointed out that Luo Sheng had killed five players from the server’s second-ranked Graves team, and Lin Fei began to understand that Yi Zhengxiang had misused a Death God Note.
• Ling Yi confronted Lin Fei about giving Death God Notes to irresponsible people and warned him about the danger of placing them in the hands of criminals or ruthless users.
• Ling Yi ordered Lin Fei to hand over both Death God Notes and told him to redeem more only when instructed, avoid wasting Death God Points, and return to his security guard job.
• Lin Fei’s Death God System sided with Ling Yi and said it would have left Lin Fei if it could, before Ling Yi took the notes and dismissed him.

Ling Yi tried to take control of Lin Fei’s Death God System and considered whether to give a Death God Note to Book Spirit, who feared the power could let her break free of his safeguards. Lin Fei refused to surrender the system, but Ling Yi offered to manage it while leaving Lin Fei alive and entitled to ten percent of its power.

• Ling Yi ordered Lin Fei to reverse the Death God Note sharing ratio, and Lin Fei left Yuncheng Middle School after agreeing reluctantly.
• Ling Yi discussed giving away the three extra Death God Notes with Book Spirit, who warned that a holder’s ambitions could change and admitted she feared the effects on herself.
• Book Spirit called Lin Fei and demanded control of the Death God Note settings; Lin Fei learned the Death God System could be transferred but refused to give it up.
• Ling Yi threatened that Lin Fei’s death would unbind the system, then offered to control it while letting Lin Fei keep it and receive ten percent of its power.
• Lin Fei hung up after falling silent, and his mindset began to change.

Lin Fei unknowingly granted Ling Yi full Death God System authority when he tried to share only two permissions. Ling Yi gained a fully unlocked subsystem and discovered it could control Death God Notes and their owners, while the system urged him to kill Lin Fei.

• Lin Fei agreed to share the Death God Notes’ configuration and purchase permissions with Luo Sheng, but the Death God System secretly treated his confirmation as permission to transfer all its authority.
• Luo Sheng’s Death God Note flew into Ling Yi, giving him a Death God System Subsystem with every permission unlocked.
• Ling Yi gave Yi Zhengxiang’s Death God Note to Book Spirit, which received it through his phone and agreed to carry out Plan No. 2.
• Ling Yi inspected the subsystem and learned that permanent Death God Notes could not be stolen and that the system could control both the Notes and their owners.
• Ling Yi found the system’s note urging him to kill Lin Fei, and he examined the Death God Notes, lottery results, and white-covered Symbiotic Death God Notes.

Ling Yi discussed the Symbiosis Society and Double Helix Society with Wu Yaqin, then planned with Book Spirit to target hostile countries’ leaders with fireworks. The chapter ended with Book Spirit reporting that Lin Fei had quit his job and flown to Radiant Water Country.

• Wu Yaqin explained that the deaths of five Symbiosis Society members had only temporarily disrupted the organization’s plans, while Radiant Water Country and Amaileken tried to defuse the fireworks incident.
• Ling Yi admitted his involvement in the five deaths and offered Wu Yaqin two Death God Notes in exchange for detailed information on the Double Helix Society.
• Wu Yaqin warned Ling Yi that the Symbiosis Society controlled much of Amaileken and urged him to wait before acting; she agreed to bring him information from the Mohist School.
• After Wu Yaqin left, Ling Yi told Book Spirit to target the hostile countries’ higher-ups with fireworks while avoiding ordinary people.
• Book Spirit told Ling Yi that Lin Fei had quit his job and booked a flight to Radiant Water Country.

Ling Yi let Lin Fei stir up trouble in Radiant Water Country while Book Spirit spent a month destroying leadership across several countries and wiping out the Symbiosis Society and Double Helix Society. With his Origin Points mission complete and twenty-four hours before he would be forced out of the world, Ling Yi learned that Lin Fei had returned and seemed to be coming for him.

• Ling Yi discovered that Lin Fei had gone to Radiant Water Country and told his people to monitor him while letting him act unless he had another plan.
• Book Spirit asked whether Ling Yi would ever leave her, and Ling Yi promised he would return if he had to go.
• After Ling Yi gave her permission to make trouble, Book Spirit launched a month of fireworks against leaders in several countries, leaving Yitelie destroyed, Radiant Water Country and Flying Donkey Country crippled, and Amaileken fractured by civil war.
• Book Spirit evolved into a Spirit Body and helped the Mohist School destroy the Double Helix Society after eliminating the Symbiosis Society.
• Ling Yi completed his mission and learned he would be forced out of the world in twenty-four hours, then Book Spirit told him Lin Fei had returned and seemed to be coming for him.

Ling Yi defeated Lin Fei in space, inherited the Death God System as a ring, and returned to the Main World. After earning two lottery draws for completing the quest and receiving a roleplay score of 30, he wondered how to improve his score without following Luo Sheng’s fatal original plot.

• Lin Fei returned to the country after distributing over six hundred Death God Notes in Radiant Water Country, while Ling Yi secretly gained most of the resulting vitality and Soul Power.
• Ling Yi intercepted Lin Fei and urged him to restrict or retrieve the Death God Notes, but Lin Fei refused and attacked him.
• Ling Yi and Lin Fei fought beyond Blue Star, where Ling Yi used spatial power to immobilize and kill Lin Fei.
• The Death God System failed to bind to Ling Yi, transformed into a ring, and revealed that Ling Yi could take it out of the world by spending Origin Points.
• Ling Yi returned to the Main World, received two lottery draws, and questioned how to raise his roleplay score as Luo Sheng.

Ling Yi used his two draws, obtaining low-grade spirit stones and the intelligent life-form Book Spirit, who joined him in the Main World and offered to help search for survivors. As Ling Yi prepared to inspect the zombies outside, he noticed that the system had already bound a new novel world.

• Ling Yi drew 100,000 low-grade spirit stones, then used his final draw to obtain Book Spirit.
• Book Spirit appeared in Ling Yi's childhood form, confirmed that her powers were restricted, and asked him to authorize her use of the Death God Ring.
• After Ling Yi granted authorization, Book Spirit analyzed the signal detector and began monitoring the world's network for other living people.
• Ling Yi decided to buy a protective suit before observing the zombies up close, then noticed that the system had bound a new novel world.

Ling Yi investigated nearby zombies and discovered signs that they were evolving, while Book Spirit warned that the city’s power and water could fail soon. After waiting three days and studying the new novel, Ling Yi prepared to enter its world with Book Spirit.

• Ling Yi broke into his neighbor Miao'er’s apartment and found her and her daughter Yingying standing motionless as zombies, despite having no food stored at home.
• Ling Yi compared the mother and daughter with zombie videos and surveillance footage, finding that zombies had blue-gray or red-gray eyes, with blue-gray-eyed zombies making up seventy percent.
• Book Spirit reported that the city’s power could last at most three more days and that a distant nuclear power station was nearing critical levels.
• Ling Yi suspected the zombies were evolving and had developed a new way to obtain energy, then waited three days to confirm they could survive without food or water.
• Ling Yi studied the new novel and, on April 24, 2026, chose to spend 10,000 points to bring Book Spirit with him when he transmigrated.

Ling Yi transmigrated into Li Cheng, a disgraced Guard Army squad leader whose role was supposed to end in the opening chapter. As he joined the hunt for Mystique, Book Spirit located the target, leaving Ling Yi to pursue her and seek a way to preserve his role.

• The system assigned Ling Yi the identity Li Cheng and a ten-thousandfold experience cheat, with no penalties for failing his mission or breaking character.
• Commander Yan Yunhai briefed the Guard Army squad leaders on Mystique's appearances and ordered them to find her before the dimensional barrier's deadline.
• Ling Yi recalled how Li Cheng's cowardice had caused his subordinates' deaths and how the character was destined to die protecting a teammate.
• Ling Yi reviewed the world's invasion rules and the protagonist's Turtle Speed Force, then resolved to earn Origin Points and improve his portrayal rating without ending Li Cheng's role.
• Book Spirit told Ling Yi that it had located Mystique, and Ling Yi started the car and asked for directions.

Ling Yi confronted Mystique Raven and explained that the dimensional invasions and the promise of a treasure were part of a scheme by a hidden transmigrator. He warned Raven that the power growth she experienced was bait, while she remained unable to advance beyond level 4.

• Ling Yi visited Raven at the Good Home Hotel and revealed that he knew who she was and that Erik had been deceived about an ideal world for Mutants.
• Raven attacked Ling Yi, but her dagger passed through his illusion clones, and he urged her to hear him out.
• Ling Yi explained that invaders’ abilities were transformed into crystals by this world’s rules, and that the protagonist had secretly obtained some crystals from fantasy-world characters.
• Ling Yi compared the invasions to a poor neighbor luring others into digging for stolen treasure, then revealed that a hidden system-holder was orchestrating the invasions to grow stronger.
• Raven questioned whether the hidden neighbor might destroy the other worlds after taking their resources, and Ling Yi explained that the apparent energy gains were bait and that Raven could not reach level 5.

Ling Yi revealed his plan to use the Death God Ring to recruit fantasy characters and build a force under his control. After giving Raven a ring, he confronted Shang Jun and authorized Book Spirit to distribute more rings as he prepared to step into the spotlight.

• Ling Yi explained that invaders could grow stronger by killing Awakened or other invaders, then told Raven he wanted to unite forces against a destructive neighbor.
• Ling Yi gave Raven a silvery-white ring, the Death God Ring, and explained that its users could hunt targets he designated while coming under his control.
• Ling Yi revealed his goal of using the rings to build a powerful faction and become a central figure in the world's struggle; Raven hesitated before reaching for the ring after he left.
• Ling Yi encountered Shang Jun outside the Good Home Hotel, warned him about his embezzlement of Superpower Crystals, and drove away as suspicion spread among Shang Jun's squad.
• Ling Yi authorized Book Spirit to distribute the rings to fantasy characters, renamed them Justice Rings, and learned that the magnetic network could cover the planet within a month.

Ling Yi watched a dangerous blond invader confront the Guard Army in Lianhe Mall, where Kang Wendong’s squad tried to hold him back until reinforcements arrived. Ling Yi recognized the scene as the point where Li Cheng had died in the original plot, but the chapter ended as the squad opened fire.

• Ling Yi reviewed his systems, noted the increased Origin Point quota, and considered the risks of the evolving zombies in his Main World.
• Ling Yi confirmed that Raven had been permanently bound to the Justice Ring and could no longer kill good people under its settings.
• Book Spirit alerted Ling Yi to a blond invader entering Lianhe Mall with Kang Wendong’s Guard Army squad in pursuit.
• Kang Wendong’s squad failed to find Raven and instead followed orders to target the invader, who had already killed more than thirty Awakened.
• The starving invader grabbed cakes, then unleashed a blast that threw nearby mall-goers aside and enraged the Guard Army squad.
• Kang Wendong ordered his squad to use net guns and hold the invader off until reinforcements arrived, then led the attack.

Ling Yi killed the unstable invader Andrew Detmer with an energy arrow, then left the Guard Army. After Kang Wendong reported complaints that Shang Han and his squad had robbed other awakened ones, Yan Yunhai promised to investigate whether Li Cheng had been falsely blamed.

• Ling Yi used Illusion to conceal the ruined mall and his actions from Kang Wendong's group, then warned Andrew Detmer to surrender or die.
• Andrew attacked Ling Yi with Telekinesis, but Ling Yi's illusion left him unharmed; Ling Yi shot Andrew through the heart and killed him.
• Yan Yunhai arrived and assumed Ling Yi was leaving the Guard Army, so Ling Yi returned his equipment, removed his uniform, and departed.
• Kang Wendong told Yan Yunhai that complaints accused Shang Han and the other members of Li Cheng's squad of robbing awakened ones in companion worlds.
• Yan Yunhai postponed the investigation until after the mission and suspended Kang Wendong for failing to report the complaints.

Ling Yi planned to expand the magnetic network and meet the protagonist while using Book Spirit to study the Main World’s media and this world’s original story. After arriving at Qianyun City Awakened School, he learned that Li Cheng might have his name cleared because evidence showed his former subordinates were criminals and Shang Jun had spread rumors to frame him.

• Ling Yi told Book Spirit to finish extending the magnetic network, study works from the Main World, and learn this world’s plot.
• Ling Yi checked Li Cheng’s Awakened status and saw that killing Andrew had raised him to level 8 through the ten-thousandfold experience bonus.
• Ling Yi explained that he could pursue the Beyond-Realm State by killing invading villains, while relying on cultivation and Justice Rings to grow stronger.
• Ling Yi redeemed a transforming miniature computer, and Book Spirit copied millions of works and this world’s original novel into its database.
• Book Spirit told Ling Yi that Li Cheng might have his name cleared because his former subordinates had robbed and killed Awakened, while Shang Jun had spread rumors to drive him from the Guard Army.

Ling Yi entered Qianyun City Awakened School under Illusion to meet protagonist Ye Ming and investigate whether Ye Ming’s former world resembled the Main World, which might reveal the system’s origin. After watching Ye Ming escape Song Xinran and defeat several classmates, Ling Yi saw him become trapped in the grove and suspect something supernatural.

• Ling Yi dismissed the news that Yan Yunhai might clear Li Cheng’s name and entered the school using Illusion.
• Ling Yi waited outside Teaching Building No. 3 to meet Ye Ming and test his guesses about the protagonist’s former world.
• Song Xinran chased Ye Ming after his prank, but Ye Ming used Turtle Speed Force to escape into a grove.
• Ye Ming defeated several students who cornered him, then walked toward the grove’s exit while lecturing them.
• Ye Ming realized he had been walking for ten minutes without leaving the grove and wondered if he had encountered something unclean.

Ling Yi trapped Ye Ming in an illusion to question him about his original world, then helped him discover new ways to use the Turtle Speed Force. Ye Ming returned to the school woods determined to train before the assessment, while Ling Yi planned to visit other worlds for Origin Points.

• After failing to escape the woods, Ye Ming activated the Turtle Speed Force, but Ling Yi changed the illusion from a forest into a desert and appeared before him as a mysterious figure.
• Ling Yi questioned Ye Ming about his transmigration and events in his original world, confirming that Ye Ming's memories matched the Main World in 2024.
• Ling Yi taught Ye Ming to use the Turtle Speed Force in checkerboard patterns and as steps in the air, earning more than eight thousand Origin Points from the spoilers.
• Ling Yi returned Ye Ming to the school's woods, where Ye Ming resolved to train for the assessment and fled when Song Xinran called to him.
• As Ye Ming and Song Xinran ran off, Ling Yi thought about visiting Wu Yaqin in the Death God world and checking the modern cultivation world for Origin Points.