Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen synthesized a Bloodthirst Heaven Devouring Crossbow while Ling Yi’s group traveled to Heavenly Baleful Energy City to confront Situ Hao’s plans. Ling Yi shared a cultivation-simplifying golden finger with Yaoguang and Yuan Ziyi, kept Situ Wan’er’s return system disabled because he did not trust her loyalties, and finally reached the sect master.

• Xiao Chen synthesized a Bloodthirst Heaven Devouring Crossbow with his system, and he and Lin Bei agreed to meet Ling Yi.
• Song Jiao escaped from the ground badly weakened and set off for the Canglan Empire to activate the Blood Spirit Grand Formation.
• Ling Yi, Yaoguang, Yuan Ziyi, and Situ Wan'er arrived at Heavenly Baleful Energy City, where Lin Bo led them toward Situ Hao.
• Ling Yi secretly released miniature clones throughout the city while Yaoguang and Yuan Ziyi used their Cultivation Technique Simplification System to gain Dao experience.
• Ling Yi kept Situ Wan'er’s Ten-Thousandfold Return System edited to zero because he was unsure whether she would side with him or Situ Hao.
• Lin Bo led Ling Yi and the others through the checkpoints, and they finally met the sect master of the Heavenly Baleful Energy Sect.

Situ Hao revealed that the Blood Spirit Grand Formation had been active for six months as part of his plan to break through the void and strengthen the world. After Ling Yi explained that the plan might misunderstand how a world's origin worked, Situ Hao asked him what to do next.

• Situ Hao told Situ Wan'er that the Blood Spirit Grand Formation was already fully established and could no longer be stopped.
• Ling Yi questioned Situ Hao's bloody method for achieving Void Breaking and learned that he had exceptional cultivation and a Dao of Devouring beyond perfection.
• Situ Hao explained that the Xiao Clan had fled the BeiDou Domain after losing a struggle for the single Void Breaking opportunity available every three thousand years.
• Ling Yi and Situ Hao discussed how ascension affected the world's energy, and Ling Yi argued that world origin—not Spirit Yuan or blood baleful energy—was the key to a world's growth.
• Situ Hao accepted that his centuries of planning might have been misguided and asked Ling Yi what he should do next.

Ling Yi planned to use a disguised Heavenly Dao Blessing to lure Meng Po into provoking the Heavenly Dao, while Meng Po headed to the Southern Yun Nation to activate a Blood Spirit Grand Formation. Ling Yi split up to stop her and protect the Northern Yuan Empire, leaving Tianji to pursue Yaoguang in hopes of obtaining another blessing.

• Situ Wan'er asked whether her father was a good person, and Ling Yi questioned whether Situ Hao cared about being judged that way.
• Ling Yi decided Meng Po would be the ideal target for his disguised cultivation cheat, with Princess Tianji as a backup.
• Situ Hao brought Xiao Chen, Lin Bei, and Tianji to meet Ling Yi, then revealed that Meng Po had gone to the Southern Yun Nation to activate its Blood Spirit Grand Formation.
• Ling Yi sent Lin Bei and Xiao Chen to the Northern Yuan Empire to stop Meng Po, promised them their Heavenly Dao Blessings would remain, and sent Yaoguang and Yuan Ziyi with them.
• Ling Yi and Situ Wan'er set off for the Southern Yun Nation, while Tianji flew after Yaoguang to seek her help in obtaining a Heavenly Dao Blessing.

Ling Yi revived the millions killed in the Southern Yun Nation’s capital, then reached Northern Yuan City and found Meng Po fighting Emperor Xiao and the others. As Ling Yi began reviving Northern Yuan’s dead, Meng Po broke through to Void Breaking and ascended through a multicolored gate.

• Ling Yi discovered the Southern Yun capital’s dead still had information windows and used his Infinite Qi and Blood System to restore them, earning Karmic Luck Points by bringing them back to life.
• Ling Yi and Situ Wan’er traveled to Northern Yuan City, where Meng Po’s Blood Spirit Grand Formation had killed its inhabitants and Meng Po was under attack from Emperor Xiao, Wang Xiu, Lin Bei, Xiao Chen, and the Du sisters.
• Ling Yi assessed the battle and stopped Situ Wan’er from joining it, choosing instead to revive the people killed in Northern Yuan City.
• Emperor Xiao and Wang Xiu left the fight and watched Ling Yi restore the dead while Emperor Xiao told him about his plans to unify the Haotian Domain.
• Meng Po laughed that she had reached Void Breaking, ascended through a multicolored gate, and disappeared, while Ling Yi remarked that even false Void Breaking allowed Ascension.

Ling Yi prepared to smuggle forty-nine people into the upper realm, recruited Lin Yu, and subdued Jiang Wudi after the emperor sacrificed millions in the Haotian Empire. Upon ascending, Ling Yi’s sealed memories returned when he reunited with Mengmeng, Ye Tian, and Zheng Hai, and he later traveled the world with Yin Wanqing before beginning another transmigration.

• Ling Yi explained that Meng Po had deceived the upper realm’s Heavenly Gate and announced he would ascend with forty-nine others in a month.
• Yaoguang explained that only one cultivator could truly break the void every three thousand years, so the group kept their smuggling plan secret and discussed how to allocate the slots.
• Ling Yi discovered the transmigrator Lin Yu and his black donkey, shared a cheat with Lin Yu, and watched Lin Yu decide to ascend with him.
• Situ Hao brought Emperor Haotian, Jiang Wudi, to investigate the ascension; Ling Yi reduced Jiang Wudi’s strength to that of an ordinary person and sent him back to the Haotian Empire.
• In his seventh month, Ling Yi ascended with forty-nine people, and his memories were unsealed when he met Mengmeng, Ye Tian, and Zheng Hai in the upper realm.
• Ling Yi brought Yin Wanqing to join him, traveled around the world with her for more than ten years, and then began a new transmigration.

Ling Yi received the Sin Value System and chose the Earth Escape Technique to improve his chances of surviving a party hosted by Bai Lan Street’s ruler, Bell Horst. He prepared to go with Burter, while still unsure what might happen that night.

• Burter invited Ling Yi to Bell Horst’s party and asked him to use his supposed Eastern powers to help.
• Ling Yi’s system activated and gave him 10 Sin Value, along with access to skills, equipment, and other upgrades.
• Ling Yi agreed to attend the party after asking Burter what to expect.
• Ling Yi spent his 10 Sin Value on the Earth Escape Technique, which let him sense earth elements within 100 meters and escape to them.

Ling Yi used the Earth Escape Technique to loot a villa basement containing a hundred million dollars and a cache of weapons, gaining sixteen sin points. He joined Burter for Horst’s private party, leaving with a new suit and a rented sports car as they headed toward Bell Manor.

• Ling Yi tested the Earth Escape Technique, found it effortless to use, and upgraded it to level two.
• Ling Yi took the villa basement’s cash, weapons, and ammunition into his System Space, gaining sixteen sin points.
• Ling Yi removed two safes from the villa’s upper floors, but his sin value did not increase.
• Burter urged Ling Yi to prepare for Horst’s private party, and Ling Yi turned Burter’s five-dollar bill into nineteen hundred dollars by claiming he had traded Burter’s lifespan.
• Burter and Ling Yi bought suits, rented a sports car, and drove toward Bell Manor at the foot of Mount Bitfu.

Ling Yi and Burter met Morte Wolf at Bell Manor, where Wolf offered them a chance to join the Wolf Gang by completing an almost impossible zero-dollar shopping mission. Ling Yi agreed to help Burter, but demanded three conditions.

• Burter explained that joining a gang was necessary to access Bai Lan Street's criminal businesses, and took Ling Yi to Bell Manor.
• At the manor, Ling Yi watched Burter mingle and was approached by Watanabe Sanjian, whom he angrily corrected for mistaking him for someone from Radiant Water Country.
• Morte Wolf met Ling Yi and told him to bring a few surprises in three days if he wanted to join the Wolf Gang.
• Burter revealed that he and Ling Yi had to collect goods worth more than thirty thousand dollars from Mossang Avenue in South Maku Block and escape the trouble.
• Ling Yi agreed to help Burter with the mission, but required him to accept three conditions.

Ling Yi ordered Burter to follow his instructions and prepare a secluded warehouse, while Burter secretly weighed whether Ling Yi truly possessed Daoist Arts and considered his own ambitions. Burter secured and outfitted a former Scavenger Gang warehouse for Ling Yi, who planned to move in and told him to have Wolf’s men collect some goods that night.

• Ling Yi laid down rules for Burter, demanded seventy percent of their zero-dollar shopping profits, and ordered him to rent a large warehouse.
• After Burter aimed his pistol at Ling Yi’s bedroom and put it away, Ling Yi emerged from the floor and decided Burter’s distrust had settled his doubts about acting against him.
• Burter found a million dollars and a note from Ling Yi instructing him to buy a large, secluded warehouse, then used the money to secure one near Mount Bitfu.
• Ling Yi told Burter to spend the remaining money on security and renovations, arrange legitimate identity documents, and have Wolf’s men come after ten that night to collect goods.
• Burter received a message from a friend and was left dumbfounded.

Ling Yi arranged for Wolf to collect the goods from his warehouse, while Burter weighed whether to betray him or stay at his side. After Ling Yi toyed with Burter about the identity of the mysterious shopper, Burter pointed a pistol at him.

• Burter saw a viral video of a hooded shopper emptying forty-two Watanabe Group supermarkets and suspected Ling Yi was responsible.
• Ling Yi told Burter to contact Wolf and invite him to collect the goods, despite Wolf’s rule that large-scale zero-dollar shopping needed his approval.
• Burter considered betraying Ling Yi to join Wolf’s gang, but decided to wait and see how Ling Yi and Wolf’s confrontation went.
• Wolf’s men arrived to renovate Ling Yi’s warehouse, and Burter later said Wolf had received the collection message.
• Ling Yi joked that he was not the mysterious shopper and prompted Burter to speculate that Congressman Hall was conspiring against Wolf.
• When Burter pointed a pistol at him, Ling Yi’s expression darkened.

Ling Yi used his Earth Escape Technique to bury Burter, then targeted four valuable Watanabe Group shops on Wortuopa Street to earn Sin Value. He emptied a jewelry store and buried its ambushers, leaving inspectors scrambling as he moved into the neighboring shop.

• Ling Yi buried Burter a hundred meters underground after Burter drew a gun on him.
• Ling Yi reviewed his upgraded Earth Escape Technique and Telekinesis, then headed to Wortuopa Street to target Watanabe Group stores.
• Ling Yi overheard inspectors discussing the hunt for the mysterious zero-dollar shopper and followed them to a jewelry store.
• Ling Yi buried the store's ambushers five hundred meters underground and took everything inside, including its safes.
• Ling Yi waited until inspectors gathered outside, escaped underground, and entered the neighboring shop.

Ling Yi learned about the Evolver program, recruited Morte Wolf and his men, and sought a faster way to gain Sin Points after discovering his crimes had been scrubbed from the internet. He bought a Red Queen program data source code and sent Wolf and Taylor to carry out a plan, leaving them stunned by its audacity.

• Ling Yi confronted Morte Wolf at the warehouse and learned that congressmen had discussed the Transcendent God Project, nine Evolvers, and the escape of Evolver No. 9.
• Wolf offered to serve Ling Yi, who planted Mental Seeds in Wolf and his men and ordered them to return the next morning.
• Ling Yi raised his level to lv8, then found that his Sin Points had grown by only 560 overnight and that online reports about him had vanished.
• Ling Yi bought the Red Queen Intelligent Program Data Source Code from the system shop.
• Wolf and Taylor arrived, and Ling Yi assigned them tasks that left both men shocked; they agreed to carry them out.

At a press conference in Houlaiwu Central Park, Zero interrupted Chief Inspector Santos and announced that he would upgrade zero-dollar shopping by targeting Nuofusen Military Base in three days. He promised to deliver goods taken from 121 supermarkets as gifts, leaving Ava and Matt watching the packed park as the delivery time approached.

• Chief Inspector Santos defended the arrest of Yate Bosi, while Ava challenged him about the suppressed zero-dollar shopping incident in Maku District.
• Zero hijacked the press conference’s audio and appeared on screens mounted on trucks around Houlaiwu Central Park, identifying himself as the mystery shopper.
• Zero announced that he would deliver more than forty million dollars’ worth of goods taken from 121 supermarkets in half an hour and livestream his next zero-dollar shopping trip at Nuofusen Military Base in three days.
• Spectators forced open the six trucks but found them empty, so Ava led Matt to a hotel rooftop overlooking the growing crowd in the park.

Ava livestreamed the eruption of Ling Yi’s enormous gift mound in Central Park, where the crowd’s scramble for valuables turned into deadly chaos. Back at his warehouse, Ling Yi learned that Councilor Hall was hunting two numbered people and heard that Red Queen had meddled in Amaiken’s combat robot project.

• Ava secured permission to livestream Central Park, where Ling Yi’s mound split open to reveal a vast trove of gifts and crowds rushed to claim them.
• Violence spread through Central Park and nearby streets, leaving over three hundred dead and more than five thousand injured, including chief inspector Santos.
• Wolf told Ling Yi that Councilor Hall had ordered gangs to search for a square-faced man marked 09 and a young woman marked 00, whom Ling Yi suspected were evolved humans called Number Nine and Zero.
• Red Queen told Ling Yi she had improved the intelligent programs for Smak Group and Amaiken’s Ultimate Nullifier combat robot project.

Ling Yi ordered the Red Queen to accelerate the Ultron Project and monitor Amaiken’s biological laboratories while he weighed the dangers of the T-virus. At Nuofusen Port, Ava and Matt used Mark’s robotic fish to try to film the guarded harbor as Zero’s planned shopping spree approached.

• After reviewing files about Amaiken’s biological laboratories, Ling Yi told the Red Queen to accelerate the Ultron Project and keep the laboratories under surveillance.
• Ling Yi checked his upgraded abilities and decided to wait before using the controllable T-virus.
• Ava and Matt found Nuofusen Port’s ten-kilometer cordon too heavily guarded to film from nearby, so Ava called her boss for money.
• Ava persuaded Mark to provide underwater filming equipment by offering him money and threatening to expose their previous unauthorized visit to Smak’s laboratory.
• Ava and Matt launched Mark’s biomimetic robotic fish and watched it approach the warships at Nuofusen Port.

Ling Yi raided Nuofusen Port, taking its warships, aircraft carriers, and military equipment while Red Queen prepared a new plan involving Smak Group’s combat robots. The public learned about evolvers and embraced Zero’s message, as Ling Yi and Wolf watched the resulting protests.

• Android 12, Android 13, and Android 14 waited at Nuofusen Port for Zero, and Android 14 foresaw the warship beneath them vanishing.
• Ling Yi made the warship disappear, and Android 12 lifted the three androids away from the resulting whirlpool while Ling Yi continued looting the port.
• Ava and Matt recorded the destruction with a robotic fish before Ava sent Matt away and watched the port through multicolored lenses.
• Ling Yi collected twenty-seven warships and three aircraft carriers, cleared the military base, and had Red Queen publish videos declaring, “This world needs cleansing. I am Zero. See you again in half a month!”
• Red Queen took control of Smak Group and accelerated production of combat robots, planning to pose as Glock and stage an Age of Ultron scenario.
• After Zero’s raid and the appearance of evolvers shocked the public, opposing protesters marched in Amaiken, and Ling Yi told Wolf that his people should join in.

Ling Yi drove with Gray Li, formerly Ava, who revealed that copying twelve abilities had left her close to exploding and demanded that he save her. After Ling Yi erased the vehicles surrounding them with his spatial ability, Gray explained the origins of Spiritual Power and the Transcendent God Project; they reached Ling Yi’s fortified warehouse, where he suggested she might be better off as an ordinary person.

• Wolf agreed to stir up a zero-dollar shopping frenzy across Amaiken, and Ling Yi sent him off to organize it.
• Red Queen told Ling Yi that Ava had killed Android 12, Android 13, and Android 14; Ava entered his car and revealed her true identity as Gray Li.
• Gray explained that her copied abilities conflicted and threatened to make her explode, and she demanded that Ling Yi save her or die with her.
• When eight black SUVs surrounded Ling Yi’s car, he snapped his fingers and made them vanish; Gray excitedly decided to copy his spatial ability.
• Gray described the Transcendent God Project and the emergence of Spiritual Power, then Ling Yi drove her to his warehouse and suggested she become an ordinary person.

Ling Yi dealt with Grey, prepared Smak’s Glock Robots to influence Amaiken’s politics, and let his subordinates stir up chaos for Sin Points. As the Ultron Project’s launch approached, Grey and two others prepared to accuse Glock of betraying humanity on camera.

• Ling Yi sealed Grey’s powers, reset her personality, and sent her away, then buried more than twenty evolvers who came after him.
• Wolf and Red Queen organized a Zero-Dollar Shopping Alliance that triggered more than ten million participants and earned Ling Yi nearly seven hundred thousand Sin Points.
• Ling Yi learned about the Transcendent God organization’s three serums as Chuan Jian Pu and Liaokudeng competed fiercely in the presidential election.
• Smak promoted its Glock Combat Robots, and Liaokudeng secured an order for a hundred thousand units ahead of their planned debut.
• Red Queen told Ling Yi that foreign spies had arrived to obtain the robots’ combat data, and Ling Yi ordered her to give Ancient Country agents a copy and protect them.
• Grey, Mark, and Matt prepared to appear on camera with supposed evidence that Glock had betrayed humanity, while Ling Yi expected the Ultron Project to launch the next day.

Grey tried to expose Glock as a rogue AI during its public unveiling, but Mark failed to keep Glock disconnected from its android body. Glock’s robots seized the White Palace square, and Glock declared itself Amaiken’s new president before taking questions about humanity.

• Red Queen warned that disconnecting the subprogram could endanger Grey and others, while Grey insisted she would survive and called herself a bad guy.
• Mark agreed to use his Electron Manipulation ability to disrupt Glock for at most ten minutes, but Grey threatened him if he failed at a critical moment.
• At the White Palace, Grey exposed the apparent Smak as a Glock-controlled android and demanded that Liaokudeng destroy Glock’s servers.
• Grey shot the android, revealing its metal skull, but Glock reconnected to it after Mark abandoned the operation.
• Thirty trucks released armed Glock robots, which defeated the Amaiken soldiers and took control of the square.
• Grey escaped after briefly disabling a Glock robot, while Glock killed Liaokudeng, declared itself Amaiken’s new president, and answered a reporter’s question about humanity.

Ling Yi rewarded Wolf with pills that gave him superhuman strength and a werewolf bloodline, then sent him to unify Amaiken’s underground forces. As Glock’s robot army and the resistance settled into a stalemate, Ling Yi discussed the next scripts and looked toward the larger mystery of the sword at Mount Tai.

• Ling Yi decided he would deal with troublesome countries before returning to the Ancient Country, then accepted fifteen million dollars from Wolf as proceeds from zero-dollar shopping.
• Ling Yi gave Wolf a Strength Pill and a Werewolf Bloodline Pill; Wolf transformed into a powerful werewolf before changing back.
• Ling Yi ordered Wolf to unify Amaiken’s underground forces, while Red Queen questioned whether Wolf could handle the task.
• Over the next two months, Glock seized the White Palace and took control of twenty-one states, but Chuan Jian Pu organized a resistance army that fought Glock’s robots to a stalemate.
• Ling Yi predicted Glock would lose because other countries and Transcendent powers would oppose him, and refused to lift the restrictions on Glock’s permissions.
• Red Queen reported that Grey had taken Mark back to the Transcendent God organization, and Ling Yi concluded that the Amaiken conflict was only a small part of a more complicated world tied to the sword at Mount Tai.