Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi moved Shen Qingxue to his room to protect her from Xiao Wuyan, while she grew convinced that Ling Yi was her biological older brother and trusted his predictions. As midnight approached, Ling Yi prepared to use his refreshed Future Extractions and planned to keep Shen Qingxue safe while growing stronger.

• Shen Qingxue let Ling Yi into her room and suspected he was her biological older brother from the Chi Family, then agreed to follow him to his room.
• Ling Yi told Shen Qingxue to wait three minutes for a surveillance-system reboot, and she questioned him about his parents and family.
• Ling Yi led Shen Qingxue to his room, intending to avoid confronting Xiao Wuyan while keeping her alive for future extractions.
• Ling Yi explained that Future Extractions increased at most once a day and only when someone else killed Shen Qingxue in a future video.
• Ling Yi encouraged Shen Qingxue to aim for first place in the World Martial Arts Tournament, and she said she wanted to win.
• Ling Yi opened the system’s saved videos and waited for midnight, when his extraction count would refresh.

Ling Yi tested his new physiques and prepared a disguised clone to confront Xiao Wuyan, while Shen Qingxue explained why she suspected the Shen Family had raised her for her Chi Family bloodline. Ling Yi found the family’s actions inconsistent and concluded Xiao Wuyan knew the truth behind Shen Qingxue’s identity and the plot against her.

• Ling Yi examined his six extracted physiques, tested a clone transformed into a greatsword, and set it aside as Shen Qingxue’s weapon.
• Ling Yi turned his other clone into an invisible, black-robed figure and stationed it by the door to surprise Xiao Wuyan.
• Shen Qingxue told Ling Yi that Shen Qingshan had raised and doted on her while keeping her isolated from most of the Shen Family.
• Shen Qingxue feared the Shen Family had intended to exploit her Chi Family bloodline, which supposedly guaranteed awakening a special physique.
• Ling Yi questioned why Shen Qingshan had let Shen Qingxue run away and agreed to a marriage proposal, and why he now wanted her dead.
• Ling Yi decided Xiao Wuyan was the key to the mystery and noted that half an hour remained for Shen Qingxue to die once more.

Ling Yi pieced together the likely truth behind Shen Qingxue, the Xiao brothers, and the coming Abyss crisis by repeatedly refreshing future videos, then gave Shen Qingxue a gigantic autonomous sword for the World Martial Arts Tournament. Just as he reassured her that he could handle even a Domain Martial God, explosions and an alarm announced Xiao Wuyan’s arrival.

• Ling Yi repeatedly refreshed future videos and connected clues about Shen Qingxue’s Chi Family bloodline, Shen Qingshan’s motives, the Xiao brothers’ revenge, and the Martial Practitioner Alliance’s plan to flee.
• Ling Yi concluded that the Abyss Monsters might invade within three years and that Xiao Wuyan and Xiao Wumo intended to destroy the Teleport Array, while Shen Qingxue had only been targeted because she happened to be present in other timelines.
• Ling Yi gave Shen Qingxue a massive sword that could hover, fight on its own, and defeat or evade powerful opponents, then explained how she could use it in the tournament.
• Shen Qingxue worried that the sword would attract powerful enemies, but Ling Yi assured her he had a way to handle a Domain Martial God.
• Explosions sounded outside, the lights came on, and an alarm rang as Ling Yi realized Xiao Wuyan had arrived.

Xiao Wuyan’s assault on the Martial Practitioner Alliance was halted when an unseen attacker drained his cultivation and Genki, forcing him to retreat. The next morning, Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue met Xu Jie, who offered to sell them exclusive information about the attack.

• Xiao Wuyan devoured over a hundred martial practitioners, rose from the Martial Master Realm to the Martial Venerable Realm, and searched the building for Shen Qingxue.
• An unseen attacker drained the cultivation and Genki of Xiao Wuyan’s followers and then Xiao Wuyan himself, forcing him and his group to flee.
• After the fire was extinguished and power restored, Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue went to breakfast, where Shen Jun joined them with Xu Jie.
• Xu Jie revealed that the attackers belonged to the Independent Practitioners Alliance and that their leader had the surnames Shen and Xiao.
• Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue decided not to tell Shen Jun about Xiao Wuyan yet, while Xu Jie offered to sell the information exclusively to him.

Shen Jun learned that Shen Kun was Xiao Wuyan, while the tournament’s organizer announced the World Martial Arts Tournament’s rules and the dangers contestants faced. Shen Qingxue insisted on competing for reasons she would not explain, leaving Shen Jun to suspect Ling Yi was involved.

• Shen Jun bought Xu Jie’s encrypted information for 200 magic crystals and reacted with surprise after reading it.
• Zhao Hu announced that the Guard Army would oversee the tournament, described the Abyss as a source of magic crystals and martial arts resources, and laid out the elimination rules.
• Zhao Hu warned that matches could be deadly and said the tournament would begin at nine, prompting Shen Jun to object to the rules.
• Shen Jun urged Shen Qingxue to withdraw because martial families were hated, but she insisted that she had to compete.
• Shen Jun studied Ling Yi and suspected that Ling Yi’s strength and Shen Qingxue’s decision to compete were connected.

Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue began the World Martial Arts Tournament, where Shen Qingxue’s giant sword overwhelmed her first opponent and Ling Yi won while pretending to trade punches. Ling Yi anticipated Shen Qingshan’s arrival in Dafeng City to take the sword and looked forward to extracting power from the Domain Martial God.

• Ling Yi saw the Chi Family bloodline among the Future Extraction options and planned to tell Shen Qingxue the truth about their supposed sibling relationship after the tournament.
• Ling Yi guided Shen Qingxue to Arena 28, where spectators noticed her oversized sword, while Ling Yi spotted Shen Jun and Xu Jie in the stands.
• Shen Qingxue threw her giant sword at her leering opponent, and it struck him out of the arena before returning to her hands.
• Ling Yi let his Martial Apprentice opponent trade punches with him until the boy conceded, earning Ling Yi a point.
• Ling Yi anticipated that Shen Qingshan would contact Shen Qingxue and come to Dafeng City two days later to claim her sword.

Shen Jun told Shen Qingshan about Shen Qingxue, Ling Yi, and the Yuan Artifact, while Xu Jie warned him that the call could endanger Shen Qingxue. Ling Yi defeated a haughty sect disciple and discussed the martial families’ role in the Abyss crisis with Shen Qingxue before recognizing his parents’ killer as his next opponent.

• Shen Jun called Shen Qingshan and reported Shen Qingxue’s relationship with Ling Yi, Ling Yi’s mysterious background, his parents’ suspicious deaths, and the giant Yuan Artifact sword.
• Xu Jie warned Shen Jun not to make the call and then urged him to tell Shen Qingxue that Shen Qingshan was coming to Dafeng City, but Shen Jun dismissed him.
• Shen Qingxue quickly won her match, and Ling Yi slapped Jia Luren out of the ring after the Heavenly Yuan Sect disciple insulted him and demanded that he forfeit.
• Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue condemned the martial families and sects for hoarding resources and abandoning humanity in the Abyss crisis, and Ling Yi said they could solve the problem.
• After refreshing his future video, Ling Yi recognized his parents’ killer among the afternoon opponents and told Shen Qingxue to throw her match.

After Shen Qingxue killed an Abyss Devil Clan infiltrator on the tournament platform, Ling Yi shared future memories that revealed they were Chi Family cousins with royal Devil Clan bloodlines. They decided to keep their identities secret and considered the threats posed by the Martial Practitioner Alliance, the Shen Family, and Xiao Wuyan.

• Shen Qingxue's massive sword killed the middle-aged opponent before he could surrender, while Ling Yi knocked his own opponent off the platform.
• Xu Jie refused to tell Shen Jun what he knew about Ling Yi and warned him to stay away from Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue.
• Ling Yi shared future memories with Shen Qingxue, revealing that the dead opponent was a hidden Devil Clan soldier who had once helped hunt the Chi Family.
• The soldier's memories revealed that Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue were Chi Family cousins whose parents' lineages gave them Devil Clan royal blood; Ling Yi's original parents had died in the decade-long purge.
• Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue resolved to conceal their bloodlines, and Ling Yi worried that the Martial Practitioner Alliance, Shen Qingshan, or Xiao Wuyan might discover the truth.
• Ling Yi considered killing Xiao Wuyan because he saw little further value in keeping him alive.

Ling Yi considered the Abyss Devil Clan’s internal bloodline politics and hoped Shen Qingxue might one day control the clan, while planning to raise her strength and improve her physiques. Meanwhile, Zhao Hu entered Shen Qingxue’s room to investigate complaints about her powerful weapon, only to find her absent.

• Ling Yi asked Shen Qingxue whether she would return to the Devil Clan and become its Devil Master, but she said she was human and was unsure she could take the position.
• Shen Qingxue considered that ruling the Devil Clan might let her control it and help address the threat to humanity.
• Ling Yi reviewed his system interface and planned to intercept cultivation for Shen Qingxue, then give her duplicate space and god of war physiques to strengthen her.
• Ling Yi considered the upcoming martial tournaments and suspected the Rogue Martial Practitioners’ apparent advantage might involve a larger conspiracy.
• Zhao Hu entered Shen Qingxue’s room after receiving complaints that her weapon should be banned, while Shen Jun and Xu Jie confronted him and learned she was in Ling Yi’s room.

Shen Jun and Zhao Hu came to question Shen Qingxue about her great sword, which Zhao Hu suspected might be a Devil Artifact. Ling Yi used the system’s future footage to prepare for their visit, and the chapter ended with Zhao Hu coveting the sword while Xu Jie demanded 1,000 devil crystals.

• Zhao Hu warned Shen Jun that Shen Qingxue’s sword resembled a Devil Artifact and that its presence could bring serious trouble to the Shen Family.
• Ling Yi reviewed and reset future footage, showed Shen Qingxue possible outcomes, and discovered Xu Jie possessed a peerless-grade multiple personality physique.
• Xu Jie stopped Shen Jun from approaching the door, but Zhao Hu stepped forward and a great sword thrust through it toward his forehead.
• The sword’s black-green halo weakened Zhao Hu, then vanished while leaving a five-meter zone around the door that the men dared not enter.
• Zhao Hu grew greedy for the sword and considered targeting Shen Qingxue, while Xu Jie told Shen Jun the price was 1,000 devil crystals.

Xu Jie sold Zhao Hu the information that Shen Qingxue’s great treasured sword was not a demonic weapon, prompting Zhao Hu to suspect it had an unusual crafting method. Ling Yi planned to visit the Abyss with Shen Qingxue and offered her physiques to strengthen her, but her revelation about who could possess multiple physiques led him to question whether Shen Qingshan’s behavior changed after giving her the Space Physique.

• Zhao Hu outbid Shen Jun for information from Xu Jie, and Xu Jie told him that Shen Qingxue’s great treasured sword was not a demonic weapon.
• Zhao Hu realized the sword might have been made using a valuable method and hurried away, while Ling Yi wondered what Xu Jie was scheming.
• Ling Yi told Shen Qingxue he planned to visit the Abyss after the World Martial Arts Tournament and offered her pills to improve her Space Physique and grant her the God of War Physique.
• Shen Qingxue revealed that she could foresee the future and said ordinary martial practitioners could have only one physique unless they had the Chi Family bloodline.
• Ling Yi asked Shen Qingxue to recall whether Shen Qingshan’s attitude toward her changed after giving her the Space Physique.

Ling Yi strengthened Shen Qingxue by raising her Space Physique compatibility to sixty percent and her cultivation to the Sixth Tier of the Martial Saint Realm, then helped her conceal her power. At the tournament, her sword drew widespread attention, and Shen Jun pressed her to reveal where it came from, but she refused because she no longer trusted the Shen Family.

• Shen Qingxue absorbed two Space Constitution Orbs, raising her Space Physique compatibility to sixty percent, and Ling Yi taught her several space abilities.
• Ling Yi extracted Xu Jie's Peerless Grade Multiple Personality Physique and Martial Saint Realm Cultivation Orbs, then gave Shen Qingxue a Cultivation Orb that raised her to the Sixth Tier of the Martial Saint Realm.
• Ling Yi taught Shen Qingxue the Yuan-Concealing Formula and Spirit Concealment Art so she could hide her cultivation and physique.
• At the World Martial Arts Tournament, Shen Qingxue's big treasure sword defeated a Rebel Martial Practitioner and made her a likely top-ten contender in Dafeng City.
• Shen Jun asked Shen Qingxue where her sword came from, but she refused to tell him because she suspected the Shen Family and did not trust him with the truth.

Ling Yi made a deal with Xu Jie to learn how to perfect his Multiple Personality Physique and uncover the truth about Shen Qingxue. Xu Jie revealed how Shen Qingxue was found as a baby, while powerful figures began moving toward Dafeng City for her treasured sword.

• Shen Jun questioned Shen Qingxue about her sudden change, and Ling Yi told him he would understand within three days.
• Ling Yi offered Xu Jie a way to perfect his Multiple Personality Physique in exchange for ten thousand devil crystals and information, and Xu Jie agreed to meet him that night.
• Shen Jun and Xu Jie entered Ling Yi's room, while Shen Qingxue's treasured sword sealed the doorway and left a Martial Saint unable to use his Genki or cultivation.
• Zhao Hu learned that Shen Qingshan and other Martial Gods were heading toward Dafeng City to claim Shen Qingxue and her treasured sword.
• Xu Jie gave Ling Yi ten thousand devil crystals, which Ling Yi used to strengthen his Multiple Personality Physique, and Ling Yi gave Xu Jie's storage ring to Shen Qingxue.
• Xu Jie revealed that Shen Qingshan did not know Shen Qingxue had Chi Family blood, then recounted how Shen Qingshan found her as an abandoned baby after she survived by devouring two stray dogs.

Xu Jie explained how Shen Qingshan and Xiao Wuyan had plotted against Shen Qingxue to seize her bloodline, leaving Shen Jun shaken as he reconsidered his loyalties. After Shen Qingxue asked who killed her parents, Ling Yi promised to investigate the families involved, and Xu Jie turned to Ling Yi for his part of the story.

• Xu Jie explained that Shen Qingshan had once hoped to take Shen Qingxue's supposed Longevity Physique, then changed his attitude after she absorbed the Space Physique.
• Xu Jie revealed that Shen Kun had learned Shen Qingxue was descended from the Chi Family and sought her bloodline, while Ling Yi had repeatedly protected her.
• Xu Jie explained that Xiao Wuyan had manipulated Shen Qingshan by portraying Shen Qingxue as a Devil Clan infiltrator, hoping to use Shen Qingshan to kill her and claim her bloodline.
• Shen Qingxue and Ling Yi agreed to kill Xiao Wuyan, while Shen Jun struggled with the prospect of choosing between his grandfather and the sister he cared for.
• Shen Qingxue asked who had killed her parents, and Ling Yi promised they would investigate those who had joined the campaign against the Chi Family.
• Ling Yi called himself Shen Qingxue's blood cousin, leaving Shen Jun dumbfounded again as Xu Jie told Ling Yi it was his turn to speak.

Ling Yi negotiated with Xu Jie to improve his special physique compatibility in exchange for three years of work and half the Know-It-All Company's earnings, while also asking for the Teleport Array's location. After Xu Jie and Shen Jun left, Ling Yi warned Shen Qingxue that they might soon face the Martial Dao families and sects, then gave her a Space Constitution Orb to strengthen her.

• Ling Yi told Xu Jie he could raise special physique compatibility by twenty percent per session, and Xu Jie asked him to improve his.
• Ling Yi demanded three years of work and half the Know-It-All Company's earnings, along with the Teleport Array's location; Xu Jie said he could not yet access that information.
• Ling Yi explained that Xu Jie's multiple personality physique could manifest synchronized personalities using devil crystals, and planned to use their partnership to gain more extraction options.
• Shen Jun asked Ling Yi for a discounted compatibility improvement, and Xu Jie offered to help him raid the Shen Family or other organizations for devil crystals.
• Xu Jie estimated that Martial Dao families and sects held more than a billion devil crystals in total, but Ling Yi rejected the idea of robbing them and said he could attract crystals by revealing his abilities.
• After Xu Jie and Shen Jun departed, Ling Yi told Shen Qingxue that strength determined whether Xu Jie could be trusted, warned they might become enemies of the Martial Dao families and sects, and gave her a Space Constitution Orb.

Ling Yi intercepted Martial God cultivation and abilities from a future video, becoming a ninth-tier Martial God and startling the martial artists around him. Shen Qingxue learned that she would soon reach the Martial God Realm as well.

• Ling Yi fast-forwarded through the future video, then intercepted fourth-tier, fifth-tier, and seventh-tier Martial God cultivation, along with Thunder Domain and Thunder Transformation, while saving one attempt.
• Ling Yi consumed the three Cultivation Orbs and reached the ninth-tier Martial God Realm, testing his new lightning power.
• Shen Jun mistook Ling Yi's pressure for the Thunder Martial God, while Xu Jie suspected Ling Yi and wondered if he could serve him.
• Zhao Hu told his great-grandfather, the Raging Sand Martial God, about the overwhelming presence, and the old man warned him not to act rashly.
• Shen Qingxue confronted Ling Yi about becoming a Martial God, and Ling Yi told her she could advance to the realm by the next morning.

Twelve Martial Gods confronted Shen Qingxue outside the Dafeng City Martial Practitioner Alliance, demanding the method for making the giant treasured sword. She questioned Qian Shantian about the Alliance’s abuses and its plans for the Abyss invasion, then asked where its Teleport Array was as his expression changed.

• Twelve Martial Gods descended on the Alliance building and focused most of their Genki pressure on Shen Qingxue, while Shen Qingshan denounced her as a devil.
• Qian Shantian demanded the method for making Yuan Artifacts, and Shen Qingxue denied that the sword was one before offering to answer questions in exchange for answers.
• Shen Qingxue asked Qian Shantian why martial families and sects monopolized Martial Dao resources, and he defended the Alliance’s past controls while claiming it would dissolve after the World Martial Arts Tournament and return power to the country.
• Shen Qingxue asked what the Alliance planned to do about the Abyss’s impending loss of control, and Qian Shantian denied that Abyss Monsters could invade.
• Shen Qingxue asked where the Teleport Array was, and Qian Shantian’s expression changed completely.

Shen Qingxue confronted the Martial Gods over the Alliance’s secret escape plan and challenged her grandfather, Shen Qingshan, to a fight. As the Martial Gods grew wary of her abilities, Qian Shantian rushed into the Octagonal Tower to find Ling Yi, unaware that Zhao Kuang had also sent people after him.

• Shen Qingxue confirmed that the Martial Practitioner Alliance planned to flee through a Teleport Array, and Qian Shantian and the other Martial Gods trapped the Octagonal Tower in their domains.
• Shen Qingxue condemned the Alliance, threatened to destroy the Teleport Array if she found it, and teleported in front of Shen Qingshan.
• Shen Qingshan demanded Shen Qingxue’s Yuan Artifact method, but she refused and challenged him to defeat her to obtain it.
• Shen Qingxue used Space Invisibility, alarming the Martial Gods, who decided she could not be allowed to escape alive.
• Qian Shantian entered the Octagonal Tower to investigate why the two Martial Gods he had sent after Ling Yi had gone silent.
• Zhao Kuang concealed that he had also sent people to capture Ling Yi, and had dispatched them before Qian Shantian did.

Ling Yi synchronized Shen Qingxue’s memory of her future fight with Shen Qingshan, severing her emotional bond with him, then gave her a Space Constitution Orb and discussed the upheaval facing the martial world. They planned to visit the Abyss after the World Martial Arts Tournament, while Shen Qingxue tried to get Ling Yi to call her big sister.

• Shen Qingshan used Vulcan Transformation and struck Shen Qingxue, who accepted the fatal blow and declared that their bond was severed before turning to ash.
• Ling Yi synchronized the video with Shen Qingxue, gaining two available extractions and helping her resolve her feelings toward Shen Qingshan.
• Ling Yi gave Shen Qingxue a Space Constitution Orb, explained how her spatial abilities could counter attacks, and said he could foresee only her future.
• Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue discussed changing the martial world and agreed to get stronger, with Ling Yi saying they would visit the Abyss after the tournament.
• Shen Qingxue told Ling Yi her birthday was January sixteenth and asked him to call her big sister, but he refused.

Shen Qingxue dominated the tournament while Ling Yi secretly dealt with Martial Gods who planned to cause trouble after the awards. Shen Qingxue finished first and Ling Yi tenth, and the four left the Octagonal Tower together.

• Shen Qingxue overwhelmed Rogue Martial Practitioner Alliance opponents, while Shen Jun worried that the Shen Family would clash with her and Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi and Shen Qingxue condemned the Rogue Martial Practitioner Alliance, and Shen Qingxue brutally defeated another member who insulted her and tried to flee.
• Peng Changxia asked Ling Yi to meet after the tournament, then conceded their match.
• Ling Yi sent his clone and the massive sword to beat the twelve openly hostile Martial Gods and the Martial Gods hiding in the shadows.
• Shen Qingxue took first place and Ling Yi placed tenth; after the awards, they left the Octagonal Tower with Shen Jun and Xu Jie.