Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi met Peng Changxia for lunch after leaving the Octagonal Tower, where he revealed that the Zhao Family’s Martial Gods had been killed and hinted at his powerful clone technique. Peng Changxia then invited Ling Yi to become director-general of the Martial Dao Army.

• Ling Yi left the Octagonal Tower with Shen Qingxue, Xu Jie, and Shen Jun, then sent Shen Jun ahead to the Abyss while the others continued together.
• Xiao Wuyan watched Ling Yi leave, learned that Ling Yi had been the mysterious god behind the recent attacks, and decided to use the information to manipulate events.
• Peng Changxia welcomed Ling Yi and his companions to a hotel, hoping to recruit the formidable Ling Yi on behalf of his superiors.
• During the meal, Ling Yi told Shen Qingxue that the Zhao Family’s Martial Gods were dead and attributed the simultaneous attacks to his clone technique.
• After the group finished eating, Peng Changxia invited Ling Yi to become director-general of the Martial Dao Army.

Peng Changxia offered Ling Yi absolute control of the Martial Dao Army, hoping his strength could protect it from the Abyss and the Martial Practitioner Alliance. After Shen Qingxue demanded that Xiao Wuyan, Lin Bin, and Shen Qingshan be killed, Ling Yi found Xiao Wuyan in Dafeng City and said he would join the army but refused to become its director-general.

• Peng Changxia explained that the Martial Dao Army lacked complete techniques and could not resist the Abyss without Ling Yi’s protection.
• Shen Qingxue asked Ling Yi to kill Xiao Wuyan, Lin Bin, and Shen Qingshan after revealing that they had killed her in a future memory.
• Xu Jie explained that Lin Bin’s mystique physique let him transform into people he had touched and copy their cultivation and special physiques.
• Ling Yi sent a clone to find Xiao Wuyan, and it located him at an internet café in Dafeng City with a young girl.
• Ling Yi told Peng Changxia that he would join the Martial Dao Army but would not become its director-general.

Ling Yi declined the Martial Dao Army director-general position and prepared to travel to the Abyss after explaining his reasons to Shen Qingxue. He and Shen Qingxue killed Xiao Wuyan and Lin Bin, then Ling Yi tracked down Shen Qingshan and burned him to ashes.

• Xu Jie explained to Shen Qingxue that Ling Yi had refused the director-general position to avoid trouble and political conflict.
• Ling Yi arranged for a trip to the Abyss and took Shen Qingxue to confront Xiao Wuyan and Lin Bin in an abandoned warehouse.
• Lin Bin revealed his Peerless Grade Mystique Physique by changing from a little girl into a middle-aged man, and Xiao Wuyan refused Ling Yi's offer to summon Xiao Wumo.
• Shen Qingxue killed Xiao Wuyan and Lin Bin with Blades of Space, while Ling Yi later watched a future video showing Xiao Wuyan had tortured her to devour her bloodline.
• Ling Yi confronted Shen Qingshan when he secretly returned to Dafeng City and burned him to ashes with his Flame Domain.

Ling Yi explored the upgraded system, fused his special physiques into the beyond-peerless Myriad Spirit Body, and discovered new ways to spend Devil Crystals and use future videos. After midnight, he extracted Lin Bin’s mystique physique and valuable storage rings, leaving him with a large stock of Devil Crystals and wishing he had saved more videos.

• Ling Yi dragged all his special physiques together in the system and named their fused form the Myriad Spirit Body, gaining deeper insight into how physiques worked.
• Ling Yi discovered that Devil Crystals could raise cultivation and physique compatibility, and that the system’s video interface now offered categorized extraction options, a forty-eight-hour timeline, zoom, and red-dot markers.
• At midnight, Ling Yi refreshed and saved a video, then opened a previously saved one and extracted Lin Bin’s mystique physique.
• Ling Yi extracted Xiao Wuyan’s and Lin Bin’s storage rings, which held nearly three hundred thousand and one million Devil Crystals respectively.
• Ling Yi regretted saving only seventeen videos because each saved video allowed him to extract a given option just once.

Ling Yi met Shen Jun and learned that the Shen Family and other Martial Dao factions had fallen into turmoil after the Dafeng City deaths. After the Ancient Country announced that Ling Yi had joined the Martial Dao Army, he offered Shen Jun the power to reshape the Martial Dao world, while revealing that his fused Myriad Spirit Body let him create unlimited powerful clones as Yuan Artifacts.

• Ling Yi, Shen Qingxue, and Xu Jie met Shen Jun at Nine Yang City Airport, where Shen Jun described the power struggles consuming the Shen Family and other factions.
• Shen Jun told them the Ancient Country had announced Ling Yi's entry into the Martial Dao Army, and he argued that Ling Yi could instead seize control of the Martial Practitioner Alliance and reform the Martial Dao world.
• Ling Yi realized Shen Jun's reform proposals came from someone in the Martial Dao Army and offered to empower Shen Jun as his representative, on the conditions that Shen Jun lead the effort and Ling Yi receive half the confiscated devil crystals.
• Ling Yi offered to prepare Yuan Artifact equipment for Shen Jun and proposed selling each piece for a million devil crystals.
• Ling Yi reflected that the fusion into his Myriad Spirit Body had removed the limit on his clones, allowing him to create powerful clones as weapons and equipment in exchange for devil crystals.

Ling Yi entered the Abyss with Shen Qingxue and Xu Jie as the Martial Dao Army used his reputation to recruit unaffiliated Martial Practitioners. After teleporting them into the underground world, he gave them powerful sword clones and sent them to investigate the Inner Domain while he verified a few things and prepared to cultivate.

• At Nine Yang Mountain, a protest leader condemned the Martial Practitioner Alliance and used Ling Yi’s victory in Dafeng City to promote joining the Martial Dao Army.
• Ling Yi recognized that the protest was a recruitment effort, then teleported Shen Qingxue and Xu Jie past the registration area and into the Abyss.
• Ling Yi manifested two powerful sword clones and told Shen Qingxue and Xu Jie to investigate the Inner Domain and capture a member of the Devil Clan Royal Clan if possible.
• Shen Qingxue asked whether the sword was powerful, and Ling Yi said it could instantly kill Martial Gods on Qian Shantian’s level.

Ling Yi fused cultivation arts and martial skills into the Myriad Yuan Art and Myriad Techniques Formula, then had a clone test the results by cultivating with Demonic Qi. The clone refined Demonic Qi into Genki, leading Ling Yi to suspect both energies shared the same source, while his newly fused skills developed several domains.

• Ling Yi watched the future video of Shen Qingxue waiting in the Devil Clan's royal palace and decided to use his seclusion to experiment with fusing arts and skills.
• Ling Yi fused the Yuan-Swallowing Art and Yuan Concealment Art into the Myriad Yuan Art, then incorporated the Xuanyun Art and discovered that its Great Perfection version had patched its backdoor.
• Ling Yi created a clone and had it cultivate with the Myriad Yuan Art in the Abyss, where it absorbed Demonic Qi and refined it into Genki.
• Ling Yi concluded that Demonic Qi and Genki might share the same source, then concealed his original body as the clone's cultivation drew in Demonic Qi like a tornado.
• Ling Yi fused the arts and skills in the Death God Space, causing several perfected techniques to become domains, including the Zero Yuan Domain and the Illusion Domain.

Ling Yi’s clone drew attention while absorbing Demonic Qi, but the Martial Practitioner Alliance withdrew rather than provoke a Demon Lord. Watching a future video, Ling Yi saw Shen Qingxue become Chi Qingxue and reach a royal bloodline awakening ceremony, where a Devil King challenged Cailin’s decision to bring an outsider to the altar.

• Martial practitioners spotted Ling Yi’s clone cultivating as a Demon Lord, and some considered capturing it for its valuable body and techniques.
• The Martial Practitioner Alliance ordered its people to withdraw, and Ling Yi used spatial power to destroy the phones of those filming his clone.
• Ling Yi continued studying his fused domain while his clone absorbed Demonic Qi, then watched future footage of Shen Qingxue entering the Devil Clan’s royal city with Devil King Cailin.
• Cailin renamed Shen Qingxue Chi Qingxue and kept her in a palace while arranging a ceremony to fully awaken her royal bloodline.
• Chi Qingxue entered a gathering of 1,612 royal-clan members and approached the seven great Devil Kings, where one challenged Cailin for bringing an outsider to the altar.

Devil King Cailin revealed that the Devil Master was trapped in the Two Realms Passage after a Heavenly Devil took him away to reclaim the Power of Origin, and that the Abyss and Devil Clan began when humans drove the Underground People to activate an ancient altar. She sought Chi Qingxue’s help to awaken her bloodline and break the Martial God barrier, while Ling Yi became interested in the Heavenly Devil.

• Devil King Cailin threatened the Devil Kings and insisted that Chi Qingxue was entitled to awaken her bloodline at the altar.
• Devil King Cailin revealed that the Devil Master had been trapped in the Two Realms Passage for over five hundred years and that the Heavenly Devil intended to reclaim his Power of Origin.
• Devil King Cailin explained that humans had driven the Underground People to activate an ancient altar, transforming their world into the Abyss and its people into the Devil Clan.
• Devil King Cailin said Chi Qingxue was the only one who could break the Martial God shackles and bring the Devil Master back, despite the risk that the altar might be a trap.
• Devil King Cailin asked Chi Qingxue what she would choose, and the great sword transformed into Ling Yi, who said he was interested in the Heavenly Devil.

Ling Yi’s clone crystallized his primordial Qi and awakened the Devouring Life bloodline while the original Ling Yi reunited with Mengmeng and returned to the Ling Realm. There, Yin Wanqing began testing Mengmeng’s ability to sense karmic luck in hopes of finding a solution to Uncle’s writing-related health problems.

• Ling Yi’s clone reached the Crystallization Realm, awakened Devouring Life, and agreed to help the Martial Dao Army while the clone investigated the mysterious other Ling Yi.
• A future video showed Devil King Cailin activating the altar, which brought her father back and let Ling Mengmeng enter the world to find Ling Yi.
• The original Ling Yi met Mengmeng, explained that she had tracked him through karmic luck, and took her back to the Ling Realm after reconfiguring the altar.
• The clone watched Devil King Cailin’s recording and suspected that he was also a clone, while Chi Qingxue and the others wondered about Ling Yi’s identity.
• Yin Wanqing scolded Mengmeng for interrupting the plot, then took her away to test her karmic-luck sensing ability as Ling Yi and Uncle discussed Uncle’s worsening health.

Ling Yi discovered that a strange zombie outbreak had left the streets full of quiet, mostly harmless zombies while all messages from other people had stopped. After learning that utilities and food supplies might eventually fail, he realized he needed to gather supplies.

• Ling Yi observed zombies outside his window and saw them start cars, enter a supermarket, and eat ordinary food while retaining fragments of their former habits.
• Ling Yi checked his messages and found that communications had stopped around 9:46 p.m. on April 19, leaving him unsure whether anyone else was alive.
• Ling Yi learned from old messages that the zombies had lost most of their sight and hearing, retained ordinary strength, and carried no known virus.
• Ling Yi watched videos about the outbreak, including one featuring a zombie livestreamer, before realizing he needed to compete with the zombies for supplies.
• A ding suddenly sounded in Ling Yi's mind.

After activating a transmigration system during the zombie apocalypse, Ling Yi read the linked cultivation novel and learned its premise before deciding to enter its world. He chose to wait at home while the zombies weakened, then pressed the button to transmigrate.

• Ling Yi opened the system interface and found a novel world titled “Modern cultivation: I became the strongest through the school belle's wild imaginings!”
• Ling Yi read nearly a hundred chapters, then cooked noodles and realized the story had become fixed in his memory.
• Ling Yi checked his messages and watched the zombies outside, confronting the possibility that he was the only living person left.
• Ling Yi downloaded online material about the outbreak and decided to stay home until the zombies died rather than risk searching for supplies.
• Ling Yi reviewed the novel's premise and protagonist Wang Chen's golden finger, then pressed the system's transmigration button.

Ling Yi transmigrated as Bai Yunjiang, an early-story extra whose original fate involved humiliating himself before Wang Chen and later dying. He avoided picking a fight with Wang Chen, left the dorm to investigate how to obtain world essence, and called Uncle Jiang for a ride.

• Ling Yi learned that he had become Bai Yunjiang and received the temporary golden finger Ten-Thousandfold Comprehension, while his roleplaying mission required him to keep his identity from being questioned and plunder world essence.
• Ling Yi recalled that Bai Yunjiang was destined to challenge Wang Chen, get beaten, and eventually die after becoming a villain's pawn, so he decided not to follow that plotline.
• Ling Yi announced he would buy a place off campus and left the dorm, prompting Song Zhilei and Guo Cheng to disparage Bai Yunjiang while Wang Chen remained confident in his perfected Heaven and Earth Art.
• Ling Yi called Uncle Jiang, Bai Yunjiang's loyal bodyguard, and asked him to pick him up at the school gates.

Ling Yi watched Zhao Peng, the brilliant young head of the Zhao Family, transfer into his class and chose not to follow Bai Yunjiang’s original plot of rejecting him. As class began, Ling Yi checked his system status, with his mission to plunder 10,000 points of world origin still at 10.

• Ling Yi recalled Zhao Peng’s background and his connection to the school belle, Yuan Mei, as he prepared for the villain’s arrival.
• Luo Hongyu introduced Zhao Peng to Junior Class One and assigned him the empty seat beside Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi greeted Zhao Peng calmly instead of delivering Bai Yunjiang’s planned insults and refusing to share a desk.
• Luo Hongyu asked whether anyone had developed a sense of Qi, but no one raised a hand.
• Ling Yi checked the Novel World Extra Role-Playing System and saw his temporary ninth-layer Qi Refining stats and 10/10,000 world-origin progress.

Ling Yi reflected on his cultivation and his ability to perfect the Heaven and Earth Art, then listened as Luo Hongyu explained spiritual energy and spiritual roots. After Zhao Peng sensed Ling Yi’s unexpectedly high cultivation and invited him to dinner, Ling Yi decided to use Zhao Peng to test whether changing or creating plotlines earned more Origin Points.

• Ling Yi considered how Ten-Thousandfold Comprehension had improved the Heaven and Earth Art to suit his mixed spiritual root and accelerate his cultivation.
• Luo Hongyu explained the differences between attributeless and attributed spiritual energy, and how spiritual roots affected cultivation and refining speed.
• Yuan Mei asked Luo Hongyu about attributed techniques, while another student questioned why mixed spiritual roots cultivated more slowly.
• Zhao Peng used his spiritual sense to probe Ling Yi and realized Ling Yi had reached at least the seventh layer of Qi Refining.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Peng that probing him was impolite, and Zhao Peng apologized by offering to treat him to a meal at the Heaven and Earth Grand Hotel.
• Ling Yi decided to test whether creating new plotlines could earn more Origin Points by leading Zhao Peng astray.

At dinner, Ling Yi exposed Zhao Peng as the young head of the Zhao Family and pressed him to reveal why he had come to Heaven and Earth City. By guessing that Zhao Peng was interested in Yuan Mei, Ling Yi won his offer of two rare but incomplete texts.

• Ling Yi explained Heaven and Earth Academy's classes and cultivation facilities, then judged that he could reach Foundation Establishment long before the protagonist did.
• During dinner at the Heaven and Earth Grand Hotel, Ling Yi inferred that Zhao Peng was the Zhao Family head from his age, cultivation, and surname.
• Zhao Peng asked Ling Yi to guess his purpose for coming to Heaven and Earth City, and Ling Yi demanded cultivation and crafting methods if he guessed correctly.
• Ling Yi named Yuan Mei and claimed Zhao Peng's glances and reactions toward her revealed his interest, leaving Zhao Peng shaken.
• Zhao Peng refused to share the Zhao Family's cultivation arts but offered Ling Yi two high-grade incomplete texts, a cultivation art and a secret art.

Ling Yi accepted Zhao Peng’s cultivation technique and secret art, then learned of a future treasure vault at Nine Spirits Fishing Village that Wang Chen had been destined to obtain. He ordered Uncle Jiang to secure and seal the village, revealing that he had reached Great Perfection in Qi Refining, and left Uncle Jiang to carry out the plan.

• Zhao Peng gave Ling Yi a USB drive containing a difficult cultivation technique and secret art, and warned him that his talent would attract factions.
• Ling Yi decided to seek a concealment technique so he could perfect it with his comprehension and hide his cultivation.
• Ling Yi remembered that a mirage would reveal a treasure vault at Nine Spirits Fishing Village in a year, an opportunity that had originally belonged to Wang Chen.
• Ling Yi ordered Uncle Jiang to acquire Nine Spirits Fishing Village and its fishing grounds, seal the area, and compensate the villagers fully.
• Ling Yi demonstrated his Spiritual Sense and revealed that he had reached Great Perfection in Qi Refining, earning Uncle Jiang’s trust and concern.
• At Jiubin Road, Ling Yi sent Uncle Jiang to secure the village and continued on his own.

Ling Yi bought Lin Ran’s ten Long-Necked Rats and a storage ring after revealing that the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable had awakened early and that the people she sought were in Heaven and Earth City. Back home, he discovered the deal had earned him 2,000 Origin Points, bringing his mission progress to 2,010 out of 10,000.

• Ling Yi visited Jiubin Road’s general goods market and found Lin Ran selling ten low-level Long-Necked Rats that concealed a secret art sought by protagonist Wang Chen.
• Ling Yi offered Lin Ran information about the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable in exchange for the rats and a storage ring, and Lin Ran handed over the ring.
• Ling Yi warned Lin Ran that the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable had awakened early and recovered his memories, then told her that the people she sought were in Heaven and Earth City.
• Ling Yi returned to his residence and checked his system, which showed that his mission progress had risen to 2,010 out of 10,000 Origin Points.

Ling Yi used the Ultimate Spirit Art and his exceptional comprehension to begin cultivating nine Spiritual Qi vortices, while Zhao Peng and Lin Ran separately investigated Bai Yunjiang and suspected he was someone from their past. Lin Ran considered asking Bai Yunjiang to help her deal with the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable.

• Ling Yi realized that intercepting Wang Chen’s opportunities had earned him Origin Points and that the Breath Concealment Art had been crucial to Wang Chen’s survival.
• Ling Yi gained initial mastery of the Ultimate Spirit Art and began forming nine Spiritual Qi vortices, while using his comprehension to repair the incomplete technique and study the Nine Yang Art.
• Zhao Peng sent Gao Qiang to secretly protect Yuan Mei and investigate Wang Chen, then wondered whether Bai Yunjiang was an old acquaintance.
• Lin Ran searched online for Bai Yunjiang and concluded that his reputation as a wastrel was likely a disguise concealing someone she knew.
• Lin Ran suspected the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable was still alive and considered cooperating with Bai Yunjiang to kill him.

Lin Ran confronted Ling Yi after sensing his terrifying Spiritual Pressure and learned he could help her obtain the blood needed to cultivate the Mystic Phoenix Art again. She agreed to owe him three favors, leaving their alliance in place as she pursued the power to face the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable.

• Lin Ran sensed Spiritual Pressure erupt from the apartment across the hall and recognized its source as Bai Yunjiang, whose true identity was Ling Yi.
• Lin Ran confronted Ling Yi, and they both asked whether the other was following them before he invited her inside.
• Ling Yi claimed he was Bai Yunjiang and reflected that his spoilers and intercepted opportunities had increased his Origin Points and power.
• Lin Ran asked Ling Yi about the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable, and he requested several cultivation arts in exchange for information.
• Ling Yi offered to reveal where Lin Ran could find black phoenix blood and black dragon blood in return for three favors.
• Lin Ran accepted the deal, hoping to cultivate the Mystic Phoenix Art again and gain the strength to seal the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable.