Chapter Summaries

Wei Yanran watched the Bald Gang leader Zheng Xiong die during a livestream, while Wang Qiang gained cultivation and abilities from his death. At school, Ling Yi attended Elder Li’s lesson on formation masters and discovered a new function in his system.

• Wei Yanran learned that Zheng Kai was a hard-to-find formation master whose teleportation array discs made him valuable to the Spirit Guard Bureau.
• Zheng Xiong livestreamed his gang members’ identities, then died after bloody holes appeared across his body and he cried out to the Death God.
• Wang Qiang gained cultivation, Spiritual Qi skills, and lightning spells from Zheng Xiong’s death, but decided he could not quit school because he still wanted to enter the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
• Wang Qiang went to class without attracting attention, while Ling Yi recognized that he had used the Death God Note again.
• Elder Li explained formation patterns, formation-setter and divine formation master paths, and their requirements.
• Ling Yi noticed that his system interface had a function he had not seen before.

Ling Yi used two years of cultivation time to become a ninth-grade formation master, then claimed the rewards and unleashed a Spiritual Sense powerful enough to stun everyone in Dafeng City. Realizing he lacked the Spiritual Power needed to inscribe formations, he asked the system to cultivate the Qi Condensation Art next.

• Ling Yi practiced formations for two years through the system, becoming the Ancient Yuan Immortal Cultivation Realm’s strongest formation master while his cultivation level remained unchanged.
• Ling Yi delayed claiming his rewards to avoid attracting attention, while Wang Qiang visited Jiang Yunsheng and explained his unexplained breakthrough to Qi Refining, Third Level.
• After returning home, Ling Yi claimed his cultivation rewards, causing a tremendous Spiritual Sense pressure that immobilized living beings throughout Dafeng City.
• Jiang Yunsheng and Principal Jiang Qiming suspected that an exceptionally powerful outsider had appeared, while Wang Qiang resolved to become stronger.
• Ling Yi discovered that his powerful Spiritual Sense was useless for inscribing formations without Spiritual Power, so he asked the system for two years of Qi Condensation Art cultivation.

Ling Yi completed the Vein Condensation Art, learning the effects of the 108 Spiritual Veins and gaining a formation that could conceal his cultivation. He spent his remaining cultivation time opening Spiritual Veins, but as he worked toward a perfect foundation, Yanran and Wang Qiang discovered the Devil Clan and a Demon Realm invasion devastated Blue Star.

• Ling Yi claimed the rewards from his cultivation simulation and learned that the Vein Condensation Art could target Spiritual Veins and conceal his cultivation with the Spirit Mimicking Formation.
• Ling Yi checked Wang Qiang’s records and saw that Wang Qiang had killed five people, including several members of the Bald Gang, while warning himself to reclaim the Death God Note if Wang Qiang abandoned his limits.
• Ling Yi spent his remaining cultivation time practicing the Vein Condensation Art, opening twelve Spiritual Veins in three years despite his poor Spiritual Root aptitude.
• Ling Yi opened all thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Spiritual Veins by the eighth year and reached the peak of the Qi Condensation Realm without advancing to Qi Refining.
• Ling Yi opened five Earthly Baleful Spiritual Veins in the tenth year as Yanran and Wang Qiang discovered the Devil Clan in a small world.
• Yanran and Wang Qiang fled the small world, but the Demon Realm’s army invaded Blue Star through it the next day and captured thirteen cities.

Ling Yi completed all 108 Spiritual Veins, reached the second layer of Qi Refining, and saw the Death God Note System gain a new function. As Wei Yanran investigated the Death God’s killings, Zheng Kai offered to join the Spirit Guard Bureau if she found his brother’s murderer.

• Ling Yi watched a future in which death apostles drove back the Demon Realm invasion, then retaliated against the Ancient Yuan Immortal Cultivation Realm after it stole a Death God Note.
• After opening all 108 Spiritual Veins, Ling Yi gained an innate Dao body and a nine-attribute divine Spiritual Root, traveled to the Ancient Yuan Immortal Cultivation Realm, and reached the second layer of Qi Refining.
• Ling Yi claimed his cultivation rewards, absorbed an immense amount of Spiritual Power, concealed his cultivation, and learned that the Death God Note System had added an Eye of Investigation that unlocked at death apostle level 5.
• Ling Yi saw that Wang Qiang had killed two more Bald Gang members and that Wang Qiang’s latest kills included Zheng Xiong and five of his lackeys.
• Wei Yanran investigated the corpses at Zheng Xiong’s manor and found the words “Death God” left by two victims.
• Zheng Kai offered to join the Spirit Guard Bureau if Wei Yanran found his brother’s killer, and she accepted on the condition that he cooperate.

Wei Yanran and the Guard Bureau investigated the Bald Gang for clues about the Death God, but the killer began striking during the questioning. After ordering the survivors to be taken to spirit-sealing chambers, Wei Yanran vowed to find the Death God.

• Zheng Kai recounted his brother Zheng Xiong’s past and agreed to help Wei Yanran investigate the Death God.
• Wei Yanran ordered the Bald Gang members questioned, and Ma Yi confessed that he and his brothers had robbed Ling Yi of Spirit Tempering Powder.
• Ma Yi and Ma Er died from ruptured Spiritual Veins, and each left the words “Death God” written on the floor.
• Wei Yanran found no signs of a Weird, hypnosis, or unusual energy, then ordered Director Liu to identify viewers of Zheng Xiong’s final livestream.
• Eight more Bald Gang members died, prompting Wei Yanran to escort the survivors, including Zheng Kai, to spirit-sealing chambers.

Ling Yi discovered that Wang Qiang had used the Death God Note to kill more than 130 Bald Gang members overnight, then worried about whether the young Death Apostle could control his growing power. Meanwhile, Wei Yanran considered the threat of the Death God and the outsiders, and Jiang Yunsheng recognized Wang Qiang’s cultivation at school without appearing surprised.

• Ling Yi checked Wang Qiang’s Death God Note and found that Wang Qiang had wiped out the Bald Gang, including its deputy leader, using the note’s powers.
• Ling Yi learned that killing people raised a Death Apostle’s level and wondered whether Wang Qiang would keep his principles as he grew stronger.
• Ling Yi greeted Wei Yanran, who was troubled by the Bald Gang’s deaths in the Spirit Guard Bureau and suspected an outside cultivator was responsible.
• Wei Yanran recalled the Immortal Cultivation Realm Non-Interference Treaty and the Spirit Guard Bureau’s interest in Zheng Kai’s method for making small-world Teleport Array plates.
• Ling Yi saw Wang Qiang quietly attending class and considered finding someone compatible for his second Death God Note.
• Jiang Yunsheng entered Class 29 and noticed Wang Qiang’s cultivation, while Ling Yi remained unaware that Wang Qiang had already explained himself to the teacher.

Jiang Yunsheng explained that the students’ assessment would take place in a dangerous seventh-tier fantasy world, then privately recruited Wang Qiang for the Vast Righteousness Sect after learning he had rapidly reached the seventh level of Qi Refining. Wang Qiang accepted Jiang Yunsheng’s gifts and promise of support, while Ling Yi secretly observed their conversation.

• Jiang Yunsheng described the ranks of small worlds and announced that the assessment would require students to survive for a month in a seventh-tier fantasy world, with a Teleport Array disc available for emergencies.
• Jiang Yunsheng warned the class not to rely too heavily on familiar plots, then called Wang Qiang into the corridor while Ling Yi secretly left his body to watch them.
• Jiang Yunsheng praised Wang Qiang for reaching the seventh level of Qi Refining overnight and explained that special physiques could be difficult to detect.
• Jiang Yunsheng offered Wang Qiang a Spirit Gathering Array disc, a third-grade healing pill for his mother, and a bank card containing a billion, in exchange for joining the Vast Righteousness Sect after the advanced assessment.
• Wang Qiang agreed to join the sect, and Jiang Yunsheng told him to cultivate at home and promised to address Li Haifeng and Gao Liankai’s bullying.

Ling Yi chose Wei Haizhu as the second Death Apostle after discovering her 92% compatibility and learning that she planned to avenge her parents by targeting cultivators in four foreign countries. The Death God Note appeared before her, and Ling Yi used the system to begin investing his remaining cultivation time.

• Ling Yi found Wei Haizhu had the highest Death Apostle compatibility at 92%, along with rare dual-attribute thunder and fire Spiritual Roots.
• Ling Yi learned that Wei Haizhu's parents had died fighting a water demon and were then ambushed by cultivators from Insect Country, Ghost Country, Bird Country, and Dog Country.
• Wei Haizhu revealed her resolve to avenge her parents and showed that she had compiled information on more than eight thousand cultivators and foreign academy students.
• A Death God Note appeared before Wei Haizhu, and she cautiously examined it as its information entered her mind.
• Ling Yi made Wei Haizhu a Level 1 Death Apostle and ordered the system to put his remaining 260 years into cultivation.

Ling Yi reviewed a long cultivation simulation in which he collected Telekinesis Crystals, missed assessments, and spent centuries cultivating while Wang Qiang and Wei Haizhu rose through the ranks. After claiming the simulation rewards, Ling Yi remained at the fourth level of Qi Refining but gained an immense reserve of spiritual power, then discovered Wei Haizhu had reached Foundation Establishment with only one kill.

• Ling Yi learned that the assessment minor world’s inhabitants used telekinesis, found and sealed Telekinesis Crystals, and passed the assessment to enter Dafeng City Intermediate Immortal Cultivation Academy.
• The simulation showed Wang Qiang and the other death disciples using the Death God Note to repel a Demon Realm invasion before the Immortal Cultivation Realm activated the Fifth Pin Spirit Severing Array against Blue Star.
• Ling Yi’s simulated self entered the Ancient Yuan Immortal Cultivation Realm, advanced to Qi Refining fourth level, and cultivated for centuries while a youth at the edge of his formations reached Mahayana and ascended.
• Ling Yi claimed his cultivation rewards, gained an enormous quantity of spiritual power, and stayed at Qi Refining fourth level despite his dantian expanding twice.
• Ling Yi checked the Death God Note System and saw Wang Qiang at Qi Refining seventh level with 135 kills and Wei Haizhu at Foundation Establishment first layer with one kill.

Wang Qiang completed a Small World Teleport Array Disk and discovered it connected to a dangerous world, but chose to wait until after his assessment before entering. Meanwhile, Wei Yanran investigated Wang Qiang’s links to Zheng Xiong and the Bald Gang, grew suspicious of him, and decided to meet him the next day.

• Ling Yi reviewed Wei Haizhu’s kill record and marveled at her leap from Qi Condensation to Foundation Establishment.
• Wang Qiang used Zheng Kai’s inheritance to craft a Small World Teleport Array Disk, whose visions revealed a world filled with monsters, ruins, and powerful fighters.
• Wang Qiang decided not to activate the disk before his assessment and began planning to make more disks while researching new Death God Note targets.
• Wang Qiang considered targeting public figures from hostile countries but judged their powerful protections too risky and chose to focus on domestic offenders instead.
• Wei Yanran reviewed Wang Qiang’s background and noticed his connections to Cheng Yun, Zheng Xiong, and the Bald Gang, making her suspect he might be the Death God.
• Wei Yanran circled Wang Qiang’s name and planned to meet him the next day.

Wei Haizhu used the Death God Note to kill cultivators across four countries, while Ling Yi studied the mysterious formation shrouding Blue Star and discovered that its Spiritual Power was leaking into space. The simulation ended a year later with Ling Yi learning to dismantle Formation Patterns into Restriction Patterns, as the Death God Organization emerged and demanded that every country except Ancient Country stop cultivating.

• Wei Haizhu hacked into an academy’s surveillance and communications, confirming that Gu Bo’s death had destroyed the school and killed most of its people.
• Wei Haizhu filled the Death God Note with names and discovered that new pages appeared after she used up the existing ones.
• Ling Yi found an unfamiliar formation around Blue Star and began a 150-year cultivation simulation to understand it.
• Ling Yi discovered that Blue Star’s Spiritual Power flowed through the formation into space without diminishing, while Wei Haizhu’s killings brought powerhouses from the Immortal Cultivation Realms to Blue Star.
• Wang Qiang and Wei Haizhu found the other death disciples and established the Death God Organization, which ordered cultivation academies outside Ancient Country to close.
• One year into the simulation, Ling Yi dismantled a Formation Pattern in his sea of consciousness into twenty-seven Restriction Patterns and understood what they were.

Ling Yi ended a seven-year cultivation simulation with three thousand Restriction Patterns but discovered that combined restrictions required an unknown energy to activate. At school, Wang Qiang stood up to his bullies, while Wei Yanran began investigating the aftermath.

• Ling Yi ended the simulation, received three thousand Restriction Patterns, and wondered whether restrictions required Divine Power.
• Ling Yi saw Wang Qiang let Li Haifeng and Gao Liankai lead him to the grove, where Wang Qiang fought back and forced Li Haifeng to slap himself.
• Wang Qiang brought the beaten bullies to class, and Jiang Yunsheng expelled them for bullying Wang Qiang and stealing his Spirit Tempering Powder.
• After Li Haifeng and Gao Liankai left school, Jiang Yunsheng crippled their Spiritual Veins, and they concealed the truth from Wei Yanran when she questioned them.

Wei Yanran questioned Wang Qiang about Death God and the Bald Gang’s deaths, leaving convinced he was suspicious and possibly possessed a special constitution. Her visit heightened Wang Qiang’s sense of danger, and he began adding new targets to the Death God Note while Wei Haizhu marked names in her own notebook.

• Wei Yanran questioned Li Haifeng and Gao Liancheng, then went to Class 29 to speak with Wang Qiang.
• Jiang Yunsheng grew wary that the Spirit Guard Bureau had discovered Wang Qiang’s special constitution, while Wang Qiang suspected Wei Yanran was investigating the Bald Gang’s deaths.
• Wang Qiang told Wei Yanran he had watched Zheng Xiong’s livestream and revealed that the Bald Gang had left his mother paralyzed and blind; Wei Yanran said more than 130 gang members were dead.
• Jiang Yunsheng offered to protect Wang Qiang and suspected a demonic cultivator was behind Death God, while Wei Yanran left believing Wang Qiang’s answers were rehearsed and wondering whether he had a special constitution.
• Wang Qiang gathered information on other gangs and online figures, then began writing their names and methods of death in the Death God Note.
• Wei Haizhu sat before her parents’ spirit tablets, wondered whether the Death God Note could revive them, and began checking off its recorded names.

Ling Yi upgraded the Death God Note system and used targeted cultivation to discover that Lightning Tribulations could help him cultivate Immortal Power. His simulation ended with the Divine Restriction array sealing Blue Star, killing every cultivator except him and stripping him of his cultivation.

• Ling Yi saw that Wei Haizhu and Wang Qiang had killed nearly three thousand people, and learned that the upgraded system added Mental Pen Control and Spiritual Sense Entry skills for death thralls.
• Ling Yi decided to seek Immortal Power or Divine Power through targeted cultivation and began advancing his Vein Condensation Art.
• In the simulation, Wang Qiang and Wei Haizhu killed thousands of Canglan Realm cultivators, but a heavenly tribulation killed them both after Wang Qiang killed the cultivator who triggered it.
• Ling Yi used restriction patterns to simulate Lightning Tribulations and discovered that their power could transform Spiritual Power into Immortal Power.
• Over the following centuries, Ling Yi converted all his Spiritual Power into Immortal Power and began transforming it further, while three thousand death thralls defeated a Demon Realm invasion.
• The Divine Restriction array sealed Blue Star and killed every cultivator except Ling Yi, whose Immortal Power, Spiritual Root, and Spiritual Veins were devoured, leaving him an ordinary person.

Ling Yi’s cultivation simulation revealed that the Divine Restriction Grand Formation was a seal and that he could cultivate Divine Power beyond Blue Star. After rising to the Exalted God Realm, he returned to find Blue Star and Mars destroyed, then faced the mysterious mastermind, who sent him back to Class 29 while leaving his strength intact.

• Ling Yi continued the simulation, reconstructed his body, reopened all 108 Spiritual Veins, and began cultivating Divine Power on Mars.
• Ling Yi reached the True God Realm and then the Exalted God Realm while mining Divine Yuan Crystal Stones in Ancient Desolation Divine Mountain; his Death God Notes helped destroy the Barbarian God Family.
• Ling Yi returned to Blue Star with Divine Yuan Crystal Stones, but discovered that Blue Star and Mars had been reduced to fragments.
• A mysterious powerhouse confronted Ling Yi and used the Law of Time to send him back to Class 29’s classroom.
• Ling Yi realized he remained an Exalted God and concluded he would need to reach the Chaos God Realm to defeat the mastermind.

Ling Yi ended a long cultivation simulation as a Chaos God, then learned that the system’s new update had removed the simulation module and added a chat channel for death disciples. Through the chat, Wang Qiang met the more powerful hacker No. 2, while Ling Yi revealed himself and threatened to reclaim their Death God Notes.

• Ling Yi completed the simulation with twenty-one laws, became a Chaos God, and ended it after the mysterious man repeatedly reincarnated him and began camping the God Realm’s entrance.
• Ling Yi claimed his cultivation rewards, reaching the early stage of Chaos God, and the system upgraded to version 2.2 with unlimited Death God Notes, Note Concealment, and a death-disciple chat module, but removed the simulation module.
• Wang Qiang and Wei Haizhu, identified as death disciples No. 1 and No. 2, began chatting, and Wei Haizhu told Wang Qiang that she had erased his browsing records to protect him from the Spirit Guard Bureau.
• Wei Haizhu sent Wang Qiang a list of nearly a hundred foreign hackers, whose deaths gave him their skills and made him a powerful hacker.
• Wei Haizhu urged Wang Qiang to target foreign countries and revealed that she had killed cultivators at foreign academies and destroyed the academies, reaching the second layer of the Golden Core.
• Wei Haizhu called out Ling Yi for lurking in the chat, and Ling Yi replied that he could take back their Death God Notes if they did not want them.

Ling Yi warned Wang Qiang and Wei Haizhu of future calamities and decided to rely on their growth as Death Apostles to defeat the final threat. He learned that the upcoming assessment had become an international event, while the Death God's killings prompted alarm across the cultivation worlds and Wei Yanran failed to recruit Wang Qiang.

• Ling Yi warned Wang Qiang and Wei Haizhu that the Demon Realm would invade in ten years and a God Grade powerhouse would destroy the Solar System in a thousand years.
• Ling Yi urged the Death Apostles to hunt in other worlds and reach level 10, then increased their share to thirty percent in exchange for guiding future recruits.
• Wei Yanran drove Ling Yi to the academy and warned that foreign students and the Soul Devourer Sect could target Ancient Country students during the multinational assessment.
• Ling Yi suspected that the Death God's actions had changed the assessment from the version shown in his cultivation simulations, which renewed his interest in participating.
• Jiang Yunsheng and other teachers returned to the Vast Righteousness Sect to discuss countermeasures after the Death God's killings alarmed the cultivation worlds.
• Wei Yanran invited Wang Qiang to join the Spirit Guard Bureau, but he refused and said he trusted only himself.

Ling Yi unlocked Aura Simulation and used it to conceal his cultivation, then decided to seek better cultivation resources in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. Meanwhile, Wang Qiang joined the worldwide assessment despite Jiang Yunsheng urging him to leave Blue Star for the Vast Righteousness Sect.

• Wei Haizhu and Wang Qiang discussed their killings, rising levels, and plans to target more foreign cultivators as powerful figures began closing in on them.
• Ling Yi's system upgraded to version 2.3, adding Aura Simulation, and he disguised his Chaos God aura as that of an ordinary person.
• Ling Yi spent a thousand years cultivating but gained little because Blue Star had insufficient Spiritual Qi, so he considered going to the Immortal Cultivation Realm instead of distributing more Death God Notes.
• Four days later, Wang Qiang joined nearly five hundred students at the Dafeng City Junior Immortal Cultivation Academy for the worldwide assessment.
• Jiang Yunsheng urged Wang Qiang to join the Vast Righteousness Sect, but Wang Qiang insisted on taking the assessment so he could advance to an intermediate academy.

The students entered a small world for their assessment, where Ling Yi collected its Divine Sense Crystals and began studying a cultivation primer while Wang Qiang went to identify the world. Wang Qiang encountered Matt Siterui, who accused him of crossing a boundary, and seized him after Matt tried to overwhelm him with Divine Sense.

• The students arrived in a valley without Spiritual Qi, and the thirty-one Qi Refining students left the others behind.
• Wang Qiang chose to go alone, while Ling Yi also departed and revealed that he recognized the small world from a cultivation simulation.
• Ling Yi gathered all 120,000 Divine Sense Crystals on the planet, isolated them in his Death God Realm, and began comprehending the Divine Cultivation Primer for ten thousand years.
• Wang Qiang flew toward a modern city and encountered Matt Siterui and other Psychic Power users, who accused him of violating the Hima Agreement.
• Matt Siterui enveloped Wang Qiang with his Divine Sense, but Wang Qiang escaped behind him and seized him by the neck.

Wang Qiang learned about the Psychic Power users and their conflict with the east, then used the Death God Note to kill Matt and the others and began hunting western Psychic Power users. Meanwhile, Ling Yi cultivated True Source Power, but claiming his reward caused everything around him to vanish, leaving a huge section of the planet erased.

• Wang Qiang questioned Matt about the Hima Agreement and learned how Psychic Power users emerged, seized control of western countries, and clashed with the east.
• Matt explained that he had stopped the battle at Hima by signing a nonaggression treaty, but warned that competition over Psychic Power Crystals could spark another war.
• Wang Qiang summoned the Death God Note, wrote down the names of the Psychic Power users around him, and killed them, including Matt Siterui.
• Wang Qiang gained Divine Sense as an additional skill and began hunting western Psychic Power users to raise Death Apostle to level 10.
• Ling Yi advanced the Divine Cultivation Primer into the True God Cultivation Guide and learned that True Source Power could turn the illusory into the real.
• Ling Yi cultivated True Source Power for a hundred thousand years, and claiming the reward erased the trees, rivers, animals, and everything else across a vast part of the planet.