Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi and Guanyin reached Snake-Catching Village as Xu Yan fled into Mount Juehuang with the little white snake, pursued by three cultivators seeking to sell her. Xu Yan was killed, but completed his Plot Mission System objective and returned to Xu Xian seventeen hundred years later with its minimum reward.

• Ling Yi and Guanyin discussed how the Calamity had ended and arrived above Snake-Catching Village, where Xu Yan was hiding the little white snake.
• Xu Yan carried White Snake into Mount Juehuang to protect her, while the straight-mustached man and the goateed man pursued him and learned from the drooping-mustached man that she was a Five Elements Snake.
• The drooping-mustached man contacted Ming Shi to report that the Five Elements Water Snake had been found, while Xu Yan hid with White Snake in a hollow tree.
• White Snake briefly grew enormous, then shrank again; she grew attached to Xu Yan, but the goateed man stabbed him before she could transform to defend him.
• Xu Yan died after White Snake's affection reached 60, completing the mission's minimum requirements, and the Plot Mission System returned him to Xu Xian's body seventeen hundred years later.

Ling Yi protected White Snake and learned that gods and Buddhas were competing for merit as their cultivation regressed. Two hundred years later, White Snake neared human form while awaiting Xu Yan’s reincarnation, and a sudden commotion interrupted a meal in Ling Yi’s cave.

• The Tiger-Taming Arhat and Jade Rabbit arrived, killed the two mustached men to claim merit, and Guanyin explained that merit stabilized the heavens’ declining cultivation.
• Ling Yi reassured White Snake that Xu Yan would return through reincarnation, declined Guanyin’s offer to train her, and warned himself to remain on Mount Juehuang.
• Ming Shi found the corpses, suspected the Buddhist School had taken White Snake, and killed his surviving subordinate before vanishing.
• Two hundred years later, Ling Yi teased White Snake about her food and her wait for Xu Yan, whose reincarnations had rarely been human.
• The rabbit spirit dug into Ling Yi’s cave to join White Snake and Ling Yi for a meal, but a rumbling and scream outside abruptly interrupted them.

Ling Yi saved the monk Facheng, whose fanatical hatred of demons led him to attack White Snake and the rabbit; after Ling Yi drove him into demonic corruption, he killed him and learned Facheng reincarnated as a crab. Three hundred years later, White Snake prepared to undergo her tribulation, while Guanyin revealed that human unity had weakened spiritual Qi and was preparing to use a Parasitic Seed.

• Ling Yi healed the badly injured Facheng with a Healing Seed, but Facheng immediately tried to kill White Snake and the rabbit, so Ling Yi restrained him and challenged his belief that all demons were evil.
• Ling Yi's arguments shattered Facheng's convictions, and Facheng embraced the idea of destroying everything; Ling Yi declared him a devil and slapped him into an oil painting, sending him to reincarnate.
• Facheng regained memories of his previous lives in the Underworld, realized Ling Yi had killed him twice, and reincarnated as a crab.
• Three hundred years later, White Snake reached the peak of her cultivation and prepared to take human form during the full moon, with Ling Yi and Guanyin nearby to support her tribulation.
• Guanyin told Ling Yi that humanity had unified a hundred states and that its growing fortune had weakened spiritual Qi and made faith and merit the immortals' and Buddhas' main sources of power; she said she was preparing to use a Parasitic Seed.

After Bai Suzhen transformed, Ling Yi tried to stop her from seeking Xu Yan’s reincarnation, but she sneaked away and reached Snake-Catching Village, where she met Xu Xuan. Ling Yi followed her, while Ming Shi sensed the presence of a five-element snake and wondered whether the water snake had appeared.

• The lightning tribulation retreated at Ling Yi’s command and gave White Snake spiritual Qi, allowing him to transform into Bai Suzhen.
• Bai Suzhen wanted to find Xu Yan’s reincarnation, but Ling Yi refused and predicted she would sneak down the mountain; Cihang then returned to the South Sea to adapt to her new power.
• Bai Suzhen left Mount Juehuang at night, got lost, and eventually arrived at Snake-Catching Village, where she met Xu Xuan, Xu Yan’s reincarnation.
• Xu Xuan invited Bai Suzhen to stay at his home, and the two pretended not to know each other while Ling Yi watched from above.
• Ming Shi sensed a five-element snake and wondered whether the five-element water snake had appeared.

Xu Xuan’s attempt to win Bai Suzhen’s favor failed after he bragged about raising and eating snakes, and Ming Shi killed him. The protagonist was sent back twelve hundred years to Bai Suzhen’s fight with Ming Shi, where her magic treasures helped her defeat him.

• Xu Xuan told Bai Suzhen that he had taught Snake-Catching Village to raise and eat snakes, causing her favorability toward him to plummet.
• Ming Shi appeared and killed Xu Xuan after he stepped in front of Bai Suzhen, and the protagonist returned to Xu Xian’s body.
• The system gave the protagonist an ultimate mission to become Pangu and alter the Primordial World’s course before the Witch-Demon Calamity, threatening to unbind if he failed.
• Twelve hundred years earlier, Bai Suzhen used Ling Yi’s Parasitic Seeds to summon a shield, armor, and sword against Ming Shi.
• Bai Suzhen refused to reveal Ling Yi’s identity, and her armor protected her while Ming Shi attacked.
• Bai Suzhen’s sword burrowed into Ming Shi’s body and caused him to writhe before he collapsed and stopped moving.

Ling Yi used a Parasitic Seed to help Xiaoyu transform, then watched Mount Juehuang become Mount Qingcheng after someone changed history and reshaped the continent. While Ling Yi slept for five hundred years, Cihang battled the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain before handing them the seeds; after Ling Yi awoke, they planned to restore order to the Mortal World Realm.

• Ling Yi gave Xiaoyu a Parasitic Seed, and she transformed into a human who looked almost identical to Bai Suzhen.
• Ling Yi sensed history changing and took Bai Suzhen and Xiaoyu into the sky as Mount Juehuang crumbled and became Mount Qingcheng.
• Cihang explained that her memories had changed and that a false Pangu had shattered the continent into the shape of the Nine Provinces.
• Ling Yi slept for five hundred years while Cihang searched for genes and fought the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain, defeating their forces repeatedly.
• Cihang handed over the Parasitic Seeds at talks in the Heavenly Court, and Ling Yi revealed that she had waited for his return before doing so.
• Ling Yi and Cihang decided to save the Mortal World Realm, and Ling Yi planned to take Bai Suzhen and the others down the mountain to gain experience.

Ling Yi confronted Old Mother of Mount Li when she accused him of destroying the continents and tried to recruit Bai Suzhen, then left with his companions after Bai Suzhen stopped him from killing her. Five hundred years later, Xu Xian learned that his system was trying to protect the world from being absorbed into a Reincarnation World, though it would not name the woman behind the threat.

• Ling Yi challenged Old Mother of Mount Li's accusations and used the Heavenly Dao's threat of world destruction to show that he could command it.
• Old Mother of Mount Li asked Bai Suzhen to become her disciple, but Bai Suzhen refused and said she would stay with Ling Yi.
• Old Mother of Mount Li made Bai Suzhen stumble with a strand of magical power, and Ling Yi pressed her to the ground before sparing her at Bai Suzhen's request.
• Ling Yi told Cihang that schemers had tricked Old Mother of Mount Li into coming, then traveled with his companions for five hundred years, slaying demons and evil beings.
• Xu Xian asked his system why it had altered the world, and it explained that it was trying to prevent the world from becoming a Reincarnation World.
• Xu Xian's system revealed that a woman with a powerful Reincarnation System was trying to absorb all worlds, but refused to tell him her name.

Ling Yi said goodbye to Bai Suzhen and Xiaoyu, then sent Xu Xian through a world passage to Yin Wanqing and learned that the Ling Realm had grown stronger. He transmigrated to a new world as a junior orthopedic doctor and headed out with an ambulance to a mass-casualty emergency.

• Ling Yi took Bai Suzhen and Xiaoyu boating on West Lake, where they sang together as he prepared to leave.
• Xu Xian joined their song from another boat, and Ling Yi appeared to slap him and question his Golden Core cultivation.
• Xu Xian's system fled after warning him that Ling Yi was too powerful to provoke.
• Ling Yi handed Xu Xian to Yin Wanqing, who explained that the Ling Realm had nearly doubled in power and discussed the possibility of reaching unfamiliar worlds.
• Ling Yi transmigrated to a world where he was a newly hired orthopedic doctor, then rode an ambulance to a reported assault with dozens of injured people.
• More than a dozen police cars and ambulances passed in the opposite lane, prompting Ling Yi and his coworkers to wonder what was happening at Jingyang Residential Complex.

Ling Yi and his ambulance crew entered a heavily damaged residential complex after signing a national-level confidentiality agreement, where his aura identified a supernatural patient among the injured. During the escorted trip to a secondhand market, Ling Yi negotiated with the bald fat man and helped him escape by switching places with the driver.

• Police made Ling Yi, Old Zheng, and the nurse sign confidentiality agreements before allowing them into the damaged complex.
• Ling Yi's passive aura downloaded a level-six sonic ability, a level-four physique, and memories from one of the three unconscious patients; he identified the bald fat man as the target and took the two abilities.
• The fat man woke in the ambulance, crushed its iron stretcher handle, and demanded that the driver pull over, but Ling Yi persuaded him to keep going and offered to help him escape.
• At the secondhand market, the fat man exchanged clothes with the driver, knocked him unconscious, and drove the ambulance to the entrance while Ling Yi and the others posed as patients.
• Ling Yi told the fat man the surveillance cameras were broken, giving him a reason to leave; after he drove off, Old Zheng pointed out that the cameras were working.

Ling Yi learned from Zhao Hai that beings from the Quantum Realm were invading through human bodies, then volunteered to join the Special Incident Defense Bureau. When he returned home, he found his girlfriend cheating on him with a middle-aged man.

• Ling Yi told the armed police that the fat criminal was a woman in a transferred body and helped them identify surveillance footage that could aid the investigation.
• Zhao Hai explained that R35 had opened a bridge to the Quantum Realm, whose inhabitants could use the internet to take over human bodies.
• Ling Yi inferred that R35 was needed for body takeovers and volunteered to join the Special Incident Defense Bureau.
• Zhao Hai identified himself as head of the Hongbei Region and told Ling Yi he would investigate him before deciding on membership.
• Ling Yi returned home and found his girlfriend with a middle-aged man, then calmly mocked them for using his bathroom.

Ling Yi confronted his predecessor’s girlfriend, then teamed up with Zhao Yanran to investigate the VR headset linked to a quantum human’s takeover. They reached the headset manufacturer’s factory in Dabin Province, where Zhao Yanran secretly called her father after Ling Yi told her to stay behind.

• Ling Yi slapped and berated his predecessor’s girlfriend, then left her and the middle-aged man behind.
• Ling Yi examined the fatty’s memories, learned he had bought a costly VR headset before encountering a mysterious red-haired woman, and saved the seller’s information.
• Zhao Yanran contacted Ling Yi as his Defense Bureau partner, and Ling Yi learned that Zhao Hai had assigned her to investigate the case with him.
• Ling Yi collected Zhao Yanran and an SUV, then drove with her to the headset factory in Dabin Province.
• Ling Yi ordered Zhao Yanran to remain in the car and provide remote support, and she secretly called Zhao Hai after he entered the factory.

Ling Yi investigated a factory compound and uncovered quantum invaders fighting a masked woman underground. After helping her disable the invaders, he returned with Zhao Yanran and realized the woman’s blue eyes looked familiar.

• Ling Yi’s aura downloaded several abilities and physical attributes from people at the factory, and a wounded invader mistook him for a Defense Bureau agent.
• Ling Yi bluffed the invader about humanity stealing divine powers, took his R35 metal patch, and found a hidden underground facility.
• Ling Yi used the R35 patches to incapacitate two invaders fighting a masked woman, who killed them and left on a motorcycle.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Yanran to contact Zhao Hai, then tested her suspicion that he was an invader by letting her place an R35 patch on his forehead.
• Ling Yi recalled that the masked woman’s blue eyes looked familiar.

Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran flew to the Ugly Nation to disrupt its cooperation with the quantum invaders, but arrived to find an ambush. Zhao Yanran revealed that she could summon a quantum invader’s abilities through the R35 Second Form and wiped out the attackers, while Ling Yi concealed his own strength as police and helicopters closed in.

• After the Ugly Nation announced its immersive game, Quantum Universe, Ling Yi persuaded Zhao Yanran to go to Kansas and investigate its game server.
• Zhao Hai sent Zhao Yanran the coordinates for Babuli Farm, and Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran boarded a flight to Los Angeles.
• At the airport, Ling Yi’s Passive Download Aura detected thirty sets of memories and abilities, and he suspected quantum invaders had learned their itinerary.
• Zhao Yanran activated the R35 Second Form, revealing that the Defense Bureau could summon an invader whose consciousness had been erased and use its ability data.
• Zhao Yanran used level 13 Electron Manipulation to kill the attackers, while Ling Yi pretended that her weak electric strike had knocked him down.
• As police sirens and helicopters approached, Ling Yi smiled and anticipated the trouble ahead.

Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran stole a fighter jet from a Los Angeles military base and destroyed the advanced jets pursuing them. After learning how the Defense Bureau creates God Controllers, they reached Babuli Farm, where a mysterious woman they had met before began attacking the gate.

• Zhao Yanran blasted the military base’s command center while Ling Yi used Electron Manipulation to steal a fighter jet, and the two escaped under fire.
• Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran outmaneuvered three advanced triangular jets and destroyed them by targeting their engines.
• Zhao Yanran explained that R35’s second form could annihilate an invader’s consciousness while preserving its ability data, creating God Controllers through a deadly contest of resonance.
• Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran flew to Kansas and found Babuli Farm heavily guarded, with intelligent weapons and trucks waiting to ship gaming helmets worldwide.
• A mysterious woman from Dabin Province arrived at the farm with a submachine gun, and Ling Yi approached her as she opened fire on the main gate.

Lan Rui revealed that she came from a future where the Quantum Universe and humanity were destroyed, and explained how R35 and the Quantum Virtual World tied their fates together. After Ling Yi and Zhao Yanran helped clear a quantum-invader base, Lan Rui warned that the real threat came from space and identified the Centaurus Gray Matter Aliens as the civilization that would invade Blue Star.

• Lan Rui cleared the farm's entrance while Ling Yi blocked automated gunfire and destroyed the weapons with telekinesis.
• Lan Rui explained that her universe faced destruction by a quantum black hole and had invaded humanity's world through R35 and the Quantum Virtual World.
• Ling Yi used a black hole ability to eliminate the quantum invaders in the passage after Lan Rui warned they were buying time for divine emissary-class invaders.
• Lan Rui removed her mask, introduced herself as Lan Rui Patlei from the Forest Domain God Realm, and recognized Zhao Yanran from their future battles.
• Lan Rui said the Forest Domain God Realm had given a spacefaring level 2 civilization the means to produce R35 and warned that it would spread the substance through the Milky Way.
• Lan Rui said the Centaurus Gray Matter Aliens would invade Blue Star in five years, while Ling Yi connected humanity's survival to the Quantum Virtual World.

Ling Yi defeated the three Quantum Universe envoys at the underground base, while Lan Rui objected to his prolonged torment of Lidun. After destroying the base, the group discussed how to reach Centaurus and planned to use Ling Yi’s spatial ability to accelerate a spaceship.

• Ling Yi and his companions reached the base’s central plaza and found Lidun and two other light-type envoys in the final room.
• Lidun attacked with Holy Light Sword, but Ling Yi countered his skills, killed the two subordinates, and pursued Lidun until he killed him.
• Lan Rui criticized Ling Yi for bullying Lidun, and Ling Yi accepted her rebuke without arguing.
• Ling Yi destroyed the ranch with an earth-type skill, then asked Aizen how they could travel to Centaurus.
• Lan Rui proposed using Ling Yi’s spatial jumps to accelerate a spaceship, and the group discussed the supplies, travel time, and limits of portal and wormhole travel.

Ling Yi, Lan Rui, and Zhao Yanran stole a spaceship and set off to stop the Quantum Universe invasion. Ling Yi trapped the Quantum Universe in endlessly nested virtual worlds and accelerated the ship beyond light speed toward Centaurus.

• Lan Rui explained that she had reconfigured her ability to telekinesis and that reincarnation made it grow stronger, after she had skipped payment to the God Race.
• Ling Yi, Lan Rui, and Zhao Yanran stole a spaceship from Asa Air Base and departed despite Zhao Hai's protests.
• Ling Yi told Lan Rui that he had overlaid the virtual world with infinitely nested universes, trapping its inhabitants while keeping them alive, and gave her the choice to destroy the R35 key.
• Lan Rui withdrew to consider the key, while Ling Yi told Zhao Yanran that her decision no longer mattered to him.
• Ling Yi used his spatial ability to accelerate the ship repeatedly beyond light speed, and the crew headed for Centaurus.

Ling Yi destroyed Gray Matter Planet to eliminate the Quantum invaders, then left for a new world. He arrived in a shabby rental room in an old-fashioned city, where a phone call began with a familiar exchange.

• Ling Yi sent Zhao Yanran, Lan Rui, and Aizen away aboard the spaceship, then told them he would destroy Gray Matter Planet because it was overrun by ability users.
• Ling Yi caused the ground beneath a city of little gray men to collapse and fought off the Quantum invaders as he made his way toward the planet's core.
• Ling Yi detonated Gray Matter Planet and left the world just before it exploded, appearing briefly beside Yin Wanqing in the Hunter World.
• Yin Wanqing and Ye Tian discussed losing the coordinates to a world based on Journey to the West and their plans to gather data in other worlds.
• Ling Yi arrived in a new world, found money hidden in his rental room, and answered a phone call that opened with "My strength uproots mountains, my spirit towers over the world!"

Ling Yi used his black technology modification aura to equip himself and Ling Ling Chat before bringing him back to the Southern District for an assignment. On the train, they met Aimee Chan and Golden Gun and amazed them with modified food and drink; the story left them testing the unusual items.

• Ling Yi modified a roll of banknotes, two suits, and various everyday items, discovering that each gained a different black technology effect.
• At Ling Ling Chat's pork stall, Ling Yi reunited with him using their old agent call-and-response and invited him to get cleaned up and return to duty.
• Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat bought a piglet and other gifts, dressed in modified suits, and boarded a train to the Southern District.
• On the train, Ling Yi recognized Aimee Chan and Golden Gun, who had lost their wallet and were hungry, and invited them to share food.
• Ling Yi produced inexhaustible instant noodles, red wine, and cups that would not spill, leaving Aimee Chan and Ling Ling Chat testing the strange effects.

Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat reached the Southern District, where Ling Yi used enchanted chewing gum to make the commander fall in love with a modified piglet before they left for Hong Kong. There they met Li Heung-kam, who planned to take them to a gathering, while Ling Yi noticed something unusual in her temporary lodging and she asked what weapons they carried.

• Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat met Dujuan and the Southern District commander, who assigned them a mission in Hong Kong and gave them money.
• Ling Yi gave the commander a piglet and caused him to eat Mutual Love Chewing Gum, whose other piece he had fed to the piglet.
• After leaving the office, Ling Yi told Ling Ling Chat about the gum, and they laughed together.
• Three days later, Ling Yi and Ling Ling Chat met their contact, Li Heung-kam, in a Hong Kong park and agreed to work with her.
• Li Heung-kam took them to her temporary rental, where Ling Yi studied a painting and gave Ling Ling Chat instant noodles.
• Li Heung-kam asked what weapons the two agents used, fixing them with a dangerous look.