Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi discovered that the Ignore modifier bypassed the beginner village’s stat caps, while the empress arrived to ask for his help and offered him the Goddess of Death’s Tears. She left him facing a deal backed by equipment that could save him from lethal damage and resurrect him.

• Ling Yi equipped Wang Qiang’s War God Necklace and found that its Ignore modifier raised stats beyond their caps, then tested the Water God's Protection and its shield skill.
• Qian Yao threatened to unleash high-level monster tides if the Great Qian Empire tried to destroy the Bauhinia Chamber of Commerce, and the empress publicly refused to negotiate with rebels.
• The empress appeared at Ling Yi’s home and explained that she and Meng Yue were regressors who had once fought on opposing sides in a war between humanity and the Source Realm’s races.
• The empress offered Ling Yi Source-grade equipment in exchange for resolving her trouble and sent him the Goddess of Death’s Tears, which could prevent lethal damage and resurrect its wearer.

Ling Yi accepted Xiang Hongying’s Goddess of Death’s Tears and learned from Meng Yue that reborn people had returned with their former equipment and skills. Meng Yue explained that the God Race created class users and dungeons as entertainment, then revealed she wanted Ragnarok as the Human Clan began to seize control of its fate.

• The empress traded Ling Yi the Goddess of Death’s Tears, a necklace that could resurrect its wearer once a month or revive someone who had been dead for less than twenty-four hours.
• Meng Yue appeared and explained that rebirth had restored her inventory, equipment, and skills, and that elemental power was the power of gods mastered beyond level 90.
• Meng Yue told Ling Yi that he was a new variable because he had been an ordinary person in her previous life and died during the Sea Tribe invasion that destroyed Dafeng City.
• Meng Yue warned that the Gate of the Source Realm would open in three years after its guardian was killed, bringing humans into conflict with the Source Realm’s races and the awakened God Race.
• Meng Yue revealed that the God Race created class users and dungeons as entertainment and that rival gods secretly interfered with humanity’s growth.
• Meng Yue said she had been formed from the Moon God’s projection to help humans but now wanted Ragnarok.

Meng Yue explained why she and Xiang Hongying were reborn and asked Ling Yi to become an all-elemental body capable of killing the gods. She gave him equipment and Element Stones, and Ling Yi agreed to help her escape her original body’s control.

• Meng Yue told Ling Yi that Xiang Hongying’s attempt to devour the gods had awakened the God of Reincarnation, causing the world to be reborn, and that both women had failed to achieve their goals.
• Meng Yue explained that Ling Yi was the only person who could bear every kind of element power and urged him to clear the wild dungeons and become an all-elemental body within three years.
• Meng Yue traded Ling Yi a Source-grade belt with auto-loot and a storage ring filled with Element Stones saved by her original body.
• Meng Yue told Ling Yi to max out his [Ignore] and [Element] affixes so he could become an Element Professional and then a true element body.
• Meng Yue revealed that she wanted to live independently of her original body and feared the God of Reincarnation would target her and Xiang Hongying when he awoke.
• Ling Yi agreed to help Meng Yue become truly free.

Ling Yi discovered a way to roll rare affixes efficiently, maxed out his resistance, and used his clones to defeat a monster tide near the imperial capital. Over the next half month, the traitors’ attacks continued while Ling Yi’s strength and the Ling Yi Guild’s reputation grew.

• Ling Yi learned that higher-grade Equipment Essence improved the odds of rolling rare affixes on blank white equipment, and he used the method to reach 100% All Resistance.
• Xiang Hongying sent Ling Yi coordinates for an Abyss-difficulty monster tide near the imperial capital, and Ling Yi sent ten clones to defeat it in under two hours.
• The monster tide’s Skeleton King killed itself against Ling Yi’s clones’ damage reflection, and the victory brought the guild a huge haul of experience, equipment, and items while strengthening its reputation.
• Over the following half month, traitors triggered monster tides across the Great Qian Empire, and Ling Yi’s clones cleared them as the empress’s forces captured or killed more traitors.
• Wang Qiang struggled to sort the guild warehouse’s growing equipment stock, while Ling Yi raised his Luck, All Resistance, Accuracy, Ignore, and Element affixes through continued grinding.

Ling Yi used Wang Qiang’s equipment to reach 100% Element and attain a chaos elemental body, transforming his class panel and gaining overwhelming power. After entering the Land of Reincarnation dungeon, he discovered it was a trap—a dead dungeon—and the Goddess of Luck appeared to confront him and Meng Yue.

• Meng Yue and Xiang Hongying warned Ling Yi that the Source Realm’s Element Lords might interfere with the final wild dungeon.
• Wang Qiang sent Ling Yi a Blade of Time, a King of Skeletons Cloak, and a Duplication Gem, which Ling Yi used to duplicate an Element bracelet and raise his Element stat to 100%.
• Ling Yi attained a chaos elemental body, became a true god, and gained the Element Domain skill as his class panel changed.
• Ling Yi shattered the dungeon boulder, entered the Land of Reincarnation at Abyss difficulty with Meng Yue and Xiang Hongying, and found that they had been sent to an uncleareable dead dungeon.
• Ling Yi told Meng Yue and Xiang Hongying he could escape whenever he wanted, then waited for someone to appear.
• The Goddess of Luck appeared, accused Meng Yue of betrayal, and greeted Ling Yi, who called her a petty woman.

Ling Yi learned that the God of Reincarnation was trying to devour human element bodies and planned to enter the Source Realm to kill him. After dealing with the Goddess of Luck, Ling Yi returned home, prepared for the journey, and began leveling up toward his ninth limit reincarnation.

• Ling Yi stripped the Goddess of Luck of her element power and forced her to reveal that the God of Reincarnation had awakened and sought human element bodies to build an all-elemental body.
• The Goddess of Luck said the God of Reincarnation had promised her an element body, and revealed that an all-elemental body could enter a world above the Source Realm called the GM World.
• Ling Yi restored the Goddess of Luck's appearance, took away her luck power, and returned to Dafeng City with Meng Yue and Xiang Hongying; the Goddess of Luck used a scroll to reach the Awakening Hall and absorb her projection clone.
• Ling Yi said he would replenish his element power before killing the Source Realm Gate's Guardian and entering the Source Realm, while Meng Yue and Xiang Hongying left to clear the Mercenary Dungeon for City-Building Writ Tokens.
• Ling Yi used the Experience Gourd to level up, reached First Reincarnation, Level 90, and then rose to Limit First Reincarnation, Level 92 after remembering his maxed [Ignore] trait had raised his level cap.

Ling Yi and Xiang Hongying led Great Qian’s group into the Guardian Dungeon, where Xiang Hongying killed foreign experts who tried to contest the first-clear rewards. Ling Yi then approached the awakened Guardian and grew to match its height, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Ling Yi’s group entered the Guardian Dungeon, and Xiang Hongying explained its powerful Guardian and Great Qian’s past failure to defeat it.
• Xiang Hongying revealed that the experts in Ling Yi’s guild were his clones, astonishing Xiang Qie, Gao Lan, and Xiang Cangqiong.
• Nearly a hundred foreign class holders arrived to demand a share of the Guardian Dungeon’s rewards, and Xiang Hongying killed them all with one attack.
• Xiang Hongying said she would later eliminate the countries that betrayed humanity, while Ling Yi offered to help with his clones.
• Ling Yi approached the Guardian, which transformed from a stone statue into a golden-armored giant, and he enlarged himself to match its height.

Ling Yi defeated the Guardian by overcoming its damage immunity, gained it as a retainer, and led the group through the newly opened Gate of the Source Realm. In the Source Realm, Xiang Hongying returned to Blue Star to prepare the Human Clan’s rise while Ling Yi planned to hunt the God of Reincarnation, despite Meng Yue urging him to grow stronger first.

• Ling Yi used Element Domain on his greatsword to damage the Guardian, who submitted and became Ling Yi’s retainer.
• The Guardian opened the Gate, and Blue Star’s class holders received rewards and learned that the Source Realm was now accessible without a level restriction.
• Ling Yi, Meng Yue, Xiang Hongying, Xiang Qie, Gao Lan, and Xiang Cangqiong entered the Source Realm, where Xiang Hongying asked Ling Yi for help and then returned to Blue Star with two of his clones.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue agreed to help Xiang Hongying build a city, but Ling Yi said he intended to hunt the God of Reincarnation first.
• Meng Yue warned Ling Yi that the Lords of the Element were difficult to kill and advised him to reach level 999 and complete a Limit Reincarnation before confronting them.

Meng Yue explained how professionals could level up and transform into Element Bodies in the Source Realm, while Ling Yi discovered he could manipulate elemental rules and reshape the city. Suspecting the God of Reincarnation had borrowed professional rules from another source, Ling Yi chose to grow stronger first, and Meng Yue offered to help him obtain Element Stones.

• Meng Yue described the Source Realm’s secret realms and used a City-Building Writ Token to create a city around the Primordial Realm’s gate.
• Ling Yi saw the token’s elemental workings and transformed a shop and road into modern structures, prompting Meng Yue to identify his All-Elemental Body.
• Meng Yue explained Element Bodies and their elemental attributes, and told Xiang Cangqiong that Ling Yi could use all of them.
• Ling Yi reasoned that the God of Reincarnation must have an All-Elemental Body, but suspected the professional rules came from elsewhere after considering several familiar dungeons and GM World.
• Ling Yi chose a smithy as his base to keep strengthening his [Element] entry, then erased the Moon God’s influence from Meng Yue.
• Meng Yue decided to stay with Ling Yi and said she knew where the gods kept their Element Stones.

After reaching a rule body and recovering his sealed memories, Ling Yi confronted the gods’ scheme to use humanity and the Source Realm’s races as food. He freed Meng Yue from the Moon God and arrived at the Reincarnation Palace, where he learned that the God of Reincarnation, Zhao Qing, was also a transmigrator.

• Ling Yi reached a hundredfold all-elemental body, comprehended the world’s rules, and regained his sealed memories.
• Ling Yi summoned the Moon God and revealed that the gods had controlled human growth so they could devour class holders with element bodies.
• Ling Yi explained that the God of Reincarnation’s power of origin was a scheme to make the other gods easier to consume.
• Meng Yue ordered the Moon God to return, devoured her main body, and gained an element body, becoming fully free.
• Ling Yi took Meng Yue to the Reincarnation Palace and asked Zhao Qing about his golden finger.
• Zhao Qing admitted he was a transmigrator and asked Ling Yi why he had disrupted his plan.

Zhao Qing learned that his world was created in a GM World, but Ling Yi rewound time and sent him to the Ling Realm to work alongside its other world-conquering protagonists. Yin Wanqing reprimanded Uncle for careless writing and poor pacing, then checked on Mengmeng, whose growth reassured her that Boundary Breaking remained possible.

• Zhao Qing discovered that his world was created through a world simulator in the GM World and feared he could never escape its limits.
• Ling Yi paused and rewound time, left a clone behind, and sent Zhao Qing into the Ling Realm, where Ye Tian passed him to Zheng Hai for work conquering worlds.
• Yin Wanqing confronted Uncle over typos, rushed pacing, and his habit of following Ling Yi's plot instead of controlling the story himself.
• Yin Wanqing reflected that Uncle and Ling Yi needed to balance each other's influence, then summoned Mengmeng to check that she was still absorbing future Beyond-Realm Karmic Luck.
• Mengmeng confirmed that she was doing well, and Yin Wanqing took her continued growth as reassurance that she and Ling Yi could eventually break through the boundary.

Dalan Satellite TV launched a virtual apocalypse survival contest featuring ten elite contestants, including high-school student Ling Yi, while researchers secretly used the drill to investigate M3 and avert a greater disaster. Ling Yi explored a simulated version of Dafeng City and found another version of himself at his apartment complex.

• Lan Bing introduced the ten contestants and explained that surviving 100 days would earn them prize money, with viewers able to vote for extra supplies.
• The livestream audience questioned Ling Yi's selection, then learned he was a perfect-score exam top scorer and a martial arts champion.
• Researchers and officers prepared the contestants for the simulation, while the elderly scientist warned that telling them the truth could trigger a Quantum Tide.
• The ten contestants entered the drill, and their livestreams opened in separate locations.
• Ling Yi tested the simulated surroundings, walked to Binnan Residential Complex, and saw another version of himself at the entrance.

Ling Yi recounted how his cheat helped him build a false identity and why he joined the apocalypse show to investigate its supposedly real virtual world. After discovering a counterpart with his exact history, he tested the world by hacking a hotel’s records, leaving viewers and military commanders impressed by his abilities.

• Ling Yi explained that his Infinite Passive Skill Point System gave him one skill point per day, which he used to raise programming and create a convincing identity and school records.
• Ling Yi joined Dalan Satellite TV’s apocalypse show to investigate the M3 virtual device, then spotted another Ling Yi living in the same residential complex and followed him to work.
• Ling Yi suspected the virtual world had copied his life from the date he first rented his room, then stole a hotel cleaner’s master key card and used a computer to alter room records.
• Ling Yi obtained a replacement key card from reception and returned to the room, while livestream viewers argued over his hacking skills and whether the world was truly virtual.
• Yu Sheng praised Ling Yi to Zheng Hu, who had insisted on making him the show’s tenth contestant, as Feng Zhenqing watched the livestream with them.

Ling Yi uncovered signs of an approaching global catastrophe and spent three days preparing by arranging a shelter, supplies, and weapons while warning the public. After he flew to Gao City, a June blizzard struck Dafeng City, where Fang Bian witnessed the sudden snowfall.

• Ling Yi found reports of extreme weather, rapidly melting polar glaciers, and secret shelter construction, and concluded that a global disaster was approaching.
• Ling Yi booked a flight to Gao City and hired Sariminglan to buy a warehouse and stock it with supplies.
• Ling Yi used money and online operations to arrange the transport of three truckloads of weapons and spread news of the impending doomsday.
• Ling Yi boarded his flight to Gao City, and two hours later dark clouds covered Dafeng City and heavy snow began to fall.
• Fang Bian stared at the snowfall and wondered whether it was a sign of doomsday.

Fang Bian decided to stay inside the hotel and rely on his security job to survive, while Ling Yi met Ye Feng on a plane bound for Gao City and suspected he had a hidden cheat. They compared their preparations for the coming apocalypse but disagreed about whether to rely on the city’s official survival base.

• Fang Bian remembered the apocalypse drill when snow fell in June, then decided to stay at the hotel and keep working as a security guard.
• Ling Yi met Ye Feng on the plane and recognized that Ye Feng’s sudden mastery of parkour, hacking, cooking, and combat suggested he had a cheat.
• Ye Feng revealed that he had traced Ling Yi’s anonymous apocalypse post and said he was traveling to Gao City because of it.
• Ling Yi suspected Ye Feng had storage space after he mentioned wanting to go zero-dollar shopping, then told him he had secured a warehouse and was arranging supplies and firearms.
• Ye Feng suggested they rely on Gao City’s official survival base, but Ling Yi argued it was difficult to enter, overcrowded, and short on supplies, leaving them with different plans.

Ling Yi arrived in Gao City and headed toward the Ruidu Commercial Building as the signs of an impending apocalypse spread. A tsunami overwhelmed Contestant Number Five, while Elder Teng began explaining that the livestreams showed a projection of the Quantum Realm and left the reality of the world behind it unresolved.

• Ling Yi refused Ye Feng's offer to join an official survival base, and they parted ways after landing at Gaocheng Airport.
• Sariminglan called Ling Yi, who suspected that news of the approaching apocalypse was spreading; he then hired a van to take him to the Ruidu Commercial Building.
• Viewers warned Ling Yi that his driver and the obese passenger might be dangerous, while they discussed how Contestant Number Four, Li Yu, had been robbed and killed.
• Contestant Number Five, Wang Changzhen, tried to outrun a tsunami in his sports car, but it crashed and was swallowed by the flood; his livestream went dark.
• Lan Bing announced that Li Yu and Wang Changzhen were alive and introduced Teng Ren, who explained that M3 used the Quantum Capture Formula to access the Quantum Realm.
• Teng Ren said the livestreams showed the Quantum Realm's projection of the real world, then left the nature of the world behind that projection unanswered.

Elder Teng explained the limits of the Quantum Realm projection, while Ling Yi exposed his ruthlessness by confronting two robbers and demonstrating newly acquired firearms skills. After leaving with the bearded man and his crew, Ling Yi was asked whether the end of the world was really coming.

• Elder Teng told Lan Bing that simulations of the quantum projection always ended in apocalypse and destruction, but he avoided directly answering whether the projected world was real or whether its disasters would reach them.
• Elder Teng clarified that contestants would not truly die in the virtual world, then left the livestream; Li Yu and Number Five appeared to reassure viewers about virtual deaths.
• Ling Yi broke the fat robber's finger after the driver demanded money and the fat man tried to grab him.
• The bearded man and his crew arrived in black SUVs, and Ling Yi left the robbers behind after confirming their operation had gone smoothly.
• Ling Yi borrowed the bearded man's handgun, raised his Firearms skill to lv5, and shot the two robbers in the ears and arms with rapid, accurate shots.
• As Ling Yi rode away with the bearded man, the man asked whether the end of the world was really coming.

Ling Yi returned to the Ruidu Commercial Building and killed the armed crowd trying to break into his supply shelter. After the deliveries arrived, he prepared to secure his base and revealed crates of AK-47s.

• Ling Yi learned that powerful people had secretly prepared shelters and reflected that ordinary people had no choice in the coming apocalypse.
• Ling Yi found a crowd trying to loot the Ruidu Commercial Building and shot the instigators and those who fled, leaving only their short, middle-aged leader alive.
• The leader warned Ling Yi that Gao City knew about his warehouse and its nearly two hundred tons of supplies, but Ling Yi killed him.
• Ling Yi told the bearded man to arrange the remaining deliveries and told Sariminglan that her job was finished, though she hesitated to leave.
• Three box trucks arrived, Ling Yi paid the bearded man and brought the trucks inside, then showed Sariminglan crates containing AK-47s.

Ling Yi finished transforming his basement into a hardened shelter with help from his mechanical centipede as extreme heat spread across the planet. When West Peak’s glaciers began collapsing, he warned Sariminglan that Gao City would soon become an isolated island and then face a severe water shortage.

• Ling Yi built an armed mechanical centipede and used it to help seal, insulate, and equip his basement shelter.
• Sariminglan reported that temperatures had climbed above sixty-five degrees, the polar glaciers had melted, and a solar storm had damaged Blue Star’s ozone layer.
• The livestream viewers discussed the remaining contestants, while Ling Yi continued to give up airdrops because he had enough supplies.
• A deafening rumble and tremors led Ling Yi to check his cameras and see West Peak’s ice and snow cascading down its slopes.
• Ling Yi told Sariminglan that meltwater would soon flood the area around Gao City, then recede and leave the city facing a water shortage.

One month into the apocalypse drill, Gao City's power grid failed, and Ling Yi's supplies and shelter attracted a gang led by the bearded man. Ling Yi's mechanical centipede killed the intruders, but its damage and heavy power use left him planning improvements.

• Gao City's power grid collapsed, worsening conditions for contestants, while Ling Yi conserved battery power by limiting freezer use and ate through perishable food with Sariminglan.
• The bearded man brought more than thirty men to the Ruidu Commercial Building and ordered Erzi and Gangzi to lure Ling Yi out before the gang attacked.
• Ling Yi spotted the intruders and sent his mechanical centipede outside to defend the building.
• The mechanical centipede killed Erzi, Gangzi, the bearded man, and the rest of the gang, then returned to the building.
• Ling Yi noted that bullets had damaged the centipede and that it had used eighty percent of its charge in a brief fight, so he ordered it to repair itself and considered optimizing its battery.
• Livestream viewers argued over the centipede's capabilities and whether Ling Yi's violence was justified.