Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi used a Qi and Blood Pill and the Blood Spirit Art to break through to the first layer of the Qi Refining Realm, reaching 10 points of Spiritual Power and perfect Organ Refining. He learned that expensive Spirit Beast meat did little for his cultivation, while Zhao Wenwen looked forward to meeting him at the black market that night.

• Ling Yi gave Wang Daquan five Spirit Stones and invited him back to the black market, but Wang Daquan chose to cultivate at home instead.
• Zhao Wenwen returned to her lively family home and, while cultivating, wondered whether Ling Yi's Spiritual Power had increased.
• Ling Yi bought two jin of Spirit Beast meat and a Qi and Blood Pill, then swallowed the pill and cultivated with the Blood Spirit Art.
• After four minor cycles, Ling Yi's Spiritual Power erupted, and he discovered that he had reached 10 points of Spiritual Power and perfect Organ Refining.
• Ling Yi concluded that the Blood Spirit Art refined his body using Spiritual Power and that the Spirit Beast meat was less useful than Demonic Beast meat, so he planned to buy Qi and Blood Pills instead.

Ling Yi and Zhao Wenwen entered the black market, where Ling Yi used his keen perception and the stallholder’s confession comments to win large quantities of spirit stones from Gao Song’s mystery boxes. After sensing Gao Song’s killing intent, Ling Yi decided to keep taking the stallholder’s best prizes and announced that he would pick another fifty boxes.

• Zhao Wenwen guessed that Ling Yi had reached the Qi Refining Realm by noticing the change in his presence, and they went to the black market together.
• Zhao Feng and Gu Xue followed their daughter and discussed watching over Ling Yi while trusting Zhao Wenwen’s judgment.
• Ling Yi found Gao Song’s mystery-box stall and used confession comments to discover the pattern identifying boxes with spirit stones.
• Ling Yi opened four boxes, earning a net profit of 176 spirit stones, then sensed Gao Song’s killing intent when he asked for ten more.
• Ling Yi selected the ten most valuable boxes and made a net profit of over seven hundred spirit stones, attracting a crowd whose hostility he sensed.
• Ling Yi announced that he wanted to pick another fifty mystery boxes.

Ling Yi killed three Foundation Establishment cultivators who followed him and Zhao Wenwen, then found a Gu Emperor Sect token among their spoils. The token plunged Zhao Wenwen into terror, and Ling Yi discovered the sect’s brutal scheme to infiltrate human society through abducted children.

• Ling Yi sensed three pursuers and led Zhao Wenwen into an alley, where he killed all three with a punch to each heart.
• Zhao Feng and Gu Xue watched the fight and realized Ling Yi had extraordinary strength, while Gu Xue explained why Zhao Wenwen needed his help.
• At home, Ling Yi found nearly sixty thousand spirit stones and other valuables in a storage ring taken from one of the dead men.
• Zhao Wenwen recognized a skull token as belonging to the Gu Emperor Sect and broke down in terror.
• Ling Yi searched for information and learned that the sect had betrayed humanity, abducted children for cruel Gu training, and placed survivors in schools to infiltrate society.

Ling Yi used narration bullet comments to uncover Zhao Wenwen’s traumatic past and the nine Weirds secretly growing within her, then copied the Soul Suppression Art and gained a Spiritual Sense space. After Zhao Wenwen woke in his arms, Ling Yi told her he could cure her problem.

• Ling Yi discovered that Zhao Wenwen might be the abducted daughter of two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and switched on the narration bullet comments.
• The narration revealed that Zhao Wenwen had survived the Gu Emperor Sect’s brutal child-killing ordeal, leaving her with severe psychological scars.
• Ling Yi copied Zen Master Jindu’s Soul Suppression Art and unexpectedly developed a Spiritual Sense space.
• The narration exposed Jindu’s plan to let nine Weirds mature inside Zhao Wenwen, then use them to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Zhao Wenwen woke in Ling Yi’s arms, and Ling Yi switched off the narration before telling her he could cure her problem.

Ling Yi told Zhao Wenwen that Chan Master Jindu had planted nine little ghosts in her and offered to remove them, while secretly hoping to devour them himself. As Zhao Wenwen prepared to cooperate, Ling Yi began practicing the Soul Suppression Art and discovered it triggered a dangerous new circulation route for the Blood Spirit Art.

• Ling Yi explained that Chan Master Jindu was behind Zhao Wenwen’s nightmares and had planted little ghosts in her, intending to control her when she turned eighteen.
• Zhao Wenwen was shocked that Chan Master Jindu, whom she trusted, had been harming her, but agreed to let Ling Yi remove the little ghosts.
• Ling Yi asked Zhao Wenwen to cultivate the Qi Guiding Art and prepare herself before he began the procedure.
• Ling Yi practiced the Soul Suppression Art and formed its six core seals in his sea of consciousness.
• The Blood Spirit Art began circulating automatically alongside the Soul Suppression Art, and Ling Yi spent two hours completing a new, more demanding Qi-and-blood circulation route.

Ling Yi used the Soul Suppression Art to seize the nine little wraiths from Zhao Wenwen and refine them, gaining immense Spiritual Sense and a Soul Infant. He discovered a Golden Core guard watching nearby and learned Zhao Wenwen's father was calling about her staying with him.

• Ling Yi found that the Soul Suppression Art had driven the Blood Spirit Art through another smooth cycle, raising his Spiritual Power from 10 to 16.
• Ling Yi replaced Chan Master Jindu's seals on the nine little wraiths inside Zhao Wenwen and began extracting them, while Zhao Wenwen endured the pain and chose to trust him.
• Ling Yi drew the nine little wraiths into his Spiritual Sense space, where the Soul Annihilation Seal and Soul Devourer Seal refined them and raised his Spiritual Sense points to 10,001.
• Ling Yi's sea of consciousness expanded, a Soul Infant appeared, and his Spiritual Sense reached ten thousand meters, revealing a distracted Golden Core Late Stage guard nearby.
• Zhao Wenwen answered a call from her father and thanked Ling Yi for freeing her from the little wraiths.

Zhao Wenwen warned Ling Yi that Demonic Monk Jindu had come after her, and her parents arrived at the school to deal with him. After Zhao Wenwen revealed her newly awakened cheat, Ling Yi learned that cheats could be stolen, while Jindu sensed danger and fled, leaving Ling Yi to pursue him himself.

• Zhao Wenwen told Ling Yi that Jindu had visited her home and called Uncle Liu for help after Ling Yi pointed out that the monk was outside the school.
• Zhao Feng, Gu Xue, and Uncle Liu arrived, and Gu Xue rebuked Zhao Feng for treating Ling Yi rudely.
• Zhao Wenwen revealed that she had awakened a cheat, and Ling Yi learned through her narration that it was the Infinite Perception System and that a cheat could drop when its user was killed.
• Ling Yi discovered that Zhao Feng had considered killing him to protect Zhao Wenwen's secret, but Gu Xue slapped Zhao Feng and defended Ling Yi.
• Gu Xue invited Ling Yi to dinner, then left with Zhao Wenwen and Zhao Feng while Jindu fled after sensing their arrival.
• Ling Yi followed Jindu's trail beyond the school gates, tracking him with his Spiritual Sense.

Ling Yi let the Gu Emperor Sect abduct him so he could investigate the group and used Soul Control Seals to subdue its members. After interrogating Bai Yao, he discovered the sect had rebuilt itself across the Ancient Country and was preparing to target next year’s artificial secret realm examination.

• Ling Yi pretended to be unconscious when six men abducted him, then secretly branded Soul Control Seals onto their souls.
• The men took Ling Yi to the Fierce Tiger Martial Arts School, where Bai Yao of the Gu Emperor Sect confronted him and demanded his ring and allegiance.
• Ling Yi used the Soul Control Seal to make Bai Yao slap himself and kill his two guards, then forced Bai Yao to reveal the Gu Emperor Sect's secrets.
• Ling Yi learned that the Gu Emperor Sect had established more than thirty bases in the Ancient Country and that the Gu Emperor controlled Radiant Water Country.
• Ling Yi discovered that the Gu Emperor Sect planned to continue its Heaven Replacement Plan by targeting next year's artificial secret realm examination.

Ling Yi uncovered the Gu Emperor Sect’s plot to infest next year’s assessment realm and planned to make Bai Yao take responsibility while he pursued the demonic monk Jindu. He confronted Jindu in Dafeng City and countered the monk’s hidden soul attack with the Soul Annihilation Seal.

• Ling Yi learned that Gu insects controlled Bai Yao and that the Gu Emperor Sect had seeded its offspring throughout the artificial assessment realm, then ordered Bai Yao to handle the aftermath and turn himself in.
• Zhao Feng failed to find Jindu with his Spiritual Sense, so Gu Xue sent Uncle Liu to check the city’s Heavenly Eye System while she questioned Zhao Wenwen about Ling Yi.
• Zhao Wenwen admitted she did not know whether she liked Ling Yi, and Zhao Mengmeng teased her before Gu Xue asked what her brother had told her.
• Ling Yi found Jindu at a hotel in the Southern District and learned that the monk believed cheat users’ abilities could be plundered.
• Jindu launched a concealed soul attack, but Ling Yi’s Soul Annihilation Seal struck the hidden seal and shattered it.

Ling Yi defeated and controlled Jindu, then learned how the monk had obtained the Soul Suppression Art and why cheat users were hunted. He hid with Jindu in Dafeng City, planned to conceal his own identity, and continued cultivating while awaiting the next day’s Spiritual Power test.

• Ling Yi blocked Jindu’s Soul Annihilation Seals and used a hidden Soul Control Seal to subdue him.
• Ling Yi brought Jindu to the rooftop of the city lord’s office building and used Jindu’s art to hide them from Spiritual Sense.
• Jindu revealed that his original name was Jin Hong, that he had obtained the Soul Suppression Art from an Inheritance Stone, and that he had killed people and Demonic Beasts to strengthen himself.
• Jindu told Ling Yi that cheat users were coveted and frequently killed, leading Ling Yi to resolve to keep his identity secret and use the Blood Spirit Art to explain his dual cultivation.
• Ling Yi took two Qi and Blood Pills, cultivated for half an hour, and checked his improved status.

Ling Yi used Jin Hong’s knowledge and the Soul Suppression Art to turn the demonic monk into a captive researcher, then arranged for a replacement soul to pose as Jindu and take the blame for the Fierce Tiger Martial Arts School massacre. He ended the chapter with a haul of new cultivation arts, especially the Divine Concealment Art.

• Zhao Wenwen told Ling Yi that the meal had been postponed until after the Spiritual Power test and warned him that the deaths of 337 people at the Fierce Tiger Martial Arts School had put her brother Zhao Mubai under pressure.
• Ling Yi learned that Jin Hong had mastered several disciplines, including Spiritual Sense Formation Casting and Spiritual Sense Talismans, and ordered him to bring back one of the criminals from his temple.
• Ling Yi used the Soul Control Seal and Soul Capturing Seal on the fat monk Jin Hong brought back, then extracted Jin Hong’s soul and confined it in his Spiritual Sense space to research cultivation arts.
• Ling Yi placed the fat monk’s soul in Jin Hong’s body and ordered him to pose as Chan Master Jindu, confess to the Fierce Tiger Martial Arts School incident, and turn himself in to the Guard Army.
• Ling Yi checked his system and saw that he had gained several cultivation arts, including the Divine Concealment Art, which he considered his greatest gain.

Ling Yi attended the monthly Spiritual Power test with Wang Daquan and Zhao Wenwen, then confronted the two men harassing Zhao Wenwen after they beat Wang Daquan. Ling Yi secretly placed soul seals on Yu Cenchen and Hao Fu, and the chapter ended with Wang Daquan challenging their absurd argument over who could call Zhao Wenwen by her nickname.

• Ling Yi joked with Wang Daquan and Zhao Wenwen before the Year Two Spiritual Power tests began.
• Students watched Zhao Wenwen laugh and talk with Ling Yi, while the class results remained ordinary.
• Yu Cenchen and Hao Fu approached after Zhao Wenwen asked Ling Yi to teach them a harsh lesson if necessary.
• Wang Daquan returned with a swollen face and said Hao Fu had hit him while Yu Cenchen had kicked him.
• Ling Yi planted invisible soul seals in Yu Cenchen and Hao Fu as Yu Cenchen claimed Zhao Wenwen was his and Hao Fu argued that only he could call her Wenwen.
• Wang Daquan asked whether Zhao Wenwen's parents were also forbidden from calling her Wenwen.

Ling Yi reached 10 points of Spiritual Power after practicing the Immortal Martial Art, shocking his teachers when they discovered he had entered the Organ Refining Realm. He handed the jade slip containing the art to Gao Xiaoshuai, leaving the school to investigate a cultivation method that enabled immortal and martial cultivation together.

• Yu Cenchen and Hao Fu fought until their teachers separated them, while Zhao Wenwen tested at 21 points and broke Dafeng City's record.
• Wang Daquan tested at 5 points, then Ling Yi entered the spirit testing room as the last student in Year Two, Class One.
• Ling Yi's test showed 10 points of Spiritual Power, and Gao Xiaoshuai confirmed that he had begun Qi Refining without using temporary pills.
• Ling Yi told the teachers he had obtained and practiced the incomplete Immortal Martial Art from a black-market cultivation-art blind box.
• Old Song and the other teachers sensed that Ling Yi had reached the Organ Refining Realm, though they could not detect Qi and Blood.
• Ling Yi explained how the Immortal Martial Art used Qi and Blood to generate Spiritual Power for body refining, then gave its jade slip to Gao Xiaoshuai.

Ling Yi's Immortal Martial Art drew the principal's attention after teachers discovered he could cultivate both immortal and martial paths. Zhao Wenwen revealed that her cheat identified the art as the ancient Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art and could reconstruct it for a steep price, leaving Ling Yi to consider how to obtain enough Spirit Stones.

• Ling Yi explained that the Immortal Martial Art consumed huge amounts of Qi and Blood, strengthened his body with Spiritual Power, and had brought him to Great Perfection of the Organ Refining Realm.
• Gao Xiaoshuai brought Ling Yi and the teachers to principal Gu Cheng, who activated the school's defensive formation after sensing Ling Yi's cultivation.
• Gu Cheng heard how Ling Yi discovered the art and ordered the teachers to undergo Divine Soul Sacrifice to keep its existence secret.
• Ling Yi and Zhao Wenwen left the office, and Zhao Wenwen admitted that she was a cheat user whose system could reveal information in exchange for Spirit Stones.
• Zhao Wenwen identified the technique as the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art, an ancient supreme technique, and said reconstructing its first level would cost one million low-grade Spirit Stones.

Ling Yi and Zhao Wenwen learned that the secret realms came from a single Immortal Cultivation Realm and found a possible way to earn Spirit Stones by exploring an unmined resource realm. After Zhao Wenwen went home to seek her parents’ permission, Ling Yi was abducted by thugs and brought to Yu Cenchen, who ordered his men to capture him for use as experimental material.

• Zhao Wenwen told Ling Yi that the secret realms came from one Immortal Cultivation Realm, and Ling Yi spent his remaining Spirit Stones to learn that Spiritual Qi would gradually disappear if all cheat users vanished.
• Ling Yi paid Zhao Wenwen’s system for maps to ten Spirit Stone resource secret realms, and they planned to explore a newly spawned realm near Dafeng City together.
• Zhao Wenwen and Ling Yi agreed to seek permission from her parents before entering the secret realm, then parted ways after spirit testing ended.
• A familiar crew of thugs tried to abduct Ling Yi outside the school, but Ling Yi used the Soul Control Seal to take control of them and ordered them to drive him to the Southern District.
• The thugs brought Ling Yi to the Wanfu Auction House, where Yu Cenchen ordered his subordinates to break Ling Yi’s limbs and send him to the basement as experimental material.

Ling Yi discovered Wanfu Company’s secret underground laboratory, where people were tortured in experiments to reconstruct cultivation methods. He rescued their souls, ordered Yu Tao to save the surviving test subjects, and seized Wanfu Company’s assets, leaving the company’s controlled executives’ fate undecided.

• Ling Yi used a Soul Control Seal to make Yu Cenchen’s three subordinates beat him, then investigated the formation hiding a passage beneath Wanfu Auction House.
• Ling Yi entered Wanfu Company’s underground laboratory and found more than a hundred people confined in glass enclosures for cultivation method experiments.
• Yu Tao explained that the company used living subjects to simulate fragmented cultivation methods, and Ling Yi learned that the experiments caused extreme pain and sometimes death.
• Ling Yi drew the subjects’ souls from their damaged bodies and ordered Yu Tao to save those who remained, threatening to kill him if he failed.
• Ling Yi obtained Wanfu Company’s supplies and assets, including more than a hundred storage rings, and left the company’s senior executives under Soul Control Seals.

Ling Yi discovered that he could activate narration bullet comments through a phone call or a photograph, then learned that a demonic beast tide threatened a secret realm outside Dafeng City. He sent the resource secret realm coordinates to Yu Tao and assigned Jin Hong to master cultivation arts, hoping to copy his proficiency.

• Zhao Wenwen told Ling Yi that her parents had forbidden her from entering secret realms after a mysterious warning, and she withheld the coordinates because she feared he would go alone.
• Ling Yi activated Zhao Wenwen’s narration bullet comments over the phone and Wang Daquan’s through a photograph, discovering he could use either voice or an image to trigger them.
• Ling Yi called Yu Tao, learned that a demonic beast tide had broken out in a medium-sized secret realm, and ordered the Wanfu Company expedition team to mine the resource secret realms.
• Ling Yi reviewed his cultivation progress and vast supplies, then found that the 105 damaged souls he had rescued remained in standby under the Soul Control Seal.
• Ling Yi gave Jin Hong memories of several cultivation arts and told him to master them, especially the Teleportation Technique, so he could copy Jin Hong’s proficiency.
• Ling Yi returned to a routine of school and cultivation, while the Gu Emperor Sect and the Immortal Martial Art remained quiet.

Ling Yi met Yun Qingyun, the Heavenly Dao Sect’s deputy sect master, who recognized his Immortal Martial Art as the first level of the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art and invited him to join the sect. After learning Yun Qingyun planned to obtain the art’s core secret and kill him, Ling Yi delayed the journey by raising the threat to Dafeng City, while Yun Feihong revealed the Yun family’s ambitions.

• Gao Xiaoshuai brought Ling Yi to meet Yun Qingyun and Yun Feihong in the principal’s office.
• Yun Qingyun identified Ling Yi’s cultivation as the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art and offered him entry into the Heavenly Dao Sect.
• Ling Yi learned through narration that Yun Qingyun intended to get the art’s core secret from him and kill him afterward.
• Ling Yi asked to delay leaving because a beast tide threatened Dafeng City, and Gu Cheng confirmed the danger and asked Yun Qingyun to help.
• Yun Qingyun agreed to handle the beast tide and left with Gu Cheng, while Yun Feihong told Ling Yi he was Yun Qingyun’s grandson and revealed the Yun family’s plans for the art.

Ling Yi demonstrated the complete Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art, then used the Soul Control Seal to take control of Yun Feihong and question him about the Spirit Martial Immortal Cultivation Realm’s revival through another realm. Yun Feihong revealed that cheat users were connected to the revival, and Ling Yi ended by asking about the Demon Clan’s and Heavenly Dao Sect’s positions.

• Ling Yi copied the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art and cultivated it with the Soul Suppression Art, rapidly advancing his Spiritual Power and Spiritual Sense as Yun Feihong watched.
• Yun Feihong offered upper-three-grade cultivation arts for Ling Yi’s method, but Ling Yi gave him the Qi Guiding Art and secretly placed a Soul Control Seal on him.
• Ling Yi learned from Yun Feihong that Yun Qingyun would detect him if he left the school, and Yun Feihong suggested hiding in a secret realm if Ling Yi could block Spiritual Sense probing.
• Ling Yi warned Yun Feihong that resistance to the Soul Control Seal could destroy his consciousness, then questioned him about the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Spirit Martial Immortal Cultivation Realm.
• Yun Feihong explained that the ancient Spirit Martial Extinction followed a war between cultivators and the Heavenly Dao, and that the realm’s revival was linked to cheat users whose cheats supposedly evolved from its Heavenly Dao.
• Ling Yi asked what the Demon Clan and the Heavenly Dao Sect’s higher-ups thought about revival through another realm.

Ling Yi learned more about the Heavenly Dao Sect’s divisions, spread news of his Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art to buy time, and copied several combat cultivation arts. Outside Dafeng City, Zhao Feng and others prepared to contain the beast tide, but a hidden formation transformed the secret realm into an extinction secret realm.

• Ling Yi speculated that the Heavenly Dao, rather than the Spirit Martial Immortal Cultivation Realm, might be what was reviving, then asked Yun Feihong to spread word that he had mastered the Spirit Martial Heaven and Earth Art.
• Ling Yi copied cultivation arts from Yun Feihong and Yun Qingyun, choosing the Spirit Armor Art, Spirit Feather Art, and Five Elements Spirit Condensation Art to improve his combat abilities.
• Zhao Mubai entered the secret realm with Guard Army troops to hold back the Demonic Beasts while Zhao Feng planned to hunt the Gu Emperor Sect members hidden in Dafeng City.
• Yun Qingyun and Gu Cheng arrived at the secret realm, and Yun Qingyun flew inside to confront the beast tide.
• A concealed formation activated around the entrance, turning it red and doubling its size as the secret realm became an extinction secret realm.