Chapter Summaries

After a bombing at the Jiajia Hotel, Ling Yi rescued the trapped survivors, unlocked new plant-type magic, and used healing magic to restore the injured. As he experimented with his upgraded abilities, three older people headed to the hotel and discussed their interest in him.

• Ling Yi killed nearby assassins with the Entanglement Technique, then used his strength and Spirit Detection Technique to rescue everyone trapped in the rubble.
• Ling Yi ignored a streamer who berated him for leaving and used the Entanglement Technique to make her repeatedly strike her head against the ground until she passed out.
• Ling Yi spent reputation to learn the Wood Healing Technique and Puppet Technique and advanced to Magic Mage Apprentice level 1.
• Ling Yi upgraded his magic, then cast Wood Healing Technique over the Jiajia Hotel, healing the injured and regrowing severed limbs.
• A plump woman, a thin woman, and a middle-aged man drove toward the Jiajia Hotel while discussing the assassins and Ling Yi's survival.

Ling Yi moved to a manor outside Baihai City, killed approaching assassins, and discovered a map and a roster of over 60,000 names on the USB drive. Two Dark Web sisters sent drones and then fled when Ling Yi’s vine puppets destroyed the drones and chased their SUV.

• Zhao Feng, Chen Yingying, and Lin Fei discussed recovering the USB drive and recruiting Ling Yi while explaining the Dark Web’s hunt for it.
• Ling Yi bought a manor villa in Baihai City’s eastern suburbs, developed defensive vine puppets, and killed assassins who entered his detection range.
• Ling Yi opened the USB drive and found a map covered in red dots and a roster containing more than 60,000 people’s details.
• Two Dark Web sisters identified Ling Yi as an ability user with a one-kilometer effective radius and launched twenty drones toward his villa.
• Ling Yi’s Groot-like vine puppets destroyed the drones, chased the sisters’ SUV, and ignored their bullets as the sisters surrendered.

After capturing the assassin twins Shen Yue and Shen Yao, Ling Yi learned about the Dark Web, ability users, and the Special Incident Bureau while fortifying his villa with vines and wooden puppets. A billion-dollar assassination mission drew assassins toward him, and agents from the Special Incident Bureau arrived at the edge of his defenses.

• Ling Yi surrounded his villa with layers of thorny vines and summoned wooden puppets, then questioned the captured twins, who identified themselves as Shen Yue and Shen Yao.
• Shen Yue explained the Dark Web’s assassin rules, its hidden school, and the powerful organizations operating beyond the Ancient Country.
• The twins told Ling Yi that the Special Incident Bureau suppressed assassin organizations in the Ancient Country and would likely come to investigate him.
• Ling Yi learned that Shen Yao could cook and Shen Yue could build weapons, and considered keeping them at the villa.
• A billion-dollar mission to kill Ling Yi attracted assassins from across the world.
• Zhao Feng, Chen Yingying, and Lin Fei reached the edge of Ling Yi’s defenses, examined the living wooden puppets, and chose not to attack.

Zhao Feng and the other Special Incident Bureau agents visited Ling Yi to retrieve a USB drive containing information on the Dark Web and tried to recruit him. Ling Yi gave them the drive but refused to join, and the agents later encountered a foreigner fighting his wooden puppets.

• Zhao Feng, Chen Yingying, and Lin Fei entered Ling Yi’s villa after he opened a gate through the vines, and Zhao Feng explained that the Bureau wanted the USB drive to target the Dark Web.
• After Zhao Feng revealed that the Bureau’s colleague had put Ling Yi on the Dark Web’s kill list by hiding the drive on him, Ling Yi handed it over.
• Zhao Feng offered Ling Yi an Earth Grade cultivation method if he joined the Special Incident Bureau, but Ling Yi declined and claimed his ability was Plant Control.
• After the agents left, Shen Yue told Shen Yao that Ling Yi’s strength had made the Bureau members cautious, while Zhao Feng and her companions discussed the danger posed by powerful ability users and the Twin Stars’ presence.
• Zhao Feng and her companions saw a blond foreigner with an energy reading above 2,000 being attacked by more than a dozen wooden puppets whose readings exceeded 1,000.

Ling Yi registered as an assassin on the Dark Web and accepted every public mission to assassinate world leaders, planning to use the missions to provoke the organization. As he prepared to travel abroad with Shen Yao and Shen Yue, he spent reputation to strengthen his skills and raise his Magic Mage level, then learned Giant Wood Technique.

• Ling Yi learned that the Dark Web's assassination missions would likely reappear with higher bounties and registered as an assassin using one of his bearer cards.
• Shen Yao explained that the public missions to kill world leaders were longstanding traps, but Ling Yi accepted them all anyway.
• Ling Yi asked Shen Yue to arrange travel to Squid Country, and the sisters went to obtain visas while he used reputation to raise his skill ranges to 1.3 km.
• Shen Yue said she and Shen Yao were staying with Ling Yi because a Gray Gang had placed a bounty on them, and she arranged visas expected to be ready the next afternoon.
• With assassins avoiding him, Ling Yi spent 120,000 reputation to reach Magic Mage level 10 and, after reputation rose to 10,000, learned Giant Wood Technique.

Ling Yi boarded a flight to Yi Country with Shen Yue and Shen Yao despite warnings that more than three thousand assassins had accepted a Dark Web contract on him. When the plane’s wing broke off in an apparent attack, Ling Yi used vines to stabilize the aircraft, then headed toward the cockpit to check its condition.

• Zhao Feng warned Ling Yi that assassins were hunting him, but Ling Yi boarded the flight with Shen Yue and Shen Yao anyway.
• Ling Yi sensed that nearly every passenger was a Dark Web assassin, restrained them with vines, and shielded himself, the Shen sisters, and the crew.
• Shen Yue and Shen Yao searched the plane and found several concealed weapons and a small bomb, but found nothing on a suspicious passenger who looked like a child.
• The plane began spinning after its right wing broke off, throwing passengers from their seats and injuring or killing many of the assassins.
• Ling Yi grew a replacement wing from vines, helped the plane stabilize, and went to the cockpit to check the aircraft’s condition.

Ling Yi used his Vine Spell to discover a bomb on the plane, eject it, and help the damaged aircraft make an emergency landing in the Gorr Desert. After leaving the plane with Shen Yue and Shen Yao, he tested using vines to lift and move all three of them.

• Captain Zhao Kong told Ling Yi that the plane had leaking fuel, damaged landing gear, and a destroyed signal receiver, forcing an emergency landing.
• Ling Yi used his vines to inspect the plane, found a time bomb, and launched it away after Shen Yue explained how to disarm it.
• Ling Yi created vine parachutes behind the plane to slow it down, and Zhao Kong brought it down safely in the Gorr Desert.
• Ling Yi left the plane with Shen Yue and Shen Yao, saying he needed to test a few things, while the crew waited for Saudi officials.
• Ling Yi wrapped all three in vines and lifted them into the air, gradually learning to move them across the desert.

Ling Yi raised his magic level, then set out with Shen Yue and Shen Yao by car toward Yi Country to draw out Dark Web assassins. When the pursuing assassins attacked, Ling Yi unleashed a towering wooden puppet that crushed their vehicles and left a nearby assassination team stunned.

• Ling Yi practiced flying with the Shen sisters, learned about their past as assassins, and raised his mage level to Apprentice level 17 using his reputation.
• After sensing more assassins nearby, Ling Yi rejected flying and commercial travel and decided to drive toward Yi Country with Shen Yue and Shen Yao.
• Shen Yue procured an off-road vehicle, and the trio departed with supplies while a large group of assassins followed them.
• A masked assassin named Sally forced her team to stop after seeing vehicles ahead crash, as Ling Yi attacked pursuers from over a thousand meters away.
• Ling Yi summoned a giant wooden puppet that launched, kicked, and crushed attacking vehicles while shrugging off bullets and a rocket.
• Sally, the bearded driver, and their companions watched the wooden giant charge the gunmen and exclaimed in shock.

Ling Yi and the Shen sisters reached Green City, a luxurious settlement known as the City of Sin, after he defeated most of the assassins pursuing him. A courteous guide brought them to the city’s administrative center, where the city lord required them to provide truthful information before becoming members.

• Ling Yi dismissed his Giant Wood Puppet after it killed all but four of the assassins, and he noted that his growing reputation was strengthening him.
• Shen Yue told Ling Yi that fewer than five hundred of the nearly four thousand assassins remained and warned that the next attackers could be ability users.
• Ling Yi drove into Green City despite Shen Yue’s warning, and the city’s residents’ names turned red on his perception map as they approached.
• Ling Yi and the Shen sisters saw famous-looking figures indulging in Green City and followed their guide, Charlie, to the White House replica.
• Charlie brought Ling Yi and the Shen sisters to meet the city lord, who had them handed three forms and instructed them to provide truthful information.

Ling Yi used his reputation to advance his magic, gaining Spirit Manipulation Art, Spirit Escape Technique, and stronger puppet and forest spells. After Shen Yue uncovered Green City’s horrific crimes, Ling Yi ordered her to expose them worldwide in his name, while Shen Yao revealed she had killed the L Family patriarch’s youngest son and several of his subordinates.

• Ling Yi advanced to level 1 Magic Mentor, upgraded Spirit Identification Technique to Spirit Manipulation Art, and learned Spirit Escape Technique.
• Ling Yi evolved Puppet Technique into Spirit Puppet Technique and Giant Wood Technique into Giant Forest Technique, then raised his Magic Mentor level to 3.
• Shen Yue showed Ling Yi videos exposing Green City’s horrific crimes, and Ling Yi ordered her to publish everything in his name.
• Shen Yao returned and admitted she had killed several men who tried to force her to service them, including the youngest son of the L Family patriarch.
• Shen Yue calmly told Shen Yao that the L Family patriarch was as good as dead, while Ling Yi recognized the seriousness of the trouble she had caused.

Ling Yi sealed Green City with colossal trees and vines, immobilizing its red-named residents, including three powerful ability users. As Ling Yi and Shen Yao and Shen Yue continued their journey, the Special Incident Bureau chose not to intervene openly and arranged to send him the Golden Body Art.

• L Family mercenaries attacked Ling Yi and the two women, but Ling Yi's Shield of Truth blocked their bullets; a young man in a white suit recognized that they had an ability user and withdrew his forces.
• Ling Yi grew colossal trees around Green City and covered the city with vines, trapping nearly everyone with a red name.
• Three ability users resisted the vines with speed, golden rays, and freezing Qi, but Ling Yi's vines eventually immobilized all of them.
• Ling Yi drove away with Shen Yao and Shen Yue, leaving the trapped red-named residents behind while green-named people could leave freely.
• At the Special Incident Bureau, Zhao Feng called the director about Ling Yi, and the director ordered him to arrange a secret delivery of the Golden Body Art.
• After traveling nearly five hundred kilometers from Green City, Ling Yi and the two women camped by the roadside, and Ling Yi wished he had a storage space for their supplies.

Ling Yi encountered a teleporting wolf pack led by a powerful white wolf king and fought him after the wolf sensed Ling Yi spying. After subduing the wolf and discovering he could understand his howls, Ling Yi learned that the wolf’s wife had been shot and offered to save her in exchange for a condition.

• Ling Yi prepared defenses and summoned hundreds of tree giants after red dots began teleporting across his Perception Map.
• Ling Yi discovered the red dots belonged to wolves and watched their white wolf king teleport the pack, sense his observation, and come after him.
• The white wolf king attacked Ling Yi, but Ling Yi grabbed his hind leg and was teleported with him to a desert.
• Ling Yi kicked and restrained the wolf with vines, then knocked him down with three punches and declared him his mount.
• Ling Yi understood the wolf king’s howls and learned that someone had shot his wife while he was away hunting.
• Ling Yi offered to save the wolf king’s wife on one condition.

Ling Yi healed and subdued a wolf pack, then took the White Wolf King, Little White, along as his mount while traveling toward Squid Country. After missiles destroyed their vehicle and struck a refugee camp, Ling Yi grew furious and set off with Shen Yue and Shen Yao to pursue the attackers.

• Ling Yi healed the White Wolf King and a wounded black wolf, then fought the black wolf and beat the pack into submission until their names turned green.
• Ling Yi returned to Shen Yue and Shen Yao with the White Wolf King, who could communicate through her mind, and learned that her family planned to migrate deeper into the wilderness.
• The group traveled toward Jia Country with Little White running beside their vehicle, passing abandoned towns and refugee camps as they neared the combat zone.
• An artillery shell struck a refugee camp, and a barrage of seventeen missiles targeted and destroyed Ling Yi's vehicle.
• Ling Yi protected himself, Shen Yue, and Shen Yao with vines, summoned Little White, and ordered her to run northwest toward the attackers.

After Squid Country launched a missile at Ling Yi, he unleashed an army of nearly indestructible red giants to invade its territory. As fighter jets targeted Ling Yi directly, Liu Changsheng worried that no rules could restrain someone with his growing power.

• Ling Yi advanced the Giant Forest Technique into Undying Wood and summoned red giants to attack Squid Country's soldiers, killing the bearded commander and his troops.
• Ling Yi directed the giants toward Squid Country, where they withstood missile attacks and continued advancing while targeting people with red names and avoiding urban areas.
• At the Special Incident Bureau, Zhao Feng and Chen Yingying watched the invasion as Liu Changsheng warned that Ling Yi had become too powerful to control and considered the bureau's secret experiment to restrain ability users.
• Other countries decided to kill Ling Yi, and more than a hundred fighter jets attacked him rather than the red giants, overlooking that Ling Yi could fly.

Ling Yi destroyed Squid Country’s fighter jets and led his red giant legion to the top dog’s residence, where he confronted the leader and the Dark Web’s three elite assassins. After defeating two assassins, Ling Yi learned that the Dark Web had no central headquarters and was backed by powerful factions.

• Ling Yi used vine spells, flight, and teleportation to destroy a hundred fighter jets, then returned to Little White with Shen Yao and Shen Yue.
• Ling Yi offered to teach the Shen sisters magic after the red giant legion crushed Squid Country’s forces and surrounded the top dog’s residence.
• The top dog faced Ling Yi with the Dark Web’s three gold-medal assassins: a bald strength user, a fire-controlling woman, and a man with a void ability.
• Ling Yi trapped the bald assassin with magic vines, then pulled the fire-controlling woman out of the sky and subdued her when her flames failed to free him.
• Shen Yao translated the woman’s answer: the Dark Web had no headquarters, and its core consisted of the factions backing it.

Ling Yi killed Silver Fox and Brother Yi, then discovered that Brother Yi’s men had poisoned their meal as a final precaution. He healed himself, Shen Yue, Shen Yao, and Little White, leaving them shaken but alive.

• Ling Yi trapped Silver Fox and Brother Yi in magical vines, but Silver Fox phased through the barriers and urged Ling Yi to join the Dark Web.
• Ling Yi learned the Magic Seed spell, but Little White teleported through Silver Fox and killed him with a spatial attack.
• Brother Yi shot himself, and Ling Yi reported the completed assassination mission to the Dark Web, which confirmed a two-million-dollar payment.
• Shen Yao cooked a feast, but she, Shen Yue, Ling Yi, and Little White were poisoned after eating it.
• Ling Yi used the Wood Healing Technique to save them and concluded that Brother Yi’s men had poisoned the ingredients in advance.

Ling Yi traveled to Yi Country to teach Shen Yue and Shen Yao magic, where he met Ren Feng of the Special Incident Bureau and exchanged magic instruction for an Ancient Martial Arts manual. He left the women cultivating and checked the Dark Web, where seven assassins still pursued the mission to kill him.

• Ling Yi decided to head for Jump Country to kill its number one, but first brought Shen Yue and Shen Yao to Yi Country to teach them magic.
• Ling Yi and his companions attracted attention in a Yi Country city, and the hotel cleared its guests to accommodate them and Little White.
• Zhabuke, the number one's assistant, visited Ling Yi and learned that his employer was not Ling Yi's target.
• Ren Feng gave Ling Yi the Golden Body Formula on behalf of the Special Incident Bureau, and Ling Yi gifted him a magic seed containing a meditation method and five spells.
• Ling Yi gave Shen Yue and Shen Yao magic seeds, then found that seven assassins still accepted the Dark Web contract to kill him and decided to upgrade his Shield of Truth.

Ling Yi forced Kairui Moore, a Dark Web negotiator, to abandon his mission and help establish a magic school. After implanting a Magic Seed and demonstrating his control over Kairui, Ling Yi sent him to prepare the school with the Ancient Country’s Special Incident Bureau.

• Ling Yi planned to leave Squid Country for Jump Country and continue attacking the Dark Web.
• Kairui Moore arrived to negotiate on the Dark Web’s behalf, demanding that Ling Yi recall his summons and serve the Dark Web for ten years.
• Ling Yi revealed that Shen Yue could cast the Vine Spell and told Kairui he intended to build a magic school.
• Ling Yi implanted a Magic Seed in Kairui and ordered him to contact the Special Incident Bureau and prepare for the school’s establishment.
• Kairui warned Ling Yi about the Dark Web’s powerful assassins, Poison Emperor and Death God, but Ling Yi showed no concern.

Ling Yi finished his overseas campaign against foreign leaders and returned to Amai Chou, where he revealed his expanded magic and plans for a magic school to sustain his reputation gains. The Dark Web ambushed him and the Shen sisters, but the sisters began fighting the gathered force with their newly mastered magic.

• Ling Yi killed Jump Country’s top leader at a press conference, then continued through several countries before reaching Amai Chou with Shen Yue and Shen Yao.
• Ling Yi told Shen Yue that Amai Chou was their last stop and planned to return home, where his nearly completed magic school would begin classes.
• Ling Yi reviewed his upgraded magic, including Holy Spirit Technique, Wood Spirit Technique, and Summon Floaters, and explained that plant spirits would serve as teachers.
• Ling Yi and the sisters left a restaurant to find the Dark Web’s forces had emptied the street and gathered more than five hundred ability users against them.
• Shen Yue and Shen Yao attacked the ambushers, exposing hidden enemies and striking the group with Giant Wood Technique and Entanglement Technique.

Ling Yi wiped out the Dark Web’s attack, forced Amai Chou’s top dog to submit, and returned to Ancient Country with Shen Yao, Shen Yue, and Little White. Back at his villa, he met Liu Changsheng, the powerful director of the Special Incident Bureau, as they turned to a new threat from supernatural creatures.

• Ling Yi used Spirit Nian Object Control to immobilize the Dark Web’s five hundred-plus ability users, killed them, and ended the attack after Shen Yao and Shen Yue exhausted their mana.
• The Dark Web shut down, and Amai Chou’s top dog publicly pledged allegiance to Ancient Country; Ling Yi gave him a magic seed and healing crystal and placed him under his protection.
• Ling Yi summoned more than a thousand plant spirits to monitor and support the top dog, then learned from Kairui that ability creatures had appeared in a cave on Red Maple Mountain.
• Ling Yi, Shen Yao, Shen Yue, and Little White returned to Baihai City, where they found their villa dusty and its magical vines and wooden puppets withered.
• Zhao Feng introduced Liu Changsheng, director of the Special Incident Bureau, to Ling Yi, who sensed Liu Changsheng’s supernatural ability energy and True Qi before asking to discuss the supernatural creatures.