Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi developed the Slave Contract Talisman and built Oasis Sacred City into a thriving settlement on the Forgotten Planet. When more than two million cultivators arrived outside the city, he prepared to test Xu Mo’s Devouring Talent, but the chapter ended before the confrontation began.

• Ling Yi perfected the Slave Contract Talisman and used it on Zhu Siming and the people building Oasis Sacred City.
• Liu Yun reported that Liu Chen had been expelled from his clan, and Ling Yi ordered her to monitor him on Golden Crow Planet and alert him if Liu Chen used a Teleport Array.
• Ling Yi sent word through Liu Yun for his father to learn about the Genki crystal vein in Beihai City's Panshi Secret Realm.
• Oasis Sacred City grew to more than three hundred thousand cultivators as its walls, farmland, rivers, and lakes expanded.
• Zhu Siming warned Ling Yi that a hostile group had arrived, and Ling Yi flew out to confront a crowd numbering over two million cultivators.

Ling Yi killed the predatory cultivators who tried to seize Oasis Sacred City, then allowed the two million starving newcomers to settle outside it under strict rules. After returning to the sacred lord’s residence with Liu Yun, he learned that Liu Chen had left Golden Crow Planet through a Teleport Array that someone had tampered with.

• Two million cultivators celebrated the oasis’s water and crops, while a group of over two thousand approached Ling Yi and claimed Oasis Sacred City and Liu Yun for themselves.
• Ling Yi used Deprivation to kill the long-haired leader, gaining Qi and Blood, primal Qi, a Spiritual Root, and lifespan; the system then urged him to help it improve.
• Ling Yi devoured the remaining two thousand cultivators, then worried that his Devouring Talent was increasing his desire to consume others.
• The system awarded Ling Yi a lottery draw for his rehabilitation, and he allowed the two million cultivators to live outside the Sacred City, farm with free seeds, and obey a ban on killing and cannibalism.
• Ling Yi returned to the sacred lord’s residence with Liu Yun, who told him that Liu Chen had left Golden Crow Planet through a tampered Teleport Array.

Liu Chen escaped the Liu Clan through a Teleport Array and found himself stranded in the desert of Forgotten Planet, where Lin Qianjiu rescued him and guided him toward Oasis Sacred City. After reaching an oasis, Liu Chen recognized someone working in the wheat fields.

• Liu Chen emerged from a Teleport Array on a desert planet and struggled onward while fleeing the Liu Clan and trying to survive.
• Lin Qianjiu found the dehydrated Liu Chen, gave him water, and led him toward Oasis Sacred City.
• Liu Chen learned that he was on Forgotten Planet and that Lin Qianjiu hoped to gain the Child of Karmic Luck's trust and collect his origin.
• Lin Qianjiu and Liu Chen crossed the desert, reached a river, and drank their fill before seeing a wheat harvest near Oasis Sacred City.
• Liu Chen spotted a familiar figure among the people working in the fields.

Liu Yun helped Liu Chen learn the truth about his family and brought him to the safety of the Forgotten Planet, while Ling Yi obtained the Source Devouring Technique from Lin Qianjiu and perfected it. Ling Yi planned to organize his cultivation methods and travel to the Arctic Sacred City to seek another God Grade cultivation method.

• Liu Yun brought Liu Chen and Lin Qianjiu to the Sacred Lord's residence, then arranged a courtyard for Liu Chen and told him the Forgotten Planet was a safe place to stay.
• Liu Yun admitted she had brought Liu Chen away from the Liu Clan and explained that his father was Liu Canghai, whose hereditary clan-head position had put Liu Chen in danger.
• Liu Chen thanked Liu Yun but remained cautious, while Liu Yun reflected on the wider world and her ambitions after reading the novel's plot.
• Ling Yi perfected the Source Devouring Technique after suppressing Lin Qianjiu's soul's self-destruction long enough to read his memories; Lin Qianjiu died afterward.
• Ling Yi manifested a small rule domain and told Liu Yun he planned to refine his cultivation methods before traveling to the Arctic Sacred City for half of another God Grade cultivation method.

Ling Yi learned the Seven Revolutions Motian Art’s stages and began investigating why his power of origin grew without an apparent source. His system awarded him Liu Chen’s accelerated cultivation function, while Liu Chen discovered that he could no longer cultivate.

• Ling Yi learned that the Sacred City lord was cultivating the first revolution of the Seven Revolutions Motian Art and planned to take the benefits for himself.
• After a month of cultivating the Source Devouring Technique, Ling Yi found his power of origin had increased by ten thousand units and asked the system where it came from.
• The system suggested Ling Yi’s power of origin might be connected to the real world and reminded him of an unused lottery chance.
• Ling Yi drew Liu Chen’s accelerated cultivation function from the lottery, and the system explained it had picked up the ability because Liu Chen was now Ling Yi’s subordinate.
• Ling Yi decided to cultivate the Heaven and Earth Divine Yuan Art rather than risk devouring the real world’s origin.
• Liu Chen confronted Liu Yun about his missing golden finger, but she denied taking it, and he angrily returned to his room.

Ling Yi confronted Liu Chen after his golden finger was taken, then received a lottery draw that revealed a third protagonist and sent a clone to ask Lin Aotian about the growing power of origin. As Liu Chen left Oasis Sacred City, Ling Yi chose not to kill him and questioned whether the protagonists’ destructive actions reflected the will of the worlds themselves.

• Liu Yun reported that Liu Chen’s golden finger had disappeared, and Ling Yi admitted he had it and summoned Liu Chen to make clear Liu Yun was not responsible.
• Liu Yun urged Ling Yi to eliminate Liu Chen, but Ling Yi let him go and wondered whether he could recover without his golden finger.
• The system awarded Ling Yi a lottery draw for clearing Liu Yun’s name, and he obtained the original novel about a Heavenly Court foot soldier.
• Ling Yi ordered Liu Yun to delegate her work before a trip to Arctic Sacred City, then sent a powerful clone to consult Lin Aotian without revealing his own hand.
• Ling Yi watched Liu Chen leave Oasis Sacred City and declined to pursue him, despite learning that personally killing a protagonist would earn him ten lottery draws.
• Ling Yi challenged the system’s claim that protagonists were scourges, and the system fell silent when he asked whether it was itself a consciousness of heaven and earth.

Ling Yi discussed his unexplained, rapidly increasing Power of Origin with Lin Aotian, who revealed that he had found some worlds replenishing their Origin from beyond the Myriad Worlds’ boundary. Ling Yi suspected the outside source was tied to the novel world and realized Lin Aotian had killed three protagonists, including Xu Mo.

• Ling Yi finished reading the third novel and found its protagonist was a covert troublemaker in the Heavenly Court, but chose to pursue the third God Grade cultivation technique before confronting him.
• Ling Yi’s clone returned to Blue Star and met Lin Aotian outside Beihai City’s High Martial Arts University; Lin Aotian said he would have given Ling Yi the Source Devouring Technique without a trip to the Golden Crow Realm.
• Lin Aotian took Ling Yi to Ruoxi Valley, where Ling Yi explained that nearly sixty thousand units of Power of Origin had appeared in him without his devouring any world’s Origin.
• Lin Aotian described how two worlds regained their Power of Origin after he had drained them, then stopped recovering after he killed their Children of Karmic Luck.
• Lin Aotian revealed that the Myriad Worlds were sealed inside an enormous eggshell and that the two Children of Karmic Luck had received their fortune from beyond it.
• Ling Yi inferred that Lin Aotian had killed three protagonists, counting Xu Mo, and said he had guesses about the external Power of Origin but could not yet be certain.

Lin Aotian proposed that the worlds were novel worlds and that Ling Yi might be a protagonist whose Source Devouring Technique intercepted Power of Origin. To test the idea, Ling Yi brought Liu Chen back to him, then forced him to choose between submitting and facing the desert alone; Liu Chen followed, though his hostility remained.

• Lin Aotian theorized that novel readers generated Power of Origin and that Ling Yi was a protagonist diverting it from the world.
• Ling Yi questioned the system, which said a third-party force had intervened but that its records began only when it bound itself to him.
• Ling Yi teleported Liu Chen back from near Oasis Sacred City and noticed that Liu Chen's presence greatly increased his Power of Origin.
• Ling Yi warned Liu Chen that Arctic Sacred City was ruled by Situ Yue, who devoured flesh and blood, and offered to make Liu Chen a cultivation genius if he submitted.
• Liu Chen chose to submit, but Ling Yi sensed that his hostility remained, left him in the desert, and watched him follow.

After Ling Yi opened Liu Chen’s meridians, he gained new system functions and confirmed that changing a protagonist reduced their karmic luck. Ling Yi then reached Arctic Sacred City and found it drenched in blood and devoid of life, while Situ Yue had vanished.

• Ling Yi opened Liu Chen’s meridians, causing his cultivation to surge, and the system rewarded Ling Yi for rehabilitating him.
• Ling Yi drew a data panel, a Primordial Spirit Network, and Karmic Luck Point Allocation, then used karmic luck to raise his cultivation to the current world’s limit.
• Ling Yi concluded that changing a protagonist’s future drastically reduced their karmic luck, and he sent Liu Chen back to Oasis Sacred City.
• Ling Yi flew to Arctic Sacred City and found no living markers on the dynamic map.
• Ling Yi discovered that Situ Yue had used a formation to drain the blood of the city’s more than fifty million cultivators, then fled Forgotten Planet.

Ling Yi connected Liu Yun and the fleeing Situ Yue to the Primordial Spirit Network, then pursued Situ Yue to Golden Crow Planet. There, Ling Yi and Liu Yun learned that Situ Yue had placed Liu Yun under a red warrant and Ling Yi under a gold warrant, and they considered how to protect Ancient Star Realm.

• Ling Yi used karmic luck to connect Liu Yun to the Primordial Spirit Network and told her to prepare 100,000 cultivators to leave Forgotten Planet.
• Ling Yi added Situ Yue to the network, where Situ Yue accidentally revealed that he was on Golden Crow Planet before going silent.
• Ling Yi teleported to Liu Yun, and the two traveled to Golden Crow Planet, but Situ Yue had escaped through a teleport array moments earlier.
• Liu Yun confronted the Liu Clan guards at the array; when they attacked, she defeated them and learned that she was under a red warrant issued by Situ Yue.
• A surviving guard told Ling Yi that he was under the Alliance's highest-level gold warrant, which also made living beings from his world capture targets.
• Ling Yi realized Situ Yue was trying to keep him occupied protecting Blue Star, and Liu Yun asked whether Oasis Sacred City should protect Ancient Star Realm.

Ling Yi sent Liu Yun and a hundred thousand Qi Sea Realm cultivators to find Situ Yue and prepare to subdue the Liu Clan, then traveled to the Jiuyuan Realm to seek the complete Seven-Turn Demonic Cloud Art. Meanwhile, Lin Aotian discovered Ling Yi was seeking a third God Grade technique, and a mysterious shadowy figure resembling Xu Mo watched Lin Yuan’s school.

• Ling Yi used a teleportation passage to bring a hundred thousand cultivators from the Forgotten Planet to the Golden Crow Planet, then raised them all to the Qi Sea Realm and appointed Liu Yun commander of the Sacred Army.
• Ling Yi ordered Liu Yun to find Situ Yue, while Liu Yun surrounded Liucheng, summoned the Liu Clan’s leader and ancestor, and sent Zhu Siming to invite the Zhu Clan’s leader from Cold Yang Star.
• Ling Yi departed for the Jiuyuan Realm to search for the complete Seven-Turn Demonic Cloud Art, while Liu Yun prepared to bring the Liu Clan under her control.
• Lin Aotian pulled Ling Yi’s clone into Ruoxi Valley and learned that it had fused Ling Yi’s perfected Heaven and Earth Divine Yuan Art and Source Devouring Technique clones.
• Lin Yuan mistook a student for Xu Mo, while the actual shadowy figure watched her school and vanished into an ornamental tree’s shadow.
• Lin Aotian realized Ling Yi was pursuing the third God Grade technique and asked what would happen if one person learned all three.

Ling Yi and Lin Aotian discovered that Xu Mo had returned in a new body and concluded that an author was using the protagonists and three God Grade cultivation methods to break the wall between the novel world and reality. Ling Yi learned the author had prepared two plans and hurried to advance the second, while sending Liu Yun a new mission involving six protagonists.

• Ling Yi and Lin Aotian found Xu Mo, who had returned in Gao Ping's body with the Shadow Plunder talent, and Ling Yi ordered that he be imprisoned rather than killed.
• Ling Yi asked the system for the six remaining novels, then gathered all nine protagonists in an isolated Primordial Spirit Network group.
• Ling Yi realized the author intended to break the fourth wall either by having the nine protagonists combine their real-world popularity or by fusing the three God Grade cultivation methods.
• Ling Yi confirmed that Wan Yang Star lay beside Jiuyuan Star and that he was close to completing the Seven Revolutions Motian Art.
• Liu Yun told Ling Yi that Situ Yue had been found on Cold Yang Star, and Ling Yi sent a clone to the coordinates before assigning Liu Yun a new mission involving six protagonists.

Ling Yi recovered the Seven Revolutions Motian Art, considered opening a passage between the novel world and reality, and learned that his soul swap had resulted from his own actions. After sending his real-world counterpart back and reuniting with Yin Wanqing, he left several protagonists complaining about being imprisoned or forgotten.

• Ling Yi found the Seven Revolutions Motian Art in a ruined temple on Jiuyuan Star, and his system raised the God Grade cultivation method to perfection.
• Ling Yi discussed opening a passage between the novel world and reality with his slipper-wearing counterpart, who revealed that the author had cancer and could be brought into the novel world for treatment.
• Slipper-wearing Ling Yi explained that the author had said the swap between their worlds should never have happened, and Ling Yi's sealed memories returned, showing that the swap had been his own doing.
• Ling Yi gave his golden finger to slipper-wearing Ling Yi and sent him back to the real world, then reflected that his story had skimmed over too many plot points.
• Yin Wanqing emerged from a black vortex, reunited with Ling Yi in a long embrace, and several protagonists complained in a forgotten chat group about being imprisoned or left unnamed.

After Qingcheng Sect disciples killed Ling Shuang, Ling Yi’s anger activated the Infinite Death Soldier Summon System, and he vowed to destroy the sect. He left Old Bull Village and, after observing the Qingcheng Martial Arts School in Green Mountain Town, recognized the two disciples who had attacked his sister and summoned death soldiers.

• Ling Yi found Ling Shuang dead after two Qingcheng Sect disciples assaulted her and knocked him unconscious.
• Ling Yi’s anger activated the Infinite Death Soldier Summon System, which granted him one death soldier and the Green Self-Destruct trait.
• Ling Yi recalled the Qingcheng Sect’s cruelty and its control over the surrounding region, then vowed to avenge Ling Shuang.
• Ling Yi buried Ling Shuang, burned their cottage, and left Old Bull Village for Green Mountain Town.
• After watching the Qingcheng Martial Arts School for three days, Ling Yi recognized the two disciples who had attacked Ling Shuang and ordered, “Summon death soldiers!”

Ling Yi avenged his sister Ling Shuang by killing the two men who had assaulted her, then targeted the Shahe Gang for money using his death soldiers. After recovering at an inn, he remained determined to survive and destroy the Qingcheng Sect.

• Ling Yi killed the two men who had harmed Ling Shuang outside the Qingcheng Martial Arts School.
• Ling Yi headed to Shahe Gang territory and used a death soldier to ambush a fat gang member, taking his money and two booklets.
• When Shahe Gang members surrounded the death soldier, Ling Yi used another death soldier to escape with the stolen items while the first caused an explosion.
• Ling Yi checked into an inn, ate, bought new clothes, and slept until the following day.
• After waking, Ling Yi thought of Ling Shuang and reaffirmed that he would survive and destroy the Qingcheng Sect.

Ling Yi discovered that his death soldiers’ self-destructs had unlocked the Red Damage Transfer trait, which distributed his injuries among all summoned soldiers. After using them to kill Yu Renyan and attack the Shahe Gang, he led his growing force toward the gang’s headquarters to increase his summonable death soldier count.

• Ling Yi shared the perception of a captured death soldier, which taunted Yu Renyan and revealed his identity before three death soldiers appeared and blew up everyone in the room.
• The deaths unlocked Ling Yi’s second trait, Red Damage Transfer, which evenly distributed damage he suffered among his summoned death soldiers.
• Ling Yi spotted Shahe Gang members ransacking houses and deployed death soldiers to kill many of them, raising his summonable count to twenty-seven.
• Ling Yi suspected the next trait might require one hundred summonable death soldiers, then summoned twenty-five and led them toward the Shahe Gang headquarters to build his forces.

Ling Yi used his suicide soldiers to attack the Shahe Gang and Qingcheng Sect after Yu Xiong killed a family and his sister Ling Shuang died. After the soldiers gained ordinary intelligence, they began destroying the Qingcheng Sect, but skilled disciples started countering them with hidden weapons.

• Yu Xiong killed a girl’s family, then died when Ling Yi’s suicide soldiers stormed the Shahe Gang headquarters.
• Ling Yi reflected on Ling Shuang’s death and planned to visit Doctor Wong, who had once saved him.
• Qingcheng Sect disciples accosted Ling Yi, and a suicide soldier’s explosion killed them and raised his summonable soldier count to 101.
• Ling Yi gained the White Wisdom trait, sent his intelligent suicide soldiers to destroy the Qingcheng Sect, and watched explosions spread through Green Mountain Town.
• Ling Yi spotted powerful Qingcheng Sect disciples at the martial arts school killing suicide soldiers with hidden weapons, slowing his growing forces.

Ling Yi used death soldiers to attack the Qingcheng Martial Arts School and confronted Yu Canghai, who blamed the sect’s crimes on tribute demanded by the Tianxia Society. Ling Yi revealed that he sought revenge for his sister, Ling Shuang, and destroyed the school in a massive explosion.

• Ling Yi observed that the death soldiers attacked rigidly, then deployed more to overwhelm the Qingcheng Sect disciples with sudden appearances and self-destructions.
• Yu Canghai watched the attack, tried to flee, and was wounded when a death soldier appeared beside him and detonated.
• Ling Yi surrounded Yu Canghai with death soldiers and questioned him about the Qingcheng Sect’s abuses.
• Yu Canghai claimed the Tianxia Society demanded a million taels of silver in annual tribute and had taken control of Great Ming, but Ling Yi remained unconvinced.
• Ling Yi told Yu Canghai he was taking revenge because the Qingcheng Sect had killed Ling Shuang, then detonated over a hundred death soldiers and reduced the school to ruins.

Ling Yi mourned Ling Shuang, reflected on the chaos caused by the Tianxia Society, and returned to his courtyard to find Shangguan Haitang waiting. She revealed that his death soldiers had drawn attention and urged him to help drive the Tianxia Society from Great Ming, but he refused, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Ling Yi visited Ling Shuang's grave, recounted destroying the Qingcheng Sect, and grieved over losing his only family.
• Ling Yi learned through his death soldiers that the Tianxia Society had forced several sects to disband or submit, while other Jianghu forces resisted its rule.
• Ling Yi returned to Green Mountain Town and found a disguised woman waiting in the courtyard, so he summoned his death soldiers and confronted her.
• The woman identified herself as Shangguan Haitang, one of the Dragon Guarding Manor's Four Great Secret Agents, and said she had secretly protected Ling Yi from other forces.
• Shangguan Haitang asked Ling Yi to join her group and help expel the Tianxia Society, but Ling Yi refused and challenged her when she asked how many death soldiers he had left.

Ling Yi rejected Shangguan Haitang’s offer but decided to travel to Mount Song for an Innate Pill, while Shangguan Haitang and her allies planned to use the trip against Xiongba’s disciple Bu Jingyun. After Ling Yi’s death warriors destroyed a Qingcheng Sect hideout, he gained a new trait slot and received a choice to replace a trait.

• Shangguan Haitang offered Ling Yi an Innate Pill and a Body Refining technique if he proved useful, but Ling Yi refused to join her without receiving them first.
• Before leaving, Shangguan Haitang told Ling Yi that Bu Jingyun would collect Innate Pills at Mount Song in half a month, and Ling Yi decided to pursue one.
• Shangguan Haitang reported Ling Yi’s mysterious death warriors to the woman in red at the Flower Garden Pavilion, and they discussed trapping Bu Jingyun at Mount Song.
• Yu Renhao’s Qingcheng Sect survivors disguised themselves as villagers after slaughtering a nearby village, but Ling Yi’s death warriors appeared and destroyed them in a series of explosions.
• Ling Yi gained enough summon allowance to unlock a trait slot, acquired the white Enhancement trait, and received the blue Ignore trait as the month’s refresh choice.