Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi quit the Slaughter Game after exposing its exploitation of superpowered people, then immediately reapplied to challenge the system. He entered a new game surrounded by mass-produced superpowered people, while the mysterious man assigned Iron Man to hunt down a newly awakened superpowered person named Guan Tai.

• Ling Yi killed Human Torch, mourned the dying woman, and secured a unanimous vote to quit after Ma Tianhe and his group arrived.
• Ling Yi learned from Lin Tong and the buzz-cut man that millions of cloned superpowered people were being bred and killed for crystals, then received and kept two million crystals from Iron Man.
• Ling Yi reapplied for the Slaughter Game and stepped into a plaza where ninety-nine vacant superpowered people charged at him.
• Iron Man reported Ling Yi's strength to the mysterious man, who ordered him to leave Ling Yi alone for now and find and kill Guan Tai.

Guan Tai went on a rampage against superpower users after Yin Youyou’s death, while Ling Yi escaped the Slaughter Space and investigated him. Ling Yi used his halo to curb Guan Tai’s murderous impulses, but Yin Youyou appeared in Guan Tai’s path just as he approached Illusion City.

• Guan Tai killed 129 superpower users and then stabbed Iron Man, taking his teleportation ability.
• Ling Yi survived the Slaughter Space, learned about the loophole in its rules, and heard that Guan Tai had killed Iron Man.
• Ling Yi learned that Guan Tai was killing superpower users because Yin Youyou had died in a battle between them, then went to find him.
• Ling Yi found Guan Tai destroying a clone base and suggested that someone might be orchestrating the spread of abilities; Guan Tai agreed to seek that person but continued on his own path.
• Ling Yi secretly used his halo to reduce Guan Tai’s murderous thoughts, and Guan Tai stopped killing superpower users who did not attack him.
• As Guan Tai neared the entrance to Illusion City, Yin Youyou appeared before him.

Ling Yi helped Yin Youyou recover her memories and learned that a long-haired man called Boss had created copies with many superpowers. He and Guan Tai swept the superpowered individuals from Illusion City and the Ancient Country, and Ling Yi stopped when his Ten Thousand Laws Return to One function reached 100%.

• Ling Yi sealed off a space around Guan Tai and Yin Youyou, revealing that Yin Youyou had recovered her memories and had been pretending to remain under someone’s control.
• Yin Youyou described the long-haired Boss, who had created copies like her and given them countless superpowers.
• Ling Yi told Guan Tai to identify and strip the superpowers from Illusion City’s superpowered individuals, drawing Boss’s attention at the Fantasy Bar.
• Boss revealed that he had created superpowers in the world and dismissed the captured superpowered individuals as useless, then slapped Number Three for questioning him.
• Ling Yi, Guan Tai, and Yin Youyou spent half a month sweeping underground Illusion City across the Ancient Country, and Guan Tai’s strength reached an extreme.
• Ling Yi paused their campaign when the Ten Thousand Laws Return to One function in his Passive Law Analysis Aura reached 100%.

Ling Yi discovered that his Boundary Breaking law let him perceive the novel’s declining popularity, and he decided to act against the threat of the world’s collapse. After erasing the unnamed mastermind and restoring his resolve, he spent nearly all his points upgrading the Passive Reset Aura and reappeared beside Yin Wanqing, interrupting her shower.

• Ling Yi sensed the novel’s popularity declining and realized that the Ling Realm might become his last refuge if the other worlds collapsed.
• Ling Yi sent Guan Tai and Yin Youyou to handle the other ability users while he confronted the “boss.”
• Ling Yi sealed the “boss’s” spatial powers, erased his fire ability, and then erased him completely.
• Ling Yi returned to the Ling Realm, absorbed his clones’ memories and insights, and spent ten years recovering his resolve.
• Ling Yi decided that increasing popularity was part of his Boundary Breaking goal and used almost all his points to upgrade the Passive Reset Aura to level 9.
• Ling Yi appeared beside Yin Wanqing while she was showering, fled after she yelled at him, and later complimented her figure before vanishing again.

Ling Yi, who was secretly a real cultivator, tried to guide Ye Chen into becoming his disciple while the television crew staged a cultivation-themed reality show around them. The chapter ended with Ling Yi using a magically refined axe and a fire-starting trick to impress Ye Chen and the livestream audience, who believed the feats were staged.

• Ling Yi learned that Ye Chen had come to Green Mountain Taoist Temple because his golden finger required him to become a disciple, while Ling Yi decided to act as a real master.
• Ling Yi negotiated with director Qi Hong for magic supplies, and Qi Hong fired Zhang Xiaoxiao and Na Bing after Zhang criticized Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi told the still-kneeling Ye Chen to chop firewood, then returned with supplies and used his Passive Treasure Refining Aura to turn the axe into a magical treasure.
• Ling Yi split a pile of logs with effortless precision, leaving Ye Chen and the livestream viewers stunned.
• Ling Yi had Ye Chen prepare the stove and ignited the firewood with a flame between his fingers, which Ye Chen and the viewers mistook for a trick.

Ye Chen became Ling Yi’s disciple, activated the Hundredfold Cultivation System, and discovered that Ling Yi’s temple and axe held genuine supernatural power. Ling Yi named his sect the Realm Gate and made Ye Chen its first disciple, while director Qi Hong began to realize Ling Yi was not an ordinary show participant.

• Ling Yi accepted Ye Chen as his disciple after laying down rules against evil and telling him to seek his parents’ approval, and Ye Chen’s parents urged him to return to the temple.
• Ye Chen returned to Ling Yi and activated the Hundredfold Cultivation System, then felt a powerful force when he tried to approach his meditating master.
• The system identified the temple axe as a spirit treasure, and Ye Chen used it to chop wood before Ling Yi gave it to him as a gift.
• Ling Yi told Ye Chen to wake at four and cook for himself, then refined the temple into a magic treasure after midnight.
• Director Qi Hong watched hidden-camera footage of Ling Yi’s supernatural actions and realized something was strange about him.
• Ling Yi named his sect the Realm Gate and declared Ye Chen its first disciple.

Ling Yi taught Ye Chen the Sword Realm cultivation method and gave him a magically forged sword to practice with, while the livestream audience mistook his displays of power for elaborate tricks. After Ling Yi drove off a crowd of magicians with an illusion formation, Ye Chen grew bored with his slow progress, and Ling Yi offered him a shortcut to forming a sword heart.

• Ling Yi explained the three cultivation paths at Realm Gate, and Ye Chen chose the Dao of the sword.
• Ling Yi taught Ye Chen the Sword Realm method, which Ye Chen comprehended and began cultivating with help from his system.
• Ling Yi forged Ye Chen a powerful sword and told him to practice ten thousand slashes each day to form his sword heart.
• After several days of sword practice and livestreamed magic, Ling Yi learned that popular magicians were coming to challenge him.
• Ling Yi flew out on a translucent dragon and frightened the visiting crowd away with an illusion formation full of skeletons.
• Ye Chen lamented his slow progress and asked for a faster way to form his sword heart, so Ling Yi offered him a risky shortcut.

Cang Yan broke through to the Golden Core realm after entering sudden enlightenment at Ling Yi’s temple, then gave Ling Yi the deed to all of Green Mountain. When officials tried to force Ling Yi and Ye Chen off the land, Ling Yi ordered Ye Chen to drive them out.

• Ling Yi offered Ye Chen a Pseudo Sword Heart, but Ye Chen refused to endure its daily agony and continued practicing with his heavy sword.
• Cang Yan visited the temple, entered sudden enlightenment before the character for “realm,” and broke through to the Golden Core realm.
• Cang Yan gave Ling Yi the deed to the temple and all of Green Mountain before leaving to attend to other matters.
• Director Qi warned Ling Yi that people at the station were disputing ownership of Green Mountain, and Ling Yi told him that Spiritual Qi’s revival would bring strange dangers.
• Ling Yi told Ye Chen to avoid using powers openly, then left to set up a formation over Green Mountain.
• A group of men demanded that Ye Chen leave the mountain, but Ling Yi returned and ordered Ye Chen to drive them out, prompting Ye Chen to punch their leader.

Ling Yi drove off the men who had come to seize the temple, then hid Green Mountain behind a formation as Spiritual Qi’s revival became public. He accepted four newcomers for a seven-day training course, revealed spirit-bearing flying swords, and left them to win the swords’ recognition.

• Ling Yi and Ye Chen beat the men who had arrived at the temple, and Ling Yi later finished installing a formation that kept visitors from reaching Green Mountain.
• Official media confirmed that Ling Yi owned the mountain, while Director Qi Hong told him the authorities were no longer concealing the revival of Spiritual Qi.
• Ling Yi agreed to accept several recruits after Qi Hong asked him to accommodate promising young people, and Leng Feng, Zhang Mianyang, Zhu'er, and Jinli arrived at the temple.
• Ling Yi lifted the formation’s restrictions for the four newcomers, who reached the summit and met Ye Chen and Ling Yi.
• After Zhu'er challenged Ling Yi’s claims, he made four flying swords appear and explained that they could take a sword only if its spirit chose to acknowledge them as its master.
• Ling Yi assigned Ye Chen to arrange rooms and lead the newcomers in sword practice starting the next day.

Ye Chen learned that his descent from the mountain would involve a variety show, public attention, and possible threats tied to the revival of spiritual Qi. After discovering the cameras and hearing about the country’s plans, he prepared to leave with his companions the next day to hunt demons for his system’s advancement quest.

• Ye Chen told Ling Yi he had comprehended the Sword Heart and asked to descend the mountain, and Ling Yi agreed that he could leave in two days with the others.
• Ling Yi explained that supernatural beings were already appearing as spiritual Qi revived, while Ye Chen revealed that his system had tasked him with killing a hundred demons.
• Ye Chen searched the courtyard and found more than thirty hidden cameras, then confronted Ling Yi with one at dinner.
• Leng Feng explained that Ye Chen and the others had been recruited for a variety show with Ye Chen’s parents’ involvement, and Ling Yi admitted he had chosen the group on a whim.
• Leng Feng warned that crowds and foreign forces were probing Green Mountain’s mist formation, showed the group identity cards arranged by the country, and said their families had been moved to safety.
• Ling Yi told Ye Chen and the others to descend the mountain the next day, while Jinli worried that her flying sword had not recognized her as its master.

Ye Chen led Leng Feng, Zhang Mianyang, Zhu'er, and Jinli to Kunta Town to deal with a loosening seal beneath a dry well. After fighting waves of monsters and exhausting their strength, the group faced another attack just as a golden pillar of light descended into the well.

• Ye Chen explained that the underground demon lair beneath Kunta Town threatened the surrounding area, and the group set out to seal it or kill its monsters.
• Ye Chen killed a Puppet Demon hiding near the town center and warned that the lair's seal was close to breaking.
• Ye Chen raised a protective formation, and the five fought together to wipe out the Puppet Demons gathered around the well.
• True monsters surged out of the well after the seal broke, and the group fought them with mechanical puppets until Ye Chen used Ten Thousand Swords Art to drive the remaining monsters back into the well.
• The group prepared to fight again as the monsters roared from below, but a golden pillar of light suddenly descended into the well.

Ling Yi reset the world and restarted the variety-show plot with Ye Chen, while secretly preparing to eliminate its demons. After the show’s new celebrity and romance plots unfolded, Ling Yi encouraged Ye Chen to improvise with Zhu'er and Jinli.

• Ling Yi reset the world to the story’s beginning and told Ye Chen through mental transmission that they would work together to fool the variety-show audience.
• When Mou Kun and four celebrities arrived, Ling Yi demonstrated sword qi, then sent the would-be disciples to Ye Chen for seven days of harsh trials.
• Ling Yi refused Mou Kun’s request to ease the trials, then completed a grand formation that struck demons across the world with lightning.
• Mou Kun and the others worked eagerly for a chance to cultivate, but Ling Yi ultimately rejected them as disciples after they gained popularity.
• Zhu'er and Jinli fled into the Daoist temple during a staged pursuit, and Ling Yi told Ye Chen to improvise the ensuing romance plot with them.

After arriving in a modern world as host Ling Yi, Ling Yi used fossil images and the Shock Value System to revive his failing show, Ancient Nature, with a livestream questioning what prehistoric creatures really looked like. He ended by promising to take viewers back in time next episode, then prepared to use a Time Projector as the station director summoned him.

• Six months after the previous show was exposed as scripted and shut down, Ling Yi left Ye Chen and entered a modern world as host of the failing show Ancient Nature.
• Ling Yi discovered that the protagonist's Shock Value System rewarded him for shocking people and that its Time Retrospection Glasses revealed the living creatures behind fossils.
• Ling Yi persuaded the station director to let him try a live format and arranged for fossils and promotional support.
• During the livestream, Ling Yi used rabbit, elephant, and electric eel fossils to argue that fossil evidence could not reveal everything about prehistoric creatures, then speculated that beings from the Classic of Mountains and Seas might have existed.
• Ling Yi promised viewers that the next episode would take them aboard a Time Machine to see prehistoric dinosaurs, and Guan Xiaoxiao worried about how he would fulfill the promise.
• The station director called Ling Yi to his office, while Ling Yi decided that he could use a Time Projector to make the next episode possible.

Ling Yi used the Time Projector to show a livestream of feathered, fire-breathing T. rexes, insisting the ancient world had been extraordinary. After viewers and online critics denounced the footage as fabricated and unscientific, the director canceled his show.

• Ling Yi redeemed the Time Projector and 3D projection technology, then spent a day preparing the next episode.
• Ling Yi opened the livestream by projecting a prehistoric rainforest and a feathered T. rex that attacked prey with a fireball.
• A pterosaur stole part of the T. rex's prey, and three other T. rexes challenged it before all four agreed to share the food.
• Ling Yi defended the footage as a possible vision of ancient life while viewers criticized it as fake, though they continued watching.
• After the livestream drew widespread online abuse, the director told Ling Yi the next day that his show had been canceled.

After his show was canceled and his livestream account rejected, Ling Yi used his system to force millions of people to travel with him to the Jurassic. He and Guan Xiaoxiao arrived safely among the dinosaurs, where a friendly long-necked dinosaur offered them a ride.

• Ling Yi discovered that Crown Prince Entertainment was promoting a Jurassic time-travel drama and decided to livestream a real journey instead.
• After his account application was denied, Ling Yi created the Ancient Nature platform and announced that its users, online critics, and Crown Prince Entertainment executives would travel to the prehistoric past.
• At 11 p.m. on March 27, pillars of light transported countless people across the Ancient Country, prompting its leaders to convene an emergency meeting.
• Ling Yi and Guan Xiaoxiao arrived 135 million years in the past wearing nano battle armor and encountered a young, gentle long-necked dinosaur.
• Ling Yi drew a river and an open space in the dirt, and the long-necked dinosaur invited him and Guan Xiaoxiao onto its back.

Ling Yi deployed a Red Alert base in the prehistoric Saqu Desert and helped defend the area from an ancient giant centipede. After the long-necked dinosaur asked for help, Ling Yi brought a force of soldiers and armored vehicles to its territory, where they found a herd of nearly a thousand dinosaurs.

• Ling Yi summoned a massive steel base, sent trucks to explore, and stationed soldiers around it.
• A group of fleeing people approached, and Ling Yi sent them back to their own time before an ancient giant centipede appeared.
• The clone soldiers stunned the centipede with electric weapons and killed it with close-range gunfire.
• Ling Yi agreed to help the long-necked dinosaur and assembled five hundred clone soldiers and a hundred armored vehicles.
• The dinosaur led Ling Yi and Guan Xiaoxiao west to a lake, where they saw nearly a thousand long-necked dinosaurs, including white and black ones.

Ling Yi and Guan Xiaoxiao met Black, leader of the Toke herd, and learned that a pack of Bouncing Beasts threatened the dinosaurs. Ling Yi armed the Toke with advanced weapons and spent the night with them, ending the chapter by refusing viewers’ offers to buy the prehistoric fruit because he was angry at people who had threatened him.

• Ling Yi used brainwave translators to communicate with Black and explained that he and Guan Xiaoxiao came from 130 million years in the future.
• Black told Ling Yi that Bouncing Beasts were devastating the Toke herd, and Ling Yi followed him to the plain where the creatures were expected to arrive.
• Ling Yi equipped the Toke with nano-armor, defensive towers, and automated weapons, while a clone soldier began teaching Black about technology.
• Ling Yi explained to Guan Xiaoxiao and the livestream viewers that changing the past created a parallel spacetime, and reflected on how his powers had made him indifferent to life.
• Ling Yi and Guan Xiaoxiao camped with the Toke, ate enormous safe prehistoric fruits, and Ling Yi refused viewers’ offers to buy them after recalling threats against him.

Ling Yi helped the Toke defend against a massive attack by the Bouncing Beasts, whose orderly assault suggested an attempt to wipe out the Toke population. After an eight-hour battle, the Toke had won at heavy cost, but a fiery-red creature appeared in the sky as Ling Yi and Hei wondered why the Bouncing Beasts had not retreated.

• Ling Yi learned that the modern timeline had arrested people from Crown Prince Entertainment, then focused on the approaching tyrannosaurs and prepared the Toke for battle.
• The Bouncing Beasts advanced in formation, and Ling Yi’s mines disrupted their charge before they leapt over the traps.
• Hei rallied the Toke, whose low-frequency sonic attacks devastated the Bouncing Beasts but left the attackers weakened.
• The Toke and clone soldiers used armor and firearms to repel the Bouncing Beasts, while the predators concentrated their attacks on one Toke and forced it to the ground.
• After eight hours, the Bouncing Beasts had lost most of their roughly ten thousand fighters, while the Toke had lost nearly thirty companions.
• Ling Yi questioned why the Bouncing Beasts had not retreated, and Hei suggested they had a reason to keep fighting as a fiery-red figure flew toward the battlefield.

Ling Yi defeated Huoyan, the Redfeather pterosaur, and used the Time Retrospection Glasses to discover that it had hatched from eggs discarded by humans aboard a spaceship. He crossed spacetime to confront those humans, who recognized his arrival as the success of the doctor's plan and discovered he was not from their world.

• Huoyan's flames devastated the battlefield, and Ling Yi returned to face the pterosaur while Guan Xiaoxiao went back to the base.
• Huoyan demanded submission, but Ling Yi struck it with photon cannons and made it acknowledge his strength.
• Ling Yi used the Time Retrospection Glasses and saw that Huoyan had hatched from dinosaur eggs discarded by eight towering humans aboard a cigar-shaped spaceship.
• Ling Yi crossed spacetime and appeared aboard the spaceship, where he used translator discs to communicate with the humans.
• A man activated File Zero, immobilized Ling Yi, and said the doctor's plan had succeeded before realizing Ling Yi was not from their world.

Ling Yi learned that ancient humanity had fought the Oulialians a billion years ago and that his system came from their buried quantum computer. He returned to that era with Ming Yu and the others, then left them behind and gave the golden finger to Guan Xiaoxiao after finding modern people trying to occupy her base.

• Ming Yu explained that humanity had used the stellar weapon Oblivion against the Oulialian invasion, erasing ancient geological layers and hiding a human gene bank beneath Earth Star.
• Ming Yu revealed that two hundred thousand humans had escaped in a fleet and that another Oblivion aboard their ship could be used against the Oulialians.
• Ming Yu explained that Dr. Guan Hai had created the autonomous quantum computer that eventually became Ling Yi’s system.
• Ling Yi transported Ming Yu and seven others a billion years into the past, where they appeared before ancient humans who stood over four meters tall.
• Ling Yi left the ancient era through a world passage and returned to Guan Xiaoxiao’s spacetime, where a crowd of modern people had gathered to claim her base.
• Ling Yi transferred the golden finger to Guan Xiaoxiao and left her to decide whether to return the people to modern spacetime or help them develop in the past.