Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi unsealed his memories after the Heavenly Pearl nearly killed him, learning that it was the Human Dao’s true body and that the Martial Dao Realm had been created as its refuge. Li Er explained how Nüwa and the Sages hoped to revive the Human Dao through a new Human Emperor, while Ling Yi doubted they could outmaneuver the Heavenly Dao.

• Ao Ran recognized the Qin Emperor’s Human Emperor Qi and deduced that the Heavenly Pearl was the Human Dao’s true body.
• Ling Yi took the Heavenly Pearl from the Qin Emperor, triggering its defenses; after his death warriors and Revives were exhausted, he unsealed his memories.
• Ling Yi learned that the Human Dao had created the Martial Dao Realm from its remaining essence and fled there with Li Er and Nüwa’s clone.
• Ling Yi altered memories and events, then brought Li Er in as a guide for himself and the Qin Emperor.
• Li Er explained that Nüwa had opened a gap between the realms so a new Human Emperor could reach the Primordial World and restore the Human Dao.
• Ling Yi questioned whether the Heavenly Dao would allow their plan to succeed.

Ling Yi prepared to enter the Primordial World with twenty million Quasi-Sage death soldiers to disrupt the Journey to the West Calamity and help the Human Dao. In the Ling Realm, Yin Wanqing scolded Ling Yi and Uncle over the disjointed harem and worldbuilding, then worried that both were stuck at bottlenecks.

• Li Er asked Ling Yi to conceal the Qin Emperor’s Human Emperor Qi, and Ling Yi agreed to enter the Primordial World in three years and disrupt the Journey to the West Calamity.
• Ling Yi made a pact with the Human Dao, promising to help it return to the Primordial World and kill the Heavenly Dao in exchange for help cultivating.
• During the following three years, martial artists across the nine domains ascended after visiting the State of Ling, while Great Qin’s experts gathered there for the Qin Emperor’s future journey.
• Ling Yi raised his death soldiers to level 99, drew on their Quasi-Sage cultivation with his Borrow trait, and plunged into a vortex leading to the Primordial World.
• Yin Wanqing confronted Uncle and Ling Yi about the harem and the Primordial World setting, then sent them away and said they were both stuck at bottlenecks.

Ling Yi entered the virtual world of the Urban Battle Royale show and learned that his first challenge was the crime-ridden Crazy City, where he had to acquire one million in funds and survive for a week. As the simulation prepared to begin, his Lying Flat System activated.

• Host Xiaosa introduced the Urban Battle Royale show, its prize money, and its increasingly competitive challenges.
• Ling Yi woke in a cave and recalled his life in a parallel world where the Ancient Country had undergone extraordinary technological growth.
• Ling Yi explained that he had signed up for the show casually and hoped to complete several solo challenges without entering the leagues.
• The simulation identified Ling Yi's setting as Crazy City and gave him three minutes before it began.
• The virtual system set Ling Yi's objective to gain at least one million in funds and survive one week, while assigning NPCs an initial hostility value of 30.
• Ling Yi questioned whether the dangerous setting could be livestreamed, and his Lying Flat System activated.

Ling Yi received the Lying Flat System in the Crazy City battle royale simulation, gained Personal Space and Master-level Fighting techniques, and chose to sleep rather than face the violence outside. After waking hungry that night, he asked how to use his Personal Space without drawing attention, and the system offered to activate Rules Protection Mode.

• Ling Yi accepted the beginner's gift pack and received Personal Space and Master-level Fighting techniques, but injured himself trying an advanced kick.
• Ling Yi saw gangs fighting and leaving casualties outside his room, then decided to stay indoors and lie flat for a few days.
• Ling Yi barricaded the flimsy door, drew the curtains, and slept while viewers mocked his inactivity and nine contestants were eliminated.
• Ling Yi's mother, Jiang Yao, stayed in his livestream as he slept through the day and woke at night, hungry.
• Ling Yi asked the system how to use Personal Space unnoticed, and it offered Rules Protection Mode in exchange for ten reward opportunities.

After activating Rules Protection Mode, Ling Yi stayed home until two tattooed men came to demand a year of unpaid rent. He used his Master-level Fighting and Personal Space to defeat them, leaving the bald man kneeling in pain and the buzz-cut man unconscious.

• Ling Yi activated Rules Protection Mode and considered how he could use Personal Space to retrieve objects remotely.
• Ling Yi watched explosions in Crazy City and worried that he needed to earn money to clear Urban Battle Royale, despite wanting to stay home.
• Two tattooed brothers forced their way into Ling Yi's apartment and demanded a year's rent while viewers watched his livestream.
• Ling Yi broke the bald man's thumb, then dodged and knocked out the buzz-cut man with a precise kick.
• Ling Yi used Personal Space to inflict pain on the bald man from a distance and warned him to stay quiet.

Ling Yi subdued Fei Dong and Fei Xi, learned about Crazy City’s gangs and a rumored weapons warehouse, and decided to meet the brothers’ boss. He left the inn with them to investigate the source of the city’s chaos.

• Ling Yi used his abilities to hurt Fei Dong, then eased his pain and straightened his injured thumb, raising Fei Dong’s affinity.
• Fei Dong woke his younger brother, Fei Xi, and both brothers knelt before Ling Yi as he questioned them about their guide to surviving Crazy City.
• Fei Dong explained that the Axe Gang, Black Tiger Gang, and Iron Head Gang controlled most of Crazy City, while smaller gangs fought over the Eastern District.
• Fei Dong told Ling Yi that a rumor about a hidden weapons warehouse had intensified the city’s violence, and Ling Yi reasoned that whoever knew its location could be key to ending the chaos.
• Ling Yi ordered Fei Dong and Fei Xi to take him to their boss, then left the inn with them.

Ling Yi fought his way into the Mad Gang’s headquarters, took control of the gang, and united the Eastern District so he could clear the battle royale quickly and earn better lying-flat rewards. As he considered the threat of a possible weapons depot, the livestream focused on him.

• Ling Yi slapped his way through the Mad Gang’s hotel enforcers and reached the ninth floor with Fei Dong and Fei Xi.
• Ling Yi tried to lower Xiao Kuang’s hostility with his power, but drove it to 100 and left the Mad Gang boss unable to move.
• Ling Yi declared himself boss of the Mad Gang, made Fei Dong and Fei Xi his deputies, and ordered them to gather the gang for an attack on the Eastern District.
• Ling Yi reduced the gang leaders’ hostility, then led a thousand Mad Gang members to defeat the Eastern District’s nine gangs and claim nominal control by nightfall.
• Ling Yi asked the system whether lying-flat rewards could increase Personal Space’s retrieval range and worried that a weapons depot might threaten him.
• The livestream showed a close-up of Ling Yi as he wondered what was happening on the broadcast.

Ling Yi discovered that the three major gang bosses had gathered to ambush him, then raided their meeting at the Ten Thousand Flowers Hotel. He left the Axe Gang and Black Tiger Gang bosses crippled, put the Iron Head Gang boss in charge of uniting the gangs, and told Bai Qi to take him to the armory.

• Ling Yi detained several underlings with high hostility values, and one confessed that the three gang bosses were waiting at the Ten Thousand Flowers Hotel with nearly twenty thousand men.
• Ling Yi sent Fei Dong and Fei Xi to distract the Axe Gang while he went alone to the hotel, where he recruited Bai Qi and confiscated his handguns.
• Ling Yi fought past the hotel guards and confronted the three gang bosses; the Axe Gang and Black Tiger Gang bosses surrendered, while the Iron Head Gang boss challenged him.
• Ling Yi disarmed the Iron Head Gang boss with a steel needle and made him submit, then crippled the other two bosses after judging their surrender insincere.
• Ling Yi ordered the Iron Head Gang boss to consolidate the three gangs before morning and asked Bai Qi to lead him to the armory.

Ling Yi secured control of Crazy City, destroyed the weapons stockpile, and spent most of the simulation safely resting while the other contestants faced escalating danger. At midnight on the seventh day, the simulation paused with only a handful of livestreams remaining.

• Ling Yi burned and detonated the weapons, then sent Bai Qi to work under Fei Dong and his brother in the Mad Gang.
• Ling Yi named the former Iron Head Gang boss his deputy, declared the Mad Gang the only gang in Crazy City, and ordered him to gather the city's assets and spread Ling Yi's name.
• Ling Yi set warning traps in his hotel suite and spent the next several days eating, sleeping, and playing games as his livestream audience dwindled.
• Xiao Lian kept evading pursuers, Qin Su improved her tactics but was shot in the right leg, and Ye Chen quelled a revolt among his men.
• Fei Dong and his brother threw an infiltrator seeking revenge for the Axe Gang's boss off the hotel building.
• At midnight on the seventh day, the simulation paused with twelve livestreams remaining.

After clearing the Urban Battle Royale scenario, Ling Yi discovered that items stored in his Personal Space had carried over and wondered whether he could smuggle them into reality. He entered The Hunted Assassin, explored his luxurious villa and its armory, then prepared to wait for the assassins while researching the simulation’s world.

• Ling Yi chose to continue participating and tested the cave around his spawn point, discovering that his Personal Space still contained weapons from the previous scenario.
• Ling Yi realized that a pistol from the previous simulation had carried over in his Personal Space, though a gold watch he had received was missing.
• The next scenario, The Hunted Assassin, assigned Ling Yi the role of an assassin whose company had put a bounty on him, and required him to survive for one month.
• Ling Yi explored his seaside villa, opened its palm-locked armory, and stored a small selection of weapons, ammunition, cash, and supplies in his Personal Space.
• A phone call warned Ling Yi that the company had placed a bounty on him; gunfire and an explosion ended the call before he could respond.
• Ling Yi secured the villa, lay on the sofa, and used a phone to search the internet for information about the simulation’s world.

Ling Yi watched an assassin attack his fortified villa and learned that the attacker was a bronze-grade assassin with a three-day mission deadline. After disabling him with throwing knives, Ling Yi was caught off guard when the wounded assassin tried to counterattack, only to collapse at his feet.

• Xiao Lian tried to escape Nanbian City with a woman from a remote village, then turned himself in to the Inspection Bureau to seek protection.
• Qin Su fortified her villa, while Ye Chen bought a high-spec computer and attempted to hack the assassin company's database.
• On January 8, an assassin arrived at Ling Yi's villa, but his gun could not pierce the reinforced door or bulletproof windows.
• Ling Yi let the assassin into the villa, then severed the tendons in both his wrists with throwing knives when he reached for grenades.
• The assassin revealed that he was bronze grade and that his three-day mission period was ending that night.
• When Ling Yi reached for a medical kit, the assassin charged him, but his legs went numb and he dropped to his knees.

Ling Yi gained the Photosynthesis talent, which strengthened his body whenever light reached him, and discovered that the simulated world was controlled by a vast Assassin Company. After learning he could bring his new power into the real world, he realized the simulation had created a serious problem.

• Ling Yi crippled an assassin, questioned him about assassin ranks, and killed him before collecting his midnight reward.
• The system awarded Ling Yi Photosynthesis and warned that an unknown data-stream intrusion had made it reduce communication.
• Ling Yi tested the talent and found that light flowing through his body grew stronger in sunlight; by morning, his muscles had noticeably increased.
• Ling Yi searched the assassin's belongings, decoded three messages, and learned that a cleaner would collect the corpse that evening.
• Ling Yi recalled that the Assassin Company managed hundreds of thousands of assassins in the city and that contestants had to survive its hunt.
• Ling Yi asked whether he could take the strength gained in the simulation into reality, and the system confirmed that he could.

Ling Yi questioned whether his system and virtual world were real, then accepted that the world felt real enough and continued lying low. A wounded woman who resembled Fairy Sister arrived at his villa, leaving Ling Yi to wonder whether she was a threat as he discovered his physical strength had improved.

• Ling Yi asked the system whether it truly existed, and it replied, “When data simulation reaches its pinnacle, the virtual becomes reality.”
• After three days, only forty-three contestants remained; Xiao Lian hid in a detention center, Qin Su killed her assassin, and Ye Chen disguised himself with makeup and a fake ID.
• A bloodied woman who looked exactly like Fairy Sister stumbled to Ling Yi’s villa, called for his help, and fainted.
• Ling Yi used steel needles to immobilize the woman, carried her inside, and found multiple gunshot wounds; he removed three bullets with his pickup ability.
• Ling Yi threw the assassin’s corpse outside for the company cleaner, then realized that carrying the wounded woman had been effortless because his body had grown stronger.

Ling Yi learned that the injured woman, Yin Lingyun, had obtained data that could expose the assassin company, and that saving her had led to her father’s death and Ling Yi’s handler being killed. He agreed to help her survive long enough to send the data to the authorities, then gained a much larger Personal Space reward that let him reach an assassin hiding outside his villa.

• Yin Lingyun explained that she was Ling Yi’s former target, that her father had been killed, and that the assassin company was hunting her for stolen server data.
• Yin Lingyun asked Ling Yi to protect her for half a month while the data uploaded to the authorities, and Ling Yi agreed despite the danger.
• Yin Lingyun gave Ling Yi her real name, and he removed the steel needles from her limbs before telling her to rest at the villa.
• At midnight, Ling Yi received a lying flat reward that expanded his Personal Space to 101 cubic meters with a 101-meter pickup radius.
• Ling Yi summoned a submachine gun from eighty meters away, and a muscular young man hidden in the woods lost feeling in his legs and fell to his knees.

Ling Yi learned that Yin Lingyun planned to draw the Assassin Company and other factions to them by selling the hard-drive data, making escape impossible. He agreed to help her endure the coming attacks while making clear that he would still prioritize his own survival.

• Ling Yi stripped and spared the captured assassin, hoping to deter the Assassin Company without provoking the authorities or ending negotiations.
• Ling Yi found Yin Lingyun cooking breakfast, and she explained that assassins would keep coming but would avoid weapons likely to attract government intervention.
• Yin Lingyun revealed that she had a copy of the Assassin Company's data and intended to offer it to various factions to keep their attention focused on her location.
• Ling Yi accused Yin Lingyun of dragging him into a deeper trap and said he might sell her out if necessary.
• Yin Lingyun admitted that she had used guilt and her appearance to persuade him to help, and Ling Yi eventually agreed to do what he could while telling her not to panic.

Ling Yi used his growing crisis perception to evade a sniper and stripped thirty approaching assassins of their equipment, while Yin Lingyun learned how powerful he had become. At midnight, Ling Yi received Bio Booster Armor as his third lying-flat reward and tested it, with the system assuring him that the livestream would rationalize its appearance.

• Ling Yi sensed incoming sniper fire and dodged repeated shots while waiting for the approaching assassins to gather.
• The sniper and his partner watched all thirty assassins kneel and lose their clothing and equipment, then retreated.
• Yin Lingyun asked why Ling Yi spared the assassins, and he said killing them would cause too much of a stir.
• Ling Yi discovered that moonlight also fueled his photosynthesis and gave him a cool current of power.
• The system rewarded Ling Yi with ten sets of Bio Booster Armor, and he activated one to test its enhanced abilities.
• Ling Yi asked how the livestream would explain the armor, and the system said viewers would believe he found it in the second-floor armory.

Ling Yi learned that the AI was investigating two instances of overflow data, while several contestants with golden fingers struggled to attract viewers and survive their scenarios. As Ling Yi and Yin Lingyun faced a water and power cutoff, a suspicious man arrived with supplies and asked to speak with them.

• Ye Chen killed an assassin, hid in a neighboring apartment, and worried that declining reputation gains were slowing his shop upgrades.
• Xiao Lian and Qin Su relied on their golden fingers and realized they needed more viewer attention to strengthen them.
• Researchers questioned AI Nüwa about two overflow data instances, which she attributed to two testers who had awakened their talents on their own and called cheaters.
• Ling Yi and Yin Lingyun ate seafood congee after the villa lost power and water, then ordered supplies despite Yin Lingyun's concerns about an ambush.
• A suited middle-aged man arrived with three trucks of goods, revealed himself as connected to the assassins, and asked Ling Yi and Yin Lingyun to meet face-to-face; Ling Yi agreed.

Ling Yi disarmed a rival faction’s men and arranged for them to help repel the assassins in exchange for discussing a trade for the data drive. As he waited with Yin Lingyun, he grew more suspicious of the Urban Battle Royale’s realism and learned that the scenario’s loose weapon restrictions could allow pursuers to use heavy weapons.

• Ling Yi disarmed nine armed men, paralyzed them temporarily, and ordered their leader to return the next afternoon after helping deal with the assassins.
• The middle-aged man discovered that Ling Yi had also taken the cargo from all three trucks and led his men away.
• Ling Yi told Yin Lingyun that trading the data drive could redirect the assassin company’s attention, while buying them time to grow stronger.
• Ling Yi restored power to the villa, carried Yin Lingyun downstairs, and arranged to have hot pot for dinner.
• Ling Yi questioned the simulated world’s realism and its purpose as he watched a report about a weapons workshop supplying the assassin company.
• Ling Yi considered how the scenario’s vague weapon rules and difficulty adjustments might let stronger contestants face increasingly powerful enemies.

Ling Yi and Yin Lingyun weighed how to expose the Assassin Company while mercenaries and assassins fought outside their villa. After mastering the Bio Booster Armor, Ling Yi spent 20 lying-flat rewards to upgrade Personal Space with a thousand-meter pickup radius and configurable Passive Pickup.

• Yin Lingyun explained that the Assassin Company's headquarters was aboard a roaming cruise ship protected by anti-radar technology and three satellites, and argued they should locate it before attacking its branches.
• Around a hundred mercenaries surrounded the villa, while assassins attacked; after an hour and a half of fighting, the assassins were wiped out and the surviving mercenaries removed the bodies.
• Ling Yi planned to give the Assassin Company a fake hard drive, and Yin Lingyun said she could use her satellite access to estimate the headquarters' direction within three to four days.
• Ling Yi equipped the complete Bio Booster Armor, quickly mastered its skills, and learned that it could use photosynthesis to replenish its energy.
• At midnight, Ling Yi spent 20 lying-flat rewards to expand Personal Space's pickup radius to a thousand meters and add configurable Passive Pickup, then learned he could spend rewards in advance only once per simulation.

Ling Yi traded an encrypted hard drive for gold, then flew with Yin Lingyun to the Assassin Company's headquarters at sea. After escaping fighter jets and finding the disguised ship, he left Yin Lingyun in hiding and prepared to board.

• Ling Yi handed the encrypted hard drive to Mr. Zhao's men and received one and a half tons of gold bars, which he stored in his Personal Space.
• Yin Lingyun traced the Assassin Company's headquarters to a thousand-kilometer area, and Ling Yi took her flying toward it in his Bio Booster Armor.
• The chapter described the remaining contestants: Xiao Lian evaded assassins using precognition, Qin Su fought them directly, and Ye Chen battled assassins and mercenaries while building reputation.
• Ling Yi and Yin Lingyun evaded two fighter jets by turning invisible and flying low over the sea, confirming that contestants could leave the city if they had the ability to do so.
• Ling Yi found the Assassin Company's disguised ship, hid Yin Lingyun in a safe corner, deactivated his armor, and jumped onto the deck.