Chapter Summaries

Yin Wanqing advanced her plan after finding Guan Xiaoxiao in the world, while Ling Yi awakened as the undead Zhou Botong in a stone coffin. After escaping the tomb and reaching Jindu, Ling Yi lost control of his hunger while chasing a thief for You Shishi, who fainted at the sight.

• Yin Wanqing complained about Ling Yi and Guan Xiaoxiao, then left as Ye Tian and Zheng Hai planted black spheres in the void.
• Ling Yi woke sealed inside Zhou Botong’s stone coffin and absorbed a strange energy until he could push the lid aside.
• Three grave robbers opened the coffin, and Ling Yi’s hunger overwhelmed him; he killed and ate them before leaving the tomb.
• Ling Yi traveled to Jindu and struggled to control his craving for human flesh and blood among the crowds.
• You Shishi chased a thief, and Ling Yi recognized her and pursued the man into an alley.
• When the thief drew a dagger, Ling Yi disarmed and wounded him, then lost control at the smell of blood; You Shishi saw him and fainted.

Ling Yi learned that he had awakened in a modern world built on the history of Jin Yong’s martial arts novels, where other martial arts figures might also return as undead. He and You Shishi captured a revived thief to test how undead could be destroyed, and Ling Yi prepared to burn it with a martial arts technique.

• Ling Yi used his Blood Pool Aura to suppress his hunger, then searched the modern world’s history while You Shishi tried to reach her phone.
• Ling Yi discovered that this world’s Jin Yong stories had become history and that his own past as Zhou Botong was recorded under the name Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi warned You Shishi that undead might spread by biting people, so they returned to the station and carried the thief’s body away in her car.
• Ling Yi explained that he wanted to find the undead’s weaknesses, then stopped in a deserted place when the thief revived in the trunk.
• Ling Yi broke the undead’s jaw and limbs, but realized it could recover as long as its soul pearl remained.
• Ling Yi summoned blue flames with the Huoyan Blade Technique, terrifying You Shishi and the undead.

Ling Yi destroyed the three undead from his tomb, but two more undead—Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü—emerged and massacred a nearby village. Realizing that undead martial artists could threaten humanity, Ling Yi began planning a way to manage their hunger and gather allies, until gunshots sounded outside the next morning.

• Ling Yi drove You Shishi back to Hundred Flowers Valley and burned the three undead from his tomb after they appeared behind her.
• After Ling Yi and You Shishi left, undead Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü fed on a village, turning its inhabitants into more undead.
• Ling Yi warned You Shishi that ancient martial artists were returning as undead and discussed how their hunger might be controlled.
• Ling Yi decided to recruit righteous undead masters and develop a blood-food supermarket network, then began programming tools to locate undead and their tombs.
• Sharp gunshots rang out while Ling Yi meditated the next morning, and he went to the window to look outside.

Ling Yi destroyed the undead attacking the city and defeated the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, then agreed to teach You Shishi martial arts. After destroying his computer and hard drive to avoid being identified, he prepared to leave with her for Mount Zhongnan to dig up his senior brother.

• You Shishi woke and saw the city overrun by undead as Ling Yi identified the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan as the cause and told her not to open the door to anyone.
• Ling Yi leapt into the street and burned the undead with Undead Huoyan after his palm strike failed to kill them.
• Ling Yi confronted the Seven Freaks, whose attacks could not hit him, but they restrained him and Ke Zhen'e revealed that undead could devour one another's soul flames to gain strength and memories.
• Ling Yi unleashed a burst of Undead Huoyan that burned the Seven Freaks to ash.
• You Shishi asked Ling Yi to teach her martial arts, and he destroyed his computer and hard drive before deciding to take her to Mount Zhongnan to dig up his senior brother.

Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü’s undead rampage left Dayandu in ruins, while Shen Yingying and other undead who retained their humanity formed a group to hunt their own kind. After learning of the disaster, Ling Yi promised to help Shen Yingying and set out to prepare a way to save the undead.

• Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü watched from their sealed hotel as Shen Yingying rallied other clear-minded undead to fight, even though they repeatedly lost control to their instincts.
• When rainmaking cannons threatened to disperse the clouds, Yang Guo left the hotel to destroy them, while the military dispatched troops and attack helicopters toward Dayandu.
• Ling Yi and You Shishi learned from Ling Yi’s intelligent program that Dayandu had fallen and that the military was preparing to encircle it.
• After watching footage of Shen Yingying’s suffering and her group’s efforts to protect humans, You Shishi asked Ling Yi to help them.
• Ling Yi ordered Ling Jiu to bring drones, told the military to seal Dayandu without attacking, and promised Shen Yingying artificial blood food before nightfall.
• Ling Yi declined Shen Yingying’s request for a call and told Ling Jiu to say that he would come to Dayandu soon.

Ling Yi battled an undead beast horde, encountered a silent undead girl, and continued toward Mount Zhongnan while the crisis in Dayandu eased under Shen Yingying’s blood-food supply. At Wang Chongyang’s tomb, the girl suddenly began teaching You Shishi the Northern Darkness Divine Art.

• Ling Yi filled drone-suspended bottles with mysterious blood, attracting hundreds of undead beasts that he destroyed with his undead flames.
• A silent girl appeared in Ling Yi’s car, drank the mysterious blood, and began cultivating as Ling Yi took her and You Shishi toward Mount Zhongnan.
• Shen Yingying used Ling Yi’s blood-food shipments to stabilize Dayandu, while Ling Yi explained that he planned to find powerful undead and build a chain of undead supermarkets.
• Ling Yi reached Wang Chongyang’s tomb at Mount Zhongnan, smashed open its stone door, and entered alone.
• The silent girl pressed You Shishi to the ground and announced that she would impart the Northern Darkness Divine Art.

Ling Yi revived Wang Chongyang and the Seven Masters of Quanzhen in the tomb, then explained the undead calamity and urged them to help end it. Zhang Sanfeng also revived among them, leaving Ling Yi with another legendary martial artist to enlist.

• Ling Yi found Wang Chongyang's decayed remains in the tomb and filled his coffin with mysterious blood, allowing him to recover and revive as an undead.
• Wang Chongyang attacked Ling Yi in confusion, then recognized his junior brother and listened as Ling Yi explained the passage of centuries and the undead calamity.
• Eight more skeletons arrived and revived through the blood in Wang Chongyang's coffin; Ling Yi left to fetch clothes for them.
• Ling Yi returned with protective clothing and recognized the revived figures as the Seven Masters of Quanzhen, who welcomed Wang Chongyang and hoped to restore their sect.
• Ling Yi told the group that undead needed human blood and could turn living creatures into undead, then identified the white-bearded survivor as Zhang Sanfeng.

After learning that Gusu City had fallen to three resurrected undead martial artists, Ling Yi gathered Wang Chongyang, Zhang Sanfeng, and the Seven Masters of Quanzhen to respond while You Shishi stayed behind with Wu Xingyun. The group reached the outskirts of Gusu City, where Ling Yi revealed that Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü had killed Shen Yingying in Dayandu.

• You Shishi told Ling Yi that Gusu City had fallen, and Ling Yi arranged for an attack helicopter to take him and the resurrected masters there.
• Ling Yi gave Wu Xingyun mysterious blood and asked her to protect You Shishi, who left with Wu Xingyun to train.
• Ling Jiu reported that the undead had overrun Gusu City and that three masked undead martial artists were leading them; Ling Yi reconsidered his plan to eliminate all undead.
• Murong Fu and Murong Bo planned an undead breakout, while Murong Longcheng doubted their hopes of ruling the world and secretly devoured imprisoned undead for their soul beads.
• Ling Yi’s group landed outside Gusu City, where he showed Wang Chongyang a video revealing that Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü had killed Shen Yingying in Dayandu.

Ling Yi concluded that the undead threatened all life and rushed to stop their assault on the military outside Gusu City. After clearing the battlefield with Undead Fire, he entered the city while Wang Chongyang and the others prepared to intercept undead emerging through a sewage outlet.

• Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü devoured soul beads in Dayandu until military incendiary bombs set the city ablaze.
• Ling Yi decided the undead could not be allowed to persist, while the undead army began attacking the human defenses near Gusu City.
• Ling Jiu revealed that military leaders hesitated to use powerful weapons because their children were undead, and that other undead planned to attack through an underground drainage system.
• Ling Yi sent Wang Chongyang and the others to intercept the flank attack, then charged into the battlefield and burned through the undead with Undead Fire.
• Wang Chongyang's group reached the sewage outlet and prepared the Heavenly Big Dipper Formation as Ma Yu and the others heard undead approaching.

Wang Er joined Wang Chongyang and the others to fight undead and rapidly leveled up through shared party experience, while Ling Yi slaughtered millions across Gusu City. After meeting Wang Er, Ling Yi made his system copy the mage’s skills for himself and the others, then learned that something had happened in Dayandu.

• Wang Er arrived at the drainage outlet, invited Wang Chongyang and the others to party up, and they accepted after Ling Jiu confirmed the invitation was safe.
• Wang Chongyang and the others fought undead emerging from the outlet, while Wang Er gained experience and rose to level 19 with several mage skills.
• Ling Yi lured undead beneath a streetlamp with mysterious blood and killed them with Undead Fire as Murong Bo, Murong Fu, and Murong Longcheng discussed waiting for the fighters to weaken.
• After sunrise, Ling Yi met Wang Er, revealed he had killed over six million undead, and had Wang Er’s system copy its skills for him and the others.
• Ling Jiu reported that something had happened in Dayandu.

Ling Yi arrived in Dayandu as Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü fought to the death, then found Zhang Wuji living in isolation and feeding on sheep to resist the urge to prey on humans. Zhang Wuji recounted Zhao Min’s tragic fate, leaving Ling Yi uncertain whether to kill him.

• Ling Yi teleported to Dayandu and found Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü battling in demonic madness.
• Ling Yi discovered that a video and its comments had helped trigger their rage, and watched them burn to ash in the sunlight.
• Ling Yi followed a passing shadow to a valley, where Zhang Wuji revealed that he had survived for half a year by feeding on sheep.
• Zhang Wuji explained that feeding on living humans made undead lose control, and said he had killed Wei Xiaobao after learning the location of buried treasure.
• Zhang Wuji told Ling Yi how Zhu Yuanzhang had abducted Zhao Min and had her buried alive, while Ling Yi wondered whether to kill him.

Ling Yi learned from Zhang Wuji that the Nine Yin Manual, Nine Yang Manual, and Huang Shang might hold clues to the undead resurrection, then joined Wang Er and the others in clearing Gusu City. He left to pursue the system’s coordinates after Murong Bo and Murong Fu were reduced to ash and the Sweeper Monk was trapped in his flames.

• Zhang Wuji told Ling Yi that historical records about Huang Shang and the Nine Yin Manual contradicted what he had witnessed, and he suspected the Nine Yin and Nine Yang manuals shared an unknown origin.
• Ling Yi copied both manuals, thanked Zhang Wuji, and returned to Gusu City, where he proposed finding Huang Shang and asked Wang Er to consult his system about the resurrection’s source.
• Wang Er received a stationary coordinate marker, while Ling Yi and the others spent the night using mysterious blood as bait to kill undead across Gusu City.
• As the undead dwindled, Wang Er spotted Murong Longcheng, Murong Bo, and Murong Fu fleeing, and Ling Yi teleported to their location.
• Murong Bo and Murong Fu burst into ash, while the Sweeper Monk was caught in flames; Ling Yi appeared and attacked him with a deep-blue fireball.

Ling Yi found Mount Kunlun’s hidden secret realm, destroyed its source of Death Qi, and discovered the Demon Suppression Bureau and a jade slip. After three days, he emerged to face Xiaoyaozi, who explained his plan to revive martial artists and demanded a fight.

• Ling Yi copied Daoist and Warrior skills, teleported to Mount Kunlun, and broke through a formation into the secret realm.
• Ling Yi ignited the dense Undead Power, exposing a ruined complex marked with a Demon Suppression Bureau plaque, and found a jade slip.
• As Death Qi faded across the world, undead martial artists weakened, while Wang Er’s potions helped Wang Chongyang and others transform into true humans.
• Three days later, Ling Yi left the secret realm and encountered Xiaoyaozi, who admitted to modifying cultivation techniques to preserve souls and revive martial artists.
• Xiaoyaozi confessed that he had planned to purify Death Qi and strengthen himself with soul beads, then blamed Ling Yi for ruining his plan.

Ling Yi questioned his role as a protagonist until Yin Wanqing advised him to gather the fortune of characters from different worlds by bringing them into the Ling Realm. After sending Xiaoyaozi there and guiding the martial heroes to a new world, Ling Yi set off on another journey between worlds.

• Ling Yi called Yin Wanqing, confessed that he felt directionless, and restrained Xiaoyaozi while they spoke.
• Yin Wanqing advised Ling Yi to gather fortune by capturing characters with fortune and bringing them into the Ling Realm, then urged him to finish each world's story properly.
• Ling Yi released Xiaoyaozi from his restraints and sent him to the Ling Realm.
• Ling Yi returned to You Shishi's home, told the undead martial heroes about a cultivation-friendly new world, and invited them to explore it.
• The next day, Ling Yi opened a passage and sent the martial heroes to a primitive planet in the Ling Realm, then departed on another journey between worlds.

Ling Yi, inhabiting the body of an orphaned child in Anyuan Village, was discovered to have perfect spiritual roots and traveled with Guan Kuo and Yun Feng to the Heaven and Earth Sect. The chapter ended as the elders prepared to test Ling Yi and Yun Feng before assigning them to mentors.

• Ling Yi regained his awareness while playing with village children and recognized Guan Kuo, a returning Heaven and Earth Sect cultivator.
• Guan Kuo tested Ling Yi with a rune-covered stone, discovered his perfect spiritual roots, and decided to bring him to the sect despite his apparent disability.
• Guan Kuo left Anyuan Village with Ling Yi and Yun Feng, explaining the importance of Sword Souls and the Immortal Ascension Platform along the way.
• The group reached Heaven and Earth City, where Ling Yi observed the Heaven and Earth Sect's influence and its system for recruiting children.
• Guan Kuo brought Ling Yi and Yun Feng to the elders' pavilion, where a young female elder signaled for them to take a final aptitude test.

Yun Feng revealed a rare lightning-element sword soul and became Grand Elder Xian Yu’s disciple, while Ling Yi concealed his true aptitude and was chosen by Li Mengyun. At her residence, Li Mengyun tested Ling Yi’s strength, recognized that he had taken over a body, and learned that he called himself Ling Yi.

• Yun Feng’s test revealed a lightning-element sword soul, and Elder Xian Yu used pressure to make him choose Xian Yu as his master.
• Ling Yi pretended to be dim-witted and showed an ordinary result on the testing stone, but Li Mengyun noticed his hidden cleverness and chose him as her disciple.
• Guan Kuo told Li Mengyun that Ling Yi’s aptitude had exceeded the testing stone’s limit and was at least perfect-grade.
• Li Mengyun asked whether Ling Yi had seized his body, then attacked him with her sword; Ling Yi stopped every strike with one finger.
• Ling Yi stayed silent through Li Mengyun’s questions about his former identity, then finally told her his name.

Ling Yi attended the Heaven and Earth Sect’s test for newly admitted disciples and discovered that Yun Feng was a reincarnated expert with his memories and power sealed. After Ling Yi easily sent the testing pillar to its third mark, Fourth Elder Yun Yi unleashed an oppressive force against him.

• Guan Kuo left Li Mengyun’s room with part of his memories erased and went to claim a reward for discovering Yun Feng’s lightning-type sword soul.
• Ling Yi stayed with Li Mengyun for a month, while cultivating the merged law called “One”; Li Mengyun advanced to the middle Golden Core realm by cultivating near him.
• Li Mengyun brought Ling Yi to the disciples’ test, where he examined Yun Feng and found a powerful sword soul sealed alongside Yun Feng’s memories and cultivation.
• The sect master arrived, and Ling Yi noticed the man had secretly reached the Nascent Soul Stage and appeared to have stolen sword souls from others.
• Yun Feng barely passed the test, while Ling Yi gently flicked the pillar and sent its reading to the third mark.
• Fourth Elder Yun Yi mocked Li Mengyun for spending resources on Ling Yi, then directed an oppressive force at Ling Yi, who grinned at him.

Ling Yi and Li Mengyun left the Heaven and Earth Sect for the Ancient Demon Forest, where the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword was rumored to have appeared. They watched as Feng Hong and Lan Rui pursued Yun Feng, whose escape Ling Yi quietly helped, and followed the group toward the forest.

• Ling Yi used an unseen method to make Elder Yun Yi pass gas in public, prompting the elders and disciples to flee while the sect master ordered an investigation and assigned shadow guards to watch Ling Yi and Li Mengyun.
• Over the next ten years, Ling Yi stayed in his quarters while Li Mengyun advanced to the late Nascent Soul Stage.
• Li Mengyun told Ling Yi that Wang Chong had departed for the Ancient Demon Forest, where the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword had been sighted, and Ling Yi agreed to go with her.
• Ling Yi and Li Mengyun found Feng Hong and Lan Rui pursuing Yun Feng to capture his lightning sword soul for Wang Chong.
• An unseen pressure weakened Feng Hong and Lan Rui's flying swords, allowing Yun Feng to escape, and Ling Yi flew after the pursuers with Li Mengyun.

Ling Yi and Li Mengyun reached the Ancient Demon Forest, where tens of thousands of cultivators gathered to claim the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword. As Hou Wanxiong proposed ways to decide who would take it, Yun Feng challenged his plan, and Hou Wanxiong forced the crowd toward his first proposal.

• Ling Yi and Li Mengyun disguised themselves in black robes and followed the cultivators toward the mountain containing the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword.
• Hou Wanxiong addressed the crowd and proposed that cultivators either try to draw the sword or compete in an elimination arena.
• Ling Yi explained that Hou Wanxiong could use controlled matchups to eliminate powerful rivals, while Li Mengyun considered exposing him.
• Yun Feng objected to Hou Wanxiong's arena proposal, prompting many cultivators to join his protest.
• Hou Wanxiong revealed his Spirit Severing cultivation and demanded that the crowd accept the first proposal.

Yun Feng drew the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword, and Hou Wanxiong and the other powerhouses left after marking him. A veiled woman abducted Yun Feng as nearly ten thousand cultivators pursued them, but a Spirit Explosion Formation Plate detonated ahead and halted Ling Yi and Li Mengyun.

• Hou Wanxiong forced cultivators to enter the Divine Sword Cave in turn and vanished one who argued, while Ling Yi sent cultivators who left into the Ling Realm.
• Yun Feng entered the cave and easily drew the Heaven-Breaking Divine Sword, which seemed to recognize him as its master.
• Hou Wanxiong and the other powerhouses left after placing marks on Yun Feng, and Ling Yi and Li Mengyun teleported out of the cave.
• A veiled late spirit severing stage woman grabbed Yun Feng and flew away, prompting nearly ten thousand cultivators to chase them.
• Ling Yi and Li Mengyun followed the crowd until a Spirit Explosion Formation Plate detonated ahead and its blast forced them to stop.