Chapter Summaries

Yang Kang adjusted to life in the modern world, while Ouyang Feng remained imprisoned and drew the attention of the Special Intelligence Bureau. The chapter left Yang Kang with Sister Su and Hong Qigong teaching Ling Yi internal cultivation.

• Yang Kang read The Legend of the Condor Heroes, realized he was more than seven hundred years in the future, and resolved to survive in the unfamiliar world.
• Sister Su visited Yang Kang, and he welcomed her into his room while a jealous crew member decided to drive him away.
• At Dafeng City's Third Detention Center, Gao Liang told Ouyang Feng that the law applied to everyone, but Ouyang Feng dismissed the threat and focused on restoring his internal power.
• Gao Xiaolan assessed Ouyang Feng as dangerous, and Gao Liang ordered the detention center to raise his cell's security level by two grades.
• In Ling Yi's rented apartment in Hengdian, Hong Qigong taught Ling Yi internal cultivation.

Ling Yi learned the Primordial Unity Heavenly Art from Hong Qigong and unexpectedly developed internal power in a single night, despite his supposedly poor martial aptitude. Hong Qigong was left stunned and faced with the promise to teach Ling Yi all his martial arts.

• Ling Yi formed an alliance with Hong Qigong and Huang Rong, then asked Hong Qigong to teach him martial arts.
• Hong Qigong explained the meridians and internal cultivation, and Ling Yi memorized the lesson immediately using his photographic memory.
• Hong Qigong taught Ling Yi the Primordial Unity Heavenly Art, and Ling Yi quickly sensed Qi, formed internal power, and completed heavenly circuits.
• Ling Yi became ravenously hungry after cultivating, ate his remaining food, and went out at dawn to buy buns and porridge.
• Huang Rong discovered Ling Yi cultivating internal power and told Hong Qigong that he had fulfilled the challenge.
• Hong Qigong confirmed Ling Yi had developed internal power overnight, while Ling Yi wondered if his cultivation talent was his real golden finger.

Ling Yi became Hong Qigong’s disciple after Hong Qigong discovered his extraordinary cultivation potential, then hurried to work and landed a featured role in Ip Man. He asked Brother Fatty about selling songs, only to learn that Brother Fatty was a songwriter with connections to singers’ managers.

• Hong Qigong examined Ling Yi, discovered his open meridians and vast dantian, and accepted him as a disciple while warning him to avoid evil and harming innocents.
• Ling Yi left Hong Qigong and Huang Rong at home and went to the set, where Brother Fatty explained that the Legend of the Condor Heroes director was upset over Huang Rong’s trouble getting into character.
• Ling Yi noticed the actors playing Guo Jing, Hong Qigong, Huang Yaoshi, and the Old Urchin, then finished filming smoothly after the actress playing Huang Rong found her footing.
• Brother Fatty arranged for Ling Yi to play Vajra, one of Jin Shanzhao’s underlings, in Ip Man for twenty thousand, though the director could still replace him if he failed to meet expectations.
• Ling Yi asked Brother Fatty about selling songs, and Brother Fatty revealed that he had written “A Chi” and “Tomorrow” and knew several singers’ managers.

Ling Yi asked Brother Fatty for help becoming famous as a songwriter, then learned Hong Qigong’s Carefree Wandering Movement and Palm Techniques with astonishing speed. The chapter ended with Huang Yaoshi working as a security guard in Dafeng City and planning to buy a mannequin to teach his young companion meridians and acupoints.

• Brother Fatty offered to review Ling Yi’s songs and bring him onto an afternoon production in Heng Zone 3, while Ling Yi headed out to buy ingredients.
• Ling Yi cooked lunch and showed Huang Rong how to use the kitchen, then asked Hong Qigong to teach him a martial arts technique for his fight scenes.
• Hong Qigong demonstrated the Carefree Wandering Movement Technique and Palm Technique outside the rental, and Ling Yi mastered them in half an hour while Huang Rong learned their basic forms.
• Huang Yaoshi patrolled Wujiu Shopping Mall in a security uniform and suggested buying a mannequin to help his young companion learn meridians and acupoints.

Huang Yaoshi continued teaching Ye Huan while keeping a low profile, as Yang Kang became entangled in Sister Su’s conflict with Chen Sheng. The chapter ended with Yang Kang plotting to kill Chen Sheng so he could secretly use his skull to practice the Nine Yin Divine Claw.

• Huang Yaoshi’s unorthodox training gave Ye Huan internal power but damaged his meridians, which Nine-Flower Jade Dew Pills mostly repaired.
• Ye Huan took Huang Yaoshi to investigate a disturbance at a clothing shop while Huang Yaoshi observed how people behaved in this world.
• Sister Su told Yang Kang that Chen Sheng was blackmailing her with intimate videos and photographs, and Chen Sheng burst in to threaten them.
• Yang Kang confronted Chen Sheng, then urged Sister Su to help remove him from the production so Yang Kang could act against him.
• Yang Kang revealed that he wanted Chen Sheng’s skull for his martial arts practice and said he had temporarily sealed Chen Sheng’s voice with a supposed medical technique.

Ling Yi joined the Ip Man crew through Brother Fatty’s favor, but Director Wilson Yip and Louis Fan initially treated him as a token hire. Ling Yi stunned everyone with his extraordinary martial arts, and Director Yip stopped him before he could leave after saying he would not play the role.

• Brother Fatty introduced Ling Yi to Zhao Feng and arranged for him to join the Ip Man crew, while Ling Yi gave Brother Fatty the lyrics to two songs to pitch to The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
• Ling Yi received makeup, a costume, and a script for a fight scene in which his character would challenge the Hung Kuen Martial Arts School’s master.
• Director Wilson Yip and Zhao Feng planned to test Ling Yi with Louis Fan and remove him if he proved unsuitable.
• Ling Yi dodged Louis Fan’s punches with an astonishingly tilted movement, struck his kidney, then evaded a sweeping kick and slapped him across the forehead.
• Louis Fan asked Ling Yi what martial art he had used, and Director Wilson Yip praised his potential but said he would not play the role.
• Ling Yi started to walk away, but Director Wilson Yip hurriedly called him back before finishing what he had to say.

Ling Yi arranged for Brother Fatty to sell his songs under the pen name Earth while keeping his identity secret, then began preparing for a more comfortable life in Hengdian. Hong Qigong suggested meeting Jin Dada to investigate how they might return to their world, and Ling Yi announced he planned to move them to a larger home.

• Ling Yi agreed to give Brother Fatty a thirty-percent cut to handle his songs, provided they signed a contract, kept his identity confidential under the pen name Earth, and left him to deal with any resulting trouble.
• Ling Yi bought books on writing and basic textbooks for Hong Qigong and Huang Rong, and planned to send ten thousand yuan to his family and rent a better place.
• Ling Yi returned to find Huang Rong learning to type and Hong Qigong watching anime, then considered the strange similarities between his world and the parallel world’s history and entertainment.
• Hong Qigong asked Ling Yi to arrange a meeting with Jin Dada, hoping the author of their story might help them find a way home, and Ling Yi agreed to ask around.
• Ling Yi told Hong Qigong and Huang Rong that he planned to move them to a larger house, ideally a villa in Heng District 5 where they could practice martial arts.

Ling Yi secured identity cards for Hong Qigong and Huang Rong, signed a one-year management contract with Brother Fatty, and earned money from selling songs. The chapter ended with Huang Rong cooking a feast and protesting when Ling Yi refused to let her drink because she was only fifteen.

• Ling Yi obtained Hong Qigong and Huang Rong's identity cards under the names Hong Qi and Huang Mei.
• Brother Feng asked Ling Yi to join a production the next afternoon, and Brother Fatty arranged a sale of two songs for six hundred thousand.
• Ling Yi signed a one-year management contract with Brother Fatty and gave him two more songs to sell.
• Ling Yi transferred money to his family, then returned home to find Huang Rong preparing dinner.
• Ling Yi bought Moutai for himself and Hong Qigong, but refused Huang Rong's request for liquor after learning she was fifteen.

Ouyang Feng recovered and attempted to escape the detention center, but Gao Liang’s team captured him and made him join the Special Intelligence Bureau. The next morning, Ling Yi moved Hong Qigong and Huang Rong into a new house, and they set out to explore the modern world and find ways to earn money.

• After learning from books that he had arrived more than seven hundred years in the future, Ouyang Feng smashed his cell camera and broke through the cell door, injuring his arms and exhausting some of his internal power.
• Gao Liang and more than fifty armed inspectors stopped Ouyang Feng, who surrendered and fastened on a Strongman Collar that could release a sedative and track him.
• Gao Liang invited Ouyang Feng to join the Special Intelligence Bureau and help find other people from his world; after seeing familiar names including Ouyang Ke in Gao Xiaolan’s notebook, Ouyang Feng agreed.
• Ling Yi rented a three-story house in Heng District 5, moved in with Hong Qigong and Huang Rong, opened bank accounts for them, and bought them smartphones.
• After Ling Yi left for the set, Hong Qigong and Huang Rong decided to look around the city and find ways to earn money, then left the house wearing masks.

Ling Yi joined the Ip Man production and filmed his scenes, then sparred with Donnie Yen and easily proved his superior martial arts. The crew ended the chapter wondering whether Ling Yi or Ye Cheng was stronger.

• Director Ye outlined Ling Yi’s role as the young master of a Tai Chi school who would fight Jin Shanzhao and later die at Xiao Bagou’s hands, but Zhao Feng questioned whether the expanded plot would overshadow Ip Man.
• Ling Yi met Donnie Yen and Ye Cheng, who looked almost identical to each other, and learned that Ye Cheng had been hired as a martial arts choreographer and Yen’s stunt double.
• Ling Yi filmed his non-action scenes with unexpected ease, impressing Director Ye with his acting.
• Donnie Yen challenged Ling Yi to spar, and Ling Yi defended effortlessly until Yen conceded defeat and praised him.
• Ling Yi demonstrated the Roaming Dragon Movement Technique for Donnie Yen, leaving the onlookers eager to know whether Ling Yi or Ye Cheng was stronger.

Ling Yi and Ip Man sparred, then discussed how they had both arrived from other worlds and learned that Ip Man had killed Ouyang Ke after he threatened Cheung Wing-sing. With Ouyang Feng heading to Baihai City after Ouyang Ke’s body was discovered, Ling Yi offered Ip Man help with money and identity papers.

• Ip Man challenged Ling Yi to spar, and Ling Yi’s strange movement technique let him evade Ip Man’s powerful attacks and win.
• Director Ye ended filming early to revise the script and add scenes for Ling Yi, who signed a new contract.
• Ip Man told Ling Yi that he and Cheung Wing-sing had arrived in this world five days earlier and that he had killed Ouyang Ke when Ouyang Ke threatened his wife.
• Ip Man explained that Ouyang Ke’s body had been discovered, and Ling Yi realized Ouyang Feng might soon learn of his son’s death.
• Ling Yi offered to help Ip Man and Cheung Wing-sing obtain identity cards, then gave Ip Man ten thousand in cash and his address.

Ling Yi reunited with his family, helped Huang Rong and Hong Qigong start selling boxed meals, and grew stronger while working as an actor and selling songs. The chapter ended with Hong Qigong deciding to investigate a string of murders in Liangchuan City that might have been committed by a martial artist such as Mei Chaofeng.

• Ling Yi gave Ip Man ten thousand yuan, bought study materials, and called his parents, whose conversation helped fuse his memories with the original owner's.
• Huang Rong and Hong Qigong returned with cooking equipment and a tricycle, announcing that they planned to sell boxed meals to film crews.
• Ling Yi told Hong Qigong and Huang Rong about Ip Man and worried that people from more powerful fictional worlds might appear; he then asked Hong Qigong to teach him the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms.
• Over the next half month, Ling Yi earned more than ten million yuan selling songs, reached Peak Acquired, and helped Ip Man and Cheung Wing-sing obtain identity cards.
• Ip Man watched news of seventeen murders in Liangchuan City, and Hong Qigong suspected a martial artist was responsible and set out to investigate whether Mei Chaofeng was involved.

Ling Yi, Huang Rong, Hong Qigong, and Ip Man traveled to Liangchuan to investigate the skull-crushing murders, with Yang Kang and Mei Chaofeng emerging as suspects. As Huang Rong and Ling Yi went out to explore the city, Gao Liang arrived with Ouyang Feng and Gao Xiaolan, also targeting Yang Kang and Mei Chaofeng.

• Huang Rong connected the murders to a film crew in Liangchuan and identified its lead actor, Yang Kang, as a likely suspect.
• The group planned to meet Yang Kang at the crew's wrap party at the Liangchuan Grand Hotel the next evening.
• Ling Yi listened as Hong Qigong and Ip Man compared martial arts, while privately reflecting on how he had fused internal power with Jin force.
• Huang Rong persuaded Ling Yi to go with her to sample Liangchuan's famous snacks.
• Gao Liang brought Ouyang Feng and Gao Xiaolan to the Liangchuan Grand Hotel, ordering Ouyang Feng not to kill anyone.
• Gao Liang's investigation indicated that two people had carried out the murders, and he suspected Yang Kang and Mei Chaofeng while seeking the Nine Yin Manual.

At a wrap party in Liangchuan, Ling Yi and his companions discovered that Yang Kang had arrived with a frightened Sister Su, while Ouyang Feng and Mei Chaofeng were also present. After the banquet ended, the group followed Ouyang Feng as the pursuers moved to capture Yang Kang and Mei Chaofeng.

• Ling Yi and Hong Qigong recognized Ouyang Feng at the banquet, while Ip Man worried that Ouyang Feng might learn he had killed Ouyang Ke.
• Huang Rong revealed that Yang Kang had become involved with Sister Su and suspected he had killed Chen Sheng to gain her support; Huang Yaoshi, working undercover as a security guard, secretly watched Huang Rong and Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi and his companions noticed Ouyang Feng seemed wary of two people accompanying him and speculated that the collar around his neck helped control him.
• Yang Kang arrived with Sister Su, whose fearful behavior led Hong Qigong and Ip Man to suspect Yang Kang had made her his puppet; Ling Yi also spotted Mei Chaofeng nearby.
• After the banquet ended, Ouyang Feng's group pursued Yang Kang while two others went after Mei Chaofeng, and Ling Yi and his companions chose to follow Ouyang Feng.

Ling Yi and his companions followed Ouyang Feng, who seized Yang Kang when the Strongman Collar alarmed, then fought Hong Qigong before escaping with Yang Kang. Back at the hotel, Ling Yi sensed someone calling to him and found Huang Yaoshi on the rooftop dressed as a security guard.

• Ling Yi, Hong Qigong, Huang Rong, and Ip Man followed Yang Kang and Ouyang Feng while Ling Yi sensed a hidden pursuer.
• Ouyang Feng’s collar alarmed near its range limit, so he dragged Yang Kang back, learned his name, and sealed his acupoints.
• Hong Qigong confronted Ouyang Feng, and the two fought until Ouyang Feng ended the battle and left with Yang Kang.
• Ling Yi warned the others that the authorities had noticed transmigrators and might use collars to control them, and the group returned to the hotel.
• Ling Yi sensed a powerful presence at the hotel, went to the rooftop, and found Huang Yaoshi wearing a security guard’s uniform.

Ling Yi fought Huang Yaoshi, explained his relationship with Huang Rong, and began investigating how his enhanced Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms formed golden dragons. After returning to Baihai City, he heard from Director Ye about a possible role in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

• Huang Yaoshi attacked Ling Yi, but Ling Yi unleashed eighteen golden dragons with his Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms and stopped them when Huang Yaoshi called for a halt.
• Ling Yi told Huang Yaoshi that he treated Huang Rong as a younger sister, and Huang Yaoshi asked him to protect her before leaving to attend to other matters.
• Ling Yi tested whether he could ride a golden dragon and then studied his dantian, discovering that a dragon-shaped phantom formed there whenever he used the palms.
• Huang Rong joined Ling Yi for breakfast with Hong Qigong and Ip Man, and she said her father would avoid trouble and had his reasons for not meeting her yet.
• Ling Yi returned to Baihai City with the others, and Director Ye called that evening to ask if he wanted a role in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

Ling Yi and his companions prepared for Ouyang Feng’s revenge while Ip Man agreed to film Ip Man 2, and Ling Yi learned he might audition for Murong Fu. Meanwhile, Mei Chaofeng was rescued by Huang Yaoshi, Yang Kang occupied Ouyang Feng’s former cell, and Gao Liang sent Ouyang Feng after Qiu Qianren while planning to investigate Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi learned Director Ye had recommended him to audition for Murong Fu and advised Ip Man and the others to stay cautious because Ouyang Feng might seek revenge for Ouyang Ke.
• Ip Man agreed to film Ip Man 2, and Hong Qigong and Huang Rong decided to accompany him so they could travel together.
• Mei Chaofeng escaped the detention center with Huang Yaoshi’s help, while Yang Kang took her former place in custody.
• Ouyang Feng identified Huang Yaoshi as Mei Chaofeng’s rescuer and offered to capture them, but Gao Liang assigned him to find Qiu Qianren alive instead.
• Gao Liang traveled toward Baihai City with Gao Xiaolan to meet Hong Qigong and the others and investigate Ling Yi, showing her a video of eighteen golden dragons above the Liangchuan City Grand Hotel.

After signing on to play Murong Fu in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Ling Yi arranged to sell Zhou Huajian the song "A Sutra Hard to Recite" and finished taking costume stills. Traversal thunder then brought A Zhu and Wang Yuyan to him, and they mistook him for their cousin Murong Fu; the chapter ended as Hong Qigong and the others recognized their world as Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

• Ling Yi signed contracts for his songs and asked Brother Fatty to find medicinal tonics for his martial arts training.
• Brother Fatty told Ling Yi that Zhou Huajian wanted to buy a song, and Ling Yi offered him "A Sutra Hard to Recite" as a potential Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils theme song.
• Ling Yi returned to the production and spent the afternoon taking costume stills, then walked home that night.
• Two bolts of traversal thunder appeared in front of Ling Yi, and A Zhu and Wang Yuyan emerged from the lightning.
• A Zhu and Wang Yuyan called Ling Yi their cousin, and he brought them home to meet Hong Qigong and the others.
• Ling Yi introduced A Zhu and Wang Yuyan as fellow transmigrators, and Hong Qigong and the others recognized Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils.

Ling Yi and the others discussed why people from several fictional worlds had traversed into their world, while Ling Yi decided not to change his role in the upcoming production. Ouyang Feng arrived in Gaozang District on a mission to find Qiu Qianren, but he secretly sought a way to disable his tracking collar so he could avenge Ouyang Ke.

• Huang Rong challenged Wang Yuyan's faith in Murong Fu, and Ling Yi stopped the argument and ordered that Wang Yuyan receive the fourteen Heavenly Books.
• Ling Yi, Hong Qigong, and Ip Man theorized that the traversals might be linked to film and television productions and agreed to seek information from the authorities.
• Ling Yi considered withdrawing from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils or changing his role, but trusted his foreboding and decided to wait for the next production.
• Huang Rong told Ling Yi that Hong Qigong and Ip Man were researching a way to fuse internal power and force, while A Zhu and Wang Yuyan were reading the novels.
• Ouyang Feng sent more than twenty followers to find Qiu Qianren in Gaozang District while he planned to disable his collar and later return to Baihai City to kill Hong Qigong and the others.

Ouyang Feng recruited Bald Qiang and a scruffy electronics expert to build a jammer for his signal collar, then investigated a temple where lightning had struck. There, he encountered a powerful monk whose innate strength unsettled him.

• Ouyang Feng forced Bald Qiang to take him to a technician, who identified his collar as an official signal receiver and warned that removing it could trigger its defenses.
• The technician built a small signal jammer, and Ouyang Feng poisoned him and Bald Qiang, then ordered them to work for him under threat.
• Ouyang Feng learned from Bald Qiang that lightning had struck a nearby temple and went there to look for other transmigrators.
• At the temple, Ouyang Feng met a burly monk who recognized his perfected peak-acquired internal force and revealed a strength that Ouyang Feng sensed was innate.