Chapter Summaries

Liu Yunying secured freedom and a County Princess title, then warned Prince Li that Chen Qiao was an impostor connected to a hidden plot from ten years ago. Prince Li was left questioning how much of his life and household he could trust, while Ling Yi wondered why the Plot Collapse Progress Bar remained at five percent.

• The emperor bestowed the title of County Princess Yunying on Liu Yunying and granted her the freedom to come and go from Prince Li's residence.
• Riding together in Prince Li's palanquin, Liu Yunying told Prince Li that he had never met the real Chen Qiao and described the bodies buried beneath a willow tree in Chen Family Village.
• Liu Yunying revealed that a plague had killed everyone in Chen Family Village eight years earlier and pointed Prince Li toward Chen Qian at the Chen Family Cloth Shop as a possible source of evidence.
• Liu Yunying questioned Chen Qiao's monthly visits to Ling Yun Temple, leaving Prince Li shaken by the possibility that an impostor had been planted in his household.
• Ling Yi reflected that Liu Yunying's changed behavior should have caused greater plot collapse, but the progress bar still showed only five percent.

Ling Yi realized that Faint Soul could interfere too deeply with the plot, while Liu Yunying began plotting to seize the throne by making Prince Li emperor and eliminating their rivals. After secretly developing advanced weapons, she won Liu Hui’s support, though Ling Yi’s skill had influenced him too.

• Ling Yi suspected Faint Soul slowed the progress bar by turning characters into puppets and resolved not to use it on major plot characters recklessly.
• After Prince Li ignored her, Chen Qiao left his residence seeking help to kill Liu Yunying, while Liu Yunying decided she needed to leave the residence and pursue power.
• Liu Yunying told Ling Yi she intended to become empress regnant by helping Prince Li take the throne, then taking control of the court and killing him.
• With Ling Yi’s help, Liu Yunying made explosives and secretly developed six-barreled hand cannons with a group of craftsmen over half a month.
• Liu Yunying presented the weapons to Liu Hui and laid out her plan to expose the fourth prince after Eunuch Zhu poisoned the emperor; Liu Hui agreed to help, influenced by Faint Soul.

Liu Yunying rose from empress to ruler with Ling Yi’s help, but she grew suspicious and tried to kill him after taking the throne. Ling Yi revealed his identity and overpowered her, then departed when his system countdown ended, still wondering why the World Consciousness had given him no backdoor.

• Ling Yi secretly carried out Liu Yunying’s plans, helping her survive the princes’ power struggle and become empress while she kept a two-thousand-strong special forces unit in reserve.
• Liu Yunying had Chen Qiao executed, then expanded her forces and built public support through policies and achievements while Prince Li neglected the government.
• Prince Li tried to depose Liu Yunying, but the court rejected his orders; after she defeated the invading foreign tribes, Liu Yunying deposed him and ascended the throne.
• Liu Yunying admitted she intended to kill Chunying, but Ling Yi turned the soldiers’ guns against her and revealed that he had been manipulating events throughout the empire.
• Liu Yunying fired at Ling Yi, but his Unmoving as a God skill left him unharmed; the World Consciousness awarded him 500,000 Regret Points before his countdown ended.

Ling Yi transmigrated into Lu Xuan’s life and rejected the way Chen Yunwan had mistreated the man who sacrificed his Phoenix blood to save her, leaving after demanding a divorce. Back in Qin Shuang’s world, he learned that the World Consciousness had withheld a back door because it was displeased with his performance, and that it would remain asleep for three years.

• Ling Yi received Lu Xuan’s memories and learned that Chen Yunwan had used ninety-eight of his hundred drops of Phoenix blood to treat her premature aging disease while believing he had trapped her into marriage.
• Ling Yi slapped Chen Yunwan, told her they would divorce, and left their home after she threatened to break up with him.
• Ling Yi recalled that Lu Xuan had built Lu Pharmaceutical Group into a company worth over a trillion, then wondered whether Chen Yunwan had been unfaithful before returning to Qin Shuang’s world.
• Qin Shuang explained that she retained her memories after the World Consciousness took over her body and said she did not resent Ling Yi for replacing Qin Feng.
• Ling Yi told Qin Shuang about his recent worlds and complained that the World Consciousness in Liu Yunying’s world had given him only 500,000 Regret Points and no back door.
• Qin Shuang said the World Consciousness was upgrading and explained that it had withheld a back door because it was displeased with Ling Yi’s performance as one of several plot Ravagers.

Ling Yi returned to Lu Xuan’s world, uncovered the plot against Lu Pharmaceuticals, and ordered Zeng Ling to investigate Chen Yunwan and Chen Yun Feng. The next morning, Zeng Ling reported that both siblings had spent the night together, and Ling Yi ordered Chen Yunwan’s videos posted online without obscuring her face.

• Ling Yi returned after three days away and learned that an intruder had tried to enter Lu Pharmaceuticals’ laboratory, with Chen Yun Feng suspected.
• Ling Yi told Zeng Ling to interrogate Chen Yun Feng and gather evidence against Chen Yunwan, while he read the plots of both playthroughs.
• Ling Yi learned that Chen Yunwan would betray Lu Xuan in both playthroughs, ultimately taking his company and exploiting his Phoenix blood.
• Zeng Ling arrived the next morning and reported that Chen Yunwan and Chen Yun Feng had both been awake all night.
• Ling Yi ordered Zeng Ling to post Chen Yunwan’s videos online without pixelating her face.

Ling Yi learned from Liufu that the second-playthrough plot would not happen after the Plot Rules collapsed, then arranged Chen Yunwan’s divorce and brought down the Chen family. Chen Yunwan died from her aging disease, the rules collapsed, and Ling Yi left after asking Liufu to erase Zeng Ling’s memories of Lu Xuan.

• Ling Yi learned that Chen Yun Feng had tampered with the raw materials and ordered him kept in the laboratory, then sent Zeng Ling to rest.
• Ling Yi spoke with Liufu, who explained that Ling Yi’s system was unique and confirmed that the broken Plot Rules meant the second-playthrough plot would not occur.
• Ling Yi ignored Chen Yunwan’s plea to find Chen Yun Feng, used the scandal to pursue a divorce, and ordered the Lu Clan Group to crush the Chen family’s businesses.
• A week later, Chen Yunwan’s aging disease worsened, and Ling Yi refused to save her when she begged him at the hospital.
• Chen Yunwan died, the Plot Rules collapsed, and Ling Yi asked Liufu to erase Zeng Ling’s memories of Lu Xuan before revealing his name and vanishing.

After clearing 998 worlds, Ling Yi entered the final world as Liang Hao, the sole villain in a plot with nine male leads and thirty-one female leads. He learned that Jiang Qingqing was coming to break their engagement and went downstairs to face her, Ye Chen, and his father.

• Ling Yi complained to the World Consciousness about the repetitive plots, and it revealed that the final world's Plot Rules had made him the sole villain tied romantically to thirty-one female leads.
• The World Consciousness warned Ling Yi that Jiang Qingqing, one of nine female leads betrothed to Liang Hao, was coming to break off their engagement.
• Ling Yi met Zhang Lanyun, Liang Hao's mother, and learned that Jiang Qingqing was the successor-designate of Qianyuan Hall while Ye Chen, Xiao Fan, and Jiang Chen held the other new hall appointments.
• Ling Yi chose to confront the plot directly and went downstairs, where Liang Wanshan was questioning Jiang Qingqing about ending the engagement.
• Jiang Qingqing said breaking off the engagement was her own decision, and Liang Wanshan demanded that her father, Jiang Shan, discuss it with him in person.

Jiang Qingqing came to break off her engagement to Liang Hao, but her subordinate Ye Chen insulted and threatened the Liang Family. Ling Yi exposed Ye Chen’s powerful cultivation and revealed that he could predict Ye Chen’s words, then left Ye Chen kneeling and vomiting blood after a single slap.

• Jiang Qingqing arrived to break off her engagement to Liang Hao, and Ling Yi urged Liang Wanshan to accept her decision.
• Ye Chen called Liang Hao a good-for-nothing and threatened to destroy the Liang Family, prompting Jiang Qingqing to slap him and apologize to Liang Wanshan.
• Ling Yi inferred that Ye Chen possessed at least Innate-level cultivation, and Jiang Qingqing attacked Ye Chen after demanding to know his identity.
• Ye Chen caught Jiang Qingqing’s Moonlight Strike and threatened Liang Hao, but Ling Yi predicted his words and stepped forward to confront him.
• Ling Yi announced where he would strike and slapped Ye Chen through a wall, leaving Ye Chen kneeling and vomiting blood.

Ling Yi defeated Ye Chen after Ye Chen exposed himself as the War God Hall head candidate, and Ye Chen escaped when a jade pendant teleported him away. Ling Yi and Jiang Qingqing set off on a date, while the War God Hall replaced Ye Chen with Liu Chen and news of Ling Yi’s suspected Grand Master strength began to spread.

• Ling Yi deduced that Ye Chen was a candidate for the War God Hall and learned that Ye Chen planned to kill the witnesses to protect his identity.
• Ye Chen used the Bloodthirst Divine Art to reach the Grand Master Realm, but Ling Yi broke his attack with a slap that shattered his jaw and crippled his cultivation.
• Ye Chen vanished in a beam of black light from his jade pendant after threatening to return, and Liang Wanshan questioned Ling Yi about his strength.
• Ling Yi insisted that he was still a playboy, then persuaded Jiang Qingqing to postpone their broken engagement and join him for a night out.
• The War God Hall replaced Ye Chen with Liu Chen, who was due to arrive in Dafeng City as a security guard, while the Empress leaked news that Liang Hao might be a Grand Master.

Ling Yi took Jiang Qingqing out, left the nightclub when she disliked the noise, and challenged her to share a hotel bed without doing anything else. He gave her a storage ring and a self-driving sports car, while Jiang Qingqing left to return home and grew more curious about him.

• Ling Yi threw cash into the nightclub crowd and left with Jiang Qingqing when she said she disliked the rowdy atmosphere.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Qingqing that he had eight other fiancées, including the empress, and explained that the War God Hall might learn of his strength through surveillance devices.
• Ling Yi challenged Jiang Qingqing to share a hotel room and bed without losing control, but she questioned his claim that he could marry only her.
• Ling Yi summoned a sports car and gave Jiang Qingqing a storage ring, which she claimed with her blood and tested by storing and retrieving her handbag.
• Jiang Qingqing received a call from her father, Jiang Shan, and said she had to go home.
• Ling Yi gave the car to Jiang Qingqing and instructed Lockdown to take her home, leaving her intrigued by his mysterious abilities.

Ling Yi worried that the system would take everything from him after the final world, then decided to enjoy the life he had left. He learned that the empress had made Liang Hao a target by publicizing his Grandmaster strength, and began following Liu Yifeng, a protagonist with a Rebate System, as Liu made his first major windfall.

• Ling Yi checked his system inventory and, unable to change the system's plan to unbind after the 999th world, chose to enjoy his current life.
• Liang Wanshan and Zhang Lanyun discussed how the empress had spread news of Liang Hao's Grandmaster status to draw the two pavilions and Four Halls toward him.
• Ling Yi went to a jewelry store and found Liu Yifeng using his Rebate System with Lanlan, whose purchases earned her double their cost.
• Lanlan spent the afternoon buying Liu Yifeng jewelry, a car, and three homes, while Ling Yi followed them openly.
• After six in the evening, Lanlan noticed Ling Yi following them, and Liu Yifeng realized the same man had been behind them all day.

Ling Yi protected the Liang Family from three Late Masters sent to kill him, while Empress Zhang Ruyan arrived near the villa and recognized the attackers’ alliance. After the fight destroyed the villa, Ling Yi immobilized the fleeing assassins and prepared to make a public case for attacking the Two Pavilions and Four Halls.

• Ling Yi confronted Liu Yifeng about his money-making system, and Liu Yifeng admitted he had one before three masked Late Masters entered the villa.
• The attackers discussed Zhang Ruyan’s approach and struck Ling Yi, but his golden barrier shielded Liang Wanshan and the others as the villa was wrecked.
• Zhang Ruyan arrived nearby, recognized the Immortal Pavilion and Martial Pavilion’s collaboration, and condemned their ambitions.
• The three Masters unleashed more attacks, but Ling Yi and his companions remained unharmed inside his barrier.
• Ling Yi explained that he planned to wipe out the Two Pavilions and Four Halls, and he froze the three attackers with an Immobilization Spell when they tried to flee.

Ling Yi revealed his overwhelming power, declared that he would destroy the Immortal Pavilion and the other Four Halls, and heard Empress Zhang Ruyan explain how their territories challenged Great Qian’s authority. He transported the group to the Liang Family’s hidden stronghold, where he left Liang Wanshan to handle matters as he went to bed.

• Ling Yi announced that he would visit the Immortal Pavilion in three days and destroy it and the other Four Halls and two Pavilions.
• Empress Zhang Ruyan explained that the Pavilions and Halls had claimed territories without imperial authorization, including the Qianyuan Hall’s territory.
• Ling Yi considered the nine protagonists and realized that, with their original villains gone, he had become the common boss they would have to confront for plot experience.
• Ling Yi teleported Zhang Ruyan, Liang Wanshan, Jiang Qingqing, and the others to the Liang Family’s Splendid Garden on Dafeng Mountain.
• Ling Yi told Liang Wanshan to handle the remaining matters and went to his room, while Liang Wanshan worried about his disrespect toward the empress.

Ling Yi defeated the Immortal Pavilion’s allied forces, ended his 999th world, and used the Karma Eraser to make everyone across the worlds forget him. He returned to the Ling Realm with his memories restored, where Yin Wanqing scolded Uncle for writing a scumbag story, and Ling Yi immediately set off to transmigrate again.

• Zhang Ruyan’s false family tie to the previous sovereign was revealed, Jiang Qingqing offered herself to Ling Yi, and Ling Yi gave Qin Zhan and Zhao Chen’s treasures to Liang Wanshan and Zhang Lanyun.
• Ye Chen rallied nearly twenty Masters and several thousand Innate experts in a combined attack, but Ling Yi survived and mocked them.
• Ye Chen gathered everyone’s power for a final strike, but Ling Yi remained unharmed as Ye Chen disintegrated and the others collapsed.
• Ling Yi declared the Immortal Pavilion and four allied organizations enemies of Great Qian, triggering the end of the world and the system’s unbinding countdown.
• Ling Yi crushed the Karma Eraser to erase himself from the memories of people across the 999 worlds, then vanished as his memories unsealed in the Ling Realm.
• Yin Wanqing reprimanded Uncle for writing a scumbag plot, and Ling Yi opened the Infinite Passive Aura System and left to transmigrate again.

At sixty, Ling Yi regained his past-life memories and awakened a Heartthrob Points System, but its requirement to attract young beauties seemed nearly impossible. As he cycled home, he decided that even one point could transform his remaining years, while the system’s promised lifespan left him reflecting on how long he might live.

• Li Baoguo arrived late to his night shift after going on a blind date, and Ling Yi teased him without revealing that he knew about Li Baoguo’s cancer.
• Ling Yi left his security job and cycled toward his home in Baihai City’s sparsely populated southern suburbs.
• Ling Yi recalled that he had transmigrated as a baby, grown up in an orphanage, and only regained his past-life memories six months earlier, at age sixty.
• Ling Yi reviewed his Heartthrob Points System, which required him to attract a beauty with a looks score above 90 before she could become a target.
• Ling Yi resolved to try for at least one Heartthrob Point, which would grant him 100 yuan per second, and noted that the system listed his lifespan as 95 years.

Ling Yi found Jiang Qing'er, a surgeon with a looks score of 92, trapped and bleeding after her car crashed, and used the Life-Restoring Needle to stop her bleeding. Because she refused an ambulance and suited his goal of binding a beauty to the system, he righted her car and prepared to get her out.

• Ling Yi discovered that Jiang Qing'er was seriously injured and losing blood in her overturned car after drinking while driving.
• Jiang Qing'er pleaded with Ling Yi not to call an ambulance or the police, so he used the Life-Restoring Needle’s finger technique to stop her bleeding.
• Ling Yi realized Jiang Qing'er met the system’s beauty requirement and hoped she would earn him Heartthrob Points.
• After Jiang Qing'er agreed, Ling Yi pushed her car upright, jolting her unconscious.
• Ling Yi checked Jiang Qing'er's pulse, confirmed she had only fainted, and wondered whether the car still ran.

Ling Yi brought the wounded Jiang Qing'er home and used the Life-Restoring Needle to help her recover from blood loss. After cultivating his first Internal Energy, he removed the needles and found Jiang Qing'er hungry but much improved.

• Ling Yi drove Jiang Qing'er to his home in Academic Garden and left his electric scooter in the woods.
• Jiang Qing'er revealed she had woken during the drive and pretended to remain unconscious, then agreed to let Ling Yi treat her with his needle technique.
• Ling Yi used nine silver needles to speed Jiang Qing'er's blood production, and she fell asleep as her body warmed.
• Ling Yi prepared food, cultivated Internal Energy, and filled one-third of his dantian before hunger forced him to stop.
• Ling Yi found Jiang Qing'er sitting up and hungry, then used Retrieve Needles Across Space to remove the silver needles.

After rescuing Jiang Qing'er, Ling Yi learned that she had crashed her car while drunk after discovering her boyfriend’s infidelity, and the two shared a meal and talked at his home. Later, Ling Yi discovered that his internal force had changed his appearance and searched for a woman to test his Heartthrob Points system, ending on a singing streamer named Lin Hao.

• Ling Yi and Jiang Qing'er ate two pots of rice and a pot of stew, then she thanked him for saving her.
• Jiang Qing'er explained that she was a surgical specialist, had not been involved in stealing nanomedical bug technology, and had crashed after drinking over her boyfriend’s betrayal.
• Jiang Qing'er asked to stay at Ling Yi’s home and offered to pay rent, while Ling Yi considered how to earn Heartthrob Points from her.
• Ling Yi searched online for ways to make a woman’s heart flutter and noticed that his internal force had given him eight-pack abs, darker hair, and fewer wrinkles.
• Ling Yi searched for a livestreamer to test his system and used its probe function on Lin Hao, a singing streamer with a looks score of 90 and zero Heartthrob Points.

Ling Yi tested the Heartthrob Points system by tipping streamer Lin Hao, then permanently bound her and activated a wealth function that deposited money into his Blue Treasure balance. After he left her livestream, Lin Hao’s points rose again, leaving him unsure what had triggered the increase as he turned his attention back to cultivation.

• Ling Yi sent Lin Hao sports car gifts, asked her to turn off her filter, and heard her sing, earning his first Heartthrob Point and 100 Wealth Points.
• Ling Yi bound Lin Hao after the system confirmed the bond was permanent, unlocking an income of 100 yuan per second that accumulated in his Blue Treasure balance.
• Ling Yi sent Lin Hao 120,000 yuan in battleship gifts as she sang more songs, pushing her livestream to ninth place on the gift rankings without increasing her Heartthrob Points.
• Ling Yi followed Lin Hao and left the livestream, after which the system awarded her another Heartthrob Point and 100 Wealth Points.
• Ling Yi wondered whether following Lin Hao or leaving her stream caused the increase, then decided to investigate the system later and focus on cultivation.

Ling Yi’s internal force transformed his appearance overnight, drawing Jiang Qing’er’s attention and earning enough Heartthrob Points for him to bind her. As he considered entering the entertainment industry, he discovered Jiang Qing’er’s body could absorb his internal force, and his attempt to show off its power left him nursing a sore finger.

• Ling Yi woke looking decades younger, and Jiang Qing’er stared at his abs, touched them, and earned him enough Heartthrob Points to bind her for 200 Wealth Points.
• Ling Yi considered becoming a star by investing in a movie and playing the lead, while Jiang Qing’er admitted she wanted to stay with him and asked how he had changed so dramatically.
• Jiang Qing’er explained that her unusually sensitive skin made touch uncomfortable, though Ling Yi was an exception, and Ling Yi examined her wrist with internal force.
• Ling Yi discovered Jiang Qing’er’s body absorbed some of his internal force despite her having no martial arts training.
• Ling Yi cracked a glass coffee table by poking it with internal force, then hurt his finger from the counterforce, making Jiang Qing’er smile at him.