Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi bought every item at the charity auction, spending nearly 200 million and earning a system reward that increased his Script Generator uses and modification word count. After the auction, Zheng Feng invited him to an extravagant meal, where Guan Qing'er joined the group and revealed a surprising connection to North Leaf Province's richest man.

• Ling Yi bid ten million on each auction item and bought the luminous pearl for 100 million, bringing the auction to an end.
• Ling Yi received one additional Script Generator use and two more words for script modification, then checked his updated system interface.
• Zheng Feng invited Ling Yi to a meal at Dihao Cloud Court Hotel, and Ling Yi asked Zhang Huai to come along.
• Guan Qing'er insisted on joining them, and Zhang Huai introduced her as the daughter of North Leaf Province's richest man.
• Ling Yi questioned the introduction because he thought the province's richest man was surnamed Gao.

Ling Yi read a script revealing that Guan Qing'er would die from cyanide poisoning, then recognized a disguised woman from the script as someone he had just collided with. He used his Perception to locate her and pursued her near the private dining room.

• Zhang Huai explained that Guan Qing'er had taken her mother's surname, and Zheng Feng invited everyone to eat together.
• Ling Yi used his remaining script generation to read Guan Qing'er's future and saw her dead from cyanide poisoning.
• Ling Yi left the dining room and collided with a disguised woman outside the restroom, who quickly got up and left.
• The script revealed that Guan Qing'er would die around 11:30 the previous day after eating poisoned sashimi, and that the disguised woman was an unidentified person seen at the hotel.
• Ling Yi recognized the woman in the script's photographs and used his Perception to locate her nearby.
• Ling Yi headed after the woman.

Ling Yi read a future script revealing that he would capture Guan Qing'er’s killer, then asked the system whether modifying events would remain valid. After learning about Mirror Space-Time, he altered a line in the script, triggering a correction that could give him new abilities.

• Ling Yi recognized the masked server in white jeans as the woman who would kill Guan Qing'er and continued reading the script before intervening.
• The script revealed that Ling Yi would capture the woman, but investigators would identify him from blurry surveillance footage after he moved at more than three times the speed of sound.
• Ling Yi asked the system whether a modification would still work if he changed the future, and the system confirmed it was valid and explained Mirror Space-Time.
• Ling Yi changed an investigator’s question from whether the mysterious figure was an immortal or an Ability User to whether he was both.
• The system detected that Ling Yi’s modification exceeded the data limit and began correcting and adjusting it.

At a lavish feast, Ling Yi used his newly awakened aura perception to detect poisoned sashimi and stopped Guan Qing'er from eating it. He confronted the female assassin, while Zheng Feng challenged him and Zhang Huai judged Zheng Feng’s response harshly.

• Ling Yi admitted that the million-yuan feast did not suit his taste, and Zheng Feng grew displeased with his dismissive remarks.
• As the meal neared eleven thirty, Zheng Feng offered another serving of sashimi, and Guan Qing'er accepted one.
• Ling Yi sensed a foul, decaying aura from Guan Qing'er's sashimi and recognized a cold, bloody aura of killing intent from the female assassin who delivered it.
• Ling Yi took Guan Qing'er's plate and blocked the assassin from leaving, telling the room that she had poisoned the sashimi.
• Zheng Feng rejected Ling Yi's accusation and demanded an explanation, while Zhang Huai concluded that Zheng Feng was unfit for important responsibility.

Ling Yi stopped an assassin from killing him, and Liu Yunxiang badly injured her before Ling Yi prevented her from delivering a fatal blow. After the group returned to the bidding venue, Guan Qing'er thanked Ling Yi and offered to become his mistress, but Liu Yunxiang claimed him; then Bai Xiaomeng called, and Bai Xiaoqing spoke on the other end.

• A female assassin attacked Ling Yi, but he caught and snapped her dagger between two fingers.
• Liu Yunxiang knocked the assassin down and seriously injured her, then Ling Yi stopped her from kicking the woman in the temple.
• Zheng Feng objected to calling the inspectors, while Zhang Huai urged him to wait until after the bidding conference and warned him about his arrogance.
• Guan Qing'er asked Zhang Huai to investigate who had arranged the attack, then returned to the venue with Ling Yi and Liu Yunxiang.
• Guan Qing'er offered to become Ling Yi's mistress to repay him, but Liu Yunxiang insisted that Ling Yi was hers.
• Bai Xiaomeng called Ling Yi, but Bai Xiaoqing's voice came through the phone.

Ling Yi and Liu Yunxiang attended a project auction, where Ling Yi bought two projects to build ties with Zhang Huai and Liu Yunxiang secured an AI film and television project. The chapter ended as the auction introduced Project No. 73, the cutting-edge technology project Ling Yi needed for a system mission.

• Bai Xiaoqing called Ling Yi to say she was wrong, but he refused to meet her, and Liu Yunxiang offered to accompany him if he met her later.
• Zhang Huai explained how the bidding conference worked and said Projects No. 1 and No. 9 were especially safe investments.
• Ling Yi asked Zhang Huai for a large plot near Baihai City to build a company, and Zhang Huai said he would look into it.
• Ling Yi spent 300 billion yuan to secure Projects No. 1 and No. 9 as an investment in connections, while Liu Yunxiang spent 10 billion yuan on Project No. 29.
• The auction reached Project No. 73, and the host introduced it as the most cutting-edge of the technology projects.

At the bidding event, Ling Yi learned to distinguish Aura Perception from Aura Field Perception and noticed that the masked bidder for Project No. 73 had disturbing, powerful auras. When another bidder raised the price to two trillion, Ling Yi began to bid on the spacetime-folding project himself.

• Zhang Huai told Ling Yi that Project No. 73 had appeared at bidding events for five years and was widely considered a fake.
• Ling Yi used Perception to examine the masked person who bid one trillion on Project No. 73 and sensed black, white, and gold Aura Fields.
• Ling Yi explained to himself how Aura Perception revealed mental smells and emotions while Aura Field Perception revealed people’s physical condition through colors and effects.
• Zhang Huai said he had sent someone to investigate the masked bidder.
• The masked person confirmed the one-trillion bid, but another bidder immediately offered two trillion.
• Ling Yi frowned, raised his bidding paddle, and murmured about Spacetime Folding.

Ling Yi bid ten trillion for Project No. 73, prompting four suspicious bidders to flee, and pursued them to find out what they knew. After a group ambushed and captured the bidders, Ling Yi snatched the frail first bidder and escaped with him.

• Ling Yi watched four foreign bidders raise Project No. 73's price to five trillion and wondered whether its spacetime-folding technology was real.
• Ling Yi bid ten trillion, causing the four bidders to leave, then put Liu Yunxiang in charge and pursued them.
• Ling Yi disguised himself as a waiter, jumped from the hotel roof, and tracked the bidders as they fled on electric scooters in separate directions.
• Ling Yi noticed more than twenty people with powerful crimson, white, and gold auras ambush and capture the four bidders.
• Ling Yi appeared in the alley, seized the frail first bidder from five captors, and escaped to a rooftop as the crew-cut Captain watched.

Ling Yi interrogated Xiao Bagou, a former Bagou Kingdom prime minister and covert agent, about his assignment to bid on Project No. 73. Xiao Bagou revealed clues about the project before explaining that his many victims were Bagou people he killed ten years earlier.

• Ling Yi disarmed Xiao Bagou, broke his legs, and questioned him in a hotel suite.
• Xiao Bagou said he had been the Bagou Kingdom's prime minister before being imprisoned for corruption and recruited as an agent.
• Xiao Bagou revealed that he had spent ten years in the Ancient Country working as a publishing-house editor, then received an assignment to bid on Project No. 73.
• Xiao Bagou said Project No. 73 involved a team researching spacetime folding and that they might have accidentally developed a powerful technology related to quantum communications.
• Ling Yi accused Xiao Bagou of killing many people, and Xiao Bagou admitted he had killed Bagou people ten years earlier while destroying evidence of his corruption.

Ling Yi interrogated Xiao Bagou about the bombing and Project No. 73, then handed him over to Guan Ling. Still suspicious of the project, Ling Yi used his new script generation to target its person in charge.

• Ling Yi confirmed that Xiao Bagou had bombed a government building in Xiaoban City ten years earlier, killing more than three hundred people.
• The system rewarded Ling Yi with an extra script generation and a modifiable character after he exceeded the task requirements for Project No. 73.
• Xiao Bagou confessed to embezzling funds, blowing up the building, and following orders to secure Project No. 73 or leave Ancient Country.
• Xiao Bagou said he expected to be contacted if he secured Project No. 73 and suspected someone on its team was working with his people.
• Ling Yi handed Xiao Bagou over to Guan Ling, who recognized him despite his mask and took Xiao Bagou away in a van.
• Ling Yi failed to generate a script targeting Project No. 73 itself, so he generated one targeting the project's person in charge.

After modifying Li Yunshen's script to confirm that Ling Yi had Spacetime Folding Technology, Ling Yi received the technology as a USB drive and refused to sign the Project No. 73 contract. Li Yunshen arrived at the hotel after Ling Yi and Liu Yunxiang had left.

• Ling Yi learned from Li Yunshen's script that a mysterious person from the future had directed Li Yunshen to seek Spacetime Folding Technology from him.
• Ling Yi changed the script to state that he really had Spacetime Folding Technology, then confirmed the modification and received the system's ten-generation reward and version 2.0 update.
• Ling Yi learned that the system could immediately extract a confirmed modification's reward by consuming a script generation, and that its next upgrade required 100 total script generations.
• Ling Yi told Liu Yunxiang to cancel the Project No. 73 contract, leave the hotel, and tell Zhang Huai that he was angry with Li Yunshen.
• After Liu Yunxiang joined him in the car, Ling Yi received a disc-shaped USB drive containing the Spacetime Folding Technology information and said Li Yunshen's side would return twice the money.
• Li Yunshen emerged from the hotel with Zhang Huai, Zheng Feng, Guan Qing'er, and the other attendees, after Ling Yi and Liu Yunxiang had driven away.

After Zheng Feng slapped Li Yunshen while delivering Ling Yi’s message, Zhang Huai and Zheng Feng realized they had offended a powerful young master. Ling Yi’s information became top-secret, and Guan Qing'er came to Emperor Villa to ask him for protection, leaving him to reject her request.

• Zheng Feng slapped Li Yunshen while relaying Ling Yi’s warning, and Li Yunshen identified himself before leaving in anger.
• Zheng Feng blamed Ling Yi, while Zhang Huai criticized Zheng Feng and told him to handle the remaining business.
• As news of Ling Yi spread, investigators who tried to uncover his identity were themselves investigated, and some were sent to prison.
• Guan Qing'er visited Liu Yunxiang at Emperor Villa and explained that rival heirs threatened her as her father’s health worsened.
• Guan Qing'er asked Ling Yi to protect her for a few days, and he came downstairs and challenged her request.

Ling Yi accepted a mission to help Guan Qing'er become head of the Gao Clan and agreed to protect her while she stayed with Liu Yunxiang. As Ling Yi investigated the unusual auras of his antiques, Li Yunshen and Guan Ling headed toward his villa, worried that they could not withstand him.

• Ling Yi accepted the system's mission to help Guan Qing'er resolve her family problems and become family head, then secured her agreement that the Gao Clan would follow his lead.
• Guan Qing'er explained that her relatives wanted her dead, her father's will would take effect on her twentieth birthday in a month, and inheriting the clan might give her more authority but not guarantee safety.
• Ling Yi decided Guan Qing'er would stay with Liu Yunxiang while he served as both women's bodyguard and assistant.
• Ling Yi went upstairs to study the antiques he had bought and found that their auras could be absorbed.
• Li Yunshen and Guan Ling drove toward the Dihao Cloud Court villa, discussing their inability to find the mysterious person and Ling Yi's overwhelming strength.

Ling Yi gained Divine Power and Ability Power, learned to fly, and discovered that he could absorb the auras of antiques to replenish and increase his Divine Power. He began testing this ability on the antiques from the auction, leaving the rest of his collection unexplored.

• Ling Yi spent a script generation use to claim the script modification reward in advance and received Divine Power and Ability Power.
• Ling Yi asked the system about his new powers, learned that Divine Power was a weakened immortal's power and Ability Power came from the mind, and then watched the system's intelligence module enter hibernation.
• Ling Yi practiced flying with Divine Power for an hour, gradually gained control, and used up about a third of his supply.
• Ling Yi sensed the antiques on the second floor drawing him in and absorbed the golden aura from a battered bowl, replenishing much of his Divine Power.
• Ling Yi absorbed the black and golden auras from a luminous pearl, fully restoring his Divine Power, then took in some of the golden aura from a Tang dynasty vase and realized antiques could increase his power.

Ling Yi discovered that antique auras increased his Divine Power while energy from jade strengthened his Ability Power, whose abilities began to reveal themselves when he met Zheng Qi. After accepting Zheng Qi’s gift of eleven villas, Ling Yi used his power to restore the dying man’s health and asked him to help with something later.

• Ling Yi confirmed that antique auras increased his Divine Power and jade energy strengthened his Ability Power, though he had not yet understood their uses.
• Ling Yi saw Zheng Qi’s aura and sensed that it signified death, wealth, and salvation, realizing his Ability Power could gather information and save people.
• Zheng Qi offered Ling Yi ownership of the eleven unsold villas in Dihao Cloud Court as an apology for Zheng Feng’s actions.
• Ling Yi accepted the villas and secretly used his power to restore Zheng Qi’s failing health.
• Zheng Qi, feeling strong again, pledged to follow Ling Yi and left after Ling Yi told him he would need his help later.

Ling Yi chose Red Maple Mountain as the site for the No. 1 and No. 9 projects, then questioned Li Yunshen and Guan Ling about the mysterious person and the coming crisis. Li Yunshen and Guan Ling sought Spacetime Folding Technology, but Ling Yi refused to help while they withheld information.

• Zhang Huai presented three possible sites for the projects, and Ling Yi chose Red Maple Mountain.
• Ling Yi refreshed Zhang Huai with supernatural power and sent Liu Yunxiang and Guan Qing'er upstairs before speaking with Li Yunshen and Guan Ling.
• Ling Yi tried to generate a script targeting the mysterious person, but the system said the target could not be locked on to.
• Li Yunshen told Ling Yi that Spacetime Folding Technology could help save the world from a major crisis, but refused to reveal the verified information behind the claim.
• Ling Yi ordered Laifu to show Li Yunshen and Guan Ling out, and Guan Ling offered to make a deal for Spacetime Folding Technology.
• Li Yunshen realized that Ling Yi had the technology, while Guan Ling argued that it would take time to understand and develop it.

Ling Yi changed Guan Qing'er's future script so she would become the Gao Clan head and avoid assassination, confirming that future changes could alter the present. His next script showed Guan Qing'er violently punishing relatives who had repeatedly tried to kill her.

• Li Yunshen and Guan Ling left without getting what they wanted, while Ling Yi kept the money he had taken from Li Yunshen.
• Ling Yi generated a script showing Guan Qing'er failing to become family head and being assassinated, then changed it so she succeeded and survived.
• After Ling Yi confirmed the changes, the world briefly trembled, and the system awarded him an extra character for completing the mission.
• Ling Yi concluded that changing the future could affect the present, then reassured Liu Yunxiang that his concerns involved danger to her.
• Ling Yi generated another script depicting Guan Qing'er torturing her second uncle, second aunt, and cousin after surviving repeated assassination attempts.

Ling Yi took Liu Yunxiang and Guan Qing'er back to Dihao Cloud Court Hotel, where he encountered Zheng Feng and later rejected Bai Xiaoqing's plea to remarry. The Bai sisters were left behind when Ling Yi and his companions reached the ninth floor, and Ling Yi recognized Bai Xiaoqing's pink aura as rotten peach blossom luck.

• Ling Yi wondered why he had not appeared in Guan Qing'er's recent scripts and planned to test the scripts again after his simulations refreshed.
• Ling Yi drove Liu Yunxiang and Guan Qing'er to Dihao Cloud Court Hotel to test whether his continued interference would alter the modified script.
• Zheng Feng apologized to Ling Yi for the previous day's events, and Ling Yi wished him well as he adjusted to his temporary demotion.
• Bai Xiaoqing tried to embrace Ling Yi in the elevator and begged him to forgive her and remarry her, but Ling Yi reminded her how she had treated him and rejected her.
• Ling Yi, Liu Yunxiang, and Guan Qing'er left the elevator on the ninth floor, while Bai Xiaoqing and Bai Xiaomeng stayed behind; Ling Yi identified Bai Xiaoqing's pink aura as rotten peach blossom luck.

Ling Yi discovered that devouring an Aura Field meant devouring its owner's life, after unknowingly killing six assassins targeting Guan Qing'er. He left with the realization that Divine Power might strengthen Aura Fields, though he had yet to test it.

• Ling Yi and Liu Yunxiang discussed Bai Xiaoqing's towering pink Aura Field and Ling Yi's years of devotion to her, while Guan Qing'er learned how badly he had been treated.
• Liu Yunxiang's meeting with the AI Film and Television representative ended with signed agreements, leaving specific plans for later.
• Ling Yi noticed something as they left the hotel, while six armed assassins in a van prepared to attack Guan Qing'er.
• The assassins suddenly became cold and died within seconds, their bodies rapidly taking on the appearance of people dead for three days.
• Ling Yi realized he had killed the six by devouring their Aura Fields and wondered whether Divine Power could strengthen Aura Fields.

Ling Yi explored the powers and rules of his storyline system while protecting Guan Qing'er from repeated assassination attempts. After Guan Qing'er reported that her second uncle’s family had been arrested, Ling Yi warned that she would remain in danger until she took control of the Gao Clan and made clear that her death would cost them everything.

• Ling Yi worked with Liu Yunxiang on an AI film and television project, while his Divine Power let him detect and kill five more assassins targeting Guan Qing'er.
• Ling Yi used twenty-one storyline generations focused on Guan Qing'er to learn that he could control his involvement, break a storyline’s Karma through later intervention, and set storylines far into the future.
• Ling Yi obtained complete AI film and virtual game technologies through storylines showing Liu Yunxiang’s future success, and decided to start investigating Li Yunshen’s storylines.
• Guan Qing'er told Ling Yi and Liu Yunxiang that her second uncle and his family had been arrested after the Gao Clan’s crimes were investigated.
• Ling Yi warned Guan Qing'er that she would not be safe until she became the Gao Clan’s true head and threatened to donate the clan’s assets if she died.