Chapter Summaries

Guan Qing'er asked Ling Yi to accompany her home, and he and Liu Yunxiang agreed to take her the next afternoon while preparing to move against the Gao Clan. After promising Liu Yunxiang they would marry within a month, Ling Yi used the Life Script System to generate a future script for Li Yunshen.

• Guan Qing'er told Ling Yi that her father's condition was worsening and asked him to go home with her, but Liu Yunxiang teased her for trying to steal Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi decided it was time to deal with the Gao Clan and messaged Zhang Huai and Guan Ling that they could make their move.
• Ling Yi told Guan Qing'er that he and Liu Yunxiang would take her home the next afternoon, and she resigned herself to leaving.
• Liu Yunxiang asked Ling Yi whether he had feelings for Guan Qing'er, and he reassured her before promising they would marry within a month.
• At midnight, Ling Yi told the Life Script System to generate a script for Li Yunshen set ten years in the future, specifying that he would not participate.

Ling Yi read a future script in which the Spacetime Mirage heralded a Spacetime Tide that could destroy their spacetime, and Guan Ling urged Li Yunshen to find him. After obtaining a Spacetime Folding Device, Ling Yi generated another script and learned that a mysterious person had threatened to reclaim everything.

• Li Yunshen and Guan Ling argued over whether to destroy their unfinished Spacetime Folding Device or search for Ling Yi before the Spacetime Tide arrived.
• Guan Ling drove toward Dafeng City to find Ling Yi while Li Yunshen returned to work on the device.
• Ling Yi considered whether his script modifications had caused the Spacetime Tide and suspected the mysterious person might be framing him.
• Ling Yi revealed the silver-white Spacetime Folding Device, whose golden Aura Field suggested it held Spacetime Authority.
• Ling Yi generated a new script set ten years later, where he confronted Li Yunshen and learned the mysterious person's last message had promised to reclaim everything.

Ling Yi read a script about a mysterious person and a Spacetime Mirage, then learned that the person had sent Li Yunshen a message claiming to be Ling Yi from the future. As Ling Yi investigated the earlier messages, he found evidence that the mysterious person had helped him and warned of the Spacetime Tide, but he remained unsure who the sender was.

• Guan Ling told Ling Yi and Li Yunshen that a Spacetime Mirage had appeared in Baihai City, and Ling Yi flew off to investigate.
• Ling Yi read the script, concluded the mysterious person might have caused the Spacetime Tide, and changed a line from “a thousand” to “a hundred thousand.”
• The next morning, Li Yunshen and Guan Ling visited Ling Yi, and Li Yunshen showed him a message claiming the sender was the future Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi doubted that the mysterious person was his future self because the new message differed from the script’s earlier message and had been sent to Li Yunshen.
• Ling Yi checked the sender’s previous messages and learned that the sender had arranged special privileges for his bank account, provided technology, and warned that Ling Yi needed a Spacetime Folding Device to withstand the Spacetime Tide.

Ling Yi examined the mysterious person's messages and concluded they were steering Li Yunshen and Guan Ling toward blaming him for the Spacetime Tide. He left them questioning whether the sender was linked to Li Yunshen and whether Quantum Communication Technology could send messages across spacetimes.

• Ling Yi reasoned that the sender's use of “possibly” suggested knowledge of multiple spacetime outcomes and ruled out the sender being a future version of himself.
• Ling Yi read the messages explaining Spacetime Tides and Spacetime Mirages, then told Li Yunshen that the sender was trying to frame him as the cause of the tide.
• Li Yunshen and Guan Ling agreed that the messages seemed to be steering them, while Li Yunshen suggested the sender might be a future Ling Yi trying to correct his mistake.
• Ling Yi challenged Li Yunshen's explanation for why the sender had contacted him and suggested the sender might instead be a future Li Yunshen.
• Ling Yi questioned whether Li Yunshen's technical team had truly lost control of Quantum Communication Technology and raised doubts about the reported traitor's death.
• Ling Yi asked whether Quantum Communication Technology could communicate across spacetimes, leaving Guan Ling increasingly troubled and Li Yunshen angry.

Ling Yi learned that devouring Aura Fields gave him new powers and continued strengthening himself while the truth behind the scripts gradually emerged. On his way to take Guan Qing'er home, he encountered Bai Xiaoqing and Bai Xiaomeng, whose strange behavior and threat to deal with him left him bewildered.

• Li Yunshen and Guan Ling reacted grimly to Ling Yi's warning, but Ling Yi assured them the world would be safe and sent them away.
• Ling Yi took Guan Qing'er back to the Gao Clan, where Zhang Huai's purge had cleared out the clan's troublemakers.
• Bai Xiaoqing stopped Ling Yi's car with Bai Xiaomeng, threatened to deal with him later, and vanished with her through a black vortex after Bai Xiaomeng called them Mommy and Daddy.
• Ling Yi and Guan Qing'er were briefly immobilized by a snap from inside the vortex, then Ling Yi drove Guan Qing'er home and flew back to avoid her advances.
• Ling Yi used his scripts on Li Yunshen to obtain Spacetime Folding Devices, gaining Divine Power and new control over Aura Fields, while the truth gradually surfaced.

Ling Yi uncovered that the parallel Li Yunshen had caused the coming spacetime tide and defeated him before he could destroy the Main World. Ling Yi then transmigrated again, while Yin Wanqing followed him with a randomly assigned identity, hoping for a better role.

• Ling Yi learned that the parallel Li Yunshen had triggered the spacetime tide to kill him and had manipulated the creation of the Spacetime Folding Device to protect the Main World.
• Ling Yi froze the world and left a clone to finish resolving its affairs before using the Infinite Passive Transmigration Aura to enter a new world.
• In the Ling Realm, Yin Wanqing confronted Uncle about her previous role, and Uncle explained that his father’s illness had affected his writing.
• Uncle told Yin Wanqing that Ling Yi had transmigrated, and she chose to follow him to test an idea by replacing a random character with Karmic Luck while fully sealed.
• Uncle hoped Yin Wanqing would receive a better identity, then returned to his own world to write.

Ling Yi had transmigrated into a world where Illusion Martial Practitioners fought Phantom Demons, but he had yet to discover his promised advantage. After learning that Fairy Ye had arrived in Red Maple City to deal with a Phantom Demon, he reflected on how he had survived the creature’s attack and remained an ordinary person.

• Ling Yi’s coworkers noticed that Fairy Ye, Ye Ling’er, had arrived at the Ninety-Five Hotel and speculated that a powerful Phantom Demon had appeared in Red Maple City.
• Ling Yi recalled that Illusion Martial Practitioners contracted fantasy characters as Illusion Spirits and that Phantom Demons could escape from fantasy worlds or betray their practitioners.
• Ling Yi remembered that the Phantom Demon had cut the Xiangyang Residential Complex building in half with Saber Qi, killing the original Ling Yi and his family before he transmigrated into the body.
• The Illusion Martial Bureau housed Ling Yi at the Ninety-Five Hotel, paid him a million in compensation, and made him sign a confidentiality agreement.
• Ling Yi realized he was twenty-six and too old to contract an Illusion Spirit, leaving him dependent on finding his missing golden finger.

Ling Yi researched known Fantasy Worlds and considered becoming an Illusion Martial Master, hoping to escape the dangers facing ordinary people. A Phantom Demon appeared near the Ninety-Five Hotel, where Ye Ling'er was already fighting it.

• Ling Yi used information about Illusion Spirits to compile a list of Fantasy Worlds and reflected on the dangers posed by Phantom Demons from worlds like Chinese Paladin 1 and Kung Fu.
• Ling Yi concluded that his knowledge of Fantasy Worlds could help Illusion Martial Practitioners improve their compatibility with their Illusion Spirits.
• Ling Yi considered becoming an Illusion Martial Master but wondered how he could persuade others that an ordinary person could teach them.
• An alarm sounded, and Ling Yi saw Ye Ling'er fighting a burly, saber-wielding man on the street below the Ninety-Five Hotel.
• Ling Yi suspected the man was the Phantom Demon previously seen at Xiangyang Residential Complex.

Ling Yi escaped the shattered hotel after the Moon Worship Sect squad leader’s Phantom Demon devastated the building, and resolved to become a Demon Martial Practitioner to gain power. The badly injured Fairy Ye crashed beside him as the Phantom Demon’s danger closed in.

• Ling Yi recognized the Phantom Demon as the Moon Worship Sect squad leader from the Chinese Paladin 1 game world and fled toward the hotel’s basement.
• The Phantom Demon’s Saber Qi sliced through the hotel, wrecking the elevator and collapsing the building around Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi climbed out of the damaged elevator and vowed to become a Demon Martial Practitioner, despite knowing little about how to form a contract with a Phantom Demon.
• Fairy Ye, Ye Ling'er, crashed into the steps beside Ling Yi, injured and coughing blood.
• Ling Yi looked up, sensed the Phantom Demon nearby, and realized he was in immediate danger.

Ye Ling'er repeatedly fought the Fourth Tier Moon Worship Sect Phantom Demon at close range until Ling Yi told her to use Zhao Ling'er's ranged spells. When she ran out of Spiritual Power and the Phantom Demon prepared to attack, Ling Yi told her to order it to contract with him, and it entered his body.

• Ye Ling'er tried to protect Ling Yi from the Phantom Demon, but it quickly defeated her and left her badly injured.
• Ling Yi reminded Ye Ling'er of the Guanyin Curse, and she used it to heal herself.
• Ye Ling'er charged the Phantom Demon again, but Ling Yi urged her to use ranged curses; she froze it with Ice Curse, then discovered she had run out of Spiritual Power.
• The Phantom Demon broke free and moved to capture Ye Ling'er, who said it might retreat or initiate a contract with Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi told Ye Ling'er to order the Phantom Demon to contract with him, and after she did, it turned into a streak of light and entered Ling Yi's body.

Ling Yi successfully contracted a Phantom Demon and inherited its power, becoming a Fourth Tier Demon Martial Practitioner. He revealed information about Ye Ling'er's Illusion Spirit, Zhao Ling'er, and left Ye Ling'er with a small amount of information in exchange for five million.

• Ye Ling'er watched Ling Yi complete a willing Phantom Demon contract and receive the demon's cultivation, skills, and memories.
• Ling Yi and Ye Ling'er left the crowd near the collapsed Ninety-Five Hotel and checked into a twin room at the Red Maple Hotel.
• Ling Yi explained that the Phantom Demon had served the Moon Worship Sect and had been sent to retrieve Zhao Ling'er, whom Ye Ling'er carried as her Illusion Spirit.
• Ling Yi claimed he sold information about Illusion Spirits and said Zhao Ling'er was a divine descendant of at least Eighth Tier, prompting Ye Ling'er to offer five million.
• Ling Yi took the money and told Ye Ling'er that Zhao Ling'er was innocent, kind, and fond of white dresses, leaving Ye Ling'er to question the value of the information.

Ling Yi proposed that Ye Ling'er act as his agent, selling his knowledge about Illusion Spirits in exchange for Life Stones and a ten-percent cut. Ye Ling'er agreed and offered to have her teacher certify him as a Demon Martial Practitioner, leaving Ling Yi unsure whether her warning was also a threat.

• Ling Yi considered how knowledge of Illusion Spirits could raise compatibility and how Life Stones could strengthen Illusion Spirits and Phantom Demons.
• Ling Yi offered Ye Ling'er a ten-percent cut to sell Illusion Spirit information and earn Life Stones, and she accepted.
• Ye Ling'er explained that the Illusion Martial Bureau treated Demon Martial Practitioners as dangerous because past practitioners had turned into Phantom Demons and caused a catastrophe.
• Ye Ling'er offered to have her teacher vouch for Ling Yi and arrange his Demon Martial Practitioner certification, calling herself his best partner if his claim was true.

Ling Yi negotiated a partnership with Ye Ling'er to sell his Illusion Spirit knowledge while remaining behind the scenes, in exchange for her help obtaining Demon Martial Practitioner certification. As Ling Yi shared Zhao Ling'er's spell information, Ye Ling'er's compatibility rose from forty percent to eighty-one percent, and they discussed how valuable such information could be.

• Ling Yi insisted Ye Ling'er sell the Illusion Spirit information without revealing his involvement, and they settled on her receiving thirty percent while she sought her master's support for his certification.
• Ye Ling'er also required Ling Yi to help raise her compatibility with her Illusion Spirit above eighty percent, and Ling Yi agreed to work with her.
• Ling Yi explained Zhao Ling'er's nine spell schools and began listing her spells, causing Ye Ling'er to receive an inheritance and glow as her compatibility increased.
• Ye Ling'er revealed that her compatibility had risen from forty percent to eighty-one percent, and Ling Yi asked how they should price the information.
• Ye Ling'er said valid Illusion Spirit information would start at a thousand Life Stones, with especially valuable skill information potentially costing ten or a hundred times more.

Ling Yi and Ye Ling'er exchanged photos mocking each other's sleeping poses before parting, and Ling Yi spent the next three days setting up a new life while waiting for her return. As he considered how to grow stronger, he realized he could not cultivate the techniques used by a defeated Phantom Demon.

• Ye Ling'er told Ling Yi she would return to Dragon Capital Illusion Martial Academy and be back within three days, while Ling Yi planned to resign and find a new home.
• Ye Ling'er and Ling Yi secretly photographed each other sleeping in poses shaped like a 5 and a 7, then exchanged the pictures with teasing messages before going their separate ways.
• Ling Yi resigned from his design company, bought a small supermarket with a room behind it, and purchased an SUV.
• Ling Yi worried that Ye Ling'er's growing fame would increase the risk of his Demon Martial Practitioner identity being exposed.
• Ling Yi reflected that a Moon Worship Sect squad leader had mastered both the Body Tempering Art and Basic Qi Refining Art, then admitted he could not cultivate either technique himself.

Ye Ling'er gave Ling Yi his Demon Martial Certificate and a storage backpack, then showed him their first client's Illusion Spirit, Brother Sum. Ling Yi proposed that the client use an axe to improve Brother Sum's compatibility, only to learn that the Illusion Spirit belonged to Ye Ling'er's female best friend.

• Ye Ling'er demanded that Ling Yi delete the secret photos of her, while he insisted she delete her photos of him first.
• Ye Ling'er gave Ling Yi a Demon Martial Certificate listing Jiang Yun as his guarantor and a four-slot storage backpack containing 700 Life Stones.
• Ling Yi bound the storage backpack with his blood and sensed that his Phantom Demon wanted to eat the Life Stones.
• Ye Ling'er showed Ling Yi their first client's Illusion Spirit, and he recognized it as Brother Sum, leader of the Axe Gang.
• Ling Yi told Ye Ling'er to ask the client to switch to an axe, then learned that the client was Ye Ling'er's best friend and Brother Sum was a girl's Illusion Spirit.

Ye Ling'er explained how Illusion Spirits cultivated and described her escalating prices for increasing compatibility after her best friend’s compatibility rose by five percentage points by switching to an axe. Ling Yi deduced that Illusion Martial Practitioners could enter the Fantasy World at ninety percent compatibility, and Ye Ling'er wondered if he was a Parallel Phantom Demon.

• Ye Ling'er sent her best friend Ling Yi’s advice to try changing her weapon to an axe, and her friend soon reported that her compatibility had risen by five percentage points.
• Ling Yi asked why cultivation techniques could not be cultivated, and Ye Ling'er explained that Illusion Spirits converted Life Force into energy and fed it back to their Illusion Martial Practitioners.
• Ye Ling'er described her tiered prices for raising compatibility and said her best friend owed them four thousand Life Stones.
• Ye Ling'er explained that compatibility above eighty percent was difficult to raise and refused to reveal what happened at ninety percent, calling it an Illusion Martial Army secret.
• Ling Yi reasoned that Illusion Martial Practitioners could enter the Fantasy World at ninety percent compatibility, and Ye Ling'er asked if he was a Parallel Phantom Demon.

Ling Yi explained why Ye Ling'er had mistaken him for a Parallel Phantom Demon, and she described the two known cases and the dangers of revealing knowledge about Illusion Spirits. After Ye Ling'er left for a mission, Ling Yi wished he knew everything about Fantasy Worlds and Illusion Spirits, then collapsed when golden light emerged from his mouth.

• Ye Ling'er rejected Ling Yi's claim that he was a Parallel Phantom Demon because he had a documented birth and upbringing, but admitted there was something strange about him.
• Ye Ling'er told Ling Yi about a doctor who had secretly taken patients' Life Force and whose diary helped the Ancient Country develop its Illusion Martial Army.
• Ye Ling'er explained that another Parallel Phantom Demon escaped a family's imprisonment and joined America, and she reassured Ling Yi that her master, Jiang Yun, would protect him.
• Ye Ling'er left for a weeklong mission and told Ling Yi to contact her by text if anything urgent happened.
• Ling Yi worried that his limited knowledge of Illusion Spirits could leave him vulnerable, wished he knew everything about them, and fainted after golden light shot from his mouth.

Ling Yi recovered from an unexplained fainting spell, organized what he knew about Illusion Martial Practitioners, and discovered a status panel showing his cultivation. After realizing Ye Ling'er might be connected to the head of state, he opened the beginner information file she sent him.

• Ling Yi woke after more than ten hours on the floor, found nothing physically wrong, and ate a huge pot of instant noodles.
• Ling Yi wrote down recent events and questioned why Illusion Martial Practitioners knew so little about Illusion Spirits if the Illusion Martial Army could enter Fantasy Worlds.
• Ling Yi summoned a translucent status panel that showed his Qi Refining Realm Third Level and Master Realm Late Stage cultivation, along with his techniques and energy reserves.
• Ling Yi recognized Jiang Yun as the head of state's wife and wondered whether Ye Ling'er was part of their upcoming foreign delegation.
• Ye Ling'er sent Ling Yi a file titled "Basic Illusion Martial Practitioner Information (Dragon Capital Illusion Martial Practitioner Academy Beginner Edition)," and he began reading it.

Ling Yi studied Ye Ling'er’s information about Illusion Martial Practitioners, their realms, Illusion Spirits, and the risk of becoming Phantom Demons. He concluded that the Fantasy Battlefield’s war was likely fought mainly by powerful figures from the Fantasy Worlds, and wondered if the real world was itself another Fantasy World.

• Ling Yi learned that Illusion Martial Practitioners had twenty-seven tiers and that Variant Martial Practitioners could bind extra Illusion Spirits at the cost of consuming more resources and Life Force.
• Ling Yi read that an Illusion Spirit could awaken its memories and intelligence, turn against its practitioner, and make them a Phantom Demon, while compatibility affected the risk and power of awakening.
• Ling Yi learned that only screened Illusion Martial Practitioners above the Mortal Seventh Tier could join the Illusion Martial Army and potentially enter the Fantasy Battlefield.
• Ling Yi considered how the Fantasy Battlefield connected the Fantasy Worlds and the real world, and questioned who fought there.
• Ling Yi compared the ruler’s battle against a Black Dragon with the Moon Worship Sect squad leader’s inherited memories and judged that the ruler’s strength did not make the Illusion Martial Army the war’s main force.
• Ling Yi concluded that Fantasy World powerhouses were likely the main players in the war and considered that the real world might be another Fantasy World.

Ling Yi found that Life Stones restored his Spiritual Power too slowly and resolved to grow strong enough to protect himself. A memory revealed his missing sister Ling Shuang as the original owner's final obsession, which Ling Yi promised to pursue; the chapter ended with Duan De announcing his admission to Dragon Capital Tianhua University.

• Ling Yi discovered that his Phantom Demon absorbed only ten Life Stones overnight, giving him ten points of Spiritual Power, and considered how to speed up the process.
• While running the Duan Family Fruit Supermarket, Ling Yi recalled how both sides of the original owner's family had mistreated his parents and him.
• Ling Yi remembered that his younger sister Ling Shuang had disappeared at age three after being abducted, and promised to find her.
• After making that promise, Ling Yi felt the original owner's lingering obsession grow lighter and considered asking Ye Ling'er for help.
• Duan De visited the supermarket and told Ling Yi that he had been admitted to Dragon Capital Tianhua University and was going to Dragon Capital.