Chapter Summaries

The Spirit Martial Realm completed its first stage of evolution and became a small world, prompting Ling Yi to prepare to move his companions there before the Hundred Thousand Mountains' crisis was discovered. After arriving in the realm, he agreed to let Shen Qingyue bring surviving Shen Family members with them.

• Nine lightning bolts struck Ruan Xiaoling's cabin in succession, destroying it while leaving her unharmed.
• Ling Yi said the Spirit Martial Realm had become a small world with Spiritual Qi and moved Ruan Xiaoshuang and Ruan Xiaoling to its Ancestral Star.
• Ling Yi removed the passage to the Spirit Martial Realm in the Biannan Region and left the surviving Demon Kings hidden in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Ling Yi teleported into Shen Qingyue's bedchamber, and she confirmed that the Ten Thousand Swords Sect's upper ranks were ready to leave for the Spirit Martial Realm.
• Shen Qingyue recounted how her second uncle had destroyed her family and asked Ling Yi to bring a few Shen Family members into the realm; he agreed.
• Ling Yi met Yunshu and Zhuang Yuerong, who had grown steadier in bearing and aura after adapting to their cultivation.

Ling Yi moved his companions and gathered people into the Spirit Martial Realm before ascending from the Immortal Martial Continent. He arrived in an Ascension Pool that looked nothing like he expected.

• Yunshu explained that she and Zhuang Yuerong had copied Liu Wuxiang and Liu Xueling’s memories, cursed them into simpletons, and buried them alive with an immortality curse.
• Ling Yi agreed that they should ascend soon because the Liu Clan’s main family might send more people after learning he had the Curse Body.
• Ling Yi brought Shen Qingyue and more than a dozen people into the Spirit Martial Realm, where he had gathered three hundred million Demonic Beasts for Gao Lan, Mengli, and the others to fight.
• Ling Yi spent a day moving the Ten Thousand Swords Sect to another planet in the Spirit Martial Realm, then returned with Gao Lan and Mengli to the estate.
• Ling Yi released his suppression of the power of Ascension, was carried away by a beam of light, and arrived in a pool that he suspected was the Ascension Pool but found strangely unlike his expectations.

Ling Yi arrived in the Immortal Realm, where a Liu Clan official sent him to a mining valley after discovering that his power was unusual. There, Liu Yun claimed him as her newcomer and offered the other two miners their choice of workers in exchange.

• Ling Yi secretly opened a passage from the Ascension Pool to the Spirit Martial Realm before an Earth Immortal's chain pulled him out.
• A crimson-armored Liu Clan man sent Ling Yi to a valley on a planet where the Liu Clan mined Immortal Crystal ore.
• Ling Yi realized he might have been sent to work as a miner and saw the rough stone houses and busy mining tunnels.
• Liu Yun, a bald man, and a narrow-eyed man inspected Ling Yi, and Liu Yun claimed him as her newcomer.
• Liu Yun offered the two men their choice of workers from her mining area, and they accepted the deal.

Liu Yun gave Ling Yi a crash course on the Immortal Realm and warned him that its resources and population were dwindling. She revealed that she knew Ling Yi’s past and his new cultivation path, leaving him to ask how she knew.

• Liu Yun led Ling Yi into a fortified stone house and explained the Immortal Realm’s ranks, territories, and the powers governing Ten Thousand Longevities City.
• Liu Yun described how dwindling Immortal Crystal veins and Immortal Spirit Qi were driving resource conflicts and causing cultivation to regress.
• Liu Yun told Ling Yi that no new life had been born in the Immortal Realm for seven thousand years, and that its population was declining.
• Liu Yun revealed that she knew Ling Yi’s lower-realm history and his Spirit Martial Realm, and said six others also knew he existed.
• Ling Yi asked Liu Yun how she knew all of this.

Ling Yi learned that Liu Yun had waited three thousand years to activate her system, which could be shared with him through dual cultivation. He declined to rush into it and considered the Immortal Realm’s flawed laws, concluding that it might need a Heavenly Dao to repair itself.

• Ling Yi asked Liu Yun whether she had a system, and she explained that she had received one three thousand years earlier but had been unable to activate it.
• Liu Yun revealed that touching Ling Yi for ten breaths or dual cultivating with him would activate her Become Stronger by Recruiting Subordinates System; dual cultivation would also grant him the same system.
• Ling Yi learned that the system required an improper form of dual cultivation, so he chose not to proceed unless Liu Yun was willing.
• Liu Yun said the system could be shared with Ling Yi whenever they met its conditions, and Ling Yi decided there was no need to hurry.
• Ling Yi reflected that the Immortal Realm’s laws and Dao Runes were flawed and that a Heavenly Dao might be needed to examine and repair them.

Liu Yun reached the Heavenly Immortal Ninth Layer and planned to seize Ten Thousand Longevities City to obtain Life Origin for Ling Yi. After Ling Yi revealed he could return instantly to the Ascension Pool, Liu Yun set out with him to take control of the mining planet first.

• Liu Yun told Ling Yi that Life Origin was controlled by the Liu Clan and Song Family in Ten Thousand Longevities City, then promised to take him there once she controlled the mine.
• Liu Yun explained that disputes in the Immortal Realm were usually settled by displaying strength rather than fighting to the death, and said she could claim Ten Thousand Longevities City once she reached Late Golden Immortal Realm.
• Liu Yun's favorability toward Ling Yi fell after she looked down on his ability to travel instantly, so Ling Yi listed what he liked and she gave him her collection of cultivation jade slips.
• Ling Yi revealed he could return instantly to places he had visited, including the Ascension Pool, and Liu Yun explained that the pool lay on the border between the Song Family and the Liu Clan in Ten Thousand Longevities City.
• Liu Yun led Ling Yi out of the stone house and called for Lü Wencheng and Gao Hai to come to her.

Liu Yun rapidly advanced to the Mystic Immortal Realm by conquering mining planets, then returned with Ling Yi to Ten Thousand Longevities City to seize its Ascension Pool. She demanded the Liu Clan and Song Family leaders appear, while Ling Yi questioned why everyone in the Immortal Realm surrendered so readily.

• Liu Yun conquered Mining District No. 22 and nearby mining planets, rising from Earth Immortal to Mystic Immortal while giving Ling Yi most of the plundered resources.
• Ling Yi’s Spirit Martial Realm absorbed Immortal Crystals and new knowledge, accelerating its growth and revealing how its artifact spirit learned from unfamiliar resources.
• Liu Yun decided to return to Ten Thousand Longevities City and claim its Life Spirit Liquid, and Ling Yi opened a black hole to take them there.
• Liu Yun shattered the Formation around the Ascension Pool, announced her Mystic Immortal Realm presence across Ten Thousand Longevities City, and ordered the Liu Clan and Song Family heads to meet her.
• The bearded man immediately knelt before Liu Yun, and Ling Yi asked why he would not resist; the man called Ling Yi a lunatic for questioning his surrender.

Liu Yun took control of the Immortal Realm with Ling Yi’s help, while his Spirit Martial Realm evolved into a higher-level great world. After Ling Yi’s memories and Yin Wanqing’s memories were unsealed, Yin Wanqing identified a flaw in the Immortal Realm’s laws, and Ling Yi absorbed the world into the Ling Realm before starting a new transmigration.

• Liu Yun declared herself ruler of Ten Thousand Longevities City, made its leaders honor Ling Yi, and ordered them to hand over their Life Origin.
• Ling Yi erased the restrictions on two family heads’ storage bracelets, and Liu Yun punished them by destroying their bodies.
• Liu Yun enlisted Ling Yi’s help to unite the Immortal Realm, and within a month she ruled all eighty-one domains while reaching the Sage Realm.
• Ling Yi’s Spirit Martial Realm evolved twice, becoming a great world, and he gathered a complete set of the Immortal Realm’s “Dragon Balls.”
• Yin Wanqing, whose identity in this world was Shen Qingyue, pointed out a flaw in the Immortal Realm’s laws and proposed using the Spirit Martial Realm’s Dao Principles to mend it.
• Ling Yi absorbed the Immortal Realm into the Ling Realm, then began a new transmigration as Yin Wanqing returned to the Ling Realm.

Ling Yi awakened to the Cannon Fodder Rescue System, which offered a chance to enter a dangerous Dragon King world and earn points by saving cannon fodder. After class, he rejected Lin Xiaoran again, unaware that she wanted him to take responsibility for someone else’s child, while she vowed to make him give in.

• Ling Yi examined the system panel, discovered its shop was full of goods he could not afford, and inferred that he would earn points by rescuing cannon fodder in the Dragon King world.
• Ling Yi considered the risks of transmigrating and what might happen if he died before the class bell rang.
• Ling Yi brushed past Lin Xiaoran in the hallway, apologized for being distracted, and quickly left after telling her he had something to do.
• Lin Xiaoran watched Ling Yi leave and admitted to herself that she wanted him to take responsibility for someone else’s child.
• Lin Xiaoran resolved to handle Ling Yi after his repeated rejections bruised her pride.

After Lin Xiaoran publicly cast Ling Yi as a cruel rejection, Ling Yi left his dorm to activate the Cannon Fodder Rescue System and transmigrated into a powerful bodyguard in the world of Dragon King: Return of the God of War. He awakened in a frozen banquet hall as Xia Ruoxue’s bodyguard, with the original owner’s memories and Late Ming Jin cultivation.

• Yao Feng, Chai Wei, and Su Cheng questioned Ling Yi about rejecting Lin Xiaoran, and Ling Yi discovered her forum post had drawn abuse toward him.
• Ling Yi left the dorm to transmigrate in private and booked a hotel room near campus.
• Ling Yi activated the system’s available Dragon King world and collapsed as he transmigrated.
• Ling Yi awoke in a frozen banquet hall in the body of another Ling Yi, Xia Ruoxue’s personal bodyguard.
• Ling Yi learned the body’s owner had trained under an old Daoist priest and reached Late Ming Jin cultivation.

Ling Yi entered the script world of "Dragon King: Return of the God of War" and learned that he could earn rewards by rescuing cannon fodder. At Xia Ruoxue’s birthday banquet, he intervened before she could become entangled with Lin Feng, leaving Qin Hao and Lin Feng stunned.

• Ling Yi saw that many guests, including Xia Ruoxue and Qin Hao, were marked as cannon fodder and learned the rules of the rescue system.
• Ling Yi read Xia Ruoxue’s script and learned that Lin Feng would use her to take control of the Xia Family before abandoning her, while she would later become Snow Rakshasa and seek revenge.
• Ling Yi discovered that Qin Hao had been reborn but would still be killed by Lin Feng’s subordinates after choosing to keep a low profile.
• Xia Ruoxue rejected Qin Hao and said she already had a boyfriend as Lin Feng approached, expecting her to use him as a shield.
• Ling Yi stepped between Xia Ruoxue and Lin Feng, asked if she wanted to make their relationship public, and Xia Ruoxue introduced Ling Yi as her boyfriend.

Ling Yi saved Qin Hao from Lin Feng by posing as Xia Ruoxue’s boyfriend, then used his new strength to drive Lin Feng away and protect the Xia Family. He earned 28 Cannon Fodder Points and left with Xia Ruoxue and her father to explain what had happened.

• Qin Hao gave Xia Hong a ten-billion order contract and hurried out of the banquet hall, while Xia Ruoxue claimed Ling Yi was her boyfriend.
• Ling Yi received two Cultivation Enhancement Cards for saving Qin Hao and raised his cultivation from late-stage Ming Jin to late-stage Hua Jin.
• Ling Yi realized that posing as Xia Ruoxue’s shield had also protected Qin Hao from Lin Feng, and Qin Hao’s cannon fodder level had dropped from lv3 to lv2.
• Ling Yi used Ice Palm to intimidate Lin Feng and declared that the Xia Family was under his protection, so Lin Feng left.
• Ling Yi received rewards for saving Bao Yun Feng, Li Cheng, Xia Hong, and Xia Ruoxue, bringing his total to 28 Cannon Fodder Points.
• Xia Ruoxue asked Ling Yi what was happening, and he told her to bring Xia Hong somewhere quiet so he could explain.

Ling Yi revealed that Lin Feng was the Dragon King and planned to seize the Xia Family as part of the Dragon King Hall’s wider ambitions. After warning Xia Hong and Xia Ruoxue that Lin Feng might target her, Ling Yi decided to protect Xia Ruoxue around the clock.

• Ling Yi told Xia Hong that he had trained under Master Feng Yang and had come down from Mount Fenghuai to repay the Xia Family and seek revenge on the Dragon King Hall.
• Ling Yi exposed Lin Feng’s identity as the new Dragon King and explained his plan to win Xia Ruoxue’s trust, marry her, and take control of the Xia Family.
• Xia Ruoxue rejected the idea that she could fall for Lin Feng, while Xia Hong recognized Ling Yi’s value as a Master and asked about his plans.
• Ling Yi warned that the Dragon King Hall intended to expand beyond Dafeng City and North Leaf Province, and Xia Hong angrily condemned its ambitions.
• Ling Yi told Xia Ruoxue that Lin Feng might kidnap her to pressure Xia Hong, so he would protect her and require her to stay within fifty meters of him.

Ling Yi warned Xia Ruoxue about Lin Feng and the Dragon King Hall, then offered to teach her martial arts so she could protect herself. After guiding her through her first cultivation session and giving her two precious pills, he left Xia Ruoxue looking at him differently.

• Ling Yi told Xia Ruoxue that her aptitude made her a martial arts genius and warned her that Lin Feng and the Dragon King Hall posed a threat.
• Ling Yi offered to teach Xia Ruoxue the Ice True Martial Art, and she agreed after he promised to help her cultivate quickly.
• Ling Yi touched Xia Ruoxue's dantian and guided her through the Great and Small Zhou Tian cycles.
• Xia Ruoxue learned to circulate Internal Energy on her own and excitedly said that practicing martial arts was fun.
• Ling Yi gave Xia Ruoxue a Marrow-Cleansing Pill and a Body Tempering Pill, and she looked at him differently after recognizing the Marrow-Cleansing Pill's value.

After Xia Ruoxue took Ling Yi’s pills and awakened her strength, they planned to secretly gather evidence against Lin Feng. At lunch, Ling Yi met Qin Hao and discovered that Qin Hao’s younger sister Qin Xiaoxiao was also labeled cannon fodder, while Qin Hao sought to cooperate with him.

• Xia Ruoxue kissed Ling Yi, then took the Marrow-Cleansing Pill and Body Tempering Pill, which greatly increased her physical abilities.
• Ling Yi saw that Xia Ruoxue’s kidnapping plot had changed: she would secretly record Lin Feng’s men, defeat them, and turn them over to the Inspection Bureau.
• Ling Yi told Xia Ruoxue to hide her martial arts and carry a miniature camera so they could surprise Lin Feng with evidence.
• Xia Ruoxue told Ling Yi that Qin Xiaoxiao was coming to lunch, and they drove to a costly farmhouse restaurant near Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi recognized Qin Hao and saw that Qin Xiaoxiao was labeled cannon fodder lv5; Qin Hao said he had come to meet Ling Yi and proposed cooperation.

Ling Yi warned Qin Hao that Lin Feng planned to destroy the Qin Family and kill him, then pressed him to reveal the secrets of his rebirth. The chapter ended with Qin Hao asking to speak privately, while Xia Ruoxue and Qin Xiaoxiao demanded to hear what he had to say.

• Qin Hao offered Ling Yi ten billion to take out Lin Feng, but Ling Yi said he wanted to know how Qin Hao had learned Lin Feng was the Dragon King.
• Ling Yi read Qin Hao's plot and warned that Lin Feng would target the Qin Family, use Qin Xiaoxiao to steal its secrets, and arrange Qin Hao's kidnapping and death.
• Ling Yi learned that Bai Yingying had resisted Lin Feng's attempt to buy her off, earning two Cultivation Cards for saving her.
• Ling Yi told Qin Hao he had shown his sincerity and hinted that he knew Qin Hao's past, pushing Qin Hao to consider revealing the truth.
• Qin Hao asked Ling Yi to speak outside, but Xia Ruoxue and Qin Xiaoxiao insisted that he explain himself in front of them.

Ling Yi read Xia Ruoxue’s plot and explained Lin Feng’s history and his ability to steal Karmic Luck. He warned Xia Ruoxue and Qin Xiaoxiao that Lin Feng was targeting them and their families for their luck.

• Qin Hao admitted that he had reincarnated but knew little about what happened to the Qin and Xia Families, and he described how Lin Feng had killed him in the original plot.
• Ling Yi denied being a reincarnator but refused to explain how he knew so much, while Xia Ruoxue defended him against Qin Hao and Qin Xiaoxiao’s questions.
• Ling Yi gathered what the group knew about Lin Feng, including his Dragon King identity, martial arts, and three-year period when he could not use his power.
• Ling Yi revealed Lin Feng’s past, including how the previous Dragon King was his biological father and brought him to the Dragon King Hall.
• Ling Yi explained that Lin Feng’s golden finger let him plunder Karmic Luck through trust, love, or devastating an opponent, and said Xia Ruoxue and Qin Xiaoxiao were his targets.

Ling Yi and the others discussed how Lin Feng’s Karmic Luck protected him from assassination and formed a plan to weaken him. They established the Anti-Lin Feng Alliance and divided up tasks to contact the other Daughters of Karmic Luck, watch Lin Feng, and keep him occupied.

• Ling Yi explained that Lin Feng’s Karmic Luck let him survive repeated assassination attempts and that they needed to find a way to reduce it.
• Qin Hao suggested that Lin Feng spent Karmic Luck to escape danger, and the group reasoned they should first block him from obtaining more.
• Ling Yi shared the names of the seven other Daughters of Karmic Luck and explained that Qin Wanrou, a roadside fried-rice seller, was Lin Feng’s one true love.
• Qin Xiaoxiao volunteered to contact the seven women, Xia Ruoxue agreed to monitor Lin Feng, and Qin Hao offered to put out a bounty to keep him busy.
• Qin Hao declared the Anti-Lin Feng Alliance established while Ling Yi fell into a daze.

Ling Yi persuaded Xia Ruoxue, Qin Hao, and Qin Xiaoxiao to expose Lin Feng’s Karmic Luck-stealing methods through a coordinated media campaign and anti-Lin Feng alliance. He then took Xia Ruoxue to find Qin Wanrou, where they discovered she was in trouble.

• Ling Yi proposed publicizing Lin Feng’s affairs to undermine his ability to gain Karmic Luck, and Qin Hao and Qin Xiaoxiao agreed the plan could work.
• Ling Yi and the others decided to mobilize their families’ media resources, build an anti-Lin Feng alliance, and portray his Karmic Luck theft as an evil art.
• After the group discussed how to secure resources and official approval, Ling Yi chose to visit Qin Wanrou to learn more about Lin Feng.
• On the drive, Xia Ruoxue asked Ling Yi to marry her, but he refused, saying he was not worthy of her.
• Ling Yi and Xia Ruoxue reached the night market and found Qin Wanrou surrounded by people, prompting Ling Yi to ask Xia Ruoxue if she wanted to play the hero and save a beauty.

Ling Yi and Xia Ruoxue encountered Qin Wanrou at her egg-fried-rice cart, where Xia Ruoxue’s fame ended a staged shakedown. Ling Yi discovered that Qin Wanrou had been reborn and that her storyline predicted Lin Feng’s death at Qin Hao’s hands, while Ling Yi himself appeared in none of the cannon-fodder characters’ stories.

• Xia Ruoxue intervened when punks accused Qin Wanrou of putting a cockroach in their food, and the punks paid Qin Wanrou twenty thousand yuan after recognizing her.
• Ling Yi and Xia Ruoxue tasted Qin Wanrou’s egg fried rice, and Ling Yi examined her cannon-fodder storyline.
• Ling Yi learned that Qin Wanrou had been reborn half an hour earlier and that Xia Ruoxue had killed her in the original storyline.
• Ling Yi discovered that Qin Hao would gain Land Immortal cultivation in three days and kill Lin Feng half a month later.
• Ling Yi realized that he appeared in none of the cannon-fodder characters’ storylines.