Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi found that the cannon fodder plots had stopped refreshing after his newbie benefits ended, then warned Xia Hong not to pursue Lin Feng’s method of stealing Karmic Luck. He and Xia Ruoxue agreed to follow their plan while secretly improving their strength, and Ling Yi prepared to help her cultivate.

• Ling Yi learned from the system that his newbie benefit period had ended, explaining why the cannon fodder plots he could see had not refreshed that day.
• Ling Yi refused to bring Qin Wanrou into the group because she was not on their path, then returned with Xia Ruoxue to the Xia family villa.
• Xia Hong offered the Xia family’s resources for their plan and asked whether Lin Feng’s Karmic Luck-stealing art could be used by others; Ling Yi warned him that it was a trap.
• Ling Yi saw that Xia Hong’s plot involved a failed kidnapping attempt against Lin Feng and warned Xia Ruoxue that her father might act against Lin Feng despite their plan.
• Ling Yi told Xia Ruoxue he could rapidly improve her cultivation but insisted she keep her Martial Dao training secret from Xia Hong.
• Ling Yi and Xia Ruoxue began preparing to cultivate together.

Ling Yi learned that Qin Wanrou’s cannon-fodder plot involved bombing the Xia Family Group headquarters in an attempt to kill Xia Ruoxue, and he ordered her watched closely. Meanwhile, the Anti-Dragon King Alliance began its exposure and Dragon-Slaying plans against Lin Feng, with materials spreading online by night.

• Xia Ruoxue told Ling Yi that most daughters of Karmic Luck had joined the Anti-Dragon King Alliance chat, while Qiao Xiaoying and Song Wen had only agreed not to reveal its contents.
• Ling Yi read Qin Wanrou’s plot, which described her planting twenty bombs at the Xia Family Group headquarters and detonating them when Xia Ruoxue and Xia Hong arrived; they survived, but the blast killed and injured many others.
• In the plot, Xia Ruoxue later visited Qin Wanrou’s egg-fried-rice stall and killed her after eating, while Qin Wanrou had believed the bombing had killed Xia Ruoxue.
• Ling Yi told Xia Ruoxue to keep Qin Wanrou under close watch because she was planning something big.
• At eight that evening, materials exposing Lin Feng began appearing online, and by ten they were spreading widely and reaching trending searches.

Ling Yi used the cannon fodder characters’ new strength to help bring Lin Feng down, while wondering how to return to the real world. After Xia Ruoxue killed Lin Feng, the system began Ling Yi’s return and warned him that revisiting the story world could trap him there.

• Lin Feng was exposed online as the Dragon King, offered for assassination on the Dark Web, and declared a wanted criminal.
• Ling Yi gained a surge of Cannon Fodder Points and rewards for saving cannon fodder characters, bringing his total to 237 points.
• Ling Yi used his Cultivation Cards to raise the people at the Xia family villa to Dan Jin Land Immortals, then left and discarded his phone.
• Two days later, the cannon fodder heroines gravely wounded Lin Feng, and Xia Ruoxue killed him.
• The system started a countdown to return Ling Yi to the real world and warned him against spending points to revisit the story world.
• Ling Yi’s soul returned to the real world, leaving his cultivation and remaining rewards with the body’s original owner.

After returning from the paper-character world, Ling Yi used his Cannon Fodder Points to improve his body and memory, then drew a short-term investment tip. He ended the chapter surprised that the tip could turn a five-yuan investment into ten million.

• Ling Yi returned to the real world and found that almost no time had passed while he spent nearly half a month in the paper-character world.
• Ling Yi opened the Cannon Fodder Shop, bought a Martial Practitioner Cultivation Card, and used it to gain a healthy body and Ming Jin strength.
• Ling Yi tried to cultivate techniques from the paper-character world, but the system explained that story-world rules were governed by plot.
• Ling Yi spent more points on two memory pills, three Tier 1 Investment Information Cards, and a Tier 0 Bad Luck Talisman.
• Ling Yi activated an Investment Information Card and received information about investing five yuan to earn ten million.

Ling Yi bought lottery tickets using the winning numbers from his information card, then went to a basketball game and used his Ming Jin strength to stop an opponent from hurting Yao Feng. After the computer science department won, Ling Yi confronted the two groups and asked who had organized the game.

• Ling Yi learned that his Tier 1 investment card gave him the first-prize lottery numbers for three days and bought the tickets online.
• Ling Yi learned that the computer science and finance departments were playing basketball over a bet about who could pursue Lin Xiaoran.
• Ling Yi saw Yao Feng's opponent, No. 10, repeatedly use dirty moves against him and sprang up to intervene.
• Ling Yi shouted to get everyone's attention, bent a steel chair with a kick, and warned No. 10 to stop targeting Yao Feng.
• The finance players became too intimidated to play aggressively, and the computer science department won by a wide margin.
• Ling Yi jumped onto the court, glanced at Lin Xiaoran, and asked who had organized the game.

Ling Yi confronted Li Ershan and Cui Hao over their fight, then accused Lin Xiaoran of being pregnant and challenged her to prove otherwise. After Lin Xiaoran turned the crowd against him, Ling Yi posted evidence on the school forum, leaving her fainted and spending his last Cannon Fodder Points on a Truth Card.

• Li Ershan apologized to Ling Yi, and Cui Hao quickly backed down after Ling Yi intimidated him.
• Ling Yi insulted Lin Xiaoran and revealed that she was pregnant, but she denied it and accused him of slandering her.
• Lin Xiaoran cried and claimed Ling Yi had harassed her for years, turning much of the crowd against him.
• Ling Yi posted evidence about Lin Xiaoran on the school forum, and she fainted after reading it.
• Ling Yi left with Yao Feng and the others, regretting that he had spent his final Cannon Fodder Points on a Truth Card.

After receiving his lottery winnings, Ling Yi was confronted by men hired to beat him up and traced the order back to Lin Xiaoran. He recruited the men and tasked them with finding him a two-story place to live and work.

• Ling Yi told Yao Feng, Chai Wei, and Su Cheng that he planned to move out, start a business, and teach them self-defense.
• Ling Yi won the lottery and received eight million yuan the next morning.
• Qian Xiaohao and fifteen other men blocked Ling Yi outside the hotel, and Ling Yi paid Qian Xiaohao one hundred thousand yuan to reveal who hired them.
• Qian Xiaohao told Ling Yi that Red Maple Club lobby manager Zheng Luren had hired them, and Ling Yi recognized a high school photo of himself as evidence that Lin Xiaoran was behind it.
• Ling Yi hired Qian Xiaohao and the others for six thousand yuan a month plus bonuses and asked them to find him a larger two-story place.

Ling Yi bought a private elementary school and used his Investment Information Cards to uncover opportunities involving a hidden beverage formula and a promising online game. After using a Bad Luck Talisman on Lin Xiaoran, he discovered a new world in the Cannon Fodder Rescue System and prepared to enter it.

• Ling Yi bought Red Maple City Set Sail Private Elementary School for fifteen million and began cleaning it with Qian Xiaohao and the others.
• Ling Yi bought an ancient painting containing a hidden beverage formula, photographed the formula, and locked the original away.
• Ling Yi learned through his third Investment Information Card that the nearly finished game Parallel World could become a major hit if he invested five million.
• Ling Yi spotted Lin Xiaoran at school and used his tier-zero Bad Luck Talisman on her.
• The Cannon Fodder Rescue System revealed a new world, The Whole Sect Dotes on Little Junior Sister, the Villainous Supporting Woman Lies Flat!, and Ling Yi clicked its entry button.

After transmigrating into the Ethereal Sect, Ling Yi discovered that almost everyone at the sect competition was marked as cannon fodder. He suspected Lin Wanwan grew stronger when her admirers died, leaving him to decide how to respond to a likely villainous protagonist.

• Ling Yi learned he was the Ethereal Sect’s chief eldest disciple and found the sect competition underway, with Small Bamboo Peak at risk of closure if its two disciples were eliminated.
• Ling Yi saw that only Lin Wanwan and Chu Qing lacked cannon fodder labels and suspected Chu Qing was the real female lead.
• Ling Yi read that Ye Yun would kill Qin Yan in a match, after which Lin Wanwan would grow stronger.
• Ling Yi read that Ye Yun would be punished and later killed by a mysterious person in black, while Lin Wanwan again grew stronger.
• After inspecting more cannon fodder plots, Ling Yi concluded that Lin Wanwan’s apparent power came from her admirers’ deaths and questioned whether she was actually the villain.

At the Ethereal Sect competition, Ling Yi’s passive aura freed Qin Yan, Ye Yun, and other cannon fodder from Lin Wanwan’s mind-altering influence, earning him Cannon Fodder Points and rewards. As more disciples began avoiding their scripted fights, Su Chen asked Ling Yi whether he had noticed something wrong with Lin Wanwan.

• Qin Yan and Ye Yun regained their senses inside Ling Yi’s aura, conceded their match, and earned Ling Yi seven and three Cannon Fodder Points, along with an Aura Ring and three Lesser Mirror-Breaking Pills.
• Chu Qing conceded her match despite the risk of Small Bamboo Peak losing its main peak privileges and resources.
• Qin Yan and Ye Yun tested the arena boundary and joined the personal disciples instead of returning to their own peak groups.
• Ling Yi received more Cannon Fodder Points and rewards as other disciples were saved from their scripted fights.
• Su Chen asked Ling Yi whether he had also sensed that something was wrong with Lin Wanwan.

Ling Yi and the other direct disciples discovered that they had broken free of Lin Wanwan’s mind control within a range centered on him, but they still could not act against her. They agreed to keep their discovery secret and investigate Ling Yi’s ability, while Lin Wanwan and Chu Qing noticed that events had diverged from the original script.

• Su Chen and the other direct disciples discussed Lin Wanwan’s control and wondered why they alone had regained their senses.
• Ye Yun and Qin Yan revealed that the disciples could resist Lin Wanwan’s charm only within a certain range, and tests showed that Ling Yi was at its center.
• Su Chen and the others tested whether a treasure or Ling Yi’s awakened talent caused the effect, but they could not identify its source.
• Qin Yan warned that the disciples still lost control whenever they formed killing intent toward Lin Wanwan.
• Ling Yi told the others to conceal their discovery from Lin Wanwan, the sect master, and the elders until after the sect competition.
• Lin Wanwan noticed that the disciples had turned away from her, while Chu Qing wondered why events no longer followed the original script.

Ling Yi led those freed from Lin Wanwan’s control away from the Ethereal Sect, then broke through to the Golden Core Realm and endured a powerful lightning tribulation with an Invincibility Card. His Anti-Intelligence-Lowering Aura’s range expanded to one hundred kilometers, enough to cover the entire sect.

• The sect master took Lin Wanwan away while Ling Yi, Su Chen, Chu Qing, and others left the sect to escape her influence, joined by Elder Yang Yao.
• After traveling more than a thousand li, Ling Yi and the others felt Lin Wanwan’s control disappear, then landed in a valley so Ling Yi could study his talent.
• Ling Yi rapidly advanced from the Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer to the Golden Core Realm, triggering a lightning tribulation that Elder Yang Yao recognized as far stronger than a normal Golden Core tribulation.
• Ling Yi activated an Invincibility Card and survived nine bolts of a Spirit Transformation Lightning Tribulation, while the residual energy strengthened his body and a five-colored Golden Core formed.
• Ling Yi learned that his Anti-Intelligence-Lowering Aura had expanded from a thousand-meter range to a radius of one hundred kilometers, covering the entire Ethereal Sect.

Ling Yi revealed that his aura could protect the Ethereal Sect from Lin Wanwan’s influence, then said someone among them had never been controlled by her. He called out Chu Qing, who realized he was a fellow transmigrator and demanded to know why he was setting her up.

• Ling Yi cultivated his newly acquired arts, and the system rewarded him for saving more than 2,200 people, bringing his Cannon Fodder Points to 3,705.
• Yang Yao identified Ling Yi’s nine-colored Golden Core as the legendary Ultimate Way Golden Core, while Ling Yi explained that his protective aura now covered a hundred li.
• Ling Yi announced that he planned to return to the Ethereal Sect, and Yang Yao worried that they still could not attack Lin Wanwan without being controlled.
• Ling Yi said one person had never been affected by Lin Wanwan and called Chu Qing forward.
• Chu Qing asked whether Ling Yi had reincarnated or transmigrated, and Ling Yi answered with a code phrase that revealed they were fellow countrymen.

Ling Yi recruited Chu Qing to help experiment on Lin Wanwan and offered Lesser Mirror-Breaking Pills in exchange for divine soul imprints. After raising his and Chu Qing’s cultivation and gathering hundreds of followers, Ling Yi returned to the Ethereal Sect, where Chu Qing began plotting against Lin Wanwan.

• Ling Yi told Chu Qing that Lin Wanwan was needed for his system rewards and promised her his possessions in exchange for help.
• Ling Yi demonstrated the Lesser Mirror-Breaking Pills and offered them to the others in exchange for their divine soul imprints through the God Investiture Banner.
• Yang Yao surrendered his imprint and used the pills to reach Spirit Transformation; Ling Yi and Chu Qing also advanced through their tribulations, while more than three hundred people joined Ling Yi’s arrangement.
• Ling Yi and the others returned to the Ethereal Sect and waited according to his plan, while Chu Qing began setting Lin Wanwan up.

Lin Wanwan was framed for poisoning Crane Zun, and the Ethereal Sect forced her to leave despite Sect Master Si Yunkong’s inability to punish her directly. Chu Qing then told Ling Yi that an ancient Yan Demon lived inside Lin Wanwan and explained its origins.

• Chu Qing presented evidence that Lin Wanwan had bought a Spirit-Devouring Pill and used it to kill Crane Zun, the Crane King’s son.
• Lin Wanwan realized Chu Qing had framed her and suspected Chu Qing knew about the Yan Demon inside her.
• Chu Qing threatened Lin Wanwan with revealing the Yan Demon, then asked Sect Master Si Yunkong to cripple and expel her.
• Si Yunkong ordered Lin Wanwan to leave the sect the next day, unable to punish her further because of the Female Lead’s influence.
• Chu Qing met Ling Yi, who revealed he had overheard her and Lin Wanwan’s voice transmissions and asked about the Yan Demon.
• Chu Qing explained that Yan once ruled the world by devouring all living things, until only the last Yan remained; Lin Wanwan’s Yan Demon could absorb the cultivation of the dead.

Ling Yi and Chu Qing planned to exploit Lin Wanwan’s dependence on her three golden fingers by temporarily turning off the Anti-Intelligence-Lowering Aura and having Chu Qing hunt her. Lin Wanwan sensed the aura had vanished and provoked a confrontation that brought the Ethereal Sect to the brink of battle.

• Chu Qing explained that the Yan Demon had created the Resurrection Grand Formation, and described Lin Wanwan’s three golden fingers and the tragic ending of the original story.
• Chu Qing said she had planned to refine the formation’s core to suppress Lin Wanwan’s aura and control the Yan Demon, but Ling Yi’s power made that unnecessary.
• Ling Yi told Chu Qing to hunt Lin Wanwan without killing her after he turned off his aura, and asked her to have Yang Yao prevent anyone from dying and boosting Lin Wanwan’s cultivation.
• Lin Wanwan asked the Yan Demon why the Ethereal Sect had turned against her, and it blamed Chu Qing and Ling Yi while urging her to leave the sect.
• Lin Wanwan felt the force interfering with her talent disappear and decided to test it by destroying the Ethereal Sect.
• Within an hour, Lin Wanwan’s machinations gathered everyone at the Ethereal Sect martial arena, where the two sides prepared to fight.

Ling Yi exploited Lin Wanwan’s mind-control aura to rescue large numbers of cannon fodder and earn thousands of Cannon Fodder Points. Lin Wanwan escaped the Ethereal Sect, and her pursuit by Chu Qing continued across the Immortal Cultivation Realm for more than a decade.

• Lin Wanwan incited the Ethereal Sect’s factions to fight while Ling Yi, Yang Yao, and Chu Qing watched from a rooftop.
• Ling Yi restored the sect members’ senses as Yang Yao subdued them, and they blamed Lin Wanwan for manipulating them.
• Lin Wanwan fled the Ethereal Sect with the Yan Demon’s help, earning Ling Yi 3,927 Cannon Fodder Points and a warning that each person could be saved twice.
• Ling Yi learned that each complete rescue counted as one attempt and decided to keep farming points by countering Lin Wanwan’s aura.
• Chu Qing pursued Lin Wanwan while Ling Yi secretly rescued the people Lin Wanwan manipulated, and the two women’s chase lasted more than a decade across over a hundred sects.

After ten years of pursuing Lin Wanwan, Ling Yi and Chu Qing confronted her, and Ling Yi killed her to trigger his return to the real world. He gave Chu Qing his accumulated rewards and left his body, which Ling Yi’s original soul then reclaimed.

• Chu Qing and Ling Yi discussed Lin Wanwan’s growing power, and Ling Yi decided it was time to kill her.
• Ling Yi took Chu Qing to a ruined temple, where they encountered Lin Wanwan and the Yan Demon within her.
• Ling Yi sealed the Yan Demon inside his divine soul and annihilated Lin Wanwan with a spell.
• After the system announced Lin Wanwan’s death, Ling Yi gave Chu Qing a storage ring containing his rewards and said goodbye.
• Ling Yi collapsed as he returned to the real world, and his original soul awoke in the body.

After returning from the cultivation world, Ling Yi spent a week readjusting to ordinary life and handed his dormmates a recipe for a beauty-enhancing drink to test. At school, he recognized that Chu Youran, the university’s top beauty, was an An Jin martial practitioner, prompting him to question the system about martial arts in the real world.

• Ling Yi chose not to use his Cannon Fodder Points to gain immense power and spent the week attending classes while readjusting to the real world.
• Ling Yi gave Su Cheng, Chai Wei, and Yao Chun a drink recipe, and Yao Chun decided to help test it with ordinary herbs and equipment.
• Ling Yi wandered around Red Maple City University of Finance and Economics and found a crowd watching a young man confess to Chu Youran.
• Ling Yi met Li Ershan, who introduced Chu Youran as the university’s top beauty and said she had once defeated seven thugs.
• Ling Yi sensed a familiar force inside Chu Youran and identified her as an An Jin expert; after she heard him, he asked the system why martial practitioners existed in the real world.

Ling Yi accepted Chu Youran’s request to pose as her boyfriend after Lin Jiong threatened him, and Chu Youran drove him to her villa to discuss a deal. She wanted him to stay close so she could protect him from Lin Jiong and his family.

• Chu Youran rejected Lin Jiong and claimed Ling Yi was her boyfriend, so Ling Yi agreed and put his arm around her waist.
• Lin Jiong threatened Ling Yi before leaving, while Li Ershan warned that Ling Yi had crossed a powerful family.
• Chu Youran drove Ling Yi away from the school and explained that Lin Jiong’s family had influence in politics, business, and martial arts circles.
• Chu Youran said she would protect Ling Yi and his family, but Ling Yi told her he had no family and refused to explain his martial arts background.
• Chu Youran brought Ling Yi to her villa and proposed a deal, leaving him to ask what she wanted.