Chapter Summaries

Lin Xueru told Ling Yi about her family’s suffering and the selfish, murderous future protagonist, Shen Xue Qing, then planned to take the hidden supplies before Shen could claim them. As night fell, the two prepared to head for the cave, while Ling Yi lamented that he would not earn Cannon Fodder Points soon.

• Lin Xueru explained that her family had starved her and described how the original owner’s siblings would suffer, while Ling Yi learned that Lin Xueqing, now called Shen Xue Qing, was the world’s protagonist.
• Lin Xueru told Ling Yi that Shen Xue Qing would find a hidden cache, poison seventeen helpers to conceal it, and use its valuables to build a fortune.
• Lin Xueru decided to take the cache’s gold, silver, jewels, and grain, leaving the firearms and arranging for the villagers to find the food.
• Lin Xueru revealed that she planned to help her family only if they behaved, aid her country’s development, and eventually destroy Radiant Water Country with Ling Yi.
• Lin Xueru explained that she and Shen Xue Qing had been switched by accident as infants, then packed away their supplies after dinner and prepared to lead Ling Yi to the cave.

Ling Yi and Lin Xueru found a hidden cave full of supplies and divided the haul before returning to the village. Lin Xueru took control of her household, while Ling Yi planned to persuade her to leave the village and go abroad with him.

• Ling Yi recycled the boulder covering the cave entrance, and he and Lin Xueru entered to inspect the stored supplies.
• Ling Yi and Lin Xueru collected the grain, valuables, weapons, and ammunition, earning Ling Yi twenty million exchange points.
• Ling Yi replaced the boulder to seal the cave, and he and Lin Xueru agreed to meet again the next day.
• Lin Xueru returned home and beat down her family’s resistance, declaring that she would run the household and demanding their hidden grain.
• Ling Yi cleaned and refurnished his room, then considered taking Lin Xueru abroad before falling asleep.

Ling Yi explained that he planned to go abroad to gather foreign resources for his shop, convincing Lin Xueru to join him. They discussed ways to travel, but had not yet decided whether to use a fighter jet or flight techniques.

• Lin Xueru disciplined her family and then visited Ling Yi in modern clothes.
• Ling Yi told Lin Xueru he planned to go abroad and exchange foreign resources for points so he could help the Ancient Country develop.
• Lin Xueru agreed with Ling Yi's reasoning and became eager to travel abroad with him.
• Ling Yi explained that his shop could offer items such as Kryptonian bloodlines, while Lin Xueru shared that her Personal Space could store a fighter jet.
• Ling Yi and Lin Xueru considered traveling by fighter jet or by exchanging for flight techniques and Flying Nimbuses, but had not chosen a method.

Ling Yi and Lin Xueru learned to use Flying Nimbuses and traveled from Shitou Village to Radiant Water Country, where Ling Yi confirmed that its people were labeled cannon fodder. They began collecting the people and supplies, and Ling Yi earned Cannon Fodder Points by redeeming 73 Xiao Bagou.

• Ling Yi redeemed two Flying Nimbuses, and he and Lin Xueru claimed them and flew around Old Man Mountain.
• Ling Yi and Lin Xueru discussed traveling to Radiant Water Country, learned the Flight Technique from cultivation cards, and left grain for Shitou Village before departing.
• Two days later, Ling Yi and Lin Xueru arrived at a port in Radiant Water Country and found that everyone there had a cannon fodder label.
• Ling Yi redeemed 73 Xiao Bagou, gaining 107 Cannon Fodder Points, 730 points, and 73 ten-year cultivation cards.
• Lin Xueru agreed to collect supplies while Ling Yi continued collecting people.

Ling Yi and Lin Xueru ravaged hostile countries for resources before returning to the imperial capital, where Ling Yi told Lin Xueru he planned to leave for another world. Lin Xueru beat him and demanded he either have a child with her before leaving or stay with her, threatening to dive into the sun.

• Ling Yi and Lin Xueru spent two months reducing more than half of Radiant Water Country to wasteland while gathering resources.
• Ling Yi and Lin Xueru returned to Ancient Country and spent six months sweeping through countries hostile to it, recycling their resources and technology.
• Ling Yi gave Lin Xueru a Space Folding Sphere containing supplies and black technology, then told her he was leaving for another world.
• Lin Xueru confronted Ling Yi over his departure, lifted him into the sky, and beat him until he was badly bruised.
• Lin Xueru gave Ling Yi the choice of having a child with her before leaving or staying, and threatened to dive into the sun if he left immediately.

After returning from the Famine world, Ling Yi was called to the Ling Chu Business company, where Lin Jiong and Lin Xiaoran’s attack had badly injured his people. Ling Yi healed them, subdued the attackers, and confronted Lin Xiaoran about why she kept targeting him.

• Ling Yi learned that script worlds continued running while he was away and that he had enough Cannon Fodder Points to return, though he had no reason to do so.
• Qian Xiaohao called Ling Yi for help after a masked young man attacked the company, leaving Qian Xiaohao, Yao Chun, Chai Wei, and Su Cheng seriously injured.
• Ling Yi appeared at the company, immobilized Lin Jiong, Lin Xiaoran, and the young man, then healed his injured people with a Rejuvenation Spell.
• The young man identified himself as a member of the Heavenly Dragon Sect, promised to cut ties with the Lin Clan, and left after Ling Yi sealed his cultivation.
• Lin Jiong begged for his life and blamed Lin Xiaoran, while Ling Yi asked her why she kept provoking him despite having no blood feud with him.

Ling Yi left Lin Jiong and Lin Xiaoran alive, while Lin Xiaoran knocked Lin Jiong unconscious and fled Red Maple City with him. A week later, Ling Yi learned Feng Qianming had offered an apology payment, a Heavenly Dragon Sect art, and the sect’s loyalty, then the system refreshed its available worlds.

• Ling Yi dismissed Lin Jiong and Lin Xiaoran, planning to leave them to despair rather than kill them outright.
• Lin Jiong blamed and struck Lin Xiaoran, who knocked him unconscious with a brick and drove away with him.
• Ling Yi ordered his ghosts to keep watch on Lin Jiong, Lin Xiaoran, and the masked young man.
• The ghost revealed that the masked young man was Feng Qianming, young master of the Heavenly Dragon Sect, whose sect offered Ling Yi ten billion, the Heavenly Dragon Nine Transformations Divine Art, and its loyalty.
• Ling Yi asked the Heavenly Dragon Sect to support Chu Youran from the shadows, and he later encouraged her to take a few days off with him.
• On August 8, the system refreshed five script worlds, and Ling Yi considered entering one while Chu Youran agreed to make time for him.

After transmigrating as Ling Yi, a scheming prime minister, he learned how Chu Feng’s achievements had been stolen and watched Chu Feng resign after Empress Liu Ruyan accused him of treason. Ling Yi examined Liu Ruyan’s cannon fodder plot and learned Chu Feng would ally with the Northern Xiongnu, conquer Da Wu, and cause immense suffering, so he decided to oppose the protagonist.

• Ling Yi received the Cannon Fodder Script module and learned that saving cannon fodder earned points and rewards.
• Ling Yi recalled how the original host had repeatedly stolen credit from Chu Feng and risen to power through Liu Ruyan’s favor.
• Liu Ruyan accused Chu Feng of maintaining private letters with the Northern Xiongnu princess, and Chu Feng resigned and promised to surrender his military command token.
• Chu Feng left the command token behind and disappeared; half a month later, word arrived that he had joined the Xiongnu, proclaimed himself emperor, and vowed to conquer Da Wu.
• Ling Yi read Liu Ruyan’s cannon fodder plot, which described Chu Feng’s invasion and the resulting mass deaths, then decided to go against Chu Feng and asked the system to sell him a cheat.

Liu Ruyan learned that Chu Feng had left the imperial capital and ordered Ling Yi to bring him back, but Ling Yi admitted he would kill Chu Feng if he found him. He confronted Liu Ruyan about loving Chu Feng rather than him.

• Liu Ruyan angrily blamed Chu Feng for resigning and ordered a message sent demanding that he apologize.
• Ling Yi told Liu Ruyan that Chu Feng had left the capital and showed her the military tally he had left behind.
• Liu Ruyan grieved over Chu Feng's departure and asked Ling Yi to bring him back.
• Ling Yi warned Liu Ruyan that he would kill Chu Feng if he found him, then said he was jealous because she loved Chu Feng.
• Ling Yi challenged Liu Ruyan to admit that she valued Chu Feng more than him.

Ling Yi warned Liu Ruyan that Chu Feng’s departure threatened the Da Wu Empire and persuaded her to let him take command of the army. After earning more than ten million taels by selling glassware, Ling Yi revealed that he had spent the money on an Unlimited Troop Production System and secretly acquired a million modern soldiers.

• Ling Yi explained that Chu Feng’s prestige, the neighboring nations, and the possibility that Chu Feng might join an enemy made his departure a danger to Da Wu.
• Ling Yi asked Liu Ruyan for command of the army and warned that he would prepare for the possibility of Chu Feng leading an attack against Da Wu; Liu Ruyan said she would kill Chu Feng if that happened.
• Over the next half month, Ling Yi made more than ten million taels selling glassware to the court’s influential families.
• Liu Ruyan summoned Ling Yi to ask about his earnings, and he said he had already spent all the money.
• Ling Yi revealed that he had bought the Unlimited Troop Production System and used his money to acquire a million modern soldiers stored in his System Space.

Ling Yi struck a deal with Liu Ruyan to share profits from the glass business, then confronted corruption as envoys from three nations arrived. He killed two embezzling vice ministers and revealed their hidden fortunes, while Liu Ruyan turned to him to handle the foreign envoys.

• Ling Yi gave Liu Ruyan the glassmaking method in exchange for two-tenths of the profits, and they signed an agreement.
• After learning that envoys from the Xiongnu, Star Luo, and Eastern Yi had arrived, Liu Ruyan summoned Ling Yi, who offered to handle them.
• Ling Yi exposed Li Jin's embezzlement and hidden silver, then killed him in the imperial study.
• Ling Yi revealed that the vice minister of rites had also hidden millions of taels and killed him after he confessed.
• Liu Ruyan ordered both ministers' fortunes confiscated and asked Ling Yi how he would deal with the envoys; Ling Yi said he would kill them all.

Ling Yi told Liu Ruyan that Chu Feng had declared himself emperor and was preparing to invade, then persuaded her to lead the Imperial City Guard north while he kept his modern army secret. After Liu Ruyan left the capital, gunfire rang out there, and Ling Yi celebrated the rewards he had gained.

• Ling Yi told Liu Ruyan that Chu Feng had united the Xiongnu and would soon march south, and he urged her to trust him despite their inferior numbers.
• Liu Ruyan agreed to lead the fifty thousand Imperial City Guard north, leaving the other troops untouched because they might defect to Chu Feng.
• That night, a fire at the imperial capital's guesthouse killed all three groups of foreign envoys.
• Liu Ruyan overruled the court's objections and departed three days later with the Guard and the prime minister.
• Rumors spread in the capital that Liu Ruyan and the prime minister had fled ahead of Chu Feng's invasion, and the court fell into chaos.
• On the third day after Liu Ruyan left, gunshots rang out in the capital, while Ling Yi smiled at the haul of Cannon Fodder Points and rewards.

Liu Ruyan and Ling Yi led the imperial guards north, overcame Feng Jichen’s resistance, and crushed the Xiongnu with modern weapons before Chu Feng surrendered. After the empress returned victorious to court, she asked Ling Yi what to do with Chu Feng and revealed that he had told her something in prison.

• Feng Jichen refused to let Liu Ruyan and Ling Yi enter Chuyun City, denounced Liu Ruyan for betraying Chu Feng, and declared his loyalty to the Grand General.
• Ling Yi told Liu Ruyan to bypass the city and head into the grasslands, and she led fifty thousand armed imperial guards north.
• Liu Ruyan and Ling Yi’s forces killed more than two hundred thousand Xiongnu soldiers in ten days, then advanced to the Chu Capital.
• Chu Feng saw the imperial guards’ submachine guns and RPGs and surrendered rather than face their superior weapons.
• Half a month later, Liu Ruyan returned to court in triumph, then asked Ling Yi what to do with Chu Feng and said Chu Feng had told her something in prison.

Liu Ruyan poisoned Ling Yi after Chu Feng persuaded her that his power threatened her rule, but the poison could not harm the transmigrator. When Chu Feng died and Ling Yi left the scenario, the original Ling Yi took over his body with immense power, leaving Liu Ruyan horrified by her decision.

• Liu Ruyan told Ling Yi that Chu Feng had confessed to being a transmigrator and that she had ordered his execution; Ling Yi tried to stop her, then accepted that Chu Feng was probably already dead.
• Liu Ruyan admitted that she had poisoned Ling Yi with the same poison used on Chu Feng, and Ling Yi revealed that he had planned to leave her his golden finger and a million soldiers before changing his mind.
• The system announced Chu Feng's death and started a one-minute countdown for Ling Yi to leave the scenario world.
• Ling Yi warned Liu Ruyan that the original Ling Yi would remain in the world, then slumped over the table as the countdown ended; Liu Ruyan checked that he had stopped breathing.
• The original Ling Yi awoke, asked about Chu Feng, and punched through two walls with a flash of white light; Liu Ruyan realized what had happened and fainted in regret.

After the previous world, Ling Yi spent half a month in the real world before entering a modern script world as a bodyguard for mafia heiress Su Luoxue. He chose to lie flat for now and bought an Automatic Cultivation System to improve his many skills, while standing guard outside Baihai City No. 1 Middle School.

• Chu Youran started production at a beverage factory, the Lin Clan collapsed, and Lin Xiaoran and Lin Jiong died in a car accident.
• Chu Youran suspended her stock trading after regulators noticed she had made hundreds of billions in less than a month.
• Ling Yi reflected on the attention his status as an Immortal Dao expert and Chu Youran's stock-market activity had attracted.
• Ling Yi joined Su Luoxue's temporary bodyguard team after another guard was injured in a car accident.
• Ling Yi bought the Automatic Cultivation System, which began raising the levels of his existing skills.

Su Luoxue took her new bodyguard Ling Yi to a martial arts school, where she tried to make him spar with her. When Li Hao arrived and tried to approach her, Ling Yi blocked him and slapped him, leaving the room stunned.

• Su Luoxue chose Ling Yi to ride beside her and took him to visit her second uncle at a martial arts school.
• Su Luoxue challenged Ling Yi to spar, but he refused to fight her.
• Li Hao arrived with his bodyguards and mocked Su Luoxue about someone confessing to her.
• Ling Yi stopped Li Hao from approaching Su Luoxue and warned him to stay back.
• Li Hao challenged Ling Yi, who slapped him across the face.

Ling Yi defeated Li Hao and his men after Li Hao threatened Su Luoxue, then exposed the disloyalty of her personal bodyguards. Su Luoxue fired the remaining guards and appointed Ling Yi as her personal bodyguard as they returned to the Su Family villa, while she suspected her second uncle Su Wankun had deliberately arrived late.

• Ling Yi slapped Li Hao, then defeated the dozen bodyguards Li Hao ordered to attack him, earning a system reward for rescuing 16 cannon fodder.
• Li Hao threatened Su Luoxue and her father before leaving, and Su Luoxue gave him the middle finger.
• Su Luoxue ordered her five bodyguards to help Ling Yi, but they refused, so she fired them; Ling Yi slapped the one who challenged her authority.
• Su Wankun arrived after the fight and asked whether Su Luoxue was all right, but she ignored him because she suspected his timing was deliberate.
• On the drive back to the Su Family villa, Su Luoxue made Ling Yi her personal bodyguard, and he swore to follow her unto death.

Ling Yi protected Su Luoxue from her father, Su Cheng, and learned that Su Cheng was preparing to dismantle the Black Dragon. After settling into his new role as Su Luoxue’s bodyguard, Ling Yi told her he would give her a cheat.

• Su Cheng attacked Su Luoxue, but Ling Yi intercepted him and slapped him across the room.
• Su Cheng left with Longshe and learned from him that Ling Yi had once saved Su Luoxue without either of them realizing who he was.
• Su Cheng told Longshe that Ling Yi’s strength made Su Luoxue safe and explained that Black Dragon had become a liability under the authorities’ scrutiny.
• Ling Yi cooked dinner for Su Luoxue and moved into the room beside hers at the villa.
• Su Luoxue insisted Ling Yi call her Xue’er, and Ling Yi warned her that her safety could affect her father’s plans.
• Ling Yi told Su Luoxue he was going to give her a cheat.

Ling Yi used his Cultivation Cards to strengthen Su Luoxue, and the system rewarded him with Cannon Fodder Points for changing the fates of 127 cannon fodder. The next morning, he accompanied her to school, where he noticed three students tied to a plot involving Du Fan and a girl he planned to confess to.

• Ling Yi pretended to transfer his power to Su Luoxue and used seven 1-Year Cultivation Cards to improve her strength and combat skills.
• The system awarded Ling Yi 228 Cannon Fodder Points and additional rewards for saving 127 cannon fodder, leading him to realize that strengthening Su Luoxue had altered their fates.
• Su Luoxue woke Ling Yi by tickling him with her hair, and he hurried to the bathroom while she laughed.
• Ling Yi drove Su Luoxue to school and went into Class One with her as her only bodyguard.
• Ling Yi identified three cannon fodder students whose plot involved Du Fan confessing to a girl and getting attacked after she rejected him.

Ling Yi and Su Luoxue left school to have fun, while Du Fan repeatedly confessed to Su Luoxue and other girls under the influence of his Confession System. After Du Fan tracked them down and taunted them outside a movie theater, Ling Yi and Su Luoxue caught him and took him away to talk.

• Su Luoxue asked Ling Yi to skip class with her, and Ling Yi agreed to leave after class.
• Du Fan blocked their way and tried to confess to Su Luoxue, so Ling Yi slapped him and warned him to stay away.
• Du Fan continued confessing to Su Luoxue and several other girls every day, while his grades rose to first place in the grade.
• After a week of avoiding school, Su Luoxue and Ling Yi spotted Du Fan outside a movie theater, where he confessed to Su Luoxue and taunted them before running.
• Ling Yi and Su Luoxue appeared beside Du Fan, pinned his shoulders, and decided to take him somewhere to talk before beating him up.