Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi drew the Speed Devouring entry, but the system’s new patch prevented him from using entries on his own clones and unlocked Devouring Space as compensation. He tested the entry on Qin Ya, stripped away her speed, and then harvested more of her life, insight, and Spiritual Root while wondering what system module she would yield.

• Ling Yi drew Speed Devouring, but the system barred him from using entries on clones and unlocked Devouring Space.
• Ling Yi released Qin Ya, whose attack failed to hurt him, and explained that his body had become exceptionally strong.
• Ling Yi used Speed Devouring on Qin Ya, leaving her unable to move faster than an ordinary person.
• Qin Yuran emerged from cultivation, and Ling Yi explained the new entry and its effect on Qin Ya.
• Ling Yi activated Life, Insight, and Spiritual Root Devouring on Qin Ya and stored the resulting light orbs in Devouring Space.

The Heavenly Mysterious Sect’s grand competition began with the opening of the dangerous Demon-Subduing Secret Realm, where disciples from many sects would compete for survival and treasures. Ling Yi recognized the sect patriarch Situ Wan'er, who had recognized him too, while a veiled woman with familiar fox eyes revealed that she had finally found him as the disciples entered the realm.

• The chapter explained that disciples who survived the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm would advance to ranking, promotion, and sect challenge matches.
• Ling Yi attended the competition beside Qin Yuran and his golden Clone disguised as Qin Ya, while the real Qin Ya remained imprisoned in Qin Yuran's cave abode.
• Ling Yi recognized the sect patriarch Situ Wan'er as the supposed great demon from Forest Valley's central lake and worried she might cause trouble; Situ Wan'er had recognized him as well.
• A veiled woman from the Wondrous Sound Sect watched Ling Yi with familiar fox eyes and mouthed, "I finally found you!"
• Situ Men opened the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm with a black fragment, and the disciples flew or ran toward the portal.
• The fox-eyed woman flew over to join Qin Yuran, Ling Yi, and the golden Clone as they entered the secret realm.

Qin Yuran and Ling Yi killed Situ Jie after encountering him in the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm, then discovered that Hu Ji, a Wondrous Sound Sect disciple, was the Demon Clan Empress’s daughter. Hu Ji agreed to tell Ling Yi how she had concealed her identity after they finished exploring the secret realm.

• Qin Yuran, Ling Yi, Qin Ya, and their companions arrived in an abandoned city and encountered Situ Jie, who challenged Qin Yuran to kill him.
• Qin Yuran and Ling Yi agreed that Situ Men would eventually become their enemy, so Qin Yuran killed Situ Jie and his companion with a Thunder Spirit spell.
• Qin Yuran and Ling Yi recognized Hu Ji and learned that her mother was the Demon Clan Empress, Hu Ziyue.
• Ling Yi recalled that he had once healed Hu Ji in her white fox form, unknowingly strengthening her bloodline and helping her reach the peak of the Third Tier.
• Hu Ji explained that she had come to the secret realm looking for Ling Yi, but refused to reveal how she hid her Demon Clan identity until they could speak privately.

Ling Yi killed the Cold Nether Sect Holy Son and his companions after they entered the abandoned hotel, while Qin Yuran went out to hunt cultivators. Hu Ji remained with Ling Yi, increasingly shocked by the group's power and danger.

• Roars from beyond the abandoned city interrupted the group's rest, and Qin Yuran left to hunt the human devils drawn by someone else's cultivation.
• Hu Ji told Ling Yi she had come to find him and was not interested in the trial.
• The Cold Nether Sect Holy Son and five companions entered the hotel, and Ling Yi immobilized them, devoured their abilities, and turned their bodies to ash.
• Qin Yuran returned with more than a hundred storage rings, leaving Hu Ji to wonder if she was at the Nascent Soul Stage or above.
• Hu Ji decided she would still stay near Ling Yi and use her secret technique to take him away if they encountered danger.

Hu Ji explained that the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm was a sealed gateway to the Demon Realm, and warned Ling Yi and Qin Yuran that a million-strong devil tide could bring a powerful Demon Realm figure. When cultivators fled toward their location, Ling Yi chose to stay and let Qin Yuran fight the human devils for points and Devil Crystals.

• Hu Ji explained that the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm had formed around a fragment of the sealed gateway to the Demon Realm and that entry by someone above the Nascent Soul Realm could attract its powerful figures.
• Ling Yi dismissed the so-called original text as unreliable and recalled that he had devoured Qin Ya’s system module, Charm Demon Aura.
• Ling Yi, Qin Yuran, and Hu Ji saw thousands of cultivators fleeing as human devils approached, and Hu Ji suspected a devil tide had begun after another city fell.
• Hu Ji warned that a devil tide meant at least a million devils and could include a great devil ranging from a Third Pin Devil General to an Eighth Pin Devil King.
• Ling Yi decided to stay and activate his Entries without killing the human devils, while Qin Yuran would kill them, collect Devil Crystals, and create Heavenly Dao Body clones for Ling Yi to strengthen.

Ling Yi and Hu Ji watched five Qin Yuran slaughter monsters in the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm while Ling Yi absorbed the rewards from across a vast area. After revealing Hu Ji’s precarious position in the Demon Clan, Ling Yi offered her a choice, and she agreed to contract with him in exchange for help strengthening her bloodline and saving her mother.

• Ling Yi marveled at a Devil Crystal as five Qin Yuran killed monsters below the city wall, while Ling Yi’s entry devoured distant orbs of rewards.
• Hu Ji asked why the monsters had changed, and Ling Yi questioned how she knew about the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm.
• Hu Ji explained that the Demon Clan’s royal family could use fragments of the Demon-Sealing Disc to enter the secret realm.
• Ling Yi told Hu Ji that her mother was losing the Demon Emperor succession struggle and offered to let her leave, contract with him, or die to keep his secrets.
• Hu Ji bit Ling Yi’s arm, failed to hurt him, and learned that he would help her strengthen her bloodline if she formed a contract with him.
• Hu Ji agreed to the contract, and Ling Yi promised to help her achieve bloodline Atavism and become a Ninth Tier Demon Emperor within a month.

After the devil tide ended, Ling Yi learned how the Demon Realm’s invasion began and discovered that Qin Ya had escaped after killing his clone. Unable to leave the secret realm until its time limit expired, Ling Yi waited for his next Entry draw and received an ability whose meaning he could not understand.

• The Demon Realm’s experts ended the devil tide after suffering heavy losses, while Ling Yi and Qin Yuran reached the peak of their current realms and Hu Ji evolved into a Ninth Tier Demon Emperor.
• Ling Yi sealed Hu Ji’s senses to stop her enchantment, then made her return to her former appearance and warned her that he knew how to break their contract.
• Hu Ji explained that Human Clan cultivators had first invaded the Demon Realm, with the Demon Clan joining them later, before the Demon Realm retaliated and was eventually sealed using the Demon-Sealing Disc.
• Ling Yi told Qin Yuran that Qin Ya had killed his clone and fled, and Hu Ji confirmed they could not leave the secret realm early without a Demon-Sealing Disc fragment.
• Half a month later, Ling Yi drew the Control Devouring Entry but could not figure out what kind of control it allowed him to devour.

After returning from the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm, Ling Yi ended his partnership with Qin Yuran and planned to leave the sect, capture Qin Ya, and ascend to the Immortal Realm. Qin Yuran chose to travel alone until her state of mind was perfected, while Hu Ji promised to settle the Demon Clan's affairs and follow Ling Yi.

• Qin Yuran and Hu Ji activated their tokens and returned with Ling Yi to the Heavenly Mysterious Sect, while Ling Yi left his golden Clone behind to explore the Demon Realm.
• Ling Yi told Qin Yuran that he would abandon the holy son plan, leave the sect, capture Qin Ya, and ascend; Qin Yuran chose to remain in the Immortal Cultivation Realm until her state of mind was perfected.
• Ling Yi told Hu Ji to resolve the Demon Clan's problems before seeking him out, and Hu Ji vowed to follow him after helping her mother.
• Ling Yi noticed the Heavenly Mysterious Sect's patriarch, Situ Wan'er, watching him and recalled her connection to the events of the original story.

After most of the disciples died in the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm, Situ Men blamed Ling Yi, but Qin Yuran struck him down before he could act. Situ Wan'er intervened and tried to speak with the group, who planned to leave after watching the Cold Nether Sect arrive; Ling Yi stayed to test another suspicious character.

• After the Demon-Subduing Secret Realm closed, Situ Men demanded to know how his son Situ Jie had died and pointedly confronted Ling Yi.
• Qin Yuran shouted at Situ Men, sending him flying, and Situ Wan'er warned him that Ling Yi's group included someone at least in the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Situ Wan'er asked Ling Yi, Qin Yuran, and Hu Ji to talk in the inner hall, but Qin Yuran said they would leave the Heavenly Mysterious Sect after the day's events.
• Ling Yi said he would stay to see how arrogant the Cold Nether Sect master was, then told Qin Yuran he wanted to test the next leek.

In Qingyun Market, Ling Yi’s Clone sold Qin Ya a fake strange stone and then sold Yuan Ming every curiosity in the shop for an enormous price. Yuan Ming and the Cold Nether Sect’s fleet headed north toward the Heavenly Mysterious Sect.

• Qin Ya bought a strange stone for ten thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones and left the Curiosities Pavilion.
• Ling Yi’s Clone revealed that he had replaced the real stone, which concealed a key to the Divine Domain, and had been waiting for Qin Ya and other buyers.
• Yuan Ming, the Cold Nether Sect’s trash Divine Son, demanded to buy everything in the shop, and the Clone charged him a hundred times the usual price.
• Qianqian paid five million two hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and Yuan Ming swept all fifty-two curiosities into his storage ring.
• Qianqian carried Yuan Ming onto a Cold Nether Sect flying boat, and the fleet accelerated north toward the Heavenly Mysterious Sect.

Ling Yi watched the Heavenly Mysterious Sect competition as more Clones found opportunities and potential leeks, then the Cold Nether Sect arrived and shattered the sect’s protective formation. Yuan Tiance threatened Situ Wan’er, and after Hu Ji mocked his appearance, he attacked Ling Yi with a flying sword.

• Ling Yi reflected that his Clones had found more than twenty potential leeks at opportunity sites, while he and Hu Ji joked about what leeks were.
• The Cold Nether Sect’s warships arrived above the Heavenly Mysterious Sect, and their forces descended into the square after the protective formation shattered.
• Yuan Tiance confronted Situ Wan’er and demanded that she marry him or let the Heavenly Mysterious Sect be destroyed.
• Situ Wan’er secretly asked Ling Yi to help save the sect, while Hu Ji called Yuan Tiance a green toad and drew everyone’s attention.
• Ling Yi sealed Hu Ji’s consciousness as punishment, and Yuan Tiance angrily sent a green flying sword toward Ling Yi.

Ling Yi used Speed Devouring and Control Devouring to seize the Cold Nether Sect’s flying swords, defeat Yuan Tiance, and seal his Slaughter Sword Intent before leaving on a stolen flying boat. He discovered Yuan Ming recognized him as Ling Yi, the protagonist, and realized they might both know they were in a book.

• Ling Yi slowed Yuan Tiance’s flying sword with Speed Devouring, then used Control Devouring to take control of the Cold Nether Sect disciples’ weapons.
• Ling Yi summoned ten thousand flying swords, forcing Yuan Tiance to kneel and ask for mercy.
• Ling Yi spared Yuan Tiance but used Insight Devouring to seal his Slaughter Sword Intent, then thanked Situ Wan'er and prepared to leave with Qin Yuran and Hu Ji.
• Ling Yi flew away aboard the Cold Nether Sect’s largest flying boat, which he had taken control of, and refused to let Yuan Ming off.
• Yuan Ming tested Ling Yi with a code phrase and realized he was Ling Yi, the protagonist; Ling Yi confirmed it, leaving Yuan Ming astonished that Ling Yi knew he was in a book.

Ling Yi harvested life energy and a God Grade Sign-In module from Yuan Ming’s system, leaving it dormant, then brought him to the Curiosities Pavilion. There, Yuan Ming discovered that the ugly stone he had bought was fake just as an angry woman confronted the shopkeeper.

• Ling Yi used his Devouring Entry to drain most of Yuan Ming’s system energy, putting the system to sleep, then extracted its God Grade Sign-In function module and stored it.
• Yuan Ming learned that Ling Yi had found more than twenty people who transmigrated into books and planned to harvest their systems.
• Ling Yi and Yuan Ming arrived at Qingyun Market, where Ling Yi’s Clone explained that Qin Ya had blocked their connection and perception, though he expected to recover within three days.
• Yuan Ming recognized the Clone’s Wansheng Clone Method and realized the ugly stone in the Curiosities Pavilion was fake after comparing it with the one in his hand.
• An angry woman outside the shop accused the shopkeeper of deceiving her and demanded her Spirit Stones back.

Ling Yi confronted Yan Yunxi and Yan Chaoyun at the Curiosities Pavilion after Yan Chaoyun demanded the ugly stone, revealing that it contained a Divine Domain Key. Yan Chaoyun recognized Ling Yi and questioned how he knew the future; Ling Yi suggested that he, too, had transmigrated into the book.

• Yan Chaoyun accused the Curiosities Pavilion of selling her a fake and demanded compensation and the genuine ugly stone, while Yan Yunxi asked the shopkeeper to make an exception.
• The Clone refused Yan Yunxi’s offer of a valuable Qingyuan Stone, and Yan Yunxi used her Divine Sense to pressure him.
• Ling Yi dispersed Yan Yunxi’s Divine Sense and stopped her from leaving, then revealed that a Divine Domain Key was inside the ugly stone.
• Ling Yi identified Yan Chaoyun and asked her to guess his name; she recognized him as Ling Yi and questioned how he knew about the key and her future.
• Ling Yi told Yan Chaoyun that she was not the only person who had transmigrated into the book.

Ling Yi revealed that Yan Chaoyun had transmigrated into a book and warned that the Wondrous Sound Sect's bloodline ceremony could expose her soul. He strengthened Yan Yunxi's Shadow Cat bloodline and proposed a deal involving the Blood Shadow Pavilion, but Yan Yunxi attacked him with daggers.

• Ling Yi told Yan Chaoyun that she was a character in a novel and explained that the Wondrous Sound Sect's Ancestral Bloodline Awakening Ceremony could expose her transmigrated soul.
• Yan Yunxi grew wary when Ling Yi revealed knowledge of the Yan Family's Shadow Cat bloodline, but his Spiritual Pressure subdued her killing intent.
• Ling Yi said he could provide the Yan Family with three bloodline awakening slots each year and strengthened Yan Yunxi's bloodline with a sphere of life.
• Yan Yunxi demonstrated her newly strengthened Intangibility and Invisibility abilities, and Ling Yi revealed that she was the pavilion master of the Blood Shadow Pavilion.
• Yan Yunxi attacked Ling Yi with a dagger, then sent three more at him, but his defenses stopped them from penetrating.

Ling Yi negotiated a deal with Yan Yunxi’s Blood Shadow Pavilion in exchange for bloodline-awakening opportunities, then questioned Yan Chaoyun and Yuan Ming about their transmigrations. He learned they came from different worlds and that Yan Qingyun had killed the original Yan Chaoyun, while the transmigrated Yan Chaoyun had spared her.

• Ling Yi and Yan Yunxi agreed that the Blood Shadow Pavilion would take tasks from him in exchange for bloodline-awakening opportunities, with the Pavilion retaining the right to refuse conflicting tasks and requiring payment first.
• Ling Yi asked Yuan Ming and Yan Chaoyun to explain their transmigrations and discovered Yuan Ming came from Blue Star while Yan Chaoyun came from Emperor Star.
• Yan Chaoyun revealed that the original Yan Chaoyun had died after Yan Qingyun poisoned the hot spring, and that a system had revived her body after she transmigrated into it.
• Yan Chaoyun told Yan Yunxi she had sealed Yan Qingyun’s cultivation and imprisoned her rather than killing her.

Yan Yunxi accepted Yan Chaoyun as her daughter, and Ling Yi explained his theory that the Heavenly Dao was using book transmigrators to steal origin energy and eventually devour them. As Ling Yi’s improvised story began to feel like the truth, he proposed watching for book transmigrators at the sites of opportunities from the novel.

• Yan Yunxi accepted Yan Chaoyun as her daughter, and Yan Chaoyun explained transmigrators, novel worlds, and systems to her.
• Ling Yi claimed he was a former incarnation of the Heavenly Dao and described how it used book transmigrators to drain origin energy from other worlds.
• Ling Yi said the Heavenly Dao planned to awaken, gather the stolen origin energy, transcend, and devour the book transmigrators and Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi realized his story felt true because he was following his transcendent sixth sense, and he explained that he had made the systems dormant to weaken the Heavenly Dao and find every book transmigrator.
• Ling Yi suggested waiting at the places where opportunities from the novel appeared, including the strange stone that had brought them to the Curiosities Pavilion.

Ling Yi and his companions used the Blood Shadow Pavilion and his golden clones to capture book transmigrators, bringing their total to thirty. With Qin Ya still missing, Ling Yi learned she had likely fled into the Azure Dragon Domain to seek the Wansheng Willow God's tree heart and decided to capture the remaining transmigrators before pursuing her.

• Ling Yi and his companions lived aboard the Blood Shadow Pavilion's flying vessel, where twenty-nine captured book transmigrators played games and shared stories.
• Yan Yunxi told Ling Yi that thirty-six minor characters appeared in the original text, leaving seven transmigrators to capture.
• Ling Yi grabbed a burly book transmigrator and used his Devouring Entries on him before handing him over to Yuan Ming.
• Yan Yunxi reported that Qin Ya was last seen near Wanlong Mountain and had likely fled into the Azure Dragon Domain.
• Ling Yi explained that Qin Ya sought the Wansheng Willow God's tree heart, which could let her control the powerful demon, and chose to capture the other transmigrators before going after her.

Ling Yi and his companions traveled toward the Azure Dragon Domain to capture Qin Ya, but stopped when Hu Ji recognized Qin Yuran fighting a Human Immortal on Wanlong Mountain. Ling Yi rescued Qin Yuran and learned she was seeking a Soul Source Fruit before he revealed that he was going to capture her younger sister.

• After capturing every transmigrator except Qin Ya, Ling Yi set out with his companions for the Azure Dragon Domain.
• Hu Ji spotted Qin Yuran battling a powerful Human Immortal on Wanlong Mountain and rushed to help her.
• The golden-armored immortal mistook Hu Ji for the Demon Clan Empress and threatened to kill her, so Qin Yuran prepared to sacrifice her Clone while Hu Ji called for Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi appeared, used his Devouring Entry to strip the immortal of his power and life energy, then killed him.
• Ling Yi brought Qin Yuran aboard the flying boat, where she explained that she was searching for a Soul Source Fruit to perfect her soul and become a Human Immortal.
• Ling Yi told Qin Yuran that he and his companions were headed to the Azure Dragon Domain to capture her younger sister, Qin Ya.

Ling Yi reached Ten Thousand Saints Mountain too late to pursue Qin Ya, who had transmigrated back to her own world, and realized he needed to ascend and master spatial formations before following her. His memories were unsealed, and he met Yin Wanqing and Uncle before randomly transmigrating again.

• Ling Yi took Hu Ji toward Ten Thousand Saints Mountain and formed a protective array so they could travel at extreme speed.
• Ling Yi sensed that Qin Ya had already left this world, and explained that he could not reach her world until he mastered the Space Spirit Formation and gained stronger cultivation.
• Ling Yi decided to ascend to the Immortal Realm first, then returned with Hu Ji.
• Ling Yi's memories were unsealed, and he drew Yin Wanqing and Uncle from the Ling Realm into this world.
• Yin Wanqing said Mengmeng remained asleep but was stable and transforming, while Uncle admitted he had run out of fresh ideas and was following Ling Yi's plot.
• Ling Yi randomly transmigrated, and Yin Wanqing reminded Uncle that his writing was key to Boundary Breaking's success.