Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi arrived in the Spirit Sword Sect as Liu Chen, Lin Youran’s junior disciple, and bound an Everything Upgrade System. He chose to cultivate the God Ling Method while Bai Ying began teaching Bai Shuang how to cultivate, leaving the three new disciples to prepare for their year-long test.

• Ling Yi found himself on Heavenly Sword Peak with Bai Ying and Bai Shuang, and Lin Youran assigned them their seniority and gave each a storage ring.
• Bai Ying recognized Bai Shuang as Yunyao and led her into a shared wooden house, while Ling Yi suspected their identities were connected to his past.
• Ling Yi bound the Everything Upgrade System and learned it could upgrade items in exchange for Upgrade Points obtained by recycling things with Spiritual Qi.
• Unable to open his storage ring, Ling Yi chose the God Ling Method over immortal cultivation techniques and began cultivating in his house.
• Bai Ying told Bai Shuang that they had transmigrated as Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao, then began teaching her the Basic Qi Refining Art so they could open their rings.

Zhou Siyao explained the laws binding world-traversers to Zhou Yunyao and taught her the Qi Refining Art, but the sisters’ cultivation progressed far more slowly than expected. When three young men confronted Ling Yi and demanded he hand something over, he used the Soul-Control Devil Pact on them to learn about the world.

• Zhou Siyao told Zhou Yunyao that she probably was not a world-traverser but might be the protagonist, and explained that world-traversers who broke the laws of the Ancient Country lost their status and gains.
• Zhou Siyao taught Zhou Yunyao the Qi Refining Art, but after cultivating all night, neither sister had reached the First Layer of Qi Refining.
• Zhou Yunyao suggested visiting their junior brother for help, but the sisters heard a commotion and saw him facing three young men in white.
• The triangular-eyed man demanded that Liu Chen hand something over, while Ling Yi, lacking the original owner's memories, did not know what they wanted.
• Ling Yi sensed that the three men had only reached the third or fourth level of Qi Refining and used the Soul-Control Devil Pact on them so he could learn about the world.

Ling Yi learned about Liu Chen’s history, Liu Feng’s hostility, and the two cultivation systems while deciding to seek Spirit Cultivation methods in the Spirit Sword Sect’s Scripture Repository. He sent Liu Feng’s three men away with a cover story and warned the All Things Enhancement System to obey him, then considered how to enter the sect competition without drawing attention.

• Ling Yi questioned three men and learned that Liu Feng had sent them to frame or kill him, and heard the history of Liu Chen and Liu Feng’s rivalry.
• Ling Yi learned about Art Cultivation’s thirteen realms and Spirit Cultivation’s focus on the Primordial Spirit, which he suspected could advance his God Ling Method.
• Ling Yi ordered the three men, bound by his soul-control technique, to tell Liu Feng that he was secluded and had refused to see them.
• Ling Yi noted that the sect competition was three months away and that its top ten could enter the Scripture Repository, which reportedly held Spirit Cultivation methods.
• Ling Yi asked the All Things Enhancement System about exchanging his Spirit Stones, then forbade it from acting without his instructions and threatened to erase it.

Ling Yi discovered that the old system spirit had been destroyed and the Everything Upgrade System had restarted under his control. He upgraded Qi Gathering Pills into Flawless Qi Gathering Pills, then considered how to sell them without exposing his ability or losing his freedom.

• Ling Yi watched the self-aware system spirit explode, and the Everything Upgrade System restarted and let him choose its appearance.
• Ling Yi learned that the former system spirit might have possessed him, then used the new system to upgrade a Qi Gathering Pill into a Flawless Qi Gathering Pill.
• Ling Yi showed the pill to Li Yun, Guo Peng, and Zhao Sanshan, and Guo Peng explained that flawless pills were exceptionally valuable and their makers were coveted by major sects.
• Ling Yi upgraded a bottle of ten Qi Gathering Pills and ordered Guo Peng to sell them discreetly, but Guo Peng warned that the pills could draw the attention of powerful sect members.
• Ling Yi worried that the sect might seize him if his ability became known, and Guo Peng suggested asking Peak Master Lin for help.

Ling Yi upgraded alchemy texts and produced vast quantities of flawless pills, while Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao cultivated on Heavenly Sword Peak. On the eve of the sect competition, Liu Feng arrived with an elder, and Ling Yi immediately slapped him.

• Ling Yi upgraded the alchemy texts into the Divine Dao Pill Art and Complete Flawless Pill Recipes, then gave Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao ten bottles of Flawless Qi Gathering Pills as hush money.
• Over three months, Guo Peng and the others sold five hundred bottles of Flawless Qi Gathering Pills, while Ling Yi refined many other flawless pills and gave the sisters another hundred bottles.
• Zhou Siyao reached the Mortal Transcendence Realm, Seventh Level, Zhou Yunyao reached the Sixth Level, and Ling Yi brought the God Ling Method to Great Perfection at the ninth level while hiding his true cultivation.
• Ling Yi told Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao he would enter the sect competition and aim for the top ten to gain access to the Scripture Repository.
• Liu Feng arrived at Ling Yi's courtyard with an old man and called him Liu Chen, so Ling Yi vanished in front of him and slapped him, demanding to know what he had called him.

Ling Yi beat Liu Feng after he tried to provoke him into joining the sect competition, while Ji Yun explained that he was not Liu Feng’s ally. Ling Yi then hinted that he would use Liu Feng for his own purposes, claiming his strength came from a cultivation method taught by an old man he had saved.

• Ling Yi repeatedly slapped Liu Feng until Liu Feng called him big brother and could no longer fight back.
• Ji Yun identified himself as the master of Pill Peak and said he had merely encountered Liu Feng along the way.
• Ling Yi reflected on the sect’s many peak masters and learned that Heavenly Sword Peak’s master, Lin Youran, was powerful enough to deter the sect from challenging her disciples.
• Ling Yi questioned Liu Feng about his visit and learned that Liu Feng had intended to lure him into the sect competition and arrange a chance to kill or cripple him.
• Ling Yi decided Liu Feng might still be useful and claimed that an old man he had saved on the way to the Spirit Sword Sect had taught him a powerful cultivation method.

Ling Yi negotiated for access to spirit cultivation knowledge and received a superior method from Lin Youran, who warned that his cultivation paths conflicted. Studying its teachings about the Dao, Ling Yi completed the tenth level of the God Ling Method.

• Liu Feng left after agreeing to participate in the sect competition, while Ji Yun considered the value of Ling Yi’s Flawless Pill formulas.
• Ling Yi offered to auction his Flawless Pill formulas and told Ji Yun he wanted access to the Scripture Pavilion’s spirit cultivation methods.
• Lin Youran appeared beside Ling Yi and explained that technique cultivation and spirit cultivation conflicted, then asked to inspect his method.
• Ling Yi gave Lin Youran a jade slip containing the God Ling Method, and she gave him her finest spirit cultivation method before sealing the courtyard.
• Ling Yi studied the method’s explanation of entering the Dao through the spirit and completed the tenth level of the God Ling Method.

Ling Yi developed the tenth level of the God Ling Method, tried to spread it through his subordinates, and spent six months gathering enough Upgrade Points to upgrade it. The upgrade unlocked two new levels, but the system warned of an unknown great terror, and Ling Yi woke up back in the real-world security office.

• Ling Yi gave the courtyard formation and its rules concrete form, then decided to spread the God Ling Method so others could help him develop it.
• Lin Youran forbade Ling Yi from leaving Heavenly Sword Peak or spreading the method, so he secretly instructed Li Yun, Guo Peng, and Zhao Sanshan to distribute it widely.
• Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao placed in the sect competition's top ten, then left to earn contribution points through sect missions.
• Over the next six months, Ling Yi sold the Flawless Pill formula and used the Spirit Stones to gather Upgrade Points for the God Ling Method.
• Ling Yi spent one trillion Upgrade Points to upgrade the God Ling Method, which gained its eleventh and twelfth levels.
• The system warned that an unknown great terror was descending; a blurry blue figure appeared, and Ling Yi lost consciousness before waking in the real-world security office.

After returning from the Spirit Sword Sect world, Ling Yi learned that Wansheng could upgrade his World-Traversal Card and used it to unlock new traversal privileges. Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao also returned after being killed by the same terrifying presence, then received a team invitation from Liu Chen.

• Ling Yi mourned losing his Spirit Stones, cultivation, and jade slips, while his damaged Everything Upgrade System recovered and asked him to choose a new name.
• Ling Yi named the system Wansheng, learned it had over 210,000 Upgrade Points remaining, and heard that the being that killed him came from a higher-dimensional sequence.
• Ling Yi asked Wansheng to upgrade his World-Traversal Card, and Wansheng transformed it into a One-Star World-Traversal Card.
• Ling Yi activated the upgraded card and unlocked privileges to revisit worlds, carry one item, and team up with other travelers.
• Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao returned after the terrifying presence killed them, and Liu Chen invited them to form a traversal team.

Ling Yi reunited with Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao in the Spirit Sword Sect and learned that a great terror had killed and revived the sect before killing the sisters again. When Wansheng warned that the terror would return, Ling Yi gave the sisters the God Ling Method and tried to escape, but the blue-clad figure appeared and incinerated him.

• Ling Yi met Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao, who had taken the identities White Moon and White Snow, and introduced himself as Zhao Yu.
• Ling Yi explained that his upgraded World-Traversal Card let him invite teammates, while Zhou Yunyao recounted how the great terror had killed the Spirit Sword Sect, revived everyone, then killed the sisters with a glance.
• Wansheng warned Ling Yi that the great terror would arrive in one minute, so Ling Yi inscribed the God Ling Method on a jade slip and gave it to the Zhou sisters.
• Ling Yi fled on a flying sword, but the blue-clad great terror appeared beside him and reduced him and his sword to ashes.
• The great terror turned her gaze on Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao, leaving both sisters trembling and powerless.

After a forbidden cultivation method was destroyed, Ling Yi crossed into a zombie apocalypse world with Wansheng and found a way to trade survival supplies for zombie crystal cores. As he prepared to build up his Upgrade Points, a scar-faced man spotted his fortress and decided to target him.

• The great terror destroyed the jade slip and warned Zhou Siyao and Zhou Yunyao that cultivating the method would lead to death, but the sisters continued cultivating and hoped to become immortals.
• Ling Yi and Little Hei entered a zombie apocalypse world, where Wansheng explained that crystal cores could be exchanged for Upgrade Points.
• Little Hei starved to death after crossing over as an ordinary village dog, and Ling Yi used Upgrade Points to enlarge his bread and water.
• Ling Yi cleared the zombies from his building, upgraded it into a steel fortress, and announced that he would trade survival supplies for crystal cores.
• A scar-faced man watching Ling Yi's building from a department store called him a fat sheep and decided to keep others from reaching him.

Ling Yi established a drone-based exchange of supplies for Zombie Crystal Cores while investigating the sudden apocalypse and the authorities’ preparations. Dao Ba tried to exploit the exchange to obtain weapons, but Ling Yi’s system exposed and permanently barred him.

• Dao Ba saw the exchange list and planned to trade for guns, then use them to seize Ling Yi’s building and supplies.
• A message told survivors they could request trades by text and receive deliveries by drone in exchange for Zombie Crystal Cores.
• Ling Yi’s super artificial intelligence announced that Wang Qiang had submitted false trade information and was permanently barred, cutting off Dao Ba’s group from contacting the traders.
• Ling Yi considered why the zombie outbreak and food spoilage had happened so suddenly, and suspected the authorities had prepared underground bases after the protagonist’s rebirth.
• Ling Yi wondered whether Zombie Crystal Cores could make people stronger.

Ling Yi amassed Upgrade Points by trading for Zombie Crystal Cores, then cleared the oceans of zombie creatures. Near Antarctica, he spared the powerful golden hairtail and captured it in a small world to keep as a pet.

• Ling Yi traded survival supplies for First Tier Zombie Crystal Cores while cultivating the God Ling Method, and survivors began trading for the method to fight zombies more effectively.
• A month later, Zombie City’s zombies had been wiped out, and Ling Yi’s drone network expanded beyond the city as his daily crystal core haul grew.
• After humanity stopped trading for supplies, Ling Yi cultivated the God Ling Method to the tenth level and cleared the oceans of zombie creatures in half a month.
• Near Antarctica, Ling Yi encountered a golden hairtail at least as strong as an Eighth Tier zombie creature and decided to spare it.
• Ling Yi used a multicolored jade sphere to draw the hairtail into his independent small world.

Ling Yi upgraded the God Ling Method, but the Great Terror crossed worlds and killed him before he could see the new levels. Back in the security room, he decided to leave his job and traveled with Little Hei to a new world, where he became Chu Wu, an attendant to a fallen young master.

• Ling Yi spent one trillion Upgrade Points to upgrade the God Ling Method, but the Great Terror appeared through a spatial rift and killed him.
• Ling Yi returned to the security room and encountered an old resident who offered to buy Little Hei.
• Ling Yi realized the resident was probing him and decided to quit his security job after his shift.
• Ling Yi told Little Hei about the Great Terror, then chose to travel with him to investigate it and learn the new levels of the God Ling Method.
• Ling Yi and Little Hei arrived in the Mist Mountain Range Market at the beginning of the story, where Ling Yi took the identity of Chu Wu, attendant to a fallen young master.

After transmigrating into Chu Wu’s body, Ling Yi learned from a jade slip that Ye Chen was the protagonist and decided to stay with him. Ye Chen planned to wait for an upcoming auction to escape the market, while Ling Yi handed him a mysterious cultivation technique.

• Ling Yi discovered that Ye Chen had also transmigrated and learned from Chu Feng’s jade slip about the events leading up to Chu Wu’s death.
• Ye Chen urged Ling Yi to leave him behind, but Ling Yi declared his loyalty and agreed to stay.
• Ling Yi warned that the market exits were guarded, so they planned to disguise themselves among the crowds after an auction in half a month.
• Ye Chen said he needed time to cultivate a secret technique that could greatly strengthen his Primordial Spirit.
• Ling Yi gave Ye Chen the jade slip containing the God Ling Method, which he had not dared to cultivate because he could not read some of its characters.

Ling Yi gave Ye Chen a deliberately altered copy of the God Ling Method, expecting him to spread it, while Wansheng seized Ye Chen’s system and bound it to Ling Yi. Ye Chen lost his cheat and moved rooms as Ling Yi began studying the world he would remain in.

• Ling Yi gave Ye Chen the ten-layer God Ling Method, whose English passages urged its spread and promised a way to plunder cultivation from those who reached the eleventh layer.
• Ling Yi decided to have others deduce further layers of the method instead of cultivating or upgrading it himself.
• Wansheng used ten million Upgrade Points to upgrade Ye Chen’s Ten-Thousandfold Enlargement and Reduction System, transferring it to Ling Yi and binding it to him.
• Ling Yi learned that the new system could enlarge or reduce anything, but its uses required Spirit Stones.
• Ye Chen discovered his system was gone, dismissed Ling Yi, and moved to another room to search for it.
• Ling Yi returned to his room and began reading Chu Wu’s jade slip to learn about the world.

Ling Yi secretly looted the Mist Mountain Range market while Ye Chen cultivated slowly and learned that Ouyang Yin had trapped everyone inside. As the auction began, Ling Yi left to gather information and look forward to the wealthy cultivators and potential treasure thefts.

• Over half a month, Ye Chen reached only the second layer of the God Ling Method because Ling Yi reclaimed most of his cultivation gains, while Ling Yi robbed shops and the market master's storehouse.
• After the storehouse was emptied, Ouyang Yin activated the market's strongest formation, preventing anyone from leaving.
• Ling Yi told Ye Chen that Ouyang Yin had plotted against Ye Chen's parents and that the annual auction was expected to proceed despite the lockdown.
• Ye Chen worried about his slow cultivation compared with Chu Wu's progress, accepted Ling Yi's warning to wait until after the auction, and ate dry steamed buns before cultivating again.
• On the auction's first morning, Ling Yi told Ye Chen he was gathering information and left, hoping to find wealthy attendees and chances to take their treasures.

Ling Yi learned that his Myriad Worlds Transmigration System had quietly upgraded to version 2.0, strengthening several abilities. He stole Deacon Su’s and Ouyang Yin’s storage rings, knocked them unconscious, and prepared to test his upgraded powers.

• Deacon Su threatened to cancel the auction unless Ouyang Yin helped catch the thief who had robbed twenty-three shops.
• Ouyang Yin persuaded Deacon Su to search for the thief, offering him half the stolen goods if Ouyang Yin’s people found the culprit first.
• Ling Yi overheard them and realized Ignore Rule, technique-sharing, and reclamation had grown stronger; Wansheng confirmed that his first-sequence natal system had upgraded to version 2.0.
• Ling Yi had Wansheng upgrade Deacon Su’s and Ouyang Yin’s storage rings, then used his Divine Sense to pull them off their fingers.
• Deacon Su and Ouyang Yin recognized Ling Yi as the thief, but Ling Yi snapped his fingers and made them faint.

Ling Yi followed Ye Chen and discovered that he had used the God Ling Method to drain a maid’s cultivation and kill her. Over the following months, Ye Chen secretly repeated the process on ordinary people until someone began investigating him, by which time he had reached the fifth layer of the God Ling Method.

• After the auction goods were stolen, the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce and the market master offered a bounty, but more than a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators were robbed in the following day.
• Ye Chen left the courtyard at night, and Ling Yi followed him to the Miscellaneous Treasures Pavilion, where Ye Chen met a maid.
• Ye Chen returned after three days, pleased with himself, and Ling Yi learned that he had taught the maid the God Ling Method, devoured her cultivation, and killed her.
• Ling Yi concluded that Ye Chen could recover cultivation gained through the God Ling Method and named the ability Direct-Sales-Style Recovery.
• Over the next few months, Ye Chen taught ordinary people the technique, drained their cultivation, and killed them, while cautiously avoiding attention.
• Someone began investigating Ye Chen after people died, but Ye Chen had already reached the fifth layer of the God Ling Method.

Ye Chen killed Ouyang Yin and staged Ling Yi’s death before leaving the market to cultivate the God Ling Method in seclusion. Ten years later, after Ye Chen created the eleventh layer and summoned the spirit of the lightning rule, a mysterious woman appeared and eradicated him, allowing Ling Yi to claim the breakthrough.

• Ouyang Yin revealed that Ye Chen’s parents had found the Stellar Transformations Art, and Ye Chen killed him with purple lightning.
• Ye Chen attacked Ling Yi, but Ling Yi secretly escaped into his small world while Ye Chen believed him dead.
• Ye Chen left the market and founded the Martial Saint Hall in Heavenly Star City, where he trained beggars as disciples.
• After reaching the tenth layer of the God Ling Method, Ye Chen spent five years deducing what came next and created the eleventh layer.
• A blue-clad woman appeared through a spatial rift and eradicated Ye Chen, and Ling Yi returned to claim the eleventh layer.