Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi revealed his Golden Core cultivation and subdued Liu Wudi after defending Wang Teng, then reassured Liu Ruyan that he would not force their marriage. Above White Jade City, Boss Yin and the others watched and decided to proceed with their plan.

• Ling Yi repeatedly slapped Liu Wudi, whose cultivation pressure left him unable to dodge, and revealed that he had reached the Golden Core Realm.
• Wang Teng celebrated his father’s intervention, while Liu Wudi threatened to bite Ling Yi and was warned that he could be crippled and made to guard the Wang Family gate.
• After the clans dispersed, Ling Yi told Liu Ruyan he would not restrict her freedom and that they could dissolve the Heavenly Dao marriage if either became a Great Emperor; Liu Ruyan said she would fulfill her duties as his wife.
• Ling Yi learned Liu Ruyan’s favorability was 80 and reassured her that he would not force her, while Wang Teng left to refine his Supreme Bone.
• Boss Yin and several figures watched from above White Jade City, and Boss Yin ordered them to keep to their plan and intervene personally.

Ling Yi realized Wang Teng’s filial gifts and progress were letting him gain powerful multiplied rewards, then prepared to take Liu Ruyan to the Mysterious Sacred Sect so she could prevent her rival from becoming saintess. The Lianlian System suddenly warned that Wang Teng was being hunted and needed help immediately.

• Wang Teng’s gifts and cultivation gains triggered powerful rewards for Ling Yi, including a Nascent Soul cultivation, an Innate Dao Body, and an Ancient Desolate Sacred Body at Great Perfection.
• Ling Yi planned to find Yao Yue, Yu Shuang, and the Zhou Siyao sisters at the Mysterious Sacred Sect and have Liu Ruyan made its saintess.
• Liu Ruyan told Ling Yi she wanted the position mainly to stop her longtime rival, a green tea bitch, from becoming saintess.
• Ling Yi agreed to help Liu Ruyan and started cultivating with her, but the Lianlian System warned him that Wang Teng was being hunted and might soon be killed.

Wang Teng was cornered by Ye Tian, Zheng Hai, and Zhao Chen, who revealed they had come to deal with his system, until Ling Yi arrived and recognized them. Ling Yi’s memories were unsealed, and he left a Clone to finish events in the world while he returned to his carefree life across worlds.

• Wang Teng used his last Teleport Talisman to escape Ye Tian, Zheng Hai, and Zhao Chen, but they caught up and demanded the system inside him.
• Ye Tian explained that he and the others were System Colonisers who had come to restore balance, while Wang Teng stalled and waited for help.
• Ling Yi appeared to save Wang Teng, recognized the three men, and triggered the unsealing of his memories, freezing the world.
• Yin Wanqing arrived and explained that she had planned to rein in Ling Yi’s strength and keep the plot on track, but his restored memories changed those plans.
• Ling Yi left a Clone behind to wrap up the world, then departed with Yin Wanqing and the others for the Ling Realm.
• The Clone resumed the world’s events, took Liu Ruyan to the Mysterious Sacred Sect, and secured her a holy maiden position before Ling Yi settled into his carefree life across worlds.

After transmigrating into the starving boy Ling Yi, the host used his Everything Upgrade System to save his sister Ling Yun and searched for a way to keep them alive. He upgraded their water into First Tier spirit spring water and felt his strength return.

• Ling Yi awakened in the body of a child who had starved to death and learned that his older sister Ling Yun was near death.
• Ling Yi spent an upgrade point to improve Ling Yun’s constitution and urged her to hold on.
• Ling Yun opened her eyes, and Ling Yi went to look for food but found the village deserted and its houses empty.
• Ling Yi upgraded the water in their jar into First Tier spirit spring water and drank some, restoring his strength.

Ling Yi explained his apparent maturity to Ling Yun by describing memories of his previous life, then revealed his storage space and ability to upgrade objects. He transformed a broken bow into a hand crossbow, and the siblings planned to stay in the village while avoiding the mountain’s deeper reaches.

• Ling Yun drank Ling Yi’s spirit water and recovered her strength, then asked whether they should leave the deserted village.
• Ling Yi argued that staying was safer for now and explained his mature knowledge as memories of spending over forty years in an immortal-like world.
• Ling Yi revealed his storage space and ability to upgrade anything, then used one Upgrade Point to turn a broken bow into a hand crossbow.
• Ling Yun warned Ling Yi not to hunt deep in the mountains because tigers and leopards had killed people there, and he promised to be careful.
• Ling Yun asked about Ling Yi’s former love, and he said the Immortal Realm had only been a dream that could not be taken for real.

Ling Yi discovered that the system offered missions and could record skills, then began cultivating techniques from his previous life to strengthen his weakened body. After learning Burst Step and Mystifying Steps, he was left with a new skill recorded in the system but still had little strength.

• Ling Yi asked the system about Upgrade Points and received the First Kill in Another World mission, which required him to kill medium-sized prey in the mountains for two Upgrade Points and recorded skills.
• Ling Yi practiced his Wuming Cultivation Technique, completed a Small Zhou Tian, and saw the system record it as proficient.
• Ling Yi decided to pursue agility techniques and used Burst Step, which the system recorded after he performed a short, exhausting dash.
• Ling Yi drank a mouthful of spirit water, recovered his strength, and practiced until he completed two Small Zhou Tian cycles.
• Ling Yi practiced Mystifying Steps, and the system recorded the technique in his skill list.

Ling Yi used his only Upgrade Point to improve his hand crossbow’s accuracy, then went to the mountain to gather branches for bolts. When a gray wolf ambushed him, he evaded its attacks and stabbed its eyes with branches, leaving it to collapse from its wounds.

• After cultivating through the night, Ling Yi raised his Constitution to 7 and considered how to spend his Upgrade Point before his first hunt.
• Ling Yi upgraded the hand crossbow with a 30% correction rate and went to the mountain to gather suitable branches for bolts.
• Ling Yi sensed a predator behind him, slowed his pace, and dodged when a gray wolf leaped at him.
• Ling Yi used Mystifying Steps to evade the wolf and drove branches into its eyes when it turned to bite him.
• Ling Yi retreated and waited cautiously as the wounded gray wolf lost blood and collapsed more than ten minutes later.

After killing a Wolf King, Ling Yi gained strength and recovered the skills from his previous life, then returned home and discussed how he and Ling Yun would find food. Ling Yun revealed a hidden cellar at the village chief’s house, and Ling Yi hurried to investigate it.

• Ling Yi received two Upgrade Points and a long list of skills from his previous life after killing Hui Lang, then stored the wolf’s corpse in his Personal Space.
• Ling Yun worried over Ling Yi when he showed her the Wolf King he had killed and explained that the injured wolf had likely been driven from its pack.
• Ling Yi and Ling Yun discussed gathering supplies and hunting in the back mountain, and Ling Yun cried over her helplessness and their parents’ deaths.
• Ling Yun told Ling Yi about a hidden cellar beneath a stone slab behind the village chief’s house, and Ling Yi asked her to take him there.

Ling Yi investigated the village chief’s cellar and discovered a hidden weapon trap, a large food store, and an armory. He turned his attention to ten sealed chests, wondering what they contained.

• Ling Yi inferred that the people who slaughtered the village chief’s family were likely trained bandits or remnants of the defeated government army, and warned Ling Yun about the unrest in North Leaf Province.
• Ling Yi used a lever and rollers to move the cellar’s heavy stone slab, then went down first while Ling Yun waited above.
• A hidden mechanism fired three iron nails at Ling Yi, but his height kept them from striking his head, and he collected the nails for his personal space.
• Ling Yi explored the cellar and found more than fifty sacks of rice and an armory stocked with weapons and black armor.
• Ling Yi looked toward ten large wooden chests and wondered what they contained.

Ling Yi discovered a cellar filled with gold, silver, weapons, armor, and refined rice, then used Upgrade Points to evolve Hypnosis into Divine Seal. After upgrading the skill, he noticed his Constitution had risen to 52 and asked the system why.

• Ling Yi found two chests of gold bars and eight chests of silver, and learned that gold could be exchanged for Upgrade Points.
• Ling Yun joined Ling Yi in the cellar and realized the valuable rice, gold, and military equipment could expose them to danger.
• Ling Yi stored the cellar's contents in his Personal Space and took Ling Yun home with him.
• Ling Yi upgraded Hypnosis into Contract and then advanced it into Divine Seal, choosing a path suited to summoning and controlling living beings.
• Ling Yi noticed that his physical strength had increased along with his mental power and asked the system why his Constitution had reached 52.

Ling Yi upgraded his Hidden Weapons skill into Divine Control, tested his Divine Seal on a sparrow, and left for the back mountain to fetch water. There, he found a bloodied woman in red fighting thirty masked attackers while another woman watched helplessly.

• Ling Yi spent Upgrade Points to advance Hidden Weapons into Divine Control and knocked a flock of sparrows from the sky.
• Ling Yi used Divine Seal to control one sparrow and sent it to search the back mountain for animals.
• Ling Yi brought thirteen sparrows home, and Ling Yun prepared them by burning off their feathers.
• Ling Yi took a bucket and headed to the back mountain to fetch water, deciding against upgrading the bucket.
• A woman in red fought thirty masked attackers in a grove while an injured arrow lodged in her abdomen, and a woman in blue stood nearby unable to help.

Ling Yi arrived as Qin Yue and Qin Yuan were surrounded by men from the Poison Baleful Energy Sect, and used his hidden weapon and Divine Seals to take control of everyone present. With the group lined up before him, he turned to save the wounded Qin Yue.

• Qin Yue, weakened by Yuan-Dispelling Powder, blood loss, and internal injuries, prepared to die rather than let the men in black capture her, while Qin Yuan held a sword to her neck.
• Ling Yi appeared, received a system mission to save Qin Yue and Qin Yuan, and decided to brand the people present with Divine Seals first.
• When the leader ordered a subordinate to kill Ling Yi and search the village for survivors, Ling Yi used Divine Domain to curve a hidden weapon into the man's forehead, killing him.
• Ling Yi implanted Divine Seals in everyone present, including Qin Yue and Qin Yuan, and ordered them to line up before him.
• Qin Yue came to Ling Yi with Qin Yuan supporting her, and Ling Yi announced that he would save her.

Ling Yi saved Qin Yue with spirit water, then made the survivors obey him and questioned them about the empire’s crises and Martial Dao. He learned the Northern Frontier rebels were advancing while the imperial court was distracted by a coup, and began gathering knowledge about the world he would need to face.

• Ling Yi pulled the barbed arrowhead from Qin Yue’s abdomen and used spirit water to heal her, completing his mission and gaining two daily upgrade opportunities.
• Ling Yi declared himself the group’s master and learned from the black-clad leader that the Northern Frontier rebels were moving south and could soon take North Leaf Province.
• The leader explained that Qin Shu had taken the throne after the emperor’s sudden death, while Qin Yuan accused him of regicide and blamed the Poison Baleful Energy Sect for aiding the coup.
• Ling Yi learned that the emperor had tried to strip the vassal kings of their fiefs, provoking the King of the Northern Frontier to rebel, and that the emperor had left a succession edict for Qin Yuan.
• Ling Yi asked about Martial Dao, and the black-clad leader described its realms from Body Refining and Internal Breath through Innate, Master, Grandmaster, and Land Immortal.

Ling Yi learned more about cultivation and intent, then arranged for the men in black to protect Little Ye Village by posing as bandits. He upgraded Number One’s cultivation technique, and Number One broke through to the Innate realm.

• The leader of the men in black explained that cultivation paths varied and that intent and Momentum depended on personal comprehension and opportunity.
• Ling Yi decided to keep the group from disturbing Little Ye Village and ordered them to act as bandits, keeping outside dangers away.
• The leader named Zhao San became Number One, and he told Ling Yi that he was at Acquired Great Perfection and North Leaf Province was nearing chaos.
• Ling Yi used Upgrade Points to mutate Number One’s Blood Poison Art into the Blood Poison Scripture.
• Number One cultivated the new technique, released a cloud of poisonous green mist, and advanced from Acquired Perfection to Innate.

Ling Yi brought Qin Yue and Qin Yuan to Little Ye Village as household maids and reassured Ling Yun that their Divine Seals kept them under control. As Ling Yun began to accept her brother’s power, Ling Yi used Qin Yue’s sword to make a water barrel tap, then discovered the household had no seasonings for their meal.

• Number One agreed to lead his men as mountain bandits and protect Little Ye Village, while Ling Yi considered recruiting animals to guard its vulnerable approaches.
• Ling Yi ordered Qin Yue and Qin Yuan to serve as maids and brought them home, where Ling Yun learned that Qin Yue was a famed sword immortal and Qin Yuan was Great Qian’s eldest princess.
• Ling Yi reassured Ling Yun that he could handle any trouble, and she began to see her brother as more powerful than the fallen princess or the hunted sword immortal.
• Ling Yi used his Divine Control skill to take Qin Yue’s sword, cut a hole in the water barrel, and plug it with a log; Qin Yue agreed to teach Ling Yun swordsmanship in exchange for Ling Yi improving her own.
• Ling Yun prepared a meal while Qin Yuan tended the fire, but Ling Yi realized they had no oil, salt, soy sauce, or vinegar.

Ling Yi began preparing Little Ye Village for the coming chaos by sending a sparrow with a message and giving Number One silver to buy supplies and build up his bandit force. After a meal made with Ling Yi’s spirit water, Qin Yue discovered that her power had improved and suspected the water was a treasure.

• Ling Yi sent a sparrow to find the men in black and deliver a message as he considered building forces of sparrows and rats to protect Little Ye Village.
• Ling Yi gave Number One and three men in black two hundred thousand taels of silver to buy supplies and use any remainder to recruit and expand their ranks.
• Number One carried a ten-thousand-jin chest away by himself, and Qin Yue asked Ling Yi whether he would give her a Sumeru mustard seed.
• Ling Yun served a meal prepared with Ling Yi’s spirit water, and Ling Yi, Ling Yun, Qin Yue, and Qin ate until they were full.
• Qin Yue said the meal had improved her power by the equivalent of half a month’s cultivation and wondered if drinking the spirit water daily could help her reach Master.

Ling Yi decided to delay upgrading his home and village while focusing on protecting Ling Yun and building a real family with her. Meanwhile, Qin Shengtian examined a map to a gold mine in the North Ridge Mountains, which could fund his bid for power.

• Ling Yun insisted Qin Yue and Qin Yuan stay in the house, and Qin Yue agreed to teach Ling Yi martial arts the next morning.
• Ling Yi learned the system could upgrade the quilts, house, or entire village, but chose not to spend any Upgrade Points yet.
• Ling Yi questioned the system about his past life and learned it had aided his abilities but had not caused his transmigration.
• Ling Yi decided to wait before upgrading the house because he wanted to avoid frightening Ling Yun and focus on protecting her.
• Qin Shengtian studied a map marking a sizable gold mine in the North Ridge Mountains and considered it a source of funds for his bid for the throne.

Qin Yue Tian failed to secure the Poison Baleful Energy Sect’s help in killing Qin Yuan without paying more, while the sect demanded either money or land in the North Ridge Mountains. At Ling Yi’s home, Qin Yue began cultivating with Spiritual Water, and Ling Yi announced he would upgrade the mud house.

• Qin Yue Tian learned Qin Yuan and Qin Yue’s whereabouts were unknown, and the iron-masked Poison Baleful Energy Sect agent demanded five million taels or land in the North Ridge Mountains to pursue Qin Yuan’s death.
• The agent warned Qin Yue Tian that the sect would make only three attempts to kill Qin Ru, then vanished from the imperial study.
• Qin Yue secretly drank Spiritual Water at night and cultivated while Ling Yi, Qin Ru, and Ling Yun noticed her; Ling Yun grew more suspicious of the newcomers.
• Ling Yi told Qin Yue she could drink as much Spiritual Water as she wanted, asked her to hunt game after teaching Ling Yun martial arts, and assigned Qin Ru to stay with Ling Yun.
• Ling Yi told the women he planned to upgrade the mud house.

Ling Yi used an Upgrade Point to turn the earthen house into a fully equipped guesthouse, delighting Ling Yun, Qin Yuan, and Qin Yue with its comforts. After the housewarming meal, he decided to spend 22 Upgrade Points to turn the flower bed into a Spiritual Field and the dry well into a Spiritual Spring.

• Ling Yi spent 1 Upgrade Point to transform the earthen house and courtyard into a two-story guesthouse with bedrooms, appliances, Wi-Fi, and a pool.
• Ling Yi showed Ling Yun, Qin Yuan, and Qin Yue the guesthouse, and they bathed, changed into clothes from his collection, and enjoyed its facilities.
• Ling Yi hosted a housewarming meal with red wine and steak; Qin Yuan and Qin Yue drank their wine in one gulp, while everyone praised the steak.
• Qin Yue offered to teach Ling Yun and Qin Yuan martial arts, and Ling Yi went to inspect the flower bed and dry well.
• The system explained that upgrading them would create a Spiritual Field and Spiritual Spring for 22 Upgrade Points, and Ling Yi ordered both upgrades.

Ling Yi trained four hundred upgraded sparrows to scout the area around Little Ye Village, while Qin Yuan considered Great Qian’s worsening political crisis. Number One and his companions returned with the supplies Ling Yi had requested.

• Qin Yuan, Qin Yue, and Ling Yun discovered that Ling Yi had filled the dried well with an inexhaustible supply of spirit water.
• Qin Yuan worried that Qin Yue Tian’s rule and the vassal kings’ rebellion would bring Great Qian into another devastating war.
• Ling Yi upgraded four hundred sparrows and trained them to scout within a hundred li and report anyone approaching Little Ye Village.
• Number One and the others returned carrying large crates of supplies and set them down at the courtyard gate.