Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi questioned Jiang Yanran about her identity and her knowledge of converting Yuan Qi into Spiritual Qi, then learned she had been a Mahayana sect master a million years ago. Jiang Yanran began explaining the catastrophe that sealed the Ascension Passage and transformed the world, while Ling Yi remained wary and his system investigated the strange power surrounding her.

• Ling Yi tested Jiang Yanran with a password and accused her of being a transmigrator, but she denied it while admitting the inventions were hers.
• Jiang Yanran asked how Ling Yi had converted Yuan Qi into Spiritual Qi and said she might have died without Jiang Hai, a transmigrator from ten thousand years earlier.
• Ling Yi refused to let Jiang Yanran into his home, and his system reported that her soul was protected and carried an aura from the same source as itself.
• Jiang Yanran removed her disguise, introduced herself as the former sect master of the Clear Garden Sect, and said she had been a Mahayana Stage expert a million years ago.
• Ling Yi created an illusionary café, and Jiang Yanran tasted his coffee and Spirit Tea while he asked about the calamity.
• Jiang Yanran explained that the Ascension Passage had suddenly been sealed, Spiritual Qi had become Yuan Qi, and cultivation had declined through successive stages of martial practitioners.

Ling Yi learned that the severed Karma behind the world’s dimensional descent had led to the demon hall, while his system explained Jiang Yanran’s history with Jiang Hai and the exploitative Goose Factory System. Jiang Yanran sought steady Spiritual Power from Ling Yi and offered to work for him, and Ling Yi began outlining the benefits and conditions.

• Jiang Yanran told Ling Yi that the Ascension Passage had sealed without warning and Spiritual Qi had become Genki, and that her investigation traced the cause to Karma severed at the demon hall.
• Ling Yi’s system revealed that Jiang Hai had transmigrated into Jiang Yanran, whose soul overcame his, and that she had inherited his Goose Factory System.
• Ling Yi learned that the Goose Factory System had repeatedly raised the cost of Jiang Yanran’s cultivation, eventually demanding ten billion taels for a realm.
• Jiang Yanran decided she wanted to escape the system by obtaining a stable supply of Spiritual Power from Ling Yi and offered to work for him.
• Ling Yi offered Jiang Yanran unlimited Spiritual Water and Spiritual Qi, then prepared to state his conditions.

Ling Yi negotiated with Jiang Yanran for control of her Goose Factory System and protection for those around him, while she sought his help recovering her cultivation and rescuing her disciples. After upgrading Divine Seal into God-Demon Seal, Ling Yi agreed to her request and swore to help once she reached the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Jiang Yanran rejected Ling Yi's demand to place a mark on her soul but agreed to have the Blood Demon Sect serve the God-Demon Hall.
• Jiang Yanran shot at Ling Yi after mistaking his unfinished third condition for an insult, and he clarified that he wanted her Goose Factory System and her silence about transmigrators.
• Jiang Yanran agreed to Ling Yi's conditions except the soul mark, explaining that she needed his help to recover her Nascent Soul cultivation and find her disciples.
• Ling Yi spent 540,000 Upgrade Points to upgrade Divine Seal into God-Demon Seal, which could forcibly mark anyone below an immortal.
• Jiang Yanran asked Ling Yi to swear that he would help rescue her disciples after she reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and Ling Yi made the oath.

Ling Yi let Jiang Yanran settle in the God-Demon Hall and chose to absorb the Goose Factory System’s origin, upgrading his own system and gaining the Upgrade Sharing module. The next morning, he joined the women gathered in the Hall’s main room and began announcing their official positions.

• Ling Yi brought Jiang Yanran to Little Ye Village, gave her instructions for using the God-Demon Hall, and left her to cultivate.
• Jiang Yanran reflected on her past, the Goose Factory System, and her plan to regain her peak strength.
• Ling Yi chose to have the Everything Upgrade System absorb the Goose Factory System’s origin, unlocking Upgrade Sharing.
• The next morning, Ling Yi found Ling Yun, Qin Yue, Qin Yuan, Huo Yan'er, and Jiang Yanran chatting in the main hall.
• Ling Yi announced that he would formalize the women’s appointments and establish their positions in the God-Demon Hall.

Ling Yi established the God-Demon Hall’s leadership and assigned its first missions, while Ling Yun accepted the role of hall master. As the group cultivated and prepared for the hall’s rise, Ling Yi received a mission to investigate a little beggar named Zhao Chen in Dafeng City.

• Ling Yi appointed Ling Yun as hall master, Qin Yuan and Jiang Yanran as deputy hall masters, and Qin Yue and Huo Yan'er as guardians.
• Ling Yi assigned Jiang Yanran the task of making the God-Demon Hall Great Qian’s strongest force and Qin Yuan the task of bringing order to the realm.
• Ling Yun chose to learn by observing Qin Yuan, while Qin Yuan and Jiang Yanran stayed behind to cultivate before carrying out their duties.
• Ling Yi looked after the Spiritual Fields and livestock as Number One reported the armies’ withdrawal and an earthquake in Dafeng City.
• The system sent Ling Yi on a mission to investigate the little beggar Zhao Chen in Dafeng City, rewarding him with increased daily Upgrade Points and a Personal Space function.

Ling Yi left Little Ye Village and walked toward Dafeng City, finding famine and desolation along the way. In Red Maple Town, he killed six Jianghu guests who threatened him and the innkeeper, then invited the innkeeper to travel with him.

• Ling Yi left the God-Demon Hall in Little Ye Village and walked north toward Dafeng City, passing abandoned villages and roadside bones.
• Ling Yi found the only open inn in Red Maple Town, where the innkeeper tried to send him away to protect him from six armed Jianghu guests.
• Ling Yi revealed a large piece of silver, drawing the guests' attention and prompting one to attack while the innkeeper tried to escape with the little girl.
• Ling Yi shot all six Jianghu guests dead with his finger, then erased their corpses and the blood from the inn.
• Ling Yi asked why the innkeeper had stayed in Red Maple Town, then told him to pack up and come along the next morning after learning he could cook.

Ling Yi, Zhou Xing, and Zhou Ling traveled slowly through famine-stricken North Leaf Province, where Zhou Xing explained that corrupt officials and powerful clans hoarded the region’s grain. After a cavalry patrol returned to requisition their ox cart, one rider recognized Ling Yi and the captain cautiously asked whether he was the young master.

• Zhou Xing’s account revealed that he had shared food with refugees before defending himself with his bow when they turned on him.
• Ling Yi asked why they had encountered no refugees that day, and Zhou Xing explained that most were heading south to escape North Leaf Province.
• Zhou Xing described how clans, grain merchants, and officials hoarded enough grain to withstand years of drought while ordinary people starved.
• A group of cavalrymen rode past Ling Yi’s ox cart, then turned back and surrounded it to requisition it.
• One rider recognized the group, and the captain asked Ling Yi if he was that young Master.

Ling Yi learned that an earthquake near Dafeng City had opened a black hole filled with powerful humanoid monsters and rumors of an ancient immortal's cave abode. He sent Old Zhou and his granddaughter toward Little Ye Village, then teleported to Dafeng City, where soldiers were capturing zombies outside the city.

• Ling Yi used Intimidation to freeze twenty cavalrymen and spared them after their captain revealed that an earthquake near Dafeng City had opened a black hole releasing numerous powerful, slow-moving humanoid monsters.
• The captain told Ling Yi that people suspected the black hole led to an ancient immortal's cave abode containing immortal treasures, and Ling Yi let the cavalrymen leave.
• Ling Yi warned Old Zhou that Dafeng City was unsafe and directed him to seek shelter in Little Ye Village, where he could give Ling Yi's name.
• Old Zhou's granddaughter urged him to trust Ling Yi and go to Little Ye Village, then privately remarked that Ling Yi's immense Qi and Blood could threaten even a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
• Ling Yi teleported to Dafeng City and saw thousands of soldiers capturing gray-skinned zombies by binding their feet with ropes.

Ling Yi learned that a cave near Dafeng City led to an enormous immortal abode filled with sealed palaces and Demonic Monsters. After controlling the city’s officials and explorers with the God-Demon Seal, he took a spatial bracelet from Wei Tiansheng and discovered it still carried its living owner’s Spiritual Sense imprint.

• Ling Yi questioned Zhen Furen, who explained that the cave transported people into a vast immortal abode where Demonic Monsters emerged from sealed palaces.
• Zhen Furen described how visitors could enter the cave only once a day and were expelled after three shichen, then identified the returning governor Wei Tiansheng and the inscription expert Huo Wudao.
• Ling Yi recognized Huo Wudao’s cultivation technique as one associated with Huo Yan’er’s family and used the God-Demon Seal on the returning officials and explorers.
• Ling Yi ordered Wei Tiansheng to hand over his gains, and Wei gave him a dark-gold bracelet set with six red gems.
• Ling Yi discovered that the bracelet contained spatial inscriptions and a Spiritual Sense imprint, suggesting its owner was still alive and might crave Spiritual Qi.

Ling Yi upgraded a bucket of water into Spiritual Water, helping Wei Tiansheng break through to the Master Realm and become his servant. When a young beggar with Earthly Gang Realm cultivation arrived, Ling Yi recognized him as the bracelet’s owner and completed a system mission, which unlocked a Personal Space that could store living things.

• Ling Yi turned a bucket of water into Spiritual Water and allowed Wei Tiansheng to drink from it.
• Wei Tiansheng broke through from the Innate Realm to the Master Realm and pledged himself to Ling Yi, who told him to bring Demonic Monsters for study.
• A commotion erupted outside, and an unusually powerful young beggar forced his way through the soldiers and knocked Wei Tiansheng aside.
• Ling Yi sensed that the beggar was an Earthly Gang Realm Martial Practitioner and recognized that his bracelet belonged to the youth.
• Ling Yi completed a system mission, activating a Personal Space module that could store living things, and questioned the system about the apparent duplicate reward.

Ling Yi failed to stop the little beggar from escaping with the Spiritual Water and his spatial bracelet, then received missions to explore ancient secret realms and uncover the world’s dimensional downgrade. He discovered that two Demonic Monsters were ancient immortal cultivators, and they began recovering fragments of their memories.

• Ling Yi froze the little beggar with a spatial rune technique, but she broke free and escaped with the Spiritual Water and his spatial bracelet.
• Ling Yi received system missions to open three ancient secret realms, uncover the truth behind the world’s dimensional downgrade, and form new Bonds.
• Ling Yi asked Wei Tiansheng to bring him Demonic Monsters so he could investigate their origins and memories.
• Ling Yi examined two Demonic Monsters and identified them as immortal cultivators from a million years earlier.
• Ling Yi placed God-Demon Seals on the Demonic Monsters, and one remembered that he was Qi Yu, an inner disciple of the Corpse Refining Sect.

Ling Yi learned that Qin Yue Tian was using the forbidden Kun Tun Divine Art to grow stronger by devouring others, and that the emperor’s captured Demonic Monsters might be at risk. Worried for Ling Yun, Ling Yi headed for the imperial capital with Huo Wudao as his guide, upgrading Qingyun Steps into the perfected Qingyun Art along the way.

• Wei Tiansheng explained that the Corpse Refining Sect’s corpse fiends had lost their memories after ages of erosion by resentment Qi.
• Wei Tiansheng revealed that Qin Yue Tian had secretly cultivated the forbidden Kun Tun Divine Art and planned to devour the Demonic Monsters sent to the imperial capital.
• Wei Tiansheng told Ling Yi that Qin Yue Tian had murdered his fiancée, Xiaodie, and that Wei Wuji had sent him to Great Wind City to keep him from seeking revenge.
• Ling Yi ordered Wei Tiansheng to retrieve as many corpse fiends from the immortal abode as possible and keep others from touching them.
• Ling Yi set out for the imperial capital, turned back to bring Huo Wudao along as a guide, and used the System to upgrade Qingyun Steps into Qingyun Art at Perfection level.

Qin Yuan, Qin Yue, and Ling Yun planned to return openly to Qin Yuan’s residence after Ling Yun reasoned that Qin Yue Tian’s hold over the court was weak. Meanwhile, Qin Yue Tian used the forbidden Kun Tun Divine Art to reach the Earthly Gang Realm and prepared a surprise for the imperial preceptor’s birthday banquet.

• Qin Yuan warned Qin Yue that the imperial city could still threaten Grandmasters and asked Ling Yun to assess their next move.
• Ling Yun concluded that Qin Yue Tian had not secured the court and was likely a weak puppet supported by prominent families.
• Ling Yun advised the women to reveal themselves openly, and Qin Yuan decided they would return to her residence the next morning.
• Qin Yue Tian absorbed the corpse fiend’s essence with the Kun Tun Divine Art, a forbidden technique that could drive its user mad with accumulated Negative Energy.
• Qin Yue Tian reached the Earthly Gang Realm, unleashed a blast of Gang Yuan in the imperial study, and promised his ministers a surprise at the imperial preceptor’s birthday banquet in three days.

In the imperial capital, Ling Yi upgraded Qin Yue Tian’s Kun Tun Divine Art through the system’s sharing function and gained a powerful demon technique. An injured woman then burst into his room and was detected as a new Bond Target, leaving Ling Yi to decide how to handle her.

• Ling Yi used a sparrow to watch Qin Yue Tian and asked the system to remove the Kun Tun Divine Art’s side effects.
• Ling Yi upgraded Qin Yue Tian’s technique, shared it, and gained the Trapping Demon Devouring Technique, which let him plunder Qi and Blood, cultivation, souls, and Negative Energy.
• A wounded woman in black rushed into Ling Yi’s room, collapsed, and triggered a Bond Target notification.
• Ling Yi branded the four people outside his door with the God-Demon Seal and ordered them to clean up the blood and leave.
• Ling Yi healed the woman with a wood-element rune, and she recovered without a scar.

Ling Yi saved Qin Shuang, the seventh princess of Great Qian, and learned that Southern Border Mu Clan tradition made him her intended husband. After Qin Shuang explained her failed assassination attempt against the Imperial Preceptor, Ling Yi suspected the official used Rune Techniques like an immortal cultivator.

• Ling Yi revived Qin Shuang with Spiritual Water, raising her cultivation to Innate Ninth Stage Great Perfection.
• Qin Shuang revealed that removing a Mu Clan woman's veil made the person her husband or enemy, and declared Ling Yi her husband.
• When Qin Shuang tried to kill Ling Yi after he refused marriage, he froze her, moved her outside, and then let her back into his room.
• Ling Yi considered using a God-Demon Seal to sever their Bond but could not bring himself to use it on Qin Shuang.
• Qin Shuang told Ling Yi that she had an Innate Charm Physique and had tried to assassinate the Imperial Preceptor, who had killed her mother.
• Qin Shuang demonstrated the Imperial Preceptor's ability to say “Freeze,” leading Ling Yi to recognize it as a Rune Technique.

Ling Yi refused to let Qin Shuang follow him to confront the Imperial Preceptor and demonstrated his inscription skills by creating a spatial jade tablet. He gave it to Qin Shuang and explained its limits.

• Ling Yi said he wanted to meet the Imperial Preceptor, but Qin Shuang refused to let him go until he had gotten her pregnant.
• Qin Shuang insisted on staying with Ling Yi, and he told her to choose between leaving or sleeping while they discussed things the next day.
• Qin Shuang asked whether Ling Yi had a spatial jade tablet after he made a bed appear.
• Ling Yi drew inscriptions in the air, filled a jade tablet with Genki, and created a spatial jade tablet that stored and retrieved the table.
• Ling Yi gave the tablet to Qin Shuang and explained that it had only 98 uses left and could break if its space was full.

After Ling Yi inscribed 324 jade plaques overnight, Qin Shuang sorted them, secretly kept several powerful ones, and watched over him while he slept. They woke and went to eat, where two armored women arrived and addressed Qin Shuang as “Your Highness.”

• Ling Yi exhausted himself inscribing more than a thousand inscriptions across 324 jade plaques and fell asleep on Qin Shuang’s lap.
• Qin Shuang sorted the plaques, admired Ling Yi’s inventions, and secretly took the Immobilization, Cutting, and Teleport plaques.
• Ling Yi woke to find Qin Shuang beside him, and the system announced that her Bond level had risen to lv5; he chose not to claim the reward.
• Ling Yi and Qin Shuang went downstairs to eat at the Wind and Moon Pavilion, where Ling Yi discussed North Leaf Province’s grain shortage and the Zhao Grain Merchant.
• Two women in silvery-white armor entered the pavilion, knelt before Qin Shuang, and greeted her as “Your Highness.”

Qin Shuang learned that the imperial preceptor had seized power after Qin Yue Tian became a Corpse Fiend and that the preceptor’s forces were targeting her. With Ling Yi beside her and the Mystic Phoenix Army rallied, she chose to return to her residence, while Ling Yi offered to strengthen her army.

• Ling Yi’s sparrows revealed that Qin Yue Tian had gone mad, been sealed by the imperial preceptor, and was being refined into a Corpse Fiend.
• The imperial preceptor issued a false edict and sent imperial forces to surround Qin Shuang’s residence, forcing the Mystic Phoenix Army to fight its way out.
• Two Mystic Phoenix Army commanders found Qin Shuang and urged her to flee the imperial capital, but she decided to return to her residence with Ling Yi.
• Three thousand Mystic Phoenix Army soldiers assembled outside the restaurant, and Qin Shuang donned her Mystic Phoenix Armor before leading them toward her residence.
• Ling Yi said he would upgrade the Mystic Phoenix Army, and Qin Shuang asked whether he meant raising the soldiers’ cultivation.

Ling Yi raised the Mystic Phoenix Army’s cultivation, claimed Qin Shuang’s Bond reward, and learned that Bond rewards could be claimed repeatedly. At the Seventh Princess’s residence, he watched Qin Yue, Qin Yuan, and Ling Yun fight the corpse fiend Qin Yue Tian and sealed both the fiend and the Imperial Preceptor as the battle continued.

• Ling Yi spent 10 Upgrade Points to raise the cultivation of three thousand Mystic Phoenix Army soldiers, and Qin Shuang’s Bond level rose to lv6.
• Ling Yi claimed Qin Shuang’s Bond reward for 6,000 Upgrade Points and an Origin Fragment, then learned that claiming rewards reset Bond levels without affecting anything else.
• Qin Shuang led Ling Yi and the Mystic Phoenix Army through the imperial city to the Seventh Princess’s residence.
• Qin Yue, Qin Yuan, and Ling Yun fought Qin Yue Tian, who had become a powerful corpse fiend controlled by the Imperial Preceptor.
• After Qin Shuang explained that Qin Yue lacked life-or-death combat experience, Ling Yi placed a God-Demon Seal on the Imperial Preceptor and Qin Yue Tian.

Ling Yun discovered that Zhu Weiming controlled the Corpse Chief and exploited the regular pause in his Genki to coordinate a devastating attack with Qin Yue and Qin Yuan. They destroyed the Corpse Chief, but Zhu Weiming escaped using a jade token before the women could catch him.

• Ling Yun noticed that Qin Yue Tian reacted like a puppet and that his movements were linked to Zhu Weiming, whose body contained unusual Genki.
• Ling Yun tested her theory by attacking Zhu Weiming, then spotted that his Genki faltered every ten breaths and instructed Qin Yue and Qin Yuan to prepare their strongest attacks.
• At Zhu Weiming's recovery moment, Ling Yun struck him with a Spiritual Power sword image while Qin Yue and Qin Yuan attacked the Corpse Chief together.
• The coordinated attacks destroyed the Corpse Chief, breaking Zhu Weiming's control and exposing it to the women's Spiritual Power attacks.
• Qin Yue and Qin Yuan turned their attacks on Zhu Weiming, but he crushed a jade token and escaped as black light.