Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi learned from Qin Shuang that the imperial preceptor Zhu Weiming’s body had been taken over by an ancient Corpse Refining Sect elder who had killed Qin Shuang’s parents because of her Charm Physique. Though Zhu Weiming was now under Ling Yi’s control, he secretly cultivated at a hideout and used his system to seek a way to repair his flawed art.

• Ling Yi praised Ling Yun’s battle performance while Qin Shuang revealed that the imperial preceptor had changed half a year earlier.
• Qin Shuang explained that Zhu Weiming had once been a revered, loyal diviner trusted with regent powers, but someone else had taken over his body.
• Qin Shuang told Ling Yi that her parents had died at Zhu Weiming’s hands because she shared her mother’s Charm Physique, and she asked him to craft inscription jade tokens for her Mystic Phoenix Army.
• Ling Yi revealed that Zhu Weiming had already been branded with the God-Demon Seal and would serve as a whetstone for Ling Yun and the others rather than approach Qin Shuang.
• At Xuan Rain Pavilion, Zhu Weiming blamed Zhao Feng for earning too few National Fortune points, then used his system to simulate cultivation and repair a flaw in his Heaven-Reversing Art.

Ling Yi spent a month crafting inscription equipment and strengthening the Mystic Phoenix Army while completing the mission to build the top faction in the Jianghu, unlocking the Recycling and Shop functions. After hearing that the God-Demon Hall was consolidating the Jianghu and summoning its sects to a conference, Ling Yi decided to attend with Qin Shuang.

• Ling Yi crafted inscription jade tokens and equipment, including Flying Swords and armor that greatly increased the Mystic Phoenix Army’s strength.
• Qin Shuang’s Bond level reached lv8, and Ling Yi collected nine Origin Fragments while awaiting another reward.
• Ling Yi completed the mission to build the number one faction in the Jianghu, unlocking the Upgrade Points Recycling Function and the Shop Function.
• Ling Yi bought cola from the Shop and shared it with Qin Shuang, then learned he could return to his hometown only by mastering the Great Dao-Level Law of Space.
• Qin Shuang told Ling Yi that the God-Demon Hall had brought nearly every Jianghu faction under its control and would hold a conference next month.
• Ling Yi decided to attend the God-Demon Conference with Qin Shuang.

Empress Qin Yuan struggled to reform Great Qian while facing rebellions, scarce resources, and political resistance, and Ling Yun urged her to use the God-Demon Conference to bring the Jianghu under control. The chapter ended with Ling Yi receiving rewards after Qin Shuang’s Bond level reached its maximum.

• Qin Yuan complained that officials were obstructing her reforms, and Ling Yun advised her to slow down before her impatience harmed her state of mind.
• Ling Yun urged Qin Yuan to attend the God-Demon Conference and use the God-Demon Hall’s influence to subdue the vassal kings and feudal lords.
• Qin Yuan accepted Ling Yun’s advice and prepared to return to Little Ye Village for the conference, where they planned to display Spiritual Water and recruit martial experts.
• Ling Yun told Qin Yuan that she had guessed where the Imperial Preceptor was hiding but warned that they needed to prepare carefully before attacking him.
• Qin Yuan joked with Ling Yun, who was relieved to see that Qin Yuan had calmed down, while Ling Yun complained that Ling Yi had disappeared.
• Ling Yi sneezed in the seventh princess’s residence as Qin Shuang reached Bond level lv9, earning him 20,000 Upgrade Points and 1 Origin Fragment.

Ling Yi synthesized the Law of Life and experienced the cycle of life and death, triggering the Eye of Heavenly Punishment. After an unknown force destroyed the eye, Ling Yi returned as a child and prepared to stabilize his new power, while the system gave him an ultimate mission to revive the Heavenly Dao.

• Ling Yi collected all ten Origin Fragments and synthesized the Law of Life, experiencing repeated cycles of growth, death, and rebirth.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment appeared and its pressure harmed Zhu Weiming, Jiang Yanran, Zhou Ling, and others as it searched for its target.
• Jiang Yanran and Zhou Ling suspected Ling Yi had triggered the Eye, but they could not help him and agreed not to speak of the force that destroyed it.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment shattered after a voice commanded it to scram, and its clouds and pressure disappeared.
• Qin Shuang watched Ling Yi age, die, and reappear as a five-year-old; he reassured her and went into seclusion to stabilize himself.
• Ling Yi asked the system why the Law of Life contained reincarnation, and the system assigned him the ultimate mission of reviving the Heavenly Dao.

After comprehending the Law of Life during half a month of seclusion, Ling Yi emerged with an adult body and a changed mindset. He and Qin Shuang grew closer, and he planned to travel to Great Wind City before attending the God-Demon Conference to seek more Bond Targets.

• Ling Yi closed the system interface and meditated on the Law of Life for nearly half a month.
• Qin Shuang met Ling Yi as he emerged with a handsome adult body, and her Bond Level rose to lv7 as they acknowledged their feelings for each other.
• A sparrow reported news to Ling Yi, who spent 10,000 Upgrade Points to evolve it into a Lightning Sparrow and gained its Fleeting Light and Gliding Shadows ability.
• Ling Yi kissed Qin Shuang, and they spent the morning together before discussing the changes in his mindset.
• Ling Yi told Qin Shuang they would visit Great Wind City in North Leaf Province and then attend the God-Demon Conference.

Ling Yi and Qin Shuang returned to Great Wind City, where Ling Yi repaired the failing formation protecting the cave immortal abode. Meanwhile, a beggar and a black-veiled old man met in Red Maple Town and addressed each other as the holy maiden and great elder.

• Ling Yi gathered the remaining corpse fiends from the imperial city and flew with Qin Shuang to Great Wind City on Number Eight.
• Ling Yi explained to Qin Shuang that the world had once been an immortal cultivation world before Spiritual Qi turned into Genki.
• Wei Tiansheng told Ling Yi that corpse fiends had been stolen and that the cave’s inscription formation was close to collapsing.
• Ling Yi stabilized the cave’s formation with six jade plaques, then followed Wei Tiansheng inside with Qin Shuang and Number Eight.
• In Red Maple Town, a young beggar met an old man in a bamboo hat and called him great elder, while the old man recognized the beggar as the holy maiden.

Situ Yu confronted Zhu Weiming in Red Maple Town and revealed their history with the Corpse Refining Sect, while seeking Spiritual Water to save her sister, Situ Yun. As Ling Yi searched the sect’s main hall, the system detected Situ Yun as a new bond target.

• Situ Yu recalled how Zhu Weiming betrayed the Corpse Refining Sect, killed its master and her, and stole the final Corpse Soul Pill before Situ Yun sealed him underground.
• Situ Yu concluded that Situ Yun was still alive and explained that she had come to find Spiritual Water to restore her sister’s life force.
• After discovering that Jiang Biehe possessed Spiritual Water, Situ Yu killed him and learned that the God-Demon Hall held regular auctions for it.
• Zhu Weiming proposed that he and Situ Yu cooperate, but Situ Yu raised the Soul Seal Bracelet, leaving him shocked that she possessed it.
• Ling Yi and his companions searched the Corpse Refining Sect’s ruins, found thirty thousand corpse puppets, and entered the main hall.
• The system detected Situ Yun as a new bond target at level zero, and Ling Yi wondered if someone was alive there.

Ling Yi drained the Corpse Refining Sect's ancient protective formation with the Kun Tun God-Devil Art, gaining new divine abilities and reaching an Immortal Physique. The formation collapsed, leaving Ling Yi able to turn nearby Genki into Spiritual Qi.

• Qin Shuang examined the main hall's formation and found that its layered inscriptions devoured energy and circulated a simplified Kun Tun God-Devil Art.
• Ling Yi revealed that the formation followed the pattern of human meridians and had absorbed resentment for a million years.
• Ling Yi pressed his palm to the barrier and absorbed its stored energy, awakening Divine Will and Divine Comprehension.
• Ling Yi's physique climbed to one million, granting him an Immortal Physique and the Reversal divine ability.
• The formation collapsed, and Ling Yi began converting nearby Genki into Spiritual Qi within a hundred meters.

Ling Yi found Situ Yun, whose soul was trapped in a damaged Drought Demon body, and restored her after she chose to keep her powers. Situ Yun woke and tried to make Ling Yi her servant, but he subdued her and escaped with the others and the white jade hall before the Corpse Refining Sect ruins collapsed.

• Wei Tiansheng admired the white jade hall, and Ling Yi decided he could take it with him despite the ruins soon collapsing.
• Ling Yi found Situ Yun in a crystal coffin and learned that her soul could sense him but could not communicate directly.
• Ling Yi offered Situ Yun a choice between an ordinary human body and restoring her damaged corpse fiend body, and she chose to keep it.
• The system identified Situ Yun's body as a Drought Demon body, and Ling Yi spent one million Upgrade Points to restore it.
• Situ Yun woke, gained a Bond reward, and declared that Ling Yi would be her servant, but he used the Law of Life to knock her down and caught her by the collar.
• Ling Yi reunited with Qin Shuang, stored the white jade hall in his Personal Space, and took everyone out as the Corpse Refining Sect ruins collapsed.

Ling Yi returned to Red Maple Town with Qin Shuang and the mute Situ Yun, where his presence transformed the local Genki into Spiritual Qi. He reunited with Situ Yu and Zhu Weiming, learned Situ Yu had been the Corpse Refining Sect’s saintess, and forced her to reveal that Situ Yun was her younger sister.

• Ling Yi told Qin Shuang that Situ Yun had a Drought Demon body and gave her one month to stop acting mute before he gave up on her.
• Ling Yi, Qin Shuang, and Situ Yun arrived at Red Maple Town on Number Eight and entered the Zhou Clan’s inn, where Situ Yu and Zhu Weiming were waiting.
• As Ling Yi approached, the inn’s Genki turned into Spiritual Qi, allowing Situ Yu, Zhu Weiming, and the other Martial Practitioners to improve their cultivation.
• Ling Yi revealed his former five-year-old appearance, and Situ Yu recognized him as the person from whom she had taken the Soul Seal Bracelet.
• Under Ling Yi’s God-Demon Seal, Situ Yu identified herself as the former saintess of the Corpse Refining Sect and revealed that Situ Yun was her younger sister.

Ling Yi questioned Zhu Weiming about the million-year-old disappearance of Spiritual Qi and learned that a transmigrator’s death on the Sacred Mountain may have caused the catastrophe. The chapter ended with Ling Yi demanding Zhu Weiming’s National Fortune System, which Zhu Weiming was forced to surrender.

• Ling Yi asked Situ Yu and Zhu Weiming what caused the world’s change a million years ago, and Zhu Weiming said the Heavenly Dao had been wounded and Spiritual Qi had dispersed.
• Zhu Weiming revealed that he had possessed the body of Zhao Feng, a transmigrator from Blue Star who arrived in the Great Qian Kingdom with a National Fortune System.
• Zhu Weiming recounted how Zhao Feng found evidence that the world had once been an Immortal Cultivation Realm and gathered clues about a transmigrator who died on the Sacred Mountain.
• Zhu Weiming explained that the Eye of the Heavenly Dao had appeared near the Sacred Mountain when the Spiritual Qi vanished, leading him to suspect a connection between the events.
• Ling Yi ordered Jiang Yanran to release the God-Demon Hall’s stored Spiritual Qi to attract ancient figures who might know more.
• Ling Yi demanded Zhu Weiming’s National Fortune System, and Zhu Weiming reluctantly agreed under the God-Demon Seal.

Ling Yi refined Zhu Weiming’s National Fortune System, then used memory jade tablets to preserve the men’s memories before handing Zhu Weiming over to Qin Shuang for revenge. Back at the God-Demon Hall, Ling Yi revealed that he had brought twenty thousand Corpse Fiends to serve as the God-Demon Guards.

• Ling Yi refined Zhu Weiming’s system into his own, upgrading it to version 1.1 and removing its Great Dao-level limit.
• Ling Yi gave Situ Yu and Zhu Weiming memory jade tablets to record their memories for later investigation.
• Ling Yi stripped Zhu Weiming of his cultivation and left him to Qin Shuang, then took everyone to the mountain behind Little Ye Village.
• Ling Yi returned to the God-Demon Hall with Qin Shuang, Situ Yu, and Situ Yun, and told Jiang Yanran to arrange the twenty thousand fighters he had brought back.
• Jiang Yanran found more than twenty thousand former Corpse Refining Sect disciples assembled in the hall, and Ling Yi named them the God-Demon Guards.

Ling Yi upgraded the Five Elements Memory Jade Plaque and used it to investigate the Immortal Realm’s dimensional reduction while he received the Great Dao-Level Law of Space. He discovered Blue Star in Chaos and, unable to return yet, decided to find Ling Yun and speak openly with him.

• Ling Yi upgraded the Five Elements Memory Jade Plaque, gave its item spirit a God-Demon Seal, and ordered it to copy sealed targets’ memories and investigate the Immortal Realm’s dimensional reduction.
• Ling Yi spread more than 600,000 God-Demon Seals across Dafeng City and then obtained the Great Dao-Level Law of Space from a blind box.
• While mastering the law, Ling Yi discovered that his world had three layers and opened a breach between the Mortal Realm and the Immortal Realm, allowing Spiritual Qi to flow into the Mortal Realm.
• Ling Yi found Blue Star among the worlds in Chaos, but his depleted mental power prevented him from entering that state again and returning there.
• Qin Shuang’s Bond level reached lv10, granting Ling Yi Upgrade Points and a random Law of the Great Dao; he then chose to find Ling Yun and lay everything out in the open.

After sleeping for two months, Ling Yi reconciled with Ling Yun, revealed his past life, and learned that Ye Tian had likely caused the world's dimensional descent. Ling Yi was unsealed and began another transmigration to Blue Star, while Yin Wanqing and Uncle discussed how Ye Tian and his allies had disrupted the world.

• Ling Yi woke after two months of sleep and reassured Ling Yun, Qin Shuang, and the others that he was well.
• Ling Yun admitted she had long suspected Ling Yi was a transmigrator, and he affirmed that she would always be his sister.
• Ling Yi recounted his life as an assassin on Blue Star and suspected that an unseen force had manipulated his life and transmigration.
• The artifact spirit concluded that Ye Tian had likely stolen the world's origin, triggered its dimensional descent, and returned to Blue Star using a time-related ability.
• Ling Yi asked who would accompany him to Blue Star, and the scene froze as Yin Wanqing and Uncle appeared with his original body.
• Yin Wanqing handed Ling Yi instructions for another transmigration, and he departed with the women while Yin Wanqing and Uncle blamed Ye Tian and his allies for disrupting the world.

Ling Yi discovered that he had transmigrated into the doomed Dragon King role in a world crowded with villain protagonists, then activated a system that let him gain power by becoming sworn siblings with women. Zhao Mingyue summoned him to her office as the story approached their engagement banquet, where the regressor Gu Mingxuan was supposed to challenge him.

• Ling Yi received the original owner's memories and realized that the Dragon King was a pseudo-protagonist destined to be humiliated by transmigrated villains.
• Ling Yi activated the Strongest Brother and Sister System, which let him synchronize with women's battle power after they became sworn siblings.
• Ling Yi considered how to use the system and whether he should change the plot instead of following it.
• Zhao Mingyue arrived at Mingyue Tower, and Ling Yi remembered that Gu Mingxuan would confess to her at their engagement banquet in three days.
• Zhao Mingyue pointed at Ling Yi and ordered him to come to her office.

Ling Yi rejected the system’s demand to raise Zhao Mingyue’s affection under threat of erasure and challenged it to self-destruct. After the system’s self-destruct attempt failed, it restarted as the Strongest Brother and Sister System, leaving the Zhao Mingyue mission without a deadline or penalty.

• Ling Yi followed Zhao Mingyue to her luxurious office, where she asked him to tear up their marriage contract at a banquet in three days.
• The system ordered Ling Yi to raise Zhao Mingyue’s affection to 50 points within three days or be erased, and Ling Yi rejected the mission.
• Ling Yi repeatedly ordered the system to self-destruct, and the system’s countdown stalled before it could finish.
• The system declared the mission failed, but its self-destruct attempt failed when an unknown force invaded and collapsed its core program.
• The system restarted as the Strongest Brother and Sister System, offering rewards for raising Zhao Mingyue’s affection with no time limit or failure penalty.

Ling Yi rejected Zhao Mingyue’s offer to end their engagement quietly and decided to focus on growing stronger instead. He agreed to tear up the marriage contract at the wedding banquet in three days, leaving Zhao Mingyue uneasy about what he had said regarding her family and the inheritance struggle.

• After the system went silent and time resumed, Zhao Mingyue offered Ling Yi a million to call off their engagement, and he accepted.
• Ling Yi recalled that the Shenron Pavilion had given him six months to marry Zhao Mingyue while concealing his identity or face a contest for the Dragon King position.
• Ling Yi told Zhao Mingyue he would tear up the marriage contract at the banquet in three days, but refused her money and criticized her for wanting him to take the blame.
• Ling Yi suggested Zhao Mingyue’s grandfather had allowed her family to mistreat him because their actions could later affect the Zhao siblings’ inheritance struggle.
• After Ling Yi left, Zhao Mingyue remembered how she and her family had treated him and felt unsettled by his coldness and warning.

Ling Yi quit his unpaid security job, broke Song San’s wrist, and used the Dragon King Token to request the creation of Phoenix Pavilion. He planned to send its members to infiltrate Mysterious Yin Sect, while preparing to sever his ties with Zhao Mingyue and the Zhao Family.

• Ling Yi quit his security job at Mingyue Building and broke Song San’s wrist after Song San tried to stop him.
• Ling Yi used Acupoint Sealing to intensify Song San’s pain and warned that he would become a vegetable and die.
• Ling Yi called his master and used the Dragon King Token to request the creation of Phoenix Pavilion, with at least a thousand cultivators gathered in Dafeng City by the next day.
• Ling Yi told his master that Phoenix Pavilion would infiltrate Mysterious Yin Sect, and his master agreed to arrange it by the following afternoon.
• Ling Yi told his master that he had been manipulated into pursuing Zhao Mingyue and vowed to make Mysterious Yin Sect pay.

Ling Yi prepared to confront Gu Mingxuan, who was expected to kidnap Zhao Mingyue that night, and brought Su Ying to the Red Maple Hotel. He began revealing that the Dragon King Hall had kept the truth about her parents secret.

• Ling Yi accepted the system's mission to rescue Zhao Mingyue and requested five billion in liquid capital from Su Ying.
• Ling Yi arranged to access the encrypted file D-225 and went to the Red Maple Hotel, where Gu Mingxuan was expected to awaken as a villain protagonist.
• Ling Yi bypassed two security guards before returning to the hotel with Su Ying, whose code name was Shadow.
• Ling Yi told Su Ying that her parents' identities were among the Dragon King Hall's highest-level secrets, making her uneasy.

Ling Yi revealed that Su Ying’s parents had been spies, then comforted her and made her his sworn younger sister, boosting his Battle Power. He left her to establish Phoenix Pavilion and confronted Gu Mingxuan as Gu arrived at the Red Maple Grand Hotel carrying an unconscious Zhao Mingyue.

• Ling Yi showed Su Ying evidence that her parents had spied for the enemy and nearly stolen national research data.
• Ling Yi comforted Su Ying, who called him Brother Ling Yi and cried in his arms.
• The system bound Su Ying as Ling Yi’s younger sister, raised his Battle Power by 630 points, and increased Su Ying’s cultivation speed.
• Ling Yi named Su Ying the master of Phoenix Pavilion and left to deal with Zhao Mingyue’s situation.
• Ling Yi saw Gu Mingxuan enter the hotel carrying the unconscious Zhao Mingyue, followed by the Black and White Twin Fiends, and began recording them.