Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi decided to keep Shen Hui’s identity until after university so he would not seem too old for Xia Wanqing, while her favorability tasks became increasingly difficult and intimate. After the college entrance exams, Ling Yi learned that Lingxia Technology was ready to unveil its advanced Lingxia AI, and he planned to work next on materials science.

• Ling Yi asked Xia Wanqing and his system about choosing a long-term identity, learned that conquering worlds could grant him control over their laws, and decided to postpone returning to his real identity until after university.
• Xia Wanqing’s favorability steadily rose, but after it passed 300 points, daily tasks required ten days for each point and involved sleeping together or scrubbing her back without crossing the final line.
• Ling Yi came out of his final college entrance exam looking exhausted because the previous night’s task had kept him awake, though he assured both families that he had done well.
• Ling Yi asked Xia Zhengxiong about Lingxia Technology, and Xia Zhengxiong said they would hold a press conference the next day.
• Ling Yi planned to turn his attention to materials science to overcome the limits holding back Lingxia AI, a weakened version of the advanced AI he had brought into this world.

After decades of research and pursuing Xia Wanqing, Ling Yi reached 999 affection and gained eternal life and the highest authority in their world. The light orb then warned that its headquarters would locate them unless they left immediately.

• Ling Yi spent years developing a Dimension Lock and kept Lingxia AI 7.0 inactive until he felt he could control its risks.
• After graduating, Ling Yi became engaged to Xia Wanqing, raised their family with her, and eventually gained the final affection points through his Ling Yi and Shen Hui identities.
• The light orb granted Ling Yi and Xia Wanqing eternal life and the highest authority over their world, while giving Ling Yi a hidden gift package and access to Chaos Space.
• Ling Yi discovered that he could stay in the world for only one month and could not take Xia Wanqing to his higher-dimensional real world.
• After Ling Yi received a space ring filled with cards from the system headquarters, the light orb warned that headquarters would lock onto them in ten seconds.

Song Zhiyi realized her transmigrations had given her memories and knowledge she could use to build power, and she planned to eventually cooperate with Ling Yi. On her third transmigration, she gained full control of her new body in the Bai family and met the adopted son, Bai Fei, just as the real young master was due to return.

• Ling Yi questioned the orb about its stolen supplies and learned it had been copied using the Power of Origin before examining a storage ring.
• Song Zhiyi recalled her experiences inside Zhou Hong and Xia Wanqing, including the knowledge she had brought back, and decided Ling Yi could be her ideal partner and protector.
• Song Zhiyi avoided Ling Yi for a month while he earned more project bonuses and attracted romantic attention, then resolved to reveal her secret after another transmigration.
• Song Zhiyi transmigrated into a new body in the Bai family and gained full control along with the original owner's memories.
• Song Zhiyi recognized the situation as a real-and-fake-young-master plot and suspected Ling Yi had become the returning real young master.
• Bai Fei came downstairs with a suitcase and claimed he was leaving to return the place he had occupied for eighteen years to his brother.

Bai Qi returned to the Bai Clan and tested whether his new family would accept him, then rejected them after seeing Bai Shuyun’s contempt and Bai Fei’s manipulative act. He left to handle his own affairs, and Song Zhiyi followed him to make sure he was safe.

• Song Zhiyi saw through Bai Fei’s act and told him that Bai Canghai, Li Yun, and Bai Shuyun would decide whether he stayed.
• Bai Qi arrived with Bai Canghai, Li Yun, and Bai Shuyun, then stopped Bai Fei from pretending to leave home for sympathy.
• Bai Qi challenged the family’s treatment of him, exposed Bai Fei’s empty suitcase and staged departure, and declared that they had failed his test.
• Bai Qi left the Bai Clan and told Li Yun he would return in about a week for another test.
• Bai Canghai stopped Li Yun from chasing Bai Qi, and Song Zhiyi went after him to check on him.

Song Zhiyi secretly arranged for Zhao Hu to monitor Ling Yi while the Bai family discussed marrying Bai Qi to Huo Yufei. Ling Yi had already married Huo Yufei, whose plan to secure control of the Huo Family had made Bai Qi a substitute for her missing lover, Ji Yanfei.

• Song Zhiyi hired Zhao Hu as her attendant and ordered him to secretly record Ling Yi’s experiences.
• Song Zhiyi learned that the Bai family intended for Bai Qi to marry Huo Yufei to preserve their alliance with the Huo Family.
• Song Zhiyi decided to consider an escape plan from the Bai Clan and try the Yun AI in this world.
• Ling Yi and Huo Yufei stood outside the Dafeng City Civil Affairs Bureau with their marriage certificate.
• Ling Yi recalled that Huo Yufei had chosen Bai Qi because he resembled Ji Yanfei and could help her inherit the Huo Family shares while she searched for Ji Yanfei.

After recalling the tragic events that were supposed to unfold, Ling Yi presented Huo Yufei with a stand-in contract instead of signing her prenuptial agreement. Huo Yufei accepted its terms and signed, leaving their marriage set to proceed under a business arrangement.

• Bai Qi’s memories revealed that Huo Yufei had loved Ji Yanfei, and that Bai Qi’s devotion and mistreatment by them had eventually led him to jump off a building.
• Ling Yi told Huo Yufei he understood that she was marrying him for the Huo Family inheritance and because he resembled Ji Yanfei, then offered her a stand-in contract.
• Huo Yufei read the contract’s clauses on feelings, monthly payment, additional services, and protecting their reputations as husband and wife.
• Ling Yi explained that cheating or an ambiguous relationship with a third party would damage their shared brand image.
• Huo Yufei decided the contract was preferable to her prenuptial agreement and signed it.

Ling Yi impressed Huo Yufei with his cooking and medicinal soup, then agreed to accompany her to the Huo Family banquet. Meanwhile, Song Zhiyi learned that Ling Yi had married Huo Yufei and began planning to leave the Bai Clan and build her own business.

• Ling Yi served Huo Yufei a delicious meal and medicinal soup that made her feel better.
• Huo Yufei invited Ling Yi to the Huo Family banquet, where he knew she would reclaim her shares and face danger.
• Ling Yi declined Huo Yufei’s offer of the upstairs bedroom, and she abruptly went upstairs in a cold mood.
• Song Zhiyi learned from Zhao Hu that Ling Yi had married Huo Yufei and moved into her home.
• Song Zhiyi paid Zhao Hu to secretly register a company and planned to move out and start a small game business using the Yun AI system.

Ling Yi prevented an assassination attempt on Huo Yufei as they traveled to the Huo Family banquet, defeating the attackers and rescuing her from a sniper. After calling the inspectors and collecting evidence, Huo Yufei questioned who Ling Yi really was.

• Ling Yi noticed signs that Huo Yufei's sports car had been tampered with, so they took another car toward the Huo Family estate.
• At the mountain-road entrance, Ling Yi told Huo Yufei to crouch beside the car, then disabled the gunmen who emerged from two vans.
• Ling Yi dodged the gunfire and stopped the fleeing assassins, then rushed to protect Huo Yufei when a sniper shattered the car window.
• Ling Yi charged up the hillside and returned with the masked sniper, explaining that he had only blocked the attackers' nerves and left them alive.
• Huo Yufei called the inspectors while Ling Yi gathered phones and a laptop and copied the attackers' data.
• Huo Yufei studied Ling Yi and asked who he really was.

Ling Yi helped Huo Yufei expose Huo Peng’s role in the attack, secure control of the Huo Group, and quietly undermine her feelings for Ji Yanfei. After news about Ji Yanfei’s past went public, Ling Yi arranged for him to be abducted before he could return home, leaving Huo Yufei still uncertain about the reports.

• Ling Yi gave Huo Yufei evidence that Huo Peng had hired the killers using his father’s supplementary bank card, and Huo Yufei completed the transfer of the group’s shares.
• Ling Yi cared for the exhausted Huo Yufei at home and planned to win her over by avoiding a clingy approach while exposing Ji Yanfei’s past.
• Over the next half month, Huo Yufei became busy running the group but continued coming home for Ling Yi’s meals.
• Reports revealed that Ji Yanfei had been caught in a human-trafficking investigation on a private island and publicized his gambling debts and romantic history.
• Huo Yufei investigated the reports rather than clarifying them, while Ling Yi secretly arranged for Ji Yanfei to be abducted at the airport before he could return to the country.

Over three years, Ling Yi fulfilled his contract with Huo Yufei while major changes reshaped the Bai Clan and Song Zhiyi built Zhiyi Technology in secret. As Song Zhiyi called Ling Yi to meet, Ji Yanfei returned, leaving Huo Yufei determined to hide his return from Bai Qi while Ling Yi prepared to test her final choice.

• For three years, Ling Yi provided Huo Yufei with contracted services and handled problems for her company, charging extra for anything outside their agreement.
• Bai Fei took control of the Bai Group, revealed that he was the nanny and driver's son, and drove Bai Canghai, Li Yun, Bai Shuyun, and Bai Nianyun from the villa before his family was imprisoned.
• Song Zhiyi revealed herself as the founder of Zhiyi Technology, gave Bai Canghai and the others money, and left after warning them not to disclose her identity or bother her.
• Song Zhiyi called Ling Yi and arranged to meet him, while Huo Yufei learned that Ji Yanfei had returned and agreed to pick him up without letting Bai Qi know.
• Ling Yi revealed that he had arranged Ji Yanfei's return and expected Huo Yufei to make her final choice.

Ling Yi and Song Zhiyi agreed to work together in the real world and on future missions, while Ling Yi prepared to leave his current world. When Huo Yufei returned, Ling Yi ended their stand-in contract, then offered her a marital agreement.

• Song Zhiyi revealed that she had been hitching rides on Ling Yi's transmigrations and proposed they work together; Ling Yi agreed and assigned the Light Ball to help her.
• Ling Yi explained that the Chaos Space could eventually let them bring items or abilities back to the real world, and said they would leave this world within a week.
• Ling Yi returned to Huo Yufei's villa, prepared his luggage, and waited for her to come home.
• Huo Yufei returned exhausted and told Ling Yi she had sent Ji Yanfei away, but Ling Yi said their contract had ended because Ji Yanfei had returned and they had fallen in love.
• Ling Yi tore up the stand-in contract and offered Huo Yufei a new marital agreement.

Ling Yi returned from Bai Qi’s world, helped Song Zhiyi establish Myriad Worlds Technology, and prepared for another transmigration. In the Chaos Space, a young man offered his origin divine soul to create a Karma Dao Seed, which the system proposed converting into a Karma System.

• Bai Qi thanked Ling Yi as his obsession faded, and Ling Yi collected his 300-million-cash mission reward before returning to reality.
• Ling Yi gave Song Zhiyi 300 million and Yun AI 4.0 to help her establish Myriad Worlds Technology.
• Song Zhiyi hired a capable representative with Light Ball’s assistance and began building her company.
• Ling Yi earned his company 30 million, received a five-million bonus, and was promoted to vice president with a five-percent stake.
• Ling Yi entered the Chaos Space with Song Zhiyi awaiting a new transmigration and met a young man who wanted Liu Ruyan and the Liu Clan punished.
• The young man sacrificed his origin divine soul to forge a Karma Dao Seed, and the system offered to convert it into a Karma System.

Ling Yi woke in Feng Jie's crippled body and learned that Liu Ruyan had used their relationship to break through to the Grandmaster realm before leaving him. As Feng Jie's memories revealed how he had come to love and trust her, the chapter ended with the start of the event that had brought them together.

• Ling Yi used a Strong Healing Card to restore Feng Jie's body, though his dantian had no Spiritual Power.
• Liu Ruyan told Feng Jie she had cultivated feelings for him so she could sever them, reach the Grandmaster realm, and reshape her Spiritual Root; she warned him to keep silent and leave Great Wind City.
• Ling Yi received Feng Jie's memories, including how Liu Ruyan had helped him and his sister Feng Yue after their parents died and they lost their livelihood.
• Feng Jie became Liu Ruyan's personal attendant and grew deeply devoted to her, while Feng Yue served as Liu Ruyan's personal maid.
• During a countryside outing, Feng Jie was wounded while protecting Liu Ruyan from kidnappers and confessed his feelings because he thought he was dying.

Ling Yi learned how Liu Ruyan had used Feng Jie to perfect the Emotionless Sword and chose a punishment through his newly activated Karma System. He planned to rescue Feng Yue first, while leaving Liu Ruyan’s selected punishment unexecuted for now.

• Ling Yi learned that Liu Ruyan had crippled Feng Jie to perfect the Emotionless Sword, and that Feng Jie’s sister Feng Yue had died after he left Great Wind City.
• Ling Yi considered eliminating Liu Ruyan and the Liu Clan, then decided his immediate priority was rescuing Feng Yue, whom he believed was Song Zhiyi in this world.
• The Karma System activated and explained that Ling Yi could judge a target and select a reward or punishment plan.
• Ling Yi judged Liu Ruyan, and the system deemed her deception and cultivation method a great evil, offering three punishments.
• Ling Yi chose to strip Liu Ruyan of her cultivation, dantian, meridians, and Martial Dao Spiritual Roots, but told the system not to carry it out yet.

Song Zhiyi plotted her escape from the Liu Clan’s basement by earning Life Origin for Light Ball’s Refinement function. She killed Liu Qiao with a sharpened piece of bamboo, leaving her poised to gain her first Life Origin.

• Song Zhiyi learned that Light Ball could activate its Refinement function with Life Origin, which it could obtain when she killed someone.
• Song Zhiyi sharpened a broken brush shaft while waiting in the cell, then hid it when Liu Qiao approached.
• Song Zhiyi pretended to accept Liu Qiao’s offer and asked him to bring her food.
• After Liu Qiao unlocked the cell and brought pastries, Song Zhiyi edged closer and stabbed his throat with the sharpened shaft.
• Song Zhiyi pulled the shaft free and rolled away as Liu Qiao staggered and fell to the ground.

After killing Liu Qiao, Song Zhiyi gained immense strength and mastered the Ten Thousand Souls Spirit Tempering Art with Light Ball’s help. She cultivated to the Nascent Soul Realm in one day, then emerged from the dungeon and attacked Liu Ruyan.

• After Liu Qiao died, Light Ball awarded Song Zhiyi Life Origin and Karmic Luck, then used its refining function to raise her cultivation to the Qi Refining Second Layer.
• Song Zhiyi found Liu Qiao’s Ten Thousand Souls Spirit Tempering Art and a blade-less sword hilt; Light Ball spent 1 point of Life Origin to bring the art to Perfection.
• Song Zhiyi cultivated through the night, reaching Foundation Establishment and then Golden Core Great Perfection, while her soul advanced to Wandering Soul.
• By evening, Song Zhiyi had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and asked Light Ball to lower the refining function after its Spiritual Qi vortex drew attention across Great Wind City.
• Song Zhiyi emerged from the dungeon, shocking Liu Ruyan and the Liu Clan, then slapped Liu Ruyan and sent her flying.

Song Zhiyi confronted the Liu Clan over Feng Jie, then left them alive because she suspected Ling Yi was Feng Jie and did not want to disrupt his mission. Meanwhile, Ling Yi used his Karma System in Great Wind City and planned to deal with the Liu Clan after finishing his current business.

• Song Zhiyi arrived at the Liu Clan, demanded to know where her brother was, and used her Spiritual Pressure to force most of them to their knees.
• Liu Ruyan considered attacking Song Zhiyi, but Song Zhiyi sensed her killing intent and chose not to refine her, deciding to leave the Liu Clan to Ling Yi.
• After Song Zhiyi flew away, Liu Ruyan assumed she had fled and urged the Liu Clan to conceal what happened and seek an Immortal Gate, while hoping to uncover Song Zhiyi’s secret.
• At the Hundred Flowers House, Ling Yi used his Karma System to make Zhang Yunqi return the money he had swindled and received silver and cultivation experience.
• Ling Yi recalled the secrets he had learned about Great Wind City’s city lord and the Hundred Flowers House’s owner, then decided to finish his current business before dealing with the Liu Clan.

Song Zhiyi attended Liu Ruyan’s banquet in disguise as Immortal Gate cultivators arrived to recruit Liu Ruyan for her rare Martial Dao Immortal-Pin Spiritual Root. Feng Jie suddenly condemned Liu Ruyan for her past actions and invoked Karma Punishment, causing her cultivation to collapse.

• Song Zhiyi mingled with the guests in disguise and discussed the world, Karmic Luck, and the expected arrival of Immortal Gate cultivators with Light Ball.
• More than a dozen flying boats brought seventeen cultivators from four top sects to the Liu residence.
• An elder identified Liu Ruyan as the possessor of a Martial Dao Immortal-Pin Spiritual Root, which could lead her to ascend to the Immortal Realm.
• Liu Ruyan asked how to choose a sect, but Feng Jie’s unseen voice accused her of exploiting another person’s feelings and warned that retribution had arrived.
• Feng Jie invoked Karma Punishment, and Liu Ruyan’s cultivation rapidly fell from late Grandmaster to Master as she cried out in agony.

Ling Yi crippled Liu Ruyan and stripped the Liu Clan of its karmic luck, after which the clan was exterminated and Liu Ruyan disappeared. Later, Ling Yi and Song Zhiyi parted ways over a demon crisis, and after two months of punishing evildoers in Great Wind City, Ling Yi prepared to leave until an enormous flying boat appeared overhead.

• Ling Yi used Karma punishment to destroy Liu Ruyan’s cultivation and cripple her dantian and meridians, then deprived the Liu Clan of its karmic luck for helping her.
• Elder Mu examined Liu Ruyan and concluded that someone had reversed her cultivation method; he and the other cultivators left to reinforce the demon sealing.
• The Liu Clan was exterminated three days later, while Liu Ruyan was left alive and then disappeared.
• Half a month later, Song Zhiyi told Ling Yi that demons had escaped and Chongzhou City had fallen; she planned to go there, and Ling Yi gave her cards for protection before they parted.
• Ling Yi spent two months punishing evildoers in Great Wind City under his alternate identity, then decided to leave after exhausting his local targets.
• As Ling Yi prepared to visit the Hundred Flowers House and depart the next morning, a huge flying boat appeared above Great Wind City.

Ling Yi learned that he was Feng Wuyan and Madam Fragrant Osmanthus’s long-lost son, Feng Jie, and that they planned to hide his identity until their adopted son Feng Wuji reached the Dao Integration Realm. Feng Wuyan insulted Ling Yi and challenged him to reach that realm within a year, prompting Ling Yi to call on the Karma System.

• Feng Wuyan and Madam Fragrant Osmanthus found Ling Yi and revealed that they were his parents and that he was Feng Jie.
• Madam Fragrant Osmanthus explained how enemies had forced them to abandon Feng Jie as a newborn and seal his bloodline for twenty years.
• Madam Fragrant Osmanthus said they had adopted Feng Wuji and wanted Ling Yi to remain an adopted son until Wuji broke through to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Ling Yi recognized the situation as a real-and-fake young master plot and decided he wanted to see how it played out.
• Feng Wuyan called Ling Yi trash, ordered him to reach the Dao Integration Realm within a year, and Ling Yi called on the Karma System.