Chapter Summaries

Thor, Loki, Odin, and Frigga struggled against players in Mir 2 before the Asgardians defeated the Evil Centipede and Thor claimed the Dragon-Slaying Saber. As the Sand City siege approached, Ling Yi prepared to draw a new game, while alliances formed around the coming battle and Tony refused Nick’s request to fight for S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Loki proposed seeking Ling Yi’s help or switching servers after Odin rejected cooperation with other guilds, and Frigga suggested changing servers.
• Odin and Thor led the Asgardians in killing the Evil Centipede, and Thor equipped its Dragon-Slaying Saber drop.
• Ling Yi dismissed the Dragon-Slaying Saber as worthless by private-server standards and delayed launching his newly drawn game until after the Sand City event.
• Nick asked Tony to fight for Sand City on Earth’s behalf, but Tony refused and criticized S.H.I.E.L.D. and the United States.
• Coulson allied with the Frost Giants Guild, while Steve allied with Hela’s Dead Guild, creating a large but fragile coalition for the siege.

Ling Yi overwhelmed the players outside Sabac with his powerful new equipment, cleared the battlefield, and broke through the city gate and palace defenses. As rival guilds launched a coordinated assault to stop him and demanded the new map’s coordinates, Ling Yi ignored them and used the siege to gather more fragments.

• Steve told Nick that Ling Yi had appeared, then went offline after admitting they could not stop him.
• Ling Yi and his second hero, clones, and Moon Spirits slaughtered players outside Sabac until Nick, Laufey, Thanos, Odin, and the other guild leaders retreated.
• Ling Yi gathered the dropped fragments, broke through Sabac’s gate, and breached the palace entrance.
• Tony warned Ling Yi that the guilds had united for another assault, and Ling Yi agreed to sell him the equipment he had collected.
• Ling Yi attacked the charging guild armies from the palace balcony while Nick demanded the coordinates of the new map.
• Ling Yi reflected that Thanos was secretly trying to prevent the Marvel universe from consuming parallel universes because of its population limit.

After becoming Sabac City's lord, Ling Yi learned that a new virtual cultivation game would reward understanding of Ancient Country culture. When the Chitauri invaded New York, he refused to intervene, and the Ugly Nation's leaders devastated their own country with nuclear strikes before its players finally defeated the invaders; later, Ling Yi rejected Nick and Steve's demands for help rebuilding it.

• Ling Yi asked the system about the virtual game's cultivation requirements and learned that its living world demanded self-comprehension, cultural knowledge, and time spent training.
• A portal opened over New York, and Ling Yi protected his villa while Mindy went out to fight the Chitauri.
• Maria Hill warned Earth's players about the invasion, and players battled the Chitauri until the Ugly Nation's government dropped three nuclear bombs on New York.
• The nuclear strikes killed nearly all the city's players, and the Chitauri spread across the Ugly Nation while its leaders continued bombing their own territory.
• Mindy returned badly injured, agreed that the Ugly Nation was not worth saving, and went with Ling Yi to the Ancient Country after he healed her.
• After the Ugly Nation's players defeated the Chitauri, Nick and Steve confronted Ling Yi in Sabac's palace, and Ling Yi killed Steve's character and ordered them to leave.

Ling Yi entered the virtual game Sword and Fairy: Asking About Love, where he discovered that he alone could use some of his real-world magic. As Tony and the others made plans to leave the ruined United States, Ling Yi ran into elite Moon Worship Cultists and faced their coordinated attack.

• Ling Yi told Tony to seek Ancient Country citizenship and promised to reveal the route to the Second Continent, while Nick and the others left to settle in the Black Continent.
• Ling Yi logged into the new virtual game, chose the unaffiliated faction, and found himself at Ten-Mile Slope.
• The game announcement reached all Marvel players, while Tony headed for the Ancient Country and Nick directed the surviving Helicarrier toward Wakanda.
• Peter sent Aunt May and Nate toward the Ancient Country in a futuristic fighter jet while he stayed behind to search for Gwen Stacy.
• Ling Yi learned that he could use some of his magic in the game, killed a sludge monster, and collected blood-staunching grass.
• Ling Yi attacked three elite Moon Worship Cultists, but their leader stunned him with a Shockwave, leaving the other two poised to strike.

Ling Yi learned the Mount Shu Sword Control Technique from Wine Sword Immortal and spent six days cultivating, while Thanos struggled with the game’s cultivation system. After Ebony Maw linked Ling Yi to the games, Thanos decided to travel to Earth and meet him.

• Wine Sword Immortal saved Ling Yi from three Moon Worship Sect followers, taught him the Sword Control Technique, and left him with a request to help Mount Shu disciples in need.
• Ling Yi spent six days in the valley cultivating, combining immortal arts and magic as Server 0 filled with players.
• Thanos practiced the Moon Worship Sect’s starter saber technique but found he could not cultivate because he lacked the bodily structures its methods required.
• Ebony Maw told Thanos that Ling Yi might be behind the games and confirmed that he was on Server 0.
• Thanos decided to go to Earth in three days to meet Ling Yi, then learned Gamora had already traveled there and ordered her location tracked.

After Thanos snapped at Ling Yi, the attack restored Ling Yi’s sealed strength and memories, and he sent Thanos and the others away before freeing the Game System. Ling Yi said goodbye to the Ancient One, surveyed the chaos unfolding across the Marvel Universe, and then left to transmigrate to another world.

• Thanos demanded that Ling Yi shut down the games, but Ling Yi refused, so Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to snap at him.
• Ling Yi’s body began dissolving, then re-formed as his strength was unsealed and his memories returned.
• Ling Yi sent Thanos and his companions away, gave the Game System a law that freed it from the Marvel plot and rules, and sent it off Earth.
• Ling Yi visited the Ancient One, placed the passage to the Ling Realm within the Primordial Dimension, and told her he would return for tea.
• Ling Yi surveyed the Marvel Universe, seeing conflicts involving Tony, Nick, Hela, Thor, Odin, Loki, the Dark Elves, and Thanos’s group.
• Ling Yi blamed the author for the events that led to Thanos’s snap, then vanished from the Marvel Universe to transmigrate.

Ling Yi prepared to enter a game world after teleportation pillars brought dangerous, gamified worlds to Blue Star, and chose Silu Town despite its official level-one rating. He entered the pillar while Ran Ran chose Midtown High School and Song Chexuan planned to target him.

• Luo Wanzong warned Class Five's graduating students about game dangers and advised them to follow the school's plans.
• Ling Yi spoke with Ran Ran about entering the games, while Song Chexuan secretly vowed to stop Ling Yi from leveling up.
• The students traveled to three teleportation pillars, and Ling Yi recognized their worlds as the Chronicle, Spider-Man, and Resident Evil worlds despite their official level-one ratings.
• Song Chexuan sent two level-seven players to watch and target Ling Yi, while Ran Ran warned Ling Yi to be careful.
• Ling Yi chose the Silu Town game world, Ran Ran entered Midtown High School, and Ling Yi stepped into his pillar.

Ling Yi entered Myriad Worlds as Reincarnation and drew the special talent Collision Scam Physique, which plundered attributes from creatures that killed him. After repeatedly reviving among monsters and dying, he gained powerful stats and the Rend skill while remaining level 1.

• Ling Yi customized Reincarnation’s appearance, drew Collision Scam Physique, and entered the game among hundreds of players.
• Song Zhexuan sent a Sonic Monster Lure into the wilderness, drawing a horde of monsters toward the level 1 players.
• The monsters killed the players, while Ling Yi discovered that each death let Collision Scam Physique steal attributes from his killer.
• Ling Yi repeatedly revived on the spot and died to monsters, accumulating attributes and plundering the Fierce Tiger’s Rend skill.
• After four deaths, Ling Yi remained level 1 with greatly increased stats and Rend LV1.

Ling Yi’s death-triggered talent made him strong enough to reach the cave where the protagonists of Chronicle discovered a mysterious crystal. After the crystal collapsed the cave, Ling Yi parted ways with them, while players across the instance reacted to his main-story reward of ten levels and 1,000 Reputation.

• Ling Yi repeatedly died to monsters and plundered their stats until their attacks mostly missed, then strode through the forest as Song Zhexuan and his companions suspected he had a death-powered talent.
• Song Zhexuan reached level 4 with his companions, then heard an announcement that Player Reincarnation had triggered a main storyline quest and gained ten levels and 1,000 Reputation.
• Ling Yi found the cave connected to Andrew, Steve, and Matt’s story and decided to enter it with them despite worrying about the crystal’s effects.
• Ling Yi and the three students approached the glowing crystal, which unleashed a force that made them ill and began crumbling as the cave shook.
• Ling Yi, Steve, Matt, and Andrew escaped before the cave collapsed, then separated after Steve invited Ling Yi to his home.

Ling Yi tested the overwhelming power of his Telekinesis, then sought out Song Zhexuan to make him pay for using monster lures that could ruin other players’ futures. After Song Zhexuan killed Ling Yi, Ling Yi’s talent stripped away Song Zhexuan’s attributes, and Ling Yi revived to kill him again.

• Ling Yi used Telekinesis to crush a vast patch of ground, confirming its immense power and low energy cost.
• Ling Yi found Song Zhexuan farming crocodiles with two guards and killed him instantly with Telekinesis.
• Song Zhexuan revived and joined his guards in killing Ling Yi, triggering Ling Yi’s Collision Scam Physique to steal several of Song Zhexuan’s attributes.
• Song Zhexuan discovered that most of his attributes had vanished, while Ling Yi revived and killed him again, reducing him to level one.
• Ling Yi rebuked the guards, saying Song Zhexuan had deserved it for using monster lures to endanger other players.

Ling Yi killed two guards, took their sword, and waited outside Slew High School for Andrew so he could awaken Andrew’s Telekinesis and recruit him for a bank robbery. Andrew discovered his power and embraced Ling Yi’s vision of becoming an apex predator, while Ling Yi discouraged him from telling Matt and Steve.

• Ling Yi killed the two guards, took a Bronze Sword, and flew to Slew High School to wait for Andrew.
• Andrew arrived with Matt, filming people despite Matt’s objections, then left school instead of attending class.
• Ling Yi took Andrew to a junkyard and explained that the mysterious crystal had given him, Andrew, Steve, and Matt Telekinesis.
• Andrew learned to move a stone with his mind, and Ling Yi urged him to use their powers to rob a bank and become an apex predator.
• Andrew agreed with Ling Yi, overused his mental power until his nose bled, and said he wanted to tell Matt and Steve; Ling Yi advised against it.

Ling Yi helped Andrew grow powerful, and the two robbed a bank, triggering the authorities to hunt them and a game-world final showdown. Ling Yi destroyed the authorities’ helicopter attack and joined Andrew’s faction, with Andrew’s location revealed on the map.

• Andrew trained relentlessly until he could lift objects weighing over two tons and fly, then rejected Matt and Steve’s rules for using superpowers.
• Ling Yi and Andrew robbed Silu Town’s bank, and the game announced that Reincarnation had provoked the authorities and could not leave the world for 72 hours.
• Song Zhexuan’s trio discussed Reincarnation’s threat and considered exposing his identity in the real world.
• Ling Yi parted from Andrew, who became a wanted criminal after using stolen banknotes to pay his mother’s medical bills.
• The game announced the final showdown and offered players factions to join; the authorities sent helicopters to capture Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi summoned his bronze sword and destroyed the helicopters, then selected Andrew’s faction and received Andrew’s coordinates.

Ling Yi killed the out-of-control Andrew by repeatedly reviving and exploiting Collision Scam Physique to drain his attributes, then used the chaos to die again before the authorities could identify him. The storyline reached completion, forcing players to leave the game, while Ling Yi received major rewards and discovered he could not take his cash back to the real world.

• Andrew rejected Ling Yi’s warning, killed him, and was weakened as Ling Yi revived and let Collision Scam Physique steal his attributes.
• Ling Yi killed Andrew after draining his Strength, Agility, and Constitution, and gained enough experience to reach level 13.
• Matt and Steve took Andrew’s body away as fighter jets arrived, and Ling Yi lured missiles into Song Zhexuan’s group before reviving at the respawn point.
• Ling Yi flew above the clouds and received server-wide announcements that he had completed the game world’s storyline and earned three rewards.
• Ling Yi exited the game and found that his cash could not leave the game world, while the announcements caused an uproar among players across Blue Star.

Ling Yi returned from Game World No. 21871 to find the military locking down the area, while Song Zhexuan faced growing hostility for sabotaging hundreds of players. Back on the school bus, Ling Yi reunited with Ran Ran and listened as students discussed the disastrous game and wondered whether Reincarnation was among them.

• Ling Yi received a Superpower Crystal, a Concealment Mask, and a Death Count Reset Card, then learned soldiers were checking players as they exited the teleportation pillar.
• Song Zhexuan challenged the soldiers and was forced to return to his school bus at gunpoint.
• An online post exposed Song Zhexuan's actions with the Sound-Broadcast Monster Lure, drawing public attention and anger.
• Ling Yi reunited with Ran Ran on the bus, and they compared their results before he described how the Chronicle world had become a deadly high-level world.
• Students blamed Song Zhexuan for the deaths and losses in Game World No. 21871, while Zhang Peng warned him that he had made enemies of everyone.

After Song Zhexuan was condemned for ruining hundreds of students through his actions in Reincarnation, military investigators arrived at the school. Ling Yi was selected for questioning, and after criticizing the king’s new decree, he was asked who he thought Reincarnation was.

• Old Luo announced that Song Zhexuan had triggered a law change and faced execution for harming fellow players in Reincarnation.
• Song Zhexuan tried to bargain by offering information about Reincarnation, but Old Luo told him to explain himself to the military.
• A female director used an A-rank Combat Power Testing Scouter to select Song Zhexuan, Ran Ran, and Ling Yi for separate questioning.
• The female director questioned Ling Yi, who concluded that her scouter had not exposed his hidden level and attributes.
• Ling Yi criticized the new decree against players attacking one another, and the female director asked him who he thought Reincarnation was.

After the military questioned Ling Yi about the game incident, he returned home and discussed the newly discovered story-progress rules with his family. He kept his identity as Reincarnation secret, then set out alone toward a game world, considering which local world to enter.

• The female director became suspicious of Ling Yi's calm behavior and ordered Guo Hai to secretly monitor him.
• Ling Yi and Ran Ran returned to class, where Ling Yi learned the military had questioned Ran Ran about him; Song Zhexuan never came back, and the school dismissed everyone.
• Ling Yi went home with Ling Li, hid what had happened from his family, and decided not to expose his abilities until he was stronger.
• A televised announcement reported that World No. 21871 had gained level restrictions after its story progress was completed, prompting Ling Yi to explain how players might find and trigger story progress.
• Ling Yi, Ling Zhan, and Cong Lanzhi planned to enter game worlds that night, while Ling Yi secretly parted from his parents and headed toward one of Minghai City's teleportation pillars.

Ling Yi activated Smallville’s story by asking Jonathan and Martha Kent why they had no child, triggering Kal-El’s spaceship to crash into their wheat field. He took the ship with the Kents while other players collected Kryptonite and learned they could not leave the world while carrying it.

• Ling Yi entered Smallville, searched for the spaceship’s landing site, and triggered story progress by asking Jonathan and Martha Kent why they had no child.
• A game announcement awarded Ling Yi ten levels and revealed that Smallville’s story progress had reached 2%, while Guo Hai suspected Ling Yi was Reincarnation.
• A fireball crashed into the Kents’ wheat field, scattering Kryptonite and revealing Kal-El’s small spaceship in the crater.
• Ling Yi lifted the spaceship onto Jonathan Kent’s truck, and the Kents covered it before driving back to their farm with him.
• Players rushed to collect the Kryptonite, but the game warned that carrying the story item prevented them from leaving and could corrupt their souls; most players discarded it.

After the world skipped ahead to Clark Kent's teenage years, Ling Yi revealed Clark's Kryptonian origins and lured him to the Arctic to fight. Ling Yi used his death-triggered Collision Scam Physique to steal Clark's powers, then offered him a Superpower Crystal and warned him about Kryptonite.

• A plot skip aged Clark into a seventeen-year-old, and Ling Yi told him about Krypton, Jor-El, and his arrival on Earth.
• Ling Yi flew Clark to the Arctic, where Clark killed him with a single punch and Ling Yi plundered Clark's attributes and Basic Man of Steel skill.
• Ling Yi revived on the spot, and Clark realized Ling Yi could steal his power and refused to keep fighting him.
• Ling Yi offered Clark the Superpower Crystal, which could grant Telekinesis, and warned him that Kryptonite was a danger to Kryptonians.
• Clark revealed that he already knew about Kryptonite from seeing it in Lex's laboratory.

Ling Yi helped Clark unlock his Kryptonian powers, then triggered the final storyline and joined Clark’s faction against General Zod. After plundering General Zod’s strength and S-rank Kryptonian Nano Armor, Ling Yi restrained the remaining Kryptonians and prepared to finish Zod.

• Ling Yi repeatedly let Clark kill him to plunder Clark’s attributes and Eye of Heat Vision, then helped Clark recover in the sunlight and learn to fly.
• Ling Yi and Clark found Jor-El’s spaceship base, triggering the final storyline and a faction choice among General Zod, Clark, and humanity.
• Ling Yi urged the players to choose Clark’s faction, and the story advanced to Clark’s confrontation with General Zod in Smallville.
• Ling Yi charged General Zod and let him kill him, then plundered Zod’s attributes and S-rank Kryptonian Nano Armor.
• Ling Yi used Telekinesis to restrain the other Kryptonians and raised his fist to strike General Zod.

Ling Yi defeated General Zod and the Ugly Nation's military, triggering victory rewards and a server-wide announcement that he had completed the main storyline. After leaving the game, he sent a level 1 clone home while his original body entered the world of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer to clear Ling Yi's name.

• Ling Yi killed General Zod and his subordinates, then destroyed the Ugly Nation's attacking forces until Clark forced the military to retreat.
• The players in Clark Kent's faction received victory rewards, and Reincarnation received an SSS-rank storyline treasure chest, S-rank equipment, a Death Count Reset Card, and the title Plot Ultimate Nullifier.
• Ling Yi created a level 1 clone and sent his invisible original body toward another teleportation pillar, while Guo Hai identified the clone as Reincarnation.
• A Song Family overseer tried to seize players' treasure chests, and Guo Hai killed two overseers and reported the family factions' abuses to his director.
• Ling Yi's clone returned home as players worldwide reacted to a second server-wide announcement about Reincarnation.
• Ling Yi entered the level 20 Fuwei Escort Agency game world as his Reincarnation character, intending to clear Ling Yi's name.