Chapter Summaries

After leaving the Qin residence, Ling Yi and Su Luoxue encountered two powerful old men sparring near Red Maple Mountain. The old man in white gave Ling Yi a cultivation manual and invited him to visit Pine and Crane Daoist Temple, leaving the pair to wonder whether they had received protagonist treatment despite being villains.

• Su Luoxue gave Qin Wanwan a red pill after beating her, then left with Ling Yi for the Dafeng Hotel.
• Ling Yi and Su Luoxue sensed two powerful surges of Qi and flew to Red Maple Mountain, where they watched two old men spar.
• The old men demonstrated their strength, and Ling Yi joked with them about blowing up the moon.
• The old man in white gave Ling Yi a booklet called Body Refining Art and invited him to visit Pine and Crane Daoist Temple.
• The two old men leaped away, and Ling Yi and Su Luoxue laughed about their showy departure and their own villain status.

After Ling Yi raised his Battle Power to 20,000, the Dragon Ball inheritance unlocked a vast Sea of Consciousness and memories of its fighters, magic, immortal arts, and technology. He gained access to powerful new systems but realized that replenishing his Qi would be a serious problem because the world’s Spiritual Qi could not restore it.

• Ling Yi and Su Luoxue returned to the hotel after their late-night outing and went to separate rooms, each intent on prioritizing strength over romance.
• Ling Yi added fifteen points and reached 20,000 Battle Power, triggering a transformation of his body and a nearly boundless Sea of Consciousness.
• Ling Yi gained memories of Dragon Ball fighters’ skills and combat experience, along with Babidi’s magic and the Dragon Ball world’s immortal arts.
• Ling Yi learned that Bulma’s technological inheritance had also activated after his Battle Power crossed the threshold.
• Ling Yi recognized that his Qi was finite and that he could not replenish it by absorbing the Spiritual Qi found in this world.

Song Qingshan and Bai Zhanyun felt an overwhelming pressure sweep across North Leaf Province and realized it was likely connected to Ling Yi. After recognizing Ling Yi’s power, Ye Tian and Xiao Chen decided to go to Dafeng City, stay close to him, and claim their share of his Villain Points.

• At First Love Bar, Song Qingshan refused Bai Zhanyun’s suggestion to change his Body Refining Art or accept an unsuitable disciple.
• A terrifying pressure forced everyone in the bar to their knees, and Song Qingshan and Bai Zhanyun wondered whether a treasure or a person had caused it.
• The pressure also pinned Ye Tian and Xiao Chen down for ten minutes while they cultivated at Dragon Cauldron Villa.
• After the pressure vanished, Ye Tian and Xiao Chen identified its Aura as Ling Yi’s and speculated that he had secretly gained power from an anime-based system.
• Xiao Chen decided to go to Dafeng City to cling to Ling Yi’s side, and Ye Tian urged him to make sure they received their contracted share of Villain Points.
• Before leaving, Ye Tian and Xiao Chen began fighting in the villa courtyard to farm points.

Qin Wanwan discovered she had become a Martial Practitioner and used surveillance footage to investigate what had happened overnight. After she questioned Guo Fan about a mysterious event that made living beings across the region collapse, he began to suspect that Qin Wanwan was not the person he had been pursuing.

• Qin Wanwan woke on the sofa, realized her Stone-to-Gold Hand had advanced, and wondered how she had become a Martial Practitioner.
• Qin Wanwan found that the villa's surveillance had gone dark from nine to nine thirty, then saw footage of Guo Fan, the guards, the dogs, and the house staff collapsing at around 2:10 a.m.
• Guo Fan rushed into Qin Wanwan's room, and she rebuked him for kicking open the door and using his green-tea tricks.
• Guo Fan recalled that Qin Wanwan's Affection had dropped into the negatives and considered giving up on winning her over, despite the powerful rewards he could gain.
• Qin Wanwan learned that every living being in North Leaf Province and nearby cities had collapsed, while online videos of the event had disappeared after the authorities intervened.
• Qin Wanwan questioned Guo Fan about what he had done between nine and nine thirty, while Guo Fan suspected that her changed behavior meant she was not the original Qin Wanwan.

Guo Fan and Qin Wanwan uncovered that their simultaneous breakthroughs and sleep were likely connected, then revealed their secrets and discussed cooperating. Qin Wanwan asked Guo Fan to help her escape the Qin Family, but he rejected her identity-forging plan and proposed a better idea.

• Guo Fan suspected Su Luoxue had entered the Qin residence and caused their strange awakenings, while Qin Wanwan argued Su Luoxue was an Ancient Martial Practitioner rather than an immortal cultivator.
• Guo Fan realized Qin Wanwan was a transmigrator, and Qin Wanwan confirmed that their world was a novel and that he was its protagonist with a Scumbag System.
• Qin Wanwan explained that the Qin Family planned to use her to take over the Four Saints Society, which would lead to her ruin, and asked Guo Fan to help her survive.
• Qin Wanwan offered to help Guo Fan conquer his targets in exchange for his help severing her ties with the Qin Family and obtaining a new identity.
• Guo Fan dismissed Qin Wanwan's suggestion that he use his hacking skills to create her a new identity and said he had a better idea.

Su Luoxue discovered that the Body Refining Art rapidly increased her Battle Power, and Ling Yi bought and cultivated a complete copy after checking it through the system. The art began evolving the small world in his Sea of Consciousness, but Ling Yi found that its automatic cultivation slowed when it lacked excess energy.

• Su Luoxue told Ling Yi that the Body Refining Art had raised her Battle Power from 600 to 1,400 overnight and explained how it connected the three dantians to strengthen the body.
• Ling Yi checked Su Luoxue with his X-Ray Vision, prompting her to punch him through the hotel window before he explained that he had been examining her Spiritual Power circulation.
• Ling Yi searched the Villain Shop, bought the complete Body Refining Art, and began cultivating it as Qi formed his three dantians and caused his small world to show signs of becoming real.
• Ling Yi noticed that the booklet from the white-robed old man omitted the technique for creating a small world in the Sea of Consciousness.
• Ling Yi told Su Luoxue that the Body Refining Art consumed excess energy and slowed or stopped circulating when too little was available.

Ling Yi and Su Luoxue used the Body Refining Art to absorb Spirit Stones and greatly increase their Battle Power, then realized they needed more Villain Points to sustain their cultivation. They decided to ask Qin Wanwan, who might know where to find other protagonists.

• Ling Yi and Su Luoxue absorbed Spirit Stones with the Body Refining Art until a hotel attendant interrupted them, and they checked out after paying for the broken window.
• Ling Yi told Su Luoxue that she had spent 3,900 Villain Points on Spirit Stones, and she guessed he earned more than 100,000 Villain Points each day.
• Su Luoxue agreed to keep his secret after Ling Yi promised to cover her cultivation Spirit Stones.
• Ling Yi saw that his Battle Power had risen by 8,000 after consuming 40,000 Villain Points’ worth of Spirit Stones and realized that exchanging Villain Points directly for Battle Power was inefficient.
• Ling Yi and Su Luoxue concluded they needed more protagonists to fund their cultivation, guessed Qin Wanwan knew the plot of her original story, and drove to the Qin Residence to find her.

At the Qin residence, Ling Yi learned more about the complicated world and decided to bring Qin Wanwan and Guo Fan back to Baihai City. He threatened Guo Fan’s Goddess Conquest System into cooperating, and the system emerged in the form of a woman who called Ling Yi special.

• Guo Fan celebrated his new power, declared he wanted to join Ling Yi’s group, and explained that his system rewarded him for raising goddesses’ Affection.
• Su Luoxue persuaded Qin Wanwan to come with them to Baihai City by offering Villain Points and a chance to grow stronger.
• Ling Yi learned that Guo Fan could not share his system’s rewards, then threatened the Goddess Conquest System with sealing it and Guo Fan inside the Evil Containment Pot.
• As Guo Fan counted down, a blue light emerged from his forehead and transformed into a woman in silver-white armor.
• The system explained that it had no fixed gender or appearance, then told Ling Yi that he was special.

Ling Yi accepted the system beauty as an Auxiliary System, which created wristwatch carriers and a new mission-based agreement for finding protagonists and earning Villain Points. After Su Luoxue proposed dividing up their search areas, Ling Yi unlocked a Plot Map that could locate any story character, leaving the group ready to begin searching North Leaf Province.

• The system beauty offered to become Ling Yi's Subsystem for a daily allowance and a share of Villain Points, and Ling Yi accepted despite Su Luoxue's concern.
• The system beauty connected to the Great Villain System, created the Auxiliary System, and distributed wristwatch carriers to Su Luoxue, Qin Wanwan, Guo Fan, Xiao Chen, and Ye Tian.
• Ling Yi revised the agreement so finding a protagonist earned 10,000 Villain Points and finishing farming one earned 2,000, while only Ling Yi could exchange points for rule-based items.
• Su Luoxue proposed that they split North Leaf Province into city-sized search areas, and Ling Yi agreed to spend 1,000 Villain Points to create a Plot Map that could locate any plot character.

Ling Yi ignored the group’s search plans while Su Luoxue proposed that they marry, then left to pursue their search without him. At the Qin residence, Ling Yi clashed with Qin Hao and triggered a system alert that a protagonist had appeared.

• Xiao Chen and Ye Tian arrived, and the group spent the night assigning search areas across Dafeng City, Baihai City, and Red City City.
• Su Luoxue suggested that she and Ling Yi marry and have a child, but Ling Yi declined to join her search the next day.
• Ling Yi woke to system alerts reporting attacks on Ye Tian, Xiao Chen, Guo Fan, and Qin Wanwan, then learned Su Luoxue had left him a message to think about her proposal.
• Qin Hao arrived at the Qin residence, questioned Ling Yi about his connection to Qin Wanwan, and tried to stop him from leaving.
• Ling Yi shoved Qin Hao’s arm aside and walked out, after which the system announced that it had detected a protagonist.

Ling Yi discovered that Qin Hao was destined to die and be replaced by a transmigrated Child of Karmic Luck, but decided not to save him after finding him cruel and violent. As Ling Yi set out to visit his family, Bai Zhanyun from the Dafeng City Investigation Bureau called, and Ling Yi told him to come in person.

• Ling Yi read Qin Hao’s memories, judged him a ruthless scumbag, and abandoned his plan to save him before the transmigrated soul arrived.
• Ling Yi decided to visit his family in Baihai City and drove away from the dealership in a new car with gifts for them.
• Ling Yi messaged Qin Wanwan that Qin Hao was a protagonist and left her to handle the rest.
• Bai Zhanyun called Ling Yi, claiming to be from the Dafeng City Investigation Bureau and asking to clarify some matters.
• Ling Yi recognized Bai Zhanyun as the white-bearded man he had seen on Red Maple Mountain, doubted his claim, and told him to come meet in person.

Qin Wanwan discovered that newly transmigrated Qin Hao was a Child of Karmic Luck and used her magic skills to farm his Villain Points. After explaining her subsystem, she tested whether Qin Hao’s lifespan-based cultivation ability could help her grow stronger.

• Qin Wanwan rushed into the Qin Residence and found Qin Hao eating after his transmigrated soul had taken over the body.
• Qin Wanwan froze Qin Hao and repeatedly struck him with lightning until his daily Villain Points ran out, earning 12,000 points.
• Qin Wanwan healed Qin Hao, told him she had a Villain System subsystem, and showed him that its shop could provide pills and other rewards.
• Qin Hao explained that he could spend his lifespan to predict people’s fates or raise cultivation, and Qin Wanwan asked how much lifespan cultivation required.
• Qin Wanwan bought a Lifespan Extension Pill to test whether Qin Hao could use his ability to raise someone else’s cultivation.

Ling Yi met Bai Zhanyun and Song Qingshan at Red Maple Mountain, where Bai Zhanyun’s granddaughter Bai Xiaoqing insulted him and attacked him twice, only to injure herself both times. After Bai Zhanyun rushed her to the hospital, Song Qingshan asked Ling Yi whether he had mastered the Body Refining Art.

• Ling Yi saw that Bai Zhanyun had brought Song Qingshan and Bai Xiaoqing, whose character tag identified her as cannon fodder.
• Bai Xiaoqing insulted Ling Yi, then attacked him and tripped, smashing her face against a bluestone while Bai Zhanyun and Song Qingshan watched.
• Bai Xiaoqing blamed Ling Yi and attacked him again, but she tripped once more, struck Ling Yi’s car door, and passed out.
• Bai Zhanyun carried Bai Xiaoqing to his car and warned Ling Yi before driving her away.
• Song Qingshan explained that Bai Xiaoqing was Bai Zhanyun’s only living relative, then asked Ling Yi whether he had mastered the Body Refining Art.

Ling Yi learned that the world had a Surface World and an Inner World, and suspected that the Inner World’s coming upheaval would bring universal transmigration. The auxiliary system confirmed his guess and revealed that it came from the Inner World.

• Song Qingshan asked Ling Yi about the Body Refining Art, and Ling Yi said he had thrown the book away before driving off.
• Ling Yi shared Bai Xiaoqing’s location in the tool people’s chat, and Qin Wanwan offered to investigate her in Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi explained that he had planted an Evil Thought Seed in Bai Xiaoqing to amplify her evil thoughts and eventually control her.
• Ling Yi considered how the Inner World might connect to Ye Tian and Qin Hao and what upheaval could affect the Surface World.
• The auxiliary system confirmed that an era of universal transmigration would begin and revealed that it had come from the Inner World.

Su Luoxue discovered the regressed male lead Jiang Yu and interrupted his contract meeting with Jiang Yingxue to beat him and farm Villain Points. She earned 12,000 points, while Jiang Yingxue left believing Jiang Yu had been unfaithful.

• Su Luoxue spotted Jiang Yu and Jiang Yingxue in a café and learned that Jiang Yu was a regressed male lead and a target for Villain Points.
• Jiang Yu negotiated contract clauses with Jiang Yingxue before preparing to sign the stand-in agreement.
• Su Luoxue accused Jiang Yu of dating another woman, slapped him, and beat him while he insisted she had the wrong person.
• Jiang Yingxue put away the contract and left the café without calling the police.
• Su Luoxue stopped after the system awarded her 10,000 Villain Points and an additional 2,000 points.

Su Luoxue used the Life and Death Talisman on Jiang Yu to find a way to farm Villain Points without physically attacking him. It worked, earning her 2,000 points and inspiring her to seek out more protagonists.

• Su Luoxue and Jiang Yu argued over his plans to protect Jiang Yingxue and his refusal to keep helping Su Luoxue farm Villain Points.
• Jiang Yu explained that after his death in his previous life, Jiang Yingxue avenged him, realized she loved him, and later died grieving; he insisted he would protect her this time.
• After the system confirmed Villain Points came from attacking protagonists, Su Luoxue bought an improved Life and Death Talisman and used it on Jiang Yu.
• Jiang Yu called Jiang Yingxue, but she hung up after two rings, so he sent her a text instead.
• At 12:30 a.m., Su Luoxue received 2,000 Villain Points from the talisman's effect and decided to wait before telling anyone about her method.

Bai Zhanyun and Song Qingshan investigated the Pressure field at the Dafeng Hotel and found residual energy that suggested Ling Yi was a God Realm expert. They left the discovery with no clear plan for dealing with him, while deciding not to involve the Heavenly Palace.

• Song Qingshan explained that the Dafeng Hotel was the center of the Pressure field and that Ling Yi and Su Luoxue had stayed in the final two rooms to be searched.
• A quantum detector alarmed when a team member scanned the sofa, displaying an energy overflow reading.
• Bai Zhanyun and Song Qingshan tested the sofa with more detectors, and each confirmed the extraordinary residual energy.
• Bai Zhanyun realized Ling Yi might be a God Realm powerhouse and feared his earlier thoughts of confronting him.
• Song Qingshan rejected asking the Heavenly Palace for help, warning that its members might cause trouble if they learned about Ling Yi.

Ling Yi reunited with his family and reassured them about his work as Su Luoxue’s bodyguard, while discovering that his eldest sister Ling Shuang had a darker villainess entry than Su Luoxue. When Ling Shuang pressed him about his complicated relationship with Su Luoxue, Ling Yi decided to demonstrate the truth rather than explain it.

• Ling Yi spent three days settling back in with his family before Ling Shuang came home for dinner.
• Ling Yi told his family that he worked as Su Luoxue’s personal bodyguard, and he reassured his worried parents that the job was safe and paid well.
• Ling Shuang suspected Ling Yi was hiding the truth but kept quiet in front of their parents.
• After dinner, Ling Shuang questioned Ling Yi about his work and relationship with Su Luoxue.
• Ling Yi considered telling Ling Shuang about his system, then decided to show her what he could do instead.

Ling Yi told Ling Shuang how her brother died and explained his Villain System and alliance with Ye Fan. After discovering that Su Luoxue had remotely farmed Villain Points from protagonists, Ling Yi shared the method with his tools and gave Ling Shuang 100,000 points, while she concluded that the plot—not Ling Yi or Ye Tian—had caused her brother’s death.

• Ling Yi revealed that Ling Shuang’s brother had died after more than a thousand cycles of death and rebirth, then showed her the Villain System and their cooperation with Ye Fan.
• Ling Shuang listed several protagonists, prompting Ling Yi to discover that the Dragon Radar Map now tracked twelve, including six whom Su Luoxue had found.
• Ling Yi realized that Su Luoxue had used the Life and Death Talisman to hurt protagonists remotely and posted the method in the Subsystem chat.
• Ling Yi checked his 560,000 Villain Points and nearing-40,000 Battle Power, then transferred 100,000 points to Ling Shuang so she could protect herself.
• Ling Shuang told Ling Yi that her brother’s death was the plot’s fault, then left the room.

Ling Shuang and Ling Yi discovered that Qin Fei, a coworker at Hengyuan Real Estate, was a transmigrator with a Villain System that targeted villains like Ling Shuang. They planned to force a limit point-farming session so Ling Yi’s Auxiliary System could devour Qin Fei’s system origin.

• Ling Shuang gave Ling Yi the maroon minivan and explained that she had used Villain Points to gain a spatial ability.
• Ling Shuang and Ling Yi met Lin Xiaoxi, whose entry identified her as the female lead, and Ling Shuang explained that she had recently become the president’s assistant.
• Ling Shuang took Ling Yi to the planning department, where they spotted Qin Fei and received a notification identifying him as a Child of Karmic Luck with a Villain System.
• Ling Shuang and Ling Yi realized Qin Fei had been targeting Ling Shuang to gain Villain Points, while their own system could gain points from protagonists.
• Ling Yi learned that completing one limit point-farming session would let the Auxiliary System devour Qin Fei’s system origin, and Ling Shuang planned to make Qin Fei their steady source of Villain Points.