Chapter Summaries

Ling Shuang quit her job after a confrontation with a villainous manager, and she and Ling Yi left the company. Later, Ling Shuang tested her newly acquired Space Ability on Qin Fei, who was immobilized and pelted with falling debris before the siblings revealed themselves.

• Ling Shuang handed in her resignation and left the office with Ling Yi after the manager tried to stop her, and Ling Yi knocked the man across the room.
• Lin Xiaoxi overheard Ling Yi and Ling Shuang discussing female leads and villains, then ran after them to ask what they meant.
• Qin Fei was immobilized outside the company as a flowerpot and falling glass struck him, leaving him badly cut before the force holding him vanished.
• Ling Yi and Ling Shuang emerged from a nearby street corner, and Ling Shuang admitted she had used Qin Fei to test her Space Ability.

Ling Yi discovered that Ling Yu had gained a [Cannon Fodder] tag after an audition put her in competition for a maid role, so he went with her the next day to protect her. At the school, they picked up Ling Yu’s strikingly young teacher, who also had a [Cannon Fodder] tag, before heading to the audition.

• Ling Yi noticed Ling Yu’s new [Cannon Fodder] tag when she returned home upset about a director’s demanding audition and two new competitors for a maid role.
• Ling Yu learned from her teacher that the competitors were a celebrity’s daughter and a rich heiress, and Ling Yi promised to accompany her to the audition.
• Ling Yi and Ling Yu ate Buddha Jumps Over the Wall from the Villain Shop, and Ling Yi decided to rely on system food for his meals.
• The next morning, Ling Yi drove Ling Yu to school to pick up her teacher before the audition, and he saw that the teacher also had a [Cannon Fodder] tag.

After Ling Yu lost an audition to better-connected rivals, Ling Yi reassured her and offered her protection if she pursued acting. He hired Zhao Xin as Ling Yu’s agent, and Zhao Xin accepted as the car ride left them preparing to draw up a contract.

• Zhao Xin apologized to Ling Yu for losing the audition and warned her that the entertainment industry could be cruel.
• Ling Yi planned to give Ling Yu the Malicious Inner Voice and Malicious Misfortune abilities to expose and punish anyone who harbored malice toward her.
• Ling Yi described past examples of Ling Yu’s good fortune, encouraging her to treat herself as a little koi and reminding her she could quit acting if she became unhappy.
• Ling Yi offered Zhao Xin a job as Ling Yu’s agent, first proposing five million yuan a year plus a share of Ling Yu’s earnings.
• Zhao Xin accepted the job but asked for a salary of one million yuan a year and a market-rate share, and Ling Yi agreed to draw up a contract.

Ling Yu auditioned for a maid role against the transmigrated protagonists Cai Xiao Ying and Guo Bufan, while Ling Yi and Zhao Xin waited outside. Cai Xiao Ying and Guo Bufan left the audition injured and bleeding, and Ling Yu claimed she did not know what had happened.

• Ling Yi used Mind Stone Magic to read Zhao Xin's memories and decided he could help her return to the entertainment industry if she sincerely managed Ling Yu.
• Ling Yu, Zhao Xin, and Ling Yi arrived at the resort, where Ling Yi identified Cai Xiao Ying and Guo Bufan as transmigrators with systems.
• Cai Xiao Ying and Guo Bufan looked down on Ling Yu before the audition, while Ling Yu's Malicious Inner Voice activated and she resolved to prove herself.
• Zhao Xin learned that Dong Xin had become the short drama's lead, and Ling Yi bet that Ling Yu would pass the audition, offering to invest a hundred million if she failed.
• Cai Xiao Ying and Guo Bufan emerged from the audition with facial and leg injuries, and Ling Yu said she did not know what had happened.

Ling Yu told Ling Yi and Zhao Xin how Su Xiao Ying and Guo Bufan had injured themselves during an audition, and Ling Yi sent their locations to Ling Shuang for retaliation. As Zhao Xin drove them away and discussed Ling Yu’s career, Ling Yi sensed ten hostile attackers, created a clone to confront them, and called for them to emerge.

• Ling Yu described an audition in which Su Xiao Ying and Guo Bufan planned to slap her, but both fell and struck their faces on a coffee table.
• Ling Yi shared Su Xiao Ying and Guo Bufan’s coordinates with Ling Shuang and told her to deal with them without killing them.
• Ling Yi gave Zhao Xin the car keys and offered Ling Yu money to buy a Little Leopard, then Zhao Xin drove them from the farmhouse resort.
• Zhao Xin outlined plans to get Ling Yu onto a variety show while Ling Yi sensed ten hostile people targeting him.
• Ling Yi used Clone to leave a copy of himself on the road, then called toward the woods for the attackers to come out.

Ling Yi confronted a group of infiltrators who mistook the Pressure from his breakthrough for a treasure and threatened his family. After torturing their leader for information and learning they belonged to the God of War Organization, he killed him and noticed a [Protagonist] entry floating in a tree.

• Nine disguised infiltrators surrounded Ling Yi and accused him of taking a treasure that appeared at the Dafeng Hotel.
• The cat-masked leader threatened Ling Yi and claimed his people had taken Ling Yi's family hostage.
• Ling Yi snapped his fingers and turned the eight other infiltrators to dust.
• Ling Yi used a Qi Immortal Art to burn the leader's soul until he agreed to answer questions.
• The leader identified them as members of the God of War Organization, and Ling Yi killed him after learning what he knew.
• Ling Yi turned toward the woods and saw a [Protagonist] entry floating in a tree.

Ling Yi met Number 0, a genetically modified girl whose genes were about to collapse, and offered to save her under his control. She accepted the genetic virus and repair fluid, survived the treatment, and emerged with a Battle Power of 20,000 and a growing supernatural ability.

• Ling Yi called Number 0 out of hiding and learned that she had cleared the genetic virus from her body, leaving her only ten days to live.
• Number 0 revealed that her Future Precognition had shown her a chance of survival with Ling Yi, and she had volunteered for the mission to the Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi offered Number 0 a genetic virus to put her under his control and genetic repair fluid to save her, and she chose to drink the virus first.
• Number 0 drank the repair fluid, and the system rewarded Ling Yi with Villain Points and daily points for bringing her under his command.
• After half an hour of repair, Number 0's genes stabilized, her Battle Power rose to 20,000, and she demonstrated her growing strength.

Su Luoxue planned to leave North Leaf City after a week without finding another protagonist, while using a Fountain of Life to passively strengthen her Body Refining Art. Three powerful pursuers confronted her at Heavenly Treasure Mountain, and a message from Ling Yi identified them as genetically modified humans from the God of War Organization.

• Su Luoxue reviewed her cultivation and decided to save Villain Points to upgrade the Fountain of Life for faster passive training.
• Three strange, powerful presences began tracking Su Luoxue, so she took a taxi out of the city to avoid a fight near bystanders.
• Su Luoxue accepted her grandfather's request to return to Baihai City for a blind date and company business.
• At Heavenly Treasure Mountain, three masked young men demanded that Su Luoxue hand over a treasure.
• Ling Yi's message identified the pursuers as genetically modified humans from the God of War Organization, and Su Luoxue prepared to test her new move on them.

Su Luoxue found the newly revived Bai Xiaofei, whose Corpse King System had brought him to this world after his death in a zombie-ridden parallel world. Bai planned to earn gold coins by turning his attackers into zombies, and the chapter ended as beastlike roars sounded from the compound entrance.

• Su Luoxue killed three members of the God of War Organization, burned their bodies, and searched North Leaf City for more protagonists.
• Su Luoxue found Bai Xiaofei dying in an alley and discovered that he was a protagonist with the Corpse King System.
• A white light healed Bai Xiaofei, who realized he had transmigrated and celebrated his survival and the absence of zombies.
• Bai Xiaofei decided to make zombies, get revenge on the three boys who had killed the original owner, and earn gold coins to return to his world.
• Bai Xiaofei used the system on the three boys at a residential compound, and beastlike roars sounded from the entrance as Su Luoxue watched invisibly.

Bai Xiaofei captured three newly transformed zombies and planned to leave the country, while Su Luoxue warned Ling Yi about his dangerous system. Ling Yi suspected Bai Xiaofei came from the world of Corpse Brother and wondered whether their own world was the Inner World.

• Bai Xiaofei used his system to capture three blond zombies, then decided he needed to get abroad as soon as possible.
• Su Luoxue sent Ling Yi information about Bai Xiaofei through the chat window and called him.
• Ling Yi spoke with Su Luoxue while his parents, Ling Zhan and Cong Lanzhi, briefly appeared on the video call.
• After reading the information, Ling Yi used Instant Transmission to reach Su Luoxue and agreed that Bai Xiaofei's system was dangerous.
• Ling Yi recognized Bai Xiaofei's name from Corpse Brother and suspected their world was the Inner World rather than the Surface World.

Ling Yi took Bai Xiaofei’s system and discovered that it had unlocked dungeons leading to the protagonists’ original worlds, confirming that the Main World was an Inner World. Ye Tian and Xiao Chen entered a dungeon before discussing it with anyone, while Bai Xiaofei asked Ling Yi for Villain Points and learned he would be the one getting farmed.

• Ling Yi and Su Luoxue discussed whether the many protagonists meant the Main World was an Inner World or had intersected with the Surface World, then went to find Bai Xiaofei.
• Ling Yi pulled Bai Xiaofei’s system from him and devoured it, adding a dungeon module with sixteen protagonists’ worlds available to enter.
• Ling Yi concluded that the Main World was an Inner World, while Su Luoxue questioned why his listed world was Dragon Balls and why his former world was missing.
• Ye Tian spent 3,000 Villain Points to enter the Primordial Immortal Realm and retrieve his old resources, and Xiao Chen joined him without consulting the others.
• Bai Xiaofei asked Ling Yi for Villain Points, and Su Luoxue clarified that Ling Yi meant to farm Bai Xiaofei rather than help him farm someone else.

Ling Yi learned that Ye Tian and Xiao Chen had earned Villain Points by trading and recovering Spirit Stones in a dungeon world, prompting the system to prepare a currency-recycling function. He offered rewards for finding system-bearing protagonists, then hurried to help Ling Shuang confront one she could not handle.

• Xiao Chen and Ye Tian told Ling Yi they had profited from trading and retrieving Spirit Stones in the Primordial Immortal Cultivation Realm, earning 120,000 and 1,050,000 Villain Points respectively.
• Ling Yi learned the system could soon credit dungeon earnings in real time and recycle hard currency for Villain Points at a rate he chose.
• Ling Yi offered 50,000 Villain Points for finding a protagonist with a system and 100,000 for recycling the system, then announced the coming currency-recycling function.
• Ling Yi opened the Villain Points Shop and considered buying an unlimited Magic Blood Stone for 1,500,000 Villain Points.
• Ling Shuang called Ling Yi to report that she had found a protagonist with a system who was too strong for her, and Ling Yi said he would come immediately.

Ling Yi and Ling Shuang discussed Su Hai, a powerful assassin protagonist targeting Ling Shuang, and Ling Yi removed Qin Fei’s Subsystem while he was trapped in a dangerous instance. Qin Fei’s death earned Ling Yi Villain Points and a Rule Fragment, while Ling Yi remained unable to enter instance worlds himself.

• Ling Shuang told Ling Yi that Su Hai, an assassin with a Battle Power of five hundred, had been watching her because of her patented technologies.
• Ling Shuang described Qin Fei’s public confession and moral blackmail, and Ling Yi reclaimed his Subsystem and sent him back to the Zombie Brother instance without his powers.
• Ling Yi received a notification that Qin Fei had died, earning one million Villain Points and a prize draw.
• Ling Yi’s prize draw awarded him a Rule Fragment that could help him gain control of the Inner World when he collected ten.
• Ling Yi told Ling Shuang he could not enter instance worlds, so she decided to team up with Sister Luoxue instead.

Ling Yi took over as acting president while Ling Shuang entered a dungeon, then used a system ability to stop a hacker attack on her company. He traced the attack to Bai Xiaoqing and learned she planned to harm his family, leaving him ready to retaliate.

• Ling Yi dismissed Feng Xiao Tao’s doubts about him and chose not to interfere with company business.
• A staff member reported that hackers were attacking Shuangyu Investment’s core-data server, and Ling Shuang told Feng Xiao Tao to let Ling Yi handle it.
• Ling Yi spent 1,500 Villain Points to obtain God of Hackers, traced the attack to Bai Xiaoqing’s villa, and counter-hacked her computer.
• Ling Yi overheard Bai Xiaoqing planning to target Ling Shuang, Ling Yu, and their parents, then sent a Clone to deal with her.

Ling Yi's Clone discovered that Zhu Wei was the Heavenly Palace's Immortal Emperor's son, planted in the mortal world to steal its karmic luck. By morning, Bai Xiaoqing was dead, leaving Zhu Wei's plan in ruins and both him and Bai Zhanyun demanding to know who was responsible.

• Bai Xiaoqing berated and kicked a computer expert after his team failed to breach the target's firewall, then sent them away.
• Zhu Wei, the Bai Clan's live-in son-in-law, vowed to make the clan pay once his three-year deadline ended in a week.
• Ling Yi's Clone identified Zhu Wei's three golden fingers and learned that he was working for the Heavenly Palace to plunder the mortal world's karmic luck.
• Ling Yi's Clone left to handle matters, while Zhu Wei remained beyond his ability to reclaim the system.
• The next morning, Bai Xiaoqing was found dead in her bedroom, her face twisted in terror despite having no visible injuries.
• Bai Zhanyun and Zhu Wei both flew into a rage, and Zhu Wei lamented that her death had ruined his mission and forced him to start another three-year wait.

Bai Zhanyun vowed to use the Heavenly Palace to take revenge on Ling Yi, while Zhu Wei broke off his engagement and set out to pursue Ling Yu. After Ling Yi destroyed a dangerous family that had targeted his sister, he confronted Zhu Wei and discovered that recovering Zhu Wei’s system might make him disappear.

• Bai Zhanyun blamed Ling Yi for Bai Xiaoqing’s death and decided to seek the Heavenly Palace’s help in killing him.
• Zhu Wei accepted a new system mission to become Ling Yu’s live-in son-in-law, then broke off his engagement with Bai Zhanyun.
• Ling Yi and Ling Shuang brought down the family of a rich heir who had threatened Ling Yu, prompting authorities to investigate Ling Yi.
• Zhu Wei appeared with flowers and tried to influence Ling Yi while asking to pursue Ling Yu, but Malicious Misfortune made him vomit blood.
• Ling Yi learned that recovering Zhu Wei’s system would cause Zhu Wei to dissipate, so he told the system to wait until Zhu Wei was alone.
• Zhu Wei fled into nearby woods as Ling Yi left with Ling Yu.

Ling Yi learned that Zhu Wei had been killed and recycled, earning him ten million Villain Points and three lottery chances, while a new recycling function began charging him for recovered resources. After naming the Subsystem Reincarnation, he asked how to keep people from focusing only on instance worlds, and Reincarnation proposed recruiting qualified ordinary people to track down protagonists.

• Ling Yu questioned Ling Yi about her ability to hear harmful people's thoughts, then told him she would leave for North Leaf City the next day to join the livestreamed variety show Urban Battle Royale.
• Ling Yi learned that Ling Shuang and Su Luoxue had been grinding modern Parallel World instances, which he considered less profitable than cultivation worlds.
• Reincarnation announced that it had recycled Zhu Wei's system and that Ling Yi had killed Zhu Wei, awarding ten million Villain Points and three lottery chances.
• The Recycling Function activated and charged Villain Points for recycled goods, but Ling Yi was mollified when he received 8.58 million Villain Points from that day's instance earnings.
• Ling Yi named the Subsystem Reincarnation and asked how to encourage people to hunt protagonists instead of only grinding instances.
• Reincarnation suggested raising instance admission fees and issuing carriers to qualified ordinary people so that a few people in each city could find protagonists.

Ling Yi let the Reincarnation System expand its protagonist-hunting operation worldwide while saving Villain Points for a World Stone to escape the Inner World if needed. In Dafeng City, Bai Zhanyun completed a forbidden summoning to bring forth a Divine General and command him to kill Ling Yi, then died as the summoned monk vanished.

• Ling Yi left the Reincarnation System to manage its upgrade, which deployed carriers worldwide to locate protagonists and recover their golden-finger systems.
• Ling Yi saved his Villain Points to buy a World Stone, hoping to reach the Surface World if danger struck.
• Bai Zhanyun spent nearly ten days feeding his blood into an ancient forbidden formation, driven by a compulsion he could not resist.
• The completed formation summoned a fair-faced monk, and Bai Zhanyun ordered him to kill Ling Yi while forbidding him from harming anyone else or displaying his strength beforehand.
• Bai Zhanyun said they had all been chess pieces, crumbled to dust, and the monk disappeared from the basement.

Ling Yi reluctantly joined Su Luoxue for a date instead of farming protagonists, but their outing was interrupted by Wuchan, a powerful Divine General summoned to kill Ling Yi. The chapter ended with Ling Yi noticing that Wuchan would drop a Rule Fragment if defeated.

• Ling Yi agreed to leave home with Su Luoxue after Ling Zhan and Cong Lanzhi pressured him, while Ling Yu and Ling Shuang encouraged the pair.
• Ling Yu and Ling Shuang departed, leaving Ling Yi and Su Luoxue together to begin a date.
• Su Luoxue teased Ling Yi about their mutual attraction, and the two went shopping before getting stuck on their next date activity.
• Wuchan, an Eighth Tier Divine General summoned by Bai Zhanyun to kill Ling Yi, blocked their path.
• Ling Yi and Su Luoxue recognized Wuchan as their strongest protagonist encounter so far, and Ling Yi was excited to learn Wuchan would drop a Rule Fragment.

Ling Yi transported Wuchan and Su Luoxue to a harsh artificial space, then overwhelmed Wuchan in battle and revealed his plan to lure Heavenly Palace Divine Generals there for their Rule Fragments. Wuchan agreed to inscribe a Summoning Formation while secretly intending to summon ten of the Heavenly Palace’s strongest Divine Generals.

• Ling Yi changed the surroundings into a vast, high-gravity desert space and invited Su Luoxue to fight Wuchan, but she declined.
• Wuchan attacked Ling Yi with the Great Buddha Hand Seal, and Ling Yi shattered it and blasted a hole through Wuchan.
• Ling Yi read Wuchan’s memories and told him he could die or summon other Divine Generals in his place.
• Ling Yi shot through Wuchan again when he refused, and Wuchan’s wounds began healing.
• Wuchan agreed to inscribe the Summoning Formation but secretly planned to summon ten of the Heavenly Palace’s strongest Divine Generals.