Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi killed the monk Divine General, gained his tenth Inner World Rule Fragment, and synthesized the Inner World Rule, causing him to vanish. Three days later, Su Luoxue still could not find him and discovered that Protagonists were rapidly appearing everywhere.

• Ling Yi killed the monk Divine General after learning the Heavenly Palace had discovered his trap, then read the monk’s memories and turned him to ash.
• Ling Yi obtained his tenth Inner World Rule Fragment and fused the synthesized rule, then vanished as the independent space collapsed.
• Su Luoxue returned to the supermarket entrance, found Ling Yi and the Reincarnation System’s wristwatch unresponsive, and told Ling Shuang and their contacts that Ling Yi was in seclusion.
• After three days without Ling Yi, Su Luoxue used her Karmic Luck technique to discover that Protagonists had spread through the crowds at an alarming rate.
• Su Luoxue sensed that a major event was approaching and resolved to act despite Ling Yi’s absence.

Su Luoxue seized Gao Zhan’s Emotion Value System and reset it into a Great Villain System, using it to torture Gao Zhan for Villain Points. The system detected other system carriers and offered to reconnect them, while reminding Su Luoxue of her promise to set it free if she achieved transcendence.

• Su Luoxue confronted Gao Zhan in an alley and threatened his system until its Light Ball emerged and agreed to follow her if she would eventually set it free.
• Su Luoxue bound the Emotion Value System and reset its functions into a Great Villain System modeled on the system Ling Yi used.
• Su Luoxue cast a Life and Death Talisman on Gao Zhan and tortured him for about ten minutes, earning fifty thousand Villain Points.
• The Great Villain System detected other system carriers and offered to reactivate their wristwatches for ten thousand Villain Points, promising to return control if their original owners came back.

Ling Yi discovered that he had been expelled from the meeting place to the ordinary Surface World, where he could not use his Villain Points or administrator powers. With his points rising quickly, he expected to buy a World Stone and return within three months, but his original body’s corpse and an overdue rent payment left him with immediate problems.

• Su Luoxue forcibly devoured Protagonists’ systems and farmed Villain Points, while the original Protagonists kept their share.
• Ling Yi learned that the world where Protagonists ran rampant was the meeting place between the Surface World and the Inner World, and that the Fantasy Worlds had created the Great Villain System to help them transcend.
• The Surface and Inner World rules expelled Ling Yi during their incomplete fusion, and he completed the fusion only after returning to his original world as the Inner World’s administrator.
• Ling Yi found that he could not use his Villain Points in the Surface World, but could still earn them from Su Luoxue and the others and planned to buy a World Stone.
• Ling Yi asked the Reincarnation System whether a World Stone could let him travel between worlds and bring people, and it confirmed both were possible.
• Ling Yi found his original body’s corpse in his apartment just as his landlady came to collect rent, leaving him to find a way to deal with both.

Ling Yi used Villain Points transferred by Su Luoxue and the others to buy the World Stone, opening a passage back to the Place of Convergence. After returning there, his original body reappeared in the real world and his sealed memories were restored, leaving him to consider how the next world should unfold.

• Ling Yi learned that Su Luoxue had established cross-world communication and that she and the others were farming Villain Points in the Place of Convergence.
• Su Luoxue, Ling Shuang, and the others transferred their Villain Points to Ling Yi, bringing his total above ten billion.
• Ling Yi bought the World Stone, which fused with Li Shijie's rules and enabled a stable passage between the Surface World and the Inner World.
• Ling Yi absorbed the World Stone's information and used it to return to Baihai City in the Place of Convergence.
• Ling Yi's original body appeared in the real world as his memories were unsealed, and he decided that in the next world he would have no system and would use halos instead.

Ling Yi reached the final stage of the Immortal-Gazing Sect’s recruitment ceremony, where prospective disciples would compete in a small-world trial. After shocking the other candidates with his rapid cultivation despite his low-grade Spiritual Root, he asked a knowledgeable fatty to explain the trial.

• The Immortal-Gazing Sect’s recruitment ceremony brought about ten thousand candidates who had passed the first two stages to compete for a hundred places.
• Ling Yi asked a fatty beside him about small worlds without Spiritual Qi and explained that he came from a remote village with a low-grade Wind Spiritual Root.
• The candidates learned that Ling Yi had reached Qi Refining, Fifth Level in one year through repeated sudden enlightenments, astonishing those around him.
• The fatty praised Ling Yi’s Karmic Luck and explained how novels, movies, shows, and games were created in worlds without Spiritual Qi.
• Ling Yi asked the fatty what to watch for in the small-world trial, and the fatty began explaining that trial worlds were assigned at random.

Ling Yi learned about the trial’s small worlds and received a trial ring before being teleported. He arrived in a Spiritless Small World and recognized the room as the one he had rented before transmigrating.

• Zhang Erfan explained that small worlds had different cultivation systems, resources, and time rates, and that Spiritless Small Worlds offered souls and the Power of the Seven Emotions.
• Ling Yi told Zhang Erfan about himself and asked how to collect souls and the Power of the Seven Emotions; Zhang Erfan advised him to gather soul power if he could.
• A white-haired elder ordered everyone to stand in the center of their formations and handed out trial rings, warning that losing a ring meant elimination and that death in a small world was real.
• The formations teleported more than ten thousand people, and Ling Yi arrived in a Spiritless Small World.
• Ling Yi recognized the room around him as the place he had rented before transmigrating and wondered whether he had transmigrated back.

After returning to his original world, Ling Yi learned the Ring of Trial’s functions and worried about how to replenish Spiritual Power in a world without Spiritual Qi. When he accepted a delivery, he saw that the handsome deliveryman was named Ye Fan and received a mysterious “Copy successful!” message.

• Ling Yi confirmed he had returned to his original world and resolved to grow stronger after learning that Small Thousand Worlds could be hunting grounds for cultivators.
• Ling Yi examined the Ring of Trial and learned it could store and refine many forms of energy, but using it required Spiritual Power that he could not easily replenish.
• Ling Yi turned on his phone, found missed calls from his girlfriend Guo Xiaowen, his company, and the delivery station, and called the deliveryman back.
• Ling Yi signed for his package from the handsome deliveryman, saw the name Ye Fan on the slip, and received a “Copy successful!” message.

Ling Yi discovered he could save and load across realms, then gained a system that rewarded him for being dumped. After Guo Xiaowen broke up with him and repaid him, he planned to use the system to grow stronger and set out to find a girlfriend he could later get dumped by.

• Ling Yi made a save in his Ancestral Star Realm room and considered using his longevity and save ability to make money and explore ways to cultivate.
• Guo Xiaowen called Ling Yi, apologized for lying, offered to repay him, and broke up with him.
• The Get Stronger When Dumped System activated and awarded Ling Yi a Minor Realm Card and 100,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, with the first-time reward doubled.
• Guo Xiaowen transferred Ling Yi a hundred thousand, and Ling Yi deleted her message after hanging up.
• Ling Yi decided to find a girlfriend so he could trigger more system rewards, changed into clothes that fit poorly, and marveled at his new body's physique as he thought of Ye Fan.

After getting dumped, Ling Yi used his system rewards to improve his concealment technique and sold two spent Spirit Stones to Yang Defu. He left the Ten Thousand Treasures House with Bai Ruyan following him, aware that she knew the stones’ true nature.

• Ling Yi got dumped by Sister Fei'er and received the Divine Concealment Art, spirit stones, and an advancement card from his system.
• Ling Yi upgraded the Divine Concealment Art to heaven pin and considered getting dumped by women of higher status to improve his rewards.
• Ling Yi called Yang Defu and arranged to sell him two more spent Spirit Stones.
• At the Ten Thousand Treasures House, Ling Yi recognized Bai Ruyan as a fellow Immortal-Gazing Sect trial taker, and Bai Ruyan called him her senior brother.
• Yang Defu bought Ling Yi’s two spent Spirit Stones for ten million each, and Bai Ruyan followed Ling Yi out of the shop.

Ling Yi used Spirit Stones to secure Bai Ruyan’s cooperation and keep her from revealing his secret. He left the exchange with Bai Ruyan agreeing to be his girlfriend for ten minutes in return for an extra Spirit Stone.

• Ling Yi considered killing Bai Ruyan but rejected it because her Ring of Trial could teleport her back and expose his Spirit Stones.
• Bai Ruyan promised to keep Ling Yi’s secret if they became allies, and offered to become his Dao companion if they both entered the Immortal-Gazing Sect; Ling Yi refused the latter.
• Bai Ruyan offered Ling Yi a Heaven Pin cultivation technique if he helped her enter the Immortal-Gazing Sect, and he gave her ten Low-Grade Spirit Stones each month.
• Bai Ruyan worried that they would have to explain their cultivation breakthroughs in a world without Spiritual Qi, but Ling Yi said they had time to work it out.
• Ling Yi asked Bai Ruyan to be his girlfriend for ten minutes and promised her an extra Spirit Stone; she readily agreed.

Ling Yi exploited a loophole in the system to gain rewards, then learned the Heaven Devouring Art and investigated how the system’s breakup requirement worked. By midnight, he had spent over 500,000 yuan on livestream gifts and attracted more than thirty streamers who hoped to comfort him.

• Bai Ruyan pretended to break up with Ling Yi, earning him two Minor Realm Cards and 20,000 Spirit Stones before the system repaired the loophole and awarded him the Heaven Devouring Art for discovering it.
• Ling Yi learned the Heaven Devouring Art and found that its Divine Rune array had altered how his Five Elements Spiritual Root handled different spiritual attributes.
• Bai Ruyan returned to Ling Yi’s villa to cultivate, while Ling Yi reasoned that the system required a genuine desire to break up but not a genuine desire to become his girlfriend.
• Ling Yi sent lavish gifts to livestreamers, left their streams, and told those who contacted him that he had been dumped and wanted comfort and true love.
• By nearly midnight, Ling Yi had spent more than 500,000 yuan and added over thirty streamers as friends on Bubble Chat.

Ling Yi used his system’s rewards and Spirit Stone profits to maintain more than fifteen hundred online relationships, while Bai Ruyan advanced to Qi Refining, Third Level. After Ling Yi received a Major Realm Card from Xiao Yang’s breakup and reached Foundation Establishment, Ninth Level, Bai Ruyan guessed he possessed a divine artifact and explained its rules and a legend about the Cauldron of the Void.

• Ling Yi’s depleted Spirit Stones rose in price, drawing mysterious buyers, while Bai Ruyan advanced to Qi Refining, Third Level and Ling Yi’s online girlfriends grew to more than fifteen hundred.
• Xiao Yang ended her online relationship with Ling Yi after learning she was not his only girlfriend, and her breakup reward gave him a Major Realm Card that advanced him to Foundation Establishment, Ninth Level.
• Bai Ruyan guessed that Ling Yi’s phone activity and his earlier request to date her for ten minutes meant he possessed a divine artifact that converted emotional power into Spirit Stones.
• Bai Ruyan explained that divine artifacts chose their masters and could not be forcibly taken, though their owners could still be controlled.
• Bai Ruyan told Ling Yi how the Immortal-Gazing Sect exploited the Cauldron of the Void’s master, after which the artifact vanished, the youth died, and the sect suffered centuries of misfortune.

Ling Yi questioned Bai Ruyan about the Immortal Cultivation Realm and learned what she knew about its continents, powerful cultivators, and ancient formations leading to small thousand worlds. After she left, he reviewed his breakup system’s rules, added Girlfriend No. 1805, and used the Heaven Devouring Art to restore his mental strength.

• Ling Yi asked Bai Ruyan about the Immortal Cultivation Realm, and she explained the Eastern Continent’s size, its rumored Spirit Transformation Realm powerhouse, and the dangers of crossing the Endless Sea.
• Bai Ruyan told Ling Yi that ancient formations could send people from the Eastern Continent into small thousand worlds, while only true immortals could otherwise tear through space to enter them.
• Bai Ruyan went to her bedroom, and Ling Yi stayed wary of her seductive manner and scheming nature.
• Ling Yi reviewed his system’s breakup requirements and continued adding contacts until he labeled a new one Girlfriend No. 1805.
• Ling Yi circulated the Heaven Devouring Art, absorbing surrounding energies and converting them into Spiritual Power and Soul Power.

Ling Yi tested his save-and-load ability by faking bankruptcy to make his online girlfriends dump him, then used the rewards to reach Nascent Soul Realm and trigger Ascension. He loaded his latest save to return to Foundation Establishment while keeping the system rewards, but a new notification challenged whether he could exploit the system infinitely.

• Ling Yi refreshed save slot 6, recorded a fake confession that his family company had gone bankrupt, and sent it to his online girlfriends.
• More than a thousand of Ling Yi's over 1,800 girlfriends dumped him, earning him system rewards including realm cards, spirit stones, and cultivation techniques.
• Ling Yi used realm cards to reach Nascent Soul Realm, which triggered a powerful force pulling him toward Ascension.
• Ling Yi loaded save 6, returning to 6:05 a.m. and Foundation Establishment while retaining the system rewards, though the realm cards he had used were gone.
• Ling Yi realized loading let him keep system rewards after reverting his cultivation, but the next system notification cast doubt on infinite reward farming.

Ling Yi gained the concept-level Divine Concealment Art and agreed to help Bai Ruyan deal with another trial participant searching for them. At the Ten Thousand Treasures House, they found the shop ransacked and suspected Fatty Yang had exposed them.

• The system repaired the Space-Time Anchor bug and advanced Ling Yi’s Divine Concealment Art to concept-level perfection.
• Ling Yi tested the art’s ability to make his body vanish and pass through solid objects, then saved his progress.
• Bai Ruyan asked Ling Yi to help find a powerful trial participant who might know about their Spirit Stones, and he agreed.
• Ling Yi and Bai Ruyan went to the Ten Thousand Treasures House and found it closed, damaged, and ransacked.
• Ling Yi and Bai Ruyan suspected Fatty Yang had betrayed them, and Ling Yi proposed going home to wait for their pursuers.

Ling Yi sensed a powerful, unnaturally cold presence near the villa and raised his cultivation to Nascent Soul Realm, Ninth Level while Bai Ruyan cultivated and concealed the special value of his Spirit Stones. Nearby, Liu Weiwei confirmed Ling Yi had Spirit Stones and prepared to confront him, while a square-faced man began a plan to secure them.

• Ling Yi detected a visitor with at least Qi Refining, Sixth Level cultivation and an abnormal icy presence outside the villa, then secretly advanced to Nascent Soul Realm, Ninth Level.
• Bai Ruyan approached a breakthrough to Qi Refining, Fourth Level and privately planned to use Ling Yi's unusually pure Spirit Stones to advance her own cultivation.
• Liu Weiwei reported to a square-faced man that Ling Yi had an ample supply of Spirit Stones and said she would approach him that night to trade.
• The square-faced man questioned how Ling Yi could be a trial participant despite his documented life in this world, then decided that no spent Spirit Stones could be allowed to leave their hands.
• The square-faced man called the old chief and said the plan could begin.

Liu Weiwei revealed that she belonged to the Shadow Pavilion and offered Ling Yi and Bai Ruyan the Blood Spirit Art in exchange for cooperation. After improving the technique, Ling Yi went out and unexpectedly encountered his ex-girlfriend Guo Xiaowen and Zhou Xiaojie, who confronted him about missing work.

• Liu Weiwei told Ling Yi and Bai Ruyan that she knew they had broken the trial rules by using Spirit Stones and proposed a deal with the Shadow Pavilion.
• Liu Weiwei presented the Blood Spirit Art, and Ling Yi used advancement cards to transform it into a Perfection concept-level technique.
• Ling Yi copied an improved version of the technique onto the jade slip, and Bai Ruyan and Liu Weiwei read it in astonishment.
• Ling Yi explained that the women should use the technique to conceal their cultivation and then left the villa.
• Ling Yi rode to his former workplace and saw Guo Xiaowen with Zhou Xiaojie, who stopped him and challenged him over his absences.

Ling Yi antagonized Zhou Xiaojie and gave Guo Xiaowen a million yuan to test whether breaking up with her again would earn him a system reward. After leaving her at a hotel, he was approached by Wei Yuan, who identified himself as a National Security Bureau agent.

• Zhou Xiaojie threatened Ling Yi, but Ling Yi mocked him and taunted him by offering Guo Xiaowen a million yuan to be his girlfriend again.
• Ling Yi transferred Guo Xiaowen one million yuan, and she rode away with him on his electric bike while Zhou Xiaojie fumed.
• Ling Yi took Guo Xiaowen to a hotel and left her there, planning to make her break up with him by claiming the money came from a loan shark.
• Wei Yuan stopped Ling Yi outside the hotel, introduced himself as being from the National Security Bureau, and showed him his credentials.

Ling Yi learned that the National Security Bureau had studied trial takers and the Great Wilderness Realm for centuries, and that its technology could counter low-level cultivators. Wei Yuan revealed that the Ancestral Star Realm had once had Martial Dao experts who ascended, and that the Bureau now pursued technological ascension after Spiritual Qi dried up.

• Wei Yuan explained that trial takers had appeared for over three thousand years and that the First Emperor of Qin had captured some before they vanished using immortal arts.
• Wei Yuan told Ling Yi that the Bureau had cooperated with Heavenly Yang Sect trial takers and identified five major sects whose disciples had entered the Ancestral Star Realm.
• Wei Yuan said that trial takers came only from the Great Wilderness Realm, which Ling Yi identified as one of three thousand Great Thousand Worlds, while the Ancestral Star Realm was a Small Thousand World.
• Wei Yuan explained that the Bureau planned to ascend beyond the Ancestral Star Realm, and Ling Yi learned that ancient Martial Dao experts had once broken through the void and ascended.
• Wei Yuan said Spiritual Qi had dried up a thousand years ago, severing the Martial Dao inheritance, so the Bureau had developed a new plan: technological ascension.

Ling Yi explained the risks of cultivation in the Ancestral Star Realm to Wei Yuan and agreed to leave its future development to time. Back at the villa, Ling Yi found Bai Ruyan and Liu Weiwei testing the Blood Spirit Art, then invited Hu Xue to become his online assistant and agreed to meet her in person.

• Ling Yi acknowledged that he was both a transmigrator and a native of the Ancestral Star Realm when Wei Yuan asked whether he had visited his orphanage director.
• Ling Yi told Wei Yuan that he could remain in the Ancestral Star Realm for up to a hundred thousand years and warned that cultivation arts could bring devastation if spread carelessly.
• Wei Yuan offered to help Ling Yi with his online girlfriends, and Ling Yi said he wanted them to break up with him of their own accord; Ling Yi also told Wei Yuan that he had copied something from a deliveryman named Ye Fan.
• Ling Yi returned to the villa and found Bai Ruyan and Liu Weiwei unpacking animal blood to test the Blood Spirit Art, and he told them not to make too much of a commotion.
• Ling Yi reviewed Hu Xue's detailed profiles of his online girlfriends and invited her to become his online assistant; Hu Xue said she was in Dafeng City, and Ling Yi agreed to meet her.