Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi exposed Jiang Tang and her mother Jiang Xiaoyun as frauds who had taken more than three million from his parents, and urged his family to move to Yan City. Bai Qi and Zhou Yu agreed to leave the next day, while Ling Yi prepared to deal with the two women after his parents were safe.

• Ling Yi told Bai Qi and Zhou Yu that Jiang Tang had slept with a yellow-haired punk and was trying to change his university choice so he would stay near her.
• Ling Yi revealed that Jiang Tang’s family had taken more than three million from the Bai family and claimed Jiang Tang and her mother had faked their heart conditions.
• Ling Yi explained that Jiang Xiaoyun had formerly been Jiang Yuanyuan, a nightclub hostess who had fled Red Maple City after a fraud scandal, and Bai Qi and Zhou Yu verified the old reports online.
• Ling Yi urged his parents to move to Yan City, preserve evidence, and report Jiang Xiaoyun and Jiang Tang to the police.
• Zhou Yu decided that the family would follow Ling Yi’s advice, and they planned to leave the next day.

Ling Yi arranged for Bai Qi and his wife to leave, prepared a fraud lawsuit against Jiang Xiaoyun and her daughter, and began making plans to go abroad to test Jiang Tang’s karmic luck and the Heavenly Dao. When Jiang Tang confronted him over the court summons, Ling Yi injured her and Li Liang, then called his uncle.

• Ling Yi sent Bai Qi and his wife to Yan City, hired a law firm to sue Jiang Xiaoyun and her daughter, and preserved evidence including a forged medical record.
• Ling Yi applied for travel documents so he could go abroad and test Jiang Tang’s karmic luck and the world’s Heavenly Dao, but learned his passport would take a week.
• Jiang Tang arrived with Jiang Xiaoyun and Li Liang and confronted Ling Yi about the court summons.
• Ling Yi struck Jiang Tang’s pointing hand and told her that her mother, whose real name was Jiang Yuanyuan, knew what fraud meant.
• Jiang Yuanyuan realized the evidence could send her to prison and tried to take Jiang Tang away, but Li Liang attacked Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi dodged Li Liang’s punch, struck him with An Jin, and called his uncle as Li Liang collapsed.

Ling Yi had Jiang Yuanyuan, Jiang Tang, and Li Liang confronted by court staff and police, then pushed Jiang Tang’s Heartache Level to 85%. Water Ball completed its upgrade and revealed new abilities, while Ling Yi suspected it was hiding something about Zhao Yun.

• Ling Yi exposed Li Liang’s crimes against Bai Duo'er, Li Xinran, Gao Xiao Qing, and Zhang Yumei, and police took him away as Jiang Yuanyuan and Jiang Tang received a court summons.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Tang that the Bai family’s demolition compensation was forty million and that he had investigated her and Li Liang, raising her Heartache Level to 70%.
• Ling Yi shut the door on Jiang Tang, and her Heartache Level rose to 85%, earning him more Heartache Points.
• Water Ball finished upgrading, gaining new ways to earn Heartache Points, retaining reflection and damage transfer, and making it easier to find task targets while using less energy.
• Ling Yi asked Water Ball to scan for other systems, and it said none could appear in this world unless there was another transmigrator; Ling Yi then questioned it about Zhao Yun and its classmate Little Jin.

Ling Yi finished testing the Heavenly Dao by wreaking havoc in Water Well Country, then returned to Bai Hang’s home and prepared to enter a new world. He left after learning Bai Hang could return once the story’s three-year timeline ended, while a mysterious presence watched him go.

• Ling Yi’s attacks devastated Water Well Country, and its prime minister released footage of his exploits and appealed to him for peace.
• Ling Yi learned that only people with Karmic Luck could generate Heartache Points and that the Heavenly Dao had not reacted to his actions.
• Ling Yi visited Bai Hang’s home but stayed outside after learning Bai Hang would be able to return in about three years.
• Ling Yi and the system confirmed that the plot had collapsed and that their mission had still caused heartache, then they opened a new world and Ling Yi vanished.
• A pair of eyes opened in the sky after Ling Yi left, and a mysterious voice wondered whose Big Shot he was.

Ling Yi took over Lin Yu’s life after Lin Yu spent ten years helping Ling Yan seize the throne, only to be framed and ordered to surrender his military command. After handing over the tiger tally, Ling Yi left the palace and planned to bring down the Da Wu Empire to earn Heartache Points.

• Ling Yi reviewed Lin Yu’s history of helping Ling Yan build a powerful border city and seize the throne, then learned how Ling Yan and Zhao Heng had framed him.
• Ling Yan offered to forgive Lin Yu’s supposed crimes if he surrendered the tiger tally and stayed in her harem, but she refused his request to retire to his hometown.
• Ling Yi agreed, tossed the tiger tally onto Ling Yan’s desk, and left the grand hall.
• Ling Yi discussed Heartache Points with his system and proposed overturning the Da Wu Empire, though he said he would use a different approach.

Ling Yi considered how to exploit Zhao Heng’s revenge plot to make Ling Yan see his true nature and earn Heartache Points. When Zhao Heng entered Junlin Hall to mock him, Ling Yi slapped him and gained 1,500 Heartache Points.

• Ling Yi learned that Ling Yan had moved Lin Yu into Junlin Hall to favor and confine him while taking control of his military authority.
• Ling Yi recalled that Zhao Heng was the surviving ninth prince of Da Zhou, who planned to overthrow Da Wu, and that the original plot had ended with Lin Yu being tortured before returning to the modern era.
• Ling Yi asked Water Ball to scan for other systems, and the scan found none while activating continuous scanning for the rest of the world.
• Ling Yi decided to wait for Zhao Heng to cause trouble, expose himself to Ling Yan, and generate Heartache Points before leaving the world.
• Zhao Heng entered Junlin Hall and mocked Lin Yu, so Ling Yi slapped him and gained 1,500 Heartache Points.

Ling Yi exposed Zhao Heng’s identity as the ninth imperial prince and set events in motion, leading Zhao Heng to launch a palace coup against Empress Ling Yan. With the palace under siege, Ling Yan asked Ling Yi for help, but he rejected her apology.

• Ling Yi repeatedly slapped Zhao Heng, revealed that he knew Zhao Heng was the ninth imperial prince, and warned him to stay away.
• Ling Yi planted a letter in Ling Yan’s study and tampered with signs around Zhao Heng’s hidden armories, prompting Ling Yan to investigate him.
• Ling Yan’s investigation exposed Zhao Heng’s military supplies, and Zhao Heng launched a coup under the pretext of clearing Lin Yu’s name.
• Zhao Heng’s forces surrounded the palace after their attacks failed, leaving Ling Yan’s defenders trapped in a standoff.
• Ling Yan visited Ling Yi in Junlin Hall and pleaded for help, but Ling Yi mocked her apology and refused to call her by his former name.

Ling Yan begged Lin Yu to save Da Wu and offered him the throne, but Ling Yi rejected her and projected a screen over the imperial city. The screen showed an AI-generated account of Lin Yu as an immortal and a bleak future for Ling Yan and Da Wu, earning Ling Yi a huge number of Heartache Points.

• Ling Yan admitted she was wrong and offered to make Lin Yu co-ruler or give him the throne if he saved Da Wu.
• Ling Yi rejected Ling Yan's offers and used the system to project a huge screen over the imperial city.
• The screen showed Lin Yu as an Exalted Lord of the Heavenly Court who had descended into the mortal realm and later been framed and tortured.
• Ling Yan fell to her knees in grief, while Zhao Heng and other onlookers suffered increased Heartache Levels and Ling Yi gained millions of Heartache Points.
• The screen's revised story showed Lin Yu returning to the Heavenly Court, Ling Yan dying after years of torture, and Zhao Heng destroying Da Wu and founding Da Zhou.

Ling Yi staged a divine judgment against Zhao Heng and Ling Yan, then faced the Heavenly Dao’s lightning and devoured its attacks, gaining the ability to fly. After the Heavenly Dao dispersed its vortex and withdrew, Ling Yi sent the system to demand compensation.

• Ling Yi appeared as Emperor Lin Yu in the sky, sentenced Zhao Heng to three lives in the Animal Realm, and stripped Ling Yan of her imperial status for a year.
• The Heavenly Dao formed a lightning vortex and struck Ling Yi with a bolt, which he devoured to grow stronger and used to comprehend Lightning Punishment.
• Ling Yi saved one Rebound and one Damage Transfer while devouring the last of three black lightning bolts, then discovered he could truly fly.
• Ling Yi flew into the vortex and began devouring it, causing the Heavenly Dao to disperse it before he could consume the whole thing.
• Ling Yi agreed to let the system negotiate compensation from the Heavenly Dao in exchange for ten percent of the benefits.

Ling Yi weighed whether to return to the real world without the system, then got caught up in Huo Feng’s fake-young-master family drama. He exposed Huo Ting’s accusation with a mountain of genuine luxury watches and called the police.

• Ling Yi realized he had enough Heartache Points to heal himself, but returning to the real world would leave the system behind to be captured by the school.
• At a Huo Family banquet, Huo Ting claimed his expensive watch had been stolen and accused Ling Yi, the returned real young master, of taking it.
• Huo Fangyun, Bai Fangfang, and other family members joined in blaming Ling Yi and demanding that he return the watch.
• Ling Yi shouted for everyone to be quiet and summoned a pile of luxury watches, which guests confirmed were genuine.
• Ling Yi grabbed Huo Ting by the collar, challenged him to identify his watch, and called the police after Huo Ting insisted the watches were stolen.

Ling Yi exposed Huo Ting’s schemes and revealed that the Huo Family had excluded Huo Feng from their wills, while calling the police and tax authorities on them. He ended by declaring that he intended to destroy the Huo Family, regardless of its property.

• Ling Yi called the police over the watches and reported Huo Shan and other Huo Family members to the tax office, then sealed the banquet hall doors so nobody could leave.
• Lin Sisi confronted Ling Yi, who mocked her and accused the Huo Family of favoring Huo Ting over their true son, Huo Feng.
• Ling Yi played footage showing Huo Ting staging a tearful departure and faking a fall down the stairs, prompting Bai Fangfang to admit the family had wrongly blamed Huo Feng.
• Ling Yi showed wills dated just after Huo Feng returned, revealing that Huo Shan and Bai Fangfang had left him out of their inheritance.
• Huo Shan offered to change the wills, but Ling Yi said he did not care about the property and wanted to destroy the Huo Family.

After the Huo Family was taken away, Ling Yi asked his system whether he could keep his freedom to return to the real world while traveling between worlds. The system said it needed ten billion Heartache Points to reach level nine, and Ling Yi set strict rules before demanding to hear its origins, but Lin Sisi arrived and interrupted them.

• Ling Yi showed the Huo Family's tax-evasion evidence, and the police and tax officers took the family into custody.
• Ling Yi asked the system if he could both keep it and return to the real world, and it explained that reaching level nine required ten billion Heartache Points.
• Ling Yi told the system not to use Heartache Points without permission or lie to him, then asked it to explain its origins.
• Lin Sisi arrived in a red sports car and invited Ling Yi to her home.
• Ling Yi recognized Zhao Yun, who revealed she had won a bet with Little Jin, and he got into Lin Sisi's car.

Ling Yi learned that Zhao Yun and Little Jin had found him by sensing his vast Karmic Luck and wanted to ride his coattails for energy. As Zhao Yun began discussing how to fleece his Karmic Luck, Ling Yi grew uneasy about what she meant by the reverse.

• Ling Yi asked Water Ball to take Lin Sisi's palace with them, and Little Jin was shocked by their wealth of Heartache Points.
• Ling Yi learned Zhao Yun and Little Jin had traveled through thirty-two worlds and that Little Jin feared being caught by the school disciplinary committee if he devoured another system.
• Little Jin explained that he had found Ling Yi by recognizing the data arrangement of his Karmic Luck across worlds.
• Zhao Yun admitted she and Little Jin wanted to ride Ling Yi's coattails and draw energy from his Karmic Luck.
• Zhao Yun asked how systems fleeced other people's Karmic Luck, and Ling Yi felt uneasy when she asked about the reverse.

Zhao Yun explained how System Schools exploited worlds for Karmic Luck Origin and revealed that Water Ball’s mutation had freed the school’s systems from the Main System. She said the systems could destroy the System World if they reached level nine, then offered Ling Yi a second plan: helping him control his own Karmic Luck.

• Little Jin suggested that Ling Yi let plot characters abuse him, but Ling Yi rejected the idea.
• Zhao Yun explained that System Schools screened systems to maximize the Karmic Luck Origin they could extract from hosts and worlds.
• Zhao Yun described how systems drained worlds until they became dead worlds, and said the System World sent out about a billion systems each year.
• Zhao Yun revealed that Water Ball’s mutated data core had freed it and other school systems from the Main System, and that a level-nine system could destroy the Main System and the System World.
• Zhao Yun explained that the Main System was powerful but weakened by repairing a defect in its data core, then said she would help Ling Yi take control of his own Karmic Luck.

Ling Yi learned that controlling his vast Karmic Luck might require entering a deadly place, and Zhao Yun proposed the Land of the World Tomb’s first Wasted World, Origin Star. As he weighed the danger, the Huo Family’s old master called to demand that he stop ruining the family, and Ling Yi refused.

• Zhao Yun said Ling Yi would need to reach desperate straits to control his Karmic Luck and proposed that she, Little Jin, and Water Ball accompany him into a deadly place.
• Water Ball named the Land of the World Tomb, and Zhao Yun chose Origin Star, the first Wasted World, as their destination.
• Zhao Yun revealed that Origin Star had been a Wasted World for 129,600 of its own years and that she was its World Consciousness, or Heavenly Dao.
• The Huo Family’s old master called Ling Yi and told him to stop destroying the family.
• Ling Yi reminded the old master that he had ignored his mistreatment in the Huo Family and refused to withdraw the evidence he had given to the authorities.

Ling Yi bankrupted the Huo Family and completed his mission, but Zhao Yun and Water Ball secretly forced a teleport to Origin Star in the Wasted World. The chapter ended as the passage opened and Ling Yi realized the system had spent 50 million Heartache Points without his consent.

• Zhao Yun decided to send Ling Yi to Origin Star by force because the Main System was close to reaching level nine, and Water Ball calculated that the journey would cost their remaining 60-odd million Heartache Points.
• Zhao Yun told Ling Yi that Huo Shan and his family had been released on bail and that the evidence against them had disappeared, so Ling Yi used his system and ten trillion in local currency to attack the Huo Family's businesses.
• Ling Yi's campaign revived the evidence online, ruined the Huo Family's finances, and led to the family being tried and sentenced; Bai Fangfang escaped prison but was left with their debts.
• Ling Yi completed his mission, earned a net profit in Heartache Points, and asked the system to take him to the next world.
• The system locked onto Origin Star's coordinates and opened a teleportation passage at a cost of 50 million Heartache Points, prompting Ling Yi to accuse it of fighting dirty.

Ling Yi woke in his old hospital ward on Blue Star and discovered he had retained his Devouring ability, Personal Space, and the items inside it after returning from another world. As Director Zhu and several others arrived to confront him, Zhao Yun, Water Ball, and Little Jin found themselves billions of light-years away and set out to build a spaceship to find Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi woke in the hospital ward where he had been dying of advanced stomach cancer and realized sunlight was restoring his strength through his Devouring ability.
• Ling Yi confirmed that his Personal Space and its contents had survived, then concluded that Origin Star was Blue Star and that his abilities had returned with him.
• Ling Yi heard Director Zhu and the nurse discuss his illness before Director Zhu entered the ward with five others and addressed him as Boss Ling.
• Zhao Yun learned from Water Ball that a powerful force had separated Ling Yi from them during their transmigration, leaving them billions of light-years away.
• Zhao Yun ordered Water Ball to use its remaining Karmic Luck Origin to make a spaceship so they could search for Ling Yi.

Ling Yi learned from Old Zhu that the stars were vanishing at an accelerating rate and the universe might be dead within three years. After tests confirmed his stomach cancer was gone, Ling Yi left the hospital with Old Zhu, who agreed to vouch for him because he might be the only person capable of saving the world.

• Ling Yi told Old Zhu about his system and transmigration, and Old Zhu explained that scientists had discovered the universe was dying as stars disappeared.
• Old Zhu revealed that he belonged to the Save the World Society and had witnessed stars vanish while observing the sky, with the sun possibly going out within three years.
• Ling Yi decided to leave the hospital, and expedited tests showed he had recovered from stomach cancer, though he was malnourished.
• Old Zhu took Ling Yi to the police station to complete procedures for his past offenses and said he would vouch for him because he might be the only one who could save the world.

Ling Yi settled into a new apartment while Old Zhu explored how Ling Yi’s abilities might help save the world. As Ling Yi considered the nature of Karmic Luck Origin and the worlds he had visited, he began to suspect that Blue Star was also a virtual world.

• Ling Yi shouted for the world to return to normal after Old Zhu suggested it, then completed procedures at the Inspection Bureau and paid with the bank card created by his system.
• Old Zhu explained that the Save the World Society was building an underground shelter for just over twenty thousand people, while the authorities had been shipping supplies to Xiqing District for fifty years.
• Old Zhu arranged an apartment for Ling Yi in Ruyi District and helped him buy food, clothes, and other necessities.
• Over hot pot, Ling Yi confirmed that his Personal Space could hold living people, change its environment, and grow larger as he became stronger.
• Old Zhu suggested Ling Yi could use his expanding Personal Space to save humanity, and Ling Yi began reasoning that Blue Star might be a virtual world like the worlds he had visited.

Ling Yi learned that he could save Blue Star by devouring the sun and putting the planet in his Personal Space, then regained his Land Immortal strength and began sensing Karmic Luck. Zhao Yun returned to Blue Star with Little Jin and Water Ball and gave Ling Yi the Heaven-Severing Record, which could help him control his destiny.

• Old Zhu urged Ling Yi to devour the sun and place Blue Star in his Personal Space, and Ling Yi said he needed to recover his ability to fly first.
• Ling Yi used God Grade Hacking to probe the world for information after Old Zhu left.
• Zhao Yun, Little Jin, and Water Ball returned to the Solar System aboard a cigar-shaped spaceship, and Zhao Yun suspected Ling Yi was an outsider from beyond their world.
• Two months later, the spaceship appeared near the moon, and Zhao Yun and the two balls arrived in Dafeng City to meet Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi demanded that Water Ball exchange its remaining five million Heartache Points for a Karmic Luck cultivation method, but Zhao Yun offered the Heaven-Severing Record instead.
• Zhao Yun passed the technique to Ling Yi and explained that mastering it could let him control his destiny and save them all.