Chapter Summaries

Liu Yunfeng suspected that someone was pushing him toward ruin, while Ling Yi considered Wen Xue’s arrest the end of his revenge and waited for Heavenly Fortune Media’s collapse. The next morning, Liu Manyun guessed Ling Yi’s role in Wen Xue’s downfall and grew jealous when she asked about Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao, leaving Ling Yi with a record haul of Emotion Points.

• Liu Yunfeng became furious over Wen Xue’s arrest and suspected an unseen force was driving him toward ruin, then blamed his niece Liu Manyun.
• Ling Yi learned that Wen Xue had been taken into criminal detention and faced at least twenty-five years in prison, and he considered his revenge complete.
• Ling Yi watched Heavenly Fortune Media’s share price continue to fall and noted that his businesses and shows were thriving, then went to sleep satisfied.
• Liu Manyun guessed Ling Yi had exposed Wen Xue and revealed she knew about Li Shuang and Infinite Technology, then asked about his relationship with Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao.
• Ling Yi told Liu Manyun he would stand by her side, prompting a strong emotional response that earned him 500 Emotion Points.

Liu Yunfeng was arrested after Wen Xue exposed his financial crimes and his role in the bounty on Liu Manyun. Liu Manyun reflected on Heavenly Fortune Media’s collapse, then began investigating Ling Yi’s connection to Infinite Technology.

• Liu Yunfeng watched Heavenly Fortune Media’s stock plummet and realized Liu Manyun had outmaneuvered him.
• Regulators and police arrested Liu Yunfeng on suspicion of misappropriating funds and related crimes.
• Wen Xue reported Liu Yunfeng’s financial misconduct and his connection to the bounty on Liu Manyun, turning the case into a criminal investigation.
• Liu Manyun learned that Heavenly Fortune Media had collapsed and remembered her years at the company.
• After noticing Ling Yi had missed his usual afternoon visit, Liu Manyun asked Gao Xiaolan to investigate his role at Infinite Technology.

Liu Manyun learned that Ling Yi controlled Infinite Technology and was close to Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao, then began a one-sided cold war because she was jealous. Ling Yi realized her jealousy was earning him Emotion Points, while Zhou Xiaoxiao’s virtual-world idea inspired him to offer her a chance to earn a tenfold salary increase.

• Gao Xiaolan gave Liu Manyun a report revealing Ling Yi’s roles at Infinite Technology and Heavenly Fortune Video, along with his close working relationships with Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao.
• Liu Manyun brooded over Ling Yi’s hidden identity and his female employees, then decided to ignore him until he explained himself.
• On the first day of Liu Manyun’s cold war, Ling Yi brought her coffee and gained 350 Emotion Points from her sulking and grievance.
• Ling Yi spent the next two days working with Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao on the eighth floor, while Liu Manyun’s jealousy and longing generated increasingly large Emotion Point rewards.
• Zhou Xiaoxiao proposed an Infinite Beauty Filter virtual-world project, and Ling Yi offered to increase her salary tenfold if she planned and implemented it successfully.

Ling Yi demonstrated Fanbao AI’s ability to generate a dance video from photos, convincing Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao that the technology could support their Infinite Universe plans. He stayed away from Liu Manyun on the fifth day of their cold war and gained more Emotion Points from her feelings.

• Ling Yi dismissed Zhou Xiaoxiao’s doubts and showed Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao Fanbao AI generating a dance video from their photos.
• Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao watched their AI-generated dances and recognized the technology’s potential for Infinite Universe.
• Ling Yi left the test version with Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao and told them to develop a plan for Infinite Universe.
• Ling Yi decided not to visit Liu Manyun or message her while their cold war continued.
• Liu Manyun’s jealousy, grievance, disappointment, and longing earned Ling Yi 850 Emotion Points.

Ling Yi’s exchange with Liu Manyun over her jealousy of Li Shuang ended with Liu Manyun claiming he was not worthy of making her jealous, though she regretted the insult all night. Ling Yi gained more Emotion Points, and the chapter left him waking to a stream of notifications recording Liu Manyun’s regret.

• Ling Yi checked that he had earned 48,700 Emotion Points over five days and continued waiting for more.
• Liu Manyun asked Ling Yi whether Li Shuang was pretty, and Ling Yi asked if she was jealous.
• Liu Manyun denied that Ling Yi was worthy of making her jealous, then went upstairs and shut her bedroom door.
• Ling Yi decided to stay at the villa to keep earning points, checked his Fanbao Points, and activated Deep Sleep Mode and Automatic Enhancement Mode.
• Liu Manyun regretted her words, worried that Ling Yi would leave or hate her, and tossed and turned through the night.
• Ling Yi woke at six and saw multiple Fanbao notifications showing Emotion Points earned from Liu Manyun’s regret.

Ling Yi learned that Liu Manyun regretted her words from the previous night and apologized to him, while Fanbao explained that its mission module operated independently. After seeing Liu Manyun was dangerously exhausted, Ling Yi used a Fanbao Point to restore her health as he agreed to accompany her somewhere.

• Ling Yi learned that Liu Manyun's regret over saying he was not worthy of making her jealous had generated 50,000 Emotion Points and erased her tsundere emotions.
• Fanbao told Ling Yi that the mission module operated independently and that most of its core program was inaccessible to it.
• Liu Manyun came downstairs exhausted and sincerely apologized to Ling Yi for what she had said the previous day.
• Ling Yi played dumb to let Liu Manyun save face, and she asked him to accompany her somewhere instead of going to the office.
• Fanbao offered Ling Yi two ways to help Liu Manyun recover, and Ling Yi spent 1 Fanbao Point to restore her to her best condition.

Ling Yi accompanied Liu Manyun to the Drifting Cloud Taoist Temple, where he discovered that its formidable leader might be an Immortal cultivator. He spent 100 Fanbao Points to summon A Qing, then followed the nun and Liu Manyun to her wooden house.

• Ling Yi followed Liu Manyun through the deserted Drifting Cloud Taoist Temple and saw a middle-aged Taoist nun practicing a powerful fist art.
• Fanbao warned Ling Yi that the nun was dangerous and assessed her as likely to be a Qi Refining Realm Immortal cultivator.
• Ling Yi spent 100 Fanbao Points to summon A Qing from Sword of the Yue Maiden and found her waiting in the Summoning Space.
• The nun finished practicing, sent fallen leaves flying with a wave of Qi Jin, and looked directly at Ling Yi.
• The nun invited Liu Manyun to follow her to her wooden house, and Ling Yi went with them.

Ling Yi and Liu Manyun visited Liu Manyun’s master, a white-robed Taoist nun whose Spiritual Qi and uncanny perception unsettled him. The nun returned a jade pendant left by Liu Manyun’s father, and its Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin design matched an image Ling Yi had made with Fanbao, while the nun seemed to know his reaction.

• Ling Yi’s Fanbao detected an unknown energy in the bamboo grove and Spiritual Qi within Liu Manyun’s master as she brewed tea.
• The white-robed nun scanned Ling Yi and said he carried a presence that did not belong to this world, describing it as an unusual emptiness and saying he shared a thread of Karma with Liu Manyun.
• Liu Manyun asked about the wooden box her father had left her, and the nun explained that Liu Tianyun had entrusted her with something to give Liu Manyun when she turned twenty-five.
• The nun handed Liu Manyun a jade box containing a jade pendant carved with nine dragons pulling an ancient bronze coffin.
• Fanbao detected intense energy and spatial fluctuations in the pendant, whose design matched Ling Yi’s generated image, and Ling Yi realized the nun had anticipated his reaction.

Ling Yi learned that Blue Star was an abandoned cultivation world called Tianyuan Outer Star, with a Teleport Gate to the greater cultivation world due to open in fifteen days. Fanbao uncovered evidence of a nationwide formation and traces of cultivators as Ling Yi began investigating the hidden world.

• Master Piaoyun told Ling Yi and Liu Manyun that Tianyuan Outer Star had lost its Spiritual Qi ten thousand years ago and that a Teleport Gate opened every hundred years.
• Fanbao confirmed the next Teleport Gate would open in fifteen days, and Ling Yi returned to his villa to investigate cultivation records.
• Fanbao found jade slips containing techniques and secrets, and revealed that Master Piaoyun had reached the peak of the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining and could see through Ling Yi's disguise.
• Ling Yi read Fanbao's report, which traced century-long energy fluctuations on the Ethereal Peak and identified thirty-seven abnormal sites forming a suspected nationwide sealing or protective formation.
• Fanbao found online claims and records of cultivators, including reports of opened meridians, sword flight, and concealed genuine information.

Ling Yi learned that Blue Star held the remnants of an Immortal Cultivation civilization and that the Teleport Gate to Tianyuan Star would open in fifteen days. He spent his Emotion Points to strengthen himself and decided to take Liu Manyun with him, ending the chapter by offering to teach her cultivation techniques.

• Ling Yi read Fanbao’s report about Blue Star’s hidden cultivators, the nine-person Teleport Gate to Tianyuan Star, and the dangers awaiting him there.
• Ling Yi exchanged all 47,000 Emotion Points for 47 Fanbao Points, bringing his balance to 70, and considered buying abilities to prepare for the journey.
• Ling Yi noticed that Liu Manyun’s jade pendant was releasing Spiritual Qi and slowly transforming her body.
• Liu Manyun insisted that Ling Yi call her Manyun or A-Yun, and he decided to take her with him when he left Blue Star.
• Ling Yi told Liu Manyun he would teach her cultivation techniques starting the next day.

Ling Yi accelerated the Spiritual Qi flowing from Liu Manyun’s jade pendant so she could become able to cultivate before the Teleport Gate opened, then read Fanbao’s report on Blue Star’s lost cultivation civilization and sealed cave abodes. The report left him suspecting that Master Piaoyun was the Teleport Gate’s Guardian.

• Ling Yi used Fanbao to analyze Liu Manyun’s jade pendant and spent 20 Fanbao Points to increase its Spiritual Qi release tenfold, shortening her transformation into a quasi-immortal cultivator to 15 days.
• Liu Manyun felt warmth and Spiritual Qi flowing from the pendant as Ling Yi began reading Fanbao’s World Truth Report.
• Ling Yi learned that an unknown entity had deliberately extracted the Spiritual Qi from Tianyuan Outer Star about ten thousand years earlier, destroying its cultivation civilization.
• Fanbao identified the 37 paranormal forbidden zones as seal nodes protecting remnants of Spiritual Qi and cave abodes, with the Ethereal Cave Abode still minimally operational.
• Ling Yi read Fanbao’s conclusion that Master Piaoyun was likely the Guardian of the Teleport Gate.

Ling Yi learned that Tianyuan Star was a powerful cultivation world and told Liu Manyun about the Teleport Gate opening in fifteen days. Liu Manyun agreed to leave Blue Star with him to search for her possibly living parents, and Ling Yi began teaching her how to cultivate.

• Ling Yi learned that Master Piaoyun had sensed his otherworldly aura but did not consider him a threat.
• Fanbao's report revealed that Tianyuan Star had over a thousand times Blue Star's Spiritual Qi and was home to the Heavenly Yuan Sect and powerful cultivators.
• Ling Yi realized Liu Manyun's bloodline might connect her to the Immortal Cultivation Realm and saw a golden glimmer in her eyes as she absorbed Spiritual Qi.
• Ling Yi told Liu Manyun that a door to another world would open in fifteen days, and she agreed to go with him because her parents might be there.
• Ling Yi told Liu Manyun to improve her cultivation so she could pass through the door, then began guiding her Spiritual Qi circulation.

Ling Yi assessed his strength and planned how to prepare for the Teleport Gate opening in 15 days, while Liu Manyun began cultivating under Fanbao’s guidance. He decided to upgrade Fanbao first, then use its expanded functions to earn points and compete for one of the nine places through the gate.

• Ling Yi reviewed his attributes and concluded that his current special effects might not protect him against immortal cultivators’ techniques.
• Fanbao listed ways Ling Yi could quickly grow stronger, and he learned that upgrading the system for 200 Fanbao Points would let him earn points from more targets and detect Karmic Luck Points.
• Ling Yi planned to spend the first seven days earning enough points from Liu Manyun to upgrade Fanbao, then use the new functions to prepare for the arena tournament.
• Fanbao reported that Liu Manyun had begun the first stage of Spiritual Qi entering her body and could reach the Qi Refining Realm within 15 days.
• Ling Yi checked Tianyun Video’s backend and reflected that his colleagues were going about their routines, unaware that everything would change when the Teleport Gate opened.

Ling Yi learned that repeated negative emotions yielded fewer Emotion Points, so he focused on giving Liu Manyun positive experiences until he had enough Fanbao Points to upgrade the system. Fanbao 2.0 expanded its targets and rewards to people with Karmic Luck, and Ling Yi discovered Liu Manyun was Blue Star’s highest-ranked target.

• Fanbao explained that repeated emotional stimuli lost effectiveness, and Ling Yi decided to seek varied, mostly positive emotions from Liu Manyun.
• Ling Yi took Liu Manyun out for activities and a romantic dinner, then collected about 210,000 Emotion Points over seven days.
• Ling Yi spent 210 Fanbao Points to upgrade Fanbao to version 2.0.
• Fanbao 2.0 enabled Karmic Luck detection and allowed Ling Yi to earn Fanbao Points by killing, suppressing, or defeating people with Karmic Luck.
• Ling Yi scanned Liu Manyun and learned she was a purple-gold, growth-type daughter of destiny with the highest Karmic Luck concentration on Blue Star.
• Ling Yi requested the top ten Karmic Luck targets and read the list, which included Master Piaoyun, Li Shuang, and Bai Jiang.

Ling Yi learned how Karmic Luck generated Fanbao Points and decided to target the Bai Clan for suppression. Fanbao began compiling evidence against the clan and, at Ling Yi’s order, prepared to fabricate missing surveillance footage for one Fanbao Point.

• Ling Yi learned that defeating, suppressing, or killing people with Karmic Luck generated Fanbao Points, and Fanbao explained where Li Shuang’s, Bai Hongyuan’s, and independent cultivators’ luck came from.
• Ling Yi realized the upcoming arena tournament could earn him a Teleport Gate spot and Fanbao Points by defeating opponents.
• Ling Yi chose Bai Jiang, whose Karmic Luck Points were 28.4%, and asked whether putting the Bai Clan through the full procedure counted as suppression; Fanbao confirmed it did.
• Fanbao gathered online evidence of crimes committed by Bai Jiang and the Bai Clan, finding that more than 300 of the clan’s 337 members had serious accusations against them.
• Ling Yi ordered Fanbao to fabricate missing evidence, and Fanbao requested one Fanbao Point to create 23 surveillance videos; Ling Yi approved the expenditure.

Ling Yi sent fabricated surveillance evidence against Bai Jiang, Bai Hongyuan, and the Bai Clan, then considered new Fanbao shop upgrades while Liu Manyun cultivated toward becoming an immortal cultivator. The next day, he discovered Wen Xue had returned under a new identity and appearance as Wen Yun.

• Ling Yi ordered Fanbao to send 23 surveillance videos and their chains of evidence online and to the relevant authorities, then requested automatic nightly attribute strengthening.
• Ling Yi learned he had gained 117 Fanbao Points for suppressing Bai Jiang, Bai Hongyuan, and the Bai Clan, and reviewed the newly unlocked shop products without buying any.
• Fanbao reported that Liu Manyun had reached 72% progress toward completing her first Spiritual Power conversion and becoming a Qi Refining Realm immortal cultivator.
• Ling Yi learned that the Teleport Gate would take him to Tianyuan Star, 4.2 light-years from Blue Star, and vowed to take Fanbao Points from immortal cultivators at the arena tournament.
• Ling Yi found that Wen Xue had returned as Wen Yun after changing her identity and making subtle adjustments to her face, and asked Fanbao how she had achieved the transformation.

Ling Yi learned that Wen Xue had become involved with the cultivator Zhou Hao and used Fanbao to expose and arrest her. As Liu Manyun prepared supplies for their journey to the Immortal Cultivation Realm, Ling Yi set out to take Zhou Hao’s storage ring and summoned A Qing.

• Fanbao revealed that Zhou Hao was a Cangshan Sword School disciple attending the Immortal Ascension Assembly, and that his Thousand Illusions Mask needed regular rehydration.
• Ling Yi ordered Fanbao to expose Wen Xue’s fraud and get her arrested; Fanbao fabricated additional evidence, and the Inspection Bureau took her away.
• Ling Yi gained twenty-two Fanbao Points for suppressing Wen Xue, while Liu Manyun finished cultivating and began preparing supplies for their departure from Blue Star.
• Fanbao told Ling Yi that Zhou Hao owned a storage ring, so Ling Yi asked for his location and promised to get one for Liu Manyun.
• Ling Yi summoned A Qing, then checked his stats and learned that Fanbao version 2.0 had unlocked emotion conversion.

Ling Yi and A Qing infiltrated Zhou Hao’s villa, where Ling Yi turned Zhou Hao’s love for Wen Xue into hatred before A Qing knocked him out and took his ring. Ling Yi gained Fanbao Points for defeating Zhou Hao, and the pair left with their mission complete.

• Ling Yi and A Qing reached the roof of Zhou Hao’s villa under a rented invisibility effect while Fanbao explained its newly available functions.
• Fanbao told Ling Yi that Zhou Hao was pressuring the North Leaf Province Inspection Bureau to free Wen Xue, despite being too weak to withstand modern firearms.
• Ling Yi spent 3,200 Emotion Points to turn Zhou Hao’s love for Wen Xue into hatred, causing Zhou Hao to call her a gold digger and vow to kill her.
• A Qing entered the villa and struck Zhou Hao with Sword Qi, knocking him out before taking the black ring from his hand.
• Fanbao awarded Ling Yi 25 Fanbao Points for defeating Zhou Hao, and Ling Yi and A Qing prepared to leave.

Ling Yi decided to begin immortal cultivation so he could use his storage ring and prepare for life beyond Blue Star. As the Immortal Ascension Assembly approached, he sent A Qing to defeat cultivators and earn him Fanbao Points, hoping to buy more special effects.

• Ling Yi learned Liu Manyun planned to merge Heavenly Fortune Video into Infinite Technology and leave its management to Li Shuang before departing Blue Star.
• Fanbao explained that Ling Yi could either buy immortal cultivation and Spirit Body special effects or use biological energy to open his storage ring once; Ling Yi chose the special effects.
• Ling Yi activated both effects, gained affinity with all five elements, and bought the Sword Control Technique, Lightning Summoning Art, and Five Elements Shield.
• Fanbao awarded Ling Yi points after A Qing defeated Zhang Huai and Bai Yuliang, whom Ling Yi had sent out to knock out immortal cultivators each day.
• With four days remaining before the Immortal Ascension Assembly, Ling Yi hoped to earn enough points to buy Teleportation, then went to sleep.

Ling Yi and Liu Manyun prepared to leave Blue Star for Tianyuan Star, where the Immortal Ascension Assembly would begin. At the Drifting Cloud Taoist Temple, Master Piaoyun explained that Tianyuan Star retained an ancient way of life and began addressing the gathered cultivators.

• Ling Yi spent his Fanbao Points on the Teleportation Special Effect and reviewed the supplies and weapons he and Liu Manyun had collected.
• Ling Yi handed control of Heavenly Fortune Video to Li Shuang and Liu Manyun, and left Li Shuang and Zhou Xiaoxiao the Youth Special Effect and immortal cultivation techniques.
• Ling Yi and Liu Manyun arrived at the Drifting Cloud Taoist Temple, where Ling Yi drew attention with his special effects and revealed that he had reached the Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Pinnacle.
• Ling Yi gave Liu Manyun a storage ring filled with supplies in case the teleportation separated them.
• Taoist Nun Piaoyun explained that Tianyuan Star's clothing and lifestyle resembled ancient Blue Star and said the newcomers should prepare suitable clothes before she began giving further instructions.