Chapter Summaries

Master Piaoyun revealed that the Teleport Gate would open for the last time, draining Blue Star’s remaining Spiritual Power, and explained it was the world’s only chance to restore its Spiritual Qi. She personally selected nine people to leave, but Ling Yi was not among them.

• Ling Yi used Fanbao to learn that Master Piaoyun had appeared across Blue Star’s history, possessed power beyond her cultivation realm, and had influenced the rise and fall of dynasties.
• Piaoyun announced that the Teleport Gate’s next opening would exhaust Blue Star’s Spiritual Power, prompting the gathering to panic and call for the gate’s destruction.
• Piaoyun explained that Blue Star’s Spiritual Power would dissipate within ten years even if the gate stayed closed, and that she had used the gate to send gifted cultivators away in search of a way to restore it.
• Piaoyun announced that she would personally choose who could pass through the gate instead of letting arena results decide, and the gathering accepted her decision without protest.
• Piaoyun called Liu Manyun and eight others to fill the nine places, warned Liu Manyun not to call her Master after leaving Blue Star, and did not select Ling Yi.

Ling Yi activated Second Tier Combat Mode and challenged Piaoyun over access to the Teleport Gate, while A Qing repeatedly knocked out the chosen cultivators to farm Fanbao Points. Piaoyun revived them, then sealed the space and immobilized A Qing, leaving Ling Yi to consider buying a Domain effect to counter her power.

• Piaoyun refused to choose Ling Yi for the Teleport Gate, and Ling Yi activated Second Tier Combat Mode after Fanbao detected her unusual strength and vast Karmic Luck Origin.
• Piaoyun revealed her Lady White Snake appearance and offered to send Ling Yi away after he kept her company on Blue Star for a hundred years.
• Ling Yi ordered A Qing to attack Piaoyun and the eight chosen cultivators; Piaoyun healed herself and revived the unconscious cultivators with golden light.
• Ling Yi realized A Qing could knock out the revived cultivators repeatedly to earn Fanbao Points and told her to attack again.
• Piaoyun sealed the surrounding space, freezing A Qing, and Fanbao advised Ling Yi to exchange points for a Domain effect to break the restraint.

Ling Yi activated a domain that disrupted the Ethereal Peak’s teleport array, then defeated Piaoyun and left the newbie village with Liu Manyun and the other cultivators. After Ling Yi, Yin Wanqing, Uncle, and Ling Mengmeng appeared above the peak, Ling Yi chose to reset the world instead of cutting it.

• Ling Yi bought and activated the Domain Special Effect, which suppressed everyone else’s special effects within its range and caused the Ethereal Peak to shake.
• The Fanbao interface warned that the damaged teleport array would activate early and send the cultivators to an uncertain destination, and Ling Yi decided to go anyway.
• Ling Yi used his domain to knock Piaoyun unconscious and received 10,000 Fanbao Points for defeating her.
• Ling Yi grabbed Liu Manyun, and the teleport array carried him and more than 300 cultivators away from the newbie village before its light vanished.
• Ling Yi, Yin Wanqing, Uncle, and the newly awakened Ling Mengmeng appeared above the Ethereal Peak, and Ling Yi reset the world.

After seeing cultivators fly over Red Maple Town, Ling Yi resolved to find a way into cultivation, only for his long-awaited Fan Summon System to activate without explaining how it worked. He began considering how to become famous and gain fans, while his immense wealth and network already gave him control over Beiye Commandery.

• Ling Yi realized that the Sun and Moon Empire was a cultivation world after witnessing cultivators flying on swords, and he sent a Shadow Guard to investigate them.
• Ling Yi reflected on how he had used modern inventions, armed forces, and spies to amass great wealth and protect himself, but doubted his forces could challenge cultivators.
• The Fan Summon System activated, displayed Ling Yi's name and a fan count of zero, and gave no response when he asked how it worked.
• Ling Yi concluded that he needed fans to summon them and considered using newspapers to become famous, but noted that papermaking and printing did not exist in the world.
• Ling Yi recalled that his carrier pigeons and Shadow Guards had helped him avert crises and replace officials, leaving him more influential than the emperor in Beiye Commandery.

Ling Yi discovered that his Fan Summon System counted his subordinates as fans, but summoning failed until he chose a tier he could afford with his two fans. He successfully summoned a Human First Tier fan, though the new arrival had not yet appeared.

• Ling Yi gave Old Liu a booklet detailing papermaking, movable-type printing, and a newspaper plan to put into practice.
• The system gained its first fan, and Ling Yi tried to summon an Earth Ninth Tier fan but was told the conditions were not met.
• Shadow Two arrived, increasing Ling Yi’s fan count to two, but his attempts to summon higher- and lower-tier fans still failed.
• Ling Yi realized his limited number of fans was the restriction and successfully summoned a Human First Tier fan for one tael of silver.

Ling Yi learned how the Fan Summon System worked from Super Bored Person, an Earth player summoned as his fan. Super Bored Person ended the conversation by refusing to reveal whose fan he was, warning that the system would permanently ban him if he did.

• Super Bored Person appeared before Ling Yi and explained that he was an Earth player summoned as Ling Yi’s cheat.
• Super Bored Person described his Infinite Passive Cultivation Aura, which doubled his cultivation speed for every person cultivating within a thousand meters, and said his Human First Tier rank gave him a Low-Grade Spiritual Root.
• Super Bored Person explained that Ling Yi could share everything his fans gained and cancel their summons at will, while fans could not harm him and resurrected twelve hours after death.
• Super Bored Person told Ling Yi that fans transmigrated in their dreams from midnight to six each night, spending a day in this world, and remained idle here when they returned to Earth.
• Ling Yi asked whose fan Super Bored Person was, but Super Bored Person refused to say and urged him to guess.

Ling Yi and Super Bored Person discussed the newly discovered immortal cultivation world, and Ling Yi gave him a token to explore while secretly arranging to monitor him. Ling Yi then inspected his summoning system and found that he could summon a Human Second Tier fan.

• Ling Yi and Super Bored Person ate ancient dishes in Red Maple Town and discussed how unexpectedly delicious the food was.
• Ling Yi explained that he was investigating the immortal cultivators they had seen and believed they rarely appeared among ordinary people.
• Ling Yi gave Super Bored Person an elder's token from the Blue Star Trading Company and told him to explore while they waited for news.
• After Super Bored Person left, Ling Yi ordered a middle-aged subordinate to follow him and record his actions and what happened to him.
• Ling Yi checked the Fan Summon System, saw that his fan count had risen to 105, and failed to summon a Mortal First Tier fan.
• Ling Yi tried to summon a Human Second Tier fan, and the system confirmed that the conditions were met.

Ling Yi learned that the Heavenly Sword Sect would hold an Immortal Affinity Assembly in seven days and decided to travel to North Ye Cheng. He summoned 100 Human Second Tier fans, whose noisy arrival left him warning them to quiet down or risk permanent bans.

• Ling Yi finished writing Three Kingdoms and handed it to Shen Liu to prepare for publication in the newspaper.
• Ying Yi returned with news that the Heavenly Sword Sect would hold an Immortal Affinity Assembly across the Sun and Moon Empire, testing people for Spiritual Roots with the Immortal Affinity Stone.
• Ling Yi ordered Shadow Two to retrieve Bored and told Old Liu to prepare supplies for a journey to North Ye Cheng the next day.
• Ling Yi spent 200 taels of silver to summon 100 Human Second Tier fans, who appeared in his courtyard and began shouting and arguing.
• Ling Yi threatened to permanently ban the summoned fans unless they quieted down.

Ling Yi traveled north toward North Ye Cheng with Super Bored Person and a caravan, while explaining his forces, the road network, and the limits on armed guards. He learned how summoned fans could return after death and how much it would cost to summon them to his side.

• Ling Yi explained that his special operations teams had secured Beiye Commandery and that his five hundred publicly registered escort guards carried disguised submachine guns.
• Ling Yi told Super Bored Person that the concrete roads only covered Great Wind City's territory and that they would separate after leaving the city to avoid drawing attention.
• Ling Yi explained why the caravan traveled by ox cart, since oxen had better endurance and horses were restricted strategic resources.
• Super Bored Person told Ling Yi that summoned fans could return at their death location, at a chosen coordinate anchor, or at Ling Yi's side for a summoning cost.
• Super Bored Person said that resurrecting beside Ling Yi would cost one tael of silver and would happen instantly.

Ling Yi brought the summoned fans to Great Wind City, where they rested after the arduous journey. As they prepared to split up, Leisurely Genius revealed that Big Persimmon 733542 could detect nearby unclaimed opportunities, prompting the fans to ask to travel with her instead of going to North Ye Cheng.

• Ling Yi and Super Bored Person agreed that finding a storage ring was a priority, while Ling Yi cautioned against taking reckless risks.
• Ling Yi's summoned fans arrived in Great Wind City after traveling through the night, then rested in a large residence until they recovered.
• Ling Yi told the fans they could travel separately to North Ye Cheng for the Immortal Affinity Assembly, and Leisurely Genius asked whether they had to go.
• Leisurely Genius explained that Big Persimmon 733542's aura detected unclaimed fortuitous opportunities within a hundred li.
• The fans crowded around Big Persimmon 733542 and asked to join her, until Leisurely Genius silenced them.

Ling Yi left Great Wind City while the summoned fans formed their own parties and pursued their cultivation paths. On the road north to North Ye Cheng, a woman descended on a flying sword and ordered him out of his ox cart.

• Leisurely Genius chose Big-Eyed Monster, whose low-grade ice spiritual root and defensive aura complemented her and Xiao Wu.
• The summoned fans discussed forming parties, and Pig Trotter Rice drew attention with an aura that increased the cultivation speed of everyone nearby.
• Ling Yi quietly left the fans behind and continued north toward North Ye Cheng, keeping ten special forces soldiers with him and leaving three thousand more to follow the route.
• Ling Yi wondered whether he had a spiritual root and endured the bumpy journey after the cement road ended.
• At dusk, a woman in a reddish-brown dress landed in front of Ling Yi's ox cart on a flying sword and coldly told him to get out.

Ling Yi traveled toward North Ye Cheng under the orders of a cold woman in red and killed two cultivators who stopped his cart. After the woman told him to discard their Blood Tower Tokens, Ling Yi kept their storage bags and learned how to open one.

• The woman in red ordered Ling Yi to keep the ox cart moving toward North Ye Cheng while she meditated inside.
• When two masked men blocked the road, Ling Yi ordered his guards to shoot them, and their guns shattered the men’s Energy Shields and killed them.
• Ling Yi ordered his guards to fire again, then collected two storage bags and two black Blood Tower Tokens from the scene.
• The woman in red identified the attackers as Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, told Ling Yi he could keep the storage bags, and warned him not to keep the tokens.
• Ling Yi threw the tokens away and cut his thumb while trying to open a storage bag, so the woman explained that he needed to pull its thin golden thread.

Xiao Wu, Big-Eyed Monster, and Leisurely Genius found a hidden chamber by activating a rune-covered boulder with Leisurely Genius's blood. They discovered three cultivation treasures, but Leisurely Genius noticed problems with the chamber and questioned how they could escape.

• Xiao Wu led Big-Eyed Monster and Leisurely Genius to a dried-up river valley to investigate an opportunity marked by her aura.
• After the women failed to move or decipher the boulder, Leisurely Genius cut her palm and pressed her blood against it, activating its runes.
• A red pillar transported the three women into an enclosed stone chamber containing a rune-covered stele and a jade bottle, a jade slip, and a double-pointed short sword.
• When Xiao Wu asked how they should divide the treasures, Leisurely Genius suggested that she and Big-Eyed Monster settle it with rock-paper-scissors and let her inspect the jade slip afterward.
• Xiao Wu and Big-Eyed Monster asked Leisurely Genius to be honest about any danger, and she pointed out that the chamber had no exit.

Leisurely Genius identified the stone chamber as a dangerous inheritance trap and sent Xiao Wu and Big-Eyed Girl to test its treasures. After both women exploded, she concluded the deaths were caused by psychological tricks and approached the stone platform herself.

• Leisurely Genius pointed out that the chamber likely held an evil cultivator's inheritance and that many people had died on the glassy floor facing the stone stele.
• Leisurely Genius told Xiao Wu to take the jade slip, read it, and then collect the flying sword and jade bottle if she survived.
• Xiao Wu touched the jade slip to her forehead and exploded, while the jade slip returned to the platform.
• Leisurely Genius realized their river-valley save point would let them respawn nearby and sent Big-Eyed Girl to test the porcelain bottle.
• Big-Eyed Girl swallowed a pill from the bottle and exploded, leading Leisurely Genius to conclude that the trap relied on psychological warfare and stride toward the platform.

Ling Yi synchronized his summoned fans’ rewards, reaching Qi Refining Realm, Fourth Level and unlocking Personal Space. After a woman in the carriage warned him not to use the Heaven-Devouring Art recklessly before the Mahayana Realm, Ling Yi pondered how to exploit the system’s settlement rules as the cart continued onward.

• Ling Yi received the Heaven-Devouring Art and synchronized his cultivation to Body Tempering Realm, Ninth Level Great Perfection, then gained the Soul Devourer Sword and advanced to Qi Refining Realm, Second Level.
• More summoned fans earned rewards, unlocking Ling Yi’s Personal Space and granting him the Spirit Concealment Technique, a Low-Grade Spirit Stone, silver, and other items; his cultivation rose to Qi Refining Realm, Fourth Level.
• A woman inside the carriage asked where Ling Yi had obtained the Heaven-Devouring Art and warned him that using it recklessly before reaching the Mahayana Realm would get him killed.
• Ling Yi inspected the system interface and reasoned that its rewards settled around six each morning, considering whether he could exploit the timing to gain rewards twice.
• As the ox cart traveled through the mountains, Ling Yi studied the woman and wondered whether all women in the Immortal Cultivation Realm were beautiful.

Ling Yi learned about the Heaven-Devouring Art’s notorious history and the danger it posed at the Heavenly Sword Sect’s Immortal Affinity Assembly. The woman offered him a Spirit-Concealing Robe and presented a Heavenly Dao Contract, and Ling Yi tried to draw blood to sign it.

• The woman told Ling Yi she would pose as his younger sister and enter the Heavenly Sword Sect with him, while he protected her during her inability to use Spiritual Power.
• The woman explained that the Heaven-Devouring Art created Blood Spiritual Power, enhanced its user’s appearance, and had once provoked powerful factions to destroy its creator and the art.
• The woman warned Ling Yi that cultivators might mistake him for a demonic cultivator and offered three ways to conceal his Blood Spiritual Power, including abandoning the art.
• The woman gave Ling Yi a Spirit-Concealing Robe and presented a Heavenly Dao Contract forbidding either party from harming or exposing the other.
• Ling Yi tried to cut his thumb with an ordinary knife to sign the contract, but his body was unharmed, so he drew a small double-ended sword and tried again.

Ling Yi learned that the Soul Devourer Sword had acknowledged him as its master, signed a Heavenly Dao Contract with the injured Immortal Emperor, and named her Ling Shuang. In Great Wind City, the Summon fans agreed to coordinate their cultivation and gather around a cluster of fortuitous encounters.

• The Soul Devourer Sword absorbed Ling Yi’s blood, acknowledged him as its master, and entered his Sea of Consciousness.
• Ling Yi and the mysterious woman signed a Heavenly Dao Contract that barred them from harming each other or revealing each other’s secrets; he learned she was an injured Immortal Emperor.
• The woman gave Ling Yi the Spirit-Concealing Robe, which he made his own and transformed into different outfits.
• Ling Yi named the woman Ling Shuang, and she accepted the name.
• At an inn in Great Wind City, Leisurely Genius and the other Summon fans agreed to wait until Ling Yi had shared their gains before using cultivation resources, and to share the Heaven-Devouring Art while prioritizing the Spirit Concealment Technique.
• The fans gathered in Great Wind City after Xiao Wu discovered more than a thousand fortuitous encounters nearby.

The Fortuitous Encounter Group discussed the upcoming secret realm and the dangers of cultivating the Heaven-Devouring Art without exposing themselves. Leisurely Genius tested Super Bored Person’s Spirit Concealment Technique and confirmed it could hide their Blood Spiritual Power.

• Xiao Wu explained that 1,322 fortuitous encounters, ranging from Third Tier to Ninth Tier, would open in two days and were likely inside a secret realm.
• Super Bored Person warned the group that the Heaven-Devouring Art was tied to powerful forces, so they should conceal their cultivation and avoid leaving witnesses when using it.
• Super Bored Person revealed that he had found a Spirit Concealment Technique booklet inside a Buddha statue at a run-down temple.
• Leisurely Genius examined the booklet, cultivated the technique, and confirmed that it could prevent their Blood Spiritual Power from being exposed.

Ling Yi and Ling Shuang approached North Ye Cheng amid crowds traveling to the Immortal Affinity Assembly, while Ling Shuang warned him that Blood Tower assassins would target them that night. She explained that Ling Yi’s Heaven-Devouring Art could suppress the assassins’ Qi and Blood and absorb their power, leaving him to face the threat ahead.

• Ling Yi noticed the growing traffic of travelers bound for North Ye Cheng and reflected on how the empire’s cattle-raising policy had caused famine before its cattle population subsided.
• As the ox cart became stuck near the city at dusk, Ling Yi suggested flying in, but Ling Shuang said there was no need.
• Ling Yi asked whether Ling Shuang needed something guarded by the Heavenly Sword Sect, and she confirmed the sect had something she needed.
• Ling Shuang warned Ling Yi to be careful that night because Blood Tower assassins were coming.
• Ling Shuang explained that the assassins relied on Qi and Blood Pills made from human Spiritual Essence, while Ling Yi’s Heaven-Devouring Art could suppress their Qi and Blood and make them a source of cultivation.
• Ling Yi asked why Ling Shuang would not deal with the assassins herself, since she was strong enough to do so.

Ling Yi summoned five Heaven First Tier fans, who revealed they knew his cultivation arts but could not explain how. When five stronger Blood Tower assassins attacked the caravan, Ling Yi faced them himself and used the Heaven-Devouring Art to slow them down.

• Ling Yi summoned five Heaven First Tier fans, who recognized the Heaven-Devouring Art and Spirit Concealment Technique and went into the woods to cultivate.
• Five masked Blood Tower assassins appeared, and Ling Shuang refused to help Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi's ten guards surrounded the assassins while he stepped forward to fight them himself.
• Ling Yi used the Heaven-Devouring Art, slowing four assassins as he attacked one with his palm.