Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi found evidence connected to the Bone-Eroding Powder and activated the Invincible Domain to learn how it worked. After overhearing Lin Zhenfeng and Wong Fu, he followed Wong Fu to a hidden courtyard and discovered his enormous stash of valuables.

• Ling Yi found a buried wooden box containing a bottle of Bone-Eroding Powder residue and kept it as evidence.
• Ling Yi activated the Invincible Domain for ten breaths and learned that it made his cultivation surpass the combined cultivation of living beings within his Spiritual Sense's range.
• Ling Yi overheard Lin Zhenfeng warn Wong Fu about evidence and order him to deliver a letter to someone in the Mist Forest.
• Wong Fu discovered the buried box was gone and fled to a hidden courtyard, where Ling Yi followed him.
• Ling Yi found more than thirty chests of gold and silver, over a hundred chests of Spirit Stones, and a chest of pills beneath Wong Fu's dry well, then confronted him.

Ling Yi defeated Wong Fu, copied his techniques and storage ring, and reached Foundation Establishment Realm, Fifth Level, Late Stage. He spared Wong Fu to keep gaining Imitation Points and learned that the Lin Clan’s scheme was backed by someone from the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty.

• Ling Yi recognized the storage ring Wong Fu held as the one stolen from the Lin Clan after the Qingyun Market auction ambush.
• Wong Fu attacked Ling Yi, but Ling Yi repelled him and revealed his Foundation Establishment strength.
• Ling Yi bound Wong Fu, gained Simulation Degree from his fear, and copied Wong Fu’s cultivation arts, techniques, and storage ring.
• Ling Yi’s Simulation Degree with Wong Fu reached 100%, raising Ling Yi’s cultivation to Foundation Establishment Realm, Fifth Level, Late Stage.
• Ling Yi spared Wong Fu, took the treasures from the dry well, and asked about the Lin Clan’s situation.
• Wong Fu said Second Master Lin Zhenfeng had planned the scheme with backing from someone in the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty.

Ling Yi enslaved Wong Fu with a Blood Slave Talisman and learned that fully imitated targets could be moved to an unlimited secondary list, freeing active binding slots. He planned to seize control of the Lin Clan, starting with Lin Zhenfeng, and recalled the obscure ingredients needed to cure Bone-Eroding Powder.

• Ling Yi took Wong Fu’s storage ring and questioned him about the mysterious man backing Second Master, learning the man wore a fire-patterned jade token and communicated through the Mist Forest.
• Wong Fu revealed a Blood Slave Talisman, which Ling Yi copied and used to enslave him, making Wong Fu a loyal servant who generated 10 Imitation Points daily.
• Ling Yi learned that targets at 100% imitation could be moved to an unlimited secondary list, freeing active binding slots, and considered Lin Meng, Lin Zhentian, and Lin Zhenyu as valuable targets.
• Ling Yi decided to take control of Lin Zhenfeng first and ordered Wong Fu to lure Second Master to him.
• Ling Yi recalled that Bone-Eroding Powder could be cured with Crimson Yang Flower and the pit of a Crimson Blood Fruit.

Ling Yi discovered that the system counted nearly any emotion as Simulation Degree and decided to exploit the bug by binding the Lin Clan. After Wong Fu took control of the Lin brothers, Ling Yi ordered him to turn the clan into the Ling Clan within three days.

• Ling Yi confirmed that fear, pain, anger, and resentment also increased Simulation Degree, then told Wong Fu to make Lin Zhenfeng obedient and lure Lin Zhenyu to the hidden base.
• Ling Yi gave Wong Fu a Blood Slave Talisman and let him control Lin Zhenfeng and Lin Zhenyu, partly to avoid overloading his own mental power.
• Ling Yi inspected the updated system interface and concluded that Simulation Points, which fueled his Invincible Domain, were his greatest advantage.
• Ling Yi set his sights on binding the Lin Clan and then expanding across Great Wind City and the Beiye Region to earn more Simulation Points.
• After Lin Zhenyu became Ling Yi’s third tool, Ling Yi gave him Blood Slave Talismans and ordered him to turn the Lin Clan into the Ling Clan within three days.

Ling Yi stopped Lin Zhenfeng from taking control of Lin Zhentian, revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation, and purged Lin Zhentian’s poison with the Invincible Domain. Lin Zhentian awoke and recognized Ling Yi as a hidden expert, while Ling Yi ordered Lin Zhenfeng to bring him to the council hall.

• Ling Zhenfeng barged into Lin Zhentian’s room with Ling Yi and tried to use a Blood Slave Talisman, but Lin Meng revealed her Ninth Layer of Qi Refining Pinnacle cultivation and stopped him.
• Ling Yi revealed his Foundation Establishment strength, overwhelmed Lin Meng, and let her leave after she agreed not to interfere in the Lin Clan’s affairs.
• Lin Zhenfeng used the Blood Slave Talisman on Lin Zhentian and told Ling Yi that the poison would kill him without an antidote from the First Prince.
• Ling Yi activated the Invincible Domain and purged the Bone-Eroding Powder from Lin Zhentian, who woke up and remarked that Lin Zhenfeng had acted too hastily.
• Ling Yi told Lin Zhenfeng to bring Lin Zhentian to the council hall, then vanished, leaving Lin Zhentian shocked by his apparent teleportation.

Lin Zhenyu summoned the Lin Clan’s main and branch families while investigating Lin Zhenbei’s suspicious pill trade and his daughter Lin Yanran’s return. The gathering turned tense when Lin Yu mocked Lin Yanran over her broken engagement.

• Lin Zhenyu questioned Lin Zhenbei about Supreme Pin Qi Gathering Pills sold in Red Maple Town, and Lin Zhenbei said his branch had obtained two Middle Pin pills to present to the clan head.
• Lin Zhenyu noted Lin Zhenbei’s concealed strength and suspected there was more to the pill trade than he admitted.
• Lin Zhenyu recognized Lin Yanran, whose cultivation had once reached Qi Refining, Sixth Level before it regressed, and wondered why Lin Zhenbei had brought her to the main family.
• Lin Yanran greeted Lin Zhenyu, drawing attention from the gathered clan members.
• Lin Yu mocked Lin Yanran for being jilted by a Bai Clan branch, while the elders recalled how her broken engagement had disgraced the Lin Clan.

Ling Yi took control of the Lin Clan gathering with his overwhelming Spiritual Pressure and used his system to bind the clan members, gaining cultivation as their Simulation Degrees rose. He left Lin Yanran unmaxed because the hidden soul in her ring shielded her, and decided to confront her in private.

• Lin Zhenyue challenged the delay and tried to leave, but Ling Yi appeared in the clan head’s seat and forced him down with Spiritual Pressure.
• Lin Zhentian introduced Ling Yi as the Lin Clan’s new clan head, and Ling Yi’s pressure injured Lin Zhenyue when he continued to talk back.
• Ling Yi bound Lin Zhenyue, Lin Zhenbei, and Lin Yanran, discovered their hidden Foundation Establishment cultivation, and broke through to the Golden Core Realm.
• Ling Yi bound more clan members and intensified his Spiritual Pressure, raising their Simulation Degrees and advancing his cultivation to the Golden Core Realm’s Second Level.
• The system moved the clan members whose Simulation Degrees reached 100% to its secondary list, while Lin Yanran remained at 90% because the soul in her ring shielded her.
• Ling Yi realized Lin Yanran’s apparent distress was an act and chose to address the soul in her ring privately.

Ling Yi finished binding more than five hundred people and used the system to copy Blood Slave Talismans and Supreme Pin Qi Gathering Pills for the Lin Clan. After putting Lin Zhenyu in charge of the clan, Ling Yi summoned Lin Yanran to follow him.

• Ling Yi found that the system was repairing itself faster as his cultivation and number of bindings grew, and he could no longer increase imitation percentages by influencing emotions.
• Ling Yi copied six hundred Blood Slave Talismans, a storage ring, and ten bottles of Supreme Pin Qi Gathering Pills, then gave the ring to Lin Zhenyu.
• Ling Yi ordered Lin Zhenyu to use the talismans to control the Lin Clan and distribute one Supreme Pin Qi Gathering Pill to each disciple every month.
• Lin Yanran reassured Lin Zhenbei that she could deal with the Blood Slave Talisman, while her master speculated that Ling Yi had an ancient Immortal Treasure or exceptional alchemy skills.
• Ling Yi left the meeting hall after entrusting the clan to Lin Zhenyu, then told Lin Yanran to come with him.

Ling Yi revealed that Lin Yanran's Soul Ring contained Lin Zhiyu, a powerful cultivator from a hundred thousand years ago, and demonstrated that his Invincible Domain could restore and control her body. He provoked Lin Zhiyu over her past betrayal and got her to admit she wanted revenge on Ye Fan, whose cultivation had reached at least the Immortal Lord Realm.

• Ling Yi identified Lin Yanran's ring as Yao Lao's Soul Ring and called its inhabitant Lin Zhiyu by her real name.
• Lin Zhiyu emerged from the ring and attacked Ling Yi, but his Invincible Domain froze her, and he restored her physical body.
• Ling Yi made Lin Zhiyu's restored body vanish again and told her to prove she was worth helping.
• Ling Yi criticized Lin Zhiyu for spoiling the disciple who betrayed her, and she admitted she wanted revenge on Ye Fan.
• Lin Zhiyu said Ye Fan had reached at least the Immortal Lord Realm, and Ling Yi pressed her to focus on revenge.

Ling Yi told Lin Zhiyu that he would restore her body and help her seek revenge only after she earned his genuine trust, then returned to the servant quarters to work on Bai Ling’s Simulation Degree. When Bai Ling challenged him, Ling Yi used the Invincible Domain to erase her attack, and she asked him to teach her how he did it.

• Ling Yi refused Lin Zhiyu’s offer to use the One Heart Art to make him trust her and told her to understand what genuine trust meant before he would help her.
• Lin Yanran suggested that Ling Yi wanted Lin Zhiyu to show the right attitude rather than achieve absolute trust.
• Ling Yi returned to the servant quarters, where he intended to raise Bai Ling’s Simulation Degree and noted that he had bound 515 servants as second-tier-list tools.
• Bai Ling confronted Ling Yi about hiding her identity and asked whether he worked for her eldest imperial brother, but he said he belonged to no one.
• Bai Ling attacked Ling Yi with a Prison of flames, and he spent two Simulation Points to activate the Invincible Domain and make the attack vanish.
• Bai Ling asked Ling Yi to teach her his technique, and he considered her request while she warned him not to get any bad ideas.

Ling Yi learned that Bai Ling had come to the Beiye Region to enter the Nine Dragons Secret Realm, and discovered the system could not fully probe her because she carried the Tianyuan Mirror. After copying and mastering Bai Ling’s cultivation techniques, he found that practicing the Thick Earth Art alone raised his Imitation Degree to 45%.

• Bai Ling offered Ling Yi a spot in the Nine Dragons Secret Realm, which would open in three years, in exchange for his cultivation technique.
• Ling Yi probed Bai Ling and learned she was the Ninth Princess of the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty, a suspected reincarnated ancient great power with a divine artifact that blocked the system’s probe.
• Ling Yi refused to teach Bai Ling until she could prove she could provide the secret-realm spot, and Bai Ling beat up Sun Bao, Zhao Hu, and Qian Biao to vent her frustration.
• Ling Yi copied Bai Ling’s Fire, Wood, Water, Metal, and Five Elements techniques, then cultivated them together with his Thick Earth Art as the Five Elements Art.
• Ling Yi discovered that cultivating all five techniques did not increase his Imitation Degree, but practicing only the Thick Earth Art raised his Bai Ling Imitation Degree to 45%.

Ling Yi raised his imitation of Bai Ling by copying her habit of spacing out, then spent 8,500 Simulation Points to copy Lin Yanran’s abilities, including the Soul Ring. He discovered the copied techniques had reached Perfection and was stunned by what the Soul Ring contained.

• Ling Yi imitated Bai Ling by sitting in the courtyard and spacing out, raising his Imitation Degree by two percent to 47%.
• Ling Yi checked his refreshed Imitation Points and saw that he now earned more than five thousand each day, while Lin Yanran’s Imitation Degree remained at 90%.
• Ling Yi spent 8,500 Simulation Points to copy Lin Yanran’s Spiritual Refinement Technique, Burning Fire Art, Winged Void Technique, Thousandfold Force, Divine Body Art, and Soul Ring.
• Ling Yi absorbed memories that gave him Perfection-level mastery of the copied arts and learned that the Winged Void Technique let him teleport while Thousandfold Force could stack power up to 999 times.
• Ling Yi used the Divine Body Art to form golden armor from Restriction Patterns, then put on the Soul Ring and exclaimed at its power.

Ling Yi discovered that the copied Soul Ring contained a second Lin Zhiyu, whom he gave a body and named Ling Long. After Ling Long challenged the original Lin Zhiyu and revealed she had also lost her body, Lin Zhiyu asked Ling Yi to restore hers, and the system offered to bind her.

• Ling Yi summoned the copied Lin Zhiyu and learned she had the original’s memories and abilities but existed as the Soul Ring’s artifact spirit.
• Ling Yi used the Invincible Domain to restore Ling Long’s body, then told her to call him Young Master and gave her the name Ling Long.
• Lin Yanran arrived, and the original Lin Zhiyu emerged from her Soul Ring and confronted Ling Long, who displayed her Heavenly Immortal strength.
• Ling Long explained that she had spent three hundred thousand years as a divine soul after being trapped in the Nine Dragons Secret Realm, then said Ling Yi had restored her body.
• Lin Zhiyu told Ling Yi she trusted him completely, and the system announced that her affection had reached the binding threshold and asked whether to bind her.

Ling Yi restored Lin Zhiyu’s physical body, and she decided to stay with him rather than risk returning to the Immortal Realm to face Ye Fan. He tasked Lin Zhiyu and Lin Yanran with helping the Lin Clan prepare for the Nine Dragons Secret Realm, while Lin Zhiyu urged her disciple to grow closer to Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi bound Lin Zhiyu, whose Imitation Degree reached 100%, then used his Invincible Domain to restore her body and cultivation to the Mahayana Realm.
• Lin Zhiyu learned Ling Long avoided Heavenly Dao suppression because of Ling Yi’s Restriction and chose to remain with him for protection from Ye Fan.
• Ling Yi told Lin Zhiyu and Lin Yanran to help the Lin Clan improve its cultivation ahead of the Nine Dragons Secret Realm opening in three years.
• Lin Zhiyu warned Lin Yanran to address Ling Yi as Young Master, speculated that he might come from the God Realm, and promised to help her reach at least the Nascent Soul Realm within six months.
• Ling Yi asked Ling Long to try taking Lin Yanran’s appearance.

Ling Yi discovered that the system rewarded him when Ling Long copied people, so he sent her to imitate targets and rapidly expand his second-level list. As Ling Long copied powerful figures across Great Wind City, the Lin Clan’s crisis with five allied families and a Nascent Soul expert remained to be dealt with.

• The system added Lin Yanran to Ling Yi’s second-level list, raised his cultivation, and unlocked new Copy options.
• Lin Zhenyu told Ling Yi that five major families had joined forces against the Lin Clan with help from an expert at least at the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ling Yi ordered Ling Long to copy everyone she encountered, and she explained that her Spiritual Sense could cover Great Wind City.
• Ling Long copied Lin Meng, prompting the system to add her automatically and reveal her spiritual arts, mutated void spiritual root, and karmic luck as Copy options.
• Ling Long copied Bai Ling and many other people, causing the system to add targets and announce a stream of new Copy options and rewards.
• Ling Yi worried that the system might later reclaim its bugged rewards, then decided he would refuse to give them back.

While Ling Yi and Ling Long encountered a powerful woman from the God Realm, the system upgrade temporarily disabled Ling Yi’s abilities and left them at her mercy. The woman claimed a room in Ling Yi’s home, warned them about other gods drawn to the Nine Dragons Secret Realm, and Ling Yi resolved to build strength beyond relying on his system.

• Ling Long took the appearance of a mysterious woman who had appeared nearby, and the woman arrived, accusing her of coveting the Nine Dragons Secret Realm.
• Ling Yi discovered that the system upgrade had disabled Probe and Invincible Domain, while the woman revealed she could hear his and Ling Long’s Voice Transmissions.
• Ling Yi and Ling Long considered hiding in the Soul Ring, but the woman had already locked down the surrounding space.
• The woman ignored Ling Yi’s questions, claimed his main house as her room, and told him to prepare food while warning Ling Long not to use Spiritual Sense carelessly.
• The woman said anyone able to reach the lower realm would come because the Nine Dragons Secret Realm concerned all three realms.
• Ling Yi checked his status, reflected on his dependence on Invincible Domain, and saw that his secondary-list total had risen to 25,515.

Ling Yi learned that the woman eating in his courtyard was Yan Ji, daughter of the Demon God, who had come to retrieve what her father left in the Nine Dragons Secret Realm. His system upgrade completed, and he probed her, revealing her suppressed divine power and identity.

• Lin Zhenyu told Ling Yi that representatives of five families had arrived, and Ling Yi sent them to wait in the front hall without using Spiritual Sense or teleportation.
• Yan Ji warned Ling Long not to use Spiritual Sense and told Ling Yi to wait for his system upgrade before dealing with the families.
• Yan Ji introduced herself, and Ling Yi recognized her as the Demon God's daughter, who had survived the Nine Dragons Secret Realm.
• Yan Ji said she wanted to retrieve what her father had left in the secret realm and would not force her way into it.
• Ling Yi's system upgraded to version 2.0, and he used its Probe function on Yan Ji, which displayed her identity and suppressed divine power.

Ling Yi learned about the Nine Dragons Secret Realm and the hierarchy of gods after reading Yan Ji’s life summary, then bound her because she had gained Affection for his roast meat. He discovered that the Invincible Domain had gained costly new levels and wondered whether the three realms were only part of the Myriad Worlds.

• Ling Yi learned that even gods could only clear the tenth level of the Nine Dragons Secret Realm alone, while the Demon God and Yan Ji had been stuck at the fiftieth level in group challenges.
• Ling Yi bound Yan Ji after discovering her Affection for him was 30, and saw that copying her abilities and origins required large numbers of Simulation Points.
• Ling Yi learned that Yan Ji and her father were Initial Realm Gods and that higher-realm gods had vanished when the Nine Dragons Secret Realm appeared.
• Ling Yi compared Bai Ling’s and Lin Zhiyu’s different understandings of the Nine Dragons Secret Realm and reviewed the gains from the day.
• Ling Yi saw that the Invincible Domain now had four levels with sharply increasing Imitation Point costs, including a Top-Tier level that granted power across the Myriad Worlds.

Ling Yi considered how to spend the Imitation Points he would soon receive and resolved to save enough to keep his Invincible Domain available. After Yan Ji retired for the night, he told Ling Long they only had to endure her for two hours until he had money.

• Ling Yi realized that his 25,000-plus bound targets were valuable sources of Imitation Points and decided he needed to protect them.
• Ling Yi questioned Yan Ji about her long life and love; Yan Ji said life had become boring, she had never loved anyone, and all of her former pursuers were dead.
• Ling Yi debated copying Yan Ji’s power or saving his Imitation Points, then decided to keep enough to activate the Advanced Invincible Domain.
• Yan Ji finished eating and went into the main room, while Ling Long emerged from the Soul Ring after the pressure of Yan Ji’s presence eased.
• Ling Yi told Ling Long they would put up with Yan Ji for now because he would have Imitation Points in two hours.

Ling Yi had advanced to Pseudo Initial Realm God and watched the mad God Realm cultivator Zhao Ming devastate the Lin Clan estate. After Yan Ji explained Zhao Ming’s curse and his weakness to Divine Restriction, Ling Yi erased him with a snap of his fingers, leaving Yan Ji stunned.

• Ling Yi spent over a million Imitation Points copying options, especially those belonging to Bai Ling, Lin Zhiyu, and Yan Ji.
• Zhao Ming appeared at the Lin Clan estate and wrecked it, while Ling Yi’s Divine Restriction protected his people.
• Yan Ji arrived with Bai Ling, Lin Zhiyu, Lin Yanran, Lin Meng, and others, and explained that Zhao Ming had sensed Divine Restriction.
• Yan Ji told Ling Yi that Zhao Ming had been cursed by the Heavenly Dao after slaughtering a race in the God Realm and had eventually gone mad.
• Ling Yi froze Zhao Ming and reduced him to ash with a snap of his fingers, wiping out his Divinity Origin and shocking Yan Ji.