Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi entered the Kung Fu 2 scenario as Ma San, a new Crocodile Gang thug, and used his Joker persona to intimidate Master Liu into taking him to Master Feng. He left with Master Liu driving him to the theater, where Master Feng was waiting.

• Ling Yi appeared as Ma San and tricked Master Liu into going to confront the woman at the tailor shop, who beat him and the Crocodile Gang underlings.
• Ling Yi fired the Crocodile Gang’s rally signal, then sent the summoned gangsters after the woman and secretly reset Master Liu’s dislocated spine.
• Ling Yi threatened Master Liu into agreeing to take him to Master Feng, while the woman easily defeated the gangsters and Ling Yi stomped one underling into the ground.
• Ling Yi checked his system and recalled that his current role was Jack Napier, whose manic personality boosted his strength but made him prone to extreme behavior.
• Master Liu told Ling Yi that Master Feng was at the theater and drove him there as Ling Yi laughed and warned that his survival depended on being useful.

Ling Yi killed Master Feng, a role-player posing as the Crocodile Gang leader, and ordered the gang’s leaders to gather while keeping his addictive manic personality under control. Elsewhere, Guan Xiaoxiao, trapped in the role of a mute girl, was taken from school by an old beggar who planned to train her and asked how much of the Nine Yin Manual she had memorized.

• Ling Yi arrived at the Fanghua Grand Theater and made Liuzi shout for Master Feng to come out and die.
• Master Feng came downstairs with a pistol and fired at Ling Yi, who caught all the bullets before killing him.
• Ling Yi revealed that Master Feng was role-player 0898, Liu Jianming, and ordered Liuzi to summon the Crocodile Gang’s leaders within ten minutes.
• Ling Yi turned off his manic personality and reflected that its freedom and power could make him lose his restraints.
• Guan Xiaoxiao waited outside school because she did not know the way home, rejected a lollipop from a foolish boy, and was approached by an old beggar.
• The old beggar took Guan Xiaoxiao away, told her to stop attending school while she underwent medicinal baths, and asked how much of the Nine Yin Manual she had memorized.

Guan Xiaoxiao received a chance to learn the Nine Yin Manual from the old beggar, while Ling Yi took control of the Crocodile Gang as Master Ugly and ordered it to target the city’s wealthy. Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü defeated a group seeking revenge, but a dying enemy’s threat sent them racing toward Pig Sty Alley to protect Xiaolong.

• The old beggar gave Guan Xiaoxiao three days to memorize the Nine Yin Manual and explained that he had chosen her as his successor.
• Ling Yi declared himself Master Ugly and took control of the Crocodile Gang after killing a square-faced objector and terrifying the remaining leaders.
• Ling Yi criticized the gang’s protection-money business and ordered its members to investigate banks, jewelry stores, and Mito City’s richest person.
• Ling Yi blasted a hole in the wall with his palm, demonstrating his newly amplified strength and frightening the gang members into obedience.
• Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü fought a dozen people seeking revenge for their leader’s father, and Xiaolongnü’s Lion’s Roar Technique sent them tumbling through the woods.
• The defeated leader threatened that Xiaolong was in danger, so Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü hurried toward Pig Sty Alley while a middle-aged man emerged from the leaves.

Ling Yi led the Crocodile Gang through a spree of bank robberies and prepared to seize an arms ship, while Chen Chao and Gu Hao struggled in their roles. The chapter ended with Ling Yi leaping onto the freighter and attacking its guards.

• Chen Chao joined the Crocodile Gang and sought protection, while Guan Xiaoxiao continued memorizing the Nine Yin Manual under the old beggar's watch.
• Ling Yi and his men robbed sixteen banks, killing the people inside and loading cash and gold onto trucks.
• Ling Yi learned about Demai's arms ship at Jiangkou Wharf and ordered his gang to prepare an assault.
• Chen Chao led twenty Crocodile Gang underlings in blockading a constabulary, while Gu Hao was beaten at a restaurant and forced out of the Role-Playing Space.
• Ling Yi reached the wharf, leaped onto the freighter, and began fighting its guards as gunfire and screams spread across the ship.

Ling Yi turned the Crocodile Gang into the Mito Army, seized control of Mito City, and became its governor. With Sakura-chan Country’s warships and planes approaching, he faced two assassins, Heaven and Earth, who attacked him with their sonic arts.

• Ling Yi ordered Lü Kui to distribute weapons, train the gang as an army, establish a bank, and follow the plans in his notebook.
• Over the next half month, the Crocodile Gang became the Mito Army, defeated Mito City’s foreign garrison, shut down the police station, and made Ling Yi the city’s governor.
• Fatty told Ling Yi that Sakura-chan Country had sent ten warships and twenty fighter planes, while Western countries offered a ten-million-dollar bounty.
• Ling Yi reviewed his new Matt role, which had given him Great Perfection Telekinesis and the confidence to face the approaching forces.
• Heaven and Earth arrived to kill Ling Yi, rejected his offer to hire them, and defended themselves from his palm strike with a sonic shield.

Ling Yi avenged Guan Xiaoxiao by killing Heaven and Earth and capturing 1023, then flew to confront Sakura-chan Country’s fleet. He left the fleet devastated by repeatedly smashing it with a giant telekinetic palm.

• Ling Yi learned how Heaven and Earth used sound waves and mental power to manifest attacks, then killed them when they tried to stab him.
• Ling Yi caught 1023 after she shot him, rejected her appeal to the International Role-Player Convention, and ordered the Mito Army to imprison her.
• Fatty told Ling Yi that Sakura-chan Country’s fleet had arrived to negotiate, and Ling Yi ordered his men to kill the envoys and keep the Mito Army under control.
• Ling Yi flew above Sakura-chan Country’s warships and formed a giant crimson palm while the fleet opened fire on him.
• Ling Yi’s palm smashed more than half the warships, overturned the rest, and struck the fleet repeatedly before fading away.

Ling Yi destroyed Sakura-chan Country’s fighter jets, reunited with Guan Xiaoxiao, and fought Fire Cloud Evil God outside the governor’s residence. He stopped short of killing his opponent and offered to teach him his kung fu as the image froze.

• Ling Yi smashed twenty fighter jets, then robbed the old beggar of several secret manuals.
• The old beggar took Guan Xiaoxiao to Ling Yi after she wrote that she wanted to find her older brother.
• Ling Yi recognized Guan Xiaoxiao as Hu Niu, and the two acted out an emotional reunion.
• Ling Yi learned that the old beggar had found and raised Guan Xiaoxiao, then prepared to fight him for information about his kung fu.
• Fire Cloud Evil God challenged Ling Yi, but Ling Yi overwhelmed him in a destructive fight and stopped when he asked what kung fu Ling Yi practiced.

Ling Yi earned an SR-rank rating, received a Star Ring containing a planet, and learned that the Role-Playing Space would introduce factions and national fortune. As countries began targeting role-player 9527, Ling Yi kept his identity secret, prepared new roles, and ended with three promising options.

• Ling Yi received 25,600 points, a Glory Treasure Chest, and three invitations, while the Role-Playing Space announced faction mode and national fortune rules.
• Ling Yi opened the chest and received a Star Ring containing a lifeless planet; after he vanished from the Chaos Space, a huge face sighed that it had reached the limit of its authority.
• Countries investigated 9527, while people posing as experts and influencers attacked him online and called for his arrest.
• Ling Yi warned Guan Xiaoxiao to stay cautious and learned that her mother, Su Qin, had been shelved for ten rounds after using an invitation.
• Ling Yi used his role system to select Ying Zheng and then Zhang Wuji, raising Ying Zheng's portrayal to its maximum before getting three new role options that excited him.

Ling Yi arrived in the Resident Evil 2-4 scenario and used his identity card to secure resources and an Umbrella Corporation laboratory, where he began building a mecha. After confronting a delay in its neural controls, he asked the Red Queen for an update on Raccoon City.

• Ling Yi rejected following the original plot and decided to build a mecha army to fight the zombies.
• Ling Yi used his identity card to enlist the Red Queen's help, and Max Ryan arrived with thirty soldiers to escort him.
• Ling Yi moved into a hidden Umbrella Corporation laboratory and upgraded the Red Queen with JARVIS's source code.
• Ling Yi developed a ten-meter mecha, solving its power, transmission, and material problems but encountering a delay in its neural controls.
• The Red Queen identified processor computing power as the key obstacle, and Ling Yi asked how things were going in Raccoon City.

Ling Yi gave Pangu 1.0 an instinctive control system, tested the mecha by rescuing a stranded role-player, and watched the man get erased after revealing the Role-Playing Space. He returned to base with the Red Queen to improve the mecha and plan mass production.

• Ling Yi recorded his movements and memories to give Pangu 1.0 instincts, then tested its smooth neural-linked controls and flight.
• Ling Yi flew south to find survivors and rescued role-player 1271 from a horde of zombies using the mecha’s weapons.
• 1271 used his radar to identify Ling Yi as 9527 and tried to recruit him for the Ugly Nation.
• 1271 revealed the Role-Playing Space to Ling Yi, violating its erasure rule, and was instantly killed despite thinking no NPCs were watching.
• Ling Yi concealed his knowledge from the Red Queen, returned to base, and proposed improving and mass-producing the Pangu mecha.

Ling Yi finished the Resident Evil scenario with an A+ rating after realizing he had overlooked the cure, but still earned an S overall rating and a teleportation skill. Back in the real world, Guan Xiaoxiao broke with her mother over Ling Yi’s identity and went to him, leaving him to wonder which faction would approach him first.

• Ling Yi confronted Wesker and Dr. Isaacs, killed them, and completed the scenario, earning an S rating, rewards, and a national fortune increase for Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi opened his black iron treasure chest and obtained the Teleportation skill, then returned to the real world.
• Guan Xiaoxiao told Su Qin that she was role-player 1008 and Ling Yi was 9527, then left after warning her mother not to expose his identity.
• Guan Hai confronted Su Qin about how she had treated Xiaoxiao and warned her that selling Ling Yi’s information would make her his enemy, then left too.
• Guan Xiaoxiao went to Ling Yi’s home, cried in his arms, and fell asleep; Ling Yi wondered which faction would come looking for him first.

Ling Yi developed Aizen’s abilities, confronted a deadly attack at home, and entered the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Red Cliffs scenario. He arrived in a devastated village and prepared to use a radar to track a target.

• Ling Yi caught an assassin’s bullet, restrained and killed nearly fifty attackers, then demanded an explanation from the soldiers who arrived.
• Ling Yi restored the vanished street and its people, then returned home and told Guan Xiaoxiao what had happened.
• The country launched crackdowns on spies, foreign-worshipping public figures, and criminal forces while Ling Yi practiced with his Zanpakutō and raised his Aizen role-playing progress to 70%.
• Ling Yi and Guan Xiaoxiao entered the Role-Playing Space and received the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Red Cliffs scenario, where Ling Yi was assigned the identity of a displaced civilian.
• Ling Yi surveyed the war-ravaged village and took out a Target Search Radar.

Ling Yi used the Target Search Radar to eliminate hundreds of foreign role-players and warned other countries against targeting the Ancient Country. After struggling to create a large, independently controlled ghost army, he switched characters to gain abilities that could help, ending with Naruto Uzumaki’s skills and wondering why some were missing.

• Ling Yi used the Target Search Radar to kill a Sakura-chan Country role-player and then eliminated 206 role-players across the Role-Playing Space in one night.
• Ling Yi warned other countries that he would retaliate if they stirred up trouble against the Ancient Country in the real world.
• Ling Yi spent seven days designing more than three hundred ghost soldiers but could not control enough of them or extend them beyond a thousand meters.
• Ling Yi switched from Aizen to Luffy, raised Luffy’s character inheritance percentage to 100%, and then chose Jamie Madrox to gain Cloned Clone.
• Ling Yi continued switching characters and selected Naruto Uzumaki, gaining Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu, Transformation Jutsu, and other skills.
• Ling Yi examined his skill list and wondered whether Naruto’s missing abilities conflicted with his existing powers or depended on inheriting the Nine-Tails.

Ling Yi used his powers to become Motian and create an army of apparent ghost soldiers, forcing Cao Aman and Sun Quan to unite the warlords against him. As Ling Yi gathered people, creatures, and cities into the Star Ring, the allied leaders met to plan their campaign, and Zhuge Liang proposed that ending the wars might weaken the ghost soldiers.

• Cao Aman ordered two junior commanders executed for reporting ghost soldiers, but Ling Yi revealed his supernatural power, declared himself Motian, and escaped after incapacitating Cao Aman's officers.
• Ling Yi's clone appeared before Sun Quan and announced that Motian would use the wronged dead to contend for supremacy over the realm.
• Ling Yi created a hidden island city filled with apparent ghost soldiers, spread them across the realm, and prompted Cao Aman and Sun Quan to ally against him.
• Ling Yi gathered crops, animals, six cities, and nearby farmland into the Star Ring, prompting the warlords to unite against Motian's growing threat.
• Cao Aman addressed the allied warlords and demanded obedience, then asked for strategies to defeat Motian and his ghost soldiers.
• Zhuge Liang suggested that ending the wars might dissipate resentment and weaken the ghost soldiers.

Ling Yi staged a battle between his ghost soldiers and the lords' coalition, while Zhuge Liang and the other strategists searched for ways to counter them. After the ghost soldiers withdrew, Zhuge Liang ventured alone onto the island to investigate Ling Yi's powers.

• Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu concluded the ghost soldiers were weakening, and Jia Xu warned that Motian might be disguised among them.
• Ling Yi revealed himself in the command tent, escaped, then sent more than a hundred thousand ghost soldiers across an earthen road to attack the coalition.
• The ghost soldiers adapted to fire, overwhelmed the coalition in close combat, and turned fallen soldiers into new ghost soldiers before abruptly retreating.
• Jia Xu proposed that the ghost soldiers feared water, and Cao Aman ordered channels dug around the camp.
• Zhuge Liang examined the road and its footprints, suspected a restriction had forced the retreat, and stepped onto the island.

Ling Yi staged a confrontation with Zhuge Liang, then launched a decisive battle between a million ghost soldiers and the warlords’ 1.6 million troops. Zhuge Liang realized the battlefield’s strange silence too late, and the scene ended with Ling Yi, Zhuge Liang, the vortex, and all the ghost soldiers vanishing as Liu Bei collapsed.

• Ling Yi rejected Zhuge Liang’s proposal to help Liu Bei unify the realm and sent him back to the warlords, announcing that his million ghost soldiers would attack the next day.
• Zhuge Liang warned the warlords to prepare for battle, gave Liu Bei a brocade pouch to open when the heavens changed, and predicted a costly victory.
• The ghost soldiers attacked before dawn, and the allied forces fought them in a massive battle while a black vortex appeared overhead.
• Zhuge Liang noticed there were no screams from the battlefield, while Ling Yi recognized that he had figured out the deception and began the staged finale.
• Ling Yi charged the vortex, then attacked the allied command position as simulated lightning struck him; his punch hit Zhuge Liang, and both vanished along with the vortex and ghost soldiers.
• Liu Bei cried out for Zhuge Liang and fainted as the scene froze.

After Ling Yi earned an SRR rating, the Role-Playing Space updated its rules to restrict how much strength role-players could bring into future scenarios. Ling Yi dismissed the change, gained a Human Limit Remover, and negotiated with the Heavenly Guard for invitations and points in exchange for materials and a private estate.

• The Role-Playing Space awarded Ling Yi an SRR rating, gave Ancient Country a national fortune point, and announced that role-players would begin scenarios at their assigned characters’ strength and could permanently inherit part of that strength.
• Ling Yi opened his king-tier treasure chest and received a bound Human Limit Remover, which he decided to save for the next scenario.
• Guan Xiaoxiao met Zhuge Liang on Green Star and told him that he and his people had once been fictional characters; Ling Yi then made her Green Star’s ruler.
• Ling Yi reviewed his available role-play characters, ignored the online attention surrounding his latest victory, and continued planning to target Sakura-chan Country’s role-players in future scenarios.
• Zhao Zhe of the Heavenly Guard asked Ling Yi to sell his invitations and help Ancient Country’s role-players, and Ling Yi agreed to trade invitations and points for materials and a private estate.

Ling Yi entered the Bunshinsaba 8 scenario as Old Zhao, but his abilities remained unrestricted. After eliminating Sakura-chan Country’s role-players, he was carried to a ghost estate, where he met a beautiful ghost bride and asked what would happen next.

• Ling Yi realized his cheat system had left him powerful in the scenario and worried about Guan Xiaoxiao’s fear of ghosts.
• Ling Yi picked up a red envelope filled with spirit money, then used his shovel to kill Shuxia Gangcun and eliminate Sakura-chan Country’s role-players.
• Ling Yi tried to push himself to his physical limit but found ordinary exercise ineffective, then accepted an invitation from a ghost wedding party.
• Ling Yi used Telekinesis to lift the sedan chair when its ghost bearers could not move it, and it carried him through a red vortex to a ghost estate.
• Ling Yi met the beautiful ghost bride and questioned whether he was expected to marry her or become her meal.

Ling Yi subdued the ghost bride Lin Wanzhen, learned why she had tried to devour his Yang Qi, and let her feed on a little before bringing her along. Over a meal in Tuchuan City, Lin Wanzhen explained the scale of the supernatural world and the Ghost Suppression Bureau, leaving Ling Yi curious about its factions and powerful figures.

• Ling Yi stopped Lin Wanzhen’s attack with Telekinesis, beat her with his blood Qi and Demon-Subduing Fist, and forced her to return to her beautiful human appearance.
• Lin Wanzhen told Ling Yi that she was a low-tier Ghost King named Lin Wanzhen who had tried to devour Yang Qi to advance, and explained that an enigmatic Qing-dynasty Ghost King had taught her about creating a Reincarnation Ghost Domain.
• Ling Yi offered Lin Wanzhen some of his Yang Qi and told her to follow him without signing a contract; she accepted by feeding from his finger.
• Ling Wanzhen and Ling Yi ate in a restaurant in Tuchuan City, where she explained that Ghost Kings could form bodily vessels and that ghosts and monsters had grown more numerous in recent years.
• Lin Wanzhen described the Ghost Suppression Bureau’s five divisions and its ties to Buddhism, Daoism, and the Great Immortal Huang lineage, whose strongest figure was Old Master Huang.

Ling Yi opened a magical artifact shop and used Dumbledore’s magic to turn a Son Goku figure into a summonable guardian for Lin Wanzhen. The figure defeated a Ghost General, while Lin Wanzhen gained a powerful collectible bound to her.

• Ling Yi immobilized a man who approached his table, then left the restaurant with Lin Wanzhen and had her pay the bill.
• Ling Yi bought an anime figure shop, enchanted its sign to reveal its true magical-artifact identity, and transformed a Son Goku figure into an artifact.
• Ling Yi switched his role to Dumbledore and used magic to bring the figure to life, but its first version mistook Lin Wanzhen for a monster and attacked her.
• Ling Yi refined the figure over several hours, gave it to Lin Wanzhen, and explained how she could summon and dismiss it.
• After Lin Wanzhen summoned Kid Goku, he attacked and destroyed a Ghost General before she called him back and dismissed him.
• Lin Wanzhen became delighted with the figure, while Ling Yi recognized that helping her could prevent her Ghost Qi from endangering Tuchuan City.