Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi faced threats from the entertainment industry after his poems and songs disrupted its established power, and he used his second system to target Du Pengfeng with fabricated scandals. As Du Pengfeng was caught in a nightclub raid, Ling Yi went to Fatty Dong Fei’s studio to record another song.

• Fatty Dong Fei warned Ling Yi that his poems and songs had angered powerful people, and Ling Yi revealed that he owned sixty-five percent of Cool Cat.
• Ling Yi read Du Pengfeng’s accusation that his ten songs were not really his, then used the Infinite Passive Scandal System to set up scandals about Du Pengfeng and posted, “Du Pengfeng, you're the first!”
• Jiang Qinglan and Bai Lei discussed Ling Yi’s growing conflict with the entertainment industry, and Bai Lei arranged to transfer his novel tips to him.
• Du Pengfeng went to a nightclub, where police cornered him and a streamer filmed the incident.
• Ling Yi arrived at Fatty Dong Fei’s recording studio and said he would record “The You of the Past” with only his guitar.

Ling Yi sang for Fatty, then received sign-in rewards after learning his poems had been selected for textbooks and his songs had appeared on the Seafood Livestreaming Platform. He contacted the banned singer Da Yu Shen, and the chapter ended with Da Yu Shen and Liu Yufei meeting Ling Yi and Fatty.

• Ling Yi sang a song that moved Fatty to tears as Fatty remembered his lost music career.
• The system rewarded Ling Yi with a 65% stake in the Slow Foot Livestreaming Platform and Master Hidden Weapon Skill.
• Ling Yi discovered that Da Yu Shen had been banned for ten years after covering one of his songs, so he sent Da Yu Shen his phone number.
• Da Yu Shen called Ling Yi and arranged to meet him, while Liu Yufei insisted on coming along.
• Da Yu Shen and Liu Yufei met Ling Yi and Fatty, and Liu Yufei introduced herself as Ling Yi's fan.

Ling Yi recruited Da Yu Shen for Slow Foot and his future entertainment company, offered Liu Yufei a role as Wang Yuyan, and challenged Dong Fei to help remake the entertainment industry. When armed attackers confronted them, Ling Yi launched a prominent livestream and denounced the rules that had silenced him, while Slow Foot’s executives realized he had become the platform’s majority owner.

• Ling Yi offered Da Yu Shen an S-tier Slow Foot contract, songs to release, and a future place in his entertainment company, and Da Yu Shen agreed.
• Ling Yi proposed casting Liu Yufei as Wang Yuyan in a planned Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils adaptation and invited her to join his future company; she said she would think about it.
• Ling Yi asked Dong Fei to help overturn the entertainment industry, telling him to lose weight, quit smoking, and stop drinking first.
• Ten masked men carrying machetes approached Ling Yi and his companions, so Ling Yi started a homepage-recommended livestream, gave Dong Fei the phone, and told Da Yu Shen to call the police.
• Slow Foot’s executives discovered they could not ban the stream and learned that Ling Yi had acquired sixty-five percent of the company’s shares.
• As the attackers confronted him on camera, Ling Yi accused powerful figures of suppressing talent and destroying cultural heritage, then roared that a filthy heaven and earth should be destroyed.

Ling Yi survived an armed ambush, used the livestream to challenge the entertainment industry’s powerful interests, and exposed the police’s delayed response. He left the scene with Fatty Dong and the others, asserted control over Slow Foot, and returned home as dirt on Du Pengfeng spread online.

• The head thug struck Ling Yi with a machete, but Ling Yi’s forehead and neck remained unharmed, so the thugs tried to flee in their van.
• Ling Yi used Iron Mountain Slam to overturn the van, ended his livestream, and received God Grade Script Editing Skills from the system.
• Ling Yi explained to Fatty Dong, Da Yu Shen, and Liu Yufei that his livestream performance was meant to force action against entertainment-industry interests and signal that he would not be controlled.
• Ling Yi stopped the injured thugs from escaping by piercing one man’s knee with a chopstick, then recorded the police arriving forty-five minutes after they had called.
• Ling Yi warned an officer not to become a scapegoat and left with his companions, then told Lin Hai that Slow Foot belonged to him while leaving Lin Hai in charge for now.
• Ling Yi returned home after nine that evening as dirt on Du Pengfeng exploded across the internet.

Ling Yi published The Legend of the Condor Heroes as the fallout from his livestream spread and Jin Hai Entertainment learned he owned Slow Foot and Cool Cat. The Heavenly Guard was deployed, and after meeting Liu Yufei for breakfast, Ling Yi learned that her grandfather was Liu Beishan, its founder and chief instructor.

• Ling Yi promised to teach Ling Qiqi martial arts, then began writing The Legend of the Condor Heroes and uploaded five chapters.
• Zheng Yang and Bai Mei realized Ling Yi owned Slow Foot and Cool Cat, while Director Wu warned them that the Heavenly Guard had been deployed and demanded money.
• Ling Yi practiced boxing and encountered Liu Yufei, who invited him to breakfast and said her grandfather wanted to meet him.
• Liu Yufei joked that she might date Ling Yi if he passed her grandfather's test, then revealed her grandfather was Liu Beishan, the founder and chief instructor of the Heavenly Guard.
• Ling Yi was shocked to learn Liu Yufei was Liu Beishan's granddaughter.

Ling Yi brought Liu Yufei home, where his younger sister Ling Qiqi arrived and joined them for lunch at the Liu family’s house. He managed Slow Foot, arranged songs for Da Yu Shen, and wrote more of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, then discovered the novel’s tips had earned a staggering amount as Liu Yufei reclaimed the top spot.

• Ling Yi introduced Ling Qiqi to Liu Yufei, and Ling Qiqi agreed to visit Liu Yufei’s home for lunch after learning her grandfather was Marshal Liu Beishan.
• Lin Hai told Ling Yi that Da Yu Shen’s contract was ready, and Ling Yi ordered Slow Foot’s guilds to compete fairly and declared that he alone would have the final say at the company.
• Ling Yi told Da Yu Shen to visit the next day for songs and asked Fatty Dong to arrange a band to record them.
• Ling Yi wrote and uploaded the sixth through twelfth installments of The Legend of the Condor Heroes while Ling Qiqi and Liu Yufei read over his shoulders.
• Ling Yi, Ling Qiqi, and Liu Yufei saw the novel’s enormous tip total, and Liu Yufei tipped five million to reclaim first place on the leaderboard.
• Ling Qiqi estimated Ling Yi could earn one hundred million within seven days, just as an electronic notification sounded in his mind.

After receiving grand magister-level magic, Ling Yi visited Liu Yufei’s grandfather, Liu Beishan, and used a Magic Shield to stop his martial arts challenge. Over dinner, Liu Beishan tried to recruit Ling Yi and obtain his technique, but Ling Yi rejected his offers and left the negotiations unresolved.

• Ling Yi signed in and gained grand magister-level magic of all elements, while the system warned him that the world was not supernatural and he should use magic cautiously.
• Liu Yufei brought Ling Yi and Ling Qiqi to her home, where Liu Beishan challenged Ling Yi to exchange blows.
• Ling Yi’s Magic Shield blocked Liu Beishan’s Eight Trigrams Palm strikes, shocking Liu Beishan and making Ling Qiqi and Liu Yufei curious about Ling Yi’s ability.
• At dinner, Liu Beishan asked about Ling Yi’s plans, but Ling Yi brushed him off and frustrated the old man.
• Liu Beishan offered Ling Yi an instructor position with the Heavenly Guard, a villa for his technique, and Liu Yufei as a wife, but Ling Yi did not accept the offers.

Ling Yi uploaded eleven songs for September’s chart battle, but the Ancient City Music Platform erased his account and blocked his music after its leaders plotted to keep him off the charts. He recruited independent singers and planned a major stage event for September 6, setting up a public confrontation with the platform and the Music Association.

• Ling Yi rejected Liu Beishan’s attempt to maneuver him into an official identity and invited Liu Yufei to bring Da Yu Shen over the next day to discuss September’s chart battle.
• Ling Yi uploaded eleven songs to the Ancient City Music Platform while Liang Cheng, Liang Bin, and Zheng Feiyun planned to delete his songs, exclude him from the charts, and manipulate the awards ceremony.
• Ling Yi taught Ling Qiqi disguised magic techniques as Daoist arts, while his novels continued driving traffic to Big Persimmon Chinese Web and his fan base grew to twenty million.
• Da Yu Shen could not find Ling Yi’s song, and Ling Yi discovered that his Ancient City Music Platform account had been deleted.
• Ling Yi asked Lin Hai to recruit about twenty unaffiliated singing streamers on ten-year S-tier contracts, then told Fatty Dong to build a high-spec stage for September 6.

Ling Yi began building a music operation to challenge the Ancient City Music Platform, recruiting a band and preparing to bring twenty promising newcomers to Shuiwei City. The chapter ended with the newcomers learning that Ling Yi owned the Slow Foot platform.

• Ling Yi decided to challenge the Ancient City Music Platform, gave Da Yu Shen songs to prepare for September sixth, and asked Ling Qiqi and Liu Yufei to set up an entertainment company.
• Ling Yi reviewed Lin Hai’s list of twenty newcomers, including Wang Bo, Yang Jinli, Mao Bengyi, and Chairman Chou, and rented a floor at the Shuigang Hotel for them.
• Fatty Dong introduced Ling Yi to six musicians, who performed the accompaniment for “Big Fish” well enough to join his band on a monthly base salary of a hundred thousand each.
• Ling Yi arranged for the band to complete accompaniments for at least thirty songs over half a month and returned home to finish The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
• Lin Hai brought the twenty newcomers to the Shuigang Hotel, where they learned that Ling Yi owned the Slow Foot platform.

After gaining control of Qiqiguo Video Platform, Ling Yi revised his plans to challenge the entertainment industry and gathered his new recruits for a meeting. Yang Jinli warned him that two influencers might be reporting on him, and he sent her to summon them so he could investigate.

• Ling Yi added Jin Shuimiao and Gao Can to a group chat, revealed his stakes in Cool Cat Music, Slow Foot, and Qiqiguo, and ordered the newcomers to record demos at Fatty Dong's place.
• Ling Yi rejected Jiang Qinglan's suggestion to publish physical books and spent the day refining a proposal for changing the entertainment industry.
• The next morning, Ling Yi met Yang Jinli at Shuigang Hotel and noticed she had bought breakfast for the other recruits.
• Yang Jinli told Ling Yi that two influential women had made calls the night before and appeared to report on him.
• Ling Yi told Yang Jinli to summon all nineteen other recruits, including the two suspected women, to the meeting room.
• Yang Jinli entered the women's room and called them aunties while informing them about the meeting.

Yang Jinli exposed Wang Lina and Zhao Wen as spies, and Ling Yi confronted them after revealing his plan for The Voice of All. He ordered legal action against the pair and told Lin Hai to clean house at the Slow Foot platform.

• Yang Jinli left the two women after calling them spies and told Ling Yi that they had revealed secrets within her hearing.
• Jin Shuimiao, Lin Hai, and Gao Can reviewed Ling Yi’s plans for The Voice of All, including public auditions, viewer voting, and livestreamed contract signings.
• Ling Yi assigned the three men responsibilities for launching the show and discussed safeguards against vote manipulation and information leaks.
• Yang Jinli and the other young singers joined the meeting, and Ling Yi announced a September 6 opening concert, one week of practice, and consequences for those who failed to meet his requirements.
• Ling Yi identified Wang Lina and Zhao Wen as recruits arranged by Zhao Longfei and Li Shuanghua of Longfei Entertainment and Shuanghua Entertainment.
• Ling Yi told Lin Hai to take legal action against Wang Lina and Zhao Wen and to clean house at the Slow Foot platform.

Ling Yi used his second golden finger to expose Longfei Entertainment’s crimes, then coached his new singers as the company and Shuanghua Entertainment collapsed. As September 6 approached, Ancient City Music announced that technical problems had kept Ling Yi’s songs from being uploaded, while still inviting him to its awards ceremony.

• Ling Yi targeted Longfei Entertainment with his second golden finger and posted a warning about the company on Xinbo.
• Ling Yi coached Wang Bo, Mao Bengyi, Chairman Chou, and Yang Jinli, then recorded Yang Jinli singing with Liu Yufei and Ling Qiqi.
• Longfei Entertainment and Shuanghua Entertainment fell after tax evasion and celebrity scandals drew intervention from the authorities, leaving seven major companies frightened of Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi continued preparing his singers for September 6 as Ancient City Music closed its upload channel.
• Jin Shuimiao told Ling Yi that Ancient City Music had posted an announcement about him, and Ling Yi read that it blamed technical problems for his songs’ failed uploads while inviting him to the September 6 awards ceremony.

Ling Yi arranged for The Voice of All to be broadcast on multiple platforms, including Shuiwei Satellite TV, and the event began on September 6 with a packed gymnasium and a huge online audience. The performances won over viewers while Ancient City Music’s livestream dwindled, leaving Liang Cheng and Liang Bin facing the consequences of Ling Yi’s challenge.

• Ling Yi told his group that Shuiwei Satellite TV would broadcast The Voice of All after he used a check-in reward to lease its entertainment channel, then announced the event with its partners.
• Liang Cheng and Liang Bin feared Ling Yi’s growing influence and discussed preparing to leave the country if Ancient City Music came under investigation.
• Lin Hai and the others moved the opening ceremony to Shuiwei City Gymnasium and invited university freshmen to attend as Ling Qiqi, Yang Jinli, Liu Yufei, and the other performers prepared backstage.
• Ling Yi used a Calming Formation to ease the performers’ nerves before Ling Qiqi, Yang Jinli, and Liu Yufei opened the show with “Calories.”
• Wang Bo, Mao Bengyi, and Da Yu Shen performed to an increasingly excited audience, with Da Yu Shen drawing a huge response for “Big Fish” and “Dalabengba.”
• The Voice of All’s audience surged across its platforms while Ancient City Music’s livestream fell below ten thousand viewers, where viewers mocked and cursed the company.

After Ling Qiqi was injured in an attempted abduction, Ling Yi took her home and rejected the Heavenly Guard’s efforts to keep her under protection. He later helped rebuild the entertainment industry through Ling Yi Entertainment, then returned to the Ling Realm, where its progress brought him closer to breaking through the world’s boundary.

• Ling Yi and Liu Yufei went to the hospital to visit Ling Qiqi, who had fought off her would-be abductors with lightning magic and sprained her ankle while retreating.
• Ling Yi took Ling Qiqi out of the hospital despite Liu Beishan’s objections, accused him of coveting her powers, and teleported them home.
• Ling Yi told Ling Qiqi to give Liu Yufei a copy of the Daoist Arts, then spent his time writing novels as The Voice of All dominated the entertainment industry.
• Scandals brought down Ancient City Music and numerous celebrities, after which Ling Yi Entertainment announced new dramas and variety shows that revived public interest in entertainment.
• Ling Yi eventually left the world after arranging to die of old age, then returned to the Ling Realm and learned that its Law of World Breaking had reached 1% and that it could communicate with the author through Dream Entry.

Ling Yi’s brain developed uncontrollably after a lightning strike, consuming more energy than his deteriorating body could supply. He built and successfully tested a device that charged his body with simulated bioelectric energy, then began investigating the limits of human evolution and consciousness.

• After a lightning strike enhanced his memory and intelligence, Ling Yi’s brain kept developing while his body weakened from its extreme energy demands.
• Ling Yi concluded that food could not supply energy quickly enough and devised a way to charge his body directly with usable energy.
• He assembled a bioenergy simulation device and inserted its conductive needles at the locations he had calculated.
• Ling Yi activated the device, felt his body ease, and confirmed that it accepted the simulated bioelectric energy without apparent side effects.
• With his brain temporarily sated, Ling Yi began studying the human body, intelligence, consciousness, and the barriers to human evolution.

Ling Yi completed his brain’s First-Stage Evolution, gaining extraordinary abilities and adapting his brain charger for portable wireless use. After evolving his body and studying his new functions, he began creating a virtual Minecraft world to help manage and control them.

• Ling Yi’s brain development reached one hundred percent, and its evolution let him charge continuously without straining his brain.
• Ling Yi rebuilt his brain charger inside a mooncake tin and used wireless chargers and phone components to power it discreetly.
• Ling Yi discovered new abilities in his brain’s 27 previously unknown functional regions, including signal transmission, magnetic-field control, and force-field perception.
• Ling Yi spent the following days studying online to understand and master his new abilities.
• Over the next month, Ling Yi evolved his body to more than ten times an ordinary person’s level and developed a powerful combat system.
• Ling Yi began constructing a virtual Minecraft world in his mind to manage information and control his brain’s functional regions.

After constables and Luo Yuhong found him safe, Ling Yi returned to school despite wanting to drop out. He reunited with his mother, Li Xiaomeng, who agreed to get him advanced computing equipment, while he continued building a virtual world in his mind.

• Three constables, Luo Yuhong, and Li Xiaomeng visited Ling Yi, and he warned the constables to avoid Lituan Technology and buy Tonghai stock.
• Ling Yi told Luo Yuhong he wanted to drop out, but Li Xiaomeng and Luo Yuhong persuaded him to stay in school.
• Ling Yi explained that he would remain where he lived, apply to a university in the Capital, and asked Li Xiaomeng for an industrial-grade 3D printer and a lithography machine.
• Li Xiaomeng cooked Ling Yi a meal, and the next day she took him to school before returning to the Capital.
• Ling Yi's transformed appearance surprised his classmates as he kept constructing a virtual world in his mind.

Ling Yi changed deskmates and spent class building the Heavenly Dao for his Brain Realm, leaving Jiang Liran curious about his strange spells of concentration. After classmates saw them sitting close together, Ling Yi realized their hostility had made him a target and prepared to confront them.

• Zhao Minghai complained about Ling Yi's love letters, and Ling Yi handed them all to him before Zhao Minghai asked the teacher to change his seatmate.
• Teacher Luo moved Jiang Liran, the class monitor and school beauty, beside Ling Yi after Jiang Liran requested it, and the two openly teased each other about being attracted to one another.
• Ling Yi spent the English lesson concentrating on creating the Heavenly Dao for his Brain Realm, and Jiang Liran noticed that he seemed to be spacing out.
• Ling Yi took a call from his mother, Li Xiaomeng, who told him that equipment would arrive in Red Leaf Province the next day and gave him a phone number.
• Ling Yi noticed that classmates were glaring at him because he and Jiang Liran had seemed intimate, and he decided he would have to fight them to stop further trouble.

Ling Yi’s strength and heart-piercing remarks went viral after Zhao Minghai posted a video of him, making him an overnight sensation at school. Meanwhile, Ling Yi completed the Brain Realm and its Heavenly Dao, then prepared to turn it into a Reincarnation Space that could eventually simulate the Myriad Worlds.

• Ling Yi talked Li Hao and the other boys out of attacking him, then snapped a tree with a kick and left them wailing.
• Zhao Minghai uploaded a video of Ling Yi’s confrontation to Slow Foot, where it spread rapidly and drew attention to Ling Yi’s words and strength.
• The next day, Jiang Liran showed Ling Yi the viral video, while Zhao Minghai kept filming them and Ling Yi explained his kick as magnetic vibrations.
• Ling Yi took two days off and completed the Brain Realm and its Heavenly Dao, which took over managing his brain and made his abilities easier to use.
• Ling Yi decided to give the Brain Realm a Reincarnation Space template so it could guide civilization and eventually evolve the Myriad Worlds.

Ling Yi built Reincarnation 1.0, a biological computer made from an evolved pig brain, and connected it to his Brain Realm. With Heavenly Dao confirming the connection, Ling Yi prepared to create the Reincarnation World and recruit reincarnators.

• Ling Yi concluded that creating a Reincarnation Space required external equipment and devised a biological computer to carry and store consciousness.
• Ling Yi explained the storage abilities of brain cells and DNA, while acknowledging he could not yet read genetic data.
• Ling Yi bought a recently deceased pig brain, revived it with a brain charger, erased its remaining memories, and installed a copy of Heavenly Dao.
• Ling Yi completed the blue-cube Reincarnation 1.0, whose hardware, software, peripherals, and estimated storage capacity he specified.
• Ling Yi tested Heavenly Dao's control over nearby electronics and authorized the biological computer to connect to his Brain Realm.
• Heavenly Dao confirmed the connection, and Ling Yi turned to creating the Reincarnation World and finding reincarnators.