Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi interviewed a woman in Liushan Square and exposed her income and paid encounters on his livestream. He then confronted Zhao Zhi and Mengmeng outside a coffee shop, leaving the couple stunned as he dragged Mengmeng before Zhao Zhi.

• Ling Yi hypnotized a long-haired woman during a street interview and got her to admit she relied on simps and charged clients for sex.
• Ling Yi slapped the woman, revealed his Reckless Man identity, and left her facing public exposure.
• Ling Yi watched Zhao Zhi find his girlfriend Mengmeng at a coffee shop with her muscular male friend, who called himself her bestie.
• Ling Yi transformed into a muscular man, slapped Zhao Zhi, and scolded him for wasting his life over Mengmeng.
• Ling Yi disabled Mengmeng and dragged her in front of Zhao Zhi, warning him to consider his parents before ruining his life.

Ling Yi dealt with another doomed relationship, then used future clips to expose a fake monk scheme and terrify a rude taxi passenger in Liushan City. In the Ling Realm, Yin Wanqing sensed a strange lag and accelerated fortune plundering while the author uncle considered how to continue his novels.

• Ling Yi confronted the gloomy-faced man about his relationship, then sent him away and left the woman with the gym guy.
• Ling Yi teleported away and set out to handle three incidents in Liushan City, including a fake monk scheme and a female taxi passenger.
• Ling Yi replaced a taxi driver, frightened the female passenger with reckless driving, and let her out at an expressway exit.
• Yin Wanqing sensed the Ling Realm lag, summoned Ye Tian, and ordered him to speed up fortune plundering and recruit more plunderers.
• Yin Wanqing sent a clone to monitor the Ling Realm and traveled to the high-end world called "Chat Group: Commanding the Myriad Worlds!"
• The author uncle worried about his unfinished novels and considered combining several protagonists into one world.

Ling Yi destroyed the memorial tablets honoring six Jiang war criminals, exposed the officials who had forced the temple to enshrine them, and became the focus of nationwide outrage and support. As he headed toward Meijian City, authorities quietly ordered police to stop pursuing him, while Ling Yi followed a suspicious van and confronted an armed group on a dirt road.

• Ling Yi attacked the monks at the temple, broke Master Zangkong’s leg, and crushed the six memorial tablets after challenging the abbot’s claims that all beings were equal.
• Master Zangkong named Wu Nüping, Jia Shiren, Bai Yisheng, and Bai Siwen as the people who had pressured him to accept the tablets, and Ling Yi identified them and Master Zangkong during his livestream.
• Viewers spread the incident online, and Director Ma told the police to stop operations to arrest Reckless Man; authorities had also largely identified him as Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi drove toward Meijian City and questioned the system about his growing anger, receiving the answer, “Follow your true heart!”
• After spotting a white van at a toll station, Ling Yi followed it onto a dirt road, where seven or eight armed people confronted him.
• Ling Yi took a homemade shotgun from the balding leader, fired it into his own palm, and showed that his physique could withstand the pellets before disappearing from where he stood.

Ling Yi rescued Lin Wanfei from kidnappers, but after abandoning her at a police station, he learned she would be kidnapped again by officials seeking leverage over her father. He set out to intercept her captors in Meijian City and began a livestream, leaving his plan to expose the city’s corruption underway.

• Ling Yi rescued Lin Wanfei, a fan who recognized him as Reckless Man and knew his real name was Ling Yi.
• After learning Lin Wanfei would become his woman in the future, Ling Yi drove her to a police station in Meijian City and left her there.
• A system video showed Lin Wanfei getting into a car with Chen Gouzhi, who planned to drug and kidnap her for Song Zhi, Meijian City's top official.
• Ling Yi learned Song Zhi was a corrupt official connected to criminal forces and intended to use Lin Wanfei to gain leverage over her father, Lin Pengyun.
• With minutes before the kidnapping, Ling Yi teleported to intercept Chen Gouzhi, disguised himself, started a livestream, and announced he was in Meijian City.

Ling Yi rescued Lin Wanfei from Chen Gouzhi and publicly threatened Meijian City's criminal forces and their protector, Song Zhi. After news of his challenge was suppressed online, Ling Yi decided to upgrade his livestreaming platform so people could post truthful videos, and he spent one million Recklessness Points to do it.

• Ling Yi stopped Chen Gouzhi's car, smashed it, freed Lin Wanfei, and let her cling to him as she cried.
• Chen Gouzhi shot Ling Yi, but Ling Yi caught the bullets, crushed the gun, and injured Chen Gouzhi while demanding to know why he had kidnapped Lin Wanfei.
• Ling Yi accused Song Zhi of ordering the kidnapping to control Lin Pengyun and threatened to wipe out Meijian City's criminal bosses before teleporting away with Lin Wanfei.
• News of Ling Yi's challenge spread online, but posts about Meijian City were quickly suppressed, suggesting that an even more powerful figure protected Song Zhi.
• On July 10, Lin Wanfei told Ling Yi that Meijian City videos had vanished from short-video platforms, prompting him to plan his own platform.
• Ling Yi consulted the system about upgrading the Reckless Man Livestreaming Platform, changed Merit Points into withdrawable money, and approved the one-million-point deduction.

After the system upgrade, Ling Yi began a mission in Shuiwen City, but a mysterious force suddenly sealed his powers and left him terrified. The force vanished, and he and Yin Wanqing discovered the Ling Realm had advanced before questioning the author, whose censored chapters had apparently triggered the crisis.

• Ling Yi reviewed the upgraded platform's missions, points, and store, then set out to expose a fake beggar in Shuiwen City.
• A force froze the world and sealed Ling Yi's power across the connected worlds, leaving him unable to move and afraid he might remain trapped forever.
• The seal disappeared, and Ling Yi returned to the Ling Realm, where he and Yin Wanqing calmed down and noticed the realm had reached Chaos Grade and his Law of World Breaking had reached 11%.
• Yin Wanqing summoned Uncle, and Ling Yi demanded to know what had caused the sealing force before beating him for his evasive answers.
• Uncle revealed that several chapters had been censored; Yin Wanqing warned him that his actions endangered countless lives, then sent him back after he promised to avoid further censorship.

Ling Yi identified the curse behind Liang Hai’s murder and confronted Du Bin over his mishandling of Guo Meimei’s case. After cursing Du Bin so he could never lie again, Ling Yi resigned from the Investigation Bureau and left the case to the others.

• Ling Yi examined the footage of Liang Hai’s murder and recognized the Soul-Painting Curse, concluding that a novice had cast it at the cost of their life.
• Ling Yi deduced that the curse master was likely connected to a merchant at Wuwu Commercial Building and linked the murder to Guo Meimei’s death.
• Ling Yi challenged Du Bin over his failure to investigate Guo Meimei’s allegations and used the Soul-Seizing Curse to make Du Bin unable to lie.
• Ling Yi placed his service pistol and investigator ID on the table, resigned, and left the investigation to the bureau.

After quitting their jobs, Ling Yi and Li Yue began a relationship and visited Guo Xiaomei, where Ling Yi broke her self-inflicted curse and saved her with the Life-Pardoning Curse. The chapter left Guo Xiaomei asleep and Li Yue worried about the cost of Ling Yi’s life-saving magic, though he claimed his life force was infinite.

• Ling Yi accepted Li Yue’s offer to try being his boyfriend, and the two left to eat together.
• Du Bin watched them leave, hired a curse master to kill them, and obtained five million from his father after the Truth Curse made him reveal his father’s secrets.
• Ling Yi sensed a curse at Guo Xiaomei’s apartment and broke the Spirit-Sealing Curse on her door.
• Guo Xiaomei told Ling Yi that the Dharma Curse Sect still existed in a hidden place called the Curse Realm.
• Ling Yi used the Life-Pardoning Curse to restore Guo Xiaomei’s health, and she cried herself to sleep in his arms.
• Li Yue asked about the Life-Decreeing Curse, and Ling Yi told her that his soul, primordial spirit, and life force were infinite.

Ling Yi told Li Yue about his immense soul, immortality, and sealed past lives, then warned Guo Xiaomei that the Special Bureau would pursue her for killing Peng Hai. As Du Bin hired Master Zheng to kill Ling Yi and the Bureau’s director led a team toward Ling Yi, several curse practitioners questioned the director’s ruthless orders.

• Ling Yi told Li Yue that he had mastered the curses in Curse Master and possessed an indestructible soul and nearly infinite life force, while his attempts to see his past lives revealed only chaos.
• Ling Yi explained that he had refused to join the Special Bureau and defeated director Guo Daoming’s party, then promised Li Yue he would protect Guo Xiaomei from the Bureau.
• Ling Yi gave Guo Xiaomei a curse implement for protection and left her at home after she declined Li Yue’s offer to stay with them.
• Du Bin hired Master Zheng for five million to kill Ling Yi, while Old Lin confronted Du Bin after the Soul-Suppressing Curse exposed Du Bin’s contempt for him.
• Guo Daoming led six other Special Bureau curse practitioners toward Ling Yi, declaring that Ling Yi—not Guo Xiaomei—was their target and must be eliminated.

Ling Yi used the Mind Curse to force noisy square dancers to keep dancing for twenty-four hours whenever they started, then went back to sleep. After Lao Mao warned him that Guo Daoming and Du Bin were coming for him, Ling Yi refused to flee and planned to face them with Yue'er at his side.

• Ling Yi used the Mind Curse on the square dancers and destroyed their speaker with the Lightning-Summoning Curse, leaving them terrified as they danced.
• The incident was posted online and became a trending topic.
• Yue'er arrived after Lao Mao could not reach Ling Yi, and Ling Yi learned he had dozens of missed calls.
• Lao Mao warned Ling Yi to leave Dafeng City because Guo Daoming and Du Bin, accompanied by a curse caster surnamed Zheng, were coming for him.
• Ling Yi told Yue'er he would confront his enemies rather than run, and asked her to stay by his side.
• Ling Yi and Yue'er decided to go eat, while Ling Yi said Guo Xiaomei had her own path.

Ling Yi’s test curse awakened a powerful curse master hidden in Yue’er, who grievously damaged Yue’er’s soul before Ling Yi trapped her in a white cat. The curse master revealed that a Realm Soul Fruit could restore Yue’er and that the fruits would ripen in the Curse Realm in three months, but a sudden green light outside the window interrupted Ling Yi’s plans.

• Ling Yi tested Yue’er’s aptitude with a Spirit-Tempering Curse, awakening a curse master who had concealed her soul inside Yue’er.
• The curse master attacked with a Death Wail, and Ling Yi used simultaneous curses to pull her soul from Yue’er and seal it in a painting.
• Ling Yi replenished Yue’er’s soul power, then forced the curse master into a white cat and bound her with Soul-Locking and Undying Curses.
• The trapped curse master said a Realm Soul Fruit could restore Yue’er’s soul origin and improve her aptitude, and that the fruits would ripen in three months.
• The curse master told Ling Yi that the Gate of the Curse Realm was in Kunshan but said she did not know where it was or how to open it.
• A swath of green light appeared outside the window, and Ling Yi and the white cat reacted with grim expressions.

Ling Yi dispelled Zheng Xiaoxiong’s deadly poison fog, killed the poison curse master and his accomplices, and confronted Guo Daoming to learn how to enter the Curse Realm. Guo Daoming attacked him with a Soul-Seizing Curse but failed, and the chapter ended with Guo Daoming ordering six Special Bureau curse masters to kill Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi used the Golden Light Curse to disperse Zheng Xiaoxiong’s poison fog, then used the Soul-Locking Curse to drag Zheng Xiaoxiong, Du Bin, and the young man surnamed Lin’s souls to his home and crush them.
• Guo Daoming arrived and charged into the complex after witnessing the three souls being taken, while the white cat explained that he bore the mark of someone who had been to the Curse Realm.
• Ling Yi jumped from his third-floor balcony, confronted Guo Daoming, and asked how to reach the Curse Realm.
• Guo Daoming cast the Soul-Seizing Curse, but Ling Yi was unharmed and seized him by the neck to demand the gate’s location.
• After Ling Yi released him, Guo Daoming realized the six curse masters he had brought from the Special Bureau were only watching, and ordered them to kill Ling Yi.

Ling Yi killed Guo Daoming and learned that the Realm Soul Fruit could grant control over the Curse Realm, with its gate set to open in three months. Back home, he used a spatial curse inheritance from the white cat to craft a curse artifact, while Yue'er remained unconscious and injured.

• Ling Yi learned from the white cat that the Realm Soul Fruit controlled the Curse Realm and that a Fruit-Seizing Tournament would precede its ripening.
• Ling Yi killed Guo Daoming, bound his escaping soul with the Soul-Locking Curse, and devoured it with the Soul Devourer Curse.
• The Special Bureau members invited Ling Yi to join them, but he refused and returned to his apartment.
• Ling Yi worried about taking the unconscious Yue'er to the Curse Realm, and the white cat offered him a spatial curse inheritance.
• Ling Yi sealed the Yuan Realm Curse into a jade thumb ring, creating a spatial curse artifact.

Li Xuan revealed her origins in the Curse Realm and explained how she came to possess Yue'er, prompting Ling Yi to set out early for Kunshan to seek the Realm Soul Fruit. On the way, their coach was stopped by villagers demanding a road toll, and three curse masters appeared, whom Ling Yi suspected had come for him.

• Li Xuan told Ling Yi about the Curse Realm's three great clans, her life as the Li Family's ostracized little princess, and her escape after her siblings ambushed her and exposed her knowledge of spatial curses.
• Li Xuan explained that Yue'er's damaged soul essence could only be restored by a Realm Soul Fruit, and Ling Yi resolved to reach the Curse Realm early through Kunshan.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan traveled by coach from Dafeng City toward Kunshan, hoping to find the gate before it opened in three months.
• At around two in the morning, villagers blocked the coach at a bridge and demanded a road toll; Ling Yi declined to intervene while passengers recorded the incident.
• Three curse masters arrived in another vehicle, and Ling Yi suspected Du Yun Feng had sent them to avenge his son.

Ling Yi used combination curses to kill Du Yun Feng and his hired curse masters, then searched Kunshan for the Gate of the Curse Realm. After getting its coordinates from the Special Bureau, he prepared to blast the gate open, despite Li Xuan warning that doing so could unleash the Curse Realm on the mortal world.

• Ling Yi teleported the three curse masters blocking the bus into Du Yun Feng's study, where their lightning curse killed Du Yun Feng as well.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan searched Kunshan for a week before Ling Yi asked Lao Mao to have the Special Bureau contact him.
• Lao Mao told Ling Yi that hundreds of copies of a Complete Compendium of Curse Books had appeared in Dafeng City, prompting widespread chaos.
• Special Bureau director Deng Hu sent Ling Yi the Gate of the Curse Realm's coordinates, and Ling Yi teleported to the rocky valley where it lay.
• Li Xuan warned that breaking the gate could let powerful curse corpses enter the mortal world, but Ling Yi began forming a lightning-and-fire combination curse to destroy it.

Ling Yi destroyed the Gate of the Curse Realm, hid it beneath a dangerous curse formation, and entered Three Curses City with Li Xuan to seek the Realm Soul Fruit. There, Li Xiaozi confronted them, and Ling Yi’s overwhelming display of stacked curses left her afraid to challenge him further.

• Ling Yi broke through the Gate of the Curse Realm, learned the Realm Soul Fruit was in Soul Valley, and concealed the gate beneath more than two thousand curses.
• Situ Longcheng, Feng Bing, and Li Aohu investigated the gate, but the formation killed four testers and transported two others away.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan arrived in Three Curses City, where Ling Yi questioned whether Yuan Zun had created the Curse Realm by devouring others’ life and soul power.
• Li Xiaozi demanded that Ling Yi hand over Li Xuan, who identified her as the sister responsible for her suffering.
• When Li Xiaozi told Ling Yi to stop, he formed more than a dozen layered Fire and Lightning Curses, frightening her into silence.

Ling Yi and Li Xuan explored Three Curses City, then infiltrated a shipment of Soul Crystals bound for the Situ Family and seized control of its guards. After discovering the flying curse artifact’s advanced array of seals, Ling Yi learned that the Situ Family kept its secret curse-art scrolls in a guarded curse tower.

• Li Xiaozi left after threatening Ling Yi, and Li Xuan explained her history and her connection to Situ Yanmu.
• Ling Yi browsed the Murong Family Curse Artifact Shop, learned about Soul Crystals, and left after the sunglasses-wearing shopkeeper found him interesting.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan went to the Situ Family’s Soul Crystal mine and followed a monthly shipment aboard its flying curse artifacts.
• Ling Yi used stacked Soul-Suppressing and Soul-Control Curses to take control of the hundred curse practitioners guarding the shipment.
• Ling Yi studied the flying curse artifact’s 399 seals and learned from Li Xuan that the Situ Family’s secret curse-art scrolls were kept in a guarded curse tower.

The Situ Family learned that its treasury had been robbed and pursued the culprits as Ling Yi destroyed the curse tower and returned to Li Xuan’s home. Li Xuan revealed the Reincarnation Curse and the family secret behind it, while Ling Yi learned that its power could summon a past reincarnation.

• Situ Longcheng ordered the Situ Family to prepare for the fruit-seizing assembly and discussed the Realm Soul Tree, Murong Haoyue, and the declining Curse Power.
• A curse practitioner reported that the Situ Family treasury had been emptied, prompting Situ Longcheng to seal Three Curses City and hunt for the thieves.
• Ling Yi’s attack triggered an explosion and purple lightning near the curse tower, while three flying curse artifacts drew the Situ Family’s forces in different directions.
• Ling Yi returned with Li Xuan to her dusty bedroom in the northern district, where she opened a hidden passage and retrieved the Reincarnation Curse.
• Li Xuan explained that her mother had hidden half of the Reincarnation Curse after Li Xuan’s father betrayed her, and told Ling Yi that the curse could summon one of a person’s reincarnated selves.

Ling Yi helped Li Xuan destroy the Li Family and take over Li Xiaozi’s body before heading toward the Ancient Battlefield to seek the Realm Soul Fruit. When the Reincarnation Curse failed to affect him, he realized he had neither a previous nor a next life, while his research into the Curse Realm’s history raised questions about Yuan Zun and the approaching Month of No Boundaries.

• Ling Yi sealed the Li Family estate with a curse formation set to destroy it in three days, while sparing women, children, and ordinary people.
• On the way to the Ancient Battlefield, Ling Yi rejected Li Xiaozi’s pleas and helped Li Xuan replace her soul in Li Xiaozi’s body.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan set out for the City of Ruins, planning to find a way into the Ancient Battlefield without confronting the three great families.
• After the Reincarnation Curse had no effect on him, Ling Yi told Li Xuan that he had no reincarnation and suggested they stop investigating the mystery.
• While they rested, Ling Yi read that Yuan Zun had seized the Curse Realm and that the ancient histories concealed the identity of the beings who fought curse masters.
• Ling Yi wondered whether the Ancient Battlefield held clues about those beings and the Realm Soul Fruit, and suspected Yuan Zun had deliberately hidden the past before the Month of No Boundaries arrived.

Ling Yi studied the dangers and methods of curse mastery while traveling with Li Xuan, then reached the City of Ruins with her and prepared to enter the Ancient Battlefield. They entered unnoticed, unaware that Li Xuan’s borrowed face matched a missing person the Situ Family was searching for.

• Ling Yi learned that curse masters consumed their life force and soul, lost their innate origins, and suffered the Heavenly Dao’s abandonment, while Curse Talismans and Curse Treasures could store curses in jade.
• Li Xuan asked whether Mortal Realm curse masters could be brought into the Curse Realm, and Ling Yi warned that the Month of No Boundaries might make the realm dangerous too.
• Ling Yi used jade from the Situ Family’s treasury to make Curse Treasures, while Li Xuan watched and questioned his ability to form seals so easily.
• After traveling for over a dozen days, Ling Yi and Li Xuan reached the City of Ruins and decided to rest before entering the Ancient Battlefield.
• Ling Yi and Li Xuan entered the city without being stopped, unaware that Li Xuan’s face was Li Xiaozi’s and that the Situ Family had issued a missing-person notice for her because she might know about the Reincarnation Curse.