Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi traveled through the Desolate Desert and rescued Mu Miao, who had been fleeing Green Mang City’s men. After learning she was seeking a soul cultivator in Flame City to obtain a Soul-Replenishing Pill for her father, Ling Yi agreed to accompany her there.

• Ling Yi crossed the Desolate Desert, where Mu Miao fell from her desert rhinoceros and begged him to save her.
• Ling Yi healed Mu Miao, killed the men pursuing her, and conjured a vine-covered earthen house for them to shelter in.
• After Mu Miao woke, Ling Yi shared food and wine with her, and she explained that the Desolate Desert contained twelve oasis cities.
• Mu Miao said she had come to find a Soul-Replenishing Pill for her father and had nearly died after someone exposed her whereabouts to Green Mang City’s men.
• Ling Yi explained what he knew about soul cultivators and agreed to travel with Mu Miao to Flame City the next day.

Ling Yi traveled through the Nine Palaces Realm, recruited the soul cultivator Li Muyun as a Blood Shadow, and left Mu Miao with a Soul-Replenishing Pill and a guide to cultivation. After years of travel and opening a passage through the Forest of Myriad Ages, his Blood Shadow System reached level 49, leaving him one level short of his goal.

• Ling Yi found the possessed young man Li Muyun in Flame City and killed him, then summoned him as a Blood Shadow and obtained his Soul-Replenishing Pill.
• Ling Yi gave the pill to Mu Miao and left, while Li Muyun agreed to escort her home and guide her cultivation for a month.
• Ling Yi traveled across the Nine Palaces Realm, then spent three years reaching the Forest of Myriad Ages and a year failing to master its ancient formation patterns.
• Ling Yi had Yin Chen deduce the formation patterns and spent nearly six years breaking through tens of thousands of restrictions to open a safe north-south passage.
• Ling Yi's Blood Shadow System reached level 49, and he needed 256 quadrillion low-grade spirit stones to reach level 50.

Ling Yi and the Mo sisters ascended to a world with far more laws after the system reset, leaving Zhuge Wuchen stranded on the Heavenly Origin Continent. The updated system revealed a new level-one Blood Shadow System and Ling Yi discovered that his cultivation was now Ten Thousand Laws Return to One lv3.

• Ling Yi met Lin Weiwei and Mu Miao at Asgard Academy, then an Ascension Passage appeared after Mo Yumeng brought Mo Yanran to meet him.
• The system began resetting and ordered Ling Yi to enter the higher-rule world, so he joined Mo Yumeng and Mo Yanran in ascending.
• More than a hundred Blood Shadows triggered Ascension Passages, while Zhuge Wuchen remained on the Heavenly Origin Continent and lost access to the system's functions.
• Ling Yi, Mo Yumeng, and Mo Yanran arrived in a world where Spiritual Power was suppressed, and Ling Yi told the sisters to avoid using their abilities openly.
• The system finished updating and showed Ling Yi its new functions, 94 available Blood Shadow summons, and his Ten Thousand Laws Return to One cultivation at lv3.

Ling Yi learned that he had arrived on Ancient Origin Star, a technologically backward world in the Origin Spirit Universe, and ordered his companions to gather emotion points by recruiting streamers and celebrities and creating a popular virtual game. Half a month later, he watched streamer Yinyin prepare to hike across the Cloud Flood Dragon Mountain Range, where her viewers had chosen her survival tools.

• Ling Yi directed the Blood Shadows in different worlds to gather resources and told Zhuge Wuchen to ascend from the Heavenly Origin Continent.
• Yin Chen connected to the Origin Spirit Network and identified the planet as Ancient Origin Star, where advanced civilizations had developed quantum communication and consciousness transmission.
• Ling Yi assigned his companions to recruit streamers and celebrities as Blood Shadow mercenaries and tasked Yin Chen with creating a hit universe-grade virtual game to earn emotion points.
• Ling Yi noticed Ancient Origin Star’s six moons and suspected they might hold something worth investigating.
• Half a month later, Ling Yi arrived at Dragon Head Mountain and watched streamer Yinyin prepare for a livestreamed survival hike across the Cloud Flood Dragon Mountain Range.
• Yinyin explained the hike’s rules, and her viewers selected three tools for her to take.

Ling Yi discovered living Source Spirit Sealing Stones on Dragon Head Mountain and accidentally summoned Fairy Shuiji, whose power transformed his Spiritual Power into a stronger force. After collecting the stones, he brought Fairy Shuiji to Mo Yumeng and considered how to investigate the twelve stones he had gathered.

• Ling Yi found a red Source Spirit Sealing Stone containing a faint living presence, then used a spatial step to leave livestreamer Yinyin behind.
• Ling Yi discovered more life-bearing gems on Dragon Head Mountain and learned that breaking one could destroy the being inside it.
• Ling Yi used Blood Shadow Summoning on the shattered gem, summoning Fairy Shuiji and transforming all his Spiritual Power into an overbearing force that strengthened his Divine Abilities.
• Fairy Shuiji explained that her memories were sealed and identified the gems as Source Spirit Sealing Stones.
• Ling Yi collected twelve Source Spirit Sealing Stones, left Fairy Shuiji with Mo Yumeng, and later took out spirit stones to examine the stones.

Ling Yi tested the sealing stones, then encountered livestreamer Yinyin as she and her team faced a pack of wolves. He recruited her as a Blood Shadow Mercenary, and the wolves fled.

• Ling Yi failed to affect the sealing stones, summoned a docile Heaven-Devouring Howl from one, and asked Yin Chen to research the stones.
• Ling Yi spent the next half month collecting sealing stones and wandering through the Cloud Flood Dragon Mountain Range.
• Yinyin, exhausted and malnourished after weeks in the mountains, faced a pack of more than forty wolves with her team.
• Yinyin challenged the wolf king, then pleaded for her life when it prepared to attack.
• Ling Yi froze time, offered Yinyin a chance to live as his Blood Shadow Mercenary, and she agreed.
• The wolf king suddenly fled in terror, and the rest of the wolves followed.

Ling Yi expanded his Blood Shadow System while learning the Origin Spirit Universe’s history of war with the God Realm and the fate of its sealed survivors. After mastering the universe’s laws and upgrading the system, his Consciousness Clone decided the world had nothing left to offer and prepared to transmigrate into a new one.

• Yinyin’s viral wolf-king video and the launch of Yin Chen’s Origin Spirit Online Game brought Ling Yi a flood of Emotion Points, though system upgrades became increasingly costly.
• Fairy Shuiji and the Heaven-Devouring Howl told Ling Yi how the God Realm’s invasions devastated the Origin Spirit Universe and how the survivors used the Dharma-Ending Plan to repel the attackers at the cost of the universe’s Spiritual Qi.
• Ling Yi ordered Fairy Shuiji and the Heaven-Devouring Howl to find the sealing stones so Yin Chen could revive their former allies, and he vowed to take them to war against the God Realm after ascending.
• Over ten years, Ling Yi mastered all 1,280 known laws and raised the Blood Shadow System to level 30, unlocking expanded sharing, a shop, a lottery, and missions.
• Ling Yi’s Consciousness Clone judged the world finished, left a clone to create a world passage, and prepared the main body for a complete protagonist-replacement transmigration with sealed strength and memories.

After transmigrating into the low-aptitude outer disciple Ling Yi, he endured mockery and began to suspect his fellow disciple Ye Tian was a protagonist with a hidden cheat. When an inner disciple arrived looking for Ye Tian, Ling Yi’s system activated and offered him a chance to bind the villain Bai Feng.

• Ling Yi learned that his ninth-grade mixed spiritual roots made him a sect laughingstock, and Ye Tian persuaded him to keep attending morning practice despite their lack of progress.
• Half a month later, Ye Tian returned bruised after Feng Hu took his Qi Gathering Pill, while Ling Yi had already surrendered his own pill to Feng Hu to avoid a beating.
• A beautiful woman gave Ye Tian ten Qi Gathering Pills and returned his family’s jade pendant, then promised to help him reach Qi Refining, Third Layer before ending their relationship.
• Ye Tian’s blood made the jade pendant flash green, and he left to investigate it; Ling Yi concluded that Ye Tian was a protagonist and decided he should try to stay close to him.
• The next morning, an inner disciple approached the outer disciples, and Ling Yi’s Villain Binding System activated and identified Bai Feng as a villain to bind.

Ling Yi’s bound villain, Bai Feng, gained spirit stones, pills, and a cultivation breakthrough, triggering critical rewards that gave Ling Yi wealth and raised him to the Foundation Establishment Stage. Ling Yi concealed his new cultivation and, after finding the Basic Breathing Technique too slow, decided to stop cultivating.

• Bai Feng confronted Ye Tian, punished his cousin Feng Hu for misusing his name, and apologized to the outer-sect disciples.
• Over the next week, Ling Yi noticed Ye Tian growing stronger and suspected that Ye Tian wanted to kill him over the jade pendant secret.
• Bai Feng acquired 100,000 low-grade spirit stones and ten Yuan Returning Pills, granting Ling Yi ten million spirit stones and 10,000 pills through critical multipliers.
• Bai Feng advanced to the fourth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and Ling Yi received a critical cultivation gain that raised him to the first level.
• Ling Yi tried the Basic Breathing Technique, gave up because progress was too slow, and set his cultivation concealment to display him as a mortal.

Ling Yi hid his Foundation Establishment cultivation while pretending to struggle toward the Mystic Heaven Sect’s entry requirements, and Ye Tian reached Qi Refining Stage Second Level before advancing again with his master’s help. As Bai Feng investigated Ye Tian and set plans in motion, Ling Yi searched unsuccessfully for another villain to bind and settled on cultivating where others could see him.

• Ling Yi decided to conceal his cultivation and pretend to cultivate diligently, while Ye Tian entered their dormitory and reconsidered his intent to kill him.
• Ye Tian revealed that he had reached Qi Refining Stage Second Level, and Ling Yi explained that failing to reach the third level in three years could ruin his family’s standing; Ye Tian’s master advised him to spare Ling Yi and cultivate the Breath-Concealing Art.
• Ye Tian met his master in the back mountain, learned that the Heaven Devouring Art could consume pills safely, and began receiving instruction in pill refining.
• Bai Feng learned about Ye Tian’s family history and ordered Li Liang to watch Ye Tian and Lin Wan, Yaodong to deliver a sealed letter to Lin Pengyu, and Chunhe to take another letter to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect.
• Ye Tian devoured the essence of three wild ginseng plants and reached Qi Refining Stage Third Level, while Ling Yi failed to find another villain to bind and began cultivating in a visible spot.

Ling Yi described how Bai Feng’s rewards had transformed his cultivation, leaving him secretly far stronger than his concealed Qi Refining realm suggested. After Ye Tian returned with news of visiting disciples from the Cloud Firmament Sect, Ling Yi suspected his estranged younger brother might be among them and joined the outer disciples at the Martial Pavilion the next morning.

• Ling Yi explained that Bai Feng’s rewards had given him the perfected Bodhi Other-Self Heart Sutra, thousands of portions of Spiritual Marrow Liquid, a first-grade mixed spiritual root, and powerful cultivation arts.
• Ling Yi sensed Ye Tian returning at the ninth layer of Qi Refinement, while Ye Tian congratulated Ling Yi on reaching the Qi Refining Stage and told him that the Cloud Firmament Sect would visit the outer disciples.
• Ling Yi suspected the Cloud Firmament Sect’s visit was meant to stir up trouble and wondered whether his nominal younger brother, now a Cloud Firmament Sect outer disciple, would appear.
• Ling Yi and Ye Tian went to the outer sect square the next morning, where Ling Yi noticed Fu Xiyao among the unusual outer disciples.
• An old man in gray robes appeared in the air above the gathered disciples at the Mystic Heaven Sect’s Martial Pavilion.

Ling Yi overheard Ye Tian and the mysterious master in his jade pendant plotting to obtain the Spiritual Marrow Liquid that had improved Ling Yi’s spiritual root, and he suspected the master could extract it from his body. At the Mystic Heaven Sect’s martial arena, the Cloud Firmament Sect’s outer disciples arrived for a sparring match, and Ling Yi realized Bai Feng might otherwise have clashed with Ye Tian over the same treasure.

• Elder Xuanyun announced a sparring match with the Cloud Firmament Sect, offering Qi Gathering Pills for victories and threatening to halve the disciples’ allotments if they lost.
• Ye Tian’s master identified Ling Yi’s first-grade spiritual root and supreme-grade Spiritual Marrow Liquid, then urged Ye Tian to wait for a chance to take it and said he could refine Ling Yi into a pill if the liquid was gone.
• Ling Yi overheard their conversation and suspected the jade-pendant master was hiding something from Ye Tian, but he chose not to confront Ye Tian yet.
• Ling Yi and the others crossed the jade bridge to Mystic Cloud Peak and gathered at the martial arena, where the Cloud Firmament Sect’s fifty outer disciples faced the larger Mystic Heaven Sect group.
• Ling Yi spotted Ling Bairen among the Cloud Firmament Sect disciples and checked Bai Feng’s attributes, confirming Bai Feng had a fourth-grade water spiritual root after taking two portions of Spiritual Marrow Liquid.
• Ling Yi inferred that Ye Tian’s master could extract Spiritual Marrow Liquid from his body and wondered whether he had taken the hit on Bai Feng’s behalf in advance.

Ling Yi manipulated Bai Feng and Ye Tian’s mysterious benefactor with fabricated voice transmissions, then was forced into the first arena match against Cloud Firmament Sect’s Liu Liwei. After deciding to abandon his low profile, Ling Yi entered the arena with a display of martial skill and opened the fight with the Six Meridian Divine Sword.

• Ling Yi used spatial Spiritual Power to send Bai Feng an offer of spirit marrow liquid and planted a different message for the old grandpa inside Ye Tian’s jade pendant.
• Elder Xuanyun announced the arena rules, and Ling Yi was drawn to face Liu Liwei in the opening match.
• Elder Xuanyun threatened to expel Ling Yi if he lost, prompting Ling Yi to abandon his plan to concede and keep his strength hidden.
• Ling Yi leaped onto the arena using Moonwalk and explained that he practiced mortal martial arts.
• Liu Liwei mocked Ling Yi’s ninth-grade mixed spiritual root, and Ling Yi warned him before attacking with the Six Meridian Divine Sword.

Ling Yi defeated Liu Liwei and Ba Xin with powerful techniques, then killed Ling Bairen with a beam that could change direction. After the Cloud Firmament Sect withdrew, the Mystic Heaven Sect elders discovered Ling Yi's first-grade mixed spiritual root and took him to the library.

• Ling Yi overwhelmed Liu Liwei with repeated Six Meridian Divine Sword beams, and the Cloud Firmament Sect conceded the match to protect him.
• Ling Yi used Graceful Steps upon the Waves and Six Meridian Divine Sword to wear down Ba Xin until Ba Xin left the arena.
• Ling Yi agreed to a life-or-death duel with Ling Bairen and killed him with a multicolored Kamehameha beam that turned to follow him.
• Zhuge Yun attacked Ling Yi, but Elder Xuanyun and the other Mystic Heaven Sect elders shielded him, forcing Zhuge Yun to admit defeat and leave.
• Ling Yi offered to contribute his martial techniques to the sect, and the elders discovered his first-grade mixed spiritual root before Elder Xuanyun took him to the library.

Ling Yi gained the elders’ recognition for his invented martial techniques and was appointed a scripture library elder, then used a clone to deliver spirit marrow liquid to Bai Feng. When Ye Tian stole part of it and was badly wounded by Bai Feng, the jade pendant’s old man urged Ye Tian to surrender control of his body, leaving Ye Tian to accept.

• Ling Yi explained his martial techniques, and the elders helped formalize them under Mystic Heaven Sect names for the scripture library.
• Elder Xuan Yun offered Ling Yi core disciple status, but Ling Yi declined and instead accepted Xuan Miao’s proposal to become a scripture library elder.
• Ling Yi returned to the outer sect and planned how to deal with Ye Tian and the jade pendant’s old grandpa.
• Ling Yi sent a pitch-black sword clone carrying a hundred portions of spirit marrow liquid to Bai Feng at the mountain behind the outer sect.
• Ye Tian ambushed Bai Feng and stole twenty portions of the spirit marrow liquid, but Bai Feng struck him with Three Illusory Swords Art and severely wounded him.
• The old man in Ye Tian’s jade pendant told him to let his master take control of his body, and Ye Tian agreed as Bai Feng closed in.

Ye Tian recovered from his clash with Bai Feng and reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, while Ling Yi’s system updated and granted him Spirit Grade space-attribute Spiritual Power. Ling Yi took the injured Fu Xiyao to his cave abode, then headed to the library pavilion.

• Ye Tian hid in a rear-mountain cave, used Spiritual Marrow Liquid to recover, and advanced to the Foundation Establishment Stage First Level as his jade pendant master warned him not to make an enemy of Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi’s system detected a bug, updated to version 2.0, and displayed new configurable simulation templates and an expanded backpack.
• After Bai Feng used Spiritual Marrow Liquid and improved his spiritual root, Ling Yi chose a reward that raised his space-attribute Spiritual Power to Spirit Grade.
• Ling Yi found Fu Xiyao crying with a palm print on her face and offered to take her to his cave abode to cultivate.
• Ling Yi escorted Fu Xiyao to the cave abode on Mystic Cloud Peak, then used Moonwalk to head to the library pavilion.

Ling Yi learned about the Heavenly North Continent from Fu Xiyao after Spiritual Marrow Liquid cleared her meridians and transformed her appearance. When Bai Feng came seeking martial techniques, Ling Yi gave him a jade slip and asked him to kill Ye Tian, whose hidden jade-pendant master Bai Feng now feared.

• Ling Yi found no historical texts in the scripture library, then gave Fu Xiyao Spiritual Marrow Liquid, which cleared her meridians and removed the red marks on her face.
• Fu Xiyao described the Heavenly North Continent, its strongest sects and hidden clans, the four forbidden lands, and the Immortal Domain Tokens needed to enter them; Ling Yi realized he had 1,000 tokens in his inventory.
• Bai Feng visited Ling Yi to ask for pointers ahead of the inner sect competition, and Ling Yi gave him a jade slip containing his martial techniques.
• Ling Yi asked Bai Feng to help kill Ye Tian and explained that Ye Tian had a jade pendant containing the soul of a powerful expert.
• Bai Feng recognized that the pendant master had saved Ye Tian and decided to contact his clan and use his trump cards.

Ling Yi secretly learned about Ye Tian’s Spirit Devouring Art and grew powerful through feedback from Bai Feng, while rumors made him famous across the cultivation world. At the elders’ council, the Mystic Heaven Sect debated the threats posed by that fame, and Ling Yi offered to share an idea.

• Ling Yi warned Bai Feng and Fu Xiyao about protagonists blessed by fortune, then gained stronger spiritual powers when Bai Feng used spirit marrow liquid.
• Ling Yi used his spatial abilities to spy on Ye Tian and Xiao Ruozhuo, then spent months learning the Spirit-Devouring Formula without practicing it.
• Ling Yi’s attributed Spiritual Power reached god grade, and he secretly gave the Spirit Devouring Art to Bai Feng, whose spiritual root improved after using all eighty portions of spirit marrow liquid.
• Elder Xuanyun summoned Ling Yi to the council hall, where the elders explained that rumors about his talent had made him famous and could attract hostile sects.
• The elders argued over how the Mystic Heaven Sect should respond to the threat, and Ling Yi said he had an idea.

Ling Yi and Fu Xiyao left the Mystic Heaven Sect after arranging a tournament scheme around the unreliable Mystic Heaven Meridian Opening Art, and the sect was later destroyed in attacks by mysterious forces. In Yue City, Ling Yi heard about the unconscious Lin Tian and suspected he might be another protagonist.

• Ling Yi persuaded the elders to publicize the Mystic Heaven Meridian Opening Art and use a tournament to draw rival sects into fighting over it.
• Ling Yi and Fu Xiyao left the Mystic Heaven Sect, leaving clones behind, and the sect was destroyed after two attacks by mysterious experts.
• Ling Yi learned that Ye Fan had left the sect and was pursuing Bai Feng, while Ling Yi and Fu Xiyao traveled to Yue City.
• Fu Xiyao told Ling Yi about Lin Tian, the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion auction, and rumors of a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator's cave abode in Heaven-Burning Valley.
• Ling Yi felt a growing familiarity with Lin Tian's reputation and decided to visit the city lord's manor to investigate whether he was another protagonist.

Ling Yi subdued Lin Lan and departed the Lin residence, while Lin Yue urged the Lin family to seek Ling Yi’s help for their ancestor. Elsewhere, Xuan Wan set out to restore the Mystic Heaven Sect, and a black mist transformed a demon wolf into a human-speaking creature that announced its return to the Mystic North Realm.

• Ling Yi froze Lin Lan in an ice shell after Lin Lan leered at Fu Xiyao, then bound Lin Yue as a five-star villain target.
• Lin Boyun failed to melt the ice with Spiritual Qi and could not free Retainer Zhao from Ling Yi’s power; Ling Yi left with Fu Xiyao while Lin Lan remained trapped.
• Lin Boyun broke the ice with repeated strikes, and Lin Yue identified Ling Yi’s power as the innate talent of a divine-grade spiritual root.
• Lin Yue advised his father to seek Ling Yi’s help for the Lin ancestor, and Lin Boyun ordered Lin Lan’s cultivation crippled and his movements restricted.
• Xuan Wan returned to the Mystic Heaven Sect ruins, promised to restore the sect, and departed with Xuan Miao for the Cloud Firmament Sect.
• Black mist spread through the Desolate Ancient Demon Forest, transforming a demon wolf into a scaled, human-speaking creature that welcomed its return to the Mystic North Realm.