Chapter Summaries

After Loki cleared Act One, Ling Yi entered the instance as a level 19 player, and the group unlocked and explored Lut Gholein. Norman and Mindy learned about a divine artifact and reached level 19, while the chapter explained that level 20 would bring class advancement and greater control over skills.

• A game announcement declared that Loki had killed Andariel and unlocked the Lut Gholein instance, and Ling Yi chose to log in as a level 19 player.
• Nick questioned Loki, who revealed that he was Loki Odinson from Asgard and described Asgard as Midgard's protector, angering Nick with his reference to humans as ants.
• Nick and the other players traveled through Warriv to Lut Gholein, where they encountered the desert city and its more lifelike NPCs.
• Deckard Cain asked Mindy and Norman to help clear demons from Lut Gholein and told them about a divine artifact hidden in an underground palace in the Dry Hills.
• Mindy and Norman hunted monsters together, reached level 19, and discovered that advancing to level 20 required one billion experience.
• The chapter explained that level 20 granted class advancement, increased all skill levels by one, and gave players a Class Heart that let them adapt their skills.

After learning that Thor had been exiled to Earth and stripped of his power, Loki reconsidered his desire to claim Asgard’s throne and traveled to New Mexico to see his brother. The chapter ended with Thor asking Loki for money after learning he would not be taken home.

• Coulson told Thor that Loki knew about his situation and planned to visit him.
• Mindy and Norman helped Loki interpret Thor’s exile as a trial arranged by Odin, persuading him not to return to Asgard and stir up trouble.
• Loki used a town portal scroll to travel from Asgard to Earth, drawing Odin’s and Heimdall’s attention to its unfamiliar spatial power.
• Loki found Thor working shirtless with a group of workers and dodged his attempt at a hug.
• Thor asked Loki whether he had come to take him home, and Loki said that no one could do so without Odin’s orders; Thor then asked whether Loki had any money.

Loki abandoned Thor to his trial, while Ling Yi spent three months farming Diablo equipment before reaching level 20. In Lut Gholein, Steve and Bucky retreated from a lightning-immune elite monster, while Nick Fury, Wilson Fisk, and Mark struggled to fight through the Halls of the Dead together.

• Loki left Thor to continue hauling bricks, and Thor returned to the construction site believing his father and brother had abandoned him.
• Ling Yi farmed monsters for three months, collected four green items and two dark gold items, and leveled from 19 to 20 before deciding he could buy rare gear through the System Shop.
• Steve and Bucky fought an Enhanced, Extra Fast Palace Guard with lightning immunity, then used a Town Portal Scroll to retreat to Lut Gholein.
• Steve told Bucky they should level elsewhere and seek level-20 skills and better boots before returning to the Halls of the Dead.
• Nick Fury and Wilson Fisk argued while Mark directed his skeleton summons against a Greedy Life Stealer, whose ability to revive minions kept the fight difficult.

Nick, Wilson, and Mark spent weeks clearing the Halls of the Dead and found a Horadric Cube that respawned after seven days. In the real world, Ling Yi bought the enhanced infinite synthesis version, tested its fusion ability, and considered what he might synthesize next.

• Nick, Wilson, and Mark cooperated to clear the Halls of the Dead, using portals and their skills to fight through its monsters and maze-like levels.
• After nearly half a month of game time, the three found the chest containing the Horadric Cube and learned it would respawn after seven days.
• Nick examined the ordinary Horadric Cube, found its synthesis function unusable, and the three returned to town to ask Deckard Cain about it.
• Ling Yi bought the Horadric Cube-Enhanced Infinite Synthesis Edition for one hundred million experience points and learned it could store living things and synthesize anything at an experience cost.
• Ling Yi bound the Cube to his hand and synthesized a drinking glass and a teacup into a translucent cup made from a mixture of glass and ceramic.

Ling Yi watched players struggle through Diablo’s Arcane Sanctuary while Nick used the Horadric Cube to briefly take Mjolnir, drawing Odin to Earth. Odin questioned Nick about Loki and the strange powers appearing on Midgard, while Nick guarded Earth’s secrets and began planning against Hydra; the chapter ended with Odin summoning Loki and asking whether he had gone to Midgard.

• Ling Yi checked the players’ progress as Tony’s group struggled against [The Summoner], while Banner and Eddie defeated the boss and reached Claw Viper Canyon.
• Nick used the Horadric Cube to store Mjolnir, prompting Odin to appear before Nick and Coulson and demand its return.
• Nick returned Mjolnir to the ground, refused to reveal Loki’s whereabouts, and watched Odin leave after noticing the unusual power and artifacts on Earth.
• Nick ordered Coulson to monitor Thor and research Odin’s arrival, then confronted Alexander Pierce and resolved to remove Hydra from S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Odin waited for Loki in Asgard and summoned him, then asked whether he had gone to Midgard.

Loki left for Jotunheim without learning that the box he delivered contained the Casket of Sea Ice, while Odin kept his plans to himself. Meanwhile, Pierce tried to have Nick killed, but Nick used his game equipment and lightning powers to destroy Hydra’s attackers and confront Pierce aboard his helicopter.

• Odin told Loki that the dungeon world was an inheritance ground and urged him to grow stronger for Asgard’s sake.
• Odin gave Loki a box for Laufey, but Loki delivered it without speaking to him and immediately returned through a town portal.
• Pierce ordered Hydra agents to kill Nick after Nick slipped out of his control, and Nick survived an ambush by more than a hundred armed attackers.
• Nick returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. and killed Hydra agents who tried to stop him, including Crossbones and Agent Sitwell.
• Nick teleported into Pierce’s airborne helicopter after Pierce tried to flee.

Nick returned to Old Bridge as Frost Giants advanced on the town, and the players gathered to fight them. After the group gained huge amounts of experience by killing the giants, Loki warned them that the Casket of Ancient Winters was unleashing blue mist and they needed to retreat.

• Nick injected Pierce with truth serum, left him with Hill, and teleported to Old Bridge after Coulson reported trouble.
• Barton brought the other players, including Ling Yi, to Old Bridge, where Nick warned them the Frost Giants might be dangerous and gave Ivan Vanko evidence about his father’s role in developing the Arc Reactor.
• Steve activated Resist Cold and led the fight as Banner, Steve, Wilson, and the others discovered that each Frost Giant kill granted 10 million experience.
• Ling Yi noticed Loki’s invisibility and told him that Mindy had leveled up; Loki then joined the battle with three assassin Clones.
• The players slaughtered the Frost Giants and Ling Yi rose from level 21 to level 25, until Loki saw blue mist spread from the rear of the ice curtain and shouted that the Casket of Ancient Winters had appeared.

Ling Yi’s group defeated Laufey’s Frost Giants after Norman’s volcano weakened them and Mindy seized the Casket of Ancient Winters. Thor reclaimed Mjolnir and ended the battle, but Nick rejected Asgard’s protection; after Thor was taken away, Natasha approached Ling Yi with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s interest in his unexplained background.

• Ling Yi spent his remaining skill points on [Resist Cold], protecting his allies from the Casket’s freezing mist as Loki realized he was an Ice Giant and charged into the Frost Giant army.
• Loki fought Laufey but could not break through his defenses, so Norman unleashed a volcano while Mindy knocked the Casket of Ancient Winters from Laufey’s hand and stole it.
• The loss of the Casket and the volcano weakened Laufey and his army, but Laufey’s ice blast struck Thor, who regained Mjolnir’s recognition and drove Laufey back to Jotunheim.
• Steve, Mindy, Norman, and Loki returned to the dungeon world, while Nick told Thor that Midgard did not need him or Asgard’s protection.
• Odin sent the Bifrost to take Thor away, and Nick returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. before Natasha approached Ling Yi.

Ling Yi planned a controlled full launch of the Dark 2 World while Tony Stark discovered the plan by hacking Ling Yi’s laptop. The chapter ended with Ling Yi realizing Tony had accessed his computer and Tony asking to meet.

• Natasha Romanoff approached Ling Yi, but he vanished and returned home, wary of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Ancient One.
• Ling Yi drafted a plan to distribute Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Player Marks with different limits on experience, playtime, and real-world power.
• Tony Stark used JARVIS to hack Ling Yi’s laptop and read the launch plan, learning about the Ancient One, Kamar-Taj, and nonhuman races.
• Tony watched Ling Yi cook for Peter Parker, then asked JARVIS to identify Peter and order the dishes he saw.
• Natasha visited Ling Yi and warned him that his computer had been hacked; Ling Yi shut the door, discovered Tony Stark’s intrusion, and received Tony’s request to meet.

Ling Yi and Tony finalized a plan to open the game world to more players, and Tony began secretly planning armor against Ling Yi. At midnight, the game expanded into Big Apple City, bringing the Ancient One, Wong, and other sorcerers into the Rogue Encampment alongside 150,000 players.

• Tony advised Ling Yi on the player plan, and Ling Yi sealed Tony’s Player Mark to demonstrate his control over the game world.
• Tony accepted a role as Ling Yi’s planner in exchange for rewards and helped refine the plan over a week.
• Ling Yi awarded Tony one ten-thousandth of all players’ experience points, and Tony began designing Anti-Ling Yi Armor in his laboratory.
• Nick ordered Coulson to investigate Tony’s week at Ling Yi’s home while the Ancient One gathered Wong and more than fifty sorcerers in Big Apple City.
• After midnight, a mysterious energy swept across the city, the Ancient One received a Player Mark, and the sorcerers appeared in the Rogue Encampment among 150,000 players.

The Ancient One repeatedly converted dark energy from the Dark Dimension into experience points, prompting the system to offer new features and equipment. Ling Yi used his administrative access to stock the game with energy-plundering necklaces, add social and trading systems, and announce a live update to all players.

• The Ancient One chose to turn her dark energy into experience points, reached level 21, and selected the mage class rather than binding the dark mage class.
• Ling Yi tested the new dark mage skills and found Shadow Teleport and Darkness Seed especially powerful, while the Ancient One urged Wong to level up before leaving the game world.
• The Ancient One repeatedly absorbed dark energy from the Dark Dimension and converted it into experience points, hoping to weaken Dormammu by exhausting his source of power.
• After the Ancient One returned to the game world for the fiftieth time, the system offered a Plunder Necklace or a dangerous Dark Dimension dungeon; she chose the necklace.
• Ling Yi found newly recognized equipment in the System Shop and added the Dark Dimension Plunder Necklace to every NPC merchant at a price of one billion experience points.
• Ling Yi added chat, friends, party, guild, player shop, and currency-exchange features, then sent all players a live-update announcement.

Ling Yi planned to exploit other dimensions by having Wong borrow mana from a dimensional demonic god and enter the game world, while Natasha quit S.H.I.E.L.D. and Thor confronted Ling Yi about Loki. The chapter ended with Ronan leading an invasion fleet toward Earth, armed with the Mind Stone and Power Stone.

• Nick questioned Coulson and Natasha about Ling Yi, but Natasha quit S.H.I.E.L.D. and blamed Nick for the innocent lives tied to the agency.
• Coulson redirected Thor toward Ling Yi after Thor demanded to see Loki, and Ling Yi later met Wong at a Hong Kong cha chaan teng.
• Ling Yi asked Wong to borrow as much mana as possible from the Vishanti and enter the game world for an experiment, promising him a Plunder Necklace.
• Thor arrived demanding to know where Loki was, so Ling Yi repaired the restaurant roof and trapped Thor in the Mirror Dimension.
• Ling Yi escaped Thor's hammer by leaving the Mirror Dimension, while Thor raged inside it.
• Ronan led millions of warships toward Earth with the Mind Stone and Power Stone, controlling Star-Lord, Rocket, Gamora, Groot, and Drax.

Nick gathered the Avengers after alien warships were spotted heading toward Earth, and Loki identified them as Ronan’s fleet and the Chitauri. Tony confronted Ronan in space and learned he wanted the Tesseract; after Ronan sent Star-Lord toward Big Apple City, the group discussed defending Earth and hiding the Tesseract, with Tony suggesting they take it into the game world.

• Nick showed the Avengers images of the approaching alien fleet, and Loki identified the Chitauri and Ronan’s ships.
• Wong and the Kamar-Taj mages arrived to help, and Thor appeared before chasing after Loki.
• Tony confronted Ronan aboard his flagship, learned he wanted the Space Stone, and escaped after Ronan’s Power Stone empowered his attacks.
• Ronan ordered Star-Lord to attack Big Apple City and secretly entered Earth’s atmosphere.
• Tony told Nick and the others that Ronan sought the Tesseract, and Loki explained that it was the Space Stone and that the enemy already had the Power Stone.
• Steve urged them to hide the Tesseract, and Tony suggested taking it into the game world.

Ling Yi pulled Ronan into the game world briefly to obtain his Infinity Stone templates, then permanently banned him. As the Avengers and other players fought the Chitauri invasion, Peter Parker and Harry Osborn killed Ronan, though his hammer and scepter vanished underground.

• Ling Yi gave Ronan a Player Mark, let him enter the game world for three seconds, and permanently banned him, leaving himself with four Infinity Stones.
• Nick and the other players battled the Chitauri army above Big Apple City, while mages, archers, and druids dealt heavy damage.
• Peter Parker used [Teleport Gate] to redirect attacking Chitauri, while Harry Osborn planted [Shadow Seed] inside them.
• Ronan attacked Peter, but Harry rescued him with [Shadow Teleport], and the two planned to fight back.
• Peter dropped Ronan into an endless fall with [Teleport Gate] while Harry repeatedly planted [Shadow Seed] in him.
• Ronan used the Power Stone to break free, but the seeds exploded inside him and killed him; his hammer and scepter then disappeared underground.

After two years of worldwide game expansion, Ling Yi faced the consequences of the Ancient One’s dimensional plundering and began negotiating with Odin for more dimensional coordinates. Odin sought healing potions and game access, and Ling Yi offered advanced player marks in exchange for the locations.

• The Avengers fought for three days after Ronan’s death, killing most of the Chitauri forces and gaining levels while the remaining fleet fled.
• Over the next two years, the game reached more than ten billion players, the Ancient One and Tony rose in level, and several events unfolded, including Wakanda’s exposure and Peter becoming Spider-Man.
• Wong told Ling Yi that dimensional demonic gods were angry because the Ancient One had drained their dimensions, and Ling Yi ordered the system to multiply the plundering speed.
• Odin arrived with Thor and asked Ling Yi for help, hoping game healing potions could extend his life.
• Ling Yi offered Odin and Thor advanced player marks in exchange for all the dimensional coordinates Odin knew.

Ling Yi expanded the game's dungeon plans while Odin and Thor leveled as Divine-class players, and Thanos recovered the Soul Stone and prepared to attack Asgard. On Earth, Jane entered an anomalous region and discovered the Reality Stone was binding to her.

• Ling Yi used Odin's dimensional-coordinate book to bind unclaimed spaces as new dungeons, then went with Old Wang to eat lobster.
• Odin and Thor reached level 20 in the Pandemonium Fortress, where they learned the restrictions of their Divine class.
• Thanos sacrificed Gamora to obtain the Soul Stone, then ordered Ebony Maw and Corvus Glaive to investigate Earth and prepared to attack Asgard.
• Jane entered a strange spatial region at a factory, followed by Coulson, and a red light from a stone wall entered her body.
• Jane discovered the Reality Stone was binding to her and asked Coulson how many healing potions he had.

Coulson and Jane defeated Malekith’s Dark Elves after Jane bound the Reality Stone, bringing Ling Yi’s collection to five Infinity Stones. Loki then asked Ling Yi to help Asgard, where Hela and her orange-glowing undead army were overwhelming the Avengers; Ling Yi recognized the Soul Stone’s power.

• Jane bound the Reality Stone, and Coulson summoned skeletons and an iron golem before he and Jane attacked Malekith’s forces.
• Jane killed Malekith, while Coulson planned to call for help and Jane refused to go to S.H.I.E.L.D. for testing.
• Loki told Ling Yi that Hela had invaded Asgard with an undead army and that Odin and Thor were struggling to stop her.
• Ling Yi arrived in Asgard and saw the Avengers fighting Hela’s vast, powerful undead army.
• Ling Yi recognized the orange glow around Hela and her troops as the Soul Stone’s power.

Ling Yi synthesized the Six Infinity Stones and discovered they had become the Plot Stone, which reset the Marvel Universe while leaving him and the Diablo game world unchanged. After discussing how to give abandoned world plots proper endings with Yin Wanqing and Reincarnation, Ling Yi began a new transmigration into a xianxia world.

• Thanos fled after Ling Yi pulled him into the game and banned his account, while Odin defeated Hela and sent her to Frigga.
• Ling Yi synthesized the Six Infinity Stones, creating the Plot Stone, which rewound the Marvel Universe to the time of his first transmigration.
• Ling Yi saved Brock by snapping him into the Diablo game world when Brock called to warn him about a missing shipment and incoming gunfire.
• Yin Wanqing and Reincarnation urged the author to write side stories with complete endings, and Reincarnation agreed to prepare outlines for Ling Yi to follow.
• Ling Yi started a new transmigration into “Xianxia: Reverse Simulation System, I Simulate Your Life!” with his strength and memories sealed.

After transmigrating into the body of Heavenly Wind City's new lord, Ling Yi discovered that enemies far stronger than him had killed the original owner and activated the Reverse Simulation System. He simulated Murong Yue, gained her cultivation realm, and prepared to face the dangers ahead with greatly increased strength.

• Ling Yi recalled that he had inherited the body and position of the slain city lord, but feared returning to Heavenly Wind City while only at the fourth level of the Body Tempering Realm.
• Ling Yi hid from approaching riders and recognized Murong Yue and Lin Jianyu, then used the system to imprint their character cards.
• Ling Yi simulated Murong Yue's search for a path to cultivation and learned that she had an Innate Ice Physique, but was eventually killed by Liu Chan.
• Ling Yi chose the cultivation-realm reward and absorbed Murong Yue's simulated progress, gaining strength and Spiritual Power.
• Ling Yi reviewed the world's cultivation realms, from Body Tempering through Divine Ability, after reaching a higher realm through the reward.

Ling Yi used another simulation of Murong Yue to gain cultivation, then returned to Heavenly Wind City and confronted Lin Batian with his Spirit Sea Realm power. After ordering Lin Batian to gather the other families and eliminate the Twin Camel Mountain bandits, Ling Yi simulated Lin Batian to uncover his role in the Ling Clan’s downfall.

• Ling Yi simulated Murong Yue’s cautious pursuit of cultivation and learned that she rose to the ninth level of the Spirit Accumulation Realm, seized control of Heavenly Wind City for her family, and later died to Yin Soul Sect elder Wang Jianyun.
• Ling Yi chose Murong Yue’s cultivation reward, returned to the ransacked Ling Clan estate, and retrieved silver and valuables from the hidden treasury.
• Ling Yi went to Yunkelai Restaurant, where Lin Batian confronted him and learned that Ling Yi had reached the fourth level of the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Ling Yi forced Lin Batian to summon the city’s families for a meeting and ordered him to wipe out the Twin Camel Mountain bandits, then killed the other Lin Clan experts with Spiritual Pressure.
• Ling Yi simulated Lin Batian and learned that Lin Batian had conspired with the Ye Clan and Gu Clan to seize Heavenly Wind City after Ling Zhan died from a tampered Realm Breaking Pill.