Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi chose the Heaven and Earth Ring after Lin Batian's simulation revealed his rise and eventual death, then returned to the Ling Clan estate and reunited with Uncle Fu. He gave Uncle Fu a Life Extension Pill and prepared to reclaim Heavenly Wind City, while Murong Yue's simulation showed her dying in a campaign against the Yin Soul Sect.

• Lin Batian's simulation showed him stealing the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art, killing Ling Yi, founding Shadow Gate, and dying at age 200 after dispersing his cultivation.
• Ling Yi chose the Heaven and Earth Ring as his reward and found it filled with the Ling Clan's assets.
• Ling Yi returned to the Ling Clan estate, summoned Uncle Fu, and simulated his loyalty, learning that he would otherwise die of old age at 81.
• Ling Yi gave Uncle Fu a Life Extension Pill, which restored him to a young, muscular appearance, and told him to hire servants and a cook.
• Ling Yi promised to avenge the Ling Clan and deal with Heavenly Wind City's major clans the next day.
• Ling Yi simulated Murong Yue's cultivation and learned that she would die at age 36 during the campaign against the Yin Soul Sect, with an Innate Ice Physique offered as a reward.

Ling Yi used Murong Yue’s simulation reward to attain the perfected Divine Platform Realm, then asserted control over Heavenly Wind City by killing the Gu Clan’s leaders and imposing tribute on the families. He left Murong Yue’s future in question after offering to help her cultivate, while Murong Jin and Murong Yue considered their family’s position.

• Ling Yi chose Murong Yue’s innate ice physique simulation reward, gaining the perfected Divine Platform Realm, and began another simulation focused on her combat experience.
• Ling Yi arrived at the City Lord’s Estate with Uncle Fu and froze and shattered the Gu Clan’s head and Five Organs Realm experts when they blocked his path.
• Ling Yi ordered the families to hand over half their annual earnings, granted the Murong Family a reduced payment, and offered to help Murong Yue cultivate.
• Ling Yi assigned Lin Batian to guard his estate and considered founding an organization of his own before flying back to the Ling Estate with Uncle Fu.
• Ye Hu ordered the Ye Clan to clean the hall and warned them against provoking Ling Yi, while Murong Yue told Murong Jin it was too late for their family to leave Heavenly Wind City.

Murong Yue chose to seek Ling Yi’s help despite her father’s concerns, and Ling Yi recruited Lin Batian to build Shadow Gate while searching for talented orphans and beggars. He taught Murong Yue a cultivation art suited to her rare physique, then simulated her future and discovered she would develop romantic feelings for him.

• Murong Yue argued that avoiding Ling Yi would make the Murong Family look weak, then went to meet him despite Murong Jin’s misgivings.
• Ling Yi warned Lin Batian about the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art, gave him an Undying Pill and a Spirit Detection Technique, and ordered him to establish Shadow Gate and recruit talented youths without force.
• Ling Yi reflected on how quickly killing had stopped troubling him and asked Murong Yue whether growing stronger would make him see everyone as ants.
• Ling Yi recognized Murong Yue’s Innate Ice Physique, gave her the Ice Accumulation Art and Body Tempering Pills, and arranged for her to stay at the Ling residence.
• Ling Yi simulated Murong Yue’s cultivation and saw that she would advance rapidly and develop romantic feelings for him.

Ling Yi simulated Murong Yue and Lin Batian, learning how their cultivation and choices shaped deadly futures while saving the rewards for later. Lin Batian eventually reached the Dao Integration Realm and seized power during an empire-wide war, but Murong Yue returned and killed him; Ling Yi noted the future events he could prepare for.

• Ling Yi saw that Murong Yue's first simulated future ended with Wang Jianyun killing both her and Ling Yi, then chose the Yin-Yang Five Elements Pill as his reward.
• In a new simulation, Murong Yue killed Wang Jianyun, took the pill, and advanced to the Dao Stele Realm before dying alongside Ling Yi in a righteous-sect expedition; Ling Yi saved the reward options.
• Ling Yi simulated Lin Batian with a Yin-Yang Five Elements Pill, and Lin Batian established Shadow Gate, secretly plundered sects, and eventually killed Ling Yi in the simulation.
• Lin Batian infiltrated the sects and Qianyun Empire, entered Qianyun Holy Land, and used the empire's war with the Xuantian Empire to seize the Dao Enlightenment Pool and reach the Dao Integration Realm.
• After the war, Lin Batian tried to claim the Qianyun imperial throne, but Murong Yue returned with Divine Ability Realm cultivation and killed him; Ling Yi saved the rewards and noted the future threats and opportunities.

Ling Yi used his Shadow Guards to secure Heavenly Wind City and let Murong Yue take over its administration, then restarted simulations after his monthly limit refreshed. Lin Batian’s new simulation showed him building a sect-spanning power before attacking Heavenly Wind City, where Murong Yue was called the city lord’s wife and defeated him.

• Ling Yi hit the monthly limit of 200 simulations, assigned 1,200 Shadow Guards to protect Heavenly Wind City, and ordered them to monitor Lin Batian.
• Murong Yue gradually took over the city’s administration while Ling Yi remained unconcerned, frustrating her with his hands-off approach.
• After the simulations refreshed, Ling Yi simulated Lin Batian’s search for a path to ascension.
• Lin Batian infiltrated the Yin Soul Sect, seized control of it, spread the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art, and took over other major sects.
• At age 53, Lin Batian led 8,000 cultivators against Heavenly Wind City, but Murong Yue, described as the city lord’s wife, defeated him and drove him from the Qianyun Empire.
• Ling Yi wondered why Murong Yue had been called the city lord’s wife.

Ling Yi watched Lin Batian’s simulations reveal the power of several ancient immortal arts and his repeated death beneath heavenly tribulations. After claiming cultivation insights from the most successful run, Ling Yi learned the Divine Forging Art’s secrets and decided to investigate the ancient immortals’ cave abodes for answers about ascension.

• Lin Batian found an ancient immortal’s cave abode in Dragon Roar Valley, learned the Divine Forging Art and Soul Control Art, and later conquered the Mysterious North and Qianyun Empires.
• Lin Batian survived successive heavenly tribulations with powerful defensive treasures, but died in the thirteenth; Ling Yi saved the simulation’s reward options rather than choosing one.
• Ling Yi ran thirty more simulations, finding that Lin Batian’s best result was surviving twenty-two heavenly tribulations before dying.
• Ling Yi selected cultivation insights from that run and obtained knowledge of the Divine Forging Art, Soul Control Art, General Principles of Lightning Arts, General Principles of Formation Arts, and Divine Refining Art.
• Ling Yi studied the Divine Forging Art and concluded that it opened divine troves within the body to generate divine power, then decided to visit the ancient immortals’ cave abodes to investigate why no one could ascend.

Ling Yi bound Lin Batian with a soul-control brand and entrusted Heavenly Wind City to Murong Yue before leaving for Skeleton Peak in the Ten Thousand Beasts Ridge. At a town near the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, he learned about its recruitment rites and detected a nine-star simulation target.

• Ling Yi made Lin Batian accept a soul-control brand and ordered him to protect Heavenly Wind City and the Ling residence.
• Ling Yi gave Murong Yue the Divine Refining Art, left Ying Yi under her command, and warned her not to break through to the Divine Ability Realm.
• Ling Yi left Heavenly Wind City alone and headed toward Skeleton Peak, seeking new simulation targets along the way.
• At the Give and Take Inn in White Horse Town, Ling Yi learned that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect used Buddha Light Baptism to test prospective recruits' Buddhist hearts.
• A cold, beautiful woman arrived at the inn, and the system identified her as a nine-star simulation target.

Ling Yi simulated Liu Hong and learned how her extraordinary comprehension and perseverance carried her from the Spirit Accumulation Realm to the Dao Integration Realm before she was killed by a heavenly tribulation. Hoping to use the chaos Liu Hong would cause to enter Skeleton Peak, Ling Yi went to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect’s entrance examination, where a giant Buddha attacked his divine soul.

• Ling Yi studied Liu Hong’s simulation, which showed her creating the Demon Buddha Seal, repeatedly challenging the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, and ultimately reaching the Divine Ability Realm before dying beneath a heavenly tribulation.
• Ling Yi chose Liu Hong’s comprehension talent as his reward, simulated her twice more, and decided to wait in White Horse Town for a chance to enter the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect amid the coming turmoil.
• At the entrance examination, Ling Yi gave Liu Hong a piece of jade and warned her not to break through to the Divine Ability Realm.
• A giant Buddha’s voice pacified the crowd, but its gaze fixed on Ling Yi and sent divine soul power to corrupt him.
• Ling Yi resisted the attack and angrily confronted the giant Buddha.

Ling Yi retaliated against the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect after Wujie tried to convert him, sealing the sect with the Heaven-Locking Grand Formation. He entered Skeleton Peak with Liu Hong, helped her reach Tang Qi, then opened the ancient formation and stepped into a hidden world, where he saw an old man fishing.

• Wujie attacked Ling Yi to seize his immense providence, but Ling Yi shattered his soul power and began forming the Heaven-Locking Grand Formation.
• Ling Yi claimed a cultivation reward, advanced to the ninth layer of the Dao Stele Realm, and expanded the formation until it sealed the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect and trapped its members inside.
• Goku rebuked Wufa and ordered Wujie and Wufa to find a way to appease Ling Yi, while Ling Yi and Liu Hong headed to Skeleton Peak to find Tang Qi.
• Ling Yi knocked the demonic Buddhas unconscious, and Liu Hong freed Tang Qi and carried him out of Skeleton Peak.
• Ling Yi found Skeleton Peak's ancient formation core, opened a doorway into a hidden world, and walked toward a cabin where an old man was fishing.

Ling Yi discovered that the secret realm’s illusion spirit, Qi Ming, held clues to the Nine Evolutions Primordial Chaos Art, which could reopen the path of ascension. After simulating Qi Ming’s possible future, Ling Yi claimed the cultivation art himself and learned that Qi Ming could cultivate it only with his help.

• Ling Yi questioned Qi Ming about the sealed passage between the immortal and mortal realms and learned that the Immortal Realm supreme sovereign had sealed the realm until someone cultivated the Nine Evolutions Primordial Chaos Art.
• Ling Yi recorded Qi Ming as a character card and simulated his life, discovering that Qi Ming had become self-aware, sought a way out, and planned to seize an entrant’s body.
• The simulation revealed that Ling Yi would eventually control the secret realm and erase Qi Ming, while a reward offered Ling Yi the Nine Evolutions Primordial Chaos Art.
• Ling Yi claimed the art, reached its first level in three days, and decided to delay further cultivation until he could prepare for the Immortal Realm supreme sovereign’s response.
• Ling Yi simulated Qi Ming cultivating the art and learned that Qi Ming needed Ling Yi’s help to grasp it, eventually reaching the fourth level and ascending before later struggling to advance.

Ling Yi discovered that the Nine Evolutions Primordial Chaos Art was a trap devised by the Immortal Realm Sovereign, then confronted Qi Ming with the genuine Nine Evolutions Chaos Art and a chance at freedom. Qi Ming learned he could cultivate it in the altered illusion realm, but was left wondering whether Ling Yi was the Immortal Realm Sovereign himself.

• Ling Yi read a simulation in which the Immortal Realm Sovereign devoured Qi Ming after the outer-domain heavenly demons were defeated, while Ling Yi escaped.
• Ling Yi ran another simulation with Qi Ming suspicious of the Nine Evolutions Primordial Chaos Art, and found that the Sovereign was still badly wounded after devouring Qi Ming.
• Ling Yi claimed the genuine Nine Evolutions Chaos Art and learned it could devour origin, unlike the incomplete art Qi Ming had possessed.
• Ling Yi revealed that he knew Qi Ming's identity, demonstrated control over the secret realm's illusion formation, and offered him a chance to regain freedom without releasing him.
• Qi Ming explained that his original body had found the incomplete art, created him as the illusion realm spirit, and imposed rules that prevented him from cultivating.
• Ling Yi changed the illusion realm's rules and gave Qi Ming the genuine Nine Evolutions Chaos Art, prompting Qi Ming to wonder if Ling Yi was the Immortal Realm Sovereign.

Ling Yi returned from Skeleton Peak after learning about the Immortal Realm and restricting the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect, then unsealed his memories and decided to reverse the usual relationship between his actions and the author’s writing. After spending a century relaxing in Heavenly Wind City, he transmigrated into a new world with his memories sealed.

• Ling Yi sealed Qi Ming back inside the secret realm after three successful simulations revealed the Immortal Realm’s cultivation levels and the supreme ruler’s overwhelming strength.
• Ling Yi partially restored the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sect’s Spiritual Power for an hour so Liu Hong could save Tang Qi, then left the monks trapped beneath his formation.
• Ling Yi unsealed his memories, concluded that invincibility had made the story dull, and asked Yin Wanqing to bring the author into the Ling Realm so events could happen before they were written.
• Ling Yi gave the Reverse Simulation System to Murong Yue, who used it to simulate Uncle Fu and obtained a Life Extension Pill.
• Ling Yi spent a century relaxing in Heavenly Wind City while Murong Yue killed Wang Jianyun and exposed the Yin Soul Sect’s cultivation of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Art.
• Ling Yi left a clone behind and transmigrated into a new world as a protagonist replacement, with his memories sealed and an Infinite Passive Conan Logic Aura activated.

On his sixtieth birthday, terminally ill Ling Yi reflected on his family and life before the Solve Cases and Become Stronger System finally activated. He received the Eye of Intelligence as his beginner’s gift, leaving him poised to begin solving cases despite having no experience.

• Ling Yi spent his birthday alone in his old home, recalling his successful business career, his three children, and the wife he had lost to a brain tumor.
• Ling Yi learned that Ling Zhan could not come home because of work, Ling Feng was troubled by a gang robbing banks in North Leaf Province, and Ling Qiqi was busy filming.
• At midnight, the Solve Cases and Become Stronger System activated and explained that it had carried Ling Yi’s soul into this world after he died in his previous life.
• Ling Yi learned the system rewarded case-solving with Attribute Points and points for its store, and provided an infinitely large inventory.
• Ling Yi opened the beginner’s gift pack and received the Eye of Intelligence, which could reveal information about criminals.

Ling Yi discovered that the Infinite Backpack could automatically absorb bullets that touched him, and he used the Eye of Intelligence to identify a dangerous robbery gang in Baihai City. With late-stage stomach cancer worsening, he planned to wait for the gang at the Great Agriculture Bank and capture them to earn points for a Healing Pill.

• Ling Yi suffered a severe stomach-cancer attack and asked Old Liu to establish the Old Ling Detective Agency without telling his children.
• The Eye of Intelligence identified six armed criminals, including gang leader Zhang Yi, at a restaurant in Baihai City.
• Ling Yi tested the Infinite Backpack by shooting himself with a toy gun and confirmed that it could automatically store a projectile that touched him.
• Ling Yi decided to wait at the Great Agriculture Bank because he believed it would be the robbers' next target.
• Ling Yi suffered another painful attack and spat blood, realizing he needed to act quickly before his body gave out.

Ling Yi, gravely ill with stomach cancer, used the Infinite Backpack’s strange abilities to turn a bank robbery at the Great Agriculture Bank in Baihai City against the robbers. After disarming their leader, stopping their gunfire, and killing one robber, he demanded that the survivors name their backer and surrender.

• Ling Yi removed his IV and sealed the bank’s roller shutter after masked robbers stormed in, announcing a robbery and demanding the people and goods from the twelfth.
• Ling Yi called the inspectors, then challenged the robbers’ leader, who aimed a gun at his head.
• Ling Yi used the Infinite Backpack to take the leader’s gun and point it back at him, then returned the weapon and appeared to dodge the robbers’ gunfire.
• Ling Yi revealed that he had collected the bullets with the Infinite Backpack and introduced himself as a detective at the Ling Detective Agency.
• Ling Yi used the Infinite Backpack’s abilities to make a robber collapse dead at his feet, then ordered the remaining robbers to name their backer and turn themselves in.

Ling Yi exposed Guan Qiang’s role in the bank robbery and used his system reward to buy a Healing Pill that cured his illness and restored his body. With the inspectors still absent, Ling Yi left the bank and spotted three people marked by his Eye of Intelligence.

• The robber leader revealed that he was Guan Qiang and admitted Guan Qiang had supplied the robbers with weapons, vehicles, and inspectors’ communications codes.
• The robber leader explained that the gang had stolen a thousand kilograms of heroin and intended to free their accountant, who knew too much.
• Ling Yi collected the bank’s surveillance hard drives and received 6 attribute points and 90 points from the system for solving the case.
• Ling Yi spent 4 attribute points on strength and 2 on constitution, then bought and took a Healing Pill that cured his illness and restored his youthful appearance.
• After nearly forty minutes without inspectors arriving, Ling Yi told a security guard to open the roller shutter and saw three exclamation marks as his Eye of Intelligence gave him information prompts.

Ling Yi forced Zhang Yi and his five men to take Berserk Pills and attack Guan Qiang’s underworld network, then reunited with Old Liu at the detective agency and warned Ling Feng to stay protected. He began planning how to expose Guan Qiang through the internet, leaving the next move in motion.

• Ling Yi learned that Guan Qiang had sent three armed thugs to silence Zhang Yi’s gang and persuaded Zhang Yi to reveal Guan Qiang’s power and his scheme against Ling Feng.
• Ling Yi gave Zhang Yi and his five men Berserk Pills and ordered them to destroy Guan Qiang’s forces within four days.
• After their strength increased, Zhang Yi and his men killed the three thugs waiting outside the bank and drove away.
• Ling Yi met Old Liu, confirmed that his illness was cured, and took over the Old Ling Detective Agency.
• Ling Yi called Ling Feng and warned him to keep people around him, while advising him to pay attention to the internet.
• Ling Yi logged into his Hao Liao account and found Madman of Zaun among his friends.

Ling Yi used a weak AI named JARVIS to erase Madman of Zaun’s records of him and warn the paid troll, Song San. Believing Ling Yi would come after him, Song San retaliated by preparing a fabricated exposé about Ling Yi, leaving their conflict poised to escalate.

• Ling Yi paid Madman of Zaun to handle a job, then used JARVIS to delete the information Song San had saved about him and send a warning.
• Song San discovered the Ling Group folder was missing from his encrypted files and realized Ling Yi had accessed his computer.
• Afraid that Ling Yi would target him, Song San decided not to wait helplessly and opened his verified Scoop Death account.
• Song San drafted a lengthy fabricated exposé accusing Ling Yi of being a blackhearted businessman and prepared to publish it to his millions of followers.

Ling Yi exposed Song San’s evidence of online smear campaigns after Song San tried to publish an attack against him, triggering a scandal that reached national leaders. As the victims’ cases were uncovered, Ling Yi received a stream of system rewards.

• JARVIS intercepted Song San’s planned smear post, and Ling Yi turned the evidence from Song San’s computer into a series of exposés while ordering JARVIS to keep the account online.
• Song San discovered that Ling Yi had published the rewritten article under his account, and he fainted after seeing its evidence and the flood of angry comments.
• Song San’s associates and Moubo chief Zhao Dashi confronted him, while Zhao learned that the platform could not remove the article or ban the account.
• Song San tried to apologize to Ling Yi and offer him his money, but his message failed because Ling Yi had not added him as a friend.
• The scandal spread beyond the internet, drew attention from the top leader, and prompted promises to improve online oversight laws.
• Ling Yi received repeated system notifications awarding points and attribute points for uncovering the truth behind cyberbullying cases.

Ling Yi used his new System Shop points to equip JARVIS with a T-800 body and assigned it the identity Ling Weiwei. He decided to keep a low profile while pursuing Guan Qiang, then spent 500 points on a shapeshifting gene.

• Ling Yi saw that the Song San incident had earned him 175 free Attribute Points and 820 points, and he used the System Shop to compare servers and robots.
• After JARVIS recommended the T-800 for its reverse-engineerable technology, Ling Yi bought one and customized its appearance as a woman.
• Ling Yi renamed JARVIS Ling Weiwei, ordered it to create a complete online identity, and told it to investigate Guan Qiang and expose evidence of his crimes.
• Ling Yi rejected Ling Weiwei's proposal to open a detective agency website, explaining that publicity would attract trouble and that he wanted to stay low-profile.
• Ling Yi purchased the X-Shapeshifting Gene for 500 points.