Chapter Summaries

After imprinting Natasha’s consciousness, Ling Yi watched her defeat and capture Hulk and Abomination with her weapon-manifesting ability. Nick Fury left impressed, while footage of Natasha’s power led Tony Stark to investigate Ling Yi and the changes in Hell’s Kitchen.

• Ling Yi completed the consciousness imprinting procedure with Natasha, and a sudden earthquake announced the Hulk and Abomination fighting nearby.
• Ling Yi took Natasha and Nick to watch the battle, then sent Natasha to capture the two monsters and test her abilities.
• Natasha manifested an enormous iron hammer, knocked out Hulk, and captured him after he turned back into Banner.
• Natasha shattered Abomination’s bones with the hammer and sent him into the prison, then fired a warning shot past General Ross’s helicopter with a gigantic manifested sniper rifle.
• Nick Fury praised Natasha’s power and left with her, saying he would consider Ling Yi’s proposed deal.
• Tony Stark watched footage of Natasha’s fight, learned about Ling Yi’s influence in Hell’s Kitchen, and decided to visit him.

Ling Yi opened the Shop of Serendipity, used its Life Orb sale to bind Sitwell to him, and arranged for Frank to help Tony replace the palladium in his reactor. After Tony recovered, Ling Yi let Banner stay at the shop rather than keep him imprisoned, while Whiplash and Justin Hammer secretly began plotting in New York.

• Ling Yi sold Sitwell a 1-Star Life Orb, secretly marked him as a jailer, and left him torn between his new devotion to Ling Yi and his ties to Hydra.
• Tony asked Ling Yi about the Life Orbs and his palladium poisoning, so Ling Yi sent Frank with him for three days to help find a replacement element.
• Ling Yi released Banner from prison because Banner's Good and Evil Value had fallen to zero, then allowed him to stay and work at the shop.
• Frank returned after helping Tony develop a new element that replaced palladium and saved him from the poisoning.
• Whiplash Ivan Vanko met Justin Hammer in New York, while Tony regained confidence and Hell's Kitchen grew safer and busier.

Stephen Strange sought a cure for his injured hands, but Ling Yi directed him to Kathmandu and his friend Pangborn. The Ancient One then brought Ling Yi and Banner to Kamar-Taj, where a sudden attack by a horde of bone dragons began.

• Hell's Kitchen remained free of gang activity, while Ling Yi continued making deals with Hydra and branded forty of its members.
• Stephen Strange visited the Shop of Serendipity to ask Ling Yi to heal his hands, but Ling Yi told him to go to Kathmandu and consult Pangborn.
• The Ancient One arrived at the shop, shared life tea with Ling Yi and Banner, and invited them to Kamar-Taj.
• The Ancient One showed Ling Yi and Banner around Kamar-Taj and explained its role in defending Earth from dimensional threats.
• Kamar-Taj shook as an enormous black vortex opened overhead, and countless bone dragons poured out and attacked the city.

Ling Yi crushed an invasion from the Undead Dimension, captured roughly a hundred thousand undead for M0 Prison, and refused The Ancient One’s offer to learn Kamar-Taj magic. When he returned to his shop with Banner, he found it attacked by a heavily armed force, and his allies warned that powerful people were targeting the Life Orbs.

• The Ancient One brought Ling Yi to Kamar-Taj as necromancers invaded, and Ling Yi captured the invading undead while Wong, Mordo, and the other mages fought back.
• Ling Yi reached through the Gate of Space into the Undead Dimension, imprisoned more undead, and taunted its furious demon god until the gate closed.
• The Ancient One restored the damaged city with the Time Stone and offered to teach Ling Yi Kamar-Taj magic, but he declined.
• Ling Yi and Banner returned to find the shop damaged and about three hundred attackers dead; Tony, Frank, Mark, Poindexter, Big Old Man, and Mindy had survived.
• Mark and Tony suspected the attackers were government-connected elites seeking the Life Orbs, and Ling Yi told his allies to prepare for a response.

Ling Yi empowered his jailers with Necromancy and ordered a citywide arrest campaign that plunged New York into chaos and brought him the Tesseract. After Hydra attacked the Tesseract convoy, Ling Yi ordered Mark and the others to bring Pierce to him.

• Ling Yi repaired his shop, bestowed Necromancy on Mark, Frank, Tony, Banner, and the other jailers, and ordered them to arrest people across New York City.
• Over the next half month, twenty thousand undead jailers swept through the city, filling M0 Prison with prisoners and triggering gunfire and political chaos.
• Nick Fury and Alexander Pierce argued over Ling Yi's campaign, and Nick summoned Coulson and Natasha after Pierce left his office.
• Commissioner George Stacy asked Ling Yi to end the arrests, but Ling Yi demanded the Tesseract, and Nick agreed to deliver it.
• Nick and Natasha brought the Tesseract to Ling Yi's shop after Hydra deployed an armored unit against them, and Ling Yi ordered Banner to have Mark and the others bring Pierce in.

Ling Yi explained the Infinity Stones and the threats facing Earth, leaving Nick Fury alarmed by the coming war with Thanos. Ling Yi offered to help prepare Earth by eliminating Hydra and giving Nick ten thousand undead prison guards.

• The Great Prison System tried to devour the Tesseract, but Ling Yi ordered it to stop after learning it craved the Space Stone’s world origin power.
• Ling Yi explained the six Infinity Stones and warned Nick, Banner, and Natasha that Thanos was searching for them and would eventually threaten Earth.
• Ling Yi described how Odin and the Ancient One had protected Earth, then warned that both were nearing death and that war with Thanos would become unavoidable.
• Ling Yi offered to keep clearing out Hydra, help Nick deal with powerful officials, and give him ten thousand undead prison guards.
• Nick was delighted by the offer but wondered whether Ling Yi had a hidden motive.

Ling Yi explained his origins to Banner and Nick, then used the Tesseract to strengthen M0 Prison and unlock new functions. While traveling with Mindy, he encountered Johnny Blaze and Carter Slade racing toward Blackheart, and followed them to the church where Roxanne was being held.

• Ling Yi told Banner that he came from an unrelated parallel world and gave Nick the method for summoning prison guards.
• Ling Yi placed the Tesseract in M0 Prison, stabilizing its space and unlocking Prison Projection and Projection of the Heavens.
• Ling Yi and Mindy drove toward Gansas Town in Tony's RV, bantering about shopping, dating, and Mindy's weapons.
• Mindy spotted Johnny Blaze and Carter Slade riding past, and Ling Yi told JARVIS to follow them.
• The Ghost Riders raced to a ruined church to rescue Roxanne Simpson, while Ling Yi and Mindy followed close behind.
• Blackheart watched the evil spirits at the cliffside church and mocked his father as the Ghost Riders arrived.

Ling Yi used a prison projection at San Venganza to turn three thousand vengeful spirits into prison guards and recruit Carter Slade, then placed a second Projection Stele at his shop. After sensing the location of the third stele, he vanished to explore the unknown world it had reached.

• Ling Yi projected the Great Prison System over San Venganza, sealed Blackheart and Ghost Rider, and converted the three thousand vengeful spirits into prison guards.
• Ling Yi revived Carter Slade with Life Essence Qi and invited him to serve as a prison guard, but Carter remained wary and reluctant.
• A month later, Ling Yi placed a second Projection Stele at the Shop of Serendipity and learned that Mephisto's clone had been torn apart by the spirit guards.
• Ling Yi launched a third Projection Stele into the void but could not initially locate it or travel to it.
• Banner told Ling Yi that a strange woman had walked through the shop wall, and Ling Yi finally sensed the third stele's location and vanished to investigate.

Ling Yi discovered that the Projection Stele had appeared in Water Curtain Cave on Flower-Fruit Mountain, then left before Son Goku could find him. After Guanyin confronted him, Ling Yi considered using her to test his strength in the Journey to the West World.

• Ling Yi found the Projection Stele in Water Curtain Cave and confirmed that he could travel between worlds while keeping the stele’s functions.
• Ling Yi explained his seventh-layer awakening and his Transformation, Gravity, and Manifestation Divine Abilities.
• Ling Yi saw Son Goku among the monkeys and left Flower-Fruit Mountain rather than interfere with the stone monkey becoming king.
• Powerful beings watching Son Goku noticed Ling Yi, and Guanyin went to investigate him.
• Ling Yi sensed that MO Prison’s rules could protect him from Guanyin and raised his head with a chuckle, preparing to test his strength.

Ling Yi trapped Guanyin in MO Prison and forced her to become his jailer, then sent her back to gather strength for him. Wary of the Heavenly Dao, he settled near Flower-Fruit Mountain to cultivate and build his power.

• Ling Yi challenged Guanyin and used the Great Prison System to seal her powers and pull her into MO Prison.
• Guanyin warned that the Buddhist School’s Sages, Jieyin and Zhunti, stood behind her, but Ling Yi dismissed the threat and turned the Hell prisoners into essence and skill orbs.
• Ling Yi ordered Guanyin to work for him, and she realized his prison’s mysterious power—not his personal strength—had overwhelmed her.
• Back at Flower-Fruit Mountain, Guanyin advised Ling Yi to capture demons secretly and strengthen the Prison Space while avoiding the Heavenly Dao.
• Ling Yi settled in a nearby cave and decided to try the cultivation methods Guanyin had given him.

Ling Yi discovered that his evolved body could no longer cultivate conventionally, so he relaxed at his cave with a smartphone connected to a signal tower inside MO Prison. When he rescued an orchid demon named Zilan from three wolf demons, he recognized her as a character from an unusual version of Journey to the West and worried that the encounter would entangle him in its karma.

• Ling Yi realized that his body had evolved beyond having a dantian or meridians, making ordinary cultivation ineffective, and he enjoyed sunbathing with a phone built by Tony.
• Ling Yi learned that the Projection Stele’s range covered seven kilometers and that Guanyin believed the dormant Heavenly Dao and secluded Sages left him largely safe from powerful threats.
• Ling Yi spotted Zilan fleeing three wolf demons and immobilized them, then healed her with Life Origin Essence Qi and stopped her from running into him repeatedly.
• Zilan told Ling Yi that the wolf demons served General Xiong, an Earth Immortal, and introduced herself by name.
• Ling Yi recognized Zilan as a character from the unusual Journey to the West story The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra and feared that karma had brought its characters to him.

Ling Yi reluctantly accepted Zilan and the little monkey as disciples after their rescue drew him into their karma. After he gave them powers from the Prison World, the monkey awakened a terrifying Great Ape form and inherited memories, leaving Ling Yi curious about their new abilities.

• Zilan begged Ling Yi to save Ziwei and the little monkey, and he agreed to accompany her to General Xiong’s cave.
• Taibai Jinxing killed General Xiong, took Ziwei to the Heavenly Court, and mistakenly believed Zilan was dead because the Projection Stele concealed her.
• Zilan and the little monkey appeared at Ling Yi’s cave and asked to become his disciples, and he accepted them.
• Ling Yi made the pair jailers in the Prison World, gave them Life Origin essence and inheritances for Necromancy and Hellfire, then sent them back to Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The little monkey’s Great Ape phantom erupted over Flower-Fruit Mountain, shredding the Divine Senses searching the area.
• Zilan showed Ling Yi her mutated Hellfire, and the little monkey said he had awakened Divine Abilities and an ancient cultivation technique before Ling Yi asked what they had gained.

Ling Yi strengthened himself by devouring the Life Origin of Manjushri and Samantabhadra, whom Guanyin had apparently tricked into his Prison World. He stayed focused on the Journey to the West World while Mindy and Natasha asked him to return to help Captain America.

• Ling Yi praised Houzi’s awakened abilities, named him Son Goku, and ordered him to unify the world as a jailer of MO Prison, while Zilan remained on Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Ling Yi found Manjushri and Samantabhadra imprisoned, stripped their possessions, and devoured their Life Origin Pearls, advancing from the seventh to the ninth awakening layer.
• Ling Yi consumed the pair’s Cultivation Orbs and Buddhist School Divine Ability inheritances, gaining Daluo Golden Immortal-level magical power and numerous abilities.
• Ling Yi found Zilan video-chatting with Mindy and Natasha and scolded her for sharing details about the Journey to the West World.
• Natasha asked Ling Yi to help Captain America improve his strength when he returned, but Ling Yi said he would decide later and told Mindy to go to school.

Ling Yi cleared millions of insectoids from Blue Star, rapidly gaining strength, but accidentally erased the trail to their base. He met Ruit and a human force, who confirmed that the insectoid-occupied world was humanity’s home, Blue Star.

• Ling Yi spoke with Zilan about phones, Mindy, and Natasha, then absorbed pearls made from Buddhas sent to the prison world and reached peak Daluo Golden Immortal strength.
• Annoyed by experts spying on Flower-Fruit Mountain, Ling Yi sent Zilan to deliver the Projection Stele to Houzi and teleported to another stele.
• Ling Yi found a vast insectoid army attacking toward space and used the Projection Stele to capture and convert millions of insects into Life Origin Pearls.
• The insect king ordered a retreat after Ling Yi batted away its powerful projectiles, but Ling Yi chased the fleeing army and accidentally erased every insectoid before locating its base.
• A human special operations team rescued wounded soldiers, including Commander Ruit, and watched footage of Ling Yi fighting the insects.
• Ling Yi realized the familiar surroundings were Blue Star and met Ruit, who identified himself as the person in charge of the Mars base and confirmed that the planet was humanity’s home.

Ling Yi learned how the Insect Tribe took over Blue Star, destroyed its mother nest, and reached tenth-level awakening. The Great Prison System then upgraded with new features, and Ling Yi left Blue Star as annihilation bombs were about to fall.

• Ruit explained that evolved creatures, including the Insect Tribe, had driven humanity from Blue Star after a century-long war.
• Ruit identified the Insect Tribe's mother nest, and Ling Yi flew there while Ruit's group received an order to obtain his genes and an alert about an incoming annihilation strike.
• Ling Yi wiped out the insects in the harbor town, including the king insect, and reached tenth-level awakening.
• The Great Prison System upgraded, adding contribution points, new jailer ranks, system buildings, Labor Reform Instances, and new rules for capturing and releasing prisoners.
• Ling Yi retrieved the Projection Stele and returned to the Journey to the West World.

After the Great Prison System’s update forced jailers to earn contribution value, Ling Yi’s jailers swept through prisons and demons while his strength rose from their prisoners’ Life Origin. Guanyin exploited the system to seize control on Spirit Mountain, and the chapter ended with Tathagata and the Buddhas watching her after she killed Ancient Buddha Randeng.

• The system update erased Nick’s authority, and Mindy arrested him before Ling Yi converted him into a jailer; Nick then recruited S.H.I.E.L.D. members and emptied prisons to earn contribution value.
• Ling Yi rejected Nick’s requests for a high-ranking post, while Zilan stayed in the cave abode as a self-declared mascot.
• Son Goku arrested more than ten thousand demons, helping himself reach 4-star strength and Ling Yi reach 11 stars.
• Guanyin arrested nearly a hundred thousand Spirit Mountain disciples to reduce her Sin Value, prompting Tathagata to demand an explanation.
• Ancient Buddha Randeng attacked Guanyin, but she trapped him with Limited Barrier and sent him to a death-row cell, where he died and became rewards for Guanyin and Ling Yi.
• Tathagata and the Buddhas stared in disbelief as Guanyin’s power and challenge to Spirit Mountain became clear.

Ling Yi left the Journey to the West World and arrived at Lanruo Temple, where he met Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen. After learning that a golden core stage tree demon was nearby, he prepared to face the dangers of this new world.

• Ling Yi watched Tathagata disappear when his countdown ended and absorbed part of his Life Origin.
• Guanyin reformed Spirit Mountain and abandoned the Journey to the West, while Patriarch Bodhi decided to leave her alone and continue preparing for the calamity.
• Ling Yi reached fifteen-star awakening as the Prison Space surpassed twenty million inmates, then left Zilan on Flower-Fruit Mountain and departed the Journey to the West World.
• Ling Yi arrived in a dilapidated temple, stopped Yan Chixia from attacking him, and gave him a set of magical armored clothing.
• Ning Caichen entered the temple seeking shelter, and Ling Yi recognized the place as Lanruo Temple, home to a golden core stage tree demon.

Ling Yi exposed Nie Xiaoqian’s horrifying true appearance to Ning Caichen, then set out with Yan Chixia to confront the tree demon near the banyan tree. They found Nie Xiaoqian’s urn, and the demon addressed Yan Chixia with suspicion as they arrived.

• Ling Yi fed Ning Caichen and Yan Chixia, then watched invisibly as Ning Caichen followed Nie Xiaoqian’s zither music during the night.
• Ling Yi used the Eye of Illusion Breaking and saw Nie Xiaoqian’s decayed true appearance, then left before Ning Caichen returned at dawn.
• After breakfast, Ling Yi left Lanruo Temple to slay demons, and Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen followed him.
• Ling Yi showed Ning Caichen Nie Xiaoqian’s beautiful illusion and ghastly true form, making Ning Caichen realize what had happened the previous night.
• Ling Yi led the group through the vines to a huge banyan tree and placed Nie Xiaoqian’s urn in Ning Caichen’s arms.
• The tree demon spoke from within the banyan tree and challenged Yan Chixia, while Ling Yi wondered whether Mount Shu existed in this world.

Ling Yi defeated the tree demon, then followed Yan Chixia into the Underworld to hunt down the Old Demon of Black Mountain. After defeating waves of Ghost Soldiers on the way, Ling Yi reached Black Mountain City, where the Old Demon of Black Mountain awaited him and seemed unlike the one Ling Yi remembered.

• Yan Chixia fought the tree demon but was overwhelmed, so Ling Yi rescued him and cut down the banyan tree demon with a chainsaw.
• Ling Yi asked Yan Chixia to lead him to the Old Demon of Black Mountain, and Yan Chixia warned that the demon was a Spirit Transformation expert backed by the Underworld.
• Yan Chixia opened a rift to the Underworld, and Ling Yi stabilized it before entering with Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen.
• Ling Yi cast a Golden Light Curse on Ning Caichen, driving Nie Xiaoqian out of her urn, then ordered her to protect him.
• Ling Yi sent hundreds of attacking Ghost Soldiers into the Prison Space, and continued defeating more Ghost Soldiers as the group approached Black Mountain City.
• The Old Demon of Black Mountain learned of Ling Yi's approach and waited outside the city gates with several thousand Ghost Soldiers.

Ling Yi captured the Old Demon of Black Mountain, gained a terrifying blended power, and left the Underworld with Yan Chixia, Ning Caichen, and Nie Xiaoqian. In Guobei County, corrupt constables attacked them, and Xiahou Jian fought Yan Chixia after killing several of the constables.

• Ling Yi sent the Old Demon of Black Mountain and his Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals into the Prison Space, then formed a new blended power that made nearby Ghost Qi retreat.
• Ling Yi opened a Space Portal and brought Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen out near Guobei County, while Nie Xiaoqian returned to her urn.
• Constables in Guobei County falsely accused Ling Yi and his companions of being wanted fugitives and tried to seize them.
• Xiahou Jian rushed in and killed several constables, then fought Yan Chixia when Yan Chixia stopped him from killing the rest.
• Ning Caichen said the constables deserved death but criticized Xiahou Jian's recklessness, and he told Ling Yi that his wife had left him and his mother had died.
• Yan Chixia defeated Xiahou Jian and broke his sword.