Chapter Summaries

After retaliating against Janpenese and preparing a human meridian model, Ling Yi and his companions headed to Hao City First High Martial Academy, where another attack targeted them. Ling Yi recognized that the attackers carried fourth-tier Demonic Beast inner cores and prepared to strike back.

• Chen Long's Zodiac Team discussed Ling Yi's retaliation against Janpenese and admitted they had secretly learned Graceful Steps upon the Waves.
• Ling Yi built houses in the Mist Forest while waiting for Pengpeng, then returned to Hao City with his companions after Pengpeng completed its mission.
• A news report announced that Janpenese's capital had been destroyed, and Chi Ni thanked Ling Yi for his retaliation.
• Ling Yi began carving a cottonwood model of human meridians, while Chen Long's team repelled repeated attacks on him over the following weeks.
• Ling Yi and the girls drove through heavy traffic to Hao City First High Martial Academy and decided to buy a nearby villa instead of living on campus.
• Ten men charged toward Ling Yi and his companions at the academy gates, carrying what Ling Yi recognized as fourth-tier Demonic Beast inner cores, and he raised his hand to use The Snap.

After foiling another Janpenese attack, Ling Yi prepared his flying Demonic Beasts and secretly left for Janpenese to investigate their artificial demonic core bombs. His disappearance alarmed his companions and brought a furious Emperor Chi rushing back to Hao City.

• Ling Yi sent the ten Janpenese attackers away through spatial vortices, and Chen Long ordered Zi Shu to find the people who had helped them enter Hao City.
• Ling Yi trained five flying Demonic Beasts in his Personal Space, learned they were close to mastering attribute Qi, and told them to prepare for a trip to Janpenese.
• Ling Yi suspected Janpenese could manufacture artificial fourth-tier demonic cores and decided to investigate, while keeping his plans and abilities guarded from others.
• After enrolling at Hao City First High Martial Academy, Ling Yi discussed his next novel with Chi Ni and planned to write Heavenly Dragon.
• Five days later, Ling Yi left a note saying he would return in ten days to half a month and vanished; Yuan Xiaolei suspected he had gone to Janpenese.
• Emperor Chi learned Ling Yi had left and flew from Dragon Capital to Hao City in a fury.

Ling Yi uncovered Janpenese’s plan to use artificial tier-four demonic core bombs against the Great Qian Empire and flew to America to trace their source. Meanwhile, Emperor Chi ordered the Asura Army to destroy the Liu Clan, and Ling Yi arrived at a hidden American research base.

• Ling Yi learned that Janpenese planned to detonate twenty thousand demonic core bombs across 108 Great Qian cities on October tenth, Emperor Chi’s birthday, and confiscated the bombs.
• Ling Yi set off for America aboard a Thunder-Eating Bird to investigate the source of the artificial demonic cores.
• Emperor Chi reprimanded his guards, ordered the Asura Army to Hao City, and learned that the Liu Clan had colluded with Janpenese to target Ling Yi.
• Chi Ni vouched for Liu Chengcheng, who revealed her estrangement from the Liu Clan and her knowledge of its past crimes.
• The Asura Army destroyed the Liu Clan, killed its ancestor, and imprisoned most of its legitimate line.
• Ling Yi reached a concealed research base beneath a mountain basin in America.

Ling Yi destroyed America’s artificial Demonic Core bomb base, recovered its equipment and technology, and spent months hunting down the bombs sent to countries bordering the Great Qian Empire before returning to Hao City. After a year of laying low and saving experience, he broke through to the Extreme Golden Core Realm, first layer.

• Ling Yi infiltrated America’s base, learned it had produced ten million artificial Demonic Core bombs, and took its equipment, documents, and remaining bombs before destroying the facility.
• Ling Yi spent two months locating and retrieving or destroying the six million bombs sent to countries bordering the Great Qian Empire, then returned to Hao City and reunited with Yuan Xiaolei, Wang Xiaoyun, Liu Chengcheng, and Chi Ni.
• Ling Yi and the four girls left school after trouble caused by jealous students and moved back to their manor.
• After a year passed, Ling Yi used his accumulated experience points and transformed his Genki into a seven-colored bead, reaching the Extreme Golden Core Realm, first layer.

Ling Yi survived a brutal lightning tribulation and gained an Ascension Orb that let him delay ascending to the upper realm. Before returning to the manor, he gave Emperor Chi a cultivation model and a storage ring loaded with demonic-core bombs and production materials, while preparing his companions for the path ahead.

• A lightning tribulation followed Ling Yi to the Mist Mountain Range, where he endured increasingly powerful bolts and a multicolored attack without serious injury.
• The tribulation vanished, and a pillar of light appeared, but Ling Yi resisted ascension and teleported back to his manor with an Ascension Orb above his head.
• Ling Yi explained that he could choose when to ascend, and Emperor Chi arrived to ask about the tribulation.
• Ling Yi gave Emperor Chi a model marked with meridians and acupoints, then made storage rings and handed over one containing demonic-core bombs, a production line, and technical documents.
• Ling Yi gave storage rings to Yuan Xiaolei and the other women, told them they could eventually reach the Martial God Realm, and judged that Emperor Chi would struggle because his meridians were blocked.

Ling Yi ascended to the upper realm and was abruptly made the personal disciple of Qi Yun, the dying peak master of Cloud Sword Peak. After developing a skill that could create objects, Ling Yi learned that he had to compete in the sect tournament the next day to keep his new home from being abolished.

• Yuan Xiaolei and the others resolved to cultivate until they could ascend and find Ling Yi, while resenting that he had left without saying goodbye.
• Ling Yi ascended, fell from the sky into the ground, and was claimed as a disciple by Qi Yun, peak master of Cloud Sword Peak in the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect.
• Qi Yun gave Ling Yi his possessions, made him Cloud Sword Peak's master while he entered death-seclusion, and left him to study the sect's jade slips.
• Ling Yi experimented with elemental skills and created a new ability that produced objects such as a golden sword and a smartphone.
• Su Yunhao visited Ling Yi and warned him that Cloud Sword Peak would be abolished unless Ling Yi placed in the top three of the sect tournament beginning the next day.

Ling Yi watched the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect’s tournament while reflecting on Qi Yun’s failing condition and the vast resources his nominal master had left him. As the personal disciples’ competition began, Sect Leader Fengyunzi told Ling Yi that he had to place in the top three or surrender Cloud Sword Peak with Qi Yun.

• Ling Yi sensed that Qi Yun was suffering from inner demons during his life-or-death seclusion and concluded that breaking through without finding his own Dao was unlikely.
• Ling Yi reviewed the sect’s cultivation system and its tournament rules, then went to Wind and Cloud Peak to watch the disciples compete.
• Ling Yi saw combat puppets, talismans, formations, and other techniques in the outer, middle, and inner peak tournaments, which concluded by midday.
• Ling Yi recalled that Qi Yun had given him a vast collection of cultivation materials, spirit stones, treasures, and jade slips accumulated over a thousand years.
• Fengyunzi explained that Ling Yi had to place in the top three of the personal disciples’ tournament or give up Cloud Sword Peak with Qi Yun.

Ling Yi killed Su Yunhao in the tournament and then destroyed sect master Fengyunzi with a single Nebula Fist, leaving the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect behind. Bored on Cloud Sword Peak, he began compiling introductory science textbooks to see how science might interact with cultivation.

• Ling Yi drew the first tournament lot and defeated Su Yunhao by catching his sword between two fingers and killing him with a punch.
• Fengyunzi dismissed the spectators, then ordered Ling Yi to continue the tournament while eyeing his power and hidden opportunity.
• Ling Yi teleported in front of Fengyunzi and killed him with a level-twenty-one Nebula Fist, reducing him to ash.
• Ling Yi flew back to Cloud Sword Peak and decided the sect's future did not concern him as long as no one disturbed his leisure.
• Ling Yi spent more than half a year writing introductory textbooks on physics, biology, chemistry, and genetics to introduce scientific knowledge to the cultivation world.

Three years after Ling Yi remained on Cloud Sword Peak, Yuan Xiaolei and the others ascended to join him, while the Great Qian Empire unified Blue Star after defeating an invasion. When the weakened Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect faced a threat from rival sects, Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo sought Ling Yi’s help, and he considered turning to Qi Yun for support.

• Yuan Xiaolei, Wang Xiaoyun, Liu Chengcheng, and Chi Ni reunited with Ling Yi on Cloud Sword Peak, where they discussed their victory over the allied countries and the Great Qian Empire’s rise to dominance on Blue Star.
• Situ Leiyun became sect master after Fengyunzi’s death was concealed, but the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect grew vulnerable without a Spirit Transformation Realm expert.
• Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo told Ling Yi that four Spirit Transformation Realm experts were coming to probe the sect under the pretext of discussing the Starry Sky Mystic Realm.
• Situ Leiyun explained that the Starry Sky Mystic Realm, also called the Starry Sky Ancient Road, opened every three thousand years and would open again in ten years.
• After Ling Yi learned the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect needed powerful support, he looked toward the room where Qi Yun was cultivating in seclusion.

Ling Yi rescued Qi Yun from death seclusion, restored his health, and helped him break through, but beat him after Qi Yun attacked him. A decade later, Ling Yi and his companions joined the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect on the journey to the Starry Sky Mystic Realm, stopping with the other sects at the Wild Stone Plain before heading to Knowhere.

• Ling Yi broke the formation, restored Qi Yun with his life force, and helped him reach the spirit transformation realm, but Qi Yun turned on him with a sword strike.
• Ling Yi sealed Qi Yun's Nascent Soul and had him beaten for days, while his seven-colored Spiritual Power helped Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo reach the peak of the ninth level of the spirit transformation realm.
• Ling Yi threw Qi Yun off Cloud Sword Peak the next day, and Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo led the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect through a decade of growth until they reached the dao integration realm.
• Situ Leiyun told Ling Yi that the Starry Sky Mystic Realm would open in six months, and Ling Yi, Yuan Xiaolei, the others, Situ Leiyun, and Cheng Huo set out by flying boat.
• The group reached the Wild Stone Plain, where Situ Leiyun and Cheng Huo agreed with other dao integration realm experts to wait for the remaining cultivators before traveling to Knowhere.

Ling Yi destroyed the Heaven and Earth Immortal Sect’s raiders and led the cultivators into Knowhere, guiding them safely through its shifting spatial turbulence. The group reached the area beyond the turbulence, where they expected to face powerful Void Demons.

• Ling Yi destroyed several Heaven and Earth Immortal Sect flying boats after their forces demanded protection money and threatened other cultivators.
• Ling Yi took the sect’s flying boats, and Situ Leiyun steered one toward Knowhere with the other domains’ cultivators following.
• Zhang Zhihong explained that Knowhere’s ancient formation kept Void Demons from entering the Immortal Cultivation Realm, and Ling Yi led the group through its spatial light curtain.
• Ling Yi warned everyone to follow his route on the ground, but some Heaven and Earth Immortal Sect cultivators and others strayed and were killed by spatial turbulence.
• After a month of cautious travel, Ling Yi announced that the group had passed the spatial turbulence and was nearing the more dangerous Void Demons.

Ling Yi accepted the collapsing Heavenly Dao’s power and became the Immortal Cultivation Realm’s immortal caretaker, then repaired Knowhere and sealed the Starry Sky Mystic Realm. His original body subsequently began a new transmigration into a novel world, leaving the clone to govern the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

• Ling Yi awakened the trapped Heavenly Dao consciousness in Knowhere, and it transferred its remaining power and the realm’s care to him before collapsing.
• Ling Yi explained that the Heavenly Dao had plundered other worlds’ origins through the Starry Sky Mystic Realm, provoking an attack that shattered the passage and crippled the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
• Ling Yi repaired Knowhere, destroyed its Void Demons, and closed the Starry Sky Mystic Realm.
• Ling Yi decided to reshape the Immortal Cultivation Realm and returned with Yuan Xiaolei and the others to the Wind and Cloud Immortal Sect.
• After the clone departed, the original Ling Yi emerged, reviewed the Ling Realm’s development, and activated his transmigration aura to enter a novel world in clone mode.

After earning a Thunder Dragon Bloodline from his first novel-world role, Ling Yi tested his new power and considered how to improve his acting for future roles. He decided to look into visiting a film production base to learn from actors up close.

• Ling Yi complained about his first novel world’s foolish characters and used his lottery reward to obtain the Thunder Dragon Bloodline.
• Ling Yi tested his lightning control, discovered that household electricity strengthened him, and stopped absorbing it because it was inefficient and costly.
• While cooking noodles, Ling Yi reflected on how difficult it might be to earn a passing portrayal score in more complicated roles.
• Ling Yi searched online for ways to improve his acting and found advice to gain firsthand experience around real actors.
• Ling Yi discovered that many production bases existed across the country and began looking forward to visiting one.

Ling Yi traveled to Hengying, where extras coordinator Gao Wancai offered to help him find a bit part and sensed an unusual presence in him. At midnight, Ling Yi entered a new roleplay as Song Zhe in The School Belle's Personal Bodyguard and arrived outside a classroom with flowers.

• Ling Yi flew to Greater Zhejiang for the first time and met Gao Wancai, who explained how extras coordinators worked and offered to arrange him a role.
• Gao Wancai told his assistant that Ling Yi had a presence reminiscent of Jet, though he could not tell what it meant.
• Ling Yi explored Hengying's Harbor City District and waited for the system's next roleplay to begin.
• The system assigned Ling Yi the role of Lin Zhe in The School Belle's Personal Bodyguard, whose plot centered on protagonist Gao Feng and female lead Bai Qianqian.
• Ling Yi decided to test whether changing the story could affect his score, entered the teleportation vortex, and appeared at a classroom entrance holding flowers as memories of Song Zhe arrived.

Ling Yi recruited Song Yanyan to carry out a scheme against Gao Feng, then arrived at Old Master Liu’s birthday banquet to confront the protagonist. The chapter ended with Ling Yi greeting Old Master Liu as Bai Qianqian saw him and turned pale.

• Ling Yi discarded the flowers meant for Bai Qianqian and asked Uncle Li for help, hoping to protect him from Gao Feng.
• Ling Yi hired Song Yanyan, exposed her past to discourage betrayal, and gave her a bag of white powder for a secret plan targeting Gao Feng.
• Uncle Li told Ling Yi that he had prepared staged surveillance footage and videos, and Ling Yi revealed that Gao Feng was Yan San’s disciple.
• Song Yanyan messaged Ling Yi that the job was done, and Ling Yi headed to Old Master Liu’s birthday banquet.
• Ling Yi arrived at the Liu Clan villa and was greeted by Old Master Liu and the gathered guests, including Bai Qianqian and Gao Feng.
• Bai Qianqian turned pale when she saw Ling Yi, who introduced himself to Old Master Liu.

Ling Yi used his status as Lin Zhe to derail Bai Qianqian’s attempt to pose Gao Feng as her boyfriend and arranged for Gao Feng to be arrested with suspicious items. After leaving the banquet, Ling Yi prepared fake video evidence to deepen Gao Feng’s troubles and asked Uncle Li for Ancient Martial Arts manuals.

• Ling Yi arrived at Old Master Liu’s birthday banquet and took a quiet seat, while Bai Qianqian asked Gao Feng to help her pose as her boyfriend.
• Ling Yi warned Bai Qianqian that involving Gao Feng would expose him to retaliation, but Gao Feng declared that he would protect her.
• Inspectors searched Gao Feng’s shoulder bag, found contraband, and arrested him after he refused to cooperate.
• Ling Yi told Bai Qianqian he would stop pursuing her and challenged her assumption that he had framed Gao Feng, leaving her ashamed of her prejudice.
• Ling Yi left the banquet, then had Uncle Li arrange fake videos showing Gao Feng trading white powder with thugs during a period he could not explain.
• Ling Yi asked Uncle Li to find him Ancient Martial Arts manuals, despite Uncle Li’s doubts that he could learn the discipline.

Ling Yi advanced his Thunder Dragon Bloodline and Ancient Martial Arts while arranging plans around Gao Feng and Bai Qianqian. After Gao Feng was released through White Green Mountain’s connections, Bai Qianqian apologized to Ling Yi and invited him to lunch the next day.

• Bai Qianqian watched the videos, realized she had misjudged Lin Zhe, and sent him an apology message.
• Ling Yi upgraded his villa’s basement for high-voltage cultivation and advanced his Thunder Dragon Bloodline to tier two.
• Ling Yi studied Ancient Martial Arts, reached the Innate realm, and advanced his Thunder Dragon Bloodline to tier four with Basic Armor Transformation.
• Ling Yi learned from Uncle Li that Gao Feng had been released after White Green Mountain intervened, and he ordered the next step of his plan.
• Bai Qianqian called Ling Yi, admitted her grandfather had helped Gao Feng, apologized for misunderstanding him, and arranged to meet him for lunch.

Ling Yi’s actions helped bring down the Bai Clan and turn Gao Feng into a wanted fugitive, while his roleplay progress rose to 45%. Gao Feng traced his misfortunes to Lin Zhe and, after White Green Mountain refused to name his suspected culprit, resolved that Lin Zhe was behind it.

• Videos of Gao Feng’s brutal brawl spread online, forcing the Bai Clan to surrender resources and leaving White Green Mountain gravely ill.
• Ling Yi guessed Gao Feng’s deviation from the original plot had triggered his 45% roleplay progress and decided to wait for Gao Feng to find him.
• Ling Yi ate with Bai Qianqian, warned her to stay safe if Gao Feng contacted her, and sensed killing intent after she left.
• Gao Feng suspected Song Yanyan had planted evidence in his bag, but learned she had fled the Ancient Country after taking money from Ling Yi.
• Gao Feng asked White Green Mountain to identify who had framed him and offered to perform Yama's Life-Stealing Needle again, but White Green Mountain only urged him to flee abroad.
• Gao Feng concluded that Lin Zhe had framed him.

Ling Yi tested whether taking over Gao Feng’s heroic scenes would raise his roleplay progress, saving Su Ling and killing the Blood Angel mercenaries who came for her. His progress reached 61%, meeting the system lottery requirement, and he prepared for his final test: killing Gao Feng.

• Ling Yi sent Uncle Li to investigate Su Rui in secret and went to a dance club, where he spotted Su Ling onstage and Gao Feng watching her.
• When the Blood Angel Mercenary Corps attacked the club to seize Su Ling, Ling Yi felled the men who rushed the stage with glass shards.
• The mercenary leader withdrew, but Ling Yi pursued him and destroyed the fleeing vehicle with lightning, killing its occupants.
• Gao Feng saw Ling Yi’s mysterious power and resolved to kill him before fleeing abroad, believing his Blood-Burning Art could raise him to Peak Innate.
• Ling Yi confirmed that stealing Gao Feng’s scenes had raised his roleplay progress from 45% to 61%, and left to complete his final test by killing the protagonist.

Ling Yi fought Gao Feng, whose secret techniques temporarily boosted his strength, and nearly killed him before recognizing how the villain role had warped his judgment. As Ling Yi prepared to stomp Gao Feng, a masked attacker struck from a neighboring rooftop, and Ling Yi answered with lightning.

• Gao Feng confronted Ling Yi over the framing, but Ling Yi revealed he knew about Gao Feng's Blood-Burning Art and suspected White Green Mountain had helped him.
• Gao Feng used the Blood-Burning Art and Return-to-One Needle Technique to boost his power, but Ling Yi's Gang Jin overwhelmed him and forced him to flee.
• Ling Yi chased Gao Feng across rooftops instead of killing him quickly, until the techniques wore off and Gao Feng collapsed, unable to resist.
• Gao Feng's words made Ling Yi realize he had lost himself in his villain role, and Ling Yi decided to use Gao Feng for a test before finishing him.
• A masked figure fired a powerful projectile at Ling Yi from a neighboring rooftop, and Ling Yi retreated before releasing blue-violet lightning from his palms.