Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi arrived in the Journey to the West world and entered Chang'an, where he tried to conceal his modern origins while seeking Tang San. After a gate officer confronted him, Ling Yi hinted that he came from beyond the Immortal Realm and demonstrated his power by transforming a roast goose into a silver 3D imager.

• The Hunter System identified Tang San, now known as Tang Sanzang, as Ling Yi's capture target and warned him that the Journey to the West world was dangerous.
• Ling Yi arrived on a road outside Chang'an and spent the day exploring the enormous city while a suspicious gate officer watched him.
• Ling Yi changed into local clothes and considered how he could find Tang San, copy his cheat, and grow stronger before attempting the capture.
• Fang Wenyong, the gate officer, approached Ling Yi at a meal and asked about his unusual appearance and origins.
• Ling Yi claimed he came from beyond the Immortal Realm, then tapped the table and transformed a partly eaten roast goose into a silver 3D imager.

Ling Yi learned that Tang San had recently replaced Tang Sanzang and planned to copy his system before disrupting the Journey to the West. After waiting at the Land and Water Dharma Assembly, Ling Yi finally saw Tang San approach under heavy guard.

• Ling Yi showed Fang Wenyong a recorded 3D image and asked about interesting events in Chang'an, learning that Tang Sanzang had become the King of Tang's sworn brother.
• Fang Wenyong told Ling Yi that Tang Sanzang was holding a major Land and Water Dharma Assembly attended by tens of thousands of monks.
• Ling Yi explained that he wanted to meet Tang Sanzang before leaving Chang'an and planned to copy Tang San's golden finger to gain fortune by disrupting the Journey to the West.
• Ling Yi waited for over half an hour and saw Tang San, who had recently transmigrated into the role of Tang Sanzang, arrive protected by more than a hundred guards.

Ling Yi copied Tang San’s Journey to the West Copy System, whose hundredfold enhancement let him gain attributes ten times stronger than a target. On the road toward White Tiger Ridge, he tested it on a tiger demon and discovered his new strength, while considering making the demon his mount.

• Ling Yi copied Tang San’s cheat and learned that its hundredfold enhancement made copied attributes ten times stronger than the target’s.
• Ling Yi traveled west, developed the Hunter System’s map and concealment functions, and decided against returning to Chang’an to copy Guanyin.
• A tiger demon frightened Ling Yi’s horse and charged at him, so Ling Yi used the Copy System to copy its attributes.
• Ling Yi’s enhanced strength let him slap the tiger demon to the ground, and he began considering taking it as his mount.

Ling Yi reached Five Elements Mountain and met the imprisoned Great Sage, then decided to offer him a deal that could change his fate. The chapter ended before the Great Sage responded.

• Ling Yi struggled to control the tiger demon’s copied strength, then made the demon submit and carried him to its cave for the night.
• Ling Yi mastered several martial arts manuals in the cave, especially the Taibai Sword Technique, and learned to control a hundred flying swords.
• Ling Yi traveled to Five Elements Mountain and found the Great Sage pinned beneath the rocks after five hundred years of imprisonment.
• Ling Yi spoke with the suspicious Great Sage, who could not see through him, and praised his former courage.
• Ling Yi asked his system whether he could apply copied powers to another target, then offered the Great Sage a deal.

Ling Yi persuaded the Great Sage to join him in destroying Tathagata and the Heavenly Court, then copied and enhanced the Great Sage’s abilities while planning their next move. The chapter ended by revealing Tang San’s original-world fate and how his arrival in the Journey to the West World had caused the story to depart from its original course.

• Ling Yi offered the Great Sage ten times Tathagata’s magical power in exchange for helping him kill Tathagata and destroy the Heavenly Court, and persuaded him with a story about an ideal Son Goku.
• Ling Yi copied the Great Sage’s attributes and began adapting to their immense power, then discussed a plan to lure Tathagata out with him.
• Ling Yi learned that his copying system could not return copied power to its original owner and that system upgrades would increase his daily copies and multiplier.
• Over the following days, Ling Yi copied the Great Sage’s Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, magical power, Seventy-Two Transformations, talents, combat experience, and Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod.
• The chapter revealed that Tang San had died in his original world, been brought to the Journey to the West World, and received the Journey to the West Copy System from his refined providence.
• Tang San released the Great Sage as the scripture-seeking journey began, but the plot diverged when the Great Sage leaped out of Five Elements Mountain.

Tang San continued the westward pilgrimage alone after the Great Sage rejected the Buddhist School’s plans, while Ling Yi helped the Great Sage turn against Guanyin. The Great Sage overwhelmed Guanyin, and Ling Yi revealed his power to absorb her Three Lights Divine Water as Qi of Chaos.

• The Great Sage accused the Buddhist School of using him as a pawn, left Tang San behind, and flew away on his Flying Nimbus.
• Tang San set off alone for the scriptures, unaware that his role as a Jumper and Traitor was steering him to follow the main story.
• Tathagata learned that the Great Sage was missing and sent Maitreya to find out what had happened to Tang Sanzang.
• The Great Sage and Ling Yi confronted Guanyin at the South Sea, and the Great Sage attacked her after rejecting the pilgrimage.
• Ling Yi copied and enhanced Guanyin’s magical power, enabling the Great Sage to smash through her defenses and batter her.
• Ling Yi copied Guanyin’s Jade Purification Vase, and its Three Lights Divine Water was devoured and transformed into Qi of Chaos as the fight continued.

Ling Yi captured Tang San and returned to Earth, where he traded most of his fortune for a golden finger that proved useless outside the Journey to the West World. After spending the rest on a fraction of his powers, he set off on a spontaneous journey and encountered a stranded young woman nearby.

• Ling Yi and the Great Sage defeated Tathagata, then parted ways as the Great Sage went to wreak havoc in the Heavenly Court.
• Ten years later, Ling Yi found Tang San living in Chang'an, rendered him unconscious, and captured him before returning to Earth.
• The Hunter System offered Ling Yi a choice between retaining a fraction of his strength or keeping his golden finger, and he chose the Journey to the West Copy System.
• Ling Yi discovered that the golden finger only worked in the Journey to the West World, then spent his remaining fortune on enhanced attributes and several magical abilities.
• After deciding to travel on foot, Ling Yi left Li City and stopped beside a wheat field for lunch.
• A young woman stranded by her broken car nearby lamented that she had no phone or help, then set out to find someone.

Ling Yi met the celebrity Meng Ran while having lunch on a country road, shared food with her, and used his magic to repair her car. After Meng Ran’s boss Liu Hong called and ordered her to wait for help, Meng Ran decided she would run away again.

• Ling Yi recognized Meng Ran, invited her to eat, and watched her devour two plates of steak and drink water he had conjured.
• Meng Ran saw Ling Yi produce a bottle of water from nowhere and heard him claim to be the world’s only mage.
• Meng Ran explained that she had escaped her busy celebrity life, but her car had broken down and her phone had died.
• Ling Yi magically repaired Meng Ran’s car, and she excitedly questioned him about his powers.
• After charging her phone, Meng Ran answered a furious call from Liu Hong, who told her to stay put until help arrived.
• Meng Ran complained about Liu Hong and decided to run away again.

Meng Ran left with Ling Yi to travel, while Liu Hong searched for her and learned she was with a man. Ling Yi entered a parallel world to capture Liu Yang, gathered its entertainment resources, and arranged to join a wilderness survival show after Liu Yang was selected as a contestant.

• Meng Ran insisted on traveling with Ling Yi, and they left the car behind to walk through fields and woods.
• Liu Hong searched for Meng Ran, then received her message saying she was traveling; hearing a man's voice in the recording made Liu Hong worry, but Meng Ran's phone soon went dead.
• Ling Yi accepted a Hunter System mission to capture Liu Yang, a celebrity assistant with a Sign-In System, and traveled to a parallel world.
• Ling Yi downloaded thousands of songs, films, scripts, and novels while considering how to gain fortune in the unfamiliar world.
• Big Z Television Station announced a livestreamed wilderness survival show, and Ling Yi decided to join and aim for first place.
• Liu Yang was selected as one of the ordinary contestants, and Ling Yi used artificial intelligence to fabricate an orphan identity so he could enter the show.

Ling Yi joined the Desert Island Survival show, learned that its destination was the unexplored Snake Island, and teamed up with Zhan Feng and Sana. As the groups flew to the island, Ling Yi waited for midnight to claim the first reward from Liu Yang’s copied Sign-In System.

• Ling Yi hacked the director’s computer and discovered that the show would take place on Snake Island, then attended the press conference and learned the rules for the survival competition.
• The group lottery paired Ling Yi with Zhan Feng and Sana, who discussed his abilities and helped him settle on an arrogant, chuunibyou persona to attract viewers.
• Production staff unexpectedly sent the groups by helicopter toward Snake Island that night, with the official livestream scheduled to begin after landing.
• Ling Yi waited for midnight to receive his first Sign-In System gift pack, hoping it would provide the survival skills he lacked.
• Lian Chao asked Ling Yi for protection, but Ling Yi set conditions that included turning off Lian Chao’s livestream; Lian Chao refused.

After receiving ten survival-focused rewards from his check-in system, Ling Yi led Zhan Feng and Sana through their first hours on Snake Island, impressing them by making a fire with primitive materials. He planned to make a stone pot and stove and collect sea salt while they waited for the tide to recede.

• Ling Yi joked with Lian Chao on the helicopter, then proved his strength by keeping his arm perfectly still while Lian Chao hung from it.
• At midnight, Ling Yi opened ten gift packs and gained advanced survival skills, extensive knowledge databases, and other abilities.
• After the team landed on Snake Island, Ling Yi planned to build a fire, gather food after the tide went out, and find a shelter site.
• Ling Yi sent Zhan Feng to gather firewood while he made a fire by rapidly rubbing a branch between dry bark and leaves.
• Ling Yi examined nearby rocks and told Sana and Zhan Feng he would make a pot and stove and extract sea salt.

Ling Yi crafted a stone cooking pot, made salt from seawater, and led the group on a successful beachcombing trip while their livestream became the most popular. He warned Zhan Feng that they needed to leave the shore and find fresh water and shelter before a typhoon threatened them.

• Ling Yi carved three stones into a cooking pot, drawing amazement from Zhan Feng, Sana, and the livestream viewers.
• Ling Yi dismantled his sleeping bag to make water and food bags, then used the stone pot to boil seawater into filtered salt while Sana rested and Zhan Feng helped.
• Director Lu Peng saw Ling Yi's livestream surge to three million viewers and ordered staff to promote it and post footage of Lian Chao's earlier interaction with Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi returned from the woods with plants, and Zhan Feng showed him a large crab as dawn broke.
• Ling Yi and Zhan Feng gathered crabs and scallops along the receding tide, filling a bag with seafood.
• Ling Yi explained that they needed to find fresh water and leave the shore because typhoons made the coast dangerous.

Ling Yi prepared a lavish seafood breakfast for Zhan Feng and Sana, then led them across the island to a scenic waterfall and a potential campsite. He planned to build there despite warning them that the area was likely home to dangerous wild animals.

• Ling Yi cooked a seafood feast with wild seasonings, and Zhan Feng and Sana praised the meal as they ate.
• After breakfast, Ling Yi gave Zhan Feng and Sana Indian gooseberries that left them unusually energized, and they suspected the fruits were not ordinary.
• Ling Yi guided Zhan Feng and Sana through the island toward a cooler, damper area where he expected to find a waterfall and campsite.
• The three reached a beautiful spot near a waterfall, and Ling Yi revealed he had already chosen it as their camp location.
• Ling Yi warned Zhan Feng and Sana that the campsite was probably a paradise for wild animals, but they were reluctant to leave the place.

Ling Yi used his Beast Taming skill to tame a troop of gibbons and put them to work helping build a sturdy shelter on Snake Island. As the monkeys dug the foundations and Zhan Feng cut trees, the group’s livestream drew millions of viewers.

• Ling Yi mimicked gibbon calls and unexpectedly tamed twenty-two monkeys, which obeyed his human-language commands.
• Ling Yi told Zhan Feng and Sana that the monkeys would obey and protect them, then showed them the animals would stay calm when touched.
• Ling Yi assigned Sana to teach the monkeys words, while Zhan Feng chose to cut trees and Ling Yi marked out the shelter’s foundations.
• Ling Yi made bamboo digging tools and taught ten gibbons to dig the foundations, improving their technique when they struggled with the long handles.
• Zhan Feng returned with a tree, and Ling Yi sent him to cut more while the other monkeys helped transport the wood.

Ling Yi and Zhan Feng built a comfortable two-story villa near the waterfall with help from twenty-two gibbons, while the island’s strategic value drew the attention of foreign powers. After a task card announced that forty groups would compete for a year of rights to Snake Island, Ling Yi decided to eliminate the new competitors and pursue their providence.

• Ling Yi felled trees for the camp, and Zhan Feng taught twelve gibbons to carry the logs back.
• Ling Yi hunted a deer, then he, Zhan Feng, Sana, and the monkeys finished building and warming their two-story wooden villa.
• The group ate venison and relaxed in the warm cabin while viewers praised Ling Yi and blocked accounts that attacked him.
• Director Lu Peng learned that world powers had agreed to let the show’s winning country receive exclusive use and development rights to Snake Island for a year.
• All ten participating groups received task cards, and Ling Yi resolved to use tricks to eliminate the newcomers and test his ideas about plundering providence.

Ling Yi prepared his island villa and supplies for an approaching typhoon while Lian Chao’s hungry team decided to seek him out. After finding a large patch of ripe corn, Ling Yi began building a Mechanism Beast, drawing the attention of millions of viewers and powerful interests.

• Ling Yi’s villa was completed, and his livestream’s popularity continued to rise as Liu Yang’s system-enhanced team gained followers of its own.
• Lian Chao, Weiguo, and Wang Zhanshan grew desperate after surviving on lemons, then learned a typhoon would hit Snake Island within three days and decided to head toward Ling Yi’s team.
• Ling Yi assigned Zhan Feng and the monkeys to gather food, while Sana prepared firewood and Ling Yi searched for staple foods.
• Ling Yi found and harvested more than six hundred ripe ears of wild corn, then decided to use the materials to make a Mechanism Beast.
• Experts and other interested parties grew suspicious of Ling Yi’s extraordinary abilities, while his livestream surpassed thirty million viewers.

Ling Yi completed a tiger demon mechanical beast in front of the livestream audience, impressing Lian Chao and his companions with its intelligence and abilities. As they headed back to camp with their corn, Lian Chao warned that the technology could attract powerful people and cause the show to end early.

• Ling Yi assembled a tiger demon mechanical beast while Lian Chao, Weiguo, and Wang Zhanshan fled a curious herd of wild cattle nearby.
• Lian Chao and his companions reached Ling Yi and were astonished when the mechanical tiger activated and moved on its own.
• Ling Yi tested the tiger demon's speed, strength, and agility, then attached a large basket to carry their corn.
• Lian Chao warned Ling Yi that people would covet the mechanical beast's clean power system and might use any means to obtain it.
• Lian Chao suggested the show might end early under the pretext of an approaching typhoon, and Ling Yi considered the possibility.

Ling Yi retained Liu Yang’s Sign-In System and the abilities he gained, then gave Meng Ran a USB drive containing songs and scripts to advance her career. After Meng Ran left by plane, Ling Yi faced an uncertain parting as the Hunter System appeared.

• Lu Peng argued against ending the show early, but the officials finalized the decision and he ended the video call.
• Ling Yi chose to retain Liu Yang’s cheat for later use and keep all the abilities he had acquired, leaving him with twenty-five strands of fortune.
• Meng Ran learned she was trending after being photographed with Ling Yi, and Ling Yi comforted her by singing a new song.
• Ling Yi gave Meng Ran a USB drive with thousands of songs and scripts, instructing her to share it only with Liu Hong and use it to build her career.
• Ling Yi and Meng Ran said goodbye at the airport, and Meng Ran boarded her flight at four thirty that afternoon.
• A translucent screen appeared before Ling Yi as he stepped out of the departure lounge.

Ling Yi chose to build a divine court in the martial arts world and recruited the Huashan Sect as its first disciples. After demonstrating his power and promising immortality, he faced Yue Buqun’s questions about the upper realm and other immortals.

• Ling Yi copied Zhao Kai’s God Grade Selection System and chose to leave him alone, gaining the Sword Control Technique and a Mount Shu sword immortal cultivation method.
• Ling Yi reached the peak Ascension Realm and decided to establish his divine court on Mount Hua, with Yue Buqun as a potential subordinate.
• Feng Qingyang and the Huashan Sect discovered Ling Yi flying around Mount Hua on a sword.
• Ling Yi chose to persuade the Huashan Sect to join his Legend of Sword and Fairy Sect rather than destroy them or drive them away.
• Ning Zhongze asked Ling Yi to establish his sanctuary elsewhere so Mount Hua’s legacy could continue.
• Ling Yi promised Yue Buqun that the sect could attain longevity, and Yue Buqun asked whether other immortals existed in the world.

Ling Yi convinced Yue Buqun to join the Legend of Sword and Fairy Sect by demonstrating the Ten Thousand Swords Art, then explained how karmic luck sustained worlds. News of Huashan Sect’s sudden closure reached Zuo Lengchan, who sent operatives to investigate and secretly traveled to Mount Hua himself.

• Ling Yi explained that the path of ascension had been closed for eight hundred years and demonstrated the Ten Thousand Swords Art, destroying a stretch of woodland.
• Yue Buqun abandoned his doubts and agreed that everyone in the Huashan Sect would join the Legend of Sword and Fairy Sect.
• Ling Yi recalled Huashan’s disciples and led them to the main hall, while considering how changes to a world consumed its karmic luck and could hasten its destruction.
• Zuo Lengchan discussed Huashan’s sudden closure with Ding Mian, Fei Bin, and Yue Hou, then ordered Fei Bin and Yue Hou to investigate with fifty covert operatives.
• Zuo Lengchan secretly traveled to Mount Hua and heard rumors that a sword immortal had descended there before Huashan closed its gates.