Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi spent five years turning Mount Hua into the powerful Legend of Sword and Fairy Sect, then prepared it to recruit disciples and reshape the world’s order. As he descended the mountain, he learned that Lin Pingzhi had destroyed the Qingcheng Sect and left the Fuwei Escort Agency, likely heading to Years Like Water.

• Zuo Lengchan and other Jianghu figures failed to penetrate Mount Hua’s mist formation, while legends of its immortal grew across the land.
• The emperor visited Mount Hua and received the message that the Legend of Sword and Fairy Sect would open its gates in five years to teach cultivation.
• Over those five years, Ling Yi built Mount Hua into an immortal sect, equipped it with formations and treasures, and helped its disciples reach extraordinary strength.
• Ling Yi told Yue Buqun to reward the emperor with a Life Extension Pill and a cultivation method, and assigned Feng Qingyang and Ning Zhongze to prepare for the sect’s opening.
• Ling Yi learned that Lin Pingzhi had killed Yu Canghai, wiped out the Qingcheng Sect, and recruited former Huashan Sword School members to the Fuwei Escort Agency.
• Ling Yi rode to the Fuwei Escort Agency and guessed that Lin Pingzhi had gone to Years Like Water.

Ling Yi watched Dongfang Bubai at Years Like Water, then fought off her attacks and an unexpected young swordsman who turned out to be the final hunting target. The Hunter System returned Ling Yi to the modern world and tallied his fortune, while he enabled manual capture mode.

• Ling Yi arrived at Years Like Water on the fifteenth and watched Dongfang Bubai appear, though Linghu Chong did not come because his fate had changed.
• Dongfang Bubai sensed Ling Yi's hidden power and followed him after he left the tavern.
• Ling Yi spoke with Dongfang Bubai, blocked her needles and attacks, and admitted she could not beat him.
• A handsome young man rushed at Ling Yi, but Ling Yi shattered his sword and knocked him unconscious.
• The Hunter System captured the young man as the final target and returned Ling Yi to the modern world.
• Ling Yi enabled manual capture mode and learned he had earned 7,400 strands of fortune, with 3,700 available after half was returned to the Main World.

Ling Yi adjusted to the years he had spent in another world, traveled east to Green Plains City, and reflected on his fading memories of Meng Ran. Meanwhile, Meng Ran and Liu Hong discovered the immense value of Ling Yi’s USB drive, and Meng Ran’s first song from it became a major hit; the chapter ended when the Hunter System appeared as Ling Yi was about to enter a dinosaur museum.

• Ling Yi redeemed his gains from The Smiling, Proud Wanderer World, kept his remaining fortune, and worried that long stays in other worlds could weaken his memories and feelings for Meng Ran.
• Ling Yi traveled east and reached Green Plains City, staying in a manor from his World in the Palm when he camped in uninhabited places.
• Meng Ran and Liu Hong examined Ling Yi’s USB drive and realized its songs and scripts could transform the entertainment industry, while Liu Hong promised to make Meng Ran a major star.
• Ling Yi toured Green Plains City and spoke with Meng Ran, who told him that her song from the USB drive had topped major music charts and brought her tens of millions of new fans.
• Ling Yi browsed the news about Meng Ran’s success and prepared to enter the dinosaur museum when the Hunter System’s translucent window appeared before him.

Ling Yi entered the Marvel-based world, discovered Jiang Chen’s pay-to-win shop, and opened a rival shop to draw attention. After S.H.I.E.L.D. investigated him and sent Natasha to make contact, Ling Yi revealed that he was hunting Jiang Chen and offered to become her ally, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Ling Yi arrived in Hell's Kitchen, materialized a phone, and found that his copied cheat let him buy powerful items through a game-like shop.
• Ling Yi opened the Darkness Shop opposite Jiang Chen’s Rip-Off Shop and undercut its prices by one cent.
• Nick Fury and Phil Coulson discussed Ling Yi’s appearance and suspected he was connected to Jiang Chen, while Pierce chose to let the shops compete.
• Natasha visited Ling Yi and asked about his connection to Jiang Chen.
• Ling Yi told Natasha that Jiang Chen had betrayed his world and was his hunting target, then said he hoped to become her friend and warned of future dangers.

Ling Yi met Jiang Chen, who suspected him of being a fellow transmigrator, and the two became rivals after Hydra’s attack revealed Ling Yi’s formidable defenses. Ling Yi won S.H.I.E.L.D.’s favor by giving Coulson a spatial ring, while Jiang Chen wondered why Coulson seemed to leave without a purchase.

• Natasha accepted Ling Yi’s account of his origins, and Jiang Chen watched them leave before sending shadows into Ling Yi’s shop; the shadows were destroyed by its traps.
• Jiang Chen confronted Ling Yi, learned he was a fellow countryman with a pay-to-win golden finger, and left still harboring hostility toward him.
• Hydra attacked Ling Yi’s shop with heavy weapons, but its defenses blocked the bombardment and lightning struck down the twenty attackers as Jiang Chen watched.
• Jiang Chen and Ling Yi competed by undercutting each other’s prices, and S.H.I.E.L.D. chose Ling Yi’s shop because it was cheaper and easier to deal with.
• Ling Yi gave Coulson a spatial ring that bound itself to him and contained a vacuum space where time stood still; Jiang Chen wondered why Coulson left without an apparent purchase.

Ling Yi and Natasha went to the Middle East to find Stark, where Jiang Chen tried to extort him and threatened Yinsen. Ling Yi confronted Jiang Chen, who flew away after vowing revenge, and Ling Yi gave Natasha magical wings.

• Natasha told Ling Yi that Stark had gone missing and that Jiang Chen had traveled to the Middle East; Ling Yi decided to help find Stark.
• Ling Yi flew with Natasha to the Middle East and used his Spiritual Sense to locate Stark, whom Jiang Chen’s Shadow Puppet was trying to bargain with.
• Stark refused Jiang Chen’s offer and rejected his threats, while Jiang Chen threatened Yinsen to force Stark to pay for a rescue.
• Ling Yi confronted Jiang Chen and accused him of acting like a robber and interfering with future heroes; Jiang Chen flew away with white wings and vowed to repay him.
• Ling Yi gave Natasha Elf Wings, and she bound them to herself with her blood.

Ling Yi learned that the real world was nearing collapse and that capturing Jumpers was urgent, while Jiang Chen returned from a Dragon Balls world instance as a Super Saiyan. After setting a three-day deadline for their fight, Ling Yi warned Natasha that their battle could destroy Blue Star.

• Ling Yi left a clone to protect Stark and Yinsen, who escaped captivity after completing the Mark I.
• Jiang Chen appeared before Ling Yi in a Super Saiyan state, and Ling Yi learned he had gained that power in a Dragon Balls world instance.
• The Hunter System told Ling Yi that second-stage transmigration was disabled and that he needed to capture Jumpers faster to prevent the real world's collapse.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Chen agreed to fight in three days, with the battle deciding Jiang Chen's fate.
• Ling Yi told Natasha that his mission was to capture Jiang Chen and warned that their fight could destroy Blue Star.

Ling Yi accepted that Hunters had to destroy other worlds so his home world could become the “only one,” and he began building his World in the Palm into a refuge for people from the Marvel Universe. After taking in nearly a hundred thousand people, he faced the Ancient One, who ordered him to stop.

• Ling Yi subdued Natasha and resolved to protect his home world while preserving lives from worlds he destroyed.
• Ling Yi used Karmic Luck to perfect his World in the Palm, create a copy of Blue Star and Big Apple City, and accelerate time within it.
• Ling Yi explained the worlds’ inevitable conflict to Nick, then transported Nick, Coulson, Hawkeye, and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents into his World in the Palm while fighting Hydra members who attacked him.
• Over the next few days, Ling Yi brought nearly a hundred thousand people from the Marvel Universe into his World in the Palm.
• The Ancient One confronted Ling Yi and told him to stop, but Ling Yi said he had been waiting for her.

The Ancient One questioned Ling Yi about evacuating people and Blue Star’s coming destruction, then agreed to enter his World in the Palm. Once there, she lost access to the Time Stone and her magic, and Ling Yi refused her request to leave.

• The Ancient One told Ling Yi she had foreseen Blue Star’s destruction and explained that the Time Stone weakened after the planet was destroyed.
• Ling Yi claimed Blue Star was the universe’s core and said the world’s destruction was inevitable unless everyone with abilities was eliminated.
• The Ancient One doubted Ling Yi’s explanation but agreed to see his world, allowing his power to transport her there.
• The Ancient One discovered that Ling Yi’s copied world had independent rules and cut off her connection to the Time Stone and magic.
• The Ancient One asked Ling Yi to send her back, but he intended to keep her in the World in the Palm.

Ling Yi kept the Ancient One and the Marvel heroes in his World in the Palm, where Stark and the others advanced technology for decades. He defeated and sealed Jiang Chen after their battle destroyed Blue Star, then disappeared with him through the Hunter System’s Hunting Vortex.

• Ling Yi sent the Ancient One to Nick and the others, and she explained that her visions showed Earth’s destruction and Stark’s death in every timeline she had observed.
• Stark, Banner, Scott, Otto, and Peter developed advanced technology in the World in the Palm over twenty-seven years, while Ling Yi prepared to fight Jiang Chen.
• Ling Yi faced Jiang Chen, whose power had grown dramatically and whose mind was being overtaken by the world’s consciousness.
• Jiang Chen’s attacks devastated Blue Star, and Ling Yi waited until the planet teetered on the brink of destruction before using a soul spell to seal him.
• Ling Yi caught the powerless Jiang Chen and vanished with him through the Hunter System’s Hunting Vortex as Blue Star exploded.

After returning from the Marvel Universe, Ling Yi rested and adjusted to his changed outlook while his name became famous through Meng Ran’s songs and Liu Hong’s film. He made his relationship with Meng Ran official and spent fifteen days with her before the Hunter System announced a new capture target.

• Ling Yi recovered his memories of transmigration and lost his Karmic Luck, while Ling Yi kept the Karmic Luck he had plundered and decided to rest rather than grow stronger.
• Ling Yi considered using World in the Palm to copy worlds he wanted to preserve, while the Marvel residents pursued biotechnology after witnessing his power.
• Meng Ran’s songs and the screenplay for Liu Hong’s film “Wasteland” made Ling Yi’s name famous, and Meng Ran announced that he was her boyfriend and future husband.
• Ling Yi visited Liu Hong’s studio, made his relationship with Meng Ran official, and declined Liu Hong’s offer to enter the entertainment industry.
• Ling Yi and Meng Ran spent fifteen days together at Liu Hong’s villa before the Hunter System displayed a new capture target.

Ling Yi, Yin Wanqing, and Uncle revised their Boundary Breaking plan after realizing that the Ling Realm could not directly reach Uncle’s world. Yin Wanqing proposed finding and controlling a karmic luck channel between the Aura World and Uncle’s world, and Ling Yi prepared to investigate it during future transmigrations.

• Uncle explained that his recent illness had left him unable to write normally, while Ling Yi and Yin Wanqing recognized that his health was essential to the Ling Realm’s survival and their hope of Boundary Breaking.
• Yin Wanqing analyzed the Ling Realm’s karmic luck and found that 1,908 units were unaccounted for after accounting for known worlds and estimated native worlds.
• Yin Wanqing theorized that the missing karmic luck maintained a bridge between the Aura World and Uncle’s world, and said their goal was to control this karmic luck channel.
• Yin Wanqing gave Ling Yi a pocket watch that would activate when he replaced a protagonist blessed with karmic luck, detect that luck, and trace it to its origin.
• Ling Yi stored the pocket watch in his sea of consciousness as Yin Wanqing explained that he might be the shared parameter needed to locate the channel.

After transmigrating into a world where the dead became spirit bodies, Ling Yi used his unusual freedom to leave his injured body and devoured spirits in the hospital to gain Spiritual Power. He suspected spirits were deliberately prepared for someone to consume, and returned to his body as his condition worsened.

• Ling Yi learned that spirit bodies could gain strength by devouring one another and that he could leave and reenter his critically injured body at will.
• When an elderly spirit attacked him in the morgue, Ling Yi touched it and absorbed it, gaining Spiritual Power and fragments of its knowledge.
• Ling Yi watched electromagnetic waves destroy fragile spirits, then devoured twelve spirits in the morgue and gained twenty-six Spiritual Power.
• After noticing that spirits retained useful skills while losing personal memories, Ling Yi suspected a hidden force was preparing them as food and resolved to grow stronger.
• Ling Yi devoured every spirit in the hospital overnight, surpassed a hundred Spiritual Power, and turned white before returning to his deteriorating physical body.

After being declared dead, Ling Yi suddenly awoke and confronted the people who had smeared Jiang Hongming and tried to extort her. He exposed Principal Guo Ming’s corruption and sent evidence to the reporters and streamers, then returned to the ward with Jiang Hongming.

• Doctor Li declared Ling Yi dead after resuscitation failed, while Jiang Hongming blamed herself for the accident and faced a hostile crowd outside the ward.
• A nurse warned that Principal Guo Ming and reporters were coming, and Jiang Hongming left the ward to confront them.
• Jiang Hongming played a recording of Guo Ming demanding a five-million-yuan donation, but Guo Ming dismissed it and praised Ling Yi as an outstanding student.
• Ling Yi emerged alive, revealed that he had crossed the road and climbed the railing, and described how his school had mistreated him over tuition and an overpriced tablet.
• Ling Yi accused Guo Ming of taking bribes from three officials and paying to erase surveillance footage, then sent evidence to the gathered media before returning to the ward with Jiang Hongming.

After recovering, Ling Yi used Spiritual Power to restore Jiang Hongming’s health and exposed the streamers who had spread rumors about her. With Guo Ming arrested and the backlash against Jiang Hongming easing, Ling Yi invited her on a road trip around the world and planned to leave the next morning.

• Ling Yi told Jiang Hongming he had recovered, returned home with her, and learned how much she had endured while caring for him.
• Ling Yi left his body as a spirit and used Spiritual Power to improve Jiang Hongming’s health before returning to his body.
• Ling Yi exposed thirty-five streamer accounts for spreading rumors about Jiang Hongming and transferred their savings to himself.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Hongming that Guo Ming had been arrested and that the streamers’ personal information had been exposed.
• Ling Yi invited Jiang Hongming on a road trip around the world, and she agreed despite having no money of her own.
• Ling Yi said they would buy an RV that afternoon and leave the next morning, leaving Jiang Hongming astonished.

Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming drove to Xinfeng City, where Ling Yi caught an elderly scammer staging an accident and used a 500,000-yuan transfer to secure evidence of extortion. The police arrived and took the old man away.

• Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming discussed the Ming Founder as they drove toward Xinfeng City in Ling Yi’s luxury RV.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming endured severe traffic and spotted an old man watching their RV suspiciously.
• The old man staged an accident, and Ling Yi offered him increasingly large sums until he accepted 500,000 yuan.
• Ling Yi cited the extortion law and warned the old man that the RV cameras had recorded his scam.
• Ling Yi and nearby spectators stopped the old man from fleeing, and officers arrived and escorted him away.

Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming visited the crowded Tomb of the Ming Founder, where Ling Yi found a powerful spirit body in a stone coffin. The spirit body tried to devour him, but Ling Yi discovered he could devour spirits in return and gained its power, memories, and innate divine ability.

• Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming reached the crowded Tomb of the Ming Founder and stayed overnight at a nearby hotel.
• Ling Yi left his body and searched the tomb, finding no spirits until he noticed a red glow inside a stone coffin.
• A nearly high-black-tier spirit body attacked Ling Yi and bit into his head, but Ling Yi gained spiritual power instead of losing it.
• Ling Yi's devouring ability drained the spirit body until it dissipated, while Ling Yi's own spirit body grew stronger.
• Ling Yi absorbed the spirit body's memories, including martial arts techniques and the Spiritual Power Treasure-Congealing Divine Ability.

Ling Yi used his spirit body's Divine Ability to build meridians and organs, then cultivated the Roaming Dragon Mental Cultivation Method until he became a Core Formation Martial God. He learned that his newly visible spirit body had been filmed at the Tomb of the Ming Founder and had gone viral, leaving inspectors suspicious of his connection to the man in red.

• Ling Yi used Spiritual Power Treasure Condensation to reconstruct his spirit body with meridians, dantians, organs, and a body that could feel the wind and ground.
• Ling Yi returned to his physical body and used fifty thousand Spiritual Power to advance through the Roaming Dragon Mental Cultivation Method to the Core Formation Martial God realm.
• Ling Yi woke after three days of cultivation, and Jiang Hongming showed him videos of his red glow and the gale that had wrecked their room.
• Two inspectors visited Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming while investigating a man in red, then told them the staged-accident video had made them famous as RV Bro.
• The inspectors showed Ling Yi surveillance footage of his spirit body running at the Tomb of the Ming Founder, and Ling Yi realized his Divine Ability had made it visible.

Ling Yi brought Jiang Hongming to Dangfeng City, strengthened her with martial arts, and agreed to take her with him to the dangerous Changping Ancient Battlefield. As they ate at a barbecue restaurant, a thug named Zhao Jie threatened Jiang Hongming, and Ling Yi stood up to confront him.

• Ling Yi used his internal power to make Jiang Hongming an Innate master, then spent nearly a week teaching her defensive martial arts in Xinfeng City.
• Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming traveled to Dangfeng City, where Ling Yi bought a villa and planned to leave Jiang Hongming there while he visited Changping Ancient Battlefield.
• Jiang Hongming told Ling Yi she did not want to be separated from him, and he agreed to bring her along and teach her more dangerous techniques.
• At a barbecue restaurant, Zhao Jie and his companions harassed Jiang Hongming and threatened to keep her from leaving Dangfeng City.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Hongming to use her kung fu, then stood up and prepared to confront Zhao Jie.

Ling Yi beat Zhao Jie and his men, then livestreamed their threats and the corrupt police response in Dangfeng City. As the stream drew tens of millions of viewers, Ling Yi exposed evidence against Director Liang and prepared to face the authorities closing in.

• Ling Yi defeated Zhao Jie and eight companions after Zhao Jie mocked his kung fu and threatened him.
• Ling Yi began livestreaming the beating and Zhao Jie's threats, after posting restaurant surveillance footage to his account.
• Police led by Zhao Gang arrived, tried to stop the stream, and threatened Ling Yi with the special unit, but Ling Yi immobilized them.
• Jiang Hongming reported that the livestream had reached tens of millions of viewers as Ling Yi questioned Zhao Gang about his connection to Zhao Jie.
• Ling Yi answered Director Liang's call on speaker and revealed that Liang had moved assets overseas and kept a cloud-stored ledger implicating more than two thousand people.
• As more sirens approached, Jiang Hongming asked what had happened to the world, Zhao Gang said it had always been this way, and Ling Yi rejected that claim.