Chapter Summaries

After Ling Yi fought off the men sent against him in Dangfeng City, he traveled in spirit form to the Changping Ancient Battlefield and discovered vast armies of spirit bodies at war. The Paranormal Bureau detected his arrival and prepared to capture him, unaware of who he was.

• Ling Yi defeated dozens of attackers, warned their leader that he would go blind, and stayed in Dangfeng City despite a hundred-million bounty on his life.
• After Jiang Hongming fell asleep, Ling Yi left his body and flew to the Changping Ancient Battlefield.
• Ling Yi saw two enormous armies of spirit bodies fighting and noticed Paranormal Bureau agents devouring isolated spirits and using equipment to restrain them.
• Ling Yi disguised himself as an ancient spirit body and descended into the battle zone, hoping to devour spirits without drawing attention.
• The Paranormal Bureau detected Ling Yi breaking through its Spirit-Binding Net, and Zhao Tuohai ordered Bai Hongjiang to capture him alive.

Ling Yi devoured thousands of ancient spirit bodies, gained the Shapeshifting Technique, and discovered that the Paranormal Bureau had trapped the battlefield with a Spirit-Binding Net. He escaped by hiding among departing spirit bodies and returned to his hotel near dawn, having learned about the Bureau and its powerful leaders.

• Bai Hongjiang separated his spirit body and searched the ancient battlefield for the intruder, while Zhao Tuohai ordered the Bureau to locate the intruder’s physical body.
• Ling Yi devoured thousands of ancient spirit bodies, raised his Spiritual Power to two hundred thousand, and gained the Shapeshifting Technique.
• Ling Yi discovered that the Spirit-Binding Net prevented spirit bodies from leaving the battlefield, then escaped by attaching himself to a departing spirit-body soldier.
• Ling Yi hid in a potted plant at the Bureau’s office, overheard Bai Hongjiang order a watch for unfamiliar spirit bodies, and learned that the Bureau believed separation was temporary.
• Near dawn, Ling Yi transformed into a pigeon and returned to his hotel, having learned about the Paranormal Bureau and the Divine Abilities of Zhao Tuohai and Bai Hongjiang.

Ling Yi defeated a Divine Spirit Cult assassin, gained the Spirit Body Clone ability, and learned more about the cult. He explained spirit bodies and the Divine Spirit Cult to Jiang Hongming, who wondered whether the hidden world would soon be discovered.

• Jiang Hongming prepared to go for breakfast and visit Dangshan Zen Monastery with Ling Yi, but Ling Yi pulled her away from a spirit body assassin entering the room, and she fainted when she saw it.
• Ling Yi subdued the assassin, learned about the Divine Spirit Cult, devoured his spirit body, and gained the Spirit Body Clone ability.
• Ling Yi used a clone to control his physical body and discovered that the assassin had escaped by controlling his own body with a clone.
• Ling Yi caught up with the assassin and killed him after the assassin attacked him with martial arts techniques.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Hongming about spirit bodies, the Divine Spirit Cult, the Ability Bureau, and his own abilities.
• Ling Yi told Jiang Hongming that the Divine Spirit Cult might soon make it impossible to keep spirit bodies hidden.

Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming met Lin Ruonan, a young Spiritual Power user fleeing the Divine Spirit Cult who had three innate Divine Abilities. After learning that the cult and the Paranormal Bureau were headed for a battle in Dangfeng City, Ling Yi chose to stay nearby and investigate while keeping Lin Ruonan under observation.

• Ling Yi and Jiang Hongming prepared to leave Dangfeng City, but Ling Yi noticed Lin Ruonan following them and let her explain that the Divine Spirit Cult was hunting her.
• Lin Ruonan revealed that she had escaped a Divine Spirit Cult base and that her spirit body had awakened Spirit Body Separation, Spirit Body Shapeshifting, and Luck.
• Lin Ruonan said the Divine Spirit Cult knew about her Spirit Body Separation ability and that her Luck ability had guided her to Ling Yi for protection.
• Lin Ruonan warned that the Paranormal Bureau and the Divine Spirit Cult would likely fight that night, and Ling Yi decided to stay and secretly take advantage of the turmoil rather than leave.
• Jiang Hongming asked whether Lin Ruonan could separate her spirit body from her physical body, but Ling Yi deferred the decision until they found a safer place.
• Ling Yi decided to go with Jiang Hongming and Lin Ruonan to Dangshan Zen Monastery before traveling onward to Yanhe Village.

Ling Yi uncovered the abbot of Dangshan Zen Monastery imprisoning people to create spirit bodies, then devoured the abbot and broke through to the god tier. The survivors were freed, and Ling Yi left the monastery with Jiang Hongming and Lin Ruonan, who later waited as he adjusted to his new power.

• Ling Yi sensed powerful Spiritual Power at Dangshan Zen Monastery and discovered thirteen underground chambers where the abbot held captives and spirit bodies.
• Ling Yi revealed the abbot’s crimes to Jiang Hongming and Lin Ruonan, then sent his spirit body to confront him.
• The abbot trapped Ling Yi in Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and tried to enslave him, but Ling Yi devoured the abbot’s spirit body and freed the survivors.
• Ling Yi’s spirit body became a god tier spirit body, gaining a tangible form and the ability to wield forces such as water, fire, lightning, and wind.
• Ling Yi left the monastery with Jiang Hongming and Lin Ruonan; later, Lin Ruonan called his new power invincible while he rested in the RV.

Ling Yi adapted to his new God Tier spirit body and tested the thousand-meter reach of World in the Palm while the Divine Spirit Cult attacked the Paranormal Bureau. After collecting nearly three thousand high-tier and a hundred thousand mid-tier spirit bodies from the ancient battlefield, Ling Yi returned to the battle disguised as a Divine Spirit Cult member carrying a fake Lin Ruonan, drawing the cult leaders’ attention.

• Ling Yi discovered that his God Tier spirit body condensed Divine Power and that World in the Palm let him control the forces of heaven and earth within a thousand meters.
• Ling Yi learned that Lin Ruonan’s spirit body was half-red and half-black, pressed her to tell the truth, and decided not to hand her over despite her secrets.
• Ling Yi watched more than a thousand Divine Spirit Cult spirit bodies charge the Paranormal Bureau and saw the bureau respond with weapons designed to harm spirit bodies.
• Ling Yi entered the ancient battlefield, collected nearly three thousand black high-tier spirit bodies and about a hundred thousand red mid-tier ones, then returned to the battle.
• Ling Yi sent out a spirit body clone carrying his own body disguised as Lin Ruonan; the clone claimed to have captured her, and the Divine Spirit Cult leaders ordered it to retreat safely.

Ling Yi escaped Dangfeng City after tricking the Paranormal Bureau and the Divine Spirit Cult into fighting over Lin Ruonan, then drove toward Baicang City to investigate the Yanhe Village multicolored giant legend. He revealed that he had reached god tier and sent Jiang Hongming into his World in the Palm to become a Spiritual Power user, leaving Lin Ruonan surprised that Ling Yi could do it without her help.

• Ling Yi used his Spirit Body Clone disguised as Lin Ruonan to draw the Paranormal Bureau and Divine Spirit Cult into a nightlong battle across Dangfeng City, then slipped away as a cat and returned to the RV.
• After the two sides suffered heavy losses and neither found Lin Ruonan, Ling Yi drove the RV toward Baicang City with Jiang Hongming and Lin Ruonan.
• Jiang Hongming recounted how reporter Guo Che had photographed a towering multicolored giant near Yanhe Village before Guo Che and the villagers disappeared.
• Ling Yi said the giant was likely a god-tier spirit body, and Lin Ruonan guessed that Ling Yi himself had reached god tier.
• Ling Yi reassured Jiang Hongming that she could become a Spiritual Power user, then separated her spirit body and sent her into the World in the Palm until she could reach red mid-grade.
• Lin Ruonan realized Ling Yi could make Jiang Hongming a Spiritual Power user without her assistance.

Ling Yi, Jiang Hongming, and Lin Ruonan reached Yanhe Village, where Paranormal Bureau agents had arrived to investigate a multicolored spirit body that maintained a seal. The old director explained that the spirit body appeared annually to replenish the seal, whose contents remained unknown.

• Jiang Hongming rapidly advanced to red-grade strength using her innate Rapid Speed Devouring ability, but her physical limits slowed her progress.
• Ling Yi drove the RV at high speed to keep Jiang Hongming and Lin Ruonan from cooking, then stored it away when the mountain road became impassable.
• Ling Yi and the two women flew to Yanhe Village and found Paranormal Bureau agents guarding the area.
• The old director recognized Lin Ruonan and accused her and Ling Yi of founding the Divine Spirit Cult and killing the demonic monk from Dangshan Zen Monastery.
• The old director revealed that the multicolored spirit body was the Seal Guardian, which replenished a seal's Spiritual Power each year, and Ling Yi asked whether the Bureau intended to destroy it.

Ling Yi confronted Liu Feng and Situ Ren over the seal at Yanhe Village, then used the World in the Palm to remove Situ Ren from the confrontation. After Ling Yi headed toward the mountain, Liu Feng ordered a purge of the Divine Spirit Cult and began considering how to replace the failing Paranormal Bureau.

• Liu Feng and Situ Ren traded insults as Situ Ren focused on Ling Yi and showed unusual concern for Lin Ruonan.
• Ling Yi demanded to see the seal, but Liu Feng barred him from entering the village.
• Ling Yi sent Lin Ruonan and Jiang Hongming into the World in the Palm, then used its power to suppress and take Situ Ren.
• Ling Yi accused the Paranormal Bureau of bullying the weak and told it to disband before continuing toward the mountain.
• Liu Feng ordered Zhao Tuohai and Bai Hongjiang to purge the Divine Spirit Cult from Dangfeng City, authorizing level-five weapons if needed.
• Liu Feng considered gradually sidelining the Paranormal Bureau and replacing it with a new department.

Ling Yi considered Liu Feng’s proposal to establish a new Paranormal Bureau and learned that nine seals contained a million ancient God Tier spirit bodies. The chapter ended when a colossal, multicolored creature appeared above the seal in the mountain valley.

• Liu Feng asked Ling Yi to lead a new Paranormal Bureau, and Ling Yi demanded complete autonomy and warned that many people would die.
• Ling Yi explained Lin Ruonan’s ability to create genuine Spiritual Power users and warned Liu Feng against anyone trying to exploit her.
• Ling Yi told Liu Feng that a physical body was essential for a spirit body to advance beyond God Tier, then examined the weakening seal carved into a giant stone disk.
• Situ Ren revealed that an ancient book described nine sealed sites worldwide, containing a million ancient gods sealed away as food for the Dark Demon Lord.
• A colossal, multicolored creature materialized in a rift above the seal, and Ling Yi, Liu Feng, and Situ Ren watched it warily.

Ling Yi defeated and devoured the seal Guardian, gaining powerful abilities and discovering that Demon Lord Hali had been warned about Blue Star. He named his planned organization the Spirit Suppression Bureau and refused Situ Ren’s offer to have the Divine Spirit Cult join, while learning that the Paranormal Bureau had at least seven members stronger than Liu Feng.

• The seal Guardian attacked Ling Yi after demanding to know how he had attained godhood, but Ling Yi shattered the Guardian’s fist and pierced his head with sword shadows.
• The Guardian sent a message to Demon Lord Hali through a spatial rift, then collapsed into spiritual power that Ling Yi devoured.
• Ling Yi acquired the Guardian’s Space Manipulation and Spiritual Power Voice Transmission abilities, along with the Spirit Refining Art and knowledge of three arrays.
• Ling Yi told Liu Feng to apply for a new Paranormal Bureau and named it the Spirit Suppression Bureau.
• Situ Ren offered the Divine Spirit Cult’s nearly fifty thousand Spiritual Power users to the new bureau, but Ling Yi refused.
• Situ Ren explained that at least seven people in the Paranormal Bureau were stronger than Liu Feng and truly controlled the organization.

Ling Yi took in the Divine Spirit Cult and established the Spirit Suppression Bureau, then moved to seize the Dangfeng City Paranormal Bureau’s headquarters. The chapter ended with Zhao Tuohai and Bai Hongjiang waiting for a response from their superiors as Ling Yi’s ten-minute eviction order took effect.

• Ling Yi left the sealed land untouched, returned to Dangfeng City, and learned from Liu Feng that the Spirit Suppression Bureau had been approved on the condition that it win the World Spiritual Power User Legion Tournament.
• Situ Ren offered evidence of corruption in the Paranormal Bureau, and Ling Yi appointed him to gather the Divine Spirit Cult’s core members for the new bureau.
• Situ Ren brought six thousand Divine Spirit Cult members to Dangfeng City, and Ling Yi used his Deliverance Divine Ability to make them obey before converting their temporary spirit bodies into normal spirit bodies.
• Ling Yi led the six thousand Spiritual Power users to the Dangfeng City Paranormal Bureau headquarters and ordered its occupants to leave within ten minutes.
• Zhao Tuohai and Bai Hongjiang received no response from their superiors, and Zhao Tuohai angrily questioned whether they would surrender the headquarters without a fight.

Ling Yi seized the Dangfeng City Paranormal Bureau’s base, expanded and cultivated the Spirit Suppression Bureau, and reached the Void Return Realm by devouring ancient spirit bodies. Liu Feng then briefed him on the World Spiritual Power User Competition, whose champion would gain access to the Heavenly Court Secret Realm.

• Ling Yi broke through the Paranormal Bureau’s defenses, teleported its personnel far away, and claimed its base for the Spirit Suppression Bureau.
• Ling Yi gave Lin Ruonan the joke position of Situ Ren’s exclusive superior and converted incoming Divine Spirit Cult followers while they joined the bureau.
• Over half a month, the Spirit Suppression Bureau grew to more than fifty thousand members, while Ling Yi collected and devoured the ancient battlefield’s spirit bodies and reached the Void Return Realm.
• Liu Feng reminded Ling Yi about the World Spiritual Power User Competition and explained that the champion would receive access to the Heavenly Court Secret Realm.
• Ling Yi learned that thirty-seven countries would each send ten Spiritual Power users to individual and team events, with only one overall champion.

Ling Yi prepared his team for the World Spiritual Power User Competition, boosting their strength and learning about the dangerous Heavenly Court Secret Realm. After they arrived on the island arena, he sent Situ Ren to train thousands of Spiritual Power users while his true body headed for Antarctica to reach the secret realm ahead of the others.

• Ling Yi chose Situ Ren, Lin Ruonan, Jiang Hongming, and six others for the competition, and Lin Ruonan rejected Situ Ren’s attempt to keep her from going.
• Ling Yi strengthened the nine other competitors’ bodies and spirit bodies to the peak of Black High-Grade, reaching Demigod Tier.
• Liu Feng warned the team about the powerful American, English, and Janpenese competitors and explained the dangers of the Thirty-Three Heavens in the Heavenly Court Secret Realm.
• The team arrived on the island, where Liu Feng left for the monitoring center and Ling Yi drew Situ Ren into World in the Palm for hard labor training six thousand Spiritual Power users.
• Ling Yi revealed that his apparent self was a clone and flew his true body toward Antarctica to reach the secret realm’s teleportation passage early.

Ling Yi defended Ancient Country’s ring and effortlessly killed challengers from Janpunese Country and Kereun, leaving Morpheus to order Sen San to test him personally. Meanwhile, Ling Yi reached the Heavenly Court Secret Realm’s location in Antarctica, opened a spatial rift, and entered it.

• Ling Yi took the ring, killed two Janpunese Spirit Bodies with projected mental power, and then wiped out Kereun’s challengers.
• At Morpheus’s urging, Sen San sent a Janpunese fighter in physical form, but Ling Yi immobilized and killed him with overwhelming pressure.
• Morpheus ordered Sen San to go up and test Ling Yi himself.
• In Antarctica, Ling Yi found the spatial node where the Heavenly Court Secret Realm’s passage had appeared and tore open a spatial rift.
• Ling Yi jumped into the spatial rift.

Ling Yi conquered the Heavenly Court Secret Realm, advanced his Spirit Body and cultivation, and defeated Demon Lord Hali. After returning to Blue Star, his heavenly tribulation vanished and his sealed memories were restored, prompting him to set out for the next world.

• Ling Yi devoured the first floors’ Spiritual Power and heavenly soldiers, advancing his Spirit Body beyond God Tier and his main body to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Ling Yi’s clone dominated the island competition, and Ling Yi withdrew after revealing to Liu Feng that his main body had entered the secret realm.
• Ling Yi killed the Paranormal Bureau officials who confronted him, then fought through the secret realm to its thirty-third floor.
• Demon Lord Hali offered Ling Yi control of the Spirit Devouring Pagoda in exchange for gathering Spiritual Power, but Ling Yi captured Hali’s clone and tracked down his main body.
• Ling Yi returned to Dangfeng City with the Spirit Devouring Pagoda, where his heavenly tribulation dispersed and his sealed memories were unsealed.

Ling Yi retired from his role as Great Yan’s Nation-Guarding Grand General and settled in the Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain Range, where the Longevity Sign-In System awakened. His first sign-ins extended his lifespan and granted him a Personal Space ability, leaving him eager to discover what future rewards would bring.

• Ling Yi asked Ji Wuyun to let him retire, and Ji Wuyun granted his request while awarding him a hereditary marquis title, farmland, and gold.
• Ling Yi left the Yan Capital without collecting his rewards and settled beside the lake where he had first arrived in the world.
• The Longevity Sign-In System awakened and revealed that Ling Yi had a lifespan of 62/65, along with daily and monthly sign-in options.
• Ling Yi signed in for ten years of lifespan and a Personal Space that let him store and retrieve inanimate objects within a one-meter range.
• Ling Yi tested the Personal Space on stone and fish, then reflected on his transmigration, his adopted father’s disappearance, and the life that had led him to become a general.

After discovering Yan Wuji’s records and the Illusory Demon Art, Ling Yi learned that immortal cultivators existed but found he had no spiritual roots. His system could convert lifespan into physique, and after building up his lifespan, he raised his physique to 10 and prepared to travel to Ten Thousand Peaks Town for the monthly sign-in.

• Ling Yi entered Yan Wuji’s long-forbidden room and found the books “Illusory Demon Sect” and “Illusory Demon Art” in the remains of a rotted meditation cushion.
• Ling Yi read Yan Wuji’s diary, learning how the Illusory Demon Sect was destroyed and about the Immortal Cultivation Realm, its rare spiritual roots, and the importance of staying alive.
• Ling Yi read the Illusory Demon Art, and his system recorded it and updated to let him spend lifespan to increase his physique.
• Ling Yi spent one year of lifespan to raise his physique from 1 to 2 and realized he had no spiritual roots and could not cultivate.
• Ling Yi signed in for several days, accumulated lifespan, and learned that the monthly sign-in location was Ten Thousand Peaks Town.
• Ling Yi spent eight years of lifespan to raise his physique from 2 to 10, gaining immense strength as he prepared for the journey.

Ling Yi found Ten Thousand Peaks Town massacred, rescued its sole survivor Liu Wei, and gained the Body-Protecting Thorn Formation through sign-in. After learning the attackers were connected to the Ninth Young Master, he destroyed their mountain stronghold, though some soldiers escaped; half a month later, an uninvited guest arrived at his secluded home.

• Ling Yi discovered nearly ten thousand dead in Ten Thousand Peaks Town and found Liu Wei hiding in a haystack.
• Ling Yi buried the townspeople, received seven years of lifespan and the Body-Protecting Thorn Formation from the system, and promised Liu Wei he would avenge the victims.
• Liu Wei told Ling Yi that the attackers had met with the town commander and mentioned the Ninth Young Master.
• Ling Yi tracked the attackers to a mountain stronghold and used the Protective Thorn Formation to repel their arrows before killing the commander and many soldiers.
• Ling Yi returned to his secluded home with Liu Wei, while surviving soldiers spread news of his appearance; half a month later, an uninvited guest descended into his lakeside courtyard.

A mysterious woman retrieved Yan Wuji’s books from Ling Yi’s courtyard but spared Ling Yi and Little Liu Wei, prompting them to leave Ten Thousand Peaks Mountain. Ling Yi settled in Nanli Autonomous City and prepared to enter Nanli Desolate Valley for his monthly sign-in, leaving Little Liu Wei behind.

• A beautiful cultivator demanded the things Yan Wuji had left behind, took two books, and flew away without harming Ling Yi or Little Liu Wei.
• Ling Yi left the courtyard with Little Liu Wei, and the next day the emperor’s Imperial Guard Special Operations Team and several princes’ Jianghu experts arrived searching for him.
• Ling Yi reached Nanli City, the autonomous city he had helped establish, and rented an inconspicuous courtyard.
• The system’s new monthly sign-in location appeared: the deepest part of Nanli Desolate Valley, which Ling Yi feared might contain Demonic Beasts.
• Ling Yi told Little Liu Wei to stay home while he went to the valley, planning to ask Bai Zhengdao to take her in after he returned.