Chapter Summaries

Thor failed to lift Mjolnir at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s camp, where the undead skeletons nearly killed the disguised Loki and left Thor furious and suspicious. Elsewhere, Hydra leader Alexander Pierce ambushed Nick Fury in New York, and Fury sent his undead skeletons to fight back.

• Thor entered the camp, tried and failed to lift Mjolnir, and told Coulson he was the exiled son of Odin.
• The skeleton warrior struck the invisible Loki, while the skeleton mage briefly froze him; Loki escaped with severe wounds, leaving blue blood and armor behind.
• Coulson questioned Thor about Loki and Odin, then shared baijiu with Thor while learning about Asgard and the Nine Realms.
• Alexander Pierce learned that Nick Fury’s investigation threatened to expose him and arranged an ambush on Fury’s SUV in New York.
• After the attackers jammed communications and opened fire, Fury ordered the vehicle’s rear door opened and sent five skeleton warriors and five skeleton mages against them.

Ling Yi unlocked the Sorceress class and discovered that his Game System included a points-based Modifier, while his undead skeletons helped defeat the Destroyer and dismantle Hydra’s hold over S.H.I.E.L.D. The chapter left Ling Yi anticipating more experience from the events of Iron Man 2, while Nick Fury retained control of S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Ling Yi spent system points to unlock the Sorceress class, discovered the Modifier, and learned Warmth, Energy Shield, and Teleport.
• Tony invited Ling Yi to an international F4 racing championship in Morocco, and Ling Yi recognized that Iron Man 2’s events were approaching.
• Coulson sent the Skeleton Warrior and Skeleton Mage against Loki’s Destroyer, and they dismantled it after a prolonged fight.
• Thor regained his divine power, returned to Asgard with the Warriors Three, and Coulson took possession of the Destroyer’s fragments.
• Nick Fury used the undead skeletons to expose and eliminate Hydra agents within S.H.I.E.L.D., killing Alexander Pierce and keeping the organization intact.

Ling Yi gained powerful armor, new magic skills, and a huge increase in Magic Power before sharing a warm gathering with his allies. Nick sent Natasha to keep him company, while Tony left with an idea to turn the undead into enhanced robotic bodies.

• Ling Yi equipped Sigon's Shelter, raised his defense, unlocked Chain Lightning, Ice Storm, and Frozen Orb, and added 300,000 Magic Power to his charm.
• Ling Yi hosted Nick, Coulson, Natasha, Barton, Tony, and Pepper for hot pot, and warned them that greater crises and enemies lay ahead.
• Nick assigned Barton to Base 719, Coulson to recruitment, and Natasha to keep Ling Yi company; Natasha clarified that she would visit as a friend, not as a spy.
• Tony proposed giving Skeleton Warriors metal bodies and synthetic coverings so they could pass as Terminator-like robots, and Ling Yi gave him two Skeleton Warriors and two Skeleton Mages to experiment with.
• Natasha returned and took Ling Yi shopping, holding his hand after he asked if they were going on a date; she told him she had chosen to come herself.

Ling Yi reunited with Tony and Pepper at the Monaco racetrack, where Tony showed off his new bodyguard, Arnold. When Ivan Vanko appeared to attack Tony, Ling Yi stopped him and challenged his account of the Stark family’s theft, but Ivan insisted he had to continue.

• Ling Yi and Natasha arrived together, and Tony teased them about their relationship while Pepper welcomed them.
• Tony introduced Arnold, his heavily modified undead bodyguard, and Natasha told Pepper she had resigned from S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Tony mocked Justin Hammer, then went onto the racetrack as car number 46; Ling Yi asked Natasha to have Nick return Howard Stark’s belongings to Tony.
• Ling Yi spotted Ivan Vanko and teleported onto the track, blocking Ivan’s electrified whip and explaining the dispute between Anton Vanko and Howard Stark.
• Ling Yi argued that Ivan had derived his reactor from incomplete theories and urged him not to ruin his life, but Ivan said he had to proceed.

Ling Yi saved Ivan Vanko and helped him and Tony Stark develop a new element, but a battle between Hulk and Abomination drew him into action. Ling Yi defeated Abomination and took Bruce Banner away, leaving General Ross in a precarious position.

• Ling Yi stopped Ivan Vanko at the racetrack, and Tony invited him to build a laboratory in Ling Yi's apartment building.
• Tony and Ivan found Howard Stark's plans for a new element, developed it together, and resolved Tony's palladium poisoning; Tony also gave Ivan fifteen percent of Stark Industries.
• As Tony, Natasha, and Ling Yi made dumplings, JARVIS reported that Hulk and Abomination were fighting on Sixth Avenue.
• Ling Yi teleported into the battle, endured both monsters' attacks, struck them with Chain Lightning, and took the unconscious Bruce Banner away.
• Ling Yi froze and shattered Abomination, while General Ross and others who had considered capturing Ivan reconsidered after seeing Ling Yi's power.
• With Hulk gone and the battle's destruction demanding someone take the blame, General Ross faced the likely loss of his position.

Ling Yi shared his equipment and research with his allies while his group developed a weakened Vitality Potion, then Nick summoned them after Loki stole the Tesseract. The chapter ended with Nick asking the group to help find Loki and recover it.

• Ling Yi gave Natasha Sigon's Belt and explained its defensive abilities, while showing her the armor he already wore.
• Ling Yi defeated Justin Hammer's agents and abandoned Hammer in Antarctica after Hammer tried to capture Ivan.
• Ivan, Tony, and Banner helped develop a weak AI and a weakened Vitality Potion, which Ling Yi's group prepared to sell through a new company.
• Nick told Ling Yi and the others that Loki had stolen the Tesseract and explained its history and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s failed attempts to harness it.
• Nick asked the group to find Loki and recover the Tesseract, while Ivan asked who Loki was.

Loki prepared to open a Teleport Gate to bring the Chitauri Army to Earth, while S.H.I.E.L.D. assembled its forces and recovered Steve Rogers. When Loki opened the gate from Osborn Industries Tower, it connected to an unfamiliar city and sent armored birdmen through instead of the Chitauri.

• Loki decided to conceal himself and seek a stabilizer and power source for the Tesseract after narrowly escaping Nick's powerful undead beings.
• Ling Yi joined S.H.I.E.L.D. aboard its three surviving Helicarriers and told Nick that Steve Rogers was frozen in the Arctic.
• Nick sent Coulson and Barton to recover Steve, who later boarded the Helicarrier and questioned why the others trusted Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi sensed an unusual power as a pillar of light and a black gateway appeared, then vanished to investigate while Nick ordered the Helicarriers into action.
• Loki opened the Teleport Gate atop Osborn Industries Tower, but armored birdmen emerged from a city instead of the Chitauri Army, leaving Loki and Ling Yi stunned.

Ling Yi discovered that the Teleport Gate was connected to the Bridge of Karmic Luck, which opened onto different worlds, and began preparing for a larger invasion while seeking a way to bring the bridge back to the Ling Realm. His main body locked the gate in place and transmigrated elsewhere, leaving his clone facing an advancing army of heavenly soldiers and generals.

• Ling Yi raised his Skeleton Mage skill to level 99, and the mages wiped out the birdmen with powerful spells.
• The Teleport Gate opened onto a science-fiction city, where space warships fired on the Skeleton Mages; Ling Yi summoned a vast army and sent five hundred mages through to scout and attack.
• Ling Yi realized the gate connected to separate worlds and that the familiar presence was the Bridge of Karmic Luck, which his main body had been seeking.
• Ling Yi determined he needed to raise his Law of World Breaking beyond 50% to bring the Bridge of Karmic Luck to the Ling Realm, then locked the gate in place.
• Ling Yi's main body began a new transmigration, while his clone remained as the gate's view changed to a misty palace and heavenly soldiers and generals charged toward it.

After ending his poorly received novel, webnovel author Ling Yi was struck by a mysterious flaming bead and received the Protagonist Binding System. He discovered the system could find worlds, bind protagonists, generate novels from their actions, and synchronize his strength with theirs, but he had not yet chosen a world.

• Ling Yi ended his seventh novel after readers harshly criticized it and considered leaving writing behind.
• A crimson bead flew into Ling Yi's forehead, causing him to collapse in his courtyard.
• Uncle Zhang found Ling Yi unconscious, and Village Chief Li Fulai arrived with villagers to check on him.
• Ling Yi assured the villagers he was fine, and Uncle Zhang left to prepare him a simple meal.
• After shutting his door, Ling Yi called out to the Protagonist Binding System and saw that he had 6,500 Vow Power Points but no bound world or protagonist.
• Ling Yi learned the system could bind a world's protagonist, provide them with a golden finger, generate a novel from their actions, and synchronize his strength with theirs.

Ling Yi used his new system to bind Zhang Laosan as the protagonist of a novel and offered him a custom golden finger. Zhang Laosan chose a Sign-In System and prepared for the 100 Days of Desert Island Survival show.

• After losing his security job, Zhang Laosan signed up for 100 Days of Desert Island Survival and was mocked by a livestreamer.
• A voice in Zhang Laosan's mind prompted him to answer the streamer, and the crowd sided with him.
• At home, Ling Yi introduced himself and explained that Zhang Laosan had become a novel's protagonist through the Myriad Worlds system.
• Ling Yi offered Zhang Laosan a choice of golden fingers, and Zhang Laosan chose a Sign-In System tailored to desert island survival.
• Ling Yi said the show's organizer had noticed Zhang Laosan's viral exchange and expected to contact him, while Zhang Laosan researched the show's teams, prizes, and elimination rules.

Ling Yi created the Desert Island Survival Sign-In System for Zhang Yunhai, whose story began generating as a novel in Ling Yi’s writing style. After learning his writing level was far below the level needed for an upgrade, Ling Yi turned his attention to Zhang Yunhai’s world.

• Ling Yi generated a daily sign-in system for Zhang Yunhai that granted random wilderness-survival items or abilities, choosing not to enable automatic correction.
• The system began writing a novel about Zhang Yunhai and saved it to Ling Yi’s computer under the title “Fifty-Year-Old Man Steals the Show in Desert Island Survival.”
• Ling Yi recognized that the novel imitated his own writing habits, and the system explained that it could only imitate his prose.
• The system rated Ling Yi’s writing level at 0.76 and said that raising it to level 1 would cost 10,000 Vow Power points, more than he had.
• Ling Yi checked his interface, saw that he had 4,000 Vow Power points and a strength rating of 3, then turned his attention to Zhang Yunhai’s world.

Laosan and Bai Zhi landed on a deserted island, where Laosan’s sign-in system rewarded him with the Tang Family Hidden Weapons Inheritance and transformed his frail body. He chose a shelter site with freshwater and began preparing camp, hoping Bai Zhi would stay long enough for him to keep signing in.

• Laosan and Bai Zhi arrived on the island as the weakest-looking team in the survival competition.
• Laosan activated his Desert Island Survival Sign-In System and received the Tang Family Hidden Weapons Inheritance, gaining strength, internal power, and martial arts experience.
• Laosan assessed the beach and nearby slope, chose a shelter site beside a stream, and explained his plan to Bai Zhi.
• Laosan gave Bai Zhi a wooden stick for protection, then chopped down dead trees for firewood while she watched.
• Laosan noticed that Bai Zhi dreaded staying on the island, but he hoped to keep competing so he could earn more sign-in rewards.

Ling Yi used Laosan’s martial arts inheritance and had the system publish a large batch of chapters while Laosan worked to build a livable shelter on the island. Laosan and Bai Zhi caught fourteen rabbits for lunch, and Laosan planned to make earthenware so they could boil water.

• Ling Yi tested Laosan’s internal power and movement techniques, then had the system upload sixty thousand words to his author dashboard.
• Laosan built up the fire and cleared the hollow shelter while Bai Zhi watched and gathered dry grass for mats and curtains.
• Bai Zhi spotted rabbits nearby, and Laosan used pebbles to kill fourteen of them as she and the livestream viewers watched in amazement.
• Laosan began cleaning the rabbits and said he would make beggar’s rabbit, while Bai Zhi asked how they could boil stream water without a pot.
• Laosan told Bai Zhi that they would fire earthenware so they could boil water.

Laosan built a kiln and shaped pottery on the island, then used his lightness skill to reach coconut palms for water, stunning the livestream audience. Meanwhile, Ling Yi gained Vow Power Points and strength, and prepared to search for a second bound world.

• Laosan smoked rabbits, shaped clay pots and dishes, and dug a fireplace kiln into the shelter’s slope.
• Laosan tested the kiln, then used his lightness skill to race to six coconut palms while the drone and livestream viewers watched in amazement.
• The show’s chief director edited Laosan’s feats for online promotion, while Ling Yi chose not to interfere with his decisions.
• Ling Yi gained 1,500 Vow Power Points from his novel and improved his martial arts through practice, dropping from 120 kilograms to 100.
• Ling Yi reached strength rating 10 and considered spending 1,000 points to activate his second world search.

Ling Yi bound Lin Huai as a protagonist in a doomsday world and secretly gave him a Passive Copy System that sent him back seven days before the apocalypse. Meanwhile, Laosan received his second sign-in reward, and the system revealed that Ling Yi's world was Desolate Tier, not Mortal Tier.

• Ling Yi spent 1,000 Vow Power Points to find and bind a Transcendent Grade world, then chose Lin Huai as its protagonist while he faced a masked member of the Demon Lord Organization.
• Lin Huai asked for a Monster-Slaying Level-Up System, but Ling Yi generated a Doomsday Passive Copy System that copied abilities and rebirthed him seven days before the apocalypse.
• Lin Huai vanished before the masked man could attack and was reborn in a supermarket, where he quit his job and planned to copy his class monitor Lin Xinyun's spatial ability.
• Ling Yi explained that Lin Huai's system would remain silent until it detected an ability user or another trigger, then stopped responding to him.
• Laosan received a Summoning Space as his second sign-in reward, and the system told Ling Yi that the world he inhabited was Desolate Tier rather than Mortal Tier.

Ling Yi learned that the world was classified as Desolate Tier, while Lin Huai copied and activated multiple abilities before the Demon Lord Virus outbreak. After resolving to face the apocalypse alone, Lin Huai planned to destroy the Demon Lord Organization and accelerate Ancient Country's Cradle of Life Project.

• Ling Yi learned that Desolate Tier worlds contained beings capable of creating and destroying worlds, though the system refused to explain Earth’s unnatural coincidences.
• Lin Huai returned to class, where he recognized Lin Xinyun’s spatial ability and remembered that Zhao Xiaoke would eventually kill her.
• Lin Huai’s system copied four abilities in the classroom, and he gathered more than thirty abilities while walking through the school, which merged into six.
• Lin Huai returned to his empty dormitory, activated his abilities, and tested his spatial power by teleporting to the rooftop and a grove outside school.
• Lin Huai recalled how betrayal had shaped his previous life and resolved to act alone, destroy the Demon Lord Organization, and advance Ancient Country’s Cradle of Life Project.

Lin Huai traveled to the Ugly Nation to investigate the Demon Lord Organization while copying abilities, and Ling Yi rejected the system’s offer to transmigrate himself. On the island, Laosan prepared for dangerous weather and decided to teach Bai Zhi the Mysterious Jade Art, drawing intense attention from livestream viewers.

• Lin Huai suspected the Demon Lord Organization had learned to fuse abilities and used Teleportation to sneak onto a plane bound for the Ugly Nation.
• Ling Yi learned he could bind himself as a protagonist and transmigrate, but refused because doing so would permanently unbind his system and make the journey irreversible.
• Laosan finished a sturdy shelter and used the Summoning Space to bind six wild boars, then worried about the island’s approaching storms and typhoons.
• Laosan told Bai Zhi he wanted to stay in the survival competition and teach her the Mysterious Jade Art, and Bai Zhi agreed to persevere.
• Laosan explained that Bai Zhi might develop inner breath quickly if her aptitude was good, prompting livestream viewers to record his promise to teach her martial arts.

Ling Yi synchronized the abilities Zhang Huai had copied, continued writing two novels, and decided to return home after learning that his younger sister Lili was getting married. On his flight to Dafeng City, he tried to reassure a nervous woman seated beside him, who asked what they would do if something went wrong with the plane.

• Laosan guided Bai Zhi through her first lesser heavenly circuit, then meditated to recover the internal force he had nearly exhausted.
• Zhang Huai’s shopping spree amassed huge supplies, weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and ships, while his copied abilities merged into twelve powers that Ling Yi synchronized to reach a combat rating of 2120.
• Ling Yi learned that his sister Lili would marry next month, booked a flight home, and left the mountain village after telling Uncle Zhang he was going.
• On the flight, Ling Yi offered a movie to the nervous woman beside him, who admitted she feared heights and asked what they would do if the plane went wrong.

Ling Yi saved a passenger plane from a mysterious lizard creature, secretly brought it into his Summoning Space, and returned home after ten years away. The chapter ended with the lizardman revealing that outsiders monitored certain human groups and restricted humanity’s technological development.

• Ling Yi sensed a powerful creature on the plane, froze time, teleported outside, and captured the lizard monster in his Summoning Space.
• Ling Yi returned to his seat and reversed time by three minutes, erasing the attack and everyone’s memories of it.
• Ling Yi and Yin Qianqian chatted during the flight, exchanged contact details after landing, and went their separate ways.
• Ling Yi reunited with his father, Ling Zhan, and his sister, Lili, and decided he would not leave again.
• Ling Yi secretly restored his parents’ vitality and cured their illnesses with his abilities.
• Ling Yi released the lizardman in his bedroom and learned that outsiders surveilled certain human groups and imposed limits on human technology.

Ling Yi learned that humans were once a powerful civilization, now recreated and imprisoned in the Solar System under a light blockade imposed by higher civilizations. The lizardman revealed that Yin Qianqian’s biological computer research might eventually help humans escape, but leaving the Solar System would trigger its reset.

• The lizardman explained that higher civilizations had capped human technology by imposing a speed limit on light throughout the Milky Way.
• He recounted how ancient humans ruled the universe, fought over a supreme cosmic treasure, and triggered the Rebirth weapon, after which other civilizations purged humanity.
• The lizardman said higher civilizations had recreated humans and confined them to the Solar System, while humanity’s creativity remained restricted and its progress was repeatedly suppressed.
• Ling Yi learned that biological computers could help humans reach quantum technology and break the light blockade, and the lizardman identified Yin Qianqian as the researcher behind an early version.
• The lizardman warned that leaving the Solar System would alert higher civilizations and cause the entire Solar System to be reset.