Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi defeated Ouyang Feng, gave him the Nine Yin Manual and Nine Yang Divine Art, and challenged him to a deadly rematch at the Mount Hua Sword Tournament in ten years. After reaching Mount Zhongnan, Ling Yi met young Li Mochou and gave her the Nine Yin Manual, then headed for the Quanzhen Sect to intervene in the world’s future.

• Ling Yi easily defeated Ouyang Feng, dismissed his Toad Stance, and gave him the Nine Yin Manual and Nine Yang Divine Art before challenging him to a battle to the death in ten years.
• Sang Bobei asked Ling Yi for cultivation techniques and continued traveling with him as his navigator until they reached Mount Zhongnan, where Ling Yi sent him away.
• Ling Yi realized he could have asked Zhiruo in the Ling Realm for directions and suspected that an author’s oversight was causing him to forget about his home.
• Ling Yi met Li Mochou in the woods, warned her to avoid anyone surnamed Lu, and gave her the Nine Yin Manual before flying away.
• Li Mochou followed Ling Yi toward the Quanzhen Sect, while Ling Yi went there intending to gain prestige and change the course of events.

Ling Yi tested whether he could defy the author by forcing the Quanzhen Sect to seal itself off and take responsibility for Yang Kang, then saw the Law of Plot progress reach 0.01%. After considering how he might capture the author's emotions and influence future plots, he got lost again and sensed two newcomers approaching.

• Ling Yi burst into Chongyang Hall, struck Qiu Chuji, and injured Sun Bu'er when she attacked him.
• Ling Yi questioned the Seven Masters about Yang Kang, Yang Tiexin, Guo Xiaotian, and the Nine Yin Manual, then ordered the Quanzhen Sect to seal its mountain and bring Yang Kang and Bao Xiruo back.
• Ling Yi realized his excessive punishment had tested his ability to act against the author's will, and the system showed Law of Plot progress beyond the boundary at 0.01%.
• Ling Yi considered returning to the apocalypse world to analyze the purple-energy awakened individual, but concluded he would need to keep traveling between worlds and upgrading his aura.
• Ling Yi got lost beside a river while roasting fish, then heard two people approach and smiled at what he took to be his arriving navigation.

Ling Yi fought Zhou Botong after suppressing his strength, then taught Hong Qigong and Zhou Botong the Afterimage Technique. After the two visitors left, Ling Yi learned that major changes had taken place in the martial world, including Wanyan Honglie’s death and the Quanzhen Sect closing its mountain.

• Zhou Botong tried to retreat, but Ling Yi threatened to deliver him to Yinggu and persuaded him to fight.
• Ling Yi sealed his strength to match Zhou Botong’s and struggled against Zhou Botong’s Left-Right Mutual Combat, which the story treated as an authorial continuity error.
• Ling Yi used the Afterimage Technique to defeat Zhou Botong and offered to teach it to him and Hong Qigong.
• Hong Qigong learned the technique quickly and thanked Ling Yi, while Zhou Botong continued trying to master its rhythm.
• Hong Qigong and Zhou Botong stayed with Ling Yi for half a month before leaving, during which Huang Yaoshi moved in with Ouyang Feng to study Nine Yin and Nine Yang.
• Ling Yi heard that Wanyan Honglie had died and the Quanzhen Sect had announced a complete mountain closure.

After years of changing the martial world, Ling Yi settled in Passionless Valley to write down his experiences, but the author’s influence interfered with his appearance and Li Mochou’s feelings. Ling Yi sent Li Mochou away and faced a dangerous decision about how to escape the story’s limits without destroying his world.

• Ling Yi spent five years traveling the martial world, distributing powerful martial arts and becoming known as the Fire Cloud Evil God.
• Li Mochou found Ling Yi after killing Lu Zhanyuan and asked to follow him, so Ling Yi led her to Passionless Valley.
• Ling Yi traded the Nine Yin and Nine Yang manuals to Gongsun Zhi and Qiu Qianchi for Passionless Valley, where he spent two months recording his life.
• When Ling Yi emerged, his appearance had reverted to its original form, and he realized the author had overridden the Faith Manifestation that had changed it.
• Ling Yi altered Li Mochou’s memories and sent her back to the Ancient Tomb Sect, then considered a dangerous plan to break beyond the novel’s world without causing it to end or be erased.

Ling Yi wrestled with whether to rebel against the author and restore the main plot, then entered the martial world as the feared White-Clad Swordsman. At a restaurant near Mount Hua, he reunited with Guo Jing, whose altered life and martial arts training reflected Ling Yi’s influence, and revealed that he had improved Sang Bobei’s Dragon Elephant Prajna Art.

• Ling Yi weighed abandoning much of his gains to force the derailed plot back on track, but left Passionless Valley without choosing.
• Martial artists at a restaurant discussed the White-Clad Swordsman’s killings, including his deaths of Mei Chaofeng and Qiu Qianren and the massacre at Lu Family Manor.
• Guo Jing recalled how Ling Yi’s past influence had changed his masters, his training under Sang Bobei, and his marriage to Hua Zheng.
• Ling Yi entered the restaurant, and Guo Jing recognized him as the senior who had once beaten his second master.
• Ling Yi praised Guo Jing’s Dragon Elephant Prajna Art and told him that he had improved the technique for Sang Bobei.

Ling Yi revealed that he was both Fire Cloud Evil God and the White-Clad Swordsman, then fought the Five Greats atop Mount Hua and staged his death to end the Legend of the Condor Heroes World. Back in the Ling Realm, he sealed most of his powers and explored the system’s passive aura list.

• Ling Yi told Guo Jing and Hua Zheng his identities, congratulated them on their marriage, and set off for Mount Hua.
• Ling Yi reflected on his decision to rebel against the author after discovering that his strength and worlds were weakening.
• Huang Yaoshi, Ouyang Feng, Hong Qigong, Zhou Botong, and Yideng gathered at Mount Hua, where Ling Yi challenged them all.
• Ling Yi fought the Five Greats for three days and three nights, then staged his death from exhaustion to leave the world with a legend.
• Ling Yi returned to the Ling Realm, found the women watching nine enormous eggs hatch, and sealed his powers and most system auras.
• Ling Yi examined the passive aura list and discovered options including invincibility, favorability, hatred, and attention auras.

Ling Yi learned that everyone had to play Chicken-Dinner Battlefield, where players from countless worlds could lose valuable fragments when killed, and activated luck and proficiency auras to prepare for his first match. After returning home, he shared a warm moment with his parents, leaving him touched by a sense of family he had never known.

• A teacher reviewed Chicken-Dinner Battlefield's rules and urged the students to play cautiously, cooperate with compatriots, and compete for fragments and game coins.
• Ling Yi activated Passive Luck Aura, which raised his luck by 100.
• Ling Yi activated Passive Proficiency Aura and discovered that using any item or ability increased its proficiency, including ordinary bodily functions.
• Ling Yi returned to his parents, Ling Yun and Jiang Yunzhi, and naturally greeted them as Dad and Mom.
• Ling Yi's parents encouraged him about his first game, and he experienced the comfort of having a home.

Ling Yi practiced assault rifles all night, then entered the esports room and declined Ye Fei’s party invitation after suspecting Ye Fei was a protagonist. The two entered separate matches and each spotted a player who seemed unusually valuable.

• Ling Yi trained with assault rifles until his skill reached proficient rank, then rested before the official login time.
• Ling Yun woke Ling Yi, and Jiang Yunzhi and Ling Yun worried about the dangers and costs of the game as Ling Yi entered the esports room.
• Ling Yi examined the room and game, set his controls, and received a party invitation from Ye Fei.
• Ling Yi recalled Ye Fei’s strange behavior in the grove, declined his invitation, and queued for solo mode.
• Ye Fei’s perspective revealed that he was a transmigrated protagonist with cheat abilities, and he queued alone in solo-versus-squads mode.
• Ling Yi and Ye Fei entered different matches and each noticed a player who appeared valuable to them.

Ling Yi guided Uncle Nine through his first successful conversation and taught him how to play while they looted K City. Ling Yi killed two players and triggered fragment drops, leaving two pillars of light that were sure to attract more attackers.

• Ling Yi followed Uncle Nine into the match, realized how little he knew about the game, and patiently helped him learn to move and communicate.
• Ling Yi and Uncle Nine discussed the login device and feared that the game was preparing the worlds for a coming catastrophe, so Ling Yi taught Uncle Nine combat techniques as they looted K City.
• Ling Yi killed the lizard-headed player Suisite from Dark World after he crashed his motorcycle, and a fragment appeared as a pillar of light.
• A player named Brixton from Speed World drove toward the fragment, but Ling Yi killed him with his M416, causing a second pillar of light to rise.

Ling Yi survived the first match, collected three fragments, and discovered that his classmate Li Hongming had been his final opponent. Elsewhere, Ye Fei tried to use a flight cheat to kill Big Superman, but Big Superman shot him down before he could get a fragment.

• Ling Yi and Uncle Nine waited as the zone shrank and the other players eliminated one another, leaving only a prone camper besides them.
• Uncle Nine deliberately exposed himself to end the match, but the camper shot him into a loot crate; Ling Yi then headshot the camper, Li Hongming, and collected her lifespan fragment.
• Ling Yi added Uncle Nine and Li Hongming as friends after the match, while Li Hongming recognized him and called her mother to arrange buying back her dropped fragment.
• Ye Fei used a flight cheat to search for Big Superman, drawing attention from other players before finding him prone on a rooftop.
• Ye Fei missed his first shot, and Big Superman shot him out of the sky, turning him into a loot crate.

Ling Yi won a game and sold Li Hongming a lifespan fragment while refusing to get involved with her, then entered the gaming room and found Nami in a match. The chapter left Ling Yi confronting Nami outside the military base in the desert map.

• Ling Yi showed Jiang Yunzhi and Ling Yun the three fragments he had won, and Ling Yun checked his game results before embracing him.
• Li Hongming visited Ling Yi to buy back a fragment and asked him to carry her through a game, but Ling Yi refused to help her and sold her the fragment for thirty million.
• Ling Yi returned to the gaming room and entered a match in the world of One Piece.
• Nami was forcibly brought into the gaming room for her third match and jumped from the plane near the military base.
• Ling Yi followed Nami to the foot of a hill and spoke to her from behind.

Ling Yi persuaded Nami to accept his help, then formed a fixed four-person squad with Nami, Uncle Nine, and Li Hongming to grow stronger for the coming wars across worlds. Their next match began with Ye Fei, Young Master Zhao, and the protagonists of Chronicle in the same spawn area.

• Ling Yi explained that Nami could not protect her village from the Arlong Pirates by paying them and promised to help her gain the strength to defeat them.
• Ling Yi led Nami through a reckless match, collected many fragments, improved several game skills, and won, while Nami died in the final circle.
• After watching Ling Yi's match, Li Hongming repeatedly requested to team up, and Ling Yi accepted her invitation before adding Uncle Nine and Nami.
• Ling Yi told the squad that the game was a battlefield affecting the fate of worlds and declared that they would become stronger together and treat other players as enemies.
• At the start of their next match, Ling Yi recognized Ye Fei, Young Master Zhao, and Chronicle's Andrew, Smith, and Matt; Ye Fei had received a head-lock aimbot.

Ling Yi killed Ye Fei in the game, causing part of Ye Fei’s Cheat System to drop as a fragment that could activate a health-lock cheat in the real world. After the match, Ling Yi distributed the rewards to Uncle Nine and Nami, then left Li Hongming waiting for the final telekinesis fragment.

• Ling Yi redirected his squad toward the training base and ordered Li Hongming to follow his marked coordinates, threatening to remove her from the squad if she disobeyed again.
• Ye Fei used his head-lock cheat to kill Zhao Dahai and his teammates, while Ling Yi decided to make Ye Fei his target.
• Ling Yi shot Ye Fei, who became a loot crate as a green equipment fragment appeared and his system reported that its health-lock function was missing.
• Ling Yi collected the Cheat System Fragment and realized it could activate the health-lock cheat in the real world.
• After the match, Ling Yi kept the white attribute fragments and gave the other rewards to Uncle Nine and Nami, including the health-lock fragment for Nami.
• Ling Yi held the last telekinesis fragment out of Li Hongming’s reach and asked her whether she wanted it.

Ling Yi led Uncle Nine, Nami, and Li Hongming through a night of matches, helping them collect fragments and improve their skills. Meanwhile, Ye Fei and Zhao Dahai made separate plans to recover the cheat fragments, leaving both a deal and a scheme against Ye Fei underway.

• Ling Yi gave Li Hongming the fragment after she apologized, then told the group to split up in the next match so they could improve their skills.
• Ye Fei accepted Zhao Dahai's offer to help recover his fragments in exchange for carrying Zhao to chicken dinners, while Zhao Dahai planned with his father to make Ye Fei drop his cheat fragments.
• Ye Fei decided to seek out Ling Yi himself as a backup plan, while Ling Yi and the others continued farming fragments in separate teams.
• Ling Yi's group collected over two hundred attribute fragments, two equipment fragments, and six skill fragments, and Ling Yi gave the others all the non-attribute fragments.
• Li Hongming divided the fragments, assigning the Rabbit Talisman, Cloud Ladder, and Destructo Disc to Nami, and the Iron Sword, Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, and Mount Shu Sword Control Technique to Uncle Nine; she kept Wing Chun and Avada Kedavra.

Ling Yi refused to return the Health-Lock Cheat fragments to Ye Fei and dismissed his threats. After Li Hongming and several teachers came to see him, he used the law of plot to undo her killing of Teacher Song, leaving her curious about his power.

• Ling Yi gave the fragments to Ling Yun and Jiang Yunzhi, who decided to quit their jobs and use them to strengthen themselves.
• Ye Fei confronted Ling Yi and demanded the Health-Lock Cheat fragments, but Ling Yi refused and walked away.
• Ling Yi met Li Hongming and several teachers at his residential complex, where he rejected their efforts to recruit him for university.
• Teacher Song attacked Ling Yi from behind, and Li Hongming struck him with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, killing him.
• Ling Yi used the law of plot to revive Teacher Song and erase the group's memories of the incident.
• Li Hongming asked Ling Yi how he had changed what happened, and he teased her about silencing her to protect his secret.

Ling Yi learned that a portal had appeared near Cloud Capital City and rewrote reality, making himself the world’s protagonist and summoning powerful figures from many worlds. He explained that the worlds were real and their author was not their administrator, then sent the author back to his own world.

• Ye Fei grew jealous after seeing Li Hongming with Ling Yi, demanded that Zhao provide Ling Yi’s fragments and kill him, then used a cheat to win a match and obtain a Kryptonian Bloodline fragment.
• Ling Yi realized he could create a passageway because the plot had reached 45%, and Li Hongming told him that monsters were emerging from a portal near Cloud Capital City.
• Ling Yi used the laws of illusion and reality to make himself this world’s protagonist and raise his power to its limit, then created a floating landmass and a portal that brought in figures from other worlds.
• Ling Yi told the assembled figures that portals had appeared in their worlds and summoned the novel’s author, explaining that the world was real and the author was not its administrator.
• Ling Yi sent the author back to his own world and gave the gathered protagonists information about the absence of any mastermind behind their world.

Ling Yi left his family and friends to travel between worlds, then entered the world of Chinese Paladin III in protagonist replacement mode with his powers sealed and the Great Prison System as his golden finger. Hungry and dressed as a beggar, he arrested Tang Yi and learned that Tang Yi's 37 sin points represented 37 lives lost through his actions.

• Ling Yi said goodbye to Ling Yun, Jiang Yunzhi, Uncle Nine, Nami, and Li Hongming before leaving for another world.
• Ling Yi explained that he would travel to other worlds to resolve the remaining crisis, while promising Li Hongming he would return or send a clone if he was gone too long.
• Ling Yi arrived in Yuzhou City as a beggar with his powers sealed and inspected the Great Prison System, the protagonist's golden finger.
• Hungry, Ling Yi targeted Tang Yi, a 37-sin-point heir of Tang Family Fort, after seeing him wreck an old man's fruit stall.
• Ling Yi followed Tang Yi into an alley and used the Great Prison System to arrest him, discovering that Tang Yi's 37 sin points corresponded to 37 deaths.

Ling Yi discovered that he could grow stronger by stripping a resentful spirit’s abilities and absorbing malicious thoughts. After absorbing the vast reservoir of resentment over Yuzhou City, he unexpectedly broke through to the Golden Core Realm.

• Ling Yi ate at a restaurant, absorbed Tang Yi’s life and cultivation orbs, and learned his weak techniques were of little use.
• Ling Yi saw the young Jingtian at Yong'an Pawnshop, realized the story began years later than he had expected, and left the city to seek monsters.
• In a peach grove, Ling Yi captured and stripped a resentful spirit, gaining its malicious-thought-devouring technique, illusion skill, and Qi Refining Third Level cultivation.
• Ling Yi absorbed the resentful spirit’s orbs and gained dark red energy, realizing his ominous presence might make Mount Shu mistake him for an evil heretic.
• Unable to enter Yuzhou City without attracting notice, Ling Yi absorbed the malicious thoughts hanging over the city and rapidly advanced to the Golden Core Realm.

After reaching the Golden Core Stage, Ling Yi captured and absorbed a foul-Qi monster, gaining several evil ghost abilities and further darkening his cultivation. The next morning, he captured a powerful evil cultivator who revealed that Mount Shu was raising a Nascent Soul Stage evil cultivator, then stripped him for his techniques and cultivation.

• Ling Yi stayed in the peach grove instead of entering Yuzhou City, detected a Qi Refining Stage monster, and captured it in the prison.
• Ling Yi stripped the monster of its life and abilities, absorbed the orbs, and gained Evil Ghost Clone and other techniques.
• Ling Yi buried Tang Yi's and the monster's corpses together, then slept in the prison space.
• After waking, Ling Yi emerged into the grove and encountered a Golden Core Stage evil cultivator with a sin value of 16950.
• Ling Yi captured the evil cultivator, who revealed that Mount Shu was raising a Nascent Soul Stage evil cultivator and offered to introduce them.
• Ling Yi stripped the captive and gained Spirit Devouring Art, Object Manipulation Art, Middle Golden Core Stage cultivation, and 220 years of life.

Ling Yi returned to Yuzhou City and bought Yong'an Pawnshop, leaving Zhao Wenchang in charge and preserving Jingtian and the others’ livelihood. He settled into a routine of absorbing the city’s malicious thoughts and hunting ghosts and demons, steadily growing stronger.

• Ling Yi sensed the malicious thoughts of Yuzhou City’s residents and absorbed them as Golden Core power.
• Zhao Wenchang scolded and chased Jingtian over a smashed vase, explaining that he had paid its owner so the man could treat his sick wife.
• Ling Yi offered to buy Yong'an Pawnshop, and Zhao Wenchang went to Tang Family Fort to negotiate with Tang Kun.
• Tang Kun met Ling Yi with Xuejian, learned he had obtained a cultivator's inheritance, and agreed to transfer Yong'an Pawnshop to him.
• Ling Yi let Zhao Wenchang continue managing the shop, and everyone shared a meal to welcome him as the new owner.
• Ling Yi cultivated by absorbing malicious thoughts during the day and hunted ghosts and demons outside Yuzhou City at night.