Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi completed his Chaos Divine Power, gaining the ability to turn fantasy into reality and overpower Palos. After a Familiar escaped its sealed domain and was trapped in Ling Yi’s world, Yin Na warned that the threat could endanger both the Divine Domain and the human world, while Ling Yi began forming a plan.

• Liu Yun learned that Yin Na had taken over her dying body, but Ling Yi had created a new, ageless body and restored Liu Yun’s soul to it.
• Ling Yi completed the Tai Chi of Light and Dark, awakening Chaos Divine Power and making it difficult for Palos to use his own Divine Power.
• Ling Yi demanded that God King Odis keep the Divine Domain out of the human world for a hundred years, hand over its historical texts, and accept a hundred-year cutoff of the Power of Fantasy.
• Ling Yi revealed a black-robed high-level Familiar, who attacked Yin Na and fled as Palos gave chase.
• Ling Yi trapped the Familiar and Palos inside his created world, and Yin Na explained that Familiars came from the sealed Familiar Domain.
• Ling Yi concluded that the Divine Domain faced growing danger and began forming a plan while watching Palos pursue the Familiar.

Ling Yi learned Toya’s account of Odis’s Seed Project and the Familiars’ plan to use war to gather negative power of fantasy. He abandoned his plan to create a separate world and decided to build a War Domain enveloping the human world, connecting the Divine Domain and Familiar Domain while preventing fantasy power from flowing out.

• Ling Yi stopped Toya’s attack and revealed his divine power, prompting Toya to recognize that Odis’s Seed Project had succeeded.
• Toya revealed that Jiyede had attacked him and explained his belief that light and dark divine power could be cultivated together; Ling Yi agreed that they could.
• Toya said the Familiars planned to plunge humanity into despair through war, gathering enough negative power of fantasy to break their seal within ten years.
• Ling Yi gave Toya a Dark Domain Gate Token and ordered him to prevent more Familiars from entering the human world; he sent Toya and Palos away.
• Ling Yi decided against creating a second world and began planning a War Domain that would connect the Divine Domain and Familiar Domain while containing the human world’s power of fantasy.

Ling Yi opened the War Domain to humanity, the Divine Domain, and the Familiar Domain, then left Liu Yun to build a human faction while he withdrew from the world. After realizing that plot inertia kept repeating familiar story patterns, he began a new transmigration with his memories and strength sealed.

• Ling Yi completed the War Domain and opened its Teleport Gates across Blue Star and in the Divine Domain and Familiar Domain.
• Liu Yun formed the Guard Army, mined the divine crystal stone vein, and eventually seized control of it after repeated clashes with other human factions.
• Yin Na helped Liu Yun and visited her parents in the Divine Domain, while Odis allied with the human faction against the Familiar Domain.
• After six months, the three factions had reached a balance, and Ling Yi left a clone behind before preparing to depart.
• Ling Yi recognized that plot inertia was shaping his worlds and began a new transmigration with a complete seal and a customizable space aura.

Ling Yi discovered that his personal space could protect and arm him after he was transported to Great Tang during the Turkic invasion. As he headed toward Chang'an, he unleashed a spreading wave of cold that froze and shattered the charging Turkic soldiers.

• Ling Yi used his personal space to teleport an attacking horseman behind him, killing him and absorbing his weapons and memories.
• Ling Yi learned from the horseman’s memories that he was near the Wei River during the Eastern Turkic invasion of Great Tang, and his passive defense killed or disarmed every attacker within five meters.
• At Jingyang County, Li Shimin and his officials watched the three-hundred-thousand-strong Turkic army and feared it would advance toward Chang'an.
• Ling Yi configured his personal space to absorb and release heat, giving himself warmth and a new offensive ability.
• As Ling Yi walked toward Chang'an, he unleashed intense cold that froze and shattered charging Turkic soldiers, and the frozen area continued to expand.

Ling Yi unleashed an immense ice storm and a devastating heat attack that nearly wiped out Jiali Khan’s Göktürk army, leaving Li Shimin and his ministers stunned. As Li Shimin prepared to meet the fleeing Jiali Khan, he considered how to use the unexpected victory to strengthen his new reign.

• A massive ice tornado tore through Jiali Khan’s camp, and Jiali Khan ordered his men to assess their losses after it vanished.
• Li Shimin and his ministers realized the storm had devastated the Göktürk army but feared Jiali Khan might now target them at Jingyang County.
• Ling Yi tested firing stored thermal energy, then unleashed a crimson beam that vaporized more than fifty thousand Göktürk troops.
• Wei Zheng recognized that someone had caused the destruction, while Li Shimin and his ministers debated whether the mysterious figure was an immortal or a demon.
• Jiali Khan rode toward Jingyang County with a handful of survivors, and Li Shimin decided to go out and meet him while considering whether to kill or spare him.

After three months in Chang'an, Ling Yi remained unable to accept life in the Tang dynasty and realized he could not return to his own world. He decided to make this world adapt to him by building a modern villa with his Personal Space, and set his sights on the Cui Family's estate for materials.

• Ling Yi recalled how he had used Mist Concealment to steal money from more than thirty aristocratic families after Cui Wen'an mocked him, leaving the theft unsolved.
• Ling Yi reflected on his lonely life in Chang'an and realized his Personal Space had exhausted its source power, leaving him no way to return home.
• Irritated by his dilapidated courtyard, Ling Yi drew its buildings and contents into his Personal Space and stood in the empty space until sunset.
• Ling Yi decided to make the world adapt to him and began turning the stored buildings into imitation marble floor tiles.
• Ling Yi decided to visit the Cui Family's estate again to gather materials for a modern villa.

Ling Yi abandoned his attempt to build a house and went to the Ten Thousand Blessings Restaurant, where he arranged to work with Cheng Qi on improving its food. After closing the restaurant, he began directing the cook and kitchen hands through several new cooking methods.

• The Cui Family discovered that over a hundred buildings and its latest business proceeds had vanished, and the patriarch blamed Li Shimin.
• Ling Yi dismantled his poorly built three-story building and decided to find a professional craftsman.
• At the Ten Thousand Blessings Restaurant, Ling Yi asked Cheng Qi to partner with him using his recipes.
• Ling Yi inspected the kitchen, criticized its limited ingredients and reused seasoning pouch, and asked Cheng Qi to close the restaurant.
• Cheng Qi closed the restaurant, and Ling Yi directed the staff to render lard, refine salt, make flatbreads and pancakes, and stir-fry.

Ling Yi hired Master Zhang and other craftsmen to build a modern villa and develop cement and glass, while their experiments produced profitable heating equipment and colored glassware. As cement neared success, Cheng Qi warned that powerful rivals were trying to take their business, and Ling Yi recognized that the people backing them were feeling threatened.

• Cheng Qi worried that other restaurants had copied the Ten Thousand Blessings Restaurant’s fried and stir-fried dishes, while Ling Yi asked him to find craftsmen to build a villa.
• Cheng Qi brought Master Zhang and more than thirty craftsmen to Ling Yi’s courtyard, where Ling Yi described cement, glass, and his villa design.
• Ling Yi bought coal mines, and Master Zhang’s team developed heated kang beds, brick stoves, and honeycomb coal briquettes that brought them substantial profits.
• Master Zhang’s team built a rotary furnace and produced colored glassware for sale, while repeated tests brought their cement research close to success.
• Cheng Qi rushed to Ling Yi with more than a dozen people and said someone backed by powerful interests was trying to cut off their income; Ling Yi said their backers could no longer withstand the pressure.

Ling Yi began planning his villa while using papermaking and printing to counter the aristocratic clans’ influence. At the villa’s groundbreaking ceremony, he refused to bow to Heaven or Grand Duke Jiang, then accompanied a gathering of powerful guests to the Ten Thousand Blessings Restaurant, where one of them pulled Cheng Qi aside to give him instructions.

• Ling Yi explained papermaking to Cheng Qi, who developed usable paper within three days, and Ling Yi also shared the principles of printing.
• Ling Yi and Master Zhang revised the villa plans, abandoning running water and circulating-water heating in favor of channels inside the walls.
• At the groundbreaking ceremony, Ling Yi refused to bow to Heaven and Grand Duke Jiang, so the master of ceremonies proceeded to the final blessing.
• A group of influential guests congratulated Ling Yi and headed with him and Cheng Qi to the Ten Thousand Blessings Restaurant.
• A tall, powerfully built fat man stopped Cheng Qi at the restaurant entrance and told him what to say.

Ling Yi and Li Shimin probed each other’s intentions at a feast, where Ling Yi offered to help make the Great Tang far more prosperous if supplied with materials. After Li Shimin and the ministers departed, Ling Yi turned to improving his new villa, which was completed but still felt unfinished.

• Cheng Yaojin warned Cheng Qi to treat Ling Yi normally and not disrupt Li Shimin’s plans, then joined the ministers at the feast.
• Li Shimin asked Ling Yi about his hometown and family, while Ling Yi described modern technology and food production and offered to help develop the Great Tang if given the necessary materials.
• Cheng Yaojin questioned Ling Yi about the Wei River immortal and whether he might seize the Great Tang, and Ling Yi dismissed the idea and promised to provide a world map.
• Li Shimin concluded that his meeting had clarified Ling Yi’s attitude, and the guests resumed drinking before leaving.
• Over the next month, Ling Yi’s four-story villa was built, but its dull walls and cloudy glass left him dissatisfied, so he wondered how ceramic tiles were made.

In the summer of 629, Dharma Master Xuanzang set out west with Ling Yi’s gifts and instructions to gather seeds, while Ling Yi’s influence continued to reshape the Great Tang. After foiling an ambush against himself and Li Shimin, Ling Yi explained how newspapers could help counter the great clans and discovered that his personal space could eventually open travel to other worlds.

• Ling Yi’s cement roads, cooking methods, pig-raising advice, and steelmaking experiments continued to change the Great Tang.
• Dharma Master Xuanzang departed on his journey west with a sword, flexible armor, a world map, and a request from Ling Yi to collect seeds.
• Li Shimin ordered Xuanzang’s cavalry escort to protect him, then asked Ling Yi for a sword and learned that the steelworks needed to produce one first.
• Attackers shot arrows at Ling Yi and Li Shimin, but Ling Yi burned the arrows and froze the woods after Li Shimin ordered the attackers killed.
• Li Shimin identified the attackers as agents of the great clans, and Ling Yi explained newspapers and public opinion as ways to challenge their influence.
• Ling Yi learned that his personal space was absorbing power from changes to a world’s timeline and could eventually locate new world anchors for travel.

Li Shimin put Ling Yi’s newspaper tactics into practice while Ling Yi built a steam car and began designing a train. Ling Yi gave the finished cars to Li Shimin and the court officials, then left the train’s control system as his next major problem.

• Ling Yi taught Li Shimin and his ministers how to use newspapers to undermine the great clans, explain state policies in plain language, and expand access to books.
• Li Shimin ordered an official newspaper and bookshops established, then used force to push the newspaper project through.
• Ling Yi built and refined a steam car in his personal space, then drove it through Chang’an and showed it to Li Shimin and the others.
• Li Shimin claimed Ling Yi’s car, and Ling Yi gave him the vehicle before returning to his villa to work on trains.
• Cheng Yaojin and the other officials went to Ling Yi’s estate and accepted the row of steam cars he had prepared for them.
• Ling Yi drew train blueprints but struggled with how to control and brake a train once it gained speed.

Ling Yi built a silver suit of armor that let him fly and spent three months constructing a vast railway and a huge steam train for the Great Tang. The chapter ended with Li Shimin and his court watching the train begin its first test run.

• Ling Yi tested ways to fly using energy from his personal space and discovered that firing thermal energy through a sealed iron tube produced thrust.
• Ling Yi built a powerful silver suit of armor and told Li Shimin to increase iron production so he could lay railway tracks to the mines.
• Over three months, Ling Yi completed nearly three thousand kilometers of track and assembled a train with twenty-two carriages and locomotives at both ends.
• Li Shimin held a public test-run ceremony, and court officials shoveled coal into the train's furnace before the drivers started it moving.

Ling Yi left the Great Tang after the successful train trials to search the world for high-yield food crops, hoping to ease the empire’s food shortages. He found breadfruit trees on tropical islands and ended the chapter facing a group of natives who had watched him descend from the sky and produce a house.

• Ling Yi completed four railway lines to the frontier, and Li Shimin praised the trains’ greatly increased transport capacity.
• Ling Yi told Li Shimin he would travel abroad in search of high-yield crops, then flew away from the Great Tang.
• Ling Yi gathered coconut and banana trees on tropical islands before discovering breadfruit trees and considering how they could feed people in the Great Tang’s southern regions.
• Ling Yi flew north and landed on a large island, where he set up his portable two-story house for the night.
• A group of natives saw Ling Yi descend from the sky and produce his house, then knelt before him when he opened the door the next morning.

Ling Yi returned from Great Island with crop seeds for Li Shimin, then discovered that his Personal Space had formed a Gate of Space-Time. He opened it to another world and crossed through with two guards, leaving Li Shimin peering through the doorway.

• Ling Yi fed the kneeling natives fried chicken, received potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, tomatoes, and other seeds, and gave them swords marked “Ancient Country” and shields marked “Eternal peace.”
• Ling Yi returned to Great Tang, gave the seeds to Li Shimin, and told Master Zhang to report the ironworks and steam-engine progress to Li Shimin instead of disturbing him.
• Ling Yi found a wooden Gate of Space-Time forming in his Personal Space, opened it to reveal a grassy landscape, and decided to bring Li Shimin and soldiers to test it.
• Li Shimin arrived with officials and a thousand soldiers, but Ling Yi took only Li Shimin and two guards into the villa and sent the others away.
• Ling Yi opened the Gate of Space-Time, stepped through with the two guards, and left Li Shimin peering into the other world.

Ling Yi arrived in the Water Margin world during the first year of Xuanhe, met Lin Chong, and supplied him with five hundred sets of enhanced armor and weapons. He returned to Great Tang to ask Li Shimin for five thousand elite soldiers, while Song Jiang and his companions gathered to inspect Ling Yi’s gifts.

• Ling Yi and his guards encountered Lin Chong and his men, disarmed them with a gesture, and learned that it was the first year of Xuanhe.
• Ling Yi gave Lin Chong five hundred sets of enhanced armor and weapons and told him to tell Song Jiang to keep working toward rebellion.
• Ling Yi returned through the Space-Time Gate and asked Li Shimin to prepare five thousand elite soldiers for him.
• After Ling Yi flew away, Lin Chong summoned Song Jiang, Li Kui, Wu Yong, Wu Song, and the others to report what had happened.
• Li Kui mocked Lin Chong’s account, picked up a saber, and swung it at his own broad axe.

Ling Yi brought five thousand Tang troops led by Li Jing through the Space-Time Gate into the Song Dynasty to fight the Jin Empire and occupy its territory. Before the campaign, he gave Zhang Chengfu designs for a tracked vehicle, a lathe, and a bicycle, while Li Jing began planning the conquest.

• Ling Yi critiqued Zhang Chengfu’s giant mechanical-man design and drew plans for a tracked tank, a lathe, and a bicycle.
• Li Shimin arrived with five thousand soldiers and appointed Li Jing to command them in the Song Dynasty.
• Ling Yi transferred the five thousand cavalrymen through the Space-Time Gate to a mountain hollow near Zhending Prefecture.
• Li Jing suggested replacing the Song court, but Ling Yi told him to focus on planting Tang flags in the territories they captured.
• Li Jing proposed defeating the Jin, gathering prisoners, and appointing local puppets to govern, and Ling Yi entrusted the campaign to him.

Li Jing named his force the Great Tang Heaven-Answering Army and used its enhanced weapons and armor to conquer much of Jin territory, recruiting prisoners and testing the army’s limits. As Li Jing approached the Jin royal court, Northern Song forces led by Gao Qiu began taking over the newly conquered cities, and Ling Yi and Li Jing discussed Zhao Ji and Song Jiang’s actions.

• Li Jing named the army the Great Tang Heaven-Answering Army and led it to capture Dading Prefecture, where its soldiers overwhelmed the Jin defenders.
• Li Jing kept captured Jin soldiers under control through harsh reprisals and promises of army membership and improved equipment, then marched north and conquered more than half the Jin Empire.
• The Heaven-Answering Army defeated a Jin force of 230,000, though Li Jing recognized that his soldiers’ stamina limited their ability to win prolonged head-on battles.
• Northern Song sent a nominal army of 100,000 under Gao Qiu to occupy Jin cities that Li Jing had conquered and left weakly defended.
• Li Jing mocked Zhao Ji’s opportunism and Gao Qiu’s ambition, while Ling Yi complained that Song Jiang had failed to make use of the advantages he had been given.

Ling Yi gathered resources and arranged for one hundred thousand Great Tang troops to invade the Song Dynasty spacetime, while Li Jing continued conquering with his smaller force. As the invasion spread and Northern Song opportunists claimed conquered territory, Ling Yi’s spacetime energy collection accelerated, and he turned to building a steamship and researching internal combustion engines.

• Ling Yi collected and processed mineral deposits across the world, while Li Jing’s conquests in the Song Dynasty spacetime yielded little spacetime energy until Gao Qiu’s Northern Song forces began claiming territory.
• Ling Yi asked Li Shimin for one hundred thousand troops; Li Shimin agreed after Ling Yi offered fifty thousand sets of divine weapons and armor, and ordered him to plan how to govern the conquered lands.
• After half a month of preparations, Li Shimin assembled ten armies led mostly by young officials’ descendants, and Ling Yi sent them through portals to ten regions across the world.
• The Great Tang Heaven-Answering Army began conquering rapidly, while Li Jing continued grinding down nearby countries with five thousand soldiers and Gao Qiu’s smaller-than-claimed army occupied Jin and Khitan lands.
• Emperor Huizong of Song celebrated Gao Qiu’s gains and claimed the Heaven-Answering Army as his own, while Song Jiang continued delaying his uprising with only thirty-six Mount Liang generals.
• As Northern Song’s claimed territory expanded and Ling Yi collected spacetime energy faster, Ling Yi built a steamship and researched internal combustion engines.

Ling Yi built an internal-combustion car and helped the Great Tang Heaven-Answering Army conquer the Great Song space-time, capturing Zhao Ji and sending him into exile. He opened a second Space-Time Anchor in Bianliang, left Li Shimin to govern both worlds, and then disappeared after preparing for the dangerous new world beyond it.

• After half a year of tinkering, Ling Yi completed an internal-combustion car with hollow-lattice iron tires and brought it to the frontier city where Gao Qiu was stationed.
• Ling Yi and the Great Tang Heaven-Answering Army overwhelmed Gao Qiu’s city, and Ling Yi ordered Gao Qiu to return to Zhao Ji and focus on football.
• The army swept south to Bianliang as Emperor Huizong of Song fled; after Fang La's Army captured Zhao Ji, the Heaven-Answering Army rescued him, and Ling Yi sent him to Great Island.
• Another half year later, Ling Yi opened a second Space-Time Anchor in Bianliang and told Li Shimin to manage the Great Tang and Great Song space-times without entering the new world yet.
• Ling Yi returned to his villa, shut himself away for more than two months, and had disappeared by the time Li Shimin came to see him.