Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi drove corrupt officials and regional threats into submission, then prepared to leave the palace with Long'er and the two Shuang'ers. After Jianning mistreated his new companions, he learned that Bond Affection did not change a person's character, and discovered that Jianning's affection had fallen to 80 and could not be removed from the system list.

• Ling Yi had corrupt Manchu officials executed, while Wu Sangui was killed and the other rebel princes surrendered under pressure from the imperial army.
• Ling Yi sent Chan Kan-nam and his companions to stir up trouble in the Rakshasa State, and welcomed A Ke and the two Shuang'ers to the palace.
• Ling Yi dismissed A Ke, Jiu Nan, and their companions, then made Big Shuang'er and Little Shuang'er his women.
• Jianning insulted the two Shuang'ers, but Ling Yi demanded that Jianning apologize and ordered her out when she refused.
• Long'er told Ling Yi she planned to return to the Mystic Dragon Cult, and Ling Yi decided to accompany her and leave the palace with the two Shuang'ers.
• Ling Yi checked the system and found that Jianning's Bond Affection had dropped to 80, then learned he could not remove her from the list.

Ling Yi and his companions traveled toward the Mystic Dragon Cult, but a large masked force ambushed them near Mount Wutai. Ling Yi turned the attackers against one another, killed their leaders, and left Zheng Keshuang begging for mercy while A Ke remained alive.

• Ling Yi, Long'er, the elder and younger Shuang'er traveled south at a leisurely pace, and Long'er said Shunzhi might be a monk on Mount Wutai.
• Several thousand masked attackers surrounded the carriage, and Ling Yi recognized Feng Xifan, Zheng Keshuang, and A Ke among them.
• Feng Xifan demanded the women for himself, but Ling Yi struck him with lightning and killed him.
• Ling Yi used “Sow Discord” to make the attackers slaughter one another, then killed the leader who suspected Ling Yi was Han.
• Only Zheng Keshuang and A Ke remained alive; Zheng Keshuang knelt and begged Ling Yi to spare him.

Ling Yi saved A Ke after she tried to kill herself, but her affection for him became permanently locked at 100 despite his confusion and lack of interest. After Long'er took over the Mystic Dragon Cult and became Ling Yi's fourth true woman, he prepared to condense his dharma body as the final matter in the world approached.

• Zheng Keshuang offered A Ke to Ling Yi to save himself, and A Ke tried to slit her throat in despair.
• Ling Yi healed A Ke, learned she was pregnant, and refused to help her end the pregnancy because doing so would bring severe karmic consequences.
• Ling Yi sent Zheng Keshuang flying southeast, left A Ke with the carriage, and flew south with Long'er and the Shuang'er sisters as A Ke's affection reached 100.
• Long'er became leader of the Mystic Dragon Cult, and Ling Yi spent the following days with her.
• Ling Yi reflected that only the treasure map in the Sutra in Forty-Two Chapters remained before he could take his final step and condense his dharma body.

Ling Yi expanded his influence as emperor by promoting Dharma Bodies of the God of Cookery and the God of Thunder, then left the palace to visit several worlds and strengthen himself. After returning to the real world, he discovered Wen Caixia was surveilling him, and by the end of his travels he had reached the Golden Immortal Pinnacle.

• Ling Yi deleted A Ke's Bond from the system, and A Ke turned her carriage southwest at a fork in the road.
• Ling Yi returned to the capital, spread news of his immortality and divine ranks, and oversaw the creation of Dharma Bodies across the empire.
• Wei Xiaobao told Ling Yi that monks were accusing him of demonic influence, and Ling Yi ordered Wei Xiaobao and Duolong to handle them.
• Ling Yi sent Jianning to the cold palace after catching her whipping a maid, then exited the world through the system.
• Ling Yi spotted Wen Caixia watching him through a surveillance feed and startled her by waving at her.
• Ling Yi visited Lau Piu-piu, discussed promoting divine ranks with Leung Foon, and absorbed Qi Ingestion from Dharma Bodies in the "Flirting with Qiuxiang" world, reaching the Golden Immortal Pinnacle.

Ling Yi entered the Axe Gang’s territory at Five Elements Mountain and witnessed Chun Sanshiniang cow the bandits with her reputation and magic. That evening, Joker tried to attack her while she bathed, but his assault immediately turned awkward.

• Ling Yi received system rewards that raised him to the early Pseudo-Saint realm, then ran to warn the Axe Gang that Chun Sanshiniang was approaching.
• Chun Sanshiniang revealed her peach blossom mark and conjured coins over the Axe Gang members’ heads, forcing them to kneel while Ling Yi escorted her to the bathhouse.
• Joker returned and berated the kneeling bandits, who refused to remove the coins because they feared their heads would roll.
• Joker learned that Chun Sanshiniang planned to stay until the person she awaited appeared, then drew his axe and attacked her as she bathed.

Ling Yi decided to save Fairy Zixia from the Buddhist School and the other powers, resolving to use his ability to restart and grow stronger. After secretly seeking cultivation knowledge from the Three Saints of Kunlun, he returned to find Chun Sanshiniang searching the Axe Gang for a person marked by three moles.

• Chun Sanshiniang defeated Joker and ordered the Axe Gang to gather at the mountain gate, while Joker's injuries worsened.
• Ling Yi avoided the crowded dormitory, reflected on his plan to save Fairy Zixia, and flew east to visit the Three Saints of Kunlun.
• Ling Yi returned before dawn with new cultivation gains and joined the Axe Gang as Chun Sanshiniang inspected their feet for three moles.
• Chun Sanshiniang ordered the gang to check everyone who passed through, and Joker proposed using Five Poisons Heaven-Dazing Incense against her.
• Joker's legs gave out as his Seven Injuries Fist wounds worsened, though he insisted he would not surrender.

Ling Yi rapidly cultivated the Seven Injuries Dharma Seal to Golden Immortal, while Joker recovered from his injuries during the Axe Gang’s chaotic confrontation with Chun Sanshiniang. After Joker entered her quarters, he emerged describing a bewitching woman, as Ling Yi anticipated Bai Jingjing’s arrival.

• Ling Yi cultivated the Seven Injuries Dharma Seal, reaching Golden Immortal in half a month by absorbing the world’s ready-made Magic Power.
• Joker gave Ling Yi a room and tasked him with growing stronger, since nobody else in the Axe Gang could cultivate.
• Ling Yi recorded the Axe Gang’s chaos as Chun Sanshiniang revealed her true form, and the beating Joker received restored him from his Seven Injuries Fist injuries.
• Joker sent the second-in-command to attack Chun Sanshiniang, but the man faked a fainting spell and left Joker to charge into her quarters alone.
• Joker emerged from the room and told Blind Man that the woman inside was a bewitching monster, while Ling Yi expected Bai Jingjing to appear.

Ling Yi watched Joker and Bai Jingjing grow closer while questioning the strange workings of the five-hundred-year cycle. After Patriarch Bodhi warned Joker that Bai Jingjing and Chun Sanshiniang were monsters, Joker asked Ling Yi to help investigate Bai Jingjing without revealing his strength.

• Joker shaved his beard and met Bai Jingjing at the bridge, where she mistook him for Sun Wukong and tested him with Samadhi White Bone Fire.
• Bai Jingjing realized Joker seemed to have no magical power, and the two argued before she left to stop cultivating.
• Ling Yi reasoned that Bai Jingjing barely knew Sun Wukong and wondered whether her arrival had caused the world's magical power and his cultivation to surge.
• Joker became more active as a bandit, and his relationship with Bai Jingjing grew closer while Chun Sanshiniang continued pursuing Tang Sanzang, who had not yet been born.
• A bunch of grapes in Joker's room transformed into Patriarch Bodhi, who gave Joker a Demon-Revealing Mirror and warned that Bai Jingjing and Chun Sanshiniang were monsters.
• Joker asked Ling Yi to help test Bai Jingjing while keeping Ling Yi's strength hidden, then said he would decide what to do if she proved to be a monster.

Ling Yi intervened when the Bull Demon King attacked Bai Jingjing and Chun Sanshiniang, then confronted Patriarch Bodhi about the nature of their world. Patriarch Bodhi revealed that Five Elements Mountain contained a real small world used to simulate the Journey to the West, leaving Ling Yi with the knowledge that many others were undergoing the same trial.

• Ling Yi caught the Bull Demon King's fork and used his divine statuses to suppress the Bull Demon King's strength.
• The Bull Demon King transformed, but fled when Ling Yi summoned a thunderstorm, claiming he had forgotten to eat lunch.
• Ling Yi called out Patriarch Bodhi, who appeared and asked Ling Yi to explain who he was.
• Ling Yi reasoned that Five Elements Mountain was an illusory world designed to temper Son Goku, but Patriarch Bodhi explained that it was a real small world where Joker had reincarnated through repeated trials.
• Ling Yi asked whether Tang Sanzang and the others were also being tested, and Patriarch Bodhi revealed that the world simulated the Journey to the West to prepare for the real journey.

After 9,999 restarts, Ling Yi began another run through A Tall Tale of Journey to the West, but his attempt to follow the plot turned into a battle across Heaven, Spirit Mountain, and the Sages. Back in the Ling Realm, he learned that a mysterious white sheet curled into a Möbius strip was blocking the Bridge of Karmic Luck, and Yin Wanqing said testing her theory would require Uncle’s cooperation.

• Ling Yi revealed that he had lived through 9,999 restarts, discovered the system’s 100-reset limit, and gained immense combat power and a words-become-law ability.
• Ling Yi snapped away the others’ memories of him, sent Patriarch Bodhi offstage, and moved the cast to the Silken Web Cave to restart the plot.
• When Fairy Zixia appeared, Ling Yi took her with him and fought the Heavenly Court, Spirit Mountain, and the Sages until the plot timeline ended.
• Ling Yi’s original body unsealed its memories, paused the world, and brought it into the New Ling Realm before reuniting with Yin Wanqing.
• Yin Wanqing showed Ling Yi the white sheet that had curled into a Möbius strip and blocked the Bridge of Karmic Luck’s influence, then said her theory needed testing with Uncle’s cooperation.

Ling Yi transmigrated in his own body into a world where game brands shaped daily life, and he concealed his overwhelming power while settling into the new setting. He took the identity of a boy recovering from a three-year vegetative state and joined a middle-school class, where he began learning about the world’s history.

• Ling Yi relaxed in Dafeng City's Central Park and considered how game brands had transformed society, its economy, education, and population.
• Ling Yi decided to find the protagonist and obtain an identity, then headed toward western Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi joined Class Six at Dafeng City No. 3 Middle School, where homeroom teacher Luo Yunhai worried that the new student’s years in a vegetative state had left him behind in class.
• Ling Yi told his deskmate Ye Fei that he had awakened after three years and explained that he had grown up in a welfare home.
• Ling Yi read his history textbook and learned that the game brands had reshaped world history, ended most wars, and led to Zhanpuneisi becoming a province of Ancient Country.

Ling Yi attended classes about Game Marks and practiced unfamiliar games alongside Ye Fei, whose boasts concealed the fact that he was a transmigrator with an Idle System. As the students prepared to receive their Game Marks and enter their first game worlds, Ye Fei claimed he would earn an S-grade talent and win the world championship.

• Luo Yunhai explained how talent grades affected players’ futures and warned the students about the danger of online competitive games.
• Ye Fei bragged that he would earn at least an S-grade talent, while Ling Yi privately recognized Ye Fei as the protagonist and revealed that he had copied his Idle System.
• Ling Yi spent the next month practicing games, including I Am the Principal, and struggled to earn high ratings in games with many fiddly tasks.
• Luo Yunhai bid farewell to the thirty-four students whose Game Marks were due, urging them to do well in the National Game Competition.
• Ye Fei declared he would get on television and eventually win the world championship, prompting the other students to mock him.

Ling Yi entered Vegetable Stealing Brawl and activated his fully automatic cheat, which discovered that planting and harvesting grass earned gold much faster than growing tomatoes. He checked on Ye Fei, who was relaxing in a different game, and saw that most players had planted vegetables and activated their Shields, leaving robot buyers unable to steal for six hours.

• Ling Yi entered the game and learned that his fully automatic cheat had generated a vegetable-stealing program.
• Ling Yi examined the game's rules, including mutual radar marking, robot prices, crop choices, and the Shield that protected three harvests.
• Ling Yi activated AFK mode, and the robot planted grass, harvested it in minutes, and earned him 80 gold per harvest.
• Ling Yi realized that growing grass was a hidden strategy that earned far more than tomatoes.
• Ling Yi checked on Ye Fei, who was lounging in a different game while his archer fought monsters.
• Ling Yi saw that most players had planted vegetables and activated their Shields, preventing robot buyers from stealing for six hours.

Ling Yi expanded his farm and sent armed vegetable-stealing robots to raid other players after their Shields expired. Song Zehui’s attempt to steal from Ling Yi failed when a native dog destroyed his robot, leaving the class monitor broke and sobbing as Ling Yi considered helping him.

• Ling Yi’s farm upgraded to level 4, growing to sixteen vegetable plots, five native dogs, and ten AK-equipped vegetable-stealing robots.
• Ling Yi sent eight robots to raid other players and posted a robbery threat in the Chat Channel.
• Song Zehui saw Ling Yi’s message, failed to view his higher-level farm, and repeatedly tried to add him as a friend before Ling Yi disabled friend requests.
• Song Zehui sent his lone vegetable-stealing robot to Ling Yi’s farm, where a native dog destroyed it and left Song Zehui with no gold or crops.
• Ling Yi recognized Song Zehui as his class monitor and considered helping him while thinking of an idea to test.

Ling Yi used the Fully Automatic Idle System to send armed crop-stealing robots into foreign players’ farms, while Light mistook the powerful attacker S8201 for German’s Yadali. The chapter left Light eliminated and convinced that S8201 had S-rank talent, unaware that Ling Yi was behind the attacks.

• Ling Yi’s robots planted grass seeds in Song Zehui’s empty plots, helping him reach farm level 3, though Song wrongly guessed that S8201 was his homeroom teacher, Luo Yunhai.
• After confirming that robots could plant crops in other players’ farms, Ling Yi ordered the system to seize foreign players’ territory and eliminate them as he prepared for the national championship.
• Light, an experienced level 10 player and Amaileken’s world championship team captain, built up his farm defensively and suspected S8201 might be Yadali from German.
• Two armed crop-stealing robots invaded Light’s farm, shot his rural dogs, and eliminated him, costing him one million game points.
• Light blamed S8201 and concluded that the player must have S-rank talent, mistakenly believing Yadali was responsible.

Ling Yi’s automated farm grew powerful enough to eliminate all Amaileken players and dominate Vegetable Stealing Brawl, which ended when he reached level 100. Back in his private space, he earned an SSS-rank talent, chose Physique, and received a ten-millionfold increase to his game-point rewards.

• Ling Yi’s farm absorbed eliminated players’ plots, expanded rapidly, and sent increasingly well-equipped vegetable-stealing robots into battle.
• Over three days, Ling Yi eliminated more than sixty million Amaileken players and made many other players work his farms for half their harvest.
• Ling Yi announced that Amaileken players had to be eliminated while players from other countries could surrender and lose half.
• Ten days into the game, Ling Yi reached level 100 after eliminating all sixty million Amaileken players and taking half the harvest from over eighty million others.
• The Game Mark ended Vegetable Stealing Brawl and awarded Ling Yi 1.33 million game points, the Horn of Greed, and a choice of SSS-rank talent.
• Ling Yi chose SSS-rank Physique and received 13.3 trillion game points, 100,000 experience points, and three player levels.

Ling Yi settled into his new life in the Game Mark world, bought an extravagant custom farmhouse, and watched the trending list as attention gathered around S8201 and the new game. Song Zehui invited him to a class gathering, and Ye Fei decided to join him on the way there.

• Ling Yi reviewed his Player Mark, then decided to move away from the home he shared with Ling Zhe and bought vacant land outside Dafeng City for a lavish custom farmhouse.
• Ling Yi relaxed at his new home and reflected on how his unsealed strength and Ye Fei’s enormous earnings had already disrupted the expected plot.
• Ling Yi saw that S8201 and Vegetable Stealing Brawl were trending, while the coming talent rankings threatened to draw attention to both SSS-grade players, Ye Fei and himself.
• Song Zehui invited Ling Yi to a class gathering and bluntly warned him not to hurt the class’s results; Ling Yi accepted and told him to invite Ye Fei himself.
• Ye Fei called Ling Yi about the gathering, then insisted on taking a cab to meet him so they could go together.

Song Zehui’s classmates gathered to check the monthly Talent Ranking, while Ye Fei insisted he had SSS-grade talent. The rankings listed S8201 as the sole SSS-grade player but omitted Ye Fei, leaving the class to question his boast.

• Song Bai and Bai Zhi celebrated Song Zehui’s A-grade talent with Luo Yunhai, who warned them to keep S8201’s help secret to protect the player and the Ancient Country.
• At Song Zehui’s home, Ye Fei claimed he had SSS-grade talent, but Song Zehui argued that he could not have earned it without working hard.
• Ye Fei challenged Song Zehui to a bet, then decided to wait for the Talent Ranking to appear before revealing his results.
• The ranking showed one SSS-grade player, five SS-grade players, and four S-grade players, including Yadali, while S8201 appeared without a nationality.
• Ling Yi realized the authorities had concealed Ye Fei’s identity to protect him, and Ye Fei accepted that revealing his talent could cause trouble for the Ancient Country.
• A classmate brought up Ye Fei’s boast and asked whether he would claim to be S8201.

Ye Fei and Ling Yi revealed their SSS-rank talents and enormous game-point reserves to Luo Yunhai, who agreed to let them join the national tournament. The chapter ended with Luo Yunhai defending their participation after Song Zehui accused them of getting in through the back door.

• Ye Fei asked Luo Yunhai for a private conversation after Luo Yunhai refused to let below-D-rank students sign up for the tournament.
• Ye Fei showed Luo Yunhai his SSS-rank Clone talent and Plunder Spike, shocking him with his stats.
• Ling Yi revealed his SSS-rank Constitution talent and vast game-point balance, causing Luo Yunhai to faint from excitement before Ling Yi revived him.
• Ling Yi and Ye Fei each transferred enormous sums of game points to Luo Yunhai, who advised them to raise their Constitution gradually.
• Ling Yi argued that they had no need to hide their strength, and Luo Yunhai agreed to let him and Ye Fei enter the national tournament.
• Song Zehui objected to their participation, and Luo Yunhai silenced him by claiming he had accepted a twenty-trillion-point bribe.

Ling Yi entered the uncapped Endless Highway game and tried to grind it himself, but the monotonous driving wore him down. He released the [Idle System] to see how it would handle the game, and it immediately requested permission to use the Points Store.

• After Luo Yunhai rebuked him, Song Zehui fell silent, and the group agreed to spend the remaining four days training for nationals.
• Ye Fei stayed briefly at Ling Yi's farmhouse, while his system sprite admitted it could not probe Ling Yi and felt something familiar about him.
• Ye Fei left Ling Yi's farmhouse after warning the system sprite not to stir up trouble, then dismissed the surveillance around his own home as official protection.
• Ling Yi entered Endless Highway, where he had to drive a truck along a route without stopping or overturning to earn experience and gold.
• After days of tedious driving, Ling Yi gave up on playing the game himself and released the [Idle System].
• The [Idle System] connected to Endless Highway and requested permission to use the Points Store.