Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi let the Idle System transform his truck into Optimus Prime, then used a game-store rocket truck to devastate the empty game world. His destruction triggered a temporal lag that made a freight station appear, and the game declared the Endless Highway cleared.

• Ling Yi authorized the Idle System to control his truck, which transformed into Optimus Prime and attacked the surrounding landscape with an electromagnetic cannon.
• Ling Yi summoned a truck carrying twelve oversized missiles, launched them at a distant mountain, and fired the remaining missiles across the game world.
• Ling Yi reflected on how different countries taxed and controlled players’ game points, including the Ancient Country, Amaileken, and German Country.
• After Ling Yi’s attacks, the game world began to lag, and a crude freight station appeared at the end of the highway.
• Optimus Prime transformed back into a truck at the station, and a notification announced that Ling Yi had cleared the Endless Highway and would return to his exclusive space.

Ling Yi received a console and an exclusive cartridge after clearing "Endless Highway," then returned to the real world and entered another game. Ye Fei finished "Taxi Driver" and met three officials from the Ancient Country's Special Incident Bureau, while his system sprite urged him to copy a national treasure.

• Ling Yi received a game console and an "Endless Highway" cartridge, making the cleared game world his private property, before logging into another game.
• Ye Fei completed "Taxi Driver" and discussed the Ancient Country and a possible national-guarding item with his system sprite.
• Hu Yuan, Sun Ershan, and Yan Mei arrived at Ye Fei's home and introduced themselves as members of the Special Incident Bureau.
• Ye Fei assessed the visitors' levels and talents, then warned Sun Ershan not to cry before accepting his offered handshake.

Ye Fei refused to join the Special Incident Bureau after learning about its work and the Ancient Country’s secret defense of the War Space. As Ye Fei shut down the system sprite’s plan to use the Bureau to investigate Ling Yi, the Bureau discussed its own looming threats, while Ling Yi watched a purple egg begin to hatch.

• Sun Ershan tested Ye Fei’s strength, then invited him to join the Special Incident Bureau and explained its work handling dangerous players, monster escapes, and unstable game worlds.
• Ye Fei learned that the Ancient Country secretly guarded the War Space and gained rewards from fighting escaped monsters, then refused to join the Bureau while offering to help for a negotiable price.
• The system sprite urged Ye Fei to tell the Bureau about Ling Yi, but Ye Fei rejected the idea, warned her not to provoke Ling Yi, and locked her in solitary confinement.
• Sun Ershan told Yan Mei and Hu Yuan that Ye Fei could distract other countries from the Bureau’s troubles, while the escaped monsters were growing stronger and revealing the War Space might become necessary.
• Ling Yi played the game world Strange Beasts of Mountains and Seas, where he watched his purple egg crack as it began to hatch.

Ling Yi raised a husky with the rare Reverse Devouring talent in a world filled with dangerous divine beasts, discovering that it could take the form of anything it devoured. After unlocking a fused Devouring talent, he learned it could grow by devouring beasts of any level, but his hunt for easy prey ended with a level 75 gorilla chasing him.

• Ling Yi found that his level 1 husky had the Reverse Devouring talent and watched it turn into a level 2 Iron-Horned Sheep after the goat devoured it.
• Ling Yi guided the mutated divine beast through the grassland, where it successively became a level 4 striped giant python and a level 9 saber-toothed tiger.
• Ling Yi discovered the beast could transform into forms it had reverse-devoured and had unlocked a fused Devouring talent.
• Ling Yi and the saber-toothed tiger fled two level 15 Pink Demonic Butterflies and a level 22 Bloodthirst Giant Mosquito, escaping into a mountain forest.
• The saber-toothed tiger devoured a level 2 spider, raising its fused Devouring talent from level 0 to level 1.
• Ling Yi and the saber-toothed tiger fled the forest when a level 75 white gorilla began chasing them.

Ling Yi and Tuntun rapidly leveled up, but their game world began breaking down when its rules exhausted their power trying to analyze Ling Yi. After stabilizing the world, Ling Yi pursued the escaped giant kun into a vast battlefield space, where a military fortress sounded an alarm.

• Ling Yi chose the Combat advancement path for Tuntun and raised it to level 50 by devouring Demonic Beasts.
• Tuntun transformed into a Thunder Osprey to find the butterflies and mosquito that had chased them, and Ling Yi took revenge on them.
• Ling Yi and Tuntun devoured Demonic Beasts through the night, raising Tuntun to level 90 and its Combat and Devouring talents to levels 20 and 25.
• After half a month, Tuntun reached level 999, and the game world's rules and sky began to fracture as giant kun escaped into the void.
• Ling Yi changed his presence to stabilize the game world, then sent Tuntun after the escaped giant kun into a vast battlefield space.
• Ling Yi and Tuntun arrived near a technological fortress with a portal to the real world as its alarm sounded.

The Special Incident Bureau discovered that 7,600 max-level Giant Kun were heading toward the War Space’s Teleport Gate, while Ye Fei offered to seal it for three years. Ling Yi and Tuntun began fighting the Kun, and Tuntun killed one with a single strike.

• The Special Incident Bureau’s director ordered the War Space made public and called for players to gather as the Giant Kun approached the Teleport Gate.
• Hu Yuan told Ye Fei about the invasion, and Ye Fei agreed to help before learning from the system sprite about ways to stop the crisis.
• Ye Fei told Hu Yuan he could seal the Teleport Gate for three years, declined to meet the director, and asked to return home and keep growing stronger.
• Ling Yi brought Tuntun to fight the Giant Kun, unaware that Ye Fei planned to seal them inside the War Space.
• Tuntun transformed into a composite of divine beasts and sliced through a Giant Kun’s head, killing it instantly.

After Tuntun wiped out the giant Kun in the War Space, Ling Yi returned to Dafeng City and waited for the national tournament to begin. He entered the tournament venue with his classmates, but felt an ominous agitation and contacted Yin Wanqing.

• The Special Incident Bureau learned that Ye Fei could temporarily close the Teleport Gate while its investigators watched Tuntun kill the giant Kun.
• Tuntun killed all the giant Kun, and Ling Yi reached level 11 before taking Tuntun back to his courtyard in Dafeng City.
• Ye Fei suspected Tuntun was Ling Yi's pet and intensified his training ahead of the national tournament.
• On May 5, Ling Yi entered the tournament map, passed the inspection, collected his contestant badge, and joined Luo Yunhai, Ye Fei, and the others at the competition venue.
• Luo Yunhai explained the tournament's arena and map matches and warned the students to protect their badges and distrust strangers.
• At the stadium, Ling Yi suddenly felt agitated and contacted Yin Wanqing in the Ling Realm.

Uncle fell ill and tried to use stockpiled chapters to skip the plot, which made Ling Yi feel inexplicably agitated. At the national competition, Ling Yi encountered Ling Zhe, revealed that Ling Zhe’s brother might still return, then left for a new transmigration.

• Uncle told Yin Wanqing he planned to force in stockpiled chapters so he could rest, while Yin Wanqing recognized it as a test for Ling Yi.
• Luo Yunhai explained the competition rules, and Ling Yi was drawn into the first round, where he defended his ring through three fights.
• Ling Zhe saw Ling Yi on the livestream, realized his brother had appeared despite believing him dead, and left the War Space to wake in the hospital.
• Ling Zhe used the Game Mark to enter the competition map, where Ling Yi told him his brother could return and gain a chance to control the Game Mark.
• Ling Yi sent out a Clone, sealed its memories and strength, and began a new transmigration; the Clone surrendered to Ling Zhe, who then surrendered to Ye Fei.

Ling Yi awakened Causality Control while a pyramid scheme gang prepared to harvest his organs, then used it to kill the doctor and escape his restraints. He left the room carrying playing cards and confronted the burly man as police approached.

• The burly man told Ling Yi that the doctor would remove his organs after he tried to call the police.
• Ling Yi gained Causality Control, spent fifty Merit to make the doctor’s death inevitable, and arranged six causal events that ended with a scalpel piercing the doctor’s throat.
• Ling Yi used a scalpel to cut his ropes, watched the doctor die, and earned nearly four thousand Merit.
• Ling Yi considered avoiding the police because he had no registered identity in the Great Qian Empire and took two decks of playing cards from a drawer.
• Ling Yi walked outside, where the burly man saw the blood on him and demanded to know how he had escaped and where the doctor was.

Ling Yi killed the men in the courtyard through seemingly accidental events, declared himself Heavenly Punishment, and left before inspectors arrived. Jiang Weike and his team investigated the deaths, deduced that the victims had been killed by playing cards or engineered accidents, and began searching for the mysterious killer.

• Ling Yi used Causality Control to see the men’s sins, then killed several of them with playing cards swept by the wind and dodged the others’ gunfire.
• Ling Yi killed the burly man with a scalpel, changed clothes, wrote “Heavenly Punishment” on the truck, and left the courtyard.
• Jiang Weike, Ran Li, Bai Qingzhe, and Bai Qingyuan arrived and found six bodies, including the organ-trafficking leader known as Doctor.
• Jiang Weike determined that four men had been killed by playing cards and reconstructed how a chain of accidents had caused Doctor’s death.
• Jiang Weike ordered the team to gather surveillance footage and search for the person tied to the chair, while the inspectors found an unidentified fingerprint in the courtyard.

Ling Yi used Causality Control to establish himself as a fortune-teller in Red City, warning streamer Brother Dazhi that a series of accidents would threaten him if he ignored the five-step rule. After Brother Dazhi escaped the alley unharmed, a mysterious young woman asked Ling Yi about his lineage and methods.

• Ling Yi set up a fortune-telling stall in Locust Blossom Alley and charged Brother Dazhi one thousand for a reading.
• Ling Yi warned Brother Dazhi to stop for three seconds every fifth step or fail to leave the alley alive.
• Brother Dazhi ignored Ling Yi’s warning and repeatedly encountered falling hazards, including a drone, a live wire, a branch, and a flowerpot.
• Brother Dazhi followed the rule and escaped the alley, while the fortune-tellers witnessed Ling Yi’s apparent ability.
• The young woman approached Ling Yi and asked whose successor he was and how he used his method without detectable Daoist Arts.

Jiang Weike’s team located Ling Yi in Red City, where he used his Causality Control ability while waiting for a mysterious person tied to him by a golden thread. After men in black pursued him, Ling Yi set a chain of causes in motion and escaped in a taxi, leaving them to stumble into chaos.

• Jiang Weike learned that Ling Yi was missing and asked for an interprovincial assistance request rather than an arrest warrant.
• Ling Yi told Ma Xiaoxiao that the person she was hiding from would arrive soon, then explained that he had come to Locust Blossom Alley to find someone linked to him by a golden thread of causality.
• An old man in white training clothes appeared, and Ling Yi recognized the dense black Qi around him as a sign that he belonged on Ling Yi’s death list.
• Ling Yi’s fortune-telling stall grew popular, and he obtained an identity card with help from Red City’s top official.
• When men in black pursued Ling Yi, he knocked over a trash can and placed a stone in their path before getting into a taxi.
• One pursuer tripped over the stone and accidentally fired his handgun, shooting another man in the thigh.

Ling Yi traced a mysterious golden karmic thread to Zhao Chen, a young man who had recently descended from the mountains, and guessed that Zhao Chen was a Heavenly Person. Meanwhile, Jiang Weike investigated eleven gunmen killed in an alley and suspected Ling Yi was involved, but Ling Yi avoided the inspectors.

• Ling Yi accepted Yue Wanshan's dinner invitation after noticing a faint golden karmic thread connecting him to someone special.
• Jiang Weike arrived at Locust Blossom Alley with Ran Li, Bai Qingzhe, and Bai Qingyuan, where he examined eleven bodies and reconstructed how the gunmen had died.
• Ba Xin warned Jiang Weike away from the case but gave him a roll of white paper containing what he had learned.
• At dinner, Ling Yi met Zhao Chen, examined Yue Shanshan's karmic threads, and concluded that Zhao Chen was likely a Heavenly Person connected to the golden thread.
• Ling Yi checked into a hotel instead of returning to his rented room, while Jiang Weike and the others waited there and planned to resume investigating the next day.

Ling Yi researched the Great Qian Empire’s altered history, then met Ma Xiaoxiao and escaped an armed convoy using Causality Control. He offered to deal with her family’s Second Master in exchange for a cultivation method, and she agreed to give him a Buddhist School method.

• Ling Yi learned that Zhao Hong had overthrown the Qing and founded the Great Qian Empire, whose Nine Great Royalist Clans now controlled the puppet emperor Zhao Chengzhi.
• Ling Yi met Ma Xiaoxiao near Locust Blossom Alley and offered to solve her trouble if she followed his instructions.
• Ling Yi used Causality Control to cause the pursuing armed convoy to crash beneath falling steel pipes.
• Ling Yi told Ma Xiaoxiao he would kill Second Master Ma, then destroyed her car with an explosion as they left the scene.
• Ma Xiaoxiao said she could not share her family’s cultivation method but offered a Buddhist School method, which Ling Yi accepted.

Ling Yi killed Ma Xiaoxiao’s Second Master with poisoned needles and left, while Ma Xiaoxiao learned the Ma Family might face retaliation from Prince Zheng. Meanwhile, Jiang Weike’s investigation led him to call Ling Yi, who told him to meet at the mysterious Village No. 47.

• Ling Yi and Ma Xiaoxiao poisoned Second Master, and Ling Yi identified the man’s immense Karmic Force before he died.
• Ling Yi refused Ma Xiaoxiao’s suggestion that he might be the Savior and rode away, leaving her to call her grandfather.
• Ma Xiaoxiao’s grandfather told her the Ma Family was preparing a sealing plan and warned her to conceal her identity or stay with her benefactor.
• Jiang Weike’s team traced their investigation to Yue Wanshan and obtained Ling Yi’s phone number despite obstruction from local departments.
• Ling Yi answered Jiang Weike’s call and said he was at Village No. 47, while Ran Li suspected their phones were tapped or bugged and Bai Qingzhe and Bai Qingyuan exchanged a telling glance.

Ling Yi gained strength by cultivating the Ma Family's evil Qi Transformation Divine Art and discovered that his upgraded system could investigate five days into a person's past and future. Meanwhile, Ma Xiaoxiao met with Zhao Feifei and other members of the Savior Sect, whose unity was faltering because they had not found the Savior.

• Ling Yi left Mountain Village No. 47 after no one came to challenge him, reflecting on how he had used the Qi Transformation Divine Art to reach the Acquired Third Layer.
• Ling Yi reviewed his level-two system, noted that its free investigation span had increased to five days, and followed a cluster of karmic threads down the mountain.
• Ma Xiaoxiao entered Zhao Feifei's warehouse hideout, where Zhao Feifei revealed that the supposed traitor was a joke she had used to win a bet with Cheng Dong.
• Cheng Dong warned that many Savior Sect members sought personal gain and that the group might collapse without finding the Savior, while Zhao Feifei urged them to stay united.
• Zhao Feifei ended the discussion and took Ma Xiaoxiao upstairs, while Cheng Dong's forehead repelled her flying needle.

Ma Xiaoxiao learned that the Savior Sect planned to fabricate a Savior and was assigned to approach Zhao Chen, while she argued that Ling Yi would be a poor choice. Meanwhile, Ling Yi ambushed a convoy sent to invite him, killed its armed escort, and left Song Baiming to explain the disaster to his family.

• Zhao Feifei told Ma Xiaoxiao that the Savior Sect had secretly chosen three possible people to present as the Savior, including Zhao Chen, and assigned Ma Xiaoxiao to approach him at school.
• Ma Xiaoxiao suggested making Ling Yi the Savior, but Zhao Feifei rejected the idea because Ling Yi's powerful enemies could destroy the weak sect and he would not be anyone's pawn.
• Song Baiming, the ninth king's second son, waited with more than a hundred armed men to invite Ling Yi, then threatened a buzz-cut bodyguard with a lighter disguised as a golden pistol.
• Ling Yi struck the convoy with lightning-charged coins, incapacitated its men, absorbed their dark red Qi, and drove away in a Hummer.
• Ling Yi told Song Baiming that he knew his identity and that he had volunteered for the assignment, then advised him to tell his father the truth about the dead men.

Song Baiming and Old Gao revealed their allegiance to opposing factions while agreeing that the Nine Kings were their shared target. Ling Yi entered a Qimen Illusion Formation set by King Zheng’s men, who activated its lightning, fire, and illusion attacks as he studied its workings.

• Song Baiming and Old Gao each admitted belonging to a different faction, then agreed that neither faction was an enemy because both aimed to bring down the Nine Kings.
• Song Baiming and Old Gao discussed Ling Yi and wondered whether he might defeat the Nine Kings before their factions could act.
• Ling Yi drove to the toll station, recognized the Qimen Illusion Formation and its two masked watchers, and stepped inside.
• Gray Mask activated the formation’s attack gates while White Mask grew uneasy about Ling Yi’s deliberate entry.
• Ling Yi dodged lightning and fireballs inside the formation while studying its mysteries.

Ling Yi deciphered the Qimen Illusion Formation, defeated its operators, and met Zhuge Changsong, who warned him that his cultivation was deepening his murderous obsession. The chapter ended with Ling Yi learning that his Buddhist sutra was genuine and asking why no Qi refiners existed despite the abundant Spiritual Qi; Zhuge Changsong admitted he did not know.

• Ling Yi used his Primordial Spirit to decipher the formation markings and learned to create illusions that became real through Spiritual Power from heaven and earth.
• The gray-masked senior brother surrendered a booklet of formation techniques, and Ling Yi spared him after ordering him to do a hundred good deeds.
• Ling Yi killed the fleeing junior brother with a thrown pebble, then called Zhuge Changsong out from behind a stone.
• Zhuge Changsong warned Ling Yi that his cultivation was intensifying his obsession, and Ling Yi suppressed a surge of murderous intent.
• Zhuge Changsong recommended the Ten Thousand Buddhas' Mind-Reading Sutra, confirmed Ling Yi's copy was genuine, and said only two people had crossed its threshold.
• Ling Yi asked why there were no Qi refiners despite abundant Spiritual Qi, and Zhuge Changsong said he did not know.

Ling Yi learned more about Zhuge Changsong’s disciples, received an array-pattern compendium, and discovered the new powers of his intermediate Causality Control. As Ling Yi studied his gains and considered how his actions were weakening Zhao Chen’s golden causality thread, Jiang Weike and his three companions traveled to Dafeng City to meet him.

• Zhuge Changsong explained how he had rescued Erbao and Sanbao and admitted that Sanbao had secretly committed evil deeds for King Zheng.
• Zhuge Changsong gave Ling Yi the Complete Compendium of Array Patterns before departing.
• Ling Yi reviewed his level-three status and learned that intermediate Causality Control could hide causality threads and create virtual ones.
• Ling Yi suspected that his actions were taking Zhao Chen’s destined role and causing Zhao Chen’s golden causality thread to fade.
• Ling Yi began studying the Ten Thousand Buddhas' Mind-Reading Sutra while Jiang Weike traveled to Dafeng City with Bai Qingzhe, Bai Qingyun, and Ran Li to meet him.