Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi used virtual causality lines to refine his cultivation and create three powerful obsession clones, while Ma Xiaoxiao told Zhao Feifei that Zhao Chen claimed to be the world’s only Qi refiner. Zhao Feifei grew suspicious as Zhao Chen revealed plans to make Spirit-Forging Pills, and Ma Xiaoxiao also reported his predictions about Yue Shanshan and his future plans.

• Ling Yi used virtual causality lines to simulate futures and optimize his cultivation.
• Ling Yi turned fused obsession clones into three powerful versions of himself that could leave his sea of consciousness and change their appearances.
• Ling Yi continued eliminating evil mountain villages and other evildoers while concealing the full extent of his abilities.
• Ma Xiaoxiao told Zhao Feifei that Zhao Chen could truly fly and claimed to be the world’s only Qi refiner.
• Zhao Feifei explained that the Qimen Spirit-Locking Grand Array had prevented new Qi refiners from emerging since the Ming dynasty and questioned why Zhao Chen had confided in Ma Xiaoxiao.
• Ma Xiaoxiao said Zhao Chen planned to visit the Kunlun Sect for ingredients to make Spirit-Forging Pills, had identified her as having a rare Li Fire Spiritual Root, and predicted trouble for Yue Shanshan.

Zhao Feifei suspected Zhao Chen might be the Savior and allowed Ma Xiaoxiao to leave to visit Ling Yi before King Zheng’s birthday. She then contacted Emperor Zhao Chengzhi, confirmed Zhao Chen’s records had been altered, and learned their plans depended on King Zheng’s expected death.

• Zhao Feifei realized Zhao Chen had used Ma Xiaoxiao to pass her a warning and considered whether he was the Savior.
• Ma Xiaoxiao asked to visit Ling Yi, and Zhao Feifei agreed after warning her to keep her biomimetic mask on and giving her a secure phone.
• The chapter outlined how King Zheng’s birthday would draw schemes from the other eight kings and rival factions, with the conflict against him nearing its breaking point.
• Zhao Feifei entered her hidden base and contacted her father, Emperor Zhao Chengzhi, revealing that Zhao Chen was not from the Zhao Family of Nanyang and that someone had tampered with his records.
• Zhao Chengzhi said Zhao Chen might be his imperial elder brother and that Zhao Feifei’s preparations should begin after King Zheng’s death, though she feared the upheaval would harm the common people.

Zhao Chen learned that Ling Yi was weakening his golden dragon karmic luck and set out to kill him, while Ling Yi reached No. 92 Mountain Village with newly developed Qi-refining powers. The chapter ended with Ling Yi facing King Zheng’s force of Innate experts, Qimen practitioners, guards, and missile trucks.

• Zhao Chengzhi told Zhao Feifei that the Great Qian Empire was rotting under the nine kings and said it might have to be destroyed to make way for reform.
• Zhao Feifei went to Red City City High School to find Zhao Chen but learned he had left; Zhao Chen had secretly made Red City City his base and planned to create Qi refiners there.
• Zhao Chen realized that Ling Yi’s existence was weakening his golden dragon karmic luck, divined that he could not locate him directly, and decided to track him through Ma Xiaoxiao and kill him.
• Ling Yi reached Kunshan and explained how his obsession clones drew Spiritual Qi into his sea of consciousness, allowing him to cultivate Spiritual Power and fly on a conjured cloud of cotton.
• King Zheng sent six Innate experts, three Qimen practitioners, hundreds of guards, and more than twenty missile trucks to wait near No. 92 Mountain Village, and Ling Yi welcomed the chance to deal with them.

Ling Yi confronted Xiang Zhong, one of nine elderly cultivators sent by King Zheng to kill him, and learned how Xiang Zhong had secretly saved Zhao Chen as a child. Ling Yi killed Xiang Zhong with a playing card guided by altered causality, while the other elders prepared to fire every missile at him.

• Nine elderly cultivators discussed how King Zheng had forced them into the mission, and Xiang Zhong walked alone to face Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi told Xiang Zhong that Zhao Chen, the child he had secretly saved, was alive and powerful, and Xiang Zhong admitted he had switched the prince with another child and sent him away.
• Xiang Zhong refused to meet Zhao Chen and accepted that Ling Yi would kill him for his past deeds.
• Ling Yi flicked a playing card toward Xiang Zhong, using altered causality to make gusts spin and accelerate it.
• Xiang Zhong's flexible sword missed the card, which struck his throat and killed him.
• The man in reading glasses ordered all missiles launched once the target was locked.

Ma Xiaoxiao rushed to Kunshan after learning that King Zheng had sent missile vehicles there, fearing Ling Yi was in danger. She found Ling Yi unharmed, and he warned her about the injuries caused by her jade talismans before revealing that her grandfather’s words could unlock Ma Family Manor’s sealed base.

• Ma Xiaoxiao beat a passenger who harassed her aboard a coach bound for Kunshan.
• Explosions and rising mushroom clouds shook the area, so Ma Xiaoxiao used jade talismans and her family’s footwork to race toward Kunshan.
• Ma Xiaoxiao found Ling Yi safe, and he used Spiritual Power to repair the damage from her Illusory Lightning Jade Talismans.
• Ma Xiaoxiao told Ling Yi she had brought him a cultivation method and wanted to repay him, while Ling Yi said resolving King Zheng’s threat would also solve her grandfather’s problem.
• Ling Yi revealed that Ma Xiaoxiao’s grandfather’s sentence was the password to open Ma Family Manor’s sealed base from outside.

Ling Yi used his advanced Causality Control to see a devastating future for the Great Qian Empire and discovered the Heaven and Earth Causality Network. After exposing Zhao Chen’s hypocrisy and extinguishing Kunshan’s fire with a rainstorm, Ling Yi left to rest before resolving every problem.

• Ling Yi gained nearly a million Merit Points from King Zheng’s nine men, reaching level 5 and advanced Causality Control.
• Ling Yi saw that the Great Qian Empire would be ravaged by invasion and discovered that he could perceive the universe-spanning Heaven and Earth Causality Network and the Underworld.
• Zhao Chen appeared while secretly following Ma Xiaoxiao and Ling Yi, and Ling Yi mocked him for neglecting the disaster as the supposed Savior.
• Ling Yi summoned dark clouds and extinguished the fire threatening to spread across Kunshan, leaving Zhao Chen unable to understand his power.
• Ling Yi said he would rest before resolving every problem, including the chaos caused by the nine kings.

Zhao Chen prepared to use his Godhood Pills while Jiang Weike and his companions uncovered the Savior Sect’s true purpose and learned that Ran Li’s master was Zhuge Changsong. As factions converged on Dongshen City to kill King Zheng, Ling Yi considered forcibly taking control or rewriting past karma to resolve the mounting trouble.

• Zhao Chen decided to use his three Godhood Pills on others after his golden dragon Karmic Luck began to unravel.
• Jiang Weike and the Bai brothers admitted their ties to the Sixth King, while Ran Li revealed she was Zhuge Changsong’s disciple and that he was the Faceless Man serving King Zheng.
• Ran Li told Jiang Weike that the Savior Sect’s prophecy was a pretext to control or kill the next emperor, and said her master considered Ling Yi invincible and the true Savior.
• Jiang Weike chose to go to Dongshen City as factions gathered there with nearly three hundred Innate experts and more than a hundred esoteric practitioners to kill King Zheng.
• Ma Xiaoxiao warned Zhao Feifei that she and Zhuge Changsong should stop their efforts, then Ling Yi explained that he could either seize control by force or rewrite past karma.

Ling Yi revealed through illusions the future world that could follow a change to the past, while Zhuge Changsong explained how Zhao Chen’s ambitions could trigger a devastating upheaval. The chapter ended with Ling Yi’s companions shaken by his vision of a modern nation, army, and era.

• Song Baiming learned that Zhuge Changsong led the Savior Sect and had been secretly working with Zhao Chengzhi, while Zhao Feifei and the others heard how Zhuge had planned to limit the chaos after the Nine Kings fell.
• Zhuge Changsong revealed that the missing prince Zhao Chen had received an ancient Qi refiner’s inheritance and was destined to become the root of a war that could kill most of the Central Plains’ people.
• Ran Li explained that Zhao Chen’s great karmic luck made him extremely difficult to kill, and Zhuge Changsong invited Ling Yi to offer a solution.
• Ling Yi said he could alter the karma of the past hundred years, though doing so would erase Great Qian and usher in a new era a century early.
• Ling Yi used illusion formations to show the group scenes of a modern army, schoolchildren, and inspectors taking an oath, leaving them deeply moved by the future he called the best era.

Ling Yi gave the group two days to prepare before he changed the past and offered them refuge from the altered causality in a small world at Kunshan. After unsealing his memories and moving the world into the New Ling Realm, he began another transmigration with his memories completely sealed.

• Song Baiming, Jiang Weike, Zhao Feifei, and Zhuge Changsong discussed whether they would preserve their memories and identities when Ling Yi changed the past, while Ling Yi revealed that only nine people could be shielded from causality.
• Ling Yi's Causality Control became God Grade, and he told everyone to prepare for two days before entering a small world at Kunshan to avoid the causal changes.
• Zhuge Changsong decided to take the Zhuge Family to Kunshan, and the others departed to make preparations and say goodbye to their friends and families.
• Ling Yi's main body watched Zhao Chen arrive in Dongshen City with Yue Wanshan and Yue Shanshan, and noted that Zhao Chen's intended rise would lead toward an era of immortal cultivation.
• Ling Yi moved the world into the New Ling Realm and began a new transmigration with a random identity replacement, a complete memory seal, and the Infinite Passive Plot Aura.

Ling Yi burned forty Nether Domain Seal-stamped AKs for his great-grandfather, City Lord Ling, who used them to turn the battle against the Goblins in the Underworld. After waking, Ling Yi saw the Nether Domain Seal merge into his chest and leave a one-star mark.

• Ling Yi remembered his dream in which his great-grandfather said the Underworld had been invaded and asked him to send weapons stamped with the Nether Domain Seal.
• Ling Yi made forty paper AKs, wrote his great-grandfather’s birth date and hour on them, stamped them with the ancestral seal, and burned them.
• City Lord Ling received the AKs above Cangwu City and distributed them to the undead, whose gunfire drove back the Goblins and reversed the battle.
• Ling Yi woke the next morning, prepared breakfast, and began to make plans to rent out the funeral shop.
• Ling Yi felt burning in his chest as the Nether Domain Seal glowed, merged into his body, and became a tattoo marked with one star.

Ling Yi learned from Ling Canghai that the Nether Domain Seal had chosen him, letting him send weapons to the besieged Underworld and grow stronger through merit. After Ling Yi crafted weapons for his great-grandfather, Ling Canghai said most had arrived and warned that a visitor would soon come to the shop.

• Ling Canghai explained that the Nether Domain Seal had marked Ling Yi as its master and that the Underworld was under attack by invading Thought Spirits.
• Ling Canghai told Ling Yi that burning weapons used against invaders would earn merit and help strengthen the seal, while money found on the street should be returned to avoid karmic consequences.
• Ling Yi inspected the seal’s abilities, then designed and crafted Gatling guns, rocket launchers, rail sniper rifles, and a rocket launcher truck for Ling Canghai.
• Ling Canghai contacted Ling Yi the next morning and said the weapons had arrived except for the rocket launcher truck, which the seal could not yet send.
• Ling Canghai told Ling Yi to open his shop because someone would be coming soon.

Ling Yi organized what he had learned about Thought Spirits, Merit, and Karma, leaving questions to ask his great-grandfather. Meanwhile, Fu Qingyun and Bai Xiaoyao arrived at the Nether Domain Funeral Shop, where Fu Qingyun hoped to obtain weapons for her great-grandmother in the Underworld.

• Ling Yi recorded how Thought Spirits connected to their originals through Karmic Luck and noted questions about Merit and Karma.
• Fu Qingyun recalled her great-grandmother's dreams about the Underworld invasion and her request for better weapons from the Nether Domain Funeral Shop.
• Fu Qingyun brought Bai Xiaoyao to Red City City without telling her the real reason for the trip.
• Fu Qingyun and Bai Xiaoyao found the address her great-grandmother had given her and headed into West Entrance Alley.

Fu Qingyun asked Ling Yi to make powerful paper weapons for the war in the Underworld after learning that both their ancestors had visited them in dreams. Ling Yi agreed to prepare weapons for her great-grandmother, while Bai Xiaoyao struggled to accept their account and Fu Qingyun suggested ordering takeout.

• Fu Qingyun asked Ling Yi about custom paper offerings, and he learned she wanted paper weapons for the Underworld war her great-grandmother had described in a dream.
• Ling Yi said his great-grandpa had also visited him in a dream and explained that only his weapons could reach the Underworld effectively, leading him to suspect Fu Qingyun's great-grandmother knew his great-grandpa.
• Ling Yi agreed to make extra weapons and offered to prepare Fu Qingyun's order using her great-grandmother's birth date and time.
• Bai Xiaoyao questioned whether the Underworld war and dream visits were real, and Fu Qingyun told her she might learn the truth if one of her own ancestors visited her in a dream.
• Fu Qingyun introduced herself and Bai Xiaoyao, then suggested ordering takeout after Ling Yi declined to leave the shop.

Ling Yi explained how paper offerings benefit ancestors and their living descendants while crafting paper AKs for the Underworld. He planned to finish the weapons before attempting a makeshift Mark Armor, and Fu Qingyun proved capable of helping with the craft.

• Bai Xiaoyao questioned why Ling Yi was making paper AKs instead of stronger weapons, and he explained the craft’s limits and the role paper offerings played in ancestral fortune.
• Ling Yi said he could not make or send a nuclear weapon with his current abilities, but thought he might be able to make a defective Mark Armor.
• Bai Xiaoyao and Fu Qingyun tried crafting alongside Ling Yi, with Bai Xiaoyao struggling and Fu Qingyun reproducing most of his paper AK process.
• Ling Yi demonstrated how a bamboo mechanism let the paper AK shoot and explained that greater realism made weapons more powerful after materializing in the Underworld.
• Ling Yi praised Fu Qingyun’s work and decided her help would save him time as he continued making weapons for his great-grandfather and the others.

Ling Yi and his companions prepared stamped paper weapons for the Underworld, where Ling Canghai, Bai Shitou, and Yan Yunfang used them to help defend Cangwu City from invading monsters. As Bai Shitou set off to visit his descendant’s dreams to request more weapons, Ling Canghai and Yan Yunfang bickered over his scheme and their own family ties.

• Ling Yi, Fu Qingyun, and Bai Xiaoyao made paper AKs and shields, which Ling Yi stamped with the Nether Domain Seal and burned for the Underworld.
• Fu Qingyun and Bai Xiaoyao decided to stay at Ling Yi’s home and agreed to pay rent.
• In Cangwu City, Ling Canghai’s reinforcements arrived, and Yan Yunfang took up new weapons to fight alongside Bai Shitou and relieve pressure on the city gate.
• Ling Canghai distributed the weapons and gathered soul power while warning that the invasion threatened the entire Underworld.
• Bai Shitou decided to visit his descendant’s dreams to demand weapons, after Ling Canghai and Yan Yunfang advised him to pressure his descendant into asking Ling Yi for them.
• Ling Canghai and Yan Yunfang argued after Bai Shitou left, and Yan Yunfang rebuked Ling Canghai for proposing marriage ties with her great-granddaughter.

Ling Canghai explained the Underworld’s invasion, the Nether Domain Seal, and the danger Ling Yi faced if other city lords sought control of it. Ling Yi discovered that his bound Nether Domain Token already had powerful functions, including devouring obsessions and soul power.

• Ling Canghai told Ling Yi that the Underworld was under invasion and that most undead needed to reincarnate unless they had Merit or a position.
• Ling Canghai said Ling Yi must figure out how to refine the Nether Domain Seal and warned him not to ask about the Great Reincarnation until he could bear its Karma.
• Ling Yi and Ling Canghai discussed improving the power of his paper-offering weapons, since mass-produced offerings could not work without human presence.
• Ling Canghai warned that other city lords might try to seize the Nether Domain Seal and explained that refining it would give Ling Yi immense authority in the Underworld.
• Ling Yi inspected the Nether Domain Token interface and saw that it was bound to him, with 39,221 Merit points and a function that could devour obsessions and soul power.

Ling Yi discussed the mysteries and dangers of the Nether Domain Seal with Ling Canghai, then woke from their dreamlike meeting and rejoined Bai Xiaoyao and Fu Qingyun. With the Underworld facing a crisis and Fu Qingyun making paper weapons by hand, Ling Yi decided to buy supplies and try building an assembly line.

• Ling Canghai explained that Ling Yi had not necessarily refined the Nether Domain Seal and wondered why no past holders had appeared in the Underworld.
• Ling Yi reassured Ling Canghai that they could not solve the mystery by worrying and promised to keep the Nether Domain Seal from escaping his grasp.
• After waking in bed, Ling Yi considered how to level up the Nether Domain Seal and went downstairs when Bai Xiaoyao called him to breakfast.
• Bai Xiaoyao teased Ling Yi about Fu Qingyun, and Ling Yi recalled that his college roommates had idolized her.
• Fu Qingyun said her great-grandmother had warned that the Underworld's fate rested on Ling Yi and continued making paper AKs to aid the war.
• Ling Yi decided to buy supplies and attempt an assembly line to speed up the production of paper offerings.

Fu Qingyun relayed her great-grandmother’s warning about the Underworld and offered Ling Yi money, while he began assembling equipment to produce paper weapons. Meanwhile, Bai Shitou’s descendants headed to Red City City after he beat them in dreams and urged them to deliver goods that night.

• Fu Qingyun explained that the Underworld’s collapse could drive the dead and monsters into the living world, but Ling Yi refused her bank card and left.
• Bai Xiaoyao teased Fu Qingyun about blushing, then learned that Fu Qingyun’s dream-taught Swallow Hand technique was real.
• Ling Yi returned with equipment and parts, explained his plan to build an automated production line, and asked Fu Qingyun to order him takeout.
• Bai Xiaoyao went to sleep hoping an ancestor would visit her, unaware that Bai Shitou was her great-grandfather.
• Bai Zheyan and Bai Mengshan drove to Red City City after Bai Shitou beat them in a dream and demanded that they bring the goods that night.

Ling Yi finished assembling a numerically controlled machine and began preparing designs for paper weapons to help fight the Underworld invasion. Bai Zheyan and Bai Mengshan arrived after an ancestor’s dream visit, and Fu Qingyun explained that Ling Yi was the person they had been told to find.

• Ling Yi used his numerical control program to assemble machinery while Fu Qingyun and Bai Xiaoyao watched, then planned paper weapons for the Underworld crisis.
• Bai Zheyan and Bai Mengshan arrived at Ling Yi’s shop and learned that Fu Qingyun was there too.
• Fu Qingyun told Bai Zheyan and Bai Mengshan that her great-grandmother had visited her in dreams and taught her a Hidden Weapons technique.
• Ling Yi left the visitors to Fu Qingyun so he could continue working on weapons related to the Underworld invasion.
• Fu Qingyun explained her dream visits and asked whether Bai Zheyan’s ancestor had also directed him to Ling Yi for weapons; Bai Zheyan and Bai Mengshan nodded.

Ling Yi discovered that [Probe] could reveal and alter an item's manifestation settings, then used the Nether Domain Seal to manifest an RPG in the Underworld. The weapon vanished into powder in his hands, leaving his test’s result unclear.

• Ling Canghai and Yan Yunfang discussed the endless monster invasion, the losses among Cangwu’s undead, and their uncertainty about the Thought Spirits who had opened the passage.
• Ling Yi used a small CNC machine to assemble an RPG model and found that [Probe] displayed its manifestation merit, adjustable power, authorization, and manifestation options.
• Ling Yi discovered he could raise the weapon’s power with Merit Points, change its authorized recipient without marking it, and manifest nonliving objects directly in the Underworld.
• Ling Yi questioned why the Nether Domain Seal had such powerful functions and wondered whether [Probe]’s description was deliberately misleading.
• Ling Yi selected [Yes] to manifest the RPG, and it crumbled into powder in his hands.