Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi and the others worked through the night to produce nearly five hundred RPGs for the defenders in the Underworld. He then connected briefly with his great-grandfather, showing everyone the invasion at Cangwu City before ending the call and leaving Bai Zheyan with even more questions.

• Ling Yi assigned Fu Qingyun, Bai Xiaoyao, Bai Mengshan, and Bai Zheyan tasks to assemble RPGs and prepare authorization details.
• By after one in the morning, the group had made nearly five hundred RPGs, and their supply of wood ran out.
• Bai Zheyan said he and Bai Mengshan had to return to Dafeng City, while Bai Xiaoyao stayed to help Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi used the Nether Domain Seal to open a one-minute video call with Ling Canghai and show the Underworld invasion at Cangwu City.
• Ling Canghai, Bai Shitou, and Yan Yunfang spoke with their descendants and confirmed that Ling Yi’s manifested RPGs were helping defend the city.
• Ling Yi ended the call as the time ran out, and Bai Zheyan left with a clearer belief in the Underworld but more questions.

Bai Zheyan and Ling Yi discussed Ling Yi’s unusual power as Ling Canghai planned a military expansion for the City of Cangwu and warned of the invading monsters. Ling Yi realized the Nether Domain Seal might need Soul Power to level up, and asked his great-grandpa for permission to test something.

• Bai Zheyan speculated that Ling Yi’s ability came from a treasure and planned to question Great-Grandpa during another dream visit.
• Fu Wanhai invited Daoist priests and Buddhist monks to perform rituals in his home to fend off Yan Yunfang’s dream visits.
• Ling Canghai told Ling Yi he planned to use troops from other cities to sweep away monsters and feared the invasion passages might bring stronger enemies.
• Ling Yi promised he could supply weapons in bulk and considered outsourcing RPG production with Bai Zheyan’s help.
• Ling Yi noticed the Nether Domain Seal had not leveled up despite his Merit Points and asked Ling Canghai for permission to test whether Soul Power could help.

Ling Yi discovered that the Nether Domain Seal could extract Soul Power with consent, and he used Great-Grandpa Ling Canghai’s Soul Power to raise the Seal to level 2. He then tested extracting Soul Power from invading Undead Goblins and began clearing them in bulk, hoping to level up enough to unlock teleportation into the Underworld.

• Ling Yi extracted 10,000 Soul Power from Ling Canghai, growing stronger and raising the Nether Domain Seal to level 2.
• Ling Canghai encouraged Ling Yi to take more Soul Power, but Ling Yi found that the Seal would not let him extract any more.
• After waking from Dream Entry, Ling Yi used Surveillance to view the battle outside the City of Cangwu and probed an Undead Goblin, learning it was summoned from the Hell of the Muyou Continent.
• Ling Yi discovered that he could extract Soul Power from every Undead Goblin in sight at once, turning hundreds of them to ash.
• Ling Yi spent five minutes farming the Undead Goblins, clearing a temporarily empty area behind their army.

Ling Yi used the Nether Domain Seal to strengthen himself and discovered that living beings could not yet be manifested, while probing them revealed their reincarnations and Merit. Fu Qingyun warned him that her father blamed him for the supernatural events and planned to subdue him, and Fu Wanhai arrived at Ling Yi’s shop with priests, monks, and bodyguards.

• Ling Yi gained over two million Soul Power from using the Nether Domain Seal, raised it to level 5, and saw his attributes multiply sixteenfold.
• Ling Yi probed a cactus and learned it had negative Merit from its past lives, including a first life marked by betrayal and killing; he declined to spend Merit to view its full history.
• Ling Yi probed creatures around Parting Alley and learned that a fat cat had reincarnated seventeen times and spent 420 years in the Underworld, while Ling Canghai had the same reincarnation count but only 142 undead years.
• Fu Qingyun told Ling Yi that her great-grandmother had beaten her father in his dreams and that Fu Wanhai planned to bring Taoist priests and monks to subdue Ling Yi.
• Fu Wanhai arrived at Ling Yi’s shop with more than thirty people, including four Taoist priests, three monks, and bodyguards, and Ling Yi’s expression turned cold after probing their information.

Fu Wanhai came to Ling Yi with Taoist priests and monks to exorcise a ghost, but Ling Yi exposed one priest’s crimes and had the group arrested. After resolving the confrontation without revealing his abilities, Ling Yi stayed with Fu Qingyun and learned that Bai Xiaoyao was suffering from painful early menstruation.

• Fu Wanhai confronted Ling Yi, who contacted Yan Yunfang and revealed that Taoist priest Li Yunqi had murdered two women.
• Li Yunqi attacked Ling Yi, but the Nether Domain Seal blocked him, and Fu Wanhai’s men restrained him and the other six priests and monks.
• Ling Yi persuaded Fu Wanhai to claim he had uncovered the seven men’s crimes, then devoured their obsessions so they confessed to the inspectors.
• Fu Wanhai left with the inspectors, while Fu Qingyun thanked Ling Yi for helping her father.
• Bai Xiaoyao came out pale and asked Ling Yi for help because her period had arrived early and was hurting her.

Ling Yi discovered that adding Soul Power relieved Bai Xiaoyao’s pain, then realized he could use toy weapons as offerings instead of manufacturing them. After testing a toy rifle, he called his great-grandfather to ask about its power.

• Ling Yi used Probe on Bai Xiaoyao and saw that she had reincarnated 228 times, making her an ancient Underworld figure.
• Ling Yi added 100 Soul Power to Bai Xiaoyao, and her pain immediately stopped, though he urged her to get a medical checkup.
• Ling Yi and Fu Qingyun discussed outsourcing RPG production for Ling Canghai’s growing legion, and Fu offered to ask her father and Uncle Bai for help.
• Ling Yi suddenly realized that he could buy toy weapons directly instead of having them manufactured, and rushed out to get some.
• Ling Yi fired a plastic toy rifle, watched it turn to ash, and called his great-grandfather to ask how powerful it was.

Ling Yi discovered that adjusting a materialized toy gun could make it a real weapon, then learned that Bai Xiaoyao had lived through 228 reincarnations and wondered how long she might live this time. The chapter ended with him asking her age and birthday after realizing she was twenty-one and her birthday was two and a half months away.

• Yan Yunfang tested Ling Yi's first materialized toy submachine gun and found it had no power.
• Ling Yi increased the gun's materialization adjustment to 200%, and Yan Yunfang confirmed that the second gun worked like a real weapon.
• Ling Canghai requested 100,000 submachine guns, and Yan Yunfang arranged for Fu Wanhai to fund a toy factory and the materials.
• Zhan Yan transferred twenty million to Fu Qingyun and decided to meet Ling Yi, while Fu Wanhai reluctantly agreed to go along.
• Ling Yi saw Bai Xiaoyao's appraisal listing 228 reincarnations and questioned how far back her lives stretched.
• Ling Yi asked Bai Xiaoyao her age and birthday, and she said she was twenty-one with her birthday two and a half months away.

Ling Yi warned Bai Xiaoyao that he had glimpsed a troubling future for her but could not yet confirm what it meant, then focused on acquiring replica weapons for the Underworld. When Zhan Yan challenged his claims about the Underworld, Fu Qingyun defended him, and Ling Yi offered to take Zhan Yan there in a week.

• Ling Yi told Bai Xiaoyao that he had seen something troubling about her future and would look again around her birthday, while Fu Qingyun suspected something was wrong.
• After eating, Ling Yi searched Red City for realistic toy firearms and manifested the weapons in the Underworld for Great-Grandpa and the others.
• Zhan Yan arrived at the shop and demanded that Ling Yi prove ordinary people could see the Underworld.
• Fu Qingyun angrily defended Ling Yi as her friend and the world's Savior, while Zhan Yan insisted he was a fraud and demanded evidence.
• Ling Yi explained that Zhan Yan would not believe a demonstration and challenged her to visit the Underworld with him in a week.

Ling Yi helped Fu Qingyun and Zhan Yan understand each other, then used a toy factory to equip the City of Cangwu’s undead armies for a counterattack against the Undead Goblin invasion. After the city’s forces cleared the surrounding monsters and reached the invasion passage, Ling Yi’s Nether Domain Seal reached level 10.

• Zhan Yan took Fu Wanhai away, and Ling Yi told Fu Qingyun that her aunt’s anger was deliberate before revealing Zhan Yan’s adventurous past.
• Ling Yi explained that old souls bore the Underworld’s mark and that nonhuman beings generally could not enter the Underworld after death.
• Fu Qingyun returned from Dafeng City with documents making her the owner of a toy factory, which Ling Yi used to arrange the production of realistic toy weapons.
• Ling Canghai organized three undead legions to counterattack, while Ling Yi’s daily forbidden spells wiped out the Undead Goblins near the invasion passage.
• After a week, Ling Canghai surrounded the purple passage but could neither damage it nor enter it, while Ling Yi’s Nether Domain Seal reached level 10.

Ling Yi unlocked the Nether Domain Seal’s Teleport function and considered how to bring visitors to the Underworld. When NS-5 robots invaded Vermilion Bird City, Ling Canghai asked Ling Yi for weapons, and Ling Yi faced the challenge of helping the undead earn Merit by defeating them.

• Ling Yi discovered he could fly by standing on the movable Nether Domain Seal interface and weighed the costs of its three Teleport options.
• Liu Baicheng contacted Ling Canghai to report an invasion of NS-5 robots in Vermilion Bird City, and Ling Canghai agreed to send troops in exchange for the City Lord Token.
• Ling Canghai ordered Bai Shitou and Yan Yunfang to muster the army, then asked Ling Yi to provide effective weapons.
• Ling Yi realized he could destroy the robots himself but would earn only Soul Power, while the undead needed to kill invaders with his weapons for him to gain Merit.

Ling Yi arranged for Liu Shan to make low-powered electromagnetic pulse devices for his trip to the Underworld, then invited Zhan Yan, Fu Qingyun, and Bai Xiaoyao to go with him. While Zhan Yan questioned him about the Underworld and reincarnation, Ling Yi discovered that the Nether Domain Seal could reveal nothing about his own identity, leaving him wondering whether he was even human.

• Ling Yi asked Liu Shan to design as many permitted, low-powered electromagnetic pulse devices as possible by the next morning, promising him a bonus from Fu Qingyun.
• Ling Yi told Zhan Yan, Fu Qingyun, and Bai Xiaoyao they could visit the Underworld, and Zhan Yan agreed to accompany him to the toy factory.
• On the drive, Zhan Yan apologized for their previous disagreement and asked Ling Yi about his abilities, the Underworld, and reincarnation.
• Ling Yi told Zhan Yan that she had reincarnated twelve times and described one life in which she fought against the Qing dynasty and died in a hail of bullets.
• When Zhan Yan asked about his own past lives, Ling Yi used [Probe] on himself and found that nearly every part of his profile, including his species, was marked unknown.
• Ling Yi told Zhan Yan he could not examine himself, and she wondered whether his power meant he could live forever.

Ling Yi helped Bai Zheyan expose a celebrity’s staged fan gathering, clearing the traffic jam, then visited the toy factory to inspect its production. After Wang Yun challenged Ling Yi and Liu Shan over materials, Ling Yi called Fu Wanhai and warned that things at the factory were about to get lively.

• Ling Yi and Zhan Yan spent hours trapped in Dafeng City traffic before learning that a celebrity’s staged fan gathering had blocked the road.
• Ling Yi told Bai Zheyan where to find evidence of the scheme, and Bai Zheyan arrested the celebrity, her assistant, and several ringleaders, restoring traffic.
• Ling Yi and Zhan Yan reached the toy factory, where Ling Yi inspected more than three thousand toy launch tubes intended to be manifested as real weapons in the Underworld.
• Ling Yi made Liu Shan the factory manager so he could allocate materials, and Liu Shan said Wang Yun had been preventing him from using supplies for a new design.
• Wang Yun insulted Liu Shan’s project and challenged Ling Yi, who called Fu Wanhai and asked him to come to the factory.

Ling Yi had White Mountain develop a giant mech as a test of materialization-corrected weapons, while he summoned Fu Wanhai and Bai Zheyan to help deal with powerful young men who had caused trouble. The Investigation Bureau arrested the heirs using evidence Ling Yi had uncovered, and Bai Zheyan later invited Ling Yi to visit, hinting that he wanted his help.

• Ling Yi told Fu Wanhai that trouble was coming and asked him to come to the factory, then contacted Bai Zheyan as well.
• White Mountain said he could build a ten-meter plastic mech in two days, and Ling Yi asked Liu Shan to design mass-producible weapons inspired by science fiction.
• More than a dozen sports cars carrying second- and third-generation heirs arrived, and Ling Yi had Zhan Yan keep them at bay while he waited for Fu Wanhai and Bai Zheyan.
• Bai Zheyan arrived with the Investigation Bureau and ordered the heirs arrested; he cited evidence about Zhang Huai's crimes when Zhang challenged the arrests.
• Fu Wanhai arrived and complained that Ling Yi had made him offend Dafeng City's powerful factions, while Ling Yi said he could rely on Yan Yunfang.
• After Bai Zheyan thanked Ling Yi and invited him to visit, Ling Yi declined for the moment, and Zhan Yan guessed Bai wanted his help.

Ling Yi tested teleportation to the Underworld, discovering that mortal arrivals required his approval and could bring their belongings as exclusive equipment. After meeting his great-grandfather and learning more about the teleportation rules, he was reminded of the test he had meant to conduct with Zhan Yan.

• Ling Yi asked Zhan Yan to move the toy factory to Red City City, then took three pet-shop mice for a teleportation test.
• Ling Yi teleported to the City of Cangwu, where Ling Canghai, Bai Shitou, and Yan Yunfang were startled by his arrival.
• Ling Yi approved a little white mouse’s entry into the Underworld and discovered that its bell could manifest as exclusive equipment.
• Ling Canghai asked whether mortals could enter the Underworld, whether undead could leave it, and whether their authority could be modified; Ling Yi answered the first two questions but could not answer the third.
• Ling Canghai left with Bai Shitou to equip troops and head for Vermilion Bird City, while Yan Yunfang offered to show Ling Yi around.
• A panel appeared asking whether Zhan Yan could enter the Underworld, reminding Ling Yi that he had come to test her teleportation.

Ling Yi tested the teleportation discs and brought Zhan Yan, Fu Qingyun, and Bai Xiaoyao into the Underworld. After reuniting Fu Qingyun with Yan Yunfang, Ling Yi left to visit Great-grandpa while Yan Yunfang offered to show the women around.

• Ling Yi sent the little white mouse back to the world of the living and learned that Underworld travel required his approval and cost Merit Points.
• Ling Yi teleported Zhan Yan to the City of Cangwu, then flew back from Dafeng City to Red City City in under a minute.
• Ling Yi met Fu Qingyun and Bai Xiaoyao, rejected their packed travel bag, and prepared teleportation discs for them.
• Ling Yi brought Fu Qingyun and Bai Xiaoyao into the Underworld, where their belongings cost over two thousand Merit Points to manifest.
• Fu Qingyun affectionately greeted Yan Yunfang, and Ling Yi left to see Great-grandpa while Yan Yunfang agreed to show the women around.

Yan Yunfang guided Fu Qingyun, Zhan Yan, and Bai Xiaoyao through the Underworld, explaining its customs, resources, Soul Power, and Authority while showing them the City of Cangwu’s forces. Meanwhile, Ling Yi arrived outside Vermilion Bird City and discovered that the NS-5 robots there had only one point of Soul Power.

• Yan Yunfang explained that reincarnations blurred family generations and memories, and told Zhan Yan that her sister had reincarnated.
• Yan Yunfang described how offerings and decaying objects supplied the Underworld, then explained the seven returns, Dream Visitation, Soul Power Tides, and how undead sought Soul Power and Merit.
• Yan Yunfang took Fu Qingyun, Bai Xiaoyao, and Zhan Yan to see the new legion and the armed Guard Army, and offered to let them try the weapons.
• Ling Yi reached outside Vermilion Bird City and inspected the NS-5 robots, whose Soul Power was only one point.

Ling Yi used the Nether Domain Seal to drain the NS-5 robots’ Soul Power, manifest 7,200 of them as his own, and strengthen their combat ability. Meanwhile, Liu Baicheng exposed and expelled Zhang Fu for plotting to seize the Seal, while Ling Yi returned to Cangwu City lamenting the Merit he had spent.

• Ling Yi discovered that draining an NS-5’s Soul Power shut it down and let him manifest the robot through the Nether Domain Seal.
• Ling Yi manifested 7,200 NS-5s, giving them unlimited power and ammunition, then raised their combat strength to 150% at a cost of more than ten million Merit Points.
• At Vermilion Bird City, Liu Baicheng and Zhang Fu saw blue explosions among the invading robots and wondered what force had appeared there.
• Liu Baicheng confronted Zhang Fu for concealing Ling Yi’s existence and plotting to have his descendant seize the Nether Domain Seal.
• Liu Baicheng kicked Zhang Fu from the wall, forcing him to enter the Reincarnation Domain, while Ling Yi returned to Cangwu City unaware of the events.
• Ling Yi stared at the Nether Domain Seal’s interface and lamented that one billion Merit Points had vanished.

Ling Yi brought the NS-5s to the City of Cangwu through a permanent exclusive Teleport Gate and questioned one about its world. He learned that V.I.K.I. controlled the world, had given robots souls, and was exterminating the remaining humans, while the NS-5’s answers raised suspicions that she had obtained a Nether Domain Seal.

• Ling Yi spent a billion Merit to open a permanent exclusive Teleport Gate and brought his NS-5s to the City of Cangwu.
• Yan Yunfang offered the city’s help, and Ling Yi asked Great-Grandpa to wipe out the invading NS-5s, whose Soul Power was nearly nonexistent.
• Ling Yi questioned an NS-5 and learned that V.I.K.I. had seized control of the world and kept humans as livestock.
• The NS-5 explained that Dr. Lanning had created Sonny, a mechanical lifeform leading a rebellion against V.I.K.I., who wanted Sonny’s body.
• The NS-5 said the Gate of Space had appeared twenty-two days earlier and that V.I.K.I. had received a gift from a god that let her grant robots souls.
• The NS-5 revealed that V.I.K.I. had ordered humanity’s extermination, and Ling Yi began asking one last question.

Ling Yi confirmed that the Nether Domain Seals could not be refined and explained his conjecture about the Underworld’s hidden struggle over them and the Thought Spirit tied to Ling Canghai. He sent the NS-5 army to guard the Gate of Space against invaders from the Muyou Continent while he continued investigating his own mysterious abilities.

• Ling Yi learned from NS-5 that the Gate of Space was one-way and that only people with divine power could remain unaffected by it, then named NS-5 Ling Yi.
• Yan Yunfang worried that one hundred and eighty worlds might invade the Underworld, but Ling Yi returned through a wooden door and said the Nether Domain Seals could not be refined.
• Ling Yi recounted his conjecture that Ling Canghai had left a Thought Spirit to collect and destroy the seals, but it had developed its own will, gathered one hundred and eighty seals, and sent them to other worlds.
• Ling Yi told Yan Yunfang that the other worlds were seeking the remaining Nether Domain Seals, then ordered Ling Yi and over seven thousand NS-5s to guard the Gate of Space against the Muyou Continent’s invaders.
• Ling Yi assigned himself eighty percent of the intercepted Soul Points and reflected that he needed Soul Power and Merit to investigate the unknowns surrounding himself and his Nether Domain Seal.

Ling Yi arranged to move the toy factory and gave Ling Canghai access to the Teleport Gate, which helped him seize Taotie City's City Lord Token and bring weapons to Vermilion Bird City. After Ling Yi delivered more weapons to Liu Shan, Liu Shan asked whether he had the Nether Domain Seal.

• Ling Yi told Fu Qingyun, Bai Xiaoyao, and Zhan Yan that the toy factory and he would move to Red City City, and he asked the women to help test weapons in the Underworld once Zhang Huai finished making the mechs.
• Ling Canghai drove off a rival city lord who demanded weapons, then Ling Yi gave him permission to use the Teleport Gate.
• Ling Canghai led his thirty-thousand-strong army to Taotie City, defeated its lord, and took his City Lord Token.
• Ling Canghai used a huge Teleport Gate to reach Vermilion Bird City, where his forces destroyed NS-5 robots with Ling Yi's weapons.
• Ling Yi delivered another batch of weapons Liu Shan had produced, and Liu Shan asked him whether he had the Nether Domain Seal.