Chapter Summaries

After Liu Shan revealed that Liu Baicheng had urged him to steal the Nether Domain Seal, Ling Yi decided to move the toy factory to the Underworld to protect it from people seeking the seal. He brought Liu Shan to the City of Cangwu and asked Yan Yunfang to help find a place for the factory.

• Liu Shan told Ling Yi that Liu Baicheng had visited his dream and promised him power and immortality in exchange for the Nether Domain Seal, but Liu Shan had no interest in the plan.
• Ling Yi learned that other Underworld city lords might also recruit descendants, so he resolved to move the toy factory and discussed using NS-5s as workers with Fu Qingyun, Bai Xiaoyao, and Zhan Yan.
• Fu Qingyun and Bai Xiaoyao found a suitable electronics factory in Dafeng City, and Zhan Yan arranged the relocation, but Ling Yi realized the factory could instead be moved to the Underworld.
• Ling Yi opened a door to the toy factory, had Liu Shan send the remaining workers away, and took him through a portal to the City of Cangwu.
• Ling Yi explained the plan to Yan Yunfang, who agreed that moving the factory to the City of Cangwu would save trouble.

Ling Yi kept Liu Shan in the Underworld as a weapons designer and discovered how living people could eat there. Zhan Yan’s warning also made Ling Yi question his growing trust in the Nether Domain Seal.

• Yan Yunfang threatened to seal Liu Shan’s soul and send him mining, but Ling Yi persuaded her to spare him and put him to work designing the factory.
• Ling Yi explained that he needed Liu Shan’s ability to understand his design philosophy, while Zhan Yan pointed out that living people could not stay in the Underworld without a way to eat.
• After inspecting the Nether Domain Seal, Ling Yi realized that his great-grandfather Ling Canghai had lived in the Underworld and must have found a way to eat there.
• Zhan Yan ordered takeout for Ling Yi’s experiments and reminded him to question why he felt compelled to explain the Underworld’s Soul Power.
• Ling Yi discovered that food manifested with Soul Power could fill a living person’s stomach, and that adding more Soul Power improved its taste but not its effect.

Ling Yi’s group strengthened their Underworld operations while discovering that an online sale of fake Nether Domain Seals was being used to coordinate the other city lords against City of Cangwu. Ling Yi prepared to test Liu Shan’s completed giant toys and plan for trouble in both worlds.

• Fu Qingyun, Bai Xiaoyao, and Liu Shan confirmed that food manifested through Soul Power could nourish them, while Ling Yi established a toy factory in City of Cangwu and supplied it with materials.
• Ling Canghai’s undead forces secured Vermilion Bird City and nearby areas, while Liu Baicheng handed over Vermilion Bird City’s City Lord Token and remained unable to contact his descendant.
• Ling Yi’s 7,200 evolved NS-5 robots held off Freeze Demon Wolves pouring through the Gate of Space and helped push the battlefront forward.
• Bai Xiaoyao found Ling Yi and Fu Qingyun examining an online sale of fake Nether Domain Seals, and Ling Yi deduced that the seller was connecting descendants of the other city lords to organize against City of Cangwu.
• Ling Yi worried that the city lords and their descendants might use dirty tactics against their allies and attract the authorities’ attention, so he told Bai Xiaoyao to meet Liu Shan about testing the giant toys and developing advanced equipment.

Liu Shan demonstrated six advanced mechs, and Ling Yi materialized them as a costly Armored Squadron. After the group chose their mechs, Yan Yunfang arrived to announce a new invasion passage.

• Liu Shan demonstrated the six mechs’ weapons, three forms, and self-learning systems, while Zhan Yan questioned their reliability and Ling Yi explained that the Nether Domain Seal would prevent betrayal.
• Ling Yi spent 120 million Merit to materialize the Armored Squadron at 100% correction, and the six mechs activated, completed their self-checks, and entered standby mode.
• Ling Yi claimed Black Tortoise, while Fu Qingyun chose Black Bird, Bai Xiaoyao chose White Tiger, Zhan Yan chose Vermilion Bird, and Liu Shan chose Azure Dragon, leaving White Emperor unclaimed.
• Yan Yunfang arrived and told Ling Yi that a new invasion passage had appeared.

Eddie Marlos asked Ling Yi and Yan Yunfang for help defending the City of Hades from invading monsters, and Ling Yi agreed to send support. After learning how the City of Hades controlled the Land of Chaos and amassed Soul Coins, Ling Yi planned to use the expedition to rob them and went to Vermilion Bird City.

• Marlos crossed into the Underworld to seek help for the City of Hades and was met by armed undead and six mechs.
• Ling Yi examined Marlos's Soul Coins, judged his offer of ten thousand coins insufficient, then agreed to send aid by the next morning.
• Ling Yi told Fu Qingyun and the others they would test the mechs in the Land of Chaos and rob the City of Hades of its Soul Coins.
• Yan Yunfang explained that the City of Hades ruled the Land of Chaos by harvesting wandering undead and storing soul power in Soul Coins.
• Ling Yi told the others to practice controlling the mechs and left for Vermilion Bird City.

The City of Hades' elders abandoned a proposed retreat and moved to seize the Nether Domain Seal after learning how it strengthened the Underworld. Ling Yi acquired a large NS-5 army and brought one robot into the living world to monitor threats involving the seal, where it soon discovered something.

• The City of Hades' undead defenders held off a vast zombie invasion by rotating troops and replenishing their Soul Power.
• Lisa challenged Hart's Disappearance Plan by explaining that slain zombies supplied Soul Power and that the Nether Domain Seal gave the Underworld access to modern weapons.
• Lyle ordered the elders to contact the living world through the Dream Realm and mobilize their influence to seize the Nether Domain Seal.
• Ling Yi spent five hundred million Merit Points to acquire two hundred and fifty thousand NS-5s, appointed Ling Er as their commander, and sent them to the border of the Underworld and the Land of Chaos.
• Ling Yi learned that bringing the Black Tortoise Mecha into the living world would cost two billion Merit, returned it to the City of Cangwu, and brought one NS-5 instead.
• Ling Yi named the robot Ling San and ordered it to secretly monitor online information about the Nether Domain Seal, after which Ling San reported an interesting discovery.

Ling Yi led six mechas into battle against the zombie horde outside the City of Hades, stunning the city’s leaders and prompting Lyle to seek a peaceful approach with the Ancient Country. As the squad fought, Ling Yi explained that they could eventually take mechas into the living world, leaving Zhan Yan concerned about the consequences.

• Bai Xiaoyao, Liu Shan, Fu Qingyun, Zhan Yan, Yan Yunfang, and Ling Yi launched their mechas toward the City of Hades and transformed into fighter forms.
• Ling Yi assigned the squad roles against the zombie horde, and Zhan Yan’s first sniper shot killed a zombie butcher and began the battle.
• Lyle and the others watched the mechas devastate the zombies, and Lyle decided to open the Dream Realm and warn Liaokuzideng not to provoke the Ancient Country.
• Ling Yi assessed the zombies’ Soul Power and told Bai Xiaoyao and Zhan Yan that earning enough Merit and Soul Power would let them bring mechas into the living world.
• Zhan Yan questioned whether bringing mechas into the living world was appropriate, and Ling Yi said the squad should prepare to do so in case the Underworld’s leaders caused trouble.

Liaokuzideng abruptly canceled Amaileken’s operation against Ancient Country and offered technology, concessions, and compliance, prompting Ling Yi and Zhan Yan to discuss the Southern Heaven Plan and the Underworld’s next moves. As Ling Yi prepared to test Materialization Correction, a Taoist named Bai Yunhai arrived at his factory.

• Liaokuzideng canceled Amaileken’s planned operation, handed Ancient Country a verified list of 1450s agents, and offered to share Amaileken’s technology in order to join the Southern Heaven Plan.
• Brother Jian presented Amaileken with demands, and Liaokuzideng accepted them, including ordering Zhanpuneisi to tear down its toilet under threat of fighter jets carrying big mushrooms.
• Ling Yi and Zhan Yan discussed the mechas’ effect on Amaileken and decided to secretly provide Ancient Country with Black Bird and White Emperor while having the Underworld address the influence of the ninety-six people.
• Ling Yi considered his slow progress toward level 20 while he, Zhan Yan, Bai Xiaoyao, Fu Qingyun, and Liu Shan continued grinding monsters and preparing mechas.
• Ling Yi began a Materialization Correction test by writing “spatial ring” on paper, but Ling San alerted him that Taoist master Bai Yunhai had arrived at the electronics factory, and Ling Yi told him to let the visitor in.

Bai Yunhai, the reincarnating abbot and director of the Spirit Suppression Bureau, explained to Ling Yi that the Nether Domain Seal was Earthly Dao’s attempt to escape Heavenly Dao’s plan to unite the three Daos. Ling Yi learned the old Taoist’s history and pressed him about why the final seal had chosen him, but their discussion was interrupted when Bai Xiaoyao suddenly fainted.

• Bai Yunhai introduced himself as the abbot of Hidden Dragon Taoist Temple and director of the Spirit Suppression Bureau, then revealed that he had reincarnated with his memories intact.
• Ling Yi used the Nether Domain Seal to inspect Bai Yunhai’s present and past lives, learning that the old Taoist had limited time left and had prepared a unique way to preserve his memories through reincarnation.
• Bai Yunhai explained that Heavenly Dao sought to absorb Earthly Dao and Human Dao, while the Nether Domain Seal was Earthly Dao’s incarnation and means of escape.
• Bai Yunhai revealed that the final Nether Domain Seal could have taken over Ling Yi and made him the new Earthly Dao, but Ling Yi asked why it had acknowledged him instead.
• Fu Qingyun rushed into the room carrying Bai Xiaoyao and told Ling Yi that she had suddenly fainted.

Ling Yi discovered that Bai Xiaoyao was the first Meng Po, undergoing a thousand-lifetime Great Reincarnation, and tried to stop her rapidly declining Soul Power. He realized that she was consuming it to recover sealed memories and strength, but her trigger condition remained unknown.

• Ling Yi saw that Bai Xiaoyao’s status identified her as the first-generation Meng Po and showed her merit had become extractable.
• Ling Yi raised Bai Xiaoyao’s Soul Power to ten thousand, waking her, but it quickly fell as she recognized names from her past lives.
• Ling Yi inferred that Bai Xiaoyao was using Soul Power to restore her sealed memories and strength, while Bai Yunhai recognized her as his former master, Bai Mengyao.
• Ling Yi explained that Bai Xiaoyao’s thousand-lifetime Great Reincarnation could not simply be interrupted, and he wondered what condition would unlock her past memories and strength.

Ling Yi learned Bai Xiaoyao’s history and let her choose whether to recover her memories and strength, then discovered that invaders were flooding the Underworld. He arranged to borrow troops from the government while preparing to produce more mechas.

• Ling Yi read that Bai Xiaoyao had once been Yan Yao, a pioneer of agriculture who became Meng Po and entered a thousand lifetimes of reincarnation.
• Ling Yi told Bai Xiaoyao about her past and warned that recovering her memories could revive her old obsession, while she asked for time to decide.
• Bai Xiaoyao and Fu Qingyun went to the Underworld, then returned with Ling Canghai, Bai Shitou, and Yan Yunfang to report an invasion through numerous Teleport Gates.
• Ling Yi showed the group the Underworld under attack and explained that the invaders could destroy the Reincarnation Disc and release the seal on the Underworld’s gates.
• Ling Yi told Bai Yunhai to bring a government official with decision-making authority so he could borrow troops, promising to provide mechas for the soldiers.
• Ling Yi sent the Black Bird and White Emperor mechas to guard the Reincarnation Domain, then wrote down the Black Bird Mecha’s specifications and used [Probe].

Ling Yi armed the Underworld against invading monsters, took control of its Authority, and spent a century building its forces. After confronting the Heavenly Dao, he brought its world into the New Ling Realm and began another transmigration.

• Ling Yi materialized a Black Bird Mecha, found that mythological figures could not be materialized, and designed cheaper nano-biological battle armor for the incoming troops.
• Bai Yunhai organized deployments that grew from one hundred thousand soldiers to three million, allowing the Underworld to reclaim most of its territory despite the monsters growing stronger.
• Bai Xiaoyao recovered Yan Yao's memories and strength, then entered one of the invading worlds alone; Ling Yi's Nether Domain Seal reached level twenty, granting him control of the Underworld's Authority.
• Ling Yi assigned Authority to Ling Canghai, Bai Shitou, and Yan Yunfang, while identifying the obsession-bound Thought Spirits as the force behind the invasions.
• After a century of fighting across the open Gates of Space, Ling Yi confronted the Heavenly Dao, brought its world into the New Ling Realm, and set off for another transmigration.

After learning that his terminal brain cancer had returned in this world, Ling Yi activated a Transmigration Simulator System that could earn points by livestreaming simulated transmigrations. He left home to avoid burdening his family, built a platform and a first simulated world, and began recruiting participants through an online pop-up.

• Ling Yi learned that he still had terminal brain cancer and struggled with his distance from his new family, until the Transmigration Simulator System activated and promised a possible treatment plan.
• Ling Yi learned that he could create simulated worlds, recruit participants through a medium, and earn points to travel to corresponding worlds or redeem items and abilities.
• Ling Yi left a letter telling his parents about his illness and departed before they could stop him, while the system erased his personal records and created an anonymous bank account.
• Over the next seven days, Ling Yi bought a lakeside villa and worked with the system to configure a livestreaming platform and his first simulated world.
• Ling Yi chose a website pop-up as the recruitment medium, and a young man playing Exhilarating Battlefield saw an unexpected advertisement appear on his screen.

More than 129,000 people entered a trial version of Elysium after Ling Yi used his system to launch a mass simulated transmigration, and many died soon after arriving. As livestreams exposed the event to the real world, Ling Yi questioned whether the simulated world was truly virtual.

• Young Master Xiao Wang and his teammates selected “Yes” after a strange prompt appeared during their game, then woke in Elysium as the system announced a trial world with no death penalty.
• Chichi identified their surroundings as the world of Elysium, and the group saw armed robots while the transmigrator count rapidly fell.
• Young Master Xiao Wang led the group to ambush passersby for money, and Liu Ergou grew shaken after striking people with a club.
• A Transmigration Livestream app appeared on devices across the real world, where viewers could watch and interact with the supposedly unconscious transmigrators.
• Ling Yi recovered after collapsing, discussed his need for Transmigration Points with his system, and asked whether the simulated world was really virtual.

Ling Yi learned how the system’s simulated transmigration and points worked, then spent most of his points to obtain an Elysium medical pod and nanobiological computer. He stood ready to use the pod to treat his brain cancer as the system assured him of its extraordinary capabilities.

• The system explained that simulated transmigrators could not bring skills or knowledge out of virtual worlds and warned Ling Yi that granting others unrestricted power could lead to disaster.
• Ling Yi learned that simulated transmigrators cost 100 Transmigration Points each and that influential livestream participants could generate more points.
• The system revealed that the trial world had generated 3,223,342 points, but Ling Yi received only one percent because it was a trial version.
• The system recommended buying an Elysium nanobiological computer to address government restrictions on the livestream traffic.
• Ling Yi spent over 30,000 Transmigration Points on a nanobiological medical pod and a nanobiological computer, then bound both devices with his fingerprints.
• Ling Yi asked whether the medical pod could cure his brain cancer, and the system said Elysium technology could grant people eternal life.

After Ling Yi was cured, he lifted the livestream restrictions to attract viewers and earn Transmigration Points, while Chichi’s team sought allies and weapons in Elysium. The team negotiated with a resistance leader using their knowledge of the plot, then learned that their status as transmigrators was already known to some people in the world.

• Ling Yi woke from the treatment pod fully healed, reflected on the guilt he felt toward his family in his previous life, and asked whether he could ever return to his world.
• Ling Yi used JL to lift platform traffic restrictions and learned from the system that only real-time livestream viewers generated Transmigration Points; the audience then grew by nearly sixty million.
• Chichi, Ergou, Zhu Meier, and Young Master Xiao Wang decided to seek the resistance and use their plot knowledge as leverage to obtain identities and weapons.
• A one-eyed resistance leader confronted Chichi’s group, and Chichi offered information about John Carlyle in exchange for identity cards and weapons.
• The leader refused to provide weapons and confirmed that reports about people arriving from other worlds were already circulating, alarming Chichi and the others.

After the Elysium trial forced the simulated transmigrators to leave, Ling Yi prepared the rules and golden finger for his first real transmigration. Chichi and the others began analyzing what they had learned, while Ling Yi asked viewers which world they wanted to visit next.

• Chichi told One-Eye the Elysium plot, then explained to Ergou, Young Master Xiao Wang, and Zhu Meier that a system warning made transmigrators face real death if they were exposed.
• Chichi and the others chose to exit Elysium and give up their rewards, while other simulated transmigrators left after robot patrols tortured those who resisted.
• Ling Yi learned that the trial had ended because the system lacked energy, reviewed his earnings and recovery, and planned a smaller group of simulated transmigrators with a points system.
• Ling Yi selected the Infinite Passive Download Aura System as his golden finger and asked JL to poll viewers about their preferred transmigration world.
• Chichi and the others reviewed their experience, concluding that transmigrators could not reveal their identities and beginning to discuss the conditions for transmigration.

Chichi and the others watched the public vote for the next transmigration world, while Ling Yi used JL to signal that the authorities could not dictate the result. Ten people, including Chichi, were selected for the world of "Jinling, Jinling," where they encountered a Baga reconnaissance squad and prepared to act.

• Chichi and his companions debated how the transmigration vote might work, and the authorities appeared to influence the online discussion toward safer worlds.
• Ling Yi had JL move Chinese Paladin World into first place for a day before restoring "Jinling, Jinling" to the lead, and the final vote selected that world.
• Six hundred million people chose to transmigrate, but only ten participants were admitted; Chichi appeared in a mountainside forest with Leng Feng, Wang Lei, and seven others.
• Leng Feng spotted a six-man Baga reconnaissance squad below, and Hong Lang identified himself and his fellow active-duty soldiers, Bai Lang and Hui Lang.
• Chichi checked his interface and found 150 points, a download aura, and missions to save Jinling and kill Baga; the group agreed to let the soldiers handle the weapons.
• Chichi exchanged 150 points for a handgun and suppressor, which Hong Lang gave to the best marksman, Bai Lang, before telling the group to wait.

Wang Lei’s group watched the Baga main force pass and followed Hong Lang’s lead as they moved to attack its camp. Hong Lang began a stealthy approach toward a guard, but an information panel appeared before he could strike.

• Wang Lei explained why the group should wait for the Baga scouts’ main force and discussed the difficult evacuation quest, their lack of combat experience, and the system’s point-based exchange list.
• Leng Feng spotted the approaching Baga column, and Bai Lang identified it as a battle-worn force of about thirty-five hundred soldiers with snipers; Hui Lang went ahead to track it.
• After one civilian ran downhill, Hui Lang reported that the Baga had stopped in a river valley, and Wang Lei and Leng Feng agreed that everyone would obey Hong Lang’s orders.
• Hong Lang and his teammates surveyed the fortified camp, assigned targets, and told the others to follow Bai Lang while they attacked the defenses.
• Hong Lang moved through the bushes toward a Baga guard beside a pine tree, then saw an information panel appear ahead of him.

Hong Lang discovered that his Download Halo stripped nearby enemies of their combat power and marksmanship, then led his team in using the ability to infiltrate and attack the enemy. Watching their success, Ling Yi transmigrated into the world himself but returned six hours later after hitting the world’s power cap.

• Hong Lang downloaded Kinoshita Nijii’s combat power and Iuchi Sansui’s combat power and marksmanship, realizing that his halo plundered abilities from nearby enemies.
• Hong Lang killed the weakened scouts, took their uniforms and weapons, and returned to find Hui Lang had gathered more gear using the same tactic.
• Hong Lang divided the team into three groups and led them toward the enemy, turning off his halo after reaching combat power 50 so the others could benefit from their cheats.
• Ling Yi watched Chichi and the others devastate the enemy forces, then chose to transmigrate into the world without starting a livestream.
• Six hours later, Ling Yi returned to his living room, angry that the ordinary world’s power cap prevented him from becoming invincible.