Chapter Summaries

Lin Yaodong discovered that the Xuanming Sect was hunting Ziyi and intervened to protect her, despite the danger of confronting the sect. He faced Branch Master Liu and the surrounding pursuers, leaving Ziyi’s fate in his hands as Black Impermanence challenged Liu to act.

• Li Xingyun told Ji Ruxue that he had used the Fire Spirit Ganoderma to save her, and she left in a fury while Lu Linxuan criticized his lack of tact.
• Ziyi fought her way out of the Illusory Sound Workshop’s secret branch as the Xuanming Sect pursued her, while Lin Yaodong finished raiding Tongwen Hall’s secret branch.
• Lin Yaodong’s Xuanming Sect escorts tried to steer him away from the Yichun Courtyard, but he released his seal and detected Ziyi being pursued by Branch Master Liu and other sect leaders.
• Lin Yaodong appeared before Ziyi, stopped her from attacking him, and declared that her life was under his protection.
• Branch Master Liu arrived and hesitated to seize Ziyi because he feared Lin Yaodong, while Black and White Impermanence brought more Xuanming Sect forces to surround them.
• Black Impermanence demanded that Branch Master Liu capture Ziyi, and Liu’s anger flared as Ziyi urged Lin Yaodong to escape.

Lin Yaodong and Ziyi left the Xuanming Sect's encirclement after Branch Master Liu and Black and White Impermanence clashed over how to handle them. Lin Yaodong killed the headquarters underlings sent to stop him, then departed, leaving the others terrified.

• Branch Master Liu pretended to yield the merit to Black and White Impermanence while secretly planning to flee the Xuanming Sect.
• Black Impermanence Chang Haoling stopped Branch Master Liu from leaving and tried to claim the merit together, but Lin Yaodong threatened everyone who blocked his way.
• Branch Master Liu openly insulted Black Impermanence as Lin Yaodong led Ziyi out through the branch underlings, who dared not interfere.
• Black Impermanence ordered his headquarters underlings to seize Lin Yaodong and Ziyi, and Lin Yaodong killed more than a dozen with one saber stroke.
• Lin Yaodong released a trace of his presence and left with Ziyi, while Black and White Impermanence and Branch Master Liu recovered from their fear.

Chen Mo and Lin Yaodong arrived in the Bad People World, where Chen Mo identified the world and learned that Yuan Tiangang had sensed his arrival. Chen Mo planned to stay while Yuan Tiangang came to meet him and Lin Yaodong studied the locals’ martial techniques.

• Chen Mo and Lin Yaodong used the A-7-Class Fighter and Thousand-Faced Witch’s satellites to survey the world, which resembled Earth and had little energy or technology.
• Yuan Tiangang tried to divine the source of the surveillance, suffered severe backlash, and realized an anomaly had appeared; he decided to seek it out.
• Chen Mo and Lin Yaodong entered Yuzhou City’s city lord’s manor, inspected the city lord’s memories, and identified the setting as the Bad People World.
• Chen Mo explained the world’s limited opportunities and the dangers of returning to the Swallowed Star World before Lin Yaodong reached the eighth tier.
• Chen Mo said Yuan Tiangang would likely come looking for him and planned to remain in the world so Lin Yaodong could learn from its martial artists.

Chen Mo tried to seal Douluo Star with the World-Sealing Pearl, but the Space God Emperor Godhood entered his body and connected him to the world’s will. He refused to become its Child of Destiny and negotiated instead for his sister to receive the positions of Child of Destiny, Child of the World, and a seed of Lord of the World, leaving the world’s will demanding a Great Dao Oath in return.

• Chen Mo prepared Spirit Gathering Arrays and used a Fifth-Tier Experience Card to power the World-Sealing Pearl and seal Douluo Star.
• The Space God Emperor Godhood entered Chen Mo’s body, and he used his Sixth-Tier Experience Card as Nezha the Third Prince to resist it.
• The World Will explained that she wanted Chen Mo to become her Child of Destiny so he could help her world grow, but Chen Mo refused because he did not want to be bound to it.
• Chen Mo persuaded the World Will to consider his sister for the role, arguing that he would help the world if she received greater status.
• The World Will agreed to give Chen Mo’s sister the positions of Child of Destiny and Child of the World, then offered her a seed of Lord of the World.
• The World Will required Chen Mo to swear a Great Dao Oath to do his utmost to help her world advance.

Chen Mo survived his Nascent Soul tribulation, gained strength from the heaven-and-earth gift, and refused the World Will’s offer of a God Emperor Godhood. After the World Will’s suppression lifted, Qian Renxue inherited the Angel God’s divine position, but Bibi Dong’s attempt to warn her was interrupted by Chen Mo’s arrival.

• Chen Mo weakened the black lightning serpent with his Four Seasons Killing Formation and spirit artifacts, then endured its final strike and formed his Nascent Soul.
• A nine-colored spirit cloud healed Chen Mo and increased his cultivation; he also summoned Lin Yaodong and the others to share in its benefits.
• The World Will offered Chen Mo a God Emperor Godhood, but he refused to bind himself to the world.
• The World Will’s suppression had delayed Qian Renxue’s ascension because it had chosen Chen Mo as the Child of the World and sought to make him the Child of Destiny.
• After the blockade lifted, Qian Renxue inherited the Angel God’s position and found Bibi Dong’s Divine Power sealing the Angel Temple.
• Bibi Dong urged Qian Renxue to leave for the Divine Realm, but Chen Mo appeared behind her and asked what would happen otherwise.

Lin Yaodong went with the Xuanming Sect to confront the Illusory Sound Workshop’s secret branch and challenged its leader, Ziyi, to exchange martial skills. He defeated several of her fighters and began studying the Workshop’s techniques, with Tongwen Hall still next on his list.

• Lin Yaodong accepted Branch Master Liu’s offer to lead him to the Illusory Sound Workshop’s secret branch at the Yichun Courtyard.
• Branch Master Liu demanded that Miss Ziyi appear, then revealed that Lin Yaodong was the honored guest who wanted to meet her.
• Lin Yaodong told Ziyi he intended to challenge the branches of the Illusory Sound Workshop, Tongwen Hall, and the Bad Guys before reaching their headquarters.
• Ziyi cleared the Xuanming Sect’s followers from the courtyard and surrounded Lin Yaodong with four other Workshop fighters.
• The five women attacked Lin Yaodong, who crushed their weapons and quickly knocked two of them down.
• Lin Yaodong fought Ziyi, recognized the Illusory Sound Workshop’s illusions, speed, and explosive strikes, and began learning from its martial arts.

Lu Xuan, a transmigrated orphan in a parallel world, described his underwhelming sign-in system and the debt he incurred while preparing for an apocalypse that never arrived. Now stronger and recruited to the national team, he looked forward to his second annual sign-in and hoped for attribute points rather than experience.

• Lu Xuan complained that his daily sign-in had given him another experience point, which he could not use, and reviewed his system status and attributes.
• Lu Xuan recalled the parallel world's empire-dominated history and how he had mistaken the system's apocalypse-survival mode for a warning of imminent disaster.
• Lu Xuan borrowed from more than a dozen noble loan sharks to stockpile supplies, then spent months working to repay the debt when the apocalypse failed to come.
• Lu Xuan explained that his sign-ins had rarely awarded attribute points, though his first annual sign-in had given him ten and greatly improved his physical condition.
• Lu Xuan joined the school's track-and-field and weightlifting teams, was recruited by the national team, and hoped his upcoming second annual sign-in would award more attribute points.

After his check-in awarded him 1,000 experience points, Lu Xuan discovered the system’s leveling and ability-awakening features and used experience to become a Level Two Evolver. He activated and upgraded Portable Space, then stopped leveling when the system warned that his strength was becoming difficult to control.

• Lu Xuan checked in and received 1,000 experience points, then noticed that his status included a level and an awakenable special ability.
• The system explained level upgrades and ability-awakening options, and Lu Xuan spent 10 experience points to become a Level One Evolver, gaining five points in each attribute and the Portable Space skill.
• Lu Xuan activated Portable Space for 10 experience points and learned that his experience growth rate was slow without a cultivation technique.
• Lu Xuan spent 20 more experience points to reach Level Two Evolver, gained ten points in each attribute, and unlocked the Inspection skill.
• When Lu Xuan considered leveling up again, the system warned that his strength was difficult to control, so he held off and spent 100 experience points to upgrade Portable Space to ten cubic meters.

Lu Xuan upgraded Inspection, prepared for a possible apocalypse, and learned that it had begun when half his classmates started turning into zombies. Elsewhere, Chu Xuan woke three years before the apocalypse and began contacting his family, while Lu Xuan considered how to protect his classmates.

• Lu Xuan upgraded Inspection to level two, but the system refused to explain Tianxuan Continent or apocalypse survival mode.
• Lu Xuan decided to stockpile supplies and seek weapons, then went to sleep after arranging calls to his contacts.
• On the Tianxuan Continent, someone discovered a small world inside a secret realm and hurried to report it to the family head.
• Chu Xuan woke in his rented room three years before the apocalypse, realized he had returned to the past, and called his family and Xiangzi.
• At 9:20 a.m., the system announced that the world was mutating, and Lu Xuan used Inspection to confirm that classmates were becoming zombies.
• Lu Xuan decided he might try to save his classmates, but would flee if staying endangered his life.

Lu Xuan realized that students in his lecture hall were about to turn into zombies and barricaded the doors, forcing the class into groups according to the progress bars over their heads. As the transformations accelerated, he abandoned his plan to sort everyone and began preparing a battlefield.

• Lu Xuan recalled that the princess in his class had an unusual background, then decided to save her and as many classmates as he could.
• Lu Xuan blocked both classroom doors with seats and the lectern, alarming the teacher and students.
• When burly classmates tried to subdue him, Lu Xuan knocked them down with lethal force and silenced the panicked class.
• Lu Xuan sorted students with progress bars toward the front and those without them toward the back, while stopping attempts to open the barricaded doors.
• As the progress bars filled faster and more than sixty students remained unsorted, Lu Xuan began preparing a battlefield before the first transformation.

Lu Xuan barricaded the classroom and fought the rapidly multiplying zombies while trying to protect the students behind him. As classmates began helping, watching, or preparing to flee, the fight remained underway.

• Lu Xuan separated the students with rows of seats and directed those in danger toward the back as people began transforming and attacking others.
• Zhao Xuan'er crawled across the seats, and Lu Xuan knocked down a pursuing zombie with a piece of iron so she could reach safety.
• Lu Xuan fought the zombies barehanded, killing them while guarding the aisle and warning classmates that bites would turn them into zombies.
• Some classmates considered fleeing or doubted Lu Xuan, while several young men picked up wooden boards to help fight the zombies.

Qingming, a transmigrator from Blue Star, reflected on his difficult past and learned that his weak fire Martial Soul and rank 2 Innate Soul Power had left him with few prospects in the rigid Douluo Continent. At age twelve, he survived on Spirit Hall’s stipend and prepared to eat the Soft Bone Rabbit he had called an experimental subject.

• Qingming recorded the Soft Bone Rabbit’s condition for what he described as his thirteenth experiment to improve Life Solution.
• Qingming recalled being an orphan on Blue Star, finally securing a promising laboratory job before he transmigrated into a dying child’s body.
• Qingming learned the original child had been an orphan raised by Qingyun, whose death followed a painful falling-out after the child’s Martial Soul Awakening.
• Qingming assessed his ordinary fire Martial Soul and rank 2 Innate Soul Power, concluding that the continent’s class system left little chance of advancement for people like him.
• Qingming recalled that five years of cultivation had brought him to rank 13, while Spirit Hall’s one-gold-coin stipend barely kept him fed.
• Qingming revealed that the rabbit on his laboratory table was actually his meal after nearly three days without meat.

After transmigrating into a cultivation world, Wang Teng lost all his cultivation and began rebuilding it, only to discover that the same day kept repeating. He confirmed the time reset and started considering how to learn more before the next reset.

• Wang Teng recovered the original owner's memories, learned he belonged to the Spirit Beast Sect, and realized he had lost all his cultivation after the failed breakthrough.
• Wang Teng bought Body Tempering supplies, returned to his room, and began cultivating again, but he stopped training early because he was tired.
• Wang Teng woke to find his supplies gone and his contribution points restored, then suspected that someone or something was interfering with him.
• Wang Teng asked sect members for the date and learned it was July 17, not July 18 as he had thought.
• Wang Teng woke on the same morning for a third time, concluded that time reset around midnight, and considered waking earlier to investigate.

Qingming confirmed that Life Solution No. 7 had no obvious adverse effects on No. 13 and tested it on himself, discovering that it greatly accelerated his Soul Power cultivation. He left the chapter determined to use the solution to reach the level required for an intermediate Soul Master Academy, while noticing that repeated doses quickly tired his mind.

• Qingming checked No. 13 a week after the first experiment and found that the Soft Bone Rabbit had fully recovered.
• Qingming dissected No. 13 again and found no major problems, confirming that Life Solution No. 7 could be used.
• Qingming injected himself with diluted Life Solution No. 7 and gained as much Soul Power in about five minutes as he normally gained in two hours.
• Qingming tested several dilutions and determined that a 1:2.3 ratio worked best for his cultivation.
• Qingming felt mentally tired after testing the solution, despite meditating for only about two hours.

Qingming and his teammates passed Hilrey’s combat test, and Qingming’s exceptional theory score helped him finish seventh in the final admissions rankings. The chapter ended with the academy announcing tuition waivers, Gold Soul Coins, free monthly expenses, and single rooms for the top ten.

• Zhao Gang declared Qingming’s team successful after they survived the combat test, then awarded them a score of one hundred and fifty and praised Qingming’s strategy.
• Qingming received the highest theory score of one hundred and fifty, drawing attention from Hilrey’s research teachers, while Su Xiaoxi’s talent and test results caused a wider sensation in Binsi City.
• After three days of admissions, Hilrey accepted 124 students; Su Xiaoxi ranked first and Qingming ranked seventh.
• At the freshman entrance ceremony, Hilrey’s principal announced that the top twenty would have their fees waived and the top ten would also receive thirty-six Gold Soul Coins, a free-expense monthly card, and single rooms.

Qingming devised a deceptive attack plan for his group’s practical assessment, and the five initially caught the assessment teacher off guard. After their combined attacks injured and angered him, the teacher activated his defensive Soul Skill and began overwhelming them, leaving Wright and Zhao Xiaolong badly beaten.

• Qingming, Su Xiaoxi, Wend, Wright, and Zhao Xiaolong introduced their Soul Skills and agreed to Qingming’s plan to vary their attack sequence and feign exhaustion.
• When the practical assessment began, Wright and Zhao Xiaolong engaged the teacher at close range while Qingming, Su Xiaoxi, and Wend attacked from behind.
• Su Xiaoxi stunned the teacher with Water Wave Strike, allowing Wend and Qingming to combine Wind Blade and Flame Bullet and wound him.
• The teacher activated his First Soul Skill, Hardening, and launched a furious assault on the group.
• With Qingming’s ranged support ending after his sixth attack, Wright and Zhao Xiaolong could no longer withstand the teacher, and Wright was the first to give way.

Qingming learned that Su Xiaoxi’s record-breaking score brought lavish rewards, including a medicinal liquid that he recognized as his diluted Life Solution No. 7. Three months later, he continued studying at Hilrey, where his theory skills and low-ranked placement made him famous, while Su Xiaoxi remained under the principal’s protection.

• Su Xiaoxi earned first place with a score of 738 and received a villa, a deluxe annual card, library access, cultivation time, Gold Soul Coins, and a medicinal liquid worth two thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Qingming recognized the medicinal liquid as his diluted Life Solution No. 7 and realized the Carter Auction House had resold it for far more than the five hundred Gold Soul Coins it paid him.
• Principal Yinte gave Su Xiaoxi a thousand Gold Soul Coins as pocket money and explained that her grandparents had arranged support and resources for her at Hilrey.
• Yinte told an instructor that this year’s students were unusually gifted, including Qingming, whose theoretical knowledge had impressed him.
• Three months later, Qingming had advanced another Soul Power rank and used his monthly library visit to study on Hilrey’s third floor before the librarian made him leave.
• Qingming’s exam results, seventh-place ranking despite having rank-fifteen Soul Power, and refusal to accept challenges made him a controversial figure, while Su Xiaoxi’s popularity and the principal’s protection kept others from harassing her.

Su Xiaoxi pressed Qingming to accept her offer to act as her flower guardian in exchange for books and rare materials, and he agreed. Meanwhile, Wang Teng prepared to enter the deadly Yaoguang Peak, hoping to find a chance to advance beyond the twelfth level of Body Tempering.

• Su Xiaoxi's admirers gave Qingming trouble, but he fended them off by threatening to accuse them of maliciously injuring a fellow student.
• Su Xiaoxi persuaded librarian Gu Tong to let Qingming borrow two books and then demanded an answer about her offer to make him her flower guardian.
• Su Xiaoxi revealed that she had reached level twenty-two as a Soul Grandmaster and promised to protect Qingming, who ultimately accepted her terms.
• Wang Teng considered the Spirit Beast Sect's peaks and the restrictions that kept him from forming a spirit-beast contract at his current cultivation level.
• Wang Teng decided to enter Yaoguang Peak in search of an opportunity to reach the thirteenth level of Body Tempering and began borrowing money and buying supplies for the dangerous trip.

Wang Teng used the daily reset to gather contribution points and buy high-grade cultivation resources, advancing from the eleventh to the twelfth layer of Body Tempering. He reached a bottleneck while pursuing the thirteenth layer and set himself a one-year limit to find an opportunity before gathering Qi, then decided it was time to explore beyond the Spirit Beast Sect.

• After 360 days of resets, Wang Teng found that his available resources could no longer help him advance beyond the eleventh layer of Body Tempering.
• Wang Teng borrowed ten thousand contribution points from Uncle Lin and obtained more from three loan sharks, bringing his total to nearly fifty thousand.
• Wang Teng spent the contribution points on high-grade medicines and cultivation supplies, then used the resets to continue refining his body.
• After two months, Wang Teng reached the twelfth layer of Body Tempering but chose not to gather Qi because he felt he had not reached his limit.
• Three months later, Wang Teng hit the thirteenth-layer bottleneck and set himself a one-year deadline to find an opportunity before gathering Qi.
• Wang Teng, weary of repeating the same days inside the Spirit Beast Sect, decided to go out and see the world.

Qingming, a poor commoner determined to pursue immortality through research, studied Soul Power in Soft Bone Rabbits and tested his optimized Life Solution No. 7. He left the wounded rabbit alive overnight, hoping its survival would prove the solution useful and help fund his experiments.

• Wang Teng used time resets to socialize safely, but avoided physical intimacy and fighting so he would not reveal his twelfth-level Body Tempering cultivation.
• Qingming reflected on how poverty and restricted access to knowledge limited his cultivation, so he relied on libraries and independent research.
• Qingming dissected Soft Bone Rabbits and found that their Soul Power gathered around wounds, while draining their blood left most of their Soul Power intact.
• Qingming injected Soft Bone Rabbit No. 13 with Life Solution No. 7 after removing its legs, then left it to see whether it would survive.
• Qingming returned an hour later to find No. 13 alive, treated its wounds with more solution and nutrient fluid, and planned to check on it the next day.