Chapter Summaries

Yu Zhi erased a rookie system and entered a 1971 world, where he escaped from Golmud Sanatorium and rescued Zhang Qiling. After discovering Zhang Qiling’s injuries, Yu Zhi fled into the mountains to hide and cultivate.

• Yu Zhi completed a villain mission, erased the system’s intelligence, and took its energy, abilities, and empty private space for himself.
• Yu Zhi arrived in the body of a test subject at Golmud Sanatorium, drew qi into his body, and hid in his space when staff came to check on him.
• Yu Zhi escaped his room by destroying locks and surveillance cameras, then found Zhang Qiling chained to a bed and brought him and the bed into his space.
• Yu Zhi freed Zhang Qiling, treated him with spiritual power, and learned that he was badly injured and had lost his memories.
• Yu Zhi fled the sanatorium and reached the deep mountain forest at dawn, where he searched for food, water, and a place to hide while planning to cultivate.

Yu Zhi found a cave, treated Zhang Qiling, and discovered he could only take him out of the space by bringing him along on the bed. After they ate and rested safely, Yu Zhi woke and began cultivating in the forest to build up his strength.

• Yu Zhi found a cave and used his spiritual power to restore Zhang Qiling's strength, but the treatment left him exhausted.
• Yu Zhi tried to take Zhang Qiling outside the space and learned that Zhang Qiling could leave only while lying on the bed.
• Zhang Qiling made a fire, prepared the rabbits, and shared a meal with Yu Zhi in the cave.
• Yu Zhi brought Zhang Qiling and the bed back into the space, where they both fell asleep.
• Yu Zhi woke, returned to the cave, and began cultivating to reach the Qi Refining First Layer.

Yu Zhi cultivated his way to the Qi Refining First Layer while caring for Zhang Qiling and traveling toward human society. After selling a hundred-year-old ginseng for fifty thousand yuan and evading men who tried to rob him, he reached another town and brought Zhang Qiling to an inn.

• Yu Zhi used spiritual techniques to prepare food and warned Zhang Qiling to stay hidden after Zhang Qiling worried that others might discover his abilities.
• Yu Zhi stored Zhang Qiling in his space and traveled for half a month, cultivating at night and bringing him out occasionally while they headed toward human society.
• Yu Zhi reached a county town in Qinghai Province and sold a hundred-year-old ginseng plant at a pawnshop for fifty thousand yuan.
• When thugs followed him after the sale, Yu Zhi hid the money in his space, escaped into the mountains, and used the Light Body Technique to reach another peak.
• Yu Zhi told Zhang Qiling he would buy clothes and food, found an inn in another town, and brought Zhang Qiling out in their room.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling settled in at an inn, bought supplies, and tested how Yu Zhi’s space worked. With Zhang Qiling remembering little and leaving the decision to him, Yu Zhi chose Beijing as their next destination.

• Yu Zhi gave Zhang Qiling new clothes and used the Water Control Art to dry his hair after they had both showered.
• Yu Zhi realized he might be able to use the Water Control Art to control blood, then took Zhang Qiling out to buy shoes, food, and supplies.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling experimented with entering the space and discovered that Yu Zhi could enter while standing or sitting on an object as long as his feet were off the ground.
• Zhang Qiling said he remembered little beyond his identity and would follow Yu Zhi wherever he went.
• Yu Zhi considered their possible destinations and chose Beijing, then went to sleep while Zhang Qiling followed suit.

Yu Zhi told Zhang Qiling about his past and the schemes awaiting him, including the plan to make him enter the Bronze Door for Wu Xie. After Zhang Qiling asked what Yu Zhi wanted from him, Yu Zhi confessed he had first rescued him because he was smitten with his looks, and Zhang Qiling said he believed him.

• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling bought a run-down courtyard house in Beijing and lived there together for more than half a year.
• Yu Zhi noticed Zhang Qiling growing increasingly somber and brought him into the space to discuss his past and future.
• Zhang Qiling read Yu Zhi's notes about his family, the Nine Gates, and the betrayals he had suffered.
• Yu Zhi revealed that Zhang Qiling's world was a book and explained how others had schemed to make him protect Wu Xie and enter the Bronze Door for ten years.
• Zhang Qiling asked what Yu Zhi wanted from him, and Yu Zhi admitted he had rescued him because he was smitten with his looks.
• Zhang Qiling smiled and told Yu Zhi that he believed him.

Yu Zhi bound Zhang Qiling to him with a One Heart Contract and began teaching him cultivation. After Zhang Qiling spent ten days cultivating and collapsed from hunger, Yu Zhi fed him and planned their next steps, including finding a tomb and improving their skills.

• Yu Zhi asked Zhang Qiling to keep a notebook about his memory loss and promised to find a way to help him.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling formed a One Heart Contract that bound their lives and transferred injuries between them.
• Yu Zhi guided Zhang Qiling in drawing qi into his body, and Zhang Qiling began cultivating with a likely Fire Spiritual Root.
• Yu Zhi planned to find allies, address Zhang Qiling's Tianshou memory loss, raise money, and prepare for a tomb expedition.
• After cultivating for ten days, Zhang Qiling emerged starving, and Yu Zhi hurriedly fed him.
• Yu Zhi planned to buy a map and discuss their next tomb, combat training, and basic five-element spells with Zhang Qiling.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling traveled to Guangxi to seek spiritual treasures, recover Zhang Qiling’s saber, and change the events awaiting him. In the mountains, they killed a huge Corpse-Scented Konjac and found a spirit stone at its roots.

• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling decided to travel to Guangxi, where Yu Zhi planned to find treasures, retrieve Zhang Qiling’s Black Gold Ancient Saber, and deal with the men who would later capture him.
• On the journey, Yu Zhi began calling Zhang Qiling “Xiaoguan,” and Zhang Qiling said he wanted to find and save his mother.
• After reaching a remote town, Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling entered the mountains to search for spiritual treasures.
• Yu Zhi sensed strong wood-element energy, while Zhang Qiling noticed the unnaturally quiet surroundings and warned that they had encountered a Corpse-Scented Konjac.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling attacked the invisible plant with fireballs and saber strikes, and Yu Zhi destroyed its flower with a burst of spiritual power.
• Yu Zhi searched the dead plant and found what appeared to be a low-grade spirit stone at its base.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling found five Low-Grade Spirit Stones while digging through the Corpse-Scented Konjac, then traveled to the Zhang Family Ancient Tower. Zhang Qiling entered the lake alone to retrieve his saber while Yu Zhi waited on shore and planned to go in if he did not return by the next day.

• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling dug up five Low-Grade Spirit Stones from the Corpse-Scented Konjac and cleaned themselves with water techniques.
• The two searched the mountains for more treasures but found nothing before reaching the lake over the Zhang Family Ancient Tower.
• Zhang Qiling told Yu Zhi that he was the key to entering the tower and warned him that its mechanisms and dangers made it unsafe for him to follow.
• Yu Zhi agreed to wait, but told Zhang Qiling he would enter the tower if he had not returned by the next day.
• Zhang Qiling dove into the lake, while Yu Zhi stayed on shore to cultivate and wondered how Hei Xiazi had once taken the Black Gold Ancient Saber out.
• Zhang Qiling reached the submerged buildings of the ancient tower at the bottom of the lake.

Zhang Qiling entered the Zhang Family Ancient Tower to retrieve the Black Gold Ancient Saber and inspect its secrets, but he was injured escaping with Hei Xiazi. Yu Zhi sensed his injuries through their One Heart Contract and pulled him from the lake, leaving Hei Xiazi stunned by their dramatic emergence.

• Zhang Qiling entered the ancient tower, retrieved the Black Gold Ancient Saber, and checked and reinforced the mechanisms protecting the Zhang Family’s secrets.
• Hei Xiazi broke into the tower to obtain the saber in exchange for the Wu Family rescuing Mute, then recognized Zhang Qiling and joined him on the way out.
• Miluotuo awakened as Zhang Qiling and Hei Xiazi crossed the rock wall, and Zhang Qiling sent Hei Xiazi ahead before fighting the creatures alone.
• Zhang Qiling suffered a sudden headache and severe injuries, but escaped through the door and was swept into the lake.
• Yu Zhi shared Zhang Qiling’s pain through their One Heart Contract, pulled Hei Xiazi from the water by mistake, then dove in and carried Zhang Qiling to shore.
• Hei Xiazi watched Yu Zhi burst from the lake with Zhang Qiling and exclaimed in astonishment.

Yu Zhi rescued Zhang Qiling and Hei Xiazi from the lake, treated their injuries, and recovered Zhang Qiling’s Black Gold Ancient Saber. After they reached an inn, Zhang Qiling woke up with signs that he had lost his memory again.

• Yu Zhi revived Zhang Qiling with spiritual energy, treated Hei Xiazi’s injuries, and learned they had been attacked by Miluotuo in the ancient tower.
• Yu Zhi retrieved the Black Gold Ancient Saber from the lake and carried Zhang Qiling out while Hei Xiazi followed with the saber.
• Yu Zhi and Hei Xiazi reached a town and shared an inn room so they could keep watch over Zhang Qiling.
• The next morning, Yu Zhi noticed Zhang Qiling seemed not to recognize him and called Hei Xiazi over.
• Hei Xiazi tested Zhang Qiling, who fought and pinned him before returning to the bed and staring into space.

Yu Zhi brought the amnesiac Zhang Qiling to his courtyard house with Hei Xiazi, while Zhang Qiling began recovering fragments of his memories. There, Yu Zhi gave Zhang Qiling his notebook to read, leaving Hei Xiazi outside after jokingly inviting him to join them.

• Yu Zhi asked Zhang Qiling if he remembered him, and Zhang Qiling said he did not but felt familiar and close to him.
• Yu Zhi insisted that Zhang Qiling come home with him, and Hei Xiazi joined them because he wanted to make sure Zhang Qiling was all right.
• Hei Xiazi drove Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling in a battered pickup truck, and the three reached Yu Zhi's courtyard house after three days of travel.
• Zhang Qiling recognized the house when they arrived, while Yu Zhi assigned him a room and Hei Xiazi teased them from outside.
• Yu Zhi took a notebook from his space and handed it to Zhang Qiling, then left the room after joking that Hei Xiazi could join them.
• Zhang Qiling recognized the notebook as his and solemnly opened it to read.

Zhang Qiling recovered his memories and reassured Yu Zhi that he trusted him, while he and Hei Xiazi discussed the Wu Family’s interest in the saber. Yu Zhi then revealed that he knew hidden secrets from a book, leaving Hei Xiazi stunned as he began writing them down.

• Zhang Qiling closed his notebook after recording what had happened, and Yu Zhi put it away before praising his composure.
• Zhang Qiling told Hei Xiazi that Yu Zhi was someone he trusted completely, and warned him not to investigate Yu Zhi.
• Yu Zhi prepared a meal for Zhang Qiling and Hei Xiazi, then confronted Hei Xiazi about suspecting him.
• Yu Zhi bound Hei Xiazi with the Wind Binding Technique and beat him while Zhang Qiling helped cover Hei Xiazi’s eyes.
• Yu Zhi asked Zhang Qiling if he could tell Hei Xiazi everything, and Zhang Qiling agreed as long as Yu Zhi left out his own part.
• Yu Zhi began writing down secrets from the book he remembered, and Hei Xiazi stared at the revelations in shock.

Yu Zhi showed Hei Xiazi papers that described his past and future, then examined his eyes and discovered a supernatural cause behind his gradual blindness. He promised to treat Hei Xiazi regularly, while keeping his own secrets and plans to help Zhang Qiling.

• Yu Zhi gave Hei Xiazi two pages describing his future, and Hei Xiazi objected to being called a hundred-year-old ox grazing on tender grass.
• Yu Zhi explained that the pages came from a book and revealed that Hei Xiazi would eventually go blind and might end his own life.
• Yu Zhi told Hei Xiazi he wanted to solve Zhang Qiling's Heavenly Bestowal and said Hei Xiazi should side with Zhang Qiling rather than the Nine Gates.
• Yu Zhi examined Hei Xiazi and found that excessive yin energy was damaging his eyes, while a yin ghost inside his body was draining his life force.
• Yu Zhi said he could improve Hei Xiazi's condition and would treat him every seven days, and Hei Xiazi went to cook for him and Zhang Qiling.

Yu Zhi urged Zhang Qiling to cultivate and resolved to protect him, while Hei Xiazi’s eyesight improved and he left to return to Hangzhou. After Hei Xiazi departed, Yu Zhi discovered Zhang Qiling had a token that could open the Zhang Family ancestral storeroom, and they prepared to go there.

• Yu Zhi explained the threat posed by the possessing ghost attached to Blind Man, urged Zhang Qiling to cultivate, and planned to reach Foundation Establishment before the plot began.
• Yu Zhi swore to protect Zhang Qiling and keep him from being taken away by anyone.
• After more than two months of treatment, Hei Xiazi’s eyesight improved, and he announced he was returning to Hangzhou to deal with the Wu Family’s saber job.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling refused to give Hei Xiazi the Black Gold Ancient Saber, so Hei Xiazi left and joked that he would need food and lodging when he returned.
• Yu Zhi learned Zhang Qiling had an antique ring from the ancient building that opened the Zhang Family ancestral storeroom, and the two decided to go there.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling reached the Zhang Family ancestral home, where Yu Zhi discovered an old ring in the storeroom and was pulled inside after probing it with his spiritual sense. Zhang Qiling carried the unconscious Yu Zhi back to a room, while Yu Zhi faced Daoist Green Jade, who intended to take over his body.

• Zhang Qiling opened the ancestral home's gate with his blood, and Yu Zhi treated his cut while the two entered the abandoned compound.
• Zhang Qiling led Yu Zhi to the storeroom and let him take a chest of gold and examine the stored objects.
• Yu Zhi found a black ring that resembled a cultivation-world storage ring, drew blood from his finger, and tried to inspect it with his spiritual sense.
• The ring absorbed Yu Zhi's blood and swallowed his spiritual sense, leaving him unconscious as Zhang Qiling rushed him back to a room and watched over him.
• Yu Zhi awoke inside the ring and met Daoist Green Jade, who claimed he had waited millennia for a successor and tried to lure Yu Zhi into accepting him as master.
• Yu Zhi recognized that Daoist Green Jade wanted to seize his body and prepared to fight him rather than let him harm Zhang Qiling.

Yu Zhi battled Daoist Green Jade, who tried to possess him, and survived with help from Zhang Qiling’s Qilin Blood. The chapter left Yu Zhi resting as he began digesting the old ghost’s memories, while Zhang Qiling stayed by his side.

• Yu Zhi gave Daoist Green Jade the false name Zhang Haiyue, and the ghost recounted his version of the Zhang Family’s history and his own past.
• Daoist Green Jade offered to pass on his arts, then attacked Yu Zhi’s primordial spirit to seize his body.
• Yu Zhi fought back inside his body, but Daoist Green Jade weakened him with a secret art that relied on the absence of Qilin Blood.
• Zhang Qiling cut his palm and forced his blood into Yu Zhi, disrupting Daoist Green Jade’s secret art.
• Yu Zhi destroyed Daoist Green Jade’s primordial spirit and regained control, then collapsed from his injuries and the strain of the ghost’s memories.
• Zhang Qiling helped Yu Zhi lie down and stayed beside him as he rested and began digesting the memories.

Yu Zhi recovered from his injuries and told Zhang Qiling the truth about Chen Qingyu and the Zhang Family’s past. He planned to bond with the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress, but Zhang Qiling insisted they wait a month before leaving.

• Yu Zhi refused more ginseng soup, explained that he had reached the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, and reassured Zhang Qiling after a nosebleed interrupted their embrace.
• Yu Zhi revealed that Chen Qingyu had betrayed the Zhang Family and joined forces with “It” to destroy them.
• Zhang Qiling said he remembered nothing of the Zhang Family’s history and told Yu Zhi he would go with him even if Yu Zhi wanted to destroy the world.
• Yu Zhi explained the demands of Chen Qingyu’s cultivation technique and chose the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress as his intended bonded spiritual plant.
• Yu Zhi proposed leaving the next day, but Zhang Qiling refused and said they would go in a month so Yu Zhi could recover.

Yu Zhi explained his past and the system space to Zhang Qiling, then admitted that his feelings for him were genuine. Zhang Qiling confessed that he liked Yu Zhi too.

• Yu Zhi discovered that his system space had swallowed Chen Qingyu's storage ring and expanded into a large stretch of black soil.
• Yu Zhi tried to bring Zhang Qiling into the upgraded space, learned that visitors had to be registered, and recorded Zhang Qiling's aura.
• Yu Zhi told Zhang Qiling that his world was a book and described his past as a cannon-fodder task-taker who had killed systems and gained the space.
• Yu Zhi admitted that he truly liked Zhang Qiling, and Zhang Qiling told him that he liked him too.

Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling shared their first kiss, then searched the Zhang Family’s rear mountain treasury for a cultivation technique suited to Zhang Qiling. When the Fire God Art revealed Zhang Qiling’s ice and fire spiritual roots, Yu Zhi discovered the lost Ice and Fire Qilin Art and learned it belonged to the Zhang Family’s Qiling inheritance.

• Zhang Qiling kissed Yu Zhi after noticing him staring at his lips, and the two embraced without going further.
• Yu Zhi took Zhang Qiling to the rear mountain treasury, offered him its treasures as betrothal gifts, and found a red ring that fitted together with Zhang Qiling’s jade thumb ring.
• Yu Zhi gave Zhang Qiling the Fire God Art engraved on a jade tablet, and Zhang Qiling began cultivating it.
• Ice and water spiritual energy surged into Zhang Qiling as he cultivated, clashing with the fire energy and making him bleed, though Yu Zhi found he was not seriously hurt.
• Yu Zhi identified Zhang Qiling’s ice and fire spiritual roots, engraved the Ice and Fire Qilin Art onto a tablet, and discovered it was the lost Zhang Family inheritance reserved for its Qiling.

Zhang Qiling advanced rapidly through cultivation with the help of the Qilin Ring and learned that Heavenly Bestowal was a curse tied to the Queen Mother of the West. After a year of training and living together in the mountains, Yu Zhi remembered they had left Hei Xiazi without treatment and insisted they return, making Zhang Qiling jealous and angry.

• Zhang Qiling cultivated for seven days, reaching the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, while Yu Zhi guarded him and made matching jade pendants.
• Zhang Qiling explained that the Qilin Ring helped him cultivate and revealed the origin of Heavenly Bestowal, but he still knew nothing about the Ultimate or why he felt compelled to guard it.
• Yu Zhi and Zhang Qiling stayed in the mountains to cultivate and study the old ghost's memories, gathered supplies, and discovered that transplanted plants and seeds would not grow.
• Over the next year, Zhang Qiling noticed Yu Zhi's habits and how his tone changed when he was worried or affectionate.
• While kissing Zhang Qiling, Yu Zhi remembered they had not contacted or treated Hei Xiazi for a year and said they had to return.
• Zhang Qiling grew jealous and walked away, but Yu Zhi called after him and tried to persuade him to continue kissing.