Chapter Summaries

Thirteen-year-old Qi Lin defended his neighbors and the Qitian Clan ancestral hall from Xiao Tianyang’s violent land seizure, awakening the power of his ancestors’ spirit tablets. After killing Xiao Tianyang, Qi Lin was transported to a blood-soaked battlefield, where a colossal black sword revealed the inscription “Heaven-Equaling Imperial Clan.”

• Qi Lin found Xiao Clan martial artists demolishing the ancestral hall and threatening Mystic City residents Lin Xiaoyu and Yang Ting.
• Qi Lin attacked the men who were about to kill Lin Xiaoyu and Yang Ting, but Xiao Tianyang struck him into the ancestral hall and ordered the demolition and executions to continue.
• Xiao Tianyang tortured Lin Xiaoyu and Yang Ting and mocked the Qitian Clan, while Qi Lin struggled beneath the rubble and called on his ancestors.
• Qi Lin’s ten ancestral spirit tablets burst into flames as he recounted how the Qitian ancestors had fought and slain the gods who enslaved humanity.
• The ancestral flames burned away Xiao Tianyang’s cultivation, and Qi Lin wielded a sword formed from the spirit tablets to kill him.
• Qi Lin was transported to a battlefield of corpses, where a colossal black sword revealed the words “Heaven-Equaling Imperial Clan.”

Qi Lin awakened the elementary Divine Vein Blood-Shining Hell and used it to kill the Xiao Clan members who surrounded him. After learning that Grandpa Yang and Sister Xiaoyu were badly hurt, he faced the prospect of further trouble from the Xiao Clan and lied to Su Lianxi about who killed them.

• Qi Lin saw the Hundred-Eyed God inside the sky-piercing sword and received the Blood-Shining Hell Divine Vein from the first ancestor.
• Qi Lin used Blood-Shining Hell to terrify and slaughter the Xiao Clan members surrounding him.
• Qi Lin learned that Grandpa Yang's life was not in danger but Sister Xiaoyu might never speak again, and he vowed to face the Xiao Clan and Divine Capital.
• Su Lianxi arrived and asked who had killed the Xiao Clan members, and Qi Lin blamed a tall, thin evil man.
• Su Lianxi moved close to Qi Lin and asked whether the supposed killer had any other distinguishing features.

Su Lianxi secretly betrayed Pingyang District to the Xiao Clan, while Qi Tianji returned to the ancestral shrine and awakened the Qitian Clan Flame. As the flame spread across distant ancestral shrines, the scattered Qitian clans prepared to return, beginning with Xiao Long.

• Su Lianxi told Pingyang District’s survivors that her family would protect them, but privately admitted she had sold their district to the Xiao Clan and ordered Su Cheng to kill Qianqian.
• Qi Lin prepared to confront Su Lianxi, but Qi Tianji appeared and urged him to leave the commoners’ fate to his grandfather.
• Qi Tianji took the sword made from the ancestors’ spirit tablets, offered his blood, and summoned the Qitian Clan Flame into the sky.
• Qi Tianji told Qi Lin that he was no longer an orphan and that guests would soon arrive, while the flame reached ancestral shrines across the Divine Ash Ruins and other realms.
• The scattered Qitian clans decided to send Xiao Long first to protect the Clan Flame.

Qi Lin discovered that his ancestor’s sword housed the Heaven-Piercing Prison-Suppressing Qilin, who taught him an art that could suppress the backlash from a divine vein. After reaching the Mystic Sea Realm, Qi Lin heard Xiao Tao’er’s mother cry that she would die if her daughter died, and he rushed outside.

• Qi Lin released the little beast from his ancestor’s black wooden sword and learned it was the Heaven-Piercing Prison-Suppressing Qilin, which had once imprisoned ten Symbol Gods.
• The Qilin warned Qi Lin that inheriting a divine vein would kill his mortal body, then taught him the Heaven-Piercing Prison-Suppressing Art to suppress it.
• Qi Lin cultivated the art and reached the Mist Rising stage of the Mystic Sea Realm at age thirteen.
• Qi Lin noticed that Xiao Tao’er had not brought his dinner and remembered how she and her mother had cared for him for nearly three years.
• Qi Lin heard Xiao Tao’er’s mother cry that she would not live if her daughter died, so he burst through the door.

Qi Lin raced to save Xiao Tao'er after she was struck by an acute Fire-Burning Plague, but City Guard commander Su Cheng blocked the way and ordered him to leave her to die. Qi Lin drew his wooden sword as the guards mocked him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Qi Lin found Xiao Tao'er collapsed with the contagious Fire-Burning Plague and learned that an Ice Mystic Pill could suppress the acute attack.
• Qi Lin gathered the neighbors' money, took Xiao Tao'er from her mother, and rushed toward the Green Jade Hall before the half-shichen deadline.
• Xiao Tao'er told Qi Lin that her father had been a City Guard who saved many people, and Qi Lin promised that her father was an example to everyone.
• Su Cheng and a hundred City Guards blocked Qi Lin from leaving Pingyang District, claiming no one could leave because of dangerous criminals.
• Su Cheng refused to let Qi Lin take Xiao Tao'er for medicine and told him to bury her; Qi Lin drew his black wooden sword as the guards taunted him.

Qi Lin tried to escort Xiao Tao'er and her mother out of Pingyang District, but Su Cheng blocked them and ordered the City Guard to attack those who defied him. Qi Lin killed Su Cheng and led the others through the fighting as reinforcements gathered.

• Xiao Tao'er's mother begged Su Cheng to let her and Xiao Tao'er leave, but he refused and threatened to kill anyone who disobeyed the city lord's orders.
• Han Yuan quit the City Guard and led dozens of guards in an attack on Su Cheng's forces so Qi Lin could get Xiao Tao'er and her mother through.
• Su Cheng revealed that he had reached the first stage of the Mystic Sea Realm and attacked Qi Lin.
• Qi Lin unleashed his blood-red eyes and split Su Cheng in two with his black wooden sword.
• Han Yuan rallied his men to follow Qi Lin, while the City Guard sent signals for reinforcements and over a thousand armed guards advanced.

Qi Lin fought through the city guards to save Xiao Tao'er, but Ye Qing traded him a fake Ice Mystic Pill for his black wooden sword. When the pill left Xiao Tao'er dying, Qi Lin confronted Ye Qing, and the sword cut off Ye Qing's hand.

• The city guards branded Qi Lin, Han Yuan, Xiao Tao'er's mother, Doctor He, and the villagers as violent criminals, and Qi Lin fought through their ranks while protecting Xiao Tao'er.
• Su Lianxi dismissed Qi Lin as a stray dog, and Ye Qing stepped in to stop the guards and offered an Ice Mystic Pill in exchange for Qi Lin's black wooden sword.
• Qi Lin accepted the trade and fed the pill to Xiao Tao'er, but she convulsed and spat out blood and black ice.
• Doctor He identified the pill as fake, and Ye Qing admitted that he had knowingly sold false medicine to the poor.
• Qi Lin shouted at Ye Qing, and the black wooden sword flew from Ye Qing's grasp and severed his right hand.

Qi Lin saved Xiao Tao'er with a genuine Ice Mystic Pill, then defeated and brutalized Ye Qing after Ye Qing attacked him. As Mystic City's experts rushed toward them, Qi Lin declared that he had not killed enough yet.

• Qi Lin cut off Ye Qing's right hand, took back the pill, and crushed the severed hand beneath his foot.
• Qi Lin gave Xiao Tao'er the genuine Ice Mystic Pill, and Doctor He confirmed that her life would be saved.
• Ye Qing attacked Qi Lin with his Azure Soul Sword, but Qi Lin overpowered him, maimed his left hand, and smashed his face with a kick.
• Qi Lin took Ye Qing's sword and held him at swordpoint, while Han Yuan voiced his support and the other guards stayed silent.
• Qi Lin arranged for Doctor He and the others to take Xiao Tao'er away as Mystic City's experts rushed toward them, then said he had not killed enough yet.

Su Fengxuan arrived and offered to adopt Qi Lin, but Qi Lin crippled Ye Qing after accepting. Ye Jianxiong attacked Qi Lin, who called for his grandfather as the pressure threatened to crush him.

• Su Fengxuan stopped the city guards, condemned Su Cheng’s abuse of power, and appointed Han Yuan as commander.
• Su Fengxuan offered to adopt Qi Lin, and Qi Lin agreed.
• Qi Lin pierced Ye Qing’s dantian, crippling him, and said he was protecting Su Fengxuan’s residence from the Ye family.
• Ye Jianxiong arrived, saw Ye Qing’s condition, and unleashed his Earth Yang Realm power against Qi Lin.
• As Ye Jianxiong attacked, Qi Lin shouted toward the Qitian Clan’s ancestral hall for his grandfather to intervene.

Qi Tianji returned in time to save Qi Lin, killing Ye Jianxiong and the Green Jade Hall associates who tried to flee. After Ye Qing warned that powerful forces would retaliate, Qi Tianji turned on Su Fengxuan and severed the city lord’s arm.

• Qi Tianji appeared as Ye Jianxiong was about to kill Qi Lin, caught his strike, and broke his wrist.
• Qi Tianji killed Ye Jianxiong after breaking his arm and crushing half his face, then accepted Green Jade Hall and killed more than ten of its medicine sellers.
• Ye Qing warned that the Universal Salvation Chamber of Commerce and the Xiao Clan of the Divine Capital would take revenge, and Qi Lin killed him.
• Su Fengxuan congratulated Qi Tianji on his return, but Qi Tianji criticized him and chopped off one of his arms.
• Su Fengxuan demanded to know why Qi Tianji was still pressing him after he had humbled himself.

Qi Tianji exposed Su Fengxuan’s betrayal of Pingyang District and revealed himself as a Heavenly Dominion Realm expert, defeating the Su Family’s ancestors and maiming Su Fengxuan. He declared that he would protect Pingyang District and challenged the Xiao Clan to come for him and Qi Lin.

• Qi Tianji accused Su Fengxuan of exploiting Pingyang District and selling it to the Xiao Clan to secure a place for Su Lianxi in the Divine Strategy Manor.
• Su Fengxuan summoned the two Su Family ancestors, who attacked Qi Tianji, but Qi Tianji revealed his Heavenly Dominion Realm power and killed them with one punch.
• Qi Tianji severed Su Fengxuan’s remaining limbs and told him he would live to witness the Xiao Clan’s defeat.
• Qi Tianji challenged the Xiao Clan to come to the Qi Family ancestral hall and vowed they would not take even a pebble from Pingyang District.
• Qi Lin celebrated having his grandfather’s support, while Qi Tianji called for Su Lianxi to take her injured father home.

Qi Lin and Qi Tianji drove Su Lianxi and the city guards from Pingyang District after defeating the Su Clan, and Qi Lin learned that Su Lianxi carried a God-Inherited Bloodline. Afterward, Qi Tianji introduced Qi Lin to Tang Wenwan, the head of Mystic City's Evil-Warding Bureau.

• Su Lianxi arrived, thanked Qi Tianji for sparing Su Fengxuan, and told Qi Lin she would await his judgment at the city lord's residence.
• The city guards withdrew, and the poor residents of Pingyang District celebrated their safety.
• The little beast told Qi Lin that Su Lianxi had a God-Inherited Bloodline and suggested he could devour it, but Qi Lin doubted he could defeat her.
• Qi Lin noticed Mystic City experts gathering around Qi Tianji, who called him over and introduced Tang Wenwan as his Aunt Tang.
• Qi Lin recognized Tang Wenwan as the head of Mystic City's Evil-Warding Bureau and reflected that she now seemed to embody the city's three leading officials by herself.

Qi Lin refused Tang Wenwan’s offer to enter the Divine Strategy Manor, choosing to stay with his grandfather and help protect his clan and Pingyang District. Tang Wenwan gave him a fresh Great Yang Turtle corpse, and he hurriedly drove away after she teased him about staying the night.

• Tang Wenwan offered to recommend Qi Lin to the Divine Strategy Manor, but he refused because he wanted to stand with Qi Tianji and protect their people.
• Qi Tianji told Tang Wenwan to seek the city lord position and arrange for Green Jade Hall’s wealth and medicine to be sent to Pingyang District.
• Qi Lin asked Tang Wenwan for a fresh evil beast corpse, and she agreed to give him a Mid-Grade Jia Hui Great Yang Turtle.
• On the way to the Evil-Warding Bureau, Tang Wenwan warned Qi Lin that the Xiao Clan and Universal Salvation Chamber of Commerce had many Heavenly Dominion experts and urged him to make allies at the Divine Strategy Manor.
• Tang Wenwan gave Qi Lin a carriage carrying the Great Yang Turtle and teased him about staying the night, so he blushed and drove away in a hurry.

After the Xiao Clan’s Blood Ancestor ordered Mystic City slaughtered, Qi Lin returned home, learned Xiao Tao’er would recover, and received pills from Qi Tianji. At the ancestral hall, a stele imprisoning the Hundun True Gods began to crack, leaving Qi Lin asking how to stop them from escaping.

• The Blood Ancestor learned that Xiao Tianyang and a hundred Xiao Clan members had died in Mystic City, then ordered the city slaughtered and the delivery to Nine Nether Purgatory prepared.
• The Xiao Clan’s black-robed Clan King summoned two hundred Earth Yang Realm fighters and three thousand guards, then set out for Mystic City himself.
• Qi Tianji told Qi Lin that Xiao Tao’er would recover, gave him two Ice Mystic Pills, and offered him a Frost Formation Pill taken from Ye Jianxiong.
• Qi Lin noticed that the ancestral hall’s ten spirit tablets were fakes while the real tablets remained in his hands.
• A stele on the little black beast’s back shook as the imprisoned Hundun True Gods reacted to Symbol God One’s refined divine bloodline, and the beast warned Qi Lin they might soon break free.
• Qi Lin recalled the genealogy’s account of the seven primordial horrors and asked the little black beast what he should do.

Qi Lin fed the little black beast a roasted Great Yang Turtle, then swallowed a Frost Formation Pill and advanced to the second level of the Mystic Sea Realm. The pill’s remaining essence triggered the Fire Burning Disease, and Qi Lin realized Xiao Tao’er had infected him.

• The little black beast explained that eating Evil Beasts could strengthen the divine prison and help Qi Lin use his ancestors’ Divine Veins, then demanded spicy roasted meat and other treats.
• Qi Lin roasted the Great Yang Turtle, and the little black beast ate nearly all of it before falling asleep and turning back into a black wooden sword.
• Qi Lin examined the Azure Soul Sword, then opened the box containing the Frost Formation Pill and swallowed it.
• Qi Lin refined a tenth of the pill’s essence and formed frost in his mystic sea, reaching the second level of the Mystic Sea Realm.
• The pill’s remaining essence activated burning patterns across Qi Lin’s body, and he recognized the Five Decays of the Heavenly Dao’s Fire Burning Disease and blamed Xiao Tao’er for infecting him.

Qi Lin endured a strange outbreak of Fire Burning Disease, which left a talking mouth on his left little finger, and sought the Myriad Gods Sacrificial Canon from Qi Tianji. Believing Su Lianxi’s God-Inherited Bloodline could help him, he sneaked into the city lord’s manor and found her kneeling in the God-Serving Hall.

• Qi Lin used two Ice Mystic Pills to suppress most of his Fire Burning Disease, but a crimson mouth appeared on his left little finger and spoke of the Five Decays of the Heavenly Dao.
• Qi Lin realized Su Lianxi’s God-Inherited Bloodline might resolve his condition and asked Qi Tianji for the Myriad Gods Sacrificial Canon after breaking through to Mystic Sea Second Stage, Frost Descent.
• Qi Lin sneaked into the city lord’s manor while its people tended to Su Fengxuan and followed a flash of blood-red light to the God-Serving Hall.
• Qi Lin showed his mutated finger to the little black beast, which failed to identify the cause, and continued toward the hall.
• Qi Lin climbed onto the God-Serving Hall’s roof and saw Su Lianxi kneeling in the main hall.

Qi Lin discovered Su Lianxi worshipping the Blood Moon God, a False God tied to the Hundred-Eyed God, and destroyed its painting. As Su Lianxi attacked him in a fury, Qi Lin unleashed a terrifying force and told her to kneel to him.

• Qi Lin found Su Lianxi kneeling before a painting of the Blood Moon God as red tendrils from the image strengthened her true essence.
• Qi Lin consulted the Myriad Gods Sacrificial Canon and learned that the Blood Moon God was a low-ranking False God in the Hundred-Eyed God's One God System.
• Qi Lin turned the little black beast into a sword, confronted Su Lianxi, and burned the Blood Moon God's painting.
• Qi Lin kicked over the incense burner and denounced the god, prompting Su Lianxi to erupt with her God-Inherited Bloodline and attack him at the Mystic Sea Realm Fourth Stage.
• As Su Lianxi's sword neared his eyes, Qi Lin's blood-red gaze overwhelmed hers and he told her that those who revered gods should kneel to him.

Qi Lin tested whether Su Lianxi’s God-Inherited Bloodline could cure his Fire Burning Disease, but it failed; he instead altered and returned it, turning her into a devoted follower with greatly improved abilities. After learning the Xiao Clan sought Pingyang District’s Ice Mystic Crystal vein, Qi Lin sent Su Lianxi to cultivate at the Divine Strategy Manor and reflected on the danger of letting divine bloodlines overtake his human body.

• Qi Lin absorbed Su Lianxi’s God-Inherited Bloodline, but it burned away when he tried to use it against his Fire Burning Disease.
• Qi Lin strengthened the bloodline and returned it to Su Lianxi, transforming her and making her regard him as Father God.
• Su Lianxi told Qi Lin that the Xiao Clan wanted Pingyang District because of its Ice Mystic Crystal vein.
• Qi Lin sent Su Lianxi to cultivate at the Divine Strategy Manor and ordered her to await his command.
• The little black beast warned Qi Lin that he must control his divine bloodline without letting it turn him into a Hundred-Eyed God.

Qi Tianlong returned to the Qi Clan and Qi Tianji worried that Qi Lin’s limited breakthrough would make it harder for him to fulfill his role as the clan’s spirit guardian. Qi Lin met his long-lost elder sister, and after teasing each other, the siblings began to bond before Qi Tianji called them to hear something important.

• Qi Tianji told Qi Tianlong that Lin had advanced only one level after taking a Profound Sea Realm-Breaking Pill, and worried about his ability to carry the clan’s martial intent inheritance.
• Qi Tianlong promised to protect her little brother, while Qi Tianji explained that only the spirit guardian could venerate the rekindled clan flame.
• Qi Lin entered the south room to change and was startled to find Qi Tianlong there; Qi Tianji introduced her as his elder sister.
• Qi Lin and Qi Tianlong joked about whether either was illegitimate or abandoned, and Qi Tianji clarified that they shared both parents but had been raised apart.
• Qi Lin accepted Qi Tianlong as his sister and agreed to handle her chores, then the two bickered playfully until Qi Tianji called them to hear something important.

Qi Tianji sent Qi Lin to the Divine Strategy Manor to target the Xiao Clan’s young geniuses while the elders fought in Mystic City, and arranged for Qi Delongdongqiang to accompany him. As their cloudship departed, the Xiao Clan sealed off the city and a terrifying figure rose toward it, leaving Tang Wenwan warning Qi Lin to hide.

• Qi Tianji explained the Qitian Clan’s decline and entrusted Qi Lin with protecting the clan flame and the sword holding the ancestors’ spirit tablets.
• Qi Tianji told Qi Lin to avoid Qitian techniques and go to the Divine Strategy Manor to kill Xiao Clan and Universal Salvation Chamber of Commerce prodigies.
• Qi Lin agreed to leave after learning that the Xiao Clan wanted the ice mystic crystal vein beneath the ancestral hall, and Qi Tianji said more Qitian clansmen would come to help.
• Qi Tianji arranged for Qi Delongdongqiang to travel with Qi Lin, and Tang Wenwan invited them aboard her cloudship bound for the Divine Strategy Manor.
• As the cloudship headed north, the Xiao Clan declared Mystic City sealed and threatened anyone surnamed Qi; Tang Wenwan recognized an approaching man and urged Qi Lin to hide.