Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan agreed to represent the Barbarian King City Symbol Master Association against Huo Song in the weapon-refinement competition, revealing that he had reached Advanced Spirit Symbol Master. Three days later, he arrived at the association and faced Grandmaster Zhenyan, whose presence gave him an overwhelming sense of pressure.

• Lin Yan visited Meng Fan and Hei Shuo, learned that Zhenyan sought their Heaven-Rank Spiritual Treasure Weapon Recipe, and heard how Zhenyan had betrayed them in the past.
• Meng Fan and Hei Shuo explained that Zhenyan planned to have Huo Song challenge the association’s younger generation; Lin Yan offered to face him and revealed his Advanced Spirit Symbol Master strength.
• Lin Yan agreed to return for the competition in three days, while Meng Fan and Hei Shuo worried that Huo Song’s weapon-refinement experience gave him an advantage.
• On the day of the assembly, Liu Ya joined Lin Yan and urged him not to lose to Huo Song, whose marriage alliance with the Sunset Merchant Guild troubled her.
• Lin Yan reached the association, saw Huo Song with Zhenyan and the Hundred Weapons Pavilion group, and sensed that Zhenyan’s pressure surpassed anything he had felt from Shi Yang.

Grandmaster Zhenyan brought Hundred Weapons Pavilion into a contest against the Barbarian King City Symbol Master Association, drawing the attention of Elder He and Prince Yong Jin Guangxu. Lin Yan faced Huo Song in a weapon-refining match, which began with both given two attempts to refine a Spiritual Treasure from an incomplete recipe before the hourglass ran out.

• Elder He arrived and tried to persuade Grandmaster Zhenyan to reconcile with Meng Fan and Hei Shuo and join the Symbol Master Association.
• Prince Yong Jin Guangxu arrived, revealed the imperial family's support for Grandmaster Zhenyan, and agreed with Elder He to watch the contest.
• Grandmaster Zhenyan reminded Meng Fan and Hei Shuo of their old agreement, then presented his disciple Huo Song as Hundred Weapons Pavilion's contestant.
• Liu Ya urged Lin Yan to face Huo Song, and Lin Yan revealed that he had reached Advanced Spirit Symbol Master before accepting the challenge.
• Elder He set the contest's rules: Lin Yan and Huo Song had two chances to refine a Spiritual Treasure from an incomplete Weapon Recipe, and they had to finish before the hourglass emptied.
• Elder He declared the contest begun as Huo Song and Lin Yan prepared to refine.

Lin Yan and Huo Song competed to refine the High-Level Spirit Treasure Formation Breaking Overlord Spear from an incomplete recipe. After Huo Song finished first, Lin Yan completed his spear at the final moment, leaving the contest’s outcome unresolved.

• Elder He began the match, and Lin Yan studied the incomplete Weapon Recipe while Huo Song started refining.
• Lin Yan revealed his powerful red Spirit Fire and carefully purified the nine materials despite having little weapon-refinement experience.
• With time running short, Lin Yan poured all nine refined materials into the Spirit Fire at once and began fusing them together.
• Huo Song finished first and presented his Formation Breaking Overlord Spear as the hourglass neared its end.
• Lin Yan opened his eyes and produced an equally domineering spear just as the final grains of sand fell.

Lin Yan completed the Formation Breaking Overlord Spear and tied Huo Song’s initial quality rating, but Huo Song revealed his spear could change into a sword and took the lead. Lin Yan then demonstrated his spear’s overwhelming power, and the judges rated it three stars.

• Lin Yan finished refining the Formation Breaking Overlord Spear at the last moment, astonishing the audience and establishing himself as an Advanced Weapon Refinement Master.
• The judges inspected both weapons and gave Lin Yan’s and Huo Song’s flawless spears matching one-and-a-half-star ratings.
• Huo Song demonstrated that his spear could transform into a sword, raising its rating to two stars.
• Lin Yan asked to demonstrate his weapon’s hidden strength and unleashed a devastating thunder-and-fire attack with his spear.
• Elder He announced that Lin Yan’s Formation Breaking Overlord Spear merited a three-star rating.

Lin Yan won the weapon-refinement contest after Elder He and Zhen Yan confirmed his Formation Breaking Overlord Spear was Three-Star Quality and found no cheating. Zhen Yan left after Lin Yan refused to reveal his secret method or accept leadership of the Hundred Weapons Pavilion, and Meng Fan and Hei Shuo stopped Lin Yan as he prepared to leave to tell him something.

• Elder He assessed Lin Yan's Formation Breaking Overlord Spear as a Three-Star Quality High-Level Spirit Treasure, and Zhen Yan confirmed that Lin Yan had not cheated.
• Huo Song accused Lin Yan of cheating, but Liu Ya defended him and Zhen Yan declared Lin Yan the contest's winner.
• Zhen Yan asked Lin Yan to reveal his method of fusing demonic beast power into spirit treasures and offered him the Hundred Weapons Pavilion, but Lin Yan refused both requests.
• Zhen Yan admitted the Hundred Weapons Pavilion had lost and left with its people after warning Meng Fan and Hei Shuo that he would reclaim what he believed was his.
• Jin Guangxu bought Lin Yan's Formation Breaking Overlord Spear for four hundred thousand Pure Origin Pills, and the crowd dispersed as Lin Yan's fame spread.
• As Lin Yan prepared to leave, Meng Fan and Hei Shuo stopped him and said they had something to tell him.

After winning the weapon-refining contest, Lin Yan received two fragments of the Heaven-Rank Hundred Transformations Demon Box recipe, an honorary elder token, and an ancient array scroll. Back at the inn, he used the Nameless Array Disk to unlock the scroll, which revealed the name “Sun Moon Star Array.”

• Meng Fan and Hei Shuo gave Lin Yan the two fragments of the Heaven-Rank Hundred Transformations Demon Box recipe as a reward for helping them.
• Lin Yan accepted an honorary elder token from Bo Lin and received Bo Lin’s mysterious ancient array scroll.
• Meng Fan warned Lin Yan that Zhen Yan might target him for his weapon-refining art and the recipe fragments.
• Lin Yan returned to the inn and asked Uncle Luo to examine the array scroll, but neither of them could decipher it.
• Lin Yan brought out the Nameless Array Disk, whose resonance with the scroll let him unlock it and reveal the words “Sun Moon Star Array.”

Lin Yan learned that his Heaven-Rank Array scroll was an independently usable sub-array of the Sun Moon Star Array, powerful enough to threaten low-level Nirvana Realm experts. After reflecting on the enemy he had made in Grandmaster Zhenyan, he was summoned by Chairman Bo Lin and learned that the Zhao Family wanted to see him.

• Uncle Luo identified Lin Yan's scroll as a self-contained sub-array of the Heaven-Rank Sun Moon Star Array, which could be arranged to fight low-level Nirvana Realm experts.
• Lin Yan recognized that Grandmaster Zhenyan might target him for humiliating Huo Song and for coveting his demonic-beast-bloodline weapon-refinement method.
• Lin Yan thought of Qingtan and Lin Dong as he worried that returning peacefully to the Great Yan Dynasty would be difficult.
• A Symbol Master Association practitioner named Cheng Wei told Lin Yan that Chairman Bo Lin had summoned him.
• Cheng Wei revealed that the Zhao Family had arrived in Barbarian King City and specifically wanted to find Lin Yan, darkening his expression.

The Zhao Family’s Zhao Yan confronted Lin Yan over Zhao Yiming’s death and demanded that he come to Zhao City. Bo Lin and the Symbol Master Association defended Lin Yan, but Zhao Yan produced a Star Light Stone that could reveal whether Lin Yan possessed Zhao Yiming’s remaining Star Light Demon Armor.

• Lin Yan agreed to meet the Zhao Family, despite suspecting they blamed him for Zhao Yiming’s death.
• Zhao Yan arrived at the Barbarian King City Symbol Master Association with the Black Armor Guard and questioned Lin Yan.
• Bo Lin, Hei Shuo, and Meng Fan stood behind Lin Yan and refused to let Zhao Yan take him without sufficient reason.
• Zhao Yan demanded that Lin Yan accompany him to Zhao City, while his guards surrounded Lin Yan.
• Bo Lin invoked Grandmaster Zhuge to deter Zhao Yan from forcibly taking Lin Yan.
• Zhao Yan revealed a Star Light Stone and proposed using it to prove that Lin Yan had Zhao Yiming’s remaining Star Light Demon Armor.

Lin Yan faced Zhao Yan's accusation that he had killed Zhao Yiming, as the Star Light Gem threatened to reveal the Star Light Demon Armor. The Refining Demon Pearl suppressed its signal long enough for Zhao Yan to leave without proof, but Zhao Yan's hostility convinced Lin Yan he needed to leave the Great Qing Dynasty soon.

• Zhao Yan confronted Lin Yan at the Symbol Master Association and used the Star Light Gem to accuse him of possessing the Star Light Demon Armor.
• Lin Yan secretly moved the armor-containing Cosmos Sack into the Refining Demon Pearl, following Uncle Luo's advice to block the gem's sensing.
• The Star Light Gem briefly flashed near Lin Yan, alarming the gathered Symbol Masters, but then went dark before Zhao Yan could prove the armor was there.
• Lin Yan explained that his Star Power-absorbing martial art had caused the flash, and Bo Lin ordered Zhao Yan and his guards to leave.
• Zhao Yan departed with a killing glare, and Lin Yan resolved to leave the Great Qing Dynasty as soon as possible.

More than a decade after the war against the Yimo, Lin Yan and Lin Dong prepared to leave the Tianxuan Continent and search for Ying Huanhuan and greater strength. They opened a passage to another plane and stepped into the void with Ling Qingzhu and Qingtan.

• The Tianxuan Continent flourished after the war, while Lin Yan and Lin Dong became known as the Fire Ancestor and Martial Ancestor.
• Lin Yan met Ling Qingzhu and Qingtan in the Chaotic Demon Sea and spoke of opening a passage between planes to search for Ying Huanhuan.
• Lin Dong arrived, greeted Ling Qingzhu and Qingtan, and resolved to find Huanhuan.
• Lin Yan and Lin Dong opened a passage to another plane, warned their companions to stay close, and entered it with Ling Qingzhu and Qingtan.
• The author apologized for ending the book early and announced a new book, "Battle Through the Heavens: I Am the Thunder Emperor."