Chapter Summaries

After emerging from seclusion as a Third Seal Symbol Master at Origin Core Realm Small Perfection, Lin Yan learned that the Ghost Blade Sect had attacked the Lin Family and allied with the Blood Wolf Gang. He gathered the Iron Mountain Gang and support from the Ten Thousand Gold Merchant Guild and the Symbol Master Association, then led the four-sided coalition to accept the Blood Wolf Gang’s challenge to a battle to the death.

• Lin Yan learned that the Ghost Blade Sect had robbed the Lin Family’s Yang Origin Stone shipment, injured Lin Xiao and Lin Zhentian, and killed more than thirty Black Wolf Guards.
• Lin Xia explained that the Ghost Blade Sect had allied with the Blood Wolf Gang, and Lin Yan recognized the Blood Wolf Gang as the force behind the attack.
• Lin Yan sent Luo Ling to ask Fu Ba and the Iron Mountain Gang to join forces against the Blood Wolf Gang, and they agreed after learning of Lin Yan’s breakthroughs.
• Xuan Su and Zi Yue arrived with elite men, bringing the Ten Thousand Gold Merchant Guild’s support and protection from Master Yan’s disciple.
• After a Black Wolf Guard reported the Blood Wolf Gang’s challenge to a battle to the death at the city center plaza, Lin Yan led the four-sided coalition to accept it.

Lin Yan led the Lin Family and its allies into a showdown against the Blood Wolf Gang and the Ghost Blade Sect in Flame City's square. After both sides launched their attack, Lin Yan joined the battle as the fate of the Lin Family’s new foothold remained uncertain.

• Yue Shan and Gui Yan confronted Lin Yan’s force, while Xia Wan Jin and Master Yan clarified that their factions were not officially intervening.
• Lin Yan taunted Gui Yan over the Ghost Blade Sect’s attacks on the Lin Family, and Lin Dong vowed to kill him to avenge his injured father and fallen clan members.
• Lin Yan assigned Lin Dong to face Gui Yan, Fu Ba to face Liu Chong, and planned to fight Yue Shan himself while Xuan Su and Zi Yue helped oversee the allied forces.
• Yue Shan and Gui Yan ordered their men to attack, and Lin Yan raised his hand and shouted for the Lin Family’s forces to kill.

Lin Yan confronted Yue Shan as the Lin family battled the Blood Wolf Gang in Flame City's central square. After defeating Yue Shan's attacks with his newly revealed strength and spiritual secret skill, Lin Yan killed him with a flaming palm from above, leaving the gang's forces in chaos.

• Lin Yan faced Yue Shan while Little Thunder rampaged through the Blood Wolf Gang forces and fought off a Small Origin Core Realm woman.
• Lin Yan revealed his Origin Core Realm Small Perfection strength and Third Seal Symbol Master abilities, neutralizing Yue Shan's Mountain Fist.
• Yue Shan unleashed his Five Ding Mountain Splitting Saber, but Lin Yan's Extinction Symbol Array and Extinction Light tore through the attack and wounded him.
• Yue Shan fled as the Blood Wolf Gang scattered, while Lin Yan concealed a Nine Nether Flame Spirit Palm above him.
• Lin Yan's flaming palm smashed through Yue Shan's defenses and killed him, stunning the witnesses in the square.

After Lin Yan killed Yue Shan, the Blood Wolf Gang collapsed under the Lin family's counterattack, and Lin Dong defeated Gui Yan. The Lin family secured new allies and territory, while Fu Ba offered to merge the Iron Mountain Gang into the Lin family, establishing Lin Yan's family as a rising power in Flame City.

• Yue Shan's death shattered the Blood Wolf Gang's morale, and Lin Yan's forces routed its fleeing members.
• Lin Dong defeated Gui Yan and presented his head to Lin Yan, while Fu Ba defeated Liu Chong.
• Xia Wan Jin and Master Yan congratulated Lin Zhentian and affirmed their families' friendship with the Lin family.
• Lin Yan offered to split the Blood Wolf Gang's territory with Fu Ba, but Fu Ba refused and asked to join the Lin family.
• Lin Yan and Lin Zhentian accepted Fu Ba and the Iron Mountain Gang, naming Fu Ba the Lin family's Chief Offering.

After the Lin Family consolidated its power in Flame City, Lin Yan and Lin Dong attended the Tower Duel, where Lin Yan learned that Uncle Luo reacted with intense shock to the name Zhou Tong. The duel was about to begin, and Lin Yan wondered what connected Uncle Luo to the young Symbol Master from Sky Fire City.

• The Lin Family absorbed the Blood Wolf Gang's territory and became one of Flame City's three major forces, while its ranks and strength continued to grow.
• Lin Yan reassured Qingtan about her stalled cultivation and learned that Lin Xiao had advanced to the Small Origin Core Realm.
• Lin Dong told Lin Yan that he had taken three Ice Xuan Swords from an arrogant Symbol Master from Sky Fire City.
• Lin Yan and Lin Dong arrived at the Symbol Master Association for the Tower Duel and met Zi Yue, who led them to the gathered Flame City and Sky Fire City Symbol Masters.
• Zi Yue identified Han Yun and Zhou Tong as leaders of the Sky Fire City group, and Uncle Luo reacted with intense shock when Lin Yan heard Zhou Tong's name.

Lin Yan joined Flame City's Symbol Masters for the Tower Duel against Sky Fire City, whose Master Han Yun hoped to take control of the Symbol Master Tower. After the tower opened, both teams entered, leaving Master Yan anxious for Lin Yan to secure Flame City's victory.

• Lin Yan wondered whether Flame City's Zhou Tong was connected to the legendary Zhou Tong who had fought Yuan Gate a century earlier.
• Master Yan and Master Han Yun exchanged tense words about the Tower Duel and the Symbol Master Tower's ownership.
• Master Yan and three Symbol Masters opened the tower, releasing a powerful Spiritual pressure that Lin Yan found impressive.
• Han Yun warned Zhou Tong, Liu Long, and Cao Zhu to avoid clashing with Lin Yan, while Zhou Tong accepted the challenge with rising fighting spirit.
• Lin Yan entered the tower with Lin Dong and Zi Yue after Master Yan quietly asked him to be careful and lead Flame City to victory.

Lin Yan entered the Symbol Master Tower and discovered that its baptismal power could strengthen his Devouring God Symbol Seal. He reached the eighth floor with ease, leaving Lin Dong and Zhou Tong struggling on the seventh.

• Lin Yan let the tower’s spiritual fluctuations pass through his Niwan Palace, and his Devouring God Symbol Seal swallowed them and grew slightly more condensed.
• Uncle Luo urged Lin Yan to climb higher, explaining that stronger baptismal power might help him break through to Fourth Seal Symbol Master and that the tower could hold a secret.
• Lin Yan climbed through the tower without the Sky Fire City Symbol Masters bullying the Flame City group, while Zhou Tong struggled across the seventh floor.
• Lin Yan arrived on the seventh floor and surprised Zhou Tong by walking through its spiritual pressure with ease; Lin Dong followed behind him with great effort.
• Lin Yan encouraged Lin Dong and said he would wait for him on the eighth floor before passing through the barrier, leaving Lin Dong and Zhou Tong struggling on the seventh.

Lin Yan and Lin Dong endured the Symbol Master Tower’s Eighth Floor and advanced to the Fourth and Third Seal levels. After their breakthroughs, Lin Yan decided they would continue to the Ninth Floor.

• Lin Dong reached the Eighth Floor half an hour after Lin Yan, and Lin Yan shared the Qi-level Spiritual Secret Skill hidden there with him.
• Lin Yan and Lin Dong cultivated on the Eighth Floor for more than twenty days, drawing on its Spiritual Pressure to strengthen their Spiritual Power.
• Lin Yan’s three black vortexes fused and split into four Natal Symbol Seals, making him a Fourth Seal Symbol Master, while Lin Dong advanced to Third Seal Symbol Master.
• Master Yan and Zi Yue sensed their breakthroughs and recognized the Lin Family brothers’ growing strength.
• Lin Yan declined to leave and pointed out the passage to the Ninth Floor.

Lin Yan and Lin Dong entered the Symbol Master Tower’s Ninth Floor, where they discovered rubbings of two Ancestral Symbols and obtained a map to their locations. Lin Dong shared the map with Lin Yan, and the two left the tower as the rubbings crumbled away.

• Lin Yan and Lin Dong forced their way through the barrier to the Ninth Floor and found ancient runes on its walls.
• Little Sable and Uncle Luo appeared and explained that the runes were rubbings of Ancestral Symbols; Uncle Luo recognized a connection between one rune and Lin Dong’s Natal Spirit Symbol.
• Lin Dong’s Natal Spirit Symbol revealed a map marking the locations of the Ancestral Symbols, including one within the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Lin Dong transferred the map’s information to Lin Yan and said they could compete to find the Ancestral Symbols themselves.
• Lin Yan and Lin Dong left the Ninth Floor, and the walls bearing the rubbings cracked apart until the Ancestral Symbols disappeared.

After the Tower Duel, Lin Yan and Lin Dong returned to Flame City, where their success strengthened the Lin Family’s standing. Lin Yan bought a Creation Realm Green Eyed Fire Lion corpse and learned that a Nirvana Realm expert’s ancient tomb had been discovered in the Heaven Flame Mountain Range, leaving him eager to improve his cultivation before it opened.

• Lin Yan and Lin Dong confirmed they had reached the Symbol Master Tower’s Ninth Floor and advanced to Fourth Seal and Third Seal Symbol Master, respectively, before leaving Flame City.
• Fu Ba crushed factions that challenged the Lin Family, and the family’s growing power made Lin Yan one of Flame City’s most formidable figures.
• Lin Yan went to the Ten Thousand Gold Merchant Guild seeking a high-grade demonic beast corpse to aid his cultivation.
• Xuan Su sold Lin Yan a Creation Realm Greater Achievement Green Eyed Fire Lion corpse for one hundred thousand Yang Origin Stones.
• Xuan Su told Lin Yan that a tomb mansion left by a Nirvana Realm expert had been discovered in the Heaven Flame Mountain Range, and Lin Yan hurried back to prepare for the Ancient Tomb’s opening.

Lin Yan refined a Creation Form stage Green Eyed Fire Lion and broke through to Origin Core Realm Great Perfection, then prepared for the Ancient Tomb Mansion while worrying about Qingtan’s worsening cold. The chapter ended with four young visitors from the Lin Clan Main Family insulting the Lin Family at its Training Ground.

• Lin Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire to refine the Green Eyed Fire Lion and absorbed its energy for a day and night, reaching Origin Core Realm Great Perfection.
• Lin Yan watched over Qingtan as cold air made her tremble, then promised to help resolve her suffering.
• Uncle Luo agreed to protect Lin Yan at the ancient tomb if Lin Yan found a pill to repair his damaged divine soul.
• Lin Yan visited the Lin Family Training Ground and joined Lin Dong in teaching the younger generation martial arts.
• Four young figures bearing Lin Clan Main Family emblems arrived and mocked the Lin Family for failing to return to the Inner Clan.

Lin Feng and three other Inner Clan members trespassed on the Flame City Lin Family’s grounds and injured Lin Yun, but Fu Ba and the Black Wolf Guards captured them when they tried to leave without accepting punishment. Fu Xinyu then arrived with word that the family head wanted Lin Yan and Lin Dong in the main hall, where many more Inner Clan members had gathered.

• Lin Feng mocked the Flame City Lin Family and defeated Lin Yun, injuring him with a blow to the chest.
• Lin Yan stopped Lin Dong from intervening, and Fu Ba arrived with Liu, Li, and the Black Wolf Guards to surround the four intruders.
• Lin Yan told Fu Ba to handle the matter as the Flame City Lin Family, and Fu Ba ordered Lin Feng and his companions to the Hall of Punishment.
• Lin Feng refused to accept punishment and tried to leave, but Fu Ba, Liu, Li, and the Black Wolf Guards captured the four.
• Fu Xinyu arrived and told Lin Yan that the family head had summoned him and Lin Dong to the main hall, where many Inner Clan members had gathered.

Lin Yan accompanied Lin Dong to meet the Inner Clan delegation and challenged its claim that branch families could not punish main-family members. He released a surge of Yuan Power in the guest hall, startling everyone with strength at Origin Core Realm Great Perfection.

• Lin Yan told Fu Ba to bring Lin Feng and the others to the guest hall as guests, then left the training ground with Lin Dong.
• Lin Yan and Lin Dong met Tao Old Mister, Lin Chen, and Lin Ke'er, the Inner Clan’s representatives.
• Lin Feng complained to Lin Chen and Tao Old Mister that Lin Yan had threatened to send him and his companions to the Hall of Punishment.
• Lin Chen and Tao Old Mister objected that the branch family had no right to punish members of the main family.
• Lin Yan challenged the main family’s authority by asking what support it had ever given the Flame City branch family.
• When Lin Chen insisted that only the main family could punish its members, Lin Yan tapped the table and unleashed a powerful surge of Yuan Power that shocked everyone.

Lin Yan revealed that he had reached Origin Core Realm Great Perfection, earning the respect of the Inner Clan and securing a place for himself and Lin Dong on the expedition to the Ancient Tomb Mansion. The chapter ended with both youths preparing to leave for Heaven Flame Mountain Range in three days, though Lin Yan privately planned to slip away from the group.

• Lin Yan's cultivation shocked Lin Chen, Tao Old Mister, and the other Inner Clan members, while Lin Zhentian and the Flame City Lin Family celebrated his achievement.
• Tao Old Mister asked Lin Yan to spare Lin Feng and the others from harsher punishment, and Lin Yan ordered them to receive twenty strikes and required Lin Feng to apologize to Lin Yun and pay his medical expenses.
• Tao Old Mister invited Lin Yan to join the trip to the Ancient Tomb Mansion, and Lin Zhentian persuaded him to bring Lin Dong as well.
• Lin Zhentian told Lin Yan and Lin Dong to accompany Tao Old Mister to Heaven Flame Mountain Range in three days, while Lin Yan privately planned to leave the group after using the Lin Family's banner.
• Lin Yan checked on Qingtan, found her still asleep, and returned to his courtyard to prepare for the journey.

Lin Yan’s group traveled through the dangerous Heaven Flame Mountain Range and reached the Ancient Tomb Mansion, where they prepared for the seal to be broken. As Lin Langtian arrived, Lin Dong’s hatred surfaced and Lin Yan anticipated a possible conflict.

• Lin Yan, Lin Dong, and the Lin Family group camped outside the mountain range, where Tao Old Mister explained that only experts of the Three Realms of Creation could break the tomb’s seal.
• Tao Old Mister confirmed that Lin Langtian would lead the effort, and Lin Dong reacted with clenched fists while Lin Yan comforted him and considered finding medicine for Uncle Luo.
• Lin Ke'er guided the group through the mountain range, and they reached the Ancient Tomb Mansion and joined the encampment at its foot.
• The group encountered Wang Pan and the Wang Clan, while Lin Ke'er pointed out that Lin Yan was their Origin Core Realm Great Perfection expert.
• Lin Yan told Lin Dong they might need to split up inside the tomb, and Lin Dong agreed to be careful with Little Sable.
• A red streak arrived from the northern sky as the seal-breaking gathering waited, and Lin Dong recognized Lin Langtian with hatred.

Lin Yan watched Lin Langtian, Wang Yan, and Qin Shi arrive at the Ancient Tomb, while Uncle Luo warned him that a mysterious presence within Lin Langtian made him dangerous. The gathering awaited Ling Qingzhu, whose arrival left Lin Yan alert for their first meeting.

• Lin Langtian arrived on a crimson eagle formed from Yuan Power, and Master Mu secretly warned him to pay attention to Lin Yan.
• Uncle Luo cautioned Lin Yan to avoid clashing with Lin Langtian and said another special existence was on him.
• Wang Yan arrived on a golden spear, and Uncle Luo identified the spear as a High-Level Spirit Treasure.
• Qin Shi arrived on a Wind Luan as the three geniuses discussed waiting for someone before breaking the mountain seal.
• Ling Qingzhu arrived on a blue lotus, and Lin Yan immediately looked up to see her.

Lin Yan watched Ling Qingzhu arrive at the Ancient Tomb and reflected on his growing interest in her, while Uncle Luo recognized her as a powerful genius from a major sect. After the Great Yan Dynasty’s four geniuses broke the tomb’s seal, Lin Yan and Lin Dong joined the rush toward the Ancient Tomb Mansion.

• Lin Yan admired Ling Qingzhu’s beauty and considered how his actions might change her relationship with Lin Dong.
• Uncle Luo sensed that Ling Qingzhu was a Creation Realm genius from a powerful Eastern Xuan Region sect and found her aura familiar.
• Lin Langtian, Wang Yan, Qin Shi, and Ling Qingzhu attacked the Nirvana Realm seal protecting the mountain summit.
• After a quarter of an hour, the seal shattered, and the four geniuses rushed toward the Ancient Tomb Mansion.
• Lin Dong urged Lin Yan to move, and the two headed for the tomb with the crowd.

Lin Yan and Little Thunder plundered the Ancient Tomb Mansion, feeding its treasures and beast souls to the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire until it reached the Brown-Red Blazing Body. Lin Yan then used the fire’s power to break through to the Creation Realm, setting his sights on Lin Langtian and Wang Yan.

• Lin Yan sent Little Thunder into the Ancient Tomb Mansion and followed Uncle Luo’s guidance to the fifth passage on the left.
• Lin Yan found thirty thousand Pure Origin Pills and let the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire devour them, strengthening the fire instead of spending time collecting them.
• Uncle Luo led Lin Yan through valuable stone chambers, where Lin Yan fed their treasures to the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire.
• Uncle Luo opened a sealed jade door, and Lin Yan and Little Thunder devoured nearly one hundred beast souls inside, with Little Thunder also strengthening its Thunder Fire Giant Tiger bloodline.
• After the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire reached the Brown-Red Blazing Body, Lin Yan broke through to the Creation Realm in a remote chamber and declared that he was coming for Lin Langtian and Wang Yan.

Lin Yan broke through to the Creation Realm, then seized an Intermediate Spirit Treasure from Wang Pan and awakened its true form as the Heaven Abyss Ruler. After discovering that it could channel the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire, he found that the weapon’s power rivaled a High-Level Spirit Treasure.

• Lin Yan completed his breakthrough to Creation Realm Small Achievement, while Little Thunder grew stronger after absorbing beast souls.
• Lin Yan and Little Thunder reached a battle-scarred hall, where Uncle Luo explained that its spirit treasures had already been claimed.
• Lin Yan overheard Wang Pan threaten an Origin Core Realm fighter for an Intermediate Spirit Treasure, then confronted Wang Pan and demanded it.
• Wang Pan gave Lin Yan the spirit treasure, and Lin Yan used blood essence to make it acknowledge him as master.
• The spirit treasure transformed into the Heaven Abyss Ruler, which withstood and channeled the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire, reaching High-Level Spirit Treasure power.

Lin Yan acquired the Heaven Abyss Ruler and hurried deeper into the Ancient Tomb, where he found the Extreme Fiend Yin Dragon Saliva and a rare spirit medicine. He was confronted by Lin Langtian, Ling Qingzhu, Wang Yan, and Qin Shi just as he reached the Medicine Pool.

• Lin Yan stored the Heaven Abyss Ruler, then met Lin Ke'er and Tao Old Mister, who told him Lin Dong had gone deeper into the Ancient Tomb alone.
• Lin Ke'er rebuked Lin Feng for insulting Lin Yan, and Tao Old Mister suspected Lin Yan had broken through to the Form Creation stage.
• Lin Yan examined a broken Symbol Puppet and continued through the Ancient Tomb’s mechanisms with Uncle Luo’s help.
• Lin Yan reached a Medicine Pool and found the Extreme Fiend Yin Dragon Saliva and the Ninth Grade Other Shore Demon Tuo Flower.
• Lin Langtian, Ling Qingzhu, Wang Yan, and Qin Shi emerged after breaking a formation and angrily confronted Lin Yan.