Chapter Summaries

Lin Sheng established a hidden base in the Congyun Mountain Range, checked on his family and gathered intelligence about the forces hunting him. After seven days of training, he completed the first layer of the White Elephant Town Mountain Art.

• Lin Sheng and Xie Qingyun settled the Seven Forms Sect survivors in a mountain hollow and discussed the dangers and supplies they would need.
• Lin Sheng visited his family in Changhe County, where he met Yellow Dog and learned that the Tianxiang Sword Sect, Yuanyang Beast Sect, Prefectural Office, and Situ Family were searching for him.
• Yellow Dog told Lin Sheng that the Prefectural Office had placed him first on its Black List and that the Tianxiang Sword Sect had offered a million taels for information about him.
• Lin Sheng left his family in Yellow Dog's care and returned to his secluded base to cultivate.
• After seven days of training, Lin Sheng completed the first layer of the White Elephant Town Mountain Art.

Lin Sheng killed a Corrupt Swamp Black Mane in the Congyun Mountain Range and learned that the Seven Forms Sect’s supreme art required combining multiple true arts, some of which were now incomplete. Wanyan Bei asked him to kill several people in the mountains, while secretly plotting to pressure Lin Sheng into joining Reverse Ten Floors.

• Lin Sheng killed the Corrupt Swamp Black Mane and possessed it, gaining its attributes and corrosive poison talent.
• Xie Qingyun explained Seven Forms Fusion and said only five of the Seven Forms Sect’s seven true arts remained relatively complete.
• Lin Sheng resolved to focus on strengthening himself first, though he still hoped to master all seven true arts eventually.
• Wanyan Bei visited Lin Sheng, offered protection through Reverse Ten Floors, and asked him to kill several people in the Congyun Mountain Range; Lin Sheng agreed.
• After Wanyan Bei left, Elder Tong suggested capturing or threatening Lin Sheng, but Wanyan Bei insisted on making him join willingly and revealed that Linjiang Prefecture was hunting him.

Lin Sheng entered the Congyun Mountain Range to gather exotic beasts, while a group seeking the Netherworld Soul Grass was betrayed and attacked by Sun Qing and the Bat Sect. Yang Liu escaped the slaughter but was pursued by Wang Manjiang, leaving her desperate to survive and avenge her fellow disciples.

• Lin Sheng memorized the five true arts, destroyed the books, and left for the Congyun Mountain Range after informing Xie Qingyun.
• Zhou Sanlai led his group through the Blazing Poison Miasma toward the Netherworld Soul Grass, but Sun Qing ambushed them with help from the traitor Wang Manjiang.
• Zhou Sanlai and three disciples fought to cover Yang Liu's escape, but Sun Qing killed them and sent Wang Manjiang after her.
• Lin Sheng killed and absorbed a Gray Pattern Wolf, noticed someone fleeing nearby, and continued on without investigating.
• Yang Liu avoided a spear thrown by Wang Manjiang, recognized her Third Senior Brother's weapon, and fled from the traitor.

Lin Sheng rescued Yang Liu from Wang Manjiang and learned that the Netherworld Soul Grass could aid a breakthrough to the Divine Form realm. He confronted Sun Qing at the secluded pool and killed him, leaving the treasure within reach.

• Wang Manjiang pursued Yang Liu until Lin Sheng appeared, killed the Bat Sect disciples, and killed Wang when he tried to attack her.
• Yang Liu told Lin Sheng that she was a surviving Ghost Sect disciple and explained the Netherworld Soul Grass’s importance to cultivation and breaking through to Divine Form.
• Lin Sheng brought Yang Liu to the valley, where Sun Qing found the Netherworld Soul Grass growing beneath the secluded pool.
• Sun Qing attacked Lin Sheng with his bat techniques, but Lin Sheng’s transformed body withstood the blows.
• Lin Sheng used Heart Ape Deterrence to overwhelm Sun Qing and crushed him with a giant hand.

Lin Sheng obtained the Netherworld Soul Grass after killing the Profound Nether Yin Python, then killed Yang Liu when he realized she had tried to use the python against him. He absorbed the python’s blood and began cultivating its recovery talent, but the chapter ended as the Netherworld Soul Grass triggered a sudden chill inside him.

• Lin Sheng found the Netherworld Soul Grass at the bottom of the secluded pool, where the Profound Nether Yin Python ambushed and wounded him.
• Lin Sheng killed the python, absorbed it into his body, and collected its gallbladder and fangs.
• Lin Sheng recognized Yang Liu’s attempt to lure him into danger and killed her before leaving the ruined valley.
• Lin Sheng ate the python’s gallbladder, advanced the Spirit Snake Vein Transformation Hand, and tested the python’s Yin Vein Tendon recovery talent.
• Lin Sheng ate one petal of the Netherworld Soul Grass, and a sudden chill surged from his heart to the crown of his head.

Lin Sheng recovered from consuming a leaf of Netherworld Soul Grass and concealed the cave before leaving, while Liu Tianci’s search for him continued. Five days later, four Black-Clothed Envoys of the Heavenly Net Sect killed and consumed a powerful white tiger as they searched the Congyun Mountain Range for Sacred Elephant’s Tusk.

• Lin Sheng endured the Netherworld Soul Grass’s hallucinations, recognized its risks and benefits, and put the remaining plant away to recover.
• Lin Sheng divided the remaining snake gallbladder, left the snake fangs behind, and used Earth Vein Resonance to bury the cave entrance.
• Liu Tianci’s constables raided the Spirit Snake Courtyard’s hideout, killed its disciples, and failed to learn Lin Sheng’s whereabouts from Yu Zhao.
• Liu Tianci received a message about the Heavenly Net Sect and a demon beast’s tooth, while Ouyang Lengshui, the Yuanyang Beast Sect, and the Situ Family received the same news.
• Four Heavenly Net Sect envoys used their Ghost Fiend Sealing Heaven array to drain and kill a white tiger, then butchered and ate its organs.

Lin Sheng tracked four strange humans through the Blood Maple Forest after finding a White-browed Tiger and herb gatherers killed and disemboweled. He identified the men as likely his targets and closed in on them as they continued toward the edge of the mountains with the Sacred Elephant's Tusk.

• Shaha and his companions attacked a group of herb gatherers, killed most of them, and feasted on their organs beside the White-browed Tiger's corpse.
• Lin Sheng reached the Blood Maple Forest, killed a wolf beast, and discovered the White-browed Tiger's body, which he could not absorb.
• Lin Sheng found the murdered herb gatherers and sensed four non-beast auras nearby, then hurried after them.
• Two days later, Shahan warned his companions to disguise themselves after leaving the mountains and revealed that they carried the Sacred Elephant's Tusk to suppress their beast nature.
• Lin Sheng sensed the four men's bloody aura and realized they were just ahead.

Shahan and his Heavenly Net Sect brothers carried off captives and killed Bright Moon Sect members as they returned through the Congyun Mountain Range. After the ground split open and the brothers were ambushed, a crimson giant emerged and killed Shaha, leaving Shahan facing the unknown attacker.

• Shahan and his three brothers captured Liu Yang and other Bright Moon Sect members, intending to keep them as food and torment Liu Yang.
• Three Bright Moon Sect experts arrived to rescue Liu Yang, but Shawa, Shaha, and Shaluo killed them and took their bodies.
• The brothers discussed their strength and the factions of Tiannan Prefecture as they continued through the mountains, where falling rocks and a landslide separated Shaluo from the group.
• Shahan and Shaha turned back to look for Shaluo, but a hidden attacker seized Shawa and dragged him underground.
• Shaha used his sonic secret art to stun the attacker, but a golden vertical eye broke through the technique and the attacker emerged as a crimson giant, killing Shaha in front of Shahan.

Lin Sheng killed Shahan after the Heavenly Net Sect fighter transformed into a batlike beast, then recovered a valuable tusk from the buried remains. He left the surviving Bright Moon Sect members behind, and Liu Yang urged her companions to return to their sect.

• Shahan transformed by absorbing the dead men’s flesh-and-blood aura and attacked Lin Sheng, but Lin Sheng’s body rapidly healed and resisted the strikes.
• Lin Sheng tore off Shahan’s arm, crushed his head and body, then buried the remains.
• Lin Sheng found a tusk identified by his panel as belonging to a Spiritual Pivot Jade Soul Elephant, a Demon Beast whose traits could greatly increase Spirit.
• Lin Sheng ignored the injured Bright Moon Sect members and vanished into the forest.
• Liu Yang opened her eyes after Lin Sheng left and told her recovering fellow disciples to help her up.

Liu Tianci and the other factions learned that Lin Sheng had killed the Heavenly Net Sect members and was carrying the Spiritual Pivot Ivory, prompting Ouyang Lengshui and Mu Zhong to seek him. In a hidden cave, Lin Sheng used the ivory to reduce the side effects of the Netherworld Soul Grass, then sensed imminent danger and fled underground.

• The injured Bright Moon Sect members fled a powerful wolf beast and saw sword-flying figures pass overhead.
• Wei Bo and Liu Tianci investigated the battlefield and found that the Heavenly Net Sect members had been killed and the Spiritual Pivot Ivory was gone.
• Shi Hui, Ouyang Lengshui, Mu Zhong, and Tian Sanye arrived, but Silver Badge Constables brought in Bright Moon Sect members who had encountered the killers.
• Liu Yang identified the killer as a crimson, three-eyed giant with bone spurs, and Liu Tianci confirmed that it was Lin Sheng and revealed he had the Spiritual Pivot Ivory.
• Lin Sheng used the Spiritual Pivot Ivory to ease the effects of the Netherworld Soul Grass, sensed danger with his Scent-Tracking Rat form, and vanished into the earth.

Lin Sheng evaded pursuers tracking the Spiritual Pivot Ivory, then discovered that the Prefectural Office, Tianxiang Sword Sect, and Yuanyang Beast Sect had circulated portraits of him and the Seven Forms Sect members with rewards for finding them. He realized the temporary encampment was in danger and left the chapter facing the consequences of the manhunt.

• Shi Hui used the Spiritual Pivot Eye to track Lin Sheng, while Ouyang Lengshui joined him in pursuit.
• Wei Bo and Liu Tianci found Lin Sheng and offered him a place in the Prefectural Office, but Lin Sheng refused and escaped underground.
• Lin Sheng confirmed that hiding several hundred zhang underground blocked tracking through the Spiritual Pivot Ivory and used the Netherworld Soul Grass to cultivate.
• Lin Sheng ambushed a Flying Dragon Stockade group searching for him, killed its leader and the remaining pursuers, and questioned the lone survivor.
• The survivor revealed that the authorities, Tianxiang Sword Sect, and Yuanyang Beast Sect had offered rewards for finding people whose portraits included Lin Sheng and the Seven Forms Sect members.
• Lin Sheng realized the temporary encampment was exposed and feared that Xie Qingyun, Yuan Zhongfei, Wei Yun, Bai Qing, and Gou Donglai could not protect themselves.

Liu Tianci and Wei Bo set a trap for Lin Sheng by offering rewards to draw out the Seven Forms Sect remnants, while Lin Sheng returned to their camp after killing Sun Kai and the witnesses who discovered them. He ordered the camp sealed and its defenses strengthened before announcing that he would enter seclusion.

• Liu Tianci deduced that the Seven Forms Sect remnants were likely hiding near the boundary between the outer and middle regions of the Congyun Mountain Range and explained how the rewards would lure Lin Sheng out.
• Mo Xing and Gou Donglai led a group to harvest Crimson Fang Fruit, while a hidden observer spotted them and reported their location to the Yellow Sparrow Sect.
• Bai Qing broke through to the late Blood Circulation realm, and Xie Qingyun confided that she feared something might happen to Lin Sheng.
• Sun Kai confirmed that the camp held Seven Forms Sect members, but Lin Sheng killed Wang Gang and Sun Kai before they could alert others.
• Lin Sheng returned to camp, killed the other nearby Yellow Sparrow Sect members, and ordered everyone to stay within three miles and patrol for intruders.
• Lin Sheng told Yuan Zhongfei and Xie Qingyun that he would enter seclusion for a while.

Yuan Zhongfei and Xie Qingyun’s disciples defeated another group searching for the Seven Forms Sect’s hidden encampment, while Lin Sheng realized the camp was increasingly likely to be found. Wanyan Bei mastered a sixth sword intent and ordered Pei Er to leak the encampment’s location to force Lin Sheng into seeking his help.

• Yuan Zhongfei and the other disciples ambushed and killed black-clad men who had discovered the encampment, then debated whether the sect should move deeper into the Congyun Mountain Range.
• Lin Sheng emerged from seclusion after consuming seven petals of the Netherworld Soul Grass and sensed the latest attackers’ bloody aura, concluding that the encampment’s danger was growing.
• Wanyan Bei demonstrated his newly mastered sixth sword intent and said he was confident he could defeat Liu Tianci in a battle to the death.
• Pei Er told Wanyan Bei that several major forces were searching for the Seven Forms Sect and that Elder Tong was investigating a possible Divine Seed in the Yunshui Mountain Range.
• Wanyan Bei ordered Pei Er to secretly reveal the encampment’s location so Lin Sheng would be driven to the edge and eventually ask to join him.

Xie Qingyun and the Seven Forms Sect disciples faced a coordinated assault by Bai Yunhe’s Golden Crane Sect and Tian Kui, who sought to capture them for a reward. Lin Sheng arrived in his giant form, killed Tian Kui, and seized Bai Yunhe as the battle turned decisively in his favor.

• Xie Qingyun killed a fleeing herb-gatherer leader, then rushed to help Wei Yun and the disciples defeat another group of attackers.
• Bai Yunhe persuaded Tian Kui to join forces and capture the Seven Forms Sect people, including Lin Sheng, for the reward.
• As Lin Sheng cultivated the Netherworld Soul Grass, its illusion poison pushed his mind close to its limit.
• Bai Yunhe and Tian Kui attacked the Seven Forms Sect forces, overwhelming Xie Qingyun, Wei Yun, and Yuan Zhongfei.
• Lin Sheng arrived, transformed into a crimson giant, and killed Tian Kui with a blow that crushed his head.
• Bai Yunhe tried to flee, but Lin Sheng intercepted him and crushed his bones in his hands.

Lin Sheng remained at the outpost despite the growing threat and began cultivating with the Netherworld Soul Grass, while several pursuers discovered signs of his location and set out after him. After enduring a vision of his former life and fighting off its illusions, Lin Sheng awakened with his vertical eye open and his mental fatigue eased.

• Lin Sheng returned to the outpost after killing the Golden Crane Sect attackers, then decided to stay and enter seclusion while Xie Qingyun and Yuan Zhongfei watched for trouble.
• Lin Sheng took a petal of the Netherworld Soul Grass alongside the Spiritual Pivot Ivory and fell into a vision of his former life in a wildlife park.
• Ouyang Lengshui and Shi Hui detected a signal from the Elephant Eye and hurried to pursue Lin Sheng, while Liu Tianci also noticed the Spiritual Pivot Ivory’s response.
• Tian Sanye told Mu Zhong that the Elephant Eye had become active, and Mu Zhong set off with him to find Lin Sheng.
• Lin Sheng rejected the rope in his vision, fought the lions, and tore through the illusion before waking in the cultivation chamber with his vertical eye open and his mental fatigue diminished.

Lin Sheng emerged from seclusion with his Spirit strengthened and confronted the Prefectural Office and its allies, who had surrounded the camp to seize him and the Spiritual Pivot Ivory. He revealed a terrifying transformation, killed Ouyang Lengshui, and struck Shi Hui down, leaving the other gathered experts facing his overwhelming power.

• Lin Sheng raised his Spirit to four, condensed his consciousness with newfound ease, and silently approached Yuan Zhongfei and Xie Qingyun.
• Lin Sheng spotted the Prefectural Office's Sky Sparrow Hawks and destroyed them, but dark-robed constables led by Wei Bo and Liu Tianci arrived to surround the camp.
• Tian Sanye and Mu Zhong arrived with two high-grade spirit beasts, and Ouyang Lengshui appeared demanding Lin Sheng for himself.
• Lin Sheng transformed and seized Ouyang Lengshui's Zhuo Guang Sword barehanded before crushing Ouyang Lengshui's head.
• Lin Sheng shattered Shi Hui's Formless Sword light with his hand and sent Shi Hui flying with a single slap.

Lin Sheng killed Shi Hui and overwhelmed the attackers who joined the fight, killing their spirit beasts and pursuing the Seven Forms Sect elders on the cliff. He returned Wanyan Bei’s token, declared their debt settled, and left after warning that he would kill him the next time they met.

• Lin Sheng killed Shi Hui with his flames after Shi Hui attacked him with his full strength.
• Wei Bo, Tian Sanye, Liu Tianci, and Mu Zhong joined forces against Lin Sheng, but his bone armor withstood their attacks and he drove Wei Bo away.
• Lin Sheng killed the Giant Spirit Bear and wolf ape, causing Tian Sanye and Mu Zhong to flee with Wei Bo and Liu Tianci.
• Lin Sheng killed more than a dozen Silver Badge Constables and forced the remaining Seven Forms Sect members to retreat.
• Lin Sheng defeated the two elders guarding Wanyan Bei, killed Elder Meng, and returned Wanyan Bei’s ivory token.
• Lin Sheng told Wanyan Bei that their debt was settled and warned that he would kill him the next time they met before disappearing.

After Lin Sheng led the Seven Forms Sect into the Congyun Mountain Range, a Divine Form expert from Reverse Ten Floors confronted him. Qi Ning intervened before the expert could capture Lin Sheng, then marveled at his transformed dragon bloodline potential.

• Lin Sheng ordered the Seven Forms Sect to leave the camp and head for the central region, using dragon's might to keep beasts away while he recovered from battle.
• Lin Sheng sensed a powerful pursuer, went to meet him alone, and identified the one-eyed swordsman as the Divine Form expert protecting Wanyan Bei from Reverse Ten Floors.
• The swordsman demanded that Lin Sheng return with him and prepared to attack, but a hidden assailant struck his barrier with a dagger.
• Lin Sheng used his dragon's might and flaming giant hand to break the swordsman's barrier, but the swordsman escaped after defending himself.
• Qi Ning appeared, explained that Divine Form experts were difficult to kill, and examined Lin Sheng's unusually powerful dragon bloodline potential.

Lin Sheng learned that he was an Ancestor Awakener, while Wanyan Bei abandoned plans to capture him after Elder Tong reported a powerful Divine Form expert was protecting him. Lin Sheng became the target of major bounties across Linjiang Prefecture, as Wan Jianghai and Duan Heng neared a discovery in the abyss at Bai Peak.

• Qi Ning explained Ancestor Awakeners and warned Lin Sheng that repeatedly awakening his bloodline could make him bestial, then offered to take him to Dark Star headquarters; Lin Sheng declined.
• Wanyan Bei learned that Elder Tong had been driven back by a powerful Divine Form expert protecting Lin Sheng, so he agreed to stop targeting Lin Sheng and focus on the Divine Seed at Yunshui Mountain Range.
• News of Lin Sheng’s strength and the losses suffered by the Tianxiang Sword Sect, Yuanyang Beast Sect, and Prefectural Office spread through Linjiang Prefecture, and the major powers issued bounties for him.
• Wan Jianghai punished Wei Bo and Liu Tianci for failing to capture Lin Sheng, then joined Duan Heng at Bai Peak as the excavation revealed a change in the abyss’s mineral structure.

Duan Heng and Wan Jianghai discovered a cavern beneath Bai Peak filled with apparently valuable Divine Seeds, but a terrifying demon beast emerged and devastated them. At the Congyun Mountain Range, Lin Sheng assessed the Spirit Beasts and weapons he had acquired and examined the stone eye taken from Shi Hui.

• Duan Heng and Wan Jianghai used burrow rats to excavate beneath Bai Peak and found a cavern containing six enormous Divine Seeds among many other mineral seeds.
• Duan Heng discovered that the Divine Seeds were mostly empty, while the last one held crystalline blood that a tentacle absorbed before the demon beast erupted from the ground.
• The demon beast’s tentacles drained Duan Heng and several officers, and Wan Jianghai escaped badly wounded after crushing a jade ring; the tentacles then engulfed the soldiers outside Bai Peak.
• At the Congyun Mountain Range, Lin Sheng reviewed the Body Entry attributes of a Giant Spirit Bear and a Howling Moon Wolf Ghoul, and considered how they strengthened him.
• Lin Sheng reflected on his new strength and the swords he had obtained, then brought out the stone eye taken from Shi Hui.