Chapter Summaries

King Yan revealed that he had identified Anthony as the infiltrator and killed him, then confronted the mysterious entity behind the Heart of Thorns. Meanwhile, Lin Sheng made progress in the Pitch-Black Space by standing and taking a step, though his body soon collapsed.

• After King Yan returned to camp, Bi Jiang claimed he had a secret letter for King Yan and placed a hand on Zhang Sanyang’s shoulder, causing black markings to appear on his face.
• Zhang Sanyang reported the army’s losses to King Yan, who revealed that his battle with Tang Chong had left both of them injured and accused Zhang Sanyang of being a Heart of Thorns infiltrator.
• Zhang Sanyang transformed into Anthony, and King Yan cut him down and pinned him to the doors with his greatsword, killing him despite his regenerative powers.
• King Yan challenged the hidden entity behind Anthony, and a many-eyed monster emerged from the slime as he charged into battle.
• Lin Sheng stood and took a step in the Pitch-Black Space before his weakened body fell, then awoke from cultivation in the quiet room.

Lin Sheng continued cultivating as Southern Qi learned that Northern Yan had withdrawn after Zhao Hongzhang killed the Beast-Transformed Warriors and seized control of the Thousand Eyes heart. After receiving a letter, Lin Sheng abruptly vanished from the Princess's Residence.

• Lin Sheng judged that reaching the Grandmaster realm would still take at least the better part of a year despite his rapid cultivation.
• Hu Yanji learned from an adjutant that Northern Yan was retreating and went with other Grandmasters to confirm its camp was empty.
• Fang led Northern Yan's army out of the Northern Lands under Zhao Hongzhang's orders and told a wounded Grandmaster that Zhao Hongzhang had killed the Beast-Transformed Warriors.
• Zhao Hongzhang burned the Thousand Eyes heart until it turned scarlet, absorbed it, healed his wounds, and developed a vertical eye while an unnoticed black eye appeared at the back of his neck.
• Hu Yanji rejected a proposed pursuit and decided to report Northern Yan's withdrawal to Mr. Tang first.
• Lin Sheng promised Princess Lingyu another visit to Qimeng Mountain, then received a letter from a blue bird and vanished after reading it.

Lin Sheng set out alone for the Rakshasa Sea Region to find the beastman tribe and the remains of the Void Beast, while Tang Chong divined that disasters were approaching. Meng Lie’s expedition confirmed the region’s location and prepared to enter it ahead of Lin Sheng.

• Lin Sheng learned from Kui Shan’s report that Silo Kingdom merchants had seen beastmen in the Rakshasa Sea Region, then left for the Eastern Sea alone.
• Tang Chong explained that King Yan’s enhanced vitality made him difficult to stop, suspected something had gone wrong with him, and divined that a man-made disaster and a heavenly calamity were approaching.
• Lin Sheng practiced on a giant sea fish, used up more than a thousand silver brilliance stones, and planned to train Heavenly Lock Soul Siphon during the voyage.
• Seven days later, Meng Lie questioned Kakus about the Rakshasa Sea Region and confirmed that the merchant could guide the warship to the beastmen’s general location.
• Dongfang Qing ordered Meng Lie to enter the Rakshasa Sea Region and establish the precise location before Lin Sheng arrived.

Meng Lie’s fleet entered the Rakshasa Sea Region while Kakus secretly sabotaged the ship and Dongfang Qing went ahead to scout the beastmen’s territory. Lin Sheng arrived in the region just as a large force of beastmen surrounded the fleet, including a Grandmaster-level leader.

• Meng Lie entered the Rakshasa Sea Region with Kakus, who secretly scattered adhesive ocher powder across the warship’s deck.
• Lin Sheng found that a violent storm seemed to extend how long his spirit could remain outside his body, then continued toward the Rakshasa Sea Region.
• Dongfang Qing killed a school of Blue Baleful Squid, then left the fleet to confirm the beastmen’s location while Kakus crushed the ocher stone.
• Lin Sheng reached the Rakshasa Sea Region and sensed the marker Meng Lie’s group had left behind.
• Hundreds of beastmen on sea fish surrounded Meng Lie’s warship, and Meng Lie spotted a Grandmaster among them.

Lin Sheng arrived as beastmen attacked Meng Lie’s warship, killing the attackers and discovering their guide Kakus had betrayed them under threat to his family. After executing Kakus and the beastman Grandmaster, Lin Sheng learned that the Seventh Prince might also have been targeted and prepared to find him.

• A beastman Grandmaster disabled Meng Lie’s cannons and his warriors boarded the ship, but Lin Sheng’s blue-black pythons killed the attackers and Lin Sheng subdued the Grandmaster.
• Lin Sheng questioned Meng Lie and learned the beastmen had found the ship far from known signs of their activity, raising suspicion about their guide, Kakus.
• Lin Sheng searched Kakus’s memories, confirmed he had led the ship to the beastmen, and killed him despite his plea that they had threatened his wife and children.
• Meng Lie told Lin Sheng that the Seventh Prince had gone ahead alone to scout, and Lin Sheng feared the beastmen had targeted him too.
• Lin Sheng interrogated the beastman Grandmaster about his tribe and learned of its First Elder; the Grandmaster refused to cooperate, so Lin Sheng killed him.

Lin Sheng tracked Dongfang Qing to the Rakshasa Sea Region and discovered signs that beastmen were hiding nearby. As the Suanni Tribe prepared to use Dongfang Qing for their first elder, Lin Sheng identified a suspicious island and unleashed his power against it.

• Lin Sheng learned from Meng Lie that Dongfang Qing had gone east, then followed the trail to reefs where a Grandmaster-level battle had taken place.
• The Suanni Tribe transformed captives in the Ancestor Pool and discussed using Dongfang Qing, a Second Realm Grandmaster with dragon blood, as a Cauldron Attendant for their first elder.
• Shi Shan and Shi Lin learned that Shi Yan had died, decided to activate the Sealing Array, and prepared Dongfang Qing for the first elder.
• Lin Sheng searched the Rakshasa Sea Region, noticed the unusual absence of sea beasts around one island, and concluded that it was suspicious.
• Lin Sheng summoned a dense mass of blue-black giant pythons and struck the island with overwhelming force.

Lin Sheng found the Suanni Tribe’s hidden refuge, defeated Shi Shan, and rescued Dongfang Qing from being sacrificed to the First Elder. He discovered that the tribe’s furnace contained Double-Headed Suanni ancestral blood and drew a mass of it out unharmed.

• Shi Shan left Shi Lin to guard the captive Dongfang Qing while he went to confront the intruders.
• Lin Sheng found the tribe’s hidden mountains, defeated Shi Shan, and broke into the cavern beneath them.
• Shi Lin was about to throw Dongfang Qing into the furnace when Lin Sheng appeared, ripped off Shi Lin’s arm, and freed the captive prince.
• Lin Sheng confronted Shi Lin, who tried to attack him with the Lion Demon Blood Claw but was sent flying.
• Lin Sheng’s Double-Headed Suanni blood essence reacted to the furnace’s contents, and he drew a fist-sized mass of ancestral blood from the liquid without injury.

Lin Sheng confronted the Suanni Tribe’s Grand Elder, Shi Lie, and learned that the tribe held the Double-Headed Suanni’s remains. After Shi Lie’s ambush failed and the two clashed, Lin Sheng healed from a devastating blow and began transforming into a larger monster, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Lin Sheng questioned Shi Lin about the Double-Headed Suanni and killed the Divine Form beastmen who rushed to defend him.
• Shi Lie emerged from hiding, struck Lin Sheng with a surprise attack, and was revealed as the Suanni Tribe’s Grand Elder.
• Lin Sheng survived the ambush, killed Shi Lin and Shi Shan with a strike from beneath the ground, and demanded that Shi Lie surrender the Double-Headed Suanni.
• Shi Lie transformed into a giant beastman and fought Lin Sheng, eventually using the Demon Lion Severing Hand to inflict severe wounds.
• Lin Sheng regenerated despite Shi Lie’s countering force, then grew into a monster over twelve meters tall and vanished from Shi Lie’s sight.

Lin Sheng killed Shi Lie and learned that another Suanni Tribe elder might know about the Double-Headed Suanni. He reached the tribe’s forbidden ground, shattered its powerful formation, and seized Shi Li.

• Lin Sheng crushed Shi Lie’s head after Shi Lie revealed that the Double-Headed Suanni’s remains were no longer available.
• Lin Sheng gathered the beastmen and captives, killed several who resisted, and learned from Shi San that the Fifth Elder was hiding on another island.
• Lin Sheng left Dongfang Qing to manage the captives and took Shi San to the forbidden island, where Shi San explained the tribe’s elder succession and the late chief’s death.
• Shi Li confronted Lin Sheng from behind the island’s defensive formation and dismissed his warning that Shi Lin and Shi Shan were dead.
• Lin Sheng transformed into a giant, smashed through the formation, and grabbed Shi Li despite his desperate attempt to escape.

Lin Sheng found the Double-Headed Suanni’s remains, but most of its flesh had been consumed by the Suanni Tribe. After learning the tribe’s history and that its former chief had used the beast’s flesh during his cultivation, Lin Sheng demanded to be taken to the chief’s sealed remains.

• Lin Sheng forced Shi Li to lead him into the underground cavern, where he found the badly depleted remains of the Double-Headed Suanni.
• Lin Sheng confirmed that no other Suanni flesh remained and asked Shi Li about the tribe’s origins.
• Shi Li explained that a Grandmaster from the Silo Kingdom had discovered the Suanni remains centuries ago, experimented on the tribe, and transformed its members while increasing their strength.
• Shi Li revealed that the former chief had consumed much of the Suanni’s flesh during decades of secluded cultivation.
• Lin Sheng learned that the First Elder had sealed the chief’s remains in the deepest part of the island and ordered Shi Li to take him there.

Lin Sheng uncovered the Double-Headed Suanni’s blood essence in the underground chamber, purified its corruption, and found he had enough blood for incorporation but still needed to meet the requirements. He returned from the Rakshasa Sea Region with the Void Beast’s remains and Shi Li, then began focusing on reaching the Enlightenment realm.

• Lin Sheng opened the hidden chamber and destroyed the corpse when its blood-line formation attacked the Double-Headed Suanni blood essence.
• Lin Sheng used his system to purify the contaminated blood essence, then learned that he had enough for incorporation but did not meet its requirements.
• Lin Sheng left the island with Shi Li and brought the Double-Headed Suanni’s remains aboard the warship.
• Dongfang Qing recognized the remains as those of a Void Beast, and Lin Sheng ordered Meng Lie to set sail from the Rakshasa Sea Region.
• Aboard the warship, Lin Sheng kept the blood essence and Shi Li, left the remaining Suanni Tribe on the island, and focused on comprehending the Enlightenment realm.

Emperor Jingyuan authorized Fang Yuan to take all the demon blood from the Sky Rainbow Pavilion for King Yan, whose success had become Northern Yan’s last hope. At sea, Lin Sheng advanced Heavenly Lock Soul Siphon to major accomplishment, then left the warship to investigate a black whirlpool.

• Emperor Jingyuan gave Fang Yuan permission to collect all the demon blood for King Yan, despite the risk to Northern Yan’s Beast-Transformed Warriors.
• Su Nü warned Emperor Jingyuan that refining so much demon blood could go wrong, but he said Northern Yan depended on King Yan succeeding.
• During ten days at sea, Lin Sheng cultivated Heavenly Lock Soul Siphon in severe storms and reached major accomplishment, increasing his spirit and perception.
• Lin Sheng began trying to comprehend Enlightenment, but sailors spotted strange dark shapes in the sea and Meng Lie prepared to investigate.
• Lin Sheng stopped Meng Lie, flew away from the warship, and examined a black whirlpool rising from the sea.

Lin Sheng encountered black vortices in the Eastern Sea that released mist capable of devouring force and flesh, and Dongfang Qing suspected it was connected to the Black Disaster ravaging the Silo Kingdom. The chapter ended with Silo’s Holy Knight Thor Reeves asking Tang Chong for help after the disaster corrupted his arm and worsened when he tried to suppress it.

• Lin Sheng tested the black mist with force pythons and his own hand, then fled when it devoured them and ordered the warship out of the waters.
• Dongfang Qing told Lin Sheng that the mist resembled the Black Disaster in the Silo Kingdom, which had driven its royal family and nobles to seek refuge in Heavenly Origin.
• Lin Sheng wondered whether the sea vortices were the source of the Black Disaster and returned to cultivation to prepare for the danger.
• At the Military Department Great Hall, Tang Chong played a game with Thor Reeves, who admitted that his efforts to suppress the Black Disaster had made it worsen.
• Thor showed Tang Chong his withered, blackened arm and asked him for help; Tang Chong grasped it as eerie light filled the hall.

Lin Sheng returned to the Imperial Capital after improving his cultivation during the voyage, and learned that Northern Yan had withdrawn its troops and Tang Chong had returned. The chapter ended with Tang Chong identifying the Silo Kingdom’s Radiant Sun Holy Knight, Thor, and noting Lin Sheng’s increased spiritual strength, while King Yan absorbed demon blood and developed strange black eyes.

• Fang Yuan delivered nine sealed cauldrons to King Yan, who absorbed the demon blood inside and unknowingly grew black eyes across his back.
• Lin Sheng learned that his spiritual growth had improved his cultivation speed and decided to enter seclusion after returning to the Imperial Capital.
• Lin Sheng left the Double-Headed Suanni at the Yin Ghost Sect’s grounds under Shi Li’s watch and returned to the Imperial Capital, where Princess Lingyu told him Northern Yan had withdrawn and Tang Chong had come back.
• Lin Sheng went to the Military Department Camp to meet Tang Chong and heard that Tang Chong was speaking with a noble from the Silo Kingdom.
• Lin Sheng encountered Thor, whose radiant spiritual presence vanished from his perception, and Tang Chong identified him as the Silo Kingdom’s Radiant Sun Holy Knight.
• Tang Chong observed that Lin Sheng’s mind and spirit had improved greatly.

Lin Sheng learned that he had reached major mastery of the Heavenly Lock Soul Siphon in only a few months, astonishing Tang Chong, who took a hundred years to reach the same level. Tang Chong gave Lin Sheng Yin Luo’s original manual and explained that the world’s shackles and recurring Void Transformation Tribulations threatened all Supreme Grandmasters and Void Beasts.

• Lin Sheng drank Tang Chong’s spirit Luo tree tea, which strengthened his spirit, though Tang Chong explained that its effect worked only once.
• Lin Sheng asked Tang Chong why his spirit weakened when projected far from his body, and revealed that he had reached major mastery of the Heavenly Lock Soul Siphon.
• Tang Chong confirmed Lin Sheng’s achievement and said it had taken him a hundred years to reach the same stage, then revealed that Yin Luo had created the secret art.
• Tang Chong gave Lin Sheng Yin Luo’s original Ancient Manual, saying it had a higher limit and might help him break the world’s shackles.
• Tang Chong explained that advancing beyond the Supreme Grandmaster and Void Beast levels required breaking the Heaven-and-Earth Shackles and leaving the world.
• Tang Chong told Lin Sheng that the Void Transformation Tribulation targeted Supreme Grandmasters and Void Beasts, killing nearly all of them when their numbers grew beyond a threshold.

Lin Sheng learned from Tang Chong that the Black Disaster was likely a new Void Transformation Tribulation that could threaten even Grandmasters and Divine Form Martial Artists. With the disaster expected to reach Southern Qi in ten years, Lin Sheng resolved to accelerate his cultivation and either overcome the calamity or break free of the world.

• Tang Chong explained that past Void Transformation Tribulations had depleted the world's energy, leaving fewer powerful beings, and predicted that another tribulation might eventually prevent void-tier beings from appearing.
• Tang Chong revealed that he sensed a coming tribulation and believed the Black Disaster in the Silo Kingdom was its precursor; Lin Sheng connected it to black vortexes and mist he had encountered in the Eastern Sea.
• Tang Chong showed Lin Sheng Thor's decayed right arm, explaining that Thor had lost it after testing the Black Disaster, and estimated it would reach Southern Qi in about ten years.
• Tang Chong explained that Zhao Hongzhang had started the war to consolidate resources and use Demon Blood to break his shackles before the tribulation arrived.
• Lin Sheng advised Tang Chong that thunderstorms might benefit cultivation of the Heaven-Locking Soul-Siphoning Secret Art, then returned to the Princess's Residence resolved to prepare for the disaster within ten years.

Lin Sheng examined the original Heaven-Locking Soul-Siphoning Secret Art and decided to cultivate its far more dangerous method after reasoning about the Pitch-Black Space and the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture. His first attempt painfully split his spirit into seven parts, but its rapid gains convinced him to continue.

• Lin Sheng practiced controlling his body in the Pitch-Black Space and theorized that it reflected the Tian Yuan Ghost Whale's true body and his own mummified form.
• Lin Sheng studied Yin Luo's original Heaven-Locking Soul-Siphoning Secret Art and learned that it was much riskier and more powerful than Tang Chong's revised version.
• Lin Sheng chose to cultivate the original method and split his spirit into seven parts on a distant mountaintop.
• Lin Sheng endured severe spiritual pain, recovered with the crude Star Map, and found that one brief session nearly matched a full night's usual progress.
• Lin Sheng resumed cultivating after deciding that the original method's increased efficiency was worth its pain.

Emperor Jingyuan learned that Southern Qi had allied with the Silo Kingdom, then watched Zhao Hongzhang arrive in a monstrous state and kill him before descending into an underground chamber. Meanwhile, Lin Sheng perfected the Heaven-Locking Soul-Siphoning Secret Art and prepared to absorb the High-Sensitivity Strange Beast to push his spirit toward its next threshold.

• Su Nü reported that Southern Qi and the Silo Kingdom had allied, while King Yan remained secluded after receiving the Demon Blood.
• A mysterious attack broke the Capital-Guarding Array, and Zhao Hongzhang killed Su Nü before entering Qianyuan Hall.
• Emperor Jingyuan briefly seemed to awaken Zhao Hongzhang by calling to him, but Zhao Hongzhang killed and consumed him.
• Zhao Hongzhang entered a protected courtyard, descended through an old well, and was engulfed by black slime in an underground chamber.
• Lin Sheng perfected the Heaven-Locking Soul-Siphoning Secret Art after half a month of cultivation, raising his spirit to 18 and his perception to 25.
• Lin Sheng summoned the High-Sensitivity Strange Beast into his body to gain the two spirit points he needed to reach the twenty-point threshold.

Lin Sheng tested his newly heightened mental strength, then sought Enlightenment beneath a violent waterfall. Meanwhile, Tang Chong and Thor Reeves pursued the Void Beast that had destroyed Northern Yan’s capital, while Lin Sheng’s meditation ended with him saving a stranded Civet Beast.

• Lin Sheng used his will to lift a rock and concluded that his mental strength had reached the level of a Supreme Grandmaster.
• Lin Sheng went to the Heavenly Water River and meditated beneath its raging waterfall in an attempt to comprehend Enlightenment.
• Hu Yanji told Tang Chong that Emperor Jingyuan and Northern Yan’s Grandmasters had died, and Tang Chong suspected Zhao Hongzhang had been overtaken by the Void Beast.
• Tang Chong and Thor Reeves reached Northern Yan’s ruined capital, found the Void Beast’s abandoned well, and used Tang Chong’s embryonic Divine Sense to track its residual consciousness.
• As Lin Sheng meditated beneath the waterfall, he stopped the current from sweeping away a stranded Civet Beast.

Lin Sheng achieved Enlightenment and integrated the Double-Headed Suanni, gaining immense power and beast-commanding talents. As he turned his attention toward the Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord, Tang Chong and Thor tracked the Void Beast to the Yuanqi Mountain Range and found its trail.

• Lin Sheng discovered that Enlightenment had greatly improved his mental defenses and comprehension.
• Lin Sheng integrated the Double-Headed Suanni, suppressed its bloodthirsty influence, and tested its Suanni's Might and Frenzied Qi Transformation talents.
• Lin Sheng concluded that he could contend with Supreme Grandmasters but remained wary of the Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord, then decided to focus on the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture.
• The Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord drained a giant rhinoceros-like Strange Beast in the Yuanqi Mountain Range and vanished into the forest.
• Tang Chong and Thor found the beast's remains, and Thor used his power over vegetation to locate the Void Beast deep to the west.