Chapter Summaries

Lin Sheng learned the Myriad Transformations Meltform Art and rapidly cultivated it to the peak master realm, complementing his flesh and inferno rules. After learning that Xia Leisheng had left to investigate unusual fluctuations, Lin Sheng read He Ping’s messages and decided to visit him.

• Lin Sheng received the incomplete Myriad Transformations Meltform Art and heard that the Crimson Lightning Company had found a possible lead to the Ghost Whale World.
• Xia Leisheng gave Lin Sheng a potent Blood Essence Injection and advised him on cultivation.
• He Ping agreed to tell Lin Sheng to go outside the city, at the two visitors’ request.
• After five days of cultivation, Lin Sheng reached the peak master realm in the Myriad Transformations Meltform Art and formed an Eight-Tentacle Mist-Shadow Mark alongside his other rule imprints.
• Mary told Lin Sheng that Xia Leisheng had gone to investigate unusual fluctuations in Forest City, and Lin Sheng decided to visit He Ping after reading his messages.

Lin Sheng went to meet He Ping and A-Huan in the woodland, where Youzhe and Shadow Crow ambushed him on behalf of the Crimson Prison Society. He killed Youzhe, defeated Shadow Crow, and captured his head, then realized his decision to leave the city might have been influenced by an unseen mental effect.

• Lin Sheng left Forest City to meet He Ping and A-Huan, but He Ping revealed himself as Youzhe and trapped Lin Sheng in a mental illusion while Shadow Crow appeared.
• Shadow Crow ordered Youzhe to kill A-Huan and seize Lin Sheng, but Lin Sheng revealed he had resisted the illusion and crushed Youzhe.
• Shadow Crow attacked Lin Sheng with shadow rules and sealed the woodland, but Lin Sheng fought back with his three fused rules and gained the advantage.
• Youzhe revived his ruined body and combined his illusion with Shadow Crow's strike, but Lin Sheng recovered, destroyed Youzhe completely, and turned on Shadow Crow.
• Lin Sheng used simulated illusion rules to stun Shadow Crow, killed him, and kept his head alive for questioning.
• After his heightened mental power faded, Lin Sheng realized he had not noticed anything suspicious about leaving the city to meet He Ping, and began to suspect his decision had been manipulated.

Lin Sheng discovered that Kasjin had manipulated him into leaving Forest City and possessed his body to uncover his hidden powers. When Kasjin invaded Lin Sheng’s true spirit, the Mountain Sea Scroll’s vortex swallowed Kasjin’s soul, leaving his fate unknown.

• Lin Sheng realized someone had influenced his decisions, but Kasjin revealed himself as a Wasteland Martial expert and trapped him outside Forest City.
• Kasjin possessed Lin Sheng and took control of his body, preventing him from reaching Raymond for help.
• Kasjin examined Lin Sheng and discovered his origins of flesh, inferno, and meltform rules, then began probing his true spirit.
• Lin Sheng drew on the Strange Beasts to resist Kasjin’s soul invasion, but Kasjin shattered his soul barrier and entered the Mountain Sea Scroll.
• The Mountain Sea Scroll formed a vortex that swallowed Kasjin’s true spirit despite his desperate protests.

Lin Sheng discovered that the Mountain Sea Scroll had obliterated and absorbed most of Kasjin’s true spirit, granting him a high-tier Erosion Spirit Affinity and a boost to his spirit attribute. Still badly injured and unwilling to reveal the secret to Xia Leisheng, Lin Sheng found Kasjin’s remaining wisp hiding in his body and moved to destroy it.

• Lin Sheng searched his body for Kasjin, then found Kasjin’s residual presence and a clearer vortex inside the Mountain Sea Scroll’s origin space.
• Lin Sheng examined the panel and learned that Kasjin’s true spirit had been obliterated, granting him Erosion Spirit Affinity and eight spirit points.
• Lin Sheng struggled to heal his badly damaged body and decided not to seek help from Xia Leisheng, fearing that revealing what happened would expose his secret.
• Lin Sheng tested his new affinity and discovered that it strengthened his mind and helped his body slightly.
• Lin Sheng detected Kasjin’s remaining wisp in his right foot and used his soul power to wear it down as Kasjin begged to be released.

Lin Sheng eradicated Kasjin’s final soul remnant, learned from his memories that the Kane Group was developing a Transcendent Symbiotic Protoform, and decided to seize it as a new body. He entered Forest City and approached Kane Group manager Wang Kun, whose gaze met Lin Sheng’s golden eyes.

• Lin Sheng used his erosion affinity to destroy Kasjin’s soul remnant despite its final attack worsening his injuries, and gained spirit attribute points and knowledge of the erosion rule.
• Lin Sheng absorbed Kasjin’s memories and learned that Kasjin had scattered true-spirit fragments across Sunstar and had planned to use a Transcendent Symbiotic Protoform to break through by taking Lin Sheng’s body.
• Lin Sheng realized his damaged body could not be saved and decided to seek a new host, choosing the Kane Group’s protoform as his target while remaining wary of Prison Demon.
• Lin Sheng left the cave, destroyed it, and traveled to Forest City, where he confirmed that the Kane Group had not discovered Kasjin’s death.
• Lin Sheng waited outside the Kane Group building, then approached Wang Kun as the manager emerged; Wang Kun turned after their shoulders collided and met Lin Sheng’s golden gaze.

Lin Sheng infiltrated the Kane Group by controlling Wang Kun and disguising himself as Kasjin, then entered the top-floor seclusion chamber and survived Kasjin’s psychic trap. He abandoned the attempt to possess Kasjin’s body and went to inspect the Transcendent Symbiotic Protoform, where he found a strange mass of living flesh in a cultivation chamber.

• Lin Sheng used the Erosion Rule to control Wang Kun and have him bring him into the Kane Group.
• Lin Sheng transformed himself to resemble Kasjin, passed Green Dog and Red Wolf by imitating the Chairman, and entered the seclusion room.
• Lin Sheng triggered a powerful psychic contingency in Kasjin’s body, but the matching Erosion Rule aura stopped the blast from destroying his True Spirit.
• Lin Sheng sensed that using Parasitism on Kasjin’s body might revive Kasjin, so he abandoned the attempt and ordered Green Dog and Red Wolf to take him to the experimental zone.
• Lin Sheng entered the experimental zone and saw a shapeless mass of flesh writhing inside a nutrient-filled cultivation chamber.

Lin Sheng fused with the Kane Group’s transcendent symbiotic protoform, healing his body and gaining the overlimit symbiosis talent. He escaped the headquarters disguised as Kasjin, while Red Wolf and Green Dog began to suspect something was wrong.

• Lin Sheng opened the cultivation chamber and fused with the transcendent symbiotic protoform, which repaired his injuries and harmonized his four rules.
• Lin Sheng discovered that the fusion had granted him the overlimit symbiosis talent, reducing conflicts between rules by more than fifty percent.
• Lin Sheng learned that two other Kane Group founders were Wasteland Martial God of War-level experts and decided to leave before Kasjin’s death was discovered.
• Lin Sheng ordered an emergency meeting, then left the headquarters by following Wang Kun out of the building.
• Red Wolf and Green Dog questioned the Chairman’s sudden fusion, and Green Dog went to report the situation to the two lords.
• The executives gathered for the meeting, but Kasjin did not appear, and Green Dog hurried toward the conference room.

Red Wolf and Green Dog discovered that Chairman Kasjin had died in his Seclusion Room, and Kalon and Herman found evidence that an outsider using the erosion rule had killed him and stolen the transcendent symbiotic protoform. Herman ordered a citywide hunt for the intruder, while he and Kalon suspected Kasjin had recalled his divided true spirits during a failed attempt to advance further.

• Green Dog told Red Wolf that Kasjin could not be contacted and that something was wrong with his true spirit, so they rushed to the Seclusion Room and summoned the other founders.
• Kalon broke open the locked Seclusion Room, confirmed Kasjin's true spirit was gone, and found traces of an outsider's erosion rule.
• Herman arrived and concluded that Kasjin's true spirit had been completely erased, while Kalon reported that the intruder had taken the transcendent symbiotic protoform.
• Red Wolf and Green Dog identified the intruder in surveillance footage as a blond impostor who had entered the building with Wang Kun and impersonated Kasjin.
• Herman ordered Forest City sealed, directed his informants to find the intruder, and ordered Wang Kun's entire lineage disposed of.
• Herman and Kalon reasoned that Kasjin had recalled his divided true spirits while attempting to advance, and warned that the balance was about to be broken.

Lin Sheng returned to the Fighting Association, tested the peak-demigod power of his four-rule ashfire, and began secluded cultivation while the Kane Group and Crimson Prison Society reacted to the fallout from Kasjin’s death. At Soulbreak Valley, Kalon confronted Demonflame for information about Prison Demon, but Prison Demon intervened before Kalon could extract Demonflame’s true spirit.

• Lin Sheng returned safely to the Fighting Association, decided to stay there, and discovered that his flesh, inferno, meltform, and erosion rules could fuse into powerful gray-green ashfire.
• Lin Sheng tested the fused ashfire against the training room’s barrier, judged it strong enough to reach peak demigod level, and resolved to conceal most of his rule-fusion abilities while cultivating.
• Kalon arrived at Kane Group headquarters, reviewed Kasjin’s records, ordered an investigation into the group’s dealings, and vanished from the council chamber.
• At Soulbreak Valley, Demonflame and Fire Fiend discussed their plans to capture Lin Sheng and the girl carrying Fallen Star Extreme Lightning while evading the Alliance’s purge.
• Kalon pinned Demonflame and Fire Fiend with his gravity field and prepared to extract Demonflame’s true spirit to learn Prison Demon’s whereabouts.
• Prison Demon tore through Kalon’s gravity field with Inferno Black Flame and challenged him for threatening a minor figure.

After half a month in seclusion, Lin Sheng reached the pinnacle of the erosion martial third realm in his Blood-Bone Heaven-Burning Art and learned that a catastrophic Wasteland Martial battle had destroyed Red Dragon Commandery City. He left to investigate the changing situation, especially the uncertain fate of Kasjin.

• Kalon questioned Prison Demon about Kasjin's death and the transcendent symbiotic protoform, then warned that their cooperation would end if the Crimson Prison Society was involved before leaving Soulbreak Valley.
• Prison Demon left Fire Fiend behind and vanished into the valley, while Demonflame later regained consciousness and found Fire Fiend near death.
• After half a month of seclusion, Lin Sheng reached the limit of the erosion martial third realm in his Blood-Bone Heaven-Burning Art and advanced his Myriad Transformations Meltform Art into the martial corrosion realm.
• Lin Sheng chose to pursue his first limit break and left his seclusion room to ask Mary about events outside and whether Xia Leisheng had returned.
• Mary told Lin Sheng that a battle involving General Longus and a suspected fighter from a southern great tribe had nearly erased Red Dragon Commandery City, and that Xia Leisheng had gone to investigate unusual activity in Absolute Abyss.

Lin Sheng prepared for his first limit break while waiting for Xia Leisheng to return, and learned that Kasjin’s death had caused a concealed disturbance in the rules origin. Xia Leisheng confirmed Kasjin was dead and warned Lin Sheng to face his limit-break tribulations without relying on protective potions if he hoped to advance further.

• Lin Sheng refused to meet Anna and kept He Ping and A-Huan hidden at the Fighting Association while he prepared to improve his strength.
• Mary supplied Lin Sheng with top-grade Anomaly-Removing Potion and Spirit-Protecting Divine Water, and Lin Sheng studied the association’s limit-break rituals while deciding to wait for Xia Leisheng.
• Xia Leisheng returned and told Lin Sheng that Kasjin had caused an origin disturbance and that the Kane Group had concealed the phenomena of his death, which would erupt within a day or two.
• Xia Leisheng confirmed Kasjin had fallen and advised Lin Sheng to set aside the two potions, explaining that surviving the tribulations unaided would help preserve a pure foundation for reaching Wasteland Martial.

Lin Sheng received Xia Leisheng’s advanced flesh-rule limit-breaking rite and learned that its rare materials would cost nearly ten billion star coins. As the Fighting Association began gathering them, Lin Sheng prepared to strengthen his true spirit and considered using his fear-devouring talent before the breakthrough.

• Xia Leisheng gave Lin Sheng the Myriad Blood Return to Ruins Rite and warned him that it would amplify both his bodily and true spirit tribulations.
• Lin Sheng studied the rite, estimated its materials would cost nearly ten billion star coins, and realized that obtaining them would be difficult even with his available funds.
• Lin Sheng asked Mary to use the Fighting Association’s channels to gather the ritual materials, and she agreed while warning that some were scarce.
• Lin Sheng began preparing for the rite by planning to master its arrays and incantations, stabilize his rule powers, and strengthen his true spirit.
• Lin Sheng considered using the Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord’s Fear Devour talent to increase his mental power and began forming an idea for finding suitable targets.

Lin Sheng witnessed Heavenly Weeping, discovered that glimpsing the erosion rule’s origin could badly injure him, and mastered the Myriad Blood Return to Ruins Rite while waiting for its final requirements. Xia Leisheng supplied him with fifty jin of aged dragon qiling blood and ten billion Star Coins, but Lin Sheng still needed to strengthen his true spirit; a disguised figure left the Fighting Association for the city outskirts.

• Lin Sheng sensed the erosion rule’s origin during Heavenly Weeping, but his eyes burst when he tried to perceive it and he used much of his blood energy to regenerate them.
• After Heavenly Weeping ended and a week of rain passed, Lin Sheng mastered the Myriad Blood Return to Ruins Rite, but Mary told him dragon qiling blood was scarce and costly.
• Lin Sheng paid for the available ritual materials, then received a briefcase from Xia Leisheng containing fifty jin of aged dragon qiling blood and a ten-billion-Star-Coin card.
• Lin Sheng concluded the supplies were sufficient for the ritual but noted that his true spirit still needed improvement.
• At night, a sallow-faced man disguised as a trainee officer left the Fighting Association and headed toward the city outskirts.

Lin Sheng tested whether anyone was tracking him, then trained his fear devour talent in the Withered Soul Wasteland and increased his mental attribute. As he headed back to Forest City to begin the Myriad Blood Return to Ruins Rite, an unidentified Wasteland Martial powerhouse stopped him and pinned him to the ground.

• Lin Sheng used a marked Association commissioner as a decoy and concluded that no one seemed to connect him to Kasjin's death.
• Lin Sheng traveled to the Withered Soul Wasteland and attracted a horde of Eerie Beasts with his released vitality.
• Lin Sheng used fear devour on the beasts, healed his mental injuries, and raised his mental attribute from 46 to 49.
• Lin Sheng incorporated two Corrosion Beasts and confirmed that his preparations for the Myriad Blood Return to Ruins Rite were complete.
• A black-helmeted middle-aged man appeared on a rock, overwhelmed Lin Sheng with rule pressure, and pinned him to the earth as Lin Sheng recognized him as another Wasteland Martial.

Lin Sheng was pinned down by Kalon, who tried to probe his memories about Kasjin’s death, until Prison Demon intervened and the two Wasteland Martial experts fought. Xia Leisheng arrived to protect his disciple, but as Kalon and Prison Demon joined forces against him, he revealed that he had mastered the flesh rule.

• Kalon restrained Lin Sheng and prepared to probe his true spirit for memories of Kasjin’s death.
• Prison Demon stopped Kalon from reaching Lin Sheng, and the two Wasteland Martial experts fought before agreeing that Kalon could examine Lin Sheng without endangering him.
• Xia Leisheng arrived and declared that Kalon and Prison Demon had no right to bully his disciple.
• Prison Demon and Kalon joined forces to attack Xia Leisheng, gradually putting him at a disadvantage.
• Xia Leisheng released an immense flesh-origin aura and formed a vast blood-red hand, shocking Kalon and Prison Demon.

Xia Leisheng revealed that he had mastered both the flesh and lightning origins, forcing Prison Demon and Kalon to retreat before escorting Lin Sheng back to the Fighting Association. After three days of recovery, Lin Sheng began the Myriad Blood Return to Ruins Rite, passed its flesh and true spirit tribulations, and summoned the flesh origin for the rite’s crucial final stage.

• Xia Leisheng used his flesh origin to break Prison Demon’s flame dragons and Kalon’s gravity chains, driving both Wasteland Martial experts from the Withered Soul Wasteland.
• Lin Sheng thanked Xia Leisheng for saving him and resolved to begin the Myriad Blood Return to Ruins Rite, and Xia Leisheng promised to guard him during the limit break.
• Three days later, Xia Leisheng took Lin Sheng to a prepared altar outside Forest City, where Lin Sheng assembled the ritual arrays with rare materials.
• Lin Sheng endured the flesh tribulation, which reshaped and strengthened his body, then passed the true spirit tribulation with the aid of his soul stabilization talent and erosion rule.
• The completed arrays summoned the flesh origin, opening a vast blood-red rift in the sky as Lin Sheng sensed its immense power.

Lin Sheng completed his first limit break and gained the flesh origin's attention, greatly strengthening his flesh-rule aptitude. As Xia Leisheng learned that the erosion was beginning again and that he was needed to help seal it, the black cat announced it had crossed its fourth limit break.

• The flesh origin answered Lin Sheng's resonance with a brief infusion of origin power, elevating his affinity and control over flesh rules before the rite ended.
• Xia Leisheng praised Lin Sheng's rare achievement, warned him not to become complacent, and took him back to the Fighting Association.
• Lin Sheng checked his improved system attributes, reflected that he still fell short of wasteland martial seeds, and began testing his enhanced rule control.
• Bai Qiu offered Xia Leisheng a council speaker position, but Xia Leisheng refused to leave Forest City.
• Bai Qiu told Xia Leisheng that the erosion was loosening its seals and could erupt, and said Xia Leisheng was essential to containing it.
• A little black cat declared that it had crossed its fourth limit break.

The Meltform Phantom tried to escape Lin Sheng’s control by forging a new True Nature, but Lin Sheng casually suppressed its effort. Meanwhile, the Stillness-Sealing Grand Array in the Desolate Silent Expanse continued to crack under the force of Return to Stillness.

• After reaching the Fourth Limit Break, the Meltform Phantom reforged a True Nature and tried to reclaim the strand Lin Sheng had imprisoned.
• Lin Sheng tested his fused rules and Ashfire, then used the Erosion Rule to silence the strand’s struggle without investigating further.
• The Meltform Phantom’s attempt collapsed under Lin Sheng’s True Spirit suppression, leaving it exhausted and shaken by how powerful he was.
• Lin Sheng returned to practicing rule fusion, unaware of the Meltform Phantom’s despair.
• In the Desolate Silent Expanse, the Stillness-Sealing Grand Array weakened as Return to Stillness battered it, spreading cracks through its runes.

Xia Leisheng told Lin Sheng that he was leaving to oversee the seals against the expanding Return-to-Quiescence Will and arranged for Lin Sheng to move to Sun Radiance City. After Lin Sheng agreed, he confronted the injured Meltform Phantom, whose attempt to escape its binding had failed.

• Xia Leisheng told Bai Qiu he would leave for the Desolate Silent Expanse to oversee the Stillness-Sealing Grand Array and worried that Lin Sheng would be vulnerable in his absence.
• The injured little black cat decided to hide its weakness, recover, and wait for a chance to break the True Nature Bind.
• Lin Sheng refined his fused rules and resolved to focus on the Blood-Bone Heaven-Burning Art, which benefited from Xia Leisheng's presence and Blood Essence Injections.
• Xia Leisheng explained that the Return-to-Quiescence Will's encroachment was expanding again and offered to send Lin Sheng to Sun Radiance City for safety.
• Lin Sheng agreed to go to Sun Radiance City, and Xia Leisheng said leads about the Ghost Whale World would be shared with him there before departing.
• Lin Sheng found the little black cat pretending to be near death and threatened to finish it off, prompting it to panic and insist that it could recover.

Lin Sheng left Forest City for Sun Radiance City with He Ping, A-Huan, and the subdued Meltform Phantom, while Anna decided she would follow him. Xia Leisheng departed to reinforce the Northern Border seal, and Raymond realized Anna had taken a prototype with her and feared she might be heading after Lin Sheng.

• Lin Sheng made Little Black surrender another strand of true nature and warned him to stop resisting.
• Anna and Feya said goodbye to Lin Sheng, and Anna gave him her lightning-shaped pendant before Lin Sheng teleported away with He Ping and A-Huan.
• Anna seized on her family's company's staffing needs in Sun Radiance City and hurried with Feya to find her father, intending to follow Lin Sheng.
• Raymond discussed the worsening erosion and the Northern Border seal with Xia Leisheng, who then departed; Raymond promised support for Lin Sheng in Sun Radiance City.
• Raymond learned that Anna had gone to see Lin Sheng and taken a prototype, then realized she might have left to pursue him.