Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen faced the Fire Qilin Clan's Elders, who challenged his right to lead and hoped he would surrender the position. By resonating with Landis's Spear and receiving Landis's spear art, Lin Zhen committed himself to the clan and began pulling the spear free.

• Lin Zhen gathered the Fire Qilin Clan members before the Fire Palace, but the three Elders arrived late and questioned whether he deserved to be clan leader.
• Elder Li asked the clan members to show support for Lin Zhen, and only Lin Chuang and a few dozen others raised their hands.
• Lin Zhen stepped onto the World Stone and gripped Landis's Spear, causing it to tremble and hum as it resonated with the Four Element Flower in his body.
• Lin Zhen sensed Landis's lingering soul, promised to devote himself to the Fire Qilin Clan, and received Landis's Years Spear Art and its four forms.
• After an hour of study and the Elders' impatient heckling, Lin Zhen opened his eyes, shouted for the spear to rise, and unleashed a dazzling glow around it.

Lin Zhen pulled Landis's Spear from the World Stone and won the Qilin Clan's support, then learned that Qian Tong had hired ten thousand Eternal Life Realm warriors and five powerful experts to kill him. He ordered the clan to stay out of the fight and waited alone beyond the gates as the enemy force arrived.

• Lin Zhen pulled Landis's Spear from the World Stone, and the Qilin Clan members acclaimed him as their clan leader.
• Elder Li revealed that mercenaries hired to kill Lin Zhen were approaching, and Lin Zhen identified Qian Tong as the likely employer.
• Lin Chuang and the clansmen backed Lin Zhen, while Lin Zhen ordered them not to interfere and agreed with the elders that they would leave if he lost and the elders would leave if he won.
• Lin Zhen walked beyond the Qilin Clan's gates and waited alone while the clansmen watched from a distance.
• Light-Electric, Jiu Ling, Red Witch, Tai Shan, and Dao Sha led ten thousand Eternal Life Stage warriors toward Pampas Volcano and found Lin Zhen waiting for them.

Lin Zhen faced an army of mercenaries and rival clansmen at the Fire Qilin Clan’s border, warning them not to cross his line. As the attackers charged, he revealed a devastating lightspeed attack, killing Mingzhu and leaving the battle underway.

• Lin Zhen carved a deep trench in the ground and warned the gathered enemies that anyone who crossed it would be killed.
• Light-Electric and the others suspected Lin Zhen had temporarily boosted his strength with medicine, while Dao Sha distributed Blood Demon Potions to drive the mercenaries into a frenzy.
• Light-Electric urged the Eternal Martial Artists to attack, and the crowd surged toward Lin Zhen as ten masked figures slipped back into the ranks.
• Lin Zhen stood still as the army approached, then used specks of light to deflect the arrows and Flying Knives aimed at him.
• Lin Zhen launched a lightspeed strand of Gold Qi that pierced Mingzhu’s forehead and killed him.

Lin Zhen used the Kirin Gun to slaughter the attackers charging toward him, then destroyed their shield formation with the Kirin Cannon. The third cannon shot was aimed at more than a thousand Martial Artists lined up behind the shield.

• Lin Zhen opened fire with the Kirin Gun, using light-speed Element Bullets to kill the advancing Eternal Life Stage Martial Artists by the thousands.
• The Qilin Clan Martial Artists cheered as Lin Chuang led them in transforming into Fire Qilins, while Elder Li and the others regretted challenging Lin Zhen.
• After more than six thousand attackers fell, the survivors gathered behind a Spirit Treasure shield and advanced toward Lin Zhen.
• Light-Electric realized Lin Zhen had let the attackers group together and warned them that he was about to use his ultimate move.
• Lin Zhen fired the Kirin Cannon twice to crack and destroy the shield, then aimed a third blast at the Martial Artists gathered behind it.

Lin Zhen slaughtered the mercenaries attacking him until ten Three Flowers Martial Artists used five Beast Binding Soul Locks to capture him. After he stopped moving, the attackers found no signs of life and believed he was dead.

• Lin Zhen used his Kirin Cannon to kill most of the mercenaries, then shot down those who continued charging.
• Ten Three Flowers Martial Artists rushed toward the Qilin Clan, forcing Lin Zhen to abandon his defensive line and pursue them.
• Two attackers who appeared to flee trapped Lin Zhen with a Beast Binding Soul Lock, and the others bound his arms and legs with four more.
• The five great experts blocked the Qilin clansmen while Elder Li ordered the older generation not to interfere.
• Lin Zhen's struggles weakened until he lay motionless, and the ten attackers found no signs of life and declared him dead.

Lin Zhen revealed that the apparent corpse was a lifeless clone and killed the ten Three Flowers Martial Artists who had come to take it. With the Guang Dian Five still before him, he promised the Fire Qilin Clan members they would help in the battle and warned his remaining enemies that they would lose their freedom.

• After Lin Zhen was declared dead, the Qin Kingdom celebrated while the Fire Qilin elders argued over choosing a new clan leader.
• Lin Zhen revived when the leading Martial Artist tried to take his body, revealing that he had pretended to be dead using a clone.
• Lin Zhen seized the five Beast Binding Soul Locks and killed nine of the ten Three Flowers Martial Artists with one spear strike, then finished their leader.
• The surviving Eternal Life Stage experts fled, while Qian Tong grew furious and hoped the Guang Dian Five would kill Lin Zhen.
• Lin Zhen calmed the cheering Fire Qilin Clan and told Lin Chuang and the others they would get to help fight the Guang Dian Five.
• Lin Zhen pointed his spear at Light-Electric and the other four, promising they would not die but warning they might lose their freedom.

Lin Zhen trapped Light-Electric and the others inside the Skyfire Grand Formation, then defeated Jiu Ling in a fierce battle and captured him. The other four moved to attack Lin Zhen, but he blocked them and left Jiu Ling bound in the Fire Qilin Clan’s custody.

• Lin Zhen ordered the Fire Qilin Clan to activate the Skyfire Grand Formation and prevent Light-Electric and the others from escaping, while forbidding the clansmen from joining his battle.
• Jiu Ling stepped forward to test Lin Zhen’s strength and attacked him with his Holy Land saber technique.
• Lin Zhen countered Jiu Ling’s Hundred Battles Blade Radiance with the ancient spear art Spring Earth, badly injuring him.
• Jiu Ling transformed into a Nine-Headed Lion, but Lin Zhen became a Five-Colored Kirin and overwhelmed him in a brutal beast fight.
• Light-Electric and the others rushed to attack when Jiu Ling weakened, but Lin Zhen blocked them with his Four Element Flower and bound Jiu Ling with the Beast Binding Soul Lock.
• Lin Zhen handed Jiu Ling to Lin Chuang and the Fire Qilin Clan members, who firmly restrained him.

Lin Zhen fought the Four Sacred Beasts Combined Attack and used his hidden original body and Planetary Divine Pearl to overcome the group’s teamwork. He captured all four opponents and left the Fire Qilin Clan in control of them.

• Light-Electric, Dao Sha, Tai Shan, and the Red Witch surrounded Lin Zhen and pressured him with their coordinated attacks, while Tai Shan’s Turtle Shell shields blocked Lin Zhen’s strongest moves.
• Lin Zhen used the Planetary Divine Pearl to crush Tai Shan beneath its weight, breaking the group’s defensive formation.
• Lin Zhen’s original body appeared through the Energy Element, wounded Dao Sha with Senluo Swordplay, and bound him for the Fire Qilin Clan to capture.
• Lin Zhen overwhelmed the Red Witch with Summer Liu Huo, knocked her unconscious, and bound her with a Beast Binding Soul Lock.
• Lin Zhen froze and defeated Light-Electric with Winter Ice Cold, then retrieved the Planetary Divine Pearl and pulled the barely living Tai Shan from the crater.
• Lin Zhen bound Tai Shan and thanked the Eternal Martial Artist who had filmed the battle for providing the ropes.

After securing control of the Fire Qilin Clan, Lin Zhen rejected Qian Tong’s offer to end their feud and prepared for retaliation. Two months later, he consumed his stored Mental Power Pills and advanced his Mental Power to the Dark Gold Pinnacle, with a Diamond-level radiance appearing on his Divine Infant’s spear.

• Lin Zhen expelled Elders Li, Wang, and Sima from the Fire Qilin Clan and appointed Lin Chuang as his temporary aide.
• Lin Zhen continued trying to Soul Lock Jiu Ling, Light-Electric, Red Witch, Dao Sha, and Tai Shan, but their Mental Solidification kept him from breaking through their defenses.
• Qian Tong offered Lin Zhen a choice between ending their feud or facing the destruction of his clan and family, and Lin Zhen refused to reconcile.
• Lin Zhen spent two months cultivating and clearing the lingering effects of his previous Mental Power Pills.
• Lin Zhen consumed all his stored Mental Power Pills, reaching the Dark Gold Pinnacle as Diamond radiance appeared at the tip of his Divine Infant’s Long Spear.

After raising his Mental Power to Diamond-level and reaching Eighth Grade Realm King, Lin Zhen went to the underground prison and used Soul Lock to make five captured Holy Land Three Flowers his servants. He sent them to destroy Qian Tong’s holdings in Qin Kingdom and silence those who had insulted him, leaving the kingdom afraid of his growing power.

• Lin Zhen broke through to Eighth Grade Realm King after advancing his Mental Power to Diamond-level, then descended to the underground prison.
• Lin Zhen used Soul Lock to control Jiu Ling, Tai Shan, Dao Sha, Light-Electric, and Red Witch, and gave them pills to recover.
• Lin Zhen ordered the five servants to destroy Qian Tong’s National Teacher’s Mansion and businesses in Great Qin, killing those who resisted.
• Jiu Ling and the others overwhelmed Qian Tong’s retainers, while the Qin Kingdom imperial family refused to intervene.
• Light-Electric tracked down a mercenary group that had cursed Lin Zhen and killed its members, then he and the others spent two months hunting down Lin Zhen’s most vicious online critics.

Lin Zhen advanced to Ninth Level Realm King, strengthened the Fire Qilin Clan, and returned to the Holy Land for the annual assessment. As results came in from the four Holy Lands, Fallen Star Lake’s trainees slipped down the rankings, leaving Fifth Master Jin Nuo worried about their chances.

• Lin Zhen advanced to Ninth Level Realm King, raising his Original Star Power to fifty-two million, and told Lin Chuang to prepare the Fire Qilin Clan’s elites for the next Holy Land assessment.
• Lin Zhen left Light-Electric and the other four spirit Star River Beasts to protect the clan, then rode Jiu Ling toward Fallen Star Lake.
• The Holy Land trainees gathered for the overall Thirty-Three Heavens Tower assessment, where the top ten would receive God Stones as rewards.
• Dongfang Yu cleared the Fifth Layer but depleted only twenty percent of the Sixth Layer Heavenly Lord’s health, while Sun Yidao reached the Sixth Layer with a thirty-three-percent completion rate.
• Yang Ye, Zhang Jing, and Wu Qing took the first three positions with Sixth Layer completion rates of fifty-one, forty-nine, and forty-five percent, pushing Sun Yidao and Dongfang Yu down to fourth and fifth and worrying Jin Nuo.

Feng Qingluan cleared the Sixth Layer and became the temporary leader of the Holy Land Competition, while new challengers pushed Fallen Star Lake’s representatives toward the edge of the top ten. Lin Zhen had not yet returned to compete, leaving Jin Nuo worried that Fallen Star Lake might be shut out.

• Jin Nuo and Zhang Lang discussed the Holy Land standings and their bet over how far Lin Zhen would progress in the Thirty-Three Heavens Tower.
• Dongfang Yu and Sun Yidao fell to seventh and eighth place as experts from the other Holy Lands posted stronger results.
• Qian Tong mocked Lin Zhen for not returning, while Huang Zun argued with a Profound Class Martial Artist who praised Lin Zhen.
• Feng Qingluan cleared the Sixth Layer, completed thirty-five percent of the Seventh Layer, and took temporary first place.
• Qin Fei cleared the Sixth Layer and completed thirty percent of the Seventh Layer to take second place, while Lu Qinghou completed twenty-seven percent to take third.
• Dongfang Yu fell out of the top ten, and Sun Yidao dropped to tenth place.

Lin Zhen rescued the badly injured Michel from a swarm of beetles and hurried back to Star Picking Island, arriving at the Thirty-Three Heavens Tower as Fallen Star Lake’s challenge ended with no one in the top ten. He became Fallen Star Lake’s final entrant, leaving everyone to watch whether he could salvage the Holy Land’s result.

• Double Tree Garden’s Moses reached ninety percent completion on the Seventh Layer and took first place, leaving Fallen Star Lake with no ranked Martial Artists.
• Lin Zhen found Michel badly injured in the fog, saved him from a swarm of powerful beetles, and brought him back to Star Picking Island.
• Michel was declared unable to compete, and Fallen Star Lake’s remaining Martial Artists completed their challenges without earning a top-ten place.
• Zhang Lang mocked Jin Nuo and invoked their wager over Lin Zhen, while Jin Nuo learned that Lin Zhen had returned to enter the competition.
• Lin Zhen arrived at the Thirty-Three Heavens Tower as the final Fallen Star Lake Martial Artist, and the observers turned their attention to his challenge.

Lin Zhen rapidly cleared the first five layers of the Thirty-Three Heavens Tower, drawing the attention of the Four Great Holy Lands and raising hopes that he could secure a top-ten ranking. He reached the sixth layer, where defeating the Peak Three Flowers Heavenly Lord would guarantee his place in the top ten.

• Lin Zhen killed the first layer’s Mind Power Master in one second with his Divine Infant and spear.
• Lin Zhen defeated the second layer’s giant-axe Domain warrior in three seconds using his Star River Domain and Shadowless Steps.
• Feng Qingluan and Zhou Zimei discussed Lin Zhen’s performance while Moses suggested Feng Qingluan might become Double Tree Garden’s next young miss.
• Lin Zhen defeated the third layer’s Fire Qilin and cleared the fourth layer’s Elemental God of War in twenty seconds.
• Lin Zhen fought the fifth layer’s Super Swordsman for ten minutes before advancing to face the Peak Three Flowers Heavenly Lord.

Lin Zhen entered the Sixth Layer and defeated its Heavenly Lord by fighting alongside his clone, using coordinated attacks to overcome the Roc’s storm domain and spear techniques. He rose to fifth on the Overall Ranking and prepared to face the Guardian of the Seventh Layer.

• Lin Zhen was ambushed in the desert by a Golden Winged Roc Heavenly Lord and summoned his clone to help fight.
• Lin Zhen and his clone countered the Roc’s mental attack and battled through its Storm Domain and Flower Spear techniques.
• Lin Zhen’s clone used Spring Earth to weaken the storm, allowing Lin Zhen to track the Roc and press the attack.
• Lin Zhen’s clone froze the Roc with Winter Ice Cold and pierced its chest with Landis's Spear while Lin Zhen used Gravity to disrupt its defense.
• The Roc’s final spear strike was blocked by Lin Zhen’s Snow Lotus, and the Heavenly Lord vanished as Lin Zhen won the battle.
• Lin Zhen reached fifth on the Overall Ranking, completed Jin Nuo’s task, and turned toward the Seventh Layer’s Guardian.

Lin Zhen entered the Seventh Layer and faced its God Transformation Realm Guardian, who attacked his mind while trying to knock him into a torrent of molten steel. After enduring three strikes, Lin Zhen used Time Deceleration to locate the invisible enemy.

• Lin Zhen’s success on the Sixth Layer earned him the right to choose one of three Heaven Class steles, while onlookers doubted he could clear the Seventh Layer.
• Zhang Lang reluctantly planned which three Heaven Class steles to offer Lin Zhen, believing Lin Zhen would fail on the Seventh Layer.
• Lin Zhen arrived in a void above a Steel Torrent Lava River and heard the Guardian, who called himself Void Yue Heng Heaven’s Seventh Layer Guardian.
• The Guardian struck Lin Zhen’s Mental Sea of Consciousness with God's Impact, sending him toward the molten steel, but Lin Zhen used his Mental Power to escape.
• Lin Zhen activated Time Deceleration during the third God's Impact and sensed the direction of the invisible Guardian’s attack, revealing his location.

Lin Zhen blocked the Seventh Layer Guardian’s God's Impact, forced him to reveal himself, and wounded him with Black Hole Storm and Destruction Divine Thunder. With the Guardian’s life force reduced by a quarter, Lin Zhen and his clone positioned themselves to begin close combat.

• Lin Zhen used Divine Infant Out of Body to block the Guardian’s God's Impact and challenged him to reveal his location.
• Lin Zhen used Black Hole Storm to expose the Azure-Robed Guardian, whose life force fell by nearly ten percent as he resisted.
• Lin Zhen sent his clone’s Kirin Cannon at the Guardian, then concealed a Destruction Divine Thunder behind its light and struck him.
• The Guardian’s protective shield shattered, and the combined attacks reduced his life force by twenty-five percent.
• Lin Zhen and his clone took positions on opposite sides of the Guardian as Lin Zhen challenged him to fight directly.

Lin Zhen fought the Guardian, a Divine Sense Transformation expert, and landed a devastating counterattack before the Guardian captured and mutilated him. As the Guardian prepared to destroy him, Lin Zhen gained an insight into the final form of Grand Abyss Swordplay: God Burial.

• The Guardian overwhelmed Lin Zhen and his clone with Flying Knives and Mental Impacts, eventually destroying the clone’s fighting ability.
• Lin Zhen used Senluo Swordplay’s Abyss form to shatter the Guardian’s combined knives, then his clone drove Landis's Spear through Lin Zhen and into the Guardian, cutting the Guardian’s health to fifty percent.
• The Guardian’s health change raised Lin Zhen to a tie for third place on the Seventh Layer, behind Xiao Lie and Moses.
• The enraged Guardian bound Lin Zhen with a Mental Power rope and severed both his hands before stabbing him repeatedly.
• Unable to resist, Lin Zhen refused to surrender and gained an insight into God Burial, the final form of Grand Abyss Swordplay.

Lin Zhen awakened the Heart Sword and used God Burial to defeat the Seventh Layer’s Guardian, earning first place among the Four Great Holy Lands’ newcomers and advancing to the Heaven Class. After receiving two God Stones, he chose Freedom City’s Senluo Swordplay stele as his reward and left to cultivate.

• Recalling Li Mo’s teaching that a sword could exist in the heart, Lin Zhen unleashed Heart Sword Formless and killed the Seventh Layer’s Guardian with God Burial.
• The Four Great Holy Lands’ trainees learned Lin Zhen had reached the Eighth Layer, and Zhang Lang dismissed accusations of cheating.
• Lin Zhen was eliminated at one percent completion on the Eighth Layer, but understood that God Burial was a sword technique meant to challenge God Transformation opponents.
• Lin Zhen finished first among the newcomers, entered the Heaven Class, and received two God Stones from Jin Nuo.
• Jin Nuo told Lin Zhen he could choose a Freedom City Heaven Class stele because of a wager with Zhang Lang.
• Lin Zhen chose Senluo Swordplay, obtained the stele information from Zhang Lang, and went to cultivate.

Lin Zhen began studying the Sen Han move of Senluo Swordplay, then met Michel for a meal and heard how Light Angels had ambushed him at a Demigod’s tomb. Michel invited Lin Zhen to return with him within nine years, but Lin Zhen chose to focus on cultivation for now.

• Lin Zhen arrived at the Heaven Class grounds and decided to comprehend the Sen Han move after reviewing the four moves of Senluo Swordplay.
• Michel contacted Lin Zhen, who learned that Michel had been demoted to the Earth Class after missing the tower challenge while injured.
• Lin Zhen took Michel to a tavern, where Michel thanked him for saving his life and described escaping Death Beetles with a Wormhole Egg.
• Michel told Lin Zhen that Light Angels had betrayed his group at a Demigod’s tomb, where Michel had taken the burial chamber key before escaping.
• Michel invited Lin Zhen to return to the tomb within nine years to seek God Stones, but Lin Zhen declined for now so he could focus on cultivation.