Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen overwhelmed the Corpse Demon King and then fought off the Quasi God Kings converging on the Sword Palace. After killing six or seven pursuers in seconds, he left the remaining enemies too afraid to approach.

• Lin Zhen used Jackdaw and his enhanced sword techniques to destroy the Corpse Demon King’s Ironclad Corpses and wound him, then cut down most of his Bronze Armor Corpses and severed one of his arms.
• The Corpse Demon King fled toward his White Bone Palace and released ten Silver Armor Corpses, while Lin Zhen Teleported away to defend the Sword Palace from approaching Quasi God Kings.
• Lin Zhen killed several Quasi God Kings with his twin swords, Mental Power attacks, and Divine Might of Heaven's Mandate as they tried to seize the Sword Palace.
• A tentacled Quasi God King bound Lin Zhen, but Lin Zhen used Armorization to tear free and rip his attacker apart.
• Lin Zhen killed a metal lifeform with Fire Crane and slew six or seven Quasi God Kings in less than ten seconds, frightening the remaining pursuers away.

Lin Zhen fought off the Quasi God Kings, Corpse Demon King, and Violent Ape King long enough to claim the Sword Palace. He retreated inside its transformed Flying Palace as their attacks battered its impervious exterior.

• Lin Zhen feinted toward the Quasi God Kings, returned to the Sword Palace, and began storing it in his Divine Realm.
• Lin Zhen used Space Slash to kill three Quasi God Kings and buy time to collect the Sword Palace.
• Corpse Demon King Ling Kong attacked with the Ten Thousand Corpse Banner, but Lin Zhen blocked the deathly energy with the Profound Yellow Pagoda.
• Violent Ape King struck Lin Zhen with the Coiling Dragon Staff, but Lin Zhen's lotus deflected it just enough for the blow to miss.
• Lin Zhen stored the Sword Palace in his Divine Realm, then entered it as his Flying Palace while the others' attacks failed to damage it.

Lin Zhen explored the Sword Palace and began taking control of its systems while the Violent Ape King, the Corpse Demon King, and their forces bombarded its shield. Chris connected to the palace’s core and announced that Lin Zhen had obtained the Dominator authority.

• The Violent Ape King and the Corpse Demon King summoned their troops and ordered them and the Quasi God Kings to attack the Sword Palace.
• Lin Zhen inspected the palace, found its Energy Storage nearly empty, and transferred his Energy Blocks into it.
• Lin Zhen entered the Venerated God Hall and sat at the control console, where he discovered eighteen sword slots marked with birds.
• Chris detected the palace’s core system, connected to it, and told Lin Zhen he had obtained the Dominator authority.

After inheriting the Sword Palace, Lin Zhen learned that it granted him Dominator authority and could become a Top Grade Weapon when powered by Divine Swords. Chris fired the palace’s sword qi at the attackers, and Lin Zhen spotted Tree Demon King among Violent Ape King’s retreating group.

• Chris told Lin Zhen that inheriting the Sword Palace had granted him half of Hundred Birds Dominator’s authority, giving him ordinary Dominator status.
• Chris explained that Divine Swords could activate the palace’s eighteen sword apertures and that the fully assembled Sword Palace could attack using Energy Blocks.
• Lin Zhen inserted Fire Crane and Jackdaw into the palace and authorized Chris to command it.
• Chris fired Fire Crane’s sword qi into the attackers, killing six Quasi God Kings and over two hundred Upper Gods.
• Corpse Demon King and Violent Ape King fled in their Flying Palaces, but Lin Zhen spotted Tree Demon King among Violent Ape King’s group.

Lin Zhen pursued the Violent Ape King and forced him to surrender the Dominator Imperial Seal, but Ge Lin snatched it and assembled the Primal Chaos Armor. Ge Lin tried to escape in the armor, only to find himself trapped in Lin Zhen’s constructed space as Lin Zhen ordered him to take it off.

• Lin Zhen chased the Violent Ape King in his Sword Palace and damaged the king’s Flying Palace when he refused to hand over the Dominator Imperial Seal.
• The Violent Ape King threw the seal toward Lake Heart Island, where Ge Lin intercepted it before Lin Zhen could reach it.
• Lin Zhen shattered one of Ge Lin’s Mental Defense Armaments and severed the arm holding the seal, but Ge Lin revealed he had already stored it using a second defense armament.
• Ge Lin used all nine Dominator Imperial Seals to form the Primal Chaos Armor and attempted to flee with his wings.
• Lin Zhen’s constructed space kept Ge Lin from escaping, and Lin Zhen walked up to him and told him to take off the armor.

Lin Zhen took Ge Lin’s Primal Chaos Armor and extorted money and the Vermilion Bird sword from him before letting him go. With his debt paid and three months remaining until the volcanoes erupted, Lin Zhen considered pursuing the final treasure beneath them.

• Ge Lin surrendered the Primal Chaos Armor after Lin Zhen trapped him, and Lin Zhen claimed and equipped it.
• Ge Lin pleaded for his life, reminding Lin Zhen that his father was a Dominator and offering to give up his chance to become Lone Star Angler’s disciple.
• Lin Zhen demanded one billion from Ge Lin, who managed to transfer seven hundred million after selling his possessions.
• Lin Zhen took Ge Lin’s Vermilion Bird sword and released him, declaring that they owed each other nothing.
• Lin Zhen returned to the Sword Palace with his debt paid and the Primal Chaos Armor and Vermilion Bird, then considered claiming the treasure beneath the volcanoes before they erupted in three months.

Lin Zhen left Mirror Lake with the Sword Palace and planned to comprehend the remaining Elemental Truths before advancing to God King. Meanwhile, leaders of the Eight Great Hammers prepared to take revenge on him after Zhu Yuanhu completed his breakthrough.

• Lin Zhen repaid Hai Yun, stocked the Sword Palace with Energy Blocks, replaced Jackdaw with the Vermilion Bird Sword, and left Lake Heart Island.
• In the Nether Domain Continent, Zhu Yuanhu trained while Lusman, Zhang Huang, and Wang Xingba guarded him as he neared the God King realm.
• Wang Xingba and Zhang Huang discussed their hatred of Lin Zhen, and Lusman urged Wang Xingba to wait until Zhu Yuanhu finished advancing before they sought revenge.
• Lin Zhen left Mirror Lake Continent and asked Chris to locate places suited to comprehending the Wind and Earth Elemental Truths.
• Chris directed Lin Zhen to Sky Wind Valley for Wind and Witch Star for Earth, and Lin Zhen set the Sword Palace on course for Sky Wind Valley.

Lin Zhen spent heavily on Energy Blocks to continue his journey to Sky Wind Valley in the Sword Palace, then met the powerful Nine-tailed King when their palaces crossed paths. The Nine-tailed King boarded Lin Zhen's palace to talk.

• Lin Zhen cleared the twenty-seventh and then the twenty-eighth levels of the Heaven Reaching Platform, increasing his Dark Matter attributes.
• When the Sword Palace ran low on Energy Blocks, Lin Zhen spent three hundred million points to refill its Energy Storage and slowed the palace to conserve fuel.
• More than halfway to Sky Wind Valley, Lin Zhen learned that a Middle-Grade Flying Palace was catching up with his Sword Palace.
• Lin Zhen and the Nine-tailed King introduced themselves, and Chris identified the newcomer as a powerful Nine-tailed Celestial Fox from Witch Star.
• Lin Zhen invited the Nine-tailed King aboard, and the King landed his Four Directions Palace on the Sword Palace and praised its size and quality.

Lin Zhen resisted the Nine-tailed King's illusion and revealed strength that made the king wary. The two agreed to travel together to Sky Wind Valley, where the Nine-tailed King ended up paying far more than expected to fuel Lin Zhen's Flying Palace.

• The Nine-tailed King tested Lin Zhen with an illusion, but Lin Zhen shattered it with the Nine Seals Overlay Method and knocked the king down.
• The Nine-tailed King realized Lin Zhen's strength could rival his own and apologized for the test.
• Lin Zhen and the Nine-tailed King agreed to travel together to Sky Wind Valley and later return to Witch Star.
• The Nine-tailed King offered to cover the Flying Palace's travel expenses and followed Chris to its Energy Storage.
• The Nine-tailed King added seven hundred million Energy Blocks before emerging furious and asking whether Lin Zhen's palace was built to haul cargo.

After years of travel, Lin Zhen and the Nine-tailed King reached Sky Wind Valley, where they hoped to comprehend the profound truth of the wind element. The Nine-tailed King entered first, and Lin Zhen followed as Huang Tian secretly contacted Golden Hammer Lusman about him.

• The Nine-tailed King warned Lin Zhen that Sky Wind Valley's storms could kill even God Kings, and they continued their journey toward it.
• In the twelfth year of the Sword Palace's flight, Lin Zhen passed the twenty-ninth level of the Heaven Reaching Platform and gained enough Dark Matter to condense a Metal Element God avatar, but he postponed doing so.
• The Sword Palace reached Sky Wind Valley, where Lin Zhen and the Nine-tailed King disembarked and drew the attention of nearby cultivators.
• Huang Tian greeted the Nine-tailed King and learned that Lin Zhen was the newly ascended Ghost Face King and his good brother.
• The Nine-tailed King entered Sky Wind Valley first, and Lin Zhen followed in hopes of reaching the Dimensional Eye of the Storm.
• After Lin Zhen disappeared into the valley, Huang Tian messaged Golden Hammer Lusman to ask whether Ghost Face King was the person Lusman sought.

Iron Hammer Zhu Yuanhu broke through to the God King realm, and the Eight Great Hammers set off for Sky Wind Valley to pursue Lin Zhen. Lin Zhen entered the valley to comprehend wind, was repeatedly blown away, and began learning that he needed to follow the gale rather than resist it.

• Zhu Yuanhu became a God King, joining Wang Xingba, Zhang Huang, and Lu Siman, who vowed to avenge their kin and kill Lin Zhen.
• Lu Siman showed his brothers Huang Tian's footage identifying Lin Zhen as the Ghost Face King in Sky Wind Valley, and the four boarded a Flying Palace to travel there while practicing their combined combat technique.
• Lin Zhen entered Sky Wind Valley, reduced his body's weight to cultivate in the force-thirty hurricane, and was blown a million kilometers away.
• After realizing he needed to understand the wind's flow instead of opposing it, Lin Zhen used spatial power to return to the entrance and impressed the watching cultivators.
• Lin Zhen charged into the valley again and was blown out once more, though fewer people mocked him.

Lin Zhen spent decades studying the wind in Sky Wind Valley, gradually advancing through stronger Wind Zones as he sought to reach the Other-Dimensional Wind Vent. Nearly a century after he entered, Huang Tian met Lu Siman and the other three leaders of the Eight Great Hammers at the valley entrance and confirmed that their target was still inside.

• Lin Zhen endured repeated failures until he recognized patterns in the wind and learned to move through it by adjusting his posture and strength.
• Lin Zhen advanced through the Wind Zones over the decades, reaching level fifty-nine by his ninety-fifth year in Sky Wind Valley.
• Huang Tian met Lu Siman and the other three leaders of the Eight Great Hammers when their Flying Palace arrived at the valley entrance.
• Lu Siman warned Huang Tian that he would have to compensate them if his information proved inaccurate, and Huang Tian assured him that their target remained inside Sky Wind Valley.

Lu Siman and the other members of the Eight Great Hammers entered Sky Wind Valley to kill Lin Zhen, overcoming the powerful gales with their combined metal-and-earth technique. They reached the level-fifty-nine Wind Zone, where they found Lin Zhen cultivating.

• Huang Tian warned Lu Siman that reaching Lin Zhen would be difficult and revealed that Lin Zhen was a candidate disciple of a Dominator, but Lu Siman refused to back down.
• Lu Siman, Zhang Huang, Wang Xingba, and Zhu Yuanhu entered Sky Wind Valley, declaring that they would avenge their nephews and kill Lin Zhen.
• The four used their combined metallic auras to push through the Wind Zones, but the pressure beyond level fifty began to exhaust Wang Xingba and Zhu Yuanhu.
• Lu Siman and the others summoned Gold Mountain, a condensed mass refined from an entire star system, to shield them from the gales.
• With Gold Mountain protecting them, the four advanced into the level-fifty-nine Wind Zone and found Lin Zhen cultivating there.

Lin Zhen faced the Eight Great Hammers’ four leaders in the gale and battled Wang Xingba, Zhu Yuanhu, and Zhang Huang at once. Just as he was about to kill Zhu Yuanhu, Lu Siman joined the fight.

• Lin Zhen sensed four hostile God Kings approaching and recognized them as the leaders of the Eight Great Hammers.
• Wang Xingba accused Lin Zhen of killing his son and attacked, but Lin Zhen gained the upper hand with his sword techniques.
• Zhu Yuanhu joined the battle, and Lin Zhen fought both men with two swords while pressing them back.
• Zhang Huang intervened when Lin Zhen appeared to strike down Zhu Yuanhu, but Lin Zhen’s counterattack blasted Zhang Huang away.
• Lin Zhen tried to kill Zhu Yuanhu with a Mental Power-controlled sword, but Lu Siman deflected it and entered the battle.

Lin Zhen escaped the Eight Great Hammers by entering the level-seventy Wind Zone, where they could not follow. Lu Siman later learned that Lin Zhen was still alive and wondered what powerful backing he had.

• Lin Zhen fled into the level-sixty Wind Zone as Lu Siman and the Eight Great Hammers pursued him behind Gold Mountain.
• At the edge of the level-seventy Wind Zone, Lin Zhen used Black Hole Beast Transformation as a feint to make Lu Siman hesitate, then plunged into the lethal winds.
• Zhang Huang stopped Lu Siman from following Lin Zhen, and the Eight Great Hammers withdrew from the Wind Zone.
• Lu Siman contacted a friend at the Dimensional Universe Company to check Lin Zhen's status, but received the answer "no comment."
• Lu Siman concluded that Lin Zhen was still alive and wondered about Ghost Face King Lin Zhen's background.

Lin Zhen used his Folded Black Hole to turn the Level Seventy gale into a faster-than-light Death Ripple storm that could not harm him. Protected from the wind and his pursuers, he spent a hundred years comprehending the wind element, bringing his understanding close to fruition.

• Lin Zhen entered the Level Seventy Wind Zone and used his Primal Chaos Armor and Lotus Bloom to endure the light-speed gale, but his divine power rapidly dwindled.
• Lin Zhen realized that faster-than-light wind could protect him and remembered that Black Hole Death Ripples could exceed light speed.
• Lin Zhen created a distant Black Hole with his Folded Black Hole ability, and its Death Ripples turned the gale into a storm that left him unharmed.
• Lin Zhen recovered his divine power and began comprehending the wind element within the storm, safe from interruption.
• A hundred years passed as Lin Zhen's wind-element comprehension deepened and neared fruition.

After two hundred years of repeated attempts in the Wind Zone, Lin Zhen mastered the Wind Element and condensed a Wind Element God avatar, greatly increasing his divine power. With his cultivation in Sky Wind Valley complete, he headed for the exit, intending to see whether the Eight Great Hammers were still waiting to ambush him.

• Lin Zhen repeatedly ventured out of the Black Hole into the light-speed wind until, after two hundred years, he learned to sense and move with its subtle changes.
• Lin Zhen mastered the Wind Element and found that the wind could no longer harm him, even without his Primal Chaos Armor.
• Lin Zhen cultivated in Sky Wind Valley and condensed a Wind Element God avatar, which joined his other avatars on the Chaos Azure Lotus.
• Lin Zhen's divine power rose to 4.71 million, or nearly 8.5 million with God's Domain activated, while his reduced divine power waste let him unleash power equivalent to 14.3 million.
• Lin Zhen left Sky Wind Valley, confident that his strength and Space Movement would keep the Eight Great Hammers from injuring him.

Lin Zhen met Huang Tian outside Sky Wind Valley and learned that the Imperial Race ancestor wielded Thunder Gull, one of the Eighteen Divine Swords. Despite Nine-Tails warning him against the fight, Lin Zhen challenged Huang Tian and gained the upper hand in their opening exchanges.

• Lin Zhen found Huang Tian waiting outside Sky Wind Valley and suspected that Huang Tian had alerted the Eight Great Hammers to his whereabouts.
• Huang Tian drew Thunder Gull, and Lin Zhen recognized it as one of the Eighteen Divine Swords before the two prepared to fight.
• Nine-Tails emerged from Sky Wind Valley and warned Lin Zhen that Huang Tian was an ancestor of the Imperial Race and the great-grandson of Qing Tian Dominator.
• Lin Zhen refused to back down, and Huang Tian attacked with lightning from Thunder Gull.
• Lin Zhen resisted the lightning with his Thunder Truth, counterattacked with the Immovable Wisdom King Seal, and forced Huang Tian onto the defensive.
• Huang Tian unleashed a storm of sword qi, but Lin Zhen endured it with Armorization and Attach Metal before striking down with the Great Vajra Wheel Seal.

Lin Zhen defeated Huang Tian and claimed the Thunder Gull Sword before returning with Nine-Tails to Witch Star. Following Chris's advice, he traveled to Abyss Country to seek deeper Earth Element Energy, where officials stopped his ship for inspection.

• Lin Zhen overwhelmed Huang Tian with his sword strikes, took the Thunder Gull Sword, and drove Huang Tian to flee in his Flying Palace.
• Nine-Tails praised Lin Zhen's strength, and the two traveled together toward Witch Star before parting ways upon arrival.
• Lin Zhen spent years challenging the Heaven Reaching Platform but failed to clear its thirtieth level during the journey.
• Chris advised Lin Zhen to seek Earth Element Energy in Abyss Country, and Lin Zhen traveled there through multiple teleportation arrays.
• As Lin Zhen reached Abyss Country's enormous abyss entrance, a radio wave ordered him to stop for inspection.

Lin Zhen entered Abyss Country and learned he needed noble status to reach the Abyss Underground Palace, which he could earn by becoming a Nine-Star Purgatory Warrior. As he explored the city, he recognized a familiar girl at a handicraft stall.

• Lin Zhen passed Abyss Country’s guard inspection and flew into its vast underground world.
• Chris explained that Lin Zhen needed citizenship and noble status to enter the Abyss Underground Palace, and that Nine-Star Purgatory Warriors were recognized as nobles.
• Lin Zhen decided to rest and explore Abyss Country before pursuing his Earth Element cultivation.
• Lin Zhen wandered through the city and overheard a simply dressed girl called Second Young Miss complain about a new young master.
• Lin Zhen and Second Young Miss turned toward each other at a handicraft stall and recognized one another.