Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen entrusted the Azure Dragon Ring Small World's medicine fields to Lin Diao and returned to Qingyang Town, where the Xie Family arrived to destroy the Lin Family with Lei Li and a Blood Robe Sect expert. Lin Zhentian prepared for battle as the two patriarchs confronted each other at the Lin Family gate.

• Lin Diao accepted his loss to Lin Chen, learned that Lin Chen had obtained many spiritual medicines in Yan City, and agreed to tend the medicine fields.
• Lin Chen checked on Tiger Mom and the cubs, then left the Azure Dragon Ring Small World.
• Lin Ken warned Lin Zhentian that Lei Li and Xie Yingying had returned to the Xie Family, and Lin Zhentian ordered preparations for battle and retreat.
• A messenger reported that the Xie Family had surrounded the Lin Family, so Lin Zhentian led Lin Ken to the main gate.
• Xie Qian confronted Lin Zhentian with Lei Li and a grayish-yellow-robed man whom Lin Zhentian suspected was a Blood Robe Sect expert, and Lin Zhentian threatened him.

The Lin Family fought the Xie Family and Blood Robe Sect Vice Master Gu Ying at their gates, but Lin Xiao, Lin Chen, and Lin Dong returned in time to turn the battle. Lin Dong confronted Lei Li as the fighting continued.

• Xie Qian and Gu Ying demanded the Lei Family’s businesses, but Lin Zhentian refused to surrender.
• Gu Ying used Spiritual Power to suppress the Lin Family, and Xie Qian moved to attack while they were weakened.
• Lin Xiao returned with the merchant convoy and helped the Lin Family fight back against the Xie Family.
• Gu Ying’s Spiritual Power attack on Lin Zhentian was suddenly shattered, injuring Gu Ying.
• Lin Chen told Lin Zhentian that he and Lin Dong had killed Black Dragon Stockade’s two bosses and taken control of the stockade.
• Lin Dong spotted Lei Li among the Xie Family’s men and vowed to behead him in public.

Lin Dong defeated Lei Li as the Lin Family faced overwhelming forces from the Xie Family and Blood Robe Sect. Just as Wei Tong moved to seize Lin Dong, a Black Armored Squad charged onto the battlefield under a captain radiating Pure Yuan Qi.

• Lei Li charged Lin Dong, but Lin Dong struck him down with the Qi Men Seal, and Xie Qian urged Gu Ying to intervene.
• Gu Ying summoned the Blood Robe Sect troops, and Wei Tong arrived with a Core Formation Stage elder, leaving the Lin Family badly outmatched.
• Lin Zhentian told Lin Ken and Lin Xiao to get the younger generation to safety, while Gu Ying's spiritual pressure was repeatedly shattered by an unseen expert.
• Wei Tong tried to seize Lin Dong to draw out the hidden expert, but the expert spoke and the Black Armored Squad swept onto the battlefield.
• The Black Armored Squad crushed the Blood Robe Sect and Xie Family fighters in its charge.

The Black Armored Squad overwhelmed the Blood Robe Sect and Xie Family, forcing Wei Tong and Xie Qian to retreat and saving the Lin Family from defeat. After the squad followed its master away, Lin Zhentian realized Lin Chen had disappeared.

• The Black Armored Captain suppressed Wei Tong, while Gu Ying tried to interfere and Lin Zhentian's forces fought the Xie Family and Blood Robe Sect members.
• Wei Tong suffered damage to his Yuan Core and ordered the Blood Robe Sect to retreat, and Xie Qian escaped after breaking away from Lin Zhentian.
• Lin Zhentian thanked the Black Armored Squad and invited its captain to stay, but the captain refused because he had to follow his master.
• The Black Armored Squad pursued Wei Tong and the others, leaving the Lin Family behind to tend to its wounded.
• Lin Zhentian noticed Lin Chen was missing and asked when he had disappeared and where he had gone.

After Lin Chen vanished, Lin Xiao revealed that the Black Armored Squad belonged to Yan City's Wanjin Merchant Association, and the Lin Family concluded that Lin Chen was probably safe. As the Lin Family prepared to pursue the fleeing Xie Family, Wei Tong and his companions escaped toward the Boundless Mountain Range, where an unseen pursuer awaited them.

• Lin Zhentian, Lin Ken, and Lin Xiao searched for Lin Chen, and Lin Xiao disclosed that the Black Armored Squad had been sent by the Wanjin Merchant Association to protect Lin Dong and the others.
• Lin Xiao and Lin Ken urged the Lin Family to accept the Wanjin Merchant Association's favor, while Lin Zhentian planned to surround the Xie Family and agreed with Lin Ken to advance Lin Xia and Lin Chen's relationship.
• Wei Tong, Gu Ying, the Hook-nosed, Skinny Old Man, and Xie Qian fled as the Black Armored Squad pursued them, and Wei Tong decided they should escape through the Boundless Mountain Range.
• Wei Tong and his companions used a Two-Seal spiritual formation disk to slow the Black Armored Squad and headed into the mountains, unaware that an azure sword light was waiting ahead.

Lin Chen trapped Wei Tong and his fleeing companions in an array in the Boundless Mountain Range, after they discovered a dead Vajra Giant Bear and realized they had been walking in circles. He revealed himself as a Lin Family youth and declared that he had come to kill them.

• Wei Tong, Gu Ying, the Hook-nosed, Skinny Old Man, and Xie Qian fled through the Boundless Mountain Range while the Black Armored Squad pursued them.
• Gu Ying sensed a dead Lesser Perfection Core Formation Stage Vajra Giant Bear and led the group away from the area, fearing the creature's killer was nearby.
• Gu Ying discovered that they had been marching in place, and Wei Tong and the Hook-nosed, Skinny Old Man destroyed the surrounding trees to reveal a blackened array disk.
• Gu Ying identified the disk as a Symbol Master Array Disk and spotted Lin Chen standing on an azure sword edge.
• Wei Tong demanded to know who Lin Chen was, and Lin Chen said he was there to kill them.

Lin Chen ambushed Blood Robe Sect Master Wei Tong and his fleeing allies, revealing overwhelming strength as he killed their deputy sect master with one strike. After Lin Chen disrupted Wei Tong’s Core and weakened his cultivation, he killed Wei Tong, leaving Gu Ying and Xie Qian facing the aftermath.

• Xie Qian identified Lin Chen and recounted his rise, while Wei Tong suspected a powerful hidden expert was helping him.
• Lin Chen killed the Hook-nosed, Skinny Old Man with one sword strike, and Xie Qian was knocked down by the corpse.
• Wei Tong charged Lin Chen to avenge the Hook-nosed, Skinny Old Man, but Gu Ying urged him to flee after seeing Lin Chen’s strength.
• Lin Chen and Wei Tong clashed, and Wei Tong realized Lin Chen’s Pure Yuan Qi was unlike ordinary Core Formation Stage energy.
• Lin Chen’s Innate Yin Sha Qi disrupted Wei Tong’s Core, causing his cultivation to decline during their battle.
• Lin Chen struck down Wei Tong, killing the Blood Robe Sect Master.

Lin Chen pursued Gu Ying and Xie Qian after killing Wei Tong and the Hook-nosed, Skinny Old Man, while the two survivors fled toward Yan City. Gu Ying sacrificed his lifespan to summon a powerful Rune Puppet to stop Lin Chen, but Lin Chen destroyed it with one sword strike and turned his blade on Gu Ying.

• Gu Ying and Xie Qian fled toward Yan City as Lin Chen followed them and the Black Armored Squad pursued from behind.
• Xie Qian promised to support Gu Ying's bid to take over the Blood Robe Sect, persuading Gu Ying not to abandon him.
• Gu Ying activated an incomplete array disk by burning his lifespan and summoned a Rune Puppet at the Lesser Perfection Core Formation Stage.
• Lin Chen cleaved the Rune Puppet apart with one Green Lotus sword qi and mocked Gu Ying as the real ant.

Lin Chen pursued Gu Ying and Xie Qian through the Boundless Mountain Range while considering whether killing the Blood Robe Sect members would grant him sign-in opportunities. Xie Qian ambushed Gu Ying with a sword and pink powder, leaving Lin Chen to face the enraged, transformed Gu Ying as Xie Qian fled.

• Lin Chen destroyed Gu Ying's Rune Puppet with one sword, then pursued Gu Ying and Xie Qian as they fled through the mountains.
• Lin Chen ordered the Black Armored Squad to destroy the Blood Robe Sect in Yan City while he continued chasing the pair.
• Lin Chen offered to spare Gu Ying if he killed Xie Qian, and Xie Qian instead stabbed Gu Ying and threw pink powder in his face before escaping.
• The powder made Gu Ying's Yang Gang Qi violently surge, setting the surrounding trees ablaze and driving him into a mindless attack on Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen prepared to use the first form of the Green Lotus Sword Song against Gu Ying.

Lin Chen killed the Blood Robe Sect’s leaders, returned to the Lin Family, and advanced to Two-Seal Symbol Master. He then absorbed Innate Yang Gang Qi, reached the late Heavenly Yuan Stage, and set his sights on condensing an Innate Yang Pill.

• Zhao Chen’s Green Lotus Sword Blossom killed Gu Ying, and the system awarded him a sign-in opportunity for killing Wei Tong, Gu Ying, and the others.
• Lin Chen collected Gu Ying’s and Wei Tong’s belongings, then took the Vajra Giant Bear’s corpse back toward Qingyang Town.
• Xie Qian found Yan City guarded by the Wanjin Merchant Association’s Black Armored Squad and learned the Blood Robe Sect had been wiped out, so he turned back toward Qingyang Town to evacuate his family.
• Lin Chen told Lin Dong that Wei Tong, Gu Ying, and another Core Formation expert were dead, while Xie Qian remained alive and might return for the Xie Family.
• Lin Chen’s Green Lotus Sword Seal split into two, making him a Two-Seal Symbol Master.
• Lin Chen absorbed Innate Yang Gang Qi, broke through to the late Heavenly Yuan Stage, and began working toward condensing an Innate Yang Pill.

After defeating the Blood Robe Sect, Lin Chen obtained a flawed mid-grade talisman puppet and set out with Lin Dong to find useful items at the Qingyang Town Trading Fair. He spotted ancient wood marked with runes and bargained with its seller, ending the chapter with the deal accepted.

• Lin Chen used his sign-in reward to obtain a flawed mid-grade talisman puppet whose damaged Rune Formation limited its strength to a Great Perfection Core Formation Stage strike.
• Lin Dong told Lin Chen that the Lin Family had surrounded the Xie Family, and Lin Chen invited him to visit Ironwood Manor to pick up something good.
• At the Qingyang Town Trading Fair, Lin Chen noticed a Green Wood Spirit Stem and moss-covered ancient wood bearing faint runes at a black-robed seller's stall.
• Lin Chen bargained with the seller, who agreed to sell him both the Green Wood Spirit Stem and the ancient wood for one hundred Yang Yuan Stones.

Lin Chen bought a Green Wood Spirit Stem and a moss-covered ancient wood at the underground market, then gave Lin Dong the ancient wood’s powerful Ancient Vortex Talisman Seal method. After Lin Dong began comprehending it, Lin Chen planned to visit Ironwood Manor while Lin Dong returned to the Lin Family.

• Lin Chen paid the black-robed stall owner for the Green Wood Spirit Stem and ancient wood, leaving the man furious over the bargain.
• Lin Chen revealed that the ancient wood contained a Seal Condensation Method and gave it to Lin Dong, explaining that it could form a Natal Spirit Talisman.
• Lin Dong broke the ancient wood’s Spiritual Power barrier and learned the Ancient Vortex Talisman Seal, which could devour Spiritual Power.
• Lin Chen urged Lin Dong to use the Green Wood Spirit Stem to pursue becoming a Symbol Master and proposed that they head back to the Lin Family.
• Lin Chen asked Lin Dong to deliver Spirit Medicines to Qing Tan and Lin Xia while he went to Ironwood Manor to seek the Fire Ancestor Demonic Flower.

Lin Chen retrieved the Fire Ancestor Demonic Flower from the Yang Yuan Stone Mine and returned to the Azure Dragon Ring Small World, where the Heavenly Demon Marten was shocked to learn Lin Chen had reached the late Heavenly Yuan Stage. Lin Chen demonstrated that he had absorbed powerful Yin Sha Qi, leaving the Heavenly Demon Marten stunned when his teacup froze and cracked.

• Lin Chen arrived at Ironwood Manor, learned that violent Yang Gang Qi had appeared in the mine, and sent Leopard Lady and Leopard One to visit their cubs in the Azure Dragon Ring Small World.
• Lin Chen entered the mine despite Qin Ying's warning, found a powerful beast's Demonic Crystal, and collected the Fire Ancestor Demonic Flower from a pool of crimson magma.
• Lin Chen told Qin Ying to seal the dangerous tunnel and open another, explaining that the mine contained high-quality Yang Gang Qi that could strengthen Heavenly Yuan Stage cultivators.
• Lin Chen showed the Fire Ancestor Demonic Flower to the Heavenly Demon Marten, who was astonished that Lin Chen had advanced to the late Heavenly Yuan Stage.
• The Heavenly Demon Marten warned Lin Chen that he had neglected to build his foundation with high-quality Yin Sha Qi and Yang Gang Qi, so Lin Chen froze the Heavenly Demon Marten's teacup with Innate Yin Sha Qi and shattered it.

Lin Chen fed a mysterious flame Demonic Crystal to Little Flame, triggering his first evolution, then gave Spirit Communication Talisman Seals to Tiger Mom, Little Flame, and Little White. The chapter ended with Little White speaking for the first time and declaring her love for Lin Chen.

• Lin Chen gave Little Flame the flame Demonic Crystal, which strengthened his body and began his evolution toward a flood dragon.
• The Heavenly Demon Marten explained that Little Flame could keep evolving by devouring powerful Demonic Beast bloodlines and would need to fight outside the Azure Dragon Ring's Small World.
• Lin Chen offered Spirit Communication Talisman Seals to Tiger Mom and Little Flame, and both accepted and began speaking to him.
• Tiger Mom called Lin Chen her master, while Lin Chen told Little Flame to call him Brother Chen instead.
• Lin Chen planted a Spirit Communication Talisman Seal on Little White, who immediately spoke and told him she loved him to death.

Lin Chen prepared to take Little White and Little Flame out to gain experience, then traveled with Lin Dong to Yan City to thank the Wanjin Merchant Association and assess whether the Lin Family could relocate there. The chapter ended as they arrived in the city and heard that the Blood Robe Sect was seizing territory again.

• Little White revealed that she could speak after receiving the Spirit Communication Talisman Seal, tattled on Little Flame, and asked Lin Chen to let her go outside and gain experience.
• Lin Chen agreed to bring Little White and Little Flame out, and Tiger Mom asked to join them as their mount after reaching the Core Formation Stage.
• The Heavenly Demon Marten urged Lin Chen to let him cultivate the Fire Ancestor Demonic Flower instead of absorbing it, but Lin Chen remained wary and entrusted the flower to him for research.
• Lin Chen and Lin Dong rode into Yan City to thank the Wanjin Merchant Association and investigate whether the Lin Family could establish itself there.
• Lin Chen and Lin Dong decided to visit an inn before going to the Wanjin Merchant Association's auction house, but someone announced that the Blood Robe Sect was snatching territory again.

Lin Chen and Lin Dong discovered that factions were fighting over the Blood Robe Sect’s abandoned territory and decided to claim it for the Lin Family. At the manor, Lin Chen’s powerful mounts frightened the rival leaders, and he stopped Gou Duande from escaping after the Wolf Dog Gang leader had insulted them.

• Lin Chen and Lin Dong learned that the Blood Robe Sect’s territory remained unsettled after the sect’s destruction and decided to investigate it as a possible foothold for the Lin Family.
• Lin Chen paid Lu Renjia to lead them to the Blood Robe Sect’s manor, where the Wolf Dog Gang and Profound Truth Sect were confronting each other.
• Gou Duande challenged Xuan Zhenzi to settle the dispute by fighting him, but Lin Chen interrupted them.
• The gathered factions recognized Lin Chen’s Fire Python Tiger and Lin Dong’s Black Iron Demonic Leopard and feared their strength.
• Gou Duande apologized and tried to leave, but Lin Chen ordered him to return and warned that he would otherwise capture him.

Lin Chen and Lin Dong claimed the Blood Robe Sect’s territory for the Lin Family, prompting Gou Duande and Xuan Zhenzi to fight before withdrawing when Xuan Su and Xia Zhilan revealed the Wanjin Merchant Association’s interest. Xuan Su then approached the brothers and invited them to the Myriad Gold Auction House.

• Lin Chen demanded an apology from Gou Duande and revealed that the Blood Robe Sect had tried to destroy the Lin Family.
• Lin Dong declared the Blood Robe Sect’s territory belonged to the Lin Family, and Gou Duande agreed to withdraw the Wolf Dog Gang.
• Xuan Zhenzi accused Gou Duande of relying on the Blood Wolf Gang, and the two leaders fought over their feud and the territory.
• Xuan Su and Xia Zhilan arrived, and Xuan Su said Master Yan had sent them to ensure no faction took the territory.
• Gou Duande and Xuan Zhenzi withdrew with their followers after learning the Wanjin Merchant Association was involved.
• Xuan Su approached Lin Chen and Lin Dong and invited them to visit the Myriad Gold Auction House.

Lin Chen and Lin Dong met with the Wanjin Merchant Association in Yan City, which confirmed the Lin Family could settle on the former Blood Robe Sect territory and offered its support. Master Yan gave Lin Chen a fine sword and offered to teach Lin Dong, who revealed he had already become a Symbol Master with Lin Chen’s help.

• Xuan Su and Xia Zhilan welcomed Lin Chen and Lin Dong, explaining that the Wanjin Merchant Association had claimed the former Blood Robe Sect territory for the Lin Family.
• Lin Chen stored the Fire Python Tiger and Black Iron Demonic Leopard in a spatial treasure, astonishing Xuan Su, before the group entered the Myriad Gold Auction House.
• Master Yan welcomed the brothers and offered the Wanjin Merchant Association’s help as Lin Chen explained that he planned to relocate the Lin Family to Yan City.
• Master Yan gave Lin Chen the Autumn Scale Sword and offered Lin Dong the Seal Condensation Method so he could become a Symbol Master.
• Lin Dong told Master Yan that Lin Chen had already helped him condense his Natal Talisman Seal and become a Symbol Master.

Lin Chen and Lin Dong revealed their Symbol Master abilities to Master Yan, who then introduced the Wanjin Merchant Association’s request for help. Lin Chen agreed to compete against the Blood Wolf Gang for the Pill Immortal Pool in exchange for a slot for Lin Dong, and Xia Zhilan joined his team.

• Lin Dong told Master Yan that Lin Chen had helped him condense a Natal Talisman Seal and become a Symbol Master, and Lin Chen admitted he was a Two-Seal Symbol Master.
• Xuan Su explained that the Wanjin Merchant Association and the Blood Wolf Gang would compete for the Pill Immortal Pool’s limited Yin-Yang Two Energies.
• Lin Chen agreed to help the Wanjin Merchant Association win if it gave Lin Dong one slot to absorb the energies, and Xuan Su accepted.
• Xuan Su presented Lin Chen with Void Spirit Grass, five other Fifth-grade Spirit Medicines, and an Essence-grade Spiritual Secret Skill as payment.
• Lin Chen accepted the gifts and promised victory, while Xia Zhilan volunteered to be his teammate.

Lin Chen joined the Wanjin Merchant Association’s team for the Pill Immortal Pool contest and proved his strength after Song Qing challenged him. The group reached the pool, where Lin Chen studied its Yin-Yang energies, just as the Blood Wolf Gang confronted Xuan Su.

• Xuan Su rejected Song Qing’s claim to a contest spot, and Lin Chen and Lin Dong arrived at the council hall as the replacement candidates.
• Song Qing attacked Lin Chen, who knocked him down with Spiritual Power, revealing that he was a Symbol Master.
• Song Qing tried to stab Lin Chen from behind, but Xuan Su struck him down and expelled him from the Wanjin Merchant Association.
• The two elder stewards backed down, and Xuan Su explained Song Qing’s ties and motives before taking Lin Chen, Lin Dong, and Xia Zhilan to the Pill Immortal Pool.
• Lin Chen examined the pool’s balanced Yin Sha Qi and Yang Gang Qi and considered how to recreate its structure in the Azure Dragon Ring.
• The group arrived at the mountaintop, where a Blood Wolf Gang member complained that Xuan Su had kept them waiting.