Chapter Summaries

Lin Langtian fought the Blood Puppet inside its Blood Fiend Purgatory and survived its strongest saber attack by activating the Wood Emperor Triple Transformation. As the Blood Puppet formed a colossal spear, Lin Langtian prepared to counter it with demonic flames in his right hand and Vermilion Bird flames in his left.

• Tang Lie watched Lin Langtian battle the Blood Puppet while hoping it would capture Qing Tan and save the Fire Cloud Sect.
• The Blood Puppet created the Blood Fiend Purgatory and attacked Lin Langtian with twin sabers and a barrage of scarlet saber lights.
• The Blood Puppet compressed its saber lights into a deadly aura and struck Lin Langtian, but he emerged alive and dispersed the domain's baleful energy with the Wood Emperor Triple Transformation.
• The onlookers recognized Lin Langtian's strengthened aura, while Qing Tan and Lan Yan watched him face the Blood Puppet again.
• The Blood Puppet formed a hundred-zhang Blood Demon Refining King Spear, and Lin Langtian summoned demonic flames in his right hand and Vermilion Bird flames in his left to meet it.

Lin Langtian fused the Vermilion Bird Sky Burning Flame and Chaos Abyssal Demon Flame into a Demon Rage Fire Lotus and used it to destroy the Blood Puppet. The Tribunal Army captured Tang Lie and wiped out the Fire Cloud Sect, while Lin Langtian and Qing Tan gained renown for their strength.

• Lin Langtian fused his two flames with Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror energy to form the Demon Rage Fire Lotus as the Blood Puppet launched its blood spear at him.
• Lin Langtian hurled the lotus at the spear, and the resulting explosion destroyed half the Blood Puppet and left its spear cracked.
• Zhong Kui overpowered Tang Lie, who was shackled by Tribunal Guards and taken into custody for judgment by the Darkness Tribunal.
• The Tribunal Army eradicated the remaining Fire Cloud Sect members, while Qing Tan distinguished herself by defeating several powerful enemies.
• The defeated Tang Lie feared his fate in the Darkness Tribunal, and the faction leaders recognized the Tribunal Army's strength and the rise of Lin Langtian and Qing Tan.

After the Fire Cloud Sect was destroyed, Qing Tan was promoted to Squad Leader of the Tribunal Army’s Third Banner, while Lin Langtian received the same honorary rank as her Shadow Guard. The chapter ended with Zhong Kui facing a decision about leaders of other Southern River Realm forces who had been captured at the sect, as Lin Langtian considered recruiting them.

• Zhong Kui reviewed the Tribunal Army’s casualties, and Lan Yan reported that eighteen guards and one Squad Leader had died in the operation.
• Zhong Kui ordered Zhao Gang to compensate the fallen soldiers’ families and distribute the Fire Cloud Sect’s treasury among the Tribunal Army.
• Lan Yan recommended Qing Tan to replace the fallen Squad Leader, citing her defeat of two Fire Cloud Sect Elders and Xu Qing; Zhong Kui approved her promotion.
• Zhong Kui gave Qing Tan and Lin Langtian Green Longsword Ghost Face Masks, and Qing Tan explained that Lin Langtian’s matching Squad Leader rank carried no actual authority.
• Wang Tao told Zhong Kui that leaders from numerous Southern River Realm forces had been found at the Fire Cloud Sect and claimed Tang Lie had deceived them; Lin Langtian considered recruiting them for his own force.

Lin Langtian proposed expelling the Southern River Realm factions suspected of ties to the Fire Cloud Sect, then asked to lead them to the Eastern Xuan Region and establish his own faction. With Qing Tan's support, the Tribunal Army granted his request, and the two announced the expulsion to the detained faction leaders.

• Zhao Gang urged killing the Southern River Realm factions, while Qi Liang warned that indiscriminate slaughter would damage the Darkness Hall's reputation.
• Lin Langtian proposed expelling factions connected to the Fire Cloud Sect, with those refusing relocation to be destroyed for rebellion.
• Lin Langtian revealed he wanted time to gather the leaderless factions and lead them to establish a faction in the Eastern Xuan Region after leaving Yuan Sect.
• Qing Tan supported Lin Langtian, and Zhong Kui agreed that the Tribunal Army would not interfere with his plans.
• Lin Langtian and Qing Tan entered the hall holding the faction leaders, and Qing Tan announced that they would be expelled from the Northern Xuan Region.

Qing Tan ordered the Southern River Realm factions to relocate out of the Northern Xuan Region, and Lin Langtian proposed uniting them into an alliance for the move to the Eastern Xuan Region. He offered to lead the alliance, but insisted its members put the alliance ahead of their former factions, leaving the leaders to weigh the cost of joining.

• Qing Tan threatened to exterminate the faction leaders as accomplices of the Fire Cloud Sect unless they agreed to leave the Northern Xuan Region, and they accepted the relocation.
• Lin Langtian suggested the factions unite so they could protect one another and establish themselves in the Eastern Xuan Region.
• Lin Langtian volunteered to lead the alliance and explained that he intended to leave the Darkness Hall with Qing Tan.
• Lin Langtian required alliance members to treat the alliance as their primary identity and safeguard its interests, prompting the faction leaders to hesitate.

Lin Langtian formed the Southern River Realm Alliance into Heavenly Mansion and secured the factions’ loyalty with promises of cultivation breakthroughs. He appointed Elder Yan to lead in his absence while he focused on obtaining the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill to revive Zhou Tong.

• Lin Langtian persuaded twenty-four of the Southern River Realm’s twenty-seven factions to join the alliance and acknowledge him as leader.
• Lin Langtian promised Elder Yan help reaching the Death Profound Stage within three years and pledged to raise the other leaders’ strength by a minor level.
• Qing Tan proposed the name Heavenly Mansion, and the assembled leaders hailed Lin Langtian as its Palace Lord.
• Lin Langtian told the factions to prepare core disciples for relocation to the Eastern Xuan Region and appointed Elder Yan as the first Great Elder to manage affairs while he was away.
• After the leaders departed, Qing Tan offered support from the Southern River Realm branch of the Darkness Hall, and Lin Langtian resolved to make Heavenly Mansion prosper.

Lin Langtian refined the Space Ancestral Talisman by balancing it with the Devouring Ancestral Symbol through the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror. After five days of cultivation, he reached Life Profound Stage Perfection and Immortal Talisman Master Small Vehicle Peak, then used spatial power to divert his Wind Lightning Tribulations.

• The Tribunal Camp plundered Fire Cloud Sect's treasures, while Qing Tan gained a promotion and Lin Langtian claimed the damaged Blood Puppet as spoils.
• Lin Langtian brought the Space Ancestral Talisman into his Mud Pill Palace, where it clashed violently with the Devouring Ancestral Symbol.
• Lin Langtian summoned the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror, which balanced the two Ancestral Talismans and allowed their powers to stabilize.
• The Devouring Ancestral Symbol released Lin Langtian's stored Mental Power, causing his cultivation and Mental Power to surge during five days of training.
• Lin Langtian reached Life Profound Stage Perfection and Immortal Talisman Master Small Vehicle Peak, then used spatial power to redirect the Wind Lightning Tribulations away from himself.

Lin Langtian learned that the Darkness Hall rejected his request for a Life-Death Reincarnation Pill, but Qing Tan revealed he could earn one by distinguishing himself in the campaign against the Yuwen Family. He joined the Third Battalion’s journey east, arriving with the force at Dongling City as powerful commanders appeared.

• Qing Tan told Lin Langtian that the Elder Council rejected the request for a Life-Death Reincarnation Pill after an elder objected because Lin Langtian had defeated Mo Ming.
• Qing Tan explained that the Yuwen Family had obtained the Stillness Divine Tablet and that the Darkness Hall had ordered the Seventh Regiment to destroy the family.
• Lin Langtian agreed to join the eastern campaign, hoping to distinguish himself and secure the pill needed to revive Zhou Tong.
• Zhong Kui led the Third Battalion’s four hundred members aboard a Darkness War Tiger Ship from the Southern River Realm toward the east.
• After six days, Lin Langtian and the Third Battalion arrived at Dongling City, where Death Profound Stage commanders from the other battalions rose to meet them.

Lin Langtian and the Seventh Regiment gathered in Dongling City before setting out to destroy the Yuwen Family. As the Tribunal Army advanced, Yuwen Hao prepared to send his son away with the Stillness Divine Tablet.

• Lin Langtian arrived in Dongling City with the Third Battalion and saw the Seventh Regiment assemble under its commanders.
• Eastern Branch Hall Master Xu Xin addressed the gathered forces, and Regiment Commander Jiang Shan ordered the army to march on the Yuwen Family.
• The Seventh Regiment and allied forces surged out of Dongling City toward the Yuwen Family.
• Yuwen Hao struck Yuwen Tuo and blamed him for revealing that the family possessed the Stillness Divine Tablet.
• Yuwen Hao told Yuwen Tuo that he would use a spatial Teleportation Array to help him escape with the tablet when the Tribunal Army arrived.

The Tribunal Army and Darkness Hall forces encircled Yuwen City to destroy the Yuwen Family for concealing the Stillness Divine Tablet. Yuwen Hao rejected surrender after learning Darkness Hall would spare no traitors, and the battle began with Jiang Shan confronting him.

• The Tribunal Army's five battalions and Darkness Hall's eastern forces surrounded Yuwen City and demolished its defenses before storming the Yuwen Family estate.
• Lin Langtian and Qing Tan led Tribunal Guards in an assault on the estate's northern side as Yuwen Hao's attack forced the army to halt.
• Jiang Shan and Xu Lie arrived, and Jiang Shan accused Yuwen Hao of concealing the Stillness Divine Tablet on the Hall Master's orders.
• Yuwen Hao regretted that his ambition had brought the family to ruin, while an elder urged him to send his son Tuo'er away and preserve the family line.
• Yuwen Hao asked whether handing over the tablet would spare his family, but Xu Lie said Darkness Hall never tolerated traitors, so Yuwen Hao chose to fight.
• Jiang Shan ordered the Tribunal Guards to attack and charged at Yuwen Hao as the battle began.

The Tribunal Army attacked the Yuwen Family estate, where Qing Tan fought a guard captain and Jiang Shan defeated Yuwen Hao in a fierce battle. Yuwen Hao then escaped with Yuwen Tuo and several guards through a Spatial Shift, leaving Jiang Shan and Xu Lie reacting to the revelation.

• Qing Tan used her black scythe to wound and suppress a Yuwen Family guard captain who had reached Life Profound Stage Great Success.
• Jiang Shan and Yuwen Hao fought in the sky, with Jiang Shan overpowering Yuwen Hao despite his Golden Sun War Spear and ultimate technique.
• Jiang Shan defeated Yuwen Hao and demanded that he return to the Darkness Tribunal or be executed.
• Lin Langtian noticed that Yuwen Hao was preparing something as the battle ended.
• Yuwen Hao wrapped up Yuwen Tuo and several guards in yellow energy and retreated into a bright yellow cloud.
• The cloud revealed a distorted spatial formation, and Jiang Shan and Xu Lie recognized it as a Spatial Shift.

Lin Langtian marked Yuwen Tuo with the Space Ancestral Talisman and followed him after the Yuwen Family remnants escaped the massacre. In the Myriad Mountains, Yuwen Tuo learned his family was destroyed and vowed to rebuild it, but Lin Langtian found him and confirmed the Stillness Divine Tablet was with the survivors.

• Lin Langtian marked Yuwen Tuo with the Space Ancestral Talisman while Jiang Shan and Xu Lie attacked the Yuwen Family’s escape array.
• Yuwen Hao sacrificed himself to protect the array, and Yuwen Tuo and the guards escaped through the spatial shift as Jiang Shan captured Yuwen Hao.
• Lin Langtian used the mark to locate the fleeing group and teleported to the Myriad Mountains.
• Yuwen Zhong told Yuwen Tuo to rebuild the Yuwen Family in the Chaotic Demon Sea, and Yuwen Tuo vowed to avenge his family and reclaim its legacy.
• Lin Langtian emerged from hiding and revealed that he had followed them; Yuwen Tuo recognized him as part of the Tribunal Army.

Lin Langtian tracked the Yuwen Family remnants and fought Uncle Zhong, a Death Profound Stage expert, to seize the Stillness Divine Tablet. After binding Uncle Zhong with chains, Lin Langtian prepared to finish the battle with his Demon Rage Fire Lotus.

• Lin Langtian confronted Yuwen Tuo, Uncle Zhong, and the other Yuwen Family remnants, demanding the Stillness Divine Tablet.
• Yuwen Tuo urged Uncle Zhong to avenge the family by killing Lin Langtian, and Uncle Zhong attacked him.
• Lin Langtian revealed his Life Profound Stage Perfection strength and withstood Uncle Zhong’s Death Profound Stage attacks.
• Lin Langtian used the Wood Emperor Triple Transformation and Demon Flame Chains, then bound Uncle Zhong with chains infused with Devouring Power and Spatial Power.
• Lin Langtian formed a Demon Rage Fire Lotus after spending most of his Yuan Power, leaving Uncle Zhong alarmed as the fight reached its decisive moment.

Lin Langtian killed Yuwen Zhong and forced Yuwen Tuo to hand over the Stillness Divine Tablet, but Yuwen Tuo used the tablet to freeze him and ordered the guards to attack. Lin Langtian escaped with spatial travel and reappeared alive, taking the tablet from Yuwen Tuo.

• Lin Langtian defeated Yuwen Zhong with the Demon Rage Fire Lotus and killed him with a demonic-flame strike.
• Lin Langtian demanded the Stillness Divine Tablet from Yuwen Tuo, who handed it over while pretending to plead for his life.
• Yuwen Tuo activated the tablet to freeze Lin Langtian and ordered the Yuwen Family guards to kill him.
• Lin Langtian escaped the guards' attacks using spatial travel, leaving them to believe he had died.
• Lin Langtian reappeared and took the Stillness Divine Tablet from Yuwen Tuo.

Lin Langtian escaped Yuwen Tuo’s Stillness Divine Tablet, killed the fleeing Yuwen Family remnants, and used the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror to replicate the artifact. As the Darkness Hall searched for the missing tablet, a Shadow Guard arrived claiming to have recovered it.

• Lin Langtian used the Space Ancestral Talisman to break free of the Stillness Divine Tablet’s restraint, then burned Yuwen Tuo and the other remnants to ash.
• Spirit Aunt suggested replicating the Stillness Divine Tablet, and Lin Langtian successfully used the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror to create a second one.
• Lin Langtian bonded with the replica and tested its power by freezing a butterfly in place before putting away the original and heading back to deliver the goods.
• News of the Yuwen Family’s destruction spread through the east, while Jiang Shan ordered his subordinates to pursue the escaped remnants and questioned Xu Lie about the Stillness Divine Tablet.
• Zhong Kui reported that Yuwen Tuo had fled with Yuwen Zhong and other loyal servants, prompting Jiang Shan and Xu Lie to plan a region-wide search.
• A Tribunal Guard announced that the Shadow Guard had pursued the remnants and obtained the Stillness Divine Tablet, surprising Jiang Shan and Xu Lie.

Lin Langtian returned the Stillness Divine Tablet to the Tribunal Army and earned Jiang Shan’s gratitude and a promise of support. After learning that Yuan Sect had imprisoned his former Fire Division followers, Lin Langtian resolved to accelerate Zhou Tong’s resurrection and the establishment of the Heavenly Mansion.

• Lin Langtian told Jiang Shan and Xu Lie that he had killed the Yuwen Family remnants and presented them with the Stillness Divine Tablet.
• Jiang Shan recognized Lin Langtian’s achievement as a great merit, explained that it brought him closer to earning Dark Sacred Liquid, and promised Lin Langtian a favor.
• Qing Tan greeted Lin Langtian outside the hall and revealed that she had advanced to Life Profound Stage Great Success using an Ice Treasure.
• Qing Tan told Lin Langtian that Yuan Sect’s Three Grand Masters had secretly imprisoned Song Yun, Mo Tie, and his other trusted Fire Division followers.
• Lin Langtian calmed down after Qing Tan suggested Yuan Sect would not harm the prisoners yet, then decided to accelerate Zhou Tong’s resurrection and the establishment of the Heavenly Mansion.

After returning from the destruction of the Yuwen Family, Lin Langtian and Qing Tan reached Darkness Hall, where Bo Xuan gave Lin Langtian the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill. Lin Langtian planned to use it to restore Zhou Tong’s body, and Bo Xuan offered access to Darkness Hall’s Nirvana Pill River to help.

• Jiang Shan ordered the Seventh Regiment to return to Darkness City aboard its Dark War Dragon Ships, while Lin Langtian worried that Yuan Sect might harm Song Yun, Mo Tie, and the others.
• Lin Langtian cultivated during the journey but failed to find a way to advance beyond Life Profound Stage Perfection.
• In Darkness Hall, Chen Kui told Lin Langtian and Qing Tan that Bo Xuan had obtained the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill, and he remarked on their rapid cultivation progress.
• Bo Xuan met Lin Langtian and Qing Tan in the bamboo forest and praised Lin Langtian’s role in recovering the Stillness Divine Tablet.
• Bo Xuan gave Lin Langtian the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill after learning he intended to use it to restore a senior’s body.
• Bo Xuan offered Lin Langtian access to Darkness Hall’s Nirvana Pill River to provide the energy needed for the restoration.

Lin Langtian secured Darkness Hall’s Nirvana Pill River and a drop of Dark Spirit Liquid, then began helping Zhou Tong restore his physical body. Zhou Tong entered the river inside a Life-Death Reincarnation Pill cocoon while Lin Langtian prepared to use the Dark Spirit Liquid to pursue the Death Profound Stage.

• Bo Xuan brought Lin Langtian to a ten-thousand-zhang Nirvana Pill River and gave him exclusive use of it to revive Zhou Tong.
• Bo Xuan gave Lin Langtian a drop of Dark Spirit Liquid and asked him to protect Qing Tan if Bo Xuan failed in his attempt to reach the Reincarnation Stage.
• Lin Langtian promised to help Qing Tan, then summoned Zhou Tong’s recovered Nascent Soul and explained that Darkness Hall had provided the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill.
• Zhou Tong agreed to serve as an elder of Lin Langtian’s Heavenly Mansion and entered the Nirvana Pill River to begin rebuilding his body.
• Zhou Tong swallowed the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill and became enveloped in a black-and-white energy cocoon as Lin Langtian prepared to cultivate with the Dark Spirit Liquid.

Lin Langtian used Dark Spirit Liquid to reach the Half-step Death Profound Stage while Zhou Tong reconstructed his body in the Nirvana Pill River. After Zhou Tong resurrected and pledged loyalty to Lin Langtian, he refused the Space Ancestral Talisman, only to discover Lin Langtian already possessed another one.

• Lin Langtian absorbed the Dark Spirit Liquid and spent two months cultivating until he reached the Half-step Death Profound Stage.
• Lin Langtian sensed Zhou Tong's life-and-death cocoon growing stronger and developing an aura of flesh and blood.
• Zhou Tong's cocoon absorbed vast amounts of Nirvana Qi, cracked, and finally burst open as he emerged with a reconstructed body.
• Zhou Tong saluted Lin Langtian and pledged to serve him as his Palace Lord in gratitude for saving his life.
• Lin Langtian offered Zhou Tong the Space Ancestral Talisman, but Zhou Tong refused and urged him to keep it.
• Lin Langtian revealed a second Space Ancestral Talisman, shocking Zhou Tong.

Lin Langtian returned Zhou Tong's original Space Ancestral Talisman, recruited him into the Heavenly Mansion, and arranged Darkness Hall ships to transport the faction east. Back at the Heavenly Mansion, Lin Langtian interrupted Liu Kun's bid to become acting Palace Lord by suddenly returning to the assembly.

• Lin Langtian explained how he replicated the Space Ancestral Talisman, then returned the original to Zhou Tong and left the Darkness Hall with him.
• Chen Kui told Lin Langtian that Qing Tan was away suppressing rebellions and Bo Xuan was preparing to attempt the Reincarnation Stage; he agreed to send ten Darkness War Tiger Ships to the Southern River Realm.
• Lin Langtian traveled to the Heavenly Mansion's headquarters in the former Fire Cloud Sect, where Liu Kun rallied support to become acting Palace Lord while Lin Langtian was absent.
• Elder Yan objected when Liu Kun began a vote, but Lin Langtian and Zhou Tong appeared in the hall, and the gathered experts recognized their returning Palace Lord.