Chapter Summaries

The Ling Family's Three Brothers arrived at Black Rock Manor to claim the Purple Spirit Crystal Mine, forcing the Lin Clan into battle. With Lin Tao and Lin Zhi occupied fighting Ling Family's Dog and Tiger, Lin Langtian intervened to stop Ling Long from killing a Lin Clan elder.

• Lin Tao and Lin Zhi put Black Rock Manor on alert when the Ling Family's forces appeared outside its walls.
• Ling Family's Tiger demanded that the Lin Clan leave Black Rock Manor, while Ling Family's Dog attacked the gates.
• Lin Tao intercepted Ling Family's Dog, and Lin Zhi led the Tiger Leopard Cavalry into battle against the Ling Family troops.
• Ling Family's Tiger and Lin Zhi clashed while Ling Long led the remaining forces toward Black Rock Manor.
• Lin Langtian blocked Ling Long's attack on a Lin Clan elder and challenged Ling Family's Dragon to fight.

Lin Langtian confronted Ling Long, a Peak Creation Stage expert, during the battle between the Lin Clan and the Ling Family. He shattered Ling Long’s strongest attack with his physical strength and left him grievously injured, stunning both sides.

• Ling Long mocked the Lin Clan for sending Lin Langtian and ordered his forces to attack.
• Lin Langtian revealed that he had reached Creation Realm Great Completion and told Captain Lin Ying to handle the other Ling Family forces.
• Ling Long recognized Lin Langtian’s talent and decided to kill him before he could become a greater threat.
• Lin Langtian and Ling Long exchanged blows, and Lin Langtian’s scorching Yuan Power unsettled Ling Long.
• Ling Long launched a giant Yuan Power palm, but Lin Langtian shattered it with a punch and charged at him with his Two-stripe Black Flame Body.
• Lin Langtian defeated Ling Long, leaving the Peak Creation Stage expert badly injured and the battlefield stunned.

Lin Langtian defeated Ling Long and led the Lin Clan to repel the Ling Family from Black Rock Manor. After the battle, he sent Jin Wu to track the retreating forces and watch for further threats.

• Lin Langtian defeated the Creation Realm Peak expert Ling Long, shocking both clans and lifting the Lin Clan’s morale.
• Lin Langtian charged into the Ling Family forces, helping the Lin Clan rout them across Black Rock Manor.
• Ling Hu and Ling Quan called for a retreat, taking the badly injured Ling Long as the Ling Family fled into the mountains.
• Lin Tao stopped the Lin Clan from pursuing the fleeing enemy, and the manor’s defenders celebrated their victory.
• Lin Langtian sent Jin Wu after the retreating Ling Family to surveil them for hidden plans or reinforcements.

Ling Long revealed that the Ling Family’s Half-step Nirvana Supreme Elder would arrive in five days to seize Black Rock Manor, but Jin Wu secretly overheard the plan and relayed it to Lin Langtian. Lin Langtian decided to intercept the elder alone with the subdued Spirit Puppet, leaving the confrontation set for five days later.

• Ling Long told Ling Quan and Ling Hu that the Ling Family’s Supreme Elder, newly at the Half-step Nirvana Stage, would arrive in five days to attack Black Rock Manor.
• Jin Wu secretly listened to the Ling Family’s discussion and flew back to Black Rock Manor to report what he had heard to Lin Langtian.
• Lin Langtian used the Crow Eye Blood Pact to share Jin Wu’s vision and learned that the Ling Family was sending a powerful force.
• Lin Langtian refused Spirit Aunt’s offer of help and said he would use the Spirit Puppet to intercept and kill the Supreme Elder alone.
• Lin Langtian looked toward the Great Qing Dynasty and declared that he would act in five days.

Lin Langtian confronted Ling Lie and the Ling Family elders at their manor after quietly eliminating its guards. When Ling Lie struck, a powerful Talisman Puppet appeared and knocked him back, leaving him shocked.

• Ling Lie rebuked Ling Long and the other two for their losses against Lin Langtian, then ordered them to return to Black Rock Manor with him.
• Lin Langtian entered the hall alone, and Ling Lie realized he had silently dealt with the manor's guards.
• Ling Lie decided to kill Lin Langtian, while Lin Langtian warned him to give up the Lin Clan's Black Rock Manor.
• Ling Lie attacked Lin Langtian with his Thunderlight Ghost Claw, but a black figure emerged and blocked the strike with its arm.
• The figure forced Ling Lie back, and he recognized it as a powerful Talisman Puppet.

Lin Langtian confronted Ling Lie while his Spirit Puppet attacked Ling Long and the others, then fought Ling Lie with his Black Flame Body and Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal. Their clash ended in a draw, with both men forced back eight steps.

• Lin Langtian revealed his Half-step Nirvana Spirit Puppet and ordered it to attack Ling Long and the others while he faced Ling Lie alone.
• Ling Lie attacked Lin Langtian with his Thunder Mace, but Lin Langtian countered with the Crimson Flame Roaring Heaven Spear and Black Flame.
• Ling Lie summoned the Nine Heavens Thunder Tiger Mace, and Lin Langtian activated his Black Flame Body and unleashed the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal.
• Lin Langtian and Ling Lie collided in a fierce exchange, both retreated eight steps, and Ling Lie was shocked that they had drawn.

Lin Langtian fought Ling Lie while his Spirit Puppet killed Ling Hu and Ling Quan and left Ling Long barely alive. Lin Langtian unleashed the Stillness Talisman Array to halt Ling Lie for an instant and kill him, leaving the Ling Family’s resistance at Black Rock Manor broken.

• Lin Langtian matched Ling Lie’s Half-step Nirvana strength, while the Spirit Puppet killed Ling Hu and gravely wounded Ling Long.
• Ling Lie offered to surrender Black Rock Manor and asked Lin Langtian to spare his life, but Lin Langtian refused.
• Ling Lie summoned a Thunder Giant Python and attacked as Lin Langtian countered with the Flame Devouring Dragon Stab and revealed his Stillness Talisman Array.
• The Stillness Talisman Array briefly froze Ling Lie during their clash, allowing Lin Langtian’s fire dragon to consume the thunder python and his spear to pierce Ling Lie’s chest.
• Ling Lie died from Lin Langtian’s attack.

Lin Langtian killed Ling Lie and Ling Long, looted Ling Lie’s belongings, and burned Ling Family Manor to deter the Ling Family from targeting Black Rock Manor. Back in his room, he broke Ling Lie’s mental imprint and found twenty thousand Nirvana Pills, leaving him determined to save enough for his own breakthrough to Half-step Nirvana.

• Lin Langtian killed Ling Lie and used the Spirit Puppet to kill Ling Long, then collected the Thunder Mace and Ling Lie’s Universe Bag.
• Lin Langtian burned Ling Family Manor and returned to Black Rock Manor with Jin Wu’s guidance.
• Lin Langtian used his Mental Power to break the imprint on Ling Lie’s Universe Bag and searched its contents.
• Lin Langtian found twenty thousand Nirvana Pills, bringing his total to fifty thousand, and concluded that he still needed to save more for a Half-step Nirvana breakthrough.

After the Ling Family abandoned its plans to attack Black Rock Manor, Lin Langtian took charge of the manor and secretly used its Purple Spirit Crystals to repair the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror. The mirror eventually opened a vast inner world where Lin Langtian encountered a being surrounded by demonic energy, which Spirit Aunt identified as the power of the Outer Realm Evil Race.

• The Ling Family suspected the Lin Clan had wiped out Ling Lie's group, but feared the possibility that the clan had another Nirvana Stage expert and withdrew from Black Rock Manor.
• Lin Fan rewarded Lin Langtian with ten thousand Nirvana Pills and appointed him to oversee Black Rock Manor.
• Lin Langtian secretly appropriated Purple Spirit Crystals to feed the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror and continued doing so for several months.
• The Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror erupted with light and transported Lin Langtian into its vast inner world.
• A tide of demonic energy filled the mirror world, and a black-scaled figure with scarlet-gold eyes appeared before Lin Langtian.
• Spirit Aunt appeared beside Lin Langtian and identified the energy as belonging to the Outer Realm Evil Race.

Spirit Aunt identified the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror as a supreme treasure of the Outer Realm Evil Race and urged Lin Langtian to destroy it, fearing its demonic energy would corrupt him. Lin Langtian resisted, revealing that he could handle the energy and understood the Saint Race’s history; he remained determined to control the mirror.

• Spirit Aunt recognized the mirror’s dense demonic energy and realized she had destroyed her body fighting for a treasure of the Outer Realm Evil Race.
• Spirit Aunt warned Lin Langtian to destroy the mirror, describing the devastation the Outer Realm Evil Race had caused across the Great Thousand World.
• Lin Langtian argued that the mirror was an artifact rather than the race itself and insisted that he could control it.
• Spirit Aunt warned that the mirror’s previous owners had been corrupted, but Lin Langtian demonstrated that its demonic energy did him no harm.
• Lin Langtian recalled the Saint Race’s origins, its defeat in the Heavenly Origin Realm, and its later invasion of the Great Thousand World, reaffirming his resolve to claim the mirror’s power.

Lin Langtian chose to keep the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror and pursue his own Demonic Path, despite the danger of wielding the Outer Realm Evil Race’s power. Spirit Aunt agreed to support him, then suggested that Master Mu’s Demonic Appraisal at the Hundred Dynasties War might help him overcome the conflict between demonic qi and Yuan Power.

• Lin Langtian told Spirit Aunt he intended to control the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror and forge a Demonic Path of his own.
• Spirit Aunt warned Lin Langtian that she would stop him if demonic qi turned him against the Great Thousand World, and he vowed to take his own life rather than become the Outer Realm Evil Race’s puppet.
• Spirit Aunt accepted Lin Langtian’s decision and agreed to let him keep the mirror.
• Lin Langtian tried to absorb demonic qi but found it clashed dangerously with the Yuan Power in his body.
• Spirit Aunt recalled the Nascent Soul called Master Mu and pointed Lin Langtian toward the Demonic Appraisal at the Hundred Dynasties War as a possible solution.

Spirit Aunt told Lin Langtian that Old Man Yi Mo created the Demonic Appraisal to wield the Yi Mo Race’s power and that his inheritance lay in the Hundred Dynasties War’s Ancient Battlefield. Lin Langtian resolved to learn it, and Spirit Aunt asked him to obtain Kunpeng Race Direct Lineage Essence Blood to restore her body.

• Spirit Aunt explained that the Yi Mo Race had invaded the Heavenly Profound Continent and that Old Man Yi Mo developed the Demonic Appraisal after studying the power that corrupted him.
• Spirit Aunt urged Lin Langtian to seek Old Man Yi Mo’s inheritance in the Ancient Battlefield and use the Demonic Appraisal to master the demonic energy in the mirror.
• Lin Langtian recalled that his former self had learned the art but died after rushing to challenge Lin Dong, and he resolved to forge a different path in this life.
• Lin Langtian reassured Spirit Aunt that he would not recklessly endanger their linked lives, and Spirit Aunt asked him to obtain Kunpeng Race Direct Lineage Essence Blood.
• Lin Langtian promised Spirit Aunt that he would obtain the blood essence to help restore her Nine Nether Flame Sparrow body.

Lin Langtian used the Golden Spirit Wheel Mirror’s Demonic Qi to remake his Spirit Puppet, turning it into a powerful Demonic Puppet. After testing its strength, he realized it could kill Half-step Nirvana experts and left confident in his ability to face almost anyone in the Great Yan Dynasty.

• Lin Langtian agreed to help Spirit Aunt find Kunpeng Race essence blood so she could recover.
• Spirit Aunt told Lin Langtian that the mirror’s Demonic Qi could strengthen his Spirit Puppet.
• Lin Langtian enveloped the Spirit Puppet in Demonic Qi while reinforcing his Mental Imprint, but the Qi obediently avoided it.
• The Spirit Puppet transformed from bronze to jet-black as its aura grew stronger.
• Lin Langtian ordered the Demonic Puppet to punch the lake, and its attack created a massive blast that shook the mirror’s inner world.
• Lin Langtian concluded that the Demonic Puppet could kill Half-step Nirvana experts and that only Mo Batian, the Tiger of the Imperial Family, posed a major threat in the Great Yan Dynasty.

Lin Langtian traveled to the Great Qing Dynasty’s Underground Black Market to sell the Thunder Mace for Nirvana Pills. After setting up his stall under the protection of the Demonic Puppet, he attracted a buyer who asked whether he would lower the price.

• Lin Langtian told Lin Tao he no longer needed Black Rock Manor’s Purple Spirit Crystals and learned that a grand Underground Black Market would be held in Dongyang City in half a month.
• Lin Langtian set out for the Great Qing Dynasty with Jin Wu, intending to sell the Thunder Mace and gather Nirvana Pills for his future breakthrough.
• After reaching Dongyang City, Lin Langtian disguised himself and entered the Underground Black Market with the Demonic Puppet beside him.
• Lin Langtian offered the Thunder Mace for fifty thousand Nirvana Pills, deterring onlookers with the Demonic Puppet’s presence.
• A bamboo-hatted figure stopped at Lin Langtian’s stall and asked whether he could lower the price.

Lin Langtian traded the Thunder Mace for thirty thousand Nirvana Pills and an ancient Mysterious Map, then left the Underground Black Market. On a deserted street, an unseen attacker fired a poisoned Spirit Treasure Arrow at him, but Lin Langtian stopped it with his Mental Power.

• Lin Langtian refused the black-robed man's offer of Pure Yuan Pills for the Thunder Mace.
• The black-robed man offered a family heirloom Mysterious Map to cover the remaining price, and Lin Langtian accepted it along with thirty thousand Nirvana Pills for the Thunder Mace.
• After verifying the pills, Lin Langtian handed over the Thunder Mace, packed up his stall, and left the Underground Black Market.
• Lin Langtian disguised himself and wandered through the city before entering a deserted street and realizing something was wrong.
• An attacker fired a poisoned Spirit Treasure Arrow at Lin Langtian's back, and Lin Langtian halted it in midair with his Mental Power.

Lin Langtian was ambushed by Huo Family experts who accused him of stealing their Ancient Map, but he used his Demonic Puppet to kill them both. He hid the Ancient Cloth Fragment and the puppet in the Mirror Inner World, then set off for the Great Desolation Commandery.

• Lin Langtian evaded arrows from Huo Family attackers and learned they were pursuing the Ancient Cloth Fragment he had traded for with the Black-Robed Man.
• A Huo Family expert attacked Lin Langtian, but the Demonic Puppet emerged and killed him with a single punch.
• Lin Langtian ordered the Demonic Puppet to pursue the second Huo Family expert, who fled but was also killed.
• Lin Langtian found no Nirvana Pills on the two experts, stored the Demonic Puppet and Ancient Cloth Fragment in the Mirror Inner World, and left for the Great Desolation Commandery.

Lin Langtian arrived at the Great Desolation Ancient Plains ahead of the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet’s Seal weakening, hoping to obtain treasures that would strengthen him. His arrival drew the crowd’s attention as he gazed upon the towering ancient tablet.

• Lin Langtian studied the Ancient Cloth Fragment for half a month without finding a way to decipher it, and Spirit Aunt suggested it needed a special medium.
• Lin Langtian put away the fragment and headed toward the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet, whose Seal would reach its weakest point in a few days.
• Lin Langtian rode a Yuan Power Giant Eagle into the Great Desolation Ancient Plains, where a strange fluctuation hindered flight but barely affected him.
• The crowd recognized Lin Langtian and recalled his defeat of a peak Creation Realm expert from the Great Qing Dynasty.
• Lin Langtian looked upon the nearly thousand-zhang-tall Great Desolation Ancient Tablet and marveled at its ancient grandeur.

Lin Langtian reunited with Lin Ke'er and the Lin Clan elders at the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet expedition, then watched Lin Dong defeat Wang Yan. When a Wang Clan elder demanded that Lin Langtian intervene, he instead mocked the Wang Clan.

• Lin Langtian greeted Lin Ke'er and the Lin Clan elders, who praised his strength and welcomed his plan to return for the Clan Competition.
• Lin Langtian noticed Huangpu Jing arrive and briefly thought of Ling Qingzhu before turning his attention to the battle.
• Lin Dong defeated Wang Yan, astonishing Lin Ke'er and the others.
• Lin Langtian told the Lin Clan elders that Lin Dong and Lin Qing Tan were talents who might rival him.
• A Wang Clan elder challenged Lin Langtian to intervene, but Lin Langtian mocked the Wang Clan for losing to a branch-family member.

Lin Langtian rebuked Wang Tong for Wang Yan’s defeat and spoke up for Lin Dong before the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet opened. Lin Langtian entered the Ancient Monument Space, was separated from the others, and set off toward its central region.

• Lin Langtian dismissed Wang Tong’s threat and said Wang Yan had only himself to blame for losing to Lin Dong, prompting Wang Tong to leave with the injured Wang Yan.
• Lin Dong thanked Lin Langtian, who introduced him to Lin Luo and other Lin Clan elders.
• Someone announced that the seal on the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet was about to disappear, and the gathered clans and factions rushed into its energy vortex once it opened.
• Lin Langtian broke through the vortex’s repulsive force and entered the Ancient Monument Space.
• Lin Langtian found that Lin Dong and the other Lin Clan members had been separated from him, then flew toward the space’s central region.

Lin Langtian encountered the Blazing Sun Flame Wind in the Ancient Monument Space and used its scorching power to temper his Black Flame Body. After enduring the gale for a night, he reached the Three-Pattern Peak Black Flame Body, bringing him closer to learning the Black Flame Hegemon Body.

• Spirit Aunt identified the Blazing Sun Flame Wind and explained that it could temper Lin Langtian's body.
• Spirit Aunt told Lin Langtian that mastering the third Flame Melting Pattern could lead him to the Black Flame Hegemon Body.
• Lin Langtian settled on a mountain peak and activated his Black Flame Body to endure the flame wind.
• Lin Langtian absorbed the wind's blazing yang energy into his Flame Furnace while it strengthened his body through the night.
• At dawn, Lin Langtian's body withstood the flame wind without a mark, and the third Flame Melting Pattern fully emerged.