Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong emerged from the selection hall after defeating Wang Zhong, securing the Lin Clan a second spot and enraging Wang Lei. Lin Langtian intervened when Wang Lei attacked Lin Dong and defeated him in one move, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Lin Dong emerged from the Purple Gold Giant Gate, and the gathered leaders realized the Lin Clan had claimed two Seed Selection spots.
• Wang Lei, furious over Wang Zhong's defeat, attacked Lin Dong with a killing blow.
• Lin Langtian stepped in to protect Lin Dong and challenged Wang Lei.
• Wang Lei unleashed a full-strength attack, but Lin Langtian activated his Three-Pattern Black Flame Body and met it head-on.
• Lin Langtian shattered Wang Lei's attack and knocked him back in one move, stunning everyone in the hall.

Lin Langtian defeated Wang Lei and helped end the Seed Selection, which named five candidates for the Sacred Spirit Pool. Back at his lodging, Lin Langtian prepared to pursue a Nirvana Stage breakthrough before the Hundred Dynasties War, and Spirit Aunt offered to teach him Yuan Power fusion.

• Lin Langtian defeated Wang Lei in one move, and Lin Fan stopped Wang Lei from attacking Lin Dong again.
• Mo Jingtian warned Wang Lei that the Wang Clan could lose its qualification for the next Seed Selection, so Wang Lei left with the injured Wang Zhong.
• Mo Jingtian announced Lin Dong, Mo Ling, Du Yun, Man Shan, and Lin Langtian as the five candidates who would enter the Sacred Spirit Pool the next day.
• Lin Langtian returned to his courtyard, reunited with Jin Wu, and said he needed to reach the Nirvana Stage before searching for Old Man Yi Mo's inheritance and the Ice Fiend Extreme Cold Pill.
• Spirit Aunt agreed that Lin Langtian needed to break through quickly and offered to help him with Yuan Power fusion.

Lin Langtian learned that Yuan Power fusion could imbue his cultivated energy with Spirit Aunt’s Nine Nether Flame, and she identified the Sacred Spirit Pool as a chance to attempt it. After entering the pool with Lin Dong and the other candidates, Lin Langtian found its abundant energy promising for the fusion.

• Spirit Aunt explained that Yuan Power fusion could give Lin Langtian’s energy the properties of Nine Nether Flame, and suggested the Sacred Spirit Pool as an opportunity.
• Lin Langtian and the others entered the Imperial Palace, where Lin Fan explained the altar that concealed the Sacred Spirit Pool and revealed that Wang Lei had left the city.
• Mo Jingtian and the other clan leaders and sect masters activated the altar, opening a ring of light to the pool.
• Lin Langtian entered the ring with Lin Dong, Mo Ling, and the other candidates while the leaders maintained the opening.
• Lin Langtian emerged inside the Sacred Spirit Pool and recognized its powerful energy as suitable for Yuan Power fusion.

Lin Langtian cultivated at the bottom of the Sacred Spirit Pool to fuse his Yuan Power with the Nine Nether Flame. After several days, the fusion neared completion as the pool’s energy surged around him, drawing the attention of Mo Ling, Lin Dong, and the others.

• At Spirit Aunt’s direction, Lin Langtian dived deep into the Sacred Spirit Pool and settled at its bottom to cultivate.
• Spirit Aunt engulfed Lin Langtian in Black Flame, and he began circulating his Yuan Power under the pool’s intense pressure to fuse it with the Nine Nether Flame.
• On the second day, Lin Langtian produced his first strand of fused Yuan Power, which held a wisp of Nine Nether Flame and was far more powerful than his former Yuan Power.
• Lin Langtian continued cultivating, and the pool water formed a vortex as he drew its energy into his body.
• Mo Ling and the others sensed the disturbance and watched Lin Langtian without interrupting him, while Lin Dong remained concerned about Little Marten’s exploration.
• Lin Langtian felt that his Yuan Power fusion was nearing completion.

Lin Langtian condensed the Nine Nether Flame into a flame seed in the Sacred Spirit Pool, strengthening his foundation and Yuan Power. He and Lin Dong returned safely with their companions, and Mo Jingtian announced that they would depart for the Hundred Dynasties War in ten days.

• Lin Langtian spent a day compressing the Nine Nether Flame in his Dantian until he formed a Black Flame Seed.
• Lin Langtian emerged from the water stronger, and Mo Ling and the others congratulated him on his gains.
• Little Marten returned safely to Lin Dong, who learned that he had gained something at the bottom of the pool.
• Lin Langtian and the others left the Sacred Spirit Pool and emerged from the altar before Mo Jingtian and the elders.
• Mo Jingtian closed the altar and announced that the group would be teleported to the Ancient Battlefield in ten days for the Hundred Dynasties War.

After preparing for the Hundred Dynasties War, Lin Langtian set out with Lin Dong and the others for the Ancient Battlefield. He entered the teleportation formation, leaving his thoughts of joining Yuan Sect and acquiring the Space Ancestral Talisman for the future.

• Lin Langtian discovered that Jin Wu had grown stronger after absorbing Sacred Spirit Pool energy and planned to seek the Ice Fiend Extreme Cold Pill to help Jin Wu evolve.
• Ten days later, Lin Langtian joined Lin Dong and Lin Fan's group as they traveled to Sacred War Peak.
• Lin Fan explained that the Great Yan Dynasty's teleportation formation had been built by an expert from a Super Sect, and Lin Langtian considered joining Yuan Sect to pursue the Space Ancestral Talisman.
• Mo Jingtian collected the Nirvana Pills needed to activate the formation, including the Lin Clan's contribution of twenty thousand.
• Lin Langtian, Lin Dong, Mo Ling, and the other participants entered the formation and vanished into the Ancient Battlefield.

Lin Langtian and four others entered the Ancient Battlefield and discovered that its Yuan Qi contained Nirvana Qi. They formed a team under Lin Langtian’s command and headed north toward a gathering point before nightfall.

• Lin Langtian and the others arrived atop a stone peak in the Ancient Battlefield and sensed Nirvana Qi in the air.
• Mo Ling warned that nights suppressed human Yuan Power while leaving demonic beasts unaffected, and urged the group to travel together.
• Lin Dong proposed Lin Langtian as captain, and the others agreed because of his strength.
• Lin Langtian accepted the position on the condition that everyone followed his orders and did not act alone.
• Lin Langtian ordered Mo Ling to lead them north toward a gathering point, and the five set off before nightfall.

Lin Langtian and his companions reached a gathering point in the Ancient Battlefield, where the Sacred Light Dynasty demanded payment for entry and displayed the corpses of those who resisted. After entering cautiously, the group settled in to learn about the region and cultivate, planning to explore once they became more familiar with the battlefield.

• Lin Langtian and his companions arrived at a city gathering point and found the Sacred Light Dynasty controlling its gates.
• A Sacred Light Dynasty member demanded ten Nirvana Pills per person and showed three corpses to intimidate those who refused.
• Lin Langtian chose to pay the entrance fee and keep a low profile while the group assessed the situation.
• Lin Langtian sensed that the Sacred Light Dynasty included a Creation Realm Peak expert and judged it to be an Intermediate Dynasty.
• Mo Ling explained that they were in the northwest outer region and had one year before they had to head deeper into the battlefield.
• Lin Langtian gave the group brief instructions, and the five companions began cultivating in their stone house.

Lin Langtian learned that Old Man Yi Mo’s inheritance lay in the Ancient Battlefield’s core region, then prepared to face a Beast Tide attacking the city. As the Sacred Light Dynasty organized the defense, its golden-robed leader ordered Mo Ling’s group to hold the northwest wall.

• Lin Langtian used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to form a Devouring Skin Membrane that protected him from the Ancient Battlefield’s dangerous night.
• Spirit Aunt told Lin Langtian that Old Man Yi Mo’s inheritance and the Ice Fiend Extreme Cold Pill were in the core region, and advised him to reach Nirvana Stage before going there.
• Spirit Aunt sensed unusual activity near the city, and a Beast Tide gathered outside as the ground shook and the alarm sounded.
• Lin Langtian assessed the horde and reassured Lin Dong, Mo Ling, and the others that it had no Nirvana-level beasts and he could handle it.
• The Sacred Light Dynasty’s experts took charge of the city’s defense, and a golden-robed man ordered Mo Ling’s group to defend the northwest wall.

Lin Langtian stood up to Xia Huang and the Sacred Light Dynasty after they tried to force the Great Yan Dynasty into danger. He revealed Half-step Nirvana strength, drove off the Beast Tide, and left the Sacred Light Dynasty's local forces destroyed.

• Xia Huang ordered Lin Langtian's group to face the Beast Tide and threatened to throw them out of the gathering point, while Lin Langtian refused to submit.
• Xia Huang sent dozens of Creation Realm Minor Completion experts to attack Lin Langtian's group, and Lin Langtian killed them all with a surge of Yuan Power.
• The Beast Tide halted and retreated after sensing Lin Langtian's aura, revealing to the gathered people that he had reached the Half-step Nirvana Stage.
• Xia Huang apologized to Lin Langtian, and Li Sheng arrived and tried to bargain by offering an alliance with the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Lin Langtian struck Li Sheng and the Sacred Light Dynasty experts with a gigantic palm, killing Li Sheng, Xia Huang, and the seven people behind them.

After Lin Langtian destroyed the Sacred Light Dynasty’s forces, he freed the gathering point’s residents from their fees and gained the allegiance of many small dynasties. He accepted their support and established the Yan Alliance, leaving the newly united force ready to make its mark on the Ancient Battlefield.

• Lin Langtian collected the Sacred Light Dynasty’s Universe Bags and announced that residents could stay at the gathering point without paying fees.
• The Great Jia Dynasty, followed by the Great Wu Dynasty and the Black Wolf Dynasty, pledged allegiance to Lin Langtian.
• Lin Dong encouraged Lin Langtian to accept the dynasties’ allegiance, and Lin Langtian agreed to lead them together.
• Lin Langtian named the new coalition the Yan Alliance, and Mo Ling announced him as its leader.
• The newly joined members cheered for the Yan Alliance and promised to obey Lin Langtian.

After emerging from seclusion, Lin Langtian demonstrated his newly mastered martial art and assessed the Yan Alliance’s growing strength. Mo Ling then reported that the surviving Sacred Light Dynasty members, including their Senior Brother, were in Yang City.

• Lin Langtian established the Yan Alliance from dozens of low-level dynasties and left Mo Ling in charge of managing it.
• Lin Langtian mastered the Sacred Elephant Collapsing Heaven Strike and tempered his aura to the peak of Creation Realm.
• Lin Langtian reunited with Lin Dong and the Yan Alliance members, who congratulated him on emerging from seclusion.
• A Yan Alliance member reported that Lin Dong had reached Creation Realm Great Completion and killed two peak Creation Realm demon beasts during the group’s hunts.
• Lin Langtian approved of the Yan Alliance’s improved cohesion after its hunts and reorganization reduced its ranks to around a hundred members.
• Mo Ling told Lin Langtian that the surviving Sacred Light Dynasty members, including their Senior Brother, were in Yang City.

Lin Langtian led the Yan Alliance toward Yang City to pursue the Ancient Secret Key and the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill. Along the way, he helped twenty-seven members break through, and the group reached Yang City.

• Mo Ling told Lin Langtian and Lin Dong that Yang City held the Ancient Secret Key and the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill, so Lin Langtian decided the Yan Alliance would go there.
• The next morning, Lin Langtian and nearly a hundred Yan Alliance members departed the gathering point aboard Jin Wu.
• During the journey, Lin Langtian used Devouring Power to turn Yuan Power into Nirvana Qi and help twenty-seven members advance in cultivation.
• The twenty-seven members thanked Lin Langtian, while Lin Dong wondered why his technique carried the aura of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol.
• Lin Langtian spotted Yang City ahead, its powerful auras surging into the sky.

Lin Langtian brought the Yan Alliance to Yang City to find information about the Ancient Secret Key, where he confronted Jin Mu of the Sacred Light Dynasty. After Jin Mu attacked, Lin Langtian killed him with a single Nine Nether Flame Palm, making the Yan Alliance’s strength known to the gathered factions.

• Lin Langtian entered Yang City with the Yan Alliance and sent his main force to an inn while he and his companions went to the trading grounds for information.
• At the trading grounds, Lin Langtian recognized Jin Mu, who accused him of killing Sacred Light Dynasty members and demanded that the Yan Alliance submit.
• Man Shan rejected Jin Mu’s demand, and Mo Ling explained that Lin Langtian led the Yan Alliance, a coalition of the Great Yan Dynasty and numerous Low-level Dynasties.
• Jin Mu attacked Lin Langtian with a Yuan Power cheetah, but Lin Langtian took the blow without moving.
• Lin Langtian struck Jin Mu with a Nine Nether Flame palm, destroyed his defenses, and killed him.

Lin Langtian killed Jin Mu and led the Yan Alliance in wiping out the Sacred Light Dynasty, establishing the alliance’s reputation in Yang City. He learned from Mo Tie that the Ancient Secret Key lay in Thunder Rock Valley, along with many treasures and a legendary Heavenly Talisman Immortal Tree.

• Lin Langtian killed Jin Mu with a palm strike infused with Nine Nether Flame, then ordered the Yan Alliance to leave no Sacred Light Dynasty survivors.
• Lin Dong, Mo Ling, and the other Yan Alliance members slaughtered the remaining Sacred Light Dynasty forces, alarming the other factions in Yang City.
• Lin Langtian offered one thousand Nirvana Pills for information about the Ancient Secret Key, and Mo Tie of the Heavenly Iron Dynasty agreed to help.
• Mo Tie told Lin Langtian that the key was hidden in Thunder Rock Valley in the dangerous Thunder Rock Mountain Range.
• Mo Tie explained that Thunder Rock Valley had been a guardian’s cultivation ground and contained rare treasures, including a legendary Heavenly Talisman Immortal Tree.

Lin Langtian learned about Thunder Rock Valley and agreed to travel there with Mo Tie’s forces, while Spirit Aunt gave him a secret technique suited to his delayed Nirvana breakthrough. He began studying the Qi Nourishing Sealing Technique, which could let him nurture his strength until he acquired enough Nirvana Pills.

• Mo Tie told Lin Langtian and the others about the Heavenly Talisman Spirit Tree, Thunder Rock Valley’s dangers, and the possibility that Advanced Dynasties were secretly gathering near Yang City.
• Mo Tie proposed that his forces and the Yan Alliance enter the Thunder Rock Mountain Range together in five days, and Lin Langtian accepted.
• Lin Langtian told Lin Dong that the Yan Alliance would deal with the Heavenly Iron Dynasty on its own terms, while the alliance members reflected on how much stronger they had become under his leadership.
• After returning to their lodging, Lin Langtian met Spirit Aunt in his stone chamber, and she gave him the Qi Nourishing Sealing Technique.
• Spirit Aunt explained that the technique could help Lin Langtian accumulate strength until he had enough Nirvana Pills, and Lin Langtian began absorbing its instructions.

Lin Langtian opened a Nirvana Qi Mansion by cultivating the Qi Nourishing Sealing Technique, then prepared the Yan Alliance to venture into Thunder Rock Valley. At Yang City's outskirts, he reunited with Mo Tie and saw that Mo Tie's group included three Half-step Nirvana experts.

• After four days of cultivation, Lin Langtian used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to absorb Nirvana Qi and form a crimson Nirvana Qi Mansion in his Dantian.
• Lin Langtian left seclusion and learned from Mo Ling that Yang City had been calm, though Mo Tie had visited while he was cultivating.
• Lin Langtian decided the Yan Alliance would join Yang City's experts in the Thunder Rock Mountain Range, and the alliance set out the next morning.
• At the city outskirts, the Yan Alliance was given room by the gathered crowd, and Mo Tie arrived with nearly a hundred people, including three Half-step Nirvana experts.
• Lin Langtian greeted Mo Tie and asked who the people with him were.

Lin Langtian joined Mo Tie, Tang Xuan, and Liu Xuan’s group as they entered the Thunder Rock Mountain Range, where demonic beasts attacked the travelers. At night, Lin Langtian prepared the Yan Alliance’s defenses just as the Beast Tide arrived.

• Mo Tie introduced Tang Xuan and Liu Xuan to Lin Langtian, and the allied group set out for Thunder Rock Valley with the Yan Alliance.
• The travelers fought off demonic beasts in the mountain range, and Tang Xuan warned that the beasts would attack more fiercely at night.
• Mo Tie identified a passing force as the powerful Great Yuan Dynasty and explained that the Lingyun Dynasty was another major faction in Yang City.
• As night fell, Lin Langtian led the Yan Alliance in setting up camp and assigned Lin Dong, Mo Ling, and the others to defend against the Beast Tide.
• Countless scarlet glimmers appeared across the dark mountains, signaling that the Beast Tide had arrived.

Lin Langtian led the Yan Alliance in defending its camp against a massive Beast Tide and personally killed four Half-step Nirvana beasts. He absorbed the Nirvana Qi from their Demon Crystals and looked forward to hunting more powerful beasts in the tide.

• Mo Tie divided the camp's defenses among Tang Xuan, Liu Xuan, himself, and Lin Langtian's Yan Alliance.
• Lin Langtian and the Yan Alliance fought off waves of beasts, with Lin Dong, Mo Ling, and another member helping the group coordinate and hold the southern camp.
• Four beasts comparable to Half-step Nirvana experts emerged from the Beast Tide, and Lin Langtian rushed out to face them alone.
• Lin Langtian used Sacred Elephant Collapsing Heaven Strike and the Crimson Flame Roaring Heaven Spear to kill all four beasts and collect their Demon Crystals.
• Lin Langtian absorbed the Nirvana Qi from the Demon Crystals, strengthening his Nirvana Qi Mansion, and eyed the other powerful beasts hidden in the tide.

Lin Langtian hunted Half-step Nirvana beasts during the Beast Tide and discovered that the Demonic Puppet had mutated after absorbing Demonic Qi, reaching Two Yuan Nirvana Stage strength. After refining thirty-five Demon Crystals, he left his Nirvana Qi Mansion sealed with the Qi Nourishing Sealing Technique, saving its eventual release for later.

• Lin Langtian killed thirty Half-step Nirvana beasts on the outskirts of the Beast Tide and collected their Demon Crystals.
• The Demonic Puppet returned with five Demon Crystals from Nirvana Stage beasts, and Spirit Aunt revealed it had mutated to Two Yuan Nirvana Stage strength.
• Lin Langtian realized the Demonic Puppet could grow stronger by absorbing Demonic Qi from the world within the mirror.
• Lin Langtian used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to refine the thirty-five Demon Crystals while the Demonic Puppet guarded him.
• After an hour of cultivation, Lin Langtian found his Nirvana Qi Mansion densely filled with Nirvana Qi and kept it sealed rather than breaking through.