Chapter Summaries

Lin Baichuan visited the Treasures Pavilion to prepare for breaking through to the Second Rank Qi Transforming Realm, spending three million Contribution Points on Heavenly Gang Pills. He then found a single drop of Thousand-Year Mystic Spirit Marrow and decided to buy it, leaving him ready to complete his preparations.

• Lin Baichuan went alone to the Treasures Pavilion's third floor to find resources for his breakthrough.
• Lin Baichuan bought thirty Heavenly Gang Pills for three million Contribution Points to help transform his True Qi into Gang Force.
• Lin Baichuan examined the spirit herbs and determined he also needed energy to liquefy and replenish his True Qi.
• Lin Baichuan discovered that the Treasures Pavilion had one drop of Thousand-Year Mystic Spirit Marrow priced at three million Contribution Points.
• Lin Baichuan gritted his teeth and decided to buy the Thousand-Year Mystic Spirit Marrow.

Lin Baichuan used his Contribution Points to buy Thousand-Year Mystic Spirit Marrow and Heavenly Gang Pills, then cultivated until his True Qi transformed into Gang Qi and he advanced to the second rank. He tested his new power and realized he could concentrate his strength into far more destructive attacks.

• Lin Baichuan spent his remaining Contribution Points on the Thousand-Year Mystic Spirit Marrow, Heavenly Gang Pills, and equipment, then returned to his residence.
• After the Treasures Pavilion delivered his purchases, Lin Baichuan swallowed the Thousand-Year Mystic Spirit Marrow and used merit points to cultivate the Five Elements Golden Bell Shield.
• Lin Baichuan liquefied the True Qi in his dantian, then swallowed all thirty Heavenly Gang Pills and used more merit points to accelerate his cultivation.
• After years of cultivation in the reincarnation world, Lin Baichuan transformed all his True Qi into Gang Qi, and the reincarnation world shattered.
• Lin Baichuan returned to reality, found that his Gang Qi had made him at least ten times stronger, and tested its ability to concentrate his power in a punch.

After reaching the peak of the Second Rank Gang Transformation Realm, Lin Baichuan spent most of his remaining merit points perfecting his Water Realm and discovered that comprehending a realm’s mysteries and profound principles was necessary to progress from Intent to Domain. He chose to avoid the dangerous Burial God Abyss for now and headed to Cloud Dwelling at dusk.

• Lin Baichuan confirmed that his breakthrough had brought him to the peak of the Second Rank Gang Transformation Realm, with strength enough to challenge a solid-core Core Condensation expert.
• Lin Baichuan spent sixty-three thousand merit points raising his Water Realm to great perfection and experienced decades of cultivation in a world of reincarnation.
• Lin Baichuan realized that mysteries and profound principles were the transition from Martial Dao True Intent to Domain, and that his other perfected realms remained incomplete without them.
• Lin Baichuan noted that his martial techniques had reached Mystic Grade Low-Quality, but he lacked the merit points to improve them further.
• Lin Baichuan decided to hunt demons and devils rather than risk entering the newly forbidden Burial God Abyss, then left his courtyard for Cloud Dwelling at dusk.

Lin Baichuan arrived at Cloud Dwelling, where Meng Zikun warned him that the Night Owl Squad might be trying to provoke him on behalf of the Beichen Marquisate. After entering the private room, Lin Baichuan met the squad and his hostile gaze caused Chen Yaohui to collapse in agony.

• Meng Zikun met Lin Baichuan outside Cloud Dwelling and warned him that fighting there could lead to death.
• Meng Zikun told Lin Baichuan that the Night Owl Squad had ties to the Beichen Marquisate and might be targeting him.
• Lin Baichuan promised not to fight inside Cloud Dwelling and followed Meng Zikun to the Mystic Battle Squad's private room.
• Lin Baichuan identified Wu Chuan as the Night Owl Squad's powerful captain and recognized Chen Yaohui among the squad members.
• Lin Baichuan met Chen Yaohui's gaze, and Chen Yaohui screamed, collapsed, and convulsed.

Lin Baichuan used his spiritual will to injure two Night Owl Squad members during a confrontation at Cloud Dwelling, where True Person Yun Shan intervened and exposed Yan He's scheme. Yan He left with his squad after trading threats with Lin Baichuan.

• Lin Baichuan entered the room, mentally attacked Chen Yaohui, and sat with the Mystic Battle Squad while Chen collapsed and foamed at the mouth.
• Luo Xiaoyan explained that the Night Owl Squad had joined their reserved room because the squad arrived late, and Tie Zhan apologized for the gathering's trouble.
• A Night Owl Squad member accused Lin Baichuan of violence, and Lin struck back with his saber intent, making the man spit blood and nearly pass out.
• True Person Yun Shan appeared and ordered everyone to obey Cloud Dwelling's rules, then rebuked Yan He for trying to use Cloud Dwelling in a scheme.
• Yan He led the Night Owl Squad away with the injured men after threatening Lin, and Lin warned Yan that he might die in the wilderness.

Lin Baichuan drove the Night Owl Squad away from Cloud Dwelling, where True Person Yun Shan warned him against using saber intent there again. As Lin Baichuan considered eliminating the Night Owl Squad, Tie Zhan revealed that Yan He had a powerful but unidentified backer.

• Lin Baichuan traded threats with Yan He, who left with the Night Owl Squad after failing to gain an advantage.
• True Person Yun Shan thanked Lin Baichuan for exposing Yan He's scheme but warned him not to attack anyone with saber intent inside Cloud Dwelling.
• Tie Zhan and the Mystic Battle Squad warned Lin Baichuan that the Night Owl Squad might use underhanded tactics and pledged to help protect him.
• Lin Baichuan secretly planned to lure the Night Owl Squad out of the garrison and kill them.
• Lin Baichuan asked Tie Zhan who backed Yan He, and Tie Zhan said the returning captain might know more.

Lin Baichuan weighed how to speed up his cultivation while learning that Burial God Abyss had become too dangerous to enter. As he headed to seek missions for Contribution Points, Meng Zikun summoned him to join Mystic Battle Squad for an important mission arranged from above.

• Lin Baichuan reflected that filling his vast dantian through ordinary cultivation could take years and considered using spirit herbs, pills, or treasures to hasten his progress.
• Lin Baichuan learned that the fight over the Earth Origin Pearl had made Burial God Abyss a forbidden zone, with heavy casualties among humans, demons, and monsters.
• Lin Baichuan decided not to enter Burial God Abyss before reaching the First Rank Pill Condensing Realm and planned to earn Contribution Points through missions.
• Meng Zikun told Lin Baichuan that the captain and Qin Qing had returned and ordered Mystic Battle Squad to gather at the city gate for an important mission with generous rewards.
• Lin Baichuan and Meng Zikun left the courtyard and headed for the city gate.

Lin Baichuan and Meng Zikun met the Mystic Battle Squad at the city gate, where Lin Baichuan sensed that Captain Li Xuantian was close to the Core Condensation Realm. Li Xuantian announced a dangerous mandatory mission with at least thirty million Contribution Points in rewards: the squad had to seize an Innate Spirit Embryo emerging in Xuanming Valley.

• Lin Baichuan and Meng Zikun arrived at the city gate and met Tie Zhan, Qin Qing, and Li Xuantian.
• Lin Baichuan recognized Qin Qing’s progress to the Third-Rank Qi Gathering Realm and sensed that Li Xuantian was nearing the Core Condensation Realm.
• Lin Baichuan and Qin Qing exchanged greetings, and the Mystic Battle Squad members praised Lin Baichuan’s rapid rise.
• Li Xuantian explained that the higher-ups had assigned the squad an exceptionally dangerous mandatory mission with at least thirty million Contribution Points in guaranteed rewards.
• Li Xuantian revealed that an Innate Spirit Embryo was about to emerge in Xuanming Valley and that the squad had to seize it.

The Mystic Battle Squad headed for Xuanming Valley to seize an Innate Spirit Embryo before the Demon and Monster Races could use it as an avatar for a supreme Devil Race expert. Yan He planned to pursue them with hired helpers, intending to kill the squad and take Lin Baichuan’s suspected Great Opportunity.

• Li Xuantian explained that the Innate Spirit Embryo could become an avatar for a powerful Devil Race expert, making it vital to the balance among the races.
• The Mystic Battle Squad advanced toward Xuanming Valley, slaughtering Demonic Beasts along the way.
• Yan He learned that the Mystic Battle Squad had left for Xuanming Valley and judged that its strength made it unlikely to die there without interference.
• Yan He ordered the Night Owl Squad to prepare to leave in one hour and revealed that helpers were already gathering near Xuanming Valley.
• Yan He resolved to bury the Mystic Battle Squad and seize the Great Opportunity he believed Lin Baichuan possessed.

The Mystic Battle Squad reached Xuanming Valley, where Li Xuantian gave everyone Spirit Calming Talismans and warned them to follow his orders. As the squad entered the poisonous miasma, Lin Baichuan sensed someone watching them from the mountain behind.

• Li Xuantian led the Mystic Battle Squad to a peak overlooking Xuanming Valley after nearly three days of travel.
• Li Xuantian gave the squad Spirit Calming Talismans and warned them about the valley’s dangers.
• Lin Baichuan examined his talisman and reflected on his need to gain strength, Merit, and Contribution Points.
• Li Xuantian led the squad into Xuanming Valley while Lin Baichuan covered the rear.
• Lin Baichuan glanced back before entering and spotted a pair of eyes watching from the mountain where they had rested.

Lin Baichuan led the Mystic Battle Squad through Xuanming Valley, where the poisonous miasma and deepening darkness suppressed their senses. In the core region, he detected a demon army searching for the Innate Spirit Embryo and learned that the demons had also found the valley strangely empty.

• Lin Baichuan noticed a hidden watcher before entering Xuanming Valley with the Mystic Battle Squad, but the watcher disappeared and he stayed alert.
• The squad crossed the outer region without encountering any Walking Corpses, prompting Li Xuantian and Tie Zhan to suspect that the valley had changed or someone had cleared it.
• Li Xuantian led the squad at full speed into the core region, where the darkness severely restricted their vision and other senses.
• Lin Baichuan halted the squad and reported an army of demons two thousand seven hundred zhang ahead, led by two First Grade Ninth Stage Soldier Rank demons.
• Lin Baichuan said the demons were searching for the Innate Spirit Embryo and had also encountered no living beings in Xuanming Valley.

Lin Baichuan led the Mystic Battle Squad through Xuanming Valley, using his resistance to its sensory suppression to track a demon army toward the core region. After a zombie-like force attacked the demons, the squad skirted the battle and encountered a red-haired zombie blocking their way.

• Lin Baichuan proposed wiping out the demon army, but Li Xuantian decided to let the demons lead the way to the Innate Spirit Embryo and planned to exploit the battle ahead.
• Lin Baichuan guided the Mystic Battle Squad behind the demons and led them into a barrier surrounding Xuanming Valley's core region.
• A zombie-like army clashed with the demon army, so Lin Baichuan led his squad around the fighting forces toward the barrier's center.
• Lin Baichuan spotted a red-haired zombie with a stone axe blocking the way and fired three arrows at it with the Azure Cloud Bow.

Lin Baichuan’s Swift Thunder Realm archery blasted apart the stone-axe zombie, but the creature regenerated stronger than before. As Lin Baichuan attacked again, the zombie’s axe eroded his Thunder-Fire Flood Dragons and struck toward him.

• Lin Baichuan’s advanced Swift Thunder Realm archery astonished Li Xuantian, Qin Qing, and the Mystic Battle Squad.
• Lin Baichuan’s three arrows clashed with the zombie’s storm of black axe lights, annihilated the surrounding poisonous miasma, and blew the zombie apart.
• The zombie’s scattered flesh absorbed poisonous miasma and regenerated, becoming powerful enough to rival a Solid Core True Man.
• Lin Baichuan fired three stronger Azure Cloud Arrows at the regenerated zombie.
• The zombie’s axe light corroded Lin Baichuan’s Thunder-Fire Flood Dragons and swept toward him.

Lin Baichuan led the Mystic Battle Squad into Xuanming Valley’s core after killing a powerful zombie, earning a record number of Merit Points. There, they found an altar where zombies were sacrificing themselves to a blood-red crystal, and Lin Baichuan fired an arrow at it.

• Lin Baichuan defeated a second-stage True Man of Solid Core-level zombie and burned its remains before they could regenerate.
• The system awarded Lin Baichuan 1290 Merit Points, and he led Li Xuantian, Qin Qing, and the others onward through the miasma.
• After killing more than a dozen zombies on the way, the squad reached an altar where countless zombies fed their blood-colored energy into a crystal.
• The squad watched the zombies wither away as a human-shaped outline emerged inside the increasingly blood-red crystal.
• Lin Baichuan judged the crystal to be an Innate Demonic Embryo and shot an arrow at it with his Azure Cloud Bow.

Lin Baichuan agreed to charge the altar and seize the strange Innate Spirit Embryo after Li Xuantian ordered him to take it. The chapter ended as Lin Baichuan rushed toward the altar, while the others prepared to hold off the zombie powerhouses.

• Lin Baichuan's arrow struck the crystal but failed to damage it, and its energy waves destroyed many zombies around the altar.
• Lin Baichuan killed thirteen zombie powerhouses with a formation of 108 Azure Cloud Arrows.
• Li Xuantian ordered Lin Baichuan to seize the Innate Spirit Embryo while the others held off the remaining zombies.
• Tie Zhan warned that the crystal might be a demonic embryo and that the team could not withstand the zombie powerhouses.
• Lin Baichuan accepted Li Xuantian's order despite his companions' concern, then charged toward the altar after ten breaths.

Lin Baichuan was swallowed by the Innate Spirit Embryo after reaching for it, while the Mystic Battle Squad retreated under a zombie attack. Trapped inside the embryo’s eerie Blood Pool, Lin Baichuan resisted its attempt to refine him into a puppet and struck back with Blade Qi.

• Lin Baichuan reached the altar, but the Innate Spirit Embryo unleashed Devouring Power and swallowed him.
• Li Xuantian ordered the Mystic Battle Squad to retreat, and Qin Qing promised to find a way to save Lin Baichuan.
• A horde of zombies charged the Mystic Battle Squad, which fled into the Earth Fiend Poisonous Miasma as the embryo’s blood-red lights faded.
• Inside the Innate Spirit Embryo, the Blood Pool bound Lin Baichuan with threads and tried to erode his body, will, and spirit.
• Lin Baichuan shielded himself with a golden bell and unleashed a powerful Blade Qi strike against the Blood Pool.

Lin Baichuan severed the Blood Pool’s restraints and devoured its energy, filling his dantian while uncovering the hidden remnant soul’s plan to take over the Innate Spirit Embryo. The remnant soul revealed itself and attacked him, and Lin Baichuan struck back with a net of blade lights.

• Lin Baichuan cut through the blood-red threads and used the Five Elements Golden Bell Shield to devour and refine the Blood Pool’s liquid into Gang Qi.
• As he resisted the pool’s demonic sounds and decayed aura, Lin Baichuan strengthened his spiritual will and filled his dantian.
• The Innate Spirit Embryo trembled, and a hidden will cursed Lin Baichuan for stealing its energy.
• Lin Baichuan stopped devouring the now-violent pool and accused the hidden being of creating Xuanming Valley and its zombies to fuel a rebirth through the Innate Spirit Embryo.
• A black-robed figure appeared, admitted Lin Baichuan had seen through its plans, and transformed into a decaying ferocious beast to attack him.
• Lin Baichuan unleashed a net of blade lights against the beast.

Lin Baichuan defeated the weakened Black Robe Figure in the Innate Spirit Embryo's inner space, but the figure's attempted possession ended when Lin Baichuan's system eliminated him. Lin Baichuan then received the Black Robe Figure's memories and information, leaving him struggling to absorb the flood of knowledge.

• Lin Baichuan tore apart the Black Robe Figure with his Blade Intent, exposing how weakened the remnant soul had become.
• The Black Robe Figure offered to let Lin Baichuan leave, but Lin Baichuan refused and attacked again, declaring he would take the Innate Spirit Embryo.
• The Black Robe Figure used Ancient Demon Soul Devour to invade Lin Baichuan's sea of consciousness, revealing that he intended to seize Lin Baichuan's body and make the Innate Spirit Embryo his clone.
• Lin Baichuan's system detected and eliminated the intruder, awarding him merit points.
• Lin Baichuan realized how close he had come to being possessed, then was overwhelmed by the Black Robe Figure's memories and information.

After absorbing Poison Venerable Yin Jiu’s memories, Lin Baichuan learned how Yin Jiu had transformed Xuanming Valley and gained expertise in alchemy, medicine, poison, and combat. He collected the now-unconscious Innate Spirit Embryo and fled Xuanming Valley, finding that the Mystic Battle Squad had abandoned him.

• Lin Baichuan absorbed Poison Venerable Yin Jiu’s memories and learned that Yin Jiu had tried to possess him after preparing Corpse Poison puppets to hasten the Innate Spirit Embryo’s maturation.
• Lin Baichuan gained Yin Jiu’s knowledge of poison, medicine, and alchemy, though his current cultivation limited what he could refine.
• Lin Baichuan realized the Innate Spirit Embryo had lost its intelligence and could now be collected.
• Lin Baichuan stored the Innate Spirit Embryo in his Space Ring and saw that the nearby Corpse Poison puppets had died while the demon army pressed toward the altar.
• Lin Baichuan found no sign of the Mystic Battle Squad and suspected Li Xuantian had abandoned him, so he raced out of Xuanming Valley.

After taking the Innate Spirit Embryo, Lin Baichuan tried to leave Xuanming Valley but was forced to fight the pursuing demon army. He killed its two Ninth Stage Soldier Rank commanders and charged at the remaining thousands with his Blood Shadow Battle Saber.

• Lin Baichuan tried to withdraw, but the demon army turned to intercept him after learning he had taken the Innate Spirit Embryo.
• Lin Baichuan struck the two Ninth Stage Soldier Rank commanders with his transcendent Brute Ox Fist, badly injuring them.
• Lin Baichuan killed the Demon Race commander and extracted its Demon Core, then caught and killed the Devil Race commander, taking its devil heart.
• The demon army lost morale after seeing its commanders die, but its officers rallied the troops and ordered them to form a battle formation and fight.
• Lin Baichuan summoned the Blood Shadow Battle Saber, charged the demon army, and unleashed Blood Kill All Under Heaven.