Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan battled Lin Langtian, destroying his attacks and splitting apart his Great Sky Phoenix Seal with the True Martial Dharma Sword. Lin Langtian then revealed an Earth Grade Spiritual Treasure, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Lin Fan shattered Lin Langtian's demonic steles and forced him to break the Golden Divine Sword's attack with repeated punches.
• Lin Langtian unleashed the Lin Clan's Creation Martial Art, the Great Sky Phoenix Seal, and sent its Silver Phoenix Shadow crashing toward Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan faced the Phoenix head-on and split it apart with the True Martial Thirty-Six Styles, collapsing the Ancient Tomb Mansion in the process.
• Lin Langtian produced a Six-Cornered Black Mirror, which the surrounding crowd recognized as an Earth Grade Spiritual Treasure.

Lin Fan defeated Lin Langtian after the Demonic Cultivator Mu Shi lent him Creation Realm power and Lin Fan unleashed the Red Lotus Transformation. Lin Langtian and Mu Shi fled with the Spirit Wheel Mirror, leaving Lin Fan’s victory to astonish the crowd and spread his fame across the Great Yan Dynasty.

• Lin Fan shattered Lin Langtian’s Spirit Wheel Mirror attack with golden flames and mocked him.
• Mu Shi lent Lin Langtian power, raising his aura to the Creation Realm, and Lin Langtian attacked Lin Fan again.
• Lin Fan used the Red Lotus Transformation to pierce Lin Langtian’s black beam and burn Mu Shi’s soul.
• Mu Shi seized Lin Langtian’s body, took the Spirit Wheel Mirror, and fled.
• The crowd and the Four Great Clans were stunned by Lin Fan’s victory, while Lin Ke'er expected his name to spread throughout the Great Yan Dynasty.

After defeating Lin Langtian, Lin Fan claimed Wang Yan’s belongings, warned the Lin Family of the consequences if it was destroyed, and revealed his Years divine power to Ling Qingzhu. He left Ironwood Village with Lin Dong and Qing Tan to seek experience, while a green-robed man arrived too late and led the Lin Family’s leaders toward Lin City.

• Lin Fan took Wang Yan’s Great Luo Golden Spear and Cosmos Sack, and Lin Ke'er agreed to relay his warning to the Lin Family.
• Lin Fan confronted Ling Qingzhu at a cliff and demonstrated the intimidating power of his Years divine power.
• Ling Qingzhu warned Lin Fan to keep the Ancient Tomb Mansion secret and challenged him to win the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Lin Fan returned to Ironwood Village, invited Lin Dong and Qing Tan to travel with him, and left a letter before departing with them.
• A green-robed middle-aged man arrived after Lin Fan’s group had left and led the Lin Family’s upper ranks toward Lin City.

Lin Fan, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan traveled to Thunder Source Mountain to hunt the Thunder Source Crystal Beast and obtain its aid for Lin Dong’s Great Sun Thunder Body. After the beast survived its tribulation but was left weak, two groups attacked it, and Lin Fan’s party waited nearby.

• Lin Fan, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan traveled for over a month before reaching Thunder Source Mountain, where Lin Fan and Little Marten confirmed the Thunder Source Crystal Beast was near advancement.
• Lin Fan and his companions settled into nearby caves and learned that two groups of cultivators had arrived to hunt the beast.
• Lin Fan refused Lin Dong’s suggestion to let the groups take the lead and said he could defeat them with one punch each.
• The Thunder Source Crystal Beast underwent its tribulation as Lin Dong watched with Lin Fan and Little Marten.
• The beast survived the final lightning strike but emerged badly weakened, and dozens of Yuan Power ropes shot from the two groups to bind it.

Lin Fan defeated the rivals for the Thunder Source, killed the Thunder Source Crystal Beast, and helped Lin Dong obtain the Thunder Source. After the group reached the Mist Forest near the Great Desolate Province, Lin Fan sensed people nearby and led the others toward them.

• Lin Fan severely injured Liu Kui with one palm, prompting Di Teng and Liu Kui to abandon their claim to the Thunder Source.
• Lin Fan killed the Thunder Source Crystal Beast with his Divine Sense Blade, and Lin Dong received the Thunder Source while Xiao Yan and the Flame Python Tigers divided the beast's corpse.
• Little Marten complained that Lin Fan's Divine Sense Blade had destroyed the beast's Demon Spirit, leaving nothing for him to eat.
• Several days later, Lin Dong refined the Thunder Source, reached Half-Step Form Creation Realm, and advanced to a Four Seal Talisman Master in spiritual cultivation.
• After traveling for about two months, Lin Fan, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan entered the Mist Forest, where thick mist and cold made travel difficult.
• Lin Fan sensed people to the right, and he led Lin Dong and Qing Tan toward the distant voices and Yuan Power fluctuations.

Lin Fan, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan encountered Jiang Lei’s group while searching for a way out of the misty forest, and Lin Dong and Qing Tan cleared the surrounding demonic beasts. Jiang Lei agreed to let them travel with his group, and Lin Fan showed his Symbol Master ability by lifting Jiang YinYin onto a Flame Python Tiger.

• Jiang Lei’s group fought off waves of demonic beasts as Jiang Xue guarded Jiang YinYin and Jiang Lei warned that a powerful beast was approaching.
• Lin Fan arrived with Lin Dong and Qing Tan, then sent them to kill the beasts surrounding Jiang Lei’s group.
• Jiang Lei invited Lin Fan and his companions to travel with them after explaining that a dangerous enemy had drawn the beasts to the group.
• Lin Fan introduced himself, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan, while Jiang Lei introduced his daughters Jiang Xue and Jiang YinYin and the members of Eagle Martial Hall.
• Lin Fan used his Symbol Master ability to place Jiang YinYin on a Flame Python Tiger, prompting Jiang Lei to recognize his skill.

Lin Fan protected Jiang YinYin and the camp as two Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings attacked at night. He killed one with a single Azure Light Palm, and Lin Dong charged after the fleeing second beast.

• Jiang YinYin insisted on riding with Lin Fan, and Jiang Xue warned him not to let her get hurt.
• Jiang Lei asked Lin Fan to protect YinYin and Jiang Xue as the group made camp for the night.
• Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings and other demon beasts emerged from the fog, forcing the group to draw their weapons.
• Lin Fan killed one Mist Leopard Crocodile King with a single Azure Light Palm, and a purple-black light devoured its escaping Demon Spirit.
• The remaining Mist Leopard Crocodile King fled, and Lin Fan ordered Lin Dong to kill it, prompting Lin Dong to charge with his halberd.

Lin Fan and Lin Dong helped Eagle Martial Hall escape the Mist Forest, and Lin Fan accepted Xiao Yin Yin as his disciple. After arriving in Great Eagle City, they learned that the martial hall had encountered serious trouble, which Jiang Lei agreed to explain.

• Lin Dong killed a Mist Leopard Crocodile King, and the remaining demon beasts fled as the group thanked Lin Fan and Lin Dong for saving them.
• Xiao Yin Yin asked Lin Fan to teach her cultivation so she could protect her father and sister, and Lin Fan accepted her as his disciple.
• Jiang Lei invited Lin Fan and his companions to stay in Great Eagle City before the Great Desolate Ancient Tablet opened, and they left the Mist Forest with Eagle Martial Hall.
• The group reached Great Eagle City and arrived at Eagle Martial Hall, where a steward warned Jiang Lei that something terrible had happened.
• Lin Fan insisted on hearing about the trouble because Xiao Yin Yin was his disciple, and Jiang Lei asked Lao Ma to explain what had happened.

Lin Fan agreed to fight the Blood Vulture Martial Hall Master on behalf of the Eagle Martial Hall after learning that Jiang Lei faced a deadly challenge. The next morning, Lin Fan and the others headed to Great Eagle City's Martial Arts Battle Stage as the city gathered to watch the match.

• Lao Ma told Jiang Lei and the others that the Blood Vulture Martial Hall Master had challenged Jiang Lei to a fight to the death after advancing to Form Creation Realm Great Success.
• Jiang Xue begged Lin Fan to save her father, and Lin Fan agreed to face the Blood Vulture Martial Hall Master the next day.
• Jiang Xue led Lin Fan, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan to guest rooms, where Qing Tan accused her of trying to seduce Lin Fan.
• Lao Wu told the Eagle Martial Hall members that Lin Fan had killed a Form Creation Realm Small Success Mist Leopard Crocodile King with one palm, and they grew confident he would win.
• The Eagle Martial Hall held a welcoming banquet for Lin Fan and the others.
• The next morning, Lin Fan and the others joined the Eagle Martial Hall as they headed to the Martial Arts Battle Stage, where the two halls' masters were set to fight.

Lin Fan fought Luo Jiu at the Martial Arts Battle Stage to decide which martial hall would rule Great Eagle City. Lin Fan killed Luo Jiu with a single punch, leaving Blood Vulture Martial Hall defeated.

• Lin Fan and the others arrived at the crowded Martial Arts Battle Stage, where spectators expected Blood Vulture Martial Hall to defeat Eagle Martial Hall.
• Luo Jiu challenged Lin Fan and leaped onto the stage, and Lin Fan followed him despite the crowd doubting his strength.
• Luo Jiu attacked with the Heaven Shattering Hammer, but Lin Fan split its attack with an azure blade and forced Luo Jiu back.
• Luo Jiu used Demonic Ape Transformation and charged at Lin Fan with his Heaven and Earth Hammers.
• Lin Fan punched Luo Jiu, shattered both hammers, and pierced Luo Jiu's body with an azure pillar of light, killing him.

After defeating Luo Jiu and securing Eagle Martial Hall’s victory, Lin Fan trained Jiang YinYin, Qing Tan, and Lin Dong before leaving Great Eagle City with Qing Tan and Lin Dong. He headed for the Ancient Wasteland to grow stronger and gave Lin Dong Luo Jiu’s Demonic Ape Transformation, which Little Marten explained could be mastered safely with powerful Demonic Ape blood essence.

• Lin Fan killed Luo Jiu, took his Cosmos Sack, and returned to Eagle Martial Hall as its people celebrated their victory.
• Lin Fan accepted Jiang YinYin as his disciple and taught her to cultivate, while he trained her, Qing Tan, and Lin Dong in the Thirty-Six Forms of Zhenwu.
• Lin Fan bid farewell to Jiang Lei and the others, promised Xiao YinYin he would return, and departed Great Eagle City with Qing Tan and Lin Dong.
• Lin Fan told Lin Dong they were traveling to the Ancient Wasteland and gave him the Demonic Ape Transformation.
• Lin Dong refused the martial art, but Little Marten explained that sufficient Demonic Ape blood essence could let him cultivate it without suffering the transformation’s backlash.

Lin Fan, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan entered the Ancient Wasteland to hunt a powerful demon beast and found the Ancient Sword Sect looting the region. After Lin Fan killed several intruders who coveted the Purple Cloud Fruit and Qing Tan, the sect’s reinforcements arrived, led by a Forming Qi Realm expert.

• Lin Fan and his companions reached the Ancient Wasteland, where the Ancient Sword Sect had sealed the entrance and its disciples were searching for treasures.
• Lin Fan put the guards at the entrance to sleep with his Divine Sense, and the group entered the wasteland while avoiding the sect’s teams.
• Lin Dong found a Purple Cloud Fruit, and Lin Fan killed the Form Creation Realm demon python guarding it before Lin Dong harvested the fruit.
• Three young men and an old man demanded the fruit and Qing Tan, so Lin Fan killed all four with one punch.
• A burly Ancient Sword Sect member fired a signal flare, and Lin Fan chose to face the sect; its gray-haired leader and three fighters soon arrived.

Lin Fan killed the Ancient Sword Sect Third Elder and his companions, then confronted the Ancient Dragon Ape in its valley. The clash escalated when the ape countered Lin Fan’s Li Fire Golden Eyes with a black beam, and the resulting explosion shook the Ancient Wasteland.

• Lin Fan used the Great Luo Golden Spear to kill four Form Creation Realm martial artists and fatally wound the Ancient Sword Sect Third Elder, then collected their Cosmos Sacks.
• Lin Fan, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan traveled to the Ancient Dragon Ape’s valley, where Lin Fan told the others to stay back before approaching the beast.
• Lin Fan’s Hundredfold Sky Splitting Spear shattered a small mountain but could not harm the Ancient Dragon Ape, which destroyed the spear shadows with black energy.
• Lin Fan unleashed his Li Fire Golden Eyes, and the Ancient Dragon Ape answered with a black beam from its mouth, triggering an enormous explosion that drew shocked cries from experts across the Ancient Wasteland.

Lin Fan killed the Ancient Dragon Ape and claimed the Ten Thousand Beasts Fruit from its valley. After gathering the valley’s resources, he and his companions settled in nearby caves so he could cultivate.

• Lin Fan used his Li Fire Golden Eyes and True Martial Dharma Sword to kill the weakened Ancient Dragon Ape, and Little Marten took its Demon Spirit.
• Lin Fan found two Ten Thousand Beasts Fruits in a blood-red pool and took them, then collected the valley’s spiritual medicines with Qing Tan.
• Lin Dong collected the Ancient Dragon Ape’s essence blood while the Flame Python Tigers began eating its corpse.
• Lin Fan stored the corpse and led everyone out of the foul-smelling valley to caves carved into a nearby mountain.
• Lin Fan began cultivating, while Lin Dong prepared to cultivate the Demonic Ape Transformation and Qing Tan agreed to stand guard.

Lin Fan cultivated the first diagram of the Twelve Heavenly Art Diagram, using the Ten Thousand Beasts Fruit to complete the Devouring Heaven Diagram. He gained the beginnings of the Kunpeng’s devouring power, though he remained far from becoming a true Kunpeng.

• Lin Fan assessed his resources and concluded that he lacked the Ten Thousand Beasts Fruits needed to advance the Azure Emperor Longevity Body to major accomplishment.
• Lin Fan chose to cultivate the Twelve Heavenly Art Diagram’s first technique, the Devouring Heaven Diagram.
• Lin Fan devoured spiritual herbs, Pure Yuan Pills, and a Ten Thousand Beasts Fruit, unlocking hidden divine treasures and transforming his Yuan Power.
• Lin Fan endured the fruit’s violent energy as blood shackles formed around his body and his cultivation rapidly rose.
• Lin Fan completed the Devouring Heaven Diagram, absorbed its image into his body and soul, and discovered that he could hover without using Yuan Power.

After gaining two innate divine abilities and greatly strengthening his Yuan Power, Lin Fan looted more spirit herbs in the Ancient Wasteland and confronted the Ancient Sword Sect for compensation. The sect attacked him with its Great Ancient Sword Formation, and its Stone Sword descended toward him.

• Lin Fan awakened the Great Devouring Art and Kun Peng Swiftness, refining Heaven and Earth Yuan Power until his strength rivaled someone at Forming Qi Realm Great Success.
• Lin Fan demonstrated his power to Qing Tan and Lin Dong by flattening a distant mountain peak with one punch.
• Lin Fan hunted several peak Forming Qi Realm demonic beasts and took the spirit herbs they had guarded.
• Lin Fan went to the Ancient Sword Sect and demanded two million Pure Yuan Pills as compensation for an elder who had tried to seize his treasure.
• The Ancient Sword Sect Sect Leader and the sect’s elders, protectors, stewards, and disciples activated the Great Ancient Sword Formation and sent its Stone Sword slashing toward Lin Fan.

Lin Fan destroyed the Ancient Sword Sect after its leaders refused to pay his demanded compensation, then plundered its treasure vault and left the remaining members to their enemies. He secluded himself outside the Ancient Wasteland, consumed the sect’s resources, and broke through to Forming Qi Realm Small Success.

• Lin Fan used the Great Luo Golden Spear to break the Ancient Sword Sect’s formation, devastate its mountain gate, and fatally injure the Sect Leader and elder.
• The Sect Leader offered compensation, but Lin Fan refused and destroyed the sect’s mountain, killing its leaders and taking their Cosmos Sacks.
• Lin Fan forced a protector to lead him to the Treasure Vault, looted its contents, took the Stone Sword, and left the survivors behind.
• Rival factions and independent cultivators descended on the ruined sect, killed those who remained, and ended the Ancient Sword Sect’s existence in Great Desolate Province.
• Lin Fan cultivated in a cave dwelling with the resources he had taken and advanced from Form Creation Realm Peak to Forming Qi Realm Small Success.

After breaking through in cultivation, Lin Fan uncovered and refined the Earth Grade Spiritual Treasure hidden inside the Ancient Sword Sect’s Stone Sword. He left with Qing Tan and Lin Dong for Great Puppet City to auction the sect’s spiritual treasures and shop for useful items.

• Lin Fan used his Li Fire Golden Eyes to reveal a black sword and its demon turtle sword spirit inside the Stone Sword, recognizing the weapon as an Earth Grade Spiritual Treasure.
• Lin Fan burned away the Stone Sword, stopped the escaping weapon with his devouring force, and refined the black sword with his essence blood and Divine Sense.
• Lin Fan learned that the weapon was the Earth Nether Sword, forged from an Earth Nether Turtle’s bones and able to transform into its original Demon Spirit.
• Lin Fan met Qing Tan, who had reached Form Creation Realm Great Success, and Lin Dong, who had reached Form Creation Realm minor success; Lin Dong admired the new treasure.
• Lin Fan, Qing Tan, and Lin Dong rode the enlarged Earth Nether Sword toward Great Puppet City to auction the Ancient Sword Sect’s spiritual treasures and look for items to buy.

Lin Fan arrived in Great Puppet City with Lin Dong and Qing Tan and took treasures from the Ancient Sword Sect to the Martial Alliance auction house. The auction house’s manager recognized Lin Fan as the mysterious powerhouse who destroyed the sect and suspected he had also slain the Ancient Dragon Ape.

• Lin Fan, Lin Dong, and Qing Tan reached Great Puppet City and marveled at its size.
• Lin Fan went to the Martial Alliance auction house and presented Spiritual Treasures and ancient records for appraisal and auction.
• Old Yi recognized the items as belonging to the Ancient Sword Sect and offered to reduce the auction house’s handling fee to two percent.
• After Lin Fan left, Old Yi told the middle-aged appraiser that Lin Fan was the mysterious powerhouse who destroyed the Ancient Sword Sect.
• Old Yi revealed that the Ancient Dragon Ape had also been slain and suspected Lin Fan was responsible.

Lin Fan, Qing Tan, and Lin Dong attended the Martial Alliance auction, where Lin Fan caught the attention of Mu Qianqian of the Great Demon Gate. The arrival of Hua Zong and other Yin Puppet Sect members signaled the appearance of a figure tied to Lin Dong’s future conflict with the sect.

• Lin Fan led Qing Tan and Lin Dong into the Martial Alliance auction through a premium passage and sat with them in the VIP seats.
• Mu Qianqian of the Great Demon Gate tested Lin Fan’s reaction to her beauty, but he told her she was inferior to his fiancée, Qing Tan.
• Several prominent guests arrived and spoke with Mu Qianqian, showing their interest in her and respect for the Great Demon Gate.
• Lin Fan sensed the arrival of Yin Puppet Sect members carrying Talisman Puppets and recognized their leader, Hua Zong, a Five-Seal Spirit Talisman Master.