Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong climbed the Symbol Master Tower, helping Ziyue and robbing Zhou Tong of his valuables on the Seventh Floor. He left Zhou Tong behind to cultivate, then continued toward the Eighth Floor.

• Lin Dong took all of Cao Zhu's Yang Yuan Stones on the Fifth Floor and proceeded upward.
• Lin Dong found Ziyue unable to pass the Sixth Floor's mental barrier, helped her withstand its pressure, and went on to the Seventh Floor.
• Lin Dong encountered Zhou Tong on the Seventh Floor and demanded his Cosmic Bag, then defeated him with four swords.
• Zhou Tong gave Lin Dong his Cosmic Bag, which contained one hundred thousand Yang Yuan Stones, and began cultivating after Lin Dong left.
• Lin Dong crossed the Seventh Floor's mental barrier and headed onward.

Lin Dong mastered the Creation Talisman Array and discovered that the Ninth Floor of Talisman Master Tower held imprints of the Devouring and Thunder Ancestral Symbols. He and Little Marten learned the locations of both symbols before the imprints collapsed, leaving Lin Dong with maps to pursue.

• Lin Dong learned the Creation Talisman Array on the Eighth Floor and formed it with his Mental Energy.
• Lin Dong reached the Ninth Floor, where he recognized the left-wall imprint as the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and found that the right wall bore the Thunder Ancestral Symbol.
• Little Marten awoke after recovering from swallowing the Azure Water Demonic Python's Demonic Spirit and suggested that Lin Dong place his Life Spirit Talisman against the Devouring imprint.
• The two Ancestral Symbol imprints revealed maps showing the Devouring Ancestral Symbol in Daying County of the Great Yan Dynasty and the Thunder Ancestral Symbol somewhere in the Chaotic Demon Sea.
• Lin Dong absorbed the maps, and the two wall imprints shattered into fragments.

Lin Dong cultivated on the Symbol Master Tower’s Ninth Floor while spectators watched a mysterious point of light reach the tower’s highest level. After the Tower Battle ended, the spectators learned that Lin Dong had spent his climb robbing Talisman Masters from Skyfire City, leaving both Master Yan and Han Yun stunned.

• Lin Dong absorbed the Ninth Floor’s dense Mental Energy to advance his cultivation, while Little Marten left him to train.
• Master Yan and Han Yun watched points of light reach the Sixth and Seventh Floors and wondered whether Ziyue, Lin Dong, or Zhou Tong was climbing fastest.
• A point of light reached the Eighth Floor and then the Ninth Floor, shocking the crowd because no one had reached it in a hundred years.
• On the third day, Skyfire City’s battered Talisman Masters emerged and complained that Lin Dong had robbed them throughout the tower, even taking their Cosmic Bags.
• Master Yan realized that Lin Dong had been the climber who advanced later and criticized him for ignoring the Tower Battle to loot valuables.

As Lin Dong remained on the Ninth Floor of the Symbol Master Tower, Zhou Tong left after admitting Lin Dong had defeated him, securing Yan City’s victory in the Tower Battle. Master Yan and the cheering Yan City Symbol Masters waited for Lin Dong to emerge.

• Han Yun refused the Skyfire City Symbol Masters’ demands to pursue Lin Dong because the Tower Battle rules allowed contestants to fight and steal from one another.
• Cao Zhu and Liu Long fooled Han Yun by claiming they had not been defeated by Lin Dong, though their clean clothes gave away their deception.
• Ziyue left the tower and guessed that Lin Dong had reached the Ninth Floor because he had seemed at ease on the lower floors.
• Zhou Tong emerged the next day, admitted Lin Dong had defeated him in one move, and promised Han Yun he would challenge Lin Dong again next year.
• Master Yan announced Yan City had successfully defended the tower, and its Symbol Masters celebrated while waiting for Lin Dong to leave the Ninth Floor.

After spending a month in the Symbol Master Tower, Lin Dong emerged having made a major breakthrough and learned that the Ghost Blade Sect and Blood Wolf Gang were threatening the Lin Family over its Yang Yuan Stone Mine. He led Master Yan, Ziyue, and the talisman masters to the City Central Square, where the two sides faced off and Gui Yan prepared to act.

• After thirty days, Lin Dong descended from the tower, and the gathered talisman masters welcomed him as the first person in nearly a hundred years to reach its Ninth Floor.
• Lin Dong revealed that he had made a breakthrough and was carrying five Life Spirit Talismans in his Niwan Palace.
• Master Yan told Lin Dong that the Ghost Blade Sect had ambushed the Lin Family’s escort convoy, and Lin Xiao had killed two attackers after revealing his Minor Perfection Yuan Dan Stage strength.
• Master Yan, Ziyue, and the Yan City talisman masters agreed to support Lin Dong, who led them toward the City Central Square.
• At the square, Lin Dong’s father faced Gui Yan and the Ghost Blade Sect while Xia Wanjin confronted Yue Shan; Gui Yan stepped forward, determined to fight with the Blood Wolf Gang’s backing.

Lin Dong arrived at City Central Square and confronted Yue Shan and Gui Yan as they pressured the Lin Family over its Yang Yuan Stone Mine. He killed Gui Yan with the Leaving Fire Sword, leaving the assembled crowd stunned.

• Gui Yan demanded that Lin Xiao explain the deaths of two Ghost Blade Sect elders, and Lin Xiao threatened to kill anyone who touched the Lin Family's mine.
• Yue Shan proposed that the Lin Family give half the mine to the Ghost Blade Sect, but Lin Xiao rejected his attempt to intervene.
• Lin Dong arrived on the Ice Profound Sword, insulted Yue Shan and Gui Yan, and warned Yue Shan to retreat.
• Yue Shan and Xia Wanjin locked auras as Lin Dong turned his attention to Gui Yan.
• Lin Dong struck Gui Yan with the Leaving Fire Sword, shattered his saber, and killed him.

Lin Dong revealed that he was a Spirit Talisman Master after killing Gui Yan, shocking Yan City’s major factions. Yue Shan withdrew from the confrontation, but Lin Dong stopped him and left him powerless beneath his Mental Energy pressure.

• Lin Dong killed Gui Yan with a single sword strike, leading Xia Wanjin to identify him as a Four Seal Talisman Master.
• Master Yan and the City Lord’s Mansion warned Yue Shan not to target Lin Dong or the Lin Family, so Yue Shan agreed to let bygones be bygones.
• Lin Dong blocked the Blood Wolf Gang as it tried to leave, and Master Yan urged him to avoid a fight.
• Lin Dong unleashed his Mental Energy, and Master Yan recognized him as a Spirit Talisman Master.
• Yue Shan struggled and failed to withstand Lin Dong’s pressure while a jade-faced middle-aged man watched from a nearby building and remarked that the Lin Family was about to rise.

Lin Dong killed Yue Shan with one strike after Yue Shan agreed to take his move, then arranged for the Lin Family and Myriad Gold Merchant Association to divide the defeated factions’ territories. Several days later, the Lin Family had become one of Yan City’s three top powers.

• Yue Shan offered compensation for the Blood Wolf Gang, but Lin Dong demanded that he take one move instead.
• Lin Dong used the Creation Talisman Array to kill Yue Shan when Yue Shan’s Mountain Yue Fist failed to stop the beam.
• Lin Dong took Yue Shan’s Cosmic Bag and arranged for the Lin Family to claim the Blood Wolf Gang’s territory while the Myriad Gold Merchant Association took the Ghost Blade Sect’s territory.
• Several days later, Yan City’s power balance had shifted, with the Blood Wolf Gang destroyed and the Lin Family established as one of the city’s three top powers.

Lin Dong cultivated with the remaining Yin Yang Pearls as he prepared to raise his Origin Energy before the Ancient Tomb Residence appeared. Months later, Inner Clan experts arrived in Yan City, where Qing Tan fought Lin Feng to a draw and left him furious.

• Lin Dong absorbed energy from one of his Yin Yang Pearls and planned to use the remaining two to advance toward the Creation Stage.
• A Nirvana Stage expert's cave residence emerged in the Tianyan Mountain Range, drawing major factions to the area and bringing an Inner Clan advance team to the Lin Family in Yan City.
• Lin Feng defeated Lin Xia after Lin Hong had fought Lin Shan to a draw, prompting Qing Tan to challenge Lin Feng.
• Qing Tan used her unusual Yin Sha Qi to hold her own against the stronger Lin Feng, earning cheers from the Lin Family disciples.
• Qing Tan called their match a draw, but Lin Feng angrily demanded that they continue fighting.

Lin Dong returned to the Martial Arts Arena after cultivating the Bronze Thunder Body and punished Lin Feng and his companions for insulting his father. He then visited his mother, Liu Yan, before Lin Xia summoned him to meet the Inner Clan delegation, where Elder Tao and two young guests were waiting.

• Qing Tan became enraged when Lin Feng insulted her father, but Lin Dong arrived and calmed her down.
• Lin Dong demanded that Lin Feng apologize, then restrained Lin Feng and three others with spiritual giant hands and dropped them to the ground.
• Lin Dong warned the four not to cause trouble in Yan City again, then left the arena with Qing Tan to visit Liu Yan.
• Lin Feng vowed to seek help from Lin Chen after Lin Dong left.
• Lin Xia told Lin Dong that Lin Zhentian wanted him to meet the Inner Clan delegation, and Lin Dong entered the main hall.
• Lin Zhentian introduced the delegation's leader, Elder Tao, while Lin Feng and the others stood behind two young Inner Clan guests.

Lin Dong challenged Lin Chen’s objection to his joining Elder Tao’s expedition to the Ancient Tomb Residence and defeated him with a single punch, revealing his Creation Stage strength. Elder Tao recognized Lin Dong as a top talent, while Lin Dong also identified Lin Ke’er’s Mental Energy cultivation.

• Elder Tao invited Lin Dong to accompany him to the Ancient Tomb Residence, but Lin Chen objected and called him too weak to join.
• Lin Dong confronted Lin Chen and the four men behind him, then agreed to prove himself by taking Lin Chen down with one punch.
• Lin Chen accepted the challenge, and Elder Tao told the pair to spar without injuring each other.
• Lin Dong used Mountain Yue Fist to crush Lin Chen’s Jade Breaker Hand and send him crashing into a pillar.
• Elder Tao praised Lin Dong’s Creation Stage strength, and Lin Dong revealed that he could discern Lin Ke’er’s Mental Energy cultivation.

Lin Dong's group traveled through the Tianyan Mountain Range toward the Ancient Tomb Residence, where Lin Dong anticipated meeting Lin Langtian. The journey left the Blade Slaughter Gang shaken after Little Flame effortlessly defeated their Second Boss.

• Lin Dong revealed his Mental Fire, astonishing Lin Ke'er and Elder Tao, and said he looked forward to meeting Lin Langtian at the Ancient Tomb Residence.
• Three days later, Elder Tao led the Lin Family party out of the estate toward the Tianyan Mountain Range.
• After traveling deep into the range, Lin Dong sensed the strength of a group resting in a clearing, and Elder Tao ordered the party to pass through.
• A Blade Slaughter Gang member blocked Lin Dong and demanded Little Flame, so Little Flame struck him down with a single kick.
• Lin Dong explained that Little Flame had advanced to the Great Perfection Yuan Dan Stage after eating a Creation Stage Demonic Beast.

Lin Dong used the Blade Slaughter Gang’s crimes as a pretext to kill its leader, Song Dao, and ordered the gang wiped out. The Lin Clan then reached the Ancient Tomb Residence, where they waited for enough Creation Three Realms experts to break the Nirvana Stage seal.

• Song Dao tried to make peace with Lin Dong, but Lin Dong pointed out the Blade Slaughter Gang’s crimes and its ties to Yue Shan.
• Song Dao attacked Lin Dong and was killed by Lin Dong’s Creation Stage power; Lin Dong ordered the Lin Clan to kill the fleeing gang members.
• After the battle, Lin Dong told Lin Ke'er that he had already wanted to eliminate the Blade Slaughter Gang, and Elder Tao led the group onward.
• The Lin Clan arrived at the Ancient Tomb Residence and set up camp near the other three great clans.
• Lin Dong sensed the powerful seal around the residence, and Lin Ke'er said the Lin Clan would need to send an additional Creation Three Realms expert.

The leading geniuses of the four great families gathered at the mountain camp, where Lin Langtian, Wang Yan, and Qin Shi arrived before Ling Qingzhu appeared. Lin Dong recognized Ling Qingzhu and bet Little Marten that he could win her over within a year.

• Lin Langtian arrived on a crimson eagle, and Lin Dong privately said he planned to defeat and kill him at the clan gathering two years later.
• Wang Yan and Qin Shi arrived together on a Golden Long Spear and a Wind Phoenix Bird, and Wang Yan and Lin Langtian argued over who was the Great Yan Dynasty's number one genius.
• Qin Shi explained that Huangpu Jing could not attend and had invited Ling Qingzhu in her place.
• Ling Qingzhu arrived on a Green Lotus, and the crowd fell silent at her appearance.
• Lin Dong told Little Marten he would win Ling Qingzhu over within a year, and Little Marten agreed to call him Big Brother a hundred times if he succeeded.

Lin Dong joined the Four Great Clans’ Creation Stage experts to help break the seal, surprising them with his youth and strength. Lin Langtian resented the attention Lin Dong received and confronted him, but Lin Dong calmly insisted he be addressed by name.

• Lin Langtian, Wang Yan, and Ling Qingzhu prepared to join forces to break the seal before Elder Tao announced that a Creation Stage expert from the Yan City Lin Family could join them.
• At Elder Tao’s urging, Lin Dong mounted Little Flame, which grew to over thirty meters long and flew him up to the experts.
• Wang Yan and the others were astonished that Lin Dong had reached the Creation Stage as a teenager, while Qin Shi and Ling Qingzhu examined Little Flame’s unusual form.
• Lin Dong introduced himself and revealed his Minor Achievement Creation Stage cultivation; Qin Shi greeted him, while Wang Zhong ignored him and Ling Qingzhu gave him only a brief glance.
• Lin Langtian dismissed Lin Dong as a branch-family brat, and Lin Dong calmly told him to use his name instead.

Lin Dong and the other experts broke into the Ancient Tomb Residence, where they split up to explore its many passages. Lin Dong found a chamber containing at least thirty thousand Pure Yuan Pills.

• Wang Yan, Qin Shi, Lin Langtian, and Lin Dong attacked the residence’s seal, and Lin Dong’s Bronze Thunder Body helped destroy it.
• Lin Dong flew into the tomb residence with Little Flame, while Ling Qingzhu and the others pursued or chose separate passages.
• Wang Yan’s beam missed Lin Dong and smashed the entrance doors, allowing Lin Dong to enter ahead of him.
• Lin Dong followed a passage and broke into a stone chamber filled with Pure Yuan Pills.
• A voice in the chamber exclaimed that there were at least thirty thousand pills.

Lin Dong ransacked the Ancient Tomb Residence’s stone chambers for cultivation resources before entering its main hall, where he claimed a spear-shaped Spirit Treasure by force. Guided by Little Marten, he left through a passage in search of more treasures.

• Lin Dong collected thirty thousand Pure Yuan Pills from a stone chamber while Little Marten urged him to hurry.
• Lin Dong and Little Marten gathered Demonic Spirits from another chamber, then Lin Dong continued searching as pursuers approached.
• Lin Dong emerged from the seventh stone chamber with a total of one hundred and twenty thousand Pure Yuan Pills and headed toward the main hall.
• After the hall’s Light Barrier broke, Lin Dong seized the spear-shaped Spirit Treasure and killed a Great Perfection Yuan Dan Stage expert who challenged him.
• Lin Dong left the hall and followed Little Marten’s guidance into the third passage on the left to search for more Spirit Treasures.

Lin Dong broke through the Wooden Stake Array and collected rare Spiritual Medicine and a Bronze Puppet from the Jade Medicine Pool. After crossing eight halls and evading powerful puppets, he entered a light screen leading toward the Ancient Tomb Residence’s main hall.

• Lin Dong used the Creation Talisman Array to destroy the defective puppets blocking the Wooden Stake Array.
• Lin Dong collected the Jade Medicine Pool’s Spiritual Medicine, including Extreme Fiend Yin Dragon Saliva needed to help Qing Tan condense her Yin Core.
• Lin Dong drained the pool and discovered an intact Intermediate Talisman Puppet, then imprinted it and stored it to protect his clan.
• Little Marten told Lin Dong that the main hall might contain the Nirvana Heart of the tomb’s Nirvana Stage owner.
• Lin Dong crossed eight halls, used the Intermediate Talisman Puppet to distract Advanced Talisman Puppets, and stepped through a Heaven-Reaching Light Screen.

Lin Dong and Ling Qingzhu reached the Stone Hall containing the Nirvana Heart, which Ling Qingzhu began to claim while Lin Dong discovered a warning inside the Stone Coffin. Ling Qingzhu’s attempt was nearly complete as Lin Dong examined what the senior had left behind.

• Lin Dong recognized that the Sea of Fire Formation’s paths were false, and he and Ling Qingzhu crossed the flames while Wang Yan, Qin Shi, and Lin Langtian were trapped.
• Lin Dong entered the Stone Hall and found a pulsing Nirvana Heart floating above a Stone Coffin, then agreed to let Ling Qingzhu take it.
• Ling Qingzhu weakened the Nirvana Heart’s resistance with Green Lotus petals as Lin Dong inspected the Stone Coffin.
• Lin Dong read a warning that the senior’s legacy required the harmony of yin and yang to unlock safely, while the Nirvana Heart melted into emerald liquid.

Ling Qingzhu began refining the Nirvana Heart, but its dangerous Pure Yin Energy left her unable to control herself and desperate to borrow Lin Dong’s Yang Energy. When she attacked him, Lin Dong shattered the Stone Coffin and summoned the powerful phantom hidden inside it.

• Ling Qingzhu swallowed the Nirvana Heart and began refining it as Lin Dong sat nearby, lost in thought.
• The Nirvana Heart unleashed raging Pure Yin Energy, and Ling Qingzhu blamed Lin Dong for not warning her about the danger.
• Ling Qingzhu apologized and asked to borrow Lin Dong’s Yang Energy, but Lin Dong refused and accused her of trying to ruin his cultivation.
• Ling Qingzhu admitted the danger to Lin Dong but said the fate of her Super Sect was at stake, then pinned him down and attacked.
• Lin Dong shattered the Stone Coffin and revealed the Elegant Man’s phantom, who destroyed Ling Qingzhu’s incoming attacks and praised Lin Dong’s talent.