Chapter Summaries

Ling Qingzhu gave Lin Dong a seed from the Azure Sky Lotus as an apology and told him to come with her, but the arriving clansmen interrupted them. Wang Yan then demanded that Lin Dong return the Wang Clan’s Spirit Treasure, and Lin Langtian agreed to handle the dispute.

• Ling Qingzhu gave Lin Dong an Azure Sky Lotus Seed and asked him to forget what had happened between them.
• As the sealed bronze gates opened, Ling Qingzhu returned to her Lotus Seat, veiled her face, and sent Lin Dong a message to come with her.
• Wang Yan and Lin Langtian entered the hall, and Ling Qingzhu said she had obtained the Nirvana Heart before preparing to leave.
• Wang Pan told Wang Yan that Lin Dong had taken the Wang Clan’s semi-finished spear-shaped Spirit Treasure, which could become a High-grade Spirit Treasure.
• Wang Yan demanded the Spirit Treasure from Lin Dong and appealed to Lin Langtian to intervene; Lin Langtian agreed to handle the matter.

Lin Dong rejected Lin Langtian’s demand to return the Spirit Treasure and apologize, then struck him down with one punch, revealing that he had reached Minor Achievement in Qi Creation Stage. As Lin Langtian prepared a powerful counterattack, explorers from the other factions arrived and Qin Shi urged him to stop.

• Lin Langtian ordered Lin Dong to return the Spirit Treasure to Wang Pan and kneel in apology, while Lin Ke’er anxiously objected.
• Lin Dong insulted Lin Langtian and challenged him to attack, prompting the furious Law Enforcement Team captain to strike.
• Lin Dong sent Lin Langtian flying with one punch, and the hall realized Lin Dong had reached Minor Achievement in Qi Creation Stage.
• Lin Langtian accused Lin Dong of hiding his cultivation and formed two Demon Tablets with the Sky-Shattering Demonic Tablet Palm.
• As explorers from the other factions approached the hall, Qin Shi stepped forward and advised Lin Langtian to stop.

Lin Dong left the Stone Hall after Lin Langtian postponed their fight until the clan assembly two years later, then examined the Ancient Sky Scale Halberd and the martial art he had received. Lin Langtian resolved to grow stronger with Master Mu’s help, while Lin Dong learned the halberd’s four techniques.

• Elder Tao persuaded Lin Langtian to stop the confrontation, and Lin Langtian vowed to kill Lin Dong at the clan assembly in two years.
• Lin Dong left the Stone Hall and told the Beauty in Plain Skirt not to follow because he had a tail to deal with.
• Lin Langtian asked Master Mu to help him become stronger, and Master Mu promised to train him over the next two years.
• At an unnamed peak in the Tianyan Mountain Range, Lin Dong used his blood essence to restore the Ancient Sky Scale Halberd to its original form.
• Little Marten warned Lin Dong that his current cultivation was insufficient to upgrade the halberd and recalled the difficulties of his earlier artifact-refining attempts.
• Lin Dong identified the gift from the Lord of the Tomb Mansion as the Sky Scale Halberd Technique, a High-grade Ninth-Grade Martial Art with four moves.

Lin Dong confronted Wang Yan over the Great Luo Golden Spear and defeated his Golden Platform Suppressing Demon Palm with the Mountain Yue Fist. He stole Wang Yan’s Cosmic Bag, and Wang Yan tried to negotiate for its return.

• Lin Dong studied the Sky Scale Halberd Technique until Little Flame alerted him to Wang Yan’s arrival.
• Wang Yan boasted of his Great Luo Golden Spear and high-grade martial arts, but Lin Dong knocked him into a mountainside and demanded the spear.
• Wang Yan attacked with the seventh-grade Golden Platform Suppressing Demon Palm, and Lin Dong’s Mountain Yue Fist shattered the golden platform.
• Wang Yan used the Great Luo Golden Spear to break Lin Dong’s advancing mountain-shaped attack.
• Lin Dong emerged with Wang Yan’s Cosmic Bag and listed its Pure Yuan Pills, martial art cultivation method, and rare metals.
• Wang Yan discovered his bag was missing and asked Lin Dong to return it in exchange for ending the fight.

Lin Dong refused to return the Great Luo Golden Spear and fought Wang Yan, then killed Elder Shen, the Qi Creation Stage expert who intervened. Wang Yan escaped as Lin Dong prepared to pursue him.

• Lin Dong refused to return the Cosmic Bag, and Wang Yan attacked him with the Great Luo Golden Spear.
• Lin Dong used his Bronze Thunder Body to seize the spear and strike Wang Yan, then attacked him with the Pure Yuan Finger.
• Elder Shen ambushed Lin Dong, but Lin Dong repelled him and trapped him with five Creation Talisman Arrays.
• Lin Dong killed Elder Shen with Creation Azure Waves, while Wang Yan escaped into the distance.
• A green glow appeared beside Lin Dong as he was about to pursue Wang Yan.

Lin Dong insisted that he would take responsibility for Ling Qingzhu despite her warning that her powerful sect would destroy his family and dynasty if it learned what happened. After leaving her in the Eastern Xuan Region, he teased Little Marten over a bet and made him call him Big Brother.

• Ling Qingzhu told Lin Dong to forget their intimacy and warned that her sect could destroy the Lin Family and Great Yan Dynasty, but Lin Dong declared he would pursue her and join a super sect.
• Lin Dong removed Ling Qingzhu's veil, kept it as a memento, and told her to wait for him in the Eastern Xuan Region before departing.
• Little Marten emerged from the Ancestral Stone Space and mocked Lin Dong's skill with women.
• Lin Dong reminded Little Marten that he had won their bet by winning over Ling Qingzhu within a year, and Little Marten reluctantly called him Big Brother.

Lin Dong returned to the Lin Family with valuable resources and helped Qing Tan resolve the Yin-Cold Energy in her body. Qing Tan formed a Yin Core and broke through to Great Perfection Yuan Dan Stage.

• Lin Dong divided his gains from the Ancient Tomb Residence and left resources and treasures for the Lin Family.
• Lin Dong gave Lin Xiao 200,000 Pure Yuan Pills, a Talisman Puppet, and Spirit Treasures, then urged him to reach the Creation Stage before the clan assembly.
• Lin Dong used the Extreme Fiend Yin Dragon Saliva to unleash Qing Tan's Yin Sha Qi and instructed her to gather it into a Yin Core.
• Lin Dong crushed several thousand Pure Yuan Pills to help Qing Tan draw in the Yin Sha Qi.
• Qing Tan formed a Yin Core, absorbed the remaining Yin Sha Qi, and broke through to Great Perfection Yuan Dan Stage.

Lin Dong left the Lin Family territory and challenged City Lord Shi to a spar on his way out of Yan City. After defeating him with one attack and revealing his Qi Creation Stage strength, Lin Dong continued his journey, leaving City Lord Shi to protect the Yan City Lin Family.

• Lin Dong departed on Little Flame after resting, while Lin Xiao and Lin Zhentian watched him leave and wondered whether he would return for the clan assembly.
• City Lord Shi stopped Lin Dong outside Yan City and asked to spar, and Lin Dong agreed to fight with Origin Energy.
• Lin Dong used the Sky Scale Halberd Technique to overwhelm City Lord Shi, and the onlookers realized Lin Dong had reached the Qi Creation Stage.
• City Lord Shi recovered and thanked Lin Dong for showing mercy, while Ziyue arrived and saw that her father was safe.
• Lin Dong asked City Lord Shi to look after the Yan City Lin Family, then rode Little Flame away as Yan City's experts marveled at his strength.

Lin Dong and Little Marten tracked a Thunder Source Crystal Beast preparing to advance, hoping to claim its Thunder Source, Demonic Spirit, and body. After the beast successfully advanced but weakened, two local groups attacked it, only for a thin figure to appear and repel them.

• Little Flame killed and ate a Great Perfection Yuan Dan Stage Demonic Crocodile Leopard while Lin Dong and Little Marten watched.
• Lin Dong sensed a Thunder Source Crystal Beast, and Little Marten explained its power and the weakness it would suffer after advancing.
• Lin Dong planned to take the beast's Thunder Source while Little Marten and Little Flame claimed its Demonic Spirit and flesh.
• Lin Dong and Little Marten waited as the Thunder Source Crystal Beast endured a storm and successfully advanced, leaving it weakened.
• Two groups attacked the weakened beast, but a thin figure used the Golden Platform Suppressing Demon Palm to send them crashing back into the forest.

Lin Dong killed the Thunder Source Crystal Beast with a single attack, then confronted the Di and Liu Families and demanded Pure Yuan Pills to spare them. The two families paid up, and Lin Dong took extra Spirit Treasures from Di Ling to cover the Di Family’s shortfall.

• Di Teng and Liu Kui set aside their feud and joined forces to watch for a chance to claim the Thunder Source Crystal Beast.
• Lin Dong used Creation Talisman Array, Creation Light to kill the Thunder Source Crystal Beast with one strike.
• Lin Dong stopped the Di and Liu Families from leaving and demanded two hundred thousand Pure Yuan Pills from each family to become friends.
• Liu Kui handed over the Liu Family’s two hundred thousand Pure Yuan Pills, while Di Teng could gather only one hundred and eighty thousand.
• Lin Dong raised the Di Family’s payment to two hundred and fifty thousand Pure Yuan Pills and took Di Ling’s inner armor and Azure Yuan Spear to cover the shortfall.

Lin Dong refined the Thunder Source, reached Qi Creation Stage Great Achievement, and achieved the Jade Thunder Body while Little Flame completed his transformation into the Creation Stage. After reaching Great Desolation Prefecture, Lin Dong heard a battle in Mist Forest and went to investigate, where he found a group of martial artists holding off beast tides.

• Lin Dong sent Di Teng's group away with the Pure Yuan Pills and traveled on with Little Flame and the Thunder Source Crystal Beast's corpse.
• Little Marten absorbed the beast's Demonic Spirit while Little Flame began digesting its bloodline essence inside a thunder cocoon.
• Lin Dong refined the Thunder Source, breaking through to Qi Creation Stage Great Achievement and achieving the Jade Thunder Body.
• Little Flame emerged from his cocoon after completing his transformation into the Creation Stage, and Lin Dong set out toward Great Desolation Prefecture.
• After four months of travel, Lin Dong entered Mist Forest and followed the sounds of fighting to a clearing.
• Lin Dong found several dozen martial artists facing successive beast tides, and a burly middle-aged man repelled a Great Perfection Yuan Dan Stage Demonic Beast.

Lin Dong found the Eagle Martial Arts School surrounded by beasts in the Mist Forest and revealed the hidden horde by clearing away the fog. He summoned a Great Achievement Creation Stage Thunder Source Crystal Beast to face the two Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings pursuing the group.

• Jiang Lei introduced himself and explained that the Eagle Martial Arts School had killed a Mist Leopard Crocodile King cub and was being hunted by its parents.
• Lin Dong let Jiang Yingying pet Little Flame and identified the two Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings as the cause of the beast attacks.
• Lin Dong used Essence Transformation Vortex to clear the fog, exposing the surrounding horde and the two Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings.
• Lin Dong formed a Great Achievement Creation Stage Thunder Source Crystal Beast as Jiang Lei’s group prepared to confront the pursuers.

Lin Dong saved the Eagle Martial Arts School from the Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings and joined them on their way to Eagle City. As Jiang Xue explained the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet, the chapter revealed the Great Desolate Sect’s destruction and the Nine King Palace sealed beneath the tablet.

• Lin Dong summoned two Thunder Source Crystal Beasts to kill the Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings, ending the beast horde’s pursuit of the Eagle Martial Arts School.
• Little Flame transformed into a winged Tiger Beast, devoured the kings’ Demonic Cores, and then returned to its Red Kitten form when Jiang Yingying petted it.
• Jiang Lei thanked Lin Dong and invited him to Eagle City, and Lin Dong accepted and rode with Jiang Xue and Jiang Yingying.
• Lin Dong told Jiang Xue he had come to Great Desolation Prefecture to gain experience and seek the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet.
• Jiang Xue explained that the Great Desolate Sect had been destroyed by Demon Prison, while Elder Black Pupil sealed the Nine King Palace beneath the Great Desolation Ancient Tablet.

Lin Dong agreed to help Jiang Yingying’s Eagle Martial Arts School defeat the Blood Vulture Martial Arts School’s master, Luo Jiu. Later that night, Jiang Xue visited Lin Dong to ask him for a favor, but the chapter ended before she explained what she wanted.

• Jiang Yingying told Lin Dong that Luo Jiu had challenged her father, Jiang Lei, and that the Eagle Martial Arts School would have to leave Eagle City if he lost.
• Lin Dong agreed to help Jiang Yingying drive Luo Jiu away, and she offered to return Little Flame as payment.
• Lin Dong reached Eagle City with the convoy and began cultivating after Jiang Xue promised to give him a map of Great Desolation Prefecture the next day.
• Jiang Xue visited Lin Dong late at night and began asking him to help protect her father’s life work, the Great Eagle Martial Arts School.

Lin Dong defeated and killed Luo Jiu, then left a bloody warning that drove the Blood Vulture Martial Arts School out of Eagle City. The city believed Jiang Lei had arranged Luo Jiu’s death, and the Eagle Martial Arts School regained sole control.

• Lin Dong shattered Luo Jiu’s Heaven Shattering Hammer and challenged him to use the Demonic Ape Transformation.
• After Luo Jiu transformed, Lin Dong fought him as a Jade Thunder Giant and overpowered him in close combat.
• Lin Dong used an Essence Transformation Vortex to swallow Luo Jiu’s hammer shadows, then killed him by piercing his chest and destroying his Heaven and Earth Hammer.
• Lin Dong took Luo Jiu’s Cosmic Bag and left a bloody warning ordering the Blood Vulture Martial Arts School to leave Eagle City.
• News of Luo Jiu’s death spread, and the Blood Vulture Martial Arts School fled Eagle City while the Eagle Martial Arts School became its sole hegemonic force.

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• A fellow Chuangshi author accused the author of plagiarizing the original work in Martial Ancestor.
• The author explained that he followed the original’s major plotlines while changing smaller details to create later divergences, as he had in his Battle Through the Heavens fan fiction.
• The author rejected the plagiarism accusation and asked the critic to read the entire story before judging or reporting it.
• The author said his book had only about four thousand bookmarks and offered to leave the bookstore’s new-book rankings if necessary.
• The author urged readers not to delay reading in case the book was taken down, then asked readers familiar with Martial Movement whether his fan fiction was plagiarism.

Lin Dong decided to hunt Creation Stage ape-type Demonic Beasts to cultivate Demonic Ape Transformation and seek a breakthrough in the Great Sun Thunder Body. Jiang Lei thanked him for killing Luo Jiu and gave him a map, and Lin Dong agreed to explore the Eagle Martial Arts School with Jiang Xue and Yingying.

• Lin Dong chose the Ancient Dragon Ape as his first target after Little Marten explained that five Creation Stage Demonic Beasts’ blood essences could help him attempt a breakthrough.
• Jiang Lei and his family visited Lin Dong, and Lin Dong admitted that he had killed Luo Jiu and driven the Blood Vulture Martial Arts School out of Eagle City.
• Lin Dong credited Yingying with asking him to help, embarrassing Jiang Xue, while Jiang Lei praised Yingying and thanked Lin Dong.
• Jiang Lei gave Lin Dong a map of Great Desolation Prefecture and offered to gather information about the Ancient Wasteland Ravine.
• Lin Dong accepted Yingying and Jiang Xue’s invitation to tour the Eagle Martial Arts School.

Lin Dong traveled with Little Marten and Little Flame into the Ancient Wasteland Ravine to hunt Demonic Beasts and strengthen them. When Ancient Sword Sect deacon Liu Yuntian tried to stop their passage, Lin Dong struck back and revealed overwhelming Qi Creation strength as he flew onward.

• Lin Dong left Jiang Lei, Jiang Xue, and Jiang Yingying behind, while Jiang Xue cried and Jiang Yingying recalled his promise to return.
• Lin Dong surveyed the Ancient Wasteland Ravine and set out with Little Marten and Little Flame to hunt Creation Three Realms Demonic Beasts.
• Liu Yuntian and the Ancient Sword Sect blocked the ravine entrance and drove away three independent cultivators who challenged their authority.
• Liu Yuntian ordered his disciples to attack Lin Dong's flying beast after it ignored his warning to stop.
• Lin Dong used the Sky Scale Halberd Technique to summon a Crimson Giant Python, destroying the disciples' swords and burying more than a dozen of them beneath its strike.
• Liu Yuntian survived with a mangled arm and realized Lin Dong was a Qi Creation Stage expert as Lin Dong flew over him.

Lin Dong crossed the Ancient Sword Sect’s blockade, hunted a Blue Demonic Python, and collected a Purple Cloud Fruit. When the sect’s Third Elder confronted him, Lin Dong mocked the sect’s claims over the Ancient Wasteland Ravine, and Gu Yan prepared to attack.

• Lin Dong left the Ancient Sword Sect’s disciples badly injured, and Liu Yuntian sent up a signal flare to summon the Third Elder.
• Lin Dong and Little Flame killed a Blue Demonic Python, and Lin Dong collected a Purple Cloud Fruit.
• Gu Yan arrived with Liu Yuntian and another expert, then questioned Lin Dong for trespassing in the blockade.
• Lin Dong dismissed the Ancient Sword Sect’s strength and challenged Gu Yan’s claim that the ravine belonged to the sect.
• Gu Yan unleashed powerful Origin Energy and threatened to capture Lin Dong.

Lin Dong revealed his superior cultivation and Creation Stage martial arts, defeating the Ancient Sword Sect trio with one strike. Gu Yan survived but abandoned the pursuit and returned to the sect to report Lin Dong’s strength.

• Lin Dong displayed Qi Creation Stage Great Achievement strength and challenged Gu Yan, Liu Yuntian, and Protector Tie to withstand his attack.
• Lin Dong used the Creation Stage Sky Scale Halberd Technique, Flood Dragon Transformation Halberd, and broke Gu Yan’s Mountain Suppressing Golden Fist.
• The Golden Scaled Flood Dragon killed Liu Yuntian and severely injured Gu Yan, while Protector Tie survived by fleeing the shockwaves.
• Lin Dong left on Little Flame to hunt a creature deep in the mountain range.
• Gu Yan ordered Protector Tie to summon the sect’s senior disciples, then agreed to return to the Ancient Sword Sect and report what happened.