Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong obtained the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and entered its dangerous trial to refine and control it. As he walked into the Realm of Darkness, Little Marten stayed behind to strengthen the Blood Spirit Puppet.

• Lin Dong used the Ancestral Stone to subdue the Blood Spirit Puppet, planted a mark on it, and stored it in his Cosmic Bag.
• Lin Dong left Profound Yin Mountain after Mu Lei, Wu Zong, and the other experts bid him farewell.
• Lin Dong removed Elder Black Pupil’s seal from the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and received the remaining Power of Death as a protective force.
• Little Marten warned Lin Dong that he had to pass the Ancestral Symbol’s trial, but Lin Dong entered the black hole without hesitation.
• Little Marten used Nirvana Qi to upgrade the Blood Spirit Puppet while Lin Dong walked through the Realm of Darkness.

Lin Dong completed the Devouring Ancestral Symbol’s test in the Realm of Darkness and emerged with the symbol entering his body. Its power transformed his Mental Energy and raised his cultivation to Heavenly Symbol Master.

• Lin Dong endured more than twenty years of aging in the darkness before the Realm of Darkness lit up and restored his youth.
• The Devouring Ancestral Symbol Spirit appeared, and Lin Dong welcomed it as his new companion.
• The Devouring Ancestral Symbol entered Lin Dong’s body and gave him the energy it had accumulated during its slumber.
• The Devouring Ancestral Symbol consumed Lin Dong’s five Life Spirit Talismans and refined his Mental Energy into a Spirit Body.
• Lin Dong’s Mental Energy cultivation surged through the stages and reached Heavenly Symbol Master.

Lin Dong absorbed millions of Nirvana Pills and broke through to the Nirvana Stage, forming a Nirvana Golden Body. After waking from more than half a year of seclusion, he discussed his new strength with Little Marten and prepared to return to Yan City before the Lin Clan Assembly.

• Little Marten formed a Yuan Gathering Array and used five million Nirvana Pills to help Lin Dong advance in Origin Energy and Mental Energy.
• Lin Dong absorbed more than four million Nirvana Pills, formed a Nirvana Golden Body, and broke through to the Nirvana Stage, briefly pinning Little Marten and Little Flame to the ground with his pressure.
• Lin Dong woke and learned from Little Marten that he had spent more than half a year in seclusion, with three months remaining before the Lin Clan Assembly.
• Lin Dong examined his Nirvana Golden Body and rejected Little Marten's suggestion that he abandon the Great Sun Thunder Body, saying he would continue to temper his physical strength.
• Lin Dong noted that he had not yet undergone a Nirvana Tribulation and had only just entered the Nirvana Stage and Heavenly Symbol Master realm.

Lin Dong tested the Devouring Ancestral Symbol’s Realm of Darkness, discovered that the Blood Spirit Puppet had reached the Three Yuan Nirvana Stage, and set out for Yan City after two years away. After visiting Jiang Yingying in Great Eagle City to leave her a protective Devouring Seal, he realized a Nine Heavens Supreme Pure Palace deacon was pursuing him for the Ancestral Symbol and prepared to face him.

• Lin Dong demonstrated the Realm of Darkness to Little Marten and described its advanced Realm of Devouring technique.
• Little Marten revealed that the Blood Spirit Puppet had advanced to level three after consuming over four hundred thousand Nirvana Pills, while Little Flame neared the Nirvana Stage.
• Lin Dong left the cave with Little Marten and Little Flame, then diverted to Great Eagle City.
• Lin Dong secretly visited sleeping Jiang Yingying and placed a Devouring Seal on her as protection before leaving the Eagle Martial Arts School.
• A hemp-clothed old man pursued Lin Dong from Great Eagle City, and Lin Dong told Little Marten and Little Flame to move aside so he could confront the Nirvana Stage expert.

Lin Dong lured Song Min into reaching for the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, then had Xue Ying ambush him. Song Min was badly wounded, but the two Nirvana Stage fighters continued battling in midair.

• Song Min followed Lin Dong through the forest and demanded the Devouring Ancestral Symbol after identifying him as a Creation Stage Peak youth.
• Lin Dong showed Song Min the Ancestral Symbol and pretended to accept a mid-grade Creation Stage Martial Art in exchange for it.
• As Song Min reached for the Ancestral Symbol, Xue Ying burst from Lin Dong's sleeve and struck him at close range.
• Song Min recognized Xue Ying as a third-grade Blood Spirit Puppet comparable to a Three Yuan Nirvana Stage expert.
• Xue Ying and Song Min exchanged dozens of blows in a fierce midair battle.

Lin Dong killed Song Min with the Realm of Darkness and the Blood Spirit Puppet, then returned to the Lin Family with a trove of resources to strengthen the clan before leaving for its Ancestral Land. The chapter ended with Lin Xiao fainting after opening the Cosmic Bags and seeing what Lin Dong had brought.

• Lin Dong trapped Song Min in the Realm of Darkness and killed him with the Ancient Dragon Ape's punch before Song Min could summon his Nirvana Golden Body.
• Little Marten searched Song Min's Cosmic Bag and found martial arts, spirit treasures, and five hundred thousand Nirvana Pills.
• Lin Dong and his companions resumed their journey to Yan City, and Lin Dong upgraded the Ancient Sky Scale Halberd into an Earth-grade Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Dong returned to the Lin Family after two years, where Lin Xiao told him they would leave for the clan's Ancestral Land in three days.
• Lin Dong gave Lin Xiao several Cosmic Bags filled with pills, treasures, puppets, martial arts, and a Blood Spirit Puppet to strengthen the clan.
• Lin Xiao opened the Cosmic Bags, was overwhelmed by their contents, and collapsed to the floor.

Lin Dong gave Lin Xiao vast resources and helped him advance his cultivation, then reunited with Qing Tan and discovered the mysterious cloaked woman watching over her. The woman recognized that Lin Dong’s true strength far exceeded his apparent cultivation, while Lin Dong calmly dismissed her surprise.

• Lin Dong showed Lin Xiao the treasures and ten million Nirvana Pills he had gathered, and Lin Xiao planned to use them to strengthen the Yan City Lin Family before returning to the Main Clan.
• Lin Dong took Lin Xiao to the Quiet Room and offered to help him break through to the Creation Stage.
• After spending the night helping his father, Lin Dong met Qing Tan, teased her about growing up, and led her to his room when he noticed she had brought someone along.
• Lin Dong invited the hidden person to reveal herself, and a cloaked woman appeared with a powerful Yin-Cold Energy that vanished near him.
• The mysterious woman realized Lin Dong’s strength exceeded his apparent Creation Stage Peak cultivation, and Lin Dong said he had merely happened to descend upon a Low-Level Dynasty.

Lin Dong learned that Qing Tan would leave the Great Yan Dynasty to cultivate at the Darkness Palace, and he questioned the envoy about her future instruction. After the envoy departed, Lin Dong invited Qing Tan to walk around the clan.

• The black-clothed lady told Lin Dong that Qing Tan had agreed to leave for the Darkness Palace after the Clan Assembly, and Qing Tan was surprised to learn Lin Dong also planned to leave the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Lin Dong asked the lady to explain the Darkness Palace’s origins and its plans for Qing Tan’s training.
• The lady identified herself as a Seven Yuan Nirvana Stage Wind Observing Envoy and explained how the Darkness Palace recruited talented disciples.
• Lin Dong questioned the lady about recruiting Qing Tan within the Eastern Xuan Region’s sphere of influence and asked who would teach her.
• The lady promised Qing Tan would receive a powerful teacher, and Lin Dong said he would still worry because she was Qing Tan.
• The lady vanished into the void, and Lin Dong invited Qing Tan to walk around the clan with him.

Lin Dong led the Yan City Lin Family to a strong showing at the Lin Clan Assembly and proposed a match arrangement that set him against Lin Qing and Lin Mu. He defeated the twins with the Inner Clan’s Sky-Shattering Demonic Tablet Palm, and Elder Lin He revealed that he had given Lin Dong the technique.

• Lin Zhentian and the Yan City Lin Family arrived in Lin City, where Inner Clan elders warmly welcomed them because of Lin Dong’s growing reputation.
• Lin Dong, Qing Tan, Lin Langtian, Lin Qing, and Lin Mu advanced to the final five of the Clan Assembly.
• Lin Dong proposed that he fight Lin Qing and Lin Mu while Qing Tan faced Lin Langtian, and the Elder Council approved the arrangement.
• Lin Qing and Lin Mu attacked Lin Dong together with the Sky-Shattering Demonic Tablet Palm, but Lin Dong used the same technique to shatter their tablets and defeat them.
• A Lin Langtian supporter objected that Lin Dong had learned the Inner Clan’s secret technique, and Elder Lin He said that he had given it to him.

After Lin Dong defeated the Lin Qing brothers, Lin Qingtan forfeited her match against Lin Langtian to avoid his attempt to provoke her brother. Lin Dong and Lin Langtian began their championship fight, and Lin Dong declared he would avenge his father by killing Lin Langtian.

• Elder Lin He defended his decision to teach Lin Dong the Sky-Shattering Demonic Tablet Palm, and the grey-robed old man abandoned his attempt to enforce the clan rules.
• Lin Dong defeated the Lin Qing brothers, and the referee announced his victory.
• Lin Qingtan forfeited her match against Lin Langtian, frustrating him and advancing him without a fight.
• Lin Dong stepped into the air above the Battle Platform to face Lin Langtian, whose cultivation had reached the Creation Stage Peak.
• Lin Dong told Lin Langtian he had spared him before so he could kill him publicly at the Clan Assembly and avenge his father.

Lin Dong overwhelmed Lin Langtian in their duel, destroying his strongest attacks and leaving him exposed to a final strike. Lin Dong summoned the complete Great Desolation Imprisoning Heavenly Finger, which descended on the immobilized Lin Langtian.

• Lin Langtian attacked Lin Dong with the Sky-Shattering Demonic Tablet Palm, but Lin Dong shattered the tablets with his Mountain Suppressing Golden Fist.
• Lin Langtian summoned the Silver Heavenly Phoenix with the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal, but Lin Dong used Nine Steps Quaking Heaven to destroy it and send Lin Langtian flying.
• Lin Langtian spat blood and, driven mad by the crowd’s ridicule, unleashed the Eight Desolations Emperor Hand.
• Lin Dong broke through Lin Langtian’s attack with Half a Finger Shakes Heaven and Earth, then summoned One Finger Imprisons Heaven and Earth against him.

Lin Dong defeated Lin Langtian, took the Spirit Wheel Mirror, and killed him despite an elder’s order. He then detected a hidden presence inside Lin Langtian’s body and used Devouring Power to seize it.

• The Spirit Wheel Mirror blocked Lin Dong’s attack, but Lin Dong used the Supreme Pure Sky Roaming Steps to strike Lin Langtian and steal the treasure.
• Lin Dong overwhelmed Lin Langtian in combat and prepared to finish him.
• Lin Langtian called on Master Mu for power, but Lin Dong struck him down and strangled him despite an expert’s command to spare him.
• Lin Dong sensed a hidden presence in Lin Langtian’s body, drew it out with Devouring Power, and demanded everything it knew.

Lin Dong killed Lin Langtian and avenged the injury Lin Langtian had inflicted on Lin Xiao, leaving the arena stunned and celebrating his victory. Lin Zhi attacked Lin Dong in anger, but Lin Dong’s Blood Devouring Great Demonic Arm overwhelmed him and left him pleading for his life.

• Lin Dong absorbed Master Mu’s Primordial Spirit Body with the Devouring Ancestral Symbol and released Lin Langtian’s battered corpse.
• Lin Dong bowed to Lin Xiao and declared that he had repaid his father’s blood debt, moving Lin Xiao and the arena spectators.
• Lin Zhi flew out of the golden seats and accused Lin Dong of breaking clan rules by killing Lin Langtian.
• Lin Dong mocked Lin Zhi for staying silent when Lin Langtian crippled Lin Xiao and insulted him over his dead father.
• Lin Zhi attacked with Dragon Elephant Overlord Fist, but Lin Dong countered with Blood Devouring Great Demonic Arm and drove Lin Zhi to beg for his life.

Lin Dong killed Lin Zhi and faced demands from the Lin Clan elders to be punished. When Patriarch Lin Fan arrived, Lin Dong argued that he was now the clan’s best hope for the Seed Selection Competition, and Lin Fan grudgingly accepted that he was the clan’s most important asset.

• Lin Dong killed Lin Zhi, prompting elders from Lin Zhi’s faction to demand that the Clan Guard capture him.
• Great Elder Lin Mu told Lin Dong to come down, but a grey-robed elder accused Lin Mu of shielding him.
• Patriarch Lin Fan arrived and asked Lin Mu to explain what had happened.
• The grey-robed elder urged Lin Fan to kill Lin Dong for killing Lin Langtian and endangering the clan’s plans for the Seed Selection Competition.
• Lin Dong claimed he was now the clan’s greatest hope and asked Lin Fan to kill the grey-robed elder for the clan’s greater good.
• The grey-robed elder, identified as Lin Zheng, fainted after Lin Dong’s taunts, and Lin Fan stopped Lin Dong from continuing and conceded that he was the clan’s most important asset.

Lin Dong was declared the Clan Assembly champion and secured the Yan City branch’s reinstatement into the Lin Clan’s inner clan. He entered the clan’s secret treasury and activated Heavy Prison Peak with Yuan Essence Power, revealing the treasure’s true power.

• Lin Fan announced Lin Dong of Yan City as the Clan Assembly champion and told him he could choose a treasure from the clan treasury.
• Lin Mu formally reinstated the Yan City Lin Family into the inner clan, but Lin Zhentian chose not to move the branch back to Lin City.
• Lin Mu gave Lin Dong the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal and explained that the treasury held Heavy Prison Peak, an Earth-grade Peak Spirit Treasure no one had subdued.
• Lin Dong bypassed the other treasures in the secret treasury and found the palm-sized Black Small Mountain on the fifth floor.
• Lin Dong poured Yuan Essence Power into the Black Small Mountain, causing it to expand into a nearly hundred-zhang mountain, and Little Marten realized that Yuan Essence Power was needed to activate it.

Lin Dong subdued the Heavy Prison Peak, refined Lin Langtian’s Spirit Wheel Mirror, and spent a month cultivating before traveling to the Great Yan Imperial City for the Seed Selection Competition. The competition venue opened inside the imperial palace as the major factions gathered.

• Lin Dong revealed that the Heavy Prison Peak was a Heaven-grade Spirit Treasure, then left the Secret Vault after taking it.
• The Secret Vault’s new elder recognized the Heavy Prison Peak and hurried to report Lin Dong’s achievement to Lin Fan.
• Lin Dong refined the Spirit Wheel Mirror and learned its five techniques, then began cultivating the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal and Eight Desolations Emperor Hand.
• One month later, Lin Fan escorted Lin Dong and other Lin Clan experts to the Imperial City for the Seed Selection Competition.
• After the major factions arrived, the sealed palace complex that would host the competition opened, and young experts including Wang Yan, Qin Shi, and Huangpu Jing gathered there.

During the Seed Selection Competition, Lin Dong advanced through the palace complex, where the Two Generals Who Move Mountains surrendered instead of fighting him. He continued onward and survived an assassination attempt by Huangpu Ying, whose dagger could barely scratch his neck.

• Mo Jingtian announced the start of the competition, and hundreds of young experts rushed into the palace complex.
• Lin Dong entered a hall and faced Lu Kui and Hu Wu, who immediately knelt and declared their surrender.
• Lin Dong let the Two Generals Who Move Mountains leave, while their furious Sect Master vowed to punish them.
• Lin Dong continued through the palace complex and Huangpu Ying sprang from the shadows to stab him in the neck.
• Huangpu Ying’s dagger chipped against Lin Dong’s skin, and Lin Dong recognized him as a member of the Huangpu Family.

Lin Dong defeated every opponent in the ancient palace halls and emerged as the first victor of the Seed Selection Competition. After Lin Fan celebrated his success, Wang Lei launched a surprise attack, but Lin Dong struck him down with the Dragon Elephant Overlord Fist.

• Lin Dong crushed Huangpu Ying’s dagger, beat him into the hall wall, and revealed that Ling Qingzhu was his wife.
• Lin Dong swept through the fourth, fifth, and sixth halls before facing Wang Zhong in the eighth hall.
• Lin Dong used the Great Sun Thunder Body to overwhelm Wang Zhong, who fainted before using his best techniques or weapon.
• Lin Dong emerged from the ancient palace and told Lin Fan that he had succeeded, prompting Lin Fan to celebrate the Lin Clan’s victory.
• Wang Lei tried to ambush Lin Dong, but Lin Dong countered with the Dragon Elephant Overlord Fist and sent him flying with severe injuries.

Lin Dong revealed that he was a Nirvana Stage expert and defeated Wang Lei with one punch, forcing the Wang Clan to pay compensation. After the Seed Selection Competition ended, Lin Fan accepted Lin Dong’s thirty thousand Nirvana Pills for the clan and proposed making Yan City the Inner Clan’s Main Clan.

• Lin Dong’s punch heavily injured Wang Lei, and Lin Dong revealed his Nirvana Stage cultivation to the assembled clans and sects.
• Mo Jingtian offered to revoke the Wang Clan’s eligibility for the next competition, but Lin Fan accepted thirty thousand Nirvana Pills as compensation instead.
• Wang Lei agreed to pay and led the Wang Clan away in disgrace.
• Du Yun, Man Shan, Mo Ling, and Qin Shi emerged as the other Seed Selection candidates, and Mo Jingtian announced that all five candidates would enter the Sacred Spirit Pond the next day.
• Lin Dong refused to keep the compensation and gave the thirty thousand Nirvana Pills to Lin Fan for the Lin Clan.
• Lin Fan proposed establishing the Yan City branch as the Inner Clan’s Main Clan and giving it control of the Clan Assembly.

Lin Dong refused to move the Yan City Lin Family back to the Clan Territory and began his first One Yuan Nirvana tribulation, choosing to temper his body with Nirvana Flame. A Wind Thunder Tribulation also descended, and Lin Dong's Spirit Body charged into it, devouring the wind and thunder as the onlookers watched in shock.

• Lin Dong refused Lin Fan's offer to bring the Yan City Lin Family back to the Clan Territory, and Lin Fan arranged for the five of them to enter the Sacred Spirit Pond the next day.
• Lin Dong used tens of thousands of Nirvana Pills to form a cultivation formation and began his One Yuan Nirvana tribulation.
• Lin Dong ignored Little Marten's warning and chose to temper his body with Nirvana Flame rather than use the Mysterious Stone Talisman to suppress it.
• A massive Wind Thunder Tribulation formed above Lin Dong's room, alarming the experts in the imperial palace as Lin Fan confirmed Lin Dong had triggered it.
• Lin Dong sent his Spirit Body into the Thunder Domain, swallowed the incoming lightning with a Black Vortex, and began devouring the wind and thunder.