Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong endured overlapping Wind Thunder Tribulations and a Nirvana Tribulation, emerging as a One Yuan Nirvana Stage expert and Two Seal Heaven Talisman Master. Mo Jingtian secured Lin Dong’s promise to look after the younger experts, then opened the Sacred Spirit Pond and sent them inside.

• Lin Dong absorbed the Wind Thunder Tribulation’s power until the clouds dispersed, then emerged having become a Two Seal Heaven Talisman Master.
• Mo Jingtian sensed Nirvana Flame on Lin Dong, and the gathered experts realized he had endured three tribulations at once and become the Great Yan Dynasty’s strongest expert.
• Mo Jingtian and the leaders of the three major powers asked Lin Dong to guide their young experts in the Ancient Battlefield, and Lin Dong agreed on the condition that he could enter the Sacred Spirit Pond.
• Mo Jingtian promised Lin Dong access to the Sacred Spirit Pond the next day.
• Mo Jingtian and the seven other faction leaders opened the altar’s space channel, and Lin Dong and the other four entered the pond.

Lin Dong and his companions entered the Sacred Spirit Pond to cultivate, while he helped Little Flame absorb its energy and sent Little Marten to investigate the pond’s depths. Little Marten returned with the Ancient Heavenly Crocodile’s Natal Blood Essence and bone spear, leaving Little Flame still cultivating toward the Nirvana Stage.

• Lin Dong and the others took positions in the Sacred Spirit Pond, and Lin Dong concealed their corner with the Great Darkness Realm.
• Lin Dong summoned Little Flame and used Devouring Power to draw the pond’s energy into it as it tried to break through to the Nirvana Stage.
• Lin Dong sensed pressure beneath the pond and sent Little Marten to investigate the remains of an ancient divine beast.
• Little Marten found an Ancient Heavenly Crocodile that had reached the Death Mysterious Stage, Minor Achievement, and returned with its Natal Blood Essence and bone spear.
• Lin Dong stored the blood essence to save it for Little Flame after its breakthrough, while Little Marten identified the bone spear as the crocodile’s Natal Spirit Treasure.

Lin Dong gave the Ancient Heavenly Crocodile's Demonic Spirit to Little Marten, who swallowed it and recovered much of his strength, while Lin Dong refined the spear into his halberd. Little Flame then began undergoing his first Nirvana Tribulation, and Lin Dong supplied him with Nirvana Qi as he faced the trial.

• Lin Dong refused to use the Heavenly Crocodile Bone Spear's spirit himself and let Little Marten extract the Ancient Heavenly Crocodile's Demonic Spirit.
• Little Marten summoned his main body, fought the Ancient Heavenly Crocodile, and swallowed its Demonic Spirit before falling asleep from the power.
• Lin Dong melted down the spiritless Heavenly Crocodile Bone Spear to merge its materials into the Ancient Sky Scale Halberd.
• After Little Marten recovered, Little Flame's Nirvana Flame appeared, beginning his first Nirvana Tribulation and advancing him toward the One Yuan Nirvana Stage.
• Lin Dong broke apart a river of Nirvana Pills and sent the resulting Nirvana Qi to Little Flame as he faced the tribulation.

Little Flame overcame his tribulation and took human form, becoming Lin Yan and joining Lin Dong and Little Marten as their third brother. Lin Dong promised to seek a Life and Death Samsara Pill for Little Marten in the Ancient Battlefield, then prepared Lin Yan to grow stronger before the brothers left in three days.

• Little Flame swallowed the Nirvana Flame, reached the One Yuan Nirvana Stage, and transformed into a human resembling Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong named him Lin Yan and declared him his third brother, while Little Marten reluctantly accepted the role of second brother after hearing about the Life and Death Samsara Pill.
• Lin Dong promised to find the pill in the Ancient Battlefield so Little Marten could rebuild his body and regain his strength.
• Little Marten gave Lin Yan a tiger expert's martial arts technique and described plans to improve his bloodline with tiger bones from three royal clans.
• Lin Dong gave Lin Yan the blood essence of a Death Mysterious Stage Ancient Heavenly Crocodile and asked him to hide in beast form until they reached the Ancient Battlefield.

Lin Dong and the four others left the Sacred Spirit Pond, prepared for the Hundred Dynasties War, and traveled from the Great Yan Dynasty to the Ancient Battlefield. The chapter ended with Lin Dong forming two crimson pills from the dense Nirvana Qi around them.

• Lin Dong and the others left the exhausted Sacred Spirit Pond, and Mo Jingtian advised the four competitors to digest their gains before the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Ten days later, Mo Ling and the other three reached Creation Stage Peak, and Mo Jingtian ordered them to follow Lin Dong's commands during the competition.
• Lin Dong and the four others entered the teleportation formation and arrived in the Ancient Battlefield as Mo Jingtian and the others entrusted the Great Yan Dynasty's prospects to Lin Dong.
• The chapter explained the Ancient Battlefield's history and the Hundred Dynasties War's stages, rankings, and paths into the super sects.
• After arriving in the Ancient Battlefield, Lin Dong condensed the surrounding Nirvana Qi into two crimson pills.

Lin Dong introduced the Nirvana Stage Little Flame to Mo Ling and the others, then used the Azure Sky Lotus Seedling to carry their group to a city in the Ancient Battlefield. At the southern gate, Sacred Light Dynasty guards demanded Nirvana Pills for entry, and Lin Dong killed their leader when he threatened the group.

• Lin Dong showed Mo Ling and the others two Nirvana Pills, then introduced Little Flame, who revealed that he had reached the One Yuan Nirvana Stage.
• Mo Ling warned that nightfall and a possible Demonic Beast tide made it urgent to reach a nearby gathering point.
• Lin Dong revealed the Azure Sky Lotus Seedling, expanded it into a platform, and carried the six of them toward the city.
• At the city’s southern gate, a Sacred Light Dynasty guard demanded ten Nirvana Pills per person for entry.
• When the guard threatened them, Lin Dong struck and burst his head, remarking that strength was king.

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Lin Dong and his companions seized Yang City from the Sacred Light Dynasty, making the Great Yan Dynasty its new master. After rewarding his allies, Lin Dong prepared to share intelligence extracted from Li Sheng about the Sacred Light Dynasty.

• Lin Dong crushed the Sacred Light Dynasty's gate guards with one palm, then ordered Little Flame and the others to defeat the eight experts who arrived.
• Little Flame captured Li Sheng, and Lin Dong killed him while extracting his memories about the Sacred Light Dynasty and its Senior Disciple Brother.
• The Great Yan Dynasty's Crimson Flame Banner replaced the Sacred Light Dynasty's Golden Sun Flag atop Yang City's walls.
• Lin Dong gave Mo Ling and the other three one hundred thousand Nirvana Pills each, along with a Combined Formation, while Little Flame received no share of the spoils.
• Lin Dong gathered Mo Ling and the others to discuss the intelligence he had extracted from Li Sheng's memories.

Lin Dong took Little Flame to Beast Valley to obtain the Heavenly Demon Tiger Bone and improve his bloodline, leaving Mo Ling and the others to defend their gathering point. They confronted the Great Strength Earth Splitting Tiger, while Lin Dong’s plans to pursue the Sacred Light Dynasty and the Ancient Key remained ahead.

• Lin Dong told Mo Ling and the others that the Sacred Light Dynasty’s remaining members were in Yang City under Jin Mu, and that he planned to seek the Heavenly Demon Tiger Bone in Beast Valley with Little Flame.
• Lin Dong challenged Mo Ling and the others to defend the gathering point and deal with Jin Mu themselves, and they agreed.
• Lin Dong learned that Jin Mu wanted the Life and Death Samsara Pill, prompting Little Marten to demand that they kill him after their trip to Beast Valley.
• Lin Dong destroyed the imprint on a white elephant sculpture, and an enraged Jin Mu roared in Yang City over the deaths of his people.
• Lin Dong and Little Flame secretly left the next morning and traveled to Beast Valley, where the Great Strength Earth Splitting Tiger emerged from its cave and ordered them to leave.

Lin Dong and Little Flame killed the Great Strength Earth Splitting Tiger and claimed its Heavenly Demon Tiger Bone. Little Marten arrived and prepared to help Little Flame replace his bones inside the tiger’s cave.

• Lin Dong refused to take the tiger bone by force himself and let Little Flame fight the Great Strength Earth Splitting Tiger.
• Little Flame battled the tiger, killed it with the Black Scale Snake Staff, and Lin Dong went to search its cave.
• Lin Dong brought out the Heavenly Demon Tiger Bone while Little Flame extracted the tiger’s Demonic Core.
• Little Marten explained the bone’s concentrated Bloodline Power and said Little Flame’s Nirvana Stage breakthrough improved the chance of Bone Replacement succeeding.
• Little Marten chose the Great Strength Earth Splitting Tiger’s cave as the place to begin Little Flame’s Bone Replacement.

Lin Dong endured the Second Layer Nirvana and Third Layer Wind Thunder Tribulations while Little Marten replaced Little Flame’s bones and transformed his bloodline into that of a Heavenly Demon Tiger. Little Flame emerged stronger, and Little Marten gave him the clan’s martial art.

• Lin Dong began both tribulations outside the cave while Little Marten took Little Flame inside to replace his bones with Nirvana Flame.
• Little Marten pulled a white skeleton from Little Flame’s flesh-and-blood mass, and Little Flame’s agonized roars shook the cave.
• After four days and nights, a gigantic black-winged tiger burst from the mountain and roared above the valley.
• Little Marten confirmed he had changed Little Flame’s bloodline into that of the Heavenly Demon Tiger Clan, and Lin Dong welcomed the newly empowered tiger as his brother.
• Little Flame returned to human form at the Two Yuan Nirvana Stage and thanked Lin Dong and Little Marten for protecting him.
• Little Marten gave Little Flame the Heavenly Demon Transformation martial art and revealed he had obtained martial arts from several other Demon Domain clans.

Lin Dong returned to the gathering point, helped Mo Ling and the others break through to the Half-step Nirvana Stage, and gave them Devouring Seals. He then led the Great Yan Dynasty’s experts on a night raid against Yang City to confront Jin Mu.

• Lin Dong and Little Marten returned to the gathering point and learned that Mo Ling and the others had repelled repeated attacks by Sacred Light Dynasty, including Jin Mu’s raid.
• Lin Dong used four Black Vortices to help Mo Ling, Qin Shi, Man Shan, and their companion break through to the Half-step Nirvana Stage.
• Lin Dong gave the four Devouring Seals, which let him sense their locations and conditions and project power to help them in danger.
• Lin Dong agreed to march on Yang City immediately, and his group of six left the gathering point that night.
• After dawn, the gathering point’s residents noticed that the Great Yan Dynasty’s experts had departed, but its Crimson Flame Banner remained until another Mid-Level Dynasty occupied the city two months later.

Lin Dong summoned five Nirvana Stage Demon Apes and sent them crashing into Yang City, where they began wrecking the city and attacking its gathered forces. As Liu Yuan and Ling Zhi realized the invasion threatened their Dynasties, Lin Dong laughed from above and told them they were in trouble.

• Lin Dong summoned the Heaven-Shaking Demonic Ape and ordered it to attack Yang City.
• The Heaven-Shaking Demonic Ape crashed into the city center, flattening buildings and killing those in its path.
• The ape smashed the central Stone Pagoda and charged at the gathered experts as the Dynasties prepared to fight back.
• Four more Demon Apes—the Ancient Dragon Ape, Great Strength Divine Ape, Mountain-Moving Golden Ape, and Sea-Overturning Ancient Ape—landed at Yang City's corners.
• Liu Yuan and Ling Zhi realized the five Nirvana Stage Demon Apes posed a grave threat to their Dynasties.
• Lin Dong laughed above Yang City and told them they were in trouble.

Lin Dong arrived in Yang City with a formidable force and confronted the Sacred Light Dynasty over its attacks on the Great Yan Dynasty. Jin Mu challenged the Ancient Dragon Ape to spare his people, but the ape killed him with one punch.

• Lin Dong descended into Yang City with two Two Yuan Nirvana Stage experts and four Half-step Nirvana Stage experts, then introduced himself as a member of the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Lin Dong demanded that the Sacred Light Dynasty answer for attacking the Great Yan Dynasty's base three times, and Jin Mu offered the dynasty's possessions as compensation.
• Lin Dong made Jin Mu choose one of the five Demonic Apes to face, and Jin Mu selected the Ancient Dragon Ape.
• Jin Mu asked Lin Dong to spare the Sacred Light Dynasty if he survived one strike, then attacked with the Sacred Elephant Sky Crushing Impact.
• The Ancient Dragon Ape shattered Jin Mu's attack and killed him with a punch.

Lin Dong wiped out the Sacred Light Dynasty, robbed the gathered dynasties, and made Yang City’s leading forces raise Great Yan Dynasty banners and repair the city. As the groups prepared to leave for the Ancient Key in the Thunder Rock Mountain Range, Liu Yuan and Ling Zhi waited to follow Lin Dong and improve their chances of gaining something.

• Lin Dong’s five Ancient Dragon Ape beasts killed the remaining members of the Sacred Light Dynasty after Jin Mu had been crushed.
• Lin Dong demanded valuables from the gathered dynasties, then ordered Liu Yuan and Ling Zhi to plant Great Yan Dynasty banners around Yang City and repair its damaged buildings.
• Du Yun reported that the group had collected over 1.2 million Nirvana Pills, which Lin Dong gave to Mo Ling and the others to help them break through.
• Three days later, as the dynasties prepared to depart for the Ancient Key, Liu Yuan and Ling Zhi arrived separately with their forces to wait outside Lin Dong’s estate.

Lin Dong led the Great Yan Dynasty group to Thunder Rock Valley, defeated two leaders from High-Level Dynasties, and entered the Stone Hall to search for treasures. He found the Heaven Talisman Spirit Tree in a Spiritual Medicine chamber and reached for it.

• Lin Dong refused to shelter Ling Zhi and Liu Yuan's group, then took the Great Yan Dynasty members toward Thunder Rock Valley.
• Hua Yun and Wu Mo tried to block Lin Dong's group at the valley entrance, but Lin Dong defeated them with the Great Desolation Sea Splitting Seal.
• Lin Dong and the others passed through the silver lightning net and entered the Stone Hall, where he sent Mo Ling and the others to search separately.
• Lin Dong followed the Heaven Talisman Spirit Tree's aura into a Spiritual Medicine chamber with Little Flame.
• Lin Dong found the withered Heaven Talisman Spirit Tree and reached out to grab it.

Lin Dong and Little Flame seized the Heaven Talisman Spirit Tree after Little Flame killed Li Pan, then learned the Demonic Rock Dynasty was pursuing another Ancient Key. They reached the main hall, where Lin Dong led his group toward the rival dynasties and confronted Chen Mu.

• Little Flame killed Li Pan, a Nirvana Stage expert of the Demonic Rock Dynasty, while Lin Dong claimed the Heaven Talisman Spirit Tree.
• Lin Dong devoured Li Pan’s remaining Mental Energy and learned that the Demonic Rock Dynasty was seeking Ancient Keys tied to the Four Mysterious Sect’s inheritance.
• Lin Dong decided to go to Demonic Rock City after securing the Ancient Key in the Stone Hall, intending to obtain another key for Little Flame.
• Lin Dong and his companions entered the main hall, where the Demonic Rock Dynasty, Profound Ice Dynasty, and Great Wu Dynasty were competing for the Ancient Key.
• Lin Dong led Little Flame and the others toward the center of the hall and addressed Chen Mu, the Demonic Rock Dynasty’s expedition leader.

Lin Dong confronted Chen Mu over the Demonic Rock Dynasty’s theft of the Heaven Talisman Spirit Tree and annihilated Chen Mu’s entire group. After joking that the accusation had been his mistake, he called Hua Yun and Wu Mo over, leaving them terrified of what he wanted.

• Lin Dong demanded compensation from Chen Mu for Li Pan’s theft of the Great Yan Dynasty’s Heaven Talisman Spirit Tree, and Chen Mu argued that the treasure had been ownerless.
• Lin Dong slapped Chen Mu twice, overpowering him even when he was prepared to fight back.
• Lin Dong trapped Chen Mu and more than a dozen Demonic Rock Dynasty experts in Mental Energy bubbles and crushed them all.
• Little Flame questioned Lin Dong about when Li Pan had stolen the Tree Pattern Talisman, and Lin Dong casually said it must have been his mistake.
• Lin Dong called the frightened Hua Yun and Wu Mo over from the Profound Ice Dynasty and Great Wu Dynasty.

Lin Dong cleared the main hall and entered the Ancient Key Space, while Mu Hongling failed to follow him through the closing portal. There, Lin Dong found the real Ancient Key and prepared to counter the ghostly presence attacking him.

• Lin Dong ordered Hua Yun and Wu Mo to drive the other Dynasties from the hall, then warned Little Flame that the obvious key was a trap and found the real key hidden in a northern-wall statue.
• Lin Dong used the key to open a Space Channel, told his companions to return to Yang City, and entered the Ancient Key Space alone.
• Mu Hongling tried to rush into the closing channel, but Lin Dong punched her back; Little Flame stopped the others from pursuing her and led them toward Yang City.
• Inside the Ancient Key Space, Lin Dong approached a skeleton holding the real Ancient Key, but a ghostly glow rushed toward his Niwan Palace.
• Lin Dong activated the Yin Demon Sect’s secret mental technique, Yin Demon Roar, to meet the attack.

Lin Dong defeated and devoured the primordial spirit possessing the Ancient Key Space, gaining three Divine Level Mental Secret Techniques and refining its power through the Fourth Wind Thunder Tribulation. Seven days later, he left the space and returned to Yang City, where Little Flame had kept the surrounding dynasties under control.

• Lin Dong used the Yin Demon Roar to drive back the gray presence and revealed his Three Seal Heaven Talisman Master cultivation.
• The presence offered the Ancient Key and begged to be spared, but Lin Dong used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol to consume it.
• Lin Dong learned that the dead outsider had been a Death Mysterious Stage expert and gained the Wind Thunder Palm, Great Heavenly Thunder Sound, and Divine Spear techniques from its memories.
• Little Marten gave Lin Dong the Ancient Key, and Lin Dong refined the remaining primordial spirit power as the Fourth Wind Thunder Tribulation arrived.
• Seven days later, Lin Dong left the Ancient Key Space and returned to Yang City, where Little Flame had suppressed the Great Origin Dynasty, Soaring Cloud Dynasty, and other dynasties.