Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong compared his progress with Lin Yun, then Little Marten discovered Little Purple’s unusual bloodline and taught her a technique. Lin Yun sparred with Lin Dong and praised him into teaching the Mystic Gate Seal, which Lin Yun quickly mastered.

• Lin Dong felt discouraged that Lin Yun and his pet beasts had advanced so quickly, but reminded himself that his goal was to avenge his father against Lin Langtian.
• Little Marten examined Lin Yun’s pet beasts, recognized their positive bloodline mutations, and taught Little Purple a technique by placing a purple rune on her forehead.
• Lin Yun watched Little Marten’s interest in Little Purple and imagined the two beginning a romance.
• Lin Dong challenged Lin Yun to spar using the Mystic Gate Seal, and Lin Yun secretly set a task that rewarded him for the match.
• Lin Dong’s Quadruple Consecutive Strike struck Lin Yun’s Pure Origin Qi, and Lin Yun pretended to be astonished by the seal’s power.
• Lin Yun praised Lin Dong into teaching him the third and fourth layers, then formed a brilliant Light Seal with fluent movements.

Lin Yun taught Lin Dong the Heavenly Swirl Symbol Seal, then visited the Ten Thousand Gold Commerce Guild to negotiate a deal for his Yang Yuan Pills. Xuan Su agreed to have the Guild supply Yang Yuan Stones for Lin Yun to refine, leaving their partnership poised to grow.

• Lin Yun revealed that he had evolved the Ancient Swirl Symbol Seal into the far more powerful Heavenly Swirl Symbol Seal and taught it to Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong learned the Heavenly Swirl Symbol Seal after Lin Yun explained it three times, completing Lin Yun's mission and earning him rewards.
• Lin Yun went to the Ten Thousand Gold Commerce Guild, where Xuan Su eagerly welcomed him and Xia Zhilan asked after Lin Dong.
• Xuan Su sampled Lin Yun's Yang Yuan Pills and praised their purity and strength after refining one.
• Lin Yun told Xuan Su he could refine around a thousand Yang Yuan Pills per day, and they agreed that the Guild would supply Yang Yuan Stones and pay him ten Stones per pill.

Lin Yun took on the Ten Thousand Gold Commerce Guild’s Yang Yuan Stone refining job and used his strength, rare pills, and flirtation to try to win over Xuan Su. He left with the stones while Xuan Su found herself thinking about him for the rest of the day.

• Lin Yun used the system to create a mission to capture Xuan Su's heart, with a Profound Spirit Treasure Armor as the reward.
• Xuan Su returned with the Guild Master's approval and entrusted Lin Yun with 200,000 Yang Yuan Stones, asking him to return 20,000 Yang Yuan Pills.
• Lin Yun released his Origin Power Pressure to demonstrate his strength, overwhelming Xuan Su until he withdrew it.
• Lin Yun gave Xuan Su Sixth Grade Pills, and their teasing turned flirtatious before he pulled back and left with the Cosmos Sack.
• After Lin Yun left, Xuan Su smiled to herself and spent the rest of the day thinking about him.

Lin Yun learned that the Ghost Blade Sect had robbed the Lin Family’s caravan and injured Lin Zhentian, so he challenged the sect to a life-and-death battle in Yancheng’s city square. With the Ghost Blade Sect and Blood Wolf Gang arriving together, Lin Yun faced Ghost Yama and demanded they fight.

• Lin Yun refined Yang Yuan Pills, fed his pet beasts, and spent five days cultivating Mystic Gate Seal until he completed the task and gained Intermediate Seal Technique Talent.
• Qing Tan came to Lin Yun for help as her cold grew worse and worried about her future, but Lin Dong interrupted them with news that the Lin Family caravan had been robbed and Lin Zhentian injured.
• Lin Yun treated the wounded with Pills and learned that the Ghost Blade Sect was responsible for the attack, likely acting under the Blood Wolf Gang’s orders.
• Lin Yun challenged the Ghost Blade Sect to a life-and-death battle in the city square, and Lin Zhentian agreed as the news spread through Yancheng.
• The Lin Family and its supporters gathered at the city square as the Ghost Blade Sect arrived alongside the Blood Wolf Gang, and Lin Yun taunted Ghost Yama to begin the fight.

Lin Yun fought Ghost Yama in the city square, revealing golden Pure Origin Qi and overwhelming his opponent. As Ghost Yama fell, Yue Shan charged onto the battle stage to stop Lin Yun.

• Lin Yun created a mission to kill Ghost Yama after Ghost Yama accepted his challenge.
• Ghost Yama attacked with his blade while Lin Yun fought back with the Mystic Dark Sword and Shattering Yuan Mystic Needles.
• Lin Yun avoided Ghost Yama’s attacks from the air, then blocked his powerful strike with golden Pure Origin Qi.
• Lin Yun unleashed the Transformation God Profound Wave Needle, piercing Ghost Yama’s defenses and leaving him screaming in pain.
• Yue Shan charged toward the battle stage and ordered Lin Yun to stop as Lin Yun prepared to kill Ghost Yama.

Lin Yun killed Ghost Yama while resisting Yue Shan’s attack, then accepted Yue Shan’s challenge despite warnings from Yan Xuan and Xia Wanjin. The arrival of Han Zong and Han Sheng bolstered Yue Shan’s side, and Lin Yun created missions to kill them.

• Yue Shan attacked Lin Yun from behind, but Lin Yun blocked his punch with the Blood Soul Spear while using the Shattering Yuan Mystic Needles to kill Ghost Yama.
• Yan Xuan and Xia Wanjin confronted Yue Shan and defended Lin Yun, but Lin Yun said he would face Yue Shan himself.
• Yue Shan called on Han Zong and Han Sheng, leaders of Black Python Mountain, to support him on the Battle Stage.
• Lin Yun welcomed the brothers’ arrival and created missions to kill Han Zong and Han Sheng for Grade Seven Guiyuan Pills.

Lin Yun fought Yue Shan while Xia Wanjin and Yan Xuan kept Black Python Mountain’s leaders at bay. After crippling Yue Shan and taking Han Zong’s Spirit Treasure, Lin Yun killed Yue Shan, leaving Yancheng poised for a major change.

• Xia Wanjin and Yan Xuan withdrew from the Battle Stage, with Xia Wanjin confronting Han Zong and Han Sheng while Yan Xuan warned Lin Yun to be careful.
• Lin Yun broke Yue Shan’s black spear with the Blood Soul Spear, then used the Mystic Gate Seal to cripple Yue Shan and blast him away.
• Han Zong’s Moyun Blade destroyed Lin Yun’s Shattering Yuan Mystic Needles, but Lin Yun seized it with his Mental Energy.
• Yan Xuan and Xia Wanjin held off Han Zong and Han Sheng as Lin Yun flew after Yue Shan and used the Moyun Blade to kill the Blood Wolf Gang members around him.
• Lin Yun killed the wounded Yue Shan with the Moyun Blade, shocking the crowd and drawing attention to the coming changes in Yancheng.

Lin Yun killed Yue Shan and the other Blood Wolf Gang leaders, then broke through to Great Perfection of Core Formation Realm as the Lin Family took control of Yancheng. After dividing the captured treasures with the Ten Thousand Gold Commerce Guild, he heard that the Talisman Master Association Tower Duel was approaching and was invited to join an auction.

• Lin Yun and Xia Wanjin defeated the Blood Wolf Gang, while Lin Dong led the others to clear out Black Python Mountain.
• The City Lord named the Lin Family as the Blood Wolf Gang's successor in Yancheng, and Lin Yun returned home to claim his reward.
• Lin Yun cultivated with Guiyuan Pills and broke through to Great Perfection of Core Formation Realm five days later.
• Lin Yun selected treasures from the defeated factions and agreed to give the Ten Thousand Gold Commerce Guild forty percent of the Yang Yuan Pills refined from their Yang Yuan Stones.
• Xuan Su invited Lin Yun to an auction planned around the upcoming Talisman Master Association Tower Duel.

Lin Yun prepared for Yancheng’s decisive Tower Battle against Sky Fire City while refining pills and learning two martial arts. He delivered pills to Xuan Su, flirted with her, and received confirmation that he had won her heart, then left without pursuing her further.

• Lin Yun learned that Yancheng would lose its Symbol Master Tower if Sky Fire City defeated it for a third consecutive year, and he agreed to supply pills for Xuan Su’s auction.
• Lin Yun had Chi Ling refine pills while he practiced Mountain Fist and Multiple Shadow Spear.
• Lin Yun delivered over twenty thousand Yang Yuan Pills and 160 auction pills to Xuan Su, along with Beauty Pills he had made for her.
• Lin Yun teased Xuan Su, then slapped her butt before leaving her room; Xuan Su reacted with flustered excitement.
• Lin Yun received the completed mission to win Xuan Su’s heart and earned Charm +5 and a Profound Spirit Treasure Armor, but chose not to return to her room.

Lin Yun increased his charm, created a mission to win Zi Yue’s heart, and joined Lin Dong and Zi Yue for Yan Xuan’s Tower Battle briefing. After Yan Xuan taught them the Three Talents Sword Formation, Lin Yun offered to explain it to Zi Yue privately.

• Lin Yun claimed his Profound Spirit Treasure Armor reward, then created a mission to win Zi Yue’s heart for a charm increase and the Seven Absolute Flying Swords.
• Lin Yun and Lin Dong met Yan Xuan with Zi Yue, who explained the Tower Battle’s tower-climbing rules and urged Lin Yun to aim for the Seventh or Eighth Floor.
• Yan Xuan taught Lin Yun, Lin Dong, and Zi Yue the Qi Grade Mental Secret Technique called the Three Talents Sword Formation.
• Lin Yun and Lin Dong quickly understood the formation, while Zi Yue struggled to follow it.
• Lin Yun offered to explain the formation to Zi Yue in her room, and she agreed to wait for him.

Lin Yun quickly mastered the Human Sword Formation and taught it to Zi Yue, while Lin Dong struggled to teach Yan Xuan the Heavenly Swirl Symbol Seal. After the three disciples practiced the formation together, Lin Xia arrived and asked them to help confront Symbol Masters from Sky Fire City who had injured Yancheng’s fighters and challenged the local association.

• Lin Yun sent Lin Dong to teach Yan Xuan the Heavenly Swirl Symbol Seal while he took Zi Yue to her bamboo hut.
• Lin Yun reached perfect understanding of the Human Sword Formation and taught it to Zi Yue through the night.
• Lin Dong spent the night explaining the Heavenly Swirl Symbol Seal to Yan Xuan, who still could not fully understand it.
• Lin Yun, Lin Dong, and Zi Yue practiced the Three Talents Sword Formation with Shattering Yuan Mystic Needles, shocking Yan Xuan with how quickly they learned it.
• Lin Xia reported that Symbol Masters from Sky Fire City had injured Yancheng fighters, challenged the association, and broken her sword; Yan Xuan repaired it and sent Lin Yun and the others to confront them.

Lin Yun and his companions prepared for Yancheng’s Tower Battle after Lin Dong defeated Cao Zhu and took his Ice Profound Swords. The Symbol Master Tower opened, and Lin Yun set several missions for the competition as the participants entered.

• Lin Dong defeated Cao Zhu by absorbing the Mental Energy in his Ice Profound Swords, then took the swords as compensation for Cao Zhu damaging his senior sister’s weapon.
• Lin Yun trained with Zi Yue for several days and taught her the Three Talents Sword Formation, but he still did not receive a system prompt that he had won her heart.
• Liu Long asked Lin Dong to return Cao Zhu’s swords, and Lin Yun insulted Liu Long when the system would not create a mission to defeat him.
• Yan Xuan and the other leaders opened the Symbol Master Tower, whose powerful Mental Energy pressure forced some weaker symbol masters to retreat.
• After Yan Xuan announced the Tower Battle, Lin Yun created missions to surpass Zhou Tong, reach the tower’s seventh, eighth, and ninth floors, and take first place.

Lin Yun entered the Symbol Master Tower, climbed through its floors while defeating Sky Fire City Symbol Masters and taking Liu Long and Cao Zhu’s Cosmos Sacks, then broke through to the Eighth Floor. Zhou Tong watched in disbelief as Lin Yun surpassed the limit he had thought possible.

• Lin Yun and Lin Dong absorbed Mental Energy as they climbed the tower, and Lin Yun knocked out the Sky Fire City Symbol Masters fighting on the Fourth Floor.
• On the Fifth Floor, Lin Yun threatened Liu Long and Cao Zhu with Transformation God Needles, took their Cosmos Sacks, and continued upward with Lin Dong and Zi Yue.
• Zi Yue reached her limit on the Sixth Floor and stayed to cultivate while Lin Yun and Lin Dong broke through to the Seventh Floor, completing Lin Yun’s task.
• Zhou Tong expressed surprise that Lin Yun and Lin Dong had reached the Seventh Floor and doubted they could enter the Eighth.
• Lin Yun used his three Heavenly Swirl Symbol Seals to absorb the Seventh Floor’s spiritual pressure and charged through the Eighth Floor barrier, stunning Zhou Tong.

Lin Yun and Lin Dong reached the Symbol Master Tower’s Eighth Floor, where they learned the Transformation Symbol Array and began cultivating. After Zi Yue broke through to Three Seal Symbol Master and reached the Seventh Floor, she repeatedly attacked the barrier and finally entered the Eighth Floor, leaving Zhou Tong stunned.

• Lin Dong followed Lin Yun through the barrier to the Eighth Floor, while Zhou Tong failed and was blasted back on the Seventh Floor.
• Lin Yun and Lin Dong found the Transformation Symbol Array inheritance on a stone tablet, and Lin Yun memorized it before helping Lin Dong study it.
• Lin Yun planned to give Zi Yue the inheritance, gaining a mission reward that included the Five Elements Destruction Symbol Array, then began cultivating toward Four Seal Symbol Master.
• After seven days, Zi Yue broke through to Three Seal Symbol Master, replaced her Life Talisman Seals with Ancient Swirl Symbol Seals, and reached the Seventh Floor.
• Zi Yue repeatedly attacked the Eighth Floor barrier and eventually broke through, while Zhou Tong watched in disbelief.

Lin Yun gave Zi Yue the Transformation Symbol Array inheritance on the Eighth Floor, where she and Lin Dong cultivated as he advanced to Four Seal Symbol Master. Zi Yue later left the tower, while Lin Dong continued absorbing Mental Energy and nearing his breakthrough.

• Lin Yun gave Zi Yue the Transformation Symbol Array inheritance, and she received it gratefully as he completed missions for winning her over and sharing the technique.
• Lin Yun cultivated on the Eighth Floor as the Heavenly Symbol vortexes in his Niwan Palace absorbed Mental Energy and prepared him to break through.
• On the ninth day, Zhou Tong left the Seventh Floor, and Han Yun realized that all three cultivators on the Eighth Floor were from Yancheng.
• Five days later, Zi Yue left the Eighth Floor, and a surge of Mental Energy revealed that Lin Yun had broken through to Four Seal Symbol Master.
• Lin Yun began cultivating the Transformation Symbol Array while Lin Dong continued absorbing Mental Energy and neared a breakthrough.

Lin Yun and Lin Dong broke through to the Ninth Floor of the Symbol Master Tower and discovered maps revealing the locations of two Ancestral Symbols. After returning home, Lin Yun claimed a haul of cultivation rewards and prepared to train in his new abilities.

• Lin Dong broke through, and Lin Yun led him through the Ninth Floor’s barrier into a room containing two ancient runes.
• Little Marten explained that the runes were copied from Ancestral Symbols, and Lin Yun used his Innate Heavenly Talisman to reveal maps to their locations.
• Lin Yun and Lin Dong learned that one map pointed to a place in the Great Yan Dynasty while the other led beyond it, and Little Marten warned them that seeking the symbols would be dangerous.
• Lin Yun and Lin Dong left the tower, where Yan Xuan welcomed them with a gratified smile.
• Lin Yun claimed rewards including pills, talents, a secret technique, Seven Absolute Flying Swords, and the Devouring and Thunder Talisman Seal Formation Methods.

After the Tower Battle, Lin Yun received Yang Yuan Stones and Spirit Herbs from Xuan Su, then rebuked Lin Dong for frequently visiting Xia Zhilan and sparred with him before teaching him the Transformation Symbol Array. Lin Dong went into seclusion while Lin Yun checked his improved status and assigned himself new cultivation tasks.

• Xuan Su gave Lin Yun the Yang Yuan Stones from his Pills and the collected grade-four and above Spirit Herbs, and Lin Yun flirted with her while discussing her future as his assistant.
• Lin Yun questioned Lin Dong about his visits to the Ten Thousand Gold Commerce Guild and warned him not to neglect cultivation for Xia Zhilan.
• Lin Yun challenged Lin Dong to a spar, defeated him, and then taught him the Transformation Symbol Array.
• Lin Yun checked his system panel and saw improvements to his Charm, Luck, Fortune, and Comprehension.
• Lin Dong went into seclusion, and Lin Yun created tasks to train his martial arts and techniques.

After reaching a bottleneck near the Shapeshifting Realm, Lin Yun visited Zi Yue and asked her father, City Lord Shi, to spar with him for guidance. City Lord Shi agreed and began attacking Lin Yun at the training ground.

• Lin Yun completed his training in Multiple Shadow Spear and Mountain Fist and reached the peak of Great Perfection of Core Formation Realm.
• Lin Yun visited Zi Yue, answered her questions about the Transformation Symbol Array and Three Talents Sword Formation, and gave her two swords for practice.
• Lin Yun asked Zi Yue where City Lord Shi was so he could seek guidance about breaking through to the Shapeshifting Realm.
• Zi Yue brought Lin Yun to City Lord Shi, who agreed to spar with him and led them to the training ground.
• City Lord Shi claimed he would give Lin Yun the pressure needed for insight and immediately threw a punch.

Lin Yun sparred with City Lord Shi, hoping to test himself against a Shapeshifting Realm expert and earn a task reward, but his strength repeatedly put City Lord Shi on the defensive. City Lord Shi prepared to unleash his ultimate move, and the two moved into the air to avoid damaging the ground.

• Lin Yun created a task to spar with City Lord Shi, with a bottle of eighth-grade Gathering Origin Pills as the reward.
• City Lord Shi and Lin Yun exchanged blows with their Spirit Treasures, but Lin Yun’s spear techniques and Mystic Gate Seal pushed City Lord Shi back.
• City Lord Shi used the true strength of his Shapeshifting Realm and unleashed his Great Jade Sword, while Lin Yun countered with the Three Talents Sword Formation.
• Lin Yun urged City Lord Shi to stop holding back, and Zi Yue also told her father to get serious.
• City Lord Shi announced he would use his ultimate move and asked Lin Yun to fight in the air.

Lin Yun fought City Lord Shi and proved he could rival the City Lord, then asked to learn the Shi Family’s Seventh Grade Jade Shattering Swordplay. City Lord Shi agreed on the condition that Lin Yun marry Zi Yue, and Lin Yun accepted as Shi began teaching him.

• City Lord Shi unleashed his Superior-level sword technique, and Lin Yun countered it with his Double Heavenly Sword Formation.
• Lin Yun and City Lord Shi ended their exchange, while Xia Wanjin, Yan Xuan, and other experts were shocked by Lin Yun’s strength.
• Lin Yun thanked City Lord Shi and asked to learn the Jade Shattering Swordplay.
• City Lord Shi offered to teach Lin Yun if he agreed to marry Zi Yue, and Lin Yun accepted.
• Zi Yue bashfully agreed to her father’s arrangement, and City Lord Shi began teaching Lin Yun the swordplay.