Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin offered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King a chance to obtain a Form Transformation Pill in exchange for a deal involving the Purple Crystal Winged Lion Clan. He asked whether the outer shell of the Companion Purple Crystal Source mattered to the clan, and the Lion King said it was hard to digest and usually got spat out.

• Jiang Lin approached the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King while Yun Yun and Hai Bodong remained behind him, using their presence to deter her from attacking.
• Jiang Lin said he could find a Form Transformation Pill and explained that he wanted to trade for materials from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion Clan.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King grew more willing to consider the deal after hearing about the pill.
• Jiang Lin asked whether the outer shell of the Companion Purple Crystal Source was important to the clan.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King said the shell was difficult to digest and that the lions usually spat it out.

Jiang Lin revealed that he wanted the shell of the Companion Purple Crystal Source and proposed exchanging it for resources for the Purple Crystal Winged Lion Clan, including Form Transformation Pills. The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King recognized Jiang Lin as the one who had dug into her cave before and, despite her anger, listened to his offer.

• Jiang Lin explained that he needed the Source Crystal refined from the Companion Purple Crystal Source’s shell, not the shell’s fire-element energy.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King led Jiang Lin into her cave to discuss a transaction while Yun Yun and Hai Bodong stayed outside.
• At a tunnel fork, Jiang Lin revealed that he knew the cave’s layout, prompting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to ask if he had dug into it before.
• Jiang Lin said he represented the Jia Ma Empire and offered resources, including Form Transformation Pills, in exchange for the shells of Companion Purple Crystal Sources.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King was surprised that Jiang Lin wanted the shells rather than the Sources themselves, which she valued less than Purple Spirit Crystal.

Jiang Lin negotiated with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King for Companion Purple Crystal Source shells, explaining their use in making cultivation-supporting Crystal Cores. They agreed to cooperate, and she revealed her name as Zi Xin.

• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King asked why Jiang Lin wanted the Companion Purple Crystal Source shells and offered to sell him the source itself for enough payment.
• Jiang Lin explained that he extracted Source Crystal from the shells to forge Special Battle Weapons that assisted cultivation.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King realized Jiang Lin wanted a lasting supply and offered to contact other Purple Crystal Winged Lion clans if he provided a Form Transformation Pill and tangible proof of his sincerity.
• Jiang Lin promised Zi Xin a Form Transformation Pill as a gift and said he would trade resources with other clans for Companion Purple Crystal Source.
• Zi Xin and Jiang Lin agreed to cooperate, exchanged names, and ended their meeting on friendly terms.

Jiang Lin left the Purple Crystal Cave after securing fragments of Companion Purple Crystal Source and explained his alliance-building plans and Crystal Core technology to Yun Yun and Hai Bodong. He returned to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, where refining the fragments yielded barely enough Source Crystal to complete his Earth Element Crystal Core.

• Jiang Lin left the Monster Mountain Range with Yun Yun and Hai Bodong after promising the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King he would return.
• Jiang Lin explained that he wanted to unite Jia Ma Empire’s forces through mutual interests, and revealed that he had persuaded the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King with a material exchange.
• Jiang Lin told Yun Yun and Hai Bodong about Crystal Cores and offered to help make their paths from Dou Emperor to Dou Zong smoother if they found two suitable Sixth-Grade Magic Core Crystals each.
• Yun Yun and Hai Bodong agreed to search for Magic Core Crystals, while Jiang Lin returned to the Jia Ma Refining Guild to refine the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s scrap metal.
• Jiang Lin extracted barely one unit of Source Crystal from the fragments, enough to forge his final Earth Element Crystal Core.

Jiang Lin forged a Sixth-Grade Earth Element Crystal Core and realized he could fuse different Dou Qi attributes. After swallowing Earth and Gold Element Crystal Cores, he celebrated completing his Five Elements Spirit Body and declared his fate was his own.

• Jiang Lin put the Sixth-Grade Earth Magic Core and other materials into the Azure Profound Cauldron and began forging a Crystal Core.
• Jiang Lin sent Pei Xuan to deliver a soul jade slip to Fama, requesting help contacting Gu He.
• Jiang Lin considered how his four existing Dou Qi attributes transformed and realized he could fuse wind, lightning, and ice Dou Qi after completing the Five Elements.
• Jiang Lin finished forging a crystal-clear Earth Element Crystal Core and celebrated that he could finally cultivate properly at the Dou Ling stage.
• Jiang Lin swallowed the Earth Element Crystal Core, then swallowed a Gold Element Crystal Core and declared that his fate belonged to him, not Heaven.

Jiang Lin completed his Five Elements Dou Qi, triggering a profound transformation in both his body and soul as he unknowingly began the Nine Revolutions Path. After one hour of cultivation, he emerged with his soul and Dou Qi temporarily depleted, but his vitality and hidden reserves remained intact.

• Jiang Lin’s earth-element Crystal Core joined the other three spirit pearls around the Fire Spirit Colored Lotus, forming a Five Elements formation that set his Dou Qi and Forging Fire Art circulating automatically.
• Jiang Lin meditated as his soul and bloodline changed, with his blood developing a faint colored glow and a lotus-like phenomenon forming on his spirit platform.
• Jiang Lin unknowingly began the Nine Revolutions Path usually pursued by Nine-star Dou Zuns to return from acquired nature to innate nature.
• After one hour, Jiang Lin stopped cultivating and realized his soul and Dou Qi had each fallen to one percent, while his health remained full and his hidden Dou Qi reserves were still available.

Jiang Lin discovered that the Five Elements Dou Qi was transforming his body and preparing his soul for a future breakthrough to Dou Wang. After a week of cultivation, the Fire Spirit Colored Lotus began nurturing a new colorless Spirit Fire from his essence, qi, and spirit, leaving him to consider its potential to become a Heavenly Flame.

• Jiang Lin examined how Five Elements Dou Qi was spreading through his body and concluded that it would take until Dou Wang to form a Five Elements Spirit Body.
• Jiang Lin realized that his transforming body could support his long-stalled soul breakthrough into the Spirit Realm.
• Jiang Lin briefly raised a multicolored flame, then summoned the Azure Profound Cauldron and spent a week cultivating and forging artifacts.
• Jiang Lin discovered a tiny colorless flame nurtured by the Fire Spirit Colored Lotus and named it Spirit Fire.
• Jiang Lin considered that his Spirit Fire might one day become a Heavenly Flame.

Jiang Lin nurtured his Spirit Fire, expanded the Jia Ma Artifact Refining Guild’s Crystal Pill research, and prepared to build an Artifact Forging System to oppose the Spirit Clan’s Blood Sacrifice Grand Array. When Xiao Yan returned, Jiang Lin gave him a fifth-grade Dou Qi Arm for Xiao Zhan and directed him to Mo Lan for the fitting.

• Jiang Lin sensed that his Spirit Fire was still developing and estimated he could reach Dou Wang within two years.
• Jiang Lin forged pill furnaces and recorded advanced Crystal Pill and Spirit Stone techniques in the Lin Qi Jian Shi for the Jia Ma Artifact Refining Guild.
• Jiang Lin resolved to establish his own Artifact Forging System and train enough Artifact Forgers to prepare against the Spirit Clan’s Blood Sacrifice Grand Array.
• Pei Xuan brought the worn and haggard Xiao Yan to Jiang Lin’s forging room.
• Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan a fifth-grade Dou Qi Arm for Xiao Zhan and told him to have Mo Lan fit it.

Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan a fifth-grade Dou Artifact arm for Xiao Zhan and prepared to meet Gu He. On the way, he brushed past a gray-robed elder whose presence he had been unable to sense.

• Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan a fifth-grade Dou Artifact arm for Xiao Zhan, and Yao Chen remarked that it would make Xiao Zhan formidable below the Dou Emperor realm.
• Xiao Yan accepted the arm, thanked Jiang Lin, and went to find members of the Mo Clan in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital.
• Jiang Lin dressed in disguise and left the Jia Ma Artifact Refining Guild with Pei Xuan to meet Gu He.
• Jiang Lin accidentally brushed against a gray-robed, white-haired elder holding an ancient compass and apologized.
• After the elder vanished into the crowd, Jiang Lin realized he had not sensed the man's presence.

Jiang Lin sensed a mysterious expert in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital and sent Pei Xuan to the Misty Cloud Sect to bring back Yun Shan and the others. He met Gu He at the Alchemist Guild, where their conversation turned into a pointed exchange of barbs.

• Jiang Lin used his Spiritual Sense's Cognitive Protection to reason that a powerful stranger nearby had another objective, while worrying that more treasure hunters might arrive.
• Jiang Lin gave Pei Xuan a written request and told him to deliver it to the Misty Cloud Sect's leader, then return with Yun Shan and the others.
• Jiang Lin went alone to the Alchemist Guild and found Fa Ma, Gu He, and Gu He's disciple waiting in Fa Ma's office.
• Jiang Lin and Gu He recalled their past encounters and traded pointed remarks about the Tagor Desert, Battle Weapons, Exotic Flames, and relying on external things.
• Fa Ma complained that Jiang Lin and Gu He should discuss something serious.

Jiang Lin told Gu He about their hidden first meeting in the Tagor Desert and proposed that he could eventually help Gu He cultivate a Colorless Spirit Fire for alchemy. He then revealed that the Spirit Fire was only a prelude to the real subject: the scene of their first meeting.

• Gu He recalled how Jiang Lin’s Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler had twice blocked his attempts to reclaim the Green Lotus Core Flame, and asked how Jiang Lin had persuaded Yun Yun to help him and Xiao Yan.
• Jiang Lin explained that he and Xiao Yan had saved Yun Yun’s life in the Monster Mountain Range, and Gu He accepted the explanation without pressing for details.
• Jiang Lin asked Gu He to remember their first meeting, correcting him that the energy arrow incident had been their second encounter.
• Gu He realized Jiang Lin meant the green light that had shot into the sky while Gu He tracked an artifact forger in the desert, and Jiang Lin confirmed it.
• Jiang Lin described the Colorless Spirit Fire he was nurturing and suggested Gu He could use a similar flame for alchemy instead of pursuing a Heavenly Flame, but Gu He doubted him.
• Jiang Lin said the Spirit Fire was only to whet Gu He’s appetite and announced that he really wanted to discuss the scene of their first meeting, making Gu He clench his fists in frustration.

Jiang Lin offered Gu He a Crystal Core that could nearly double cultivation speed in exchange for Gu He’s Form Transformation Pill. He planned to use the pill to build ties with the Beast Race, but ended by wondering whether his unusual physique might let him consume it himself.

• Jiang Lin told Gu He that the green light in the sky had been a Crystal Core, a Dou Artifact that could nearly double cultivation speed.
• Gu He believed Jiang Lin and asked whether Crystal Cores explained his rapid cultivation; Jiang Lin confirmed they had helped him progress quickly.
• Jiang Lin explained that a Sixth-tier Magic Core could power a Crystal Core up to the Dou Zong realm and that its other materials were rare.
• Gu He asked what Jiang Lin wanted, and Jiang Lin requested Gu He’s Form Transformation Pill.
• Jiang Lin said he wanted the pill to establish ties with the Beast Race, then wondered whether his special physique might allow him to consume it himself.

Jiang Lin and Gu He agreed to trade a Form Transformation Pill for the materials and forging service needed to make Gu He a Sixth-tier Fire Element Crystal Core. They set out to meet Xiao Yan at the Mo Clan stronghold, while Jiang Lin also asked Gu He for extra Dou Wang Pills.

• Jiang Lin explained that Gu He's Form Transformation Pill was valuable but did not match the value of a Sixth-tier Crystal Core, and offered to forge Gu one if Gu found a Sixth-Order Fire Element Magic Core.
• Gu He accepted the trade and handed Jiang Lin the Form Transformation Pill, then asked to see a Crystal Core; Jiang Lin sent him to Xiao Yan instead.
• Gu He asked Jiang Lin to introduce him to the Xiao Family so Xiao Yan would not worry about him, and Jiang Lin agreed to visit the Mo Clan stronghold together after informing President Fa Ma.
• Jiang Lin asked Gu He for spare Dou Wang Pills, and Gu He gave him the two pills left over from refining medicine for Fatty Yuan.

Jiang Lin brought Gu He to the Mo Clan stronghold, where Xiao Yan invited him to inspect the Crystal Core. Meanwhile, Jiang Lin checked on the Mo Clan’s work installing a Dou Artifact arm for Xiao Zhan, leaving after the procedure went well.

• Jiang Lin gave Gu He a fifth-tier Fire Spirit Furnace and Spirit Shells to examine.
• Jiang Lin brought Gu He to the Mo Clan stronghold, where Xiao Yan and his family waited while Xiao Zhan underwent mechanization.
• Jiang Lin introduced Gu He to Xiao Yan and explained that Gu He wanted to see Xiao Yan’s Crystal Core.
• Xiao Yan led Gu He into a side room, while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li privately discussed sending Xiao Yan to Jia Nan Academy.
• Jiang Lin watched Mo Lan and the Mo Clan elders connect Xiao Zhan’s arm meridians, praised their work, and left as evening fell.

After Mo Lan’s operation, Jiang Lin gathered Xiao Yan, Gu He, and several powerful figures to travel to the Monster Mountain Range and complete his transaction with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. As they flew out of the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, a Gray Robe Elder watched them and wondered why his Ancient Compass showed no reaction.

• Jiang Lin reassured Xiao Ding and the others that Mo Lan’s operation had gone well, and Gu He agreed to follow Jiang Lin after seeing Xiao Yan’s cultivation and Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Jiang Lin set out to deliver the Form Transformation Pill to the Monster Mountain Range, and Xiao Yan and Gu He asked to accompany him.
• Jiang Lin discovered Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma had been following him; they joined Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and the others for the trip.
• Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing a fifth-order Fire Spirit Furnace, then led the group into the night toward the Monster Mountain Range.
• A Gray Robe Elder watched the seven streaks of light leave the city and questioned why the Ancient Compass in his hand showed no reaction.

The Gray Robe Elder learned that the coming tide would be weaker than previous ones and decided the situation still needed verification. As Jiang Lin’s group flew through the Monster Mountain Range, a mysterious figure appeared in their path, and Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and Yun Yun identified themselves cautiously.

• The Gray Robe Elder received a projection’s warning that the coming tide would be weaker than the previous tides and that time was running out.
• The Gray Robe Elder vanished into space, deciding that the situation still needed to be verified.
• Jiang Lin and his companions flew over the Monster Mountain Range, while he sensed powerful Beast Race experts watching them.
• Jiang Lin abruptly stopped the group after sensing a figure appear ten kilometers ahead without wings.
• Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and Yun Yun introduced themselves to the suspected Dou Zong and tried to avoid a conflict.

The Gray Robe Elder confronted Jia Xing Tian’s group and demanded Jiang Lin, revealing that he had recognized the boy despite Jiang Lin’s perfect Spiritual Sense shielding him. The others prepared to fight the likely Dou Zong, while Yao Chen silently lent Xiao Yan his power.

• The Gray Robe Elder explained that he had investigated the Jia Ma Empire and recognized Jiang Lin from an earlier encounter with Bai Tian.
• The Gray Robe Elder realized that Jiang Lin’s perfect Spiritual Sense concealed his bodily information so completely that even the elder could not perceive him.
• The Gray Robe Elder demanded that Jia Xing Tian’s group hand over Jiang Lin, and Jia Xing Tian and the others understood that the elder had targeted their “Crystal Hub.”
• Yun Yun drew her sword and vowed that the elder would have to kill her before taking Jiang Lin.
• Xiao Yan ignited his blue-white twin flames and transformed his weapon into the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon as Yao Chen silently supplied him with Soul Power.

Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, Yun Yun, Xiao Yan, and Hai Bodong stood against a Gray Robe Elder who came to seize Jiang Lin because of a dangerous rumor about him. When the elder attacked, Jiang Lin’s Colored Lotus Platform unleashed powerful Soul Fluctuations and helped him narrowly evade the elder’s grasp.

• Hai Bodong joined Yun Yun and Xiao Yan in defending Jiang Lin, and Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma stepped forward to oppose the Gray Robe Elder.
• Jia Xing Tian said he could not let the elder take Jia Ma’s most outstanding Artifact Forger, while Fa Ma warned that the elder would have to face both guilds.
• The Gray Robe Elder explained that he had come to investigate whether Jiang Lin matched a rumor that threatened his force’s plan to imitate the Xiao Clan’s experimental data.
• The Gray Robe Elder named Ghost as his target and pierced through space to reach for Jiang Lin’s head.
• Jiang Lin’s Colored Lotus Platform erupted with Soul Fluctuations, shattered the space around him, and propelled him past the elder’s withered hand.
• The Gray Robe Elder was surprised by Jiang Lin’s Soul Strength and could not track his movement through the spatial fluctuations.

The Gray Robe Elder attacked Jiang Lin and used his essence blood on the Ancient Compass, discovering that Jiang Lin possessed the Spirit Clan’s Divine Emperor Blood. As the Elder reeled from the revelation, Jiang Lin let go of Hu Lei and fell into the forest, believing the Elder could not sense him.

• The Gray Robe Elder struck Jiang Lin, caught Yun Shan’s attack, and knocked Yun Shan back while refining Jiang Lin’s blood into essence blood.
• Hu Lei caught the injured Jiang Lin as Yun Shan arrived and confronted the Gray Robe Elder, revealing that he had become a Dou Zong.
• The Gray Robe Elder placed Jiang Lin’s essence blood on the Ancient Compass, and all nine rings turned, identifying Jiang Lin as a descendant of the Spirit Clan with Divine Emperor Blood.
• The Gray Robe Elder realized that the Spirit Locking Array and the clan’s long-running plan had failed because of Jiang Lin’s bloodline.
• Jiang Lin told Hu Lei that the Elder could not sense him, released Hu Lei’s hand, and fell into the forest.

The Gray Robe Elder used Jiang Lin’s essence blood and the Luo Tian Spirit Locking Plate to summon the Spirit Realm and confirm Jiang Lin’s identity. He ended by declaring Jiang Lin’s fate irreversible as an invisible ripple entered the portal-like space.

• The Gray Robe Elder activated the Luo Tian Spirit Locking Plate with Jiang Lin’s essence blood, creating a pillar of light and a vast spatial array in the night sky.
• Jiang Lin noticed the light as he fled, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen sensed that an overwhelming presence was crossing into their world.
• Yao Chen explained that the Gray Robe Elder was using the blood and artifact to summon the Spirit Realm and test Jiang Lin’s identity.
• The Gray Robe Elder stopped short of opening the Spirit Realm’s gates and confirmed that Jiang Lin was the Spirit Clan’s Holy Son.
• The Gray Robe Elder called Jiang Lin’s fate irreversible and sent an invisible ripple into the liquid-like space at the array’s center.