Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Yi Xian survived nine bolts of heavenly lightning with Jiang Lin refining and sharing their power, the two confessed their feelings and kissed. They returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Jiang Lin demonstrated his new spatial ability, and Xiao Yi Xian activated her completed Life Artifact, Twilight Moon's Final Umbrella.

• Jiang Lin absorbed and refined nine bolts of heavenly lightning, sharing their power with Xiao Yi Xian and helping her advance toward Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yi Xian questioned Jiang Lin about his lightning-forging service, then kissed him and confessed her affection as they floated beneath the clearing sky.
• Jiang Lin covered Xiao Yi Xian with his robe and used a Spatial Secret Technique to carry her back to the Heavenly Incineration Artifact Forging Chamber.
• Xiao Yan and the others reacted to Jiang Lin's return with Xiao Yi Xian, while Gu Xun'er recognized how differently he treated her.
• Jiang Lin returned Xiao Yi Xian's Storage Ring and asked her to test her Life Artifact, and she unfolded Twilight Moon's Final Umbrella.

Jiang Lin broke through to the Dou Emperor realm and entered the forming Heavenly Dao Lightning to study its source, confronting the nine-layered lightning tower head-on. As he endured its pressure, he reflected on the world’s apparent self-correction and his ties to Xiao Yan before challenging the lightning to show its full power.

• Jiang Lin’s Dou Emperor breakthrough triggered a lightning tribulation that drew the attention of Jia Nan Academy’s students.
• Jiang Lin flew into the thunderclouds and faced a nine-layered Heavenly Dao lightning tower with a vertical lightning eye.
• Jiang Lin used his Spiritual Eye to examine the lightning’s formation and wondered whether the tower was an effect of expanding space and a trace of the Ancient Era.
• Jiang Lin considered the world’s self-correction, Xiao Yan’s role as a likely protagonist, and the need to remain connected to the world.
• Jiang Lin stepped forward through the lightning, raised his Thunder-Attracting Stance, and asked whether that was all the tribulation could do.

Jiang Lin endured a black lightning tribulation that strengthened his cultivation and led him to theorize that Heavenly Dao artifact refinement could produce Primordial Qi by consuming the world’s foundations. When he touched the tribulation’s thunder eye, it turned out to be the Thunder Clan’s Demon Thunder Pearl, alerting Clan Leader Lei Ying to an impossible intruder.

• Jiang Lin climbed through nine bolts of black lightning, refining them to stabilize his cultivation and strengthen his body, soul, and dou qi.
• Jiang Lin considered whether Dao Patterns formed from Primordial Qi and whether creating Spiritual Artifacts consumed the world’s ultimate yin spiritual qi.
• Jiang Lin reached the vertical thunder eye and grabbed it, but the Demon Thunder Pearl blasted his hand away and vanished.
• Lei Jie and Lei Lie saw black lightning over Jia Nan Academy, and Lei Jie speculated that the Thunder Realm’s proximity had stirred its Demon Thunder Pool.
• Lei Ying sensed that someone had touched the Demon Thunder Pearl, summoned it from the Blackwater Thunder Pool, and questioned how anyone could have reached it.

Lei Ying decided to accelerate Lei Dong’s marriage alliance with Gu Xun’er after the Demon Thunder Pearl was mysteriously drawn toward an outside force. At Jia Nan Academy, Jiang Lin warned Xiao Yan that his Tuoshe Ancient Jade put him in danger from the Soul Clan, then suggested he might steal the Gu Clan’s jade instead.

• Lei Ying dismissed the Thunder Clan elders and resolved to take Lei Dong to the Gu Clan to advance his marriage alliance with Gu Xun’er.
• Jiang Lin assessed Xiao Yan’s rapid progress to Five-star Dou Wang and asked whether he possessed a piece of jade.
• Hun Ke’er appeared, and Jiang Lin explained that the Soul Clan was hunting the Xiao Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade and might kill Xiao Yan to obtain it.
• Xiao Yan asked Jiang Lin what he should do, and Jiang Lin advised him to prove his value and consider what mattered more to the Soul Clan: the jade or his life.
• Jiang Lin proposed that Xiao Yan might visit the Gu Clan and steal its Tuoshe Ancient Jade, suggesting Hun Ke’er could help him ask Gu Xun’er about a possible mission.

Jiang Lin devised a plan to keep Xiao Yan’s Tuoshe Ancient Jade while sending him to gain the Gu Clan’s trust as a possible spy for the Soul Clan. After Hun Ke’er left, Jiang Lin took Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Flames and drew Cai Lin out of his body before departing on a long journey.

• Jiang Lin explained that Xiao Yan could keep his jade and later attempt to steal the Gu Clan’s jade, giving the Soul Clan a plausible reason to spare the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan questioned the plan and his danger, while Jiang Lin said Hun Ke’er would introduce him to a Soul Clan Saint and Gu Xun’er could bring him to the Gu Clan’s attention.
• Hun Ke’er said the Soul Clan would pressure the Gu Clan, and Xiao Yan agreed to follow the plan and thanked Jiang Lin and Hun Ke’er.
• Xiao Yan reflected that strength mattered more than rules or old grudges, recalling how Jiang Lin accepted a limited share of Soul Tax because he lacked the power to demand more.
• After Hun Ke’er left, Jiang Lin took Xiao Yan to the lowest level of the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and pulled Cai Lin out of Xiao Yan’s body, saying he was going on a long journey.

Jiang Lin took Xiao Yan into the magma beneath the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower to find the Fallen Heart Flame, while explaining his new Eight Desolations Hegemony Body and preparing for the journey ahead. They quickly reached the flame, but Jiang Lin sensed that its aura differed from the child flames in the tower, leaving its true nature uncertain.

• Jiang Lin demonstrated the Eight Desolations Hegemony Body to Cai Lin, describing how it had rebounded Zi Yan's attacks and made her retreat in tears.
• Xiao Yan asked Jiang Lin to let Cai Lin accompany them, and Jiang Lin returned the snake to him after considering it.
• Jiang Lin opened the platform beneath the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and warned Xiao Yan that the magma below concealed energy he had previously avoided investigating.
• Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan entered the magma world and quickly found the Fallen Heart Flame beneath the tower.
• Jiang Lin explained how the tower could draw the mature flame into the area, then fell silent when he sensed its aura differed from the child flames.

Jiang Lin discovered evidence of a second Fallen Heart Flame beneath the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and sent Xiao Yan and Yao Chen to subdue the larger flame while he searched for the smaller one. He and Pei Xuan found a small fireball in a cavern, where Pei Xuan emerged and called it food.

• Jiang Lin explained that the Fallen Heart Flame Childfire’s fluctuations suggested two Fallen Heart Flames existed in the lava world, with one likely born after the tower was built.
• Jiang Lin left Xiao Yan and Yao Chen to handle the larger Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan began preparing to subdue it with Yao Chen standing guard.
• Yao Chen recalled that he had postponed giving Xiao Yan Bone Spirit Cold Fire because Pei Xuan wanted it for research into the Ghost Great Dao.
• Jiang Lin followed traces of the smaller Fallen Heart Flame through the lava world while Pei Xuan wondered whether the region could produce two flames of the same origin.
• Jiang Lin reached a cavern and found a small fireball burning on a lava stone wall, where Pei Xuan emerged and said he smelled food.

Jiang Lin captured a tiny Fallen Heart Flame and discovered that the soul inside belonged to Yao Tianhuo, the Heavenly Fire Venerate. Yao Tianhuo explained that he had tried to use the flame to improve his sealing technique, and Jiang Lin left him alive after hearing his story.

• Jiang Lin spotted a tiny Fallen Heart Flame and seized its seed with Divine Essence Spirit Fire.
• Jiang Lin restored the seed with a Soul Pill, awakening Yao Tianhuo, who pleaded to be spared.
• Yao Tianhuo recognized Jiang Lin as a Transcendental Artifact Forger and revealed that he belonged to the Heavenly Craftsmen Pavilion.
• Yao Tianhuo explained that he had stolen Jia Nan Academy's Fallen Heart Flame to strengthen the Heavenly Capital Fire Seal, but a failed fusion left him gravely injured and trapped in the smaller flame.
• Jiang Lin learned that Yao Tianhuo had created the seal to suppress the Calamity Poison Body and treated him with respect as a fellow Artifact Forger.

Jiang Lin rescued Yao Tianhuo from the underground magma world and brought him back to Jia Nan Academy, leaving the smaller Fallen Heart Flame behind as a seed for the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower. There, Hun Ke'er revealed that Yao Tianhuo had been missing for generations and told him what became of the Poison Venerable.

• Jiang Lin placed Yao Tianhuo's weakened soul in a Soul Gathering Bead and decided to keep the smaller Fallen Heart Flame in the magma world.
• Jiang Lin showed Yao Tianhuo his Divine Essence Spirit Fire and planned to have him help develop the Nine-One Qi Gathering Array.
• Jiang Lin freed the small Fallen Heart Flame, warned Yao Chen about it and the magma world's native lifeforms, then left Xiao Yan to continue absorbing the other Fallen Heart Flame.
• Hun Ke'er emerged from Jiang Lin's shadow and recognized Yao Tianhuo as the Skyfire Venerable.
• Hun Ke'er told Yao Tianhuo that the Poison Venerable had survived for a hundred years after his disappearance, reached Dou Zun, and eventually died from the Calamity Poison Body's backlash.

Jiang Lin learned how Yao Tianhuo’s research shaped later cultivation methods for the Calamity Poison Body and arranged for him to guide Xiao Yi Xian. He then left Jia Nan Academy with Hun Ke'er, while Yao Tianhuo began examining Xiao Yi Xian’s strange Life Artifact.

• Hun Ke'er explained that Yao Tianhuo’s research and experimental data inspired the Poison Pill Method and the Heavenly Craftsmen Pavilion’s Acquired Calamity Poison Body path.
• Jiang Lin considered whether innate Calamity Poison Bodies inherited power from an Imperial Mark and told Yao Tianhuo that Xiao Yi Xian was the only currently awakened bearer.
• Yao Tianhuo asked to meet Xiao Yi Xian, and Jiang Lin agreed that he could guide and protect her.
• Jiang Lin brought Yao Tianhuo to Xiao Yi Xian, left him study materials and most of his artifact-refining techniques, then departed Jia Nan Academy with Hun Ke'er.
• Zi Yan tried to accompany Jiang Lin, but he said she flew too slowly, upsetting her, while Yao Tianhuo stared in confusion at Xiao Yi Xian’s Moonlit Finale Umbrella.

Jiang Lin set out alone to seek the Nine-Touring Fuyao Wind, using his perfected Twelve Feather Sheath Wings to fly beyond the Dou Qi Continent and into the void. Guided by a Nine-Touring Feather, he continued deeper into the wind field as Pei Xuan explained that the Exotic Wind’s sole power was to provide zero resistance and a permanent wind field.

• Hun Ke'er warned Jiang Lin about the dangers of going beyond Void Heaven and gave him the Nether God Jade Pendant as a way to return or call for help.
• Jiang Lin departed using his Grandmaster-level Twelve Feather Sheath Wings, astonishing Hun Ke'er with his speed.
• Pei Xuan explained how Jiang Lin’s wings used near-zero resistance and controlled energy pressure to accelerate through the wind field.
• Jiang Lin flew beyond the Dou Qi Continent and used a Nine-Touring Feather to correct his course through the distorted void.
• Pei Xuan told Jiang Lin that the Nine-Touring Fuyao Wind provided zero resistance and a permanent wind field.

Jiang Lin entered the Fuyao Wind Domain and learned how its rising currents could let him build tremendous speed while flying through the void. As Pei Xuan’s memories surfaced, he revealed possible links to the Nine-Touring Roc and ended with the claim that their world had been too small to let the Nine-Touring Great Emperor fly.

• Jiang Lin accelerated through the void until he entered the Fuyao Wind Domain, where Pei Xuan explained its flight conditions and dangers.
• Pei Xuan described the Nine-Touring Roc’s legendary speed and Annihilation Storm, then recalled that the race had been wiped out for more than one rumored reason.
• Jiang Lin questioned Pei Xuan about his connection to the Nine-Touring Roc, and Pei Xuan admitted that helping Jiang Lin also helped restore his memories.
• Pei Xuan revealed that the Earth Nether Python and Heaven Swallowing Python shared the Nine Nether Great Emperor as an ancestor and were driven by their bloodlines to merge.
• Pei Xuan recounted a legend that enemies from beyond the heavens destroyed the Nine-Touring Roc, but said his memories contradicted it and that the world was too small for the Nine-Touring Great Emperor to fly.

While traveling through the Fuyao Wind Domain, Jiang Lin and Pei Xuan debated whether the Dou Qi Continent was too small to support the number of ancient Dou Dis it had produced. Jiang Lin suggested the world might change in scale or be deliberately enriched, and he resolved to seek treasures before the Central Continent faced a calamity.

• Pei Xuan told Jiang Lin that memories of the Nine-Touring Great Emperor made him suspect the Dou Qi Continent was too small for multiple Dou Dis to coexist.
• Jiang Lin agreed that the continent seemed small for powerful beings and suggested that the world's size might grow as its inhabitants became stronger.
• Jiang Lin said the Spirit Clan planned to exploit the Imperial Blood in the continent's inhabitants and predicted that the Central Continent would soon suffer a calamity.
• Jiang Lin decided to visit the Central Continent and move valuable treasures away before the inhabitants' good days ended.
• Jiang Lin linked Danqizi's forging philosophy and the Artifact Forgers Guild emblem to the possibility that the world itself had been deliberately refined, then said the Tou She Ancient God showed its inhabitants could transcend it.

Hun Tiandi watched the Spirit Clan Emperor Array refine the Spirit Realm and Stone Realm, then revealed the ancient origins of the Imperial Clans and the Sacred Weapon Project. The Soul Clan accepted that its role as Sword Bearer could end in victory or extinction and prepared to preserve its last survivors.

• Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan Dou Saints observed the Spirit Clan Emperor Array suppressing the Stone Race and discussed the Spirit Clan’s power and origins.
• Hun Tiandi explained that the Sacred Weapon Project had been created to defend against invaders from beyond the heavens, and recalled how the Eight Clans once united against other planes.
• Hun Tiandi told the Soul Clan Dou Saints that their clan originated from the Dragon Soul Suiyuan Sword, forged from fragments of the Dragon Abyss Emperor Sword.
• Hun Tiandi described how ancient battles had shaped the Dou Qi World and left many hidden Dou Di bloodline races across its regions.
• Hun Tiandi explained that the Spirit Clan had repurposed the Sacred Weapon Project into the Blood Sacrifice Emperor Array, while the Stone Race chose to sacrifice itself.
• The Soul Clan accepted its fate as Sword Bearer and prepared to leave behind the last seeds of its clan.

Jiang Lin crossed the Void Storm Sea, following a mysterious eagle cry and the resonance of the Nine-Touring Feather toward the storm’s center. He suspected the sea was an ancient Nine-Touring Roc cultivation realm, and an old voice greeted him after he entered the tornado’s heart.

• Jiang Lin left the Fuyao Wind Domain and reached the Void Storm Sea, then used the Nine-Touring Feather to guide him inside.
• Jiang Lin navigated lethal spatial storms with his Spiritual Eye and Twelve Light Wings while Pei Xuan urged caution.
• Jiang Lin heard an eagle cry and learned from Pei Xuan that the Nine-Touring Feather could create one temporary safe zone.
• Jiang Lin noticed the feather growing hot and resonating with the storm, then suspected the Void Storm Sea had once been a Nine-Touring Roc cultivation realm.
• Jiang Lin plunged into the tornado’s heart, where an ancient voice welcomed him as a rare visitor.

Jiang Lin met the guardian of the Nine-Touring Void Realm and learned that he could challenge its trial to obtain the Nine-Touring Fuyao Wind. He chose to pursue the Wind Seed, which would require defeating Law Projections at his own realm, and eagerly accepted the challenge.

• Jiang Lin used his Spiritual Eye to spot the Great Flock Sparrow beneath the dead tree and learned that the island was the Nine-Touring Void Realm.
• The Great Flock Sparrow examined Jiang Lin's Nine-Touring Feather, explained that pure-blooded Nine-Touring Great Rocs no longer existed, and accepted Jiang Lin as a friend of their clan.
• The Great Flock Sparrow explained that passing the trial could grant power from the Nine-Touring Fuyao Wind, while the ultimate victor could claim its Wind Seed.
• Jiang Lin chose to seek the Wind Seed and learned that he would have to fight Law Projections of previous Nine-Touring Wind Masters.
• After the Great Flock Sparrow said the Law Projections would match Jiang Lin's realm, Jiang Lin eagerly agreed to fight them.

Jiang Lin learned that the Nine-Touring Fuyao Wind trial required him to defeat the clan’s eight legendary Nine-Touring Wind Masters to claim its wind seed. After Pei Xuan revealed that the recorded Wind Masters were in their pre-Dou Di states, Jiang Lin accepted the challenge and declared he would fight all eight.

• The Great Flock Sparrow explained the Nine-Touring Great Rocs’ bloodline evolutions and the importance of the Nine-Touring Fuyao Wind’s wind seed.
• The Great Flock Sparrow told Jiang Lin that he could enter the trial, where he would face all eight Nine-Touring Wind Masters in individual duels.
• Jiang Lin questioned why an outsider had to face such a harsh trial, and the Great Flock Sparrow insisted the clan would not give away its secret treasure freely.
• Pei Xuan told Jiang Lin that the Wind Masters’ Dao marks recorded them before they fused with the wind seed and became Dou Dis.
• Jiang Lin agreed to fight all eight Nine-Touring Wind Masters.

Jiang Lin began the Nine-Touring Clan’s ultimate trial and faced the Eighth Wind Master, enduring its overwhelming speed with his hardened body. He landed a devastating counterattack that left the Wind Master badly injured, though the trial’s outcome remained undecided.

• The Great Flock Sparrow transformed the Withered Fusang Tree into a Starlight Spirit Wood and summoned eight Nine-Touring Wind Masters for Jiang Lin’s trial.
• The Eighth Wind Master attacked Jiang Lin with a storm of feather-blade strikes, but his Eight Desolations Hegemony Body rebounded them without injury.
• The Eighth Wind Master struck Jiang Lin’s Spiritual Eye and failed to pierce it, then charged its feather sword for a killing attack.
• Jiang Lin used Heavenly Gang Stepping Void to slow the Eighth Wind Master and unleashed Heavenly Gang: Eight Desolations Break, blasting it into the Starlight Spirit Wood.
• Jiang Lin pulled the shattered feather sword from his chest and used Divine Essence Spirit Fire to heal his wound as the Eighth Wind Master lay badly distorted.

Jiang Lin fought the Nine-Touring Wind Masters in the Nine-Touring Secret Realm, surviving their attacks and using the surrounding wind-element energy to strengthen himself. After seeing through their energy, he broke through the Second Wind Master's aura shield and defeated him.

• Jiang Lin recovered from the Eighth Wind Master's Feather Sword attack by refining its fragments with the Divine Essence Spirit Fire.
• The six other Nine-Touring Wind Masters attacked Jiang Lin together, and he used Heavenly Gang techniques to scatter them and injure one of them.
• The Eighth Wind Master ambushed Jiang Lin, but his weakened strike only scraped Jiang Lin's neck before the Second Wind Master blocked Jiang Lin's pursuit.
• Jiang Lin used his Fire Lotus Aura to withstand the group’s attacks, then activated Dou Qi Furnace to absorb the abundant wind-element energy and their shattered attacks.
• Jiang Lin's Spiritual Eye revealed the Nine-Touring Wind Masters' wind-element energy, and he used Heavenly Gang: Eight Desolations Break to smash through the Second Wind Master's aura shield and pierce his chest, collapsing him.

Jiang Lin defeated the Nine-Touring Wind Masters’ law projections and passed the trial to obtain the Nine-Touring Fuyao Wind. He met the Lord of Nine Tours, who revealed that the Dou Qi Plane lost its potential when humanity’s ancestor died outside with the plane embryo.

• Jiang Lin used Heavenly Gang: Eight Desolations Break to shatter the Second Wind Master and then defeated the remaining Wind Masters.
• The Lord of Nine Tours appeared beside the Nine-Touring Great Sparrow and spoke with him about the Nine-Touring Clan’s history and the clan members who had died outside.
• Jiang Lin asked to avoid the hidden stage, and the Lord of Nine Tours confirmed that he had already passed the trial and qualified to obtain the Nine-Touring Fuyao Wind.
• Jiang Lin learned that the mysterious figure was the Lord of Nine Tours, a conscious projection of the Nine-Touring Great Emperor, and was told not to reveal their meeting.
• The Lord of Nine Tours explained that powerful beings had agreed not to interfere with the Dou Qi Plane and that its potential was lost when humanity’s ancestor died outside with the plane embryo.