Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin stopped the Imperial Blood Coffin and had Pei Xuan separate Ling Jiu’s uncorrupted soul from the Source Qi-tainted parts. Ling Jiu’s soul revived under Jiang Lin’s protection, but she opened her eyes and called him “Jiang,” leaving him puzzled.

• Jiang Lin used Divine Essence Spirit Fire to shut down the Imperial Blood Coffin and preserve Ling Jiu’s sleeping body.
• Jiang Lin summoned Pei Xuan and asked him to examine Ling Jiu’s damaged soul.
• Jiang Lin deduced that Source Qi came from beyond the Dou Qi World and speculated that the Ancient Sea Secret Realm might be refining energy from an existence above the Dou Di realm.
• Pei Xuan swallowed Ling Jiu’s soul, separated its unpolluted portion, and reluctantly spat out more of it after Jiang Lin threatened him.
• Jiang Lin reunited the recovered soul fragments, and Ling Jiu’s soul revived under the protection of Divine Essence Spirit Fire.
• Ling Jiu opened her Spiritual Eyes, looked at Jiang Lin, and called him “Jiang.”

Jiang Lin helped Ling Jiu restore her body by refining liquid Source Qi, while realizing that Glazed Foundation transformed Spirit Qi lifeforms into half-Source Qi lifeforms. His deductions led him to suspect that the Dou Qi Plane had once received an Origin Qi Embryo, allowing its inhabitants to become Dou Di despite the plane’s limitations.

• Ling Jiu awakened as a weak soul and recognized Jiang Lin as a powerful descendant of the Spirit Clan.
• Ling Jiu asked Jiang Lin to refine liquid Source Qi so she could restore her body and reunite it with her soul.
• Jiang Lin used Divine Essence Spirit Fire to refine Emperor-grade Source Crystals and poured the resulting source liquid over Ling Jiu’s body.
• Ling Jiu absorbed the source liquid and began rebuilding her body and soul as Jiang Lin observed her Glazed Foundation.
• Jiang Lin concluded that Spirit Qi and Source Qi were separate energy systems and that Glazed Foundation created half-Source Qi lifeforms.
• Jiang Lin realized the Dou Qi Plane was likely a Spirit Qi Embryo that had acquired an Origin Qi Embryo, enabling its inhabitants to become Dou Di.

Jiang Lin discussed the fourth realm of Spiritual Sense with Ling Jiu, who revealed that her talent was Precognition and explained the Spirit Clan’s long-running plans. After learning that his own thoughts about Dou Qi and Source Qi were correct, Jiang Lin described his talent as Jiang Lin’s Sudden Inspiration.

• Ling Jiu finished reconstructing her Glazed Body, and she questioned Jiang Lin about his thoughts and fourth-realm Spiritual Sense.
• Jiang Lin said he had been thinking that Dou Qi and Source Qi came from different origins, and Ling Jiu confirmed that he was right.
• Ling Jiu told Jiang Lin that the Stone Race would be used for arrays and that its survivors had founded a new Stone Clan on the Origin Qi Continent.
• Ling Jiu explained how she and Ancestor Ling Hu awakened talents above the Three Realms of Spiritual Sense after entering the Ancient Sea Secret Realm.
• Ling Jiu revealed that her talent was Precognition and Ancestor Ling Hu’s was Sacred Spirit, then asked Jiang Lin about his ability.
• Jiang Lin said his talent gave him occasional bursts of inspiration and called it Jiang Lin’s Sudden Inspiration.

Ling Jiu explained that Jiang Lin was created through the combined research of the Soul Clan and Spirit Clan, and that his extraordinary Spiritual Sense and the Soul Spirit Art were tied to that origin. The chapter left Jiang Lin stunned by the revelation that Soul Craftsman contributed something to his creation, though Ling Jiu could not confirm whether they were related by blood.

• Ling Jiu explained that Jiang Lin's Inspiration Breakthrough came from his Spiritual Sense connecting vast amounts of information, and she inferred that it had awakened outside the secret realm.
• Jiang Lin guessed that power from the Fire Origin Crystal had been used in his creation, and Ling Jiu confirmed that she had played a part in his birth.
• Jiang Lin gave Ling Jiu the Soul Spirit Art, which she recognized as a work based on her Spirit Codex and the joint research of the Soul Clan and Spirit Clan.
• Ling Jiu revealed that Jiang Lin was the ultimate creation of both clans and carried something belonging to Soul Craftsman within him.
• Ling Jiu recalled that Soul Craftsman and Xiao Xuan had both liked her, leaving Jiang Lin bewildered about his origins and possible connections.

Jiang Lin deduced how Ling Jiu’s foresight had influenced Xiao Xuan’s fate and revealed that she had preserved Imperial Blood for another Xiao Clan descendant who might become an Emperor. He reminded Ling Jiu that her actions had created a new future through Xuan Ji, whose creation led to Jiang Lin’s birth.

• Jiang Lin reasoned that Ling Jiu’s research into Xiao Xuan’s Imperial Blood and her creation of Xuan Ji had helped push Xiao Xuan toward becoming an Emperor.
• Ling Jiu explained that her foresight showed major future events but not their outcomes, and admitted she had unwittingly helped drive events toward Xiao Xuan’s failure.
• Jiang Lin reconstructed the sequence of events and realized Ling Jiu’s foresight had activated only once, revealing two overlapping possibilities for Xiao Clan Emperors.
• Ling Jiu recalled that after Xiao Xuan’s failure, she recognized a second set of future law fluctuations and preserved Imperial Blood for a future Xiao Clan descendant.
• Jiang Lin pointed out that Xiao Yan’s arrival, Ling Jiu’s rescue, and the events in the Ancient Sea Secret Realm had all followed from her creation of Xuan Ji, creating a new future.

Jiang Lin deduced the Origin Race’s competing plans for the Origin Qi Continent and learned that Ling Jiu and the Spirit Emperors had prepared safeguards for its future. Ling Jiu recognized Jiang Lin as the current Spirit Emperor and pledged to follow his lead, while the Nine-Touring Sparrow clarified that it knew little about the Origin Race’s plans.

• Jiang Lin inferred that the Soul Spirit Art could remove the Origin Race’s limits and that the Origin Qi Continent faced a choice between independence and merging into the Dou Qi Plane.
• Ling Jiu confirmed that she belonged to the independence faction, but explained that both factions sought to preserve a future for their people and that the Soul Spirit Art had created a new path.
• Ling Jiu revealed that Jiang Lin was tacitly recognized as the current Spirit Emperor, whose decisions guided the Origin Qi Continent’s future.
• Ling Jiu explained that the previous Spirit Emperor had left nine Super Source Artifacts as a safeguard and that she had hoped Jiang Lin would help the Ancient Sea Secret Realm pursue independence.
• Ling Jiu bowed to Jiang Lin and pledged her unconditional support, then left him to watch the sunrise.
• The Nine-Touring Sparrow denied knowing the Origin Race’s plans and explained that the beings once called Dou Dis were now being described as Spirit Emperors under Jiang Lin’s definition.

After two months of studying the Spirit Codex, Jiang Lin reached six-star Dou Emperor just as the accelerated second Source Tide struck the Sacred Fire Imperial Pass. City Lords from across the provinces arrived, and Feng Qing borrowed Xiao Yan’s Life Artifact to devastate the Source Beasts after offering to reveal a Heavenly Flame’s location.

• Ling Jiu left with the Soul Spirit Art to seek old allies and recover inheritances for Jiang Lin, while Jiang Lin spent two months studying her copied Spirit Codex.
• Jiang Lin broke through to six-star Dou Emperor, and Xiao Yi Xian told him she had advanced to three-star Dou Emperor.
• The second Source Tide arrived earlier than expected, and Emperor Xuan ordered the defenders to prepare for Dou Emperor-level Source Beasts.
• Jiang Lin and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Sacred Fire Imperial Pass, where Xiao Yan used his Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon to blast a gap through the Source Tide.
• Feng Qing introduced himself as Windy City Lord, borrowed Xiao Yan’s weapon in exchange for a Heavenly Flame lead, and used it to cut down Source Beasts.
• Ling Jiu and the other provincial City Lords arrived, including Shi Fite, while Jiang Lin watched Feng Qing fight within the Source Tide.

Jiang Lin told the Origin Qi Continent’s city lords about the crisis outside and proposed keeping the Ancient Sea Secret Realm independent while bringing it closer to the Dou Qi Plane. He demonstrated the Annihilation Lotus and asked the city lords to support his plan to raise the continent’s potential to the Dou Saint realm.

• Xuan Ji introduced Jiang Lin to Shi Fite and the other city lords, including Yuan Fen of the Deep Sea Crystal Armor Sacred Whale Race.
• Ling Jiu told Jiang Lin that Shi Fite had been deceived into the Ancient Sea Secret Realm, where his resilient soul preserved his strength but gradually eroded his intelligence.
• Jiang Lin explained that the Ancient Eight Clans were caught up in a major conflict and that the Stone Race might have been used as a foundation in their plans.
• Shi Fite asked Jiang Lin to state his true intentions and rejected any plan to make the Origin Qi Continent nourishment or a backyard for the Dou Qi Plane.
• Jiang Lin revealed the Annihilation Lotus and proposed using it to downgrade the Origin Qi Continent, bring it closer to the Dou Qi Plane, and unlock the Dou Saint realm while retaining control of Source Qi.

Jiang Lin tested the Annihilation Lotus to prove his plan to establish the Origin Realm, drawing the Source Tide into a plague of infighting and decay. After the remaining Source Beasts vanished, he explained that the Power of Termination broke down both the rank and the realm of Source Qi.

• Jiang Lin announced that he intended to create the Origin Realm and showed the Nine Provinces City Lords the Annihilation Lotus, a one-use seventh-tier Source Artifact.
• Jiang Lin detonated the Annihilation Lotus, and Feng Qing escaped the blast by using the Nine-Touring Technique as the Source Tide turned toward it.
• The Lotus’s Finality Shards infected the Source Beasts, causing them to attack, devour, and infect one another across the Source Tide.
• Jiang Lin explained that the Source Beasts’ instinctive response to negative energy pressure fueled the spreading slaughter, while Ling Jiu warned that pushing the effect further might make them collapse.
• After hours of fighting, the surviving Source Beasts rotted away and evaporated as purple threads wrapped around them.
• Jiang Lin told the gathered city lords that energy had two classification systems—rank and realm—and that the Power of Termination broke down both forms of Source Qi.

Jiang Lin explained his energy-ranking system, and the Nine Provinces’ leaders offered Xiao Yi Xian cultivation resources and Xiao Lan an inheritance from Feng Qing. Feng Qing returned Xiao Yan’s ruler and offered him a choice of two Heavenly Flames, while Gu Xun’er volunteered to provide Feng Qing with a Life Artifact.

• Jiang Lin defined energy realm and energy level, explaining that the Power of Termination could downgrade Source Qi and that Xiao Yi Xian needed to reach a higher realm.
• The Myriad Wood City Lord, Shi Fite, Huang Huang, and other leaders promised Xiao Yi Xian specialized cultivation resources, while Ling Jiu offered use of the Imperial Blood Coffin.
• Feng Qing took Xiao Lan as his disciple and offered to pass down the Nine-Touring Great Roc inheritance; Jiang Lin agreed, and Xiao Lan returned to Xiao Yan confused about what had happened.
• Feng Qing returned Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler and offered him a choice between the Nine Nether Wind Flame and the Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Gu Xun’er offered Feng Qing a Life Artifact, leaving Xiao Yan lamenting that she had stepped forward for him like a devoted partner.

After Feng Qing gave Xiao Yan two Heavenly Flame location scrolls and took Xiao Lan away to train, Cai Lin failed to break through to Super Dou Huang. Jiang Lin advised her and the others to use the Imperial Blood Coffin and other technology to advance, but the next Source Tide brought an Emperor-grade Origin Beast resembling Xiao Xuan.

• Feng Qing gave Xiao Yan scrolls marking locations where Nine Nether Wind Flame and Wind Fury Dragon Flame might appear, and asked to borrow one if he found it so Feng Qing could cultivate his secret art.
• Feng Qing took Xiao Lan to train in the Swaying Wind Domain, while Gu Xun'er and Xiao Yan concluded Xiao Yi Xian had likely allowed it.
• Jiang Lin learned that Cai Lin had failed her Super Dou Huang breakthrough and explained that she could use Source Essence and the Imperial Blood Coffin to reforge her body with Ling Jiu's help.
• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yan that he and the others should use technology rather than waste time trying to prove themselves through the world's Super-rank breakthrough method.
• Xiao Yan and the others began preparing to use technology, and the third Source Tide arrived with an Emperor-grade Origin Beast that looked like Xiao Xuan.

At Sacred Fire Imperial Pass, Jiang Lin and Ling Jiu learned from Lan Hong that ancient Saints had entered the Ancient Sea Secret Realm seeking emperorhood and punched through its seals with Dou Di power. Jiang Lin revealed that the realm was the interior of the Creation Universe Emperor Cauldron, while the missing Fire Origin Crystal threatened its stability.

• Lan Hong reported that an Emperor-grade Source Beast resembling Xiao Xuan had fled against the Source Tide toward Origin Province, and Jiang Lin connected the strange behavior to the missing Fire Origin Crystal.
• Jiang Lin confirmed the crystal was missing, prompting Lan Hong to reveal that she had met Tou She Ancient God and had once been among the first beings to enter the Ancient Sea Secret Realm.
• Lan Hong explained that the realm had once been an uninhabitable sea of flames and that ancient beings such as herself had been Saints whose origins were later refined away.
• Jiang Lin revealed that the Ancient Sea Secret Realm was inside the Creation Universe Emperor Cauldron, whose nine spatial layers sealed and diluted the Origin Qi within.
• Jiang Lin explained that groups of peak Dou Saints had used methods left by the Dou Dis to punch through the Dou Saint and Dou Zun layers while pursuing emperorhood, and Tou She Ancient God later stabilized the realm and left an Origin Qi inheritance.

Lan Hong explained how the ancient clans’ attempt to claim Source Qi caused a catastrophe in the Ancient Sea Secret Realm, and revealed that Fire Origin Crystals were seal anchors made by Tou She Ancient God. After Xuan Ji returned from searching Origin Province, Jiang Lin concluded that the secret realm might contain two conscious entities and prepared to take the Transcendental Path.

• Lan Hong told Jiang Lin and Ling Jiu that the ancient clans fought over the chance to become Dou Di, and that crimson eyes and black ominous aura drove the participants mad.
• Lan Hong explained that Tou She Ancient God refined nine Fire Origin Crystals from fragments of the Creation Universe Emperor Cauldron to anchor a seal, and that the crystals’ fire seeds were renewable.
• Lan Hong recalled that she survived because she was weak and had no Dou Di methods, and that the Ancient Sea Secret Realm’s spirit of rules and Tou She Ancient God detained survivors as guardians.
• Xuan Ji returned from searching Origin Province and reported that the being Lan Hong had encountered seemed conscious but vanished deeper into the province.
• Jiang Lin deduced that the Ancient Sea Secret Realm contained two conscious entities, including a living Origin Qi Embryo, and said it was time to take the Transcendental Path.

Jiang Lin reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor Peak and explained his understanding of the uncharted Super Dou Huang realm to Xiao Yan. He revealed that he intended to forge a definitive path of his own, leaving Xiao Yan to realize that Jiang Lin had broken free from the Spirit Emperor’s path.

• Jiang Lin completed his cultivation at Sacred Fire Artifact Academy and reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor Peak before the fourth Source Tide.
• Xiao Yan arrived at early Nine-star Dou Huang, crediting his rapid breakthroughs to Ling Jiu’s Imperial Blood Coffin, and discussed the two wind-related Heavenly Flames Feng Qing had told him about.
• Jiang Lin reflected on his understanding of Super Dou Huang and shared it with Xiao Yan as their companions prepared to break through.
• Jiang Lin explained that Super Dou Huang centered on strengthening the physical body to bear the power of rules, unlike Dou Zong’s emphasis on the soul and spatial perception.
• Jiang Lin declared that he would try to become the single answer to the Transcendental Path, and Xiao Yan realized he had left the Spirit Emperor’s path.

Jiang Lin explained the differences between human and Magical Beast talent before telling Xiao Yan that he could use the Divine Essence Spirit Fire and his experience with artificial meridians to help Super Dou Huangs advance. He planned to prepare for his own breakthrough to Super Rank by obtaining substitutes for several seventh-order Magic Cores.

• Jiang Lin explained how humans and Magical Beasts differed in their Magic Core systems, talent, and cultivation potential.
• Xiao Yan reacted with shock when Jiang Lin revealed that he was preparing to create a new cultivation system and break through to Super Rank.
• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yan that technology could help with Super Dou Huang advancement, and explained why the Divine Essence Spirit Fire worked where the Spiritual Eye did not.
• Xiao Yan realized Jiang Lin's experience with artificial meridians could provide the missing piece for manipulating Super Dou Huang meridians.
• Jiang Lin said he needed to prepare five seventh-order Magic Cores of different attributes or suitable temporary substitutes before advancing, and considered the Dragon Emperor Lan Hong's Magic Core promising.

Jiang Lin explained his plan to use technological methods and the Dou Qi Plane’s recognition to advance himself and his companions, while Xiao Yan proposed developing Source Qi pills as a research project. The chapter ended with Feng Qing delivering the Nine Provinces’ super Source Artifacts to Jiang Lin outside Sacred Fire City.

• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yan that cultivation was less important than developing other skills because his own breakthroughs could raise the group’s realms as well.
• Xiao Yan proposed that spiritual high-grade pills could carry Source Qi outside the Ancient Sea Secret Realm, and Jiang Lin approved the idea as a project for him.
• Jiang Lin described the members and structure of his growing research group and wider organization.
• Jiang Lin left Xiao Yan and appeared outside Sacred Fire City to meet Feng Qing at their appointed time.
• Feng Qing handed Jiang Lin the Nine Provinces’ nine peak seventh-rank super Source Artifacts, complaining that carrying them had nearly exhausted him.

Jiang Lin returned to the Sacred Fire Imperial Pass with the source artifacts and prepared to break through before the fourth Source Tide. His breakthrough triggered the tide early, and as the pass fought off the beasts, Lan Hong taught Zi Yan the Dragon Transformation Method, helping her break through as well.

• Jiang Lin used the Great Void Rainbow Shattering Bow to strike a concealed pursuer in Origin Province, then withdrew with Feng Qing after concluding their mission.
• Jiang Lin returned to the Sacred Fire Imperial Pass with eight source artifacts, and Xuan Ji gave him the Spirit Earth Heavy Sword to complete the Nine Spirits Returning to the Void Array.
• Jiang Lin began preparing to break through to Super Dou Huang ahead of the fourth Source Tide, and three days later his breakthrough stirred a terrifying storm that detonated the tide early.
• Xuan Ji, Ling Jiu, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and the others defended the pass as the Source Tide surged, with Xiao Yi Xian’s violet miasma weakening waves of beasts.
• Lan Hong transformed into a massive dragon and taught Zi Yan the Dragon Transformation Method, causing her to break through into a purple-gold dragon.

Jiang Lin completed a breakthrough and discovered a way to combine the Nine Spirits Returning to the Void Array with the Divine Essence Spirit Fire to absorb and purify Source Qi on a massive scale. The chapter left him testing this new power in the Source Tide, with a clearer path toward his peak state.

• Zi Yan transformed into a violet-gold dragon and fought Emperor-grade Source Beasts while Lan Hong taught her how to use her dragon body.
• Ling Jiu explained to Xiao Yan why other races adopted human forms to learn humanity-centered secret methods.
• Jiang Lin appeared after his breakthrough and told Ling Jiu that he felt hungry because the Ancient Sea Secret Realm could not replenish his energy.
• Jiang Lin used the Spirit Wind Feather Fan and Spirit Furnace to gather and burn Source Beasts, then realized he could use their energy to fill his deficit.
• Jiang Lin combined the Nine Spirits Returning to the Void Array with the Divine Essence Spirit Fire, refining Source Beasts into pure Source Qi inside his Spirit Body Space.
• Jiang Lin unfolded a black hole that drew in and refined weaker Source Beasts, giving him a glimpse of his future peak state.

Jiang Lin completed his self-Dao transformation and advanced through the Source Tide with Xuan Ji, who gave him a manual to help develop his realm. In the Tomb Forest, Xuan Ji revealed that the dead of the Dou Qi Plane left traces there and warned Jiang Lin that one of them was already dead.

• Jiang Lin became the Nine Spirits Black Hole, devouring Source Beasts while Ling Jiu recognized that his path combined the Spirit Clan and the Emperor Cauldron.
• Xuan Ji cleared the way toward Origin Province, and Jiang Lin realized Xuan Ji’s body and cultivation data could guide his own advancement.
• Xuan Ji gave Jiang Lin the Super Road · Emperor Xuan manual, which Jiang Lin saw as a valuable blueprint for reaching the peak of the Origin Sect realm.
• Jiang Lin and Xuan Ji entered the Tomb Forest, where Jiang Lin discovered that its giant trees resisted him and concealed strange Dao techniques.
• Xuan Ji showed Jiang Lin that each Tomb Tree represented an extinct race and said the forest held traces of the Dou Qi Plane’s dead.
• Xuan Ji declared that Xiao Xuan was not dead and could not be fabricated, then warned Jiang Lin that one of them had already died.

Jiang Lin learned that the Ancient Sea Secret Realm’s Sixth Trial could trap souls and create dangerous illusions, and discovered that a Little Pei Xuan had been lost inside before escaping through a secret art. He followed Xuan Ji deeper into Origin Province, where his Spiritual Eye spotted a strange figure waiting across the Ancient Origin Sea.

• Xuan Ji warned Jiang Lin that the Sixth Trial could replace people with illusions, and explained the signs of impostors and Ling Jiu’s unusual return to herself.
• Jiang Lin sought help from the Nine-Touring Sparrow, who revealed that a Pei Xuan had failed the illusion trial and escaped by sacrificing a Little Pei Xuan.
• Jiang Lin learned that the Little Pei Xuans had used the Soul-Severing Secret Art to escape with their memories divided, then appointed a new Little Pei Xuan King to speak for them.
• Jiang Lin questioned how Pei Xuan knew Xiao Xuan’s youthful appearance, prompting the Nine-Touring Sparrow to suspect Pei Xuan had an unknown connection to the Ancient Sea Secret Realm.
• Jiang Lin and Xuan Ji crossed Tomb Forest and reached the Ancient Origin Sea, where Jiang Lin’s Spiritual Eye saw a strange figure waving from the far shore.