Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin crossed the Ancient Origin Sea and confronted Pei Xuan, who had taken Xiao Xuan’s body and rejected Jiang Lin’s offer to return. After Pei Xuan claimed the Ancient Sea Secret Realm’s power, Jiang Lin left him behind, but Xiao Yi Xian helped him realize Pei Xuan might still be found among the Little Pei Xuans.

• Jiang Lin discovered that his Divine Essence Spirit Fire acted as a Flame Seed, letting him cross the Ancient Origin Sea with Xuan Ji inside his Spirit Body Space.
• Xuan Ji explained that the Ancient Origin Realm’s trial involved defeating a perfect reflection, but Jiang Lin recognized Pei Xuan in Xiao Xuan’s body and spoke with him instead.
• Pei Xuan proposed that they avoid conflict, but Jiang Lin turned away after Pei Xuan gave up his Soul Path and friends; Jiang Lin returned the Soul Spirit Art before leaving.
• Pei Xuan entered the Ancient Origin Pool and transformed the realm into a dark world, revealing a void cauldron that silenced the secret realm’s foundational laws.
• Outside Tomb Forest, Jiang Lin told Xiao Yi Xian that Pei Xuan had devoured the Creation Universe Cauldron’s Artifact Spirit and that the world suppressed his physical body.
• Xiao Yi Xian suggested that Pei Xuan might still be among the Little Pei Xuans, and Jiang Lin realized one of them could overcome the others.

Jiang Lin and the Nine-Touring Sparrow pieced together Pei Xuan’s origins and the Ancient Sea Secret Realm’s history, leading Jiang Lin to decide to save Hei Pei Xuan and claim the realm. He changed the trial plan to recruit participants for the sixth trial and give each a White Pei Xuan.

• Jiang Lin concluded that Hei Pei Xuan wanted to cultivate anew using the Source Qi Embryo rather than free his original body, and that Hei Pei Xuan’s behavior might have been affected by contamination.
• The Nine-Touring Sparrow revealed that Pei Xuan belonged to the Abyssal Soul Spirits, explained how the Abyssal Soul Evil God had been captured and divided into soul and body, and connected its history to the Dragon Soul Suiyuan Sword.
• Jiang Lin deduced that Sage Ling Hu had brought Pei Xuan’s soul out of the Ancient Sea Secret Realm, where it reincarnated until it became the Pei Xuan he knew.
• Jiang Lin concluded that Hei Pei Xuan had killed and devoured a newly corrupted Artifact Spirit, then decided to save Hei Pei Xuan rather than abandon the realm.
• Jiang Lin gathered Ling Jiu, Xuan Ji, Xiao Yan, and the others, and ordered them to recruit trial participants willing to join the sixth trial.
• Jiang Lin planned to give each participant a White Pei Xuan trained in the Soul Spirit Art, weakening Hei Pei Xuan’s control over the realm and reducing the risk of the Pei Xuans fusing freely.

Yuan Fen persuaded Yuan Ming and Kelly to remain for the sixth trial, hinting that major changes and a chance to survive awaited them. As Jiang Lin gathered over ten thousand willing candidates, he used Ancient Source Qi to grow his Pei Xuan army and advanced to Super Rank Three-star Dou Huang.

• Yuan Fen told Yuan Ming and Kelly that the nine fire-seed slots were claimed, but the sixth trial could bring major changes, survival measures, and no limit on its eventual victors.
• Yuan Ming and Kelly chose to join the sixth trial, and Yuan Fen offered willing candidates cultivation resources while warning that they would be confined and prevented from fleeing.
• News spread across the Nine Provinces Imperial Pass, where more than ten thousand candidates agreed to gamble on the sixth trial.
• Jiang Lin judged the candidate numbers sufficient because more than five hundred Little Pei Xuans in his Spirit Body Space could multiply by consuming Source Crystals and Ancient Source Qi.
• Jiang Lin revealed that he had reached Super Rank Three-star Dou Huang and expected to advance further by refining Ancient Source Qi.

Jiang Lin gathered ten thousand trial-takers at Sacred Fire Imperial Pass and promised to lead them safely through the sixth trial with Spirit Body Sprites. After warning them that accepting the sprites would leave them no choice but to undergo the trial, he offered them one final chance to withdraw, but no one left.

• Jiang Lin reached the Super six-star Dou Emperor realm after a month of cultivation, while the other members of his team pursued their own studies and training.
• Feng Qing assembled exactly ten thousand trial-takers after Jiang Lin ordered the group reduced from more than twenty thousand.
• Jiang Lin addressed the army from the imperial pass walls, introduced himself as the Spirit Emperor, and said he would do everything he could to bring them back alive.
• Jiang Lin promised to distribute Spirit Body Sprites that could help the trial-takers clear the sixth trial without injury, but warned they would die if they refused to undergo it afterward.
• Jiang Lin gave the trial-takers one last chance to withdraw, but none of them chose to leave.

Jiang Lin used the Little Pei Xuans to free the trial-takers from the sixth trial’s soul illusion. The Pei Xuans emerged from the Source Pool as a vast Grey Pei Xuan army, while Hei Pei Xuan and the others considered cooperating with Jiang Lin rather than repeating their past mistakes.

• Jiang Lin distributed Little Pei Xuans among the trial-takers and explained that they would sacrifice themselves to free their hosts from the sixth trial.
• As the sixth trial began, the Little Pei Xuans used the Soul Severing Secret Art to pull the trial-takers out of the illusion, leaving them unharmed on Sacred Fire Plaza.
• Jiang Lin watched from the city wall as the trial-takers realized the Little Pei Xuans had vanished, while the Pei Xuan army appeared in the depths of the Ancient Sea Secret Realm.
• Hei Pei Xuan watched thousands of Grey Pei Xuans crawl out of the Source Pool as his own body faded from black to gray.
• The Grey Pei Xuans rejected taking the Origin Qi Embryo for themselves and discussed cooperating with Jiang Lin, citing his willingness to share and their need to avoid Danqizi’s plans.

Jiang Lin prepared to enter the Ancient Origin Realm for its final trial after purifying the Origin Qi Embryo, helping the group advance, and reaching Super Rank Nine-star. He led eight companions toward the realm, where they learned the trial tested inner demons, and Jiang Lin warned that his own inner demon might kill them instantly.

• Hei Pei Xuan and the Grey Pei Xuans agreed to purge the Origin Qi Embryo's pollution source, while the others replenished their strength.
• Xiao Yan discovered he could refine portable Seventh-grade Source Pills using Fire Origin Crystals and Ling Jiu's coffin as a pill furnace.
• After the eighth trial, Jiang Lin explained that the ninth trial required nine people and nine fire seeds, then broke through to Super Rank Nine-star.
• Jiang Lin revealed the Emperor Cauldron Fragment and selected Yuan Ming and Kelly to complete the nine-person group entering the Ancient Origin Realm.
• Jiang Lin and the eight other participants traveled to the Ancient Origin Sea, where Ling Jiu warned them about the inner-demon trial.
• Jiang Lin suggested his inner demon might instantly kill his companions, leaving Xiao Yan and the others stunned.

Jiang Lin entered the Ancient Origin Realm to confront his inner demons and faced nine Super Rank Nine-star dark counterparts, including a mirror of himself. As the battle escalated and the dark squad attacked together, Jiang Lin awakened mysterious patterns across his body and revealed the ancient character “Lin” on his forehead.

• Jiang Lin entered the Ancient Origin Realm and discovered nine dark counterparts with cultivation realms matching his own.
• Jiang Lin fought Dark Jiang Lin in a prolonged clash, while the others stayed back because neither fighter could seriously damage the other.
• Jiang Lin entered a state of enlightenment and began awakening rhythmic lightning patterns on his body as the observers recognized his developing Spirit Artifact Body.
• The Ancient Origin Realm’s chaotic will roused the other dark inner demons, who attacked Jiang Lin with their combined powers and transformations.
• Dark Jiang Lin revealed a Spirit Clan Imperial Mark, and Jiang Lin answered by closing his Spiritual Eyes and revealing intricate patterns that formed the character “Lin” on his forehead.

Jiang Lin awakened a Dao Pattern that turned the Nine Spirits Returning to the Void Array into a devastating Divine Essence Black Hole, defeating the Dark Nine Emperor Shadows and ravaging the Ancient Origin Realm. Hei Pei Xuan then offered to help Jiang Lin carry out his plan by partially merging the Ancient Sea Secret Realm with the Dou Qi Plane.

• Jiang Lin formed a Dao Pattern and used a Divine Essence Black Hole to absorb and refine the Dark Nine Emperor Shadows.
• Ling Jiu, Xuan Ji, and Yuan Fen recognized the black hole as an energy-devouring Dao Pattern, while Jiang Lin explained that his limited realm restricted its power.
• Jiang Lin moved through the Ancient Origin Realm in the expanding black hole until Hei Pei Xuan and the others warned him that he could damage seals near the Source Pool.
• Hei Pei Xuan offered to help Jiang Lin, explaining that the Ancient Sea Secret Realm should partially merge with the Dou Qi Plane rather than descend completely or fail.

Jiang Lin agreed to Hei Pei Xuan’s plan to merge the Ancient Sea Secret Realm with the Dou Qi Plane gradually, and went to the Source Pool for his final preparations. As Hei Pei Xuan explained the secret history of the Creation Universe Emperor Cauldron and the Spirit Infusion Immortal Gourd to Ling Jiu and the others, he revealed that Jiang Lin was Danqizi’s grandson.

• Hei Pei Xuan warned Jiang Lin that a sudden merger would expose the Ancient Sea Secret Realm to Dou Saints, and proposed a gradual process lasting at least a century.
• Jiang Lin agreed to Hei Pei Xuan’s plan, and Hei Pei Xuan led him to the Source Pool for the final preparations before his trial ended.
• Ling Jiu, Xuan Ji, Shi Fite, Feng Qing, and Yuan Fen reached the Source Pool, where they saw Jiang Lin surrounded by gray figures and immersed in Ancient Origin Liquid.
• Hei Pei Xuan identified himself as the new Artifact Spirit of the Creation Universe Emperor Cauldron and revealed why Yuan Fen had survived the earlier upheaval.
• Hei Pei Xuan explained that Danqizi had created both the Creation Universe Emperor Cauldron and the Spirit Infusion Immortal Gourd, and that Sage Ling Hu had helped him escape the Ancient Sea Secret Realm.
• Hei Pei Xuan revealed that Jiang Lin was the child of the Creation Universe Emperor Cauldron and the Spirit Infusion Immortal Gourd, making him Danqizi’s grandson.

Jiang Lin used the Source Pool to temper his companions, forge five Life Artifacts, and raise the group to Super Rank Nine-star Dou Huang. After preparing to merge the minor planes, he gathered everyone inside himself and brought twelve Heavenly Flames together within Xiao Yan, setting him up as half a Flame Emperor.

• Jiang Lin submerged the group in Source Qi and used Divine Essence Spirit Fire to temper their bodies and build temporary Source Qi meridians.
• Zi Yan, Cai Lin, Xiao Lan, Kelly, and Yuan Ming provided inherited relics, and Jiang Lin forged each of them a Life Artifact.
• After two months of cultivation, Jiang Lin and his companions reached peak Super Dou Huang or Super Rank Nine-star Dou Huang.
• Hei Pei Xuan and Ling Jiu reported that the Pei Xuan Army had prepared a law network across the Origin Qi Continent and protected the Origin Race for the coming plane descent.
• Jiang Lin drew everyone into his body as Xiao Yan gathered twelve Heavenly Flames, and the Burning Art began circulating wildly.

Jiang Lin linked Xiao Yan and the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon into a twelve-Heavenly-Flame reactor, transforming into a stellar sun that began raising the energy of the Ancient Sea Secret Realm as planes collided. He left Xiao Yan with seven days to devour eleven fire seeds and advance the Burning Art before the reactor state became unsustainable.

• Xiao Yan, the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon, and Jiang Lin formed a layered connection that let Xiao Yan cultivate the Burning Art with twelve Heavenly Flames while the cannon bore the strain.
• The Nine-Touring Sparrow told Pei Xuan that Jiang Lin’s karmic ties to Danqizi would lead him to help complete Danqizi’s final arrangement, while Pei Xuan speculated about claiming the Dou Qi Plane.
• Jiang Lin became a stellar sun and used his Divine Essence Black Hole to draw in and recirculate Source Qi, raising the Origin Qi Continent’s energy as the Pei Xuan Array accelerated the process.
• The Pei Xuan Army began slowly colliding minor planes, while Jiang Lin discussed the fusion with Xiao Yan, who realized he had become a component of Jiang Lin’s Heavenly Flame reactor.
• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yan to use the temporary twelve-flame state to advance the Burning Art by devouring eleven fire seeds within seven days.

Jiang Lin replaced himself with the Doomsday Crystal to control the Ancient Sea Secret Realm’s energy reaction and learned that the Origin Qi Continent would take decades to enter the Dou Qi Plane. He arranged for a few companions to leave while keeping the trial-takers informed, then discovered that the Dou Qi Plane’s laws had accepted his beyond-tier Nine-star realm and might be exploitable.

• Jiang Lin threw the refined Doomsday Crystal into the Source Pool, where it took over the energy reaction and could last three years.
• Jiang Lin told Ling Jiu and the others that the Origin Qi Continent would enter the Dou Qi Plane gradually over ten to a hundred years, and revealed that an Emperor Cauldron Fragment could serve as a key to the Ancient Sea Secret Realm.
• Yuan Fen, Lan Hong, and Ling Jiu decided to leave the Ancient Sea Secret Realm with Jiang Lin, while Feng Qing and the city lords chose to stay.
• Jiang Lin explained the continent’s changes to the trial-takers, who agreed to wait and trust him after learning he could take people out.
• Jiang Lin entered the Dou Qi Plane and let it exchange the Source Qi within him for Dou Qi without weakening his realm.
• Jiang Lin realized that temporary law-patterns might let him exploit the Dou Qi Plane’s rules by breaking through to Dou Zun inside the Ancient Sea Secret Realm.

Jiang Lin reunited with the Soul Craftsman, his biological father, and learned that his mother was alive and might be saved. With Ling Jiu’s help, they discussed the Spirit Clan’s path to becoming a Dou Di and the flaw in its spiritual qi theory, leaving the Soul Craftsman to reconsider the Emperor Array.

• Yuan Fen left Jiang Lin and Lan Hong to return to the Whale Clan, while Lan Hong explained that he could recover only to Three-star Dou Saint cultivation.
• Jiang Lin reached the mysterious island and confronted the Soul Craftsman, asking him to call him Spirit Artisan instead of using his true name, Ling Jiang.
• The Soul Craftsman brought Jiang Lin, Hun Ke'er, and captive Yao Chen through a spatial formation to the Sacred Soul Hall, then took Jiang Lin aside and asked whether he wanted to save his mother.
• Jiang Lin confirmed that the Soul Craftsman was right about the Spirit Clan’s path of Holy Weapons and summoned Ling Jiu, who revealed that Xiao Xuan was still alive but half-dead.
• Ling Jiu explained that spiritual qi and Source Qi might offer separate paths to becoming a Dou Di, and that the Emperor Array might fail to create a spiritual qi Dou Di without immense power from Imperial Clans descended from Source Qi Dou Dis.

The Soul Craftsman warned Jiang Lin and Ling Jiu that the Soul Clan’s emperor-making plan might reach its decisive stage within ten to fifteen years, and Jiang Lin learned more about the circumstances behind his birth. Jiang Lin returned to the Sacred Soul Hall, gathered two years of intelligence, and headed with his companions toward Jia Nan Academy.

• The Soul Craftsman estimated that Hun Tiandi would act within ten to fifteen years and urged Jiang Lin to visit Central Continent when possible.
• Ling Jiu recounted how the Soul Craftsman and Ling Yun'er created Jiang Lin, whose mixed imperial blood led the Spirit Clan to seek to turn him into an Innate Spirit Artifact; Ling Yun'er escaped with him and removed his Imperial Blood.
• Jiang Lin returned to the Sacred Soul Hall, where Lu Protector welcomed him and reported his own breakthrough to Nine-star Dou Zong.
• Jiang Lin met Venerable Qing Hai, who gave him and his companions intelligence from the Sacred Soul Hall and the Black Corner Region; Yao Chen complained that Xiao Yan had taken his Bone Spirit Cold Fire.
• Jiang Lin led Ling Jiu, Hun Ke'er, and Yao Chen toward Jia Nan Academy, saying their gains from the Ancient Sea exceeded expectations.

Xiao Yan emerged from two years of seclusion having devoured eight Heavenly Flames and reached peak nine-star Dou Zong, while Jiang Lin learned how the Spirit Stone system had spread across the Black Corner Region. As the group traveled toward Jia Nan Academy, Yao Chen recalled how giving Han Feng half of the Burning Art had driven a wedge between them and ultimately led to his betrayal.

• Xiao Yan told Jiang Lin and the others that he had devoured eight of the nine available law-flames and reached peak nine-star Dou Zong.
• Jiang Lin learned that Jia Nan Academy's free Spirit Furnaces and mass production of blank Spirit Stones had rapidly expanded the Spirit Stone system throughout the Black Corner Region.
• Jiang Lin heard that Han Feng and Hu Qian had advanced from nine-star Dou Emperor to Dou Zong, then asked Yao Chen about Han Feng's betrayal.
• Jiang Lin argued that Han Feng's betrayal suggested Yao Chen had treated him badly, but Yao Chen refused to explain directly and admitted only that it had been his fault.
• As the group traveled toward Jia Nan Academy, Yao Chen remembered Han Feng suffering under the half-version of the Burning Art and recalled Han Feng telling him, "Teacher, you're always soft-hearted when you shouldn't be. I hate you."

After discovering that Xiao Yan had reached the Nine-Star Dou Zong Peak and advanced the Burning Art to the Heaven-grade, Yao Chen learned how rapidly the others had grown and discussed Xiao Yan’s prospects for further Heavenly Flames. Yao Chen decided Han Feng still had to be dealt with, and planned to turn his former disciple into a ghost cultivator.

• Yao Chen was stunned when Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Nine-Star Dou Zong Peak after absorbing Bone Spirit Cold Fire.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen that everyone else had also become Nine-Star Dou Zongs and asked him to assess the Heaven-grade Burning Art.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had refined eight of the nine law flame seeds from the Ancient Sea Secret Realm, while Jiang Lin kept the remaining seed.
• Xiao Yan shared information about two possible wind-flame Heavenly Flames, and Yao Chen judged that they could exist in hidden secret realms.
• Yao Chen concluded that Han Feng could not be spared because he possessed the Sea Heart Flame and half of the Burning Art, and planned to make him a ghost cultivator.

Jiang Lin sent Jia Nan Academy's leaders away, released Gu Xun'er, and discussed the risks and alliances surrounding her with Xiao Yi Xian and the others. After Lan Hong sensed a true dragon's aura beneath the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower, she led Jiang Lin to a hidden Stone Gate marked with Zhu Kun's message that he had entered the Emperor's mansion.

• Jiang Lin sent Su Qian and the other Jia Nan Academy leaders away after hearing about the academy's development and its partnership with the Sacred Soul Hall.
• Jiang Lin released Gu Xun'er from the Sky Burning Disc and sent her to reassure Elder Ling, her hidden guard.
• Jiang Lin and Xiao Yi Xian discussed why Gu Xun'er was unlikely to become their enemy, while Gu Xun'er privately considered the consequences of opposing Jiang Lin.
• Lan Hong sensed Source Qi sinking beneath the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and told Jiang Lin she detected the aura of a true dragon.
• Jiang Lin followed the sinking Source Qi underground with Lan Hong, who led him to a hidden ancient Stone Gate bearing a Dragon Seal Mark.
• Lan Hong translated the inscription as stating that Zhu Kun had entered the Emperor's mansion and left remains inside.

Jiang Lin discovered the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath Jia Nan Academy but chose to keep it secret, then found a way to use his Source Qi to help others cultivate. He gave Hun Ke'er Source Liquid in exchange for high-order Magic Cores, and the awkward method of taking it orally left him facing an embarrassing misunderstanding.

• Jiang Lin and Lan Hong found the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and agreed not to reveal its location.
• Jiang Lin considered using the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower as a source of Exotic Metal but decided against disrupting Jia Nan Academy's formations.
• Jiang Lin asked Hun Ke'er for high-order Magic Cores, and she revealed that her master had left her eighth- and ninth-order Magic Cores.
• Jiang Lin offered Hun Ke'er Source Liquid that could raise her cultivation, and she absorbed it orally from his finger.
• Hu Jia walked in on Jiang Lin and Hun Ke'er, misunderstood what she saw, and ran away; Jiang Lin later provided Source Liquid to another young woman as well.

Jiang Lin gave Hun Ke'er and Hu Jia Source Liquid, then received rare Magic Cores and learned about Ice River Venerate’s Exotic Ice. After forging four Spirit Cores and covering for a breakthrough at Jia Nan Academy, Jiang Lin discovered a burly old man watching him inside the Berserk Thunder Artifact Forging Chamber.

• Jiang Lin’s Source Liquid helped Hu Jia break through to Dou Emperor and Hun Ke'er advance to Nine-star Dou Zong.
• Hun Ke'er gave Jiang Lin four Eighth Order Magic Cores and a Ninth Order wood-element Magic Core, while Jiang Lin asked her to deliver a letter to Ice River Venerate about his Exotic Ice.
• Jiang Lin told Hun Ke'er he planned to visit the Origin Qi Continent, then began forging Spirit Cores in the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower.
• After receiving Hun Ke'er’s reply about the Soul Craftsman searching for the Black Demon Realm, Jiang Lin recognized a possible connection between the Black Demon Cauldron and the Thunder Clan’s Black Demon Thunder.
• Jiang Lin’s tower concealed Xiao Yan’s breakthrough to Dou Zun, but a burly dark-skinned old man appeared in the Berserk Thunder Artifact Forging Chamber and watched him.

Jiang Lin met Elder Lei and obtained the Wood Element Magic Core he needed to complete his preparations for breaking through to Dou Zun. After learning Elder Lei planned to arrange his son’s marriage to Gu Xun’er and Hun Ke’er, Jiang Lin recognized the awkward connection and left Elder Lei unaware that his son had a love rival.

• Elder Lei revealed that he had watched Jiang Lin refining artifacts and noticed his three stable spirit forces.
• Jiang Lin claimed that Hun Tianjiang was his biological father, and Elder Lei gave him a thunder-patterned Wood Element Magic Core.
• Elder Lei praised Jiang Lin’s potential to become the strongest Dou Saint and boasted about his son’s Divine Bloodline and future prospects.
• Elder Lei said his son was engaged to Gu Xun’er and fantasized about marrying him to the Soul Clan saintess Hun Ke’er as well.
• Jiang Lin recognized the names Gu Xun’er and Hun Ke’er and realized Elder Lei’s son was connected to his romantic rivals.
• Elder Lei invited Jiang Lin to accompany him when he went to propose to Gu Xun’er, then asked who had just broken through to Dou Zun.