Chapter Summaries

Xing Shan arrived in the Hundred Thousand Mountains seeking Lin Changqing, who brought him to Green Mountain Village and explained his plan to strengthen the village through generations of enhanced descendants. Lin Changqing discovered that two pursuers had followed Xing Shan, but let them go as the valley’s location would eventually be exposed anyway.

• Xing Shan released his Great Luo Golden Immortal aura across the Hundred Thousand Mountains to signal Lin Changqing, while spies from various powers watched him.
• Lin Changqing used the Pure Yang Limitless Tower to train Green Mountain Village elites, raising hundreds to the Heavenly Man Realm and planning to improve their descendants’ genes.
• Lin Changqing sensed Xing Shan, summoned him with a Spiritual Power crane, and brought him to the hidden valley where Green Mountain Village stood.
• Lin Changqing showed Xing Shan a Light Screen of two men who had followed him, and Xing Shan offered to kill them.
• Lin Changqing stopped Xing Shan and said he would let the pursuers follow, confident that the valley would eventually be discovered and that slaughter would deter the various powers.

Lin Changqing sent Xing Shan to study the ancient stele, then ordered Lin Hu to lead Green Mountain Village fighters against scouts in the Hundred Thousand Mountains. He discovered that Prince Zhao had sent Blood God Cultists and trapped and crushed the two cultists with a formation.

• Lin Changqing brought Xing Shan to the ancient stele in the Pure Yang Limitless Tower and told him that a Method of Becoming a Saint would not necessarily let him become a saint.
• Lin Changqing found Lin Hu in Green Mountain Town and ordered him to take men out and kill the scouts sent by the various powers.
• Lin Hu led three hundred elite fighters out of the Pure Yang Limitless Tower, while Lin Changqing followed later and tracked two men he learned were Blood God Cultists sent by Prince Zhao.
• Lin Changqing appeared behind the two Blood God Cultists and trapped them inside a formation that twisted the surrounding space-time into a Derived Realm.
• The Blood God Cultists summoned a sea of blood to resist, but Lin Changqing's formation crushed their defense and left them badly injured and buried beneath the collapsing peak.

Lin Changqing hypnotized two Blood God Cultists and learned that Prince Zhao had colluded with their cult for a century, while their deputy leader, Tu Sanjiao, held evidence of the alliance. He sealed the Hundred Thousand Mountains so Lin Hu and Green Mountain Village's elites could hunt down the trapped scouts, then returned to the Pure Yang Limitless Tower to study the ancient stele.

• Lin Changqing questioned two captured Blood God Cultists and learned they had followed Xing Shan under Prince Zhao's orders to find him and seize his Method of Becoming a Saint.
• The two cultists revealed Prince Zhao had worked with the Blood God Cult for a century and that Tu Sanjiao, the deputy cult master in the Imperial Capital, likely held evidence of their dealings.
• Lin Changqing stored the cultists in his Inner World and sensed Lin Hu and three hundred Green Mountain Village elites slaughtering scouts across the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Changqing sealed the Hundred Thousand Mountains inside a Derived Realm, preventing the trapped scouts from escaping.
• Lin Hu urged the elites to leave no survivors and led them toward another group of scouts, while Lin Changqing returned to the Pure Yang Limitless Tower.
• Lin Changqing sat near Xing Shan and used the ancient stele to continue comprehending laws, seeking the Three Thousand Fundamental Laws needed to advance his Inner World.

Lin Hu and Green Mountain Village’s three hundred elites slaughtered more than eight hundred spies trapped in a mountain hollow, proving the strength of their battle array. Lin Changqing judged his immediate goal accomplished, though he expected stronger forces to return after the various powers recovered.

• Lin Hu and the three hundred elites formed a Battle Array Soul after half a month of fighting and surrounded nearly eight hundred scouts in a mountain hollow.
• The scouts threatened Lin Hu with retaliation from their factions, so Lin Hu ordered his men to attack.
• Lin Hu led the battle array into the hollow, where its Bloodthirsty Tiger sound waves killed more than half the scouts and the elites slaughtered the rest.
• Lin Hu’s forces ended the battle with three dead and many wounded, then gathered their fallen brothers and headed home.
• Lin Changqing learned of the victory and returned to cultivating, expecting the various powers to send stronger forces later.

As the world's powers gathered to pursue Lin Changqing and seize his Method of Becoming a Saint, he continued cultivating in the Pure Yang Limitless Tower. After Xing Shan comprehended his own Method of Becoming a Saint, Lin Changqing urged him to face the broken path to sainthood by finding a way to restore the incomplete Heavenly Dao.

• Tu Sanjiao warned Prince Zhao that the Blood God Sect was his partner, not his servant, then left after promising to locate Lin Changqing.
• Prince Zhao raged at Tu Sanjiao and vowed to destroy the Blood God Sect after taking Lin Changqing's Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Powers across the world learned that Lin Changqing was in the sealed Hundred Thousand Mountains, and they gathered there to attack the realm or negotiate with him.
• Lin Changqing cultivated in seclusion for three months while Lin Hu and the others returned to the Pure Yang Limitless Tower after killing the scouts.
• Xing Shan comprehended his own Dao and Method of Becoming a Saint, while Lin Changqing advanced his cultivation and mastered more laws.
• Xing Shan despaired upon learning that the incomplete Heavenly Dao had severed the path to sainthood, but Lin Changqing urged him to forge a new path and restore it.

Lin Changqing negotiated five ancient stele comprehension slots for the Demon Suppression Division in exchange for access to the Hunyuan Tower and its future support. When more than ten thousand cultivators attacked the Hundred Thousand Mountains to seize his Method of Becoming a Saint, Lin Changqing confronted them and faced four Quasi-Saints and Yan Tian Zhenren.

• Lin Changqing offered the Demon Suppression Division slots to comprehend the ancient stele, and Xing Shan agreed to his demands in exchange for five slots.
• More than ten thousand cultivators attacked the Hundred Thousand Mountains' Derived Realm, and Lin Changqing sensed their assault.
• Lin Changqing and Xing Shan left the Pure Yang Limitless Tower while Lin Changqing kept the Green Mountain Village cultivators inside to continue training.
• Lin Changqing emerged and used lightning to crush the attackers' coordinated assault, drawing their attention and demands for the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Four Quasi-Saints and Yan Tian Zhenren prepared to confront Lin Changqing, and Yan Tian Zhenren claimed he could prevent him from setting up an array.

Lin Changqing rejected Yan Tian Zhenren’s offer to make him a disciple, exposing the conflict between them as the four Quasi-Saint Great Powers prepared to seize his Method of Becoming a Saint. Xing Shan arrived to defend Lin Changqing and provoked Chong Yue Sword Venerable by invoking his old rival Yun Yue, leaving Chong Yue furious.

• Lin Changqing praised Yan Tian Zhenren’s array skills, and Yan Tian offered to take him as his final disciple in exchange for the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Lin Changqing saw through Yan Tian Zhenren’s scheme and refused him, asking whether Yan Tian was worthy of teaching him.
• Yan Tian Zhenren and the four Quasi-Saint Great Powers revealed their plan to suppress Lin Changqing, while Yan Tian claimed his Grand Array had sealed the area and blocked messages.
• The four Quasi-Saint Great Powers demanded that Lin Changqing surrender the Method of Becoming a Saint and kneel to Yan Tian Zhenren.
• Xing Shan emerged from the Hundred Thousand Mountains and challenged the four for entering Great Zhou Dynasty territory without authorization.
• Xing Shan said he had sent word to Senior Yun Yue, enraging Chong Yue Sword Venerable, who had lost to Yun Yue eleven times.

Xing Shan challenged Chong Yue Sword Venerable and fought him to a standstill while Lin Changqing faced Yan Tian Zhenren and three other Quasi-Saint Great Powers. Lin Changqing’s Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram swallowed Yan Tian Zhenren’s Four Symbols Wind Lightning Array and then engulfed all four enemies, leaving Yan Tian Zhenren shocked.

• Xing Shan told Lin Changqing that the area was sealed and he could only hold off Chong Yue Sword Venerable, then attacked him with his bronze axe.
• Xing Shan and Chong Yue Sword Venerable clashed above the battlefield, revealing that Xing Shan had gained Quasi-Saint-level combat power.
• Yan Tian Zhenren and three Quasi-Saint Great Powers attacked Lin Changqing, but his Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram devoured their assaults.
• Yan Tian Zhenren unleashed his Four Symbols Wind Lightning Array against Lin Changqing’s formation diagram.
• Lin Changqing’s formation diagram swallowed the Four Symbols Wind Lightning Array, then expanded to envelop Yan Tian Zhenren and the three Quasi-Saint Great Powers.

Lin Changqing killed Yan Tian Zhenren and four Quasi-Saint Great Powers after suppressing their attacks with the Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram. He claimed the Hundred Thousand Mountains for Green Mountain Village, then learned from Xing Shan that the dead men’s sects included several powerful forces, especially the secretly formidable Yan Tian Sect.

• Yan Tian Zhenren’s Four Symbols Wind Lightning Array Diagram was swallowed by Lin Changqing’s formation, and the Quasi-Saint Great Powers launched their strongest attacks against him.
• Lin Changqing’s Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram endured their attacks and suppressed the five enemies, but they tried to escape by tearing open space.
• Lin Changqing struck the five with Mind Power Blade Auras, then used the formation’s blade lights to cut them in two and Immortal Spiritual Fire to burn their bodies to ashes.
• The onlooking powers fled, and Lin Changqing declared that the Hundred Thousand Mountains belonged to Green Mountain Village, with trespassers to be killed without mercy.
• Xing Shan warned Lin Changqing that the dead men’s forces would seek revenge and identified the other three as Shui Yun Dao Zun, Venerable Mituo, and the Canglan Island Master.
• Xing Shan explained that their factions included several first-rate powers and warned that the Yan Tian Sect had hidden strength comparable to a top-tier sect.

Lin Changqing sealed the Hundred Thousand Mountains, equipped Green Mountain Village with a hundred Bronze Battle Puppets, and returned to seclusion. News of his defeat of four Quasi-Saints and Yan Tian Zhenren spread across the Xuanhuang World, where rival powers began forming alliances against him.

• Lin Changqing refused to fear revenge for the Quasi-Saints he had killed, while Xing Shan warned him that ancient experts among the Overseas Great Sects could be far stronger.
• After Xing Shan left, Lin Changqing sealed the Hundred Thousand Mountains and returned to the Pure Yang Limitless Tower with everyone from Green Mountain Village.
• Tu Sanjiao, watching from a distance, learned of Lin Changqing's victory and fled to report it to the Blood God Sect's Cult Master and seek possible allies.
• After three years of work inside the tower, Lin Changqing deployed one hundred Bronze Battle Puppets, whose combined battle array could challenge a Limit Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Lin Changqing returned to seclusion as news of his battle spread throughout the Xuanhuang World, prompting many powers to form alliances and plot against him.

Prince Zhao, pressured by Xing Shan and the Demon Suppression Division, plotted to use the Tai Xu Tower to help the Yan Tian Sect rally forces against Lin Changqing and seize his Method of Becoming a Saint. Half a year later, an intruder broke through the Hundred Thousand Mountains’ defenses and reached Green Mountain Village’s valley, where Lin Changqing prepared to strike.

• Prince Zhao blamed Xing Shan for the Demon Suppression Division’s attacks on his faction and feared that he would lose the Great Zhou Emperor’s favor.
• Prince Zhao decided Lin Changqing’s power came from a Grand Array and ordered his steward to offer the Tai Xu Tower to the Yan Tian Sect to spur an alliance against Lin Changqing.
• Prince Zhao vowed revenge on Lin Changqing, Xing Shan, and the Demon Suppression Division after his steward left for the Yan Tian Sect.
• Lin Changqing spent another half year comprehending the laws before sensing a streak of light break through the Hundred Thousand Mountains’ defensive array.
• The intruder forced its way into the valley near Green Mountain Village, and Lin Changqing locked onto it as it entered the valley’s deadly Killing Array.

Venerable Wangji led a thousand Great Luo Golden Immortals into the valley after breaking Lin Changqing’s Grand Array, but the Bronze Battle Puppets ambushed them and killed or wounded many. As Wangji’s group destroyed one puppet and moved to seize the rest, Lin Changqing appeared and unleashed a giant palm of wind and lightning over the valley.

• Venerable Wangji used a compass to break the valley’s Grand Array and led his experts inside.
• One hundred Bronze Battle Puppets attacked the intruders with their battle array, killing about a third and severely wounding many others.
• Venerable Wangji identified the puppets’ battle array as their weakness and directed the group to attack one puppet together.
• Wangji and the other experts destroyed one Bronze Battle Puppet, breaking the battle array, then charged toward the remaining puppets.
• Lin Changqing appeared and summoned a Wind Lightning Giant Palm over the valley.

Lin Changqing overwhelmed Venerable Wangji’s array, then recognized that Wangji’s ancient tower contained fragments of the Square Inch Pagoda. Wangji’s Killing Array drew ten Quasi-Saint Great Powers into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, where Lin Changqing faced them with confidence in his greatly increased strength.

• Lin Changqing struck the valley with a powerful array, shattering Venerable Wangji’s defenses and damaging his golden compass.
• Venerable Wangji unleashed an ancient tower whose top two stories were fragments of the Square Inch Pagoda, then used it to create a Killing Array that suppressed Lin Changqing’s array.
• Lin Changqing recognized the tower fragment and deliberately waited for the Quasi-Saint Great Powers hidden beyond the Hundred Thousand Mountains to reveal themselves.
• Ten Quasi-Saint Great Powers arrived and surrounded Lin Changqing after Venerable Wangji called for them to attack.
• Lin Changqing revealed his confidence, having comprehended 912 basic laws and advanced his spiritual cultivation, and challenged the ten Quasi-Saints to make their move.

Lin Changqing fought off ten Quasi-Saint Great Powers and revealed the overwhelming strength of his blade and formation dao. As Venerable Wangji's Grand Array collapsed, Lin Changqing's Square Inch Pagoda moved to seize the Tai Xu Tower.

• Venerable Wangji urged the ten Quasi-Saints to attack Lin Changqing before the Demon Suppression Division arrived.
• The ten Quasi-Saints struck together, but Lin Changqing's protective shield annihilated their attacks, prompting them to unleash their full power.
• Lin Changqing drew the Jingzhe Saber and used a strike containing hundreds of laws to counterattack the ten Quasi-Saints.
• Venerable Wangji used the Tai Xu Tower to shatter Lin Changqing's apparent formation diagram, but Lin Changqing revealed the Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram and overwhelmed Wangji's Grand Array.
• As Venerable Wangji tried to flee, Lin Changqing sent out the Square Inch Pagoda, which enveloped the Tai Xu Tower with its devouring force.

Lin Changqing destroyed Venerable Wangji and defeated the ten Quasi-Saint Great Powers, then hunted down and killed the fleeing Demonized Warrior. Returning to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, he ordered the trapped Grand Luo Golden Immortals to choose between suicide and death, then struck them with his saber.

• The Square Inch Pagoda shattered the Tai Xu Tower, and the Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram killed Venerable Wangji and suppressed the ten Quasi-Saint Great Powers.
• The Demonized Warrior from the Eternal Life Alliance escaped through a Space Rift, but Lin Changqing pursued and killed him before returning to the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Changqing used his Spiritual Power to destroy the minds of eight Quasi-Saints and the formation diagram annihilated the remaining opponents.
• The trapped Grand Luo Golden Immortals panicked and pleaded with Lin Changqing, but he demanded they end themselves or face his attack.
• Lin Changqing slashed into the crowd, filling the area within a hundred li with blade light.

Lin Changqing told Xing Shan and the Demon Suppression Division that he had annihilated the forces that attacked him, then sought information to retaliate against them. After revealing Prince Zhao’s suspected ties to the Blood God Sect, he brought five Demon Suppression Division Quasi-Saints to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint and took Xing Shan aside to discuss the outside world.

• Lin Changqing’s blade sea killed more than a thousand Grand Luo Golden Immortals after he had already slain ten Quasi-Saint Great Powers.
• Xing Shan and five Demon Suppression Division Quasi-Saints arrived, and Lin Changqing told them he had killed every attacker.
• Lin Changqing asked Xing Shan for detailed intelligence on the sects that had targeted him, and Xing Shan agreed to provide it within three days.
• Lin Changqing told the Demon Suppression Division that Prince Zhao was likely behind the Blood God Sect’s rise, prompting the Quasi-Saints to consider investigating.
• Lin Changqing brought Xing Shan and the five Quasi-Saints into the Pure Yang Limitless Tower, where the five went to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Lin Changqing took Xing Shan to his residence to discuss outside affairs, intending to deal with Prince Zhao himself.

After the slaughter in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, factions across the Xuanhuang World feared Lin Changqing, while Prince Zhao regretted his schemes and sought to recover the Tai Xu Tower and conceal his Blood God Sect ties. More than a year later, Lin Changqing, Lin Yongfan, and Lin Hu were cultivating before the ancient stele inside the Pure Yang Limitless Tower.

• Lin Changqing began seclusion to study the Square Inch Pagoda after it fused with two layers of fragments.
• News spread that Lin Changqing had killed ten Quasi-Saints and over a thousand Grand Luo Golden Immortals, prompting factions to warn their disciples against provoking him and some sects to offer to buy his Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Prince Zhao learned that the alliance had been wiped out and the Tai Xu Tower lost; he vomited blood, then ordered his people to contact Lin Changqing and recover the artifact.
• After learning Xing Shan was preparing to strike the Blood God Sect, Prince Zhao ordered Tu Sanjiao to arrange Xing Shan's death and to erase evidence of his connection to the sect.
• As people gathered in Fengle County hoping to purchase Lin Changqing's Method of Becoming a Saint, Lin Changqing ignored them and continued cultivating; over a year later, Lin Yongfan and Lin Hu joined him before the ancient stele as Grand Luo Golden Immortals.

After more than a thousand years of cultivation inside the Pure Yang Limitless Tower, Lin Changqing reached a bottleneck and decided Green Mountain Village should enter the world. He planned to establish the clan in the Hundred Thousand Mountains and build a city there.

• Lin Changqing emerged from seclusion after visualizing seventy-two Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands and comprehending twelve hundred martial laws.
• Lin Changqing reviewed Green Mountain Village's growth and decided it needed to enter the world to overcome its bloodline bottleneck and support itself.
• Lin Changqing summoned Lin Hu and Lin Yongfan and ordered Lin Hu to call the clan elders to discuss Green Mountain Village's emergence.
• Lin Yongfan asked whether Green Mountain Village would remain in the Great Zhou Dynasty or move to the Outer Sect Realm, and Lin Changqing chose to build its foundation in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Yongfan volunteered to build the city with the Formation Hall and Puppetry Hall, planning to make it a top-grade spiritual treasure and an unparalleled fortress.

Green Mountain Village emerged from three years of seclusion, while Lin Changqing prepared to sell the Method of Becoming a Saint to leaders of the world’s powers. As factions and Great Zhou officials headed toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains, Lin Yongfan completed a vast, fortified city centered on the Pure Yang Limitless Tower.

• Lin Yongfan led one hundred thousand people out of the Pure Yang Limitless Tower to begin building a city in the Hundred Thousand Mountains, while Lin Hu returned to Green Mountain Village to reopen its commerce to the world.
• Two late Great Luo Golden Immortal puppet Flying Tiger Beasts guarded Green Mountain Village’s gates, and Lin Hu ordered visitors seeking Lin Changqing to have their leaders present calling cards.
• Lin Yan announced Lin Hu’s demand to the assembled factions, prompting some to protest and others to recognize that Lin Changqing might be willing to sell the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Powers across the Xuanhuang World sent leaders and experts toward the Hundred Thousand Mountains, while the Great Zhou Imperial Court deployed its own forces there.
• Lin Yongfan and his workforce raised a vast city of treasure-built walls and buildings, protected by a Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits Great Array and a Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation around the Pure Yang Limitless Tower.

Lin Changqing and Lin Yongfan named their newly completed city Green City, and Lin Changqing set out to meet seventeen Quasi-Saint Great Powers seeking the Method of Becoming a Saint. He planned to use their understanding of the method to gather support for restoring the flawed Heavenly Dao, and arrived at Green Mountain Village to receive them.

• Lin Yongfan named the city Green City and promised Lin Changqing it would always be a place he could rely on.
• Lin Hu told Lin Changqing that seventeen sects and aristocratic clans had sent Quasi-Saint envoys to seek the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Lin Changqing explained that he intended to sell comprehension rights to gather allies for restoring the Heavenly Dao, while Lin Hu believed he was seeking resources.
• Lin Changqing and Lin Hu arrived at Green Mountain Village, where Lin Yan guarded the seventeen visitors with three thousand soldiers.
• Lin Changqing reassured Lin Yan that Green Mountain Village need fear no one while he was there, then told him to lead the soldiers to the city gate to receive more guests.