Chapter Summaries

Lin Changqing negotiated with seventeen Quasi-Saint Great Powers seeking to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint, refusing the Gong Family’s offer of an Innate Spirit Treasure. He then met Lu Yiren, honored his old promise to let her study the ancient stele, and invited her into Green Mountain Village.

• Lin Changqing told the seventeen Quasi-Saint Great Powers to state what they could offer for a chance to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• After the Gong Family offered an Innate Spirit Treasure, Lin Changqing left without accepting, while the visitors argued over how to proceed.
• Lin Yan told Lin Changqing that Lu Yiren was waiting outside the village and wanted to speak with him there.
• Lu Yiren asked whether Lin Changqing still honored his promise from the Pure Yang Grotto-Heaven to let her comprehend the ancient stele.
• Lin Changqing confirmed the promise and invited Lu Yiren into Green Mountain Village to join the other visitors.

Lu Yiren entered Green Mountain Village to seek a chance to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint, while Lin Changqing negotiated with seventeen Quasi-Saint Great Powers over the price of a slot. He demanded a vast supply of spiritual resources and spirit crystals, leaving the gathered powers to decide whether they could meet his terms.

• Lu Yiren agreed to enter Green Mountain Village, assuring Lin Changqing she would not pursue their past conflict and explaining she wanted to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Lin Changqing arranged a courtyard for Lu Yiren, then returned to find Lin Hu negotiating with seventeen Quasi-Saint Great Powers.
• Cloud Sword Venerable asked Lin Changqing to state his terms for a slot to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Lin Changqing demanded ten Innate Spiritual Roots, ten thousand middle-grade-or-better Innate Spiritual Medicines, one million jin of middle-grade-or-better Innate Spiritual Materials, and ten billion spirit crystals per slot.
• Lin Changqing considered restricting future access to Immortal Spiritual Qi in the Pure Yang Limitless Tower to Green Mountain Village's elite, who would need to spend contribution points.

Lin Changqing sold nearly fifty slots to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint, bringing a fortune of resources to Green City. After the buyers entered the Pure Yang Limitless Tower, Lin Changqing began putting his plans for Green City’s expansion into motion.

• Lin Changqing demanded steep payments for access to the Method of Becoming a Saint, and Shen Qianshan agreed to buy three slots for the Heavenly Treasure Tower.
• After Lin Changqing warned that the price would rise later, Cloud Sword Venerable and the other representatives agreed to buy nearly fifty slots.
• Lin Hu worried that others would covet the Ancient Stele and resolved to strengthen himself so Lin Changqing would not bear every burden alone.
• Three days later, the powers delivered the resources, and Lin Changqing took fifty experts and Lu Yiren into the Pure Yang Limitless Tower to study the method.
• Green Mountain Village officially became Green City, and Lin Changqing established the Green City Chamber of Commerce and a broader intelligence organization.

Lin Changqing oversaw Green City's new political system and watched the city’s influence spread as the price of saint-method comprehension slots stirred the Xuanhuang World. After Lu Yiren emerged from the Pure Yang Limitless Tower, she revealed that the Green Robe Ancestor had become a powerful Quasi-Saint and demanded five comprehension slots in exchange for his whereabouts, which Lin Changqing refused.

• Lin Changqing established Green City's Elders' Council and rotating City Lord system, and Lin Hu became the first City Lord.
• The Green City Chamber of Commerce expanded, while news of the costly saint-method comprehension slots stirred powers across the Xuanhuang World.
• Lu Yiren emerged from the Pure Yang Limitless Tower after secretly using the ancient stele to comprehend laws.
• Lu Yiren told Lin Changqing that the Green Robe Ancestor had survived, passed through the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, and become an unusually powerful Quasi-Saint.
• Lin Changqing decided the Green Robe Ancestor had to die and asked Lu Yiren where he was.
• Lu Yiren demanded five saint-method comprehension slots for the information, and Lin Changqing rejected her demand.

Lin Changqing struck a deal with Lu Yiren for information about Green Robe Ancestor, then tracked him to Yunzhou City and confronted him in disguise as a physician. Green Robe Ancestor insisted he had abandoned his old life, but Lin Changqing’s response remained unresolved.

• Lin Changqing bargained Lu Yiren down to one slot in exchange for Green Robe Ancestor’s location, and learned Green Robe Ancestor had become a powerful Demonized Warrior and Yunzhou Hall Master of the Eternal Life Alliance.
• Lu Yiren left Green City and muttered that she planned to trade her free slot with someone; Lin Changqing overheard her and then set out for Yunzhou City.
• Lin Changqing used his Spiritual Power to locate Green Robe Ancestor, who was disguised as a physician in a medicine shop and concealed his demonic energy with an Innate Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Changqing waited until the shop’s patients had left, hypnotized the remaining staff, and confronted Green Robe Ancestor alone.
• Green Robe Ancestor admitted who he was and protested that he had retired from the martial world, accusing Lin Changqing of relentlessly pursuing him despite their past grievances.

Lin Changqing defeated and killed Green Robe Ancestor, then learned the details of the Eternal Life Alliance’s Yun Province branch. He decided to have Lu Yiren help destroy the branch and sent her a message.

• Lin Changqing trapped Green Robe Ancestor inside a Derived Realm and suppressed his demonic attacks with lightning and blade power.
• Green Robe Ancestor transformed into a demon beast and tried to escape with a golden bead, but Lin Changqing’s array crushed him.
• Lin Changqing hypnotized Green Robe Ancestor and learned that he had rebuilt the Eternal Life Alliance’s Yun Province branch, recruited over a thousand members, and brought in a rogue cultivator Quasi-Saint.
• Lin Changqing killed Green Robe Ancestor with a blade strike and decided to destroy the Yun Province branch.
• Lin Changqing sent Lu Yiren a message, intending to use her hatred of the Eternal Life Alliance against it.

After killing Green Robe Ancestor, Lin Changqing refined the Heaven Suppressing Pearl and absorbed its Origin of the Sealing Law, greatly strengthening his Inner World and giving him control over part of the law. He traveled to Qianshui City to kill Du Yuntao, but found him missing and headed for the Eternal Life Alliance stronghold to pursue him.

• Lin Changqing sent Lu Yiren a list of Green Robe Ancestor’s Demonized Warriors and told Lin Hu to spread the story that Lu Yiren had killed Green Robe Ancestor.
• Lin Changqing refined the Heaven Suppressing Pearl, absorbed its Origin of the Sealing Law, doubled the size of his Inner World, and gained control over part of the Sealing Law.
• Lin Changqing left the apothecary and traveled to Qianshui City to kill Du Yuntao, the Eternal Life Alliance’s Yun Province branch master.
• Lin Changqing searched Qianshui City with his Spiritual Power but could not detect Du Yuntao, making him suspect that the man had fled.
• Lin Changqing headed for the Eternal Life Alliance’s stronghold in Qianshui City to pursue Du Yuntao.

Lin Changqing stormed the Eternal Life Alliance’s Qianshui City stronghold, killed its Demonized Warriors, and destroyed the pool empowering their demonization. He learned that Vice Hall Master Du Yuntao had gone to the Thousand Cloud Mountain Range, then seized a dark green orb from the shattered pool.

• Lin Changqing entered the stronghold’s underground palace and trapped the gathered Demonized Warriors with his Spiritual Power.
• The Warriors revealed that Green Robe Ancestor was dead and said Vice Hall Master Du Yuntao had gone to the Thousand Cloud Mountain Range.
• Lin Changqing rejected their pleas to join Green City and slaughtered the Demonized Warriors, collecting their possessions.
• Lin Changqing struck and shattered the demonic pool, then reached through the ruptured space and seized a dark green orb.

Lin Changqing discovered a palm-sized Heavenly Origin Profound Crystal and began purifying its demonic power in his Inner World. He found Du Yuntao at an Eternal Life Alliance base in the Thousand Cloud Mountain Range, where he confronted the mass imprisonment and brutal Demonization of ordinary people, and Du Yuntao fled.

• Lin Changqing crushed the orb and found a Heavenly Origin Profound Crystal contaminated by demonic power.
• He placed the crystal in his Inner World and used Immortal Spiritual Qi to cleanse it, estimating that purification would take no more than a month.
• Lin Changqing traveled from Qianshui City to the Thousand Cloud Mountain Range to search for Du Yuntao.
• Using Spiritual Power, Lin Changqing found an Eternal Life Alliance base where over a hundred thousand ordinary people were being forcibly Demonized, with nearly ninety-nine percent dying or maimed.
• Furious at the mass suffering, Lin Changqing confronted the base and roared at Du Yuntao, who recognized him and fled without defending it.

Lin Changqing killed Du Yuntao and sealed the canyon abyss, then destroyed the Eternal Life Alliance’s base and everyone inside to prevent its Demonized Warriors from becoming bloodthirsty monsters. He left the ruined canyon compressed into a small sphere containing its Yin Fiend Spirit Vein.

• Du Yuntao burned his divine soul to flee, but Lin Changqing killed him with a sea of Blade Qi.
• The Demonized Warriors tried to escape, while Eternal Life Alliance members planned to flee in the confusion and seek their hall master in Yunzhou City.
• Lin Changqing intercepted their plans and sealed the canyon abyss with an array.
• Lin Changqing unleashed the array’s Blade Qi, killing everyone in the canyon because the Demonized Warriors would eventually lose their minds and become monsters.
• Lin Changqing compressed the canyon’s ruins and innate Yin Fiend Spirit Vein into a fist-sized sphere.

Lin Changqing discovered and collected a vast vein of Purple Cloud Spirit Iron before returning to Green City, where Xing Shan told him the Great Zhou Emperor wanted to meet about the Method of Becoming a Saint. Lin Changqing planned to use the meeting to weaken Prince Zhao and recruit the Emperor for the Heaven Mending Plan, which the Demon Suppression Division had agreed to support in principle.

• Lin Changqing found a hidden vein beneath a cloud-wreathed peak in the Thousand Cloud Mountain Range and refined it into nearly 1.2 million jin of Purple Cloud Spirit Iron.
• Lin Changqing returned to Green City, leaving the campaign against the Eternal Life Alliance in Yunzhou to Lu Yiren.
• Xing Shan told Lin Changqing that the Great Zhou Emperor wanted to meet him about the Method of Becoming a Saint and suggested using the opportunity to make demands against Prince Zhao.
• Lin Changqing decided to travel to the Imperial Capital, intending to turn the Emperor against Prince Zhao and win his support for restoring the Heavenly Dao.
• Xing Shan told Lin Changqing that the Demon Suppression Division had agreed to join the Heaven Mending Plan, and Lin Changqing said he would discuss the details with everyone after his trip.

Lin Changqing met the Great Zhou Emperor to negotiate access to the Method of Becoming a Saint and secured the Emperor’s agreement to stop protecting Prince Zhao. The Emperor would not announce the deal publicly, but Lin Changqing planned to spread his stance through the Demon Suppression Division before returning to Green City.

• Prince Zhao learned that Lin Changqing had entered the palace and sent a Communication Talisman while plotting retaliation.
• Lin Changqing entered the palace pavilion alone and met the Great Zhou Emperor in a vast starry space.
• The Great Zhou Emperor demanded to borrow Lin Changqing’s Ancient Stele, and Lin Changqing insisted that the Emperor travel to Green City and pay the same price as others.
• The Great Zhou Emperor tested Lin Changqing with killing intent and pressure, but Lin Changqing absorbed it, earning the Emperor’s respect.
• Lin Changqing demanded that the Emperor stop protecting Prince Zhao and agreed to reveal his second demand after the Emperor comprehended the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• The Great Zhou Emperor accepted the demands but refused to make a public declaration, and Lin Changqing prepared to leave.

Lin Changqing was ambushed by Prince Zhao’s dead soldiers after leaving the Imperial Capital, but destroyed the attack and returned to the city gate in minutes. As the Great Zhou Emperor accepted Prince Zhao’s defeat, Prince Zhao activated a hidden portal and disappeared into it.

• Lin Changqing and Xing Shan celebrated the Great Zhou Emperor’s decision to abandon Prince Zhao and spread the news through the Demon Suppression Division.
• Prince Zhao learned that Lin Changqing had left the city and arranged an ambush using a forbidden artifact and hundreds of dead soldiers.
• Lin Changqing destroyed the formation, annihilated the attackers, shattered the ruined space, and returned to the Imperial Capital’s city gate.
• Xing Shan hurried to support Lin Changqing, while the Great Zhou Emperor judged Prince Zhao useless and focused on the Method of Becoming a Saint.
• Prince Zhao smashed a hidden Jade Bottle, opened a mysterious vortex with a piece of blood jade, and stepped inside.

Lin Changqing returned to Green City and watched Prince Zhao’s enemies attack his mansion after rumors spread that the Great Zhou Emperor had abandoned him. After waiting there for weeks, Lin Changqing welcomed three hundred powers who had come to discuss the Method of Becoming a Saint, but they hesitated to cross the bridge he had sent.

• Lin Changqing left the Imperial Capital after Xing Shan warned him to be careful of Prince Zhao, while onlookers discussed his ties to the Demon Suppression Division.
• Rumors that the Great Zhou Emperor had abandoned Prince Zhao spread, prompting rival factions to attack Prince Zhao’s Mansion and its allies across the Great Zhou Dynasty.
• Prince Zhao remained missing as his supporters fought back against the factions targeting them, and Lin Changqing stayed comfortably in Green City.
• Three hundred representatives, mostly from the Outer Sect Realm, arrived outside Green Mountain Village to visit Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing sent a golden rainbow bridge and invited the visitors to Green City, but they hesitated to step onto it.

Lin Changqing sold more than fifteen hundred slots to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint to over three hundred powers, then brought the buyers to the Ancient Stele in the Pure Yang Limitless Tower. He left them sealed on the Peak to begin comprehending, while his larger aim remained recruiting allies for the Heaven Mending Plan.

• Lin Changqing told the gathered powers that slots were available only in exchange for resources at his fixed price.
• Feng Wu bought thirty slots for the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden Palace, and Hongtian City and other powers followed with purchases of their own.
• Lin Changqing registered more than fifteen hundred slots for the powers and said buyers could send people to use them at any time.
• Lin Changqing transported the gathered buyers into the Pure Yang Limitless Tower and showed them the Ancient Stele.
• The buyers rushed to the Ancient Stele to comprehend the Method of Becoming a Saint, and Lin Changqing sealed the Peak with a Grand Array.

Lin Changqing prepared to launch the Heaven Mending Plan by targeting the Xuanhuang World's cult forces, beginning with the Eternal Life Alliance. He gathered allies and intelligence, while Xing Shan committed the Demon Suppression Division to the campaign.

• Green City prospered through its pill and artifact businesses as its Chamber of Commerce built branches and an intelligence network, while Prince Zhao's Mansion and its allies weakened under coordinated attacks.
• Lin Changqing received a report that Lu Yiren had nearly wiped out the Eternal Life Alliance's forces in Yun Province and decided the time had come to eliminate the cults threatening the Heaven Mending Plan.
• Lin Changqing ordered his agents to investigate the Eternal Life Alliance's headquarters and contacted Xing Shan and Lu Yiren to join the effort.
• Xing Shan mobilized the Demon Suppression Division's intelligence department, supporting Lin Changqing's plan to destroy the Alliance, which topped the Division's purge list.
• Xing Shan reviewed the Alliance's elusive history and trusted Lin Changqing to uncover its headquarters and eradicate its Demonized Warriors.

Lin Changqing allied with the Demon Suppression Division and Lu Yiren’s hidden force to destroy the Eternal Life Alliance, but after a month of failing to locate its headquarters, he set out to attack its provincial branches. He reached Jiangdu City in Qingzhou and headed for the Eternal Life Alliance’s branch in the Jade Dragon Mountains.

• Lu Yiren agreed to Lin Changqing’s proposal after the hemp-robed old man urged her to join forces against the Eternal Life Alliance.
• Lin Changqing’s search for the Eternal Life Alliance headquarters failed, so he decided to destroy its branches and force the headquarters to respond.
• Lin Changqing set out for Qingzhou while Xing Shan and Lu Yiren led forces toward Leizhou and Yuzhou to attack the Alliance’s branches there.
• Using intelligence from Xing Shan, Lin Changqing learned that the Qingzhou branch was hidden in a Cave Heaven Secret Realm in the Jade Dragon Mountains near Jiangdu City.
• Lin Changqing passed Jiangdu City without entering and directed the Heaven Escaping Shuttle toward the Jade Dragon Mountains.

Lin Changqing found the Eternal Life Alliance’s Qing Province branch hidden in a Cave Heaven Secret Realm and demanded to learn the location of its headquarters. When its members said they did not know, he attacked, leaving most of the branch’s Demonized Warriors incapacitated by his saber’s power.

• Lin Changqing searched the Jade Dragon Mountains with his Spiritual Power and located the entrance to the Eternal Life Alliance’s Cave Heaven Secret Realm.
• Lin Changqing broke through the concealed entrance, killed the figure who came to confront him, and entered the demon-filled realm.
• The Eternal Life Alliance’s Qing Province branch gathered more than three thousand Demonized Warriors, led by three Quasi-Saint Great Powers, to face Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing demanded the location of the Alliance headquarters, but the three leaders said they had never been told where it was.
• Lin Changqing attacked with the Jingzhe Saber, and the blade cry seized the minds of at least half the Demonized Warriors as his blade radiance descended.

Lin Changqing destroyed the Eternal Life Alliance’s Qingzhou branch and annihilated its corrupted secret realm, while Xing Shan and Lu Yiren also reported success against their targets. After waiting in Qingzhou City for the Alliance to respond, Lin Changqing headed to Leizhou when Xing Shan warned that an Alliance powerhouse had arrived, likely targeting Lu Yiren.

• Lin Changqing slaughtered the three Quasi-Saint Great Powers and thousands of Demonized Warriors in the Qingzhou branch’s secret realm with a single saber strike.
• Lin Changqing gathered the branch’s resources, destroyed the corrupted secret realm, and left for Qingzhou City.
• Xing Shan and Lu Yiren sent Lin Changqing brief messages confirming that they had each taken down an Eternal Life Alliance branch.
• After three days in Qingzhou City, Lin Changqing received Xing Shan’s warning that an Eternal Life Alliance powerhouse had entered Leizhou, likely targeting Lu Yiren.
• Lin Changqing teleported out of Qingzhou City and headed for Leizhou to confront the threat to Lu Yiren.

Lu Yiren and two Quasi-Saint elders faced Yuan Tianya, an Eternal Life Alliance envoy, after he overwhelmed them while avenging the destruction of his Leizhou branch. Lin Changqing arrived from Qing Province and cut Yuan Tianya in half, but Yuan Tianya quickly regenerated and rose to confront him.

• Yuan Tianya revealed that he had led the massacre of Lu Yiren's family and attacked her and the two elders.
• The three joined their strongest techniques, but Yuan Tianya shattered their attack and left them gravely wounded.
• The elders began burning their divine souls and Qi and Blood so Lu Yiren could escape and seek Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing appeared and sliced Yuan Tianya in half with a blade strike.
• Yuan Tianya regenerated, returned to the air, and faced Lin Changqing in alarm.