Chapter Summaries

Lin Changqing memorized the leading names on the Battle Heaven Stele before returning to find Yan Tao and his followers attacking his cave abode. He suppressed three Inner Disciples and refused to release them, then drove Yan Tao and the others away as Yan Tao invoked Senior Brother Yuan Yang.

• Lin Changqing studied the Battle Heaven Stele and noted that Jiang Tianqiong of the Human Race ranked fourth among its recorded geniuses.
• Sensing an attack on his cave abode, Lin Changqing discovered three Inner Disciples assaulting its grand array while Yan Tao and dozens of followers watched.
• Lin Changqing turned the array against the attackers, overwhelmed their defenses, and suppressed the three Inner Disciples without killing them.
• Yan Tao demanded that Lin Changqing release the three, but Lin Changqing cited the sect rules and threatened to keep them suppressed for a hundred years.
• After the three begged for mercy, Yan Tao warned Lin Changqing that opposing him meant opposing Senior Brother Yuan Yang.
• Lin Changqing dismissed Yan Tao and swept him and his followers away with a storm of laws.

After defeating Yan Tao’s group, Lin Changqing learned that True Disciple Yuan Yang was behind the attack and set out to grow stronger. Yuan Yang planned to have Lei Fusheng confront Lin Changqing when he returned, while Lin Changqing chose and comprehended the White Tiger Geng Metal Blade Art.

• Lin Changqing left Yu Cheng, Huang Hua, and Li Daokui trapped in his formation and heard other Inner Disciples discuss Yuan Yang’s grievance against him.
• Lin Changqing decided to improve his strength, traveled to the Scripture Pavilion, and chose the White Tiger Geng Metal Blade Art.
• Yan Tao went to Yuan Yang and pleaded for help, but Yuan Yang blamed him for failing and ordered him to have someone watch Lin Changqing.
• Yuan Yang said Lei Fusheng would deal with Lin Changqing after returning and refused to rescue the three suppressed disciples in the meantime.
• Lin Changqing used his Identity Token to obtain the White Tiger Geng Metal Blade Art and absorbed its scripture into his Sea of Consciousness.

Lin Changqing traveled through an Underground Abyss to reach an ancient teleportation array leading to the Primordial Spirit World, where he intended to seek Spirit Crystals and cultivate a Primordial Spirit Body. When he attacked the guarded altar, 108 Primordial Fire Cloud Giant Pythons emerged and forced him into battle.

• Lin Changqing left the Huntian Sect and entered the Underground Abyss through a sealed fissure, using his Spiritual Power to survey the unfamiliar realm.
• Lin Changqing concealed himself from the Abyss Earth Demons and traveled to a volcanic region containing an ancient teleportation array.
• Lin Changqing approached the altar and slashed at it, but 108 Primordial Fire Cloud Giant Pythons rose from the magma and attacked.
• Lin Changqing used the Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram to block the pythons, but they linked together and drilled through its defenses.
• Lin Changqing summoned the Jingzhe Saber and unleashed his reworked White Tiger Geng Metal Blade Art against the charging pythons.

Lin Changqing subdued 108 Primordial Fire Cloud Giant Pythons and refined their essence to reach the fourth transformation of Defying Fate. After mastering the ancient teleportation array, he entered the Primordial Spirit World, where its laws suppressed his Spiritual Power and Divine Sense, and began descending to gather information.

• Lin Changqing used the Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram to suppress all 108 Primordial Fire Cloud Giant Pythons and store them in his Inner World.
• Lin Changqing entered an underground volcano and refined the pythons’ essence, transforming his body and Inner World three times to reach the fourth transformation of Defying Fate.
• Lin Changqing studied the ancient teleportation array for three days and three nights, mastered it, and activated it using the power of the underground magma.
• Lin Changqing arrived at an altar floating above the Nine Heavens Gale in the Primordial Spirit World and found that the world suppressed his Spiritual Power and martial Divine Sense.
• Lin Changqing decided to proceed carefully and descended toward the ground to gather information.

Lin Changqing entered Haoyang City in the Primordial Spirit World, concealed his outsider identity, and sought information about Spirit Crystals. At Star Picking Tower, he offered an Earth Grade High Rank Dao Pill to gain access to its upper floors, prompting a guard to summon the steward.

• Lin Changqing read merchant Cheng Yang's memories to learn the local language, customs, and cultivation system, but found no information about Spirit Crystals or Primordial Spirit Bodies.
• Lin Changqing entered Haoyang City while evading inspection by the Dao Artifact mirror at the city gate, then confirmed that his Identity Token could not access the Virtual God Realm.
• Lin Changqing chose to visit Star Picking Tower, one of the Great Spirit Dynasty's four great merchant houses, to search for Spirit Crystals.
• A Grand Unity Golden Immortal guard stopped Lin Changqing at the ninth floor and asked him to show his membership card before going higher.
• Lin Changqing offered an Earth Grade High Rank Dao Pill for inspection, and the guard recognized it as a Dao Pill and went to fetch the steward.

Lin Changqing negotiated with Nangong Qi at Star Picking Tower, offering his Star Dou Gathering Pills while seeking Spirit Crystals. Nangong Qi could not provide one but revealed that the Wu Family of Haoyang City reportedly possessed a Spirit Crystal and suggested the Heavenly Revelation Pavilion for further information.

• Nangong Qi apologized to Lin Changqing and brought him to Star Picking Tower’s thirty-third floor to discuss his goods and requested resources.
• Lin Changqing presented a Star Dou Gathering Pill, and Nangong Qi proposed auctioning it for at least ten billion Yuanyang pills with a five percent fee.
• Nangong Qi examined Lin Changqing’s resource list and was shocked to learn that Lin Changqing had personally created and refined the Star Dou Gathering Pill.
• Nangong Qi said Star Picking Tower and the other great trading firms had no Spirit Crystals, though he could try to gather Lin Changqing’s other requested materials.
• Lin Changqing asked Nangong Qi where he could find a Spirit Crystal, and Nangong Qi named the Wu Family of Haoyang City and recommended the Heavenly Revelation Pavilion for information.

Lin Changqing traded pills with Star Picking Tower for resources and set out to obtain a Spirit Crystal from the Heavenly Revelation Pavilion. Star Picking Tower’s Third Miss saw him as a possible business partner who could help her compete to become the tower’s heir.

• Lin Changqing gave Nangong Qi one Star Dou Gathering Pill and entrusted him with auctioning nine more while procuring the other resources on his list.
• Nangong Qi promised to prepare the requested items, accepted the pills as a deposit, and gave Lin Changqing a VIP invitation to Star Picking Tower’s auction.
• After Lin Changqing left, Star Picking Tower’s Third Miss examined a pill and decided to pursue a gradual partnership with him to improve her branch’s performance.
• Lin Changqing reached the Heavenly Revelation Pavilion and recognized that its Grand Array altered people’s senses and memories.
• Lin Changqing stopped studying the array to avoid attracting the pavilion’s experts and entered to seek a Spirit Crystal.

Lin Changqing bought the Heavenly Revelation Pavilion’s highest-grade information on Spirit Crystals and learned they could strengthen the body to support more divine abilities. He decided to attend Star Picking Tower’s auction, then seek Spirit Crystals in the Primordial Forbidden Zone.

• Lin Changqing met a mysterious Second-Tier Saint Realm incarnation in the Heavenly Revelation Pavilion and asked where Spirit Crystals could be found.
• He paid for the highest-grade information with a mid-grade Earth Grade Dao Pill and received a jade slip detailing Spirit Crystal locations and uses.
• Lin Changqing learned that ten Spirit Crystals could form a Primordial Spirit Body, while a hundred could form a Primordial Spirit Saint Body that increased the body's capacity for divine abilities fivefold.
• After studying the information in an inn in Haoyang City, Lin Changqing realized the Sect's mission aimed to strengthen its disciples.
• Lin Changqing planned to attend the auction in three days and then seek at least ten Spirit Crystals, aiming for a hundred in the Primordial Forbidden Zone.

Lin Changqing advanced his spiritual cultivation to the Great Sage stage and arrived at Star Picking Tower for its auction. After discovering that three Greater Divine Abilities were among the lots, he resolved to obtain them to improve his own martial path.

• Lin Changqing completed three days of cultivation, visualized seventy-two Zhou Tian Xing Dou, and created the spiritual secret art Mind Storm.
• Lin Changqing entered the Great Sage stage of the Manifestation Realm and judged that he could fight experts at the third stage of the Martial Saint Realm.
• Lin Changqing arrived at Star Picking Tower, where Mu Qing escorted him to VIP Room 009 for the auction.
• Lin Changqing read the auction booklet and learned that the lots included three Greater Divine Abilities and an Innate Supreme Treasure Fragment.
• Lin Changqing decided he wanted the three Greater Divine Abilities to refine his Hun Yuan Dao Seeking Scripture and Primordial Martial Dao, but was not intent on bidding for the fragment.

Lin Changqing won the Heavenly Dipper Big Dipper Sword at the auction for six billion Yuanyang pills, then watched as bidding began on the Star Dou Gathering Pill he had supplied. The pill’s ten-billion starting price set off a commotion, and the auction for it was underway.

• The veiled White-clad Woman opened Star Picking Tower’s auction and drew the crowd into fierce bidding.
• Lin Changqing waited until the Heavenly Dipper Big Dipper Sword’s price passed four billion, then bid five billion and six billion to discourage rivals.
• Yan Xingtian, bidding from VIP Room No. 6, grew furious at Lin Changqing and ordered a subordinate to investigate VIP Room No. 9.
• The White-clad Woman declared Lin Changqing the winner of the Heavenly Dipper Big Dipper Sword for six billion Yuanyang pills.
• The White-clad Woman introduced Lin Changqing’s Star Dou Gathering Pill, explaining that it raised the chance of attaining the Dao and becoming a Saint by thirty percent.
• Star Picking Tower set the Star Dou Gathering Pill’s starting bid at ten billion Yuanyang pills, prompting uproar and the first bids.

Lin Changqing recognized the auction’s finale, an Innate Supreme Treasure Fragment, as a piece of his Square Inch Pagoda and resolved to win it. Since the owner demanded life-extending pills and Spiritual Medicine rather than Yuanyang pills, Lin Changqing sat back, confident he could outbid everyone with his abundant supplies.

• A Star Dou Gathering Pill sold for 21 billion pills, and Lin Changqing anticipated earning nearly 20 billion after the auction fees.
• Lin Changqing bought two Greater Divine Abilities and a mysterious seed suspected to be an Innate Spiritual Root for 20 million pills.
• The White-clad Woman unveiled the auction’s finale, an Innate Supreme Treasure Fragment, and the crowd argued over its power and ownership.
• Lin Changqing recognized the bronze fragment as a piece of his Square Inch Pagoda, which resonated with it, and decided he had to obtain it.
• The White-clad Woman announced that the fragment’s owner would accept only life-extending pills and Spiritual Medicine effective on Saint Realm experts.
• Lin Changqing, confident he had plenty of the requested items, waited for other bidders to compete before making his move.

At Star Picking Tower, Lin Changqing offered a Creation Reincarnation Pill for the Innate Supreme Treasure Fragment after learning its owner wanted to save a friend suffering from a severe Dao Injury. The owner accepted the pill for a trial, leaving the auction's outcome dependent on whether it could heal his friend.

• Guests in private rooms bid lifespan-extending medicines and pills for the fragment, while Lin Changqing considered how to outbid them.
• Lin Changqing asked why the fragment's owner wanted lifespan-extending medicines, and the owner revealed he hoped to preserve a close friend's life while seeking a cure for his Dao Injury.
• Lin Changqing offered a Creation Reincarnation Pill, claiming it could give the friend a new life while preserving his memories and strength and erasing old injuries.
• The owner questioned whether the pill was genuine, so Lin Changqing offered to take no payment if it failed and recalled how it had healed a Green City disciple's Dao Injuries.
• The owner agreed to test the pill on his friend, and the Black Robed Man drew it into VIP Room No. 1.

Lin Changqing’s Creation Reincarnation Pill healed the injured man in VIP Room No. 1, earning him the Innate Supreme Treasure Fragment and the man’s favor. After the fragment fused with the Square Inch Pagoda and the auction’s payments were settled, Feng Beiyao proposed a business partnership with Lin Changqing.

• The man in VIP Room No. 1 took Lin Changqing’s pill, recovered from his Dao Injury, and gave Lin Changqing the Innate Supreme Treasure Fragment and an Identity Token.
• Lin Changqing let the Square Inch Pagoda absorb the fragment, causing it to evolve from a spirit treasure into a supreme treasure.
• Nangong Qi delivered Lin Changqing’s auction winnings and settled the bill, accepting five Star Dou Gathering Pills for the remaining balance.
• Feng Beiyao gave Lin Changqing the resources he had requested and introduced herself as Star Picking Tower’s Third Miss.
• Feng Beiyao proposed that Star Picking Tower act as the agent for selling the pills Lin Changqing refined in the future.

Lin Changqing agreed to cooperate with Feng Beiyao and Star Picking Tower of Haoyang City after she offered him a Spirit Crystal, a cultivation divine ability, and favorable trading terms. He left to cultivate with his new gains, while Feng Beiyao and Nangong Qi anticipated rising in Star Picking Tower's assessment.

• Lin Changqing asked whether Feng Beiyao represented herself or Star Picking Tower, and she said she represented both herself and Star Picking Tower of Haoyang City.
• Feng Beiyao offered Lin Changqing resources, sales channels, one Spirit Crystal, the Primordial Spirit Creation Qi divine ability, a one-percent handling fee, and a ten percent purchase discount.
• Lin Changqing verified that Primordial Spirit Creation Qi was genuine, agreed to the partnership, and handed Feng Beiyao hundreds of pills, including a Creation Reincarnation Pill, to sell.
• Feng Beiyao gave Lin Changqing the promised Spirit Crystal, and he teleported out of Haoyang City to cultivate and advance to the tenth level of Defying Fate.
• Nangong Qi congratulated Feng Beiyao on securing the partnership and predicted that it would boost her standing in the assessment.

Lin Changqing reached the tenth level of Defying Fate, refined a Spirit Crystal, and asked Star Picking Tower to collect divine abilities for him. As he headed east toward the Primordial Forbidden Zone, the Square Inch Pagoda’s transformation produced a mysterious rune that entered his mind.

• Lin Changqing reached the tenth level of Defying Fate and refined Feng Beiyao’s Spirit Crystal, increasing his flesh body and physique by at least thirty percent.
• Lin Changqing visited Star Picking Tower and asked Feng Beiyao to use his pills to collect Lesser, Greater, and Supreme Divine Abilities.
• Feng Beiyao agreed to acquire as many divine abilities as possible, while Nangong Qi praised her decision to partner with Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing left Haoyang City aboard the Heaven Escaping Shuttle and traveled east toward the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• Lin Changqing observed the Square Inch Pagoda continuing to transform, then saw it release a Mysterious Rune that entered his mind.

Lin Changqing entered the Square Inch World and discovered the Great Five Elements Technique, which clarified how he could advance his martial path without abandoning his Inner World. He returned to the Heaven Escaping Shuttle and used his five divine abilities to create five Grotto-Heaven Worlds, strengthening his Inner World’s origin and Heavenly Dao.

• Lin Changqing learned that the Square Inch Pagoda was a fragmentary Chaos Spirit Treasure containing its master’s inheritance, then opened the Square Inch World.
• Lin Changqing found and absorbed a crystal containing the Great Five Elements Technique, a Supreme Divine Ability that used the five elements to create an Inner World.
• Lin Changqing realized he could evolve Grotto-Heaven Worlds from divine abilities and use their World Origin to advance his Inner World and temper his body.
• The Square Inch World expelled Lin Changqing, and he returned to the Heaven Escaping Shuttle with a clearer understanding of his Dao.
• Lin Changqing used his five Greater Divine Abilities to create five Grotto-Heaven Worlds, expanding his Inner World’s origin and increasing its Heavenly Dao aura by nearly ten percent.

Lin Changqing entered the Primordial Forbidden Zone to seek Spirit Crystals, hoping to cultivate the Primordial Spirit Saint Body, but discovered that its distorted space-time had cut off his way out. He found two powerful beasts fighting over a Spirit Crystal and moved to seize it.

• Lin Changqing began comprehending the Great Five Elements Technique while traveling toward the Primordial Forbidden Zone.
• Lin Changqing entered the forbidden zone and discovered that its accelerated flow of time was rapidly consuming his lifespan.
• Lin Changqing tried to sense his way back but found that distorted, overlapping space-time had severed his route out.
• Lin Changqing scanned the area with Spiritual Power and detected two native beasts fighting over a Spirit Crystal.
• Lin Changqing formed a Five Elements hand to seize the Spirit Crystal before suppressing the beasts.

Lin Changqing seized a Spirit Crystal, refined a Saint-level leopard beast into an Origin Pill, and narrowly lost the ape after its hidden Sword Qi broke his prison. The ape returned to its master, the Woman in Blue, while Lin Changqing fled into an underground realm and discovered a Spirit Crystal mountain crowned by an ancient wood bearing nine strange fruits.

• Lin Changqing subdued the leopard beast, trapped the ape-like beast with a Five Elements prison, and refined the leopard into an Origin Pill.
• The ape unleashed hidden golden Sword Qi to break free, and Lin Changqing fled deeper into the Primordial Forbidden Land, suspecting the beast had a powerful owner.
• The ape returned to the Woman in Blue, who learned that an outsider had tried to refine it and left to avenge it.
• Lin Changqing crossed a twisted stretch of space-time and entered an underground realm filled with powerful exotic beasts.
• Lin Changqing found the beasts gathered around an ancient wood with nine different fruits atop a mountain made entirely of Spirit Crystals.

Lin Changqing risked stealing a massive piece of Spirit Crystal from a sentient peak and escaped the ensuing assault with the Square Inch Pagoda. He arrived on a desolate grassland, rich in Spirit Crystal but still trapped in the Primordial Forbidden Zone, and turned his attention to finding a way out.

• Lin Changqing burrowed beneath the exotic beasts and cut a ten-zhang-wide piece from the Spirit Crystal peak.
• The peak awakened and tried to pull the crystal back as exotic beasts attacked; Lin Changqing stored the crystal in his Inner World and broke through the ground.
• Lin Changqing used the Primordial Limitless Formation Diagram to delay the beasts' attacks, then activated the transforming Square Inch Pagoda to tear through sealed space-time and escape.
• Lin Changqing appeared on a desolate grassland and considered using his Spirit Crystal to obtain divine abilities and other resources.
• Lin Changqing warned himself against greed and decided that finding a way out of the Primordial Forbidden Zone was now his priority.

Lin Changqing refined Primordial Spirit Crystals while searching in vain for a way out of the Primordial Forbidden Zone. After the Woman in Blue destroyed his Heaven Escaping Shuttle and confronted him over her injured pet, she revealed that she could help him escape and asked what she would gain in return.

• Lin Changqing flew through the Primordial Forbidden Zone for nearly half a month, realized its twisted space kept him circling, and continued refining Primordial Spirit Crystals aboard the Heaven Escaping Shuttle.
• Lin Changqing refined crystals up to the ninetieth, enduring escalating pain and demonic spiritual assaults with the help of Primordial Spirit Creation Qi.
• A sword strike from above shattered the Heaven Escaping Shuttle, and Lin Changqing escaped before it exploded and countered the remaining sword qi with his Jingzhe Saber.
• The Woman in Blue arrived and accused Lin Changqing of trespassing and injuring her pet, the ape-like beast whose sword qi matched hers.
• Lin Changqing guessed that the Woman in Blue could help him leave the forbidden zone, and she confirmed it before asking what benefit she would receive.