Chapter Summaries

Lin Changqing and the other Inner Disciples began the True Disciple assessment, which required them to hunt Savage Ancient Beasts on a Primordial Life Ancient Star. After escaping Yun Tianyi’s followers with the Great Teleportation Technique, Lin Changqing surveyed the ancient star instead of immediately hunting.

• Feng Wu, Wang Xuan, and six other Heavenly Pool disciples met Lin Changqing on Dao Seeking Peak and encouraged him before the assessment.
• The Huntian Sect announced that the disciples had one month to collect one hundred Ancient Beast Inner Cores and one Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl, then teleported them to the Primordial Life Ancient Star.
• Lin Changqing persuaded Feng Wu and the other seven to split up so Yun Tianyi’s followers would not target them alongside him.
• Lin Changqing used the Great Teleportation Technique to escape the ambush circle around the teleportation island, alarming Yun Tianyi’s followers, who discussed countering his ability.
• Lin Changqing appeared more than thirty million miles away and spread his Spiritual Power across the Ancient Life Star while observing it.

Lin Changqing hunted Savage Ancient Beasts in a primordial forest on the Life Ancient Star to gather inner cores for the Huntian Sect’s True Disciple assessment. After collecting nearly three hundred cores, he left the forest and waited for a Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl to emerge.

• Lin Changqing surveyed the Life Ancient Star, sensed powerful Ancient Saint beings, and chose a forest without them as his hunting ground.
• Lin Changqing killed a black bear Savage Ancient Beast, took its inner core, and refined its body into a High-grade Dao Pill.
• Lin Changqing used Mind Power and the Great Teleportation Technique to ambush Savage Ancient Beasts and collect their inner cores.
• Lin Changqing stopped after hunting nearly three hundred beasts to avoid attracting powerful creatures in the forest.
• Lin Changqing left the forest and spread his Mind Power across the Ancient Life Star to detect a Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl when it appeared.

Lin Changqing waited and cultivated on the Ancient Life Star until a Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl appeared and triggered a fierce scramble among the assessment candidates. As the pearl broke free from a void-sealing mirror, Lin Changqing used a devouring force to pull it toward himself.

• Lin Changqing settled atop a central peak, spread his Mind Power across the Ancient Life Star, and cultivated while waiting for a Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl to appear.
• Over ten days, assessment candidates clashed while Feng Wu and the others hunted steadily; Lin Changqing watched them but did not intervene.
• After another three days, a Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl emerged from an exploding mountain, drawing candidates toward its pillar of light.
• An Inner Disciple used a bronze mirror to seal the pearl, but more than a hundred candidates attacked him, forcing him to defend himself and let the pearl escape.
• The pearl broke free of the seal and began fleeing again, but Lin Changqing’s divine radiance seized it with a devouring force and pulled it toward the nine heavens.

Lin Changqing seized the Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl, but a Savage Ancient Beast ambushed him as he tried to leave. He pursued the beast into its grotto-heaven and began overpowering it, while the Azure Sky Desolate Ox hoped to devour it and grow stronger.

• Lin Changqing used the Great Devouring Technique and Great Sealing Technique to take the Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl while the other Inner Disciples were fighting.
• A Savage Ancient Beast burst from the void and attacked Lin Changqing, whose combined blade technique severed one of its limbs.
• Lin Changqing followed the beast's aura through space-time to its grotto-heaven sanctuary and learned that the Azure Sky Desolate Ox wanted to devour it.
• The Savage Ancient Beast charged Lin Changqing, who countered with the Great Protection Technique, blade and sword attacks, and the Great Light Technique.
• Lin Changqing used the Great Sound Killing Technique to annihilate the beast's sound attack and declared that its advance would go no further.

Lin Changqing defeated a Savage Ancient Beast, took the resources from its cave dwelling, and waited for another Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl to appear. After Yun Tianyi’s followers tracked him down to stop his promotion, Lin Changqing shattered their attack with the Great Sound Killing Technique and left them badly injured.

• Lin Changqing sealed the Savage Ancient Beast in his Inner World for the Azure Sky Desolate Ox to devour, then gathered the cave dwelling’s resources.
• Huntian Sect disciples learned that Lin Changqing had seized the Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl, and Yun Tianyi’s followers formed a group to stop his advancement.
• Xiao Jian used a compass and a trace of Lin Changqing’s aura to lead the group toward his location.
• Lin Changqing sensed the approaching disciples, set a Grand Array around the peak, and waited for them.
• Lin Changqing roared with the Great Sound Killing Technique, blasting Xiao Jian and the others from the sky and leaving them badly injured.

Lin Changqing killed Xiao Jian and the other Huntian Sect disciples who served Yun Tianyi, then obtained the Great Tracking Technique from Xiao Jian’s compass. After three days without a Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl, one finally appeared, drawing cultivators into a scramble to claim it.

• Lin Changqing killed Mo Qian and the remaining Huntian Sect disciples, then destroyed their traces and refined their treasures.
• Lin Changqing found a Divine Ability Fruit of the Great Tracking Technique hidden in Xiao Jian’s compass and absorbed it, strengthening the fusion of his Heaven and Earth Dharma Aspect with his Inner World.
• Others learned that Xiao Jian and his group had likely died at Lin Changqing’s hands, but they hesitated to confront him and focused instead on finding Savage Primordial Spirit Pearls.
• After three days of searching, Lin Changqing spotted a Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl appear in the northeast, and cultivators raced to claim it.

Lin Changqing seized another Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl after destroying the restrictions around it, then escaped the battlefield while the Savage Ancient Beasts attacked the Huntian Sect Inner Disciples. He had deliberately provoked the beasts to turn on the disciples, including Yun Tianyi's lackeys, and later learned that every disciple had died.

• Lin Changqing arrived at the battle and swiftly killed a Savage Ancient Beast that attacked him.
• Lin Changqing combined the Great Light Technique, Great Annihilation Technique, and Great Treasure Refining Technique to break the seals and refine the Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl.
• The Savage Ancient Beasts attacked Lin Changqing, but he blocked their strikes with the Great Protection Technique and escaped using the Great Teleportation Technique.
• Lin Changqing watched from afar as the Savage Ancient Beasts turned on the Huntian Sect Inner Disciples, revealing that he had deliberately used them to kill his enemies.
• The Savage Ancient Beasts killed every Huntian Sect Inner Disciple on the battlefield.

Lin Changqing discovered that Yun Tianyi’s followers had attacked Feng Wu and the other seven disciples to lure him into a trap. He reached them in time to kill Feng Wu’s attacker with a devastating stomp, while the mysterious power deceiving his Spiritual Power remained unexplained.

• Lin Changqing spent the days gathering Savage Primordial Spirit Pearls and feeding Savage Ancient Beast corpses to the Azure Sky Desolate Ox, which grew stronger.
• With three days left in the assessment, Lin Changqing sensed that Feng Wu, Wang Xuan, and the other six disciples were under attack.
• Lin Changqing teleported to the primeval forest and found a group of Huntian Sect Inner Disciples fighting Feng Wu and the others in an area concealed from his Spiritual Power.
• Lin Changqing saw that Feng Wu was nearing exhaustion and stomped down on the handsome Third-Tier Saint Realm attacker.
• Lin Changqing’s stomp annihilated the attacker’s body, vitality, laws, and Immortal Golden Essence, leaving him no chance to revive.

Lin Changqing rescued Feng Wu and the other seven women from Yun Tianyi’s people, then gave each of them a Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl. He teleported them to the Huntian Sect assessment’s gathering place, where they waited for the array to return them to the sect.

• Lin Changqing annihilated the Huntian Sect Inner Disciples attacking Feng Wu and her companions, then explained that Yun Tianyi’s men had used them as bait against him.
• Feng Wu told Lin Changqing that a mysterious grotto-heaven had concealed their presence and that it held many dangers; her group had obtained only one Savage Primordial Spirit Pearl.
• Lin Changqing gave seven Savage Primordial Spirit Pearls to Wang Xuan and the other women, telling them they could all advance to become True Disciples.
• Lin Changqing dismissed concerns about Yun Tianyi’s people attacking them and teleported the group to the gathering place before the assessment ended.
• Lin Changqing and the others arrived at the teleportation array, where other participants were waiting for it to activate and return them to the Huntian Sect.

Lin Changqing’s bronze palace drew envy from the Huntian Sect disciples, but no one dared challenge him until Guan Yao arrived and tried to seize it. Lin Changqing repelled her attacks and began using the Great Treasure Refining Technique to take her stone mirror.

• Lin Changqing brought out his bronze palace, an Innate Spirit Treasure, and waited inside it with Feng Wu and the others as more disciples gathered.
• Guan Yao arrived with powerful sword intent and attacked Lin Changqing’s palace, attempting to seize it.
• The palace blocked Guan Yao’s first strike, and Lin Changqing’s blade qi tore through her sword-fire attack.
• Guan Yao used her Innate Spirit Treasure stone mirror to block Lin Changqing’s blade qi, while Lin Changqing appeared outside the palace.
• Lin Changqing declared that he would take Guan Yao’s treasure first and sent the Great Treasure Refining Technique toward her stone mirror.

Lin Changqing overpowered Guan Yao, sealed her, took her possessions, and refined her Bright Light Mirror. He cowed the other disciples and left with Feng Wu and his group as the teleportation array prepared to activate.

• Lin Changqing shattered Guan Yao's Huntian Sword Qi Cage, sealed her, and seized her Savage Primordial Spirit Pearls, beast cores, and other possessions.
• Lin Changqing refined Guan Yao's Bright Light Mirror and warned the gathered disciples not to challenge him or risk losing everything.
• The disciples decided they were no match for Lin Changqing and secretly chose to avoid provoking him while waiting for an opportunity.
• As the teleportation array prepared to open, Lin Changqing released Guan Yao's seal; she began to confront him but stopped when the teleportation announcement interrupted her.
• Lin Changqing put away the bronze palace and led Feng Wu and the others onto the altar, while the surrounding disciples moved aside.

After passing the Huntian Sect's assessment, Lin Changqing became a True Disciple and received a shabby peak that he believed had been assigned to provoke him. He began transforming it into a towering, heavily defended abode, drawing the attention of the other True Disciples.

• A True Disciple Elder verified the mission items of the twenty-seven survivors, and Lin Changqing handed over only the required amount.
• Lin Changqing and the others officially advanced to True Disciples, received their Identity Tokens and assigned peaks, and parted ways to arrange their cave abodes.
• Lin Changqing found his assigned peak short and desolate, suspected the True Disciple Elder had deliberately slighted him, and resolved to improve it.
• Lin Changqing used resources and Innate Origin Qi to raise the peak to ten thousand zhang and formed a star-powered defensive array around it.
• Lin Changqing began merging one hundred and eight thousand Houtian Spirit Treasures into the mountain as onlookers watched.

Lin Changqing spent forty-nine days refining his mountain into a powerful grotto-abode that could draw Innate Origin Qi and grow stronger over time. His display of wealth stirred greed throughout the Huntian Sect, while Yun Tianyi and another disciple began plotting against him.

• Lin Changqing fused countless spirit treasures and resources into his mountain, refining it into a peak connected to the Origin Realm.
• The commotion alerted True Disciples and elders, who discussed Lin Changqing's wealth as Yun Tianyi grew resentful and sent a rune to a young man in an earth-yellow robe.
• Lin Changqing sensed that someone was plotting against him and suspected Yun Tianyi, then resumed refining his grotto-abode.
• The young man in the earth-yellow robe recognized Yun Tianyi's scheme and decided to use Yun Tianyi's name as cover while making a move against Lin Changqing.
• After forty-nine days, Lin Changqing completed the peak abode, a top-grade Houtian Spirit Treasure protected by twelve Grand Arrays and capable of drawing Innate Origin Qi.
• Lin Changqing placed his palace-type Innate Spirit Treasure atop the peak, while rumors about his treasures and his conflict with Guan Yao made the sect's greedy disciples bolder.

Chen Yufei visited Lin Changqing with members of Heavenly Pool and asked him to help rescue Senior Sister Yun Chang, who was trapped in the Xuan You Grotto-Heaven. She promised Heavenly Pool’s support in his future fight against Yun Tianyi, leaving Lin Changqing to decide whether to join the dangerous rescue mission.

• Chen Yufei and the Heavenly Pool disciples arrived at Lin Changqing’s mountain, where its formidable grand array made them wait for his invitation.
• Lin Changqing welcomed them into his bronze palace and treated them to lavish spiritual treasures and his Nine Heavens Jade Marrow Spirit Wine.
• Chen Yufei explained that the four races were competing for an Origin Item inside the Xuan You Grotto-Heaven, which could grant control over the Xuan You Star Domain.
• Chen Yufei revealed that Yun Chang had been trapped in the grotto-heaven for three months and that only Saint Realm cultivators or below could enter to rescue her.
• Chen Yufei asked Lin Changqing to help save Yun Chang and promised that Heavenly Pool would support him against Yun Tianyi.

Lin Changqing agreed to ally with Heavenly Pool and enter Xuan You Grotto-Heaven to rescue Yun Chang, where he hoped to contend for its Origin Item. As Chen Yufei and the others departed, Wang Xuan warned that Lin Changqing concealed a terrifying power, and Chen Yufei resolved that Heavenly Pool would keep him as an ally.

• Lin Changqing questioned whether Yun Chang was related to Yun Tianyi, but Chen Yufei denied any connection, leaving Lin suspicious.
• Chen Yufei and Feng Wu urged Lin Changqing to ally with Heavenly Pool, warning that Yun Tianyi could use his sect connections and underhanded methods against him.
• Lin Changqing agreed to enter Xuan You Grotto-Heaven and help rescue Yun Chang, and Chen Yufei arranged for them to set out at dawn.
• Chen Yufei warned Lin Changqing that Yun Tianyi might have influenced the elders overseeing his True Disciple peak, but Lin Changqing dismissed her concern.
• After Chen Yufei and the others left, Wang Xuan told Chen Yufei and Feng Wu that he sensed a terrifying hidden power within Lin Changqing, and Chen Yufei affirmed Heavenly Pool would not make him an enemy.

Lin Changqing joined Chen Yufei and the other Huntian Sect True Disciples at the mountain gate, where he clashed with Yu Liang before Chen Yufei intervened. Chen Yufei brought out her Golden Light Cave Treasure Ship, and the group prepared to set off.

• Lin Changqing arrived at the mountain gate and overheard the True Disciples discussing his wealth and reputation.
• Yu Liang criticized Lin Changqing for making everyone wait and warned him to keep a lower profile.
• Lin Changqing traded barbs with Yu Liang, and their sword and saber intents collided until Chen Yufei separated them.
• Yu Liang threatened to confront Lin Changqing later, while Lin Changqing said he would be waiting.
• Chen Yufei summoned her Golden Light Cave Treasure Ship, and the disciples admired the rare flight-type Innate Spirit Treasure.

Chen Yufei brought Lin Changqing and the others to the Tianyuan Jungle, where Huntian Sect experts opened a temporary passage to the Xuan You Grotto-Heaven. The group arrived at the grotto-heaven’s entrance, where a figure emerged from the Huntian Sect’s palace.

• Yu Liang refused to kill Lin Changqing for Yun Tianyi and ordered his followers to investigate Chen Yufei’s plans without acting rashly.
• Chen Yufei told the Heavenly Pool members that Yu Liang’s group would help with initial dangers, while they would handle the rescue of trapped Senior Sister Yun Chang themselves.
• The Golden Light Cave Treasure Ship crossed the Dark Universe and brought everyone to the Tianyuan Jungle, shocking the group when they learned the grotto-heaven entrance lay within it.
• Chen Yufei used a Token to summon a temporary passage opened by Huntian Sect experts, and the group followed her through it.
• The group arrived at a plaza before the enormous Xuan You Grotto-Heaven gateway, where a figure came out of the Huntian Sect’s palace.

Elder Jin Chuan let Chen Yufei lead the Huntian Sect disciples into Xuan You Grotto-Heaven, while Lin Changqing suspected the elder had already reached the Ancient Saint realm. After the group entered, rival factions plotted against them and Lin Changqing sensed the power of the Origin Item as they set off deeper into the grotto-heaven.

• Elder Jin Chuan spoke with Chen Yufei, permitted the Huntian Sect disciples to enter, and warned them to put their lives first.
• Chen Yufei asked the disciples to follow her lead, revealed that she knew of a restricted place that might hold an opportunity, and gained Yu Liang's cooperation.
• A demon race expert ordered their people inside Xuan You Grotto-Heaven to target the Huntian Sect, while other factions also prepared to exploit the coming conflict.
• Lin Changqing and the others entered Xuan You Grotto-Heaven, where he sensed the domain's origin power and imagined the strength he could gain from the Origin Item.
• Chen Yufei summoned her Golden Light Cave Treasure Ship, and the group boarded it to travel through the grotto-heaven without entering the Dark Universe.

Lin Changqing and the others traveled into the Xuan You Grotto-Heaven and reached a perilous continent where Chen Yufei claimed a great opportunity lay. As they advanced toward its center, Lin Changqing absorbed the poisonous miasma, strengthening his Great Poison Technique and gaining a new insight into Void Creation.

• Chen Yufei brought the Golden Light Cave Treasure Ship to a vast, poison-filled continent where powerful native beasts and spacetime storms made the journey extremely dangerous.
• Chen Yufei told Yu Liang that a great opportunity lay at the continent's center and persuaded him to help lead the group through the perilous route.
• Chen Yufei drove the treasure ship through swarms of venomous insects and desolate beasts until distorted space stopped it short of the continent's center.
• The group left the ship and protected themselves from the deadly poisonous miasma, while Lin Changqing absorbed it with the Great Devouring Technique.
• Lin Changqing refined the miasma as nourishment, causing his Great Poison Technique's Divine Ability World to expand and giving him an unprecedented understanding of Void Creation.

Lin Changqing broke through to the Fifth-Tier Saint Realm by comprehending Void Creation, then drew attention as he devoured the poisonous miasma while the group traveled across the continent. Yu Liang decided to pass information about Lin Changqing to Yun Tianyi rather than confront him, and as the journey grew more dangerous, Chen Yufei asked Lin Changqing to act.

• Lin Changqing comprehended Void Creation, transformed his Inner World, and stabilized his cultivation at the Fifth-Tier Saint Realm.
• The others noticed Lin Changqing swallowing poisonous miasma, while Yu Liang and his followers discussed his Great Poison Technique and feared his growing strength.
• Yu Liang decided to inform Yun Tianyi about Lin Changqing, and Lin Changqing overheard the group's secret transmissions.
• Lin Changqing continued devouring the miasma as the group traveled deeper into the continent, where warped space-time and poisonous miasma slowed their progress.
• The group urged Chen Yufei to retreat as conditions worsened, and she turned to Lin Changqing and asked him to act.