Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan endured repeated cycles of bodily destruction and recovery to advance the Everlasting Emperor Art to its sixth level. He discovered that the Soul Suppressing Pagoda could store spirit stones, and decided to use them to raise his cultivation.

• Lin Xuan used the Blazing White Lightning Seed and Crimson Lotus Flame to devastate his body while the Myriad Manifestations of Life sapling, the Everlasting Emperor Art, and blood qi restored and tempered him.
• After hundreds of years of cultivation and three rounds of torment, Lin Xuan advanced the Everlasting Emperor Art to the sixth level.
• Lin Xuan assessed that his body-tempering strength could rival an early-stage Condensed Reality cultivator, or fight one at the peak of Condensed Reality if he used all his methods.
• Lin Xuan found that spirit stones appeared inside the Soul Suppressing Pagoda, but his battle saber could not be stored there.
• Lin Xuan suspected spirit stones could be stored because they were connected to his cultivation and decided to raise his cultivation inside the pagoda.

Lin Xuan consumed nearly forty thousand spirit stones to break through to the late Open Origin realm inside the Soul Suppressing Pagoda. He returned to the outside world just as two Gold Fiends attacked and charged at them with Dragon Breath Slash.

• Lin Xuan cultivated Source Qi until it liquefied, using nearly forty thousand spirit stones to reach the late Open Origin realm.
• Lin Xuan returned from the Soul Suppressing Pagoda after more than four hundred years had passed inside but only an instant outside.
• The two late True Condensation realm Gold Fiends rushed at Lin Xuan and were stunned by his rapidly changing, powerful aura.
• Lin Xuan used Dragon Breath Slash and combined gravity, fire-element power, and blade intent to charge at the Gold Fiends.
• Lin Xuan's immense power shattered the rudiments of Intermediate Blade Intent wielded by the two Gold Fiends.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed two Gold Fiends with his fire dragon and gravity abilities, killing them both despite one sacrificing his companion to escape. The battle ended with onlookers stunned by Lin Xuan’s strength as a late-stage Open Origin cultivator.

• Lin Xuan trapped the two Gold Fiends with his dragon breath and gravity, then killed one when his companion dragged him into the attack.
• The surviving Gold Fiend fled after being wounded, leaving his fellow disciple behind.
• Lin Xuan caught up and killed the fleeing Gold Fiend with three rapid saber strikes.
• The onlookers were shocked that Lin Xuan had killed two Gold Fiends and judged his combat power beyond that of an ordinary peak True Condensation cultivator.

Lin Xuan slaughtered Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples in Divine Firmament City, building up cultivation time and vitality as his allies held back their enemies. As he faced the formidable Pan Yuan, a peak Spirit Solidification Realm Gold Fiend, Lin Xuan unleashed his Divine Dragon's Final Breath.

• Lin Xuan rapidly killed Fiendlands disciples, while the Soul Suppressing Pagoda replenished his strength and accumulated cultivation time.
• Divine Firmament disciples and their allies cheered Lin Xuan as their powerful cultivators kept his opponents from interfering.
• Qi Ning Shuang blocked a True Origin Realm fiend who tried to break through and attack Lin Xuan.
• Pan Yuan broke through the blockade and charged Lin Xuan with a sword wreathed in water and fire, displaying Intermediate Sword Intent.
• Lin Xuan recognized Pan Yuan as his strongest opponent yet and countered with Divine Dragon's Final Breath, channeling lightning and fire.

Lin Xuan tied with Pan Yuan in their opening clash, then used his superior speed to evade him and slaughter Fiend Lands disciples across the Martial Arts Stage. The chapter ended with the Fiend Lands fighters fleeing whenever Lin Xuan approached, while Pan Yuan pursued him in fury.

• Lin Xuan and Pan Yuan clashed, and their attacks ended in a tie that shocked the watching disciples.
• Lin Xuan decided to leave Pan Yuan for later and dashed away from his next attack.
• Lin Xuan repeatedly changed direction to kill Fiend Lands disciples while Pan Yuan failed to catch him.
• Pan Yuan taunted Lin Xuan to fight him head-on, but Lin Xuan said he would kill him later and continued hunting his targets.
• Fiend Lands disciples fled in terror, and none at Spirit Solidification Realm or below except Pan Yuan dared to fight Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan pursued the fleeing Fiendlands disciples after the Blood Soul Formation shattered, while Divine Firmament forces overwhelmed the retreating enemy. Pan Yuan gathered nearly twenty disciples to lure Lin Xuan into a fight, and Lin Xuan agreed to kill him first.

• The Blood Soul Formation collapsed, and Divine Firmament forces surged in to slaughter the fleeing Fiendlands disciples.
• Old Demon Blood abandoned his direct clash with Luo Tongtian and focused on holding him off while his disciples escaped.
• Lin Xuan joined the pursuit and attacked Fiendlands disciples, having accumulated more than five thousand years of cultivation time.
• Pan Yuan blocked Lin Xuan with nearly twenty Fiendlands disciples he had gathered as bait.
• Pan Yuan sent the disciples away and challenged Lin Xuan, who recognized his trap and promised to kill him first.

Lin Xuan attacked Pan Yuan with an unrelenting chain of lightning-fast strikes, aiming to defeat him before the fleeing demonic land disciples could escape. He shattered Pan Yuan’s sword defense and left him facing a final, incoming blow.

• Lin Xuan decided to kill Pan Yuan and take control of the demonic land disciples fleeing nearby.
• Pan Yuan formed a spinning barrier of water-and-fire sword shadows to meet Lin Xuan’s attack.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Dragon's Roar Instant Kill and chained strikes without tiring by consuming cultivation time in the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
• Pan Yuan’s arms grew numb as Lin Xuan’s repeated attacks overwhelmed his defenses.
• Lin Xuan shattered Pan Yuan’s sword-shadow barrier and drove a streak of light toward his chest.

Lin Xuan killed Pan Yuan and pursued the fleeing Fiend Territory disciples, slaughtering more of them as they tried to reach the teleportation array. He blocked the survivors’ path and prepared to kill them all.

• Lin Xuan’s attack left Pan Yuan fatally wounded, and Pan Yuan died after hearing Lin Xuan’s taunts.
• Lin Xuan gained 190 years of cultivation time from killing Pan Yuan and chased the fleeing Fiend Territory disciples.
• Lin Xuan burned seven disciples with a fire dragon, then killed the four who survived the blast.
• Lin Xuan blocked the remaining disciples and used Dragon Breath Slash to kill several attackers and burn others to ashes.
• The surviving Fiend Territory disciples collapsed in terror as Lin Xuan faced them.

Lin Xuan and the people of Divine Firmament City wiped out the Fiendlands attackers after the teleportation array was shut down, leaving the survivors trapped. Lin Xuan discovered he had gained 7,633 years of cultivation time and thanked Qi Ning Shuang for helping him.

• Lin Xuan slaughtered the nearly twenty people Pan Yuan had gathered.
• The teleportation array in the Nine Heavens Pavilion shut down, trapping the remaining Fiendlands forces in Divine Firmament City.
• Old Demon Blood fled as the abandoned Fiendlands fighters attacked frantically, but they were all killed within ten minutes.
• Lin Xuan checked the Soul Suppressing Pagoda and found that he had gained 7,633 years of cultivation time.
• Qi Ning Shuang joined Lin Xuan, and he thanked her for coming to his aid.

Lin Xuan cultivated in the City Lord’s Mansion after the Fiendlands invasion, while Qi Ning Shuang waited to see him and wondered how he would handle Xu Yan’s arrival. Xu Yan had fled her marriage to visit her husband and taken the Silvermoon Family’s Divine Forging Art with her, prompting her family to pursue her.

• Lin Xuan used more than seven thousand years of cultivation time and spirit stones to raise his cultivation in the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
• Qi Ning Shuang arrived at Lin Xuan’s courtyard, waited without disturbing him, and thought about his childhood sweetheart, Xu Yan.
• Two days earlier, Xu Yan fled the Silvermoon Family aboard a Quasi-Divine Weapon flying vessel to visit her husband in Divine Firmament City.
• Grandpa Li chased after Xu Yan as she sped away from the Silvermoon Family.
• The Silvermoon Family Head learned Xu Yan had taken the Silvermoon Divine Forging Art and ordered people to bring her back.

Xu Yan arrived at Divine Firmament City and entered the Silvermoon Pavilion while Lin Xuan struggled with the enormous cost of cultivating his body. Qi Ning Shuang reminded him that Pan Yuan’s bounty could provide the spirit stones he needed, and Lin Xuan prepared to collect it.

• Xu Yan arrived in Divine Firmament City and entered the Silvermoon Pavilion, operated by the wealthy Silvermoon Family.
• Lin Xuan ran out of spirit stones after spending heavily to cultivate and complained that reaching the peak of the Open Origin Realm would demand even more resources.
• Lin Xuan asked Qi Ning Shuang to lend him one million spirit stones, but she said she did not carry that much money.
• Qi Ning Shuang reminded Lin Xuan that Pan Yuan’s bounty was two million spirit stones and suggested he collect it at the Silvermoon Pavilion.
• Lin Xuan was surprised by the bounty and decided it could solve his immediate shortage.

Lin Xuan learned about the Fiend Bounty List and became eager to earn spirit stones by claiming bounties. Qi Ning Shuang led him to the Silvermoon Pavilion, where they arrived at the foot of its luxurious nine-story building.

• Lin Xuan asked Qi Ning Shuang what the Fiend Bounty List was, and she explained the Azure Cloud Realm's bounty rankings and rewards.
• Lin Xuan became excited by the potential spirit stones and resources, while Qi Ning Shuang warned him not to overreach.
• Lin Xuan asked Qi Ning Shuang to take him to the Silvermoon Pavilion so he could collect a bounty and fund his cultivation.
• Qi Ning Shuang agreed and led Lin Xuan to the Silvermoon Pavilion, where he looked up at the nine-story building.

Xu Yan suddenly arrived at Silvermoon Pavilion, called Lin Xuan her husband, and kissed him in front of a crowd. After Lin Xuan questioned her, Xu Yan took his hand and invited him and Qi Ning Shuang to go with her so she could explain.

• Xu Yan descended in front of Lin Xuan, called him her husband, and tackled him to the ground with an embrace and a kiss.
• Qi Ning Shuang rebuked Xu Yan for kissing Lin Xuan in public, while onlookers recognized the pair and spread the news.
• Lin Xuan pushed Xu Yan upright and asked why she was calling him her husband.
• Xu Yan told Lin Xuan she would explain later, then took his hand and invited Qi Ning Shuang to accompany them.

Lin Xuan learned why Xu Yan and Qi Ning Shuang had brought him to the Silvermoon Pavilion and how the Gold Fiend Pan Yuan came to be. Xu Yan recounted the tragedy involving her maidservant Ling'er and broke down in Lin Xuan’s arms.

• Xu Yan carried Lin Xuan to the ninth floor of the Silvermoon Pavilion, where Qi Ning Shuang joined them.
• Xu Yan explained that the Silver Moon Xu Family opened its Spiritual Seas from birth and praised the extraordinary size of Lin Xuan’s Spiritual Sea.
• Lin Xuan realized Qi Ning Shuang had known about the situation and demanded an explanation.
• Xu Yan revealed that Pan Yuan had once been Chen Shui, a Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciple who captured her and Ling'er after Xu Yan left her family.
• Xu Yan said Chen Shui used fiendish methods to harvest Ling'er's cultivation and gained a trace of her Dual Water-Fire Spirit Physique talent.
• Xu Yan blamed herself for being willful and wept against Lin Xuan’s chest.

Xu Yan explained how Chen Shui escaped the Xu Family by taking the name Pan Yuan, and Lin Xuan learned that she had promised to marry whoever killed him. She claimed Lin Xuan as her husband and gave him the two-million-spirit-stone bounty, leaving him unsure how to respond to her proposal.

• Xu Yan told Lin Xuan that Chen Shui had tried to harm her after draining Ling'er, but escaped the Xu Family using a Great Teleportation Talisman.
• Xu Yan said the Xu Family later discovered Chen Shui had become Pan Yuan by changing his appearance, and Qi Ning Shuang explained that Xu Yan had offered her hand in marriage to whoever killed him.
• Xu Yan told Lin Xuan she would accept being his lesser wife and had once vowed to die if her rescuer refused her, leaving Lin Xuan at a loss.
• Xu Yan said she disliked her betrothed, Xiang Wuji, and assured Lin Xuan she was not using him as a shield; Lin Xuan said they would discuss the marriage later.
• Xu Yan handed Lin Xuan a storage ring containing the two million spirit stones he had come to collect.

Lin Xuan learned that the Nine-Layer Yin-Yang Heaven Secret Realm would soon open and that entering it required cultivation at the Origin Manifestation Realm or below. He decided not to rush his breakthrough after discovering that cultivation could advance inside the secret realm, which would stay open for half a year.

• Xu Yan offered Lin Xuan eight million spirit stones and access to more funds, but he declined and said his current resources were enough for now.
• Xu Yan warned Lin Xuan that breaking through to the Spirit Solidification Realm would make him ineligible for the approaching Nine-Layer Yin-Yang Heaven Secret Realm.
• Grandpa Li appeared and explained that eighteen Great Emperors had created the secret realm to nurture the four regions' geniuses and compete with the central region for the Azure Cloud Realm's Realm Destiny.
• Lin Xuan asked whether cultivators could break through inside the secret realm, and Grandpa Li confirmed that they could, while entrants could not exceed the Origin Manifestation Realm.
• Grandpa Li explained that the secret realm had nine increasingly difficult layers, would remain open for half a year, and required at least the True Origin Realm to have a chance of reaching the summit.

Lin Xuan learned that the Nine-Layer Yin-Yang Heaven would open in half a month, then received Xu Yan’s rare Silvermoon Divine Forging Art despite Guest Elder Wang’s objections. The chapter left Lin Xuan weighing whether to accept the top-grade Heaven-tier art, which could improve his cultivation speed.

• Grandpa Li explained that the Nine-Layer Yin-Yang Heaven opened every fifty years and offered inheritances left by the eighteen Great Emperors.
• Xu Yan told Lin Xuan that the secret realm would open in half a month, and Lin Xuan worried about the resources he would need to keep pace with other prodigies.
• Xu Yan offered Lin Xuan a jade slip, but Guest Elder Wang appeared and urged her not to give it to him.
• Xu Yan rejected Guest Elder Wang’s objection and handed Lin Xuan the Silvermoon Divine Forging Art, created by her father from a Moon God Art fragment and the Silver Moon Xu Family’s technique.
• Xu Yan explained that the top-grade Heaven-tier art could cultivate Lin Xuan’s Spiritual Sea and increase his cultivation speed, leaving Lin Xuan tempted to accept it.

Xu Yan gave Lin Xuan the Silvermoon Divine Forging Art, but Guest Elder Wang challenged her authority and brought the Xu Family’s forces to Silvermoon Pavilion. Luo Tongtian intervened in Divine Firmament City, protected Lin Xuan’s claim to the art, and sent Guest Elder Wang away.

• Xu Yan insisted the Silvermoon Divine Forging Art belonged to her late father and that the Xu Family had no right to stop her from giving it to Lin Xuan.
• Guest Elder Wang cited the Patriarch’s order and threatened to oppose Xu Yan, while Grandpa Li prepared to fight him.
• Ten flying vessels arrived above Silvermoon Pavilion, and cultivators from Divine Firmament City gathered to confront the Xu Family’s forces.
• Lin Xuan considered refusing the art so he would not cause trouble for Xu Yan.
• Luo Tongtian appeared, declared the art Lin Xuan’s, and ordered Guest Elder Wang to leave.
• Guest Elder Wang recalled the Divine Firmament Holy Lord’s temper, withdrew, and said he would report the matter to the Patriarch.

Lin Xuan accepted Xu Yan’s Silvermoon Divine Forging Art and began learning it at Silvermoon Pavilion. At the City Lord’s Mansion, Luo Tongtian predicted that Lin Xuan would master the art and certainly break through the Nine Heavens.

• Luo Tongtian urged Lin Xuan to treat Xu Yan well, then left with Grandpa Li for the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Xu Yan reassured Lin Xuan that the Forging Art belonged to her father and asked him to find the Moon God Art for her in the Nine-Layer Yin-Yang Heaven.
• Lin Xuan thanked Xu Yan, called her Yan’er, and used the jade slip to learn the Silvermoon Divine Forging Art.
• Luo Tongtian told Grandpa Li that Lin Xuan’s hundred-zhang Spiritual Sea made him a monstrous talent and that he would master the art before the Nine Heavens opened.
• Luo Tongtian declared that Lin Xuan would certainly break through the Nine Heavens, leaving Grandpa Li shocked.

Luo Tongtian told Grandpa Li that Lin Xuan could break through the Nine Heavens and might help shift the Azure Cloud Realm’s Realm Destiny toward the Southern Region. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan absorbed the Silvermoon Divine Forging Art and discovered it cultivated spiritual power through a burning Spiritual Sea.

• Luo Tongtian praised Lin Xuan’s strength and said he trusted him enough to become his guardian, hoping Lin Xuan could help restore his own condition.
• Grandpa Li explained how the Central Region held most of the Azure Cloud Realm’s Realm Destiny, while Luo Tongtian predicted it would eventually shift to the Southern Region.
• Luo Tongtian declared he would lead the Southern Region in reopening the Immortal Path, and Grandpa Li pledged to join him when Realm Destiny descended.
• Lin Xuan finished absorbing the Silvermoon Divine Forging Art and learned that it cultivated spiritual power by making it burn within the Spiritual Sea.
• Lin Xuan discovered the art also taught him to control spiritual power and use the offensive Spirit Blade technique.