Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan questioned Wei Qi about the Desolate Bloodline, then used life force to heal him before subjecting him to repeated pain with the Everlasting Emperor Art and spiritual attacks. Wei Qi was left terrified and helpless under Lin Xuan’s control.

• Lin Xuan asked Wei Qi how killing him would improve the Desolate Bloodline, but Wei Qi refused to reveal the secret.
• Lin Xuan healed Wei Qi with life force, and Wei Qi tried to flee after his strength surged.
• Lin Xuan pinned Wei Qi down with gravity and attacked him with blazing white lightning, crimson flames, and Spirit Blades.
• Lin Xuan repeatedly healed Wei Qi and inflicted fresh torment, leaving Wei Qi screaming and calling him a devil.

Lin Xuan learned from Wei Qi that the Desolate Clan was using a Blood Slave to strengthen its bloodline, and suspected the captive might be his senior sister. After killing Wei Qi and absorbing his Aura of Providence, Lin Xuan advanced and gathered resources before preparing to cultivate, but a figure approached the mountaintop.

• Wei Qi begged Lin Xuan to kill him and revealed that the Desolate Clan was extracting blood from a Blood Slave to make pills that strengthened its bloodlines.
• Lin Xuan suspected the Blood Slave might be his senior sister, then killed Wei Qi after hearing his account.
• Lin Xuan gained a hundred years of cultivation time and absorbed the Aura of Providence from his Earth Ranking position, strengthening his body, spiritual power, True Qi, and Divine Eyes.
• Lin Xuan collected the group’s storage rings and found four hundred thousand spirit stones and three strands of Earth Essence Qi.
• Lin Xuan reached the summit and prepared to cultivate, but noticed a figure racing toward him.

Lin Xuan received Earth Essence Qi from Xu Yan’s family and began condensing his Foundation of Thick Earth as Xiang Wuji approached. Xiang Wuji saw Lin Xuan’s rise to eighteenth on the Earth Ranking and planned to take his Aura of Providence.

• A Xu family disciple delivered Lin Xuan five strands of Earth Essence Qi and said more would arrive, while explaining Xu Yan would help him gather essence qi for future foundations.
• The disciple warned Lin Xuan that Xiang Wuji was approaching with an alchemist team, thirty strands of Earth Essence Qi, and Earth Essence Crystals, and that his Blazing Sun Physique had grown much stronger.
• Lin Xuan thanked Xu Yan and returned to the mountaintop to fuse the Earth Essence Qi, drawing in vast earth-attributed power.
• Lin Xuan rose to eighteenth on the Earth Ranking, causing Wei Qi’s name to disappear from it.
• Xiang Wuji saw Lin Xuan’s new ranking and led his group toward him, intending to seize his Aura of Providence to strengthen his Blazing Sun Physique.

Wu Xu warned the Earth Ranking’s top ten that Lin Xuan was exceptionally powerful and told them not to challenge him lightly. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan merged twelve strands of Earth Essence Qi and absorbed the power that could grant him the Foundation of Thick Earth.

• Wu Xu judged Lin Xuan to be among the strongest and warned that Lu Xun would die if he sought Lin Xuan out.
• Wu Xu told the Earth Ranking’s top ten that Lin Xuan might one day become their senior brother, and a plain-faced youth left to test him.
• Lin Xuan summoned twelve strands of Earth Essence Qi, drawing earth-attributed power into a vortex around his mountain.
• Lin Xuan merged the strands into the power of the Foundation of Thick Earth and absorbed it into his body.

Lin Xuan discovered that the Earth Essence Qi had awakened information about his dormant Yan Huang Bloodline and revealed its immense power. He decided to keep activating it, though he did not know how much heaven-and-earth essence it would require.

• Lin Xuan felt the Earth Essence Qi sink into his body before a pure dragon's roar erupted from within him.
• A Divine Dragon Shadow appeared in Lin Xuan's cells and subdued the Earth Essence Qi with its majesty.
• The Divine Dragon Shadow swallowed the Earth Essence Qi and vanished, while information about Lin Xuan's bloodline surfaced in his mind.
• Lin Xuan learned that his Yan Huang Bloodline disdained ordinary power and would not boost his cultivation or help him form a Yin-Yang Nine Profound Body.
• Lin Xuan resolved to activate his bloodline and wondered how much heaven-and-earth essence he would need.

Lin Xuan followed the guidance of his awakened bloodline and found a basin teeming with earthen puppets, hoping to obtain Earth Essence Qi. The chapter left him facing a tidal wave of puppets and nearly five hundred puppet leaders.

• Lin Xuan used the Soul Suppressing Pagoda to cultivate, raising his spiritual power to 125 zhang, advancing the Everlasting Emperor Art to the sixth level’s late stage, and reaching the middle stage of Essence Condensation.
• Lin Xuan suppressed his bloodline’s urge to seek Earth Essence Qi until after his cultivation breakthrough, then flew away from the mountain before Xiang Wuji arrived at dawn.
• Lin Xuan followed the bloodline’s guidance to a sunken basin and descended into it.
• Lin Xuan discovered nearly five hundred earthen puppet leaders among the densely packed puppets, which charged at him like a tidal wave.

Lin Xuan slaughtered the earth puppets in the basin and absorbed their Earth Essence Qi, but his ancestral inheritance showed no sign of activating despite consuming a great deal. He returned to the mountain intending to find Xiang Wuji and found Xu family disciples waiting there.

• Lin Xuan unleashed his strongest attacks, destroyed the earth puppets, and absorbed 157 strands of Earth Essence Qi while collecting Earth Essence Crystals.
• Lin Xuan noted that the Soul Suppressing Pagoda had consumed 119 years of cultivation time and that his ancestral inheritance still had not activated.
• Lin Xuan sensed more Earth Essence Qi waiting far away but decided to kill Xiang Wuji first and claim his Earth Element and Aberrant Earth.
• Lin Xuan flew back to the mountain and found Xu family disciples gathered below it.
• Lin Xuan told the Xu family disciples to reveal Xiang Wuji's location and stay behind, but they protested that they could not let him go alone.

Lin Xuan sent Xu family disciples to collect Earth Essence Qi and flew off to find Xiang Wuji. Xu Jing blocked Xu Yan’s attempt to send him help, while Yu Bing gathered a hundred strands of Earth Essence Qi and set out to find Lin Xuan.

• Lin Xuan gave the Xu family disciples more than ten thousand Earth Essence Crystals and offered three for every strand of Earth Essence Qi they collected.
• Lin Xuan used his mental power to discover which direction the disciples were looking, then flew off to find Xiang Wuji.
• Xu Yan ordered her people to follow Lin Xuan’s wishes and contact allies near Xiang Wuji, but Xu Jing forbade anyone from helping Lin Xuan.
• Xu Yan sent Lin Xuan a message with the Twin Heart Bells and promised to help gather Earth Essence Qi.
• Yu Bing gathered a hundred strands of Earth Essence Qi and decided to find Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan raced through the Earth Element Heaven for half an hour, covering nearly two hundred li while replenishing his mental power.

Lin Xuan confronted Xiang Wuji, who was eager to kill him and claim Xu Yan. Both men prepared their powers for a fight, and Lin Xuan launched the first attack.

• Lin Xuan spotted Xiang Wuji and recognized his vigorous life force and late True Condensation cultivation as signs of the Blazing Sun Physique.
• Xiang Wuji recognized Lin Xuan and declared that he would kill him and claim Xu Yan.
• Lin Xuan answered Xiang Wuji’s insults by activating Thunderous Armor, the fourth level of Heaven’s Wrath, and crimson flames.
• Xiang Wuji invoked the earth element of the Grand Five Elements Reincarnation Art and challenged Lin Xuan to attack.
• Lin Xuan charged Xiang Wuji with World-Destroying Battle Blade in hand.

Lin Xuan and Xiang Wuji clashed with their strongest techniques, while Xiang Wuji repeatedly used Earth Element Heaven to restore his strength. The Xiang family members watched in shock as Lin Xuan proved stronger, though Xiang Wuji continued attacking.

• Lin Xuan struck Xiang Wuji with Divine Dragon's Final Breath, and Xiang Wuji countered with Mountain Shattering.
• Their attacks collided, and Lin Xuan's saber nearly reached Xiang Wuji before Earth Element Heaven blocked it.
• Xiang Wuji used Earth Element Heaven to restore his strength and attacked with Earth Rending, but Lin Xuan's next Divine Dragon's Final Breath sent him flying.
• Xiang Wuji recovered again and charged Lin Xuan with Star Shattering as the Xiang family members recognized Lin Xuan's strength despite his lower cultivation.

Lin Xuan and Xiang Wuji continued their fierce battle, with Xiang Wuji’s Earth Element defense and strength pushing Lin Xuan to retreat. Lin Xuan unleashed the World-Destroying Battle Blade’s Slaughtering Heavens, and Xiang Wuji’s defense was left barely holding together.

• Xiang Wuji’s Earth Element defense blocked Lin Xuan’s attacks while replenishing his strength, and the two remained evenly matched.
• Xiang Wuji struck Lin Xuan with Sky Shattering Quake, forcing him to retreat and consuming 120 years of cultivation time.
• Xiang Wuji charged again, convinced he could defeat Lin Xuan, while Lin Xuan prepared to use his blade.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Slaughtering Heavens with the World-Destroying Battle Blade, tearing apart Xiang Wuji’s vibrating attack.
• Xiang Wuji raised his Earth Element defense against the azure blade, but its power stretched the defense thin and left it barely holding together.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed Xiang Wuji with repeated Slaughtering Heavens strikes, breaking his Blazing Sun Physique and leaving him unable to recover. After suppressing the seven Xiang family members who rushed to help, Lin Xuan demanded that Xiang Wuji hand over the Earth Element in exchange for his life.

• Lin Xuan shattered Xiang Wuji’s Earth Element defense and wounded him, but Xiang Wuji’s Blazing Sun Physique restored him.
• Lin Xuan used successive Slaughtering Heavens strikes, exhausting 518 years of recovery time and nearly extinguishing Xiang Wuji’s vitality.
• Lin Xuan pinned Xiang Wuji in the crater while his Earth Element defense kept resisting the blade.
• The seven Xiang family members rushed to save Xiang Wuji, but Lin Xuan’s Gravity Domain forced them to kneel.
• Lin Xuan demanded the Earth Element from Xiang Wuji and offered to spare his life if he gave it up.

Lin Xuan defeated Xiang Wuji, but Xiang Wuji used a secret art to invade Lin Xuan’s Spiritual Sea and try to seize his body. Lin Xuan trapped him inside, leaving Xiang Wuji begging for his life.

• Lin Xuan reflected on the cultivation time he had spent fighting Xiang Wuji and prepared to claim his Aberrant Earth.
• Xiang Wuji deactivated his earth-element technique, and Lin Xuan’s battle blade pierced his chest, killing him.
• Xiang Wuji’s spiritual phantom entered Lin Xuan’s glabella and attempted to seize everything from him.
• Lin Xuan revealed that his Spiritual Sea far exceeded Xiang Wuji’s expectations and that he had mastered the Silvermoon Divine Forging Art.
• Lin Xuan sealed his Spiritual Sea with Spirit Flame, trapping Xiang Wuji after his escape attempt failed.
• Xiang Wuji begged Lin Xuan to spare him and offered the earth-element cultivation method and the Xiang family’s service.

Lin Xuan destroyed Xiang Wuji’s spiritual body and absorbed his memories and cultivation insights. When the Xiang family members discovered he was not their Young Master, Lin Xuan attacked them with his fire dragon.

• Lin Xuan crushed Xiang Wuji’s spiritual body and gained his memories, experiences, and cultivation insights.
• Lin Xuan took control of his body again and considered using Xiang Wuji’s identity to enlist the Xiang family’s power.
• The seven Xiang family members asked Lin Xuan to undergo the Bloodline Detection Art.
• Lin Xuan admitted he was not the Young Master and unleashed a crimson fire dragon against them.
• The Xiang family members tried to flee, but immense gravity trapped them as explosions rang out.

Lin Xuan killed Xiang Wuji and six others, seized their cultivation time and Aura of Providence, and captured the Aberrant Earth Sky Dust. After his power and spiritual strength increased, Sky Dust entered the Soul Suppressing Pagoda and formed a towering mountain, leaving Lin Xuan’s eye evolution still incomplete.

• Lin Xuan’s fire dragon turned Xiang Wuji and six others to ash, and he gained 1,070 years of cultivation time.
• The Earth Ranking placed Lin Xuan twelfth as the Soul Suppressing Pagoda absorbed the golden Aura of Providence from Xiang Wuji.
• Sky Dust tried to escape underground, but Lin Xuan used three divergent energies to restrain it and drew it into the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
• The Aura of Providence increased Lin Xuan’s spiritual power to 140 zhang and advanced his Everlasting Emperor Art and True Qi vortex, but his eyes’ evolution stalled.
• Sky Dust landed in the Divergent Energy Space and a towering mountain rose where it fell.

Lin Xuan absorbed Sky Dust’s power in Earth Element Heaven and awakened a new Divine Eyes ability called Divine Guard. After collecting the fallen disciples’ storage rings, he headed back as the Xiang family learned that Wuji was dead.

• Sky Dust’s power entered Lin Xuan’s eyes, and he realized it was the advancement material his Divine Eyes had lacked.
• Lin Xuan awakened Divine Guard and tested its powerful repelling force, which blasted rocks apart and carved a deep trench.
• Lin Xuan took the storage rings and let World-Ending absorb the weapons, then found nearly five million spirit stones among the spoils.
• Sky Dust weakened the pressure of Earth Element Heaven around Lin Xuan, and he flew back with his combat power increased.
• The Xiang family’s higher-ups learned that Wuji was dead and wondered whether he had been killed or died using the Soul-Seizing Secret Art.

Lin Xuan’s rapid rise to twelfth on the Earth Ranking left the Northern Domain prodigies in awe, while the Xiang family dismissed concerns about Xiang Wuji. The chapter ended with Central Domain prodigies eyeing Lin Xuan’s gains and regretting they had not gone after him.

• The Xiang family head silenced discussion of Xiang Wuji and insisted he had reasons for taking Lin Xuan’s body.
• Zhuge Bai warned the Northern Domain prodigies to avoid offending Lin Xuan and urged them to befriend him.
• Xiao Ya renewed her resolve to catch up to Lin Xuan, while Xiao Chen teased her about becoming his sister-in-law.
• Xu Yan celebrated Lin Xuan’s achievement, and Xu Jing questioned whether the Xu family had been wrong about him.
• Lin Xuan climbed to twelfth on the Earth Ranking, drawing the attention of Central Domain prodigies who regretted missing the chance to pursue his gains.

Wu Xu warned the Central Region geniuses that Ling Chong would die and praised Lin Xuan’s potential. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan studied Xiang Wuji’s memories in the Soul Suppressing Pagoda, mastered the Earth Element, and gained a powerful all-directional defense.

• Wu Xu told the Central Region geniuses that Ling Chong would surely die and said Lin Xuan had a fated connection with the Sanskrit Sound Temple.
• The Central Region geniuses doubted Wu Xu’s judgment of Lin Xuan, then followed him onward with complicated thoughts.
• Lin Xuan reviewed Xiang Wuji’s memories and learned that the Soul-Seizing Secret Art could steal another person’s Spiritual Sea at the cost of the user’s identity and abilities.
• Lin Xuan rejected the Soul-Seizing Secret Art and used Xiang Wuji’s experience to master the Earth Element and cultivate Sky Dust to completion.
• Lin Xuan learned that the Earth Element increased his combat power tenfold and granted him Earth’s Protection, an automatic defense against attacks from every direction.

Lin Xuan absorbed Xiang Wuji’s earth-element legacy and mastered the top-grade Heaven-rank Overlord Annihilation Art. As Ling Chong approached the mountain, the Xu family disciples reported Lin Xuan’s achievement to Xu Yan, who shared the news with a stunned Xu Jing.

• Lin Xuan discovered that the earth element replenished his expenditure through Earth's Pulse and wondered whether the metal and water elements still existed.
• Lin Xuan inherited Xiang Wuji’s Overlord Annihilation Art and advanced fist momentum, then absorbed the martial skill’s experience and insights.
• Lin Xuan practiced the four fist techniques on the mountaintop, blasting a massive gap into the mountain wall.
• The Xu family disciples recognized the Overlord Annihilation Art and sent word of Lin Xuan’s great mastery using their Transmission Talismans.
• Xu Yan told Xu Jing that Lin Xuan had achieved great mastery in the Overlord Annihilation Art, leaving Xu Jing stunned.

Lin Xuan finished mastering the Overlord Annihilation Art and set out to strengthen his Yan Huang Bloodline, while Ling Chong pursued him for his Aura of Providence. After Lin Xuan passed Ling Chong without recognizing him, Ling Chong attacked, forcing Lin Xuan to dodge.

• Lin Xuan reflected on mastering the Overlord Annihilation Art and the gains from spending four hundred years in the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
• Lin Xuan decided to fill up his Yan Huang Bloodline and flew away as the Xu family disciples stayed behind to collect Earth Essence Qi.
• Ling Chong traveled through the air, seeking Lin Xuan to take his Aura of Providence and advance his Lightning Spirit Body.
• Lin Xuan and Ling Chong met in midair, but Lin Xuan passed him without recognizing him or showing hostility.
• Ling Chong attacked Lin Xuan with a bolt of purple lightning, which Lin Xuan dodged as it blasted a crater into the ground.