Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan fought Ling Chong, a powerful and arrogant genius from the Central Region who looked down on people from the four regions. Lin Xuan’s attacks failed to land, and the chapter ended as Ling Chong prepared to counterattack.

• Ling Chong avoided Lin Xuan’s Spirit Blade with his speed and revealed that he was from the Central Region.
• Ling Chong called the people of the four regions barbarians and claimed Lin Xuan had obtained things he did not deserve.
• Lin Xuan activated Heaven’s Wrath, Fourth Layer, and Earthwalk, then attacked Ling Chong with his battle blade, flames, lightning, and Gravity Domain.
• Ling Chong broke free of Lin Xuan’s Gravity Domain and escaped Divine Dragon’s Final Breath before the attack could hit him.
• Ling Chong asked if that was all Lin Xuan had and began his turn, while Earthwalk gathered earth-element power beside Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan fought Ling Chong, whose Heart Lightning and speed let him evade Lin Xuan’s attacks while Earth's Protection kept him safe. Lin Xuan switched to earth-attributed techniques and intensified Gravity Domain, leaving Ling Chong visibly terrified.

• Ling Chong attacked Lin Xuan with a short blade, but Earth's Protection blocked the strike and replenished Lin Xuan's strength.
• Ling Chong demanded Lin Xuan's martial skill, then evaded Slaughtering Heavens and mocked Lin Xuan's speed as he dodged Dragon's Roar Instant Kill.
• Lin Xuan recognized Ling Chong's lightning as Heart Lightning, ranked ninety-ninth on the Exotic Lightning Rankings, and identified his speed as a weakness.
• Lin Xuan put away the World-Destroying Battle Blade and used Sky Shattering Quake to attack Ling Chong from all directions.
• Ling Chong tried to escape the pressure of Gravity Domain, but his expression changed and terror appeared in his eyes.

Lin Xuan overwhelmed Ling Chong with Sky Dust, but Ling Chong unleashed Heart Lightning in a desperate attempt to kill him. Lin Xuan answered with Divine Guard, which repelled the lightning and left Ling Chong terrified.

• Lin Xuan used Sky Dust to empower his Gravity Domain and struck Ling Chong with Sky Shattering Quake, sending him crashing into the ground.
• Ling Chong recognized Sky Dust and raged at Lin Xuan, refusing to accept defeat.
• Ling Chong unleashed the full power of Heart Lightning, engulfing Lin Xuan in purple lightning that pushed Earth's Protection to its limit.
• Lin Xuan activated Divine Guard, whose repulsive force annihilated the lightning and struck Ling Chong, making him spit blood.

Lin Xuan defeated Ling Chong with Sky Dust, then seized and suppressed his Heart Lightning. After the Soul Suppressing Pagoda absorbed Ling Chong’s Aura of Fortune, Lin Xuan advanced his cultivation and abilities.

• Lin Xuan crushed Ling Chong with Sky Dust, leaving him mortally wounded in a crater.
• Lin Xuan asked Ling Chong where Wu Xu was, but Ling Chong died before he could answer.
• The Soul Suppressing Pagoda gained 160 years of cultivation time and absorbed Ling Chong’s golden Aura of Fortune.
• Lin Xuan stopped Ling Chong’s Heart Lightning from fleeing and absorbed and tamed it with his four Aberrant powers.
• The Soul Suppressing Pagoda shattered the will within the Aura of Fortune, and Lin Xuan’s Everlasting Emperor Art, True Qi cultivation, Divine Eyes, and Spiritual Sea advanced.

Lin Xuan absorbed the gains from killing Ling Chong, including a powerful movement technique that could address his lack of speed. Meanwhile, the Xiang Family celebrated what they believed was Xiang Wuji’s success, unaware that he was dead.

• Lin Xuan’s spiritual power grew by twenty zhang, and he collected Ling Chong’s storage ring and short blade.
• Lin Xuan found Lightning Shadow Swiftstride, a movement technique suited to Heart Lightning, and set off to learn it and merge it with Flowing Light.
• The Earth Ranking vanished, leaving observers inside and outside the Nine Heavens shocked by Ling Chong’s defeat.
• The Xiang Family’s leaders celebrated, believing Xiang Wuji had possessed Lin Xuan’s body and killed a Central Region prodigy.
• Some Xiang Family members worried about provoking the Brahma Sound Temple and Ling Family, but the others trusted the Divine Firmament Holy Land to take the brunt and dismissed any chance that Xiang Wuji was dead.

After Ling Chong’s death, the Central Region prodigies reacted to Lin Xuan’s strength while Lu Xun vowed to kill him after taking Yu Bing’s Extreme Yin Source. Lin Xuan secluded himself in the Soul Suppressing Pagoda to master Lightning Shadow Swiftstride and found that Heart Lightning greatly enhanced his Divine Eyes.

• The Central Region prodigies discussed Ling Chong’s defeat, while Wu Xu claimed he could deliver Lin Xuan from suffering if Lin Xuan disrespected the Buddha.
• Lu Xun vowed to kill Lin Xuan after seizing Yu Bing’s Extreme Yin Source, then advanced as Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples and their allies formed an encirclement.
• Lin Xuan entered the Soul Suppressing Pagoda and began cultivating Lightning Shadow Swiftstride using his accumulated cultivation time.
• Lin Xuan spent two hundred years digesting the movement technique’s extensive teachings before beginning formal cultivation.
• Lin Xuan grew more adept at Heart Lightning and combined its perception with his Divine Eyes to detect the movement of even a mote of dust.

Lin Xuan mastered and fused Lightning Shadow Swiftstride with Flowing Light, creating a movement technique so fast it seemed like teleportation. He named it Flowing Light Flash and followed his bloodline’s guidance to fill his bloodline.

• Lin Xuan spent 1,200 years mastering Lightning Shadow Swiftstride, then began fusing it with Flowing Light.
• Lin Xuan completed the fusion after another 500 years, leaving 506 years of cultivation time in the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
• Lin Xuan tested the new movement technique and found it reached at least heaven-grade high rank, with speed that seemed like teleportation.
• Lin Xuan named the technique Flowing Light Flash and decided to teach it to Old Xiao and the others as repayment for Divine Dragon's Roar.
• Lin Xuan followed his bloodline’s increasingly strong guidance, and after a day the sense of direction grew stronger.

Lin Xuan found a vast Earth Golem nest where two cultivators were gathering power to awaken an Earth Golem Overlord. He realized the overlord’s core could grant an innate ability and watched as the two prepared for its emergence.

• Xu Yan lost the Twin Heart Bells’ connection to Lin Xuan and asked Xu Jing to tell her if his people found him.
• Lin Xuan sensed a huge battle ahead and discovered two figures slaughtering Earth Golems without collecting their essence.
• Lin Xuan saw the Earth Essence power flowing into a hillock that seemed to develop a heartbeat.
• Lin Xuan recognized that the hillock might be an Earth Golem Overlord whose core could grant an innate ability.
• The two cultivators called one another Senior Brother and said the Earth Golem Overlord was about to emerge for Wang Qiang.

Lin Xuan overheard Wang Qiang and Ji Qing boasting about taking revenge for Su Chi, then watched the Earth Golem Overlord emerge. As the pair prepared to fight it, Lin Xuan rushed in and struck first.

• Wang Qiang bragged to Ji Qing that he could avenge Su Chi after condensing his talent, while Ji Qing praised him.
• Lin Xuan overheard them and recognized them as Flowing Cloud Sect disciples, deciding he no longer felt guilty about robbing them.
• The earth golems exploded, and their gathered power formed the ten-meter-tall Earth Golem Overlord, whose aura reached the True Origin Realm.
• Wang Qiang and Ji Qing prepared to attack the overlord as Lin Xuan hurried toward them, drawn by his bloodline's excitement.
• Lin Xuan appeared before the Earth Golem Overlord and swung his saber with Slaughtering Heavens, frightening Wang Qiang and Ji Qing.

Lin Xuan appeared and killed the newly formed Earth Golem Overlord with one slash, then absorbed its Earth Essence Core. He confronted Wang Qiang and Ji Qing, who recognized him with terror.

• Lin Xuan struck the Earth Golem Overlord with an azure blade, shattering its shield and killing it in one slash.
• The Earth Golem Overlord’s remains formed an Earth Essence Core, which Lin Xuan seized and absorbed into his body.
• The blast sent Wang Qiang and Ji Qing tumbling across the ground as they watched Lin Xuan defeat the True Origin Realm-level creature.
• Lin Xuan vanished from where he stood and reappeared one meter in front of Wang Qiang and Ji Qing.
• Wang Qiang and Ji Qing stammered Lin Xuan’s name, frightened by the man they had boasted about confronting.

After killing the Earth Golem Overlord, Lin Xuan confronted Ji Qing and Wang Qiang for plotting against him. Wang Qiang claimed to have intelligence about dozens of Divine Firmament Holy Land members, but Lin Xuan tortured them when he refused to speak without a promise of safety.

• Lin Xuan asked Ji Qing and Wang Qiang whether they had wanted to kill him, and the two dropped to their knees begging for mercy.
• Lin Xuan raised his saber to kill them, but Wang Qiang offered important intelligence concerning dozens of Divine Firmament Holy Land members.
• Wang Qiang demanded that Lin Xuan promise not to kill them before he revealed the information.
• Lin Xuan used gravity to crush Wang Qiang and Ji Qing into the ground and ordered them to speak or die.
• When Wang Qiang defied him, Lin Xuan engulfed both men in crimson flames and purple-white lightning, leaving them screaming in pain.

Lin Xuan tortured Wang Qiang and Ji Qing until Wang Qiang revealed that the Bloodshadow Fiendlands were surrounding and killing Divine Firmament Disciples. He also learned that Yu Bing was among them, and set off with a sharp focus on finding her.

• Lin Xuan repeatedly healed and tormented Wang Qiang and Ji Qing while inspecting his bloodline’s reaction to the Earth Essence Core.
• Lin Xuan cultivated for four hundred years inside the Soul Suppressing Pagoda, advancing his Everlasting Emperor Art and Essence Condensation cultivation.
• Lin Xuan returned to the outside world, where Wang Qiang and Ji Qing begged him for a quick death.
• Wang Qiang revealed that the Bloodshadow Fiendlands were surrounding and killing Divine Firmament Disciples, with Yu Bing among them.
• Wang Qiang pointed toward the direction of the attack, and Lin Xuan’s expression turned sharp.

Lin Xuan learned that Lu Xun was on his way and raced to find Xiao Yu'er, killing Wang Qiang and Ji Qing before setting off. Ahead, Yu Bing and Lian Qingtian defended a valley where dozens of Divine Firmament Holy Land disciples were surrounded by Bloodshadow Fiendlands attackers.

• Wang Qiang revealed that he was a Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciple and said Lu Xun was on his way.
• Lin Xuan used Spirit Blades to kill Wang Qiang and Ji Qing, then hurried toward the place Wang Qiang had indicated.
• Lin Xuan pushed his speed to the limit and spent his cultivation time as he searched for Xiao Yu'er.
• In a mountain valley, Lian Qingtian urged Yu Bing to escape while he fought the Bloodshadow Fiendlands attackers.
• Yu Bing refused to abandon the trapped disciples and killed the attackers with her sword and icy-blue flames.

Yu Bing and Lian Qingtian led the exhausted Divine Firmament Disciples in a desperate last stand against the Bloodshadow Fiendlands. As they faced being overwhelmed, Lu Xun arrived with a True Origin Realm aura and attacked the battlefield.

• Lian Qingtian refused to let Yu Bing flee and unleashed a massive violet-gold fireball that killed more than a dozen Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples.
• The Bloodshadow Fiendlands renewed their attack, and Lian Qingtian and the Divine Firmament Disciples fought on while burning through their strength and life force.
• Lu Xun appeared amid rolling Demonic Qi, startling the Divine Firmament Disciples with his True Origin Realm cultivation.
• Lu Xun called the fighters eyesores and slashed with his sword, sending golden sword shadows and invisible spiritual force across the battlefield.

Lu Xun overwhelmed the Divine Firmament Holy Land disciples, critically injuring Lian Qingtian before turning on Yu Bing. Yu Bing challenged him, and the chapter ended as their swords clashed.

• Lu Xun's golden sword shadows and mental force struck the Divine Firmament Disciples, killing some and grievously injuring others.
• Lian Qingtian's Violet-Gold Lion King Soul barely blocked Lu Xun's attack, but Lu Xun shattered it and sent him flying; Yu Bing froze Lian Qingtian to preserve his life.
• Lu Xun dismissed the injured disciples and taunted Yu Bing, while the Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples guarded the valley entrance.
• Yu Bing attacked Lu Xun with her movement technique, and he countered with Sword Four.
• Yu Bing used Mystic Ice Sever, and her sword collided with Lu Xun's.

Yu Bing unleashed the power of her qilin mystic phenomenon and badly wounded Lu Xun, who ordered his allies to wear her down as Lin Xuan rushed toward the battle. The chapter left Yu Bing facing continued danger while Lu Xun remained intent on capturing her.

• Lu Xun overpowered Yu Bing with his sword-wave and a spiritual attack, injuring her and sending her flying.
• Yu Bing summoned the ice-blue qilin mystic phenomenon and unleashed Mystic Ice Thousand Blades.
• Yu Bing's sword shadows broke through Lu Xun's attacks and severed one of his arms.
• Far away, Lin Xuan sensed the qilin mystic phenomenon, recognized Yu Bing, and raced toward her.
• Lu Xun ordered his allies to exhaust Yu Bing's strength, his greed for her growing.

Yu Bing exhausted herself fighting off the Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples, leaving her vulnerable to Lu Xun. As Lu Xun moved to claim her, Lin Xuan’s furious voice and a sea of purple lightning arrived, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lu Xuan laughed as demonic qi regrew his severed arm, while the Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples attacked Yu Bing to wear her down.
• Yu Bing’s strength ran out, the qilin vision shattered, and she fell wounded after one final sword slash.
• Lu Xun approached Yu Bing and declared that she belonged to him, while the injured Divine Firmament Holy Land disciples could not stop him.
• As Lu Xun tried to lift Yu Bing with his power, Lin Xuan’s roar rang out and purple lightning filled the valley.
• Yu Bing recognized Lin Xuan’s voice with joy, while Lu Xun turned his shock into killing intent.

Lin Xuan arrived in time to save the Divine Firmament Holy Land disciples, striking Lu Xun with Slaughtering Heavens and healing the wounded with his vitality. With his companions recovered but unable to fight, Lin Xuan faced Lu Xun and the others at the valley entrance.

• Lin Xuan moved before Lu Xun and slashed him with Slaughtering Heavens, breaking through his defenses and opening a deep wound across his chest.
• Lin Xuan caught Yu Bing and used Myriad Manifestations of Life to heal her and the other Divine Firmament Holy Land disciples, freeing Lian Qingtian from the ice.
• Yu Bing recovered and Lin Xuan told her to leave the rest to him as the Divine Firmament disciples gathered around him.
• Lu Xun and his companions grew wary as Lu Xun remembered Lin Xuan claiming his vitality was costly to use.

Lin Xuan unleashed Slaughtering Heavens and killed Lu Xun, along with dozens of Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples, at the valley entrance. Lu Xun then reassembled from a bloody mist and attacked Lin Xuan again.

• Lu Xun roared at Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan and Yu Bing vanished before he could finish speaking.
• Lin Xuan held Yu Bing and struck Lu Xun with Slaughtering Heavens, overwhelming his Sword Eight and destroying his body.
• Lin Xuan's blade killed dozens of Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples and carved away part of the valley entrance, sending the survivors fleeing.
• Lu Xun reassembled from the bloody mist, declared that Lin Xuan could not kill him, and lunged at Lin Xuan with his sword.

Lin Xuan effortlessly killed Lu Xun after he transformed into a Fiend, leaving the Divine Firmament Holy Land disciples celebrating and the Bloodshadow Fiendlands fleeing in terror. In Earth Element Heaven, Wu Xu revealed that Lin Xuan had already killed Lu Xun once before, shocking the Central Region’s prodigies.

• Lu Xun attacked Lin Xuan in his Fiend form, but Lin Xuan stopped his sword with an earthen-yellow barrier.
• Lin Xuan unleashed Divine Guard, and its repulsive force shattered Lu Xun’s transformed body and killed him instantly.
• Wu Xu told the Central Region’s prodigies that Lin Xuan had killed Lu Xun once before, then revealed that Lu Xun had died again.
• Xiao Yu'er admired Lin Xuan as the Divine Firmament Holy Land disciples cheered his victory.
• The Bloodshadow Fiendlands forces fled, terrified by Lin Xuan’s strength.