Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan killed Fang Hong, then turned toward the inheritance after Wu Wang approached the Jade Slip. As Wu Wang looked down on him from near the center of the emerald pillar, Lin Xuan advanced through its pressure and life-draining light with ease.

• Lin Xuan killed Fang Hong with World Extinguisher, and his cultivation time increased by 220 years to 6,063 years.
• The remaining Heaven Desolate Sacred Land disciples fled, and Xu Jing sent the Xu family disciples after them.
• Xu Yan warned Lin Xuan that Wu Wang was close to the inheritance, so Lin Xuan entered the emerald-green pillar of light.
• Lin Xuan resisted the pillar's pressure and life-draining effect with his abilities and began walking toward the Jade Slip.
• Wu Wang looked down on Lin Xuan, but his disdain turned to shock when Lin Xuan advanced with ease.

Lin Xuan advanced through the emerald pillar of light toward the Inheritance Jade Slip, resisting its pressure and life-draining force with his abilities. Wu Wang struggled to reach the slip first, but Lin Xuan arrived beside him and reached for it.

• Lin Xuan used his True Qi, Earth's Protection, the Everlasting Emperor Art, and the Myriad Manifestations of Life sapling to withstand the pillar's effects.
• Lin Xuan activated Thunderous Armor when the pressure intensified and continued toward the center.
• Wu Wang turned toward the Inheritance Jade Slip and struggled to reach it, insisting the inheritance belonged to his Buddhist sect.
• Lin Xuan arrived beside Wu Wang and reached for the jade slip, prompting Wu Wang to shout at him not to act recklessly.

Lin Xuan ignored Wu Wang’s pleas, mocked his Buddhist beliefs, and tried to kill him beneath the emerald pillar of light. Wu Wang survived the blow thanks to Buddhist Beads blessed by an eminent monk, and Lin Xuan launched a stronger attack.

• Lin Xuan slapped Wu Wang, knocking him to his knees under the pillar’s pressure.
• Lin Xuan drew World Destroyer and declared that he would send Wu Wang to Western Paradise before Wu Wang’s Buddha could condemn him.
• Wu Wang could not fight back as Lin Xuan’s saber fell toward his neck.
• The Buddhist Beads around Wu Wang’s neck glowed and repelled Lin Xuan’s strike, leaving Wu Wang unharmed.
• Wu Wang explained that an eminent monk had blessed the beads, and Lin Xuan mocked him before striking again with his full intermediate Nascent Blade Intent.

Lin Xuan’s Slaughtering Heavens strike failed to break through Wu Wang’s golden protection, but Lin Xuan noticed that it had weakened. He followed with a Mystic Phenomenon that left Wu Wang stunned, while Xu Yan, Xu Jing, and Xiao Chen witnessed Lin Xuan’s power.

• Lin Xuan empowered his battle blade with Earth Element, Heaven’s Wrath, and Gravity Domain, then struck Wu Wang with Slaughtering Heavens.
• Wu Wang’s golden light shielded him from the attack, but Lin Xuan used his Divine Eyes to spot that the protection had weakened.
• Wu Wang recalled that his Buddhist Beads could help him survive a calamity, though their power would eventually run out.
• Lin Xuan raised his blade again and manifested a Mystic Phenomenon, crushing its vast world beneath countless trees.
• Wu Wang recognized that Lin Xuan could control Mystic Phenomenon Power and wondered what kind of monster he was.
• Xu Yan praised Lin Xuan, Xu Jing regretted having acted superior to him, and Xiao Chen returned with Xiao Ya and admired the Mystic Phenomenon.

Lin Xuan overpowered Wu Wang and seized the Inheritance Jade Slip, triggering the emerald pillar’s power to flow into him. The Myriad Manifestations of Life sapling grew into a towering tree as the Ten Thousand Woods Suppressing the Cosmos phenomenon expanded.

• Lin Xuan attacked Wu Wang repeatedly, weakening the Buddhist Beads until they cracked.
• The golden light entered Wu Wang’s body and let him stand, but Lin Xuan’s empowered strike defeated him and sent him flying beyond the emerald pillar.
• Lin Xuan grabbed the Inheritance Jade Slip, causing the pillar of light to shrink and pour its emerald radiance into him.
• The Myriad Manifestations of Life sapling devoured the incoming life force and grew into a towering tree, while Lin Xuan’s Ten Thousand Woods Suppressing the Cosmos phenomenon expanded to a hundred zhang.

After the jade slip enhanced Lin Xuan’s power, he defeated and killed Wu Wang in a fierce battle. He recovered from the fight, collected Wu Wang’s weapon and belongings, then examined the Inheritance Jade Slip and found its contents surprising and strange.

• The emerald pillar vanished, and Lin Xuan realized his power had surged after using the Inheritance Jade Slip.
• Lin Xuan struck Wu Wang with Slaughtering Heavens and sent him crashing into the forest despite Wu Wang’s Adamantine Battle Body and Buddhist Beads.
• Wu Wang shattered his Buddhist Beads and rose with an enraged Buddha phantom, but Lin Xuan overpowered him again and sent him into a crater.
• Lin Xuan killed Wu Wang with his battle saber, gaining 220 years of cultivation time and crystallized blood essence from the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
• Lin Xuan spent 180 years of cultivation time to restore himself, collected Wu Wang’s staff and storage ring, and found that the ring held only consumable pills.
• Lin Xuan sent his spiritual power into the Inheritance Jade Slip and discovered a surprising, strange result.

The Martial Combat Academy learned that Wu Wang’s Life Tablet had shattered, prompting the Academy Master to rush to the main temple. In Wood Element Heaven, Wu Xu told the Central Region geniuses that Lin Xuan had likely killed Wu Wang and led them toward Fire Aspect Heaven, while declaring his intent to bring Lin Xuan under control or kill him.

• The Martial Combat Academy Master appeared in a surge of Buddha Light and flew toward the main temple after Wu Wang’s Life Tablet shattered.
• News of Wu Wang’s death spread through the academy, shocking the martial monks.
• Wu Xu told the Central Region geniuses to enter Fire Aspect Heaven and continue cultivating before meeting him again.
• Wu Xu said Lin Xuan had likely killed Wu Wang and revealed that he had also suffered a loss at Lin Xuan’s hands.
• Wu Xu warned that Lin Xuan must either take refuge in the Buddha or be cast into hell, then entered the teleportation array with the Central Region geniuses.

Lin Xuan waited for Xu Yan to finish cultivating in the Wood Element Heaven while studying the Reverse Death to Life palm technique. After Xu Yan formed her wood-element talent, Lin Xuan prepared to leave for the next layer, confident in his increased combat power.

• Lin Xuan and the Xu family searched for Yu Bing for five days but found no trace of her.
• Lin Xuan helped Xu Yan form the Foundation of Yi Wood and obtain a wood-element talent by hunting fiends and collecting an elemental core.
• Lin Xuan examined the jade slip's mid-grade transcendent-rank inheritance, Reverse Death to Life, and considered how difficult it would be to cultivate.
• Xu Yan finished cultivating her wood-element talent and thanked Lin Xuan before asking whether he would go to the next layer.
• Lin Xuan told Xu Yan he was invincible within the True Origin Realm and prepared to move on, while the Xu family still could not find Wu Xu.

Lin Xuan left Xu Yan and traveled toward Fire Aspect Heaven, seeking attribute essence and considering the powerful foes already there. He entered Fire Aspect Heaven through a teleportation array, where his search for Xiang Wuxu and Wei Xingyun awaited him.

• Lin Xuan told Xu Yan he intended to break through to the True Origin Realm after reaching Fire Aspect Heaven, and Xu Yan warned him to be cautious while seeking attribute essence.
• Lin Xuan brought Xu Yan to Xu Jing and the Xu family disciples, then departed; Xu Yan said she would leave the Xu family for Divine Firmament Holy Land if it refused to protect him from the Xiang family.
• Xu Jing reassured Xu Yan that Lin Xuan's identity and talent made the Xiang family's retaliation less concerning.
• Lin Xuan recalled that Xiang Wuxu was seeking to awaken Blazing Sun Truefire and that Wei Xingyun was refining a Pureblood Pill to raise his bloodline.
• Lin Xuan activated an unattended teleportation array with Wood Essence and entered Fire Aspect Heaven.

Lin Xuan entered Fire Aspect Heaven and began cultivating Reverse Death to Life inside the Soul Suppressing Pagoda before exploring the dangerous volcanic wasteland. After 2,500 years of cultivation, he mastered the technique and prepared to continue his plans.

• Lin Xuan arrived in Fire Aspect Heaven, a scorching wasteland where valuable fire-aspect resources lay inside volcanoes.
• Lin Xuan decided to master Reverse Death to Life before advancing to the True Origin Realm and exploring Fire Aspect Heaven.
• After a thousand years of cultivation, Lin Xuan reached the technique's threshold, learned to control vitality more precisely, and formed the embryonic stage of palm intent.
• Lin Xuan continued comprehending Reverse Death to Life and seized a crucial insight in his 2,500th year.
• Lin Xuan opened his eyes and declared that he had mastered Reverse Death to Life.

Lin Xuan brought Reverse Death to Life to minor mastery, gaining the ability to absorb some of the vitality he devoured and developing the rudimentary Fist Palm Essence. He used the remaining time in the Soul Suppressing Pagoda to strengthen his cultivation and body before withdrawing with 903 years left.

• Lin Xuan advanced Reverse Death to Life to minor mastery and discovered that it let him claim some of the vitality he devoured.
• Lin Xuan fused his palm force and fist force, comprehended the rudimentary Fist Palm Essence, and increased the power of his Overlord Annihilation Art.
• Lin Xuan stopped suppressing his cultivation and broke through to the initial stage of the True Origin Realm.
• Lin Xuan advanced the Everlasting Emperor Art to the middle stage of the seventh level and raised his spiritual power's coverage to 180 zhang.
• Lin Xuan withdrew his consciousness from the Soul Suppressing Pagoda with 903 years of cultivation time remaining.

Lin Xuan discovered that the Bloodshadow Fiendlands planned to ambush him at the volcano, but he used their scheme to his advantage. Following his bloodline’s guidance, he entered the lava to seek Fire Aspect Essence and found that Earth’s Protection could shield him from the heat.

• Lin Xuan spotted Bloodshadow Fiendlands figures who planned to summon Elite Hall lords to kill him.
• Lin Xuan entered the volcano while the figures left to notify their allies, and he let them go so he could gather Fire Aspect Essence.
• Lin Xuan followed the hunger and guidance of his bloodline deeper into the volcano.
• Lin Xuan tested whether Earth’s Protection would let him enter the lava, and his palm touched it without pain.

Lin Xuan used Earth's Protection and his Divine Eyes to search the lava, collecting Fire Origin Crystals and absorbing Fire Aspect Essence. Elsewhere, the Xiang family's Young Master recovered from a dangerous dive and announced that Blazing Sun Truefire was close to awakening.

• Lin Xuan entered the lava, relying on Earth's Protection to withstand its heat and pressure.
• Lin Xuan spotted and collected several Fire Origin Crystals as he searched the lava.
• Lin Xuan seized a strand of Fire Aspect Essence, which was immediately absorbed by his body.
• Thousands of miles away, a charred figure emerged from the lava and used Wood Essence Crystals to recover.
• The Xiang family's Young Master said he had captured Earth Essence Qi and tempered his body with Essence of Raging Fire, bringing Blazing Sun Truefire close to awakening.

Xiang Wuxu continued tempering his Blazing Sun Physique while his disciples searched for Lin Xuan. After Lin Xuan finished searching a volcano for Fire Aspect Essence, he sensed a group of Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples outside and charged toward them.

• Xiang Wuxu ordered his disciples to identify Lin Xuan and learned that their people were searching near major volcanic ranges.
• Xiang Wuxu recovered, then plunged back into the lava to temper his Blazing Sun Physique.
• Lin Xuan emerged from the lava with over five hundred Fire Origin Crystals and thirty strands of Fire Aspect Essence, but considered the harvest insufficient.
• Lin Xuan sensed seventeen Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples outside the volcano and calculated that killing them would grant him over three thousand years of cultivation time.
• Lin Xuan flew out of the volcano as the ten Elite Hall disciples sensed his approach and surged with aura.

The Bloodshadow Fiendlands’ ten Elite Hall sequence holders trapped Lin Xuan in the Ten Direction Soul Extinction Formation, convinced its soul-extinguishing power would kill him. As an invisible greatsword formed and descended, Lin Xuan showed no fear, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples explained that the Ten Direction Soul Extinction Formation could let even True Origin Realm cultivators kill powerful foes.
• Lin Xuan shot out of the volcano crater and was engulfed by the formation’s pitch-black Demonic Qi.
• Sequence One ordered the ten Elite Hall elites to kill Lin Xuan as the formation’s pressure intensified.
• An invisible greatsword formed in the Demonic Qi, drew on a mysterious force, and cleaved toward Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan shattered the Elite Order members’ spiritual attack and repelled their combined sword technique. He then restrained all ten and summoned a huge emerald-green palm print, leaving their deaths imminent.

• Lin Xuan used Spirit Blade to destroy the Ten Direction Soul Extinction Formation’s attack, causing all ten Elite Order members to suffer soul pain.
• Elite Order Number One ordered the group to abandon spiritual attacks and strike with the Ten Directions Sword Path.
• The ten Elite Order members fused their intermediate Sword Intent and filled the sky with black sword shadows around Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan’s earthen-yellow radiance stopped the sword shadows, and he declared that it was his turn to attack.
• Lin Xuan used Reverse Death to Life to restrain the ten Elite Order members as an emerald-green palm print descended toward them.

Lin Xuan used his enhanced wood power to drain the life force of the ten Elite Order members, then turned his palm strike on the seven Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples who had witnessed their deaths. The seven were restrained in midair as they begged for mercy, and Lin Xuan showed no intention of sparing them.

• Lin Xuan’s descending palm imprint drained the life force from the ten Elite Order members and left their bodies withered and weightless.
• Lin Xuan collected the ten men’s storage rings and weapons before their bodies shattered on the volcano.
• Lin Xuan absorbed the stolen vitality through the Everlasting Emperor Art, gaining a slight improvement as his blood qi and cultivation time surged.
• Lin Xuan raised his hand against the seven Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples and said he would grant them painless deaths.
• The seven disciples tried to flee, but Lin Xuan’s palm imprint restrained them in midair while they pleaded for their lives.

Lin Xuan killed more Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples, then spent 2,500 years cultivating Reverse Death to Life and advanced his Fist Palm Essence. After testing his newly strengthened power by shattering a volcano, he continued searching the Fire Aspect Heaven for Fire Aspect Essence.

• Lin Xuan killed seventeen Bloodshadow Fiendlands disciples and collected their meager possessions and cultivation time.
• Lin Xuan chose to cultivate Reverse Death to Life, reaching major mastery after 2,500 years while his Fist Palm Essence advanced to intermediate true essence.
• Lin Xuan tested Mountain Shattering on a volcano, shattered its peak, and triggered an eruption before fleeing.
• Lin Xuan spent ten days traversing volcanic regions in the Fire Aspect Heaven and gathered only five hundred strands of Fire Aspect Essence.

Lin Xuan searched a vast volcanic range for Fire Aspect Essence and found Lian Qingtian, who had exhausted his vitality after burning more than two thousand miles of spirit creatures in Wood Element Heaven. Lin Xuan restored him with Reverse Death to Life, and the two reunited in the Fire Aspect Heaven.

• Lin Xuan continued searching for Fire Aspect Essence, disappointed that he had found no Fire Aspect Essence Core or trace of Xiang Wuxu and Wei Xingyun.
• Lin Xuan reached an enormous volcanic range and planned to gather Fire Aspect Essence before moving to the next level if he found no core.
• Lin Xuan spotted Lian Qingtian at a crater, weakly drawing life force from a Wood Essence Crystal.
• Lian Qingtian recognized Lin Xuan and asked him to help restore his strength.
• Lin Xuan struck Lian Qingtian with Reverse Death to Life, replenishing his vitality, then asked how many trees he had burned.
• Lian Qingtian admitted he had burned more than two thousand miles of spirit creatures in Wood Element Heaven and dismissed Third Brother when Lin Xuan mentioned him.

In Fire Aspect Heaven, Lian Qingtian told Lin Xuan about an Infernal Core Flame that could strengthen his Violetgold Beast King Flame and help him approach the Three Thousand Sky Scorching Physique. Lin Xuan offered to sell Lian Qingtian Fire Origin Crystals for thirty million spirit stones, and Lian Qingtian began revealing a secret as payment.

• Xiao Chen sneezed while trying to capture Fire Aspect Essence in the lava.
• Lian Qingtian told Lin Xuan that he had found the Infernal Core Flame, ranked seventy-fourth on the Exotic Flame Ranking.
• Lian Qingtian admitted he needed Lin Xuan's help obtaining the flame and revealed that he had kept secrets from him.
• Lin Xuan produced Fire Origin Crystals and offered them to Lian Qingtian for thirty million spirit stones.
• Lian Qingtian said he could not afford the price and offered his secret in exchange; Lin Xuan listened as he explained it.