Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan fought Wu Xu, whose body repeatedly dissolved into Demonic Qi and reformed, while the two battled with their phenomena. After Lin Xuan’s Scarletgold Flowflame empowered his trees and shattered Wu Xu’s Sky Fiend phenomenon, Lin Xuan restrained Wu Xu and began draining his life force.

• Wu Xu repeatedly reformed after Lin Xuan’s attacks and kept up his assault, while Lin Xuan’s Ten Thousand Woods Suppressing the Cosmos phenomenon clashed with Wu Xu’s Sky Fiend.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Soul Suppressing Pagoda and activated Myriad Manifestations of Life, causing Scarletgold Flowflame to spread across its trees and the trees in his phenomenon.
• Lin Xuan’s empowered trees overwhelmed and shattered Wu Xu’s Sky Fiend phenomenon, leaving Wu Xu injured and weakening his defenses.
• Lin Xuan used Flowing Light Flash and World-Ending to strike Wu Xu, then restrained him with Gravity Domain and Reverse Death to Life.
• Lin Xuan repeatedly used Reverse Death to Life on the trapped Wu Xu, draining his life force as Wu Xu raged and threatened him.

Lin Xuan’s attack failed when Wu Xu used Fiend Disintegration to turn into black blood, swearing an Inner Demon Great Oath to kill Lin Xuan and everyone connected to him. Wu Xu escaped at astonishing speed, but Lin Xuan followed the lingering trace of his Scarletgold Flowflame sensing.

• Lin Xuan watched Wu Xu turn into black blood with Fiend Disintegration just before the giant hand seals struck.
• Wu Xu swore an Inner Demon Great Oath to kill Lin Xuan and those connected to him, then mocked Lin Xuan’s attempts to destroy him.
• Lin Xuan realized Fiend Disintegration had a time limit, but Wu Xu claimed Lin Xuan still could not kill him.
• Wu Xu’s black blood escaped the Gravity Domain and vanished beyond the Divine Eyes’ range at tremendous speed.
• Lin Xuan sensed Wu Xu with Scarletgold Flowflame and pursued him, telling Old Purple he would go ahead.
• Lian Qingtian appeared where Lin Xuan had been, his gaze complicated.

Lin Xuan failed to catch Wu Xu after he escaped using Fiend Disintegration, then returned to Lian Qingtian. Lian Qingtian revealed that the technique could only be used once, giving Lin Xuan hope that Wu Xu could not escape the same way again.

• Lin Xuan pursued Wu Xu but lost his trail when Scarletgold Flowflame could no longer sense him.
• Lin Xuan checked his Spatial Ring and saw World-Annihilation consume the Divine Weapon-grade lotus, growing more powerful as the lotus withered.
• Lin Xuan returned to Lian Qingtian and confirmed that Wu Xu had escaped using Fiend Disintegration.
• Lian Qingtian explained that Fiend Disintegration was a Demonic Beast escape technique that could only be used once, or the user’s soul would be extinguished.
• Lin Xuan was encouraged by the ancient records Lian Qingtian cited, which gave an eight- or nine-out-of-ten chance that the technique was truly usable only once.

Lin Xuan left Lian Qingtian in Fire Aspect Heaven and searched for enemies before moving on to Metal Aspect Heaven. There, the transformed Wu Xu summoned five Central Region prodigies and declared that he would kill them to take their Aura of Providence.

• Lian Qingtian gave Lin Xuan several Spatial Rings containing about ten million spirit stones, then stayed in Fire Aspect Heaven to cultivate.
• Lin Xuan departed and roamed Fire Aspect Heaven, guided by the Fire Aspect Essence as he searched for enemies.
• Wu Xu reappeared in Metal Aspect Heaven as a Fiend and resolved to kill Lin Xuan before the Brahma Sound Temple's plan was exposed.
• Wu Xu summoned the five Central Region prodigies ranked second through sixth on the Earth Ranking.
• Wu Xu told the prodigies he would kill them and strip away their Aura of Providence.

Wu Xu turned five prodigies into demons, while Lin Xuan reached a teleportation array and found Luo Qingwu grieving over the mortally burned Xi Er. A crimson-gold palm and flames suddenly restored Xi Er’s life force.

• Wu Xu warned five prodigies that they would have to become demons and remain hidden, and they agreed to the plan.
• Wu Xu enveloped the five in Demonic Qi, killing them as their Aura of Providence flowed into him; five black cocoons formed.
• After searching Fire Aspect Heaven for two days without finding time, Lin Xuan headed for a teleportation array and encountered members of Galan Sacred Land.
• Luo Qingwu held the badly burned Xi Er and pleaded for a Healing Pill, but a disciple said Xi Er’s foundation had been damaged beyond recovery.
• A crimson-gold palm print struck Xi Er, and vitality-filled flames enveloped her and restored her fading life force.

Lin Xuan healed Xi Er and used Scarletgold Flowflame to let her safely endure Fire Aspect Heaven’s teleportation array. After Xi Er was teleported away, Lin Xuan offered to help Galan Sacred Land’s disciples cross for a fee of five hundred thousand spirit stones per person.

• Lin Xuan healed Xi Er’s burns by combining Scarletgold Flowflame with Reverse Death to Life.
• Luo Qingwu explained that the teleportation array’s heat could kill anyone who could not withstand thirty breaths.
• Lin Xuan told Xi Er to try again, and she entered the array protected by Scarlet-gold flames.
• Xi Er endured the flames and was teleported away, convincing Galan Sacred Land’s disciples that Lin Xuan could help them too.
• Lin Xuan asked for five hundred thousand spirit stones per person, and Luo Qingwu recognized his greed.

Lin Xuan tried to charge the Galan Sacred Land disciples five hundred thousand spirit stones each to use the teleportation array, but they refused the price. As he prepared to leave, one disciple negotiated for a cheaper passage into Metal Aspect Heaven, offering his entire fortune and a favor.

• Lin Xuan demanded five hundred thousand spirit stones per person, and Luo Qingwu and the Galan Sacred Land disciples rejected the price.
• Luo Qingwu paid Lin Xuan Xi Er’s share, but Lin Xuan refused the stones and urged her to reconsider, citing the opportunities in Metal Aspect Heaven.
• Lin Xuan walked toward the teleportation array while watching the disciples, and one of them called him back.
• The disciple said he cultivated the metal-attributed Sword Dao and offered one hundred thousand spirit stones and a favor in exchange for Lin Xuan’s help.

Lin Xuan charged Galan Sacred Land disciples spirit stones to protect them, then gave everyone a life-force-imbuing hand seal. The Earth Ranking appeared and revealed that the five people ranked second through sixth had suddenly died, leaving everyone wondering whether Lin Xuan had killed them.

• Lin Xuan accepted one hundred thousand spirit stones from a Galan Sacred Land disciple and invited others to pay the same price for his help.
• Most of the Galan Sacred Land disciples paid Lin Xuan, who collected a total of eight million spirit stones.
• Lin Xuan covered the disciples and Luo Qingwu with a hand seal that filled their bodies with vigorous life force, including those who had paid nothing.
• The Earth Ranking appeared, and everyone saw that the five people ranked second through sixth had vanished.
• The onlookers reacted with horror and wondered whether Lin Xuan had killed the five Central Region prodigies.

Lin Xuan left Fire Aspect Heaven after the Earth Ranking revealed Wu Xu in second place, and arrived in Metal Aspect Heaven. There, the Divine Dragon Shadow awakened within him and sent him waves of longing.

• Discussions about Lin Xuan spread across the Azure Cloud Realm until Wu Xu appeared in second place on the Earth Ranking, raising questions about what had happened at Brahma Sound Temple.
• Lin Xuan suspected Wu Xu had killed his own people and rejected Luo Qingwu's offer of help, saying Galan Sacred Land could not withstand Wu Xu.
• Lin Xuan entered the teleportation array and left Luo Qingwu behind as she scolded the disciples who had witnessed their exchange.
• Lin Xuan arrived in Metal Aspect Heaven, where sharp metal-element winds swept across a vast, barren plain.
• The Divine Dragon Shadow awakened within Lin Xuan and transmitted waves of longing.

Lin Xuan entered Metal Aspect Heaven, broke a natural formation by force, and collected a Gold Essence Crystal while searching for Wu Xu. The chapter left Wu Xu awakening with his golden and demonic phenomenon spread across a hundred zhang.

• Lin Xuan stored World Extinguisher in his dantian, where its saber intent refined his true essence.
• Lin Xuan broke a ten-zhang formation with Sky Shattering Quake and collected a Gold Essence Crystal.
• Lin Xuan continued across the plain on foot, wondering where Wu Xu was.
• Wu Xu opened his eyes as golden and black light surrounded him, and his phenomenon spread across a hundred-zhang radius.

Wu Xu reached the True Origin Realm, summoned five demonic followers, and set out to hunt Lin Xuan and those connected to him. After collecting Metal Aspect Essence in Metal Aspect Heaven, Lin Xuan discovered Lingyun Peak disciples gathered around a Myriad-Zhang Formation and moved toward them.

• Wu Xu alternated between Buddha Light and Demonic Qi, then ordered five mid-stage True Origin Realm followers to capture Lin Xuan and his associates.
• At Brahma Sound Temple, the Abbot warned the white-browed old monk to send the temple's prodigies into the Nine Heavens if danger arose and told him to prepare to die.
• Lin Xuan spent nearly ten days in Metal Aspect Heaven, collecting 201 wisps of Metal Aspect Essence and ten thousand Gold Essence Crystals.
• Lin Xuan sensed nearly forty Divine Firmament Disciples near a Myriad-Zhang Formation and learned they were helping Shen Su advance his Mystic Armor Physique.
• Recognizing the disciples as people from Lingyun Peak, Lin Xuan headed toward them as golden light flashed inside the formation.

As Shen Su’s aptitude transformed within the Myriad-Zhang Formation, Lin Xuan arrived and found the Lingyun Peak disciples gathered around him. Shen Su ordered his disciples to kill Lin Xuan, who openly taunted them as they prepared to attack.

• Shen Su’s aptitude began transforming, and his power surged toward the late True Origin Realm as Lingyun Peak’s disciples watched.
• Lin Xuan judged Shen Su far weaker than Wu Xu and considered the cultivation gains he could earn by killing the Lingyun Peak disciples.
• Lin Xuan descended before the gathered disciples, who recognized him and looked down on his peak True Origin Realm cultivation.
• Shen Su, unable to leave the formation, ordered his junior brothers to kill Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan crooked a finger at the Lingyun Peak disciples, openly mocking them.

Lin Xuan faced Wu Sha of Lingyun Peak, who attacked him with the Seven Stars Killing Sword. After activating Earth Element, Lin Xuan stood unharmed as Wu Sha’s attack struck, leaving the disciples’ assumptions about his fate untested.

• Wu Sha challenged Lin Xuan and introduced his Stardust sword and perfected Seven Stars Killing Sword.
• Wu Sha launched his Seven Stars Fall attack while Lingyun Peak’s disciples mocked Lin Xuan for not moving.
• Lin Xuan activated Earth Element just before the seven golden stars hit him.
• Wu Sha’s attack failed to disturb Lin Xuan’s faint earthy yellow barrier, and the golden light began to disperse.

Lin Xuan survived Wu Sha’s full-force attack, then killed him with a single punch. He faced the rest of Lingyun Peak’s fighters and stopped their first attackers with his Gravity Domain before striking with Reverse Death to Life.

• Wu Sha found Lin Xuan unharmed and realized he had badly underestimated him.
• Lin Xuan activated the fourth layer of Heaven’s Wrath and shattered Wu Sha’s Battle Sword, Stardust, before killing him with Earthsplitter.
• Shen Su ordered the remaining fighters to attack Lin Xuan together.
• Lin Xuan spread his Gravity Domain to immobilize the first dozen attackers and sent a jade-green palm seal through them.

Lin Xuan slaughtered most of the Lingyun Peak cultivators, but Shen Su intervened before he could kill the last seven. Shen Su revealed his newly advanced Profound Gold Body and late-stage True Origin Realm cultivation, then prepared to fight Lin Xuan.

• Lin Xuan absorbed the vitality and blood qi of Wu Sha and the other Lingyun Peak cultivators, gaining more than five thousand years of cultivation time.
• Lin Xuan used his Gravity Domain and palm attacks to kill most of the Lingyun Peak group, leaving seven survivors.
• Shen Su arrived and destroyed Lin Xuan’s final palm seal with a golden sword strike.
• Shen Su told the survivors to retreat and confronted Lin Xuan, revealing his Profound Gold Body and late-stage True Origin Realm cultivation.
• Lin Xuan taunted Shen Su, who began channeling power into his Battle Sword.

Lin Xuan defeated Shen Su and killed him and the remaining Lingyun Peak disciples. He suspected Shen Xuan had obtained the Aberrant Metal that Hong Ling discovered, then turned his attention to the Myriad-Zhang Formation and the Demon and opportunity he believed lay beyond it.

• Shen Su unleashed Tiangang Disha, but Lin Xuan used Ten Thousand Woods Suppressing the Cosmos and Slaughtering Heavens to shatter his attack and badly wound him.
• Lin Xuan appeared before the immobilized Shen Su and asked whether the Aberrant Metal that had nourished him came from Hong Ling's discovery.
• Shen Su threatened that his brother would kill Lin Xuan, and Lin Xuan beheaded him, concluding that Shen Xuan was connected to the Aberrant Metal.
• Lin Xuan killed the seven remaining Lingyun Peak disciples, and the Soul Suppressing Pagoda absorbed their blood qi and cultivation time.
• Lin Xuan decided to postpone improving his cultivation and face the Myriad-Zhang Formation, suspecting a Demon and a great opportunity lay within.

Lin Xuan inventoried his spoils, absorbed Metal Aspect Essence, and entered the Myriad-Zhang Formation to investigate its unknown depths. After advancing ten li through increasingly powerful metal attacks, he found that his Divine Eyes could see only a sea of gold at the center.

• Lin Xuan gathered more than twenty Spatial Rings, counted over thirteen million spirit stones, and stored the low-grade weapons and other resources.
• Lin Xuan absorbed more than three hundred wisps of Metal Aspect Essence, leaving the Divine Dragon Shadow half full.
• Lin Xuan noted that he had accumulated 16,213 years of cultivation time and enough crystallized blood energy to cultivate the Everlasting Emperor Art for another two thousand years.
• Lin Xuan entered the Myriad-Zhang Formation, where metal-attributed weapons attacked him, and used Earth Aspect to defend as he advanced.
• Lin Xuan reached ten li into the formation, where the attacks had reached middle True Origin Realm strength, and saw only a sea of gold through his Divine Eyes.

Lin Xuan crossed the Myriad-Zhang Formation’s thirty-li attack zone, spending a thousand years of cultivation time before finding an empty clearing at its center. There, he met the remnant soul of the Limitless Great Emperor, who said Lin Xuan had qualified to receive his inheritance.

• Lin Xuan used Earth's Protection, Earth's Pulse, and the Soul Suppressing Pagoda's cultivation time to withstand increasingly powerful attacks as he advanced through the formation.
• After spending a thousand years of cultivation time, Lin Xuan reached the formation's thirty-li center and found only an empty five-meter clearing.
• When a voice asked what he wanted, Lin Xuan asked for an immortal artifact, then tried to leave after realizing someone was there.
• Golden light restrained Lin Xuan, and a rugged man appeared, identifying himself as an Emperor Realm expert of the Four Domains.
• The man released Lin Xuan and introduced himself as the Limitless Great Emperor, explaining that he had left behind an inheritance and that Lin Xuan had qualified to receive it.

Lin Xuan met the Limitless Great Emperor, founder of the Limitless Sacred Land, who offered him an inheritance tied to a dangerous obligation. The Great Emperor revealed why the War Clan would target anyone who inherited it, then gave Lin Xuan twenty Metal Aspect Essence Cores.

• Lin Xuan asked whether the Limitless Great Emperor had founded the Limitless Sacred Land, and the Great Emperor confirmed it before offering his inheritance.
• The Limitless Great Emperor said inheriting his power could make Lin Xuan the future master of the sacred land, but would require him to cultivate outstanding descendants.
• Lin Xuan asked what karma came with the inheritance, and the Great Emperor demanded that he eventually destroy the War Clan of the Central Domain.
• The Limitless Great Emperor explained that he had been abandoned by the War Clan and that his inheritance evolved from theirs, making it impossible for Lin Xuan to hide his connection to them.
• The Limitless Great Emperor gave Lin Xuan twenty Metal Aspect Essence Cores, which Lin Xuan collected.

Lin Xuan asked the Limitless Great Emperor about the Emperor’s Limit Path and chose to try for his inheritance. The emperor revealed his hatred of the Battle Clan and explained that he had passed Lin Xuan the stronger Profound Origin Nine Transformations.

• The Limitless Great Emperor explained that opening the heavenly court beyond the peak of the Emperor Realm could grant the power of ascension, though it did not make someone an immortal.
• Lin Xuan bowed to the Limitless Great Emperor and agreed to try to obtain his inheritance.
• The Limitless Great Emperor sent a vast amount of information into Lin Xuan’s mind and described how the Battle Clan’s Source of Battle strengthened its members’ power.
• The Limitless Great Emperor recounted his birth into the Battle Clan, his failure to awaken its bloodline, and his creation of the Profound Origin Transformation.
• The Limitless Great Emperor said the Battle Clan sent ten Emperor Realm experts to kill him, and that they later destroyed his essence, qi, and spirit, cutting off his Emperor’s Limit Path.
• The Limitless Great Emperor explained that the Profound Origin Nine Transformations he gave Lin Xuan was a stronger method he had comprehended while forging the Nine-Layer Yin-Yang Heaven.