Chapter Summaries

After twenty years of cultivation, Lin Yuan reached the Fourteenth Realm and sent his Yin Spirit to crush Heaven Sword Sect. As Heaven Sword Child celebrated his eight-hundredth birthday and three young experts gathered to challenge him, Lin Yuan’s towering spirit appeared over Heaven Sword Mountain and raised its foot to stomp down.

• Lin Yuan explained that he had branded Si Tu Ming with his Essence Blood, then spent twenty years cultivating until he reached the unprecedented Fourteenth Realm.
• Lin Yuan sent his Yin Spirit toward Heaven Sword Sect, while the Five Regions’ powers and Heaven Sword Sect’s guests gathered for Heaven Sword Child’s eight-hundredth birthday.
• Guests mocked Xiahou Yuan as Bai Qing Er wondered why he had not come to see her, and Si Tu Ming watched the celebration from afar.
• Xiao Huo, Yang Bi Xin, and Shen Lang met Si Tu Ming and announced that they planned to challenge Heaven Sword Child and reach the Tenth Realm.
• A figure over a hundred thousand zhang tall appeared above Heaven Sword Mountain and began stepping down on it as Xiao Huo, Yang Bi Xin, and Shen Lang watched in shock.

Heaven Sword Child prepared to defeat three young challengers before traveling north in response to a growing summons, while promising Bai Qing Er he would capture Xiahou Yuan. Lin Yuan’s hundred-thousand-zhang Taiyin Primordial Spirit destroyed Heaven Sword Mountain and swallowed its survivors, leaving the young challengers shaken as the spirit returned to Lin Yuan beneath the Underground Palace.

• Heaven Sword Child planned to defeat Xiao Huo, Shen Lang, and Yang Bi Xin, and promised Bai Qing Er he would bring Xiahou Yuan back after the banquet.
• A vast shadow descended on Heaven Sword Mountain, and Heaven Sword Child failed to stop it before the mountain and its gathered powerhouses were crushed.
• The enormous shadow took the form of a human face and swallowed the scattered primordial spirits, Qi, and Blood.
• Si Tu Ming identified the attacker as Lin Yuan’s Taiyin Primordial Spirit, and Xiao Huo, Shen Lang, and Yang Bi Xin realized they could not hope to challenge it.
• The Taiyin Primordial Spirit looked toward the three challengers, scattered into streams of Taiyin Power, and vanished, leaving them shaken and unsure whether cultivation still had meaning.
• The Taiyin Primordial Spirit returned to Lin Yuan beneath the Underground Palace, where he reflected on its hundred-thousand-zhang size.

Lin Yuan arranged for the Martial Path to spread through the Five Regions and chose Si Tu Ming as its Dao Protector, while sensing a black hole draining the world’s primal qi. As the three Children of Fortune entered the Underground World, the Martial Path spread widely and a century passed.

• Lin Yuan realized the Children of Fortune had avoided his Taiyin Primordial Spirit by chance and concluded that heaven and earth kept producing them to counter his growing strength.
• Lin Yuan had the Sun Primordial Spirit consume Heaven Sword Child and Bai Qing Er, then chose Si Tu Ming to protect and spread the Martial Path after Lin Yuan left the world.
• Si Tu Ming returned to the Underground Palace, and Lin Yuan ordered demonic path cultivators to practice the Martial Path and spread it throughout the Five Regions.
• Lin Yuan sensed a black hole beyond the Endless Sea that was draining the world’s primal qi and causing powerful cultivators to become increasingly rare.
• Xiao Huo, Yang Bi Xin, and Shen Lang discovered an entrance to the Underground World and entered it before the entrance collapsed behind them.
• The Five Regions came to believe Xiahou Yuan had flattened Heaven Sword Mountain, and the Martial Path spread as cultivators and mortals adopted it; a hundred years passed.

A century after Lin Yuan’s rise, the Demonic Path ruled the Five Regions while he cultivated in the Underground Palace and investigated a northern black hole that seemed to limit the world. When a girl of the Bai Family bloodline approached the sacred land, Lin Yuan met her and quietly sent her and her grandfather away unharmed.

• The Demonic Path unified the Five Regions after Lin Yuan destroyed Heaven Sword Mountain and defeated resistance with his spirits.
• A Ninth Realm wanderer told his granddaughter that he had refused to join a rebellion and agreed to take her to see the Demonic Path Holy Land.
• Lin Yuan realized the girl carried the genuine bloodline of the Bai Family, which had once been important to Xiahou Yuan.
• The girl and her grandfather strayed within thirty li of the Underground Palace and met Lin Yuan on the path.
• When the girl patted Lin Yuan’s shoulder, twenty peak Ninth Realm guards appeared, but Lin Yuan ordered them away and sent the pair back to the fifty-li boundary.
• The grandfather identified Lin Yuan as the Demon Lord, and the girl wondered how tall he was; her grandfather said he was probably as tall as the heavens.

Lin Yuan prepared for the Martial Path of Evolution to endure after he left by unifying the Five Regions and appointing Si Tu Ming as its Dao Protector, then waited for the World Consciousness to appear. When Xiahou Yuan confronted the three Children of Fortune, the World Consciousness emerged through Xiao Huo.

• Lin Yuan recalled helping the Bai Family descendant and resolved to spread the Martial Path of Evolution throughout the Five Regions.
• Lin Yuan ordered Si Tu Ming to protect the martial arts cultivation system after Lin Yuan left, but not to preserve the demonic path forces' rule.
• Lin Yuan considered how to contact the World Consciousness through the three Children of Fortune, whose auras he could sense if they returned.
• Xiao Huo, Yang Bi Xin, and Shen Lang emerged from the Underground World after a hundred years, having reached the peak of the Tenth Realm and mastered a combined-attack art.
• Lin Yuan appeared before the three and pressed them with his force field, but Xiao Huo rose with golden eyes as the World Consciousness manifested.

Lin Yuan reached an agreement with the World Consciousness to let the Martial Path spread in exchange for attempting to repair the North Sea Eye. He headed north and arrived before North Sea Island’s powerful rulers, who greeted him with deference.

• Lin Yuan negotiated with the World Consciousness, which agreed not to interfere with the Martial Path cultivation system after he promised to try to repair the North Sea Eye.
• Yang Bi Xin and Shen Lang waited outside the purple bamboo grove, then found Xiao Huo unconscious after Lin Yuan disappeared.
• Lin Yuan learned that the North Sea Eye had drained the world’s vital energy for hundreds of thousands of years and that Eleventh Realm experts gathered near it to suppress it.
• Lin Yuan left the Five Regions and crossed the Endless Sea toward the North Sea Eye.
• A chubby Tenth Realm guard saw Lin Yuan approaching, then watched Nalan Island Lord and the deputy island lords bow and greet Lin Yuan as their lord.

Lin Yuan studied the Eye Suppression Art and used his superior comprehension to create a far stronger technique, then suppressed the North Sea Eye himself. After holding it in check for 120 years, he was about to leave the instance and return to the Main World.

• Lin Yuan met Nalan Island Lord and the five deputy island lords, who welcomed him under the World Consciousness's instructions and led him to the North Sea Eye.
• Nalan Island Lord explained that the North Sea Eye had grown to roughly 800,000 li in radius despite the experts' efforts to seal it.
• Lin Yuan studied the Eye Suppression Art, comprehended the Innate Eye Suppression Art, and developed an even more powerful flawless version.
• Lin Yuan ordered the experts guarding the North Sea Eye to withdraw, then used his Primordial Spirits and suppression power to stop its expansion and make it shrink.
• Lin Yuan continued suppressing the North Sea Eye for 120 years, after which the instance was set to end and he would return to the Main World.

After suppressing the North Sea Eye, Lin Yuan prepared to leave the world, leaving safeguards for North Sea Island and the Great Xia Empire. He sank into the desert with the sealed Eye as a golden-eyed figure formed from heaven and earth vital energy watched him disappear.

• Lin Yuan ignored the presence behind the North Sea Eye, resisted its soul attack, and shrank it to a harmless speck that he took into his hand.
• Lin Yuan ordered Nalan Island Lord and the North Sea Island experts to remain there for five hundred years, marking them with tokens that would destroy them if they left early.
• Lin Yuan gave Nuan Shu ten tokens that could grant the strength of the Thirteenth Realm, then admitted he was leaving for the place he had come from.
• Lin Yuan saw Xiao Huo, Shen Lang, and Yang Bi Xin living in a remote mountain stronghold, then went to the desert as his time in the world neared its end.
• Lin Yuan warned that the Martial Path’s disappearance could bring a second North Sea Eye, swallowed the sealed Eye, and sank into the desert as a golden-eyed figure appeared nearby.

After returning from the Five Regions World, Lin Yuan recovered his strength with Crimson Spirit Liquid and organized the Fifth Order Chapter of the Martial Path of Evolution. Crimson Kun Star Lord ended his seclusion, summoned Lin Yuan, and realized that his disciple might already have reached Fifth Order.

• Lin Yuan returned to the Main World after three hundred years in the Five Regions World, with his final contingency threatening to reopen the North Sea Eye if the World Consciousness broke its promise.
• Lin Yuan reviewed his rise to Fifth Order, twelfth stage, and his comprehension of numerous Evolution Paths, then considered the irreversible consequences of advancing to Sixth Order.
• Lin Yuan drank Crimson Spirit Liquid to restore his physical body and soul, while Hou Ming sensed his Fifth Order aura and renewed his determination to guard him.
• Lin Yuan outlined and uploaded the Fifth Order Chapter, describing Taiyin, Sun, and Taiji Primordial Spirits and their ability to act like independent clones.
• Crimson Kun Star Lord finished cultivating a secret art and summoned Lin Yuan in the Virtual World, where he sensed that Lin Yuan's mental power had surpassed Fourth Order and asked if he had reached Fifth Order.

Lin Yuan’s breakthrough to the fifth order forced the Crimson Kun Star Lord to rethink his training plans, while the Fifth Order Chapter raised the Martial Path of Evolution’s standing and earned Lin Yuan two hundred thousand Merit Points. The chapter ended with an old researcher discovering a new reply to his long-standing question about comprehending rules.

• Lin Yuan admitted that he had reached the fifth order, and the Crimson Kun Star Lord set aside his old training plan to reconsider how to guide him.
• The Crimson Kun Star Lord ordered Xiao Hong to send Lin Yuan a Rule Crystal.
• The Goddess of Wisdom awarded Lin Yuan two hundred thousand Merit Points and updated the Martial Path of Evolution’s estimated potential and rankings.
• The Crimson Kun Evolution Chart placed the Martial Path of Evolution at fifty-third after its Fifth Order Chapter was uploaded, surprising the evolvers gathered in the Central Plaza Area.
• An old researcher found a recent reply to his Founder Forum question that advised comprehending one rule and using that path to govern all paths.

Tai'a Great Scholar considered whether one dao could control myriad daos, but the Goddess of Wisdom stopped him from bypassing the information blockade around the reply’s author. Lin Yuan reviewed the Martial Path of Evolution’s growth, accepted an honorary professorship, and was told that his understanding of the path was one-sided.

• Tai'a Great Scholar tried to uncover the identity of the person who proposed controlling myriad daos with one dao, but the Goddess of Wisdom warned him that doing so violated the Human Alliance Charter.
• Lin Yuan reviewed the Martial Path of Evolution’s enrollment and sales figures and considered making an explanatory video to help more evolvers advance.
• Lin Yuan ate with his family, where Lin Yi announced that she had become an ordered evolver and Lu Qiong urged Lin Yuan to consider having a child.
• Song Wuyang visited Lin Yuan and invited him to become an honorary professor at Azure Wave Evolutionary Academy, and Lin Yuan accepted.
• At the academy, Lin Yuan explained that the Martial Path of Evolution was rooted in Qi and Blood, but Professor Lu said Lin Yuan’s understanding was one-sided.

Lin Yuan exchanged insights about the Martial Path of Evolution with Professor Lu, then used a discussion with Tai'a Great Scholar to deepen his understanding of controlling myriad daos and world-opening methods. After several days of cultivation, he received an S-rank encrypted delivery from Shuntong Group, sent by Crimson Kun Star Lord.

• Professor Lu shared his theories about the Martial Path of Evolution, and Professor Chu smoothed over the disagreement between him and Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan answered the long-standing question of a Founders Virtual World poster, beginning a conversation with Tai'a Great Scholar about controlling myriad daos and opening a world.
• Tai'a Great Scholar recognized Lin Yuan as a remarkably gifted junior after their discussion, while Lin Yuan logged off to focus on comprehending the Martial Path of Evolution.
• Lin Yuan secluded himself for several days and reconsidered the foundations of martial arts.
• Lin Yuan learned that an S-rank encrypted delivery from Shuntong Group had arrived and confirmed that Crimson Kun Star Lord had sent it.
• A Seventh Order Evolutionary courier handed Lin Yuan a black briefcase after verifying his identity, and Lin Yuan's expression changed when he received it.

Lin Yuan received a Rule Crystal from the Crimson Kun Star Lord and used it to deepen his understanding of the Sun Rule while considering how to advance to Tier 6. After a student's question led him to broaden the Martial Path of Evolution beyond Taiyin and Sun, his soul began transforming toward Tier 6, and he later met a recruiter from Xiangwen Group.

• Lin Yuan opened the ten-ton suitcase and found a crimson Rule Crystal that the Crimson Kun Star Lord had sent to help him comprehend the Sun Rule and advance beyond Tier 6.
• Lin Yuan taught at Azure Wave Evolutionary Academy, where a student asked whether someone unable to sense Taiyin or Sun could still follow the Martial Path of Evolution.
• Lin Yuan realized his martial path was too restrictive for ordinary cultivators and revised it to let them advance through forces such as metal, wood, water, fire, earth, thunder, and ice.
• As Lin Yuan perfected the revised martial path, his soul began transforming toward Tier 6, and he secluded himself for a month.
• After emerging from seclusion, Lin Yuan met Zhou He of Xiangwen Group, who invited him to join its reserve team for the next Arena Tournament.

Lin Yuan rejected Xiangwen Group and other factions while focusing on reaching the sixth rank and refining the Martial Path of Evolution. When Bei Zhao invited him to join Black Hell Ao’s command, Lin Yuan politely refused, and Black Hell Ao was surprised to hear it.

• Lin Yuan rejected the blond middle-aged man’s offer to join Xiangwen Group and kicked him out of his personal room.
• Lin Yuan considered the Arena Tournament’s commercial value and realized major factions saw him as a potential dark horse.
• Lin Yuan assessed his Soul Integration progress, rejected making the Profound Yellow Evolution Path his foundation, and continued perfecting the Martial Path of Evolution.
• Lin Yuan turned down repeated faction invitations and agreed to meet Bei Zhao, who represented Black Hell Ao of the Black Hell Family.
• Lin Yuan politely declined Black Hell Ao’s invitation, and Bei Zhao reported the refusal to Black Hell Ao, who was taken aback.

After Lin Yuan refused Black Hell Ao’s invitation to join the arena tournament, he learned about the Black Hell Family’s influence and Ao’s ambitions. He avoided involving his Senior Brothers while keeping his identity concealed, then met with the Twelve Peak Lords and found his soul transformation had reached twenty percent.

• Black Hell Ao learned that Lin Yuan had rejected his offer and wondered whether to invite him personally.
• Lin Yuan asked Hou Ming about the Black Hell Family and learned that Black Hell Ao hoped to use promising arena contestants to rise within his family.
• Hou Ming warned that Black Hell Ao might retaliate, but Lin Yuan chose not to involve his Senior Brothers to protect his hidden identity.
• Black Hell Ao recalled his father’s terms for returning to the family and decided that he had to recruit Lin Yuan, whom his Think Tank had identified as a promising candidate.
• Lin Yuan joined the Twelve Peak Lords in the Virtual World, where Eldest Brother advised him to choose the Evolutionary Path best suited to him before reaching the Sixth Order.
• Lin Yuan checked his cultivation in the underground training ground and found that his soul transformation had reached twenty percent.

Lin Yuan refused Black Hell Ao’s offer to serve him for eighty years, fully offending the Black Hell Family heir. Worried about possible retaliation, Lin Yuan sought help from his Eldest Brother.

• Lin Yuan reflected on perfecting Soul Integration and watched his younger sister Lin Yi practice the telekinesis evolution path.
• Black Hell Ao offered Lin Yuan resources and access to the Black Hell Family’s knowledge in exchange for eighty years of service.
• Lin Yuan firmly refused Black Hell Ao, who called him proud and left in anger.
• Lin Yuan considered the risks of offending the Black Hell Family and chose not to trouble Crimson Kun Star Lord over Black Hell Ao.
• Lin Yuan contacted his Eldest Brother and asked him for help.

Lin Yuan refused Black Hell Ao’s recruitment and chose to remain on Azure Wave Star, so Eldest Brother promised to protect him without exposing his identity. Black Hell Ao planned to pressure Azure Wave Star by cutting off trade, while Eldest Brother secretly arrived on the planet to keep Lin Yuan safe.

• Lin Yuan told Eldest Brother about Black Hell Ao, and Eldest Brother agreed to protect him while keeping his identity hidden.
• Lin Yuan returned to his manor and resolved to ignore any public backlash, while Hou Ming warned that Black Hell Ao might take more extreme measures.
• Bei Zhao proposed cutting off the Black Hell Family’s trade with Azure Wave Star to pressure Lin Yuan into joining Black Hell Ao.
• Black Hell Ao persuaded his second uncle, a senior family member responsible for trade, to approve the cutoff.
• Eldest Brother arrived on Azure Wave Star in a newly formed clone and concealed himself from the planet’s defenses and diviners.

The Black Hell Family cut off trade with Azure Wave Star to pressure Lin Yuan into submitting to Black Hell Ao, while Lin Yuan endured the public backlash and waited to break through to the sixth rank. The chapter ended with Fang Qing arriving furious about Black Hell Ao’s actions.

• The bald burly man chose to guard Lin Yuan secretly on Azure Wave Star rather than warn the Black Hell Family and risk exposing Lin Yuan’s importance.
• The Goddess of Wisdom sent a disguised peak seventh-rank Demon Rat Race bodyguard to protect Lin Yuan until he reached the sixth rank.
• The Black Hell Family halted trade with Azure Wave Star, and Black Hell Cang blamed Lin Yuan’s rejection of Black Hell Ao’s recruitment.
• Lin Yuan recognized that Black Hell Ao was using trade and public opinion to pressure him, but chose to wait rather than reveal his connection to the Crimson Kun Lineage.
• Governor Song Wuyang discussed the trade crisis with Azure Wave Star’s business leaders, who had few options besides finding new partners or asking Lin Yuan to apologize.
• Fang Qing appeared in Lin Yuan’s Virtual World and angrily condemned Black Hell Ao for suppressing Azure Wave Star.

Fang Qing rallied members of the Crimson Kun Lineage to restore trade with Azure Wave Star, forcing Black Hell Ao to abandon the family’s pressure on Lin Yuan. More than half a year later, Lin Yuan’s Soul Integration had reached eighty-five percent, and the Door of Myriad Worlds finished lighting up.

• Fang Qing confronted Black Hell Ao, who denied responsibility for the Black Hell Family’s trade cutoff and refused to back down.
• Fang Qing gathered fellow members of the Crimson Kun Lineage and asked them to establish trade with Azure Wave Star, promising each helper a favor.
• The White-Bearded Old Man urged Fang Qing to help Lin Yuan, reasoning that Lin Yuan’s refusal to submit meant he had other trump cards.
• Most of the gathered evolvers, including Silver Spirit, agreed to help Fang Qing, and Black Hell Ao stopped opposing them rather than provoke the Crimson Kun Lineage.
• More than half a year later, Lin Yuan saw that the Black Hell Family’s influence over Azure Wave Star had nearly vanished and sensed his Soul Integration had reached eighty-five percent.
• As Lin Yuan prepared to continue cultivating, the edge of the Door of Myriad Worlds in his mind became completely lit.

Lin Yuan delayed using the Door of Myriad Worlds until he completed his Soul Integration, then entered the Virtual World Arena to seek challenging opponents and accelerate his progress. After Fang Qing offered him an internal recommendation to join the Crimson Kun Lineage, Lin Yuan found that nearly all the opponents he had challenged had rejected his applications.

• Lin Yuan decided to postpone shuttling through the Door of Myriad Worlds until he completed his Soul Integration and reached the sixth rank.
• A green-haired middle-aged man and his young companion arrived at Azure Wave Star and criticized Lin Yuan for refusing Black Hell Ao’s recruitment, while praising Fang Qing for restoring trade ties.
• Lin Yuan entered the Virtual World Arena, hid his identity, and applied to challenge more than a hundred evolvers whose paths might help him perfect his martial arts.
• Song Wuyang thanked Lin Yuan for Fang Qing’s help, and Lin Yuan later heard his sister Lin Yi praise Fang Qing for standing by their family.
• Fang Qing offered Lin Yuan an internal recommendation to join the Crimson Kun Lineage, but Lin Yuan said they could discuss it later.
• Black Hell Ao ordered specialized training for the 222 evolvers he had recruited, while Lin Yuan discovered that more than seventy of his challenge applications had been rejected and the rest remained unanswered.