Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan absorbed all the Nirvana Golden Qi in Heaven Hall's Dan River, raising his cultivation and earning recognition from Desolate Hall. After Lin Dong emerged, Lin Fan gave him Xiao Diao's message, and the brothers went with Chen Zhen and Wu Dao to meet the sect leader about the Great Desolate Monument.

• Lin Fan completed the Dan River Empowerment in ten days, prompting Ying Xiaoxiao and Ying Huanhuan to leave and Qi Lei to send him back to Desolate Hall.
• Chen Zhen and Wu Dao praised Lin Fan's achievement and said he qualified to become a Core Disciple; Lin Fan told them the Great Desolate Monument matter should remain secret until they spoke with the sect leader.
• Mo Ling gave Lin Fan a trace of Demon Spirit aura that Xiao Diao and Little Flame had left before departing Dao Sect.
• Lin Dong emerged from the Dan River after passing the Fifth Nirvana Tribulation, and Lin Fan gave him Xiao Diao's message and explained the situation.
• Lin Fan and Lin Dong accompanied Chen Zhen and Wu Dao toward the depths of Dao Sect to meet the sect leader.

Lin Fan told Ying Xuanzi that the Great Desolate Monument was suppressing a Demon and that Ancestral Symbols could help defeat it. After returning to the Desolate Hall, Lin Fan prepared to cultivate with the Earth Core Spirit Saliva.

• Lin Fan explained to Ying Xuanzi, Chen Zhen, and Wu Dao that the Great Desolate Monument was struggling to contain a Demon tied to the ancient World War.
• Lin Fan said two Ancestral Symbols could help the sect communicate with the Tablet Spirit and suppress or destroy the Demon.
• Ying Xuanzi ordered Lin Fan, Chen Zhen, and Wu Dao to keep the matter secret, then told Ying Huanhuan the same and agreed to explain the World War to her.
• Wu Dao complained that Lin Fan had secured a Dan River Empowerment slot, and Chen Zhen told Lin Fan to focus on cultivation.
• Lin Fan returned to his courtyard, reassured Lin Dong, and took out the Earth Core Spirit Saliva to continue cultivating.

Lin Fan refined Earth Core Spirit Saliva, formed his primordial spirit, and advanced to the Eight Yuan Nirvana Realm and Eight Seal Heavenly Talisman Master. After learning that Lin Dong had become a Core Disciple, Lin Fan headed to the Martial Arts Hall to try its techniques.

• Lin Fan refined the Earth Core Spirit Saliva, and his Origin Pill broke apart as his primordial spirit formed and absorbed its golden energy.
• Lin Fan passed the combined Wind and Thunder Tribulation by devouring its lightning, reaching the Eight Yuan Nirvana Realm and becoming an Eight Seal Heavenly Talisman Master.
• Lin Dong, Mo Ling, and the others congratulated Lin Fan, and Mo Ling told him that Lin Dong had defeated Jiang Hao to become the Desolate Hall's sixth Core Disciple.
• Lin Fan touched Lin Dong and gained the Ancestral Stone Suppression Power, then accepted Lin Dong's offer to guide him to the Martial Arts Hall.
• Lin Dong led Lin Fan toward the Martial Arts Hall, while Mo Ling, Liu Bai, and other disciples followed to see what he would learn.

Lin Fan entered the Desolate Hall’s Martial Arts Hall, mastered the Desolate Art, and formed a Desolate Seed in fifteen minutes. He then began cultivating the Desolation Demon Eye as news of his feats spread through the Desolate Hall and Dao Sect.

• Lin Dong led Lin Fan and the others to the Martial Arts Hall, where Gu Mo welcomed Lin Fan inside.
• Lin Fan comprehended the Desolate Art, absorbed the Desolate Stone’s power, and formed a Desolate Seed in fifteen minutes.
• Gu Mo brought Lin Fan and Lin Dong into the sealed chamber of the four great martial arts, and Lin Fan chose the Desolation Demon Eye.
• Lin Fan used his Mental Power to enter a state of comprehension, briefly developed gray qi on his face, and recovered from bleeding at his eyes.
• News of Lin Fan entering the Martial Arts Hall spread through the Desolate Hall and the Dao Sect.

Lin Fan successfully mastered and improved the Desolation Demon Eye, then joined Ying Huanhuan and two other disciples for a mission outside the sect. Ying Huanhuan took command of the group, and they set off on an Azure Eagle without Lin Fan yet knowing their mission.

• Lin Fan opened his eyes after two days and told Gu Mo he had successfully cultivated the Desolation Demon Eye, improving it so it no longer harmed his eyes.
• Lin Fan's feat spread through the Desolate Hall, where disciples hailed him as its top core disciple, while he continued to cultivate without becoming complacent.
• Wu Dao told Lin Fan to join a mission outside the sect and brought him to meet Ying Huanhuan and two other disciples.
• Elder Bai Hua named Ying Huanhuan the mission leader and said she would explain the mission after they set off.
• Ying Huanhuan summoned an Azure Eagle, and Lin Fan and the other disciples boarded it as the group departed.

Lin Fan traveled with Ying Huanhuan, Jiang Kun, and Yuan Ling to Blood Rock Ground for a Dao Sect mission. After meeting the stationed disciples, they discovered more than forty powerful Fire Crystal Demon Apes in a forest, leaving the cause of their sudden appearance unresolved.

• Ying Huanhuan introduced Lin Fan to Jiang Kun and Yuan Ling during their flight and explained the mission at Blood Rock Ground.
• After five days, the group arrived at Blood Rock Ground and met Yuan Fang and the Dao Sect disciples stationed there.
• Yuan Fang led the group into the mine to investigate a strange problem, while a pair of hidden eyes watched them from a distant mountain.
• Yuan Fang revealed that more than forty Fire Crystal Demon Apes occupied a crimson forest and warned that fighting them could cause heavy casualties.
• Ying Huanhuan asked why the Fire Crystal Demon Apes had suddenly appeared in an area where they had not previously been active.

Ying Huanhuan used her Sound Wave Skill to hypnotize the Fire Crystal Demon Apes, allowing Lin Fan and the others to enter the forest and discover an Immortal Origin Ancient Tree. When a Fire Crystal Ape King emerged to guard it, Lin Fan and the others prepared to fight for the tree and its seed.

• Ying Huanhuan played a zither melody that hypnotized the Fire Crystal Demon Apes, then led Lin Fan and the others into the forest.
• Lin Fan and Ying Huanhuan discovered an Immortal Origin Ancient Tree bearing five crimson fruits.
• Lin Fan pulled Ying Huanhuan out of the way when the Fire Crystal Ape King burst from underground, and his system rewarded him with a Life Profound Spirit Fruit.
• The Fire Crystal Ape King claimed the tree, but Lin Fan, Ying Huanhuan, and Yuan Fang decided they had to defeat him and secure the Immortal Origin Ancient Seed.
• Ying Huanhuan assigned Lin Fan, Jiang Kun, and Yuan Ling to hold off the Ape King while she interfered with her Sound Wave Skill, and Yuan Fang sealed off the area.
• Jiang Kun and Yuan Ling charged the Fire Crystal Ape King as the fight began.

Lin Fan and his allies fought the Fire Crystal Ape King, using Ying Huanhuan’s zither music and Lin Fan’s Desolation Demon Eye to weaken and fatally wound him. The chapter ended with Lin Fan destroying the still-living beast with his Vermilion Bird Sky Splitting Palm.

• Ying Huanhuan played her guzheng, and its emerald sound waves seeped into the Fire Crystal Ape King and disrupted his yuan power.
• Lin Fan blocked the Fire Crystal Ape King’s charge toward Ying Huanhuan with a giant bell while Jiang Kun and Yuan Ling kept attacking.
• Lin Fan revealed his Desolation Demon Eye, and the Fire Crystal Ape King broke free of the zither’s interference and knocked Jiang Kun and Yuan Ling away.
• Lin Fan’s gray beam pierced the Fire Crystal Ape King’s crystal armor and forehead, leaving the beast gravely wounded but still alive.
• Lin Fan struck the Fire Crystal Ape King with his flame-powered Vermilion Bird Sky Splitting Palm, shattering and burning him to ash.

Lin Fan and the Dao Sect disciples waited for the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree’s fruit to ripen, then watched the tree reveal its seed in a pillar of green light. Yuan Fang warned them that the Demon Seal Crowd might be nearby, and Ying Huanhuan reached into the light to take the seed as Lin Fan prepared to defend it.

• Yuan Fang arrived and learned that Lin Fan had defeated the Fire Crystal Ape King, while she reported that the other Fire Crystal Demon Apes had been dealt with.
• Lin Fan, Ying Huanhuan, and the others waited five days for the Immortal Origin Ancient Fruit to ripen, and Lin Fan used his Mental Power to monitor the forest.
• Lin Fan collected the five fallen fruits and put them into his System Space as the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree began emitting a green light.
• The tree sent a pillar of green light into the sky, revealing the Immortal Origin Ancient Seed and alerting Yuan Fang to the danger of the Demon Seal Crowd nearby.
• Lin Fan declared that no enemy would take the seed, and Ying Huanhuan reached into the pillar of light to grab it.

Lin Fan uprooted the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree and stored it away before a coalition of wanted experts arrived seeking the Immortal Origin Ancient Seed. He provoked Luo Yi to discourage the surrounding enemies, and Luo Yi vanished to attack him.

• Lin Fan used the Great Desolate Ancestor Symbol to pull the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree from the ground and put it in the System Space.
• Lin Fan sensed approaching enemies, and Yuan Fang recognized the Demon Seal Crowd among them as Dao Sect disciples gathered nearby.
• Su Lei demanded the Immortal Origin Ancient Seed, while Ying Huanhuan explained that the Demon Seal Crowd and other wanted experts posed a serious threat.
• Ying Huanhuan entrusted the seed to Lin Fan, who promised to protect her and the others and return safely with it.
• Lin Fan challenged Luo Yi to come take the seed, and Luo Yi threatened to kill him before vanishing to attack.

Lin Fan fought Luo Yi with his treasures and techniques, then killed him with a golden blade after breaking through his defenses. He incinerated Luo Yi’s corpse and challenged the surrounding experts, asking who else would fight him.

• Lin Fan blocked Luo Yi’s attacks with the Black Tortoise Heaven Suppression Bell and struck him with the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree, which disrupted his Yuan Power and knocked him down.
• Lin Fan fired the Desolation Demon Eye at Luo Yi, who countered with the Great Asura Blade’s Asura Slash, and their attacks caused a devastating clash that flattened the forest.
• Lin Fan used his Vermilion Bird Wings to close in on Luo Yi, who raised his Nirvana Golden Body in defense.
• Lin Fan killed Luo Yi with a small golden blade, burned his corpse with Nirvana Demon Flame, and asked the onlookers, “Who else?”

Lin Fan killed Luo Yi and intimidated the gathered criminals, but Yao Ling, the Demon Seal Crowd’s powerful leader, arrived and challenged him. Lin Fan sent most Dao Sect disciples away and began attacking the Demon Seal Crowd as Yao Ling charged at him with a spear.

• Lin Fan killed Luo Yi, prompting Xiao Tian and several others to withdraw while Su Lei hesitated.
• Yao Ling arrived, revealed himself as a Nine Yuan Nirvana Realm expert, and confronted Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan told Ying Huanhuan to scatter the Dao Sect disciples, and she used her Emerald Zither to create an opening for them to flee.
• Lin Fan warned Ying Huanhuan, Jiang Kun, Yuan Ling, and Yuan Fang to be careful, then attacked the Demon Seal Crowd with his Immortal Origin Ancient Tree and Vermilion Bird Wings.
• Yao Ling roared in anger, formed a Golden Spear, and charged Lin Fan with a barrage of spear shadows.

Lin Fan annihilated the Demon Seal Crowd and defeated Yao Ling with the Desolation Demon Eye’s Desolate Beast Spirit. He then challenged the silent onlookers, while several figures approached from the horizon.

• Lin Fan and the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree killed more than a dozen members of the Demon Seal Crowd, leaving only Su Lei and Yao Ling alive.
• Yao Ling attacked Lin Fan, but Lin Fan redirected his spear strike into Su Lei and finished Su Lei with a golden knife and flames.
• Yao Ling used the Demon Origin Curse Body and Origin Curse Seal to attack Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan summoned the Desolate Beast Spirit through the Desolation Demon Eye, whose black beam pierced Yao Ling’s defenses and gravely wounded him.
• Lin Fan killed Yao Ling with the God Slaying Flying Knives and burned his body, then challenged the onlookers as several figures arrived from the horizon.

Ying Xiaoxiao and Dao Sect’s reinforcements arrived after Lin Fan defeated the Demon Seal Crowd, and the group returned the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree seed to Dao Sect. The next day, the Sect Master summoned Lin Fan, leaving him expectant as he headed to Dao Peak.

• Ying Huanhuan welcomed her sister Ying Xiaoxiao, and Jiang Kun told the newcomers that Lin Fan had killed the Demon Seal Crowd.
• Lin Fan asked whether anyone still wanted the ancient tree seed, and Ying Xiaoxiao let the onlookers leave after they denied taking part in the fight.
• Lin Fan handed the seed to Ying Huanhuan, who passed it to Ying Xiaoxiao and reminded her to recognize Lin Fan’s contribution.
• Five days later, the group returned to Dao Sect, where Ying Huanhuan invited Lin Fan to seek her Sound Wave Skill lessons and Lin Fan returned to Desolate Hall.
• The next day, Wu Dao told Lin Fan that the Sect Master had summoned him, and Lin Fan went with him toward Dao Peak.

Lin Fan cultivated in the Spirit Locking Array for more than twenty days and crossed the Nirvana and Wind and Thunder tribulations at once. After his cultivation ended, he sensed a strange fluctuation coming from the Desolate Hall.

• Ying Xuanzi showed Lin Fan the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree and let him cultivate in the Spirit Locking Array before it sealed itself.
• Ying Xuanzi warned Lin Fan that the Great Desolate Monument would open in over twenty days and encouraged him to attempt the Great Desolation Scripture.
• Lin Fan absorbed the array's energy while Ying Xuanzi and a blue-robed old man discussed his powerful Devouring Power and the possibility of contacting Darkness Hall about the Darkness Ancestor Symbol.
• After more than twenty days of cultivation, Lin Fan's Yuan Power and Mental Power surged, and he began undergoing the Nirvana Tribulation and Wind and Thunder Tribulation together.
• Lin Fan's Devouring Power absorbed the tribulation's wind and thunder, and he finished cultivating before sensing a strange fluctuation from the Desolate Hall.

The Great Desolate Monument opened as disciples and hall masters gathered to witness its appearance. Lin Fan arrived just in time, offered Lin Dong a hint about the monument’s nature, and placed his hand on it to begin comprehending it.

• The Pill River poured Nirvana Qi onto the mountain, causing the Great Desolate Monument to emerge as crowds gathered around it.
• Ying Xiaoxiao judged Lin Dong and Lin Fan to have some chance of comprehending the Great Desolation Scripture, while Ying Huanhuan worried about what Lin Fan’s success might mean for her.
• Chen Zhen told Lin Dong, Jiang Hao, and the others not to force their comprehension, and the five disciples went before the monument.
• Lin Fan arrived from Dao Peak and joined Lin Dong beside the monument.
• Lin Fan advised Lin Dong to feel the essence of desolation and consider that the monument might experience birth, aging, sickness, and death; the system awarded him a Life Profound Spirit Fruit for touching Lin Dong.
• Lin Fan pressed his hand against the Great Desolate Monument to begin his own comprehension.

Lin Fan obtained the Great Desolation Scripture from the Great Desolate Monument and used the monument’s desolate realm to strengthen his Desolate Art. After Lin Fan and Lin Dong survived the monument’s apparent attempt to expel them, the Tablet Spirit seemed to appear.

• Lin Fan touched the Great Desolate Monument’s black spot and acquired the Great Desolation Scripture before joining Lin Dong and the others for the comprehension ritual.
• Chen Zhen activated the monument, transporting Lin Fan into a desolate realm where he cultivated the Desolate Art to its tenth level and combined it with the Great Desolation Scripture to reach the twelfth.
• Jiang Hao failed first, followed over the next half month by Fang Yun, Song Zhou, and Pang Tong.
• Lin Fan dispersed his energy to leave the realm, but the monument restored him and Lin Dong as the desolate world began to collapse.
• The light surrounding Lin Fan and Lin Dong surged again, and Wu Dao recognized the enormous shadow appearing within the Great Desolate Monument as possibly its Tablet Spirit.

Lin Fan and Lin Dong learned that the Tablet Spirit needed their help cleansing an Otherworldly Demon King, then succeeded in comprehending the Great Desolation Scripture. As the Great Desolate Monument sank away, Lin Fan gained the Stasis God Token, leaving the gathered Dao Sect disciples waiting for the brothers to confirm their success.

• The Tablet Spirit showed Lin Fan and Lin Dong the ancient war and asked them to find two Ancestor Symbols and return to help cleanse the Otherworldly Demon King.
• Lin Fan and Lin Dong received the Great Desolation Scripture and spent half a month comprehending it before the Great Desolate Monument.
• Ying Huanhuan and Ying Xiaoxiao discussed Lin Fan's progress as the monument's light faded and the gathered onlookers awaited the brothers' results.
• Lin Fan and Lin Dong opened their eyes, showing they had succeeded, and the Great Desolate Monument gave each of them a Barren Bead before sinking into the earth.
• Lin Fan touched the sinking monument and obtained the Stasis God Token from the system.
• Ying Huanhuan called out to Lin Fan, demanding to know whether he and Lin Dong had succeeded.

Lin Fan’s successful comprehension of the Great Desolation Scripture thrilled the Desolate Hall, and he later shared an enhanced Desolate Art with its leaders and disciples. When Hongya Cave challenged Dao Sect during the Core Disciples’ seclusion, Lin Fan went to the front hall to support Ying Huanhuan and the other fighters.

• Lin Fan stopped his attack just short of Ying Huanhuan’s forehead, then reminded her of her bet before she fled.
• Lin Fan gave his enhanced twelve-layer Desolate Art to Chen Zhen and Wu Dao, while he refined five Immortal Origin Ancient Fruits and continued cultivating.
• As the Hall Examination approached, Ying Huanhuan kept avoiding Lin Fan whenever they met in the sect.
• Mo Ling told Lin Fan that Hongya Cave had challenged Dao Sect and that Dao Sect had lost two of the first three matches.
• Lin Fan went with Mo Ling to the front hall, where Dao Sect’s disciples welcomed his arrival as Ying Huanhuan faced her opponent.

Lin Fan arrived as Ying Huanhuan fought Song Yan, then stepped in when Huo Zhen interfered and redirected Ying Huanhuan’s attack. He accepted Huo Zhen’s challenge, and their fifth match began with Huo Zhen launching a powerful punch.

• Lin Fan arrived with Mo Ling and watched Ying Huanhuan face Song Yan, while Mo Ling identified Huo Zhen as Hongya Cave’s strongest young disciple.
• Ying Huanhuan overwhelmed Song Yan with her Formless Bodhi Sound, but Huo Zhen intervened and sent her emerald attack back at her.
• Lin Fan deflected the attack toward Huo Zhen, then challenged him after condemning his interference.
• Ying Huanhuan yielded the final match to Lin Fan, and Chen Zhen introduced Lin Fan to Hongya Cave’s elders.
• Lin Fan provoked Huo Zhen, who charged him with a Cave Mountain Fist.