Chapter Summaries

Shen Lin killed Candle Dragon’s remaining body after refining his thoughts, ending the threat that had kept the Humans of Great Wei trapped. Just as the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint and Ming Yueyue arrived and demanded answers, Shen Lin identified himself as Human and cut off Candle Dragon’s head.

• Candle Dragon split his seven bodies in different directions to flee, but Shen Lin refined their thoughts and made them return to him.
• Shen Lin decapitated the Candle Dragons one by one while Yuwen Fengxian and the Humans of Great Wei watched, hoping their deaths would free the Human Race.
• Prime Minister Zhang reflected on his decades of planning to lead the Human Race out of its cage as Shen Lin prepared to kill Candle Dragon’s final body.
• The Six-pointed Star Demon Saint and Ming Yueyue appeared and ordered Shen Lin to stop, then the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint demanded to know who he was.
• Shen Lin asked Ming Yueyue whether she belonged to the Wraith Clan, exchanged names with her, and then cut off Candle Dragon’s last head.

After the Candle Dragon fell, the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint’s return seemed to doom the Great Wei Human Race, but Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions found hope by divining Ji Nan’s future descendants. Above the Chaos Sea, the Demon Saint turned to attack Shen Lin at Ming Yueyue’s urging, and Shen Lin prepared to fight.

• Prime Minister Zhang and the others recognized the two figures as the returning Six-pointed Star Demon Saint and despaired for the Human Race.
• Ji Nan collapsed in despair, while Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions sacrificed his cultivation and shattered the Heavenly Secrets Disk to divine Ji Nan’s descendants.
• Old Daoist Thousand Evolutions declared that Ji Nan would have sons and a flourishing family, giving the others hope that Ji Nan would survive the calamity.
• Ji Zhanxie recalled Shen Lin’s confidence that he could handle any enemy, and the group wondered whether Shen Lin was their hope.
• Ming Yueyue suspected Shen Lin possessed the Sea Burning Flame and allowed the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint to test him.
• The Six-pointed Star Demon Saint threatened Shen Lin, who summoned the Taowu Saber and unleashed his aura.

Shen Lin used the Sacred Feather Clan’s Dao Principle Secret Technique, Life and Death Reversal, to wound Six-pointed Star Demon Saint, who mistook him for the escaped prodigy Hao Xi. After Shen Lin unexpectedly recovered and began using the technique again, he redirected it toward Ming Yueyue.

• Six-pointed Star Demon Saint sent a dao artifact sword at Shen Lin, whose Flame Coil failed to stop it.
• Shen Lin used Life and Death Reversal to turn the sword’s attack back on Six-pointed Star Demon Saint, piercing his chest.
• Ming Yueyue recognized the technique as one from the Sacred Feather Clan, and Six-pointed Star Demon Saint suspected Shen Lin was Hao Xi.
• Six-pointed Star Demon Saint attacked Shen Lin with five dao artifacts, but Shen Lin recovered and activated Life and Death Reversal again.
• Shen Lin pointed the technique at Ming Yueyue.

Shen Lin revealed that his All-Self Aspect could conceal and later select among multiple Great Dao principles, catching Ming Yueyue’s attention. As the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint attacked, Shen Lin used a different Dao Principle Secret Technique to burn away his sword and engulf him in flames.

• Shen Lin shifted the attack onto Ming Yueyue, who destroyed the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint’s five Dao artifacts and watched Shen Lin with interest.
• The Six-pointed Star Demon Saint transformed into his starfish form, restored his Dao artifacts, and wielded Great Dao powers taken from defeated opponents.
• Shen Lin manifested his All-Self Aspect, and Ming Yueyue realized he could hide unfinished Dao principles and choose one for a Saint Realm breakthrough.
• The Six-pointed Star Demon Saint lunged at Shen Lin with a sword infused with the Sharpness Dao principle, expecting Shen Lin to attempt another position switch.
• Shen Lin used Weapon Burning Dao Refinement to consume the sword and engulf the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint in flames.

Shen Lin mastered Weapon Burning Dao Refinement and used it to burn Six-pointed Star Demon Saint, while Ming Yueyue planned to kill the weakened demon and seize Shen Lin’s presumed inheritance from Heaven Burning Venerable. Six-pointed Star revealed that he had been stalling for help, and ten Demon Race Saints arrived to surround them.

• Shen Lin deduced Life and Death Reversal, then mastered Weapon Burning Dao Refinement using fifty million years of Demon Lifespan.
• Shen Lin’s flames dissolved Six-pointed Star Demon Saint’s attack and nearly burned him to death, but Six-pointed Star escaped by transforming into a Fire Spirit Insect.
• Ming Yueyue recognized Weapon Burning Dao Refinement as Heaven Burning Venerable’s technique and concluded that Shen Lin had obtained his legacy.
• Ming Yueyue decided to kill Six-pointed Star and capture Shen Lin, but Six-pointed Star stopped pretending to be afraid and revealed he was waiting for Demon Race reinforcements.
• Ten Demon Race Saints surrounded Shen Lin, Ming Yueyue, and Six-pointed Star, discussing how to claim the Wraith Clan prodigy and divide the credit.

Six-pointed Star Demon Saint summoned ten Demon Race Saints, who sought to capture Ming Yueyue, while he secretly recognized Shen Lin’s possible connection to Heaven Burning Venerable. As the demons prepared to fight, Shen Lin sent Yuwen Fengxian to begin evacuating Great Wei’s people to the imperial capital, leaving Prime Minister Zhang to oversee the desperate operation.

• Six-pointed Star Demon Saint offered the other demons Ming Yueyue and asked to keep Shen Lin for himself, but they mocked him and claimed Ming Yueyue for their own plan.
• Six-pointed Star Demon Saint recognized that Shen Lin’s technique resembled Heaven Burning Venerable’s and suspected Shen Lin possessed the Venerable’s inheritance.
• Shen Lin sent Yuwen Fengxian back to Great Wei, where Yuwen told Prime Minister Zhang and the others that ten Demon Race Saints had arrived.
• Yuwen Fengxian explained that Shen Lin would handle Six-pointed Star Demon Saint while Great Wei evacuated before the battle’s shock waves threatened the continent.
• Prime Minister Zhang ordered Yuwen Fengxian and the Dharma Aspect Realm experts to gather scattered citizens, while Ji Zhanxie coordinated the teleportation arrays and the cities prepared to send people to the imperial capital.

Shen Lin confronted the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint while Ming Yueyue trapped the Demon Race reinforcements and began turning them into Soul Slaves. Shen Lin unleashed the Sea Burning Dao Principle Secret Technique, killed the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint in one strike, and staggered from the effort.

• The Six-pointed Star Demon Saint led Shen Lin away from the continent and revealed that his earlier injuries had been an act to stall for reinforcements.
• Shen Lin exposed the ruse and revealed a barrier trapping the area as Ming Yueyue attacked the Demon Race Saints inside the black mist.
• The Six-pointed Star Demon Saint realized Ming Yueyue was capturing the Demon Race Saints as Soul Slaves and tried to escape by attacking Shen Lin.
• Shen Lin summoned his All-Self Aspect and used Sea Burning to erase the Six-pointed Star Demon Saint's attack and kill him.
• Shen Lin staggered after the attack, while the remaining forty-three million two hundred thousand years of the demon's lifespan were absorbed.

Shen Lin faced Ming Yueyue after killing Six-pointed Star Demon Saint, but she overwhelmed him and destroyed the continent with her attack. She offered to enslave him as a retainer in exchange for Heaven Burning Venerable's legacy, and Shen Lin angrily refused.

• Shen Lin gathered the people of Great Wei on a floating piece of the continent as Ming Yueyue defeated the Demon Race forces and turned them into Soul Slaves.
• Ming Yueyue opened the barrier and let Yuwen Fengxian lead the Human Race of Great Wei to safety before confronting Shen Lin.
• Ming Yueyue attacked Shen Lin with a gray palm, and he used Life and Death Reversal to evade the main force but was badly injured by the aftershock.
• Ming Yueyue's attack shattered the continent and sank it beneath the sea, while Yuwen Fengxian and the people of Great Wei watched from outside the barrier.
• Ming Yueyue told Shen Lin he could not match her and offered to take him to her clan as a retainer if he surrendered Heaven Burning Venerable's legacy.
• Shen Lin answered Ming Yueyue's offer with an angry refusal.

Shen Lin used the system to perfect the Golden Feather Heaven Piercing Art and the Golden Fish Soul-Slaying Saber, then used their speed and the flow of Dao Principles to strike Ming Yueyue. His saber passed through her body, but she screamed in pain, leaving the result of the attack unclear.

• Shen Lin deduced the Golden Feather Heaven Piercing Art to perfection and comprehended the Great Dao of Flow.
• Shen Lin transformed the Golden Feather Soul Slaying Sword into the Golden Fish Soul-Slaying Saber and deduced it to perfection.
• Ming Yueyue attacked Shen Lin again, and he used Life and Death Reversal to exchange their positions.
• Shen Lin unleashed the Golden Fish Soul-Slaying Saber through the Dao Principles stirred by Ming Yueyue’s palm imprint.
• Shen Lin appeared behind Ming Yueyue and struck her with the Taowu Saber; the blade passed through her body, and she screamed in pain.

Shen Lin faced Ming Yueyue after revealing that he had mastered the Sacred Feather Clan’s secret martial art, but she countered it with her Saint Realm Dao Principle Power, Soul Slaves, and Saint Artifact. As her attacks closed in, Shen Lin began a breakthrough to the Saint Realm, knowing that doing so would trigger the mysterious transaction that could strip away his cultivation and Dao comprehension.

• Ming Yueyue recovered from Shen Lin’s Golden Feather Soul Severing attack and realized he had fused the Feather Flow Great Dao into his Dharma aspect.
• Ming Yueyue suppressed the surrounding Dao Principles to block Shen Lin’s flowing technique, then sent dozens of Saint Realm Soul Slaves to attack him.
• Ming Yueyue wielded a Saint Artifact Bone Scepter and summoned gray giant hands behind Shen Lin while the Soul Slaves pressed him from the front.
• Shen Lin decided his earlier deductions had only been preparation and ordered the system to begin his Saint Realm breakthrough.
• Shen Lin recalled that the breakthrough would draw the mysterious existence from his past transaction, which would take his cultivation and his comprehension of the Fire Refining Dao.

Shen Lin attempted to break through to the Saint Realm by fusing the Fire Refining Dao and the Great Dao of "Flow," hoping to gain enough power to kill Ming Yueyue before a mysterious existence appeared. After countless failures and injuries, he fused his divine soul, Dharma Aspect, and physical body into a Dao-rune body and reached the Saint Realm.

• Shen Lin realized he needed to fuse two Great Daos to defeat Ming Yueyue within the brief period before his realm stabilized, despite risking a severe loss of strength afterward.
• His early attempts to fuse the Fire Refining Dao and the Great Dao of "Flow" failed repeatedly, injuring his divine soul as he searched for a way to reconcile their rhythms.
• Shen Lin discovered that the Great Dao of "Flow" could merge with the movement of flames, and after further attempts he successfully fused his divine soul and Dharma Aspect.
• His first effort to fuse them with his physical body failed when the body's other Dao-rune powers tore them apart.
• Shen Lin refined the Dao-rune powers out of his physical body, then successfully fused his Dharma Aspect, divine soul, and body into a Dao-rune body and broke through to the Saint Realm.

Shen Lin used a brief system-granted Saint Realm breakthrough to destroy Ming Yueyue’s Soul Slaves and attack her. After she summoned dead souls from the Dark Domain, Shen Lin made them vanish and formed a vast flame-forged seal, leaving Ming Yueyue facing his next attack.

• Shen Lin briefly entered the Saint Realm with a Dao Principle body and used a fire attack to destroy Ming Yueyue’s Saint Realm Soul Slaves.
• Ming Yueyue sensed Shen Lin’s strength and offered to end their conflict, but Shen Lin refused and attacked her.
• Shen Lin’s palm passed through Ming Yueyue’s Soul Fiend Shield, struck her chest, and set her Dao Principle body ablaze.
• Ming Yueyue summoned dead souls with her Thousand Souls Slaughtering Sun technique, believing they could not be affected by the world’s Dao Principles.
• Shen Lin made the approaching dead souls disappear, darkened the sky, and refined the surroundings into a great seal that descended toward Ming Yueyue.

Shen Lin killed Ming Yueyue, seized the treasures hidden in her scepter, and returned toward Great Wei, where a Demon Race Venerable arrived on a giant black tortoise to pursue him. Shen Lin fled at full speed, realizing he faced a Venerable Realm enemy.

• Shen Lin killed Ming Yueyue with the Heaven Burning Venerable's Weapon Burning Dao Refinement and absorbed her lifespan.
• Shen Lin crushed Ming Yueyue's damaged white-bone scepter, took its rare materials and Wraith Clan inheritances, and stored them in the Taowu Saber.
• Shen Lin returned toward Great Wei, where Prime Minister Zhang and the others celebrated the Human Race's escape from its cage and waited to discuss their next move.
• A massive black tortoise carrying a continent arrived beside Great Wei, while a muscular Lizard Demon said the Heavenly Demon had sent him to receive Shen Lin.
• Shen Lin recognized the Lizard Demon as a Demon Race Venerable and fled at full speed across the sea.

Shen Lin fled from the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable after breaking through to the Saint Realm, but Sells Everything appeared and claimed the cultivation arts Shen Lin had agreed to trade. After Sells Everything took the arts but returned the Sea Burning Flame, Shen Lin asked what it would cost to have him kill the pursuing Venerable.

• Shen Lin realized the Heavenly Demon had sent the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable because Shen Lin had escaped the Nine Revolutions Heavenly Demon Art's influence.
• The Sky Lizard Demon Venerable pursued Shen Lin, recognized the Heaven Burning Venerable's Flame Refining Great Dao, and suspected Shen Lin could remove the art's influence.
• Shen Lin stopped fleeing, stabilized his Saint Realm cultivation, and froze the surrounding sea and everything in it except himself and the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable.
• Sells Everything appeared and took Shen Lin's Saint Realm cultivation arts, the Heaven Burning Sea Boiling Art and the Golden Feather Heaven Piercing Art, as payment under their agreement.
• Sells Everything tried to take the Sea Burning Flame, but returned it after learning it had never acknowledged Shen Lin as its master.
• Shen Lin asked Sells Everything what price he would demand to kill the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable.

Shen Lin asked Sells Everything to kill Sky Lizard Demon Venerable, but could not afford the steep price before Nether Soul Venerable arrived and raised it further. Meanwhile, the Myriad Realms Stele revealed that Shen Lin had killed Ming Yueyue and listed him as a Dharma Aspect Realm cultivator.

• Sells Everything assessed Shen Lin's possessions and rejected his offer of future Venerable Realm cultivation, then demanded ten billion Spirit Nurturing Pearls or three Dao Crystals to kill Sky Lizard Demon Venerable.
• Nether Soul Venerable arrived to confront Shen Lin over Ming Yueyue's death, prompting Sells Everything to double the price to twenty billion Spirit Nurturing Pearls or six Dao Crystals.
• Observers at the Myriad Realms Stele saw Ming Yueyue disappear from the Saint Prodigy Ranking and Shen Lin take her place.
• The stele identified Shen Lin as Human Race/Sacred Feather Clan and showed his cultivation as Dharma Aspect Realm.

After Shen Lin killed Ming Yueyue, she revived through the Wraith Clan’s soul-replacement method, and Ming Soul Venerable tracked Shen Lin down to reclaim the clan’s core inheritance. Sky Lizard Demon Venerable refused to surrender Shen Lin, but the two Venerables reached a deal involving Sells Everything to inspect and erase memories, leaving Shen Lin caught between them.

• The Heaven's Pride Ranking confirmed Shen Lin had replaced Ming Yueyue, then listed Ming Yueyue again after her rebirth through the Wraith Clan’s soul-replacement method.
• Ming Yueyue told Ming Soul Venerable that a human carrying the Sacred Feather Clan’s inheritance had killed her and that she had taken the Wraith Clan’s core inheritance outside.
• Ming Soul Venerable arrived where Shen Lin, Sky Lizard Demon Venerable, and Sells Everything were gathered, and demanded that Shen Lin be handed over.
• Sky Lizard Demon Venerable refused to let Ming Soul Venerable inspect Shen Lin’s memories, but agreed to let Sells Everything examine them and erase the portion concerning the Wraith Clan’s inheritance.
• Ming Soul Venerable agreed to pay Sells Everything ten million Spirit Nurturing Pearls, while Sky Lizard Demon Venerable agreed to share Heaven Burning Venerable’s inheritance and give him the Sea Burning Flame.

Shen Lin used the Heaven-Intercepting Marvelous Skill to draw on the Sea Burning Flame and open a doorway while three Venerable Realm experts attacked him. The doorway exposed eighteen furious divine beasts of the Venerable Realm, turning the danger back on his attackers.

• Shen Lin activated the Heaven-Intercepting Marvelous Skill while three Venerable Realm experts suppressed him.
• Shen Lin extracted the Sea Burning Flame and used an ancient language to gather its power.
• Shen Lin formed a strange rune that opened a spatial doorway just as Sky Lizard Demon Venerable reached for him.
• Sky Lizard Demon Venerable's hand entered the doorway and touched a scale, prompting the opening to expand.
• Eighteen Venerable Realm divine beasts emerged in a burst of aura and glared at the three experts.

Sells Everything, the Wraith Venerable, and the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable stumbled upon the Divine Beast Clan’s secret gathering and were trapped by eighteen Venerable Realm divine beasts. As the divine beasts prepared to kill them, Sells Everything wondered why Shen Lin remained calm despite his Dharma Aspect Realm strength.

• The chapter described how the Divine Beast Clan increased its numbers through interbreeding and held a secret gathering every hundred years in a shifting Kun Peng-created space.
• An unknown power forced open the gathering’s exit, exposing the divine beasts and the three Venerable Realm visitors.
• Teng Snake sealed the surrounding sea with dense fog, and an Azure Dragon questioned how the intruders had found the secret realm.
• The Sky Lizard Demon Venerable recognized that the divine beasts would not let them leave, and the white tiger declared that the three would die there.
• Sells Everything realized the divine beasts considered Shen Lin too weak to notice, despite his mysterious calm.

Shen Lin watched the divine beasts overpower Wraith Venerable and Sky Lizard Demon Venerable, who summoned the Heavenly Demon for aid. As the Heavenly Demon faced a new challenger, Sells Everything seized Shen Lin and escaped through a rift.

• The divine beasts attacked Wraith Venerable and Sky Lizard Demon Venerable, then unleashed their Dao Fruits to overwhelm them.
• Wraith Venerable and Sky Lizard Demon Venerable offered up their own Dao Fruits and called for the Heavenly Demon to descend.
• The Heavenly Demon appeared, drove back the eighteen divine beasts, and noticed Shen Lin as Sells Everything carried him away through the rift.
• Wraith Venerable opened a teleportation gate, and Nether Slaughter emerged as the Heavenly Demon turned to face him.

The Heavenly Demon recognized Nether Slaughter as one of the ancient experts who had defeated him, while Nether Slaughter and the Divine Beasts faced off over the mysterious space they had found. Yinglong arrived, realized the intruders had discovered something dangerous, and launched a lightning attack as both sides prepared for a more serious clash.

• The Heavenly Demon recalled how Nether Slaughter had helped defeat him in the past and questioned the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable about Sells Everything, Shen Lin, and the Divine Beasts.
• Nether Soul Venerable approached Nether Slaughter to report what had happened, but a dragon roar interrupted them.
• Yinglong appeared and learned that the newcomers had found the mysterious space, then unleashed a storm of lightning against them.
• Nether Slaughter concealed himself and the Nether Soul Venerable, while the Heavenly Demon transformed himself and the Sky Lizard Demon Venerable into lightning to evade Yinglong's attack.
• Yinglong stopped the lightning barrage, but Nether Slaughter and the Heavenly Demon grew wary as the patterns on Yinglong's wings brightened.