Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into Chu He, a newly recruited Lin Family servant, he was assigned to sweep the Book Repository, where he discovered a sign-in system. He chose the repository for long-term sign-ins and received the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique as his first reward.

• The Lin Family steward assigned Chu He to sweep the Book Repository, a quiet post with little prospect of advancement.
• An old servant led Chu He into the repository and explained that only the two of them worked there, allowing Chu He to browse the books as he cleaned.
• Chu He discovered that his Golden Finger was a Sign-in System that rewarded repeated visits to chosen locations.
• Chu He designated the Book Repository as his long-term sign-in location and signed in for the first time.
• The system awarded Chu He the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique, and he reacted with joy.

Chu He learned the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique and discovered from a book that the Xia Clan lived among dangerous, powerful races, strengthening his resolve to stay hidden. After signing in for Body Tempering Pills, he began cultivating in the Book Repository and reached the First Layer of the First Transformation.

• Chu He absorbed the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique and decided to remain in the Book Repository, cultivate steadily, and avoid drawing attention.
• Chu He read Records of the Great Wilderness and learned that the Xia Clan was a Third Rank race whose standing depended on its strongest fighter.
• Chu He signed in at the Book Repository and received a bottle of twenty Body Tempering Pills.
• Chu He swallowed a pill, cultivated the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique, and reached the First Layer of the First Transformation.
• Several young Lin Family boys visited the repository to read, then left for martial arts lessons, and Chu He resumed cultivating with another pill.

Over several years, Chu He cultivated in the Lin Family library and broke through to the Second Revolution of the Nine Transformations Golden Body, while keeping his strength and resources to himself. After the Old Man left the library for the last time, Chu He remained alone there, having reached the Second Revolution, Eighth Layer.

• Chu He signed in and practiced martial arts for two years, reaching the complete Ninth Layer of the First Revolution and stockpiling resources for a breakthrough.
• Chu He attempted to reach the Second Revolution and broke through effortlessly, then ate pills and felt the immense increase in his strength.
• Chu He consolidated his Second Revolution cultivation as the Lin Family youths stopped visiting the library, leaving him more time to practice and read.
• The Old Man told Chu He that his health had failed, reflected on his life and his regrets about never learning martial arts, and left the library for good.
• Chu He continued cultivating alone and reached the Second Revolution, Eighth Layer, with each new layer taking several months.

After the Lin Family suffered a devastating defeat, a gravely wounded Old Man began spending his days reading in the library pavilion, disrupting Chu He's cultivation. Two Men in Black came to ambush the Lin Family Ancestor, but Chu He detected them before they could act.

• News spread that the Canine Fang Clan had killed the Lin Family head, wounded the Old Ancestor, and slain one hundred thousand Town South Army soldiers, while Chu He continued cultivating.
• A gravely wounded Old Man began visiting the library pavilion daily to read, forcing Chu He to adjust his cultivation routine.
• After the Old Man left one night, Chu He cultivated and sensed two Men in Black approaching the pavilion.
• The Men in Black discussed ambushing the Lin Family Ancestor the following day, but one felt an unexpected sense of deadly danger.
• Chu He appeared beside the Men in Black and remarked on the first man's keen perception.

Chu He confronted two Men in Black who were heading to the Lin Family Library Pavilion and warned them to leave. The intruders decided he was bluffing and prepared to challenge him.

• Chu He appeared silently behind the two Men in Black, startling them with a sense of deadly danger.
• Chu He claimed he was an ordinary guard and told them to leave the Library Pavilion alone.
• The two Men in Black doubted Chu He's explanation but wondered why he was willing to let them go.
• The two Men in Black concluded that Chu He was using a trick to scare them and accused him of nearly fooling them.

Chu He killed two Men in Black who attacked him, then returned to cultivating at the Lin Family residence. Two observers from the Cult Master’s faction suspected the Lin Family had hidden experts and decided to report their suspicions the next day, while Chu He fell asleep as his technique refined the pills he had swallowed.

• The two Men in Black attacked Chu He, but he shattered their weapons and killed them with two punches when they tried to flee.
• Two brocade-robed men noticed Tiger Shark’s distress signal and secretly watched the Lin Family residence from a tree.
• The brocade-robed men suspected hidden Lin Family experts had defeated Tiger Shark and his companion, and decided to wait until morning before reporting to the Cult Master.
• Lin Family experts cleared away the corpses and blood, so Chu He returned to his room instead of continuing to cultivate in the library pavilion.
• Chu He swallowed pills before sleeping, and the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique automatically refined them and strengthened his body.

Chu He continued cultivating in the library and reached the ninth level of the second transformation of the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique. Lin Zhennan repeatedly offered to teach him martial arts and take him outside, but Chu He refused, and the chapter ended with Lin Zhennan accepting his choice.

• Chu He refined medicinal pills by day and cultivated at night, advancing the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique to the ninth level of the second transformation.
• Lin Zhennan noticed Chu He's exceptional physique and offered to train him, but Chu He said he only wanted to read quietly in the library.
• Lin Zhennan revealed that he was King Zhennan and a Half-step King, yet Chu He still refused to become his disciple.
• Lin Zhennan asked Chu He to leave the library with him and see the outside world, but Chu He said the library had already shown him the many sides of life.
• Lin Zhennan accepted Chu He's resolve and stopped pressing him.

After years of cautious preparation, Chu He broke through to the third transformation of the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique and forged his Golden Body foundation. He recognized his newfound strength but resolved to keep developing quietly in the library pavilion.

• Chu He spent years studying records of breakthroughs to the King realm and concluded that the Xia Clan's Half-step Kings were malformed results of failed advances.
• Chu He prepared the library pavilion with layers of formations and secret techniques to contain his breakthrough and prevent interference.
• Chu He took several Golden Body Sculpting Pills and began advancing from the second transformation to the third, enduring the collapse and regeneration of his flesh.
• Chu He successfully forged his Golden Body foundation, and the might released from his eyes shattered a formation capable of stopping a Half-step King's full-force attacks.
• Chu He rose into the air and realized he could cross the void, but he decided to stay low-profile and continue developing quietly.

Lin Xueling confided in Chu He about the Lin Family’s peril and asked how she could help her parents. Chu He told her to become stronger and offered to teach her, and she agreed to test whether he could deliver on his boast.

• Lin Xueling told Chu He that the Canine Fang Clan had killed her eldest uncle and that the Lin Family had suffered repeated ambushes after the Old Ancestor was injured.
• Lin Xueling asked Chu He how she could ease her parents’ worries, and he advised her to become stronger.
• Chu He said reaching the Half-step King Realm was achievable with the right teacher, dismissing the difficulty Lin Xueling had heard about.
• Lin Xueling challenged Chu He to teach her, and he accepted; she agreed because she wanted to prove his boast wrong.

Five years after Lin Xueling began staying at the Library Pavilion, Chu He had helped her reach the Innate Seventh Level while the Lin Family’s situation deteriorated. When she begged him to save her dying Old Ancestor, Chu He refused, and Lin Xueling returned to cultivating in despair.

• Another five years passed, bringing Chu He’s stay at the Library Pavilion to fourteen years and his cultivation to the Third Rotation, Fifth Layer.
• Lin Xueling reached the Innate Seventh Level with Chu He’s help and special treasures as the Lin Family’s fortunes worsened.
• Lin Xueling told Chu He that her Old Ancestor was rapidly declining and asked whether he could save him.
• Chu He said the Lin Family Ancestor’s grievous injuries and destroyed martial foundation were beyond what he could do.
• Lin Xueling continued to cultivate relentlessly as her Old Ancestor’s condition worsened and the Lin Family grew more oppressed.

Lin Xueling decided to stay and fight beside her family as the Lin Family prepared for the Lin Family Ancestor’s impending death. Chu He entered the secret hall and offered to extend the Lin Family Ancestor’s life by five years, leaving the family stunned as he began treating him.

• Lin Xueling told Chu He that she would stay in Lin City to protect her family rather than leave with the younger members.
• Lin Xueling’s resolve awakened a trace of the true meaning of martial arts and strengthened her combat power.
• The Lin Family gathered around the dying Lin Family Ancestor in the secret hall, fearing their family’s future.
• Chu He entered the hall, and the Lin Family members found themselves unable to move or look directly at him.
• The Lin Family Ancestor recognized Chu He’s immense power and asked why he had come.
• Chu He offered to extend the Lin Family Ancestor’s life by five years and placed a drop of medicinal liquid on his forehead.

Chu He restored the Lin Family Ancestor enough to fight at full strength for five years, then returned to the Library Pavilion and obtained the Nine Tribulations Divine Fist. He tested its first level and found it powerful enough to destroy five defensive formations.

• Chu He used a drop of Life Spirit Liquid to heal the Lin Family Ancestor and implanted a sealed Forbidden Technique in him.
• The Lin Family Ancestor thanked Chu He and ordered his family to spread false news of his death so he could draw out their enemies and remove obstacles.
• Chu He returned to the Library Pavilion and signed in to receive the Nine Tribulations Divine Fist.
• Chu He absorbed the first level of the Nine Tribulations Divine Fist and tested it against five defensive formations.
• Chu He's golden fist phantom shattered all five formations and nearly punched through the Lin Family and half of Lin City.

After rumors spread that the Lin Family Ancestor had died, the Incense Sect gathered the Lin Family’s enemies into an Anti-Lin Alliance near Lin City. The alliance agreed to attack the weakened family and divide its wealth, leaving its forces ready to march.

• Spies spread news that the gravely injured Lin Family Ancestor had died, while the Lin Family denied the rumors and drew its members back to Lin City.
• Ten days later, leaders of the Lin Family’s rival families and factions gathered at a camp near Lin City as the Anti-Lin Alliance.
• Alliance members celebrated the Lin Family’s apparent weakness and traded stories of old grudges, while the Silver-Masked Emissary called them to discuss the attack.
• The Silver-Masked Emissary said the alliance would divide the Lin Family’s wealth by whoever could seize it, forbidding members from fighting over treasure before the family fell.
• The gathered forces agreed to the terms, and the Silver-Masked Emissary ordered them to set out.

Lin Xueling believed Lin Zhennan was dead and left to defend the Lin Family, despite Chu He knowing the Old Ancestor was safe. The Anti-Lin Alliance surrounded Lin City, but its plan to spark an uprising inside the city failed to produce a signal.

• Lin Xueling told Chu He that she would fight for the Lin Family after hearing rumors that Lin Zhennan had died.
• Chu He sensed that Lin Zhennan was alive and guessed that he had feigned his death to draw out the Lin Family's enemies.
• Lin Xueling insisted that her strength made her one of the Lin Family's defenders and left the Book Repository to join the fight.
• The Anti-Lin Alliance surrounded Lin City and waited for its planted agents to cause chaos inside the city.
• The allied leaders demanded an explanation from the Silver-Masked Emissary when no signal or uprising appeared.

The Anti-Lin Alliance abandoned its failed infiltration plan and launched a frontal assault on Lin City. As the Lin Family Ancestor secretly turned the tide of the fierce battle atop the walls, the alliance’s leaders began demanding that the Incense Sect produce the promised Half-step King.

• The Silver-Masked Emissary ordered the Anti-Lin Alliance to carry out its second plan and force its way onto Lin City’s walls.
• Chu He watched from the Lin Family estate and judged that the Lin Family faced a disadvantage in numbers despite its disciplined defenders and the city walls.
• The Anti-Lin Alliance sent its Innate experts over the walls, where they clashed with the Lin Family’s experts in a brutal battle.
• The Lin Family Ancestor concealed in armor attacked the alliance’s Innate experts from the shadows, causing many of them to fall.
• The alliance’s major forces demanded that the Incense Sect contribute and reveal the promised Half-step King, while some considered withdrawing.

The Incense Sect's Cult Master arrived to crush the Lin Family, but Lin Zhennan revealed himself alive and trapped him in a formation. As Lin Zhennan overwhelmed him, the Cult Master unleashed a terrifying black aura, which Chu He sensed from afar.

• The Incense Sect's Cult Master arrived above Lin City and declared that the Lin Family would perish.
• Lin Zhennan stopped Lin Xueling from attacking, revealed himself, and trapped the Cult Master in a formation.
• Lin Zhennan beat the Cult Master while the Anti-Lin Alliance panicked and the Lin Family cheered.
• The Cult Master begged Lin Zhennan to end their feud, but Lin Zhennan refused to let him escape.
• The Cult Master covered himself in black qi and writhing black threads, and Chu He noticed the evil aura from a distance.

The Incense Sect Master revealed that the Incense Sect was made up of aliens and attacked Lin Zhennan as the Anti-Lin Alliance collapsed. Chu He struck down the five alien Half-step Kings with five punches, ending their threat to Lin City.

• The Incense Sect Master exposed his alien form, and Incense Sect disciples began consuming human hearts as the Anti-Lin Alliance fell into chaos.
• Five alien Half-step Kings broke through the Lin Family's formation and surrounded Lin Zhennan, while the Sky Supervision Department's Old Man sensed them and left the Imperial City.
• The Incense Sect Master declared that the aliens would bathe Lin City in blood, angering Chu He.
• Chu He unleashed five punches with the power of a Half-step King, and their aura froze the five aliens and Lin Zhennan in place.
• Chu He's five punches blasted the alien Half-step Kings, including the Incense Sect Master, into ash.

A mysterious Half-step Invincible King killed the five foreign race Half-step Kings who threatened the Lin Family, turning the battle into a rout and saving Lin City. The Lin Family’s reputation recovered, but Lin Zhennan remained unsure who had intervened or whether the unknown senior was still with the family.

• A hidden expert killed the five foreign race Half-step Kings with five punches, stunning Lin Zhennan, the Lin Family, and the Anti-Lin Alliance.
• The foreign race forces and Anti-Lin Alliance leaders ordered their troops to flee, and Lin Zhennan led the Lin Family in pursuit.
• The Lin Family slaughtered the fleeing forces for a thousand miles until nightfall, ending the threat to the family.
• The Divine Strategy Army spread news of the battle, prompting Xia Clan powers to regard the Lin Family as a formidable force again.
• Lin Zhennan responded ambiguously to questions about the Half-step Invincible King, since he did not know the senior’s identity or whether he remained with the Lin Family.

Chu He watched over Lin Xueling as she broke through to the King Realm, though she mistakenly believed she had only reached the Half-step King Realm. The Lin Family had prospered over the years, and the chapter ended with Chu He anticipating Lin Xueling’s surprise when she discovered her true strength.

• Chu He continued cultivating in the Book Repository for ten years, while the Lin Family recovered and flourished after its crisis.
• Lin Zhennan died of old age, and the Lin Family held a grand funeral attended by forces from across the land.
• Lin Xueling became the focus of the Lin Family and rejected marriage proposals, while she drove away people who threatened Chu He after rumors linked them.
• Lin Xueling told Chu He she was ready to break through, and he brought her to his bedroom and gave her three King Breakthrough Pills.
• Under Chu He's protection, Lin Xueling successfully reached the King Realm, but she believed she had become a Half-step King.
• Chu He concealed Lin Xueling's breakthrough phenomena and smiled as he imagined her confusion when she faced a genuine Half-step King.

After spending a month in seclusion, Chu He broke through to Fourth Turn and reunited with Lin Xueling. Lin Xueling prepared to return to Annan Land, where she took turns with the Ji Family and Tianshan Sword Sect guarding the Xia Clan’s border.

• Chu He told Lin Xueling he had never broken through to the Half-step King Realm, leaving her unconvinced but unwilling to press him.
• Ten years later, Chu He emerged from a month of seclusion after reaching Fourth Turn.
• Lin Xueling told Chu He she was going to Annan Land again, and he reminded her to use the brocade pouch if trouble arose.
• The Lin Family’s share of the Annan Land defense required Lin Xueling to rotate through the post after the Ji Family and Tianshan Sword Sect had borne the burden for years.