Chapter Summaries

Huo Chongyang, Zhuge Yalan, and Yu Shengtao united seventeen major powers to destroy Hundred Flowers Valley and eliminate Lin Lin, agreeing to divide the spoils. As their enormous army gathered near FuLiu Province, Hundred Flowers Valley sensed the threat and prepared for war.

• Huo Chongyang identified Lin Lin’s rapid growth as a threat and proposed that the major powers strike before he became unstoppable.
• Yu Shengtao proposed dividing Lin Lin’s Hidden Acupoints methods and Hundred Flowers Valley’s manuals equally, while allocating its industries according to each faction’s contribution.
• Zhuge Yalan, Huo Chongyang, and representatives of the other powers accepted the plan and swore a blood oath to attack Hundred Flowers Valley together.
• The seventeen powers assembled more than two million troops and over five thousand first-rate experts, splitting their forces between the assault on Hundred Flowers Valley’s headquarters and attacks on its outposts and industries.
• As the forces converged around FuLiu Province, Hundred Flowers Valley sensed the looming war and began preparing.

Cui Ximing organized Hundred Flowers Valley’s allies and forces as the Tianhu Alliance prepared to destroy the sect, while everyone placed their hopes in Lin Lin’s breakthrough. Ten days after Lin Lin entered seclusion, the war began at Hopeless Pass and Heavenly Star Pass, where both sides suffered heavy casualties.

• Cui Ximing received reports that Hundred Flowers Valley’s experts, allies, married clans, and disciples were gathering to defend the sect.
• Cui Ximing assessed the imbalance in troops and experts, but counted on the Eastern Continent Islands and other reinforcements to hold the passes until Lin Lin emerged.
• Hundred Flowers Valley distributed its resources, raised an eight-hundred-thousand-man army, and divided its forces between Hopeless Pass and Heavenly Star Pass.
• The seventeen major factions formed the Tianhu Alliance and attacked both passes with siege equipment and large armies.
• The defenders and attackers clashed in a fierce battle as experts fought atop the passes and soldiers exchanged arrows, stones, and other attacks.

The Tianhu Alliance launched a beheading operation against Lin Lin at Hundred Flowers Valley, bringing thirty-five Peerless Experts and more than five hundred Super First-Rate Experts to the mountain gate. The battle began with both sides relying on their sword formations, while the alliance’s attackers repeatedly tried to break through toward Hundred Flowers Hall.

• Hundred Flowers Valley strengthened its defenses around Lin Lin, who remained unable to move during his transformation, and gathered experts to prepare for the Tianhu Alliance’s attack.
• On the eighth day of the war, the Tianhu Alliance’s seventeen major factions brought thirty-five Peerless Experts and over five hundred Super First-Rate Experts to Hundred Flowers Valley’s mountain gate.
• Cui Ximing and Huo Chongyang faced each other at the gate, and the two sides immediately began fighting with the support of their respective sword formations.
• The experts’ opening clash destroyed the stone gate, steps, and lotus pools, while sword energy and other attacks battered the surrounding area.
• Tianhu Alliance experts tried to charge toward Hundred Flowers Hall, but the Hundred Flowers Sword Formation’s disciples drove them back, and the attackers prepared to try again.

As Lin Lin’s transformation neared completion, he refined the Martial Codex and cultivated until he could perceive the world beyond Hundred Flowers Hall. His expanded perception revealed Hundred Flowers Valley under attack, with Cui Ximing about to be killed by Huo Chongyang.

• Lin Lin regained his senses during his transformation and adjusted the Martial Codex to better circulate his True Qi and draw on Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
• Lin Lin realized that focused cultivation helped his mind adapt to his transformed body, and he resumed cultivating as his senses and control returned.
• Lin Lin perceived his parents, Cui Hao, Su Minghua, and several unfamiliar young people guarding the cultivation chamber.
• Lin Lin expanded his perception beyond Hundred Flowers Hall and saw Hundred Flowers Valley’s disciples and experts fighting at the Mountain Gate.
• Cui Ximing exposed a fatal opening while fighting an unnamed Peerless Expert, and Huo Chongyang thrust his sword toward Cui Ximing’s heart.

After a day and night of fighting, Hundred Flowers Valley was close to defeat when Lin Lin emerged from his transformation and drove back the Tianhu Alliance’s strongest fighters with a distant sword strike. Huo Chongyang ordered the alliance to flee, ending its assault on Hundred Flowers Valley.

• The Hundred Flowers Valley disciples fought to protect Lin Lin as both sides exhausted their strength and suffered heavy losses.
• Huo Chongyang nearly killed Cui Ximing, but a sudden surge of Sword Qi forced him and Jin Feng backward.
• Jin Feng realized Lin Lin had wielded Heaven and Earth Essence Qi through Sword Intent from more than a thousand zhang away.
• Lin Lin’s emergence restored Hundred Flowers Valley’s morale and left the Tianhu Alliance’s experts unsure how to proceed.
• Huo Chongyang ordered the Tianhu Alliance to retreat and fled without striking Cui Ximing again.

After Lin Lin’s emergence forced the Tianhu Alliance to flee Hundred Flowers Valley, Huo Chongyang proposed retreating to the main army, seeking reconciliation, and uniting the factions to resist Lin Lin. The other factions embraced his plan, leaving Huo Chongyang confident that the defeat could strengthen his position.

• Huo Chongyang and the surviving Tianhu Alliance experts fled while Hundred Flowers Valley’s exhausted fighters could not pursue them.
• Huo Chongyang told the fleeing experts to return to the main army, recover, and offer Hundred Flowers Valley gifts in exchange for reconciliation.
• Huo Chongyang proposed that the seventeen factions share resources and cultivate Heaven and Human Level Experts to counter Lin Lin.
• The allied experts accepted Huo Chongyang’s plan and pledged to fight Hundred Flowers Valley rather than surrender.
• Huo Chongyang realized the defeat had united the alliance and preserved his chance to gain greater power and status.

After emerging early from his transformation, Lin Lin recovered from using his Mental Strength to drive off the Tianhu Alliance and learned how close Hundred Flowers Valley had come to destruction. He revealed that he remained in the True Qi Condensation Realm, then set out alone to pursue the fleeing alliance.

• Lin Lin recovered from his depleted Mental Strength and emerged from the shattered Blood Cocoon as his family, Cui Ximing, and the others gathered around him.
• Cui Ximing explained how the Tianhu Alliance had attacked Hundred Flowers Valley while Lin Lin was transforming, stirring Lin Lin's anger at the danger to his sect and loved ones.
• Lin Lin reassured everyone that his breakthrough had succeeded and the worst danger had passed.
• Cui Ximing asked about Lin Lin's cultivation, and Lin Lin said he was still in the True Qi Condensation Realm but did not know the limits of his combat strength.
• Lin Lin gathered the Tianhu Alliance's lingering auras at the damaged Mountain Gate and pursued them as clouds and rain gathered overhead.

Lin Lin appeared at the Tianhu Alliance camp and attacked its heavily fortified army with a single sword strike. Huo Chongyang and the others blocked the blow using their Military Formation and Battle Formation, but many experts were injured.

• The Tianhu Alliance gathered more than a million soldiers and thousands of experts at its camp outside Hopeless Pass, forming powerful defensive formations.
• Huo Chongyang reassured the experts that the army could hold out while the alliance prepared to nurture Heavenly Being Experts.
• Dark clouds gathered as Lin Lin’s approaching aura disrupted the weather, and Zhuge Yalan and Yu Shengtao recognized his power.
• Lin Lin appeared outside the Central Army Camp and swung the Nether Spring Light-Containing Sword at the Tianhu Alliance.
• Huo Chongyang and the others used both formations to withstand Lin Lin’s strike, but several Peerless Experts were shaken and weaker experts vomited blood.

Lin Lin broke through the Tianhu Alliance’s Military Formation by slaughtering its soldiers with rain, debris, and his swordsmanship. As the army routed and its formation collapsed, he entered the experts’ encirclement, leaving them in deeper despair.

• Lin Lin recognized that the Tianhu Alliance’s Military Formation and Battle Formation had let its fighters withstand his sword strike.
• Huo Chongyang urged Lin Lin to leave and promised the Tianhu Alliance would reconcile with Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Lin Lin vanished and attacked a nearby camp, killing soldiers with raindrops and fragments driven by his inner force.
• The soldiers panicked and fled, while Lin Lin overcame elite attempts to restore order and the Military Formation crumbled.
• The Tianhu Alliance experts failed to catch Lin Lin, and he entered their encirclement as their formation’s power was completely shattered.

Lin Lin overwhelmed the Tianhu Alliance’s experts after destroying the formations that had let them challenge him. As the Tianhu Sword Formation collapsed, its soldiers and martial artists broke ranks and fled.

• Lin Lin entered the Tianhu Sword Formation and killed over a thousand of its members with successive waves of Sword Qi.
• More than thirty Peerless Experts led the Tianhu Alliance’s attack, while the central army Imperial Guards supported them from the formation’s rear.
• Lin Lin pierced through the formation’s defenses and slaughtered the Imperial Guards who formed its foundation.
• After Lin Lin killed over half the Imperial Guards in barely more than ten breaths, the remaining soldiers panicked and fled.
• Tianhu Alliance experts of First-Rate rank and above also turned and ran as the weakened formation left them exposed to Lin Lin.

Lin Lin shattered the Tianhu Alliance’s formations and pursued its fleeing experts, killing them with overwhelming sword strikes. Huo Chongyang and the remaining Peerless Experts gathered for a final stand, hoping only to wound Lin Lin before they died.

• Tianhu Alliance experts, including Huo Chongyang, fled the battlefield after their formations collapsed.
• Lin Lin ignored the routed soldiers and used his senses to track the fleeing Tianhu Alliance elites.
• Lin Lin’s sword light pierced the fleeing experts’ defenses and killed first-rate, Super First-Rate, and Peerless Experts alike.
• Huo Chongyang lost his composure as the experts around him died and charged Lin Lin with his sword.
• Zhuge Yalan, Yu Shengtao, and several other Peerless Experts joined Huo Chongyang in a small Tianhu Sword Formation for a final attack.

Lin Lin annihilated the Tianhu Alliance experts who launched a final attack, then hunted down the survivors as the battle ended at dawn. The soldiers at Hopeless Pass saw the destroyed camp and recognized Lin Lin as an invincible Martial Arts Myth.

• Thirty remaining Tianhu Alliance Peerless Experts unleashed their strongest Forbidden Martial Arts against Lin Lin.
• Lin Lin released Sword Qi from his acupoints, shredding the experts, their weapons, and their attacks without being harmed.
• Lin Lin pursued the fleeing Tianhu Alliance survivors until the battle ended at dawn.
• The soldiers at Hopeless Pass discovered the Tianhu Alliance camp in ruins, with only its own dead across the battlefield.
• An expert at Hopeless Pass declared that Lin Lin had single-handedly crushed the army and its formations, establishing his Name of Myth.

After Lin Lin’s victory over the Tianhu Alliance, the Hundred Flowers Valley experts celebrated the end of the war and welcomed his return. Su Minghua embraced Lin Lin, and everyone entered Hopeless Pass to feast and honor their victory.

• The Hundred Flowers Valley experts watched Lin Lin approach after he routed the Tianhu Alliance army and destroyed its forces.
• Cui Ximing and Ji Yun declared the war over, while Lin Lin’s parents, Lin Yue and Zhang Fei, took pride in their son’s achievement.
• Su Minghua ran to Lin Lin, and he accepted her embrace after seeing that her resentment had faded.
• Lin Lin told his master, fellow disciples, and parents that they had won, and they agreed the Tianhu Alliance’s defeat had ended their immediate crisis.
• Cui Ximing led everyone into Hopeless Pass to announce the victory, reward the soldiers, and prepare a feast.
• At night, the soldiers and Hundred Flowers Valley experts celebrated around bonfires in Hopeless Pass.

Lin Lin recovered from the battle and planned how to improve his combat techniques while continuing to cultivate. At Hopeless Pass, Hundred Flowers Valley’s leaders tallied the Tianhu Alliance’s surrendered soldiers and enormous stores of equipment, provisions, and wealth, leaving Lin Lin’s side with a massive haul.

• Lin Lin cultivated while reviewing his need to develop Mythical-Grade swordsmanship, movement techniques, and protective arts suited to his martial realm.
• Su Minghua woke and cultivated with Lin Lin before he washed, dressed, and left.
• Hundred Flowers Valley’s leaders reported that the Tianhu Alliance’s thousands of first-rate and stronger experts had been wiped out and more than five hundred thousand soldiers had surrendered.
• The leaders tallied 1.1 million sets of weapons and armor worth over thirty million taels, along with provisions, siege equipment, and other wealth.
• Lin Lin’s side emerged from the battle with a vast stockpile of supplies and strategic provisions.

After defeating the Tianhu Alliance, Lin Lin allocated the spoils to support cultivation, compensate the fallen, and build a new army. Cui Ximing offered him the position of Valley Master, and Lin Lin accepted before setting out to deal with the remaining Tianhu Alliance forces.

• Hundred Crafts Elder Mo Long reported that the spoils exceeded fifty million taels, and Cui Ximing asked Lin Lin how to distribute them.
• Lin Lin kept some wealth for medicinal materials and directed the rest toward compensation for casualties and forming a new army; Cui Ximing assigned the surrendered soldiers to labor.
• Cui Ximing offered Lin Lin the position of Valley Master, and Lin Lin accepted the succession, scheduled for three months later.
• Lin Lin said he would leave and return before the ceremony, and Cui Ximing agreed to handle the aftermath while asking to be told where Lin Lin had gone.
• Lin Lin departed for Heavenly Star Pass to confront the remaining Tianhu Alliance forces and arrived there quickly.

After learning that Lin Lin had single-handedly destroyed the Tianhu Alliance army at Hopeless Pass, the commanders at Heavenly Star Pass debated fleeing or resisting. When Lin Lin arrived, they all surrendered, and he asked their commander-in-chief for his name.

• Tianhu Alliance commanders at Heavenly Star Pass received a report that Lin Lin had routed the army at Hopeless Pass and killed its leaders and experts.
• The commanders concluded they could neither defeat Lin Lin nor expect mercy if they surrendered, and one suggested escaping with the army’s treasures.
• Lin Lin appeared in the Central Army Camp before the officer could finish proposing that they run.
• The commander-in-chief immediately prostrated himself, pledged the army’s wealth and service to Lin Lin, and condemned the Tianhu Alliance’s leaders.
• The other officers followed suit and swore obedience to Lin Lin.
• Lin Lin asked the commander-in-chief what his name was.

Lin Lin accepted Zhang Yuanhe and the Tianhu Alliance army’s surrender, ordering them to destroy the Sword Washing Pavilion before his succession as Valley Master of Hundred Flowers Valley. After Lin Lin left, Zhang Yuanhe led the army to purge the Pavilion’s allies and march against it.

• Zhang Yuanhe identified himself as the former Valley Master of Stars Valley and pledged the army’s loyalty to Lin Lin, offering to destroy the Sword Washing Pavilion.
• Zhang Yuanhe attacked and killed two Sword Washing Pavilion experts, prompting the army to kill nearly all the Pavilion’s representatives in the camp.
• Lin Lin gave Zhang Yuanhe Cui Ximing’s Mystic Sun Warming Jade as proof of his support and ordered him to bring news of the Sword Washing Pavilion’s destruction to the succession ceremony in three months.
• Lin Lin vanished, and the soldiers collapsed in relief before Zhang Yuanhe organized the campaign against the Sword Washing Pavilion.
• Zhang Yuanhe’s forces purged those connected to the Sword Washing Pavilion, packed their supplies, and set out to destroy it as Lin Lin watched from the shadows.

Lin Lin traveled toward the Flying Immortal Sect while studying Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and working toward a Mythic-Grade External Skill. He realized he first needed to master the artistic conceptions behind Hundred Flowers Valley’s Peerless Divine Arts and left the journey focused on cultivating them.

• Lin Lin passed the All Stars Sect and continued toward the Flying Immortal Sect, using Triple-Mindedness to travel, cultivate, and study Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
• Lin Lin identified numerous kinds of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and concluded that selecting particular types could greatly strengthen martial techniques.
• Lin Lin determined that his Mythic-Grade External Skill should combine nine complementary types of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi to enhance his swordplay, movement, and defensive skills.
• Lin Lin decided to study Hundred Flowers Valley’s Peerless Divine Arts as a foundation for his Mythic-Grade External Skill.
• Lin Lin concluded that artistic conception enabled martial artists to efficiently mobilize specific types of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, so he began cultivating artistic conception directly.

Lin Lin reached the Flying Immortal Sect and slaughtered its defenders with a vastly empowered ice technique. He searched the sect for its martial arts and treasures, finding clues to its inheritance and heading toward its likely treasury.

• Lin Lin arrived at the Flying Immortal Sect, where its defenders attacked him, believing they could repel him with their battle formation.
• Lin Lin unleashed Snowfall All Over the Sky, freezing and killing the Flying Immortal Sect disciples and experts in one strike.
• Lin Lin marveled that his attack was over thirty times stronger than usual and considered how far his complementary divine arts might eventually take him.
• Lin Lin searched the sect’s heavily defended building and found inherited martial arts manuals, but not its Carefree Immortal Art.
• Lin Lin inferred details of the Flying Immortal Sect’s martial arts from a Peerless Expert’s corpse, then headed toward the area richest in Heaven and Earth Essence Qi to find its treasures.

Lin Lin bathed in the Flying Immortal Spring to strengthen his body and studied the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi within Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. He realized these treasures held clues to the world’s deeper powers, giving him a path toward further advancement.

• Lin Lin recalled how the Flying Immortal Sect used Carefree Immortal Tea and the Flying Immortal Spring to build its power.
• Lin Lin bathed in the undiluted Flying Immortal Spring and gained increases to his physique, endurance, Qi and Blood, and Mental Strength.
• Lin Lin realized the Flying Immortal Sect had drawn principles for its martial arts from the Essence Qi within the spring.
• Lin Lin examined the Cold Marrow Ice Soul and combined its Essence Qi with his Sword Intent and true qi to create Sword Qi more than sixty times stronger than usual.
• Lin Lin concluded that Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures contained aspects of the world's laws and could help him advance further.