Chapter Summaries

After Cloud Sword Palace defeated Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City, Lin Heng stayed behind to guard the ruined mountain gate and recover while Xiao Rang led the reckoning against their enemies. News of the victory spread across Lan Continent, shaking the Jianghu.

• Cloud Sword Palace counted 4,937 enemy dead and 223 of its own people dead from old age, and Xiao Rang ordered proper burials for the fallen.
• Xiao Rang planned to seize Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City's spoils, while Lin Heng agreed to remain at the mountain gate and cultivate.
• Lin Heng asked Xiao Rang to show consideration to Ice Frost City because he owed the sect a favor, and Xiao Rang promised to spare a line of incense for Shui Wenzhao's descendants.
• Xiao Rang and Li Yan led forces to claim the two defeated sects' spoils as allied experts returned home to settle accounts with their vassals.
• Lin Heng meditated among the ruins as Cloud Sword Palace servants cleaned up and prisoners were interrogated.
• News of the defeat of Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City spread through the Jianghu of Lan Continent, shocking the world.

Cloud Sword Palace destroyed Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City, purged their allies, and rose to dominance after news spread that fifteen-year-old Lin Heng had led its victory. After recovering and reflecting on the battle, Lin Heng broke through to Great Grandmaster Tenth Heaven and saw the enormous spoils Cloud Sword Palace had seized.

• Cloud Sword Palace wiped out Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City, then began purging their allied families and forces across Lan Continent.
• Experts who had fought at Cloud Sword Palace revealed that fifteen-year-old Lin Heng had become a Supreme Great Grandmaster and secured the victory, prompting neutral forces to bring treasures and submit.
• Lin Heng meditated for seven days, reviewed the battle, and broke through to Great Grandmaster Tenth Heaven.
• Lin Heng considered how much time he had to pursue the Heaven-Human Realm and other breakthroughs.
• Xiao Rang visited Lin Heng after half a month, while Cloud Sword Palace received the treasures seized from the twelve forces of the Kill Heng Society; Lin Heng and Xiao Rang were impressed by the immense haul.

After half a month of cultivation, Lin Heng learned how Cloud Sword Palace had seized the wealth of its defeated enemies. Xiao Rang offered him seventy percent of the spoils, and Lin Heng asked the sect to manage his share and spend it on cultivation resources.

• Lin Heng emerged from cultivation, and Xiao Rang invited him to eat while describing the recent confiscations.
• Xiao Rang recounted how Cloud Sword Palace and its allies had taken the estates of Heavenly Star Valley, Ice Frost City, their affiliated forces, and Demonic Heretics.
• Xiao Rang reported that the spoils included over 12.7 billion taels in gold, silver, and jewels, properties worth 138.2 billion taels, and many manuals and treasures.
• Lin Heng teased Xiao Rang about the sect’s past reluctance to spend money, and Xiao Rang explained that its resources had to support millions of members.
• Xiao Rang offered Lin Heng seventy percent of the spoils, and Lin Heng asked him to manage the properties and use his share to buy cultivation resources.

Lin Heng took the Heaven and Earth Treasures from the Underground Vault, refined them into a breakthrough, and studied the manuals seized from rival sects. By deep winter, he had revised his martial arts and decided which manuals Cloud Sword Palace would keep or destroy.

• Lin Heng asked Xiao Rang to let him take all 104 Heaven and Earth Treasures, offering to pay the Sect for its thirty-percent share, and Xiao Rang agreed.
• Xiao Rang assigned Lin Heng to sort the seized martial arts manuals, keeping their essential portions for the Library Pavilion and destroying the useless or harmful ones.
• Lin Heng refined all 104 treasures and advanced from the Great Grandmaster Tenth Level to the Eleventh Level, while improving his affinity for Heaven and Earth Origin Energy.
• Over three months, Lin Heng read all 87,237 manuals and incorporated their insights into his martial arts, more than doubling his cultivation speed and strengthening the Boundless Sea Divine Art.
• By deep winter, Lin Heng kept one-third of the manuals for Cloud Sword Palace's Library Pavilion and destroyed the rest because they were harmful or duplicates.

After a year in the Underground Vault, Lin Heng awakened the Mind's Eye, reached the middle of the Great Grandmaster Fifteenth Heaven, and realized how to advance toward the Heaven-Human Realm. He left Cloud Sword Palace to travel and cultivate, leaving Xiao Rang with an improved martial art and hope that Lin Heng might one day lead them to ascension.

• Lin Heng emerged from the Underground Vault as his cultivation surged to the middle of the Great Grandmaster Fifteenth Heaven, awakening the Mind's Eye and learning its range and limits.
• Lin Heng used the Mind's Eye to understand the path toward the Heaven-Human Realm and decided to descend the mountain to experience the world and perfect his Artistic Conception.
• Lin Heng told Xiao Rang he was leaving to travel, and Xiao Rang agreed because Cloud Sword Palace was secure and Lin Heng had little left to gain by staying on the mountain.
• Lin Heng taught Xiao Rang the latest Boundless Sea Divine Art and asked him to share it with Zhang Yuan and trustworthy elders.
• Lin Heng vanished from the Main Hall, and Xiao Rang wondered whether Lin Heng's promise to lead them to the Upper Realm might come true.

Lin Heng spent ten years traveling Lan Continent and tempering his cultivation until he reached the Great Grandmaster Thirty-Sixth Heaven, preparing to break through to the Heaven-Human Realm. He returned to Cloud Sword Palace, where his master and fellow disciples welcomed him, and revealed that advancing beyond Great Grandmaster could greatly extend Lifespan.

• Lin Heng traveled across Lan Continent for ten years, overcoming distractions and strengthening his Essence, Qi, Spirit, and sword intent.
• Lin Heng reached the peak of the Great Grandmaster Realm at the Thirty-Sixth Heaven and decided to return to Cloud Sword Palace to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Xiao Rang and the Elders welcomed Lin Heng back after his ten-year absence, and Lin Heng told them he would stay to pursue the Heaven-Human Realm.
• Lin Heng told Law Enforcement Elder Li Yan that each additional heaven of cultivation beyond Great Grandmaster granted ten years of life, and that the Heaven-Human Realm might extend his Lifespan beyond a thousand years.

Lin Heng prepared to break through to the Heaven-Human Realm by gathering and refining Essence-restoring pills and treasures with Cloud Sword Palace’s help. After three months of accumulation, he continued building strength for the transformation ahead.

• Lin Heng told the Elders he needed pills and Heaven and Earth Treasures to replenish his essence, and they promised to contribute resources.
• Wei Xuan offered materials, Hua Yu offered Nine Revolutions Essence Pills, and the other Elders pledged their Spirit Medicine and treasures.
• Xiao Rang showed Lin Heng the sect’s stockpile of 572 Heaven and Earth Treasures and 1,372 sets of Essence Pill materials; Lin Heng estimated he needed 3,000 portions in total.
• Xiao Rang asked Lin Heng about opportunities from his travels, and Lin Heng admitted he had found none because his luck was poor.
• Xiao Rang refined pill materials while Hua Yu and the disciples worked to produce pills, and Lin Heng ingested and refined the gathered treasures and pills.
• Three months passed as Lin Heng continued accumulating strength for his great transformation.

Lin Heng gathered enough resources to attempt his breakthrough to the Heaven-Human Realm, while Cloud Sword Palace prepared to protect him. News arrived that Shen Shuhang had been swallowed by a spreading Blood Sea, and Lin Heng began his breakthrough, promising to confront the calamity afterward.

• Lin Heng asked Xiao Rang for five hundred Nine Revolutions Essence Pills and additional reserves, so Xiao Rang arranged to force-mature Heaven and Earth Treasures.
• Lin Heng spent months refining the resources and stabilizing his Essence, Qi, and Spirit until he had accumulated enough to break through.
• Lin Heng asked Xiao Rang to guard him, and Xiao Rang organized Cloud Sword Palace’s defenses and moved low- and mid-level Martial Artists to Ethereal City.
• Zhang Ya explained that Shen Shuhang had gone to the North Sea Region to retrieve a treasure for Lin Heng, but a Blood Calamity had swallowed him and the Blood Sea had reached northern Lan Continent.
• Lin Heng promised to break through within one day and resolve the Blood Calamity, then began his breakthrough to the Heaven-Human Realm.

Lin Heng completed his breakthrough to the Heaven-Human Realm, gaining a transformed body, vastly greater power, and a lifespan of up to twelve hundred years. After sharing his revised Boundless Sea Divine Art with the elders, he flew north to confront the Blood Calamity.

• Lin Heng began his breakthrough, and a vast celestial phenomenon darkened the skies over the Central Spirit Dynasty.
• Lin Heng's body dissolved and reformed as his Three Souls and Seven Spirits united, birthing his Primordial Spirit and granting him True Essence and Magical Power.
• Lin Heng assessed his greatly increased combat strength and concluded that he could live up to twelve hundred years.
• Lin Heng emerged from seclusion and told Xiao Rang and the elders that his breakthrough had succeeded.
• Lin Heng imprinted his revised Boundless Sea Divine Art into the elders' minds and reassured Zhang Ya that he would deal with the Blood Calamity.
• Lin Heng flew toward the Blood Calamity's location in northern Lan Continent.

After his first simulation ended, Lin Heng retained his martial arts knowledge and Heavenly Human cultivation experience, but realized the Blood Calamity would threaten reality in twenty-two years. Back at age five and nearly starving, he defeated the trafficker who was about to abduct him and began dealing with his simulation rewards.

• Lin Heng received his first simulation settlement rewards and retained his cultivation experience while losing many everyday memories and emotions.
• Lin Heng recalled that the Blood Sea had devoured him even after he reached the Heaven-Human Realm and concluded the calamity would appear in reality in twenty-two years.
• Lin Heng recognized that he had returned to the starving five-year-old state before his abduction to the Li Hen Pavilion annex.
• Lin Heng used sword qi to jab the approaching trafficker, causing the man to inhale his own Sleeping Smoke and fall unconscious.
• Lin Heng took the man's supplies, ate the Honey Water and Qi and Blood Replenishing Pills, then tied him up and disabled his legs before turning to his rewards.

After claiming his first simulation rewards, Lin Heng used three drawing opportunities to obtain a Storage Bracelet, an Azurewood Spirit Body, and a Foundation Establishment Pill. The items suggested that the Martial Dao Heavenly Human Realm corresponded to the Foundation Establishment Realm, leading Lin Heng to speculate about a wider cultivation world and Blood Sea’s origins.

• Lin Heng claimed his simulation rewards, gaining a permanent Attribute Reset talent and ten years of lifespan that restored his vitality and mental clarity.
• Lin Heng drew a Second Tier Storage Bracelet, tested its storage space, and found that its protective light could block an attack as strong as his peak strike.
• Lin Heng used his remaining draws to obtain an Azurewood Spirit Body and a Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Lin Heng compared the pill’s effects with his breakthrough and concluded that the Martial Dao Heavenly Human Realm corresponded to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
• Lin Heng wondered whether ancient experts had ascended to another cultivation world and whether Blood Sea had come from beyond this world.

Lin Heng prepared for his second simulation by setting aside the Azurewood Spirit Body Origin and Foundation Establishment Pill, then used his five Attribute Points to raise his Fortune. He began the simulation with 150 Talent Points and reviewed the available traits.

• Lin Heng decided to save the Physique Origin and Foundation Establishment Pill until he could test their usefulness in a simulation.
• Lin Heng reviewed his Attribute Panel and attributed his increased Race Value to the Martial Dao Heavenly Human talent and his transformed True Spirit.
• Lin Heng spent his five Attribute Points on Fortune, raising it to 25.
• Lin Heng started the second simulation and received 150 Talent Points from his Fortune attribute.
• Lin Heng examined five positive traits, including Peerless Sword Emperor, World-Shaking Wisdom, Alluring Beauty, Pill Dao Expert, and Ox-Horse Sacred Body.

Lin Heng configured his second simulation with four negative traits, extreme Family Background, and the Azurewood Spirit Body as a safeguard while avoiding Bad Luck Entanglement. He began the simulation, killed the nearby human trafficker, and fused with the Azurewood Spirit Body before he could take the Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Lin Heng selected Lifelong Solitude, Artifact Forging Novice, Burning Killing Intent, and Tone Deaf, but rejected Bad Luck Entanglement because its severe misfortune could end the simulation prematurely.
• Lin Heng declined Alluring Beauty and used Attribute Reset to maximize Family Background while keeping Fortune high and reducing Charm and Comprehension to one point each.
• Lin Heng set goals to test his compatibility with the Azurewood Spirit Body, restore his cultivation quickly, and investigate Blood Calamity.
• Lin Heng began the second simulation and killed the human trafficker beside him with a short blade.
• Lin Heng pressed the Azurewood Spirit Body origin into his chest, began fusing with it, and collapsed into sleep before taking the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Lin Heng’s Azurewood Spirit Body awakened, but his consciousness encountered a devastating Sword Intent that left him trapped in a coma as his body struggled between destruction and healing. Two Cloud Sword Palace disciples arrived to investigate Wu Chou’s death, and Zhang Yuan was wounded by the sword qi surrounding Lin Heng.

• Lin Heng’s Azurewood Spirit Body transformed his body as plants across Lanzhou Continent shared their Life Force with him.
• Lin Heng sensed Lanzhou Continent’s sword-like shape and encountered an overwhelming Sword Intent that shattered his consciousness and filled his body with sword qi.
• Life Force repeatedly healed Lin Heng as the sword qi wore away at his Origin, leaving him comatose in a deadlock between life and death.
• Zhang Yuan and Qu Yang arrived at the hut to confirm Wu Chou’s death and search for other Li Hen Pavilion disciples.
• Zhang Yuan found Lin Heng alive and speculated that the child had killed Wu Chou after awakening his sword talent.
• Zhang Yuan’s hand was cut by the sword qi surrounding Lin Heng when he tried to examine him.

Zhang Yuan discovered Lin Heng’s past and summoned Sect Master Xiao Rang, who subdued the sword qi enough to stabilize the child. Xiao Rang carried Lin Heng toward the mountain gate for further treatment while Zhang Yuan stayed behind to handle the scene and investigate.

• Qu Yang reported that Lin Heng had lived as an ordinary beggar with Old Lin, buried him after his death, and had been found starving in the hut.
• Zhang Yuan concluded that Lin Heng’s sword qi had awakened when Wu Chou threatened him, then sent Qu Yang to fetch Xiao Rang.
• Xiao Rang examined Lin Heng and found that powerful sword qi was consuming his life force, while his own sword qi could only temporarily suppress it.
• Lin Heng’s wounds began to close, but his damaged Meridians and acupoints left his condition unresolved.
• Xiao Rang wrapped Lin Heng in his robe and carried him to the mountain gate for help from the Elders, while Zhang Yuan remained to investigate and handle the aftermath.

Cloud Sword Palace’s Great Grandmasters suppressed the dangerous sword qi in Lin Heng’s body and supplied medicines to help him recover. After five days in a Spirit Pool, Lin Heng woke from his coma.

• Xiao Rang gathered the twelve Great Grandmasters and explained that Lin Heng’s uncontrolled sword qi threatened his life and that saving him could secure the sect’s future.
• The elders examined Lin Heng in the Spirit Pool and agreed to work together to contain the sword qi within him.
• Xiao Rang led the twelve Great Grandmasters in forming an array that shielded Lin Heng from the sword qi for at least a year.
• Shen Shuhang offered Earth Vein Spirit Milk, while Hua Yu and Jin Ming arranged for Dragon Tiger Golden Cores and Xuanqing Golden Cores to aid Lin Heng’s recovery.
• Cloud Sword Palace’s elders gave Lin Heng the medicines as he recuperated in the Spirit Pool, and he awoke five days later.

Lin Heng woke in Cloud Sword Palace after being rescued by Xiao Rang, badly injured by the sword qi he had encountered while sensing the Invincible Sword Intent. As he recovered, he realized the sword intent could lead him to the Pure Yang Sword Saint's Legacy and realms beyond the Heaven-Human Realm.

• Lin Heng woke in a room at Cloud Sword Palace and found his body and consciousness severely damaged by the sword qi within him.
• Xiao Rang explained that he had found Lin Heng gravely injured in a Desolate Village in Anning County and brought him back to Cloud Sword Palace.
• Lin Heng greeted Xiao Rang as his master, ate spiritual porridge, and rested after their conversation.
• After waking the next morning with less pain, Lin Heng recalled that fusing with the Azurewood Spirit Body had made him a Child of Nature and increased his Fortune to 27 points.
• Lin Heng realized that surviving the sword-intent backlash had awakened his Azurewood Spirit Body's powerful Life Force and left him with the Peerless Sword Emperor's Artistic Conception to comprehend.
• Lin Heng understood that cultivating the Sword Emperor Intent could unlock the Pure Yang Sword Saint's Legacy and reveal how to cultivate beyond the Heaven-Human Realm.

Lin Heng actively cultivated the Boundless Sea Divine Art to repair his damaged body, then told Xiao Rang that he had learned it in a dream. Xiao Rang recognized the art as an improved Cloud Sword True Art and began to suspect Lin Heng had visited the hidden chambers beneath Cloud Sword Palace.

• Lin Heng examined his condition and estimated that his Azurewood Spirit Body would take about three years to recover fully.
• Lin Heng cultivated the Boundless Sea Divine Art, drawing in Heaven and Earth origin energy to strengthen and heal his body.
• Xiao Rang entered with breakfast and was astonished to find Lin Heng cultivating a method resembling Cloud Sword Palace's Cloud Sword True Art.
• Lin Heng told Xiao Rang that he had learned the art, read tens of thousands of books, and visited an underground space in a dream, then wrote down the Boundless Sea Divine Art.
• Xiao Rang studied the improved cultivation method and asked Lin Heng whether the underground space had Stone Chambers with Cold Jade Coffins and sword marks.
• After Lin Heng confirmed it, Xiao Rang realized what might have happened.

Lin Heng used the Boundless Sea Divine Art to convince Xiao Rang that his unusual cultivation knowledge came from his keen Spiritual Sense, letting him skip basic instruction without raising suspicions. Xiao Rang and Cloud Sword Palace’s Elders agreed to devote the sect’s resources to Lin Heng as he healed and prepared to advance.

• Xiao Rang concluded that Lin Heng had learned the Boundless Sea Divine Art and Cloud Sword Palace’s manuals through his exceptional Spiritual Sense.
• Lin Heng used the art to establish his cultivation experience as plausible and avoid wasting years on foundational lessons.
• Xiao Rang warned Lin Heng to keep the cultivation method secret, then left to consult Cloud Sword Palace’s higher-ups.
• Xiao Rang told the Elders about Lin Heng’s circumstances, and they agreed to respect his consent before seeking to learn the divine art.
• Xiao Rang proposed directing all Cloud Sword Palace resources toward Lin Heng, and the Elders unanimously agreed.

After more than half a year of recovery and care from the Sect's Elders, Lin Heng's Azurewood Spirit Body reached its peak potential, and he began cultivating with the Third Edition of the Boundless Sea Divine Art. He reached the Xiantian Realm in one day, discovering that his cultivation speed was at least five hundred times faster than before.

• Lin Heng spent his recovery playing and helping around the Sect as his wounds healed and his Origin grew stronger.
• The Sect's Elders supplied Lin Heng with Spirit Medicine and Heaven and Earth Treasures, and his body continued to develop.
• More than half a year later, Lin Heng examined his restored Azurewood Spirit Body and found that all 129,600 acupoints had opened naturally.
• Lin Heng began cultivating with the Third Edition of the Boundless Sea Divine Art, and his Internal Breath rapidly filled his Meridians.
• After one day of cultivation, Lin Heng reached the Xiantian Realm and realized his cultivation speed was at least five hundred times faster than before.