Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng reached the Xiantian Realm on his first day of cultivation and rapidly advanced to Grandmaster, where his Azurewood Spirit Body transformed him into a towering adult despite being seven years old. Having become the strongest person under Heaven, he wondered how his immense foundation would shape his next breakthrough.

• Lin Heng refused Xiao Rang’s offer of a Master Acknowledgment Ceremony and pulled him toward Zhang Ya’s residence for Blue Whisker Fish; Xiao Rang summoned the other elders to show off his disciple.
• Lin Heng’s Internal Breath surged, and he reached the Grandmaster Realm five days after beginning cultivation.
• Over the following year, Lin Heng’s body transformed, growing to two meters tall and appearing about twenty-five years old.
• Lin Heng filled 102 acupoints and reached Grandmaster Eleventh Level, with strength comparable to his former Great Grandmaster Thirty-Sixth Heaven self.
• Lin Heng realized that his One Yuan Number of acupoints could require him to reach Grandmaster One Thousand Eight Hundred Levels before advancing, and questioned whether his next breakthrough would lead to Great Grandmaster or Heaven-Human.

Lin Heng told Xiao Rang that his physical transformation had ended and that he was preparing to break through to the Heaven-Human Realm. After testing his strength against Cloud Sword Palace’s Great Grandmasters, Lin Heng proved powerful enough to scatter their combined sword array, leaving the Palace’s Elders confident in its rising influence.

• Lin Heng said he no longer needed extravagant meals and asked Xiao Rang to prepare ordinary portions while he focused on pills for cultivation.
• Lin Heng explained that his strength had risen to the level of peak Great Grandmasters, and Xiao Rang led him into the Cloud Sword Mountain Range to test his Combat Power.
• Xiao Rang, Jin Ming, and ten other Great Grandmasters attacked Lin Heng together, forcing him to defend as their battle wrecked the Barren Valley.
• Lin Heng studied the Elders’ Sword Arts during the fight, then released the qi force gathered in his acupoints and scattered their combined Sword Domain.
• The Cloud Sword Palace Great Grandmasters accepted their defeat and celebrated Lin Heng’s strength, believing it could make their Palace the foremost Martial Arts Holy Land under heaven.

After Lin Heng’s battle uncovered a valuable gold mine, Xiao Rang began Cloud Sword Palace’s plan to become the number one Martial Arts Holy Land under heaven, with Lin Heng as its decisive weapon. As the sect prepared its campaign, Lin Heng advanced his cultivation and became able to comprehend the Sword Emperor Intent, bringing him closer to opening the Pure Yang Sword Saint’s Legacy.

• Lin Heng’s battle split open the Barren Valley and revealed a gold mine, which Xiao Rang ordered Wei Xuan to develop.
• Xiao Rang announced a plan to unite and eliminate the Demonic Heretics, then pressure Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City into submitting to Cloud Sword Palace.
• Lin Heng agreed to support the plan, though he believed the two righteous sects might eventually make a desperate counterattack.
• Cloud Sword Palace’s leaders completed the operation’s preparations while Lin Heng continued cultivating and reached the Twenty-Seventh Heaven of the Grandmaster Realm.
• Lin Heng realized he would need to build an even stronger foundation before reaching the Heaven-Human Realm and began comprehending the Sword Emperor Intent in his sea of consciousness.

Lin Heng defeated the Sword Emperor sword intent that had tormented him and learned the path to the Pure Yang Blessed Land. After its removal, his sword intent transformed into his own Sword Emperor Intent, and he resolved to wait until he had Heaven-Human combat power before seeking the inheritance.

• Lin Heng comprehended the Sword Emperor Intent’s essence and recognized that his will to survive and protect his people made him highly compatible with it.
• Lin Heng fought the Five-Colored Divine Man in his sea of consciousness, learned from its techniques, and eventually shattered the Sword Emperor sword intent.
• The defeated divine man imparted the Sword Emperor Intent cultivation insights and revealed a map to the Pure Yang Blessed Land, where the inheritance required the Sword Emperor Intent and Heaven-Human combat power to pass nine trials.
• Lin Heng decided to postpone the journey, then meditated to restore and strengthen his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Lin Heng infused his resolve into his sharpened sword intent, which transformed into his own Sword Emperor Intent.

After attaining Sword Emperor Intent, Lin Heng explored how to combine it with his Azurewood Spirit Body while Cloud Sword Palace and its allies intensified their campaign against Demonic Heretics. Infiltrators guided the desperate Heretics into forming the Sacred Path Alliance and planning an attack on the East Sea Dynasty.

• Lin Heng discovered that Sword Emperor Intent let him suppress Martial Artists and communicate with and borrow power from swordsmen, then began trying to unite it with his Azurewood Spirit Body’s affinity for nature.
• Cloud Sword Palace mobilized its disciples and resources to hunt Demonic Heretics, while Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City increased their own crackdowns.
• After a year of persecution, Demonic Heretic leaders and rogue cultivators gathered to find a way to survive.
• Zhao Feng, Tang Jing, and Shu Li, Great Grandmasters from the three allied Holy Lands in disguise, steered the gathering toward forming an alliance and attacking the East Sea Dynasty.
• The Demonic Heretics named their group the Sacred Path Alliance and agreed to assemble a large force to loot the East Sea Dynasty.

Zhao Feng, Shu Li, and Tang Jing finalized the three Martial Arts Holy Lands’ plan to destroy the Sacred Path Alliance, while Cloud Sword Palace secretly prepared to seize power afterward. Three months later, Lin Heng revealed that his cultivation had advanced to the Half-step Heavenly Human Realm, just as the planned operation was about to begin.

• Zhao Feng, Shu Li, and Tang Jing agreed to mobilize forces against the Sacred Path Alliance and divide its properties and movable spoils among their three sects.
• Shu Li proposed committing ten thousand Innates, eight hundred Grandmasters, and eight Great Grandmasters from each sect, and the three agreed to invite allies while keeping the operation secret.
• Zhao Feng and Xiao Rang anticipated the final stage of the Cloud Sword Palace Ascent Plan, which included eliminating the demonic heretics and then moving against the other two Holy Lands.
• After three months, Xiao Rang asked Lin Heng about his cultivation, and Lin Heng said he had reached the Half-step Heavenly Human Realm.
• Lin Heng explained that years of cultivation, his Azurewood Spirit Body, and his Sword Emperor Intent had given him combat power beyond the Great Grandmaster Realm.

Lin Heng and Xiao Rang traveled by Sea Dragon Beast toward the East Sea Dynasty as the Sacred Path Alliance gathered for its planned invasion. Zhao Feng laid out the attack plan on Myriad Saints Island, unaware that Lin Heng and the Cloud Sword Palace were preparing to confront them.

• Xiao Rang brought Lin Heng to Ethereal City and boarded Zhang Hai, a Sea Dragon Beast bound for Linhai Commandery.
• Zhang Hai sped along the coast while Lin Heng cultivated on its back.
• More than fifty-three thousand Martial Artists from Demonic Heretic forces gathered on Myriad Saints Island and prepared for the attack.
• Hao Shuang asked Zhao Feng when the assault would begin, and he set the attack for noon.
• Zhao Feng described plans to seize Linhai Commandery, plunder the East Sea Dynasty, and resist Cloud Sword Palace reinforcements.

The Righteous Path forces concealed themselves along the coastline, preparing to ambush the Sacred Path Alliance as it crossed the sea. As the Demonic Heretics neared shore, Lin Heng arrived with Xiao Rang and met the leaders of the other two Martial Arts Holy Lands.

• Cang Chengyu explained the ambush plan to the gathered Righteous Path forces and Neutral Force representatives.
• Feng Yue ordered the disciples to take replenishing pills and move to the coastline, where they concealed themselves with formations and Ice Frost City's mirage.
• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao arrived, greeted Xiao Rang, and studied his disciple Lin Heng.
• Shui Wenzhao spotted the Sacred Path Alliance crossing the waves in the Three Talents Formation, and the Demonic Heretics rapidly approached the coastline.

Lin Heng single-handedly annihilated the Sacred Path Alliance’s invading army before Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City could join the battle. The chapter ended with more than fifty thousand Demonic Heretics dead in just seventeen seconds.

• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao ordered Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City to prepare for battle, while Cloud Sword Palace’s leaders remained relaxed.
• The Demonic Heretics recognized the ambush, but undercover Great Grandmasters steadied them and urged them to charge.
• An Nian tried to lead the attack, but Lin Heng used his Secret Power to immobilize him, Shui Wenzhao, and their forces.
• Lin Heng walked into the enemy formation, crushing the Demonic Heretics with his aura and forcing their own weapons to turn against them.
• Lin Heng controlled thousands of Sword Artifacts to kill the fleeing survivors, ending the battle in seventeen seconds with more than fifty thousand Demonic Heretics dead.

Lin Heng annihilated more than fifty thousand Demonic Heretics in seventeen seconds, establishing himself as the Number One Expert Under Heaven. He left Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City with no choice but to accept Cloud Sword Palace’s rule.

• Lin Heng’s attack wiped out the Demonic Heretics, leaving the survivors astonished by his power.
• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao realized Cloud Sword Palace had used their sects to showcase Lin Heng and feared their decline.
• The neutral forces decided to follow Lin Heng and Cloud Sword Palace from then on.
• Lin Heng greeted Zhao Feng and ordered him to leave with him.
• Lin Heng made Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City become Cloud Sword Palace’s vassals and demanded tribute, martial arts manuals, and most of their exclusive cultivation resources.
• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao agreed to Lin Heng’s demands.

After the war, Cloud Sword Palace imposed heavy terms on Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City, while Lin Heng returned to cultivation and refined his sword intent. He developed the Sword Venerable Intent and reached the peak of the Grandmaster Realm.

• Lin Heng left Xiao Rang to settle the post-war terms with An Nian and Shui Wenzhao.
• Xiao Rang revealed Cloud Sword Palace's hidden strength and secured taxes, resources, and martial arts manuals from Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City.
• News of Lin Heng's victory spread across Lan Continent, establishing him as the Number One Expert Under Heaven.
• Lin Heng studied his seventeen-second battle and fused his Sword Emperor Intent with the power of the Azurewood Spirit Body.
• Lin Heng formed the Sword Venerable Intent and reached the peak of the Grandmaster Realm.

Lin Heng completed his Grandmaster Realm cultivation and began advancing through the Great Grandmaster Realm at extraordinary speed. Meanwhile, Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City grew resentful of Cloud Sword Palace’s dominance and secretly turned to Demonic Heretic methods, joining forces to seek a way to regain power.

• Lin Heng filled all 129,600 acupoints with Internal Breath and reached Grandmaster Great Perfection after completing his Azurewood Spirit Body transformation.
• Lin Heng used his transformed Sword Venerable Intent to draw in Heaven and Earth Origin Energy and rapidly Condense and Sublimate his Internal Breath.
• Lin Heng consumed vast quantities of treasures and medicines as he cultivated, expecting to complete the Great Grandmaster Realm in less than two years.
• Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City’s leaders realized that losing resources and talented disciples to Cloud Sword Palace threatened their sects’ long-term survival.
• Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City secretly resumed Demonic Heretic cultivation methods and joined forces to seek a chance to turn the tables.

Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City secretly developed heretical cultivation methods to gain power against Cloud Sword Palace, eventually combining their research into the Blood Demon Technique. Their test proved it could rapidly strengthen a practitioner, but it clouded the mind and drained lifespan, leaving them with a powerful, deadly method and no immediate way to improve it.

• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao agreed their sects needed new Cultivation Resources and exchanged plans to cultivate through others’ Internal Breath and essence blood.
• The sects shared research and worked together for two years to create the Blood Demon Technique, which could plunder essence blood, vital energy, and Internal Breath.
• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao brought Great Grandmasters to a northern valley and made final revisions to the technique.
• Feng Yue tested the Blood Demon Technique on a Snow Wolf, draining its essence and Blood Qi and strengthening his own Physique.
• Feng Yue reported that the technique could cloud the mind, rapidly consume lifespan, and had reached the limit of what they could currently improve.

An Nian and Shui Wenzhao began preparing to use the Blood Demon Technique against Cloud Sword Palace, and Heavenly Star Valley tested the art by sacrificing disciples near the ends of their lives. The tests confirmed that it could rapidly raise a Great Grandmaster’s cultivation at the cost of lifespan, leaving the sect’s hopes resting on An Nian’s chance to reach the Heaven-Human Realm.

• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao agreed to return to their sects and build combat power quickly as Lin Heng continued advancing.
• An Nian and Feng Yue recruited loyal Heavenly Star Valley disciples nearing the ends of their lives to test the Blood Demon Technique, and the disciples agreed to cooperate.
• Feng Yue used the technique on ten disciples, absorbing their essence, Blood Qi, and Internal Breath and advancing from Great Grandmaster Second Heaven to Fourth Heaven.
• Feng Yue reported that each Heaven of cultivation cost roughly three years of lifespan and warned that the Blood Qi could drive less capable Martial Artists mad.
• Further tests raised Feng Yue to Great Grandmaster Sixth Heaven, but the sect leaders concluded that even spending most of their lifespans could not bridge the gap with Lin Heng.
• Heavenly Star Valley's upper ranks looked to An Nian, whose remaining lifespan might allow him to break into the Heaven-Human Realm and lead their fight against Cloud Sword Palace.

An Nian and Heavenly Star Valley’s leaders committed to using the Blood Demon Technique to raise their strength and destroy Cloud Sword Palace and other threats, even if it meant sacrificing themselves. As Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City launched attacks on traitors and nearby Neutral Forces, Cloud Sword Palace’s watchers reported the sudden changes.

• An Nian ordered Heavenly Star Valley to follow its plan to cultivate the Blood Demon Technique and eliminate its enemies, while secretly sending away its core geniuses and blood-related descendants.
• Heavenly Star Valley’s Great Grandmasters sacrificed disciples near the ends of their lives, rapidly increasing their cultivation.
• An Nian’s mind became clouded by surging Blood Qi, so Feng Yue took charge of preparing loyal disciples for war and identifying traitors.
• After An Nian regained some clarity, Heavenly Star Valley’s Elders slaughtered the traitors and attacked nearby Neutral Forces to raise their cultivation.
• Ice Frost City began a similar campaign, and Cloud Sword Palace’s watchers reported both factions’ sudden attacks to their mountain gate.

Lin Heng reached the limit of his Azurewood Spirit Body’s potential at Great Grandmaster Great Perfection and prepared to break through to Heaven-Human, but Xiao Rang reported that Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City were using a Demonic Art to devour Martial Artists. Lin Heng rushed to their stronghold and found two factions united, with two figures in Blood Cocoons preparing to break through to Heaven-Human.

• Lin Heng sensed that his Azurewood Spirit Body had reached its current limit and took out a Foundation Establishment Pill to begin his Heaven-Human breakthrough.
• Xiao Rang told Lin Heng that Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City had used a Demonic Art to plunder others’ essence and cultivation, slaughtering Martial Artists from the Neutral Forces.
• Lin Heng suspected the Demonic Art could be connected to the Blood Calamity from his first simulation, put away the pill, and raced toward Heavenly Star Valley.
• Lin Heng arrived at Heavenly Star Valley and found Ice Frost City’s experts gathered there alongside Heavenly Star Valley’s forces.
• Lin Heng saw two Blood Cocoons at the stronghold’s core, where figures with power beyond Great Grandmaster were being nurtured, and concluded he had arrived in time.

Lin Heng reached Heavenly Star Valley and defeated the forces of Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City despite their grand formation and enhanced strength. As hundreds of thousands of martial artists died, the two Blood Cocoons inside the mountain gate began pulsing faster.

• Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City formed a grand formation with more than twenty Great Grandmasters at its core to stall Lin Heng while their sect master advanced toward a breakthrough.
• Lin Heng saw that the Great Grandmasters had used a Demonic Art that consumed lifespan and seized others’ essence and Internal Breath.
• Lin Heng used Sword Venerable Intent and his Artistic Conception to overwhelm and kill the more than twenty Great Grandmasters.
• Lin Heng controlled objects throughout the area to kill the assembled martial artists of both factions, leaving hundreds of thousands dead.
• The two Blood Cocoons inside Heavenly Star Valley began pulsing faster as they sensed the slaughter outside.

Lin Heng confronted An Nian and Shui Wenzhao after they broke through to the Heaven-Human Realm, but their rushed transformation left them near death. He defeated them with ease and destroyed their Primordial Spirits, leaving both sect masters dead.

• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao emerged from Blood Cocoons and attacked Lin Heng, but he flung them away.
• Lin Heng recognized that the pair had depleted their lifespans by hastening their breakthroughs, while An Nian and Shui Wenzhao regained their composure and attacked together.
• Lin Heng blocked their sword-finger attacks, seized them, and smashed them into the ground, shattering their bodies.
• An Nian and Shui Wenzhao dispersed into Blood Shadows, healed their injuries, and escaped Lin Heng's grasp.
• Lin Heng used Sword Venerable Intent to suppress the pair, crushed their Primordial Spirits, and killed them.

After defeating An Nian and Shui Wenzhao, Lin Heng looted Heavenly Star Valley, Ice Frost City, and the Neutral Forces, then reflected on how his Fortune had turned their downfall into a vast windfall. He returned to Cloud Sword Palace to break through the Heaven-Human Realm again and receive the Pure Yang Sword Saint's Legacy.

• Lin Heng recovered from the battle, stored An Nian and Shui Wenzhao's remains, and searched Heavenly Star Valley for its wealth and records.
• Lin Heng looted Ice Frost City and discovered that An Nian and Shui Wenzhao had drained the Neutral Forces' Martial Artists to advance.
• Lin Heng realized that the factions' assets and industries had brought him and Cloud Sword Palace an enormous, seemingly accidental fortune.
• Lin Heng compared Family Background's steady gains with Fortune's unpredictable windfalls and decided to prioritize Family Background while keeping Fortune's potential in mind.
• Cloud Sword Palace's supporting Experts arrived, and Lin Heng explained the situation to Xiao Rang before returning to the palace.
• Lin Heng prepared to break through the Heaven-Human Realm again and receive the Pure Yang Sword Saint's Legacy.

Lin Heng consumed a Foundation Establishment Pill and broke through, bringing the Azurewood Spirit Body to Great Completion and vastly increasing his power. After the origin energy of Lan Continent gathered around Cloud Sword Palace and briefly ran low, Lin Heng emerged with a lifespan of three thousand years and strength far beyond his former self.

• Lin Heng restored and focused his Essence, Qi, and Spirit before swallowing the Foundation Establishment Pill.
• The Azurewood Spirit Body transformed as Heaven and Earth Origin Energy from across Lan Continent flowed into Lin Heng, while grasses and spirits lent him their Life Force.
• Lin Heng condensed his Three Souls and Seven Spirits into a Primordial Spirit and unified his Essence, Qi, and Spirit into vast, powerful True Essence.
• Martial Artists across Lan Continent panicked when the origin energy dwindled, then learned that Lin Heng's breakthrough had drawn it all to Cloud Sword Palace.
• Lin Heng completed his breakthrough, reached Azurewood Spirit Body Great Completion, and recognized that his three-thousand-year lifespan and newfound strength far surpassed his former limits.