Chapter Summaries

Hua Qi and Lin Heng escaped Qiu with help from Meng Yutong, while Jiang Jingyi and Murong Ziyan discussed Lin Heng’s chances of becoming alliance leader. Back in town, Lin Heng learned that mortals could form an acquired godhead by gathering incense offerings and wish power.

• Hua Qi used Cosmic Chaotic Phenomena to flee with Lin Heng, but Qiu caught up until Meng Yutong blocked her and stopped her from killing Lin Heng over his unpaid Rain Pavilion business.
• Qiu warned Lin Heng that she would kill him when he was alone, then left, and Lin Heng thanked Meng Yutong before departing.
• Jiang Jingyi and Murong Ziyan watched the encounter and discussed Qiu’s purpose, the Western Continent Alliance election, and Lin Heng’s roughly thirty-percent chance of winning against He Qingcang.
• Lin Heng returned to town as Hua Qi recovered from the strain of using her art, then asked how someone could become a god.
• Hua Qi explained that acquired gods shaped godheads by collecting incense offerings and wish power, which could advance more quickly if immortals became their believers.

Lin Heng used Wei Shouchen’s offer of information about the Eternal Mulberry to agree to target the Wei patriarch and ancestor, then tried to build support for his alliance-leader candidacy by implying He Qingcang backed him. He left Ji Taichang to consider his proposal and went to approach the other clans.

• Wei Shouchen told Lin Heng that his father and the Wei ancestor had come to town, and offered information about the Eternal Mulberry in exchange for Lin Heng’s help killing them.
• Lin Heng agreed to kill Wei Shouchen’s father and ancestor, instructing Wei Shouchen to tell them about him so they would come after him.
• The next morning, Lin Heng visited Ji Taichang and asked him to recommend Lin Heng as alliance leader.
• Lin Heng showed Ji Taichang the Imperial Token and argued that the four clans should unite against He Qingcang by backing him.
• Lin Heng implied that He Qingcang and the Murong Family had secretly arranged his candidacy, then left Ji Taichang to consider his claims.

Lin Heng used the Female Emperor’s name and promises of cooperation to win over the Ji, Guo, Song, and Qiu families as potential supporters for the alliance leader election. The families agreed to recommend him if He Qingcang publicly backed him, and Lin Heng promised to secure that support at the gathering in three days.

• Lin Heng visited the Guo Clan, White Plum Hall, and Thousand-Li Tower and persuaded their leaders to consider cooperating with him.
• Lin Heng told Hua Qi that he had made Ye Tian take the blame for people he had offended while using Ye Tian’s identity.
• The leaders of the Ji, Guo, Song, and Qiu families debated Lin Heng’s claims and learned that the Dynasty had compensated the Green Pavilion Sect after Star Pavilion Market was destroyed.
• The four families decided to support Lin Heng if He Qingcang truly backed his candidacy and chose Ji Taichang to deliver their position.
• Ji Taichang told Lin Heng that the families would recommend him only if He Qingcang publicly supported him, and Lin Heng promised to arrange it at the gathering in three days.

Lin Heng tried to secure He Qingcang’s support for the Western Continent Alliance leader position, then wagered that he could win the four great families’ backing. After leaving, he explained to Hua Qi that he was setting up a plan to ensnare everyone and reveal his strength publicly.

• Jiang Jingyi learned that Lin Heng had privately contacted the four great families and chose to watch what he would do, while Shadow One continued monitoring her.
• Lin Heng visited He Qingcang at the Grand Imperial Tower, where Black Tea seized him until He Qingcang sent Black Tea flying with a glance.
• Lin Heng asked He Qingcang to support his bid for alliance leader, and He Qingcang promised to back him if he won the four great families’ support.
• He Qingcang wagered that Lin Heng would kneel at Star Pavilion Market for half a month if he failed, and Lin Heng accepted before leaving.
• Hua Qi asked about Lin Heng’s scheme, and he explained that he expected neither the families nor He Qingcang to warn each other before his final move.

Lin Heng confronted Wei Hui and the Wei Family Ancestor alone, drawing them into a fight over the Blood of Reincarnation and the Eternal Mulberry. When Qiu arrived, Lin Heng pretended she was his most important woman, leaving a hidden observer furious.

• Ye Tian refused to join Qiu in killing Lin Heng, and Qiu reminded him of their bargain for Lin Heng’s death.
• Lin Heng met Wei Hui and the Wei Family Ancestor outside town and claimed they would not leave alive.
• The Wei Family Ancestor restrained Lin Heng and revealed that the Wei Family wanted the Blood of Reincarnation for the Eternal Mulberry.
• Wei Hui explained that the Wei Family had prepared the mountain manor trap for Lin Heng and no longer needed the Little Demoness alive.
• Qiu arrived, and the Wei Family Ancestor charged at her while Wei Hui stayed to watch Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng called Qiu his most important woman and begged the Wei Family to attack him instead, while a hidden woman clenched her fists in anger.

Lin Heng triggered a Spirit Transformation tribulation and trapped Qiu, the Wei Family ancestor, and Wei Hui in the Thunder Prison Viper Emperor’s attack. The chapter ended with Lin Heng injured and beside Qiu, still taunting her as the heavenly tribulation continued.

• Meng Yutong prepared to attack, but thunderclouds gathered and Ye Tian realized Lin Heng’s tribulation could sweep nearby fighters into it.
• Lin Heng broke free during the battle and announced that Qiu and the others would undergo tribulation with him.
• A Thunder Prison Viper Emperor emerged from the thunderclouds and attacked Lin Heng and the people caught in the heavenly tribulation.
• Qiu’s lifebound magic treasure shattered, while Wei Hui was struck into a mountainside and stopped moving.
• Lin Heng’s Golden Body broke under the thunder and he fell near Qiu, then mocked her turtle-shell artifact as it began to burn.

Lin Heng endured the Heavenly Tribulation while using its lightning to open a Mind Sea in his dantian through the ancient Divine Abode in the Crimson Palace method. His life hung in the balance, leaving the Heavenly Tribulation unable to tell whether he was dead or alive.

• Lin Heng's body broke apart under the Heavenly Tribulation, but the Kunpeng Nirvana Art absorbed the lightning and nourished him.
• Qiu and the Wei Family Ancestor hoped Lin Heng would die so they could escape the tribulation, but the lightning intensified even as he appeared to perish.
• Qiu discovered Lin Heng was guiding lightning into his dantian to open a Mind Sea, using the ancient method compatible with his five-element cultivation.
• Lin Heng poured Spirit Stones, pills, precious materials, and three Dao Fruits into the air to feed the expanding Mind Sea as the thunder beast attacked.
• Lin Heng's consciousness blurred as deathly aura surrounded him, and the Heavenly Tribulation abruptly stopped attacking without dissipating.
• Jiang Jingyi reasoned that the Heavenly Tribulation could not determine whether Lin Heng was dead or alive because he seemed to be dying and reviving repeatedly.

Lin Heng survived the heavenly punishment and broke through to Spirit Transformation, forming a Five Elements Body and Life-Death Body. While he confronted the injured Qiu, Ye Tian tried to flee from Wu Chen and the Black Tortoise Hall, leaving Lin Heng puzzled about why his enemy had not attacked.

• Lin Heng fused death energy with the gathered thunder, remade his body, and successfully advanced to Spirit Transformation as Meng Yutong watched.
• Ye Tian decided Lin Heng’s weakened state was his last chance to kill him, but Wu Chen and two Black Tortoise Hall men confronted him and chased him after he fled with a shield talisman.
• Lin Heng tested his Nine Heavens Sword against Qiu, then withdrew it when she stopped his strike with a look.
• Lin Heng told Qiu that Ye Tian had used her as a pawn, expecting her to attack him after the tribulation while he was weakened.
• Qiu asked why Ye Tian had not appeared, and Lin Heng realized Ye Tian was being hunted by Wu Chen and his companions.

Lin Heng met with Jiang Jingyi after advancing to Spirit Transformation and discussed the Humanity Fruit, martial arts factions, and the Dynasty’s difficulty reproducing inheritance seeds. Jiang Jingyi admired his insight and resolved to make use of him, while Meng Yutong separately planned to bring him back to Green Pavilion Sect if he lost the Immortal Alliance election.

• Qiu vowed revenge on Lin Heng and fled when Murong Ziyan arrived, after which Murong Ziyan summoned Lin Heng and reluctantly addressed him as Fellow Daoist Lin.
• Meng Yutong ordered Shadow One to capture Lin Heng and bring him back to Green Pavilion Sect if he failed to win the Immortal Alliance alliance-leader election, and told him to delay repairing the Cauldron of All Beings.
• Jiang Jingyi congratulated Lin Heng on reaching Spirit Transformation and asked whether he had opened a sea of consciousness in his dantian and what fruit he had refined during his tribulation.
• Lin Heng revealed that he had obtained a Humanity Fruit from the Northern Continent’s Immortal Wheel Secret Realm, and Jiang Jingyi explained that such fruits contained the inheritance of deceased martial arts experts.
• Lin Heng suggested that the Dynasty pay more attention to the Left Faction of Martial Arts and warned of its ties to the Medical Path and Hedong Land.
• Jiang Jingyi recognized Lin Heng’s insight and decided to make use of him, while Lin Heng privately remained wary of her hidden motives.

Lin Heng used Dragon Qi and a fiery speech to build support for his bid to become Immortal Alliance leader. At the gathering, he presented the four great families and He Qingcang as his backers, leaving Jiang Jingyi and Murong Ziyan stunned.

• Jiang Jingyi agreed to bet that Lin Heng would fail to become alliance leader, with his Shadow Guards and Garrison Command at stake if he won.
• Lin Heng met with Ji Taichang and prepared for the next day's gathering while keeping He Qingcang waiting.
• Lin Heng entered the gathering with leaders of the Ji, Guo, Song, and Qiu families behind him, surprising Jiang Jingyi and Murong Ziyan.
• Lin Heng revealed three streams of Dragon Qi and rallied the gathered cultivators against the Heavenly Action Continent.
• He Qingcang arrived, and Lin Heng brought him onto the stage and declared that he and the four great families supported Lin Heng's bid for alliance leader.

Lin Heng won He Qingcang and Ji Taichang’s public support to lead the alliance, then argued that the Heavenly Profound Continent’s unity and stable order protected ordinary cultivators from the monopolies and clan warfare of the Heavenly Action Continent. The hall listened as he made his case, leaving the assembled leaders weighing the value of their shared civilization.

• He Qingcang inferred that Lin Heng had royal ties and praised him as the right person to lead the Immortal Alliance.
• Ji Taichang joined He Qingcang in raising Lin Heng’s hands and declaring the Four Great Families’ support for him.
• Lin Heng described the high cost of pills and social disorder on the Heavenly Action Continent, and an old cultivator confirmed that Seeking Immortal Pavilion monopolized pills there.
• Cultivators in the hall contrasted those conditions with the Dynasty’s restraint of monopolies, improving Jiang Jingyi’s mood.
• Lin Heng argued that the Dynasty gave cultivators a stable path to rise and that shared history had forged a civilization beyond family and clan.

After Lin Heng’s successful performance at the aristocratic family gathering, Jiang Jingyi visited him to settle their wager, and Meng Yutong arrived with secret-realm keys and an invitation to a Rain Pavilion event. After they left, Meng Yutong planned to use the Cauldron of All Beings to stew Lin Heng as a surprise.

• Lin Heng returned backstage exhausted after his speech won the gathering’s applause, while He Qingcang secured Jiang Jingyi’s approval to become vice alliance leader.
• He Qingcang warned Jiang Jingyi that the Northern Continent had fallen and the enemy had reached their doorstep, prompting her to suspect he thought she was secretly guiding Lin Heng.
• Jiang Jingyi admitted Lin Heng had won their wager and agreed to let him command her subordinates, then sat beside him as he tried to teach her how to act.
• Meng Yutong arrived and gave Lin Heng two jade keys for the Longevity Immortal Island secret realm, then offered to make him ten more and invited him to a Rain Pavilion event.
• After Meng Yutong and Shadow One left, Meng Yutong revealed that the event was a plan to stew Lin Heng in the Cauldron of All Beings.

Lin Heng became the Western Continent Immortal Alliance leader, recruited Wei Shouchen to investigate the Medical Path and the Immortal Dao Heart, and headed for Rain Pavilion. Meanwhile, Wu Chen learned from the battered Ye Tian that Lin Heng was the one he sought and decided to confront the Green Pavilion Sect for the other Dao Eye.

• Lin Heng established Dragon Ridge Mountain as the alliance headquarters, appointed He Qingcang deputy leader, and arranged a meeting for three days later.
• Wei Shouchen revealed that the Wei Family’s true territory was tied to the Medical Path, and Lin Heng told him to investigate the Immortal Dao Heart and meet him about the Eternal Mulberry in ten days.
• Lin Heng left for Rain Pavilion, expecting the Pavilion Master to have something to tell him.
• Wu Chen tortured Ye Tian, who identified Lin Heng as his junior brother and the person responsible for using his identity.
• Wu Chen decided to confront the Green Pavilion Sect and obtain the other Dao Eye so he could activate the Divine Eyes’ additional ability.

Lin Heng visited Rain Pavilion and was captured by Meng Yutong, who revealed she was the Pavilion Master after pretending to stew him in a cauldron. She demanded to know what he had done with the two from the Murong Family, and Lin Heng insisted one was just his best girlfriend.

• Lin Heng arrived at Rain Pavilion and found Meng Yutong preparing a meal in the ancient Cauldron of All Beings, which her client had asked her to repair.
• Meng Yutong ambushed Lin Heng, knocked him unconscious, and bound him in the cauldron while Shadow One lit a fire beneath it.
• After Lin Heng woke, Meng Yutong described how the cauldron had slowly stewed more than a hundred people and frightened him with threats of cooking him.
• Meng Yutong's voice gave her away, and she removed her mask to reveal that she was the Pavilion Master of Rain Pavilion.
• Lin Heng accused Meng Yutong of secretly using his more than two million Spirit Stones to run Rain Pavilion, but she instead confronted him about his dealings with the two from the Murong Family.

Lin Heng explained how he became the Immortal Alliance leader while Meng Yutong accused him of winning support through private deals and pursuing Murong Yi. After she described her Rain Pavilion business and threatened to drain him for money, Lin Heng revealed that his Life-Death Body was still incomplete and his yin and yang were destabilizing his meridians.

• Meng Yutong grabbed Lin Heng by the ear and demanded that he explain how he became the Immortal Alliance leader, then accused him of making a deal with the Murong Clan.
• Lin Heng claimed Lady Yi had offered him a chance to temper himself and earn achievements for the Dynasty, but Meng Yutong accused him of having crooked thoughts about Murong Yi.
• Meng Yutong confronted Lin Heng about his interest in Murong Yi and Qiu, then threatened to clean house when he mentioned Qiu's appearance.
• Lin Heng asked Meng Yutong how Qiu and the others had schemed against her, why she subsidized Rain Pavilion, and whether the cauldron was connected to her.
• Meng Yutong explained that Rain Pavilion was a small, mobile magic-tool business that had required heavy investment and said she planned to drain Lin Heng dry for money.
• Lin Heng told Meng Yutong that his Life-Death Body remained incomplete and that imbalanced yin and yang were battering his meridians.

Lin Heng and Meng Yutong shared Yin Fruit and intimacy in the cauldron while discussing their relationship. Meng Yutong revealed that her birth clan sacrificed women to preserve its Fortune, leaving Lin Heng furious at the clan’s cruelty.

• Meng Yutong offered Lin Heng a Yin Fruit, but he saw her take it from her body and teased her about how she had raised it.
• Lin Heng swallowed the fruit, then restrained Meng Yutong in the cauldron and persuaded her to continue tempering his Life-Death Body through dual cultivation.
• As they flirted, Lin Heng asked about Meng Yutong’s past, and she began recounting her connection to the Meng Clan.
• Meng Yutong explained that the Meng Clan’s Cauldron of All Beings demanded human sacrifices, with women making up most of the victims.
• Lin Heng condemned the clan’s sacrifices, and Meng Yutong reassured him that she did not mind their intimacy in the cauldron.

Lin Heng and Meng Yutong discussed the Ancient Clans’ sacred treasures before Lin Heng examined the Cauldron of All Beings and discovered it had been altered to seize Fortune and nourish Baleful Intent. His test triggered a violent reaction that destroyed the wooden house, leaving the Meng Clan demanding to know what he had done to their treasure.

• Meng Yutong explained that the Ancient Clans’ sacred treasures gathered Fortune and might be connected to the Epoch conflict, and Lin Heng suggested making use of the Cauldron of All Beings.
• Lin Heng used the System Space’s appraisal ability to learn that the cauldron had been branded with a Blood Drop Inscription, turning it into a baleful cauldron that devoured flesh and blood.
• Lin Heng struck the cauldron’s bottom, revealing a dragon-patterned mark and unleashing demonic light that shattered the wooden house and blasted him away.
• Meng Yutong and the Meng Clan members arrived at the wreckage and demanded to know what Lin Heng had done to their sacred treasure.

Lin Heng and Meng Yutong negotiated with the Meng Clan over repairing the Cauldron of All Beings, while Lin Heng uncovered a Blood Drop Inscription that might explain its sacrifices. Meanwhile, Murong Ziyan worried about Lin Heng’s absence as the alliance waited for him to return.

• Lin Heng claimed the cauldron’s accumulated Killing Intent needed to be expelled and offered repair deadlines of three months, thirty days, or three days at different prices.
• Lin Heng demanded one million Spirit Stones for a thirty-day repair and promised Rain Pavilion might restore the cauldron so it no longer required living sacrifices.
• After the Meng Clan representative left to consult the clan chief, Lin Heng told Meng Yutong that a Blood Drop Inscription had caused the cauldron to devour living people and that someone in the clan might have added it deliberately.
• Lin Heng and Meng Yutong decided that the clan’s response would reveal whether its leaders knew about the inscription, and planned to eliminate those who obstructed them.
• Nearly two days after Lin Heng’s disappearance, Murong Ziyan worried that he had not returned and told He Qingcang to release the plan if Lin Heng did not appear by morning.

Lin Heng helped Rain Pavilion deal with the damaged cauldron while Meng Yutong reflected on the clan sacrifice she had escaped. After returning to town, Lin Heng learned that powerful Extraterrestrial Cultivators had broken through two fronts in the Western Continent, and the alliance faced a critical situation.

• Lin Heng engraved dragon patterns on the cauldron and told Rain Pavilion's artifact refiners to remove its other corners if they could not repair it in time.
• Meng Yutong ordered the refiners to follow Lin Heng's compromise plan and accepted responsibility for the result.
• Meng Yutong told Shadow One that Lin Heng would help her avenge her past, while Shadow One recalled that Meng Yutong had fled after her clan chose her cousin to be sacrificed.
• Lin Heng returned to town and joined He Qingcang's meeting about the crisis in the Western Continent.
• He Qingcang reported that the Sacred Lord of Black Bamboo Sacred Land had advanced through the Western Wasteland, while Peng Wudi led an attack in the northeast that devastated two towns.

Lin Heng explained how the united Heavenly Profound Continent could exploit the enemy’s route through the Western Wasteland and turn it into a trap, while Jiang Jingyi and Murong Ziyan watched his deductions from upstairs. The chapter left Lin Heng laying out the trap’s details as Fairy Cloud Peak celebrated Mu Liuxi and Xiao Yao Yao’s breakthroughs, and Dugu Zixuan learned that his son had become an alliance leader.

• Lin Heng dismissed He Qingcang’s doubts and listed the Heavenly Profound Continent’s unity and home-ground advantage as two reasons it could prevail.
• Lin Heng used a star chart to infer that the Black Bamboo Sacred Land’s route through the Western Wasteland could be turned into a pocket trap by drawing Zhenyuan Hall away and forcing the invaders to face Demon Valley’s beasts.
• Song Feilan explained that withdrawing Zhenyuan Hall would expose Demon Valley, making the Beast Clan a threat behind the invaders and trapping them in the Western Wasteland.
• Jiang Jingyi told Murong Ziyan that Lin Heng had independently figured out her arrangement, and Murong Ziyan realized their plans aligned.
• Lin Heng urged the meeting to create a hidden trap inside the pocket and began explaining its layout.
• Mu Liuxi and Xiao Yao Yao broke through their realms, while Dugu Zixuan received a letter saying his son had become an alliance leader.