Chapter Summaries

Chen Changqin arranged passage to the Southern Continent while Lin Heng investigated the elusive Yang Guangzhi and planned to draw out the medical arts faction. In the faction’s hidden stronghold, its leaders debated Wu Ba’s claim about capturing Lin Heng and recognized Lin Heng’s Five Elements Body as a valuable resource.

• Bai Yi warned Chen Changqin that opening the Rebirth Bridge with the Pisces Yin-Yang Talisman could send him to an unpredictable place, and Chen Changqin accepted the risk of searching for Su Lian'er.
• Murong Ziyan and Song Feilan arranged for Chen Changqin’s group to travel south on Cloud Boats departing from Dragon Ridge Mountain the next day.
• Jiang Jingyi told Lin Heng that Yang Guangzhi had links to the Northern and Eastern Continents and was skilled at hiding, while Lin Heng said he would start by using bait against the medical arts faction.
• Leaders including Sun Daosheng and Yin Daosheng questioned whether Wu Ba had truly captured Lin Heng, but Tang Daosheng argued that the faction needed the martial arts side to enter the conflict.
• The black-robed Dao Lord Zhuang’s council discussed Wu Ba’s demand to see the Immortal Dao Heart, and Tang Daosheng called Lin Heng’s Five Elements Body rare goods.

The Medical Path leaders agreed to capture Lin Heng and harvest his Five Elements Body, while Wu Ba carried out their plan by bringing Lin Heng to their hidden base. Lin Heng was bound on a corpse-refining platform, where Hua Qi found him and questioned his motives.

• Tang Daosheng and Li Daosheng persuaded Dao Lord Zhuang to proceed with Wu Ba's offer and extract Lin Heng's Five Elements origins, eyes, and bones.
• Wu Ba knocked Lin Heng unconscious, put him in a sack, and carried him east to meet Li Zhou.
• Li Zhou verified Lin Heng's identity and led Wu Ba through a hidden entrance to the Medical Path's main base.
• Medical Path followers took Lin Heng to a prison, suppressed his cultivation, and bound him to a corpse-refining platform.
• Hua Qi found Lin Heng and asked what trick he was playing, and Lin Heng begged her to save him.

Lin Heng was taken to an underground Medical Path facility, where Dao Lord Zhuang revealed plans to extract his Divine Soul, Five Elements Bloodline, cultivation, heart, and Immortal Eye. While pretending to fear for his life, Lin Heng learned that the Medical Path had been using the Martial Path and intended to reclaim the Immortal Eye.

• Hua Qi sensed people approaching and hid herself in her shadow form attached to Lin Heng.
• Dao Lord Zhuang and two gray-robed men moved Lin Heng through a rotating prison into an underground facility filled with blood, hearts, and vessels.
• Dao Lord Zhuang explained that the facility would extract Lin Heng’s Divine Soul, Five Elements Bloodline, cultivation, heart, and Immortal Eye, then turn his Five Elements Body into a puppet.
• Lin Heng feigned terror and asked about the previous owner of the Immortal Eye, prompting Dao Lord Zhuang to reveal that the Medical Path had taken everything from him.
• Dao Lord Zhuang said the Medical Path had given the Immortal Eye to Wu Ba’s son through its cooperation with the Martial Path, which it planned to use and later abandon.

Lin Heng escaped the earth-vein restraints and defeated the gray-robed captors with his artifacts and Dugu Zixuan’s help. He left the surviving prisoners facing interrogation, while Dugu Zixuan threatened to kill them one by one if they refused to answer.

• Lin Heng learned that the captors’ actions were connected to a hidden danger left by Xiao Juming, then realized they planned to extract his soul and meridians.
• Lin Heng escaped by moving through the System Space, knocked Zhao Daosheng into a wall, and used the Six Paths Crossing Ruler and Zhou Tian Human Emperor Banner against the captors.
• Lin Heng summoned Dugu Zixuan, who crushed several gray-robed men and sent the black-robed man flying with her divine sense.
• The black-robed man tried to self-destruct, but Lin Heng hid in the System Space and then captured his divine soul with the Human Emperor Banner.
• Lin Heng demanded that the surviving captors cooperate, and Dugu Zixuan threatened to kill one prisoner with each passing breath.

Lin Heng questioned a surviving gray-robed Medical Path man and learned that the main camp had been processing people with special bloodlines for decades, with the results delivered to a powerful figure. He arranged to use Zhao Daosheng as a substitute and planned to capture the next group arriving, while Mu Liuxi questioned whether the prisoner could be trusted.

• Lin Heng threatened a gray-robed man with the Human Emperor Banner, then had Dugu Zixuan kill the other captives after one agreed to talk.
• The surviving man explained that the gray-robed group had no unified organization and that he had worked at the camp for about seven years.
• He revealed that the camp had operated for more than twenty years, processing people with special bloodlines and sending their remains and other gains to a powerful figure.
• The man warned that the group collecting the processed remains would likely arrive in about half an hour, and Lin Heng ordered him to cooperate.
• Lin Heng had the man bind Zhao Daosheng to the rack as a substitute, while Mu Liuxi questioned his trust in the prisoner.

Lin Heng impersonated Dao Lord Zhuang to lure two masked agents into the underground base, then exposed himself and captured their souls after they tried to escape or commit suicide. He ordered his allies to slaughter the base’s killers and spare those who surrendered, while Xiao Muyu’s Sword Spirit watched and voiced her approval.

• Lin Heng disguised himself as Dao Lord Zhuang and told two masked visitors that he had extracted the Five Elements Origin and dug out the Immortal Dao Heart.
• The visitors uncovered the captive’s face, and Lin Heng revealed himself as the Immortal Alliance leader before killing one agent and drawing both men’s souls into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Lin Heng assigned Martial Man, Smoke Ghost, Plowman, and his senior sisters to attack the base, kill anyone who resisted or hesitated, and gather the survivors and valuables.
• The attackers killed more than forty people, while ten surrendered and Liu Daosheng stabbed members of his own side to survive.
• Xiao Muyu’s Sword Spirit observed the scene and praised Lin Heng’s decisiveness.

Xiao Muyu explained her connection to the Nine Heavens Sword while Lin Heng and his allies uncovered the Medical Path’s hidden collection of stolen hearts and brains. Wu Ba recognized his missing nephew’s heart, and Lin Heng concluded that Lin Ziqing had taken him to the Ancient Burial Immortal Star and might also have saved his father.

• Xiao Muyu told the Sword Spirit to keep watching Lin Heng and revealed that she had arranged for him to find her Nine Heavens Sword.
• Lin Heng’s group finished the slaughter, captured the survivors, and searched the Medical Path base for treasure.
• Wu Ba led the group through a hidden passage to a chamber containing a giant heart and more than a hundred living hearts and brains from people with special bloodlines.
• Wu Ba recognized a purple heart as the source origin of his missing eldest nephew’s bloodline and recounted the young man’s disappearance over sixty years earlier.
• Dugu Zixuan asked whether Wu Ba’s people had intercepted a Dao Integration cultivator carrying an infant, and Lin Heng blamed the Martial Path for the incident.
• Lin Heng told Dugu Zixuan that Lin Ziqing had likely pulled him into the Ancient Burial Immortal Star and might have saved his father as well.

Lin Heng learned that the Medical Path had been extracting bloodline essence from hearts and cooperating with enemies from the future who wanted the Immortal Realm destroyed. After Sword Spirit explained the threat, Lin Heng prepared to refine the hearts’ source essence and asked Hua Qi for help.

• Dugu Zixuan and the others realized Lin Heng’s missing twenty years had taken him to the Fourth Epoch, and they speculated about Lin Ziqing’s role.
• Lin Heng persuaded Wu Ba that the Left Faction of Martial Arts had been used and questioned the gray-robed old man about the hearts and the masked people collecting bloodline essence.
• Lin Heng sent Dugu Zixuan and the others to question people outside while he asked Hua Qi and Sword Spirit to assess the hearts.
• Sword Spirit explained that the Medical Path’s allies might be enemies from the future seeking to hasten the Immortal Realm’s destruction, and Lin Heng questioned how the First Epoch fit into the conflict.
• Sword Spirit advised Lin Heng to refine the hearts’ yang source essence to nourish his Chaos Indestructible Body, then vanished into the Nine Heavens Sword when he asked when Xiao Muyu would arrive.
• Lin Heng asked Hua Qi to help him with the hearts.

Lin Heng refined the origins of the dead to discover their physiques and talents while Hua Qi helped stabilize the Yin Force in his body. Nearly six days later, his companions prepared to return with the prisoners, leaving Dugu Zixuan and Martial Man to wait for him.

• Hua Qi agreed to help Lin Heng stabilize his Yin Force, and he began refining the origins fixed to the walls.
• Lin Heng discovered that the Chaos Indestructible Body could break origins into elemental nourishment and sometimes seize a physique's innate talent.
• After nearly six days of Lin Heng's secluded cultivation, Martial Man questioned how long they would need to wait.
• Dugu Zixuan agreed to stay behind while the others escorted the gray-robed prisoners away.
• Duan Shuyun and the others departed for the Green Pavilion Sect, leaving Dugu Zixuan and Martial Man outside the mountain.

Meng Yutong learned that Murong Ziyan and Clear Moon Long Song had sent people toward the Southern Continent, and set out to confront them. There, Bai Yi spotted Ye Tian’s fortune inside an immortal-island secret realm, but Chen Changqin warned him against rushing into a fight.

• Meng Yutong left Fairy Cloud Peak after learning that Lin Heng and the others had gone away, then visited the Rain Pavilion stronghold in disguise.
• The artifact refiners told Meng Yutong that Clear Moon Long Song and members of the imperial clan had commissioned Secret Keys, and she suspected Murong Ziyan was colluding with forces beyond the stars.
• Meng Yutong decided to go to the Southern Continent without informing Lin Heng, convinced that he would soon arrive there with Murong Yi.
• Murong Ziyan led Bai Yi and the others into an immortal-island secret realm, where Bai Yi’s chessboard revealed a fortune bearer he identified as Lin Heng’s senior brother, Ye Tian.
• Bai Yi wanted to kill Ye Tian and take his fortune, but Chen Changqin urged him to wait for Lin Heng and pointed out the danger of attacking without knowing Ye Tian’s strength.

Bai Yi and Chen Changqin prepared to enter the Underworld to bring Yin Luo into the conflict, while Murong Ziyan explained her group’s plan to target Heavenly Profound Continent’s traitors. Lin Heng emerged from seclusion stronger and decided to return to Green Pavilion Sect before confronting the Medical Path through Wu Ba.

• Bai Yi raised the Rebirth Bridge, and Chen Changqin entered it with the others to seek Yin Luo in the Underworld.
• Murong Ziyan told Song Feilan that her group had come to deal with factions helping Heavenly Action Continent find a passage through the Immortal Island Secret Realm.
• Lin Heng emerged from seclusion carrying the unconscious Hua Qi and revealed that her help had accelerated his cultivation breakthrough.
• Dugu Zixuan questioned Lin Heng about his relationship with Hua Qi, and he admitted that Meng Yutong had beaten him after learning about it.
• Lin Heng learned that Wu Ba had left to confront the Medical Path and ordered him to test its response, then chose to return to Green Pavilion Sect.

Lin Heng returned to Green Pavilion Sect, where Jiang Jingyi warned him that Prison Ye had gone to Southern Continent with Clear Moon Long Song. Jiang Jingyi then checked on her incarnation in the Eastern Continent and caught Jiang Yan wearing their late father's dragon robe, so she punished him.

• Yun Yao clung to Lin Heng after his return, while Mu Liuxi enforced her turn as Household Manager and ordered everyone to follow the rules.
• Jiang Jingyi warned Lin Heng that Prison Ye had accompanied Clear Moon Long Song to Southern Continent and urged him to leave quickly.
• Jiang Jingyi meditated and connected with her incarnation in the imperial palace at Dingyang City.
• Jiang Yan drank and feasted while wearing the late emperor's dragon robe, and Jiang Jingyi ordered everyone else to leave.
• Jiang Jingyi slapped Jiang Yan, stripped off the dragon robe, and kicked him as he apologized and denied wanting to become emperor.

Jiang Jingyi uncovered signs of an unknown passage between the Eastern and Western Continents while Jiang Yan arrested Medical Alliance leaders. Meanwhile, Lin Heng and his companions traveled to the Southern Continent as Meng Yutong slipped into Long Feather Immortal Island, leaving the coming Supreme conflict looming.

• Jiang Yan told Jiang Jingyi that he had arrested five Medical Alliance clan heads, captured several martial artists surnamed Long, and received a ten-million-Spirit-Stone bribe offer.
• Jiang Jingyi ordered Jiang Yan to watch the Long martial artists and stabilize the court, suspecting that an uncontrolled teleportation space connected the continents and could let Yi Pavilion monitor the West.
• Lin Heng traveled by Cloud Boat to the Southern Continent with Yun Yao, Leng Qingqiu, and Leng Qingyun, while the sisters bickered over who would show him around their family’s immortal island.
• Dugu Feng and Ye Ting watched the group’s playful antics and wondered why Meng Yutong was absent.
• Meng Yutong reached Long Feather Immortal Island and used the Secret Key to tear open space and enter, while Jiang Jingyi sensed that someone was speaking ill of her.

Lin Heng’s group entered the Immortal Island Secret Realm and met Bai Yi, who warned that a Supreme had entered and that their allies were missing. Lin Heng insisted they could still fight without a Supreme, but the chapter ended with Bai Yi revealing that Ye Tian was nearby among a group of traitors allied with forces beyond the stars.

• Leng Qingqiu explained the Southern Continent Archipelago’s history and how island clans held their territory through strength and alliances.
• Dugu Zixuan opened the secret realm with a Secret Key, and Shen Yeting led the group across its dangerous terrain.
• Bai Yi found Lin Heng’s group and said a spatial torrent had separated him from Murong Ziyan and the others.
• Dugu Zixuan concluded that a Supreme’s entry had triggered the torrent and warned that the group had no Supreme to oppose them.
• Lin Heng said they could still fight without a Supreme and declared that he trusted Chen Changqin to bring the Underworld into the conflict.
• Bai Yi revealed that traitors allied with forces beyond the stars were nearby, including Lin Heng’s senior brother Ye Tian.

Bai Yi’s chessboard led Lin Heng’s group to Ye Tian and Clear Moon Long Song, where Dugu Zixuan and Meng Yutong confronted them. Lin Heng taunted Ye Tian before Meng Yutong challenged Qiu, but the tense reunion ended when someone suddenly poked and kissed her cheek.

• Bai Yi showed Lin Heng and the others that his chessboard could track Ye Tian’s location, and Lin Heng decided it was time to settle accounts with Ye Tian and Qiu.
• Ye Tian worried that someone was plotting against his group, but Qiu dismissed his concerns as they explored the secret realm.
• Dugu Zixuan emerged from a spatial rift and blocked Clear Moon Long Song’s group, then Lin Heng arrived and mocked Ye Tian about his cultivation and orphanhood.
• Lin Heng introduced Dugu Zixuan as his birth mother, and Ye Tian grew furious while the surrounding women watched the confrontation.
• Meng Yutong appeared, condemned Ye Tian, and challenged Qiu to settle their old accounts.
• Someone poked Meng Yutong’s cheek and kissed her, interrupting the tense standoff.

Lin Heng and his allies confronted Clear Moon Long Song over its alleged collusion with extraterrestrial forces, while Ye Tian realized his side was outnumbered. The battle began across the plain, with both sides avoiding powerful techniques because the unstable secret realm threatened to collapse.

• Meng Yutong and Lin Heng taunted Ye Tian with their closeness, and Qiu mocked him for losing his master's affection.
• Chun and Xia challenged Dugu Zixuan and Meng Yutong, who demanded that Clear Moon Long Song hand over Ye Tian and Qiu.
• Lin Heng summoned Uncle Prison, Dugu Feng, Shen Yeting, and the Martial Man trio, revealing that Clear Moon Long Song no longer had the numerical advantage.
• Ye Tian backed away and tried to use Qiu and the others as shields, but Yun Yao, Lin Heng's other allies, also emerged from the space.
• Dugu Feng attacked, Uncle Prison opened the battle with his whip, and both sides engaged in a drawn-out fight across the plain.

Lin Heng cornered Ye Tian and fought him after Ye Tian revealed the power of his Overlord Blood Body. Ye Tian escaped Lin Heng’s fatal strike with a life-saving mark but ended up trapped near a spatial melting sea, while Lin Heng closed in.

• Lin Heng blocked Ye Tian’s attempt to flee and challenged him to settle their grudges.
• Ye Tian unleashed the three scarlet dao rings of his Overlord Blood Body and claimed he could fight Lin Heng despite their realm gap.
• Lin Heng used his speed to evade Ye Tian and then pierced his chest with the Nine Heavens Sword.
• A life-saving mark displaced Ye Tian before Lin Heng could kill him, and Lin Heng chased after his aura.
• Ye Tian hid behind a rock wall near a spatial melting sea, unable to fight back, while Lin Heng taunted him and searched for him.

Lin Heng cornered Ye Tian and taunted him over his past schemes before preparing to kill him. Hua Qi arrived, revealed her closeness with Lin Heng, and refused to save Ye Tian, leaving him stripped of his last hope.

• Lin Heng searched for Ye Tian while listing how Ye Tian’s schemes had helped him win the affection of Senior Sister Xiao Yao, Senior Sister Liu Xi, and others.
• Ye Tian emerged from hiding after Lin Heng provoked him, vomited blood, and begged his former junior brother to spare him.
• Lin Heng rejected Ye Tian’s offers to withdraw from the world or cripple his cultivation and raised the Nine Heavens Sword to kill him.
• Hua Qi arrived after refining the chicken opportunity, and Lin Heng explained that Ye Tian had been defeated.
• Ye Tian asked Hua Qi to save him, but she revealed she would cooperate with Lin Heng and urged Ye Tian to end his own life.

Ye Tian killed himself after Hua Qi refused to save him, and Lin Heng captured his soul in the Human Emperor Banner to make it the banner’s main soul. Meanwhile, Jiang Jingyi and Murong Ziyan assessed the strange Supreme Alliance deployment as reports arrived of Meng Yutong’s battle against Clear Moon Long Song’s forces.

• Ye Tian stabbed himself through the heart, and Lin Heng took his fading soul into the Human Emperor Banner after confirming it had fallen into the banner’s sea of fire.
• Lin Heng proposed making Hua Qi the banner’s main soul, but she rejected him and insisted that the Third Epoch’s path still had to continue.
• Meng Yutong fought Qiu evenly after reaching the late Return to Void stage, while the three Brutes overwhelmed Clear Moon Long Song’s cultivators and killed or scattered most of them.
• Murong Ziyan told Jiang Jingyi that Ji Jinyu was the only Supreme Alliance Supreme to arrive, accompanied by five Dao Integration cultivators and a much larger group of weaker fighters.
• Jiang Jingyi suspected the Southern Continent deployment was a diversion and learned that Palace Master Zixuan had intercepted Clear Moon Long Song’s forces, with Meng Yutong fighting alongside them.
• Murong Ziyan suggested Meng Yutong had arrived early to impress her mother-in-law, and Jiang Jingyi reacted with surprise.

Lin Heng reunited with his companions, confirmed Ye Tian had been captured in the Human Emperor Banner, and joined the search for Dugu Zixuan and the others. Meanwhile, Jiang Jingyi confronted Meng Yutong, who mistook her for a helpless young lady, leaving Jiang Jingyi amused and anticipating their next encounter.

• Lin Heng found Leng Qingyun, Leng Qingqiu, and the injured Martial Man, then used his Water Element Body to clean blood and dirt from Leng Qingyun’s dress.
• Yun Yao returned with Xiao Lan and several Storage Pouches, arguing with Leng Qingqiu over who deserved the loot.
• Lin Heng showed everyone Ye Tian’s soul bound inside the altar of the Human Emperor Banner, and the group celebrated his capture.
• The group took the injured Martial Man with them and continued searching for Dugu Zixuan and the others.
• Jiang Jingyi found Meng Yutong resting, and Meng Yutong accused her of scheming and relying on others for protection.
• Jiang Jingyi concealed her amusement at Meng Yutong’s mistaken view of her and thought that Supreme would reveal who was truly the delicate one.