Chapter Summaries

Dugu Yueli failed to escape Dugu Zixuan and chose to fight Xiao Heng instead of returning to Nine Dust Hall. At the Dao Palace training ground, Lin Heng watched Su Wanyue and Su Qiubai fight until Meng Yutong rebuked him.

• Dugu Yueli carried Dugu Xuexue through the air but could not shake Dugu Zixuan, who reminded her that the Great Wall Barrier blocked their way back.
• Dugu Zixuan persuaded Dugu Yueli and Dugu Xuexue to return with her, explaining why Dugu Yueli's family had said she was staying at Ten Directions Hall.
• Dugu Yueli said she would rather fight Xiao Heng and settle who was stronger than leave the Great Wall Dao Palace immediately, and Dugu Zixuan asked if she was sure.
• Lin Heng cheered as Su Wanyue and Su Qiubai fought at the training ground, until Meng Yutong grabbed his ear for watching instead of breaking up the fight.
• Su Moxie and Su Yang arrived bruised after fighting over the dispute between the younger generation, while Su Wanyue and Su Qiubai continued trading attacks and insults.

Lin Heng stopped Su Qiubai and Su Wanyue from fighting and tried to uncover the dispute behind their competing claims to marry him. The Su family factions argued over which branch should handle the marriage alliance, and Lin Heng left the decision to Meng Yutong and the other women in his Inner Court.

• Su Qiubai and Su Wanyue fought fiercely until Lin Heng intervened and ordered them to stop.
• Su Wanyue called Lin Heng her teacher and said the core issue was which Star God Temple would take part in the Dugu Clan marriage alliance.
• Su Moxie and Su Yang argued over whether Su Qiubai or Su Wanyue should take the marriage agreement, escalating their branches' dispute.
• Lin Heng declared that he was not eager to marry either woman and that they would have to pass Meng Yutong and the other women's test.

Meng Yutong approved a possible alliance with the Su Clan but required Su Qiubai and Su Wanyue to prove themselves as capable students before any marriage was considered. Dugu Zixuan teased Meng Yutong about having a child, while Lin Heng continued to restrain Dugu Yueli and used news of a city’s fall to pressure her into speaking more gently.

• Meng Yutong said she would accept a marriage alliance in principle but insisted that Su Qiubai and Su Wanyue demonstrate their abilities, and Su Moxie and Su Yang agreed to let their daughters learn under her supervision.
• Dugu Zixuan praised Meng Yutong for easing tensions between the Star God Temples and joked that she should get pregnant.
• Dugu Yueli was again bound and suspended while Lin Heng teased her about trying to escape.
• Lin Heng told Dugu Yueli that Anqiu Immortal City had fallen and that her uncle had been among its defenders, then withheld further news until she changed her tone.

Lin Heng teased Dugu Yueli, who was confined to the Little Black Room for seven days, while the war against the immortal race devastated Dragon Sea City and threatened Linxiang City. After learning Nine Dust Hall had been betrayed from within, Lin Heng ordered preparations to support Dingyang City and fortify Falling Snow City, then let the news reach Dugu Yueli and Xuexue.

• Lin Heng told Dugu Yueli that Uncle Prison had simply returned home after Dragon Sea City fell, then caught and teased her when she tried to kick him.
• Dugu Yueli spent seven days in the Little Black Room, unaware that Dragon Sea City had been destroyed and Linxiang City was in imminent danger.
• Lin Heng told the Dao Palace’s core members that Nine Dust Hall’s decisions were being leaked to the immortal race’s Qi Clan, and warned that their own side might also have spies.
• Lin Heng ordered Meng Yutong and his Master to prepare a Northern Expedition to support Dingyang City, while Su Yang and Su Moxie organized defenses around Falling Snow City and the Immortal Sea landing port.
• Lin Heng deliberately let news of the crisis reach Dugu Yueli and Xuexue, who confirmed it with Dugu Zixuan and grew anxious.

Dugu Yueli sought answers about her injured father and the crisis facing Nine Dust Hall, while Lin Heng learned that Bai Yi had been captured by the Spirit Fox Clan. Lin Heng revealed that outside reinforcements were cut off and left Yueli to choose whether to return to Nine Dust Hall or remain at the Great Wall Dao Palace and accept his help.

• Dugu Yueli worried that her father, Dugu Wuwu, had been injured and decided to seek confirmation from Lin Heng.
• Sun Hao returned alone and told Lin Heng that Bai Yi had been captured by the Spirit Fox Clan after provoking the Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady.
• Sun Hao said the Jade Luo Lady gave Lin Heng ten days to come negotiate or Bai Yi would be killed; Lin Heng decided to leave in seven days.
• Dugu Yueli called Lin Heng “Brother Heng” and asked to return to Nine Dust Hall to see the situation there.
• Lin Heng told Yueli that her father’s injury was not fatal and that the Immortal Clans had blocked outside reinforcements beyond the Heavenly River.
• Lin Heng said he had already won their wager and let Yueli choose between returning to Nine Dust Hall alone or staying and relying on his help.

Lin Heng left for Demon Forest with Sun Hao to negotiate with the Demon Race, while Dugu Yueli departed Great Wall Dao Palace to return to Nine Dust Hall. In Blue Pond Town, a Shadow Alliance guide told Lin Heng that the Green Fox Clan had been attacked again, creating a possible opening for negotiations.

• Dugu Yueli chose to leave Great Wall Dao Palace, and Lin Heng told Dugu Zixuan that he expected her to return and ask for help.
• Lin Heng set out across the Immortal Sea with Sun Hao after Wei Yanxianlan, Duan Shuyun, and Mu Liuxi saw them off.
• Lin Heng and Sun Hao reached Blue Pond Town after crossing the Immortal Sea in two and a half days.
• At the town's tea house, Lin Heng met a burned Shadow Alliance guide who recognized him and offered news about the Demon Race.
• The guide reported that the Fierce-Faced Tiger Clan had attacked the Green Fox Clan and that the Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady's maternal clan was involved.

Lin Heng and Sun Hao entered the Great Flame Demon Domain, where Lin Heng rescued a little green fox from a bear-man and killed the attacker with the Supreme Bone Sword. The sword’s Demon Venerable aura spread across the Ten Wastelands Demon Domain, alarming powerful demons and leaving Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady fearing a Demon Venerable had come to destroy the Fox Clan.

• Lin Heng and Sun Hao followed the Shadow Scout’s map into the Crimson Flame Tribe, learning that the Spirit Fox Clan was pressured by the Monkey Clan and Bear Clan.
• Lin Heng and Sun Hao found a bear-man attacking a red fox and a little green fox, and Lin Heng knocked the bear-man away with one kick.
• The red fox carried the little green fox to safety, but the bear-man charged at Lin Heng in fury.
• Lin Heng summoned the Supreme Bone Sword and killed the bear-man with a slash that left a deep rift and released Crimson Roc Demon Venerable’s aura across the Demon Domain.
• Lin Heng and Sun Hao began stripping useful materials from the bear-man while powerful demons sensed the aura and Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady feared a Demon Venerable had targeted the Fox Clan.

Lin Heng and Sun Hao entered the Spirit Fox Clan’s underground stronghold to discuss cooperation with its elders and the Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady. Lin Heng challenged the foxes’ authority and reputation, and the chapter ended as the Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady steered the meeting toward the terms of cooperation.

• Lin Heng and Sun Hao left the slain bearman’s remains behind after Lin Heng used the Supreme Bone Sword to kill it.
• The Spirit Fox Clan surrounded Lin Heng and Sun Hao at its territory, and Sun Hao demanded that they be taken to the clan elder.
• Lin Heng and Sun Hao descended into the clan’s underground settlement, where they spotted Bai Yi tied to a cross amid firewood.
• Lin Heng met the Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady and four other powerful fox demons in the Spirit Fox Heavenly Palace.
• Lin Heng claimed credit for resolving demon beast tides in the Northern Continent, identified the Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady from the Star Sea, and mocked the Spirit Fox Clan’s leaders.
• The Green-Faced Jade Luo Lady addressed Lin Heng as an outstanding human and invited him to discuss the cooperation terms.

Lin Heng left the Spirit Fox Clan after offering to help them and insisting that they would seek him out if they wanted his support. When the clan learned he had saved two foxes from a bear prodigy, its ancestor urgently sent messengers to bring him back.

• Lin Heng told the Spirit Fox Clan he wanted a route through the Central Domain and offered to help them become rulers of the Ten Wastelands Demon Domain.
• Lin Heng left the Heavenly Palace with Sun Hao, explaining that he wanted the foxes to choose his support without being pressured by the Supreme Bone Sword.
• Demon Beast races discovered a black bear prodigy’s corpse and traces suggesting someone had rescued the foxes and killed him.
• The Spirit Fox Clan learned that Lin Heng had saved Yaoyao and another fox, and its ancestor ordered the clan to bring him back before he left the Great Flame Demon Domain.
• Lin Heng and Sun Hao were stopped on the forest road by the approaching foxes, and Sun Hao celebrated that they had come after them.

Lin Heng and his companions returned to the Spirit Fox Clan Palace, where Yu Ling offered the clan’s precious Spirit Transformation True Blood and asked for his help against their neighboring clans. After learning why the Green Fox Clan’s atavistic-bloodline fox had been brought to the Great Flame Demon Domain, Lin Heng and his companions settled in the Heavenly Palace.

• Yu Ling apologized for the Fox Clan’s earlier treatment of Lin Heng and gave him a bottle of Spirit Transformation True Blood, which could revive the dying and extend a person’s lifespan.
• Lin Heng accepted the gift and offered to exterminate one of the clans squeezing the Spirit Fox Clan, saying Dao Integration experts would pose no threat to him unless a Supreme appeared.
• Yu Ling removed her veil, and her bewitching face briefly entranced Sun Hao and Bai Yi, while Lin Heng remained unaffected.
• Yu Ling introduced herself as Yu Ling and thanked Lin Heng for saving the little fox girl, explaining that she was the Green Fox Clan’s only junior with an atavistic bloodline.
• Yu Ling explained that the Green Fox Clan had taken a detour through Bear Clan territory while bringing the girl to the Spirit Fox Clan, where they were now protecting her.
• Yu Ling arranged for Lin Heng, Sun Hao, and Bai Yi to stay temporarily in the Heavenly Palace.

Lin Heng emerged from seclusion to face Bear Clan leader Yan Gang after the Spirit Fox Clan’s ancestors were badly wounded. He revealed that he had killed Yan Gang’s son and began fighting the Dao Integration demon with powerful artifacts.

• Bai Yi told Lin Heng that Yan Gang was fighting the Spirit Fox Clan’s ancestors, but Lin Heng ordered him and Sun Hao to wait for his signal.
• Saint Ye and Hua Qi argued about the Immortal Path and Divine Path while Lin Heng cultivated, then discovered he had left the underground dao arena.
• Lin Heng arrived at the lava rift battlefield and told the wounded Spirit Fox Clan ancestors to withdraw while he handled Yan Gang.
• Lin Heng tossed Yan Gang his son’s mangled bear paw, provoking the Bear Clan leader into a furious attack.
• Lin Heng countered Yan Gang with Imperial Dragon Qi, then summoned the Zhou Tian Human Emperor Banner and Six Paths Crossing Ruler to slow the great demon with underworld power.

Lin Heng endured Yan Gang’s attacks by drawing on the fire beneath the earth and revealed a Golden Body Dharma Aspect capable of matching the Dao Integration great demon. The chapter left their clash poised to begin in earnest.

• Yan Gang’s demonic power battered Lin Heng’s Human Emperor Banner, but Saint Ye explained that Lin Heng was using his treasures to prevent the bear from escaping.
• Yan Gang smashed Lin Heng into the earth and magma, then turned to threaten the Green Fox Clan.
• Lin Heng stopped Yan Gang from advancing and emerged from the fire slurry, still alive and connected to the flames beneath the earth.
• Yan Gang’s attempt to crush Lin Heng between his palms was halted by an invisible barrier.
• Lin Heng summoned his hundred-zhang Golden Body Dharma Aspect, whose strength astonished the fox ancestors and Yu Ling.

Lin Heng transformed into a hundred-zhang Golden Body Dharma Aspect and overpowered Yan Gang in a brutal physical battle. As the Bear Clan charged and Lin Heng sealed off the battlefield, Saint Ye and Hua Qi realized he was using the fight to unify his three constitutions and fuse his Immortal Body with his soul.

• Lin Heng formed a hundred-zhang Golden Body Dharma Aspect and battered Yan Gang with a relentless series of punches and elbow strikes.
• Yan Gang raised a barrier of blade-like fur, but Lin Heng tore through it and struck the demon core at his waist, sending him flying and badly injuring him.
• Four Bear Clan minor leaders led their soldiers into a charge as Yan Gang ordered them to kill Lin Heng and the Spirit Fox Clan.
• Lin Heng recalled the Zhou Tian Human Emperor Banner and expanded the Crossing Ruler, forcing the fox ancestors and their allies away from the battlefield.
• Saint Ye and Hua Qi recognized that Lin Heng was tempering his battle soul by unifying his three constitutions and moving toward fusing his Immortal Body with his soul.

Lin Heng used his fused divine beast phenomena to defeat Yan Gang and devastate the Bear Clan, then spared Yan Gang to preserve a weakened faction that would have to rely on him. Bai Yi explained to Sun Hao that Lin Heng’s victory was also a calculated way to reshape the balance of power in the Great Flame Demon Domain.

• Lin Heng summoned four divine beast phenomena formed from his past heavenly tribulations and used them to overwhelm Yan Gang and the bear demons.
• After the battle left the demons nearly destroyed and drained Lin Heng of his power, Yan Gang realized Lin Heng had deliberately provoked him to awe the demon clans.
• Lin Heng admitted his plan and spared Yan Gang, telling him he rarely exterminated a demon’s bloodline.
• Yan Gang asked Lin Heng’s name, then withdrew with his surviving bear cubs while the fox ancestors watched cautiously.
• Bai Yi explained to Sun Hao that sparing Yan Gang left the weakened Bear Clan dependent on Lin Heng and helped preserve the domain’s balance of power.

Lin Heng convened the leaders of the Great Flame Demon Domain’s clans and explained that he sought cooperation to travel through their territory toward the Central Domain. He dismissed their concerns about Demon Venerables and laid out how the domain’s harsh conditions and rival powers had left its clans trapped in a place of exile.

• After Lin Heng’s victory over Yan Gang spread, the Leopard, Giant Ape, and Fishman clans received his invitation to meet, with a warning that he would visit them if they refused.
• Shadow Hunter’s elder cousin urged him to attend, arguing that Lin Heng had spared Yan Gang and might offer the clans useful cooperation.
• Lin Heng emerged from seclusion with his hair restored to black, and the leaders of the Great Flame Demon Domain gathered at the Heavenly Palace’s Underground Sacred Hall.
• Lin Heng introduced himself, explained that he wanted to borrow a road to the Central Domain, and declared that a Demon Venerable was nothing to fear.
• Lin Heng described the Fox, Leopard, Fishman, and Giant Ape clans’ troubles and called the Great Flame Demon Domain an exile for demon clans driven from better lands.

Lin Heng persuaded the Great Flame Demon Domain’s great demons to move against the Immortal Clan and explained why Dragon Sea City would become their target. Meanwhile, after the Nine Dust Alliance lost Linxiang City, Qin Hongyi and Dugu Yueli resolved to take control of Dragon Sea City despite Dugu Wuwu’s opposition.

• Lin Heng left the Great Flame Demon Domain after provoking its great demons and returned to the Immortal Sea with Saint Ye and Hua Qi.
• Lin Heng explained that the Demon Race would have to seize Dragon Sea City and that the Nine Dust Hall should abandon it.
• The Nine Dust Alliance lost Linxiang City after the Qi Clan’s strange Formation traps and local clan rebellions helped defeat its counterattacks.
• Dugu Wuwu berated Qin Hongyi and Dugu Yueli over agreeing to abandon Dragon Sea City, while Qin Hongyi warned Dugu Yueli that her father might blame her for the alliance’s failures.
• Qin Hongyi suspected Lin Heng had reached the north and resolved with Dugu Yueli to take control of Dragon Sea City themselves.

Dugu Yueli seized control of Dragon Sea City, while Lin Heng and Bai Yi secretly watched and waited for the Lin Immortal Clan to make a move. Lin Tianhe arrived at the clan’s camp near Seven Broken Mountain and questioned Lin Yi’s plan to attack the city, ending with a warning that the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office could not be destroyed.

• Dugu Yueli suppressed Dugu Yunyue, took her City Lord Seal, and declared that she would take over Dragon Sea City; the gathered forces pledged obedience.
• Lin Heng and Bai Yi hid in Dragon Sea City, where Lin Heng explained that he was waiting for the Lin Immortal Clan to act near Seven Broken Mountain.
• Lin Tianhe arrived at the Lin Clan’s camp and learned that Lin Yi had repaired a teleportation formation leading near Dragon Sea City and wanted to launch a surprise attack.
• Lin Tianhe asked what the Lin Clan would do after destroying the Nine Dust Alliance, then warned that the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office could not be destroyed and beckoned Lin Yi to follow him.

Lin Tianhe told Lin Yi that Lin Heng, the Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office, was the son of Lin Zhique and a member of their family. He stopped Lin Yi from opposing Lin Heng and asked him to bring his nephew in for a visit, even if force was needed.

• Lin Tianhe explained that Mu Qiuhong had recognized Lin Heng’s false identity but helped him pursue the Star-Suppressing Tower and the Great Wall Dao Palace.
• Lin Tianhe revealed that Lin Heng was the son of Lin Zhique and Lin Zhique’s Dugu Clan partner, making him Lin Yi’s nephew.
• Lin Yi realized the Dugu Clan were relatives and regretted nearly ordering an attack on them.
• Lin Tianhe ordered Lin Yi to stay out of the conflict involving the Nine Dust Alliance, the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office, and the Qi Clan.
• Lin Tianhe asked Lin Yi to bring Lin Heng to meet the family, and Lin Yi eagerly agreed to take care of his nephew.

Lin Heng recovered his Primordial power after his battle with Yan Gang, while Jiang Jingyi and Jiang Yan discussed the Garrison Command’s funding and recent developments on the Heavenly Action Continent. Jiang Jingyi revealed that Lin Heng had entered the Demon Forest and might have ties to the Changlin Clan, leaving his origins and the continent’s conflicts uncertain.

• Lin Heng meditated to replenish his Primordial power after exhausting it against Yan Gang and considered his breakthroughs and unresolved questions about his phenomena.
• Jiang Yan asked Jiang Jingyi to approve the Garrison Command’s monthly allowance, but she refused because the treasury lacked funds.
• Jiang Yan complained that most of the clan-raiding spoils had gone to other imperial offices and that little remained to support his soldiers.
• Jiang Jingyi suggested Jiang Yan manage Jiang Zhenqing’s fief and use its wealth to support the court while Jiang Zhenqing was away.
• Jiang Jingyi told Jiang Yan that the Central Domain Immortal Clans and the Dugu Clan had clashed, Dao Integration great demons had fought in the Heavenly Action Demon Domain, and Lin Heng had entered the Demon Forest.
• Jiang Jingyi said Lin Heng’s missing father, Lin Zhique, might be connected to the Changlin Clan of the Heavenly Action Continent.

Xiao Muyu and the Underworld watched Lin Heng and Bai Yi’s dangerous journey while Lin Yi prepared an operation to bring Lin Heng to the Long Forest Clan. Lin Heng secretly arrived in Dragon Sea City to see Dugu Yueli, but Qin Hongyi burst in and attacked him.

• Luo Qi worried that Bai Yi might die alongside Lin Heng, and Xiao Muyu promised to keep an eye on Bai Yi.
• Lin Yi and Lin Tianhe planned a covert operation to lure Lin Heng to the Long Forest Clan, codenamed Hunt the Show-off.
• Dragon Sea City began evacuating residents as Dugu Yueli warned of a possible crisis and the Nine Dust Alliance withdrew discreetly.
• Lin Heng appeared in the city manor’s rear garden and Dugu Yueli threatened to capture him and lock him in a Little Black Room.
• Lin Heng said he had come to save Dugu Yueli, but Qin Hongyi stormed into the garden and attacked him.