Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng investigated Hua Qi’s disappearance and found intelligence about the Buddhist Incense Society, a group of monks tied to the Ancient Buddha Lineage that had arrived at the Immortal Sea Summit. Suspecting they might be involved in Hua Qi’s disappearance, he decided to confront them.

• Long Qingtian agreed to Long Shishi’s plan, then brought her to Maple Love Town to discuss betrothal gifts and dowry with the Old Lin Family.
• Lin Heng left the village with Saint Ye after waiting two days and worrying about Hua Qi’s sudden disappearance.
• Lin Heng found a Shadow Alliance intelligence scroll describing the Buddhist Incense Society’s arrival and cooperation with the Qi Clan and Yu Clan.
• Lin Heng explained that the monks might belong to the Ancient Buddha Lineage, which had previously infiltrated the Heavenly Profound Continent and was involved in the epochal struggle.
• Lin Heng suspected the monks might have taken Hua Qi and decided to investigate their activities near Dingyang City.

Lin Heng and Saint Ye tracked Hua Qi’s aura to the ruins of the Blue Rainbow Sect, where the Buddhist Incense Society had built a temple. Lin Heng learned that Elder Sandalwood had taken Hua Qi away, but the monks did not know where she was, leaving the Society’s threat and Hua Qi’s whereabouts unresolved.

• Lin Heng and Saint Ye reached the Blue Rainbow Mountains and found people building a temple among the Blue Rainbow Sect’s ruins.
• Lin Heng sent Little Black to search for Hua Qi, and Saint Ye understood the dog’s barks to mean that Hua Qi had recently been near the temple.
• Lin Heng confronted two red-robed monks, who said Elder Sandalwood had taken Hua Qi as a guest but claimed they did not know where she had gone.
• After one monk refused to answer, Lin Heng killed him and demanded that the other reveal what he knew.
• The surviving monk relayed the Buddhist Incense Society’s demand that Lin Heng cooperate and stop searching for Hua Qi, and Lin Heng killed him after using soul-searching arts to obtain information.

Lin Heng learned that the Buddhist Incense Society had captured Hua Qi and devised a scheme to turn the Immortal Clan against them by showering them with praise. Elsewhere, Murong Ziyan gathered Meng Yutong and Dugu Zixuan at the fractured Heavenly River and revealed a plan inspired by Dugu Zixuan’s son: dig a Dog Hole.

• Lin Heng and Saint Ye learned the Buddhist Incense Society’s ranks and concluded that Hua Qi’s capture was meant to lure Lin Heng into a trap.
• Lin Heng decided to sabotage the Buddhist Incense Society’s cooperation with the Immortal Clan by praising the monks as saviors, and he prepared to enlist the Shadow Alliance.
• Meng Yutong, Dugu Zixuan, and Su Moxie arrived at the fractured star belt and met Murong Ziyan, who explained that the Heavenly River’s damage came from an explosion and the continents drawing closer.
• Murong Ziyan relayed Jiang Jingyi’s teasing message to Meng Yutong and said she had summoned them to discuss a solution to the crisis.
• Murong Ziyan revealed that their plan, inspired by Dugu Zixuan’s son, was to dig a Dog Hole.

The Buddhist Incense Society tried to lure Lin Heng into a trap by holding Hua Qi, while Lin Heng’s praise campaign turned the immortal clans against them. Lin Tianhe arranged for the Lin Clan to appear to cooperate with the Society, and learned that Hua Qi would be publicly executed to draw Lin Heng out.

• At the Immortal Sea Summit, the Buddhist Incense Society’s leaders planned to capture Lin Heng and use Hua Qi’s divine soul to light a divine lamp.
• The Society’s temples and monks were expelled from three immortal clans after rumors praising the Society provoked resentment.
• Lin Tianhe told Lin Yi to keep spreading the praise and blame-shifting rumors, while the Lin Clan pretended to cooperate with the Society.
• Only the Lin Clan and Yu Clan attended the Society’s alliance meeting after the Qi Clan and Peng Clan refused to trust it.
• Elder Xiangtan revealed that the Society had captured Hua Qi and planned to execute her at Purple Thunder Peak that night to lure Lin Heng out.

Lin Heng confronted the Buddhist Incense Society on Purple Thunder Peak, where the monks revealed their plans for his Immortal Body and Hua Qi. He faced the ambush as the chapter ended with him challenging whether they could compare themselves to an immortal.

• Lin Tianhe persuaded the Buddhist Incense Society to leave the Yu Clan out of the ambush and wait with the Lin Clan on Purple Thunder Peak.
• Lin Heng arrived at the altar and found Hua Qi sealed in a vessel, then watched eight Buddhist Incense Society members appear around him.
• Jingkong revealed that he had returned after Lin Heng foiled his plan to possess Leng Wushu and explained how the Society used successive possessions to inherit a vessel’s lifespan and talents.
• Jingkong declared that the Society wanted Lin Heng’s Immortal Body as a reserve container and intended to refine Hua Qi into a divine lamp.
• Lin Heng recalled the Mortal World Immortal he had encountered and challenged the monks to prove they were comparable to an immortal.

Lin Heng was trapped and suppressed by the Buddhist Incense Society’s formation after its Nine-Eyed Strange Buddha destroyed the Star-Suppressing Tower. Lin Tianhe and Lin Yi arrived as Lin Heng struggled, and the chapter ended with Lin Yi taunting him while he remained ensnared.

• The White Robe woman revealed the Nine-Eyed Strange Buddha, which destroyed the Star-Suppressing Tower and left Lin Heng without its protection.
• Lin Heng attacked the White Robe woman, but the altar’s formation kept him trapped and the monks’ barrier crushed his sword domain.
• Lin Heng used his Dao Eye to discover Calamity Worms parasitizing the scriptures and Dao, while the monks suppressed his Divine Sense and phenomena.
• Lin Heng formed a Dharma Manifestation Golden Body and tried to break through the formation as Lin Tianhe and Lin Yi watched from hiding.
• Lin Tianhe and Lin Yi emerged with three Lin Clan members, and Lin Yi taunted the trapped Lin Heng, who cursed back at him.

Lin Tianhe revealed that Lin Heng was a descendant of the Old Lin Family and saved him by killing the Buddhist Incense Society members who had trapped him. Lin Heng learned that Lin Ziqing was not part of the family, just as the injured Lin Yi rose to confront him.

• Lin Tianhe broke the formation, killed the black-robed monks, and revealed that Lin Heng was of the Old Lin Family, then killed the remaining Buddhist Incense Society members.
• Lin Tianhe pretended to be badly injured so the Yu Clan would believe he had barely survived the fight, then collected the fallen enemies' treasures.
• Lin Tianhe found Lin Heng recovering after Lin Yi and three juniors had been defeated, and praised Lin Heng while criticizing his schemes and recklessness.
• Lin Tianhe told Lin Heng that his grandfather was Lin Daochuan and his father was Lin Zhique, and that they had founded the Green Pavilion Sect together.
• Lin Heng asked about Lin Ziqing, and Lin Tianhe said he was not from the Old Lin Family; Lin Yi then stood up and threatened Lin Heng.

Lin Heng learned that the Old Lin Family had agreed to cooperate with the Dugu Clan against the Central Domain Immortal Clans, but refused to join his family. When Lin Tianhe revealed that Hua Qi was in his custody, Lin Heng agreed to return with them as a guest.

• Lin Heng rejected Lin Yi’s attempt to resume their fight and declared that he would still target the Immortal Clans for the Heavenly Profound Continent.
• Lin Tianhe explained that the Dugu Clan’s Ancestor Qingyang had sought the Old Lin Family’s cooperation, but their planned support was disrupted after the Nine Dust Hall exposed itself too soon.
• Lin Heng accepted the family’s cooperation with his campaign and ended their dispute, while Lin Yi vowed to take revenge on him.
• Lin Tianhe showed Lin Heng Hua Qi sealed inside a cage and threatened that she might be harmed if Lin Heng tried to take her by force.
• Lin Heng agreed to return with the Old Lin Family as a guest after asking Lin Tianhe to keep Lin Yi from bullying him, and Lin Tianhe abducted him.

Lin Yi told the four great immortal clans that the Lin Clan would withdraw from the struggle over Immortal Sea Summit, claiming Lin Heng had nearly killed them despite their combined attack. The clans feared Lin Heng’s strength but suspected the Lin Clan had hidden the Star-Suppressing Tower and the truth about his possible Immortal Fate Ancient Scripture.

• After returning to Purple Thunder Peak, the four great immortal clans questioned the Yu Clan about the corpses and destruction left by the battle.
• Lin Yi announced that the Lin Clan would give up its territorial ambitions at Immortal Sea Summit and keep only the four towns it already occupied.
• Lin Yi claimed Lin Heng had nearly killed the attackers alone, then described Lin Heng’s abilities and urged the clans to send a Supreme if they wanted to challenge him.
• After Lin Yi left, the clans debated whether his account was true and agreed to report the matter to their leaders.
• The clans suspected the Lin Clan had concealed Lin Heng’s Star-Suppressing Tower and possible possession of the complete Immortal Fate Ancient Scripture.

Lin Tianhe brought Lin Heng to Heaven and Earth Village, where the Old Lin Family revealed Lin Ziqing had arranged an academy there and predicted Lin Heng would come. Lin Heng learned that his father, Lin Zhique, had returned to the clan badly injured with Lin Ziqing before disappearing, leaving Lin Heng to grapple with what this meant for his family ties.

• Lin Tianhe brought Lin Heng to a hidden mining village and introduced him to his third great-uncle, Lin Lingdong.
• Lin Tianhe explained that the Old Lin Family wanted to discuss Lin Heng's father, Lin Zhique, and recalled that he had returned with Lin Ziqing more than twenty years earlier.
• Lin Tianhe led Lin Heng to a hidden academy in Heaven and Earth Village that matched the layout Lin Heng had seen in the Guangming Ancient Tower.
• Lin Tianhe said Lin Ziqing had instructed the clan to bring its most outstanding junior to the Immortal Sea Summit and had predicted an invasion by Extraterrestrial Cultivators.
• Lin Lingdong and Lin Tianhe revealed that Lin Zhique had been badly injured when he left with Lin Ziqing, while Lin Heng worried about how his father's Changlin Clan ties would affect the Dugu Clan.

Lin Heng rescued Hua Qi and restored her depleted soul inside the Human Emperor Banner. After Hua Qi explained how Jingkong had captured her and Lin Heng admitted he had received outside help, Lin Heng asked her to marry him.

• Lin Tianhe released Hua Qi, and Lin Heng brought her into the Human Emperor Banner to replenish her Yin Force.
• Lin Tianhe refused to tell Lin Heng that the Old Lin Family planned to raid the Central Domain, though he agreed to warn him that the Supremes might intervene.
• Lin Heng restored Hua Qi by transmitting Yin Force to her until she woke and regained her strength.
• Hua Qi told Lin Heng that Jingkong had tracked her with the Divine Seal and trapped her near a temple using the Heaven and Earth Soul-Locking Net.
• Hua Qi asked how Lin Heng had defeated the Buddhist restrictions, and Lin Heng admitted someone outside had helped him break them.
• Lin Heng teased Hua Qi by asking her to marry him.

Lin Heng learned that the Ancient Buddha Lineage had tried to recruit Hua Qi and seize him, then offered to use Spirit Transformation True Blood and spiritual treasures to give her a physical body. Hua Qi agreed to let him try, leaving Lin Heng to begin the risky undertaking.

• Hua Qi told Lin Heng that the Buddha Master represented the Ancient Buddha Lineage, had strength approaching that of a half-immortal, and had sought her cooperation in establishing the Third Epoch's order.
• Hua Qi explained that she had chosen Ye Tian as her pawn because of his Tyrant Body bloodline, but lost faith in him after he contacted the Ancient Buddha Lineage.
• Lin Heng confronted Hua Qi for hiding the truth, and she revealed that the Ancient Buddha side had asked her to help capture and refine him after he killed Ye Tian; she had refused.
• Lin Heng asked Hua Qi to tell him about future schemes against him, and she promised to do so.
• Lin Heng showed Hua Qi Spirit Transformation True Blood and proposed using it with spiritual treasures to shape her a physical body.
• After worrying that she might become an ugly Spiritual Lotus Root, Hua Qi agreed to let Lin Heng try to create her a body.

Lin Heng used rare treasures to create a living body for Hua Qi and helped her soul return to it. Hua Qi awoke delighted, then discovered she was naked and angrily attacked Lin Heng while demanding her clothes.

• Lin Heng used Hua Qi's soul imprint, jade, metal threads, and five-element treasures to construct her bones, meridians, and organs.
• Lin Heng infused the body with Spirit Transformation True Blood, bringing it to life, and called Hua Qi's soul back into it.
• Hua Qi fused with the body, awoke with real flesh and sensation, and celebrated having a body.
• Hua Qi realized she had no clothes, slapped Lin Heng, and stomped on him while demanding to know why he had watched her body being made.
• Hua Qi covered herself with a skirt from Little Senior Sister's clothes, while Lin Heng joked about the body and asked for a treasured handkerchief.

Lin Heng learned that Hua Qi had been sent from the Third Epoch on a perilous mission, then left the Human Emperor Banner to find the academy Lin Ziqing had prepared for him. He discovered that his relatives had publicly claimed he slaughtered the Buddhist Incense Society and seriously wounded a Half-Step Supreme, leaving him to deal with the consequences.

• Lin Heng asked Hua Qi about her origins, and she revealed that she was the child of an Innate God and an Acquired God who advanced through the Acquired God Path.
• Hua Qi confirmed that the Divine King had sent her to the Immortal Realm on an assignment she could not refuse, and she declined to advise Lin Heng about the Buddhist cultivators until she recovered.
• Lin Heng emerged from the Human Emperor Banner nearly five days later, and Lin Lingdong warned him that people were searching for him and returning to the Great Wall Dao Palace would be difficult.
• Lin Lingdong told Lin Heng that Lin Ziqing had directed them to bring him to the academy, where he had supposedly left something valuable.
• Lin Heng learned that his relatives had claimed he killed the Buddhist Incense Society members and seriously wounded a Half-Step Supreme, and Lin Lingdong left him to search the academy while the others went mining.

Lin Heng searched the academy and discovered that Lin Ziqing had left behind biographies and records explaining the past deeds and motives of several historical figures. After learning about the Martial Emperor, Xiao Juming, and Lin Chongzhi, Lin Heng began to understand the academy’s purpose.

• Lin Heng found Lin Ziqing’s Biography of the Martial Emperor and learned about the Martial Emperor’s childhood, his visit to the Star-Suppressing Tower, and his sealing of the Reincarnation Road.
• Lin Heng read Lin Ziqing’s records about Xiao Juming and learned that the Medical Ancestor had covered up a deadly plague caused by a relative’s unethical medicine tests.
• Lin Heng realized that the academy held written clues to help him understand historical figures and the motives of their factions.
• Lin Heng read about Lin Chongzhi’s failed attempt to claim the title of Poetry Immortal after Lin Ziqing defeated him at a poetry contest with three hundred poems.

Lin Heng learned more about the Old Lin Family’s strength, then received a letter from Zhao Wanqing revealing that Nine Dust Hall had moved into Great Wall Dao Palace. He paid Lin Tianhe to escort him toward Dragon Sea City, and Lin Tianhe persuaded Lin Yi to take the job with a bribe.

• Lin Heng studied the Old Lin Family’s powerful cultivators and compared their strength with the Dugu Clan.
• Lin Tianhe arrived at the academy and gave Lin Heng a letter from Shadow Alliance, which Lin Heng recognized as Zhao Wanqing’s handwriting.
• Lin Heng learned from the letter that Nine Dust Hall had moved into Great Wall Dao Palace and decided he needed to return.
• Lin Tianhe refused to escort Lin Heng without payment, so Lin Heng gave him ten thousand Spirit Stones to take him to Dragon Sea City.
• Lin Yi initially refused to escort Lin Heng, but Lin Tianhe offered him two thousand Spirit Stones, and Lin Yi accepted.

Lin Heng traveled with Lin Yi and the others toward Dragon Sea City, then evaded the Dragon Clan searchers and met Long Shishi in the woods. Long Shishi revealed she knew his identity and asked him for another favor, offering to pay more when he refused.

• Lin Heng traveled with Lin Yi, Shu Hao, and Lin Beibei, and learned Lin Yi believed he had been paid two thousand Spirit Stones for the escort.
• Lin Yi tried to abandon the trip, but Lin Heng demanded the Spirit Stones back, so Shu Hao persuaded him to continue and draw attention to Lin Heng.
• After reaching a basin west of Dragon Sea City, Lin Yi left Lin Heng with a warning that the Dragon Clan was searching for him.
• Lin Heng noticed Dragon Clan members nearby, left misleading traces, and hid in the woods until Long Shishi found him.
• Long Shishi identified Lin Heng as the legendary Chief of the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office and asked him for another favor.
• Lin Heng refused until Long Shishi offered to pay more, then asked her to explain what she could provide.

Long Shishi hired Lin Heng to help her get revenge on Peng Yukun, and Lin Heng set out to abduct Long Lingyu before confronting him. When Long Lingyu’s Fourth Uncle attacked Lin Heng, Hua Qi knocked him unconscious with one slap, leaving the group stunned.

• Long Shishi told Lin Heng that Peng Yukun had caused her spirit pet’s death and asked him to help punish Peng Yukun.
• Lin Heng agreed to help for fifty thousand Spirit Stones, on the condition that Long Shishi deal with Peng Yukun herself, and they planned to abduct Long Lingyu that night.
• Long Lingyu searched for Lin Heng with her Fourth Uncle and dismissed her companions’ fears about him.
• Lin Heng appeared behind Long Lingyu’s group and restrained them with the Human Emperor Banner’s restriction.
• Long Lingyu’s Fourth Uncle charged at Lin Heng, but Hua Qi emerged from the banner and slapped him unconscious.

Lin Heng captured Long Lingyu for ransom and left with Hua Qi, while Dugu Yueli’s takeover of the Dao Palace’s First Hall caused tensions among Lin Heng’s allies. The chapter ended with Jiang Zhenqing arriving at the occupied hall and deciding to intervene as Lin Heng’s brother-in-law.

• Lin Heng captured Long Lingyu in the Human Emperor Banner and demanded seven-grade-or-higher Five Elements spirit materials from the Long Clan in exchange for her return.
• Lin Heng complained that the Dragon Clan Elder’s Storage Pouch held little value, and Hua Qi explained how she had immobilized a Return to Void True Lord.
• At the Great Wall Dao Palace, Yun Yao, Leng Qingyun, and Jiang Caiyan argued over Dugu Yueli using Lin Heng’s token to bring the Nine Dust Hall into the city and take over the First Hall.
• Jiang Zhenqing appeared in the First Hall after waiting for a chance to subdue Lin Heng, and he resolved to act after finding Lin Heng absent and his home occupied.

Dugu Yueli and Qin Hongyi speculated that Lin Heng had allowed Nine Dust Hall to enter the Dao Palace for his own reasons, then devised a story to explain the takeover to Prince Jing. Yueli went to meet Jiang Zhenqing privately, while he waited for her at Moon-Ascending Tower.

• Dugu Yueli worried that Prince Jing had come to defend Lin Heng, but Qin Hongyi argued that Lin Heng might have deliberately enabled Nine Dust Hall to seize the Dao Palace.
• Qin Hongyi urged Yueli to tell Prince Jing that Lin Heng had threatened to make a move on her, giving Nine Dust Hall a reason to enter the Dao Palace.
• Dugu Yueli learned that Jiang Zhenqing had gone to speak with the Nine Dust Alliance leader and decided to meet him herself.
• Jiang Zhenqing waited at Moon-Ascending Tower and dismissed his two attendants when he learned that Dugu Yueli had arrived.