Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng and his companions encountered a Two-Faced Buddha and Half-Body Buddhas in the Peng Clan’s underground passage. After Lin Heng revealed the Humanity Domain and destroyed the main statue, its distant controller also died.

• Lin Yi’s group triggered a collapsing path, and the Two-Faced Buddha struck Lin Xiaobai and attacked Lin Yi and Lin Yang.
• Half-Body Buddhas emerged from the walls and dragged a Golden Core cultivator inside, while Huahua Jiang warned Lin Heng to flee.
• Lin Heng ordered Martial Man, Long San, and the others to cripple the wall-bound Buddhas; martial practitioners and body refiners overcame the suppression by relying on physical strength.
• Lin Heng found Lin Yi and Lin Yang embedded in the wall and drew the Two-Faced Buddha’s attack away from them.
• Lin Heng stopped the Buddha’s punches, crushed its hand, and used the Humanity Domain to break its Immortal Forbidden Domain.
• Lin Heng shattered the Two-Faced Buddha’s head, causing the bald monk controlling it from a distant temple to die as well.

Lin Heng found a sealed ball of light inside a Buddha statue and explained that the statues used Immortal Restriction to suppress cultivators of the Immortal Path. After the group dealt with the danger, Lin Yi stayed behind to search for more treasures, planning to hide behind Lin Heng if trouble came.

• Lin Heng revealed that the Buddha statue's suppression had not affected him because he had awakened the Human Path Body, then helped Lin Yi free Lin Yang from the wall.
• Lin Heng found a glowing ball of light sealed inside the shattered Buddha statue, and Lin Yi grabbed it after Lin Heng handed it over.
• Lin Heng withdrew his Humanity Domain, causing the burning ball to painfully scorch Lin Yi and exposing Lin Heng's trick.
• Dugu Feng, Senior Sister, Qin Hongyi, and the others arrived, and Lin Heng explained that the Buddha statues used Immortal Restriction against Immortal Path cultivators.
• Lin Heng arranged for the wounded to leave and told everyone to train their bodies, while Lin Yi stayed behind to look for more treasures and hide behind Lin Heng if danger returned.

Lin Heng opened a hidden passage into a treasure room, then defeated Bai Yi after his attempt to use a Divine Source to suppress Lin Heng failed. Dugu Yueli asked Lin Heng to lend her some people so she could continue south.

• Lin Heng had Dugu Feng dig through the chained iron door with the Human Emperor Banner, and the group rushed inside to move the treasures.
• Mu Li arrived wrapped up after being chewed by a little dog, and Duan Shuyun questioned Lin Heng about her before helping manage the crowd inside.
• Bai Yi asked Lin Heng for the Divine Source, placed it on his chessboard, and tried to suppress Lin Heng with its power.
• Lin Heng resisted the chessboard, struck Bai Yi with it, and sent Bai Yi and the chessboard flying.
• Dugu Yueli asked Lin Heng to lend her a few people so she could travel farther south.

Dugu Yueli asked Lin Heng for help with her plan to stir up trouble among the Qi Clan's Immortal Clan, and he agreed to send martial path fighters to protect her. After Lin Heng stole a kiss, Dugu Yueli left with a mark on her cheek, and Qin Hongyi suspected Lin Heng had taken advantage of her.

• Dugu Yueli told Lin Heng she wanted to go south and earn achievements for the old ancestors, while Lin Heng warned her about the dangers of the Central Domain and Buddhist cultivators.
• Qin Hongyi asked Lin Heng to send martial path fighters to protect Dugu Yueli, but Dugu Yueli pulled Lin Heng aside to speak with him alone.
• Dugu Yueli used the sight of her legs to persuade Lin Heng, who agreed to send Wu Ba, Martial Man, Smoke Ghost, and thirty others with her.
• Lin Heng warned Dugu Yueli not to fight Buddhist Incense Society members directly and told her to let Wu Ba and the others handle them.
• Lin Heng kissed Dugu Yueli on the cheek before rushing off to gather the fighters, and she left in a huff with a bluish-red mark on her face.
• Qin Hongyi noticed the mark and angrily suspected Lin Heng had done something to Dugu Yueli.

Lin Heng settled the dispute over Peng's Immortal Clan treasure by introducing a battle-merit system tied to future territorial rewards. As Peng Su and his young disciple entered the sealed cave, Lin Heng and the others waited in ambush.

• Qin Hongyi realized Dugu Yueli had let slip that she had sacrificed something in her dealings with Lin Heng, and he threatened to deal with Lin Heng later.
• Lin Heng proposed gathering the treasure and allocating resources through battle merits, with future regions awarded by contribution; Duan Shuyun explained the system and showed its records.
• Everyone returned the treasure to be centrally allocated, while Lin Yi insisted that Old Lin Family did not have to hand over its own finds.
• Dugu Hongxuan announced that Peng's people had arrived, and the group learned that only two people were approaching.
• Peng Su and his young disciple assumed the cave's defenders were dead, boasted about killing Old Lin Family, and sealed the entrance behind them.

Peng Su and his disciple entered the ruined Treasure Vault, while Elder Kongming learned of Nafa’s death and went to investigate trouble at the Peng family. Bai Yi’s group captured Peng Su and began forcing him to reveal the locations of the other Treasure Vaults as Lin Heng led the army to the immortal land’s heavenly gate.

• Peng Su and his disciple found the destroyed Buddha statues and a dog hole leading into the Treasure Vault, then decided to enter and steal its contents.
• At Buddha Sea Temple, Elder Kongming learned that Nafa had died and suspected someone had passed through the Two-Faced Buddha and caused a karmic backlash.
• Elder Kongming ordered the two black-robed monks to accompany him to investigate the Peng family.
• A Buddha statue in the temple began bleeding black blood after Elder Kongming and the monks left.
• Bai Yi had Martial Man and Smoke Ghost beat Peng Su, then demanded the locations of the Peng family’s other Treasure Vaults.
• Peng Su agreed to talk while Lin Heng led the army to the immortal land’s heavenly gate.

Lin Heng led the Martial Path cultivators through Peng's Immortal Clan's gate, where the Buddha statue's Immortal Restriction disoriented them and turned them against each other. He used his Humanity Domain to clear a small area and restore their senses, but the group remained trapped inside the gate.

• Long San explained that the Su Family members and others had been badly injured after the gate's hidden formation suppressed their cultivation and Peng's people ambushed them.
• Lin Heng suspected faith or loopholes in the Immortal Restrictions explained why Peng's people were unaffected, then chose the Martial Path cultivators to lead the next assault.
• Wu Ba and Martial Man led the vanguard inside while Lin Heng followed; outside, Hua Qi and Saint Ye discussed their strength and what they could teach him.
• Inside the gate, pale purple smoke separated Lin Heng from the others and made the Martial Path cultivators attack one another, while his Dao Eye failed to see through the obstruction.
• Lin Heng activated his Humanity Domain, dispelled the illusion within its range, and ordered the fighters to stop.

Lin Heng and the others confronted the golden Buddha in Peng's Forbidden Ground, where its mental domain separated Lin Heng from the group. Inside, Lin Heng met Yi Du, the Buddha Master, who revealed that he wanted to defeat Lin Heng and claim his body; the two prepared to fight.

• Lin Heng helped the group break free of the Buddha statue's mental interference and identified the incense burners as a possible cause.
• Peng Xiechen activated the Buddha statue's final restriction, transforming it into a golden Buddha, while Lin Heng ordered the others to attack its head.
• Wu Ba and the other cultivators failed to damage the golden Buddha, which struck them away and trapped Lin Heng in a glowing Sumeru world.
• Lin Heng met Yi Du, who introduced himself as the Buddha Holy Son and said he wanted Lin Heng's body as a vessel if Lin Heng lost their contest.
• Yi Du challenged Lin Heng to fight before the Buddha Essence World ended, and Lin Heng accepted the challenge.

Lin Heng fought Yi Du in the Buddha Essence World, shattered his Indestructible Golden Buddha, and forced him to retreat. Back in reality, Lin Heng learned that he had also destroyed the Buddha statue and turned his attention to settling accounts with the Immortal Clan.

• Yi Du summoned his Indestructible Golden Buddha and struck at Lin Heng, but Lin Heng lifted and shattered its palm, injuring Yi Du through the backlash.
• Lin Heng attacked Yi Du repeatedly, and Yi Du fled after threatening Lin Heng’s Dao companion.
• Lin Heng returned to reality and learned that he had held up and destroyed the Buddha statue while fighting Yi Du in the Buddha Essence World.
• Lin Heng decided to target Peng's Immortal Clan because of its ties to the Buddhist Incense Society.

Lin Heng's forces defeated the Peng Clan and captured its survivors, while Lin Heng uncovered evidence of the clan's dealings with the Buddhist Incense Society and its reach into the Heavenly Profound Continent. He killed several Peng elders, spared the juniors for now, and sent Peng Yukun to the Long Clan as the chapter ended with a reminder about the Long Clan's betrothal obligations.

• Lin Heng let his companions search Peng's Treasure Vault and take its Supreme throne, then questioned the captured Peng Grand Elder about the clan's agreement with the Buddhist Incense Society.
• Lin Heng searched the Grand Elder's memories, learned of Peng Clan involvement in the Heavenly Profound Continent, and killed three middle-aged Peng clansmen who denied knowing anything.
• Bai Yi offered to kill the remaining Peng prisoners in exchange for their divine souls, but Lin Heng refused and kept the juniors alive.
• Lin Heng ordered Long Cheng to take Peng Yukun to the Long Clan, explaining that he had crippled Peng Yukun instead of killing him and had discovered his past crimes.
• Lin Heng reminded Long Cheng that the Long Clan had accepted the Old Lin Family's betrothal gifts and suggested Long Shishi and Long Lingyu as possible brides.

Lin Heng’s forces consolidated their gains after ambushing the Long Clan and Peng Clan, while the Immortal Clan Supremes abandoned their siege of Falling Snow City to defend their homes. Dugu Qingyang sent reinforcements toward the Central Domain and warned them to watch the Changlin Clan and protect Moon Glass.

• Lin Heng dismissed Long Cheng’s request to arrange partners for Lin Xiaobai and Lin Yang, and Long Cheng hurried away while the brothers celebrated.
• The Buddhist Incense Society reacted angrily to the breach of Peng’s Immortal Land, and Lin Heng kept the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office from extending its offensive too far.
• Dugu Yueli said goodbye to Lin Heng and led Wu Ba, Martial Man, and around sixty others south with the Nine Dust Alliance.
• Lin Heng received news that Dao Palace City had fallen and the Nine Dust Alliance had retreated to Falling Snow City, but the Immortal Clan Supremes halted their siege and returned home after Ancestor Qingyang injured two of them.
• Dugu Qingyang told Dugu Wuwu to take the Royal Clan’s people to the Central Domain, cooperate cautiously with the Changlin Clan, and keep Moon Glass safe.

The Central Domain’s immortal clans met to respond to the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office’s advance and chose to target Lin Heng in a beheading operation. The gathering ended with the Song clan leader challenging a proposal to capture one of Lin Heng’s female dependents as bait.

• The Yu Clan elder convened the immortal-clan leaders and blamed the Old Lin Family for helping the Heavenly Profound forces invade the Central Domain.
• The Song clan leader reported that Lin Heng’s forces had crossed three demon domains, nearly slain a Demon Venerable, and killed a Buddhist Dao Envoy.
• The Yu Clan elder proposed waiting for the Supremes to return or joining forces to kill Lin Heng, and the clans chose the beheading operation.
• The Hong Clan elder pledged support and suggested capturing one of Lin Heng’s female dependents to lure him into a trap.
• The Song clan leader questioned whether Lin Heng would risk himself for a woman and how the clans could capture one in the first place.

After the Qi Clan fell, Lin Heng’s mother Dugu Zixuan arrived and agreed to accompany him to Changlin Immortal Mountain, despite her distrust of the Old Lin Family. Lin Heng, Dugu Zixuan, his uncle, and his aunt reached the Lin Clan’s territory, where his uncle’s teasing left Dugu Zixuan questioning what she had heard.

• A Qi Clan messenger reported that the clan was under attack, but the elders at the meeting refused to help, and the Qi Clan elder hurried back to defend it.
• Patriarch Song suggested capturing Dugu Yueli to use her as leverage to draw Lin Heng in.
• Two days later, Lin Heng learned that the Qi Clan had fallen and welcomed Dugu Zixuan, who had arrived with Murong Ziyan and the others.
• Dugu Zixuan warned Lin Heng against trusting the Old Lin Family, but agreed to visit Changlin Immortal Mountain with him.
• Lin Heng, Dugu Zixuan, his uncle, and his aunt traveled by Cloud Boat to the Lin Clan’s hinterland, where his uncle called him “eldest nephew thief” and Dugu Zixuan asked what he had said.

Lin Tianhe welcomed the Dugu Clan and discussed how the Old Lin Family and their allies would face the returning Immortal Clans. When Dugu Feng accused the Lin family of grave robbing, Lin Tianhe denied it, though Lin Yi reminded him of a past incident.

• Lin Heng and the Dugu siblings entered the Old Lin Family’s vast immortal mountain and saw its connected ranges and grand palace complex.
• Lin Tianhe met the group and escorted them to the main hall, where Lin Heng was startled when Lin Xiaobai and Lin Yang called him their foster father.
• Dugu Zixuan asked Lin Tianhe why he had invited them, and he warned that the Immortal Clans’ Supremes would return to the Central Domain within five days.
• Dugu Feng questioned Lin Tianhe’s claim that the Old Lin Family had only one Supreme and mocked the family’s complaints about being attacked.
• Dugu Feng accused the Old Lin Family of kidnapping, extortion, and robbing ancestral graves, but Lin Tianhe denied the grave-robbing charge.
• Lin Yi reminded Lin Tianhe that five years earlier he had sent Second Senior to the Peng Clan’s ancestral land, where he dug up burial goods.

Lin Heng urged the gathered allies to unite and use distant Immortal Clans against their nearer rivals, then Lin Daochuan arrived and recognized a resemblance between Lin Heng and his son, Lin Zhique. The chapter ended with Lin Daochuan struggling to introduce himself to Dugu Zixuan and Lin Heng.

• Dugu Feng asked Lin Tianhe and Lin Yi to repay the Old Lin Family's million-Spirit-Stone loan, but Lin Tianhe put off setting a repayment date.
• Lin Heng argued that the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office needed unified command and proposed making alliances with distant Immortal Clans to weaken nearby rivals.
• Lin Tianhe said he had read the Warring States Treatise left behind by Lin Ziqing, while Lin Heng dismissed his claim that Lin Ziqing belonged to the Old Lin Family.
• Lin Daochuan entered the hall drunk, recognized Dugu Zixuan from a portrait of his son's wife, and noticed that Lin Heng looked like Lin Zhique.
• Lin Tianhe introduced Lin Heng, Dugu Zixuan, and the others to Lin Daochuan, who faltered when Dugu Zixuan asked who he was.

Lin Daochuan revealed that he was Lin Zhique’s biological father and Dugu Zixuan’s father-in-law, but the Dugu family and Lin Heng rejected his claim until he produced the Lin Clan register. Dugu Zixuan grew furious over the revelation, and Lin Yi then claimed Lin Heng had known the truth all along.

• Lin Daochuan returned in clean clothes and introduced himself to Dugu Zixuan and the others as a senior member of the Changlin Clan.
• Lin Daochuan announced that Lin Zhique was his son and called Dugu Zixuan his daughter-in-law, shocking everyone in the hall.
• Dugu Feng, Dugu Zixuan, and Lin Heng accused Lin Daochuan of impersonating Lin Zhique’s father, while Lin Tianhe and Lin Yi pretended not to know Lin Zhique.
• Lin Daochuan summoned the Lin Clan register and showed that Lin Zhique’s name appeared beneath his own.
• Dugu Zixuan confronted Lin Heng about hiding the truth, and Lin Yi claimed Lin Heng had known their identities all along.

Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng confronted Old Lin Family over Lin Zhique, believing the family had concealed his return and abandonment of his wife and child. Lin Daochuan and Lin Tianhe explained that they had known little about Lin Zhique’s life on the other continent, and the two sides agreed to talk; meanwhile, Meng Yutong suddenly appeared behind Lin Heng.

• Lin Yi teased Lin Heng, while Dugu Zixuan realized that her son had brought her to Old Lin Family territory to meet his relatives.
• Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng accused Lin Daochuan and Old Lin Family of hiding Lin Zhique, and Dugu Zixuan threatened to destroy the clan’s immortal mountain unless they handed him over within three days.
• Lin Daochuan stopped the siblings from leaving and apologized for Lin Zhique, insisting that they had misunderstood why he returned to the Heavenly Action Continent.
• Lin Tianhe explained that Old Lin Family had only recently learned Lin Heng was Lin Zhique’s child, and Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng agreed to discuss their grievances.
• Lin Yi teased Lin Heng as the group set off, but Meng Yutong appeared behind him and asked where they were; Lin Heng recognized his master.

Lin Heng introduced Meng Yutong to Lin Yi as his little aunt, then led her to find the others. At the Old Lin Family ancestral hall, Lin Tianhe defended the clan’s history to Dugu Feng and Dugu Zixuan, explaining that Lin Ziqing’s influence had helped provoke the other immortal clans.

• Lin Heng introduced Meng Yutong to Lin Yi as his little aunt, and she followed Lin Heng out of the hall to find his mother and the others.
• Lin Yi chased after Lin Heng and Meng Yutong after grumbling about how close they seemed.
• Lin Tianhe showed Dugu Feng and Dugu Zixuan the Old Lin Family ancestral hall and explained why Lin Zhique had an honored seat there.
• Dugu Feng criticized Lin Zhique for deceiving Dugu Zixuan and accused the Old Lin Family of wrongdoing.
• Lin Tianhe defended the clan’s actions as survival tactics and said other immortal clans had targeted them because Lin Ziqing had become influential on the Heavenly Action Continent.

Lin Tianhe and Lin Daochuan explained how Lin Ziqing’s actions brought trouble on the Old Lin Family and revealed that Lin Zhique had returned to heal from a Calamity-related injury. They could not explain where infant Lin Heng had gone, so Dugu Zixuan turned to her eldest son for answers, only for the chapter to end with Meng Yutong recovered and apparently ready to hold the baby.

• Lin Tianhe explained that the Old Lin Family was targeted because other clans mistook Lin Ziqing for one of their own and feared him.
• Lin Tianhe and Dugu Feng teased each other about Lin Heng inheriting his schemes and showy nature from their families.
• Lin Daochuan and Lin Tianhe said Lin Zhique had returned to Changlin Immortal Mountain with Lin Ziqing to recover from a critical injury linked to Calamity.
• Dugu Zixuan asked what happened to infant Lin Heng, and Lin Daochuan said Lin Ziqing had not brought the child to the Heavenly Action Continent.
• Lin Tianhe pointed Dugu Zixuan toward Lin Heng for answers, while Meng Yutong said she had nearly finished recovering.

Lin Heng explained to Dugu Zixuan how Lin Zhique had arranged for him to find the Old Lin Family, then reassured her that he would not acknowledge their clan over the Dugu Clan. The mother and son agreed that the Old Lin Family should be put to work mining, leaving Lin Tianhe and Lin Daochuan uneasy.

• Dugu Zixuan asked Lin Heng to explain what Lin Ziqing and the Old Lin Family had told him, while Shen Yeting filled Meng Yutong in on the situation.
• Dugu Feng called Meng Yutong his nephew's wife, and Lin Yi learned that she was Lin Heng's Master and Dao companion.
• Dugu Feng threatened to put the Old Lin Family to work mining, and Lin Tianhe and Lin Daochuan rebuked Lin Yi for provoking him.
• Lin Heng told Dugu Zixuan that Lin Zhique had been injured and returned to Heavenly Action Continent, leaving information for Lin Heng's future arrival.
• Dugu Zixuan asked whether Lin Heng planned to acknowledge the Old Lin Family, and he insisted that he would remain on the Dugu Clan's side.
• Dugu Zixuan told Lin Heng that Ancestor Qingyang had considered making the Old Lin Family mine, and Lin Heng agreed that they deserved the punishment.