Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng and Dugu Zixuan rejected Lin Daochuan’s attempt to reconcile the Lin and Dugu families, though they stayed with the Lin Clan to discuss how to face the returning Supreme. Lin Heng then teased Lin Yi and tried to take Meng Yutong upstairs, but she pulled away and scolded him.

• Dugu Zixuan insisted that Lin Zhique had deceived her, and Lin Heng refused to defend the Lin Clan or persuade his mother to accept them.
• Dugu Feng accused Lin Daochuan of seeking to claim Lin Heng’s success, while Lin Tianhe urged both clans to set aside their grudges and cooperate against the returning Supreme.
• Dugu Zixuan agreed to stay with the Lin Clan, and Lin Yi led the group to Lin Zhique’s empty residence.
• Lin Heng ignored Lin Yang and Lin Xiaobai, who argued with their relatives over unpaid betrothal gifts.
• Lin Yi challenged Lin Heng to spar, and Lin Heng decided to release the Buddha statue from Saint Ye’s Star-Suppressing Tower to humble him.
• Lin Heng pulled Meng Yutong upstairs, but she yanked her hand free and told him to stop acting like a rebel disciple.

Meng Yutong and Lin Heng searched Lin Zhique’s library and discussed the tangled connections linking Lin Heng to the Old Lin Family and several women. At Misty Peak, Lin Guangsheng proposed using the family’s Dao Comprehension Field to win Lin Heng’s support, claiming that Lin Heng possessed Dao.

• Meng Yutong and Lin Heng explored the second-floor library, where its extensive collection made her wonder about Lin Zhique’s ties to Lin Ziqing.
• Meng Yutong explained how Lin Heng’s karma connected Yun'er, herself, his mother’s clan, the Female Emperor, the Old Lin Family, and the Dugu Clan.
• Lin Tianhe returned from the Immortal Sea Summit and reported that the Dugu siblings had insulted him, while Lin Guangsheng urged the family to preserve their alliance with the Dugu Clan.
• Lin Guangsheng suggested sending Lin Heng to the Old Lin Family’s Dao Comprehension Field to gain his favor, and he declared that Lin Heng had Dao on him.

Lin Tianhe offered Lin Heng access to the Lin Family’s Dao-comprehension field as compensation for the feud between their families. Dugu Zixuan feared the opportunity could destroy her son’s foundation and challenged the Lin Family’s intentions.

• Lin Guangsheng insisted that Lin Heng possessed a true Dao, and Lin Tianhe learned that a Dao Integration-level existence might have transferred it to him through Dual Cultivation.
• At the family banquet, Dugu Zixuan teased Meng Yutong about being her daughter-in-law and told her that Lin Heng and Mu Li might have something fishy going on.
• Lin Tianhe proposed giving Lin Heng one chance to enter Changlin Immortal Mountain’s Dao-comprehension field, where he could study more than a hundred Great Dao laws.
• Dugu Zixuan objected that Lin Heng was only at mid-stage Return to Void and had not undergone the Dao Integration Heavenly Tribulation, so attempting to comprehend the Dao could shatter his foundation.

Lin Heng entered the Old Lin Family’s Dao Comprehension Field and began investigating how the Black Pearl in his body would respond to Dao. While he remained inside, the Nine Dust Alliance faced an encirclement and threats against Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli, and Lin Tiancheng warned against rushing to their rescue.

• After the banquet, Lin Tianhe brought Lin Heng to the Old Lin Family’s Dao Comprehension Field and explained how it preserved Dao laws using crystals made from Heaven and Earth Stones.
• Lin Heng began meditating among the five pillars, intending to test the Black Pearl in his body against Dao Fusion.
• Nearly five days passed outside the field, and Dugu Zixuan and the others grew anxious while Lin Heng remained inside.
• The group learned that the Hong Immortal Clan’s allies planned to kill Lin Heng and capture Dugu Yueli, while the Nine Dust Alliance was surrounded at the Qi Clan Immortal Land.
• Dugu Feng suggested returning to help Dugu Yueli break the encirclement, but Lin Tiancheng warned that the enemy was baiting reinforcements and advised sacrificing some of the trapped alliance members.

Lin Tiancheng warned the Dugu Clan that the enemy had set a trap around Qi Clan Immortal Land to destroy any rescuers and urged them to abandon the Nine Dust Alliance. He then offered a way to break the enemy’s plan, revealing that their real target was Lin Heng.

• Lin Tiancheng arrived and identified himself as the Old Lin Family’s Supreme ancestor.
• Dugu Zixuan rejected abandoning the Nine Dust Alliance, while Shen Yeting asked Lin Tiancheng to explain the enemy’s strategy.
• Lin Tiancheng explained that the immortal clans were using Qi Clan Immortal Land as bait to ambush reinforcements and weaken the Dugu Clan’s forces.
• Meng Yutong asked Lin Tiancheng to share his strategy, and he praised her for asking what they could do.
• Lin Tiancheng said the enemy’s main goal was a decapitation operation targeting Lin Heng.

Lin Tiancheng and Meng Yutong devised a risky plan to divide the Immortal Clans and draw their attention away from the Nine Dust Alliance by making them believe Lin Heng would negotiate with the Hong Clan. Meanwhile, Lin Heng absorbed the Dao patterns in the Dao Comprehension Small World, and the black pearl in his dantian began devouring their power.

• Lin Tiancheng warned that the Immortal Clans planned to lure Lin Heng into a trap and proposed winning the Hong Clan over to divide their forces.
• Dugu Zixuan questioned the alliance scheme, and Meng Yutong explained that the Hong Clan might instead use Lin Heng as bait to capture him and draw the Supremes away from the Nine Dust Alliance.
• Lin Tianhe praised Meng Yutong's insight, and the Dugu Clan members agreed to carry out the plan to convince the Immortal Clans that Lin Heng would negotiate with the Hong Clan.
• Lin Heng entered a mysterious state as Dao patterns from the five pillars streamed into him, and the black pearl in his dantian devoured their power.

Lin Heng awakened the Black Pearl and refined Great Dao Fragments into Chaos Origin Qi, comprehending Chaos True Intent before the ancestors sealed the Heaven-Supporting Pillars. He learned that his mother and companions were in trouble with the other Immortal Clans and hurried to find them.

• Lin Heng's Black Pearl awakened under the Great Dao's source, distorting the Dao Comprehension Field and revealing tiny cracks that contained miniature universes.
• Lin Heng drew a Great Dao Fragment into his Dao Foundation, refined it into Chaos Origin Qi, and comprehended Chaos True Intent.
• Lin Tiancheng sensed that the Mandate Lamp had gone out, and he and Lin Wenyue found Lin Heng absorbing and shattering the Dao laws sustained by the Heaven-Supporting Pillars.
• Lin Wenyue stopped Lin Tiancheng from attacking and helped seal the pillars, ending Lin Heng's ability to grasp Dao.
• Lin Wenyue told Lin Heng that his mother and companions were in trouble with the other Immortal Clans, then transmitted their earlier discussion to him.
• Lin Heng demanded to know where they were and vanished after Lin Wenyue said they should be negotiating with the Immortal Clans and awaiting the Hong Clan's response.

Lin Heng challenged the Old Lin Family’s plan to use the Hong Clan and volunteered to draw the Immortal Clan’s Supreme away so the Nine Dust Alliance could be rescued. The Hong Clan arranged an alliance meeting at the Divine King Temple, whose name made Lin Heng suspect a connection to the Third Epoch.

• Lin Heng told Lin Tiancheng and Lin Wenyue that the Old Lin Family’s plan risked exposing the Nine Dust Alliance to a massacre, and proposed using a raid as a smokescreen while inviting the Hong Clan to ally.
• Lin Tiancheng objected when Lin Heng planned to meet the Hong Clan and draw the Supreme’s attention, but Lin Heng claimed he could kill a Supreme and ordered the two ancestors to help rescue the Nine Dust Alliance members.
• Lin Wenyue accepted Lin Heng’s decision, and he and Lin Tiancheng left to assist with the rescue while leaving Tianhe to guard the house.
• The Hong Clan sent an envoy to test the waters and arranged the final alliance discussion at the Divine King Temple.
• Lin Heng wondered whether the temple’s name pointed to a place connected to the Third Epoch.

Dugu Yueli planned a breakout from Qi Clan Immortal Land, intending to draw Supreme away while the others escaped. At Divine King Temple, Lin Daochuan killed Hong Wujiu after he threatened Dugu Zixuan and insulted Lin Heng’s family.

• Dugu Yueli proposed splitting the trapped forces, leading most of them west while she used Dao Ancestor’s talismans to lure Supreme away.
• Qin Hongyi and the others accepted Yueli’s plan, and Wu Ba warned her against reckless ambition.
• Hong Wujiu arrived at Divine King Temple and found Dugu Zixuan, Dugu Hongxuan, and Lin Daochuan waiting; Lin Heng was absent.
• Hong Wujiu revealed that his apparent body was a puppet and threatened Dugu Zixuan, saying he would use her to draw Lin Heng out.
• Lin Daochuan struck Hong Wujiu from the sky and crushed him into bloody fragments after he boasted about their past meeting.

Lin Daochuan stalled Peng Shang and Peng Jie while Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng escaped, revealing that the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office had gone to rescue the Nine Dust Alliance. Peng Shang summoned a Thunder Domain to trap Lin Daochuan, who looked for a chance to flee.

• Peng Shang and Peng Jie confronted Lin Daochuan and demanded that he betray Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng, but he mocked them and refused.
• Peng Shang and Peng Jie attacked, and Lin Daochuan unleashed a flood from his wine gourd while telling Dugu Zixuan and Dugu Feng to escape.
• Lin Daochuan revealed that the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office had gone to rescue the Nine Dust Alliance, while Peng Shang and Peng Jie split up to pursue their targets.
• Peng Shang struck Lin Daochuan down, but Lin Daochuan feigned weakness, escaped his sword, and taunted him about his father's grave.
• Peng Shang invoked heavenly punishment and locked Lin Daochuan inside a Thunder Domain, prompting Lin Daochuan to look for a way to run.

Lin Wenyue and Lin Tiancheng confronted the immortal clans opposing the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office and explained why the Old Lin Family had been targeted. The revelation that Lin Heng was Lin Tiancheng’s great-grandson left both sides stunned and made the Old Lin Family an even greater target.

• Lin Daochuan fled from Peng Shang’s thunderous pursuit while Lin Heng witnessed the chase and then turned his attention to Qi Clan Immortal Land.
• The Nine Dust Alliance began its planned assault on Qi Clan Immortal Land, and the Qi ancestor ordered his people to block the attackers while capturing their alliance master alive.
• The ancestors of the Yu, Hong, Song, and Qi Clans confronted Lin Wenyue and Lin Tiancheng, accusing the Old Lin Family of supporting a bid to unify the continent.
• Lin Wenyue and Lin Tiancheng said the other immortal clans had targeted their family because it possessed two Supremes and five half-step Supremes.
• Lin Tiancheng revealed that Lin Heng was his great-grandson and that the Old Lin Family was helping the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office for his sake.

The Nine Dust Alliance finally joined the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office’s attack after Qin Hongyi realized they had misunderstood the breakout plan, turning the battle against the Immortal Clans. Dugu Yueli remained alone and, after hiding briefly, was cornered by the Song Clan elder and Elder Yu, but she refused to surrender and prepared to fight.

• Qin Hongyi redirected the Nine Dust Alliance toward the North Immortal Gate so they could attack the Immortal Clan forces alongside the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office.
• Wu Ba, Martial Man, and the others joined the battle, helping the allies overwhelm the Immortal Clan forces as Lin Yi demanded to know where Dugu Yueli was.
• Qin Hongyi told Lin Yi that Dugu Yueli had escaped alone, while she used Escape Talismans to flee three thousand li and concealed her aura.
• The Song Clan elder and Elder Yu searched for Dugu Yueli, located her hiding place, and attacked the hill above her cave.
• Dugu Yueli burst out and repelled the elders with sword qi, then refused their demand to surrender and invoked “Grasping the Moon.”

Dugu Yueli unleashed her Moon-Grasping Manifestation against the Song Clan elder and Elder Yu, but was wounded and nearly captured. Lin Heng arrived in time to save her, killed the Song Clan elder, and then prepared to leave with Dugu Yueli and Long San.

• Dugu Yueli's moonlight domain suppressed the surrounding cultivators, and Elder Yu attacked her with a Law-Breaking Sword while the Song Clan elder retreated.
• Dugu Yueli wounded Elder Yu, but the Song Clan elder struck her with his divination disk, and she collapsed her domain to injure him before he could capture her.
• Lin Heng appeared, rescued Dugu Yueli from the pit, and confronted the Song Clan elder.
• Lin Heng used the Human Emperor Banner to pin the elder's divination disk, pierced him through, and dissolved him with Netherworld energy.
• Lin Heng picked up the spoils and caught Dugu Yueli, then Long San arrived and urged them to return because Supreme had been driven back and Immortal Clan members remained nearby.

Lin Heng rescued Dugu Yueli and brought her to the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office’s camp, where Long San and the others revealed they had lured him into a trap. Long Si accused Lin Heng of favoring the Left Faction, and Lin Heng asked whether that was why they had betrayed him.

• Lin Heng carried the limping Dugu Yueli and learned from Long San that the Nine Dust Alliance had been rescued, though some people had died.
• Dugu Yueli asked about her uncle, and Lin Heng scolded her for taking on the Immortal Clan alone.
• Long San led Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli to the main camp, where Long Si, Long Wu, and other subordinates greeted them.
• Lin Heng entered the stone hall with Dugu Yueli, and Long San shut the doors before Buddha statues emerged from the walls.
• Long San admitted they had set a scheme for Lin Heng, and Long Si accused him of neglecting their faction while accepting people from the Left Faction.
• Lin Heng put Dugu Yueli down and asked whether their factional grievances were the reason they betrayed him.

Lin Heng questioned Long San about the Medical Path’s alliance with the Buddhist Path and learned of a prophecy tied to the Star Road and the Holy Artifact. As Long San’s group prepared to bind Lin Heng and threatened Dugu Yueli, Lin Heng revealed that their restraints could not stop him.

• Long San explained that he and his allies had joined forces with the Buddhist Path through their cooperation with the Medical Path.
• Lin Heng asked whether Long San belonged to the Right or Left Faction of Martial Arts, and Long San said their grandmaster was Long Yun, an old friend of the Poetry Immortal.
• Long San revealed a prophecy that whoever held the Holy Artifact when the Star Road opened would sacrifice themselves, and a promise that the Martial Path would greatly flourish.
• Long San, Long Si, and Long Wu prepared black chains to capture Lin Heng and threatened Dugu Yueli to keep him from resisting.
• Lin Heng warned Long San’s group that the Buddhist statues’ suppression could not restrain his Humanity Path.

Lin Heng explained how he had uncovered Long San and his brothers as traitors who had abandoned the Martial Path. A bald monk calling himself Formless arrived and revealed that he intended to seize Lin Heng’s body.

• Lin Heng recalled that he had rescued Long San and his brothers from prison, then explained how their connection to the nonexistent Jin Hui had made him suspicious.
• Lin Heng said Long San and his brothers had refused a Holy Artifact because they could not wield it, and accused them of abandoning the Martial Path.
• Lin Heng challenged their claim that their master had died to the Calamity, arguing that the Calamity could not infect Martial Path cultivators.
• Formless approached, denied being Ye Tian, and said Ye Tian had died by Lin Heng’s hand and that he planned to seize Lin Heng’s body.

Lin Heng sent Dugu Yueli into his Small World before fighting Formless and the Buddhist Incense Society under the Immortal Restriction. Despite his apparent loss of power, he battered Long San and the others, but Formless caught him in a crushing Dharma attack and left his fate uncertain.

• Formless revealed that Buddha Master wanted Dugu Yueli as a cauldron, and Lin Heng sent her into his Small World.
• Lin Heng's hair turned white and his realm fell to Foundation Establishment, while Formless and the others wondered how he had vanished Dugu Yueli.
• Long San attacked Lin Heng, who caught and crushed his fist before a single punch sent Long Si, Long Wu, and the others staggering and bleeding.
• Lin Heng pierced Long Si's chest with a strand of hair, prompting Formless to insult the others and attack with his Dharma Form.
• Formless's scriptures dazed Lin Heng, and his six-armed Great Buddha Heaven-Controlling Hand clamped Lin Heng at three points and began crushing him.

Lin Heng broke free of Formless’s restraints and destroyed his forbidden art with his Humanity Domain, bringing down the stone temple. He executed Long San, Long Si, and Long Wu for betraying him, then turned to face the injured Formless.

• Lin Heng shattered Formless’s golden Buddha hands and broke free of his restraints.
• Formless unleashed Annihilation of All Buddhas, but Lin Heng’s Humanity Domain melted the beams and collapsed the temple.
• Long San begged for mercy and blamed his betrayal on his master and martial uncle, but Lin Heng stomped him to death.
• Long Si tried to appear fearless, but Lin Heng killed him with a slap.
• Long Wu fled at high speed, only to discover that Lin Heng had already pierced his chest; he fell dead.
• Lin Heng collected Long San and Long Si’s Remnant Souls in the Human Emperor Banner and confronted the battered Formless.

Lin Heng faced Formless and five Supremes, using copied techniques to distract them while targeting Formless. He killed Formless and captured his fleeing Divine Soul in the Human Emperor Banner, then escaped the Supremes’ pressure as they turned on him.

• Lin Heng pierced Formless’s decoy body with the Supreme Bone Sword, but five Supremes soon surrounded him.
• The Yu Clan Ancestor and the other Supremes questioned Lin Heng about his Human Path, while Formless urged them to seize him.
• Lin Heng offered the Supremes immortal fortune secret arts in exchange for killing Formless, then struck the Yu Clan Ancestor and copied techniques to scatter the group.
• Lin Heng unleashed his sword attack on Formless, slicing through his Golden Body Dharma Aspect and killing him.
• Lin Heng used the Human Emperor Banner to swallow Formless’s fleeing Divine Soul, then escaped southwest on the Supreme Bone Sword as the Supremes pursued him.

Lin Heng was hunted by five Supremes and struck by the Qi Clan ancestor’s soul-locking art, but he vanished and later awoke injured in the Small World. As Dugu Yueli cared for him, Yun Yao caught him trying to cuddle her.

• Peng Shang and the other Supremes chased Lin Heng as he fled toward Ice River Valley.
• The Qi Clan ancestor used the Ten-Thousand-Li Soul-Locking Art, pierced Lin Heng’s divine soul, and sent him falling from the sky.
• The Supremes searched for Lin Heng without finding him, then argued over the Long Clan ancestor’s loyalty before most of them departed.
• Lin Heng woke in the Small World, where Dugu Yueli fed him medicine and heard how five Supremes had hunted him.
• Lin Heng tried to burrow into Dugu Yueli’s embrace, but Yun Yao arrived and angrily demanded to know what he was doing.