Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng brought Yun Yao into the Human Emperor Banner, where she discovered the souls of Long San and the others from Azure Cloud Hall. Lin Heng pretended he had killed them and threatened Yun Yao, but the scene ended when Long San begged him for mercy.

• Ancestor Yao accused Lin Heng of feigning his injuries and stopped him from pursuing Dugu Yueli.
• Lin Heng explained that a Supreme’s soul-piercing attack had badly injured his Divine Soul, then invited Yun Yao to look inside the Human Emperor Banner.
• Lin Heng and Yun Yao entered the banner and found Long San and the others among the souls gathered there.
• Lin Heng claimed he had killed Long San and threatened to put Yun Yao in the banner if she disobeyed him.
• Long San struggled to raise his head and begged Lin Heng to spare him.

Lin Heng searched Long San, Long Si, and Formless’s souls and learned that the Buddhist and Medical Paths were embroiled in a conflict threatening the Immortal Realm. He warned Yun Yao that his apparent death might be necessary to escape a larger game, then joked about pursuing Dugu Yueli as she grew wary of him.

• Lin Heng searched Long San and Long Si’s memories, learned their Master had vanished and that their faction had allied with the Medical Path, then absorbed their scattered souls into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Yun Yao recognized Formless as a bald man with Ye Tian’s face, and slapped him after he threatened Lin Heng and the Dugu Clan.
• Lin Heng searched Formless’s soul and destroyed him, then told Yun Yao that the Buddhist and Medical Paths’ conflict could bury the Immortal Realm.
• Lin Heng explained that he might have to die to escape a killing game overseen by Heaven’s will, but Yun Yao struggled to understand his claims.
• Lin Heng and Yun Yao joked about pursuing Dugu Yueli, who sneezed and worried that Lin Heng was becoming too interested in her.

Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli planned to escape the five Supremes by splitting their pursuit and fleeing toward Ice River Valley. When Lin Heng emerged from the Small World, only two Supremes were waiting, so he summoned Dugu Yueli to draw one of them away and create a chance to fight alone.

• Lin Heng explained the danger outside to Dugu Yueli and proposed that they flee by separate routes toward Ice River Valley while Yun Yao stayed behind.
• After waiting nearly a day, Lin Heng emerged from the Small World and discovered that only two Supremes remained nearby.
• Lin Heng decided to summon Dugu Yueli so they could split the pursuers and give him a chance to face one Supreme alone.
• Lin Heng called Dugu Yueli out, and she headed east while telling him not to show off.

After Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli entered the forbidden Ice River Valley, the allies learned that the Immortal Clan was waiting for them to emerge before attacking again. Meng Yutong left to investigate Lin Heng’s whereabouts and clashed with Mu Li over her teasing claims about him.

• The Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office and Nine Dust Alliance retreated from the Peng Clan’s territory to Dragon Cliff Mountain after holding out for three days.
• Murong Ziyan reported that Lin Heng was alive, had nearly killed the Yu Clan Ancestor, and had entered Ice River Valley with Dugu Yueli.
• Murong Ziyan warned that the Supremes watching Ice River Valley might wait only three to five days before the Immortal Clan attacked again, while Ancestor Qingyang was expected to reach the Central Domain within three days.
• Meng Yutong agreed to investigate Lin Heng’s situation and left with Duan Shuyun and the others, followed by Mu Li.
• Mu Li teased Meng Yutong about having an improper relationship with Lin Heng, prompting Meng Yutong to attack her before warning her to behave herself.

The Immortal Clan leaders agreed to leave Xiao Clan forces guarding Ice River Valley while they prepared to confront the Heavenly Profound Continent, believing Lin Heng could not survive inside. Deep in the valley, Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli continued through the snow, and she revealed her distrust of him because of his Changlin Clan blood and the clans’ plans for the Old Lin Family.

• Peng Shang defended his failure to capture Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli, while Song Xixuan urged the Immortal Clan leaders to focus on the threats facing them.
• The Hong Clan Ancestor warned that Dugu Qingyang and the Heavenly Profound Continent posed a serious danger, then asked the Xiao Clan to guard Ice River Valley.
• The Xiao Clan Chief agreed to station people at the valley entrance for up to one month, and the other leaders departed to prepare for battle.
• Lin Heng shielded Dugu Yueli from the snowstorm, then picked up the freezing girl and teased her about resisting his embrace.
• Dugu Yueli said she feared Lin Heng would take advantage of her and explained that his Changlin Clan blood made him part of the Old Lin Family in her eyes.
• Dugu Yueli described how the Ancestor intended to use the Old Lin Family as a sacrifice to intimidate the other Immortal Clans.

Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli crossed Ice River Valley into the hidden snowfield world, where Lin Heng revealed a route to the Northern Domain and his plans involving the Buddhist Incense Society and the Medical Path. Meanwhile, a protector elder in the Northern Domain learned that Formless had died and prepared to welcome Lin Heng.

• Lin Heng explained that Ice River Valley led through a hidden world to the Northern Domain, and he and Dugu Yueli set out across the Endless Snowfield.
• A group from the Azure Snow Tribe confronted Lin Heng and warned him that the route was blocked and a deadly storm was approaching, but he forced his way onward.
• Lin Heng told Dugu Yueli that the Buddhist Incense Society used the snowfield to travel between the Northern and Central Domains, and that its main temple was in the Northern Domain.
• Lin Heng said he intended to target the Buddhist Incense Society and draw out people from the Medical Path of the Heavenly Profound Continent.
• A protector elder in a Northern Domain temple learned that Formless had died and said his death had provided intelligence to the qilin child of the Lin Clan, then ordered the monks to welcome their guest.

Lin Heng began refining the Ice Dao in the snowfield while Dugu Yueli watched in disbelief. When a devastating snowstorm approached, she could not move him or divert it and fled alone, leaving Lin Heng in danger.

• The Snowfield Tribe's chief detected Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli crossing the settlement's territory but let them continue.
• Lin Heng explained his theory of refining Dao before Dao Integration and challenged Dugu Yueli to a bet, then began drawing Ice Dao fragments toward himself.
• Dugu Yueli realized that Lin Heng was attracting the Great Dao with extraordinary ease and worried that she could never surpass him.
• Dugu Yueli spotted a powerful snowstorm approaching and shouted for Lin Heng to stop refining, but he remained absorbed in inscribing Ice Dao Runes onto the Black Pearl.
• Dugu Yueli tried to pull Lin Heng away, was repelled by the Great Dao restriction, and failed to divert the storm with her Moon-Grasping Manifestation.
• Unable to rescue him, Dugu Yueli fled alone, hoping Lin Heng would escape into his Small World.

Dugu Yueli searched for Lin Heng after a snowstorm swallowed him, but a snowfield tribe and Buddhist Incense Society cultivators ambushed her. As they overwhelmed her with reinforcements, Lin Heng emerged from the ice and froze the battlefield, leaving the tribe in his sights.

• Dugu Yueli searched for Lin Heng after the storm passed, then encountered snowfield tribespeople who began hunting her.
• Two Buddhist Incense Society cultivators recognized Dugu Yueli as a wanted target and tried to capture her for their Buddha Master.
• Dugu Yueli killed the tribal leader and several tribespeople, but the Buddhist cultivators wounded her with their attacks.
• Tribal reinforcements surrounded Dugu Yueli as the Buddhist cultivators prepared another assault.
• Lin Heng emerged from an ice fissure and froze the attackers and their weapons in place.
• Lin Heng shattered the Buddhist cultivators and turned his killing intent toward the remaining tribespeople.

Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli traveled to the Fox Moon Tribe to retaliate against its people for joining the Buddhist Incense Society’s ambush. Dugu Yueli faced the tribe’s chief in battle and overwhelmed him with her moon phenomenon.

• After Lin Heng killed the ambushers, Dugu Yueli asked whether he had been hurt and confessed that she doubted her abilities; Lin Heng encouraged her and told her to learn by watching him.
• Dugu Yueli rejected the idea of becoming a show-off, and Lin Heng argued with her about whether he was one.
• Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli reached the Fox Moon Tribe, where Lin Heng declared they had come to kill its people and crushed several with a palm strike.
• Dugu Yueli cut down five tribal warriors as Lin Heng caught and shattered an arrow fired at him.
• The Fox Moon chief raised an ice-peak phenomenon, but Dugu Yueli answered with a great moon that shattered the peak and suppressed the tribe with gravity, leaving the chief injured and his warriors unable to advance.

Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli crossed into the Northern Domain after destroying Buddhist Incense Society followers and temples along the way. Lin Heng planned to strike at the society’s headquarters, while its leaders received orders to kill him and capture Dugu Yueli alive as a furnace.

• The Fox Moon chief summoned a towering Golden Body Buddha, but Lin Heng defeated him with his ice giant, killed the chanting tribesmen, and took the chief’s divine soul into the Human Emperor Banner.
• Lin Heng burned down the temple, and he and Dugu Yueli continued north, destroying another Buddhist Incense Society tribe along the way.
• The siblings crossed the Severed Star Layer into the Northern Domain, and Lin Heng decided to visit the Centennial Sword Sect before targeting the Buddhist Incense Society’s headquarters.
• The Buddhist Incense Society’s white-robed leaders learned that Lin Heng had destroyed two tribes and received a decree ordering them to kill him.
• A second decree ordered the leaders to capture Dugu Yueli alive as a furnace, so they prepared to move.

After half a month of escalating conflict between the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office and the Immortal Clan, Yu Ling decided to visit the human territories while Jiang Jingyi prepared to leave court affairs to Jiang Yan and travel to Heavenly Action Continent. The chapter ended with Jiang Jingyi striking Jiang Yan after he asked to try on the dragon robe.

• Fox Ancestor White Brow and Yu Ling discussed the human-Immortal Clan conflict and Lin Sizhu's disappearance into Ice River Valley.
• Yu Ling decided to visit the human territories, and Fox Ancestor White Brow warned her to hide her identity.
• Jiang Jingyi announced she would enter seclusion for three months and assigned Jiang Yan to manage court affairs while she went to Heavenly Action Continent.
• Jiang Yan tried to dissuade Jiang Jingyi, then demanded fiscal authority and permission to bring several fairies into the palace in exchange for overseeing the state.
• Jiang Yan asked to try on the dragon robe, and Jiang Jingyi smacked him.

Jiang Jingyi traveled toward the Heavenly Action Continent with Jiang Qian, while Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli reached the Centennial Sword Sect in the Northern Domain. Lin Heng learned of the sect’s ties to the Old Lin Family and the Buddhist forces threatening the region, and the chapter left him puzzled by the revelation that the Mishan Buddhist Pool’s leader was a woman.

• Jiang Jingyi set off to visit Dream Salted Fish and the others, accompanied by Jiang Qian, who planned to inspect the Heavenly Mystery Imperial Office and confront the rumors linking her to Lin Heng.
• Jiang Jingyi told Jiang Qian that Lin Heng had escaped to the Northern Domain and warned that the Medical Path and Buddhist cultivators wanted his body.
• Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli met Hu Cenyin at Centennial Mountain after recovering there for half a month.
• Hu Cenyin explained that Lin Ziqing had saved the Centennial Sword Sect seven hundred years earlier by arranging help from the Old Lin Family, whose Little Saintess had married into the family.
• Hu Cenyin warned Lin Heng that the Buddhist Incense Society answered to the Mishan Buddhist Pool and that its believers became strangely distant despite retaining their memories.
• Lin Heng asked who led the Mishan Buddhist Pool, and Hu Cenyin said he believed its leader was a woman.

Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli learned that Leshan Ancient Temple’s sermons could help believers break through, but Lin Heng suspected its leader was at odds with the Buddhist Incense Society’s Buddha Master. He left the Centennial Sword Sect with Yueli, concluding that the sect would not risk sheltering them and that the Buddhist believers’ souls might have been polluted or replaced.

• Hu Cenyin explained that Leshan Ancient Temple’s female leader preached to believers, many of whom then attained sudden enlightenment and broke through their realms.
• Hu Cenyin advised Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli to investigate Leshan Ancient Temple, while hoping they would leave and settle matters in the Central Domain first.
• After leaving, Lin Heng told Dugu Yueli that Hu Cenyin wanted them gone and that the Centennial Sword Sect was unlikely to risk the Northern Domain’s forces to protect them.
• Lin Heng noticed that Formless and Long San’s memories contained no information about Leshan Ancient Temple, suggesting its leaders might be at odds with the Buddhist Incense Society’s Buddha Master.
• Lin Heng proposed that Buddhist believers’ souls might have been polluted or replaced, and Dugu Yueli recognized that this sounded like possession.

Lin Heng, Dugu Yueli, and Yun Yao traveled to the Buddha Epiphyllum Dharma Assembly at Little Western Mountain to investigate the connection between the Buddhist and Medical Paths. There, Lin Heng confronted the person following them and recognized Chen Changqin.

• Lin Heng and Dugu Yueli debated whether memories or the soul defined a person, then decided to investigate Leshan Ancient Temple and search for clues about the Medical Path.
• Yun Yao emerged from the Small World after reaching peak Nascent Soul and overheard Lin Heng thinking that he had an antidote to her Anti-Lust Pill seal.
• Lin Heng, Dugu Yueli, and Yun Yao reached the Dharma assembly grounds, disguised themselves, and entered the crowded town.
• Lin Heng sensed someone following them and led the group to the edge of town, where a blue-robed man carrying a qin appeared.
• The stranger asked whether Lin Heng was Lin Heng, and Lin Heng recognized him as Chen Changqin.

Lin Heng reunited with Chen Changqin and warned him that Leshan Ancient Temple's promised Sun-Continuing Grass might be a trap. Chen Changqin then privately revealed that he believed he had defiled a woman after being poisoned, but Lin Heng pointed out that his story sounded like the reverse.

• Chen Changqin reunited with Lin Heng, Yun Yao, and Dugu Yueli and explained that Buddhist cultivators had promised him Sun-Continuing Grass if he attended the temple's sermon.
• Yun Yao suspected Chen Changqin had been set up, and Lin Heng told him about the Buddhist Incense Society's plans to seize people with special bloodlines and cultivation vessels.
• Lin Heng proposed that Chen Changqin and Yun Yao attend the sermon while he sealed his senses and watched for changes in them.
• Chen Changqin privately told Lin Heng that he had been pursued by two Dao Integration experts, fallen into Black Abyss, and awakened in a Flower Temple after allegedly defiling a woman while poisoned.
• Lin Heng questioned Chen Changqin's claim that someone had slept with him.

Chen Changqin told Lin Heng how the owner of the Flower Temple had drugged and tried to assault her, and warned that the woman was now affecting her memories. As the group waited for Leshan Ancient Temple’s sermon, Lin Heng teased Dugu Yueli and Yun Yao demanded the antidote to the Anti-Lust Pill.

• Chen Changqin explained that the Flower Temple’s owner had drugged her and tried to take advantage of her, then warned that the woman’s presence was influencing her thoughts and memories.
• Lin Heng suspected the Flower Temple’s owner might be connected to a Third Epoch deity, and he and Chen Changqin agreed to deal with her after the ancient temple’s sermon.
• While Lin Heng and the others waited at the manor, Chen Changqin gathered news that two major Immortal Sects and many smaller forces had arrived for the sermon.
• Lin Heng embraced Dugu Yueli and teased her until Yun Yao appeared and stopped him.
• Yun Yao confronted Lin Heng after discovering he had the Anti-Lust Pill’s antidote, and he resisted her demand to hand it over.

Lin Heng and Yun Yao prepared to attend the Buddhist altar sermon, where Chen Changqin was welcomed by a young monk who claimed to be Master Luofu’s disciple. As the group sat on lotus cushions, Lin Heng sensed that the cushion beneath him was channeling an unusual force into his body.

• Women from the Buddhist Incense Society watched Chen Changqin and planned to use the sermon to kill him, hoping to obtain him as a Parasitic Cauldron for their divine lady.
• After Yun Yao and Lin Heng spent the night together, Yun Yao woke sore, and Lin Heng carried her to the sermon when her legs gave way.
• Lin Heng, Yun Yao, Chen Changqin, and Dugu Yueli arrived at the crowded dao arena, where Little Zhi led them to lotus cushions near the edge of the inner seating area.
• Chen Changqin told Lin Heng that Little Zhi claimed to be Master Luofu’s disciple and that Luofu had directed him to Leshan Ancient Temple to find Sun-Continuing Grass.
• Lin Heng discovered that the lotus cushion beneath him sent a comfortable force through his skin, and the sensation disappeared when he sealed off his external circulation.

At Leshan Ancient Temple’s sermon, Lin Heng discovered that the scriptures concealed Calamity worms attempting to parasitize Chen Changqin, Yun Yao, and Dugu Yueli. A mysterious woman from Flower Temple halted the worms and told him to destroy the Buddha statue hidden beneath a red cloth, while demanding that Chen Changqin sleep with her.

• Lin Heng and his companions found that sealing off their bodies’ circulation stopped the strange sensation in the lotus platforms.
• When the Sui'an Goddess began preaching, Lin Heng discovered the listeners were entranced and that worms beneath the golden scriptures were parasitizing them.
• Lin Heng saw three worms crawling toward Chen Changqin, Yun Yao, and Dugu Yueli, but a mysterious woman at the entrance stopped them with flower leaves.
• The Flower Temple woman told Lin Heng to destroy the Buddha statue under the red cloth to end the ritual before his companions’ memories were drained.
• The woman disappeared as a maple leaf after reminding Lin Heng that he had agreed to let Chen Changqin sleep with her.

Lin Heng slipped away during a sermon, found and removed the Buddha statue’s divine source, and reshaped its head before the crowd awoke. He fled with Yun Yao, Dugu Yueli, and Chen Changqin after the Sui'an Goddess discovered the damage and ordered the believers to seize them.

• Lin Heng found the divine source hidden in the Buddha statue’s butt and pulled it out using his Human Path Body.
• Lin Heng hammered the statue’s head into a new shape, then returned to his place before the sermon audience woke.
• Chen Changqin, Yun Yao, and Dugu Yueli recalled dreaming through the sermon as the Sui'an Goddess revealed the Buddha statue.
• The Sui'an Goddess spotted the altered statue and blamed Lin Heng and his companions, ordering the crowd to seize them.
• Lin Heng fled the arena with Yun Yao and Dugu Yueli while Chen Changqin chased after them.

Lin Heng returned to the Centennial Sword Sect with his companions and revealed that Calamity had infected Buddhist and Medical Path forces across the Northern Domain. He urged Hu Cenyin to secretly rally unpolluted forces to destroy the temple dens, then told Chen Changqin that the woman who saved them demanded he sleep with her.

• Lin Heng and his companions escaped their pursuers and returned to the Centennial Sword Sect, where Hu Cenyin questioned why they had come back.
• Lin Heng explained that false Buddhist scriptures spread Calamity, which could parasitize consciousness and alter people’s personalities, and described the woman who had saved his companions.
• Hu Cenyin recognized the danger to the Northern Domain, and Lin Heng asked him to contact unpolluted forces in secret and prepare to destroy the temple dens.
• Lin Heng told Chen Changqin that the woman’s condition was for Chen Changqin to sleep with her, but Chen Changqin refused and said he would bear any consequences himself.
• Chen Changqin asked about the altered Buddha statue, and Lin Heng revealed that he had carved an Ultraman figure from his hometown.