Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen’s allies supported Azure Ripple Sect as it defeated Eight Desolations Sect, while the Imperial Family learned that its Divine Seal’s fortune was nearly gone. After Lin Chen was declared beyond saving, he appeared at Blood Moon Sect a month later.

• Xing Yuyu and Dan Hong arrived to support Lin Chen, and Dongfang Canglang realized the expanding conflict could serve his father’s plans as Lin Chen’s lifespan dwindled.
• Lin Chen rejoined the battle, and Ji Ruochuan escaped severely wounded after Ye Feiran and Qin Tianhua fought him; Azure Ripple Sect then advanced into Eight Desolations Domain.
• Lin Chen collapsed from his illness, and Mei Shen suppressed the flames in his body before taking him back to Azure Ripple Sect.
• The Imperial Family learned that the Divine Seal held less than one percent of its fortune, and Yan Zun stripped Yan Hui of his princely status and expelled him from Central Province.
• Azure Ripple Sect destroyed Eight Desolations Sect, and the Grand Elder of Thousand Machine Sect declared that Lin Chen’s soul was dissipating beyond recovery.
• One month later, Lin Chen arrived at Blood Moon Sect and announced his visit.

Lin Chen destroyed the Blood Moon Sect and absorbed the energy of its blood moon to strengthen his failing divine soul. When the imperial family blocked his path to the Illusion Spirit Sect, he announced he would travel to the Central Province, prompting its two princes to abandon the sect rather than risk confronting him there.

• Meng Hai learned that the Dongfang Family would not interfere, but resolved to defend the Blood Moon Sect against Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen defeated Meng Hai, destroyed the Blood Moon Sect’s resistance, and entered the rear mountain valley to absorb the blood moon’s energy.
• A month later, Lin Chen emerged with a somewhat improved complexion, thanked Zhao Yulin, and left the occupied Blood Moon Sect.
• The Illusion Spirit Sect received word that the imperial family would intervene, and two imperial princes arrived by Spirit Boat to bar Lin Chen from crossing the Illusion Spirit River.
• Lin Chen said he would travel to the Central Province instead, and the two princes vanished, abandoning the Illusion Spirit Sect rather than risk his arrival there.

After Lin Chen forced the imperial princes to leave, the Illusion Spirit Sect surrendered, and the Azure Ripple Sect took its treasures while relinquishing its territory to the Creation Gate. With the Thousand Machine Sect’s Grand Elders unable to save him, Lin Chen left for Azure Ripple Island with Murong Yan to visit his family before his life ended, while Dongfang Canglang planned to destroy the island after Lin Chen died.

• The Illusion Spirit Sect surrendered to Lin Chen, who left its fate to the Azure Ripple Sect’s Sect Master and departed without finding any treasures worth taking.
• The Azure Ripple Sect refused to absorb the Illusion Spirit Sect or keep the Blood Moon Sect’s territory, looted both sects’ treasuries, and allowed the Creation Gate to claim the Blood Moon territory.
• After the Thousand Machine Sect’s three Grand Elders failed to stop Lin Chen’s divine soul from dissipating, Murong Yan returned to him and expressed her wish to bear his child.
• Ten days later, Lin Chen and Murong Yan left Thousand Machine City for Azure Ripple Island so Lin Chen could see his family and old companions.
• Dongfang Canglang learned that Lin Chen was returning to the East Sea and vowed to destroy Azure Ripple Island when news of Lin Chen’s death arrived.

Lin Chen returned to Azure Ripple Island, discovered a sinister statue with his face beneath the Far West abyss, and dealt with threats to his old friends before leaving to travel with Murong Yan. A year later, as the Ghost Ship reappeared and devoured islands, Murong Yan suggested they board it in hopes of finding a way to save Lin Chen’s weakening soul.

• Lin Chen visited the Far West abyss and found a statue resembling him with an evil aura, while Jiang Taiyi explained that the Black Mist had dispersed and prepared to leave Azure Ripple Island.
• Lin Chen returned to Martial City, reunited with Lord Kong and Zhao Qianqiu, and forced Qin He to resign from the Martial Path Alliance and swear never to return to Azure Ripple Island.
• Lin Chen watched Su Tong defeat the Han Family’s young master in Soaring Cloud City, then reunited with Jia Nanzhu and left after discussing Su Tong’s training.
• Lin Chen fetched Murong Yan, and they spent six months traveling across Azure Ripple Island before visiting other islands.
• A year later, Lin Chen and Murong Yan heard that the Ghost Ship had devoured two islands, and Murong Yan suggested they board it to seek help for Lin Chen’s failing soul.

Lin Chen boarded the Ghost Ship and found an ordinary cabin whose objects returned to their original places, but he learned nothing of the ship’s secrets. He planned to follow it into the Annihilation Storm after it reached the storm’s range, then decided to travel with Murong Yan to the Tianya Domain, where Senior Sister Jiang was searching for a way to restore his soul.

• Murong Yan struggled to endure the Ghost Ship’s influence, so Lin Chen sent her away and resisted the ship’s suction to board it alone.
• Lin Chen explored the Ghost Ship’s deck and cabin, discovering that his soul was bound and that moved objects returned to their original positions.
• Lin Chen left the Ghost Ship and told Murong Yan it appeared empty, then guessed its secrets might emerge inside the Annihilation Storm.
• Lin Chen told Murong Yan he intended to follow the ship into the storm after it reached the region, despite her concern about the danger.
• Lin Chen learned that Senior Sister Jiang was searching for a cure for his soul in the Tianya Domain and decided to go there with Murong Yan.

At Wangjie Mountain, Jiang Qing fought several Xiantian Sixth Stage experts who tried to seize the Nine-Star Divine Lotus seeds she had claimed. Lin Chen appeared alive, rescued her, and left with the remaining seeds after killing one attacker.

• Jiang Qing refused to surrender more than four of the Nine-Star Divine Lotus seeds she had left behind, intending to take five for Lin Chen.
• Zhao Hai and four other Xiantian Sixth Stage experts attacked Jiang Qing, overwhelming her with their combined strength.
• Lin Chen arrived, and his cough briefly halted the experts’ Power of Xiantian as they recognized him.
• Lin Chen told Jiang Qing to leave the rest to him and drew the four remaining lotus seeds toward himself.
• When an attacker challenged their departure, Lin Chen killed him instantly, then left with Jiang Qing while the others watched.

Lin Chen’s divine soul stabilized for at least a year after he took a Nine-Star Divine Lotus seed, and he spent the next five years traveling with Jiang Qing and Murong Yan as the Yan Imperial Dynasty descended into turmoil. In Shanhai City, he rescued his junior brother Qiao Yuan from a Shanhai Sect assassin and headed to confront the sect.

• Lin Chen told Jiang Qing and Murong Yan that the lotus seed had halted his divine soul’s deterioration for a year, and he reassured them that the remaining seeds could extend his life by ten years or more.
• Over five years of travel, Lin Chen, Jiang Qing, and Murong Yan saw the Yan Imperial Dynasty grow more chaotic as sect wars and attacks on disciples intensified.
• Five Heavenly Talent disciples took shelter in Thousand Mechanisms Tower after an expert ambushed them, and Qiao Yuan left with them knowing an attack awaited outside.
• A masked Shanhai Sect elder cornered Qiao Yuan in an alley and revealed that he had targeted him because Azure Ripple Sect was weaker than the other sects represented.
• Lin Chen appeared, killed the fleeing elder instantly, and told Qiao Yuan to come with him to Shanhai Sect.

After forcing the Shanhai Sect to compensate him, Lin Chen spent six months at the Myriad Fire Sect perfecting his Undying Body, though his soul continued to dissipate. The Yan Imperial Dynasty later abdicated, and three years afterward Lin Chen consumed his final lotus seed, left Jiang Qing and Murong Yan, and boarded the Ghost Ship.

• Lin Chen's attack on the Shanhai Sect made rival forces wary of targeting the Azure Ripple Sect, while Dongfang Canglang learned Lin Chen could live for at least five more years.
• Lin Chen entered the Myriad Fire Sect's Sacred Fire Hall and endured six months of tempering with Xiantian Fires until his Undying Body reached perfection.
• Lin Chen thanked Dan Hong, visited Zhao Haoyang, Du Shuang, and Zhuang Lie, then returned to Azure Ripple Island with Jiang Qing and Murong Yan.
• The Yan Imperial Dynasty issued an edict relinquishing the Nine Cauldrons and its rule over the domains, while Dongfang Canglang anticipated his father's future attack on the Azure Ripple Sect.
• Three years later, Lin Chen consumed his final lotus seed, bade farewell to Jiang Qing and Murong Yan, and boarded the Ghost Ship.

After the Ghost Ship changed course and began taking on mysterious passengers, Lin Chen discovered that four extraordinary travelers had gathered aboard. They revealed themselves as God-level experts seeking passage to the Other Shore, leaving Lin Chen to wonder whether they came from different eras.

• Lin Chen endured the Annihilation Storm aboard the Ghost Ship and marked the days as it sped through the storm.
• After ninety-three days, the sail lowered and the cabin lamp lit; Lin Chen put on the fur-lined rain cape, causing the Ghost Ship to change course.
• Over the following months, four travelers—a woman and three men—boarded the Ghost Ship and waited on the deck.
• The four asked the boatman for permission to enter the cabin and asked what price they must pay to reach the Other Shore.
• One of the men said that all four had reached the God level but sought the final step, shocking Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen considered that the four might have come from different eras because time in the Annihilation Storm could not be judged normally.

Lin Chen learned the Ghost Ship’s true purpose and received a technique from four God-level experts that halted his divine soul’s decline. When the ship reached the Nine Heavens, he carried the experts through the Annihilation Storm, then watched them step off to face the trial of reaching the other shore.

• Lin Chen told the four God-level experts about his predicament, and they explained the fragmented regions, the Primordial Land, and the Spirit Ship’s journey toward the other shore.
• Liu Piao and the other three experts gave Lin Chen jade slips of their martial arts insights and developed the Undying Divine Scripture, which stopped his divine soul from dissipating.
• Lin Chen studied the techniques and cultivated the new scripture, while the four experts examined his condition and praised his talent.
• The Ghost Ship shook, and Lin Chen learned that the other shore lay beyond the Ninth Heaven, that he could choose whether the ship proceeded, and that the ship had selected him as its new boatman.
• Lin Chen told the four experts they could go to the other shore, then spent a year guiding the Ghost Ship upward through the Annihilation Storm until Liu Piao told him to stop.
• The three men stepped off the deck first, and Liu Piao followed after asking Lin Chen to look after her sect’s descendants if he ever visited her continent.

Lin Chen rescued Liu Piao from the Annihilation Storm, and she sacrificed her life to restore his Divine Soul and pass on the will of a hundred domains. Months later, an amnesiac Lin Chen drifted to Star Moon Island, where Old Hu took him in and Hu Zhiyun prepared to return home after receiving her father’s letter.

• Lin Chen piloted the Ghost Ship into the Annihilation Storm and rescued Liu Piao after Senior Zhao and another God-level expert were swept away.
• Liu Piao explained why God-level experts pursued the Other Shore and urged Lin Chen to seize the divine seal and fortune of the person ascending in the Yan Imperial Dynasty.
• Liu Piao used her Divine Soul and the will of a hundred domains to restore Lin Chen’s Divine Soul before dying; Lin Chen’s Divine Soul realm began to rise as he comprehended the martial domains.
• A frost-encased Lin Chen washed ashore on Star Moon Island, and Old Hu carried him home; Lin Chen woke and stayed there, pretending he had lost his memory while investigating a familiar calligraphy piece.
• Hu Zhiyun received Old Hu’s letter about the mysterious man and left Pingxiang Sect to return home, after refusing to join the Humble Family Alliance’s matchmaking scheme.

Lin Chen recovered his memories after Hu Zhiyun’s father rescued him and sent Hu Zhiyun to deliver a message to Zhu Ru, the Pingxiang Sect master. When the message’s power forced the sect’s elders to kneel, Zhu Ru recognized Lin Chen’s connection to the writing and wondered whether another upheaval awaited the Yan Imperial Dynasty.

• Hu Zhiyun found Lin Chen in her family’s courtyard and learned that her father had fished him out of the sea.
• Lin Chen remembered his past, learned that Hu Zhiyun belonged to Pingxiang Sect, and wrote a message for her to deliver to Zhu Ru.
• Hu Zhiyun returned to the sect and faced punishment after Liu Li accused her of secretly trading with a Star Picking Sect disciple.
• Zhang Cang seized Lin Chen’s calligraphy sheet, and its pressure broke his hand and forced him, Liu Li, and the sect’s elders to their knees.
• Zhu Ru recognized Lin Chen’s writing and feared that his strength could bring another upheaval to the Yan Imperial Dynasty.

Dongfang Yaoji condensed the Divine Seal, but a mysterious lord forced him to divide rule of the world between north and south. Lin Chen returned after twenty years, confronted Dongfang Canglang, and proved powerful enough that Dongfang Yaoji confined his son to Blazing Sun City; the chapter ended with the lord in the former Imperial Capital declaring that both Lin Chen and Dongfang Yaoji would fall to him.

• Dongfang Yaoji condensed the Divine Seal, and martial fortune gathered in Blazing Sun City as the super sects arrived for his enthronement.
• Lin Chen intercepted two Dongfang Family Myriad Manifestations Realm experts at sea and defeated them before heading north to settle his grudge.
• Yan Zun delivered a message demanding that Dongfang Yaoji divide the world between their respective lords, and Dongfang Yaoji agreed after confronting the mysterious power behind it.
• Lin Chen entered Blazing Sun City, struck down a Myriad Manifestations Realm expert, and fought Dongfang Yaoji in the sky; Dongfang Yaoji then forbade Dongfang Canglang from ever leaving the city.
• Lin Chen met with Ji Cangtian and the allied sect masters at the Viewing Sun Pavilion, while Dongfang Yaoji told Dongfang Canglang to marry and have children.
• A black-clad lord in the former Imperial Capital revealed that he had no intention of sharing the realm and claimed that neither Dongfang Yaoji nor Lin Chen could oppose him.

Lin Chen watched the Black Dragon Sacred Land and Eastern Imperial Dynasty devastate the martial world before confronting the Black Dragon Holy Lord and ending the war. Decades later, after the Holy Lord failed to reach the Other Shore and Lin Chen’s loved ones and old acquaintances passed away, Lin Chen boarded the Ghost Ship alone with his strength at the martial pinnacle.

• Lin Chen agreed to protect the self-governing East Sea Divine Palace, frustrating Dongfang Yaoji’s plan to provoke a clash between Lin Chen and the Black Dragon Holy Lord.
• The Black Dragon Sacred Land declared war on the Eastern Imperial Dynasty, and Lin Chen’s allies refused to join the fighting as the war consumed the Northern Region.
• The Black Dragon Holy Lord defeated Dongfang Yaoji, destroyed Blazing Sun City, and tried to kill the armies before Lin Chen stopped him and revealed his own divine seal.
• Lin Chen and the Black Dragon Holy Lord left the battlefield, and the surviving martial experts ended the war and later signed a three-thousand-year peace agreement.
• Lin Chen surpassed the Black Dragon Holy Lord, who later set out for the Other Shore and failed to return; Lin Chen spent decades with Jiang Qing, Murong Yan, and Yin Yue before boarding the Ghost Ship alone.
• Lin Chen’s destiny reached the martial pinnacle, and he departed for the Other Shore.