Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuankong used his Ice Technique and Water Drawing Technique to defend himself, Han Liu, and Zhao Guang against White Robe Wu Yong and his Flying Source Beast. As Lin Xuankong replenished his dwindling energy with Source Stone Crystals, Wu Yong wondered how he could sustain the defense for so long.

• Lin Xuankong shielded Han Liu and Zhao Guang inside thick ice as the Flying Source Beast's Wind Blades battered it.
• White Robe Wu Yong used air-explosion attacks to blast holes in the ice, but Lin Xuankong rapidly repaired them by drawing water from an underground river.
• Wu Yong and the Flying Source Beast doubled the intensity of their attacks, forcing Lin Xuankong to accelerate his repairs and consume Source Stone Crystals to replenish his energy.
• Wu Yong watched Lin Xuankong maintain the defense and wondered how a seventh-tier Gene Warrior could withstand the attacks without exhausting his source energy.

Lin Xuankong sustained his Ice Defense against White Robe Wu Yong and his Flying Source Beast by drawing on Water Drawing Technique and a large stock of Source Stone Crystals. The battle continued as both sides spent their reserves, leaving Wu Yong worried that victory would cost him the resources he needed for the Qiu Shan Mountain Range.

• White Robe Wu Yong and his Flying Source Beast intensified their attacks, but Lin Xuankong maintained his Ice Defense while replenishing his source energy with Source Stone Crystals.
• After more than twenty minutes of fighting, Wu Yong began using his eighth-tier Source Stone Crystals to replenish himself and his beast as their high-intensity attacks consumed vast amounts of energy.
• Zhao Guang offered Lin Xuankong more than three hundred ninth-tier Source Stone Crystals saved by Zhao Rong and their fellow warriors, and Lin Xuankong accepted them after Han Liu urged him to do so.
• Wu Yong saw Zhao Guang give Lin Xuankong the crystals and realized that he had already used more than half of his own eighth-tier supply during the prolonged battle.
• Wu Yong worried that continuing the fight would exhaust both sides' Source Stone Crystals and leave him without the resources needed to search for treasures in the Qiu Shan Mountain Range.

Lin Xuankong survived White Robe Wu Yong’s assault, and Wu Yong stopped fighting and urged him to join Yunqin Nation. Lin Xuankong took Han Liu and Zhao Guang aboard Bai Dedong’s Cloud Beast and fled toward Yun City, while a strange object watched them leave and transmitted information.

• White Robe Wu Yong halted his attacks, praised Lin Xuankong’s endurance, and invited him to come to Yunqin Nation, claiming his master Yi Feifeng could offer him a greater future.
• Wu Yong flew away on his Flying Source Beast, and Lin Xuankong used True Sight to track him until he disappeared into the clouds.
• Lin Xuankong summoned the Cloud Beast he had received from Bai Dedong and decided to take Han Liu and Zhao Guang to Yun City before Wu Yong could return.
• Lin Xuankong, Han Liu, and Zhao Guang rode the Cloud Beast toward Yun City, relieved that its speed could help them escape.
• A strange eyeball-like object emerged from a crevice, watched the Cloud Beast disappear, and appeared to transmit information.

White Robe Wu Yong resolved to hunt Lin Xuankong, while Lin Xuankong and Han Liu settled into the Far Mountain Hotel in Yun City to cultivate with their sixth-tier Source Stone Crystals. Lin Xuankong hinted at his extraordinary talent for accelerating the growth of those close to him, and Han Liu accepted that many unexplained miracles had followed his master.

• White Robe Wu Yong deduced that Lin Xuankong had a Cloud Beast pet and planned to find and kill him before he could grow stronger.
• The strange eyeball-like object left the bare mountain and raced toward Yun City to observe Lin Xuankong.
• Zhao Guang brought Lin Xuankong and Han Liu to the Far Mountain Hotel, then left to distribute his fallen squadmates' resources and protect their families.
• Lin Xuankong urged Han Liu to cultivate alongside him, suggesting they could complete their sixth-tier transformations within days.
• Han Liu said Lin Xuankong's rapid advancement and apparent possession of multiple genetic talents had convinced him that many miracles surrounded his master.

At Far Mountain Hotel, Lin Xuankong prepared to fuse a sixth-tier Cloud Beast Source Stone Crystal and break through to the sixth Life Tier while Han Liu stood guard against White Robe Wu Yong. As the hotel increased its security, Zhao Guang described the arrangements for the fallen squad members’ families, and Han Liu recognized that avenging them meant killing White Robe Wu Yong.

• Lin Xuankong warned Han Liu that White Robe Wu Yong could find them in Yun City, but Han Liu insisted Lin begin his breakthrough while he stood guard.
• Lin Xuankong examined the sixth-tier Cloud Beast Source Stone Crystal and prepared to fuse it, hoping his talents would help him rapidly grow stronger.
• On the rooftop, Zhao Guang reassured Han Liu about Far Mountain Hotel’s security and promised to ask Liang Lei to increase the guards.
• Han Liu asked about Zhao Rong’s squad, and Zhao Guang said he had relocated willing families, planned a collective funeral, and concealed the cause of the Gene Warriors’ deaths.
• Han Liu and Zhao Guang understood that killing White Robe Wu Yong was the way to avenge the fallen squad members.

Han Liu and Zhao Guang discussed how long Lin Xuankong would need to reach the Sixth Tier Life Tier while guarding his closed-door cultivation at Far Mountain Hotel. On the eighth day, Lin completed his breakthrough and discovered his ice abilities had grown strong enough to defend against White Robe Wu Yong and his flying Source Beast.

• Han Liu recalled White Robe Wu Yong’s strength and asked Zhao Guang how long Yun City’s experts had taken to break through to the Sixth Tier Life Tier.
• Zhao Guang estimated Lin would need at least a year, while Boss Zhang invited Han Liu and Zhao Guang to a banquet; Han declined so he could guard Lin.
• Boss Zhang agreed to secure the hotel’s thirty-second floor while Lin cultivated, and Han asked him to keep suspicious Gene Warriors away.
• On the eighth day, Lin Xuankong absorbed the Sixth Tier Source Stone Crystal and completed his transformation into an early Sixth Tier Life Tier Gene Warrior.
• Lin tested his enhanced ice-conjuring ability and found that its ice was so solid that he believed he could imprison White Robe Wu Yong and his flying Source Beast.

Lin Xuankong discovered that his Super Rigid Body ice could protect him from powerful Gene Warriors and produce durable Sixth Tier Alloy weapons, but he chose to deepen his breakthrough before confronting White Robe Wu Yong. Meanwhile, Han Liu told Zhao Guang that Lin had already reached the Sixth Tier Life Tier, prompting Zhao Guang to hurry off and see for himself.

• Lin Xuankong realized he could create vast numbers of sturdy ice weapons and bullets to arm Shelter No. 36.
• Lin Xuankong decided to stay at the Far Mountain Hotel and cultivate to the Sixth Tier Late Stage before hunting White Robe Wu Yong in the Qiu Shan Mountain Range.
• At a banquet, Zhao Guang asked Han Liu whether Lin had encountered trouble during his breakthrough.
• Han Liu revealed that Lin had already broken through, astonishing Zhao Guang and Boss Zhang.
• Zhao Guang left the banquet hall to confirm Lin's breakthrough with his own eyes.

Han Liu told Zhao Guang and Boss Zhang that Lin Xuankong had fused a sixth-tier Source Stone Crystal and reached the sixth Life Tier after only a month and a half of cultivation. Boss Zhang finally accepted the astonishing news and felt relieved that such a powerful Gene Warrior had emerged from Far Mountain Hotel.

• Boss Zhang overheard Han Liu tell Zhao Guang that Lin Xuankong had reached the sixth Life Tier in only a month and a half, but dismissed it as drunken boasting.
• Han Liu recalled Lin Xuankong’s earlier feats and celebrated what his breakthrough meant for him, Brother Leopard, and Shelter No. 36.
• Boss Zhang entered Han Liu’s private room with another jar of wine and flattered him while Han Liu drank and praised it.
• Zhao Guang returned from visiting Lin Xuankong and confirmed that Han Liu’s claim was true.
• Han Liu explained to Boss Zhang that Lin Xuankong had fused a sixth-tier Source Stone Crystal and become a sixth-tier lifeform, leaving Boss Zhang shocked and relieved.

Boss Zhang, Zhao Guang, and Han Liu celebrated Lin Xuankong's supposed advance to the sixth Life Tier, unaware that he had already reached the late sixth tier. Lin Xuankong then began preparing Han Liu for his own breakthrough before they returned to the Qiu Shan Mountain Range, where he planned to confront White Robe Wu Yong.

• Boss Zhang toasted Lin Xuankong's advancement with Han Liu and Zhao Guang and offered them food, wine, and entertainers.
• Han Liu left the celebration, thinking Lin Xuankong had reached the sixth Life Tier in a month and a half, while Lin had secretly advanced to the late sixth tier.
• Lin Xuankong told Han Liu to fuse with a sixth-tier Source Stone Crystal, promising his special talent could help him reach the sixth Life Tier in about a month.
• Han Liu began closed-door cultivation, and Lin Xuankong stood guard while planning to take him into the Qiu Shan Mountain Range afterward.
• Lin Xuankong resolved to find White Robe Wu Yong in the Qiu Shan Mountain Range and repay their earlier conflict.

Zhang Yun arrived at Far Mountain Hotel for his birthday banquet and learned that Liu Ruyun, now engaged to Zhao Jiulin’s third son, would perform there. As Zhang Yun sensed an unexpected breakthrough in the hotel’s cultivation chamber, he asked who was inside.

• Zhang Yun arrived at Far Mountain Hotel, where Boss Zhang welcomed him and praised the preparations for the banquet featuring Liu Ruyun.
• Zhang Yun said he would personally thank Liu Ruyun, and Sister Li privately told Boss Zhang that Liu was engaged to Zhao Jiulin’s third son.
• Zhang Yun inspected the banquet hall and headed to see Liu Ruyun on the twenty-ninth floor.
• Zhang Yun sensed someone breaking through in the closed-door cultivation chamber on the thirty-second floor and asked Boss Zhang who was inside.

Zhang Yun investigated signs of a breakthrough on the Far Mountain Hotel’s thirty-second floor and learned that Han Liu might have advanced from the seventh-tier peak to the sixth tier in seventeen days. Boss Zhang backed his suspicion with Lin Xuankong’s earlier rapid breakthrough, leaving Zhang Yun to consider the truth of both extraordinary cases.

• Zhang Yun questioned Boss Zhang after sensing a Life Tier breakthrough, and Boss Zhang said Han Liu had begun cultivating seventeen days earlier.
• Boss Zhang explained that Lin Kong and Zhao Guang were the only others allowed on the thirty-second floor, then wondered whether Han Liu had already broken through.
• Boss Zhang recalled that Lin Xuankong had advanced from the seventh-tier peak to the sixth tier in about a month and a half, and proposed that Han Liu might have done so in seventeen days.
• Sister Li rejected the possibility as absurd, while Zhang Yun listened and asked Boss Zhang to explain further.
• Boss Zhang confirmed Lin Xuankong’s breakthrough and offered to summon Zhao Guang as a witness, prompting Zhang Yun’s attendants to react with disbelief.

Lin Xuankong met Zhang Yun, Yun City's second strongest expert, after revealing his rapid rise to the peak of the Sixth Tier Life Tier. He hoped to earn Zhang Yun's favor and learn how to obtain a Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystal, and Zhang Yun confirmed that Lin Xuankong had reached the peak tier.

• Sister Li asked whether Zhang Yun would still visit Liu Ruyun, and Zhang Yun chose to meet Lin Xuankong and Han Liu first while ordering gifts prepared for Liu Ruyun.
• Boss Zhang led Zhang Yun and his attendants to the thirty-second floor, where Lin Xuankong invited them into his office.
• Zhang Yun examined Lin Xuankong and reacted with astonishment at his strength.
• Lin Xuankong considered how to use the attention of Yun City's experts, especially Zhang Yun and Zhao Jiulin, to learn how to obtain a Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystal.
• Zhang Yun asked whether Lin Xuankong was in the late or peak Sixth Tier Life Tier, and Lin Xuankong confirmed that he was at the peak.

Zhang Yun met Lin Xuankong and was stunned by his extraordinarily rapid advancement to the peak of the Sixth Tier Life Tier. Han Liu then emerged from cultivation after breaking through to the Sixth Tier at just seventeen or eighteen, leaving Zhang Yun and the others even more shocked as they departed.

• Zhang Yun greeted Lin Xuankong with respect after sensing his strength and realizing how quickly he had reached the peak of the Sixth Tier Life Tier.
• Lin Xuankong explained that he and his student planned to leave Yun City after the student stabilized his breakthrough, and Zhang Yun welcomed him as an important guest.
• Han Liu emerged from the Closed-door Cultivation room, announcing his breakthrough, and Zhang Yun sensed that he had reached the initial stage of the Sixth Tier Life Tier.
• Zhang Yun congratulated Han Liu and marveled that someone only seventeen or eighteen years old had reached the Sixth Tier.
• Zhang Yun and the others left the thirty-second floor, still reeling from Lin Xuankong and Han Liu's astonishing advancement speeds.

Zhang Yun returned to Lin Xuankong and Han Liu to propose cooperation over Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystals after revealing that his teacher, Zhao Jiulin, had failed to secure them. The chapter left Lin Xuankong and Han Liu learning that a powerful Fifth Tier Plant Type Source Beast guarded the treasure site in the Qiu Shan Mountain Range.

• Boss Zhang told Zhang Yun that Lin Xuankong had used powerful ice-type abilities to protect Zhao Guang's team from White Robe Wu Yong and his pet beast.
• Zhang Yun judged that Lin Xuankong's ability to protect his companions made him slightly stronger in combat than Zhang Yun himself.
• Zhang Yun left his attendants and Boss Zhang outside Lin Xuankong's cultivation room and told Lin Xuankong and Han Liu he wanted to discuss Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystals.
• Lin Xuankong questioned why Zhang Yun had brought news of such a valuable treasure to them instead of relying on his teacher, Zhao Jiulin.
• Zhang Yun explained that Zhao Jiulin had traveled to the Qiu Shan Mountain Range but was injured after fighting a powerful Fifth Tier Plant Type Source Beast and could not obtain the crystals.

Lin Xuankong considered Zhang Yun’s invitation to join a team hunting a badly wounded Fifth Tier Plant Type Climbing Mountain Beast in the Qiu Shan Mountain Range. He accepted on the condition that his student Han Liu join them, and Zhang Yun agreed after Lin promised Han Liu would keep the information secret.

• Zhang Yun explained that his master Zhao Jiulin had badly wounded the Climbing Mountain Beast, which was still recovering, and that its nest also held several Fifth Tier Animal Type Source Beasts.
• Zhang Yun offered Lin Xuankong a share of the expedition’s gains and argued that Lin’s strength and character made him a trustworthy teammate.
• Lin Xuankong asked why Zhang Yun had chosen him instead of Yun Song Nation’s own experts, and Zhang Yun said he trusted Lin more than those alternatives.
• Lin Xuankong accepted the invitation but insisted that his student Han Liu join the team.
• Zhang Yun agreed to include Han Liu after Lin assured him that Han Liu would not reveal the expedition’s secret.

Lin Xuankong agreed to join Zhang Yun’s expedition to a wounded Fifth Tier Plant Type Source Beast’s nest, confident in his strength and hidden abilities. At Zhang’s birthday banquet, he asked Zhao Guang about the gathered experts and learned that Sun Lin, Zhao Jiulin’s second disciple, possessed a powerful Plant Type ability.

• Han Liu worried that Zhang Yun’s expedition was sudden and dangerous, but Lin Xuankong argued that the beast had weaknesses and that strength would protect them.
• Lin Xuankong reflected on his many abilities and decided that openly demonstrating his strength could bring him valuable opportunities.
• At Zhang Yun’s birthday banquet, Lin Xuankong asked Zhao Guang to identify the Sixth Tier Gene Experts present and describe their abilities.
• Zhao Guang identified Lu Fei, Guan Gu, and Sun Lin among the experts, explaining that Sun Lin had a mysterious Plant Type ability and was stronger than Zhang Yun.
• Lin Xuankong watched Sun Lin and wondered what her Plant Type ability could do.

Lin Xuankong assessed the unfamiliar Plant-type Gene Expert Sun Lin and listened as Zhao Guang described the powerful sixth-tier experts among Zhao Jiulin’s disciples. After learning about the Earth-type Huang Liang, Lin Xuankong grew troubled, and Han Liu asked why he seemed downcast.

• Lin Xuankong kept Sun Lin under close watch while considering the strengths and risks of the unfamiliar Plant-type path.
• Zhao Guang described Tian Guang’s Super Berserk ability and explained how Tang Nation’s vast territory had left it more vulnerable to the Source Beast disaster than Yun Song Nation.
• Zhao Guang introduced Huang Liang as a rare Earth-type Gene Warrior whose abilities might let him contend with Sun Lin and other powerful experts.
• Lin Xuankong considered the range and few weaknesses of Earth-type abilities and judged Zhao Jiulin’s disciples collectively formidable.
• Lin Xuankong leaned back with a furrowed brow after Zhao Guang finished his introductions, and Han Liu asked why he seemed downcast.

Lin Xuankong arranged for Zhao Guang and Han Liu to sell their stockpiled Source Beast materials for Source Stone Crystals, hoping to prepare for the dangerous expedition to the Qiu Shan Mountain Range. Han Liu revealed the enormous haul hidden in his Void Devouring Space, and Zhao Guang set out to arrange its sale.

• Han Liu overheard Zhao Guang describe Zhang Yun’s powerful fellow disciples and realized they would be formidable teammates for the expedition.
• Lin Xuankong worried that Zhang Yun’s invitation meant the injured Climbing Mountain Beast was still dangerous, so he ordered Zhao Guang to sell their Source Beast materials for Source Stone Crystals.
• Lin Xuankong sent Han Liu with Zhao Guang to retrieve and sell the materials as quickly as possible, preferably for cheaper ninth-tier crystals.
• Han Liu used his Void Devouring Space to transfer the stored materials into the Closed-door Cultivation room on the thirty-second floor.
• Zhao Guang was stunned by the roomful of sixth- and seventh-tier Source Beast materials, then agreed to find buyers and handle the sale quickly.

Lin Xuankong and Han Liu gathered Source Stone Crystals for their expedition and met with Zhang Yun’s team to plan an assault on the Climbing Mountain Beast’s nest. The group agreed to split up, but they had not yet decided who would face the wounded Fifth Tier beast and draw its attacks.

• Zhao Guang sold Lin Xuankong and Han Liu’s Source Beast materials for more Source Stone Crystals than they had expected and offered them an additional box of his own crystals.
• Lin Xuankong and Han Liu accepted Zhao Guang’s contribution, and Han Liu acknowledged him as a friend.
• Lin Xuankong and Han Liu arrived at Zhang Yun’s residence and met Guan Gu, Huang Liang, Tian Guang, and Sun Lin.
• Guan Gu argued that the injured Climbing Mountain Beast should be easy to defeat, while Lin Xuankong cautioned that it remained dangerous.
• Zhang Yun proposed splitting the group between a team to distract the Climbing Mountain Beast and a smaller team to search its nest for the Fifth Tier Source Stone Crystal.
• Huang Liang pointed out that the team confronting the beast would face far greater danger, and the experts fell silent over who would take that role.

Zhang Yun proposed a joint operation to raid the Climbing Mountain Beast’s nest for the Tier Five Source Stone Crystals and materials from more than ten Tier Five Animal-type Source Beasts, but no one wanted to draw the beast’s firepower. Lin Xuankong volunteered, and Huang Liang followed, leaving the team’s composition unsettled as Guan Gu and Sun Lin argued over who should take the remaining risks.

• Zhang Yun explained the dangers of raiding the Climbing Mountain Beast’s nest and offered the firepower-drawing team two-thirds of the recovered resources.
• Huang Liang, Tian Guang, Sun Lin, Guan Gu, Lin Xuankong, and Han Liu agreed to the reward arrangement, but no one initially volunteered for the dangerous role.
• Lin Xuankong volunteered to draw the Climbing Mountain Beast’s firepower, and Huang Liang joined him.
• Guan Gu declined to join, citing his large family, and Sun Lin mocked him for his many wives and mistresses.
• Guan Gu defended his caution and urged Sun Lin, who had no family or partner, to volunteer instead.