Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan advanced his sword arts and questioned Bloodlight Demon Saint about using sword dao as the basis for Dao Integration. He then sent Ghost Mother Wuji into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to strengthen Wuji Sail’s Yin spirits, while planning to seek Dao Integration objects for several different paths.

• Lin Fan cultivated the Flowing Cloud Sword Dao, gaining insights into a potential supreme sword body, then advanced the Starry Sky Sword Control Technique.
• Lin Fan asked Bloodlight Demon Saint whether Dao Integration was possible without a special object and learned about sword cultivators who had used Treasure Swords or earth-vein spiritual power.
• Lin Fan resolved to pursue Dao Integration in sword dao, talismans, ghost cultivation, and Paper Figure Art, keeping his plans secret from Bloodlight Demon Saint.
• Ghost Mother Wuji reported that some of Wuji Sail’s hundred thousand Yin spirits had become Yin Generals and grown stronger.
• Lin Fan ordered Ghost Mother Wuji to lead the Yin spirits into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to hunt demons and advance further.
• Lin Fan considered using the transformed Yin spirits as a Dao Integration object for ghost cultivation, while seeking suitable objects for sword dao and Paper Figure Art.

Lin Fan took a frightened escaped slave from the Paper Making Building into his residence as a maid, then rejected Ling Xiaoxiao’s offer to return to Lingxiao Peak. The chapter ended with a dark-green paper figure praising Lin Fan’s loyalty and suggesting Paper Figure Peak might yet rule Ling Xiao Sect.

• The Paper Making Building’s overseer executed a newcomer who objected to being assigned there, then assigned the other newcomers to machine rooms.
• Lin Fan stepped in when the overseer singled out a delicate girl and took her to his residence as a maid.
• Lin Fan told the girl to adapt to her role, while Xi Yun welcomed her and explained that Lin Fan had saved her from the Paper Making Building.
• The girl gradually adjusted to life in Lin Fan’s residence, though she had not yet become as comfortable serving him as Xi Yun.
• Ling Xiaoxiao visited Lin Fan, criticized his choice to join Paper Figure Peak, and urged him to return to Lingxiao Peak with Master Xing’s offer.
• Lin Fan affirmed that he was a disciple of Paper Figure Peak, and a dark-green paper figure praised his loyalty and hinted that the peak’s future remained uncertain.

Lin Fan considered the threat to Paper Figure Peak and focused on keeping his place there, while Ghost Mother Wuji explored an abyss filled with Yin energy. Back at the courtyard, Lin Fan let the girl he had brought there try to leave, then gave her the name Xi Yan after she returned.

• Lin Fan suspected that sending Chen Quan's childhood sweetheart to Paper Figure Peak was a threat, but decided to keep lying low as long as he could stay and copy books.
• Ghost Mother Wuji entered an abyss in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and discovered a gathering place for Yin Souls.
• Ghost Mother Wuji defeated the Black-Faced Ghost King and absorbed its ten thousand Yin Spirits into the Wuji Sail.
• Lin Fan asked the girl in his courtyard whether she wanted to leave and let her attempt to go down the mountain.
• The girl returned after learning she could not leave as a maidservant, and Lin Fan told her to follow Xi Yun's arrangements and named her Xi Yan.

Lin Fan advanced the Spirit Control Secret Records, learned to make Shadow Talismans, and began refining talismans as a possible path to the Unity Dao realm. At the Paper Making Building, he found Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak disciples inserted into Paper Figure Peak’s defenses, hinting at a brewing conflict within the sect.

• Lin Fan spent 250 years of lifespan to advance the Spirit Control Secret Records to Minor Accomplishment and learned the Shadow Talisman rune.
• Lin Fan made a Shadow Talisman whose hidden shadow could evade even his soul sense, then sent it out to spy.
• Lin Fan decided that talismans themselves could be his object for entering the Unity Dao realm and spent the following nights making more than a hundred talismans.
• Lin Fan found Lingxiao Peak Outer Disciples stationed at the Paper Making Building, claiming they had been assigned to reinforce its guards.
• The dark-green paper figure told Lin Fan that Luoyun Peak had also sent disciples to Paper Figure Peak and ordered him to keep the building secure.

Xi Yun urged the escaped girl to accept her place at the residence, and the girl renamed herself Xi Yan. At Paper Figure Peak, Elder Liang sent Xiao Kong to Lingxiao Peak with a letter that secretly ordered Elder Xing to kill him, and he was caught trying to flee.

• Xi Yun reminded the girl that Senior had saved her and advised her to fulfill her duty; the girl agreed and took the name Xi Yan.
• A dark-green paper figure warned Elder Liang that Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak had placed over a hundred disciples at Paper Figure Peak, including in the Paper Making Building.
• Elder Liang explained that the Sect Master had sent reinforcements while the Peak Master remained in seclusion, then gave the paper figure a letter for Elder Xing.
• Xiao Kong delivered the letter to Elder Xing, who revealed its instruction that the bearer could be killed.
• Xiao Kong split into paper-figure afterimages to escape, but Elder Xing sealed the doors and skewered them with Black Order Divine Chains.

Lin Fan uncovered signs of an impending upheaval within Ling Xiao Sect as disciples from Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak were placed throughout important areas. Yang Ling revealed that the Eerie Source had overrun her home in Shangyang Commandery, leaving Lin Fan to wonder whether the force behind it was connected to the mysterious altar.

• Lin Fan learned through his Shadow Talisman that Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak disciples had been planted across Paper Figure Peak and other important areas, so he spread Avatar Talismans to observe the sect.
• Lingxiao Peak disciples blocked Lin Fan from approaching his separate courtyard and ordered their fellows to keep watch over him.
• Lin Fan warned Xi Yun and the other girl to remain in the cave abode, and the girl later revealed that her name was Yang Ling and that she was the daughter of Shangyang Commandery's governor.
• Yang Ling told Lin Fan that the Eerie Source had transformed demonic evils and cultivators into relentless killers, causing several cities in Shangyang Commandery to fall and cutting off all distress signals.
• Yang Ling explained that her father had helped her escape, but Lin Fan suspected the Eerie Source might be connected to the mysterious altar that had caused chaos in Wei and Jin.

Lin Fan used a controlled body to uncover Lingxiao Peak’s plans against Paper Figure Peak, while Elder Liang ambushed the Paper Figure Peak master after revealing her betrayal. The master escaped the attack with a Substitute Paper Figure and condemned Elder Liang for conspiring with Lingxiao Peak.

• Lin Fan took control of a Lingxiao Peak disciple’s body with the Shadow Talisman and learned that Lingxiao Peak was preparing to attack Paper Figure Peak.
• Lingxiao Peak and Luoyun Peak disciples appeared across Paper Figure Peak, setting up checkpoints as Lin Fan tracked the sect with talismans.
• Elder Liang disguised herself as a damaged paper figure and lured Paper Figure Peak’s master into healing her, then bound him with black runes.
• Elder Liang revealed that she had destroyed Xue Jie’s other two paper figure bodies, and the runes killed him as he tried to flee.
• The master escaped Elder Liang’s attack using a Substitute Paper Figure and accused her of betraying him and joining Lingxiao Peak.

The Paper Figure Peak Master revealed that she had recovered and used Elder Liang and Xing Ruchu to expose the plot against her before killing them. She then led an assault on Lingxiao Peak and confronted the Masked Man, who had been expecting her.

• The Paper Figure Peak Master revealed her recovery, identified Elder Liang as a traitor, and killed her and Xing Ruchu after they attacked.
• The Paper Figure Peak Master headed to Lingxiao Peak, killed the mountain-gate guards, and sent hundreds of paper figures to attack the peak.
• A man at a cave dwelling recognized that the scheme had failed and made his way toward the Sect Master's Floating Palace.
• The Paper Figure Peak Master fought through Lingxiao Peak, defeated several elders, and arrived at the Floating Palace, where the Masked Man was waiting for her.

The Paper Figure Peak Master and Ling Xiao Sect Master Wang Hua fought a deadly battle over the Wuchen Sword Flame and their competing Harmonization objects. The badly wounded Wang Hua appeared doomed, but his sudden smile left the outcome uncertain.

• Wang Hua revealed that he had lured the Yunmeng Sect into attacking Paper Figure Peak to injure the Paper Figure Peak Master and steal his Harmonization object.
• Wang Hua attacked with the Wuchen Sword Flame, but the Paper Figure Peak Master survived by fusing his soul into a Paper Figure Child and using the Wumeng Ancient Mirror to hide his recovery.
• The Paper Figure Peak Master sent waves of Paper Figures against Wang Hua, who answered by activating a formation powered by Lingxiao Peak's spiritual veins.
• Both fighters exhausted their forces, and the Paper Figure Peak Master used the Nirvana Ghost Pearl to blast Wang Hua to the ground.
• As the Paper Figure Peak Master prepared to strike Wang Hua's brow, Wang Hua suddenly smiled.

Lin Fan intervened in the battle between the Ling Xiao Sect Master and the white-robed youth, killed both after searching their souls, and took their treasures. Disguised as the white-robed youth, he claimed he had slain the sect master’s murderer and silenced the arriving Lingxiao Peak disciples with force.

• The Ling Xiao Sect Master and the white-robed youth exhausted their strongest attacks, but Lin Fan’s Calamity Immortal Soldier Talisman incapacitated them both.
• Lin Fan emerged from hiding, revealed himself as Yu Zifeng, and used Soul Searching Technique on the white-robed youth before killing her and taking the Nirvana Ghost Pearl.
• Lin Fan searched the Ling Xiao Sect Master’s soul, killed her, and took the Dustless Flame.
• Lin Fan transformed into the white-robed youth’s likeness as Lingxiao Peak disciples arrived, then used the Two-headed Paper Tiger to kill those who confronted him.
• Lin Fan claimed the sect master had been killed and that he had slain the murderer, while the remaining disciples stayed silent under his pressure.

Lin Fan took control of the Lingxiao Sect after the Sect Master’s death, securing the Luoyun Peak Master’s submission and refining the spoils he had seized. The sect settled into peace with Lin Fan disguised as the Paper Figure Peak Master and secretly ruling as its new Sect Master.

• Lin Fan appointed Cui Can as Lingxiao Peak’s Great Elder and ordered him to bring the peak in line.
• Lin Fan demanded and placed a divine-soul imprint on the Luoyun Peak Master, who agreed to remain at Luoyun Peak.
• Lin Fan reviewed how the Shadow Talisman had let him exploit the two old masters’ conflict and claim their spoils.
• Lin Fan identified the Dustless Flame, Paper Figure Child, and Nirvana Ghost Pearl as Dao Integration objects for different paths.
• Lin Fan began refining talismans, and within days he had taken control of the Lingxiao Sect under the guise of the Paper Figure Peak Master.

Lin Fan took control of the Ling Xiao Sect, gathered books to copy for lifespan, and strengthened the Wuji Sail with a Ghost King. As ominous clouds gathered over Paper Figure Peak, he flew into the sky with four powerful objects circling him.

• Xi Yun and the other girl were summoned to Paper Figure Hall, where Lin Fan revealed his disguise as Paper Figure Peak Master and made them his Soul Slaves.
• Lin Fan told the girls he was the new sect master, then used Cui Can's efforts to bring the Ling Xiao Sect under his control, executing those who resisted.
• Lin Fan ordered Elder Cui to collect books on talismans and Paper Figure Art, then copied them to gain nearly two hundred years of lifespan.
• Ghost Mother Wuji returned with the Wuji Sail, whose Yin Soldiers had nearly all become Yin Generals, and Lin Fan rewarded her with the Nirvana Ghost Pearl.
• Lin Fan fused the Ghost King-containing pearl into the Wuji Sail, then flew into the sky as heavy clouds and thunder approached, accompanied by the sail, Dustless Flame, Paper Demon Child, and a large talisman.

Lin Fan endured the Heavenly Tribulation and entered Dao Integration, transforming his inner landscape into a vast Spiritual Energy sea with a Bridge of Longevity. His new realm let him perceive the Ling Xiao Sect and everything within a hundred li.

• The Heavenly Tribulation descended over the Ling Xiao Sect as Lin Fan began his breakthrough, and cultivators across the sect reacted to its terrifying pressure.
• Lin Fan faced the Tribulation-Extinguishing Thunders with the protection of four Dao Integration treasures, while Bloodlight Demon Saint warned him that eighty-one increasingly powerful bolts awaited.
• A huge shadow charged into the leaden clouds to block a fatal thunderbolt, and the thunder and explosions continued for an entire day.
• Lin Fan survived the tribulation and recovered as his Origin Energy transformed into Spiritual Energy and his spirit took on forms resembling his treasures.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint recognized that Lin Fan had entered an extraordinary form of Dao Integration, and Lin Fan sensed everything within a hundred li.
• Lin Fan discovered that his inner landscape had become a vast Spiritual Energy sea crossed by the Bridge of Longevity.

The Yunmeng Sect’s master learned that Lin Fan had reached the Dao Integration Realm and sent someone to the Ling Xiao Sect to test whether he would honor their agreement. Meanwhile, Lin Fan mastered the Shadowless Paper Figure Art and learned that Dao Integration cultivators could strengthen their paths by plundering and devouring the Dao of others; the Luoyun Peak Master then requested an audience.

• The Yunmeng Sect’s master discussed Lin Fan’s breakthrough and ordered a suitable person to visit the Ling Xiao Sect about their agreement.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to master the Shadowless Paper Figure Art and created a Lion-faced Human design.
• Lin Fan questioned the Bloodlight Demon Saint about Dao Integration cultivation and learned that cultivators could plunder and devour other cultivators’ Dao.
• Xi Yun told Lin Fan that the Luoyun Peak Master was waiting outside his cave abode.

Lin Fan accepted Zhao Mengyu into his cave residence after Luoyun Peak Master offered her to him, then used the gifted Dao Artifacts with his Avatar Talismans. He taught Zhao Mengyu, Xi Yun, and Yang Ling basic Paper Figure Art techniques, leaving the three women beginning their cultivation under his instruction.

• Luoyun Peak Master presented Lin Fan with dozens of Dao Artifacts and asked him to take Zhao Mengyu as a disciple, but Lin Fan declined and allowed her to stay with him instead.
• Zhao Mengyu gave Xi Yun and Yang Ling Youth Preserving Pills, while Lin Fan tested his Avatar Talismans with the gifted Dao Artifacts.
• Zhao Mengyu came to attend Lin Fan, who warned her against disloyalty before accepting her submission.
• Lin Fan taught Zhao Mengyu basic Paper Figure patterns, which she mastered within several days.
• Xi Yun and Yang Ling asked to learn the Paper Figure Art, and Lin Fan began teaching them its basic techniques.

Lin Fan mastered the Sky Swallowing Demonic Sparrow Talisman after advancing the Spirit Control Secret Records, then confronted Yunmeng Sect elder Wan Tianhua over the sect’s past attack and theft of Paper Figure Peak disciples. Wan Tianhua faced Lin Fan’s killing intent and had to explain why he had come.

• Yang Ling refined a paper cat, while Xi Yun and the young girl continued learning the Paper Figure Art under Lin Fan’s guidance.
• Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to advance the Spirit Control Secret Records to Grand Accomplishment and learned the Sky Swallowing Demonic Sparrow Talisman.
• Lin Fan ordered the young girl to gather Demonic Beast Blood Essence, then completed the Sky Swallowing Demonic Sparrow Talisman that night.
• Wan Tianhua arrived at the Ling Xiao Sect and introduced himself as an elder of the Yunmeng Sect.
• Lin Fan accused the Yunmeng Sect of sending spies, attacking Paper Figure Peak, and abducting its disciples, then threatened to kill Wan Tianhua unless he gave a satisfactory explanation.

Lin Fan learned that Unity cultivators in Great Gan faced conscription to the deadly Forbidden Battlefield and considered Yunmeng Sect’s offer to enter its ancestor’s secret realm. After deciding to grow stronger, he watched a mysterious shadow seize the Yunmeng elder who had tried to persuade him.

• A Dream Clone allowed the Yunmeng elder to survive Lin Fan’s Shadow Talisman attack, and the elder warned that Great Gan would conscript Lin Fan now that he had entered the Unity realm.
• The elder offered Yunmeng Sect’s help in finding its patriarch’s Dao insights in exchange for Lin Fan honoring the old agreement to escort the Yunmeng Sect Master into the secret realm.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint warned that the secret realm could be bait and revealed that conscripts were sent to the perilous Forbidden Battlefield before becoming deranged at the mention of it.
• Lin Fan dismissed the Bloodlight Demon Saint to recover and resolved to become stronger before the Conscription Order arrived.
• A paper figure confronted the Yunmeng elder, crumbled into ashes, and left him vulnerable to a shadow that appeared behind him and grabbed his throat.

Lin Fan learned that the Yunmeng Sect sought an alliance to oppose the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom and sent a paper figure to negotiate with its Sect Master. After advancing his Shadowless Paper Figure Art, he crafted an Eight-armed Rakshasa and several other paper figurines.

• Lin Fan searched Wan Tianhua’s soul, discovered the Yunmeng Sect’s plan concerning the Ancestor’s Secret Realm, and sent a transformed shadow to the Yunmeng Sect.
• The Yunmeng Sect Master saw through the paper figure impersonating Wan Tianhua and negotiated an alliance, agreeing to give the Ling Xiao Sect sixty percent of the secret realm’s rewards in exchange for help against the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom.
• The Yunmeng Sect Master killed a man who had colluded with the Demon Kingdom and confined his soul in a lamp to be tortured by its flames.
• Lin Fan spent one hundred and seventy years of lifespan to advance Shadowless Paper Figure Art to Minor Accomplishment and learned the Eight-armed Rakshasa pattern.
• Lin Fan crafted an Eight-armed Rakshasa paper figurine, a Lion-faced Human paper figurine, a Paper Tiger, and several other figures.

After the Green Light Divine Statue absorbed the black statue, it sent its Dao insights into Lin Fan and created an Enlightenment Tree in his inner landscape. Lin Fan accepted that the Primal Divine Statue had chosen him, advanced his Flowing Cloud Sword Dao and cultivation, and wondered whether the tree could improve his other skills.

• The Green Light Divine Statue devoured the black statue and sent its Dao insights into Lin Fan, causing an Enlightenment Tree to grow in his inner landscape.
• Lin Fan comprehended the Dao beneath the tree and discovered that the Primal Divine Statue had repaired itself, though it no longer returned power or nourished his soul.
• When Lin Fan tried to leave the Primal Divine Statue behind, it reappeared before him, and Bloodlight Demon Saint explained that it had chosen him and brought unavoidable karma.
• Lin Fan kept the Primal Divine Statue and spent the following days copying books and comprehending the Dao beneath the Enlightenment Tree.
• Lin Fan pre-empted Flowing Cloud Sword Dao to Minor Mastery, gained sword insights, and advanced to the second grade of Dao Integration Realm.
• Lin Fan wondered whether the Enlightenment Tree could also improve his talisman, paper figure, and ghost cultivation skills.

Lin Fan traveled to the Endless Swamp to reach the Yunmeng Sect Ancestor’s Cycle of Dreams secret realm. After entering the swamp’s dangerous miasma with the merfolk guide Luoxi, he was separated from her by a strange illusion.

• Lin Fan advanced the Starry Sky Sword Control Technique to minor mastery and left his cave abode after warning Zhao Mengyu about the Luoyun Peak Master’s schemes.
• Lin Fan traveled for half a month to the Endless Swamp, where merfolk recognized his Yunmeng Token and told him the Yunmeng Sect Master and others had entered ahead of him.
• The merfolk leader assigned Luoxi to guide Lin Fan through the swamp toward the secret realm entrance.
• Luoxi explained that her clan was bound by an oath to guard the entrance and could not leave the swamp while the secret realm remained.
• Black miasma engulfed Lin Fan and Luoxi, separating them and trapping Lin Fan in an apparent illusion that resisted his Sword Qi.