Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan broke through the Dream Sand illusion, defeated two Demon Cultivators, and learned that the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom had sent forces into the Samsara Secret Realm. He then encountered another Demon Cultivator, who revealed the realm was actually the ruins of an ancient Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom figure and prepared to attack.

• Lin Fan exposed the false Yunmeng Sect Master and defeated the two Demon Cultivators who had ambushed him, learning from their memories that they served the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom.
• Lin Fan freed the female merfolk from the illusion and entered the Samsara Secret Realm, where he considered the Demon Kingdom’s presence and searched for the Yunmeng Sect Master.
• A Demon Cultivator attacked Lin Fan with runes in the phantom ocean, but his Eight-armed Rakshasa Paper Figurine blocked them.
• The Demon Cultivator identified Lin Fan as the Ling Xiao Sect Master and claimed the realm was the ruins of an ancient Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom figure, then summoned a Demon Tower and threatened him.

Lin Fan killed a Demon Cultivator guarding the secret realm and used Avatar Talismans to search its depths, discovering that dangerous formations protected a ruined palace. After finding Yunmeng Sect Master captured by a Dark Blood Demonic Wolf ancestor, he disguised himself with a Demon Kingdom token and prepared to follow them.

• Lin Fan drew out the Demon Cultivator with Yin Generals, destroyed its Demon Tower, and killed it, but a soul restriction prevented him from searching its memories.
• Yunmeng Sect Master, a burly man, and a Daoist-robed old man fled in separate directions when a Dark Blood Demonic Wolf ancestor pursued them.
• Lin Fan sent Avatar Talismans in several directions, then tested a ruined palace whose lightning defenses destroyed the demon-beast avatars he sent inside.
• Lin Fan followed reports of a battle and found Yunmeng Sect Master under guard by a Demon Cultivator while the colossal wolf shadow held the advantage.
• Lin Fan decided to follow the Demon Kingdom group, used the token he had taken, and transformed his appearance into a blue-furred figure.

The Demon Wolf Old Ancestor forced the Yunmeng Sect Master to cooperate by planting a Demon Wolf Curse, then led her and Lin Fan deeper into the Samsara Secret Realm. When spatial rifts appeared near a ruined palace, they killed one Demon Cultivator and injured the Old Ancestor, forcing the group to flee.

• The Yunmeng Sect Master persuaded the Demon Wolf Old Ancestor that she could help him reach the secret realm’s innermost region, and he planted a Demon Wolf Curse in her to keep her close.
• A blue-furred Demon Cultivator reported that Niu Gui and the others were missing, and the Yunmeng Sect Master identified the arriving Ling Xiao Sect Master as a Dao-Union cultivator.
• The Demon Wolf Old Ancestor ordered Lin Fan to watch the Yunmeng Sect Master, then took the group deeper into the secret realm through its Dream Sand and other hazards.
• The group encountered ruined palaces and mutilated corpses, and the Yunmeng Sect Master warned that spatial rifts filled the area.
• Spatial rifts appeared and severed a Demon Cultivator, while the Demon Wolf Old Ancestor injured its claw before leading everyone away.

Lin Fan and the Old Ancestor Demon Wolf followed the Yunmeng Sect Master through the dangerous Samsara Secret Realm to a gateway guarded by Dream Eaters. Inside the grand hall, the Old Ancestor Demon Wolf exposed Lin Fan’s disguise, and Lin Fan revealed himself while protecting the Yunmeng Sect Master.

• The Old Ancestor Demon Wolf used a Demon Cultivator as a shield when Dream Eaters emerged from spatial rifts, then ordered the Yunmeng Sect Master to guide the group.
• The Yunmeng Sect Master led Lin Fan and the Old Ancestor Demon Wolf safely through the secret realm to the Nightmare Eye and its gateway.
• The Old Ancestor Demon Wolf used the Myriad Soul Pearl to distract the Dream Eaters, and the three entered the gateway into a grand hall containing a jade-like tree seed and golden prayer beads.
• The Old Ancestor Demon Wolf sent Lin Fan to retrieve the offerings, but Lin Fan seized the Yunmeng Sect Master and escaped its attack.
• The Old Ancestor Demon Wolf revealed that it had recognized Lin Fan by his scent, and Lin Fan dropped his disguise as the Yunmeng Sect Master identified him as the new Ling Xiao Sect master.

Lin Fan, the Yunmeng Sect Master, and Old Ancestor Demon Wolf entered a deadly fight after the Daoist-robed old man betrayed the Yunmeng Sect Master. Old Ancestor Demon Wolf claimed the offering-table treasures, but a strange creature attacked the Daoist-robed man, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Lin Fan prompted the Yunmeng Sect Master to summon the Daoist-robed old man, who joined them against Old Ancestor Demon Wolf.
• The Yunmeng Sect Master revealed that her Dreamless Cultivation Method had made the Demon Wolf Curse ineffective.
• The Daoist-robed old man betrayed the Yunmeng Sect Master, helped Old Ancestor Demon Wolf kill her, and revealed that the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom had offered him a position and resources.
• Lin Fan summoned more than a hundred paper figurines, but Old Ancestor Demon Wolf destroyed them and swallowed a hidden Dao Integration cultivator who had been forced out by the Daoist-robed man's Blood Sword.
• Old Ancestor Demon Wolf ordered the Daoist-robed old man to retrieve the offering-table treasures, and the man took both the spiritual treasure and the tree seed.
• Strange black hands emerged from the offering table, crushed the Daoist-robed man's Blood Sword and defenses, tore out his heart, and sucked away his Soul Spirit as Old Ancestor Demon Wolf attacked.

The Yunmeng Sect Master revealed that she had used the Samsara Secret Realm to empower herself and planned to sacrifice Dao Integration cultivators, but the secret realm’s remnant will began to consume her. Lin Fan appeared while she was weakened and demanded that she become his slave, then unleashed a lightning talisman as she considered stalling for time.

• The Yunmeng Sect Master revealed that her apparent death had been a deception and drew on the secret realm’s power to fight the Demon Wolf Ancestor.
• The Yunmeng Sect Master explained that she meant to sacrifice the Demon Wolf Ancestor, the Daoist-robed old man, and the Ling Xiao Sect Master to inherit their power and advance to Dao Integration.
• The Demon Wolf Ancestor trapped the Yunmeng Sect Master in its Demonic Land Space, but her tentacles broke in, drained the demonic shadows, and crushed its wolf head.
• The Yunmeng Ancestor’s remnant will began fighting for control of the Yunmeng Sect Master, and the Shadow Talisman pierced her chest before being swallowed by her tentacles.
• Lin Fan appeared and used over a hundred talismans to pressure the weakened Yunmeng Sect Master into considering becoming his slave.
• As the Yunmeng Sect Master secretly tried to buy time, Lin Fan summoned the Calamity Immortal Soldier Talisman, which struck down at her in a blaze of lightning.

Lin Fan killed the Yunmeng Sect Master, escaped the collapsing secret realm with its spirit treasure and Dao Law Seed, and used the seed to advance to Dao Integration (Third Grade). Back at Ling Xiao Sect, Xi Yun, Yang Ling, and Zhao Mengyu worried over his absence as Peak Master Luoyun and Cui Zhanglai demanded to know when he would return.

• Lin Fan destroyed the Yunmeng Sect Master's body and soul, then collected her storage jade pendant and the storage artifacts left by the Demon Wolf Ancestor and the old man in the Daoist robe.
• Lin Fan used a giant phantom to seize the spirit treasure and Dao Law Seed from the offering table, then escaped as the palace and secret realm collapsed.
• The merman chief discovered that the secret realm's aura had vanished, and the merfolk celebrated their freedom from guarding its entrance.
• Lin Fan hid in a mountain cave and fed the Dao Law Seed to the Enlightenment Tree, gaining insights that raised his realm to Dao Integration (Third Grade).
• At Ling Xiao Sect, Zhao Mengyu told Xi Yun and Yang Ling that Peak Master Luoyun and Cui Zhanglai had demanded Lin Fan's return within three days.

Lin Fan resisted the Buddhist Bead Spiritual Treasure’s attempt to convert him and began refining it with the help of his Sword Heart. After examining Yunmeng Sect Master's manuals, he learned the Heart-Piercing Life and Death Talisman and began advancing the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art.

• Lin Fan’s Sword Heart shattered the Buddhist phantom before it could convert him, and he sent the resistant Buddhist Bead Spiritual Treasure into his sea of consciousness to refine it.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint identified the beads as a Buddhist Treasure and warned Lin Fan that possessing it could entangle him with the Buddhist sect.
• Lin Fan examined Yunmeng Sect Master's storage jade pendant and found the Dream Scripture, the Illusory Mind Method, and the Heart-Piercing Life and Death Talisman.
• Lin Fan spent one hundred and fifty years of lifespan to advance the Heart-Piercing Life and Death Talisman to the Initiate level and formed a basic talisman.
• Lin Fan agreed to spend three hundred and fifty years of lifespan to advance the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art to the Initiate level.

Lin Fan mastered the beginnings of the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art and discovered through a Voice Transmission Jade that the Inspection Office was plotting to use a coming Conscription Order to force him into service. He realized danger was approaching and turned to searching the remaining storage artifacts for resources.

• Lin Fan practiced the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art, drawing in the energies of heaven and earth and reaching the beginner level.
• Lin Fan examined the Yunmeng Sect Master's Dao Artifacts and found a Voice Transmission Jade engraved with the words "Inspection Office."
• Lin Fan disguised himself as the Yunmeng Sect Master and answered a call from a high-ranking figure who ordered him to consolidate the forces of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and seize the chance to subdue the Ling Xiao Sect.
• Lin Fan learned that Great Gan would soon issue a Conscription Order covering Dao Integration cultivators and others with a chance of reaching that realm, and he realized he would be among those summoned.
• Lin Fan searched the Demon Wolf Ancestor's and the Dao-robed elder's storage artifacts, but found only Demonic Beast Blood Essence in the former and no treasures in the latter.

Peak Master Luoyun allied with Ancestor Jin Hun of the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom and plotted to take control of Ling Xiao Sect while the Sect Master was missing. As Luoyun Peak and Lingxiao Peak attacked Paper Figure Peak, Xi Yun, Yang Ling, and Zhao Mengyu faced imminent defeat until a terrifying figure burst from the cave dwelling.

• Peak Master Luoyun revealed that he had refined the Luoyun Cauldron and planned to make Elder Cui the next Sect Master.
• Ancestor Jin Hun emerged, explaining that he had removed the Sect Master's soul imprint from Peak Master Luoyun and urging Elder Cui to pledge allegiance to the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom.
• Luoyun Peak and Lingxiao Peak disciples launched a surprise attack on Paper Figure Peak, and Zhao Mengyu, Xi Yun, and Yang Ling joined the defense.
• A Luoyun Peak elder knocked Zhao Mengyu down and urged her to surrender, but she refused and continued resisting with Xi Yun and Yang Ling.
• Elder Cui ordered the surrounded defenders to surrender; when Xi Yun refused, he sent the attackers forward, but a terrifying figure suddenly burst out of the cave dwelling.

Lin Fan returned to Paper Figure Peak as the Peak Master of Luoyun Peak and Ancestor Jin Hun threatened his disciples. He destroyed the Peak Master's Harmonization treasure and began fighting Ancestor Jin Hun, whose golden cicada form his sword pierced.

• Lin Fan's Sky Swallowing Demonic Sparrow Talisman killed Cui Can and many disciples before the Peak Master of Luoyun Peak and Ancestor Jin Hun destroyed it.
• The Peak Master ordered the three women killed, but Lin Fan appeared and stopped the attack.
• The Peak Master explained his ambition to enter Harmonization, and Lin Fan shattered the Luoyun Cauldron with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Ancestor Jin Hun offered Lin Fan a place in the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom, but Lin Fan attacked him with his strongest sword art.
• Ancestor Jin Hun summoned a golden cicada form to defend himself, but Lin Fan appeared behind him and pierced it with Sword Qi.

Lin Fan defeated Ancestor Jin Hun and learned that the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom was preparing a Conscription Order while expanding its influence through the Wild Monkey Clan and the Yunmeng Sect. After suppressing a rebellion and rebuilding the Ling Xiao Sect, he chose to wait before acting against the Yunmeng Sect, saying they needed sufficient bait.

• Ancestor Jin Hun trapped Lin Fan in a blood-red dreamscape, but Lin Fan used Eye of Submersion to find and defeat his true body before searching his soul.
• Lin Fan learned that the Heavenly Net Demon Kingdom planned a Conscription Order, had taken control of the Yunmeng Sect through Ancestor Demonic Soul, and used the defected Wild Monkey Clan to reach the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Lin Fan destroyed Ancestor Jin Hun, returned to Paper Figure Peak, and sent paper figures to punish those who had joined or failed to resist the rebellion.
• Lin Fan returned to the Ling Xiao Sect, suppressed the rebellions at Luoyun Peak and Lingxiao Peak, abolished both peaks, and brought their surviving disciples into Paper Figure Peak.
• Lin Fan promoted Zhao Mengyu to sect elder and recruited wandering cultivators as Zhao Mengyu investigated the Yunmeng Sect, which was secretly controlled by Demon Cultivators and led by the possessed Wan Tianhua.
• Lin Fan told Zhao Mengyu not to move against the Yunmeng Sect yet because they needed sufficient bait.

Lin Fan perfected the Spirit Control Secret Records, advanced his cultivation and Sky Swallowing Bright King Art, and learned that the Patrol Office wanted him to attack the Wild Monkey Clan. He chose to remain cautious and focus on growing stronger while the conflict between the sects and the Patrol Office loomed.

• Lin Fan spent two hundred and eighty years of lifespan to perfect the Spirit Control Secret Records and learned to draw the Three-Eyed Flood Dragon Talisman.
• Lin Fan's cultivation advanced to the fourth grade of the Dao Integration Realm, and he spent another four hundred years of lifespan advancing the Sky Swallowing Bright King Art to the proficient stage.
• At Yunmeng Sect, the figure called Old Ancestor agreed to the other sects' doubled terms and learned that only the Ling Xiao Sect Master had emerged from the secret realm.
• Lin Fan received a call from the Patrol Office, whose representative accused him of disrupting its plans and demanded that he exterminate the Wild Monkey Clan.
• Lin Fan suspected the Patrol Office wanted him and the Wild Monkey Clan to weaken each other, so he decided to avoid direct confrontation and continue strengthening himself.

Lin Fan offered Xi Yun the choice to leave Ling Xiao Sect for her safety, but she insisted on staying by his side. He refined a Three-Eyed Flood Dragon talisman and advanced his Flowing Cloud Sword Dao, leaving him with Pure Origin Sword Intent and a path toward cultivating a Pure Origin Sword Body.

• Lin Fan asked Xi Yun whether she wanted to return home, but she refused to leave him and said she would wait for his return if he ever left Ling Xiao Sect.
• Lin Fan ordered people to gather Demonic Beast Blood Essence and continued guiding Zhao Mengyu, Xi Yun, and Yang Ling in their cultivation.
• Lin Fan completed a Three-Eyed Flood Dragon talisman using the blood essence of more than a hundred demonic beasts and sent it into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to grow stronger.
• Lin Fan spent two hundred and sixty years to advance Flowing Cloud Sword Dao to major accomplishment and awakened Pure Origin Sword Intent throughout his body.
• Lin Fan realized his Sword Heart had dispersed into a Sword Body, and learned that refining ten thousand strands of Pure Origin Sword Intent would let him cultivate a Pure Origin Sword Body.

A Ling Xiao Sect spy escaped the Yunmeng Sect with news of its alliance with the Wild Monkey Clan and its planned attack, while Lin Fan learned that Great Gan’s Conscription Order sent cultivators to the dangerous Forbidden Battlefield. The chapter left Lin Fan weighing the threat of resisting Great Gan’s summons and resolved to keep developing his strength.

• A Yunmeng Sect force chased a Ling Xiao Sect spy, but the Three-Eyed Flood Dragon Talisman killed the pursuers and allowed the spy to reach the Ling Xiao Sect.
• Zhao Mengyu told Lin Fan that the Yunmeng Sect would attack in three days and that Wan Tianhua had been possessed by a demon from the Wild Monkey Clan; Lin Fan said no preparations were needed.
• Lin Fan summoned the Bloodlight Demon Saint and learned that the Conscription Order concerned the ancient war against the Eerie Source on the Forbidden Battlefield.
• The Bloodlight Demon Saint estimated that Lin Fan had a fifty percent chance of defeating Great Gan if the Lifespan Ancient Mirror’s controller did not appear in person.
• Lin Fan recognized that he still needed time to grow stronger and planned to continue developing his abilities.

Lin Fan learned the Chaos Demon Body technique from Bloodlight Demon Saint, then confronted Ancestor Ape at the Yunmeng Sect and killed him after he slaughtered the sect's disciples. Lin Fan offered Ancestor Ape's body to Bloodlight Demon Saint, who possessed it.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint revealed the Chaos Demon Body technique after Lin Fan pressed him for a valuable inheritance.
• Lin Fan learned that the technique could grant a powerful physique but required the blood essences of thousands of demons and evil beings.
• Ancestor Ape, possessing Wan Tianhua, destroyed the Yunmeng Sect's flying ships and demanded Lin Fan surrender his secret-realm opportunity.
• Ancestor Ape killed the Yunmeng Sect's remaining elders and disciples, consumed their blood mist and souls, and sent their wraiths against Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan fought Ancestor Ape in colossal forms and killed him with a punch, then annihilated his escaping remnant soul with Pure Origin Sword Intent.
• Lin Fan offered Ancestor Ape's body to Bloodlight Demon Saint, who entered it despite calling it inadequate.

After the Yunmeng Sect fell, Lin Fan strengthened the Ling Xiao Sect and refined a powerful Nine Nether Profound Maiden paper figure. His peaceful cultivation ended when Great Gan summoned him to the Forbidden Battlefield, and he accepted the order to protect his sect from retaliation.

• Bloodlight Demon Saint destroyed the Wild Monkey Clan and returned to the Ling Xiao Sect, where Lin Fan kept it under close watch.
• Lin Fan used two hundred years of lifespan to advance the Shadowless Paper Figure Art to mastery, then refined a Nine Nether Profound Maiden paper figure that absorbed much of his Spiritual Energy.
• Lin Fan continued refining paper figures and guiding Zhao Mengyu, Xi Yun, and Yang Ling as the Ling Xiao Sect prospered after the Yunmeng Sect's destruction.
• Bloodlight Demon Saint sensed a powerful cultivator from Great Gan, and an ancient mirror appeared above the Ling Xiao Sect, pressing its cultivators to the ground.
• Two figures emerged from the mirror and ordered Lin Fan to enter the Forbidden Battlefield within a day; after learning the mirror could defeat him unless he reached the ninth grade of the Dao Integration Realm, Lin Fan accepted the summons.

Lin Fan accepted the Conscription Order and perfected the Flowing Cloud Sword Dao, transforming his Sword Heart into a Pure Origin Sword Body before entering the Forbidden Battlefield. He arrived at Bianlin City with the other conscripts, where a stern officer prepared to assign them.

• Lin Fan agreed to advance the Flowing Cloud Sword Dao and fused his Sword Heart into his body, forming a Pure Origin Sword Body.
• Lin Fan inspected his improved abilities, then left Ling Xiao Sect with Bloodlight Demon Saint concealed inside his body.
• Lin Fan and several other conscripts boarded a teleportation platform and were transported to the Forbidden Battlefield.
• A burly man at Bianlin City complained that only a few conscripts had arrived, then brought out a roster to call their names and assign them.

Lin Fan arrived at Bianlin City under the name Wei Wushang and was assigned to Puppet Palace after its commander sorted newcomers by their abilities. Li Hanru welcomed him and explained the palace’s puppet-making duties and rewards.

• A burly commander killed the Xuantu Ancient Sect ancestor for challenging him, then warned the newcomers to obey Bianlin City’s rules.
• The commander assigned Zhou Yun to Myriad Poison Palace after recognizing her connection to poison refining, and sent Lin Fan to Puppet Palace for his Paper Figure Puppet Technique.
• Lin Fan received a bronze token identifying him as Wei Wushang of Puppet Palace and followed a soldier to the palace.
• Li Hanru introduced herself to Lin Fan, offered to guide him through Puppet Palace, and explained that its cultivators made puppets to defend Bianlin City from strange erosion.
• Li Hanru told Lin Fan that meeting daily puppet quotas earned Dao Crystals and that Puppet Palace was safer than other regions.

Lin Fan learned how dangerous the Forbidden Battlefield was and began working in the Puppet Palace, where he copied puppet manuals and demonstrated his skill at making powerful Paper Figure Puppets. Li Hanru was impressed by his abilities but remained wary of trusting him with her own plans.

• Li Hanru told Lin Fan that the Puppet Palace had dozens of Unity Realm cultivators and warned him about the Black Demon Fog and its mutated victims.
• Li Hanru brought Lin Fan into the Puppet Palace, where he saw its workers crafting puppets and learned that stronger puppets earned more Dao Crystals.
• Lin Fan copied several puppet manuals and gained forty-five years of lifespan in one afternoon.
• Lin Fan made Cloud Soaring Realm Paper Figure Puppets, astonishing Li Hanru, who considered him a potential ally but decided not to trust him.