Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan and his companions discovered the ancient Dragon Clan Treasure Halls within the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, which the Primordial Ancient Dragon identified as repositories of ancestral inheritances. After Lin Fan gave permission, the Primordial Ancient Dragon flew toward the nearest hall to test it.

• The Primordial Ancient Dragon explained that the halls were built to preserve the ancient Dragon Clan’s inheritances and knowledge.
• Black Jade Qilin realized the halls might contain law energy he needed, while Ruo Xuan wondered whether she could try to enter one.
• Lin Fan suspected the halls would contain trials but decided they should attempt to enter them.
• Lin Fan told the Primordial Ancient Dragon to test the nearest treasure hall, and the dragon flew toward its entrance.

Lin Fan sensed a concealed formation around the platform holding a life-bound Dragon Pearl and sent a Paper Figure Talisman puppet to test the approach. The puppet reached the foot of the platform’s stairs, where Lin Fan’s next move remained undecided.

• Lin Fan searched the great hall with his Primordial Spirit and found a pure white Dragon Pearl floating above a jade platform.
• The Black Jade Qilin warned that astonishing formation fluctuations surrounded the platform, while the Primordial Ancient Dragon and Ruo Xuan waited for Lin Fan’s decision.
• Lin Fan summoned a Paper Figure Talisman and transformed it into a dark red puppet.
• Lin Fan controlled the puppet as it carefully avoided suspected formation patterns and abnormal Spiritual Power on its way to the platform.
• The puppet stopped at the foot of the rune-covered stairs, awaiting Lin Fan’s command.

The Primordial Ancient Dragon convinced the black phantom that he and his companions were genuine allies by revealing his pure Dragon Clan bloodline. The phantom offered him a chance to obtain the Lifebound Dragon Pearl, but the Primordial Ancient Dragon remained cautious about the formation surrounding it.

• The Primordial Ancient Dragon explained that Lin Fan, Ruo Xuan, and the Black Jade Qilin were his friends and revealed his pure Dragon Clan aura.
• The black phantom recognized the Primordial Ancient Dragon as a true descendant of the Dragon Clan and offered him the Lifebound Dragon Pearl.
• The black phantom said the pearl held his pre-death understanding of laws and inherited divine abilities that could help its bearer break through cultivation bottlenecks.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon hesitated when the runes around the high platform formed a glowing grand formation.
• The black phantom claimed the formation was an ordinary defense that would recognize Dragon Clan blood and let the Primordial Ancient Dragon pass safely.

Lin Fan and his companions encountered a terrifying black being freed from ancient formations, which seized the Primordial Ancient Dragon’s natal Dragon Pearl. The dragon realized it had been lured into breaking the seal and asked the being to identify itself.

• A thirty-foot black creature emerged, freezing the Primordial Ancient Dragon and frightening the Black Jade Qilin and Ruo Xuan.
• Lin Fan recognized the creature as possibly an ancient Eerie Divine Statue, and it announced that it had finally broken free.
• The creature thanked Lin Fan for freeing it from the grand formations.
• The creature drew the Primordial Ancient Dragon’s natal Dragon Pearl into its hand and suppressed its resistance, weakening the dragon’s bloodline connection to it.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon asked the creature who it was, and the creature briefly looked confused.

Lin Fan mocked the Dark Nether Divine Statue and offered to spare it if it became his slave. The ancient creature threatened him, but Lin Fan remained unruffled and claimed he had killed an Eerie Divine Statue before.

• Lin Fan called the Dark Nether Divine Statue ancient scum and offered to let it survive as his slave.
• The Dark Nether Divine Statue recalled its ancient power and reacted with fury to Lin Fan’s insult.
• The Dark Nether Divine Statue identified itself and threatened Lin Fan as black mist and killing intent filled the hall.
• Lin Fan calmly said he had killed an Eerie Divine Statue before and again urged the Dark Nether Divine Statue to kneel and beg for mercy.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon watched Lin Fan with reverence, relief, and pride.

The black creature summoned eighteen divine rings and manifested the ancient experts whose souls it had imprisoned, then sent them against Lin Fan. Lin Fan’s golden finger radiance destroyed the first attackers and continued toward the rest.

• The black creature declared that it would kill Lin Fan and raised eighteen divine rings above its head.
• The black mist formed solid figures of ancient experts who had died at the black creature’s hands and charged at Lin Fan.
• An ancient expert wielding chaotic laws attacked Lin Fan, but Lin Fan casually pointed a finger and destroyed him with golden radiance.
• A three-headed, six-armed figure charged with ancient artifacts, and Lin Fan’s golden radiance shattered its heads, arms, and body.

Lin Fan fought an ancient Eerie Divine Statue and made it wary enough to ask whether he was a Godslayer. Lin Fan offered it a chance to submit, but the creature grew furious when he rejected its attempt to end the fight.

• The black creature protected itself with eighteen divine rings after sensing Lin Fan as a genuine threat.
• The black creature asked who Lin Fan was, and Lin Fan demanded that it submit so he could keep it alive.
• The black creature suspected Lin Fan was a Godslayer, whose power it described as the source of destruction.
• The black creature decided Lin Fan was probably not a Godslayer and proposed that they stop fighting.
• Lin Fan responded with a half-smile, and the black creature angrily warned him not to push his luck.

Lin Fan destroyed the Eerie Divine Statue’s apparent body, exposed its true form hiding in the hall, and broke through its ring defense with a close-range attack. The finger light continued toward the statue, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lin Fan’s sword lights pierced the black furnace and shattered the black creature’s body and eighteen divine rings.
• Black Jade Qilin questioned whether the creature was dead, and the Primordial Ancient Dragon realized it had been a substitute.
• Lin Fan sensed the deception and struck the northwest corner of the hall with a fused divine sword, forcing the Eerie Divine Statue’s true form into view.
• The Eerie Divine Statue formed a defensive barrier with its eighteen black divine rings, which blocked Lin Fan’s descending sword.
• Lin Fan appeared beside the statue and shattered its ring barrier with golden finger light, which continued toward it.

Lin Fan’s attempt to search the Eerie Divine Statue’s soul triggered a hidden restriction that destroyed it, but he learned of the Dragon Emperor Hall, where the ancient dragon race’s greatest inheritance and fortune were kept.

• The Eerie Divine Statue self-destructed when Lin Fan’s Soul Searching Technique reached its consciousness, leaving a bottomless crater.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon checked that Lin Fan was unharmed and suggested someone had planted a restriction inside the statue.
• Lin Fan concluded the statue had been controlled by a powerful being and regretted losing the chance to have the Primal Divine Statue devour it.
• Lin Fan revealed that fragments of the statue’s memories had disclosed the Dragon Emperor Hall’s location and importance.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon said it had never heard of the hall but believed its name signified a place holding the ancient dragon race’s core inheritance.

Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to formally cultivate Eerie-Resisting Power, spending lifespan as golden runes transformed his body and Primordial Spirit. He confirmed the skill had reached Beginner and considered its potential before opening his eyes to the Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin.

• Lin Fan agreed to pre-empt the power, and his lifespan rapidly decreased as pure energy flooded his body and soul.
• Lin Fan sensed ancient golden runes emerge within his flesh, redirecting his mana and giving it an affinity that countered eerie creatures.
• Lin Fan checked his panel and saw Eerie-Resisting Power had advanced from Not Yet Initiated to Beginner, with his lifespan at 10500.
• Lin Fan judged that the power could help him face weakened Eerie Divine Statues, though he still needed to grow stronger to challenge one at full strength.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin bowed to Lin Fan when he opened his eyes.

Lin Fan and the others entered the Dragon Emperor Hall, where golden light revealed twelve ancient Life-Bound Dragon Pearls. The Primordial Ancient Dragon mourned the fallen Dragon Clan experts whose legacies the pearls contained, while Lin Fan suspected the treasures were guarded and held back from taking them.

• The hall illuminated as Lin Fan and the others entered, revealing ancient Dragon Clan carvings.
• Ruo Xuan spotted twelve dark spheres floating above them, and Black Jade Qilin recognized them as Life-Bound Dragon Pearls.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon grieved that twelve Dragon Clan experts had died in the ancient war and wondered if he was the last of his kind.
• Lin Fan considered how the pearls could aid his cultivation but did not approach them, suspecting the hall had a guardian.

The Dragon Lord revealed that he had possessed a young Dark Dragon Clan member and lured Lin Fan to the Dragon Emperor Hall as part of a plan to kill him. He left the Primordial Ancient Dragon and the Black Jade Qilin immobilized as he declared his ambition to restore the Dark Dragon Clan’s former power.

• The little girl restrained the Primordial Ancient Dragon and the Black Jade Qilin with an overwhelming pressure that drained their strength.
• The Dragon Lord spoke through the little girl and admitted that he had followed Lin Fan in her body.
• The Dragon Lord blamed Lin Fan for the Dark Dragon Clan’s decline and said he had arranged the clues to the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest as a trap.
• The Dragon Lord revealed that he intended to kill Lin Fan in the Dragon Emperor Hall and use the opportunity to make the Dark Dragon Clan rise again.

Lin Fan fought the Dragon Lord inside the Dragon Emperor Hall, whose suppression left him with little strength to spare. The Dragon Lord empowered the hall with his essence blood, and its dragon phantoms began pouring into him as Lin Fan attacked.

• The Dragon Lord tested Lin Fan with a five-finger strike, but Lin Fan slapped him across the face and sent him crashing into a pillar.
• The Dragon Lord concluded that the hall’s suppression had left Lin Fan with little room to counterattack, but Lin Fan warned that it was time for him to die.
• The Dragon Lord expelled drops of his essence blood and began an ancient incantation, awakening the hall’s dragon-shaped reliefs.
• Lin Fan charged through the suppression and unleashed a storm of Sword Qi at the Dragon Lord.
• The Dragon Lord’s black dragon phantom devoured the essence blood, grew stronger, and drew dragon phantoms from across the hall into his body.

Lin Fan revealed that he had seen through the Dragon Lord’s plot and killed him after searching his soul for the secrets of the Dragon Emperor Hall and Ten Thousand Dragons Nest. He then left the hall’s control untouched and went to check on the weakened Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin.

• Lin Fan explained that the Dragon Lord’s eagerness to guide him and his unnatural calm in the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest had exposed his scheme.
• The Dragon Lord begged for another chance, but Lin Fan refused, recalling that he had already spared him once.
• Lin Fan used the Soul Searching Technique to obtain the Dark Dragon Clan’s inherited secrets and information about the Dragon Emperor Hall and Ten Thousand Dragons Nest.
• Lin Fan killed the Dragon Lord, destroying his body and soul.
• Lin Fan left the Dragon Emperor Hall’s control alone and walked toward the weakened Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin.

After defeating the Dark Dragon Lord, Lin Fan learned from his memories that the Dragon Emperor Hall was an ancient artifact connected to the Ancient Dragon Emperor. The twelve Dragon Pearls then summoned a colossal figure whose bloodline-suppressing presence shook the hall, while Lin Fan remained unmoved.

• Lin Fan examined the Dark Dragon Lord's memories and learned that the Dragon Emperor Hall was an ancient artifact containing a remnant of the Ancient Dragon Emperor's will.
• The twelve Dragon Pearls trembled and released golden dragon phantoms that fused together in the hall.
• The emerging figure's aura nearly forced the Primordial Ancient Dragon to kneel and sent the injured Black Jade Qilin crashing into a pillar.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon identified the figure as the Ancient Dragon Emperor, while Lin Fan stood calmly before it.

The Ancient Dragon Emperor told the Primordial Ancient Dragon that the Ancient Dragon Clan had shattered in the war, but said his return meant its bloodline and will survived. He questioned Lin Fan about his origins after witnessing his overwhelming power, but Lin Fan only called himself an ordinary human cultivator.

• The Ancient Dragon Emperor revealed that the Ancient Dragon Clan had shattered after the war and nearly vanished.
• The Ancient Dragon Emperor said the Primordial Ancient Dragon's return proved the Dragon Clan's bloodline and will endured.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon introduced Lin Fan as his master and credited him with bringing him back to life.
• The Ancient Dragon Emperor examined Lin Fan and admitted he could not fathom the human's power or origins.
• Lin Fan called himself an ordinary human cultivator, and the Ancient Dragon Emperor decided not to press him further.

Lin Fan began refining the Natal Dragon Emperor Pearl, the key to controlling the Dragon Emperor Hall, while the Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin refined two other Natal Dragon Pearls. The pearl entered Lin Fan’s completed Inner Landscape Space, where the goddess statue recognized the aura of the ancient dragon clan.

• Lin Fan summoned the twelve Natal Dragon Pearls and gave two each to the Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin to refine.
• The Primordial Ancient Dragon and Black Jade Qilin thanked Lin Fan and began refining their pearls inside the cleared Dragon Emperor Hall.
• Lin Fan stored the remaining eight pearls and poured his mana into the Natal Dragon Emperor Pearl.
• The Dragon Emperor Pearl accepted Lin Fan, became a torrent of golden light, and entered his body, drawing his consciousness into his Inner Landscape Space.
• The goddess statue opened her eyes, gazed at the pearl, and recognized the aura of the ancient dragon clan.

After refining Dragon Emperor Hall, Lin Fan discovered that the supreme spirit artifact could accelerate time inside, though using it consumed immense spiritual power. He also received the ancient dragon clan’s inheritance, the Indestructible Scripture, and learned of its formidable effects and extraordinary cultivation demands.

• Lin Fan learned that Dragon Emperor Hall was a supreme spirit artifact forged from supreme immortal gold.
• He activated the hall’s time-acceleration ability, making one day inside equal three days outside, then stopped when he felt its heavy spiritual-power cost.
• Lin Fan discovered a vast inheritance in his sea of consciousness and began examining it.
• He found the Indestructible Scripture, which could grant an exceptionally tough body, passive regeneration, and, at its highest realm, rebirth from a drop of blood.
• Lin Fan recognized that the scripture’s cultivation difficulty and threshold were also extraordinarily high.

Lin Fan used the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit to gain profound insights into the Indestructible Scripture, then practiced its movements until his body and energy circulation began to adapt. He checked his attribute panel afterward and found the Indestructible Scripture listed at Beginner.

• Lin Fan spent three thousand years of lifespan using the Pre-emptive Dao Fruit and received deep insights into the Indestructible Scripture.
• Lin Fan watched a vision of a powerful figure demonstrate the scripture's physical training and recognized how its movements matched his new insights.
• Lin Fan practiced the Indestructible Scripture in the Dragon Emperor Hall as his movements, body, and meridian pathways adapted.
• Lin Fan checked his attribute panel and saw the Indestructible Scripture at Beginner.

Lin Fan completed the Pure Origin Void-Breaking Finger, advancing it beyond the Pure Yang Finger by fusing pure yang power with his own laws and abilities. After testing the perfected technique, he wondered whether a matching pure yin divine ability also existed.

• Lin Fan received the final insights that brought the Pure Origin Void-Breaking Finger to completion.
• Lin Fan understood that the fifth realm, the Void-Breaking Finger, fused heaven-and-earth power with the cultivator’s laws to strike at an eerie creature’s origin and Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Fan formed a ray of ultimate light at his fingertip and tested the perfected finger art.
• Lin Fan judged that the completed technique could have defeated the ancient Eerie Divine Statue in a few exchanges.
• Lin Fan wondered whether a pure yin divine ability could complement the pure yang law and unite yin and yang.