Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu summoned the corrupted Holy Grail and drained its curses into a black heart, revealing that the Grail contained All the World's Evil. When the Vortex of the Root began to tremble, Lin Yu used his authority to crush the magic circle and the opening, leaving the sky around Mount Enzou fractured with spatial cracks.

• Lin Yu killed Kirei Kotomine, turned his soul into a Heroic Spirit, and used it along with Bai Zeming's Magic Power to summon the Holy Grail.
• The Holy Grail opened a hole in the sky and poured out black mud filled with curses, which Gilgamesh identified as the Grail's true form.
• Bai Zeming explained that Angra Mainyu, summoned during the Third Holy Grail War, had polluted the Grail with All the World's Evil.
• Lin Yu created a silver eye that absorbed the black mud and drew the curses from the opening until he held All the World's Evil as a black heart.
• The opening trembled after Lin Yu disturbed the Vortex of the Root, so he crushed the magic circle and the hole, tearing the surrounding sky with spatial cracks.

Lin Yu destroyed the Holy Grail and shattered the sky, then summoned Saiki Kusuo to repair the spatial damage and arranged for him to clear future curses. He ended the Holy Grail War and sent its participants away, leaving Bai Zeming, Zhao Yun, and Lancer with him at Ryuudou Temple.

• Lin Yu realized his strike had opened rifts into the void and summoned Saiki Kusuo to heal the sky.
• Saiki Kusuo restored the shattered space, and Lin Yu explained that the Holy Grail's curses came from humanity's enduring evil thoughts.
• Lin Yu gave Saiki Kusuo a magical eye to clear newly formed curses at Mount Enzou each year, and Saiki Kusuo agreed.
• Lin Yu confirmed to Gilgamesh that Saiki Kusuo was a forbidden zone, then told Bai Zeming that Saiki Kusuo would handle the remaining curses.
• Lin Yu ordered Rin Tohsaka to tell the magecraft world that Holy Grail Wars were over and threatened anyone who built another Greater Grail.
• Lin Yu sent the Tohsaka sisters, Shirou Emiya, and the Servants away, leaving Bai Zeming, Zhao Yun, and Lancer at Ryuudou Temple.

Lin Yu wrapped up Bai Zeming’s Heroic Spirit contracts, returned to his Internal Universe, and eventually perfected a game pod capable of projecting souls across worlds. The chapter ended with the Chat Group teasing Yun Ye about his new relationship with Xinyue, which he said was still too new for marriage plans.

• Lin Yu dissolved Bai Zeming’s contracts with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, returned the three to the Throne of Heroes, and helped Bai Zeming contract with Cú Chulainn.
• Lin Yu gave Bai Zeming a stone to sell for two thousand Points as his share of the Heroic Spirit Power and All the World's Evil, then hurried back to his Internal Universe.
• While Lin Yu researched his game pod, the Chat Group members pursued their own plans, including Fan Xian’s mission to Northern Qi and Li Shimin’s preparations for a northern expedition.
• After about twenty days in the Chat Group, Lin Yu solved the game pod’s cross-world soul-projection problem, ordered Ling Hua to manufacture pods, and had Wol establish a sales company in Ridge Peak City.
• Lin Yu joined the Chat Group’s teasing about Yun Ye’s relationship with Xinyue, and Yun Ye said they had been together for only half a month and would not discuss marriage until Fan Xian returned from the south.

Yun Ye opened up to Xinyue about his past and his bond with Lin Yu, then experienced a possible breakthrough in his cultivation. Meanwhile, Fan Xian’s delegation was ambushed by Haitang Duoduo, who revealed that she was targeting a prisoner in the carriage.

• Yun Ye told Xinyue stories about his supposed master Xiaoyaozi, then realized that the stories drew on people and experiences from his previous life and that Lin Yu had become like an elder brother to him.
• Yun Ye noticed that his Magic Power had grown and was circulating on its own, and he suspected his new sense of belonging had improved his compatibility with his Spiritual Roots.
• Yun Ye told Xinyue vivid stories about Lin Yu and proposed that Lin Yu officiate their wedding if they married, leaving Xinyue flustered.
• Fan Xian’s convoy was attacked by a short axe, but Fu Hao caught it and hurled it back through the forest.
• Haitang Duoduo emerged from the forest and said her target was the prisoner in Fan Xian’s carriage, while Fan Xian suspected Ku He had sent her.

Fan Xian revealed his Grandmaster-level strength to Haitang Duoduo, defeated her without serious injury, and sent her away with a message for Ku He. As his men went to clear Shangshan Hu’s roadblock, Fan Xian rested and joined the Chat Group discussion about Li Shimin’s efforts to govern Shu Han.

• Fan Xian challenged Haitang Duoduo to attack him and let his three guards stand down.
• Haitang Duoduo attacked, but Fan Xian’s aura stunned her and he disarmed and pinned her to a horse.
• Fan Xian released Haitang Duoduo and told her to tell Ku He to come himself if he wanted to kill Sean.
• Fan Xian sent Fu Hao, Nie Kang, and Shi Hanwu to deal with Shangshan Hu’s army, then ordered Wang Qinian to set up camp.
• Fan Xian opened the Chat Group, where Li Shimin discussed deaths during winter snowstorms and his frustration with Shu Han’s officials.

Li Shimin and Zhuge Liang discussed the spread of modern knowledge, the Heavenly Palace, and whether gods were humans who had mastered nature, before Li Shimin promised Zhuge Liang a chance to see the Heavenly Palace. Meanwhile, He Jingfeng agreed to help recruit skilled people from his world, and Lin Yu’s virtual reality game became a sensation among the Immortal Race in Ridge Peak City.

• Li Shimin agreed with He Jingfeng to discuss recruiting educated, skilled people from He Jingfeng’s world at their next meeting in the Dojo.
• Li Shimin praised Zhuge Liang’s work implementing new industries and promised to find professionals so Zhuge Liang could focus on the Northern Expedition.
• Zhuge Liang questioned whether Immortals and gods existed and explained his materialist view that people who understood nature’s principles could seem divine to those without that knowledge.
• Li Shimin reassured Zhuge Liang that he understood the Heavenly Palace’s suspicious nature and promised to take him there after Wei and Wu were defeated.
• Three days later, Li Shimin and He Jingfeng discussed recruiting talent, while Lin Yu offered suggestions and then went to Ridge Peak City.
• Wol launched the virtual reality game Star Sea Expedition exclusively for the Immortal Race, and it quickly became popular throughout Ridge Peak City.

Lin Yu visited the Yun Mansion, reassured Old Madam Yun that Yun Ye and Xinyue were destined to marry, and watched the family begin treating Xinyue as Yun Ye’s future wife. He then used his newly available reserve qualification to search the Tang Dynasty Brick World for a new Chat Group member.

• Lin Yu developed the Dimensional Summoning Technique, allowing contracted members to summon or borrow the power of allies across connected worlds.
• Bai Zeming learned the technique and gained the ability to summon Cú Chulainn or have him possess him, then considered recruiting Gilgamesh.
• Old Madam Yun asked Lin Yu to judge whether Yun Ye and Xinyue were suited for marriage, and Lin Yu claimed that a woman of the Xin clan was destined to be the Yun Family’s principal wife.
• Old Madam Yun gave Xinyue the yellow-jade hairpin as a family heirloom, signaling that she accepted Xinyue as Yun Ye’s future wife.
• Lin Yu opened the Reserved Member List in the Tang Dynasty Brick World and began searching for a new Chat Group member.

Lin Yu entered a vast multiverse ruled by a Heavenly Dao and hid his consciousness inside the Xuanyuan Sword in the world of Lanruo Temple. After sensing genuine spiritual energy, he purged the temple and forest of their ghostly aura.

• Lin Yu abandoned his plan to mark the new world from outside and cautiously entered it to avoid detection by its Heavenly Dao.
• Yan Chixia defeated Xiahou in their latest duel and explained that Xiahou's flawed state of mind kept him from winning.
• Yan Chixia's Xuanyuan Sword flew into the sky, and Xiahou tried to seize it while Yan Chixia pulled him back.
• Lin Yu, concealed in the Xuanyuan Sword, sensed the world's spiritual energy and swept golden ripples through Lanruo Temple, dispersing its ghostly aura and fog.

Yan Chixia defeated Xiahou the Swordsman with a spell, but Lin Yu awakened inside the Xuanyuan Sword and demanded it back. As Lin Yu and Yan Chixia settled on delaying their disagreement, scholar Ning Caichen arrived and misunderstood the scene before him.

• Xiahou attacked Yan Chixia, who used a Soul-Seizing Curse to disarm and knock him unconscious.
• Yan Chixia tried to summon the Xuanyuan Sword, but Lin Yu's power shattered the sword case and Lin Yu demanded the sword back.
• Lin Yu explained that he would compensate Yan Chixia, but Yan Chixia insisted he wanted the Xuanyuan Sword; they agreed to revisit the matter in a few days.
• Lin Yu rejected Yan Chixia's suggestion to kill Xiahou, and Yan Chixia admitted that many challengers had pursued him over his title as greatest sword under heaven.
• Ning Caichen arrived and stared in horror at Yan Chixia standing over the unconscious Xiahou while unfastening his belt.

Lin Yu took human form using spiritual power and left Lanruo Temple to seek out its demons and ghosts, while Yan Chixia stayed behind with Ning Caichen. The story moved toward Lin Yu’s planned encounter with the female ghost, Tree Demon Granny, and Black Mountain Old Demon.

• Yan Chixia dragged the frightened scholar back and learned that he was Ning Caichen, who had mistaken him for the wanted bandit Liu Yidao.
• Yan Chixia warned Ning Caichen about the temple’s ghostly aura, and Ning asked to stay near him.
• Lin Yu appeared in human form, astonishing Yan Chixia, and told Ning to stay by Yan’s side for protection.
• Lin Yu left the temple and entered the misty forest, intending to meet the demons and ghosts there.

Lin Yu captured the ghost Xiao Qing after she tried to seduce him, then questioned her about Tree Demon Granny and learned how the demon operated Lanruo Temple’s brothel. He urged Xiao Qing to help him and Yan Chixia defeat Granny and escape her control.

• Lin Yu pretended to fall for Xiao Qing’s bathing seduction, then revealed his golden power and captured her.
• Lin Yu released Xiao Qing at Lanruo Temple and learned that she had been named by Granny and did not remember her life before death.
• Xiao Qing explained that Tree Demon Granny hid within Lanruo Temple, used female ghosts to prey on men, and relied on an Underworld backer.
• Xiao Qing revealed that Granny targeted the temple’s guests to spite Yan Chixia, who had fought her to a draw.
• Lin Yu asked Xiao Qing where Granny’s true body was, then encouraged her to help him and Yan Chixia defeat Granny and free herself.

Lin Yu persuaded Xiao Qing to help him find the female ghosts’ remains, then captured Nie Xiaoqian when she came to test him at Lanruo Temple. He left with Yan Chixia to confront the Tree Demon Granny, while Yan Chixia urged him to release Xiaoqian and asked whether he feared the thousand-year tree demon.

• Lin Yu promised Xiao Qing he would locate her remains, and she revealed they might be buried beneath Nie Xiaoqian’s tombstone before agreeing to persuade the Tree Demon Granny to send Xiaoqian to him.
• Xiao Qing returned to the courtyard and reported that a scholar at Lanruo Temple had resisted her, so the Tree Demon Granny ordered Nie Xiaoqian to test him.
• Nie Xiaoqian arrived at Lin Yu’s door during a magically summoned rainstorm, but Lin Yu recognized her and used golden light to capture her.
• Lin Yu went to the Buddhist hall and invited Yan Chixia to accompany him outside, while Xiahou was already gone and Ning Caichen slept behind talismans.
• Yan Chixia noticed the ghostly rain and asked Lin Yu to release the female ghost he had captured, then questioned whether Lin Yu feared the thousand-year tree demon.

Lin Yu and Yan Chixia uncovered Nie Xiaoqian’s remains and learned where Tree Demon Granny’s true body was hidden. After Yan Chixia freed Nie Xiaoqian and the other ghosts with the Diamond Sutra, the two entered the mountains and found the demon’s ancient tree.

• Lin Yu released Nie Xiaoqian, who told Yan Chixia that Tree Demon Granny had forced her and the other female ghosts to seduce men and take lives.
• Lin Yu and Yan Chixia followed Nie Xiaoqian to her grave, where Yan dug up the urns containing the ghosts’ remains.
• Nie Xiaoqian revealed that Tree Demon Granny’s true body stood near a Rock Wall deep in the mountains, and Yan Chixia recited the Diamond Sutra to free her and the other ghosts.
• Lin Yu and Yan Chixia entered the demonic fog, and Lin Yu severed a root that led them to Tree Demon Granny’s massive ancient tree.
• Yan Chixia fired a talisman-inscribed arrow into the tree demon’s trunk, where it detonated beneath the bark.

Yan Chixia fought Tree Demon Granny while Lin Yu traced the source of Yan Chixia’s borrowed power to the Nine-headed Lion in the Eastern Pole Wonderful Purity Palace. Lin Yu lent Yan Chixia the Xuanyuan Divine Sword, and the battle left Tree Demon Granny badly wounded but still fighting.

• Yan Chixia attacked Tree Demon Granny, who blocked his golden arrow and retaliated with a storm of roots and branches.
• Lin Yu followed Yan Chixia’s borrowed Magic Power to the Nine-headed Lion, then withdrew his gaze when the lion sensed someone watching.
• The Nine-headed Lion reported its unease to Great Emperor of the Eastern Pole, who found the heavenly secrets obscured and told it to withdraw.
• Yan Chixia complained that Lin Yu was leaving him to fight alone, and Lin Yu lent him the Xuanyuan Divine Sword while saying someone was watching.
• Yan Chixia wielded the divine sword to cut through Tree Demon Granny’s defenses and wound her, driving her into a disadvantage.

Yan Chixia destroyed Tree Demon Granny’s body, but she escaped through a passage into the Underworld, where her ally the Black Mountain Old Demon awaited. Lin Yu and Yan Chixia followed her into an army’s ambush, and Lin Yu prepared to face the Black Mountain Old Demon while Yan Chixia dealt with Tree Demon Granny.

• Yan Chixia battered Tree Demon Granny with sword light and crushed her body, but her roots escaped into a deep passage leading to the Underworld.
• Lin Yu warned Yan Chixia that Tree Demon Granny had prepared an escape and likely had an ambush waiting, then threw him into the passage and followed.
• Lin Yu and Yan Chixia saw the Black Mountain Old Demon’s Ghost Soldier army assembled at Black Mountain, with Tree Demon Granny among them.
• Tree Demon Granny ordered General Guiying to send the Ghost Soldiers against Yan Chixia, who discovered he could not summon the Xuanyuan Divine Sword.
• Lin Yu told Yan Chixia to fight Tree Demon Granny while he faced the Black Mountain Old Demon and his army, then unleashed dazzling golden light.

Lin Yu used Xuanyuan Sword’s power to devastate Black Mountain Old Demon’s forces, then discovered the demon had transformed into the City of Wrongful Deaths. He prepared to claim the city by summoning a sky full of golden swords, leaving Yan Chixia stunned.

• Lin Yu unleashed Xuanyuan Sword’s golden light, destroying a third of the Ghost Soldier army and a giant skull of black mist.
• Lin Yu’s golden sword annihilated seventeen ghost generals before Black Mountain Old Demon intervened and shattered it.
• Lin Yu summoned another golden sword, fought Black Mountain Old Demon, and demanded his Cultivation Method, cultivation, territory, and army in exchange for sparing him.
• Black Mountain Old Demon revealed that he had refined the City of Wrongful Deaths as his true body, and the city rose from Black Mountain.
• Lin Yu declared the City of Wrongful Deaths destined to become his and filled the sky with golden sword phantoms, astonishing Yan Chixia.

Lin Yu overwhelmed Black Mountain Old Demon and destroyed the City of Wrongful Deaths, but his attack broke the Underworld formation that had contained countless Vengeful Fierce Ghosts. As the imprisoned ghosts began to stir, Yan Chixia feared they could escape into the human world and cause a catastrophe.

• Lin Yu filled the Netherworld sky with golden sword phantoms, shocking Black Mountain Old Demon into believing immortality was still possible.
• Black Mountain Old Demon gathered Ghost Qi into a towering shadow and attacked Lin Yu, while Yan Chixia fled the battlefield.
• Lin Yu’s sword phantoms shattered the shadow and ravaged the City of Wrongful Deaths, killing its ghost soldiers and provoking Black Mountain Old Demon.
• Black Mountain Old Demon lifted the city and charged Lin Yu, who formed a giant golden sword and drove it through the city.
• Yan Chixia warned Lin Yu that an Underworld formation beneath the city held countless Vengeful Fierce Ghosts, but Lin Yu broke it anyway.
• The ground trembled as Negative Energy and the howls of the Vengeful Fierce Ghosts rose from the abyss, and Yan Chixia feared they might reach the human world.

Lin Yu captured Black Mountain Old Demon, while Yan Chixia chose to use the Diamond Sutra to deliver the trapped souls beneath the City of Wrongful Deaths. Lin Yu confronted the hidden planner and discovered she was an incarnation of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who asked him to spare the souls.

• Lin Yu split the City of Wrongful Deaths, found Black Mountain Old Demon's divine soul, and bound him with golden chains.
• Yan Chixia's Diamond Sutra revealed its power, and Lin Yu explained that Yan Chixia had been guided toward this confrontation.
• Yan Chixia chose to recite the scripture and deliver the trapped souls, calming the Vengeful Fierce Ghosts as Buddha's light spread.
• Lin Yu shielded Yan Chixia and released his true consciousness, forcing the hidden planner to appear.
• Lin Yu met an incarnation of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, who asked him to spare the unjustly dead so they could earn merit and reincarnate.
• Lin Yu explained that he had killed only the most vicious ghosts who escaped the array.

Lin Yu discovered that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had hidden within the Six Paths of Reincarnation to preserve their operation, then watched her empower Yan Chixia to take charge of the City of Wrongful Deaths. Yan Chixia explained that this world's decline stemmed from the gods and Buddhas leaving to support Spirit Mountain's Journey to the West plans, while Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's incarnation sacrificed herself to rebuild the Underworld's headquarters.

• Lin Yu entered Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's realm and recognized it as the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva explained that Yan Chixia was destined to take charge of the nether realm and revealed that her plans involved secrets of the Upper Realm.
• Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva gave Yan Chixia the Token of Wrongful Deaths, restoring his strength and helping him deliver the Vengeful Fierce Ghosts.
• Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva entrusted Lin Yu with her prayer beads and three copies of the Ksitigarbha Sutra, then transformed herself into a new City of Wrongful Deaths.
• Yan Chixia accepted his role as lord of the City of Wrongful Deaths and told Lin Yu that the gods and Buddhas had abandoned this world to pursue Spirit Mountain's Journey to the West plans.

Lin Yu ended his Underworld affairs and returned to the mortal realm, while the Chat Group recruited Xiao Yan from the Battle Through the Heavens World. Xiao Yan joined at sixteen and learned that the group members recognized him from a story about the Flame Emperor.

• Yan Chixia gave Lin Yu a Soul-Seizing Token and asked him to send evil souls to serve in his campaign to rebuild the Underworld Administration.
• Lin Yu accepted Yan Chixia's offer to provide soldiers and received the Secret Technique Black Mountain Old Demon had used to refine the City of Wrongful Deaths.
• Lin Yu stayed in the rebuilt city for two days, then returned to the mortal realm with the Xuanyuan Sword to search for the world's coordinates.
• The Chat Group found Xiao Yan as a new member, and Lin Yu voted for him instead of Shadow.
• Xiao Yan accepted the invitation while preparing Foundation Establishment Liquid in Wutan City, then asked the group whether they knew him.
• Lin Yu told Xiao Yan that, like Fan Xian, he came from a world the group already knew.