Chapter Summaries

Lin Taichu fought the Mu Clan Ancestors as Mu Qiushan stood against him to protect the clan and Mu Changqing. A mysterious zither note interrupted Lin Taichu's attack, giving Mu Qiushan a chance to strike.

• Mu Yunshan intervened to stop Lin Taichu from pursuing Mu Changfeng, and the two began fighting.
• Lin Taichu overpowered Mu Yunshan and wounded Mu Qiushan, but Mu Qiushan refused to yield.
• Mu Qiushan used the Mu Clan Secret Technique: Diamond Seal, but Lin Taichu shattered it and left him gravely injured.
• Mu Qiushan called on the Mu Clan members to fight beside him, and they swore to defend the clan to the death.
• A shrill zither note halted Lin Taichu's spear attack, allowing Mu Qiushan to charge and force Lin Taichu to block his blade.

Lin Taichu overwhelmed Mu Qiushan and the surviving Mu clan members after destroying the clan, while Mu Qiushan used the Ice Seal Technique to attack him. Lin Taichu broke free and prepared to fight the clan’s disciples as they vowed to die with their patriarch.

• Lin Taichu shattered Mu Qiushan’s attack, then used his Demon God Dharma Form to knock away the spear threatening him.
• Lin Taichu broke Mu Changfeng’s arm and slapped him, while Mu Changfeng revealed that Lin Taichu had killed their father, eldest brother, and other clan members.
• Mu Qiushan summoned hundreds of Ice Sculptures of the Mu elders and activated the Ice Seal Technique against Lin Taichu.
• Lin Taichu broke the ice binding him with a heavy hammer, injuring Mu Qiushan and mocking the Mu clan.
• The Mu clan disciples vowed to follow Mu Qiushan to their deaths, and Lin Taichu declared that they would die.

Lin Taichu attacked the Mu Clan, but its disciples and elders stood firm in defense of their clan’s ancestral commandment. After Lin Taichu killed two elders and ordered the disciples to leave, another elder stepped forward to face him with a flaming lotus.

• Lin Taichu’s pressure battered the Mu Clan disciples, but they refused to bow, stirring Qin Xuan’s memories of the family’s sacred pool.
• The Mu Clan disciples at the Origin Emperor Sixth Layer Realm unleashed their power and manifested three icy dragon phantoms.
• Lin Taichu rebuked Mu Qiushan for lacking courage and urged him to surrender, then attacked with countless spirit treasures.
• Two Mu Clan elders shielded Mu Qiushan from Lin Taichu’s attack, but the treasures pierced them and they fell.
• Lin Taichu ordered the Mu Clan disciples to leave or die, while the elders invoked their ancestors’ commandment to protect the clan.
• A Mu Clan elder stepped forward and surrounded himself with a massive flaming lotus to confront Lin Taichu.

Lin Taichu used his power and Star Rule to lead an attack that annihilated the Mu clan’s forces. The Grey-robed Old Man killed Mu Qiushan, leaving the Mu clan facing destruction.

• Lin Taichu killed a Mu clan elder who tried to flee after his flaming lotus was shattered.
• Mu Qiushan ordered the clan elders to attack, but Lin Taichu revealed high-grade Saint Artifacts and challenged him.
• A Mu clan elder rallied the clan to defend its foundation, and Lin Taichu rose above the residence and revealed Star Rule.
• An ethereal voice commanded the Mu clan disciples’ deaths, and the statues unleashed purple-black beams that killed the clan’s experts.
• The Grey-robed Old Man trapped Mu Qiushan in demonic power, which devoured him until he collapsed as a skeleton.

Lin Taichu defeated Mu Hai and faced Mu Yunxuan, a powerful Mu clan disciple who interrupted him. Their battle began with Mu Yunxuan’s dark vortices shattered by Lin Taichu’s golden dragon punch.

• Lin Taichu overwhelmed Mu Hai, dragging down his vajra phantom and pinning him with demonic power.
• A white-robed Mu Yunxuan struck Lin Taichu with immortal light, wounding his shoulder and forcing Mu Hai to retreat.
• Mu Yunxuan unleashed demonic lightning that engulfed Mu Hai, while Lin Taichu stood against the attack.
• Lin Taichu revealed a powerful demonic aura as Mu Yunxuan challenged him and attacked with two black vortices.
• Lin Taichu shattered Mu Yunxuan’s vortices with a punch that sent a golden dragon phantom toward them.

Lin Taichu battled Mu Yunxuan, overpowering his demonic techniques and revealing his growing mastery of the sword path. The chapter ended with Lin Taichu’s sword intent aimed at Mu Yunxuan’s glabella.

• Mu Yunxuan attacked Lin Taichu with a demonic spear, but Lin Taichu blocked the strike and damaged Mu Yunxuan’s armor.
• Mu Yunxuan unleashed a powerful physical attack, and Lin Taichu countered with the Staff of Annihilation.
• Mu Yunxuan summoned Demon God phantoms and a demonic vortex, but Lin Taichu shattered the attacks and split the demonic shadow with a sweeping strike.
• Lin Taichu challenged Mu Yunxuan and revealed sword intent that an Old Man recognized as nearing the sword path.
• Lin Taichu pointed toward Mu Yunxuan, sending a sword radiance toward his glabella and leaving Mu Yunxuan pale with fear.

Lin Taichu killed Mu Yunxuan and defeated Mu Tianhua, then repelled three Mu Family experts with his dragon bloodline. As more Mu Family fighters gathered to attack him, he summoned a radiant dark golden crow phantom.

• Lin Taichu pierced Mu Yunxuan with a sword strike, killing him despite Lin Taichu's Demonic Shield.
• Mu Tianhua attacked Lin Taichu in fury, but Lin Taichu shattered his demon palm with the Staff of Annihilation and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Lin Taichu challenged the Mu Family, and three experts—including a Seventh-rank Peak fighter—joined forces to attack him.
• Lin Taichu unleashed a black python dragon that broke the experts' combined palm and drove them back.
• More Mu Family fighters stepped forward to kill Lin Taichu, who answered by manifesting a radiant dark golden crow phantom.

Lin Taichu overwhelmed the Mu family’s attackers, forcing their Ninth-rank Emperor Star to retreat. Mu Yuntian arrived and clashed with Lin Taichu, whose palm strike was shattered by Mu Yuntian’s purple lightning defense, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lin Taichu severely wounded a Seventh-rank Emperor Star with a single strike and mocked the attackers.
• Several Mu family members unleashed a soul storm, but Lin Taichu resisted it and injured their Ninth-rank Emperor Star, who retreated to seek the clan leader’s help.
• Mu Yuntian arrived with a group of black-robed figures and challenged Lin Taichu, who refused to flee.
• Lin Taichu sent a palm imprint at Mu Yuntian, but Mu Yuntian destroyed it with his purple lightning defense.

Lin Taichu fought Mu Yuntian in the Mu residence and wounded him despite Mu Yuntian’s superior cultivation. Mu Yuntian then revealed his thunder domain and struck Lin Taichu down with a Lightning Spear, leaving Lin Taichu struggling to stand.

• Mu Yuntian told Lin Taichu that the Lin clan patriarch had sent him to kill him, and the two began fighting in the air above the Mu residence.
• Lin Taichu blasted Mu Yuntian away and wounded him with a purple lightning blade, shocking the watching Mu clan disciples.
• Mu Yuntian formed a thunder domain that restrained Lin Taichu and summoned a thunder spirit to attack him.
• The thunder spirit’s Lightning Spear pierced Lin Taichu’s defenses and sent him crashing to the ground, while Mu Yuntian believed he had won.

Lin Taichu challenged Mu Yuntian and revealed powerful sword and halberd techniques, while Mu Yuntian exposed his true ninth-layer Origin Emperor cultivation and summoned Thunder Soul Beasts. Lin Taichu struck him with a surprise attack, but Mu Yuntian retaliated with thunder techniques, and the chapter ended as he wondered how Lin Taichu had resisted them.

• Mu Yuntian ordered Lin Taichu to leave or die, and Lin Taichu answered with a sword attack that shattered Mu Yuntian's thunder seal.
• Mu Yuntian revealed his hidden Peak of Origin Emperor Ninth Layer cultivation and summoned Thunder Soul Beasts, startling Qin Xuan and the onlookers.
• Lin Taichu charged Mu Yuntian with a silver halberd and struck his chest with a fist infused with Thunder Rule, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Mu Yuntian attacked again with lightning snakes and a Thunder Python, but Lin Taichu met the strike with three thousand spear blossoms.
• Mu Yuntian realized Lin Taichu had withstood his Thunder Rule and wondered whether Lin Taichu possessed a secret treasure.

Lin Taichu defeated and killed Mu Yuntian, securing a place in the tournament’s top eight. Afterward, Bai Renhan asked Lin Taichu not to mention their earlier agreement and admitted that he had sought an alliance with him.

• Lin Taichu used the Thunder Spirit Halberd to overwhelm Mu Yuntian and pierce his body.
• Lin Taichu shattered Mu Yuntian’s hand and killed him when Mu Yuntian tried to fight back.
• The crowd reacted in disbelief as Qin Xuan and Qi Luo congratulated Lin Taichu on advancing to the top eight.
• Bai Renhan asked Lin Taichu not to mention their previous agreement, then explained that he had hoped to form an alliance with him.

Lin Taichu accepted Bai Renhan’s offer to form an alliance, while Bai Renhan tried to learn whether Lin Taichu knew the identity of the Azure Emperor’s Mausoleum inheritor. The story then shifted to Barren Lord’s Hall, where the Saints began discussing the unusually talented participants in the Star Baptism.

• Bai Renhan deduced that Lin Taichu might be the inheritor because Lin’s technique could alter the trajectory of attacks, and proposed that they join forces.
• Lin Taichu thanked Bai Renhan for his warning and agreed to form an alliance with him.
• After they advanced and received bronze Jade Tablets, Bai Renhan asked Lin Taichu about the inheritor, but Lin Taichu said he did not know who it was.
• Bai Renhan departed, and Lin Taichu wondered whether his assumption about the inheritor had been wrong before leaving as well.
• At Barren Lord’s Hall, the Barren Lord and three other Saints gathered to discuss the Star Baptism and its eighteen participants who had reached the Yuan Emperor Realm.
• The Barren Lord asked Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch whether he had met those participants, and Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch said he had not.

Lin Taichu revealed that he had found his own body in a coffin beneath a divine stele and had killed the lingering soul that threatened him. After the assembled experts agreed to keep the secret, Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch offered to take the master of Nine Provinces Palace as his disciple.

• Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch confirmed that Lin Taichu was the person whose aura he recognized.
• Lin Taichu explained how he found himself in a coffin beneath a divine stele, followed a mysterious calling, and killed a lingering soul that had blocked his path.
• Lin Taichu demanded that everyone keep the matter secret, and the gathered experts agreed.
• Lin Taichu said he had destroyed the lingering soul to prevent it from possessing him, and Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch dismissed the gathering.
• Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch stopped the master of Nine Provinces Palace and offered to take him as a disciple because of his Way of Thunder Punishment.

The Nine Provinces Palace Master became Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch’s second disciple, while Lin Taichu cultivated to the fourth level of the Heavenly Venerate Realm and challenged the lightning tribulation. His attacks turned toward Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch, who countered with devastating lightning.

• The Nine Provinces Palace Master asked Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch to accept him as a disciple, and Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch agreed, making him his second disciple.
• Lin Taichu secluded himself to prepare for the Emperor Realm and broke through to the fourth level of the Heavenly Venerate Realm.
• Lin Taichu unleashed attacks against the lightning filling the sky, but his strikes failed to overcome it.
• Lin Taichu used the Space Rule to turn a lightning divine halberd toward Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch, who knocked it aside with a war axe.
• Lin Taichu sent sword light toward Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch, wounding a peak Heavenly Venerate who could not evade in time.
• Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch advanced, and Lin Taichu retreated as lightning erupted through the void around him.

Qin Xuan effortlessly defeated Lin Taichu and ordered him to tell Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch that he was taking his disciple away. After the Lei Fa Palace group departed, the remaining disciples learned that Qin Xuan had passed the Nine Domains Tower's test and could compete in the Nine Domains Ranking.

• Lin Taichu attacked Qin Xuan but could not harm him, even after unleashing dozens of sword strikes.
• Qin Xuan rebuked Lin Taichu, who apologized rather than risk being killed.
• Qin Xuan ordered Lin Taichu to tell Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch that he was taking his disciple away.
• Lin Taichu and the Lei Fa Palace disciples left with Thunder Punishment Heavenly Monarch.
• The remaining disciples discussed Qin Xuan's prospects, then learned he had passed the Nine Domains Tower's test.

Lei Qianjue and Lei Xiaoyun discussed Lin Taichu’s defeat and his prospects on the Nine Domains Ranking, then Lei Xiaoyun summoned him back to Lei Fa Palace. Lin Taichu arrived at an ancient hall and bowed to the powerful figure inside.

• Lei Qianjue learned from Lin Taichu that Qin Xuan was ranked one hundred and nineteenth on the Nine Domains Ranking, then led the disciples away.
• Lei Xiaoyun asked Lin Taichu to return to Lei Fa Palace while he investigated, and Lin Taichu departed after Lei Qianjue reminded him of his assignment.
• Lin Taichu swore inwardly that he would repay Qin Xuan for the grudge, while Lei Xiaoyun and Lei Qianjue debated whether Lin Taichu could reach the ranking’s top hundred.
• Lei Xiaoyun sent out an aura across tens of thousands of miles and summoned Lin Taichu, who arrived outside an ancient hall and bowed to its occupant.

Lin Taichu learned from Lei Xiaoyun that twenty-seven experts on the Nine Domains Ranking had fallen and that other factions might target him if he joined the competition. He resolved to decide his own path, but three days before the rankings changed, his cultivation remained stuck below the Yuan Emperor Realm and a visitor arrived during his seclusion.

• Lin Taichu asked Lei Xiaoyun about leaving for other continents, and Lei Xiaoyun warned him that the Nine Domains Ranking competition had claimed twenty-seven experts.
• Lei Xiaoyun explained that factions might seek to eliminate a monstrous genius from Lei Fa Palace and advised Lin Taichu to seek the consent of anyone he wished to bring along.
• Lin Taichu thanked Lei Xiaoyun and resolved to choose his path despite the dangers of the Nine Domains Ranking.
• Three days before the rankings changed, Lin Taichu struggled to break through to the Yuan Emperor Realm while in seclusion.
• The Man in Green entered Lin Taichu's room and respectfully addressed him as the Young Palace Master.

Lin Taichu learned that the young man he was seeking had headed toward the Barren Domain Battlefield and set out to find him. Along the way, he confronted the Blood Demon Ape after it massacred cultivators near the awakened treasure, and the chapter ended as the ape transformed and the gathered crowd feared for Lin Taichu.

• The Man in Green told Lin Taichu that the young man from Huangzhou had left for Gu Yang City and planned to travel to the Barren Domain Battlefield.
• Lin Taichu decided to follow the young man to the Barren Domain and rode his sword through the air.
• A supreme treasure’s appearance drew cultivators to the area near Lin Mu, where the Blood Demon Ape attacked and killed dozens of people.
• Lin Taichu arrived and told the Blood Demon Ape that he had come on his master’s order to execute it.
• The Blood Demon Ape transformed into a towering Sixth Rank Saint Beast, and the crowd feared Lin Taichu was doomed.

Lin Taichu wounded the Blood Demon Ape with his swordsmanship, then faced the Silver Feather Pavilion Disciples who arrived to claim the beast. After he killed two disciples, their leader attacked him with a silver-white spear.

• Lin Taichu struck the Blood Demon Ape with sword intent and unleashed a rain of swords that covered it in wounds.
• A group of Silver Feather Pavilion Disciples arrived, and their leader recognized Lin Taichu but dismissed him as a threat.
• Lin Taichu turned his sword intent on the Silver Feather Pavilion Disciples and killed two who tried to block his attack with an ice Dharma Artifact.
• The remaining disciples confronted Lin Taichu, and their leader launched a spear attack at him.

Lin Taichu defeated Silver Feather Pavilion disciples who tried to take his Blood Demon Ape and went to refine pills, while the pavilion prepared for the Hunting Trial. A white-robed youth then confronted Lin Taichu in his cave and demanded the Storage Ring, leaving them on the verge of a fight.

• Lin Taichu shattered the Silver-clothed Man's spear attack, kept the Blood Demon Ape, and left to find a cave for pill refining.
• Silver Feather Pavilion disciples reported that nearly twenty of their fellows had died and that they had lost a Blood Demon Ape.
• Li Mu addressed the pavilion's gathered disciples, opened a Formation gate, and led them toward the outside factions.
• Li Mu broke up a Treasure Zither's sleep-inducing music, revealing his Emperor Realm cultivation to the disciples.
• A white-robed youth appeared in Lin Taichu's cave and demanded the Storage Ring, but Lin Taichu refused.
• The white-robed youth filled the cave with killing intent and sword might as the confrontation escalated.