Chapter Summaries

Li Xuan and Lin Taichu fought as Li Xuan unleashed immense power, illusions, Black Flames, and a devastating sword attack. After Lin Taichu overpowered him in their clash, Li Xuan struck through Lin Taichu’s forehead with flame-forged sword light.

• Li Xuan attacked Lin Taichu with power reaching the peak of the Immortal Emperor realm, but Lin Taichu fought back and drove him down.
• Li Xuan used a secret technique and a golden eye to deceive Lin Taichu, then blocked his sword with Black Flames.
• Li Xuan’s aura surged to the peak of the Holy Lord Realm, but Lin Taichu revealed his greater strength and wounded him.
• Lin Taichu and Li Xuan exchanged their strongest sword strikes, and Lin Taichu remained standing while Li Xuan was driven back.
• Li Xuan rushed forward and pierced Lin Taichu’s forehead with blazing sword light from his fingertip.

Li Xuan believed he had killed Lin Taichu and escaped with a Saint King-level Soul Crystal, but Lin Taichu’s illusions trapped him and forced him to flee. As Li Xuan prepared to confront the Old Man in Green Robe, a Lightning Pillar struck him and shattered his body.

• Li Xuan defeated what he thought was Lin Taichu, took the blood-red Soul Crystal, and fled to cultivate and seek revenge.
• Lin Taichu’s illusions trapped Li Xuan in a sword cage, but Li Xuan used pale blue lightning to break free and heal his wounds.
• Li Xuan raced away, vowing to return and destroy the Lin Family, while Lin Taichu declared that Li Xuan would never leave alive.
• Li Xuan stopped before the Old Man in Green Robe and unleashed the Primordial Dragon Phoenix Art, driving the old man to avoid fighting him directly.
• The Old Man in Green Robe pursued Li Xuan with Lin Taichu’s sword lights and vowed to kill both Li Xuan and his disciple.
• A Lightning Pillar descended from the Void and shattered Li Xuan’s body into a rain of blood.

After Lin Taichu believed Li Xuan had been killed, Li Xuan survived the destruction of his body and spent a year recovering. He left the valley as his strength rose, while an Old Man pursued him and confronted martial artists drawn by mysterious zither music.

• Lin Taichu celebrated Li Xuan’s apparent death and ordered Brother Chen to capture Li Xuan’s sons and target his women.
• Li Xuan, gravely injured and unconscious, resolved to survive, avenge his parents, and find his family.
• After a month, Li Xuan recovered to the seventh level of the Saint King Realm and began repairing his body with a pill.
• A year later, Li Xuan awoke with a powerful aura and sped away from the valley into the mountains.
• An Old Man sensed Li Xuan’s breakthrough and pursued him, while martial artists gathered around a white-robed figure and a gray-robed young man after hearing zither music.
• The Old Man threatened the gathered martial artists, who recognized that he was a Martial Emperor Realm expert.

Lin Taichu confronted Wang Feng, who challenged him with a devastating Martial Venerable technique. Lin Taichu revealed that he belonged to the Heavenly Demon Race, and the assembled martial artists learned that one of the five great sect masters in the trial shared that lineage.

• Martial artists threatened the Old Man and noticed Lin Taichu sitting behind him.
• Tribulation lightning gathered, and Lin Taichu and the Old Man revealed themselves as enemies and prepared to settle their grudge.
• The Old Man identified himself as Wang Feng, transformed into a giant, and attacked Lin Taichu with Heaven Collapse Earth Shatter.
• Lin Taichu remained unharmed as the attack vanished before reaching him.
• Wang Feng realized Lin Taichu belonged to the Heavenly Demon Race, whose members possessed exceptionally powerful bodies.

Lin Taichu revealed his true cultivation and Arm of Invincibility after easily breaking the Old Man’s Heaven Collapse Earth Shatter attack. He charged at the Old Man with eighteen allies, and the Old Man countered with a blood-red spear and mountain range.

• The Old Man attacked Lin Taichu with Heaven Collapse Earth Shatter and threatened to avenge his granddaughter.
• Lin Taichu shattered the attacks with his bare fist and knocked the Old Man back, stunning him and the spectators.
• Lin Taichu confirmed he was at the peak of the mid-stage Half-Immortal Realm and revealed his Arm of Invincibility.
• Lin Taichu charged at the Old Man alongside eighteen Cultivators below the mid-stage Half-Immortal Realm.
• The Old Man summoned his blood-red spiritual spear and a mountain range, unleashing a powerful attack that made the arena tremble.

Lin Taichu used his Arm of Invincibility to kill the Heavenly Demon Sect’s Old Man despite the elder’s desperate resistance. He then attacked the watching Cultivators with eighteen streaks of Flowing Light, leaving them struggling to withstand the blast.

• Lin Taichu’s blood-red spear pierced the Old Man and tore his body apart, shocking the watching Cultivators.
• The Old Man tried to flee, but Lin Taichu blocked his path as eighteen middle-stage Half-Immortal Realm experts stood nearby.
• Lin Taichu attacked with the Arm of Invincibility, and the Old Man burned his primordial spirit before Lin Taichu shattered it with repeated punches.
• Lin Taichu sent eighteen streaks of Flowing Light toward the watching Cultivators, and they exploded in a violent surge of energy.
• The Cultivators tried to defend themselves and retreat as the blast threatened to tear through their defenses.

Lin Taichu defeated the cultivators who had tried to kill Lin Xiaofeng, took their magic treasures, and let them leave after they submitted. He reunited with Lin Xiaofeng, but as they attempted to escape the canyon, another group intercepted them and demanded their treasures.

• Lin Taichu badly wounded two Old Men, trapped one in the void, and overwhelmed the other cultivators.
• The cultivators surrendered, and Lin Taichu collected their magic treasures before allowing them to leave.
• Lin Xiaofeng arrived, and Lin Taichu explained that he had come after hearing someone had offered a high price for the treasures and intended to give them to Lin Xiaofeng.
• Lin Taichu and Lin Xiaofeng set off to leave the canyon, but a group blocked their way and demanded their treasures.
• Lin Xiaofeng warned the group to move aside, while Lin Taichu threatened to kill anyone who stood in their path.

Lin Taichu and Lin Xiaofeng fought off the Immortal Spirit Sect disciples who accused Lin Xiaofeng of killing one of their own and hiding a treasure. Lin Taichu left to resume seclusion, while the sect survivors planned to report the incident and pursue him.

• Lin Taichu destroyed Lin Xiaofeng’s body with one strike, but Lin Taichu’s primordial spirit emerged and began forming a new body.
• The Immortal Spirit Sect disciples demanded answers about their dead disciple and accused Lin Xiaofeng of hiding a magic treasure.
• Lin Taichu stopped a white-clothed youth from attacking Lin Xiaofeng, but Lin Xiaofeng then fought the youth and was forced back after exhausting much of his Yao Qi.
• Lin Taichu charged in, and Lin Xiaofeng cut down the other Immortal Spirit Sect disciples with the Demon-Slaying Sword.
• Lin Xiaofeng left the valley, and the surviving sect members discussed reporting him to their Sect Leader and seeking his death.
• Lin Taichu told the worried woman he could protect himself and continued onward to return to seclusion.

Lin Taichu confronted an Immortal Spirit Sect elder disguised as a village chief after burning down his house. He easily overpowered the elder, who invoked the backing of Invincible Gate as Lin Taichu stood on his chest.

• Lin Taichu approached the village and burned the village chief's house with a fireball.
• The village chief identified Lin Taichu, claimed to be an Immortal Spirit Sect elder, and attacked him.
• Lin Taichu blocked the village chief's punch and fireball without harm, then defeated him in their exchanges.
• The village chief warned Lin Taichu that Invincible Gate stood behind him, while Lin Taichu planted a foot on his chest.

Lin Taichu overwhelmed the Immortal Spirit Sect elders and forced his way toward their forbidden ground despite their warnings. The elders then attacked him with explosive talismans, and he raised his defenses as the light net descended.

• The village chief refused to kneel, but Lin Taichu struck down an elder who came to defend him.
• The elder led Lin Taichu to the Immortal Spirit Sect’s forbidden ground and warned that restrictions left by an Immortal King would kill intruders.
• Lin Taichu endured the elders’ attacks and sent them flying, revealing power they could not comprehend.
• The elders attacked Lin Taichu again, and he kicked them away while mocking their weakness.
• The elder activated explosive talismans that formed a massive net of light over Lin Taichu, who countered with essence energy and ancient hand seals.

Lin Taichu defeated the Old Men and the Immortal Spirit Sect Disciples, then trapped the surviving Old Men in the valley and threatened to kill them. After recovering from his injuries, he froze them again when they tried to attack, but their warning about the Sect Master and Saintess made him reconsider killing them outright.

• Lin Taichu used Ice Seal Heaven and Earth to trap the Old Men, killed two of them, and incapacitated the others and the Immortal Spirit Sect Disciples with ice dragons.
• Lin Taichu refused to let the survivors negotiate or leave, entered the depths of the valley, and said he would set up a Killing Array to kill them.
• Lin Taichu spent a month recovering from his injuries while the Old Men remained trapped in the valley.
• The Old Men attacked Lin Taichu, intending to exhaust his soul power and throw his corpse into the Killing Array, but Lin Taichu froze them in place.
• An Old Man warned Lin Taichu about the Sect Master and Saintess, and Lin Taichu said he would not kill them but vowed they were doomed.

Lin Taichu confronted men pretending to belong to the immortal sect, then met Xiao Yang near the Xuanling Mountain Range. After revealing overwhelming strength and killing several Martial Venerable experts, Lin Taichu let Xiao Yang leave to seek reinforcements while he remained to face the others.

• Lin Taichu exposed the old men as impostors and said he had killed people from several top-tier powers before escaping their pursuit.
• Lin Taichu found Xiao Yang, who warned that Xuanling Sect experts would come and threatened to use the sect's mountain-protecting formation.
• Lin Taichu unleashed a terrifying aura that drove the old men to flee, then killed several of them with his sword and an ancient bronze longsword.
• Lin Taichu told Xiao Yang to find reinforcements and promised not to harm Murong Wan'er after dealing with him.
• Xiao Yang departed in fury, vowing to repay Lin Taichu for the humiliation.

Lin Taichu killed Xiao Yang and the other pursuers, but Zhao Yuan and Liu Qingxue arrived to capture him and seize the secrets on his body. Their sudden attack left Lin Taichu facing two powerful enemies.

• Lin Taichu killed the old man pursuing Xiao Yang, then revealed that he had deceived Xiao Yang and planned to use the three families as scapegoats.
• Xiao Yang transformed into black mist and attacked Lin Taichu with Netherworld Ghost Shadows after revealing that he had broken through to Martial Lord.
• Lin Taichu pierced Xiao Yang's chest and beheaded him, rejecting his offer to become a servant.
• A terrifying aura arrived, and Zhao Yuan and Liu Qingxue approached through the air as Lin Taichu braced himself.
• Liu Qingxue told Lin Taichu that they had been ordered to kill him and seize the secrets on his body.

Xiao Yang and Zhao Yuan lured Lin Taichu into a trap, but the fight ended with Xiao Yang separated from the others and discovering that a Ninth-grade Profound Spirit Ginseng healed his injuries. Lin Taichu attacked to reclaim the herb, and Xiao Yang faced his full-strength sword strike.

• Xiao Yang and Zhao Yuan attacked Lin Taichu, who realized Xiao Yang had used his suspicions to lure him into a trap.
• Liu Qingxue helped Lin Taichu escape while Zhao Yuan's golden saber strike and a teleportation spell left Xiao Yang's whereabouts unclear.
• Xiao Yang found a Ninth-grade Profound Spirit Ginseng, but Lin Taichu attacked him to take it back.
• The Profound Spirit Ginseng healed Xiao Yang's severe chest wound, and he put the herb away.
• Lin Taichu unleashed the Three-foot Green Peak and launched a powerful sword attack at Xiao Yang.

Xiao Yang overwhelmed Lin Taichu after revealing the strength of an Innate Martial Master, then destroyed Lin Taichu’s dantian and left him begging for mercy.

• Lin Taichu’s sword broke against Xiao Yang’s punch, and Xiao Yang sent him flying.
• Xiao Yang revealed his Innate Martial Master aura, shocking Lin Taichu and the onlookers.
• Lin Taichu attacked with a rain of sword strikes, but Xiao Yang bypassed them and struck him down with a palm.
• Lin Taichu charged again, and Xiao Yang slapped him to the ground as the surrounding martial artists fled.
• Xiao Yang crushed Lin Taichu’s ribs and destroyed his dantian, and Lin Taichu offered him a thousand Spirit Stones to be spared.

Xiao Yang fought Lin Taichu and his allies, but Lin Taichu revealed overwhelming strength and Poison Cultivation. Xiao Yang was badly injured and faced a demand to kneel and surrender.

• Xiao Yang rejected Lin Taichu’s offer of a thousand Spirit Stones and shattered his bones with a punch.
• Lin Taichu’s green-robed allies arrived and accused Xiao Yang of attacking the Lin Family, while Xiao Yang questioned which Lin Family they meant.
• Lin Taichu struck Xiao Yang with an ordinary-looking palm that sent him staggering and bleeding, then chased him when he fled.
• Xiao Yang revealed poisoned claws and used a Short Blade, but Lin Taichu deflected it and attacked with a Scorpion Poison Dart.
• Xiao Yang fought back with repeated punches, but Lin Taichu’s seventh-level strength suppressed and injured him as Xiao Jiuyuan and the others watched anxiously.
• Lin Taichu told the wounded Xiao Yang to kneel and surrender if he wanted to keep his life.

Xiao Yang unleashed the Spirit Devouring Secret Technique, survived Lin Taichu’s attack, and recovered with increased strength. He turned the fight around, smashing Lin Taichu’s dagger and badly wounding him, leaving Lin Taichu reeling.

• Xiao Yang’s aura weakened during his fight with Lin Taichu, but he activated the Spirit Devouring Secret Technique and flooded the courtyard with purple light.
• Lin Taichu attacked Xiao Yang with the Snake Tooth Dagger and sent him flying into the lake, believing he had killed him.
• Xiao Yang crawled out of the lake badly injured but revived and stronger, shocking the Xiao family and Lin Taichu.
• Xiao Yang activated the Myriad Beasts Art and charged Lin Taichu, whose strength had declined after using his secret technique.
• Xiao Yang smashed Lin Taichu’s Snake Tooth Dagger with a punch and slashed his shoulder, leaving Lin Taichu screaming and wounded.

Xiao Yang fought Lin Taichu after his injuries stabilized, but Lin Taichu used Spiritual Energy Fire and an ancient corpse to overwhelm him. Lin Taichu destroyed Xiao Yang’s physical body and claimed the corpse for himself.

• Lin Taichu tried to flee, but Xiao Yang struck him with an iron whip and then overpowered him in close combat.
• Lin Taichu unleashed Spiritual Energy Fire, but a light barrier around him blocked its effects and astonished Xiao Yang.
• Lin Taichu revealed an ancient corpse he had brought from the abyss, and it rose from the lake radiating Corpse Sha Qi.
• Xiao Yang fought back with the Eternal Evergreen Art, but Lin Taichu broke his ribs and drove him into a desperate attack.
• Lin Taichu seized an opening and kicked Xiao Yang’s head apart, then declared the corpse his prize.

Lin Taichu attacked Xiao Yang, but Xiao Yang’s resilient body survived his rune blade, forcing Lin Taichu to invoke an Imperial Decree and the Dragon Imperial Heavenly Art. As a golden serpent charged, Xiao Yang stood his ground.

• Lin Taichu’s attack awakened the soul hidden in Xiao Yang’s corpse, and the corpse struck Lin Taichu hard enough to wound him.
• Lin Taichu sent a rune-forged golden blade at Xiao Yang, but it could not cut his iron-hard flesh while Xiao Yang recovered.
• Lin Taichu brought out an Imperial Decree that manifested the phantom of an emperor, then demanded that Xiao Yang kneel.
• Xiao Yang recognized the Dragon Imperial Heavenly Art and recalled that the Xiao Clan had imperial blood and had been destroyed by the current Son of Heaven.
• Lin Taichu used the Dragon Imperial Soul Lock to summon a thousand-zhang golden serpent and sent it charging at Xiao Yang, who met it with a cold snort.

Xiao Yang and Lin Taichu fought fiercely as Xiao Yang broke Lin Taichu’s attacks and discovered his strength came from refining the Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Spring. Xiao Yang unleashed the Nine Yang Furnace, leaving their battle poised to continue amid its blazing flames.

• Xiao Yang shattered Lin Taichu’s Dragon Imperial Soul Lock with one punch, then drank Medicinal Liquid to recover his injuries.
• Lin Taichu attacked with secret arts, but Xiao Yang wounded his right arm and forced him to use the Dragon Seal and a spiritual artifact.
• Xiao Yang’s scales let him strike the golden dragon artifact, but Lin Taichu’s brute force ultimately smashed the dragon apart and left Xiao Yang spitting blood.
• Lin Taichu revealed that he had refined the Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Spring, and Xiao Yang realized it had made him far stronger.
• Xiao Yang activated his Nine Yang Divine Body and summoned the Nine Yang Furnace, which released a vast sea of fire against Lin Taichu.