Chapter Summaries

Lin Taichu overwhelmed Qi Sheng in a series of clashes and revealed that he had come to kill the Qi family patriarch. He attacked Qi Sheng with sword intent, leaving Qi Zhan watching in shock as Qi Sheng screamed in agony.

• Lin Taichu ignored Qi Sheng’s challenge, then destroyed his wind-and-lightning attack with sword intent.
• Qi Sheng unleashed his full strength and struck Lin Taichu with a lightning-infused punch, but Lin Taichu forced him back.
• Qi Sheng attacked with the Qi family’s Great Sun Heaven Burning Palm, and Lin Taichu shattered the palm prints with descending stars.
• Lin Taichu asked Qi Sheng for his last words and confirmed that he had come for Qi Sheng’s head.
• Lin Taichu struck Qi Sheng between the brows with a ray of light, sending sword intent through his body and making him scream.
• Qi Zhan stared in shock as Qi Sheng writhed in pain after Lin Taichu’s single-finger attack.

Lin Taichu killed Qi Sheng and warned the Qi Family not to interfere, while Qi Zhan ordered an investigation into him. Qi Sheng unexpectedly revived with an Ice Attribute Origin Skill, and Lin Taichu returned to his courtyard to recover using the Nine Star Seal Meridian.

• Lin Taichu killed Qi Sheng, dismissed Qi Zhan's threats, and told Qi Qiu to come avenge his younger brother himself.
• Qi Sheng ordered his people to follow Lin Taichu and summon the clan elders, while Lin Taichu challenged the Qi Family to seek help.
• Lin Taichu warned Qi Zhan to leave the Qi Family, then departed after Qi Zhan thanked him and ordered the Man in Black to investigate his background.
• A guard summoned Qi Zhan back to the Qi Family, and Qi Zhan reflected on Lin Taichu's overwhelming strength.
• Qi Sheng suddenly revived, discovered an Ice Attribute Origin Skill, and rejoiced that he might recover his strength.
• Lin Taichu returned to his courtyard and activated the Nine Star Seal Meridian to recover.

Lin Taichu mastered the first realm of Seven Stars Alignment but chose to cultivate Nine Star Seal Meridian before risking the sealing technique’s backlash. After awakening a flame figure sealed in his Sea of Consciousness, he followed a trail of lightning out of the Lin Clan Ancestral Hall and asked the elders where he should go next.

• Lin Taichu tested Seven Stars Alignment and found he could form three sealing spheres, but decided his Origin King Realm cultivation was too unstable to advance further.
• Lin Taichu used a jade pendant to begin cultivating Nine Star Seal Meridian, which purified his body and intensified the flames of his Crimson Flame Divine Body.
• A crimson flame figure awakened in Lin Taichu’s Sea of Consciousness, and he told it to cultivate without trying to break its seal.
• Lin Taichu followed a streak of lightning through the Cloud Emperor Realm, hoping it would lead him to a worthwhile treasure.
• Lin Taichu left the Lin Clan Ancestral Hall, greeted the Lin Family elders, and asked where he should go next.

Lin Taichu learned that the Sealed Demonic Abyss was a forbidden zone of the Lin Clan, then confronted the Cloud Emperor over his trespass into the Lin Clan Ancestral Hall. At the ruins of a cave near Yunxiao Mountain, Lin Taichu sensed a bloodline connection, fainted, and was brought before a woman addressed as the Saintess.

• A Lin Clan elder told Lin Taichu that the Sealed Demonic Abyss was forbidden and gave him a Communication Talisman.
• Lin Taichu went to the Imperial Palace on Yunxiao Mountain and challenged the Cloud Emperor about entering the Lin Clan Ancestral Hall.
• The Cloud Emperor led Lin Taichu to a cave outside Yunxiao Mountain, where Lin Taichu sensed a strange bloodline resonance.
• Lin Taichu examined the battle-scarred ruins and incomplete statue inside the cave, then fainted.
• The Cloud Emperor brought Lin Taichu before a woman addressed as the Saintess, who asked him who he was.

Lin Taichu visited Yun Yun to learn about the secret of the Cloud Barren Mountain Range, where he met the Lin Clan Leader and two other powerful elders. Yun Yun revealed that Lin Taichu was the only person who knew the secret and offered to explain the opportunity if he agreed to help Yunxiao City; he accepted her request.

• Lin Taichu asked Yun Yun about the depths of the Cloud Barren Mountain Range, and she led him to meet her father and two other peak Yuan Emperor rulers.
• The three elders praised Lin Taichu’s talent, and he gave them Storage Rings, Pills, and spirit artifacts in gratitude for helping his family.
• Yun Yun told Lin Taichu to cultivate until he entered the True Martial Realm and said he was the only person who knew the mountain range’s secret.
• Lin Taichu tried to conceal his identity, but Yun Yun offered to reveal the opportunity if he did something for Yunxiao City.
• Lin Taichu agreed to Yun Yun’s request after she warned that the mountain range was dangerous.

Lin Taichu learned that Yun Yun knew of the Saint Source Cave and entered a secret realm with an Emperor Realm cultivator. Meanwhile, Qin Xuan and Yun Qin confronted an Old Man in the Sacred Pool secret realm, where he revealed that only the Saintess could use Yunxiao City's key to open the Yunxiao Mountain Range.

• The Ancestor revealed that Yun Yun carried a sacred beast bloodline, and Yun Yun told Lin Taichu about the Saint Source Cave and her father's disappearance inside the secret realm.
• Lin Taichu discovered the Immortal Emperor's message at a black boulder and entered a gate of light with a middle-aged Emperor Realm cultivator.
• Yun Yun watched Lin Taichu enter the secret realm and told Yun Meier that he had not disappointed her.
• Qin Xuan attacked an Old Man who had concealed himself in the void, and Yun Qin questioned him about her father's whereabouts.
• The Old Man told Yun Qin that Yunxiao City had the key to the Yunxiao Mountain Range, but only the Saintess could open it.

Yun Qin and Lin Taichu entered the Sacred Source Pool and opened the secret realm’s protective barrier, while the Yun Family Ancestor arrived too late to stop Lin Taichu. Deep inside the pool, a woman enduring a surge of Soul Power saw a trapped Purple Gold Divine Dragon.

• Yun Qin agreed to follow Lin Taichu into the Sacred Source Pool to search for her father and rejected the suggestion that the immortal maiden should intervene.
• Lin Taichu warned Yun Qin that one day outside the pool equaled five hundred years inside, and they traveled through the gray mist toward the secret realm barrier.
• Yun Qin’s force of will opened a fissure in the barrier, and Lin Taichu rushed inside before the Yun Family Ancestor appeared in his place.
• Yun Family experts found Yun Jing’s skeleton impaled on a tree, and Yun Qin felt guilty that a direct disciple of the Yunxiao Sect had died.
• Lin Taichu and Yun Qin continued deeper into the Sacred Source Pool as a woman in a concealed space endured powerful Soul Power and spotted a trapped Purple Gold Divine Dragon.

The young girl learned that her older sister was named Yun Qin, then left the desolate space at Lin Taichu’s command. Lin Taichu and the Purple Gold Divine Dragon transformed her Innate Flame Body, unleashing a vast blaze that formed a gigantic Flame Beast outside the palace.

• The Purple Gold Divine Dragon told the young girl that Yun Qin was her older sister, but she was confused because Yun Qin was also her own name.
• Lin Taichu ordered the young girl to leave the desolate space, and she departed after exchanging a glance with him and the dragon.
• The Purple Gold Divine Dragon identified the girl’s constitution as the Innate Flame Body and warned that it might transform into something even more powerful.
• Lin Taichu offered his Essence Blood while the Purple Gold Divine Dragon enveloped the girl in purple-gold light, opening pathways in her body and causing her constitution to evolve.
• The girl released scorching flames that engulfed the palace, and the gathered figures witnessed the flames form a colossal Flame Beast.

Lin Taichu and the Yunxiao Sect figures confronted Lin Qingyao as she endured a fiery ordeal, while a summoned fire dragon and her rising spiritual consciousness revealed her extraordinary power. She ordered the ordeal to continue for half an incense stick’s time, leaving her weakened but determined to hold on.

• The Yunxiao Sect figures recoiled from Lin Qingyao’s fire dragon, and Qi Mo warned Lin Taichu that it was a Kirin descendant and that Lin Qingyao had Fifth Rank laws.
• Lin Taichu kept channeling his soul power into the silk threads despite Qi Mo’s warning, causing Lin Qingyao intense pain as fire spread through her body.
• Lin Taichu threatened Qi Mo and had dozens of figures surround him, preventing him from intervening.
• Lin Qingyao’s aura surged as she awakened powerful spiritual consciousness, stunning Qi Mo and Lin Taichu, but she spat blood from the strain.
• Lin Qingyao told Qi Mo to ignore Lin Taichu and continue burning for half an incense stick’s time, and Qi Mo agreed.

Lin Taichu attacked Lin Qingyao to stop her, but Qi Mo stepped in and fought him despite being badly outmatched. Lin Taichu crushed Qi Mo beneath a fireball and turned to leave, while Lin Qingyao remained trapped in the flaming cage.

• Lin Taichu struck Lin Qingyao as she refused to stop, and Qi Mo prepared to intervene.
• Qi Mo confronted Lin Taichu with the power of Flame Rules, but Lin Taichu wounded him and drove him back.
• A blue-robed disciple tried to rescue Qi Mo, but Lin Taichu engulfed him in flames and burned him to a dried corpse.
• Lin Taichu launched a terrifying fireball at Qi Mo, whose vines managed to block it after several were burned away.
• Qi Mo charged Lin Taichu again, and Lin Taichu crushed him into charred remains before turning to leave.

Qi Mo attacked Lin Taichu after vowing revenge, but Lin Taichu’s Fire Dragon flame began eroding Qi Mo’s Wood Spirit Body. As Lin Taichu prepared a stronger assault, Qi Mo activated the Wood Spirit Body’s power, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Qi Mo attacked Lin Taichu from behind and sent him flying with a powerful kick.
• Lin Taichu and Qi Mo exchanged sword strikes and flame attacks, and Lin Taichu used his fireballs to erode Qi Mo’s Wood Spirit Body.
• Lin Taichu revealed that his Fire Dragon was a strange flame that could burn away the vital essence of living creatures.
• Lin Taichu unleashed a surge of power and rose to attack Qi Mo with his flames.
• Qi Mo activated his Wood Spirit Body, as green liquid emerged from him and formed threads that wrapped around and entered his body.

Qi Mo and Lin Taichu exchanged powerful techniques as Lin Taichu revealed the Lin Family’s Law of Earth. Qi Mo escaped several attacks, but Lin Taichu’s earth formation finally engulfed him and restricted his senses and vision.

• Lin Taichu attacked Qi Mo with a flame blade, and Qi Mo countered with a treasure-grade longsword and sword techniques.
• Qi Mo split into two using a clone technique, then wounded Lin Taichu with powerful sword qi.
• Lin Taichu summoned the Lin Family’s Law of Earth, which shattered Qi Mo’s bronze spear and trapped him briefly.
• Qi Mo escaped the Law of Earth and evaded Lin Taichu’s attacks with Wind Escape Technique, but Lin Taichu struck him from behind.
• Lin Taichu stirred the ground into a gale that engulfed Qi Mo, who realized he had entered a formation that restricted his senses and vision.

Qi Mo broke Lin Taichu’s formation but was badly wounded and left near death. A Masked Man intervened, revealed his Demonic Cult affiliation, and attacked Lin Taichu after demanding the antidote and his family’s submission.

• Qi Mo broke Lin Taichu’s formation and tried to flee, but Lin Taichu struck him down and seized him.
• A woman rushed to protect Qi Mo, and Lin Taichu killed her with an azure Great Axe.
• A Masked Man struck Lin Taichu and unleashed talismans that became flames, forcing Lin Taichu to retreat.
• The Masked Man revealed that he served the Demonic Palace and demanded the antidote, warning that the Demonic Cult would destroy the Lin Family.
• Lin Taichu refused to submit, and the Masked Man charged and wounded him with a claw strike.

Lin Taichu fled the Masked Man until Su Ming blocked their path, and the conflict escalated when Lin Taichu summoned the Lin Family and unleashed a secret art. Su Ming revealed overwhelming strength by killing the Masked Man in one move, while the remaining Man in Black charged toward Lin Taichu.

• The Masked Man pursued the wounded Lin Taichu, who warned that the Lin Family would soon arrive.
• Su Ming blocked their path, and Lin Taichu demanded the souls of the two dead demon sect disciples.
• Lin Taichu crushed a Jade Slip to send a message, and an airborne craft arrived as he activated the Lin Family's secret art.
• Su Ming declared that he had not come unprepared and killed the Masked Man with a single attack.
• The Man in Black threatened Su Ming and charged toward Lin Taichu.

Su Ming used his Purple Flame Immortal Burning Art and sword to break Lin Taichu’s Heaven Burning Sword Array, but Lin Taichu unleashed a powerful attack that shattered Su Ming’s spirit artifact and sent him flying. Lin Taichu’s cultivation rose to Core Formation Middle Stage, and he prepared to kill Su Ming.

• Lin Taichu attacked Su Ming with his sword, but Su Ming blocked him with his spear and taunted him.
• Su Ming unleashed the Purple Flame Immortal Burning Art, while Lin Taichu and the Black-clothed Man activated their sword arrays.
• Su Ming used a sword to destroy the Zi Yun swords and emerge from Zi Yun Pavilion, but Lin Taichu surged to Foundation Establishment Late Stage and confronted him.
• Lin Taichu used Purple Firmament Sun Extinguisher to shatter Su Ming’s Purple Firmament Sword and send him flying.
• The Zi Yun Pavilion disciples reacted in fear as Lin Taichu’s cultivation reached Core Formation Middle Stage, and he threatened to kill Su Ming.

Su Ming fought Lin Taichu inside Zi Yun Pavilion, but Lin Taichu’s overpowering sword technique left Su Ming badly injured. Lin Taichu then revealed a purple Storage Ring filled with countless high-grade Array Flags, leaving the watching disciples stunned.

• Lin Taichu charged into Zi Yun Pavilion, and Su Ming pursued him as their battle continued inside.
• Lin Taichu struck Su Ming with a powerful sword attack, and Su Ming countered with Purple Lightning Sword Qi before unleashing Purple Firmament Sword Qi.
• The sword clash staggered both fighters, but Su Ming spat out Essence Blood and was left pale and exhausted.
• Lin Taichu declared that his sword technique had more to offer and produced a purple Storage Ring filled with spirit-treasure-grade Array Flags.
• The disciples of Purple Firmament Pavilion stared in disbelief at Lin Taichu’s vast collection of powerful Array Flags.

Lin Taichu attacked Su Ming with increasingly powerful forms of the Purple Firmament Sword Art, badly wounding him. Su Ming unleashed his Star Vortex to swallow Lin Taichu’s three Purple Dragon sword strikes, leaving Lin Taichu shocked.

• The experts on Zi Yun Island discussed Lin Taichu’s formidable background and power as he challenged Su Ming.
• Lin Taichu used the seventh and eighth forms of the Purple Firmament Sword Art against Su Ming.
• Su Ming met Lin Taichu’s attack with his sword intent, but the resulting hurricane of sword light wounded him and sent him flying.
• Lin Taichu sent three Purple Dragon sword rays at Su Ming from different directions.
• Su Ming summoned two stars from his Star Vortex, which swallowed Lin Taichu’s sword rays and erased their sword intent.
• Lin Taichu stared in shock as his sword technique vanished.

Su Ming was badly wounded when Lin Taichu’s sword strike, empowered by a trace of sword spirit, shattered his Star Armor. Recognizing the sword spirit that had defeated him before, Su Ming vowed to show Lin Taichu true despair, and terrifying sword qi began gathering from all directions.

• Su Ming’s Star Vortex devoured Lin Taichu’s sword qi, and Su Ming attacked with the Nine Nether Demon Emperor Fist and Nine Lightning Control Swords.
• Lin Taichu unleashed a far stronger sword strike, whose sword qi shattered Su Ming’s Star Armor and left him severely injured.
• Lin Taichu threatened to kill Su Ming as the wounded Su Ming recognized a trace of sword spirit in the attack.
• Su Ming recalled that Lin Taichu’s sword spirit had defeated him at Azure Dragon Academy and challenged him to face true despair.
• Terrifying streams of sword qi appeared from all directions around Su Ming.

Su Ming and Lin Taichu fought, and Su Ming wounded Lin Taichu before using a newly refined gourd to drain his primordial energy. Lin Taichu launched his Flying Sword Technique, leaving Lan Ling'er to warn Su Ming as the attack threatened him.

• Lin Taichu destroyed Su Ming's incoming sword qi and mocked him after the remaining qi injured him.
• Su Ming appeared behind Lin Taichu and broke several of his ribs with a kick.
• Lin Taichu transformed into a massive exotic beast and summoned nine swords that radiated an eerie, soul-controlling power.
• Su Ming used his emerald-green gourd to create vortices that drained Lin Taichu's primordial energy.
• Lin Taichu launched his king-grade Flying Sword Technique, and Lan Ling'er cried out to warn Su Ming.

Su Ming absorbed Lin Taichu’s nine sword spirit fragments and the Star Swallowing Beast’s Yao Core, greatly increasing his strength. He destroyed Lin Taichu’s flying sword and counterattacked, but Lin Taichu shattered Su Ming’s nine flying swords and thrust at him with a metal spear.

• Lin Taichu sent nine flying swords at Su Ming, who used the Star Swallowing Art to draw them in and absorb their sword spirit fragments along with the Star Swallowing Beast’s Yao Core.
• Su Ming’s body grew stronger as the nine sword spirit fragments fused into him, and he challenged Lin Taichu to attack.
• Lin Taichu swung his flying sword at Su Ming, but Su Ming’s sword spirit fragments destroyed it and returned to the space between his brows.
• Su Ming charged at Lin Taichu and attacked with nine swords united as one.
• Lin Taichu summoned a metal spear and shattered Su Ming’s nine flying swords before thrusting at him again.