Chapter Summaries

Lin Taichu was imprisoned after trespassing in the Heavenly Clan’s restricted courtyard, and Yun Xi persuaded the elders to spare his life until they decided his punishment. After spending many days trying to break his restraint, he faced a visit from the three Sixth Rank elders.

• Zhao Hu wanted to rescue Lin Taichu, but Li Xuan stopped him and the two secretly watched the cell.
• Yun Xi asked the elders to spare Lin Taichu, and the White-bearded Elder ordered that he be imprisoned until they deliberated on his punishment.
• Yun Xi visited Lin Taichu and warned him not to escape or investigate the courtyard’s secrets, but he refused to abandon his inquiry into the Mutated Beasts.
• Lin Taichu spent many days in the cell trying to break his restraint with Soul Power.
• The three Sixth Rank elders entered the cell and looked at Lin Taichu with disdain.

Lin Taichu revealed that the Heavenly Clan elders and Guards had contracted an illness caused by Corrupt Devil Power and vile energy from Mutated Beasts. He promised a cure and wrote the required herbs and instructions on the prison wall, leaving the elders hopeful that their people could be saved.

• Lin Taichu identified signs of illness in the Heavenly Clan Guards and the White-bearded Elder, despite the elders’ initial dismissal of his warning.
• Lin Taichu explained that the illness would worsen without treatment, and the elders admitted that they had observed similar symptoms spreading through the Heavenly Clan.
• The White-bearded Elder revealed that Heavenly Clan Soldiers had contracted the disease after handling Mutated Beast corpses, and that their attempts to study it had failed.
• The White-bearded Elder offered to forgive Lin Taichu’s trespass and reward him if he could cure the Heavenly Clan’s people.
• Lin Taichu said the illness could be cured and carved the medicinal herbs, dosages, and preparation methods into the Dark Iron Wall.

Lin Taichu explained how to correct the Heavenly Clan’s ineffective treatment for their illness and convinced the elders to test his prescription. The medicinal soup began working on ten mildly ill Guards, and the White-bearded Elder acknowledged Lin Taichu’s success.

• Lin Taichu explained that the elders’ prescriptions used incorrect herb combinations and dosages and failed to nourish the meridians.
• Lin Taichu promised the medicine would improve mild cases within three days and accepted the risk of punishment if it failed; the White-bearded Elder agreed to a trial.
• The White-bearded Elder ordered Guards to prepare the medicine and bring ten mildly ill Guards to the Side Hall, then loosened some of Lin Taichu’s restraints.
• Lin Taichu asked to examine the patients during the trial, and the White-bearded Elder agreed to let him go under escort.
• The ten Guards drank the medicinal soup, and Lin Taichu found that it was clearing Corrupt Devil Power and restoring their meridians.
• The White-bearded Elder confirmed the medicine was working, while the Grey-robed Elder thanked Lin Taichu and the Black-robed Elder apologized.

Lin Taichu helped the Heavenly Clan cure its infected members, then asked the elders to help locate the force controlling the Mutated Beasts. Using the Mirror of the World's View, they traced the beasts’ black power to Supreme Peak, a forbidden place where the Heavenly Clan’s investigators had vanished.

• Lin Taichu directed the Heavenly Clan to distribute Medicinal Soup and avoid the Mutated Beast samples while the infected recovered.
• Lin Taichu treated the most severely ill Cultivators with a stronger Medicinal Soup and told them to rest after recovery.
• Lin Taichu told the three elders that he had infiltrated the Heavenly Clan to investigate the force controlling Mutated Beasts, and asked them to help find it.
• The White-bearded Elder agreed to assist and took Lin Taichu to Lake of the World's View, where the elders used the Mirror of the World's View to observe the Demon Continent.
• Lin Taichu identified black power flowing from the Mutated Beasts toward the continent’s center, and the mirror traced it to Supreme Peak.
• The White-bearded Elder revealed that the Heavenly Clan’s investigators had entered the darkness around Supreme Peak and never returned.

Lin Taichu learned that a hidden controller within Supreme Peak was directing the Mutated Beasts and resolved to confront him despite the danger. After arranging support and observation with the Heavenly Clan, he traveled to the Demon Continent's border and reunited with Zhao Hu and Li Xuan.

• Lin Taichu told the Heavenly Clan elders he would go to Supreme Peak and asked them to watch the area and support Zhao Hu and Li Xuan if anything happened to him.
• The Mirror of the World's View showed a vague figure in Supreme Peak's darkness, and Lin Taichu concluded the controller had noticed their observation.
• Lin Taichu refused an escort, accepted five Message Jade Talismans, and left the Heavenly Clan Territory for the Demon Continent's border.
• Lin Taichu contacted Zhao Hu and Li Xuan, telling them to wait at the border and avoid coming to his aid.
• Lin Taichu reached the concealed cave, reunited with Zhao Hu and Li Xuan, and told them the Heavenly Clan would help track the Mutated Beasts' controller.

Lin Taichu set out alone for Supreme Peak to find the controller behind the Mutated Beast crisis, leaving Zhao Hu and Li Xuan to guard their foothold. He reached the mountain’s outskirts and fought a powerful Mutated Black Bear, while the controller remained undiscovered.

• Lin Taichu told Zhao Hu and Li Xuan that the Mutated Beasts’ power gathered at Supreme Peak and that he intended to find the controller there.
• Lin Taichu gave Zhao Hu and Li Xuan Message Jade Talismans, medicinal herbs, and Spirit Crystals, then ordered them to guard the foothold and stay alert.
• Lin Taichu left for Supreme Peak, and Zhao Hu and Li Xuan decided against secretly following him and instead took up a concealed watch post.
• Lin Taichu traveled toward Supreme Peak while avoiding groups of Mutated Beasts and Cultivators heading in the same direction.
• Lin Taichu reached Supreme Peak’s outskirts, where the Corrupt Devil Power and sinister aura were overwhelming, and a late fifth-tier Mutated Black Bear attacked him.
• Lin Taichu dodged the Mutated Black Bear’s attacks and struck it repeatedly with black Soul Power, wounding it as it fought back.

Lin Taichu reached the summit of Supreme Peak, where a strange darkness blocked his senses and severed his contact with the Heavenly Clan. Unable to locate the controller, he entered the darkness alone and eventually felt his way to a rough wall.

• Lin Taichu killed the weakened mutated black bear and continued toward Supreme Peak as the Heavenly Clan elders watched through the Mirror of the World's View.
• After killing more Mutated Beasts and recovering, Lin Taichu reached the summit, where darkness restricted his vision and Soul Power senses to less than three feet.
• Lin Taichu failed to contact the Heavenly Clan with his Message Jade Talisman, while the Mirror of the World's View also lost its image and the elders learned their support Cultivators were blocked by high-rank Mutated Beasts.
• The elders ordered the support Cultivators to break through and reach the summit as they tried unsuccessfully to pierce the dark Restriction with the mirror.
• Lin Taichu entered the darkness alone and, after walking for an uncertain length of time, touched a rough, cold wall.

Lin Taichu deciphered an ancient incantation and lifted the darkness covering the summit of Supreme Peak, revealing a vast prairie where he searched for the controller. As he neared the prairie’s corrupted center, the Mirror of the World's View began showing him to the elders in the Heavenly Clan Territory.

• Lin Taichu read the wall’s ancient writing and learned an incantation that could lift the dark Restriction.
• Lin Taichu chanted the incantation, dispelling the darkness and revealing a silent prairie beneath a black halo.
• Lin Taichu advanced through the prairie, unable to contact the Heavenly Clan elders, Zhao Hu, or Li Xuan, and detected growing traces of corruption near its center.
• Lin Taichu found black spots filled with Corrupt Devil Power as the grass withered and the baleful aura thickened.
• The Mirror of the World's View began displaying the prairie and Lin Taichu, prompting the Grey-robed Elder and Black-robed Elder to realize the Restriction had weakened.

Lin Taichu found hidden Darkness Power beneath the grassland while searching for the Mutated Beasts’ controller, but the controller plunged the area into a darkness that blocked Lin Taichu’s probing and rendered his earlier incantation useless. Lin Taichu remained trapped in the darkness, sensing for changes in the power around him.

• The White-bearded Elder ordered the Cultivators to magnify the Mirror of the World's View and watch Lin Taichu and the grassland’s center.
• Lin Taichu concealed himself near the center of the grassland and prepared his Soul Power and Beast Jade for the hidden controller’s attack.
• Lin Taichu’s probes and Soul Power attacks failed to locate the controller, but he discovered a concealed Soul Power fluctuation underground.
• Lin Taichu cut into the ground, releasing dense Darkness Power, and the controller plunged the grassland into darkness that blocked his probing.
• Lin Taichu tried the earlier incantation without effect, then closed his eyes and sensed the surrounding power.

Lin Taichu fought the controller of the Dark Vortex, probing its defenses while searching for the controller’s true body. After detecting a faint Soul Power fluctuation at the vortex’s center, he charged toward it and thrust his blade forward despite the pull of the suction.

• Lin Taichu tested the Dark Vortex with Beast Jade and Soul Power attacks, discovering that strikes at its edge briefly slowed its rotation.
• Lin Taichu approached the vortex’s weaker, unstable edge, but dodged its sudden suction and a pitch-black palm that attacked him.
• Lin Taichu fought off several pitch-black palms, but his Soul Power dwindled and he suffered pain in his chest and slight meridian damage.
• Lin Taichu sensed a faint Soul Power fluctuation at the vortex’s center and identified it as the controller’s true body.
• Lin Taichu shattered several attacking palms and rushed toward the center, resisting the growing suction as he thrust his Soul Power blade forward.

Lin Taichu fought the black figure behind the Mutated Beasts, but it revived through Darkness Power after he seemingly destroyed it and left him gravely wounded. The three Sixth Rank elders of the Heavenly Clan arrived and began battling the figure while Lin Taichu recovered.

• Lin Taichu struck the black figure with a lethal Soul Power blade, causing its body to dissolve, but Darkness Power gathered and revived it.
• The black figure attacked Lin Taichu with black blades, shattered his protective barrier, and left him unable to stand.
• The Heavenly Clan's three Sixth Rank elders reached the summit after the supporting Cultivators broke through the blockade and the Mirror of the World's View pierced the dark Restriction.
• The White-bearded Elder replenished Lin Taichu's Soul Power while the three elders formed an encirclement and attacked the black figure.

Lin Taichu and three Heavenly Clan elders fought a powerful black figure until his Imperial Family Bloodline Mark revealed him as the lost son of the Heavenly Clan Empress. He blamed the clan for his mother’s downfall and his harsh childhood, then resumed fighting as Lin Taichu joined the elders against him.

• Lin Taichu recovered some Soul Power while the three elders weakened the black figure’s Darkness Power and exposed his appearance.
• The elders recognized the pale golden Bloodline Mark and suspected the young man was the Empress’s missing child.
• The young man recounted his mother’s expulsion, his brutal years on the Demon Continent, and how he spread viruses and absorbed Hate Power to prepare revenge on the Heavenly Clan.
• The Black-robed Elder said the clan’s rules had changed and that they had searched for the Empress and her son, but the young man rejected their offer of compensation and unleashed his Darkness Power again.
• Lin Taichu charged to help the elders, dodged the young man’s counterattack, and was warned that the Imperial Bloodline amplified Darkness Power and made ordinary attacks ineffective.

Lin Taichu and three Heavenly Clan elders fought the young man on Supreme Peak, trying to stop his revenge-fueled rampage. Lin Taichu shattered the Bloodline Mark at the young man’s glabella, but the young man’s Darkness Power went berserk as the elders bound him with Soul Power chains.

• The elders held off the young man while Lin Taichu tried and failed to strike his Bloodline Mark, suffering a chest wound in the process.
• The young man revealed that he had combined the Hate Power of Mutated Beasts, Corrupt Devil Power, and Heavenly Clan Imperial Family bloodline to gain his strength.
• Lin Taichu warned that the incompatible powers were damaging the young man’s meridians, provoking him into a fiercer attack.
• The three elders wounded the young man’s chest, then restrained him while Lin Taichu seized the Soul Power blade and pierced his glabella.
• The Bloodline Mark shattered, triggering a violent clash between golden light and Darkness Power as the elders bound the struggling young man with Soul Power chains.

Tian Wei was on the verge of breaking free from the chains when a mysterious Heavenly Clan elder stopped him and revealed that his mother’s execution had a hidden cause. The White-haired Old Man began explaining how the ambitious elder Tian Jin used Tianyao’s relationship with Lin Feng as a pretext to bring her down.

• The three White-bearded Elders struggled to restrain Tian Wei as his Darkness Power and Bloodline Power threatened to overwhelm them.
• An aged voice stopped Tian Wei’s rampage, and a White-haired Old Man descended from the void.
• Tian Wei recognized the figure as his uncle and asked how he had survived when Tian Wei’s mother was executed.
• The White-haired Old Man calmed Tian Wei and said Tianyao’s marriage to Lin Feng was not the true reason she was executed.
• The White-haired Old Man revealed that Tian Jin coveted the Empress’s position and used Tianyao’s relationship with Lin Feng as an excuse to bring her down.

Tian Wei learned that Tian Jin had framed his mother and arranged her execution to seize control of the Heavenly Clan. He abandoned his hatred of the whole clan and resolved to clear his mother’s name, defeat Tian Jin, and make amends for the harm he had caused.

• The White-haired Old Man told Tian Wei that Tian Jin had fabricated charges against his mother and orchestrated her execution to become Empress.
• The White-haired Old Man revealed that Tian Jin purged witnesses, altered the Heavenly Clan Records, and spent years searching for him and Tian Wei.
• Tian Wei grieved for his mother and asked whether she had suffered or blamed him; the White-haired Old Man assured him she had only loved and worried about him.
• The White-bearded Elder and the other elders apologized for being deceived, and the White-haired Old Man urged them to focus on overthrowing Tian Jin and repairing the damage.
• Tian Wei suppressed his remaining Darkness Power, apologized to the elders, and vowed to clear his mother's name, eliminate Tian Jin, and quell the Mutated Beast disaster.

Lin Taichu and Tian Wei joined forces with the Three Elders to secretly uncover Tian Jin’s usurpation and clear Empress Tianyao’s name. After the elders left for the Heavenly Clan to investigate, Tian Wei commanded the Mutated Beasts to go to the Stone People Race’s territory.

• Lin Taichu questioned why the Three Elders had never heard of Tian Jin, and they realized he had erased records and hidden his identity after usurping the throne.
• Lin Taichu and the Three Elders agreed that the elders would secretly return to the Heavenly Clan to investigate Tian Jin and gather evidence without alerting him.
• Tian Wei thanked the Three Elders for helping clear his mother’s name and vowed to kill Tian Jin once the matter was settled.
• After the Three Elders departed, Tian Wei said his priority was removing the remaining Mutated Beasts from the Demon Continent and repairing the harm he had caused.
• Tian Wei used his Bloodline Power to summon the Mutated Beasts, then ordered them to travel peacefully to the Stone People Race’s territory.

After the mutation disaster was quelled, Tian Wei vowed to help repair the damage he had caused and joined Lin Taichu in seeking to clear his mother’s name and eliminate Tian Jin. Back in the Heavenly Clan, the White-bearded Elder and his companions began a covert investigation, with one elder locating a suspicious aura in the imperial palace and another searching the clan records.

• Tian Wei promised to travel across the Demon Continent to treat those harmed by Mutated Beasts and rebuild destroyed homes, and Lin Taichu offered to accompany him.
• The White-bearded Elder and two elders returned to the Heavenly Clan and told the Elder Hall that the crisis at Supreme Peak had been resolved while concealing their investigation.
• The three elders privately agreed to investigate Tian Jin’s identity and position, and to keep Tian Wei’s survival secret.
• The White-bearded Elder sensed a powerful, chilling aura inside the heavily guarded imperial palace and suspected it belonged to Tian Jin.
• The Grey-robed Elder entered the Heavenly Clan Records Library to search for clues in its records.

The Black-robed Elder uncovered testimony from Tian Yan that Tian Jin had framed Empress Tianyao and seized the throne before taking the name Tian Chen. The Grey-robed Elder found altered records that supported the account, and the elders preserved evidence of the tampering.

• The Grey-robed Elder restored the scattered words “Tian Jin,” “seize power,” and “silence witnesses” from an altered historical record.
• The Black-robed Elder visited Tian Yan, a former personal guard of Empress Tianyao, and persuaded him to reveal what he knew.
• Tian Yan explained that Tian Jin forged evidence against the Empress, secured the elders’ vote to punish her, and wounded Tian Yan when he tried to intervene.
• Tian Yan revealed that Tian Jin changed his name to Tian Chen and had two trusted subordinates, one commanding the guards and the other overseeing the Records Library.
• The Black-robed Elder returned to the Records Library, where the elders recorded the restored Soul Power traces as evidence of the alteration.

Lin Taichu and the elders uncovered evidence that Tian Jin seized the throne and may have survived for centuries by possessing successive Heavenly Clan emperors. They remained uncertain whether Emperor Tianqi was Tian Jin’s current host or whether Tian Jin was controlling him from behind the scenes.

• The Grey-robed Elder brought Lin Taichu an ancient book and Jade Talisman showing that Tian Jin seized power and silenced witnesses after Empress Tianyao.
• Lin Taichu and the White-haired Old Man reasoned that Tian Jin must have controlled the historian who altered the records, and Lin proposed that he possessed the historian’s body.
• Tian Wei, the Grey-robed Elder, and the White-haired Old Man connected the emperors’ mysterious behavior and decaying soul-power aura to Tian Jin’s possible possession of their bodies.
• Lin Taichu traced the emperors’ successions and suggested Tian Jin changed hosts whenever a body neared the end of its lifespan.
• Lin Taichu warned that Tian Jin might be Emperor Tianqi or might instead be manipulating him from behind the scenes.

Lin Taichu, Tian Wei, and the White-haired Old Man traveled to the Stone People Race to check on the Mutated Beasts and thank their hosts. They found the beasts safely contained, while the search for Tian Jin’s identity and schemes continued.

• Lin Taichu instructed the Grey-robed Elder to investigate Tian Jin, Emperor Tianqi, and Tianyao’s disappearance in secret.
• Lin Taichu recovered his strength over three days while the White-haired Old Man helped Tian Wei master his Bloodline Power and suppress the remaining Darkness Power.
• Lin Taichu proposed visiting the Stone People Race to inspect the Mutated Beasts and thank them, and Tian Wei agreed to see whether the beasts could remain peaceful.
• Lin Taichu, Tian Wei, and the White-haired Old Man reached the Stone People Race’s territory and were welcomed by its clan chief, Shi Jian.
• Shi Jian led the visitors to a guarded valley, where Lin Taichu saw tens of thousands of docile Mutated Beasts held under control by the Stone People Race.