Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi used the Present Tathagata Sutra to recognize a method for refining his apertures, then cultivated amid visions that drew pirates to the island before escaping with Jin Ling'er. After meeting Chan Yinysha and Hong Yi, he traveled west and entered a thundercloud sea to undergo his lightning tribulation, where the lightning pulverized his thoughts even as the Past Amitabha Sutra helped them reform.

• Lin Yi identified the unmarked scripture as the latter half of the Great Chan Temple's Tathagata Sutra and realized its aperture-refining method might connect to techniques he already knew.
• Lin Yi refined his primary apertures on an unnamed island, producing extraordinary visions that attracted pirates, then escaped with Jin Ling'er on a golden bridge.
• Chan Yinysha greeted Lin Yi at sea, and Lin Yi later encountered Hong Yi in Heavenly Witch City before setting out for the Western Regions.
• Lin Yi reached Sand Prefecture and entered a thundercloud sea to undergo his lightning tribulation.
• The tribulation's lightning ground Lin Yi's thoughts into dust, but the Past Amitabha Sutra's essence endured and his thoughts reformed as the brilliant light tried to consume them.

Lin Yi crossed the seventh Lightning Tribulation, broke through to the Human Immortal realm, and cultivated in the Thunder Sea until he reached peak Human Immortal. He resumed advancing his Divine Soul through the tribulations and, after completing the fifth, sensed a pure yang thought and flew toward it.

• Lin Yi defeated and absorbed the sixth-tribulation thoughts, then survived the seventh layer's attack from a white-haired old man and completed the seventh Lightning Tribulation.
• Lin Yi returned to his body, entered the Thunder Sea, and used its lightning to temper his body and comprehend the laws of heaven and earth.
• Lin Yi broke through to the Human Immortal realm and spent five months and nine days cultivating, opening 128 major acupoints and reaching peak Human Immortal.
• Lin Yi sent his Divine Soul into the fourth Lightning Tribulation, destroyed the miniature worlds enclosing his thoughts, and absorbed their remnants to complete the trial.
• Lin Yi entered the fifth layer, absorbed its stellar and other energies with the Sutra of the Past, and completed the fifth Lightning Tribulation.
• Lin Yi sensed a distant pure yang thought and flew toward it.

Lin Yi destroyed the Witch Ghost Way stronghold after its elders attacked him, then defeated the gaunt Daoist’s summoned Demon Venerable. He spared Jingren, the Great Chan Temple monk carrying the Qiankun Cloth Bag, and asked him to stay in exchange for access to the temple’s scriptures.

• Lin Yi entered the Witch Ghost Way’s hidden land and saw its enslaved natives and central city.
• The Witch Ghost Way elders attacked Lin Yi with Flying Yakshas, but his punch killed them and demolished part of the city wall.
• Four Ghost Immortals and fourteen Corpse Emperors assaulted Lin Yi, who wiped them out with an Immortal Human roar and shattered the hidden stronghold’s illusion.
• The gaunt Daoist sacrificed his soul to summon a Demon Venerable, but Lin Yi destroyed the demon and its command flag with his Dragon-Elephant Seal.
• Jingren arrived carrying the Qiankun Cloth Bag, and Lin Yi asked him to stay with the bag in exchange for letting Lin Yi read every Great Chan Temple scripture.

Lin Yi entered the Witch Ghost Way’s hidden chamber, collected its treasures, and returned to Jade Capital with Monk Jingren before exploring the Great Chan Temple’s storehouse. After refining the Qiankun Cloth Bag and studying the Present Tathagata Sutra, Lin Yi formed the Dao One Seal and emerged from more than a year of secluded cultivation with his understanding of karma still incomplete.

• Lin Yi broke Yu Wutong’s restrictions, found the Witch Ghost Way’s underground chamber, and took its treasures and materials.
• Lin Yi brought Monk Jingren to Jade Capital and led him and Jin Ling into the Qiankun Cloth Bag’s small world, where they found the Great Chan Temple’s vast stores of wealth and supplies.
• Lin Yi gave Monk Jingren the lower half of the Present Tathagata Sutra and recovered its upper half as the Qiankun Cloth Bag collapsed.
• Lin Yi refined the bag’s space into his ring, stabilized the expanding world with the Golden Bridge, and studied the Present Tathagata Sutra’s ten seals.
• Lin Yi formed the Primordial Cause Dao Fruit and made it into the Dao One Seal, then ended his retreat after more than a year without fully grasping the Great Dao of Karma.

Monk Jingren received the Present Tathagata Sutra and awakened his Ever-Burning Lamp martial intent, while Lin Yi later advanced to the peak beneath the Yang Spirit realm. Sixteen years after entering seclusion, Lin Yi returned to find Hong Yi attempting to become a Yang Spirit, earning the recognition of the Hundred Sages as Yi the Sage and confronting the Immortal God King.

• Lin Yi gave Monk Jingren the Present Tathagata Sutra, and Monk Jingren awakened his Ever-Burning Lamp martial intent.
• Yang Pan sensed Monk Jingren's martial intent and accused Lin Yi of colluding with the Great Chan Temple's remnants.
• Lin Yi killed the fighters Yang Pan sent to surround the Carefree Marquis Residence, fought Yang Pan, then left Great Qian and cultivated in seclusion for sixteen years.
• Hong Yi attempted to break through to the Yang Spirit realm, and the Hundred Sages' light formed his statue in the Examination Hall, establishing him as Yi the Sage.
• Hong Yi attacked the Immortal God King, who countered with the Blood Sacrifice of Ten Thousand Kings, while Lin Yi refused to intervene.
• Hong Yi aligned his thoughts with the Great Thousand World and gathered the power of God King Gouli, five peak Human Immortals, and twelve Desolate Gods for his decisive strike; Meng Shenji and Xu Yi also sensed his breakthrough attempt.

Hong Yi’s attempt to become a Yang Spirit ended in a devastating clash with the Immortal God King, leaving both badly wounded and the Immortal God King’s severed tail without its will. As Kong and Xu Wuyi arrived and the tail became the focus of a standoff, Hong Yi faced a dangerous balance of competing interests.

• Hong Yi’s Yang Spirit attempt collided with the Immortal God King’s power, destroying Marquis Wuwen’s Residence and sending a pillar of force through the void to strike the sun.
• The Great Annihilation God King and the Death-Destiny God King fled, while the Immortal God King lost his tail and its will was ground away in the clash.
• Hong Yi brought the injured Young Marshal, Beichen, Lifu, the Martial Venerable, Flame Sun, and God King Gouli into the Hall of the Myriad Sages for treatment.
• Hong Yi and the Immortal God King exchanged threats but held back, each wary of the other and of an unseen presence waiting to exploit their injuries.
• The Immortal God King called out Xu Wuyi and Kong, who appeared at the ruined residence; Kong revealed his breakthrough to Flesh Regeneration and eyed the severed tail.
• Xu Wuyi praised Hong Yi’s attempt, and the arrival of Xu Wuyi, Kong, and Lin Yi left the wounded rivals in a standoff over the tail.

Hong Yi survived Xu Wuyi and Kong’s attempt to seize the Immortal God King’s tail after Lin Yi intervened, and the Lord of the Future predicted that Lin Yi and Xu Wuyi were close to shattering the vacuum. One year later, Lin Yi achieved that realm, while Xu Wuyi vowed to press on toward the same breakthrough.

• Xu Wuyi threatened Jade Capital City and ordered Kong to take the Immortal God King’s tail, but Lin Yi struck Kong away and carried the tail off.
• Hong Yi and the Lord of the Future concluded that Lin Yi and Xu Wuyi might shatter the vacuum within one to three years, and Hong Yi wondered how Meng Shenji’s cultivation was progressing.
• One year later, Lin Yi began breaking through with all 1,296 of his acupoints spinning in a complete cycle.
• Yang Pan and Meng Shenji witnessed the world’s resonance and realized Lin Yi had shattered the vacuum before them.
• Xu Wuyi awoke in a magma alveolus and resolved to keep advancing toward shattering the vacuum.

Lin Yi attained Shattering the Void and Yang Spirit, then merged his inner and outer Golden Cores to form the Nine-Turn Golden Pill and reach halfway to the Other Shore. After withdrawing to a hidden space, he organized his gains and understood the direction of his future cultivation.

• Hong Xuanji told Xu Feihong that the Carefree Marquis had reached Shattering the Void, while Xu Feihong suspected Hong Xuanji still had a hidden trump card.
• Lin Yi attained Shattering the Void, and its vision spread through the Great Thousand World and Beyond Heavens as the Hundred Sages of the Scholars realized they could no longer stop him.
• Lin Yi attained Yang Spirit and merged the two Golden Cores, then used their collision to plunge the world within his core into chaos and form the Nine-Turn Golden Pill.
• Lin Yi's three Dao Fruits began to merge, letting him glimpse the realm halfway to the Other Shore and surpass the cultivation of anyone who had lived before.
• Lin Yi left the turbulent void for a hidden space, examined the gains from his three paths, and grasped the direction of his future cultivation.

Hong Yi attained the Yang Spirit after merging with the heroic spirits of the Hundred Sages, then attacked Hong Xuanji to fulfill his vow to kill him. Hong Xuanji’s Holy Emperor incarnation shielded him from Hong Yi’s assault, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Hong Yi’s Primordial Spirit resonated with the Bridge of the Other Shore, and the Hundred Sages’ heroic spirits merged into him as he attained the Yang Spirit.
• Hong Yi recognized that he still needed the Bridge of the Other Shore to ensure victory against the Eternal Emperor, but chose to confront Hong Xuanji first.
• Hong Xuanji attacked Hong Yi with Hong’s Blazing Flame, and Hong Yi extinguished the flames with a river of true energy before counterattacking.
• Hong Xuanji evaded Hong Yi’s grasp and struck an incarnation, but Hong Yi blocked his escape and unleashed Flesh-and-Blood Fusion and countless attacks.
• Hong Xuanji summoned Holy Emperor Hong’s remains as an external incarnation, whose shield of light repelled Hong Yi’s attacks and kept him unharmed.

Hong Yi used the Great Liberation Art to destroy Hong Xuanji, who had reached Shattering the Void, and refined his remains into a new King of Divine Artifacts. As witnesses arrived, Hong Yi held the Great Liberation Wheel, leaving the gathered experts shocked by Hong Xuanji’s death.

• Hong Yi’s Yang Spirit formed the Bridge of the Other Shore, shattered Hong Xuanji’s Ten Directions Hong Mirror Dao, and pulled Emperor Hong’s bones toward him.
• Hong Xuanji split into millions of Hongmeng worms, fused with Emperor Hong’s bones, and charged onto the bridge to attack Hong Yi.
• Hong Yi trapped Hong Xuanji on the bridge and unleashed the Great Liberation Art, while the Creation Daoist and the Eternal Emperor held back to observe it.
• Hong Xuanji’s body broke apart under the Great Liberation Art, and his final All-Heavens Life-and-Death Wheel was shattered by Hong Yi and the Hall of the Myriad Sages.
• Hong Yi collected Hong Xuanji’s memories in the Record of Heroes Beneath the Firmament and refined his remains into the Great Liberation Wheel.
• Xu Wuyi, Tang Hailong, Xu Yi, Meng Shenji, and other experts arrived and witnessed Hong Yi holding the newly forged King of Divine Artifacts.

Hong Yi confronted the gathered forces at the Bridge of the Other Shore and overwhelmed them with the Great Liberation Wheel, killing many powerful opponents. After Meng Shenji attained the Yang Spirit and departed, Lin Yi appeared, seized the Origin War Fortress, and renamed it the City of Heaven.

• Hong Yi declared that the wager with the Eternal Emperor would be settled, then crushed Tang Hailong’s attacks and consumed him with the Great Liberation Wheel.
• Fang Yuan and Li Feiyu sacrificed Ancestral God Mountain’s forty million inhabitants in an attempt to strike Hong Yi, but Hong Yi destroyed the mountain and killed the two Dao Ancestors and their allies.
• Fang Yuan and Li Feiyu self-destructed to wound Hong Yi, but he vanished from the assault, killed Great Emperor Molo and the two Mongol Great Emperors, then used the Song of Liberation to slay the Dark Emperor Daoist, Kong, Fa, and others.
• Xu Wuyi attacked Hong Yi, was permanently wounded, and sacrificed himself to merge with Meng Shenji, who attained the Yang Spirit and left to consolidate his cultivation.
• Lin Yi appeared, seized the Origin War Fortress, erased the experts inside, and renamed it the City of Heaven; he told Hong Yi that reaching a higher realm would require hundreds of thousands of years of preparation.

Hong Yi defeated Creation Daoist in a contest of raw power, then accepted the Bridge of the Other Shore and Eternal Emperor’s projection into himself. After allowing their combined power to destroy his body and soul, Hong Yi reassembled as an existence beyond the Yang Spirit and Shattering the Void realms.

• Creation Daoist challenged Hong Yi and attacked with the Son of Origin and Creation Ark, and Hong Yi met his strike with the Great Liberation Wheel, Hall of the Myriad Sages, and Immortal Monument.
• Hong Yi and Creation Daoist clashed directly, and Hong Yi declared Creation Daoist the loser after bloody cracks appeared across his body.
• Creation Daoist merged his body and Creation Ark into Hong Yi, increasing Hong Yi’s power.
• Eternal Emperor offered to merge the Bridge of the Other Shore and his projection into Hong Yi, and Hong Yi accepted the overwhelming power.
• Hong Yi let the power shatter his body and soul, holding to his aspiration that all living beings attain Transcendence and reach the Other Shore.
• Hong Yi reassembled beyond the Yang Spirit and Shattering the Void realms.

Hong Yi returned from the Land of Origin as a Half-Step Other Shore and later defeated Meng Shenji in the South Sea, becoming an eternal legend. After another epoch passed, Lin Yi emerged from his stone statue and vanished, leaving Hong Yi with only a sigh.

• Hong Yi reached Half-Step Other Shore, while Lin Yi declined to fight and chose to cultivate the Five Elements Laws in the Land of Origin.
• Hong Yi returned to the Great Thousand World and told Yang Gan and the others that only Meng Shenji remained to be killed.
• Seven years later, Hong Yi swallowed Meng Shenji and the Eternal Nation in a single bite during their South Sea battle.
• Hong Yi remained by Chan Yinsha and watched over the world, keeping his gaze fixed on the Other Shore and Lin Yi's stone statue.
• After another epoch, Lin Yi emerged from the stone statue, spoke of a shallow pool and a True Dragon, then vanished before Hong Yi arrived.

Lin Yi emerged from a thousand-year recovery and passed the complete Heavenly Dragon techniques to Xin Ruyin before setting out to explore the cultivation world. After six months of travel, he reached the Tai Nan Gathering and bought a damaged artifact that he recognized as an Immortal Artifact.

• Xin Ruyin visited the hidden cave, where Lin Yi revealed that he was alive and had been recovering as a statue.
• Lin Yi gave Xin Ruyin the five Divine Abilities in the complete Heavenly Dragon Chant and a jade token to use in a life-or-death crisis.
• Lin Yi learned the world's cultivation stages and realized his strength far surpassed the Mahayana stage.
• Lin Yi left Xin Ruyin and spent six months wandering before arriving at the Tai Nan Gathering in Yue Kingdom.
• Lin Yi bought a damaged mid-grade artifact at the Treasure Pavilion, recognizing that it was an Immortal Artifact.

Lin Yi advanced to the Mahayana realm in seclusion, then encountered Han Li in his hidden dwelling and helped him cultivate before leaving for the Chaotic Star Sea. Han Li inherited the base and techniques, while a future version of Han Li watched from above the River of Time and considered Lin Yi an anomaly.

• Lin Yi killed a cultivator who had followed him, then built a hidden underground dwelling and spent a year studying cultivation methods.
• Lin Yi entered the Mahayana realm and later found Han Li inside his dwelling, where Han Li begged for forgiveness.
• Lin Yi completed Han Li's five-element spiritual roots, gave him the Five Elements Heavenly Scripture, and fed him roasted Nascent Soul-level demonic beast meat that advanced his cultivation.
• After getting drunk, Han Li insisted on taking Lin Yi as his master, and the next day he entered seclusion and reached the peak of Foundation Establishment.
• Han Li found Lin Yi's note, the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils Heart Method, and Detailed Explanation of Human Acupoints; Lin Yi left him the base and set out for the Chaotic Star Sea.
• A version of Han Li above the River of Time sensed Lin Yi's presence and decided to wait and see whether he threatened his past self.

Lin Yi established Five Elements Island, accepted cultivators who passed its Three-Thousand Steps into his lineage, and guided the island’s growth for centuries. He began the Five Elements Tribulation, defeated several waves of its elemental attacks, and faced the re-forming army of the final earth trial as the Lightning Tribulation still awaited him.

• Lin Yi fused dozens of islands into Five Elements Island and created the Three-Thousand Steps to select successors.
• After two hundred years, Dayan Shenjun, Qing Yuanzi, Lei Yuanzi, and Fairy Ying reached Lin Yi, who named them his third through sixth disciples and gave them bone talismans to enter or leave the island.
• Dayan Shenjun, Lei Yuanzi, and Fairy Ying left to travel the world, while Qing Yuanzi stayed to study the Sword Dao; centuries later, Xin Ruyin and Han Li also passed the trial and joined the lineage.
• Lin Yi remained in cultivation as his aura and Faxiang grew powerful enough to trigger the Five Elements Tribulation, which Han Li, Xin Ruyin, Qing Yuanzi, and others watched from afar.
• Lin Yi withstood the tribulation’s golden rays, falling logs, torrents, heavy water, fire crows, and yellow dust army, but the re-forming soldiers continued charging as the true Lightning Tribulation remained ahead.

Lin Yi passed the True Lightning and Heart Demon Tribulations, became an Immortal Golden Immortal, and prepared to ascend, but a mysterious tornado threw him into another world. After decades trapped in a pit with no memories, he escaped and found a stele marked Ancient Desolation Forbidden Zone.

• Lin Yi absorbed the dust and million guards with Five Elements Divine Light, then endured the True Lightning Tribulation using his formations, sword qi, and defenses.
• During the Heart Demon Tribulation, Lin Yi recognized the Heaven Demon and blasted it with Golden Vajra Demon-Slaying Thunder before dragging it from the Void and crushing it.
• Lin Yi broke through to Immortal Golden Immortal cultivation, and the Immortal light helped Han Li, Qing Yuanzi, and Xin Ruyin reach the Void Refinement stage.
• As Lin Yi entered the Immortal Realm, a terrifying tornado collapsed the passage and swept him into spatial turbulence, where he lost consciousness.
• Lin Yi awakened as a seemingly young man with no memories, remained trapped in a pit for decades, and finally climbed out by piling up soil.
• Lin Yi walked through a desolate forest and found a stone stele bearing the words Ancient Desolation Forbidden Zone.

Lin Yi escaped the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, where he ate Sacred Fruits and bathed in a Sacred Spring, then met Weiwei and learned that surviving the forbidden zone had activated his Sea of Bitterness. After Lingxu Cave Heaven brought him to town, rival Grotto-Heavens argued over recruiting him and agreed to settle the dispute with a fight.

• Lin Yi ate red fruits and drank from a Sacred Spring before setting out through the silent forest, where he witnessed a chained figure emerge from the Abyss.
• Lin Yi saw distant palaces that he could not reach, collapsed from a strange burning sensation, and later killed a giant beast with one punch.
• Lin Yi met Weiwei, who flew him out of the forbidden ground and explained that survivors could cultivate after their Sea of Bitterness was activated.
• Weiwei brought Lin Yi to a town, where Lingxu Cave Heaven elders questioned him and offered to take him in as a cultivator.
• Liu Wanshan and other representatives arrived to claim Lin Yi as a recruit, and the rival groups agreed to fight over the recruits.

Lin Yi learned the basics of cultivation from Wu Qingfeng and began practicing with the opening section of the Dao Scripture. After secretly sensing his wheel of life and striking at the sea of bitterness, he produced a miraculous five-colored storm of divine light within it.

• Weiwei brought Lin Yi a meal at his new home in Lingxu Cave Heaven, and he adopted the name Gu Huang while addressing her as Senior Sister Weiwei.
• Wu Qingfeng visited Lin Yi and taught him that cultivation involved exploring the body's hidden gates, beginning with the wheel of life and the sea of bitterness.
• Lin Yi spent a month learning cultivation knowledge from Wu Qingfeng, who then began guiding him through the Dao Scripture's opening section.
• Wu Qingfeng used immortal energy to help Lin Yi sense his wheel of life, and Lin Yi began secretly directing its vital essence toward the sea of bitterness.
• A brilliant five-colored storm of divine light, lightning, and thunder erupted from Lin Yi's sea of bitterness.

Lin Yi cultivated in Lingxu Cave Heaven, explored the Primordial Ruins, and discovered the Azure Emperor’s tomb while gathering spirit herbs and learning how to advance through the cultivation realms. After returning, he beat back a disciple who tried to take his Hundred-Grass Fluid, then overheard Young Master Han and another boy discuss refining his body for its medicinal power.

• Lin Yi opened his Sea of Bitterness, became an immortal seedling, and received a larger monthly allotment of Hundred-Grass Fluid.
• Lin Yi entered the Primordial Ruins, stole two Jade Snake Orchids while the Jade-Horned Snake hid from a strange heartbeat, and reached the depths as Lingxu Cave Heaven’s elders arrived.
• Lin Yi learned that the volcanic hall was the tomb of the Azure Emperor, then gathered spirit herbs and killed a Dao Palace Realm demon beast after his Desolate Antiquity power erupted.
• Lin Yi refined the demon beast’s soul, gained memories of the Sea of Reincarnation and Dao Palace realms, and returned to Lingxu Cave Heaven.
• Lin Yi refused to lend a boy his Hundred-Grass Fluid and struck him and several other boys when they tried to stop him.
• Young Master Han told the young man beside him that his great-uncle wanted Lin Yi’s blood for medicine, then proposed refining Lin Yi’s body after learning the medicinal power might no longer be in his blood; Lin Yi overheard them.