Recaps

Elder Yao and Gui Yuan fought above Snow Peak as the Heaven Nether Sect and Five Elements Sect launched into a brutal battle below. After Elder Yao injured Gui Yuan with the Five Rounds Leaving Fire Method, Gui Yuan unleashed a nine-headed nether dragon, and Elder Yao’s four remaining fire beasts moved to meet it.

• Tianmingzi ordered the Heaven Nether Sect experts to attack, and Mo Ying led the Five Elements Sect forces into battle.
• The two sects clashed across Snow Peak, suffering heavy casualties as their experts fought with battle formations, poison, and powerful techniques.
• Gui Yuan attacked Elder Yao with a ghost claw, but Elder Yao risked a counterblow and forced Gui Yuan to retreat.
• Gui Yuan summoned a black mist and Soul Binding Chain, but Elder Yao solidified space and sent a fire wolf into the mist to burn the resentful souls and wound Gui Yuan.
• Gui Yuan unleashed a thousand-zhang nine-headed nether dragon, and Elder Yao’s four remaining fire beasts moved to confront it.

Tianmingzi attacked the Five Elements Sect, but Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Ice Puppet joined forces to confront him. Tianmingzi unleashed his full Half Sage power and shattered their combined assault, leaving their fate uncertain.

• The Ice Puppet ambushed Tianmingzi, while Xiao Yi Xian struck him with a poisonous attack and Qing Lin summoned the Nine-headed Heavenly Serpent's soul projection.
• Tianmingzi recognized the threat posed by the three women and the puppet, then used instantaneous movement to attack Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control a Three-Star Dou Venerate and make him take Tianmingzi's palm strike, which killed him.
• The Ice Puppet, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python attacked Tianmingzi together from multiple directions.
• Tianmingzi unleashed his Half Sage technique, King of the Underworld Descends, All Laws Empty, and shattered their attacks as onlookers waited to see what would happen next.

As the Heaven Nether Sect drove the Five Elements Sect toward defeat, Ya Fei hesitated to use the dangerous trump card Lin Ming had left her. At the chapter’s end, cracks spread from Lin Ming’s sealed Stone Door as a vast power began to awaken.

• Elder Yao and Gui Yuan continued their evenly matched battle while the Heaven Nether Sect gained the advantage across the lower battlefields.
• Mo Ying, the Five Elements Sect deacon, and the sect’s other fighters suffered severe injuries and mounting casualties.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, and the Ice Puppet struggled to hold off Tianmingzi as he damaged their summoned allies.
• Ya Fei considered using Lin Ming’s trump card to save the sect, but chose to wait rather than risk attracting a greater danger.
• Cracks spread through the rock surrounding Lin Ming’s Stone Door, and a powerful fluctuation emerged as something inside began to awaken.

Heavenly Underworld Old Demon attacked the Flower Sect after Qing Xianzi, Hua Xianzi, and Yun Yun refused to submit. The Flower Sect’s Myriad Flowers Heavenly Spirit Array blocked his first Heaven Nether Palm, but the sect’s forces were injured and the Old Demon struck again.

• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon demanded that the Flower Sect submit to the Heaven Nether Sect, and Yun Yun firmly refused.
• Qing Xianzi and Hua Xianzi stood with Yun Yun and rejected submission on behalf of the Flower Sect.
• Qing Xianzi ordered the sect to form the Myriad Flowers Heavenly Spirit Array, and Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and the other Flower Sect members poured their Dou Qi into it.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon unleashed his Heaven Nether Palm, and the Flower Sect’s array met it head-on.
• The collision shattered a nearby mountain and injured Flower Sect members, while Heavenly Underworld Old Demon quickly launched a second palm strike.

The Five Elements Sect’s defenders faced defeat as Tianmingzi overwhelmed Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, though Xiao Yi Xian’s poison wounded him. Just as Tianmingzi moved to kill Qing Lin, a terrifying voice and pressure froze the battlefield, leaving the identity of the speaker unrevealed.

• Tianmingzi struck the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python down, leaving it gravely injured while Ya Fei watched the battle from the ruins.
• Xiao Yi Xian attacked Tianmingzi with her Life Poison Pill, but he injured her and sent her crashing into the ruins.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s poison melted Tianmingzi’s sleeve and arm, forcing him to cut away poisoned flesh before pursuing her.
• Qing Lin intercepted Tianmingzi and fought to protect Xiao Yi Xian, but he overwhelmed her and prepared a fatal strike.
• An unknown speaker challenged Tianmingzi, and a tremendous pressure halted everyone and everything on the battlefield.

After a year in seclusion, Lin Ming emerged as a One-Star Dou Saint and arrived at the devastated Five Elements Sect battlefield. His appearance halted the fighting and left the Heaven Nether Sect’s Half Sages facing the prospect of their own deaths.

• A violent tremor shook the Five Elements Sect, and its forbidden azure peak disintegrated as a monstrous sea of flames burst out.
• Lin Ming’s Dou Saint aura spread across the battlefield, shocking Tianmingzi and Gui Yuan, who suspected he had refined the Bodhi Heart.
• Lin Ming walked out of the flames, and the Five Elements Sect’s disciples recognized their Sect Master and celebrated his return.
• Tianmingzi and Gui Yuan realized they could not defeat Lin Ming and began considering escape.
• Lin Ming surveyed the bloodied ruins and fallen people of his sect as killing intent rose within him.

Lin Ming emerged from seclusion to find Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin gravely wounded by Tianmingzi and the Heaven Nether Sect. After healing them and ordering the Five Elements Sect elders to protect them, he revealed his One-Star Dou Saint strength and sealed the Heaven Nether Sect army inside compressed space, making the entire force disappear.

• Lin Ming appeared beside the injured Xiao Yi Xian, apologized for arriving late, and gave her a healing pill.
• Lin Ming used Space Power to bring the wounded Qing Lin to safety, treated her, and draped robes over both women.
• Ya Fei told Lin Ming that Tianmingzi had badly injured Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, while Qing Lin warned him that two Half Sages faced him.
• Lin Ming ordered the Five Elements Sect elders to care for the women and leave the Heaven Nether Sect enemies to him.
• Tianmingzi, Gui Yuan, and the Heaven Nether Sect forces gathered in the sky and recognized Lin Ming as a true One-Star Dou Saint.
• Lin Ming sealed the gathered enemies in an isolated space, compressed it into a small ball of light, and made the entire army vanish.

Lin Ming effortlessly erased the Heaven Nether Sect forces attacking the Five Elements Sect and reassured the three women and the sect disciples. After learning that the Flower Sect was also under attack, he left to help Yun Yun confront Heavenly Underworld Old Demon.

• Lin Ming erased Tianmingzi, Gui Yuan, and the remaining Heaven Nether Sect forces with a casual motion.
• Lin Ming comforted Qing Lin, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian, then told the Five Elements Sect disciples to return, heal, and celebrate.
• Ya Fei told Lin Ming that the Heaven Nether Sect had also attacked the Flower Sect, where Yun Yun was in danger.
• Lin Ming decided to go to the Flower Sect, reassured the three women, and vanished to confront the threat.

Lin Ming arrived at the Flower Sect just as Heavenly Underworld Old Demon was about to kill Yun Yun, and effortlessly stopped his attack. With Yun Yun rescued and the sect stunned, Lin Ming faced Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, who tried to recruit him as an honored guest.

• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon threatened to destroy the Flower Sect unless its members submitted, and the battered defenders began to lose hope.
• Yun Yun refused to surrender and charged Heavenly Underworld Old Demon alone, declaring that the Flower Sect's dignity would not be humiliated.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon fired his King of the Underworld Finger at Yun Yun, but Lin Ming appeared, dissolved the attack, and caught her as he healed her injuries.
• Yun Yun recognized Lin Ming and felt relief and joy, while the Flower Sect members and Heavenly Underworld Old Demon stared in shock at his arrival and power.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon cautiously offered Lin Ming an honored position and rewards, and Lin Ming playfully considered the offer as Yun Yun stood beside him, flustered.

Lin Ming revealed that he had eliminated Tianmingzi and the Heaven Nether Sect forces that invaded the Five Elements Sect, prompting Heavenly Underworld Old Demon to attack him and the Flower Sect with overwhelming force. As the Tian Ming Blood Palm descended, Lin Ming began to unleash a technique born from his Hundred Lives Reincarnation enlightenment.

• Lin Ming told Heavenly Underworld Old Demon that he had dealt with Tianmingzi and the Heaven Nether Sect invaders, exposing his role in their defeat.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon recognized Lin Ming, vowed to destroy him and the Flower Sect, and expanded his Netherworld King Dharma Image to three thousand zhang.
• The Dharma Image’s pressure devastated the surrounding land and left Flower Sect disciples and spectators gasping, while Lin Ming remained calm beside Yun Yun.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon sacrificed his essence blood and part of his origin to unleash the Tian Ming Blood Palm at Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming explained that his new move came from his Hundred Lives Reincarnation enlightenment, then raised his hand as five-colored light surged from his palm.

Lin Ming unleashed Five Elements Annihilation, a technique born from the Five Elements Origin and his comprehension of reincarnation, and erased Heavenly Underworld Old Demon's ultimate attack. The chapter left Heavenly Underworld Old Demon and the Flower Sect witnesses stunned by the power Lin Ming had revealed.

• Lin Ming formed a rotating Five-Colored Annihilation Wheel and named his move Five Elements Annihilation.
• Lin Ming sent the wheel into Heavenly Underworld Old Demon's thousand-zhang Tian Ming Blood Palm.
• The Annihilation Wheel decomposed and swallowed the blood palm, its Nether Qi, and its grudgeful souls, leaving nothing behind.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon reacted with shock and fear after his strongest strike was erased without resistance.
• Hua Xianzi and Qing Xianzi recognized that Lin Ming's technique had reached into the fundamental Laws of heaven and earth.

Lin Ming overwhelmed Heavenly Underworld Old Demon with the Five Elements Annihilation wheel, forcing him to flee before a black annihilation beam caught and began consuming him. Lin Ming then sealed the beam and the space around Heavenly Underworld Old Demon with five-colored bands, leaving him trapped.

• The Five Elements Annihilation wheel shocked the Flower Sect survivors and distant onlookers, while Heavenly Underworld Old Demon realized Lin Ming was far stronger than him.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon abandoned the fight and fled toward the shattered boundary of the Flower Sect's Sect Protecting Array.
• Lin Ming ordered the wheel to attack, and its black light pillar caught Heavenly Underworld Old Demon and began decomposing his body and consuming his Dou Qi.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon burned his remaining Origin Blood Essence and charged toward the edge of the light pillar to escape.
• Lin Ming clenched his hand, sending five-colored bands from the wheel to seal and imprison the light pillar and the space containing Heavenly Underworld Old Demon.

Lin Ming sealed and subdued Heavenly Underworld Old Demon, declaring that the Tian Ming Sect had no need to continue existing. After the battle ended, Yun Yun thanked Lin Ming and began organizing the Flower Sect’s recovery.

• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon battered the Five-Colored Light net but could not escape as the black light pillar drained his strength.
• Heavenly Underworld Old Demon begged Lin Ming to spare his life and offered to make the Tian Ming Sect his subordinate, but Lin Ming refused and said the sect had no need to continue existing.
• Lin Ming said Heavenly Underworld Old Demon still had some use, then retracted the Five Elements Annihilation disk and drew the demon into its palm-sized Light Wheel.
• Yun Yun thanked Lin Ming for saving the Flower Sect, and Lin Ming urged her to prioritize treating the injured and repairing the sect.
• Yun Yun regained her composure and looked over the devastated Flower Sect to begin addressing the aftermath.

Lin Ming left the Flower Sect after helping Yun Yun defeat its greatest threat and returned to the Five Elements Sect. He reunited with Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, then asked how the sect had fared.

• Yun Yun ordered the Flower Sect elders and disciples to treat the wounded, restore order, and begin rebuilding.
• Onlookers marveled that Lin Ming had captured a Dou Sheng alive and believed his achievement would change the continent’s balance of power.
• Lin Ming told Yun Yun he had to return to the Five Elements Sect, promised her reinforcements if needed, and vanished without a trace.
• Yun Yun watched Lin Ming leave, then set aside her feelings and continued directing the Flower Sect’s recovery.
• Lin Ming reappeared at the Five Elements Sect, where Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin greeted him with relief.
• Lin Ming told the women that the Flower Sect’s crisis was resolved and asked them to report on the Five Elements Sect.

A month after the battle, Yun Yun and the Flower Sect's two Half Sage Grand Elders visited the restored Five Elements Sect. Ya Fei welcomed them and led them to Five Elements Hall, where they were received with tea and fruit.

• The Five Elements Sect recovered from the battle and rebuilt its grounds and defenses over the month.
• Yun Yun arrived at the Five Elements Sect with Qing Xianzi and Hua Xianzi.
• The sect guards opened the protective array and sent word to the sect leaders that the Flower Sect guests had arrived.
• Ya Fei welcomed Yun Yun and the two Grand Elders, and Yun Yun noticed Ya Fei's cultivation had nearly reached the Dou Venerate Realm.
• Ya Fei escorted the visitors through the thriving sect and into Five Elements Hall, where refreshments had been prepared.

Lin Ming welcomed Yun Yun and the Qinghua Two Immortals to the Five Elements Sect, where they thanked him for saving the Flower Sect and proposed an alliance. Lin Ming accepted, and the leaders began planning how to handle the Heaven Nether Sect’s former territories and resources.

• Lin Ming refined more than ten powerful Puppets from captured Heaven Nether Sect Dou Venerate elders and kept three stronger captives imprisoned in his Inner World.
• Yun Yun told Lin Ming that the Flower Sect had recovered from the battle and formally offered an eternal alliance with the Five Elements Sect.
• Lin Ming accepted the Flower Sect’s proposal, agreeing that the sects would advance and retreat together.
• Lin Ming presented a map of the Northwestern Region and discussed distributing the Heaven Nether Sect’s former territories and assets with Yun Yun, the Qinghua Two Immortals, and Ya Fei.

After the Heaven Nether Sect was stripped of its resources, Lin Ming prepared a public pill refinement before a vast crowd at the Five Elements Sect. He revealed a Bodhi Seed and nearly a thousand rare medicinal materials, making it clear he intended to refine a Bodhi Pill, but the chapter ended before he began.

• Elder Yao and the Qinghua Two Immortals led the Five Elements Sect and Flower Sect forces in taking the Heaven Nether Sect's remaining resources, which Ya Fei divided between the sects.
• The Five Elements Sect's disciples and outside spectators gathered in the Central Plaza to watch Lin Ming's announced pill refinement.
• Lin Ming appeared at noon and summoned the Myriad Beast Cauldron, a peerless Medicinal Cauldron from the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Lin Ming drew nearly a thousand rare Medicinal Materials from a spatial opening, including a legendary Bodhi Seed.
• A Pill Tower Elder and other experts recognized that Lin Ming intended to refine a Bodhi Pill, which could improve a Peak Dou Venerate's chance of advancing to Half Sage.

Lin Ming refined the Bodhi Pill in the Myriad Beast Cauldron, using the Dark Purple Flame to temper and fuse its many ingredients while the crowd watched. After days of apparent stillness that concealed the pill’s final transformation, a tremendous eruption of energy burst from the cauldron.

• Lin Ming fed batches of medicinal materials into the Myriad Beast Cauldron, where a Dark Purple Fire Dragon swallowed and refined them.
• After half a day, Lin Ming added the last auxiliary ingredient, leaving the Bodhi Seed as the cauldron filled with powerful medicinal energy.
• Lin Ming maintained the refinement for three days as the external energy signs faded, leaving the crowd uncertain whether the pill was succeeding.
• Inside the cauldron, Lin Ming’s Soul Power and the Dark Purple Fire Dragon compressed and fused the medicinal essences into a stable Pill Prototype.
• As the crowd waited at dusk, an explosive spatial resonance erupted from the Myriad Beast Cauldron and unleashed a terrifying wave of energy.

Lin Ming revealed that he had hidden the forming Bodhi Pill inside a giant flame dragon and was advancing it beyond Tier 8. The Nine-Colored Pill Lightning Cloud gave way to an even more terrifying lightning cloud, leaving the spectators convinced that he was refining a Tier 9 Treasure Pill.

• Nine-Colored Pill Lightning gathered above the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and spectators detected medicinal pill fluctuations inside it.
• Lin Ming opened the cauldron and released a massive Dark Purple Fire Dragon containing the pill.
• Elder Yao recognized Lin Ming's technique as Condensing Objects to Nourish Pills, which concealed and nurtured the pill inside a spiritual creature of flame.
• The pill's energy surged, and profound black clouds replaced and dispersed the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning Cloud.
• The spectators realized Lin Ming was attempting to advance the Tier 8 Peak Bodhi Pill into a Tier 9 Treasure Pill.

Lin Ming faced the Black Demon Lightning summoned by the birth of a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill, using his puppets to withstand its first five strikes before meeting the sixth head-on. He transformed his body to temper the Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique as the lightning hit him.

• A hemp-clothed old man identified the ink-black clouds as Black Demon Lightning, and the lightning gathered over the Five Elements Sect.
• Lin Ming sent out a linked formation of puppets, which absorbed and converted the first five strikes, growing stronger but suffering extensive damage.
• Lin Ming recalled the weakened puppets and stood before the sixth strike as it gathered overhead.
• Lin Ming transformed into a nine-zhang dark-gold giant using the Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique and Adamantine Glazed Body.
• Lin Ming challenged the sixth Black Demon Lightning to push his body cultivation to its limit, and the bolt struck his raised head.

Lin Ming endured Black Demon Lightning with his body and broke Adamantine Glazed Body past its recorded limit. He emerged with a ten-zhang glazed body and newfound confidence in his power, while the spectators watched in awe.

• Black Demon Lightning and Lin Ming's physical power collided, tearing open a thousand-zhang stretch of space and terrifying the observers.
• Lin Ming remained inside the storm for the time it took to burn a stick of incense as black lightning and spatial turbulence battered him.
• After the storm faded and the space recovered, Lin Ming appeared unharmed, his dark gold body covered in black Lightning Patterns.
• The linen-clad old man, Elder Yao, and the Qinghua Two Immortals noticed that Lin Ming's Adamantine Glazed Body had grown from nine zhang and nine chi to ten zhang.
• Lin Ming realized Black Demon Lightning had brought Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique to major completion and pushed his physical body to the Half Sage stage.
• Lin Ming concluded that his new strength could overwhelm Old Ghost Tianming, as the plaza's spectators looked at him with reverence.

Lin Ming captured and subdued the Ninth Grade Treasure Pill after it escaped the Flame Giant Dragon’s explosion and fought him in several forms. He secured the Bodhi Pill, then disappeared from the stunned crowd above the plaza.

• The Flame Giant Dragon exploded, and the Ninth Grade Treasure Pill escaped as a fast-moving emerald light.
• Lin Ming intercepted the pill, defeated its jade beast form, and watched it transform into a giant resembling him.
• Lin Ming overpowered the duplicate giant, sealed the pill’s core light with rune chains, and calmed its spiritual consciousness with a Soul Imprint.
• The pill stabilized as the Bodhi Pill, which Lin Ming collected before returning to his original form.
• Lin Ming surveyed the shocked crowd and vanished from the sky above the plaza.

After Lin Ming’s Tier 9 Bodhi Pill drew Black Demon Lightning, news of his achievement spread across Middle Continent and drew reactions from major factions. The Little Pill Tower planned to invite him to its elder selection, while the Yao Clan decided to contact him; Lin Ming remained at the Five Elements Sect, apparently unconcerned.

• News spread that Lin Ming had refined a Tier 9 Bodhi Pill and withstood Black Demon Lightning, making him a legendary figure across Middle Continent.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that there was always someone stronger, and Xiao Yan vowed to keep improving and one day reach the pinnacle of alchemy.
• The Little Pill Tower’s Great Elder directed Xuan Kongzi to inform Lin Ming about the upcoming elder selection and let him decide whether to participate.
• The Soul Hall ordered its members to monitor Lin Ming, while the Yan Realm, Lei Realm, and Shi Realm increased intelligence gathering on him and the Five Elements Sect.
• Yao Clan elders argued over Lin Ming’s achievement until Yao Dan ordered them to contact him peacefully and assess the possibility of cooperation.
• Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect after collecting the pill and remained unconcerned by the reactions gathering around him.

Lin Ming accepted an invitation to compete for a Little Pill Tower elder seat eleven months later. After seeing Xuan Kongzi off, he planned how to strengthen himself and Qing Lin before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared, and decided to visit the Beast Domain.

• Xuan Kongzi visited the Five Elements Sect on behalf of the Little Pill Tower's Great Elder and invited Lin Ming to its elder selection.
• Lin Ming agreed to attend the selection in eleven months and saw Xuan Kongzi off.
• Lin Ming calculated that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would emerge in roughly twenty months and considered how to accelerate his cultivation.
• Lin Ming decided Qing Lin needed stronger snake-type Magical Beasts to aid her cultivation and resolved to travel to the Beast Domain.

Lin Ming and Qing Lin traveled into the Beast Domain to reach the Nether Python Clan’s Underground World, where they planned to rescue Yao Ming from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. They bypassed the guarded entrance and crossed the underground tribes, arriving at the Nether Serpent Earth Vein, the clan’s headquarters.

• Lin Ming set out with Qing Lin after settling the affairs of his sect and used his mastery of Space Power to reach the Beast Domain in half a day.
• Lin Ming headed for the Nether Python Clan’s territory, intending to free Yao Ming and use his rightful claim and knowledge of the clan to avoid a direct battle.
• Lin Ming and Qing Lin reached the guarded Nine Nether Abyss and concealed themselves within distorted space to slip past the sentries.
• Lin Ming and Qing Lin followed their map through the Underground World, passing Nether Python tribes and noticing the hollowness in their bloodlines.
• Lin Ming and Qing Lin arrived at the Nether Serpent Earth Vein, the Nether Python Clan’s heavily guarded headquarters.