Recaps

Lin Ming and Qing Lin infiltrated the Nether Python Clan’s heavily guarded Nether Serpent Earth Vein and descended into the chasm hiding the Nine Nether Yellow Springs. They reached the bottom and saw the eerie lake that was Lin Ming’s destination.

• Lin Ming used Space Power to conceal himself and Qing Lin as they slipped past the Nether Python Clan’s defenses and expert perceptions.
• Lin Ming and Qing Lin reached the chasm at the heart of the earth vein, where the freezing Gale Wind guarded the abyss.
• Lin Ming carved a passage through the Gale Wind with a spatial force field and brought Qing Lin down into the chasm.
• Lin Ming and Qing Lin arrived at the bottom and saw the dark yellow, blood-streaked lake of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.

Lin Ming reached the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and tested its deadly Yin Cold Force before using his Heavenly Flames to protect himself and diving into the lake. Qing Lin hid nearby and waited as the forbidden shore fell silent again.

• Lin Ming and Qing Lin reached the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where the extreme cold forced Qing Lin to stop short of the shore.
• Lin Ming touched the lake and watched deep yellow ice spread across his arm, then melted it with his Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Ming told Qing Lin to hide while he searched the Yellow Spring for Yellow Spring Blood Crystals, and she agreed.
• Lin Ming covered himself in New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame and plunged into the lake, driving toward its darker depths.
• Qing Lin concealed her aura in a rock crevice and waited as no patrols approached the lake.

Lin Ming descended into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, where the extreme cold threatened to slow and drain him, and encountered a swarm of Strange Snakes. He used a fire dragon formed from the New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame to hold them off and escaped deeper into the dark waters.

• Lin Ming increased his speed as the Yellow Springs’ Yin Cold Force began to penetrate his defenses and interfere with his Dou Qi.
• A Strange Snake ambushed Lin Ming, and he struck it apart before thousands more surrounded him and attacked with black Water Arrows.
• Lin Ming chose to flee rather than fight the swarm, but the Strange Snakes pursued him and continued firing at him.
• Lin Ming sent a Dark Purple Flame Giant Dragon into the swarm, burning many Strange Snakes and forcing the rest to keep their distance.
• Lin Ming used the opening to accelerate into the darkness below and leave the snake swarm behind.

Lin Ming reached the bottom of the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and staged a fruitless treasure hunt to draw out the voice of the prisoner he had come to find. He uncovered a skeleton-like figure chained beneath the sand, though the chapter left the captive’s identity unconfirmed.

• Lin Ming spotted a pale blue light and reached the glowing lake bottom, where he found a vast field of luminous fragments and a terrifying abyss.
• Lin Ming judged that entering the abyss was too dangerous and pretended to search the lake bottom for Yellow Spring Blood Crystals.
• After an hour, Lin Ming heard a faint cry for help and acted as though he was unsure whether it had been real.
• Lin Ming tore open the sandy ground and exposed a massive bluish-black iron chain covered in ancient seal runes.
• Lin Ming pulled the chain, revealing four chains anchored to surrounding black mountains and a mass of dense black mud at their convergence.
• Lin Ming scattered the mud and found a nearly desiccated person impaled through the limbs and joints by the chains.

Lin Ming questioned Yao Ming, the imprisoned former Clan Leader of the Nether Python Clan, and learned how Yao Xiaotian betrayed and sealed him. Yao Ming offered Lin Ming the clan’s orthodox Nine Nether Underworld Staff and revealed that, despite his current weakness, his realm had risen to Two-Star Dou Saint.

• Yao Ming begged Lin Ming to free him and promised to make the Nether Python Clan acknowledge Lin Ming as its master.
• Yao Ming identified himself as the former Clan Leader and described how Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder poisoned, defeated, and imprisoned him in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Yao Ming explained that Yao Xiaotian kept him alive to endure centuries of torment and to suffer as Yao Xiaotian took the clan’s leadership.
• Lin Ming questioned the risks of freeing Yao Ming, given Yao Xiaotian’s power and the clan’s support for him.
• Yao Ming said the Nine Nether Underworld Staff could help him reclaim authority and revealed that his realm had advanced from intermediate Half Sage to Two-Star Dou Saint during his imprisonment.

Lin Ming agreed to help Yao Ming escape and reclaim leadership of the Nether Python Clan, but only after placing a soul seal on him. In return for their alliance, Yao Ming gave Lin Ming the last Yellow Spring Blood Crystal, which Lin Ming had come to find.

• Yao Ming estimated that Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder were both One-Star Dou Saints, making the clan struggle dangerous for Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming said he could not trust Yao Ming, then offered to help him if Yao Ming willingly exposed his Soul Origin and accepted a soul seal.
• Yao Ming agreed, and Lin Ming branded his Soul Origin with a seal containing the Power of Exotic Flame from the New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame.
• After the seal took hold, Lin Ming asked Yao Ming about the Yellow Spring Blood Crystal he had come to find.
• Yao Ming admitted he had swallowed the crystals that formed over the years and produced the last, largest piece from his mouth as a gift to Lin Ming.

Lin Ming found the Mechanism Hub inside the Yellow Spring Yin Stone mountain and destroyed it with a precise Fire Needle, cutting off the energy that kept Yao Ming imprisoned. The chains began to break, giving Yao Ming hope of escape after centuries of captivity.

• Lin Ming discovered a Yellow Spring Blood Crystal, endured its freezing yin energy, and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Yao Ming explained that the chains drained his Dou Qi through a formation powered by a core inside the Yellow Spring Yin Stone mountain.
• Lin Ming found the mountain too hard to break by force and learned that the chains transmitted an intense flow of yin cold energy.
• Lin Ming used his Soul Perception and a compressed flame Fire Needle to find the Mechanism Hub inside the mountain.
• Lin Ming shattered the Mechanism Hub, cutting off the energy flow and causing the chains binding Yao Ming to slacken and break.

Yao Xiaotian learned that the seal imprisoning Yao Ming had broken and hurried to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to kill him. Lin Ming freed the badly weakened Yao Ming, who swore loyalty and promised to help him, and the two fled toward the surface.

• At a banquet, Yao Xiaotian sensed that the seal suppressing Yao Ming had broken and told the Great Elder.
• The Great Elder concealed the crisis from the gathered leaders while Yao Xiaotian went to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, determined to kill Yao Ming.
• Lin Ming shattered the final sealing nexus and supported Yao Ming as the freed prisoner nearly collapsed.
• Yao Ming thanked Lin Ming, promised to repay him and reclaim his clan by killing Yao Xiaotian, and accepted Lin Ming's pills to regain some strength.
• Lin Ming wrapped Yao Ming in Dou Qi, and they raced upward through the Yellow Springs to escape.

Lin Ming and Yao Ming escaped the Nine Nether Yellow Springs while Yao Xiaotian attacked Qing Lin, drawn by the Nine-Headed Ancient Heavenly Snake Soul within her. Lin Ming arrived in time to catch the injured Qing Lin, and Yao Xiaotian confronted him with threats and greed.

• Yao Ming used his bloodline and a special hiss to make the Yellow Spring Nether Serpents clear a path as he and Lin Ming hurried toward the surface.
• Yao Xiaotian arrived above the lake and detected Qing Lin hiding near the shore, then attacked her with a claw of black Dou Qi.
• Qing Lin evaded Yao Xiaotian's strike and revealed the nine-headed Ancient Heavenly Serpent Soul, prompting him to covet her and the soul.
• Yao Xiaotian struck Qing Lin and sent her flying just as Lin Ming and Yao Ming emerged from the lake.
• Lin Ming caught Qing Lin and faced Yao Xiaotian, who threatened to kill him and seize Qing Lin and her Ancient Heavenly Serpent Soul.

Yao Xiaotian confronted his imprisoned elder brother Yao Ming and Lin Ming in the Nether Serpent Earth Vein, determined to kill them before Yao Ming could recover. Lin Ming stepped forward to face him, and their battle began when Lin Ming’s New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame halted Yao Xiaotian’s massive attack.

• Yao Ming accused Yao Xiaotian of murdering his brother and usurping his position, while Yao Xiaotian mocked him for surviving centuries of imprisonment.
• Yao Xiaotian threatened to kill Lin Ming and Yao Ming to prevent Yao Ming from reclaiming the Nether Python Clan leadership.
• Lin Ming moved Qing Lin and Yao Ming to safety, gave them recovery pills, and prepared to fight Yao Xiaotian.
• Yao Ming warned Lin Ming that Yao Xiaotian was a powerful mid-stage One-Star Dou Saint skilled in the Nether Python Clan’s secret arts.
• Yao Xiaotian summoned a giant black palm and slammed it toward Lin Ming, who countered with the New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame and slowed the attack.

Yao Xiaotian’s Yellow Springs Finger failed against Lin Ming’s Great Heaven Creation Palm, forcing Yao Xiaotian to reveal his true form and summon the Yellow Springs Great Seal. The chapter ended as the massive sealing technique took shape above the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.

• Yao Xiaotian unleashed the Heaven Tier Dou Technique Yellow Springs Finger at Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming used Great Heaven Creation Palm to devour the Yellow Springs Finger, shocking Yao Xiaotian and Yao Ming.
• Yao Xiaotian transformed into a colossal black serpent and declared that he would use his clan’s supreme art.
• Yao Xiaotian commanded the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to condense the Yellow Springs Great Seal.

Yao Xiaotian used the Yellow Springs Great Seal to smash Lin Ming into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, but Lin Ming broke free and unleashed a devastating counterattack. The chapter ended with Lin Ming relentlessly beating the defeated Yao Xiaotian, whose strength and hope dwindled.

• Yao Xiaotian summoned the Yellow Springs Great Seal and struck Lin Ming, burying him beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Yao Ming feared Lin Ming had been sealed as he had been in the past, but the seal suddenly shook and flew into the air.
• Lin Ming burst from the lake in a golden-and-black-lightning form and struck Yao Xiaotian with the Creation Fist.
• Lin Ming's blow tore through Yao Xiaotian's body from within and sent him crashing into a mountain peak.
• Lin Ming pursued Yao Xiaotian, stomped him down, and pummeled him until his aura weakened and his defiance turned to despair.

Lin Ming defeated Yao Xiaotian but was surrounded by the Nether Python Clan’s elites as the clan prepared a powerful formation against him. As Yao Xiaotian tried to clear away witnesses, Yao Ming appeared and accused him of plotting to kill his own elder brother and blame an outsider.

• The Nether Python Clan’s elders and nearly a hundred Nether Serpent Guards converged on Lin Ming after he defeated Yao Xiaotian.
• Yao Xiaotian broke free from Lin Ming’s suppression and ordered the elders to form the Ten Thousand Snake Saint-Killing Formation.
• Yao Xiaotian ordered the branch-tribe leaders to return to their residences and remain there, prompting them to prepare to leave.
• Yao Ming emerged from the shadows and accused Yao Xiaotian of trying to secretly kill him and frame the outsider, as he had in the past.

Yao Ming revealed that Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder had poisoned, ambushed, and sealed him for hundreds of years, and several elders confirmed his identity. The Great Elder attacked Yao Ming to silence him, but Lin Ming intercepted the strike.

• Yao Ming recovered to the strength of a High-Tier Half Sage, and the Nether Python Clan recognized his face and aura.
• Yao Xiaotian called Yao Ming an impostor and ordered the elders to activate the Ten Thousand Snake Formation.
• Elder Xian, Elder Ming, and Elder Liu confirmed Yao Ming’s identity after recognizing his Soul Fluctuation.
• Yao Ming accused Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder of poisoning him with Nine Nether Soul-Eroding Powder and sealing him in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs for hundreds of years.
• The Great Elder dismissed Yao Ming’s claims and attacked him with the Withered Leaf Great Poison Palm.
• Lin Ming stepped between them and blocked the Great Elder’s palm with a punch wreathed in New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame.

Yao Ming revealed the Nine Nether Underworld Staff, turning the Nether Python Clan elders against Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder, Yao Mo. As the two attacked Lin Ming and Yao Ming, Lin Ming used the Heavenly Fire Three Xuan Transformations to rise to the peak of the Middle-Stage One-Star Dou Saint.

• Yao Ming revealed the Nine Nether Underworld Staff, and the elders recognized it as the clan's sacred token and proof of the rightful Clan Leader.
• Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder, Yao Mo, tried to persuade Yao Ming to surrender the staff, but Yao Ming refused.
• Ming Chang, Xian Gu, and Liu Gui cited the ancestral rules and Yao Xiaotian's oath, prompting many elders to support Yao Ming's return as Clan Leader.
• Yao Xiaotian and Yao Mo launched a coordinated attack on Lin Ming and Yao Ming, aiming to kill Lin Ming and seize the staff.
• Lin Ming activated the Heavenly Fire Three Xuan Transformations, gathered five Heavenly Flames into his body, and advanced to the peak of the Middle-Stage One-Star Dou Saint.

Lin Ming used the Heavenly Fire Three Xuan Transformations and his Vajra Glazed Body to fight Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder at once. As their battle devastated the area, Nether Python Clan elders moved to protect the recovering Yao Ming, leaving the clan divided.

• Lin Ming transformed into a ten-zhang golden giant and challenged Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder to fight him together.
• Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder attacked, and Lin Ming met their combined assault head-on in a destructive battle that left neither side with an advantage.
• Ming Chang, Xian Gu, and Liu Gui decided not to aid Yao Xiaotian, hoping Yao Ming could reclaim the clan and set matters right.
• Yao Xiaotian's trusted subordinates moved to capture Yao Ming while he recovered, but Ming Chang and the other elders blocked them.
• The elders trapped Yao Xiaotian's subordinates with the Nether Serpent Heaven-Binding Array, and the two groups began fighting at a standstill.

Lin Ming endured the combined attacks of Yao Xiaotian and Great Elder Yao Mo, while Elder Ming Chang and the other elders stopped Yao Xiaotian’s aides from targeting Yao Ming. As Yao Xiaotian and Yao Mo plotted to kill Yao Ming, he rose with the strength of a Two-Star Dou Saint, turning the battle in his favor.

• Yao Xiaotian and Great Elder Yao Mo launched a coordinated attack, but Lin Ming blocked them with the Great Heaven Creation Palm and Creation Fist.
• The collision unleashed a destructive storm that forced Lin Ming, Yao Xiaotian, and Yao Mo backward, though Lin Ming showed no substantial injury.
• Elder Ming Chang and the other elders resisted Yao Xiaotian’s aides, insisting that Yao Ming could not be attacked before the clan investigated the matter.
• Yao Xiaotian and Yao Mo decided that Yao Mo would hold Lin Ming off while Yao Xiaotian looked for a chance to kill Yao Ming.
• Yao Ming rose from recovery and revealed an aura at the Two-Star Dou Saint level, shocking Yao Xiaotian and Yao Mo and prompting Elder Ming Chang and the others to cheer.

Yao Ming recovered enough strength to confront Yao Xiaotian and avenge his imprisonment, while Lin Ming continued battling the Great Elder. Yao Ming crushed Yao Xiaotian and left him near death, as the Great Elder realized their rule was collapsing.

• Yao Ming thanked Lin Ming for rescuing and protecting him, then promised the Nether Python Clan would become Lin Ming’s ally.
• Lin Ming told Yao Ming to leave Yao Xiaotian alive for now and kept the Great Elder occupied.
• Yao Ming attacked Yao Xiaotian, while Lin Ming’s Exotic Flame countered the Great Elder’s poisonous strikes.
• The Great Elder saw Yao Xiaotian being overwhelmed and despaired as their control of the clan fell apart.
• Yao Ming smashed Yao Xiaotian into a mountain peak and stamped on his chest, leaving him bloodied and barely alive.

Yao Ming defeated and sealed Yao Xiaotian, then confronted the Great Elder over his role in the betrayal and imprisonment. Facing Yao Ming and Lin Ming with no hope of escape, the Great Elder activated a Nether Python Clan technique to destroy himself.

• Yao Xiaotian begged Yao Ming for mercy, then reversed his Dou Qi in an attempt to self-destruct and take Yao Ming with him.
• Yao Ming suppressed Yao Xiaotian’s detonation and sealed his soul and Dou Qi, leaving him alive but unable to resist.
• Yao Ming turned his attention to the Great Elder and declared that they would settle their score.
• The Great Elder, terrified of falling into their hands, used the Nine Nether Forbidden Technique—Demon Snake Heaven Explosion to ignite his cultivation and begin self-destruction.

Lin Ming stopped the Great Elder from self-detonating by overwhelming him with Soul Pressure and capturing him alive. With Yao Ming restored as Clan Leader, the Nether Python Clan began restoring order and purging Yao Xiaotian’s remaining supporters.

• The Great Elder began to self-detonate, sending the Nether Python Clan members and Yao Ming fleeing from the blast.
• Lin Ming unleashed his Soul Pressure, freezing everyone and suppressing the Great Elder’s self-detonation.
• Lin Ming sealed the Great Elder’s soul and captured him before the explosion could occur.
• Yao Ming declared the conspiracy exposed and ordered the clan to restore order and clear the battlefield.
• Ming Chang, Xian Gu, Liu Gui, and the other elders pledged allegiance to Yao Ming, who ordered them to arrest, interrogate, or eliminate Yao Xiaotian’s remaining followers.
• Lin Ming watched Yao Ming take charge, then dispersed his Vajra Glazed Body after the battle left him slightly pale.

Lin Ming gave Qing Lin the sealed Great Elder to control with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and she also took control of Yao Xiaotian. After Yao Ming arranged a welcoming banquet, Lin Ming and Qing Lin headed to it, where Lin Ming hoped to discuss another opportunity with the new clan leader.

• Lin Ming gave Qing Lin the sealed Great Elder, and she used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control him and store him inside her eyes.
• Yao Ming noticed Qing Lin had controlled the Great Elder, accepted the situation, and handed over the sealed Yao Xiaotian for Lin Ming and Qing Lin to deal with.
• Yao Ming invited Lin Ming and Qing Lin to a welcoming banquet, and Lin Ming accepted.
• Qing Lin controlled Yao Xiaotian as well, gaining two Dou Sheng experts as cultivation resources.
• Lin Ming and Qing Lin flew toward the Nether Python Clan banquet, where Lin Ming planned to discuss another opportunity with Yao Ming.

At a banquet honoring Lin Ming for helping Yao Ming reclaim the Nether Python Clan, Yao Ming revealed the clan guarded a Yellow Springs Stone Tablet containing the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s techniques and Natal Blood Essence. He confirmed the tablet held the legendary soul-attacking art Yellow Springs Heaven Rage, leaving Lin Ming outwardly astonished and eager to learn more.

• Yao Ming publicly thanked Lin Ming and declared him an eternal ally of the Nether Python Clan, with privileges across its territory.
• Yao Ming told Lin Ming that the clan’s Forbidden Area held a Yellow Springs Stone Tablet left by the Yellow Springs Demon Saint, containing his techniques and sealed Natal Blood Essence.
• Yao Ming explained that the tablet’s restrictions limited access to its techniques, including the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm, which Yao Xiaotian had used.
• Yao Ming named the tablet’s third and greatest technique as Yellow Springs Heaven Rage, a Heaven Tier high-grade soul-attacking Sound Wave Fighting Skill.
• Lin Ming reacted with apparent shock and asked Yao Ming to confirm that the stone tablet contained the legendary Yellow Springs Heaven Rage.

Yao Ming revealed that the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet concealed the inheritance of Yellow Springs Demon Saint and asked Lin Ming to use his Heavenly Soul to investigate it. After agreeing, Lin Ming and Qing Lin rested while Yao Ming purged his clan’s opposing forces, then followed him to the tablet in the Back Mountain Forbidden Area.

• Yao Ming explained that the Yellow Springs Heaven Rage technique was guarded inside the tablet by Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant Soul Imprint, which required Heavenly-level Soul Power to approach.
• Yao Ming admitted he wanted Lin Ming’s help both to repay his debt and to gain the inheritance and strengthen his control of the Nether Python Clan; Lin Ming agreed to try, while warning that success was uncertain and dangerous.
• Yao Ming arranged for Lin Ming and Qing Lin to rest, then spent the night purging the remaining followers of Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder.
• At dawn, Yao Ming led Lin Ming and Qing Lin through the Back Mountain’s guarded passages to an ancient altar in the Forbidden Area.
• Lin Ming saw the enormous pale-yellow Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and recognized it as the legendary artifact.

Lin Ming prepared to enter the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and attempt to claim the Yellow Springs Heaven Rage inheritance. After arranging protection for his body, he began releasing his soul power as he sat before the tablet.

• Yao Ming explained that the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet held the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm, along with the hidden Yellow Springs Heaven Rage and possibly the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's Natal Blood Essence.
• Yao Ming recounted how the tablet's soul barrier had badly injured him and warned Lin Ming that its test depended on soul strength and status, not merely Dou Qi cultivation.
• Lin Ming sensed the ancient soul pressure, agreed with Yao Ming's assessment, and resolved to try despite the danger.
• Lin Ming asked Qing Lin to guard his defenseless body while Yao Ming acted as Protector against outside interference.
• Lin Ming sat before the tablet, closed his eyes, and formed a powerful pale-gold soul force field around himself.

Lin Ming entered the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet’s hidden thunder world with his soul body and advanced through its trials. He easily resisted the world’s attacks and continued deeper after defeating a Yellow Springs Finger and a giant palm.

• Lin Ming’s soul body passed through the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet and entered the ancient space inside it.
• Lin Ming recognized that the thunder world had been created by the Yellow Springs Demon Saint and began traveling toward its depths.
• A storm of multicolored thunder struck Lin Ming, but his Soul Power nullified every bolt around him.
• The clouds formed a massive Yellow Springs Finger, which Lin Ming countered with a golden finger made from Soul Power; both attacks annihilated each other.
• A deep-yellow giant palm burst from the ground and seized Lin Ming, but he unleashed a Soul Storm that shattered it from within.