Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming led his companions to the Ancient Treasure Pavilion, where an invitation and protective cloaks allowed them into its hidden depths. The group reached the sealed bronze doors of the true trading venue, and Lin Ming pushed them open and stepped inside.

• Lin Ming left the outer streets with Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei and headed toward the Ancient Treasure Pavilion.
• Elder Yao revealed that the pavilion’s two gatekeepers were Six-Star Dou Venerates and explained that entry required an invitation from the three hosting sects.
• Lin Ming presented the group’s red jade invitation, and the gatekeepers welcomed them and provided cloaks that concealed their identities and blocked soul probes.
• The five cloaked companions followed a gray-robed attendant through the dim pavilion to a massive bronze door at the end of a corridor.
• Lin Ming pushed open the bronze door and stepped toward the hidden trading venue as powerful auras and light emerged from within.

Lin Ming and his companions entered the Ancient Treasure Pavilion’s crowded Space Trading Fair and took precautions against the powerful experts around them. Old Man Baoshan appeared, revealed his peak Nine-Revolution Dou Venerate strength, and opened the fair, leaving the cloaked attendees eagerly awaiting the first treasure.

• Lin Ming led Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei into the ancient hall and sat with them in a secluded corner.
• Lin Ming warned the group that their conversations might be overheard, and Elder Yao created a spatial barrier to conceal their communication.
• A bell summoned everyone’s attention as Old Man Baoshan appeared above the central platform, and Lin Ming recognized his peak Nine-Revolution Dou Venerate cultivation.
• Old Man Baoshan enclosed the platform in a spatial barrier and announced that the Space Trading Fair had begun.

Old Man Baoshan opened the Space Trading Fair by auctioning a pair of Heaven Demon Phoenix wings, which a cloaked bidder acquired with a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill bearing Four-color Pill Lightning. Lin Ming watched the quiet exchange, and the fair moved on after the wings were sold.

• Old Man Baoshan revealed a pair of well-preserved demon phoenix wings and explained their value as materials for a Flying Fighting Skill.
• Lin Ming and his group recognized the wings as remains of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and considered the risks of possessing them.
• Old Man Baoshan set the asking price at a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill with Four-color Pill Lightning.
• A cloaked figure offered the required pill, and no other attendee raised the bid.
• Old Man Baoshan handed the wings to the bidder, who stored them away.

Old Man Baoshan auctioned the Adamantine Glazed Body, a Heaven Tier Low-grade physical Dou Technique, and a bidder won it with a water-attribute cultivation method. He then introduced the Four Directions Ember Cauldron, drawing Lin Ming’s interest as the next auction began.

• Old Man Baoshan presented the Adamantine Glazed Body and explained its formidable defensive and offensive power.
• Four bidders offered Heaven Tier Low-grade water-attribute cultivation methods in exchange for the Dou Technique.
• Old Man Baoshan selected one cultivation method, and a silent black-robed man received the Adamantine Glazed Body.
• Lin Ming secretly marked the winning bidder, intending to track him later.
• Old Man Baoshan introduced the Four Directions Ember Cauldron, and Lin Ming considered its value as an additional medicinal cauldron.

Lin Ming bid on the Four Directions Ember Cauldron but withdrew when a mysterious bidder offered an incomplete Heaven Tier soul cultivation method. He and his companions watched the trade fair continue, waiting for the more important treasures still to come.

• Lin Ming offered a Six-Colored Pill Lightning Clear Heart Condensing Spirit Pill for the Four Directions Ember Cauldron.
• A black shadow outbid Lin Ming with the first half of the Heaven Tier Low-grade Spirit Nourishing Art, and Lin Ming and the other bidders withdrew.
• Old Man Baoshan awarded the Four Directions Ember Cauldron to the black shadow, whose unusual offer made Lin Ming curious.
• A black shadow exchanged a Heaven Tier Low-grade Blood Prison Slash for the Space-Rending halberd.
• A bidder won the Great Void Wandering Dragon Steps with three Six-Colored Pill Lightning tier 8 pills, and refiners acquired the Star Core with rare beast blood and ores.
• Lin Ming and his group watched the remaining trades from their corner and conserved their strength for the auction's finale.

At the auction, Lin Ming bought the Heavenly Netherworld Poison Canon for Xiao Yi Xian, recognizing its potential to help her control and develop her Calamity Poison Body. The auction continued with more rare treasures, while Lin Ming and his group mostly watched.

• Old Man Baoshan introduced the Heavenly Netherworld Poison Canon, an inheritance of the Heavenly Netherworld Poison Saint, and explained its dangers and exchange requirements.
• Lin Ming noticed Xiao Yi Xian's interest in the poison canon and decided to obtain it for her.
• Lin Ming outbid the other bidders with two Soul Forging Pills with Five-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Old Man Baoshan awarded the canon to Lin Ming, who handed it to a moved Xiao Yi Xian.
• The auction continued, including a Cultivation Method for cultivating Star Fire that Lin Ming declined to bid on.

At the auction, Lin Ming won the Great Evolution Golden Radiance Art, a peak Heaven Tier Low-grade Gold Element cultivation method, for Ya Fei. The transaction left Ya Fei thrilled and the other bidders wary of Lin Ming’s resources.

• Old Man Baoshan introduced the Great Evolution Golden Radiance Art and explained its power and origins.
• Lin Ming decided to obtain the cultivation method for Ya Fei, whose current Profound Tier High-grade method limited her growth.
• Several powerful bidders competed for the scroll with rare pills and treasures.
• Lin Ming offered four Six-Colored Pill Lightning Tier 8 Pills, and the other bidders stopped bidding.
• Old Man Baoshan awarded Lin Ming the scroll, and Lin Ming completed the transaction by handing over four jade bottles.
• Lin Ming reassured the excited Ya Fei as the auction hall regarded him with envy and wariness.

At the Ancient Treasure Pavilion trade fair, Old Man Baoshan auctioned a fragment map linked to the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame, and Lin Ming recognized it as the final piece he needed. While the crowd bid furiously, Lin Ming stayed out of the contest and planned to take the map from its eventual buyer after the fair.

• Old Man Baoshan presented a weathered fragment map as the trade fair’s second-to-last item.
• Lin Ming recognized the map as the final Pure Lotus Demonic Flame fragment he had been searching for.
• Old Man Baoshan announced that the map was linked to the Pure Lotus Demonic Flame and would be exchanged for Tier 8 medicinal pills with Six-Colored Pill Lightning or better.
• Auction participants drove the bids rapidly upward, offering increasingly valuable medicinal pills.
• Lin Ming declined to bid, intending to let the eventual buyer pay the high price and then seize the map through a deal after the fair.

After the trading fair revealed the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emergence, Lin Ming’s group pursued the buyer of the remnant map tied to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. They hid in the desert and prepared to ambush the Cloud Rain Sect, whose three leaders arrived as the chapter ended.

• The remnant map went to the same buyer as in the original work, and Old Man Baoshan announced the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s emergence before ending the fair.
• Lin Ming told Elder Yao that they would seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree later and declared they had to take Gu Tu from the map’s buyer first.
• Lin Ming led Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei to a remote desert and concealed them in the void to wait for the buyer’s group.
• Lin Ming explained that the Cloud Rain Sect raised women as furnaces and described its three leaders: Tian Xie Zi, Di Xie Zi, and Ren Xie Zi.
• Lin Ming sensed the three Cloud Rain Sect leaders approaching, and the group readied their abilities and weapons for battle.

Lin Ming and Elder Yao ambushed the three Cloud Rain Sect elders to seize their remnant map. Elder Yao wounded them with his Half Sage power, and Lin Ming captured all three with his soul power and sent them into his inner world.

• Lin Ming secretly tracked Tian Xie Zi, Di Xie Zi, and Ren Xie Zi as they crossed the desert, then ordered the ambush to begin.
• Elder Yao intercepted the three Cloud Rain Sect elders and demanded the remnant map and their lives.
• Elder Yao attacked with Space Annihilation, and the three elders countered with the Three Scorpion Yin Fiend Palm but were pushed back and injured.
• Tian Xie Zi called for the Three Scorpion Heavenly Demon Formation, but Lin Ming's soul pressure crushed the trio's will to resist.
• Lin Ming formed a giant soul hand, captured Tian Xie Zi, Di Xie Zi, and Ren Xie Zi, and sent them into his inner world.

Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect after defeating and capturing the Three Demons of Cloud Rain Sect, then entered secluded cultivation to assemble the four remnant maps. The maps formed a complete guide to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving Lin Ming poised to pursue the legendary Heavenly Flame.

• Lin Ming captured the Three Demons of Cloud Rain Sect, secured their remnant map, and left the devastated desert with Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei.
• Experts arrived at the battle site and found the terrain destroyed, but they could not identify who had fought there.
• Lin Ming and his group returned to the Five Elements Sect, and Lin Ming entered his secret room to examine the prisoners and maps in his Inner World.
• Lin Ming brought out the three maps he already possessed and retrieved the fourth from Tian Xie Zi, startling the imprisoned demons.
• Lin Ming carefully joined the four maps, which merged into a complete map pointing to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Lin Ming activated the completed Gu Tu with his blood and Dark Purple Flame, revealing a prophecy that the Demonic Fire would descend in three years. A pale-pink lotus imprint entered his soul, and Lin Ming remained confident that he would use the time to reach Dou Sheng and prepare to claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Lin Ming dripped his blood onto the assembled Gu Tu, then burned it with his Dark Purple Flame until its lines glowed and formed four ancient prophetic phrases.
• Lin Ming calculated that the next Heaven and Earth Tide and the descent of the Demonic Fire would occur in three years.
• Lin Ming resolved to break through to the Dou Sheng realm before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared.
• When Lin Ming touched the Gu Tu, its lotus pattern shot into his brow and became an ancient stream of information within his soul.
• Lin Ming confirmed the imprint carried no immediate threat and let its power settle, while a faint-pink lotus mark briefly appeared on his brow.

News of the Bodhi Ancient Tree drew powerful factions and experts toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region as Lin Ming prepared to compete for its Bodhi Heart. In the Five Elements Sect, he began cultivating the Heaven Tier Vajra Glazed Body to strengthen himself before the dangerous journey.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree's appearance spread across the Middle Continent, rousing powerful factions and secluded experts who sought a chance to reach Dou Sheng.
• Lin Ming resolved to obtain the Bodhi Heart and use it to break through to Dou Sheng before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended in three years.
• Lin Ming began studying the Heaven Tier Vajra Glazed Body, a technique that tempered the entire body by forcing Dou Qi into its tissues.
• Lin Ming judged that his body, strengthened by Heavenly Flames and other cultivation, could withstand the technique's harsh demands.

Lin Ming endured the painful first stages of cultivating the Vajra Glazed Body while factions across the Middle Continent prepared for the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s appearance. When its phenomenon finally spread across the continent, powerful cultivators rushed toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.

• Lin Ming cultivated the Vajra Glazed Body, repeatedly expanding and shrinking as golden light tempered his flesh and bones through intense pain.
• Over half a month, factions dispatched advance teams toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region while their strongest experts waited for proof that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared.
• Five days later, a clear qi phenomenon spread across the northeastern Middle Continent and showed cultivators an image of the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s appearance ignited the continent, and powerful cultivators tore through space toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.

After half a month of secluded cultivation, Lin Ming emerged with his Vajra Glazed Body stabilized in its nine-zhang form, though he had not reached its nine-zhang-and-nine-feet peak. With the Bodhi Ancient Tree confirmed in the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, he prepared to leave immediately with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.

• Lin Ming's newly transformed nine-zhang golden body erupted from his destroyed cultivation room, alarming the Five Elements Sect's elders.
• Elder Yao reassured the elders that the giant was Lin Ming, who then returned to his normal form and described his progress in cultivating the Vajra Glazed Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Ming that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared in the Middle Continent and that its manifestation had been confirmed.
• Lin Ming assigned Elder Yao and Ya Fei to protect and manage the Five Elements Sect while he traveled to the Vast Desolate Ancient Region with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Lin Ming declared that they would leave at once.

Lin Ming and his companions reached Vast Desolate Town, where the rush of people seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree had turned the frontier outpost into a crowded hub. After learning that an earlier expedition had been wiped out, Lin Ming decided to enter the Vast Desolate Ancient Region with a large allied force in two days.

• Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and a Peak Dou Ancestor elder traveled for five days toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region as crowds of treasure seekers streamed northeast.
• The four arrived at Vast Desolate Town and settled at a quiet stone inn while the elder went to gather information.
• The elder reported that the first group of explorers, including Dou Venerate experts, had apparently been completely wiped out after entering the region.
• The elder said major forces were organizing an allied expedition of Peak Dou Ancestors and stronger experts to enter through a known entrance in two days.
• Lin Ming decided that he, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin would join the expedition, while the elder stayed in town to monitor events and await them.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin waited while thousands of cultivators charged into the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, then entered the forest after the vanguard had drawn out some dangers. They advanced cautiously and reached nearly a dozen li into the forest without encountering a major threat.

• Lin Ming and Qing Lin surveyed the thousands gathered outside the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and noted the many powerful Dou Zong and Dou Venerate experts among them.
• The crowd surged into the forest in search of the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and screams and fighting soon came from within.
• Lin Ming told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to wait until most of the crowd had entered, using them to reveal dangers along the forest’s outer edge.
• After waiting two incense sticks, Lin Ming led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin into the forest in a concealed formation.
• Lin Ming avoided the trampled routes and guided the group through denser vegetation; they traveled nearly a dozen li without encountering a serious danger.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin entered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and encountered a deadly mist that poisoned and drove the advancing crowd into chaos. Lin Ming discovered that the supposed poison mist was actually a swarm of countless microscopic poisonous insects.

• Lin Ming grew wary of how smoothly the group advanced and kept his companions at a careful distance from the main force.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed poison mist forming and gave Lin Ming and Qing Lin Blood Toad Toxin-Repelling Pills.
• The mist thickened and poisoned people ahead, triggering panic, attacks, and widespread deaths as Lin Ming led his companions onward.
• Lin Ming examined the corpse of a peak Dou Ancestor and questioned how the poison had overcome his defenses so quickly.
• Xiao Yi Xian inhaled a sample and reacted with alarm, while Lin Ming sensed countless living particles hunting for life; he identified the mist as microscopic poisonous insects.

Lin Ming used Heavenly Flames to purge the poisonous insects inside Qing Lin and protect the group as they crossed the miasma. The three escaped the poisonous-insect fog zone and hurried onward toward the Vast Desolate Ancient Region’s interior.

• Xiao Yi Xian warned that invisible poisonous insects had entered the group, and Lin Ming burned those inside himself and Qing Lin with Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian cleared the insects from her body with her Calamity Poison Power, while Lin Ming opened a Fire Domain that kept the poison mist and insects away.
• Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin advanced through the fog under the protection of the flame shield as they saw signs of the exploration party’s heavy losses.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed the miasma thinning, and Lin Ming urged the group to hurry because rival factions might already be farther ahead.
• The three passed beyond the poisonous-insect fog zone and continued toward the ancient region’s interior.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin reached the Vast Desolate Ancient Region’s central mountains, and Lin Ming used the Bodhi Seed to sense a rough direction toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After crossing a poisonous chasm, they came under attack from Shadow Blood-Eyed Leopards, which Lin Ming swiftly killed.

• Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin surveyed the dangerous chasm and the ancient mountains beyond it, where powerful beasts lurked.
• Qing Lin described the ancient beasts’ violent instincts and formidable physical strength.
• Lin Ming used the Bodhi Seed to sense a vague pull toward the northwest and identified it as their direction of travel.
• Lin Ming led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin across the chasm toward the ancient region’s core.
• Several Shadow Blood-Eyed Leopards ambushed the three from the forest below.
• Lin Ming struck the leopards with a powerful gust from his sleeve, killing them before they could reach the group.