Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin cautiously entered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region on foot and avoided joining a group of exhausted Dou Venerates. As they continued through the forest, Xiao Yi Xian killed a Rock Armor Violent Bear with poison, and the three stopped to recover.

• Lin Ming agreed with Qing Lin that flying would attract powerful Fierce Beasts, so the three concealed their auras and continued on foot.
• Lin Ming ignored four weary Dou Venerates who had crossed the Poisonous Miasma, and his group pressed deeper into the forest without them.
• The four Dou Venerates decided to take another route after Lin Ming's group left.
• Xiao Yi Xian struck a Rock Armor Violent Bear with poisoned Dou Qi and killed it before it could fight back.
• Lin Ming checked the surroundings for threats, then told the group to rest while Qing Lin kept watch.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin heard that the Heaven Nether Sect was attacking the Flower Sect and rushed toward the battle. There, Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran were trapped with their wounded allies, facing overwhelming odds after the ambush killed Elder Qing Hua.

• Xiao Yi Xian reasoned that the major factions might have traveled ahead, while Lin Ming urged the group to conserve their strength rather than rush.
• A battle erupted nearby, and Lin Ming recognized the Heaven Nether Sect and Flower Sect; he led Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin toward the fighting.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran tried to rally the Flower Sect survivors, who had been ambushed by the Heaven Nether Sect after fighting an Earth Rock Dragon Lizard.
• Yun Yun focused her wounded elders on escaping instead of seeking revenge, as Liu Cang and the Heaven Nether Sect surrounded them with far greater forces.

Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran faced Liu Cang and the Heaven Nether Sect, whose forces surrounded the injured Flower Sect group and launched an attack. Yun Yun and the other Flower Sect members were left fighting at a severe disadvantage.

• Yun Yun urged Nalan Yanran to flee if fighting resumed, but a sudden attack forced Yun Yun to pull her out of its path.
• A bamboo-pole elder and Liu Cang threatened Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, while Liu Cang revealed his plan to kill the other Flower Sect members and abduct the two women.
• Liu Cang ordered the Heaven Nether Sect experts to capture Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran alive and kill everyone else.
• The Heaven Nether Sect experts surrounded the Flower Sect group and charged, and Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, the elders, and the disciples fought back.
• The Heaven Nether Sect’s greater numbers, strength, and the Flower Sect members’ injuries left the Flower Sect group overwhelmed and losing fighters.

Yun Yun and the Flower Sect fought against the Heaven Nether Sect, but she was badly injured after saving Nalan Yanran. Just as Demonic Flower Evil Lord moved to cripple her, a golden giant arrived and killed him with one punch, leaving Liu Cang wary.

• Yun Yun fought off several Heaven Nether Sect experts while Demonic Flower Evil Lord taunted her.
• A Heaven Nether Sect expert badly injured Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun broke her defense to catch and rescue her.
• Two Four-Star Dou Venerates ambushed Yun Yun, injuring her and driving her into a rock wall.
• Demonic Flower Evil Lord approached the weakened Yun Yun and attacked her dantian with his iron fan.
• A lightning-wreathed golden giant descended, killed Demonic Flower Evil Lord with one punch, and announced his contempt for the Heaven Nether Sect.
• Liu Cang's confident expression darkened as he regarded the golden giant with solemnity and fear.

A mysterious golden giant humiliated Liu Cang and crushed his strongest attack with a single punch, leaving the Heaven Nether Sect forces terrified. Liu Cang was badly injured, while the golden giant’s identity remained unknown.

• The golden giant kicked the Demonic Flower Evil Lord’s remains at Liu Cang, who destroyed them and threatened to kill him.
• Liu Cang attacked from above with the Great Nether Dragon Fist, summoning a massive black energy dragon.
• The golden giant punched the dragon apart and sent the remaining force into Liu Cang.
• Liu Cang crashed into a giant stone, spat blood, and was buried in its collapse as the Heaven Nether Sect experts recoiled in fear.

A golden giant overwhelmed the Heaven Nether Sect forces after gravely wounding Liu Cang, then advanced on the Vice Sect Master with clear intent to kill. Liu Cang abandoned negotiation and fled into the forest, vowing revenge if he survived.

• Liu Cang ordered Elder Qiu and the Heaven Nether Sect experts to attack the golden giant together.
• The golden giant destroyed their combined Dou Techniques with a pair of punches and gravely wounded more than a dozen attackers.
• Liu Cang tried to bargain with the golden giant, but the giant ignored him and continued to approach.
• Realizing the golden giant intended to kill him, Liu Cang used the shattered stones to launch himself toward the forest and escape.

Lin Ming killed Liu Cang and helped Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin defeat the fleeing Elder Qiu, ending the Heaven Nether Sect’s attack on Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran. After revealing his human form, he greeted Yun Yun following their long separation.

• Lin Ming caught Liu Cang on his escape route and killed him with a single punch.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin returned with the badly injured Elder Qiu, whom they had pursued and captured.
• Yun Yun recognized Xiao Yi Xian and realized the golden giant might be Lin Ming.
• Nalan Yanran and the surviving Flower Sect members watched as the giant transformed back into Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming greeted Yun Yun and remarked that it had been a long time.

Lin Ming reunited with Yun Yun after rescuing the Flower Sect from the Heaven Nether Sect and offered to travel with them toward the Ancient Domain Platform. After learning that an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python occupied the route through Black Nether Peak, he decided to confront it for the treasure it guarded, and Yun Yun agreed to guide the group there.

• Lin Ming gave healing pills to Yun Yun and the injured Flower Sect members, then learned that the Heaven Nether Sect had ambushed them and Elder Qing Hua had died.
• Yun Yun explained that the factions were heading for the Ancient Domain Platform, a relatively safe gathering place, and Lin Ming proposed that their groups travel together.
• Yun Yun described two routes to the platform and warned that an Ancient Heavenly Demon Python occupied Black Nether Peak.
• Lin Ming recognized that the python's Heavenly Demon Blood Pool could help perfect his Vajra Glazed Body and announced that he would challenge the beast.
• Yun Yun agreed to lead Lin Ming and the Flower Sect group to Black Nether Peak, while Lin Ming promised to protect them.

Lin Ming led Yun Yun and the others to Black Nether Peak to confront the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python and claim its powerful Life Energy. When the monster attacked, Lin Ming met its enormous tail head-on, injuring it and forcing it to burst from the mountain.

• After an hour of recovery, Lin Ming led the Flower Sect members west toward Black Nether Peak.
• Yun Yun identified the cavern at the mist-covered peak as the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python’s lair, and Lin Ming sensed the ancient Life Energy within.
• Lin Ming, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Flower Sect members entered the Black Mist, alerting the python.
• The Ancient Heavenly Demon Python swept its hundred-zhang tail at the intruders, and Lin Ming transformed into his golden Adamantine Glazed Body to block it with both fists.
• Lin Ming stopped the tail and shattered several of its scales, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin shielded the others from the collision’s aftermath.
• The wounded python roared, shattered the upper mountain, and surged into the sky.

Lin Ming fought the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python with overwhelming physical strength, injuring it and hurling it into a mountain. As he restrained the dazed beast, Qing Lin used her three Demonic Flower Phantoms to subdue its berserk rage.

• The Ancient Heavenly Demon Python attacked Lin Ming, but he charged it and punched a bloody wound into its chest.
• The python struck Lin Ming with its tail, and he seized it and swung the beast into a mountain, leaving it dazed and badly injured.
• Lin Ming called Qing Lin and kept the python’s tail restrained while he swung its body to expose its wounded chest.
• Qing Lin’s emerald eye phantom appeared in the python’s pupils, and the beast began to relax as the fury faded from its eyes.

Qing Lin used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to subdue the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, while Lin Ming kept the beast from breaking free. The python became docile under Qing Lin’s Origin Demon Eye, leaving the group with a powerful new ally.

• The Heavenly Demon Python resisted Qing Lin’s pupils, its ancient instincts restoring its savagery and threatening to break free.
• Lin Ming struck the python’s head with a golden, lightning-wreathed fist, disrupting its resistance and giving Qing Lin time.
• Qing Lin summoned the Nine-Headed Ancient Heavenly Snake Soul, whose ancestral pressure terrified and weakened the python.
• Qing Lin opened the Origin Demon Eye and branded the python with a jade-green flower, suppressing its body and soul.
• The python’s cruelty and defiance faded, and it hung docilely in the air as Qing Lin’s group celebrated her apparent success.

After Qing Lin subdued the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python, Lin Ming’s group reached its lair and found the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool. Lin Ming entered the pool to temper his nearly complete Vajra Glazed Body, leaving Qing Lin to guard the cavern with the python.

• Qing Lin controlled the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils while Lin Ming restrained it.
• Lin Ming and the others rode the python into its lair inside the Black Mist-shrouded Giant Peak.
• The group discovered a scarlet pool made from the blood and energy of Fierce Beasts, and Lin Ming sensed its potent, chaotic energy.
• Lin Ming asked Qing Lin to have the python guard the lair while he cultivated in the pool for about a day.
• Despite Yun Yun’s concern, Lin Ming jumped into the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool to temper his Vajra Glazed Body.

Lin Ming entered the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool and endured its corrosive, chaotic energy as his strange fire purified it into a source of nourishment. He steadily tempered his Vajra Glazed Body and began advancing toward his first Dou Qi revolution, remaining immersed in cultivation as both transformations continued.

• Lin Ming's entry caused the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool to boil violently, while Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and the Flower Sect watched from its edge.
• The pool's scorching, poisonous energy corroded Lin Ming's body and forced its way into his meridians, causing him intense pain.
• Lin Ming's Dark Purple Strange Fire burned away the toxins, baleful energy, and impurities while preserving the useful essence.
• Lin Ming absorbed the refined energy, gradually strengthening his skin, muscles, and bones as the Vajra Glazed Body advanced beyond its nine-zhang level.
• The purified energy flowed into Lin Ming's Qi Sea, increasing the density and rotation of his Dou Qi as he neared the First Revolution.
• Lin Ming settled into cultivation at the center of the pool, awaiting the completion of his body's tempering and his Dou Qi breakthrough.

Lin Ming absorbed the Heavenly Demon Blood Pool’s remaining energy and broke through to the true limit of the Vajra Glazed Body. He emerged from the mountain as a golden giant, his breakthrough roar shaking the surrounding peaks.

• Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun guarded Lin Ming while the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python drove away two groups of approaching Dou Zun experts.
• Lin Ming absorbed the blood pool until it dried up, then unleashed surging energy that made the cave and mountain tremble.
• Lin Ming broke through to a new realm and forced his Vajra Glazed Body to grow to nine zhang and nine chi.
• Lin Ming stomped through the blood pool, smashed a passage through the mountain, and burst out onto the summit.
• Lin Ming roared after emerging, sending sound waves across the sky that scattered clouds and shook distant peaks.

Lin Ming completed the First Revolution of his Dou Qi and fully mastered the Vajra Glazed Body before setting out for the Bodhi Ancient Tree. He and the others rode Qing Lin’s controlled Heavenly Demon Python into the depths of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.

• Lin Ming’s Vajra Glazed Body reached ninety-nine feet as his cultivation advanced to the First Revolution.
• Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and the Flower Sect elders congratulated Lin Ming and prepared to leave for the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Qing Lin suggested riding the Ancient Heavenly Demon Python to travel faster and avoid battles with other fierce beasts.
• Lin Ming and the others climbed onto the python, and Qing Lin used her control to summon a cloud of poison fog beneath it.
• The Heavenly Demon Python carried the group at high speed toward the depths of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.

Lin Ming and his companions traveled through the Vast Desolate Ancient Region aboard the Heavenly Demon Python, avoiding powerful beasts and other factions as they hurried toward the Ancient Domain Platform. At night, the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s party approached them directly, leaving Lin Ming ready for a confrontation.

• Qing Lin used her connection to the Heavenly Demon Python to detect an Earth Abyss Demon Flood Dragon, and Lin Ming ordered the group to avoid its territory.
• Lin Ming’s group passed other factions without stopping, wary that they would become rivals over the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• After nightfall, Lin Ming and his companions sensed a powerful group racing toward them through the purple mist.
• Lin Ming recognized Feng Qing'er of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and noticed her rise from Five-Star to Nine-Star Dou Venerate in just over a year.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan flew straight toward Lin Ming’s group, and Lin Ming circulated his Dou Qi and prepared to fight.

Lin Ming confronted Jiu Feng and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, who accused him of killing their clansmen in the Ancient Ruins. After Lin Ming broke Jiu Feng’s Heavenly Phoenix Seal with a punch, Jiu Feng postponed their conflict and left for the Ancient Domain Platform, where Lin Ming’s party continued onward.

• Golden Phoenix recognized Lin Ming and accused him of wiping out the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s party in the Ancient Ruins.
• Jiu Feng stopped his party and confronted Lin Ming, who insulted the clan and refused to back down.
• Jiu Feng attacked Lin Ming with the Heavenly Phoenix Seal, but Lin Ming blocked it with his Creation Fist and shattered the golden claw.
• Jiu Feng abandoned the fight to preserve his strength for the Bodhi Ancient Tree and warned Lin Ming that he would settle their grievance later.
• A Flower Sect elder warned Lin Ming that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan would not forget the insult, and Lin Ming led his party toward the Ancient Domain Platform.

Lin Ming’s group reached the Ancient Domain Platform after rescuing Xiao Yan’s group from three Fierce Beasts and joining forces with them. They arrived at the platform, where many powerful cultivators had already gathered.

• Lin Ming’s group traveled through the Vast Desolate Ancient Region toward the Ancient Domain Platform as its ancient aura grew stronger.
• Lin Ming found Xiao Yan and Starfall Pavilion surrounded by a Flame Giant Ape, a Winged Tiger, and a Netherworld Earth Scorpion, and the beasts retreated when they sensed the Heavenly Demon Python.
• Lin Ming and Xiao Yan reunited, and Lin Ming invited Xiao Yan’s group to travel with them.
• The combined group rode the Heavenly Demon Python to the Ancient Domain Platform and found numerous cultivators gathered there.

Lin Ming and his companions reached the Ancient Domain Platform, where Xiao Yi Xian killed ten members of the Blood Skull Sect who threatened them. At the platform’s center, Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er.

• Lin Ming’s group arrived at the Ancient Domain Platform and found over a thousand experts gathered there.
• Xiao Yi Xian poisoned ten Blood Skull Sect members after their leader tried to surround and recruit the women.
• The crowd recoiled from Xiao Yi Xian after recognizing her woeful poison body, and Lin Ming led his companions toward the platform’s center.
• Lin Ming’s group examined the ancient restriction and the powerful experts occupying the raised stone platform.
• Xiao Yan spotted Xun Er, and she rose to meet him as Lin Ming stepped aside to give them space.

Lin Ming and Xiao Yan arrived at the Ancient Domain Platform, where Xun Er explained that a Beast Tide blocked the route to the Bodhi Ancient Tree and that the gathered factions planned another joint assault. She warned them about Hun Yu, a powerful and secretly vicious Hun Clan heir whose proposed alliance might conceal another motive.

• Jiu Feng and Golden Phoenix vowed to take revenge on Lin Ming once the Restriction weakened, while Lin Ming ignored their hostility.
• Xun Er greeted Xiao Yan and Lin Ming's companions, then explained that tens of thousands of Fierce Beasts guarded the depths of the Vast Desolate Ancient Region.
• Xun Er identified Hun Yu as a leading Hun Clan heir with a Divine Bloodline, and Gu Qingyang warned Xiao Yan and Lin Ming that Hun Yu was more vicious than he appeared.
• Xiao Yan learned that previous attempts to cross the Beast Tide had failed and that the gathered factions were preparing another assault together.
• Xun Er proposed that her group, Starfall Pavilion, and Lin Ming's companions stay together during the next push.