Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming began absorbing the Demon Emperor’s negative emotions from the ancient Bodhi tree and used its Hundred Lives of Reincarnation to try to purify them. The emotions overwhelmed him with horrific visions and began corrupting his soul body.

• Lin Ming told the ancient Bodhi tree he would absorb the negative emotions bound to its source and refine them through repeated reincarnations.
• The ancient Bodhi tree agreed to open its Hundred Lives of Reincarnation and released a time-warping fluctuation.
• Lin Ming pressed his soul-body palm against the tree’s trunk and was struck by the accumulated malice of the Demon Emperor.
• The negative emotions twisted Lin Ming’s memories into visions of his family and allies dying and whispered that he could not save anyone.
• Lin Ming’s consciousness began to blur as black cracks spread across his dimming soul body.

Lin Ming endured the first three lives of the Emperor-level negative-emotion trial, using the Surging Blue Pure Soul Art and his blue-lotus visualization to resist corruption and transform it. After surviving a battlefield of killing intent and a prison of despair, he emerged from the ice with a purified, protective layer of ice-blue light.

• Lin Ming anchored himself in memories of his former life and his determination to change the fates of the people he cared about, slowing the first wave of soul erosion.
• In the second life, Lin Ming endured endless attacks from demonic shadows on a blood-soaked battlefield and absorbed their killing intent into his blue-lotus visualization.
• Lin Ming transformed the battlefield's killing intent into dark dew, strengthening his soul and pushing the black corruption toward its edges.
• In the third life, despair froze Lin Ming's soul in an icy prison, and he concentrated his awareness into a core ember while allowing the cold poison to invade.
• Lin Ming used the Surging Blue Pure Soul Art to transform the despair within the ice, causing a blue lotus bud to emerge and the prison to collapse.
• Lin Ming emerged from the melting ice with an ice-blue protective membrane formed from purified cold poison.

Lin Ming endured successive reincarnations that tested him with temptations, negative emotions, and the six desires, using the Azure Lotus Divine Soul Art to refine his soul and collect fragments of the ghost Emperor Mask's emotions. As the Bodhi Ancient Tree began to recover, Lin Ming's soul became clearer and stronger, with the solidified blue lotus at its core.

• Lin Ming overcame illusions of power, pleasure, and eternal life, then purified the fear at the heart of the fourth life.
• Lin Ming transformed hatred into nourishment, used greed to anchor his soul, and escaped pride by recognizing that worshippers' faith—not his own power—made him seem divine.
• Lin Ming passed through the flames of lust, the valley of appetite, and the web of possession, refining his senses and learning to connect to all things without attachment.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree's outer black patterns faded in a small patch near its crown, revealing emerald wood and giving the tree a brief sense of comfort and hope.
• Lin Ming experienced further reincarnations of jealousy, fury, laziness, selfishness, suspicion, and despair, analyzing their roots and collecting fragments of the ghost Emperor Mask's emotions.
• Lin Ming's soul turned silver-white and semi-transparent, while the blue lotus solidified at its center and began circulating pure soul power.

Lin Ming endured the twentieth reincarnation’s assault of countless negative emotions, reassembled his soul into a deep-blue lotus, and continued refining the Demon Emperor’s remnants across dozens more lifetimes. By the seventy-fifth lifetime, the Bodhi ancient tree was nearly purified, leaving only its pitch-black core confronting Lin Ming’s pale-gold soul.

• At the end of the fifteenth lifetime, Lin Ming rejected nihilism by affirming that he continued to exist, and a blue seed formed in his lotus.
• During the twentieth lifetime, Lin Ming’s soul split into tens of millions of fragments, but each fragment resisted its attached emotion and rejoined the others through the lotus’s threads of light.
• Lin Ming’s reassembled soul became a sphere of light containing a materialized blue lotus with nine colored petals, while more than one-third of the Bodhi ancient tree was purified.
• Across later reincarnations, Lin Ming grew stronger as the tree’s black patterns faded and its dark fortress was extracted into the reincarnation domain.
• By the forty-fifth lifetime, more than two-thirds of the Bodhi ancient tree had recovered, and by the sixtieth Lin Ming’s soul radiated pale gold and approached a supreme threshold.
• At the seventy-fifth lifetime, Lin Ming faced the fist-sized black core that remained as the Demon Emperor’s final poison and anchor of will.

After ninety-nine reincarnations, Lin Ming confronted the black-robed ghost emperor’s ultimate resentment and was nearly consumed by it. His lifetime-forged soul traits awakened through the Great Bodhi Soul Sutra, and a purple-gold Bodhi flower began to bloom within the darkness.

• Lin Ming wrapped his golden soul around the ghost emperor’s compact core of negativity to begin his final transformation.
• The core expanded into a black maw and swallowed Lin Ming, assaulting his soul with resentment, madness, and the emperor’s memories.
• Lin Ming witnessed the ghost emperor’s ruthless rise, lonely reign, and final curse against the Bodhi ancient tree as he faced death.
• As the darkness began to overwhelm Lin Ming, he recalled the understanding he had gained across ninety-nine lifetimes and awakened the Great Bodhi Soul Sutra.
• Purple lights representing the traits forged in his past lives connected into a purple-gold network, from which a radiant Bodhi flower began to bloom.

Lin Ming purified the black-robed emperor’s remnant will and reached the Emperor Soul threshold, leaving his consciousness to merge with his body. Before falling silent, he told the Bodhi ancient tree to use the brief disruption caused by his transformation to form a complete divine consciousness.

• Lin Ming’s nine-grade lotus absorbed and transformed the black-robed emperor’s hatred, madness, and annihilating power, purifying the remnant will.
• Lin Ming’s soul attained imperial might and gathered into a purple-gold lotus bud as his consciousness prepared to return to his body.
• The Bodhi ancient tree erupted with life and wisdom, clearing away the remnant will that had afflicted it.
• Lin Ming urged the Bodhi ancient tree to absorb his scattering soul power and law fragments during his Emperor Soul transformation to seize its only chance to awaken a complete consciousness.
• The Bodhi ancient tree gathered its accumulated power and waited for Lin Ming’s Emperor Soul to fully emerge and disrupt the laws of heaven and earth.

Lin Ming was absorbed into the Bodhi Ancient Tree as his Emperor Soul transformation continued, while the tree expelled everyone else from its inner space. Still shaken by the illusion of Soul Heavenly Emperor’s conquest, the group turned on Soul Jade’s Soul Clan members, who fled before they could be attacked.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Lin Ming into its trunk and began nourishing him as his Emperor Soul transformed.
• The tree expelled Xiao Chan, Yi, Xun’er, Gu Qingyang, Xin Lan, Soul Jade, and the other entrants from its inner space.
• The group realized they had escaped an illusion in which Soul Heavenly Emperor conquered the world by refining the Central Plains and enslaving its survivors.
• The illusion’s lingering hatred drove the gathered experts to surround Soul Jade and the Soul Clan members with murderous intent.
• Soul Jade judged that the Soul Clan would be killed if they stayed and led his people in a desperate flight through the emerald space.

After the Bodhi Ancient Tree expelled everyone from its inner space, Lin Ming remained within its heart and completed a transformation of his spiritual soul toward the Emperor realm. His new purple-gold soul radiance burst through the tree and spread across the Ancient Wasteland Region, while those outside sensed its immense power.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree expelled Xiao Chan, Yi, Yun Yun, and the others from its inner space, leaving Lin Ming's figure hidden inside the sealed tree.
• The factions gathered on the plain questioned their people about the illusion, and fear and hatred toward the Soul Clan heightened their suspicion of one another.
• Within the tree's spiritual source land, Lin Ming's purple-gold soul ocean transformed as the Nine-Rank Lotus melted into nourishment for his true spirit.
• Lin Ming's lotus bud bloomed, breaking a boundary in his soul and erupting with the radiance of an Emperor-realm spiritual soul.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree transmitted Lin Ming's purple-gold light across the region, washing the gathered experts' souls and forcing fierce beasts to prostrate themselves.

Lin Ming perfected the Blue Lotus Soul Refining Art as the nine-petaled Blue Bodhi merged into his soul and shattered the barrier to the emperor-soul realm. He awakened with vastly expanded perception, then reunited his emperor soul with his body, causing all living beings in the Ancient Wasteland Region to bow.

• The nine petals of the Blue Bodhi unfolded and revealed their distinct soul qualities before converging into Lin Ming's soul origin.
• The purple-gold chaotic origin fused with the other eight qualities, breaking the barrier between an ordinary soul and an emperor soul.
• Lin Ming's soul took the form of a tenth-petal Blue Lotus and awakened as an emperor soul.
• Lin Ming examined his new soul power, manifested a miniature Blue Lotus, and extended his perception across the Ancient Wasteland Region.
• Lin Ming's emperor soul merged with his physical body, and living beings throughout the Ancient Wasteland Region lowered their heads.

Lin Ming completed his Emperor Soul breakthrough and used its power to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree awaken its consciousness. The tree survived its Heavenly Tribulation and greeted everyone as a newly awakened life.

• Lin Ming's Emperor Soul breakthrough released overwhelming pressure that shook the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and alarmed Xun Er, Xiao Yan, and the other gathered experts.
• Lin Ming's Soul Origin and scattered rule fragments nourished the Bodhi Ancient Tree, helping its muddled spirituality develop toward complete consciousness.
• A Heavenly Tribulation formed above the Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Lin Ming disguised the tree's true nature from the Heaven and Earth Rules and weakened the judgment of its trial.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree endured the successive thunderbolts, absorbing and redirecting their power as its spirituality grew clearer.
• The Heavenly Tribulation dissipated, and the awakened Bodhi Ancient Tree gently perceived and greeted the people on the plain, leaving Xiao Yan and the others stunned.

Lin Ming helped the Bodhi ancient tree awaken its consciousness and offered it refuge in his inner world so it could recover. The tree accepted, gave Lin Ming its Bodhi heart, and sent him dozens of Bodhi seeds as a final gift.

• The Bodhi ancient tree withdrew its attention from the outside world as its newborn consciousness began to stabilize, while Lin Ming emerged alive from the tree's heart.
• Lin Ming explained that the tree's source remained exhausted and offered it the pure source energy of his inner world to help it recover.
• Remembering Lin Ming's rescue and trusting him, the Bodhi ancient tree agreed to enter his inner world.
• Lin Ming opened a vortex to his inner world, and the tree condensed its essence into a Bodhi heart that flew into his chest and began healing and strengthening him.
• Lin Ming suppressed the urge to cultivate the Bodhi heart's power and break through to the Saint realm, while the ancient tree sent him dozens of Bodhi seeds as thanks.

Lin Ming brought the Bodhi Ancient Tree into his Inner World, where it began healing and stabilizing the newborn world. With the tree as powerful protection and the Ancient God Jade needed to open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion effectively beyond the Hun Clan's reach, Lin Ming felt secure enough to plan for the future.

• Lin Ming stored the Bodhi Heart and Bodhi Seeds, then opened his Chaos Vortex as the Bodhi Ancient Tree condensed into a light orb and entered it.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree took root in Lin Ming's Inner World, absorbing Chaos Opening Heaven Origin Qi and helping stabilize its rules and balance its Five Elements.
• The tree began healing its ancient injuries, and Lin Ming estimated that it could recover its peak strength within several decades.
• Lin Ming assessed the tree as a potential refuge beyond the reach of the continent's present-day powers, even if he could not defeat them.
• Lin Ming concluded that the Hun Clan could not gather all eight pieces of the Tou She Ancient God Jade without the piece held by Zhu Kun, leaving the key to the cave mansion effectively in Lin Ming's hands.

After a month trapped inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Lin Ming returned as the tree vanished, carrying an unfathomable aura and purple-gold eyes. He reunited with Yi, Xiao Chan, and Feng Yin, while the gathered cultivators wondered whether he had gained the tree’s opportunity.

• For a month, the forces gathered on the plains failed to breach the barrier, while Yi, Xiao Chan, and Feng Yin waited for Lin Ming to return.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree shuddered, shrank into a glowing sphere, and disappeared before the gathered cultivators.
• Lin Ming emerged from spatial ripples with a transformed aura and purple-gold eyes, then reassured Yi, Xiao Chan, and Feng Yin that he was unharmed.
• Lin Ming sensed that Yi, Xiao Chan, and Feng Yin had all advanced in cultivation during the illusion realm he had created.
• Gu Qing Yang asked whether Lin Ming had reached Half-Saint, and Lin Ming replied that reaching Half-Saint was not easy.
• The gathered cultivators wondered whether Lin Ming had obtained the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s opportunity.

Lin Ming returned from the Bodhi Ancient Tree with overwhelming new strength, and Nine Nether accused him of taking the Bodhi Heart before attacking. Lin Ming effortlessly defeated Nine Nether’s first strike and erased his Heavenly Phoenix Claw, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Nine Nether questioned Lin Ming about the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then accused him of taking the Bodhi Heart and tried to turn the crowd against him.
• Lin Ming mocked Nine Nether and the Heavenly Demon phoenix clan, prompting Nine Nether to attack with a claw strike.
• Lin Ming repelled Nine Nether’s attack with a casual punch, leaving him wounded and horrified.
• Lin Ming released an aura at the peak of the ninth-turn Venerable realm, astonishing the assembled experts.
• Nine Nether unleashed his Heavenly Phoenix Claw, but Lin Ming’s dark-purple flames began erasing it on contact.

Lin Ming overwhelmed Nine Nether and the Heavenly Phoenix race squad on the plain, then spared Nine Nether while warning him not to provoke him again. He left with Yi, the other two women, and the Flower Sect disciples as the watching forces stood aside.

• Lin Ming crushed Nine Nether's Heavenly Phoenix Slash with one palm and dismissed the attack as a weak trick.
• Lin Ming formed a flaming giant hand that defeated Nine Nether's phoenix true form and left him badly injured.
• Lin Ming struck the Heavenly Phoenix race experts with invisible blows, defeating the entire squad in a single move.
• Lin Ming spared Nine Nether but warned him that further provocation would cost the Heavenly Phoenix race its young clan leader.
• Lin Ming left the plain with Yi, the other two women, and the Flower Sect disciples while the crowd silently cleared their way.

Lin Ming returned from the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, gave Yun Yun three Bodhi Seeds, and reunited with the Five Elements Sect. After resting and arranging the sect’s affairs, he entered his Inner World to begin secluded cultivation and refine the Bodhi Heart.

• Lin Ming and his group left the Vast Desolate Ancient Region and, after reaching the Middle Continent, parted from Yun Yun, whom Lin Ming gave three Bodhi Seeds.
• Lin Ming, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin returned to the Five Elements Sect, where Ya Fei, Elder Yao, and the disciples welcomed them.
• Lin Ming and the two women rested for a week and spoke about the terrifying illusions they had survived in the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Lin Ming prepared the Five Elements Sect for his absence while he refined the Bodhi Heart, which he expected would take at least a year.
• Lin Ming entered his Inner World, checked on the growing Bodhi Ancient Tree and developing world, then began his secluded cultivation.

After Lin Ming entered seclusion, the five ancient clans discovered that the Soul Clan might be preparing to blood-sacrifice the Central Plains and become Dou Di. They formed an alliance and sent the Soul Clan a joint declaration demanding explanations and an end to its suspected plans.

• Gu Qingyang and other Gu Clan disciples reported that the Bodhi ancient tree’s illusion showed the Soul Clan destroying the ancient clans and sacrificing the Central Plains to make Hun Tiandi a Dou Di.
• Gu Yuan examined evidence of hidden formation patterns across the Central Plains and learned that disciples from the other clans had experienced similar visions.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Yao Dan, and Shi Hou ordered investigations, contacted the other clans, and agreed that the Soul Clan posed a threat.
• Gu Yuan hosted representatives of the five clans, who agreed to join forces, destroy discovered formation nodes, and pressure the Soul Clan for answers.
• The five clans sent the Soul Clan a joint declaration accusing it of destroying the Spirit Clan and laying formations across the Central Plains, and demanding it stop its activities.

Soul Emperor ordered the Soul Clan to conceal its plans and destroy exposed arrays, prompting the Five Clans to accept a temporary truce while tightening surveillance. Three months later, Yao Chen and Xiao Yan arrived at Five Elements Sect to receive Lin Ming’s instructions, and Ya Fei opened a jade box before them.

• Soul Emperor chose to destroy the discovered array patterns and blame the Spirit Clan incident on unknown forces, while accelerating the search for the Ancient Emperor Jade and alternatives to the Soul-Devouring Rebirth Grand Array.
• The Soul Clan publicly denied the accusations and began destroying exposed arrays, leading the Five Clans to accept its explanation temporarily while establishing joint surveillance and defense measures.
• Three months after Lin Ming entered seclusion, Ya Fei, Elder Yao, and Xiao Chan waited at Five Elements Sect for Yao Chen and Xiao Yan.
• Yao Chen asked why Lin Ming had invited them, and Elder Yao explained that Lin Ming was in seclusion and had left instructions before entering it.
• Ya Fei opened a cold jade box before Yao Chen and Xiao Yan, releasing emerald light and a powerful aura of life.

Yao Chen and Xiao Yan accepted three Bodhi Seeds from Lin Ming, and Yao Chen told Xiao Yi Xian about the woman whose Calamity Poison Body had inspired her control method. Xiao Yan then warned the Five Elements Sect about the Hun Clan’s conspiracy, leaving Ya Fei and the others gravely concerned as they awaited Lin Ming’s return from seclusion.

• Ya Fei presented Yao Chen and Xiao Yan with three Bodhi Seeds on Lin Ming’s behalf, and Yao Chen accepted them after hearing how Lin Ming had benefited from his past help.
• Yao Chen recounted meeting a woman with the Calamity Poison Body and gave Xiao Yi Xian a map to the woman’s grave, where she might find further insights.
• Xiao Yan told Ya Fei, Elder Yao, and Xiao Yi Xian that the Five Great Ancient Races had uncovered the Hun Clan’s plans and forced it to destroy some hidden formation patterns.
• Ya Fei and the others discussed the danger posed by the Hun Clan, then escorted Yao Chen and Xiao Yan from the mountain gate.
• After returning to the hall, Ya Fei, Elder Yao, and Xiao Yi Xian set aside their other worries to keep watch for Lin Ming’s emergence from seclusion.

Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er visited the Five Elements Sect, where Ya Fei and Xiao Chan gifted Flame Valley three Bodhi Seeds on Lin Ming's behalf. Meanwhile, the Flower Sect discovered the Heavenly Nether Sect's investigation into Lin Ming's actions and sent elders to confront them, leaving both factions on the brink of conflict.

• Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er arrived at the Five Elements Sect and learned that Lin Ming was in seclusion.
• Ya Fei and Xiao Chan gave Tang Zhen three Bodhi Seeds, and he pledged Flame Valley's support to the Five Elements Sect.
• Tang Huo'er stayed with Xiao Chan and Ya Fei for several days before returning to Flame Valley with Tang Zhen.
• The Heavenly Nether Sect tortured a captured Flower Sect disciple and learned that Lin Ming had killed their vice sect master, an elder, and their disciples.
• The Flower Sect traced the disciple's disappearance to the Heavenly Nether Sect, and Yun Yun agreed to send a team to demand the culprit while avoiding all-out war.
• Elder Huajin led a group of Flower Sect elders and elite disciples toward the Heavenly Nether Sect's mountain gate.