Chapter Summaries

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.

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.