Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Ming confronted the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Remnant Soul inside the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet, seeking Yellow Springs Heaven Rage and the Demon Sage Essence Blood. The Remnant Soul demanded a fight, but Lin Ming revealed that his soul had also reached the Emperor Realm.

• Lin Ming destroyed the Yellow Springs Palm probe and called for the Yellow Springs Demon Saint to appear.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Remnant Soul emerged on a throne and warned Lin Ming to leave the inheritance’s Forbidden Domain.
• Lin Ming described the Demon Saint as a Remnant Soul and blocked its soul-blade attack with his own soul barrier.
• Lin Ming asked for Yellow Springs Heaven Rage and the Demon Sage Essence Blood, and the Remnant Soul demanded that he defeat it first.
• The Remnant Soul revealed that its soul had reached the Emperor Realm, but Lin Ming challenged its claim to possess complete Emperor Realm power.
• Lin Ming unleashed purple-gold Soul Pressure and revealed that his soul was not merely at Heavenly Realm Grand Perfection.

Lin Ming revealed that his soul had reached the Emperor Realm and defeated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's remnant soul in their first clash. Impressed but unwilling to hand over his ultimate art without a final test, the remnant soul began a new attack as the Stele Space neared its limit.

• Lin Ming transformed into a towering purple-gold Soul Giant and struck at the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's remnant soul with Emperor Realm Soul Power.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint's remnant soul summoned thousands of giant palms from the earth, but Lin Ming's Soul Storm annihilated them and calmed the shaking realm.
• The remnant soul recognized Lin Ming's Emperor Realm Soul, praised his achievement, and recalled the hardships of reaching that realm himself.
• Awakened by Lin Ming's strength, the remnant soul challenged him to a final battle to test whether he deserved the ultimate art.
• The remnant soul formed an ancient hand seal and unleashed a terrifying Soul Fluctuation, pushing the unstable Stele Space toward its limit.

Lin Ming withstood the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's Yellow Springs Heaven Rage by using Reincarnation Fluctuation to absorb and transform its destructive force. The exhausted Demon Saint accepted that his long wait had ended and prepared to entrust his supreme art to Lin Ming.

• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint unleashed Yellow Springs Heaven Rage, manifesting a thousand-zhang Sound Wave image of his true body.
• Lin Ming praised the Demon Saint's technique and vowed to face the attack without yielding.
• The Demon Saint's Sound Wave torrent struck Lin Ming, but Lin Ming's Reincarnation Fluctuation absorbed and transformed its power without injuring him.
• The attack annihilated the Stele Space, leaving Lin Ming and the Demon Saint's fading Remnant Soul amid the void.
• The Demon Saint acknowledged Lin Ming's achievement and said he was relieved to entrust his life's supreme art to a steadfast junior.

Lin Ming received the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s three techniques and Natal Blood Essence, then watched the Demon Saint’s remnant soul and inner space vanish. He preserved the soul imprint and left the collapsing Stele Space, while the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet dimmed in the outside world.

• Lin Ming accepted the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s inheritance of Yellow Springs Finger, Yellow Springs Palm, and Yellow Springs Heaven Rage.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint gave Lin Ming his Natal Blood Essence and said he had never discovered how to reach the Dou Di Realm, only sensing that something was missing from heaven and earth.
• Lin Ming stored the essence blood and bowed as the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s remnant soul completed its mission and dissipated.
• As the mountain and throne collapsed, Lin Ming preserved the Demon Saint’s fading Soul Imprint within his own soul.
• Lin Ming left the disintegrating Stele Space, and the ancient Yellow Springs Stone Tablet dimmed in the outside world.

Lin Ming emerged from the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet after defeating the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Remnant Soul, though he appeared severely exhausted. The tablet then began revealing a new carving, suggesting its inheritance was changing.

• Qing Lin grew increasingly worried as Lin Ming remained connected to the stone tablet for nearly three hours, far longer than Nether Python Clan experts had endured before.
• The Yellow Springs Stone Tablet shook, and Lin Ming’s pale-gold Soul Body returned to his physical body, leaving him coughing and visibly weak.
• Lin Ming told Qing Lin and Yao Ming that he had narrowly defeated the Demon Saint’s Remnant Soul and that it had dissipated completely.
• Yao Ming celebrated the breaking of the Nether Python Clan’s inheritance barrier and anticipated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s true inheritance.
• The stone tablet began forming the shape of a human mouth above the Yellow Springs Finger and Yellow Springs Palm carvings, releasing a strange soul rhythm and destructive energy.