Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming’s Tier 9 Bodhi Pill summoned Black Demon Lightning, revealing that he was also a peak One-Star Dou Saint. He destroyed the first bolt with a punch and attacked the brewing thundercloud with the Great Heaven Creation Palm, leaving the elders watching the catastrophic clash.

• The alchemists recognized the black thundercloud as a sign that Lin Ming had refined a Tier 9 medicinal pill.
• Lin Ming’s aura revealed his peak One-Star Dou Saint cultivation, stunning the alchemists and elders.
• Lin Ming shattered the first bolt of Black Demon Lightning with a flame-wreathed, golden-lit fist.
• Lin Ming flew toward the thundercloud and struck its core with the Great Heaven Creation Palm before the second bolt could fall.
• The resulting explosion collapsed the surrounding space and annihilated nearby Pill Lightning, while Old Monster Hou and the elders watched in shock.

Lin Ming left the Little Pill Tower’s collections after Mang Tianchi summoned him to the Five Elements Sect. Mang Tianchi confirmed that Lin Ming had perfected the Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique and began to reveal its origins and the opportunity to continue it.

• Lin Ming spent half a month studying the Little Pill Tower’s vast collection before Ya Fei told him Mang Tianchi had come to see him.
• Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect with Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, and met Mang Tianchi speaking with Elder Yao.
• Mang Tianchi praised Lin Ming’s progress and asked whether he had cultivated the Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique to its ultimate realm.
• Lin Ming revealed the black lightning of his perfected technique and admitted that it felt like only the beginning of a greater system.
• Mang Tianchi confirmed Lin Ming’s impression and said he had come to explain the technique’s origins and a chance to continue it.

Mang Tianchi explained the Lei Clan’s bloodline crisis and revealed that Lin Ming’s Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique came from a plan to help cultivators advance without relying on bloodlines. He offered Lin Ming a chance to compete for entry to the Demonic Lightning Pool, and Lin Ming accepted before leaving with him for the Lei Clan.

• Mang Tianchi told Lin Ming that the Xiao Clan fell after Xiao Xuan failed to reach the Dou Di Realm and the Hun Clan attacked.
• Mang Tianchi explained that the Lei Clan developed the Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique to help cultivators reach Half Sage without relying on Dou Di Bloodline.
• Mang Tianchi revealed that the Demonic Lightning Pool held Chaotic Demonic Lightning and could grant access to the Lei Clan’s subsequent Cultivation Method and higher inheritance.
• Mang Tianchi offered Lin Ming a chance to compete for one of five slots in the Demonic Lightning Pool when it opened in a month.
• Lin Ming accepted the dangerous opportunity and promised to win honor for Mang Tianchi.
• After making arrangements, Lin Ming left the Five Elements Sect with Mang Tianchi for the Lei Clan.

Mang Tianchi brought Lin Ming into the Lei Realm, the hidden homeland of the Lei Clan, and showed him its thunder-filled landscape and settlements. Mang Tianchi then said he would arrange Lin Ming’s place in the Demonic Lightning Pool before taking him there.

• Mang Tianchi used a clan token to open the Lei Realm Gate, and Lin Ming followed him through the thunder vortex.
• Lin Ming arrived in the Lei Realm and observed its eternal thunder canopy, lightning-forged mountains, unusual plants, and dense thunder energy.
• Mang Tianchi described the Lei Clan’s long history in the realm and said he would first take Lin Ming to guest lodging.
• Lin Ming followed Mang Tianchi deeper into the realm and saw the Lei Clan’s cities, villages, and people.

Lin Ming arrived at Thunder God Mountain with Mang Tianchi and waited while Mang Tianchi negotiated for his chance to enter the Demonic Lightning Pool competition. The Elder Council granted him eligibility, but he learned that taking a likely spot from Lei Ling'er could bring trouble from her powerful brother, Lei Yun, a staunch supporter of Lei Dong.

• Mang Tianchi warned Lin Ming that many Lei Clan members resented an outsider seeking a Demonic Lightning Pool quota and that he would have to prove himself through strength.
• Mang Tianchi brought Lin Ming to Thunder God Mountain and lodged him in a secluded courtyard while he went to negotiate with the Elder Council.
• Lin Ming spent ten days meditating and adapting to the Lei Realm's thunder energy as Mang Tianchi worked on his eligibility.
• Mang Tianchi returned and told Lin Ming the Elder Council had granted him the right to compete for one of the ten Demonic Lightning Pool places as an ordinary clan member.
• Mang Tianchi warned Lin Ming that his place displaced Lei Ling'er, whose brother Lei Yun was a powerful young Lei Clan member and Lei Dong's staunch supporter.

Lin Ming learned that Lei Dong’s faction would oppose his bid for a Demonic Lightning Pool spot, but he remained determined to compete. At the selection beneath Thunder God Mountain, he effortlessly caught Lei Yun’s opening attack, drawing the attention of Lei Ying and the elders.

• Mang Tianchi warned Lin Ming that Lei Yun and Lei Dong’s faction would challenge him, but Lin Ming insisted on competing for a spot in the Demonic Lightning Pool.
• Three days later, Lei Ying, Mang Tianchi, and the Lei Clan elders watched as the selection began at the Ten Thousand Lightning Platform.
• The presiding elder announced that the competitors would fight in a chaotic battle, with the survivors earning the spots.
• Lei Yun confronted Lin Ming over taking Lei Ling’er’s spot and attacked him with the Thunderstorm Star-Shattering Fist.
• Lin Ming caught Lei Yun’s lightning fist without moving, then dismissed his strength and sent a surge of force up Lei Yun’s arm.

Lin Ming defeated Lei Yun after he invoked the Lei Clan’s bloodline and unleashed a Heaven Tier Dou Technique. Lei Dong then entered the field to test Lin Ming, and the two prepared to fight.

• Lei Yun activated his Dou Di Bloodline, temporarily reached the Dou Saint realm, and attacked Lin Ming with the Thunder Prison God-Slaying Spear.
• Lin Ming destroyed Lei Yun’s spear with Creation Fist and struck him down, leaving the Lei Clan’s younger generation stunned.
• Lei Dong appeared and acknowledged Lin Ming’s strength, then said Lin Ming’s overwhelming victory had publicly challenged the Lei Clan’s face.
• Lei Dong used his lightning movement technique to appear before Lin Ming and challenged him to demonstrate his strength.
• Lin Ming faced Lei Dong, gathered his power, and let his fighting intent rise.

Lin Ming faced Lei Dong in a contest of speed and strength, revealing his fused Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Wings and overwhelming body-refining power. The chapter ended with Lin Ming decisively winning their close-combat exchange, while Lei Dong was injured and his Thunder God Dharma Body weakened.

• Lei Dong attacked Lin Ming with the Lei Clan movement technique Thunder Shadow Thousand Illusions, but Lin Ming used his Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Wings to evade him.
• Lei Dong transformed into his six-zhang-and-six-chi Thunder God Dharma Body to challenge Lin Ming with physical strength.
• Lin Ming activated the Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique and Adamantine Glazed Body, growing into a ten-zhang giant covered in black Lightning Patterns.
• Lin Ming and Lei Dong traded punches in a violent close-combat clash, with Lin Ming steadily overpowering Lei Dong.
• Lin Ming struck Lei Dong's crossed arms with a heavy hook, sending him flying and leaving him injured with an unstable Dharma Body.

Lin Ming fought Lei Dong for a Demonic Lightning Pool spot, and both raised their strength to Two-Star Dou Saint before unleashing their strongest techniques. Lin Ming held back at the final moment, and Lei Dong accepted the draw and confirmed that Lin Ming had earned a spot.

• Lei Dong activated his Clan Pattern and Thunder Emperor Bloodline, forcing his cultivation up to peak Early-stage Two-star Dou Saint.
• Lin Ming used the Heavenly Fire Three Xuan Transformations to reach the middle of Early-stage Two-star Dou Saint and traded powerful attacks with Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong unleashed Thunder Rage Heaven Spear while Lin Ming answered with Yellow Springs Palm, and their collision devastated the Ten Thousand Lightning Platform plaza.
• Lin Ming subtly withdrew some of Yellow Springs Palm's power, allowing their final attacks to end in a draw and sparing Lei Dong worse injuries.
• Lei Dong declared Lin Ming qualified for a Demonic Lightning Pool spot, and Lin Ming returned to his private courtyard.

After entering the Demonic Lightning Pool, Lin Ming crossed its dangerous outer regions and stepped into the Black Demon Lightning domain, where he began gathering fragments of the Lei Clan ancestors’ teachings. He endured the black lightning’s assault while absorbing its power and sorting the scattered inheritance in his mind.

• Mang Tianchi led Lin Ming to the sealed valley, where Lei Ying and the elders opened the Demonic Lightning Pool for Lin Ming, Lei Dong, and eight other Lei Clan elites.
• Lin Ming arrived in the thunder realm, learned that time flowed about two and a half times faster there, and set off toward its core to seek the Rainbow Lightning Venerate Body Technique’s continuation and a breakthrough.
• Lin Ming passed through colored thunder that his Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame absorbed, then reached the Black Demon Lightning domain.
• After sensing that the black lightning contained inheritance fragments, Lin Ming entered the domain with his flame and Lightning Patterns protecting him.
• Lin Ming endured the Black Demon Lightning, tempered his body with its purified power, and began collecting and sorting the fragments of scriptures, diagrams, and insights entering his mind.

Lin Ming ventured to the boundary of the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and risked refining a single strand despite its overwhelming destructive power. He survived, broke through to Two-Star Dou Saint, and received the Golden Lightning Saint Body Art in his consciousness.

• Lin Ming decided to seek stronger inheritance by advancing deeper into the Black Demon Lightning region.
• After half a month, Lin Ming reached the boundary of the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and judged that he could not safely enter its heart.
• Lin Ming touched a pale golden lightning strand, which struck him and began destroying his body and soul.
• Lin Ming used his Heavenly Flames, World Power, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree's life energy to withstand and refine the golden lightning.
• The refined lightning repaired and strengthened Lin Ming, broke his cultivation bottleneck, and raised him to Two-Star Dou Saint.
• Golden characters appeared in Lin Ming's consciousness, forming the name Golden Lightning Saint Body Art.

Lin Ming completed the Golden Lightning Saint Body Art and reached the peak of Two-Star Dou Saint after nearly two years of cultivation in the Demonic Lightning Pool. With the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame due to appear in about two months outside, he decided to leave rather than risk entering the core of the Nine Profound Golden Lightning.

• Lin Ming continued refining Nine Profound Golden Lightning at the edge of its core region while the other Lei Clan youths cultivated in their own domains.
• After half a year outside, the weakest Lei Clan youth emerged injured but had advanced from an eight-turn Peak Dou Venerate to half a step into the Half-Saint Realm.
• Lin Ming endured the dangerous refinement of a powerful Nine Profound Golden Lightning, breaking through to the peak of Two-Star Dou Saint.
• The lightning's information completed the Golden Lightning Saint Body Art in Lin Ming's consciousness, revealing its cultivation method and insights into the Lightning Laws.
• Lin Ming judged that little time remained before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared and chose to leave the Demonic Lightning Pool instead of entering its dangerous core.

Lin Ming followed the intense yearning of his Inner World into the core of the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, protected by the Bodhi Ancient Tree. There he discovered Chaos Lightning, which the tree spirit said could complete his world’s fundamental laws and lay the foundation for a realm beyond Dou Di.

• Lin Ming’s Inner World shook violently and yearned toward the depths of the Nine Profound Golden Lightning.
• Lin Ming consulted the Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit, who urged him to follow the world’s summons and promised to protect him with a Bodhi Protection Barrier.
• Lin Ming entered the golden lightning sea beneath the barrier and followed the yearning toward its core.
• Lin Ming found a strange, multicolored bolt of lightning that seemed to command the surrounding Nine Profound Golden Lightning.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit identified the bolt as Chaos Lightning and explained that it contained the fundamental laws of creation and annihilation.

Lin Ming entered the Thunder Emperor’s hidden lightning realm and discovered the Chaos Lightning guarded by the Thunder Emperor’s remnant soul. Though warned that even Dou Di had failed to claim it, Lin Ming faced the choice of challenging the Emperor to obtain it.

• Lin Ming touched the Chaos Lightning’s energy field with World Power and was drawn into a hidden lightning realm.
• Lin Ming encountered the Thunder Emperor, who recognized him as an outsider and allowed him to leave after hearing how he entered the Demonic Lightning Pool.
• Lin Ming asked how he could obtain the Chaos Lightning, and the Thunder Emperor said he must defeat his Guardian Soul.
• The Thunder Emperor explained that he ruled the Thunder Realm and that even challengers from the Emperor Realm had failed to take the Chaos Lightning.
• Lin Ming overcame his hesitation and raised his head with a calm, unyielding will to fight.

Lin Ming drew Thunder Emperor into his Inner World and defeated him with the Hand of the World, winning the Chaos Lightning. As Thunder Emperor’s Remnant Soul dissipated, Lin Ming vowed to protect the Lei Clan’s inheritance, and the Chaos Lightning entered his world.

• Lin Ming challenged Thunder Emperor for the Chaos Lightning and used his World Power to pull him from the Thunder Realm into his Inner World.
• Thunder Emperor realized Lin Ming’s World Prototype had severed his link to the Thunder Realm, but attacked with lightning formed from his Soul Essence.
• Lin Ming used the Hand of the World to erase Thunder Emperor’s attacks, overcome his resistance, and imprison his remaining strength.
• Thunder Emperor accepted defeat, gave Lin Ming the Chaos Lightning, and asked him to protect the Lei Clan’s descendants and inheritance.
• Lin Ming promised to honor Thunder Emperor’s request, and the Chaos Lightning appeared in Lin Ming’s Inner World.

The Chaos Lightning transformed Lin Ming’s Inner World and propelled his cultivation to the Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint. Lin Ming then witnessed the Chaos Lightning’s origin unfolding in his consciousness and completed a new energy circulation that merged into his Dou Qi and meridians.

• The Chaos Lightning bathed Lin Ming’s Inner World in creation lightning, strengthening its laws, space, and life while empowering the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Lin Ming absorbed the Chaos Lightning’s energy and broke through from the peak of Three-Star Dou Saint to Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Lin Ming saw a vision of the young Thunder Emperor comprehending the Chaos Lightning and naming his cultivation method the Golden Lightning Saint Body.
• The Chaos Lightning revealed its origin patterns to Lin Ming, showing chaos evolving into yin and yang, the five elements, and Space-Time.
• Lin Ming comprehended the origin patterns as the Bodhi Ancient Tree aided him, and a strand of fused energy completed a new circulation before merging into his Dou Qi and meridians.

Lin Ming left the Demonic Lightning Pool after gaining the Chaos Derivation World Art and choosing to protect his foundation and the Lei Clan’s sacred ground. When he emerged, the Lei Clan elders sensed his astonishing power and reacted with shock and disbelief.

• Lin Ming discovered that Chaos Lightning had imprinted a chaotic light film on his meridians and named the resulting cultivation method the Chaos Derivation World Art.
• Lin Ming decided not to absorb the Nine Profound Golden Lightning because he needed to stabilize his cultivation, prepare for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and avoid destroying the Lei Clan’s sacred ground.
• Lin Ming left the Demonic Lightning Pool, and the Nine Profound Golden Lightning yielded to the Chaos Lightning aura around him.
• Eight months after the group entered the pool, Lei Feng emerged at middle-level Half Sage, while six others remained inside.
• Lei Clan elders assumed the next person to emerge had quit early and prepared to scold him, but they froze when Lin Ming appeared unharmed.
• Lei Clan grand elders of Four-Star Dou Saint level and above sensed Lin Ming’s aura, rushed to the passage, and stared at him in shock and disbelief.

Lin Ming emerged from the Demonic Lightning Pool as an Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint, shocking the Lei Clan. Lei Ying realized Lin Ming had been acknowledged by the Chaos Lightning and, mindful of the clan’s ancient warning, took him aside to speak.

• The Lei Clan elders and disciples were stunned when Lin Ming revealed that he had advanced from peak One-Star Dou Saint to Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Lei Ying’s Ancient Jade Tablet glowed with chaos color, reminding him that the Chaos Lightning had chosen someone and that the Lei Clan must befriend that person rather than oppose him.
• Lei Ying recalled that he had once tried to claim the Chaos Lightning but had been effortlessly expelled by the Progenitor Thunder Emperor’s Guardian Soul.
• Lei Ying concluded that Lin Ming had defeated the Guardian Soul and obtained the Chaos Lightning, then decided to heed his predecessor’s warning.
• Lei Ying addressed Lin Ming as “Little Friend Lin Ming” and used Space Power to take him away for a private conversation, leaving the Lei Clan members astonished.

Lei Ying confronted Lin Ming over his possession of Chaos Lightning and offered him two choices: surrender it or marry Lei Ling'er and join the Lei Clan. Lin Ming resisted Lei Ying’s pressure until Lei Ying proposed honorary elder status, which Lin Ming accepted, leaving their tense negotiation settled.

• Lei Ying used the Progenitor’s Jade Tablet to confirm that Lin Ming had obtained Chaos Lightning, and Lin Ming admitted it.
• Lei Ying explained that Chaos Lightning was vital to the Lei Clan and that its removal had destabilized the Demonic Lightning Pool.
• Lei Ying offered Lin Ming safe passage if he surrendered Chaos Lightning, or the right to keep it if he married Lei Ling'er and joined the clan.
• Lin Ming rejected the marriage proposal through silence and endured Lei Ying’s Eight-Star Dou Saint pressure without yielding.
• Lei Ying withdrew his pressure and offered Lin Ming the position of honorary elder instead, and Lin Ming accepted.
• Lei Ying named Lin Ming the Lei Clan’s sole honorary elder, with Grand Elder status and freedom to come and go, then left the hall with him.

Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect after becoming the Lei Clan’s Honorary Elder and prepared for the emergence of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. The flame appeared in the western mountains beneath the Double Moon Appearance and Nine Stars Alignment, drawing the factions of the Middle Continent toward a coming struggle.

• Lei Ying named Lin Ming the Lei Clan’s first Honorary Elder, and Lin Ming declined a banquet before leaving the Lei Realm.
• Lin Ming thanked Mang Tianchi for helping him enter the Lei Realm, and they agreed to meet again when the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared in a month.
• Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect, where Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Elder Yao welcomed him.
• Lin Ming told Ya Fei to recall the disciples investigating the flame’s emergence because its power would endanger them.
• As factions gathered in the western mountains, Lin Ming stabilized his cultivation and watched the Double Moon Appearance and Nine Stars Alignment begin.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame erupted into the sky, and Lin Ming rose to face its arrival.