Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming led Zi Yan, North King, and Xia Jia through the deadly Shattered Realm Abyss by navigating its Spatial Rifts with precise control of World Power. They reached the densest cluster of Spatial Fragments and passed through it safely, leaving the watching survivors stunned.

• An old man in black entered the Shattered Realm Abyss, but Spatial Rifts severed him and killed him.
• Other cultivators tried to cross using defenses or speed, but the Spatial Rifts killed them, driving the survivors to despair.
• Lin Ming, Zi Yan, North King, and Xia Jia arrived and entered the abyss, with Lin Ming leading them along safe paths between the rifts.
• The four crossed the field without injury, while the survivors watched in disbelief.
• Lin Ming sensed the densest cluster of Spatial Fragments, smoothed the space ahead with a sweep of his hand, and led the others through.

Lin Ming and his companions emerged from the Shattered Realm Abyss and faced Xia Xuan, who ordered Tie Kui to kill the men and capture the women. Lin Ming easily evaded Tie Kui’s attack, then unleashed golden lightning that tore through Tie Kui’s Battle Flame Dharma Body, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lin Ming, Zi Yan, North King, and Xia Jia emerged from the Shattered Realm Abyss and encountered Xia Xuan and his guards.
• Xia Xuan mocked the four and ordered Tie Kui to kill Lin Ming and North King while sparing Zi Yan and Xia Jia.
• Tie Kui attacked Lin Ming with a full-strength fist, but Lin Ming calmly dodged it.
• Tie Kui summoned his Battle Flame Dharma Body and brought its enormous palm down toward Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming released a golden lightning dragon that pierced the Dharma Body’s palm and tore through its arm, chest, and waist.

After Lin Ming effortlessly defeated Tie Kui, Xia Xuan attacked him with the Godslayer Battle Body. Lin Ming met Xia Xuan’s punch with his own, confident that his Dragon-Phoenix Body and Chaos Lightning made his physical strength superior.

• Lin Ming shattered Tie Kui’s Supreme Dharma Body with golden lightning, leaving Tie Kui gravely wounded in an icy pit.
• Xia Xuan unleashed crushing spiritual pressure, but Lin Ming’s invisible barrier turned it aside without disturbing him.
• Xia Xuan rushed Lin Ming and struck with the blood-tempered Godslayer Battle Body, while Tie Kui declared Lin Ming doomed.
• Lin Ming’s Soul Power resisted the Godslayer Battle Body’s Killing Aura, and he summoned the Dragon-Phoenix Body.
• Lin Ming chose to meet Xia Xuan’s punch head-on, trusting his body tempered by dragon and phoenix bloodlines and Chaos Lightning.

Lin Ming withstood Xia Xuan’s powerful attacks without injury and proved superior in their physical clash. After both fighters were driven back, Xia Xuan was left furious and bleeding while Lin Ming remained unharmed.

• Lin Ming stood firm when his punch met Xia Xuan’s, forcing Xia Xuan to retreat half a step.
• Xia Xuan unleashed his killing intent and surrounded Lin Ming with afterimages and a relentless barrage of punches.
• Lin Ming formed a golden lightning dragon shield that blocked most of Xia Xuan’s assault.
• A fist shadow slipped through the shield, but Lin Ming caught it with his purple-gold palm and the impact hurled both fighters hundreds of feet backward.
• Lin Ming remained uninjured while Xia Xuan’s fist was burned and bleeding, leaving him consumed by fury.

After Lin Ming destroyed Xia Xuan’s Mountain-Covering Seal with one punch, Xia Xuan unleashed his full power and prepared a dragon-shaped attack against him. Several injured experts emerged from the Shattered Realm Abyss and watched from the edge of the platform as the confrontation escalated.

• Xia Xuan activated the Mountain-Covering Seal and threatened Lin Ming with it.
• Lin Ming mocked Xia Xuan and shattered the Quasi-Sacred Artifact with a Dragon-Phoenix Fist, sending it into an ice crater and blasting through the wall behind Xia Xuan.
• Xia Xuan suppressed his anger and humiliation, then released powerful spiritual pressure that forced the guards and Dragon Horse Beasts back.
• Mu Feng, Xu Ru, a mysterious expert from the Southern Region, and two Tier 9 Supremes emerged from the Shattered Realm Abyss and withdrew to watch.
• Xia Xuan gathered dark-gold spiritual energy and formed a hundred-yard imperial dragon before bringing it down toward Lin Ming.

Lin Ming countered Xia Xuan’s Heavenly Emperor God Palm with his Dragon-Phoenix Palm, and his true dragon and true phoenix overwhelmed Xia Xuan’s heavenly emperor dragon. Xia Xuan withdrew his badly wounded dragon and, coveting Lin Ming’s manifestation method, resolved to kill him and take it.

• Xia Xuan attacked Lin Ming with the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty’s Heavenly Emperor God Palm, drawing power from its dynastic fortune.
• Lin Ming dismissed Xia Xuan’s heavenly emperor qi as insufficient and summoned the majesty of a true dragon and true phoenix.
• Lin Ming unleashed his Dragon-Phoenix Palm, and the two palm seals collided above the stone platform.
• Lin Ming’s true dragon and true phoenix tore apart Xia Xuan’s heavenly emperor dragon, leaving it badly weakened.
• Xia Xuan coveted Lin Ming’s manifestation method, vowed to kill him, and recalled the injured heavenly emperor dragon into his sleeve.

Xia Xuan summoned the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body and attacked Lin Ming with its overwhelming power. Lin Ming stood his ground and formed a colossal multicolored flame giant, leaving the two titanic forces facing off above the stone platform.

• Xia Xuan summoned the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body, a powerful inheritance ranked forty-five on the Ninety-Nine Supreme Dharma Body Rankings.
• Mu Feng, Xu Ru, and the watching experts reacted with shock as Xia Xuan's aura surged.
• Xia Xuan's Dharma Body struck at Lin Ming with a massive palm that crushed the air and blocked his escape.
• Lin Ming advanced calmly and unleashed a multicolored flame giant as large as Xia Xuan's Dharma Body.

Lin Ming used a giant formed from twenty-two-colored flames to withstand Xia Xuan’s Great Heavenly King Dharma Body, shocking the watching cultivators. Xia Xuan then unleashed the Heavenly King Immortal Seal, sending a storm of dark golden divine seals toward Lin Ming.

• Lin Ming’s flame giant blocked the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body’s full-force palm strike without being damaged.
• Xu Ru and the other cultivators realized the giant was made of unusually powerful flames rather than a Supreme Dharma Body, while Mu Feng grew wary of Lin Ming.
• Xia Xuan acknowledged Lin Ming’s strength but insisted it was not enough to challenge him, and Lin Ming calmly invited him to try.
• Xia Xuan awakened ancient patterns across the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body and formed a sky-filling killing formation of dark golden divine seals.
• Xia Xuan unleashed the Heavenly King Immortal Seal, and the divine seals descended on Lin Ming from every direction like meteors.

Lin Ming used a rosy purifying fire curtain to erase Xia Xuan’s Heavenly King Immortal Seals, then Xia Xuan broke through it with the Heavenly King Roar. Xia Xuan was left injured and exhausted but prepared to attack Lin Ming again.

• Xia Xuan sent his regenerating Heavenly King Immortal Seals raining down on Lin Ming, confident they would wear him down.
• Lin Ming formed a vast rosy fire curtain that purified the seals and erased them one after another.
• Xia Xuan cursed as he realized the curtain would block his attacks, then ordered the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body to unleash the Heavenly King Roar.
• The roar battered the curtain until it burst into scattered motes of light.
• Xia Xuan gasped with exhaustion and blood at his mouth, but fixed his resolve on killing Lin Ming and preparing another attack.

Xia Xuan unleashed his full-strength Heavenly King Fist, convinced Lin Ming had exhausted his spiritual energy. Lin Ming revealed a new technique and caught the colossal fist with the flame giant’s abyss-black arms, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Xia Xuan drew power from the Great Heavenly King Dharma Body and charged Lin Ming with a devastating Heavenly King Fist.
• The spectators feared Lin Ming would die as the thousand-foot fist descended, while Lin Ming stood motionless and did not retreat.
• Lin Ming formed seals as the flame giant’s arms transformed from multicolored flames into abyss-black fire.
• Lin Ming’s flame giant seized Xia Xuan’s Heavenly King Fist, and their collision warped space as dark-gold light and black fire clashed.

Lin Ming crushed Xia Xuan’s Heavenly King Fist and overwhelmed him with Devouring Nothingness Qi. Ignoring Xia Xuan’s threat of retaliation from the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty, Lin Ming killed him, leaving the watching powerhouses stunned.

• Lin Ming crushed Xia Xuan’s all-out Heavenly King Fist with the black-flame giant’s hand, breaking his will and draining his spiritual energy.
• Lin Ming appeared before the weakened Xia Xuan and pointed a finger at his heart.
• Xia Xuan threatened Lin Ming with revenge from the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty, and Lin Ming paused briefly before dismissing the threat.
• Lin Ming pierced Xia Xuan’s chest with his black-wreathed finger, destroying his heart and body as space shattered around them.
• Xia Xuan died, his Great Heavenly King Dharma Body disintegrated, and the watching powerhouses stood in stunned disbelief.

Lin Ming killed Xia Xuan and accepted the risk of making an enemy of the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty. After the Xia Emperor learned of his brother’s death and set out for the Far Western Lands, Lin Ming followed Xia Xuan’s map toward the Ice Abyss Eye with Zi Yan and the others.

• Lin Ming killed Xia Xuan, destroying his body and Supreme Sea, then took his storage ring and recovered the route map to the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.
• The Xia Emperor discovered Xia Xuan’s Life Tablet had shattered, saw his brother’s final afterimage, and ordered the Imperial Preceptor to make preparations.
• The Xia Emperor declared that he would go to the Far Western Lands himself and flew from the palace toward the horizon.
• Lin Ming memorized the map’s route to the Ice Abyss Eye and continued across the deep-blue ice field with Zi Yan and the other two.
• Lin Ming used the power of the Five-Elements World to probe for Spatial Rifts while Zi Yan used her Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline’s spatial perception to guide the group around hazards.

Lin Ming and Zi Yan found the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object, but three members of the Ice Spirit Clan arrived to claim it. After Lin Ming resisted their leader’s first attack with Emperor Flame, the clan members launched a combined assault.

• Lin Ming reached the fissure and spotted the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object, confirming he could refine it.
• Three Ice Spirit Clan members emerged from a rift in space and demanded that Lin Ming leave the object to them.
• North King identified the visitors, and Lin Ming judged that none had reached the Earth Sovereign realm.
• The Ice Spirit Clan leader attacked with a storm of icicles, but Lin Ming melted them with Emperor Flame.
• The leader mistook Lin Ming for someone from the Fire Spirit Clan and decided to kill him, then all three clan members attacked together with an ice giant, rising ice pillars, and an ice sword.

Lin Ming's Emperor Flame overwhelmed the three Ice Spirit Clan fighters and their summoned Ice Phoenix. The phoenix was destroyed, leaving all three fighters severely injured on the icefield.

• Lin Ming's Emperor Flame melted the three Ice Spirit Clan fighters' attacks and forced them back.
• The Ice Spirit Clan leader ordered the three fighters to summon the Ice Phoenix, and they combined their ice power to create it.
• Lin Ming formed a fire dragon from the Emperor Flame, and it fought the Ice Phoenix above the stone platform.
• The fire dragon absorbed the phoenix's attacks, shattered its armor, and tore it apart.
• The three Ice Spirit Clan fighters suffered the backlash: the leader collapsed, one was hurled into an ice wall, and the other crashed through blocks of ice and lay motionless.

Lin Ming defeated three Ice Spirit Clan experts, but their leader summoned the clan’s Ninth Elder, an Earth Sovereign. The elder overpowered Lin Ming’s emperor flame and wounded him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Ming’s emperor flame shattered the Ice Spirit Clan experts’ ice phoenix and left all three incapacitated.
• The leading Ice Spirit Clan expert broke an Ice Talisman, opening a Space Gate through which the Ninth Elder arrived.
• The North King recognized the Ninth Elder’s aura as that of an Earth Sovereign, and the elder confronted Lin Ming.
• The Ninth Elder unleashed a tide of extreme cold that shattered Lin Ming’s wall of emperor flame and injured him.
• Zi Yan, the North King, and Xia Jia tried to reach Lin Ming but were driven back by the lingering cold.

Lin Ming and Purifying Lotus combined the Heaven Refining Ancient Array with the Dragon-Elephant Shattering Heaven Array to defeat the Ninth Elder of the Ice Spirit Clan. After the Ninth Elder fled, Lin Ming reached into the fissure and took hold of the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.

• Lin Ming summoned Purifying Lotus after the Ninth Elder demanded that he surrender.
• Purifying Lotus formed the Heaven Refining Ancient Array while Lin Ming prepared the Dragon-Elephant Shattering Heaven Array, and together they fused the arrays into a Composite Grand Formation.
• The fused formation summoned a flaming dragon-elephant that shattered the Ninth Elder's ice-crystal manifestation and wounded him.
• The Ninth Elder fled with the three fallen Ice Spirit Clan experts, but the dragon-elephant struck him in the back before he escaped.
• Lin Ming let the formation dissipate and reached into the fissure to grasp the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.

Lin Ming began refining the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object while Zi Yan, the North King, and Xia Jia guarded him. Meanwhile, the Xia Emperor met the wounded Ninth Elder, learned Lin Ming had killed his youngest brother, and joined the Ice Spirit Clan in pursuing him.

• Lin Ming swallowed the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object and endured the violent clash between its icy power and his emperor flame until the Bodhi Ancient Tree and earth power helped him begin absorbing it.
• Zi Yan, the North King, and Xia Jia guarded Lin Ming as the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object's power settled into his meridians.
• The Ninth Elder and three wounded Ice Spirit Clan experts retreated toward the exit of the Shattered Realm Abyss.
• The Xia Emperor arrived, recognized the Ninth Elder's injuries, and learned that Lin Ming had wounded the Ice Spirit Clan and killed his youngest brother.
• The Xia Emperor offered the Ninth Elder a favor and Lin Ming's possessions in exchange for help finding Lin Ming, and the Ninth Elder agreed to lead him there.

Lin Ming’s inner world transformed as he refined the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object, but the Xia Emperor arrived before he could finish and attacked. Zi Yan transformed into her dragon-phoenix form to face him while Lin Ming remained vulnerable behind her.

• Lin Ming’s inner world filled with rivers, lakes, and glaciers as he absorbed most of the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object and his cultivation rose.
• Zi Yan sensed the Xia Emperor approaching and gathered with the North King and Xia Jia to protect Lin Ming.
• The Xia Emperor arrived with the Ninth Elder and three Ice Spirit Clan disciples, then declared he would avenge his brother and reclaim the spirit object.
• Zi Yan blocked the Xia Emperor’s Golden Sword Qi and counterattacked, but he overpowered her, the North King, and Xia Jia with ease.
• Zi Yan invoked an ancient transformation, growing dragon scales and phoenix wings as she became a giant divine beast.

After reaching the pinnacle of half-step Earth Sovereign, Lin Ming saved Zi Yan from the Xia Emperor’s crushing palm and brought her and the unconscious North King and Xia Jia into his inner world for healing. He then confronted the Xia Emperor, who launched a nine-dragon attack at him.

• Zi Yan fought the Xia Emperor’s Son of Heaven Palm Seal, suffering grievous injuries but refusing to yield while Lin Ming refined the Sunflower Ice Spirit Object.
• Lin Ming completed the refinement and reached the pinnacle of half-step Earth Sovereign, then placed himself between Zi Yan and the descending palm and blocked it with a shield formed from the four elemental origins.
• Lin Ming returned Zi Yan to human form and took her, the unconscious North King, and Xia Jia into his inner world so the Bodhi Ancient Tree could heal them.
• Lin Ming rejected the Xia Emperor’s warning and reminded him that his younger brother had met the same challenge before dying.
• The Xia Emperor gathered dark-gold spiritual energy and sent nine enormous dragons to attack Lin Ming with a combined beam.

Lin Ming fought the Xia Emperor with his four elemental spirit avatars and survived repeated strikes, but the Emperor prepared an overwhelming killing blow. As the dark-gold beam bore down on Lin Ming, Purifying Lotus appeared and unleashed the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, though he knew it could not stop the attack alone.

• Lin Ming summoned four elemental spirit avatars to battle the Xia Emperor’s nine dark-gold dragons, but the Emperor struck him with a palm and sent him crashing across the ice.
• Lin Ming withstood the Xia Emperor’s full-force dark-gold beam by countering it with a speck of chaotic light, though the collision left him severely wounded.
• The Xia Emperor began forming a powerful seal, drawing in spirit qi and glacier fragments before launching a slender beam that erased space in its path.
• Lin Ming realized the Xia Emperor’s attack could destroy him completely, but remained resolved as it rushed toward him.
• Purifying Lotus appeared beside Lin Ming and activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, knowing the array alone could not stop the beam.