Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming searched the surface islands for the hall containing Mandala's true body, then discovered the First Hall ruins on the seabed and found the hall from his memory. At its inner stone door, he encountered a Sacred Demon Palace disciple and the dangerous Elder Zuo, who had been ordered to keep everyone out.

• Lin Ming searched nearly every island but failed to find the hall or the First Hall Master's residence.
• Lin Ming realized the missing halls might be on the seabed and descended beneath the ocean.
• Lin Ming discovered an enormous sunken city and located the ruined hall that matched the images from the Scripture Repository.
• Lin Ming entered the hall, followed the Mandala Flower fragrance, and saw two figures guarding the stone door beyond which Mandala lay.
• The Sacred Demon Palace disciple addressed the other figure as Elder Zuo and said the Palace Master had forbidden anyone from entering the hall.
• Lin Ming realized Elder Zuo was likely an Earth Sovereign and sensed danger from him.

Lin Ming discovered that Elder Zuo, a Lower-Rank Earth Sovereign from the Sacred Demon Palace, had secretly entered the Ancient Heavenly Palace at great cost and with greatly diminished strength. Lin Ming mocked him and refused to back down, prompting Elder Zuo to unleash his terrifying Spiritual Energy.

• A Sacred Demon Palace disciple explained that Elder Zuo had been smuggled into the Ancient Heavenly Palace, could act only once, and had lost much of his strength.
• Lin Ming assessed Elder Zuo’s weakened state while the disciple assumed Lin Ming was helpless against an Earth Sovereign.
• Lin Ming called Elder Zuo a half-crippled Lower-Rank Earth Sovereign, but the disciple and Elder Zuo dismissed his words as foolishness.
• Elder Zuo ordered Lin Ming to take his own life if he wanted an easier death, and Lin Ming mocked him and told him to leave while he could still keep his life.
• Elder Zuo erupted with Spiritual Energy, splitting the hall’s space and threatening to overwhelm Lin Ming.

Lin Ming revealed that he had refined four spiritual treasures and summoned their Spirit Avatars, stunning Elder Zuo. The Four Spirits’ immense power shook the ruined hall and left Elder Zuo realizing Lin Ming could wield the treasures against him.

• Elder Zuo threatened to torment Lin Ming for insulting him, but Lin Ming welcomed the chance to fight an Earth Sovereign with his own strength.
• Lin Ming released the powers of four spiritual treasures, and Elder Zuo was shocked that a Tier 9 Peak cultivator possessed and had refined them.
• Elder Zuo doubted Lin Ming could actually wield the treasures, but Lin Ming formed a seal and summoned four Spirit Avatars.
• Lin Ming’s Emperor Flame Dragon, Glacier Phoenix, Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Earth Spirit Turtle roared together and shook the ruined hall.
• Elder Zuo felt the Four Spirits’ overwhelming pressure disrupt his Spiritual Energy and stared at Lin Ming in disbelief.

Lin Ming unleashed the Four Spirits against Elder Zuo, whose weakened state left him struggling to withstand their attacks. Elder Zuo answered with a massive jade pillar aimed at Lin Ming as Lin Ming commanded the Four Spirits to kill.

• Lin Ming challenged Elder Zuo to test the Four Spirits, and the fire dragon, ice phoenix, Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Earth Spirit Turtle attacked together.
• Elder Zuo blocked the Four Spirits’ combined assault with a giant jade-like hand, but their clash damaged the hall and forced him to retreat half a step.
• The Four Spirits launched another barrage, and Elder Zuo summoned a crystalline Spiritual Energy mountain that was soon shattered by their attacks.
• Elder Zuo called down a colossal jade pillar formed from his finger to crush Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming declared that Elder Zuo’s weakened condition left him unable to fight, then shouted for the Four Spirits to kill.

Lin Ming and the Four Spirits shattered Elder Zuo’s world-compressing attack, then formed the Four Spirits Blood Array. Elder Zuo sensed that the array could kill him, and the chapter ended as its combined power gathered for a final strike.

• The Four Spirits joined their wills and shattered Elder Zuo’s jade pillar, restoring the great hall.
• Lin Ming noticed that Elder Zuo’s finger had been injured by the recoil and acknowledged the Earth Sovereign’s overwhelming power.
• Lin Ming drew an ancient blood rune and used it to link the Four Spirits’ wills and Laws into the Four Spirits Blood Array.
• Elder Zuo realized the array threatened his life and prepared to face its growing power.
• The Four Spirits’ Laws resonated as a brilliant blood-colored pillar gathered at the array’s core.

Elder Zuo transformed his Supreme Dharma Body into a Supreme Dharma Form and used Words Manifest Law to deprive Lin Ming of surrounding Spiritual Energy, then battered him with thunder, wind, fire, and mountains. Lin Ming’s Four Spirits Blood Array endured the assault and began to strengthen, leaving Elder Zuo unable to break through and sensing a power growing within it.

• Elder Zuo swallowed his thirty-thousand-foot Supreme Dharma Body and merged it with his physical body to form a Supreme Dharma Form.
• Elder Zuo used Spiritual Energy Deprivation to prevent Lin Ming from drawing Spiritual Energy from the world.
• Elder Zuo summoned thunder against Lin Ming, who activated the Four Spirits Blood Array for protection.
• Elder Zuo attacked with wind, fire, and mountains, breaking through several layers of Lin Ming’s defenses.
• The Four Spirits Blood Array continued to take shape as its bonds and Laws strengthened, and Elder Zuo realized his attacks could not fully break it.

Lin Ming’s Four Spirits Blood Array overwhelmed Elder Zuo, destroying his giant manifestation and leaving him gravely wounded. Elder Zuo escaped the array but was struck down by Lin Ming’s Thunder Spear as he tried to flee.

• After Elder Zuo’s assault weakened, Lin Ming revealed the fully formed Four Spirits Blood Array and challenged him to withstand it.
• Lin Ming activated the array, whose four elemental forces and blood-red bands drained Elder Zuo’s Spiritual Energy and broke apart his giant manifestation.
• Elder Zuo emerged in his battered true form and forced his way through the array, suffering severe wounds as he escaped.
• Elder Zuo shattered the hall’s roof and tried to flee upward through the seawater above.
• Lin Ming used Thunder Punishment and hurled the Spear of Thunder at Elder Zuo, piercing his body and sending him crashing to the floor.

Lin Ming killed Elder Zuo and a Sacred Demon Palace disciple, then opened the Stone Door and found the Ancient Mandala Flower in a ruined hall protected by a deadly Spirit Formation. After studying the formation, he began shifting one of its eight skeletal cores to disrupt its balance.

• Lin Ming retrieved the Thunder Spear, stored the two corpses in his Inner World, and opened the Stone Door.
• Lin Ming entered a ruined plaza marked by Spatial Turbulence, broken runes, and the remains of powerful fighters.
• Lin Ming found the Ancient Mandala Flower atop a Blood Jade Lotus Pedestal and recognized the dangerous formation protecting it.
• Lin Ming identified eight skeletons and their stone pillars as the formation's core and determined that separating them would break its balance.
• Lin Ming struck beneath one skeleton with Spiritual Energy, shifted it slightly, and prepared to attack the same spot again.

Lin Ming broke the connection between a skeleton and its stone pillar, destabilizing the Spirit Formation, then crossed it and reached the Mandala Flower. He left the plaza relieved to have found the flower, but wary of the powerful skeleton guarding it.

• Lin Ming battered the skeleton beneath one stone pillar until its Spiritual Rune connection snapped, causing the pillar and Spirit Formation to falter.
• Lin Ming used the formation's newly exposed flaws to cross its Spiritual Energy storms and approach the Mandala Flower.
• Lin Ming charged the final skeleton, exchanged a palm strike with it, and used the impact to propel himself beyond the Spirit Formation.
• Lin Ming reflected that the eight skeletons had likely belonged to people who touched the Earth Sovereign level and recalled the Ancient Heavenly Palace's destruction by the Extraterritorial Clans.
• Lin Ming approached the Mandala Flower on its Blood Jade Lotus Pedestal and said he had finally found it.

Lin Ming found a dormant Mandala Flower recovering on a Blood Jade pedestal and used vitality from the Bodhi Ancient Tree to lure it into his Inner World. The flower settled among the tree’s roots, leaving Lin Ming pleased with his success.

• Lin Ming examined the dormant Mandala Flower and inferred that it had sealed itself on the Blood Jade pedestal to recover from severe injuries.
• Lin Ming offered the flower a wisp of vitality from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and it absorbed the energy and shed one of the black lines within it.
• Lin Ming laid out increasingly rich balls of vitality to coax the flower off the pedestal and toward his Inner World.
• The Mandala Flower followed the trail through the entrance in Lin Ming’s chest and entered his Inner World.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree’s roots cradled the flower as it began to adjust, and Lin Ming smiled.

Lin Ming searched the ruins of the First Hall and uncovered hidden treasures, including a divine ability, rare materials, pills, and three tokens granting access to the inner vault. He reached the main hall and sensed that the vault lay deep inside, leaving him poised to enter.

• Lin Ming left the first chamber after collecting the Ancient Mandala Flower and its lotus pedestal, then searched the ruined side hall.
• Lin Ming dismantled a protective formation and recovered the Sea-Suppressing Seal cultivation method from a hidden compartment.
• Lin Ming found Deep-Sea Cold Iron in a concealed storage ring and collected several bottles of pills from a secret chamber.
• Lin Ming broke through another formation and found three tokens identified as First Hall Inner Vault Access Tokens.
• Lin Ming searched more of the ruins, returned to the main hall, and sensed a dense concentration of Spiritual Energy where the inner vault was likely located.

Lin Ming explored the First Hall’s main hall, opened its sealed inner chamber, and gathered several Earth-element treasures. After learning that three Black Tokens opened the First Hall’s inner treasury, he entered it and found chambers filled with stored materials, pills, weapons, and cultivation records.

• Lin Ming bypassed the high-grandmaster formation on the main hall’s inner chamber door and collected a Mountain-Subduing Art scroll, an Earth Essence Pill, and a Sea Heart Essence Crystal.
• Lin Ming examined the council hall’s surviving Jade Slips and learned that the First Hall’s inner treasury lay behind the main hall and required three passage tokens to open.
• Lin Ming traveled through the ruins behind the main hall and found the small treasury hall protected by a formation with three token slots.
• Lin Ming inserted the three Black Tokens, opened the treasury doors, and entered chambers stocked with spiritual materials, pills, artifacts, cultivation-method Jade Slips, and sealed chests.

Lin Ming searched the First Hall's inner vault and collected valuable materials, pills, a Sacred Artifact, cultivation methods, and other treasures that had survived ten thousand years. After emptying the vault, he headed toward a massive crimson hall to continue exploring.

• Lin Ming recovered sunken abyss iron essence and the Heart of the Tree from Lightning-Struck Divine Wood from the spiritual materials chamber.
• Lin Ming collected three Golden Sun Body-Tempering Pills for his preparations to break through to Earth Sovereign.
• Lin Ming obtained the Mid-Rank Sacred Artifact Flowing Cloud Thunder Sword and preserved copies of Space-Rending Finger, Sea-Suppressing Art, and Hundred Beasts Body-Forging Diagram.
• Lin Ming found tens of millions of drops of Supreme Spirit Liquid, a map marking hidden passages to other halls, and the First Hall Master Key.
• Lin Ming left the emptied inner vault with its three access tokens still embedded in the doors and returned to the Ruins.
• Lin Ming detected a massive crimson hall with flame-patterned pillars and darted toward it.

Lin Ming searched the First Hall’s Technique Transmission Hall and nearby ruins, uncovering valuable techniques, pills, and Fire Element treasures. After securing his gains, he left the underwater complex and set out for the Second Hall.

• Lin Ming disabled the protective array beneath the square and entered the Technique Transmission Hall.
• Lin Ming collected cultivation insights, the Nine Revolutions Heaven-Splitting Finger, and the Earth Fire Body-Tempering Technique.
• Lin Ming found an Earth Fire Essence Crystal, three Fire Origin Pills, and the Flowing Fire Movement Technique in nearby ruins.
• Lin Ming discovered an Earth Heart Fire Pearl hidden in a northern side hall and sealed it in a Jade Casket.
• Lin Ming left the First Hall and headed toward the Second Hall.

Lin Ming reached the Second Hall and used his Golden Dragon Disciple token to open its sealed entrance. He entered the battle-scarred hall, where broken artifacts and ancient bones lay scattered across the floor.

• Lin Ming traveled northeast through the ruins, avoided damaged Spirit Formations, and was transported to a mountain covered in grand halls.
• Lin Ming reached the giant Second Hall and found its bronze doors protected by a High-Rank Grandmaster-level seal.
• Lin Ming used his Golden Dragon Disciple token to activate the plaque and open the bronze doors.
• Lin Ming entered the Second Hall and found its interior devastated, with shattered flagstones, damaged pillars, broken spiritual artifacts, and bones.

Lin Ming entered the Second Hall and found its master standing before a golden throne, apparently still faintly alive despite a fatal wound. By connecting a hole in the master’s brow to a matching hole in the ceiling, Lin Ming reconstructed how an overwhelmingly powerful invader had killed him with a single finger.

• Lin Ming entered the hall and felt the master of the Second Hall’s immense pressure, while detecting a faint trace of life in his body.
• Lin Ming cautiously moved to face the master and saw a small, clean hole between his brows that had destroyed his Consciousness Sea and Divine Soul.
• Lin Ming spotted a matching finger-width hole in the ceiling and realized it had pierced through the vast hall.
• Lin Ming recalled that an Extraterritorial Clans invader had struck through the ceiling and killed the master of the Second Hall before he could defend himself.