Chapter Summaries

Lin Changqing rescued Han Zhi Xian from Chang Er Ding Guang Xian and bound Chang Er after hearing her account of his crimes. He brought Han Zhi Xian and the captured Chang Er to Golden Ao Island to report the matter to Tongtian.

• Han Zhi Xian trusted Lin Changqing and named the Interception Sect disciples who had helped Chang Er and Ma Yuan coerce and mistreat her.
• Chang Er broke through Han Zhi Xian’s failing island formation, then tried to blame her when he found Lin Changqing there.
• Lin Changqing told Chang Er he had heard everything, restrained him, and transformed him into a trembling rabbit.
• Lin Changqing invited Han Zhi Xian to testify before Tongtian, and she agreed to go with him.
• Lin Changqing arrived below Biyou Palace with Han Zhi Xian and Chang Er and announced that he had returned to pay his respects to Tongtian.

Lin Changqing returned to Golden Ao Island with Hanzhi and accused Chang Er Ding Guang Xian before Biyou Palace. Tongtian welcomed Lin Changqing and praised him for turning the Green Ping Sword into a Merit Supreme Treasure, while Hanzhi and the captured Chang Er waited outside.

• Lin Changqing arrived at Biyou Palace with Hanzhi and announced that she had come to accuse Chang Er Ding Guang Xian.
• Tongtian retraced what had happened, summoned Lin Changqing inside, and barred Hanzhi and the rabbit from entering.
• Bixiao and Jinling heard that Lin Changqing had returned and hurried toward Golden Ao Island.
• The six other Seven Attendant Immortals rushed to Biyou Palace, unaware that Lin Changqing had already captured Chang Er.
• Tongtian greeted Lin Changqing warmly and praised him for creating the Green Ping Sword, a Merit Supreme Treasure.

Tongtian warned Lin Changqing not to pursue Sainthood and appointed him deputy leader of the Interception Sect, entrusting him with the sect’s management. Lin Changqing accepted the Green Ping Sword and prepared to handle Chang’er’s misconduct.

• Tongtian praised Lin Changqing’s ability to create Daos and warned him that his path did not lead to becoming a Saint.
• Lin Changqing asked about the place Ming He had taken him, and Tongtian explained that Senior Disciple Brother had said it held Lin Changqing’s opportunity.
• Lin Changqing urged Tongtian to punish Chang’er for bullying fellow disciples and accumulating karmic obstacles.
• Tongtian gave Lin Changqing the Green Ping Sword, which represented Tongtian and had become a Merit Supreme Treasure through Lin Changqing.
• Lin Changqing suspected Tongtian wanted to avoid managing the sect, but accepted Tongtian’s appointment as deputy leader of the Interception Sect.

Tongtian appointed Lin Changqing deputy sect leader and gave him the Green Ping Sword to purge the Interception Sect’s injustices. Outside Biyou Palace, Lin Changqing confronted the Seven Attendant Immortals, captured Ma Yuan, and told Bixiao to summon the sect’s disciples.

• Tongtian appointed Lin Changqing deputy sect leader and handed him the Green Ping Sword, which Lin Changqing accepted as a charge to purge the Interception Sect’s ills.
• Lin Changqing left Biyou Palace with Chang Er Ding Guang Xian restrained, while Han Zhi Xian followed and thanked Tongtian for supporting them.
• Wu Yun Xian tried to take Chang Er and enter Biyou Palace, but Lin Changqing blocked the entrance with the Green Ping Sword and forbade the Seven Attendant Immortals from passing.
• Ma Yuan tried to flee when Lin Changqing called him over, but a golden bell captured him and brought him back before Biyou Palace.
• Bixiao and Jinling arrived, and Lin Changqing told Bixiao to strike the Golden Bell and summon the Ten Thousand Immortals of the Interception Sect.

Lin Changqing summoned the Interception Sect’s Ten Thousand Immortals and announced that Tongtian had appointed him Vice Leader. With the sect gathered, he began judging Chang Er Ding Guang Xian and called on Han Zhi Xian to testify, while the Seven Attendant Immortals intimidated her.

• Lin Changqing ordered Bixiao to ring the golden bell, and its nine peals summoned Interception Sect disciples from across the Primordial World.
• Duobao, Zhao Gongming, Guiling, and many other disciples hurried back to the sect over the next three years, until ninety thousand immortals had gathered outside Biyou Palace.
• Lin Changqing revealed the Green Ping Sword and declared that Tongtian had appointed him Vice Leader of the Interception Sect.
• Lin Changqing brought Chang Er Ding Guang Xian and Ma Yuan before the gathered disciples and accused Chang Er Ding Guang Xian of oppressing fellow disciples and committing many evil deeds.
• Lin Changqing asked Han Zhi Xian to testify, but the Seven Attendant Immortals continued to pressure her, prompting Lin Changqing to unleash his killing intent and rebuke them.

Lin Changqing exposed Chang Er Ding Guang Xian’s crimes and used the Green Ping Sword to judge corrupt Interception Sect disciples. After punishing thousands, he announced that he would establish sacred rules for the sect.

• Han Zhi Xian accused Chang Er Ding Guang Xian of trying to force her into dual cultivation, and Wu Yun Xian defended Chang Er and accused Han Zhi Xian of slander.
• Lin Changqing showed the disciples a vision proving Chang Er’s crimes, then ordered Duobao, Zhao Gongming, and others to seize fleeing suspects as accusations poured in.
• Lin Changqing used the Green Ping Sword to identify falsely accused disciples and expose more offenders, then stripped Chang Er of his cultivation, expelled him, and suppressed him for ten thousand years.
• Lin Changqing punished Ma Yuan, confined Wu Yun Xian and the other Seven Attendant Immortals, and imposed further sentences on countless Interception Sect disciples.
• Lin Changqing declared that he would establish sacred rules for the Interception Sect.

Lin Changqing established binding rules for the Interception Sect and delegated their enforcement to its Eight Personal Disciples. After Tongtian approved his actions, Lin Changqing admitted he had made little progress toward the Great Encompassment and resolved to pursue the Three-Flower Realm by nurturing his Dao Fruit with Dao soil.

• Lin Changqing proclaimed three rules forbidding disciples from harming fellow disciples, committing evil, and accepting disciples without regard for character.
• Lin Changqing sent the Green Ping Sword into the sect's fortune, where it formed a sword phantom to enforce the rules.
• Lin Changqing empowered Duobao and the other personal disciples to wield the Sacred Sword and punish rulebreakers while he was away.
• Lin Changqing apologized to Tongtian for overstepping, but Tongtian praised him for solving a major problem for the Interception Sect.
• Tongtian asked Lin Changqing about his progress toward the Great Encompassment, and Lin Changqing concluded that he would cultivate his Dao Fruit with Dao soil to reach the Three-Flower Realm.

Lin Changqing revealed his perfected 9,999-zhang Dao Foundation, astonishing Tongtian and the Interception Sect disciples. Tongtian announced a sermon at Biyou Palace a thousand years later, and Lin Changqing gave Huo Ling'er a treasured greeting gift.

• Lin Changqing told Tongtian that his Dao Foundation was complete but he needed more experience before advancing further.
• Tongtian announced he would preach the Dao at Biyou Palace in a thousand years and sent Duobao to ring the Golden Bell.
• Lin Changqing manifested his nine-layer Dao Foundation at its maximum height of 9,999 zhang, shocking Tongtian and the other disciples.
• The Golden Bell summoned the Interception Sect cultivators to Golden Ao Island to await Tongtian's sermon.
• Huo Ling'er introduced herself to Lin Changqing and asked him for a greeting gift.
• Lin Changqing praised Huo Ling'er's innate nature and gave her a Supreme Grade Houtian Spiritual Treasure, the Flowing Cloud Xiayi.

Lin Changqing hosted a Dao discussion that became a sermon for the Interception Sect, then listened as Tongtian taught the Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal. As Tongtian’s sermon filled Biyou Palace with visions of the Great Dao, Lin Changqing’s Dao took human form and flew from his body.

• Huo Ling'er accepted a Supreme Grade robe from Lin Changqing, who invited her to sit with Duobao and the other Interception Sect immortals.
• Zhao Gongming and Saint Mother Jinling described their Daos, but Lin Changqing found little inspiration in them, and his insights led the gathered disciples into comprehension.
• After a thousand years, Lin Changqing awakened the disciples and ordered Duobao to ring the bell, summoning them to Biyou Palace for Tongtian’s sermon.
• Tongtian preached the Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal, filling Biyou Palace with golden lotuses, clouds, flowers, and visions of the Great Dao.
• As Tongtian preached, Lin Changqing’s Dao gathered into a human form and flew away from his seated body.

Lin Changqing used his Dao Incarnation to absorb Tongtian’s Sage-level lecture, strengthening his Dao Foundation as the other Interception Sect disciples gradually left Biyou Palace. After twenty-five thousand years, he remained in seclusion, poised just short of a ten-thousand-zhang Dao Platform but still waiting for the insight needed to break through.

• Tongtian watched Lin Changqing’s Dao Incarnation withstand and absorb Dao Flowers, then expanded the golden-cloud world to help him comprehend the Great Dao.
• Lin Changqing entered the Sage’s golden-cloud world, grew his Dao Incarnation solid, and drew wisps of Dao aura into his Dao Foundation.
• Over the following years, the Interception Sect disciples left Biyou Palace after completing their enlightenment, with several advancing their cultivation.
• After twenty-five thousand years, Duobao, Zhao Gongming, and Jinling departed, leaving Lin Changqing as the only disciple still meditating.
• Lin Changqing’s Dao Platform reached nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang and nine cun, but he stopped gaining Dao aura and waited for a flash of insight to break through.

After ten thousand years without progress, Lin Changqing overcame the question threatening to make him merge with the Dao and formed a ten-thousand-zhang Dao Foundation. His Three Flowers Dao Tree grew and began blooming with thirty-six petals, revealing the Bearing of a Saint.

• Tongtian tried to stop Lin Changqing from merging with the Dao by disrupting the Great Daos, and Lin Changqing regained clarity.
• Lin Changqing realized that he was himself and the Dao was the Dao, then reached the perfected ten-thousand-zhang Dao Foundation realm.
• A Dao Seed sprouted on Lin Changqing's Dao Foundation and absorbed energy from his body, Biyou Palace, and the surrounding worlds.
• Lin Changqing's Three Flowers Dao Tree grew to ten thousand zhang, drained him nearly to a skeleton, and then began restoring his body.
• The Dao Tree shrank as its flower bloomed, while its petals multiplied beyond the Ninth-Grade Three Flowers until Tongtian witnessed thirty-six petals, the Twelfth-Grade Three Flowers.

Lin Changqing resisted dividing his Three Flowers by the Three Corpses method, believing his divine demon bloodline had detected a flaw in it. He found another way forward and formed three thirty-six-petal blossoms, each containing a figure resembling himself.

• Tongtian watched Lin Changqing’s Three Flowers exceed thirty-six petals as old petals withered and new ones grew.
• Lin Changqing held back the Three Flowers’ division because his divine demon bloodline rejected the Three Corpses method.
• The divine demon within Lin Changqing revealed that he could use substitutes for his three selves, and Lin Changqing accepted the insight.
• Lin Changqing’s Three Flowers divided into three blossoms, each of which grew to thirty-six petals.
• Three beams of light from Lin Changqing formed figures in the blossoms: a blood-red divine demon, a purplish-black dragon-like figure, and a golden figure filled with the aura of merit.

Lin Changqing refined three external Dao Fruits into incarnations and broke through to Quasi-Sage-level power, drawing Purple Firmament Divine Lightning over Golden Ao Island. He sent two incarnations to test the tribulation and prepared to summon the Blood God against the intensifying thunder.

• Lin Changqing used the three flowers to refine the Chaos True Dragon Qi, the Divine Demon image, and the Merit Golden Body into three incarnations.
• Purple Firmament Divine Lightning gathered above Golden Ao Island, alarming the Interception Sect disciples until Lin Changqing announced that it was his tribulation.
• Lin Changqing stepped into the air and shattered the Primordial World’s space, revealing power at the Quasi-Sage level.
• Lin Changqing summoned Purple Dragon, which punched a hole through the sea of Purple Firmament Divine Lightning.
• Lin Changqing summoned Golden Venerate, whose golden light tore gaps through the thunder before the incarnation vanished and the lightning gathered into a stronger assault.
• Lin Changqing called on the Blood God to shatter the renewed thunder.

Lin Changqing overcame his Grand Unity Golden Immortal tribulation and learned that he would have to forge his own path, while Tongtian warned him to protect himself. After three thousand years with his fellow disciples, Lin Changqing prepared to resume his training, unaware that Tongtian had been gravely injured stopping him from merging with the Dao.

• Lin Changqing formed three powerful incarnations that annihilated his tribulation lightning, then refined the energy and assessed his new strength.
• Bixiao and the Interception Sect disciples marveled at Lin Changqing's power, and he thanked Tongtian for his teachings.
• Tongtian urged Lin Changqing to teach his junior disciples and find a Dao companion, but Lin Changqing refused and realized his master had tried to keep him anchored after he nearly merged with the Dao.
• Tongtian warned Lin Changqing to protect himself if the future became impossible, then revealed after Lin Changqing left that stopping him from merging with the Dao had badly injured him.
• Lin Changqing spent three thousand years catching up with the Eight Personal Disciples, then watched them depart and prepared to continue training.

Lin Changqing returned to the East Sea Dragon Clan and discovered its members were training beside the dangerous Blood Abyss. Ao Mu told him that Ao Ying had gone into its depths and vanished, leaving her fate unknown.

• Lin Changqing left Biyou Palace and traveled through the perilous void for five hundred years to reach the Dragon Clan's territory.
• Lin Changqing called out to the Dragon Clan, but found no one at the palace and used his Divine Demon Eye to see the clan gathered around the Blood Abyss.
• Lin Changqing met the wounded Ao Mu, who explained that the Dragon Clan had been training in the Blood Abyss under pressure from the demon race.
• Ao Mu told Lin Changqing that Ao Ying had entered the Blood Abyss after failing to break through and had not returned.

Lin Changqing arrived at the Dragon Clan’s Blood Abyss, where he rescued Ao Guang from a horde of vengeful spirits and drove the Killing Intent from him. After learning Ao Ying was still trapped below, Lin Changqing resolved to enter the dangerous ancient battlefield to find her.

• Lin Changqing asked Ao Mu to take him to the Blood Abyss, where the gathered Dragon Clan members mourned Ao Ying’s peril.
• Ao Guang burst from the Blood Abyss pursued by powerful vengeful spirits from the ancient clans, and he ordered the Dragon Clan members to flee.
• Lin Changqing destroyed the vengeful spirits with his sword arts and used the Asura Great Dao to remove the Killing Intent afflicting Ao Guang.
• Ao Guang told Lin Changqing that Ao Ying remained in the depths of the Blood Abyss and warned him that the ancient battlefield had claimed even Quasi-Sages.
• Lin Changqing insisted that Ao Ying was his friend and set off to search for her despite Ao Guang’s objections.

Lin Changqing entered the Blood Abyss and discovered an ancient battlefield preserved in a blood-red minor world. After more than ten years of searching and clearing wraiths, he reached the eleventh dragon lair and believed Ao Ying was nearby.

• Lin Changqing forced his way into the Blood Abyss and fought through powerful wraiths as he descended toward its depths.
• He passed through a vast opening in the blood wall and found a landscape of corpses, bones, blood rivers, and endlessly multiplying wraiths.
• Lin Changqing identified the place as a minor world formed from an ancient battlefield of the war between the three clans, then left a divine-sense mark before searching deeper for Ao Ying.
• Over ten years, Lin Changqing explored the minor world and destroyed wraiths while searching for Ao Ying, whose trail had vanished seven thousand years earlier.
• Lin Changqing arrived at the eleventh dragon lair and said Ao Ying should be nearby.

Lin Changqing found Ao Ying asleep inside a dragon lair, where she had absorbed the bloodlines of the Dragon, Qilin, and Phoenix clans and was struggling to fuse them. He removed the killing intent corroding her soul, protected her with formations, and helped her bloodline grow before turning toward the depths of the small world.

• Lin Changqing followed Ao Ying's blood aura deeper into the small world and found her inside a mountain-sized blood cocoon surrounded by vengeful dragon spirits.
• Using the Eye of the Divine Demons and Purple Dragon, Lin Changqing discovered that Ao Ying's bloodline had transformed by absorbing the Qilin and Phoenix bloodlines as well as her dragon bloodline.
• Lin Changqing's three incarnations suppressed Ao Ying's unstable bloodlines, removed the killing intent corroding her soul, and dispelled the danger around her.
• Lin Changqing formed protective arrays around Ao Ying and fed her pure bloodline power from the three clans, strengthening her as she continued to transform.
• After confirming Ao Ying was out of immediate danger, Lin Changqing turned his attention toward the heart of the small world.

Lin Changqing advanced into the Blood Abyss and confronted a Quasi-Sage-level Qilin vengeful spirit with his three avatars. When the creature overwhelmed them, Lin Changqing prepared to fight it himself with his Divine Domain and God Slaying Spear.

• Lin Changqing left a golden divine metal marker pointing back toward the exit and charged deeper into the Blood Abyss, cutting through swarms of vengeful spirits.
• Lin Changqing encountered a ten-thousand-zhang Qilin vengeful spirit and summoned the God Slaying Spear to battle it.
• Purple Dragon attacked the Qilin but was pierced by its horn, while Golden Venerate used his six-layer Merit Golden Wheel to suppress it.
• Purple Dragon drew thunder down on the Qilin, weakening its resistance to Golden Venerate's wheel, and Blood God pierced its shoulder with Annihilation Divine Light.
• The enraged Qilin unleashed the Great Dao of Earth and overwhelmed the three avatars, so Lin Changqing invoked Divine Domain and raised the God Slaying Spear himself.

Lin Changqing defeated a powerful Blood Qilin after it self-destructed, then continued deeper into the Blood Abyss. He found a vast golden curtain absorbing the blood qi and sealing off an unknown region, and prepared to investigate what lay beyond it.

• Lin Changqing and his three avatars wounded the Blood Qilin, which awakened its ancient battle intent and began to self-destruct.
• Lin Changqing reunited with his avatars and sealed the Blood Qilin behind shattered space, but its explosion devastated the surrounding region and sent him tumbling back.
• Lin Changqing escaped the ruined area, avoided resentful spirits, and noticed that blood qi was thinning while Killing Intent grew more violent nearer the center.
• Lin Changqing discovered resentful spirits charging toward a golden curtain that absorbed blood qi and annihilated anything that struck it.
• Lin Changqing slew the nearby spirits, studied the curtain, and decided to enter and investigate what the ancient battlefield had left behind.