Chapter Summaries

Lin Changqing returned to Golden Ao Island to investigate a change in his sea of consciousness, while Tongtian praised his devotion and leadership. There, Lin Changqing discovered that Primordial Star Transformation was clashing with the Divine Demon Prison Suppression Art, leaving the two powerful cultivation arts locked in battle.

• Lin Changqing left for Golden Ao Island after Tongtian agreed, and the Interception Sect disciples vowed to follow his example.
• Tongtian encouraged the disciples to seek opportunities on Ten Thousand Immortals Island before heading to Biyou Palace.
• Tongtian noticed a strange phenomenon around Lin Changqing on Golden Ao Island.
• Lin Changqing examined his sea of consciousness and found countless stars bearing cultivation runes gathering at its center.
• The Divine Demon Prison Suppression Art and Primordial Star Transformation clashed, with the Divine Demon attacking the starry river as it ground against the art.

Lin Changqing’s Divine Demon Prison Suppression Art and Primordial Star Transformation clashed inside his sea of consciousness, destroying and then reshaping it. After half a year, the two arts fused, strengthening his divine sense and awakening a new divine ability.

• Tongtian saw the extraordinary vision in Lin Changqing’s cave, sealed the area with the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, and stopped observing to protect his disciple’s secret.
• The Divine Demon Prison Suppression Art and Primordial Star Transformation tore through Lin Changqing’s sea of consciousness as their divine demon and starry river fought for dominance.
• Blood-red flames burned impurities from Lin Changqing’s sea of consciousness, shrinking it while tempering and strengthening his divine sense.
• After half a year, the divine demon and starry sea fused into a single cultivation art, with the nine suns joining the stars and the divine demon reigning at their center.
• Lin Changqing’s sea of consciousness began expanding again as the stars circulated power, and he realized the Divine Demon Prison Suppression Art had awakened a new divine ability.

Lin Changqing cultivated the Divine Demon Heart Refining Art and Primordial Star Transformation, strengthening his spiritual defenses and transforming his billions of small worlds. As new Dao Rules arose inside them, he realized he could eventually command a power coveted by the greatest experts.

• Lin Changqing learned that the Divine Demon Heart Refining Art could harden his sea of consciousness and protect his soul from attacks.
• Lin Changqing circulated the Primordial Star Transformation, forming a sea of stars in each of his 3,600 apertures and accelerating his cultivation.
• Lin Changqing’s billions of small worlds expanded as nebulae, meteors, and Star Cores formed within them.
• Lin Changqing sensed newly born Dao Rules in the expanded worlds and realized he could eventually command them, though his current cultivation limited his control.
• Lin Changqing continued circulating the art as the transformations within his small worlds went on.

Lin Changqing's cultivation transformed the countless small worlds within him into vast seas of stars, drawing enormous amounts of spiritual energy from Golden Ao Island and the surrounding region. Five thousand years into his seclusion, the Interception Sect disciples expected him to emerge soon, though he remained hidden in his cave abode.

• Lin Changqing's small worlds expanded and filled with planets, while collisions and explosions caused stars to ignite throughout them.
• Tongtian saw spiritual energy being drawn toward Lin Changqing's cave abode, and the Interception Sect disciples recognized the disturbance as signs of Senior Disciple Brother's breakthrough.
• Lin Changqing's cultivation continued to consume outside spiritual energy as tens of billions of his small worlds grew into star-filled worlds.
• After several thousand more years, Tongtian established a grand formation to draw spiritual energy from a vast area and direct it to Golden Ao Island.
• Duobao Daoist, Bixiao, Yunxiao, and the other Interception Sect disciples watched the gathering spiritual energy and anticipated Lin Changqing's return from five thousand years of seclusion.

Lin Changqing broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm after opening ten billion miniature worlds, but his Five Energies in the Chest came from those worlds rather than his organs. They formed a hundred-zhang, multicolored Dao platform, leaving him unsure whether the strange foundation was a blessing or a problem.

• Lin Changqing maintained his starry sea for a thousand years and opened ten billion miniature worlds, each transforming into a star.
• The Thirty-six Hundred Divine Demons transformed, and Lin Changqing's cultivation reached the peak of the Golden Immortal stage before breaking through to Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Lin Changqing found that the Five Energies in his Chest began as a few faint wisps and wondered whether his cultivation art had weakened them.
• Lin Changqing traced the multiplying energies to the miniature worlds in his forehead, where billions of wisps of origin energy poured toward his abdomen.
• The energies formed a hundred-zhang, multicolored Dao platform, and Lin Changqing questioned what its unusual size and colors meant.

Lin Changqing formed a Dao Platform from thousands of strange energies and concluded that the Primordial World might be incomplete. The Heavenly Dao responded with a terrifying tribulation, and Tongtian saw that his disciple’s cultivation held countless unfamiliar laws.

• Lin Changqing watched three thousand six hundred rays of solid divine light converge into an ancient Dao Platform within him.
• Lin Changqing recalled Tongtian’s teachings and realized that his countless energies might contain both minor paths and Great Daos.
• Lin Changqing reasoned that the Primordial World might be incomplete or not the true Primordial World, pointing to the missing Sword Dao and the limits of the Heavenly Dao.
• A terrifying tribulation filled the sky above the Interception Sect after Lin Changqing’s Dao Platform appeared.
• Tongtian looked into Lin Changqing’s secret realm and saw countless unfamiliar laws among his Five Energies in the Chest.

Lin Changqing completed a mysterious nine-layer Dao Platform while world-ending tribulation lightning threatened to destroy him. The lightning lost its target and faded, leaving Tongtian amazed as Lin Changqing remained in seclusion.

• Tongtian summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to protect Lin Changqing from the terrifying tribulation lightning.
• Lin Changqing used his ten billion merits to withstand the lightning while his nine-layer Dao Platform took shape.
• The completed Dao Platform concealed its radiance and aura, causing the lightning to lose its target and dissipate.
• The Interception Sect disciples celebrated Lin Changqing and praised his strength, while Tongtian could no longer see through his cultivation.
• Tongtian praised Lin Changqing, who still had not emerged from seclusion.

Lin Changqing completed the transformation of his hundred billion minor worlds into dark stars, reaching power comparable to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. He left seclusion to find the Interception Sect disciples waiting in awe, thanked Tongtian for protecting him, and received his master's reminder to keep advancing without conceit.

• Lin Changqing's minor worlds collapsed into dark stars whose laws matched the strength of the Primordial World's laws, while his acupoints continued forming new worlds.
• Lin Changqing's body grew powerful enough to shatter the Primordial World's space, and he judged that he could defeat the early-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal wolf Demon King.
• Lin Changqing lifted his cave abode's restrictions and walked out to find the Interception Sect disciples and Eight True Disciples gathered outside, amazed by his strength.
• Lin Changqing bowed toward Biyou Palace and thanked Tongtian for using the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to protect him during his breakthrough.
• Tongtian appeared before Lin Changqing and sternly reminded him not to grow conceited and to keep walking the long path of cultivation.

Lin Changqing returned to Biyou Palace after five thousand years of cultivation and visited Tongtian with the senior personal disciples. Tongtian recognized Lin Changqing’s extraordinary Dao foundation, and Lin Changqing left the others stunned by giving them Five-Needle Pine nuts and revealing how many he had eaten.

• Lin Changqing thanked the Interception Sect disciples for protecting him while he cultivated and went with the senior personal disciples to Biyou Palace.
• Tongtian asked Lin Changqing what he saw in the phenomena surrounding him, and Lin Changqing described the Great Dao’s river and blooming golden flowers.
• Tongtian praised Lin Changqing’s Dao foundation as even more solid than his own, astonishing Duobao and the other disciples.
• Lin Changqing gave five Five-Needle Pine nuts to each of the eight senior personal disciples and told them to refine and absorb the precious spiritual-root fruits.
• The disciples tried to refuse the pine nuts, but Lin Changqing insisted, saying he had eaten more than two hundred of them and no longer needed them.

Lin Changqing shared pine nuts from Buzhou Mountain with the Eight Personal Disciples, who refined them and strengthened their bodies. He agreed to stay with the Interception Sect for up to a thousand years and accepted San Xiao's invitation to visit Three Immortal Island.

• Bixiao asked whether Lin Changqing had reached Buzhou Mountain's summit, and he confirmed that he had.
• Duobao and the other disciples ate Lin Changqing's pine nuts, spending half a month refining their power and doubling their physical strength.
• The disciples thanked Lin Changqing, and he told Duobao he would remain with the sect for up to a thousand years.
• Bixiao invited Lin Changqing to Three Immortal Island, and Yunxiao supported her invitation.
• Lin Changqing accepted San Xiao's invitation and traveled with them to their flower-filled island.

After a thousand years of cultivation and reflection on the Three Immortal Island, Lin Changqing resumed his travels through the Primordial World and headed for the East Sea Dragon Palace to see Ao Ying. He found the palace hidden behind an activated formation and discovered that sea folk, Yao, and Dragon Clan members had been slaughtered across the waters.

• Lin Changqing spent a thousand years on the Three Immortal Island discussing the Dao with San Xiao, refining the Heart-Piercing Lock, and strengthening his minor worlds.
• Lin Changqing left a message for San Xiao, returned to Golden Ao Island to visit Tongtian, and announced that he would travel onward to see Ao Ying and seek out the human race.
• Lin Changqing crossed the East Sea at great speed, frightening sea folk, and spent nearly three thousand years searching its islands and seabed for treasures.
• Lin Changqing reached the East Sea Dragon Palace and found dense fog, confusing formations, and a murderous intent surrounding it.
• Lin Changqing sent his divine sense through the formation and found countless corpses, severed limbs, and broken weapons, including the bodies of Dragon Clan members.

Lin Changqing discovered an elite demon army attacking the East Sea Dragon Palace and slaughtered it with his Spear of Divine Demons. He captured its demon king and began questioning him, preparing to search his soul.

• Lin Changqing sensed demons attacking the damaged Dragon Clan grand formation and worried that Ao Ying might be in danger.
• Lin Changqing entered the clouds and found nearly fifty thousand demons using a Five Elements formation to batter the Dragon Clan's defenses.
• Lin Changqing attacked the formation, killing thousands of demons and driving the survivors into a panic.
• Lin Changqing unleashed a devastating strike that wiped out the demon army and captured its Taiyi Golden Immortal commander.
• Lin Changqing questioned the demon king about his division, forces, and strongest member, then stopped him from resisting and prepared to search his soul.

Lin Changqing learned that the Flood Dragon Clan had attacked the Dragon Clan with overwhelming force, then broke through the damaged defenses and slaughtered the demons resting among the ruins. After crushing the Flood Dragon King’s forces and extracting their memories, he learned where the clan’s leaders had gone.

• Lin Changqing stopped a Taiyi Golden Immortal Demon King from self-destructing, searched his memories, and learned that the Flood Dragon Clan had invaded the Dragon Clan’s territory from three directions.
• Lin Changqing refined the demons’ remains and used Movement Secret to break through the Dragon Clan’s battered grand formation.
• Lin Changqing found the Dragon Clan’s territory devastated and saw the Whale King’s body among the dead.
• When the demons mocked and attacked him, Lin Changqing crushed them with a giant hand and seized the peak Taiyi Golden Immortal Flood Dragon King.
• Lin Changqing searched the Flood Dragon King’s memories for the clan’s whereabouts, then crushed his body.

Lin Changqing reached the East Sea Dragon Palace and found Ao Ying gravely wounded while defending the Dragon Clan from the Black Flood Dragon Demon King. He intervened just as Ao Ying prepared to destroy herself, and the two powerful Grand Unity Golden Immortals began their clash.

• Lin Changqing absorbed the Flood Dragon’s flesh and blood, then raced toward the battlefield, killing wounded demon-clan members along the way.
• Lin Changqing found Ao Ying fighting the Black Flood Dragon Demon King while the Dragon Clan protected young dragons inside a formation.
• The Black Flood Dragon Demon King tried to wear Ao Ying down and demanded her Dragon Pearl and submission as his concubine.
• When Ao Ying’s power faltered, she prepared to destroy herself with the Dragon Pearl rather than let the Black Flood Dragon take the Dragon Clan.
• Lin Changqing arrived with overwhelming power, reassured Ao Ying, and charged the Black Flood Dragon Demon King.
• The Black Flood Dragon Demon King unleashed Netherworld Power and Geng Metal Qi at Lin Changqing, who vowed to kill him.

Lin Changqing fought the Black Flood Dragon Demon King after the demon gravely wounded Ao Ying, overpowering his Netherworld abilities and protecting her. The Black Flood Dragon then unleashed a trace of Netherworld Origin Power, forcing Lin Changqing to retreat and shield Ao Ying as he prepared another attack.

• Lin Changqing pierced the Black Flood Dragon Demon King’s claw and rushed to give the exhausted Ao Ying a spiritual root so she could heal.
• Lin Changqing confronted the Black Flood Dragon Demon King, who attacked him with an eye-based divine ability and the soul-targeting technique Soul Sever.
• Lin Changqing resisted Soul Sever and counterattacked with his spear and palm, dismissing the demon’s techniques as worthless.
• The Black Flood Dragon Demon King released Netherworld Origin Power that corroded the East Sea Dragon Palace and wounded Lin Changqing’s bloody scales.
• Lin Changqing retreated to Ao Ying, shielded her with his bloody light, and summoned the Spear of Divine Demons to explode.

Lin Changqing fought the Black Flood Dragon Demon King, whose Netherworld Power and stolen dragon essence blood made him a formidable threat. After refining the Netherworld Power and watching the Black Flood Dragon recover and grow stronger, Lin Changqing prepared to stop holding back.

• Lin Changqing's blood-red spear blasted the Black Flood Dragon, severely wounding him and severing two of his claws.
• The Black Flood Dragon revealed stolen dragon essence blood taken from his ancestors' remains and began absorbing it to heal and strengthen himself.
• Lin Changqing sent Ao Ying into the Crystal Palace's protective formation and charged the Black Flood Dragon with another spear.
• Trapped in Netherworld Power, Lin Changqing summoned the Chaos Furnace and devoured the Black Flood Dragon's power, refining it into energy for his Dao Foundation.
• After half a day, the Black Flood Dragon finished healing and advanced his bloodline, then attacked Lin Changqing, who resolved to use the All Characters Secret.

Lin Changqing used the Battle Character Secret to copy the Black Flood Dragon’s Senluo World and counter his divine ability. He then struck the Black Flood Dragon with the Heart-Piercing Lock, killing him.

• Lin Changqing activated the Nine Secrets and faced the Black Flood Dragon’s Senluo World.
• Lin Changqing used the power of his astral small world to break apart the Black Flood Dragon’s attack.
• Lin Changqing used the Battle Character Secret to reproduce Senluo World and clash with the Black Flood Dragon’s divine ability.
• The Black Flood Dragon questioned how Lin Changqing had copied his unique divine ability.
• Lin Changqing rushed the Black Flood Dragon and traded attacks with him before piercing his chest with the Heart-Piercing Lock.
• The Heart-Piercing Lock shattered the Black Flood Dragon’s heart, killing the Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Lin Changqing killed Black Flood Dragon and rescued Ao Ying at the Crystal Palace, then learned another Flood Dragon was fighting an awakened Dragon Clan ancestor. He reached the battle and prepared to strike the Ink Flood Dragon by surprise as the old dragon urged him to take Ao Ying away.

• Lin Changqing used the Heart-Piercing Lock to annihilate Black Flood Dragon, then refined his body and kept a piece of flesh.
• Lin Changqing arrived at the Crystal Palace, where Ao Ying thanked him for saving her from near self-destruction.
• Ao Ying asked Lin Changqing to rescue her ancestor, who had lured away another Grand Unity Golden Immortal from the Flood Dragon Clan.
• Lin Changqing took Ao Ying toward the battlefield and killed demons attacking the Dragon Clan along the way.
• Lin Changqing and Ao Ying found the weakened Azure Dragon fighting the powerful Ink Flood Dragon, and Lin Changqing hid with Ao Ying to await a chance to attack.
• The old dragon unleashed Turn the Sea and urged Lin Changqing to hurry and take Princess Ao Ying away before the Ink Flood Dragon captured her.

Lin Changqing, Ao Ying, and Uncle Chen joined forces to kill the Ink Flood Dragon, who threatened the East Sea Dragon Clan. The Ink Flood Dragon died from Lin Changqing’s Annihilation Divine Light, leaving the ruined East Sea Dragon Palace behind.

• Lin Changqing told Uncle Chen and Ao Ying that he had a plan to kill the Ink Flood Dragon, and Ao Ying agreed to risk herself to help.
• Lin Changqing flew away while Ao Ying and Uncle Chen prepared to lure the Ink Flood Dragon into position.
• Uncle Chen attacked the Ink Flood Dragon and drew his attention as Ao Ying unleashed a Dragon Pearl’s power.
• The Ink Flood Dragon tried to dodge Ao Ying’s lightning but focused on Uncle Chen’s charge and missed Lin Changqing appearing behind him.
• Lin Changqing fired Annihilation Divine Light through the Ink Flood Dragon, killing the middle-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Lin Changqing killed the Ink Flood Dragon with Annihilation Divine Light and helped Ao Ying and Ao Chen return safely to the Crystal Palace. Ao Guang arrived badly wounded, pursued by a powerful group of flood dragons led by a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal wielding a dragon-slaying saber.

• Lin Changqing's Annihilation Divine Light killed the Ink Flood Dragon, and he helped the injured Ao Ying stay upright.
• Ao Chen thanked Lin Changqing, who harvested the Ink Flood Dragon's flesh before escorting Ao Ying and Ao Chen to the Crystal Palace.
• Ao Chen strengthened the Crystal Palace's grand formation, but Ao Guang soon arrived wounded and carrying a nearly dead Silver Flood Dragon.
• Ao Guang's pursuers appeared outside the Crystal Palace: a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal Golden Flood Dragon and seven or eight other Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• The Golden Flood Dragon confronted Ao Guang while holding half of a broken saber forged to slay dragons.