Chapter Summaries

Zhong Lin returned toward the Teleportation Array but found Yu Fengmu and Gao Qian fighting nearby, putting his way home at risk. He ambushed and killed Yu Fengmu, while Gao Qian fled.

• Zhong Lin disguised himself in Purple Cloud City and headed for the cave containing the Teleportation Array, intending to return to the Profound Tortoise Continent.
• Zhong Lin hid when he heard Yu Fengmu and Gao Qian fighting only several miles from the cave, and Chen Jia confirmed that both were Spirit Sea Realm martial artists.
• Zhong Lin worried that their attacks might destroy the Teleportation Array and leave him stranded away from the Profound Tortoise Continent.
• Zhong Lin flew into the battle and killed Yu Fengmu with Sunset Sword Slash, then stored his corpse and took his spatial equipment.
• Gao Qian stared at Zhong Lin in terror and fled.

Zhong Lin killed Gao Qian with Sword Intent and escaped before others arrived. On a barren mountain, Chen Jia explained the meaning of martial intents, then discovered that Zhong Lin had also comprehended Fist Intent.

• Zhong Lin pursued Gao Qian and killed him with a strike empowered by Sword Intent.
• After Chen Jia warned that people were approaching, Zhong Lin fled and landed on a deserted barren mountain hours later.
• Chen Jia learned that Zhong Lin had recently comprehended Sword Intent and reacted with disbelief and envy.
• Zhong Lin revealed his Fist Intent, shocking Chen Jia again.
• Chen Jia explained that Sword Intent and other martial intents emerged from mastering a martial technique and greatly increased its power.

Zhong Lin learned more about sword intent and discovered that the jade token taken from two slain martial artists granted entry to the Seven Stars Secret Realm. He returned to the Profound Tortoise Continent and flew toward the Sword Cauldron Sect, reflecting on how far he had advanced.

• Chen Jia explained that Zhong Lin had only comprehended one-tenth of sword intent and advised him to study more sword-type martial skills.
• Zhong Lin recovered his spirit essence, looted the two corpses, and found a jade token.
• Chen Jia identified the token as a credential for Rogue Cultivators to enter the Seven Stars Secret Realm when it opened in three years.
• Zhong Lin burned the corpses, traveled through the Teleportation Array, and returned to the Profound Tortoise Continent.
• Zhong Lin flew to the Sword Cauldron Sect and considered how his Spirit Origin Realm cultivation and Rank 5 Pill Refiner status surpassed anything known on the continent.

Zhong Lin returned to the Sword Cauldron Sect displaying his Spirit Origin Realm power and claimed he had gained it from a secret realm. After the elders left, he told Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Shi Yunyi that his explanation had been a lie.

• Zhong Lin flew to the Sword Cauldron Sect with flaming wings, shocking the disciples and his fellow sect members.
• Zhong Lin revealed that he had reached the Spirit Origin Realm and demonstrated his strength by piercing a distant hill with a Sword Qi strike.
• Zhong Lin told the assembled elders that he had found an expert's remains, pills, and a cultivation technique in a secret realm, and explained the Spirit Origin Realm.
• Zhong Lin claimed that the three pills he found were gone, then answered the elders' questions about the new realm.
• After the elders departed, Zhong Lin told Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Shi Yunyi that everything he had said earlier was a lie.

Zhong Lin told Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Shi Yunyi about the Teleportation Array and his life in the Fallen Star Islands, while warning them about the possible Sinful Blood Descendants. He arranged to take the three trusted members of the Sword Cauldron Sect there in three months and gave Shi Yunyi and Yin Daoyan cultivation supplies.

• Zhong Lin admitted that his breakthrough to the Spirit Origin Realm was real, then told Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Shi Yunyi a mostly true account of his journey to the Fallen Star Islands.
• Zhong Lin warned the three that the Sinful Blood Descendants might be real and that the Teleportation Array must remain secret.
• Zhong Lin offered to bring the three to the Fallen Star Islands, and they agreed to prepare to leave within three months.
• Yu Jinglei accepted responsibility for arranging the sect's affairs and ensuring their departures would not raise suspicion.
• Zhong Lin gave Shi Yunyi a Storage Bag and cultivation supplies, then gave Yin Daoyan a Storage Bracelet containing spirit stones and a Barrier Breaking Pill.

Zhong Lin reunited with Gu Yourong, gave her a Face-Preserving Pill and resources to advance her cultivation, then used the Poison Pearl to try to strengthen his body. He successfully triggered his body’s evolution and was left eager to continue tempering the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.

• Gu Yourong reunited with Zhong Lin and asked him not to forget her while she waited at the sect with Little Shi.
• Zhong Lin gave Gu Yourong a Face-Preserving Pill, which restored her youthful appearance, and left her medicinal pills and spirit stones, including a Barrier Breaking Pill.
• Zhong Lin took out the sealed Poison Pearl and decided to use its poison to cultivate the fifth level of the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.
• Zhong Lin guided poisonous gas into his body and circulated the Dragon Elephant Golden Body to prompt his body to evolve.
• Zhong Lin opened his eyes an hour later, exhausted but delighted that the method had worked.

After learning that the Lin Yue Gu Family had been slaughtered, Zhong Lin flew to its ancestral land to find the sole survivor, Gu Chen. He vowed to avenge Gu Ning and opened Gu Ning’s coffin to examine his body.

• Zhong Lin heard reports of massacres across three countries and learned that the Lin Yue Gu Family had been wiped out, with Gu Chen as its only known survivor.
• Zhong Lin flew to the Gu Family ancestral land, where Gu Chen begged him to seek justice for the family.
• Gu Chen led Zhong Lin to the graves of the 543 Gu Family members, and Zhong Lin vowed to avenge Gu Ning.
• Zhong Lin opened Gu Ning’s grave and coffin so he could examine the body.

Zhong Lin discovered that the Gu Family corpses had been drained by the Blood Demon Art, and Chen Jia recounted the technique’s history and its devastating past. Chen Jia revealed that the art originated in the Blood Cave deep in the Black Wind Forest, a place so terrifying that even he could not approach it.

• Zhong Lin opened the coffins and found the Gu Family members’ vital blood drained, leaving dried corpses twisted in agony.
• Chen Jia identified the Blood Demon Art and explained how its first practitioner rapidly grew stronger by devouring martial artists’ vital blood before Innate Martial Artists killed him.
• Chen Jia said the surviving Innate Martial Artists secretly studied the art, sparking a catastrophe that ended when they slaughtered one another and the remaining martial artists destroyed the technique.
• Zhong Lin questioned how the Blood Demon Art had returned, and Chen Jia said it must have spread again from the Blood Cave.
• Chen Jia revealed that the Blood Cave lay deep within the Black Wind Forest and that its power made his vital blood nearly burst from his body, even after he had formed his Profound Core.

Zhong Lin learned that the Blood Cave was a terrifying source of Blood Demon Aura and set out to find the Blood Demon Sect in Black Wind Forest. After accepting Gu Chen as his disciple, he fled the cave’s influence and approached the sect’s hidden valley.

• Zhong Lin learned from Chen Jia that the Blood Cave was beyond his reach, while the Blood Demon Sect’s stronghold was likely deep in Black Wind Forest.
• Gu Chen asked Zhong Lin to accept him as a disciple, and Zhong Lin agreed before instructing him to return to the Sword Cauldron Sect.
• Zhong Lin flew to Black Mountain and found that the Blood Demon Aura from the Blood Cave corroded his spiritual essence.
• After looking toward the cave and nearly losing control of his blood, Zhong Lin fled beyond the aura’s reach.
• Chen Jia directed Zhong Lin toward a nearby valley, and Zhong Lin headed for the narrow passage leading into it.

Zhong Lin discovered a valley filled with Blood Corpses and found Han Jin, the Blood Demon Sect strategist who had escaped Yin Daoyan. Han Jin unleashed the Blood Corpses against him, but Zhong Lin summoned the Crimson Flame Dragon and began burning them to ash.

• Zhong Lin flew into a secluded valley and found tens of thousands of Blood Corpses, each as strong as a Ranked Martial Artist.
• Zhong Lin destroyed several Blood Corpses and discovered that their bodies contained blood-colored crystals rich in pure blood qi.
• Zhong Lin chased a fleeing figure, shattered his Rotten Blood Palm, and recognized the injured man as Han Jin.
• Han Jin blamed Zhong Lin and Yin Daoyan for driving him into hiding, then ordered the Blood Corpses to attack Zhong Lin.
• Zhong Lin summoned the Crimson Flame Dragon, which burned the Blood Corpses and the valley's miasma to ash.

Zhong Lin captured Han Jin and learned that he had used Blood Soul Pills to turn commoners into Blood Corpses and create Blood Crystals in pursuit of the Spirit Origin Realm. Han Jin tried to tempt Zhong Lin with the formula, but Zhong Lin refused and killed him, leaving the valley’s Blood Crystals behind.

• Zhong Lin stopped Han Jin’s escape, sealed his Innate True Qi, and questioned him about the Blood Corpses.
• Han Jin admitted that he had abducted commoners across the Profound Tortoise Continent and used Blood Soul Pills to turn them into Blood Corpses.
• Han Jin explained that he knew the Blood Soul Art could not reach the Spirit Origin Realm and had instead developed Blood Crystals as a path to break through.
• Han Jin offered Zhong Lin the Blood Soul Pill formula, but Zhong Lin rejected the bait because it would draw the Sword Cauldron Sect into destruction.
• Zhong Lin burned Han Jin to ash, and the Crimson Flame Dragon returned to a valley where the Blood Corpses were dead and Blood Crystals lay scattered.

Zhong Lin used the Blood Crystals from the Blood Corpses to break through the Dragon Elephant Golden Body to its fifth level. After demonstrating his greatly increased physical strength, he considered challenging a Spirit Embryo Realm martial artist, but Chen Jia warned him against it.

• Zhong Lin identified the Blood Soul Pill’s ingredients and dismissed it as a weak pill useful only to martial artists below the Innate Realm.
• Zhong Lin gathered the Blood Crystals from the valley and used their blood qi to cultivate the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.
• Zhong Lin emerged from the blood cocoon after reaching the fifth level of the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.
• Zhong Lin tested his physical strength with a punch that created a sonic boom and carved a hundred-meter trench in the ground.
• Chen Jia explained that Zhong Lin could fight Spirit Sea Realm martial artists with his strength but warned that Spirit Embryo Realm martial artists were beyond his reach.

Zhong Lin returned to the Sword Cauldron Sect after uncovering the Blood Demon Sect’s plot in Black Wind Forest, but left the Blood Cave unexplored until he grew stronger. He told Yu Jinglei what he had found and gave him a Storage Bag as the two prepared to leave the Profound Tortoise Continent in search of martial arts.

• Zhong Lin stored Han Jin’s supplies and left Black Wind Forest, resolving to return to the Blood Cave after strengthening his cultivation.
• Zhong Lin arrived at the Sword Cauldron Sect, where Little Shi asked to see his Crimson Flame Wings and asked when he could cultivate wings himself.
• Yu Jinglei asked Zhong Lin about the Gu Family, and Zhong Lin recounted the Blood Cave, Blood Demon Art, Blood Soul Pills, and Blood Corpses.
• Yu Jinglei asked for spatial equipment, and Zhong Lin gave him a Storage Bag containing spirit stones and pills.
• Yu Jinglei explained that Elder Lu would manage the sect while they went out to sea in search of martial arts.

Gu Chen arrived at Sword Cauldron Sect and learned that Zhong Lin had secretly protected him on his journey, while Zhong Lin considered the risks of keeping a Child of Destiny as his disciple. Over the next three months, Zhong Lin advanced into the Spirit Sea Realm and found that the Crimson Flame Skill had expanded his dantian nearly eightfold.

• Gu Chen met Zhong Lin in Green Bamboo Courtyard, and Zhong Lin told him to tend to his arrow wound.
• Gu Yourong revealed that Zhong Lin had followed Gu Chen in secret, and Gu Chen tearfully thanked his Master for protecting him.
• Zhong Lin reflected on Gu Chen's extraordinary run of troubles and opportunities and weighed whether to take him to the Fallen Star Islands.
• Zhong Lin admitted to Gu Yourong that he was considering taking Gu Chen away, and Gu Yourong said she would wait for him to return.
• Over the next three months, Zhong Lin cultivated at home and entered the Spirit Sea Realm in the second month.
• Zhong Lin sensed that the Crimson Flame Skill had expanded his dantian nearly eightfold.

After breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm, Zhong Lin revealed his new realm to the Sword Cauldron Sect’s core members and spent three months stabilizing his cultivation. He then led Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Shi Yunyi through the Teleportation Array, arriving at the Fallen Star Islands without Gu Chen.

• Zhong Lin discovered that the Spirit Sea Realm greatly increased his physical power and lifespan, but required an enormous amount of spirit stones to cultivate.
• Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Shi Yunyi learned that Zhong Lin had entered the Transcendent Great Realm, and Shi Yunyi left to cultivate.
• Zhong Lin cultivated for three months to stabilize his Spirit Sea Realm, while Gu Chen remained on the Profound Tortoise Continent.
• Zhong Lin led Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Shi Yunyi through the Hengduan Mountain Range to the hidden Teleportation Array.
• The four activated the array and appeared in a different cave on the Fallen Star Islands.

Zhong Lin arranged for Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Shi Yunyi to establish themselves separately across the Fallen Star Islands, providing supplies and recommending Shi Yunyi join the Seven Stars Sect. After they parted ways, Zhong Lin returned toward the Purple Cloud Sect, reminded that the Seven Stars Secret Realm would open within two years.

• Zhong Lin explained that the group should split up to avoid attracting attention and to gather information about the Profound Tortoise Continent and Breath Concealing Techniques.
• Yu Jinglei and Yin Daoyan agreed to travel together, while Zhong Lin gave them spirit stones, pills, cultivation methods, pill formulas, and ingredients.
• Zhong Lin recommended Shi Yunyi join the Seven Stars Sect as a Wandering Swordsman to develop his sword talent, and Shi Yunyi agreed while affirming his loyalty to the Sword Cauldron Sect.
• After the three departed, Chen Jia emerged from the Soul Nourishing Ring, and Zhong Lin said he would wait for his plans to bear fruit.
• Chen Jia reminded Zhong Lin not to slack off because the Seven Stars Secret Realm would open within two years, and Zhong Lin flew to Purple Cloud City before strolling through its streets.

Zhong Lin encountered Xu Bin selling goods after Gao Xin died at sea, then returned to Fire Cloud Palace and learned that Tang Xueyuan had prepared him a gift. The chapter ended as an exotic red-haired woman appeared, with Tang Xueyuan teasing that there was more to come.

• Zhong Lin found Xu Bin selling odds and ends and learned that Gao Xin had died after a sea beast attacked him.
• Ma Chun arrived with rouge for Xu Bin and greeted Zhong Lin, who left after exchanging a few words.
• Zhong Lin returned to Fire Cloud Palace and praised Tang Xueyuan for keeping up her cultivation.
• Zhong Lin told Tang Xueyuan that pill refinement would resume the next day, and she said she had found him a gift.
• Tang Xueyuan presented an alluring red-haired woman, then told Zhong Lin there was more.

Zhong Lin enjoyed the women Tang Xueyuan brought him, then continued refining pills and collecting sword techniques to prepare for comprehending sword intent. After refining Expanding Sea Pills for Tong Ming and Lei Jun, he accepted their high-rank Profound Grade Dividing Light Shadow Condensing Sword Technique and rewarded them with pills.

• Tang Xueyuan introduced Hong Er and Lan Er to Zhong Lin, then joined them at his invitation.
• After several days, Zhong Lin left the palace refreshed and learned that his reputation for refining Expanding Sea Pills had drawn more customers.
• Zhong Lin asked Tang Xueyuan to spread word that he was collecting sword techniques so he could use the System Panel to develop sword intent.
• Zhong Lin refined two Expanding Sea Pills, and Tong Ming and Lei Jun thanked him and gave him a high-rank Profound Grade sword manual they had found in a ruin.
• Zhong Lin accepted the Dividing Light Shadow Condensing Sword Technique and gave Tong Ming and Lei Jun bottles of Abundant Earth Pills and Water Cloud Pills.

Zhong Lin mastered the Dividing Light Shadow Condensing Sword Technique and displayed Sword Qi Transformation, astonishing Chen Jia with his sword talent. The chapter left Chen Jia recognizing that Zhong Lin had reached the technique’s finest subtleties in less than an hour.

• Zhong Lin studied the Dividing Light Shadow Condensing Sword Technique and used the system to raise it from beginner to max level.
• Zhong Lin absorbed the technique’s memories, unleashing Sword Intent and Sword Qi that carved scars into the hall.
• Chen Jia recognized that Zhong Lin had reached two-tenths Sword Intent and cautiously watched, hoping to learn from him.
• Zhong Lin demonstrated Sword Shadow Dividing Light, creating eight real sword shadows before merging them into a powerful Sword Wheel.
• Zhong Lin withdrew his sword strike effortlessly, convincing Chen Jia that he had mastered the technique’s finest subtleties.

After Zhong Lin comprehended twenty percent Sword Intent, Chen Jia told him about the Seven Luminaries Sword Sovereign’s lost Cave Residence and its sword scripture. Zhong Lin followed Chen Jia across the sea to Raging Dragon Gorge, where the route to the Cave Residence began.

• Zhong Lin demonstrated his Sword Qi Transformation, and Chen Jia marveled at how quickly he had comprehended twenty percent Sword Intent.
• Chen Jia told Zhong Lin about the Seven Luminaries Sword Sovereign, who died after burning his soul to slay an injured Profound Core Realm sea beast.
• Chen Jia revealed that the Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Scripture might still be in the sword sovereign’s Cave Residence, which he had visited before.
• Zhong Lin concealed himself with the Mirage Tower Pearl and flew with Chen Jia across the sea, avoiding powerful and ruthless Rogue Cultivators.
• Zhong Lin and Chen Jia reached Raging Dragon Gorge, and Chen Jia warned him that only Spirit Sea Realm martial artists could survive entering without the correct route.