Chapter Summaries

Zhong Lin perfected his Soul Nurturing Realm cultivation and unexpectedly ignited Soul Fire after taking a Soul Nourishing Pill. He and Long Zhao set out for Great Ocean Peak to seek treasures that could improve their Profound Cores, passing into the territory of Fire Cloud Mountain.

• Zhong Lin absorbed rare gold and iron ores into the Eastern Emperor Bell and swallowed a Soul Nourishing Pill.
• The pill and the bell's chime strengthened Zhong Lin's Divine Soul until Soul Fire ignited, tempering the Eastern Emperor Bell as well.
• After several days of cultivation, Zhong Lin perfected the three treasures of Essence, Qi, and Spirit and decided to pursue a higher-quality Profound Core.
• Long Zhao greeted Zhong Lin after his seclusion, and they agreed to travel to Great Ocean Peak for heavenly treasures.
• Zhong Lin and Long Zhao flew toward Great Ocean Peak, entered Fire Cloud Mountain's volcanic territory, and noticed the rising heat and fire energy.

Zhong Lin and Long Zhao explored Eight Hundred Li Flame Mountain, where Zhong Lin’s Yin Void Dragon Fire drew a Fire Silkworm out of the lava. Zhong Lin subdued it with the Eastern Emperor Bell, and Long Zhao captured it as the pair left the mountain with the rare spirit beast.

• Zhong Lin and Long Zhao entered Eight Hundred Li Flame Mountain to search for fire-attributed ores and spirit herbs.
• Zhong Lin sensed a disturbance as a crimson cocoon burst from the lava and attacked him.
• Long Zhao recognized the cocoon as a Fire Silkworm and explained the value of its fire-attributed silk.
• Zhong Lin revealed his Yin Void Dragon Fire, which made the Fire Silkworm charge at him more frenziedly.
• Zhong Lin summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell and knocked the Fire Silkworm down with its toll.
• Long Zhao captured the Fire Silkworm while Zhong Lin recalled the bell to his Soul Palace.

Zhong Lin and Long Zhao captured a Fire Silkworm as it cocooned, but three True Disciples of the Profound Cloud Sect ambushed them and demanded the cocoon. Zhong Lin killed Kong Ying with a single punch while Long Zhao engaged the other two, leaving the battle underway.

• Zhong Lin and Long Zhao captured the cocooning Fire Silkworm, whose cocoon was made of valuable fire-resistant silk.
• Three Profound Cloud Sect True Disciples—Zhong Jiao, Kong Ying, and Xin Yuan—attacked and demanded that Zhong Lin and Long Zhao surrender the Fire Silkworm.
• Long Zhao refused to hand over the Fire Silkworm, and Zhong Lin ordered him to handle the confrontation while he stayed alert.
• Zhong Lin attacked Kong Ying, while Long Zhao intercepted Zhong Jiao and Xin Yuan.
• Zhong Lin struck Kong Ying with a powerful punch and killed him, and Long Zhao swung the Profound Heaven Staff at the remaining two disciples.

Long Zhao killed the last of the Profound Cloud Sect’s True Disciples, then searched their belongings with Zhong Lin. They discovered a gourd holding a large quantity of precious Essence Liquid Dew, and the chapter ended with Long Zhao celebrating the find.

• Long Zhao killed Xin Yuan and Zhong Jiao with the Profound Heaven Staff after the other True Disciples had fallen.
• Long Zhao collected the three disciples’ spirit swords and storage bags, then left Fire Cloud Mountain with Zhong Lin.
• Long Zhao opened the bags and found spirit-tool-grade Space Bags, cultivation pills, and a Burning Spirit Pill.
• Long Zhao and Zhong Lin discovered a gourd of Essence Liquid Dew, which Long Zhao estimated contained at least a hundred jin.

Zhong Lin learned Flower Wandering, raised his Sword Intent to 90%, and raced with Long Zhao to Hongyan City. There, he witnessed Qing Yuanzi escape a black-robed Profound Core expert and became eager to obtain the martial skill that imitated Sword Light Division.

• Zhong Lin found Flower Wandering among the three Space Bags and used the System to master it, raising his Sword Intent to 90%.
• Zhong Lin carried Long Zhao into the sky as sword light, and the two reached the area around Hongyan City in a day.
• A Profound Cloud Sect elder and seven True Disciples arrived at Fire Cloud Mountain to search for Kong Ying and the other missing disciples.
• Long Zhao retched after Zhong Lin landed, and the two entered Hongyan City.
• Zhong Lin watched Qing Yuanzi evade a black-robed elder's Soul Piercing Black Rope with sword-light techniques and decided he wanted the martial skill that imitated Sword Light Division.

Zhong Lin and Long Zhao entered Hongyan City ahead of the Profound Spirit Secret Realm’s opening and visited the Treasure Pavilion to exchange their spirit stones for cultivation resources. At the auction, they watched bidders use wealth and reputation to compete over valuable goods, including a complete Earth Crystal.

• Zhong Lin and Long Zhao arrived in Hongyan City, where martial artists had gathered for the approaching Profound Spirit Secret Realm.
• After several days, Long Zhao suggested visiting the Treasure Pavilion, and Zhong Lin agreed so they could spend their spirit stones on resources.
• Ming Ling guided them to the fourth-floor auction hall, where Long Zhao rented a private room.
• The auctioneer sold a Heavenly Heart Lamp for twenty thousand spirit stones, then presented a complete Earth Crystal that drew bids and hostile looks from two men.
• A bidder in an upper-floor private room offered three million spirit stones for the Earth Crystal, silencing the auction hall.

Bidders competed for a rare Blood Crystal, and a disguised princess outbid the Saint Blood Sect despite the crystal’s importance to them. She prepared to keep raising the price, confident Treasure Pavilion could collect the cost from her father.

• Ming Ling said the Earth Crystal had been overpriced, while Zhong Lin chose not to bid.
• A private-room bidder bought the Earth Crystal for three million spirit stones, and the auctioneer introduced a Blood Crystal.
• The Earth Crystal buyer offered one million for the Blood Crystal, but another bidder raised the price to seven million and a sinister-voiced bidder followed with eight million.
• Zhong Lin told Long Zhao not to join the bidding, then the calm bidder raised the offer to ten million.
• The Saint Blood Sect bidder grew furious until a disguised princess raised the bid to fifteen million, prompting him to recognize her as a princess.
• The princess said she would continue bidding and let Treasure Pavilion seek the money from her father if necessary.

At the Treasure Pavilion, Zhong Lin learned that Princess Yu Shu was delaying her Profound Core formation to seek a higher-grade core, then joined the trade fair and exchanged a pill for a martial skill. The fair continued under the auctioneer’s watch, who exposed an exaggerated claim about an ocular art.

• Ming Ling told Zhong Lin and Long Zhao that Princess Yu Shu had postponed forming her Profound Core to seek an opportunity in the Profound Spirit Secret Realm.
• After the auction ended, a martial artist offered an incomplete earth-grade mid-tier sword skill for a Summit Gathering Pill, and Zhong Lin made the trade.
• Zhong Lin examined the Luofu Sword Scripture and found the Luofu Heart Lamp technique, which could refine spiritual essence and attack enemies.
• An old man offered the Great Luo Insight ocular art, and the auctioneer discovered that its advertised abilities were exaggerated and warned against swindling customers.
• Another martial artist began the next trade by offering one hundred Earth Pear Fruits for spirit stones.

Zhong Lin traded a spirit artifact pill furnace for Breathing Earth Sand, completing the Five Elements materials he needed to recondense the Eastern Emperor Bell. After becoming a Seventh Rank Pill Refiner, he and Long Zhao entered the Profound Spirit Secret Realm, where disciples of the six great sects and the imperial family looked down on the other entrants.

• Zhong Lin exchanged his spirit artifact pill furnace for Breathing Earth Sand and completed his collection of Five Elements materials for the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Over the next half year, Zhong Lin recondensed the Eastern Emperor Bell and advanced to Seventh Rank Pill Refiner by refining Clarity Enlightenment Pills.
• Zhong Lin and Long Zhao flew to Great Ocean Peak as martial artists from across the Heaven Sea Kingdom gathered for the secret realm's opening.
• The Profound Spirit Secret Realm gate opened, and martial artists rushed through the black portal.
• Zhong Lin warned Long Zhao to watch for his marks and meet up with him inside, then they entered the secret realm.
• Disciples aboard the sects' Flying Boats mocked the other entrants and claimed that only the six great sects and imperial family deserved to enter.

Zhong Lin entered the Profound Spirit Secret Realm and was separated from Long Zhao by its spatial force. After encountering and killing a Profound Core Realm black panther demonic beast, he had the Eastern Emperor Bell swallow its corpse to refine into Meat Pills.

• A Profound Darkness Sect Elder warned his disciples about the dangers inside the secret realm, and the Profound Darkness Sect, Night Serpent Sect, and Profound Cloud Sect entered.
• The secret realm’s spatial force flung Zhong Lin and Long Zhao in different directions as they entered.
• Zhong Lin landed beside a weathered skeleton and a ruined spirit weapon, then summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell to protect himself in the mist.
• A Profound Core Realm black panther demonic beast attacked Zhong Lin, but his Profound Whale Rending Sea punch shattered its foreleg and badly injured it.
• Zhong Lin killed the black panther with Sword Qi, and the Eastern Emperor Bell swallowed its corpse for refining into Meat Pills.

Zhong Lin entered the dangerous Profound Spirit Secret Realm and worried about Long Zhao’s safety as he searched through the mist. He rescued the Seventeenth Princess Yu Shu from a Night Serpent Sect elder and left her curious about his identity.

• Zhong Lin stored the Black Panther’s corpse and set out through the mist, hoping to find Long Zhao quickly.
• Yu Shu fled the Dark Serpent Elder after he ambushed her for the Dragon Scale Fruit and wounded her.
• Zhong Lin appeared in the elder’s path and shattered his attack with a punch, badly injuring him.
• Yu Shu struck the elder with her Red Lotus Palm, but he escaped into the mist beneath a veil of black smoke.
• Yu Shu thanked Zhong Lin and asked his name, while Zhong Lin recognized her as the Seventeenth Princess and called himself a Rogue Cultivator.

Yu Shu offered Zhong Lin the Dragon Scale Fruit in exchange for his protection, then proposed they travel together to seek the Gold Origin Fruit. Their discussion of Profound Core ranks and the realms beyond Life and Death left Zhong Lin shaken by how much he lacked as a Rogue Cultivator.

• Yu Shu gave Zhong Lin the Dragon Scale Fruit and asked him to stand guard while she healed from her injuries.
• After recovering, Yu Shu blocked Zhong Lin from leaving and invited him to join her search for the Gold Origin Fruit using her father's map.
• Yu Shu explained that the Gold Origin Fruit could help form a Third Rank Profound Core, while Second Rank Profound Cores were rare enough to qualify their bearers for True Disciple status in a holy land.
• Zhong Lin asked about the strength of holy land disciples, and Yu Shu said Heaven Sword Holy Land True Disciples could reach Nirvana and had the potential to become Kings.
• Yu Shu explained the difficulty of reaching the King Realm and the distinction between Holy Sons and True Disciples, leaving Zhong Lin despondent about his lack of resources, guidance, and legacy.

Zhong Lin agreed to work with Yu Shu to find the Gold Origin Fruit, and they traveled through the secret realm to a mountain range rich with medicinal herbs. There, they caught a sentient Purple Spirit King Ginseng Doll.

• Zhong Lin joined Yu Shu in searching for the Gold Origin Fruit, and they left the mist-covered area together.
• Zhong Lin and Yu Shu found a dead cultivator; Yu Shu recognized him and buried him before they continued southeast toward a Medicine Garden.
• Zhong Lin and Yu Shu fought their way through the mountain forest and discovered vast patches of rare medicinal herbs.
• A Purple Spirit King Ginseng Doll sprang from the herbs and fled underground, so Zhong Lin used the Eastern Emperor Bell to trap it beneath the soil.
• Yu Shu pulled the trapped Purple Spirit King Ginseng Doll from the ground and held it by its vine leaves.

Zhong Lin and Yu Shu harvested the secret realm’s medicinal plants, and Yu Shu entrusted him with refining Gold Origin Pills from a Gold Origin Fruit. Their work was interrupted when the Winged Ox Demon Beast returned to find its herb plots stripped bare.

• Yu Shu captured the Purple Spirit King Ginseng Doll and traded Zhong Lin a larger share of the herbs for keeping it.
• Zhong Lin and Yu Shu collected spirit herbs throughout the mountain range, finding increasingly rare ingredients in its depths.
• Yu Shu learned that Zhong Lin was a Seventh Rank pill refiner and asked him to refine Gold Origin Pills so she could advance to Third Rank Profound Core; he agreed.
• A Winged Ox Demon Beast returned to the ravaged herb plots, and Zhong Lin summoned his spirit sword and Eastern Emperor Bell to face it.
• Yu Shu pointed into the distance in shock as the enraged Winged Ox approached.

Zhong Lin and Yu Shu fled six Demon Beast Winged Oxen and escaped into a deadly region called Poison Dragon Pool. The oxen stayed outside, but the pair faced swarms of poisonous creatures and sought shelter beneath Yu Shu's black pearl.

• Zhong Lin and Yu Shu spotted five more Demon Beast Winged Oxen and fled as all six pursued them.
• Zhong Lin dodged a rain of quills, and he and Yu Shu swallowed Wind Spirit Pills to increase their speed.
• When the pills began to wear off, Yu Shu led Zhong Lin into a black-mist region where the pursuing oxen refused to follow.
• Zhong Lin discovered that the mist corroded his clothes and stirred a swarm of enormous poisonous creatures from the swamp.
• Yu Shu used a black pearl to clear a small safe space, identified the area as Poison Dragon Pool, and told Zhong Lin to rest and recover.

Zhong Lin and Yu Shu replenished their strength in the Black Marsh, then followed the sounds of a fierce battle and discovered a Tuo Dragon and a Great Serpent fighting. They noticed the beasts were protecting a nearby cluster of small hills, whose significance remained unknown.

• Zhong Lin swallowed a True Origin Pill and offered one to Yu Shu, who replenished her spiritual essence by absorbing poisonous creatures with her Poison Spirit Pearl.
• Yu Shu gathered poisonous mist for half an hour to strengthen the pearl while Zhong Lin learned that the mist had accumulated over thousands of years.
• Zhong Lin and Yu Shu heard powerful roars and approached cautiously while concealing their auras.
• Yu Shu recognized a hundred-zhang Tuo Dragon fighting an equally enormous Great Serpent in the swamp.
• Zhong Lin noticed the beasts kept their battle within a small area and avoided a nearby cluster of hills that remained untouched by their clashes.

Zhong Lin and Yu Shu discovered Earth Spirit Divine Grass in Black Marsh and planned to steal it from the Tuo Dragon and the Great Serpent. Zhong Lin drew the beasts away, but they sensed the grass was taken and turned back, leaving Yu Shu’s escape uncertain.

• Yu Shu identified the tiny plant on the hill as Earth Spirit Divine Grass, a treasure that could help Zhong Lin and her condense a high-rank Profound Core.
• Zhong Lin and Yu Shu agreed that he would lure the Tuo Dragon and the Great Serpent away while Yu Shu picked the grass and escaped southeast.
• Yu Shu revealed that she had a Blood Burning Pill to help her flee, and Zhong Lin attacked the beasts with his Fist Intent to draw their attention.
• The Tuo Dragon and the Great Serpent chased Zhong Lin until they sensed the grass had been taken, then abruptly turned back toward the hill.
• Zhong Lin struck at the returning beasts to buy Yu Shu time, then gave up blocking them and headed southeast.

Zhong Lin found the badly wounded Yu Shu, and the two recovered before continuing their search for the Gold Origin Fruit. Yu Shu revealed that the Profound Spirit Secret Realm held Tong Ge’s inheritance and might contain a Nirvana Fruit, while Zhong Lin and Yu Shu reached the mountain where the Gold Origin Fruit was said to grow.

• Zhong Lin found Yu Shu unconscious in a poisonous canyon, and she recovered after several hours with the help of a precious pill.
• Yu Shu kept the Earth Spirit Divine Grass and told Zhong Lin that finding the Gold Origin Fruit could help them condense a Second Rank Profound Core.
• Yu Shu revealed that the Profound Spirit Secret Realm had been opened by the Nirvana Realm powerhouse Tong Ge to select an inheritor, and that his inheritance might contain a Nirvana Fruit.
• Zhong Lin and Yu Shu left the canyon and traveled toward the Gold Origin Fruit, avoiding demonic beasts and killing Rogue Cultivators who tried to rob them.
• After two days, Zhong Lin and Yu Shu reached the marked mountain, where they smelled the fresh fragrance of the Gold Origin Fruit.

Zhong Lin fought the Unicorn Tyrant Ape King while Yu Shu gathered the Gold Origin Fruits. After the ape unleashed the power stored in its horn, Zhong Lin tricked it with an illusion and escaped with Yu Shu and the fruits.

• Yu Shu spotted three Gold Origin Fruits and flew to gather them, but the Unicorn Tyrant Ape King attacked her by hurling a mountain peak and boulders.
• Zhong Lin told Yu Shu to keep picking the fruits and fought the ape, trading powerful punches with it.
• The ape absorbed the power stored in its horn, grew stronger, and sent Zhong Lin retreating after their next clash.
• Zhong Lin taunted the enraged ape, then used the Mirage Tower Pearl to leave an illusion while he fled toward Yu Shu.
• Yu Shu confirmed she had obtained the Gold Origin Fruits, and the two concealed their auras and left the area.

Zhu Fei of the Returning Truth Sect confronted Yu Shu and Zhong Lin over the Gold Origin Fruit, then overwhelmed their attacks with his White Tiger's Roar. Zhong Lin wounded Zhu Fei through the white tiger with his Sword Intent, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Zhu Fei appeared and claimed Yu Shu and Zhong Lin had taken the Gold Origin Fruit from the Unicorn Tyrant Ape Kings he had slain.
• Yu Shu refused to hand over the fruit, while she told Zhong Lin that Zhu Fei was the Returning Truth Sect's foremost True Disciple and near the Yin Yang Realm.
• Zhu Fei attacked Yu Shu and Zhong Lin, and his White Tiger's Roar devoured their Ice Soul Divine Light and Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison.
• Zhong Lin unleashed the Great Heavenly Cycle Myriad Dragons Entering Aperture Art, but Zhu Fei's White Tiger Carrying Corpse shattered and swallowed his dragon form.
• Zhong Lin released his Sword Intent into the white tiger, shredding its insides and causing Zhu Fei intense pain.