Chapter Summaries

Zhong Lin settled into cultivation and pill refining in the Heaven Sword Holy Land, then considered joining a True Disciple’s faction to obtain a Heaven-Rank Cultivation Method. Chu Yu visited and discovered that Zhong Lin owned Spirit Wonder Pavilion and was a Seventh Rank Pill Refiner.

• Wang Yuan explained that higher-quality spirit herbs had to come from yuan veins or be obtained through missions, and he and Zhong Lin signed a contract at the Contract Hall.
• Zhong Lin cultivated and refined pills in seclusion but found that reaching the late Profound Core Realm would take too long without better pills or a higher-rank cultivation method.
• Zhong Lin considered joining a faction to gain access to a Heaven-Rank Cultivation Method and weighed joining the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society despite his concerns about its female members.
• Chu Yu visited Zhong Lin after several months and complained that he had hidden his pill-refining identity from her.
• Chu Yu revealed that she had bought pills from Spirit Wonder Pavilion and learned that Zhong Lin owned it and was a Seventh Rank Pill Refiner.

Zhong Lin agreed to join the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society and accompanied Chu Yu to Chrysanthemum Shadow Peak, where Gong Jing attacked Chu Yu over an old grudge. Zhong Lin saved Chu Yu from Gong Jing’s killing strike, and after the disciples were taken away to answer for the incident, Night Rain Senior Sister summoned him.

• Chu Yu told Zhong Lin about the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society, and he agreed to join it.
• Chu Yu brought Zhong Lin to Chrysanthemum Shadow Peak, where Gong Jing objected to his joining and challenged Chu Yu.
• Chu Yu and Gong Jing fought, and Gong Jing’s sword attack threatened to kill Chu Yu.
• Zhong Lin shattered Gong Jing’s Sword Qi before it could hit Chu Yu, while Shi Ying confronted Gong Jing for using a lethal move.
• Chu Yu, Gong Jing, and Shi Ying were taken away, and another disciple soon invited Zhong Lin to meet Night Rain Senior Sister.

Zhong Lin visited Chrysanthemum Shadow Peak and proved his pill-making skill to Shadow Lotus, earning a place in the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society and a token granting him special authority. Chu Yu explained the token’s importance and took him to meet Night Rain.

• Chu Yu brought Zhong Lin to Shadow Lotus, an Eighth Rank pill master and True Disciple, in her pill room.
• Shadow Lotus tested Zhong Lin by asking him to refine a Clarity Enlightenment Pill to qualify for the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society.
• Zhong Lin successfully refined the pill, and Shadow Lotus gave him a jade token that let him enter her pill room and answer directly to her.
• Shadow Lotus ordered Chu Yu to take Zhong Lin to see Night Rain.
• Chu Yu explained the token’s privileges and benefits as she led Zhong Lin away.

Night Rain welcomed Zhong Lin into the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society, gave him access to inner-sect cultivation techniques, and arranged his residence at Willow Suspension Pavilion. After exchanging pills for two pill formulas, Zhong Lin learned of Chu Yu’s expedition to a Medicine Garden occupied by Copper Bone Lions.

• Night Rain explained the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society’s exchange register and offered to incorporate Zhong Lin’s Spirit Wonder Pavilion into its Pill Pavilion.
• Zhong Lin received the cultivation techniques 'Supreme Void Formless Qi' and 'Wind Shadow Traceless,' then exchanged his pills for the Sixty Years Grand Pill and Dragon Tiger Pill formulas.
• Chu Yu took Zhong Lin to Willow Suspension Pavilion on Chrysanthemum Shadow Peak, where he admired the abundant Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.
• Zhong Lin invited Chu Yu to stay at Willow Suspension Pavilion, and she described a Medicine Garden in Earth Rift Valley occupied by Copper Bone Lions.
• Chu Yu asked Zhong Lin to join the group’s plan to clear out the Copper Bone Lions and gather the spirit herbs.

Zhong Lin used the System to cultivate Supreme Void Formless Qi and Wind Shadow Traceless, improving his energy circulation and discovering that his sword intent continued to grow beyond perfection. He resolved to seek a master at the upcoming Heaven Sword Holy Land Outer Sect Competition and began refining Dragon Tiger Pills to strengthen himself.

• Zhong Lin added points to Supreme Void Formless Qi, gained a strand of its power, and used its essence to optimize the circulation of his Five Elements Mixed Origin Skill.
• Zhong Lin cultivated Wind Shadow Traceless and realized his sword intent was still increasing beyond its supposedly perfected state.
• Zhong Lin decided to find a master and compete in the Heaven Sword Holy Land's upcoming Outer Sect Competition, while prioritizing further cultivation.
• Zhong Lin collected ten batches of Dragon Tiger Pill ingredients, returned to Willow Suspension Pavilion, and began refining pills in seclusion.

Zhong Lin traveled with Chu Yu and three Chrysanthemum Shadow Society members to Earth Rift Valley, where they entered the dangerous valley and fought off a swarm of Vampire Bats. The group reached a vast plain, and Tang Yimei warned Zhong Lin to follow her orders as they ventured deeper.

• Chu Yu introduced Zhong Lin to Tang Yimei, Sang Xue, and Changsun Yue, and the group prepared to travel to the Medicine Garden in Earth Rift Valley.
• The five rode a Curly Pelican toward the valley, chatting about the bird and getting to know one another along the way.
• After a day of travel, Tang Yimei guided the Curly Pelican down beside Earth Rift Valley, and the group entered on foot.
• A swarm of poisonous Vampire Bats attacked, and Tang Yimei, Chu Yu, Zhong Lin, and the other women fought them off while advancing in formation.
• The group reached a vast plain beneath the valley, where Tang Yimei warned Zhong Lin not to act impulsively and ordered him to follow her lead.

Zhong Lin and the four women encountered and slaughtered packs of Ghost Wolves while exploring the Earth Rift Valley, collecting beast remains and rare ores along the way. They continued deeper into the dangerous valley, where their gains and constant vigilance brought slight improvements to their cultivation.

• Zhong Lin and the others admired a swarm of glowing fireflies before a Ghost Wolf ambushed Changsun Yue, who killed it with her sword.
• Tang Yimei identified the beast as a Ghost Wolf and warned that it lived in packs, so the group formed up and slaughtered dozens of attacking wolves.
• Zhong Lin collected the Ghost Wolf remains to refine into Meat Pills and offered Changsun Yue some, then asked Tang Yimei to help source more demonic beast corpses.
• The group traveled deeper into the Earth Rift Valley, killing more demonic beasts and gathering rare materials and ores.
• After their tense battles and exploration brought faint gains in cultivation, Chu Yu said she would accept death on the martial path as the group continued onward.

Tang Yimei led Zhong Lin, Chu Yu, and the others through the restrictions into the Medicine Garden, where a pack of Jade Horned Lions attacked them. The group fought back, and Zhong Lin’s sword strike descended toward one of the lions.

• Tang Yimei led the group down into the abyss and through the Medicine Garden’s defensive gateway.
• Zhong Lin and the others entered the garden and learned that Jade Horned Lions had made it their habitat.
• Fifteen Jade Horned Lions charged the group, and their leader attacked with a Lion’s Roar.
• Tang Yimei attacked the lions with Moon Slash while Chu Yu killed one with her Overlord Spear.
• Zhong Lin used Wind Shadow Traceless against a lion pouncing toward him.

Zhong Lin killed the last of the fifteen Jade Horned Lions, and he and the others harvested the Medicine Garden’s spiritual herbs and fruits. Tang Yimei decided to report the depleted garden to Night Rain Senior Sister in exchange for Contribution Points, and the group headed back to the Holy Land.

• Zhong Lin killed the Jade Horned Lions with Wind Shadow Traceless, then gave the exhausted group pills to recover.
• Tang Yimei led the group into the Medicine Garden to collect its spiritual fruits and herbs.
• Zhong Lin identified valuable plants as the group harvested Azure Lotus Fruits, Frost Smoke Grass, and many other herbs.
• After sweeping through the Medicine Garden, the five celebrated their abundant harvest and Tang Yimei warned them not to flaunt their wealth.
• Tang Yimei proposed reporting the harvested garden to Night Rain Senior Sister for Contribution Points, and the group agreed.
• The group flew toward the Medicine Garden’s entrance to return to the Holy Land.

Tang Yimei’s group escaped Earth Rift Valley and flew toward a distress signal from fellow Heaven Sword Holy Land disciples. The chapter ended with Mu Yan and four other women fighting off Black Winged Flying Centipedes while waiting for rescue.

• Tang Yimei told the group she planned to break through to the Yin Yang Realm and encouraged them to pursue their own cultivation goals.
• Changsun Yue summoned the Curly Pelican, and the group flew away from Earth Rift Valley.
• Tang Yimei spotted Nine Twists Ring Wolf Smoke and ordered Changsun Yue to divert the Curly Pelican toward the distress signal.
• Chu Yu explained that the smoke was a rare call for help, and the group set out to rescue the sisters who had activated it.
• Mu Yan and four other female disciples fought the attacking Black Winged Flying Centipedes as their pills and spiritual essence ran low.

Wu Han and Xu Bin overwhelmed Mu Yan and the other Heaven Sword Holy Land disciples with their insects until Tang Yimei, Sang Xue, and Zhong Lin arrived to rescue them. Zhong Lin protected the disciples and unleashed the Myriad Swords Art, slaughtering the Black Winged Flying Centipedes.

• Xu Bin fed the Black Winged Flying Centipedes Whale Shark Blood, strengthening them, and Wu Han commanded them to combine into a massive swarm that attacked Mu Yan.
• Mu Yan was knocked down and injured, while Yin Hong and the other disciples fought to protect her as Wu Han and Xu Bin advanced.
• Tang Yimei and the others arrived; Zhong Lin rang the Eastern Emperor Bell, destroyed the insect mass, and shielded the five disciples.
• Zhong Lin used the Myriad Swords Art to fill the sky with swords and cut the remaining Black Winged Flying Centipedes into pieces.

Zhong Lin and the Heaven Sword Holy Land disciples defeated the Demonic Sect attackers, with Zhong Lin killing the fleeing Wu Han. After learning the attackers belonged to the Gu Demonic Path, Zhong Lin wondered why they had dared come so close to the holy land, then accepted the rescued disciples’ thanks.

• Wu Han rammed the wounded Xu Bin into Chu Yu’s group to escape, and Chu Yu killed Xu Bin with her spear.
• Zhong Lin used his Treasure Bow to shoot Wu Han through the heart as he fled.
• Mu Yan, Tang Yimei, and the other disciples regrouped, while Zhong Lin retrieved the corpses.
• Chu Yu identified the attackers as members of the Gu Demonic Path, and Zhong Lin questioned why they had appeared near the holy land.
• Mu Yan and the others thanked Zhong Lin, who greeted them as fellow Chrysanthemum Shadow Society disciples.

Mu Yan gave Tang Yimei the Earth Ice Yin Fiend after the group rescued her, while Zhong Lin realized a mysterious pearl he had obtained also contained Yin Fiend qi. Back at Chrysanthemum Shadow Peak, Zhong Lin gathered herbs for pill refining and took on two young apprentices to help him.

• Mu Yan explained that demonic cultivators had attacked her group while they collected a fifth-rank Earth Ice Yin Fiend, and she offered it to Tang Yimei in gratitude for the rescue.
• Zhong Lin recognized the Yin Fiend qi inside a black pearl Gu Chen had found on Thirty-Sixth Island in the Fallen Star Islands.
• Zhong Lin gave Mu Yan and the others Return Origin Pills, and Chu Yu revealed that Zhong Lin was a Seventh Rank Pill Refiner.
• The group returned to the Heaven Sword Holy Land, where Zhong Lin decided to stay in seclusion for a year and refine the herbs gathered during the mission.
• Zhong Lin recruited two eighteen- or nineteen-year-old Rank 3 Pill Refiners from the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society as apprentices to help sort herbs.

Zhong Lin spent a year refining pills and cultivating at Willow Suspension Pavilion, then successfully made a furnace of Sixty Years Grand Pills. The chapter ended when Yu Shu emerged from seclusion and called for Zhong Lin.

• Zhong Lin gave Jin Yi six gourds of pills to deliver to Night Rain Senior Sister and gave You Shu Lan guidance on refining the Face-Preserving Pill.
• Jin Yi and You Shu Lan agreed they wanted to remain with Zhong Lin, and they went to prepare for the Sixty Years Grand Pill.
• Zhong Lin reflected on his slow cultivation progress, swallowed a Dragon Tiger Pill, and felt his Profound Core grow stronger.
• You Shu Lan delivered the prepared herbs, and Zhong Lin refined a furnace of Sixty Years Grand Pills in three days.
• Zhong Lin gave Jin Yi two pills to deliver to Night Rain Senior Sister, then went outside after hearing calls from the void and saw that Yu Shu had come out of seclusion.

Yu Shu reunited with Zhong Lin and delivered a jade transmission containing three core arts from the Town Sea Sect, sent through Long Zhao. Zhong Lin began studying and upgrading the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, only to discover that its cultivation required dragon qi.

• Yu Shu visited Zhong Lin after emerging from seclusion, and they discussed the upcoming Outer Sect Competition.
• Yu Shu gave Zhong Lin a jade piece from Uncle Chi, and Zhong Lin received the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, the Azure Dragon Eight Styles, and the Eight Desolations Dragon God Body Protection Art.
• Zhong Lin concluded that a surviving Town Sea Sect disciple had likely delivered the arts on Long Zhao’s behalf.
• Yu Shu said she would enter the Outer Sect Competition but would not seek a master because her ancestor had already accepted her as a disciple.
• Zhong Lin studied the three arts, added them to his system, and began upgrading the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• Zhong Lin realized that the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art required dragon qi and worried that obtaining it would be difficult.

Zhong Lin obtained the Dragon God Pill from Night Rain in exchange for advancing toward Eighth Rank alchemy and studying the Washing Stream Cloud Transformation Art. He swallowed the pill to cultivate the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, and the chapter ended as his body transformed with dragon scales, claws, and horns.

• Zhong Lin asked Night Rain whether the Chrysanthemum Shadow Society possessed a treasure containing Dragon Qi.
• Night Rain offered Zhong Lin the Dragon God Pill on the condition that he advance to Eighth Rank alchemy, and showed him the Washing Stream Cloud Transformation Art.
• Zhong Lin accepted the exchange, and Night Rain retrieved the Dragon God Pill from the Treasure Vault.
• Zhong Lin returned to Willow Suspension Pavilion, swallowed the Dragon God Pill, and began cultivating the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• Zhong Lin endured a vision of storms and lightning as dragon phantoms merged into his body, transforming his hands, head, and eyes into dragonlike features.

Zhong Lin digested the Dragon God Pill and underwent a violent transformation through the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, becoming a powerful half-human, half-dragon. After absorbing immense Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, he reached the late stage of the Profound Core Realm and brought the art to its maximum level.

• Zhong Lin awoke from an apparent vision and discovered that the Dragon God Pill had been digested and his body had begun to change.
• Zhong Lin drew Heaven and Earth Origin Qi into a vast vortex, releasing his Profound Core to absorb the energy as it scoured and strengthened his body.
• Zhong Lin endured intense pain as dragon patterns became black scales, two horns grew from his head, and his body developed Dragon Tendons and a trace of Dragon Might.
• Zhong Lin emerged in a half-human, half-dragon form, with a hundred-meter dragon phantom appearing behind him.
• Zhong Lin recalled his Profound Core and reached the Profound Core Realm Late Stage, while the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art reached max level.

Zhong Lin practiced the Eight Desolations Dragon God Body Protection Art and Azure Dragon Eight Styles, then traveled to Earth Rift Valley to test his newly condensed protective dragons. He left the Ghost Wolves dead and continued deeper into the valley.

• Zhong Lin flew across Chrysanthemum Shadow Peak while testing his dragon transformation, crashed into an invisible barrier near Shadow Chrysanthemum Senior Sister’s secluded grounds, and hurried back down the mountain.
• Zhong Lin used the system to cultivate the Eight Desolations Dragon God Body Protection Art, drawing dragon qi into his apertures and beginning to condense true dragons.
• Zhong Lin spent a month training the Azure Dragon Eight Styles, then borrowed Curly Pelican and traveled alone to Earth Rift Valley.
• Zhong Lin entered Earth Rift Valley and used three protective true dragons to kill the Ghost Wolves that ambushed him.
• Zhong Lin stored the intact Ghost Wolf corpses in his Storage Bracelet and headed deeper into Earth Rift Valley.

Zhong Lin fled from a clash between a white-clad swordsman and the Ink Profound Demon Monkey, an Earth Rift Valley overlord. The swordsman wounded the monkey and forced it to reveal its enormous true form, and he began gathering Sword Qi as the giant attacked again.

• Zhong Lin searched Earth Rift Valley for spirit herbs while venomous insects and beasts failed to break through his defenses.
• Hearing terrifying roars, Zhong Lin tried to flee but hid in a cave as a white-clad swordsman confronted the Ink Profound Demon Monkey.
• The Ink Profound Demon Monkey attacked with a colossal arm, and the swordsman countered with a heaven-reaching sword strike.
• The swordsman’s attack bent the monkey’s arm and pierced its chest, but the monkey transformed into a thousand-zhang giant and reached for him.
• Zhong Lin fled as the giant’s palm shattered nearby peaks, while the swordsman gathered Sword Qi into a three-foot-long sword.

A white-robed swordsman killed the Ink Profound Demon Monkey with the Silent Extinction Sword Song, and Zhong Lin watched the battle. Zhong Lin then took advantage of the aftermath to hunt injured demon beasts and gather spiritual medicines before leaving Earth Rift Valley.

• The white-robed man crushed the Ink Profound Demon Monkey's attack and killed it with a devastating sword strike.
• The white-robed man collected the Ink Profound Demon Monkey's corpse and vanished after noticing Zhong Lin.
• Zhong Lin killed an injured black giant python and took its corpse, then collected the Cloud Dew Poison Fruit after its guardian fled.
• Zhong Lin spent a day hunting injured demon beasts and gathering spiritual medicines before the survivors escaped.
• Zhong Lin waited three more days, returned to the surface, and flew home on the Curly Pelican after feeding it a Meat Pill.