Chapter Summaries

Zhong Lin visited Heaven Revelation Pavilion to buy rare medicinal ingredients for refining Earth Origin Pills, and learned that the pavilion used pills as currency for valuable resources. He paid for the ingredients with surplus pills, leaving steward Linglong delighted by the rare high-rank medicines he brought out.

• Zhong Lin sensed that the white-robed young master and his guards practiced Town Sea Sect techniques, then wondered whether Long Zhao was safe.
• Ye Tao introduced Zhong Lin to Heaven Revelation Pavilion, which had been founded by the Heaven Revelation Emperor and offered rare Five Elements treasures.
• Zhong Lin asked Ye Tao to find ingredients for Earth Origin Pills and requested access to the pavilion's auction for the rarest ones.
• Steward Linglong offered Zhong Lin a discounted price of forty-five thousand True Origin Pills for the ingredients and explained that the pavilion used pills as currency for high-grade trades.
• Zhong Lin offered a large assortment of surplus fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-rank pills in payment, and Linglong's eyes lit up when she saw the rarest ones.

Zhong Lin entered Heaven Revelation Pavilion’s auction hall with Steward Linglong, who learned he was from Heaven Sword Holy Land and a Seventh Rank Pill Refiner. He bid on a Bone Piercing Needle, drawing the attention of White Crane Old Ancestor, a Life and Death Realm martial artist from the Beast Domain.

• Linglong led Zhong Lin into the auction hall and seated him in a lavish private area as others speculated about his identity and her backing.
• Zhong Lin told Linglong his name, sect, and intention to challenge Eighth Rank pill refining, and she invited him to sell future pills through Heaven Revelation Pavilion.
• The auction began with a Low Grade Profound Tool, the Bone Piercing Needle, which Linglong described as effective against protective astral energy.
• Zhong Lin accepted Linglong’s offer of credit and bid six thousand True Origin Pills for the needle.
• White Crane Old Ancestor bid seven thousand, and Linglong warned Zhong Lin that the Life and Death Realm Beast Domain martial artist commanded an equally powerful white crane demon beast.

Zhong Lin obtained the Silver Dew Grass he needed for refining Earth Origin Pills after outbidding White Crane Old Ancestor, earning the latter’s deadly resentment. As Zhong Lin prepared to leave the auction, Linglong offered to show him weapon fragments in exchange for pills.

• Linglong explained that White Crane Old Ancestor and his white crane were formidable Life and Death Realm fighters, and Zhong Lin let him win a Profound Tool steel needle.
• A War Domain martial artist bought the Vajra Treasure Pill and left, followed by several people who appeared to be hunting him.
• Zhong Lin bought the Silver Dew Grass for forty thousand True Origin Pills despite White Crane Old Ancestor’s bid, and White Crane Old Ancestor threatened him.
• Zhong Lin collected the Silver Dew Grass from Linglong and prepared to leave the auction hall.
• Linglong asked Zhong Lin whether he wanted to inspect weapon fragments that could be fused into a Natal Weapon, and he asked how they were priced.

Zhong Lin bought a King Tool fragment from Linglong at Heaven Revelation Pavilion and used part of it to strengthen the Eastern Emperor Bell. He left after revealing that he was an Eighth Rank alchemist, while Linglong assigned Ye Tao to report whenever Zhong Lin returned.

• Linglong warned Zhong Lin that White Crane Old Ancestor might target him outside Heaven Revelation Pavilion, and Ye Tao gave him a jade token recording his remaining True Origin Pills.
• Linglong showed Zhong Lin a King Tool fragment made from Earth Treasury Crystal Stone and offered it for four thousand seven hundred True Origin Pills.
• Zhong Lin bought the fragment and fed small pieces of it to the Eastern Emperor Bell, whose radiance and power grew.
• Zhong Lin told Linglong he was an Eighth Rank alchemist and asked her to contact him if she found more weapon fragments.
• Linglong told Ye Tao to serve under her and report whenever Zhong Lin visited Heaven Revelation Pavilion.

Zhong Lin called for help when White Crane Old Ancestor ambushed him outside Envy-Free Land, and Chi Zhong Lin arrived to fight the Life and Death Realm expert. White Crane Old Ancestor fled after being wounded, but a burly black-clothed man appeared and tore off his wings, leaving his fate uncertain.

• White Crane Old Ancestor trapped Zhong Lin on a mountain and threatened to kill him and feed his Mystic Core to his Crane Demon.
• Zhong Lin called for his Senior Brother, and Chi Zhong Lin broke through the wind barrier to confront White Crane Old Ancestor.
• Chi Zhong Lin and White Crane Old Ancestor traded powerful attacks, but Chi Zhong Lin broke the Crane Old Ancestor's secret technique and wounded him with the Profound Black Heavy Sword.
• White Crane Old Ancestor grew wings and fled, cursing Chi Zhong Lin as he escaped.
• A burly black-clothed man appeared above White Crane Old Ancestor, ripped off his wings, and mocked Chi Zhong Lin for letting him get away.

Zhong Lin joined Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie after they defeated White Crane Old Ancestor and the Crane Demon, then learned about the trade in profound cores and set out to hunt the Geng Metal Divine Beast. Three days later, they reached its territory and heard its fearsome roar.

• Bian Yingjie gave Zhong Lin the severed wings of the White Crane Old Ancestor's Crane Demon and introduced himself as Chi Zhong Lin's close friend.
• Zhong Lin killed White Crane Old Ancestor by destroying his profound core, while Chi Zhong Lin took the Crane Demon's Demon Core and stored its body.
• Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin explained that profound cores from vendetta killings could be sold or used, and Bian Yingjie described a sect that raised disciples to harvest their cores.
• Chi Zhong Lin told Zhong Lin he had found the Geng Metal Divine Beast, and the three flew off together aboard a Flying Boat.
• Three days later, Chi Zhong Lin landed near the beast's territory, where its roar made Zhong Lin feel intense pressure.

Zhong Lin, Chi Zhong Lin, and Bian Yingjie encountered an intelligent White Tiger formed from Geng Metal Qi in the Five Elements Secret Realm. The White Tiger revealed its plan to devour them and escape the realm, and the fight began with its transformation into a mountain-sized beast.

• Zhong Lin recognized the platinum-white creature as the White Tiger, and Bian Yingjie explained that he had learned of it from a Vajra Arhat in the Buddha Domain.
• The White Tiger spoke, revealed that it had developed intelligence, and said it planned to devour the three and refine their weapons to break free of the Five Elements Secret Realm.
• Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin attacked the White Tiger while Zhong Lin prepared to support them.
• The White Tiger dodged Bian Yingjie's attack and struck at Chi Zhong Lin, who blocked its claw with the Profound Black Heavy Sword.
• Bian Yingjie punched the White Tiger and blasted it away, but it returned unharmed and declared itself imperishable.
• The White Tiger enlarged into a small-mountain-sized beast as Geng Metal Qi erupted from its fur like Sword Qi.

Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie fought White Tiger with a combined sword-and-spear attack while Zhong Lin watched from afar. Wu Chen appeared and attacked Zhong Lin, who surprised him by blocking his Life and Death Realm strike and countering with powerful punches.

• White Tiger unleashed Geng Metal Divine Lightning, injuring Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie as they retreated.
• Chi Zhong Lin summoned the Purgatory Sword Sea while Bian Yingjie thrust his spear, and their combined attack engulfed White Tiger in a devastating clash.
• Zhong Lin noticed Wu Chen, the bald Vajra Arhat who had helped White Tiger lure human martial artists, and confronted him.
• Wu Chen declared that he meant to offer Zhong Lin's flesh and blood to White Tiger, then attacked with his Buddhist staff.
• Zhong Lin blocked Wu Chen's strike despite being in the Yin Fiend Realm and countered with a Golden Dragon Qi punch.
• Wu Chen smashed the Golden Dragon Qi, and Zhong Lin launched the Imperial Dragon's Roar.

Zhong Lin unleashed Azure Dragon Nirvana against Wu Chen Arhat, transforming the Azure Dragon Eight Styles into a force of pure death despite the damage it inflicted on his body. Wu Chen Arhat fled, but Zhong Lin struck him from afar with a black Dragon Claw and left him burning with death force.

• Zhong Lin recognized that Wu Chen Arhat's cultivation and Undying Body gave him the advantage in a direct fight.
• Zhong Lin swallowed a Healing Pill and performed the first seven Azure Dragon styles before invoking Azure Dragon Nirvana.
• The eighth style shattered Zhong Lin's dragon scales and released a vast force of death that frightened Wu Chen Arhat.
• Wu Chen Arhat tore through the void to escape, but Zhong Lin pursued him with a black Dragon Claw that struck his back.
• Death force flooded Wu Chen Arhat's body, making black flames pour from his eyes and black blood stream beneath his robes.

Zhong Lin killed Wu Chen Arhat with Azure Dragon Nirvana, then recovered with help from Chi Zhong Lin and examined the spoils taken from Wu Chen’s victims. Among the loot, Zhong Lin found a Jade Scroll titled “Central Immovable Wisdom King Dharma Body.”

• Zhong Lin’s Azure Dragon Nirvana burned Wu Chen Arhat to ash, but the effort left Zhong Lin gravely weakened.
• Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin returned, and Chi Zhong Lin gave Zhong Lin a pill and praised his victory over Wu Chen Arhat.
• Chi Zhong Lin rebuked Bian Yingjie for falling into Wu Chen’s trap, while Bian Yingjie apologized to Zhong Lin.
• Zhong Lin recovered Wu Chen’s Nine Tin Zen Staff and Storage Bracelet, then discovered the bracelet contained supplies and weapons taken from many slain martial artists.
• Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin recognized several stolen weapons and offered to dispose of the marked items for Zhong Lin.
• Zhong Lin sorted the loot and found a Jade Scroll titled “Central Immovable Wisdom King Dharma Body.”

Zhong Lin agreed to refine the Three Origins Healing Saint Pill for Green Luo and received the three Divine Beast Spirits needed to advance his Five Elements Mixed Origin Skill. Using the Hundred Flowers Pavilion’s Treasure Tool pill furnace, he began refining the herbs with its Starfall Fire.

• Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie warned Zhong Lin not to cultivate the Buddha Domain manual, and Zhong Lin said he would only use it as a reference.
• After half a month, Chi Zhong Lin brought Zhong Lin to the Hundred Flowers Pavilion, where Green Luo had gathered the ingredients for the pill.
• Green Luo gave Zhong Lin the ingredients and the promised three Divine Beast Spirits, and he stored the spirits for later.
• Zhong Lin chose the pavilion’s Treasure Tool pill furnace and discovered it contained Starfall Fire.
• Zhong Lin ignited the Starfall Fire, pulverized the herbs, and turned them into medicinal vapor.

Zhong Lin successfully refined two Three Origins Healing Saint Pills, but learned that Green Luo had arranged the refinement to save Gui Xi. Chi Zhong Lin chose to give her a pill and leave with Zhong Lin, who stood by his senior brother’s decision.

• Zhong Lin refined two Three Origins Healing Saint Pills after several days of careful work.
• Mu Xiang revealed that the pill was for Gui Xi, and Chi Zhong Lin confronted Green Luo about hiding that Gui Xi was alive.
• Zhong Lin offered to destroy the pill, but Chi Zhong Lin told him to give it to Green Luo and leave.
• Zhong Lin handed Green Luo the pill, then walked away with Chi Zhong Lin.
• Chi Zhong Lin asked whether Zhong Lin would have destroyed the pill if he had asked, and Zhong Lin said he would have followed his senior brother’s choice.

Zhong Lin refined the Five Direction Divine Beast Spirits, transforming the Five Elements Mixed Origin Skill and his body. He discovered that it had produced the Five Elements Avatar and Ten Directions Gang Sha, leaving him wondering how powerful his art could become.

• Zhong Lin returned to the inn and arranged the five Divine Beast Spirits according to their elements and directions.
• Zhong Lin absorbed the spirits into his five organs, enduring intense pain as his body was tempered by the five elements and Heaven and Earth Origin Qi.
• Zhong Lin perceived his body shining with five-colored radiance and found that it had become extraordinarily hard.
• Zhong Lin checked his system and saw that the transformed skill had produced the Five Elements Avatar and Ten Directions Gang Sha.
• Zhong Lin learned how the secret arts combined the properties of the five elements and considered whether his skill might one day become a Great Five Elements Art of his own.

After completing his gains in the Five Elements Secret Realm, Zhong Lin considered his next cultivation goals and went to Green Willow Tower to find Chi Zhong Lin. There he reunited with Wei Lang, who recognized Chi Zhong Lin as the Heaven Sword Holy Land’s Sword Pavilion Golden Scale.

• Zhong Lin rejected renaming his cultivation art, reflected on reaching the peak of the Yin Fiend Realm, and planned to draw in Yang Fiend to advance further.
• Zhong Lin realized he needed a stronger body-tempering art and considered visiting the War Domain, then noticed Chi Zhong Lin had still not returned.
• Zhong Lin went to Green Willow Tower to look for his senior brother and encountered Wei Lang, who had apparently been staying there.
• Wei Lang recognized Chi Zhong Lin as the Sword Pavilion Golden Scale of the Heaven Sword Holy Land and saluted Zhong Lin as an outstanding Sword Pavilion disciple.

Zhong Lin visited Chi Zhong Lin at Green Willow Tower and found him drowning his heartbreak in wine with Bian Yingjie. After Zhong Lin sobered them up, he learned that Chi Zhong Lin had lost the woman he loved to his mortal enemy, and Chi Zhong Lin drew his sword against Bian Yingjie.

• Zhong Lin recognized Wei Lang as a successor of the Town Sea Sect, and Wei Lang agreed to meet him for a chat.
• The madam led Zhong Lin to Chi Zhong Lin’s luxurious palace, where Chi Zhong Lin caroused with women and Bian Yingjie pretended to sleep drunk.
• Zhong Lin lifted and burst the wine pool’s contents, revealing that Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin were sober and prompting Chi Zhong Lin to ask whether Zhong Lin had completed the transformation of his Five Elements Mixed Origin Skill.
• Zhong Lin urged Chi Zhong Lin to move on from Green Luo, and Bian Yingjie revealed that she had chosen Chi Zhong Lin’s enemy, for whom the Three Origins Healing Saint Pill had been refined.
• Chi Zhong Lin summoned the Profound Black Heavy Sword and challenged Bian Yingjie to a fight, while Bian Yingjie laughed at him.

Zhong Lin completed his Yin Fiend cultivation and sought a first-grade Yang Fiend to advance, but learned that the Heaven Sword Holy Land required contribution points for such a rare resource. He was left needing to find his own opportunity after hearing that even his Eldest Senior Brother had spent a hundred years earning one.

• Zhong Lin told Chi Zhong Lin that his Yin Fiend had reached completion, astonishing his Second Senior Brother with how quickly he advanced.
• Bian Yingjie gave Zhong Lin a fourth-grade Yang Fiend, but Chi Zhong Lin argued that Zhong Lin deserved a higher-grade one because he had an Immortal Golden Core and first-grade Yin Fiend.
• Bian Yingjie praised Zhong Lin’s potential, and Zhong Lin modestly praised Bian Yingjie’s second-grade Pill Completion as a rogue cultivator.
• Chi Zhong Lin warned Zhong Lin that the Heaven Sword Holy Land required contribution points to exchange for Yang Fiend, regardless of talent.
• Zhong Lin learned that his Eldest Senior Brother had taken a hundred years to earn first-grade Yang Fiend and that his best alternative was to find his own opportunity.

Zhong Lin learned that Bian Yingjie suspected the Town Sea Sect’s destruction was connected to a hidden ancient Great Expert’s resting place, and revealed he had spotted a Town Sea Sect disciple nearby. He, Chi Zhong Lin, and Bian Yingjie pursued the disciple, with Bian Yingjie tracking his aura after finding the room empty.

• Bian Yingjie explained that the War Heaven Holy Land had destroyed the Town Sea Sect after an elder discovered an ancient Great Expert’s resting place in the Five Elements Secret Realm.
• Chi Zhong Lin doubted Bian Yingjie’s account, while Zhong Lin listened and considered the possibility that the Town Sea Sect disciple he had noticed knew something.
• Zhong Lin told Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie that he had seen a Town Sea Sect disciple downstairs, and the two urged him to help subdue the man.
• The three rushed downstairs but found the disciple’s room empty, so Bian Yingjie used the Earth Spirit Perception Technique to follow his aura.
• Bian Yingjie found the disciple’s trail and called for the others to chase him.

Zhong Lin and his companions captured Wei Lang and questioned him about the Town Sea Sect’s destruction and its hidden inheritance. After learning the inheritance was in Black Wind Valley, they sealed Wei Lang’s Mystic Core and traveled to the War Domain, where Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin argued about its people.

• Zhong Lin, Chi Zhong Lin, and Bian Yingjie surrounded Wei Lang and forced him to submit.
• Wei Lang explained that War Heaven Holy Land destroyed the Town Sea Sect after an elder discovered the resting place of an ancient Great Expert, though he knew few details.
• Wei Lang revealed that the Town Sea Sect’s Land of Inheritance was in Black Wind Valley and offered to lead them there in exchange for his life.
• Chi Zhong Lin sealed Wei Lang’s Mystic Core, and the group took a Flying Boat to the Teleportation Array for the War Domain.
• After arriving in the War Domain, Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin traded insults over the domain’s rugged people and what made a real man.

Zhong Lin’s group crossed the Golden Wolf Dynasty and passed a battlefield where martial artists waited to collect War Soul Yin Fiends. After several days of travel through increasingly cold terrain, they reached the mountains near Black Wind Valley, where Wei Lang said Ice Fiends made entry possible by only one road.

• Wei Lang explained that Black Wind Valley lay beyond the Golden Wolf Dynasty and several smaller countries, in a region where Town Sea Sect had established a Land of Inheritance.
• Zhong Lin and his companions watched the Great Li Dynasty and Golden Wolf Dynasty armies clash at a border fortress, and Chi Zhong Lin told Zhong Lin about the brutal Hundred Kingdoms War.
• Bian Yingjie explained that martial artists gathered War Soul Yin Fiends from battlefields, while Chi Zhong Lin warned that their killing intent made them dangerous to refine.
• The Flying Boat left the battlefield, and the martial artists hiding nearby breathed a sigh of relief as the powerful group departed.
• After several days of travel, Wei Lang announced that Black Wind Valley lay ahead and that Ice Fiends left only one road into the valley.

Zhong Lin, Bian Yingjie, Chi Zhong Lin, and Wei Lang entered a hidden passage to the Land of Inheritance and emerged in a secret realm swarming with Yin Fiend Earth Demons. After the group fought off the lesser demons, a giant demon attacked Bian Yingjie with a martial technique, revealing that it might hold a valuable Demon Core.

• Wei Lang revealed that the passage to the Land of Inheritance lay beneath the ice in Black Wind Valley, and Chi Zhong Lin opened it with Sword Qi.
• Bian Yingjie led the group into the passage, and they traveled through it before emerging in a desolate secret realm filled with gray mist and swamps.
• Zhong Lin identified the approaching monsters as Yin Fiend Earth Demons, and Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin destroyed many of them.
• A hundred-meter-tall Yin Fiend Earth Demon appeared and devoured lesser demons to strengthen itself, prompting Bian Yingjie to claim its potential Demon Core.
• The giant demon unleashed a Mercury Demon Hand at Bian Yingjie, and Chi Zhong Lin recognized it as a martial technique preserved in the demon’s lingering soul.