Chapter Summaries

Bian Yingjie used Buddha Domain martial arts to destroy a giant demon, and the group reached and looted the Town Sea Sect’s Land of Inheritance. When Wei Lang confronted Zhong Lin about the sect’s destruction, the patriarch’s saber flew to Wei Lang and shielded him from Zhong Lin’s attack.

• Bian Yingjie used the Prajna Great Hand Seal and Vajra Palm to destroy the giant demon and claim its Demon Core.
• Bian Yingjie collected Earth Demon Yin Fiend as the group flew to a black-stone castle surrounded by swamps that produced more demons.
• Zhong Lin, Chi Zhong Lin, and Bian Yingjie entered the castle and looted its herbs, ores, weapons, pills, and spirit stones.
• Wei Lang asked Zhong Lin to let him leave, then accused the holy lands of causing the Town Sea Sect’s destruction.
• Zhong Lin attacked Wei Lang, but the patriarch’s saber shattered the Sword Qi and flew into Wei Lang’s hand.

Wei Lang used the King Tool Shattered Demon Blade to attack Zhong Lin and faced the greed of Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie. Chi Zhong Lin met Wei Lang’s Slaying Demons Eight Styles with his Heavy Sword Falling Star, and their attacks collided across the secret realm.

• Wei Lang’s saber strike sent Zhong Lin flying, and Zhong Lin warned Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie about the weapon.
• Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie recognized the Shattered Demon Blade as a King Tool and agreed to seize it from Wei Lang.
• Wei Lang advanced from Black Stone Castle and unleashed the Slaying Demons Eight Styles, Gale, with the Shattered Demon Blade.
• Zhong Lin warned Chi Zhong Lin about the technique as Chi Zhong Lin stepped forward and summoned the Profound Black Heavy Sword.
• Chi Zhong Lin struck with Heavy Sword Falling Star, and his sword light collided with Wei Lang’s tiger-shaped blade radiance, killing countless Yin Fiend Earth Demons in the shockwave.

Zhong Lin joined Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie in fighting Wei Lang, then killed him with the Soul Severing realm of the Origin Return Sword Embryo. The chapter ended with the others stunned by Zhong Lin’s mastery of the Sword Pavilion’s secret art.

• Wei Lang used the Shattered Demon Blade to battle Chi Zhong Lin, gaining the upper hand with the King Weapon.
• Bian Yingjie joined the fight at Zhong Lin’s warning, and Wei Lang unleashed Mountain Collapse to blast both attackers away.
• Zhong Lin struck Wei Lang with a powerful punch while Wei Lang’s spiritual essence was depleted.
• Wei Lang activated a secret art and met Zhong Lin’s punch with a torrent of Blade Qi.
• Zhong Lin used Soul Severing to destroy Wei Lang’s soul, killing him without visibly injuring his body.
• Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin reacted in disbelief as Zhong Lin’s Origin Return Sword Embryo secret art was explained.

Zhong Lin, Chi Zhong Lin, and Bian Yingjie suppressed the Shattered Demon Blade, but doing so destabilized the secret realm and forced them to flee. After they escaped to Black Wind Valley, a hidden attacker reached for Zhong Lin and the King Tool saber.

• Bian Yingjie and Chi Zhong Lin tried to capture the Shattered Demon Blade, and Zhong Lin seized it with the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• The secret realm began collapsing as the four swamps became Void Passages and released swarms of Yin Fiend Earth Demons.
• Zhong Lin used the Eastern Emperor Bell to destroy the demons around the group, then led Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie toward the exit.
• The three escaped the collapsing secret realm and returned to Black Wind Valley, where Bian Yingjie lamented losing the Yin Fiend resources.
• A hidden attacker laughed at the sight of the King Tool saber and sent a lightning-wreathed hand toward Zhong Lin.

Peng Yu, a True Disciple of the War Heaven Holy Land, tried to seize Zhong Lin’s Shattered Demon Blade and fought Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie when they resisted. Peng Yu overwhelmed both men, leaving them badly injured in Black Wind Valley.

• Peng Yu attacked Zhong Lin to take the Shattered Demon Blade, but Zhong Lin cut apart his lightning hand.
• Chi Zhong Lin identified himself as a disciple of the Heaven Sword Holy Land, but Peng Yu accused him of wielding a demonic artifact and demanded the blade.
• Chi Zhong Lin refused to hand over the Shattered Demon Blade, and he and Peng Yu began fighting.
• Peng Yu’s thunder techniques engulfed Chi Zhong Lin, and Bian Yingjie stepped in to attack him.
• Peng Yu struck Bian Yingjie and overwhelmed both him and Chi Zhong Lin, then prepared to kill them.

Zhong Lin killed Peng Yu with the Shattered Demon Blade to save Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie, but God Desolate King arrived seeking revenge. Zhong Lin provoked him, then entered the collapsing Yin Fiend Secret Realm and told his Senior Brothers to flee.

• Peng Yu unleashed a devastating punch against Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie, but Zhong Lin answered with a slash from the Shattered Demon Blade.
• Zhong Lin's slash shattered Peng Yu's attack and killed him, leaving Zhong Lin nearly drained of strength.
• God Desolate King of War Heaven Holy Land announced his arrival, and his voice injured Zhong Lin, Chi Zhong Lin, and Bian Yingjie.
• Zhong Lin admitted that he had killed Peng Yu, taunted God Desolate King, and leaped into the collapsing Yin Fiend Secret Realm.
• Zhong Lin quietly told Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie to run.

After Zhong Lin sacrificed himself to escape God Desolate King, Chi Zhong Lin and Bian Yingjie fled to seek help while Zhong Lin struggled to survive inside the collapsing Yin Fiend Secret Realm. God Desolate King found him and recognized the emerging Form Spirit Gate as the Undead Evil Emperor’s inheritance, leaving Zhong Lin facing imminent danger.

• Chi Zhong Lin tried to charge into the Void Turbulence after Zhong Lin, but Bian Yingjie stopped him and sent him to find his master at the Heaven Sword Holy Land.
• God Desolate King tore open the sealed passage and entered the collapsing Yin Fiend Secret Realm, while Zhong Lin used the Shattered Demon Blade to fend off Space Turbulence.
• Zhong Lin discovered a giant stone gate emerging where Black Stone Castle had stood and suspected it was connected to the ancient Great Expert and the Town Sea Sect’s destruction.
• God Desolate King tore open the void, found Zhong Lin, and identified the stone gate as the Form Spirit Gate containing the Undead Evil Emperor’s inheritance.

Zhong Lin escaped the God Desolate King's grasp by entering the Form Spirit Gate, whose Scattering Soul Glow forced the King to defend himself. Inside the Undead Evil Emperor's vast, desolate hall, Zhong Lin found decayed corpses and ruined weapons and cautiously began exploring.

• Zhong Lin split through the Void Turbulence and rushed toward the Form Spirit Gate to escape the God Desolate King.
• The God Desolate King tried to seize Zhong Lin, but the gate's Scattering Soul Glow shattered his palm and drove him back.
• Zhong Lin entered the Form Spirit Gate and found himself in an immense hall filled with bones, including fresh corpses from Town Sea Sect.
• Zhong Lin swallowed a Five Elements Spirit Gathering Pill, restored his spiritual essence, and noticed that a step crumbled ancient bones into powder.
• Zhong Lin summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell and gripped the Shattered Demon Blade as he searched the hall, finding that its corpses and weapons had decayed beyond use.

Zhong Lin investigated the strange hall and discovered that its three stone doors bore martial-skill patterns. He comprehended and used the System to master Earthshaking Emperor Bear, learning that it was a body-tempering method and fist art.

• Zhong Lin examined a Town Sea Sect disciple's decayed corpse and realized that something in the hall had drained its vital essence and accelerated the decay of its Natal Weapon.
• Zhong Lin found three sealed stone doors depicting a golden bear, a Golden Crow, and an Azure Dragon, and sensed that their powerful restrictions made them dangerous to approach.
• After searching the hall for half a day, Zhong Lin sat before the bear painting and experienced a vision of a golden bear roaring from a mountain summit.
• Zhong Lin saw Earthshaking Emperor Bear appear on his System Panel and suspected the stone-door patterns were tests leading to the Undead Evil Emperor's inheritance.
• Zhong Lin spent his Skill Points to master Earthshaking Emperor Bear and learned it strengthened his body, vitality, defenses, and power.

Zhong Lin mastered the Earthshaking Emperor Bear martial art and used it to open the left stone door, where he found a seemingly soulless Emperor Bear waiting to attack him. The creature stood before him as a deadly puppet, and Zhong Lin faced an unexpected fight.

• Zhong Lin practiced the three forms of Earthshaking Emperor Bear and felt his physical strength increase severalfold.
• Zhong Lin used the martial art to push open the left stone door without spiritual essence.
• A blood-red hand shot from the doorway and struck Zhong Lin, hurling him into a stone pillar and making him spit blood.
• An Emperor Bear emerged from the doorway and roared, pulverizing the bones across the hall with its soundwaves.
• Zhong Lin recognized that the Emperor Bear had no soul-power fluctuations and concluded that it was a puppet or something similar.

Zhong Lin defeated the Emperor Bear in the Undead Evil Emperor’s hall, but a drop of golden blood entered his body and knocked him unconscious. Chi Zhong Lin rushed him back to Heaven Sword Holy Land and called for Xi Xuan to save him, collapsing after he arrived.

• Zhong Lin unleashed Savage Bear Ramming Mountain and blasted the Emperor Bear apart with a final punch.
• A drop of golden blood shot into Zhong Lin’s chest, fused with his flesh, and caused him to faint from pain.
• Chi Zhong Lin drove an overloaded Flying Boat toward Heaven Sword Holy Land while burning spiritual essence and urging his junior brother to hold on.
• Chi Zhong Lin rushed past the Holy Land’s disciples and reached Sword Pavilion Mountain, where Tu Ye and Xi Xuan came out to meet him.
• Chi Zhong Lin begged Xi Xuan to save his junior brother, spat out a mouthful of heart’s blood, and fell from the sky.

Chi Zhong Lin told Xi Xuan and Tu Ye that Zhong Lin had jumped into a collapsed secret realm to save him, prompting Xi Xuan to pursue God Desolate King. Meanwhile, Zhong Lin discovered that he had defeated the Emperor Bear Puppet and learned how the Undead Evil Emperor’s inheritance trials worked.

• Tu Ye caught the injured Chi Zhong Lin, and Chi Zhong Lin begged Xi Xuan to save Zhong Lin, who had jumped into Space Turbulence.
• Xi Xuan erupted in fury at the mention of God Desolate King and rushed out with Tu Ye carrying Chi Zhong Lin behind him.
• Chi Zhong Lin explained that Zhong Lin had killed Peng Yu with the Shattered Demon Blade, then lured God Desolate King away so Chi Zhong Lin could escape.
• Tu Ye revealed that he had reached the King Realm, while Xi Xuan and Tu Ye grew worried that Zhong Lin might not survive the collapsed secret realm.
• Zhong Lin woke in the main hall and realized the golden blood contained Emperor Bear Blood Essence and information about the Undead Evil Emperor’s inheritance trials.
• Zhong Lin understood that each demonic beast puppet could only be permanently defeated with the martial art linked to its trial, and that the failed challengers’ corpses had been drained of their qi and blood.

After defeating the Emperor Bear Puppet, Zhong Lin learned that the Emperor Bear Blood Essence was the key to the transformation secrets of the Form and Spirit Fist Way. He entered the Treasure Vault, discovered an immense origin vein, and began refining the blood essence and strengthening his body as he resolved to pass the remaining trials.

• Zhong Lin learned that the Form and Spirit Fist Way included transformations into several great demons and that the Emperor Bear Blood Essence was essential to mastering it.
• Zhong Lin examined the three stone doors and chose to enter the Treasure Vault on the left.
• Zhong Lin found a vast secret realm containing a ten-thousand-mile origin vein and a mountain range formed from spirit stones.
• Zhong Lin learned that passing all three trials would let him control the Form Spirit Gate, then decided he had to complete them to claim the origin vein.
• Zhong Lin entered the origin vein and trained with Earthshaking Emperor Bear as the Emperor Bear Blood Essence fused into his flesh.
• Zhong Lin unleashed a surge of Origin Qi and summoned an Emperor Bear phantom that roared and struck toward the earth.

Zhong Lin tested the power of Earthshaking Emperor Bear, then began cultivating Golden Crow Sky Patrol and awakened a golden flame within himself. He left the chapter having reached the art’s first stage and wondering whether he could reproduce the legendary Sun True Fire.

• Zhong Lin transformed into a towering Emperor Bear and smashed into the Spirit Stone Mountain Range before returning to human form.
• Zhong Lin inspected the Golden Crow image and used the system’s skill points to master the cultivation method of Golden Crow Sky Patrol.
• Zhong Lin began the art’s first stage, enduring painful bodily transformations as he walked its steps.
• Zhong Lin’s senses and physical strength improved as he crossed the tenth step and continued to the eleventh.
• Zhong Lin’s heart stirred the divine beast’s spirit, producing a golden flame in his palm, and he wondered whether he could wield Sun True Fire.

Zhong Lin emerged from the Form Spirit Gate with the Undead Evil Emperor’s complete inheritance, but God Desolate King attacked him as he fled. Zhong Lin survived a devastating blow through the max-level Undying Scripture and faced God Desolate King with his recovered body.

• God Desolate King waited outside the Form Spirit Gate, unable to refine it, and threatened Zhong Lin as he tried to stabilize the Yin Fiend Secret Realm.
• Zhong Lin emerged from the gate and fled, but God Desolate King attacked him with a giant palm.
• Zhong Lin split the palm with the Shattered Demon Blade, revealing Sun True Fire, and escaped into the void.
• God Desolate King struck Zhong Lin with a powerful punch that blasted apart half his body.
• Zhong Lin regenerated his body with the Undying Scripture, which he had obtained alongside the complete inheritance and raised to max level.

Zhong Lin faced the God Desolate King after receiving the Undying Scripture inheritance and being forced out of the Form Spirit Gate. As the God Desolate King crushed him with his domain, Zhong Lin revealed that he had already formed the nascent Sword Domain.

• Zhong Lin considered the limits of the Undying Scripture and realized that even its highest level might not save him from a King Realm Expert.
• Zhong Lin invoked his master Thunder Sword King Xi Xuan's name, but the God Desolate King demanded that he hand over the Form Spirit Gate.
• Zhong Lin swallowed a pill and tried to resist, but the God Desolate King's invisible domain repeatedly crushed his limbs as they regenerated.
• Zhong Lin unleashed his sword intent and formed an illusory Sword Domain that pried open a crack in the God Desolate King's pressure.
• The God Desolate King recognized Zhong Lin's nascent domain and reacted with surprise and jealousy.

Zhong Lin endured the God Desolate King's crushing domain and torture while secretly refining the Form Spirit Gate's core. After breaking through to the third layer of the Undying Scripture, he used the gate to escape just as the God Desolate King lunged to seize him, and three figures emerged from a rift to intervene.

• Zhong Lin resisted the God Desolate King's domain and taunted him about being jealous, provoking the King to crush him with greater force.
• Zhong Lin secretly refined the Form Spirit Gate's core while urging the God Desolate King to kill him, and the King instead chose to torture him.
• The God Desolate King stomped Zhong Lin into mangled flesh, prompting Zhong Lin to break through to the Undying Scripture's third layer, Head Explosion Immortality.
• Zhong Lin mocked the God Desolate King and began using the Form Spirit Gate, making the King's expression change as he rushed to seize him.
• Three figures stepped through a rift in the void and told the God Desolate King to stop.

Chi Zhong Lin and Xi Xuan arrived after the God Desolate King had reduced Zhong Lin to mangled flesh, and Xi Xuan attacked the king in fury. Zhong Lin regenerated through the Undying Scripture, and Tu Ye joined the battle after recognizing the inheritance.

• Chi Zhong Lin saw Zhong Lin's mangled body and charged at the God Desolate King, while Xi Xuan unleashed a massive Sword Wheel attack.
• The God Desolate King transformed into an eight-headed, eight-armed deity and fought back, but Xi Xuan's strike destroyed Black Wind Valley.
• Chi Zhong Lin rushed to Zhong Lin, who weakly told him not to move him, and Tu Ye pulled Chi Zhong Lin away.
• Zhong Lin regenerated into human form, broke an arm when Chi Zhong Lin embraced him, and took pills to restore his strength.
• Tu Ye identified Zhong Lin's Undying Scripture inheritance from the Undead Evil Emperor, and Chi Zhong Lin reacted with shock.
• Tu Ye said Xi Xuan had the advantage over the God Desolate King and entered the battle to capture him and make him apologize to Zhong Lin.

Xi Xuan and Tu Ye fought God Desolate King after he demanded Zhong Lin hand over the Form Spirit Gate. The chapter ended with Xi Xuan and Tu Ye preparing to kill God Desolate King together.

• Xi Xuan attacked God Desolate King with a massive spiritual essence palm while Tu Ye joined the battle.
• Tu Ye revealed his King Realm cultivation and cut away half of God Desolate King's body with one sword strike.
• God Desolate King offered to let Zhong Lin's killing of his disciple go if Zhong Lin surrendered the Form Spirit Gate, but Tu Ye refused.
• Zhong Lin told Xi Xuan that he had inherited the Undead Evil Emperor's legacy and that the Form Spirit Gate was the Emperor's life-bound divine weapon.
• Xi Xuan recognized the Form Spirit Gate as a Heavenly Mandate Emperor Tool, summoned the Heavenly Thunder Sword, and told Tu Ye to help him slay God Desolate King.

Xi Xuan confronted Saint Desolate King and Wild Desolate King over Zhong Lin’s inheritance, refusing to surrender the Form Spirit Gate. As the War Heaven Holy Land’s kings threatened the Sword Pavilion lineage, Xi Xuan summoned the divine swords of Sword Pavilion Mountain.

• Saint Desolate King appeared and interrupted Xi Xuan and Tu Ye as they prepared to confront God Desolate King.
• Saint Desolate King summoned Wild Desolate King, turning the confrontation into three War Heaven Holy Land kings against Xi Xuan and Tu Ye.
• Wild Desolate King demanded Zhong Lin’s death for killing a True Disciple, while Saint Desolate King insisted the Form Spirit Gate remain in the War Domain.
• Xi Xuan refused to give up Zhong Lin’s inheritance and opened a golden gate that summoned Sword Pavilion’s divine swords.
• Zhong Lin recognized the swords from the Scripture Pavilion and wondered how Xi Xuan had summoned them from Sword Pavilion Mountain.