Chapter Summaries

Zhong Lin and Long Zhao returned to New Moon Island and visited Azure Moon Commerce Guild, where its founder, You Menglan, recognized their extraordinary power. Long Zhao revealed that he had once lived on the island, leaving You Menglan worried that she might have offended them.

• Zhong Lin and Long Zhao decided to return to the Fallen Star Islands and continued toward New Moon Island without stopping in Heaven Sea Kingdom.
• They arrived at New Moon Island and recalled their past stay and their conflict with Zhang Shaorong of World's End Pavilion.
• Zhong Lin and Long Zhao entered Azure Moon Commerce Guild, whose plaque bore You Menglan's Moon Artistic Conception.
• You Menglan greeted the pair after sensing their presence, and Zhong Lin asked how she was connected to Azure Moon Commerce Guild.
• You Menglan revealed that she had founded the guild, while Long Zhao said he had stayed on the island years earlier and she had not recognized him.
• You Menglan worried that she might have offended the two seniors and asked Long Zhao whether she had wronged him.

Zhong Lin and Long Zhao revisited Hammer Sea Island, prompting You Menglan to discover Zhong Lin’s past before she greeted Gu Chen. On Golden Turtle Island, Zhong Shi and Gu Yourong spoke of Zhong Lin’s return when a powerful white-haired woman appeared, declaring that she had found a descendant of the Sin Blood Emperor.

• Zhong Lin and Long Zhao left Hammer Sea Island after You Menglan learned who they were and connected Zhong Lin to the incident at World's End Pavilion.
• You Menglan welcomed Gu Chen after her attendant teased her about her feelings for him.
• Zhong Shi led Sword Cauldron Sect disciples in sword practice, then met Gu Yourong and praised her progress with the Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Scripture.
• Zhong Shi and Gu Yourong expressed confidence that Zhong Lin would return to the place where his roots lay.
• A green radiance covered Golden Turtle Island as a white-haired old woman’s power unleashed a torrent of ice from the eastern Snow Mountain.
• Yu Jinglei confronted the old woman, who identified herself as Yu Jinglei and announced that she had encountered a descendant of the Sin Blood Emperor.

Zhong Lin returned to Golden Turtle Island and rescued Shi Yunyi and the Sword Cauldron Sect from a white-haired crone who sought to awaken Shi Yunyi’s imperial bloodline and drain the island’s inhabitants. He captured her alive and began questioning her in the sect’s main hall.

• The white-haired old crone overwhelmed Yu Jinglei, seized Shi Yunyi, and identified him as a descendant of the Sin Blood Emperor.
• The crone sealed Shi Yunyi’s dantian and prepared to drain blood from Golden Turtle Island to replenish her spirit essence.
• After nearly half a month of travel, Zhong Lin and Long Zhao approached Golden Turtle Island and sensed the crone’s powerful aura.
• Zhong Lin struck the crone down, seized her by the throat, and reunited with Shi Yunyi, Yu Jinglei, and the Sword Cauldron Sect members.
• Zhong Lin sat in the sect’s main hall and ordered the kneeling crone to tell him everything he wanted to know.

Zhong Lin reunited with the Sword Cauldron Sect, revealed that he had reached the Sixth Level of the Life and Death Realm, and learned about Gu Chen’s rapid rise and unusual spirit-body breakthrough. He then spoke privately with Shi Yunyi about the truth of his ancestor’s alleged betrayal and the Blood Hua World, leaving Shi Yunyi’s origins and the ancient conflict between the two worlds under discussion.

• Zhong Lin explained the realms beyond the Profound Core Realm and said he had reached the Sixth Level of the Life and Death Realm, shocking the Sword Cauldron Sect members.
• Long Zhao reminded Zhong Shi of the dangers Zhong Lin had endured and the protection he had given his younger brother, prompting Zhong Shi to apologize before Zhong Lin reassured him.
• Yin Daoyan told Zhong Lin that Gu Chen had gone to sea three years earlier, and Yu Jinglei described how Gu Chen repeatedly gained fortuitous opportunities and had condensed a Prime Origin Body with a woman’s Prime Origin Qi.
• After the others left, Zhong Lin told Shi Yunyi that his bloodline descended from the Sin Blood Emperor and said the old woman’s account of his ancestor’s betrayal was probably true.
• Zhong Lin recounted how a spatial rift had connected the Azure Origin World to the Blood Hua World, allowing the planes to converge and their passageways to open roughly every ten thousand years.

Zhong Lin explained that Shi Yunyi was descended from the traitorous Emperor Xing, then discovered Shi Yunyi had comprehended ninety percent sword intent. After testing him with his own sword domain, Zhong Lin explained the difference between their abilities.

• Zhong Lin told Shi Yunyi that Emperor Xing had betrayed the Azure Origin World and that Shi Yunyi was likely his descendant.
• Zhong Lin reassured Shi Yunyi that he was not responsible for his ancestor’s crimes and that his imperial blood explained his exceptional talent.
• Shi Yunyi revealed that he had comprehended ninety percent sword intent, prompting Zhong Lin to test his strength with a sword storm.
• Shi Yunyi resisted the attack in a vision before Zhong Lin called him back to reality.
• Zhong Lin explained that his sword domain had surpassed sword intent and was even stronger than major completion.

Shi Yunyi learned that he could cleanse his Sin Blood only by defeating or killing the Sin Blood Emperor before the next Two Realms War, and he resolved to pursue the strength to do so. Zhong Lin reunited with Gu Yourong and promised to take her with him, then watched Zhong Shi practice the Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Scripture and recognized that he had yet to cultivate sword intent.

• Shi Yunyi pondered Zhong Lin’s warning and the Supreme Sword Dao manual, then decided to try to reach the Emperor Realm within a hundred years.
• Zhong Lin considered the threat posed by the Nine Hells Demonic Sect and went to meet Gu Yourong in the back mountain courtyard.
• Zhong Lin and Gu Yourong reunited, and he promised to take her with him when he left.
• Zhong Lin arrived at the World's End Corner Platform and watched Zhong Shi cultivate the Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Scripture.
• Zhong Lin saw that Zhong Shi had condensed the Seven Luminaries Heart Lamp but was still practicing sword techniques without cultivating sword intent.

Zhong Lin reunited with Zhong Shi, encouraged him to pursue his own path, and gave him cultivation techniques and resources. He then returned to seclusion and began comprehending the Innate Thunder Beast’s patterns, creating the Thunder Net and Thunder Escape.

• Zhong Lin found Zhong Shi practicing swordsmanship and praised his mastery of the Seven Luminaries Great Freedom Sword Scripture.
• Zhong Lin recounted his trials and urged Zhong Shi to cultivate toward his own limits; Zhong Shi resolutely agreed.
• Zhong Lin passed Zhong Shi information containing cultivation gifts, including the Undying Scripture and the Profound Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• Zhong Lin entered seclusion in the Exquisite Pagoda and studied the patterns on the sleeping Innate Thunder Beast’s back.
• Zhong Lin formed the Thunder Net from lightning and used Thunder Escape to travel a hundred li before continuing his comprehension.

Zhong Lin endured the final three Death Tribulations at once and reached Life and Death Realm Completion, using a newly comprehended art to disperse the deadly lightning. He named the art the Innate Thunder Art and began adding points as lightning bound him, while a vast thunder phenomenon spread across Golden Turtle Island.

• Zhong Lin triggered the final three Death Tribulations, and black lightning erupted from his Golden Core.
• Zhong Lin used the chaotic lightning art he had comprehended with the Innate Thunder Beast to shatter the Death Tribulation lightning and complete the Life and Death Realm.
• Zhong Lin drew the secret realm’s thunderclouds into his palm, named the new skill the Innate Thunder Art, and told the System to add points.
• Lightning chains bound Zhong Lin as the Innate Thunder Beast awoke and roared in disbelief.
• Thunderbolts swept across Golden Turtle Island, and Yu Jinglei, Shi Yunyi, Yin Daoyan, Long Zhao, and the others suspected Zhong Lin had caused the phenomenon.

Zhong Lin strengthened his Innate Thunder Art, helped the Innate Thunder Beast grow, and returned with Shi Yunyi to the spirit-poor Profound Tortoise Continent to investigate its secrets. There they reunited with Mei Weixuan at the Sword Cauldron Sect, whose mountain gate had been built around the teleportation array.

• Zhong Lin used his Innate Thunder Art to refine his cultivation and empower the Innate Thunder Beast, which came to regard him as one of its own.
• Zhong Lin spent several months consolidating his cultivation, training others, and leaving visitors to Golden Turtle Island in Yu Jinglei's hands.
• Zhong Lin and Shi Yunyi discussed hidden secrets on the Profound Tortoise Continent and traveled there through the Exquisite Pagoda's Teleportation Array.
• Zhong Lin and Shi Yunyi emerged into the Spiritless Land and reunited with Mei Weixuan, who welcomed them to the Sword Cauldron Sect's mountain gate.
• Mei Weixuan flew toward the Main Peak with his Crimson Flame Wings, and Zhong Lin flew alongside him with brighter, more powerful wings.

Zhong Lin returned to the Profound Tortoise Continent, learned that Sword Cauldron Sect had united it, and went with Shi Yunyi to investigate the Blood Cave in Black Wind Forest. After the cave nearly overwhelmed Shi Yunyi, Zhong Lin entered alone and discovered that its walls were living flesh.

• Mei Weixuan told Zhong Lin that Sword Cauldron Sect had united the Profound Tortoise Continent and that no recent demon massacres had occurred.
• Zhong Lin and Shi Yunyi traveled to the Blood Cave in Black Wind Forest to investigate its secrets.
• The Blood Cave's aura overwhelmed Shi Yunyi, and Zhong Lin rescued him before suspecting a connection to the Blood Demon Race or Nine Hells Demonic Sect.
• Zhong Lin suggested the cave might have been left behind by one of Shi Yunyi's ancestors, then entered it alone.
• Zhong Lin found that the cave's dark-red walls felt like warm flesh and grew increasingly flesh-like as he ventured deeper.

Zhong Lin found Blood Demon Gao Ran imprisoned in the Blood Cave and identified the array draining his power. After Gao Ran dropped his defiant act and begged to be released, the chapter ended with him still bound.

• Zhong Lin fought through the Blood Cave’s flesh-and-blood defenses and discovered a powerful Fist Intent coming from its depths.
• Zhong Lin traced the attack to Gao Ran, a middle-aged man bound by eighteen chains in a cavern.
• Gao Ran recognized Zhong Lin from thirteen years earlier and asked how he had advanced so quickly, but Zhong Lin demanded his name and a reason to spare him.
• Gao Ran identified himself as an elder of the Nine Nether Holy Land and claimed he did not fear death.
• Zhong Lin examined the chains and identified the Deifying Soul-Seizing Essence-Devouring Grand Array, explaining how it drained Gao Ran’s power and could only be broken from outside with brute force.
• Gao Ran lost his composure, struggled against the chains, and begged Zhong Lin to let him out.

Zhong Lin freed Gao Ran, forced him into submission, and bound his Profound Core with Sword Intent. He then revealed to Shi Yunyi that he planned to use Gao Ran to get him into the Nine Hells Demonic Sect so he could awaken his Emperor Blood.

• Zhong Lin learned that Gao Ran had been sealed by Demon Emperor You Boxi and that Gao Ran’s restored power had reached the eighth level of the Life and Death Realm.
• Gao Ran tried to attack Zhong Lin, but Zhong Lin crushed his skull and made him submit as his master.
• Zhong Lin planted Sword Intent in Gao Ran’s Profound Core, giving him control over Gao Ran’s life.
• Shi Yunyi entered the Blood Cave after seeing the blood clouds covering the sky, and Zhong Lin introduced him to Gao Ran.
• Zhong Lin told Shi Yunyi that he would use Gao Ran to send him into the Nine Hells Demonic Sect, where Shi Yunyi could awaken his Emperor Blood.

Shi Yunyi agreed to enter the Nine Hells Demonic Sect to investigate it, despite learning that the Demon Emperor was also searching for him. Zhong Lin returned to the Fallen Star Islands, severed the teleportation route to the Profound Tortoise Continent, and brought Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Gu Yourong to the Heaven Sword Holy Land.

• Zhong Lin corrected Shi Yunyi’s name for the Nine Nether Holy Land and persuaded him to treat his undercover mission as a chance to gather intelligence and eventually rebel.
• Gao Ran revealed that he had been punished for failing to find the Sin Blood Emperor’s descendants, prompting Zhong Lin to cancel Shi Yunyi’s plan before Shi Yunyi insisted on going anyway.
• Shi Yunyi left in a streak of blood-red light, and Zhong Lin worried over the dangers surrounding the Sin Blood descendant and the approaching Two Realms War.
• After returning to the Fallen Star Islands, Zhong Lin destroyed part of the Teleportation Array to prevent travel between the islands and the exposed Profound Tortoise Continent.
• Zhong Lin brought Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Gu Yourong to the Heaven Sword Holy Land, where outer sect disciples greeted him as the Sixth Saint Child.

Zhong Lin assigned East Peak’s daily affairs to trusted disciples and his companions before heading to the Sword Pavilion to prepare for the Nirvana Realm. Yu Jinglei introduced himself, Yin Daoyan, and Gu Yourong to the peak’s staff, who recognized their close ties to Zhong Lin and abandoned thoughts of competing for influence.

• Zhong Lin gave Cheng Xingye responsibility for East Peak’s medicinal fields, Jin Bo responsibility for supplies, and Yin Yong responsibility for its spirit beasts, while assigning Gu Yourong to oversee the female disciples.
• Zhong Lin told the disciples and servants to obey the three appointed managers, then flew to the Sword Pavilion to learn about breaking through to the Nirvana Realm.
• Cheng Xingye, Yin Yong, and Jin Bo approached Yu Jinglei, Yin Daoyan, and Gu Yourong to establish friendly relations.
• Yu Jinglei explained that he had once led Zhong Lin’s sect, identified Yin Daoyan as Zhong Lin’s former teacher, and introduced Gu Yourong as Zhong Lin’s beloved.
• Cheng Xingye, Yin Yong, and Jin Bo recognized the trio’s importance and gave up thoughts of competing for power.
• Yu Jinglei urged Yin Daoyan and Gu Yourong to focus on cultivation and condense Profound Cores as soon as possible.

Zhong Lin learned the Palm Prison Heart Sutra from Xi Xuan and used his System to master its principles. He discovered the art’s five elemental prisons and tested a thunder-and-water palm powerful enough to crush a mountaintop.

• Xi Xuan explained that Zhong Lin needed to face life-and-death battles to reach the Nirvana Realm and urged him to fight in the approaching Martial Path Tournament.
• Zhong Lin asked to learn the Palm Prison Heart Sutra, and Xi Xuan passed it on despite the sect’s restrictions on learning multiple great martial arts.
• Xi Xuan promised the Sect Master that he would go guard the Northern Plain for a hundred years, where experts awaited the opening of the Two Realms Passage.
• Zhong Lin used his System to understand the Palm Prison Heart Sutra’s five elemental prisons and their ability to disrupt primordial qi and manifest a crushing divine mountain.
• Zhong Lin formed a massive water palm threaded with lightning and sensed that it could press an entire mountaintop into the ground.

After twenty peaceful years at the Heaven Sword Holy Land, Zhong Lin remained short of the Nirvana Realm while his strength grew, and he learned of Gu Chen’s rise as a peerless prodigy. Chi Zhong Lin brought stolen spirit wine to lift Zhong Lin’s spirits, and the two shared it aboard their flying ship as they crossed into a desert.

• Over twenty years, Zhong Lin stayed mostly at the Heaven Sword Holy Land, integrated his martial arts, and watched new Saint Children take their places.
• Zhong Lin heard that Gu Chen of the Profound Nether Holy Land had reached the peak of the Yin Yang Realm and killed a Life and Death Realm Great Expert from the Nine Hells Demonic Sect.
• Zhong Lin resolved to break through to the Nirvana Realm rather than risk being surpassed by his disciple.
• Chi Zhong Lin visited Zhong Lin with spirit wine he had stolen from their Master, and the two drank the half-bottle together.
• Zhong Lin suggested that Chi Zhong Lin bring Eldest Senior Brother along when he stole the remaining wine, while their flying ship passed over a moonlit desert.

Zhong Lin and Chi Zhong Lin arrived at the Wu Emperor Secret Realm for the Martial Path Tournament, where disciples from the holy lands would compete and explore the Emperor’s inheritance. As the holy land leaders gathered, Zhong Lin surveyed the formidable young contenders, including Lan Ming, Chan Ning, Cong Sha Ou, and Gu Chen.

• Zhong Lin and Chi Zhong Lin discussed why the Wu Emperor Secret Realm had forced True Yang Holy Land to let tournament participants enter and explore it.
• The Heaven Sword Holy Land’s tower ship reached the secret realm, where leaders from the major holy lands gathered and traded barbed greetings about True Yang Holy Land.
• Chi Zhong Lin warned Zhong Lin that powerful new geniuses had emerged and pointed out Lan Ming, whose Myriad Tribulations Thunder Body made him exceptionally skilled with lightning arts.
• Chi Zhong Lin identified Chan Ning as the Buddha Domain’s Buddha Child, Cong Sha Ou as a bearer of the Primal Overlord Body, and Gu Chen as a famed fighter who overcame stronger opponents.

Zhong Lin explored the Wu Emperor Secret Realm, where he found powerful beasts and fire spirits whose energy could strengthen his cultivation. After crushing Ye Liyang’s Long-Armed Ape despite Ye Liyang’s plea for mercy, he faced the Ancient Spirit Holy Land disciple.

• Zhong Lin entered the Wu Emperor Secret Realm and saw its vast, scorching landscape and enormous creatures.
• Zhong Lin killed a flying dragon and discovered that fire spirits could be absorbed to improve his cultivation.
• Zhong Lin traveled through the realm, sensing powerful martial artists and fire spirits as he prepared to pursue the Wu Emperor Inheritance and break through to the Nirvana Realm.
• A Long-Armed Ape attacked Zhong Lin with a massive staff, but Zhong Lin caught it effortlessly in his palm.
• Ye Liyang of the Ancient Spirit Holy Land pleaded for Zhong Lin to spare his pet, but Zhong Lin crushed the Long-Armed Ape and calmly addressed Ye Liyang.

After killing Ye Liyang’s spirit beast, Zhong Lin defeated Ye Liyang and drove him to escape, then sought out more powerful opponents to push himself toward a breakthrough. He interrupted Chan Ning and Lan Ming’s fight over the Soul Enlightenment Grass and attacked them both.

• Zhong Lin fought Ye Liyang after crushing his spirit beast, blasting apart half of Ye Liyang’s body with Five Prisons Divine Peak, Divine Might Like Hell.
• Ye Liyang crushed his jade token and escaped, while a young man who had witnessed the battle fled after Zhong Lin departed.
• Zhong Lin sensed two powerful auras and hurried toward the battle, hoping to find opponents who could help him break through Nirvana.
• Chan Ning challenged Lan Ming’s attempt to take the Soul Enlightenment Grass, and Lan Ming attacked him.
• Zhong Lin arrived and struck both Chan Ning and Lan Ming with a punch; Chan Ning summoned Buddha Light, while Lan Ming met the blow with a lightning-covered palm.

Zhong Lin challenged Lan Ming and Little Monk Chan Ning after overpowering Lan Ming with one punch and taking the Soul Enlightenment Grass. The two joined forces against him, and their attacks collided in a battle that left the heavens and earth shattering.

• Little Monk Chan Ning tried to stop Zhong Lin from attacking, while Lan Ming flew away wounded and healed himself.
• Zhong Lin defeated Lan Ming with a single punch, then seized the Soul Enlightenment Grass and demanded that Lan Ming and Chan Ning either defeat him or die.
• Chan Ning summoned golden lotuses and Buddhist light as Lan Ming recovered and prepared to fight beside him.
• Zhong Lin unleashed the Form and Spirit Fist Way, prompting Lan Ming to wield the Silver Divine Sword and Chan Ning to strike with the Ten Thousand Buddhas Nirvana Palm.
• Zhong Lin met their combined attacks head-on, and the collision sent destructive force through the surrounding space.