Chapter Summaries

Zhong Lin used a medicinal pill and the primordial vein to break through from Nirvana Realm Perfection into the King Realm. He awakened his domain and grasped that its power came from controlling space, then wondered what power Emperor Realm martial artists wielded.

• Zhong Lin absorbed a medicinal pill and the secret realm’s primordial qi, rapidly advancing to Nirvana Realm Perfection.
• His martial arts intents battered and transformed his Natal Golden Core as Five Elements, fist, sword, and thunder powers surged around him.
• Zhong Lin broke through to the King Realm, completing his domain’s transformation and gaining a lifespan of ten thousand years.
• He formed a hundred-zhang domain infused with Five Elements light, Sword Qi, and lightning, and realized that King Realm experts controlled space.
• Zhong Lin examined the distorted world around him and wondered what power Emperor Realm martial artists controlled.

Zhong Lin explored his newly formed domain after entering the King Realm and accepted the title Eastern King from the disciples of East Peak. As Tu Ye escorted him to Fallen Sword Mountain, Zhong Lin learned about King Realm cultivation and described a change he had sensed in his golden core.

• Zhong Lin tested his domain, which stretched a hundred zhang and contained several martial intents.
• The disciples of East Peak congratulated Zhong Lin and hailed him as the Eastern King, a title Chi Zhong Lin had chosen for him.
• Zhong Lin distributed pills to the disciples before Tu Ye arrived and invited him to Fallen Sword Mountain to meet the elders and Sect Master Supreme.
• As they flew, Tu Ye explained that King Realm strength was measured by domain size and that King Realm cultivation had no minor stages.
• Tu Ye asked whether Zhong Lin's golden core had changed during his breakthrough, and Zhong Lin said something inside it seemed poised to emerge.

Zhong Lin visited Heaven Sword Holy Land’s secret realm and met Sword Emperor Feng Sihan after breaking through to the King Realm. He received an elder’s position, the Nine Dragons Divine Sword, and access to the Eight Great Martial Arts, while Great Void King and Burning Heaven Elder also welcomed him.

• Tu Ye explained the path from the King Realm to the Emperor Realm, and Zhong Lin learned that the claim about needing a ten-thousand-zhang domain was a lie.
• Tu Ye led Zhong Lin through the secret realm, where Zhong Lin saw nine sentient essence veins transformed into enormous dragons.
• Tu Ye brought Zhong Lin before Sect Master Supreme Feng Sihan, who appointed him an elder and bestowed the Nine Dragons Divine Sword and access to the Eight Great Martial Arts.
• Great Void King congratulated Zhong Lin and gave him the Spirit Wind Cauldron.
• Tu Ye introduced Burning Heaven Elder, and Zhong Lin saluted him.

Zhong Lin learned that the world’s Source had nearly run out, making the coming Two Realms War a struggle for the Blood Demon Race and Azure Origin World’s supreme experts to seize it. After leaving Fallen Sword Peak with major rewards, he returned to East King Peak and began considering how his System Panel could speed his King Realm cultivation.

• Heaven Burning King gave Zhong Lin a gourd of pills and explained that Ninth Rank pill masters used Source, a resource nearly exhausted from Azure Origin World.
• Mountain Suppressing King warned Zhong Lin that the Two Realms War would change dramatically, as Azure Origin World’s Sect Master Supremes would seek Source in Blood Hua World.
• Zhong Lin realized the war could offer a chance to seize Source, though he doubted he could reach Emperor Realm within the war’s hundred-year span.
• Zhong Lin exchanged cultivation insights with Great Void King, Heaven Burning King, and Mountain Suppressing King, then left Fallen Sword Peak with a King Artifact, two top-grade Treasure Tools, pills, elder authority, and domain insights.
• Zhong Lin returned to East King Peak, reviewed King Realm cultivation, and resolved to rely on his System Panel’s unlimited Skill Points.

Zhong Lin mastered Heaven Sword Holy Land’s remaining supreme martial arts and deepened his Sword Dao during secluded cultivation. His training ended when a blood-red scar tore across the sky above East King Peak, and he recognized it as a sign of the Blood Hua World.

• Zhong Lin used his System’s Skill Points to master Great Void Sword Formation, Myriad Spirits Blood Sacrifice, Purgatory Sword Sea, Frost and Snow Millennium, and Myriad Phenomena Returning to Truth.
• Zhong Lin reflected on the strengths and dangers of the five martial arts, including the killing intent in Myriad Spirits Blood Sacrifice and the elemental power of the frost and fire sword arts.
• Zhong Lin’s Sword Domain grew more profound, and its Sword Qi cut through space and destroyed the Space Turbulence it exposed.
• A violent tremor shook East King Peak, and Zhong Lin appeared in the void above it.
• Zhong Lin saw a blood-red scar tear across the firmament and recognized the anomaly as the Blood Hua World.

Zhong Lin and the experts of the Azure Origin World rushed to the Northern Plain after the Void Passage opened far ahead of schedule, and an overwhelming Blood Demon army poured through. As several hundred Blood Demon Kings emerged, the world’s powerful fighters began preparing to contain them on the Northern Plain.

• Feng Si Han ordered Heaven Sword Holy Land’s disciples to hunt the Blood Demons, and Zhong Lin joined Sect Master Supreme and several King Realm experts on the journey north.
• Zhong Lin and the other martial artists reached the Northern Plain and saw countless Blood Demons descend through the blood-red passage.
• Great Void King and Mountain Suppressing King attacked the approaching demons while Zhong Lin reunited with Xi Xuan, who learned that his disciple had reached the King Realm.
• Several hundred Blood Demon Kings emerged, and a War Domain expert called on the gathered fighters to keep them from escaping the Northern Plain.
• Jixiang Bodhisattva, a War Domain warrior, a Fang Family man, and a youth from the Thunder Holy Land displayed their powers against the arriving threat.

Zhong Lin defeated Blood Demon Kui Qi with a devastating punch and consumed his Blood Core to strengthen himself. When Kui Qi’s furious father appeared, Zhong Lin met his attack head-on and blasted apart his enormous palm.

• Zhong Lin unleashed his Fist Intent and shattered Kui Qi’s Blood Domain attack.
• Kui Qi transformed into an eight-headed, eight-armed form and tried to resist, but Zhong Lin’s punch reduced him to dust.
• Zhong Lin retrieved Kui Qi’s Blood Core and refined it, gaining nourishment for his body and Golden Core.
• Kui Qi’s father appeared and attacked Zhong Lin with a gigantic palm forged from origin qi.
• Zhong Lin struck back with his supreme fist seal and violently blasted apart the giant hand.

Zhong Lin revealed his overwhelming strength by defeating Blood Demon Race warriors and then battled a powerful armored King Realm Blood Demon. As other experts watched and recognized his sword and fist mastery, they learned that the Heaven Sword Holy Land’s new King Realm expert was called the Eastern King.

• Zhong Lin destroyed a Blood Demon Race warrior with a fist and swallowed a Blood Pill from the resulting blood mist.
• Zhong Lin joined the arriving warriors, slew Blood Demon Race fighters with his sword, and challenged an armored King Realm Blood Demon.
• The armored Blood Demon crushed Zhong Lin’s Sword Qi and attacked with a giant fist, forcing Zhong Lin to sharpen his sword intent under pressure.
• Zhong Lin summoned a hundred-li sword-qi dragon and exchanged hundreds of blows with the Blood Demon, drawing the attention of nearby King Realm experts.
• The onlookers identified Zhong Lin as the Heaven Sword Holy Land’s newly advanced King Realm expert who had obtained the Wu Emperor Inheritance, and discussed his title, Eastern King.

Zhong Lin killed the Blood Demon with a sword strike, establishing his dominance before the King Realm Experts of the Ten Domains of the Eastern Wasteland. The Blood Demon Race trapped him in the Heaven and Earth Wailing Grand Formation, but Zhong Lin answered with the Eastern Emperor Bell and began destroying the formation.

• Zhong Lin unleashed the Great Void Return Truth Sword Slash and cleaved apart the Blood Demon's giant hand, killing him.
• Zhong Lin took the Blood Demon's crystalline blood pellet as the onlooking experts recognized him as the strongest beneath the King Realm.
• A Half-Step Emperor Blood Demon ordered nine Ku Saint Demons to form the Heaven and Earth Wailing Grand Formation around Zhong Lin.
• Zhong Lin spread his domain and used his powerful will to resist the formation's pressure and interference.
• Zhong Lin summoned the Eastern Emperor Bell, whose toll shattered the formation's vital-energy currents and killed countless Blood Demon Race warriors.

Zhong Lin used the Eastern Emperor Bell and his fist to destroy the Blood Demon Race formation and kill its Nine Great Saint Demons and Half-Step Emperor. After the fighting paused, the Emperors summoned him and praised his strength, while Thunder Emperor tried and failed to recruit him away from Heaven Sword Holy Land.

• Zhong Lin rang the Eastern Emperor Bell twice, shattering most of the Heaven and Earth Wailing Grand Formation and crushing the Nine Great Saint Demons into Blood Pellets.
• Zhong Lin killed the Blood Demon Race Half-Step Emperor with a punch and collected his Blood Pellet.
• A horn sounded across the Northern Plain, the Blood Demon Race and Azure Origin World forces withdrew their King Realm fighters, and Holy Land disciples entered the battlefield to fight.
• Sword God Feng Si Han summoned Zhong Lin to the tower ship, where the Emperors of the Holy Lands watched him with admiration.
• Thunder Emperor offered Zhong Lin the position of vice sect master and the All Heavens Thunder Law Grand Summary, but Zhong Lin declined, reaffirming his loyalty to Feng Si Han and Heaven Sword Holy Land.
• Flower Emperor praised Zhong Lin and invited him to visit Hundred Flowers Holy Land.

Zhong Lin learned that the Emperors planned to use him as bait to lure out Demon Emperor You Boxi, and he agreed despite recognizing that he had little choice. He returned to the Northern Plain to cultivate, determined to grow strong enough to survive the coming battle, and began drawing the power of space into his body.

• Sword God Feng Si Han explained that the two worlds were using the war to train their troops and that the Emperors wanted to eliminate Demon Emperor You Boxi before the decisive battle.
• The Emperors said Zhong Lin’s strength and prominence would help lure You Boxi out, and Zhong Lin agreed to serve as bait.
• Zhong Lin realized he was still a chess piece beneath the Emperors and resolved that he needed greater strength.
• Zhong Lin returned to a barren mountain in the Northern Plain and cultivated with his Blazing Wu Fire, refining blood pills and purifying demonic qi.
• As Blood Origin strengthened his body, Zhong Lin’s domain expanded and he began drawing the power of space into every inch of his flesh.

Zhong Lin refined the Blood Demon Race’s blood pellets, strengthening his body and expanding his domain as he speculated about reaching the God Realm. A year later, he received a Jade Talisman and headed to a besieged group led by Moon Spirit King.

• Zhong Lin absorbed the blood pellets and expanded his domain while considering whether the God Realm required turning a domain into a real grotto-heaven.
• Spatial power fused with Zhong Lin’s flesh, allowing his body to store spiritual essence and further increasing his strength.
• After refining the remaining pellets, Zhong Lin formed a two-thousand-zhang domain and vowed to eventually overturn the Emperors’ plans for him.
• The war on the Northern Plain intensified over the next year, with King Realm experts joining the fighting and stronger Blood Demon Race warriors entering through the expanding Void Passage.
• Zhong Lin received a Jade Talisman and set out as Moon Spirit King and her exhausted disciples faced a Blood Demon Race assault led by a horned young man.

Fei Mo broke Moon Spirit King's barrier and began tormenting her and the Hundred Flowers Holy Land disciples until Zhong Lin arrived. Zhong Lin confronted Fei Mo, and their first clash shook the surrounding sky.

• Fei Mo and his guards trapped Moon Spirit King and the female disciples after Fei Mo shattered her barrier.
• Fei Mo drained Cai Fu's blood, killing her while Moon Spirit King watched helplessly.
• Zhong Lin arrived, and his presence killed the weaker Blood Demon Race members in an instant.
• Fei Mo recognized Zhong Lin as his enemy, summoned his natal divine weapon, and attacked him.
• Zhong Lin met Fei Mo's staff strike with a punch, and their collision sent destructive ripples across the sky.

Zhong Lin defeated and killed Fei Mo despite the Demon Emperor’s power, then faced Fei Yu’s fury. Fei Yu marked Zhong Lin as a target for the Blood Demon Race, while Zhong Lin remained defiant.

• Fei Mo unleashed the Blood Origin demonic qi left by Demon Emperor Fei Yu, healing his injuries and greatly increasing his strength.
• Zhong Lin exploited Fei Mo’s lack of control and severed his arm and iron staff with a single sword strike.
• Zhong Lin beheaded Fei Mo, consumed his blood core, and gave the iron staff to the Eastern Emperor Bell to refine.
• Demon Emperor Fei Yu saw Fei Mo’s death from afar and threatened Zhong Lin, who challenged him to come in person.
• Fei Yu marked Zhong Lin and promised a personal discipleship to whoever killed him, making Zhong Lin a target across the Blood Demon Race.

Zhong Lin killed the fourteenth Blood Demon Race Holy Demon to pursue him and continued refining Blood Pills to strengthen himself. As his domain expanded beyond five thousand zhang without reaching its limit, he sensed the emperors’ schemes nearing their final stage and prepared for a confrontation with a supreme emperor.

• Zhong Lin defeated and killed a Blood Demon Race warrior, then called out the next hidden challenger.
• A young Blood Demon attacked Zhong Lin with a crimson longsword, but Zhong Lin seized the weapon and crushed the Blood Demon's head and body.
• Zhong Lin took the Blood Pill and longsword, marking the slain warrior as the fourteenth Blood Demon Race Holy Demon he had killed since Demon Emperor Fei Yu marked him.
• Zhong Lin returned to the human race's main camp, where martial artists hailed him as the Eastern King, then went to meditate on a glacier.
• As Zhong Lin refined the Blood Pills, his domain expanded to five thousand zhang, and he wondered whether the System Panel and his max-level martial skills explained why it had not reached its limit.
• Zhong Lin continued cultivating after sensing that the emperors' schemes were nearing their final stage and that he would face a supreme emperor with a Heaven and Earth Dharma Image.