Chapter Summaries

After establishing the Earth Dragon Community, Lin Yan completed his system mission and advanced to Late Earth Immortal. He stabilized his cultivation and learned from Mo Xuan that Heavenly Immortals condensed a Dao Seed to draw on the power of heaven and earth, leaving him intent on advancing quickly.

• Lin Yan erected jade tablets for the Earth Dragon Community and its rules, and the system declared the community mission complete.
• The system rewarded Lin Yan with the path to Late Earth Immortal and three Kuishui Spiritual Crystals, and he broke through to Late Earth Immortal.
• Lin Yan saw that the community members had grown stronger, while Mo Xuan explained that their new community had gathered Heaven and Earth Fortune.
• Lin Yan handed community affairs to Lin San and the others and focused on stabilizing his cultivation and studying Divine Ability Spells.
• Lin Yan asked Mo Xuan about the difference between Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals, and learned that Heavenly Immortals condensed a Dao Seed to communicate with Heaven and Earth Rules.
• Lin Yan reflected on Mo Xuan’s warning about the dangers of comprehending the Dao and resolved to cultivate faster.

Lin Yan warned the Earth Dragon Community that fierce beasts and Malevolent Qi would eventually threaten their canyon again, so he proposed expanding their territory through proactive attacks and environmental restoration. The community accepted the need to look beyond passive defenses as Lin Yan prepared to explain his expansion plan.

• Over the past century, Lin Yan consolidated his Late Earth Immortal cultivation and advanced toward the Heavenly Immortal Realm with help from the Primal Chaos Plate and the system.
• Lin Yan continued developing the area around the canyon while Mo Xuan and the earth dragons drove away fierce beasts that approached the Nine Palaces Earth Vein Great Array.
• Lin Yan gathered the Earth Dragon Community's leaders by the Spirit Spring Pool and warned that fierce beasts and Malevolent Qi could overwhelm their home in the future.
• Mo Xuan, White Horn, Lin Er, Lin San, and Lin Si suggested relying on combat strength, the array, or underground tunnels to defend the community.
• Lin Yan called for a proactive attack to eliminate fierce beasts, clear Malevolent Qi, and transform the surrounding land, then began outlining his expansion plan.

Lin Yan led the Earth Dragon Community on its first large-scale operation, defeating the three Corpse Rot Demon Crocodiles guarding Corpse Rot Swamp. Afterward, he and his allies began purifying the swamp and restoring its Earth Veins.

• Lin Yan outlined a plan to clear nearby Fierce Beast strongholds, purify Malevolent Qi, and restore the Earth Veins before expanding outward.
• Lin Yan led Mo Xuan and the Earth Dragon Community’s allies out of the canyon toward Corpse Rot Swamp.
• Three Late Earth Immortal Corpse Rot Demon Crocodiles emerged, and Lin Yan and Mo Xuan killed them with help from Lin Er and Lin Qi.
• Lin Yan summoned the Primal Chaos Plate to absorb the swamp’s Malevolent Qi, while the others helped loosen and cleanse the soil.
• Lin Yan used Earth Vein Resonance to reconnect the shattered Earth Veins, allowing Spirit Qi to flow through the swamp and gradually displace the Malevolent Qi.

Lin Yan led the Community in restoring the Corpse Rot Swamp and explained why he had preserved controlled Malevolent Qi as a resource and training hazard. Over the next century, the Community reclaimed more dangerous regions, found treasures, and welcomed new Spirit Beast races.

• Jade Spirit Deer, Colorful Cloud Sparrows, bees, and other Community Members helped transform the Corpse Rot Swamp into fertile land over ten years.
• Lin Yan told Mo Xuan that Malevolent Qi could break down decayed matter and preserve ecological balance, and he revealed his plan to use controlled remnants as Sha Qi Training Grounds.
• Lin Yan sealed the remaining Malevolent Qi with Imprisonment Runes and designated the areas as trial grounds where Community Members could temper themselves.
• Over the following hundred years, Lin Yan and the Community restored dangerous lands, including Black Wind Rift Valley and Lava Lake, while preserving controlled Sha Qi training areas.
• Lin Yan and the Community recovered treasures, distributed or relocated several of them, and discovered new Spirit Beast races that requested to join the Community.

Lin Yan expanded the Earth Dragon Community’s territory and organized its members into rotating teams to restore and protect the land. As their work transformed the region, Heavenly Dao Merit descended on Lin Yan and the community, strengthening their bodies, cultivation, and bloodlines.

• Lin Yan welcomed Stone Spirits, Crimson Blood Ginseng, and other Spirit Beasts into the community, then assigned them work suited to their talents.
• As Spirit Qi revived and greenery spread beyond the canyon, community members began exploring and hunting ferocious beasts with Mo Xuan’s help.
• Lin Yan established mixed-race teams led by elders to patrol, maintain, and guard key areas, with members rotating back to the canyon to rest and cultivate.
• The division of labor helped integrate the races and turned the Earth Dragon Community into the beginnings of a multi-race civilization.
• Golden pillars descended on Lin Yan and community members across the territory, cleansing and nourishing them with Heavenly Dao Merit.

Lin Yan used the Nine Palaces Earth Vein Array and the Primal Chaos Plate to help his companions undergo transformation after the Merit Golden Light boosted their cultivation. Qing Xin, White Horn, Zhi Nan, and Jin Ji transformed successfully, while Lin Er and Lin San emerged as tall, burly figures after Lin Yan gave them Spirit Awakening Fire Seeds and Earthen Spiritual Crystals.

• The Merit Golden Light left Lin Er, Lin San, White Horn, Zhi Nan, and Jin Ji on the verge of transformation.
• Lin Yan activated the Nine Palaces Earth Vein Array and used the Primal Chaos Plate to gather Spirit Qi for their transformations while Mo Xuan guarded them.
• Qing Xin transformed into a green-robed elder, White Horn into a young man, Zhi Nan into a winged girl, and Jin Ji into a middle-aged woman with golden wings.
• Lin Er and Lin San struggled through their transformations, so Lin Yan gave them Spirit Awakening Fire Seeds and Earthen Spiritual Crystals.
• Two bursts of spiritual mist vanished, revealing Lin Er and Lin San as tall, burly figures.

Lin Yan’s six leaders, including Lin Er and Lin San, successfully transformed, completing the Earth Dragon Community’s ecological civilization task and unlocking Lin Yan’s path to the Heavenly Immortal Realm. He formed the Kun Yuan Life and Death Dao Seed and successfully advanced to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

• Lin Er, Lin San, and four other leaders completed their transformations, and Mo Xuan praised their solid Earth Immortal foundations.
• The system declared the ecological civilization task complete and rewarded Lin Yan by removing his cultivation shackles, unlocking the Kun Yuan Thick Earth Art, and granting him Earth Vein Travel.
• Lin Yan announced that he would attempt a breakthrough and meditated at the central Array Eye of the Nine Palaces Earth Vein Array as spiritual energy gathered across the region.
• Lin Yan reflected on his life and realized that his Dao was the Path of Ecological Civilization and Earth Virtue Bearing, balancing life and death and sustaining the vitality of heaven and earth.
• Lin Yan condensed and entrusted his Kun Yuan Life and Death Dao Seed to the laws connected with the Primordial Great Earth, then broke through into the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

After advancing to the Heavenly Immortal Realm, Lin Yan received new system tasks and rewards, then asked Mo Xuan to explain the cultivation realms to the Earth Dragon Community. He sent the newly shaped members to consolidate their cultivation and planned to train them while making use of the current period without Heavenly Tribulations.

• Lin Yan reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm, and the system updated his tasks and granted him treasures, array inheritance, spiritual objects, and a new Divine Ability.
• Mo Xuan, Lin Er, Lin San, White Horn, and the others congratulated Lin Yan on his advancement.
• At Lin Yan’s request, Mo Xuan described the cultivation realms, from the Shaping Realm through the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Lin Yan told Lin Er, Lin San, and the others to consolidate their cultivation and promised to teach them cultivation methods.
• Lin Yan considered how Heavenly Tribulations might emerge in the future and urged the Earth Dragon Community to cultivate during the current Golden Window Period.

After stabilizing his Heavenly Immortal cultivation, Lin Yan refined the Heaven and Earth Bead and found that studying its Minor World could help him comprehend the Laws. He prepared to leave on a long journey through the Prehistoric World, first strengthening the Earth Dragon Community’s defenses and planning to raise its members’ intelligence.

• Lin Yan refined the Heaven and Earth Bead, became its master, and discovered that he could observe its limited Laws to aid his comprehension.
• After the system reminded him of unfinished tasks, Lin Yan decided to travel and reviewed how the Earth Dragon Community had developed under Lin San and the others.
• Lin Yan led the Community Members in building the Wutu Wasteland Suppression Great Array across the land surrounding the canyon and gave Lin San control of it.
• Lin Yan had Mo Xuan test the new array, and Mo Xuan could not break it or the inner Nine Palaces Earth Vein Great Array.
• Lin Yan decided to improve the Community Members’ intelligence and prepared to condense Spirit Awakening Fire Seeds and Enlightenment Fire Seeds.

Lin Yan enhanced twenty Community Members with Spirit Awakening Fire Seeds, then risked damage to his cultivation to give seven earth dragon subordinates Enlightenment Fire Seeds. While his brothers began a painful transformation, he recovered and checked on his Spirit Roots, which were growing or developing only very slowly.

• Lin Yan used Spirit Awakening Fire Seeds to greatly improve the spiritual intelligence of twenty Community Members, who responded with gratitude.
• Lin Yan condensed seven costly Enlightenment Fire Seeds for Lin Si through Lin Shi, warning them to guard their minds and merge the seeds with their origins.
• Lin Yan implanted the seeds, and his younger brothers endured days of pain before calming as their transformation continued; Lin Yan had Lin Er and Lin San watch over them and meditated to recover.
• After waking, Lin Yan inspected the Spirit Spring Pool and placed a Kuishui Spiritual Crystal beside the Pure World White Lotus, while noting the growth of the Star Fruit, Moonlight Grass, and Vajra Bamboo.
• Lin Yan examined the Bodhi Seed and the two other seeds from Old Daoist Hongjun, found that they were developing very slowly, and threatened the two dormant seeds before leaving.

Ten years later, Lin Yan prepared to leave Canyon Home with Mo Xuan, entrusting the community’s care and defenses to Lin San. As Lin Yan and Mo Xuan headed toward Qilin Cliff, they challenged each other to a race to Black Mountain, where Lin Yan revealed his Earth Escape Technique was far faster than Mo Xuan expected.

• Lin Yan said goodbye to his brothers and the community members, then left the Five Elements Beads with Lin San to help defend Canyon Home.
• Lin Yan instructed Lin Er, Lin San, White Horn, and the other leaders to protect the community and guide its members while he was away.
• Lin Yan and Mo Xuan departed for Qilin Cliff, planning to visit Mo Xuan’s home before traveling to Buzhou Mountain.
• Mo Xuan teased Lin Yan about his slow flying, so Lin Yan proposed a race to Black Mountain.
• Lin Yan vanished into the earth and sped underground, prompting Mo Xuan to race after him through the sky.

Lin Yan tested his Earth Vein Travel ability and explored the harsh wilderness beyond the Earth Dragon Community with Mo Xuan, recording its creatures and dangers. After hearing an urgent dragon’s roar and the sounds of battle ahead, they hurried toward the disturbance.

• Lin Yan used Earth Vein Travel to reach Black Mountain before Mo Xuan and surveyed the Malevolent Qi-ravaged wilderness beyond it.
• Lin Yan and Mo Xuan traveled together, using the System Atlas to identify unfamiliar creatures, plants, and ores while witnessing ecological destruction.
• The pair intervened in several conflicts but were forced to flee after a Mysterious Immortal-level fierce beast overwhelmed them, and Mo Xuan needed nearly a hundred years to recover.
• Lin Yan and Mo Xuan continued their journey, fighting weaker beasts and avoiding stronger ones as they recorded dangerous regions.
• In a range of red mountains, Lin Yan and Mo Xuan heard an urgent dragon’s roar and the sounds of fierce beasts and spells colliding, then rushed toward the battle.

Lin Yan and Mo Xuan saved the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, Ao Ye, from a pack of Sha beasts and defeated its three strongest attackers. After the surviving beasts fled, the wounded dragon thanked them and introduced himself, prompting Lin Yan to mistake his name for a phrase about staying up all night.

• Lin Yan and Mo Xuan found Ao Ye, a wounded Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, being overwhelmed by Sha beasts led by three Heavenly Immortal Late Stage creatures.
• Lin Yan ordered Mo Xuan to attack, then killed the Earth Sha Flame Demon with the Earth Spirit Seal after Ao Ye and Mo Xuan wounded it.
• Lin Yan disrupted the beasts with earth-element spells and the Primal Chaos Plate, helping Mo Xuan and Ao Ye defeat the Bone-Corroding Flying Monkey and trap it in the Heaven and Earth Bead.
• Mo Xuan and Lin Yan combined their attacks to kill the Hundred-Legged Sha Centipede, causing the remaining beasts to flee.
• Ao Ye shrank to a small golden dragon, thanked Lin Yan and Mo Xuan, and introduced himself; Lin Yan joked about his name sounding like staying up all night.

Lin Yan and Mo Xuan rescued Ao Ye, purified his wounds, and followed him to the Nine-Petaled Crimson Flame Lotus he had risked his life to claim. Lin Yan discovered that removing the lotus would destroy the local ecosystem and urged Ao Ye to leave it, leaving Ao Ye torn between the treasure and the lives it sustained.

• Lin Yan used the Primal Chaos Plate to remove the malevolent qi from Ao Ye's wounds, and Ao Ye thanked him and Mo Xuan for saving his life.
• Ao Ye explained that he had been surrounded by fierce beasts while trying to take the Nine-Petaled Crimson Flame Lotus, a rare fire-type Innate Spiritual Root.
• Ao Ye led Lin Yan and Mo Xuan underground to a Lava Lake where the lotus grew among converging Earth Fire Spirit Veins.
• Lin Yan scanned the area and discovered that removing the lotus would destabilize the fire veins and cause the surrounding living beings to perish.
• Lin Yan asked Ao Ye to leave the lotus in place, and Ao Ye hesitated over whether to give up the treasure.

Lin Yan offered Ao Ye a Lihuo Spirit Crystal in exchange for leaving the Nine-Petaled Crimson Flame Lotus untouched, and Ao Ye declined the crystal and joined Lin Yan and Mo Xuan on their travels. As Ao Ye explained the balance of power in the Primordial World, the trio spent nearly a thousand years exploring and surviving dangerous encounters.

• Lin Yan offered Ao Ye a Lihuo Spirit Crystal as compensation for not taking the Crimson Flame Lotus, but Ao Ye refused the gift and left the lotus untouched.
• Mo Xuan and Ao Ye joked with each other, and Ao Ye decided to travel with Lin Yan and Mo Xuan.
• Ao Ye told Lin Yan and Mo Xuan about the Great Beings fighting ferocious beasts and the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans helping restore order to the Primordial World.
• Lin Yan reflected on how his knowledge of the future might affect the Great Desolation Trend and decided to wait and see.
• The trio traveled across the Primordial World for nearly a thousand years, fought many ferocious beasts, and narrowly escaped death several times using their life-preserving methods.

Lin Yan and his companions journeyed through the Primordial Heaven and Earth, fighting dangerous beasts and surveying ten regions, which earned Lin Yan a breakthrough to Heavenly Immortal Middle Stage. After learning why Mo Xuan and Ao Ye had not transformed, Lin Yan regretted asking and privately consoled himself by thinking of Hongjun.

• Lin Yan, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye defeated a Nine Nether Howler after a long, punishing battle and spent decades recovering.
• Lin Yan used the Mini Ecology Simulator to assess treasures and map the environments they crossed, while persuading Ao Ye to leave behind resources that would harm local ecosystems.
• After the trio defeated Mysterious Ice Sha Moths, Lin Yan restored the valley and completed the System's survey mission, raising his cultivation to Heavenly Immortal Middle Stage.
• Ao Ye and Mo Xuan explained that top-tier divine beasts delayed transformation until after reaching the True Immortal Realm to protect their bloodlines and Dao paths.
• Lin Yan regretted asking why they had not transformed and privately thought that Hongjun would eventually overpower the two proud divine beasts.

Lin Yan, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye encountered a Mysterious Immortal-level ferocious beast in the Myriad Ravine Ancient Plain and were nearly killed when it trapped them. A powerful Qilin figure rescued them, and Mo Xuan recognized him as Third Uncle Xuan Yue.

• Lin Yan, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye approached the Qilin Clan's sphere of influence and entered the Myriad Ravine Ancient Plain.
• A Giant Ape-shaped ferocious beast emerged from a ravine and revealed itself as a Mysterious Immortal-level threat.
• The beast imprisoned the three with its power, and their attacks failed to stop its descending claw.
• An Earthy Yellow Radiance struck the claw and freed Lin Yan, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye.
• A Qilin warrior in gold-and-red armor arrived with several followers, and Mo Xuan recognized him as Third Uncle Xuan Yue.

Elder Xuan Yue arrived and drove off the fierce beast, impressing Lin Yan with his mastery of the Heaven and Earth Laws. He then ordered Mo Xuan, Lin Yan, and Ao Ye to join the patrol until its mission ended, after which they would visit Qilin Cliff.

• Elder Xuan Yue attacked the ape-shaped fierce beast with his Fang Tian Hua Ji, piercing its body and threatening its Origin Sha Core.
• The fierce beast detonated much of its body and burned its Origin Sha Core to escape into the ravine, and Elder Xuan Yue complained that it had gotten away again.
• Lin Yan was awed by Elder Xuan Yue's power, and the Kun Yuan Life and Death Dao Seed in the void resonated with his insights into cultivation.
• Elder Xuan Yue questioned Mo Xuan about leaving Qilin Cliff without permission, and Mo Xuan said the Old Ancestor had told him to travel.
• Mo Xuan introduced Lin Yan and Ao Ye to Elder Xuan Yue, who invited them to Qilin Cliff after the patrol mission and assigned them to Shi Yue's squad.
• Shi Yue introduced himself and warned Lin Yan and Ao Ye to obey orders during patrol, then began introducing the squad members.

Shi Yue introduced Lin Yan, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye to his diverse, powerful Patrol Team, which then set out to inspect the southwest border of the Myriad Ravine Ancient Plain. During the journey, Lin Yan learned how the Kirin, Dragon, and Phoenix Clans organized and governed their allied races, leaving him considering how their different systems might shape his future dealings with them.

• Shi Yue introduced the Patrol Team’s members and explained their varied roles and abilities to Lin Yan, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye.
• Elder Xuan Yue warned the squad about the fierce beasts in the southwest border region, then led everyone out on patrol.
• The Patrol Team advanced in a disciplined formation, with scouts and flank guards eliminating beasts while Lin Yan, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye traveled near the center.
• Mo Xuan and Ao Ye debated whether the Kirin Clan’s alliance treated other races more fairly than the Dragon Clan’s hierarchy.
• Lin Yan learned that the Kirin Clan relied on a pact of allied races, the Dragon Clan governed through a strict hierarchy, and the Phoenix Clan left much regional authority to affiliated races.

The Patrol Team attacked Black Wind Valley and killed the True Immortal Black Wind Weasel before it could further contaminate the Earth Veins. Afterward, Lin Yan used the Primal Chaos Plate and his Earth abilities to cleanse the valley and restore its Earth Veins.

• Golden Feather warned Shi Yue that fierce beasts had gathered near Black Wind Valley and might include a True Immortal-level beast, so Shi Yue ordered the Patrol Team to attack.
• Shi Yue assigned the team to assault the beasts, block their escape routes, and protect and stabilize the Earth Veins as the battle began.
• Lin Yan used the Mini Ecology Simulator to find hidden underground beasts and warned Shi Yue, who sent Chuan Shan underground with Lin Yan to stop their ambush.
• Shi Yue, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye killed the Black Wind Weasel, and the Patrol Team hunted down the remaining beasts.
• Lin Yan absorbed the valley's Malevolent Qi with the Primal Chaos Plate and used the Law of Earth and Earth Vein Resonance to clear and reconnect the damaged Earth Veins.