Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan learned that Yin Yang and Qiankun had come to the Phoenix Clan seeking troops for the Dragon Clan, while he waited for news about his friends and the Northern Darkness Ice Plain. At the council, the Phoenix Ancestor and Yuan Huang agreed that aid should be sent, but the clan leaders still had to decide whether to commit their forces.

• Taiyi suggested Lin Yan remain with the Phoenix Clan until it sent reinforcements north, and Li Zhu said Yin Yang and Qiankun might be seeking the same support.
• Lin Yan asked Li Zhu to find where the two visitors were staying so he could learn about the Northern Darkness battlefront, and she went to investigate.
• Yin Yang and Qiankun urged the Phoenix Clan council to aid the Dragon Clan, warning that fierce beast armies threatened the Northern Darkness and other regions.
• The Yuan Chu and Honghu clan chiefs raised concerns about withdrawing troops, while Qiankun explained that the Kirin Clan had already sent forces to the eastern and western seas.
• The Phoenix Ancestor and Yuan Huang agreed to send troops to support the Dragon Clan and asked the clan leaders for their views.

The Phoenix Clan agreed to send a million-strong relief army to aid the Dragon Clan, but its leaders disputed who should command it. Daoist Qiankun proposed a competition between elite battalions, while Lin Yan, Di Jun, and Taiyi arrived at the Innate Divine Being Alliance Army’s camp to seek information about the northern war.

• The Phoenix Clan leaders agreed to contribute troops and supplies, forming a relief force with more than a million soldiers and eight Golden Immortal-level strategic deterrents.
• The clan leaders hesitated over who would command the allied army, so Daoist Qiankun proposed that elite battalions compete to clear Fierce Beast Strongholds near Buzhou Mountain within ten years.
• The Phoenix Ancestor invited Ancestor Yin Yang and Daoist Qiankun’s Innate Divine Being force to join the competition, and the clans agreed to the plan.
• The leaders discussed the allied army’s composition and left to select their battalions.
• Li Zhu led Lin Yan, Di Jun, and Taiyi to the Innate Divine Being Alliance Army’s camp to meet Ancestor Yin Yang and Daoist Qiankun and ask about the Northern Darkness Ice Plain.
• The guards told Li Zhu that Ancestor Yin Yang and Daoist Qiankun were discussing matters in Nirvana Hall, and the four entered the busy camp to wait.

Daoist Zhunti led Li Zhu, Lin Yan, Di Jun, and Taiyi around the camp and introduced them to its prominent cultivators. The group met future great figures including Jieyin, the Three Pure Ones, Minghe, Fuxi, Nuwa, Zhen Yuanzi, and Hongyun, leaving them welcomed among the camp’s defenders.

• Daoist Zhunti met Li Zhu and her companions, then offered to show them around the camp.
• Zhunti brought the group to an open gathering place and introduced Lin Yan, Di Jun, and Taiyi to the assembled cultivators.
• Zhunti introduced Jieyin and the Three Pure Ones, and Tongtian invited Taiyi to exchange pointers in combat and swordsmanship.
• Zhunti introduced Minghe, Fuxi, and Nuwa, whose abilities and unusual temperaments impressed Lin Yan.
• Zhunti introduced Zhen Yuanzi, Hongyun, and several other powerful cultivators, and the group exchanged cordial greetings.

Lin Yan reunited with Ancestor Yin Yang and Daoist Qiankun at the Phoenix Clan camp, where they discussed the stalled war in Northern Darkness and plans to send reinforcements. Lin Yan agreed to return with the Allied Army, while the seniors invited him, Di Jun, and Taiyi to compete for command of the forces.

• Lin Yan introduced himself to the gathered cultivators and described how a Space-element Golden Immortal Beast had brought him to Buzhou Mountain.
• Ancestor Yin Yang and Daoist Qiankun returned to camp, recognized Lin Yan, and praised his rapid cultivation, drawing the assembly's attention to him.
• Lin Yan asked about Mo Xuan and Ao Ye, and Daoist Qiankun explained that the Dragon Clan was under pressure as fierce beast reinforcements gathered.
• Ancestor Yin Yang announced that the Phoenix Clan would send a million troops north and that the Allied Army commander would be chosen through a contest to clear fierce beast strongholds.
• Daoist Qiankun invited Lin Yan to travel back to Northern Darkness with the Allied Army, and Lin Yan agreed to remain and accept orders.
• Ancestor Yin Yang invited Lin Yan, Di Jun, and Taiyi to compete for command and help the Divine Lineage establish itself in the coming war.

The Sacred Alliance and Phoenix Clan squads prepared for the competition, then drew targets for their strongholds. As the Sacred Alliance traveled toward Black Nightmare Marsh, Lin Yan’s scouting revealed nearby beast groups and sparked a disagreement over whether to attack them.

• Li Zhu decided to join the Phoenix Main Branch squad and challenged Lin Yan, Di Jun, and Taiyi to compete against her.
• Yue Jian was chosen to command the Sacred Alliance squad, while the Phoenix Main Branch appointed Chi Yu as its commander and Li Zhu as its squad leader.
• Yue Jian drew Black Nightmare Marsh as the Sacred Alliance’s target, a stronghold inhabited by two powerful Mysterious Immortal beasts and many lesser fierce beasts.
• The Sacred Alliance squad left Buzhou Mountain with Bai Zhi as its observing supervisor and traveled toward the marsh.
• Lin Yan returned from scouting with a detailed map of nearby beast groups and recommended detouring around a suspected beast nest.
• Taiyi and others volunteered to attack a nearby group, but Di Jun cautioned that doing so could exhaust the squad before it reached Black Nightmare Marsh, and Yue Jian asked Lin Yan for his view.

Lin Yan turned two fierce beast strongholds into training battles, exposing the camp’s poor coordination and then demonstrating how disciplined planning could reduce losses. Three months later, the now more orderly Sacred Alliance camp arrived at Black Nightmare Marsh.

• Lin Yan advised Yue Jian to use two fierce beast strongholds to train the troops, and Yue Jian assigned Taiyi, Minghe, and Zhunti to lead the first assault with three hundred Heavenly Immortals.
• Taiyi, Minghe, and Zhunti’s forces quickly defeated the first stronghold but suffered twenty deaths and many serious injuries because they fought without coordination.
• Lin Yan criticized the first battle’s disorganization, and Di Jun and Yue Jian agreed that the army needed discipline and coordination.
• Lin Yan commanded the assault on the second stronghold according to a detailed plan, killing more than five hundred fierce beasts with no deaths and only minor injuries among his troops.
• The camp adopted stricter discipline and improved through further planned battles as Lin Yan’s prestige rose, and three months later it reached Black Nightmare Marsh.

Lin Yan mapped Black Nightmare Marsh and its fierce beasts in detail, then presented a plan to lure away the two Mysterious Immortal overlords and trap the remaining forces. Yue Jian approved the strategy and ordered the camp to prepare for an attack in three months.

• Lin Yan used the Deduction Sand Table to chart Black Nightmare Marsh, its beast formations, blind spots, and underground channels.
• Lin Yan explained the two Mysterious Immortal beasts’ positions and abilities, then outlined a four-step plan to isolate and annihilate the fierce beasts.
• Yue Jian and the Three Pure Ones agreed to occupy or draw away the two Mysterious Immortal beasts while Lin Yan and the other True Immortal fighters attacked their support forces.
• Lin Yan assigned the remaining cultivators to pressure the beasts toward the north, where Di Jun and Fuxi would prepare a trapping and killing formation.
• Yue Jian approved Lin Yan’s plan and ordered the camp to prepare for an attack in three months.

Lin Yan led the Sacred Alliance Army in a carefully planned assault that drew the fierce beasts into a deadly formation and destroyed most of their forces. The surviving Mysterious Immortal beasts fled, and Lin Yan emerged as the army’s unquestioned central figure.

• Yue Jian and the Three Pure Ones engaged the Hundred-Eyed Poison Flood Dragon and Iron-Bone Crocodile Dragon while Lin Yan’s squads struck fierce beast leaders around Black Nightmare Marsh.
• Lin Yan’s coordinated feints drove tens of thousands of fierce beasts north, where Di Jun and Fuxi activated the Starlight Lock God Formation and Innate Eight Trigrams Sealing Formation.
• Lin Yan ordered the Sacred Alliance Army to turn its feints into a full assault, trapping and annihilating the disorganized fierce beasts inside the formation.
• Lin Yan and the other Innate Divine Beings helped finish off the trapped forces, while the Hundred-Eyed Poison Flood Dragon and Iron-Bone Crocodile Dragon fled deeper into the swamp.
• The army tallied eighty-eight True Immortal beasts and more than ten thousand lesser beasts slain, and Yue Jian and the others recognized Lin Yan’s leadership.

After the victory at Black Nightmare Marsh, Lin Yan led Nuwa, Zhen Yuanzi, Laozi, and the other Innate Divine Beings in restoring the polluted land. As the Alliance Army returned to Buzhou Mountain, Yue Jian resolved to urge Yin and Yang and Qiankun to keep Lin Yan in their ranks.

• Lin Yan asked Nuwa, Zhen Yuanzi, and Laozi to help restore Black Nightmare Marsh, and the Primal Chaos Plate began converting Malevolent Qi and Blood Fury Qi into Spirit Qi.
• Lin Yan shared Spiritual Energy Guidance Routes with the three, and Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to clear and guide the Earth Veins.
• Nuwa and Laozi nurtured grass and planted spirit herb seeds while Lin Yan reinforced the Earth Veins and improved the soil.
• Other Team Members joined the restoration, and Minghe absorbed Blood Fiend Qi as the Primal Chaos Plate steadily cleared the Malevolent Qi.
• Black Nightmare Marsh regained signs of life before the Sacred Alliance camp withdrew, and Supervisor Bai Zhi recorded Lin Yan's contributions.
• On the return to Buzhou Mountain, Yue Jian saw the Innate Divine Beings flying in military formation and decided to report Lin Yan's value to Yin and Yang and Qiankun.

After Lin Yan distinguished himself in the Black Nightmare Marsh Battle, he and several powerful allies were assigned to the Northern Expedition Allied Army’s Stratagem Camp. During the army’s long-range teleportation toward the Northern Darkness, Lin Yan used the Heaven and Earth Bead to ease the spatial pressure on himself and those beside him, and the first group reached a Kirin Clan transfer point.

• The Phoenix Main Branch’s camp ranked first in the battle assessment, while Lin Yan earned widespread praise for his command of the Innate Divine Being Alliance Army’s forces.
• Chi Xiao was named commander of the Northern Expedition Allied Army, and Headquarters transferred Lin Yan, Di Jun, Taiyi, Fuxi, Nuwa, and others to the Right Army’s Stratagem Camp.
• The Northern Expedition Allied Army assembled a million troops, and Lin Yan joined the first group to depart through the Phoenix Clan’s South Bright Teleportation Hall.
• During the teleportation, Lin Yan used the Heaven and Earth Bead to reduce the spatial pressure on himself and help Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, and the others nearby.
• After several teleportation jumps, the group arrived at the Kirin Clan’s Flying Tiger Hall and was ordered to rest for ten days.

Lin Yan visited Mysterious Qilin Cave during the army’s rest, learned that Lin Jiu and Lin Shi were preparing for Transformation and that the Kirin Clan faced growing Fierce Beast threats, and left them gifts. After the army reached the Northern Darkness Ice Plain, Stratagem Camp was ordered to seize Ice Ridge Bay and establish a foothold.

• Lin Yan hurried to Qilin Cliff and reunited with Madam Xuan Ji, who told him Lin Jiu and Lin Shi were secluded in Quiet Heart Cave preparing for Transformation.
• Madam Xuan Ji warned Lin Yan that Fierce Beast activity had surged near the Kirin, Dragon, and Phoenix Clan borders, and Lin Yan entrusted her with gifts for Lin Jiu and Lin Shi.
• Lin Yan returned to Flying Tiger Hall and continued north with the army through several years of teleportation.
• The army arrived at the North Sea Frostfall Plain Teleportation Array, where the herald ordered Stratagem Camp to lead the advance to Ice Ridge Bay and defeat the Ice Soul Demon Ape’s forces.
• Lin Yan, Di Jun, Taiyi, and the rest of Stratagem Camp departed for Ice Ridge Bay to clear the Fierce Beasts and secure a base for the army.

Lin Yan led the Stratagem Camp’s attack on Ice Ridge Bay, coordinating frontal, flank, and underwater assaults while Elder Li Yan fought the Ice Soul Demon Ape. The camp routed the fierce beasts, and the wounded demon ape escaped into the deep sea.

• General Chi Li told Lin Yan that Elder Li Yan had gone ahead to engage the Ice Soul Demon Ape and that Lin Yan’s plans would take priority.
• Lin Yan used the Ecological Deduction Sandbox to locate the fierce beasts and proposed a three-pronged attack, which General Chi Li approved.
• General Chi Li led the frontal assault as Di Jun, Taiyi, and the others raided the flank, while Lin Yan took a force underwater.
• Lin Yan planted Gui Water Yin Thunder bolts near an underwater lair, then detonated them as Zhen Yuanzi, Nuwa, and Fuxi activated the Earth Carries Water Covers formation.
• Lin Yan and his allies trapped and attacked the underwater beasts, throwing the fierce beast army into chaos as the Stratagem Camp pressed its assault.
• Elder Li Yan wounded the Ice Soul Demon Ape, which abandoned an arm and fled into the deep sea.

After the Phoenix Allied Forces secured Ice Ridge Bay, Lin Yan attended a council where Ao Qin outlined the Northern Darkness battlefield and the danger of two incoming Fierce Beast Armies. The Dragon and Phoenix commanders considered a plan to assassinate enemy leaders before the reinforcements arrived.

• The Phoenix forces and the Stratagem Camp finished clearing Ice Ridge Bay and built a fortified camp as the allied army arrived.
• Lin Yan was summoned to the Main Military Tent, where he joined Dragon and Phoenix commanders discussing the war.
• Ao Qin reported that two Fierce Beast Armies of about one million each, including several Golden Immortal Beasts, would reach the battlefield within a thousand years.
• Chi Li proposed crushing the Ice Sha Mysterious Tortoise's force before reinforcements arrived, but Ao Qin warned that a frontal assault would cause heavy casualties.
• Ao Qin proposed sending an elite Dragon and Phoenix force to assassinate True Immortal-level fierce beast leaders, then attacking amid the resulting chaos.

Lin Yan led the Stratagem Camp to clear a fierce beast stronghold, then discovered the Ye Character Camp surrounded and led a rescue that turned the battle around. After the fierce beasts fled, Lin Yan reunited with Ao Ye, Mo Xuan, and Kunpeng.

• Lin Yan took a Stratagem Camp force to an Ice Rift Valley and led them in killing the Ice Scorpion King and the other fierce beasts there.
• Lin Yan detected a major battle nearby and hurried with the Stratagem Camp to investigate.
• Lin Yan found the Ye Character Camp, led by Ao Ye, Mo Xuan, and Kunpeng, surrounded by more than twenty thousand fierce beasts.
• Lin Yan and the Stratagem Camp broke through the encirclement and joined the Ye Character Camp in attacking the fierce beasts from both sides.
• The allied forces killed many fierce beasts and drove off the survivors, then began tending to the wounded as Lin Yan approached Ao Ye, Mo Xuan, and Kunpeng.

Lin Yan reunited with Ao Ye, Mo Xuan, and Kunpeng after rescuing the Ye Character Camp from a fierce beast encirclement. He introduced his Stratagem Camp companions to his old friends, and both groups began to bond as fellow fighters.

• Lin Yan reunited with Ao Ye, Mo Xuan, and Kunpeng, who welcomed him back and told him how the Ye Character Camp had endured years of fighting and heavy losses.
• Ao Ye invited Lin Yan to return as commander of the Ye Character Camp, but Lin Yan declined tactfully, praising the three friends’ growth and leadership.
• Lin Yan described his years away and learned that the Ye Character Camp had suffered setbacks without his strategic guidance, though Ao Ye, Mo Xuan, and Kunpeng had advanced to True Immortal Late Stage.
• Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, Fuxi, and the other Stratagem Camp members joined them, and Lin Yan introduced both groups to each other.
• Ao Ye and Taiyi praised the Ye Character Camp’s discipline and resilience, and the two groups grew familiar through conversation.

After Lin Yan reunited with the Ye Character Camp and led it alongside the Stratagem Camp to clear fierce beast strongholds, the Two Clans High Command appointed him commander of the Tenth Raid Vanguard Camp. He began preparing to lead ten thousand troops deep into enemy territory as the decisive war approached.

• Lin Yan reunited with Rock Mountain and other Ye Character Camp veterans, then led the two camps in clearing three fierce beast strongholds.
• The allied camps returned to Ice Ridge Bay, where Chi Xiao summoned Lin Yan to a military conference.
• Chi Xiao announced the formation of ten Raid Vanguard Camps and named Lin Yan commander of the Tenth Camp despite his True Immortal cultivation.
• Ao Qin praised Lin Yan's past service and invited him to join the Dragon Army in the future, while Lin Yan vowed to fulfill the mission.
• Chi Xiao approved Li Zhu and her elite squad joining Lin Yan's camp, and warned him about the dangers awaiting deep in fierce beast territory.

Lin Yan formed the Sharp Blade Camp from elite Phoenix Clan and allied forces, reorganized its ten thousand members, and trained them in combat. After nearly a century of drills, the camp entered the Northern Darkness Fierce Beast Occupied Zone for a raid, where Lin Yan led its cautious advance.

• Lin Yan recruited Jin Hao, Xuan Yi, Bai Yu, and other elites into his camp while retaining the core members of Stratagem Camp.
• Lin Yan organized the ten thousand troops into combat, support, defense, logistics, and direct guard units led by experienced members.
• Lin Yan took the camp outside Ice Ridge Bay to fight small Fierce Beast Groups and test its coordination with sudden orders.
• Over nearly a hundred years of real-combat training, the Sharp Blade Camp developed into a disciplined force with strong morale.
• The ten Raid Camps received orders to deploy in separate batches, and Lin Yan's Sharp Blade Camp entered the Northern Darkness Fierce Beast Occupied Zone.
• Lin Yan used the Deduction Sand Table to survey the area and ordered his troops to advance quietly, avoid small groups when possible, and end unavoidable fights quickly.

Lin Yan led the Sharp Blade Camp on successful raids behind the Fierce Beast Army’s lines, using the Deduction Sand Table to strike vulnerable targets while keeping casualties low. When two Raid Camps became trapped by a much larger force, he decided to help them through a diversion and a strike at the encirclement’s weakest point.

• Lin Yan ordered a raid on Ice Rift Canyon, where the Sharp Blade Camp killed five True Immortal Fierce Beasts, destroyed their lair, and withdrew with no deaths.
• Over the following years, Lin Yan used the Deduction Sand Table and a fifty-member Decapitation Squad to attack enemy strongholds, leaders, and supplies while avoiding heavy losses.
• The Fierce Beast Army launched large-scale searches and encirclements, forcing other Raid Camps to suffer casualties, retreat, or disband, while the Sharp Blade Camp continued its raids.
• Lin Yan learned that two Raid Camps were trapped by more than fifty thousand fierce beasts, including three Mysterious Immortal Grade beasts, and chose to rescue them without attacking head-on.
• Lin Yan sent Di Jun to lead a diversion on the northwest flank and led more than three thousand troops toward the weaker southeastern edge of the encirclement.

Lin Yan broke the encirclement of fifty thousand fierce beasts and rescued the remnants of the Dragon Clan’s Second Raid Camp and the Phoenix Clan’s Seventh Raid Camp, which then joined Sharp Blade Camp. After a century of raids weakened the beast army, the fierce beasts launched a massive sweep, leaving Lin Yan worried about his missing allies as his own camp came under pressure.

• Lin Yan led Sharp Blade Camp through a breach opened with help from Di Jun’s decoy force and rescued Qing Lin’s Phoenix Clan remnants and the Qiu Dragon King’s Dragon Clan remnants.
• Lin Yan brought the roughly four thousand survivors to safety, and the Qiu Dragon King and Qing Lin pledged their troops to his command.
• Sharp Blade Camp absorbed the remnants, grew to more than thirteen thousand members, and launched increasingly bold raids on fierce beast strongholds.
• Over a century, Sharp Blade Camp destroyed thousands of lairs and strongholds, killed more than five hundred beast leaders, and worsened disorder within the fierce beast army.
• The fierce beasts mobilized more than three hundred thousand elites into ten Cleansing Corps, and five Raid Camps were crippled and disbanded within ten years.
• Lin Yan learned that Ao Ye, Mo Xuan, Kunpeng, and their fellow soldiers had gone missing after their camps disbanded, but he could not leave to search for them because Sharp Blade Camp was under pressure.

The Sharp Blade Camp was discovered and trapped in Cold Rift Canyon by a vast force of fierce beasts led by at least one Golden Immortal Beast. Lin Yan organized a layered defense, and the camp fought to hold the canyon as its formations came under attack.

• Di Jun warned Lin Yan that fierce beast patrols had intensified, and Lin Yan suspected a Golden Immortal Beast had tracked the camp.
• Lin Yan ordered the Sharp Blade Camp to stop attacking and evade the systematic search, but six months later the camp was surrounded in Cold Rift Canyon.
• Lin Yan assessed the enemy force and ordered the camp to establish formations, traps, and layered defenses instead of attempting a suicidal breakout.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun used the Nine Heavens Yellow Sand Formation to repel successive waves until the array shattered during the seventh assault.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun activated the Two Forms Dust Formation, trapping the attacking beasts but straining their magic power and leaving them bleeding.