Arc 3From Canyon Home to the North Sea

Lin Yan helped the Kirin Clan oppose the fierce beasts, then returned to Canyon Home and saved it from a devastating siege. After rebuilding the Earth Dragon Community, he traveled north to find Mo Xuan and Ao Ye, reaching the North Sea after aiding survivors along the way.

  • Hongjun, Luohu, Ancestor Yin Yang, Daoist Qiankun, and Ancestor Qilin organized the clans and their allies to fight the rising fierce beast threat, while Lin Yan chose to join the struggle.
  • Lin Yan patrolled with Shi Yue’s team for three thousand years, earned the Kirin Clan’s support, and broke through to the True Immortal Realm after completing his system task.
  • Lin Yan formed the Wutu Special Operations Team and led it across the devastated lands to Canyon Home, where the Earth Dragon Community had endured a decade-long siege.
  • Lin Yan took control of Canyon Home’s arrays and led raids against the fierce beasts, while awakening the intelligence and cultivation potential of community members.
  • When the fierce beasts retreated toward Gray Valley, Lin Yan followed the Primal Chaos Plate and encountered a Golden Immortal Beast above a Chaos Sea.
  • The Chaos Eternal Treasure Furnace emerged, sealed and refined the Golden Immortal Beast, and absorbed the Chaos Sea before returning to Lin Yan.
  • Lin Yan cultivated to the True Immortal Mid Stage, then established community committees, guards, courts, and shared rules as Canyon Home expanded and prospered.
  • After learning that Mo Xuan and Ao Ye were missing at the North Sea Dragon Palace, Lin Yan left Lin Jiu and Lin Shi at Qilin Cliff and traveled north, rescuing survivors until he reached the North Sea.
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Ch. 51Great Desolation Trend

As the fierce beasts gathered and threatened the Prehistoric World, the great powers agreed to unite the clans and Innate Divine Beings to confront them. Lin Yan resolved to take part but weighed how to protect his Pure Land without becoming entangled in the three clans’ struggle for supremacy.

  • Ancestor Yin Yang and Daoist Qiankun warned that fierce beasts were gathering across the Primordial Fierce Lands and under the four Kings of Fierce Beasts.
  • Luohu agreed to fight the fierce beast kings if Hongjun took the lead, and Hongjun urged the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans to unite the world’s forces.
  • Ancestor Qilin accepted responsibility for the Qilin Clan and called for Hongjun and Luohu to confront the strongest beasts while envoys persuaded the Dragon and Phoenix Clans to join.
  • Lin Yan decided that his Dao required him to oppose the fierce beasts, but considered the risks of aligning with any of the three clans.
  • Hongjun, Luohu, Ancestor Yin Yang, and Daoist Qiankun agreed to help, while Hongjun, Yin Yang, and Qiankun prepared to visit the Dragon Palace and Buzhou Mountain as Ancestor Qilin organized for war.

Ch. 52Showing Favor in the Pavilion

After the pavilion’s discussion, Daoist Qiankun gave Lin Yan a World Tree seed to help develop the Heaven and Earth Bead, while Hongjun and Luohu invited Lin Yan to visit them. Ancestor Qilin asserted the Kirin Clan’s ties to Lin Yan, then Lin Yan chose to join a patrol and delay his breakthrough, though his real obstacle was an unfinished system task.

  • Daoist Qiankun recognized Lin Yan’s Heaven and Earth Bead and gave him a World Tree seed to plant inside it.
  • Luohu and Hongjun invited Lin Yan to visit them, but Ancestor Qilin intervened and claimed Lin Yan as a friend of the Kirin Clan.
  • Ancestor Qilin urged Lin Yan, Mo Xuan, and Ao Ye to cultivate toward the True Immortal Realm, while Lin Yan said he wanted to temper himself by fighting ferocious beasts.
  • Ancestor Qilin told Lin Yan to ask Xuan Yue to arrange a Patrol Team for him, and Mo Xuan and Ao Ye left to enter seclusion.
  • After parting from his friends, Lin Yan thought that his unfinished system task—not a lack of cultivation—was preventing him from advancing.

Ch. 53Three Thousand Years of Tempering

Over three thousand years in Shi Yue’s Third Patrol Team, Lin Yan greatly improved his cultivation and combat skills while helping establish settlements along the Kirin Clan’s border. His growing reputation led to an offer to join the Kirin Guard, which he refused, and the chapter leaves the Wutu Camp elders anticipating his breakthrough to True Immortal.

  • Lin Yan spent three thousand years patrolling dangerous regions with Shi Yue’s team, honing his abilities and fighting fierce beasts.
  • Lin Yan’s skill with his spiritual treasures and Earth Element abilities grew, and he helped create settlement sites that reduced attacks and gained support from local clans.
  • Shi Yue’s team became a leading patrol unit, and Lin Yan’s reputation spread after they defeated a True Immortal Late Stage Three-Headed Vulture.
  • Other captains tried to recruit Lin Yan, but Shi Yue said Lin Yan had refused a place in the Kirin Guard and might soon leave the Patrol Team after breaking through to True Immortal.
  • Elder Xuan Yue and the Wutu Camp elders praised Lin Yan’s accomplishments and discussed his imminent breakthrough and value to the Kirin Clan.

Ch. 54Breakthrough to the True Immortal Realm

After three thousand years of work with the Kirin Clan, Lin Yan completed Task Three and smoothly broke through to the Early Stage of the True Immortal Realm. His system updated with harder tasks and stronger rewards, while news of his breakthrough spread through Wutu Camp and he planned to tackle the new challenges with Mo Xuan and Ao Ye.

  • The system judged Lin Yan's cooperation with the Kirin Clan and spread of ecological civilization complete, unlocking his path to the True Immortal Realm and awarding him three Innate Primal Chaos Spirit Crystals.
  • Lin Yan broke through as his Kun Yuan Life and Death Dao Seed transformed into a Dao Seedling and his body, mana, and Primordial Spirit were sublimated.
  • The system updated Lin Yan's cultivation and functions, then assigned more difficult ecological and combat tasks with new rewards.
  • Lin Yan complained that the new tasks were unreasonable, but the system remained silent.
  • News of Lin Yan's breakthrough spread through Wutu Camp, and members of other Patrol Teams hinted that they wanted to join his team.
  • Elder Xuan Yue praised Lin Yan's breakthrough, and Lin Yan planned to travel with Mo Xuan and Ao Ye after they emerged from seclusion.

Ch. 55Home in Peril, I Must Return

After learning that a Fierce Beast Tide was advancing toward Canyon Home, Lin Yan gathered an elite force from Wutu Camp and raced southwest to protect his home. He pushed his Earth Vein Travel ability to its limit for dozens of days, then began bringing the team back to the surface as his meridians neared their limit.

  • Elder Xuan Yue told Lin Yan that fierce beasts had grown more active and gave him a Jade Slip detailing a tide moving toward Canyon Home.
  • Lin Yan realized his home was in danger, and Elder Xuan Yue provided him with a force of Wutu Camp experts led alongside Shi Yue.
  • Lin Yan formed the Wutu Special Operations Team, with Shi Yue and three True Immortal Realm cultivators as vice-captains and Yan Feng leading the vanguard.
  • Acquaintances gave Lin Yan treasures for the journey, and nearly a hundred cultivators set out from Qilin Cliff toward Canyon Home.
  • Lin Yan carried slower team members through the Earth Veins while the group hurried southwest and avoided prolonged battles with fierce beasts.
  • After dozens of days of high-speed travel, Lin Yan felt pain in his meridians and guided the team upward.

Ch. 56Rushing to the Homeland's Aid

After reaching Black Mountain, Lin Yan used the Ecological Deduction Sandbox and discovered that Canyon Home was surrounded by a vast horde of ferocious beasts, though its defensive arrays were still holding. Inside the besieged canyon, Lin San sent Lin Er to repair a damaged array base and confront an Earth Splitting Bear.

  • Lin Yan recovered his spiritual power and examined the upgraded system functions and rewards he had gained after reaching the True Immortal Realm.
  • Lin Yan led the Special Operations Team across more than three hundred years of intermittent travel until they reached Black Mountain.
  • Lin Yan used the Ecological Deduction Sandbox and saw that ferocious beasts, including several at the True Immortal level, surrounded Canyon Home while the land beyond its barrier lay devastated.
  • Lin Yan saw that the Nine Palaces Earth Vein Great Array and Wutu Wasteland Suppression Great Array still protected the canyon and spotted its residents working inside.
  • Lin Si reported that an Earth Splitting Bear had damaged an outer array base, and Lin Er set out with a Five Elements Bead to replace it and fight the beast if possible.

Ch. 57Cannot Fight Head-On

Lin Yan reached the besieged Canyon Home with the Special Operations Team and found the fierce beast horde far stronger than his forces. He led a charge to break through the horde and reach the defensive array, while the Earth Dragon Community prepared a hidden underground refuge in case the defenses failed.

  • Lin San and Lin Si watched the outer array weaken as the Earth Dragon Community endured a ten-year siege and conserved its dwindling resources.
  • Lin San told Lin Si that Lin Wu and the others were preparing a concealed underground safe house, and that the community would retreat there if necessary.
  • Lin Yan used the Ecological Deduction Sandbox to assess the horde and told his deputies that a head-on fight would be impossible.
  • Lin Yan sent Golden Peng and ten members to monitor the beasts and remain ready to seek reinforcements, then assigned the rest of the team to break through toward the array.
  • Lin Yan and Shi Yue led more than eighty Team Members in an arrowhead charge through the horde, but the Corrosive Poison Spider Mother moved to attack them.

Ch. 58Carving a Bloody Path

Lin Yan and his team fought through the beast horde and reached the Wutu Wasteland Suppression Great Array. They entered through an opened gate after Lin Yan blocked the Malevolent Flame Bone Lizard’s final attack with the Heaven and Earth Bead.

  • Lin Yan and Shi Yue wounded a poison spider and continued leading the team through the beast horde.
  • Shi Yue collided with the Malevolent Flame Bone Lizard and was smashed apart, while Lin Yan raised a stone barrier and ordered Yan Feng, Sword Seventeen, and Madam Shui Hua to cover the team.
  • Shi Yue reassembled himself, and Lin Yan led everyone through the beasts toward the defensive barrier.
  • Inside the array, Lin Er spotted the chaos and recognized the Earth Spirit Seal; Lin San sent Lin Er and Lin Si to open the array gate for Lin Yan.
  • The Malevolent Flame Bone Lizard launched a bone spear at Lin Yan, but Lin Yan used the Heaven and Earth Bead to withstand the strike and entered the array.

Ch. 59Entering the Array, Returning Home

Lin Yan returned to Canyon Home during the fierce beast siege, reclaimed control of the Wutu Wasteland Suppression Great Array, and helped drive back the attackers. After reuniting with the Earth Dragon Community, he learned of its losses and slow cultivation progress, and encouraged its members to keep working hard.

  • Lin Yan entered the canyon, took control of the array, and used its power to crush many fierce beasts and send the Malevolent Flame Bone Lizard tumbling backward.
  • Lin Er, Lin San, Lin Si, and the other members welcomed Lin Yan home, while Lin San explained that Xiao Wu through Xiao Shi were reinforcing the underground safe house.
  • Lin San reported that the community had built seventeen settlements and welcomed more than forty races, but the beast tide had reduced its population to fewer than three thousand and left only two hundred and twelve intelligent Living Beings.
  • Lin Si, White Horn, and Jin Ji told Lin Yan that the community's members made little cultivation progress despite working hard and consuming Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
  • Lin Yan recognized their limited foundations as the cause of their slow progress and urged everyone to continue cultivating diligently.

Ch. 60Cannot Sit Back and Wait for Death

Lin Yan reinforced the great arrays and launched raids to wrest control of the siege from the fierce beasts. After a hundred years of intermittent battles, he used periods of calm to improve the Community Members’ intelligence and strength.

  • Lin Yan inspected the great arrays and told Shi Yue, Madam Shui Hua, Sword Seventeen, and the others that they would attack the fierce beasts instead of relying only on defense.
  • Lin Yan and the formation experts improved the arrays, strengthening their defenses and adding attacks that could harm fierce beasts below the True Immortal level.
  • Lin Yan used the Ecological Deduction Sandbox to direct ambushes, traps, and raids that repeatedly inflicted losses on the fierce beasts.
  • Lin Yan deployed the Primal Chaos Plate, Myriad Spirits Manifestation Diagram, and Heaven and Earth Bead to weaken, attack, and contain the fierce beasts.
  • After a hundred years of intermittent fighting, Lin Yan used lulls in the siege to awaken the intelligence of Community Members in batches.

Ch. 61The Primal Chaos Plate's Anomaly

Lin Yan strengthened the Earth Dragon subordinates and nurtured the valley’s inhabitants while the fierce beasts continued to besiege them. The beasts suddenly stampeded southeast, and the Primal Chaos Plate broke free and followed, leaving Lin Yan to confront an unexplained mystery.

  • Lin Yan gave the community members Enlightenment Fire Seeds and created special Kun Yuan Enlightenment Fire Seeds for Lin Wu through Lin Shi, improving their intelligence and cultivation potential.
  • Lin Yan tended the valley’s Spiritual Roots and Plants while the Special Operations Team taught combat and cultivation to the community members.
  • After Lin Yan’s forces wounded three Heavenly Immortal Late Stage fierce beasts, the Primal Chaos Plate trembled with urgent longing and resisted his attempt to soothe it with a fire seed.
  • Lin Si alerted Lin Yan that the fierce beasts were retreating, and Lin Yan saw the entire army rush toward the southeast.
  • The Primal Chaos Plate escaped Lin Yan’s grasp, pierced the great array, and sped southeast after the beasts.

Ch. 62Chaos Sea in the Deep Valley

Lin Yan discovered that a vast Chaos Sea had formed where he had found the Primal Chaos Plate, and the plate had rushed toward its center. After ordering Canyon Home to prepare for evacuation, he reached the valley and found millions of Fierce Beasts sacrificing themselves to the chaos, just as a terrifying pressure descended.

  • Lin Yan used the Ecological Deduction Sandbox to locate a spreading Chaos Forbidden Domain at Gray Valley and learned it threatened the region around Canyon Home.
  • Lin Yan ordered Lin San, White Horn, Shi Yue, and the others to prepare the community for relocation, then set out alone toward the disaster.
  • Lin Yan crossed the devastated land and reached the valley, now transformed into a Chaos Sea of violent Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind energies.
  • Lin Yan saw millions of Fierce Beasts charge into the Chaos Sea and be assimilated, while he sensed the Primal Chaos Plate at its center.
  • As Lin Yan hesitated at the edge of the Chaos Sea, an immense destructive pressure suddenly descended from the sky.

Ch. 63Golden Immortal Beast

Lin Yan was overwhelmed by the pressure of a Golden Immortal Beast, which attacked him after its strike against the Chaos Sea failed. As Lin Yan neared death, an ancient aura erupted from the sea and something began rising from its center.

  • A Golden Immortal Beast arrived above the Chaos Sea and nearly crushed Lin Yan with its pressure.
  • The beast struck the Chaos Sea with Malevolent Qi, but the sea absorbed the attack and sent back a tide of Hundun energy that scorched its scales.
  • Angered by its failed attack and Lin Yan witnessing its setback, the beast pressed down on Lin Yan with its giant claw.
  • Lin Yan summoned his treasures and divine abilities to resist, but the beast's pressure broke through and left him close to death.
  • An ancient, vast aura erupted from the Chaos Sea, and something began rising from its churning center.

Ch. 64Two Little Guys

Lin Yan recognized the rising furnace as the Primal Chaos Plate, which had found its other half and now housed a second, even younger Spiritual Sense. After the furnace's Chaos Spirit Fire wounded the Golden Immortal Beast, the beast unleashed its Law Domain and tried to seize and seal the treasure.

  • A giant furnace rose from the Chaos Sea, calming the Hundun energies and freeing Lin Yan from the Golden Immortal Beast's pressure.
  • Lin Yan confirmed that the furnace contained the Primal Chaos Plate and learned it had found the other half.
  • The Primal Chaos Plate introduced Lin Yan to an unfamiliar, childlike Spiritual Sense inside the furnace.
  • The Golden Immortal Beast attacked the furnace, but its phantom claw melted under a wisp of Chaos Spirit Fire, forcing it to sever its own claw.
  • The Golden Immortal Beast unleashed its Law Domain and used its Golden Immortal Dao Fruit to form a sealing net aimed at the furnace.

Ch. 65Sealing the Golden Immortal Beast

The furnace-shaped treasure struggled against the Golden Immortal Beast’s Origin Dao Fire, while Lin Yan discovered that its Spiritual Senses needed Enlightenment Fire Seeds to grow stronger. After feeding them until he was exhausted, Lin Yan helped the furnace gain enough power to pull the beast and its flame toward its opening.

  • The Golden Immortal Beast failed to seal the furnace and tried to refine it with Origin Dao Fire, but the furnace began sucking in the flame.
  • The beast fed its Origin Essence Blood into the flame to resist the furnace’s suction, beginning a tug-of-war above the Chaos Qi Sea.
  • Lin Yan contacted the furnace’s Spiritual Senses and learned they needed Enlightenment Fire Seeds to replenish themselves.
  • Lin Yan condensed and fed the furnace numerous Enlightenment Fire Seeds, using up more than half of his soul power and Origin Power.
  • The furnace’s Seal, Suppress, Refine, and Transform Dao Patterns lit up, strengthening its suction until the beast and its Dao Fire were pulled closer to its opening.

Ch. 66Chaos Eternal Treasure Furnace

Lin Yan used the Chaos Eternal Treasure Furnace to seal the Golden Immortal Beast, then learned the furnace was an Innate Supreme Treasure split into the Primal Chaos Plate and its furnace body. After it absorbed the destructive Chaos Qi Sea, the furnace shrank and returned to Lin Yan, leaving him with a powerful new treasure.

  • The Golden Immortal Beast failed to escape the furnace’s suction and was sealed inside to be gradually refined.
  • Lin Yan communicated with the furnace’s two strands of Spiritual Sense and learned its origins as the Chaos Eternal Treasure Furnace, once split into the Primal Chaos Plate and furnace body.
  • The two Spiritual Senses explained that they would usually remain separate but merge during battle.
  • Lin Yan learned the furnace could refine all things, reshape heaven and earth, suppress the void, and devour and seal enemies.
  • Lin Yan ordered the furnace to absorb the destructive Chaos Qi Sea, restoring clarity and sunlight to the land.
  • The furnace absorbed the last of the Hundun energy, shrank to about a foot in size, and returned to Lin Yan.

Ch. 67Why Are There So Many Rewards?

After sealing a Golden Immortal Beast and ending the Fierce Beast Tide, Lin Yan received a large haul of system rewards, returned to Canyon Home, and entered seclusion. He advanced to the True Immortal Mid Stage and began studying new techniques, intending to give the lesser rewards to his younger brothers.

  • The system confirmed Lin Yan had completed the Golden Immortal Beast task and awarded him treasures, techniques, materials, and the chance to advance to the True Immortal Mid Stage.
  • Lin Yan used a Soul Quenching Pill to restore some of his depleted Soul Power and decided to return to Canyon Home before recovering in seclusion.
  • Lin Yan returned to Canyon Home and told Lin Si and the others that the Fierce Beast Tide had retreated, concealing that he had sealed the Golden Immortal Beast and obtained a supreme treasure.
  • Lin Yan delegated community affairs to Lin San and sent Shi Yue to clear out remaining Fierce Beasts before entering a hidden Cave Dwelling to cultivate.
  • After three hundred years, Lin Yan reached the True Immortal Mid Stage and began studying the Thousand Illusions Ten Thousand Transformations Art and Nine Revolutions Space Splitting Array, planning to give the other rewards to his younger brothers.

Ch. 68Problems in the Community

While Lin Yan was in seclusion, the Earth Dragon Community expanded and grew to more than five thousand members, but its rapid growth caused mounting disputes and administrative problems. Lin Yan emerged from seclusion and began addressing Lin San’s worries, asking why community members had grown so unruly.

  • Shi Yue led the Special Operations Team in clearing fierce beasts from the outskirts while Lin San helped survivors rebuild settlements and established new ones where needed.
  • Over two hundred years, the outer canyon’s settlements grew to twenty-three and the Earth Dragon Community’s population surpassed five thousand, bringing newcomers from more than fifty races.
  • As disputes and management problems worsened, Lin Er broke one of Green Ox’s legs after Green Ox beat White Horn during a quarrel.
  • Lin Yan emerged from seclusion, secretly observed the community in disguise, and reassured Lin San that its problems were a normal consequence of expansion.
  • Lin Yan asked Lin San and Lin Si why community members had become increasingly unruly and unwilling to obey.

Ch. 69Community Expansion Meeting

Lin Yan explained that the Earth Dragon Community needed both strength and rules to govern its growing membership, then gathered its members to announce his concerns about rising conflicts. Green Ox and Shuo Jin admitted fault and feared expulsion, leaving the meeting awaiting Lin Yan’s judgment.

  • Lin Yan told Lin San and Lin Si that force shaped the community’s members’ respect, while Lin San concluded that rules and equal treatment were also necessary.
  • Several days later, Lin Yan convened nearly five hundred intelligent Community Members in the discussion hall for an expanded meeting.
  • Lin Yan praised the community’s growth, then condemned members who abused their cultivation and challenged the authority of its elders.
  • Green Ox admitted fighting White Horn and begged Lin Yan not to expel the Savage Ox Race, while Shuo Jin accepted responsibility for the dispute and asked to be punished.
  • White Horn, Zhi Nan, and Lin San prepared to plead for Shuo Jin as Lin Yan’s judgment remained pending.

Ch. 70Community Reform

Lin Yan announced reforms to establish rules and institutions for the Earth Dragon Community, leaving its races to consider how the new system would affect them. Lin San and other appointed leaders were tasked with putting the reforms into practice.

  • Lin Yan left the punishment of Green Ox and Shuo Jin to the Community Elder Council for its decision after the meeting.
  • Lin Yan established the Earth Dragon Community Management Committee, appointed Lin San as chairman, and gave each of the community’s fifty-three races a representative with voting rights.
  • Lin Yan created the Earth Dragon Community Guard under Lin Er and assigned Shi Yue, Golden Peng, Shui Hua, Sword Seventeen, and other Kirin Clan officers to train its members.
  • Lin Yan announced centralized resource management, a Community Resident Behavior Convention, a Community Arbitration Court, and lessons in cultivation and practical skills for Community Members.
  • Lin Yan proposed reorganizing settlement populations by climate, skills, and strategic needs, and required each settlement to include at least five races.
  • The powerful races worried about losing influence, while representatives of weaker races welcomed their new voice, and Shi Yue and the others considered the reforms better than the Kirin Clan’s management.

Ch. 71Lin Wu to Lin Ba Successfully Transform

The Earth Dragon Community developed its governing bodies, academy, settlements, and Guard Team over five hundred years, fostering cooperation among its different races. As the community prospered, Lin Wu, Lin Liu, Lin Qi, and Lin Ba successively completed their Transformations, leaving only Lin Jiu and Lin Shi among the younger brothers yet to transform.

  • Lin San organized the Community Management Committee, while Lin Er and Shi Yue recruited and trained the Guard Team, and Lin Si established an academy for the community’s newly intelligent residents.
  • Lin Yan strengthened the canyon’s defenses and expanded its Earth Veins, while the community’s institutions and multi-race cooperation grew over five hundred years.
  • Lin Yan watched the Earth Dragon Community flourish and judged that his goal of establishing five Ecological Civilization Demonstration Zones had become attainable.
  • Lin Wu transformed into a carefully groomed young man, and Lin Yan teased him about Fourth Brother’s suggestion that he transform into a sphere.
  • Lin Liu transformed quietly, Lin Qi transformed amid a sandstorm and battle aura, and Lin Ba emerged from colorful mist and a fragrant haze.

Ch. 72Leave Home, Return to Qilin Cliff

After the Earth Dragon Community prospered, Lin Yan prepared to return to Qilin Cliff with the Kirin Clan’s Special Operations Team and bring Lin Jiu and Lin Shi along to undergo Transformation there. The group traveled at a leisurely pace while Lin Yan surveyed the route, leaving the community to continue growing in his absence.

  • Lin Yan strengthened Lin Jiu and Lin Shi’s foundations with Chaos Qi and treasures, while the Earth Dragon Community grew to more than ten thousand residents and over three hundred Earth Immortal Level combatants.
  • Lin Yan told his younger brothers he would return to Qilin Cliff to thank Elder Xuan Yue, Shi Yue, and the others, and said he would bring Lin Jiu and Lin Shi with him.
  • Lin Yan left cultivation treasures and defensive treasures with his brothers, while Shi Yue and the Special Operations Team bid farewell to the community.
  • Lin Yan departed for Qilin Cliff with Lin Jiu, Lin Shi, and the Special Operations Team, taking a relaxed route so the two younger ones could see the Primordial World.
  • Lin Yan recorded terrain, Earth Veins, Spirit Qi, Malevolent Qi, settlements, and Fierce Beast Lairs along the route to prepare for a future road between Canyon Home and the Kirin Clan’s territory.

Ch. 73Return to Qilin Cliff

Lin Yan returned to Qilin Cliff with his team after more than a thousand years, having grown stronger and mapped a potential route home. He reunited with Elder Xuan Yue and visited Mysterious Qilin Cave, where Yu Chen learned Lin Yan had reached True Immortal Mid Stage.

  • Lin Yan used the Chaos Eternal Treasure Furnace to defeat or drive off fierce beasts during the journey, while keeping his hunts secret from the team.
  • Lin Jiu revealed she could sense the scent of anyone she had seen within ten thousand li, then she and Lin Shi reluctantly practiced the Earthy Spirit Nourishing Art.
  • Lin Yan led the team back to Qilin Cliff, where Elder Xuan Yue welcomed them and arranged for the others to rest.
  • Lin Yan took Lin Jiu and Lin Shi to Mysterious Qilin Cave and introduced them to Madam Xuan Ji, who noticed their unusually strong foundations and a hint of Hundun.
  • Yu Chen recognized Lin Yan’s True Immortal Mid Stage cultivation and joked that Mo Xuan and Ao Ye would be disappointed to learn he had caught up with them.

Ch. 74Both of Them Left

Lin Yan learned that Mo Xuan and Ao Ye had gone to aid the North Sea Dragon Palace against the fierce beast invasion, and that their families had received no word from them for nearly five hundred years. Determined to find his friends, Lin Yan set out alone for Dragon territory after leaving Lin Jiu and Lin Shi in Yu Chen and Xuan Ji's care, with warnings that a Taiyi Golden Immortal-level beast awaited there.

  • Madam Xuan Ji told Lin Yan that Mo Xuan and Ao Ye had left for the North Sea Dragon Palace after the Northern Nether Ice Prison's Fierce Beast Army attacked, and that they had not sent word in nearly five hundred years.
  • Yu Chen explained that fierce beast attacks were spreading across the Prehistoric World and that Lin Yan would have to aid the Dragon Clan in his personal capacity, without Kirin Clan reinforcements.
  • Lin Yan insisted on going to find Mo Xuan and Ao Ye, and Yu Chen gave him a Void-Piercing Escape Talisman and a sea map to the North Sea Dragon Palace.
  • Lin Yan left Lin Jiu and Lin Shi with Yu Chen and Xuan Ji, telling the two anxious little ones to cultivate until he returned.
  • Elder Xuan Yue warned Lin Yan that the siege included Ice Sha Mysterious Tortoise, a likely Taiyi Golden Immortal, and advised him to prioritize his survival and avoid forcing himself into battle.

Ch. 75A Lone Journey to Reinforce

Lin Yan traveled alone north toward the North Sea, testing his strength against fierce beasts and helping displaced Living Beings survive and defend themselves. After nearly five hundred years, he reached the North Sea and wondered where Mo Xuan and Ao Ye were and whether they were safe.

  • Lin Yan used his Earth abilities to travel north and fought fierce beasts to test his combat strength.
  • Lin Yan used disguise and surprise attacks against beast groups, while reserving the Chaos Eternal Treasure Furnace for dire situations.
  • Lin Yan rescued Living Beings and tribes, purified beast-tainted regions, and taught survivors the Myriad Laws Return to One Barrier formation.
  • Lin Yan’s deeds spread among displaced Living Beings, who called him the Yellow Earth Venerable from the South and the Light of Hope on the Ice Plains.
  • After nearly five hundred years, Lin Yan reached the North Sea and wondered where Mo Xuan and Ao Ye were and whether they were safe.
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