Chapter Summaries

Lin Tianhang absorbed the purified creative vitality left by the Heaven and Earth Divine Sword and neared his transformation into a true Asura, while the Heavenly Demon revealed the scheme that had killed Elder Jian. In the same dream, Lin Chen seized the vitality for himself and completed his Innate Yin-Yang Five Elements Spiritual Body, but darkness abruptly swallowed his perception.

• Lin Tianhang absorbed the blood sea’s remaining creative vitality as dark-red scales, horns, and a Blood Lotus formed around him.
• The Heavenly Demon explained how he had manipulated events to make Elder Jian strike down the Asura and die, leaving Lin Tianhang under his control.
• Lin Chen used the Blood Demon Secret Technique to summon his body to his Golden Core and discovered that crimson power was making his flesh develop spirituality.
• Lin Chen drew the Asura’s true origin into himself and transformed his Golden Core and spiritual roots toward an Innate Yin-Yang Five Elements Spiritual Body.
• Lin Chen completed the transformation, then suddenly lost his perception of the surroundings as darkness swept over him.

While condensing his spirit body, Lin Chen was drawn into a vast hall and then a deathly world of black glaciers, where the dream began turning him into a real, dying body. He escaped by invoking memories of his transmigration, as his transformation in reality concluded and a second figure emerged from a Blood Pool.

• Lin Chen found himself as an intangible spirit in an abandoned hall above a boundless underground glacier and fled when the hall’s central wall began to crack.
• He emerged into a desolate world of black ice and drifting Black Snow, where the cold and a strange spiritual energy threatened to distort his divine sense and make the dream real.
• As Black Snow began landing on him and eroding his body and soul, Lin Chen used the memory of his transmigration to unleash darkness that swallowed him and then dissipated.
• The central wall in the hall shattered, revealing the words “East Sea Ring Spiritual Energy Particle Accelerator Center.”
• In a Secret Room in the Lingnan Great Land, Lin Chen’s transformed body stood among vanished Spirit Stones as a three-headed, six-armed figure rose from the Blood Pool, and both opened their eyes as the sky changed color.

After the Asura Main Body was slain, True Lord Qingyang considered Lingnan’s ruin and the Central Lands’ growing control, while Celestial Maiden Yue Ling and Gu Jiancheng discussed the Drought Demon and the mysterious reincarnations. Yue Ling departed after sensing something startling, and Gu Jiancheng looked up as the noon sky suddenly darkened.

• True Lord Qingyang surveyed the frozen battlefield and realized the Heaven and Earth Divine Sword had purified the land enough for Lingnan’s eventual recovery.
• True Lord Qingyang worried that Gu Jiancheng and Celestial Maiden Yue Ling would control Lingnan’s future because their power far exceeded that of its cultivators.
• Gu Jiancheng warned Celestial Maiden Yue Ling that Drought Demon might have escaped surveillance while she intervened in Lingnan, and she explained why she had been the only suitable Spirit Transmutation Celestial Venerable to descend.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling sensed a familiar aura around Zhang Hao and concluded that the two reincarnated Heavenly Lords had not met misfortune; she told Gu Jiancheng to take Zhang Hao and Lingnan’s young prodigies to the Central Lands for investigation.
• Celestial Maiden Yue Ling vanished after reacting with astonishment to something she sensed, and Gu Jiancheng noticed that the noon sky had gone dark.

Mountain Lord and the Dragon Emperor investigated the Heaven and Earth Divine Sword and its possible cost, but their plans were interrupted when the world plunged into darkness and a dark-purple star appeared. Diviners across the world identified it as the Demon Star, warning of the Great Tribulation of the End.

• Mountain Lord ordered the Fire Phoenix Clan Leader and the Swamp Black Flood Dragon King to kill anyone entering or leaving Lingnan so he could test the Immortal Alliance's strength.
• Mountain Lord contacted the Dragon Emperor, who demanded that he investigate the sword strike and protect their plan to destroy the Immortal Alliance's Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• Top figures across the world sensed a disturbance and looked toward the heavens as daylight vanished and an ominous night covered the land.
• A dark-purple star appeared in the sky, and alarm bells rang across the regions and factions.
• Cultivators who divined the heavenly secrets spat blood and declared that the Demon Star's arrival heralded the Great Tribulation of the End.

After a demon star’s brief appearance heralded the Great Tribulation of the End, the Dragon Emperor and the Immortal Alliance’s Heavenly Mystery Gate sought to identify the threat. Tianjizi’s costly divination revealed only the character “Lin,” leaving the leaders uncertain whether the calamity could be prevented.

• The Dragon Emperor questioned Turtle Xuan, who identified the omen as the descent of a demon star but could learn nothing more, and ordered an investigation.
• The Dragon Emperor worried about the omen’s timing before the Reverse Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Feng Shui Formation’s completion, then returned to the East Sea’s High Order Spirit Vein.
• Tianjizi used the Heavenly Mystery Gate’s accumulated power to divine the demon star’s identity, suffered severe backlash, and produced the character “Lin” in blood.
• Grandmaster Taixuan and Tianjizi decided to investigate powerful people and factions connected to “Lin” and to prepare for the Great Tribulation of the End.
• After Grandmaster Taixuan asked whether they could stop the calamity, Tianjizi voiced hope that they could seize a chance of survival, then recalled an ancient theory that Heavenly Secret Art only peered into the past and that fate could not be changed.

Lin Chen successfully reached the Golden Core Realm and condensed the Yin Yang Five Elements Spiritual Body, gaining powerful cultivation traits and a preliminary dissolution Sorcery. As he began planning what to do next, a black snowflake from his dream appeared through a ripple in the void.

• Lin Chen succeeded in breaking through to the Golden Core Realm after using Zhang Hao’s prophecy and condensing the Yin Yang Five Elements Spiritual Body.
• Lin Chen examined his Golden Core Dao Fruit and considered how its inner fetus could grow toward the Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation realms.
• Lin Chen discovered that his Spiritual Body automatically absorbed and refined spiritual energy, letting him cultivate at a speed comparable to a Dual Spirit Root cultivator and unleash peak Combat Power in any environment.
• Lin Chen used the preliminary Yin Yang Five Elements Dissolution Spiritual Light to dissolve a section of the cave wall into its fundamental substance.
• Lin Chen prepared to plan his next move, but a black snowflake from his dream drifted out of a ripple in the void.

Lin Chen watched black snow from his dream enter reality and contaminate the spiritual qi in his secret room, creating a monster that resembled him. He destroyed it with Yin Yang Five Elements Dissolution Spiritual Light, but the snow’s origin remained unknown as he left the cave.

• Lin Chen realized the black snowflake from his dream had appeared in reality and wondered whether his dream connected him to another world.
• The snowflake landed on the protective formation, distorting the formation and transforming the released spiritual qi into foul, unnatural matter.
• A portion of Lin Chen’s divine sense was corrupted, and the distorted spiritual qi absorbed it to form a monster resembling him.
• Lin Chen’s flames failed to destroy the monster, so he dissolved it with Yin Yang Five Elements Dissolution Spiritual Light.
• Lin Chen found that mundane materials resisted the contamination better than materials containing free spiritual qi, then cleaned the room and left the cave.

Gu Jiancheng weighed the looming calamity against the importance of resolving Lingnan’s affairs and considered asking True Lord Qingyang for help. Lin Chen returned after advancing to Golden Core, and the group headed back to Azure Cloud.

• Gu Jiancheng failed to contact the Alliance Leader and decided he would eventually need to return to the Central Lands, but first he needed to settle the affairs of Lingnan.
• True Lord Qingyang thanked Gu Jiancheng for defeating the demons and worried that contact with Central Lands cultivators could threaten Azure Cloud Sect’s control of Lingnan.
• Gu Jiancheng began to ask True Lord Qingyang for a favor, but both men sensed someone approaching.
• Lin Chen arrived, and True Lord Qingyang, Zhang Mengyao, Zhang Hao, and Gu Jiancheng were surprised that he had advanced to Golden Core.
• Lin Chen explained that he had left during the battle to break through, and True Ancestor Changqing praised him before the group returned to Azure Cloud.

After the Azure Cloud Sect destroyed the Mysterious Yin Gate and unified Lingnan, cultivators from the Central Lands demanded that Lingnan’s geniuses accompany them. Lin Chen, Zhang Mengyao, and Zhang Hao chose to go, while Zhang Zhiming stayed behind; True Ancestor Changqing warned Lin Chen to conceal his identity as a reincarnated person.

• The Azure Cloud Sect defeated the Mysterious Yin Gate, ended the war, and became Lingnan’s sole hegemon.
• True Lord Qingyang told the elders that a visitor from the Central Lands demanded Lingnan’s cultivation geniuses accompany him, and the group decided they had to go.
• Lin Chen volunteered to leave, Zhang Mengyao and Zhang Hao followed, and Zhang Zhiming stayed to help rebuild the Azure Cloud Sect.
• True Ancestor Changqing warned Lin Chen to keep a low profile and revealed that he suspected Zhang Hao had a cultivator residing within him.
• True Ancestor Changqing cautioned Lin Chen not to expose his habits or actions, lest others discover he was a reincarnated person.

True Ancestor Changqing warned Lin Chen that his unfamiliar way of thinking had exposed his origins as an outsider and advised him how to survive beyond Lingnan. Lin Chen accepted the counsel and left the conversation resolved to hide his strengths more wisely while continuing to cultivate them.

• True Ancestor Changqing deduced that Lin Chen was not from Lingnan, citing his unusual ideas and the mature systems behind the platform he built with Xu Mengyun.
• Lin Chen realized that Changqing had helped shield him from the sect's attempts to suppress the platform and thanked him for protecting him and warning him about the risks of revealing his outsider mindset.
• Changqing told Lin Chen to be cautious in the Central Lands and explained that hiding his strengths meant remaining capable and difficult to assess, not simply keeping a low profile.
• Changqing advised Lin Chen to cultivate his distinctive way of thinking, conceal its full extent, judge people, and use momentum and opportunities to advance.
• After hearing Changqing's guidance, Lin Chen watched the wilderness and admitted that he had underestimated the people of this world.

Gu Jiancheng agreed to take Azure Cloud Sect’s chosen disciples to the Central Lands and grew suspicious of Lin Chen and Zhang Hao. As the sect prepared to send them off, Lin Chen safely opened Old Demon Taiyin’s hidden inheritance and began examining its contents.

• Gu Jiancheng considered whether Lin Chen might be connected to the Demonic Star and asked True Lord Qingyang for information about Lin Chen and Zhang Hao.
• True Ancestor Changqing explained that Lingnan was too small to support the disciples’ futures and agreed they should leave for the Central Lands with resources from the sect.
• True Ancestor Changqing suspected Gu Jiancheng had noticed something unusual about Lin Chen and Zhang Hao, so he decided to conceal part of their information.
• Zhang Hao refined four Golden Core Pills with Tree Elder’s help and entered closed-door cultivation, while Zhang Mengyao also secluded herself to form a core.
• Lin Chen safely removed the traps and curses from Old Demon Taiyin’s Storage Rings and Storage Bags, then began taking stock of the Mysterious Yin Gate’s inheritance.

Lin Chen sorted through the Mysterious Yin Gate’s spoils, preserving useful demonic plants and studying its centuries of cultivation research. He discovered powerful soul-clone and demon-bloodline techniques, and considered combining one with the Inner Core Method to create a new path to cultivation.

• Lin Chen counted more than ten million Low-grade Spirit Stones’ worth of wealth and stored it in a Storage Ring.
• Lin Chen buried the demonic Spirit Artifacts in Lingnan for Azure Cloud Sect Disciples to use in training, while preserving unusual spiritual plants and recording their cultivation methods.
• Lin Chen spent nearly a day reviewing the Mysterious Yin Gate’s manuals and identified the [Taiyin Corpse Release Secret Script] as a valuable Spirit Transformation inheritance.
• Lin Chen studied the Ghost Shadow Clone technique, which could create incarnations, absorb fatal attacks, strengthen sorcery, and aid cultivation.
• Lin Chen examined the [Demon-Plundering Corpse Feather Secret Ritual], which used demon-beast bloodlines to let ordinary people cultivate, and considered combining it with the Inner Core Method.

Lin Chen considered adapting demonic beast-transplantation methods into a cultivation path for mortals without spirit roots, using his Inner Elixir Method to improve their chances. He planned to use the resulting cultivators as the foundation of a loyal faction and as researchers and laborers for his projects, naming their method the Life-Nourishing Feathered Transformation True Scripture.

• Lin Chen recognized that demon-beast bloodline transplants offered mortals a dangerous alternative route to cultivation, though rejection and bloodline shackles made the method risky.
• Lin Chen devised combining the Inner Elixir Method with demon-beast transplants to strengthen bodies, suppress beastly nature, and investigate cultivation beyond the Golden Core.
• Lin Chen planned to use this new path to recruit a large group of cultivators who would depend on him and help conduct experiments and build projects such as the Spirit Net and Spiritual Energy Particle Accelerator.
• Lin Chen decided that Lingnan was too limited for faction-building and that he would pursue the plan after leaving the Central Lands.
• Lin Chen named the combined cultivation method the Life-Nourishing Feathered Transformation True Scripture.

Zhang Hao and Zhang Mengyao completed their Golden Core breakthroughs, and Gu Jiancheng announced that he would take Azure Cloud Sect’s disciples to the Central Lands in three days. As Lin Chen and the others prepared to leave, a figure in an underground cave greeted the Drought Demon.

• Azure Cloud Sect’s spirit veins continued to grow, while Gu Jiancheng waited for its disciples to finish their breakthroughs.
• Zhang Hao and Zhang Mengyao broke through to Golden Core, impressing Gu Jiancheng with their progress.
• Zhang Hao planned to leave Lingnan and hide in the Central Lands, while Zhang Mengyao completed her perilous advancement with the sect’s support.
• Gu Jiancheng told True Lord Qingyang that he would take the disciples to the Central Lands in three days, then sent word to them across the sect.
• As Lin Chen and the others prepared for departure, a figure beside a drying Blood Pool turned to the Drought Demon and greeted it.

The Heavenly Demon and the Drought Demon met in a demonic cave after the Heavenly Demon suffered heavy losses, and they discussed Lin Tianhang’s transformation into an Asura and the power he needed to reclaim. Lin Tianhang agreed to let the Drought Demon refine the fallen origin of Lingnan, while the Heavenly Demon revealed that controlling it could let the Drought Demon harvest all of Lingnan.

• The Drought Demon arrived in the cave and explained that Yue Ling’s Bright Moon Wheel had forced him to send only an avatar carrying part of his origin.
• The Heavenly Demon identified Lin Tianhang as the Asura child he had chosen, and he and the Drought Demon considered killing him if he proved to be the World Destruction Demon Star.
• Lin Tianhang emerged from the Blood Lotus, restored his former appearance, and said he needed to reclaim the power he had left behind in the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation.
• The Heavenly Demon offered Lin Tianhang a blood sea land to refine and proposed that the Drought Demon refine the fallen origin into a true Drought Demon Son.
• Lin Tianhang accepted the arrangement, and the Heavenly Demon warned the Drought Demon to avoid Taixuan and revealed that the origin could help him harvest all of Lingnan.

Lin Chen revisited the places tied to his past in Lingnan and left secret arts at the Azure Cloud Ruins before meeting Xu Mengyun to say goodbye. Xu Mengyun chose to remain with her family and friends, while Lin Chen prepared to leave for the Central Lands.

• Lin Chen looked over the Dagan Dynasty and Jiang City, reflecting on the lives and places time had taken away.
• Lin Chen restored his old laboratory at the Azure Cloud Ruins, created a Spirit Land, and left secret arts for a future successor.
• Lin Chen visited his former home and joined Xu Mengyun for wine at a mountain pavilion.
• Xu Mengyun declined Lin Chen's offer to accompany him, explaining that she wanted to stay with her parents, friends, and the life she knew.
• Lin Chen and Xu Mengyun exchanged a final toast as she wished him well on his journey.

Lin Chen prepared to leave Azure Cloud Sect for the Central Lands and repaid the sect’s support by giving True Ancestor Changqing two valuable cultivation secret arts. He departed with Gu Jiancheng and the other disciples, leaving Changqing with warnings about Lingnan’s spiritual energy and visitors from the Dagan Dynasty.

• True Lord Qingyang entrusted the disciples traveling to the Central Lands to Gu Jiancheng, who promised to take responsibility for them.
• True Ancestor Changqing gave Lin Chen a Storage Bag with a hundred High-grade Spirit Stones, and Lin Chen jokingly asked for more.
• Lin Chen gave True Ancestor Changqing a jade slip containing the Foundation Establishment Yuan Transformation Secret Ritual and the Spirit Blood Soul Transfer Pill Nurturing Art.
• Lin Chen warned True Ancestor Changqing to refine Lingnan’s spiritual energy before using it and to tolerate strange mortals arriving from the Dagan Dynasty.
• After a call summoned everyone aboard, Lin Chen flew to the Spirit Boat and left Azure Cloud Mountain.

As Lin Chen departed Lingnan, Xu Mengyun watched him leave and reflected on their long, complicated bond and her resolve to stand as his equal. Aboard the spirit boat beyond Lingnan, Lin Chen looked back toward the land and faced the unknown path ahead.

• Xu Mengyun refused to see Lin Chen off, telling her maid she would not leave with him or become dependent on him.
• Xu Mengyun recalled first noticing Lin Chen in the Scripture Repository, where his devotion to seeking the Dao had drawn her to him.
• Xu Mengyun reflected on the decades of companionship and unspoken feelings between them, then urged Lin Chen to pursue his path without looking back.
• As the spirit boat carried Lin Chen beyond Lingnan, he looked back at the land he had called home and wondered what awaited him in the Central Lands and beyond.
• Lin Chen softly chanted, “Leaving Lingnan in youth, when will I ascend the immortal gate?”

Lin Chen reconsidered his escape plans after Gu Jiancheng’s group took a coastal route toward the Central Lands, and he realized Zhang Hao also feared coming under the Immortal Alliance’s scrutiny. The chapter ended with Lin Chen suspecting that Zhang Hao’s Immortal Mansion gave him even greater reason to flee.

• Gu Jiancheng took Lin Chen and the others toward the East Sea instead of crossing the Ten Thousand Monster Mountain Range, forcing Lin Chen to reconsider when he could escape.
• Lin Chen weighed using his Instant Thousand Mile Talisman but realized a Nascent Soul cultivator could kill him before he activated it.
• Zhang Hao approached Lin Chen and spoke about relying on each other as fellow townsmen in the Central Lands.
• Lin Chen inferred that Zhang Hao wanted to avoid Immortal Alliance supervision because his Immortal Mansion and treasures could attract covetous attention.

As the spirit boat approached the Central Lands, Zhang Hao worried that the Immortal Alliance would discover the Immortal Estate fused with his golden core, while Lin Chen calmly trusted he could wait out any danger. Gu Jiancheng explained the Central Lands’ identity system, and Lin Chen was shocked to learn it involved an Attribute Panel.

• Zhang Hao asked Tree Elder how they could hide the Immortal Estate from the Immortal Alliance, but Tree Elder admitted he could not predict how the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation would affect it.
• Lin Chen remained calm, believing that even if the Immortal Alliance restricted him, he could eventually gain power and wait for a chance to act.
• Gu Jiancheng summoned the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators, including Zhang Mengyao, and told them he would explain three matters essential to surviving in the Central Lands.
• Gu Jiancheng explained that cultivators under the Immortal Alliance received an Attribute Panel through the Heaven-Covering Heaven and Earth Great Formation.
• Lin Chen recognized the panel as an Attribute Panel and wondered why Ancient Cultivators had created it.