Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen recognized Zhang Hao as a favored protagonist in a world-spanning scheme and concluded that he himself was an unaccounted-for variable targeted by ancient cultivators. After agreeing to help heal Tree Elder, Lin Chen demanded to see it and deduced that it was sealed inside Zhang Hao’s Immortal Manor.

• Lin Chen compared Zhang Hao’s extraordinary fortune to Lin Tianhang’s and questioned what role he played in the world’s destined scheme.
• Lin Chen suspected the ancient cultivators who vanished over a million years ago had plotted against him and decided to draw attention elsewhere to conceal his plans.
• Zhang Hao explained that Tree Elder had been corrupted by demonic qi, burned its origin, and fallen into a strange slumber, then asked Lin Chen to devise a cure.
• Zhang Hao offered Fifth Order spirit soil from the Sun Moon Immortal Palace as payment, but Lin Chen refused to provide a treatment without examining Tree Elder himself.
• Lin Chen deduced that Tree Elder was sealed inside Zhang Hao’s Immortal Manor.

Lin Chen defeated Zhang Hao's Eight Gates Sword Array with his Order Dao Domain and convinced him that he wanted no part of the Immortal Mansion. Zhang Hao agreed to take Lin Chen there, and they arrived in a desolate Land of Death that Lin Chen questioned as the Immortal Mansion.

• Zhang Hao revealed his seven sword spirits and formed the Eight Gates Sword Array to restrain Lin Chen after realizing Lin Chen knew about his Immortal Mansion Space.
• Lin Chen used his Order Dao Domain to erase the array's progress, injure Zhang Hao, and temporarily turn the sword spirits into his servants.
• Lin Chen told Zhang Hao he did not want the Immortal Mansion and argued that its power came with a heavy karmic price, while his own path depended on himself.
• Zhang Hao agreed to take Lin Chen into the Immortal Mansion if Lin Chen returned his eight magic treasure spirit swords and left his authority over the mansion untouched.
• Zhang Hao brought Lin Chen to a gray, death-filled Land of Death, and Lin Chen questioned whether it was really the Immortal Mansion.

Lin Chen discovered that Zhang Hao’s Immortal Abode was a harvesting system that turned the memories and spiritual qi of the dead into resources. By using his Order Dao Domain, Lin Chen copied the Burial Ground’s ghosts and uncovered a way to reproduce souls and memories, leaving Zhang Hao shocked by his powers.

• Zhang Hao explained that the ruined region was the Immortal Abode’s Burial Ground, where the souls of those he had killed were stored.
• Lin Chen touched a ghost and experienced its memories, learning that the Burial Ground extracted knowledge and spiritual qi from the dead.
• Lin Chen concluded that the Immortal Abode harvested souls, memories, and spiritual qi to strengthen its owner.
• Lin Chen used his Order Dao Domain to erase the ghosts’ memories, leaving only spiritual qi, and Zhang Hao protested at the loss of his cultivation resources.
• Lin Chen gathered spiritual qi and restored copies of the ghosts, explaining that souls and memories could be duplicated through his Order Dao Domain.

Shadow Concealment Demon Venerable was revealed as an impostor who subdued the Primordial Turtle Demon King and prepared to use the Fuyao Cloud Whale to draw the Sun Moon Immortal Palace into his plans. In the Immortal Estate, Lin Chen reached the passage to the Life and Death Extremes and found that Tree Elder faced two distinct kinds of Demonic Qi Pollution.

• The Primordial Turtle Demon King proposed risking everything to escape the Immortal Alliance’s siege, but the being impersonating Shadow Concealment Demon Venerable attacked him and turned him into a puppet.
• The impostor looked toward the fading bright moon and planned to sacrifice the Fuyao Cloud Whale to set his arrangements against the Sun Moon Immortal Palace in motion.
• Lin Chen’s analysis of the Burial Ground stalled, though he gained insight into the connection between souls and memories and speculated that the Immortal Estate might form spirit resources from spiritual qi rather than accelerate their growth with time.
• Lin Chen asked Zhang Hao how to reach the Extreme of Life, and Zhang Hao led him to the passage of Life and Death Reincarnation.
• Lin Chen crossed the passage with Zhang Hao and discovered two different kinds of Demonic Qi Pollution in the area, concluding that Tree Elder’s trouble was serious.

Lin Chen examined the Tree Elder’s contamination and identified one force as Decay Tribulation Demonic Qi and the other as spiritual energy radiation, which caused unpredictable aberrations. He explained that Zhang Hao’s attempt to heal the Tree Elder with spiritual energy had amplified the contamination, then asked how the two Demonic Qi had been encountered.

• Lin Chen saw that the Tree Elder divided the Immortal Abode into a decaying wasteland and a grotesquely vital flesh-and-blood forest.
• Lin Chen recognized the contamination as Decay Tribulation Demonic Qi and the strange Black Snow he had encountered before, and compared the latter to radiation that mutated spiritual energy.
• Zhang Hao explained that spiritual energy meant to counter the strange Demonic Qi had instead been contaminated and helped form the expanding forest.
• Lin Chen concluded that pouring spiritual energy into the Tree Elder had created a cycle of aberration and worsening contamination, and that ordinary cultivation methods could not undo it.
• Zhang Hao asked whether they could develop techniques to divide and seal the contamination, but Lin Chen said he needed to think further and asked how Zhang Hao had found the two kinds of Demonic Qi.

Lin Chen traced Tree Elder’s Decay Tribulation Demonic Qi to a connection with Lingnan and realized that the world’s crisis might also threaten his and Zhang Hao’s future plans. Unable to return or save Tree Elder with their current strength, Lin Chen proposed using the Immortal Mansion’s computational mechanism to confront the contamination.

• Zhang Hao told Lin Chen that the pollution in the Flesh and Blood Forest came from a dreamlike, snow-covered world at the border of the Return to Ruins and the Outer Domain, where Tree Elder was contaminated while helping him escape.
• Lin Chen reasoned that Tree Elder had become the source of the Decay Tribulation Demonic Qi after something went wrong in Lingnan, the only place connected to him.
• Lin Chen and Zhang Hao realized that Lingnan was central to both their future cultivation plans, but agreed to wait until they reached Nascent Soul before returning because they could not handle the crisis yet.
• Lin Chen concluded that Tree Elder’s contamination required power at the Dao Integration level and identified the Heavenly River as a possible means of suppressing it, though they could not seize it from Celestial Venerable Canghai.
• Lin Chen proposed using the Immortal Mansion’s information-processing and computational mechanism to influence real spiritual energy and address the contamination.

Lin Chen discovered that the Immortal Estate created spirit medicines by analyzing information and combining models with spiritual qi, and concluded it held the knowledge behind the supreme technique Creation of Heaven and Earth. He persuaded Zhang Hao to let him reside in the estate, while the Flying Boat Sea Market reached the sealed sea region.

• Lin Chen explained to Zhang Hao that spirit medicines in the Immortal Estate were constructed from information and spiritual qi rather than grown through accelerated time.
• Lin Chen used the Order Dao Domain to analyze a seed and create a mature spirit medicine, then inferred that the Immortal Estate contained the method of Creation of Heaven and Earth.
• Zhang Hao hoped the method could help deal with the Demonic Qi Pollution, but Lin Chen asked to reside in the Immortal Estate for a long time.
• Zhang Hao returned to the courtyard and weighed the risks of opposing Lin Chen, but ultimately let him do as he wished.
• The Flying Boat Sea Market arrived at the sealed sea region as an upheaval seemed imminent.

A corrupted letter from the Green Robe Old Man triggered a supernatural outbreak across the Flying Boat Sea Market, as the Heavenly Demon Cult’s Cloud Seal and Three Corpses Demon Venerable sought to distract a female immortal while their master infiltrated the moon. Amid the chaos, Hundred Herbs Master chose to release the Evil God and plunder the market, leaving the entire sea market in escalating disorder.

• The Green Robe Old Man began writing Lin Chen a letter, but eerie writing took over, corrupted him and his disciple, and spread through the market as cultivators became corpse-like attackers.
• Cloud Seal and the Three Corpses Demon Venerable observed the outbreak and revealed that it was meant to distract the female immortal guarding the moon while their master carried out an infiltration plan.
• Hundred Herbs Master recognized the Demon Venerables’ methods and learned from the Coffin Carrier that the attack had not been part of their plan.
• Hundred Herbs Master decided to release the Evil God and destroy the Flying Boat Sea Market, reasoning that the chaos would cover their tracks and let them seize its treasures.
• Hundred Herbs Master and the Coffin Carrier contacted the other two Nascent Soul cultivators transporting Evil God Statues, and a new wave of chaos swept across the market.

Seven Nascent Soul True Lords launched a Star Great Formation attack on a figure beneath the sea while chaos engulfed the Flying Boat Sea Market. Lin Chen resisted a cursed book’s corruption, but he and those around him collapsed when the Fuyao Cloud Whale’s song reached them.

• True Lord Lie Kong and six other Nascent Soul True Lords activated the Star Great Formation and unleashed starlight flames upon the ocean below.
• The Octopus Great Demon delivered Master’s letter to Zhang Hao, then attacked him with an iron hammer while the letter’s curse held his attention.
• Lin Chen stopped the Octopus Great Demon, which crumbled into ashes, and discovered that touching the Cloud Seal Demonic Book had corrupted his hand and mind.
• Lin Chen removed the book’s influence, surveyed the bloodshed and disorder across the Flying Boat Sea Market, and decided to wait before choosing what to do.
• A thunderclap-like sound knocked Lin Chen and those nearby to the ground, and a distant, mournful song drew his consciousness toward the abyss.
• Lin Chen recognized the sound as the Whale Song.

After recovering from the Whale Song, Lin Chen awoke beneath the sea to find Sea City in ruins and his Golden Core abilities suppressed by an immense Primordial Heavy Water environment. He escaped an octopus and a Spiritual Energy Storm, then realized the deep sea was suppressing spiritual energy by level and resolved to pursue experiments into its mysteries after reaching Nascent Soul.

• Lin Chen recovered from the Whale Song’s assault but discovered his Golden Core Divine Sense could not respond, leaving him unable to contact the Dream Realm.
• Lin Chen awoke underwater with an octopus Sea Monster pinning him down and found his Golden Core sorcery and Order Dao Domain ineffective.
• Lin Chen used a water-element technique to slip free and saw that Sea City had become a dark-blue underwater ruin filled with Sea Monsters.
• Lin Chen identified the surrounding substance as likely Primordial Heavy Water and sensed that high-level spiritual energy had become inaccessible.
• Lin Chen sensed danger and carried Zhang Hao and the others away before his Yin Yang Five Elements Dissolution Spiritual Light erupted into a devastating Spiritual Energy Storm.
• Lin Chen concluded that Primordial Heavy Water created an Energy Level Deep Sea that suppressed high-level spiritual energy, and decided to begin spiritual energy experiments after reaching Nascent Soul.

Lin Chen realized that Celestial Venerable Canghai’s Primordial Heavy Water domain was lowering spiritual energy levels and turning the Flying Boat Sea Market’s treasures and cultivators into deadly explosives. As the destruction spread, Lin Chen entered the Dream Realm and summoned the Ghost Ship’s Split Spirits, but he still had no way to reverse the crisis.

• Lin Chen explained to Zhang Hao, Elder Wang, and Wu Yong that they were trapped in a domain suppressing cultivators and high-level items, and warned that using the Instant Thousand Mile Talisman could cause disaster.
• Elder Wang suddenly exploded into blood mist, and Foundation Establishment cultivators and spirit items throughout the sea market began detonating, unleashing shockwaves that damaged the Jade Immortal Towers.
• Lin Chen recognized that Foundation Establishment-level spiritual energy was declining and concluded that only high-level force from the same path or power from another path could counter it.
• Lin Chen told Zhang Hao to protect his physical body, used Enter Dream to reach the Dream Realm, and summoned the Split Spirits from the Ghost Ship, but could think of no way to stop the decline.

Lin Chen and his Split Spirits discovered that the sea swallowing the Flying Boat Sea Market was actually a Kunpeng descendant undergoing a trial, and that Celestial Venerable Canghai had created the Energy Level Deep Sea to stop its transformation. Rather than escape with Zhang Hao and claim the Kunpeng inheritance, Lin Chen decided to make the Kunpeng his aerial fortress.

• Lin Chen and his Split Spirits discussed the catastrophe and concluded that the chain reaction around Zhang Hao and Lin Chen had drawn Heaven and Earth's correction into the crisis.
• Sword Venerable Gengjin pointed Lin Chen toward the deep sea, prompting him to question why Celestial Venerable Canghai had attacked the Flying Boat Sea Market.
• Lin Chen analyzed the rising sea and recognized that its immense shape was a Kunpeng descendant, whose trial and transformation Celestial Venerable Canghai was suppressing.
• Daoist Yimu and Immeasurable Sea Emperor deduced that Zhang Hao could resonate with the Kunpeng descendant and obtain its inheritance, allowing him to escape and grow stronger.
• Lin Chen rejected escaping with Zhang Hao and chose the Kunpeng as the territory and aerial fortress his plans lacked.

Lin Chen persuaded Zhang Hao to undergo a dangerous ritual that would use his body and destiny to reincarnate a Kunpeng and help them escape their predicament. The Kunpeng phantom agreed to the plan, but an unseen presence in the sea abyss recognized Lin Chen’s aura as belonging to an Ancient Cultivator.

• Lin Chen offered Zhang Hao a Nascent Soul opportunity and convinced him to accept the risks of becoming the vessel for a Kunpeng cub.
• Lin Chen began the ritual, and Zhang Hao sacrificed his spiritual blood and transformed his body to serve as the Kunpeng’s mother body.
• Lin Chen revealed to his inner voices that he intended to use Zhang Hao’s destiny to force the Bloodline Trial to succeed and secure the Kunpeng for himself.
• Lin Chen summoned the Kunpeng phantom through the ritual and conveyed his plan to it.
• The Kunpeng phantom agreed, and an unseen presence in the abyss recognized the aura of an Ancient Cultivator and wondered whether they had returned.

Li Mingze, Zhou Xuanji, and other immortal sect descendants slaughtered thousands of cultivators to turn them into blood-sacrifice materials, while Su Liyue and a strange Dao Son headed toward a powerful spiritual energy vortex. At the vortex’s center, Lin Chen began the first Energy Level Leap.

• Li Mingze and Zhou Xuanji learned that spiritual energy fluctuations threatened even Golden Core cultivators and decided to escape the Sea Market.
• Zhou Xuanji revealed that the gathered survivors were meant to clear the way with their lives, and the immortal sect descendants refined thousands of cultivators into Blood Pills, Blood Talismans, and other materials.
• Su Liyue noticed an immense spiritual energy gathering and chose to investigate so she might save the remaining cultivators.
• A mysterious Dao Son agreed to accompany Su Liyue and said death was only a long slumber from which he could return.
• As cultivators and hidden demonic fiends converged on the vortex, Lin Chen stood beside an altar and initiated the first Energy Level Leap.

Lin Chen experienced a microscopic vision of Spiritual Energy and witnessed a Kunpeng’s Energy Level Leap, which ended the Sea Market anomaly. Righteous and demonic cultivators converged on the site, where their standoff left a battle on the verge of erupting.

• Lin Chen observed Spiritual Energy at the microscopic level, distinguishing stagnant Spiritual Energy from active Spiritual Energy and recognizing how cultivation might reveal its mysteries.
• Lin Chen saw a Kunpeng phantom soar toward the Energy Level Deep Sea as it completed an Energy Level Leap.
• The anomaly vanished across the Sea Market, restoring Golden Core Cultivators to Foundation Establishment while killing most surviving Qi Refining Stage Cultivators and advancing a few others.
• Li Mingze and Zhou Xuanji hurried toward the Kunpeng phantom, hoping to seize its supposed bloodline, but the White Bone Human Demon attacked Li Mingze and Zhou Xuanji struck down a hidden assailant.
• The Western Desert Demon Den’s cultivators revealed themselves, displaying the head of the Immortal Alliance Dark Department’s leader as surviving Righteous and Demonic Path cultivators faced off.

Lin Chen appeared before the Immortal Alliance and demonic cultivators, explained that the altar needed more sacrificial power to complete Kunpeng's Bloodline Trial, and declared that he would kill them to supply it. The chapter ended as he prepared to attack both factions.

• The Immortal Alliance cultivators and demonic cultivators clashed, but their attacks proved evenly matched and both sides hesitated to risk their lives.
• A cultivator used the damaged Thunderfire Gold-Refining Hall to repel the Ghost-controlling Evil Cultivator's ghost tide, injuring both combatants.
• Lin Chen appeared between the factions, and Li Mingze and Inner Demon Illusion tried to pressure and attack him without effect.
• Li Mingze offered Lin Chen power and territory, while Inner Demon Illusion urged him to join the demonic path.
• Lin Chen revealed that the altar required more sacrifices to complete Kunpeng's Bloodline Trial, then announced he would kill everyone present to hasten the sacrifice.

Lin Chen killed an Immortal Alliance disciple and dismantled the Thunder Fire Refining Hall with Butcher Ding's Skill. After condemning the cultivators for hiding behind status and schemes, he challenged the gathered righteous and demonic geniuses to fight him.

• Lin Chen killed a Taiyi Xuanmen Li Family disciple with the Eye Sword Technique and dismissed the survivors' threats.
• The Immortal Alliance cultivators attacked Lin Chen with the Thunder Fire Refining Hall, but he used Sword Marks and Butcher Ding's Skill to disassemble and destroy it.
• Lin Chen emerged from the explosion unharmed and challenged the remaining cultivators to face him.
• Li Mingze reacted angrily to Lin Chen's scorn and defended the nobles' supposed role as strategists who controlled events from behind the scenes.
• Lin Chen cited powerful figures who had fought openly, drew his sword, and demanded that the righteous and demonic geniuses show their courage.

Lin Chen survived a coordinated attack by Righteous and Demonic Path cultivators, including Gu Wushuang’s sword that silenced spiritual energy, and revealed that the group had destroyed only one of his lives. He drew his sword to counterattack with the Great Yin Yang Five Elements Divine Light.

• A Taiyi Immortal Sword Sect cultivator and a Ghost-controlling Evil Cultivator combined sword formation and ghosts into a sinister Sword Qi river to attack Lin Chen.
• Gu Wushuang appeared and transformed the ghostly sword formation into a sword strike that lowered spiritual energy’s activity and annihilated Lin Chen, the Ghost-controlling Evil Cultivator, and the Curse Grievance Scholar.
• The remaining cultivators confirmed Lin Chen’s apparent death, but he returned as Li Mingze mocked him and praised their coordinated attack.
• Lin Chen explained that they had destroyed one of his lives, identified his path as Fourth Calamity, and vowed to fight Gu Wushuang another time.
• Lin Chen drew his sword and formed the Great Yin Yang Five Elements Divine Light to begin his counterattack.

Lin Chen countered the cultivators’ layered attacks and destroyed the Inner Demon Illusion, then revealed that the demon was a vessel for the Three Corpses Demon Venerable. He trapped the Demon Venerable within his heart and proposed turning it into an undercover agent, before striking again in reality.

• Yan Xiu immobilized Lin Chen while the Inner Demon Illusion and the Corpse Bone Painter attacked him with soul-devouring and sealing techniques.
• Lin Chen dismissed the restraints with his sword, killed Yan Xiu and the Corpse Bone Painter through backlash, and destroyed the Inner Demon Illusion’s physical shadow.
• The Inner Demon Illusion tried to spread through Lin Chen’s memories, but Lin Chen’s true self emerged in his heart and burned away its invasion.
• Lin Chen identified the Inner Demon Illusion as the Three Corpses Demon Venerable, who had entered through the demonic child to seize Lin Chen’s body and memories.
• Lin Chen trapped the Three Corpses Demon Venerable in his heart and said he intended to use it as an undercover agent in the Heavenly Demon Cult.
• In reality, Lin Chen raised his sword and slashed again moments after the battle began.

Lin Chen wiped out nearly all the cultivators who had come to the ritual, then faced the last survivor, Li Mingze. Just as Lin Chen struck, Taiyi Xuanmen’s Dao Son took control of Li Mingze and caught the sword, asking Lin Chen to spare his brother.

• Lin Chen used the Yin Yang Five Elements Dissolution Spiritual Light to kill the demonic sons and nearly all the Immortal Alliance cultivators in one sword strike.
• Lin Chen killed Zhou Xuanji after the Heavenly Mystery arts filled his mind with visions of unavoidable death and made him stop resisting.
• Lin Chen explained that he had chosen to kill the intruders to protect his ritual and conceal his tracks, then advanced on Li Mingze despite his pleas and threats.
• Taiyi Xuanmen’s Dao Son took control of Li Mingze, caught Lin Chen’s sword, and asked him to spare his elder brother.
• Lin Chen challenged the Dao Son to prove his strength if he wanted Li Mingze spared.