Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin and Blind Girl investigated the Sword Clan’s ruined territory and watched Lu Ming and Feng Qing’s group approach the dangerous Sword Stele. Lu Ming used a talisman to survive its hidden flying sword and obtain an inheritance, then refused Feng Qing’s offer to buy one unless Feng Qing agreed to a condition.

• Chen Lin and Blind Girl found more than a hundred invisible cultivators pinned to the Sword Stele and suspected the Sword Ancestor’s will had awakened.
• Lu Ming and Feng Qing’s group arrived, and Chen Lin discussed their identities and his tangled fate with Blind Girl while remaining concealed.
• The azure-robed man tried to comprehend the Sword Stele, vanished after its sword cry, and left his companions searching in confusion.
• Lu Ming used a strange talisman to take the Formless Flying Sword’s attack in his place, then emerged with a powerful sword art from the inheritance.
• An old man in gray followed Lu Ming’s example and vanished, after which Feng Qing asked to buy a talisman.
• Lu Ming refused to sell a talisman but offered to consider it if Feng Qing agreed to one condition.

Chen Lin and Blind Girl watched the Sword Stele, where Lu Ming and a disguised Great Vehicle Practitioner tried to lure others into triggering its inheritance. Blind Girl passed the trial and entered a building to cultivate, while Lu Ming told Chen Lin that an Exquisite Treasure Chest had revealed the Ascension Trial would include a Sword Dao test.

• Lu Ming offered Feng Qing a Calamity-Dispelling Talisman in exchange for a lifelong slave contract, but Feng Qing refused and waited with his companions.
• A masked Great Vehicle Practitioner bought Lu Ming’s talisman, staged a display of Sword Will, and helped draw cultivators beneath the Sword Stele; the stele absorbed the energy of those it killed and activated.
• Lu Ming and the Great Vehicle Practitioner raced to touch the activated Sword Stele, but both failed its trial, while Blind Girl succeeded and received the Inheritance Sword before being carried into a building.
• Chen Lin revealed himself to Lu Ming, who asked for the secret to comprehending the stele and explained that an Exquisite Treasure Chest had warned him of a Sword Dao test in the Ascension Trial.

Chen Lin received Lu Ming’s copied Fate Master inheritance while waiting near the Sword Stele, and rejected approaches from Wu Mingyuan and Heyue. Three days later, more cultivators had been trapped by the stele, and a luxurious carriage arrived at the gathering.

• Chen Lin learned that the Divine Maiden had regained divine-grade existence and could become an Orthodox God, then received Lu Ming’s Fate Scroll in exchange for a promise to help him during the Ascension Trial if possible.
• Wu Mingyuan offered to explain how Chen Lin could upgrade his medal if the Blind Girl guided the Sword Stele inheritance into him, but Chen Lin refused to make a deal without her consent.
• Chen Lin examined the Fate Scroll and received the Fate Master inheritance, which he set aside because he needed to continue soul dissolution before the Ascension Trial.
• Heyue introduced herself as a candidate for Saintess of the Moqigan Clan and asked Chen Lin about Saintess Heqing, but he refused to discuss his companion or the clan.
• Over the next three days, more cultivators tried to study the Sword Stele and became pinned to it, while Lu Ming and Wu Mingyuan continued trying to lure others toward it.
• A luxurious carriage arrived as the remaining cultivators waited near the Sword Stele.

Chen Lin left the Sword Tomb with Blind Girl, gained a Sword Spirit and deepened his understanding of the Sea-Suppressing Sword Formula. Back in Beihan City, his aura began swelling as the Great Dao Tribulation for breaking through to the Dominator Realm appeared.

• Yuan Zhimeng arrived at the Sword Stele, revealed Chen Lin's inheritance and offered him wealth and aid to join her, but he refused because he had already signed a contract.
• Yuan Zhimeng used alien cultivators to activate the Sword Stele, but she and the other cultivators failed to obtain its inheritance; Chen Lin also tried and failed before leaving with Blind Girl.
• After the cultivators dispersed, an Embroidered Shoe dragged them back to the Sword Stele, where a Sword Shadow emerged and merged into it; the Great Vehicle Practitioner watched in suspicion.
• Chen Lin and Blind Girl harvested sea beasts on their way out, then returned to Beihan City, where Chen Lin found that only the Sea-Suppressing Sword Formula, spider silk, and God-Slaying Staff had survived from his Grotto-Heaven Gourd.
• Blind Girl gave Chen Lin a Sword Spirit, whose vision of the Sword Ancestor's life refined Chen Lin's Sword Will and advanced his comprehension of the Sea-Suppressing Sword Formula.
• As Chen Lin prepared to simulate Secondary Soul Dissolution, his aura surged, the Beihan Realm's energy and rules convulsed, and he recognized the onset of the Great Dao Tribulation.

Chen Lin escaped the Beihan Boundary Realm and successfully broke through to the Dominator Realm, but his two True Characters nearly destabilized his cultivation until he joined them in a Yin-Yang Character. After reaching Dream Illusion City with Blind Girl, he was stopped by a group who declared that he had been conscripted.

• Chen Lin took Blind Girl through a boundary node into the Star Ruins to avoid undergoing his breakthrough in the Beihan Boundary Realm.
• Chen Lin formed the Great Dao mark and endured eighty-one tribulations, stabilizing his Dominator cultivation.
• Chen Lin's Chinese Character and Profound Character began to conflict, threatening to collapse his Natal Runic Inscription.
• Chen Lin used the black and white apertures of his Nine-Aperture Exquisite Heart to unite the characters as a rotating Yin-Yang Character.
• Chen Lin and Blind Girl traveled to Dream Illusion City, where a middle-aged man appeared and told them they had been conscripted.

Chen Lin defeated a Demon King descendant who tried to conscript him, then learned that the Major Factions were seizing people for the ascension trial. He moved his family from Matihai Mountain to the Beihan Boundary Realm and prepared to search the Nameless Secret Realm for Bai Lingyu, with Bai Yujing joining him.

• Chen Lin and Blind Girl fought off a conscription party; Chen Lin annihilated the white-furred middle-aged demon, while Blind Girl killed the three quasi-dominators and the green-faced youth escaped.
• Gu Tianhan restored the demon's monster core and warned Chen Lin that the victim was Qiu Ziwen, the Jade-Faced Demon Fox, a descendant of a Demon King; he explained that the Major Factions were forcibly recruiting people for the ascension trial.
• Chen Lin went to Matihai Mountain, reunited with Chen Zhan, Chen Ling'er, and the others, and brought them to the Beihan Boundary Realm to avoid the factions' conscription.
• At Beihan City, Mingzhi and Qingyu asked Chen Lin to search the Nameless Secret Realm for Bai Lingyu, and Bai Yujing appeared and offered to accompany him.

Bai Yujing, Chen Lin, and the Blind Girl descended into the Spirit Refining Tower to find Bai Lingyu, whom Bai Yujing freed by exchanging their conditions. The exchange triggered a trap that sealed Bai Yujing, and the Rank Nine dominator Night-Forgotten Owl emerged, revealing that he had orchestrated the events to kill him.

• Bai Yujing used sword light to restore the Blind Girl's memories, and she explained that the Spirit Refining Tower was rumored to imprison an Outer Realm Evil Demon.
• Bai Yujing brought Chen Lin and the Blind Girl through the tower to its ninth underground level, where they found Bai Lingyu and Lian Zizhang pinned behind a Light Curtain.
• Bai Yujing exchanged places and conditions with Bai Lingyu, freeing her while taking her place inside the Light Curtain.
• The pillars drained the captives and transformed into creatures that formed a sealing array around Bai Yujing.
• Night-Forgotten Owl emerged from the darkness and admitted that he had hidden from Bai Yujing and planned the trap to kill him.

Chen Lin and his companions fought Night-Forgotten Owl in the Giant Tower, where Chen Lin’s God-Slaying Staff revealed a seal that drove the enemy back. Bai Yujing explained the seal’s danger, healed Chen Lin, and led the group out with Lian Zizhang, while Night-Forgotten Owl remained trapped and the Ascension Trial still awaited them.

• Night-Forgotten Owl attacked Bai Yujing and tried to drag Bai Lingyu into the fight, while Chen Lin and Blind Girl launched attacks to help.
• Chen Lin’s medal absorbed and reflected Night-Forgotten Owl’s black-light attacks, but the growing backlash injured Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin overdrawed his heart’s origin essence and empowered the God-Slaying Staff, whose seal destroyed Night-Forgotten Owl’s owls and forced him back into the darkness.
• Bai Yujing brought Chen Lin and the women outside the Giant Tower, healed Chen Lin, and warned him that the God-Slaying Seal could make him an enemy of divine beings.
• Lian Zizhang recovered, and Bai Yujing entrusted a still-unconscious survivor to Chen Lin before leading the group toward the passage’s exit.

Chen Lin recovered from his injuries, received a drop of primal essence blood from the rescued dominator Wunie, and made preparations for the approaching Ascension Trial. As the secret realm grew more dangerous and the city grew tense, Lian Zizhang emerged from seclusion and asked Chen Lin to go somewhere with him.

• Chen Lin learned that Wunie had awakened, met the fourth-rank dominator, and received a drop of primal essence blood in repayment for saving him.
• Chen Lin considered seeking primal origin essence from powerful races and arranged for Silver Fairy's disciples and their descendants to choose where they would settle before the trial.
• Little White Snake, Sun Caiyi, and Chen Lin's other close companions chose to remain with him, and Chen Lin warned them to prepare for the uncertain trial.
• Chen Lin distributed resources and kept his group out of the deteriorating secret realm as its death rate rose and Exotic Treasures became scarce.
• Lian Zizhang emerged from seclusion and asked Chen Lin whether he would go somewhere with him.

Lian Zizhang told Chen Lin that the Ascension Trial offered a path to Outer Heaven but favored powerful, experienced participants, prompting Chen Lin to prepare himself and his allies. After years passed and the Nameless Secret Realm collapsed, Bai Yujing emerged from seclusion and gave Chen Lin a primal crystal to strengthen his use of the God-Slaying Seal.

• Lian Zizhang explained the Heavenly Monarch Seats, the Heavenly Dao, the stages of the Ascension Trial, and the advantages held by those who had earned stage-clearance rewards.
• Chen Lin shared the information with his companions, urged them to gather useful items, and arranged for messages and treasures to reach Beitang Zhu, Ruan Qingxi, and Luo Qinglan.
• Chen Lin stayed in the Beihan Boundary Realm as the Nameless Secret Realm's passage collapsed and other powers departed, partly to guard Bai Yujing and Bai Lingyu and avoid enemies in the Star Ruins.
• Grass told Chen Lin that Bai Yujing had emerged from seclusion, and Chen Lin went to congratulate him and Bai Lingyu.
• Bai Yujing gave Chen Lin a primal crystal to improve his use of the God-Slaying Seal and warned him not to rely on it in place of his own strength.

Chen Lin prepared for Secondary Soul Dissolution with help from Bai Yujing, then began the real process and used the God-Slaying Staff to break the Divine Curse sealing the Light Gate. After entering, he severed the weak soul threads attached to him and found nine immense sealing symbols ahead.

• Bai Yujing explained the God-Slaying Seal, warned Chen Lin to keep anything involving the Heavenly Dao secret, and promised him Dominator-Tier Spiritual Bodies.
• Bai Yujing gave Chen Lin access to the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace's Ultimate Treasure Vault, sent a sword-light gift to help Grass, and advised him to use the God-Slaying Seal against the Divine Curse.
• Chen Lin collected more than forty Dominator-Tier Spiritual Bodies, prepared the Hundred Saints Soul-Interrogation Art, and spent several years condensing holy spirits.
• Chen Lin simulated Secondary Soul Dissolution, with the hundred holy spirits helping him withstand the white light and enter the Light Gate.
• During the real attempt, Chen Lin repeatedly struck the Light Gate with the God-Slaying Staff until its Divine Curse collapsed, then entered and severed the weak soul threads attached to him.
• Chen Lin looked into the void beyond the gate and saw nine enormous sealing symbols exerting immense pressure.

Chen Lin completed Secondary Soul Dissolution after the God-Slaying Seal destroyed the Divine Curse, then spent five years stabilizing his transformed soul. After learning that the Feng Family had threatened the Azure-Crested Heavenly Palace and discovering the extent of its hidden forces, Chen Lin decided to use his new strength to take them down and claim their resources.

• Chen Lin used the God-Slaying Staff to provoke the Divine Curse, and the God-Slaying Seal battled its combined inscription until it destroyed it and absorbed what remained.
• Chen Lin’s soul transformed, and he spent five years in seclusion stabilizing it while the Blind Girl and Grass protected the headquarters from attackers.
• Chen Lin learned that the Feng Family had sealed off Beihan City and demanded that he beg forgiveness and hand over Yue Bingling within six months.
• Leng Yue gave Chen Lin a Jade Slip from Ning Yu, which revealed that the Feng Family had five Dominator Experts, including the fourth-rank Feng Wantian.
• Chen Lin announced that he would test his new abilities against the Feng Family and seize its resources, while cautioning that he would proceed carefully.

Chen Lin traveled with Blind Girl to the Guning Realm to seize the Huang Family’s Soul-Consuming Token and kill Feng Qing. When the bell’s power turned the battle around and the Huang Family Ancestor offered his wealth for aid, Chen Lin emerged and attacked Feng Qing.

• Chen Lin learned that Feng Qing was heading to the Guning Realm to take the Huang Family’s silver bell, and he secretly set out with Blind Girl.
• Blind Girl told Chen Lin she had given up hope of finding her destroyed homeland, and Chen Lin reassured her before they reached the Huang Family Compound.
• Zhao Qianming and Feng Qing fought over the Soul-Consuming Token as Chen Lin watched from concealment, waiting for a chance to strike.
• A mysterious giant hand seized the bell, but its chime affected the gathered experts and left it unable to escape; Feng Qing and Zhao Qianming then attacked the Huang Family.
• The Huang Family Ancestor rang the bell three times, broke through to the Dominator Realm, and offered his family’s wealth to anyone who would help; Chen Lin appeared and pointed at Feng Qing.

Chen Lin killed Feng Qing and Zhao Qianming, then attacked the Feng Family with the Soul-Absorbing Bell. The battle with the Feng Patriarch escalated when Chen Lin used the God-Slaying Seal against a one-armed doll, which he recognized as a divine object.

• Chen Lin killed Feng Qing with the Soul-Slicing Guillotine and destroyed Zhao Qianming after refusing his offer to serve.
• The Huang Family Ancestor died in his attack on Zhao Qianming, and Chen Lin left with Blind Girl and the exotic treasure.
• Chen Lin refined the Soul-Absorbing Bell, then led Grass and Blind Girl to attack the Feng Family and kill its members.
• The Feng Patriarch suppressed Chen Lin's abilities with his Folding Fan, but Chen Lin's medal absorbed the yellow light and reflected some of it back.
• Chen Lin used the Soul-Absorbing Bell and God-Slaying Staff against the Feng Patriarch, who countered with a Red Object, a Jade Pendant, and his Folding Fan.
• The Feng Patriarch's One-Armed Doll punched the God-Slaying Staff, and Chen Lin recognized it as a divine object.

Chen Lin destroyed the Feng Family’s forces and bound the surviving divine being Qingtian with a God-Controlling Bead, then learned that a red jade tablet might be linked to the missing Feng Family Ancestor. He secured Qingtian and discovered three Grotto-Heaven Treasures among the spoils, while the ancestor remained an unresolved threat.

• Chen Lin killed the Feng Patriarch with the God-Slaying Seal, and its power also destroyed the Patriarch’s clones and spiritual remnants.
• Grass and Blind Girl killed the remaining Feng Family Dominators as Chen Lin’s forces finished the clan’s survivors.
• Chen Lin discovered that the shattered doll contained divine blood, absorbed some of its energy, and made the divine being submit as Qingtian by forming a God-Controlling Bead.
• Chen Lin learned that Qingtian did not know the Feng Family Ancestor’s whereabouts but suspected a red jade tablet in the Feng Ancestral Land could connect to the ancestor’s residence.
• Chen Lin drew a bottle of divine blood from Qingtian and temporarily stored him in a One-Time Grotto-Heaven Talisman.
• Leng Yue showed Chen Lin three Grotto-Heaven Treasures taken from the Feng Patriarch, Feng Qing, and Zhao Qianming.

Chen Lin examined the Feng Family’s captured treasures and discovered that its patriarch’s Golden Pouch contained a mysterious Irregular Object that resisted being remembered or depicted. As he considered how to find the missing Feng Family Ancestor, Ning Yu and Yue Bingling arrived to discuss the Feng Family.

• Chen Lin inspected the selected treasures, set aside weapons and armor for others, and kept a potent bottle of spirit liquid and a mysterious pill.
• Chen Lin explored Zhao Qianming’s pouch and Feng Qing’s White Jade Pot, finding spirit plants and beasts in one and people he had to kill in the other.
• Chen Lin investigated the Feng Family patriarch’s Golden Pouch and found a vast Grotto-Heaven containing only a golden, human-head-sized Irregular Object.
• Chen Lin and his companions found that the object could not be reliably remembered or depicted, then discussed how to locate the Feng Family Ancestor.
• Ning Yu and Yue Bingling arrived to meet Chen Lin, who asked whether their visit concerned the Feng Family.

Chen Lin used the Ning Family’s resources to build an Array of Destiny and search for the Feng Family Ancestor. The divination revealed that the Ancestor was trapped somewhere connected to a piece of red jade, leaving Chen Lin to secure the jade and reconsider his next move.

• Ning Yu asked Chen Lin to shelter with the Ning Family, but Chen Lin rejected the plan and chose to track down the Feng Family Ancestor with an Array of Destiny.
• Yue Bingling gave Chen Lin a bottle of powerful primordial essence blood after revealing that she had awakened her bloodline and an ice-based primordial divine ability.
• The Ning Family gathered seven suitable planes and the formation materials, and Chen Lin spent more than a year preparing the array with their help.
• Chen Lin activated the Array of Destiny, drawing destiny force from the seven planes and using the Feng Family members’ essence blood and divine souls to guide the search.
• The array showed a blurry figure bound in chains, and Chen Lin’s red jade briefly connected to the same place, confirming that the Feng Family Ancestor was likely trapped there.
• Chen Lin sealed the red jade, stopped the divination, and absorbed the formation’s remaining energy into his talent origin.

Chen Lin’s talent reached its limit as he absorbed the destiny force of seven realms, and he used the resulting power to aid their inhabitants before disappearing with his companions. After entering the blood jade and confronting the Feng Family Ancestor, Chen Lin killed the ancestor’s transformed body with the God-Slaying Seal and faced the surviving Evil God.

• Chen Lin diverted overwhelming destiny force through his red heart orifice and refined treasures until his talent origin reached its peak, causing omens to appear across the seven realms.
• Chen Lin blessed the realms, raised their grades slightly, and reassured Ning Changsheng that the Feng Family Ancestor was trapped before leaving with Grass and Blind Girl.
• Chen Lin brought his companions to the Changtian Realm, then used the blood jade to enter a blood-red space and found the Feng Family Ancestor chained there.
• The Feng Family Ancestor transformed into an Evil God, but Chen Lin struck him down with the God-Slaying Seal.
• Chen Lin questioned the surviving Evil God about Outer Heaven and Night-Forgotten Owl, then attacked again before the Evil God could answer.

Chen Lin escaped the red jade space after destroying it, gaining fragments that could replenish his powers and destiny force. He then crafted a Disorderly Boat, whose heavenly tribulation began with nine giant dragon phantoms appearing around its image.

• The evil god fled through a symbol on its forehead, leaving Chen Lin trapped in the red jade space as its red light tried to turn him into an artifact spirit.
• Chen Lin resisted the red light with his Nine-Aperture Exquisite Heart, then used the God-Slaying Seal to break through the spatial barrier.
• A mysterious shadow escaped through the shattered space, and Chen Lin returned to the Desolate Plane with the red jade fragments.
• Chen Lin discovered that the fragments replenished his heart origin essence, soul power, runic force, and destiny force, then began crafting talismans and other items.
• Chen Lin successfully crafted a Disorderly Boat, and its heavenly tribulation appeared as nine giant dragon phantoms draped over the ship's image.

Chen Lin endured a dangerous tribulation while refining the Disorderly Boat, then learned that the Ascension Trial had begun early and faced five difficult tasks with a ten-year deadline. He urged his companions not to give up and organized their belongings so they could prepare for the trial together.

• Chen Lin used the Sea-Suppressing Sword Formula to repel successive tribulations drawn by the Disorderly Boat, until a distant existence’s cold snort knocked him from the air and badly injured him.
• The mysterious presence did not appear, the tribulation ended, and the Disorderly Boat transformed as Chen Lin warned everyone to stay cautious before the Ascension Trial.
• Chen Lin and the others received notice that the Ascension Trial had begun early, with five secret tasks and a ten-year deadline for the first stage.
• Chen Lin examined the incomplete map and considered the unfamiliar tasks, then warned everyone not to reveal their assignments or break the trial’s rules.
• When several companions said they would rather stay with him than attempt the tasks, Chen Lin urged them to keep trying and told Leng Yue to organize everyone’s belongings for them to share.