Chapter Summaries

Yang Ling used the Fourth-Rank Thunder Talisman’s lightning and Jade-Blood Golden Toads to raise his Heavenly Will Divine Saber proficiency, then awakened Lightning Saber and destroyed the talisman’s storm. He concealed the skill’s origins from Shi Haixuan and turned back to Ji Nian’s question about Luo Yu.

• Yang Ling ate five Jade-Blood Golden Toads and let Zhu Yunbo strike him repeatedly with the Fourth-Rank Thunder Talisman to build Heavenly Will Divine Saber proficiency.
• Yang Ling advanced the Heavenly Will Divine Saber to Entering the Hall and Room, gaining the exclusive Lightning Saber skill.
• Yang Ling infused more than two hundred Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers with lightning and used them to split the thunderbolt and disperse the talisman’s clouds.
• Zhu Qing and Zhu Xiu marveled at Yang Ling’s strength, while Ji Nian questioned Li Jun about Yang Bangyi’s past behavior.
• Shi Haixuan recognized the Heavenly Will Divine Saber, but Yang Ling claimed his technique was a family inheritance called the Lock-Head Flying Dagger Technique.
• Yang Ling asked Ji Nian what he had been saying about Luo Yu, and Ji Nian dismissed the matter as unimportant.

Yang Ling discussed Luo Yu’s betrayal and Li Fengxian’s possible connection to the Directorate of Ceremonial with Ji Nian and Li Jun, then agreed to cooperate with the Emergency Department against evil cults. The White Bone Divine Lord ordered Yang Ling and Zhu Xiu to reinforce Jiajiu City and promised to help Yang Ling break through to Fourth Rank.

• Yang Ling explained that Luo Yu joined the Immortal God Cult, used explosives to threaten Chen Guoqing, and later quit the game with his colleagues.
• Ji Nian warned Yang Ling that powerful Rong Tribe players connected to Luo Yu might target him, while Li Jun recalled that one of his captors sounded like a Zhao State eunuch.
• Yang Ling agreed to work with Ji Nian on cracking down on evil cults but declined to commit to the Emergency Department’s other priorities.
• The White Bone Divine Lord questioned Yang Ling about Qin Haitian’s missing corpse, then ordered him and Zhu Xiu to return with her as reinforcements for Jiajiu City.
• The White Bone Divine Lord promised to help Yang Ling break through to Fourth Rank, and Yang Ling eagerly agreed to defend Jiajiu City.
• Zhu Qing told Ji Nian and Li Jun that the White Bone Divine Lord had once been a First Rank Land Immortal and was now a Second Rank Human Immortal and an official of the Second Rank.

At a strategy meeting in Jiajiu City, Yang Ling realized the Great Dream Dynasty might possess a way to extract cultivation methods and martial skills from even low-ranking fighters. After recounting how he killed Xian Donglai and Qin Haitian, he heard that the war’s outcome would be decided through a plan intended to minimize losses.

• Yang Ling observed the gathered government and sect experts as they reviewed the beast tide’s heavy casualties among lower-ranked martial artists.
• The Divine Guard Office’s Third-Rank Grandmaster said recovered bodies could undergo bone-burning inheritance, with sects entitled to reclaim sixty percent of their own methods and skills.
• Yang Ling suspected the Great Dream Dynasty’s bone-burning inheritance could extract martial knowledge from low-ranking fighters, and feared the same technology could be used on him.
• The Divine Guard Office’s Third-Rank Grandmaster asked whether Yang Ling had killed Xian Donglai, and the White Bone Divine Lord told him to report what had happened.
• Yang Ling described the deaths of Shi Tianhu, Xian Donglai, and Qin Haitian while leaving out Wang Yu and the others.
• The Divine Guard Office’s Third-Rank Grandmaster denied that his office resented Yang Ling, and Chen Jiu announced that the immortals and the two Emperor Lords had agreed to decide the battle in a way that minimized losses.

Chen Jiu told the Jiajiu City Grandmasters that the Great Dream Dynasty had agreed to settle its conflict with the rebels through an early Fourth-Rank Heaven Ranking Tournament, with Jiajiu City and surrounding land at stake. The White Bone Divine Lord took Qin Haitian and warned Yang Ling to conceal his Iron Clothes Department identity; three days later, Zhao De arrived with Yang Ling’s fire seed kindling.

• Chen Jiu explained that rebels had agreed to the Fourth-Rank Heaven Ranking Tournament, with Jiajiu City and a thousand-li tract at stake if they won three places in each tier.
• The Grandmasters questioned why the tournament would be held in Jiajiu City and worried about how many immortals had joined the rebellion; Chen Jiu said its date remained undecided.
• The White Bone Divine Lord took Qin Haitian’s body and head, then promised Yang Ling fire seed kindling within three days.
• The White Bone Divine Lord warned Yang Ling to hide his identity as Department Master of the Rong State’s Iron Clothes Department, leaving him shaken.
• Yang Ling kept watch over his surroundings for several days, and Zhao De arrived on the third day to deliver his fire seed kindling.

Yang Ling reunited with Zhao De in the Abyssal Beast Cavern and learned that hidden factions within the Great Dream Dynasty had orchestrated attacks on the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect and White Bone Cave. Zhao De gave Yang Ling a rare fruit to help him reach Fourth Rank before the Heaven Ranking Battle made the conflict more dangerous.

• Zhao De confronted Yang Ling about vanishing for thirty years, and Yang Ling asked why he was in the Abyssal Beast Cavern.
• Zhao De explained that rebels had infiltrated the Divine Guard Office, Myriad Manifestations Office, Cicada-Holding Directorate, and Abyssal Beast Cavern, and that they had orchestrated attacks on the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect and White Bone Cave.
• Zhao De revealed that he had become head of the Abyssal Martial Artists by bluffing about his cultivation, though he claimed to be a Second Rank Human Immortal.
• Zhao De gave Yang Ling a Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit and urged him to reach Fourth Rank before the Heaven Ranking Battle intensified the conflict.

Yang Ling learned from Zhao De that advancing to Fourth Rank required his martial way kindling to become a furnace and could be fatal without enough reserves. After Yang Ling claimed his kindling was the legendary stellar fire, Zhao De decided to make further preparations and took him somewhere at great speed.

• Zhao De explained that Fourth-Rank advancement could consume Yang Ling as kindling, and described the benefits of surviving the body-tempering process.
• Zhao De assessed Yang Ling’s reserves and gave him ten-thousand-year cold ice milk, flame dragon heart meat, and a Third-Rank Spirit-Protecting Jade Pendant.
• Yang Ling asked for more flame dragon heart meat, then revealed that he believed his martial way kindling was stellar fire rather than tribulation fire.
• Zhao De considered the claim unlikely but agreed that Yang Ling’s concerns warranted careful preparations.
• Zhao De grabbed Yang Ling and carried him away so quickly that Yang Ling could not track their surroundings.

Zhao De brought Yang Ling to meet an ancient plant-type beast venerable and obtained a Wood Spirit Ginseng Fruit to test the grade of Yang Ling’s kindling. After eating it, Yang Ling discovered that a Purple Qilin-shaped plant had sprouted from his head.

• Zhao De led Yang Ling through a primeval forest, where two plant exotic beasts guided them to his old friend, a second-rank beast venerable.
• Zhao De told Yang Ling that the Great Dream Dynasty’s Sacred Lord alone could extract Bone-Burning Inheritances from ordinary martial artists.
• Zhao De asked the towering ancient tree for a Wood Spirit Ginseng Fruit to test Yang Ling’s kindling, and the tree dropped one for him.
• Yang Ling recognized the fruit’s resemblance to the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit and learned that both fruits came from Zhao De’s old friend.
• Yang Ling ate the Wood Spirit Ginseng Fruit, and Zhao De saw a qilin-shaped kindling above his head.
• Yang Ling used spiritual perception and discovered a Purple Qilin-shaped plant growing from his crown.

Zhao De sought help from the Vast Heaven Ancient Tree to prepare Yang Ling for advancing to Fourth Rank, but received only one powerful Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit. He then brought Yang Ling to meet an Abyssal-born friend, whose reaction to Zhao De’s request was cold.

• Zhao De discovered a purple fruit produced by Yang Ling’s transcendent-grade stellar fire and warned that advancing to Fourth Rank could require more kindling than he could provide.
• The Vast Heaven Ancient Tree created a wood spirit false body resembling Yang Ling, which Zhao De planned to use to explain Shi Tianhu’s death to his subordinates.
• At Zhao De’s request, the tree produced one aged Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit that strengthened Yang Ling’s attributes and martial way kindling, but it could not provide another.
• Zhao De took Yang Ling to visit an Abyssal-born friend and told him not to reveal his identity.
• The old man’s expression turned sickly and his tone grew distant when Zhao De asked for help, and he said he could not help.

Zhao De brought Yang Ling to Qiguan Shande to borrow kindling fuel for Yang Ling’s breakthrough, then revealed that Yang Ling had superior tribulation fire. Shande lent them two rare fruits and challenged Yang Ling to face his eldest disciple for a chance to borrow another.

• Zhao De introduced Yang Ling to Qiguan Shande and asked to borrow kindling fuel for Yang Ling’s breakthrough.
• Qiguan Shande initially refused, but reconsidered after Zhao De revealed Yang Ling’s superior tribulation fire.
• Qiguan Shande gave Zhao De two fifteen-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits, while Zhao De asked for more fuel.
• Qiguan Shande offered another three-thousand-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit if Yang Ling lasted a hundred moves against his eldest disciple.
• Qiguan Shande’s eldest disciple arrived in the courtyard and respectfully asked what his master wanted.

Yang Ling sparred with Pei Jinye, a fourth-rank martial artist who had condensed upper-grade tribulation fire, and studied the boosts granted by his skills, weapon, and Dragon Blood Sword Master divine ability. The chapter ended as Pei Jinye unleashed a full-powered sword attack against Yang Ling.

• Qiguan Shande arranged a spar between Yang Ling and Pei Jinye, and Zhao De and Qiguan Shande agreed that Pei Jinye could not use his divine weapon armor.
• Yang Ling inspected Pei Jinye’s attributes and noted that he had devoted his training to one internal skill, one sword technique, and one movement technique.
• Yang Ling activated three internal skills, while Pei Jinye raised his strength and agility by 350 points each through his cultivation method.
• Pei Jinye drew the Flame Dragon Bone Sword, whose equipment requirements and agility boost Yang Ling examined, and Zhao De identified Pei Jinye’s Dragon Blood Sword Master divine ability.
• Pei Jinye apologized to Yang Ling before charging with the Swimming Dragon Hundred-Step Movement Technique and Dragon Blood Sword Technique, raising both attributes to 2,049 points and striking with a blood-dragon sword force.

Yang Ling used his skills and a final Dragon Slaying strike to behead Pei Jinye during their hundred-move test. Zhao De declared Pei Jinye defeated and demanded the Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit.

• Yang Ling summoned five White Bone Warriors, then struck Pei Jinye with lightning-wreathed flying daggers and several Instant Slashes, but could not sever his head.
• Pei Jinye recovered from his injuries, escaped Yang Ling’s attacks, and challenged him to use his remaining techniques as the fight continued toward a hundred moves.
• Yang Ling agreed to use his saber technique again, while Qiguan Shande insisted the test had to last the full hundred moves.
• Yang Ling combined Instant Slash, Heart of Heavenly Will, Absolute Focus, Heavenly Dipper Azure Dragon Force, and Dragon Slaying, severing Pei Jinye’s head in one strike.
• After Yang Ling identified the technique as Dragon Slaying, Zhao De declared Pei Jinye had lost and demanded the Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit.

Yang Ling defeated Pei Jinye with a single use of his Dragon-Slaying Blade Technique, earning Qiguan Shande’s respect and a Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit. Zhao De then took Yang Ling to steal the Five Venom Emperor Lord’s Great Sun Golden Elixir, revealing that he knew Yang Ling had used a talisman to conceal stolen treasures.

• Yang Ling beheaded Pei Jinye with his Dragon-Slaying Blade Technique, then Pei Jinye reattached his head and praised the attack.
• Qiguan Shande lent Yang Ling a Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit and discussed the campaign against Jiajiu City with Zhao De.
• Qiguan Shande told Pei Jinye that Yang Ling had condensed tribulation fire and had a ten-percent chance of reaching First Rank.
• Zhao De told Yang Ling that their preparations for his breakthrough were not enough and that he planned to steal the Five Venom Emperor Lord’s Great Sun Golden Elixir.
• Zhao De revealed that he and the White Bone Divine Lord knew Yang Ling had used a talisman to steal and conceal treasures, then transported him away.

Yang Ling and Zhao De entered the poisonous place where the Five Venom Emperor Lord had hidden the Great Sun Golden Elixir. After they found and took the unripe elixir, Zhao De sent Yang Ling to Eagle Valley Red Copper Mine to break through to Fourth Rank as the Five Venom Emperor Lord arrived.

• Yang Ling endured the poison with his White Bone Buddha Overlord Body while Zhao De explained that the Five Venom Emperor Lord had hidden the Great Sun Golden Elixir there.
• Zhao De found a pool of Yin-Sinking Water and removed it, revealing a golden plant bearing the unripe Great Sun Golden Elixir.
• Yang Ling put the elixir into his Green Dragon Ring after Zhao De warned him to hide its aura and break through to Fourth Rank quickly.
• Zhao De sensed the Five Venom Emperor Lord arriving and sent Yang Ling away to Eagle Valley Red Copper Mine.
• Yang Ling recognized the mine and greeted the White Bone Divine Lord, then worried that he had said something he should not have.

Yang Ling began his Fourth Rank breakthrough in a hidden chamber within the Red Copper Mine, using the Great Sun Golden Elixir and several rare treasures while the White Bone Divine Lord guarded him. His martial way furnace formed with extraordinary power, and as it continued to consume nourishment, he swallowed the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit and raised his dual attributes from 399 to 400.

• The White Bone Divine Lord warned Yang Ling that the Five Venom Emperor Lord was searching for the Great Sun Golden Elixir, then took him to a vast deposit of red copper mine marrow to conceal its aura during his breakthrough.
• Yang Ling swallowed the Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit, completed his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling, and formed a scorching martial way furnace.
• Yang Ling used ten-thousand-year cold ice milk, Zhao De's Spirit-Protecting Jade Pendant, and flame dragon heart meat to endure the furnace's pain and feed its flames as his qi and blood rose to 100,000.
• Yang Ling swallowed three more Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits, while the furnace's flames expanded and a flaming kirin phantom appeared behind him.
• The heat spread through the Red Copper Mine, driving players and natives away; Ding Xing investigated and barred everyone from entering until the temperature dropped.
• As the martial way furnace began burning his flesh for fuel, Yang Ling swallowed a Watermelon-Sized Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit, raising his dual attributes from 399 to 400.

Yang Ling used the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit and Great Sun Golden Elixir to strengthen himself and fuel his Fourth-Rank breakthrough, while White Bone Divine Lord diverted the elixir’s escaping aura from Eagle Valley. The furnace consumed its fuel and began burning Yang Ling, leaving him on the brink of death before blood lock restored his health and body.

• Yang Ling raised his strength to 766 with free attribute points, increasing his health to 10,770 as the martial way furnace’s flames stabilized.
• The furnace flames surged and consumed the Flesh-and-Blood Ginseng Fruit, so White Bone Divine Lord told Yang Ling to take the Great Sun Golden Elixir.
• Yang Ling swallowed the elixir, gained 46 levels, and raised his strength to 812 while its aura escaped the mine’s concealment.
• White Bone Divine Lord sent her primordial spirit away with the escaping aura, drawing a pursuing Black Shadow away from Eagle Valley, then told Yang Ling to focus on his breakthrough.
• The furnace burned through the Great Sun Golden Elixir and Yang Ling’s remaining fuel, reducing him to skin and bones until blood lock refilled his health and restored his body.

Yang Ling discovered that chiseling Red Copper Mine Marrow slowed the Martial Way Furnace’s flames as he struggled to survive his Fourth-Rank breakthrough. He kept mining to buy himself time, while White Bone Divine Lord wondered why it worked.

• White Bone Divine Lord explained that outside help could disrupt Yang Ling’s furnace and warned that he had to survive the breakthrough on his own.
• Yang Ling realized the furnace was consuming his Health Points and searched for a way to endure, since his healing skills and supplies could not help him.
• As his Health Points dwindled and his body withered, Yang Ling seized his Hundred Refined Qilin Crane-Mouth Hoe and began chiseling Red Copper Mine Marrow.
• Yang Ling’s mining filled him with icy Experience Points and reduced the furnace’s burn from 100 Health Points per second to one.
• White Bone Divine Lord noticed Yang Ling’s condition stabilizing and wondered how mining could slow the furnace flames.

Yang Ling frantically mined red copper mine marrow to slow the furnace fire consuming him, while Zhao De and White Bone Divine Lord realized his transcendent-grade stellar fire made his breakthrough exceptionally dangerous. As they vanished to confront an approaching threat, a mountain-sized black spider appeared over Eagle Valley Red Copper Mine.

• Yang Ling equipped his Heavenly Wolf Divine Weapon Armor and mined red copper mine marrow, using the experience points to suppress the furnace fire and keep himself alive.
• Yang Ling filled the Green Dragon Ring and carved away half the mine marrow while mining in a possessed, desperate state.
• White Bone Divine Lord and Zhao De discussed the danger of Yang Ling's transcendent-grade stellar fire and searched for more kindling to help him.
• White Bone Divine Lord revealed that the trail to the Great Sun Golden Elixir had been severed, but she suspected she had left traces behind.
• Zhao De and White Bone Divine Lord vanished as their expressions changed, and a mountain-sized black spider appeared at Eagle Valley Red Copper Mine while Ding Xing and the others watched in terror.

The Five Venom Emperor Lord arrived at Eagle Valley Red Copper Mine demanding the Great Sun Golden Elixir, while the White Bone Divine Lord tried to prevent a clash. Just as the Five Venom Emperor Lord prepared to attack, a Divine Ape appeared to negotiate, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Zhang Wei and Lu Xiangdi saw the enormous Five Venom Emperor Lord approaching, and its arrival terrified players and martial artists.
• The White Bone Divine Lord identified herself as a Division Supervisor of the Myriad Manifestations Office and asked why the Five Venom Emperor Lord had come.
• The Five Venom Emperor Lord demanded the Great Sun Golden Elixir and unleashed mental attacks that caused thousands to faint.
• The White Bone Divine Lord denied having the elixir and warned that destroying the mine would not recover it because it had already been eaten.
• The Five Venom Emperor Lord threatened to kill everyone, but a Divine Ape appeared and urged it to let the loss go.

After the Five Venom Emperor Lord vanished, Ding Xing sealed off the red copper mine, while Zhao De and Ji Tianming discovered that Yang Ling had fallen into obsession as he excavated red copper mine marrow. The chapter ended with them fearing that forcing him to stop would collapse his Furnace flame and kill him.

• The Divine Ape Spirit Body invoked the Red Flame Emperor's promise of compensation, and the Five Venom Emperor Lord vanished; the White Bone Divine Lord and Divine Ape also disappeared.
• Ding Xing ordered his subordinates to keep the red copper mine sealed and barred everyone from approaching it.
• Zhao De introduced Ji Tianming to the White Bone Divine Lord, and they discussed their sects' past and Yang Ling's transcendent-grade stellar fire.
• Zhao De called to Yang Ling and received no response while Yang Ling continued excavating red copper mine marrow.
• Ji Tianming concluded that Yang Ling had succumbed to obsession and warned that forcing him to stop could collapse his Furnace flame and burn him to death.

Yang Ling mined red copper mine marrow to gain experience while the Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling burned him down to near death. After reaching level 200, he used a Divine Domain Internal Energy Skill Exchange Voucher on the Diamond White Bone Mingwang Technique, restoring his body and leaving him with a chance to survive its breakthrough.

• Yang Ling continued mining as the furnace fire drained his strength and health, while Zhao De, the White Bone Divine Lord, and Ji Tianming debated whether to intervene and risk crippling him.
• Yang Ling suddenly reached level 200 and chose the Divine Domain Internal Energy Skill Exchange Voucher over the other rewards.
• Yang Ling used the voucher to advance the Diamond White Bone Mingwang Technique, causing his health and flesh to recover faster than the furnace flame could burn them away.
• Zhao De and the others realized Yang Ling's Martial Way Furnace had not yet formed, while Yang Ling estimated that his technique would reach the Transcendent Saint Realm in about ten hours.
• Yang Ling recognized Zhao De and Ji Tianming when they asked what was happening, and Ji Tianming laughed at his recovery.