Chapter Summaries

After Yang Ling survived the stellar fire breakthrough, Zhao De and Ji Tianming left him to continue cultivating. Ten hours later, his Diamond White Bone Mingwang Technique reached transcendent sainthood and his White Bone Buddha Overlord Body advanced to its second tier.

• Yang Ling explained that his Internal Skill had reached transcendent sainthood, stabilizing the stellar fire and saving him from being burned alive.
• Zhao De told Yang Ling that Ji Tianming’s intervention had driven off the Five Venom Emperor Lord, and the White Bone Divine Lord explained Ji Tianming’s connection to the Red Flame Emperor.
• The White Bone Divine Lord left for Jiajiu City, and Ji Tianming departed to discuss the Great Sun Golden Elixir with the Red Flame Emperor.
• Yang Ling revealed that he had killed two Middle Fourth Rank attackers, who turned out to be Wang Yu and his companion, and Zhao De took their bodies to investigate.
• Yang Ling remained in seclusion, and after ten hours his Diamond White Bone Mingwang Technique advanced to transcendent sainthood, strengthening his attributes and upgrading his White Bone Buddha Overlord Body.

Yang Ling reached the second tier of the White Bone Buddha Overlord Body and gained a major increase in his attributes and abilities while the furnace flame continued to grow. At the Red Copper Mine, Ding Xing and his subordinates waited for the mine to become safe, but a surge of flames engulfed the area.

• Yang Ling spent 501 free attribute points on strength, raising his strength to 1313 and his health points and qi and blood to 75770 and 160000.
• Yang Ling examined the second-tier White Bone Buddha Overlord Body and discovered that it granted immunity to eight attributes up to the third rank and doubled its strength and agility boosts, but activated the Evil Buddha Domain immediately.
• Yang Ling decided to seek skill exchange vouchers rather than slowly cultivating the Diamond White Bone Mingwang Technique toward its next hundred million experience points.
• After seven days of secluded cultivation, the furnace flame stopped burning Yang Ling and grew stronger around him; by the ninth day, he expected the furnace to form within a few more days.
• At the Red Copper Mine, Ding Xing rejected suggestions to resume mining or call for help, but flames burst from the mine shafts and engulfed the area, burning Zhang Wei's hair off as the players fled.

Players at the Red Copper Mine discovered that Yang Ling had reached level 200, triggering a five-point attribute reward for players across every region and an announcement that Divine Domain Version 2.5 was coming soon. Meanwhile, Yang Ling endured the painful start of a major genetic mutation as his attributes, health points, and qi and blood began to rise.

• Players at the Red Copper Mine speculated that treasure lay deep inside the burning mine, and Qin Mo suggested Yang Ling might be inside.
• The players checked the Divine Realm Rank List and saw Yang Ling listed at level 200, then received Divine Domain’s announcement rewarding every player with five free attribute points.
• Players across the regions celebrated the reward while some worried that the upcoming Version 2.5 might make the game more difficult.
• Yang Ling endured severe pain as his major genetic mutation began increasing his strength, agility, spirit, health points, and qi and blood.
• Yang Ling opened the Divine Realm Chat Channel, saw the announcement about his achievement, and felt delighted despite the pain.

Yang Ling endured a Major Genetic Mutation as his attributes and Flesh Regeneration Power surged, while the Divine Domain announced five free attribute points for every player and an update to version 2.5. As the breakthrough pushed him toward becoming the Diamond White Bone Buddha, the Qilin Phantom’s intervention pulled him back from the transformation’s dangerous illusion.

• Yang Ling worried that version 2.5 and the five free attribute points would make new players stronger, then read anonymous messages from Luo Kai warning that the update would bring unprecedented difficulty.
• Yang Ling considered gathering players to fight a disguised boss, choosing Little White as the candidate and deciding to find others to lead the effort.
• Yang Ling watched his attributes, Health Points, Qi and Blood, and Flesh Regeneration Power rise rapidly as his Major Genetic Mutation progressed.
• Yang Ling’s White Bone Origin Spirit Method produced visions of worshipping bone phantoms, and he imagined himself subduing an azure dragon and a Divine Ape as mounts.
• Yang Ling nearly declared himself the Diamond White Bone Buddha, but the Qilin Phantom’s roar intensified the Furnace Flame and dispelled the bone kasaya, returning him to himself.

Yang Ling completed a major genetic mutation and formed his divine qilin Martial Way Furnace, which would keep tempering his body and raising his attributes over time. He discovered that he had reached Upper Fourth Rank-level attributes, calculated his boosted combat strength, and found that his cultivation rate had increased fivefold.

• Yang Ling endured hours of mutation as his attributes climbed, his health neared 100,000, and his qi and blood reached 200,000.
• The mutation ended, and Yang Ling saw the Qilin Phantom become a blazing sun inside him as his Martial Way Furnace took shape.
• Yang Ling realized the furnace would passively temper his body and continue his slow mutation.
• Yang Ling checked his attributes, calculated that his boosted strength could reach 4,083, and decided to test his new combat ability at Jiajiu City's Fourth-Rank Heaven Ranking Tournament.
• Yang Ling cultivated the Diamond White Bone Mingwang Technique for an hour and gained 100 experience points, five times his previous rate.

Yang Ling used a fake Fire Qilin sighting to lure Li Fengxian and search for Luo Kai, but the target did not appear for days. As Yang Ling prepared to leave, he spotted a Level 23 cultist named Luo Kai among the Players and disguised himself as Li Jun before entering the abandoned mine.

• Yang Ling considered how his Fourth-Rank advancement affected his cultivation gains and wondered whether his Constable class could advance with a higher official post.
• Yang Ling and Ji Nian used Little White, a real Fire Qilin, to draw Players to an abandoned mine near Jiajiu City.
• Yang Ling searched the arriving Players for Luo Kai and noted several Immortal God Cult cultists, but did not find his target during the following seven or eight days.
• Little White flew away, prompting the Players to rush into the mine, while Yang Ling decided to stop waiting and leave the area.
• Yang Ling heard a Player address a young man as Luo Kai, checked his panel, and found that the Level 23 cultist had no Martial Skills despite the name matching the Martial Skill Realm Rank List.
• Yang Ling told Ji Nian to keep watch, used Subtlety to disguise himself as Li Jun, and ran into the abandoned mine.

Yang Ling discovered that Luo Kai was hiding among the Immortal God Cult and killed him, but a private message afterward showed Luo Kai might still be alive. In Jiajiu City, Yang Ling and the senior officials welcomed the Cicada-Holding Directorate's Grand Ancestor, whose arrival was tied to the Fourth-Rank Heaven Ranking Tournament.

• Immortal God Cult members drove the Players out of the Mine Shaft with explosives and forced Luo Kai to scout ahead.
• Yang Ling recognized Luo Kai, who denied his identity, and killed him and the other Immortal God Cult members.
• Luo Kai sent Yang Ling a private message asking how he had discovered his identity, and Yang Ling chose not to reply.
• White Bone Divine Lord told Yang Ling that the Cicada-Holding Directorate's Grand Ancestor was arriving and would bring the Great Dream Dynasty's Grandmasters for the Fourth-Rank Heaven Ranking Tournament.
• Chen Jiu and the other eunuchs kowtowed to the Grand Ancestor when he arrived in Jiajiu City.

The Grand Ancestor announced that the Fourth-Rank Heaven Ranking Tournament would take place in the Frozen Wasteland, where a hundred Fourth-Rank Grandmasters would compete to survive. Before the group entered, the White Bone Divine Lord told Yang Ling to find and bring out her master’s corpse, leaving him to face the dangerous expedition with that task in mind.

• The Grand Ancestor praised Yang Ling for preserving the Dongting Nine-Character True Scripture and exposing He Busu’s betrayal.
• The Grand Ancestor announced that Fourth-Rank Grandmasters from opposing factions would enter the Frozen Wasteland for three months, with the side that had more survivors declared the winner.
• Chen Jiu warned that the opposing side might secretly send Third-Rank Grandmasters into the wasteland, but the Grand Ancestor assured him he would personally watch over the tournament.
• The Great Dream Dynasty assembled a hundred Fourth-Rank Grandmasters, including Shi Haixuan and Zhu Qing, and brought them to the Frozen Wasteland three days later.
• The White Bone Divine Lord told Yang Ling that her master’s corpse lay in the Frozen Wasteland and that the White Bone Ring would help him find it; Yang Ling agreed to do all he could.

Yang Ling entered the Frozen Wasteland, where Grandmasters could earn Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills by killing enemies, and met Zhu Qing. After Min Luo’s sworn brother challenged Yang Ling to test his newly gained Middle Fourth Rank strength, Yang Ling used the attacks to practice his movement technique.

• The Grand Ancestor explained the Frozen Wasteland’s profound ice qi and offered one Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pill for each enemy head; over a hundred Grandmasters entered when the wasteland opened.
• Chen Jiu asked whether the dynasty would let Abyssal Beast Cavern beasts claim territory if it lost, as five Land Immortals and the Two Emperor Lords appeared in the sky.
• Yang Ling found that the profound ice qi did not yet affect him, and Zhu Qing arrived and congratulated him on reaching the Fourth Rank.
• Min Luo and three companions joined them, and Min Luo’s sworn brother attacked Yang Ling after questioning his claim to Middle Fourth Rank strength.
• Yang Ling dodged the Divine Guard Office expert’s attacks to adjust to his new strength, and Min Luo pointed out that Yang Ling was using his opponent to practice his movement technique.

Yang Ling fought Jiang Xun and Min Luo in the Frozen Wasteland, revealing overwhelming strength and a bloodthirsty side effect from his White Bone Buddha Overlord Body. After he hacked Jiang Xun and three other grandmasters apart, Min Luo powered up with talismans and sent him flying, but Yang Ling returned to the fight.

• Zhu Qing tried to stop Jiang Xun and Yang Ling from fighting, but Jiang Xun attacked with the Demon-Quelling Saber.
• Yang Ling used his White Bone Buddha Overlord Body and Heaven Swallowing Divine Blade to disarm Jiang Xun, then sever his limbs.
• Min Luo charged Yang Ling, and the two exchanged more than a hundred moves while Jiang Xun’s companions reattached his limbs.
• Yang Ling rushed at Jiang Xun and the other two grandmasters, ignored Min Luo’s attacks, and hacked all three into pieces.
• Min Luo used several talismans to grow larger and kick Yang Ling away, but Yang Ling activated Giantification and charged back into the fight.

Yang Ling fought Min Luo while Zhu Qing refused to help Jiang Xun and divided the wounded men into pieces. As the battle drew a crowd and Min Luo's talisman armor expired, Yang Ling demanded to know why they had schemed against White Bone Divine Lord, and Min Luo shouted for him to stop.

• Jiang Xun called on Zhu Qing to save him, but Zhu Qing accused him of betraying the Great Dream Dynasty and split the wounded men's flesh into eighty-one portions.
• Yang Ling attacked Min Luo with the Heaven Swallowing Divine Blade and a Metal Storm of Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers, while Min Luo defended himself with a divine weapon talisman.
• Grandmasters gathered to watch, and Lampbearer Xu identified Yang Ling to Seal-Holding Eunuch You as the master of the Eighth Division of the Myriad Manifestations Office's Patrol Division.
• Seal-Holding Eunuch You questioned Yang Ling's origins, while Shi Haixuan warned a fellow Great Underworld Temple member not to seek revenge for Shi Tianhu.
• After about a quarter of an hour, Min Luo's qi and blood ran low and his talisman armor broke apart as Yang Ling continued demanding to know why they had plotted against White Bone Divine Lord.
• Min Luo shouted for Yang Ling to stop.

Yang Ling brutally defeated Min Luo after confronting him over a plot against the White Bone Divine Lord, then stopped when Min Luo offered ten Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills. After accepting the pills and restoring Min Luo, Yang Ling asked again what he had been plotting, leaving Min Luo awkwardly facing the question.

• Yang Ling hacked Min Luo into a mangled state while demanding to know why he had schemed against the White Bone Divine Lord, and Jiang Xun and the other two knelt to beg for mercy.
• Yang Ling killed a Grandmaster who tried to stop him, then resumed attacking Min Luo until Min Luo offered ten Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills.
• Seal-Holding Eunuch You supplied the pills, and Yang Ling consumed all ten, gaining 500,000 experience points for the Heavenly Will True Scripture.
• Yang Ling helped Min Luo restore his body, corrected the direction of Min Luo's head, and accepted the pills from Eunuch You.
• Yang Ling asked Min Luo why he had targeted the White Bone Divine Lord, and Min Luo's expression turned awkward.

Yang Ling and Min Luo resolved their misunderstanding before the Grandmasters planned how to survive the Frozen Wasteland and fight the Abyssal Beast Cavern’s forces. The chapter ended with Seal Keeper You proposing that the alliance split up, target weaker opponents, and regroup in the center.

• Min Luo told Yang Ling that his sect elder had ordered him to keep an eye on Yang Ling, though he did not know why, and Yang Ling warned him not to interfere with Myriad Manifestations Office business.
• Yang Ling and Min Luo returned to the Grandmasters on friendly terms, and Seal Keeper You gathered everyone to discuss their strategy.
• Seal Keeper You warned the group that the Abyssal Beast Cavern’s three Upper Fourth Rank martial artists included Bloodline Martial Artists, one reportedly possessing a draconic bloodline and exceptionally tough skin.
• The Grandmasters learned that the Profound Ice Qi would force them toward the Frozen Wasteland’s center over three months, making a battle with the enemy inevitable.
• Seal Keeper You proposed that the Grandmasters split up, fight opponents weaker than themselves, and regroup in the center at the end.

Yang Ling rescued Shi Haixuan from the Ghost King Bee Beast King and gained an Emerald Treasure Chest containing Five-Thousand-Year Bee Royal Jelly. Shi Haixuan warned that other Beast Kings had captured several Grandmasters, including Zhu Qing, but that rescuing them could lead into a trap.

• Yang Ling found Shi Haixuan being beaten by the Ghost King Bee Beast King and watched until the Beast King used its Soul-Seizing Sting.
• Yang Ling severed the Ghost King Bee Beast King's stinger and wings, then killed it and received an Emerald Treasure Chest.
• Yang Ling opened the chest, found Five-Thousand-Year Bee Royal Jelly, and stored it for Little White.
• Shi Haixuan recovered from his injuries, though the sting's poison left his face crooked and his eyes askew.
• Shi Haixuan told Yang Ling that the Vajra Dragon Spider Beast King, the Plague Rat Beast King, and the Poison Dart Frog Beast King had captured several fourth-rank Grandmasters, including Zhu Qing, and advised leaving them alone because the captors might be baiting a rescue.

Yang Ling learned from Shi Haixuan that the New Sovereign had purged the Great Dream Dynasty’s government and that Yang Ling and other Grandmasters were marked for execution. He reached the Frozen Wasteland’s central area and found the Grandmasters and Exotic Beasts gathered there, surrounded as Min Luo prepared to deal with them.

• Yang Ling persuaded Shi Haixuan to reveal that the Great Underworld Temple had sided with the Rebel Party and that the New Sovereign’s faction planned to execute many Grandmasters, including Yang Ling and the White Bone Divine Lord.
• Shi Haixuan left, and Yang Ling searched for the Beast Kings before reaching the central area after two months and twenty-nine days.
• Yang Ling found nearly two hundred Grandmasters and Exotic Beasts gathered there, including the Vajra Dragon Spider Beast King, Zhu Qing, Min Luo, and Shi Haixuan.
• Min Luo identified Yang Ling as an ally of the White Bone Divine Lord’s faction and said they would deal with their opponents before the Frozen Wasteland opened.
• Yang Ling saw Seal-Holding Eunuch You and more than forty Grandmasters surrounded by Min Luo’s group and the Abyssal Beast Cavern’s powerful beings, including three martial artists with partly transformed Exotic Beast bodies.

Yang Ling learned that the Frozen Wasteland expedition was a setup to eliminate condemned grandmasters and hand their inherited cultivation methods to Great Dream’s new sovereign. As the bloodline martial artists prepared to fight, Yang Ling proposed testing himself against three exotic Beast Kings first.

• Yang Ling studied the Three bloodline grandmasters, noting their unusual traits and the dragon-blooded grandmaster’s exceptional attributes.
• Seal-Holding Eunuch You explained that powerful figures had surrendered to the new sovereign and arranged for the condemned grandmasters to die in the Frozen Wasteland.
• Min Luo urged the bloodline grandmasters to attack, but the Two-Headed Grandmaster and Four-Armed Grandmaster rejected his authority.
• The dragon-blooded grandmaster challenged Yang Ling to survive thirty moves, while Seal-Holding Eunuch You and Zhu Qing urged the condemned grandmasters to resist.
• Yang Ling acknowledged the dragon-blooded grandmaster’s strength and asked to trade blows first with the Vajra Dragon Spider Beast King, the Plague Rat Beast King, and the Poison Dart Frog Beast King.

Yang Ling faced the Abyssal Beast Cavern’s three Fourth Rank Beast Kings after Seal-Holding Eunuch You lost to their dragon-blooded Grandmaster. Yang Ling killed all three with the White Bone General, turning the battle in the Great Dream Dynasty’s favor.

• The dragon-blooded Grandmaster fought Seal-Holding Eunuch You for hundreds of moves, enduring his rapid dagger strikes before punching through his body.
• Seal-Holding Eunuch You recovered beside Yang Ling, then mocked Min Luo after his spit hit Min Luo’s face.
• Yang Ling trapped the dragon-blooded Grandmaster with the White Bone General and beheaded him with the Dragon Catching Saber Technique.
• Yang Ling and the White Bone General immediately attacked the other two bloodline martial artists and killed them.
• With the Abyssal Beast Cavern’s three leaders dead, its forces became leaderless and the battle turned into a one-sided slaughter.

Yang Ling slaughtered the Abyssal Beast Cavern Grandmasters and offered the condemned Grandmasters a five percent chance to survive by hiding them in his Green Dragon Ring after beheading them. When the Frozen Wasteland opened, he prepared to bargain with the immortals.

• Yang Ling killed the remaining Beast Kings and the Great Dream Dynasty Grandmasters, leaving Shi Haixuan and Lampbearers Xu and Xiao alive as witnesses.
• Yang Ling told the Grandmasters that facing death offered a five percent chance of survival, then beheaded Zhu Qing to demonstrate his plan.
• Seal-Holding Eunuch You and the other Grandmasters agreed to the gamble, and Yang Ling stored their bodies and heads in his Green Dragon Ring.
• Yang Ling told Lampbearer Xu that he intended to bargain with the immortals and waited for the Frozen Wasteland to open.
• The next day, the Profound Ice Qi dispersed, revealing blazing suns in the sky searching for something.

Yang Ling emerged from the Frozen Wasteland after killing the Grandmasters inside and hiding their bodies, then used his captives to bargain with the Grand Ancestor. He proposed auctioning the captured prodigies, while several powerful immortals gathered to hear what he planned next.

• Yang Ling questioned why Division Supervisor Bai had left, and Shi Haixuan told Chen Jiu that Yang Ling had beheaded the Grandmasters inside, including those from the Abyssal Beast Cavern.
• Chen Jiu buried Yang Ling in the earth with an invisible force, but the Grand Ancestor confirmed the witnesses' accounts and freed him, offering to seek him a future with the Sacred Lord.
• Yang Ling said the Grand Ancestor would need to protect him until he recovered the hidden captives, then asked about the White Bone Divine Lord and proposed auctioning the Great Dream Dynasty's and Abyssal Beast Cavern's prodigies.
• To prove he had captives, Yang Ling produced a Fourth Rank eunuch from the Cicada-Holding Directorate, who described what had happened inside the Frozen Wasteland.
• An old Daoist from the Nine Immortal Talisman Sect arrived, and Yang Ling admitted he held Min Luo and named a price of a hundred Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills.
• The Grand Ancestor summoned immortals from the Great Underworld Temple and Heaven's Mandate Sect, while the old Daoist explained that the Great Dream Dynasty's Ministers of Personnel and War had not come down.

Yang Ling turned the captured Grandmasters into the subject of an auction, demanding ransom from the Great Dream Dynasty and competing powers. As more bidders arrived, he insisted the Grand Ancestor pay for the eunuch before the auction could proceed.

• Yang Ling offered the captured Grandmasters to the highest bidders, and the Great Underworld Temple declined to participate because its Fourth Rank had survived.
• The old Daoist offered twenty Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills for Min Luo, but Yang Ling demanded fifty and said other buyers could outbid him.
• Zhao De arrived to bid for the Five Venom Emperor Lord, while Ji Tianming arrived to represent the Red Flame Emperor.
• Ji Tianming said word of the auction had spread and more buyers would arrive within three days, as the old Daoist and others worried about losing the Grandmasters to their rivals.
• The Grand Ancestor offered Yang Ling protection in exchange for all the Great Dream Dynasty's captives, but Yang Ling demanded ten Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills for the eunuch and threatened to exclude the Cicada-Holding Directorate from the auction.