Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan agreed to travel to the Ouro Continent to confront the Divine Court, with Su Li joining him. He visited the injured Lain to learn about the Divine Court’s forces and the stronghold exposed in their latest ambush.

• Su Li asked to accompany Lin Yuan to the Ouro Continent, and he agreed after warning her not to cause trouble.
• Lin Zhan approved sending Lin Yuan with Su Li and two hundred reconnaissance and logistics soldiers, while the rest stayed to defend Celestial Pivot Base.
• Lin Yuan visited Lain in the recuperation ward and asked for details about the Divine Court’s strongholds and forces on the Ouro Continent.
• Lain explained that the Divine Court had repeatedly evaded the Holy Knight Order and that its large-scale ambush had exposed an important stronghold.

Lin Yuan learned that a traitor had exposed the Holy Knight Order’s route to a Divine Court ambush near Blackstone Valley and decided to strike the stronghold alone. As Dragon Summer Country’s force prepared to depart for the Ouro Continent, Shi Potian warned that the divided Ouro Alliance had been heavily infiltrated by the Divine Court, and Su Li questioned whether its factions would obstruct them.

• Lain told Lin Yuan that the Third Squad had been ambushed near Blackstone Valley and suspected a traitor within the Holy Knight Order.
• Lain explained that the Divine Court planned to seize Blackstone Valley and divide the Ouro Continent, so Lin Yuan decided to attack its stronghold alone.
• Lin Yuan told Lain to hide his recovery and pretend to remain gravely weakened, leaving him as a surprise asset.
• The next morning, Shi Potian assembled two hundred Celestial Pivot Base warriors and briefed them on the Ouro Alliance’s factions and the Divine Court’s deep infiltration.
• Su Li asked whether Ouro Alliance forces might obstruct Dragon Summer Country’s mission or be colluding with the Divine Court.

Lin Yuan led the expedition toward the sealed spatial rift in Blackstone Valley, reassuring the warriors that anyone obstructing their mission would be dealt with. At the rift, three Martial Gods gathered and began combining their powers to open a space path.

• Shi Potian warned Lin Yuan and the expedition to avoid clashing with Ouro Alliance forces until their situation was clear, while prioritizing the destruction of Divine Court in Blackstone Valley.
• Lin Yuan dismissed the worries and said anyone colluding with Divine Court or standing in their way would be defeated, restoring the warriors’ confidence.
• Lin Yuan and Su Li led two hundred elite warriors from Celestial Pivot Base toward the Space Node, as Shi Potian and the base officials watched them depart.
• At the sealed wasteland in the Kunlun Mountain Range, Lin Yuan’s group met the Solar God of War, Tie Kuang, and Shangguan Jinghong, who had gathered to open a path for the expedition.
• The three Martial Gods unleashed their True Qi and Sword Intent, merging them into a vast energy vortex that shook the mountains and triggered avalanches.

Lin Yuan led Su Li and two hundred soldiers through a passage to the Ouro Continent, where they arrived in the Endless Sand Sea. When Sandstorm Lizards ambushed them and their energy rifles failed to pierce the beasts’ scales, Su Li prepared to fight while Lin Yuan remained idle.

• The Solar God of War, Tie Kuang, and Shangguan Jinghong opened a stable passage to the Ouro Continent, and Lin Yuan led Su Li and two hundred soldiers through it.
• The group emerged in the Endless Sand Sea, where Lain identified the region and urged Su Li to move quickly because Exotic Beasts were common there.
• More than a dozen Sandstorm Lizards burst from the dunes and charged the soldiers.
• The soldiers opened fire, but their energy rifles could not fatally wound the lizards’ thick scales.
• Lin Yuan watched without acting as Su Li ordered the soldiers to fall back into a defensive formation and readied her silver spear.

Su Li killed the attacking Sandstorm Lizards, then followed Lin Yuan’s unexpected route through the desert after he claimed it would lead to an Ancient Teleportation Array and Blackstone Valley. Su Li and Lain were left wondering whether Lin Yuan could predict the future.

• Su Li unleashed her Spiritual Manifestation Realm Fourth Layer strength and killed the Sandstorm Lizards with precise spear strikes.
• Su Li noticed Lin Yuan walking away from the route Lain had recommended and challenged his choice.
• Lin Yuan warned that the recommended route led to Venomous Sand Scorpions and Wind-Eroded Land, while his route reached an Ancient Teleportation Array and Blackstone Valley.
• Su Li and Lain questioned how Lin Yuan knew about the dangers and hidden array, and Lin Yuan replied that he had calculated it.
• Lin Yuan continued into the desert as Su Li wondered whether he was a master of divination.

Lin Yuan led Su Li and the Dragon Summer Country warriors onward as the Divine Court prepared to destroy Blackstone Valley and sever the Ouro Alliance. The chapter ended with Lin Yuan’s group appearing in the valley just as Shadow was about to detonate the explosives.

• Su Li and the warriors followed Lin Yuan, while Su Li resolved to uncover his secrets someday.
• At Blackstone Valley, Shadow and four Peak Spiritual Manifestation Realm Divine Court leaders oversaw preparations to destroy the valley and provoke conflict between the Ouro Alliance’s north and south.
• Shadow ordered the Divine Court members to withdraw and set the explosives to detonate in ten minutes.
• As Shadow prepared to give the detonation order, Lin Yuan, Su Li, and more than two hundred Dragon Summer Country warriors appeared at the valley entrance.
• Shadow and the Divine Court members froze in shock, and one of them recognized the newcomers as people from Dragon Summer Country.

Lin Yuan and Su Li arrived with Dragon Summer troops just as the Divine Court prepared to carry out its plan, and Shadow ordered his forces to attack them. Lin Yuan effortlessly neutralized the five leaders’ combined strike and unleashed Golden Sword Qi against them.

• Lin Yuan spotted the Divine Court members and explosives in the valley, then ordered Su Li and the two hundred soldiers to prepare for battle.
• Shadow ordered more than a thousand Divine Court members to kill Lin Yuan and the Dragon Summer troops.
• Lin Yuan stepped forward alone and stopped Su Li from supporting him as Shadow and four companions launched a coordinated attack.
• Lin Yuan used the Primal Chaos Saint Body and Vast Ocean Sword Intent to break apart the five men’s combined attack.
• Lin Yuan’s Golden Sword Qi shattered the five men’s defenses and rained down on them.

Lin Yuan defeated and killed Shadow and the four other Peak Spiritual Manifestation Realm members of the Shadow group with his sword formation. The surviving Divine Court members surrendered by kneeling before him in terror.

• Lin Yuan’s Sword Qi struck all five members of the Shadow group and left them gravely wounded.
• Shadow and the other four fled in different directions, but Lin Yuan trapped them inside a golden sword formation.
• The formation overwhelmed the five, pierced them with countless swords, and killed them.
• The surviving Divine Court members dropped their weapons and knelt before Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan saved Su Li’s forces from the Divine Court, and Dragon Summer’s troops eliminated the remaining enemies in Blackstone Valley. The Holy Knight Order’s Fifth Squad arrived, and Lain told Barton and Aila that the Third Squad had been wiped out.

• Lin Yuan used his Vast Ocean Sword Intent to kill the several hundred Divine Court members attacking Su Li and the Dragon Summer soldiers.
• Su Li led the pursuit of the fleeing Divine Court members, while the soldiers eliminated them and reported three deaths and five serious injuries.
• Lin Yuan ordered the explosives dismantled as the Holy Knight Order’s Fifth Squad, led by Barton and Aila, arrived and demanded to know who had killed the Divine Court forces.
• Lin Yuan introduced himself as being from Dragon Summer Country’s Celestial Pivot Base and said they had come to support the Ouro Continent.
• Lain recognized Barton and Aila, explained that the Divine Court had ambushed and destroyed the Third Squad, and said Lin Yuan’s group had saved him.
• Barton and Aila reacted with shock and grief, and Barton angrily denounced the Divine Court.

Lin Yuan brought his group to Glory Fortress with the Holy Knight Order, suspecting Captain Barton of betraying Lain’s squad to the Divine Court. After ordering everyone to stay alert, Lin Yuan received the Lingxiao Sword Bone reward for thwarting the Divine Court’s plot at Blackstone Valley.

• Aila thanked Lin Yuan and his Dragon Summer warriors for saving Lain, while Barton awkwardly invited them to the Holy Knight Order’s base.
• Lin Yuan recognized Barton as the mole who had exposed Lain’s squad, but accepted the invitation so he could observe him and draw out his scheme.
• Aila guided Lin Yuan, Su Li, and the warriors to Glory Fortress and introduced its advanced defenses and technology.
• Barton arranged lodgings, then hurried away to report to the commander; Lin Yuan ordered his group to keep watch and refuse food or drink from the hosts.
• Lin Yuan received the Lingxiao Sword Bone reward after the system credited him with thwarting the Divine Court’s plan to destroy Blackstone Valley.

Lin Yuan received the Lingxiao Sword Bone and became one with his sword techniques. After overhearing Barton plot an ambush in the Dark Forest, Lin Yuan let Barton propose the operation the next morning, while Su Li warned that it was a trap.

• Lin Yuan endured a painful transformation as the Lingxiao Sword Bone merged with his body, strengthening him and making his sword techniques respond like parts of himself.
• Barton secretly told a Divine Court contact that Lin Yuan had killed Shadow and the others, then planned to lure Lin Yuan's group into an ambush in the Dark Forest.
• Lin Yuan secretly recorded Barton's conversation and warned that Barton's doom was approaching.
• The next morning, Barton urged Lin Yuan's group to launch a joint operation in the Dark Forest, while Aila supported the plan and Su Li warned Lin Yuan it was a trap.
• Lin Yuan stopped Su Li from arguing and looked at Barton with interest.

Lin Yuan joined Barton’s supposed joint operation in the Dark Forest, where Barton revealed his alliance with the Divine Court and ambushed the party. Lin Yuan unleashed the Lingxiao Sword Bone, devastated the attackers, and confronted the terrified Barton.

• Lin Yuan agreed to go to the Dark Forest with Su Li, Aila, Barton, and their forces.
• Barton led the group into a gorge, where more than two thousand Divine Court fighters ambushed them.
• Barton confessed that he had allied with the Divine Court and planned to kill everyone to become the next Fifth Knight Order Captain.
• Aila led the knights into battle while Lin Yuan activated his Lingxiao Sword Bone and slaughtered the attackers with his sword intent.
• Barton tried to flee, but Lin Yuan appeared before him and shattered his great axe with a finger, leaving Barton collapsed in terror.

Lin Yuan helped Aila expose and kill Barton, then accompanied the survivors to Avalon, headquarters of the Holy Knight Order. At an emergency meeting, Lin Yuan identified the Mountain of Lament as the Divine Court’s command center, and Augustine ordered the Order to follow his plan and attack it.

• Aila condemned Barton for betraying the Holy Knight Order and beheaded him while the surviving knights watched.
• Aila thanked Lin Yuan for saving her squad, and he urged everyone to report the betrayal and prepare for the Divine Court’s remaining threat.
• Aila led Lin Yuan, Su Li, and the survivors to Avalon, where Grand Commander Augustine welcomed them and called an emergency meeting.
• Augustine briefed the Order’s leaders on Barton’s betrayal and introduced Lin Yuan, who proposed attacking the Mountain of Lament as the Divine Court’s command center.
• Augustine approved Lin Yuan’s plan and placed every force of the Holy Knight Order under his command for the assault.

On the eve of the operation, Aila visited Lin Yuan to thank him and brought him Starry Sky Wine, while Su Li arrived afterward with gratitude of her own. Su Li struggled to reveal her long-buried pain and hatred, and Lin Yuan silently listened without exposing what he knew of her past.

• Aila brought Lin Yuan a bottle of Starry Sky Wine and thanked him for uncovering Barton's conspiracy and protecting the Fifth Squad.
• Aila left Lin Yuan's room blushing, and she encountered Su Li in the corridor as Su Li came to see him.
• Su Li suppressed her confused feelings after seeing Aila leave and entered Lin Yuan's room to thank him for protecting the warriors at the Endless Sand Sea and Blackstone Valley.
• Su Li tried to tell Lin Yuan about the pain and hatred she had carried for years but could not bring herself to explain.
• Lin Yuan quietly listened as Su Li struggled, knowing from the Original Work that she had witnessed her father Su Jingyan's murder by a Divine Court official.

Lin Yuan reassured Su Li before the warriors’ return journey and gave her a life-saving pill, helping her face the end of her long-held vengeance with renewed warmth. The Dragon Xia delegation departed Avalon, with Su Li thanking Lin Yuan as they headed home.

• Su Li concealed her grief and prepared to leave Lin Yuan, but he told her he would stand by her during the next day’s operation and gave her a Heart-Protecting Pill.
• Su Li accepted Lin Yuan’s kindness, thanked him, and left while resolving to continue pursuing revenge against the Divine Court priest who had killed her father.
• The next morning, Su Li laughed with the gathered warriors, who prepared to return home, and reflected on how Lin Yuan had helped her move beyond vengeance.
• Augustine thanked Lin Yuan for destroying the Divine Court, while Aila gave him Starry Sky Wine and invited him to visit the Ouro Continent again.
• Lin Yuan and Su Li boarded the airship; Su Li thanked him for everything, and the Dragon Xia delegation departed Avalon for home.

Lin Yuan returned to Celestial Pivot Base after foiling the Divine Court's conspiracy, rejected a grand victory banquet, and slept on his lawn. The next day, he noticed Su Li treating the soldiers with surprising gentleness, and she calmly tended to an injured recruit.

• Lin Yuan arrived at Celestial Pivot Base to an enthusiastic welcome, but turned down the highest-standard victory banquet and went to sleep on his lawn.
• Shi Potian accepted Lin Yuan's refusal with an amused smile, while Su Li dismissed the soldiers to rest.
• Lin Yuan slept through his first day back and woke around noon the next day with a blanket over him.
• Lin Yuan watched Su Li patiently correct a recruit's combat stance, startling the soldiers who knew her as a harsh instructor.
• When a soldier accidentally injured his arm during energy training, Su Li went to him, reassured him, and treated his wound.

Su Li gently treated a warrior’s wound and rested beside Lin Yuan, while the base’s warriors gossiped about their closeness. Shi Potian then brought Lin Yuan an urgent summons concerning a dangerous rift in Dragon Xia’s heartland, and Lin Yuan agreed to go after realizing the base could be destroyed if it spread.

• Su Li bandaged an injured warrior with unusual gentleness, prompting warriors to speculate that Lin Yuan had changed her.
• Su Li lay beside Lin Yuan on the lawn, and the warriors secretly watched and shipped them.
• Shi Potian arrived and told Lin Yuan that Dragon Xia Headquarters had summoned him over an unprecedented high-risk Other-Dimensional Rift.
• Lin Yuan initially refused to leave, but agreed after realizing the rift could destroy the Celestial Pivot Base and ruin his peaceful rest.
• Su Li caught up with Lin Yuan and firmly said she would go with him.

Lin Yuan agreed to lead a team to investigate an Ancient Ruins in southern Dragon Summer Country after learning that Divine Court remnants were heading there and that a sealed Demon God threatened the region. Meanwhile, the Divine Court’s Gods' Council received news that its Ouro Continent branch and Apocalypse Plan had been crushed.

• The Great Elder told Lin Yuan that an unprecedented Ancient Ruins had appeared in southern Dragon Summer Country and that Divine Court remnants were gathering nearby.
• Lin Yuan recalled that the ruins concealed an ancient seal containing a Demon God whose escape would devastate western Dragon Summer and weaken humanity, so he decided to act.
• Lin Yuan agreed to lead the investigation team, surprising Lin Zhan and the other leaders at the emergency meeting.
• At the Divine Court’s Gods' Council, the Divine Lord and Twelve Divine Officials learned that their Ouro Continent forces had been destroyed, Barton had been executed, and Lain had been critically injured.

The Divine Court learned that Lin Yuan had annihilated its forces and ordered the Holy War Contingency Plan to target him at an Ancient Sealed Land. As Lin Yuan, Su Li, and an elite squad arrived in the Ten-Thousand Mountains, a huge Crimson Flame Demon Bull stampede charged them.

• The Divine Lord showed the God Officials footage of Lin Yuan destroying the Temple Legion with one punch, and they learned he was Lin Zhan’s grandson.
• The Divine Lord revealed that Lin Yuan had been sent to investigate an Ancient Sealed Land and approved activating the Holy War Contingency Plan to kill him there.
• Lin Yuan, Su Li, and a hundred elite Celestial Pivot Base soldiers arrived by stealth airship in the Ten-Thousand Mountains and advanced toward the ruins.
• A horde of at least a hundred late-stage Meridian Opening Realm Crimson Flame Demon Bulls charged the squad, led by an early-stage Spiritual Manifestation Realm Demon Bull King.
• Su Li ordered the soldiers to form the Heavenly Dipper Battle Formation and prepare to repel the stampede.

Lin Yuan effortlessly killed the Demon Bull King and sent the remaining Crimson Flame Demon Bulls fleeing. At the Ancient Ruins entrance, Old Man Chen failed to decipher the powerful array, so Lin Yuan stepped forward and tapped it with Vast Ocean Sword Intent.

• Lin Yuan stopped the Demon Bull King’s charge with one hand, shattered its horns, and killed it with a single punch.
• The terrified Crimson Flame Demon Bulls fled, and Lin Yuan told the stunned warriors to continue leading the way.
• Su Li and the squad reached the Ancient Ruins, where a powerful array sealed the valley entrance.
• Old Man Chen studied the array for half an hour, but his instrument broke and he admitted he could not understand or break it.
• Lin Yuan ignored Old Man Chen’s warning and tapped the array with Vast Ocean Sword Intent.