Chapter Summaries

Lin Hui learned that Guo Shengyu had unleashed his remaining power to confront a colossal God Statue, then returned to find imperial forces targeting Guo Xiyan. Qingfeng Sect killed the attackers, and Huang Weijun asked the presence in the Courtyard Abyss whether he could lead an assault on Black Cloud.

• White Deer told Lin Hui that few of his people had survived Limit Setting, and that Guo Xiyan had arrived at Black Cloud.
• Lin Hui met Guo Xiyan, who offered to give him the ultimate arts Guo Shengyu had passed down to her.
• Lin Hui witnessed Guo Shengyu charge toward a colossal God Statue before the Crystal Sea's tentacles froze and shattered, and Guo Shengyu's aura vanished.
• A black-clad intruder was destroyed by the Dao Lord's aura, while Yun Xiazi fought an imperial woman who had come to seize Guo Xiyan; Xia Si, Su Yaping, and Fan Lingxi helped kill the imperial forces.
• Huang Weijun told the presence in the Courtyard Abyss that Qingfeng Sect had dismissed the Empire and asked whether he could lead a force to seize Black Cloud.

Twenty years after Xiao Xiao’s death, Lin Hui prepared to leave Black Cloud City and complete the final step of his Star Breath Sword Classic in the Heart Source Demon Palace. As he began drawing on Wind Disaster inside the palace, Fusheng recognized the danger and the True Lord of Seven Destructions began to emerge.

• Huang Weijun and the voice from the abyss agreed to postpone dealing with Lin Hui until Imperial Lock had recovered and the succession was complete.
• Twenty years later, Liu Wujun urged Lin Hui to leave his solitude, and Lin Hui agreed to visit the Heavenly Heart Gang in Tianchong City.
• Lin Hui said farewell to Li Yuanyuan, promising he would return, then departed for the Heart Source Demon Palace.
• Lin Hui entered the palace and began preparing to unite the four forms of the Star Breath Sword Classic.
• Fusheng recognized the Wind Disaster surging behind Lin Hui and screamed for him to stop as a rift opened and the True Lord of Seven Destructions began to emerge.

Lin Hui completed his breakthrough in the Heart Source Demon Palace as Seven Extinctions and the Heart Source Devil Ancestor were sealed by the power of the Heavenly Father Seal. After discussing the seal with Fusheng, Lin Hui was left questioning whether pursuing greater cultivation still had meaning.

• Seven Extinctions forced his way into the Heart Source Demon Palace as Lin Hui merged with the four sacred forms and invoked the Star Breath Sword Classic.
• The Heart Source Devil Ancestor appeared to confront Seven Extinctions, but a vast figure associated with the Heavenly Father Seal crystallized and destroyed both of them.
• The palace was transformed into a crystal-covered grotto-heaven, and Fusheng was sealed in a crystal pillar while Lin Hui remained unharmed.
• Lin Hui realized his breakthrough had transformed Wind Disaster energy and reflected that the seal had only temporarily contained Seven Extinctions.
• Fusheng asked Lin Hui to free him, but Lin Hui could not undo the seal and prepared to leave.
• Fusheng questioned whether greater cultivation was worthwhile if it only brought more trouble, leaving Lin Hui thinking about his reasons for continuing.

Lin Hui traveled through Tianchong City and distant empires while cultivating the Great Yin Yang Time Reversal Sword Technique, but he returned to Clear Jade Mountain to learn that Li Yuanyuan had died. Facing the loss of another person he cared about, he considered leaving for good and spoke with Liu Wujun about loneliness and whether life could return to how it was before the Fixed Limit.

• Lin Hui visited the Heavenly Heart Gang headquarters in Tianchong City, recognized Xia Si in its Hall of Fame, and saw her discussing countermeasures with the gang leader.
• Lin Hui traveled through Hongyin, Taisu, the Divine Alliance Empire, and the Myriad Harmony Empire, cultivating the Great Yin Yang Time Reversal Sword Technique until he could sense time strings.
• Lin Hui returned to Clear Jade Mountain and learned from Li Zhanyuan that Li Yuanyuan had passed away in meditation three months earlier.
• Lin Hui told Liu Wujun that he might leave and said he could not protect Black Cloud and its people forever.
• Lin Hui and Liu Wujun spoke about reincarnation, their loneliness, and whether everything would return to how it was before if the Fixed Limit were gone.

Lin Hui investigated how Limit Setting worked, questioning White Deer and then the Purgatory Duke about its origins and the people behind it. He learned that Imperial Lock, a possible Evil Weapon of the Mist Emperor, controlled Limit Setting, but the reason it was imposed remained unknown.

• Lin Hui visited White Deer in the abandoned Zhenglong Divine Palace and asked how Limit Setting worked and how powerful its master was.
• White Deer explained that Limit Setting reduced the essence of heaven and earth and advised Lin Hui about crossing into Purgatory and returning safely.
• Lin Hui went to the Purgatory fortress ruins in Tuyue and used his contact mark to establish a clear connection with the Purgatory Duke.
• The Purgatory Duke identified the three members of the Decaying Primordial Plate as the Mist Emperor, Imperial Lock, and Huang Weijun, and said Lin Hui had likely encountered one of Huang Weijun's avatars.
• The Purgatory Duke said Imperial Lock controlled Limit Setting and might be the Mist Emperor's strongest Evil Weapon, but he did not know why Limit Setting had been imposed.

Lin Hui learned from the Duke about Courtyard Abyss’s forces and the dangers and methods of traveling between worlds. Five years later, Yuan He and Xia Si prepared to challenge Courtyard Abyss with a vast alliance, while Lin Hui watched from above Tianchong City.

• The Duke told Lin Hui that Huang Weijun was roughly his equal and described the forces infiltrating a newly discovered realm.
• The Duke explained that traveling between worlds required breaking barriers, surviving the dissociation storm, and locating a nearby destination.
• Five years later, Xia Si visited Zhao Yuanshu in Tianchong City and revealed that she knew him as Yuan He, a former Qingfeng Sect disciple.
• Yuan He recounted joining the Huang Family, slaughtering its members repeatedly without lasting effect, and sending his benevolent thoughts away before attacking Courtyard Abyss.
• Xia Si warned that Courtyard Abyss had noticed the Heavenly Heart Gang, while Yuan He said his Vow-Sacrifice Power Formation had gathered the strength of experts from several regions.
• Lin Hui silently floated above the clouds near Tianchong City, watching the setting sun.

Lin Hui watched Yuan He assemble a powerful team to enter Courtyard Abyss and joined the hidden observers following them. As the expedition headed toward the imperial capital, Lin Hui learned that his talkative companion Du Qiankun was an ancient emperor and Zhang Feng’s father.

• Lin Hui recognized Yuan He as the Benevolent King and watched the Heavenly Heart Gang gather more than a thousand powerful experts in Tianchong.
• Xia Si, Su Yaping, Fan Lingxi, Copper God, and other experts joined Yuan He’s team, which received a strength-boosting infusion from Tianchong City’s formation.
• Lin Hui revealed himself to Du Qiankun, who planned to follow the expedition into Courtyard Abyss and watched Zhang Feng closely.
• Qi Jue of the Divine Alliance arrived and refused Du Qiankun’s invitation to travel together, warning that the Imperial Lock could not be allowed to undergo Limit Setting again.
• Yuan He led seven selected experts toward Courtyard Abyss by boat while Lin Hui and other hidden experts followed.
• Du Qiankun told Lin Hui about his past as a six-hundred-year-old Myriad Harmony emperor and revealed that Zhang Feng was his biological daughter.

Lin Hui and the Heavenly Heart Gang reached Bi Qiu Royal City while Huang Weijun prepared to attack them and dismissing warnings about Lin Hui. White Deer realized that Lin Hui could not be found or moved to safety, leaving the Qingfeng Sect’s three disciples in immediate danger.

• Lin Hui and Du Qiankun traveled with the group to Bi Qiu Royal City, where they entered under false identities and saw the city’s unusual steam-powered vehicles.
• Huang Weijun and the voice in the vortex discussed the Vow-Sacrifice Power Formation, and Huang Weijun arranged with Imperial Lock to handle the insect people arriving with the Heavenly Heart Gang.
• White Deer warned Huang Weijun to spare the Qingfeng Sect disciples, but Huang Weijun dismissed him and decided to feast on the group, hoping to draw Lin Hui out.
• Huang Weijun blocked High God projections from entering Courtyard Abyss, and White Deer panicked as he realized the threat could provoke a disaster involving Lin Hui.
• White Deer and the woman made of green leaves considered removing the Qingfeng Sect disciples or sending Lin Hui away, but they could no longer sense Lin Hui’s location.

Yuan He’s group entered Courtyard Abyss and fought Huang Weijun, while a strange force separated Lin Hui from the others and stranded him in a crushing black void. Du Qiankun and Qi Jue reached the abyss in time to see Yuan He’s team holding their own against Huang Weijun.

• Yuan He led Copper God and the others into Courtyard Abyss, followed by Du Qiankun, Qi Jue, and Lin Hui; White Deer and a green-leaf woman then used a divine artifact to send Lin Hui beyond the world’s barrier.
• A mysterious force froze everyone in the passage except Lin Hui and transported him into a boundless darkness, where he maintained Surrounding Wind against crushing pressure and began probing his surroundings.
• Du Qiankun and Qi Jue discovered that Lin Hui had vanished, continued onward, and entered Courtyard Abyss as an enormous Huang Weijun attacked Yuan He’s team.
• Copper God shielded the team while Xia Si and Su Yaping launched sword strikes, and Yuan He directed the group’s coordinated assault against Huang Weijun.
• Du Qiankun and Qi Jue watched the battle and saw Yuan He’s team withstand Huang Weijun’s attacks, with Yuan He reading his patterns and the team gaining a slight advantage.

Yuan He and the others nearly defeated Huang Weijun before Imperial Lock intervened and overwhelmed them. As Imperial Lock prepared to kill them, Lin Hui appeared above Courtyard Abyss, forcing the chains back and changing the battle.

• Huang Weijun split into thousands of copies and trapped Yuan He’s team, but Xia Si broke them free and attacked him with help from twelve hidden fighters.
• Xia Si’s strike nearly killed Huang Weijun, but Imperial Lock’s chains ambushed the fighters and badly wounded them.
• Imperial Lock revealed that his body was the saber Grand Simplicity and immobilized the surviving fighters with chain-violet light.
• Evil Yuan He restrained Imperial Lock’s mind while the others attacked, but their blows failed to damage the saber.
• As Imperial Lock’s chains closed in on Yuan He and the others, Lin Hui emerged from a vast black rift and disrupted the attack.

Lin Hui defeated Imperial Lock and sealed him in crystal as Xia Si, Su Yaping, Yuan He, and the others prepared to flee before the coming battle with the Mist Emperor. Xia Si, Su Yaping, and Yuan He stopped to remain and witness the final confrontation.

• Lin Hui evaded Imperial Lock’s rapid attacks and shattered the chains surrounding him with an unseen sword strike.
• Imperial Lock activated Limit Setting, but Lin Hui’s seal spread over his blade and froze him inside a crystal pillar.
• Xia Si and Su Yaping led the survivors toward the exit while Xiao Jinghan warned them to escape before the Mist Emperor’s battle began.
• Xia Si and Su Yaping turned back because they wanted to witness the final battle, and Yuan He also stopped as Evil Thought urged him to stay.

Lin Hui followed the Mist Emperor into a sealed realm after being promised his lost loved ones could be restored, but discovered the promise was a trap. With no way back or access to the Heart Source Demon Palace, he summoned True Lord of Seven Destructions Yan Jin Ping and brought the Wind Disaster into the realm.

• Yuan He hesitated at the tunnel entrance while Du Qiankun and Qi Jue mourned the dead, and White Deer realized Lin Hui had returned through the mind-sea of consciousness.
• White Deer and the green-leaf woman decided to seek help from Sun Star and Mother of Dusk, but Courtyard Abyss began shaking as the Mist Emperor emerged from the vortex.
• The Mist Emperor claimed Lin Hui's dead friends and family had been reborn in the true domain, and Lin Hui followed him into the vortex to investigate.
• The Mist Emperor revealed that he had lied, trapped Lin Hui in an isolated realm, and vanished while the passage back disappeared.
• Lin Hui failed to return to the Heart Source Demon Palace, then called upon True Lord of Seven Destructions Yan Jin Ping and urged him to cleanse the world.
• Yan Jin Ping broke through the void with the Wind Disaster, drew his blade, and unleashed bloody rain across the realm.

Mist Emperor saw Wind Disaster pour into the Decaying Main World and charged at Lin Hui to stop the destruction. Their battle erupted amid the invasion, and Mist Emperor pinned Lin Hui with his strongest attack, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Mist Emperor discovered the blood-red sky and incoming Wind Disaster beyond the world barrier, then realized the Main World was being invaded by an ultimate contamination body.
• Mist Emperor summoned Imperial Lock and attacked Lin Hui, who drew his sword as the two forces collided.
• White Deer and the Green Leaf Woman arrived at the barrier and saw Mist Emperor face Lin Hui amid the flood of Wind Disaster creatures.
• Mist Emperor used Imperial Lock’s chains and his restrictive techniques to trap Lin Hui, then unleashed Great Hatred of Heaven and Earth, Nine Lives Heart Separation with a full-power saber strike.

Lin Hui defeated the Mist Emperor as the Wind Disaster overwhelmed the Decaying Main World, but the Mist Emperor’s final warning left Lin Hui facing the Seven Extinctions and the disaster he had unleashed. Seven Extinctions appeared behind him and asked whether he was happy, and Lin Hui said he did not know.

• Lin Hui used Breath of Myriad Stars to destroy the Mist Emperor’s wrathful body, then fought his emotionless incarnation in a battle neither could quickly win.
• Yuan He, Xia Si, Su Yaping, and the others escaped underground as the imperial city shook and realized the Sect Master had opened a passage to the Wind Disaster’s realm.
• The weakening Decaying Main World drained the Mist Emperor’s power while the Wind Disaster strengthened Lin Hui, and the Mist Emperor admitted defeat.
• The Decaying Main World shattered, the Wind Disaster consumed the Mist Emperor, and he warned Lin Hui that he would eventually become like him.
• Seven Extinctions appeared behind Lin Hui and asked if he was happy, and Lin Hui answered that he did not know.

Lin Hui returned from the Wind Disaster and learned from the Mother of Dusk that the source of decay had mutated, causing the world’s renewal to become strange and inviting destruction. She asked him to investigate the mutation, offering the hope that restoring decay could let him find the reincarnations of his loved ones.

• Seven Extinctions revealed that Lin Hui and he were outsiders, promised to leave Lin Hui’s former realm untouched, and gave him a mark to contact him about the Nether Hollow before departing to rebuild the Nine Heavens Gate.
• Seven Extinctions warned Lin Hui that the Nether Hollow in his chest destabilized the world and could let the Source Disasters invade.
• Lin Hui returned to the imperial city, where White Deer urged him to speak with the Mother of Dusk about the world’s worsening erosion.
• The Mother of Dusk explained that the first-generation Supreme Deities had introduced decay to avoid the Source Disaster, but decay later mutated and began destroying their world.
• The Mother of Dusk asked Lin Hui to investigate the source of decay’s mutation, saying that restoring decay could normalize renewal and help him find the reincarnations of his family, friends, and disciples.

Mother of Dusk revealed that the source of decay lay in the Netherworld, and White Deer sacrificed himself to atone for his past actions. Five years later, as the Wind Disaster continued to devastate the world, Lin Hui prepared to travel to the true Decay and try to restore the cycle that might save it.

• Mother of Dusk told Lin Hui that the Netherworld was the source of decay and warned that the disaster might threaten his original world too.
• White Deer explained that rebuilding the cycle of decay and rebirth might save their world, then tore out his heart and died to atone for having expelled Lin Hui before.
• Su Yaping and the Qingfeng Sect took control of the Royal City after the imperial clan and the Three Greats disappeared, while Yuan He left by ship and Green Leaf Woman mourned White Deer.
• Five years later, Lin Hui told Liu Wujun to safeguard Clear Jade Mountain and its people before leaving for an uncertain period.
• Lin Hui confirmed that the true Decay remained hidden beneath the Wind Disaster and concluded that he had to enter it and create a passage to restore the cycle.

Lin Hui prepared to leave his original world and questioned Fusheng about the Black Domain and the dangers beyond. He traveled through the Nether Hollow and arrived in another world, where he was reborn as a newborn with his memories intact.

• Lin Hui asked Fusheng about the Black Domain, its worlds and Source Disasters, and how to travel through it safely.
• Lin Hui packed supplies, said goodbye to Fusheng and the Formless Heavenly Demon, and used the Wind Sword Art to break down his original-world body and enter the Nether Hollow.
• Lin Hui traveled through the Nether Hollow and saw his original world recede into the darkness before the connection carried him onward.
• Lin Hui emerged near an unfamiliar planet and lost consciousness as he was pulled toward his destination.
• Lin Hui awakened as a newborn in a new family, realized he had been reborn with his memories, and fell asleep while his parents worried over him.

A year and a half after entering a new body, Lin Hui investigated the strange world around him while quietly strengthening his young physique. At school age, he chose martial arts lessons at Pine Breeze Sword Hall, giving him a way to train as he continued to investigate this realm.

• Lin Hui read local newspapers and learned that the world had bizarre incidents, Decay Patterns, and Taoist and Buddhist practitioners who drew power from the Insect Scripture.
• Lin Hui spoke to Zhao Lingxiao in the residential compound, convincing Lin Xiangnan and Fu Yunxin that outings had helped him talk; he then stopped speaking again to avoid more outings.
• Over the next three years, Lin Hui learned about the True Mountain Republic, its political turmoil, and the weaker influence of its Taoists and monks, while continuing to temper his body with stellar force.
• Lin Xiangnan brought home flyers for interest classes, and Lin Hui chose the Pine Breeze Sword Hall martial arts course.

Lin Hui joined Pine Breeze Sword Hall to learn about the world’s martial arts, but discovered its swordsmanship was only exercise with no internal energy. Three years later, he was healthy, had improved the sword techniques, and still had to rely on himself for real martial arts.

• Lin Xiangnan took Lin Hui through Xidong, where Lin Hui saw drought-stricken people selling themselves and learned about heavy land rents and forced conscription.
• Lin Xiangnan enrolled Lin Hui as a refined martial disciple at Pine Breeze Sword Hall, where Hall Master Xiao Dayong agreed to teach him.
• Xiao Dayong taught Lin Hui the twelve moves of Pine Breeze Swordsmanship, and Lin Hui quickly learned the set while Xiao Shishi tried to eat his meat pies.
• Lin Hui questioned Xiao Dayong about martial arts and learned that Pine Breeze Swordsmanship was ordinary exercise with no internal energy or ability to withstand firearms.
• Three years passed, and eight-year-old Lin Hui remained healthy, gathered strange intelligence, and developed improved sword techniques without producing internal energy.

Lin Hui investigated the limits of Star Power and his new body while continuing his training, then intervened when Xiao Shishi’s group abused Wu Anning. At home, he overheard Lin Xiangnan discussing famine and a secret joint operation before preparing to visit his maternal grandparents, whose shop had a mysterious problem.

• Lin Hui found that Star Power rapidly drained when he circulated it through his body, so he trained his mind with the Nine Splendors Spirit Formula and practiced the Great Yin Yang Time Reversal Sword Technique.
• Lin Hui stopped Xiao Shishi and three students from assaulting Wu Anning, gave Wu his outer robe, and learned they had threatened her little brother with Redstone Powder.
• Lin Hui passed people selling their children on the way home and overheard Lin Xiangnan argue with a visitor about famine, an increased military grain levy, and a planned joint operation.
• Lin Hui learned that Lin Xiangnan had declined to join the operation because his family and his work as Commander Xu’s private tutor were more important to the association.
• Lin Xiangnan told Lin Hui to prepare for their holiday visit to his maternal grandparents and warned him not to mention the departing visitor or upset the family, whose shop had an unresolved strange problem.