Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng battled Liu Cang and Xiao Yan inside his fiery formation, using its attacks and his Fighting Skills to keep them under pressure. Liu Cang decided to break the formation and then unleashed his full body-cultivation aura, preparing to show Lin Feng his strength.

• The Dan Family Ancestor shattered Yao Chen’s attack and forced him to continue fighting while they awaited reinforcements.
• Lin Feng used the formation to send repeated black fire dragons at Liu Cang and Xiao Yan, then struck Liu Cang with the Ancient Dragon Seal and drove him back.
• Xiao Yan tried to attack Lin Feng with the Imperial Seal Art, but Lin Feng disrupted the technique before Xiao Yan retreated to Liu Cang’s side.
• Liu Cang agreed to break the formation and sent Xiao Yan away before challenging Lin Feng to a direct contest of strength.
• Liu Cang revealed that he had trained his body since childhood, blasted apart his robe, and prepared to demonstrate his body cultivation.

Liu Cang activated his Myriad Nether Poison Body and struck Lin Feng with overwhelming speed and power, but Lin Feng survived behind his defenses and began recovering. Liu Cang recognized that Lin Feng had withstood a technique that had once killed a One-star Dou Zun, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Liu Cang activated the Myriad Nether Poison Body, swelling into a giant and releasing corrosive poison as his aura surged beyond Peak Nine-star Dou Zun.
• Liu Cang charged Lin Feng at tremendous speed and shattered Lin Feng's Star Cycle Reincarnation before blasting him into the fire cauldron's inner wall.
• Lin Feng's Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor blocked the worst of the blow, and he swallowed an eighth-tier four-colored healing pill to recover.
• Lin Feng used the Netherworld Poison Fire to devour the toxins in his body and Heavenly Flames to refine the lingering chilling energy.
• Liu Cang admitted his technique had once killed a One-star Dou Zun, then acknowledged that he had underestimated Lin Feng.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yan escaped the shattered Grand Xuan Fire Control Array, revealing that Liu Cang had been driven to use the life-consuming Myriad Nether Poison Body. With reinforcements arriving for Lin Feng’s side, Xiao Yan and Liu Cang both recognized the need to kill Lin Feng quickly.

• Lin Feng realized Liu Cang’s speed secret method consumed his blood essence, while Liu Cang claimed the array’s energy cores had been exhausted.
• Xiao Yan combined four seals of the Imperial Seal Art to strike the fire cauldron’s inner wall, shattering the Grand Xuan Fire Control Array in a massive explosion.
• Lin Feng, Xiao Yan, and Liu Cang emerged from the flames, and onlookers saw Liu Cang transformed into a hulking figure with a weakened aura.
• Yao Chen and the gathered fighters realized Lin Feng had forced Liu Cang to activate the self-damaging Myriad Nether Poison Body.
• Lin Feng sensed more than a dozen revived Dou Zuns from the Ye Family and Wind Lightning Pavilion joining the battlefield, worsening the pressure on Xiao Yan’s side.
• Xiao Yan worried that Lin Feng would escape and prepare for another attack, while Liu Cang resolved to kill him and coveted his powerful Fighting Skills.

Lin Feng unleashed the Five Rounds Leaving Fire Method, forming five fire spirits and a massive fire disc to confront Liu Cang. The disc shattered Liu Cang’s Heavenly Nether Palm and struck him, leaving the battle’s outcome obscured by a vast eruption of energy.

• Liu Cang charged Lin Feng, but Lin Feng evaded him with his movement Dou Skill and summoned five flames, astonishing the watching Dou Zuns and Xiao Yan.
• Lin Feng used the Five Rounds Leaving Fire Method to form five fire spirits and arrange them into the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Formation.
• Lin Feng created the Five-wheel Falling Fire Plate and hurled it at Liu Cang, who reinforced his Myriad Nether Poison Body and countered with the Heavenly Nether Palm.
• The fire disc shattered Liu Cang’s palm phantom and slammed into him, unleashing destructive energy ripples that made the watching experts stare toward the obscured impact site.

Lin Feng killed Liu Cang after breaking through his Myriad Nether Poison Body, then pursued Xiao Yan and severely injured him. Qing Xiao arrived to protect Xiao Yan, and Lin Feng opened seven spatial vortices as he prepared to escape.

• The Five-wheel Falling Fire Plate shattered Liu Cang’s defense and exploded, engulfing him in a sea of flames.
• Lin Feng emerged with Liu Cang’s lifeless body, confirmed his death, and put the corpse into his Storage Ring.
• Lin Feng chased Xiao Yan and destroyed his left calf with a punch.
• Qing Xiao struck at Lin Feng and protected the injured Xiao Yan with flower petals.
• Lin Feng crushed seven Space Jade Slips, opening seven black vortices as Qing Xiao confronted him.

Lin Feng organized the Lesser Pill Pagoda’s reinforcements against Qing Xiao and the Flower Sect forces, arranging for Saint He Ke and the Cao Family Old Ancestor to hold Qing Xiao back. He offered pill rewards for the corpses of Flower Sect and Starfall Pavilion Dou Zuns as the coalition prepared to attack.

• Saint He Ke and nearly sixty reinforcements arrived, including more than forty Dou Zuns and the Cao Family Old Ancestor, who had recently become a Half-Saint.
• Lin Feng assessed Qing Xiao and her powerful Flower Sect reinforcements, concluding that Qing Xiao was nearing the High-level Half-Saint realm.
• Saint He Ke said that he and the Cao Family Old Ancestor could hold Qing Xiao off temporarily, though they could not defeat her.
• Lin Feng instructed the coalition to eliminate the opposing Dou Zuns quickly while He Ke and the Old Ancestor restrained Qing Xiao.
• Lin Feng offered colored Grade Eight Pill rewards for the corpses of Flower Sect and Starfall Pavilion Dou Zuns and warned that anyone who seized another fighter’s corpse would be treated as an enemy.

Lin Feng’s reinforcements arrived, widening his side’s advantage in the battle, while he offered extra rewards for enemy corpses to obtain materials for Human Puppets. Qing Xiao tried to make Saint He Ke withdraw, but he refused, leaving her facing the battle without a way to remove the threat of his support.

• Lin Feng promised extra payment to anyone who killed an enemy Dou Zun and presented the body, hoping to collect corpses for making Human Puppets.
• Nearly sixty reinforcements, including two Half-Saint experts, joined Lin Feng’s side, alarming Xiao Yan’s camp and the spectators.
• Xiao Yan retreated behind his allies, swallowed an eighth-tier Healing Pill, and began regenerating his severed leg.
• Qing Xiao realized that Lin Feng’s forces outnumbered hers and that the Cao Family Old Ancestor was an Initial Half-Saint.
• Qing Xiao urged Saint He Ke to abandon Lin Feng’s side, but he refused and said he would honor his agreement.

Qing Xiao refused to retreat and tried to kill Lin Feng, while Saint He Ke and the Cao and Dan Family Ancestors intercepted her and Yao Chen. With the Half-Saints fighting in the distance, Lin Feng led his Dou Zuns into battle against Xiao Yan’s forces.

• Qing Xiao warned that her alliance had four Half-Saints, but Saint He Ke refused to back down, and she chose to fight rather than retreat.
• Qing Xiao and Yao Chen rushed toward Lin Feng, but Saint He Ke and the Cao and Dan Family Ancestors intercepted them, drawing the Half-Saint battle away from the others.
• Lin Feng ordered his Dou Zuns to attack while Xiao Yan urged his outnumbered forces to hold on and offered them a fifty-percent increase in reward.
• The two sides’ Dou Zun fighters clashed in a vast battle that shattered the surrounding space and stunned the watching cultivators.

Lin Feng began merging five flames into a Five-colored Emperor Lotus to turn the battle against the Flower Sect. As the lotus reached perfection, he threw it at the incoming Dou Zuns and fled into the void.

• Lin Feng left the battlefield and summoned the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire, Green Lotus Core Flame, Falling Heart Flame, Blood Spirit Flame, and Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Lin Feng merged the five flames while onlookers recognized the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire and marveled that he possessed six Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan urged the Flower Sect’s Five-turn Dou Zun and other fighters to interrupt Lin Feng before he completed his technique.
• Lin Feng told his allies to retreat as the hostile Dou Zuns closed in, and they reluctantly obeyed.
• Lin Feng completed the Five-colored Emperor Lotus, threw it toward the group led by the Flower Sect’s Five-turn Dou Zun, and escaped into the void.

Lin Feng unleashed the Five-colored Emperor Lotus against the Flower Sect’s Dou Zuns, devastating their ranks and grievously injuring the First Elder. After ambushing another elder, he escaped into space and ordered his allies to finish off their opponents and retreat while Qing Xiao remained occupied.

• The Five-colored Emperor Lotus exploded, shattering space and engulfing the surrounding battlefield in fire that erased several Dou Zuns from everyone’s senses.
• The Flower Sect’s First Elder fell from the fading flames, badly burned and bald, while her sect’s elders rushed to cover and aid her.
• Lin Feng emerged from the void and killed a defenseless Seven-star Dou Zun elder with Two Seals as One, then escaped into space with the corpse.
• Lin Feng reappeared elsewhere and told his allies to eliminate nearby Dou Zuns and retreat, warning their enemies that he could unleash another fire lotus.
• Qing Xiao furiously threatened Lin Feng, while he ignored her and his allies reacted nervously to his provocation of the enraged Half-Saint.

Lin Feng recovered after his Five-colored Fire Lotus defeated the Flower Sect elder, while his allies gained the upper hand against Xiao Yan’s forces. The Lesser Pill Pagoda elders decided to stay out of the feud unless the Ancient Clan intervened, and Zhao Ran sought help from her nearly depleted older brother.

• Qing Xiao tried to attack Lin Feng, but Saint He Ke and the Cao Family Old Ancestor stopped her while Lin Feng took the Flower Sect elder’s Storage Ring and recovered with a medicinal pill.
• The energy left by the Medicine Emperor replenished Lin Feng’s Soul Power and raised his soul’s level, while his Dou Zun allies overwhelmed Xiao Yan’s side and the hired cultivators fled.
• Four elders of the Lesser Pill Pagoda discussed the widening conflict and agreed to intervene if the Ancient Clan’s eldest young lady or other Ancient powers became involved.
• The elders learned that Qiu Ling had quietly helped Lin Feng and that Zhao Ran had gone to seek her older brother’s aid.
• The First Elder left after ordering the others to keep watch over Lin Feng and Xiao Yan and confront any Ancient powers that interfered in the Central Region.

Xiao Yan’s retreat collapsed as Lin Feng cornered him and nearly killed him, but Gu Xun’er and two Ancient Clan elders arrived and rescued him. Lin Feng was forced to stop, while Gu Xun’er bristled at his insults and the elders hinted that she might order them to attack.

• Xiao Yan ordered his allies to retreat as Lin Feng’s side overwhelmed them.
• Lin Feng pursued Xiao Yan and battered him after blocking his Nine Harmonious Heaven-Shattering Ruler attack.
• An Ancient Clan elder rescued Xiao Yan just before Lin Feng’s next blow landed, and Gu Xun’er appeared with two elders.
• Lin Feng mocked Gu Xun’er and the Ancient Clan for intervening only after Xiao Yan was losing.
• Gu Xun’er’s anger rose, and an elder warned Lin Feng that she might order them to attack.

Zhao Ran arrived with her elder brother Zhao Yuan, a renowned High-level Half-Saint whose appearance shifted the balance against Gu Xun'er and the Ancient Clan. Gu Xun'er agreed to withdraw for now while promising Xiao Yan revenge next May.

• Lin Feng noticed that Gu Xun'er remained unusually quiet despite Xiao Yan's injuries and wondered what else she was plotting.
• Zhao Ran and the aged Zhao Yuan appeared, and Lin Feng recognized Zhao Ran as the source of the reinforcements.
• Onlookers identified Zhao Yuan as Zhao Ran's elder brother, a High-level Half-Saint nearing the end of his life.
• The Ancient Clan Half-Saint warned Gu Xun'er that Zhao Yuan's strength made him a dangerous opponent.
• Gu Xun'er promised Xiao Yan she would help him take revenge next May, and Xiao Yan accepted withdrawing unharmed for now.

Lin Feng accepted the Ancient Clan’s invitation to its coming-of-age ceremony after securing compensation for Xiao Yan’s kidnapping of his wife and the battle’s costs. He released the surviving Dou Zuns, then demanded a Heaven-tier fire-attribute Cultivation Method in exchange for returning the Bone Spirit Cold Flame as Gu Xun’er and Xiao Yan departed.

• Gu Xun’er apologized to Zhao Yuan, and an Ancient Clan elder invited Lin Feng to the clan’s coming-of-age ceremony while hinting at a future clash with its younger generation.
• Lin Feng insisted that the Ancient Clan compensate him for Xiao Yan’s attack and the experts he had summoned, and Gu Xun’er agreed to the terms to protect Xiao Yan and their planned claim to Xiao Xuan’s inheritance.
• Lin Feng accepted the invitation and promised to attend the ceremony next year; he then released the surviving enemies after his allies overwhelmed Xiao Yan’s forces.
• As Gu Xun’er prepared to leave with Xiao Yan, Lin Feng offered to trade back the Bone Spirit Cold Flame for a Heaven-tier fire-attribute Cultivation Method, and Xiao Yan agreed to arrange the exchange later.
• Lin Feng warned the Ancient Clan elder that powerful factions could fall like the Tunling Clan, provoking the elder before Gu Xun’er and her group left.

After the battle, Lin Feng recorded the casualties and settled matters with the departing factions before meeting Zhao Ran and her brother, Zhao Yuan. Zhao Yuan asked Lin Feng to help him survive, but his failed attempt to break through to Dou Sheng had left his lifespan nearly exhausted.

• Gu Xun'er and the Ancient Clan elders agreed to wait for the coming-of-age ceremony before confronting Lin Feng, while Xiao Yan declined to stop and rest.
• Lin Feng recorded twenty-four dead experts, promised their employers pills within three months, and watched the spectators and visiting clans depart.
• Lin Feng met Zhao Ran and learned that the elderly Half-Saint beside her, Zhao Yuan, was her biological older brother.
• Zhao Yuan offered to trade an item he had found in his youth, hoping it could help him escape his approaching death.
• Zhao Ran explained that Zhao Yuan had exhausted lifespan-extending remedies and had already failed to break through to Dou Sheng with an eighth-tier peak pill, leaving him with little hope.

Lin Feng agreed to examine an item that might help Zhao Yuan break through to Dou Sheng, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen discovered Starfall Pavilion had been destroyed and Feng Xian abducted by Soul Hall. After Gu Xun'er agreed to return to the Ancient Clan and its elders promised to help, Xiao Yan and Yao Chen prepared to rescue Feng Xian.

• Zhao Ran asked Lin Feng to inspect an item that might help Zhao Yuan advance to Dou Sheng, and Lin Feng agreed while warning he could not guarantee success.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen returned to Starfall Pavilion and found its formation breached, its buildings ruined, and its members dead.
• Yao Chen realized Feng Xian was missing, and Xiao Yan found a letter from Soul Hall demanding they come to its branch hall within a month or Feng Xian would die.
• Gu Xun'er offered to join the rescue, but Xiao Yan and Yao Chen urged her not to risk herself; two Ancient Clan elders agreed to help instead.
• Gu Xun'er returned toward the Ancient Clan with the elders, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen began preparing to rescue Feng Xian.

Zhao Yuan brought Lin Feng to his home and explained how the Holy Radiance Cauldron and its stores of treasure had changed his fortunes. He revealed that a second brother had been killed by Zhao Ran’s ex-husband and showed Lin Feng an indestructible metal box he had kept for a thousand years.

• Zhao Yuan took Lin Feng and Zhao Ran to his valley home, where Lin Feng asked about the mysterious item.
• Zhao Yuan recalled entering the Light Shadow Space with his sister and two others, where he found the Holy Radiance Cauldron and many treasures.
• Zhao Ran explained that Zhao Yuan had lent the cauldron to their second brother, a High Seventh-grade Alchemist, who was later ambushed and killed by Zhao Ran’s ex-husband.
• Zhao Yuan said the treasures had nearly run out after a thousand years and that he could not damage his final item despite trying every method.
• Zhao Yuan brought an extremely heavy, flat metal box from his Storage Ring and placed it on the table.

Lin Feng recognized Zhao Yuan’s black-and-white metal box as possibly matching the white key he possessed and negotiated to help Zhao Yuan reach the Dou Saint realm in exchange for it. He proposed a dangerous secret method requiring a Soul Body to regain a physical body, then outlined the rare materials needed and offered to help obtain some of them.

• Zhao Yuan showed Lin Feng a heavy black-and-white box from the Light Shadow Space and explained that its death and vitality energies had resisted every attempt to open it.
• Lin Feng noticed the box’s keyhole spanned both halves and suspected his white key was part of a matching set.
• Zhao Yuan offered the box in exchange for Lin Feng helping him break through to the Dou Saint realm, and Lin Feng proposed a risky secret method using three Heavenly Flames.
• Zhao Ran realized Zhao Yuan would first have to become a Soul Body to use the method, while Lin Feng suggested they could instead wait for help from his Ancient Void Dragon Clan connection.
• Lin Feng listed the required materials and estimated a thirty-percent success rate, potentially rising by ten percent if Zhao Yuan reached the Heavenly Realm in Soul Power.
• Lin Feng offered to help obtain Dou Sheng remains and Ancient Dragon Essence Blood, while Zhao Yuan and Zhao Ran considered the costly proposal.

Lin Feng and Zhao Yuan agreed to gather the materials needed for Zhao Yuan’s resurrection and breakthrough, while Lin Feng proposed using Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to capture a High-level Half-Saint Nine Netherworld Underworld Python for its essence blood. Lin Feng left after Feng'er summoned him, and Zhao Yuan and Zhao Ran revealed their determination to avenge their family.

• Zhao Yuan accepted Lin Feng’s offer to help obtain Dou Sheng remains and High-level Half-Saint Magical Beast Essence Blood for the resurrection attempt.
• Zhao Ran asked Lin Feng to raise Zhao Yuan’s Soul Power to the Heaven Realm, and Lin Feng proposed using Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control a High-level Half-Saint Nine Netherworld Underworld Python.
• Zhao Yuan agreed to Lin Feng’s plan, which would provide the essence blood needed for the breakthrough.
• Lin Feng sensed that Feng'er had shattered his Space Jade Slip, excused himself, and departed to find her.
• Zhao Yuan speculated that Lin Feng’s spatial talent was connected to the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, while Zhao Ran vowed to kill the enemy who had destroyed their family.

Zhao Yuan told Zhao Ran that the Zhao Clan had little chance of avenging itself against their powerful enemy, while Zhao Yuan had only days left unless he could break through to Dou Sheng. Lin Feng reunited with Feng Qing'er, who had reached Half-Saint, and learned that his family had made plans for Cai Lin, Yun'er, Qing Lin, and Lin Zhao as they prepared to repay the experts who helped defeat Xiao Yan and his allies.

• Zhao Yuan told Zhao Ran that their enemy might already have become a Dou Sheng and that even Zhao Yuan’s breakthrough would give them little chance of revenge.
• Zhao Ran smashed a wooden table in anger as Zhao Yuan lamented the Zhao Clan’s decline and his dwindling lifespan.
• Feng Qing'er reunited with Lin Feng in the Ye Courtyard and revealed that the Heavenly Phoenix Soul Marrow had helped her break through to Half-Saint.
• Lin Feng reassured Feng Qing'er that he had not been harmed in the battle, and Cao Ying and Dan Chen told him they had met Cai Lin, Yun'er, and Lin Zhao.
• Lin Feng said they needed to refine many pills to fulfill their promises to the experts who had helped defeat Xiao Yan and the others.