Chapter Summaries

After Medusa left, Lin Ze entered his secret chamber to cultivate through the Dou Venerate Transition Realm with a Qi Suppressing Array and a Heavenly Pressure Divine Stone. He reached the peak of the first-turn Dou Venerate realm and began replenishing his compressed Dou Qi with a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill.

• Qing Lin warmly chatted with Medusa, then winked at Lin Ze after Medusa left and went to cultivate.
• Lin Ze activated the Qi Suppressing Array in his secret chamber and used it to refine and compress his Dou Qi.
• Lin Ze activated the Heavenly Pressure Divine Stone, whose pressure strengthened the array's effects and helped him cultivate without mishap.
• Lin Ze reached the peak of the first-turn Dou Venerate realm, put away the stone, and deactivated the array.
• Lin Ze swallowed a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill with Five-Colored Pill Lightning and began refining its energy to replenish his Dou Qi.

Lin Ze sent his Death Soldiers to search the Fallen Mountain Range for a rumored Dou Sheng relic, but months of searching had yielded nothing. At the Peak of the Fallen, one soldier detected a faint Spatial Fluctuation, and Lin Ze sent his consciousness to investigate as he considered the risk of missing a rare opportunity.

• Lin Ze deployed hundreds of Death Soldiers and thousands more around the Fallen Mountain Range to search for a Dou Sheng relic.
• After months of fruitless searching, a Golden Legend Death Soldier noticed sunlight converging near the Peak of the Fallen and sensed faint fluctuations in Heaven and Earth Energy.
• As the Death Soldier approached the convergence point, he detected an unusual Spatial Fluctuation and contacted Lin Ze through the Mirror Spirit Trace.
• Lin Ze sent a fragment of his consciousness to the Death Soldier and realized the spatial anomaly might appear only at certain times.

Lin Ze triggered a powerful spatial fluctuation while trying to open a hidden relic in the Fallen Mountain Range. Experts gathered and concluded that a Dou Saint Relic had appeared, spreading the news as Lin Ze waited before its dangerous spatial barrier.

• Lin Ze reasoned that the newly appeared spatial fluctuation was temporary and that he could not keep the relic secret, so he decided to try opening it immediately.
• Lin Ze touched the void with his Space Power, causing the faint fluctuation to become powerful enough for high-level cultivators across the Fallen Mountain Range to sense.
• Lin Ze tried to probe the rippling space with Soul Power, but the violent currents shredded it and forced him to retreat.
• Experts, including concealed Dou Zun cultivators carrying Mysterious Light Treasure Mirrors, arrived and examined the spatial anomaly.
• The experts identified the disturbance as evidence of a Dou Saint Relic and spread the news of its appearance in the Fallen Mountain Range.

News of several Dou Saint Relics in the Fallen Mountain Range drew powerful factions toward the ruins, while Lin Ze investigated their secrets. He learned that three Dou Sheng Experts had left halls there and considered how to claim their treasures despite the danger.

• Experts gathered around the Fallen Mountain Range but waited because the ruins’ spatial ripples could destroy anyone who entered.
• Lin Ze learned that Xuan Kongzi and other Dou Venerates were preparing to lead teams to the relics.
• Investigators discovered that the site contained several ruins, and Lin Ze sent a stealthy Death Soldier inside to investigate.
• The Death Soldier found a Towering Divine Mountain bearing three halls from different eras, each carrying the aura of a separate Dou Sheng Expert.
• Lin Ze considered using the Mysterious Light Treasure Mirror and Mirror World to secure treasures, then approached the mountain and encountered a powerful Space Seal.

As the Dou Saint Relics drew powerful factions and experts to the Fallen Mountain Range, Lin Ze stayed away and used his Death Soldiers to monitor the ruins and infiltrate the arriving forces. After weeks of escalating battles over the central area, the strongest factions claimed positions, though the competing human and Magical Beast clans remained divided.

• News of three Dou Saint Relics caused major factions, including Danta, Tianming Sect, and Flower Sect, to send Peak Dou Zuns to the Fallen Mountain Range.
• Lin Ze chose not to enter the ruins himself, instead gathering thousands of Death Soldiers nearby and relying on infiltrators within most arriving forces.
• Nearly a month after the relics appeared, arriving experts began fighting over the limited central area, with more than ten battles breaking out in one day at the height of the conflict.
• The situation stabilized with Danta, Tianming Sect, Flower Sect, the Heavenly Demon Phoenix, and the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python holding strong positions near the ruins.
• The human factions remained divided, making it difficult for them to unite against the two Magical Beast clans.

Lin Ze overheard Huang Ying and Yao Tianyan agree to help each other if human factions targeted either Magical Beast clan. After the spatial ripples around the Dou Saint Relic subsided, the factions entered but found its Space Seal still intact, leaving them uncertain how to proceed.

• Huang Ying entered Yao Tianyan’s camp and proposed that their clans cooperate against the human factions.
• Yao Tianyan questioned Huang Ying’s motives and the clans’ history, then agreed to help if humans attacked either clan together.
• Lin Ze listened to their conversation as the final spatial ripple around the Dou Saint Relic vanished.
• Experts rushed into the relic after the ripples subsided, but stopped when they saw the Space Seal still intact.
• The gathered factions discussed breaking the Space Seal and looked to their leaders, but no one acted.

Lin Ze and the other cultivators discovered that three connected Space Seals protected the Towering Divine Mountain, then joined forces to break the lowest seal. The revealed mountain was made entirely of Dou Qi crystals, whose immense power could threaten everyone present.

• Xuan Kongzi sensed that three Space Seals from different eras were built on array foundations in the Towering Divine Mountain and had gradually repaired themselves.
• Huang Ying proposed breaking a seal before more powerful forces arrived, and the assembled factions agreed to attack the lowest Fire-Red Great Hall together.
• Xuan Kongzi marked a weak point, and the Dou Zun Experts combined their attacks until the Space Seal shattered.
• A surge of Heaven and Earth Energy erupted, revealing that the Towering Divine Mountain was composed entirely of Dou Qi crystals.
• The cultivators realized that the mountain held enough power to make an ordinary person a saint or erupt with force that could kill everyone present.

Lin Ze and the other experts reached the Fire-Red Great Hall at the heart of the Dou Qi Crystal Mountain Range, where they discovered a vast world filled with Heavenly Treasures. As the experts fought to claim them, Lin Ze relied on his Death Soldiers to gather useful treasures and looked toward the Ancient Bronze Great Hall, where he suspected the Dou Sheng Experts’ accumulated treasures lay.

• The experts sensed that the Fire-Red Great Hall stabilized the Dou Qi Crystal Mountain Range and hurried toward it.
• A greedy Dou Zong opened the hall’s doors, revealing countless Heavenly Treasures, and the experts rushed inside to collect them.
• Lin Ze stayed out of the scramble and suspected later Dou Sheng Experts had preserved the Fire-Red Great Hall to stabilize and harness the mountain range’s energy.
• Lin Ze noticed the Ancient Bronze Great Hall atop the highest peak and guessed that the three Dou Sheng Experts’ accumulated treasures were inside.
• Lin Ze’s Death Soldiers gathered treasures useful to him while the other experts fought, and Lin Ze entered the hall after they had left its entrance.

Lin Ze’s group raced through the scarlet palace and collected valuable Heavenly Treasures, including more than a dozen Soul Heart Fruits that could strengthen his soul. When the Five Top Factions reached the depths, they found the fruit tree stripped bare and realized a hidden rival had beaten them there.

• The Five Top Factions advanced through the palace in a fan formation while Lin Ze’s fast Death Soldiers gathered valuable Heavenly Treasures and covered their tracks.
• Lin Ze saw a Soul Heart Fruit Tree on an island in a lake and collected all its fruits for his High-Tier Alchemist Death Soldier to refine.
• Lin Ze considered how the Soul Heart Fruits might help him advance beyond the Heaven Realm Early Stage, which he had reached partly by secretly taking Soul Origin from the Hall of Souls’ shipments.
• The Five Top Factions reached the depths and discovered that someone had taken every Soul Heart Fruit.
• The factions’ members complained that the hidden intruder had deprived them of a share, while Xuan Kongzi regretted arriving too late and resolved to stay vigilant.

After the second Spatial Seal Array was broken, the third shattered as well, opening two Dou Saint Great Halls at once. The factions split their forces between the halls, while Lin Ze sent Death Soldiers to both and began securing the Heavenly Treasures in the second hall.

• News spread that an unknown expert had taken the Soul Heart Fruit before the Five Top Factions could reach it.
• Xuan Kongzi and the other experts attacked the second Spatial Seal Array, releasing a surge of Heaven and Earth Energy.
• The third Spatial Seal Array shattered on its own, opening the third Dou Saint Great Hall alongside the second.
• The Five Top Factions divided their experts between the halls, while independent cultivators chose between safer treasures and the greater risks of the third hall.
• Lin Ze sent Death Soldiers to both halls and turned his attention to the second, where he began setting up an array to seal off the Heavenly Treasures.

Lin Ze blocked the entrance to the Second Dou Saint Great Hall to claim its Heavenly Treasures, stopping everyone from going deeper. When a Heavenly Underworld Sect Dou Venerate attacked him, Lin Ze struck him down with a single slap, leaving the gathered experts stunned.

• Lin Ze ate Heavenly Treasures and raised a Dou Qi Barrier that blocked the route into the depths of the hall.
• A plump old man challenged Lin Ze's attempt to monopolize the treasures, then waited for reinforcements.
• The plump old man led a Heavenly Underworld Sect Dou Venerate and Danta's group to confront Lin Ze.
• The Heavenly Underworld Sect Dou Venerate attacked Lin Ze with a bloodlust-charged punch.
• Lin Ze appeared in front of the attacker and slapped him flying, terrifying the onlookers.

Lin Ze blocked the forces gathered at the second Dou Saint Relic while his Death Soldiers collected its Heavenly Treasures. One Death Soldier found a Blood-Devouring Tree bearing a Saint Blood Fruit, apparently nourished by a Dou Sheng expert’s blood.

• Lin Ze forced the Heavenly Underworld Sect’s Dou Zun and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Dou Zun to retreat after slapping them down.
• Lin Ze refused to compete for the Dou Saint Inheritance and barred the arriving forces from entering the relic’s sealed area.
• Lin Ze stopped Danta’s Dou Zun from leaving, explaining that he would hold everyone there until his men finished collecting Heavenly Treasures.
• A Death Soldier found a leafless Blood-Devouring Tree with a single fruit on a barren crimson plain.
• Lin Ze recognized the fruit’s Dou Sheng aura and identified it as a Saint Blood Fruit.

Lin Ze collected a Saint Blood Fruit from the Second Dou Saint Relic while his Death Soldiers searched the Third Dou Saint Relic. At the entrance to the Dou Saint's residence, a black-mist figure from the Hall of Souls attacked Huang Ying and declared its claim to the inheritance.

• Lin Ze cut his palm, used his blood as a container for the Saint Blood Fruit, and added it to the treasures he had found.
• The Ancient Bronze Great Hall opened into the Third Dou Saint Relic, and Lin Ze sent his Death Soldiers to search its buildings using their Mirror Spirit Traces.
• Lin Ze followed Xuan Kongzi and other powerful experts toward a bronze pavilion believed to be the Dou Saint's residence.
• Huang Ying approached the pavilion's door, but a black-mist figure emerged and struck him, tearing his sleeve and knocking him back.
• The figure announced that the Hall of Souls wanted the Dou Saint Inheritance too.

The Third Heavenly Venerate arrived at the Ancient Bronze Pavilion and triggered its defenses while attempting to open the gate. The relic awakened, releasing Mechanism Puppets that proved dangerous to the gathered experts.

• The Third Heavenly Venerate sent Huang Ying flying and approached the bronze gate as Xuan Kongzi and the other experts held back.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate struck the gate, activating the Energy Patterns throughout the Ancient Bronze Pavilion and the rest of the relic.
• Bronze Mechanism Puppets emerged from the ground and attacked the intruders.
• A Mechanism Puppet broke free of a Dou Zong expert's Space Power restraint and wounded him with a spiked punch that pierced his Dou Qi defenses.
• Lin Ze watched the attack through a Death Soldier and grew wary of the relic's awakening.

Mechanism Puppets attacked the intruders throughout the Dou Saint Relic, while Lin Ze and the Peak Dou Zun experts fought the guardians in the central area. After more than half the puppets were destroyed, the pavilion doors opened and a saintly aura swept across the battlefield.

• Mechanism Puppets emerged across the relic and attacked the cultivators, using weapons that could pierce Dou Qi.
• Dozens of Dou Zun-level Mechanism Puppets appeared in the central area and charged the intruders.
• Lin Ze tested their Qi-breaking ability, then evaded their attacks while studying the puppets.
• The Third Heavenly Venerate tore apart a puppet with a black chain, while Xuan Kongzi blasted puppets to pieces with his refined flames.
• The Peak Dou Zun experts destroyed more than half the Mechanism Puppets before the pavilion doors opened and released an aura beyond the Dou Zun level.

Shengji, a Half-Saint Puppet guarding the Mechanism Pavilion, revealed that the nine-level pavilion held his master's Mechanism Art inheritance and required visitors to complete its trials. Lin Ze and the others learned the dangers and rules, then had no choice but to enter.

• A humanlike figure emerged from the Ancient Bronze Pavilion and stopped the surrounding Mechanism Puppets.
• Shengji introduced himself as a Half-Saint Puppet and explained that passing all nine levels would earn his master's inheritance.
• Shengji confirmed that the pavilion held Mechanism Art and warned that anyone who refused to climb it would be treated as an intruder.
• Shengji explained that the trials varied with each person's strength, testing combat, mental qualities, and Mechanism Art aptitude across the three sets of levels.
• Shengji appeared atop the pavilion and ordered everyone to begin, leaving the gathered experts with no choice but to enter.

Lin Ze entered the Mechanism Pavilion and fought a Peak Dou Zun puppet before using his speed to bypass later floors. On the fourth floor, he activated an illusion test and found that his true body’s connection through the Bronze Mirror made him nearly immune to the illusion.

• Lin Ze entered the Mechanism Pavilion and arrived in a bronze arena after being transported through space.
• A Peak Dou Zun puppet emerged and charged at Lin Ze, who struck it with Golden Wind Void-Shattering Hand and sent it flying.
• Lin Ze used the Silver Platform to leave the arena, then bypassed the puppets on the second and third floors with his speed.
• Lin Ze reached the fourth floor, read the rules for the Black Crystal Ball’s illusion test, and activated it.
• Lin Ze’s true body kept his consciousness clear inside the illusion through the power of the Bronze Mirror.

Lin Ze observed his mind trapped in an illusion that continued his experiences after he claimed the Dou Saint Inheritance, and he intervened when Fire Cloud Ancestor attacked. After breaking the illusion and overcoming the next two illusion trials, Lin Ze reached the platform leading to the seventh floor, eager to face the Mechanism Art trials.

• Lin Ze watched the illusion continue with him claiming advanced Mechanism Art and three drops of Dou Saint Essence Blood, then reaching Half-Saint after five years of seclusion.
• Lin Ze in the illusion seized the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire from the Burning Flame Valley Master, killing him and drawing Fire Cloud Ancestor's wrath.
• Lin Ze sent more of his mind into the illusion, and the reinforced Lin Ze pierced Fire Cloud Ancestor's flaming palm with a Soul Spike, shattering the illusion.
• Lin Ze quickly broke free of the illusions on the next two floors and stepped onto the platform leading to the seventh floor.

Lin Ze used his Mechanism Master death soldiers to pass the Mechanism Pavilion’s tests and reached its inheritance room. There, the Mechanism Saint’s remnant will recognized him as a worthy successor and offered him its Mechanism Art and three drops of Dou Saint Essence Blood.

• Lin Ze sent materials and the Jade Slip instructions to his Mechanism Master death soldiers, who crafted a mechanism that let him pass the seventh-floor test.
• Lin Ze advanced through the Mechanism Pavilion while other examinees lagged behind or withdrew from the dangerous trials.
• Lin Ze reached the inheritance room and encountered a Bronze Figurine containing the Mechanism Saint’s remnant will.
• The Mechanism Saint explained how the Dou Qi Crystal Mountain Range had formed and recounted his secluded life devoted to Mechanism Art.
• The Mechanism Saint accepted Lin Ze as his disciple and offered to pass on his Mechanism Art and three drops of Dou Saint Essence Blood.

Lin Ze received the Mechanism Saint's inheritance and three drops of Dou Saint Essence Blood, then learned a secret art for remaining in the hidden world without being expelled. He began cultivating the art, gaining a way to use the world's cultivation sanctuary without fighting the Central Plains forces for it.

• Lin Ze offered to establish a Mechanism Academy to pass on the Mechanism Saint's inheritance, and the Dou Sheng Remnant Will approved before fading away.
• Lin Ze examined the jade-green Bronze Figurine and discovered it contained extensive Mechanism Art teachings, including instructions for creating the Half-Saint Puppet.
• Lin Ze summoned and stored the three drops of Dou Saint Essence Blood, considering their potential to help him advance.
• Lin Ze learned that the world expelled outsiders as it accumulated energy and that the first Dou Sheng had created a secret art to conceal one's presence from its repulsion.
• Lin Ze sat down and began cultivating the secret art.