Recaps

Lin Qin led a small force to save Rock Fortress during Operation Furnace, destroyed the enemy supply convoy, and killed three Seven-Star Fiends. After the defenders routed the remaining attackers, Lin Qin returned to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range with the Azure Dragon Battle Token and a six-month reprieve from missions.

• Lin Qin chose to reinforce Rock Fortress, where Ge Lie, Karon, and Herman had besieged the fortress with two thousand troops.
• After Feng Ying scouted the enemy camp, Lin Qin burned its supply convoy and lured the three Seven-Star Fiends away from the siege.
• Lin Qin used Sovereign's Might to kill Herman, Ge Lie, and Karon in succession.
• Shi Yan, Feng Ying, and the rest of Lin Qin's team attacked the enemy camp, then Lin Qin led the fortress defenders to rout the remaining troops.
• Lin Qin returned to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range, where Gaiseresen awarded him the Azure Dragon Battle Token, twenty drops of Sovereign's Might, and the Azure Dragon Soul Jade.

After emerging from half a year of seclusion, Lin Qin learned that Hogan and two other Seven-Star Fiends planned to ambush him. He defeated them on the road to Iron Wall Outpost, where Gaia killed the fleeing Hogan, and returned to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range victorious.

• Lin Qin emerged from seclusion with the fifth profound mystery fully mastered, and Morris warned him that Hogan, Karon, and Mei Ji had been assigned to kill him.
• Lin Qin recruited Shi Yan, Feng Ying, Tyron, and Azure Luan to prepare for the ambush, then accepted a mission to reinforce Iron Wall Outpost despite knowing it was a trap.
• Hogan, Karon, and Mei Ji attacked Lin Qin over the Black Stone Wasteland, and Lin Qin killed Karon and Mei Ji after enduring their coordinated assault.
• Gaia killed the wounded Hogan as he fled, and Lin Qin's team continued to Iron Wall Outpost and helped lift its siege.
• Lin Qin returned to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range seven days later to cheers.

After the Eight Great Clans agreed to a temporary truce, Lin Qin spent centuries cultivating and fusing the Laws of Life Force with his other profound mysteries. As the clans began preparing for war again, Lin Qin emerged stronger and went to answer the Clan Leader’s summons.

• The Eight Great Clans declared a temporary truce after their losses, and the Azure Dragon Clan celebrated its first respite from war in thirty thousand years.
• Lin Qin stayed in seclusion and fused Life Force with the Earth Element, Earth Pulsation, the Mysteries of Power, and Gravity Space, developing new abilities and attacks.
• Fulhan visited Lin Qin with a jade slip containing an ancient expert’s insights, and Lin Qin used its method to unify Life Force, the Earth Element, and Earth Pulsation.
• The Eight Great Clans resumed border provocations and prepared their forces as the truce neared its end.
• Lin Qin emerged after nine hundred and fifty years, demonstrated a strike that split space, and left Azure Rock Valley after Lei Luo summoned him to meet the Clan Leader.

After the thousand-year truce ended, Lin Qin volunteered to join the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s first patrol into Blood War Valley, where the Eight Great Clans were gathering to encircle them. He was assigned as vice-captain and prepared to leave in three days, while Lei Luo agreed to wait and strengthen his newly acquired Seven-Star Fiend power.

• Gaiseresen informed the elders that the Eight Great Clans were gathering to encircle the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range and that the clan’s Blood War Valley patrols would resume.
• Lin Qin volunteered for the first patrol, and Gaiseresen assigned him as vice-captain under the experienced Tyron.
• Gaiseresen and Garvey warned Lin Qin that the Eight Great Clans might target him because his bounty had risen to fifteen drops of Sovereign's Might.
• Lei Luo offered to accompany Lin Qin, but Lin Qin told him to wait until his strength had stabilized.
• Lin Qin returned to his cultivation chamber to prepare for the patrol, which would depart in three days.

Lin Qin joined Tyron’s squad for a dangerous patrol through the Black Stone Wasteland, where the Eight Great Clans ambushed them at Iron Spine Mountain. Lin Qin killed two Six-Star Fiends in moments and then rushed to help Shi Yan, who was being overwhelmed.

• Lin Qin met Tyron and the other members of his seven-person squad, and learned their patrol route would lead to an expected clash with the Eight Great Clans.
• Shi Yan warned Lin Qin that his bounty made him a likely target, while Lin Qin detected seven approaching enemies from twelve hundred miles away.
• Tyron arranged the squad’s formation as Gru and six fighters from the Barbary Clan arrived and attacked.
• Three enemies surrounded Lin Qin, but he killed two Six-Star Fiends with his blade and Dragon Roar before the third fled.
• Lin Qin turned toward Shi Yan, who was in grave danger while fighting two enemies, and moved to help him.

Lin Qin saved his patrol team by killing three Six-Star Fiends, and his first battle made him a name in Blood War Valley. As he prepared for another patrol, Tyron warned him that the Eight Great Clans might target him, including Hogan, who had vowed to kill him.

• Lin Qin killed three Six-Star Fiends, prompting their surviving allies to flee, and Shi Yan thanked him for saving his life.
• Tyron led the team back to camp, where he promised Lin Qin the Contribution Points for his kills and asked him to patrol with them again.
• Lin Qin recovered and cultivated while news of his three kills spread through Blood War Valley; Garvey told Morris to keep an eye on him.
• Lin Qin trained during the next three days, and Tyron told him the team would patrol a new route near the Death Desert with three newcomers.
• Tyron warned Lin Qin that the Eight Great Clans might target him because he had killed members of the Barbary and Deen Clans, including Hogan's distant nephew.

Lin Qin and his companions fought Mei Ji’s group beneath Iron Spine Mountain, where Lin Qin killed Salon and resisted Mei Ji’s Sovereign’s Might-enhanced seduction technique until she retreated. The group returned safely, but Tyron warned Lin Qin that Hogan would seek revenge, while the Council of Elders rewarded Lin Qin and ordered his next patrol to proceed as usual.

• Tyron led the seven to Iron Spine Mountain, where Lin Qin detected Mei Ji and six Six-Star Fiends approaching.
• Mei Ji attacked Tyron with a soul technique as her followers encircled the group, while Salon charged at Lin Qin.
• Lin Qin crushed Salon with his physical strength and took his Godhead, then fought Mei Ji and endured her Sovereign’s Might-enhanced seduction technique for ten breaths.
• Mei Ji fled with her surviving followers, and Tyron’s group left the mountain after collecting Salon’s belongings.
• Tyron told Lin Qin that Salon had been Hogan’s personal disciple and warned him that Hogan would seek revenge.
• Garvey approved more Contribution Points for Lin Qin and told Morris to have Tyron send him on his next patrol as usual.

Over ninety-nine years, Lin Qin endured Blood War Valley, outlived and farewelled companions, and eventually left to seek a breakthrough. He fully comprehended the sixth profound mystery of the Earthwalking Technique and advanced to Highgod, bringing his body close to the strength of a Sovereign Artifact.

• Lin Qin survived decades of increasingly dangerous battles in Blood War Valley, including encounters with Hogan, and later stopped taking routine patrols at Gaiseresen's order.
• Lin Qin built a stone house near the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range and watched companions including Tyron and Azure Luan leave, while Shi Yan died protecting a newcomer from Hogan.
• After fifty years, Lin Qin reached a physical bottleneck, and Garvey urged him to leave Blood War Valley and seek a breakthrough.
• Lin Qin continued cultivating after leaving, and in his ninety-ninth year he fully comprehended the sixth profound mystery of the Earthwalking Technique.
• The Laws of Heaven and Earth descended over Azure Rock Valley, transforming Lin Qin into a Highgod and strengthening his body until it neared the level of a Sovereign Artifact.
• Garvey and Gaiseresen welcomed Lin Qin after his breakthrough and congratulated him.

Lin Qin sparred with Gaiseresen and proved strong enough to defeat the Azure Dragon Clan chief, even against his Sovereign Artifact. Gaiseresen asked Lin Qin to kill the chiefs of the Eight Great Clans, and Lin Qin agreed, setting the Four Divine Beast Clan on the path to revenge.

• Gaiseresen tested Lin Qin's strength in a spar after learning he had achieved five Profound Mystery Fusions.
• Lin Qin matched Gaiseresen's attacks with his physical body, then used his blade against the Azure Dragon Claw and cracked the Sovereign Artifact with his fists.
• After an all-out battle, Gaiseresen admitted defeat and declared that Lin Qin could defeat the chiefs of the other Eight Great Clans.
• Gaiseresen urged Lin Qin to kill the enemy clan chiefs as revenge for ten thousand years of deaths and suffering, and Lin Qin agreed.

Gaiseresen revealed that Lin Qin had defeated him and named him the Four Divine Beast Clan’s hope of escaping the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range. After giving Lin Qin the Azure Dragon Claw and one hundred drops of Sovereign's Might, Gaiseresen ordered a final battle against the Eight Great Clans; as the clan prepared, Lin Qin emerged from a month of training on the eve of the fight.

• Gaiseresen told the assembled elders that Lin Qin had defeated him even while he wielded the Azure Dragon Claw, and Lin Qin demonstrated his overwhelming strength by pulling Qing Ming across the hall.
• Gaiseresen said Lin Qin had fused five profound mysteries and possessed a body close to a Sovereign Artifact, then passed him the Azure Dragon Claw and one hundred drops of earth-element Sovereign's Might.
• Gaiseresen ordered Lin Qin to kill the eight clan leaders and announced that the Four Divine Beast Clan would challenge the Eight Great Clans at the entrance to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range one month later.
• Members of the Four Divine Beast Clan celebrated the coming battle, while Lie Shan left wine at Shi Yan's grave and promised that they would soon join him.
• Lin Qin spent the month training with the Azure Dragon Claw, then emerged on the twenty-ninth day and assured Lei Luo that he was confident about the battle the next day.

The Eight Great Clans gathered to discuss the Four Divine Beast Clan’s challenge, failed to uncover its hidden trump card, and decided to meet its forces in battle. At the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range, Lin Qin confirmed he was confident as both armies prepared to fight.

• Barak summoned the leaders of the Eight Great Clans after receiving the Four Divine Beast Clan’s challenge to a decisive battle.
• Wenna urged the clans to investigate their enemy’s trump card, but the intelligence networks found nothing before the battle date.
• Barak and the other leaders concluded the Four Divine Beast Clan was making a desperate last stand and ordered every Seven-Star Fiend and above to join the fight.
• At the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range, the Eight Great Clans assembled three hundred Seven-Star Fiends and eight peak Asuras against the Four Divine Beast Clan’s forces.
• Gaiseresen asked Lin Qin if he was confident, and Lin Qin nodded before Gaiseresen rallied the clan to attack.

Lin Qin confronted the Eight Great Clans’ forces alone and killed five of their patriarchs, while the Four Divine Beasts Clan pursued the four who fled. The clan’s victory ended its ten-thousand-year confinement, though Lin Qin’s Dragon-Slaying Blade was left cracked.

• Lin Qin charged into the Eight Great Clans’ encirclement and endured all eight patriarchs’ attacks without serious injury.
• Lin Qin killed Dracula and Wenna with single slashes, then defeated Barak and Edmond in a clash that cracked the Dragon-Slaying Blade.
• Manson, Sheng Hui, Poseidon, and Ashton fled as the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s forces chased them and routed the Seven-Star Fiends.
• Lie Shan, Yan Rong, Mystic Weight, and Qing Ming returned with the heads of Manson, Sheng Hui, Poseidon, and Ashton.
• Gaiseresen thanked Lin Qin, who called them family, and the Four Divine Beasts Clan celebrated its victory.

The Four Divine Beast clans celebrated their victory over the Eight Great Clans and the end of their ten-thousand-year confinement. Lin Qin stayed apart from the revelry, remembered fallen comrades with Lei Luo, and ended the night cultivating alone.

• The clans gathered in Blood War Valley to celebrate their victory and their newfound freedom to leave the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range.
• Lin Qin sat by his stone house, where Lei Luo joined him with wine and recalled how Shi Yan had admired Lin Qin.
• Lin Qin poured wine for Shi Yan, who had died at Hogan's hands, and shared a drink with Lei Luo.
• Gaiseresen and Lie Shan toasted the victory and lamented that their fallen clansmen could not witness it.
• Garvey pointed out Lin Qin and Lei Luo to young clansmen who asked why Lin Qin was absent from the celebration.
• After Lei Luo left, Lin Qin drank alone, raised his jar to the night sky, and began cultivating.

Lin Qin left the Four Divine Beast Clan and returned the Azure Dragon Claw before setting out for the Earth Divine Plane to pursue the Laws of Earth. He arrived in Thick Earth City, where he began a new journey.

• Lin Qin said farewell to Lei Luo, who gave him a jar of wine and urged him to return for a drink someday.
• Lin Qin returned the Azure Dragon Claw to Gaiseresen and refused the offer to become chief elder, explaining that he wanted to see the world and pursue the Laws of Earth.
• Gaiseresen accepted Lin Qin’s decision and told him that the Four Divine Beast Clan would always be his home.
• Thirty years later, Lin Qin paid ten billion magicite to travel from Star Luo City to the Earth Divine Plane.
• Lin Qin arrived in Thick Earth City and stepped into the crowd, ready to begin anew.

Lin Qin entered Thick Earth City's Blood Battle Platform and built an undefeated streak by defeating every opponent in a single move. After forty victories, he still waited for someone strong enough to make him draw a second blade.

• Lin Qin learned that challengers needed one hundred Blood Battle Platform victories to earn the right to challenge city lord Shi Yuan, then registered as fighter number 3762.
• Lin Qin killed Five-Star Fiend Xiong Shan in his first match and went on to win his first ten matches with a single slash each.
• Lin Qin defeated the speed-focused Six-Star Earthbound Li Feng in his eleventh match, prompting Shi Yuan to order his steward to monitor him.
• Lin Qin extended his streak to thirty victories, then shattered peak Six-Star Earthbound Tie Shan's famed defense and accepted his surrender in the thirty-first match.
• Shi Yuan ordered an investigation into Lin Qin's background as the streak continued, and Lin Qin reached forty victories without needing a second move in any match.
• After his fortieth win, Lin Qin waited for a worthy opponent while two six-star Earthwalkers fought on the arena.

Lin Qin continued his winning streak on the Blood Battle Platform, forcing its management to assign opponents after challengers stopped signing up. After reaching sixty-one victories, he drew the interest of City Lord Shi Yuan, who decided to wait until Lin Qin reached a hundred wins before approaching him.

• Lin Qin killed Blood Hand with one slash, earning his forty-fifth consecutive victory, after which no one volunteered to fight him for ten days.
• The Blood Battle Platform's steward told Lin Qin that registered fighters would be forcibly assigned to face him, and Lin Qin accepted the arrangement.
• Lin Qin defeated peak Six-Star Fiend Shi Feng with one slash, bringing his streak to forty-six victories.
• Lin Qin continued killing assigned opponents with one slash until the sixtieth match, when Iron Wall survived his first strike but died to his second, giving Lin Qin his sixty-first victory.
• Shi Yuan learned that Lin Qin had killed Iron Wall in two slashes and decided to let him fight until he reached a hundred victories before making contact.

Lin Qin completed one hundred victories on the Blood Battle Platform and challenged City Lord Shi Yuan, who agreed to meet him at Sunset Slope ten years later. Lin Qin defeated Shi Yuan but declined the city lordship, leaving the two as friends.

• Lin Qin won his hundredth match by sparing Tie Yun, then received the Hundred Victories Token and immediately challenged Shi Yuan.
• Shi Yuan chose Sunset Slope as their meeting place ten years later, and the people of Thick Earth City eagerly awaited the duel.
• Lin Qin spent the next ten years training in the city, then traveled to Sunset Slope, where a crowd of more than a hundred thousand gathered.
• Shi Yuan tested Lin Qin, then unleashed his full strength and transformed into his Earth Dragon true form.
• Lin Qin broke Shi Yuan's Earth Dragon Breath with a slash, defeated him, and learned that Shi Yuan accepted the loss.
• Shi Yuan named Lin Qin the new Lord of Thick Earth City, but Lin Qin declined the position, saying he had only wanted a worthy opponent.

Lin Qin left Thick Earth City and traveled to Rifting Sky Canyon to seek xuanhuang stone, preparing for the thousand-year void tide. When the tide stabilized the canyon’s space, he leaped into its depths to begin his search.

• Lin Qin bought information about dangerous regions and detailed intelligence on Rifting Sky Canyon from the Mysterious Yellow Castle, learning that its void tide would arrive in three years.
• Three years later, Lin Qin reached the canyon and waited alone among the gathered explorers, showing his strength when a Six-Star Fiend could not touch him.
• Shi Yin invited Lin Qin to join his group and warned him about Core Lake and Tu Gang, a Seven-Star Fiend who preyed on lone travelers.
• Tu Gang confronted Lin Qin, recognized him as the champion who had defeated Shi Yuan, and retreated with his men.
• The void tide arrived and stabilized space in the canyon, and Lin Qin leaped from the cliff into its depths.

Lin Qin descended into Rifting Sky Canyon and headed north toward Core Lake, cutting through ambushes and dangerous terrain with ease. He crossed the Lava River and passed through the Wind Vents, arriving at the Chaotic Stone Forest.

• Lin Qin descended to the canyon floor, sensed distant fighters, and set out north toward Core Lake.
• Lin Qin killed a stone lizard and exposed Zhou Yuan’s lie, then killed Zhou Yuan and the three men who ambushed him, including their bald Seven-Star Fiend leader.
• Lin Qin took magic stones from the bald man’s Space Ring and crossed the Lava River at a narrow stretch while avoiding a spatial crack.
• Lin Qin walked through the Wind Vents without slowing and reached the entrance to the Chaotic Stone Forest.

Lin Qin traveled north through the Chaotic Stone Forest, where beasts fled from him and human predators learned the danger of attacking him. He uncovered a clue about Core Marrow and ended the chapter attacking a Seven-Star Fiend who had tried to ambush him.

• Lin Qin found seven corpses and watched a giant divine beast flee when it noticed him, then received Qing Zhu's map from her group.
• Lin Qin killed a bald cultivator who tried to rob him, forcing the other three attackers to kneel and beg for mercy.
• Lin Qin found a dead Six-Star Fiend's jade slip and learned that Core Marrow in Core Lake could greatly strengthen the body.
• A dark-gold stone lizard and its pack fled when Lin Qin appeared, ending their attack on a group of humans.
• Lin Qin saw through an old man's false injury and baiting scheme, then severed the old man's arm when he attacked from behind.

Lin Qin reached Core Lake, where he waited for the low-temperature period before diving for Xuanhuang Stones. He killed a Seven-Star Fiend who tried to claim a stone from him and continued deeper into the lake.

• Lin Qin crossed the Chaotic Stone Forest and brushed aside Tu Gang's attempt to extort him.
• At Core Lake, Lin Qin refused Shi Yuan's offer to join his group and learned that the low-temperature period would arrive in three days.
• Tu Gang recognized Lin Qin and led his men away, while Shi Yuan realized Lin Qin was stronger than he had first assumed.
• When the low-temperature period began, Lin Qin waited as others plunged into the lake, then followed them half an incense stick later.
• At a depth of eight hundred zhang, Lin Qin found a Xuanhuang Stone and killed a Seven-Star Fiend who attacked him for it.

Lin Qin searched the dangerous lakebed for Xuanhuang Stones and survived attacks from its creatures and rival treasure hunters. When the Core Dragon emerged and slaughtered the intruders, it stared at Lin Qin before returning to the depths, leaving the survivors stunned.

• Lin Qin descended through the stone pillars, collected Xuanhuang Stones, and fought off a strange fish and a giant octopus-like creature.
• Lin Qin gathered eight Xuanhuang Stones and noticed Tu Gang watching him, but Tu Gang led his companions away.
• A golden creature burst from beneath the lakebed, killing and scorching those in its path as it surged upward.
• Lin Qin identified the creature as the Core Dragon and watched calmly while it rampaged through the lake.
• The Core Dragon stared at Lin Qin, then sank back into the golden sand without attacking him.

Lin Qin searched the deepest part of Core Lake, obtained Core Marrow, and killed the Core Dragon that guarded it. After using the Core Marrow to strengthen his body and escaping the lake, he left Rifting Sky Canyon with several valuable treasures.

• Lin Qin collected five more Xuanhuang Stones and continued down to the deepest part of the lakebed in search of Core Marrow.
• Lin Qin found a drop of Core Marrow in an underground cavern and killed the Core Dragon that attacked him there.
• Lin Qin took the Core Dragon's dragon pearl and heart, then fought his way back up through the lake and ignored or killed those who crossed his path.
• Lin Qin emerged from Core Lake and consumed the Core Marrow, which tempered and slightly strengthened his body.
• Lin Qin left Rifting Sky Canyon at night with thirteen Xuanhuang Stones, the Core Marrow, the dragon pearl, and the Core Dragon's heart.

Lin Qin secluded himself in a barren mountain cave to refine the treasures he had gained in Rifting Sky Canyon, strengthening his body with thirteen Xuanhuang Stones and a drop of Core Marrow. After his power stabilized, he left the cave and set his sights on the far-northern Sky Rift Abyss in search of Void Stone.

• Lin Qin traveled north for nine days and found a hidden cave with a hot spring where he could enter seclusion.
• He spent a year refining the thirteen Xuanhuang Stones, enduring painful tempering that greatly strengthened his body.
• After letting his body recover, Lin Qin swallowed the Core Marrow and endured its fierce heat as it burned away impurities and fused with his flesh.
• Lin Qin's body became strong enough to contend with an ordinary Sovereign Artifact, though it still fell short of that level.
• Lin Qin left the cave and decided to investigate the dangerous Sky Rift Abyss, where Void Stone was produced.

After studying the Earth Temple’s dangers, Lin Qin spent thirty years waiting in the wilderness and improving his Law fusions. The Earth Temple appeared, and he waited with the gathered cultivators for its restriction to dissipate.

• Lin Qin chose the Earth Temple as his next destination after reading that it would appear in thirty years and contained deadly trials and treasures.
• Lin Qin settled in an abandoned camp in the wilderness, drove off challengers, and continued cultivating as thousands of cultivators gathered around him.
• Lin Qin fused the Sixth Profound Mystery with Gravity Space, the Mysteries of Power, and the Pulsation Profound Mystery in separate breakthroughs.
• An old man visited Lin Qin, shared his wine, and left after staying briefly at his camp.
• The Earth Temple descended from a rift in the sky, and Lin Qin and the gathered cultivators waited for its restriction to vanish and its gates to open.