Recaps

Lin Qin defeated the Radiant Church’s assault, expanded Dragon Rock Territory, and strengthened ties with Linley and Aileen while preparing for the Graveyard of the Gods. Before the Church’s opening, he led a strike on the Dark Church’s stronghold and destroyed Morsfield’s summoned projection.

• Desri led the Radiant Church against Lin Qin, but Lin Qin defeated him and routed the Church’s forces while Elaine and Kasa withdrew.
• Lin Qin ordered Dragon Rock Territory to consolidate and then sent Hosen and Bader north, capturing Black Stone City and bringing Black Marsh City’s alliance to surrender.
• Lin Qin expanded his rule across most of the Chaos Territory, then traveled to the O’Brien Empire and attended Wharton’s engagement celebration with Linley.
• Hodan explained the higher planes and invited Lin Qin and Linley to Hell, but both declined, and the War God later gave them tokens for the Graveyard of the Gods.
• Lin Qin watched Hederson defeat Olivier and then Linley, who gained insight during their duel, before Lin Qin brought Aileen to Black Wind City to help administer the territory.
• After more than a decade of consolidation, Lin Qin learned the Graveyard would open in a year and led an elite force toward the Dark Church’s headquarters in Black Abyss Canyon.
• Lin Qin broke the canyon’s barrier and led the assault on the Dark Temple while Pallas attacked from above.
• Morsfield summoned a Lowgod projection of the Dark Overlord, but Lin Qin withstood its attacks and shattered Morsfield’s body and soul with a final strike.

Lin Qin explored the Graveyard of the Gods, advanced to Midgod, returned to Dragon Rock Territory, and married Aileen. After helping Linley stop Beaumont, Lin Qin accidentally broke the seal to the Gebada Prison, releasing its prisoners and drawing Beirut’s anger.

• Lin Qin defeated the Dark Cultists, returned to Dragon Rock City, arranged care for the casualties, and entrusted Dragon Rock Territory to his companions before cultivating until he became an Earth God.
• Lin Qin joined the War God’s expedition into the Graveyard of the Gods and fought alongside O'Brien, Catherine, Dylan, and Cesar through its dangerous floors.
• On the Fourteenth Floor, Lin Qin fused Pulsation and Strength, became a Midgod, and shared the discovered Godheads with Dylan and Cesar before venturing alone into the Fifteenth Floor.
• Lin Qin defeated the Flame Dragon guarding the Sixteenth-Floor passage, recovered from his injuries, and returned with the others when the Graveyard’s exit opened.
• Lin Qin helped Linley free Yale from the Grand Wizard’s Soul Seed, then asked Aileen to marry him, and they wed in Dragon Rock Territory.
• Lin Qin learned that Beaumont had arranged mass soul harvesting and agreed to help Linley, Olivier, and Desri confront him.
• Lin Qin killed Beaumont at Bosha Embankment, but his attempt to destroy Beaumont’s corpse and Stone Talisman broke the seal to Gebada Prison, releasing prisoners until Beirut arrived to contain the breach.

Lin Qin defended Dragon Rock Territory from Adkins’s forces, then joined the Baruch Clan and advanced through its ranks by completing missions and mastering the Laws of the Earth. After becoming an elder, he survived clan politics and enemy ambushes, mastered Life Force, and helped defeat an Eight Great Clans attack before returning to seclusion.

• Lin Qin killed Hanbrit and Gaitenbi, destroyed Ogaween’s divine clone, and drove Bernas back, then traveled to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range and joined the Baruch Clan.
• Lin Qin completed an escort mission, earned a place at Thunder Cliff, and fused the four profound mysteries of the Laws of the Earth after years of cultivation.
• Lin Qin defeated Garvey in a duel and became the Baruch Clan’s seventy-third elder, while Gaiseresen withheld him from the front lines and urged him to pursue further advancement.
• Lin Qin completed dangerous missions against the Eight Great Clans, including killing the Rock King and rescuing the survivors of the Seventh Squad from a trap.
• Lin Qin spent more than three years cultivating in the Death Desert, mastered Life Force, and killed Salon, then returned with intelligence about the Eight Great Clans’ use of Sovereign’s Might.
• Lin Qin learned that the Eight Great Clans had put a bounty on him and agreed to serve as bait at Rock Fortress, where Gaia, Vladimir, and Reynalds helped defeat Hogan’s ambush.
• Lin Qin returned to a hero’s welcome with fifteen Six-Star Fiend Godheads and resumed secluded cultivation to pursue fusion of his sixth profound mystery.

Lin Qin helped the Four Divine Beast Clan defeat the Eight Great Clans, then left to seek new challenges and strengthen his body. After conquering Thick Earth City's Blood Battle Platform and surviving Rifting Sky Canyon, he waited with other cultivators for the Earth Temple to open.

• Lin Qin reinforced Rock Fortress, killed Ge Lie, Karon, and Herman, and earned Gaiseresen's rewards for helping rout the besiegers.
• Lin Qin survived ambushes by Hogan, Karon, and Mei Ji, then spent centuries cultivating until he became a Highgod and defeated Gaiseresen in a spar.
• Gaiseresen gave Lin Qin the Azure Dragon Claw and ordered him to kill the eight clan leaders, and Lin Qin led the Four Divine Beast Clan to victory over the Eight Great Clans.
• Lin Qin returned the Azure Dragon Claw, declined the chief elder position, and left the clan before traveling to the Earth Divine Plane.
• Lin Qin won one hundred matches on Thick Earth City's Blood Battle Platform, defeated Shi Yuan, and declined the offer to become city lord.
• Lin Qin entered Rifting Sky Canyon during the void tide, fought his way to Core Lake, killed the Core Dragon, and took its dragon pearl and heart along with Core Marrow and thirteen Xuanhuang Stones.
• Lin Qin refined the Xuanhuang Stones and Core Marrow until his body neared the strength of an ordinary Sovereign Artifact, then set out to investigate Sky Rift Abyss.
• Lin Qin cultivated near the Earth Temple's expected arrival, achieved several profound mystery fusions, and waited as the temple descended and its gathered visitors awaited its gates.