Chapter Summaries

Over half a year, Lin Qin strengthened his Battle Qi and explored the Earth Element, experimenting with its pulsation during sparring with Aileen. He left on the verge of a new understanding, seeking a chance to combine pulsation and weight into a new attack.

• Lin Qin spent half a year cultivating until his Saint Realm Earth Battle Qi far exceeded that of ordinary cultivators at his stage.
• Lin Qin meditated on the earth’s pulse and its power to bear and support all things, patiently building his understanding of the Earth Element.
• Lin Qin tested his ideas while sparring with Aileen, using a high-frequency vibration in his greatsword strikes to disrupt her defensive magic.
• Aileen noticed that Lin Qin’s attacks interfered with the structure of her magic, while Lin Qin continued refining the technique through combat and reflection.
• Lin Qin concluded that the technique depended on matching its underlying rhythm to his power and his target, and felt close to combining Earth Pulsation and weight into a new attack.

Lin Qin broke through to the pinnacle of the Saint Realm by fusing Earth Pulsation with the power of heaviness, gaining the ability to destroy objects through resonance. After demonstrating his new power, he told Aileen they should leave.

• Lin Qin struck Aileen’s Water Shield with a thrust infused with Earth Pulsation, disrupting its structure and making it collapse.
• Lin Qin realized that Pulsation was the life-filled expression of heaviness and fused his Earth Element insights into a deeper understanding of its laws.
• Earth elements gathered around Lin Qin as his aura transformed, and he entered the pinnacle of the Saint Realm.
• Lin Qin pointed at a boulder and shattered it from within with an invisible vibration wave.
• Lin Qin reined in his aura and told the stunned Aileen they should leave.

After stabilizing his breakthrough, Lin Qin decided to leave the valley and head for the Arctic Ice Plains to test his cultivation. Aileen chose to return to the Hawk Family to strengthen her magic, promising to reunite with Lin Qin as a partner who could fight beside him.

• Lin Qin practiced his vibration technique and told Aileen his realm had stabilized, so it was time to leave the valley.
• Lin Qin and Aileen packed their supplies and departed the place where they had trained for half a year.
• At a fork in the road, Lin Qin chose to travel north to the dangerous Arctic Ice Plains, while explaining that the cold and its Saint Realm beasts made it unsuitable for Aileen.
• Aileen decided to return to her family in Azure Wave City and use its resources and the Cold Jade Marrow to pursue the ninth level of magic.
• Aileen told Lin Qin she would seek him out after growing strong enough to fight at his side, and Lin Qin asked if she was serious.

Lin Qin and Aileen parted ways after exchanging gifts and promising to seek each other out in the future. Lin Qin continued north toward the Arctic Ice Plains, leaving the chapter headed into a desolate region where adventurers had recently gone missing.

• Aileen gave Lin Qin a Hawk Family pendant and promised to find him in the Arctic Ice Plains after reaching level nine, while Lin Qin agreed to leave her a sign if he was gone.
• Aileen gave Lin Qin emergency medicinal herbs, said goodbye, and rode away with the Wind Riding Technique.
• Lin Qin put away her gifts, set off north, and spent the night in a cave after passing groups of adventurers who avoided his aura.
• Lin Qin continued through increasingly cold terrain, replenished his supplies in a small town, and heard from the store owner that adventurers had gone missing farther north.
• Lin Qin protected himself from the wind and sand with magic and continued across the northern wasteland until he disappeared over the horizon.

Aileen reached Black Stone City and joined the Grey Hawk Caravan for a journey to Golden Lily City, using the trip to cultivate with the Cold Jade Marrow. When bandits attacked in Black Wind Canyon, she drove them off with magic and continued traveling with the caravan.

• Aileen arrived at Black Stone City, paid the entry tax, and found an inn before seeking a southeastbound caravan the next morning.
• Aileen arranged with Captain Barton to join the Grey Hawk Caravan to Golden Lily City in her own carriage, paying a five-gold-coin deposit.
• Aileen bought supplies and concealed the Cold Jade Marrow beneath the bottom of an ordinary wooden box.
• Aileen cultivated during the journey, using the Cold Jade Marrow to help her magic accumulate faster.
• Barton warned Aileen about bandits near Black Wind Canyon, and she agreed to help if needed.
• Aileen routed about thirty bandits with ice arrows and a Water Tornado, then returned to her carriage to cultivate.

Lin Qin traveled north to the Arctic Wilderness, where he began cultivating Earth Pulsation in the extreme cold. His quiet training was soon interrupted.

• Lin Qin left Aileen behind and traveled north through forests and untamed wilderness, refining his control over earth elements as he went.
• Lin Qin crossed a wide river by solidifying the water beneath his feet and continued toward the snow-capped mountains.
• On the seventh day, Lin Qin reached the Arctic Wilderness and decided to stay there to acclimate to the cold and cultivate.
• Lin Qin carved an ice cave and struggled to circulate his Battle Qi as the cold slowed the earth elements and blurred his perception of Earth Pulsation.
• Lin Qin trained on the ice plains and meditated in the cave, while his Saint Realm aura drove away a pack of snow wolves.
• Lin Qin’s peaceful cultivation was soon interrupted.

Lin Qin fought and defeated a powerful Ice Crystal Beast on the Arctic Ice Plains, improving his control of Earth Pulsation under pressure. After two more months of training in the extreme cold, he decided to move on.

• Lin Qin sensed a Saint Realm presence approaching and recognized the arriving beast as an Ice Crystal Beast.
• The Ice Crystal Beast attacked with frost, claws, and ice spikes, while Lin Qin struggled to break through its formidable defenses and suffered wounds.
• Lin Qin spotted the bright crystal on the beast’s chest and struck it with a full-strength vibrating attack, causing the beast to explode into ice fragments.
• Lin Qin collected fragments of the beast’s core and grew more proficient with Earth Pulsation through the battle.
• Two months later, Lin Qin had mastered precise control over the shape and area of fractures in ice and decided to move on.

Lin Qin traveled to the Arctic Ice Plains to train his Earth Pulsation amid the ice element’s dominance. After learning to sense the earth beneath the ice, he continued north and fought local magical beasts, leaving with a better understanding of the control the harsh environment demanded.

• Lin Qin reached the Arctic Ice Plains and struggled to sense the earth beneath the deep ice.
• After three days of adjusting his vibrations, Lin Qin pierced the ice and sensed the earth below.
• Lin Qin traveled farther north through violent ice storms and ice tornadoes.
• Lin Qin fought off a pack of Ice Plains Snow Wolves while suppressing his strength to the early stage of the Saint Realm.
• Lin Qin defeated an Ice Crystal Giant Eagle with a precise vibrating strike and reflected on the need for greater control in the icy environment.

Lin Qin fought and defeated a peak Saint Realm Ice Soul Magic Bear, deepening his mastery of Earth Pulsation and developing a vibration-based defense. After three months of cultivation on the Arctic Ice Plains, he learned to use the ice to extend his vibrations.

• Lin Qin chose Mystic Ice Mountain as a cultivation site, but the Ice Soul Magic Bear confronted him and attacked to drive him away.
• Lin Qin pierced the bear’s defenses with Earth Pulsation and used vibrations to shatter the ice spikes it summoned.
• Lin Qin struck a weak point beneath the bear’s arm, defeated it, and took its ice-element magic core.
• Lin Qin carved a cave into Mystic Ice Mountain and cultivated while battling other Saint Realm magical beasts across the ice plains.
• Three months later, Lin Qin could channel Earth Pulsation through the ice and use it to carry his vibrations farther.

Lin Qin cultivated on Mystic Ice Mountain, learning to resonate with the ice and developing Vibration Shield to conserve energy in the extreme cold. By the end of the year, he could travel across the ice plains and draw a steady supply of earth power beneath the ice.

• Lin Qin settled into a crevice on Mystic Ice Mountain and studied how to reduce the energy his protective Battle Qi consumed in the cold.
• After months of experiments, Lin Qin matched his mental power to the ice's natural oscillations and sensed the earth beneath it.
• Lin Qin incorporated Earth Pulsation into his defenses and developed Vibration Shield, reducing his Battle Qi consumption by thirty percent.
• Lin Qin tested Vibration Shield against level-seven Ice Wolves, adjusting his defenses while learning to dodge their attacks.
• Lin Qin fought a level-nine Snow Leopard, suffered claw wounds, and found a vibration frequency better suited to rapid attacks.
• By the end of the year, Lin Qin had refined Vibration Shield to adapt to different attacks and could steadily draw earth power beneath the ice.

Lin Qin ventured into the ice plains, overcame powerful magical beasts, and developed new vibration techniques through years of training. After reaching the limit of the Saint Realm, he left Mystic Ice Mountain and flew south.

• Lin Qin traveled north and defeated a pack of Ice Plain Magic Wolves led by a peak Saint Realm wolf king.
• He killed a Frost Giant Lizard by targeting the weak scales on its belly, then created and mastered the penetrating Shockwave technique.
• Lin Qin improved the Thick Earth Seal, developed Earth Vein Rupture, and combined his techniques into a complete combat system.
• During his fourth year of cultivation, Lin Qin unified his understanding of heaviness and pulsation and reached the peak of the Saint Realm.
• Lin Qin decided it was time to return and flew south from Mystic Ice Mountain.

Lin Qin encountered Linley and his companions being attacked by Steller and the Radiant Church in the former Fenlai Kingdom. He defeated Steller with one strike and carried the injured group to safety, leaving Steller wounded and fearful of the stranger.

• Lin Qin sensed Linley’s Dragon Blood aura and found him badly wounded while defending Cesler, Bebe, Haeru, and five chained men from Steller and the Temple Knights.
• Steller rejected Lin Qin’s demand to leave and attacked him with his holy sword.
• Lin Qin suppressed Steller with his power and pierced his chest with a finger-force, shattering his Holy Light Armor and sending him crashing into a cliff.
• Lin Qin checked on Linley as Cesler treated his wounds, then carried the injured group away with earth magic.
• Steller freed himself from the cliff and asked who Lin Qin was.

Lin Qin led Linley, Cesler, and the rescued Barker brothers to safety, where Cesar revealed the brothers’ connection to the ancient Armand clan and their Undying Warrior heritage. Cesar promised to retrieve the Undying Secret Manual for them, while warning that strange forces were stirring again across the continent.

• Lin Qin brought the group to a secluded forest, where Linley and Cesler treated their wounds and Lin Qin freed the five Barker brothers.
• Cesar appeared, greeted Linley, and recognized the Barker brothers as descendants of the Armand clan, recalling his friendship with Armand five thousand years earlier.
• Cesar explained that the Barker brothers were Undying Warriors, one of the Four Ultimate Warriors, and needed the Undying Secret Manual to awaken their bloodline’s power.
• Cesar revealed that Armand had entrusted the manual to him and promised to bring it to the brothers the next day.
• Cesar said the ancient battle involving outsiders from higher planes had ended without a clear result and hinted that the continent was growing restless again before vanishing.

After Steller reported that Linley had rescued five descendants of the Undying Warrior Family, Pope Heidens ordered the Radiant Church to find them. Cesar appeared in the Pope's Hall, revealed his God-level strength, and forced the Church to stop pursuing the five, but Heidens secretly ordered a hunt for Linley and Lin Qin.

• Steller told Heidens that a mysterious black-robed expert had gravely wounded him and that the five people Linley rescued were likely descendants of the Undying Warrior Family.
• Heidens ordered the Church's hidden operatives to find Linley and the five descendants, but Cesar appeared in the hall and announced that he was protecting them.
• Cesar overwhelmed the hall with God-level pressure and warned Heidens that anyone who harmed the five would answer to him.
• Heidens ordered the Radiant Church to cancel its pursuit of Barker's five brothers and threatened punishment for anyone who disobeyed.
• Heidens then ordered Steller to use the Shadow Guard to track Linley and Lin Qin, learn their weaknesses, and kill them without leaving evidence.

Linley told Lin Qin how people with weak Dragonblood could force their bloodline to awaken by drinking fresh dragon blood, a perilous method that required Blue Heart Grass to improve the odds. The chapter ended as Linley began explaining the plant’s role in the ritual.

• Linley thanked Lin Qin for saving them from Steller, and Lin Qin said they belonged to the same clan.
• Linley explained that people with strong bloodlines such as Wharton could awaken naturally, but he and Lin Qin could not.
• Linley revealed that his father, Hogg, had discovered a method of awakening the bloodline by drinking the blood of a recently slain dragon.
• Linley warned Lin Qin that the method had a survival chance of no better than one in ten and could kill or destroy the mind of anyone who tried it.
• Lin Qin asked whether the ritual could be made safer, and Linley said Blue Heart Grass was practically indispensable.

Linley explained how Blue Heart Grass could protect Lin Qin during a Dragonblood Warrior bloodline awakening and revealed the Radiant Church’s role in his parents’ fates. He shared the location where he had found the herb, while Lin Qin resolved not to attempt the dangerous awakening without proper preparation.

• Linley described Blue Heart Grass and explained how it protected the body and soul from the dangers of drinking live dragon blood.
• Linley told Lin Qin that the Radiant Church had abducted his mother, Lina, and killed his father, Hogg, while Hogg searched for her.
• Linley revealed that he had awakened his Dragonblood Warrior bloodline using Blue Heart Grass from Mist Valley and the blood of a Saint Realm Spined Iron-Armored Dragon.
• Lin Qin considered the benefits of awakening his bloodline and thanked Linley for the information, saying he could obtain dragon blood when ready.
• Linley warned Lin Qin never to drink dragon blood without Blue Heart Grass, and Lin Qin took the warning seriously as the group settled back into their activities.

Cesar delivered the original Undying Secret Manual to the Barker brothers, and Linley and Lin Qin chose different paths for their training. Linley headed for the O’Brien Empire with his companions, while Lin Qin continued traveling alone.

• Cesar gave the Barker brothers the Undying Secret Manual and urged them to uphold the Undying Warriors’ name.
• Linley decided to go to the O’Brien Empire to escape the Theocracy’s pursuit and gain opportunities to grow stronger.
• Lin Qin chose to travel alone to seek dangerous battles and a breakthrough to the God Realm.
• The Barker brothers thanked Linley for saving them and helping them obtain their ancestors’ legacy, and Linley called them brothers.
• Linley, Cesler, the Barker brothers, Bebe, and Haeru set off for the O’Brien Empire, while Lin Qin departed alone and offered to receive messages through the Mercenary Guild.

Linley and his companions settled in Boulder City in the O'Brien Empire, where they trained and prepared for their struggle against the Radiant Church. The Barker brothers began learning their inherited cultivation manual, while the Rebecca sisters chose to study necromancy under Cesler.

• Linley and his companions crossed into the O'Brien Empire and settled in a secluded courtyard in Boulder City.
• Linley gave the Barker brothers the Undying Secret Manual, and Cesler and Linley guided their rapid cultivation.
• Linley used his wealth to obtain specialized weapons, armor, and supplies for the group.
• Linley trained daily in Battle Qi, magic, and the world's Momentum as he sought greater strength for revenge.
• Cesler asked to teach the Rebecca sisters necromancy, and Linley warned them about the dangers and stigma of the path.
• Rebecca and her younger sister accepted Cesler's instruction, beginning with lessons in controlling their minds and guiding their souls.

Lin Qin defeated the Black Wind Bandits and discovered a map pointing to the Land of Silence and an Earth Vein. After overpowering Bacchus in Blood War City, he followed the map and continued refining his Earth Element abilities.

• Lin Qin killed the Black Wind Bandits' leader, searched their hideout, and found Black Jade Stone and a map marked with the Land of Silence and an Earth Vein.
• Lin Qin entered Blood War City and accepted Bacchus's challenge to fight in the arena.
• Lin Qin stopped Bacchus's axe strike with his Gravity Field and Thick Earth Seal, then knocked him unconscious with a vibrating earth-energy attack.
• Lin Qin left Blood War City and followed the map toward the Land of Silence, honing Earth Pulsation along the way.

During three years of seclusion in Boulder City, Linley and his companions grew stronger, though Linley remained unable to break through the peak of the eighth rank. Pope Heidens ordered Steller to lead the Radiant Church’s Four-Winged Angel Battle Formation into Chaos Territory and kill Lin Qin.

• The five Barker brothers trained through brutal fights, and Barker reached the early ninth rank while the others steadily advanced.
• Under Cesler’s guidance, Rebecca developed a faint Soul Shield, and her younger sister began communicating with weak remnants of souls.
• Linley advanced his Earth Pulsation to Hundredfold Waves and comprehended Wind Fluctuation, but his attempts to fuse it with Dimensional Blade failed and he remained at the peak of the eighth rank.
• Heidens learned that the Church still could not locate Linley but could track Lin Qin in Chaos Territory.
• Heidens ordered Steller to lead the Four-Winged Angel Battle Formation into Chaos Territory and purify Lin Qin.