Chapter Summaries

Lin Qin received his Azure Dragon Clan Identity Token and learned how the clan’s Contribution Point system and rules governed life in the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range. After meeting the Baruch Branch’s members and accepting Kano’s challenge to spar, he settled into a stone cave and began reading the rules manual.

• Baruch took Lin Qin to collect his Identity Token, which he bound with his blood, then gave him a copy of the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range Rules Manual.
• Baruch explained how branches earned Contribution Points, how resources were distributed, and that private fighting was forbidden outside sanctioned duels.
• Baruch brought Lin Qin to the Baruch Branch’s base in Azure Rock Valley and introduced him to Hogson, the branch’s only Highgod.
• Baruch showed Lin Qin the branch’s facilities and mission postings, where Lin Qin reviewed the available tasks and their rewards.
• At the branch gathering, Baruch introduced Lin Qin to the clansmen, and Kano challenged him to spar; Hogson offered to lend him Contribution Points, but Lin Qin declined.
• After the gathering, Baruch arranged a stone cave for Lin Qin, who read the clan rules manual before lying down for the night.

Lin Qin completed his first escort mission to Iron Fir Fortress, where he helped defeat a Deen Clan patrol and earned 500 Contribution Points. After returning to Azure Rock Valley, he put away the Midgod Godheads he had collected and resumed cultivating.

• Lin Qin accepted an escort mission to Iron Fir Fortress, joined Morton, Kano, and Aria, and departed with the caravan.
• During the first night’s watch, Lin Qin detected a Deen Clan patrol, and the group fought off five attackers.
• Lin Qin killed two Midgods, helped Morton defeat the patrol leader, and assisted in bringing down the remaining Lowgods.
• Lin Qin’s group delivered the caravan’s goods to Iron Fir Fortress and returned to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range with the cargo intact.
• Lin Qin exchanged his Contribution Voucher for 500 points, and Baruch congratulated him on completing the mission and killing three Midgods.
• Lin Qin returned to his cave, put away two Midgod Godheads, and began cultivating.

Lin Qin received a place at Thunder Cliff, where he advanced to the middle level after defeating Yan Shan and began accelerating his cultivation. Lei Luo told him the Reynalds Branch might prioritize his training because of the intensifying war, and Lin Qin said he intended to fight in Blood War Valley regardless.

• Hogson told Lin Qin that the Council of Elders had assigned him a three-month place at Thunder Cliff as a reward for his baptism and mission performance.
• Lin Qin settled on the bottom level and cultivated daily beside the Essence Marrow Pool, where he felt his Laws of the Earth fusion begin to progress.
• Lei Luo offered to help Lin Qin move to the middle level, and Lin Qin registered to challenge Yan Shan.
• Lin Qin defeated Yan Shan in three strikes, earning middle-level privileges and three hours a day at the pool; Lei Luo also gave him diluted Earth Vein Essence.
• Lin Qin moved to the middle level, used the additional resources to advance his Law fusion, and had his Water Divine Clone study the Mysteries of Ice Sharpness.
• Lei Luo explained that the family might place Lin Qin on its priority cultivation list, which would require him to fight at the front in Blood War Valley, and Lin Qin said he planned to go there anyway.

Lin Qin spent over two months in seclusion at Azure Rock Valley, breaking through the bottleneck in fusing four Profound Mysteries of the Laws of the Earth and reaching entry level in Ice Sharpness. He emerged having completed thirty percent of the Earth-law fusion, with further cultivation still ahead.

• Lin Qin used Earth Vein Essence to cultivate in seclusion, eventually realizing that Pulsation had to travel through the Earth Element itself.
• On the forty-third day, Lin Qin fused the Earth Element Profound Mysteries, Pulsation, Power, and Gravity Space enough to break through the bottleneck.
• Lin Qin sharpened his Water Divine Clone's ice spikes through repeated tests and pierced through Black Iron Stone, reaching entry level in Ice Sharpness.
• Clan members discussed Lin Qin's prolonged seclusion, and Kano called him a monster as he passed the cave.
• After using the last of the Earth Vein Essence, Lin Qin demonstrated a restrained sword strike that split the ground and confirmed he had completed thirty percent of the Earth-law fusion.

Lin Qin met with Elder Garvey, who explained the Four Divine Beasts Clan’s desperate position and entrusted him with a Dragon Tooth Valley trial token and valuable Earth Vein Essence. Lin Qin returned to Azure Rock Valley prepared to train for the trial and try to surpass Lei Luo’s record.

• A messenger summoned Lin Qin to the Elder Hall, where Garvey tested his composure and reviewed his achievements.
• Garvey explained that the Eight Great Clans were pushing the Four Divine Beasts Clan toward ruin and urged Lin Qin to grow strong enough to help defend it.
• Garvey gave Lin Qin a Dragon Tooth Valley token, where he could battle Combat Phantoms and potentially claim Azure Dragon Essence Blood, along with a box of Earth Vein Essence.
• Garvey told Lin Qin to avoid the main front lines, take minor missions, and enter Dragon Tooth Valley on the first day of next month; he also relayed Lei Luo’s challenge to beat his record of 730 Combat Phantoms.
• Lin Qin returned to Azure Rock Valley and showed Hogson the token and resources, while Kano warned him about Dragon Tooth Valley’s dangerous Combat Phantoms.

After the Eight Great Clans ranked Lin Qin as their highest-priority Midgod target, the clan confined him to Hidden Dragon Residence and supplied him with resources and protection. Following years of seclusion and a long bottleneck, Lin Qin perfectly fused four Earth-law mysteries, raising his strength to the threshold of a Six-Star Fiend.

• Shadow showed Lin Qin the Eight Great Clans’ Hunting List, where he ranked forty-seventh, and warned that the clans were preparing to hunt him.
• Garvey ordered Lin Qin to remain in the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range and gave him Earth Vein Essence and an Azure Dragon Soul-Protecting Pendant.
• Lin Qin moved into Hidden Dragon Residence and began cultivating with its Earth Vein Spirit Gathering Array.
• After years of deduction and a ten-year stagnation, Lin Qin changed his approach and coordinated the distinct rhythms of the four Earth-law mysteries.
• Lin Qin broke through the bottleneck and perfectly fused the mysteries, then split a High-God Artifact-level obsidian block with a single blade strike.
• Lin Qin assessed that his power had reached the threshold of a Six-Star Fiend and that his transformed body could let him contend with an ordinary Seven-Star Fiend Highgod.

Lin Qin faced Elder Garvey's Dragon-Patterned Battle Platform assessment to determine whether he had reached the Seven-Star Fiend level and qualified to become a clan elder. After several exchanges, Lin Qin held firm against Garvey's attacks, but the assessment was still underway.

• Elder Garvey summoned Lin Qin to the Dragon-Patterned Battle Platform, where he explained that he would test Lin Qin's strength for promotion to clan elder.
• Lin Qin and Garvey transformed into Dragonblood Warriors as the clan gathered to watch their duel.
• Garvey's first sword strike forced Lin Qin back three steps, but Lin Qin's Gravity Domain and blade technique let him withstand it.
• Lin Qin compressed his Gravity Domain and used Earth Pulsation to deflect Garvey's three true attacks from his Thousand-Blade Wind Assault.
• Lin Qin used his dragon tail and Black Jade Heavy Blade to counter Garvey's sudden movement technique and survive their close-range exchange, retreating seven steps without losing his composure.

Lin Qin defeated Elder Garvey on the Dragon-Patterned Battle Platform and earned a place as the Azure Dragon Clan’s seventy-third registered elder. After the Baruch Branch celebrated his achievement, Lin Qin ended the night alone, reflecting on how far he had come.

• Garvey unleashed Wind Dragon Devour, but Lin Qin disrupted its timing with Dragon Roar and destroyed the wind dragon with his fused Profound Mysteries.
• Lin Qin struck Garvey’s chest before he could defend himself, and Garvey conceded the battle and declared that Lin Qin had passed.
• Garvey gave Lin Qin the Elder Token and told him he would be formally invested at a Council of Elders meeting in three days.
• Baruch, Hogson, Kano, and Lei Luo congratulated Lin Qin, while the Baruch Branch celebrated his new status in Azure Rock Valley.
• After the feast, Lin Qin returned to his stone house, held his Elder Token, and reflected on his rise from struggling to fuse a third Profound Mystery to standing at the clan’s heart.

Lin Qin attended the Azure Dragon Clan elders’ meeting, where Gaiseresen formally recognized him as an elder and warned him that the Eight Great Clans had marked him for priority elimination. The clan gave him a pendant to disguise his Midgod status and urged him to cultivate toward Highgod, leaving him aware that the clan’s survival might depend on his future strength.

• Lei Luo escorted Lin Qin to the Azure Dragon Hall, where he met clan leader Gaiseresen, Gaia, and Fulhan.
• Gaiseresen named Lin Qin the clan’s seventy-third elder after confirming his Seven-Star Fiend-level combat strength as a Midgod.
• Gaia reported that the Eight Great Clans had increased their forces and raised Lin Qin’s threat rating to low A on their extermination list.
• Gaiseresen withheld Lin Qin from Blood War Valley, and Gaia gave him a Hidden Dragon Pendant that disguised his aura as a Highgod’s.
• After the other elders left, Gaiseresen explained that the Azure Dragon Clan faced a dire crisis and urged Lin Qin to pursue Highgod advancement and possibly fuse five Profound Mysteries.

Lin Qin led a supply convoy to Iron Wall Outpost, defeated an ambush by the Saint-Nair and Deen Clans, and completed the mission despite heavy losses. After returning to Azure Rock Valley, he used his Contribution Points to buy Soul Source Essence and strengthened his soul.

• Lin Qin led Shi Yan, Feng Ying, and the guards out with supplies for Iron Wall Outpost, then changed the route after Feng Ying spotted enemy scouts.
• The convoy was trapped in a gorge by the Saint-Nair and Deen Clans, where Lin Qin killed Soul Eater Morris and Flame Hammer Baal.
• Shi Yan, Feng Ying, and the guards defeated the remaining attackers, though three Five-Star Fiend guards and nine Midgod guards died.
• Lin Qin delivered the supplies, returned to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range, and received thirty-three thousand Contribution Points for the mission and its spoils.
• Lin Qin bought Soul Source Essence and healing potions, returned to Azure Rock Valley, and drank the essence to strengthen his soul.

Lin Qin defended his elder appointment before the Council of Elders and accepted a hundred-year probation requiring difficult missions and two hundred thousand Contribution Points. After Emmanuel and Fulhan arranged a list of deadly assignments to endanger him, Lei Luo warned him to avoid the first three and choose the fourth, a supply escort backed by covert clan support.

• Emmanuel formally challenged Lin Qin's promotion, arguing that a Middlegod with little clan experience should not hold an elder's authority.
• Lin Qin cited his record of killing three Six-Star Fiends and completing every mission, and Gaia confirmed his achievements and fifty-three thousand Contribution Points.
• Gaiseresen allowed Lin Qin to keep his elder status on condition that he complete two high-difficulty missions each year for a hundred years and reach two hundred thousand Contribution Points.
• Lei Luo warned Lin Qin that Emmanuel could manipulate his missions and that Fulhan's faction might also oppose him.
• Lin Qin spotted that the first three missions on his assignment list were dangerously impractical, then received Lei Luo's warning that Fulhan had replaced easier missions and that he should choose the fourth instead.
• Lin Qin selected the supply escort to Rock Fortress, which Lei Luo said was a clan operation with updated intelligence and covert support.

Lin Qin led a supply convoy toward Rock Fortress, uncovered the Barbary Clan’s plan, and killed the Seven-Star Fiend known as the Rock King. After completing the mission and earning Contribution Points, he returned to Azure Rock Valley to cultivate.

• Lin Qin chose the Rock Fortress escort mission and learned from Lei Luo that it was a covert reconnaissance operation backed by Elder Garvey.
• Lin Qin diverted the convoy from Dragon Spine Path to avoid an ambush, then used Earth Pulsation to locate a Barbary Clan camp and discovered that the Rock King planned to attack Rock Fortress.
• Lin Qin left the convoy under Shi Yan’s command, infiltrated the Barbary Clan’s Rear Base Camp, and killed the Rock King in three strikes.
• Lin Qin returned with the Rock King’s Godhead, and the convoy delivered its supplies to Rock Fortress before returning to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range.
• Lin Qin turned in the mission and earned enough Contribution Points to reach a total of one hundred fifty-three thousand.
• Lin Qin returned to Azure Rock Valley, advanced his understanding of Vitality, and drank Soul Source Essence before resuming cultivation.

Lin Qin led a six-person rescue team into the Misty Swamp, where they found the missing Seventh Squad caught in an enemy trap and defeated two of the three Seven-Star Fiends. After returning with all five survivors, Lin Qin received a higher-concentration drop of Sovereign's Might and resumed training, his understanding of the Laws of the Earth strengthened by the battle.

• Morris sent Lin Qin and five companions to rescue the missing Seventh Squad in the Misty Swamp, and Feng Ying suspected the mission information had been leaked.
• Lin Qin's team found Iron Eagle and four wounded squad members, who revealed that the reported supply route was a trap set by the Eight Great Clans.
• Lin Qin killed Earth Split Gru and Soul Devourer Kasa, while Ghost Eye Hogan and five of the pursuing Six-Star Fiends escaped; his team then withdrew with all five survivors.
• Morris received the rescue team and reported Lin Qin's achievements to Gaiseresen, who gave Lin Qin a stronger drop of Sovereign's Might.
• Gaiseresen told Lin Qin that Fulhan wanted to apologize and that Emmanuel had lowered his profile; Lin Qin passed Fulhan without speaking and returned to secluded training.

Lin Qin left the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range to cultivate in the Death Desert, where he mastered the fifth profound mystery, Life Force, while defeating the Seven-Star Fiend Salon. After returning to the clan, he learned his whereabouts had been leaked by a trusted aide of Emmanuel, who was punished, and resumed cultivating.

• Lin Qin left alone for the Death Desert and spent more than three years cultivating, eventually merging Life Force with his four fused profound mysteries.
• Salon confronted Lin Qin in the desert, wounded his soul, and used Sovereign's Might, but Lin Qin broke through to initial mastery of Life Force and killed him.
• Lin Qin escaped the desert, recovered from his injuries, and returned to the Heaven Sacrifice Mountain Range with Salon's Godhead and intelligence about the Eight Great Clans using Sovereign's Might.
• Gaiseresen rewarded Lin Qin with two drops of Sovereign's Might and ordered him to stabilize his fifth profound mystery; Lin Qin later reached the Minor Success stage.
• Morris informed Lin Qin that a trusted aide of Emmanuel had leaked his whereabouts to the Deen Clan and had been executed, while Emmanuel was confined and ordered to compensate Lin Qin with a drop of Sovereign's Might.

Lin Qin learned that the Eight Great Clans had targeted him in a coordinated campaign, then helped turn their planned ambush at Rock Fortress against them. After returning to the Azure Dragon Clan to cheers, he resumed secluded cultivation and worked toward fusing his sixth profound mystery.

• Morris told Lin Qin and the core elders that the Eight Great Clans had launched a decapitation plan and placed a bounty of ten drops of Sovereign's Might on him.
• Gaiseresen ordered Lin Qin to serve as bait in a trap at Rock Fortress, where Gaia, Vladimir, and Reynalds would lead a hidden force.
• Lin Qin escorted supplies to Rock Fortress, where Hogan led three Seven-Star Fiends and thirty Six-Star Fiends in an ambush.
• Gaia's group sprang the counterattack; Lin Qin wounded Hogan and a second Seven-Star Fiend, while the clan forces killed all thirty Six-Star Fiends and later killed Hogan.
• Lin Qin returned to a hero's welcome, accepted fifteen Six-Star Fiend Godheads, and went back into seclusion to pursue the fusion of his sixth profound mystery.

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.