Chapter Summaries

At 130, Lin Jiufeng looked back on his failed pursuit of cultivation and spent his days reading as the Feather Transformation Sect’s Scripture Pavilion librarian. After reading Zhou Sheng’s biography, he finally awakened his Heaven-Defying Comprehension and comprehended the lost Feather Ascension Scripture.

• Lin Jiufeng recalled how he had failed to find a master or cultivation opportunities after transmigrating, then joined the Feather Transformation Sect after saving an injured elder.
• Lin Jiufeng reflected on his long life and his decision to become the Scripture Pavilion’s librarian, where he had read Daoist scriptures for over eighty years.
• Lin Jiufeng read Zhou Sheng’s biography and learned how the genius comprehended the Feather Ascension Scripture before the Supreme Patriarch of the Supreme Dao Sect killed him.
• Lin Jiufeng activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension and comprehended the Feather Ascension Scripture.

After comprehending the Feather Ascension Scripture, Lin Jiufeng cultivated for three days, broke through the First Restriction, and regained much of his youth. The Feather Transformation Sect's Sect Master Bai Yunfei visited him and confided that recent troubles had left him restless.

• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Feather Ascension Scripture through memories of Zhou Sheng demonstrating it and began cultivating in the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lin Jiufeng broke through the First Restriction overnight, restoring his strength and making his body noticeably younger.
• Lin Jiufeng spent three days cultivating, reached the peak of the First Restriction, and continued to regain his youthful appearance.
• Bai Yunfei visited Lin Jiufeng, congratulated him on his breakthrough, and complained that difficult matters had left him troubled.

After comprehending endless renewal from the autumn rain, Lin Jiufeng broke through to the Second Realm and decided to help save the struggling Feather Transformation Sect. He gave Bai Yunfei the Feather Ascension Scripture and asked to keep cultivating quietly in the Scripture Pavilion.

• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that the Supreme Dao Sect’s sanctions had left the Feather Transformation Sect with only a handful of disciples and elders.
• Lin Jiufeng watched the rain, comprehended endless renewal, and drew life energy from the land to break through to the second Forbidden Realm.
• Lin Jiufeng resolved to help the Feather Transformation Sect preserve its legacy and summoned Bai Yunfei to the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lin Jiufeng recited the Feather Ascension Scripture to Bai Yunfei and told him to claim he had comprehended it himself.
• Bai Yunfei accepted the scripture and vowed to protect the Feather Transformation Sect without disturbing Lin Jiufeng’s cultivation.

Lin Jiufeng let Bai Yunfei take the Feather Ascension Scripture to protect the Feather Transformation Sect, then focused on cultivating in the Scripture Pavilion. After comprehending Dragon Elephant Power and training for a month, he entered the third restriction and restored his body to its peak.

• Lin Jiufeng watched Bai Yunfei leave with the Feather Ascension Scripture and trusted him to handle the Feather Transformation Sect’s crisis.
• Lin Jiufeng studied ancient accounts of Divine Elephants and True Dragons and comprehended Dragon Elephant Power through Heaven-Defying Comprehension.
• Lin Jiufeng began cultivating Dragon Elephant Power to temper his aged body and reopen its weakened meridians.
• After a month of persistent cultivation, Lin Jiufeng’s blood and qi surged, and he entered the third restriction by condensing the Spinal Dragon.
• Lin Jiufeng emerged looking like a man in his thirties with the strength of one dragon and one elephant, and resolved to continue cultivating.

After the Supreme Dao Sect drove away the remaining disciples and isolated the Feather Transformation Sect, Bai Yunfei entrusted three orphan disciples to Lin Jiufeng before entering deathly Secluded Cultivation to pursue the Eighth Forbidden Realm. Lin Jiufeng began teaching the children and prepared to cultivate the Fourth Forbidden Realm by forming Five Elements Divine Beast Totems in his five viscera.

• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that the Supreme Dao Sect had lured away the sect’s remaining disciples and cut off contact with the outside world.
• Bai Yunfei asked Lin Jiufeng to care for Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan while he entered deathly Secluded Cultivation to break through to the Eighth Forbidden Realm.
• Lin Jiufeng agreed to teach the three children the Feather Ascension Scripture, and they quickly learned to draw qi into their bodies.
• Lin Jiufeng taught the children each day while continuing his own cultivation and refining his five viscera and six bowels.
• Lin Jiufeng chose a Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, Qilin, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise as Totems for his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.

Lin Jiufeng continued cultivating the Five Elements Divine Beasts while guiding his three young martial nephews, who broke through the First Restriction after three months of hard work. While reading about a legendary swordsman, Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Grasswood Sword Technique, which he believed could kill a Fifth Restriction Cultivator.

• Lin Jiufeng condensed the Vermilion Bird of the Heart as Zhou Tianzi, Yue Dashan, and Wen Xinyun each broke through the First Restriction.
• Wen Xinyun cried in Lin Jiufeng's arms, and Zhou Tianzi explained that she had endured neglect and oppression in her family before joining the Feather Transformation Sect.
• Lin Jiufeng comforted the children and reminded them that the Feather Transformation Sect was now their family, then sent Zhou Tianzi and Yue Dashan back to cultivate.
• Lin Jiufeng read a biography of a legendary Sword Dao expert and contemplated the sword technique that turned grass and trees into swords.
• Lin Jiufeng activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension and comprehended the Grasswood Sword Technique, which he believed could kill a Fifth Restriction Cultivator.

A year of cultivation brought Lin Jiufeng and the three children to new heights while the Supreme Dao Sect tightened its siege of the Feather Transformation Sect. Lin Jiufeng began studying how to open his Primordial Spirit and comprehended the Nascent Soul Transcendence Method.

• Lin Jiufeng reached the peak of the Fourth Forbidden Realm after condensing all five divine beasts, gaining Ten Dragon Ten Elephant Strength and the power to challenge Sixth Forbidden Realm cultivators with his sword technique.
• Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan reached the Second Forbidden Realm at eleven years old while the Feather Transformation Sect remained sealed off.
• Lin Jiufeng explained that the Supreme Dao Sect was wary of Bai Yunfei and was waiting for him to break through before attacking.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to pursue the Fifth Forbidden Realm by studying Daoist scriptures about opening the Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Jiufeng expanded his understanding of the soul and comprehended the Nascent Soul Transcendence Method.

Lin Jiufeng cultivated the Nascent Soul Transcendence Method alongside the Feather Ascension Scripture, condensed his Primordial Spirit, and broke through to the Fifth Shackle. As he explored the reach of his new perception, he overheard Supreme Dao Sect disciples discussing their year-long encirclement of the Feather Transformation Sect and suggesting they destroy it.

• Lin Jiufeng secluded himself to cultivate the Nascent Soul Transcendence Method with the Feather Ascension Scripture and drew in the starlight to shape his Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Jiufeng successfully condensed his Primordial Spirit, broke through to the Fifth Shackle, and increased his strength to Thirty Dragons and Thirty Elephants.
• Lin Jiufeng followed instructions from a Daoist scripture to send his Primordial Spirit out of his body and began strengthening it with the river of stars.
• Lin Jiufeng expanded his perception beyond the Scripture Pavilion and the Feather Transformation Sect, discovering three Supreme Dao Sect disciples nearby.
• Lin Jiufeng overheard the Supreme Dao Sect disciples complain about their year-long encirclement and propose wiping out the Feather Transformation Sect.

Lin Jiufeng learned that the Supreme Dao Sect planned to destroy the Feather Transformation Sect after a newly promoted Eighth Forbidden Realm Dao Ancestor stabilized his cultivation. He resolved to cultivate quickly and consider escaping with the three disciples and the Scripture Pavilion’s books if Bai Yunfei could not withstand the threat.

• Lin Jiufeng overheard Supreme Dao Sect disciples discussing how Bai Yunfei had defeated Elder Qingshan with one move and kept the Feather Transformation Sect from being destroyed.
• A Fifth Forbidden Realm Nascent Soul Grandmaster revealed that the Supreme Dao Sect’s Eighth Forbidden Realm Dao Ancestors were searching the Million Mountains for a Divine Beast Cub Qilin, but a newly promoted Dao Ancestor would come to attack in about half a year.
• Lin Jiufeng withdrew his awareness, returned to his body, and recognized the danger posed by the incoming Dao Ancestor as he considered whether Bai Yunfei could break through in time.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to cultivate toward the Sixth Forbidden Realm and, if necessary, escape with the three disciples and the Scripture Pavilion’s books.
• The three disciples gathered around Lin Jiufeng and praised his breakthrough, and he confirmed that he had become a Fifth Forbidden Realm Nascent Soul Grandmaster.

Lin Jiufeng tried to trigger Heaven-Defying Comprehension by reading, but after a month of fruitless effort, he discovered an intruder searching the Scripture Pavilion for the Ten Palaces Yama. After the intruder found the manual, Lin Jiufeng confronted him and crushed him with a single palm strike.

• Lin Jiufeng answered Wen Xinyun and the other two children's cultivation questions, then spent a month reading without activating Heaven-Defying Comprehension.
• Lin Jiufeng sensed a shifty-eyed man hiding in the Scripture Pavilion and learned that he had slipped past the Supreme Dao Sect's blockade to find Demon King Shijia's Ten Palaces Yama cultivation method.
• The intruder searched the Pavilion for ten days while Lin Jiufeng secretly watched, until he finally found the manual.
• Lin Jiufeng revealed that he had noticed the intruder from the start and offered to spare his life, but the man attacked him with his Golden Saber Palm Technique.
• Lin Jiufeng met the attack with one palm, breaking the man's bones and organs, and said that he had wanted to spare him.

Lin Jiufeng cultivated Ten Palaces Yama, raising his strength to Forty Dragons Forty Elephants and reaching the peak of the Fifth Forbidden Realm. With the Feather Yaka Sect threatened by the Supreme Dao Sect, he began passing new techniques to three young disciples to help them grow stronger.

• Lin Jiufeng buried the shifty-eyed man and discovered the hidden power of the Ten Palaces Yama manual.
• Lin Jiufeng visualized the Ten Palaces Yama within his Spinal Dragon and cultivated the technique alongside his other arts.
• Lin Jiufeng's strength rose to Forty Dragons Forty Elephants, and he reached the peak of the Fifth Forbidden Realm without breaking through to the Sixth.
• Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan asked Lin Jiufeng for guidance because they were stuck at the peak of the second forbidden realm and feared for the Feather Yaka Sect.
• Lin Jiufeng passed the Grasswood Sword Technique to Wen Xinyun, Ten Palaces Yama to Zhou Tianzi, and Dragon Elephant Power to Yue Dashan.

Lin Jiufeng taught Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan cultivation techniques while preparing for the Supreme Dao Sect’s impending attack. After months without breaking through, he gained enlightenment from a Buddhist scripture and comprehended Fish Leaps in the Sea of Time, entering the Sixth Forbidden Realm.

• Lin Jiufeng taught Wen Xinyun the Grasswood Sword Technique, Zhou Tianzi the Ten Palaces Yama, and Yue Dashan Dragon Elephant Power.
• As the Supreme Dao Sect surrounded the Feather Transformation Sect, Lin Jiufeng remained unable to comprehend Dao Rhyme or reach the Sixth Forbidden Realm.
• Lin Jiufeng read a Buddhist scripture describing cultivation as crossing the Bitter Sea with the body and Primordial Spirit.
• At dawn, Lin Jiufeng’s accumulated insights brought him enlightenment, and he comprehended Fish Leaps in the Sea of Time.
• Lin Jiufeng broke through the Fifth Forbidden Realm and entered the Sixth Forbidden Realm.

Lin Jiufeng broke through to the Sixth Forbidden Realm and gained the strength of One Hundred Dragons One Hundred Elephants as the Supreme Dao Sect prepared to attack Feather Transformation Sect. Changsun Yu arrived as an Eighth Forbidden Realm Dao Ancestor, and Bai Yunfei emerged from seclusion still at the peak of the Seventh Forbidden Realm, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Lin Jiufeng comprehended Fish Leaps in the Sea of Time, broke through to the Sixth Forbidden Realm, and increased his strength to One Hundred Dragons One Hundred Elephants.
• Lin Jiufeng saw that the Supreme Dao Sect had surrounded Feather Transformation Sect while Bai Yunfei remained in seclusion.
• Elder Qingshan told a disciple that Changsun Yu, brother of the slain Changsun Wuji, had come to destroy Feather Transformation Sect after reaching the Eighth Forbidden Realm.
• Changsun Yu arrived before Feather Transformation Sect’s Golden Summit Great Hall, and Elder Qingshan remarked that he resembled his brother.
• Lin Jiufeng stood with Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan as Changsun Yu’s arrival prompted Bai Yunfei to emerge from seclusion.
• Lin Jiufeng sensed that Bai Yunfei had reached the peak of the Seventh Forbidden Realm and wondered whether he could defeat Changsun Yu.

Bai Yunfei confronted Changsun Yu, an Eighth Ban Dao Ancestor seeking revenge for his brother Changsun Wuji. He revealed that he had mastered the lost Feather Ascension Scripture and attacked Changsun Yu, declaring that both brothers would fall to it.

• Changsun Yu challenged Bai Yunfei and explained that he planned to destroy the Feather Transformation Sect to avenge Changsun Wuji.
• Bai Yunfei learned that Lin Jiufeng had advanced to the Sixth Ban, while Lin admitted he could not help against Changsun Yu.
• Changsun Yu unleashed his Eighth Ban aura, but Bai Yunfei remained calm and asked how Zhou Sheng had killed Changsun Wuji across realms.
• Bai Yunfei released the Feather Ascension Scripture, shattering Changsun Yu's aura and shocking everyone who recognized the long-lost art.
• Bai Yunfei attacked Changsun Yu with the Feather Ascension Scripture and vowed to bury both brothers beneath it.

Bai Yunfei defeated Changsun Yu’s Lightning Claw and Mountain Suppressing Seal, forcing him to flee. Lin Jiufeng urged Bai Yunfei to pursue Changsun Yu and stayed behind to face Elder Qingshan as he approached the Scripture Pavilion.

• Bai Yunfei shattered Changsun Yu’s Lightning Claw and blasted off one of his arms, but Changsun Yu regenerated it.
• Changsun Yu used the Mountain Suppressing Seal, and Bai Yunfei matched it with his own version after seeing through the technique.
• Bai Yunfei’s Mountain Suppressing Seal shattered Changsun Yu’s and pressed toward him, prompting Changsun Yu to flee.
• Changsun Yu ordered Elder Qingshan to attack the Feather Transformation Sect disciples, and Elder Qingshan flew toward the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lin Jiufeng told Bai Yunfei to chase Changsun Yu and promised to protect the Feather Transformation Sect, so Bai Yunfei pursued Changsun Yu while Lin Jiufeng confronted Elder Qingshan.

Lin Jiufeng used the Feather Ascension Scripture to defeat Elder Qingshan and kill him with the Grasswood Sword Technique, then crushed the Supreme Dao Sect disciples. The battle in the distance ended with Bai Yunfei killing Dao Ancestor Changsun Yu.

• Elder Qingshan challenged Lin Jiufeng, but Lin revealed the Feather Ascension Scripture and faced him without fear.
• Qingshan attacked with his Dao Diagram, which Lin shattered by evolving the Mountain Suppressing Seal.
• Qingshan fled, but Lin killed him with the Grasswood Sword Technique, sending a weed-shaped sword strike after him.
• Lin used the Mountain Suppressing Seal to crush all the Supreme Dao Sect disciples gathered there.
• Yue Dashan worried about Bai Yunfei's battle, but a corpse fell from the sky, and Lin confirmed Bai Yunfei had killed Dao Ancestor Changsun Yu.

After Bai Yunfei defeated Changsun Yu and freed the Feather Transformation Sect from its blockade, he returned to the sect and prepared to enter Secluded Cultivation to pursue the Eighth Restriction. Lin Jiufeng studied the battle and comprehended the Heaven Shaking Seal.

• Bai Yunfei returned to the Feather Transformation Sect and told Lin Jiufeng he was close to breaking through to the Eighth Restriction after fighting Changsun Yu.
• Bai Yunfei ordered Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan to keep cultivating under Lin Jiufeng while he entered Secluded Cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng told Bai Yunfei that the Supreme Dao Sect's experts were occupied searching the Million Mountains for a Qilin.
• Bai Yunfei gave Lin Jiufeng the Sect Master jade pendant, allowing him to access the Sect Master's Secret Vault.
• Lin Jiufeng taught the three disciples, then contemplated Bai Yunfei and Changsun Yu's battle and comprehended the Heaven Shaking Seal.

Lin Jiufeng comprehended and cultivated the Heaven Shaking Seal while the Cultivation World learned of Bai Yunfei’s victory over the Supreme Dao Sect and his rumored mastery of the Feather Ascension Scripture. Lin Jiufeng stayed out of the spotlight and went to open the Feather Transformation Sect’s hidden treasury.

• Lin Jiufeng derived the Heaven Shaking Seal from the Mountain Suppressing Seal and successfully cultivated it, though he remained short of the Seventh Forbidden.
• Nearby cultivators learned that Bai Yunfei had defeated the Supreme Dao Sect’s forces and killed the Eighth Forbidden Changsun Yu.
• News spread that Bai Yunfei had comprehended the Feather Ascension Scripture, and people connected Changsun Yu’s death to his brother Changsun Wuji, who had died to Zhou Sheng over a century earlier.
• Bai Yunfei became famous throughout the Cultivation World, while Lin Jiufeng’s own victory over a stronger opponent went unnoticed.
• Lin Jiufeng took the Crescent White Jade Pendant Bai Yunfei had given him and headed to the Sect Master’s hidden treasury.

Lin Jiufeng entered the Sect Master's Secret Treasury and studied the founding patriarch's guide to the Seventh Restriction. Immersed in the lake's starry reflection, he saw through his Primordial Spirit and comprehended Moon Rises Over the Sea.

• Lin Jiufeng used the Crescent Moon Jade Pendant to find the hidden Small World inside the Scripture Pavilion and entered it.
• Lin Jiufeng explored the caves and found private books collected by the Feather Transformation Sect's successive Sect Masters.
• Lin Jiufeng chose Cultivation Essentials for the Seventh to Ninth Restrictions and learned that reaching the Seventh Restriction required understanding his Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Jiufeng sank to the lakebed, gazed at the stars through the water, and entered a state of Enlightenment.
• Lin Jiufeng saw through his Primordial Spirit as starlight flowed into his Mud Ball Palace, and he comprehended Moon Rises Over the Sea.

Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Moon Rises Over the Sea Vision and combined it with Fish Leaps in the Sea of Time, reaching the peak of the Sixth Restriction without breaking through the Seventh. Meanwhile, the Supreme Dao Sect planned to enlist the Three Sages of Clarity to attack the Feather Transformation Sect and seize the Feather Ascension Scripture.

• Lin Jiufeng tested the Moon Rises Over the Sea Vision and combined it with Fish Leaps in the Sea of Time, but he still could not break through the Seventh Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng returned to the Scripture Pavilion, checked that Wen Xinyun and the other two were safe, and spent a month cultivating in seclusion.
• Lin Jiufeng watched the Golden Summit Great Hall and wondered whether Bai Yunfei would soon emerge from secluded cultivation, while worrying about the Supreme Dao Sect's silence.
• True Person Taixuan said the Supreme Dao Sect needed at least two Eighth Restriction cultivators to face Bai Yunfei, but its own Dao Ancestors were searching for a young Qilin in the Million Mountains.
• True Person Taixuan ordered a hawk-nosed Daoist priest to persuade the Three Sages of Clarity to attack the Feather Transformation Sect by promising them the Feather Ascension Scripture could extend their lifespans and help them reach the Ninth Restriction.