Chapter Summaries

Lin Jiufeng killed one Worldly Immortal with his Sword of Time and Space, but the three survivors suppressed him with their Great Daos. He activated the Dao-Suppressing Formation to sever their access to the Great Dao, then killed all three with one punch each.

• Lin Jiufeng slew the Primordial Royal Clan Worldly Immortal with a sword strike containing the Great Daos of Time and Space.
• The Yaksha Clan, Skeleton Race, and Asura Clan Worldly Immortals joined forces and used their Great Daos to suppress Lin Jiufeng.
• Lin Jiufeng asked Taiyuan Immortal how many times Taiyuan Immortal Mansion could activate the Dao-Suppressing Formation, and Taiyuan Immortal said it could be used more than ten times.
• Lin Jiufeng ordered the Dao-Suppressing Formation activated, and its black energy cut off the three Worldly Immortals from the Great Dao.
• As the three Worldly Immortals tried to flee, Lin Jiufeng struck each with a punch, destroying their bodies and Primordial Spirits.

Lin Jiufeng defeated the three Worldly Immortals who had trapped Sword God Emperor Willow, then learned Painted Skin Scholar was besieged and rushed to save him. He found Painted Skin Scholar near death beneath the assault of fifteen Worldly Immortals and three Immortal Artifacts, and prepared to fight.

• Lin Jiufeng used the Dao-Suppressing Formation and his Law Manifestation to kill the three Worldly Immortals with one punch each.
• Sword God Emperor Willow told Lin Jiufeng that Painted Skin Scholar had been trapped for ninety years while searching for traces of the Red-Clad Maiden.
• Lin Jiufeng sent Sword God Emperor Willow to recover in the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, absorbed the defeated immortals' points, and hurried toward Painted Skin Scholar.
• After traveling for a day, Lin Jiufeng found fifteen Worldly Immortals attacking Painted Skin Scholar on an isolated island with three Immortal Artifacts.
• Painted Skin Scholar spat blood as his bonded scroll painting buckled under the attack, while Lin Jiufeng recognized the besiegers as members of the former Thirteen Clan Alliance and vowed to fight them.

Lin Jiufeng activated the Dao-Suppressing Formation, cutting off the Worldly Immortals’ access to the Great Dao and letting him overwhelm them with his physical strength. As the enemies realized he was responsible, they joined forces to kill him.

• Sword God Emperor Willow left Lin Jiufeng’s Taiyuan Immortal Mansion and attacked two Worldly Immortals from the Primordial Royal Clan to keep them occupied.
• The Dao-Suppressing Formation erupted from the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion and severed the Worldly Immortals’ connection to the Great Dao.
• Lin Jiufeng struck the Stone Person Clan’s Worldly Immortal, then met the Ancient Savage Bull Clan’s Worldly Immortal in a head-on clash.
• Lin Jiufeng crushed the bull demon’s body and left him gravely injured with a follow-up blow.
• The Worldly Immortals identified Lin Jiufeng as the cause of the Great Dao’s disappearance and agreed to kill him together.

Lin Jiufeng killed the Ancient Savage Bull Clan’s Worldly Immortal, then attacked the Worldly Immortals who had lost their Great Dao insights. He overwhelmed them with his physical strength and continued his rampage after killing several opponents.

• The Ancient Savage Bull Clan’s Worldly Immortal unleashed a Savage Bull Roar, but Lin Jiufeng resisted it and killed him with a punch.
• Lin Jiufeng attacked eight or nine Worldly Immortals with the Turtle Boxing Style and struck the Overlord Body Clan’s Worldly Immortal with overwhelming force.
• Lin Jiufeng pursued and melted the Overlord Body Clan’s Worldly Immortal with a barrage of punches.
• Lin Jiufeng brushed off the Worldly Immortals’ attacks and killed the Elf Race’s Worldly Immortal, then destroyed his escaping Primordial Spirit.

Lin Jiufeng slaughtered the Thirteen Clans’ Worldly Immortals inside the Dao-Suppressing Formation, then used the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion to break an Immortal Artifact sword’s attack. He killed the Primordial Royal Clan’s sword-wielding Worldly Immortal and claimed the sword.

• Lin Jiufeng battered the Worldly Immortals, killing two and crippling one Primordial Royal Clan fighter while keeping him alive for answers about their Ancestor and the False Heavenly Dao.
• A second Primordial Royal Clan Worldly Immortal attacked Lin Jiufeng with an Immortal Artifact sword, forcing him to retreat while Taiyuan Immortal confirmed the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion was ready to activate.
• Sword God Emperor Willow tried to reach Lin Jiufeng, but two Worldly Immortals held him back, while the Treasure Pagoda and saber continued suppressing Painted Skin Scholar.
• Lin Jiufeng released the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, which shattered the sword gleam and knocked the Immortal Artifact sword from its wielder’s hand.
• Lin Jiufeng killed the disarmed Primordial Royal Clan Worldly Immortal with a punch, and the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion suppressed the sword before Lin Jiufeng took it.

Lin Jiufeng turned the battle around after the Primordial Royal Clan Worldly Immortal failed to kill him, using the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion to crush the fleeing enemies and suppress three Immortal Artifacts. The Taiyuan Immortal spent its stored power helping Lin Jiufeng secure the artifacts, leaving him poised to strengthen the Human Race.

• Lin Jiufeng survived the Primordial Royal Clan Worldly Immortal's attack, and the shocked Worldly Immortals began fleeing.
• Lin Jiufeng unleashed the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, which killed six fleeing Worldly Immortals and forced the survivors to remain still.
• The Skeleton Race Worldly Immortal revealed that he had entered the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion's trial five thousand years earlier.
• Taiyuan Immortal told Lin Jiufeng that the mansion had spent its ninety years of stored energy and would need to absorb more.
• The Taiyuan Immortal Mansion suppressed the Primordial Royal Clan's Immortal Artifact sword and then seized the tower and blade from their controllers.
• Taiyuan Immortal entered Lin Jiufeng's Primordial Spirit World and began refining the three Immortal Artifacts' former owners' spiritual imprints.

Lin Jiufeng questioned the five surviving Worldly Immortals after the Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow helped subdue them. He learned that the Hundred Races rankings were tied to the Heavenly Dao, then left their fate to the Painted Skin Scholar.

• The Painted Skin Scholar broke free and overwhelmed the five surviving Worldly Immortals, who begged Lin Jiufeng for mercy.
• Lin Jiufeng asked what the clans' Ancestors had ordered, and the Skeleton Race's Worldly Immortal admitted they had planned to kill the Human Race's leaders and force the Human Race from the rankings.
• The Primordial Royal Clan's Worldly Immortal revealed that the top fifty clans could not fall out of the rankings because they were connected to the Heavenly Dao of the Hundred Races War.
• Lin Jiufeng questioned the survivors about how that connection worked, but none of them knew.
• Lin Jiufeng walked away and the Painted Skin Scholar said he would deal with the five Worldly Immortals.

After Lin Jiufeng and his allies defeated the Worldly Immortals targeting them, they discussed the conspiracy against the Human Race and Lin Jiufeng’s need to hide his strength. The Painted Skin Scholar found a message left by the Red-Clad Maiden, renewed his resolve to become stronger, and vowed to wait for her.

• The Painted Skin Scholar killed the Worldly Immortals, and Sword God Emperor Willow gathered their points, bringing the Human Race’s total to seven hundred.
• Lin Jiufeng, Sword God Emperor Willow, and the Painted Skin Scholar discussed how the Ancestors and the Heavenly Dao had arranged for Worldly Immortals to target the Human Race.
• The Painted Skin Scholar and Taiyuan Immortal warned Lin Jiufeng to conceal his strength, and Lin Jiufeng agreed to live in seclusion in the Ancient Human City.
• The Painted Skin Scholar revealed that the Red-Clad Maiden had left a message three thousand years earlier telling him not to search for her and to trust that fate might bring them together again.
• The Painted Skin Scholar accepted that the Red-Clad Maiden was still alive and resolved to improve himself until they could meet again, even if it took another five thousand years.

Lin Jiufeng and his companions suspected the Dimension Battlefield’s Heavenly Dao had secretly contributed to the Human Race’s decline, so they sought a way to investigate it. After Taiyuan Immortal revealed how to lure the Heavenly Dao Stone, they began attracting it with their Dao Rhyme fluctuations.

• Lin Jiufeng proposed investigating the Dimension Battlefield’s Heavenly Dao, and Painted Skin Scholar agreed that it might have manipulated events to weaken the Human Race.
• Painted Skin Scholar explained that the Heavenly Dao Stone could reveal the Heavenly Dao’s inner core but admitted he did not know how to find it.
• Taiyuan Immortal revealed that the Heavenly Dao Stone could be lured by displaying unusual, rich, or obscure Dao Rhyme fluctuations.
• Lin Jiufeng, Painted Skin Scholar, and Sword God Emperor Willow began displaying their Dao Rhyme fluctuations and watching for an extra stone.

Lin Jiufeng, the Painted Skin Scholar, and Sword God Emperor Willow released their Dao Rhymes for five years to attract the Heavenly Dao Stone, but none appeared. After Sword God Emperor Willow and the Painted Skin Scholar left to secure points for the Human Race, Lin Jiufeng’s Primordial Spirit detected a new palm-sized stone among nearby rubble.

• Lin Jiufeng inscribed the Great Daos and the Immortal King Attacks the Nine Heavens Vision into the Chronicle of Ages, strengthening it and spreading his Dao Rhymes across the island.
• Lin Jiufeng, the Painted Skin Scholar, and Sword God Emperor Willow cultivated while releasing Dao Rhymes, but no Heavenly Dao Stone appeared over five years.
• Sword God Emperor Willow stopped releasing his Dao Rhymes and said he needed to earn points to keep the Human Race in the top hundred.
• The Painted Skin Scholar joined Sword God Emperor Willow, leaving Lin Jiufeng to continue drawing out the Heavenly Dao Stone.
• Lin Jiufeng’s Primordial Spirit detected an extra palm-sized stone among a nearby pile of rubble.

Lin Jiufeng befriended the Heavenly Dao Stone by letting it read his Chronicle of Ages, then entered its body and saw the Dimension Battlefield’s Heavenly Dao. There he discovered a mysterious Shadow who had manipulated the Great Dao to target the Human Race.

• The Heavenly Dao Stone arrived near Lin Jiufeng and eagerly jumped onto his Chronicle of Ages, revealing that it liked reading.
• The Stone Man wrote that it liked the book and Lin Jiufeng, then became absorbed in the illustrations.
• At the Taiyuan Immortal’s urging, Lin Jiufeng sent his Primordial Spirit into the Heavenly Dao Stone and saw three thousand Great Daos forming the Dimension Battlefield’s Heavenly Dao.
• Lin Jiufeng spotted a Shadow in the Heavenly Dao space and heard him complain that his plan to eliminate the Human Race contestants had failed.
• The Shadow revealed that he had fine-tuned the Great Dao to make more than a dozen Mortal Immortals attack Lin Jiufeng, and Lin Jiufeng grew furious.

Lin Jiufeng witnessed a Shadow in the Heavenly Dao World who had spent nearly two hundred thousand years there and secretly altered the Great Dao to harm the Human Race. After the Heavenly Dao Stone brought him back, Lin Jiufeng told Taiyuan Immortal what he had seen, leaving them confronted with the mystery of how Shadow survived there.

• Lin Jiufeng watched Shadow mutter about his hatred of the Human Race and learned that Shadow had spent nearly two hundred thousand years in the Heavenly Dao World.
• Shadow vowed to exterminate the Human Race, while Lin Jiufeng observed that he seemed to be repairing something amid the Heavenly Dao threads.
• The Heavenly Dao Stone grew tired of reading and took Lin Jiufeng out of the Heavenly Dao World, promising to visit again.
• Lin Jiufeng told Taiyuan Immortal that Shadow had secretly adjusted the Great Dao and arranged for him to be grouped with Mortal Immortals.
• Taiyuan Immortal said no living being should be able to survive in the Heavenly Dao World, but concluded that powerful Immortal Realm forces would seek to claim anyone who could.

Lin Jiufeng realized Shadow posed a grave threat to him and the Human Race, so he stopped exploring and cultivated on an isolated island. After three hundred years under a hundredfold time difference, he reached the Seventeenth Restriction just as the Hundred Races War was about to end.

• Lin Jiufeng told Taiyuan Immortal that Shadow had likely manipulated the clans and targeted him, and Taiyuan Immortal warned that the Hundred Races might send assassins after him.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to cultivate until the war ended, using his Great Dao of Time to create a hundredfold time difference around the island.
• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Great Dao, including a fragment of the Great Dao of Lightning, for three hundred years within the island’s accelerated time.
• Lin Jiufeng broke through from the Sixteenth Restriction to the Seventeenth Restriction, Thought Connects to Heaven.
• Lin Jiufeng sensed that the Heavenly Dao would end the war and remove the survivors in a quarter of an hour, then dismissed the time difference.
• Sacred Beast Qilin congratulated Lin Jiufeng on his breakthrough, and Lin Jiufeng noted that Qilin had already reached the peak of the Seventeenth Restriction.

After three hundred years of cultivation, Lin Jiufeng prepared to leave the Ancient Battlefield of the Hundred Races War and learned how far he still had to go before challenging powerful Worldly Immortals. As Heavenly Dao energy carried him out, he comprehended another Great Dao of Space and returned to the Ancestral Land of the Sacred Angel Tribe, where Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow also appeared, bloodied from battle.

• The Sacred Beast Qilin reached the peak of the Seventeenth Restriction and rejoiced that Lin Jiufeng had also broken through.
• Taiyuan Immortal warned Lin Jiufeng that the Dao-Suppressing Formation could handle Worldly Immortals who had just entered the realm but might fail against those who had comprehended more complete Great Daos.
• Lin Jiufeng resolved to cultivate quietly after leaving the battlefield and strengthen himself rather than rely on the formation.
• When Heavenly Dao energy arrived to remove him, Lin Jiufeng hid the Sacred Beast Qilin and Taiyuan Immortal inside the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion and stored it in his Inner Scenery Realm.
• Lin Jiufeng used a Hundredfold Time Difference to observe the Heavenly Dao energy and comprehended a Great Dao of Space.
• Lin Jiufeng returned to the Ancestral Land of the Sacred Angel Tribe alongside Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow, who were both bloodied from battle.

Sword God Emperor Willow and Painted Skin Scholar caused a commotion in the Sacred Angel Tribe's Ancestral Land to help Lin Jiufeng escape. After Lin Jiufeng vanished, the Sacred Angel Tribe's Thirteenth Ancestor stopped the fighting, while the other clans still underestimated Lin Jiufeng.

• Sword God Emperor Willow attacked the Yaksha Clan's Worldly Immortal as Painted Skin Scholar told Lin Jiufeng to leave amid the chaos.
• Lin Jiufeng discarded his jade token, used the Phoenix Concealment Technique to change his appearance and hide his aura, then slipped away; Painted Skin Scholar retrieved the token.
• Painted Skin Scholar denounced the Thirteen Clans, provoking a furious confrontation that drew the Sacred Angel Tribe's Thirteenth Ancestor to suppress everyone.
• Painted Skin Scholar apologized and denied knowing where Lin Jiufeng had gone when a Primordial Royal Clan Worldly Immortal demanded answers.
• The Primordial Royal Clan Worldly Immortal dismissed Lin Jiufeng as insignificant, while Painted Skin Scholar privately recognized how badly he underestimated him.

Lin Jiufeng escaped the Sacred Angel Tribe's Ancestral Land and began traveling toward the Human Race territory in Liang Province. Reflecting on his relentless cultivation, he chose to walk barefoot and learn from the world, awakening a new Great Dao of Earth.

• The Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow distracted the Worldly Immortals while Lin Jiufeng disguised himself as a Yaksha Clan member and slipped away.
• Lin Jiufeng hid in the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion as Worldly Immortals searched for him, then left once their Primordial Spirit auras had moved on.
• Lin Jiufeng traveled toward Liang Province, spending his days journeying and his nights practicing his fists.
• Lin Jiufeng realized that ten thousand years of isolated cultivation had left his insights lacking, so he resolved to comprehend heaven and earth on his journey.
• Lin Jiufeng set out barefoot in coarse clothes, and his steps awakened Heaven-Defying Comprehension and let him comprehend Earth's Breath.

Lin Jiufeng slowly crossed the Dimension Battlefield, contemplating the natural world and ordinary people as he comprehended several Great Daos and advanced his cultivation. After observing the Primordial Royal Clan’s brutal clan system, he continued toward the Human Race, then heard surprising news.

• Lin Jiufeng accepted Earth’s Breath and spent half a month walking through the Sacred Angel Tribe’s territory, observing nature and ordinary villagers.
• Lin Jiufeng repeatedly activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension, comprehending the Howl of Wind, Wave of Wood, Gentleness of Water, Sharpness of Metal, and other Great Daos while advancing his cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng left the Sacred Angel Tribe’s territory and entered the Primordial Royal Clan’s lands, where he witnessed the thirteen clans’ bloody contests.
• Lin Jiufeng reflected that the Primordial Royal Clan’s Ancestors held the divided clans together and continued his journey, unable to change their system.
• Lin Jiufeng heard a piece of news that greatly surprised him.

Lin Jiufeng learned that Shadow had spread the news of his feat of killing a Worldly Immortal at the Sixteenth Restriction, but he continued toward the Human Race without concern. Along the way, he met a dying old man and his gaunt horse, and followed them as they headed home.

• At a lakeside inn, travelers discussed Lin Jiufeng and learned that he had killed a Worldly Immortal during the Hundred Races War while at the Sixteenth Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng realized Shadow had revealed the feat to stir up jealousy and pressure the Human Race, but decided to keep walking home.
• Lin Jiufeng offered to carry the bundle of a frail old man leading a gaunt horse.
• The old man said he was returning home because fallen leaves returned to their roots, and Lin Jiufeng followed him, determined to see him make it there.

Lin Jiufeng followed an old soldier home, where he found the village from the old man’s memories abandoned and ruined. Moved by the old man’s grief, Lin Jiufeng used Time Reversal to restore the village to the day the old man was a child, then left as the old man thanked him.

• The old man told Lin Jiufeng how he had been abducted, spent eighty years as an army cook, and walked for ten years searching for home with Old Horse.
• The old man reached his hometown and found its village abandoned, then lost hope as he wept over the ruins.
• Lin Jiufeng was moved by the old man and comprehended Time Reversal.
• Lin Jiufeng turned the region’s time back ninety years, restoring the village and revealing its people gathered beneath an old tree.
• The old man entered the village, recognized his childhood self in a child who asked why he was crying, and thanked Lin Jiufeng as he left.

After ten years of traveling and practicing, Lin Jiufeng reached Liang Province at the peak of the Seventeenth Restriction with forty-nine Great Daos. Taiyuan Immortal explained the difference between pure and mixed Three Thousand Great Daos, leaving Lin Jiufeng determined not to combine his Great Daos prematurely.

• Lin Jiufeng reversed time in the old man's village so the old man could relive the years he longed for, then left knowing the old man would pass away happily in the past.
• Lin Jiufeng traveled across the lands for ten years, practicing his fists and refining his body while comprehending forty-nine Great Daos.
• Lin Jiufeng arrived in Liang Province at the peak of the Seventeenth Restriction and chose to delay breaking through to the Eighteenth Restriction until he returned among the Human Race.
• Taiyuan Immortal told Lin Jiufeng that cultivators could combine different Great Daos to complete a Three Thousand Great Dao, but doing so made it impure and limited their potential.
• Lin Jiufeng and Taiyuan Immortal concluded that the Painted Skin Scholar's exceptional strength came from condensing a pure Three Thousand Great Dao, and Taiyuan Immortal warned Lin Jiufeng not to mix his Great Daos.