Chapter Summaries

After completing ten years of Measuring the Earth, Lin Jiufeng heard the Human Immortal Fist and discovered Drunken Maniac, Wen Xinyun, and White Fox surrounded by Alien Races experts. He killed their attackers with his Primordial Spirit power, leaving him reunited with his old companions.

• Lin Jiufeng learned from Taiyuan Immortal that Mortal Immortals could fuse Great Daos to break through to Worldly Immortal, and he resolved to master the Forty-Nine Great Daos within one of the Three Thousand Great Daos first.
• As snow fell in Liang Province, Lin Jiufeng continued his ten-year journey of Measuring the Earth toward Human Race territory.
• Lin Jiufeng heard someone use the Human Immortal Fist and extended his Primordial Spirit power to investigate.
• Lin Jiufeng found Drunken Maniac defending the injured Wen Xinyun and unconscious White Fox from a group of Alien Races experts seeking information about Lin Jiufeng.
• Lin Jiufeng unleashed his Primordial Spirit power and crushed the attackers' Primordial Spirits, leaving Drunken Maniac and Wen Xinyun stunned.

Lin Jiufeng rescued Wen Xinyun, White Fox, and Drunken Maniac after killing the Dimension Battlefield experts who had attacked them. He brought the injured pair to the Ancient Human City in an instant so they could recover.

• Lin Jiufeng erased the Primordial Spirits of the experts attacking Drunken Maniac and appeared to treat Wen Xinyun and White Fox.
• Wen Xinyun recognized Lin Jiufeng as her Martial Uncle, while Drunken Maniac learned that his old companion had changed greatly in the Dimension Battlefield.
• Drunken Maniac explained that Wen Xinyun and White Fox had been ambushed after asking people in Liang Province about Lin Jiufeng.
• Lin Jiufeng summoned the Sacred Beast Qilin to help protect the injured pair and decided to abandon his journey and return to the Human Race.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin used Spatial Teleportation to bring the group to the Ancient Human City almost instantly.

Lin Jiufeng returned to the Ancient Human City after ten years of walking across the Dimension Battlefield, bringing injured companions who could now recover safely in Human Race territory. He learned that the Human Race was protected by Heavenly Dao Power but that the Hundred Races still wanted to kill him, so Painted Skin Scholar advised keeping his return secret.

• Lin Jiufeng used Spatial Teleportation to return to the Ancient Human City with White Fox, Wen Xinyun, Drunken Maniac, and the Sacred Beast Qilin.
• Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow greeted Lin Jiufeng, who told them he had spent ten years walking from the Ancestral Land of the Sacred Angel Tribe to Liang Province.
• Painted Skin Scholar examined Wen Xinyun and White Fox, confirmed their foundations were unharmed, and Lin Jiufeng placed them in a Hundredfold Time Difference barrier to recover.
• Lin Jiufeng learned that the Human Race had gained Heavenly Dao Power after ranking seventieth in the Hundred Races ranking, which helped protect the Ancient Human City.
• Painted Skin Scholar told Lin Jiufeng that the Hundred Races feared him for killing Worldly Immortals and wanted to eliminate him, then advised keeping his return secret.

Lin Jiufeng planned to cultivate in seclusion and asked to access the Human Race’s books, while proposing a Hundredfold Time Difference to strengthen the race. After Drunken Maniac described the thriving Human World, Lin Jiufeng learned that the Feather Transformation Sect had become its foremost power.

• Lin Jiufeng asked for access to all the Human Race’s books so he could study during seclusion and pursue a breakthrough.
• Lin Jiufeng offered to let the Human Race cultivate within his Hundredfold Time Difference, revealing that it could cover three thousand li and that he had comprehended twenty Great Daos of Time.
• Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow agreed to establish a carefully screened cultivation area in the Ancestral Land, while Lin Jiufeng said he would leave the preparations to them.
• Lin Jiufeng explained to the Sacred Beast Qilin that maintaining the time difference would also help temper his own cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng asked Drunken Maniac about the Human World and learned that the Feather Transformation Sect had grown into the Cultivation World’s leading power, with hundreds of thousands of disciples.

Lin Jiufeng learned what had become of the Human World's cultivators and discovered that Wen Xinyun's Master, Bai Yunfei, and her two junior brothers had already ascended. After arranging for his companions to recover and cultivate, he prepared to undergo the Eighteenth Restriction's Calamity of Wind and Fire, which he feared might threaten the Ancient Human City.

• The Drunken Maniac told Lin Jiufeng that the former Ten Great Kings had mostly secluded themselves, while the Feather Transformation Sect had become the Human World's leading force.
• Lin Jiufeng welcomed the Drunken Maniac to cultivate among the Human Race and sent the Sacred Beast Qilin to find him a room.
• Lin Jiufeng learned from Wen Xinyun that Bai Yunfei, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan had ascended a year earlier, and she had stayed behind to accompany the injured White Fox.
• Lin Jiufeng told Wen Xinyun to recover and care for White Fox before he entered secluded cultivation to pursue the Eighteenth Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng asked the Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow to protect him, explaining that his unusually large Calamity of Wind and Fire might spread to the Ancient Human City.

Lin Jiufeng returned to the Human Ancestral Land to trigger the Calamity of Wind and Fire, hoping its immense power would temper him and let him reach the Path to Immortality. After breaking through to the Eighteenth Restriction, he was engulfed by heavenly fire, Earthly Fire, and Crimson Lotus Karma Fire as the Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow guarded him.

• Lin Jiufeng explained that he had spent ten years building up an unusually powerful Calamity of Wind and Fire to temper his body and Primordial Spirit.
• The Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow escorted Lin Jiufeng to the Human Ancestral Land to guard his breakthrough.
• Lin Jiufeng sat before the ancestors' memorial tablets and shattered the barrier between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Restrictions.
• The Calamity of Wind and Fire descended, bringing heavenly fire, Earthly Fire, inner demons, and tribulations.
• Crimson Lotus Karma Fire engulfed Lin Jiufeng, and the Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow severed the void to prevent the flames from spreading.

Lin Jiufeng began the Calamity of Wind and Fire, enduring a fierce Tri-Color Flame that burned his body and Great Dao Golden Core. After rebuilding his body with the God-Demon Body Refining Method, he exposed his Primordial Spirit to the flames, where it began to shed its impurities.

• Lin Jiufeng's Heavenly Fire, Earthly Fire, and Karma Fire erupted, burning his body and techniques within his Great Dao Golden Core.
• The Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow isolated the flames and stood guard as Lin Jiufeng began a calamity that would last three hundred and sixty-five years.
• Lin Jiufeng circulated the God-Demon Body Refining Method, drawing energy from the Tri-Color Flame to rebuild and refine his body.
• Lin Jiufeng removed the Nine Heavens Immortal Scroll and sent his unprotected Primordial Spirit into the sea of fire.
• Lin Jiufeng endured the Primordial Spirit's agonizing ordeal as it began shedding its impurities.

Lin Jiufeng survived the Calamity of Wind and Fire, comprehended the complete Great Dao of Fire, and broke through the Eighteenth Restriction. He opened his Heavenly Bridge and absorbed higher-level energy, beginning his transformation into an immortal.

• Lin Jiufeng endured the three flames as they tempered his body and Primordial Spirit, while Heaven-Defying Comprehension helped him grasp many Great Daos of Fire.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to use the 365 years of the calamity to comprehend the Great Dao of Fire and pursue the Worldly Immortal realm.
• Over 365 years, Lin Jiufeng comprehended all forty-nine Great Daos of Fire.
• Lin Jiufeng absorbed the Heavenly Fire, Earthly Fire, and Karma Fire, passed the calamity, and broke through the Eighteenth Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng struck the Heavenly Bridge three times, broke it, and absorbed energy more powerful than the spiritual energy of the Dimension Battlefield.

Lin Jiufeng broke through to Mortal Immortal and then used the Great Dao of Fire to advance to Worldly Immortal, absorbing vast amounts of Immortal Qi along the way. His strength reached ten thousand strands of God-Demon Power, leaving the Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow stunned.

• Lin Jiufeng’s Golden Little Man absorbed the Immortal Qi released when he entered the Path to Immortality, strengthening his body, Primordial Spirit, Sea of Consciousness, and Inner Scenery Realm.
• Lin Jiufeng reached Mortal Immortal with five thousand strands of God-Demon Power and expanded his Inner Scenery Realm to three million li.
• Lin Jiufeng fused his forty-nine Great Daos of Fire into the Great Dao of Fire and used it to break through to Worldly Immortal, reopening the flow of Immortal Qi.
• Lin Jiufeng’s strength rose to ten thousand strands of God-Demon Power, and his blood and vitality shook a three-thousand-li area while suppressing nearby cultivators.
• The Painted Skin Scholar recognized Lin Jiufeng’s blood and vitality and realized he had become a Worldly Immortal, while Sword God Emperor Willow reacted in disbelief.

Lin Jiufeng completed his breakthrough to the Worldly Immortal realm and planned to cultivate in the Human Ancestral Land. He agreed to expand its Hundredfold Time Difference to five thousand li, then set out to visit his martial niece and the White Fox.

• Lin Jiufeng emerged from seclusion, and Sword God Emperor Willow and the Painted Skin Scholar realized his cultivation had surpassed theirs.
• Lin Jiufeng explained that comprehending the Great Dao of Fire during the Calamity of Wind and Fire had led him through the Mortal Immortal realm and into the Worldly Immortal realm.
• Lin Jiufeng saw that the Painted Skin Scholar was a mid-stage Worldly Immortal with three complete Great Daos, which the Scholar had comprehended after years of suppressing his cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng chose to cultivate in the Human Ancestral Land and agreed to extend its Hundredfold Time Difference across five thousand li so promising members of the Human Race could train there.
• The Painted Skin Scholar advised Lin Jiufeng to stabilize his realm before using his two opportunities to enter the Sea of Daos, and Lin Jiufeng decided to visit his martial niece and the White Fox first.

After returning from Secluded Cultivation, Lin Jiufeng reunited with Wen Xinyun and learned that White Fox had not awakened despite healing. He revealed that he had reached the Worldly Immortal realm, and Sacred Beast Qilin explained that White Fox was awakening the deeper power and knowledge of her Nine-Tailed Fox Bloodline.

• Lin Jiufeng returned to the Ancient Human City and learned from Drunken Maniac that Wen Xinyun had recovered while White Fox remained asleep.
• Lin Jiufeng reunited with Wen Xinyun, who told him she had reached the peak of the Twelfth Restriction and wanted to live with him.
• Sacred Beast Qilin arrived at Lin Jiufeng's call and realized that Lin Jiufeng had advanced beyond Mortal Immortal to Worldly Immortal.
• Sacred Beast Qilin explained that White Fox was in a deeper period of Secluded Cultivation to receive and learn the legacy of her Nine-Tailed Fox Bloodline.

Lin Jiufeng established a Hundredfold Time Difference at the Human Ancestral Land so the group could cultivate, then learned that Shadow was secretly targeting the Human Race. The chapter ended with Lin Jiufeng discovering that Longevity Heaven, a former Human World king and a Feathered Immortal, was in seclusion inside the Human Clan Ancestral Hall.

• Lin Jiufeng took Wen Xinyun, Drunken Maniac, White Fox, and Sacred Beast Qilin to the Human Ancestral Land and prepared them to cultivate there.
• Lin Jiufeng expanded the Hundredfold Time Difference to cover five thousand li, while Sacred Beast Qilin planned to face its Calamity of Wind and Fire after stabilizing its realm.
• Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow arrived, and Lin Jiufeng told them about Shadow's attacks on the Human Race in the Heavenly Dao World.
• Painted Skin Scholar urged Lin Jiufeng to search the Human Ancestral Land's collection of books for clues about Shadow, and Lin Jiufeng urged the Human Race to keep a low profile and grow stronger.
• Sword God Emperor Willow and Painted Skin Scholar revealed that Longevity Heaven was a Feathered Immortal who had entered closed-door cultivation unto death a hundred years earlier.
• Lin Jiufeng learned that Longevity Heaven was cultivating inside the Human Clan Ancestral Hall.

Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow told Lin Jiufeng how Longevity Heaven died after killing four Feathered Immortals and was saved. They revealed that Gu Baili was still alive and was helping Longevity Heaven achieve Rebirth from Death.

• Painted Skin Scholar said Longevity Heaven had once been the Human Race's leading hope, but four Feathered Immortals ambushed him.
• Longevity Heaven burned through his power to kill all four Feathered Immortals and died in the battle.
• Sword God Emperor Willow described his own lesser talent and admitted that he remained driven by the desire to catch up with Longevity Heaven and Painted Skin Scholar.
• Painted Skin Scholar revealed that Gu Baili saved Longevity Heaven, and that the Gu Baili who died with the Giant King had only been an Avatar.
• Painted Skin Scholar said the real Gu Baili was still alive and helping Longevity Heaven achieve Rebirth from Death.

The Painted Skin Scholar explained how the Human Race had been targeted and how Gu Baili used the Life Great Dao to preserve Longevity Heaven’s true spirit, enabling his Rebirth from Death. He urged Lin Jiufeng to focus on cultivation before investigating the Shadow behind the attacks.

• The Painted Skin Scholar explained that the Path to Immortality had been used to lure and kill Human Race ascenders, and that Longevity Heaven and Gu Baili had become the Human Race’s Twin Stars.
• The Painted Skin Scholar said Gu Baili protected Longevity Heaven’s true spirit after a disaster, then buried them both in a Coffin of Outer-Heaven Cold Iron to preserve him through the Life Great Dao.
• The Painted Skin Scholar named the Skeleton Race, Yaksha Clan, Giant Race, and Primordial Royal Clan as the four Feathered Immortals’ races, and Lin Jiufeng vowed to remember the grudge.
• Sword God Emperor Willow recounted how the Painted Skin Scholar suppressed dissent and killed more than a dozen Worldly Immortals to keep the Human Race from collapsing.
• The Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow told Lin Jiufeng that Mad Blade Hundred Battles had vanished in Ancient Ruins and the Heavenly God Race had captured the King of Hell on Earth.
• The Painted Skin Scholar warned Lin Jiufeng that a Shadow had likely manipulated the Human Race’s misfortunes and urged him to cultivate and protect himself before investigating.

Lin Jiufeng entered the Sea of Daos to seek fragments of the Great Dao of Time and returned with one, which he comprehended as the cycle of time. He then set out to enter the Sea of Daos again in search of fragments of time and space.

• Painted Skin Scholar and Sword God Emperor Willow left to cultivate in the Human Ancestral Land, while Lin Jiufeng considered the Shadow’s plots against the Human Race.
• Lin Jiufeng entered the Sea of Daos and found one fragment of the Great Dao of Time before his time there ran out.
• Lin Jiufeng absorbed the fragment and used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to understand the cycle of time, bringing his Great Daos of Time to twenty-one.
• Lin Jiufeng headed back to the Sea of Daos to search for fragments of the Great Dao of Time and the Great Dao of Space.

Lin Jiufeng returned from the Sea of Daos with four fragments of the Great Dao of Time and Space, comprehended them, and surveyed the Human Ancestral Land’s cultivators. As Taiyuan Immortal offered him three cleansed Immortal Artifacts, Lin Jiufeng was left to decide whether to refine them.

• Lin Jiufeng dove into the depths of the Sea of Daos and found two fragments each of the Great Dao of Time and the Great Dao of Space.
• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the four fragments over ten years in the Hundredfold Time Difference, bringing his totals to twenty-three Great Daos of Time and twenty-three Great Daos of Space alongside a complete Great Dao of Fire.
• Lin Jiufeng surveyed the Human Ancestral Land and saw its young cultivators training diligently, including the Drunken Maniac, Wen Xinyun, White Fox, Painted Skin Scholar, and Sword God Emperor Willow.
• Lin Jiufeng noticed the iron coffin in the Human Clan Ancestral Hall and thought about Gu Baili and Longevity Heaven’s sacrifice for each other.
• Taiyuan Immortal told Lin Jiufeng that he had cleansed the spiritual imprints from three Immortal Artifacts and asked whether Lin Jiufeng wanted to refine them.

Lin Jiufeng received three ownerless Immortal Artifacts from Taiyuan Immortal and refined the Immortal Sword, but learned that the blood-red blade was actually a far more powerful Demon Blade from Hell. The chapter ended with Taiyuan Immortal explaining why true Immortal Artifacts and Demonic Artifacts surpassed Pseudo Immortal Artifacts.

• Taiyuan Immortal told Lin Jiufeng that he had erased the divine consciousness within the Treasure Pagoda, long blade, and Immortal Sword.
• Lin Jiufeng refined the Immortal Sword by imprinting his Primordial Spirit marks on its slaughter formations.
• Lin Jiufeng said he would also refine the Treasure Pagoda but declined to take the long blade because he lacked blade techniques.
• Taiyuan Immortal activated the long blade, which projected a vision of Hell, and revealed it was a Demon Blade forged by demon immortals.
• Taiyuan Immortal explained that the Immortal Sword and Treasure Pagoda were Pseudo Immortal Artifacts that could break under excessive Immortal Qi, while the Demon Blade had no such flaw.

Lin Jiufeng refined the Demon Blade and reflected on the need to grow strong enough to oppose the Shadow threatening the Human Race. He and Taiyuan Immortal traced the blade’s likely arrival to the ancient war against Hell Demons, and Lin Jiufeng resolved to uncover the Human Race’s buried history before comprehending a passage of time.

• Lin Jiufeng refined the Demon Blade, adding it to his Immortal Artifacts and gaining a weapon that could attack flesh and Primordial Spirits and trap enemies in an illusion.
• Lin Jiufeng judged his strength insufficient because the Shadow could destroy the Human Race if it escaped the Heavenly Dao World, so he continued nourishing his three Immortal Artifacts in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Lin Jiufeng asked Taiyuan Immortal how the Asura Clan obtained the Demon Blade, and Taiyuan Immortal suggested it had entered the Dimension Battlefield during the ancient war with Hell Demons.
• Lin Jiufeng recalled the Human Race’s sacrifices in that war and condemned the other races for betraying them afterward.
• Taiyuan Immortal told Lin Jiufeng to investigate the hidden truth behind the Human Race’s decline, and Lin Jiufeng vowed to uncover it.
• Lin Jiufeng wondered who had brought the Demon Blade to the Dimension Battlefield, activating Heaven-Defying Comprehension and comprehending a passage of time.

Lin Jiufeng used the Demon Blade to witness its former owner, Si Wuya, agree to invade the Dimension Battlefield after the Shadow promised him fifty years to search for an Immortal King's remains. The vision ended with Lin Jiufeng realizing the Hell Fiends' invasion had been arranged by the Immortals, and he was left consumed by killing intent toward the Shadow.

• Lin Jiufeng entered secluded cultivation and activated the Demon Blade's segment of time.
• Lin Jiufeng witnessed the Shadow invite Si Wuya to lead his forces into the Dimension Battlefield and eliminate the Human Race.
• The Shadow explained that the Immortals wanted Si Wuya to create chaos so they could intervene in the Dimension Battlefield.
• Si Wuya bargained for fifty years to search for the remains of an Immortal King, and the Shadow agreed.
• Lin Jiufeng returned to his body, realized the invasion had been orchestrated, and vowed inwardly that the Shadow deserved to die.

Lin Jiufeng investigated the Human Race’s history and discovered that its ancestors had survived the Hell Fiends’ invasion in only fourteen years despite the Immortals’ involvement. He searched the Human Ancestral Land’s ancient library for answers, gained three Great Daos of Space, and picked up a book about the Nine Great Ancestors.

• Lin Jiufeng realized the Human Race’s fourteen-year war against the Hell Fiends did not match the fifty years Shadow had promised Si Wuya, and wondered how powerful the Human Race had been.
• Lin Jiufeng went to the Human Ancestral Land, saw the Human Race quietly building strength, and entered its ancient library to study its history.
• Lin Jiufeng read a predecessor’s account of comprehending the Great Dao of Space and gained three Great Daos of Space, bringing his total to twenty-four.
• Lin Jiufeng picked up a book titled Nine Great Ancestors of the Human Race and suspected its subjects had formed the foundation of the Human Race’s rise.