Chapter Summaries

Lin Jiufeng reunited Bai Yunfei and his companions with the Ten Great Kings and learned that The Master had sent them to retrieve a corpse in the Southern Border. Lin Jiufeng concluded that the corpse belonged to The Master himself, prompting Painted Skin Scholar and the others to suspect that The Master was the legendary Human Race ancestor.

• Lin Jiufeng introduced Bai Yunfei and his companions to the Ten Great Kings gathered in his Inner Scenery Realm.
• Painted Skin Scholar recounted how Lin Jiufeng had fought the Human World Divine Spirits and how the Human Race had taken refuge from The Immortals inside the realm.
• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that The Master had warned of changes on the Dimension Battlefield and tasked his group with retrieving a corpse in the Southern Border and placing a spiritual soul fragment inside it.
• Zhou Tianzi admitted that he had taken a wrong path through a formation, causing Bai Yunfei's master to lose half his Primordial Spirit while rescuing him.
• Lin Jiufeng proposed that the corpse was The Master's own, and Painted Skin Scholar wondered whether The Master was the revered Human Race ancestor.

Lin Jiufeng followed The Master’s map to a hidden grave in Southern Border, where he discovered a strange mountain that resembled a trident and reacted to his punch. The chapter ended with Lin Jiufeng recognizing the mountain as the Trident.

• Lin Jiufeng told the others he was certain The Master was still alive, and they agreed to find the corpse The Master had ordered them to retrieve.
• Zhou Tianzi gave Lin Jiufeng the spiritual-light map marking the grave, and Bai Yunfei said The Master had instructed them to kowtow three times before it was dug up.
• Lin Jiufeng found a lone grave concealed among the mountains of Southern Border and entered the surrounding range to investigate.
• Lin Jiufeng discovered a solitary peak that his Primordial Spirit could not penetrate and noticed that its summit split into three prongs.
• Lin Jiufeng struck the peak with a light punch, causing it to tremble and emit black light, then recognized it as the Trident.

Lin Jiufeng discovered that the Lone Peak was a living Trident transformed from a Three-Headed Demon Dragon once wielded by the Human Race Ancestor Jiang Mang. He activated a time segment and witnessed the dragon being pursued by Hell Fiends before a golden, powerful man came to her rescue.

• Painted Skin Scholar identified the Lone Peak as the Trident transformed from a Hell Three-Headed Demon Dragon that Jiang Mang had conquered.
• Lin Jiufeng felt a heartbeat from the Trident, comprehended a segment of time, and meditated while the others examined the grave and peak.
• Lin Jiufeng’s vision showed Hell Fiends pursuing the Three-Headed Demon Dragon for killing Di Shitian’s favored offspring after refusing to become his concubine.
• The exhausted Three-Headed Demon Dragon prepared to kill herself rather than be captured by the Hell Fiends.
• A golden, powerful man descended, sent the Hell Fiends flying, and stood before the Three-Headed Demon Dragon.

Lin Jiufeng witnessed Jiang Mang defeat a group of Hell Fiends and learned the Worldly Dao, then saw how Jiang Mang and the Three-Headed Demon Dragon married and fought together in the war against The Immortals. After Jiang Mang died, the Three-Headed Demon Dragon buried him inside her body and transformed into a Trident to await his return.

• Jiang Mang trapped and killed more than a dozen Hell Fiends with the Worldly Dao, and Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Worldly Dao by watching him.
• The Three-Headed Demon Dragon recovered, sought out Jiang Mang in the Ancient Human City, and persisted until he accepted her and they married.
• Jiang Mang and the Three-Headed Demon Dragon fought together when The Immortals and the Hell Fiends attacked the Human Race, and she transformed into a Trident to help him battle.
• Jiang Mang died fighting eight evil fiends, and the Master ascended to Heaven, killed Si Wuya, and ended the war.
• The Three-Headed Demon Dragon carried Jiang Mang's corpse away, made a tomb from her own body, buried him inside it, and transformed into a Trident.

Lin Jiufeng used the Life Spring to help the Three-Headed Demon Dragon restore Jiang Mang’s Primordial Spirit, bringing her hope of reviving him. He learned that The Master had been secretly preparing for a future war against the Immortals, though his allies remained unknown.

• Lin Jiufeng watched the Three-Headed Demon Dragon’s past, then bowed three times before her Trident as The Master had instructed.
• The Three-Headed Demon Dragon asked whether the promised chance to revive Jiang Mang had arrived, and Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that the answer lay in the Skeleton Race Ancestral Land.
• Lin Jiufeng realized he had already taken the Life Spring from the destroyed ancestral land and placed it before the Trident.
• The Three-Headed Demon Dragon revealed Jiang Mang’s stone coffin, and the Life Spring flowed into it to repair his Primordial Spirit.
• The Three-Headed Demon Dragon said she and Jiang Mang would join the coming war, explaining that The Master had planned a battle against the Immortals after surviving his Ascension to Heaven.
• Lin Jiufeng connected The Master to Old Dragon Ao Mu’s actions and Magic Frog’s destruction of the Ninety-Nine Jade Steps, but wondered whether The Master had accomplices.

Lin Jiufeng left Southern Border after learning that the Three-Headed Demon Dragon knew nothing of the other Human Race ancestors, then absorbed the Worldly Dao and rose to the peak of the Feathered Immortal realm. He returned to the Dimension Battlefield and found that the Immortals’ purge had exterminated clan after clan, leaving him worried for the Human Race.

• The Three-Headed Demon Dragon told Lin Jiufeng that The Master had ordered her to protect Jiang Mang’s body until someone came to help resurrect him, but she did not know whether the other Human Race ancestors had survived.
• Lin Jiufeng warned the Three-Headed Demon Dragon about the Immortals’ purge, then left Southern Border and told the Painted Skin Scholar he would seek a place to hide and settle the Human Race.
• Lin Jiufeng cultivated in the Endless Mountains, absorbed the Worldly Dao, and reached the peak of the Feathered Immortal realm with four hundred thousand strands of God-Demon Power.
• Lin Jiufeng returned to the Nine Provinces and found the Lizard Clan, Ancient Savage Bull Clan, Divine Silkworm Clan, and other peoples wiped out by the Immortals.
• Lin Jiufeng mourned the slaughter and wondered whether The Master, Magic Frog, Jiang Mang, and Old Dragon could withstand the Immortals.

Lin Jiufeng witnessed Fighting God Elder fight four Immortals to protect Fighting God Clan Village and discovered Fighting God King among the villagers. After the Immortals broke free and wounded Fighting God Elder, they vowed to wipe out the Fighting God Bloodline.

• Lin Jiufeng saw Fighting God Elder trap four Immortals with his techniques and learned the old man belonged to Fighting God King's clan.
• Fighting God Elder burned his Fighting God Bloodline to hold back the Immortals and protect the village below.
• Lin Jiufeng recognized Fighting God King in the village as the Immortals attacked Fighting God Elder with a powerful lightning Great Dao.
• The Immortals wounded Fighting God Elder and blocked Fighting God King from leaving the village to help him.
• The four Immortals escaped their restraints and declared that the Fighting God Bloodline would vanish from the world.

The Fighting God Elder burned his Fighting God Bloodline to battle the four Immortals, but Lin Jiufeng’s intervention broke their formation and let the Elder kill one of them. The Elder then unleashed his bloodline in a final blaze, sacrificing himself to attack the remaining Immortals and leaving the Fighting God King with a farewell charge to protect the village.

• The four Immortals surrounded and taunted the Fighting God Elder as they used a Four Symbols Array to evade his attacks and wait for his Fighting God Bloodline to burn out.
• Lin Jiufeng attacked one Immortal with the Demon Blade, breaking the array and giving the Fighting God Elder an opening.
• The Fighting God Elder struck an Immortal with his burning bloodline, killing him and absorbing his energy into the flames.
• The remaining Immortals retreated as the Fighting God Elder merged with his bloodline and unleashed flames across the Sky Dome.
• The Fighting God King wept as his grandfather’s voice told him to live, develop the Fighting God Bloodline, and restore the ancestors’ glory.

After the Fighting God Elder died defeating four Immortals, Lin Jiufeng rescued the Fighting God Clan and hid them in his Inner Scenery Realm. The Fighting God King then revealed he knew something about the Human Race War God Chu Xiangyu, leaving Lin Jiufeng eager to learn whether he might still be alive.

• The Fighting God Elder burned himself up to kill four Immortals, and Lin Jiufeng took the grieving Fighting God King and his clan into his Inner Scenery Realm before the Cross-Eyed Giant arrived.
• The Cross-Eyed Giant used the Eternal Clock to revive the four Immortals, warned them they had used its final rescue, and sent them to continue the Great Cleansing.
• Lin Jiufeng brought the Fighting God Clan to safety in his Inner Scenery Realm, where the Fighting God King resolved to cultivate and eventually fight The Immortals.
• The Fighting God King told Lin Jiufeng that he knew something about Chu Xiangyu, prompting Lin Jiufeng to demand everything he knew.

Lin Jiufeng learned that Chu Xiangyu might be buried in the Vast Sea Desert and traveled there, gaining the Speed Dao along the way. After fifteen days of searching through the deadly desert, he finally detected a person.

• The Fighting God King told Lin Jiufeng that his grandfather had met an Immortal in the Vast Sea Desert, who said Chu Xiangyu was buried there and that he had been condemned to guard something.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to search for Chu Xiangyu and left the Inner Scenery Realm, teleporting toward the Vast Sea Desert.
• As Lin Jiufeng hurried across the Dimension Battlefield, he comprehended the Speed Dao and increased his God-Demon Power to four hundred and fifty thousand strands.
• Lin Jiufeng entered the Vast Sea Desert and searched its vast, scorching sands with his Primordial Spirit.
• After fifteen days without finding anything, Lin Jiufeng detected a person deep in the desert.

Lin Jiufeng met Tiancanzi, a former genius of the Divine Silkworm Clan imprisoned in the Vast Sea Desert, and learned that he had killed Chu Xiangyu. Tiancanzi recalled how he joined The Immortals after losing repeatedly to a rival, then became an accomplice while that rival saved the Dimension Battlefield; Lin Jiufeng asked who the rival was.

• Lin Jiufeng found a long-haired man in the Vast Sea Desert, who said he had once been one of The Immortals and knew the Human Race ancestor Chu Xiangyu.
• The man told Lin Jiufeng that he had killed Chu Xiangyu, then explained that he had been trapped in the desert for tens of thousands of years because leaving would expose his Primordial Spirit to being burned as fuel.
• Lin Jiufeng offered to tell him about the Dimension Battlefield in exchange for answers, and the man remembered that his name was Tiancanzi, a peerless genius of the Divine Silkworm Clan.
• Tiancanzi recounted that he joined The Immortals after losing nine times to a rival, then became an accomplice during the evil demons' invasion while his rival sacrificed himself to save the Dimension Battlefield.
• Lin Jiufeng asked Tiancanzi who the rival was.

Lin Jiufeng learned from Tiancanzi that Chu Xiangyu died after fighting five Immortal Leaders while trying to close the Hell passage beneath the Vast Sea Desert. Tiancanzi explained that the Leaders’ Eternal Clock could revive them, but each revival cost them future advancement and they had only three chances.

• Lin Jiufeng told Tiancanzi that the Immortals had begun purging the Dimension Battlefield, prompting Tiancanzi to explain that he had been exiled to guard the Vast Sea Desert after disobeying the Leaders and fighting Demon Lords.
• Tiancanzi revealed that a passage to Hell lay beneath the Vast Sea Desert and that the Immortal Leaders had opened it to bring Hell Demons into the Dimension Battlefield.
• Tiancanzi recounted how Chu Xiangyu came to close the passage, fought five Immortal Leaders, killed three of them, and was worn down before Tiancanzi killed him and extinguished his Nascent Soul Fire.
• Lin Jiufeng learned that the Eternal Clock had revived the defeated Leaders, allowing them to continue fighting Chu Xiangyu.
• Tiancanzi explained that revived Immortals and Leaders became bound to the Eternal Clock, could never advance again, and had only three chances at revival.

Lin Jiufeng witnessed a memory of Tiancanzi’s past, from his repeated defeats by Chu Xiangyu to his defiance of the Immortals and his punishment in the Vast Sea Desert. After Tiancanzi appeared to kill Chu Xiangyu, he sacrificed his Inner Scenery Realm to make a coffin and secretly began using the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm to help Chu Xiangyu transform.

• Lin Jiufeng watched young Tiancanzi challenge Chu Xiangyu nine times and lose each time, before the Hill Giant recruited him into the Immortals.
• When Hell Demons invaded the Dimension Battlefield, Tiancanzi defied the Immortal Leader, fought the demons, and was banished to guard the passage to Hell.
• Tiancanzi watched the Human Race ancestors fight for the Dimension Battlefield, then saw Chu Xiangyu arrive to destroy the passage and battle five Immortal Leaders.
• The Eternal Clock resurrected three fallen Leaders, allowing them to overwhelm Chu Xiangyu; Tiancanzi then begged to deliver the final blow and used the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm to kill him.
• After the Leaders left, Tiancanzi tore away his Inner Scenery Realm and refined it into a coffin, saying he would use his future to help Chu Xiangyu undergo the Nine Transformations.

Lin Jiufeng learned that Tiancanzi had sacrificed his future to give Chu Xiangyu a chance to revive, and that the Leaders’ Eternal Clock made them difficult to defeat. He left determined to break through to Human World Divine Spirit and grow strong enough to challenge them.

• Lin Jiufeng understood that Tiancanzi had staged Chu Xiangyu’s death and used his Inner Scenery Realm to protect Chu Xiangyu’s chance of resurrection.
• Tiancanzi explained that the Leaders were true Immortals who risked suppression or Heavenly Dao tribulation if they entered the Dimension Battlefield.
• Tiancanzi warned Lin Jiufeng that even if Chu Xiangyu revived, the Eternal Clock made the Leaders extremely difficult to kill.
• The Taiyuan Immortal told Lin Jiufeng that Immortal Artifacts varied greatly in power and that the Eternal Clock’s strength could not be judged without seeing it.
• Lin Jiufeng left Tiancanzi, resolved to grow stronger and break through to Human World Divine Spirit.

Lin Jiufeng sought a way to grow stronger, and Tiancanzi proposed tempering his Divine Demon Body in the Hellflames gathered inside his Primordial Spirit World. Tiancanzi left Lin Jiufeng alone with the flames, and Lin Jiufeng wondered what the old man intended by storing so much destructive energy within himself.

• Lin Jiufeng told Tiancanzi he wanted to leave the Vast Sea Desert and break through to the Human World Divine Spirit realm, but Tiancanzi urged him to cultivate there.
• Tiancanzi explained that the hell passage had filled the Vast Sea Desert with deadly flames and suggested Lin Jiufeng use them to temper his body.
• Lin Jiufeng agreed to Tiancanzi's help, and Tiancanzi opened a passage to the Hellflames he had gathered.
• Lin Jiufeng followed Tiancanzi into the flames and learned that they were contained in Tiancanzi's Primordial Spirit World.
• Tiancanzi left Lin Jiufeng to cultivate among the Hellflames, while Lin Jiufeng wondered why he had gathered so much destructive energy inside himself.

Lin Jiufeng endured Tiancanzi’s Hellflame to temper his God-Demon Body and comprehended the complete Heart Dao. He began breaking through to Human World Divine Spirit by devouring the flames.

• Lin Jiufeng tested the Hellflame, then guided it over his body to temper his God-Demon Body despite the pain.
• Lin Jiufeng entered the Hellflame, where it burned away his body before his nascent soul restored it into a smaller, three-times-stronger form.
• Lin Jiufeng gained Enlightenment and comprehended the Heart Dao, learning to separate his heart from the pain of the flesh.
• Lin Jiufeng began breaking through to Human World Divine Spirit as the Hellflame surged against him.
• Lin Jiufeng expanded his Divine Demon Body to a thousand zhang and devoured the waves of Hellflame, turning them into energy for his breakthrough.

Lin Jiufeng absorbed the Hellflames and broke through to the Human World Divine Spirit Realm, reaching the Heavenly Man Realm and greatly increasing his power. Afterward, he discussed the strength and history of The Immortals with Tiancanzi and asked who its current Leaders were.

• Lin Jiufeng absorbed the Hellflames, broke through to the Heavenly Man Realm, and increased his strength to one million strands of God-Demon Power.
• Lin Jiufeng suppressed the raging Hellflames in Tiancanzi's Nascent Soul Space and emerged, prompting Tiancanzi to marvel at his nascent soul power.
• Tiancanzi said Lin Jiufeng could likely fight a Martial God, and Lin Jiufeng declared that a Martial God could be killed.
• Lin Jiufeng and Tiancanzi discussed the wide differences in strength among Martial Gods and the succession of Leaders within The Immortals.
• Lin Jiufeng asked Tiancanzi who the current Leaders of The Immortals were.

Lin Jiufeng learned how Chu Xiangyu’s final strike forced two leaders to step down and heard more about The Immortals’ hidden leadership. A sudden attack shattered a world at The Immortals’ headquarters, where Tiancanzi recognized the intruder as Mud Man.

• Tiancanzi explained that Chu Xiangyu had injured two leaders across time, forcing them to step down and allowing the Green Mountain Leader and the Cross-Eyed Giant to rise.
• Lin Jiufeng asked about the leaders’ connections and learned that the Cross-Eyed Giant was the Hill Giant’s grandson and the Green Mountain Leader was the Yellow Heaven Leader’s disciple.
• Tiancanzi said two ancient leaders had never appeared and might only emerge if The Immortals faced extreme danger.
• A tremendous boom shook the Vast Sea Desert as someone crushed a ten-layered world in The Immortals’ headquarters.
• Lin Jiufeng saw a gray-haired man in coarse hemp clothes facing The Immortals, and Tiancanzi identified him as Mud Man.

Mud Man Ancestor appeared on the Dimension Battlefield, shattered one of The Immortals’ Nine Great Worlds, and confronted their leader. Meanwhile, a black-robed elder searched the ruined lands for the Human Race, and Mud Man Ancestor told the Immortal leader that he would never reach the True Immortal realm.

• Lin Jiufeng recognized the Mud Man and learned that he had left the Kunlun Mystic Realm after the Magic Frog destroyed the Ninety-Nine Jade Steps.
• A black-robed elder watched Mud Man Ancestor appear, then entered Liang Province searching for the Human Race amid corpses and ruins.
• Mud Man Ancestor shattered one of the worlds The Immortals were building, and the Immortals encircled him without daring to attack.
• An Immortal in dark golden armor confronted Mud Man Ancestor and mocked his defeat and long retreat.
• Mud Man Ancestor reminded the Immortal that he had once begged for mercy, then declared that becoming a servant had made the True Immortal realm forever beyond his reach.

After Mud Man exposed the immortals as slaves, Tiancanzi asked Lin Jiufeng to hunt a First Heaven immortal for the Immortal Origin needed to revive Chu Xiangyu. Tiancanzi chose the son of Green Mountain Leader as Lin Jiufeng’s target, leaving Lin Jiufeng facing a massacre in the Ancient Savage Bull Clan’s territory.

• Tiancanzi confirmed that the Martial God Realm had nine heavens and asked whether Lin Jiufeng could defeat a First Heaven Martial God; Lin Jiufeng said he believed he could.
• Tiancanzi asked Lin Jiufeng to hunt First Heaven immortals and bring him their Immortal Origins, and Lin Jiufeng agreed in repayment for Tiancanzi’s help.
• Tiancanzi revealed that he needed the Immortal Origins to restore his cultivation, but Lin Jiufeng realized they were meant to help revive Chu Xiangyu.
• Tiancanzi pointed Lin Jiufeng toward the blood-robed son of Green Mountain Leader, who had slaughtered the Ancient Savage Bull Clan.
• Tiancanzi explained that Green Mountain Leader had made himself a leader so his son could become an immortal without losing the chance to reach the True Immortal Realm, and urged Lin Jiufeng to kill him.