Chapter Summaries

After two months of quiet cultivation, Lin Jiufeng gained insight while watching a rainstorm and broke through into the Seventh Forbidden Realm. The chapter left him newly advanced, with the Golden Lotus in the Sea of Suffering revealed within his Primordial Spirit World.

• Lin Jiufeng continued reading and cultivating while the Feather Transformation Sect remained sealed and Bai Yunfei quietly pursued his breakthrough.
• A fierce rainstorm swept over the Feather Transformation Sect, and Lin Jiufeng invited Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan to drink tea and listen to the rain.
• As Lin Jiufeng watched the storm, he gained insight and comprehended Golden Lotus in the Sea of Suffering within his Primordial Spirit World.
• Lin Jiufeng broke through the barrier of the Sixth Forbidden Realm and entered the Seventh Forbidden Realm.

Lin Jiufeng broke through to the Seventh Realm during the rain, drawing the attention of the Three Sages of Clarity, who demanded the Feather Ascension Scripture. As they prepared to force his hand, Bai Yunfei arrived after breaking through to the Eighth Realm.

• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Golden Lotus in the Sea of Suffering and broke through to the Seventh Realm, raising his strength to five hundred dragons and five hundred elephants.
• Lin Jiufeng's Primordial Spirit expanded thousands of li beyond the Feather Transformation Sect, where it encountered three elderly Eighth Realm cultivators.
• The Three Sages of Clarity mistook Lin Jiufeng for Bai Yunfei and asked for the Feather Ascension Scripture to extend their lives, threatening to fight if he refused.
• The Three Sages of Clarity revealed that the Supreme Dao Sect had directed them to the Feather Transformation Sect and offered to help Lin Jiufeng oppose it in exchange for the scripture.
• Bai Yunfei broke through to the Eighth Realm and appeared beside Lin Jiufeng's Primordial Spirit, overwhelming the Three Sages of Clarity with his aura.

After Bai Yunfei broke through to the Eighth Forbidden Realm, the Three Sages of Clarity used a secret art to return to their peak and attacked him and Lin Jiufeng. Lin Jiufeng killed Eldest with one strike, proving he could defeat an Eighth Forbidden Realm cultivator despite only recently entering the Seventh Forbidden Realm.

• Bai Yunfei descended beside Lin Jiufeng and learned that his senior brother had broken through to the Seventh Forbidden Realm.
• Bai Yunfei refused the Three Sages of Clarity’s demand for the Feather Ascension Scripture, and the three brothers used a secret art to return to their peak.
• Bai Yunfei fought Second and Third while Lin Jiufeng faced Eldest.
• Lin Jiufeng combined his Visions, insights, and the Feather Ascension Scripture into one finger strike that pierced Eldest’s defense and destroyed him.
• Lin Jiufeng assessed that his new strength let him slay an Eighth Forbidden Realm cultivator despite being in the Seventh Forbidden Realm.

Lin Jiufeng returned from killing an Eighth Forbidden Realm expert, revealed his Seventh Forbidden Realm breakthrough to the young disciples, and reunited with Bai Yunfei. Bai Yunfei planned to revive the Feather Transformation Sect by forming alliances against the Supreme Dao Sect and buying Lin Jiufeng time to grow stronger.

• Lin Jiufeng returned his Primordial Spirit to his body, taught Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan about Primordial Spirits, and accidentally knocked them down with the power of his breakthrough.
• Lin Jiufeng explained the gap between their cultivation realms, while the three young disciples eagerly announced that they were close to breaking through.
• Bai Yunfei returned from secluded cultivation, and Lin Jiufeng and Bai Yunfei quietly drank tea with the disciples until they left to cultivate.
• Lin Jiufeng asked Bai Yunfei what he planned to do after reaching the Eighth Forbidden Realm, and Bai Yunfei said he intended to revive the Feather Transformation Sect without recruiting disciples yet.
• Bai Yunfei planned to form alliances against the Supreme Dao Sect and withstand its pressure while giving Lin Jiufeng time to grow stronger.

Lin Jiufeng gave Bai Yunfei several powerful cultivation methods to pass on, while Bai Yunfei drew the world’s attention away from the hidden Lin Jiufeng. A month later, Lin Jiufeng read about the Cultivation Golden Age three thousand years earlier and wondered what had caused the world’s decline.

• Bai Yunfei explained that he planned to resist the Supreme Dao Sect while buying Lin Jiufeng time to advance to the Ninth Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng transmitted several cultivation methods to Bai Yunfei, who pledged to pass them on to the Feather Transformation Sect’s true disciples.
• Bai Yunfei left to visit forces hostile to the Supreme Dao Sect and deliberately drew attention to himself so Lin Jiufeng could remain hidden.
• During the following month, Lin Jiufeng cultivated and read in the Small World while Bai Yunfei remained away and the three young disciples neared breakthroughs.
• Lin Jiufeng read that the Eighth Restriction had been unimpressive during the Cultivation Golden Age three thousand years earlier and wondered what battle had caused the Cultivation World to decline.

Lin Jiufeng spent a year cultivating and accumulating insights before comprehending the Rain Character Art while observing spring rain. Its power brought down a torrent of spiritual energy, giving him and the three younger cultivators an opportunity to advance.

• Lin Jiufeng concluded that someone had deliberately erased records of the battle three thousand years ago and set the mystery aside to focus on breaking through the Eighth Forbidden Level.
• Lin Jiufeng spent a year cultivating, studying nature, and accumulating insights while Yue Dashan, Zhou Tianzi, and Wen Xinyun each reached the Fourth Forbidden Level.
• As spring rain fell, Lin Jiufeng merged his awareness with it and used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to grasp the Rain Character Art.
• Lin Jiufeng sent the Rain Character Art into the rain, causing a torrential downpour filled with spiritual energy from beyond their world.
• Lin Jiufeng called Yue Dashan, Zhou Tianzi, and Wen Xinyun to meditate and absorb the spiritual energy while he merged his Primordial Spirit with the rain and began advancing.

After a night of unusually rich Spiritual Energy raised Lin Jiufeng’s cultivation to the peak of the Seventh Restriction, he tested the Rain Character Art without success and continued guarding the Feather Transformation Sect. That night, he sensed a White Jade Fox entering the sect and discovered it was a Demon.

• Lin Jiufeng absorbed the Spiritual Energy brought by the previous night’s rain and reached the peak of the Seventh Restriction, while the three little ones continued cultivating.
• Lin Jiufeng tested the Rain Character Art, but it summoned rain without bringing Spiritual Energy, so he decided to try again when it rained naturally.
• Yue Dashan, Zhou Tianzi, and Wen Xinyun told Lin Jiufeng how much they had gained, and he urged them to consolidate their cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng sensed an intruder heading toward the Scripture Pavilion and recognized it as a White Jade Fox, a Demon.

Lin Jiufeng caught a White Fox searching the Feather Transformation Sect’s Scripture Pavilion for Zhou Sheng’s biography and learned she was Zhou Sheng’s daughter. She explained how her mother concealed and protected her after Zhou Sheng’s death, leaving Lin Jiufeng to hear the story of his senior brother’s surviving child.

• Lin Jiufeng watched the White Fox sneak into the Scripture Pavilion and search through biographies until she found Zhou Sheng’s.
• When Lin Jiufeng questioned her, the White Fox fled and revealed the Feather Ascension Scripture before he caught up with her.
• Lin Jiufeng told the White Fox that Zhou Sheng had been his senior brother, and she revealed that she was Zhou Sheng’s daughter.
• The White Fox explained that her mother discovered the pregnancy after Zhou Sheng died, carried her for ten years, and sealed her away to repair her congenital deficiencies.
• The White Fox said she had recently emerged, endured attacks from people seeking her fur, and entered the Feather Transformation Sect to learn about her father.

Lin Jiufeng began teaching White Fox the Feather Ascension Scripture, and she gradually grew comfortable staying at the Feather Transformation Sect. He then learned that the Supreme Dao Sect might target Bai Yunfei after withdrawing from the Million Mountains, leaving Bai Yunfei's fate uncertain.

• White Fox explained that her white immortal radiance came from her bloodline and that her father, Zhou Sheng, had passed it down to her.
• Lin Jiufeng persuaded White Fox to stay at the Feather Transformation Sect and offered to teach her the Feather Ascension Scripture.
• Lin Jiufeng guided White Fox through the scripture during morning cultivation, and she returned each day to learn from him.
• White Fox grew to like the peaceful sect and stopped mentioning that she might leave.
• Lin Jiufeng heard that the Supreme Dao Sect had withdrawn from the Million Mountains after failing to capture the young Qilin.
• People said the Supreme Dao Sect might target Bai Yunfei now that its experts had returned, putting the Feather Transformation Sect's Sect Master in danger.

Lin Jiufeng comprehended Flower Blooms in the Other Shore Sky and greatly increased his strength without reaching the Eighth Forbidden Realm. He then sensed Bai Yunfei being hunted by eight Supreme Dao Sect Dao Ancestors, who drove him toward the Feather Transformation Sect.

• Lin Jiufeng worried that the Supreme Dao Sect would target Bai Yunfei and spent a month cultivating and searching for news of him.
• Lin Jiufeng watched the clouds and comprehended Flower Blooms in the Other Shore Sky, combining it with his four Dao Rhymes and Phenomena.
• Lin Jiufeng's strength rose to one thousand dragons and one thousand elephants, and his Primordial Spirit's range expanded to four thousand miles, though he still did not break through.
• The White Fox awoke, watched Lin Jiufeng's enlightenment, and asked whether he had caused the wondrous phenomena in the clouds.
• Lin Jiufeng sensed eight Eighth Forbidden Dao Ancestors encircling Bai Yunfei, who fought while retreating toward the Feather Transformation Sect.

The Supreme Dao Sect's eight Eighth Restriction Dao Ancestors cornered the wounded Bai Yunfei near the Feather Transformation Sect, but Lin Jiufeng intervened with his Dao Rhyme Phenomena. Bai Yunfei recognized his senior brother's power as the Great Dao overwhelmed the attackers.

• The eight Supreme Dao Sect Dao Ancestors surrounded Bai Yunfei and prepared to kill him after wearing him down in battle.
• Lin Jiufeng used his Primordial Spirit to seize the energy of heaven and earth and unleash the Great Dao against them.
• Lin Jiufeng's Dao Rhyme Phenomena killed five of the attackers, including a Big White Crucian Carp that crushed one Dao Ancestor.
• The remaining three Dao Ancestors begged an unseen senior for mercy, while Bai Yunfei laughed and revealed that his senior brother had come to save him.
• The Big White Crucian Carp continued attacking as Moon Rises Over the Sea, Flower Blooms in the Other Shore Sky, and Golden Lotus in the Sea of Suffering restrained the surviving Dao Ancestors.

After defeating the Supreme Dao Sect’s eight Eighth Restriction Dao Ancestors, Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Chronicle of Ages and inscribed his Dao Rhyme Phenomena into it, breaking through the Eighth Restriction. Bai Yunfei returned injured, and Lin Jiufeng warned him that the Supreme Dao Sect still had a Ninth Restriction expert.

• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Chronicle of Ages, a book that could contain and amplify his Dao Rhyme Phenomena.
• Lin Jiufeng inscribed his Dao Rhyme Phenomena into the Chronicle of Ages and broke through the Eighth Restriction, increasing his strength to five thousand dragons and five thousand elephants.
• Lin Jiufeng considered whether his new strength could challenge the Ninth Restriction, whose power he had never witnessed.
• Bai Yunfei returned to the Scripture Pavilion covered in blood and told Lin Jiufeng that the Supreme Dao Sect’s eight disciples had nearly defeated him.
• Lin Jiufeng reassured Bai Yunfei, who congratulated him on breaking through and said the Feather Transformation Sect no longer needed to fear the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Lin Jiufeng cautioned Bai Yunfei to remain low-profile because the Supreme Dao Sect had an expert in the Ninth Restriction.

After Bai Yunfei returned to the Feather Transformation Sect, he told Lin Jiufeng that spiritual energy was increasing and powerful geniuses were appearing throughout the Cultivation World. Lin Jiufeng foresaw that rain would bring a surge of spiritual energy, and the chapter ended as his Rain Character Art infused the rain around the sect with it.

• Bai Yunfei washed up and told Lin Jiufeng about the rising strength of the Supreme Dao Sect, the Demonic Sect, the Buddhist Sect, and other forces.
• Lin Jiufeng and Bai Yunfei discussed the increasing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, the Feather Transformation Sect's future, and the threat of the Supreme Dao Sect's Ninth Restriction Ancestor.
• Lin Jiufeng told Bai Yunfei to tend to his injuries and hinted that rain the next day might help him break through the Ninth Restriction.
• The next day, Lin Jiufeng stood with White Fox before the Scripture Pavilion as rain fell over the Feather Transformation Sect.
• Lin Jiufeng traced a Rain Character Art into the downpour, causing spiritual energy throughout the sect to increase hundreds or thousands of times faster.

Lin Jiufeng drew down a vast surge of spiritual energy with the rain, helping the Feather Transformation Sect cultivate and stabilizing his Eighth Forbidden cultivation. After Bai Ling broke through to the Sixth Forbidden and Bai Yunfei welcomed her into the sect, Lin Jiufeng gave her a home in the Scripture Pavilion.

• Lin Jiufeng drew spiritual energy down with the rain, and Bai Yunfei realized his senior brother had caused the surge.
• Bai Yunfei, White Fox, Wen Xinyun's group, and Lin Jiufeng absorbed spiritual energy as the rain fell.
• After the rain ended, Lin Jiufeng told Bai Yunfei about White Fox's tragic past and her connection to Zhou Sheng.
• White Fox absorbed enough spiritual energy to break through the Fifth Forbidden and enter the Sixth Forbidden.
• Lin Jiufeng learned White Fox's name was Bai Ling, and Bai Yunfei welcomed her as a member of the Feather Transformation Sect.
• Lin Jiufeng invited Bai Ling to live in the Scripture Pavilion, and she followed him inside.

At the Feather Transformation Sect, Lin Jiufeng cultivated toward Flesh Energy Transformation while the Supreme Dao Sect struggled to explain the disappearance of eight Dao Ancestors. Lin Jiufeng completed the transformation using energy from all things, leaving the Supreme Dao Sect to await Old Ancestor Taixu’s return before confronting the sect again.

• True Person Taixuan learned that the Feather Transformation Sect was unharmed and killed a spy who could not explain where the eight missing Dao Ancestors had gone.
• True Person Taixuan and Daoist Changying speculated that an outside Ninth Restriction expert had helped the Feather Transformation Sect, then decided to report the matter to Old Ancestor Taixu after his seclusion ended.
• Lin Jiufeng meditated outside the Scripture Pavilion as Bai Ling watched him from the eaves.
• Lin Jiufeng drew on spiritual and stellar energy to complete Flesh Energy Transformation, gaining the ability to regenerate his flesh using any kind of energy.

After completing Flesh Energy Transformation, Lin Jiufeng entered the Feather Transformation Sect’s Mystic Realm with Bai Ling to study its books. He discovered an account of the Ten Great Kings from five thousand years ago and activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension, choosing to view a segment of time.

• Lin Jiufeng invited Bai Ling into the Scripture Pavilion and learned that her awakened Fox Clan bloodline inheritance had taught her about Mystic Realms.
• Lin Jiufeng brought Bai Ling into the Feather Transformation Sect’s Mystic Realm and told her to study the books there alongside knowledge from her inherited memories.
• Lin Jiufeng searched the archives for clues about cultivation five thousand years ago and found a book describing the Ten Great Kings.
• Lin Jiufeng read the names and fate of the Ten Great Kings, who had vanished after suppressing their era for eight hundred years.
• Lin Jiufeng activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension and chose to view the segment of time it revealed.

Lin Jiufeng witnessed a memory of the Ten Great Kings setting out for the Land of Fallen Immortals, then gained the Dao of Nature after a month of reading. When he returned to the Scripture Pavilion, he learned that someone from Wen Xinyun’s family had come to take her back.

• Lin Jiufeng saw King Yama summon the Ten Great Kings and propose exploring the Land of Fallen Immortals together.
• Lin Jiufeng concluded that the Ten Great Kings had entered the Land of Fallen Immortals and may have fallen there.
• Lin Jiufeng read in the Mystic Realm of the Feather Transformation Sect for a month and comprehended Dao of Nature.
• Lin Jiufeng left the Mystic Realm with Bai Ling and returned to the Scripture Pavilion.
• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that someone from Wen Xinyun’s family had come to take her back, leaving Wen Xinyun in tears.

Wen Xinyun told Lin Jiufeng and the others how the Wen Family abused her and how she escaped to join the Feather Transformation Sect. As Lin Jiufeng prepared to face the family’s four Eighth Forbidden experts, a Ninth Restriction expert appeared and overwhelmed Bai Yunfei.

• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that more than a dozen people from the Wen Family, including four Eighth Forbidden experts, had arrived and demanded Wen Xinyun’s return.
• Wen Xinyun insisted she would not leave the Feather Transformation Sect, and Lin Jiufeng reassured her that she was not a burden.
• Wen Xinyun described her birth in a coffin, her abuse in the Wen Family, and her escape hidden among goods being sent out.
• Yue Dashan and Zhou Tianzi vowed to protect Wen Xinyun, while Bai Yunfei revealed that the Wen Family had threatened the sect and would return the next morning.
• Bai Yunfei boasted that Lin Jiufeng had killed eight Eighth Forbidden Dao Ancestors and said he could handle the Wen Family’s four experts himself.
• A Ninth Restriction expert appeared beyond the Scripture Pavilion, and the pressure crushed Bai Yunfei’s chair and nearly forced him to his knees.

Wen Yuan arrived at the Feather Transformation Sect and demanded that his niece Wen Xinyun return to the Wen Family, threatening to destroy the sect when she refused. Lin Jiufeng challenged him and drew him away from the Scripture Pavilion to begin their battle.

• Wen Yuan’s Ninth Restriction pressure overwhelmed Bai Ling, but Lin Jiufeng shielded her and Bai Yunfei stood up to protect his disciples.
• Wen Yuan confronted Wen Xinyun and ordered her to return to the Wen Family; she refused and accused him of cruelty and greed.
• Wen Yuan threatened to raze the Feather Transformation Sect, and Bai Yunfei asked Lin Jiufeng to face the Ninth Restriction expert.
• Lin Jiufeng reassured Wen Xinyun, introduced himself to Wen Yuan, and declared that he would shatter the Ninth Restriction’s reputation for invincibility.
• Wen Yuan attacked Lin Jiufeng, who broke his spatial confinement and flew away to move their fight from the Scripture Pavilion.
• Wen Yuan pursued Lin Jiufeng, while Bai Yunfei gathered his three disciples and Bai Ling and followed them.

Lin Jiufeng drew Wen Yuan away from the Feather Transformation Sect and fought the Ninth Restriction expert, first overwhelming him with Dragon Elephant Power and then countering his Dragon Hide Drum with several Great Dao Visions. Wen Yuan was left dying in a deep pit, while Lin Jiufeng stood victorious.

• Lin Jiufeng led Wen Yuan a thousand miles away from the Feather Transformation Sect so their battle would not destroy it.
• Lin Jiufeng met Wen Yuan’s Ninth Restriction punch with Dragon Elephant Power and shattered his arm, forcing Wen Yuan to sever and reattach it with Flesh Energy Transformation.
• Wen Yuan used the Dragon Hide Drum to unleash waves of purple sound that suppressed Lin Jiufeng and cut apart a mountain peak.
• Lin Jiufeng summoned Moon Rises Over the Sea, then opened the Chronicle of Ages and stacked multiple Great Dao Visions to shatter Wen Yuan’s sound waves.
• Lin Jiufeng’s counterattack blasted Wen Yuan into a deep pit, pulverized his internal organs, and scattered his Primordial Spirit; Wen Yuan died in rage as Lin Jiufeng declared that the Eighth Restriction could defeat the Ninth.