Chapter Summaries

Wen Yang revealed the Wen Family’s betrayal of Wen Xinyun’s parents and asked her to disperse her cultivation to help free the family from its sealed Mystic Realm. Lin Jiufeng interrupted before she could decide, and Wen Xinyun found comfort in his protection.

• Wen Yang told Wen Xinyun that her mother had disappeared after giving birth to her and explained how Wen Ting’s resentment toward her father led him to mistreat the family.
• Wen Yang admitted the Wen Family wanted Wen Xinyun to disperse her cultivation to help break the Mystic Realm’s seal, offering an Immortal Fruit and news of her mother in return.
• Wen Xinyun refused to sacrifice her cultivation, and Lin Jiufeng called her to join him for tea before Wen Yang could persuade her further.
• Lin Jiufeng and White Fox discussed Wen Xinyun’s history and the Painted Skin Scholar’s connection to the Wen Family’s sealed Mystic Realm.
• Wen Xinyun reached the Scripture Pavilion in tears, and Lin Jiufeng comforted her and promised to handle everything.

Wen Xinyun learned that the Wen Family was withholding news of her mother to force her to disperse her cultivation, so Lin Jiufeng promised to negotiate with Wen Yang. While preparing for the meeting, Lin Jiufeng studied ways to break through the Tenth Restriction, comprehended the Gate of Myriad Laws, and reached the peak of the Ninth Restriction.

• Wen Xinyun broke down in Lin Jiufeng's arms after explaining that Wen Yang had tied news of her mother to her agreeing to disperse her cultivation.
• Bai Yunfei, Old Yang, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan discussed the Wen Family's threat, and Lin Jiufeng arranged to meet Wen Yang at the Scripture Pavilion the next day.
• Lin Jiufeng asked White Fox to share her inherited methods for breaking through the Tenth Restriction, which required opening a Primordial Spirit World in the Sea of Consciousness.
• Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Gate of Myriad Laws, a power that absorbed his cultivation techniques and combined their strength.
• The Gate of Myriad Laws transformed Lin Jiufeng's body and raised his cultivation to the peak of the Ninth Restriction.

Lin Jiufeng received Wen Yang, who sought Wen Xinyun’s help breaking the seal on the Wen Family Mystic Realm before the coming Cultivation Golden Age and the return of the Path to Immortality. Lin Jiufeng agreed to consider the request after inspecting the Wen Family’s Dragon Root.

• Lin Jiufeng welcomed Wen Yang to the Scripture Pavilion and hosted him for tea with Wen Xinyun.
• Wen Yang asked Wen Xinyun to help the Wen Family, offering a five-thousand-year-old Immortal Herb and the chance to reunite with her mother.
• Wen Yang explained that the Wen Family needed to enter its Mystic Realm because the Path to Immortality was expected to return with the Cultivation Golden Age.
• Wen Yang identified the family’s Immortal Herb as the Dragon Root, which could improve a cultivator’s foundation, talent, and cultivation.
• Wen Xinyun said she would follow Lin Jiufeng’s judgment, and he asked Wen Yang to bring the Dragon Root for inspection.

Lin Jiufeng verified the Wen Family’s Dragon Root and learned that the loosened seal meant Wen Xinyun could return before reaching the peak of the Ninth Restriction. After comprehending a powerful Dao Art, he agreed to accompany her to the Wen Family Mystic Realm and set out with Wen Yang to break the seal.

• Lin Jiufeng learned from the White Fox how to identify genuine Dragon Root and comprehended Basic Alchemy while studying immortal herbs.
• While contemplating flowers and clouds, Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Dao Art One Thought Flower Bloom, Reign Over the World, and remained in Enlightenment for three days.
• Wen Yang brought the Dragon Root to Lin Jiufeng, who tested it and confirmed it was genuine and of good quality.
• Wen Yang explained that the loosened seal no longer required Wen Xinyun to reach the peak of the Ninth Restriction before returning to the Mystic Realm.
• Lin Jiufeng agreed to accompany Wen Xinyun, keep the Dragon Root, and prevent the Wen Family from approaching her until the seal was broken.
• Lin Jiufeng left with Wen Xinyun and Wen Yang for the Wen Family Mystic Realm after asking Bai Yunfei to watch over the Feather Transformation Sect.

Lin Jiufeng followed Wen Yang to the Wen Family Mystic Realm while cultivating the Methods of Longevity, then watched Wen Xinyun disperse her cultivation to break the seal. As the Wen Family’s imprisoned Tenth Restriction cultivators emerged, Lin Jiufeng demanded that Wen Yang reveal where Wen Xinyun’s Mother was.

• Lin Jiufeng flew with Wen Xinyun behind Wen Yang and comprehended the Methods of Longevity, which he cultivated during the journey.
• Wen Yang led Lin Jiufeng and Wen Xinyun to the gateway of the Wen Family Mystic Realm and offered to reveal Wen Xinyun’s Mother’s whereabouts after the seal was broken.
• Wen Xinyun pressed her hand to the gateway and dispersed her Seventh Restriction cultivation to erode its Formation Runes.
• Lin Jiufeng caught the weakened Wen Xinyun as powerful tremors shook the realm and the imprisoned Wen Family members celebrated their release.
• Lin Jiufeng demanded that Wen Yang tell him where Wen Xinyun’s Mother was, and Wen Xinyun watched Wen Yang for his answer.

Lin Jiufeng confronted the Wen Family after they broke their promise to provide the Dragon Root and reveal Wen Xinyun's mother's whereabouts. He defeated Wen Shisan, a Tenth Restriction expert, and left him fallen after a fatal sword strike.

• Wen Shisan demanded the Dragon Root and declared that Wen Xinyun should sacrifice herself for the Wen Family, while Wen Yang stayed silent.
• Lin Jiufeng comforted Wen Xinyun and condemned Wen Yang for persuading her to disperse her cultivation.
• Wen Shisan threatened Lin Jiufeng and Wen Xinyun, then attacked with his Palm Thought.
• Lin Jiufeng countered with One Thought Flower Bloom, Reign Over the World, shattered the Mystic Realm entrance, and injured Wen Shisan.
• Lin Jiufeng struck Wen Shisan with Immortal Slaying Sword Strike, which pierced his defenses and caused him to fall.

Lin Jiufeng confronted the Wen Family after Wen Shisan attacked him and reneged on the family’s promises to Wen Xinyun. He unleashed four Dao Rhyme Phenomena, leaving the six Tenth Restriction experts kneeling beneath their force.

• Lin Jiufeng killed Wen Shisan with one sword strike after Wen Shisan went back on the Wen Family’s word.
• Six Tenth Restriction experts emerged from the Wen Family Mystic Realm, surrounded Lin Jiufeng, and challenged him over Wen Shisan’s death.
• Lin Jiufeng accused the Wen Family of betraying Wen Xinyun after she dispersed her cultivation to break their seal, and demanded an explanation.
• Lin Jiufeng unleashed Moon Rises Over the Sea, knocking Wen Yang unconscious and trapping the six experts within the phenomenon.
• Lin Jiufeng added Golden Lotus in the Sea of Suffering, Fish Leaps in the Sea of Time, and Flower Blooms in the Other Shore Sky, forcing all six experts to their knees.

Lin Jiufeng forced the Wen Family ancestors to reveal that Wen Xinyun's mother might still be alive and helped Wen Xinyun retrieve her parents' belongings. He punished the Wen Family for breaking its promise and left with Wen Xinyun, while the ancestors prepared to send their books to the Feather Transformation Sect.

• Lin Jiufeng used his Four Great Phenomena to suppress the six Wen Family ancestors and asked Wen Xinyun how she wanted to deal with them.
• The Wen Family ancestors said Wen Xinyun's mother had feigned her death and that her unbroken jade token suggested she was still alive.
• Wen Xinyun asked to take her parents' belongings from the Wen Family Mystic Realm, and Lin Jiufeng collected them for her.
• Lin Jiufeng ordered the Wen Family to execute Wen Ting and send its entire book collection to the Feather Transformation Sect as an apology.
• Lin Jiufeng left with Wen Xinyun after learning the Wen Family had one more sleeping Tenth Restriction ancestor; the remaining ancestors blamed Wen Shisan and arranged to send the books.

Lin Jiufeng used the Dragon Root to heal Wen Xinyun and restore her strength after she dispersed her cultivation. After learning what had happened on his journey, the Feather Transformation Sect cut ties with the Wen Family, and Lin Jiufeng urged the others to cultivate.

• Lin Jiufeng returned to the Feather Transformation Sect with unconscious Wen Xinyun and used the Dragon Root's energy to treat her safely.
• After five days, Wen Xinyun woke feeling much better, and Lin Jiufeng told her to rest until her cultivation recovered.
• White Fox told Lin Jiufeng that Wen Yang had delivered several hundred chests of compensation from the Wen Family and left without meeting him.
• Bai Yunfei, Old Yang, Yue Dashan, and Zhou Tianzi gathered, and Lin Jiufeng recounted how the Wen Family had treated Wen Xinyun.
• Bai Yunfei declared that the Feather Transformation Sect would have no further dealings with the Wen Family, and Yue Dashan and Zhou Tianzi went to cultivate after Lin Jiufeng warned that Wen Xinyun would soon surpass them.

Lin Jiufeng read Ancestor Wen’s memoirs about the Painted Skin Scholar, learning how the Wen Family Mystic Realm was created and how the Ten Great Kings gained their name. The memoir left the Painted Skin Scholar’s fate uncertain, but Lin Jiufeng’s reflections activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension and revealed a fragment of the Path to Immortality.

• Lin Jiufeng moved the Wen Family’s ancient books to a room by the cliff and began reading Ancestor Wen’s memoirs.
• Ancestor Wen recalled meeting the Painted Skin Scholar as a child and traveling with him for ten years before the Scholar painted the Wen Family Mystic Realm into existence.
• The Painted Skin Scholar left the Mystic Realm to contend with heavenly geniuses above the North Sea, where he and nine others became known as the Ten Great Kings.
• After fifty years of Secluded Cultivation, the Painted Skin Scholar left for the Immortal Burial Ground, saying he sought a place where one could become immortal.
• Lin Jiufeng pondered whether the Ten Great Kings had perished or escaped through the Immortal Burial Ground, and Heaven-Defying Comprehension granted him a fragment of the Path to Immortality.

Lin Jiufeng witnessed the truth behind the chaos three thousand years ago: Daoist Taiyi had slaughtered countless cultivators to draw down the Path to Immortality and pursue the Eleventh Restriction. Furious at the Supreme Dao Sect, Lin Jiufeng broke through to the Tenth Restriction and prepared to strike it with his Human World Sword.

• Lin Jiufeng saw Daoist Taiyi recover from a wound inflicted by the Grass Wood Daoist and reveal his plan to use mass killings and an array to draw down the Path to Immortality.
• Daoist Taiyi said the Grass Wood Daoist had shattered his Primordial Spirit, thwarting his attempt to break through the Eleventh Restriction, and vowed to awaken in three thousand years.
• Lin Jiufeng realized the Supreme Dao Sect had concealed its founder’s crimes and learned that Daoist Taiyi had caused the chaos of three thousand years ago.
• Grieving for the victims, Lin Jiufeng vowed to attack the Supreme Dao Sect and drew on the Grasswood Sword Technique and other sword arts to form his Human World Sword.
• Lin Jiufeng broke through the Ninth Restriction to the Tenth Restriction and slashed his Human World Sword toward the Supreme Dao Sect.

Lin Jiufeng broke through to the Tenth Restriction and sent a Human World Sword across continents to destroy the Supreme Dao Sect. Daoist Taiyi survived the strike long enough to recognize Lin Jiufeng as Grass Wood Daoist.

• Lin Jiufeng broke through the Tenth Restriction and poured his new power into the Human World Sword, sending it toward the Supreme Dao Sect.
• The Supreme Dao Sect's elders learned that their founding patriarch, Daoist Taiyi, had reached the Tenth Restriction and was sealed in the Black Palace.
• The Supreme Dao Sect's leaders awakened Daoist Taiyi, who emerged from Secluded Cultivation and promised to destroy the Feather Transformation Sect after resting.
• Lin Jiufeng's sword qi struck and annihilated the Supreme Dao Sect's mountain range, while Daoist Taiyi barely protected himself.
• Lin Jiufeng's sword qi formed a human figure, and Daoist Taiyi cried out, recognizing him as Grass Wood Daoist.

Lin Jiufeng’s Human World Sword summoned Grass Wood Daoist’s lingering consciousness to face Daoist Taiyi. Grass Wood Daoist struck with the Human Dao, shattered Daoist Taiyi’s Primordial Spirit, and sent a final sword qi toward the Feather Transformation Sect before vanishing.

• Daoist Taiyi recognized Grass Wood Daoist as a wisp of consciousness summoned through Lin Jiufeng’s perfected Grasswood Sword Technique.
• Grass Wood Daoist revealed that he had comprehended the Human Dao over three thousand years and challenged Daoist Taiyi to accept his sword.
• Daoist Taiyi unleashed the Three Invincible Venerables and then his Twelve Worlds, but Grass Wood Daoist’s sword overwhelmed both defenses.
• Grass Wood Daoist pierced Daoist Taiyi’s brow and pinned his Primordial Spirit, destroying the Twelve Worlds and leaving Daoist Taiyi near death.
• Grass Wood Daoist acknowledged Lin Jiufeng’s role, sent a strand of Human Dao sword qi toward the Feather Transformation Sect, and vanished.

Grass Wood Daoist passed Lin Jiufeng the Life and Death Sword, revealing that comprehending the Human Dao was essential to breaking through the Eleventh Restriction. After the Feather Transformation Sect learned that Lin Jiufeng had destroyed the Supreme Dao Sect, he returned to studying the sword and planning his cultivation.

• Grass Wood Daoist transmitted the Life and Death Sword to Lin Jiufeng and explained its connection to the Human Dao and the Eleventh Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng spent the night learning the sword’s basics, then returned to his study to contemplate it.
• Bai Yunfei and the Feather Transformation Sect’s leaders arrived with news that the Supreme Dao Sect had been destroyed.
• Lin Jiufeng admitted that he had destroyed the sect with a sword strike from the Scripture Pavilion and confirmed he had reached the Tenth Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng sent the group away and resolved to cultivate in seclusion, raising his Dao Rhymes toward the Human Dao and eventually seeking the Path to Immortality and Dimension Battlefield.

In the Scripture Pavilion, Lin Jiufeng learned from White Fox’s inherited memories about the Tenth Restriction and discovered the path of Body Cultivators. After comprehending the God-Demon Body Refining Method, he began reshaping his body through its fist technique, leaving his strength diminished for now but his potential greatly increased.

• Lin Jiufeng learned that the Tenth Restriction focused on the Primordial Spirit ascending the nine heavens of the Spirit Platform, and confirmed his own Primordial Spirit had not yet ascended.
• White Fox shared inherited memories describing Body Cultivators, who pursued strength by tempering their physical bodies instead of cultivating their Primordial Spirits.
• Lin Jiufeng’s Heaven-Defying Comprehension granted him the God-Demon Body Refining Method after he became interested in body cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to replace Dragon Elephant Power with the God-Demon Body Refining Method and began practicing its fist technique beneath the night sky.
• God-Demon Qi devoured Lin Jiufeng’s Dragon Elephant Power, formed an ancient God-Demon phantom in his dantian, and began transforming his body and innate bones.

Lin Jiufeng spent ten years cultivating in the Scripture Pavilion, reaching the peak of the Tenth Restriction and strengthening his body and Primordial Spirit. As the outside world changed under surging spiritual energy and the emergence of the Great Dao, he learned that Wen Xinyun had also broken through to the Tenth Restriction.

• Wen Xinyun recovered and rapidly broke through the Forbidden Realms, reaching the Ninth Restriction within a year.
• Zhou Tianzi and Yue Dashan left the Feather Transformation Sect to travel and pursue their own paths in martial arts, and Lin Jiufeng sent Wen Xinyun out to see the world as well.
• Lin Jiufeng and White Fox spent the next ten years cultivating and living together in the Scripture Pavilion.
• After ten years, Lin Jiufeng comprehended Heavenly Heart Consciousness and reached the peak of the Tenth Restriction, while his Primordial Spirit became a vast ocean and his body grew vastly stronger.
• White Fox reached the peak of the Ninth Restriction but remained unable to take human form, and Lin Jiufeng reassured her that he treated her as family.
• Lin Jiufeng told White Fox that Wen Xinyun had reached the Tenth Restriction as spiritual energy surged and the Great Dao emerged.

Eleven years after Lin Jiufeng’s sword qi ushered in a Cultivation Golden Age, Bai Yunfei visited him to announce he wanted to leave the Feather Transformation Sect’s leadership and focus on cultivation. Lin Jiufeng supported his decision, and Bai Yunfei named Bai Liu as his successor, with the handover set for three months later.

• Eleven years after Lin Jiufeng shattered the spiritual-energy shackles, the Human World entered a Cultivation Golden Age, and Tenth Restriction experts became common among first-rate powers.
• Lin Jiufeng practiced his fists when Bai Yunfei arrived at the Scripture Pavilion for the first time in ten years.
• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that he wanted to step down as Sect Master after rebuilding the Feather Transformation Sect, so he could pursue cultivation again.
• Bai Yunfei explained that Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan had all reached the Tenth Restriction while he remained at the Ninth Restriction.
• Bai Yunfei named Bai Liu, the sentient willow tree who had risen to the Ninth Restriction, as his successor, and set the handover ceremony for three months later.

Lin Jiufeng learned from Bai Yunfei about the current Cultivation World's Ten Great Kings and the remarkable deeds that earned several of them places on the list. Bai Yunfei had described the first six, leaving Lin Jiufeng curious about the remaining kings.

• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that Zhou Tianzi had subdued the Demonic Sect and broken through the Tenth Restriction, while Yue Dashan had built a fearsome reputation through years of undefeated battles.
• Bai Yunfei explained that Zhou Tianzi, the Drunken Maniac of the Southern Barbarian, and the Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist were the first three Ten Great Kings.
• Bai Yunfei named Wen Xinyun as the fourth king, citing her defeat of five Tenth Restriction experts and mastery of the Grasswood Sword Technique.
• Bai Yunfei recounted how Master Wufa had challenged Buddhist authority, broken the Eighteen Arhats' formation, and left Great Leiyin Temple, earning his place as the fifth king.
• Lin Jiufeng agreed with Master Wufa's defiance of the divide between immortals and common people.
• Bai Yunfei described the Alien King, the sixth king, whose battle with the Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist in Jiaxing ended without a victor.

Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng about the Ten Great Kings, including The Master, Yue Dashan, the Qilin, and the injured Old Dragon of the South. He then revealed that the Cultivation World placed Lin Jiufeng above them, calling him God Among Mortals.

• Bai Yunfei explained that The Master had taught for three hundred years and was rumored to have opened the Heavenly Gate.
• Bai Yunfei described Yue Dashan’s ten-thousand-bolt Thunder Tribulation in the North Sea and said he had survived it.
• Bai Yunfei identified the ninth king as the grown Qilin once hunted by the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Bai Yunfei named the final king Old Dragon of the South, a severely injured True Dragon who had devoured the Whale Dragon of the South Sea.
• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that people in the Cultivation World called him God Among Mortals and regarded him as above the Ten Great Kings.

Lin Jiufeng learned that The Master and his former martial nephews had spread his reputation as the God Among Mortals, drawing a challenge to Feather Transformation Sect. He left the challenger alive but sent him flying with a weed turned into sword qi.

• Bai Yunfei told Lin Jiufeng that The Master had praised his sword strike against the Supreme Dao Sect and called him the God Among Mortals.
• Bai Yunfei explained that Wen Xinyun, Zhou Tianzi, and Yue Dashan had publicly praised Lin Jiufeng, fueling debate and spreading his title.
• Daoist Zisu of the Zichuan Dao Sect arrived at Feather Transformation Sect and repeatedly called for the God Among Mortals to face him.
• Lin Jiufeng flicked a weed at Daoist Zisu, turning it into sword qi that blasted him thousands of miles away and left him wounded but alive.