Chapter Summaries

After Daoist Zisu’s defeat made Lin Jiufeng famous again, cultivators gathered outside the Feather Transformation Sect to see whether anyone could challenge him. Elder Liehuo of the Supreme Dao Sect arrived seeking revenge, but Lin Jiufeng destroyed him and his treasured swords with another strike of sword qi.

• Daoist Zisu praised Lin Jiufeng after a weed sent him flying, and the story spread throughout the Cultivation World.
• Lin Jiufeng anticipated that fame would draw crowds and wished he could avoid the attention.
• Cultivators gathered around the Feather Transformation Sect, where Elder Liehuo of the Supreme Dao Sect challenged Lin Jiufeng for revenge over the destruction of his sect.
• Elder Liehuo drew the Purple Green Twin Swords, but Lin Jiufeng’s sword qi swept him away and shattered both swords.

After Lin Jiufeng killed a Tenth Restriction expert with one sword, The Master suggested he might have reached the Eleventh Restriction, drawing the attention of the Southern Barbarian Wine Maniac. The Wine Maniac traveled to the Feather Transformation Sect to challenge him, and Lin Jiufeng prepared to see how strong his Martial Dao body techniques were.

• Lin Jiufeng killed Elder Liehuo of the Supreme Dao Sect with one strike of Great River sword qi, shocking the witnesses and spreading his fame.
• The Master said Lin Jiufeng had grown stronger and might have broken through to the Eleventh Restriction, setting off debate across the world.
• The Southern Barbarian Wine Maniac believed The Master and decided to leave the Southern Barbarian to challenge Lin Jiufeng and then seek out the other Ten Great Kings.
• The Wine Maniac bid farewell to the golden silk monkeys he had taught and flew toward the Feather Transformation Sect.
• The Wine Maniac announced his visit to Lin Jiufeng, who recognized that he cultivated Martial Dao body techniques and welcomed the chance to test his strength.

Southern Barbarian Wine Maniac challenged Lin Jiufeng to a Martial Dao duel at the Feather Transformation Sect, drawing the attention of powerful observers across the world. Lin Jiufeng easily overpowered his first attacks, and the Drunken Maniac escalated the fight with his Human Immortal Fist Technique.

• Southern Barbarian Wine Maniac arrived at the Feather Transformation Sect, while Zhou Tianzi, Yue Dashan, The Master, and other powerful figures watched from afar.
• Lin Jiufeng agreed to exchange pointers through Martial Dao and struck the Drunken Maniac with a punch that sent him crashing through more than ten mountain peaks.
• The Drunken Maniac attacked with the Great Desolation Thunderclap Fist, but Lin Jiufeng met his full-force punch without moving.
• The Drunken Maniac recognized the immense gap between them, then summoned the phantom of an Immortal and unleashed the Human Immortal Fist Technique.

Lin Jiufeng overwhelmed the Drunken Maniac after the latter summoned a Human Immortal Projection and unleashed his full strength. The Drunken Maniac ended the fight battered and unable to resist, while the spectators realized he had never been keeping pace with Lin Jiufeng.

• Lin Jiufeng explained the fearsome significance of the Drunken Maniac's Human Immortal Projection and said he would stop holding back.
• The Drunken Maniac attacked Lin Jiufeng with the Human Immortal Fist, but Lin Jiufeng's body endured the blow and injured the Drunken Maniac through recoil.
• The Drunken Maniac launched another powerful strike, and Lin Jiufeng met it with a punch powered by the God-Demon Body Refining Method.
• Lin Jiufeng pursued the Drunken Maniac and battered him with repeated blows, dispersing the Human Immortal Projection and cracking his body.
• The spectators realized the clangs they had mistaken for an even fight had been the sounds of Lin Jiufeng beating the Drunken Maniac.

Lin Jiufeng defeated Drunken Maniac and used the fight to redirect him onto the God-Demon Body Refining Method, leaving Drunken Maniac grateful but vulnerable to his enemies. As observers considered Lin Jiufeng’s strength, Master Wufa and Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist agreed to join forces and challenge him.

• Lin Jiufeng battered Drunken Maniac until the crowd thought he had killed him, but Drunken Maniac rose and thanked him for correcting his Martial Dao path.
• Lin Jiufeng explained that Drunken Maniac had followed a flawed body-refinement method, then gave him the God-Demon Body Refining Method and promised he would recover and advance.
• Drunken Maniac bowed to Lin Jiufeng and left to heal, while observers across the land discussed his likely future and the danger posed by his enemies.
• Old Dragon wondered how Lin Jiufeng could cultivate both Primordial Spirit and body refinement, while the Qilin considered him a suitable candidate.
• Master Wufa planned to challenge Lin Jiufeng, but Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist proposed joining him, and the two agreed to form a Buddhist-Dao alliance.

After helping Drunken Maniac reform his path, Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Human Immortal Fist and prepared to return to the Scripture Pavilion. Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist Zhou Yu and Master Wufa then joined forces to challenge him, unleashing a technique called Buddha is Dao.

• Lin Jiufeng watched Drunken Maniac depart and gained the Human Immortal Fist through Heaven-Defying Comprehension.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to study the Human Immortal Fist in the Scripture Pavilion because crowds and distant watchers surrounded the Feather Transformation Sect.
• Master Wufa arrived at the Feather Transformation Sect, drawing the attention of the gathered spectators.
• Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist arrived on his little donkey, introduced himself as Zhou Yu, and asked Lin Jiufeng for guidance.
• Zhou Yu joined forces with Master Wufa and formed Dao Ancestor and Buddha manifestations that both resembled Zhou Yu.

Lin Jiufeng faced Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa in a battle that exposed the overwhelming strength of his Dao Rhyme. The two geniuses risked leaving their bodies to unleash a combined technique, ending the chapter as their Twenty-Four Heavens shattered Lin Jiufeng’s bright moon.

• Lin Jiufeng recognized how Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist joined Buddhist and Daoist techniques, then saw that Master Wufa would fight alongside him.
• Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa moved the battle away from the Feather Transformation Sect and attacked Lin Jiufeng with the Buddha and Dao Ancestor and the Myriad Buddha Sacred Hall.
• Lin Jiufeng shattered both attacks with his Dao Rhyme Phenomenon, then used a Golden Lotus of the Eight Sufferings to overwhelm the Myriad Buddha Sacred Hall.
• Lin Jiufeng suppressed the spreading energy and asked whether the two had other methods, while choosing not to attack as they left their bodies and joined their Primordial Spirits.
• Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa summoned twenty-four incomplete worlds of heaven, which erupted with power and shattered the bright moon behind Lin Jiufeng.

Lin Jiufeng fought Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa as their Twenty-Four Heavens pressed against his Four Great Phenomena. When the technique began consuming their Primordial Spirit origins, Lin Jiufeng bore its full weight while an old man pulled them free, and Lin Jiufeng then split the Twenty-Four Heavens apart.

• Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa joined their Primordial Spirits to unleash the Twenty-Four Heavens against Lin Jiufeng, who used his Four Great Phenomena and Chronicle of Ages to resist.
• Lin Jiufeng welcomed the pressure and strengthened his damaged Moon Rises Over the Sea with the Daos he had comprehended.
• The Master, the Qilin, and the Old Dragon realized the Twenty-Four Heavens had begun absorbing Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa’s Primordial Spirit origins and forcing them to fight.
• Lin Jiufeng withdrew his Four Great Phenomena and bore the Twenty-Four Heavens with his body, urging Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa to escape.
• An old man entered despite the pressure and pulled out the two Primordial Spirits, while Lin Jiufeng gathered Demon God power and cleaved apart the Twenty-Four Heavens.

After shielding the spectators from the collapse of Twenty-Four Heavens, Lin Jiufeng recovered and gained the Great Law of the Heavens for saving Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa. The Master arrived, and Lin Jiufeng challenged him to a sparring match, eager to test his strength and gain new insights.

• The Master blocked the energy from Twenty-Four Heavens and saved the spectators as the ruined landscape settled around Lin Jiufeng.
• Lin Jiufeng recovered from his injuries and considered the flaws in Moon Rises Over the Sea after Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa had torn through it.
• Saving the two geniuses activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension, allowing Lin Jiufeng to comprehend the Great Law of the Heavens, which grew stronger by fusing cultivation paths and insights.
• The Master approached Lin Jiufeng, who recognized him as the renowned cultivator said to have spent Eleven Years of Heavenly Cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng invited The Master to spar, hoping to test his power and trigger Heaven-Defying Comprehension again.

Lin Jiufeng accepted the Master's unequal contest of Dao, learning that the Human World faced extermination by the Hundred Races in the Dimension Battlefield. The Master revealed that breaking the Eleventh Restriction was the only known way to escape, while Lin Jiufeng remained determined to find his own path.

• The Master refused to spar with Lin Jiufeng but invited him to a soul-level contest by creating a tiny Human World and a vastly stronger enemy.
• Lin Jiufeng accepted the contest and heard the Human Race's cries of despair as the Hundred Races hunted them beyond the Human World.
• The Master explained that the Human World was viewed as Blood Food by the Hundred Races, who ruled the Dimension Battlefield.
• The Master said the Path to Immortality was a trap and that breaking the Eleventh Restriction could shatter the boundary between the worlds.
• Lin Jiufeng admitted he had not broken the Eleventh Restriction because he wanted to achieve Enlightenment without relying on another person's Human Dao.
• The Master revealed that only a wisp of his Primordial Spirit had reached beyond the Human World and warned Lin Jiufeng that the outside world was not as good as he imagined.

Lin Jiufeng learned that the Path to Immortality was a trap leading to the Dimension Battlefield, where Alien Races raised those who entered as Blood Food. Using The Master's weak Human World Energy, he unleashed the Human World Sword and shattered The Master's vastly stronger enemy, winning their battle.

• The Master explained that the Path to Immortality led into the Dimension Battlefield and that only those who broke the Human World's upper limit could survive.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to use the Human World Energy in his hand to fight The Master's enemy and drew on his Human World Sword technique.
• Lin Jiufeng's sword revealed scenes of ordinary people's lives and gathered the Human World's joys and sorrows into its power.
• The Master overwhelmed Lin Jiufeng's sword with the enemy's vastly greater energy, but Lin Jiufeng's remaining Sword Qi broke through and shattered the enemy.
• The Master bowed to Lin Jiufeng and admitted defeat.

After defeating The Master, Lin Jiufeng learned about the Dimension Battlefield and the Human Race’s suffering there. As he began to consider how to break through the Eleventh Restriction, a Qilin from the Ten Great Kings arrived to speak with him.

• The Master conceded defeat to Lin Jiufeng, praised his Human World Sword, and warned him to break through in the Human World rather than enter the Dimension Battlefield through the Path to Immortality.
• Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa thanked Lin Jiufeng for saving them, then left as word of his victories spread and he became known as God Among Mortals.
• Back at the Scripture Pavilion, Lin Jiufeng asked White Fox about the Dimension Battlefield, and she shared memories of its dangers and the Human Race’s low status among the Hundred Races.
• Lin Jiufeng examined White Fox’s memories and learned that powerful experts and constant warfare filled the Dimension Battlefield, while the Human Race was routinely bullied.
• As Lin Jiufeng prepared to cultivate, a Qilin from the Ten Great Kings appeared outside the window and asked to speak with him.

The Sacred Beast Qilin visited Lin Jiufeng and asked him to help open the Land of Fallen Immortals, where his parents’ bodies lay. Lin Jiufeng agreed in exchange for the Qilin’s knowledge of the Dimension Battlefield, and they prepared to pursue the hidden ruin together.

• White Fox recognized the Qilin as a Sacred Beast, and he identified her as a Nine-Tailed Fox with Bloodline Reversion.
• The Qilin explained that his father had summoned the Land of Fallen Immortals to destroy the Hundred Races pursuing him, then died alongside the Qilin’s mother.
• The Qilin revealed that the ruin had fallen into the Human World and was now hidden within the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Ice Mountain of the Northern Glacier.
• The Qilin asked Lin Jiufeng to help open the ruin because his current strength was insufficient, and Lin Jiufeng agreed after learning that the Qilin sought his parents’ bodies.
• Lin Jiufeng asked the Qilin to tell him about the Dimension Battlefield as payment for his help.

Lin Jiufeng learned from the Qilin that the Path to Immortality was a trap and that the Human Race was in danger in the Dimension Battlefield. He traveled with the Qilin to the Land of Fallen Immortals in the far north, where observing the Qilin Sacred Fire let him comprehend the Way of Fire.

• Lin Jiufeng asked the Qilin about the Dimension Battlefield, and the Qilin warned that the Path to Immortality was a trap designed to kill Human Race experts entering it.
• The Qilin explained that the Human Race was bullied in the Dimension Battlefield and that a Two-Realm Teleportation Array could help Feather Transformation Sect disciples reach it.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Qilin set out for the Land of Fallen Immortals, leaving the White Fox behind at home.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Qilin flew north to the Extreme North Icefield, where the Qilin said the Land of Fallen Immortals lay beneath a thousand zhang of ice and snow.
• The Qilin used his Qilin Sacred Fire to melt through the ice, and Lin Jiufeng observed the flames and comprehended the Way of Fire.

Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin found the Immortal Burial Ground beneath the glacier and forced open its gates. After surveying the frozen corpses inside, they reached the central coffin, only to find it empty.

• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin descended through the glacier and found the hidden Immortal Burial Ground.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin mourned at the sealed gates, then asked Lin Jiufeng to help him open them.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin used their strength to force the gates wide enough to enter.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin showed Lin Jiufeng the frozen corpses of members of the Hundred Races and described how his father had slain some of them.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin opened the coffin at the center of the Immortal Burial Ground, and Lin Jiufeng saw that it was empty.

Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin explored the Immortal Burial Ground, where they discovered that the Qilin’s parents had left for the Heavenly Realm through the Sky-Opening Well. Reflecting on time’s power to erode all things, Lin Jiufeng entered Enlightenment and comprehended a wisp of the Dao of Time.

• The Sacred Beast Qilin found the central Coffin empty, and he and Lin Jiufeng began searching the Immortal Burial Ground for his parents.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin read Ancient Demon Script describing the rise and fall of the Demon Court, the Qilin’s retreat, and the Human Race’s brief rise.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin found the Medicine Field depleted of Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Medicines and searched the empty halls.
• In the final grand hall, the Sacred Beast Qilin found his father’s Blood Letter explaining that he had taken the Qilin’s mother through the Sky-Opening Well to the Heavenly Realm in search of hope.
• After the Sacred Beast Qilin mourned at the Blood-Colored Stele, Lin Jiufeng contemplated how time destroyed all things and comprehended a wisp of the Dao of Time.

Lin Jiufeng comprehended a wisp of the Dao of Time as Sacred Beast Qilin prepared to leave the Immortal Burial Ground. Before departing, Qilin gave Lin Jiufeng a Sacred Fire Baptism that greatly strengthened his body, then went with him to the Feather Transformation Sect to recover.

• Lin Jiufeng comprehended a wisp of the Dao of Time, which let him accelerate or slow time within an area by tenfold.
• Sacred Beast Qilin explained that the Immortal Burial Ground and Replica of Ancient Artifact Sky-Opening Well would remain in the Human World, then told Lin Jiufeng he owed him a favor.
• Sacred Beast Qilin called Lin Jiufeng his first friend and baptized him with Qilin Sacred Fire, cleansing and strengthening his body until his God-Demon Power rose from one strand to two.
• Exhausted by the baptism, Sacred Beast Qilin agreed to recover at the Feather Transformation Sect, and Lin Jiufeng carried him there.
• White Fox worried that Qilin was injured, and Lin Jiufeng explained that Qilin had given him the clan's Sacred Fire Baptism because he considered him a friend.

Lin Jiufeng used the Dao of Time to complete the Human Dao he needed and break through to the Eleventh Restriction. As his expanded Primordial Spirit surveyed powerful figures across the world, the Old Dragon of the South detected him and shouted at the unseen watcher.

• Lin Jiufeng engraved a wisp of the Dao of Time into his Chronicle of Ages, filling the missing Human Dao needed for his breakthrough.
• The White Fox and Sacred Beast Qilin guarded Lin Jiufeng while he repeatedly assaulted the Eleventh Restriction within his time-altered space.
• After hundreds of attempts, Lin Jiufeng broke through to the Eleventh Restriction, and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy strengthened his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Lin Jiufeng's Primordial Spirit surveyed Zhou Tianzi, Yue Dashan, The Master, and the Old Dragon of the South without being noticed by most of them.
• The Old Dragon of the South sensed Lin Jiufeng watching him and shouted at the unseen observer.

Lin Jiufeng broke through to the Eleventh Restriction and immediately reached the realm of Manifesting Spells with a Single Thought. He chose to remain in the Human World for now, planning to strengthen his Dao and help the Sacred Beast Qilin and White Fox recover.

• Old Dragon of the South sensed an Eleventh Restriction cultivator and suspected that God Among Mortals had broken through.
• Lin Jiufeng emerged from ten years of cultivation as the flowers and trees around the Scripture Pavilion flourished.
• Lin Jiufeng explained that the Eleventh Restriction let him perceive the Dao within all things, and his thoughts made flowers cycle through life and water embody the Great River Sword Dao.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin identified Lin Jiufeng's achievement as Manifesting Spells with a Single Thought, a realm most cultivators took centuries to reach.
• Lin Jiufeng declined to enter the Dimension Battlefield yet and offered to help the Sacred Beast Qilin and White Fox recover over the next six months.

Lin Jiufeng learned that the Alien King had attacked the already wounded Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa, and planned to target Drunken Maniac next. Wen Xinyun set out to kill the Alien King after Lin Jiufeng imparted the Life and Death Sword to her.

• Lin Jiufeng tended to the Sacred Beast Qilin and White Fox before sharing a quiet tea with them at the Scripture Pavilion.
• Wen Xinyun visited Lin Jiufeng and told him that the Alien King had avoided challenging the Sacred Beast Qilin, then attacked Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa while they were injured.
• Wen Xinyun said the Alien King planned to kill Drunken Maniac, and she resolved to stop him herself.
• Lin Jiufeng imparted Grass Wood Daoist's Life and Death Sword to Wen Xinyun, who then descended the mountain to confront the Alien King.