Chapter Summaries

Wen Xinyun went to Cang Mountain and killed the Alien King with Lin Jiufeng’s Life and Death Sword, but her strike split open the Dimension Battlefield and freed something trapped inside. Lin Jiufeng sensed the disaster and exclaimed that Wen Xinyun had caused trouble.

• Wen Xinyun left the Feather Transformation Sect to confront the Alien King, while Lin Jiufeng trusted her to win.
• The Alien King prepared to hunt the injured Drunken Maniac after recovering from his failed attempt to devour the Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist and Master Wufa.
• Wen Xinyun attacked the Alien King at Cang Mountain and defeated his Heaven Swallowing Great Law with the Life and Death Sword.
• Wen Xinyun’s sword killed the Alien King and split Cang Mountain, breaking open the weakest point of the Dimension Battlefield.
• Voices from beyond the breach celebrated their escape, and Lin Jiufeng realized Wen Xinyun had caused trouble.

Wen Xinyun's strike opened a breach between the Human World and the Dimension Prison, allowing dangerous prisoners to escape. Lin Jiufeng protected the Old Dragon and the others as they began repairing the rift, while escaped criminals gathered nearby.

• The top experts of the Human World sensed the crisis and rushed toward Northern Cang Mountain.
• Demon kings surrounded Wen Xinyun, but the Old Dragon arrived and shattered their demonic energy; Lin Jiufeng then killed the three demon kings when they attacked the dragon.
• The Old Dragon explained that Wen Xinyun's strike had opened a breach into the Dimension Prison, and The Master, Yue Dashan, Zhou Tianzi, the Sacred Beast Qilin, and White Fox joined the effort to repair it.
• Escaped criminals attacked the Old Dragon to stop the repair, but Lin Jiufeng drove them back and killed them with the Life and Death Sword.
• Lin Jiufeng revealed his Eleventh Restriction cultivation to deter the escaped prisoners while the Ten Great Kings helped the Old Dragon repair the rift.

Lin Jiufeng and Old Dragon repaired the rift to the Dimension Prison after Lin Jiufeng killed a powerful escapee and drove the others away. Learning the escapees threatened the Human World, Lin Jiufeng decided to force them to ascend into the Dimension Battlefield.

• Many Dimension Prison escapees fled rather than fight Lin Jiufeng while Old Dragon began repairing the rift.
• When a one-eyed Giant challenged him, Lin Jiufeng killed him with the Human World Sword in a single strike, causing the remaining prisoners to flee.
• Lin Jiufeng lent Old Dragon his energy, and Old Dragon sealed the rift completely.
• Old Dragon explained that the Dimension Prison moved around the Dimension Battlefield, so Wen Xinyun would not be able to reopen the rift with another sword strike.
• Old Dragon warned that the escaped Hundred Races criminals would prey on the Human Race, and Lin Jiufeng vowed to make them ascend into the Dimension Battlefield or die.

After escaped Dimension Prison prisoners began massacring people, Lin Jiufeng killed a werewolf and forced a watching Skeleton Race expert to ascend to the Dimension Battlefield. The Skeleton Race expert entered the spatial passage after threatening to meet him again there.

• A werewolf slaughtered a town and rushed toward another settlement, while Lin Jiufeng sensed the killings and raced to stop it.
• Lin Jiufeng attacked the werewolf with his Life and Death Sword and devoured its Primordial Spirit with his Nascent Soul Flower, killing it.
• Lin Jiufeng detected a Skeleton Race expert watching from a hundred li away and confronted it.
• Lin Jiufeng told the Skeleton Race expert to ascend or die, and it agreed to ascend rather than fight him.
• The Skeleton Race expert opened a spatial passage to the Dimension Battlefield and entered it under Lin Jiufeng's watch.

Lin Jiufeng forced the escaped prisoners from the Dimension Prison to ascend or killed them when they resisted. After learning the Ascension Technique, he continued hunting down the prisoners and left to confront more of them.

• Lin Jiufeng watched the Skeleton Race expert ascend and comprehended the Ascension Technique, which could help others ascend quickly.
• Lin Jiufeng found the Flame Giant slaughtering humans in a town and killed him with a single strike.
• Lin Jiufeng confronted prisoners recovering on a mountain and killed the Winged Man after he attacked with the Mountain Embracing Seal.
• Lin Jiufeng gave the remaining prisoners three breaths to ascend; one threatened to remember God Among Mortals before entering the Ascension Passage, and another followed.
• Lin Jiufeng headed toward the next group of escaped prisoners.

Lin Jiufeng spent months hunting the Dimension Prison prisoners, killing or forcing hundreds to ascend while strengthening his cultivation and Dao Rhymes. When the remaining Hundred Race Experts surrounded him, he provoked Heaven and Earth’s lightning tribulation, drawing the entire group into its strike.

• Lin Jiufeng hunted escaped Dimension Prison prisoners across the Human World, killing those who caused harm and forcing the others to ascend.
• As Lin Jiufeng fought, his cultivation and Dao Rhymes advanced, and his vicious reputation made the remaining prisoners submit without fighting.
• Over three months, Lin Jiufeng killed three hundred prisoners and sent more than six hundred ascending.
• More than a dozen Hundred Race Experts joined forces, surrounded Lin Jiufeng, and threatened to kill him so they could remain in the Human World.
• Lin Jiufeng released his full power, triggered Heaven and Earth’s warning, and invited the Hundred Race Experts to undergo tribulation as lightning engulfed the region.

Lin Jiufeng trapped the escaped Hundred Races criminals inside his Four Great Phenomena and forced them to face his Thunder Tribulation with him. The criminals died beneath the Heavenly Punishment, leaving Lin Jiufeng alone to endure the unprecedented lightning and temper his body and Primordial Spirit.

• Lin Jiufeng used his Four Great Phenomena to block the Hundred Races criminals from escaping as the Thunder Tribulation expanded across a thousand miles.
• The bull-headed Hundred Races expert attacked Lin Jiufeng, but Lin Jiufeng countered with the Ten Palaces Yama and struck him down with Mountain Lean.
• The Thunder Tribulation descended on Lin Jiufeng and the criminals, and Lin Jiufeng used the God-Demon Body Refining Method to withstand and absorb its force.
• A Divine Sea of lightning overwhelmed the criminals, killing them all while Lin Jiufeng survived.
• Lin Jiufeng faced the remaining Doomsday Punishment alone, focusing his energy as he tempered his body and Primordial Spirit with lightning.

Lin Jiufeng endured a vast Thunder Tribulation by tempering his body and Primordial Spirit, then gained the Great Dao of Lightning as the Great Dao sent attacks formed from the memories of ancient predecessors. He defeated the True Martial Emperor, Sage Preaching the Dao, and Immortal Descending to the World, standing amid the continuing tribulation.

• Lin Jiufeng absorbed the first layer of lightning with his body and Primordial Spirit, growing stronger as he endured it.
• The Thunder Tribulation intensified and manifested attacks depicting True Martial Subduing Demons, Sage Preaching the Dao, and Immortal Descending to the World.
• Lin Jiufeng's battle intent activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension, allowing him to comprehend and absorb the Great Dao of Lightning.
• Lin Jiufeng struck apart the lightning depicting the True Martial Emperor with Human Immortal Fist while his Golden Primordial Spirit defeated Sage Preaching the Dao.
• Lin Jiufeng and his Primordial Spirit attacked together and shattered the lightning depicting Immortal Descending to the World.

After surviving the combined Thunder Tribulations, Lin Jiufeng reached the peak of the Eleventh Restriction and returned to the Feather Transformation Sect. He began teaching his cultivation methods and insights to the sect’s leaders and gathered experts of the Human World.

• Lin Jiufeng tempered and merged his cultivation methods beneath the Thunder Tribulation, reaching the peak of the Eleventh Restriction and swallowing the tribulation.
• Lin Jiufeng sensed the Dimension Battlefield calling him, concealed his strength to silence the summons, and returned to the Feather Transformation Sect.
• Lin Jiufeng reassured Wen Xinyun, approved Bai Yunfei’s plan to compensate the victims’ families, and passed the God-Demon Body Refining Method to Yue Dashan.
• Lin Jiufeng offered to teach his cultivation methods and insights to the Feather Transformation Sect’s leaders.
• Drunken Maniac, Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist, Master Wufa, the Master of the Human World, and other experts arrived to listen as Lin Jiufeng began his lecture.

Lin Jiufeng taught the Human World’s supreme experts for a month, helping them improve while refining his own cultivation, then received the Dao Ancestor title. After restoring the Sacred Beast Qilin and White Fox, he considered his next step and decided to seek out the Old Dragon to thank him.

• Lin Jiufeng used Moon Rises Over the Sea to demonstrate his techniques and Great Dao, teaching the gathered experts for a month and refining his own path up to the Eleventh Restriction.
• The Master broke through during the teaching, while Zhou Tianzi, Yue Dashan, Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist, Master Wufa, Drunken Maniac, and Wen Xinyun glimpsed opportunities for breakthroughs.
• Lin Jiufeng told the experts that the Human World’s realms could not contain him, then dismissed them and asked The Master about news from the Dimension Battlefield.
• The Master said he had no recent information and advised Lin Jiufeng to ask the Old Dragon for guidance about the Dimension Battlefield.
• Lin Jiufeng restored the Sacred Beast Qilin, let the White Fox sleep in his arms, and received the Dao Ancestor title, which made him more compatible with the Great Dao.
• Lin Jiufeng looked south and decided to visit the Old Dragon to thank him for helping Wen Xinyun.

Lin Jiufeng visited the Old Dragon of the South to thank him and learn about the Dimension Battlefield. After hearing the Old Dragon’s advice and request, Lin Jiufeng resolved to go there.

• Lin Jiufeng met the Old Dragon on the South Sea shore and thanked him for sealing the Dimension Prison rift.
• The Old Dragon explained that Lin Jiufeng had reached the Human World’s peak and advised him to avoid race conflicts in the Dimension Battlefield while building his strength.
• The Old Dragon told Lin Jiufeng that people descended from Immortal bloodlines controlled the Reception Platform, though it was unclear whether it still worked.
• The Old Dragon asked Lin Jiufeng to deliver word to Long Xian'er in Dragon Valley that he was alive, and warned him not to go there before reaching the Fifteen Restrictions.
• The Old Dragon revealed that he had fallen into the Human World after killing a half-crippled Immortal and said he could not return to the Dimension Battlefield while enemies sought him.
• After the Old Dragon returned to the sea, Lin Jiufeng decided he would go to the Dimension Battlefield.

Lin Jiufeng agreed to ascend to the Dimension Battlefield with Sacred Beast Qilin after reaching the limit of his progress in the Human World. He left White Fox and the Feather Transformation Sect behind, promising to wait for them in the higher realm.

• Sacred Beast Qilin asked Lin Jiufeng to ascend with him after recovering from his injuries and entering the Eleventh Restriction, and Lin Jiufeng agreed.
• White Fox grieved at the thought of their separation, and Lin Jiufeng comforted her by promising to pave the way and wait for her in the Dimension Battlefield.
• Feather Transformation Sect experts gathered to see Lin Jiufeng off, and he urged them to cultivate and reach the Dimension Battlefield through their own strength.
• Lin Jiufeng and Sacred Beast Qilin tore open the void and ascended to the Dimension Battlefield together.
• The Master, Drunken Maniac, Peach Blossom Mountain Daoist, Master Wufa, and Old Dragon sensed Lin Jiufeng's ascension, and several of them looked forward to following him.

Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin arrived at the Dimension Battlefield and met the old man guarding the Reception Platform. The old man warned them about the dangers awaiting the Qilin and revealed that the Skeleton Race Ancestor had issued a Wanted Notice for Lin Jiufeng, known as the God Among Mortals.

• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin arrived at the Dimension Battlefield and nearly suffered Drunken Spirit from its dense spiritual energy.
• The old man guarding the Reception Platform identified the Qilin as a rare treasure and said the Hundred Races would hunt him if they learned of him.
• The old man dismissed Lin Jiufeng's plan to hide the Qilin with illusion arts, warning that experts in the Dimension Battlefield could see through them.
• The old man explained that powerful Hundred Race prisoners had returned to the Dimension Battlefield and that the Skeleton Race Ancestor had narrowly escaped his pursuers.
• The old man told Lin Jiufeng that the Skeleton Race Ancestor had issued a Wanted Notice for a Human Race ascendant called the God Among Mortals.

Lin Jiufeng learned why the Skeleton Race had placed a bounty on him and received directions to ruins that could help him in the Dimension Battlefield. He also discovered that the Ten Great Kings had ascended five thousand years earlier, then left the Reception Platform with the Sacred Beast Qilin to adapt to the battlefield’s spiritual energy.

• Lin Jiufeng admitted to the old man that he was God Among Mortals and learned that the Skeleton Race had offered one hundred thousand jin of Divine Source for information and five hundred thousand jin for his capture.
• The old man chose to report Lin Jiufeng to the Skeleton Race for the smaller reward, but directed him and the Sacred Beast Qilin south toward ruins left by Human Race ancestors.
• The old man explained that ascenders with the Dimension Battlefield’s aura had to break through the Two-Realm Passage and survive a tribulation, and revealed that ten Human World experts had ascended five thousand years earlier.
• Lin Jiufeng recognized the ten experts as the Ten Great Kings, who had vanished after entering the Immortal Burial Ground, and left the Reception Platform with the Sacred Beast Qilin.
• As they traveled south, Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin gradually converted their spiritual energy to adapt to the Dimension Battlefield.

After strengthening himself with the Dimension Battlefield’s spiritual energy, Lin Jiufeng followed the Sacred Beast Qilin south to the Human Ancestor’s Relic. There he found Gu Baili’s tomb and, after wiping its Tombstone, gained a chance to witness a segment of the past to learn how Gu Baili died.

• Lin Jiufeng replenished his cultivation with Dimension Battlefield spiritual energy, while the Sacred Beast Qilin advanced to the Eleventh Restriction Middle Stage.
• Lin Jiufeng chose to trust the old man’s directions and continued south with the Sacred Beast Qilin.
• The pair entered a poisonous valley, where the Sacred Beast Qilin’s poison immunity helped protect Lin Jiufeng from the fumes.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin found a great tomb among glowing flowers and read the Tombstone: Tomb of Gu Baili.
• Lin Jiufeng recognized Gu Baili as one of the Ten Great Kings and wiped the dusty Tombstone.
• Lin Jiufeng activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension and prepared to examine a segment of time showing how Gu Baili fell.

Lin Jiufeng witnessed Gu Baili defend the Human Race’s Lonely City and kill Giant King at the cost of his own life. After carrying Giant King’s corpse to another ancient city, Gu Baili prepared for his death and left the Human Race with a final command.

• A massive army led by Giant King surrounded the Human Race’s Lonely City and demanded that its people destroy the city’s core or face extermination.
• Gu Baili emerged from the city and struck down 365 enemy experts with a Phoenix-like attack.
• Gu Baili fought Giant King with the Heaven-Turning Seal and killed him, but suffered mortal wounds himself.
• Gu Baili carried Giant King’s corpse to another Lonely City, then visited an old man on the Reception Platform before heading south.
• Gu Baili dug his own grave in a miasma-filled valley and told Lin Jiufeng, “Human Race, never surrender!”

Lin Jiufeng honored Gu Baili, learned the Heaven-Turning Seal, and activated the inheritance left in Gu Baili’s tombstone. After witnessing Gu Baili’s life and sacrifice for the Human Race, Lin Jiufeng comprehended Life is Like a Painting.

• Lin Jiufeng recalled how Gu Baili had saved the Human Race’s last city in the Dimension Battlefield and grieved over his lonely death.
• Lin Jiufeng cleaned Gu Baili’s grave, comprehended the Heaven-Turning Seal, and practiced it until he could stir the sky.
• Sacred Beast Qilin searched the tomb for an inheritance, but Lin Jiufeng revealed that it was hidden in the Tombstone.
• Lin Jiufeng spoke Gu Baili’s words, “The Human Race would never surrender,” awakening a mark that displayed Gu Baili’s life and cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng watched Gu Baili’s life and sacrifice, then comprehended Life is Like a Painting.

After Gu Baili’s life imprint led Lin Jiufeng to comprehend Life Is Like a Painting, he inscribed it and the Heaven-Turning Seal into the Chronicle of Ages, greatly increasing his strength. He and the Sacred Beast Qilin prepared to leave their hiding place for a major city, but Lin Jiufeng mastered the Phoenix Concealment Technique almost instantly, leaving the Qilin stunned.

• Lin Jiufeng comprehended Life Is Like a Painting from Gu Baili’s life imprint and inscribed it alongside the Heaven-Turning Seal into the Chronicle of Ages, doubling his strength.
• Lin Jiufeng resolved to improve his Eleventh Restriction cultivation, while the Sacred Beast Qilin identified the Phoenix Concealment Technique as a way to hide them from the Skeleton Race.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin explained that major cities had richer spiritual energy and better conditions for cultivation, so Lin Jiufeng agreed to learn the concealment art before they left.
• Lin Jiufeng triggered Heaven-Defying Comprehension while studying the Phoenix Concealment Technique and mastered it immediately.
• Lin Jiufeng told the Sacred Beast Qilin to set off, and the Qilin stared at him in disbelief after barely beginning his own cultivation.

Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin disguised themselves and traveled south through the Dimension Battlefield, seeking Divine Source to gain entry to a great city. When two clans fought over a Divine Source Vein, Lin Jiufeng secretly took fifteen hundred jin and fled with the Qilin before dawn.

• Lin Jiufeng used the Phoenix Concealment Technique to disguise himself as a middle-aged man and the Sacred Beast Qilin as a Yellow Dog.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin traveled south, hoping to find Divine Source but lacking a way to locate it.
• The two heard the Barbarian Bull Clan and the Asura Clan fighting over a Divine Source Vein near their mountain cave.
• Lin Jiufeng slipped past the fighting clans and cut fifteen hundred jin of Divine Source from the vein.
• Lin Jiufeng returned for the Sacred Beast Qilin, and they escaped through the night, stopping at dawn.

Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin reached Sacred Angel City, where they paid Fire Element Divine Source to enter and discovered its extraordinary cultivation environment. After finding that inns were expensive and housing prices were far beyond their means, Lin Jiufeng turned to asking about rentals.

• The Sacred Beast Qilin explained the attributes of Divine Source and said the Great Dao of Destiny surpassed the Great Daos of space and time.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin traveled south for five days and reached a vast city they later learned was Sacred Angel City.
• Lin Jiufeng opened the city’s array by offering ten jin of Fire Element Divine Source, and the array absorbed its energy as payment.
• Lin Jiufeng sensed that the city’s spiritual energy and Great Dao were exceptionally dense and decided to find lodging so he could break through the Twelfth Restriction.
• After finding the inns full or costly, Lin Jiufeng learned that buying a house cost at least fifty thousand Divine Source per square meter and asked the broker about renting.