Chapter Summaries

Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin rented a remote courtyard in Sacred Angel City for a year. Lin Jiufeng then began secluded cultivation and broke through to the Twelfth Restriction, with his lifespan reaching 129,600 years.

• A broker told Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin that the Sacred Angel Tribe had taken control of a Divine Source Vein discovered by the Barbarian Bull Clan and the Asura Clan.
• Lin Jiufeng negotiated the courtyard's yearly rent down to 1,500 jin of Divine Source by showing the broker its high quality, then signed a lease.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin settled into the courtyard and began cultivating, aiming to break through their realms before earning more Divine Source.
• Lin Jiufeng absorbed Sacred Angel City's spiritual energy and Great Dao, breaking through from the Eleventh Restriction to the Twelfth Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng's physical body and Primordial Spirit transformed, and his lifespan rose to 129,600 years.

After breaking through to the Twelfth Restriction and gaining a lifespan of 129,600 years, Lin Jiufeng explored Sacred Angel City and took a librarian position to study the Dimension Battlefield. He began reading the sparse collection of Human Race books in the Library.

• Lin Jiufeng completed his breakthrough in one month, gaining the lifespan of The Number of Yuan and strength he believed marked a path toward the Primordial God-Demons.
• Lin Jiufeng saw the Sacred Beast Qilin continuing to break through and awaken his bloodline, then left their courtyard to explore Sacred Angel City.
• Lin Jiufeng found a Library hiring a librarian without pay and entered to investigate its collection.
• Lin Jiufeng met Madam Xin, introduced himself as A Jiu, and accepted the job’s duties and four-hour workday in exchange for access to the books.
• Lin Jiufeng found the half-empty Human Race bookshelf and sat down to read one of its books.

Lin Jiufeng read how the Human Race fell from dominance to the brink of extinction after the Hundred Races united against it. He learned that Gu Baili and the Painted Skin Scholar had each saved the Human Race’s last great city, though the chapter left the scholar’s fate unclear.

• Lin Jiufeng read that the Human Race once ruled the Dimension Battlefield with Ninety-Nine Great Cities because its people reproduced quickly and built a vast civilization.
• After the Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking was announced, the other races attacked the Human Race, reducing it to Ten Great Cities and dropping it from first place to ninetieth.
• Lin Jiufeng learned that only one great city remained and wondered who had protected the Human Race after Gu Baili’s sacrifice.
• Lin Jiufeng read that Gu Baili used the Heaven-Turning Divine Seal to kill the Giant King and his ten-thousand-strong army, then died himself.
• When Giant Race clan elders threatened the last city, the Painted Skin Scholar emerged from a Scroll Painting, killed one elder, and drove others away.

Lin Jiufeng learned that Painted Skin Scholar had saved the Human Race thirty years ago and had surpassed the Eighteenth Restriction. He studied the Dimension Battlefield’s cultivation realms, but found no records of the Path to Immortality.

• Lin Jiufeng read that Painted Skin Scholar had wounded the Giant Race’s retaliation, then secluded himself after preserving the Human Race’s last great city for thirty years.
• Lin Jiufeng learned that Painted Skin Scholar had surpassed the Eighteenth Restriction and stepped onto the Path to Immortality, frightening smaller races away from attacking the Human Race.
• Lin Jiufeng found a book describing the realms from the Thirteenth Restriction, Soul Tendrils, through the Eighteenth Restriction, Calamity of Wind and Fire.
• Lin Jiufeng searched for information about the Path to Immortality but found no records, then reflected on the three hundred and sixty-five years needed to endure the final tribulation.

Lin Jiufeng spent his first year in Sacred Angel City reading in the Library Pavilion and cultivating while the Sacred Beast Qilin remained in seclusion. At the year’s end, the Qilin emerged as a Twelfth Restriction Eternal Giant and revealed that it had awakened the Great Dao of Space as its innate divine ability.

• Lin Jiufeng studied the Eighteenth Restriction and began reading about the Hundred Races and their upcoming Grand Competition at the Library Pavilion.
• Lin Jiufeng followed a daily routine of reading and cultivating, while Madam Xin grew friendlier toward him and the Sacred Beast Qilin continued its breakthrough in seclusion.
• After eleven months, Lin Jiufeng’s first year in Sacred Angel City ended without him activating Heaven-Defying Comprehension.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin awoke after twelve months of cultivation as a larger Twelfth Restriction Eternal Giant.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin told Lin Jiufeng that it had awakened the Great Dao of Space as its innate divine ability, astonishing him.

After the Sacred Beast Qilin awakened the Great Dao of Space as his innate ability, Lin Jiufeng helped him untangle its rules and discovered Spatial Transfer through Heaven-Defying Comprehension. Lin Jiufeng mastered the ability and went to the Library Pavilion to say farewell to Madam Xin.

• The Sacred Beast Qilin told Lin Jiufeng that he had awakened Spatial Confinement, a space-based ability that could immobilize an opponent for up to three seconds but required him to stand still for three seconds to activate.
• Lin Jiufeng tested the ability, broke free almost immediately, and suggested that the Sacred Beast Qilin use it for support and sneak attacks.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin shared his innate ability with Lin Jiufeng, who entered its shared space and untangled the Space Fragments to reveal their source for the Sacred Beast Qilin to study.
• Lin Jiufeng activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension and attained enlightenment in Spatial Transfer, then recorded the ability in the Chronicle of Ages and used it to appear before the Library Pavilion.
• Lin Jiufeng entered the Library Pavilion and told Madam Xin that he had come to say farewell.

Lin Jiufeng left Sacred Angel City with the Sacred Beast Qilin and registered as a Bounty Hunter so they could earn Divine Source and grow stronger. At the Bounty Hunter Hall, they discovered that the Skeleton Race had raised its reward for information about Lin Jiufeng to one million jin of Divine Source, and Lin Jiufeng realized the Reception Platform’s old man had sold news of his ascension.

• Madam Xin gave Lin Jiufeng a Space Pendant containing one thousand jin of Divine Source as a reward, but he returned it before leaving the Library Pavilion.
• Lin Jiufeng woke the Sacred Beast Qilin, explained that their lease had expired, and proposed becoming Bounty Hunters to earn Divine Source and strengthen themselves.
• Lin Jiufeng disguised himself and the Sacred Beast Qilin, registered them as Bounty Hunters, and led them into the Trading Hall while avoiding a powerful Divine Eagle Race expert.
• Lin Jiufeng used his badge to view the available missions and found a notice offering one million jin of Divine Source for information about him.
• After reading the comments, Lin Jiufeng learned that the old man at the Reception Platform had reported his ascension to the Skeleton Race for one hundred thousand jin of Divine Source.

Lin Jiufeng accepted a bounty to search Cloud Dream Marsh for Sword God Emperor Willow, a Human Race expert hunted by the Yaksha Clan after killing its king and stealing its supreme treasure. He and Sacred Beast Qilin reached the marsh, where a Yaksha stopped them as they approached.

• Lin Jiufeng abandoned a mission after learning the Skeleton Race had been alerted, then browsed new bounties.
• Lin Jiufeng discovered that Sword God Emperor Willow was trapped in Cloud Dream Marsh after killing the Yaksha King and stealing the Yaksha Clan’s supreme treasure.
• Lin Jiufeng accepted the search mission and left Sacred Angel City with Sacred Beast Qilin, traveling for three days.
• Lin Jiufeng and Sacred Beast Qilin arrived at Cloud Dream Marsh and saw its vast mountains and waters.
• A Yaksha carrying an iron trident appeared and ordered Lin Jiufeng and Sacred Beast Qilin to stop.

Lin Jiufeng entered Cloud Dream Marsh after accepting a Yaksha Clan bounty mission, but a Yaksha tried to bar and attack him. The Little Yaksha King confronted him, and Lin Jiufeng proved the clan had invited him, leaving the Little Yaksha King unable to punish him openly.

• A Yaksha blocked Lin Jiufeng from entering Cloud Dream Marsh and attacked him after he objected.
• Lin Jiufeng shattered the Yaksha's magical iron fork with a single blow and sent it flying, then refused to kill it.
• The Little Yaksha King arrived with the Little Asura King and Moon Fairy, while the injured Yaksha accused Lin Jiufeng of helping the human who had stolen the Yaksha Clan's supreme treasure.
• Lin Jiufeng showed the Little Yaksha King his Bounty Hunter badge and explained that he had accepted the Yaksha Clan's mission and traveled a million li to fulfill it.
• The Little Yaksha King confirmed the mission details and glared at the Yaksha, but the witnesses and the clan's fault kept him from acting against Lin Jiufeng.

Lin Jiufeng joined the Little Yaksha King's search for Sword God Emperor Willow while concealing his plan to kill him and take his identity. After the Little Yaksha King attacked in the mountains, Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin trapped and killed him.

• Lin Jiufeng agreed to follow the Little Yaksha King into Cloud Dream Marsh, while he and the Sacred Beast Qilin secretly planned to kill him.
• The Little Asura King mocked the Sacred Beast Qilin and offered Lin Jiufeng Divine Source for the dog, but Moon Fairy halted the argument and urged the group to begin searching.
• Moon Fairy and the other clan members departed in different directions, leaving Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin to follow the Little Yaksha King deeper into the marsh.
• At a remote mountain range, the Little Yaksha King ambushed Lin Jiufeng, but Lin Jiufeng's fist drove him back and the Sacred Beast Qilin's divine ability immobilized him.
• Lin Jiufeng used Spatial Transfer and Life Scroll to kill the Little Yaksha King.

Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin killed the Little Yaksha King, then Lin Jiufeng used the Life Scroll and Phoenix Concealment Technique to impersonate him. Their disguise held until they encountered the Little Asura King, who believed Lin Jiufeng had killed the human and Yellow Dog.

• The Sacred Beast Qilin confined the Little Yaksha King for a moment, allowing Lin Jiufeng to kill him with the Life Scroll.
• Lin Jiufeng examined the Little Yaksha King's life and learned that he had pursued the Moon Fairy for her Five-Colored Dream Butterfly ability.
• Lin Jiufeng used the Phoenix Concealment Technique to copy the Little Yaksha King's appearance and Fourteenth Restriction aura, then transformed the Sacred Beast Qilin into a concealed longsword.
• Lin Jiufeng flew past minor Yakshas while acting like the arrogant Little Yaksha King, and none suspected his disguise.
• The Little Asura King stopped Lin Jiufeng and asked whether he had killed the human and Yellow Dog; Lin Jiufeng claimed he had, prompting the Sacred Beast Qilin to urge him to attack the Asura.

Lin Jiufeng, posing as the Little Yaksha King, learned that Emperor Willow had stolen the Key to Taiyuan Immortal Mansion rather than the Yaksha Clan’s Trident. The Little Asura King tried to recruit him to seize the Key, ending by revealing that he possessed a piece of it himself.

• The Little Asura King told Lin Jiufeng that the Yaksha Clan had concealed the loss of the Key to Taiyuan Immortal Mansion by spreading rumors that Emperor Willow stole the Trident.
• The Little Asura King claimed that the Dream Butterfly Clan’s Moon Fairy had come to investigate the Key, not to help the Yaksha Clan.
• The Little Asura King offered to help Lin Jiufeng find the injured Emperor Willow and proposed that they join forces to take the Key.
• Lin Jiufeng challenged the Little Asura King to offer more than a way to locate Emperor Willow before he would consider cooperating.
• The Little Asura King revealed that he possessed a piece of the Key to Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, genuinely startling Lin Jiufeng.

Lin Jiufeng, disguised as the Little Yaksha King, pretended to accept the Little Asura King’s plan to track down the wounded Human Sword God and find the Key to Taiyuan Immortal Mansion. The keys led them to a tiny island in Cloud Dream Marsh, where Lin Jiufeng secretly prepared the Sacred Beast Qilin to act.

• The Little Asura King provoked Lin Jiufeng by invoking the Little Yaksha King’s resentment toward the Yaksha King and offered him a chance to claim the Yaksha King’s title.
• Lin Jiufeng pretended to believe the Little Asura King’s explanation that two keys could locate Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, while the Little Asura King secretly planned to use him and then kill him.
• The Little Asura King revealed that the keys could sense each other and removed the seals from his Key to Taiyuan Immortal Mansion.
• The key pointed toward a tiny island deep in Cloud Dream Marsh, and Lin Jiufeng and the Little Asura King hurried there.
• Lin Jiufeng told the Sacred Beast Qilin to be ready to act once they descended to the island.

Lin Jiufeng disguised himself as the Little Yaksha King and killed the Little Asura King with the Sacred Beast Qilin's Space Dao and his own Time Dao, then used the Life Scroll to examine the Asura's memories. He leaves the island having comprehended the Panwu Great Strength Divine Ability from the Little Asura King's life.

• Lin Jiufeng tricked the Little Asura King into approaching the forest, then used the Sacred Beast Qilin's Spatial Confinement to trap him.
• Lin Jiufeng slowed time around the Little Asura King with the Great Dao of Time, giving him time to use the Life Scroll to kill and record him.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin was shocked to learn that Lin Jiufeng had grasped both the Great Dao of Time and the Great Dao of Space.
• Lin Jiufeng studied the Little Asura King's memories and learned that he had risen through ruthless scheming after obtaining the Panwu Great Strength Divine Ability.
• Heaven-Defying Comprehension activated, and Lin Jiufeng comprehended the Panwu Great Strength Divine Ability.

After learning the Panwu Great Strength Divine Ability from Little Asura King's memories, Lin Jiufeng cultivated it and greatly increased his strength. He then stopped his training to search for Sword God Emperor Willow and opened Little Asura King's Storage Artifact.

• Lin Jiufeng learned that Panwu Great Strength Divine Ability combined physical and Primordial Spirit power to open Panwu Spaces.
• Lin Jiufeng used the Dao of Time to cultivate for ten days, opening forty Panwu Spaces and reaching the middle stage of the Twelfth Restriction.
• Lin Jiufeng stopped cultivating and told Sacred Beast Qilin that it was time to find Sword God Emperor Willow.
• Sacred Beast Qilin gave Lin Jiufeng Little Asura King's Storage Artifact, and Lin Jiufeng erased its soul imprint and opened it.

Lin Jiufeng discovered that Little Asura King's jade bracelet held a living Storage Space filled with treasures, including two hundred thousand jin of Divine Source, and gave the Divine Source to the Sacred Beast Qilin to strengthen its cultivation. He transformed the bracelet into a White Jade Thumb Ring, sealed the Key to Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, and left to find Sword God Emperor Willow.

• The Sacred Beast Qilin explained that the jade bracelet contained a living Storage Space where they could safely hide, and Lin Jiufeng brought it inside.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin found thousands of Storage Artifacts in the cabin, including two hundred thousand jin of Divine Source, and Lin Jiufeng told it to absorb the Divine Source to improve its cultivation.
• Lin Jiufeng decided to continue posing as Little Yaksha King and set out to find Sword God Emperor Willow.
• After Lin Jiufeng refined the jade bracelet and branded it with his Primordial Spirit mark, it changed into a White Jade Thumb Ring that could also become a bracelet.
• Lin Jiufeng picked up the Key to Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, sealed its aura, stored it in the White Jade Thumb Ring, and went to search for Sword God Emperor Willow.

Lin Jiufeng found Sword God Emperor Willow in suspended death and learned that the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion might be the only way to save him. After combining the two keys into a map of Cloud Dream Marsh, Lin Jiufeng set out to find the mansion but refused Moon Fairy’s request for Divine Source.

• Lin Jiufeng dug up Sword God Emperor Willow, who had hidden himself underground in suspended death after being struck by the Yaksha Ancestor, and found the Key to Taiyuan Immortal Mansion beside him.
• Lin Jiufeng sealed the key and placed it and Sword God Emperor Willow in the White Jade Thumb Ring, where the Sacred Beast Qilin said only the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion might save him.
• Lin Jiufeng joined the two keys, which formed a map showing the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion in Cloud Dream Marsh near a mountain shaped like a monkey gazing at the moon.
• Lin Jiufeng disguised himself as Little Yaksha King and searched Cloud Dream Marsh for the landmark mountain.
• Moon Fairy asked Lin Jiufeng for three hundred thousand jin of Divine Source to repair her magic treasure, but he refused and flew away.

Lin Jiufeng learned that numerous young kings had come to Cloud Dream Marsh after the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion’s location was exposed. Determined to save Sword God Emperor Willow, he decided to avoid the kings for now and grow stronger by gathering resources.

• Moon Fairy revealed that she and her identical shadow were linked through their Great Dao Golden Cores, then planned to ally with Yaksha King to find the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion key.
• Lin Jiufeng captured an Asura Clan Member, who told him that Asura King and young kings from several races had come to Cloud Dream Marsh to seek a treasure and search for the Human Sword God.
• Lin Jiufeng realized the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion’s location had likely leaked because its keys had been gathered, and he restrained his urge to confront Skeleton King.
• Lin Jiufeng told Sacred Beast Qilin that he would save Sword God Emperor Willow, while Qilin warned that the young kings would be difficult opponents.
• Lin Jiufeng and Sacred Beast Qilin agreed to improve their strength first, with Qilin absorbing Divine Source and Lin Jiufeng seeking resources across the Dimension Battlefield.

Lin Jiufeng posed as the Little Yaksha King to hunt wealthy members of the Hundred Races for Divine Source so he could reach the Thirteenth Restriction. After learning that Dark Night Asura was alone, he attacked him and unleashed the Life Painting Scroll.

• Lin Jiufeng decided to target well-resourced geniuses of the Hundred Races for Divine Source, avoiding their young kings.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin asked who Lin Jiufeng would target first, and Lin Jiufeng chose Dark Night Asura, an attendant favored by the Asura King.
• Lin Jiufeng found an Asura he had previously interrogated and learned that Dark Night Asura was three thousand li north, while the Asura King was away at Moon Fairy's banquet.
• Lin Jiufeng reached Dark Night Asura's mountain camp and announced that he wanted to borrow his head.
• The Sacred Beast Qilin froze time and restrained Dark Night Asura, and Lin Jiufeng slowed him with the Great Dao of Time before unleashing the Life Painting Scroll.

After killing Dark Night Asura, Lin Jiufeng inspected his memories and learned that the Asura King was heading to Cloud Dream Marsh to seek the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion. Lin Jiufeng left the White Jade Thumb Ring and decided to target the Skeleton Race next.

• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin killed Dark Night Asura and collected the items he left behind.
• Lin Jiufeng and the Sacred Beast Qilin escaped into Cloud Dream Marsh before the Asura King could return.
• Lin Jiufeng inspected Dark Night Asura's memories and learned that the Asura King gave him one million jin of Divine Source each year.
• Lin Jiufeng discovered that the Asura King planned to search Cloud Dream Marsh for the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion and claim its inheritance.
• Lin Jiufeng finished viewing Dark Night Asura's Life Scroll and told the Sacred Beast Qilin they would kill members of the Skeleton Race next.