Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu received Emperor Qian’s order to handle the Yellow Crane Mountain affair and prepared to head south with troops. Before departing, he visited West Mountain, where he discovered a tribe of book-loving foxes and gained an invitation to their secluded valley.

• Emperor Qian admonished Lin Yu about his conduct, discussed court reform, and assigned him to the Yellow Crane Mountain affair.
• Lin Yu ordered Zhao Hu to prepare provisions, horses, and 150 armored soldiers for their journey south, while Yun Qing stayed to manage the residence.
• Lin Yu visited Autumn Moon Temple and learned about the Great Zen Temple’s three scriptures and their cultivation methods.
• In a West Mountain valley, Lin Yu found dozens of foxes studying books and used a Sun-Moon Treasure Pearl to strengthen their spiritual intelligence.
• The old fox introduced the Pure Fox Tribe and invited Lin Yu to stay in its valley, where he hoped to learn from the human expert.

Lin Yu uncovered the Past Amitabha Sutra in Elder Tu’s library, studied its teachings, and gave the fox clan a spirit-jade encyclopedia to help them learn. After he returned to the prince’s residence and prepared to leave, enemies plotted to assassinate him on his southbound journey, while he rode with his troops toward Wuyuan Province City.

• Lin Yu visited Elder Tu’s library, learned that its books had been taken from the destroyed Great Zen Temple, and offered to help organize its collection.
• Lin Yu gave Elder Tu a spirit-jade encyclopedia so the Pure Fox Clan could study independently, then extracted the hidden Past Amitabha Sutra from the Martial Scripture and studied it.
• Lin Yu bid farewell to Elder Tu the next day and returned to the prince’s residence with the sutra, preparing to depart.
• Aged woman and a man in black discussed the Lord’s order to intercept and kill Yang Qian’s convoy, and the woman described how the Lifeless Dao and Vacuum Dao could harass the Fourth Prince along the route.
• Lin Yu led 150 iron cavalry toward Wuyuan Province City and ordered the troops to enter and rest before nightfall.

Lin Yu cultivated his Treasure Moonlight King Body before defeating two assassins from the Lifeless Dao and Vacuum Dao, then used Xuan Ming’s submission to learn the sect’s secrets. He sent Xuan Ming back as an infiltrator and continued south, reaching Shuiyang Province and setting out by boat toward Heyin Province.

• Lin Yu cultivated his soul with the Precious Moonlight King secret art until two Daoists, Xuan Ming and Xuan Zhao, appeared and attacked him with flying swords.
• Lin Yu used Xiantian sword qi to disable both assassins, and Zhao Hu and Blood Blade brought soldiers to secure the room.
• Lin Yu threatened the captured Daoists with punishment under Great Qian law, causing Xuan Ming to submit while Xuan Zhao was dragged away.
• Xuan Ming revealed that the Lifeless Old Mother was a Ghost Immortal and described the sect’s methods; Lin Yu made him worship in submission and absorbed his memories.
• Lin Yu ordered Xuan Ming to infiltrate the Lifeless Dao and investigate the Lifeless Old Mother and the Future Unborn Sutra, then continued south with his group.
• Lin Yu reached Shuiyang Province, rested at Yangquan Town, and departed by ironclad paddle boats toward Heyin Province.

Lin Yu arrived in Yellow Crane County to lead a campaign against the Twelve Linked Forts, a powerful water-bandit alliance in Yellow Crane Mountain Water Marsh. He subdued a spirit Black Scale Python and made it guide him toward the bandits.

• Zhao Hu completed his Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist training, and Lin Yu praised his progress toward the Innate Realm.
• Lin Yu rode to Yellow Crane County, where Magistrate Yan Zhen welcomed him and promised supplies for the campaign.
• Yan Zhen explained how the Twelve Linked Forts controlled the dangerous marsh and repeatedly evaded government troops.
• Lin Yu sent his Yin Spirit into the marsh at night and encountered a Black Scale Python absorbing moonlight.
• The python attacked Lin Yu, but he subdued it and forced it to offer its Flood Dragon Pearl and serve as his guide.
• The black flood dragon soul led Lin Yu toward the water bandits and eagerly urged him to follow.

Lin Yu defeated Hong Tao with his moonlight Daoist art and secretly enlisted him to purge disobedient chieftains under cover of a government campaign. Half a month later, Lin Yu led a newly trained army against the Twelve Linked Forts, whose forces were caught off guard by Hong Tao’s allegiance.

• Lin Yu confronted Hong Tao at the Twelve Linked Forts and froze his spear attack with the Treasure Moonlight King Body.
• Lin Yu subdued Hong Tao and secured his surrender, then inspected the bandits’ treasury and found the stolen court tribute.
• Hong Tao explained that the bandits had been tricked into robbing the official vessel, and Lin Yu ordered him to use the coming suppression campaign to remove disobedient chieftains.
• Lin Yu formed Yellow Crane County’s soldiers into a disciplined force of two thousand men, using his Soul Secret Technique to condition them as they slept.
• Lin Yu advanced on Mount Crane Water Marsh with the Shuiyang Provincial Governor’s paddle warships, while Hong Tao’s defection left the bandits unprepared for the attack.

Lin Yu organized the Crane Mountain Patrol Battalion after the battle at Great Dragon Island, then refined a spirit pill and began the blood-changing stage of his Martial Saint breakthrough. After learning Lifeless Old Mother had returned to Wuyuan Province, he went there to investigate the Lifeless Dao’s recruitment of beggars.

• Lin Yu told Hong Tao, Zhao Hu, and Blood Blade to remain at Great Dragon Island and help establish a patrol battalion to protect the White Wave River and train a naval force.
• One month later, Lin Yu refined a Spirit Pill using the Great Sun Treasure Pearl and the Black Scale Python’s Dragon Pearl, then swallowed it to begin changing his blood.
• Lin Yu explained that the Future Unborn Sutra drew power from popular faith and decided to find Lifeless Old Mother after Xuan Ming reported her return to the main altar.
• Lin Yu met Xuan Ming at a tavern in Wuyuan City and confirmed that Lifeless Old Mother had returned two days earlier.
• Lin Yu entered a poor district and found a Daoist urging beggars to chant prayers in exchange for padded coats.

Lin Yu confronted Lifeless Old Mother in her temple and overwhelmed her after revealing that he had reached the Martial Saint realm and could fly. He shattered her divine incarnations and suppressed her, leaving her captured in a prison of moonlight.

• Lin Yu entered the temple, destroyed the statue of Lifeless Old Mother, and forced the cult leader to reveal herself.
• Lifeless Old Mother attacked with her three halos, but Lin Yu revealed his Martial Saint strength and struck down her Red Emperor incarnation.
• Lifeless Old Mother tried to escape, but Lin Yu flew after her and foiled her retreat.
• Lifeless Old Mother summoned the Black Emperor and Green Emperor incarnations, and Lin Yu destroyed them with his Fist of Paradise.
• Lin Yu struck Lifeless Old Mother down, shattered her remaining halos, and suppressed her in a prison of moonlight.

Lin Yu refined the three divine incarnations, broke through to Ghost Immortal, and began sensing the acupoints within his body. He traveled to Bewitching Bend in search of a manual on cultivating acupoints, and after more than a month of leisurely exploration, spotted a whale-shaped island.

• Lin Yu absorbed the faith and distracting thoughts held by the Crimson Emperor, Azure Emperor, and Black Emperor, refining their power with the Hell Furnace until the incarnations shattered.
• Lin Yu used Xiantian True Qi and his blood essence to nourish his soul, broke through to Ghost Immortal, and sensed that his body’s acupoints might be discernible through true qi.
• Lin Yu decided to seek an acupoint cultivation manual outside the Great Qian imperial family and traveled toward Bewitching Bend.
• Lin Yu fished from the clouds, fed true qi to a pod of orcas, and watched them swim away.
• Lin Yu spent more than a month exploring the sea at his own pace, then spotted an island shaped like a giant whale.

Lin Yu captured Giant Whale Island and discovered the latter half of the Present Tathagata Sutra, using it to open thirty-six acupoints and gain new divine powers. After subduing the island’s remaining masters, he learned that Marshal Bishihua’s men had arrived and went to meet them, seeing a chance to expand his military achievements and naval forces.

• Lin Yu subdued Greenbrow at Giant Whale City and forced the Giant Whale Island Master to lead him to the palace’s underground chamber.
• Lin Yu found the latter half of the Present Tathagata Sutra hidden inside a Golden Nanmu Buddha statue and learned its methods for locating and cultivating acupoints.
• Lin Yu opened the Two Earth Pole Acupoints, then cultivated until thirty-six acupoints formed a Minor Heavenly Cycle and let him wield various spells.
• Lin Yu subdued the island’s other two masters and began arranging to bring Giant Whale Island under his control.
• The Giant Whale Island Master told Lin Yu that subordinates of Marshal Bishihua had arrived from Yunmeng, and Lin Yu headed to the harbor to meet them.

Lin Yu seized a Yunmeng fleet, then traveled to Pillar of Heaven Mountain and found the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo, imprinting it with his essence blood. As he flew back toward Yujing, the Heavenly Serpent King Xingmou appeared before him.

• Lin Yu knocked out Ouyang Shan, captured the Yunmeng fleet's leaders, and ordered Zhao Hu and the others to collect the spoils.
• Lin Yu climbed Pillar of Heaven Mountain and used his divine sense to locate the Divine Spirit Stone Embryo.
• Lin Yu imprinted the unborn spirit embryo with his Mental Imprint and concealed the divine stone before setting out for Yujing.
• Xingmou emerged from the darkness and confronted Lin Yu as he flew through the night.

Lin Yu fought and defeated Xingmou, an incarnation of the four-thunder-tribulation Heavenly Serpent King, while revealing his newly created Path of Qi Cultivation. After learning that Xingmou had come to Pillar of Heaven Mountain searching for Meng Shenji, Lin Yu demanded the Xuantian Dark Records and left her with no leverage to bargain.

• Lin Yu introduced himself to Xingmou as Yang Qian, prince of Great Qian, and invited her to exchange knowledge of the Dao.
• Xingmou sealed Lin Yu in a Lesser Thousand World, but he broke free with the Past Amitabha Sutra and attacked her with the Fist of Paradise.
• Xingmou trapped Lin Yu in the Dark Mandala Garbhadhatu Great Barrier, but he shattered the seal with the Spear of the Underworld God and captured her thoughts in the Hell Furnace.
• Lin Yu explained his Path of Qi Cultivation to Xingmou, who revealed that she was only an incarnation and had come to Pillar of Heaven Mountain following a clue about Meng Shenji.
• Lin Yu asked Xingmou to lend him the Xuantian Dark Records, and she offered to do so in exchange for learning his cultivation path.
• Lin Yu refused Xingmou's terms, reminding her that she was his prisoner.

Lin Yu defeated and sealed the Blood Moon goddess Han Yue after interrupting her sacrificial ritual, then left the tribe with her altar. Han Yue’s true self learned that her avatar had been sealed and decided to meet Lin Yu when spring thunder came.

• Lin Yu sensed an incense-fed god at a northern tribe and discovered that its blood sacrifices fed the Moon Goddess.
• Lin Yu confronted Han Yue, defeated her Moon Kingdom with the Fist of Paradise, and sealed her inside a crystal altar.
• Lin Yu changed the tribe’s Blood Moon totem into a bright crescent and departed, leaving the tribespeople stunned.
• In Xuantian Pavilion, Han Yue learned that her avatar had been sealed and rejected the black-robed Daoist’s offer to capture Lin Yu.
• Han Yue decided to meet Lin Yu in person when spring thunder heralded the awakening of insects.

After returning to Yujing, Lin Yu cared for his soldiers’ families, settled the Han Yue Goddess at his estate, and enjoyed a quiet respite. At West Mountain, he protected the foxes from hunters and confronted a Fangxian Daoist whose sword attack he was about to overwhelm.

• Lin Yu cultivated with the divine stone, checked that Yun Qing had settled the families of his soldiers, and arranged to send poor households to Giant Whale Island.
• Lin Yu visited the Han Yue Goddess in her divine kingdom and brought her out, declaring that she would become a member of his estate.
• Lin Yu spent his leisure days touring Yujing and later visited the foxes at West Mountain, where hunters and their dogs alarmed the den.
• Lin Yu used a spell to turn the hunting party back, but a silver-robed Fangxian Daoist arrived and accused him of using Daoist arts without permission.
• The Fangxian Daoist summoned his Purple Flame Thunderfire Sword to attack Lin Yu, who answered with a roar that tore through the surrounding winds and halted the assault.

Lin Yu killed a Taoist from Fangxian Dao and took his weapons and the Immortal Capital Jade Huang, then taught the Pure Fox Tribe to cultivate Qi. After diverting Fangxian Dao’s attention with disasters at its bases, Lin Yu used the jade huang’s heavenly lightning to temper his soul and nearly double its power.

• Lin Yu killed the Taoist from Fangxian Dao and took his Mother-Child Fire Wheel Thunderclap Swords, Divine Wood Thumb Ring, and Immortal Capital Jade Huang.
• Lin Yu reassured Elder Tu that the Pure Fox Tribe did not need to flee and taught the foxes to begin Qi cultivation with a divine stone.
• Lin Yu caused disasters at Fangxian Dao’s bases, keeping the sect occupied and preventing it from pursuing the Taoist’s death.
• Lin Yu used the Immortal Capital Jade Huang’s heavenly lightning to temper his soul, refining its power until his soul gained a golden sheen and nearly doubled in strength.

Lin Yu confronted Hong Xuanji at Yujing Temple and defeated him with his newly created Grand Seizing Art of Primordial Qi. He left Hong Xuanji captured and sealed, then searched his memories and uncovered several valuable scriptures.

• Hong Xuanji visited Yujing Temple and argued with Xiao Anran about the attacks on Fangxian Dao and the threat posed by Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu arrived and challenged Hong Xuanji, who staggered back after their first clash.
• Hong Xuanji used the Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens, but Lin Yu countered with the Grand Seizing Art of Primordial Qi and smashed him into the Daoist patriarch statue.
• Lin Yu seized Hong Xuanji as he tried to flee, broke his bones, and sealed his qi and blood.
• Lin Yu dismissed Xiao Anran and searched Hong Xuanji's soul, discovering the Book of Creation, the Future Unborn Sutra, and the Tai Shang Pill Scripture.

After defeating Hong Xuanji, Lin Yu studied the stolen Creation and Tai Shang Dao cultivation secrets while Emperor Qian and Hong Xuanji wondered whether Meng Shenji had returned. The chapter ended with Yang Pan taking Hong Xuanji to the Heavenly Emperor World, where Hong Xuanji donned the Heavenly Emperor Primordial Dragon Armor.

• Lin Yu spared Hong Xuanji, reviewed the Creation inheritance he had obtained, and mastered Tai Shang Dao’s 123 acupoints along with Hong Xuanji’s methods for condensing 360 acupoints.
• Yang Pan summoned Hong Xuanji to the imperial study, where they discussed the unknown expert who had defeated him and wondered whether Meng Shenji had returned.
• Yang Pan decided to investigate the expert and try to win him over, then asked Hong Xuanji when he could reach the Human Immortal realm.
• When Hong Xuanji could not give a timeline for breaking through, Yang Pan took him to the Heavenly Emperor World through the Heavenly Emperor Seal.
• Yang Pan ordered Hong Xuanji to put on the ancient Heavenly Emperor armor, and the Heavenly Emperor Primordial Dragon Armor transformed and merged with him.

As spring thunder arrived, Lin Yu entered the lightning tribulation and devoured the forces of heaven and earth instead of enduring them like an ordinary cultivator. He passed the first tribulation, charged into the second, and reached its limit with 9,999 thoughts.

• Lin Yu told Yun Qing that changes in the heavens were imminent, and the spring thunder and rain began.
• Lin Yu left his body and charged into the first Thunder Cloud, where he refined the lightning essence with his Body of Creation.
• Lin Yu passed the first lightning tribulation, transforming his soul into pure yang thoughts, then entered the second Thunder Cloud.
• Lin Yu formed the Gate of Hell and devoured the second tribulation's attacking thoughts of heaven and earth.
• Lin Yu's thoughts split and transformed until they reached 9,999, the ultimate limit of the second lightning tribulation.

Lin Yu passed the third and fourth thunder tribulations, transforming his thoughts into 38,000 self-contained spaces before encountering Heavenly Serpent King Xingmou. After he broke her formation and defeated her attack, Xingmou was left injured as Lin Yu asked to speak.

• Lin Yu passed the third thunder tribulation, gaining lightning-wreathed thoughts, then entered the fourth tribulation and endured the destruction of countless Lesser Thousand Worlds.
• Lin Yu mastered the spatial essence of the fourth tribulation, formed 38,000 thoughts containing independent spaces, and left the thunderclouds weakened.
• Xingmou appeared and explained that she had come to see who imprisoned her avatar, then challenged Lin Yu to discuss the Dao and test their strength.
• Xingmou trapped Lin Yu in the Dark Mandala Garbhadhatu Great Barrier, but Lin Yu countered it with the Demon God Seal and sealed it in a crystal.
• Xingmou attacked with Dark Emperor's Finger, but Lin Yu broke her technique with the Fist of Paradise and sent her flying, leaving her injured.
• Lin Yu approached Xingmou and asked whether they could talk properly.

Lin Yu and Xingmou joined forces to explore the Dark Mandala Garbhadhatu Great Barrier, and their souls resonated as light and darkness converged. Both emerged greatly strengthened, and Xingmou departed after promising to continue their bond another day.

• Xingmou proposed cooperating against the Dark Emperor, who she said was recovering inside Dark Star, and Lin Yu agreed to work with her.
• Xingmou manifested the Dark Mandala Garbhadhatu Great Barrier while Lin Yu summoned his Light Mandala, causing their opposing powers to merge.
• Lin Yu and Xingmou's souls intertwined, sharing memories and insights as their consciousnesses experienced the universe's birth and destruction.
• The fusion renewed Lin Yu's thoughts to nearly the strength of five lightning tribulations and gave Xingmou insight into the Past Amitabha Sutra.
• Lin Yu returned Xingmou's captured incarnation, and he gained Xuantian Pavilion's Dao arts through their soul exchange.
• Xingmou left in a scattering of starlight, telling Lin Yu they would continue their bond another day.

Lin Yu led his fleet into the Savage Wastelands, where he sought the Cosmic Pouch and the Present Tathagata Sutra while exploring new paths of cultivation. After demonstrating the Primordial Magnetic Cannons and defeating a Witch Ghost Dao cultivator’s Heaven Corpses, he captured the Daoist and began questioning him.

• Lin Yu reflected on how to advance qi cultivation and balance Dao with technique as his fleet sailed toward the Savage Wastelands.
• Blood Blade warned that the fleet was nearing the Savage Wastelands, where demon beasts and the Witch Ghost Dao posed dangers; Lin Yu sought the Cosmic Pouch for the Present Tathagata Sutra it contained.
• Lin Yu’s Primordial Magnetic Cannons destroyed a winged demon, and he ordered the fleet to establish a forward camp before flying off alone.
• Lin Yu confronted a Witch Ghost Dao cultivator on an island and cut down six Heaven Corpses with sword qi.
• Lin Yu seized the Daoist and ordered him to answer questions, and the Daoist offered to tell him everything he knew.