Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu secured control of Great Qian after capturing Yang Pan and the Boat of Creation, then considered how to govern the empire while keeping his identity as Yang Pan. He learned that Marquis Wuwen had vanished and inspected the damaged Boat of Creation, planning to study its laws and incorporate them into the Primordial Heavenly Gate.

• Lin Yu took the Heavenly Emperor Seal, reflected on Great Qian’s political dangers, and planned to follow Yang Pan’s policies to stabilize the empire.
• Wang Tao reported that Marquis Wuwen had vanished during the attack on Yujing City, and Lin Yu ordered that morning court proceed as usual.
• Ao Luan and Xingmou questioned Lin Yu about using Yang Pan’s identity and Hong Xuanji’s escape, and Lin Yu explained that both matters were within his plans.
• Lin Yu left an Immortal Nascent Soul incarnation to manage state affairs and entered the Primordial Heavenly Gate with Ao Luan and Xingmou.
• Lin Yu visited the Dragon Tooth Rice field, encouraged those tending it, and examined the badly damaged Boat of Creation’s Heavenly Crystal control center.

Lin Yu studied the Creation Thunder Pool aboard the Boat of Creation and transformed his cultivation by merging essence, qi, and spirit around the Primordial Beginning Dao. He left with a prototype Primordial Thunder Pool that could command lightning and govern the vital energy of the heavens.

• Lin Yu and Ao Luan inspected the three interconnected thunder pools, and Lin Yu began comprehending the Boat of Creation while the clan heads offered their lightning artifacts.
• Lin Yu realized that the thunder pools had been refined like the apertures of a human body and began transforming his true qi using the Primordial Beginning Dao as its core.
• Lin Yu merged his blood qi, soul power, and 365 kinds of heaven-and-earth vital energy into a new power he called mana, and he discerned a realm beyond Shattering the Void and the Yang God.
• Lin Yu used the Great Thunder Yuan Pool's structural diagram and the Creation Thunder Pool to study the Great Thousand World's vital energy and glimpse a higher Chaos Universe.
• Lin Yu combined the powers of Emperor Pan's Living Sword, the Tathagata Kasaya, and the Boat of Creation to form a prototype Primordial Thunder Pool that could govern lightning and the vital energy of the heavens.

At court, Emperor Qian exposed Crown Prince Yang Yun’s ties to heretical sects, confined him to the Eastern Palace, and sent the Fourth Prince to support the border army. Lin Yu later persuaded the imprisoned Gongyang Yu to submit by teaching him the Path of Qi Cultivation, then prepared to take him to the Western Regions.

• Emperor Qian dismissed concerns about Hong Xuanji’s disappearance and asked the court for a commander to aid King Shenwei against Huoluo Kingdom.
• Crown Prince Yang Yun volunteered his subordinates, but Li Shenguanga presented evidence that he had backed heretical sects and illicit shrines.
• Emperor Qian confined Yang Yun to the Eastern Palace, ordered an investigation and crackdown on the sects, and sent the Fourth Prince with a Gourd of Creation to support King Shenwei.
• Lin Yu entered the altar through the Heavenly Emperor Seal and found Gongyang Yu imprisoned without his Thunder Emperor Salvation Divine Blade.
• Lin Yu offered Gongyang Yu the Path of Qi Cultivation and a chance to extend his lifespan; Gongyang Yu agreed to serve him.
• Lin Yu told Gongyang Yu to recover for two days before he removed the seals on his body and took him to the Western Regions.

Lin Yu intervened in the battle between Qian and Huoluo, sending the Primordial Dragon Guards to devastate the Fire Cloud Cavalry and helping Yang Tuo and Zhao Hu kill Rodin. When Rodin’s remaining guards unleashed the Judgment Heavenly Hammer against Yang Tuo, Lin Yu destroyed it with his sword light and swept through the guards.

• Lin Yu spotted Qian fighting Huoluo’s Fire Cloud Cavalry and watched Yang Tuo lead Qian’s great-axe soldiers against the charge.
• Rodin, Duke of Tulips, challenged Yang Tuo, and the two fought to a standstill as their guards clashed.
• Lin Yu ordered five hundred Primordial Dragon Guards to attack, and they slaughtered Huoluo’s heavy cavalry while Zhao Hu engaged Rodin.
• Zhao Hu and Yang Tuo joined forces, wounded Rodin, and killed him with a sword strike and an axe blow.
• Rodin’s guards summoned the Essence God Temple’s Judgment Heavenly Hammer against Yang Tuo, but Lin Yu shattered it with sword light and cut down the remaining guards.

Lin Yu joined King Shenwei Yang Tuo on the Western Regions frontier, where his reinforcements and spatial warfare drove Huoluo Kingdom back. After agreeing to help Dragon Maiden Ao Luan through her coming tribulation, Lin Yu left Huoluo’s forces routed and the Western Regions hesitant to advance east.

• Lin Yu met Yang Tuo at Shenwei Town, gave him flying Mysterious Yellow Armor, and described the troops and supplies he had brought from Yujing City.
• At a welcome banquet, Yang Tuo told Lin Yu that Prince Kaxi had brought three hundred thousand troops to Shazhou Pass, and Lin Yu pledged his support against Huoluo Kingdom.
• Dragon Maiden Ao Luan told Lin Yu that she had arranged to refine Heavenly Origin Divine Pills with King Shenwei’s Consort, and Lin Yu sought the Earth Origin Divine Pill formula for his subordinates.
• Ao Luan asked Lin Yu to guard her during her dangerous fifth lightning tribulation, and he agreed to protect her from external threats.
• Over the following month, Lin Yu used the Primordial Heavenly Gate and Primordial Dragon Guard to launch surprise attacks, forcing Huoluo’s army to retreat a thousand li.

Ao Luan and Xingmou survived their joint lightning tribulation with Lin Yu’s help, but the Essence God Temple’s four gods ambushed him afterward. Lin Yu crushed their attack with the Primordial Heavenly Gate and began capturing their escaping divine souls.

• Ao Luan and Xingmou underwent lightning tribulation in Kun'e Mountain while Lin Yu protected them and later gathered their scattered thoughts back into their bodies.
• Four gods from the Essence God Temple—Law God, Underworld God, Blood God, and Essence God—appeared and attacked Lin Yu with the Order Chain, Fate Cage, and their other powers.
• Lin Yu summoned the Primordial Heavenly Gate and defeated all four gods with a single strike.
• Lin Yu sealed the fleeing Lingering Divine Souls and used the Grand Seizing Art of Primordial Qi to destroy three gods into scattered thoughts.

Lin Yu killed the four great gods, absorbed their divine artifacts into the Primordial Heavenly Gate, and learned how the Western Region army was supplied. He then infiltrated the enemy camp and killed Prince Kaxi, while the pope and Holy Maiden discussed Hong Xuanji’s plan to use their forces against Great Qian.

• Lin Yu learned that the Essence God had supported the invasion with the Ancient Luosheng Gate, and he showed Ao Luan and Xingmou the three artifacts he had taken from the four great gods.
• The pope and Holy Maiden arrived too late to find the four gods alive and discussed how Hong Xuanji hoped to reclaim power by using the Western Region against Great Qian.
• Lin Yu fused the Spear of the Underworld God, the Order Chain, and the Fate Cage into the Primordial Heavenly Gate, creating a death world and strengthening its order.
• Lin Yu learned that Ashoka King held the Ancient Luosheng Gate and planned to use one of its Gates of Illusions to locate the artifact’s true body.
• Prince Kaxi threatened to enslave Great Qian’s people and attacked Lin Yu, who killed him and the other Western Region leaders gathered in the tent.

Lin Yu slaughtered Kaxi and his camp, entered the Gate of Illusions, and emerged in the Huoluo imperial palace, where he confronted Hong Xuanji, the Essence God Temple Pope, and Ashoka King. As his allies battled Hong Xuanji and the Pope, Lin Yu wounded Ashoka King and seized the Ancient Luosheng Gate, leaving the palace fight unresolved.

• Lin Yu killed Kaxi and the warriors and Daoist experts in the tent, then entered the Gate of Illusions.
• Lord Mani and Venerable Heavenly Centipede found the slaughtered camp as Zhao Hu led the Primordial Dragon Guards in an attack on the Western Regions army.
• Lin Yu crossed the Gate of Illusions into the Huoluo imperial palace and encountered Hong Xuanji, Ashoka King, and the Pope of the Essence God Temple.
• Hong Xuanji attacked Lin Yu, but Ao Luan intercepted him while Xingmou blocked the Pope’s strike.
• Lin Yu attacked Ashoka King with Emperor Pan’s Living Sword, overcame his defenses, and wounded him with the World Extinction sword.
• Lin Yu used the Great Luo Seal to seize the Ancient Luosheng Gate from Ashoka King.

Lin Yu defeated Ashoka King, the Essence God Temple Pope, and Hong Xuanji, then seized the Ancient Luosheng Gate and escaped the Huoluo Kingdom palace. He began refining the divine artifact inside the Primordial Heavenly Gate, where the Primordial Qi Great God's phantom appeared and challenged his mind.

• Lin Yu used Emperor Pan's Living Sword to shatter Ashoka King's weapon and wound the Essence God Temple Pope.
• Lin Yu struck Hong Xuanji with the Tathagata Dharma Seals, destroyed his armor, and collected it as Marquis Wuwen fled.
• Ashoka King and the Essence God Temple Pope discussed the dangers of Lin Yu keeping the Ancient Luosheng Gate after Master Kahn and the other reinforcements arrived too late.
• Inside the Primordial Heavenly Gate, Lin Yu told Dragon Maiden Ao Luan and the others that Zhao Hu's surprise attack had decided the battle and that he would refine the gate.
• Lin Yu explored the Ancient Luosheng Gate's inscriptions, encountered the Primordial Qi Great God's phantom, and sealed it inside a mandala barrier of light and darkness.

Lin Yu rejected the Essence God’s offer to cooperate, destroyed his incarnation, and refined Rashomon into the Primordial Heavenly Gate. After gaining new insights into fate and the structure of the Great Thousand World, Lin Yu prepared to undergo the Creator lightning tribulation.

• The Essence God emerged from Rashomon and offered Lin Yu the Ancient Luosheng Gate in exchange for the Boat of Creation and an alliance.
• Lin Yu called the Essence God a fat pig and killed his incarnation with Emperor Pan’s Living Sword.
• Lin Yu used the Primordial Heavenly Gate to devour and refine the Ancient Luosheng Gate, expanding and strengthening its space.
• Lin Yu gained insights from the chaotic vital energy and comprehended the Fate Anthem, realizing fate could lead to transcendence.
• Lin Yu announced that he was ready to undergo the Creator lightning tribulation.

Lin Yu crossed the fifth and sixth lightning tribulations, then broke through the gate of creation and became a Creator by surviving the seventh. He ended the chapter feeling the power of creation and gaining the ability to create life from nothing.

• Lin Yu entered the Furious Thunder Death Zone and began his lightning tribulation despite Xingmou and Ao Luan warning him of the danger.
• Lin Yu passed the fifth lightning tribulation, absorbed its masculine origin energy, and increased his thoughts from thirty-eight thousand to fifty-five thousand five hundred and fifty-five.
• Lin Yu defeated the lightning reflection of himself in the sixth tribulation, raising his thoughts to sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six.
• Lin Yu shattered the gate of creation and entered the seventh lightning tribulation, devouring its demons and ancient figures as he absorbed the creation true qi.
• Lin Yu reached One Yuan Count, or one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred thoughts, and became a Creator who could create life from nothing.

Lin Yu broke through to the Creator realm and intercepted the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor, who had witnessed his tribulation and tried to flee. Lin Yu overwhelmed him and trapped his remaining thoughts, leaving the Abyss King Seat lost within the Great Luo Heavenly Realm.

• Lin Yu reached the Creator realm after crossing three lightning tribulations at once and considered what dragon-like creature he might create.
• Lin Yu spotted the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor fleeing through the Void Turbulence and blocked his escape.
• The Great Zhou Grand Ancestor attacked with the Great Annihilation Divine Fist, but Lin Yu shattered his Crimson Refined Primordial Copper Body with the Maha Seal.
• The Great Zhou Grand Ancestor tried to reverse time with Imperial Countercurrent, but Lin Yu stopped the technique with the Great Luo Heavenly Seal.
• The Great Zhou Grand Ancestor summoned demon god phantoms, but Lin Yu crushed them and trapped his remaining thoughts and the Abyss King Seat within the Great Luo Heavenly Realm.

After becoming a Creator, Lin Yu captured the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor and claimed his treasures, then found Sky Copper City and extracted the Grand Ancestor’s memories. He used those memories to create a Gate of Illusions, beginning his plan to build countless worlds for cultivators to train in.

• Lin Yu returned to the Primordial Heavenly Gate with the captured Great Zhou Grand Ancestor, and his followers congratulated him on becoming a Creator.
• Lin Yu extracted the Phantom Divine Shuttle and Nose-Ring Throne from the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor, then used a true scripture to free the heroic spirits imprisoned in the throne.
• Lin Yu searched the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor’s memories, located Sky Copper City, and traveled with his followers to find it in a field of meteors.
• Lin Yu overcame the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor’s resistance and extracted all three hundred years of his memories, reducing his thoughts to vital energy.
• Lin Yu forged a Gate of Illusions from the Great Zhou Grand Ancestor’s memories and said he would use it as the start of countless training worlds within the Primordial Heavenly Gate.

Lin Yu led Great Qian's forces to attack the Essence God Temple, where the pope and Ashoka King had been protecting the Essence God as it neared human form. After defeating the temple's defenders and locating a hidden space, Lin Yu entered it and was met by a devastating beam of light.

• The pope told Ashoka King that the Essence God was close to attaining human form and urged him to let the war continue while they protected the deity.
• Lin Yu arrived at the Essence God Temple with Xingmou, Ao Luan, the Saint clan leaders, and the Primordial Dragon Guards, then ordered his forces to attack.
• Lin Yu defeated the ten Martial Saint heroes blocking his path and destroyed the doors to the Essence God Sacred Hall.
• Ashoka King, Kahn, and the pope attacked Lin Yu, but he shattered their combined assault with the Primordial Divine Fist and sent Gongyang Yu to handle them.
• Lin Yu searched the Underground Palace, discovered the Essence God was hidden in a spatial node, and entered it.
• A brilliant beam of destructive light shot from the depths of the hidden space toward Lin Yu.

Lin Yu fought and defeated the Essence God, suppressing him and claiming his divine artifacts. He returned to the battlefield, where the Essence God's defeat broke the Western Regions’ morale and brought the battle toward its end.

• The Essence God attacked Lin Yu with the Three Realms Primordial Qi Cannon, but Lin Yu evaded it and countered with his Heaven-Opening fist and Emperor Pan's Living Sword.
• Lin Yu concealed himself with the Great Luo Heavenly Seal and pierced the Essence God's heart with a surprise sword strike.
• The Essence God used a Primordial Qi Sarira to resist Lin Yu's sword qi, but Lin Yu shattered his body with the Primordial Heavenly Gate and seized his sariras and Three Realms Primordial Qi Pool.
• Lin Yu returned to the Essence God Temple after Gongyang Yu defeated the Pope of the Essence God Temple and Kahn, then killed Ashoka King with one sword.
• Lin Yu announced that the Essence God had been suppressed, and the Western Regions’ armies lost morale.

After the victory at the Essence God Temple, Lin Yu returned to the Primordial Heavenly Gate to refine the spoils and restore his allies. He absorbed the Essence God's power and completed the Lord of the Future, leaving the Future Unborn Sutra fully realized.

• Yang Qian's forces captured the Pope, a Great Scholar, seven kings, eighteen grand marshals, and the Essence God Temple's remaining elite, while news of their victory spread across the land.
• Lin Yu returned to the Primordial Heavenly Gate with Dragon Maiden Ao Luan, Heavenly Serpent King Xingmou, and the heads of the four great saintly clans, then transformed the Thunder Pool with the Three Realms Primordial Qi Pool's Divine King's blood.
• Ao Luan and Xingmou entered the Thunder Pool to recover, and Lin Yu joined them before returning to the main divine hall.
• Lin Yu erased the Essence God's imprint from a Hun Tian Yuan Qi Sarira, refined it, and studied the Three Realms Primordial Qi Cannon's mysteries.
• Lin Yu fused his Immortal Nascent Soul with the accumulated Power of Faith and the Essence God's divine power, completing the Lord of the Future and the Future Unborn Sutra.

Lin Yu fused the Lord of the Future with the Primordial Beginning Dao Fruit, named the resulting incarnation Yi, and advanced his martial cultivation to the peak of the Human Immortal realm with materialized fist intent. He then returned to the Primordial Heavenly Gate to confront the captive Pope of the Essence God Temple about helping him stabilize the Western Regions.

• Lin Yu merged the Lord of the Future into the Primordial Beginning Dao Fruit, creating a vastly more powerful incarnation and naming it Yi.
• With Yi's assistance, Lin Yu opened all seven hundred and twenty major acupoints and reached the Human Immortal peak, where one acupoint opened a hundred.
• Lin Yu's fist intent materialized as he advanced two martial realms and demonstrated its force in the Void Turbulence.
• Lin Yu returned to the Primordial Heavenly Gate and summoned Xu Feihong, the captive Pope of the Essence God Temple.
• Lin Yu reminded Xu Feihong that he had killed the Essence God and pressed her to cooperate in uniting the Western Regions.

Lin Yu secured the Western Region’s submission, returned to Yujing City, and was named Crown Prince Yang Qian at the imperial victory ceremony. Ten days later, King Shenwei Yang You visited Marquis Wuwen’s Estate and insisted on seeing Meng Bingyun.

• The Essence God Temple’s Pope surrendered to Lin Yu, who ordered him to help Great Qian unify the Western Region and suppress resistance.
• After the Western Region’s defeat, the Pope helped calm unrest, and Lin Yu ordered the nations to recognize Great Qian as their suzerain before returning to Yujing City.
• At the Meridian Gate ceremony, Emperor Qian received Yang Tuo and Lin Yu, then named the Fourth Prince Yang Qian Crown Prince.
• Yang Qian’s appointment spread across the realm, and officials and nobles discussed the news in private.
• Ten days later, Yang You arrived at Marquis Wuwen’s Estate and insisted on meeting Meng Bingyun, who entered the hall and asked why he had summoned her.

Lin Yu summoned Meng Bingyun and asked her to deliver a challenge to Meng Shenji, restoring her cultivation as a Martial Saint in return. Later, Ao Luan reported that the Dragon Tooth Rice had ripened, and Lin Yu harvested it and shared a meal that revealed its extraordinary benefits.

• Lin Yu sent Meng Bingyun’s three wives away, revealed that he had arranged their meeting, and asked her to challenge Meng Shenji on his behalf.
• When Meng Bingyun said she could no longer contact Tai Shang Dao, Lin Yu criticized her lost cultivation and infused her with primordial qi, restoring her as a Martial Saint.
• Yang Tuo and Meng Bingyun marveled at Lin Yu’s ability to raise someone’s bodily cultivation directly to the Martial Saint realm.
• Ao Luan told Lin Yu that the Dragon Tooth Rice had nearly ripened, and he took everyone to the plantation and harvested the crop.
• Lin Yu and Ao Luan ate the Dragon Tooth Rice and found that it became pure primordial qi, nourishing the body without producing impurities.

Lin Yu and his companions traveled to Shenfeng Kingdom to find one of the five Immortal Monuments, a supreme treasure forged by the Longevity Great Emperor. After collecting treasures beneath the sea, Lin Yu broke through the perilous layers below the kingdom and reached the passage leading deeper into the earth.

• Lin Yu told Xingmou and Ao Luan that an Immortal Monument lay in Shenfeng Kingdom, and they set out through the Primordial Heavenly Gate.
• Lin Yu found the monument’s location beneath Shenfeng Kingdom and explained that it protected the land and sustained its fortune.
• Lin Yu descended through the sea and volcanic layers, collecting rare ores and using the magma to temper himself and the Primordial Heavenly Gate.
• Lin Yu gathered Earth Fiend Qi and treasures while passing through the dangerous layers beneath the magma.
• Xingmou touched a Geomagnetic Layer vortex and briefly revealed a future battlefield, so Lin Yu warned her and Ao Luan not to investigate the illusions.
• Lin Yu used the Heaven-Opening Seal and Nirvana Seal to break through the Geomagnetic Layer and send the Primordial Heavenly Gate toward the earth’s core.