Chapter Summaries

Lin Yiqing entered the Xuantian Sect's inheritance hall and arranged for Little Fatty and three others to receive the inheritance in exchange for half the resources found in the ruins. The Spirit Stele activated, surrounding the four seated recipients in golden light as the inheritance began.

• Feng Hong emerged from the hall with Li Ce and thanked Lin Yiqing for saving them, while Li Ce vowed to avenge Li Xuan after Chu Kuang's betrayal.
• Feng Hong invited Lin Yiqing and his companions to enter the hall and explained that the inheritance Spirit Stele could be inherited more than once.
• Lin Yiqing invited Feng Sheng and Zhan Yu to join them, then negotiated three inheritance seats for half of Feng Hong's group's resources.
• Lin Yiqing reserved the remaining seat for Little Fatty, explaining that he and Panhu already had their own inheritances.
• Little Fatty and the others sat before the stele, which rang out and enveloped all four recipients in golden pillars of light.

After the Mysterious Character Stone Stele granted Zhan Yu ninth-grade martial arts, Li Ce and Feng Sheng received Creation Martial Arts, while Little Fatty gained the Xuantian Sect’s Spirit Seal. Li Ce invited Lin Yiqing and his companions to represent the Great Li Dynasty in next year’s Hundred Dynasties War, and Lin Yiqing agreed.

• Zhan Yu awakened first and received ninth-grade martial arts from the Mysterious Character Stone Stele.
• Li Ce and Feng Sheng awakened with visions revealing that each had received Creation Martial Arts.
• The stele sent a Spirit Seal into Little Fatty, and Lin Yiqing recognized that the Xuantian Sect’s inheritance had passed to him.
• Feng Hong promised to deliver the resources recovered from the ruins to Lin Yiqing within three days of their departure.
• Li Ce invited Lin Yiqing and his two companions to join the Great Li Dynasty’s team for the Hundred Dynasties War.
• Lin Yiqing agreed to the invitation after Li Ce confirmed he had authority to decide for the Great Li Dynasty.

After more than a month of seclusion on Dragon Head Rock, Lin Yiqing advanced to the Three-Yuan Nirvana Realm and became a Three-Seal Heavenly Rune Master. He gained a faint understanding of Nirvana’s true meaning, then prepared to leave for Chang'an Prefecture with Little Fatty and Panhu.

• Lin Yiqing left the Xuantian Sect ruins with his companions after accepting Li Ce's invitation, then began seclusion on Dragon Head Rock with the Hundred Dynasties War a year away.
• Feng Sheng delivered the pills and spirit materials from the ruins, delighting Little Fatty and drawing Panhu's scorn.
• Lin Yiqing studied Daoist principles with the Taiji Diagram's guidance, refining his cultivation and state of mind while Little Fatty and Panhu explored nearby.
• After more than a month, Lin Yiqing consumed a dragon of Nirvana Pills and advanced to the Three-Yuan Nirvana Realm.
• Lin Yiqing's spirit form swallowed the lightning from the thunderclouds, completing his advancement to Three-Seal Heavenly Rune Master and tempering away impurities.
• Lin Yiqing reflected on the true meaning of Nirvana, then told Little Fatty and Panhu to set off for Chang'an Prefecture.

Lin Yiqing, Little Fatty, and Panhu arrived in the Great Li Imperial City as the dynasty prepared for its Hundred Dynasties War Seed Selection Tournament. After reuniting with Li Ce at the palace, they revealed their strength, leaving him astonished.

• Lin Yiqing and his companions entered the imperial city, where crowds had gathered for the Seed Selection Tournament.
• Lin Yiqing explained that the Great Li Imperial House had reserved a tournament place for him, while Little Fatty and Panhu would compete for the remaining two places.
• The trio reached the palace and reunited with Li Ce, who welcomed them and led them inside.
• Li Ce asked about Little Fatty and Panhu's cultivation, and Little Fatty revealed his Creation Realm Great Accomplishment cultivation.
• Panhu released his Nirvana Realm aura, startling Li Ce before he quickly reined it in.

Lin Yiqing and the other chosen youths gathered at the Great Li Imperial Palace, where Li Jingfeng announced their preparations for the Hundred Dynasties War. After the Seed Selection Tournament finalized the candidates, he opened the Spirit Rhinoceros Grotto for them to train in for half a year.

• Li Jingfeng arrived after sensing the commotion, welcomed Lin Yiqing and the others, and led them into the palace.
• Li Ce entered the Seed Selection Tournament in Lin Yiqing’s place and advanced to the final selection alongside Little Fatty and Panhu.
• The tournament finalized the five participants for the Hundred Dynasties War: Lin Yiqing, the other two youths, Li Ce, and Feng Sheng.
• Li Jingfeng announced that the candidates could train in the Spirit Rhinoceros Grotto for half a year before setting out for the war.
• Li Jingfeng opened the grotto’s stone gate, and the candidates hurried inside.

Lin Yiqing absorbed the life-bearing energy in the Spirit Rhinoceros Grotto, drawing it from a buried Life Profound Realm demonic beast skeleton until he triggered the Nirvana Tribulation. He endured the tribulation within the cavern as Li Ce, Feng Sheng, Little Fatty, and Panhu watched.

• Li Ce led Lin Yiqing, Little Fatty, Panhu, and Feng Sheng into the Spirit Rhinoceros Grotto and let them choose meditation platforms.
• Lin Yiqing used Origin Qi Vision to discover that a buried skeleton emitted the grotto's life-bearing energy, then began absorbing it with his Devouring Power.
• Little Fatty and Panhu also absorbed the vitality in unusual ways, while Li Ce and Feng Sheng watched in amazement.
• Lin Yiqing drew the remaining energy from underground and became enclosed in an emerald-green cocoon as the others cultivated for half a year.
• The cocoon cracked and burst, and Little Fatty recognized the scorching energy as the Nirvana Tribulation and led Li Ce and Feng Sheng away.
• Lin Yiqing contained the tribulation's force around himself as it tempered his body with golden light, while Li Ce and Feng Sheng watched in awe.

After leaving the Spirit Rhinoceros Grotto, Lin Yiqing faced a Wind-Thunder Tribulation and reached the Five-Seal Heavenly Rune Master level. With ten days remaining before the Hundred Dynasties War, Li Jingfeng charged him and the other representatives with following his lead in the Ancient Battlefield.

• Lin Yiqing advanced to the Five-Yuan Nirvana Realm, and Panhu finished cultivating at a comparable level.
• Little Fatty lamented that he had not advanced, while Li Ce and Feng Sheng congratulated Lin Yiqing and Panhu.
• Lin Yiqing and the others left the Spirit Rhinoceros Grotto as it closed for another twenty years.
• Lin Yiqing triggered and swallowed the lightning of a Wind-Thunder Tribulation, tempering his spiritual body and becoming a Five-Seal Heavenly Rune Master.
• Li Jingfeng told the Great Li Dynasty representatives that they would enter the Ancient Battlefield in ten days and asked them to follow Lin Yiqing's instructions.

Lin Yiqing used the Taiji Diagram to discover how to condense Spirit Seals, taking the first step toward creating Spirit Arrays. He began testing the Spirit Gathering Array, and the five seals he released formed a barely visible web in the air.

• Lin Yiqing decided to seek demonic beasts in the Ancient Battlefield for Monster Spirit blood essence and considered advancing his formations into Spirit Arrays.
• Lin Yiqing realized the Taiji Diagram could help him use the yin, yang, and five elements of heaven and earth to overcome the limits of the lower plane.
• Lin Yiqing summoned the Taiji Diagram, which placed a complex imprint inside him and enabled him to condense his first Spirit Seal.
• Lin Yiqing chose the simple Spirit Gathering Array from the Wordless Heavenly Book for his first experiment.
• Lin Yiqing condensed five Spirit Seals and sent them into the air, where faint strands connected them into an emerging formation.

Lin Yiqing perfected a Spirit Array before traveling with Li Ce and the others to the Ancient Battlefield for the Hundred Dynasties War. The group arrived in the vast ancient space, where Lin Yiqing found rich Nirvana Qi and prepared to fight.

• Lin Yiqing successfully activated a Spirit Array and spent ten days studying how to form Spirit Seals at will.
• Lin Yiqing, Little Fatty, and Panhu met Li Jingfeng and Li Ce at Holy War Peak, where Li Jingfeng warned his son to proceed cautiously in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Feng Sheng and the others from the Changshang Sect arrived, and Li Jingfeng ordered the five entrants to follow Yao Yan's lead.
• Li Jingfeng poured Nirvana Pills into the formation platform, sending Lin Yiqing and the other four into the Ancient Battlefield.
• Lin Yiqing arrived in the ancient realm, sensed its rich Heaven and Earth Yuan Power, and gathered a strand of Nirvana Qi.

Lin Yiqing and his companions reached an Ancient Battlefield gathering point and found the Posuo Dynasty extorting Nirvana Pills from visitors. Lin Yiqing defeated the dynasty’s leader, Jin Yu, and let everyone enter the city on the condition that they help defend it if a beast tide attacked that night.

• Lin Yiqing led Little Fatty, Panhu, Li Ce, and Feng Sheng north through the Ancient Battlefield toward a nearby gathering point, collecting rare spirit medicines along the way.
• At the city gates, the Posuo Dynasty demanded fifty Nirvana Pills per person or half that amount in exchange for joining its ranks, and its men displayed corpses to intimidate the crowd.
• Lin Yiqing blasted the Posuo Dynasty’s men aside and confronted Jin Yu, a newly advanced Nirvana Realm cultivator who appeared from the city tower.
• Lin Yiqing seized Jin Yu and hurled him out of the city, then ordered the Posuo Dynasty to defend the gathering point against that night’s beast tide.
• Lin Yiqing allowed the waiting groups to enter the city, requiring them to help defend it if a beast tide came.

Lin Yiqing and his companions settled into the Ancient Battlefield’s gathering point, where he revealed his real name and planned for the year ahead. When a Beast Tide approached the city at night, Li Ce organized the gathered dynasties to defend the walls as the beasts arrived.

• Lin Yiqing encouraged Li Ce and Feng Sheng to keep striving, then revealed that his real name was Lin Yiqing; Jin Baibao also disclosed his name, while Panhu said his was genuine.
• Lin Yiqing explained that the contestants had a year to prepare before the final trial and began cultivating while considering how to find the four Secret Keys.
• Lin Yiqing used his Devouring Skin Membrane to resist the night’s suppression of elemental energy and sensed powerful beasts gathering near the city.
• Panhu and Little Fatty warned Lin Yiqing that a Beast Tide was coming, and Li Ce reported that about ten groups had sought their protection.
• Li Ce alerted the city’s groups and organized them on the walls, where they saw an immense Beast Tide charging toward the gathering point.

Lin Yiqing left the city to hunt the Nirvana Realm beasts directing the Beast Tide while Panhu organized the city’s defenses. He killed the Black Demon Wolf and Monster Tiger, then confronted the Four-Yuan Nirvana Realm Three-Headed Profound Underworld Python, striking it with his Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger.

• Lin Yiqing identified three powerful beasts controlling the Beast Tide and left Panhu, Little Fatty, and the others to defend the city, warning them to watch Jin Yu.
• Panhu revealed his Five-Yuan Nirvana Realm strength, while Li Ce organized the cultivators into defenses as the Beast Tide reached the walls.
• Lin Yiqing found and killed the Black Demon Wolf, collecting its Monster Spirit and Monster Crystal for weapon-refining materials.
• Lin Yiqing pursued and killed the Monster Tiger, then blocked an ambush by icy energy and icicles.
• Lin Yiqing recognized the Four-Yuan Nirvana Realm Xuanming Three-Headed Python as the final mastermind and attacked it with his Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger, dimming its aura.

After the Beast Tide ended, Lin Yiqing forged three Earth-Grade Spirit Treasures, including the Heavenly Absolute Flowing Light Spear. The chapter left off as Little Fatty broke through to the Nirvana Realm and began his Nirvana Tribulation, revealing signs of extraordinary Spirit Veins.

• The Beast Tide scattered after the Three-Headed Profound Underworld Python's aura faded, and Lin Yiqing returned to the city wall to reunite with Little Fatty and the others.
• Lin Yiqing returned to his room and reforged his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Saber into the Dragon Gall Silver Spear, naming it the Heavenly Absolute Flowing Light Spear.
• Lin Yiqing reforged the Dragon Snake Great Bow and the Mountain-Opening Giant Axe, upgrading all three weapons to Earth-Grade Spirit Treasures over seven days.
• Little Fatty broke through to the Nirvana Realm as a golden divine bird phantom appeared and Lin Yiqing recognized patterns that might be Spirit Veins.
• Little Fatty began his Nirvana Tribulation without waking, and illusory white smoke rose from his body.

Little Fatty awakened his Phoenix bloodline, survived the Nirvana Tribulation, and reached the Two-Yuan Nirvana Realm. After hearing rumors of an Ancient Secret Key and a threat from the Lingyou Dynasty, Lin Yiqing captured their envoy and learned where the key was.

• Little Fatty awakened his Phoenix bloodline, absorbed Nirvana Pills, and reached the Two-Yuan Nirvana Realm after crossing two Nirvana Tribulations.
• Li Ce told Lin Yiqing that the Lingyou Dynasty was coercing nearby groups and that an Ancient Secret Key had been discovered.
• Lin Yiqing decided to capture the Lingyou Dynasty's envoys and investigate whether they had the key.
• Han Kang arrived at the city gates, but Lin Yiqing seized him with spiritual power and forced him to reveal that the key was in a mountain-valley ruin occupied by a beast-clan group.
• Little Fatty urged Lin Yiqing to make Han Kang lead them to the valley.

Lin Yiqing and his companions learned that the Lingyou Dynasty’s powerful cultivators, led by Zhuo Ming, were heading for Tianmu Valley to claim the Ancient Secret Key. They followed into the dangerous Tianmu Mountain Range and reached the valley as a fierce battle was underway.

• Lin Yiqing controlled Han Kang and learned that Zhuo Ming and the Lingyou Dynasty’s forces were seeking the Ancient Secret Key.
• Han Kang led Lin Yiqing and his companions toward Tianmu Valley, while Lin Yiqing resolved to compete with the Lingyou Dynasty for the key.
• After two days, Lin Yiqing’s group reached the Tianmu Mountain Range and decided to follow the Lingyou Dynasty’s trail through the beasts and other cultivators.
• Panhu spotted cultivators from the Lingyou Dynasty near Tianmu Valley, and Lin Yiqing sensed a fierce battle raging inside.

Lin Yiqing and his companions watched as the Lingyou Dynasty fought through a flock of Ghost-Faced Owls and uncovered an ancient ruin in Tianmu Valley. The Tongming and Lion Dynasties then confronted Zhuo Ming’s group over the ruin, while Lin Yiqing waited to decide when to act.

• A Ghost-Faced Owl King and thousands of Ghost-Faced Owls attacked the Lingyou Dynasty as Lin Yiqing and his companions approached Tianmu Valley.
• Zhuo Ming led the Lingyou Dynasty in defeating the Ghost-Faced Owls, and the battle cleared the mist to reveal a ruined Stone Hall.
• Lin Yiqing stopped Little Fatty from rushing toward the ruin, noting that other groups were waiting to seize the opportunity.
• After Zhuo Ming killed the Ghost-Faced Owl King, the Lingyou Dynasty headed for the Stone Hall, but a huge sword slash blocked their way.
• Yuan Hua of the Tongming Dynasty and Xuan Ye and Xuan Yi of the Lion Dynasty appeared with two other Nirvana Realm cultivators and demanded that Zhuo Ming leave.
• Little Fatty asked Lin Yiqing whether their group should move, while Lin Yiqing’s companions remained poised to intervene.

Lin Yiqing drove the rival dynasties away from the Stone Hall and used his Devouring Power to create a passage through its seal. He and his companions entered the hall as the barrier restored itself behind them.

• Lin Yiqing emerged with his companions and pressured Yuan Hua, Zhuo Ming, and their groups to leave the valley.
• Zhuo Ming and Yuan Hua led their groups away after realizing they could not claim the Ancient Secret Key.
• Lin Yiqing and his companions approached the Stone Hall and discovered that a powerful seal blocked its entrance.
• Lin Yiqing used his Devouring Power to form a halo that opened a passage through the barrier.
• Little Fatty, Li Ce, Feng Sheng, Panhu, and Lin Yiqing entered the Stone Hall, and the barrier returned to normal.

Lin Yiqing and his companions explored the Stone Hall, where he recognized the Four Profound Sects’ murals and divided a vast supply of Nirvana Pills among the group. In the rear hall, he spotted the Ancient Secret Key and discovered that hidden spatial rifts made reaching it deadly.

• Lin Yiqing identified the murals as depicting the Four Profound Sects, rulers of the Ancient Battlefield and possible creators of the hidden treasure tied to the Ancient Secret Key.
• Lin Yiqing found a Nirvana Pill Pool containing at least ten million pills and split them into five equal shares, reassuring Li Ce and Feng Sheng when they tried to refuse theirs.
• Lin Yiqing entered the rear hall and spotted the Ancient Secret Key floating inside a ball of light.
• Lin Yiqing used Origin Qi Vision to detect hidden spatial rifts surrounding the key and warned his companions not to approach.
• Lin Yiqing tossed a jade bottle toward the key, and the spatial rifts sliced it apart, revealing the trap’s lethality.

Lin Yiqing retrieved the Ancient Secret Key and cultivated in the Stone Hall, reaching the Six-Yuan Nirvana Realm. Li Ce and Feng Sheng also broke through to the Nirvana Realm, and Lin Yiqing led the group away using the key.

• Lin Yiqing used his spiritual force to seize the Ancient Secret Key from the spatial rifts and examined its Space Runes.
• Lin Yiqing offered Li Ce and Feng Sheng the Nirvana Pill Pool as a place to attempt their breakthroughs, and they began cultivating while Lin Yiqing, Little Fatty, and Panhu kept watch.
• Lin Yiqing absorbed Nirvana Pills for several days and advanced to the Six-Yuan Nirvana Realm.
• Li Ce and Feng Sheng broke through to the Nirvana Realm and emerged from the Nirvana Fire Tribulation.
• Lin Yiqing activated the Ancient Secret Key, and its ring of light carried the group away.

Lin Yiqing and his companions traveled to the Ancient Palace, where the Ancient Treasure Trove would soon open, and discovered the forces carrying the other three Ancient Secret Keys. They entered a tense confrontation with Shi Kun’s group, and Lin Yiqing revealed his Six-Yuan Nirvana Realm strength as he demanded that everyone surrender the keys and leave.

• Lin Yiqing dispelled the Soul-Seizing and Mind-Controlling Technique on Han Kang, then led his companions toward the Ancient Treasure Trove’s opening site.
• Lin Yiqing and his companions reached the crowded Ancient Palace and entered the city after waiting at one of its gates.
• Lin Yiqing sensed the other three Ancient Secret Keys and led his group toward the palace complex at the city’s center.
• Lin Yiqing entered a golden hall, where he reunited with Lin Dong and learned that Shi Kun’s group was confronting him over an Ancient Secret Key.
• Lin Yiqing unleashed the pressure of his Six-Yuan Nirvana Realm and ordered everyone to leave the Ancient Secret Keys behind and withdraw.