Chapter Summaries

After escaping the Explosive Clay insect swarm with the World Suppressing Disk, the Three-Eyed Alliance devised a plan to attack the Body Fusion cultivator directly. At night, Baili Chenle located the cultivator, and Lin Chuan, Lin An, and Mu Li prepared to act.

• Lin Chuan used the World Suppressing Disk to restore spatial fluctuations, allowing the Three-Eyed Alliance to escape the insect swarm.
• Lin Chuan and Lin An assessed the Body Fusion cultivator’s strengths and weaknesses, then planned a direct assault with Mu Li.
• Lin An agreed to locate the enemy and endure his first attack, Lin Chuan took responsibility for breaking the spatial seal and defending against the next attack, and Mu Li agreed to close in and strike.
• The alliance waited until nightfall, while the Body Fusion cultivator stayed in place and prepared for their next assault.
• Baili Chenle used the moonlight to pinpoint the Body Fusion cultivator’s location, and Lin Chuan, Lin An, and Mu Li said to begin.

Lin An and the others emerged through a spatial rift into Zichuan Bo’s encampment, where he attacked them with Explosive Clay. Lin An disabled three giant birds with a glance, and the Deva Path used Super Shinra Tensei to repel the incoming insects.

• Lin Chuan opened a spatial rift with the World Suppressing Disk, and Lin An, [Daybreak], [Akatsuki], and Mu Li’s group entered before Lin Chuan followed.
• Zichuan Bo saw the rift open and sent three enormous Explosive Clay birds toward the emerging group, intending to detonate them once more enemies appeared.
• Lin An’s gaze disrupted the patterns on the birds, turning them into harmless clay sculptures before Zichuan Bo could make them explode.
• Baili Chenle struck the gathered cultivators with Moonlight Slash, killing dozens and stopping the survivors as Zichuan Bo sent swarms of Explosive Clay insects toward the rift.
• The Deva Path emerged and used Super Shinra Tensei to blast back the insects, preventing them from reaching the group.

Lin Chuan and his allies repelled Zichuan Bo’s attacks, then Mu Li used the Origin Heaven Secret Art to strike and severely wound him from afar. Lin An and Lin Chuan led the assault on Zichuan Bo while their allies engaged his forces, leaving Mu Li to recover under Deva Path’s protection.

• Lin Chuan used the Super Shinra Tensei to shield the Three-Eyed Alliance from Zichuan Bo’s explosive attacks.
• The Dawn organization emerged from the spatial rift as Mu Yucun’s defense ended.
• Mu Li used the Origin Heaven Secret Art to punch Zichuan Bo from several thousand meters away, severely wounding him.
• Xiao Heng identified Mu Li’s technique as the Origin Sect’s supreme body-tempering secret art and explained its effect.
• Lin An and Lin Chuan charged at Zichuan Bo while Daybreak, Dawn, and the other allies attacked his subordinates.
• Mu Li stayed behind to recover, with Deva Path guarding him.

Shui Wenjie led the Great Sound Pavilion and nearly ten thousand followers to investigate a battle involving Zichuan Bo, then used a formation to show the distant fight. The crowd saw Deva Path withstand Explosive Clay blasts and a gray-robed fighter punch Zichuan Bo away, leaving them stunned by the strength of the three faction leaders.

• Shui Wenjie learned that explosive insects had killed Great Sound Pavilion disciples near the fifth level's grassland and recognized them as Zichuan techniques.
• Shui Wenjie led the gathered cultivators to the blast site and charged each following faction one hundred thousand spirit stones to view the battle.
• Great Sound Pavilion disciples formed a water projection that showed Deva Path resisting countless Explosive Clay explosions with Shinra Tensei.
• A gray-robed fighter emerged from a spatial rift and punched the Body Fusion-stage Zichuan Bo backward, making him cough up blood.
• The crowd watched the leaders of three differently robed factions display power beyond their understanding.

Lin Chuan, Lin An, and Mu Li led the Three-Eyed Alliance in a fierce assault that badly wounded Zichuan Bo while the Great Sound Pavilion secretly watched. After agreeing that whoever killed Zichuan Bo would claim his key, Lin An, Mu Li, and Lin Chuan prepared to attack him together.

• Lin Chuan, Lin An, and Mu Li crippled Zichuan Bo with their combined first attack as the Three-Eyed Alliance overwhelmed his forces.
• The Four Envoys and the Three-Eyed Alliance’s factions unleashed their abilities, while Baili Chenle slew more than twenty cultivators in a short time.
• Bu Lianshi, Baili Chenle, and a [Dawn] cultivator each discovered the Great Sound Pavilion observing the battle, but Lin Chuan, Lin An, and Mu Li all allowed it to continue watching.
• Zichuan Bo swallowed healing pills and used Explosive Clay to hold off his attackers, but the three leaders judged that he could not quickly recover from Mu Li’s blow.
• Lin Chuan, Lin An, and Mu Li agreed that whoever killed Zichuan Bo would get the key he carried.
• Mu Li charged through the Explosive Clay, Lin An sent sword qi at Zichuan Bo, and Lin Chuan activated Susanoo.

Lin Chuan, Lin An, and Mu Li confronted Zichuan Bo as he unleashed his Body Integration domain, turning the spiritual energy across the battlefield into Explosive Clay. Lin Chuan and the other alliance fighters struggled to defend themselves, and he ordered [Akatsuki] to use their immortal artifacts.

• Lin Chuan summoned his complete Susanoo as he joined Lin An and Mu Li in attacking Zichuan Bo.
• Zichuan Bo unleashed his domain, drawing on earth and lightning spiritual energy to create Explosive Clay across the battlefield.
• Lin An used sword qi, Mu Li used astral energy, and Lin Chuan used the World Suppressing Disk to resist the domain around themselves.
• Lin Chuan told Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon to disrupt the domain, while the four and the six members of [Dawn] protected themselves and [Daybreak].
• Lin Chuan saw that [Akatsuki] lacked the strength to resist the domain and ordered them to use immortal artifacts.

The Three-Eyed Alliance faced Zichuan Bo’s domain as five immortal artifacts stabilized the battlefield and Great Sound Pavilion began broadcasting the fight. Lin An, Mu Li, and Lin Chuan launched an all-out assault, ending with Lin An’s nine sword lights merging into a strike aimed at Zichuan Bo.

• Nine immortal artifacts appeared around [Dawn], suppressing Zichuan Bo’s domain and dispersing the Explosive Clay that had manifested nearby.
• Great Sound Pavilion’s forces recognized several of the artifacts, and its disciples began transmitting news as the live broadcast of the battle began.
• Zichuan Bo’s domain filled with Explosive Clay, and the three Lin brothers abandoned their plans to seize the key and focused on killing him.
• Lin An unleashed the Nine Luminaries Sword Formation, while Mu Li charged through the explosions and Lin Chuan attacked with Susanoo and the Totsuka Blade.
• Lin An joined the nine sword lights into a single strike that sped toward Zichuan Bo.

Lin An and Mu Li severely wounded Zichuan Bo with their techniques, leaving his defenses nearly exhausted. Lin Chuan seized the opening and attacked him with Dust Release and the Susanoo’s Yasaka Magatama.

• Lin An shattered Zichuan Bo’s rock barrier with an unknown Dojutsu and severed his left arm with the Nine Luminaries Sword Formation.
• Mu Li pursued the injured Zichuan Bo and struck his ancient scale with Pagoda Hand, cracking it and leaving Zichuan Bo badly wounded.
• Lin Chuan emerged from the edge of the fight and used Sage Art: Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique to reduce the cracked scale to dust.
• Lin Chuan’s Susanoo formed nine magatama and hurled them at Zichuan Bo with Yasaka Magatama.

Lin Chuan, Lin An, and Mu Li killed Zichuan Bo and secured the key after their combined attacks overwhelmed him. Their battle stunned the Ancient Immortal Realm, while the Great Sound Pavilion identified the Three-Eyed Alliance as [Dawn], [Daybreak], and [Dawn].

• Lin Chuan struck Zichuan Bo with Yasaka Magatama as Zichuan Bo tried to trigger Explosive Clay, killing him in the resulting blast.
• Lin Chuan retrieved the glowing key, then realized Lin An and Mu Li had no intention of contesting it after their agreement.
• Lin An and Mu Li agreed to let Zichuan Bo's retreating subordinates go, while Lin Chuan kept the key and focused on obtaining the Void Spirit Pill.
• Witnesses discussed the battle and identified the attackers as leaders of [Akatsuki], [Daybreak], and [Dawn].
• The Great Sound Pavilion investigated the vanished groups and concluded that [Dawn], [Daybreak], and [Dawn] formed the Three-Eyed Alliance.

After the Three-Eyed Alliance headed for Storm Gorge to find the Void Spirit Pill, Lin Chuan and his companions rested in his space-time. Their recovery was interrupted when Meng Jingxian collapsed, and the dagger fused into his arm revealed a sinister change.

• The Three-Eyed Alliance gathered the five keys and learned that the Void Spirit Pill was hidden in Storm Gorge, then left for the fourth level after Zichuan Bo's death.
• Lin Chuan brought his companions into his space-time to rest and went to Chakra Mountain to nourish the Enlightenment Ancient Tree.
• Meng Jingxian suddenly fainted, and Bu Lianshi and Shi Jin treated him while the others examined him.
• Xiao Heng asked Meng Jingxian about the dagger fused into his body, and Meng Jingxian drew it from his arm.
• Shi Jin recognized the blood-lit dagger, now marked with Meng Jingxian's darkness spiritual energy, as the Ghost Hand.

Shi Jin identified Meng Jingxian’s dagger as the cursed ancient artifact Ghost Hand and explained its bloody origins and the danger it posed to its wielder. After learning that slaughter could sustain the dagger and its user, Meng Jingxian wondered if he could still be saved.

• Shi Jin recognized Meng Jingxian’s dagger as Ghost Hand, a notorious sacred artifact with a curse.
• Shi Jin recounted how a failed Tribulation Transcendence cultivator slaughtered his family and forged the dagger from their arm bones and his own.
• Meng Jingxian dropped Ghost Hand in horror after realizing what it was made from, while Lin Chuan remembered seeing him lick its blade.
• Shi Jin explained that Ghost Hand drained its wielder’s life force and demanded the slaughter of powerful cultivators, while growing stronger with each kill.
• Meng Jingxian looked at the others with hopeful, watery eyes and said he thought he could still be saved.

Lin Chuan and the others investigated Ghost Hand’s curse after it began draining Meng Jingxian’s life force. They decided to let him keep the dagger while Xiao Heng’s theory was tested, and the group prepared to leave for the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor’s inheritance.

• Shi Jin said they knew no way to remove Ghost Hand’s curse except to destroy the dagger, but Meng Jingxian pleaded to keep it.
• Xiao Heng touched Ghost Hand and saw a blood-red vision of the scene surrounding its creation, including a blood moon marked with black spots.
• Meng Jingxian revealed that Ghost Hand was consuming his dark spiritual energy as well as his life force, and Xiao Heng speculated that this could eventually reduce the curse.
• Lin Chuan agreed to wait and monitor Meng Jingxian, while Shi Jin promised to refine pills and Bu Lianshi offered to replenish his life force.
• Meng Jingxian returned Ghost Hand to his body, and the group resumed cultivating until Lin An and Mu Li summoned them to depart for the place where the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor had left the Void Spirit Pill.

Lin Chuan and the Three-Eyed Alliance entered Storm Gorge, where their keys’ halos weakened the spiritual energy storms. When a group of independent cultivators demanded two keys, Lin Chuan ordered Kong Chen to kill them, and the Alliance continued onward.

• Lin Chuan brought Xiao Heng and Kong Chen out of the space-time dimension while others stayed behind to care for Meng Jingxian.
• Lin An led the Three-Eyed Alliance to Storm Gorge, where the keys’ halos weakened the storms and the three overlapping halos protected Lin Chuan’s group.
• A group of independent cultivators demanded a ride through the gorge, then demanded two of Lin Chuan’s keys.
• Lin Chuan told Kong Chen to kill the cultivators, and Kong Chen slew them before the Three-Eyed Alliance continued on its way.

Lin Chuan, Mu Li, and Lin An negotiated a new Three-Eyed Alliance pact so their five keys could protect them from the storms in Storm Gorge. The group reached the gorge’s deepest point and found an ancient boundary stele bearing the name Five Absolutes.

• The group continued through Storm Gorge as cultivators recognized the Three-Eyed Alliance and avoided them.
• Mu Li proposed traveling together when the spiritual energy storms began overwhelming the barriers around the other groups.
• Lin Chuan negotiated terms for a new pact, and Lin An and Mu Li each promised not to compete with him for the Void Spirit Pill.
• The three parties signed the pact under the Deva Path’s witness and combined the five keys’ protection.
• The alliance collected treasures and passed bones and corpses as it traveled deeper into the gorge.
• The group reached the ancient Five Absolutes boundary stele, whose aura Lin Chuan recognized as belonging to the immortal Jiang Yuandao.

Lin Chuan and his companions opened the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor’s inheritance site, where a Five Elements Lake and its overwhelming pressure tested them. The Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor offered Lin Chuan the Void Spirit Pill on the condition that he never become an immortal, warning that immortals were poisonous.

• Lin Chuan and the others inserted all five keys into the boundary stele, revealing the Five Elements Lake and ending the Storm Gorge’s storms.
• The lake’s spiritual pressure forced Lin An, Mu Li, and the others to the ground, while Lin Chuan’s Nine-Turn Pill Splitting Canon helped him withstand it.
• Lin Chuan and his companions turned the pressure into a cultivation opportunity and meditated for an hour.
• The Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor questioned Lin Chuan about seeking the Void Spirit Pill and his desire to become an immortal.
• The Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor offered Lin Chuan the Void Spirit Pill if he agreed not to become an immortal, explaining that immortals were poisonous.

Lin Chuan refused the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor’s demand to give up becoming immortal, but learned that the Void Spirit Pill lay at the bottom of the Five Elements Lake. He descended into the lake and found the pill, while Lin An and Baili Chenle quietly noticed his movement.

• The Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor offered Lin Chuan the Void Spirit Pill if he would abandon immortality, but Lin Chuan refused because of his promises to White Lotus and Kong Chen.
• The Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor’s will faded after revealing that it could no longer protect the pill, and Lin Chuan realized he could take it himself.
• Lin Chuan entered the Five Elements Lake while Lin An briefly watched and Baili Chenle sensed his movement.
• Lin Chuan sank through the lake’s dense, shifting waters, searching with his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Lin Chuan spotted the Void Spirit Pill at the bottom of the lake and rushed toward it.

Lin Chuan took the Void Spirit Pill from the altar and used Kamui to store it before plundering the Five Elements Lake. As everyone else entered the lake, Xiao Heng investigated the boundary stele and found Lin An waiting behind him.

• Lin Chuan reached the altar and took the Void Spirit Pill, which the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor had strengthened with abundant five-element energy.
• Lin Chuan stored the pill in his spacetime with Kamui, then began drawing the Five Elements Lake water into it.
• Mu Li and Lin An awoke and gathered spirit herbs along the shore, while the other cultivators gradually joined them in collecting resources.
• Baili Chenle noticed the lake was shrinking, and Lin An said someone had taken its water; the Akatsuki members recognized Lin Chuan's handiwork.
• After the shore had been cleared, everyone entered the lake, while Xiao Heng approached the boundary stele and turned to find Lin An standing nearby.

Lin Chuan spent half a day draining the Five Elements Lake while the others searched it and weighed whether to compete for its treasures. Once the lake was emptied, its lakebed and the things hidden there were exposed.

• Northern Dipper and Southern Dipper discussed Lin Chuan collecting the lake water, and Southern Dipper admitted he had secretly taken some too.
• Xiao Heng told Shi Jin that he had investigated the area and taken the boundary stele.
• Lin An declined to collect the lake water and told the Four Envoys of Wind, Flower, Snow, and Moon to keep searching for treasures.
• Mu Li refused Heavenly Treasury’s suggestion to compete for the Void Spirit Pill, saying he intended to honor their agreement and prioritize their alliance.
• Lin Chuan finished draining the Five Elements Lake, revealing its enormous pit and the lakebed treasures.

At the bottom of Five Elements Lake, Lin Chuan and the others discovered five elemental feathers that became physical when matched with keys. All five flew to Lin Chuan because of his inheritance from the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor, and the dispute ended with Lin An and Mu Li demanding Akatsuki’s future aid in exchange for their feathers.

• Lin Chuan, Lin An, Mu Li, and Xiao Heng examined the five elemental feathers after discovering them around the altar.
• Xiao Heng showed Lin Chuan that an elemental key could solidify a matching feather, and Lin Chuan used his water key to claim the water feather.
• Lin An and Mu Li used their keys on the wood and fire feathers, but all five feathers flew into Lin Chuan’s hand when his Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor inheritance resonated with them.
• Lin An and Mu Li objected to Lin Chuan ending up with all five feathers, and Lin Chuan offered to exchange for or buy the ones they had claimed.
• Mu Li and Lin An agreed to give Lin Chuan their feathers if Akatsuki would each act for them once when called upon.

Lin Chuan agreed to help Mu Li and Lin An under a new agreement, preserving the Three-Eyed Alliance despite his distrust of Lin An. After the two leaders departed, Lin Chuan's group investigated the five feathers and awakened the Five Spirit Feather Fan.

• Lin An and Mu Li proposed a new agreement and asked Lin Chuan to help them while keeping the Three-Eyed Alliance intact.
• Xiao Heng urged Lin Chuan to accept, and Lin Chuan agreed on the condition that he could refuse any task beyond his abilities.
• Mu Li and Lin An departed, and Bu Lianshi and Lin Chuan discussed the serious crisis Mu Li might be facing in the Origin Sect.
• Lin Chuan's group entered the space-time dimension to study the five feathers, and Xiao Heng produced the Five Absolutes boundary stele.
• Lin Chuan fed the boundary stele his essence blood, then realized he had not bound Lin An's and Mu Li's feathers to himself and bound them.
• The five feathers entered the boundary stele, which transformed into the Five Spirit Feather Fan, the magical treasure of the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor.