Chapter Summaries

Akatsuki's members tempered their bodies in Gui Water Yin Thunder while Lin Chuan studied how to control it. After more than half a month of training, Lin Chuan perfected his handling of two kinds of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, and Qin Lang began to break through.

• Akatsuki's members used Gui Water Yin Thunder to temper their bodies as Shadow guarded them and Chen Zheng and the Dark Nether Two Elders watched in shock.
• Lin Chuan studied Purple Heaven Divine Thunder while Qin Lang worked to balance Gui Water Yin Thunder with Bing Fire Yang Thunder and Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder.
• After half a month, most of Akatsuki stopped body tempering, and Xiao Heng told Shi Jin that Lin Chuan's future might go beyond immortality.
• Lin Chuan gained some control over Gui Water Yin Thunder, then continued training while Qin Lang remained deep in the lightning sea.
• More than half a month later, Lin Chuan refined his control of two kinds of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, and the Gui Water Yin Thunder lake surged as Qin Lang began to break through.

Lin Chuan discovered that Qin Lang had refined the Gui Water Yin Thunder and gathered allies to guard his breakthrough as a continent-wide storm drew attention to Mist Forest. Qin Lang shattered the storm with three-colored lightning and completed his breakthrough to the Mahayana stage.

• Lin Chuan saw Qin Lang converting the Gui Water Yin Thunder into Bing Fire Yang Thunder and Evil-Slaying Divine Thunder, then escaped the turbulent lightning.
• Lin Chuan summoned the [Akatsuki] members and several Mahayana cultivators, ordering them to guard Mist Forest and keep Qin Lang's breakthrough secret.
• Lin Chuan sent Dark Nether Sect members around the forest to mislead approaching forces as rumors drew cultivators toward Mist Forest.
• Qin Lang unleashed three-colored lightning that shattered the dark clouds and dispersed the heavenly pressure.
• Qin Lang absorbed the gathered spiritual energy, reached the Mahayana stage, and awakened with a three-colored lightning mark.

Qin Lang broke through to the Great Ascension stage with the power of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, strengthening Akatsuki as it prepared to move against Central River. After reaching the Central River Continent, Lin Chuan met with Mu Li, who agreed to join his plans to challenge the established powers.

• Qin Lang completed his breakthrough, and Lin Chuan congratulated him as Akatsuki’s first Great Ascension cultivator.
• The Dark Nether Two Elders joined Akatsuki’s camp and agreed to unite the North Profound Continent under the Dark Nether Sect.
• Over three days, the Dark Nether Sect unified the North Profound Continent with Akatsuki’s secret assistance, and Lin Chuan’s group departed for Central River.
• Lin Chuan told Akatsuki that their target was Dasi Lianshui and that he would first meet people to learn about the latest situation.
• Mu Yuyi met Mu Li in a remote city and asked him to join his plan to reshape the cultivation world; Mu Li pledged his support.

Lin Chuan learned that Lin An had publicly challenged him to a battle hosted by the Fighting Arena on a secluded island in Dasi Lianshui. Though his companions warned that the challenge might be a trap, Lin Chuan accepted, leaving the brothers’ confrontation set for one month later.

• News spread across the cultivation world that Lin An had challenged Lin Chuan, with the Fighting Arena arranging a Phantom Martial Battlefield on a remote island in Dasi Lianshui.
• Lin Chuan received Lin An’s challenge letter from Moon Envoy Baili Chenle in the Origin Space.
• Shui Mochan reported that Lin An had raised his cultivation to the peak of the Integration stage, matching Lin Chuan.
• Lin Chuan reflected on his tangled history with Lin An and decided their conflict had to be resolved in battle.
• Lin Chuan told Jade Maiden to announce that he accepted the challenge and set the battle for one month later.

As support for Lin Chuan’s duel with Lin An forced the major factions to promise not to interfere, Lin Chuan waited quietly in Origin Space. Half a month later, he met Baili Chenle, who asked whether Lin An had said anything about the fight.

• Rogue cultivators and small factions voiced support for Lin Chuan, while the Three Pure Ones Sect, the Origin Sect, and the Lin Clan stated their positions on the duel.
• The Central River Imperial Family and other major factions declared that they would not interfere before the duel, leaving Lin Chuan safer on the surface.
• Lin Chuan learned of the support through White Zetsu and Jade Maiden, then spent his time contemplating beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tree rather than cultivating in seclusion.
• Half a month later, Lin Chuan used Yomotsu Hirasaka to visit Baili Chenle, who welcomed him with Heart Tea.
• When Baili Chenle asked whether Lin An had said anything, Lin Chuan revealed that Lin An had promised to return his eyes if he lost.

Baili Chenle revealed that the Lin Clan’s Council of Elders had engineered Lin Chuan and Lin An’s births to exploit their bloodlines, and that Lin An had received Lin Chuan’s eyes after awakening his own Dojutsu. Lin Chuan was left weighing his promise of revenge against the truth that neither brother was responsible for the clan’s crimes.

• Baili Chenle explained that the Lin Clan consisted of an outward-facing faction and a powerful Council of Elders that arranged births to produce descendants with valuable bloodlines.
• Baili Chenle told Lin Chuan that the Council considered him a failed experiment and took his Illusion-Breaking Eye to strengthen Lin An.
• Baili Chenle recounted how Lin An awakened his Law-Breaking Eye while defending his mother, who was later driven mad and remained under the Council’s control.
• Lin Chuan understood that Lin An had joined forces with Lin Chen because of his conflict with the Council and his need to protect his mother.
• Baili Chenle said he hoped Lin Chuan would not hate Lin An, then left the brothers to settle their own affairs.
• Lin Chuan reflected on whom he should blame for his promised revenge and concluded that the Lin Clan’s bloodline connected him and Lin An to the clan’s ambitions.

Lin Chuan learned about the Lin Clan Elders Council’s strength and told Baili Chenle he intended to destroy it by reuniting the Three-Eyed Alliance. As the duel with Lin An drew near, Lin Chuan rested beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tree, until strange black spheres began forming behind him.

• Baili Chenle told Lin Chuan that the Elders Council had eight Mahayana elders and might also have a Tribulation Stage cultivator.
• Lin Chuan announced that he would wipe out the Elders Council with the Three-Eyed Alliance, and Baili Chenle agreed to persuade [Daybreak]’s Three Envoys of Wind, Flower, and Snow to join.
• Lin Chuan returned to Origin Space and sat beneath the Enlightenment Ancient Tree with the Primordial Chaos Pearl, while the others worried about his state of mind.
• Three days before the decisive battle, Bu Lianshi noticed black spheres gathering behind Lin Chuan as he stared at the Enlightenment Ancient Tree.

Lin Chuan remained unaware of the nine dangerous black spheres behind him while his companions stood guard. As his duel with Lin An approached, powerful factions gathered around Dasi Lianshui, and Mu Yunshu explained that the contest could trigger a struggle over the Central River Continent’s rule.

• The others examined the nine black spheres behind Lin Chuan, judged them extremely dangerous, and agreed to keep their distance while standing guard.
• Lin Chuan stayed in a dazed state as the Central River Continent speculated about his coming duel with Lin An.
• The Central River Imperial Family and several major factions deployed experts around Dasi Lianshui ahead of the decisive battle.
• Mu Yunshu told Mu Chen that Akatsuki’s influence had weakened the imperial family and that the duel would force the major factions to choose sides.

Mu Chen and Shangguan Hong committed their sects to Lin Chuan and Akatsuki as the coming duel threatened to draw Central River into war. Before the final battle, Lin Chuan summoned the Three Pure Ones Sect elders, while an unidentified young man watched Dasi Lianshui with Hun Shang and waited for news.

• Mu Chen agreed with Mu Yunshu that Heaven One Sword Sect should side with Akatsuki to gain a foothold in Central River.
• Lu Chen and Lin Xuan worried that the duel could spark a wider war, while Shangguan Hong declared Jade Purity Sect's support for Lin Chuan.
• Shangguan Hong revealed that Lin Chuan's pill had increased his strength by more than thirty percent, and he demonstrated his advantage over Lu Chen in a brief clash.
• Shangguan Hong received Die Che's message that Lin Chuan wanted to meet the Three Pure Ones Sect elders before the final battle.
• An unknown young man stood with Hun Shang beside Dasi Lianshui and said they would wait for news before acting.

Lin An visited his mentally impaired mother before traveling with the Lin Clan and [Daybreak] cultivators to Dasi Lianshui for his duel with Lin Chuan. He privately admitted he expected to lose and hoped that would free him from his responsibilities, but he told the Flower Envoy he believed he could win.

• Lin An visited his mother in the Lin Clan's forbidden courtyard and comforted her as she mistook a cloth doll for him.
• Lin An told his mother he was due to duel his half-brother Lin Chuan and considered that losing might let him return to her and leave his responsibilities behind.
• Lin An left his sleeping mother with the maids, and a gaunt elderly man in black searched the courtyard after he departed.
• Lin An gathered the Four Envoys of Wind, Flower, Snow, and Rain and hundreds of Lin Clan cultivators, then led them to Dasi Lianshui Lake.
• The Flower Envoy noticed Lin An had changed clothes, and Lin An joked that the new clothes might change his luck before the duel.

Lin Chuan emerged from enlightenment with nine Truth-Seeking Orbs and tested their power before heading to Dasi Lianshui Lake for the duel. He revealed his improved strength to Shangguan Hong, Lu Chen, and Lin Xuan, then privately told them something he had come to discuss.

• Lin Chuan thanked the Enlightenment Ancient Tree and revealed that he had gained nine Truth-Seeking Orbs through enlightenment.
• Lin Chuan warned Akatsuki that anyone without Six Paths Power who touched a Truth-Seeking Orb would be reduced to nothingness.
• Qin Lang attacked a Truth-Seeking Orb with his three-colored lightning, which the orb annihilated, and the group tested the orbs with further attacks.
• Lin Chuan and Akatsuki left the Origin Space and arrived at Dasi Lianshui Lake, where Shangguan Hong, Lu Chen, and Lin Xuan awaited them.
• Lin Chuan revealed that he had reached the Great Perfection of the Body Integration stage and let the elders sense the Truth-Seeking Orbs' power before privately speaking to them.

Lin Chuan gathered support from powerful sects and cultivators to ensure the Central River Imperial Family would not interfere in his duel, distributing pills in return. After sending his allies away, he used a compass to teleport into the Phantom Martial Battlefield beneath Dasi Lianshui.

• Shangguan Hong and the other two Three Purities leaders promised to stop the Central River Imperial Family from interfering, and Lin Chuan gave each sect one hundred pills.
• Lin Chuan met Zhang Ji and Yun Chen of the Origin Sect, secured their support, and gave them two hundred pills before Mu Li departed to join the others.
• Lin Chuan gave Mu Yunshu and Bu Lianshi two hundred pills and gained the backing of Great Sound Pavilion experts and independent cultivators.
• Lin Chuan sent his allies away to a prepared location, then activated the compass and vanished into the Phantom Martial Battlefield.

Lin Chuan and Lin An met on a vast island battlefield as cultivators across the Central River Continent watched their long-awaited duel. They agreed on what victory would mean, then Lin An unleashed his spiritual power and challenged his younger brother to prove his worth.

• The Fighting Arena broadcast Lin Chuan's arrival on the island battlefield to screens across the continent, where viewers recognized the Azure Dragon Divine Envoy and discussed his history with the Lin Clan.
• Lin Chuan surveyed the expanded battlefield with his Tenseigan and explored the island while waiting for Lin An.
• Lin An appeared eight hundred li away, and the brothers crossed the distance to face one another.
• Lin An offered to return Lin Chuan's eyes if he lost and asked to wipe away their past grievances if Lin Chuan lost.
• Lin Chuan agreed to wipe away their grievances if he lost, but vowed to reclaim everything taken from him, with interest, if Lin An lost.
• Lin An released his spiritual power, illuminated the golden sphere behind him, and challenged his foolish younger brother to show the value of his life.

Lin Chuan and Lin An clashed through their control of heavenly laws, pushing their duel beyond ordinary spells and illusions. Lin An summoned the Heavenly Pole Disk and merged with its six avatars as Lin Chuan revealed more of his spaces, including the Origin Space and its Enlightenment Ancient Tree.

• Lin An used his Law-Breaking Eye, Illusion-Breaking Eye, and a portion of the heavenly laws to pressure Lin Chuan.
• Lin Chuan expanded his Ice Snow Space into a realm beyond the cultivation world's heavenly laws, forcing Lin An to take the clash more seriously.
• Lin An summoned the Heavenly Pole Disk and used its avatars to strengthen himself.
• Lin Chuan brought forth the Magma, Acid Sea, Supergravity, Sand Sea, and Origin spaces as Lin An merged with the disk's six avatars.
• Shangguan Hong and Lin Xuan watched in shock as the duel exceeded what Fusion-stage cultivators should be capable of.

Lin Chuan and Lin An escalated their decisive battle as Lin An unveiled his ultimate power, the Eye of Creation. The chapter left Lin Chuan facing the Heaven and Earth Extraordinary Treasure, whose gaze threatened even the Fruit of the God Tree within him.

• Lin An explained that Lin Chuan’s Amenominaka created spaces with their own laws, then drew power from the Heavenly Pole Disk.
• Lin Chuan summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, whose growing strength alarmed the cultivators watching the battle.
• Lin Chuan attacked Lin An’s gathering radiance with the statue’s ten tails, but the light erased them inch by inch.
• Lin An revealed his ultimate power: the Eye of Creation, the treasure ranked second on the List of Heaven and Earth’s Extraordinary Treasures.
• Lin Chuan recognized the Eye of Creation and felt its gaze see through him as the Fruit of the God Tree trembled.

Lin An revealed that he had restored the complete Eye of Creation at the cost of his own eyes, shifting the spectators’ expectations toward his victory over Lin Chuan. Lin Chuan remained undaunted and opened a new blood-red eye, leaving their decisive battle poised to continue.

• Spectators recognized Lin An’s eye as the legendary Eye of Creation, and many believed it made him the likely victor.
• Lin An explained that he restored the damaged Eye of Creation by sacrificing his eyes after Lin Chuan’s Illusion-Breaking Eye merged with his Law-Breaking Eye.
• Lin Chuan stopped attacking because the Eye of Creation could see through most techniques and render them ineffective.
• Lin An drew the Eye of Creation into his forehead and asked whether Lin Chuan would continue fighting.
• Lin Chuan smiled and opened a blood-red eye with Rinnegan ripples and nine tomoe.

Lin Chuan awakened the Rinne Sharingan and transformed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path while Lin An gathered the Eye of Creation’s power. As the Nine Great Princes planned to break their promise and attack Lin Chuan after the battle, the two fighters prepared to end their duel.

• Lin An’s Eye of Creation failed to see through Lin Chuan’s Rinne Sharingan or the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Lin Chuan called on Kurama, and the statue absorbed the tailed beasts’ chakra, transformed, and began forming a massive Tailed Beast Ball.
• The Nine Great Princes decided to kill Lin Chuan after the battle, despite their promise not to interfere.
• Lin Chuan and Lin An gathered their powers, with Lin An summoning the Eye of Creation’s radiance and Lin Chuan charging the statue with chakra and Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
• Lin Chuan activated Amenominaka as he and Lin An agreed to end the fight.

Lin Chuan moved the Phantom Martial Space and Lin An to the Lin Clan, where he rescued Lin An’s mother and severed her karmic connection to the outside world. Lin An and Lin Chuan then launched their prepared attacks against Lin He, leaving the Lin Clan under assault.

• Lin Chuan used Yomotsu Hirasaka to transfer the space containing Lin An and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from the Phantom Martial Space to the Lin Clan.
• Lin Chuan took Lin An’s mother into the Origin Space, and Xiao Heng’s jade disk severed her karmic connection with the outside world.
• Lin An confronted Lin He and unleashed the Light of Creation, gravely injuring him and destroying more than half of the Lin Clan.
• Lin Chuan fired a prepared Tailed Beast Ball at Lin He as part of the coordinated Heaven-Swapping Day-Replacement attack.

Lin An and Lin Chuan attacked Lin He and the Lin Clan Elders Council, destroying much of the Lin Clan’s core territory and calling on their allies to join the assault. After Qin Lang struck Lin He with a Three-Colored Kirin, Lin Chuan launched another Tailed Beast Ball at him.

• Lin An and Lin Chuan’s attacks devastated the Lin Clan’s core territory and badly injured Lin He.
• Lin An denounced the Elders Council and called on Lin Clan cultivators to follow him, while Lin Chuan vowed to reclaim what the council had taken from him.
• Lin An and Lin Chuan coordinated another assault on Lin He as Lin Chuan summoned their allies through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Baili Chenle, Dantai Qianru, Wind Envoy, and Flower Envoy attacked the Lin Clan Elders Council’s cultivators.
• Lin An’s Light of Creation struck Lin He, and Qin Lang followed with a Three-Colored Kirin that swallowed him in lightning.
• Lin Chuan launched another Tailed Beast Ball toward Lin He as he remained engulfed in the lightning.

Lin An and Lin Chuan killed Lin He, turning the Lin Clan Elders Council’s defeat into a rout. Lin Chuan then confronted his father, Lin Hao, to avenge the original Lin Chuan and grow stronger, sealing off the area with Truth-Seeking Orbs.

• Lin An’s Light of Creation disintegrated the wounded Lin He, and his shattered life tablet confirmed his death.
• The Akatsuki and Dawn forces overwhelmed the Lin Clan Elders Council as Lin Chen resolved to destroy the clan for Yinyin’s sake.
• Lin An told Lin Chuan where to find their father, Lin Hao, and explained that he regarded him only as the tool that had allowed him to be born.
• Lin Chuan found Lin Hao retreating from the battlefield and told him he had come to avenge someone and make himself stronger.
• Lin Chuan sent his Truth-Seeking Orbs outward to seal off the area around himself and Lin Hao.