Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen sent Ling Qingzhu and Ying Xiaoxiao away before their confrontation could disrupt the Ancient Treasury, then questioned Wu Dao about the Dao Sect’s stance and the Western Profound Region. Wu Dao agreed not to oppose Lin Chen’s actions and said the super sects had chosen not to alert their Western Profound Region enemies.

• Lin Chen warned Ling Qingzhu and Ying Xiaoxiao that their fight could endanger the people arriving in the distorted space, and both women said they did not intend to fight.
• Lin Chen told Ling Qingzhu and Ying Xiaoxiao to leave, and Ling Qingzhu departed first before Ying Xiaoxiao followed her.
• Lin Chen felt a sense of loss as he watched the two women leave, then asked Wu Dao whether he would enforce the Eight Great Super Sects’ agreement in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Wu Dao assured Lin Chen that he would not interfere as long as Lin Chen did not go too far, explaining that the Dao Sect valued his potential ties to the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.
• Lin Chen asked whether Wu Dao had investigated the Western Profound Region, and Wu Dao said the super sects had decided not to alert their enemies or provoke them into sending stronger experts.

Lin Chen prepared to open the Ancient Treasury and let Liu Bai distribute its four Spatial Keys. He left the choice of key holders to Liu Bai as the group gathered before the inheritance doors.

• Lin Chen recalled his promises to meet Su Kui, Su Rou, and Brother, repay the Great Qing Dynasty's imperial family, and help Liu Ya join a super sect before Wu Dao departed.
• Liu Bai, Lin Dong, and the others arrived, and Liu Bai presented Lin Chen with the four Spatial Keys.
• Lin Chen declared the keys useless to him and noticed that Little Flame had evolved into a human form and reached the One Yuan Nirvana Realm.
• At Lin Chen's urging, Liu Bai gave keys to Lin Dong, Little Flame, and Mu Hongling, keeping the last one for himself.
• Lin Chen accepted Liu Bai's distribution and prepared to open the treasury, focused on obtaining Azure Dragon King Qing Zhi's inheritance.

Lin Chen sent a spiritual body into the Azure Dragon Hall to speak with Qing Zhi while Lin Dong and the others entered the ancient treasury through their keys. The chapter ended with Lin Chen standing before the enormous gate of the Four Symbols Xuan Sect’s Azure Dragon Hall.

• Lin Chen explained that he could not enter the Azure Dragon Hall in person and gave Lin Dong the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill to restore Little Marten’s body.
• Liu Bai activated his Ancient Secret Key, opened a bronze gate, and entered with Mo Ling and the others.
• Mu Hongling opened another bronze gate and entered with her group while Lin Chen remained motionless above the plaza.
• Lin Dong and Little Flame opened their gates, and intruders who tried to rush inside were killed by an unseen force.
• Lin Dong and Little Flame entered their respective gates as they closed, while Lin Chen’s spiritual body appeared before the Azure Dragon Hall gate.

Lin Chen entered the Azure Dragon Trial, a real Thunder Sea that tested entrants with destructive lightning. He discovered that his Devouring Power could absorb the lightning, though enduring it still caused pain, and sensed something as he devoured a strike.

• Lin Chen explained that his spiritual body could bypass the physical trial and said he expected to meet Qing Zhi inside the Azure Dragon Hall.
• Lin Chen entered the giant gate while Lin Dong and Little Marten remained behind.
• A lightning strike hurt Lin Chen’s spiritual body, but its Devouring Power absorbed the lightning and kept him intact.
• Lin Chen found himself in a vast sea of lightning beneath storm clouds, standing on a small bluestone amid electrically charged waves.
• Lin Chen used his Devouring Power to devour a descending bolt and sensed something that made his brows furrow.

Lin Chen drew Qing Zhi’s attention by using the Devouring Power in the Azure Dragon Hall and explained that he had come to discuss the Other Demons, not seek the Azure Dragon Transformation Dragon Art. The chapter ended as Lin Chen began raising the threat to the Eastern Profound Region and the possibility of joining forces with Qing Zhi.

• The Thunder Sea surged as Qing Zhi’s Azure Dragon form appeared, and Lin Chen was shaken by the pressure of his afterimage.
• Qing Zhi recognized the Devouring Power and spoke with Lin Chen, who greeted him and identified him as the Azure Dragon King.
• Lin Chen confirmed that his Spiritual Power had reached the Immortal Talisman Master Small Vehicle Peak, earning Qing Zhi’s admiration.
• Qing Zhi asked whether Lin Chen had come for the Azure Dragon Hall’s inheritance, and Lin Chen explained that he wanted to discuss the Other Demons threatening the Eastern Profound Region.

Lin Chen warned Qing Zhi that the Yuan Sect served the Other Demons and would lead their attack on the Eastern Profound Region. Qing Zhi recognized the threat and shared Lin Chen’s hatred of the invaders, while Lin Chen left determined to destroy their foothold.

• Lin Chen told Qing Zhi that the Other Demons had survived the Ancient World War and secretly cultivated followers across the Tianxuan Continent.
• Lin Chen identified the Yuan Sect as the Other Demons’ lackeys, and Qing Zhi wondered whether it was the sect founded by the Yuan Emperor, Spirit Emperor, and Thunder Emperor.
• Lin Chen said Mo Luo had also sensed something amiss and explained that Yuan Sect members received Demon Seeds that let them cultivate demonic energy alongside Origin Energy.
• Lin Chen warned that the Yuan Sect would become the Other Demons’ vanguard and endanger countless lives in the Eastern Profound Region.
• Qing Zhi released a terrifying aura as he considered the threat, and his hatred of the Other Demons deepened.

Lin Chen told Qing Zhi that the Yuan Sect controlled the Space Ancestral Symbol through the Demon Emperor's Lock and urged him to help destroy the sect before the Other Demons regained strength. Qing Zhi agreed to help, and Lin Chen proposed that they destroy the Yuan Sect in three years.

• Lin Chen revealed that the Yuan Sect held the Space Ancestral Symbol using the Demon Emperor's Lock, a method left behind by Demon Emperor Yi Mo.
• Lin Chen said he could break the lock if they destroyed the Yuan Sect first and warned that waiting could leave the Eastern Profound Region devastated.
• Qing Zhi said he would help if Lin Chen's claims were true, and Lin Chen assured him that the secrets he had shared were genuine.
• Qing Zhi accepted Lin Chen's hidden knowledge and agreed that defending the world and eliminating the Other Demons were his duty.
• Lin Chen warned Qing Zhi to beware of the Other Demons' sneak attacks while his true body remained asleep.
• Lin Chen proposed destroying the Yuan Sect three years later.

Lin Chen discussed destroying Yuan Sect with Qing Zhi, who agreed to investigate the threat and help eliminate it if Lin Chen’s claims proved true. Qing Zhi also praised Lin Dong’s perseverance and promised Lin Chen the Azure Dragon Transformation Dragon Art and Heavenly Dragon Qi when they met in person.

• Lin Chen explained that gathering Tianxuan Continent’s experts to destroy Yuan Sect before the Ten King Halls emerged could prevent a greater threat, and Qing Zhi agreed to investigate the sect with Mo Luo.
• Qing Zhi asked about Lin Dong, and Lin Chen explained that Lin Dong had entered through the Azure Dragon Hall Inheritance.
• Qing Zhi praised Lin Dong’s perseverance but said time would determine whether he passed the Azure Dragon Trial and became a suitable heir.
• Lin Chen and Qing Zhi agreed that Tianxuan Continent needed more experts to protect its people.
• Qing Zhi promised to give Lin Chen the Azure Dragon Transformation Dragon Art and a strand of Heavenly Dragon Qi when they met in person.

Lin Chen left the Azure Dragon Hall after Qing Zhi agreed to give him the Azure Dragon Transformation Dragon Art and directed him to visit the Flame God Hall within two years. Ten days later, the story arrived at the Dao Sect in the Dao Region.

• Lin Chen thanked Qing Zhi for promising him the Azure Dragon Transformation Dragon Art and pledged to help Qing Zhi if needed.
• Lin Chen asked Qing Zhi to let his spiritual body return to his main body so he could continue preparing to destroy the Yuan Sect within three years.
• Qing Zhi agreed to release Lin Chen and told him to visit the Flame God Hall in the Sea of Chaotic Demons within two years, where Mo Luo would receive him.
• Lin Chen agreed to seek Mo Luo's help and said he already intended to visit the Sea of Chaotic Demons to find a way to awaken the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone.
• Lin Chen's spiritual body returned to his main body, and ten days later the story shifted to the Dao Sect in the southwestern Eastern Profound Region.

Lin Chen arrived at the Dao Sect and asked Ying Xiaoxiao to help him enter the Wilderness Hall and borrow the Barren Stone so he could comprehend Desolation Power. Meanwhile, Little Marten took the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill to restore his physical body, leaving Lin Dong anxiously watching over him.

• Lin Chen reached the Dao Sect’s territory, dispersed He Xuan’s pressure, and revealed his peak Life Profound Realm strength to the Enforcement Team.
• Qi Lei arrived, recognized Lin Chen, and brought him to meet Ying Xiaoxiao in Heaven Hall.
• Little Marten swallowed the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill and became enclosed in a black-and-white energy cocoon as Lin Dong hoped his restoration would succeed.
• After Qi Lei left Lin Chen and Ying Xiaoxiao alone, Lin Chen asked her to help him enter the Dao Sect Wilderness Hall and borrow the Barren Stone.

Lin Chen asked Ying Xiaoxiao to help him obtain the Great Desolation Scripture and admitted he had accepted her father’s marriage proposal. He bluntly claimed he would never let her belong to another man, then pulled her into his arms.

• Lin Chen asked Ying Xiaoxiao to help him obtain the Great Desolation Scripture from the Great Desolation Barren Tablet so he could pursue the artifact’s recognition.
• Ying Xiaoxiao mocked Lin Chen for making such a bold request as an outsider, while he told her to call him Lin Chen and claimed he counted as half of Dao Sect.
• Ying Xiaoxiao asked Lin Chen whether he had agreed to her father’s proposal, and he confirmed that he had.
• Lin Chen explained that he desired Ying Xiaoxiao and would not let her fall into another man’s hands.
• Ying Xiaoxiao lost her balance at Lin Chen’s blunt words, and he moved forward and drew her into his arms.

Lin Chen and Ying Xiaoxiao grew closer, and she accepted him despite her concerns about Ling Qingzhu. He promised to destroy Yuan Sect, easing her worries about its threat to Dao Sect.

• Lin Chen and Ying Xiaoxiao shared an intimate moment, and she admitted she had chosen him for the sake of Ying Xuanzi, Dao Sect, and the Eastern Profound Region.
• Lin Chen teased Ying Xiaoxiao about visiting his father-in-law, while recognizing that her feelings for him were still new.
• Lin Chen compared Ying Xiaoxiao with Ling Qingzhu, provoking Ying Xiaoxiao to question how he would handle loving both women.
• Lin Chen avoided answering Ying Xiaoxiao's questions and promised he was preparing to destroy Yuan Sect.

Ying Xiaoxiao accepted Lin Chen’s promise to destroy the Yuan Sect and agreed to go with him. After they left, Ying Xuanzi and Elder Gan emerged from the void and remarked on Lin Chen’s hidden strength.

• Ying Xiaoxiao was moved by Lin Chen’s vow to destroy the Yuan Sect, a cause tied to her and Ying Xuanzi’s long-standing resentment.
• Lin Chen told Ying Xiaoxiao he would prove his ambition and teased her about giving herself to him; she said she would follow him regardless.
• Lin Chen invited Ying Xiaoxiao to go somewhere with him, took her hand, and left with her.
• Ying Xuanzi and Elder Gan appeared where Ying Xiaoxiao had been and said Lin Chen’s strength seemed greater than it appeared, noting a fluctuation of Spiritual Power.

Lin Chen took Ying Xiaoxiao from the Dao Sect to Bloodstone Land, intending to kill the wanted former Yuan Sect disciple Yao Ling and eliminate a threat to the Dao Sect. After three days of travel, they arrived in the dangerous, blood-red region.

• Ying Xuanzi and Elder Gan praised Lin Chen's talent and discussed his trip with Ying Xiaoxiao, while worrying about her well-being.
• Lin Chen left the Dao Sect with Ying Xiaoxiao and told her they were heading to Bloodstone Land.
• Lin Chen explained that he planned to kill Yao Ling, a wanted former Yuan Sect disciple, and demonstrate his stance toward Yuan Sect.
• After three days, Lin Chen and Ying Xiaoxiao reached Bloodstone Land, where Lin Chen sensed its chaotic, hostile atmosphere and stayed cautious.

Lin Chen and Ying Xiaoxiao arrived at Bloodstone Land, where Lin Chen decided to head directly to the Demon Seal Faction’s headquarters before visiting the Dao Sect’s mine. He subdued a local thug and demanded directions, leaving the man eager to cooperate.

• Ying Xiaoxiao suggested visiting the Dao Sect’s Nirvana Crystal Mine to gather information about Yao Ling, but Lin Chen chose to go to the Demon Seal Faction first.
• Lin Chen dragged a scarred man out of the forest and demanded that he answer his question if he wanted to live.
• The scarred man, Wei Dao, mocked Lin Chen until Lin Chen’s Life Profound Realm pressure immobilized him and revealed the gap in their strength.
• Wei Dao apologized and promised to answer Lin Chen’s questions, and Lin Chen asked where the Demon Seal Faction’s headquarters was.

Lin Chen blinded the scarred man who had leered at Ying Xiaoxiao, then took her to the Demon Seal Faction headquarters in Bloodstone City. He confronted the faction’s leaders while seeking Yao Ling, the Yuan Sect’s expelled disciple.

• Lin Chen learned that the Demon Seal Faction headquarters lay in Bloodstone City and refused the scarred man’s offer to guide him.
• Lin Chen blinded the scarred man with two rays of Spiritual Power, then left with Ying Xiaoxiao as onlookers guessed his identity.
• The Demon Seal Faction’s leader discussed Wang Yan’s attacks and said the sect Elders would help deal with him.
• Lin Chen sensed Yao Ling’s location, blasted open the Demon Seal Faction’s gates, and headed for its leaders’ gathering place.
• Lin Chen and Ying Xiaoxiao hovered above the headquarters as its members emerged and demanded to know why he had trespassed.

Lin Chen confronted Yao Ling, an expelled Yuan Sect disciple, and declared that he would kill him for a Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace mission and because Ying Xiaoxiao was the Dao Sect Leader’s daughter. As Lin Chen kept Yao Ling in his sights, wanted criminals began arriving at the Demon Seal Faction headquarters, including Xiao Tian, whom Ying Xiaoxiao recognized.

• Lin Chen identified Yao Ling and told him he had come to kill him for a Sect Mission, dismissing Yao Ling’s warnings about the Yuan Sect.
• Lin Chen revealed that Ying Xiaoxiao was the Dao Sect Leader’s daughter, and his willingness to risk trouble for her moved her and brought them closer.
• Yao Ling and his followers secretly discussed escaping while Lin Chen stayed focused on him.
• Ying Xiaoxiao warned Lin Chen that Bloodstone City’s experts were approaching, and a crowd of powerful wanted figures gathered above the Demon Seal Faction headquarters.
• Ying Xiaoxiao recognized Xiao Tian, the Corrosive Demon Hand and eighth-ranked figure on the Sect Wanted List, while Lin Chen continued watching Yao Ling.

Lin Chen attacked the Demon Seal Faction after Yao Ling threatened him with reinforcements from the Yuan Sect. He killed Yao Ling in one strike and effortlessly scattered the faction’s attacks, leaving the rest of its leaders facing him.

• Lin Chen dismissed Yao Ling’s threat that Yuan Sect experts were on their way and prepared to kill him and the Demon Seal Faction’s other wanted leaders.
• Yao Ling urged his faction’s leaders to fight together and delay Lin Chen until the Yuan Sect arrived, while Ying Xiaoxiao warned Lin Chen that reinforcements might cause trouble.
• Lin Chen reassured Ying Xiaoxiao, then rushed Yao Ling and pierced through his defenses with a strike that killed him before his Primordial Spirit could escape.
• The Demon Seal Faction’s leaders attacked Lin Chen as he took Yao Ling’s Cosmic Bag, but Lin Chen swept their martial arts attacks aside with a wave of his hand.

Lin Chen annihilated Yao Ling and the Demon Seal Faction members, then left with Ying Xiaoxiao for the Dao Sect mineral vein. There, he brought Ying Xiaoxiao and Yuan Fang to a Crimson Forest and began revealing what lived inside.

• Lin Chen used his Spiritual Power to kill the Demon Seal Faction members who had attacked him and looted their Cosmic Bags.
• Lin Chen told Ying Xiaoxiao he was ready to leave Bloodstone City, and she worried about the Yuan Sect members who had planned to rescue Yao Ling.
• Lin Chen reassured Ying Xiaoxiao that the Yuan Sect would not dare attack him, and she accompanied him to the Dao Sect's mineral vein.
• Lin Chen held Ying Xiaoxiao's hand before the Dao Sect disciples, introduced himself to Yuan Fang, and said he had come to tell them something.
• Lin Chen led Ying Xiaoxiao and Yuan Fang deep into the mineral vein, where Ying Xiaoxiao sensed powerful Fire Crystal Demonic Apes in the Crimson Forest.

Lin Chen revealed to Ying Xiaoxiao and Yuan Fang that the Crimson Forest concealed a sapling-form Immortal Origin Ancient Tree containing an Immortal Origin Ancient Seed. He controlled the Fire Crystal Demonic Apes and exposed the tree, leaving Ying Xiaoxiao astonished by the treasure and by Lin Chen’s decision to bring it to the Dao Sect’s attention.

• Lin Chen told Ying Xiaoxiao and Yuan Fang that an Immortal Origin Ancient Seed lay beneath the Crimson Forest and said he was showing it to demonstrate his sincerity toward the Dao Sect.
• Lin Chen used his Spiritual Power to pacify the Fire Crystal Demonic Apes, then led Ying Xiaoxiao and Yuan Fang through the forest.
• Lin Chen sensed the tree beneath a bare patch of crimson earth and warned Ying Xiaoxiao that revealing it would bring Dao Sect experts to guard the site.
• Lin Chen split open the ground, revealing a black Immortal Origin Ancient Tree bearing five bluish-red fruits.
• Ying Xiaoxiao recognized the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree and reacted with excitement, while she struggled to believe Lin Chen would pass up such a treasure despite its value to the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace.