Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen returned to Qingyang Town to activate the Spirit Grade Spirit Gathering Array he had left behind ten thousand years earlier, preparing to cultivate and comprehend the Intent of Reincarnation. Yan used ten billion Profound Origin Pills to form an isolated space and open the array, though its effects and possible impact on the world remained uncertain.

• Lin Chen returned to the sealed back mountain of Qingyang Town after completing his transaction with Tang Yuan.
• Lin Chen and Yan discussed the Spirit Grade Spirit Gathering Array, its time dilation, and the risks of attracting the Other Demons or harming the Great Yan Dynasty.
• Lin Chen opened an independent void space above the cave to contain the array’s activation.
• Yan shattered the Cosmic Bags holding ten billion Profound Origin Pills and formed a vast, multicolored light gate.
• Lin Chen activated the array, intending to break through reincarnation, condense the Divine Palace, and pass three Reincarnation Tribulations.

Lin Chen entered the Spirit Grade Spirit Gathering Array and reached the Sea of Reincarnation he had left behind ten thousand years earlier. With Yan and Desolation guarding him, he began searching for the Intent of Reincarnation and preparing to cultivate.

• Yan sensed the Ancestor's aura within the formation's gate, and Lin Chen entered it.
• Lin Chen reached the Sea of Reincarnation and nearly stepped off the stone platform while drawn toward its profound aura.
• Lin Chen summoned Yan and Desolation and asked them to guard him as he explored the formation's world.
• Lin Chen explained that he needed the Intent of Reincarnation to advance and that entering the sea recklessly could keep him trapped for a long time.
• Lin Chen sat down and spread his Spiritual Power through the world to search for the Intent of Reincarnation.

Lin Chen resisted the Sea of Reincarnation’s illusions and cultivated its Intent while Yan and Desolate watched over him. After a month, his Origin Energy condensed around the Intent of Reincarnation, and he began the final step toward entering the Reincarnation Stage as vast clouds gathered overhead.

• Lin Chen stopped himself from approaching the Sea of Reincarnation and carefully let his Spiritual Power contact its Intent.
• Lin Chen watched memories and visions pass without becoming trapped in them, then continued cultivating on the bluestone platform.
• A month passed as Lin Chen’s Origin Energy condensed and the Intent of Reincarnation took shape within it.
• Yan sensed that the Origin Energy clouds above the spiritual array had reached a dangerous limit, while Desolate noted Lin Chen’s formidable potential.
• Lin Chen awoke from his long cultivation and prepared to withstand the Origin Energy impact as beams of light pierced the clouds.

Lin Chen endured the Origin Energy baptism beneath the Light of Reincarnation, using his Black Hole and Devouring Lin Chen to absorb the torrents and complete his breakthrough. After seven hours of agony and bodily destruction, he emerged alive as a Reincarnation Stage expert, drawing closer to the Ancestor Realm.

• Lin Chen summoned a Black Hole and used it to devour the first torrent of Origin Energy.
• The Ancestral Talisman unleashed Devouring Lin Chen to absorb ten more Origin Energy waterfalls, while the infusion repeatedly shattered his body and his flesh regenerated over his jade-like bones.
• Lin Chen endured the Origin Energy baptism as Devouring Lin Chen absorbed the final waterfall and returned to the blood mist.
• After seven hours, the explosions subsided and the blood mist was purified as Lin Chen's body regenerated.
• Yan and Huang recognized Lin Chen's enormous Reincarnation Disc as proof that he had entered the Reincarnation Stage.

Lin Chen prepared to condense a Divine Palace within the spiritual array, hoping to strengthen his Spiritual Power and survive three Reincarnation Tribulations. He entered his Mud Pill Palace to begin the dangerous cultivation, leaving Yan and Desolate to wait.

• Yan and Desolate congratulated Lin Chen on entering the Reincarnation Stage, and he said he still needed greater strength to protect himself.
• Lin Chen resolved to condense a Divine Palace so he could advance his Spiritual Power and improve his chances of surviving three Reincarnation Tribulations.
• Yan warned Lin Chen that condensing a Divine Palace was exceptionally rare and could destroy his consciousness or kill him.
• Lin Chen judged that his resilient soul and unusual Mud Pill Palace gave him an advantage despite the danger.
• Lin Chen told Yan and Desolate to remain behind, then sat down and entered his Mud Pill Palace to begin cultivating.

Lin Chen spent nearly a year in the Spirit Grade Spirit Gathering Array tempering his Spiritual Power until it reached a perfect state. He attempted to form the Divine Palace, but the embryonic palace collapsed, leaving him to face the next step in his cultivation.

• Lin Chen meditated in the array, refining his Spiritual Power while confronting the snowman that had appeared before him.
• After a month of observing his Mud Pill Palace, Lin Chen began blending its lightning, hurricanes, and hail to condense a Divine Palace.
• Lin Chen's Spiritual Power erupted and destroyed the embryonic Divine Palace before it could take shape.
• Lin Chen continued cultivating as another year passed, eventually bringing his Spiritual Power to a perfect, responsive state.
• Lin Chen sensed his progress and accepted that he still had to overcome the difficulty of condensing the Divine Palace.

Crowds gathered beneath the Heavenly Lightning Sea Region’s deadly storms as the Thunder Emperor’s Cave Mansion began to emerge, and rival factions prepared to compete for the Thunderous Willow Fragrance. Lin Chen faced the perilous choice of shattering his Mud Pill Palace to pursue the Divine Palace Realm, while Lei Yunxuan and Lu Lixuan considered their own ambitions and alliances.

• Lightning struck people searching for the Thunderous Willow Fragrance, killing some before they could reach the cave mansion.
• The Thunder Emperor Cave and the Four Nether Sect discussed the competition, while Lei Yunxuan surveyed other powerful groups gathering nearby.
• Lu Lixuan reflected on the unmatched person she admired and considered how obtaining the Thunderous Willow Fragrance could raise her standing.
• Lin Chen weighed the dangers of shattering his Mud Pill Palace and chose to risk it, saying he would break it and rebuild.
• Silver Ancestral Talismans pierced the seabed as the Thunder Emperor’s Cave Mansion gradually emerged.

Lin Chen destroyed his Mud Pill Palace and used Chaos Light and Supreme Power to give his newly formed Divine Palace life, allowing it to contain his rampaging Spiritual Power. After two months, the Divine Palace began forming a rudimentary cycle, but Lin Chen remained at risk if he could not establish a stable replacement for the Mud Pill Palace.

• Lin Chen compressed the Spiritual Power in his Mud Pill Palace and shaped it into an incomplete Divine Palace.
• The Divine Palace failed to replace the Mud Pill Palace, which exploded and released Lin Chen's Spiritual Power out of control.
• Lin Chen gathered Supreme Power and used Chaos Light to awaken the Divine Palace and trap the raging Spiritual Power.
• Lin Chen spent two months building the Divine Palace while it gradually took shape and formed a connection with the Supreme.
• Lin Chen sensed Spiritual Power beginning to cycle through the Divine Palace, but feared the consequences if it rampaged through his body again.

Liu Xiangxuan explained that the three Silver Tower Keys could control the Thunder Emperor's Cave Mansion and help them obtain the Thunder Rune. Before the Profound Heaven Palace could enter the space left behind by the Ancestral Talisman, Mo Luo appeared and ordered them to leave the cave mansion and surrender the silver rune.

• Liu Xiangxuan told Elder Fu that the Silver Tower Keys could control the Thunder Emperor's Cave Mansion and were essential to their mission.
• Liu Xiangxuan ordered the Profound Heaven Palace group to hurry to the central hall and enter the space left behind by the Ancestral Talisman.
• Mo Luo appeared above the Thunder Sea and demanded that the Profound Heaven Palace surrender the silver rune and withdraw.
• The white-robed elder attacked Mo Luo, but Mo Luo effortlessly repelled him with a ring of flame.
• Liu Xiangxuan recognized Mo Luo and pleaded that the Profound Heaven Palace sought the Thunder Rune for Lord Liu Xiang, but Mo Luo insisted they leave.

Liu Xiangxuan asked Mo Luo for help obtaining the Thunder Ancestral Symbol for Lin Chen, but Mo Luo warned that entering Thunder Emperor's Cave Mansion was too dangerous without Lin Chen. Meanwhile, Liu Xiang emerged from five years of seclusion having condensed a Divine Palace, and wondered how the world had changed.

• Liu Xiangxuan told Mo Luo she had come to obtain the Thunder Ancestral Symbol for Lin Chen, though the Other Demons in Thunder Emperor's Cave Mansion would be difficult to face without him.
• Mo Luo warned Liu Xiangxuan and Profound Heaven Palace to leave Thunder Realm, saying they might not survive the dangers ahead.
• Liu Xiang awakened after five years of cultivation in Qingyang Town and found that he had condensed a Divine Palace.
• Liu Xiang sensed that his Spiritual Power had transformed with a trace of Chaos Light and that his strength had greatly increased.
• Liu Xiang realized that half a year had passed outside and worried about the state of the world after Zhang Yan's disappearance.

After condensing his Divine Palace, Lin Chen began attempting all three Reincarnation Tribulations at once inside the spiritual array, hoping to gain the strength to challenge the Ancestor Realm and protect the world. Three years passed as he endured reincarnation without awakening, while Yan and Desolate watched and hoped he would succeed.

• Lin Chen resolved to remain in the spiritual array and face the Reincarnation Tribulation after condensing his Divine Palace.
• Yan and Desolate congratulated Lin Chen, and he prepared to rely on himself to comprehend reincarnation and pass all three tribulations.
• Lin Chen closed his eyes and entered the tribulation, while his body shifted between old age and youth and his aura vanished.
• Over the next half year, Lin Chen aged rapidly before recovering into a youthful appearance as his consciousness endured lifetimes of hardship within reincarnation.
• Yan told Desolate about Lin Chen's deeds from ten thousand years earlier, deepening Desolate's admiration as they watched over him.
• Three years passed, and Lin Chen remained covered in dust on the bluestone, still showing no sign of awakening.

Lin Chen endured a hundred lives of reincarnation and continued cultivating, while Wang Dian returned to Great Desolation Prefecture and found Eagle Martial Arts School thriving under Jiang Xue. Wei Yan overcame the Eightfold Reincarnation Tribulation and prepared to investigate the world before its coming great change.

• Lin Chen preserved his true heart through a hundred reincarnated lives and spent more than eleven years cultivating inside a spirit array, though only a little over a year passed outside.
• Wang Dian saw Eagle Martial Arts School's flags across Great Desolation Prefecture and recognized that the school had obtained the Great Desolation Ancient Monument's inheritance.
• Wang Dian sensed Jiang Xue and Jiang Lei and headed toward them in the central region of Great Desolation Prefecture.
• Jiang Lei praised Jiang Xue for making Eagle Martial Arts School the ruler of Great Desolation Prefecture, and Jiang Xue agreed that they should leave.
• Wei Yan passed the Eightfold Reincarnation Tribulation, returned above Qingyang Town, and prepared to gather information before the world's great change.

Wang Dian reunited with Jiang Lei and Jiang Xue and explained that he had come to deal with the Other Demon suppressed beneath the Great Desolation Sect. He prepared to open the Great Desolation Monument and confront the demon as its demonic aura began leaking underground.

• Jiang Xue welcomed Wang Dian, and Jiang Lei thanked him for helping the Eagle Martial Arts School prosper and gain the Great Desolation Sect's inheritance.
• Jiang Lei explained that the sect had fallen to Other Demons in ancient times and that demonic aura beneath Great Desolation Commandery had begun seeping out over the past year.
• Wang Dian told Jiang Lei that he had come to deal with the demon beneath the sect, and she agreed to open the Great Desolation Monument.
• Jiang Lei activated the Great Desolation Monument, and she and Wang Dian vanished inside its light.

Lin Chen and Jiang Xue found Jiang Yinyin purifying the demonic aura inside the Great Desolation Sect’s guardian, a being formed from the lingering wills of the sect’s dead. Lin Chen recognized Yinyin as the reincarnated body of the Lord of Life and Death, and the chapter ended with the guardian’s protective will still intact.

• Lin Chen and Jiang Xue entered the ruined space and found the guardian roaring in pain as demonic aura spread from his body.
• Jiang Xue explained that the Great Desolation Stele struggled to contain the demonic aura and that Jiang Yinyin had been able to dissolve it.
• Jiang Yinyin flew to Lin Chen, and Jiang Xue introduced him as their family’s great benefactor.
• Lin Chen sensed reincarnation fluctuations in Jiang Yinyin and recognized her as the reincarnated body of the Lord of Life and Death.
• Jiang Xue used white light to help purify the guardian, which had formed from the wills of Great Desolation Sect predecessors who remained determined to protect their sect.

Lin Chen confronted the Ninth King Hall beneath the former grounds of the Great Desolation Sect and used Chaos Light and Supreme Demon Slaying to destroy him. With the demon gone, the threat afflicting the Guardian and Yinyin was removed, and Lin Chen repaid Black-Eyed Elder's kindness.

• Lin Chen stopped the Guardian from bowing and told Jiang Xue that the demonic aura beneath the ground had to be eliminated at its source.
• Lin Chen attacked the abyss, forcing the Ninth King Hall to emerge behind a vast disc of demonic aura.
• The Ninth King Hall recognized that Lin Chen had passed three Reincarnation Tribulations and demanded to know who he was.
• Lin Chen unleashed Supreme Demon Slaying, sweeping away the demonic aura and annihilating the Ninth King Hall's body and soul.

Lin Chen destroyed the Nine King Halls and met the lingering wills of the Great Desolation Sect, who thanked him for repaying their blood debt. He then returned to the Lin Mu Clan, where he arranged for Ling Qingzhu to receive the reincarnation insights and considered Lin Langtian’s place among their shared clan.

• Lin Chen thanked the Black-Eyed Elder after defeating the Nine King Halls, and the elder and the Great Desolation Sect’s lingering wills bowed to him before fading away.
• The Black-Eyed Elder’s remaining reincarnation insights drifted toward Tang Yun, but Lin Chen said they were meant for someone else and chose Ling Qingzhu to receive them.
• Lin Shi declined to claim the Great Desolation Sect’s inheritance insights, saying she was already grateful that Lin Chen had saved the Eagle Sect.
• Jiang Xue sensed Lin Chen’s location and hurried to the Lin Mu Clan, where Tang Yun welcomed him in the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Lin Chen reflected that the Lin Mu Clan’s protection made Lin Langtian safer despite Lin Chen’s destruction of the Yuan Sect, and he planned to visit his grandfather in the Little Yan Dynasty.

Lin Mu visited his grandfather Lin Chen, left him a Reincarnation Seal for protection, and then went to the Flame God Hall to borrow its Flame Du Shuang. He reunited with Ling Qingzhu and Gu Mengqi at Taiqing Palace, shared several peaceful days with them, and then departed to continue preparing for his attempt at the Ancestor Realm.

• Lin Mu assured Lin Chen that he would notify the super sects in the Great Yan Dynasty to keep Lin Langtian under restraint, and gave Lin Chen a Reincarnation Seal that would let him appear if his grandfather faced danger.
• Lin Mu traveled to the Flame God Hall, thanked Mo Luo for yielding Thunder Lin Chen, and asked to borrow the Flame Du Shuang.
• Lin Mu arrived at Four Heavens Taiqing Palace and embraced Ling Qingzhu, reuniting with her and Gu Mengqi after a long separation.
• Ling Qingzhu and Gu Mengqi spoke with Lin Mu about their progress and the Flame God Hall's inquiries about him, while he spent several days with them.
• Lin Mu left Taiqing Palace to pursue his next preparations, still needing to perfect his command of the world's origin powers and supreme power before attempting the Ancestor Realm.