Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan secured Lin Fan’s pledge to strip Lin Langtian of authority and elevate the Flame City Lin Clan, then entered the Holy Spirit Pool with Lin Dong. A sign-in reward of two hundred thousand Nirvana Pills prompted Lin Yan to begin breaking through to the Nirvana Realm there.

• Lin Yan dismissed Lin Langtian as beneath his concern and told Lin Dong to bring Little Yan to the Holy Spirit Pool for the benefit of his weak bloodline.
• Lin Fan promised to remove Lin Langtian’s authority, make the Flame City Lin Clan a special branch with main-family authority, and appoint Lin Zhentian a grand elder; Lin Yan accepted his decision.
• After news spread that Lin Yan had killed Wang Lei, Lin Yan and Lin Dong entered the Holy Spirit Pool with the other participants.
• Lin Yan received two hundred thousand Nirvana Pills as a sign-in reward and decided to use them with the pool’s energy to break through to the Nirvana Realm.
• Xiao Cai appeared as Lin Yan prepared to break through and forbade everyone except Lin Dong from entering the pool.

Lin Yan claimed the center of the Holy Spirit Pool and began using hundreds of thousands of Nirvana Pills to break through while Xiao Cai barred everyone but Lin Dong from entering. Mo Jingtian accepted the restriction, and Lin Yan's rapid, effortless absorption left the onlookers astonished as his breakthrough continued.

• Xiao Cai appeared beside Lin Yan and announced that only Lin Dong could enter the Holy Spirit Pool while her master broke through.
• Lin Langtian asked Mo Jingtian to challenge Lin Yan's claim, but Mo Jingtian learned Xiao Cai was Lin Yan's powerful beast pet and backed down.
• Mo Jingtian ended the dispute, and the others gave up resisting Lin Yan's use of the pool.
• Lin Yan activated the Chaos Spirit Talisman and Burning Art, rapidly draining the energy from his Nirvana Pills.
• Mo Jingtian and the others watched in amazement as Lin Yan absorbed the Nirvana Qi without trouble, while Little Marten estimated he could finish in two or three days.

Lin Yan tempered himself in the Holy Spirit Pool, doubling his Yuan Power and reaching the Five-Stripe Thunder Body without breaking through to half-step Nirvana. Five days later, he and the others prepared to enter the Ancient Battlefield, while Mo Jingtian urged Mo Ling to stay cautious and build a good relationship with Lin Yan.

• Lin Yan absorbed the Holy Spirit Pool's energy and Nirvana Fire, but failed to break through to half-step Nirvana despite spending two hundred thousand Nirvana Pills.
• Lin Yan discovered that his Yuan Power had doubled and his Thunder God Body had reached the Five-Stripe Thunder Body.
• Lin Yan left the depleted pool to the others, and Lin Dong obtained the Ancient Sky Crocodile after Lin Langtian decided not to challenge him.
• Lin Yan rested and concluded that he needed to explore the Ancient Battlefield for more resources and opportunities.
• Five days later, Mo Jingtian warned Mo Ling that the Ancient Battlefield was dangerous and advised her to keep a low profile and build a good relationship with Lin Yan.

Lin Yan led the Seed War survivors into the Ancient Battlefield and excluded Lin Langtian from their group. After they reached a gathering-point city, Xiao Cai revealed that she had advanced to Four-Yuan Nirvana.

• Mo Jingtian activated the formation and sent Lin Yan, Lin Dong, Mo Ling, Lin Langtian, and Man Shan to the Ancient Battlefield.
• Lin Yan declared that Lin Langtian could not join his group, and Mo Ling and Man Shan chose to follow Lin Yan instead.
• Lin Langtian left alone, cursing Lin Yan and the others and relying on the soul body within him.
• Lin Yan led the group to a gathering-point city and warned them to be cautious inside.
• Lin Yan summoned Xiao Cai, who revealed that she had advanced to Four-Yuan Nirvana, then the group entered the city.

Lin Yan and his companions reached an ancient city occupied by the Holy Light Dynasty, which demanded ten Nirvana Pills from anyone entering. After the dynasty killed those who resisted, many contestants paid, and its collector approached Lin Yan.

• Lin Yan and his companions arrived at the city and saw the Holy Light Dynasty blocking its gate.
• A contestant challenged the dynasty’s entry fee, and a hidden Perfect Creation Realm expert killed him with a flash of golden light.
• A dark-skinned man displayed the bodies of three Daxi Dynasty members and warned the crowd against resisting.
• The Holy Light Dynasty claimed the ten-pill fee was modest, and many contestants agreed to pay.
• The dark-skinned man collected pills from the crowd and gestured for Lin Yan to hand his over.

Lin Yan refused to pay the Holy Light Dynasty’s protection fee and struck down the warriors who confronted him. After Li Sheng challenged him, Lin Yan used his lightning-fast movement to land a powerful punch and leave Li Sheng badly injured.

• The Holy Light Dynasty warriors collected ten Nirvana Pills from each person, then demanded payment from Lin Yan.
• Lin Yan punched a dark-skinned warrior into a wall, leaving him half-dead.
• Li Sheng confronted Lin Yan and attacked with a punch, but Lin Yan vanished and reappeared behind him.
• Lin Yan struck Li Sheng in the head and sent him flying several dozen zhang, leaving him bloodied and in pain.

Lin Yan killed Li Sheng and the Holy Light Dynasty disciples after overwhelming them with his Creation Martial Art, then received two hundred thousand Nirvana Pills from a sign-in. As he considered breaking through to half-step Nirvana, a beast tide appeared outside the ancient city.

• Lin Yan rejected Li Sheng's offer to make peace and challenged him to continue fighting.
• Li Sheng used the Creation Martial Art Holy Elephant Crashing the Heavens, but Lin Yan's flaming heavy ruler destroyed it and burned Li Sheng to ash.
• Lin Yan killed the Holy Light Dynasty disciples and entered the city, where he completed a sign-in and received two hundred thousand Nirvana Pills.
• Lin Yan considered using the pills to break through to half-step Nirvana, but sensed tens of thousands of demonic beasts gathering outside the city.

Lin Yan turned the beast tide into a source of Nirvana power, slaughtering demonic beasts until most of the horde fled. After returning to the city, he cultivated for several days and prepared to make a final push toward the half-step Nirvana Realm.

• Lin Yan learned that demon crystals contained Nirvana power and led Lin Dong into the beast tide to hunt demonic beasts.
• Lin Yan fought for a day and night, killing two-thirds of the horde and devouring Nirvana power from the demon crystals.
• The surviving demonic beasts fled, and Lin Yan returned to the city to cultivate while Xiao Cai guarded him and Lin Dong began cultivating nearby.
• After two or three days, Lin Yan devoured another two hundred thousand Nirvana Pills, bringing his total to nearly four hundred thousand, and felt ready for a final breakthrough attempt.

Lin Yan broke through to half-step Nirvana after absorbing more than four hundred thousand Nirvana Pills, while Lin Dong reached the Perfect Creation Realm. Mo Ling told Lin Yan that Jin Mu was gathering experts in Sun City to contend for the Ancient Secret Key, which opened an Ancient Secret Treasury.

• Lin Yan broke through from the Perfect Creation Realm to half-step Nirvana and discovered his strength had multiplied several times.
• Lin Yan emerged from the cave, and Lin Dong told him that he had reached the Perfect Creation Realm.
• Mo Ling told Lin Yan that Jin Mu and other Holy Light Dynasty experts were in Sun City gathering to fight over the Ancient Secret Key.
• Mo Ling explained that the Ancient Secret Key was the key to an Ancient Secret Treasury.

Lin Yan learned that an Ancient Secret Treasury might contain a Life-Death Reincarnation Pill that could restore Yao Lao and Little Marten, so he led his companions toward Sun City to claim it. On the way, cultivators from the Holy Light Dynasty confronted them, accusing them of killing their people and threatening to take their lives.

• Mo Ling told Lin Yan that people were heading to the Ancient Secret Treasury for its Nirvana Pills and inheritances, and that the Holy Light Dynasty's eldest senior brother sought a Life-Death Reincarnation Pill there.
• Lin Yan asked Yao Lao whether he could infer the pill's formula, and Yao Lao said he could likely do so after examining it.
• Lin Yan decided to travel to Sun City and obtain the pill, and Lin Dong supported the plan because Little Marten needed it.
• As Lin Yan and his companions hurried toward Sun City, a giant beast carrying hostile cultivators approached them.
• The Holy Light Dynasty's cultivators accused Lin Yan and his companions of killing their people and declared that they had come to take their lives.

Lin Yan killed the Holy Light Dynasty martial artists who confronted him, then led Mo Ling and the others to Yang City. After arriving, he planned to seek information about the ancient hidden treasure.

• Lin Yan dismissed the Holy Light Dynasty martial artists’ threats and asked whether Jin Mu had come.
• Lin Yan used his thunderfire power to kill the martial artists, then collected their Qiankun Bags.
• Lin Yan led Mo Ling and the others toward Yang City, while his cultivation guidance helped Mo Ling and Man Shan improve.
• Lin Yan and his group arrived at Yang City, where he planned to enter and ask about the ancient hidden treasure.

After reaching Sun City, Lin Yan assessed the local warriors and prepared a plan while Mo Ling and Man Shan refined their new Earth-Tier Spirit Treasures. He brought his companions to the city’s trading market, where he took the stage to auction something despite carrying no visible item.

• Lin Yan sensed the warriors throughout Sun City and found that even its strongest fighters were weaker than him.
• Lin Yan gave Mo Ling and Man Shan Earth-Tier Spirit Treasures, then helped them through their breakthroughs as they refined them.
• Lin Yan led his companions to the trading market, where warriors auctioned goods and martial arts for Nirvana Pills.
• Lin Yan waited through the other auctions, then stepped onto the stage empty-handed and drew questions about what he intended to sell.

Lin Yan turned the trading post into an auction where martial artists had to pay to keep their lives. After killing Jin Mu and collecting Nirvana Pills from the survivors, he forced the Half-Step Nirvana Realm experts to pay even more before they fled.

• Lin Yan announced that he was selling the lives of everyone in the hall for five thousand Nirvana Pills each.
• Jin Mu identified Lin Yan as the killer of his men and moved to attack him.
• Lin Yan killed Jin Mu in an instant, burned his body with Heavenly Flames, and took his Qiankun Bag.
• A frightened martial artist paid Lin Yan five thousand Nirvana Pills, prompting the other martial artists to pay and flee.
• Lin Yan demanded ten thousand Nirvana Pills each from Hai Sha and the other Half-Step Nirvana Realm experts, who paid and escaped.

Lin Yan collected Nirvana Pills from the warriors in Sun City and learned that the Ancient Secret Key and a Heavenly Symbol Immortal Tree were hidden in Thunder Rock Valley. He led Lin Dong and the others to the Thunder Rock Mountain Range, where he saw the demonic beasts as a source of Nirvana Pills.

• Lin Yan collected protection fees from the warriors, accepting their belongings when they could not afford five thousand Nirvana Pills.
• A warrior told Lin Yan that the Ancient Secret Key was hidden in Thunder Rock Valley and that the valley held rare treasures, including a Heavenly Symbol Immortal Tree.
• Lin Yan spared the warrior's fee in exchange for the information and decided to search the valley for treasures and demonic beasts.
• Lin Yan tallied around three hundred thousand Nirvana Pills, then returned to Sun City with Lin Dong and the others to rest.
• The next morning, Lin Yan led the group toward the Thunder Rock Mountain Range while probing the way with his mental energy.
• At the mountain range's edge, Lin Yan sensed the demonic beasts and viewed them as potential Nirvana Pills.

Lin Yan and his group hunted demonic beasts in the Thunder Rock Mountain Range while awaiting the nighttime beast tide. When the tide arrived, Lin Yan burned a massive wave of beasts with his Heavenly Flames and absorbed their Nirvana power, strengthening himself.

• Lin Yan and his group killed demonic beasts for Nirvana power, while other martial artists kept their distance from him.
• Mo Ling identified a passing group as the Great Yuan Dynasty and warned Lin Yan about the powerful Lingyun Dynasty and its leader, who could fight above his realm.
• Lin Yan and his group waited until night, when demonic qi surged and the beast tide began approaching.
• Lin Yan rose into the air, channeled his Heavenly Flames into his heavy ruler, and unleashed Flame Splitting Wave Ruler against the charging beasts.
• Lin Yan's fire wave burned the beasts to ash, and he devoured their Nirvana power, further increasing his aura.

Lin Yan slaughtered waves of demonic beasts and absorbed the Nirvana power from their demonic cores while the martial artists watched from behind. After he killed seven Half-Step Nirvana Realm beasts, an even more powerful Nirvana Realm beast appeared in the tide.

• Lin Yan swept his ruler through the demonic beast tide, killing many beasts and absorbing the Nirvana power they left behind.
• Seven Half-Step Nirvana Realm demonic beasts charged Lin Yan, but he killed three with Thunder God's Hand and the rest with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Lin Yan devoured more Nirvana power as another mass of demonic beasts surged toward him.
• Lin Yan and the martial artists behind him noticed a Nirvana Realm demonic beast with an aura stronger than Lin Yan's.

Lin Yan confronted a Nirvana Realm demonic beast after the martial artists prepared to retreat. He killed it with two seals, leaving the onlookers stunned by his strength.

• A Nirvana Realm demonic beast appeared, and the martial artists prepared to flee.
• Lin Dong asked Lin Yan what they should do, but Lin Yan said he would handle the beast.
• Lin Yan used the Mountain Opening Seal to shatter the demonic beast’s claws.
• Lin Yan struck again with the Sea Turning Seal and blew the demonic beast apart, creating a massive pit.
• The martial artists saw the slain beast and were shocked by Lin Yan’s power.

Lin Yan and the Yang City group reached Thunder Rock Valley after Lin Yan slaughtered the beast tide, while rival forces took an interest in them. Two Nirvana Realm martial artists blocked their way, and Lin Yan faced them without fear.

• Lin Yan killed seven Half-Step Nirvana Realm demonic beasts and one Nirvana Realm demonic beast, clearing the beast tide as the Yang City group watched.
• A black-clothed leader learned that Yang City's group had killed a Nirvana Realm demonic beast and planned to join forces with the Mystic Ice Dynasty against their rivals.
• A graceful figure spotted the group and remarked that an Ancient Secret Key had appeared nearby.
• The Yang City group arrived at Thunder Rock Valley, where Hua Yun of the Mystic Ice Dynasty and Wu Mo of the Great Wu Dynasty confronted them as Nirvana Realm martial artists.
• Wu Mo blasted a crater in the ground and threatened Lin Yan, but Lin Yan stepped forward calmly, prompting Wu Mo to declare that he was courting death.

Lin Yan faced the Nirvana Realm warriors Wu Mo and Hua Yun, who sought to intimidate Yang City's martial artists. He activated the Chaos Spirit Talisman and met their power with the Mountain Opening Seal.

• Lin Yan stepped toward Wu Mo and Hua Yun despite their threats, giving the martial artists of Yang City hope while leaving them worried about his chances.
• Wu Mo and Hua Yun unleashed their soul power and drew on the Yuan Power of heaven and earth, frightening the onlookers.
• Lin Yan activated the Chaos Spirit Talisman, whose devouring force raised his aura to match the two Nirvana Realm warriors.
• Lin Yan struck with the Mountain Opening Seal, sending a powerful wave of light toward Wu Mo and Hua Yun.

Lin Yan killed Hua Yun and Wu Mo with his Mountain Opening Seal and Sea Turning Seal, then received the Fallen Heart Flame and Flame Swallowing Pill from the system. He decided to find a place to devour the Heavenly Flame.

• Lin Yan overwhelmed Hua Yun and Wu Mo with his Mountain Opening Seal and Sea Turning Seal, killing both Nirvana Realm martial artists.
• The gathered martial artists were shocked by Lin Yan’s strength and made way for him.
• The system announced that Lin Yan had successfully signed in and awarded him the Fallen Heart Flame and Flame Swallowing Pill.
• Lin Yan considered how the Fallen Heart Flame would strengthen his cultivation alongside the Devouring Ancestor Talisman and decided to find a place to devour it.