Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan entered the Ancient Secret Treasury with Lin Dong and the others, hoping to find treasures and a way to rebuild Yao Lao and Little Marten’s bodies. After collecting a Golden Body Relic, they reached a Pill River, where members of the Sky Eagle Dynasty confronted them.

• Lin Yan and the others joined Hong Zong, You Qian, and the other key holders in opening the Ancient Secret Treasury, then entered the realm.
• Lin Yan led his group across the dangerous, desolate realm and followed a powerful aura to a desert formed by a failed Nirvana Tribulation.
• Lin Yan touched a weathered skeleton and transformed its remains into a Golden Body Relic.
• Yan Sen appeared, identified the relic, warned Lin Yan about the dangers ahead, and disappeared.
• Lin Yan and the others reached a Pill River, where more than a dozen people claimed the area for the Sky Eagle Dynasty and ordered them to leave.

Lin Yan and his companions clashed with Wang Lie and the Sky Eagle Dynasty beside the ancient Pill River. After Wang Lie summoned reinforcements and the fight turned against Lin Dong and Little Yan, Lin Yan appeared to take over.

• Wang Lie ordered Lin Yan and his companions to leave the Sky Eagle Dynasty's territory, but Lin Yan refused and challenged him.
• Little Yan swiftly killed two attackers, and Lin Dong used the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger to defeat several martial artists and wound Wang Lie.
• Wang Lie summoned more Sky Eagle Dynasty martial artists through a seal, and they attacked Lin Dong and Little Yan.
• Lin Dong activated his Nirvana Golden Body to shield them, while Little Yan used his sturdy body to withstand the assault.
• A figure wreathed in green lightning appeared before Lin Dong and the others, and Lin Yan said he would handle what came next.

Lin Yan stepped in to face Shi Kun, Wang Lie, and the Sky Eagle Dynasty’s reinforcements after they threatened Lin Dong and Little Yan. He shrugged off their combined attacks unharmed, leaving the battle unresolved as he dismissed their power.

• Lin Yan arrived and told the Sky Eagle Dynasty’s fighters that he would be their opponent, while Lin Dong and Little Yan welcomed him.
• Shi Kun confronted Lin Yan over the destruction of the Demon Rock Dynasty, and Lin Yan crushed the seal Shi Kun sent at him.
• Shi Kun and the Sky Eagle reinforcements attacked Lin Yan, but Lin Yan shattered their martial arts with a flaming strike that engulfed half their forces.
• Wang Lie, Shi Kun, and the remaining reinforcements launched another combined assault, but Lin Yan’s shield held and he emerged unharmed from the smoke.

Lin Yan overwhelmed Shi Kun and the Demon Rock Dynasty’s reinforcements, killing Shi Kun with a gray-blue flame after defeating him in both physical and Mental Energy attacks. He then stopped Wang Lie and the fleeing martial artists, leaving them trapped beneath a giant-sword formation.

• Lin Yan emerged unharmed after blocking the martial artists’ attacks with his Yuan Power shield, then rushed Shi Kun and struck him with Thunder God Fist.
• Lin Yan punched another martial artist and reflected Shi Kun’s Mental Energy swords back at the surrounding fighters, killing several of them.
• Lin Yan used the Chaos Spirit Talisman to devour the nearby martial artists’ Mental Energy, then struck Shi Kun with a Mental Energy seal after Shi Kun’s counterattack dispersed.
• Lin Yan planted a gray-blue flame in Shi Kun, burning him to ash, while Wang Lie and the surviving martial artists watched in fear.
• Wang Lie urged the others to flee, but Lin Yan blocked their escape and summoned a formation of giant swords above them.

Lin Yan slaughtered Wang Lie and his reinforcements with the Great Thousand Array, then claimed the Pill River and cultivated on a guarded platform with Lin Dong and Little Yan. After days of absorbing Nirvana Qi, Lin Yan’s mental energy neared a breakthrough, and the Wind-Thunder Tribulation appeared overhead.

• Lin Yan increased the Great Thousand Array’s spiritual sword barrage until it killed Wang Lie’s reinforcements and pierced Wang Lie.
• Lin Yan dispelled the array, killed Wang Lie after refusing his offer of Nirvana Pills and martial arts, and claimed the Pill River.
• Lin Yan led Lin Dong and Little Yan to an ancient Cultivation Platform, activated its protective array, and began absorbing diluted Nirvana Qi with them.
• Lin Yan spent days directing Nirvana Qi into his Mud Pill Palace while also trying to break through to Five-Yuan Nirvana.
• Lin Yan sensed his mental energy nearing a breakthrough, and thunder and lightning appeared in the sky as the Wind-Thunder Tribulation formed.

Lin Yan passed the Wind-Thunder Tribulation, advanced to a two-seal Heavenly Symbol Master, and received the Soul-Absorbing Scripture from the system. After cultivating it to minor mastery, he demonstrated its soul-extracting power to Lin Dong and the others, stopping before he could harm them further.

• Lin Yan survived the Wind-Thunder Tribulation, reached the two-seal Heavenly Symbol Master realm, and learned the Explosive Light Seal.
• The system rewarded Lin Yan with the divine-grade Soul-Absorbing Scripture, which could control spirit bodies and extract souls.
• Lin Yan cultivated the Soul-Absorbing Scripture to minor mastery and used a spirit body to kill a passing warrior, whose soul strengthened it.
• Lin Dong and the others returned from seclusion and asked Lin Yan about the spirit body and his new secret technique.
• Lin Yan tested the Soul-Absorbing Scripture and Heart Flame on Lin Dong and the others, then stopped the attack and withdrew the Heart Flame.

Lin Yan demonstrated the Soul-Absorbing Scripture and taught it to Lin Dong, who failed to cultivate it despite several days of effort. As Lin Yan’s group traveled deeper into the Ancient Secret Treasury, Lin Yan learned that three people from the Great Flame Dynasty had obtained Sect Marks and were being threatened, and he rushed to help.

• Lin Yan revealed that the Soul-Absorbing Scripture was a god-tier Mental Secret Technique and taught it to Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong spent several days trying to cultivate the Soul-Absorbing Scripture but failed, while Lin Yan comforted him and urged the group to continue toward the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill.
• Lin Yan and his companions traveled deeper into the Ancient Secret Treasury as rumors spread about newly discovered sect ruins.
• Lin Dong saw people fighting over treasures in the ruins of the Yin Bone Sect, and Lin Yan prepared to leave.
• Lin Yan overheard that three people from the Great Flame Dynasty had obtained Sect Marks but were surrounded and forced to surrender them, so he hurried toward them.

Lin Yan learned that Mo Ling, Man Shan, and Du Yun were surrounded at Ganyun Sect over their Sect Marks and rushed to help them. As the crowd attacked, an unknown figure appeared and stopped a strike just before it hit them.

• Lin Yan asked the messengers about the Great Flame Dynasty and learned that Mo Ling and the others were trapped at Ganyun Sect.
• Lin Yan set off with Lin Dong and Little Yan toward Ganyun Sect.
• Mo Ling, Man Shan, and Du Yun refused to surrender their Sect Marks, while the man in green mocked Lin Yan and threatened them.
• Mo Ling urged his companions not to let their enemies take the Sect Marks easily, and the man in green attacked them.
• An unknown figure caught and crushed the man in green's light seal, prompting him to demand the stranger's name.

Lin Yan arrived at Ganyun Sect and confronted Qin Sen and the three great dynasties, who had cornered Mo Ling and the others. After killing several attackers, he challenged Qin Sen over who was truly ruthless.

• Lin Yan crushed the blue-robed man's attack and revealed that he was from the Great Flame Dynasty.
• Mo Ling and the others greeted Lin Yan and explained that they had been surrounded while trying to take the seals.
• The three great dynasties demanded that Mo Ling and the others hand over the seals, but Lin Yan refused.
• Several martial artists charged at Lin Yan, and he killed them with his Thunder God Fist.
• Lin Yan turned to Qin Sen and mockingly asked how ruthless he was.

Lin Yan killed the martial artists of the four great dynasties after they attacked him over the sect seals. He left the battlefield with every member of the dynasties dead.

• Lin Yan slaughtered the first group of martial artists, and Qin Sen and the onlookers realized how fast and powerful he was.
• Qin Sen and the other leaders declared they would kill Lin Yan, but Lin Yan crushed Qin Sen's attack and struck him with lightning, sending him crashing into a building.
• The three leaders combined their seals against Lin Yan, but he shattered them with an Earth Covering Seal and burned the leaders with a Flame Splitting Wave Ruler attack.
• Qin Sen attacked Lin Yan from behind, but Lin Yan's body repelled the blow, and Lin Yan then seized Qin Sen and killed him by burning and extracting part of his soul.
• The remaining members of the three dynasties begged for mercy, but Lin Yan summoned the Great Thousand Sword Array and killed them all.

After wiping out four high-rank dynasties at Ganyun Sect, Lin Yan traveled deeper into the Ancient Secret Treasury with Lin Dong and Little Yan. He broke through the Nirvana Burning Heaven Array, but a powerful Nirvana Demonic Flame appeared and blocked their path.

• Lin Yan's slaughter at Ganyun Sect frightened most of the martial practitioners into fleeing, while Mo Ling and the others went to claim their inheritances.
• Lin Yan brought Lin Dong and Little Yan deeper into the ruins to search for treasures.
• Lin Yan recognized the Nirvana Burning Heaven Array and quickly undid it after Lin Dong failed to decipher it.
• Lin Yan led the group through the array's Nirvana Fire Lightning without being struck.
• Little Marten identified the black flame as Nirvana Demonic Flame and warned that it could melt a person's insides.
• The Nirvana Demonic Flame revealed its enormous form and forced Lin Dong and the others back, but Lin Yan caught them and suppressed its aura with a gray-blue flame.

Lin Yan suppressed the Nirvana Demonic Flame and gave it to Lin Dong before leading the group into the deepest part of the Ancient Secret Treasury. At the Baji Sect ruins, Lin Yan killed a nearly defeated Primordial Demon Dragon Hound and took its blood essence, angering the martial artists who had fought it.

• Lin Yan suppressed the Nirvana Demonic Flame with his Heavenly Flame and handed it to Lin Dong.
• Lin Yan and the others crossed the Nirvana Burning Heaven Array and entered the treasury’s deepest region.
• Lin Yan led the group toward the Baji Sect ruins, drawing attention from other powerful dynasties along the way.
• Lin Yan and the others found martial artists fighting a Primordial Demon Dragon Hound at the ruins.
• Lin Yan killed the weakened Primordial Demon Dragon Hound and collected its blood essence, prompting the martial artists to demand that he come out.

Lin Yan killed Song Duan after taking the Primordial Demon Dragon Hound’s essence blood, then slaughtered Mu Sha, Peng Fei, and their followers. He gave the essence blood to Lin Dong, who realized Lin Yan had obtained it for him.

• Song Duan attacked Lin Yan and demanded the Primordial Demon Dragon Hound’s essence blood, but Lin Yan dodged his punch, extracted his soul, and killed him.
• The martial artists recognized Lin Yan as Song Duan’s killer, and Mu Sha and Peng Fei tried to flee.
• Lin Yan trapped Mu Sha, Peng Fei, and their followers in the Great Thousand Sword Array and killed them all.
• Lin Dong and the others caught up with Lin Yan and found the Baji Sect ruins littered with corpses.
• Lin Yan handed Lin Dong the Primordial Demon Dragon Hound’s essence blood, explaining that it would be useful to him.

Lin Yan led Lin Dong and the others through the Baji Sect ruins after giving Lin Dong the Demon Dragon Essence Blood he had seized. At the stone pier in the main hall, Lin Yan uncovered the hidden Baji True Intent and triggered its transmission by striking the marked fist print.

• Lin Yan gave Lin Dong the Demon Dragon Essence Blood, and Lin Dong thanked him for his continued help.
• Lin Yan and the others searched the Baji Sect ruins, collected Nirvana Pills, and found the main hall empty except for a stone pier.
• Lin Yan struck the pier's fist mark, revealing an ancient figure and three rays of light that three intruders seized.
• Lin Yan explained that the three rays were only a test, warned that he had planted Heart Flame in them, and revealed the true mark hidden behind them.
• Lin Dong and Little Yan failed to activate the deeper fist mark, but Lin Yan struck it and began receiving the Baji fist intent.

Lin Yan obtained the Baji True Intent and shared it with Lin Dong and Little Yan before the Four Profound Sects Ruins appeared. As the powerful figures gathered to enter the ruins, Lin Langtian reappeared, intent on proving himself superior to Lin Yan.

• Lin Yan absorbed the Baji True Intent and used it with Eight Extremities Collapse to shatter a huge mountain.
• Lin Yan let Lin Dong and Little Yan comprehend the Baji True Intent, and both succeeded.
• The Four Profound Sects Ruins emerged, and Liu Bai and Mu Hongling led their group toward it.
• Yan Sen watched the powerful figures converge on the ruins, then vanished from his mountain peak.
• Lin Langtian emerged from another ruin after killing a man and declared that he would show the Lin Clan Main Family that he was its greatest genius, dismissing Lin Yan as a passing flash.

Lin Yan led Lin Dong through the Four Profound Sect ruins to its Pill Field, where he gathered Nirvana Pills and broke into a sealed pill room. He found a Tribulation Crossing Pill and then spotted the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill as others approached.

• Lin Yan and his group reached the Four Profound Sect, where he killed demonic beasts that attacked them.
• Lin Yan sensed the Pill Field and led Lin Dong through the ruins to a sea of medicinal herbs.
• Lin Yan broke open a pill room and collected most of its Nirvana Pills before other martial practitioners arrived and argued over what remained.
• Lin Yan shattered a protective door with Eight Extremities Collapse and entered a pill room filled with rare pills.
• Lin Yan took a Tribulation Crossing Pill and discovered the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill on a black stone pillar.

Lin Yan began breaking the Life-Death Ring around the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill while Lin Dong and the others guarded him. Several groups joined forces to seize the pill, but Xiao Cai stopped the first attacker and warned them not to disturb her master.

• Lin Yan identified the Life-Death Ring protecting the pill and began breaking it while Lin Dong, Little Yan, and Xiao Cai stood guard.
• A green-clothed man and dozens of Nirvana Realm martial artists tried to approach, but Lin Dong blocked them and argued with their leader.
• Violent Wolf Tian Zhen arrived and recognized the Mobei Dynasty group near the pillar.
• Black-clothed men led by a Three-Yuan Nirvana martial artist offered to cooperate with the others to take the pill, then charged Lin Yan.
• Lin Dong and Little Yan intercepted the attackers, while Xiao Cai severed the leading black-clothed man's hand with her Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Slash.

Xiao Cai fought off the black-clad martial artists and killed Tian Zhen and the green-clothed man while protecting Lin Yan and the others. As the survivors fled, Lin Langtian arrived with several figures and threatened Lin Yan while he was still refining the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill.

• Xiao Cai cut down the martial artists who attacked her and used her Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Slash to kill more of them.
• Tian Zhen attacked Xiao Cai with his Ten Thousand Wolf Army-Breaking Fist, but her summoned spirit snake killed him.
• The green-clothed man charged Xiao Cai, but she appeared behind him and cut him into pieces.
• The remaining martial artists fled toward the pill chamber entrance, and Lin Dong briefly thought the danger had passed.
• Lin Langtian arrived with several figures after the entrance and a wall collapsed, then threatened Lin Yan as he refined the Life-Death Reincarnation Pill.

Lin Langtian ambushed Lin Yan while he was breaking the Life-Death Ring, and Lin Dong, Little Yan, and Xiao Cai tried to stop him. Lin Langtian and his companions overwhelmed them, leaving Xiao Cai facing Lin Langtian after he revealed a realm one stage higher than hers.

• Lin Langtian attacked Lin Yan, but Lin Dong blocked his path and challenged him.
• Lin Dong and Little Yan fought Lin Langtian's blue-green-robed companions, but their attack failed and the companions beat them back.
• Xiao Cai faced Lin Langtian while Lin Dong and Little Yan dealt with his companions.
• Xiao Cai struck Lin Langtian with her Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Slash, but he emerged unharmed.
• Xiao Cai summoned three spirit snakes, and Lin Langtian crushed or destroyed all of them.
• Lin Langtian released his Yuan Power, and Xiao Cai realized his realm was one stage higher than hers.

Lin Dong and Little Yan were badly beaten by Lin Langtian’s men while Xiao Cai fought Lin Langtian and suffered serious injuries. Lin Yan finished breaking the Life-Death Ring and knocked Lin Langtian back, bringing himself into the battle.

• Lin Langtian mocked Xiao Cai and boasted about his newfound strength as Lin Dong and Little Yan were attacked by his men.
• Lin Dong struck one attacker with Baji Fist, but the man showed no injury, and the men beat Lin Dong and Little Yan into the wall.
• Lin Langtian hit Xiao Cai with his black arm, and she summoned ten powerful lightning-and-flame pythons to attack him.
• Lin Langtian crushed the pythons, struck Xiao Cai with his Evil Demon Beam, and moved to kill her.
• Lin Yan’s life-and-death energy forced Lin Langtian back as Lin Yan opened his eyes, put away the broken Life-Death Ring, and punched Lin Langtian away.
• Lin Langtian recovered and challenged Lin Yan to fight.