Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan and Lin Dong returned to the Lin Clan after surviving the dangers at the Ancient Tomb Mansion, and Lin Yan told the family what had happened. Qing Tan then came to Lin Yan’s room and offered to comfort him.

• Lin Yan encouraged Lin Dong to recover from his setback, then gave him the Heavenly Dragon Halberd Technique and gave Little Marten the Demon Spirits.
• Lin Yan and Lin Dong returned to the Lin Clan, where Lin Dong went home to cultivate.
• Lin Yan told Lin Zhentian, Lin Xiao, Qing Tan, and the others about the dangers they had faced and his conflict with Lin Langtian.
• Lin Xiao thanked Lin Yan for protecting Lin Dong, and the family urged Lin Yan to rest.
• Qing Tan entered Lin Yan’s room, pushed him onto the bed, and offered to comfort him.

After reuniting with Qing Tan, Lin Yan gathered herbs and refined a pill to prepare for devouring the Sea Heart Flame. He endured the dangerous process, merged it with the Green Lotus Core Flame, and advanced to the great accomplishment stage of the Form Creation Realm.

• Qing Tan comforted Lin Yan, and the two spent an intimate time together before he escorted her home.
• Lin Yan bought the herbs he needed in Flame City and refined a pill to prepare his body for devouring the Sea Heart Flame.
• Lin Yan swallowed the pill and Sea Heart Flame, then endured its torment while activating the Burning Art.
• Lin Yan successfully devoured the Sea Heart Flame and merged it with the Green Lotus Core Flame into a new flame he named the Green Lotus Heart Sea Flame.
• Lin Yan sensed that he had reached the great accomplishment stage of the Form Creation Realm.

After reaching the mastery stage of the Form Creation Realm, Lin Yan tested his new abilities and discovered that his Burning Art had advanced to low Di class. His fire lotus blasted open a mountain peak and shook Flame City, prompting the City Lord to wonder whether Lin Yan had caused the disturbance.

• Lin Yan used Object Mimicry to create yuan-power constructs and considered how mental energy and Spirit Arrays could strengthen them.
• Lin Yan learned that his Burning Art had reached low Di class, and Yao Lao praised the power and qualities of his fused Heavenly Flame.
• Lin Yan went to the Lin Clan's Back Mountain and tested a demonic construct that exploded and shattered a huge boulder.
• Lin Yan formed a Buddha Fury Fire Lotus from the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Sea Heart Flame, then threw it at a distant peak and blasted a crater into it.
• The explosion shook Flame City, and the City Lord called Zi Yue and asked whether Lin Yan had caused the disturbance.

After Lin Yan broke through to the Form Creation Realm, the Flame City lord and the Ten Thousand Gold Chamber of Commerce group arrived at the Lin Clan and learned of his achievement. As they gathered in the guest hall, City Lord Shi publicly challenged Lin Yan to a match.

• Zi Yue suggested that Lin Yan might quickly reach the Form Creation Realm, and her father decided to visit the Lin Clan to see him.
• Xia Wanjin, Xuan Su, Xia Zhilan, and the others headed to the Lin Clan's Back Mountain after a great disturbance interrupted their visit.
• The visitors found Lin Yan gathering the flames he had unleashed and saw him riding a giant eagle formed with yuan power.
• Lin Yan confirmed that he had just entered the Form Creation Realm, astonishing Xia Wanjin, Xuan Su, and the others.
• As Lin Yan led everyone to the guest hall, City Lord Shi arrived and asked Lin Yan to fight a match.

Lin Yan accepted City Lord Shi’s challenge and demonstrated his newly reached Form Creation Realm in a fierce duel. After Lin Yan overwhelmed Shi with his techniques, Flame City’s martial artists recognized him as the city’s likely new number one.

• Flame City’s martial artists learned that City Lord Shi had challenged Lin Yan and guessed that Lin Yan had reached the Form Creation Realm.
• Xia Wanjin confirmed that Shi was Zi Yue’s father and Flame City’s strongest expert, and Lin Yan accepted the challenge to test his strength.
• Shi opened the fight with his Jade-Breaking Sword, and Lin Yan matched his sword energy with a blade of blue-green flame.
• Lin Yan shattered Shi’s Great Jade Palm, trapped him with the Demon Lotus Spirit-Slaughtering Array, and attacked with his flame-covered heavy ruler.
• Shi unleashed his strongest sword technique, but Lin Yan’s Flame Splitting Wave Ruler engulfed him and devastated the battlefield.
• The spectators saw Shi emerge battered and concluded that Lin Yan was poised to become Flame City’s number one.

After defeating City Lord Shi, Lin Yan focused on his family and helped Qing Tan condense her Yin Pellet. Qing Tan succeeded and, sensing that Lin Yan and Lin Dong would soon leave Flame City, asked Lin Yan to spend more time with her.

• Lin Yan defeated City Lord Shi with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, then gave him a healing pill before they parted on good terms.
• Lin Yan's victory made the Flame City martial artists hold him and the Lin Clan in awe, while he continued cultivating and waiting for information about the map's marked area.
• Qing Tan cultivated diligently to help share the pressure Lin Yan and Lin Dong faced after meeting Lin Langtian.
• Lin Yan protected Qing Tan as she endured the pain of condensing a Yin Pellet, supplying her with Pure Yuan Pills until she succeeded and her strength soared.
• Qing Tan asked Lin Yan to spend more time with her, guessing that he and Lin Dong would soon leave Flame City.

Lin Yan began cultivating the Great Sun Thunder Body and rapidly opened thirty meridians, shocking Lin Dong, who had brought news about the map. The chapter ended with Lin Dong stunned by Lin Yan’s extraordinary progress, before they discussed the map.

• Qing Tan woke up embarrassed after spending the night with Lin Yan and hurried home, where Liu Yan teased her about her weak legs.
• Lin Yan began cultivating the Great Sun Thunder Body that Lin Dong had copied for him, gaining thunder power in his Yuan Power and opening thirty meridians.
• Lin Dong arrived with news about the map and noticed that Lin Yan had already started cultivating the technique.
• Lin Yan told Lin Dong he had opened thirty meridians in a few hours, leaving Lin Dong astonished.

After Lin Dong learned how quickly Lin Yan had opened his meridians, he shared that the Ancestor Talisman was believed to be in Great Wilderness Prefecture, prompting Lin Yan to decide they would leave the next day. Lin Yan and Lin Dong departed Flame City after a grand farewell, leaving their friends and family behind as they headed toward the dangerous western region.

• Lin Dong told Lin Yan that the Ancestor Talisman was located in Great Wilderness Prefecture and explained how dangerous and chaotic the region was.
• Lin Yan decided to set out for Great Wilderness Prefecture the next day, and Lin Dong went to inform their family.
• Lin Yan visited his friends in Flame City to say goodbye, and they agreed to escort him and Lin Dong out of the city.
• A large crowd, including Xuan Su, Xia Zhilan, Xia Wanjin, Master Yan, City Lord Shi, and Zi Yue, accompanied Lin Yan and Lin Dong to the city gate.
• Lin Yan reassured Lin Zhentian that he and Lin Dong would defeat their rival at the Clan Gathering in two years and earn the Lin Clan Main Family's invitation to return.
• Lin Yan kissed Qing Tan goodbye, and she promised to wait for his return.

Lin Yan and Lin Dong traveled toward Great Wilderness Prefecture, where Lin Yan swiftly killed a powerful demonic beast and found Thunder Spirit Grass near its lair. The discovery offered Lin Dong a way to advance his Great Sun Thunder Body, and they left the forest with a promising cultivation resource.

• Lin Yan used his speed and powerful punch to kill a demonic beast rivaling the great accomplishment stage of the Form Creation Realm.
• Lin Dong remarked that Lin Yan had grown unusually strong over their half-month journey, while Lin Yan explained his progress and said he was close to the Copper Thunder Body stage.
• Lin Yan searched around the beast’s habitat, reasoning that powerful beasts often guarded valuable treasures.
• Lin Yan found several stalks of Thunder Spirit Grass in a lightning-rich patch of ground.
• Lin Yan told Lin Dong that Thunder Spirit Grass could be refined into Thunder Spirit Pills suited to cultivating the Great Sun Thunder Body.

Lin Yan refined Thunder Spirit Pills, and Lin Dong used them to rapidly cultivate the Great Sun Thunder Body. After several days, Lin Dong had opened forty-three meridians, while Lin Yan emerged from cultivation with a glowing physique that Lin Dong identified as the Jade Thunder Body.

• Lin Yan explained that Thunder Spirit Pills could strengthen the Great Sun Thunder Body more safely and efficiently than being struck by lightning, then quickly refined a batch.
• Yao Lao judged that Lin Yan had reached the level of a fifth-grade Alchemist and offered to teach him more pill formulas.
• Lin Yan gave half the Thunder Spirit Pills to Lin Dong, and they began cultivating in the safe area.
• Lin Dong devoured the pills' thunder element and opened forty-three meridians in a few days, leaving him one short of cultivating the Copper Thunder Body.
• Lin Dong noticed Lin Yan standing amid lightning radiance with jade-like skin and asked if he had reached the Jade Thunder Body.

Lin Yan and Lin Dong left Heaven Capital Prefecture and discovered two groups fighting over a Thunder Source Crystal Beast in a mountain range. Learning that its Thunder Source could strengthen them both, Lin Yan decided they would claim it.

• Lin Dong discovered that Lin Yan had reached the Half-Step Jade Thunder Body, while Lin Dong had nearly mastered the Copper Thunder Body.
• Lin Yan and Lin Dong continued toward Great Wilderness Prefecture and sensed intense activity in a mountain range.
• Lin Yan and Lin Dong found two groups confronting a Thunder Source Crystal Beast that was nearing an evolution and would soon enter a weakened state.
• Lin Dong explained that the beast's Thunder Source could help Lin Yan cultivate the Jade Thunder Body and help Lin Dong open his final meridian.
• Lin Yan declared that they would take the Thunder Source and kill anyone who tried to stop them.

Lin Yan and Lin Dong waited for the Thunder Source Crystal Beast to evolve and weaken, then Lin Yan seized its Thunder Source. He killed the Di and Liu clan heads when they attacked him and challenged the remaining martial artists.

• Lin Yan reassured Lin Dong that he could handle the two clans, and they waited two days for the Thunder Source Crystal Beast to evolve.
• The Di Clan and Liu Clan temporarily joined forces to attack the weakened beast after it survived its tribulation.
• The Thunder Source Crystal Beast spat out the Thunder Source as its aura faded, and the two clan heads rushed to claim it.
• Lin Yan swooped in first and caught the Thunder Source, prompting the Di and Liu clan heads to attack him together.
• Lin Yan killed both clan heads with a lightning-powered punch and asked the remaining martial artists if they still wanted the Thunder Source.

Lin Yan defeated the martial artists contesting the Thunder Source and gave it to Lin Dong, who used it to reach the Form Creation Realm and Copper Thunder Body stage. Realizing he needed to grow without relying on Lin Yan’s protection, Lin Dong asked to travel alone, and Lin Yan asked whether he had made up his mind.

• Lin Yan drove the remaining martial artists away and handed the Thunder Source to Lin Dong.
• Lin Dong used the Thunder Source to break through to the Form Creation Realm and complete his Copper Thunder Body.
• Lin Dong asked Little Marten whether he should leave Lin Yan and make his own way, and Little Marten explained both the benefits and drawbacks of staying with him.
• After traveling with Lin Yan for several more days, Lin Dong told him he wanted to go alone to temper himself.
• Lin Yan asked whether Lin Dong had made up his mind, and Lin Dong assured him he was strong enough to rely on himself.

Lin Yan parted ways with Lin Dong so he could pursue his own path, then continued toward Great Wilderness Prefecture while worrying about Xiao Cai’s impending soul fusion. His search for the ingredients for a Soul Fusion Pill led him to a lightning-struck valley, where he discovered a serpent beneath Thunder Accumulation Wood.

• Lin Yan accepted Lin Dong’s decision to travel alone, gave him pills and Pure Yuan Pills, and watched him leave with Little Yan.
• Yao Lao reassured Lin Yan that Lin Dong could grow into a powerhouse on his own, and Lin Yan continued toward Great Wilderness Prefecture.
• Lin Yan noticed Xiao Cai’s troubled soul fluctuations, and Yao Lao explained that Queen Medusa’s soul was awakening and that failed fusion could kill one or both souls.
• Yao Lao offered to help refine a sixth-grade Soul Fusion Pill, and Lin Yan began searching for its missing ingredients.
• Lin Yan reached a valley where lightning struck a serpent coiled beneath black wood, and Yao Lao identified the wood as Thunder Accumulation Wood.

Lin Yan discovered that the Thunder Accumulation Wood could help him temper his body, but a Qi Creation Realm Thunder-Soaring Snake guarded it. He defeated the beast with a fierce close-range assault, and Yao Lao wondered whether Lin Yan could now fight Lin Langtian.

• Yao Lao explained that the Thunder Accumulation Wood drew lightning and that the Thunder-Soaring Snake guarding it possessed Qi Creation Realm strength.
• Lin Yan decided to challenge the beast and flew toward it using his Yuan Power wings and Purple Cloud Wings.
• The Thunder-Soaring Snake attacked with lightning spheres, but Lin Yan countered with a Heavenly Flame-infused strike from his Heavy Profound Ruler.
• Lin Yan used the smoke from their clash to close in and land an Eight Extremities Collapse punch on the snake's vital point.
• Lin Yan endured the snake's surging electricity and battered it with over a hundred punches until it fell and died.
• Yao Lao marveled at Lin Yan's victory and considered that he might now be able to fight Lin Langtian.

Lin Yan killed the Thunder-Soaring Snake and received the Thunder God Body, a powerful body-tempering divine art, after signing in at Thunder Gathering Valley. He began cultivating it alongside the Great Sun Thunder Body by enduring repeated lightning strikes, while Yao Lao watched.

• Lin Yan killed the Thunder-Soaring Snake, collected its valuable materials and meat, and reflected on his strength against Qi Creation Realm opponents.
• Lin Yan focused on the Thunder Accumulation Wood and signed in at Thunder Gathering Valley, receiving a fragment of the Thunder God Body.
• Lin Yan learned that the Thunder God Body could develop into the Nine-Pattern Thunder Body and decided to cultivate it alongside the Great Sun Thunder Body.
• Lin Yan drew down repeated lightning strikes and endured them as both of his body-tempering arts improved.
• Yao Lao watched Lin Yan's punishing training and remarked on how ruthlessly he pushed himself.

Lin Yan completed thirty days of lightning cultivation and broke through to the One-Pattern Jade Thunder Body, while also advancing his Thunder God Body. After deciding to leave the valley, he and Yao Lao sensed a powerful soul aura from the Na Ring and found Queen Medusa before them.

• Lin Yan endured thirty days of lightning strikes while cultivating the Great Sun Thunder Body and Thunder God Body, and Yao Lao observed his approaching breakthrough.
• Lin Yan broke through to the One-Pattern Jade Thunder Body, gained tremendous physical strength, and punched apart a thunderbolt.
• Lin Yan tested his body by crashing from the Thunder Accumulation Wood and sprinting without yuan power, astonishing Yao Lao.
• Lin Yan told Yao Lao about the incomplete Thunder God Body and its potential to reach the Five-Pattern Thunder Body, then agreed to leave the valley.
• Lin Yan and Yao Lao sensed a powerful soul aura from the Na Ring and saw Queen Medusa appear before them.

Queen Medusa emerged from Lin Yan’s Na Ring and threatened him, but the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python’s soul stopped her from attacking. After Lin Yan and Queen Medusa argued, she revealed that she and Xiao Cai had run into trouble and needed his help.

• A nine-colored light left Lin Yan’s Na Ring, and Queen Medusa appeared before Lin Yan and Yao Lao.
• Queen Medusa challenged Lin Yan for keeping her as a pet, but the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python’s soul caused her pain and weakened her when she tried to attack him.
• Lin Yan realized that Queen Medusa could not fully control the body, and Yao Lao agreed she was unable to harm him.
• Lin Yan rebuked Queen Medusa, who swallowed her anger and said she and Xiao Cai needed his help with a problem.

Lin Yan agreed to help the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and Queen Medusa find medicine to aid their soul fusion. After wandering through a mist-shrouded forest for days, he encountered a wary group of people.

• Queen Medusa explained that her soul and the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python's were evenly matched and asked Yao Lao to make pills to help them fuse.
• Lin Yan asked who would control their body after fusion, and Queen Medusa threatened him before transforming back into the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python.
• Lin Yan comforted the Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python, fed it pills, and returned it to the Na Ring to rest.
• Yao Lao joked about Queen Medusa's appearance, but Lin Yan focused on searching for the ingredients needed to refine the medicine.
• After half a month of travel, Lin Yan became lost in a misty primeval forest and eventually met a group that had just defeated a demonic beast.

Lin Yan joined Jiang Lei and the Eagle Martial Hall after paying them several thousand Pure Yang Pills, then learned they were being hunted by the Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings for killing their cub. When the Kings attacked and badly injured Jiang Lei, Lin Yan stepped in and punched through both beasts.

• Lin Yan met Jiang Lei, Jiang Xue, Jiang Yinyin, and the Eagle Martial Hall warriors, and paid them several thousand Pure Yang Pills to travel with them.
• Wuzhen told Lin Yan that the group had killed a cub belonging to the Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings and feared the beasts would retaliate.
• The Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings attacked the camp with more than a hundred other demonic beasts, overwhelming the Eagle Martial Hall warriors.
• Jiang Lei charged the two Kings but was struck down and seriously injured.
• Lin Yan left the tent, reassured Jiang Yinyin, and used two Eight Extremities Collapse strikes to punch through both Mist Leopard Crocodile Kings.