Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong reached the Samsara Stage after obtaining the Lord of Devouring’s inheritance and prepared to return to the Eastern Profound Region. He learned that Yuan Sect had devastated the region, leaving only Dao Sect and the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace among the Eight Great Super Sects.

• The Heavenly Dragon Demon Commander regretted not helping Lin Dong earlier, while Su Qian praised Jia Nan Academy’s connection to Xiao Yan and Tang San condemned Lin Dong for taking the Dragon Race’s Primordial Dragon Bone.
• Lin Dong rescued Little Marten’s father and the Heavenly Demon Marten Race’s elders from Hao Jiuyou’s scheme, then used the Eternal Phantom Demon Flower’s power to break through into the Symbol Sect realm.
• Lin Dong and Kun Spirit obtained the Lord of Devouring’s inheritance, and Lin Dong defeated four Evil Demon Kings before reaching the Samsara Stage with insight into reincarnation.
• Lin Dong gathered his forces to return to the Eastern Profound Region and learned that Yuan Sect’s war had left only Dao Sect and the Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace of the Eight Great Super Sects.
• Little Yan reached the Samsara Stage, and the completed spatial grand formation was supported by Samsara Stage experts from the Heavenly Demon Marten Race and the Dragon Race.

Lin Dong returned to the Eastern Profound Region, reunited with Ying Huanhuan, and was welcomed back into the Dao Sect after its disciples pleaded for him to restore its glory. He forgave Ying Xuanzi for his past silence and resolved to protect the sect and confront the Yuan Sect.

• Lan Ying told Lin Dong that Yuan Sect's new Samsara Stage experts had pushed the Eastern Profound Region's sects to the brink, while Ying Huanhuan's awakened Samsara Seal kept the Dao Sect standing.
• Lin Dong killed a Yuan Sect expert stationed in the Great Yan Dynasty, briefly reunited with his parents, and then hurried to the Dao Sect.
• Lin Dong saw that Ying Huanhuan's hair had turned icy blue and that awakening her Samsara Seal had changed her; she softened when she noticed his return.
• Pang Tong led the Dao Sect disciples in kneeling and pleading for Lin Dong to restore the sect's glory, and Ying Xuanzi welcomed him back.
• Lin Dong forgave Ying Xuanzi because he had helped him escape through the chaotic spatial formation, then resolved to stop the Yuan Sect from harming the Dao Sect further.

Lin Dong and Ying Huanhuan helped defend Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace, where Ling Qingzhu met Ying Huanhuan and raised fears about her absence from a glimpse of the future. Lin Dong led the Yuan-Slaying Alliance to Yuan Sect and attacked its mountain-protecting formation with one finger before anyone could issue a challenge.

• Lin Dong and Ying Huanhuan eradicated the Evil Demon sealed in the Great Desolation Monument, and Ying Huanhuan teased him when he asked whether she would always be herself.
• Lin Dong and Ying Huanhuan helped repel Yuan Sect's attack on Nine Heavens Supreme Purity Palace, where Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu met for the first time.
• Lin Dong, Ying Huanhuan, and Ling Qingzhu wondered why Ying Huanhuan had been absent from a future scene, and Lin Dong feared he had failed to protect her.
• Lin Dong rallied the surviving factions of the Eastern Profound Region into the Yuan-Slaying Alliance and led them toward Yuan Sect.
• Lin Dong struck Yuan Sect's mountain-protecting formation with the Great Desolation Imprisoning Heaven Finger, stunning the allied army and viewers with his abrupt attack.

Lin Dong attacked Yuan Sect and shattered its mountain-protecting formation, drawing out the three sect leaders and starting the battle of vengeance. Yuan Sect revealed that Zhou Tong had been captured and controlled, leaving Ying Xuanzi enraged.

• Lin Dong used all five fingers of the Great Desolation Imprisoning Heaven Finger and merged them into the Great Desolation Imprisoning Heaven Hand, whose clash with Ren Yuanzi's Life and Death Seal shattered Yuan Sect's grand formation.
• Lin Dong taunted Ren Yuanzi and demanded that Di Yuanzi and Tian Yuanzi appear.
• Ren Yuanzi launched a sneak attack at Reincarnation Stage, but Lin Dong countered with the Devouring Heavenly Corpse.
• Yuan Sect revealed Zhou Tong as a pawn, shocking Ying Xuanzi and the Dao Sect members.
• Lin Dong briefly helped Zhou Tong regain clarity, revealing that the three sect leaders had captured and controlled him with a secret technique.
• Ying Xuanzi roared that he would kill Ren Yuanzi, but the projection's force suppressed his power.

Lin Dong fought Zhou Tong, who was controlled by the Yuan Sect and wielded the Space Ancestor Symbol, then killed him to free his primordial spirit and bring him back to the Dao Sect. As the Yuan Sect's actions sharpened Lin Dong's resolve for revenge, Zhou Yuan realized the Evil Demons were the Saint Clan of his world.

• Ying Xuanzi attacked Ren Yuanzi, but Zhou Tong was ordered to fight him until Lin Dong intervened.
• Zhou Tong regained a moment of clarity and begged Lin Dong to kill him before the control took over again.
• Lin Dong battled Zhou Tong and learned that crushing his body would release his primordial spirit from the Yuan Sect's control.
• Lin Dong killed Zhou Tong, whose primordial spirit returned to the Ancestor Stone, and Zhou Tong gave Lin Dong the Space Ancestor Symbol.
• Zhou Yuan realized that the Evil Demons in Lin Dong's world were the Saint Clan of the Heavenly Source World.

Lin Dong and his allies attacked Yuan Sect, whose disciples were sacrificed to unleash a horde of Demon Corpses. Lin Dong and his two brothers defeated the Three Sect Leaders after they fused with a Great Heavenly Evil Demon, destroying Yuan Sect and avenging their past humiliation.

• More than half of Yuan Sect's disciples were sacrificed, awakening the Demon Corpses buried beneath the sect.
• Lin Dong's forces fought the Demon Corpses while Lin Dong and his two brothers advanced into Yuan Sect to find its Three Sect Leaders.
• Lin Dong, Little Marten, and Little Yan discovered the Three Sect Leaders had fused with a Great Heavenly Evil Demon comparable to an expert who had undergone two Reincarnation Tribulations.
• The three brothers transformed into their true forms and battled the Great Heavenly Evil Demon, razing Yuan Sect in the struggle.
• Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu stopped the defeated Three Sect Leaders from self-destructing, and Lin Dong and his brothers completed their revenge as Yuan Sect fell.

After the projection showed Lin Dong destroying Yuan Sect, he remained focused on the threat the sect posed in the present. The projection then revealed his growing power and efforts to help Lin Qingtan and catch up to Ying Huanhuan, ending with the Strange Demon Race’s Seventh King Hall launching a surprise attack.

• Yuan Sect’s disciples panicked and demanded to leave after learning that their leaders had sacrificed them in the projected battle.
• Ying Huanhuan tried to reassure Lin Dong, but he insisted that he wanted to avenge himself with his own hands.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that he had revived Xiao Xuan and left Hun Tiandi’s remnant soul in his hands.
• Lin Dong’s spiritual power reached the Great Symbol Master level, and he helped Lin Qingtan take control of the Darkness Palace.
• Lin Dong asked Ling Qingzhu to teach him the Supreme Induction Art so he could enter the Divine Palace Realm and share Ying Huanhuan’s burden.
• The Seventh King Hall of the Strange Demon Race launched a surprise attack on the night the Darkness Palace’s affairs were resolved.

Ling Qingzhu passed the Supreme Induction Art to Lin Dong while he was unconscious, allowing him to recover and nearly defeat Seventh King Hall before the Thunder Master arrived. As the war against the Evil Demons began, Ying Huanhuan opened the Ancestor Palace for Lin Dong and the other experts, knowing the cost would gradually erase her emotions and turn her back into the Ice Master.

• Ling Qingzhu gave Lin Dong a pill and taught him the Supreme Induction Art while he was unconscious beside the trapped Seventh King Hall.
• Lin Dong awoke healed, then used the Supreme Induction Art to nearly kill Seventh King Hall with a single arrow before exhausting himself.
• The Thunder Master arrived and forced the injured Seventh King Hall to retreat, and the war against the Evil Demons began.
• Ying Huanhuan opened the Ancestor Palace so Lin Dong and the Heavenly Profound Continent's experts could cultivate, then let Lin Dong enter after he asked her not to hide anything from him.
• The Darkness Master revealed that using the Ice Master's power to open the Ancestor Palace would corrupt Ying Huanhuan until she lost her emotions and became the Ice Master again.

Lin Dong vowed to prevent Ying Huanhuan from becoming the Ice Master, then emerged from the Ancestor Palace with the strength to devastate the Strange Demon forces. He reunited with Ying Huanhuan and discovered that opening the Ancestor Palace had already begun turning her hand to ice.

• Lin Dong promised Ying Huanhuan that he would change the future and never let her lose herself to the Ice Master's power.
• Lin Dong spent ten years cultivating inside the Ancestor Palace, emerged in the Divine Palace Realm, rescued Qing Zhi, and killed hundreds of thousands of Evil Demons.
• Lin Dong reinforced the Eastern Profound Region and reunited with Ling Qingzhu, Qing Tan, Little Yan, Little Marten, and Ying Huanhuan.
• Lin Dong noticed Ying Huanhuan's growing coldness and discovered that her hand had begun turning into ice crystals.
• Lin Dong argued with Ying Huanhuan over the price she had paid to open the Ancestor Palace, then pulled her back and held her tightly.

After the Strange Demon Race broke the Symbol Ancestor’s seal, Ying Huanhuan resolved to reach the Ancestor Realm, despite the cost to her emotions. Lin Dong gave her his Ancestor Symbols and Divine Objects, then left to face the Threefold Reincarnation Tribulation, unsure whether she was still Ying Huanhuan or had become the Ice Master.

• The Strange Demon Race used the allied forces’ attack to shatter the Symbol Ancestor’s seal, and his projection said that someone attaining the Ancestor Realm could still save the world.
• Ying Huanhuan announced that she would gather the Ancestor Symbols, Divine Objects, Ancient Masters, and the world’s power to help her reach the Ancestor Realm.
• The Master of Life and Death revealed that even success would freeze Ying Huanhuan’s emotions, but Ying Huanhuan insisted that only she could attempt it.
• Lin Dong stripped away his three Ancestor Symbols and gave them and his Divine Objects to Ying Huanhuan, then asked whether she was the Ice Master or Ying Huanhuan.
• After Ying Huanhuan stayed silent, Lin Dong left to face the Threefold Reincarnation Tribulation despite the backlash from losing the Ancestor Symbols.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er suspected Ying Huanhuan’s apparent attempt to become an Ancestor was actually a sacrifice meant to help Lin Dong reach the Ancestor Realm. As Lin Dong began his Reincarnation Tribulation and Ying Huanhuan awakened as an Ancestor, she collapsed after stopping the Evil Demon Emperor, but told Lin Dong she had succeeded.

• Xun Er suggested that Ying Huanhuan had gathered the factions’ strength to help Lin Dong ascend to the Ancestor Realm, and Xiao Yan realized she might have intended to sacrifice herself.
• In the present, Lin Dong confronted Ying Huanhuan about the future image, while she claimed she did not yet know why her future self had acted that way.
• Lin Dong returned to Qingyang Town with Ling Qingzhu, Little Marten, and Qing Tan to deepen his understanding of Reincarnation and face the Threefold Reincarnation Tribulation.
• As Ying Huanhuan began becoming an Ancestor, the Evil Demon Emperor broke its seal early and attacked her, but she awakened and froze its Demon Emperor’s Hand.
• Ying Huanhuan stopped the Evil Demon Emperor’s attack, then collapsed and was caught by Lin Dong, who asked if she had failed; she smiled and said she had succeeded.

Ying Huanhuan revealed that she had pushed Lin Dong toward the Ancestor Realm because she wanted him to survive, even if she had to sacrifice herself. She trapped him and began a ritual to burn away her soul and forge his path to Ancestorhood.

• Ying Huanhuan told Lin Dong that she wanted him to become the second Symbol Ancestor, while he insisted that he only wanted to stay with her.
• Ying Huanhuan said she only wanted Lin Dong to live and apologized for deceiving him about his trials.
• Ying Huanhuan bound Lin Dong with icy vines when he tried to follow her, and he pleaded with her to stop.
• Ying Huanhuan remembered her Master's warning that releasing her power would cost her life if she found someone worth sacrificing herself for.
• Ying Huanhuan declared that she had found that person and began a ritual to sacrifice her spirit, body, soul, and blood to open Lin Dong's path to Ancestorhood.

Ying Huanhuan sacrificed herself to push Lin Dong toward the Ancestor Realm, leaving him devastated as the worlds watching learned that her coldness had only concealed her love. In the Martial Movement World, Lin Dong embraced the living Ying Huanhuan and resolved to prevent that future, while the exposed Evil Demons’ plot had already lost its chance to break the seal.

• Ying Huanhuan confessed that she had always been herself and sacrificed her life so Lin Dong could live and reach the Ancestor Realm.
• Lin Dong howled in grief as Ying Huanhuan disappeared, and her remaining power carried him toward the Ancestor Realm.
• Xiao Yan and the others concluded that Ying Huanhuan had not survived into the Great Thousand World and mourned Lin Dong’s loss.
• In the Martial Movement World, Ying Huanhuan explained that she had only wanted Lin Dong to survive, and he pulled her into his arms.
• Ying Huanhuan said the exposed Evil Demons’ scheme meant she no longer had to make that sacrifice, and Lin Dong’s fear eased as their plan to break the seal was thwarted.

Lin Dong relived countless lives after Ying Huanhuan sacrificed herself, eventually finding her again in a Dao Sect life and marrying her in a dreamlike reincarnation. Though he had awakened to the truth, he chose to remain in the dream because he wanted to grow old with Ying Huanhuan.

• The Evil Demons abandoned their exposed plan to resurrect their emperor using the Heavenly Profound Continent and decided to lie low.
• Lin Dong passed through countless reincarnations, experiencing many lives while gradually losing his sense of self and searching for something he could not remember.
• In a new life at the Dao Sect, Lin Dong met Ying Huanhuan again, fell in love with her, and married her.
• Xiao Yan reassured Xun Er that he would remember her through reincarnation, then awkwardly tried to appease Cailin and Xiao Yi Xian as well.
• Ying Huanhuan excitedly celebrated the wedding in the vision, but Lin Dong warned that the dream could keep him from waking and saving the world.
• Lin Dong admitted that he had already awakened but chose to remain in the reincarnation because he wanted to grow old with Ying Huanhuan, while Ling Qingzhu watched with envy.

Lin Dong emerged from Reincarnation with renewed resolve and reached the Ancestor Realm just as the Evil Demon Emperor attacked. He saved Ling Qingzhu from burning her Reincarnation, then confronted the Emperor and discovered that his face matched Lin Langtian's.

• Ying Huanhuan helped Lin Dong face the grief behind the Ice Master story and urged him to leave Reincarnation to bring her back in reality.
• Lin Dong emerged from Reincarnation resolved to find Ying Huanhuan and restore her.
• When the Evil Demon Emperor attacked after the one-month deadline, Ling Qingzhu drew on the plane's power to delay him and began burning her Reincarnation.
• Lin Dong emerged from seclusion in the Ancestor Realm and pulled Ling Qingzhu back from self-destruction.
• Lin Dong challenged the Evil Demon Emperor, whose face was exactly like Lin Langtian's.

Lin Dong confronted the Evil Demon Emperor, who had taken Lin Langtian’s appearance and sought to seize the world’s source. After Ling Qingzhu led Lin Dong to the Plane Embryo, he fused with it, sealed the Evil Demon Emperor, and was hailed as the Martial Ancestor.

• Lin Dong saw through the Evil Demon Emperor’s Lin Langtian appearance and fought him with the Eight Great Ancestor Symbols and Nine Divine Objects.
• The Evil Demon Emperor revealed that he sought the plane’s source and claimed the Symbol Ancestor had also coveted its treasure, but Lin Dong defended the Symbol Ancestor’s sacrifice to protect the world.
• The Evil Demon Emperor sacrificed most of his True Demon body and gathered power from over half the Strange Demon Race to suppress Lin Dong.
• Ling Qingzhu took Lin Dong into the plane’s source, where he gained the Plane Embryo’s recognition and fused with it.
• Lin Dong shattered the Wu Shi Demon Stele, sealed the Evil Demon Emperor inside the Plane Embryo, and began purifying him.
• Living beings across the world hailed Lin Dong as the Martial Ancestor and their new guardian.

Lin Dong sealed the Evil Demon Emperor and restored the Martial Movement World, then searched for Ying Huanhuan’s Reincarnation Fragments. After two months of searching, he found no trace of her and broke down in despair.

• Lin Dong sealed the Evil Demon Emperor into the Plane Embryo, and the people of the Martial Movement World celebrated him as the Martial Ancestor.
• Lin Dong told Ying Huanhuan he would find a way to bring her back, even if he had to burn through Reincarnation.
• Lin Dong used his power as master of the plane to restore the shattered world.
• Lin Dong searched the world for Ying Huanhuan’s Reincarnation Fragments but found none, despite widening his search over two months.
• Ling Qingzhu found Lin Dong with bloodshot, vacant eyes as he repeated that he could not find Ying Huanhuan.

After half a year of searching, Lin Dong found no trace of Ying Huanhuan and broke down in grief, while Ling Qingzhu tried to comfort him. Xiao Yan believed Lin Dong would travel to the Great Thousand World to seek a way to resurrect her, as the Martial Movement World mourned and Tian Yuanzi mocked him.

• Lin Dong searched for Ying Huanhuan for another half a year but found nothing.
• Lin Dong roared in despair, struck the mountain, and wept in Ling Qingzhu's arms as she comforted him.
• Xiao Yan told Xun Er that Lin Dong would seek a way to resurrect Ying Huanhuan in the Great Thousand World.
• The Martial Movement World fell silent at Lin Dong's grief, while Tian Yuanzi mocked him for failing to protect Ying Huanhuan.

Ying Huanhuan revealed that she was alive and that Lin Dong could not resurrect the Evil Demon Emperor, while the Ice Soul Bead gave him hope of finding her in the Great Thousand World. Lin Dong set out with Ling Qingzhu and Lin Qingtan, learned about the Outer Realm Evil Clan, and began searching for Ying Huanhuan.

• Ying Huanhuan mocked Tian Yuanzi and declared that she was alive and the Evil Demon Emperor could never be resurrected.
• Lin Dong took Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu's hands, promising not to let either of them go.
• Yinyin gave Lin Dong Ying Huanhuan's Ice Soul Bead and revealed that Ying Huanhuan came from the Symbol Ancestor's world.
• Lin Dong used the Plane Eye to locate Lin Qingtan and departed for the Great Thousand World with her and Ling Qingzhu, leaving Little Marten and the others behind temporarily.
• Lin Dong encountered a young man with a flame-shaped mark in the plane passage, then continued onward with his companions.
• After arriving in the Great Thousand World, Lin Dong began adapting his power, learned about the Outer Realm Evil Clan and the Symbol Ancestor's past, and attracted trouble while searching for Ying Huanhuan.

Lin Dong founded the Martial Realm to gain standing with the Ice Spirit Clan and find a way to revive Ying Huanhuan. After the clan refused to lend him its Ice Spirit Tablet, he went alone to confront it during a banquet.

• Lin Dong struck down Old Ancestor Wu Liang after he harassed Ling Qingzhu, then learned Ying Huanhuan belonged to the Ice Spirit Clan.
• Lin Dong planned to establish a faction, but Ling Qingzhu rejected his proposed name, Green Dragon Stronghold, and suggested the Martial Realm instead.
• Lin Dong gathered experts from the Heavenly Profound Continent, strengthened the Martial Realm, and began fusing the Eight Great Ancestor Symbols.
• Lin Dong sent Little Marten to ask the Ice Spirit Clan to lend its Ice Spirit Tablet, but the clan refused.
• Lin Dong decided to retrieve the tablet himself and stormed into the Ice Spirit Clan while it hosted a banquet attended by three Heavenly Sovereigns.