Recaps

The Sect Master secretly pursued a mysterious inheritance, fearing the New Faction would find it and use it to justify establishing Fifth Peak, while he tracked promising disciples in the Hundred Sects Plan. Three days after the plan ended, Kui Shengyang told Lin Tian and Mu Qingxue their sect would leave the next day and began handing Lin Tian some items from the Sect Master.

• The Sect Master dismissed the elders, then ordered his hidden subordinate to search harder for the brief fluctuation before the New Faction found its source.
• The Sect Master explained that the inheritance could affect whether the noble clans established Fifth Peak, then asked about promising Hundred Sects Plan participants, including Lin Tian.
• The Sect Master ordered continued observation of the candidates and vowed to increase the pressure on the noble clans.
• After the Hundred Sects Plan, Dao Origin Sect offered unselected disciples the chance to join its outer sect, dividing opinion among the hundred sects.
• Three days later, Kui Shengyang and Yu Qinghan called Lin Tian and Mu Qingxue to a guest room, where Kui Shengyang announced their sect would leave the next day and placed items from the Sect Master on the table.

Lin Tian and Mu Qingxue accepted generous resources from Heavenly Derivation Sect and promised to remember their roots after joining Dao Origin Sect. Chen Qingyu decided to stay at Dao Origin Sect as an Outer Disciple, and the chapter ended with her parting from Lin Tian and Mu Qingxue at the mountain gate.

• Kui Shengyang gave Lin Tian and Mu Qingxue fifty drops of Heavenly Marrow Fluid and fifty Tempered Qi Pills as a joining reward, and Lin Tian promised not to forget Heavenly Derivation Sect.
• Mu Qingxue asked Kui Shengyang and Yu Qinghan to pass a message to her master, while Lin Tian asked them to reassure Hua Chengming that he would fulfill his entrusted task soon.
• Chen Qingyu told Yu Qinghan she had decided to remain at Dao Origin Sect and become an Outer Disciple, and Yu Qinghan accepted her choice while inviting her to return if she grew tired.
• The next morning, Chen Qingyu parted from Lin Tian and Mu Qingxue at the Dao Origin Sect mountain gate, and both offered to help her if she faced difficulties.

Lin Tian entered the Dao Origin Sect’s Inner Disciple area and learned from Song Bao'er how rankings and points affected cultivation resources. He was told that all inner disciples had to undergo a ranking recalibration every six months.

• Chen Qingyu teased Lin Tian about asking for help in the future, and he promised not to refuse if he could help.
• Chen Qingyu departed for the Outer Disciple area, while Lin Tian and Mu Qingxue parted ways and headed to their separate residences.
• Song Bao'er guided Lin Tian into the Inner Disciple area and showed him the four peaks that formed the core of the Dao Origin Sect.
• Lin Tian asked Song Bao'er to explain the sect’s rankings and points instead of continuing her introduction to the Four Veins.
• Song Bao'er explained that rankings determined residence quality and cultivation benefits, top-ten disciples received a thirty-percent discount on resources, and inner disciples underwent a ranking reshuffle every six months.

Lin Tian reviewed Dao Origin Sect's exchange catalogue and learned how to earn points, focusing on the Heavenly Heart Fire Essence he needed to complete his collection of Five Elements supreme treasures. He arrived at his new pavilion, where he sensed unusually dense earth-vein yuan power.

• Song Bao'er explained that disciple rankings could change and showed Lin Tian the latest exchange catalogue.
• Lin Tian found the Myriad Shadow Formless Spear, which cost 3,000 points and required three types of Spear Momentum, but he had no plans to cultivate it.
• Lin Tian spotted the Heavenly Heart Fire Essence for 2,000 points, 900 more than his current 1,100 points.
• Song Bao'er explained that disciples could earn points through missions, the Dao Derivation Tower, and monthly rank-based rewards, and recommended climbing the tower for points quickly.
• Lin Tian and Song Bao'er arrived at his pavilion, where Lin Tian sensed dense earth-vein yuan power and Song Bao'er said it had likely been unopened for months.

Lin Tian cultivated in his new residence until he formed and fused Mystic Water True Gang, then began planning how to use his new resources at the Dao Origin Sect. He reviewed Old Man Hua’s letter and discovered that Hua wanted him to handle three tasks, two beyond their original agreement, with no clear reward.

• Song Bao'er declined Lin Tian’s invitation inside and offered to help with intelligence in the future before leaving.
• Lin Tian entered the pavilion’s cultivation chamber and spent a month cultivating in its dense earth-vein origin force.
• With the Sea Tear, Heavenly Marrow Fluid, and Tempered Qi Pill, Lin Tian condensed Mystic Water True Qi into Mystic Water True Gang.
• Lin Tian fused the Mystic Water True Gang into his Fused True Gang, strengthening it after several days.
• Lin Tian took out Old Man Hua’s letter and found that Hua had asked him to do three things, including two additional tasks without an apparent reward.

After a month of secluded cultivation, Lin Tian considered the strange Broken Sword strengthening his Sea of Consciousness and decided to deliver Hua Chengming’s letter. He left his pavilion as news spread that Gu Qingtian had become a True Essence Realm elder’s personal disciple, potentially putting him in contention with Long Wukong.

• Lin Tian reviewed Hua Chengming’s three requests: deliver a letter, find a Pill, and retrieve an unspecified item.
• Lin Tian inspected a nine-leaved medicinal herb taken from a Demon Sect Protector and recognized it as a Great Medicine at least fifty years old.
• Lin Tian considered the Hundred Refinements Myriad Transformations Art but decided he had too many other techniques to cultivate for now.
• Lin Tian sensed that the Broken Sword was strengthening his Sea of Consciousness, but he could neither remove it nor risk telling anyone about it.
• After a month in seclusion, Lin Tian left his pavilion to deliver Hua Chengming’s letter.
• Lin Tian learned that Gu Qingtian had become a True Essence Realm elder’s personal disciple and might surpass Long Wukong when the rankings changed.

Lin Tian arrived at the Murong Mansion in Dao Origin City to deliver a letter from the Heavenly Derivation Sect to Elder Murong Yun. While he waited in a side room, the maids outside debated his status and whether he could become the Murong family’s son-in-law.

• Lin Tian reached the Murong Mansion and told its gate guard that he was an Inner Disciple of the Dao Origin Sect delivering a letter to Elder Murong Yun.
• The mansion steward verified Lin Tian’s identity and the letter’s credentials, then brought him inside.
• The steward seated Lin Tian in a side room instead of the main reception hall and left to notify the elder.
• Lin Tian overheard the maids recognize him as a top-ten performer in the Dao Origin Sect trial and speculate that he might marry into the family.
• One maid argued that Lin Tian could not be an honored guest or prospective son-in-law because the steward had put him in the side room.

Lin Tian was brought to meet Murong Ya, who claimed to be acting for Elder Murong Yun and proved her connection to Old Man Hua with a ring bearing his aura. After Lin Tian handed her a letter, Murong Ya introduced four women from the Murong family’s main line, among them the remaining Seven Phoenixes of Murong.

• Murong Mansion maids compared Lin Tian unfavorably with the family’s True Disciple son-in-law until the steward rebuked them and apologized to Lin Tian.
• The steward escorted Lin Tian from the side room to a pavilion, where Murong Ya met him in Elder Murong Yun’s place.
• Murong Ya showed Lin Tian a ring carrying Hua Chengming’s aura, and Lin Tian trusted her connection to Old Man Hua.
• Lin Tian handed Murong Ya a letter, and she introduced the four young women beside her as members of the Murong family’s main line.
• Lin Tian greeted the women politely, showing no interest beyond their reputation as the Seven Phoenixes of Murong.

Lin Tian met the Murong Family’s four young ladies, answered their questions about his ranking and ambitions, and accepted a gift of Dao Origin Sect points from Murong Ya. After Lin Tian left to return to the sect, Murong Ya asked the four girls what they thought of him.

• Seventh Miss praised Lin Tian’s appearance, and Sixth Miss apologized for her sister’s bluntness.
• Fifth Miss asked Lin Tian about his top-ten ranking, while Fourth Miss questioned his plans for the ranking reshuffle and the True Disciple position.
• Lin Tian said he had not yet learned the sect’s rules, prompting Fourth Miss to view him as unambitious while the other girls reacted differently.
• Murong Ya gave Lin Tian a token containing fifteen hundred free Dao Origin Sect points on Elder Murong Yun’s behalf, and Lin Tian accepted it.
• Lin Tian left to return to the sect, and Murong Ya asked the four girls what they thought of him.

Murong Yun read Lin Tian’s letter and learned that the four Murong girls had little or no romantic interest in him, prompting his anger and Murong Ya’s confusion. Murong Yun believed Lin Tian was concealing his true abilities like Hua Chengming had, but kept that suspicion to himself.

• Murong Ya delivered Lin Tian’s letter to her master, Murong Yun, who brightened after reading it.
• Murong Yun asked what the four girls thought of Lin Tian, and Murong Ya reported that Xiao Qi was too young, Xiao Liu was unsure, Xiao Wu was interested only in martial arts, and Xiao Si firmly disliked him.
• Murong Yun angrily called the girls shallow, but Murong Ya reminded him that anger could worsen his injuries, so he calmed himself.
• Murong Ya wondered why her master cared so much about Lin Tian, whom she considered unworthy of a Murong woman.
• Murong Yun recalled Hua Chengming revealing his hidden True Essence Realm cultivation during a deadly crisis and concluded that Lin Tian was likely concealing his own strength.
• Murong Yun kept his belief about Lin Tian’s hidden abilities to himself.

Lin Tian spent his Murong Family points to obtain the Sky Fire Marrow Crystal and cultivated Separating Fire True Gang. He began fusing it with his other four streams of True Gang, and all five started to merge without resistance.

• Murong Yun decided not to reveal his suspicion about Lin Tian’s hidden strength, fearing he would offend Lin Tian and Hua Chengming.
• Lin Tian exchanged points at Myriad Treasures Pavilion for the Sky Fire Marrow Crystal, leaving five hundred points on his own token.
• Lin Tian entered seclusion to cultivate the final fire-attribute True Gang and test whether his five mental arts could connect.
• After three months, Lin Tian formed Separating Fire True Gang and absorbed the Sky Fire Marrow Crystal.
• Lin Tian guided his five streams of True Gang together, and they fused in sequence without backlash.

Lin Tian completed the fusion of his five True Gangs, forming Primordial True Qi and gaining the ability to suppress other attributes of True Gang. After leaving seclusion, he learned that Long Wukong was challenging the Dao Derivation Tower again and went to watch.

• Lin Tian fused his five True Gangs into Primordial True Qi, completing a flawless five-element cycle and forming the Primordial Five Elements Art.
• Lin Tian discovered that Primordial True Qi could suppress other cultivators’ True Gang, weakening its power and effects by at least twenty percent.
• Lin Tian left his cultivation chamber after nearly a hundred days and decided to work on improving his hard-body cultivation with the Demon-Subduing Golden Body.
• Lin Tian learned that Long Wukong was challenging the Dao Derivation Tower again after four months and headed there to watch.
• At the tower, Lin Tian learned that becoming a True Disciple Candidate required reaching above the thirtieth floor, while competing for a True Disciple position required reaching at least the thirty-fifth floor.

Long Wukong entered the Dao Derivation Tower and rapidly climbed to the thirtieth floor, becoming the first among the Hundred Sects' disciples to qualify as a True Disciple Candidate. He continued climbing as Dao Origin Sect elders discussed whether he could eventually contend for a True Disciple's place.

• Lin Tian saw that Long Wukong's aura had grown stronger and suspected he had reached the Late Gang Realm.
• Lin Tian discovered that his leaderboard rank had fallen to forty-ninth after other geniuses improved their scores by retrying the tower's variable Insight Trial.
• Long Wukong climbed from the eighteenth floor to the thirtieth in a rapid surge, qualifying as a True Disciple Candidate.
• Long Wukong continued challenging the tower after reaching the thirtieth floor.
• Elder Wan praised Long Wukong's potential, while Lei Wanjun cautioned that it was too early to judge whether he could contend with the True Disciples.

Elder Wan learned that Gu Qingtian had entered the Mystic Heaven Holy Pool and congratulated Lei Wanjun on his promising disciple. Meanwhile, Long Wukong cleared the thirty-second floor of the Dao Derivation Tower before the other disciples surged through the rankings, pushing Lin Tian below eightieth place.

• Elder Wan questioned Lei Wanjun about Gu Qingtian's recent opportunity, and Lei Wanjun tacitly confirmed that Gu Qingtian had entered the Mystic Heaven Holy Pool.
• Elder Wan praised Lei Wanjun and predicted that Gu Qingtian could reach the True Essence Realm after glimpsing the patriarch's enlightenment.
• Long Wukong advanced through the Dao Derivation Tower to the thirty-second floor, then left the tower pale and wounded but visibly exhilarated.
• Inspired by Long Wukong's result, the disciples challenged the tower and raised the leading rankings, though none reached his thirty-second floor.
• Lin Tian was pushed beyond eightieth place as the ranking board updated.

Lin Tian went to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to find resources that could speed up his cultivation and help him improve his Demon-Subduing Golden Body. He learned about several powerful pills and discovered that the Vermilion Bird Nirvana Pill cost 10,000 points.

• Elder Wan and Elder Zhou discussed the Hundred Sects disciples’ potential, and Elder Wan defended Lin Tian’s talent despite doubts about his ranking.
• Lin Tian left the Dao Derivation Tower and went to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to seek ways to increase his cultivation speed.
• Lin Tian learned about powerful pills, including the Supreme Tempered Qi Pill and other top-grade cultivation resources.
• Lin Tian found the Vermilion Bird Nirvana Pill that Old Man Hua had requested and saw that it cost 10,000 points.

Lin Tian spent his remaining points on Tyrant Blood Pills and headed to the Dao Derivation Tower, hoping to earn more points by climbing its floors. There, he saw how the rankings had shifted and faced the resentment of disciples who believed he had gained his status through luck.

• Lin Tian exchanged all his remaining points for ten Tyrant Blood Pills, then decided he needed to earn more points to support his cultivation and repay Old Man Hua.
• Lin Tian went to the Dao Derivation Tower and saw that his ranking had fallen to ninety-fifth, while Long Wukong led at the thirty-second floor and Zhou Xuan had reached the twenty-eighth.
• Disciples recognized Lin Tian for his performance in the Insight Trial and recalled that the sect had rejected demands to strip him of his status and benefits.
• Many middle- and lower-ranked geniuses resented Lin Tian, believing his luck had earned him more points and resources than they received through their own efforts.

Lin Tian entered the Dao Derivation Tower while other disciples mocked him, then climbed to the twenty-fifth floor and took eleventh place. The onlookers’ contempt turned to shock and fear as he emerged, leaving him just one rank short of his former top-ten position.

• Spirit Jade Sect disciples helped spread rumors that Lin Tian had passed the Insight Trial through luck, and other disciples mocked him when he appeared at the tower.
• Lin Tian ignored the crowd, entered the Dao Derivation Tower, and rapidly climbed past the twentieth floor on the rankings.
• Lin Tian reached the twenty-fourth floor and entered the top twenty, stunning the disciples who had doubted his abilities.
• Lin Tian’s name continued flickering on the board, and the silent crowd watched as he climbed to the twenty-fifth floor and eleventh place.
• Lin Tian emerged from the tower, and the disciples who had mocked him recoiled and avoided his gaze.

Lin Tian cleared the Dao Derivation Tower’s twenty-fifth floor and secured eleventh place, choosing not to reveal another trump card. After he returned to cultivation, Elder Wan and Elder Zhou reconsidered his potential, while Chi Xingyang regretted neglecting him.

• Lin Tian saw that clearing the twenty-fifth floor had raised him to eleventh place, just below the tenth-ranked challenger.
• Lin Tian kept the Fused True Gang concealed, collected 2,150 points, bought Tyrant Blood Pills at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, and returned to cultivate.
• Elder Wan admitted he had underestimated Lin Tian, and Elder Zhou noted that Lin Tian had reached the twenty-fifth floor despite being only in the early stage of the Gang Realm.
• Chi Xingyang learned that Lin Tian had cleared the twenty-fifth floor and regretted not contacting him during the past four months.

Chi Xingyang reconsidered Lin Tian’s strength and potential after he reached the twenty-fifth floor, while Tang Bailiang began treating him as a threat. Murong Yun recognized Lin Tian’s resemblance to Hua Chengming and set out to act despite his injuries, convinced Lin Tian had inherited Hua Chengming’s true legacy.

• Chi Xingyang judged Lin Tian’s foundation and potential to be exceptional and considered repairing their relationship, including reconsidering Lin Tian’s conflict with Tang Bailiang.
• Tang Bailiang learned Lin Tian had reached the twenty-fifth floor and decided he needed to find a way to eliminate the danger Lin Tian posed.
• Murong Ya reported Lin Tian’s achievement to Murong Yun, who reacted with anxiety and rose to leave despite his unstable injuries.
• Murong Yun told Murong Ya it might be too late if he did not go, then concluded Lin Tian’s conduct and temperament matched Hua Chengming’s and that Lin Tian had received his true inheritance.

Murong Yun recognized Lin Tian’s potential but could not persuade the Murong Mansion elders to support him while Lin Tian’s results remained modest. Lin Tian cultivated the Demon-Subduing Golden Body as the Dao Derivation Tower rankings shifted, and his progress stopped just short of a breakthrough.

• Murong Yun tried to leave to persuade the Murong Mansion elders to invest in Lin Tian, but his injuries forced him to remain seated, and he realized Lin Tian’s current performance would not convince them.
• Lin Tian returned to his pavilion and used Tyrant Blood Pills to cultivate the Demon-Subduing Golden Body.
• Gu Qingtian matched Long Wukong by reaching the thirty-third floor, while Zhou Xuan, Wei Jing, and Zhao Wuxing reached the twenty-ninth floor.
• Ma Liang rose from a seventh-floor trial result to the twenty-ninth floor, and Lin Tian’s ranking fell to eighteenth despite being the only early-stage Gang Realm disciple among those past the twenty-fifth floor.
• After the disciples stopped challenging the tower during the final month before rankings reshuffled, Lin Tian’s Demon-Subduing Golden Body reached 19999/20000 as his body began to glow with gold and blood qi.

Lin Tian completed a major breakthrough in the Demon-Subduing Golden Body and endured its painful flesh reconstruction to seize a rare spiritual insight. He developed a new Blood-Colored True Gang whose precise attacks could kill flesh and blood without harming other objects, and he tested it on a squirrel.

• The Fate Grid showed Lin Tian had completed the Demon-Subduing Golden Body, triggering painful flesh reconstruction.
• Lin Tian endured the pain without circulating his True Gang and seized the spiritual light that appeared above the Fate Grid.
• The insight flooded Lin Tian with knowledge of the Demon-Subduing Golden Body, while his body shed dark-red scabs and foul filth.
• Lin Tian washed himself in a stream and discovered he had formed a fire-attribute Blood-Colored True Gang by combining his insights and qi and blood.
• Lin Tian used the Blood-Colored True Gang to cut a squirrel in half while passing through a tree without harming it.

Lin Tian assessed the limits of his Blood-Colored True Qi and the strength of his newly reached Golden Raiment Realm, then tested how much Flesh Reconstruction had improved his cultivation speed. He remained dissatisfied with the time needed to reach the Mid Gang Realm and decided to seek better cultivation resources.

• Lin Tian realized that Blood-Colored True Qi weakened slightly when passing through objects, consumed his own blood and vitality, and could not yet be cultivated, so he treated it as a trump card.
• Lin Tian tested his Golden Raiment Realm and judged that his body and other methods could let him fight Mid Gang Realm experts, while he would avoid provoking Late Gang Realm opponents.
• Lin Tian returned to his pavilion, cultivated the Primordial Five Elements Art for an hour, and found his aptitude had made his cultivation nearly half again as fast.
• Lin Tian estimated that reaching the Mid Gang Realm would still take nearly a year and decided to replace his current cultivation resources with better ones.

After deciding that his current cultivation resources were inadequate, Lin Tian chose to earn points by collecting precious materials for the Dao Origin Sect. Confident that his copied constitution could detect medicinal herbs, he set out for Ghost Forest Mine and entered the danger zone.

• Lin Tian decided to seek better cultivation resources but ruled out climbing higher floors of the Dao Derivation Tower to earn points.
• Lin Tian chose the sect mission to find precious materials, relying on the constitution he had copied from Mu Qingxue to sense rare herbs.
• Lin Tian registered his departure, received the mission token, and checked that no one was following him.
• Lin Tian headed for Ghost Forest Mine, one of the Five-Aspect Forbidden Land’s five connected danger zones, to search for valuable plants and herbs.
• Lin Tian reached Ghost Forest Mine and plunged straight into it.

Disguised as a middle-aged man, Lin Tian hid the medicinal herbs he had gathered in Ghost Forest Mine and used his expanded perception to seek a valuable Great Medicine. He found an adult Crystallized Exotic Beast near the herb and noticed it appeared badly injured, leaving him uncertain whether to approach.

• Lin Tian collected medicinal herbs and disguised them as stones with the Formless Combat Technique before hiding them in a pit.
• Lin Tian recalled that his Special Physique resonated with his Sea of Consciousness, extending his herb-sensing range to a thousand meters.
• Lin Tian marked the areas he had already searched and headed toward an untouched region, where he sensed a thirty-year-old Great Medicine.
• Lin Tian arrived at the herb and found an adult Crystallized Exotic Beast, a formidable creature whose materials were valuable but whose strength made fighting it risky.
• Lin Tian noticed the Crystallized Exotic Beast had remained motionless and appeared seriously injured.

Lin Tian killed a Crystallized Exotic Beast with a single spear strike and found an Ebony Purple Lotus in its lair. After storing the valuable medicine, he emerged to face five armed strangers, and one of them called for everyone to hold on.

• Lin Tian used his strongest techniques to hurl the Yi Chen Spear at the apparently injured Crystallized Exotic Beast and shattered its head.
• Lin Tian entered the beast's cave and found an Ebony Purple Lotus, a rare ingredient for the Flesh-Regenerating Bone-Mending Pill.
• Lin Tian packed the lotus in a jade box and headed for the cave entrance.
• Lin Tian sensed five Gang Realm experts outside and emerged to meet them as both sides prepared for a possible fight.
• One of the five men suddenly told everyone to hold on.