Recaps

Lin Tian found the Ebony Purple Lotus in the Ghost Forest Mine and agreed to leave a wounded Crystallized Exotic Beast to the Ten Thousand Blade Hall. When a member tried to seize his jade box, Lin Tian struck back with his spear and pierced the attacker.

• A Ten Thousand Blade Hall member told Lin Tian that his group had wounded the Crystallized Exotic Beast and claimed it as their quarry.
• Lin Tian agreed to leave the beast to the group and turned to depart with the jade box containing the Ebony Purple Lotus.
• A Mid Gang Realm member shattered the tree trunk beneath Lin Tian and demanded that he hand over the jade box.
• Lin Tian rejected the man's claim that the treasure belonged to the group, and the man attacked with his Eerie Curved Blade.
• Lin Tian countered with the Three Thousand Thunder Illusion Spear, shattered the man's blade, and pierced him before he could beg for mercy.

Lin Tian returned to the Dao Origin Sect after killing a Mid Gang Realm attacker and safely retrieving his resources from the Ghost Forest Mine. He exchanged them for 20,760 points, then realized his planned purchases would cost more than he had earned.

• Lin Tian killed the Mid Gang Realm man who ambushed him, and the man's companions let him leave.
• Lin Tian concealed his aura and appearance, returned to the crevice, and carried his resources back to the Dao Origin Sect in several trips.
• Lin Tian exchanged 308 medicinal herbs and an Ebony Purple Lotus for 20,760 points.
• Lin Tian bought a hundred Supreme Tempered Qi Pills for 5,000 points and remembered he still needed a 10,000-point Vermilion Bird Nirvana Pill for Hua Chengming and a 10,000-point spear technique.

Lin Tian cultivated with top-tier resources and returned to the Dao Derivation Tower to secure his ranking before the reshuffle. He watched Ma Rulong reach the twenty-ninth floor, while many of the strongest disciples, including Long Wukong and Gu Qingtian, failed to show up.

• Lin Tian cultivated for over twenty days and felt that top-tier resources had cut the time before his breakthrough to the Mid Gang Realm by more than half.
• Dao Origin Sect disciples gathered at the Dao Derivation Tower to see whether anyone would break through the thirtieth floor and become a True Disciple Candidate.
• Lin Tian attended to consolidate his ranking and noticed elders and the Top Ten True Disciples watching from apart from the crowd.
• Ma Rulong reached the twenty-ninth floor on his third attempt, then emerged badly wounded and pale.
• Lin Tian saw that Ma Liang, Zhou Xuan, Wei Jing, Zhao Wuxing, Long Wukong, Gu Qingtian, and most other top-ranked disciples were absent.

Lin Tian secured ninth place in the tower rankings and spent two months cultivating in seclusion. When Chen Qingyu visited him, she hesitantly asked to borrow contribution points, leaving Lin Tian to hear her request.

• Lin Tian cleared the twenty-seventh floor, reached ninth place, and returned to cultivating in his pavilion.
• Lin Tian spent two months in seclusion, during which he discovered he could use his Sea of Consciousness to probe within a hundred meters.
• Lin Tian sensed Chen Qingyu waiting outside his pavilion and invited her in for tea.
• Chen Qingyu told Lin Tian about the dangerous missions that had left her with little time to cultivate.
• Chen Qingyu asked Lin Tian to lend her contribution points.

Lin Tian gave Chen Qingyu a Refined Gang Condensation Pill to help her break through to the Gang Realm. Chen Qingyu left for the outer sect, confident she would soon join Lin Tian in the inner sect.

• Chen Qingyu asked Lin Tian to lend her points so she could exchange for a Gang Condensation Pill.
• Lin Tian gave Chen Qingyu a Refined Gang Condensation Pill instead of lending her points.
• Chen Qingyu hesitated to accept the valuable pill until Lin Tian showed her that he had more than fifteen thousand points.
• Lin Tian saw Chen Qingyu off to the outer disciple area, where she thanked him and said she would visit him again after breaking through to the Gang Realm.

Lin Tian broke through to the Mid Gang Realm and realized he needed far more resources to continue advancing, so he decided to reveal some of his ability by challenging the Dao Derivation Tower. At the tower, he found Zhou Xuan and Ma Liang preparing to try again, while two True Disciple Candidates watched and discussed who might join their ranks.

• Lin Tian broke through to the Mid Gang Realm after cultivating for two months, with all Five True Essences advancing together.
• Lin Tian calculated that his breakthrough had cost roughly seven to nine thousand points and decided he needed to show enough ability to earn the Dao Origin Sect's support without exposing his trump cards.
• Lin Tian headed toward the Dao Derivation Tower and saw crowds gathering to watch Zhou Xuan and Ma Liang attempt it.
• Lin Tian noticed Wei Jing, who had already reached the twenty-ninth floor but appeared pale after a failed attempt, and saw that his own ranking had fallen to fifteenth.
• Two local True Disciple Candidates watched the rankings from a nearby pavilion, and one asked Brother Shang which of the two challengers had a better chance of becoming a candidate.

Lin Tian entered the Dao Derivation Tower and rapidly climbed to the twenty-ninth floor, surprising Shang Yuanjing, Lu Wuming, and the watching disciples. He rose to third place in the rankings, leaving others wondering whether he could reach the thirtieth floor and become a True Disciple Candidate.

• Shang Yuanjing told Lu Wuming that Zhou Wan and Ma Liang might have improved enough to pass the thirtieth floor, while Lin Tian would likely reach only the twenty-eighth.
• Lin Tian entered the Dao Derivation Tower and quickly reached the twenty-eighth floor, prompting Lu Wuming to tease Shang Yuanjing for underestimating him.
• Shang Yuanjing suggested Lin Tian might reach the twenty-ninth floor, and Lin Tian soon advanced there at nearly the same speed.
• The watching disciples wondered whether Lin Tian had concealed his strength and might reach the thirtieth floor before Zhou Wan and Ma Liang.
• Lin Tian climbed to third place in the rankings, behind only Long Wukong and Gu Qingtian.

Lin Tian defeated the saber-wielding puppet on the Dao Derivation Tower’s twenty-ninth floor and entered the thirtieth, while Zhou Wan and Ma Liang failed their own challenges. His arrival on the thirtieth floor startled the disciples watching outside.

• Shang Yuanjing and Lu Wuming watched Lin Tian’s ranking and worried that another True Disciple Candidate might threaten their prospects.
• On the twenty-ninth floor, Lin Tian faced a lifelike puppet with purple flames in its eyes, Saber Momentum, and an unrivaled saber art.
• Lin Tian switched to the Thousand Peak Heavy Prison Spear and used its overwhelming force to smash the puppet apart.
• Zhou Wan and Ma Liang emerged from the tower injured after failing their challenges.
• The disciples cried out when Lin Tian cleared the twenty-ninth floor and entered the thirtieth.

Lin Tian reached the thirtieth floor of the Dao Derivation Tower at Mid Gang Realm, stunning the disciples and elders who had underestimated him. He continued challenging the tower, leaving everyone wondering whether he would attempt to surpass Long Wukong and Gu Qingtian by climbing beyond the thirtieth floor.

• Lin Tian appeared in third place on the rankings after clearing the twenty-ninth floor, shocking Zhou Wan, Ma Liang, and the watching disciples.
• The crowd realized Lin Tian had not left the Dao Derivation Tower and was still challenging its floors.
• Shang Yuanjing and the other True Disciple Candidates speculated that Lin Tian had reached Mid Gang Realm and might possess True Disciple Potential if he cleared the thirtieth floor.
• Elder Zhou learned that Lin Tian, not Zhou Wan or Ma Liang, had reached the thirtieth floor, and he and Elder Wan flew to the tower.
• Elder Wan saw Lin Tian ranked third and realized he had concealed his strength, while the crowd debated whether he could reach the thirty-first floor at Mid Gang Realm.

Lin Tian stopped on the Dao Derivation Tower’s thirtieth floor after deliberately staging a hard-fought failure, having already reached the twenty-ninth floor and attracted the sect’s attention. News of his achievement stunned Tang Bailiang, Chi Xingyang, Shi Jingtian, and Liu Jingyue, who recognized his rising status and decided to send him a gift.

• Lin Tian faced two Late Gang Realm puppets on the thirtieth floor but chose not to reveal his strongest abilities or clear it.
• Lin Tian pretended to emerge badly wounded, earning congratulations from Zhou Wan and Ma Liang before returning to his pavilion and revealing that he had recovered.
• News spread through the Dao Origin Sect that Lin Tian had reached the thirtieth floor, shocking Tang Bailiang as he emerged from seclusion.
• Chi Xingyang, Shi Jingtian, and Liu Jingyue heard the news and decided to prepare a generous gift for Lin Tian.

Murong Ya trained four of the Seven Phoenixes of Murong in the Martial Way, after which Fourth Miss described the promising Dao Origin Sect disciples she had met at banquets. Xiao Qi brought up Lin Tian, whom the sisters had nearly forgotten, and Fourth Miss admitted she had not sought him out again.

• Murong Ya led Fifth Miss, Fourth Miss, Sixth Miss, and Seventh Miss through two hours of Martial Way training.
• After training, Seventh Miss asked Fourth Miss about her outings, and Sixth Miss turned the conversation toward marriage prospects.
• Fourth Miss described promising Dao Origin Sect disciples she had researched and hoped to cultivate ties with.
• Seventh Miss interrupted to ask whether those geniuses were as handsome as Lin Tian.
• Sixth Miss warned Xiao Qi not to judge men by their looks, but Xiao Qi pointed out that Elder Murong Yun had called Lin Tian a genius.
• Fourth Miss recalled that she had not sought Lin Tian out since meeting him and had nearly forgotten him.

Meihua reported that Lin Tian had climbed the Dao Derivation Tower to the thirtieth floor and was being granted True Disciple Candidate status. Murong Ya hurried to inform Murong Yun, while the four young misses reacted with surprise, delight, and changing opinions of Lin Tian.

• Fourth Miss told Xiao Qi that true geniuses had ambitious plans, implying that Lin Tian lacked ambition.
• Xiao Qi insisted she wanted a handsome, martial-arts-talented husband like Lin Tian and threatened to tell Third Grandpa.
• Meihua arrived and told Murong Ya that Lin Tian had reached the Dao Derivation Tower’s thirtieth floor at Mid Gang Realm and ranked alongside Long Wukong and Gu Qingtian.
• Meihua reported that Elder Zhou had gone to Lin Tian’s residence to grant him True Disciple Candidate status, which would make him the third such candidate among the Hundred Sects’ disciples.
• Murong Ya sent Meihua to take the four young misses away and hurried to tell Murong Yun about Lin Tian’s advancement.
• Xiao Qi felt vindicated for believing in Lin Tian, while Fourth Miss’s disbelief turned to delight after she reconsidered what his new status could mean for her.

Fourth Miss decided to ask Murong Yun to arrange a meeting with Lin Tian, while Elder Zhou explained the Heavenly Steed Lineage’s strengths and drawbacks to Lin Tian as he considered which lineage to join. The lineage offered formidable power but was the hardest of the four to cultivate and had declined in recent years.

• Fourth Miss reconsidered Lin Tian and went to Murong Yun’s hall to ask for help arranging a meeting with him.
• Elder Zhou visited Lin Tian and told him he could become a True Disciple Candidate without taking the trial on the thirtieth floor.
• Elder Zhou urged Lin Tian to consider which of the Dao Origin Sect’s four main lineages to join.
• Elder Zhou described the Heavenly Steed Lineage’s history, its force-of-presence True Scripture, and its reputation for producing Sect Masters.
• Elder Zhou warned Lin Tian that the Heavenly Steed Lineage’s scripture was the hardest to cultivate and that the lineage had become one of the weakest.

Lin Tian agreed to join the Heavenly Steed Lineage after deciding its quiet, underpopulated state suited his cultivation plans. Elder Zhou gave him a lineage token and planned to escort him to the peak in three days, while keeping his reasons for favoring Lin Tian from Elder Wan.

• Elder Zhou explained that the Heavenly Steed Lineage was sparsely populated and declining, then watched anxiously as Lin Tian considered the offer.
• Lin Tian chose to join because the lineage’s difficult True Scripture, weak competition, and available resources suited him.
• Elder Zhou welcomed Lin Tian, promised he would not lack resources, and gave him a token identifying him as a disciple of the Heavenly Steed Lineage.
• Elder Zhou said he would lead Lin Tian to the peak in three days and introduce him to the returning True Disciple.
• Elder Wan questioned Elder Zhou’s unusual investment in Lin Tian, but Elder Zhou only said Lin Tian’s talent justified it.

Elder Zhou reviewed Lin Tian’s tower records and recruited him into the Heavenly Steed Lineage as a True Disciple Candidate. The Gold Spirit Lineage also approached Lin Tian, but offered him less than Long Wukong had received, leaving its young disciple questioning why they had bothered to recruit him.

• Elder Zhou saw that Lin Tian had instantly passed an incomplete Grade A-Plus technique in the Insight Trial and decided to recruit him into the Heavenly Steed Lineage.
• An elder of the Gold Spirit Lineage and her young granddaughter visited Lin Tian to offer him a place in their lineage.
• Lin Tian asked for several days to consider the Gold Spirit Lineage’s offer rather than refusing it outright.
• After leaving Lin Tian’s pavilion, the granddaughter questioned why her grandmother had offered Lin Tian such meager terms.
• The elder said Lin Tian was not as important as Long Wukong, and her granddaughter wondered why the lineage had approached him at all.

Lin Tian received visits and gifts from the sect’s lineages before being invited to a gathering of True Disciple Candidates by Ye Wandao. Two days later, he formally joined the Heavenly Steed Lineage and began meeting its important members, including its sole True Disciple, Mu Chunfeng.

• The Gold Spirit Lineage’s old woman explained that her people had come to show goodwill toward Lin Tian, and the other lineages later offered similar terms while the nine branches delivered gifts.
• Ye Wandao sent Lin Tian a letter inviting all the True Disciple Candidates to gather, and Lin Tian decided to attend despite suspecting the gathering had another purpose.
• Lin Tian completed the ceremony to enter the Heavenly Steed Lineage and noticed the name Hua Tianming in its register, which reminded him of Hua Chengming.
• Elder Zhou led Lin Tian to meet the Heavenly Steed Lineage’s important members, where Lin Tian encountered Mu Chunfeng, its sole True Disciple and third-ranked fighter.

Elder Zhou introduced Lin Tian to Mu Chunfeng and Elder Xiao as he showed him around Heavenly Steed Peak. Lin Tian discovered that the lineage’s unusually generous exchange policies were a tradition funded by Mu Chunfeng, and Elder Zhou hinted that Heavenly Steed Peak’s influence came from producing the current Sect Master.

• Mu Chunfeng welcomed Lin Tian as a fellow disciple and promised to introduce him to people in five days.
• Elder Zhou took Lin Tian to meet Elder Xiao at Heavenly Steed Peak’s exchange pavilion.
• Elder Xiao offered to buy Lin Tian’s items at the highest prices and give him half off precious pills and items.
• Elder Zhou explained that Elder Xiao’s generous offers were a Heavenly Steed Lineage tradition charged to Mu Chunfeng’s account.
• Elder Zhou told Lin Tian that the other main lineages could not all produce a current Sect Master.

Lin Tian met Elder Gu, who managed Heavenly Steed Peak’s cultivation techniques and battle skills, and discovered that he offered disciples discounts on exchanges. The chapter ended with Lin Tian asking what discount he could get on a superior spear technique.

• Elder Zhou brought Lin Tian to meet Elder Gu, the elder in charge of cultivation techniques, and explained that disciples could seek him out to exchange for them.
• After Elder Zhou left due to an emergency, Elder Gu offered to exchange battle skills at a discount, except for True Scriptures.
• Lin Tian asked about the discount for a peerless spear technique, and Elder Gu said he could offer twenty percent off.
• Lin Tian decided not to exchange for the peerless spear technique yet because he first needed to master three spear techniques at the ultimate realm of comprehending Spear Momentum.
• Lin Tian asked Elder Gu what discount he could get on a superior spear technique.

Lin Tian bargained with Elder Gu for a superior spear technique and learned that Heavenly Steed Peak treated selling sect techniques directly as a tradition. He bought the defensive technique Eight Gates Heavenly Guard, and Elder Gu passed its instructions into his mind.

• Lin Tian suspected Elder Gu was selling Cultivation Techniques directly and worried the deal was risky, but Elder Gu said it was a Heavenly Steed Peak tradition followed by the Sect Master and previous Sect Master.
• Elder Gu described four categories of spear techniques and offered Lin Tian a superior defensive technique that could help him approach Spear Intent.
• Lin Tian chose Eight Gates Heavenly Guard, which Elder Gu said cost six thousand points through the sect.
• Elder Gu honored the sixty percent discount and charged Lin Tian two thousand four hundred points through their Tokens.
• Elder Gu noticed Lin Tian had over ten thousand points despite claiming to be short on funds, then sent the technique's information into Lin Tian's mind.

Lin Tian absorbed Elder Gu’s understanding of the Eight Gates Heavenly Guardian Spear Art and advanced rapidly, leaving Elder Gu astonished. Meanwhile, Yu Xiangtian heard that the search for the Patriarch’s inheritance remained fruitless and discussed Lin Tian’s place in the Heavenly Steed Lineage.

• Elder Gu transmitted his comprehension of the Eight Gates Heavenly Guardian Spear Art to Lin Tian, whose Fate Grid showed Mastery at 798/3500.
• Elder Gu offered to tutor Lin Tian for fifty points per hour, but Lin Tian declined, claiming he was short of funds.
• Elder Gu sensed that Lin Tian had already reached at least Minor Mastery in the spear art and watched him leave, calling him an extraordinary genius.
• Elder Zhou told Yu Xiangtian that neither his investigation nor the New Faction’s search had uncovered clues to the Patriarch’s inheritance.
• Yu Xiangtian told Elder Zhou to keep the New Faction under surveillance and welcomed Lin Tian’s entry into the Heavenly Steed Lineage, urging the lineage to look after him.

Lin Tian moved to Heavenly Steed Peak, cultivated, and attended Ye Wudao’s gathering of the True Disciple Candidates. As the banquet ended, the guests waited for Ye Wudao to reveal his real purpose.

• Lin Tian moved his belongings to Heavenly Steed Peak and cultivated there using its richer Earth Vein Origin Power.
• Over two days, Lin Tian refined his true qi and began practicing the Eight Gates Heavenly Guardian Spear Art and the Myriad Beast Curse.
• Lin Tian attended Ye Wudao’s gathering, where the other True Disciple Candidates reacted to him with curiosity, mockery, or hostility.
• Lin Tian recognized Long Wukong, Gu Qingtian, and Zhao Santong among the guests, and Zhao Santong regarded him with unexplained hostility.
• Ye Wudao hosted the gathering, and the candidates watched him throughout the banquet, expecting him to disclose its purpose.
• As the banquet ended, Ye Wudao sighed, drawing everyone’s attention.

At Ye Wandao’s banquet, he revealed that Liang Wankuo had begun seclusion to break through to the True Essence Realm, prompting the True Disciple Candidates to consider challenging him if the attempt left him weakened. Lin Tian recognized that Ye Wandao had offered the news as bait, while Ye Wandao dismissed Lin Tian as too weak to serve as a candidate to test Liang Wankuo.

• Ye Wandao told the True Disciple Candidates that Liang Wankuo had begun seclusion to break through to the True Essence Realm.
• Yan Shaowu argued that Liang Wankuo might fail and be left gravely weakened, and several candidates considered challenging him.
• Lin Tian realized Ye Wandao had shared the news to lure someone into testing Liang Wankuo’s strength.
• Ye Wandao watched the candidates and hoped that Long Wukong or Gu Qingtian would challenge Liang Wankuo, but he considered Lin Tian too weak to be useful.

After two months in seclusion, Lin Tian improved his cultivation, spear art, Myriad Beast Curse, and Sea of Consciousness while contemplating the dangerous Broken Sword in his mind. Chen Qingyu visited after reaching the Gang Realm, and Lin Tian wondered whether her Special Physique had changed her appearance.

• After the gathering, disciples formed groups to discuss rallying support against Liang Wankuo, while Lin Tian avoided getting involved and returned to Heavenly Steed Peak.
• Lin Tian spent two months in seclusion, advancing his Primordial Five Elements Art, Eight Gates Heavenly Guardian Spear Art, and Myriad Beast Curse.
• Lin Tian discovered that his Sea of Consciousness had expanded to a range of two hundred meters and could lift and suspend objects with mental force.
• Lin Tian concluded that the Broken Sword in his mind likely carried a strand of Martial Way will, like the powerful puppet he had encountered on the twenty-ninth floor.
• Chen Qingyu visited Lin Tian, who congratulated her on reaching the Gang Realm and wondered whether her Special Physique had changed her appearance.

Lin Tian congratulated Chen Qingyu on reaching the Gang Realm and learned that her Special Physique required a period of seclusion to draw out its potential. Chen Qingyu confirmed that Mu Qingxue and Han Shuangjiang had also entered seclusion for the same process.

• Chen Qingyu teased Lin Tian about noticing the changes in her appearance after her breakthrough, and he apologized before congratulating her.
• Chen Qingyu thanked Lin Tian for the Gang Condensation Pill and said she could not repay its points yet because she needed to enter prolonged seclusion.
• Lin Tian told Chen Qingyu to focus on consolidating her cultivation and asked whether anything was wrong with her Special Physique.
• Chen Qingyu explained that seclusion was a process for people with Special Physiques to draw out their potential.
• Chen Qingyu confirmed that Mu Qingxue and Han Shuangjiang had also begun seclusion since arriving at Dao Origin Sect.

Lin Tian learned the Myriad Beast Curse’s Mind-Control Curse and Heart Demon Curse, then prepared to enter the perilous lands to earn more points. He left for the Dao Origin Sect’s gates, unaware that major events had unfolded outside during his seclusion.

• Chen Qingyu gave Lin Tian winter clothes before returning to her seclusion.
• Lin Tian noticed his points were running low and decided to enter the perilous lands in a month to earn more.
• After a month of cultivation, Lin Tian advanced the Myriad Beast Curse to its second layer and learned how its two techniques worked.
• Lin Tian prepared for the perilous lands and set out toward the Dao Origin Sect’s gates.