Recaps

Lin Tian defeated Zhao Santong and won the wager, though Zhao Santong lacked enough points to pay the full amount until the Enforcement Hall elder secured the shortfall. Elder Zhou celebrated Lin Tian’s victory and introduced him to influential elders, while Mu Chunfeng praised Lin Tian for hiding his true strength.

• The Enforcement Hall elder declared Lin Tian the winner and arranged for him to receive the sixty thousand points owed, despite Zhao Santong’s token having insufficient points.
• Elder Zhou taunted Elder Liu about his failed inheritance clue, and Elder Liu flew away without replying.
• Elder Zhou brought Lin Tian to the high platform and introduced him to several True Essence Realm elders, who praised him and sought to make connections.
• Mu Chunfeng joined Lin Tian and praised him for revealing his hidden strength.

Lin Tian thanked Lei Wanjun for helping him secure the points for his wager and learned more about the Lei Family’s position in the Dao Origin Sect. Lei Wanjun gave Lin Tian an Enforcement token, granting him access to lucrative Enforcement Hall missions.

• Lin Tian asked Mu Chunfeng about Lei Wanjun and learned that the elder belonged to the Lei Family, which controlled the sect’s law enforcement.
• Lin Tian asked Mu Chunfeng to introduce him to Lei Wanjun, despite the Lei Family’s poor reputation among the sect’s other forces.
• Lin Tian gave Lei Wanjun a token containing 5,000 points to thank him for helping obtain points for the wager.
• Lei Wanjun accepted the gift, gave Lin Tian an Enforcement token, and invited him to visit the Enforcement Hall.
• Mu Chunfeng explained that the token let Lin Tian accept Enforcement Hall missions that could earn substantial contribution points.

Lin Tian learned that Lei Wanjun’s token let him contact the Lei Family and Enforcement Hall, and Mu Chunfeng advised him to approach them cautiously. After news of Lin Tian’s wager victory reached Murong Mansion, Murong Ya’s curiosity about how he had won was interrupted by Meihua arriving with a report.

• Mu Chunfeng explained the token’s purpose and advised Lin Tian to contact the Lei Family without associating too deeply; Lin Tian decided to postpone his choice until he grew stronger.
• News of Lin Tian’s wager victory reached Murong Mansion while Murong Ya was comprehending True Essence with Murong Yun.
• Murong Ya admitted she was curious how Lin Tian could defeat Zhao Santong, and Murong Yun told her that some people exceeded ordinary understanding.
• Meihua arrived with information about the wager, and Murong Ya invited her inside.

After Lin Tian won the wager match against Zhao Santong, news of his hidden strength spread through the Dao Origin Sect. Murong Ya and Ye Wandao were shocked by his two True Gangs and his progress toward Spear Intent.

• Meihua told Murong Ya that Lin Tian had won the wager match and gave her a letter describing it.
• Murong Ya read that Lin Tian had touched the threshold of Spear Intent, possessed two True Gangs including a Peerless True Gang, and suppressed Zhao Santong without being hurt.
• Murong Yun accepted Lin Tian's victory as unsurprising and suspected Lin Tian possessed more than two True Gangs.
• News of the wager match reached Ye Wandao while he was practicing swordsmanship and trying to comprehend Sword Intent.
• A disciple told Ye Wandao that Lin Tian had suppressed Zhao Santong, prompting Ye Wandao to react in disbelief to Lin Tian's two True Gangs and Spear Intent.

After Lin Tian defeated Zhao Santong, True Disciple Candidates and powerful factions recognized his potential and came to offer gifts, while he received a letter from Hua Chengming asking him to prepare for his arrival. The chapter ended as the Dao Origin Sect’s secret realm resonated with secret realms belonging to other sects.

• True Disciple Candidates were astonished by Lin Tian’s strength and realized he could stand alongside them despite his lower cultivation realm.
• Ye Wandao ordered a generous gift sent to Lin Tian to repair their relationship and befriend the rising talent.
• Lin Tian accepted gifts and visits from clans, sect elders, and faction representatives, spending nearly a day receiving them.
• A disciple delivered Lin Tian a letter from the Heavenly Derivation Sect, in which Hua Chengming said he would soon arrive in Dao Origin City and wanted Lin Tian to prepare for something.
• Lin Tian burned Hua Chengming’s letter and decided to cultivate while testing whether his body could cultivate on its own.
• The secret-realm entrance began humming, and Yu Xiangtian told Elder Zhou that it was resonating with secret realms from other sects.

Yu Xiangtian and Elder Zhou discovered that the Dao Origin Sect's Secret Realm had connected with the Divine Shaman Royal Court's, making a clash over Secret Realm Origin Power likely. Yu Xiangtian hesitated over whether to bring in outside forces to support the sect before entering the Secret Realm.

• Elder Zhou explained that connected Secret Realms shared Origin Power, and that disputes over dividing it often led to deadly battles.
• Yu Xiangtian touched the Secret Realm Gate and identified the connected faction as Golden Court Snow Mountain.
• Yu Xiangtian named the Divine Shaman Royal Court as the other side, and Elder Zhou noted that its witches were formidable opponents.
• Elder Zhou asked whether the Dao Origin Sect should allow outside forces into the Secret Realm, and Yu Xiangtian delayed his decision while considering the preparations.

Lin Tian succeeded in making his True Gang cultivate autonomously, while Gu Qingtian emerged from seclusion at Gang Realm perfection with exceptionally powerful Fused True Gang. Lei Wanhe urged Gu Qingtian to challenge for a True Disciple position soon, warning that waiting would make it far harder.

• Lin Tian discovered that his True Gang could cultivate on its own and began observing the method cautiously.
• Over the next two months, news of Lin Tian defeating Zhao Santong spread through the Dao Origin Sect and Dao Origin City, drawing the attention of Liang Wankuo and other potential rivals.
• Gu Qingtian emerged from seclusion after fusing three strands of True Gang, strengthening it beyond ordinary Peerless True Gang, and reaching Gang Realm perfection.
• Lei Wanhe told Gu Qingtian about the secret realm and urged him to challenge for a True Disciple position to claim upper-sect resources.
• Lei Wanhe warned Gu Qingtian that delaying his challenge would make attaining a True Disciple position a hundred times harder.

Lei Wanhe told Gu Qingtian that the sect would support its True Disciples before an upcoming Secret Realm expedition, including with True Transformation Pills, and urged him to challenge for a position soon. Elder Zhou gave Lin Tian the same news and brought him his monthly cultivation resources, leaving Lin Tian to consider how the coming competition would intensify.

• Lei Wanhe explained that hostile sects would join the Secret Realm expedition and that the sect planned to provide True Disciples with assistance, including True Transformation Pills that could help them approach the True Essence Realm.
• Gu Qingtian realized that current True Disciples could use the pills to strengthen their breakthrough chances, while Lei Wanhe told him not to treat winning a position as a burden.
• Lin Tian reflected that his autonomous cultivation refined True Gang about one-fourth more slowly than his own cultivation.
• Elder Zhou visited Lin Tian and explained the Secret Realm expedition and the sect's plan to support its True Disciples, while acknowledging that asking Lin Tian to compete was somewhat forced.
• Lin Tian considered how the news would intensify challenges for True Disciple positions, and Elder Zhou gave him the month's resources he had missed collecting.

Lin Tian obtained the Myriad Shadow Formless Spear Art and rapidly mastered it while cultivating in seclusion. As the Secret Realm Gate grew more active, he prepared to rely on the coming Secret Realm to upgrade his Five Elements True Gangs.

• Elder Zhou gave Lin Tian cultivation resources, advised him to observe battles between geniuses, and left.
• Lin Tian went to Heavenly Steed Peak's small Myriad Treasures Pavilion and obtained the Myriad Shadow Formless Spear Art.
• Lin Tian began cultivating the spear art, whose difficult final breakthrough required comprehending the Myriad Shadow Mystery.
• Two True Disciples broke through into the True Essence Realm, leaving only three True Disciple positions for candidates to contest.
• After three months of cultivation, Lin Tian reached the Perfected Realm in the spear art and advanced his Blood-Colored True Qi to the Late Gang Realm.
• Elder Zhou told Lin Tian that the Secret Realm Gate had grown active and the Secret Realm would soon open.

Lin Tian attended a True Disciple challenge at the Dao Origin Sect, where veteran candidate Liao Wushuang fought Liang Wankuo. As the battle began, Lin Tian recognized that Liao Wushuang was using two different peerless fist techniques at once.

• Lin Tian resolved to strengthen himself before entering the Secret Realm, where True Essence experts and a hostile Jiangbei force posed serious dangers.
• The sect announced that a True Disciple Candidate would challenge a True Disciple, and Lin Tian decided to watch the fight.
• Lin Tian arrived at the Arena and learned that veteran candidate Liao Wushuang had challenged Liang Wankuo, whose body had a visible problem.
• Three True Essence elders arrived and began the match, while Liang Wankuo and Liao Wushuang clashed across the Performance Stage.
• Lin Tian observed that Liao Wushuang was using a different peerless combat skill with each fist.

Liang Wankuo defeated Liao Wushuang in a fierce arena battle, overcoming his opponent’s combination of two ultimate fist arts with the Ninefold Thunder Firmament Saber Art and an embryonic saber intent. As the other True Disciple Candidates grew dispirited, Lin Tian wondered whether Liang Wankuo’s saber art alone had secured the victory.

• Liang Wankuo and Liao Wushuang fought at full strength, with Liang keeping his saber sheathed until their final clash.
• Liao Wushuang combined moves from two ultimate fist arts into a powerful sequence, and Liang Wankuo answered with the Ninefold Thunder Firmament Saber Art.
• Liang Wankuo’s saber unleashed lightning and embryonic saber intent as he charged into Liao Wushuang’s attack.
• The battle’s power subsided, revealing Liang Wankuo standing victorious while Liao Wushuang lay injured on the Arena.
• Ye Wandao and the other True Disciple Candidates felt discouraged, while Lin Tian questioned whether Liang Wankuo had won through saber art and saber intent alone.

Lin Tian reflected on the pressure facing Liang Wankuo after another True Disciple broke through to the True Essence Realm and Xiong Tian failed to challenge him. As Lin Tian neared a breakthrough in his spear art, an unfamiliar visitor arrived at his courtyard.

• Lin Tian suspected Liang Wankuo might have opened a Sea of Consciousness but could not confirm it.
• A True Disciple ranked tenth broke through to the True Essence Realm, shifting the pressure onto Liang Wankuo, who had fallen to tenth place.
• Xiong Tian challenged Liang Wankuo and was swiftly defeated and badly injured, deterring the other True Disciple Candidates from openly seeking challenges.
• Lin Tian attended a gathering of True Disciple Candidates, where they discussed cultivation and avoided talking about challenges.
• After four months of training, Lin Tian brought Myriad Shadow Formless Spear Art close to its limit and sensed an unfamiliar powerful aura in his courtyard.
• Lin Tian went outside, and the visitor calmly remarked that the kid seemed to be doing well for himself there.

Hua Chengming visited Lin Tian to discuss the upcoming Dao Origin Sect Secret Realm and revealed the existence of Secret Realm Origin Crystals, which could help cultivators break through to the True Essence Realm. Lin Tian realized Hua Chengming likely wanted him to obtain one, despite the fierce competition it would bring.

• Lin Tian welcomed Hua Chengming, the Heavenly Derivation Sect's Wood Courtyard Master, and considered Hua Chengming's claim that his earlier help with the Murong Family had already rewarded Lin Tian.
• Hua Chengming shifted the conversation to the soon-to-open Secret Realm in the Dao Origin Sect and explained that Secret Realm Origin Power came from Earth Veins.
• Hua Chengming told Lin Tian that Secret Realm Origin Crystals formed from condensed Secret Realm Origin Power and could help cultivators attempt to break through to the True Essence Realm without harm from repeated failures.
• Lin Tian suspected Hua Chengming had come to ask him to obtain a Secret Realm Origin Crystal and realized that the item would provoke a fierce scramble.

Lin Tian negotiated with Hua Chengming over a dangerous mission to retrieve Secret Realm Origin Crystals, rejecting promises that depended on luck and insisting on fair compensation. Hua Chengming began offering another benefit by asking whether Lin Tian had learned the Heavenly Steed Lineage’s true scripture.

• Lin Tian asked whether Hua Chengming wanted Secret Realm Origin Crystals, and Hua Chengming confirmed that he did.
• Hua Chengming showed Lin Tian the Heavenly Star Compass, which could help him locate the crystals before others reacted to their heavenly phenomena.
• Lin Tian emphasized the mission’s risks, and Hua Chengming offered to take only one crystal while letting Lin Tian keep any others.
• Lin Tian recognized that this offer relied on uncertain luck and decided Hua Chengming still owed him more for undertaking the mission.
• Hua Chengming agreed not to let Lin Tian suffer a loss and asked whether he had learned the Heavenly Steed Lineage’s true scripture.

Hua Chengming explained the Heavenly Steed Controlling Heaven True Scripture to Lin Tian and gave him a legitimate copy from Heavenly Steed Peak’s Cultivation Technique Pavilion. Lin Tian realized he could master it before the Secret Realm opened, though using it required first gathering Earth Vein Origin Power.

• Hua Chengming told Lin Tian that the Heavenly Steed Controlling Heaven True Scripture could multiply combat power without cost by commanding external Earth Vein Origin Power.
• Lin Tian realized the Secret Realm lay within a vast Earth Vein, making the True Scripture especially useful there.
• Hua Chengming gave Lin Tian a jade slip copied legitimately from Heavenly Steed Peak’s Cultivation Technique Pavilion and said he could learn the technique in time.
• Lin Tian received the Scripture’s information and saw it appear in his Fate Grid as Heavenly Steed Controlling Heaven True Scripture (0/1).
• Lin Tian understood that he had already mastered the technique, but needed to gather external power before he could use it.

Lin Tian realized the True Scripture’s Ultimate Tempering required an Earth Vein Source Crystal and suspected Hua Chengming had arranged events to make him seek one. At Dao Origin Sect, Yu Xiangtian looked for a way to counter the New Faction’s demands over Secret Realm Origin Power without resorting to force.

• Lin Tian learned that tempering with an Earth Vein Source Crystal could let him achieve Ultimate Tempering and suspected Hua Chengming had planned to give him the True Scripture before their meeting.
• Hua Chengming left after telling Lin Tian he would find him when needed, and Lin Tian realized Hua Chengming was a True Essence Realm expert.
• Elder Zhou reported that New Faction elders were using petitions to demand a say in how the Secret Realm Origin Power would be distributed.
• Yu Xiangtian refused to yield the sect’s foundation to the elders and asked whether anyone could challenge Liang Wankuo for a True Disciple seat.
• Elder Zhou realized Yu Xiangtian hoped to gain an Old Faction majority among the True Disciples but knew no one in the sect could defeat Liang Wankuo.

Hua Chengming returned to the Dao Origin Sect after seventeen years away and asked Yu Xiangtian for the Sect Master's Token so he could enter the Dao Derivation Tower. In exchange, he offered to help Yu Xiangtian resolve a problem with the True Disciple candidates by recommending a disciple.

• Yu Xiangtian sensed Hua Chengming approaching the Boundless Pavilion and greeted him with Elder Zhou.
• Hua Chengming told Yu Xiangtian that he had been wandering and planned to leave once he finished his business.
• Hua Chengming asked Yu Xiangtian for the Sect Master's Token to enter the Dao Derivation Tower.
• Hua Chengming offered to help Yu Xiangtian resolve his problem if Yu Xiangtian let him enter the tower.
• Hua Chengming said he could recommend a disciple to secure a seat among the True Disciples, surprising Yu Xiangtian with his high regard for that disciple.

Hua Chengming urged Lin Tian to challenge a True Disciple, convincing Sect Master Yu Xiangtian to trust his recommendation despite concerns about Lin Tian’s strength and safety. Lin Tian initially resolved to refuse, but Hua Chengming offered to remove the Earth Vein restrictions on the True Scripture.

• Hua Chengming named Lin Tian as the disciple who could resolve the Heavenly Steed Lineage’s predicament and win a True Disciple seat.
• Hua Chengming told Yu Xiangtian that Lin Tian would challenge a True Disciple, and Yu Xiangtian agreed to wait for the result before handing over the token.
• Elder Zhou warned Yu Xiangtian that Lin Tian was too young and might be injured, so Yu Xiangtian ordered him to attend the challenge and intervene if necessary.
• Hua Chengming returned to Lin Tian’s courtyard and told him to challenge a True Disciple.
• Lin Tian resolved to refuse because he wanted to avoid renewed attention, but Hua Chengming offered to remove the Earth Vein restrictions required by the True Scripture.

Lin Tian accepted Hua Chengming’s task to defeat Liang Wankuo in exchange for a method to overcome the Heavenly Steed Lineage Scripture’s earth-vein restriction. After studying the scroll, Lin Tian trained his spear art for ten days, reached its limit-breaking stage, and began to comprehend Spear Intent.

• Lin Tian hesitated over Hua Chengming’s offer, voiced concerns about fighting Liang Wankuo, and accepted the task after Hua Chengming left him a scroll.
• Lin Tian read that the method required the Formless Combat Technique to refine earth-vein origin power and Heavenly Dao Jade to store it, with Formless Combat Technique cultivated to Law Formless.
• Lin Tian resumed practicing his spear art, knowing he needed to defeat Liang Wankuo before the Secret Realm opened.
• Ten days later, Lin Tian filled the progress for Myriad Shadow Formless Spear Art at its limit-breaking stage.
• An inky, starry darkness burst from Lin Tian’s spear tip and enveloped his body.

Lin Tian comprehended Body Transformed into Myriad Shadows, which greatly increased his speed, and then awakened a Spear Intent with the ability to absorb attacks. He headed to the Dao Derivation Tower to clear its thirty-sixth floor before challenging Liang Wankuo.

• Lin Tian tested Body Transformed into Myriad Shadows and found that it let him move at nearly the speed of a peak Gang Realm expert.
• Lin Tian tried combining the newfound speed with movement techniques, shot out of his pavilion, and crashed into a huge rock before he could react.
• Lin Tian's Myriad Shadows resonated with his Sea of Consciousness, allowing him to comprehend Spear Intent.
• Lin Tian's Spear Intent took the form of dark, abyss-like shadows and gained the ability to absorb some or all of incoming attacks, depending on their strength.
• Lin Tian withdrew his power, tidied himself up, and set out for the Dao Derivation Tower to clear the thirty-sixth floor before challenging Liang Wankuo.

Lin Tian challenged the Dao Derivation Tower while Ye Wandao and the other True Disciple Candidates watched, expecting him to seek the right to challenge a True Disciple. He advanced through the tower far faster than they anticipated, leaving them stunned when he cleared the thirty-sixth floor and reached the thirty-seventh.

• News that Lin Tian was challenging the Dao Derivation Tower spread, and Ye Wandao and the other True Disciple Candidates went to watch.
• Lin Tian defeated the two Late Gang Realm puppets on the thirtieth floor in three thrusts and quickly advanced through the next floors.
• Lin Tian passed the thirty-fifth floor without slowing down, startling the candidates who expected him to face Gang Realm Perfection puppets there.
• After lingering on the thirty-sixth floor for a dozen breaths, Lin Tian passed it and reached the thirty-seventh floor.

Lin Tian passed the Dao Derivation Tower’s thirty-sixth floor and left after securing the qualification to challenge a True Disciple. Liang Wankuo heard of Lin Tian’s achievement while recovering from his injuries, and his expression darkened.

• Lin Tian passed the thirty-sixth floor, where two peak Gang Realm puppets guarded the way, then left the Dao Derivation Tower.
• The disciples made way for Lin Tian, and he nodded to the True Disciple Candidates before disappearing from view.
• After Lin Tian left, several spies slipped away to report his achievement to their respective factions or patrons.
• Liang Wankuo meditated in his pavilion while recovering from the injuries left by his failed attempt to break through to the True Essence Realm.
• A disciple told Liang Wankuo that Lin Tian had passed the thirty-sixth floor and recounted what had happened.
• Liang Wankuo’s expression darkened upon hearing the news.

Liang Wankuo believed Lin Tian’s Dao Derivation Tower challenge was a provocation aimed at his True Disciple position, while the Gold Spirit Lineage Master urged Liang to handle the coming challenge carefully. Mu Chunfeng, worried about Lin Tian challenging a True Disciple, set out to ask him why.

• Liang Wankuo concluded that Lin Tian had deliberately challenged the Dao Derivation Tower to provoke him and resolved to respond with his full strength.
• The Gold Spirit Lineage Master considered whether Lin Tian’s challenge was part of the Sect Master’s plan to disrupt the proposal to distribute Secret Realm Origin Power.
• The Gold Spirit Lineage Master ordered an elder to warn Liang Wankuo to treat the situation with utmost caution and promised rewards if he handled it properly.
• Mu Chunfeng heard that Lin Tian had cleared the Dao Derivation Tower, worried about his challenge to a True Disciple, and flew off to question him.

Lin Tian spent three days training Body Transformed into Myriad Shadows before formally registering his challenge to Liang Wankuo. Liang Wankuo waited for Lin Tian to act, while Lin Tian left the Star Ascension Pavilion with a Token to complete the registration.

• Mu Chunfeng questioned Lin Tian about challenging Liang Wankuo, then agreed to attend the fight and protect him.
• Lin Tian returned to seclusion and spent three days mastering the speed of Body Transformed into Myriad Shadows.
• Liang Wankuo learned that Lin Tian had stayed in his loft and told his trusted disciple to keep watching him without acting.
• Lin Tian left his loft and went to the Star Ascension Pavilion to register his challenge to Liang Wankuo.
• The Elder gave Lin Tian a Token and told him to write his name on it to challenge a True Disciple.

Lin Tian registered to challenge Liang Wankuo for a True Disciple position, prompting anxiety among the candidates and confidence from Liang Wankuo. As the Murong Clan debated whether to use the challenge to reconcile with Lin Tian, an elder urged the patriarch not to do so.

• Lin Tian carved his name onto the token, completed his registration, and learned that he could challenge Liang Wankuo in three days.
• News of the challenge spread through the Dao Origin Sect, leaving the True Disciple Candidates uneasy about Lin Tian’s chances.
• Ye Wandao worried that Lin Tian might defeat Liang Wankuo and disrupt his own plans to claim a True Disciple seat.
• Liang Wankuo welcomed the news, pleased that Lin Tian had not abandoned the challenge.
• Dao Origin City clans mostly dismissed Lin Tian’s chances, while the Murong Clan considered whether to use the challenge to repair its relationship with him.
• Murong Ao asked the Murong Clan elders what they thought, and one elder objected, saying, "Patriarch, I believe this cannot be done!"