Recaps

After sorting out his techniques and resuming cultivation, Lin Tian traveled to Wuya Peak to meet Elder Guan alongside two other lineage disciples. An attendant arrived at the Boundless Pavilion and told them to follow her to Elder Guan.

• Song Bao'er told Lin Tian she had placed his sect rewards in his Cultivation Chamber, and he asked her to prepare hot water so he could bathe.
• Lin Tian reviewed his techniques, resolved to train the Myriad Beast Curse, and planned his cultivation priorities around improving his cultivation and mastering the Demon-Subduing Golden Body.
• After cultivating for three days, Lin Tian left for Wuya Peak as Elder Zhou had reminded him to do.
• At the Boundless Pavilion, Lin Tian met Xiao Sanding of the Gold Spirit Lineage and Luo Xiao of the Mystic Heaven Lineage, and sensed the powerful Earth Vein spiritual energy there.
• An attendant who served Elder Guan appeared and asked Lin Tian, Xiao Sanding, and Luo Xiao to follow her to meet Elder Guan.

Lin Tian, Xiao Sanding, and Luo Xiao entered Elder Guan’s cave to face a trial built around its powerful field domain and spear techniques carved into the walls. They advanced by mastering the techniques, eager to continue despite the rising pressure and difficulty.

• An old woman led Lin Tian and his companions to a cave carved into black jade stone by a single spear thrust, then left them to enter.
• Inside the cave, the three encountered a crushing field domain that disturbed their Spear Intent and realized the trial had begun.
• Lin Tian learned that mastering the elementary spear techniques on the walls weakened the pressure, and Xiao Sanding and Luo Xiao discovered the same.
• The three advanced deeper by comprehending the techniques, but the pressure grew stronger and the techniques became harder to master.
• Seeing that the trial was also an opportunity to study powerful spear techniques, Lin Tian, Xiao Sanding, and Luo Xiao continued onward despite not yet reaching a third of the cave.

Lin Tian, Xiao Sanding, and Luo Xiao advanced through the Cave while facing intense pressure and studying the spear techniques on its walls. Lin Tian realized the techniques formed part of a powerful combat art and chose to keep mastering them, even as the others rushed toward the exit.

• Lin Tian noticed that the spear techniques on the walls seemed connected and might form a powerful combat art.
• Lin Tian sped up, surprising Xiao Sanding and Luo Xiao, who then steadied themselves and continued studying the techniques.
• After two hours, Xiao Sanding and Luo Xiao began skipping techniques to conserve their strength and move faster.
• Lin Tian continued mastering each technique because he believed the combat art mattered more than becoming a disciple.
• Xiao Sanding and Luo Xiao skipped most of the final techniques and charged out of the Cave, leaving Lin Tian behind.

Lin Tian endured the cave’s crushing pressure as he studied the spear arts, while Xiao Sanding dismissed his efforts as a futile show. When the pressure suddenly surged, Lin Tian discovered it could strengthen his Spear Intent and used that power to rise again.

• Lin Tian struggled through the cave’s intensified pressure while studying the final ten Spear Combat Techniques overhead.
• Xiao Sanding and Luo Xiao watched from a place where the pressure had vanished, and Xiao Sanding decided Lin Tian was only trying to impress Elder Guan.
• A sudden surge of pressure knocked Lin Tian to one knee, cracked the ground beneath him, and left him disoriented by pain and humming in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Lin Tian sensed the force field nourishing his Spear Intent and summoned the starry-sky-like intent he had cultivated through the Myriad Shadow Formless Spear Art.
• Lin Tian’s Spear Intent eased the surrounding pressure and helped him rise, shocking Xiao Sanding.

Lin Tian, Xiao Sanding, and Luo Xiao passed Guan Tianming’s first trial and followed him to his residence. Guan Tianming began the second trial, requiring each of them to learn seventy percent of a spear technique he demonstrated.

• Lin Tian finished learning the spear techniques on the cave walls and left the force field, where he found a silver-white spear.
• Guan Tianming appeared and told Lin Tian, Xiao Sanding, and Luo Xiao that reaching the cave proved their talent and perseverance.
• Xiao Sanding greeted Guan Tianming and recalled meeting him five years earlier, when Guan Tianming had given him brief guidance.
• Guan Tianming pulled the spear from the ground, dispelled the force field, and declared that the three had passed his first trial.
• Guan Tianming led them to a bamboo grove and announced that they had to learn seventy percent of his spear technique to pass the second trial.
• Guan Tianming gripped the spear and began demonstrating the technique.

Lin Tian passed Guan Tianming’s Spear Dao trial by reproducing the Floating Life Illusory Dream Spear Technique’s artistic conception after seeing it once. Guan Tianming then asked about the spear techniques in the Cave, and Lin Tian said he had seen a painting.

• Guan Tianming demonstrated his spear technique and challenged Lin Tian, Xiao Sanding, and Luo Xiao to comprehend eighty percent of it.
• Xiao Sanding and Luo Xiao failed to meet the trial’s requirement, while Lin Tian’s Fate Grid showed the Floating Life Illusory Dream Spear Technique at major mastery.
• Lin Tian performed the technique with his Yi Chen Spear and revealed its artistic conception, reaching minor mastery.
• Guan Tianming stopped Lin Tian and declared that he had passed the trial.
• Guan Tianming asked whether Lin Tian had mastered the Cave’s spear techniques and noticed anything different, and Lin Tian answered that he had seen a painting.

Guan Tianming accepted Lin Tian as his disciple after Lin Tian revealed his mastery of the Cave’s spear techniques, while Xiao Sanding and Luo Xiao gave up their hopes of becoming Guan’s disciples. Guan Tianming gave Lin Tian a completed Combat Technique called Ten Thousand Stars, which could fuse Spear Intent and required him to accumulate thirty-six kinds.

• Guan Tianming asked Xiao Sanding and Luo Xiao to demonstrate their spear techniques, but both admitted they had failed to master eighty percent and left.
• Guan Tianming invited Lin Tian to become his disciple, and Lin Tian completed the ceremony by offering him tea.
• Guan Tianming told Lin Tian to stop practicing most of the Cave’s spear techniques and gave him a manual for Ten Thousand Stars, the Combat Technique he had created.
• Lin Tian learned that Ten Thousand Stars fused Spear Intent and saw his Fate Grid display a progress of one out of thirty-six.

Guan Tianming assigned Lin Tian to represent the Dao Origin Sect at the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition and take first place, a task tied to an important collaboration with the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect. Lin Tian accepted for the sake of his Heavenly Steed Lineage and planned to spend the remaining time preparing.

• Guan Tianming explained that Lin Tian’s new cultivation technique required thirty-six spear intents and urged him to continue diligently cultivating the Spear Dao.
• Guan Tianming told Lin Tian about his friendship with the Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and the request she had sent him.
• Guan Tianming asked Lin Tian to attend the Ten Thousand Flowers Gathering and win the once-in-a-decade Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition.
• Lin Tian considered refusing but accepted because the task could affect the Heavenly Steed Lineage and was his new master's first request.
• Guan Tianming said the competition was at least two months away, and Lin Tian calculated that he had about a month and a half to prepare before traveling.

Lin Tian became Guan Tianming’s disciple and spent a month cultivating the Broken Sword’s spatial Formation Diagram and fusing Spear Intent. He left his cultivation chamber with a powerful Sword Formation and a fused Spear Intent that might rival Spatial Slash in power.

• Lin Tian left Guan Tianming’s Bamboo Grove, remembered that he had forgotten to ask about the Spear Domain, and decided to ask another time.
• Yu Xiangtian learned that Lin Tian had become Guan Tianming’s disciple and told Elder Zhou to remind Lin Tian of the task involving cooperation with the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect.
• After a month of secluded cultivation, Lin Tian used the Broken Sword’s Formation Diagram to command sixteen swords into a spatial Sword Formation and tested its attack and defense.
• Lin Tian swallowed a Spirit-Raising Pill, then fused two strands of Spear Intent on his Yi Chen Spear.
• Lin Tian sensed that fusing more strands could make his Spear Intent match Spatial Slash in power, though not its speed.

Lin Tian cultivated a third strand of spear intent and traveled by Flying Boat to the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect, improving his techniques along the way. Before reaching his destination, he advanced the Six Demon-Subduing Forms and One Reed Crosses the River to the third level and gained new moves.

• Lin Tian cultivated his third strand of spear intent, collected the Flying Boat control token from Song Bao'er, and departed for the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect.
• Lin Tian reviewed his Fate Grid while traveling and continued cultivating his combat techniques aboard the Flying Boat.
• After ten days, Lin Tian advanced the Six Demon-Subduing Forms and One Reed Crosses the River to the third level.
• Lin Tian tested Demon-Subduing Prison Suppression, a move that briefly doubled his physical strength but consumed enormous vital blood power.
• Lin Tian noted that One Reed Crosses the River had also granted him a new move, though the chapter did not reveal what it was.

Lin Tian tested the breakthroughs in his techniques, then traveled to Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City for the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition. He entered the city and stopped at an inn to ask about the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and the Ten Thousand Flowers Assembly, but a commotion interrupted him.

• Lin Tian discovered that One Reed Crosses the River created two clones with half his True Essence strength, and he continued cultivating aboard his Flying Boat.
• After five days, Lin Tian reached Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City without advancing to the fifth True Essence tempering.
• Lin Tian learned from the crowds that many people had come for the Ten Thousand Flowers Assembly and wondered whether it was connected to the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition.
• Lin Tian entered the giant city, went to an inn, and tipped a waiter to ask how to reach the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and what the Assembly was.
• A noise of smashing and an angry voice erupted before the waiter could answer.

Lin Tian rescued Hua Qianqian from three men who tried to accuse her of stealing and search her. After she revealed she was a Core Disciple of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect, Lin Tian asked her to take him to the sect.

• A burly man accused Hua Qianqian of stealing his money pouch and tried to search her while the onlookers stayed silent.
• Lin Tian noticed the exceptional Ten Thousand Flowers Jade on Hua Qianqian's wrist and suspected she was connected to the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect.
• Hua Qianqian reached for the jade, but Lin Tian released a Gang Realm aura and ordered the three Core Condensation Realm men to leave.
• Hua Qianqian introduced herself as a Core Disciple of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and promised Lin Tian a reward for helping her.
• Lin Tian asked Hua Qianqian to take him to the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect.

Lin Tian reached the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect with Hua Qianqian and presented his Dao Origin Sect credentials to Elder Zhao Qi. Zhao Qi went to report his arrival and ordered Hua Qianqian to entertain him, leaving her intrigued by her new Senior Brother Lin.

• Hua Qianqian reluctantly agreed to lead Lin Tian to the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect, though she planned to leave him at the entrance and continue her outing.
• At the sect gate, Zhao Qi shouted at Hua Qianqian for sneaking out again, then approached Lin Tian and sensed his true essence realm cultivation.
• Lin Tian introduced himself as a True Disciple of the Dao Origin Sect and presented his identity Token and a letter from Guan Tianming.
• Zhao Qi apologized for her suspicion, asked Lin Tian to wait while she consulted the Sect Master, and ordered Hua Qianqian to entertain him.
• Lin Tian asked Hua Qianqian to call him Senior Brother Lin, and she grew curious about having a senior brother from an overlord-level power.

Lin Tian visited the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect, where Hua Qianqian eagerly questioned him about his travels and rise to True Disciple. After Elder Zhao Qi confirmed Lin Tian’s identity and relayed the Sect Master’s invitation, Lin Tian, Zhao Qi, and Hua Qianqian headed to meet the Sect Master.

• Hua Qianqian welcomed Lin Tian and led him up the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s steps while asking about his adventures.
• At a pavilion, Hua Qianqian pressed Lin Tian to explain how he became a True Disciple, as female disciples gathered to watch him.
• Elder Zhao Qi returned, dismissed the crowd, and apologized to Lin Tian after confirming his identity with the Sect Master.
• Zhao Qi invited Lin Tian to meet the Sect Master, and Lin Tian accepted.
• Zhao Qi told Hua Qianqian that the Sect Master had summoned her too, and the three set off together.

Lin Tian entered the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s core area, where he questioned the Main Line Disciples’ talents and noticed the abundance of powerful Ten Thousand Flowers Jade. He met the Sect Master, who recognized a resemblance to Guan Tianming in his youth.

• Elder Zhao Qi led Lin Tian and Hua Qianqian into the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s core area, where Lin Tian saw other Main Line Disciples and wondered how they passed on their talents.
• Lin Tian noticed that Supreme Ten Thousand Flowers Jade was used throughout the core area, including as decorations and floor tiles, and sensed it contained power.
• Elder Zhao Qi told Lin Tian to enter the Sect Master’s pavilion alone and stopped Hua Qianqian from following him, warning that she would be punished.
• Lin Tian entered the pavilion, greeted the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect’s Sect Master, and heard her say he resembled Guan Tianming in his youth.

Lin Tian met with the Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and claimed an eighty percent chance of winning the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition. He learned that winning could determine whether a gifted Main Line Woman was married off, while his victory was also meant to help the sect break its agreement with the Great Clans and upper sects.

• The Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect asked Lin Tian about his master's well-being and questioned his confidence in winning the competition.
• Lin Tian told Sect Master Hua that he had an eighty percent chance of taking first place, and she agreed to leave the matter to him despite her doubts.
• Lin Tian recalled that the competition's champion could request to marry a Main Line Woman under the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect's agreement with the Great Clans and upper sects.
• Lin Tian understood that Elder Zhou had sent him not only to protect a gifted Main Line Disciple from being taken away, but also to help the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect break the agreement and disrupt the competition's prize procedure.

Lin Tian learned that his master, Guan Tianming, and the Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect had shared a close bond, though his description of them as good friends seemed to sour her mood. He helped Hua Qianqian avoid a severe punishment and learned that he had at least a dozen days before the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition to attempt True Essence Fifth Tempering.

• The Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect asked Lin Tian what Guan Tianming had said about her, and Lin Tian told her they were good friends.
• The Sect Master summoned Hua Qianqian and scolded her for leaving the sect without permission.
• Lin Tian defended Hua Qianqian and asked for her to show him around Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City.
• Lin Tian and Hua Qianqian left the pavilion for the lodgings arranged for him in the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect.
• Lin Tian learned that the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition was still at least a dozen days away, leaving him time to attempt True Essence Fifth Tempering.

Lin Tian completed the fifth tempering of his true essence ahead of schedule, improving his chances in the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition. When Hua Qianqian delivered letters about the competition, Lin Tian learned she could sense others’ power and warned her to be wary of strangers and keep her abilities hidden.

• Lin Tian spent eight days cultivating and completed his fifth tempering of true essence.
• Hua Qianqian brought Lin Tian letters related to the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition and noticed his breakthrough.
• Hua Qianqian explained that her powerful senses and mind let her detect the power flowing inside people.
• Lin Tian warned Hua Qianqian that appearances could not reveal whether someone was trustworthy and shared dangers he had faced while traveling.
• Lin Tian advised Hua Qianqian to guard her personal information and reveal only three parts of her strength while keeping seven hidden.

Lin Tian reviewed information about the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition and learned that powerful rivals, including Mu Hengtian, would take part. Hua Qianqian asked him to take her to the Ten Thousand Flowers Gathering, and Lin Tian considered going to seek more peerless spear techniques for his Myriad Manifestations cultivation.

• Hua Qianqian remembered Lin Tian's warnings about the martial world but became even more eager to explore it herself.
• Hua Qianqian explained that her master had gathered information about the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition for Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian read about three eighth-tempering talents and focused on Mu Hengtian of the One Dao Sect, whose true essence had reached the peak of the eighth tempering.
• Hua Qianqian asked Lin Tian to take her to Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City for the Ten Thousand Flowers Gathering, since her master and Martial Aunt Zhao Qi had forbidden her from going alone.
• Lin Tian considered the gathering as a chance to buy peerless spear techniques, since he needed thirty-six for Myriad Manifestations but had only eleven so far.

Lin Tian took Hua Qianqian to Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City, where he sought peerless spear techniques at the Ten Thousand Treasures Chamber of Commerce. After arranging to receive possible techniques in three days, he entered the Curio Workshop after learning its wares came from Black Abyss, where his Broken Sword had once changed.

• Lin Tian agreed to take Hua Qianqian to the city after she confirmed the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect Master had approved her outing and promised to follow his rules.
• Lin Tian and Hua Qianqian explored the crowded Ten Thousand Flowers Gathering and visited the Ten Thousand Treasures Chamber of Commerce.
• Shopkeeper Zhou Fugui recognized Lin Tian, offered him a thirty-percent discount, and promised to search for any peerless spear techniques that could cultivate Spear Intent.
• Lin Tian left the chamber of commerce to explore the gathering while waiting at least three days for Zhou Fugui to find techniques and obtain headquarters approval.
• Lin Tian entered the Curio Workshop after hearing its unusual wares came from Black Abyss, where his Broken Sword had previously changed, and abruptly stopped inside.

Lin Tian followed the Broken Sword’s resonance to a charred stick at a stall in the Curio Workshop and traded a Gang Condensation Pill for the entire stall. Back at his residence, he discovered that the stick absorbed the Broken Sword’s power of space and began to sprout.

• The Broken Sword guided Lin Tian to a stall whose goods included a charred stick that resonated with it.
• Lin Tian offered the stallholder a Gang Condensation Pill for everything on the stall, and the stallholder accepted.
• Lin Tian and Hua Qianqian continued shopping in Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City, where Hua Qianqian bought many items before they returned to the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect.
• Lin Tian tested the charred stick at his residence and found that it reacted only when he drew on the Broken Sword’s power of space.
• The charred stick absorbed the power of space and produced a tender shoot, just as an abrupt change occurred.

Lin Tian’s Broken Sword poured Spatial Power into a charred stick, transforming it into a strange sapling that entered his mind and took root. Hua Qianqian then invited him to a gathering in Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City, and Lin Tian agreed after learning its host would offer an incomplete Peerless Combat Technique.

• The Broken Sword released Spatial Power that the charred stick absorbed, causing it to transform into a tender green tree marked with writing.
• The little tree flew into Lin Tian’s mind, where it took root; Lin Tian could sense it but could neither move nor remove it.
• Hua Qianqian delivered Lin Tian a letter from her Master inviting him to a gathering of geniuses from various factions in Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City.
• Hua Qianqian explained that the gathering’s host was offering an incomplete Peerless Combat Technique, which caught Lin Tian’s interest.
• Lin Tian agreed to attend the gathering.

Lin Tian and Hua Qianqian attended a gathering in Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City, where Prince Huangpu Jue greeted Lin Tian and explained how the imperial family had heard of him. Huangpu Jue revealed that Qingluan had told his third elder sister about Lin Tian, who had been bringing him up because he had spoiled her plans.

• Lin Tian and Hua Qianqian traveled to the central district of Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City and entered the gathering venue with their invitation.
• Prince Huangpu Jue approached Lin Tian, praised his reputation, and invited him to sit with him.
• People at the gathering discussed Lin Tian’s status as a Dao Origin Sect True Disciple, while members of the Unknown Tower offered to sell more information about him.
• Huangpu Jue told Lin Tian that the imperial family had heard about him through Qingluan, the Golden Guard commander he met in the Hundred Veins Land.
• Huangpu Jue said Qingluan had told his third elder sister about Lin Tian, and that she kept bringing him up because he had spoiled her plans.

Lin Tian met Huangpu Jue at a banquet in Ten Thousand Flowers Giant City and accepted a peerless spear technique from him. Their conversation revealed that Lin Tian’s actions in the Hundred Veins Land had cost the Third Imperial Princess most of her Sky Fire Marrow Crystals, and she might now resent him.

• Huangpu Jue explained that he had no ill will toward Lin Tian despite Lin Tian disrupting the imperial family’s affairs, then invited him to become acquainted.
• Lin Tian recognized Mu Hengtian, a hostile-looking One Dao Sect True Disciple who was also attending the banquet and competing in the Ten Thousand Flowers Grand Competition.
• Huangpu Jue gave Lin Tian the Imperial Ultimate Army-Breaking Spear, explaining that it came from the imperial family’s public technique library.
• Lin Tian accepted the spear technique and promised to return Huangpu Jue’s favor if he ever had the chance.
• Huangpu Jue told Lin Tian that the Third Imperial Princess had lost most of the Sky Fire Marrow Crystals she wanted at the Hundred Veins Land resource point and might now hold a grudge against him.

Lin Tian considered the risk of having offended the Third Imperial Princess, then refused an invitation from Mu Hengtian's companions to meet him upstairs. The five left to report Lin Tian's refusal, while one of them was angered by his rebuff.

• Huangpu Jue excused himself from Lin Tian to greet other guests at the banquet.
• Hua Qianqian asked Lin Tian whether Huangpu Jue was truly a prince, and Lin Tian said he should be genuine.
• Three men and two women approached Lin Tian and invited him upstairs to meet someone; Lin Tian refused, recognizing that Mu Hengtian was likely behind the invitation.
• One of the men challenged Lin Tian to spar, but Lin Tian told the group to scram.
• Su Tianbai stopped the angry man from provoking Lin Tian and led the group upstairs to report that Lin Tian had refused.