Recaps

Lin Tian defeated Song Shaoyan, clearing the way for an alliance meeting about the growing threat of the Flesh and Blood Divine Sect. The sect masters agreed on the need to unite and share resources, but the question of who would lead the alliance remained unresolved.

• Lin Tian put away his spear, saluted Mo Sheli, and returned to his place as the disciples and elders acknowledged him.
• Long Tianchao opened the alliance meeting by warning that the Flesh and Blood Divine Sect had spread across the Great You Dynasty and could grow into a demonic calamity.
• Long Tianchao proposed that the sects of two prefecture cities unite to exterminate the demonic sect and share resources, cultivation methods, and incentives among their disciples.
• Lin Tian considered how access to other sects’ resources could advance his cultivation.
• The Sect Master of the Heavenly Spear Sect asked who would oversee the alliance, making the atmosphere at the meeting turn subtle.

At the alliance gathering, Mo Sheli and Long Tianchao disputed how to choose the Alliance Leader before settling the matter through strength. Their opening exchange revealed the overwhelming power of Outer Gang Realm experts, leaving Lin Tian shocked by the gap between them and himself.

• Han Qingtian gave up his qualifications to contend for the Alliance Leader position.
• Mo Sheli proposed choosing the Alliance Leader by voting, but Long Tianchao rejected the idea and argued that the leader needed strength and deterrence.
• Mo Sheli and Long Tianchao entered the arena to settle their dispute through combat as Elder Hao cleared the nearby disciples.
• The two sect masters released their True Gang and exchanged a probing punch that sent shockwaves through the arena, astonishing Lin Tian with their power.

Mo Sheli and Long Tianchao halted their fierce clash after Han Qingtian and the other Sect Masters intervened, and the Ten Great Sects formed an alliance against the Demon Sect. After the conference, Elder Hao told Lin Tian that the Sect Master wanted to see him.

• Mo Sheli and Long Tianchao unleashed powerful attacks, forcing Lin Tian and the onlookers to retreat as the battle shook the venue.
• Han Qingtian stopped the clash by driving his sword into the ground, and the Sect Masters urged Mo Sheli and Long Tianchao to postpone deciding the Alliance Leader position.
• Mo Sheli and Long Tianchao suppressed their fighting spirit and agreed not to continue battling.
• The Ten Great Sects formed an alliance, offered core resources as incentives, and launched a campaign against the surrounding Demon Sects.
• The Heavenly Dynasty Sect members hurried away after reports of an incident in Qingcheng Prefecture City, and Elder Hao later told Lin Tian that the Sect Master wanted to see him.

Lin Tian met with Sect Master Mo Sheli, received an additional reward, and learned about the powerful Dao Origin Sect. He admitted his true qi was not low-grade and revealed an aura that placed it among the strongest high-grade true qi.

• Elder Hao brought Lin Tian to meet Mo Sheli, who praised him and offered him a reward for his service.
• Mo Sheli awarded Lin Tian twenty drops of Heavenly Marrow Fluid and said he would make up for a drop of Heavenly Marrow Treasure Fluid when the sect had a surplus.
• Mo Sheli asked Lin Tian to tell Hua Chengming that using the sect’s supreme treasure required Mo Sheli’s presence, prompting Lin Tian to suspect Hua had schemed to get him to give up a treasure-fluid drop.
• Mo Sheli explained that the Dao Origin Sect governed many sects, including the Heavenly Derivation Sect, and that the sect had to offer it tribute.
• Mo Sheli asked whether Lin Tian’s true qi was really low-grade, and Lin Tian admitted his cultivation method and true qi were not low-grade.
• Lin Tian revealed his Azure Wood True Qi, whose aura showed it was among the strongest tiers of high-grade true qi.

After Lin Tian revealed his superior true qi, Mo Sheli rewarded him with more Heavenly Marrow Fluid and discussed why Lin Tian had declined an earlier chance to obtain more. Lin Tian then went to the Wood Courtyard and requested an audience with Academy Master Hua Chengming.

• Lin Tian revealed his superior true qi and apologized to Mo Sheli for concealing it, and Mo Sheli praised his caution.
• Mo Sheli increased Lin Tian’s allocation of Heavenly Marrow Fluid from twenty drops to thirty.
• Elder Hao asked why Mo Sheli had not given Lin Tian the sect’s final drop of Heavenly Marrow Treasure Fluid, and Mo Sheli explained that Lin Tian had already consumed one.
• Mo Sheli and Elder Hao concluded that Hua Chengming had given Lin Tian the drop he had exchanged for, and Mo Sheli suspected Hua Chengming had schemed to secure Lin Tian’s help in the wager battle.
• Lin Tian left the Sect Master’s pavilion, went to the Wood Courtyard, and requested an audience with Academy Master Hua Chengming.

Lin Tian visited Hua Chengming to deliver the Sect Master's message and used the reminder about Hua Chengming's scheme to obtain a second Eight Marvelous Technique. He began learning Heavenly Dao Jade in the Spirit-Drawing Tower, but decided to cultivate it slowly to avoid trouble.

• Lin Tian met the recovered Mu Qingxue as she left the palace hall, and she hurried away after recalling his previous treatment of her.
• Lin Tian told Hua Chengming that the Sect Master required him to accompany Hua Chengming if he used the sect's Supreme Treasure.
• Hua Chengming recognized Lin Tian's indirect reminder about being schemed against and gave him a private scroll containing the Eight Marvelous Technique Heavenly Dao Jade.
• Lin Tian learned that Heavenly Dao Jade could store power for a later full recovery and clear negative effects, making it a potential lifesaving trump card.
• Lin Tian decided to cultivate Heavenly Dao Jade slowly because mastering it too quickly could bring unnecessary trouble.

Zhou Mingda and Zhou Wanqian heard that a rising genius named Lin Tian had defeated Song Shaoyan and wondered whether he was the young man they once traveled with from Qingchuan County. Their uncle dismissed the possibility as impossible, while Zhou Wanqian also faced pressure to consider a marriage proposal from a Canglan City family.

• Disciples at the Canglan Sect ranking stele celebrated Lan Cang's rise to second place and discussed Lin Tian's victory over Song Shaoyan.
• Zhou Mingda recognized Lin Tian's name, but he and Zhou Wanqian could not confirm whether the new genius was their former travel companion.
• The siblings visited their uncle, who told Zhou Wanqian that a Canglan City Inner Disciple had proposed marriage to her and urged her to consider it.
• Zhou Mingda told their uncle about Lin Tian, and their uncle insisted that a poor disciple from Qingchuan County could not possibly be the genius who defeated Song Shaoyan.

Zhou Mingda and Zhou Wanqian doubted that the Lin Tian in the rumors was the Lin Tian they knew, while learning that their father had found a likely cure for Wanqian’s hidden danger. After a month of seclusion, Lin Tian remained concerned about the Demon Sect’s unseen strong fighters and went to the Library Pavilion to seek another spear art.

• Their eldest uncle told Zhou Mingda and Zhou Wanqian that Song Shaoyan had reached perfected Core Condensation, leading them to suspect the rumored Lin Tian was someone else with the same name.
• Zhou Wanqian and Zhou Mingda read their father’s letter saying he had found a possible cure for her hidden danger and was traveling to Canglan Prefecture City.
• Lin Tian reviewed his cultivation progress after a month in the Spirit-Drawing Tower and was disappointed that he had not broken through to the Gang Realm.
• Lin Tian worried that powerful Demon Sect fighters had not yet appeared, despite the Ten Great Sects’ ongoing operations against the sect.
• Lin Tian left his seclusion to visit the Library Pavilion and search for a new spear art after mastering the Three Thousand Thunder Illusion Spear to Limit-Breaking.

Lin Tian learned the first layer of the Thousand Peak Heavy Prison Spear at the Library Pavilion and discovered he had been placed in the top three of Prefecture City’s Top Ten Talents List. Chen Qingyu told him that the ranking had brought marriage invitations from the great clans, then asked what kind of woman he liked.

• Lin Tian visited the Library Pavilion, chose the Thousand Peak Heavy Prison Spear, and searched in vain for information about realms beyond the Gang Realm.
• Lin Tian encountered Chen Qingyu outside the pavilion, and she teased him about his recent seclusion.
• Chen Qingyu told Lin Tian that he had entered the top three of Prefecture City’s Top Ten Talents List after defeating Song Shaoyan.
• Chen Qingyu explained that great clans had sent Elder Hao gifts and marriage invitations for Lin Tian, including proposals involving famous young women.
• Lin Tian declined to consider marriage because he was devoted to the martial path, and Chen Qingyu asked what kind of woman he liked.

Lin Tian completed the Heavenly Dao Jade battle skill and began cultivating toward the Gang Realm, while Dao Origin Sect elders approved Elder Wu’s Hundred Sects Plan. After half a month, Lin Tian left seclusion to collect a letter and found the disciple delivering it staring at him in a daze.

• Lin Tian parted ways with Chen Qingyu and returned to the Spirit-Drawing Tower to refine his Heavenly Dao Jade battle skill.
• Dao Origin Sect elders debated Elder Wu’s Hundred Sects Plan, and the presiding middle-aged man announced its approval.
• Lin Tian used nearly three drops of Heavenly Marrow Fluid to complete the Heavenly Dao Jade, then focused on advancing his Geng Metal True Qi into the Gang Realm.
• During half a month of cultivation, the Heavenly Dao Jade subtly changed Lin Tian’s flesh and blood without his noticing.
• Lin Tian left the Spirit-Drawing Tower after seeing a signal and asked a female disciple for the letter she was holding, but she froze while staring at him.

Lin Tian learned that the Heavenly Dao Jade had transformed his appearance, then received news of the Dao Origin Sect’s Hundred Sects Selection. Hua Chengming questioned whether the opportunity was truly a good thing, leaving Lin Tian unsure what danger lay behind it.

• A Wood Courtyard letter summoned Lin Tian to see Hua Chengming, while disciples and elders stared at him strangely on his way back.
• Hua Chengming told Lin Tian to look in a mirror, and Lin Tian discovered the Heavenly Dao Jade had made his face and skin exceptionally refined.
• Hua Chengming teased Lin Tian about joining both the Top Ten Talents List and the Top Ten Beauties List, though Lin Tian worried his new appearance would attract attention.
• Hua Chengming gave Lin Tian a secret letter announcing that the Dao Origin Sect would hold a Hundred Sects Selection for disciples from subordinate sects.
• Lin Tian saw that selected candidates could become Dao Origin Sect disciples, but Hua Chengming asked why he thought the offer was a good thing.

Hua Chengming warned Lin Tian that the Dao Origin Sect treated Hundred Sects talents as bait for its own disciples, but Lin Tian resolved to turn the tables. Back at his courtyard, Lin Tian reunited with Zhou Feng, who had come to visit and was astonished by Lin Tian’s rise.

• Hua Chengming told Lin Tian that the Dao Origin Sect nurtured its own disciples and used Hundred Sects talents as bait for them.
• Hua Chengming sent Lin Tian away and said an acquaintance was waiting at his courtyard.
• Lin Tian considered Hua Chengming’s warning and decided the bait could break the gu insects’ teeth.
• Lin Tian found Zhou Feng waiting outside his courtyard and welcomed him inside, thanking him for supporting Lin Tian’s family and helping him remain in the Heavenly Derivation Sect.
• Zhou Feng reflected on Lin Tian’s transformation from a youth of Qingchuan County into a celebrated Core Disciple.

Lin Tian agreed to examine Zhou Wanqian’s congenital illness after Capital Commandant Zhou delivered a letter from his family and asked for help. After Zhou left, Lin Tian returned to the Spirit-Drawing Tower to attempt a breakthrough, while a gathering of Ten Great Sects geniuses took place at Tianyue Restaurant to exchange cultivation insights and seek resources.

• Capital Commandant Zhou gave Lin Tian a letter from his family and asked him to help treat Zhou Wanqian’s burning pain during martial arts practice.
• Lin Tian agreed to help but said he could not travel to Canglan Prefecture City until he finished his current affairs.
• Capital Commandant Zhou accepted Lin Tian’s timing, asked about Lin Tian’s family, and stayed at an Outer Academy inn before they parted.
• Lin Tian returned to the Spirit-Drawing Tower and began his breakthrough into the Gang Realm.
• A month later, geniuses from the Ten Great Sects gathered on Tianyue Restaurant’s booked-out top floor to build connections, exchange cultivation insights, and obtain resources.

The Ten Great Sects’ geniuses gathered to exchange cultivation insights and form teams to hunt Demon Sect members for points and treasures. News that Han Shuangjiang had begun her breakthrough to the Gang Realm two months earlier left the other qualified geniuses wondering whether she had succeeded.

• The geniuses gathered to exchange insights and arrange teams to hunt Demon Sect disciples for points and Heaven-and-Earth Treasures.
• Shi Miaoyin asked about Lin Tian, and Ye Zhen told her he was still in seclusion and offered to pass along a message.
• Shi Miaoyin said she had wanted to discuss spear techniques with Lin Tian, then left to join another group.
• The gathering began its exchange of cultivation insights and news between sects.
• A disciple reported that Han Shuangjiang had entered seclusion two months earlier to break through to the Gang Realm, silencing the gathered geniuses.

Han Shuangjiang’s attempt to break through to the Gang Realm stirred the prefecture and pressured the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s Core Disciples to prepare for their own breakthroughs. While two elders doubted Lin Tian could advance because of his true qi, Lin Tian watched the final progress on his Fate Grid fill completely.

• Han Shuangjiang entered seclusion to break through to the Gang Realm, ending a gathering and stirring the ambitions of cultivators across Gaoyan Prefecture City.
• Ye Zhen, Chen Qingyu, Xiao Shaoyang, and Ma Bao returned to the Heavenly Derivation Sect and began preparing for breakthrough in their own ways.
• Elder Zhang and Elder Liao judged Ye Zhen and Chen Qingyu the likeliest of the five Core Disciples to break through first, while doubting Lin Tian because of his true qi.
• Lin Tian sat alone in his chosen secluded place and saw the final progress on his Fate Grid fill completely.

Lin Tian secluded himself in the back mountain and broke through to the Gang Realm, transforming his Geng Metal True Qi into True Gang. When the sect’s Summoning Order brought him to the meeting hall, the Sect Master and Academy Masters arrived, and Hua Chengming seemed to recognize something about him.

• Lin Tian cultivated the Geng Metal True-Condensing Art in the back mountain, drew in spiritual energy, and broke through to the Gang Realm.
• Lin Tian spent three days transforming all his Geng Metal True Qi into Geng Metal True Gang, then headed back to the Heavenly Derivation Sect.
• The sect’s bell rang five times, and Lin Tian went to the meeting hall, where the other Core Disciples had gathered.
• The higher-ups stared at Lin Tian and discussed his changed appearance, while Lin Tian suspected the Heavenly Dao Jade’s transformation kept altering him despite the Formless Secret Art.
• The Sect Master and five Academy Masters entered the hall, and Hua Chengming studied Lin Tian before appearing to confirm a suspicion.

Lin Tian received a mission to pursue a senior Wang Family elder who had fled with treasures after the Ten Great Sects exposed the clans allied with the Demon Sect. At an inn outside the prefecture city, he met other disciples pursuing Wang Family members and sensed a concealed Demon Sect presence among the newcomers.

• Mo Sheli revealed that many powerful Gaoyan Prefecture City clans had joined the Demon Sect and ordered the gathered disciples to hunt down their escaped martial artists.
• Lin Tian received a mission targeting a senior Wang Family elder, while learning that the fugitives carried precious treasures and might include Gang Realm experts.
• Lin Tian met Ye Zhen and Xiao Shaoyang at an inn on a route out of the prefecture city, where they told him Ma Bao had already obtained the Earth Essence Bead from a Wang Family target.
• Two groups arrived at the inn, including disciples from Tiangang Sect and Qingcheng Prefecture City, and Lin Tian sensed that one concealed figure was from the Demon Sect.

Lin Tian discovered two concealed Gang Realm Demon Sect cultivators in the tavern and tried to leave before a conflict began. When the Tiangang Sect appealed to him for help against the Return to Origin Sect, he ended their dispute and headed for the exit, but a sudden change interrupted him.

• Lin Tian used the Nine Phases Map and sensed two hidden Gang Realm Demon Sect cultivators behind him, so he privately warned Ye Zhen and Xiao Shaoyang to leave.
• Lin Tian saw the Tiangang Sect and Return to Origin Sect confronting each other over a treasure held by a Tiangang Sect disciple.
• The Tiangang Sect leader invoked Lin Tian's alliance with their sect and asked him to uphold justice against the Return to Origin Sect.
• Lin Tian told the Return to Origin Sect to stop troubling the Tiangang Sect, and they agreed without protest.
• Lin Tian resumed walking toward the exit, but a sudden change erupted.

Lin Tian and the other sect disciples tried to escape an inn after two Demon Sect experts in the Gang Realm revealed themselves. The group scattered through an explosion, but Lin Tian was kicked back toward the inn as he emerged.

• The Tiangang Sect leader asked Lin Tian to take his group with him, and Lin Tian sensed killing intent from two Demon Sect experts nearby.
• Lin Tian shouted for everyone to run as the Demon Sect experts unleashed their Gang Realm power and attacked.
• One expert struck Lin Tian and sent him crashing into the inn wall, while Ye Zhen and the Return to Origin Sect members prepared their counterattack.
• Ye Zhen threw Fire Thunder Seeds, and the Return to Origin Sect members added strange pills that released dust and disrupted the expert’s senses.
• The explosions shattered the inn and let everyone escape, including Lin Tian, but the second Demon Sect expert kicked him as he stepped outside.

Lin Tian discovered that only one Demon Sect Gang Realm expert remained nearby and confronted him, identifying him as one of the Black and Profound Elders. Lin Tian revealed his Gang Realm cultivation and wounded the elder with a spear strike, while the elder still believed he could overcome Lin Tian and coveted his cultivation.

• Lin Tian realized that no other Gang Realm experts were nearby and that the second Demon Sect expert had pursued Ye Zhen and the others.
• Lin Tian recognized the remaining expert's Mystic Poison Black Mist and identified him as one of the Black and Profound Elders.
• Lin Tian charged the elder, switched from Azure Wood True Qi to Geng Metal True Gang, and struck him with his spear.
• The elder was driven back with a bleeding hand and recognized that Lin Tian had reached the Gang Realm.
• The elder remained confident that his experience and Mystic Poison Black Mist would let him defeat Lin Tian, and he coveted Lin Tian's cultivation as a way to advance.

Lin Tian defeated the Demon Sect fighter inside his black mist and tested his spear technique against him. After sensing the person the fighter had contacted approaching, Lin Tian disguised himself as gravely wounded and prepared to lure him in, though the approaching presence seemed stronger than he expected.

• The Demon Sect fighter charged Lin Tian, but Lin Tian overpowered him and sent him flying through the collapsing inn.
• The fighter used black mist to blind Lin Tian and poison him, but Lin Tian’s Hundred Poisons Immunity nullified the poison, and his heightened perception let him counter attacks in the darkness.
• Lin Tian used the fighter as a sparring partner, growing stronger with each exchange until the fighter tried to flee.
• Lin Tian moved too quickly for the fighter to defend himself, pierced his throat, and killed him by cutting off his head.
• Lin Tian sensed the person the fighter had contacted drawing near, disguised himself as gravely wounded to lure them in, and wondered whether they had grown stronger.

Lin Tian revealed that he had only been pretending to be gravely wounded and struck down the Demon Sect elder who returned to avenge his companion. The surviving elder absorbed the corpse of the first elder and rapidly increased his cultivation beyond the middle stage of the Gang Realm.

• Lin Tian noticed that the returning Demon Sect elder had become stronger, then watched him arrive covered in blood after attacking the fleeing group.
• The elder recognized his dead companion and flew into a rage when Lin Tian crushed the companion’s head beneath his foot.
• Lin Tian dropped his disguise and struck the charging elder with a lightning-wreathed spear, badly injuring him.
• The injured elder charged Lin Tian, then redirected himself toward the first elder’s headless corpse and absorbed its flesh, blood, and remaining cultivation.
• The elder’s cultivation surged from the early stage of the Gang Realm to beyond the middle stage.

The elder absorbed the dead man’s cultivation, reached the Mid Gang Realm, and challenged Lin Tian, hoping to absorb his power as well. Lin Tian overwhelmed him with Spear Momentum and Thunder Illusion Bodies, but the field eventually dissipated, leaving the elder thrilled at the chance to turn the fight around.

• The elder absorbed the dead man’s cultivation and declared that he had acted to avenge him, then threatened to absorb Lin Tian’s cultivation.
• The elder charged at Lin Tian, who activated his Spear Momentum Field and met him head-on.
• Lin Tian’s Thunder Illusion Bodies struck the elder’s heart, face, and dantian, then attacked his throat, eyes, and between his legs.
• Lin Tian kept attacking as the elder was forced to defend, leaving him gravely wounded and bleeding from his heart and lungs.
• Lin Tian’s spear struck the elder again, and the elder rejoiced when Lin Tian’s Spear Momentum Field dissipated.

Lin Tian used the Heavenly Dao Jade Combat Technique to restore his strength and kill the old man. After uncovering and killing a disguised Demon Sect member who was his assigned target, he found a hidden box and left before others arrived, while Ye Zhen and Xiao Shaoyang reported to the sect leaders that Lin Tian had likely died.

• Lin Tian activated the Heavenly Dao Jade Combat Technique, replenished his strength, and killed the old man with his Long Spear.
• Lin Tian searched the bodies, took their valuables, and called out the person hiding in the inn ruins.
• Lin Tian killed the disguised young woman, sensed the Demon Sect aura, and discovered she was a man wearing a mask.
• Lin Tian recognized the man as the Wang Family elder he had been assigned to track down and found a small box hidden inside his body.
• Lin Tian left the scene without opening the box, while Ye Zhen and Xiao Shaoyang told the sect leaders that Lin Tian had likely fallen.

Ye Zhen and Xiao Shaoyang reported that Lin Tian had likely died after encountering two Demon Sect experts, prompting Mo Sheli to order an investigation. Elder Hao returned with a charred corpse whose age did not match Lin Tian’s, and Hua Chengming hinted that there was no need to worry.

• Ye Zhen recounted Lin Tian’s supposed death at the ruined inn, while Chen Qingyu questioned whether the corpse had been properly identified.
• Mo Sheli ordered Elder Hao to investigate the scene and bring back Lin Tian or his corpse.
• Elder Hao searched the inn ruins, found a charred headless corpse, and returned to the sect with it.
• Mo Sheli and the Academy Masters noticed that the corpse belonged to a much older man, not Lin Tian.
• Hua Chengming dismissed the need for worry, speaking with a certainty that drew everyone’s attention.