Chapter Summaries

Lu Lin and the Taixuan Sect group found rare thunder treasures on Thunder Plateau, but the apparent Ten Thousand Year Thunder-Struck Wood led them into a Yu God Palace ambush. The Five Directions Thunder-Controlling Array trapped them, and thunder swords began slashing down as Yang Bo tried to break out.

• Yang Bo ordered Qin Chuan to test a dangerous lightning sphere, and Qin Chuan was badly injured when it exploded, protecting Lu Lin from the task.
• The blast revealed Purple Sun Thunder Gold, which Yang Bo seized while Lu Lin concealed his desire to take the treasure.
• The group found what appeared to be Ten Thousand Year Thunder-Struck Wood, and Yang Bo ordered a subordinate to dig it out.
• The attempt awakened a hidden formation that trapped Lu Lin, Yang Bo, and the Taixuan Sect group beneath a thunder barrier.
• Yu God Palace cultivators appeared outside the barrier, and Yang Bo led an escape attempt as the formation formed enormous thunder swords and struck at them.

Lu Lin used a Martial Dao Scourge to break through the Five Directions Thunder-Controlling Array and escaped with Qin Chuan, leaving Yang Bo and the others trapped inside. The Yu God Palace cultivators chose to focus on Yang Bo’s group rather than pursue them, while Yang Bo vowed revenge.

• Yang Bo used his False Core power to defend the group as thunderous sword-light wounded the Pseudo Golden Bodies and killed two perfected Xiantian martial artists.
• Yang Bo ordered Lu Lin and Qin Chuan to attack the array’s core banner, but Lu Lin led Qin Chuan toward the edge of the barrier instead.
• Lu Lin shattered incoming thunder swords to protect Qin Chuan, then used a Martial Dao Scourge to empower his sword and tear open the array barrier.
• Lu Lin and Qin Chuan escaped through the opening, and Lu Lin destroyed a Yu God Palace cultivator’s flying sword as they fled.
• The Yu God Palace leader stopped his cultivators from chasing and ordered them to concentrate on Yang Bo’s group.
• The barrier closed before Yang Bo could escape, and he swore to take revenge on Qin Chuan and Lu Lin.

Lu Lin returned to the Five Directions Thunder-Controlling Array and killed Yang Bo just after he escaped by burning his False Core. He then attacked the Yu God Palace cultivators, targeting their False Core leader, who summoned a giant cauldron against him.

• Lu Lin left the injured Qin Chuan behind and returned to check whether Yang Bo and the others had survived the array.
• Yang Bo burned his False Core and forced a gap through the thunder barrier, while the remaining Pseudo Golden Bodies died protecting him.
• Lu Lin ambushed Yang Bo as he escaped, killed him with a Martial Dao Scourge sword strike, and took his storage pouch.
• Lu Lin killed a Yu God Palace cultivator and dodged the six Pseudo Golden Bodies who moved to surround him.
• Lu Lin charged the Yu God Palace False Core leader, who summoned a massive ancient cauldron and smashed it toward him.

Lu Lin defeated the Yu God Palace cultivators and six Pseudo Golden Body martial artists, capturing a Golden Core and exchanging it for ten thousand years of cultivation time. After dismantling the Five Directions Thunder-Controlling Array, he began tempering his True Aura with the Ten Thousand Year Thunder-Struck Wood.

• Lu Lin deflected the False Core cultivator's flying sword into an energy cauldron, broke through the man's defenses, and killed him before he could burn his False Core.
• Lu Lin caught the escaping Golden Core and exchanged it through the Martial Dao Melting Furnace for ten thousand years of cultivation time.
• Lu Lin pursued and killed the four fleeing Foundation Establishment cultivators, then turned back and killed the six Pseudo Golden Body martial artists.
• Lu Lin buried the corpses, exchanged the array flags for cultivation time, and collapsed the Five Directions Thunder-Controlling Array.
• Lu Lin confirmed the Ten Thousand Year Thunder-Struck Wood was genuine, touched it, and poured cultivation time into the True Aura Tempering Method.

Lu Lin absorbed the thunder power in two rare treasures but still needed more to attempt the Martial Dao Golden Body, then returned to Thunder Plateau seeking further resources. He discovered Yu God Palace had encircled the plateau and was preventing terrified Ascension Assembly competitors from escaping a rampaging Thunder Beast.

• Lu Lin spent a hundred years absorbing the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder from Ten Thousand Year Thunder-Struck Wood, then converted most of his recovered spoils into cultivation time and kept several rare treasures.
• Lu Lin absorbed the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder from Purple Sun Thunder Gold over another hundred years and estimated he needed several more similar treasures to complete the tempering.
• Lu Lin reunited with Qin Chuan, learned the Yu God Palace ambush had wiped out Yang Bo’s group, and found the Ten Thousand Bones Sect and Xuanji Hall forces dead as well.
• Lu Lin and Qin Chuan withdrew from Thunder Plateau, but Lu Lin left Qin Chuan outside and returned alone to search for more thunder-bearing spiritual objects.
• Lu Lin found Yu God Palace guards forming a surveillance line around the plateau’s depths and saw them refuse several fleeing young cultivators permission to withdraw from the Ascension Grand Assembly.

Lu Lin watched Yu God Palace force the trapped geniuses back into Thunder Plateau, then followed its forces into battle after the Thunder Spirit appeared. As Yu God Palace’s Pseudo Golden Bodies burned their origins to overwhelm the Thunder Beasts, Lu Lin waited for a chance to seize the Thunder Spirit, which the cultivators managed to trap in a Jade Purifying Bottle.

• A Yu God Palace cultivator killed one of three young geniuses who demanded the trial be stopped and forced the other two back into Thunder Plateau.
• Lu Lin waited in hiding for three days, unable to sense Luo Siqing through her Induction Talisman, until Yu God Palace received word that the Thunder Spirit had appeared.
• Lu Lin followed Yu God Palace forces into the mountains and saw the Thunder Spirit command scores of crazed Thunder Beasts with Nine Heavens divine thunder.
• A False Core cultivator ordered the Pseudo Golden Bodies to burn their origins, and they slaughtered Thunder Beasts while driving toward the Thunder Spirit.
• The Thunder Spirit tried to flee, but a Yu God Palace cultivator used a Jade Purifying Bottle to restrain it in rosy light.

Yu God Palace crippled three False Core cultivators to subdue the Thunder Spirit, revealing it to be an ancient weapon fragment. Lu Lin seized the moment to attack the remaining cultivators, but the chapter ended as he struck at the energy cauldron with Martial Dao Scourge and Heavenly Flood Dragon Ten Kills.

• The Thunder Spirit revealed itself as an ancient metal fragment and transformed into a Thunder Ancient Sword that battered the Heavenly Net Water Array.
• Three Yu God Palace False Core cultivators burned and sacrificed their False Cores to reinforce the array until the Thunder Spirit was exhausted and trapped in a fist-sized water net.
• Lu Lin saw that Yu God Palace's strength was depleted and rushed toward the young female False Core cultivator holding the net.
• The female cultivator retreated as the remaining able Yu God Palace cultivator summoned an energy cauldron and hurled it at Lu Lin.
• Lu Lin unleashed Martial Dao Scourge on his right arm and struck the energy cauldron with Heavenly Flood Dragon Ten Kills.

Lu Lin defeated the Yu God Palace cultivators and captured the Thunder Spirit after breaking its Golden Core-level Talisman Treasure. As he prepared to absorb the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder, the Thunder Spirit revealed it had feigned defeat and invaded his sea of consciousness, where a mysterious metallic clang suddenly rang out.

• Lu Lin destroyed the great cauldron and killed two False Core cultivators, then battered through the female cultivator's Talisman Treasure with sixteen Martial Dao Scourge-augmented strikes and killed her.
• Lu Lin captured the female cultivator's Golden Core, gained ten thousand years of bitter cultivation, and watched the surviving Yu God Palace cultivators flee.
• The Thunder Spirit escaped the collapsing Heavenly Net Water Array, but Lu Lin caught it with successive True Aura dragon claws and tried to grind away its intelligence.
• Lu Lin believed the Thunder Spirit was subdued and reached to take it, but it rushed into his sea of consciousness and threatened to seize his body.
• The Thunder Spirit unleashed destructive lightning inside Lu Lin's sea of consciousness, and a heavy metallic clang sounded from its depths.

Lu Lin absorbed the Thunder Spirit with the Martial Dao Melting Furnace and perfected the True Aura Tempering Method, gaining the ability to condense a Martial Dao Golden Body. After leaving the Thunder Plateau, he followed the Induction Talisman and reunited with Luo Siqing, and they both reacted in surprise to each other.

• The Martial Dao Melting Furnace absorbed the Thunder Spirit and used its energy to bring Lu Lin’s True Aura Tempering Method to perfection, allowing him to condense a Martial Dao Golden Body.
• Lu Lin discovered that the furnace had advanced to Level Four and expanded its inner space, while only a remnant of the Thunder Spirit remained inside and offered secrets and a concealment art in exchange for its life.
• Lu Lin left the Thunder Spirit’s remnant intact for possible future use, took the storage pouches of the fallen False Core cultivators, and fled before Yu God Palace could return.
• Lu Lin disguised himself and planned to let the Four Great Sects take the blame for seizing the Thunder Spirit; Thunder Beasts later covered the traces of his departure.
• Lu Lin followed the Induction Talisman deeper into Thunder Plateau and met Luo Siqing, who appeared unharmed and greatly advanced in cultivation.
• Lu Lin and Luo Siqing simultaneously asked how the other had reached their current state, then both told the other to speak first.

Luo Siqing explained how Yu God Palace’s Ascension Assembly had used the cultivators as bait to lure out the Thunder Spirit, then she and Lu Lin escaped Thunder Plateau and exchanged treasures. At Yu God Palace, True Lord Cangming learned the capture had failed and resolved to clear the way for Yu Qing before his remaining time ran out.

• Luo Siqing told Lu Lin about surviving the Thunder Beasts, reaching Foundation Establishment Perfection, and discovering Yu God Palace’s scheme to use the assembly as bait for the Thunder Spirit.
• Lu Lin gave Luo Siqing a brief, altered account of his own ordeal, and she decided to return to Yu God Palace and regroup with True Person Youxuan.
• Lu Lin and Luo Siqing fought off scattered Thunder Beast attacks and left Thunder Plateau, then exchanged Purple Sun Thunder Gold and Moonlight Silver Fire before parting.
• Lu Lin met up with Qin Chuan, and the two headed toward the Return Ruins exit.
• True Lord Cangming told Yu Qing that the Thunder Spirit’s capture had failed and vowed to remove the obstacles to Yu God Palace’s rule before his lifespan ended.

Lu Lin and Qin Chuan escaped Return Ruins and reported that Yu God Palace had ambushed and killed the other cultivators, but True Lord Cangming arrived and attacked the Four Great Sects’ experts. As the two fled the battlefield, Cangming and a mysterious figure fought, and Cangming summoned a vast river after their attacks destroyed nine cauldrons and nine white tigers.

• Lu Lin and Qin Chuan returned through the barrier and told the Four Great Sects’ experts that Yu God Palace had killed the other cultivators in an ambush.
• As the Ten Thousand Bones Sect woman prepared to search Lu Lin’s soul, the four experts sensed Yu Cheng and fled, but his projected faces struck them down.
• The four experts combined their talismans into a War Halberd and a blurry figure, which shattered three of Yu Cheng’s giant faces before his true body arrived with the Yu Emperor Cauldron.
• True Lord Cangming attacked the blurry figure, and the clash’s shock waves injured Lu Lin and Qin Chuan as they fled along the Return Ruins barrier.
• Cangming summoned nine Yu Emperor Cauldrons, while the blurry figure unleashed nine white tigers; the two attacks destroyed each other, and Cangming then formed a gigantic river in the sky.

True Lord Cangming defeated the Four Great Sects’ experts and used his River Painting Scroll to annihilate three of the sects. He exhausted his remaining life force attacking Taixuan Sect, leaving its protection array shattered but the sect standing as he vanished.

• True Lord Cangming destroyed the War Halberd, captured its wielder, and drowned the four peak experts of the Four Great Sects in his Law River.
• True Lord Cangming attacked Ten Thousand Bones Sect, overcame its Demon Emperor Skeleton, and swept away the sect and its members with the river.
• True Lord Cangming destroyed Xuanji Hall and Wusheng Pavilion with the River Painting Scroll.
• At Taixuan Sect, four ancient swords temporarily held back True Lord Cangming’s river, but he burned his remaining strength to break them and damage the sect’s protection array.
• The river retreated before it could destroy Taixuan Sect, and True Lord Cangming sighed and vanished into motes of light.

After sensing that True Lord Cangming had fallen, Lu Lin returned to the Blood Baleful Demon Sect to prepare to condense his Martial Dao Golden Body. Luo Siqing had not yet returned when he arrived, but she appeared on Jiuqing Peak three days later.

• Lu Lin sensed that the Immortal Dao's fortune had scattered and suspected True Lord Cangming had fallen; he and Qin Chuan headed back to Divine Martial City.
• Yun Tan and Zhao Wuji sensed the change in fortune and evacuated Divine Martial City, leaving secret signs for their followers.
• Lu Lin and Qin Chuan found Divine Martial City empty, then parted after Qin Chuan taught Lu Lin how to read the signs.
• Lu Lin returned to the Blood Baleful Demon Sect and waited for Luo Siqing, planning to use the sect's secret realm to condense his Martial Dao Golden Body.
• Lu Lin converted the contents of two Yu God Palace cultivators' storage bags into cultivation time, then Luo Siqing returned to Jiuqing Peak three days later.

Lu Lin persuaded Luo Siqing to take him into the Blood Baleful Demon Sect’s Nether Flame Secret Realm so he could condense his Martial Dao Golden Body. Once inside, he revealed his plan, and Luo Siqing agreed to guard him despite realizing he had used her.

• Luo Siqing told Lu Lin that Ye Aoxue had died on Thunder Plateau and explained how the sect’s secret realms differed from Outer Realm Worlds.
• Lu Lin persuaded Luo Siqing to arrange their entry into the Nether Flame Secret Realm, and she warned him to avoid alerting the Golden Core True Persons.
• Luo Siqing presented passage tokens at the rear mountain’s forbidden grounds, and the elders opened the teleportation array for her and Lu Lin.
• Lu Lin flew deeper into the secret realm and began releasing the aura and golden light of his Martial Dao Golden Body breakthrough.
• Luo Siqing confronted Lu Lin for using her, then agreed to stand guard after he promised that the Blood Baleful Demon Sect would be hers once he achieved the Golden Body.

Lu Lin completed most of his Martial Dao Golden Body transformation, destroying the Gu Insect and the eerie thing in his heart as True Person Youxuan traced him to the Nether Flame Secret Realm. Lu Lin struck back against Youxuan’s attack and sent his lifebound treasure flying, then charged at him while his breakthrough remained unfinished.

• Lu Lin transformed his body with golden light and silver lightning, destroying the Gu Insect implanted by the Blood Baleful Demon Sect.
• When the eerie thing in Lu Lin’s heart resisted his transformation, he used the Martial Dao Melting Furnace to drain its spiritual energy and expel it.
• True Person Youxuan discovered that Blood Prison had been refined, learned Luo Siqing had entered the Nether Flame Secret Realm, and went there to find Lu Lin.
• True Person Youxuan confronted Lu Lin and Luo Siqing, then attacked Lu Lin with a sea of blood; Lu Lin split it with the Demonic Ape Mountain-Crushing Palm.
• True Person Youxuan summoned the Netherworld Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, but Lu Lin used Martial Dao Scourge and Heavenly Flood Dragon Ten Kills to send it flying.
• Lu Lin charged toward True Person Youxuan as his Golden Body breakthrough continued.

Lu Lin killed True Person Youxuan after breaking through his defenses and capturing his Golden Core, then continued condensing his Martial Dao Golden Body as the surge in martial dao fortune drew the Blood Baleful Demon Sect’s other Golden Core True Persons toward the Nether Flame Secret Realm.

• True Person Youxuan unleashed Beast Soul Talismans and the Blood Baleful Heavenly Demon against Lu Lin, but Lu Lin destroyed both attacks and pursued him as he fled behind two Immovable Wisdom King Talismans.
• Lu Lin caught True Person Youxuan and killed him with the Heavenly Flood Dragon Ten Kills, then seized his escaping Golden Core and stored it in the Martial Dao Melting Furnace.
• Luo Siqing watched Lu Lin’s aura transform as he continued condensing his Martial Dao Golden Body and stirred martial dao fortune throughout the Nether Flame Secret Realm.
• True Person Xuansha and True Person Blood River sensed the martial dao fortune and learned that Luo Siqing and True Person Youxuan had entered the secret realm.
• True Person Xuansha and True Person Blood River ordered the teleportation formation activated and vanished into the Nether Flame Secret Realm.

Lu Lin completed his Martial Dao Golden Body and discovered that Martial Dao fate-energy could free him from the Immortal Dao fate-energy suppressing his strength. He killed True Person Blood River and True Person Xuansha, then captured Xuansha’s Golden Core and received an exchange prompt.

• Lu Lin completed his Martial Dao Golden Body, and True Person Xuansha and True Person Blood River confronted him in the Nether Flame Secret Realm.
• Lu Lin realized Immortal Dao fate-energy was suppressing him and used Martial Dao fate-energy to unleash his full strength.
• Lu Lin overwhelmed the two Golden Core True Persons, and they fled toward the secret realm’s entrance after their talismans blocked his attacks.
• Lu Lin destroyed True Person Blood River with a lightning punch, shattering his Golden Core along with his body.
• Lu Lin killed True Person Xuansha with a palm strike and caught the Golden Core that escaped from his corpse.
• A prompt told Lu Lin he could exchange Xuansha’s Golden Core for thirty thousand years of ordinary cultivation time or one thousand five hundred years of high-grade cultivation time.

Lu Lin discovered that reaching the Martial Dao Golden Body Realm had divided his cultivation time into ordinary and high-level time, and he converted his ordinary reserve into 1,050 years of high-level time. After killing three Golden Core True Persons, he discussed the Blood Baleful Demon Sect’s future with Luo Siqing and learned she could bind cultivators’ souls with a restriction.

• Lu Lin learned that ordinary cultivation time could no longer drive his Golden Body Realm training and that converting it to high-level time cost twenty years for each year.
• Lu Lin discovered that ordinary cultivation time could still buy Martial Dao Scourge, though one now cost 3,000 years, and he converted nearly all his ordinary time into high-level time.
• Lu Lin gathered the storage bags and magical treasures of True Person Xuansha, True Person Blood River, and True Person Youxuan as Luo Siqing arrived.
• Luo Siqing asked how Lu Lin had obtained the complete Martial Dao Golden Body Tempering Method, and he explained that he had found part of a Martial Dao inheritance in the Moyun Realm.
• Lu Lin proposed using Luo Siqing’s Seven Flame Soul-Suppressing Stele incantation to control cultivators’ souls, and she confirmed that she could impose the restriction.

After defeating three Golden Core True Persons, Lu Lin collected and exchanged their treasures, then assessed his combat abilities and began cultivating the Nine Heavens True Thunder Art. He reached its sixth level but could not advance further without Evil-Breaking Golden Thunder.

• Lu Lin sent Luo Siqing to stabilize the Blood Baleful Demon Sect while he recovered and examined True Person Youxuan's storage bag.
• Lu Lin exchanged the Golden Cores of True Person Youxuan and True Person Xuansha for High-Level Cultivation Time, then converted much of the other spoils into Ordinary Cultivation Time.
• Lu Lin reviewed his three combat states and decided to avoid drawing upon Martial Dao Luck unless necessary because it could attract powerful enemies.
• Lu Lin studied the Nine Heavens True Thunder Art and used High-Level Cultivation Time to cultivate it to the peak of its sixth level.
• Lu Lin stopped when he learned that reaching the seventh level required refining Evil-Breaking Golden Thunder and merging it into his Thunder True Aura.

Lu Lin tested his stronger Thunder True Aura, mastered two killing moves, and confronted Tuoba Feng after returning from the Nether Flame Secret Realm. He revealed his Martial Dao Golden Body and the three Golden Core True Persons’ lifebound treasures, leaving Tuoba Feng horrified by the possibility that Lu Lin had killed them all.

• Lu Lin tested his Thunder True Aura, then spent cultivation time mastering Thunderbolt Breaking Dawn and Thunder Marsh Spreading Wild.
• Lu Lin and Luo Siqing left the Nether Flame Secret Realm and flew to the Blood Baleful Demon Hall to meet Tuoba Feng.
• Tuoba Feng demanded to know why True Person Youxuan had searched for Lu Lin, and Lu Lin said he had refined Blood Prison.
• Lu Lin subdued Tuoba Feng with a hand on his shoulder and revealed that he had achieved a Martial Dao Golden Body.
• Lu Lin demanded that Luo Siqing place a restriction in Tuoba Feng’s soul to keep the secret, then showed him the lifebound treasures of Youxuan, Xuansha, and Blood River.
• Tuoba Feng realized the three Golden Core True Persons might have fallen at Lu Lin’s hands and was overcome with terror.