Chapter Summaries

Lu Lin discovered that a Golden Core True Person had planted a blood-red object in his heart, and cautiously used the Martial Dao Melting Furnace to drain most of its spiritual energy. Tuoba Feng rewarded him with cultivation resources and promised a method to break beyond the Xiantian Realm, leaving Lu Lin wary of the Demonic Sect’s intentions and uncertain whether the promise was real.

• Lu Lin detected the strange object in his heart and exchanged several hundred years of cultivation time to weaken it without provoking an apparent reaction.
• Tuoba Feng questioned Lu Lin about his rapid progress and his mastery of the Demonic Ape Mountain-Crushing Palm.
• Tuoba Feng offered to meet Lu Lin’s needs, and Lu Lin asked for Blood Crystals and Blood Qi Pills.
• Tuoba Feng gave Lu Lin two hundred jin of Blood Crystals, a hundred Blood Qi Pills, and a manual of Xiantian Realm cultivation insights.
• Tuoba Feng told Lu Lin to reach Xiantian Realm perfection and condense thirty-six Blood Aura markings before receiving a method to break beyond the Xiantian Realm.
• Lu Lin left the hall intending to exploit the Demonic Sect’s apparent confidence in the object while wondering whether its promised breakthrough method truly existed.

After Luo Siqing explained the uses of Heaven and Earth Profound Aura, Lu Lin fused his strand into the Blood Pattern Steel Sword and discovered it could harmonize his conflicting blood auras. He ended the chapter preparing to advance his Flame Crane Blood Aura cultivation.

• Luo Siqing warned Lu Lin to be cautious after he revealed that the sect master had questioned him and rewarded him with cultivation resources.
• Lu Lin asked Luo Siqing about Heaven and Earth Profound Aura, and she explained how demons, immortal cultivators, and martial artists could use it.
• Lu Lin secretly fused Heaven and Earth Profound Aura into his Blood Pattern Steel Sword over seven days, greatly improving its quality.
• Lu Lin found that the sword let his Demonic Ape and Flame Crane Blood Auras work together, while they still clashed when he tried combining them directly.
• Lu Lin recognized that Heaven and Earth Profound Aura was suppressing the conflict between his blood auras and used the Martial Dao Melting Furnace to begin cultivating Flame Crane Blood Aura Art further.

Lu Lin raised the Flame Crane Blood Aura to twenty-eight blood patterns, greatly increasing his strength, then sought out sword antelopes to comprehend their Spirit. After succeeding, he began cultivating the Sword Antelope Blood Aura in the Demonic Sect’s gorge.

• Lu Lin advanced the Flame Crane Blood Aura to ten blood patterns, then continued until it reached twenty-eight, bringing his physical strength to thirty elephants.
• Lu Lin decided to pursue a third Blood Aura and asked Luo Siqing to arrange a visit to the Demonic Sect’s sword antelope herd.
• Lu Lin fought and observed the weak sword antelopes for thirty years until he comprehended the Sword Antelope Spirit.
• Lu Lin stayed in the gorge, exchanged a thousand years of cultivation time for Martial Essence, and began condensing the Sword Antelope Blood Aura.

Lu Lin perfected the Lightning-Chasing Antelope Light Sword, then secured permission to leave the sect and returned to the Netherworld Mine for resources. After Luo Siqing departed for years of secluded cultivation, he combined his mining knowledge into a new perfected art and prepared to mine.

• Lu Lin spent five hundred years of cultivation time perfecting the Lightning-Chasing Antelope Light Sword and demonstrated its rapid strikes.
• Luo Siqing told Lu Lin she would enter a secret realm for at least three years and gave him an External Stationing Order so he could travel within the Yan Kingdom.
• Lu Lin asked Luo Siqing to arrange a mining assignment at the Netherworld Mine, and she secured his placement within three days.
• Luo Siqing urged Lu Lin to stay alive while she pursued the Demonic Sect Saintess position, and he left Jiuqing Peak for the mine.
• At the Netherworld Mine, Lu Lin studied mining texts and fused their knowledge with Mining Essentials to create the perfected Mining Compendium.

Lu Lin spent years mining at the Netherworld Mine, perfecting his three Blood Auras and accumulating cultivation time before attempting to deduce a path beyond the Innate Realm. After discovering that his Blood Auras obstructed one another, he found a promising approach: create a superior Blood Aura capable of suppressing and fusing them.

• Tuoba Feng let Lu Lin remain at the Netherworld Mine and ordered that he be allowed to enter and leave the sect’s open cultivation grounds freely.
• Lu Lin mined for three years, used the Blood Crystals to perfect his three Blood Auras, and gained hundreds of years of cultivation time from the foreign object in his heart.
• Lu Lin spent eight hundred years trying to deduce a breakthrough beyond the Innate Realm through the Sword Antelope Blood Aura Art, but made no progress.
• Lu Lin discovered that the Demonic Ape and Flame Crane Blood Auras obstructed his bodily transformation because the three Blood Auras relied on the Heaven and Earth Profound Aura to coexist.
• Lu Lin attempted to fuse the three Blood Auras through a new cultivation art, then realized that a Blood Aura with a far higher essence might suppress and unite the others.

Lu Lin sought a powerful Blood Aura art and learned that the imperial Murong Clan possessed the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura Art, prompting him to travel toward the Yan Kingdom capital. In Guangling City, he discovered Murong Cheng was preparing to attack the Black Wind Bandits, but found two Foundation Establishment cultivators at their camp plotting to use the battle to forge the Heavenly Desire Sword.

• Lu Lin found the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura Art in the Demonic Sect library and set out to obtain it from the imperial Murong Clan.
• Lu Lin traveled to Yan Province and learned in Guangling City that Murong Cheng was gathering heroes to attack the Black Wind Bandits.
• Lu Lin identified Murong Cheng at the city lord's residence and overheard him order his troops to march on Guangling Mountain the next night.
• Lu Lin found the Black Wind Bandits' camp and sensed a Foundation Establishment cultivator, then discovered two Foundation Establishment cultivators hiding there.
• Lu Lin overheard the cultivators identify themselves with the Heaven's Desire Sect and plan to use Murong Cheng's forces to sacrifice blood for the Heavenly Desire Sword.

Lu Lin followed Murong Cheng’s Martial Army as they attacked the Black Wind Bandits, whose leader Black Wind died despite calling for an Immortal Master. After the army killed the bandits, a formation trapped them in the gorge and raised the corpses to attack; two unseen observers watched from above.

• Lu Lin identified the Black Wind Bandits as surviving agents of Heaven’s Desire Sect and secretly followed Murong Cheng’s force into Guangling Mountain.
• Murong Cheng’s Martial Army fought through the bandits’ ambush and charged into their gorge, where they faced a larger force.
• Skinny and Fatty joined forces against Black Wind and killed him after his repeated calls for an Immortal Master went unanswered.
• Murong Cheng ordered the remaining bandits killed, and the Martial Army slaughtered them all.
• A black formation sealed the gorge, sinister mist rose, and the bandit corpses reanimated and attacked the trapped soldiers.
• Two pairs of cold eyes watched the battle from high above.

Two Heaven's Desire Sect Foundation Establishment cultivators trapped Murong Cheng and the Martial Army in a gorge to refine the Heavenly Desire Sword with their fear and despair. Just as the elders prepared to kill Murong Cheng, an unknown figure tore open the formation and entered the gorge.

• The Heaven's Desire Sect cultivators let the corpses attack the Martial Army while they continued refining the Heavenly Desire Sword.
• The skull-robed elder revealed himself, blocked the gorge's exit with the Five Spirit Yin Corpse Formation, and fused hundreds of corpses into a giant monster.
• The fat and thin elders fought the corpse monster to protect Murong Cheng, but the skull-robed elder wounded the fat elder with a spiked club artifact.
• A white-haired Heaven's Desire Sect elder descended with the Heavenly Desire Sword and targeted Murong Cheng, revealing that the gorge was a planned death trap.
• An unknown figure roared from beyond the gorge, tore open the black curtain, and stepped inside.

Lu Lin, disguised as a powerful martial artist from the Great Xia Dynasty, rescued Murong Cheng and the Martial Army by killing two Heaven's Desire Sect cultivators. Murong Cheng invited Lu Lin to travel with him to the Yan Kingdom's imperial capital, and Lu Lin agreed while concealing his interest in the clan's martial inheritance.

• Lu Lin tore through the Five Spirit Yin Corpse Formation, seized the skeletal elder's wolf-toothed club, and killed him with it.
• Lu Lin caught the fleeing gray-haired elder and killed him with the Blood Pattern Steel Sword, then collected the Heavenly Desire Sword and the elder's storage pouch.
• Murong Cheng and the Fat and Thin Elders thanked Lu Lin, and Lu Lin introduced himself as a martial arts seeker from the Xia Dynasty.
• Murong Cheng invited Lu Lin to visit the Murong Clan and travel with him, and Lu Lin accepted.
• After the party returned to Guangling City, its people celebrated the Black Wind Bandits' destruction; the next day Murong Cheng led the Martial Army toward the Yan Kingdom's imperial capital with Lu Lin accompanying him.

Lu Lin settled into Jing Prince Mansion under the alias Tang Yan, where his martial arts guidance earned him respect while Jing Prince remained wary of him. After secretly witnessing powerful visitors meet with the prince, Lu Lin learned that Murong Cheng refused to attend Lin Donghai’s birthday celebration because Lin Donghai had murdered his younger sister.

• Lu Lin arrived in the Yan Kingdom’s capital with Murong Cheng and received a banquet and one hundred Blood Qi Pills from Jing Prince.
• Jing Prince questioned whether Lu Lin had engineered his meeting with Murong Cheng, but Murong Cheng defended Lu Lin and continued seeking his martial arts guidance.
• Lu Lin lived at Jing Prince Mansion for a month, advising Murong Cheng and other martial artists until Tang Yan’s reputation spread through the mansion.
• Lu Lin secretly followed a late-stage Innate Realm intruder and saw four Innate Realm experts and two Foundation Establishment cultivators enter Jing Prince’s bedchamber undetected.
• Five days later, Murong Cheng returned furious after arguing with Jing Prince about attending Lin Donghai’s three-hundredth birthday celebration.
• Murong Cheng told Lu Lin that Lin Donghai had murdered his younger sister and that he could not coexist with him.

Lu Lin learned that the Jing Prince had endured Lin Donghai’s abuses while secretly preparing to assassinate him during his breakthrough seclusion. After witnessing Lin Donghai demand Prince Ning’s fourteen-year-old daughter, Murong Ling, Lu Lin discovered the Jing Prince had departed with powerful allies to carry out his plan.

• Murong Cheng told Lu Lin that Lin Donghai had abducted and killed his younger sister, while the Murong imperial family was powerless against the cultivation sects.
• Lu Lin accompanied the Jing Prince and Murong Cheng to Lin Donghai’s birthday banquet, where Lin announced he would enter seclusion and leave Junior Brother Zhang in charge of the Immortal Mansion.
• Lin Donghai demanded that Prince Ning send him Murong Ling, and Emperor Murong Long ordered Prince Ning to accept, leaving the guests unable to intervene.
• Murong Cheng angrily returned to the Jing Prince Mansion, and Lu Lin later overheard him and the Jing Prince discuss their secret plan to kill Lin Donghai during his seclusion.
• The Jing Prince left the mansion with several formidable experts, and Lu Lin chose to follow Murong Cheng instead, hoping to earn his trust and obtain the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura Art.

Murong Cheng joined Lu Lin and the Fat and Thin Elders to rescue Prince Jing from Lin Donghai’s trap in Yan Ridge. As Lin Donghai prepared to kill Prince Jing and use his essence blood to advance, Lu Lin burst into the cavern and struck at him.

• Murong Cheng decided to join his father’s attempt to kill Lin Donghai, and Lu Lin uncovered his plan and offered to help.
• Murong Cheng led Lu Lin and the Fat and Thin Elders to Lin Donghai’s hidden cave in Yan Ridge, where they found hundreds of blood-drained corpses.
• Lu Lin and the others discovered that Prince Jing’s group had already entered the cave and hurried toward the sounds of battle.
• Prince Jing was trapped with three wounded experts after Lin Donghai and his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage accomplice ambushed them using a Black Banner and waves of ghostly shadows.
• Lin Donghai revealed that he had lured Prince Jing there to obtain essence blood for his breakthrough, then unleashed a sea of blood against the survivors.
• Murong Cheng cried out for his father as Lu Lin split the sea of blood and ghostly shadows with a sword strike before charging at Lin Donghai.

Lu Lin killed Lin Donghai and Elder Lin after they tried to flee, then returned to Prince Jing’s group and asked for the Murong Clan’s Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura Art. Prince Jing agreed to share it but warned that the technique could almost no longer successfully condense Blood Aura.

• Lu Lin shattered Lin Donghai’s defensive artifact, destroyed his Blood Baleful Heavenly Demon, and killed him with a sword strike.
• Elder Lin fled with the Ghost Rakshasa Banner, but Lu Lin caught and killed him, leaving the banner badly damaged.
• Lu Lin returned to the cave dwelling, where Murong Fu and the others thanked him for saving them and confirmed that both cultivators were dead.
• Lu Lin asked Murong Fu to let him examine the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura Art, citing his interest in powerful martial arts.
• Murong Fu agreed out of gratitude but explained that the Murong Clan’s inherited technique could almost no longer condense Blood Aura.

Lu Lin obtained the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura Art from the Jing Prince and used the Martial Dao Melting Furnace to master it. After secretly observing the apes, he condensed their Blood Aura, though the process required two strands of Martial Essence.

• The Jing Prince explained that condensing Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura normally required a second-tier ape, and promised Lu Lin the clan’s martial arts manual and Blood Crystals or Blood Qi Pills.
• The Jing Prince gave Lu Lin the manual, which Lu Lin quickly recorded and advanced to the tenth level before waiting to observe the apes.
• A month later, the Jing Prince delivered three hundred jin of Blood Crystals and two hundred Blood Qi Pills, then arranged for Lu Lin to visit the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Garden in disguise.
• After observing the apes, Lu Lin returned to his room and revealed that he had already comprehended their spirit through the Martial Dao Melting Furnace.
• Lu Lin spent a century of cultivation time to complete the comprehension, then exchanged two thousand years for two strands of Martial Essence and successfully condensed the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura.

Lu Lin strengthened the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura but found it still could not suppress his other Blood Auras, leaving him searching for a stronger technique. Murong Cheng brought him to meet a visiting martial artist from the Xia Dynasty, whose presence made Lu Lin's Blood Auras react with fear.

• Lu Lin tested whether the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura could combine with his other Blood Auras and discovered that it only suppressed the Demonic Ape Blood Aura, while the Sword Antelope and Flame Crane Blood Auras resisted it.
• Lu Lin spent Blood Crystals, Blood Qi Pills, and cultivation time raising the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura to twenty-eight patterns, but it still could not dominate his other Blood Auras.
• Lu Lin found that the Heaven and Earth Profound Aura was nearing its limit and concluded that he needed a martial arts technique stronger than the Purple-Eyed Dragon Ape Blood Aura Art.
• Murong Cheng invited Lu Lin to meet a visitor whom Prince Jing regarded as an exceptionally powerful martial artist, and Lu Lin agreed to go.
• Lu Lin met the blue-robed man from the Xia Dynasty in Prince Jing's rear garden, and his four Blood Auras stirred with fear when their eyes met.

At Prince Jing’s mansion, Lu Lin met Mu Yetong, a formidable martial artist whose ancient, freezing blood aura overwhelmed Lu Lin’s own. They fought for over a hundred exchanges before stopping without declaring a winner, and Lu Lin realized Mu Yetong might not have used his full strength.

• Lu Lin sensed Mu Yetong’s overwhelming strength and blood aura, then recognized Xia Qianyu among the people accompanying him.
• Prince Jing introduced Lu Lin and Mu Yetong, who agreed to test their martial arts in the mansion’s arena.
• Lu Lin and Mu Yetong exchanged blows, and Lu Lin discovered that Mu Yetong’s supremely cold blood aura could freeze his body and slow his qi and blood.
• After more than a hundred exchanges, Mu Yetong ended the spar before Lu Lin’s growing stiffness became obvious, and Lu Lin admitted defeat.
• Lu Lin drank with Mu Yetong and Prince Jing while cultivating away the lingering chill, then suspected Mu Yetong had held back during their fight.

Lu Lin instructed Xia Qianyu in swordsmanship and grew closer to Mu Yetong through repeated visits and sparring, while secretly mastering the Dragon Ape Mountain-Shaking Fist. The Jing Prince Mansion then received Nan Boyong and two Blood Baleful Demon Sect figures, who demanded help locating the Martial Alliance and warned that anyone seeking to surpass the Xiantian Realm would be exterminated.

• Xia Qianyu challenged Lu Lin to a sword exchange, and he used his finger-sword and precise advice to improve her technique.
• Lu Lin spent a thousand years of cultivation time mastering the Dragon Ape Mountain-Shaking Fist after Mu Yetong and Xia Qianyu left.
• Over the next half month, Mu Yetong brought Xia Qianyu to visit Lu Lin, and he sparred with Mu Yetong while building their trust.
• Zhang Xun reported that Nan Boyong and two other Blood Baleful Demon Sect figures had arrived at the Jing Prince Mansion to see Prince Jing.
• Lu Lin recognized Ye Aoxue among the visitors and concealed his aura as Prince Jing greeted the Demon Sect envoys.
• Nan Boyong ordered Prince Jing to help locate the Martial Alliance and declared that the Five Great Sects would exterminate anyone seeking to enter a realm beyond the Xiantian Realm.

Lu Lin learned that the Five Great Sects hunted anyone who sought to surpass the Xiantian Realm, and the Jing Prince secretly led him to the Martial Alliance headquarters to warn Mu Yetong. As the Blood Baleful Demon Sect attacked, Mu Yetong entrusted Lu Lin with his martial art and the forbidden breakthrough method, then charged into battle while asking him to protect Xia Qianyu.

• Nan Boyong ordered the Jing Prince to find the Martial Alliance headquarters within seven days, then secretly arranged to watch everyone leaving the mansion.
• The Jing Prince took Lu Lin and Zhang Xun through a secret passage to the Liu Residence, where Mu Yetong had hidden the Martial Alliance headquarters.
• After the Jing Prince warned him that the Blood Baleful Demon Sect had discovered his forbidden cultivation, Mu Yetong ordered the alliance to evacuate, but enemies attacked the estate.
• Mu Yetong gave Lu Lin the Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura Art and a method to break beyond the Xiantian Realm, then asked him to get Xia Qianyu safely out of Yan Kingdom.
• Mu Yetong warned Lu Lin and Xia Qianyu that the Immortal sects would kill anyone who revealed a breakthrough beyond Xiantian, then rushed to fight the attackers.

Mu Yetong killed the Blood Baleful Demon Sect elder and fought off Nan Boyong and a formation, but experts from all Five Great Sects joined the battle. Lu Lin fled with the Martial Alliance while Prince Jing separated to rescue Cheng'er and escape Yan Kingdom.

• Mu Yetong pierced the elder’s defenses, pursued her after she used a Substitute Death Treasure, and crushed her body and soul.
• Nan Boyong and eight Foundation Establishment cultivators attacked Mu Yetong, but he destroyed their artifacts and defeated the elder with one strike.
• Nan Boyong trapped Mu Yetong in the Blood Baleful Capital Demon God Formation, while Lu Lin urged the Martial Alliance members to flee.
• Mu Yetong broke through the formation as experts from the Green Duckweed Sword Sect and the other Five Great Sects appeared, and he challenged them all.
• Prince Jing and Zhang Xun split from Lu Lin’s group so Prince Jing could retrieve Cheng'er and flee Yan Kingdom.
• Lu Lin led the remaining Martial Alliance members into the forest and pulled six slower body-tempering martial artists forward with crimson cords.

Lu Lin helped Xia Qianyu and the others escape, killing three Foundation Establishment cultivators who pursued them. After Luo Siqing recognized Lu Lin through his disguise and offered them a flying boat, the group set off toward the Yan Kingdom's border.

• Lu Lin led Xia Qianyu and the others away from the battle, then killed a Green Duckweed Sword Sect cultivator who attacked them from above.
• Lu Lin repelled the silver needles and bone-piercing nails aimed at the group, killed the evil cultivator with a Blood Aura spear, and beheaded the fleeing beautiful woman.
• Lu Lin caught up with Xia Qianyu and the others, and they raced hundreds of miles without encountering further pursuers.
• Luo Siqing intercepted the group, recognized Lu Lin despite his disguise, and warned that the Five Great Sects would catch them if they continued on foot.
• Lu Lin accepted Luo Siqing's help, and she carried the group aboard her flying boat toward the Yan Kingdom's border, their planned route to the Great Xia Dynasty.