Chapter Summaries

Lu Lin returned to the Yan Kingdom’s imperial capital with Luo Siqing and learned that Mu Yetong had been killed by the Five Great Sects after reaching the Martial Dao Golden Body Realm. He discovered that Mu Yetong’s book taught a flawed Pseudo Golden Body, while the complete method lay in the Martial Saint’s legacy in Yan Ridge.

• Lu Lin parted from Xia Qianyu at the border, then returned toward the imperial capital with Luo Siqing and told her about his recent dealings with the Martial Alliance.
• Lu Lin and Luo Siqing found the Liu Residence in ruins and learned that Mu Yetong had been killed after entering the Martial Dao Golden Body domain.
• News spread that the Martial Saint’s complete inheritance was hidden in Yan Ridge and could enable its possessor to forge a Golden Body.
• Luo Siqing left for the Blood Baleful Demon Sect, while Lu Lin stayed in the imperial capital and secured a private room at an inn.
• Lu Lin read Mu Yetong’s book and learned that it described a Pseudo Golden Body, while the complete five-blood-aura method required the Martial Saint’s full inheritance.

Lu Lin learned that advancing toward a Martial Dao Golden Body required the Martial Saint’s inheritance, then found a rough map hidden in the Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura Art and set out to investigate it. After learning Mu Yetong was dead and the Five Great Sects were gathering at Yan Ridge, Lu Lin and Luo Siqing arrived at the outskirts as the sects’ forces assembled.

• Lu Lin studied the Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura Art, cultivated it to the tenth layer, and found a crude map concealed inside its manual.
• Lu Lin searched geographical books for the map’s location and bought several aura-concealment methods before Luo Siqing contacted him.
• Luo Siqing told Lu Lin that Mu Yetong had been killed after resisting the Five Great Sects and that the Martial Saint’s inheritance lay deep within Yan Ridge.
• Lu Lin and Luo Siqing went to Yan Ridge’s outskirts, where they found a massive Blood Baleful Demon Sect force and many martial cultivators gathered.
• The Green Duckweed Sword Sect, Heavenly Evil Sect, Sacred Heart Pavilion, and Puppet Sect arrived at Yan Ridge.

The Five Great Sects agreed to join forces to enter Yan Ridge and seize the Martial Sin inheritance, while promising a Boundary-Breaking Pill to whoever found it. As the sects advanced, the Blazing Luan Bird attacked, and True Person Youxuan confronted it before a second Demon King appeared.

• The Five Great Sects' leaders agreed to advance together and divide the Martial Sin inheritance into five parts.
• Tuoba Feng ordered the demon sect into Yan Ridge, enticing its cultivators with a Boundary-Breaking Pill; Lu Lin disguised his intentions and joined Luo Siqing's group.
• The other four sects also advanced into Yan Ridge, but the Blazing Luan Bird emerged and swept toward them with a sea of fire.
• True Person Youxuan appeared, dispersed the Demon King's pressure, and struck the Blazing Luan Bird with a giant demonic tower.
• True Person Youxuan accused the Demon Race of enabling Mu Yetong to obtain the inheritance, and another Demon King rose from Yan Ridge.

Five Great Sects True Persons battled Yan Ridge’s Demon Kings, but the ancient Xuanming Cold Flood Dragon emerged and fought five Golden Core cultivators at once. Lu Lin recognized the flood dragon and tried to use it for Divine Comprehension, but its overwhelming presence nearly shattered his consciousness before the Martial Dao Melting Furnace protected him.

• Five Demon Kings confronted the Five Great Sects’ True Persons, and the two sides fought to a standoff before withdrawing.
• A burly Green Duckweed Sword Sect True Person sent a vast river of Sword Qi toward Yan Ridge, but the old flood dragon froze it and revealed itself.
• The old flood dragon seized the burly man’s sword and forced him back, then attacked as more Golden Core True Persons joined the battle.
• Five True Persons struck together, but the flood dragon shattered their combined attack and forced them to use their life-bound treasures to block its icy torrent.
• Lu Lin recognized the Xuanming Cold Flood Dragon and attempted Divine Comprehension, but the dragon’s presence nearly destroyed his consciousness until the Martial Dao Melting Furnace shielded him.

Lu Lin joined the Demonic Sect's advance into Yan Ridge's Inner Ridge, where the group fought through a massive demon beast assault. The battle turned dire when five Blazing Luan Birds combined their bloodline arts into an Azure Luan phantom that threatened to break the formation.

• Lu Lin learned that cultivating the Mysterious Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura might require entering Yan Ridge's Inner Ridge, then followed the sects inside after their Golden Core True Persons restrained the Demon Kings.
• Tuoba Feng led the Demonic Sect's forces into the Inner Ridge, ordered the martial artists to defend the formation, and kept Lu Lin behind the front line.
• The Demonic Sect repelled a charging beast tide with a formation, arrows, magical artifacts, and the Demonic Ape Mountain-Crushing Palm, then advanced while collecting demon beast corpses.
• Five peak second-order Blazing Luan Birds attacked with Azure Luan bloodline phantoms, breaking through the Demonic Sect's counterattacks and cracking the formation barrier.
• The Blazing Luan Birds fused five more Azure Luan phantoms into one giant phantom whose pressure surpassed the Foundation Establishment Realm, leaving the defenders alarmed.

Tuoba Feng used a magic treasure to defeat the Blazing Luan Birds, then sent Lu Lin and the other Demonic Sect cultivators to search for the Martial Saint’s inheritance using a secret map. Lu Lin followed his own map to a lake where three Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragons lived, comprehended their spirit, and prepared to condense their Blood Aura.

• Tuoba Feng activated a magic treasure that split the Azure Luan phantom and killed one Blazing Luan Bird, sending the remaining beasts fleeing.
• Tuoba Feng gave the Demonic Sect cultivators a secret diagram showing the inheritance’s location, and Lu Lin recognized it as matching Mu Yetong’s map.
• Lu Lin separated from Luo Siqing and searched the Inner Ridge alone, avoiding demon beasts until he found the elephant-shaped mountain marked on his map.
• Lu Lin followed the map to a vast lake where more than a hundred streams converged and discovered three second-rank Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragons.
• Lu Lin comprehended the spirit of the Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragon, retreated to a concealed mountain hollow, and exchanged for two portions of Martial Essence to condense its Blood Aura.

Lu Lin condensed the Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura and perfected its innate killing move, greatly expanding his ability to command his other blood auras. After judging that the lake guarded by powerful flood dragons was too dangerous to approach alone, he summoned Tuoba Feng to share the intelligence about the Martial Saint’s inheritance.

• Lu Lin exchanged the valuables taken from three Foundation Establishment Middle Stage experts for cultivation time, then used four strands of Martial Essence to condense the Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura in his cranial bones.
• The new blood aura commanded Lu Lin’s other blood auras, allowing him to fuse them without relying on the Blood Pattern Steel Sword and blast a hole in a mountainside.
• Lu Lin spent three thousand years of cultivation time perfecting Heavenly Flood Dragon Ten Kills and wondered how Mu Yetong had mastered it so quickly.
• Lu Lin decided not to approach the lake guarded by three powerful flood dragons and other possible demonic beasts, and chose to notify Tuoba Feng about the Martial Saint’s inheritance.
• Tuoba Feng arrived with several companions after Lu Lin activated the Induction Talisman.

Tuoba Feng’s forces killed one Mysterious Cold Flood Dragon and uncovered Martial Sin’s hidden cave dwelling, where Lu Lin secretly received the complete Martial Dao Golden Body Tempering Method. The chapter ended as a vast demon beast army led by the two surviving flood dragons surrounded the cave.

• Tuoba Feng gathered more than sixty Foundation Establishment cultivators to attack the three Mysterious Cold Flood Dragons, killing one with his demon blade while the other two escaped.
• Tuoba Feng’s forces parted the lake and found a Flood Dragon Palace, but Liu Shenhong and the Green Duckweed Sword Sect arrived and joined the search for Martial Sin’s legacy.
• Tuoba Feng realized the lake concealed an underground river, and the two sects followed it to a cave dwelling containing a statue of the Martial Saint.
• Lu Lin’s five Blood Auras resonated with the statue, secretly transmitting the complete Martial Dao Golden Body Tempering Method to him.
• After a demon beast army approached, Tuoba Feng destroyed the statue and led the cultivators out of the cave, where the two surviving flood dragons, four Blazing Luan Birds, and two Black-Pattern White Tigers awaited them.

The demon beast horde overwhelmed the Demonic Sect and Sword Sect after Tuoba Feng enraged the flood dragons by killing one of their kin. As the survivors scattered, Lu Lin and Luo Siqing fought their way through the forest and faced a pursuing Blazing Luan Bird, with Lu Lin leaping up to attack it.

• The Xuanming Old Flood Dragon struck at the fleeing sect members, but a Demonic Sect Golden Core True Person arrived and shattered its icy claw before fighting it in the sky.
• The demon beasts caught up with the fleeing cultivators, and the flood dragons focused their attacks on Tuoba Feng while Liu Shenhong fled alone and the sect members scattered.
• Lu Lin and Luo Siqing joined forces to kill three demon beasts and fled into the forest, but the Blazing Luan Bird pursued them.
• Lu Lin split the Blazing Luan Bird's flames with a fifty-four-layer Demonic Ape Mountain-Crushing Palm while Luo Siqing used twelve Ash Extinguishing Banners to shield them.
• As the Blazing Luan Bird battered the banners and wounded Luo Siqing, Lu Lin decided they had to attack and launched himself toward the bird.

Lu Lin and Luo Siqing joined forces to defeat the Blazing Luan Bird using their combined techniques and Luo Siqing’s Seven Flame Soul-Suppressing Stele. After claiming the demon’s corpse, they fled toward the outskirts of Yan Ridge.

• Lu Lin wounded the Blazing Luan Bird with Heavenly Flood Dragon Ten Kills, but it retaliated with an azure luan phantom that forced him and Luo Siqing behind the Nine Nether Extinction Banners.
• Lu Lin shattered the phantom with Demonic Ape Mountain-Crushing Palm, while Luo Siqing used her ancient stele to absorb the azure flames burning him.
• Luo Siqing prepared the Seven Flame Soul-Suppressing Stele as Lu Lin held off the Blazing Luan Bird, then used it to suppress the demon’s soul for one breath.
• Lu Lin struck the distracted Blazing Luan Bird with his Blood Pattern Steel Sword and severed its head, killing the great demon.
• Luo Siqing stored the demon’s corpse, and she and Lu Lin hurried toward the outskirts of Yan Ridge.

Lu Lin and Luo Siqing escaped Yan Ridge as the Golden Core True Persons learned that a martial artist was condensing a Martial Dao Golden Body in the Southern Frontier. The breakthrough belonged to Emperor Murong Long, who continued transforming into gold as Ling Xie arrived to kill him, only to be intercepted by another Demon King.

• Lu Lin and Luo Siqing fled Yan Ridge's Inner Ridge and stopped beyond its borders to recover while the battle between the Golden Core True Persons and Demon Kings continued overhead.
• Liu Shenhong charged at Lu Lin and Luo Siqing, but Tuoba Feng blocked him and forced him to withdraw.
• The Golden Core True Persons sensed Immortal Dao Luck shifting and realized that a martial artist in the Southern Frontier was breaking through to condense a Martial Dao Golden Body; Xuanming Old Flood Dragon and the other Demon Kings kept them from leaving.
• True Person Youxuan deduced that the Yan Ridge conflict had been arranged to distract the Five Great Sects, and the Sword Sect True Person urged Yuan Xie to warn Ling Xie to stop the breakthrough.
• In a hidden valley, Murong Long continued condensing his Martial Dao Golden Body as Ling Xie attacked, but another third-rank Blazing Curved Bird intercepted his life-bound artifact.

Murong Long’s breakthrough to a complete Martial Dao Golden Body exposed his alliance with the Yan Ridge Demon Race and drew the Five Great Sects’ Golden Core cultivators into battle. After Tian Xuan attacked him, Murong Long completed his breakthrough and met Tian Xuan’s killing strike head-on, leaving their clash unresolved.

• True Person Lingxie realized the Yan Ridge Demon Race was backing Murong Long and fought the Blazing Luan Bird to stop the breakthrough.
• True Person Yuanxie received Lingxie’s message and revealed that Murong Long was condensing a Martial Dao Golden Body, prompting the Golden Core cultivators to recognize the Demon Race’s plan to challenge the Five Great Sects.
• Xuanming Old Flood Dragon explained that the Demon Race was helping Murong Long gain an ally against the Five Great Sects, while True Person Youxuan warned that other Golden Core cultivators could still intervene.
• Tian Xuan arrived and attacked Murong Long with the Grand Unity Demon-Slaying Sword Formation, but Murong Long’s golden fist and perfected Heavenly Flood Dragon Ten Kills resisted him.
• Murong Long completed his Martial Dao Golden Body and turned to face Tian Xuan, who charged with a killing strike; their attacks collided and blasted both fighters backward.

Murong Long joined the six Demon Kings and demanded that Yan Kingdom’s mortal territories belong to the Murong Clan while the Five Great Sects withdrew from mortal affairs and Yan Ridge. A powerful Daoist from the Yu God Palace arrived, rejected Murong Long’s terms, and struck him down after he tried to flee.

• Tian Xuan invoked his Golden Core’s power to pursue Murong Long, who fled toward Yan Province with the Blazing Luan Bird while Ling Xie True Person followed.
• Murong Long and the Blazing Luan Bird reached Yan Ridge, where the six Demon Kings had gained the advantage over the Five Great Sects’ Golden Core True Persons.
• Lu Lin realized that Mu Yetong might have been Murong Long’s kinsman and that his sacrifice and gifts could have served Martial Dao’s future.
• Murong Long demanded control of Yan Kingdom’s mortal territories for the Murong Clan and required the Five Great Sects to abandon the Immortal Mansion and stay out of Yan Ridge.
• A Daoist from the Yu God Palace arrived on a True Lord’s decree and ordered Murong Long to submit to a divine-soul restriction and return with him.
• Murong Long attempted to escape, but the Daoist crushed him with a black cauldron and pierced his forehead with a cyan finger strike.

A Yu God Palace cultivator killed Murong Long and spared the Demon Kings after Chong Meng intervened, then ordered the Five Great Sects to build a teleportation formation to an Outer Realm World. Lu Lin returned to the Blood Baleful Demon Sect resolved to grow stronger, but the Martial Saint’s inheritance revealed that forging a complete Martial Dao Golden Body was itself as difficult as scaling the heavens.

• The Yu God Palace cultivator killed Murong Long and tried to suppress the seven Demon Kings, but Chong Meng arrived and persuaded him to spare them.
• The Yu God Palace cultivator reprimanded the Five Great Sects and ordered them to complete a teleportation formation within six months so their disciples could enter an Outer Realm World and seize its luck.
• Lu Lin watched the upheaval end and vowed to use the Martial Dao Melting Furnace to grow powerful enough to control his fate.
• Tuoba Feng summoned the Demonic Sect members to return, and Lu Lin rode Luo Siqing’s flying boat back to Jiuqing Peak.
• After Luo Siqing left to meet Tuoba Feng, Lu Lin studied the Martial Saint’s inheritance and learned that forging a complete Martial Dao Golden Body was extraordinarily difficult.

Lu Lin studied Martial Saint's inheritance and resolved to pursue a Flawless Golden Body, despite the enormous demands for blood auras, a custom tempering method, resources, and concealment. Luo Siqing told him the Demonic Sect's succession contest would be decided by who plundered the most destiny from an extraterritorial world, with the expedition planned for six months later.

• Lu Lin learned that Martial Saint's golden-body method required immense resources and decided to aim for a Flawless Golden Body by mastering nine blood auras.
• Lu Lin found targets for comprehending the Dragon Elephant, Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard, and Wind Wing blood auras in Martial Saint's inheritance, then cultivated the latter two arts to the tenth layer.
• Luo Siqing returned and told Lu Lin that Tuoba Feng had summoned the Demonic Sect's genius disciples because the Holy Son or Saintess contest was about to begin.
• Luo Siqing explained that the contest would be held during an expedition to an extraterritorial world, where disciples would plunder destiny for their sect; the Five Great Sects expected to complete a cross-realm array in half a year.
• Luo Siqing said she would enter seclusion to attempt Foundation Establishment Late Stage, then brought out demonic beast corpses so she and Lu Lin could inventory and divide their gains.

Lu Lin collected monster blood from Luo Siqing and used it to greatly strengthen his Mysterious Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura before traveling to the Southern Frontier to search for Dragon Elephants. After failing to find any along the Qingjiang River, he heard a deep cry from the forest upstream.

• Luo Siqing gave Lu Lin the collected monster blood and explained that a Pseudo Golden Body would not provoke the Immortal Dao fortune as a complete Martial Dao Golden Body would.
• Lu Lin absorbed the monster blood, raising his Mysterious Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura from three lines to twenty-six and improving his control over his combined blood auras.
• After Luo Siqing failed to return, Lu Lin left the Blood Baleful Demon Sect and traveled south toward the Southern Frontier.
• Lu Lin reached the Qingjiang River and searched downstream and upstream for the Dragon Elephants described in the Martial Saint's inheritance.
• Lu Lin heard a deep cry from the mountain forest after searching upstream for more than two hundred li.

Lu Lin discovered the Poison King Sect’s dragon elephants, slaughtered the sect cultivators guarding them, and learned the Golden Snake Blood Aura Art. After comprehending the dragon elephant art, he flew to the sect’s main altar and attacked its defensive formation while disguising himself as a Green Duckweed Sword Sect martial artist.

• Lu Lin killed the Poison King Sect cultivators who confronted him and forced two Xiantian martial artists to write out the Golden Snake Blood Aura Art.
• Lu Lin found the dragon elephants by the Qingjiang River and comprehended the Dragon Elephant Blood Aura Art.
• Lu Lin killed the two martial artists after learning that the Poison King Sect kept a nearly second-tier golden snake and had its main altar less than three hundred li south.
• Lu Lin cultivated the Golden Snake Blood Aura Art to the tenth level and reached the Poison King Sect’s main altar, where a defensive formation had been raised.
• Lu Lin used Flame Crane Spreads Wings to impersonate a Green Duckweed Sword Sect martial artist and smashed into the formation, opening a spreading crack.

Lu Lin stormed the Poison King Sect, defeated its sect master Ouyang Hong, and took its Blood Crystals, Blood Qi Pills, and other resources. After escaping to a hidden cave, he converted the spoils into cultivation time and began condensing Dragon Elephant Blood Aura.

• Lu Lin broke through the Poison King Sect's defenses and defeated Ouyang Hong, forcing him to surrender the sect's Blood Crystals, Blood Qi Pills, and a storage bag.
• Lu Lin made Ouyang Hong lead him to the swamp, where he used the Golden Snake Blood Aura Art to reach the Comprehending the Spirit threshold.
• Lu Lin took Ouyang Hong's storage bag and fled, while Ouyang Hong blamed the Green Duckweed Sword Sect for the attack.
• Lu Lin counted three hundred jin of Blood Crystals and two hundred Blood Qi Pills, then converted Ouyang Hong's remaining resources into cultivation time.
• Lu Lin's cultivation time reached 9,786 years and two months; he spent one thousand years on Martial Essence and began condensing Dragon Elephant Blood Aura.

Lu Lin condensed the Dragon Elephant, Golden Snake, and Wind Wing Blood Auras and strengthened his Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura while searching for the last aura he needed. After witnessing the Five Great Sects’ slaughter of independent martial artists, he returned to Jiuqing Peak, where the sect master summoned him.

• Lu Lin condensed the Dragon Elephant and Golden Snake Blood Auras, then raised his Mysterious Underworld Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura to thirty-three patterns and mastered its Condense Aura into Spirit realm.
• Lu Lin decided to seek the Wind Wing Golden Eagle first and left for Hurricane Cliff, while acknowledging that finding a Purple Lightning Thunder Leopard in Puppet Sect’s territory would be dangerous.
• Lu Lin witnessed Green Duckweed Sword Sect cultivators kill five martial artists amid the Five Great Sects’ Martial Slaughter Order against independent martial artists.
• At Hurricane Cliff, Lu Lin found Wind Wing Golden Eagles, comprehended the Wind Wing Blood Aura Art, and condensed its nine-pattern blood aura in his ribs.
• Lu Lin returned to Jiuqing Peak, received Blood Crystals, Blood Qi Pills, and Spirit Stones from Luo Siqing, and considered asking Tuoba Feng for more supplies.
• A young man arrived and told Lu Lin that the sect master requested his presence.

Lu Lin concealed his many Blood Auras from True Person Youxuan with the help of the Martial Dao Melting Furnace and earned generous cultivation resources. Half a year later, as the Demonic Sect Holy Son and Saintess contest began, Luo Siqing revealed she had advanced her cultivation and left with Lu Lin for the contest.

• Tuoba Feng summoned Lu Lin to reward him for finding Martial Sin's inheritance site, and Lu Lin revealed he had reached the late Xiantian Realm and cultivated two kinds of Blood Aura.
• True Person Youxuan examined Lu Lin, but the Martial Dao Melting Furnace absorbed and concealed most of Lu Lin's Blood Auras, leaving Youxuan satisfied with what he sensed.
• True Person Youxuan ordered Tuoba Feng to provide Lu Lin with ample cultivation resources, and Tuoba Feng delivered six hundred Blood Qi Pills and twelve hundred jin of Blood Crystals the next day.
• Lu Lin spent half a year cultivating the Mysterious Cold Flood Dragon Blood Aura before Luo Siqing emerged from seclusion having advanced her cultivation.
• Luo Siqing concealed her stronger aura with the Seven Flame Soul-Suppressing Stele and took Lu Lin to the contest, where Tuoba Feng noted that she had brought only one personal guard.