Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan endured the karmic backlash from changing the Investiture of the Gods and completed his first Great Dao Flower. He steadied his second flower as more unfamiliar karma descended, and the gate to the Daluo Realm began to open.

• Lin Yuan faced karmic threads tied to Shiji and the people he had saved, and held firm because he did not regret changing their fates.
• Tongtian and Zhao Gongming recognized that Lin Yuan’s resolve came from saving people, while Lin Yuan’s first Great Dao Flower took shape.
• Lin Yuan’s first Great Dao Flower bloomed, incorporating his varied abilities into his own Great Dao.
• As Lin Yuan formed his second flower, karma from the wider changes to the Karmic Tribulation shook it, but he resolved to save his people and let others fight for their own lives.
• Lin Yuan’s second flower steadied and neared completion as the unseen gate to the Daluo Realm opened a crack.

As Lin Yuan neared the Daluo Realm, the Karmic Tribulation showed him the deaths that had once awaited the people he saved, and he rejected those fates without claiming authority over others’ paths. His third Great Dao Flower began to solidify, while his breakthrough further emptied the Investiture of the Gods’ list; the chapter ended as he pushed open the gate to the Daluo Realm.

• Lin Yuan unified his abilities into a connected system as his first two Great Dao Flowers took shape and the third grew clearer.
• The Karmic Tribulation manifested the original deaths of Shiji, the Four Sages of Nine-Dragon Island, the Ten Heavenly Lords, Zhao Gongming, the Three Cloud Sisters, Wen Zhong, Luo Xuan, and others.
• Lin Yuan shattered the visions of those he had saved, then said that people whose fates he did not know should walk their own paths.
• The third Great Dao Flower began to solidify as Tongtian explained that Lin Yuan had separated his own Dao heart from the karma of others.
• Haotian learned that Lin Yuan's breakthrough would further reduce the tribulation aura of Interception Sect candidates and leave the Divine Positions even emptier.
• Lin Yuan pressed his hand against the manifested gate to the Daluo Realm and pushed, shaking the Supreme Purity Grotto-Heaven.

Lin Yuan completed the breakthrough to the Daluo Realm in the Supreme Purity Grotto-Heaven, enduring the final pressure of the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. After testing his newly strengthened abilities, he emerged to celebrate with the Interception Sect as the Primordial Secret Realm Monitoring Stone lit up on Blue Star.

• Lin Yuan opened the gate of the Great Dao, completed his three flowers and five qi, and attained the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Lin Yuan tested his new vision, swordsmanship, movement, and physical strength inside the grotto-heaven.
• Tongtian called Lin Yuan outside, where Zhao Gongming and the gathered Interception Sect disciples eagerly asked to test his strength.
• Lin Yuan reunited with Tongtian and Jin Ling, and the group laughed together as Tongtian approved his stable foundation.
• The Primordial Secret Realm Monitoring Stone on Blue Star lit up.

Lin Yuan’s breakthrough to the Daluo Realm reduced the Interception Sect’s destruction risk but pushed the Investiture of the Gods to seek higher-ranking candidates across other factions. As Lin Yuan prepared to test his new strength on Golden Turtle Island, Zhunti arrived to meet him.

• Chen Qingshan’s monitoring hall recorded Lin Yuan’s breakthrough to the Daluo Realm, raising historical deviation to 53.4% and lowering the Interception Sect’s destruction risk to 28%.
• The Investiture of the Gods expanded its candidate pool to include second-generation Elucidation Sect disciples, Western Sect core members, and high-level rogue cultivators.
• Haotian, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti reacted to the rising threat of the tribulation reaching their factions, and Zhunti decided to meet Lin Yuan.
• On Golden Turtle Island, Lin Yuan agreed to spar with Zhao Gongming while other Interception Sect members offered to test him.
• Zhunti arrived over the Eastern Sea and announced that he wished to meet Lin Yuan.

Zhunti visited Golden Turtle Island to question Lin Yuan about the consequences of saving those marked for the Investiture of the Gods. Lin Yuan insisted he would keep saving the Interception Sect’s disciples and told Zhunti to protect his own, leaving Zhunti to ask how the Western Regions could reduce its names on the Investiture.

• Zhunti arrived at Golden Turtle Island and asked to meet Lin Yuan, prompting Tongtian to open the island’s formations.
• Lin Yuan found he could not see through Zhunti and judged that he could not defeat him.
• Zhunti showed how the Investiture of the Gods tribulation aura had spread to the Western Regions and asked Lin Yuan whether saving people forced others to bear calamities.
• Lin Yuan said he would keep saving people in danger and told Zhunti to save the Western Regions’ own disciples.
• Zhunti asked Lin Yuan what the Western Regions should do if it wanted fewer names on the Investiture.

Zhunti asked Lin Yuan how the Western Regions could avoid sending disciples onto the Investiture of the Gods list, and Lin Yuan advised them to stop reaching into the eastern tribulation and adopt the Interception Sect’s safety measures. Tongtian agreed the sect would leave the West alone if it stayed out of their karma, but Zhunti ended by asking Lin Yuan to come to the Western Regions and protect his disciples.

• Zhunti asked Lin Yuan how the Western Regions could reduce their risk of being drawn into the Investiture of the Gods, and Lin Yuan traced the risk to Western disciples entering the east and accumulating karma.
• Lin Yuan advised Zhunti to recall or restrain Western disciples, use life lamps and warning systems, avoid meddling in every karmic connection, and retreat rather than stubbornly face danger.
• Zhunti asked whether Lin Yuan had devised the Interception Sect’s safety rules, and Lin Yuan offered to let the Western Saints build a similar system themselves.
• Zhunti asked how the Interception Sect would respond if the Western Regions stopped entangling themselves in the eastern tribulation, and Tongtian promised they would have no reason to trouble the West.
• Zhunti asked Lin Yuan to go to the Western Regions and personally protect his disciples, leaving the people on Golden Turtle Island stunned.

Zhunti offered Lin Yuan generous terms to join the Western Regions, but Lin Yuan chose to remain with the Interception Sect and the people he had saved. Zhunti accepted his decision, then asked whether Lin Yuan would help if Western Regions disciples became doomed by the Investiture of the Gods.

• Zhunti invited Lin Yuan to stay in the Western Regions, but Lin Yuan declined because he was busy and worried about the Interception Sect.
• Lin Yuan explained that his bonds with the Interception Sect ran deeper than his ties to the Western Regions, and Tongtian challenged Zhunti for trying to poach the sect's Daoist Heir.
• Zhunti offered Lin Yuan access to the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit, the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, Western Regions arts, and a high position, but Lin Yuan still refused.
• Lin Yuan told the Interception Sect disciples that he wanted them to protect him in return, and their jokes eased the tension.
• Zhunti accepted that Lin Yuan would not leave, then asked whether Lin Yuan would help if Western Regions disciples faced certain fates in the Investiture of the Gods; Lin Yuan fell silent.