Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan arrived at Yu Yuan’s execution and spoke with Chen Yue about how his actions had changed the Interception Sect’s fate. As Lu Ya began to activate the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, Lin Yuan moved to rescue Yu Yuan.

• Lin Yuan hid near the execution platform with three Interception Sect disciples and chose to observe before acting.
• Chen Yue questioned whether the Investiture of the Gods’ supposedly fixed course could change as more Interception Sect members survived.
• Lin Yuan asked Chen Yue about Yu Yuan’s restraints and admitted that he had helped save several figures who were meant to die.
• Chen Yue told Lin Yuan that the Interception Sect’s destruction probability had fallen below one hundred percent, and Lin Yuan said he had tweaked its fate.
• When Lu Ya raised the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and white light emerged, Chen Yue warned Lin Yuan to be careful, and Lin Yuan headed straight for Yu Yuan.

Lin Yuan used the Treasure-Dropping Coin to disrupt Lu Ya’s Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife and help Yu Yuan escape execution. With Elucidation Sect and West Qi forces closing in, Lin Yuan and Yu Yuan prepared to flee as Lu Ya raised the gourd again.

• Lu Ya summoned the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife to execute Yu Yuan while Lin Yuan and three Interception Sect disciples secretly prepared to rescue him.
• Lin Yuan used the Treasure-Dropping Coin to disrupt the knife’s lock, and the three disciples broke the chains and destroyed the execution platform’s restriction.
• Yu Yuan shattered the remaining chains, escaped, and struck at Lu Ya, who dodged while the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife remained restrained.
• Lin Yuan urged Yu Yuan to leave as Elucidation Sect and West Qi forces surrounded them, and Yu Yuan agreed.
• Lu Ya raised the Immortal-Slaying Gourd again, and Lin Yuan brought out the Treasure-Dropping Coin to challenge him.

Lin Yuan used the Treasure-Dropping Coin and Yu Yuan’s strength to break Lu Ya’s siege and prevent the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife from killing him. Lu Ya withdrew as Interception Sect reinforcements approached, while Chen Yue watched Lin Yuan’s rescued allies begin to protect him in return.

• Lin Yuan disrupted Lu Ya’s attempt to use the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife on Yu Yuan, then helped him and three Interception Sect disciples fight their way out of the encirclement.
• Yu Yuan punched through the attackers while Lin Yuan warned him not to chase Lu Ya’s fast-moving attacks and kept the group moving toward an escape route.
• Lu Ya shifted his attacks to Lin Yuan, who dodged and taunted him before rejoining Yu Yuan as the group broke through the encirclement.
• Lu Ya locked the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife onto Lin Yuan, but Yu Yuan turned back to attack Lu Ya, giving Lin Yuan time to disrupt the gourd with the Treasure-Dropping Coin.
• Lu Ya retreated when Interception Sect reinforcements approached, and Chen Yue watched as Yu Yuan stood by Lin Yuan after Lin Yuan had saved him.

After Yu Yuan escaped execution, Lin Yuan inherited his Indestructible Immortal Body and tested its strength with Yu Yuan and Zhao Gongming. As the group reached Golden Turtle Island, Chen Yue saw Yu Yuan’s Tribulation Aura fading and wondered who would fill the places on the Investiture of the Gods.

• After the group escaped West Qi, Yu Yuan thanked Lin Yuan for saving him, and Lin Yuan’s system confirmed that Yu Yuan’s death fate had been reversed.
• Lin Yuan inherited Yu Yuan’s Indestructible Immortal Body, further strengthening his flesh, bones, organs, and ability to withstand high-speed flight.
• Lin Yuan and Yu Yuan traded punches, and Yu Yuan was surprised that Lin Yuan’s body endured the blow despite their difference in cultivation and experience.
• The group traveled to Golden Turtle Island, where Zhao Gongming tested Lin Yuan’s new toughness with a palm strike that barely affected him.
• Back at the Elucidation Sect’s encampment, Chen Yue saw Yu Yuan’s Tribulation Aura fading and wondered who would fill the Investiture of the Gods.

After Yu Yuan survived his execution, Chen Yue realized that Lin Yuan’s repeated rescues were changing the Investiture of the Gods and wondered whether the Elucidation Sect might be drawn into the vacant divine positions. On Golden Turtle Island, Lin Yuan faced the vast number of Interception Sect reports and recognized that he could not save everyone alone.

• Chen Yue reviewed a list of Interception Sect figures who had survived fates that Blue Star records predicted, and noted Lin Yuan’s role in each case.
• Chen Yue asked an Elucidation Sect senior brother whether the Investiture of the Gods might seek new victims if its original candidates kept surviving.
• Chen Yue considered that he and other Elucidation Sect disciples might be at risk as history changed, then decided to investigate which disciples were gathering tribulation aura.
• Duobao invited Lin Yuan to a meeting with Jin Ling, Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, and Qin Wan to review reports about the Investiture of the Gods.
• Lin Yuan read the many reports and admitted that he could not travel across the Primordial World alone to save everyone.

Lin Yuan proposed a Life-Lamp Warning Formation so the Interception Sect could learn sooner when disciples were in danger. With Tongtian's approval, the disciples built and activated its first version, leaving Lin Yuan hoping none of the lamps would ever go dark.

• Lin Yuan pointed out that slow communication had left Interception Sect disciples vulnerable during the Karmic Tribulation and proposed using Life Lamps to detect danger.
• Lin Yuan and Qin Wan devised a warning system that connected lamps through a Main Formation and could send danger alerts and location information.
• Tongtian approved the plan and ordered the sect to cover Core Disciples first, then expand the system to outer disciples.
• Duobao coordinated the work as Qin Wan, Yao Bin, and Huo Ling handled the formation, soul auras, and lamp flames.
• Several dozen Life Lamps were lit, and Lin Yuan said he hoped none would ever go dark.
• At the Heavenly Court of the Thirty-Three Heavens, a Heavenly Book projection suddenly showed a patch of profoundly abnormal blankness.

Lin Yuan’s Life Lamp system began operating across the Interception Sect, improving how its disciples tracked danger and coordinated rescues. In the Heavenly Court, an immortal official noticed that many lights representing divine positions had disappeared and hurried to report the anomaly.

• The Interception Sect established three warning levels for its Life Lamps, assigned disciples to monitor them, and began recording members’ destinations and travel plans.
• Lin Yuan and Zhao Gongming discussed how the Life Lamps and other rules had made the sect more organized and safer.
• A Life Lamp belonging to an outer disciple gathering herbs in the Northern Eastern Sea fluctuated, and the disciple sent back a message before a rescue was needed.
• Lin Yuan made Zhao Gongming record his destination and expected return plans before leaving Golden Turtle Island.
• An immortal official guarding the Heavenly Book’s divine positions noticed that many lights had vanished and carried its projection toward Lingxiao Palace.

Haotian discovered that many expected candidates for the Investiture of the Gods had survived their calamities, often through Lin Yuan’s intervention, leaving Divine Positions empty and fate shifting toward new candidates. As Haotian ordered Lin Yuan and the changing list watched, Lin Yuan enjoyed a brief respite before realizing his cave abode no longer suited his status.

• Haotian examined the Heavenly Book and found that Shiji, the Ten Ultimate Formation’s participants, Zhao Gongming, the Three Cloud Sisters, Wen Zhong, and many others were still alive instead of entering the list.
• A celestial official linked many of the candidates’ escapes from calamity to Lin Yuan and explained that his actions had repeatedly disrupted the expected course of cause and effect.
• Haotian ordered the official to watch Lin Yuan and recalculate who might be drawn into the Investiture of the Gods if the original candidates remained alive.
• A vacant Divine Position’s tribulation aura began reaching toward candidates outside the Interception Sect.
• On Golden Turtle Island, Lin Yuan enjoyed a few peaceful days after Yu Yuan returned safely and the others remained stable, then realized his cave abode was inadequate for his standing.

Lin Yuan expanded the Life-Lamp Formation as Tongtian revealed that the Investiture of the Gods was redistributing the fates of Tribulation Candidates who had escaped their calamities. The Interception Sect’s burden eased, but the calamity began reaching across the wider world, and a new candidate’s fate settled toward the Elucidation Sect.

• Lin Yuan accepted two neighboring cave dwellings as more disciples came to visit, while the first Life Lamps successfully warned sect members of danger.
• Duobao told Lin Yuan that Tongtian planned to expand the Life-Lamp Formation to cover more disciples and cultivators caught in the calamity.
• Tongtian showed the disciples that many Interception Sect members had escaped their destined tribulations and that the Investiture of the Gods would seek replacements throughout the Karmic Tribulation.
• Lin Yuan saw a thread of fate shifting toward West Qi and realized that saved candidates’ vacant paths were being redirected rather than erased.
• In the Heavenly Court, Haotian learned that thirty-seven high-risk candidates had escaped deadly tribulations and that the redistributed fate was spreading to the Elucidation Sect, the Western Sect, and Rogue Cultivators.
• A new Tribulation Candidate’s fate settled toward the Elucidation Sect, and the first clear name began to appear.

Haotian watched the Investiture of the Gods’ intended candidates survive and saw the displaced tribulation begin to drift toward the Elucidation Sect. As Lin Yuan’s influence on the Interception Sect’s preparations became clearer, Yuanshi also sensed the changing tribulation and saw Lin Yuan’s name.

• Haotian learned that thirty-seven intended Tribulation Candidates, including Zhao Gongming, the Three Cloud Sisters, and Wen Zhong, were still alive and had not filled their Divine Positions.
• Haotian saw the abandoned tribulation lines wander, with the clearest one moving toward the Elucidation Sect and revealing the faint character Han.
• The immortal official told Haotian that the Interception Sect had established a Life-Lamp Warning Formation at Lin Yuan’s suggestion.
• Haotian examined the cause-and-effect lines connecting Lin Yuan to rescued disciples, the Life-Lamp Formation, and the Interception Sect’s growing unity.
• Yuanshi sensed a wisp of tribulation aura turning toward the Elucidation Sect and saw Lin Yuan’s name before him.

Yuanshi realized that Lin Yuan’s small interventions had become the greatest variable in the Investiture of the Gods, shifting tribulations toward the Elucidation Sect. He rejected a secret attack and ordered an open contest between younger disciples, which Lin Yuan accepted and began preparing for with several formidable fellow disciples.

• Yuanshi showed Guangchengzi how Lin Yuan’s interventions had altered the Investiture of the Gods and sent a strand of Tribulation Aura toward the Elucidation Sect.
• Yuanshi told Guangchengzi not to secretly attack Lin Yuan and instead to let the younger disciples challenge him openly to weaken his influence.
• Guangchengzi reported that a contest between younger disciples was being arranged on the Shang and Zhou front lines, and Yuanshi approved it.
• Lin Yuan received the challenge naming him and agreed to take part.
• Lin Yuan decided to bring Wang Mo, Huo Ling, and Yu Yuan, prompting Zhao Jiang to worry for the Elucidation Sect’s young disciples.

Lin Yuan reunited with his Blue Star classmates at a young disciples’ duel and arrived with several famous Interception Sect figures, leaving them stunned by his standing and his companions. When an Elucidation Sect disciple challenged his ability to fight without support, Lin Yuan agreed to prove himself.

• Blue Star classmates gathered to see Lin Yuan and learned from Chen Yue that he had reached Taiyi Mid-Stage.
• Lin Yuan arrived with Wang Mo, Yang Sen, Gao Yougan, Li Xingba, Holy Mother Huo Ling, and Yu Yuan, shocking the classmates who recognized them from historical records.
• Lin Yuan greeted his former classmates, who questioned his choice of the Interception Sect and reacted to his claim that he was doing well.
• An Elucidation Sect disciple praised Lin Yuan’s skill at saving people but challenged him to show what he could do alone.
• Lin Yuan stopped Gao Yougan from responding, drew the Qingxuan Sword, and accepted the challenge.

Lin Yuan defeated three Golden Immortal Peak disciples from the Elucidation Sect in succession, displaying his varied combat skills without being pushed to his limits. Afterward, Chen Yue challenged him to a fight, and Lin Yuan accepted.

• Lin Yuan faced three Elucidation Sect disciples at once and quickly drove the talisman cultivator out of the duel boundary.
• Lin Yuan used the Four Symbols Sword Intent and his soul-shaking sword hum to disarm the sword cultivator and send the pagoda-wielding disciple out of the arena.
• Lin Yuan defeated the final sword cultivator with a sidestep and a precise strike, winning the duel without revealing his full strength.
• Holy Mother Huo Ling joked that Lin Yuan did more than save people, while Chen Yue watched Lin Yuan return from the arena.
• Chen Yue challenged Lin Yuan to a fight, and Lin Yuan accepted.

Lin Yuan defeated Chen Yue in a duel, showing how far he had surpassed his former classmates and prompting Chen Yue to admit that their old judgment of Lin Yuan’s choice was wrong. As the camps dispersed, Han Dulong felt a brief, mysterious chill, while Lin Yuan returned to the Great Shang camp satisfied with his victory.

• Chen Yue revealed that he had reached the Early Taiyi Stage, then challenged Lin Yuan to fight without holding back.
• Lin Yuan countered Chen Yue’s Jade Clarity sword techniques, White Jade Seal, and Three-Powers Jade Clarity Sword, defeating him after forty-four moves.
• Chen Yue conceded and acknowledged that everyone had been wrong about Lin Yuan’s choice, though he warned that the Investiture of the Gods would grow more dangerous.
• Han Dulong felt a brief chill in his chest after watching the duel, then dismissed it as spiritual exhaustion.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Great Shang camp with Huo Ling, Yu Yuan, and the others, and told Gao Yougan that winning against Chen Yue felt satisfying.

Lin Yuan witnessed Han Dulong die in a sudden battle over military supplies, after which the Investiture of the Gods took Han Dulong’s true spirit. The Karmic Tribulation had filled a vacancy with a Chan Sect disciple, leaving Chen Yue to face the answer to his earlier question.

• Lin Yuan sensed a sudden surge of tribulation aura near West Qi and headed toward the valley with Holy Mother Huo Ling and the others.
• A Shang Army force and rogue cultivators attacked a convoy carrying supplies, and Han Dulong was fatally struck by a fragment of a shattered flying sword while protecting it.
• Chen Yue and the other Chan Sect Disciples tried to save Han Dulong, but he died after calling out for his Master.
• The Investiture of the Gods drew Han Dulong’s true spirit away, and Lin Yuan recognized the golden light as the Investiture’s power.
• Yu Yuan concluded that the Karmic Tribulation was filling a vacancy, while Chen Yue realized Han Dulong was the first replacement from the Elucidation Sect.

After Han Dulong died and his true spirit entered the Investiture of the Gods, the tribulation replacement mechanism activated, raising the Elucidation Sect’s mortality risk and alerting Blue Star to a major shift in history. As the changes spread across the Primordial World, Lin Yuan and Chen Yue confronted what his efforts to save Interception Sect disciples could mean for others.

• After Han Dulong died, Chen Yue and the Elucidation Sect disciples mourned, while Lin Yuan realized that the consequences of saving Interception Sect members were spreading to other factions.
• Chen Yue asked Lin Yuan whether he intended to put Elucidation Sect members on the list by saving Interception Sect disciples, and Lin Yuan said he saved fellow disciples without controlling who the Investiture of the Gods chose.
• When Han Dulong’s true spirit entered the Investiture of the Gods, alarms at Jiangcheng No. 1 Transcendent High School reported the first faction replacement and a significant rise in Elucidation Sect mortality risk.
• The Dragon Kingdom’s Primordial Secret Realm Research Center issued a highest-severity alert and highlighted Lin Yuan in its reports.
• In the Primordial World, Han Dulong’s true spirit awakened a Divine Position in the Heavenly Court, and Haotian observed that the changes were spreading through the Elucidation Sect, the West, and among independent cultivators.

After Han Dulong joined the Investiture of the Gods, Lin Yuan urged the Interception Sect not to hunt Elucidation Sect members to fill the list, but to focus on keeping its own people alive. The sect adopted his approach, though the chapter ended with Lin Yuan sensing that the karmic tribulation was spreading across a much wider area.

• Zhao Gongming and the other Interception Sect members discussed Han Dulong's entry onto the list and the shifting burden of the karmic tribulation.
• When Tongtian asked what the sect should do if more Elucidation Sect members filled the vacancies, Lin Yuan said they should fight in self-defense but not kill people just to fill the list.
• Lin Yuan explained that the Interception Sect's goal was to save its people and live, and Tongtian ordered the disciples to travel cautiously, keep escape routes open, save people, and maintain the Life Lamps.
• Zhao Gongming and Lin Yuan watched the steady lights in the Life Lamp Hall and agreed that it was good everyone was still alive.
• Lin Yuan used his Mystic Thunder Eyes to see the tribulation spreading beyond the Shang-Zhou battlefield, reaching the West, unaffiliated cultivators, the Human Sect's outskirts, and the Elucidation Sect's immortal mountains.

The Karmic Tribulation widened its pool of candidates as vacant positions on the Investiture of the Gods List drew in anyone with sufficiently deep karmic ties. As the Interception Sect’s odds of annihilation fell and its fortune surged, Lin Yuan’s cultivation continued to rise in seclusion.

• Tongtian explained that the spreading Tribulation Aura could make anyone with heavy karmic ties and a deadly tribulation a candidate for the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Tongtian told Lin Yuan not to go down the mountain alone, and the disciples discussed the new need to avoid dangerous karmic ties.
• Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti recognized the wider danger and urged their disciples to act cautiously.
• The Monitoring Stone reported that the old fixed calamity-response model had failed, while the Interception Sect’s annihilation probability dropped from 63% to 42%.
• The Interception Sect’s fortune surged as Tongtian sensed Lin Yuan’s cultivation climbing beyond the late Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level.

After reaching Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak, Lin Yuan was formally named the Interception Sect’s Daoist Heir after Tongtian revealed that he had helped thirty-seven disciples escape the Investiture of the Gods. The Investiture responded by widening its search for tribulation candidates across other factions, leaving Lin Yuan and his allies facing a broader conflict.

• Lin Yuan completed seven days of seclusion, integrated his abilities further, and advanced to Taiyi Golden Immortal Peak before stopping short of the Daluo realm.
• Tongtian summoned the Interception Sect’s disciples and announced that thirty-seven members had escaped their fated deaths on the Investiture of the Gods, with Lin Yuan appearing most often among the changes.
• Disciples including Wang Mo, the Ten Heavenly Lords, Holy Mother Huo Ling, Yu Yuan, Zhao Gongming, the Three Cloud Sisters, and Duobao accepted Lin Yuan’s appointment as Daoist Heir.
• Tongtian named Lin Yuan the Interception Sect’s Daoist Heir while confirming that he remained Jin Ling’s disciple and Duobao remained the eldest senior brother.
• Lin Yuan sensed the Investiture of the Gods widening its search, and Tongtian revealed that new candidates were being sought among the Elucidation Sect, the Western Regions, Rogue Cultivators, and other factions.
• Blue Star’s Monitoring Stones recorded a 41.6% historical deviation, a 42% probability of the Interception Sect’s destruction, and Lin Yuan’s rank as first among cultivators of the same intake.

After Han Dulong died, Xue Ehu blamed Lin Yuan for the Karmic Tribulation that led to his senior brother’s death and challenged him. Lin Yuan accepted despite warnings that Xue Ehu might use a lethal Jade Clarity Sword Talisman, and the duel began with Chen Yue watching for it.

• Xue Ehu mourned Han Dulong and accused Lin Yuan of causing the tribulation to target him, while Chen Yue argued that Lin Yuan had not directly caused his death.
• Lin Yuan handled his new duties as the Interception Sect’s Daoist Heir before receiving Xue Ehu’s public challenge.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother told Lin Yuan that Xue Ehu blamed him for Han Dulong’s death, and Chen Yue warned that Xue Ehu carried a Jade Clarity Sword Talisman.
• Lin Yuan accepted the challenge and told Chen Yue he would follow normal rules unless Xue Ehu tried to kill him.
• Xue Ehu and Lin Yuan entered the Dueling Arena as Chen Yue watched Xue Ehu’s sleeve, where the talisman was hidden.