Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan negotiated with Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, and Juliusun to ransom their captured treasures in exchange for high-grade formation materials for the Interception Sect. After Guangchengzi redeemed the Heaven-Flipping Seal, the negotiations for the other two treasures began, while Zhunti watched from the clouds.

• Kong Xuan showed Lin Yuan, Zhao Gongming, and Holy Mother Huo Ling the suppressed Heaven-Flipping Seal, Yin-Yang Mirror, and Immortal Binding Rope, and Lin Yuan proposed trading them for formation materials.
• Kong Xuan agreed to use the materials for the Interception Sect’s formations and arranged to receive a Life Lamp connected to a separate Eastern Sea node.
• Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, and Juliusun arrived, and Kong Xuan put Lin Yuan in charge of negotiating the return of their treasures.
• Lin Yuan asked for formation materials, and Guangchengzi offered a substantial batch to redeem the Heaven-Flipping Seal.
• Kong Xuan accepted the deal, returned the Heaven-Flipping Seal to Guangchengzi, and Chijingzi and Juliusun began negotiating for their treasures.
• Zhunti watched from the clouds as Guangchengzi redeemed the Heaven-Flipping Seal and remarked that Lin Yuan knew how to balance the books.

Lin Yuan and Kong Xuan completed the exchange of the Heaven-Flipping Seal, Yin-Yang Mirror, and Immortal Binding Rope for resources that Lin Yuan assigned to strengthen the Interception Sect’s formations. A new reaction from the Life Lamps’ warning system drew Lin Yuan and the others back to Golden Turtle Island, while Daoist Zhunti observed that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation still lay ahead.

• Chijingzi, Juliusun, and Guangchengzi traded resources for the three treasures Kong Xuan had taken, and Kong Xuan gave the materials to Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan sorted the resources for Life-Lamp Formations and warning systems, and Kong Xuan agreed to return another batch of ordinary disciples’ treasures to West Qi.
• After the Elucidation Sect members left, Zhao Gongming laughed about Guangchengzi’s reaction, and Kong Xuan asked Lin Yuan to make him a Life Lamp.
• Duobao sent word that the Life Lamps’ main formation had reacted to a surge in Investiture of the Gods Tribulation Aura, so Lin Yuan, Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, and Huo Ling headed to Golden Turtle Island.
• Daoist Zhunti watched the exchange and concluded that the empty places on the Investiture of the Gods list remained, leaving the greatest trouble ahead.

Lin Yuan and the Interception Sect developed a Life Lamp array that detected rising tribulation aura before anyone was injured, then used it to spot Daoist Randeng approaching Wen Zhong’s army. Lin Yuan, Zhao Gongming, and Kong Xuan set out for the front lines as the warning signs intensified.

• Qin Wan and the others showed Lin Yuan a new array that made a Life Lamp’s base turn gray when its owner’s tribulation aura rose, and they confirmed it by warning a cultivator away from a dangerous market dispute.
• Tongtian approved expanding the Life Lamp Tribulation Warning Array, and the disciples used materials from the Elucidation Sect’s artifact ransom to connect more lamps.
• Kong Xuan received a separate karmic link to the warning array and learned how Lin Yuan’s work with the disciples helped change the Interception Sect’s fortunes.
• Three Life Lamps belonging to Interception Sect outer disciples on Great Shang’s front lines turned gray as Lin Yuan detected Daoist Randeng and several Elucidation Sect Golden Immortals approaching from West Qi.
• Lin Yuan ordered the disciples to withdraw and sent word to Wen Zhong, then departed for the front lines with Zhao Gongming and Kong Xuan.

Lin Yuan’s upgraded Life-Lamp Formation warned Golden Turtle Island of danger, allowing three Interception Sect disciples to withdraw before Randeng arrived. After Randeng left without a fight, Lin Yuan detected a much greater tribulation thread from West Qi coiling around Kong Xuan.

• Wen Zhong recalled three warned disciples from the eastern camp, and Randeng arrived shortly afterward to find his targets gone.
• Lin Yuan, Zhao Gongming, and Kong Xuan confronted Randeng, who abandoned the planned attack and returned with the Elucidation Sect disciples.
• Lin Yuan explained that an upgraded Life-Lamp Formation could warn of approaching tribulation, and the three disciples’ warning threads faded after the danger passed.
• The Heavenly Court discovered that three potential Investiture of the Gods targets had vanished, and Haotian suspected Lin Yuan’s new formation was responsible.
• Lin Yuan saw a thick black thread of karma from West Qi wrap around Kong Xuan and warned that a greater tribulation had targeted him.

Lin Yuan recognized that Kong Xuan's growing tribulation came from the Western Regions trying to draw him west, not from the Investiture of the Gods, and devised a feigned defense to protect him at Golden Rooster Ridge. After the preparations were complete, the West Qi forces arrived with Lu Ya among them.

• Lin Yuan traced Kong Xuan's darkening karmic thread to the Western Regions and warned that his dazzling victories were drawing their attention.
• Lin Yuan proposed that Kong Xuan leave the exposed front while an avatar remained at Golden Rooster Ridge, and Kong Xuan agreed to the plan.
• Kong Xuan created a Five-Elements Avatar while Lin Yuan and Qin Wan arranged twelve movable Formation Eyes and hid the real Kong Xuan in the Rear Formation.
• Wen Zhong rotated Great Shang's troops, and the avatar continued to appear as the defender of Golden Rooster Ridge.
• Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Randeng, and Lu Ya arrived with the West Qi forces, prompting Lin Yuan and Zhao Gongming to recognize that the enemy was prepared.

Lin Yuan broke the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife’s lock and pursued Lu Ya, interrupting his attacks and overcoming his escape arts. He wounded Lu Ya’s shoulder, then continued closing in, saying he had not yet repaid him for the first strike.

• Lin Yuan used his Mystic Thunder Eyes and Qingxuan Sword to disrupt the Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife’s lock, making its white light miss him for the first time.
• Lin Yuan pursued Lu Ya as he fled with the Rainbow Escape Art, while Zhao Gongming and Holy Mother Huo Ling stayed to manage the battle.
• Lin Yuan found Lu Ya’s true location in a valley and forced him out of hiding with the Qingxuan Sword.
• Lin Yuan interrupted Lu Ya’s next Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife attack and cut through his Separation Fire with the Qingxuan Sword.
• Lin Yuan anticipated Lu Ya’s acceleration and struck his arm guard, then drew blood from his shoulder as Lu Ya tried to escape again.
• Lin Yuan continued pursuing Lu Ya and said he had not finished repaying him for the first attack.