Chapter Summaries

Lin Qing arrived on the desolate island just as Xue Ling was about to kill herself, then defeated Minghun and intervened when the island began to rise. He discovered that the island was actually a colossal turtle ten thousand li wide.

• Xue Ling prepared to destroy her body rather than submit to Minghun and join the Darknight Demon Court.
• Lin Qing appeared above Xue Ling, Minghun, and the other Demon Seed, stopping Xue Ling and confronting her attackers.
• Minghun attacked Lin Qing with Blade Qi and the Heaven-Sundering Draw Technique, but Lin Qing's spiritual-energy palm dissolved both attacks and crippled him.
• Lin Qing used his Five-Element Will Domain to stop the lower-cultivated Demon Seed from killing himself, then the island began to tremble and rise.
• Lin Qing grabbed Xue Ling and flew upward, killing both Demon Seeds as the ground pursued them.
• Lin Qing's divine sense revealed that the apparent island was a colossal turtle ten thousand li wide.

Lin Qing met Old Turtle, a million-year-old demonic beast who had awakened after sensing Lin Qing’s Five-Element Will. Old Turtle asked Lin Qing to help heal an injury caused by the World Origin, and Lin Qing agreed to try as they reached the wound in Old Turtle’s neck.

• Old Turtle appeared before Lin Qing and asked whether he had used the Five-Element Will.
• Old Turtle healed Xue Ling with Life power, and she flew to Lin Qing’s Flying Vessel to join Ling Shu and Shu Ning.
• Old Turtle told Lin Qing that the World Origin had injured it fifty thousand years earlier and that it had slept to ease the pain.
• Lin Qing explained the World Origin to Old Turtle and agreed to try to heal its injury.
• Old Turtle led Lin Qing to its neck and exposed the enormous blood vessel containing the wound.

Lin Qing entered Old Turtle’s body and removed the Five-Element Will trapped in his heart after using it to advance his own Willpower. Old Turtle rewarded him with spiritual materials and a Divine Sense Mark, and Lin Qing prepared to leave to search for Qing Yao and her disciples.

• Old Turtle brought Lin Qing through a blood vessel to the sphere of Five-Element Will lodged in his heart.
• Lin Qing spent more than ten days studying the sphere, raising his Five-Element Will progress by nearly two hundred points.
• Lin Qing used his Divine Sense to guide the sphere out of Old Turtle’s body and carried it far away, where it dissipated.
• Old Turtle thanked Lin Qing with hundreds of spiritual materials and a turtle shell bearing his Divine Sense Mark.
• Lin Qing asked Old Turtle to locate people wearing the same clothes as those aboard his flying boat, and Old Turtle sent him information about their whereabouts.
• Lin Qing took his leave from Old Turtle.

Lin Qing used Old Turtle’s search to help Qing Yao locate and rescue disciples scattered by the storm, while concealing Old Turtle’s identity. After the search ended with several disciples still missing, the group continued north, and Lin Qing began secluded cultivation.

• Lin Qing returned to the Flying Vessel and used the Divine Sense Mark on his ring to summon Qing Yao.
• Lin Qing sent Qing Yao Old Turtle’s locations for more than thirty groups of scattered disciples and warned her not to investigate the powerful senior who had found them.
• Qing Yao caught up with the Flying Vessel in three days, and the group rescued disciples for the next half month.
• Qing Yao found additional Clear-Fate Sect and Darknight Demon Court disciples; they rescued the former, while Lin Qing killed the latter.
• The group ended the search with around forty disciples aboard and nearly ten still unaccounted for, then headed north as Lin Qing began secluded cultivation.

After arriving at the Central Continent, Lin Qing learned that Juechenzi’s soul lamp had dimmed and his master was in grave trouble. Qing Yao urged Lin Qing to enter the secret realm and grow stronger before trying to rescue him.

• Qing Yao sensed the Central Continent nearby and contacted Juechenzi, but received no response.
• Lin Qing completed his docking duties after the Flying Vessel reached a coastal city, then learned Juechenzi’s soul lamp had dimmed greatly.
• Qing Yao explained that Juechenzi had come to the Central Continent to seek a complete Eleventh-Tier cultivation art.
• Lin Qing feared Juechenzi had been trapped or imprisoned and asked what they should do.
• Qing Yao told Lin Qing to enter the secret realm and train, since he was not yet strong enough to help Juechenzi.

Qing Yao left to investigate Juechenzi’s disappearance, entrusting Lin Qing with the sect’s disciples and the latest plans for entering the Kunxu Secret Realm. As Lin Qing’s group traveled through a border city to reach a Teleportation Array, a local Eighth Tier cultivator insulted them and became enraged when someone approached him.

• Yun Feng and Fei Luo arrived with news that Central Continent’s superpowers would restrict the Kunxu Secret Realm to cultivators of Eighth Tier or above who were under two hundred years old, and require them to obtain passes.
• Qing Yao told Lin Qing she would search for Juechenzi, left the disciples and Flying Vessel in his care, and warned him that an Eleventh Tier senior would arrive in about a month.
• Qing Yao explained Juechenzi’s disappearance to Yun Feng and Fei Luo before departing, and the group headed through a coastal city to take a Teleportation Array.
• A sharp-faced local Eighth Tier cultivator mocked the Eastern Profound visitors and boasted that the city’s rules prevented Divine Realm cultivators from attacking him.
• Lin Qing looked to Yun Feng for approval, and a silver-white figure stepped in front of the taunting cultivator, who angrily demanded that the visitor leave.

Lin Qing punished a local cultivator who insulted him, then killed him despite Wang Xiao’s attempt to intervene. After learning that Wang Xiao was a ranked genius from Qianyuan Heavenly Palace, Lin Qing heard him threaten to tear off his ears.

• Lin Qing slapped the sharp-faced man after he insulted him, and the man tried to turn the dispute into a locals-versus-outsiders conflict.
• Lin Qing pulled the man toward him and knocked down the local cultivators who rushed to attack, while telling his Eastern Profound companions not to interfere.
• Wang Xiao arrived and tried to stop Lin Qing with a flying sword, but Lin Qing dodged and split the sharp-faced man apart.
• Lin Qing recognized Wang Xiao as a Qianyuan Heavenly Palace true disciple listed on the Central Continent Young Masters Ranking.
• Wang Xiao threatened to tear off Lin Qing’s ears, and Lin Qing reacted with surprise that there was more.

Lin Qing effortlessly defeated Wang Xiao and tore off his ear and part of his face, prompting a Divine Realm expert to intervene. Yun Feng blocked the expert’s pressure, and Lin Qing returned to his group as the standoff continued.

• Wang Xiao attacked Lin Qing with spiritual energy and a longsword, but Lin Qing shattered the sword with two fingers and pinned him down with spiritual-energy pressure.
• Lin Qing tore off Wang Xiao’s right ear and more than half of the right side of his face, shocking the onlookers.
• A stationed Divine Realm expert intervened and demanded an explanation, but Yun Feng’s Sword Intent pushed back the expert’s consciousness pressure.
• Lin Qing tossed the torn piece of Wang Xiao’s face back to him and returned to the group while Yun Feng maintained his readiness to fight.

Lin Qing and his companions resolved the confrontation with Qianyuan Heavenly Palace’s law enforcer and continued to Azure Abyss City, where they sought lodging before the secret realm tests. A maid from the Li Family offered them accommodations, and Fei Luo pointed out that the group came from Eastern Profound.

• The Divine Realm expert condemned the sharp-mouthed man and Wang Xiao, then had Wang Xiao taken away and withdrew his will.
• Yun Feng and Fei Luo asked Lin Qing to protect their sects’ disciples in the secret realm, and Lin Qing agreed to help when he could.
• The group traveled by Teleportation Array to Azure Abyss City, where crowds had gathered for secret realm qualifications and to see young prodigies.
• Fei Luo suggested finding lodging, and the group walked through the city because the testing plaza was crowded.
• A maid representing the Li Family offered the group a place to stay, and Fei Luo replied that they were from Eastern Profound.

Li Yaqing invited Lin Qing and his companions to the Li Family estate, hoping they could help with a recent crisis. At the banquet, she learned Lin Qing was a young talent from the Cloudrise Immortal Sect and became hopeful that his group could help the Lineage.

• Li Yaqing offered Lin Qing and his companions early testing slots and invited them to visit the Li Family.
• Lin Qing agreed to go with the group, and Li Yaqing led them in carriages to the Li Family estate.
• Li Chong'an welcomed the group to a banquet, but the Li Family did not explain its troubles.
• Li Yaqing toasted Lin Qing and learned he was not a Divine Realm expert but a young talent from the Cloudrise Immortal Sect.
• Lin Qing introduced Yun Feng and Fei Luo as seniors from the Crossing River Sword Sect and the Clear-Fate Sect, and Li Yaqing hoped they could resolve the Lineage's crisis.

Lin Qing obtained a token to enter the Kunxu Secret Realm and learned that Li Yaqing needed help resisting Zhou Yichen’s demand to take her as a concubine. Li Yaqing offered an ancestral map of the Kunxu Immortal Sect as she explained the sect’s destruction.

• Lin Qing observed the age test, passed the secret realm’s entry tests, and obtained a token.
• Li Yaqing told Lin Qing that Zhou Yichen had demanded to take her as his concubine, and Lin Qing learned that the Zhou Family had two Tenth-Tier Mid-Stage Divine Realm experts.
• Yun Feng said they could handle the Zhou Family but that the Li Family’s offer was not enough to justify their help.
• Li Yaqing explained that the Kunxu Immortal Sect had fallen after a Heavenly Tribulation and a subsequent siege.
• Li Yaqing showed Lin Qing a map of the Kunxu Secret Realm drawn from memory by her ancestor, a former outer disciple of the sect.

Lin Qing accepted Li Yaqing’s offer to help him find information about the Kunxu Secret Realm, hoping its Heavenly Tribulation might point to a rare material for his Life-Bound Treasure. As he prepared for the secret realm, Zhou Yichen arrived at the Li Family estate, and Lin Qing went to meet him.

• Lin Qing agreed to Li Yaqing’s deal and received her memorized map of the Kunxu Secret Realm.
• Li Yaqing told Lin Qing that Zhou Yichen abused and killed his concubines and forced himself on young women.
• Lin Qing bought Ninth-Tier arrays and began training to raise his array mastery before the secret realm opened.
• A maid summoned Lin Qing to the main hall, where Zhou Yichen and a Ninth-Tier cultivator were waiting.
• The Ninth-Tier cultivator sensed Lin Qing’s Divine Sense and loudly ordered him to come forward, so Lin Qing headed to the main hall.

Lin Qing crippled Zhou Yichen after he insulted Lin Qing and threatened Ling Shu and Xue Ling, then arranged for Zhou Yichen to be publicly tormented. Zhou Yichen’s attendant fled with him after he passed out, and Fei Luo confronted Lin Qing about his ruthlessness.

• Zhou Yichen insulted Lin Qing and threatened him unless he handed over Ling Shu and Xue Ling.
• Lin Qing swiftly crippled Zhou Yichen and threw him into a crater in the street.
• Lin Qing offered Spirit Stones to men willing to torment Zhou Yichen, while the crowd watched and Zhou Yichen begged for mercy.
• The men tormented Zhou Yichen until dusk, when Lin Qing stopped them after Zhou Yichen passed out.
• Fei Luo released her suppression of Zhou Yichen’s attendant, who fled with him, then told Lin Qing he was ruthless.

The Zhou Family planned a forceful reprisal after Zhou Yichen was crippled and humiliated, while Lin Qing waited at the Li Family estate for their attack. As the Zhou Family arrived, Fei Luo and Yun Feng confronted their Tenth-Tier experts.

• Zhou Fentian ordered the Zhou Family to march on the Li Family at dawn and summoned his father and Second Uncle to help fight the Tenth-Tier experts.
• Zhou Fentian’s white-haired father rushed out after learning Zhou Yichen had been crippled and demanded to know who had harmed him.
• Lin Qing waited in the Li Family courtyard, then rose to face the Zhou Family party when they called him out at sunrise.
• Fei Luo released her Tenth-Tier pressure and challenged the Zhou Family cultivators for targeting Lin Qing.
• Two Tenth-Tier experts appeared in the clouds, and Yun Feng arrived with his sword intent before telling Fei Luo to protect Lin Qing while he fought them.

Yun Feng overwhelmed the Zhou Family’s two Tenth Tier cultivators, forcing Zhou Fentian to plead for a halt before they were killed. As Yun Feng’s enormous Dharma Aspect faced their two smaller ones, a powerful figure from a superpower intervened and offered to guarantee the Zhou Family’s promises.

• Zhou Fentian asked the Wang Lineage’s head to summon a senior, but the Wang Lineage’s head urged him to withdraw rather than risk retaliation from two Late Tenth Tier experts.
• Yun Feng attacked the Zhou Family’s two cultivators in the sky, shattered their defenses, and wounded them both with a single Sword Qi.
• The two Zhou Family cultivators summoned their Earth and Wind Dharma Aspects, and Yun Feng formed a Dharma Aspect nearly twice their size.
• Zhou Fentian shouted for Yun Feng to stop and offered to pay any price the Zhou Family could afford.
• A figure from a superpower asked Yun Feng to stop and promised to hold the Zhou Family to its word.

After the Zhou Family surrendered its cultivation arts to settle compensation, Zhou Rulong returned home and killed his crippled younger brother, Zhou Yichen, to protect the family’s reputation. At dusk, he revealed his Tenth-Tier strength to Zhou Fentian and demanded that his father step down.

• Yun Feng ended the confrontation, and the Zhou Family handed over its cultivation arts as compensation, giving Lin Qing the Cycle-Grinding Soul-Fortifying Art.
• Zhou Rulong visited Zhou Yichen, who begged him to kill Lin Qing in revenge.
• Zhou Rulong told Zhou Yichen that he had to die to preserve the Zhou Family’s honor, then killed him and claimed that he had taken his own life.
• Xia'er suspected Zhou Rulong’s story but chose not to interfere.
• Zhou Fentian returned to find Zhou Yichen in a coffin, and Zhou Rulong demanded that he step down while revealing his Tenth-Tier aura.

Lin Qing stopped his Primordial Spirit from fully condensing, entering the Half-Step Divine Realm so he could preserve his chance at the Kunxu Secret Realm. Before departing, he prepared the Eastern Profound disciples to stay together, and his group set out for the secret realm’s entrance.

• Zhou Rulong’s breakthrough to the Tenth Tier impressed Zhou Fentian, while Lin Qing continued refining Ninth Tier formations and was ranked fourth on the Young Lords Ranking.
• As Lin Qing’s Primordial Spirit began to condense, he stopped circulating Selfless Oblivion and halted the process, entering the Half-Step Divine Realm.
• After reaching Perfected Ninth Tier as a formation master, Lin Qing joined Fei Luo and Yun Feng to prepare the disciples from the three sects for their journey to the Kunxu Secret Realm.
• Lin Qing distributed Communication Tokens with positioning functions and told the thirty-eight disciples to help one another and regroup after entering the secret realm.
• At the Teleportation Plaza of Azure Abyss City, Lin Qing’s group departed by Teleportation Array, while a cultivator learned from his friend why Lin Qing was feared.
• Lin Qing and the others boarded Yun Feng’s flying boat and headed toward the secret realm’s entrance.

Lin Qing and the other cultivators gathered at the Kunxu Secret Realm as its entrance formed, while the superpowers enforced order and barred those without tokens. The realm opened, and Lin Qing led the disciples of the three sects toward its entrance.

• Yun Feng brought Lin Qing's group to the Plains and steered their Flying Vessel away from the unstable black sphere.
• Five Eleventh Tier experts formed an array to prevent anyone without a token from entering the Secret Realm.
• An Eleventh Tier expert punished two factions for fighting and declared that fighting was forbidden.
• Ling Shu pointed out the Darknight Demon Court, and Lin Qing resolved to deal with its four remaining disciples if he met them in the Secret Realm.
• The black sphere burst, spatial turbulence subsided, and a vast doorway appeared.
• Lin Qing got the disciples of the three sects ready and ordered them to enter.

Lin Qing entered the Kunxu Secret Realm, suspected that Divine Realm cultivators had entered despite the restrictions, and headed for the Scripture Repository. He arrived to find cultivators gathered outside, where he learned that entry required identity verification.

• Lin Qing sensed that several cultivators entering the realm were likely Divine Realm experts and wondered whether the secret realm could now accommodate them.
• After being randomly teleported into the realm, Lin Qing used his token to locate fellow disciples and told them to find each other and report any danger.
• Lin Qing followed the map toward the Scripture Repository, suppressing his divine sense and avoiding teleportation as he traveled.
• Lin Qing passed cultivators fighting over spiritual herbs and Storage Rings, responding to respectful greetings and killing those who tried to rob him.
• Lin Qing reached the Scripture Repository and learned from a cultivator who greeted him that everyone was waiting because the tower required identity verification.

Lin Qing led Yang Jingchuan and a growing crowd from the Scripture Repository to the Kunxu Immortal Sect’s mountain gate so they could obtain Disciple Tokens for access to other locations. There, Lin Qing reunited with Mu Yao, who sought the safety of staying near him.

• Lin Qing chose not to break the Scripture Repository’s Tenth Tier formation and decided to get an identity token before exploring other places.
• Lin Qing invited a nearby man to accompany him, shared directions with disciples of the three sects, and led a crowd toward the mountain gate.
• The man introduced himself as Yang Jingchuan, fifth on the Young Lords Ranking, and explained that he and Zhou Yichen were the only top-ten prodigies not from superpowers.
• Lin Qing and Yang Jingchuan discussed the Central Continent’s independent prodigies and Zhou Yichen’s failed Heart-Questioning Trial as they flew.
• Lin Qing and Yang Jingchuan reached the mountain gate, where Mu Yao hurried over to Lin Qing for protection.