Recaps

Lin Fan and the others spent a peaceful night in the mountains, where he kept watch while Su Qingwei, Chu Lingxi, and Lin Ruoruo rested. The next morning, he used his Inner Qi to catch and prepare pheasants, and everyone shared breakfast around the campfire.

• Lin Fan, Su Qingwei, Chu Lingxi, and Lin Ruoruo ate venison and wild fruit by the campfire and talked about the war and their hopes for peace.
• After night fell, Chu Lingxi and Lin Ruoruo chased fireflies before returning to the stone houses to sleep, while Lin Fan watched over the mountains with his senses.
• At dawn, Lin Fan and the others woke refreshed, and Lin Fan used wind and Inner Qi to catch and prepare wild pheasants, mushrooms, and fruit.
• The group shared the roasted pheasants around the campfire, while Mao Mao ate until it was too full to continue.

Lin Fan used sudden enlightenment to comprehend earth Dao Intent and broke through, gaining the power to reshape the land. He left the surrounding mountains transformed into a vast, level plain while keeping Su Qingwei and the others safe.

• Lin Fan buried the fire, told Su Qingwei and the others to wait inside the protective formation, and sat down to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Lin Fan spent ten billion taels of silver to activate sudden enlightenment and comprehended the mysteries of earth Dao Intent.
• As Lin Fan’s comprehension deepened, the ground and rocks around the mountain range softened and flowed, astonishing Su Qingwei, Lin Ruoruo, and Chu Lingxi.
• Lin Fan shouted for his breakthrough and reshaped the mountain ranges across several thousand li, guiding the upheaval away from Su Qingwei and the others.
• After the breakthrough, a hundred-li expanse around Lin Fan had become a broad, level plain, with distant mountain ranges still visible.

Lin Fan used two more sudden enlightenments to perfect his Earth Dao Intent, reshaping the surrounding mountains into a walled plain as he advanced through the Heavenly Human Realm. The chapter ended with him breaking through to the late Heavenly Human Realm.

• Lin Fan completed his breakthrough to the early Heavenly Human Realm, and Lin Ruoruo cheered him on.
• Lin Fan began his second sudden enlightenment and deepened his comprehension of Earth Dao Intent, transforming the landscape around him.
• Lin Fan broke through to the middle Heavenly Human Realm and flattened mountains across a thousand-mile area into a plain.
• Lin Fan raised a ring of sturdy earthen walls around the plain and confirmed that no Innate Realm experts were nearby.
• Lin Fan used his final sudden enlightenment to perfect his Earth Dao Intent and break through to the late Heavenly Human Realm.

Lin Fan perfected his Earth Dao Intent, built durable stone houses across the plain, and reached the late Heavenly Human Realm. When the Zhao Kingdom Ancestor who had pursued him arrived, Lin Fan chose to meet him openly.

• Lin Fan used his Earth Dao Intent to animate giant statues of himself, Su Qingwei, Chu Lingxi, Lin Ruoruo, and Mao Mao, delighting the group.
• Lin Fan reshaped the statues into sturdy stone houses and reinforced them to shelter future travelers.
• After using all three sudden-enlightenment opportunities, Lin Fan settled his cultivation at the late Heavenly Human Realm with perfected Wind and Earth Dao Intents.
• Lin Fan sensed the approaching middle Heavenly Human Realm Zhao Kingdom Ancestor and told Su Qingwei and the others to remain inside the formation.
• The Zhao Kingdom Ancestor was shocked by Lin Fan's advanced cultivation, while Lin Fan flew toward him to meet him face-to-face.

Lin Fan met Zhao Datian, the Zhao Kingdom's ancestor, and secured a promise to investigate the Lin Family's extermination and grant the Azure Elixir Sect exceptional status. They then discussed the stalemated war between Zhao and Wei, which neither kingdom could quickly win.

• Lin Fan met Zhao Datian in the sky and revealed that he was a native of the Zhao Kingdom's Capital City.
• Zhao Datian praised Lin Fan's cultivation, and Lin Fan declined to explain the unique opportunity behind his power.
• Zhao Datian learned that Lin Fan was a surviving orphan of the Lin Family and promised to investigate its extermination and punish those responsible without implicating innocents.
• Lin Fan told Zhao Datian that he was an elder of the Azure Elixir Sect, and Zhao Datian designated it a top-tier great sect with territory across five commanderies and invited Lin Fan to serve as its ancestor.
• Lin Fan asked about the Zhao-Wei war, and Zhao Datian explained that the fighting was deadlocked and that Wei's two Heavenly Human Realm powerhouses offset Zhao's greater number of Innate Realm martial artists.

Lin Fan promised Zhao Datian he would join the war against Wei after completing his cultivation, then moved his companions to a secluded valley to prepare for a breakthrough. Back in the capital, Zhao Datian granted Lin Fan and the Azure Elixir Sect sweeping privileges before asking the court about the Lin Family’s extermination.

• Lin Fan promised to defeat Wei Kingdom’s experts and end the war once he was prepared, and Zhao Datian agreed to meet him at the Imperial City.
• After Zhao Datian left, Lin Fan moved Su Qingwei, Chu Lingxi, and the others to a secluded river valley and prepared for his next breakthrough.
• Zhao Datian issued edicts making the Azure Elixir Sect a top great sect, granting it five commanderies, and investing Lin Fan as its patriarch with status equal to Zhao Kingdom’s imperial family.
• Zhao Datian entered the court hall and asked what had happened when the Lin Family in the Capital City was exterminated six or seven years earlier.