Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu formally became Poison Slayer’s disciple and traveled with him to a snow mountain where Poison Slayer began preparing him to cultivate poison. After two days of painful body tempering, Poison Slayer announced that the snowfall marked the start of Lin Yu’s true cultivation.

• Lin Yu knelt and became Poison Slayer’s disciple, promising to one day destroy his master’s enemies.
• Poison Slayer carried Lin Yu through the air to a snow mountain rich in spiritual power.
• Poison Slayer exposed Lin Yu to poisonous qi, causing him to faint as his body began changing toward a Poison Body.
• Lin Yu swallowed Devil Beast blood essence while Poison Slayer used spiritual power to temper his body and expand his meridians.
• Poison Slayer told the newly awakened Lin Yu that the heavy snow had arrived and his cultivation was now truly beginning.

During a five-day blizzard, Lin Yu endured the cold and imprinted the Five Poisons True Scripture into his mind, while his blood energy fought against the storm. Afterward, Poison Slayer explained the scripture’s demands and urged Lin Yu to finish cultivating his Poison Body.

• Poison Slayer used the blizzard to help Lin Yu inherit the Five Poisons True Scripture, which required a Poison Body, powerful spiritual force, and the ability to withstand heavy snow.
• Lin Yu remained frozen for five days as the scripture engraved itself in his mind and his blood energy resisted the poisonous energy and blizzard.
• Lin Yu emerged from the ice with expanded meridians and said he had memorized about half the scripture; Poison Slayer advised him to suppress his cultivation and rely on his own comprehension.
• Poison Slayer assured Lin Yu that the methods of his Four Seas and Eight Wastelands would prevent others from using Soul Search to uncover the scripture in his mind.
• Lin Yu understood why he needed a Poison Body, and Poison Slayer kicked him and sent him off to continue cultivating it.

Lin Yu continued cultivating his Poison Body under Poison Slayer’s guidance, but learned that completing it would take another month. Poison Slayer gave him three drops of essence blood to refine, then sought essence blood in the snow mountains to recover from the injury it caused him.

• Lin Yu injured himself while seeking more stimulation during Poison Body cultivation, and Poison Slayer treated him with a snow lotus fruit.
• After two days of recovery, Lin Yu asked to complete his Poison Body, but Poison Slayer said another month was needed to create a Myriad-Poison Physique.
• Poison Slayer gave Lin Yu three drops of his essence blood and told him to refine it and fuse it with his bloodline.
• Lin Yu’s blood aura resisted the toxins as he tried to refine Poison Slayer’s essence blood.
• Poison Slayer confronted a Snowfield Ape, but when he was injured, the beast gave him five drops of its essence blood.
• Poison Slayer refined the Snowfield Ape’s essence blood to improve his injuries, though he did not know how much longer he could endure.

Lin Yu endured the refinement of three drops of essence blood and formed his Myriad-Poison Physique, while Poison Slayer guarded him from afar. After Poison Slayer cut apart the heavenly tribulation, he told Lin Yu to rest before beginning martial-skill training in two days.

• Lin Yu struggled to refine the essence blood for days, then completed the first drop after thirteen days.
• Poison Slayer watched from afar as Lin Yu refined a second drop and endured the dangerous final refinement.
• Lin Yu fused all three drops of essence blood, forming his Poison Body and Myriad-Poison Physique.
• Poison Slayer split the heavenly tribulation with one strike of his iron sword.
• Poison Slayer examined Lin Yu's Poison Body and told him to rest for two days before learning martial skills.

Poison Slayer taught Lin Yu the Nine World-Ending Swords, and Lin Yu quickly memorized and practiced the powerful sword art despite his master's attempts to challenge him. After more than a month of training, Lin Yu left the glacier, while Poison Slayer said he would teach him Alchemy Art once he reached the Netherpassage Realm.

• Poison Slayer demonstrated the Body-Slaying, Life-Slaying, and God-Slaying sword moves, sending Lin Yu flying and shattering the glacier.
• Lin Yu told Poison Slayer that he had remembered most of the Nine World-Ending Swords, astonishing his master with how quickly he learned them.
• Poison Slayer sealed Lin Yu's storage ring and left him to train with the swords, while Lin Yu caught a Waterblade Fish for food.
• Lin Yu removed the imprints from the swords and practiced the sword art, eventually drawing Poison Slayer's attention with his progress.
• After more than a month, Poison Slayer told Lin Yu to recover and said he would teach him Alchemy Art after he reached the Netherpassage Realm.

After ten months of training, Poison Slayer sent Lin Yu away to continue cultivating on his own. Lin Yu left Southern Desolation City after poisoning several guards and entered the dangerous largest mountain of the Eight Desolations, where he heard two Devil Beasts fighting.

• Poison Slayer ended Lin Yu’s training and sent him away from the snow mountain despite Lin Yu’s plea to stay.
• Lin Yu reached Southern Desolation City, where guards demanded Spirit Stones to let him and a richly dressed middle-aged man pass.
• Lin Yu thanked the middle-aged man for paying ten Spirit Stones on his behalf and promised to repay him at midnight.
• Lin Yu secretly visited the middle-aged man that night and returned the ten Spirit Stones; the Heavenly Emperor recognized him as the emperor of Southern Desolation.
• The next day, several city guards collapsed from poison, and the Heavenly Emperor suspected Lin Yu had poisoned them.
• Lin Yu entered the largest mountain among the Eight Desolations, settled in a cave, and went to investigate roars from a Red-Striped Tiger and a Fangtooth Boar fighting over territory.

Lin Yu killed the five members of the White Wolf Gang after stepping in to protect a woman they were attacking over a Three-Colored Herb. Exhausted and covered in blood, he went to the marsh to wash and change while ordering the woman to turn away.

• Lin Yu heard a woman cry out and found five White Wolf Gang members attacking her over a Three-Colored Herb.
• Lin Yu ignored the woman’s warning and challenged the five men, who mistook his iron sword for an Earth-Rank Spirit Weapon.
• Lin Yu used the Three Body-Slaying Swords to kill the gang members one by one, overcoming their higher cultivation with his swordsmanship and physique.
• After wiping out the White Wolf Gang, Lin Yu told the woman to turn away as he began removing his blood-soaked clothes beside the marsh.

Lin Yu, posing as Jin Yu, traveled through the Ten Thousand Mountains with Ding Meng, a young woman from the secluded Ding Family, after rescuing her and sharing food. They set off for the Ancient City together, with Ding Meng carrying a spirit herb in the storage ring he gave her.

• After Lin Yu roasted a fish for the hungry young woman, she introduced herself as Ding Meng of the Ding Family, and he gave his name as Jin Yu.
• Ding Meng praised Jin Yu’s swordsmanship, and he claimed that a reclusive master had taught him before he set out for home.
• Ding Meng realized Jin Yu’s home was likely the secluded Lin Family, whose marriage alliance with her family was already common knowledge in the Ancient City.
• The next morning, Jin Yu woke to find Ding Meng hugging him; she explained that she had moved close to him because she was cold after the fire went out.
• Ding Meng decided to return to the Ancient City with Jin Yu, and he gave her his father’s storage ring so she could conceal the second-tier spirit herb.

Lin Yu and Ding Meng were ambushed by a python in the Ten Thousand Mountains, and Lin Yu fought it while trying to send Ding Meng to safety. The python proved to be a Second-Rank Devil Beast, and Lin Yu planned to exploit its poison to survive.

• Lin Yu sensed danger and uncovered a python hiding in the grass as it coiled around him and Ding Meng.
• Lin Yu threw Ding Meng clear of the python and ordered her to run, while she tried to distract the beast with her dagger.
• Ding Meng fled, then realized Lin Yu had insulted her to protect her, but she could not bring herself to return.
• Lin Yu fought the python with his Earth-Rank Spirit Weapon, taking heavy blows while landing several wounds of his own.
• Lin Yu recognized the python as a Second-Rank Devil Beast and decided to use his own poison against it before his strength ran out.

Lin Yu used his Myriad-Poison Physique and his own blood to poison the python, but collapsed after the fight. As Jin Yu remained unconscious, Lin Yu found himself wandering through a misty place where the dead python appeared as a Transformation Spirit.

• Lin Yu abandoned his sword, climbed onto the python, and struck it repeatedly with his blood, which his Myriad-Poison Physique could withstand but the python could not.
• Lin Yu led the python in circles to spread the poison through its body, then collapsed from exhaustion as the python prepared to swallow him.
• The poisoned python collapsed and spat up essence blood, while Ding Meng arrived and held Lin Yu, whose wounds healed.
• Jin Yu remained dazed in a dreamlike mist as Lin Yu walked through the strange place and sensed something following him.
• The dead python appeared as a Transformation Spirit and demanded its life back, but Lin Yu challenged it and made it vanish into mist.

While unconscious, Lin Yu explored a misty inner world and learned that the Blood Commands trapped the remnant souls of those he had killed. He awoke after three days, ignored Ding Meng’s complaints, and rushed to claim the python’s Magic Core and corpse.

• Lin Yu encountered seven streams of blood energy in the mist and learned that the place was inside his body, though the Blood Commands did not know how he could leave.
• The Blood Commands explained that the souls of slain humans, beasts, and Devil Beasts were imprisoned there, where the Blood Pursuit Orders refined them and grew stronger.
• A crimson figure identified the Blood Pursuit Order as Lin Yu’s Natal Dharma Artifact and promised to explain more later before the inner world collapsed.
• Lin Yu woke after three days and asked Ding Meng where the python was, ignoring her complaint that she had cared for him.
• Lin Yu pried a Magic Core from the python’s head, then hurriedly put away its corpse when a roar interrupted him.

Lin Yu fought the Red-Striped Tiger, and a mysterious Blood Command killed the beast after it wounded him. He woke with no memory of what happened and continued toward Ancient City with Ding Meng, planning to part from her the next day.

• Lin Yu stored the python's corpse and confronted the Red-Striped Tiger while Ding Meng hid nearby.
• Lin Yu blocked the tiger's bite, but it dodged his thrown sword and wounded his arm with fire poison.
• A surge of blood energy dissolved the poison, and a Blood Command struck the tiger dead before Lin Yu and Ding Meng both fainted.
• Lin Yu woke that evening with his wound healed and no memory of the Blood Command, then cooked tiger meat for Ding Meng.
• The next morning, Lin Yu told Ding Meng they would reach Ancient City in a day and should part ways, upsetting her.

Lin Yu returned to the Lin Residence after a year away, intent on washing away the humiliation he had suffered and challenging the younger generation. He defeated Lin Cang and Lin Shui, then called for Lin Xiakun to face him.

• Lin Yu entered the Lin Residence and knocked out two guards who tried to seize him.
• Lin Xuanmu and the elders confronted Lin Yu, who said he had returned to challenge the younger generation and prove how far he had come.
• Lin Xuanmu ordered an arena set up, and Lin Yu took the stage despite formations meant to suppress Netherpassage Realm cultivators.
• Lin Cang attacked Lin Yu with a whip, but he defeated her in a single exchange.
• Lin Shui challenged Lin Yu with a saber, which shattered when it struck Lin Yu's Spirit Artifact sword.
• Lin Yu dismissed Lin Shui as Lin Xiakun's lackey and demanded that Lin Xiakun come forward.

Lin Yu returned to the Lin Family and repaid Lin Xiakun for years of abuse, defeating him despite the gap in their cultivation. After Lin Xuanmu offered him Lineage resources and a betrothal to Ding Meng, Lin Yu rejected the resources and demanded freedom to come and go from Lin Residence, then left after Lin Xuanmu refused.

• Lin Xiakun arrived to confront Lin Yu, and the two clashed over the humiliation Lin Yu had suffered six years earlier.
• Lin Yu repeatedly struck Lin Xiakun, repaying the old blows while Lin Bai pleaded for his son and Lin Huan and Lin Xuanmu watched.
• Lin Xiakun surrendered, but Lin Yu wounded him with his sword before leaving the arena; Lin Xuanmu then ordered the others to stand down.
• Lin Xuanmu offered Lin Yu Lineage resources and proposed a marriage pact with Ding Meng, the Ding Family's young lady.
• Lin Yu refused the resources and asked to enter and leave Lin Residence without obstruction, but when Lin Xuanmu rejected the condition, Lin Yu threatened to leave the Lin Family for good and walked away.

Lin Yu left the Lin Family assembly and visited the dangerous Underground Exchange, where he bought herbs and traded three drops of First-Rank Magic Beast blood essence for Superior Dark Iron. He ignored Gao Gan’s offer to buy the blood essence and left the exchange with the trade settled.

• Lin Yu advised Lin Xuanmu to handle the marriage alliance according to the rules of their Ancient City, then left the assembly to visit an underground trade.
• Lin Yu disguised his appearance, explored the Underground Exchange, and bought ten stalks of three-leaf grass for two low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Yu learned that a shopkeeper was seeking a barter for a piece of Superior Dark Iron and offered three drops of First-Rank Magic Beast blood essence.
• Lin Yu completed the trade for the Superior Dark Iron, despite an offer of one thousand low-grade Spirit Stones from Gao Gan.
• Lin Yu turned away from Gao Gan and left without selling the blood essence.

Lin Yu bought the poisonous Purple Yuelan at a suspiciously low price and realized he had attracted dangerous pursuers. After learning that Cangqiong knew his grandfather, Lin Yu left the Underground Exchange and led his enemies toward a forest.

• Lin Yu spotted a purple flower whose poison stirred his blood cells and learned from the shopkeeper that it was Purple Yuelan.
• The shopkeeper sold Lin Yu the flower for 400 Spirit Stones instead of its listed price of 3,400, and Lin Yu grew uneasy about the deal.
• After Lin Yu left, the Huangpu Shop shopkeeper sent three Ninth Tier of Body Tempering cultivators to kill him and take his belongings.
• Cangqiong offered to help Lin Yu, asked whether Lin Xuanmu was his grandfather, then chose not to intervene after Lin Yu confirmed their relationship and expressed confidence.
• Lin Yu noticed five people following him, left the Underground Exchange, and ran toward a nearby forest to confront them.

Lin Yu lured three assassins pursuing him from Huangpu Shop into a forest, where he used his Myriad-Poison Physique and sword to kill two of them. He left the third man’s fate uncertain after offering to spare him if he survived three kicks.

• Lin Yu ran through the forest while secretly poisoning the three men and evading their hidden weapons.
• The assassins revealed themselves and admitted they had come because Lin Yu had interfered with Huangpu Shop; they coveted his Earth-Rank Spirit Weapon.
• Lin Yu slashed down a century-old tree with his sword, then let Second Brother kick him while the poison took effect in all three pursuers.
• Big Brother recognized Lin Yu’s Myriad-Poison Physique and died after vomiting black blood.
• Lin Yu pierced Third Brother twice with his sword, killing him, then told Second Brother he would spare him if he survived three kicks.

Lin Yu killed five attackers, discovered they were poisoned, and interrogated two surviving captives before killing them when they refused to reveal who sent them. After washing up and resting, he returned to the Lin Residence, where Lin Fenfang was waiting and the Lineage meeting had ended.

• Lin Yu kicked and killed Liu Sishi despite promising to spare his life, explaining that poison in Sishi’s body would have killed him anyway.
• Lin Yu found two hidden cultivators and used poisonous blood to incapacitate one before killing the other as he tried to flee.
• Lin Yu questioned two captive men about who sent them, severed one finger from each when they lied, and then killed them both.
• Lin Yu washed at a pond, changed clothes, and slept while Shopkeeper Huangpu wondered who he was and worried about the shop.
• Lin Yu returned to the Lin Residence and found Lin Fenfang waiting after the Lineage meeting had ended.

Lin Yu attended a Lin Family banquet, where Lin Xuanmu raised his marriage arrangement with Ding Meng and later warned Lin Fenfang that she and Lin Yu were on different paths. The next morning, Lin Xuanmu prepared to leave the Lineage and appointed Lin Huan and Lin Bai to manage it together in his absence.

• Lin Yu agreed to attend the family banquet with Lin Fenfang and arrived late, then argued with Lin Bai before Lin Xuanmu settled them down.
• Lin Xuanmu told Lin Yu that the Lineage planned to finalize his marriage arrangement with Ding Meng, and Lin Yu said his parents could discuss it and he would return for the wedding date.
• After the banquet, Lin Xuanmu privately told Lin Fenfang that she could not keep pace with Lin Yu, and she left without arguing.
• The next morning, Lin Yu stopped absorbing spiritual energy from the three-leaf grass and went with Lin Fenfang to see Lin Xuanmu off.
• Lin Xuanmu appointed Lin Huan and Lin Bai to manage the Lineage together while he was away, and the elders raised no objections.

Lin Yu warned Lin Xuanmu that the Lin Family had been targeted, then spent two days strengthening his bloodline and reassuring Wang Cheng about his cultivation. When royal envoys delivered the Ancient Emperor’s decree requiring each household to send a young disciple to fight the Flame Emperor, Lin Yu accepted it and prepared to leave for war.

• Lin Yu told Lin Xuanmu that the Lin Family had been targeted and urged him to stay on guard.
• Lin Yu spent two days strengthening his bloodline with three-leaf herbs and decided to use Purple Yuelan.
• Lin Yu reassured Wang Cheng that his master had taught him his cultivation method.
• A royal envoy delivered the Ancient Emperor’s decree ordering each household to send a young disciple to fight the Flame Emperor.
• Lin Yu accepted the decree, and Wang Cheng began packing his luggage as Lin Huan and Wang Cheng worried about his departure.