Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu left the Lin Residence to enter the Ten Thousand Mountains and seek his fortune, after persuading Lin Huan to let him go. He left Nu Sheng to protect the poisonous Purple Yuelan, while Lin Huan reassured him that Lin Yu was not in danger.

• Lin Yu buried the Purple Yuelan, warned Nu Sheng to guard it, and went to meet Lin Huan and Wang Cheng.
• Lin Huan and Wang Cheng urged Lin Yu to stay home and marry Ding Meng, but Lin Yu said he wanted to train alone in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Lin Huan initially forbade the trip, then let Lin Yu go after he showed her a Magic Core from a previous visit to the mountains.
• Lin Yu entered the Ten Thousand Mountains, determined to find his fortune and thinking about what Ding Meng would think if she knew he was her betrothed.
• That night, Nu Sheng asked Lin Huan where Lin Yu had gone, and she told him to keep guarding the spirit herb and said Lin Yu was not in danger.

After recovering, Lin Yu followed a powerful spiritual aura through the Ten Thousand Mountains and found three guards blocking the way to a rainbow butterfly. He defeated the guards protecting Gu Tian and Yan Tian’s gathering, killing Pan Sanqiu and Yang Miao while letting Yang Yan go.

• Lin Yu recovered from his injuries and followed the spiritual energy he sensed in the forest, moving through the trees as cultivators headed toward its source.
• Three guards challenged Lin Yu and warned him away from the rainbow butterfly; Lin Yu returned their arrow and confronted them.
• Yang Yan and Pan Sanqiu revealed that they served Gu Tian, son of the Ancient Emperor, and Yan Tian, son of the Flame Emperor, and recognized Lin Yu as the Great General.
• Lin Yu fought the three guards and used the Body-Slaying Sword Art, telling them that even a powerful assassin sent by the Ancient Emperor had failed to defeat him.
• Lin Yu killed Pan Sanqiu and Yang Miao, then told the remaining guard, Yang Yan, to leave.

Lin Yu watched Yan Fei and Gu Tian fight over Rainbow Butterfly, then revealed himself and killed Yan Fei before attacking Gu Tian. A hidden cultivator appeared and offered to help kill the prince in exchange for half the spiritual herb, but Lin Yu rejected the proposal.

• After killing three men, Lin Yu recovered his spiritual power and identified the spiritual herb as Rainbow Butterfly.
• Yan Fei and Gu Tian arrived and fought over Rainbow Butterfly with high-grade Spirit Artifacts while Lin Yu watched from hiding.
• Lin Yu revealed himself to Gu Tian, refused the prince’s offer of rank and title, and killed Yan Fei with a sword strike.
• Lin Yu told Gu Tian that he wanted to kill him and cut off his hand.
• A hidden man offered to help Lin Yu kill Gu Tian in exchange for half of Rainbow Butterfly, and Lin Yu shook his head.

Lin Yu fought Cai Shi over the Rainbow Butterfly, crippled him, and killed Gu Tian despite the threat of retaliation. As Lin Yu reached for the butterfly, another old man appeared and claimed it for his master.

• Lin Yu attacked Cai Shi, who had emerged to demand an equal share of the Rainbow Butterfly, and the two exchanged blows.
• Lin Yu wounded Cai Shi but took heavy injuries himself, then broke Cai Shi’s arms and cut them off when Cai Shi tried to keep fighting.
• Lin Yu cut off Cai Shi’s legs and left him unconscious before turning to the dying Gu Tian.
• Lin Yu killed Gu Tian with one sword, dismissing his warning that his imperial father would seek revenge.
• Lin Yu sensed a powerful aura, reached for the Rainbow Butterfly, and faced another old man who said his master had claimed it.

Lin Yu faced Yan Po after killing his prince, but the Blood Commands emerged from Lin Yu’s artifacts and killed Yan Po while Lin Yu was unconscious. After the other cultivators withdrew, Lin Yu took the Colorful Butterfly and reflected on the Blood Commands’ strength.

• Lin Yu confronted Yan Po and admitted he had killed Yan Po’s master while seeking the medicine.
• Yan Po struck Lin Yu repeatedly, and Lin Yu passed out after being knocked down.
• The seven Blood Commands appeared, revealed themselves as Lin Yu’s Natal Spirit Artifacts, and killed Yan Po.
• The remaining cultivators left, and Lin Yu woke, took the Colorful Butterfly from the tree, and found the area safe.
• Lin Yu recognized the Blood Commands’ strength and wondered at the spiritual power he had sensed.

Lin Yu killed the Grass Snake after it bit him and swallowed his toxin-laced blood, then refined the venom with the Five Poisons True Scripture. He gathered his spoils and cooked the snake, whose aroma drew the beasts of the Ten Thousand Mountains as he prepared to cultivate in seclusion.

• A Grass Snake bit Lin Yu while he examined the Rainbow Butterfly spirit herb, but its venom had little effect on him.
• Lin Yu fought the nimble Grass Snake, while Poison Slayer watched from a distance and remarked on its potential as a magic pet.
• The Grass Snake lunged at Lin Yu, and he severed its head with his sword before sitting down to refine the venom in his body.
• After an hour, Lin Yu sensed the spiritual power in the Ten Thousand Mountains growing more active and decided to cultivate there in seclusion.
• Lin Yu collected spirit items from four storage rings, then cooked the Grass Snake, and its aroma drew birds and beasts from several miles away.

Lin Yu fought Qin Sheng and his companion after sensing cultivators drawn by the turbulent spiritual energy in the Ten Thousand Mountains. He discovered the companion was the Spirit Emperor’s prince and let him leave, while the cause and consequences of the spiritual-energy upheaval remained unresolved.

• Lin Yu ate the grass snake he had killed, then tried to cultivate but was disrupted by violent fluctuations in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Blood Command warned Lin Yu that the spiritual energy had begun boiling after he killed people and that cultivators would soon return.
• Qin Sheng and his companion approached Lin Yu, who attacked them and challenged them to stay and fight.
• The companion covered the area in black mist, allowing him to kick Lin Yu and evade his sword.
• Lin Yu pursued a powerful life force, but the black mist vanished and Qin Sheng was struck down.
• Lin Yu recognized the wounded man’s Iron Brush and learned from a sheet of paper that he was the Spirit Emperor’s prince, then spared him in exchange for a promised favor.

Lin Yu used the Blood Command’s method to gather the scattered spiritual energy, then absorbed it as cultivators converged on him. After killing a Blade Sect cultivator who attacked him, he waited while the others watched for a chance to strike.

• Lin Yu asked the Blood Command how to gather spiritual energy, and it told him to use his own energy as a guide while warning that other cultivators would come.
• Lin Yu released his spiritual energy to draw in the surrounding energy, exhausted himself, and began recovering with a Spirit Stone as the gathered energy became visible.
• Poison Slayer noticed that cultivators had returned, while Lin Yu continued absorbing the energy despite their approach.
• A cultivator stabbed Lin Yu from behind, but Lin Yu struck him down and killed him after learning he was from the Blade Sect.
• Lin Yu sat down to recover as nearby cultivators discussed his killing intent and anticipated the Blade Sect’s arrival.