Chapter Summaries

Tianyin and Jiuse gathered the Dao Ancestors to suppress Lin Xin, but their attacks failed to contain the destruction-powered swordsman. Lin Xin shattered their defenses and overwhelmed the group, leaving Tianyin to face him after she rescued the gravely wounded Jiuse.

• Tianyin and Jiuse trapped Lin Xin beneath the Ten Thousand Buddhas Golden Pool, but he battered the seal from within.
• Tianyin warned the other Dao Ancestors that the Black Universe had turned Lin Xin into a will of destruction, and they joined forces to attack him.
• The golden seal exploded, and Lin Xin emerged to strike down the gathered Dao Ancestors, while Jiuse summoned a colossal Buddha hand against him.
• Lin Xin broke the Buddha hand and used the Sword of Lament and Sword of Fear to wound and disable the Dao Ancestors.
• Lin Xin killed God Ancestor Yan Naiya and swallowed the two Azure Lake Mountain Dao Ancestors, while Tianyin rescued the dying Jiuse and prepared to face him alone.

Lin Xin investigated a deep black lake and encountered Nine Teeth, a Corpse Dao figure guarding a sealed Corpse King. As Xiao Ran captured Nine Teeth, the danger beneath the lake remained unresolved.

• Lin Xin sent two disciples to investigate a mysterious island, where they found a deep lake and sensed an unusual power.
• Lin Xin extended his spiritual sense into the lake, drawing a black-robed figure named Nine Teeth to the surface.
• Nine Teeth warned Lin Xin to leave, explaining that the lake concealed a seal holding Corpse King Ji Du and its dangerous Corpse King Qi.
• Lin Xin ordered Xiao Ran to investigate the lake, and Xiao Ran fought off Nine Teeth's ice attacks with his sword and talismans.
• Lin Xin told Xiao Ran to capture Nine Teeth, and Xiao Ran trapped him inside a glowing white sack.

Lin Xin learned from an old booklet that the Nether Prefecture forced its entrants to kill and subjected them to hallucinations that grew stronger over time, then spent weeks cultivating and developing his own sword art. A boy carrying a golden lock like Lin Xin’s arrived, claiming his master had said Lin Xin would take him in, and Lin Xin became interested in him.

• Lin Xin read the booklet’s records about the Nether Prefecture, its escalating dangers, and the hallucinations that could overwhelm even powerful cultivators.
• Lin Xin kept his two remaining Demon Talisman Seeds, practiced sword techniques in the Dark Dwelling, and began creating a sword art of his own.
• After more than a month, Lin Xin’s cultivation neared its next breakthrough, while his new sword art still had flaws.
• Lin Xin and Gongsun Li agreed to arrange an engagement between Lin Zhen and Gongsun Xue, and Li Lao reported progress on melting the Cloud Gold.
• Lin Xin received a golden lock nearly identical to the one previously given to him and summoned the boy who had brought it.
• The boy told Lin Xin that his master had predicted Lin Xin would take him in and said he wanted to become as impressive as Lin Xin.

Lin Xin learned that the crisis involving the missing cultivator had been suppressed for now, but his worsening injuries and hallucinations continued to threaten him. After nearly killing his son during an illusion, he returned to the Red Leaf Forest, questioned its strange inhabitants, and prepared to infiltrate the Two-Faced People again.

• You Xuan and Ji Lu thanked Dugu Lin for helping them through the trial and worried that the sect would investigate the harmed Qi Refinement cultivator.
• Lin Xin received news that the matter had been suppressed, then saw a drowned woman in the lake and nearly stabbed his son, Lin Zhen, before realizing he was hallucinating.
• Lin Xin returned to the Red Leaf Forest, where a pale woman told him the others avoided it because it was soaked in blood and filled with wronged souls.
• Lin Xin tried to question the woman and the drunkard, but took her warning to be silent as guidance and left without answers.
• Lin Xin disguised himself to enter the Two-Faced People's streets, using a scent-concealing array after discovering that their keen sense of smell had exposed him before.

Lin Xin learned that Lin Yaoyang might be a Demon God General tied to Song Danhao, while Feng Huai revealed a mysterious power within Lin Xin’s Purification Flame. After returning to his territory, Lin Xin waited as his sister remained asleep and Song Danhao’s group stayed missing.

• Feng Huai told Lin Xin that Lin Yaoyang might be one of the Demon God Generals destined to gather around Song Danhao, though she might instead have been caught up in events by accident.
• Feng Huai sensed another power within Lin Xin’s Purification Flame, and distant white-eyed figures observed Lin Xin before deciding not to interfere.
• Feng Huai returned Lin Xin to his territory, gave him a Space Chains containing his Dao soldier seeds and other supplies, and Lin Xin built a comfortable fortress in War City.
• Lin Yaoyang remained unconscious as she recovered from the strain of her Bloodline Power eruption, and more than two months passed without her waking.
• Cultivators and artifact vessels passed through Lin Xin’s territory seeking the Snowman King’s Tears, while Song Danhao’s group remained missing.

Lin Xin and his followers destroyed LaSalle and descended beneath the city to reach the sealed Corpse King Ji Du. As Lin Xin approached Ji Du, Yin Mingzhi, Yuan Xiaojing, Chen Ying, Bu La Ge, and Zhi Hong arrived to stop him, and Bu La Ge trapped him in yellow light.

• Lu Li pierced the paving with her sword, revealing a passage, and Lin Xin's warship destroyed LaSalle to gather the dead civilians' souls.
• Lin Xin, Lu Li, and Zhou Yan descended to an altar, where Zhou Yan stayed behind to fight two guardians while Lin Xin and Lu Li found the Flying Yaksha King and an entrance below.
• Lu Li confronted the chained Flying Yaksha King as Lin Xin smashed through a locked door and found Ji Du sealed into a jade altar.
• Yin Mingzhi, Yuan Xiaojing, and their companions arrived through a teleportation array, and Chen Ying recognized Lin Xin as her father, Chen Ji.
• Bu La Ge trapped Lin Xin in yellow light, while Zhi Hong joined the others and Ji Du tried to persuade Bu La Ge to help him rule the world.

After doctors confirmed Xiao Lingling was dying from the exhaustion of her lifespan, the Strange Man Senior came to Spirit Heart Mountain Manor and used a mysterious tree to extend her life by twenty years. Xiao Lingling recovered, but she became bound to the tree and could not leave the courtyard.

• Lin Xin learned from Senior Brother Qi Huang that Xiao Lingling's depleted qi and blood could not be restored by ordinary medicine.
• The Strange Man Senior arrived and offered to extend Xiao Lingling's life in exchange for Lin Xin promising to shelter whoever later brought a Purple Gold Lock to the manor.
• The senior grew a magical tree in the courtyard and explained that Xiao Lingling and the tree shared life, granting her twenty more years as long as she remained nearby.
• Lin Xin discovered that damage to the tree caused Xiao Lingling pain and ordered guards to protect it from people and animals.
• Xiao Lingling gradually recovered but became gravely ill whenever she left the courtyard, so Lin Xin kept the secret within the manor.

Lin Xin received a message from the Bright Sun Sect and hurried away, while Yuan Shihong returned to Spirit Heart Mountain Manor to hunt for its remaining occupants. As Yuan Shihong pursued a fleeing figure, a hidden blast erupted beneath him and Wan Er, leaving their fate uncertain.

• The Man-Eating Flower completed its evolution and told Lin Xin that its new ability was attack, but a letter from Liu Yang enraged him and he vanished after burning it.
• Huang Shan led Yuan Shihong on a prolonged chase before Yuan Shihong abandoned the pursuit and returned toward Spirit Heart Mountain Manor.
• Yuan Shihong and Wan Er found the manor deserted and used a Soul-Chasing Talisman to locate Xiao Lingling beneath a tree.
• A fleeing Innate Realm cultivator drew Yuan Shihong away, and Lin Xinyuan carried Xiao Lingling toward the underground passage.
• Yuan Shihong pursued the fleeing figure into the mountain forest, but a blast from beneath him engulfed him and Wan Er in blinding light.

Lin Xin visited Fire God Palace and agreed to refine Fire Scythe Pills in exchange for fourth-rank sword-forging materials. While he experimented with recasting the Red Flower Sword and developing new fire techniques, he repeatedly produced pills for Fire God Child with remarkable success.

• Fire God Child welcomed Lin Xin to Xi Lin Volcano Group and explained that he taught disciples of many races without discrimination.
• Lin Xin and Fire God Child agreed that Lin Xin would refine nine Fire Scythe Pills per batch in exchange for a complete set of fourth-rank materials for sword artifacts.
• Lin Xin studied how to recast the Red Flower Sword, considering the Saint Sound Fire Array and how different Dao Intents might transform Qilin.
• Seven days later, Lin Xin refined Fire Scythe Pills and tested combinations of Dao Intents and fire formations in Fire God Palace's refinement halls.
• Lin Xin refined several batches of Fire Scythe Pills so successfully that Fire God Child treated him warmly as a brother.

Lin Xin recruited a bandit leader skilled in arrays, then attacked the Red Pavilion branch in Red Lotus County and killed Xin He, discovering that killing cultivators increased his cultivation. That night, Zhao Yunshan confronted two Star Calamity Hall agents at a Mountain God Temple and demanded to know where Xin He was.

• Lin Xin recognized the bandit leader's skill with arrays and ordered him to come to the manor with two trusted subordinates.
• Lin Xin went to the Red Pavilion's Drunken Dream Pavilion, where Xin He confronted him from an upper floor.
• Lin Xin attacked Xin He and killed her with a sword strike, then searched her room for intelligence and took her magical artifact.
• Lin Xin discovered that killing Xin He had slightly increased his cultivation and blood-colored spirit energy.
• Zhao Yunshan entered a Mountain God Temple and challenged two Star Calamity Hall agents, asking where Xin He was.

Lin Xin tried to convince Liu Chuanlong that he could help repair the formation, then proved his talent by quickly learning third-grade formation techniques. Liu Chuanlong recognized Lin Xin’s ability and hoped to recruit him before Tiger Mask Old Man noticed.

• Tiger Old Man argued with Hunchback Old Man and rejected his granddaughter’s defense of her grandfather’s approach.
• Lin Xin offered Liu Chuanlong help with the formation in exchange for guidance, but Liu Chuanlong dismissed him as a fraud.
• Lin Xin practiced Sacrificial Flame and then struggled with a third-grade formation pattern until Liu Chuanlong gave him a pointer.
• After applying Liu Chuanlong’s advice, Lin Xin rapidly mastered the foundational patterns of the third-grade formation.
• Lin Xin engraved a miniature third-grade formation, astonishing Liu Chuanlong, who realized Lin Xin could help repair the massive formation.

Huang Shan told Lin Xin that he would formally enter the sect as a Formal Disciple, and Lin Xin used his Spirit Gathering Pill to break through to the fifth level of the Minor Returning Origin Art. After preparing to return to his Lineage, Lin Xin tried to take the injured Xiao Lingling with him, but she fled, leaving him to discover another Spirit Gathering Pill in her food box.

• Huang Shan told Lin Xin that he would formally join the sect after taking a Heartblood Oath and would have a year to settle his Lineage and relatives.
• Lin Xin swallowed the Spirit Gathering Pill and broke through to the fifth level of the Minor Returning Origin Art, gaining enough strength to dent iron plating with his fingers.
• Lin Xin copied a map of dangerous places and arrays, then worked on new combat arrays and planned a journey to hunt for attribute points.
• Xiao Lingling brought Lin Xin a meal and admired his work making talisman tools, and Lin Xin told her she would return to his Lineage with him.
• Xiao Lingling resisted Lin Xin's attempt to take responsibility for her and ran into the night; Lin Xin found a Spirit Gathering Pill in the food box she left behind.

After Huo Hengdao’s challenge, Lin Xin treated An Ying’s wound and heard from Lin Hao that the Lin Family faced a threat. He searched for the booklet left by his master, but someone caught him with it and accused him of hiding a secret technique.

• Huo Hengdao left his weapons and silver after losing, and Lin Xin arranged for An Ying’s saber wound to be treated with gathered herbs.
• Lin Hao visited the Dao hall with Lin Zhiwen’s allowance and warned Lin Xin that someone had targeted the Lin Family and that Shu Family experts had been invited to help.
• Lin Xin decided he needed to restore his swordsmanship and wondered whether his master’s booklet contained a secret technique.
• Lin Xin retrieved the booklet from a hidden compartment beneath his bed, but a tall figure suddenly appeared behind him and confronted him about the secret technique.

Lin Xin considered leaving Spirit Heart Mountain Manor and gathered the materials for his future Foundation Establishment, but a terrifying encounter in an impossible corridor left him wounded. He realized the Nether Prefecture’s hallucinations had intensified and might be real, while a spreading rot and a green handprint marked his body.

• Lin Xin concluded that Hua Yu Nu had to die to protect the Hua family from the consequences of exposing their Insect Masters, then promised the gathered True Persons rewards after the Hua family’s next move.
• Lin Xin reflected that Spirit Heart Mountain Manor no longer needed him and considered leaving to explore the world, while continuing to prepare Yin Manto for his Qilin technique.
• Lin Xin examined his Golden Dragon Root, River Deficient Scale, and White Silk Flower and decided he still needed Yang Spring to create his Dao Foundation.
• A sword attack in the secret chamber sent Lin Xin after a red figure into a strange corridor filled with rooms where motionless women in white sat facing windows.
• Lin Xin stabbed the red figure, escaped through a closing circular opening, and awoke in the secret chamber with a sword wound, spreading decay on his finger, and a green handprint on his chest.
• Lin Xin concluded that the intensified Nether Prefecture hallucinations might not be mere illusions and began searching for what had changed.

Lin Xin learned that the Myriad Laws Hall and Yang Springs could help him nurture a highest-grade Nascent Soul, then traveled toward Sun City while rapidly comprehending Dao intents. The chapter ended as Xiao Yu fought an endless horde of walking corpses that had gathered around their camp.

• Guan Mingyue explained the grades of Yang Springs and how the Nether River could nurture a Nascent Embryo after the Myriad Laws Hall recognized a cultivator’s Dao intent.
• Huang Yuan received word of Lin Xin’s rapid progress in comprehending Dao intents but lamented that Lin Xin’s aptitude limited his future potential.
• Guan Mingyue demonstrated his law domain to Lin Xin, showing how its rule of hostility could obstruct every force and movement within it.
• Lin Xin traveled toward Sun City, challenging sects along the way and mastering their Dao intents with growing speed while Guan Mingyue secretly followed to protect him.
• At a forest camp, Xiao Yu used talismans to knock down waves of walking corpses, but more kept arriving as Lin Xin wondered why they had been drawn to him.

Years passed as Lin Xin built Spirit Heart Mountain Manor into a wealthy power, though his cultivation stalled and he could not find a way into Qi Refinement. After receiving alarming news from the sect, he encountered a silent black carriage outside his bedroom in the middle of the night.

• Lin Xin expanded Spirit Heart Mountain Manor and became known for producing Clear Talisman Swords and runestones, while his cultivation remained stuck at the seventh level.
• Lin Xin spoke with Gongsun Li in the snow and watched his son Lin Zhen play with Xue Er.
• Lin Xin received a letter reporting An Ying's progress, the Shu Family's destruction, and an ambush on the Dugu Siblings; Huang Shan said he would investigate and travel to the border.
• Lin Xin continued to struggle with his cultivation and urged Lin Zhen to practice swordsmanship before returning to his family for the evening.
• Lin Xin awoke to a sound, opened his bedroom door, and found a black carriage waiting in the silent manor beneath a red-tinged moon.

Lin Xin reunited with Dong Yue, whose reaction to a white butterfly tattoo suggested he had encountered an insect master. Later, Hua Lin returned safely after Hua Yu Nu rescued him from two Ghost Wolf Kings, revealing that a renowned rogue-cultivator genius was nearby.

• Lin Xin opened the array to let Dong Yue in, and the two caught up after Dong Yue explained he had lived in the area since leaving the sect.
• Dong Yue reacted with unease when Lin Xin described the white butterfly tattoo that marked humanoid insect masters, then insisted he knew how to deal with one if necessary.
• Lin Xin warned Dong Yue that insect masters were controlled by the Insect Mother and that their alien nature made them dangerous, regardless of whether they seemed friendly.
• Lin Xin and Lin Luo surveyed the giant forest, discussed their route and the missing Hua Lin, and heard someone approaching.
• Hua Lin returned with the help of Hua Yu Nu after encountering two Ghost Wolf Kings, and Lin Xin recognized Hua Yu Nu as a powerful rogue-cultivator Foundation Establishment genius.

Lin Xin visited Granny Yu to learn the artifact path and bought a defensive shield after reaching the Innate Realm. Back at his stone house, he began refining the shield and successfully formed the first level of the sacrificial refinement method.

• Lin Xin entered the Law Transmission pavilion, where Granny Yu recognized that he had reached the Innate Realm and told him her name.
• Lin Xin asked to learn the artifact path, and Granny Yu gave him the basic Blood Origin Art sacrificial refinement technique for free.
• Granny Yu offered Lin Xin three basic artifacts, and he chose the Spirit Light Shield for ten thousand Jade Coins.
• Granny Yu invited Lin Xin to join the Array Hall's morning sparring sessions and hinted that he should stop shrinking from conflict.
• Lin Xin practiced Qi Refinement overnight, captured one wisp of Innate Qi, and later began studying and refining the shield.
• Lin Xin successfully formed the first level of the shield's sacrificial refinement method.

Lin Xin killed a purple giant lizard and absorbed its essence, then discovered that the Nether Prefecture's power was causing his body to rot. He used the Green Fish Lantern to slow the decay and arrived with the convoy at Flower Drum Town, where Ma Qiuqiu invited him to stay with her relatives.

• Lin Xin stabbed the giant lizard with the Red Flower Sword and used Yin Manto to drain its essence until it dissipated.
• Lin Xin found corpse markings and rotting flesh across his body, and realized the Nether Prefecture's power was causing the decay.
• Lin Xin discovered that the Green Fish Lantern's light eased the affected areas and suspected it opposed the Nether Prefecture's power.
• Lin Xin agreed with Ma Yuan to continue the journey the next morning after the convoy's battle.
• Lin Xin and the convoy reached Flower Drum Town, paid the increased toll to enter the Yang Path, and heard Ma Qiuqiu explain that strict laws kept the Central Prefecture's powerful factions in check.
• Ma Qiuqiu invited Lin Xin to stay with her relatives because the convoy could not afford to return home after its heavy casualties.

Lin Xin learned how the Human-Face Fruit worked and concluded that powerful interests were protecting its deadly harvest in the city. As he planned to investigate further, Jade Hairpin tried to stab him while he bathed.

• Lin Xin gave Yu Chang a Lucid Runestone in exchange for a booklet containing information about the Human-Face Fruit.
• Lin Xin learned that the fruit fed on humans and reasoned that the city’s yearly plague was part of a protected scheme to harvest it.
• Lin Xin decided to investigate likely gathering places for the Six-Winged Bees and considered taking the fruit for himself.
• Jade Hairpin dressed in white and picked up scissors that glinted with a strange green light before going to Lin Xin’s room.
• Jade Hairpin massaged Lin Xin as he relaxed in the bath, then aimed her poisoned scissors at the back of his neck and stabbed.