Chapter Summaries

Lin Xin’s Earth Spirit Elder evolved into a Magma Core Heart, which helped him gain profound insight into the Azure Origin Art. He then evolved an Earthbound Spirit into a dangerous Third Abyss Mark, leaving him facing a threat to his territory.

• Lin Xin watched the Earth Spirit Elder absorb essence qi and explode, leaving behind a Magma Core Heart.
• Lin Xin learned from the Little Flower Fairies that the Magma Core Heart could aid cultivation and comprehension, but only he could safely use it.
• Lin Xin merged the Magma Core Heart with Supreme Clarity Water, gaining deep insight into the Azure Origin Art and reaching the peak of Grand Completion without breaking through.
• Lin Xin transferred attributes to an Earthbound Spirit, evolving it into a Soul Harvester and then a mass of black vapor identified as a Third Abyss Mark.
• The Little Flower Fairies warned Lin Xin that the mark could trigger the Gate of Darkness and destroy their territory, but Lin Xin grasped it anyway.

Lin Xin strengthened the Star Demon Lin Wai until it could hide the Wasteland in a spatial labyrinth, then completed the territory’s expansion and ecosystem. The Wasteland vanished from ordinary detection, leaving Lin Xin confident in its layered defenses.

• Lin Xin transferred twelve thousand points of average attributes into the Star Demon, greatly enhancing its abilities, including an attack capable of breaking open the Third Heaven.
• Lin Xin began creating Snow Monsters and estimated that their blizzards had reached the offensive power of Tier Five spells.
• After the Wasteland doubled in size, Lin Xin built forests, snowy mountains, rivers, grasslands, houses, and a self-circulating ecosystem.
• Lin Xin ordered Star Demon Lin Wai to draw the Wasteland into a spatial labyrinth, and Lin Wai concealed the entire territory after half an hour.
• Lin Xin inspected the hidden Wasteland and its layered arrays, defensive towers, Dao Soldier buildings, and living areas.

Lin Xin slaughtered Sea Demon Spirits during the battle at the formation, then crossed the barrier and killed a demon general before the retreat signal sounded. His display of strength left the assembled Lineage members wary and impressed, while Gongshang Baiyu became infatuated with him.

• Lin Xin killed a giant turtle-like Sea Demon Spirit and rejected Kong Ruyi's offer to join forces.
• Lin Xin charged toward the formation membrane, cutting down swarms of demon spirits with his Thunderclap Sword.
• Ignoring warnings from the Gongshang Family Head, Lin Xin crossed the barrier and killed a shark-headed demon general with Thunder Mark.
• Lin Xin withdrew after the gongs sounded and the demon generals began retreating.
• Duan Qinglong and Kong Ruyi acknowledged Lin Xin's frightening skill and advised against making him an enemy.
• Gongshang Baiyu blushed over Lin Xin, and Song Danhao teased her about being interested in him.

Lin Xin’s bloodline test revealed him as a Tier Five pureblood, earning him reserve Core Disciple status on Azure Lake Mountain and the chance to become Azure Mountain Elder’s third True Inheritor. As the group left the Testing Tower, Chen Jingsi begged Lin Xin to bring her into the sect, while Wang Jin found his old resentment fading.

• Lin Xin’s test unleashed ten wings, a horn, and a forceful bloodline tremor, while a beam of green light pierced all five floors of the Testing Tower.
• Azure Mountain Elder identified Lin Xin as a Tier Five pureblood and gave him a jade talisman, naming him a reserve Core Disciple and inviting him to take a cultivation art test to qualify as his third True Inheritor.
• Lin Xin put away his wings and horn, and the injured onlookers recovered enough to leave the Testing Tower with Wang Jin.
• Chen Jingsi offered to become Lin Xin’s servant and even proposed that her two younger sisters serve him too, and Lin Xin told her they could discuss it later.
• Outside the tower, Wang Jin saw the onlookers’ shock and coldly snubbed the one-eyed man as his buried resentment disappeared.

Lin Xin stabilized his new Tier Five cultivation, learned that Qiao Yu favored Shen Tang, and went to the Heavenly Evolution Tower to prepare for his trial mission. Shen Tang then entered his own snowy territorial city, where a royal relative built its facilities and Yu Xiu arrived to guard it for a year.

• Lin Xin refined his Innate Pure Qi and received Yuan Xi’s warning that Qiao Yu had attended Shen Tang’s Tier Five celebration banquet.
• Lin Xin headed to the Heavenly Evolution Tower, where he and Shen Tang passed one another without speaking.
• Shen Tang entered his trial site and found an empty city atop a snowy mountain.
• Shen Tang’s royal uncle summoned buildings and Dao Soldier facilities throughout the territory.
• Yu Xiu appeared at the White Jade Dao Palace and told Shen Tang he would guard the city for one year.

Lin Xin survived the explosion and found Zeng Zhuo, Murong Jun, and Lu Qiaoqiao gravely injured. He tried to bargain with Lu Qiaoqiao for information about her mask and a master-servant soul contract, but their standoff was interrupted by the Grievance River Chanter’s roar.

• Lin Xin discovered his Space Ring was destroyed, wrapped a fragment of the Golden Radiance Garment around his wrist, and examined the injured Zeng Zhuo and Murong Jun.
• Lu Qiaoqiao offered Lin Xin one million Contribution Points and other rewards if he rescued her, but he refused to help without knowing what she could offer.
• Lin Xin learned that the man he had killed was the notorious Fox Spirit Bandit Xia Yuanli, and Lu Qiaoqiao warned that she might possess a similar secret technique.
• Lin Xin demanded information about Lu Qiaoqiao’s mask and a master-servant soul contract in exchange for saving her; she rejected the contract and proposed an equal one instead.
• Lin Xin prepared to leave without Lu Qiaoqiao, but the Grievance River Chanter roared nearby, startling them both.

Lin Xin followed Yuansha Mountain Man and Lu Qiaoqiao into the Black Water Palace, where they battled the Grievance River Chanter while he stayed hidden. After the two fled and returned to the blood-colored hall, they fought over the Qi La Mask, leaving Lu Qiaoqiao reaching for it as space tore open around them.

• Yuansha Mountain Man bound Lin Xin, Zeng Zhuo, and Murong Jun with sand ropes before he and Lu Qiaoqiao charged into the red-lit hall.
• Lin Xin freed himself and the others, then entered the hall and hid as the Grievance River Chanter's mental attack injured him and the two fighters.
• Yuansha Mountain Man and Lu Qiaoqiao fled the hall with the Chanter pursuing them, while Lin Xin remained concealed.
• Yuansha Mountain Man returned alone, opened a corpse spike, and found the Qi La Mask inside.
• Lu Qiaoqiao appeared and blocked Yuansha Mountain Man as he lunged for the mask, and their clash tore open a spatial fissure.
• Lu Qiaoqiao rose toward the Qi La Mask while the fissure's violent pull dragged at the surroundings.

Lin Xin and his disciples freed the Corpse King Qi from its altar seal, while Nine Teeth realized it had escaped and warned others of the danger. Elsewhere, Lu Li routed an army near Hanzhong City, and a hidden watcher suspected she might be a Yaksha.

• Lin Xin, Xiao Ran, and another disciple melted the ice around the lakebed altar and released the Corpse King Qi, which escaped into the sky.
• Nine Teeth reached the cracked altar, learned the Corpse King Qi had escaped, and crushed a golden-patterned stone to signal that a seal had broken.
• In Planton City, Xuanying Daoist and a long-browed monk decided to alert the Yuan and Yin families, the Daoist Association, and the Buddhist Association.
• Near Hanzhong City, Lu Li killed more than three thousand soldiers and drove the remaining forces into retreat.
• A shadow watching Lu Li from the woods wondered whether another Yaksha body had appeared.

Lin Xin returned to the Dragon Snake Realm after surviving an encounter with the Fox Spirit Bandit, and Dragon Snake gave him a pill to restore his severed arm. After Lin Xin visited his injured senior sister and slept for three days, Chen Jingsi’s message revealed new information about the Nether Prefecture and traces of Yuan Qiuque and Huang Yuerong.

• Lin Xin returned to the Dragon Snake Realm and learned that Chen Jingsi had left to investigate reports about the people he was seeking.
• Dragon Snake questioned Lin Xin about his injuries, learned he had encountered a servant of the Evil God King, and gave him a Seven Revolutions Xinlian Pill to regrow his arm.
• Dragon Turtle told Lin Xin that Lie Jin had been severely injured by people from the Nine Immortals Hall, and Dragon Snake promised to seek an explanation from their hall master.
• Lin Xin visited Lie Jin, then returned to Deep Fire Palace without revealing the secrets of his mission or the attribute points he had gained.
• Lin Xin slept for three days and then read Chen Jingsi’s message, which linked the Nether Prefecture to the ancient gods’ war and Shadow City and reported traces of Yuan Qiuque and Huang Yuerong.

Lin Xin evolved the Snow Monster into a unique True Name Summoner and discovered it could call powerful servants from the void. The first servants worshipped the Star Eater King, so Lin Xin ordered Lin Yi to avoid summoning known Gods and Devils or Evil Gods.

• Lin Xin strengthened the Snow Monster, increasing its blizzard power and transforming it into a many-mouthed, black-furred being that reached its evolutionary limit.
• The Snow Monster explained that it had become a unique True Name Summoner and asked Lin Xin to name it; Lin Xin named it Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi summoned Cher and a growing force of beetle men, who demanded blood food, metal, and souls as compensation.
• Lin Yi revealed that the beetle men served the Star Eater King, prompting Lin Xin to order their immediate return.
• Lin Xin told Lin Yi to learn how to identify known Evil Gods and Gods and Devils and to summon servants from other existences.

Lin Xin found Dragon Snake after his master had poisoned himself and used four clusters of Bathing Fire Source Power to revive him. Dragon Snake survived, healed Lin Xin, and gained insight that would soon let him reach the Celestial Venerable realm, but he told Lin Xin to keep it secret.

• Dragon Snake drank poisoned wine and died while seated in the Inner Hall.
• Lin Xin found Dragon Snake's letter directing him to take the Earth Fire Nine Spirits Pearl, then discovered his master's body and realized he had committed suicide.
• Lin Xin poured all four clusters of Bathing Fire Source Power into Dragon Snake, whose soul began transforming under the power's flood of world memories.
• Dragon Snake revived and manifested Earth Surging White Lotus and other phenomena as the Bathing Fire Source Power transformed him.
• Dragon Snake realized he had gained insight into the Great Dao of life and death, healed Lin Xin's injuries, and instructed him to keep the breakthrough secret.

Lin Xin investigated the supernatural forces and political turmoil surrounding Hanzhong while building his influence across Great Xia and locating another place where fate gathered. The story ended with Chen Ying welcoming Yuan Xiaojing to the flourishing Yong An Merchant Guild.

• Lin Xin learned that Laoshan Sect had led the weak Dao sects and that the slain Corpse King Ji Du could regenerate because he had no soul.
• Lin Xin arrived in Hanzhong, where his disciples prepared a residence and expected military intelligence chief Sun Guo Tao to visit.
• Chen Zhenghua dismissed reports of extraordinary powers, then met a cloaked figure who said a secret treasure near Hanzhong had been located and that their plans had to accelerate.
• Over three months, Lin Xin gathered joy, expanded his disciples’ search for resources, and learned that time in the small world passed roughly nineteen times faster than in his own world.
• Lin Xin discovered that another place where fate gathered was near Hanzhong.
• Chen Ying greeted her childhood friend Yuan Xiaojing in Xianzhou and offered her a fifty-tael monthly salary at the Yong An Merchant Guild.

Lin Xin established the Jade Essence Array in the Wasteland and planted buildings to produce Mountain Spirit Dwarves, Earthbound Spirits, and tree demons. After testing the new Dao soldiers and filling the land with buildings, he entered the Wasteland’s deepest core, where he found himself surrounded by black vapor and flying human heads.

• Lin Xin confirmed the Jade Essence Array’s permanent installation, creating a protective and concealing barrier that could arm allied Dao soldiers and grow stronger by consuming the slain.
• Lin Xin planted buildings for Mountain Spirit Dwarves, Earthbound Spirits, and tree demons, using the resources he had prepared.
• Lin Xin summoned Mountain Spirit Dwarves and instructed them to begin constructing buildings instead of city walls.
• Lin Xin tested the Earthbound Spirits’ spell-disrupting abilities and the tree demons’ strength, resilience, and air-purifying effect.
• Lin Xin planted the Little Garden and Bewildering Gate, then entered the Wasteland’s deepest core and found himself surrounded by black vapor filled with flying human heads.

As Yuan Wanqing lay dying, she revealed that Lin Yaoyang was rescued from a distant Lin Family and that the clan had come to claim her for her awakened Purification Blood. Lin Yaoyang rejected their demand, and the visitors threatened her and the Lin Lineage.

• The physicians admitted they could not treat Yuan Wanqing, and Lin Xin and Lin Yaoyang stayed with her at her bedside.
• Yuan Wanqing told Lin Xin that Lin Yaoyang was not Lin Hao's biological daughter but had been rescued from another Lin Family, whose people had recently sought to take her away.
• Yuan Wanqing warned Lin Xin that the other Lin Family considered itself the orthodox clan and had profound cultivation.
• Lin Yaoyang insisted that her home was with Lin Xin and Yuan Wanqing, then went with Lin Xin to meet the visitors from the Yueyang Lin Family.
• Lin Yaoyang refused to return to the Yueyang Lin Family, and Lin Ya and his companion threatened that the Lin Lineage would suffer for her decision.

Lin Xin studied the Azure Origin Art and began cultivating its Nine Qi Furnace after returning to his residence. He received a warning and a cultivation aid from Xiya, then spent more than ten days gathering the nine kinds of qi and condensed his first drop of Nine Qi Essence Liquid.

• Lin Xin overheard others discuss Daoist Huan Ping and Qiao Yu, then examined the demanding requirements of the Azure Origin Art.
• Lin Xin left the lecture hall and received a black jade talisman from a green-robed girl who bumped into him.
• Lin Xin listened to Xiya's warning that Cocoon's people were watching him and received her Illusion God Leaf, which he stored without swallowing.
• Lin Xin returned to his stone house and began gathering the nine kinds of primal qi, initially collecting the five elemental qis.
• Lin Xin learned to cultivate righteous qi by strengthening positive thoughts and continued refining the nine qis for more than ten days.
• Lin Xin condensed his first drop of Nine Qi Essence Liquid, which floated in his dantian with a seven-colored halo.

Lin Xin survived Huan Niu’s attack with a trap that severely wounded the Earth Immortal, and Dragon Snake took over the captive while expanding Lin Xin’s Wasteland. After rebuilding and strengthening his territory, Lin Xin learned that Azure Lake Mountain had curbed Shadow City’s assassinations and prepared even more defenses.

• Lin Xin emerged from the ruined arrays after Huan Niu was incapacitated, and Dragon Snake explained that an Earth Immortal could survive as long as his Sacred Land remained intact.
• Dragon Snake took Huan Niu into custody and expanded Lin Xin’s Wasteland, warning Lin Xin that Earth Immortals had to be sealed or completely eliminated to prevent future trouble.
• Lin Xin surveyed the destruction, directed the dwarves to rebuild, and added Snow Monster and Star Demon production buildings, a Guardian God Statue, and a White Jade Dao Palace.
• Months later, Lin Xin learned that Azure Lake Mountain had sent Tier Six hunter squads to search for Shadow City assassins and had already curbed their movements.
• Lin Xin stacked thirty sets of arrays across his territory, confident that another Earth Immortal would be unable to break through.

Lin Xin confronted Lin Shangxiu, then turned his attention to the Sea Demon Spirit assault on the Gongshang Family’s defenses. He joined the fight at the front of the formation, where his first strike killed a dozen demon spirits and cleared space for the defenders.

• Lin Xin accused Lin Shangxiu of being a demon spirit in disguise, and Lin Sheri attacked her before two black-clad men intervened and drove him back.
• Lin Xin broke the weapons of two Thunderclap Sword experts, while Gong Shang Nuo arrived to defuse the confrontation.
• A giant wave struck the Gongshang Family’s barrier, and the Sea Drum Army and Gongshang Family fought back against the arriving Sea Demon Spirits.
• Lin Xin leaped toward the battle, followed by Duan Qinglong and other fighters, while Lin Youke and her companions decided to join them.
• Lin Xin reached the front stone platform and killed at least a dozen demon spirits with a single attack.

Lin Xin accepted Chen Jingsi as his servant after she failed to qualify, and they traveled with the other candidates to Gathered Cloud City. At Azure Origin Platform, Lin Xin’s jade talisman identified him as already qualified for the next stage, where he saw three other talented youths.

• Wang Jin told Lin Xin that Chen Jingsi’s family had been destroyed and that taking her in would involve her feud with a formidable enemy.
• After Chen Jingsi failed to qualify, Lin Xin agreed to take her as a servant, and she gratefully accepted.
• Wang Jin led the failed candidates away while Lin Xin and the selected candidates boarded a vessel for Gathered Cloud City.
• The group arrived at Azure Origin Platform, where a second test would select more Formal Disciples.
• Lin Xin’s jade talisman lit up to confirm his qualification, and he saw three other gifted youths whose talismans also shone.

Lin Xin battled Xing Pengfei, the Shadow Demon Great Saint, as their attacks shattered transmission gates and tore through the lower Heaven Realm. Lin Xin gained the upper hand with the Sword of Joy, and Xing Pengfei's incarnation was destroyed, though he vowed to kill Lin Xin next time.

• Xing Pengfei unleashed Heavenly Extremes Nine Revolutions: Collapse, forcing a Heavenly Venerable to evacuate the cultivators as the small worlds and transmission gates began to break apart.
• The black-robed Heavenly Venerable led the group through a black transmission sphere, but the sphere shattered as the fighters' battle spilled into the Snow Mountain Summit.
• Lin Xin and Xing Pengfei clashed amid golden seawater, with Lin Xin using the Sword of Joy to absorb Xing Pengfei's power and withstand his Heavenly Venerable-level attacks.
• Lin Xin struck Xing Pengfei with an empowered sword attack, destroying his great blade and killing dozens of nearby cultivators in the spreading shockwaves.
• Xing Pengfei admitted Lin Xin had gained the advantage, retreated, and was vaporized by Lin Xin's pink sword light after promising to kill him next time.

Lin Xin and Lin Yaoyang quietly mourned Yuan Wanqing, who died three months after his return, while the Yueyang Lin Family kept their distance after recognizing Lin Xin’s sect mark. After Lin Xin failed to find Xiya, Feng Huai updated him on Qiao Yu’s resurrection and the turmoil surrounding Song Danhao in the Buddha Realm.

• Lin Xin’s sect mark frightened Lin Ya and his companion into leaving, while Lin Yaoyang complained that Lin Xin had spoiled her chance to have fun with them.
• The Yueyang Lin Family settled nearby, but Lin Xin and Lin Yaoyang ignored them and cared for Yuan Wanqing as her health declined.
• Yuan Wanqing died three months after Lin Xin returned, and Lin Xin and Lin Yaoyang held a simple three-day funeral before placing her ashes in the Lin Family ancestral hall.
• Lin Yaoyang declined Lin Xin’s offer to take her to the Dragon Snake Realm, and Lin Xin could no longer enter the room where he had met Xiya.
• Feng Huai told Lin Xin that the Azure Mountain Realm Lord had resurrected Qiao Yu and that the Dragon Snake Realm Lord had intervened to protect Lin Xin from the Azure Mountain Realm.
• Feng Huai warned Lin Xin that Song Danhao and his group had stirred up conflict in the Buddha Realm, and Lin Xin placed the Stone Wheel Pearl with Yuan Wanqing’s ashes.