Chapter Summaries

Sun Guo Tao faced the approaching imperial and foreign forces with his Rebel Army nearly defeated, while Goose Daoist promised help from the Lake Mountain Sect. As Lu Li and Zhao Wu Mian engaged the enemy forces, Lin Xin discovered traces of an unfamiliar energy on a small island near Xian Zhou City.

• Sun Guo Tao learned that 120,000 imperial troops had reached Liu City and that allied forces were bombarding coastal religious sites, leaving his poorly equipped Rebel Army in dire straits.
• Goose Daoist introduced herself to Sun Guo Tao as a disciple of the Lake Mountain Sect and said her senior sister had gone alone to fight the imperial army.
• Lu Li charged into the imperial army's vanguard with twin swords, evading gunfire as she slaughtered the soldiers.
• Zhao Wu Mian walked across the sea toward a white iron warship with his treasured sword, and the warship opened fire on him.
• Lin Xin sailed to a small island near Xian Zhou City and sensed traces of an unfamiliar energy there.

Lin Xin subdued Wei Yu in a single exchange and carried him away, stunning the town and Phoenix Purity Hall’s observers. The news reached Nine Flowers Hall, where Sun Xiao Jun and the other Attendants confronted the alarming report that Wei Yu had been captured.

• Lin Xin told Wang Tong that he could cure his ailment if Wang Tong joined the Lake Mountain Sect, then gave him directions to the guild hall.
• Wei Yu rode to confront the Zhou Prince’s Mansion’s forces and demanded that their supposed grandmaster face him.
• Lin Xin introduced himself as Red Flower of the Lake Mountain Sect and tried to recruit Wei Yu, prompting Wei Yu to attack.
• Lin Xin stopped Wei Yu’s spear with a finger, overwhelmed him, and carried him toward the guild hall as Wang Tong resolved to follow the directions.
• Igor witnessed Wei Yu’s capture and sent a coded report to Phoenix Purity Hall.
• Chen Shu reported Wei Yu’s capture to Sun Xiao Jun and the Nine Flowers Hall Attendants, who were stunned by the news.

Lin Xin survived Jiao Ning’s devastating attack, killed him and Longevity Venerable, and escaped the destroyed Soul Sect headquarters with Lin Yaoyang. After the Heavenly Alliance and Star Chant Sect took control of the situation, a Protectorate Army member identified Lin Yaoyang’s condition as likely caused by Shadow City’s Fragrant Abode Soul Extinguishing Pill.

• Lin Xin revealed that he had survived Jiao Ning’s attack and killed Jiao Ning with the Sword of Joy, cleaving Soul Sect Island and even splitting the Bewitching Soul Realm.
• Lin Xin increased his Constitution with the attribute points from Jiao Ning, stopped Longevity Venerable from escaping, and killed him after rejecting his threats and offer of intelligence.
• Lin Xin rescued Lin Yaoyang, reported Soul Sect’s rebellion to Azure Lake Mountain, and left as the Heavenly Alliance and Star Chant Sect forces took control of the headquarters.
• Cloud Light Lord and the White Cloud Whale Emperor welcomed Lin Xin aboard the warship, and Lin Xin asked for help waking Lin Yaoyang.
• A Protectorate Army member told Lin Xin that Lin Yaoyang’s condition resembled the effects of Shadow City’s Fragrant Abode Soul Extinguishing Pill.

Lin Xin protected the Chen family from Zhao Qiankun, then set out to understand joy and locate the World Origin. His search led him to learn that the authorities were cracking down on Daoists and Buddhists, while he remained unsure where to find the clues he needed.

• Lin Xin struck Zhao Qiankun down, and Zhao Qiankun acknowledged his mistake and left the Chen Residence with his men.
• Chen Ying asked Lin Xin to teach her his technique, but he put off the request and told the family to summon him if Zhao Qiankun returned.
• Lin Xin considered how to find the World Origin and began sensing people’s emotions as he walked through the city.
• Lin Xin stopped a servant from threatening a yellow-robed Daoist, then agreed to buy him a meal in exchange for information.
• The yellow-robed Daoist told Lin Xin that the authorities were targeting Daoists and Buddhists, and Lin Xin continued wandering toward the docks after their meal.

Dragon Snake and Nine Curves learned that Lie Shan had surpassed ten points of Immortal Light Position and repelled Shadow Demon Great Saint Xing Pengfei, making him a crucial source of survival in the Great Calamity. The Fourth Dao Ancestor gave Dragon Snake an Origin Spirit Fruit for Lie Shan, while Lin Xin arrived at Fei Xin Port after months of travel.

• Dragon Snake and Nine Curves were summoned before the Fourth Dao Ancestor, who explained that Lie Shan had repelled Xing Pengfei and could influence the Great Calamity.
• The Fourth Dao Ancestor explained that Great Saints were vital to survival and instructed Azure Lake Mountain to use their strength against the calamity’s cores.
• The Fourth Dao Ancestor gave Dragon Snake an Origin Spirit Fruit so Lie Shan could enter the Sword Hall and study the Supreme September Divine Wind Sword.
• The Fourth Dao Ancestor bestowed a measure of cultivation on Dragon Snake and Nine Curves before sending them away.
• Lin Xin traveled through dozens of teleportations and arrived at Fei Xin Port on the Heavenly Alliance’s outer defense line.

Lin Xin visited Clear Lake Mountain to inspect a group of orphaned children and identify promising cultivators for the Netherworld. He discovered that Lu Li possessed the rare Spirit Tomb Immortal Vein and left with her and Lu Dabai to make further arrangements.

• Lin Xin went to Clear Lake Mountain, where the orphans had been settled, and ordered the soldiers to stop several boys from drowning two children.
• Lin Xin dismissed the official’s suggestion that he take in children for bed service and examined the orphans’ backgrounds and aptitudes.
• Lu Dabai told Lin Xin that he was the kind person who provided them with food and shelter, and Lin Xin began inspecting the children one by one.
• Lin Xin discovered that Lu Li’s death-filled body and the white bumps beneath her eyelids marked her as the bearer of the rare Spirit Tomb Immortal Vein.
• Lin Xin found that Lu Dabai had a Tier Three Spirit Vein while the other children had ordinary aptitudes, then left the waterfall with Lu Li, Lu Dabai, and the soldiers.

Lin Xin returned to Star Gate Number Eleven and continued toward the Devil Realm while testing how much his vastly increased physique could withstand. He found that even Earth Immortal-level Daoist arts could barely hurt him, leaving him to conclude that his resistance had reached the Celestial Venerable level.

• Lin Xin ordered the fleet to pass through Star Gate Number Eleven and head directly to the Devil Realm, while Cloud Light Lord left to sleep.
• Lin Xin reviewed how killing Celestial Venerable incarnations had raised his physique to five hundred and thirty thousand points.
• Lin Xin tested Golden Core-, Nascent Soul-, and Human Immortal-level lightning against his arm and found that none could damage it.
• Lin Xin tested Earth Immortal-level lightning that created spatial fissures, and his skin quickly recovered from the slight pain.
• Lin Xin concluded that ordinary Earth Immortal Daoist arts could not threaten his true body and that his resistance had reached the Celestial Venerable level.

Lin Xin returned to Deep Fire Palace and learned that Dragon Snake was dying, Huo Jiu had stolen treasures, and enemies were closing in on the Dragon Snake Realm. Dragon Snake’s remaining followers dwindled to Lin Xin and Ouluo as they returned to a deserted palace.

• Dragon Snake told Lin Xin that his injuries and approaching end meant he could not reach the Weaving Emperor Realm, then gave him a ring and urged him to leave.
• Dragon Snake revealed that Huo Jiu had sold Deep Fire Palace’s treasures and fled, while Lin Xin received news that Earth Fire creatures were attacking and forces from the Weaving Emperor Realm were advancing.
• Song Ran returned and refused to leave Dragon Snake, and Ouluo arrived wounded and likewise insisted on staying.
• Dragon Snake knocked Song Ran unconscious, and Song Yue carried her away with the ring Dragon Snake had prepared for her.
• Lin Xin sent Lin Youke and the others away, then joined Dragon Snake and Ouluo in offering incense to Martial Uncle Dragon Turtle before they returned to an emptied Deep Fire Palace.

Lin Xin layered three Tier Five arrays over his Wasteland’s existing defenses, then received notice that a C-grade Void Legion would soon attack. He rushed to prepare more defenses through the Sentient Life Tower and began buying additional arrays.

• Lin Xin deployed the Golden Essence Array, Nine Mountains Array, and Earth Spring Transforming Wind Array around the Wasteland, powering them with Magma Core Hearts.
• Lin Xin inspected the completed defenses and found that the layered arrays could protect the Wasteland for decades with periodic replacement of their cores.
• Lin Xin received a Void Spirit Pagoda warning that a C-grade Void Legion would attack northwest of his territory, and realized the warning had been sent the previous day.
• Lin Xin went to the Sentient Life Tower and bought the available Tier Five defensive array diagrams through its light screen.
• Lin Xin considered stacking many arrays together and opened the introduction to the Ten Directions Thick Earth Array.

Lin Xin began expanding the Wasteland and experimented with evolving his Dao soldiers, transforming a Mountain Spirit Dwarf into an Earth Spirit Elder. As the Elder absorbed strange elemental energies and Lost Marks, its next evolution began.

• Lin Xin activated a method to absorb void impurities into the Wasteland and planned to improve the land before attracting settlers.
• A Horned Demon General received orders to destroy a human cultivator detected in the buffer zone and mobilized his forces.
• Lin Xin enlarged the soul forces of his Mountain Spirit Dwarves, Earthbound Spirits, and tree demons before restarting their production.
• Lin Xin used attribute points to transform a Mountain Spirit Dwarf into a Tier Two Earth Spirit, then evolved it into a Tier Three Earth Spirit Elder.
• As Lin Xin continued empowering the Earth Spirit Elder, elemental energies and Lost Marks from across the void streamed into its body.

Wei Qing and Wang Kongyan advanced to Human Immortal Tier Five, sending their memories and insights to Lin Xin and strengthening his power as he approached the Earth Immortal realm. Meanwhile, Shen Tang struggled to withstand the combined impact of their breakthroughs while his mother used an Ancient Divine Artifact to ease his pain.

• Wei Qing and Wang Kongyan broke through to Human Immortal Tier Five, and their experiences and transformations flooded into Lin Xin.
• Lin Xin gained new insights, found that three linked Azure Origin Cauldrons had multiplied his magical power, and realized he could enter the Earth Immortal realm whenever he chose to complete his accumulation.
• Shen Tang suffered as memories and insights from two Tier Five advancements overwhelmed him, while his guardians tried to heal his rupturing body.
• Shen Tang's mother gave him an Ancient Divine Artifact that temporarily reduced his pain, and he resumed absorbing the incoming insights.
• Lin Xin examined the changes to his power and the Netherworld, then recognized that he had completed only half the accumulation for the Earth Immortal realm.

Nine Colors prepared to confront Fang Yu as the Ten Thousand Demon River appeared, while Lin Xin continued devouring the substance around a red crystal. After months of growth, Lin Xin consumed the crystal and was struck by an overwhelming torrent of information.

• Nine Colors confirmed the Ten Thousand Demon River had appeared and accepted a mission to seek the Clock Tree’s remains, while God Ancestor Yan Naiya warned that the Operation Lotus might be near.
• Fang Yu watched Celestial Venerable Ding Mu battle Buddha forces, then armed himself and summoned allies as Nine Colors and his followers emerged from a golden vortex.
• Fang Yu and Nine Colors met face-to-face as their Dao Ancestor allies prepared to fight.
• Lin Xin defined one hundred billion attribute points as one dao and continued strengthening himself by devouring the white substance around the red crystal.
• After several months, Lin Xin consumed the shrinking crystal, which shattered and sent a torrent of visions and information into his mind.

Lin Xin’s forces established themselves in Xian Zhou City as a mysterious armored woman wiped out the government troops pursuing the Daoist temple, and the world’s turmoil grew around the National Salvation Army’s uprising. The chapter left Lin Xin strengthening his sect’s foothold while keeping his identity and disciples hidden from Chen Ying.

• Zhao Wu Mian sent the arriving cultivators down the mountain to make contact with the outside world, while the Dao Children hid in the temple.
• Fiers and Xu Dao Tai led government troops up the mountain, but an armored woman killed them all and their deaths became a major scandal before the concession withdrew its demands.
• The National Salvation Army, led by Sun Guo Tao, rose against foreign powers in Hanzhong and faced attacks from imperial and foreign forces.
• Lin Xin’s passage continued bringing Dao soldiers from the Netherworld, and the Lake Mountain Sect began establishing itself outside Xian Zhou City.
• Zhao Wu Mian reported that the concession consul and diplomatic envoys were under control, while Lin Xin learned that an unseen force was gathering around the National Salvation Army.
• Chen Ying visited Lin Xin to warn him that the imperial court was investigating Daoists, but she left without asking about the disciples he had been meeting.

Fang Yu betrayed and killed Hong Tian to seize the shadow-heart, while Lin Xin prepared for the growing war against the Void Demon Spirits. When a massive demon spirit army arrived, Lin Xin attacked and destroyed its planet-sized formation.

• Fang Yu struck Hong Tian from behind, destroyed his shadow-heart, and consumed it despite remembering Hong Tian’s care for him.
• Lin Xin learned from Dragon Snake that the war was worsening, resources were running low, and the Heaven Alliance might soon mobilize its forces.
• Lin Xin told Dragon Snake he wanted to join the campaign against Shadow City to find an antidote for his elder sister’s poison.
• A huge Void Demon Spirit army arrived, and Lin Xin left the fleet to confront a planet-sized sphere covered in demons.
• Lin Xin used Star Burial to split open and detonate the demon spirit sphere, scattering its contents in a massive explosion.

Lin Xin attacked the Soul Sect leader after realizing he was not Nine Hells, while Longevity Venerable watched the battle with Lin Yaoyang imprisoned. Lin Xin met the leader’s Star Destroyer with his full strength, and the chapter ended as the blast engulfed them and the leader declared the fight over.

• Lin Xin recognized that the person posing as Nine Hells was an impostor and attacked him, demanding to know where Longevity Venerable was.
• Longevity Venerable watched Lin Xin battle through a light screen while Lin Yaoyang refused to believe Sun Snatcher would die.
• Lin Xin traded blows with the Soul Sect man, using his speed and Sword of Joy to keep pace as its power accumulated.
• The Soul Sect man unleashed Star Destroyer, concentrating a planet’s weight against Lin Xin.
• Lin Xin released his full strength and the Sword of Joy’s accumulated power, colliding with the Star Destroyer in a vast explosion.
• The Soul Sect man shielded himself with Primal Spirit Holy Light and declared the battle over.

As the universe collapsed, Lin Xin watched Seberus and Four Seas Immortal Saint Yu Zi battle for decades in the Eleventh Heaven Realm, waiting to strike when they were weakest. Their fight reached its final, desperate stage as Seberus used his Snow White Crown against Yu Zi, while Lin Xin considered the principles behind their powers and wondered what his own core was.

• Seberus fought the lightning giant, later revealed as Four Seas Immortal Saint Yu Zi, over the Forging Heaven Scripture Plate, while Lin Xin hid nearby and waited for an opening.
• Lin Xin reasoned that his attribute-based strength was more compact than a Dao Ancestor's power and believed he could exploit the moment when neither opponent could watch for him.
• After decades of fighting, Seberus and Yu Zi were both gravely wounded, and Seberus transformed his remaining body into the Snow White Crown to crush Yu Zi.
• Yu Zi summoned his blue and purple galactic core and used it with his Battle Axe and blue beams to resist the descending crown.
• Lin Xin reflected on how Dao Ancestors and Heavenly Demon Warlords shaped their powers through their own worldviews, then wondered what his own core was.

Lin Xin and Dragon Snake learned from Nine Curves Immortal Elder that the coming Great Calamity stemmed from the warlords of the Thirty-Three Heavens and that humanity and the Devil Race had long fought them together. Dragon Snake prepared to establish a Sacred Land, while a group of Azure Lake Mountain disciples returned for a summons and discussed the newly advanced Heavenly Venerable and their rivalries.

• Nine Curves Immortal Elder explained that the Thirty-Three Heavens' warlords produced demon essence that caused world-ending calamities, and that the approaching assault threatened all worlds.
• Nine Curves Immortal Elder recounted how the first Demon God King and two Immortal Dao experts had fought the warlords, with the latter two dying in battle.
• Nine Curves Immortal Elder told Dragon Snake that Azure Lake Mountain had cleared a starfield for his Sacred Land and set its ceremony for half a month later.
• Wei Ning led a group of white-robed disciples back to Azure Lake Mountain, where they speculated about a Realm Lord who had broken through to the Heavenly Venerable level.
• A young woman asked Wei Ning whether Feng Panjun had received the summons, and Wei Ning dismissed her talk of rivalry and refused her request for Dharma treasures.

Lin Xin fought the Soul Sect after Vice Sect Master Wen tried to stop him from rescuing Lin Yaoyang, then escaped and continued pursuing her through demon-infested territory. His sword attack crippled the Soul Sect cultivators, and he gained another large batch of free attributes as he flew onward.

• Vice Sect Master Wen surrounded Lin Xin and demanded that he leave the Soul Sect Star Region, but Lin Xin accused the Soul Sect of aiding the kidnappers and refused to withdraw.
• Vice Sect Master Wen ordered the Soul Sect cultivators to attack, and Lin Xin unleashed the Sword of Joy and used its Supreme September Second Form.
• Lin Xin’s attack took the joy from Vice Sect Master Wen’s divine soul, leaving the Soul Sect group immobilized as Lin Xin escaped.
• Vice Sect Master Wen realized his divine soul had been damaged as Soul Sect cultivators began self-destructing and his own cultivation erupted into turmoil.
• Lin Xin flew through hordes of Void Demon Spirits while the female Array Spirit guided him, and a massive batch of free attributes entered his body.

Lin Xin subdued Phoenix Purity Hall and Nine Flowers Hall, announced the founding of Lake Mountain Sect, and began testing applicants from across the region. As a mysterious young man anticipated trouble, more than a thousand Black Cavalry charged toward the gathered crowd, and Lin Xin rose to face them.

• Lin Xin killed soldiers who tried to flee, forced the remaining forces to submit, and announced that Lake Mountain Sect would recruit disciples in Phoenix Ritual Town.
• Lin Xin’s voice reached creatures and people across a thousand miles, drawing crowds to his recruitment grounds; Wang Tong recognized the voice and hurried there.
• Lin Xin had Qingjing King gather the defeated forces and began testing applicants’ aptitudes as families flocked to the grassland.
• A sickly Young Master discussed the danger of people like Lin Xin with Hong Xiu and Green Robe, then heard the ground tremble and realized the cavalry had arrived.
• More than a thousand Black Cavalry charged toward the crowd, and Lin Xin stopped testing and rose to confront them.

Bai Hunting used his family’s connections to arrange passage through the militarily restricted Star Gate, while Bai Qingjue worried that Lin Xin was about to trespass into a forbidden area. Lin Xin was instead revealed as an Inspector Supervisor of the Main Academy, and the military forces escorted him away with deference.

• Bai Hunting used a resonance crystal to learn that the Star Gate closure was caused by a military lockdown, then arranged paid passage for passengers through his family’s connections.
• Bai Qingjue invited Lin Xin to seek help from her brother, but the airship landed before she could finish speaking.
• After an armored captain warned passengers to stay within the permitted area, Lin Xin walked toward the guarded zone, alarming Bai Qingjue and Bai Hunting.
• Armored soldiers and a golden-armored commander surrounded Lin Xin and knelt, greeting him as the Inspector Supervisor of the Main Academy.
• Lin Xin ordered preparations for his journey through the Star Gate and requested materials, while soldiers and cultivators saluted and escorted him.
• Bai Qingjue and Bai Hunting watched Lin Xin depart and realized his status was far beyond their own.