Chapter Summaries

Lei Ling Prince and the empire’s leaders debated whether to appease or attack Slaughter Spirit, but before they could settle the matter, Lin Xin descended into the capital and launched an assault on the palace. Winter Night and his loyal Source Energy Users prepared to carry out the operation as Lin Xin sought thirty-two fragments.

• Lei Ling Prince advised Emperor Galuo Katelin that Slaughter Spirit would likely leave the empire in peace if his family’s life remained stable.
• Sea-Air General Xu Delatang urged the court to kill Slaughter Spirit and uncover his secrets, while Army Chief Peladin argued for compromise; Xu called for a vote.
• Lin Xin struck the Star District as a scarlet meteor, then learned that around thirty-two fragments were concentrated in the palace.
• Lin Xin ordered the Winter Night Squad to begin its assault, saying he hoped to return for lunch if the operation went smoothly.
• Winter Night received the signal and told eight loyal Source Energy Users gathered in an abandoned church that their Lord God had descended.

Lin Xin and the others discovered that the cracked Origin Spirit Fruit contained two portions of Dao Ancestor Source, while Cosmos Celestial Sovereign revealed that Azure Lake Mountain's main sect had been destroyed. Lin Xin stopped Cosmos from sacrificing himself and turned the survivors' attention to finding a way through calamity qi, as Feng Panjun began explaining his unexpected resistance to it.

• Cosmos Celestial Sovereign and God Strategy Celestial Venerable arrived and confirmed that Azure Lake Mountain's main sect had been destroyed.
• Cosmos identified the two portions inside the fruit as Dao Ancestor Source and explained that the Dao Ancestors had prepared them for Lin Xin.
• Cosmos knelt before Lin Xin, blamed himself for the sect's destruction, and vowed to destroy his cultivation and divine soul.
• Lin Xin lifted Cosmos back to his feet, urged him to live and help rebuild the sect, and stored the Dao Ancestor Source in his sleeve.
• God Strategy and Nine Curves Immortal Elder said the survivors needed a way to travel through calamity qi and contact their scattered allies.
• Feng Panjun explained that his divine soul had stopped being consumed when he entered calamity qi, and that he had felt even more at ease there than in ordinary void.

The Star Cluster Empire mobilized overwhelming forces to seize Lin Xin, but he revealed his power and killed Lieutenant General Ansar while his allies routed the troops around Yang Family Manor. Lin Xin decided to stop playing along and make his move.

• Luke learned that elite forces, strategic weapons, and Lieutenant General Ansar had been deployed against Yang Family Manor, leaving him stripped of command.
• Ansar entered the manor and demanded that Lin Xin accompany him to the Star Cluster Capital, threatening the Yang family if he refused.
• Lin Xin confronted Ansar, and the two vanished from the courtyard as fighting broke out around the manor.
• Black-armored forces and mountain-emblem spacecraft attacked the Star Cluster Empire troops, while Lin Xin overpowered Ansar outside Yongxing City.
• Lin Xin killed Ansar, took his exosuit, and reflected that the Empire had forced him to act.

Melting Dao Lord negotiated passage through the Undead Monarch’s territory, while Guanyin and the Arhats fought the seven-headed wolf monster. Far ahead of the Heavenly Alliance army, Lin Xin spent his accumulated attributes on Destruction and awakened Primal Spirit Holy Light, achieving a Celestial Venerable-level body.

• Melting Dao Lord agreed to the Undead Monarch’s offer to clear a path, and the undead army withdrew.
• The seven-headed wolf monster bit off half of Dragon Subduing Arhat, so Guanyin trapped it in green light and the other Arhats joined the battle.
• Lin Xin killed a black plesiosaur-like monster and found that he had accumulated 960,000 attribute points.
• Lin Xin poured all his free attributes into Destruction, raising it to 3,850,000 and causing Primal Spirit Holy Light to appear around him.
• Lin Xin realized that his physical body had reached Celestial Venerable-level strength and considered how Celestial Venerables’ planetary true bodies and accumulated stellar power made them difficult to kill.

Lin Xin searched the ruined Demon Domain for Song Danhao while using his armies to fight off Void Demon Spirits and bait a larger force. Meanwhile, Fang Yu agreed to support North Shadow City as the Shadow World’s defenses weakened, then questioned whether its headquarters was adequately guarded.

• Lin Xin recognized the Demon King Palace’s destruction as a horseshoe print left by the Sixth Heavenly Demon Warlord, and the Cloud Light Lord warned him that Eternal Winter’s Ice protected Song Danhao.
• Lin Xin ordered the First Army to destroy approaching Void Demon Spirits and refused to protect the battered fleet they had been chasing.
• Lin Xin’s fleet defeated more groups of Void Demon Spirits while he held back its strength, hoping to attract a larger force and collect more attribute points.
• Hong Tian told Fang Yu that the Shadow World’s leaders were isolated and North Shadow City was close to falling, so Fang Yu agreed to go there with support.
• Fang Yu asked Hong Tian whether the Golden Radiance Venerable, who was guarding headquarters despite being seriously injured, was enough protection.

Lin Xin effortlessly defeated two Evil God Kings who invaded the Nether Realm’s core, while gaining insight into the laws of his own ability. Xiya watched in alarm, but the God Ancestor told him that restraining Lin Xin was not their task.

• Four roots breached the Nether Realm’s core barrier, and two groups of Evil God Kings split up to pursue the Dao Ancestor Source and Sun Snatcher Divine Lord’s core.
• Lin Xin annihilated the Black Hunk with Primal Spirit Holy Light and made him disappear, then trapped and destroyed the white fatty with a repulsive force.
• Lin Xin reflected that his power’s laws originated within himself rather than from the universe, and dismissed the Evil God Kings as weak.
• Xiya watched Lin Xin’s victory and worried that they would be unable to restrain him.
• The God Ancestor appeared to Xiya and said that restraining Lin Xin was not their task.

After leaving Bai Hunting and Bai Qingjue, Lin Xin traveled through the Star Gate toward the Ninth Star Soul Domain to find his sister and settle his karma with Hong Ye. He reflected on his rapidly growing power and, upon arrival, learned that the Star Chant Sect had assigned him a Protectorate Army, but he headed straight for Sun Soul Mountain instead.

• Bai Hunting and Bai Qingjue watched Lin Xin leave, and Bai Hunting reflected on the gulf between ordinary cultivators and exceptional talents.
• Lin Xin said farewell to Senior Lie Shan at the Star Gate Port and boarded a flying vessel bound for the Ninth Star Soul Domain.
• Lin Xin assessed his immense strength and speed, concluding that he was approaching Xing Pengfei's level and was equivalent to a Fate Candle Earth Immortal without the Earth Fire Nine Spirits Pearl.
• The flying vessel passed through the star gate and arrived in the Ninth Star Soul Domain, where a Soul Sect liaison told Lin Xin that his Protectorate Army was waiting.
• Lin Xin declined to summon the army, ordered the escort vessels to return, and flew directly toward Sun Soul Mountain.

Lin Xin destroyed Ten Thousand Bull King’s formations and killed him, only to discover that the Soul Sect had been colluding with powerful forces and that Longevity Venerable and Lin Yaoyang were projections. After learning the projections had been prepared five days earlier, Lin Xin pursued Longevity Venerable’s trail east.

• Ten Thousand Bull King attacked Lin Xin with formations and a swarm of Void Demon Spirits, but Lin Xin shattered the formation and killed him with a sword strike.
• Ten Thousand Bull King repeatedly reappeared through his Karma Dao Art, growing stronger with each attack, until Lin Xin found and crushed his hidden true body.
• Two Soul Sect elders accused Lin Xin of causing a catastrophe, while Longevity Venerable urged them to hand him over to the Spirit Asura King.
• A Soul Sect Vice Sect Master and other cultivators appeared as Longevity Venerable vanished with the unconscious Lin Yaoyang.
• Lin Xin realized Longevity Venerable and Lin Yaoyang had been projections prepared five days earlier, and the Array Spirit reported that Longevity Venerable’s aura led east.

Lin Xin returned to the Netherworld and reached the Pine Forest Sword Sect, hoping to find his descendants and former allies. He discovered that the sect had grown into a formidable power with four Apex Realm experts, including one whose aura he recognized.

• Lin Xin took Insect Woman through a spatial rift to the former site of Spirit Heart Mountain Manor, where he recovered the Red Flower Sword Intent from a fruit beneath a blood-red tree.
• Lin Xin sensed the Pine Forest Sword Sect nearby and brought Insect Woman to its grounds, intending to check on his bloodline descendants and disciples.
• Lin Xin and Insect Woman passed unseen through the sect’s grand formation and headed toward its summit as cultivators discussed the Yuan Dou Demon Sect’s merger and traces of dragon blood.
• Lin Xin examined the statue outside the silver Dao Palace and sensed three Tier Five Apex Realm experts in demi-planes, along with a familiar, more powerful aura hidden beneath the palace.

Lin Xin continued devouring the Great Universe through his Origin Realm and awakened Fang Yu’s memories after recognizing him in a womb. Decades later, Lin Xin refused Fang Yu’s request to restore his former strength and instead left three secret scriptures with talented children at Sheqing Mountain.

• Lin Xin recognized Fang Yu’s soul in a pregnant woman’s womb and used his power to awaken Fang Yu’s memories of past incarnations.
• Star Chant God explained that Fang Yu was unlikely to become a Primordial One and told Lin Xin that the Great Universe had 10 to the 982nd power hundred million years remaining.
• Twenty years later, Fang Yu returned to Sheqing Mountain and offered the secret of breaking through beyond Dao Ancestor in exchange for Lin Xin restoring his peak strength.
• Lin Xin refused Fang Yu, who realized Lin Xin had already reached the primordial realm and left dejectedly.
• Lin Xin created a natural hot spring beneath Sheqing Mountain, selected three talented children among the visitors, and imparted three perfected Dao Ancestor-level secret scriptures to them.

Xiya lured four Evil God Kings into Lin Xin’s core territory, while secretly sabotaging their escape route. As the intruders infiltrated the Nether Realm, Lin Xin prepared to confront them at his core, confident that none could defeat him there.

• Xiya explained that Evil God Kings were former Dao Ancestors and promised to lure four of them to attack Lin Xin’s core.
• A giant black blade pierced the Nether Realm’s defenses, and its hilt exploded, injuring Blue Light and blasting a gap in the formation.
• Three Evil God Kings infiltrated the Nether Realm through roots and planned to steal the Dao Ancestor Source and destroy Lin Xin’s core, with Xiya’s help.
• Xiya crushed the intruders’ escape array disks and told them they had fifty breaths to complete their mission.
• Lin Xin sat before his core on a black crystal throne as Xiya vanished, leaving the Evil God Kings with no way out except to defeat him.

Lin Xin realized his power had made him a Dao Ancestor outside the usual system, then entered a temporal fault where Yuzi and Seberus were locked in battle. He ambushed and swallowed both weakened Dao Ancestors, then stabbed himself with the Sword of Wrath to test their attempts to escape.

• Lin Xin identified sheer accumulated power as the foundation of his Dao Ancestorhood and recognized that the battle between Yuzi and Seberus had frozen time around them.
• Yuzi summoned his daughter Xiao Yu, who sacrificed herself to help him resist Seberus's Crown of Oblivion.
• Lin Xin entered the temporal fault and approached the battling Dao Ancestors, who mistook him for a potential ally.
• Lin Xin stabbed Yuzi from behind, stored him in the black hole in his chest, and swallowed Seberus after seizing the crown.
• Lin Xin left the temporal fault, creating a vast depression in the ocean, then drove the Sword of Wrath through his own body to challenge the captives trying to break free.

Lin Xin struggled against Song Ri Valley Master's memories consuming his identity and used his terror to complete the Sword of Fear. After five hundred years in the abyss, he concluded that a world containing only himself would bring freedom and vanished.

• Song Ri Valley Master's memories flooded Lin Xin's soul, and he killed three approaching white octopus monsters with a single beam.
• Lin Xin realized Dao Ancestors wield power directly and cultivated the Sword of Fear while resisting the memories and holding himself at the brink of terror.
• After five hundred years, Lin Xin completed the Sword of Fear, which could negate three attacks and retaliate with their combined force.
• Lin Xin decided that a world where only he existed was the correct path to freedom, then vanished from the abyss.

Lin Xin forced Nine-Headed Bird Huiyang to surrender and bind herself to him with her true name, then learned she could regress time to investigate the past. He took her with him to use her ability, but her frail body nearly failed during the journey.

• Lin Xin reached Huiyang City, rejected Nine-Headed Bird Huiyang's attempt to negotiate, and accepted her surrender only after she agreed to serve him rather than the Heavenly Alliance.
• Lin Xin demanded Huiyang's true name and used it to establish a master-servant bond with her.
• Huiyang told Lin Xin that her clan's innate divine ability, Time Regression, could reveal the past of a person or place for up to one year.
• Lin Xin brought Huiyang along at high speed, but the journey and his casual pat left her vomiting blood and near death.
• Lin Xin healed Huiyang with true essence and asked what abilities she had besides Time Regression.

Lin Xin and the Winter Night Squad destroyed the Imperial Palace, gathered Millennium Fragments, and seized control of the Aojia Empire’s capital in the name of the Twisted God Lord. The Millennium Key remained incomplete, and Winter Night believed more fragments might lie in a vault beneath the capital.

• The Emperor Galuo Katelin fled the palace by spacecraft as the Winter Night Squad overwhelmed the Imperial Palace Guard Army and Lin Xin demanded the fragments.
• The squad gave Lin Xin its collected fragments, which fused into an incomplete Millennium Key; Peladin and Xu Dela watched as the palace exploded and the Imperial fleet’s attack failed.
• The Winter Night Squad destroyed the Imperial fleet, and a squad member proclaimed the Aojia Empire under the Twisted God Lord’s control.
• Winter Night spread a force field over the Imperial Capital, extinguishing fires and restraining the chaos while Lin Xin inspected the incomplete key.
• Winter Night said an enormous treasure vault beneath the Imperial Capital might contain additional sealed fragments.

Lin Xin devoured his way through Du Jing Peak’s passage and reached the Millennium Fragment, where Wild Boar King and Cloud Demon confronted him. After sensing Chen Feiyang’s aura elsewhere, Lin Xin killed both Annihilation Envoys and assessed the strength of their energy.

• Lin Xin devoured hundreds of monsters in the passage, broke through a giant faucet-like barrier, and found the Millennium Fragment guarded by a one-eyed wyvern.
• Chen Feiyang fought White Dragon Lodge in the mechanical forest as his combat technique improved, then released a strange silver mist and turned his eyes silver-white.
• Lin Xin sensed Chen Feiyang’s aura, took the Millennium Fragment, and ignored demands from Wild Boar King and Cloud Demon to put it down.
• Wild Boar King armored himself and attacked Lin Xin, but Lin Xin punched a hole through him and killed him instantly.
• Cloud Demon realized Lin Xin was far beyond an Annihilation Envoy, but Lin Xin devoured him and his bio-armor core.
• Lin Xin compared the energy of Annihilation Envoys with that of weaker fighters and concluded that their power was greater, though still limited.

Lin Xin encountered High Mountain, an organization opposed to the Dark Investigation Department, and considered joining it to gain help finding the Millennium Fragment. After their Grand General offered him a place, Lin Xin withheld his answer and then resumed Chen Feiyang’s training with a honey-gathering task.

• Lin Xin killed two Level Three Source Energy Users, but spared Blue Ponytail after learning that High Mountain opposed the Dark Investigation Department.
• Blue Ponytail explained High Mountain’s hierarchy, and the Grand General contacted Lin Xin and offered him a third Grand General seat in exchange for cooperation.
• Lin Xin said he would decide after seeing High Mountain’s strength, and the Grand General arranged for the organization to deliver useful intelligence.
• The Grand General spoke privately with another figure in an unknown space and defended his decision to recruit Lin Xin based on his premonition.
• Lin Xin assigned Chen Feiyang to collect honey from a beehive as reaction-speed training while he relaxed nearby.

Lin Xin returned to the Netherworld and learned that more than ten thousand years had passed for the Pine Forest Sword Sect. After overpowering the Yin Talisman Insect Woman, he forced her to guide him to the sect, leaving her suspecting he came from the legendary Pine Forest Demon Sect.

• Lin Xin appeared inside the Vermilion Bird Holy Court’s barrier while four cultivators fought a nine-headed snake demon, and asked for directions to the Pine Forest Sword Sect.
• A Vermilion Bird Holy Court cultivator told Lin Xin that Nan Shunqing had not appeared for over ten thousand years and that Lin Hesheng handled the sect’s affairs.
• The Yin Talisman Insect Woman arrived, and the four cultivators fled when they recognized her.
• Lin Xin immobilized the Yin Talisman Insect Woman before she could activate her divine ability and made her agree to guide him to the Pine Forest Sword Sect.
• The Yin Talisman Insect Woman realized Lin Xin might be connected to the legendary Pine Forest Demon Sect.

Lin Xin fought Fang Yu outside Shadow City, but Fang Yu’s overwhelming strength killed him once before the Sword of Wrath revived him with tenfold power. Fang Yu continued attacking inside the city, while Guanyin and Yao Yuanhui watched and saw his Demonic Wish Wings weaken Lin Xin’s sword strikes.

• Lin Xin broke through Fang Yu’s defenses and clashed with his Origin Free Peaceful Tranquility Art, but Fang Yu immobilized him with Shadow Bind and unleashed a barrage of palm strikes.
• Fang Yu’s attacks killed Lin Xin, whose Supreme September Divine Wind Sword revived him and increased his power tenfold; Lin Xin struck Fang Yu with the Sword of Wrath and badly wounded him.
• Fang Yu flew back at Lin Xin, used Demonic Wish Wings to weaken his sword light, and sent him crashing through Shadow City’s walls and buildings.
• Guanyin and the Heavenly Alliance army arrived outside Shadow City, where Yao Yuanhui joined them and witnessed Fang Yu weakening Lin Xin’s sword strikes.

Lin Xin tore through the Shadow World, killing the Void Spirit Candle Emperor and destroying everything in his path as he grew stronger. In Shadow City, the Jiuquan Tianniu Pillar’s monitors recognized him as Lin Sheri and rushed to alert the Six King Pillars while the Holy Master remained in seclusion.

• Lin Xin killed a blue-robed giant leading Dao soldiers, then left Yao Yuanhui and the others behind to race through the shadow passage.
• Lin Xin crossed the passage at extreme speed, killing monsters along the way, and confronted the Void Spirit Candle Emperor at the snow mountains.
• Lin Xin swiftly killed the Void Spirit Candle Emperor’s incarnation and continued deeper into the Shadow World, slaughtering creatures and absorbing their attribute points.
• At Holy Stream Residence, the Jiuquan Tianniu Pillar’s surveillance staff reported that several checkpoints had fallen and activated ancient formations despite their limited duration.
• The surveillance staff reconstructed Lin Xin’s image, identified him as Azure Lake Mountain’s Sun Snatcher Divine Lord, Lin Sheri, and ordered an urgent report to the Six King Pillars.