Chapter Summaries

Feng Panjun explained that his foundation of thirteen points of immortal light let his soul withstand the calamity aura, prompting Lin Xin to consider how Great Sages could survive the Great Calamity. Lin Xin entered his soul space to examine the Dao Ancestor Source, while the Central Star Region learned of the Lord of the Myriad Stars Hall’s death and received a visit from the Future Buddha.

• Feng Panjun said the thirteen points of immortal light in his body had formed a ring and produced True Force that protected his soul from the calamity aura.
• Lin Xin arranged quarters for his companions, then went alone to his secret chamber and entered his soul space with the Dao Ancestor Source.
• Lin Xin compared his strength with other Celestial Sovereigns and reached toward the red mass of Dao Ancestor Source.
• The Lord of the Myriad Stars Hall’s star exploded, and the Central Star Region’s Seekers of the Dao learned that he had died at the hands of a powerful Celestial Sovereign.
• Myriad Scrolls Celestial Venerable discussed the Great Calamity and the possible emergence of a Dao Origin Embryo with an aged star.
• The Future Buddha arrived before Myriad Scrolls Celestial Venerable, who manifested as a silver-robed elder and greeted him.

Lin Xin refused Fang Yu’s offer to join forces and attacked him, but Fang Yu caught and crushed him in his palm. At Azure Lake Mountain, Wei Ning rediscovered his love for Yuan Yi and awakened as a Great Saint, while Lin Xin broke free and resumed his battle with Fang Yu in the Shadow World.

• Fang Yu urged Lin Xin to join him and warned that the Great Calamity was driving Great Saints toward power, but Lin Xin refused and called Fang Yu too weak.
• Lin Xin attacked Fang Yu with the Sword of Joy, but Fang Yu shattered its sword shadow, seized Lin Xin, and closed his hand around him.
• Yuan Yi told Wei Ning that the final assault on Shadow City headquarters had begun, and Wei Ning recalled their years of practicing swordsmanship together.
• Wei Ning and Yuan Yi exchanged sword strikes, understood the Supreme Universe Severing Spirit Sword as a dual-cultivation art, and awakened together as a Great Saint.
• Lin Xin’s white light pierced through Fang Yu’s hand, and Lin Xin emerged with fourteen pairs of wings before the two Great Saints resumed fighting.
• Fang Yu struck Lin Xin’s shoulder, but Lin Xin’s injury quickly repaired itself as Fang Yu’s fist was purified and corroded.

Lin Xin and Yun He faced an Imperial Palace order to arrest Xu Hong, and a battle erupted when Yun He refused to surrender her disciple. Lin Xin revealed the confrontation was an illusion, led Yun He unseen through the hall, and brought Xu Yejun back as he prepared to confront the Empress.

• Yun He explained that Lin Xin had trained his control of his body by regulating every movement and studying its changes.
• Two officers arrived with soldiers to arrest Xu Hong, but Yun He demanded evidence and refused to let them take her disciple.
• Lin Xin stood against the arresting force as soldiers and the School Master of the Xuanming Compassionate Buddha School attacked him and Yun He.
• Xu Hong dispelled Yun He's illusion and led her through the hall, where the real fighting continued without anyone noticing them.
• Lin Xin said the Empress was the one Yun He should question, then used cold air at the exit to bring back Xu Yejun, who had been taken away.

Lin Xin joined the Ten Illusions School and secretly advanced through its arts at extraordinary speed, eventually deciding to reveal his true progress to Ten Illusions Yun He. He planned to obtain the school’s supreme secret canon and then open the Netherworld, still without finding any clues about the Sword of Compassion.

• Lin Xin chose the Ten Illusions School as a pretext for his rapid cultivation, and Dilia paid Ten Illusions Yun He to travel to Delin Palace.
• Ten Illusions Yun He confirmed Lin Xin’s Third Layer Electromagnetic Art and accepted him as her personal disciple without an apprenticeship fee.
• Lin Xin left Delin Palace with Ten Illusions Yun He for the school’s headquarters, while Xu Yejun cried after he insulted her.
• Lin Xin reached the ninth layer’s peak in two months, concealed his progress for two years, and then earned Yun He’s full instruction in the school’s advanced arts.
• At twelve, Lin Xin perfected the Mind-Seizing Divine Dao Art and decided to confess his progress to Yun He so he could obtain the Ten Illusions Soul Fusion Secret Canon and open the Netherworld.

After the attack on the Black Divine Envoys, Yang Kaiguang withdrew his forces, and Yongxing City gradually returned to normal. Years later, Lin Xin trained Chen Feiyang at his bookstore while investigating the boy’s mysterious power and pondering the Millennium Fragment.

• Yang Kaiguang ordered his forces to retreat after the Black Divine Envoys were badly wounded and their base was exposed.
• Lin Xin opened Secluded Heart Residence, and life in Yongxing City settled into a peaceful routine for several years.
• After graduating, Yang Songyu joined the Special Source Energy Unit, while Ruan Rujun became a clerk at the Source Energy Bureau.
• Lin Xin trained Chen Feiyang in external martial arts and let him handle the men who came looking for him.
• Lin Xin recalled that Chen Feiyang had found an injured red-haired girl carrying the Water Seal gemstone and had left it with him after inspecting it.
• Lin Xin absorbed most of the raw stone into his soul and grew more interested in the Millennium Fragment.

Lin Xin asked Yun He for permission to cultivate the Ten Illusions School’s highest secret canon after proving he had mastered the Mind-Seizing Divine Dao Art. Yun He led him to the inheritance chamber, where he prepared to begin the Formless Reincarnation canon.

• Lin Xin arrived at Ten Illusions Stream headquarters, where the disciples greeted him respectfully.
• Lin Xin told Yun He he had reached the peak of the Mind-Seizing Divine Dao Art’s ninth layer and asked to learn the school’s highest secret canon.
• Lin Xin demonstrated his perfected Divine Illusion Finger, and Yun He confirmed that he had mastered the advanced art.
• Yun He explained that accepting a secret canon would bind Lin Xin to its philosophy and way of life, and Lin Xin agreed to proceed.
• Yun He led Lin Xin through a concealed passage to the Formless Reincarnation inheritance chamber and explained that remaining inside for ten days would indicate he had reached the entry stage.

Winter Night and the Winter Night Squad launched an assault on the Imperial Palace, crushing its defenses and confronting the Empire’s strongest fighters. Winter Night proved to wield Millennium King-level power, while one of his allies repeatedly killed Lei Ling Prince, leaving the palace battle underway.

• Winter Night led the Winter Night Squad toward the Imperial Palace, and a bespectacled squad member destroyed the approaching Imperial Source Energy Users with a sweeping light attack.
• Winter Night shattered an orbital death ray, broke through the palace gates, and killed a minister and a golden lion construct with his abilities and strength.
• Winter Night attacked Peladin, who recognized his Millennium King-level power, while Holy Gun confronted Xu Delatang.
• A dwarf from the Winter Night Squad blocked Lei Ling Prince, cut apart one of his blood-clone bodies, then seized and beheaded him after he regenerated.

Lin Xin crashed a spaceship into Circle Plaza and forced his way toward the palace to learn where Dilia was imprisoned. After escaping the Imperial Guards, he continued openly toward the Empress Palace as the Empress ordered him killed.

• Anlong Salman learned that Xu Hong, Xu Yejun, and Xu Rongjun had vanished from Ren Jia Star, then ordered the Emperor informed after a spaceship landed at Circle Plaza.
• Dilia and Wei Song despaired in the Heavenly Prison, where Dilia worried about her missing son and hoped he had escaped capture.
• Lin Xin crashed a spaceship into Circle Plaza, went to Delin Palace, and confronted Imperial Guards who demanded his surrender.
• Lin Xin asked the Imperial Guards where Dilia was imprisoned, then vanished before they could stop him.
• The Empress ordered Royal Shadow to deal with Xu Hong, while the Crown Prince offered to pursue him and was refused.
• Lin Xin walked openly along Jin Yu Avenue toward the Empress Palace.

Wade and Zhou Tianhong confronted each other over a supposed secret treasure while the gathered schools fought to claim a share. Lin Xin followed a message to the gathering and arrived with a Celestial Phenomenon Field, revealing himself as a Ten Illusions expert.

• Wade advanced on the Flying Swallow School disciples, and Zhou Tianhong arrived to claim a share of the secret treasure.
• In the Observation Hall, the school leaders discussed the gathering and debated whether Xu Hong could challenge Zhou Tianhong.
• Lin Xin received a recording about the secret treasure and flew toward the forest where the schools had gathered.
• Zhong Tianlu captured Mu Feifei and prepared to kill him, dismissing his claim that Xu Hong was on the way.
• Snow and dark clouds swept over the forest as Lin Xin approached, and he ordered everyone who survived three breaths to stand before him.

Lin Xin passed his aptitude test with only slightly above-average results, then spent three years quietly developing before choosing the martial path. He entered the Royal Martial Arts Pavilion to select a foundational technique, where his appearance drew the attention of the other royal children.

• Lin Xin let the aptitude test stop after its fourth symbol lit, reassuring Dilia and avoiding attention from the officials.
• Over the next three years, Lin Xin raised his attributes to the body's natural limit and remained inconspicuous among the Storm Emperor's many children.
• Dilia took Lin Xin to the Royal Martial Arts Pavilion after he chose the martial path, while his sister Xu Yejun was away on a mission.
• Ge'erduo registered Lin Xin, whose Crown Prince status let him choose from all high-, middle-, and low-grade manuals in the pavilion.
• Lin Xin entered the pavilion's first floor, where the other Crown Princes and princesses noticed his youthful, gender-ambiguous appearance.

Yang Songyu was badly injured in a fight with the recorder, who found an Original Stone inside Tuo Erwa’s spiritual memories but lost it to Lin Xin. Weeks later, Lin Xin met Yang Songyu at a cafe, where she recovered from her injuries and told him she had nearly died.

• Yang Songyu admitted that the recorder had overwhelmed her, while Tiger of the Day offered to help by using her augmentation gear.
• The recorder sensed an Original Stone and fled into Tuo Erwa’s spiritual memory space, where he found and took a large green fragment.
• A black-robed man blinded the recorder and trapped him with dark-mist tentacles, but the recorder escaped after throwing away the Original Stone.
• The black-robed man revealed himself as Lin Xin, who took the Original Stone and explained that the Divine Wind Sword Art still prevented him from using his cultivation.
• Several weeks later, Lin Xin met the bandaged Yang Songyu at Man Sha Cafe, where she brushed off his concern and said she had nearly failed to escape alive.

Lin Xin advanced through Shadow City’s checkpoint passage, growing stronger as he destroyed its creatures and formations, while Fang Yu absorbed Dao Ancestor Source and became more powerful. Song Danhao chose to reject the Demon God King’s control and planned to warn the Heavenly Alliance and restore the Devil Race.

• Lin Xin sensed a deadly threat from Fang Yu unlike any he had faced before.
• Fang Yu embedded a sphere in his chest, drew out a red galaxy, and devoured its source matter to strengthen himself.
• Song Danhao told Xu Ling and Gongshang Baiyu he would enter the Heavenly Alliance to warn its leaders that the Evil God Kings had escaped their seals.
• Song Danhao refused to reclaim the Demon God King’s power and said he would find the Demon God Codex to restore the Devil Race.
• Lin Xin destroyed a giant serpent formation with the Sword of Joy and burned away its rune chains.
• Lin Xin continued across Shadow City’s passage, unleashing a thousand-meter storm of sword intent that slaughtered everything in his path.

Luke’s forces prepared to eliminate Yang Songyu, whom they identified as a crucial Aojia intelligence leader, while she spent a peaceful festival with her family at the Yang estate. Luke’s ambush gathered troops around the estate, but unrequested reinforcements began appearing in his reports.

• Luke identified Yang Songyu as the priority target and discussed using Chongming Stone and a surprise assault to neutralize her implant armor and prevent her from transmitting information.
• Yang Chen married Lu Ya, and the Yang family moved into a new estate on the outskirts of Yongxing City as unrest spread across the Aojia Empire.
• Lin Xin reunited with his family for the Jialin Festival and comforted Yang Songyu as she admitted she was tired from her demanding work.
• Luke watched Yang Songyu at the estate through a hidden spacecraft beneath Eight Luck Lake and ordered troops to deploy around it.
• Luke received reports that unrequested Third Army Group units were arriving and setting out toward the estate.

Lin Xin plunged into the Broken Sea, lost consciousness, and reincarnated as Xu Hong, the Storm Empire’s Twentieth Crown Prince. At his first-month aptitude test, his mother Dilia feared the Fourth Imperial Concubine’s plot while the Emperor stayed away.

• Lin Xin explored the Broken Sea in his Primordial form, sank into its darkness, and eventually fell asleep.
• Lin Xin reincarnated as Xu Hong, retained the Netherworld, and found his attributes had reset to free points.
• Dilia welcomed her newborn son, Xu Hong, and hoped he would win the Storm Emperor’s favor.
• At Xu Hong’s first-month ceremony, Dilia learned the Emperor would not attend and worried that the Fourth Imperial Concubine had arranged to harm her son.
• Dilia placed Xu Hong into the aptitude-testing apparatus as the imperial priest urged her to begin the test.

Lin Xin confronted Dragon Blade, the Dragon Monarch Dao’s strongest competitor, and used Formless Reincarnation to trap her in an illusion. Dragon Blade was left helpless as Lin Xin’s unseen attacks battered her.

• Lin Xin led Mu Feifei and Xu Yejun toward the Dragon Monarch Dao’s pillar of light and met Dragon Blade.
• Dragon Blade challenged Lin Xin, and their force-field attacks clashed as she used her jade pillars and blades against his icy hands.
• Dragon Blade attacked Lin Xin with powerful slashes and a golden beam, believing she had defeated him.
• Lin Xin appeared unharmed behind Dragon Blade and revealed that she had been caught in his Formless Reincarnation illusion.
• Dragon Blade struggled against an invisible grip and was repeatedly struck by unseen punches.

Lin Xin treated Chen Feiyang and helped him understand how to face White Flying Bird, then received intelligence about a Millennium Key Fragment and prepared to investigate. Meanwhile, Yang Songyu reunited with Yang Chen at Lin Xin’s bookstore, where they discussed rising unrest and agreed to move to a safer estate; Yang Songyu warned Lin Xin to return there if anything happened.

• Lin Xin stitched and treated Chen Feiyang’s injuries, then reasoned that White Flying Bird would keep Xiao Lin as bait rather than send her away.
• Chen Feiyang recovered at the shop for a week, regained his confidence, and left after thanking Lin Xin.
• High Mountain’s organization shared intelligence that a Millennium Key Fragment was hidden at a secret base of the Aojia Empire’s Fifth Security Bureau, and Lin Xin prepared to go there himself.
• Yang Songyu chose to visit Secluded Heart Residence instead of returning to work, and invited Yang Chen to join her there.
• Yang Songyu, Yang Chen, and Lin Xin discussed a mass disappearance, military tensions, and moving to a secure estate in the suburbs.
• Yang Songyu told Lin Xin to return to the estate if anything happened in the city, and Lin Xin agreed.

Lin Xin used the Silkworm White Moon Sword to overwhelm No Shadow and Kun Ji as they tried to escape, then unleashed a devastating attack that devastated the area around Fanjing Mountain. He left the two Yuan Jing cultivators trapped inside a stone bell, apparently defeated.

• Kun Ji attacked one of Lin Xin’s clones, but another Lin Xin escaped No Shadow’s black rings and began breaking them apart.
• Kun Ji and No Shadow tried to flee the Blood Silkworm Barrier, while Lin Xin’s clones pursued them and Kun Ji used a lightning spear to blast through part of the barrier.
• As the two Yuan Jing cultivators withdrew their domains to escape, Lin Xin unleashed the Silkworm White Moon Sword’s Red Flower Moon Silkworm attack, twisting their spatial escape and raining blood-colored threads across the region.
• The attack scorched the land around Fanjing Mountain and killed Bai E Snake, while No Shadow and Kun Ji survived inside a purple bell-shaped treasure.
• Lin Xin struck the bell, causing blood to seep from beneath it and transform it into a gray stone bell, then walked away with the sword.

Kong Yuhui persuaded Lin Xin and a masked ally to plan to eliminate Zhou Jing during the final day's hunt, while Lin Xin survived another eerie encounter in his room. The next morning, Shi Lei had vanished, and Lin Xin suspected Kong Yuhui had struck again as the group questioned a young man from the town.

• Kong Yuhui revealed that Zhou Jing had reached the fourth layer and convinced Lin Xin and the black shadow to join his plan to kill Zhou Jing during the final day's hunt.
• Lin Xin found a rotting hand blocking his door, drove away the unseen presence with the Flame Yang Talisman Sword, and secured his room before resting.
• Lin Xin heard Cheng Ruofei calling and knocking, but found her and Jiang Yuer missing from their room; they later returned from the courtyard, and Jiang Yuer muttered angrily at him.
• Lin Xin went to fetch water and found Kong Yuhui and Ouyang Qing questioning a young man after Shi Lei disappeared.
• Lin Xin suspected Kong Yuhui was responsible for Shi Lei's disappearance and hid his connection to the black shadow from the previous night.

After ten years of secluded cultivation, Lin Xin understood the path to the Fourth Grade Spirit Realm and emerged ready to seek Supreme Purity Qi and establish a Sacrifice to the Gods Land. He reviewed reports of Song Danhao’s turbulent discoveries in the Ten Plate Realm, then chose a Remnant Tomb expedition to earn the Contribution Points he needed for a growth-type formation.

• Lin Xin spent ten years stabilizing his Third Grade Void Realm, while gradually transferring more than a thousand attribute points to Lin Yaoyang until her soul reached its limit.
• Lin Xin emerged from seclusion having grasped the mystery of the Fourth Grade Spirit Realm, and he instructed his Blood Dragon Children to stand guard.
• Lin Xin read reports that Song Danhao’s group had stirred up conflict in the Ten Plate Realm after the Wheel of Fate opened and the Ancient Divine Artifact Thousand Sect Lotus and Ember Fire Elixir drew powerful factions into the fray.
• Lin Xin reviewed missions, aiming to earn enough Contribution Points to buy a Jade Essence Array for his future Sacrifice to the Gods Land.
• Lin Xin selected a Remnant Tomb exploration mission offering 1,900 Contribution Points, involving a deep expedition to investigate Ancient Divine Artifact clues and collect items from the River of Resentful Souls.

Yellow Ape True Lord subjected Lin Xin to the Demon Liquid Pool trial, where Lin Xin’s Netherworld Mansion Power was driven out by a silver force from within him. As Lin Xin recovered, Yellow Ape True Lord and his masked disciple discussed their planned campaign against Heavenly Dao Sect and their fear of Red Ridge Gate’s Huang Yuerong.

• Yellow Ape True Lord threw Lin Xin into the Demon Liquid Pool to begin a Primal Battle Demon Art trial, and Lin Xin endured the boiling liquid until he lost consciousness.
• Yellow Ape True Lord discovered that Lin Xin was a Netherworld Mansion Child, while his masked disciple recalled killing a group of them for their yin-cold energy.
• A silver power within Lin Xin expelled his Netherworld Mansion Power and stopped the pool from harming him, leading Yellow Ape True Lord to conclude that an expert was sacrificing cultivation to protect him.
• Yellow Ape True Lord and his disciple discussed the incomplete Grotto Heaven Divine Talisman, their alliance’s plans against Heavenly Dao Sect, and the danger posed by Red Ridge Gate and Huang Yuerong.
• Yellow Ape True Lord dismissed his disciple to handle her affairs and remained beside the pool as Lin Xin recovered.