Chapter Summaries

Lin Xin heard Wang Peng’s account of a secret passage where conspirators discussed extracting a mysterious fruit from the Nether River, then ordered an investigation while keeping the grand competition protected. After the others left, he and Old Guan considered the Nether River’s connection to Heaven Cloud Dao and the Wei Family.

• Second Azure Maiden confronted Grand Turtle Old Man over the deaths of the Wei Wuxuan brothers, but the Hall Spirit stopped them from fighting at the venue.
• Wang Peng, Rong Yan, and Qiu Ling told Lin Xin that they had followed disguised Dao Companions into a hidden passage, where they encountered Yu Liuqing and heard conspirators discuss taking a fruit from the Nether River.
• Lin Xin concluded that the Wei Family and Heaven Cloud Dao might be involved, then ordered Lou Xiaofei to investigate with Wang Peng and gave him a token and Old Guan’s emergency talisman.
• Lin Xin ordered Xiao Yu to stay aboard the ship and practice with Lou Qingsi, while warning Lou Xiaofei to keep her from sneaking away.
• After the others departed, Lin Xin told Old Guan he suspected the scheme concerned the Nether River and asked what unusual treasures it produced.

Lin Xin lured the assembled Yuan Jing away from the Back Mountain while he continued a secret transformation in the Yin Ruins Cave. The Yuan Jing discovered his deception too late, finding him surrounded in the Yang Spring Pool with two soul pearls at his side.

• The Red Ridge Gate Vice Banner Lord and the other Yuan Jing confronted Lin Xin, who revealed his identity and unleashed his Primal Demon Realm across the Dao Palace.
• Lin Xin used his overwhelming speed to sever Hua Shenxi’s arms while the Yuan Jing hesitated to attack him.
• The Vice Banner Lord’s crimson flag cut through Lin Xin, but his body dissolved into crimson threads, revealing that he had used a clone to distract them.
• The Yuan Jing rushed to the Back Mountain after sensing Lin Xin’s aura erupt from the Yin Ruins Cave.
• The Yuan Jing found Lin Xin completing his transformation in the Yang Spring Pool, with two soul pearls inscribed with evil and righteousness beside him.

Lin Xin killed a Qi Refining cultivator and fought his companion, relying on his defenses and a supply of Spirit Light Shields until she fled. He tracked her with the evolved Man-Eating Flower and decided to seek revenge on Star Calamity Hall and Red Pavilion.

• Lin Xin poisoned and killed the woman's senior brother with a palm strike while the man's spiritual energy was disrupted.
• The woman attacked Lin Xin with artifacts and Scattering Spirit Sand, but he endured her assaults by replacing his shattered Spirit Light Shields.
• After running out of attacks and realizing Lin Xin could keep pursuing her, the woman fled and scattered his belongings to stop him.
• Lin Xin assessed his weak offensive methods, recovered his belongings, and reflected on his progress toward completing his Innate transformation.
• The Man-Eating Flower showed Lin Xin the fleeing woman through its monitoring ability, and he decided to retaliate against Star Calamity Hall and Red Pavilion.

Lin Xin studied an ancient scroll linking the Nether Prefecture to the Origin of Despair and suspected it referred to Lion Plain. At Array Hall Peak, researchers showed him a living butterfly that seemed to exist on another plane, leaving him to consider whether such beings might already affect his world.

• Lin Xin read the Moon God Scripture, which described Shagula and the Origin of Despair, and wondered whether Lion Plain was the place it named.
• Lin Xin went to Array Hall Peak, where Hall Master Wen reported new findings from the ancient broken walls.
• Hall Master Wen and Old Man Du showed Lin Xin a black butterfly shape appearing on white silk inside a metal box.
• Old Man Du explained that the butterfly was alive, normally dispersed across another level of existence, and could be made visible by gathering its traces.
• Old Man Du wondered whether such beings had already affected their world before he wandered away, absorbed in his thoughts.

Lin Xin met Radiance Society brothers Ming Qing and Ming Yi, who asked him to secure a Nether River place for Ouyang Fojiu, and he agreed. After they left, Lin Xin examined a strange black bead and prepared to use the 100 free attributes gained from the Evil God Primordial Embryos.

• Lin Xin secretly met Ming Qing and Ming Yi at the Yuan Dou Demon Sect and affirmed his willingness to support the Radiance Society.
• Ming Qing and Ming Yi asked Lin Xin to help Ouyang Fojiu obtain a place in the Nether River, offering Demon Talisman Seeds in return.
• Lin Xin agreed to give the brothers an answer by the next day and considered using one of his three Nether River slots to help Ouyang Fojiu.
• Lin Xin examined a black bead found in a red sachet and wondered whether it contained Nether River water.
• Lin Xin saw that the Evil God Primordial Embryos had granted him 100 free attributes and began considering how to balance his attributes.

After passing the Revolving Wheel City trial, Lin Xin controlled his violent killing intent and led his group toward Thousand Prison City to continue the succession process. There, they learned the city held hundreds of powerful prisoners, including a primordial demon god bound by an ancient array.

• Lin Xin's killing intent erupted after the trial, alarming Nan Shunqing and Duan Chizi, but he calmed himself and reassured them.
• Lin Xin agreed to continue the trials and left Revolving Wheel City with Duan Chizi, Nan Shunqing, and the others.
• Ye Zifeng welcomed Lin Xin's group at Thousand Prison City and led them through the heavily guarded city toward the trial ground.
• The Second Chief Steward explained that Thousand Prison City held hundreds of dangerous criminals, while Ye Zifeng revealed that its greatest prisoner was a sleeping primordial demon god.
• Ye Zifeng explained that the sect's founding ancestor had trapped the demon god in the Thousand Prison Grand Array, which grew stronger by draining its power.

Nan Shunqing recovered the memories of his previous life and reassured his sisters that he still cared for the Sima family. Lin Xin destroyed a Transformation Cave vessel and its observers, then accompanied Nan Shunqing and the Sima sisters to the fifth pillar, where they found their cousin dead.

• Nan Shunqing explained that he would not forget his identity in this life, and learned that only twenty years had passed since his death.
• Lin Xin refused to reveal how he had advanced to Yuan Jing, then attacked an approaching Transformation Cave vessel with Golden Garden Snakes and destroyed it.
• Lin Xin killed the demon creatures who remained to observe the battle, while Nan Shunqing worried that the Transformation Cave would retaliate.
• Nan Shunqing asked Lin Xin to take them to their cousin at the fifth pillar, and Lin Xin agreed.
• At the fifth pillar's ruins, Lin Xin showed the Sima sisters their cousin's mangled remains, and Nan Shunqing remarked that a Golden Core True Person should have survived the formation's aftershock.

Lin Xin discovered Red Ridge Gate’s giant-serpent transit system and boarded one bound for Sacrificial Heaven City, while Mo Qinsheng and other young cultivators traveled to compete in the Dragon Gate Tournament. Elsewhere, Red Ridge Gate officials learned that Red Saint Ming had been killed by Red Flower and ordered his movements monitored.

• Lin Xin learned that Through City used giant serpents to carry passengers safely between the Scarlet Thirteen Cities, then bought VIP passage with Xiao Yu.
• Red Ridge Gate officials in Sacrificial Heaven City confirmed that Red Flower had killed Red Saint Ming and ordered his movements tracked.
• Lin Xin and Xiao Yu boarded the giant-serpent carriage, where Lin Xin sat among travelers heading toward the inner city.
• Mo Qinsheng, a Moon Worship Sect disciple, traveled to compete in the Dragon Gate Tournament alongside two martial brothers from another sect.
• A wealthy passenger and several young cultivators began chatting about the tournament while Mo Qinsheng remained quiet.

As the Seven Nodes Expansion approached, the major factions weighed their losses and prepared to pursue a powerful item. Yellow Ape True Lord demanded that Lin Xin surrender the Evil God Primordial Embryo, but Lin Xin rejected his demand and continued absorbing power, his growing madness and killing intent left unchecked.

• Huang Yuanqing declared that he would lead an operation, relying on his control of the Netherworld Path and the Elders' Hall to ensure its success.
• A sovereign urged the dignified man Huai'er to seize an opportunity created by the Immortal Alliance's losses and obtain an item that could help them rise in power.
• Heaven Cloud Path's leaders argued over Lin Shan's succession and Grand Turtle's dealings with the Yuan Dou Demon Sect; Grand Turtle revealed that he had reached an agreement with the Immortal Fiend Alliance through Yellow Ape True Lord.
• Yellow Ape True Lord learned that Lin Xin had kept the Evil God Primordial Embryo and ordered him to surrender it in exchange for protection.
• Lin Xin crushed Yellow Ape's message, having already gathered over a hundred Demon Talisman Seeds and raised his constitution above two hundred, while his killing intent and Netherworld Mansion Power intensified.

Lin Xin learned that Transformation Cave had trapped him because the Heaven's Mandate Derivation Art marked him as an enemy of all living beings, then revealed the ancient array he had carved into his body to defeat their ambush. He left Zheng Qing and the Yellow Mist Man alive, and they were cast back above the Shagula Evil God Temple.

• Zheng Qing explained that the Heaven's Mandate Derivation Art could not predict Lin Xin and that the Soul Stabilizing Lock had been used against three other enemies of all living beings.
• Lin Xin used a soul-eye technique to make Zheng Qing admit that Transformation Cave had anticipated his arrival, then offered to end the conflict, but Zheng Qing attacked after the Yellow Mist Man urged him on.
• Lin Xin unleashed the Fifth Grade Profound Heaven Phaseless Golden Light Array, which he had carved into his body, and used it to empower his Red Flower Sword Dao.
• Lin Xin's Infinite Qilin technique overwhelmed the Soul Stabilizing Lock and shattered the Yellow Mist Man's Soul Domain, revealing his Heavenly Ranking strength.
• Lin Xin sent Zheng Qing and the Yellow Mist Man back above the Shagula Evil God Temple.

Lin Xin brought Nan Shunqing to Central Prefecture to seek Demon God's Blood, which he needed to advance his cultivation, and the pair stopped at a tavern. There they encountered a father and daughter just as the Azure Embroidery Sect arrived to seize someone.

• Lin Xin sent the Sima sisters away, left a message naming Yuan Mo of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect as the killer, and took Nan Shunqing to Central Prefecture.
• Lin Xin explained that Demon God's Blood was the catalyst he needed to condense the Qi Heart and advance his Primal Battle Demon Art.
• At Qing Su Tavern, Nan Shunqing overheard a little girl named Yun Er mock him, and Lin Xin reflected on his helplessness to cure Lin Duan's poison.
• The Azure Embroidery Sect surrounded the tavern, and Yun Er's father grew tense as the pursuers identified them on the second floor.

Lin Xin perfected a method to pass through the Shattered Wheel Hall, then used the stone wheel to crush the vast memories overwhelming his mind. He reached the Reincarnation Sea, confirmed his Sacred Body remained safely stored around the Yuan Dou Mother Star, and plunged into the sea, where his consciousness fell asleep.

• Lin Xin repeatedly tested the stone wheel and learned how to pass his soul body through it intact, eventually assembling his full body.
• Lin Xin used the Void Spirit Art to send his cultivation and Sacred Body back to the Yuan Dou Mother Star, where they became a satellite.
• Lin Xin entered the stone wheel and let it crush the accumulated memories of millions of people, losing one-fifth of his mental power but avoiding madness.
• Lin Xin emerged beside the seven-colored Reincarnation Sea, observed other stone wheels and a vast vortex of gray clouds overhead, and resisted the sea's pull while exploring.
• Lin Xin confirmed he could still retrieve his Sacred Body from the Yuan Dou Mother Star, then followed the Reincarnation Sea's pull and sank into the water, losing consciousness.

Lin Xin studied the Shattered Wheel Hall for months and developed a plan to preserve his power while crossing it. His tests with Soul Replacement Pearls finally produced a tiny fragment that survived the wheel, giving him a possible way through.

• Lin Xin tested the Shattered Wheel Hall by feeding it thousands of stored soul entities and learned that its rotation paused briefly after each 108-day cycle.
• Lin Xin devised the Void Spirit Art to entrust his power to the Heavenly Yuan Star and retrieve it after crossing the wheel.
• Lin Xin tested a portion of his cultivation memories against the wheel and found that it was destroyed, injuring his soul slightly.
• Lin Xin used Soul Replacement Pearls to create simulated soul bodies and repeatedly sent fragmented versions into the wheel.
• Lin Xin's 351st simulated soul body returned with a tiny fragment of forearm bone intact, and he began examining how it had survived.

Lin Xin watched Secret Blood Warriors train and learned how their cultivation differed from the Thunderclap Sword, while sensing a dangerous secret in his father. He then joined the Lin Family children in Li Yue City to begin formal sword training.

• Lin Xin followed the children into the training ground, where he watched Lin Yaoyang and other Secret Blood Warriors practice and saw pale blue flames surrounding them as their sword strikes stirred the essence energy of heaven and earth.
• A bearded man sent the children away from the Secret Blood Warriors' training session, and Lin Xin led them out after learning that Secret Blood Warriors practiced to prepare their bodies for the Lineage's seal.
• Lin Yaoyang told Lin Xin that ordinary people could not safely learn the Full and Crescent Swordplay, and confirmed that the Thunderclap Sword could mobilize the essence energy of heaven and earth.
• Lin Hao spoke with Lin Xin about sword training, while black-red runes appeared on Lin Xin's hand and his Sacred Body warned him about his father; Lin Hao later left to suppress demon spirits.
• Lin Xin, Lin Yazaki, Lin Youke, and the other children gathered at Li Yue City, where a bald instructor began explaining the Lin Family's 108 Raging Thunder Sword.

Lin Xin arrived at the World Extermination Society’s plot and confronted the family heads and a powerful shadowy lion. He killed the conspirators and destroyed the lion, then escaped the blast with Lin Yaoyang and Thousand Sky Soul, though the surrounding area was devastated.

• Lin Shangxiu warned Lin Xin that the gathering was a trap, but Yun Kai fatally wounded her before she could save him.
• A Human Immortal’s Apex Realm froze the barrier, and a giant shadowy lion emerged to fight Lin Xin.
• Lin Xin used Illusory Thunder Emperor to trap the lion and killed Ling Shaozhi and the family heads while they were immobilized.
• The lion invoked the Six King Pillars and tried to shield itself with black mist, but Lin Xin’s one hundred and eight thousand swords destroyed it.
• The lion’s explosion shattered the Apex Realm and killed nearby Society members, while Lin Xin carried the unconscious Lin Yaoyang and Thousand Sky Soul to safety.

Azure Mountain Elder traveled to Treading Sea Cliff seeking a successor for the Azure Mountain Realm, while Lin Xin prepared to enter Azure Lake Mountain under a concealed identity. The chapter ended with Azure Mountain Elder appearing before Lin Xin and praising his swordsmanship and aptitude.

• Azure Mountain Elder explained that his dwindling lifespan and lack of an Earth Immortal successor threatened his branch's control of the Azure Mountain Realm, so he and Huan Ping would recruit disciples at Treading Sea Cliff.
• Azure Mountain Elder told Huan Ping to seek candidates with strong bloodlines, including certain purebloods, while keeping the selection standards from Yu Er.
• Lin Xin recalled Xiya's plan for him to pose as a natural pureblood and enter Azure Lake Mountain, where he would cultivate until reaching Earth Immortal before helping her.
• After spotting a cloud formation that matched Xiya's clue, Lin Xin practiced his Thunderclap Sword Art aboard the merchant ship.
• Azure Mountain Elder appeared before Lin Xin, praised his swordsmanship and aptitude, and drew the crew's attention.

Lin Xin dealt with the aftermath of the explosion at the sacrificial grounds while Shadow City’s agents discussed the failed plot and Xiya’s awakening. Six days later, Lin Xin prepared to leave for Treading Sea Cliff, and Lin Yaoyang pressed him about his plans and the Evil Qi on his body.

• Lin Xin ordered the injured Lin Yaoyang and Thousand Sky Soul taken to safety, then had the remaining members of the three Lineages imprisoned after declaring their family heads had colluded with demon spirits.
• A cloaked man and woman from Shadow City discussed the failed hidden pawn and the Lion of No Light’s death, and the man went to visit the awakened Xiya.
• Xiya warned the Shadow City man not to interfere with his plans, then told Lao Ou that everything was ready and ordered him to notify their intended pawn.
• Six days later, Lin Xin told Lin Yaoyang he planned to leave that night for Treading Sea Cliff, while she tried to persuade him to take her along.
• Lin Yaoyang teased Lin Xin and asked whether the Evil Qi on his body was gone.

Lin Xin accompanied Dragon Snake to Four Seas Immortal Mountain, where Dragon Snake demanded justice from Nine Immortals Hall for the injuries inflicted on Lie Jin. After securing the culprits and compensation, Dragon Snake had Lie Jin kill the three men and promised to turn their lives into protection for her descendants.

• Lin Xin traveled with Dragon Snake and Lie Jin to Four Seas Immortal Mountain after receiving a summons from Deep Fire Palace.
• Kunshan greeted Dragon Snake and said Nine Immortals would explain what had happened to Lie Jin.
• Nine Immortals handed over the three chief culprits and offered Lie Jin a collection of Tier Six treasures as compensation.
• Dragon Snake demanded that the culprits' families also be punished, and Nine Immortals reluctantly agreed to reveal where their lineages lived.
• Dragon Snake gave Lie Jin a dagger and promised to use the three men's cultivation, bloodlines, and souls to protect her descendants.
• Lie Jin killed the three restrained cultivators while Lin Xin watched.

Lin Xin confirmed that no other cultivators were in the capital and decided to take advantage of the emperor’s interest in immortality to spread the Dao. As he explored the city, he saw the imperial procession and then encountered the Huaiyang Princess riding through the streets.

• Lin Xin left Yao Yuanhui and her family after secretly marking her with his spiritual power so he could sense her within ten thousand li.
• Chief Constable Duan Tianya reported that Red Flower Daoist had rescued Yao Shunlin’s family, and the figure behind the bead curtain considered sending two Attendants after him if he proved to be a first-rank grandmaster.
• Duan Tianya told the figure about reports of an immortal in the mountains of Suzhou, and they worried that the emperor might pursue the Phoenix Cry Hairpin.
• Lin Xin searched the capital with a jade talisman, found no cultivators, and concluded that he was the only cultivator in the world.
• Lin Xin entered the capital, learned that the emperor favored Daoist cultivation, and considered how to spread the Dao despite not having prepared a formation.
• The Huaiyang Princess rode through the street on a red horse as Lin Xin watched from nearby.

After Chen Feiyang developed a powerful sword technique during Lin Xin’s training, Lin Xin continued his quiet life while White Shield prepared to hunt him down. More than a month later, Chen Feiyang arrived at Lin Xin’s shop gravely wounded, leaving Lin Xin to take him to the rest room.

• Chen Feiyang repeatedly fought Horned Thorn Bees until he created the move Ring of Thorns Belt, which blocked nearby attacks and reflected some of them.
• Lin Xin continued studying the rules needed to complete the Netherworld, knowing that awakening its disciples prematurely could kill them.
• Bai Sheng assigned White Flying Bird to lead a team against Chen Feiyang in Yongxing City, while White Dragon Lodge went to Godly Archer City.
• White Star warned White Flying Bird to be careful, but White Flying Bird and White Dragon Lodge agreed that his arrogance could be dangerous.
• After more than a month without visiting Lin Xin, Chen Feiyang stumbled into the shop covered in blood and collapsed.
• Lin Xin asked whether Chen Feiyang had encountered a powerful enemy, then carried him toward the second-floor rest room.