Chapter Summaries

Lin Xin rejected Feng Huai’s invitation to investigate a newly discovered ruin tied to Song Danhao, choosing to develop his strength in the outer void instead. Over the following months, he cleared the Void Demon Spirits from his territory and refined his techniques, but his Dao Soldier Building remained unevolved and his Inscription Gnomes were revealed to be finite.

• Lin Xin killed the Qilin and Void Demon General with his light sword before Feng Huai arrived and explained that the Void Demon Spirit could have been exchanged for over a thousand Contribution Points.
• Feng Huai told Lin Xin that Song Danhao had discovered a new ruin near their territory and asked him to lead an investigation team, but Lin Xin refused despite the potential reward of five thousand Contribution Points.
• Lin Xin declined Feng Huai’s offer of channels for obtaining the Azure Origin Art’s subsequent cultivation method and resolved to grow stronger by hunting Demon Spirits and developing his Dao Soldiers.
• Over several months, Lin Xin and his Steel Men and Inscription Gnomes cleared the small Void Demon Spirit groups across his territory, earning him more than two thousand four hundred attribute points in total.
• Lin Xin adapted his sword techniques to the Azure Origin Art and mapped his territory, while discovering that the Stone Men building had not evolved and that his Inscription Gnomes could not be replenished.

Lin Xin searched the shifting rooms of the Sword Hall for the Supreme September Divine Wind Sword and fought through its first three swords. The story then shifted to the Tenth Heaven Realm, where the Holy Master stood beside the River of Decay and was questioned about abandoning the Shadow World.

• Lin Xin discovered that the Sword Hall’s 999 rooms constantly changed their sword marks, so he searched them for the Supreme September Divine Wind Sword.
• Lin Xin found the sword marks and fought a white figure wielding the Sword of Joy, using his accumulated damage to overcome its Sword of Wrath and repeated lives.
• Lin Xin resisted the Sword of Lament’s sorrowful illusion, tore the white figure apart, and destroyed it before it could use the fourth sword.
• In the Tenth Heaven Realm, the Holy Master shaped water from the River of Decay into a spider while a black-clad follower asked why he had abandoned the Shadow World.

Xiao Lingling carried the badly injured Lin Xin out of the plaza and toward the cave exit, revealing the hardships that had brought her to the sect. While she treated him and hid the worsening state of her own injuries, Lin Xin discovered that burning the Demon Talisman Seed granted him an attribute point, suggesting a new way to gain power.

• Xiao Lingling refused to leave Lin Xin behind and carried him through the plaza while sharing her family history and hopes of rescuing her younger sister.
• Xiao Lingling told Lin Xin that the Red-Clothed Woman might be the Red Chamber Demoness, a notorious enemy of the four sects.
• Xiao Lingling continued carrying Lin Xin across the suspended platform and up the mountain path, despite her worsening abdominal injury.
• Lin Xin smeared his blood on the Demon Talisman Seed and tossed it into the campfire while Xiao Lingling went behind a rock to tend her wounds.
• Lin Xin saw scarlet smoke enter his body and an additional attribute point appear, then concluded that the Demon Talisman Seed could convert sacrificed souls into attribute-like energy.

Lin Xin defeated the Black Flame Lion in the Earth Yin Fire Pillar, tested the limits of his strength, and decided to seek experience beyond the Dragon Snake Realm. After arranging access to the mission wall, he received a life-saving Azure Life Flower from Ouluo before setting out.

• Lin Xin relentlessly struck the Black Flame Lion until it collapsed, then took its heart core and concluded his physical strength rivaled a Tier Five peak Divine Beast.
• Lin Xin left the dangerous Earth Yin Fire Pillar, returned to his stone house to secure his belongings, and asked Dragon Snake for permission to travel for experience.
• Dragon Snake approved Lin Xin’s plan, and Feng Huai advised him to find suitable assignments through the mission wall while warning him to be wary of other cultivators.
• Lin Xin visited Ouluo, who registered the mission wall channel on his jade talisman and gave him an Azure Life Flower that could create a temporary incarnation to help him escape danger.

Lin Xin’s Steel Men slaughtered the Void Imps and helped stabilize his cultivation, but a Void Demon General arrived and forced him to request a Sentient Life Tower. Meanwhile, Song Danhao and his companions appeared in a distant dead city, and Lin Xin began fighting the Tier Five Void Demon General.

• Lin Xin evolved the Iron Men into Steel Men, whose strength and speed let them kill large numbers of Void Imps and help stabilize his cultivation.
• After the Dao Soldier Building evolved again, Lin Xin found that Steel Men could not be upgraded further and used Purification Flame to burn the mountain of corpses outside the fortress.
• A Void Demon General descended, freezing the area, and Lin Xin sent a request for a Sentient Life Tower before preparing to fight.
• In White Jade City, a cultivator approved sending Lin Xin the last available Sentient Life Tower, with the spatial transmission expected to take twelve days.
• Song Danhao, Xu Ling, and Baiyu arrived in an abandoned city in the Void Outer Domain after activating an ancient transmission formation, and Song Danhao urged them to leave before Azure Lake Mountain found them.
• Lin Xin faced a Tier Five Void Demon General and sent the Red Flower Sword into the void; a white-flamed Qilin then collided with the monster’s attack.

Lin Xin learned that Primordial Ones possessed absolute power and indestructibility, then crossed a wormhole toward the Star Cluster Empire to collect fragments and destroy its forces. On Osram Star, Speaker Tike learned that someone had reached the Aojia Empire before his plan could proceed, though the chapter left the identity of the newcomer undisclosed.

• Lin Xin listened as the sculpture explained that Primordial Ones could freely manipulate time and could only be erased by destroying the root of their existence.
• Lin Xin left the Winter Night Squad to handle the treasure vault, departed the Aojia Empire capital, and entered a wormhole toward the Star Cluster Empire.
• Lin Xin emerged from the wormhole with no time having passed, then set out to collect fragments and destroy the Star Cluster Empire.
• On Osram Star, Tike spoke with Anjie about their campaign against the Aojia Empire and his cooperation with the Dark Investigation Department.
• Tike received news that someone had beaten his side to the Aojia Empire, and Anjie pressed him to explain his sudden anger.

Dragon Snake gave Lin Xin the Supreme September Divine Wind Sword, and Lin Xin began studying its demanding state of mind. Xiya warned him about the sword art’s creator and explained that Song Danhao had taken Lin Yaoyang to use her Purification Power, leaving Lin Xin wary but unable to intervene against the Demon God King’s growing strength.

• Dragon Snake gave Lin Xin the Supreme September Divine Wind Sword and warned him to keep its jade slip private.
• Lin Xin studied the sword art’s teachings in the abandoned Lin Family courtyard and considered how to keep his original heart unmoved.
• Xiya told Lin Xin that the sword art’s creator had slit his own throat in September and warned of a hidden danger at higher levels.
• Xiya explained that Song Danhao had taken Lin Yaoyang to use her Purification Power to cleanse a seal, and promised to return her whole and untouched.
• Lin Xin left after questioning Xiya, then reflected that Song Danhao’s actions had caught him by surprise and that confronting the Demon God King was currently beyond his power.

Lin Xin learned that Nan Shunqing had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm and struck a major blow against the Red Pavilion, then investigated Hua Yaozhu’s mysterious arrested aging. The chapter ended with Lin Zhen rushing to Hua Yaozhu’s defense, revealing how deeply attached he was to her.

• Gongsun Li told Lin Xin that Zhen had escaped an ambush by Star Calamity Hall and that Qing had retaliated by killing thirteen Foundation Establishment experts in Meile City and stealing the Red Pavilion’s tribute treasures.
• Gongsun Li revealed that Qing had mastered the Heavenly Garment Sword Art and reported the rapid progress of the younger disciples and the manor’s successful wound medicine.
• Gongsun Li warned Lin Xin that Hua Yaozhu had not aged since she was fifteen or sixteen and that Zhen had repeatedly visited her room at night.
• Lin Xin confronted Hua Yaozhu in her courtyard, noticed her lack of cultivation and suspected that she was using a strange, seductive technique.
• Lin Xin flung Hua Yaozhu away, and Lin Zhen arrived, saw her injured and disheveled, and rushed to protect her from Lin Xin.

Lin Xin organized his and the manor’s combat abilities into a five-grade system, then joined an expedition to investigate the Insect Master’s nest. The group reached two enormous fruits, but an eruption of attacking worms began just as Dugu Lin approached them.

• Lin Xin ranked magical abilities, equipment, and combatants, deciding that his true strength reached third-grade peak while he concealed his spiritual energy from outsiders.
• Lin Xin discovered a Great Thunder Elixir hidden in his belt, put it away safely, and continued cultivating until his Returning Origin Art reached 55% completion.
• Hua Yu Nu led Lin Xin, Dugu Lin, Su Wan, and the other array specialists toward two hollowed-out giant fruits believed to be the Insect Master’s nest.
• Hua Yu Nu created a jade bridge to the fruits, and Dugu Lin crossed it first with Lin Xin’s Red Jade Sword.
• Worms burst from holes in the bark and shot toward the cultivators’ exposed skin.

Lin Xin received insight into survival and fortune from the man surnamed Fang, then witnessed him confront and defeat Nangong Chengji of the Nine Coffins Gate. After Fang gave Lin Xin the Eternal Sleep Nine Injuries booklet and a final piece of advice, he vanished, leaving Lin Xin to consider the Central Prefecture’s martial world.

• The man surnamed Fang explained to Lin Xin that survival came from facing death without reservation and that fortune meant moving with the prevailing current.
• Lin Xin spent the night at an inn and saw white-robed coffin-bearers arrive, whereupon their coffin’s voice induced sleep throughout the inn.
• The man surnamed Fang emerged to confront Nangong Chengji, Gate Master of the Nine Coffins Gate, and followed him into the sky to fight.
• Lin Xin followed them to a wasteland and found Fang standing amid the defeated coffin-bearers and wreckage.
• Fang gave Lin Xin the Eternal Sleep Nine Injuries booklet and told him, “Let the sea embrace a hundred rivers,” before disappearing.

Lin Xin condensed a Yuan Jing Soul Domain and overcame its tribulation by sending his insect swarms against the Black Lotus Tribulation Cloud. With his breakthrough complete, he headed for the ruins to claim Hong Ye’s treasure, while the Enslaved Ha Clan fought the Tooth Cry Demon Book and white centipedes over the Evil God Weapon.

• Lin Xin assembled his Soul Domain and used countless insects to consume the Black Lotus Tribulation Cloud until the tribulation ended.
• Lin Xin tested his new Yuan Jing Armor against lightning and learned that his Soul Domain could block external hazards and weaken opponents.
• Lin Xin discovered that his Yuan Embryo still needed Yang energy from a Yang Spring before it could mature into a Nascent Soul.
• Lin Xin sent insects to guard the airship, then flew toward the ruins to claim the treasure Hong Ye had given him.
• At the Evil God Temple, the Tooth Cry Demon Book battled a giant white centipede while masked Enslaved Ha Clan fighters drove back the attackers.
• A golden-masked Enslaved Ha Clan leader refused to surrender the Evil God Weapon as the rival group demanded it.

Lin Xin revealed himself as a pure-blooded recruit and traveled with the others to Azure Lake Mountain’s Human Realm agency, Gathered Cloud City. The chapter ended as their giant eagle passed through the city’s gates and entered a vast white expanse.

• Immortal Master Wang asked the assembled recruits to identify anyone with pure Divine Beast Bloodline, and Lin Xin stepped forward.
• Chen Jingsi regretted overlooking Lin Xin, while Master Kuan An dismissed her hopes of winning the pure-blooded recruit’s favor.
• Immortal Master Wang explained that pure bloods received preferential treatment because their bloodlines granted powerful strength without cultivation.
• The White Feather Giant Eagle carried Lin Xin and the other recruits through a cloud vortex to the immense Gathered Cloud City.
• The giant eagle entered the city through gates opened by two enormous white-robed giants.

After the Dao Sect unified Great Xia, Lin Xin refined Corpse King Ji Du in a cauldron and absorbed his World Origin, advancing his cultivation. The Origin awakened strange Joyous Power within him, and Lin Xin began condensing the Sword of Joy.

• The Dao Sect unified Great Xia, and Dao Lord Lie Shan sent divine generals across the world while suppressing resistance and capturing Ji Du.
• Lin Xin spent fifty-three days refining Ji Du in a cauldron until Ji Du became a sphere of black-silver Origin.
• Lin Xin absorbed the World Origin and realized he could plunder Origin by refining those who possessed it.
• The World Origin summoned eerie masks and laughter, revealing that Joyous Power came from a strange mixture of pleasure, pain, and despair.
• Lin Xin used his attribute ability to condense the Sword of Joy, forming an illusory pink blade with a curved tip and a smiling face.

Lin Xin’s encounter with Wu Daojiu’s household spread the name Red Flower Daoist through Suzhou. Meanwhile, Yao Shunlin’s fugitive family was ambushed by Duan Tianya and imperial forces, leaving Wang Jin to hold off their pursuers as Yao Qing and Yao Yuanhui fled.

• Lin Xin spared Wu Daojiu’s household after breaking Xu Jin’s wrist, then left with a display of extraordinary speed that led witnesses to spread the name Red Flower Daoist.
• Yao Yuanhui recalled the gold ingot that had appeared through a tiny door while she and her family hid with Phoenix Purity Hall allies in a ruined temple.
• Sun Si Niang detected poison in the soup, and Duan Tianya appeared with imperial constables and forces surrounding the temple.
• Yao Shunlin ordered Yao Qing to take Yao Yuanhui and escape while he stayed behind, and Wang Jin agreed to protect the siblings.
• After crossbowmen attacked the temple, Wang Jin helped Yao Qing and Yao Yuanhui break out through the rear, then stayed to fight three waiting martial artists.
• Yao Qing fled with Yao Yuanhui through the grass, unaware that a man holding wolfhounds was watching them.

Lin Xin confronted the Black Light Army after learning it came from the strongest empire of another universe, while Hong Ye warned him that the legion would be troublesome. At Heroic Song City, Berlende led the army toward Lin Xin, and the two began fighting as their forces gathered behind them.

• Lin Xin asked Hong Ye how to absorb Dao Ancestor Source, and Hong Ye told him to deal with the approaching Black Light Army first.
• Lin Xin revealed his eight-armed true body and unleashed a blood-colored halo that killed nearby life and drew pale blue smoke into him; Hong Ye recognized the sound of sin and karmic evil around Lin Xin.
• The nobles at Heroic Song City learned that Kahill had died, then took heart when Laura announced that her husband, Berlende, and the Black Light Army had arrived.
• Berlende advanced on Heroic Song City, decided Lin Xin had to die, donned heavy armor, and formed the Black Light Dragon with his army.
• Lin Xin attacked Berlende with a tornado and a space-tearing air sword, but Berlende swept the tornado aside and countered with eighteen spear thrusts.

Lin Xin discovered how Dao intent could transform mixed flames into legendary beasts, completed a five-sword array, and flew to Fanjing Mountain. There, the injured Kun Ji discussed Lin Xin’s strength with a mysterious translucent figure while keeping watch for his return.

• Lin Xin fused the Soul Devouring Devil Fire Dao intent with a silver-white sword embryo, briefly forming the legendary beast Three Yin Luo.
• Lin Xin completed the Red Flower Sword, forged a sword to summon Three Yin Luo, and prepared three more swords for a future array.
• Lin Xin left Fire God Palace with the five swords and flew toward Fanjing Mountain.
• Kun Ji ordered his Snake-Headed People to search for Lin Xin while he recovered from his chest wound.
• Kun Ji told a translucent figure that Lin Xin could not resist within Yuan Jing but possessed immense physical strength.

Xu Ling and Gongshang Baiyu found the unconscious Song Danhao and learned they had to gather the Demon God King's original Gold Guards to restore him. Meanwhile, Lin Xin's Nether Realm grew into a refuge for cultivators as his main body remained trapped in the war against the Spirit Asura Kings.

• Xu Ling and Gongshang Baiyu reached Song Danhao's ice sphere, retrieved him unconscious, and brought him aboard their vessel.
• Xu Ling and Gongshang Baiyu consulted the Demon God Totem, which told them to find Hei Wu in the Black Dragon Sea and revealed that Lin Yaoyang was with her lover, Sun Snatcher Divine Lord Lin Sheri.
• The Demon God Totem directed Xu Ling and Gongshang Baiyu to find Hei Wu first, then seek a way into Lin Sheri's Nether Realm to contact Lin Yaoyang.
• Lin Yi played chess with Nine Curves Immortal Elder while Dragon Snake discussed the influx of cultivators seeking refuge with Lin Xin.
• Lin Xin accepted powerful cultivators and helped establish three satellite cities around the Nether Realm, which had flourished as a refuge during the Great Calamity.
• Nine Curves and Dragon Snake noted that several years had passed since Lin Xin left, while his main body continued fighting the resilient Spirit Asura Kings.

During Shadow City’s final counterattack, the Shadow Demon Great Saints challenged powerful opponents while the Great Calamity escalated into an all-out war. Lin Xin’s defeat of Xing Pengfei raised his standing, and Fang Yu shifted his attention to a new target.

• Xing Pengfei left after the Three-Eyed Man reassured him that his strength was comparable to a Great Saint’s.
• The Shadow Demon Great Saint failed to draw Buddha Child out of his golden lotus, as Buddha Child repeatedly used her lapses in memory to keep her talking.
• Fang Yu overwhelmed Wei Ning in the Third Heaven Realm, but he withdrew after sensing that Xing Pengfei had lost, leaving Wei Ning alive.
• Shadow City launched its final counterattack with three Shadow Demon Great Saints, while the Heavenly Demon Warlords and Shadow City forces drove the Great Calamity into a full-scale war.
• Yin Chuan repelled a vast demon army and fought Fang Yu to a draw, while Fang Yu retreated to Shadow City and joined forces with the Heavenly Demon Void army.
• Lin Xin’s defeat of Xing Pengfei and his recognition as the Star Chant Sect’s sole Holy Son elevated his reputation within Azure Lake Mountain.

Lin Xin faced an attempt by Red Ridge Gate to capture him, but a Yuan Dou Demon Sect elder intervened and drove the attackers away. Guan Mingyue then explained his mission to protect Lin Xin and invited him to attend the upcoming Dao Gate Grand Ceremony, where the Myriad Laws Hall could help him comprehend Dao intent.

• Lin Xin left his cave and challenged Hou Wuyou and Red Ridge Gate's forces rather than surrendering.
• A distant bell sounded, and Hou Wuyou withdrew with the red-robed figures before the fight began.
• Lin Xin followed the bell to Guan Mingyue, an elder of the Yuan Dou Demon Sect sent by the Great Princess to protect him.
• Guan Mingyue warned Lin Xin that he must flee if he encountered a Yuan Jing enemy and explained that advancing to the fifth level of the Primal Battle Demon Art required at least three hundred kinds of Dao intent.
• Guan Mingyue told Lin Xin about the Dao Gate Grand Ceremony and the Myriad Laws Hall, then began explaining how the Yang Spring nurtured a primordial embryo.

Feng Huai brought Lin Xin to the Dragon Snake Realm Lord, who agreed to take him as a disciple after inspecting his cultivation and abilities. The chapter left Lin Xin alone with Dragon Snake in the palace, awaiting his new master's next move.

• Feng Panjun asked Dragon Snake to accept Lin Xin, and Dragon Snake agreed because Lin Xin's arrival would anger Azure Mountain Old Man.
• Dragon Snake discussed Lin Xin with his dragon-headed turtle brother, who joked that Dragon Snake's training would drive the new disciple away.
• Feng Huai led Lin Xin, Lin Youke, and the others across the hostile Dragon Snake Realm to the Dragon Snake Palace.
• Dragon Snake allowed Lin Xin and Feng Huai into the palace, while the others waited outside under Thousand Eyes' watch.
• Dragon Snake recognized Lin Xin's Tier Five cultivation and his thunder-and-fire aura, then accepted him as a disciple and sent Feng Huai away.