Chapter Summaries

Lin Xin inherited Feng’s understanding of the Sword of Lament, broke through to the Celestial Venerable level, and began learning sword arts from other masters in the Sword Hall. As he continued through the shifting chambers, he found his thoughts inexplicably wandering.

• The Holy Master told several shadows that the Great Calamity was the Operation Lotus reaching its limits and warned that it might collapse.
• Feng revealed that he was the first Sword Master and explained that the Supreme September Divine Wind Sword was created for freedom.
• Lin Xin received Feng’s memories and insights, mastered the third sword, and transformed his cultivation into Primal Spirit Holy Light.
• Lin Xin entered the Primal Bell Bright Jade Sword chamber and learned its principles from its first-generation Sword Master.
• Lin Xin studied sword arts from successive Sword Masters and stabilized his Sword of Lament, but he occasionally lost focus for no apparent reason.

Dragon Snake gave Lin Xin the Earth Fire Nine Spirits Pearl and warned him about the approaching invasion. As Huan Niu’s allied army advanced through the Dragon Snake Realm, Lin Xin used the pearl to trigger devastating eruptions, though Master Dragon Snake cautioned that powerful immortals would escape their force.

• Dragon Snake gave Lin Xin the Earth Fire Nine Spirits Pearl and instructed him to keep the rare realm artifact secret.
• Huan Niu led Earth Fire Realm forces, joined by Chen Youzhi and Luo Feng, toward the Deep Fire Palace while Phoenix forces arrived and Hei Shang observed from the vessel.
• The advancing army destroyed a Dragon Snake Realm sentry post and pressed toward the realm’s core as Earth Fire Pillars began to destabilize.
• A series of Earth Fire Pillars erupted within the army, killing countless troops and throwing the forces into chaos.
• Lin Xin held the Earth Fire Nine Spirits Pearl at a volcano and used it to stir the realm’s fire energy, causing the catastrophic eruptions.
• Master Dragon Snake warned Lin Xin that the pearl’s realm-wide power would not affect Earth Immortals and Human Immortals directly, though it could disrupt their formations.

Lin Xin learned a secret art for sensing Demon Talisman Seeds and used the seeds he had collected to increase his attributes. After the Heavenly Dao Dharma Lotus helped him understand the requirements for advancing the Nine Mornings Song’s Fire Fate layer, he resolved to focus on hunting for more Demon Talisman Seeds.

• The Black Fox youth showed Lin Xin his father’s sealed records and taught him a visualization method for sensing Demon Talisman Seeds within a hundred li.
• Lin Xin memorized the method, sensed Demon Talisman Seeds by their heartbeat-like fluctuations, and confirmed the secret art worked.
• Lin Xin burned four Demon Talisman Seeds and absorbed them, assigning all four attribute points to Damage and raising it from 18 to 22.
• Lin Xin saw that his Returning Origin Art had reached Foundation Establishment Level Four, at 31% progress, and assessed the effect of his increased attributes.
• Lin Xin activated the Heavenly Dao Dharma Lotus and deduced that advancing the Nine Mornings Song’s Fire Fate layer required enduring extreme heat, extreme cold, and deep-sea pressure.
• Lin Xin decided to use the Radiance Society and his identity as another challenger to hunt experts and gather Demon Talisman Seeds.

Lin Xin defeated Wan Nian’s divided manifestations, killed Pu Dusheng, and escaped the Two-Faced Country’s counterattack. After returning to the forest and consuming a cleansing fruit, he headed toward the appointed battle at the Heavenly Dao Sect, where Heaven's Will Blade prepared to face his challenger.

• Lin Xin disrupted Wan Nian’s chanting and slaughtered his manifestations, but the real body had already fled after its palm strike failed to harm him.
• Lin Xin confronted Pu Dusheng in the palace, then left; a hidden sword wound killed Pu Dusheng as Imperial Guards approached.
• Lin Xin fought his way through the Two-Faced People cultivators waiting outside the palace and escaped back to the forest.
• Lin Xin concluded that killing in the Two-Faced Country did little to improve his cultivation, consumed a silver rat-like fruit, and departed.
• Three days later, spectators gathered at the Heavenly Dao Sect for the appointed battle, and Heaven's Will Blade greeted the assembled cultivators.

Lin Xin’s attempt to join the Plum Blossom Sect was interrupted when Su Wan exposed a hidden danger in his body. After Moon Slave removed the Blood Poison Qi and tested him, a mass of parasitic blood emerged, revealing a threat tied to the strange woman in white he had encountered in the forest.

• An Ying accepted Moon Slave’s offer to join the Plum Blossom Sect, and Lin Xin knelt to ask to join as well.
• Su Wan interrupted Lin Xin’s admission, prompting Moon Slave to remove a threadlike worm of Blood Poison Qi from his brow.
• Su Wan insisted that something was still wrong, so Moon Slave used the Blood Pill Testing Method on Lin Xin.
• The test activated Lin Xin’s Inner Qi, and Moon Slave struck him after concluding that he had deceived them.
• A mass of filthy blood filled with tiny maggots flew from Lin Xin’s shoulder, and Su Wan destroyed it with water from a bottle.
• Su Wan asked about strange encounters, and Lin Xin described the weeping woman in white he had seen deep in the forest.

Lin Xin tested his Inner Qi against jianghu fighters and beasts while traveling downstream, but the Demon Talisman Seed did not react. Huang Shan explained that formidable opponents were scarce outside the sect, though recent attacks by demonic sects had caused heavy losses among Formal Disciples; Lin Xin recalled the Red Chamber Demoness and hoped she had survived so he could settle their grudge.

• Lin Xin drove Old Freak Tu away from Yao Qingxue by firing a silver ingot infused with Inner Qi, and she thanked him for saving her.
• Lin Xin and Huang Shan continued downstream with Xiao Lingling, and Lin Xin tested his internal force on objects, beasts, and jianghu fighters without provoking a reaction from the Demon Talisman Seed.
• Lin Xin hunted Blue Back Wolves but found them no match for his fifth-layer Innate Realm strength.
• Huang Shan told Lin Xin that powerful opponents were rare in the mortal world and that Formal Disciples were forbidden to kill one another.
• Huang Shan revealed that demonic sects had recently ambushed Formal Disciples, leaving heavy casualties and missing experts, and Lin Xin thought of the Red Chamber Demoness.

Lin Xin signed a contract with a boy to obtain Demon Talisman Seeds and copy his father's notes, then joined a clash between the Radiance Society and the Red Robe Sect outside Na Xi City. He slaughtered the Red Robe Sect fighters and attacked a gray-robed elder, who narrowly dodged his sword as he tried to flee.

• Lin Xin agreed to form a contract with the boy, and both signed it with bloody handprints and names.
• Lin Xin arrived at the battle outside Na Xi City and identified the Red Robe Sect fighters by their red glow.
• Lin Xin used his speed to kill Red Robe Sect cultivators across the forest, turning the battles in the Radiance Society's favor.
• Lin Xin charged at the gray-robed elder, cut through his Sea Quelling projection, and nearly pierced him before a jade pendant deflected the Red Flower Sword.
• The gray-robed elder tried to flee, but he sensed danger and dodged as Lin Xin's red sword flashed past.

Zhao Ke resolved to cultivate harder and travel to Lin An in hopes of eventually helping Red Flower Mister, while Lin Xin endured the Star Observation Platform’s star-power reconstruction and learned that a final, deadly trial awaited him. After Lin Xin prevented Lin Xi from being reclaimed, he fell asleep and woke inside a transparent glass chamber.

• Zhao Ke mourned that he could not help Red Flower Mister and decided to seek spear guidance from his master’s old friend in Lin An.
• Yellow Ape True Lord subjected Lin Xin to more than ten days of star-power washing, transforming his cultivation and body into a chaotic state of silver-blue star power.
• Yellow Ape True Lord warned Lin Xin that the final trial, held at Bronze Sparrow Terrace, had destroyed the divine souls of nearly all previous disciples.
• Lin Xin woke after two days and promised the frightened Lin Xi that he would try to prevent her reclamation.
• Lin Xin persuaded the green-skinned Tula that Lin Xi should not be reclaimed, then fell asleep again.
• Lin Xin later awoke inside a transparent glass chamber.

Lin Xin led the group across a dangerous abyss to a plaza where they planned to hunt Blood Beasts. While searching alone, he exposed an impostor disguised as Xiao Lingling, but another member screamed and a torch went out as the impostor escaped.

• Lin Xin knocked a second Signal Flare away, drawing the giant rooster aside so the group could flee along the stone wall.
• Lin Xin led the group across a chain-suspended platform and into a plaza filled with broken statues and a towering vine sculpture.
• Lin Xin proposed hunting the Black-Haired Horse-Men one at a time, and the group split up to search the plaza.
• Lin Xin examined a broken statue before Xiao Lingling approached him alone and claimed she was frightened.
• Lin Xin kicked the apparent Xiao Lingling away after she tried to stab him, revealing that she was an impostor.
• A scream sounded in the distance and a torch went out while the impostor retreated into the darkness.

Lin Xin defeated the imperial palace’s strongest guards with Formless Reincarnation and discovered that the Origin Realm persisted after its victim died. As he approached the Empress Palace, the Empress learned that Royal Shadow had been killed and considered summoning a Martial Arts Grandmaster to stop him.

• Lin Xin passed through the Imperial Guards and killed Li Si, the Dragon Monarch Dao commander, with an illusion.
• Lü Ning of the Nine Heavens Destroying Earth School ambushed Lin Xin, but Lin Xin trapped him in the Origin Realm and aged him to death by manipulating his sense of time.
• Lin Xin discovered that the Origin Realm remained on his sword after Lü Ning died and sensed that he had glimpsed an answer to the Ninth Sense.
• The Empress watched footage of Royal Shadow’s death and demanded an explanation from the court Attendant Martial Artists.
• A white-haired Martial Artist told the Empress that ordinary fighters could not stop Lin Xin and urged her to summon a Martial Arts Grandmaster.

Lin Xin fled Flower Drum Town aboard a commandeered airship with Zhao Ke, heading toward the Outer Domain to evade the pursuing factions. As they neared the Yang Membrane, Lin Xin reassured Zhao Ke about the route while examining the increasingly powerful aura changing his body.

• Lin Xin left Flower Drum Town aboard an airship, and news of his departure with the Sand Time Divine Palace treasure drew the Immortal Alliance and Red Ridge Gate into clashes that devastated the town.
• Captain Zhou Aifa and the crew discussed how to survive their forced journey toward the Outer Domain, and Old Zhao revealed that a nonhuman race had once saved him there.
• Lin Xin and Zhao Ke emerged on deck as the airship neared the Yang Membrane, and Lin Xin confirmed they were heading into the Outer Domain to avoid their pursuers.
• Lin Xin told Zhao Ke he had planned a route through several safe locations and would keep the crew alive while they remained useful.
• Lin Xin reflected that the aura around him had grown stronger since he killed a Yuan Jing cultivator, combining Netherworld Mansion Power, faith, and fragments of yin-soul wills while gradually changing his body.

Lin Xin entered the small world while searching for Lin Yaoyang, but learned that the Sand Sea Great Emperor had scattered her and others across different worlds. As he questioned the Array Spirit, Xing Pengfei and a group of Shadow City Earth Immortals arrived to ambush him, and Xing Pengfei launched an attack.

• Lin Xin forced the Soul Sect to open the portal, then took Bi Luo and two other Rogue Cultivators into the small world.
• Lin Xin brought the three to a larger altar, broke through its barrier, and questioned its Array Spirit about Lin Yaoyang.
• The Array Spirit said Lin Yaoyang had left after the Sand Sea Great Emperor scattered people across different worlds, and offered to use her divination arts to help Lin Xin.
• Lin Xin threatened the Array Spirit, then Xing Pengfei and several Shadow City Earth Immortals appeared and surrounded him.
• Xing Pengfei charged Lin Xin with his twin blades and used Celestial Extremes Nine Revolutions - Dragon Return.

A Celestial Venerable attacked Lin Yi’s Netherworld formation while Lin Xin’s Lake Mountain Sect took control of the seal containing Corpse King Ji Du. The chapter left Lin Xin and the Demon Subduing Families together at the sealed altar, facing the next steps in securing it.

• A giant hand infused with Primal Spirit Holy Light broke into Lin Yi’s layered formations, and Lin Wai joined the defenses while Lin Yi sent for his Master.
• Lin Xin’s team entered Kongling Mountain after tracing Corpse King Qi to a cave sealed off by the army.
• Yuan Xiaojing confirmed the altar’s seal was holding, but she and Yin Mingzhi learned that a large group was approaching.
• Yin Mingzhi and the Yuan Family met Daoists from the Lake Mountain Sect, whose representative ordered them to surrender control of the site.
• Lin Xin recognized Yuan Xiaojing and instructed her family to leave only three people behind while the others withdrew.

Lin Xin learned that Illusory Words Lake appeared for only a fraction of a second before the Great Universe’s destruction, then unified the Storm and Helt Empires and reopened the Netherworld. He returned to the reborn Black Universe to settle old karma with the Nether Prefecture, where he uncovered the identity and history of the corpse from the Black Carriage.

• Lin Xin told Dilia and the others that the Helt Empire would soon make a major move, but did not explain further.
• The Painter told Lin Xin that Illusory Words Lake formed at the center of the universe just before its destruction and could only be reached by Primordial Ones.
• Half a month later, Lin Xin took the Storm Empire’s throne as the Helt Emperor abdicated, and the two empires’ rulers were revealed to be the same person.
• Three years after unifying the empires, Lin Xin reopened the Netherworld, released its waiting disciples and subordinates, and established settlements for them.
• Lin Xin traveled to the reborn Black Universe, found the Nether Prefecture’s entrance, and summoned the Black Carriage with a Demon Talisman Seed.
• Lin Xin restored the carriage’s corpse and learned from its memories that the young man, Shi Guan, had been a Netherworld Mansion Child whose ability to devour objects drew the Nether Prefecture’s attention before he was killed in an experiment.

Lin Xin entered the Empress Palace to rescue his Mother Consort, refusing the Empress’s poisoned-wine bargain and demanding her release. The Empress revealed herself as a Shadow Demon and unleashed her guardian demon, burying Lin Xin beneath the palace’s ruins in a devastating attack.

• The Origin Realm continued absorbing Bai Zhuo’s existence after Lin Xin left it.
• A mustached nobleman threatened Lin Xin with his Mother Consort and offered him poisoned wine, but Lin Xin ignored him and the nobleman drank it himself.
• Lin Xin confronted the Empress, struck her, and pierced her brow when she refused to release his Mother Consort.
• The Empress’s black blood summoned a demon shadow that seized Lin Xin, battered him, and drove him into a deep pit.
• The Empress used King Corpse Descent to blast the pit, reducing the Empress Palace to ruins as witnesses recognized her as a member of the Shadow Demon clan.

Lin Xin arranged for Huai Yang to oversee the disciples’ Azure Origin Art training, then joined the Qingjing King’s inspection in Huanlong Town to search for promising recruits. At Snowflake Inn, he identified the attendant Wang Tong as a potential talent and claimed to know about his private ailments.

• Huai Yang successfully completed the Azure Origin Art’s initial mental training, while Lu Li fainted and the other disciples made no progress.
• Lin Xin gave Huai Yang further instruction and tasked her with guiding the other disciples’ basic training.
• Lin Xin left for the Zhou Prince’s Mansion and joined the Qingjing King’s search for Phoenix Purity Hall and talented recruits.
• Lin Xin entered Snowflake Inn with the imperial soldiers, scanned the crowded hall, and noticed attendant Wang Tong.
• Lin Xin grabbed Wang Tong and warned that he would not live past next year, then accurately described his recurring pains.

Lin Xin and Yin Pengzi entered Transformation Cave to confront its Great Demon Venerable, but Lin Xin was met by both the Great Demon Venerable and Heaven Cloud Dao Venerable. Their battle reached the Apex Realm, and the chapter ended as the two opponents unleashed more attacks against Lin Xin.

• Lin Xin and Yin Pengzi discussed the Nether Prefecture and visited Transformation Cave to seek information about Shagula and the Netherworld.
• Yin Pengzi controlled Transformation Cave’s guards, and the pair teleported to No Life Cave World, where Lin Xin struck down the giant serpent Hua Qingzi when it refused to bring them to the Great Demon Venerable.
• Two armored cultivators opened a black bronze gate and said the Great Demon Venerable was waiting inside, so Lin Xin entered while Yin Pengzi remained outside.
• Lin Xin met the Great Demon Venerable and discovered that Heaven Cloud Dao Venerable was also present, with the two trapping him in the passageway.
• Lin Xin froze the passageway with his Apex Realm power and fought off the Great Demon Venerable’s halberd and Heaven Cloud Dao Venerable’s attacks.
• The Great Demon Venerable unleashed Self-Sacrifice Heavenly Eye as Heaven Cloud Dao Venerable summoned a moon-white scythe and attacked Lin Xin.

Lin Xin and the skyship crossed into the Inclined Space, where he learned that the Nether Prefecture had marked him as a Lord and that the mark brought dangerous powers and side effects. As the Sword Lords prepared to sever his connection to the Nether Prefecture, Lin Xin suspected the mark concealed abilities Duan Wei had not revealed.

• Hong Ye told Lin Xin that the Nether Prefecture had granted him a Lord Mark after his body absorbed the wills and vital essence of two Nascent Soul Soul Domain cultivators.
• The skyship was seized by black tendrils and carried through the rift into the Inclined Space, where Lin Xin explained the region to Zhao Ke and the crew.
• Lin Xin's secret art revealed red halos around floating black blotches, which stirred an urge to devour them.
• Duan Wei explained that the Lord Mark let Lin Xin devour matter from other worlds but could make him explode if he failed to transmit it to the Nether Prefecture.
• Duan Wei warned Lin Xin that the Sword Lords would sever his connection to the Nether Prefecture in ten days and that the Lord Mark carried a powerful side effect.
• Lin Xin dismissed his secret art and suspected that the Lord Mark had abilities Duan Wei had not disclosed.

Lin Xin and the others entered the trial’s cavern, where they encountered deadly horse-men and chose to avoid a battle with the Poison Gang. When a horse-man attacked their group, a gigantic red-combed rooster’s head emerged from the abyss, leaving everyone frozen in fear.

• The Prime Culprit let the trial groups enter, then learned from a woman that an Insect Woman plague was spreading and the sect urgently needed new disciples.
• Lin Xin led Senior Brother Guang, Xiao Lingling, and the others down a foggy passage, where he caught Xiao Lingling before she fell into an abyss.
• The group watched the Poison Gang fight three horse-men, then slipped past while the monsters remained focused on their opponents.
• After seeing a signal flare and preparing his sword case, Lin Xin’s group encountered a lone horse-man and attacked it together, while Lin Xin stayed back.
• A gigantic red-combed rooster’s head rose from the abyss, startling the group and freezing both the cultivators and the horse-man.

The Empress sought Master Bai Zhuo’s help to stop Xu Hong, but Bai Zhuo chose to intervene despite warnings that Xu Hong had inherited the Ten Illusions title. Meanwhile, Lin Xin reached Empress Palace unseen by its guards and surveillance, leaving the Imperial search unable to stop him.

• The Empress asked Bai Zhuo to deal with Xu Hong, and Bai Zhuo agreed in exchange for the Grade One Myriad Star Stone.
• Bai Zhuo learned that Xu Hong had become Ten Illusions Xu Hong and that fighting him required preparations through the Daoist Association.
• Bai Zhuo decided to go with his disciple Nan Shang, who offered to handle Xu Hong in his teacher’s place.
• Lin Xin stood outside Empress Palace while Imperial Guards searched for him without seeing him.
• Lin Xin walked toward the palace gates as the Military Department’s guards and surveillance systems failed to detect him.