Chapter Summaries

Lin Chao and the others entered Aier Manor to find Duoli’s sheep, only to discover that a monster had slaughtered armed mercenaries. While the group split up to search, Lin Chao examined a corpse and suspected the manor stood in the old land of the Foreign Lands; he chose to explore rather than rush to complete the mission.

• Zhuge Anran used a Discernment Card and learned that the mission was B-rank difficulty, then led the group into Aier Manor.
• The group found a corpse hanging at the gate and several more mercenaries torn apart inside, so Zhuge Anran urged them to find the sheep quickly and took guns for protection.
• Zhuge Anran divided the group into search teams; Zhao Ting chose to accompany Lin Chao, while Tang Qiang teamed up with Liu Ganglie.
• Lin Chao examined a mercenary’s corpse and noticed that the locals’ bodies and fragrant blood resembled those of the Bloodkin, leading him to suspect the manor was in the Foreign Lands’ old territory.
• Lin Chao told Zhao Ting that sheep had killed the mercenaries and suggested baiting one inside the sheepfold as a way to finish the mission, but he decided to explore the manor instead.

Lin Chao completed the sheep mission by killing the black goat and a powerful Black Armored Knight, discovering that the knight’s Blood Bead contained traces of a divine throne. Back in the Lacquer Horn Building, he struck the building’s screen until the structure shook, then confronted its dim phantom and threatened its still-sleeping main body.

• Tang Qiang and the lecherous man tried to use Zhuge Anran’s newcomers as bait, but the black goat killed the lecherous man and Tang Qiang died while fleeing.
• Lin Chao killed the black goat with one punch, then defeated the Black Armored Knight who appeared and collected a Blood Bead containing traces of a divine throne.
• Lin Chao and Zhao Ting returned the sheep to its pen, completed the mission, and returned to the Lacquer Horn Building.
• Zhuge Anran and Ji Wei learned that the dead sheep had been an A-rank monster, then watched the building shake and its chandelier shatter.
• Lin Chao struck the building’s screen, causing the whole structure to shake, and threatened the dim phantom by referring to its sleeping main body.

Lin Chao collected the Lacquer Horn Building’s divine positions, rejected an invitation to join its Council of Elders, and learned that its lottery rewards were weak. Meanwhile, hidden powers raised mission difficulty to harvest more divine positions, leaving the building’s residents facing six dangerous missions at once.

• Lin Chao collected a small number of divine positions from the Lacquer Horn Building and decided to stop doing its tasks while continuing to cultivate and pursue other goals.
• Zhuge Anran and Ji Wei learned that Xu Ling was the powerful martial artist who had killed Zhang Yuanmou, then invited him to join the Council of Elders, but Lin Chao refused.
• Lin Chao examined a newcomer’s lottery reward, found it unimpressive, and summoned Blood Beads as he considered improving the building’s rewards.
• Hidden lights discussed the Heavenly Square Alliance’s plans for the Ancient Origin Realm and agreed to increase mission difficulty and release more missions to obtain divine positions.
• The Lacquer Horn Building issued six missions at once, including one A-rank mission, and Ji Wei and the other residents feared the resulting death toll.

After Lacquer Horn Building’s missions suddenly grew more dangerous, Lin Chao offered residents powerful items in exchange for points. Zhuge Anran used a Divine Warrior during a joint haunted-house mission, and the group faced the deadly ghost as the attraction’s water system was about to start.

• Ji Wei and Zhuge Anran told Lin Chao about the escalating missions, and Lin Chao offered Death Replacement Cards, Divine Warriors, and other items for points.
• Zhuge Anran bought a Divine Warrior and two Death Replacement Cards, while Ji Wei took a list of Lin Chao’s wares to the other residents.
• Zhuge Anran’s group joined residents of Red Fish Building at an abandoned amusement park for an overnight haunted-house mission, where Wang Kaixuan revealed he also belonged to East Wind Building.
• The group found six dead East Wind Building residents and discovered that water patches could summon a ghost that killed anyone who stepped in them.
• A woman died after the ghost seized her from a wet patch, and the group learned the haunted house’s water-spraying attraction would begin in three minutes.
• Zhuge Anran summoned Lin Chao’s Divine Warrior, whose flaming form appeared before the group as they prepared for the coming flood.

The Divine Warrior defeated an A-class ghost during a mission, while the residents of Lacquer Horn Building gained confidence in Xu Ling’s props and cultivation methods. Nearly three years later, extraterrestrial cultivators had established ties with the Central United Nation, and Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing returned to Linhai City to investigate the Evil God Alliance.

• The Divine Warrior seized and destroyed the A-class female ghost, saving everyone except the woman who had died earlier and collecting a drop of blood unnoticed.
• Wang Kaixuan learned that Zhuge Anran’s group had bought the three-use Divine Warrior prop from a Lacquer Horn Building resident for ten points.
• After the mission, Red Fish accused Qi Jiao of stealing his divine position and attacked the cave where Qi Jiao was hiding.
• Nearly three years later, Lin Chao watched news of the Ancient Origin Realm’s arrival and First Immortal Academy, while Luo Yu’s cultivation as a first-rank Transcendent reduced Lacquer Horn Building’s residents’ reliance on props.
• Zhuge Anran refused his father’s offer to attend First Immortal Academy, choosing instead to remain involved with Lacquer Horn Building.
• Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing returned to Linhai City, and Yu Su received a message calling them to investigate the Evil God Alliance.

Cheng Yang joined Lin Chao as a chess piece, helping Lin Chao extend his control over the buildings while studying at First Immortal Academy. Meanwhile, Yu Su investigated people linked to the Evil God Alliance, and Lin Chao learned that visitors from beyond the heavens had noticed the buildings before an unexpected delivery arrived at his bookstore.

• Cheng Yang returned to Lin Chao’s bookstore, revealed that he was a resident of Red Fish Building, and agreed to become Lin Chao’s chess piece; Lin Chao placed a strand of Innate Power within him to take control of the building.
• Three years later, Cheng Yang reached the Body Tempering realm publicly while secretly following Lin Chao’s guidance to the Second Tier, and Wang Shu reported on him to Investigate Evil.
• Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing reviewed Investigate Evil’s targets and suspected that Zhao Ting was connected to the evil gods, so Yu Su met Zhao Ting and learned that she followed a peculiar system unlike theirs.
• Yu Su agreed to attend the Central United Nation’s Spring Sacrifice Day banquet with Xu Xiao Jing, while Lin Chao noted that five of the seventeen buildings were under his control and that he had gathered enough divine positions to create a demigod.
• A courier arrived at Lin Chao’s bookstore with an unexpected delivery.

Lin Chao joined the S-rank mission at Horse King Tomb on Fengsheng Island, where the Lacquer Horn, Wind Cave, and Black Tremor Building residents investigated anomalous Blood Clan Earl remains. He encountered Zhuge Anran’s former almost-fiancée and her First Immortal Academy group as both parties entered the tomb.

• Lin Chao received an invitation from Huang Hun to the royal family’s spring sacrifice and noticed the Lacquer Horn Building’s first S-rank mission, which concerned Blood Clan Earl corpses on Fengsheng Island.
• Zhao Ting explained the history of the Blood Clan Earls, and Zhuge Anran warned the mission group to conceal their identities from people on the island.
• Wang Guan and students from First Immortal Academy traveled to Fengsheng Island to investigate several deaths possibly linked to the Blood Clan.
• At Horse King Tomb, Lin Chao met residents from three buildings, and Black Tremor Building residents asked him to visit their building soon.
• Zhuge Anran explained that one Earl’s remains were buried at Horse King Tomb, where the night watchman had recently died and become a dried corpse.
• Zhuge Anran encountered Ting Ya and her First Immortal Academy classmates; after their warning, he followed Lin Chao deeper into the tomb while Wang Guan grew suspicious of the group.

Lin Chao destroyed the Horse King and its monster army at the Horse King Tomb, then learned from the Horse King’s memories that the Inner World was preparing to invade the surface. He warned the surviving First Immortal Academy students to leave and vanished to search for other Blood Clan corpses.

• Wang Guan’s group dismissed Zhuge Anran’s warning and Zheng Yin gravely wounded a seemingly weak Blood Clan member, only for countless monsters to emerge and immobilize the students under the Horse King’s power.
• Lin Chao arrived and revealed that he had already cleared another monster-filled black mist before finding the Horse King and its army.
• The Horse King identified Lin Chao’s aura as connected to the Azure Army and attacked with its enormous body and tens of thousands of monsters.
• Lin Chao froze and destroyed the monster army with a snap, killed the Horse King, and searched its memories for information about the Azure Great World, the abyss, and the planned invasion.
• Lin Chao collected Blood Beads and divine-rank material, warned Wang Guan and the surviving students that more monsters remained, and disappeared while they wondered at his strength.

Lin Chao ended the mission on Fengsheng Island, learned from a Blood Clan Earl’s memories that Yu Su had once sought news of Xu Ling, and headed to Kyoto for the Spring Festival after targeting the Black Tremor Building. At the Crown Hotel, he checked in under the name Xu Ling as Huang Hun hurried to meet him, while Liu Yuze and a council member’s nephew speculated about the new guest and Young Master Jianhua.

• The dean of the First Immortal Academy questioned Wang Guan about the monsters and expert on Fengsheng Island, then left with him rather than investigate further.
• Lin Chao killed a Blood Clan Earl, discovered that Yu Su had consulted it about Xu Ling, and decided to move against the Black Tremor Building.
• Black Tremor attacked Qi Jiao after learning he had reached into her building, and the angry gods decided to seek Demon Armor’s help against Qi Ping.
• Lin Chao arrived at the Crown Hotel with a gold-edged invitation, and the manager identified him as Xu Ling and assigned him a room on the twenty-ninth floor.
• Huang Hun learned Xu Ling had arrived and set out for the hotel, while Liu Yuze refused to be drawn into the nephew’s attempt to provoke a conflict with Young Master Jianhua.

Xu Ling met Huang Hun at the Crown Hotel, where Cheng Yang recognized him and warned him that the Investigate Evil organization was watching residents of their building. After Xu Xiao Jing found Xu Ling’s name in Wang Shu’s report, Yu Su agreed to attend the Spring Festival the next day.

• Huang Hun met with Xu Ling at the Crown Hotel and explained that he had invited him because he thought of him amid turmoil in the Central United Nation.
• Cheng Yang recognized Xu Ling as the bookstore owner from his residential compound, while Wang Shu recorded the encounter and reported it to Investigate Evil as A-grade information.
• Cheng Yang told Xu Ling that Investigate Evil was observing their building’s residents, and Xu Ling dismissed the organization as no threat.
• Cheng Yang saw Young Master Jianhua threaten a young woman but left without intervening.
• At the Horse King Tomb, Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing discussed their investigation and decided not to attend the Spring Festival.
• Xu Xiao Jing read Wang Shu’s report naming Xu Ling, and Yu Su changed her mind and agreed to attend the Spring Festival.

At the Spring Sacrifice, Lin Chao was framed by Wei Jue’s faction, then killed his accusers and Young Master Jianhua. Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing appeared, and Lin Chao reunited with them at the royal manor.

• Wei Jue and his allies sent Xia Ya to accuse Lin Chao of molesting her, but Lin Chao exposed the ruse by cutting her in half.
• Wei Jue rallied the new nobles and First Immortal Academy students against Lin Chao, who killed thirteen people with a red flash.
• The First Immortal Academy honorary dean held back after Wang Guan identified Lin Chao as the senior from Fengsheng Island.
• Young Master Jianhua offered to spare Lin Chao if he became his sword-bearing boy, but Lin Chao refused and Jianhua threatened him.
• A woman in white killed Young Master Jianhua, then Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing embraced Lin Chao, who welcomed them after their long separation.

Lin Chao reunited with Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing, explained that he had survived for centuries and had secretly been near them as Longevity Hermit Zhuang Meng. Yu Su pledged to investigate the Golden Cloud Sword Technique and Wu Nation for him, then prepared to punish those who had harmed him while concealing his possible connection to the Evil God Alliance.

• After Lin Chao killed Young Master Jianhua, Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing reunited with him, and Wang Guan and Huang Hun realized how formidable his allies were.
• Lin Chao told Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing that he had awakened after centuries beneath the sea and revealed that he had been Longevity Hermit Zhuang Meng in Weiyang Palace.
• Yu Su agreed to investigate the Golden Cloud Sword Technique and Wu Nation, and she and Xu Xiao Jing planned to visit Lin Chao in Mong Kok City in seven days.
• Yu Su returned to Lin Chao's room and kissed him before leaving with Xu Xiao Jing.
• After learning that Wei Jue's new nobles had caused trouble for Lin Chao, Yu Su vowed to eliminate them and demand an explanation from Young Master Jianhua's sect.
• Yu Su gave Lin Chao an official identity in the Yuan Shi Lineage and ordered Xu Xiao Jing to stop forwarding Investigate Evil's findings, choosing to protect him despite his possible ties to the Evil God Alliance.

Yu Su’s massacre of the Central United Nation’s opponents ended when the Thunder Sword Sect’s leaders knelt to plead for mercy, while the Wind Snow Sect elevated its treaty with the nation. Back in the Heavenly Square Alliance, Yu Su refused Lang Heng’s advances and persuaded her master to let her extend her training by a hundred years so she could stay with the person she had found.

• Liu Yuze declined Wang Pan’s offer to join the New Nobles, and Huang Hun refused to abandon Xu Ling.
• Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing killed the councilors and other enemies gathered at Wei Family Manor, then continued their killings across Kyoto for two days.
• The Thunder Sword Sect’s master and Supreme Elder knelt outside Crown Hotel for six hours before Yu Su appeared, and the Wind Snow Sect announced an equal partnership with the Central United Nation.
• Lin Chao accepted the Thunder Sword Sect’s treasures at Crown Hotel and joked about living off Yu Su.
• Lang Heng invited Yu Su to his Dao Inquiry Assembly and asked to visit her hometown, but she refused and left to see her master.
• Yu Su’s master offered her a slot in Kunlun Cave Heaven, but agreed to let her extend her training by a hundred years after learning she had found the person she sought.

Yu Su learned that evil gods had infiltrated the Heavenly Square World, while Lin Chao discovered a Primordial Gate legacy in the Sacred Light Mausoleum. The legacy revealed that the mysterious Gate organization destroyed worlds where remnants of the old era revived, leaving Lin Chao to question whether Innate Deities were among those remnants.

• Immortal Lord Wen Di warned Yu Su about infiltrating evil gods and asked her to bring someone to him in a hundred years.
• Yu Su asked Feng Xue to investigate the Golden Cloud Sword Technique and Wu Nation, and Feng Xue agreed before expressing interest in meeting the man who had borne Cang Yi's backlash.
• Lin Chao learned from Xu Xiao Jing that the Heavenly Square Alliance had dozens of Immortal Lords, then received word from Cheng Yang that a building's traces lay in the Sacred Light Mausoleum.
• Lin Chao entered the mausoleum, detected a Primordial Legacy behind an unbroken array, and destroyed the array with a punch.
• Lin Chao obtained a golden book describing the Primordial Gate's origins and its mission to eliminate remnants of the old era, whose revival could draw the world-destroying Gate organization.

Lin Chao learned that the Gate Organization might target the Innate Deities entrusted to him, then allowed the evil gods’ plot to drag the Tortoise Shell Building toward the Ancient Battle World’s Inner World before stopping it and leaving a coordinate. After Demon Armor’s scheme failed, he agreed to enter the Ancient Battle World through Lang Heng, who asked him to secretly kill Yu Su’s lover.

• Lin Chao studied the Primordial Gate records, worried that the Gate Organization would discover the surviving Innate Deities, and chose to focus on strengthening himself before entering the Tortoise Shell Building.
• Tortoise Shell, Black Tremor, Red Fish, and the other evil gods enlisted Demon Armor to send the Tortoise Shell Building and Qi Ping into the Ancient Battle World’s Inner World using an Emptiness Fruit.
• Lin Chao let the building reach the Inner World, recognized the danger and opportunity there, then dispersed the void power and marked the luminous mist with a coordinate.
• Demon Armor suffered backlash when Lin Chao stopped the scheme, and the evil gods realized that Qi Ping was far stronger than they had believed.
• Demon Armor approached Lang Heng in the Heavenly Square Alliance and offered him the Taiyuan Three Chapters in exchange for help entering the Ancient Battle World.
• Lang Heng asked Demon Armor to secretly kill Yu Su’s lover, and Demon Armor agreed while also planning to claim Qi Ping’s divine thrones.

Lin Chao spent peaceful years with Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing before they returned to the Heavenly Square Alliance, then prepared to enter the Inner World. There, Wang Zhen survived the massacre of Mad Ear Cave and used a mysterious power to kill two vampire guards.

• Jiang Chu learned that a wealthy woman had bought the street to pursue Xu Ling, while Lin Chao welcomed Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing to the bookstore.
• Yu Su sensed an Evil God’s aura at Jigong Temple, searched for the intruder, and warned Lin Chao that an Evil God Alliance cultivator was nearby; Lin Chao realized the intruders’ true bodies had come.
• Demon Armor recognized Xu Ling as Qi Ping and decided to wait until he entered the Inner World before trying to kill him.
• Three years later, Lin Chao reflected on Jiang Chu’s death and Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing’s departure, then decided to enter the Inner World.
• Wang Zhen returned to Mad Ear Cave and found his family and settlement dead after Viscount Keji’s forces attacked.
• Two vampire guards attacked Wang Zhen, who expended some of his vitality and blood to strengthen himself and kill them.

Lin Chao discovered that the Inner World's Blood Crystals accelerated his cultivation and learned that vampires had destroyed Wang Zhen's home. He went alone to Viscount Keji's territory and annihilated its vampires, including Count White Glue and Viscount Keji.

• Lin Chao killed Commander Li Luo and more than twenty vampire guards, then absorbed their Blood Crystals and found that they advanced his Vitality Martial Dao cultivation.
• Wang Zhen told Lin Chao about the Sacred City, the vampire territories, and Viscount Keji; Lin Chao refused to wait for reinforcements and headed for the viscount's territory.
• Wang Zhen met two Bauhinia warriors, who agreed to go with him to persuade Lin Chao to return rather than fight a vampire noble.
• Lin Chao reached Viscount Keji's territory, saw evidence that the vampires treated humans as food, and decided to kill them.
• As Viscount Keji entertained Count White Glue with a feast made from human children, Lin Chao unleashed a wave of Innate Power that destroyed the entire territory and killed every vampire there.

Lin Chao wiped out Viscount Keji's and Count White Glue's territories, collected Blood Crystals and divine positions, and cultivated until another martial art reached the innate realm. He set out for Litian Holy City with Li Ming, intending to hunt more Blood Clan on the way, but learned that no Blood Clan settlements were nearby.

• Lin Chao gathered Blood Crystals and divine positions from the corpses in Viscount Keji's territory.
• The Bauhinia group reached the territory and discovered that Lin Chao had killed Viscount Keji and Count White Glue, mistaking his strength for that of a Holy Warrior.
• Lin Chao destroyed White Glue Territory, collected more than four thousand Blood Crystals, and found no map to guide him to other Blood Clan settlements.
• Lin Chao cultivated in a deserted human cave until his Thunderous Law entered the innate realm, then decided to head toward a Holy City.
• After Lin Chao swept through more Blood Clan settlements and two marquis territories, Li Ming told him that Litian Holy City was four days away and no Blood Clan nobles were nearby.

Lin Chao reached Litian Holy City with Li Ming, learned about the human strongholds and Blood Clan threat, and turned down an offer to settle there. After receiving a large gift of Blood Crystals, he went with Li Ming to buy maps of vampire forces, leaving the pair at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

• Li Ming explained that the Inner World had twenty-one domains, with human Holy Cities only in the Northern and Southern Sky Domains, and shared rumors that Holy Spirits protected the cities.
• Lin Chao and Li Ming entered Litian Holy City, where Li Ming reunited with his father, Commander Li Lianqi, and described how Xu Ling had rescued him and destroyed Tai Jia Marquis's territory.
• Li Lianqi judged Xu Ling trustworthy, offered him over thirty thousand Blood Crystals, and invited him to a banquet, where Lin Chao declined recruitment.
• Lin Chao cultivated through the night, broke another martial art into the Innate Realm, and then accompanied Li Ming to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to buy maps marked with vampire forces.
• Chen Shi brought out the maps after Li Ming told Lin Chao how Chen Shi's father died protecting a Holy Warriors' treasure and how Chen Shi was rescued from the vampires.

Lin Chao bought maps in Litian Holy City as rumors of a crisis mounted, then learned that Great Desolation Holy City had fallen after human leaders betrayed it to the Blood Clan. As Lin Chao prepared to leave, Li Ming asked whether humanity still had hope, and Lin Chao said that exceptional people could emerge amid great chaos.

• Lin Chao selected five maps of the Inner World, then watched Li Ming hurry away after the Crimson Flame Army brought an urgent report.
• At a teahouse, Lin Chao discussed humanity’s future with Huang Xu as the Litian Bell tolled ninety-nine times, announcing that a Holy City had fallen.
• News arrived that Great Desolation Holy City had been destroyed after two Grand Commanders and eight great houses colluded with the Blood Clan and helped kill its City Lord.
• Three days later, Lin Chao prepared to leave Litian Holy City, and Li Ming asked why people betrayed their own kin.
• Lin Chao blamed profit for the betrayal and told Li Ming that, although humanity faced destruction, great chaos could bring exceptional people to the fore.