Chapter Summaries

Lin Chao headed toward Great Desolation Holy City to hunt Blood Clan members for their Blood Crystals, while seven Blood Clan Princes planned to expand their assault toward Lihuo Holy City. Near the occupied city, he reunited with Li Lianqi and Wang Zhen as a large wave of Blood Clan members approached.

• Lin Chao left Litian Holy City and saw refugees fleeing Great Desolation Holy City, including a mother carrying her dead infant, before continuing toward the fallen city to hunt Blood Clan Princes for Blood Crystals.
• Prince Amo reported that the holy spirit of Great Desolation Holy City had not been found, and Three-Eyed Prince proposed joining forces with the Four Thunder Princes to attack Lihuo Holy City.
• Three-Eyed Prince learned that a human named Xu Ling had destroyed several Blood Clan territories, but the other princes dismissed the threat.
• Li Lianqi learned that the Blood Robe Duke had occupied a hidden resource site and that its three hundred defenders had died, then considered how to recover supplies needed by Lihuo Holy City.
• Li Lianqi and Wang Zhen encountered Lin Chao, who explained that he had come for Blood Crystals, and warned him about the dangers nearby.
• A large group of Blood Clan members rushed toward Lin Chao, Li Lianqi, and Wang Zhen.

Lin Chao slaughtered the Blood Robe Duke and swept through the Blood Clan forces around Great Desolation Holy City, saving human fighters as he went. Li Lianqi and Wang Can followed his trail, fearing that a Blood Clan Prince would discover him, and the chapter ended as Li Lianqi sensed a Prince nearby.

• The Blood Robe Duke attacked Li Lianqi’s group, but Lin Chao caught his wing, hurled him into the Blood Clan ranks, and killed him along with the remaining fighters.
• Lin Chao ignored Li Lianqi’s warning to retreat and began striking Blood Clan forces across the battlefield, killing thousands and rescuing besieged humans.
• Three Blood Clan Dukes and twelve Marquises attacked Lin Chao, but he killed them instantly and continued toward Great Desolation Holy City.
• Li Lianqi found Wang Can, and the two realized that Xu Ling had been saving humans and slaughtering Blood Clan forces as he moved deeper into the battlefield.
• Li Lianqi told Wang Can that City Lord Li Huo might bring Xu Ling to safety if they reached within three thousand li of Litian Holy City.
• Li Lianqi sensed a Blood Clan Prince nearby.

Lin Chao, known as Xu Ling on the battlefield, killed Three-Eyed Prince and ten other Blood Clan Princes with one spear strike, then turned on the fleeing Blood Clan army. The human fighters survived and hailed him as their hope, while Lin Chao continued slaughtering the enemy and gained direction for his path ahead.

• Li Lianqi and Wang Can saw Three-Eyed Prince appear above the battlefield and feared Xu Ling would be overwhelmed by the Blood Clan Princes.
• Three-Eyed Prince attacked Lin Chao with a spear formed from three golden rays, but Lin Chao countered with a spear strike that killed Three-Eyed Prince and the ten Princes in Great Desolation Holy City.
• The Blood Clan and human fighters stared in disbelief as Lin Chao collected eleven Blood Crystals, and Li Lianqi realized Xu Ling had truly killed the Princes.
• Lin Chao attacked the fleeing Blood Clan without harming the humans, killing thousands at a time as the human fighters celebrated their survival.
• Lin Chao continued the slaughter and realized his spear strike had given him direction for the road ahead.

Lin Chao reached the Middle-Tier Realm by consuming Blood Crystals and rejected Li Huo’s offer to shelter him in Litian Holy City, choosing instead to hunt down the blood clan. Li Huo hinted that he would prepare a major gift for Lin Chao and planned to discuss it with the other City Lords.

• Li Lianqi and the Grand Commander discussed Lin Chao’s defeat of eleven Blood Clan Princes and worried that the blood clan would unite against him.
• Lin Chao consumed Blood Crystals until he reached the Middle-Tier Realm, then exhausted the remaining crystals and decided to keep slaughtering the blood clan to grow stronger.
• Li Huo invited Lin Chao to Litian Holy City and proposed gathering the other City Lords to help defend him, but Lin Chao refused and said he planned to clear the Northern Heaven Region of the blood clan before moving on to other regions.
• Li Huo confirmed that Lin Chao had reached the eighth rank without a Holy Spirit and promised him a grand gift, while Lin Chao gave Li Huo a healing technique before departing.
• Li Huo told the Grand Commander to invite the other City Lords so they could discuss the gift and decide how to support Lin Chao.

While the city lords spent three months planning a future campaign and Holy Spirit Baptism for Xu Ling, Lin Chao wiped out nearly all the Blood Clan in the Northern Heaven Region. He told Li Huo he was leaving to seek Blood Crystals in other domains, leaving the city lord stunned by the scale of his victories.

• Li Huo gathered the other city lords and Huang Xu to debate a hundred-year plan to test Xu Ling and then strengthen him with a Holy Spirit Baptism, despite the cost to their cities.
• After three months of deliberations, the city lords finished a detailed battle plan and learned that Xu Ling had destroyed several Blood Clan kingdoms and territories.
• Li Huo went to meet Lin Chao, presented the plan, and learned that Lin Chao intended to leave the Northern Heaven Region because its Blood Clan had nearly been wiped out.
• Lin Chao revealed that he had killed 127 Blood Clan Princes in three months and produced sixty Blood Crystals, leaving Li Huo overwhelmed and determined to investigate.

During Lin Chao’s Holy Spirit Baptism, the Holy Spirits awakened a memory from his reincarnation as Ling Xuan, revealing his life as a commander of the Azure Army and his betrayal by the Ancient Emperor. The vision ended with Ling Xuan discovering the Longevity Pill and deepening his understanding of the Law of Reincarnation.

• Li Huo and the holy city lords agreed to perform a Holy Spirit Baptism for Lin Chao after learning that Blood Clan princes across the Northern Heaven Region had fallen.
• Li Huo explained that Holy Spirits were believed to be remnants of ancient human heroic souls, possibly connected to the Azure Army, and Lin Chao agreed to undergo the baptism.
• The city lords and Huang Li summoned the Holy Spirits, which strengthened Lin Chao’s Innate Power and triggered a vision accompanied by the Reincarnation Simulator’s voice.
• The vision showed Ling Xuan becoming a chieftain and then commander of the Azure Army, while he and Yun Ying fought demons and defended humanity.
• Ling Xuan learned that the Ancient Emperor had betrayed him by using Yun Ying’s marriage alliance as a trap, but he captured the Monster Emperor and led his guards back to human territory.
• Ling Xuan rebelled, entered the imperial capital, and beheaded the Ancient Emperor; finding the Longevity Pill in the emperor’s alchemy furnace further completed his Law of Reincarnation.

Lin Chao relived Ling Xuan’s three-thousand-year life through the Holy Spirit Baptism, learned that the Reincarnation Method had failed, and resolved to seek more answers in the Southern Sky Domain. Two years later, he joined human envoys traveling to Blood God Mountain, where a Blood Clan Marquis demanded they surrender escaped human captives.

• Lin Chao experienced Ling Xuan’s life, including his wars against the Demon Race, Devil Race, and Evil Spirits, his creation of the Reincarnation Methods, and his failure to bring his fallen companions back to life.
• Lin Chao woke after three days, questioned whether Ling Xuan was his past or future, and asked Li Huo to arrange further Holy Spirit Baptisms in the Southern Sky Domain.
• Two years later, Liu Yan and Luo Zhong led a human envoy convoy through Gubo Domain toward the Blood God Ceremony, arguing over whether to resist or appease the Blood Clan.
• Lin Chao traveled with the convoy after spending two years killing Blood Clan members, and he planned to attack the gathering Blood Clan forces at Blood God Mountain.
• A Blood Clan Marquis accused the envoys of aiding escaped slaves and demanded their surrender; Liu Yan agreed, while Luo Zhong objected.
• Lin Chao sensed something and smiled faintly before announcing that he was leaving.

Lin Chao revealed that he had destroyed the Blood Clan in Dawn Duke Territory, then used a spear to annihilate Blood God Mountain and hundreds of Blood Clan Princes. After leaving Luo Zhong with Blood Crystals, he said he would go to the Southern Sky Domain in half a year, and seven months later he returned to the Netherworld and appeared on an old battlefield.

• Liu Yan tried to hand Lin Chao over to the Blood Clan Marquis to investigate the changes in Dawn Duke Territory, but Lin Chao admitted that he had killed the Blood Clan there.
• Lin Chao summoned a bloodstained spear that killed the Blood Clan Princes attacking it and then pierced Blood God Mountain.
• Prince Bodaye urged the Blood Clan Princes to unite against Lin Chao, but the spear killed hundreds of them and destroyed Blood God Mountain.
• Lin Chao told Luo Zhong he would go to the Southern Sky Domain in half a year, gave him countless Blood Crystals, and vanished.
• Luo Zhong killed the weakened Blood Clan Marquis as Liu Yan suddenly coughed blood and died.
• Seven months later, Lin Chao returned to the Netherworld and appeared on an old battlefield.

Lin Chao reflected on Ling Xuan’s final Reincarnation Fist Technique and concluded that the spirit might hold the key to his own path to the Ninth Tier and to resurrection. After leaving the Inner World, he returned to the Surface World, where Demon Armor prepared to leave the Ancient Battle World and planned to kill Qi Ping first.

• Lin Chao watched Ling Xuan’s final years and wondered whether his last fist technique had given the Azure Army’s divine generals a chance to return to life.
• Lin Chao realized that Ling Xuan’s pursuit of reincarnation and the role of spirit might reveal the Vitality Martial Dao technique that represented him.
• Lin Chao left the Inner World after meeting its ninety-nine city lords, who offered to place the human race under his command.
• Demon Armor recalled gaining divine seats and reaching the High-God realm in the Undead Kingdom, then decided to return to the Evil God Alliance.
• Demon Armor planned to kill Qi Ping before leaving the Ancient Battle World, as a favor to Lang Heng.

Demon Armor learned that a supreme treasure might lie in the Ancient Battle World and decided to use Qi Ping to find it, while the Heavenly Square Alliance and Evil God Alliance temporarily halted their war. Yu Su feared for her homeland, and Lin Chao continued studying spirituality in the surface world before a black-clad man approached his flower shop.

• Demon Armor received the Lord God Token’s call and learned that a Central Heaven Realm expert had left a supreme treasure in an ancient battlefield; suspecting it was the Ancient Battle World, he chose to spare and subdue Qi Ping for help finding it.
• The Immortal Emperor’s intervention ended the massive battle between the Heavenly Square Alliance and the Evil God Alliance, and Immortal Lord Wen Di told the True Dragon Hall that the conflict had temporarily ceased.
• Yu Su worried that the Ancient Battle World would become a battlefield if the suspected treasure were there, while Feng Yue reassured her that Immortal Lord Wen Di would protect her homeland.
• Yu Su asked Feng Yue about Immortal Lord Wen Di’s homeland and learned that the Immortal Lord had once spoken of having more than one homeland; alone before a waterfall, Wen Di resolved to obtain the treasure and reach the Ninth Tier.
• Lin Chao studied how spirituality changed with emotion and vanished at death, then considered capturing a god for further research.
• A smiling man dressed entirely in black approached Lin Chao’s flower shop.

Lin Chao captured Demon Armor, who had mistaken him for Qi Ping, and learned that an Evil God Alliance treasure hunt and Lang Heng’s plot involving Yu Su had brought him to the Ancient Battle World. Demon Armor offered him the True Spirit Art, and Lin Chao recognized it as part of a Lesser Reincarnation Method and began cultivating it.

• Demon Armor mistook Lin Chao for Qi Ping and demanded his allegiance, but Lin Chao revealed overwhelming strength and sealed Demon Armor’s divine power.
• Lin Chao took Demon Armor to the basement and questioned him about why he had come; Demon Armor explained that Lang Heng had sent him to kill the man Yu Su cared about.
• Demon Armor revealed that he had come seeking a treasure left by a powerhouse from the Central Heaven Realm and offered to serve Lin Chao, but Lin Chao continued examining his spirituality.
• Demon Armor told Lin Chao that spirituality was rarely understood and offered him the True Spirit Art he had bought in a Middle Thousand World.
• Lin Chao recognized the True Spirit Art as part of a Lesser Reincarnation Method and began cultivating it while Demon Armor hoped the process would give him time to escape.

Lin Chao mastered the first stage of the True Spirit Art, used it to strip Demon Armor’s spirituality, and witnessed a mysterious river carry away the remains. In the Central United Nation, Lang Heng’s forces captured Ji Wei and branded the residents of several buildings as Evil Gods’ lackeys, leaving Cheng Yang and his allies fearing an imminent attack.

• Lin Chao revealed that he had gotten started with the True Spirit Art and used it to extract Demon Armor’s memories before stripping away his spirituality and killing him.
• Lin Chao saw a vast, ancient river take Demon Armor’s remaining spirituality, then resolved to cultivate the True Spirit Art and the Lesser Reincarnation Method.
• In Year 56 of the Central United Nation, cultivators and evil gods flooded into the Ancient Battle World, and Yu Su killed many cultivators to curb their violence.
• Zhuge Anran, Cheng Yang, Luo Yu, Ji Wei, and Dongfang Zhen discussed how to oppose the Heavenly Square Alliance and the Evil God Alliance.
• Zhuge Anran reported that Lang Heng’s Heavenly Square Alliance Cultivators had captured Ji Wei, accusing him of being an Evil God’s lackey because of his connection to the Lacquer Horn Building.
• Cheng Yang and his allies realized Lang Heng could use the buildings’ ties to the Evil Gods as an excuse to target them all.

Lang Heng captured Central United Nation leaders to lure Xu Ling into the open, while Lin Chao learned of the crisis and set out for Kyoto. After killing evil creatures and Heavenly Square Alliance figures along the way, he arrived as Lang Heng’s allies pressured Huang Zhongqian to hand over the Heavenly Eye.

• Cheng Yang and the others surrendered to Lang Heng’s True Immortal, who arrested them under the accusation that they had colluded with the Evil God.
• Lang Heng ordered the prisoners kept alive to draw out Xu Ling, then set a deadline to kill them and asked when his master would arrive.
• In prison, Zhuge Anran suspected Lang Heng meant to lure Xu Ling, so Ji Wei arranged to tell him about their predicament.
• Lin Chao received Cheng Yang’s message, decided to kill Lang Heng, and slew an evil god and many other powerful wrongdoers on his way to Kyoto.
• Liu Can pressured Huang Zhongqian to make the Heavenly Eye serve Lang Heng, while Lang Heng’s True Immortal warned him against opposing their lord.

Lin Chao killed Lang Heng and the Heavenly Square Alliance cultivators who had terrorized the Central United Nation, then barred immortals and gods from entering the Ancient Battle World. As the Alliance’s arrival threatened further conflict, Lin Chao’s allies worried about the supreme treasure and the world’s future.

• Huang Zhongqian refused Liu Can’s demand to hand over the True Martial Seven Section Sword, and the True Immortal in the long robe moved to escort him away so Lang Heng could silence him.
• Lin Chao arrived, freed Huang Zhongqian, killed the True Immortal in the long robe, and then destroyed Lang Heng and the Heavenly Square Alliance cultivators in the estate.
• Lin Chao killed Feng Hao Evil God for murdering poor mortals, then reflected that evil existed even without visitors from beyond the heavens and affirmed that his path sought freedom.
• Lin Chao declared that immortals and gods were forbidden from entering the Ancient Battle World, prompting visitors to fear the consequences while avoiding open opposition.
• Cheng Yang, Ji Wei, Dongfang Zhen, and Luo Yu discussed the Alliance’s threat and the unknown supreme treasure, while Lin Chao remained calm.

General Breaking Immortal Lord descended on the Ancient Battle World and challenged Xu Ling over his attempt to bar immortals and gods from entering. Xu Ling killed him almost instantly, then returned to instruct Huang Hun and the others, while news of the outcome reached Yu Su aboard the Magic Boat.

• Lin Chao told Huang Hun that the Ancient Battle World would have far fewer dealings with the Heavenly Square Alliance and might become self-contained.
• General Breaking Immortal Lord descended through the Sky Vault and demanded that Xu Ling answer for defying the Heavenly Square Alliance.
• Xu Ling declared that he could represent the Ancient Battle World and refused to yield to General Breaking Immortal Lord's claims.
• Xu Ling used the True Spirit Art to strike General Breaking Immortal Lord's essence, killing him before he could finish speaking.
• Xu Ling returned to Huang Hun and the others and calmly announced that General Breaking Immortal Lord was dead.
• Yu Su received shocking news from her master aboard the Magic Boat.

Immortal Lord Wen Di recognized Xu Ling’s martial skill and his inquiries about the Wu Nation, then gave Yu Su a jade slip that could help him. After learning that the Gate Organization’s World Patrol was approaching the Heavenly Square Minor Thousand World, Lin Chao faced a threat he could not dismiss.

• Yu Su and Feng Xue told Immortal Lord Wen Di that Xu Ling had killed General Breaking Immortal Lord, and Yu Su described his Vitality Martial Dao and his questions about the Golden Cloud Sword Technique and the Wu Nation.
• Immortal Lord Wen Di recalled her past connection to Xu Ling and gave Yu Su a jade slip, warning that she might never see him again.
• Yu Su returned to the Ancient Battle World with Xu Xiao Jing and warned Lin Chao that forces from both the Heavenly Square Alliance and the Evil God Alliance were coming.
• Lin Chao read the jade slip’s Dao technique and learned that it could help him escape his current crisis.
• Lin Chao used Cang Yi and the jade slip’s information to discover that the Gate Organization’s World Patrol was nearing the Heavenly Square Minor Thousand World.

Lin Chao prepared to hide the Ancient Battle World from the Gate Organization, while Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing chose different paths at their farewell. Immortal Lord Wen Di’s plea bought Xu Ling a possible reprieve, but the Chief God urged the Immortal Emperor to kill him for a supreme treasure, and Wen Di’s final visions hinted at a tragic past tied to Xu Ling.

• Yu Su and Xu Xiao Jing learned from the jade slip that an ultimate expert could conceal the Ancient Battle World in the void, and Yu Su realized she could not leave with it because her presence might expose its coordinates.
• Xu Xiao Jing offered Lin Chao a drop of her essence blood as a marker, but he persuaded her to stay with Yu Su while he led the Ancient Battle World away.
• Lin Chao questioned Yu Su about Immortal Lord Wen Di, then saw her image and concluded that she was not the old acquaintance he had sought.
• Immortal Lord Wen Di asked the Immortal Emperor to spare Xu Ling in exchange for the True Dragon Secret Art, but the Chief God warned that Xu Ling might possess the supreme treasure, prompting the Immortal Emperor to decide he must die.
• After mastering the concealment technique, Lin Chao said farewell to Yu Su and the departing group; Yu Su embraced and kissed him before declaring she would wait for him in Tianfang.
• Immortal Lord Wen Di received a tear from the Ancient Battle World and heard voices recalling a lost man, the Three Lives Seal, and a desperate attempt to find him.

After Lin Chao left the Ancient War World, a giant hand killed the Immortal Emperor and the Evil God Alliance chief god. Centuries later, Lin Chao met Qin Yao at a university, where she invited him to visit a newly excavated ruin connected to immortal cultivators, but he declined.

• Yu Su resolved to become a core disciple of the Primordial Gate and travel to the Central Heaven Realm after the Magic Boat departed.
• The Immortal Emperor and the Evil God Alliance chief god arrived where the Ancient War World had been, then a giant hand killed them both.
• Lin Chao attended Huang Hun's funeral, withdrew into the mountains, and devoted himself to cultivating the True Spirit Art.
• Centuries later, Professor Lin taught students about the nuclear war and the Central United Nation era, while Qin Yao asked whether immortal cultivators had existed.
• Lin Chao, calling himself Xu Ling, sat beside Qin Yao and discussed the lost past as Yi Yuan challenged the authenticity of history.
• Qin Yao invited Xu Ling to visit a confidential ruin connected to immortal cultivators, but he refused and left the university.

Lin Chao reflected on human desires and loss before a raid on the ruins brought him face to face with a Stone Book from the Da Xing era. He rescued the book from the Yin Yuan Society and left the world with it, while Qin Zhengfang and Qin Yao were left behind.

• Lin Chao watched a politician speak in a square, reflected on his lingering attachments, and smiled at the rain before finding no one waiting for him.
• Qin Zhengfang told Qin Yao that excavations had uncovered a Stone Book whose ancient, unidentifiable script seemed to change whenever he viewed it in person.
• When an alarm sounded, Qin Zhengfang and Qin Yao hurried to the ruins, where five masked members of the Yin Yuan Society followed them to the Stone Book.
• The Yin Yuan Society threatened Qin Zhengfang's family and reputation to make him surrender the book, but he tried to smash it instead.
• Xu Ling appeared, caught the Stone Book, survived a gunshot, and killed all five members of the Yin Yuan Society.
• Lin Chao took the Stone Book and departed, leaving Qin Zhengfang and Qin Yao behind.

Lin Chao completed the Stone Book’s final period, spending his life force to bring the Azure Army back as he entered the Ninth Tier. After returning from the reincarnation, he received a fragment of the Lesser Reincarnation Method and attained the Ninth Tier through his own insights.

• Lin Chao read the Stone Book’s record of the Azure Army and realized that completing its final page would require him to bear the cost of their return.
• Lin Chao formed the final period, and his life force drained away as images of the Azure Army appeared across the sky.
• The Azure Army returned, with Zhao Kuang and others asking whether they were alive and where the Lord of the Nation was.
• Lin Chao vanished as the Stone Book was completed, then awakened in Great Xia Nation and ended his reincarnation.
• Lin Chao received a Talent Solidification Card and a fragment of the Lesser Reincarnation Method as his rewards.
• Lin Chao absorbed the Ancient War World’s insights and entered the Ninth Tier through his own strength.