Chapter Summaries

Lin Xian established himself as the Saint of the West and brought the God Knight into the Heavenly Court’s service by extending his life. While searching the Church’s treasury for plundered Ancestral Artifacts, he found a Nuwa Dao Stone that resonated with his Fuxi Dragon Stele.

• Lin Xian manifested a Pure Bliss World and gathered the Western faithful under his new Buddhist faith as the Saint of the West.
• Lin Xian offered the dying God Knight extended life and a place in the Heavenly Court, and Cú Chulainn accepted his service.
• The God Knight explained that he had been barred from receiving Faith Power after accidentally absorbing sacred medicine as a child.
• Lin Xian and his companions followed the God Knight into the Church’s hidden treasury to recover its treasures and Central Land Ancestral Artifacts.
• Lin Xian found a Nuwa Dao Stone, and it resonated with the Fuxi Dragon Stele fragment in his robes.

Lin Xian studied the True Dragon Secret Technique and found confirmation for his path toward immortality. He prepared to go to the Kunlun Immortal Land with Ye Fan and Duan De, teasing them about Emperor Zun and the Ancient Heavenly Court’s First Divine General.

• Lin Xian absorbed the damaged Fuxi Dragon Stele and empty Nuwa Dao Stone into his Wheel of the Sea Secret Realm and awakened an incomplete True Dragon Secret Technique from his bloodline.
• Lin Xian compared the technique with the system’s flawless version, considered its Dao Ancestor origins, and found its teachings supported his Red-Dust Immortal Path.
• Lin Xian decided to pursue immortality by uniting his primordial spirit with an immortal artifact’s Dao and asked Divine Baby to help him cultivate.
• Lin Xian told Ye Fan that he was guaranteed to be Emperor Zun’s reincarnation and said they would later seek the Ancient Heavenly Court’s First Divine General.
• Lin Xian warned Duan De that the First Divine General might blame him for Emperor Zun’s death, prompting Ye Fan to accuse Duan De and claim, “I could be Emperor Zun too.”

Lin Xian, Ye Fan, and Duan De negotiated their shares before guiding the Quasi-Emperors into Kunlun Mountain with the Immortal Treasure Diagram. They reached the Immortal Land, discovered a message from the Devouring Heaven Empress’s Sacred Body brother, and Ye Fan declared that he was his own person, while Lin Xian secretly edited a recording to make him appear to affirm he was Emperor Zun’s reincarnation.

• Lin Xian negotiated with Duan De and secured thirty percent of the Kunlun Immortal Land’s treasures for him, with the rest going to the Heavenly Court.
• Emperor Yu led Lin Xian, Ye Fan, Duan De, and the other Quasi-Emperors through Kunlun’s formations, and Lin Xian used the Immortal Treasure Diagram to gain them passage into the mountain’s depths.
• The group reached the Immortal Land, where Emperor Yu explained its role in draining Earth’s vitality and Lin Xian said removing its treasure could restore the planet’s spiritual energy.
• Ye Fan and the others discovered a star field containing the dying message of the Devouring Heaven Empress’s Sacred Body elder brother, and Lin Xian explained the connection to the Ancient Heavenly Court.
• Ye Fan declared that he was not Emperor Zun but the Lord of the Heavenly Court, while Lin Xian edited a recording to suggest Ye Fan had acknowledged being Emperor Zun’s reincarnation.

Lin Xian established that the Heavenly Court’s strength rested on the faith of all living beings, while Duan De’s words revealed a connection between faith and reincarnation. After the group entered Kunlun’s Immortal Land and gathered its treasures, Duan De left an Emperor Weapon Embryo in the protected sanctuary, then learned that Immortal Medicine still remained there.

• Lin Xian transformed into Ye Fan and impersonated Emperor Zun, while Duan De recorded the performance and Ye Fan struggled to distinguish himself from the role.
• Duan De described the true self as enduring through reincarnation, prompting Lin Xian to connect his insight to the paths of the Netherworld Emperor, Ruthless, and Ye Fan.
• The Emperor Formation Divine Spirit cleared the way, and the group harvested Medicine Kings before Emperor Yu buried the remains of a Quasi-Emperor killed by the formation.
• Duan De found Guxin Ao’s divine-marked purple-gold pagoda, but Lin Xian warned that Guxin Ao served the Underworld and might pursue anyone who took it.
• Duan De left the Purple Pagoda in Kunlun’s guarded Immortal Land, and Lin Xian directed the Emperor Formation Divine Spirit to reserve the remaining Immortal Medicine for the Heavenly Court.

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Lin Xian used the True Dragon Immortal Elixir to draw out Kunlun’s White Tiger Medicine, revealing that he intended to claim Kunlun Mountain for the Heavenly Court. With Duan De’s and Ye Fan’s credentials securing the Emperor Formation Divine Spirit’s recognition, Lin Xian declared Kunlun the Heavenly Court’s Emperor’s Lower Capital.

• The group reached Kunlun’s core and harvested its ancient medicines while marveling at the Immortal Pool and the guarded medicinal field.
• Duan De and Ye Fan tried to lure the White Tiger Medicine by impersonating great emperors, but it hesitated to approach them.
• Lin Xian released the True Dragon Immortal Elixir, which drew the White Tiger Medicine out and gave the two immortal medicines a chance to play together.
• Emperor Yu and Daoist Mountain Phoenix wondered what Lin Xian’s possession of an immortal medicine meant, while Lin Xian joked about his identities and Ye Fan teased him about the Myriad Dragon Maiden.
• Lin Xian explained that he planned to live in Kunlun and claimed the mountain as the Heavenly Court’s Emperor’s Lower Capital.

Lin Xian restored the Green Cauldron on Kunlun Mountain and used the process to advance his study of how to produce immortal qi. The cauldron became the Heavenly Court’s shared treasure, and Ye Fan chose to stay on the Primordial Ancient Star rather than return to the Big Dipper.

• Lin Xian entered Kunlun Mountain’s Immortal Pool and joined the two Copper Fragments to the damaged Green Cauldron, restoring the Myriad Things Source Cauldron.
• Lin Xian asked Divine Baby to help repair the cauldron, and Divine Baby used dao flame while the Quasi-Emperors joined the refinement.
• The cauldron broke free of its bond with Kunlun Mountain, and the Primordial Ancient Star’s spiritual energy began to revive as the Dharma-Ending Era ended.
• Lin Xian declared the Green Cauldron the Heavenly Court’s shared immortal artifact and said it would remain on Kunlun Mountain until fully restored.
• Lin Xian urged Ye Fan to return to the Big Dipper and slay Wang Teng, but Ye Fan chose to stay on the Primordial Ancient Star with his parents and the immortal medicines.

Ye Fan left Kunlun Mountain after Lin Xian used his mother to force him back to the Big Dipper, and Lin Xian took control of Kunlun’s beast kings to build the Heavenly Court’s base there. Lin Xian subdued Dragon Horse and appointed him and the other three kings as protectors, then explained that Earth’s spiritual energy was beginning to recover.

• Ye Fan spent a year avoiding Lin Xian’s requests to leave Kunlun, but Lin Xian persuaded Ye Fan’s mother to confront him, and Ye Fan fled back to the Big Dipper.
• Lin Xian defeated the golden bull king, black divine ape, and bat Daoist, whose Quasi-Emperor Artifact was Rong Chengzi’s Immortal Spear, and appointed them as Heavenly Court Dharma Kings.
• Lin Xian found the fire god origin at the Fire God Grotto and subdued Dragon Horse with Fuxi’s River Chart Dominion, a Medicine King, and the threat of the Dragon Spear.
• Lin Xian named Dragon Horse the Saint Spirit Dragon King and ordered the four kings to guard Kunlun Mountain’s gates as the Heavenly Court recruited cultivators.
• Lin Xian told the kings that Earth’s spiritual energy would recover and warned Dragon Horse not to underestimate the Central Land and its imperial bloodlines.

Lin Xian and the Quasi-Emperors discovered Xiao Song, a squirrel with Kunlun Immortal Blood and an extraordinary innocent nature, and competed to guide him. Duan De offered Xiao Song a Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda and tried to make him his disciple, but Xiao Song misunderstood his instructions.

• Great Xia Dragon Sparrow identified the purple squirrel child as carrying Kunlun Immortal Blood, and Lin Xian gave him the name Xiao Song.
• Xiao Song led Lin Xian to a Half-God Medicine, the Ancestor of Fo-ti, whom Lin Xian invited to grow in the Immortal Land.
• Emperor Yu and Daoist Mountain Phoenix argued over teaching Xiao Song, while the Man-Demon decided his own path was unsuitable for him.
• Duan De arrived, predicted Xiao Song could become a Demon Emperor, and offered him a Divine Marked Purple Gold Pagoda.
• Duan De awakened Xiao Song's ability to speak and tried to teach him to say “Master,” but Xiao Song instead repeated Duan De's instruction to say “Master.”

Lin Xian taught Xiao Song and the Divine Baby while Ye Fan’s Heavenly Court confronted the Primordial Myriad Races over its name. On Kunlun, Lin Xian continued striving to break through the saint-domain barrier, and his cultivation drew the attention of Xuan Chi at Hangu Pass.

• The Quasi-Emperors saw Xiao Song’s flawless inner state and agreed to teach him, while Lin Xian speculated that his Kunlun immortal blood might attract the Immortal Bell and taught him the Fuxi Scripture and the Nine Secret: Bing.
• The Divine Baby appointed Xiao Song crown prince of the Heavenly Court by stamping an edict with the Green Cauldron’s seal.
• At Yaochi, Ye Fan defended the Heavenly Emperor’s Son and declared the Heavenly Court’s existence, prompting the Immortal Emperor’s descendants and other Primordial Ancestral Kings to threaten war.
• The Great Xia Dynasty backed Ye Fan against the Immortal Lineage, and Great Saint Hun Tuo’s envoy urged the factions to keep the peace before the Immortal Ascension Road opened.
• Ye Fan claimed Lin Xian was a living saint of the Heavenly Court, while Lin Xian on Kunlun sensed unseen hostility, failed to divine its source, and returned to cultivating.
• Lin Xian used the Immortal Pool’s divine liquid and the True Dragon Medicine and White Tiger Medicine to advance toward the saint-domain barrier; at Hangu Pass, Xuan Chi saw purple qi stretching thirty thousand miles from the east.

Lin Xian became the first saint of the Dharma-Ending Era, ended Earth’s spiritual decline, and survived a tribulation while creating a Golden Core Dao that produced a trace of longevity substance. After defeating the emperor apparitions and returning to Hangu Pass, he met the saints and learned that Emperor Yu and the Demon Gods were preparing to leave Earth.

• Lin Xian became a saint, and the Kunlun dragon veins restored Earth’s spiritual energy, ushering in the Golden Age.
• Lin Xian crossed the cosmos to undergo his saint tribulation, forged the Innate Cosmic Dao Diagram into a Saint Weapon, and used his Golden Core Dao to produce a trace of longevity substance.
• An emperor apparition struck Lin Xian down, and he recognized it as Huang before being caught in a battle between Huang’s manifestations.
• Lin Xian completed his saintly transformation, gathered treasures among the stars, and returned to Hangu Pass, where the Great Saints accepted him as a peer.
• Emperor Yu explained that he would return to Flying Immortal Star, while the Demon Gods planned to return to their home stars; Lin Xian then expounded his Golden Core Dao and its Longevity Method.

Lin Xian returned to Big Dipper, revealed that he had become a saint, and joined the broken Fuxi Dragon Stele with the Wind Family’s stele. As the two pieces united, the Dragon Stele began to form a Great Dao and release imperial aura.

• Lin Xian discussed the saintly Dao with the Great Saints and Quasi-Emperors, and learned that uniting the five secret realms could condense imperial Dao laws and nurture a Dao seed.
• Emperor Yu told Lin Xian that Jiuli Great Emperor had divided himself among the Five Sacred Mountains, while the Bright God was likely the Light Emperor’s Son.
• Lin Xian left the Green Cauldron with Xiao Song on the Primordial Ancient Star, then traveled through the Five-Colored Altar to the Wind Family on Big Dipper.
• The Wind Family’s Holy Lord told Lin Xian that the Primordial Myriad Races had seized human territory, and Lin Xian declared he would deal with the Primordial Kings.
• Lin Xian revealed his saintly cultivation to the Wind Family and joined the broken Fuxi Dragon Stele from Earth with the Wind Family’s Dragon Stele.
• The united Dragon Stele rang out, began forming a Great Dao, and released threads of imperial aura.

Lin Xian used his saintly power to convert and capture Ancient Clan attackers in the Northern Region, then killed the kings who came to retaliate. He destroyed the Ancestral Kings’ projections and left the Primordial Myriad Races’ most powerful figures emerging in response.

• Lin Xian traveled north with a Wind Family caravan carrying empty treasure chests, inviting Ancient Clan attackers to reveal themselves.
• Lin Xian recited the Scripture of Deliverance, converting the Fallen Feather Tribe into followers and naming its prodigy Lucifer; he also subdued a Great Strength Bull Demon and made it his mount.
• Lin Xian used Nine Secret: Bing to capture the Ancient Clan attackers in the caravan’s empty chests, prompting the clans to send kings to rescue them.
• Lin Xian killed the God Spirit Valley king and rejected the kings’ demands for peace, declaring that he would kill them all if necessary.
• Lin Xian slaughtered the assembled Ancient Kings and destroyed the saintly projections of the Ancestral Kings who intervened.
• Powerful beings across the Primordial Myriad Races sensed Lin Xian’s actions and emerged, while someone in Yaochi remarked that he had torn a hole through the heavens.

The Ancient Clan’s rulers formed alliances and challenged the Human Race, while Lin Xian fought their eleven Ancestral Kings. The chapter ended with Lin Xian hanging one King’s head above the Human Race’s Holy City as the remaining ten threatened to massacre humans and ravage their lands.

• The Ancient Clan’s rulers agreed to rally allies across the Five Regions and test the Human Race by targeting the Wind Family’s Saint.
• God Spirit Valley and ten Royal Clans challenged the Wind Family’s human Saint, while Human Race factions argued over how to respond.
• Zi Tiandu led God Spirit Valley to the Southern Ridge to court local powers, but the Demon Emperor Hall stayed away and the Victorious Fighting Buddha was absent from Mount Sumeru.
• Mahā Great Saint invoked Mount Sumeru’s power, while the Northern Plains Golden Family allied with the Ancient Clan and claimed Northern Plains territory.
• The Ancient Clan demanded the Wind Family’s Saint’s death and the release of the Heavenly Emperor’s Son, and Lin Xian fought the eleven Ancestral Kings, killed one, and displayed his head above the Human Race’s Holy City.
• The remaining ten Ancestral Kings threatened to slaughter the Human Race’s mortals unless Lin Xian fought them openly.

Lin Xian confronted ten Ancient Clan Ancestral Kings outside Yaochi after the clans threatened humanity, revealing that he had become a Saint before fifty. He killed one attacker with a primordial-spirit technique, and the remaining Ancestral Kings prepared to fight him at close range.

• Ancient Clan Ancestral Kings challenged Lin Xian outside Yaochi while their leaders debated humanity’s Emperor Weapons and Wang Teng agreed to meet the Golden King.
• Lin Xian arrived and stunned the gathered factions when they learned he was a Saint who had cultivated for only a few decades.
• Lin Xian mocked the Ancestral Kings for interfering in a conflict between people of the present age, but they resolved to kill him before he grew stronger.
• An Ancestral King attacked Lin Xian with golden Heavenly Blades, and Lin Xian killed him with the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye and Demon Emperor’s Nine Slashes.
• The Ancestral King of God Spirit Valley urged the survivors to attack Lin Xian at close range, and Lin Xian welcomed the challenge as a Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.

Lin Xian defeated the Ancient Clan’s Ancestral Kings, while Jiang Taixu killed Ancestral King Ta Ming in a duel between Saint Kings. When the Ancient Clan’s Fallen Heaven King arrived, Lin Xian and Jiang Taixu used an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to kill him, and the chapter ended with both sides bringing Emperor Weapons to the brink of war.

• Lin Xian shattered several Ancestral Kings with the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, seized God Spirit Valley’s golden Saint King Weapon, and devoured its Ancestral King’s primordial spirit with the Human Emperor Banner.
• Ancestral King Ta Ming descended to rescue his disciple and attacked the Peacock King, but Jiang Taixu arrived and killed Ta Ming with Divine Spirit’s Sigh.
• Lin Xian collected the remaining Ancestral Kings’ primordial spirits and spared the antlered Ancestral King after his master’s death.
• The Fallen Heaven King arrived with nine Primordial Vicious Beasts, and Lin Xian and Jiang Taixu used an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon to reduce him to ash.
• The Ancient Clan threatened war and brought out an Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, so Lin Xian signaled Yaochi and the Human Race raised the Primordial Emperor Sword; another Ancient Clan Ancestral King then activated a second Emperor Weapon.

An escalating confrontation between the Human Race and Ancient Clan brought ten Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons above Big Dipper and drew the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings into the crisis. After the Myriad Dragon Maiden charged into the mine, Deathless Mountain awakened, and the Void Immortal Mirror attacked it directly.

• The Ancient Clan and Human Race assembled their Emperor Weapons, while Huang Xudao ordered Blood Phoenix Mountain to reveal its Phoenix-Winged Gilded Trident without attacking.
• The Divine Silkworm Princess sided with Yaochi, and Great Saint Kun Zhou moved to kill her until the Crazy Old Man arrived with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron.
• Ten Emperor Weapons stirred the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginnings, and the Myriad Dragon Maiden charged into it with the Myriad Dragon Bell.
• Lin Xian told Ye Fan to prepare the Five-Colored Altar as both sides waited for the mine to settle, but a loose-tongued Ancestral King’s remark roused Deathless Mountain.
• The Void Immortal Mirror awakened on its own and attacked Deathless Mountain, confronting the Supreme Beings with the power of the Void Great Emperor.

Summary: “Great Saint Hun Tuo Mediates”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Immortal Mirror returns from Deathless Mountain after announcing that the Immortal Ascension Road is about to open. The Restricted Area Supremes agree to meet on the road, honoring the ancient Emperor Pact despite their ruthless nature.
• The news stirs the entire universe. Lower-level cultivators dream of becoming immortals, while Saints and higher-level figures recognize that the road will likely trigger catastrophic bloodshed.
• The Ancient Clans begin questioning their war against the Human Race. Since immortality is their ultimate goal—and the Human Race has demonstrated overwhelming strength through its many Emperor Weapons—many clans favor negotiation over continued conflict.
• Great Saint Qianlun invokes Myriad Dragon Emperor’s ideal of coexistence among all races, encouraging the Ancient Clans to seek peace.
• The Human Race remains divided. Younger factions demand extermination of the Ancient Clans, while established holy lands and emperor lineages prefer compromise, fearing the Restricted Areas, the loss of Emperor Weapons, and the heavy casualties of a true war.
• Ye Fan reports that only the Great Xia Dynasty is firmly prepared to fight to the death. Yaochi favors a Myriad Races Assembly, the Ji Family fears Deathless Mountain, the Jiang Family is cautiously aligned with Heavenly Court, and Yaoguang unexpectedly offers strong support.
• Lin Xian concludes that the proposed negotiations are not genuine reconciliation but merely a two-hundred-year truce. He decides to pursue a larger strategy: unite the Human Race and Ancient Clans against the Dark Turmoil, while first eliminating Ancient Clans loyal to Immortal Emperor.
• To begin this plan, Lin Xian summons Great Saint Hun Tuo and appoints him mediator. Hun Tuo enthusiastically approaches the Ancient Clans, preaching coexistence and peace.

Character Developments

• Lin Xian shifts from defending only the Human Race to planning an alliance between the Human Race and Ancient Clans against the greater threat of Dark Turmoil. His idealism is tempered by political realism, as he recognizes that the Human Race lacks the unified strength for a total war.
• Ye Fan displays both ambition and self-awareness. He believes that if his Sacred Body reached completion, he could end the political divisions through sheer strength, but he rejects comparisons between himself and Emperor Zun, who was rumored to have sacrificed others for immortality.
• Hun Tuo becomes the chapter’s comic yet strategically useful peace envoy. He is delighted to discover that someone in the Human Race shares his belief in peace and eagerly undertakes the role of mediator.
• The Human Race’s major factions are revealed to be politically cautious. Though united when facing weaker enemies or common threats, they hesitate to risk their strongest assets and foundations in a deadly confrontation with Ancient Emperor Clans.
• The Ancient Clans grow less belligerent as the Immortal Ascension Road approaches and as internal divisions weaken their position.

Significant Themes

• Peace versus survival: Calls for coexistence are motivated not only by idealism but also by fear of mutual destruction and the approaching Immortal Ascension Road.
• Political unity and factionalism: The Human Race appears united through Heavenly Court, but its alliances are fragile and dependent on shared interests rather than genuine loyalty.
• The cost of power: Emperor Weapons, Great Saints, and hidden foundations are treated as irreplaceable strategic assets, making leaders reluctant to sacrifice them even for righteous causes.
• Immortality as the universal goal: Both Human and Ancient Clans ultimately view territorial conflict as secondary to the pursuit of immortality.
• Pragmatism versus principle: Lin Xian wants peace, but his plan includes destroying Immortal Emperor’s loyalists first, showing that peace may require calculated violence.
• Historical cycles and the danger of repeating Emperor Zun’s path: Lin Xian’s comparison of Ye Fan to Emperor Zun raises the possibility that the pursuit of immortality could corrupt even seemingly righteous figures.

Important Character Interactions

• The Restricted Area Supreme declares that the factions will meet on the Immortal Ascension Road, while the Immortal Mirror warns the world to prepare.
• Ancient Clan leaders invoke the teachings of Myriad Dragon Emperor to support coexistence.
• Lin Xian and Ye Fan discuss the Human Race’s weakness, factional divisions, and the danger of becoming like Emperor Zun.
• Lin Xian and Hun Tuo form an alliance based on the language of peace, though Lin Xian privately intends to use Hun Tuo’s mediation to advance a broader political and military strategy.
• Hun Tuo then visits the Ancient Clan patriarchs and Great Saints, urging them to abandon bloodshed and cooperate for the sake of the coming Immortal Ascension Road.

Hun Tuo urged the Ancient Clan to seek peace after the Human Race displayed its strength, but Ye Fan agreed to talks while ordering God Spirit Valley destroyed. The Silver-Blood Tribe joined the Heavenly Court, leaving other Ancient Clan races wavering over whether to surrender.

• Hun Tuo persuaded the Ancient Clan’s Great Saints to avoid war, while they debated seeking help from forbidden zones, Dique, and the Immortal Emperor’s lineage.
• The Ancient Emperor Clans issued a joint announcement proposing that the races seek the Immortal Ascension Road together, and Ye Fan replied that the Human Race would destroy only God Spirit Valley.
• Lin Xian told Hun Tuo that Ye Fan controlled the Heavenly Court and had gone to the Southern Ridge to eliminate God Spirit Valley’s remnants.
• Ye Fan’s army devastated God Spirit Valley, killed its young master Zi Tiandu, and Wang Shu framed another killing as internal Ancient Clan conflict.
• The Silver-Blood Tribe’s submission to the Heavenly Court spread across the Ancient Clan, prompting other Royal Clans to consider surrendering.

Lin Xian courted the weaker Primordial races with offers of land, formations, and burial grounds while Ye Fan advised him on how to secure their trust. He then persuaded a penniless Ancestral King that the Human Race’s sect system could give his descendants a chance to rise, and left him considering Heavenly Court support for their education.

• After the radical Ancient Clans were subdued, weaker races sent Ancestral Kings to Yaochi to pledge loyalty to the Heavenly Court and Human Race.
• Lin Xian offered the races developed clan territories, formations based on Wu Shi’s patterns, and a chance to buy burial grounds from Duan De; the Green Ghost Tribe’s Ancestral King accepted the burial-ground offer.
• Ye Fan advised Lin Xian to let the races provide the labor for their own formations, then suggested that he appeal to a poor Ancestral King through his concern for his descendants.
• Lin Xian told the Ancestral King that the Human Race’s sect system and its tradition of sharing scriptures had enabled it to produce successive Great Emperors.
• Lin Xian framed support from the Heavenly Court as a chance for the Ancestral King’s descendants to study scriptures and wield Emperor Weapons, urging him not to deprive them of education.