Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: Warring with the Remnant Immortal

Key Plot Points and Events

• Supreme Being Lin, the mysterious master of Tianxuan Sect, confronts the old Supreme Being of Immortal Hall. He presents himself as the heir of an extraordinarily ancient lineage, claiming his sect is based in the Big Dipper and that his sacred ground is Empyrean, or Burial Heaven Island.
• Lin further claims that his master was the ancient figure Primordial and that the Ninefold Netherworld Ao—one of the Ten Evils—served as Primordial’s divine general. These boasts shock the gathered Supreme Beings and make them suspect that Lin descends from an Immortal King’s Dao lineage.
• The Immortal Hall faction attempts to recruit Lin against Great Elder Meng Tianzheng. Lin agrees outwardly, but he instead uses the situation to force every Supreme Being to declare allegiance.
• Nine Heavens and Ten Earths split into two camps:
  • Native Faction: Meng Tianzheng, the Xu Family, and forces seeking to clear the stigma of Sin Blood and resist the Remnant Immortals.
  • Immortal Realm Faction: Immortality clans such as the Wang and Jin Families, who hope for protection, access to the Immortal Realm, and true immortality.
• Meng Tianzheng begins fighting while wielding the Immortal King Burial Shroud. The artifact releases the heroic will of the Ancient Immortal Era and greatly amplifies his strength.
• Although Wang Changsheng leads numerous Supreme Beings against him, Meng Tianzheng dominates them. His power after living a Second Lifetime is qualitatively superior, and most of the attackers are easily wounded or repelled.
• Lin warns the Immortal Realm faction that Meng Tianzheng may become an immortal if he escapes. He urges them to summon their Remnant Immortals and use the Immortal Dao decree.
• Lin specifically proposes using the Immortal-Breaking Curse, the same curse that helped bring about Kun Peng’s death. He manipulates the Immortal Hall Supreme Being by suggesting that Meng Tianzheng’s blood of immortality could help heal the injured True Immortal.
• The Immortal Hall Supreme Being finally summons the Bronze Immortal Palace and calls upon other Remnant Immortals. An ancient war chariot and a terrifying sword-bearing immortal also arrive, causing the entire world to tremble.
• While the Immortal Realm faction celebrates the arrival of their ancestors, Lin secretly reveals his true purpose: the Remnant Immortals have taken the bait.

Character Developments

• Supreme Being Lin: Demonstrates extraordinary composure, confidence, and manipulation. His fabricated—or at least deliberately exaggerated—identity intimidates the other Supreme Beings and earns him their trust. His true goal is clearly to lure the Remnant Immortals into revealing themselves and entering the battlefield.
• Meng Tianzheng: Establishes himself as overwhelmingly powerful after living a Second Lifetime. His strength, combined with the Immortal King Burial Shroud, allows him to fight like the embodiment of countless ancient heroes and martyrs.
• Wang Changsheng: Shows jealousy and frustration at Meng Tianzheng’s breakthrough. He recognizes that Meng has surpassed him by half a step and leads the pursuit against him, but cannot match Meng’s power alone.
• Immortal Hall Supreme Being: Shifts from suspicion toward Lin to deep respect, accepting him as a “Dao Brother.” He is eventually persuaded to risk summoning the Immortal Hall’s injured True Immortal and other Remnant Immortals.
• The Immortality Clans: Their political positions become explicit. The Wang and Jin Families prioritize survival and entry into the Immortal Realm over loyalty to Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, while the Xu Family sides with the native forces.

Significant Themes

• Native loyalty versus foreign allegiance: The chapter frames the conflict as a struggle between those defending Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and those who place their faith in the Immortal Realm.
• Manipulation and political deception: Lin exploits the factions’ fears, ambitions, and desire for immortality, steering them toward a confrontation that serves his hidden plan.
• Legacy and collective will: The Immortal King Burial Shroud represents more than a weapon; it embodies the sacrifices, heroic spirits, and resistance of an entire age.
• The corruption of authority: The Immortal Realm’s prestige allows its descendants and allies to justify betrayal, oppression, and the fabrication of Sin Blood.
• Immortality as both hope and threat: Meng Tianzheng’s potential ascension terrifies the Immortal Realm faction, while the Remnant Immortals themselves are revealed as damaged survivors rather than truly invincible beings.

Character Interactions

• Lin and the Immortal Hall Supreme Being engage in a cautious exchange, with Lin offering grand claims about his lineage and the other probing for connections to the Immortal Realm.
• Lin publicly challenges all Supreme Beings to choose between Meng Tianzheng and the Immortal Realm, forcing hidden loyalties into the open.
• Wang Changsheng and Meng Tianzheng clash directly, with Wang supported by numerous Supreme Beings but still unable to overcome Meng’s Second Lifetime power.
• Lin repeatedly encourages the Immortal Realm faction to fight without restraint and to summon their Remnant Immortals.
• The Immortal Hall Supreme Being is ultimately persuaded by Lin’s suggestion that Meng’s immortal potential could help heal his lord.
• The chapter ends with the Remnant Immortals entering the battlefield and Lin privately celebrating, implying that their appearance is precisely what he intended.

Lin Xian revealed his overwhelming power, captured four Remnant Immortals, and exposed their crimes against Kun Peng. As he refined them, he reassured the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths that they could seek allies among the Life Restricted Areas and factions of the Immortal Realm.

• Meng Tianzheng challenged the Immortal Hall's Remnant Immortal and accused the four immortal lineages of betraying Kun Peng and serving the Foreign Realm's interests.
• Lin Xian subdued the Immortal Hall's Remnant Immortal, shattered the sword immortal's weapon, stopped his escape, and captured two more Remnant Immortals.
• Lin Xian identified himself as the Lord of Empyrean, Lin Xian of Tianxuan, and prepared to refine the four Remnant Immortals after Meng Tianzheng and the others denounced their crimes.
• When the Immortal Hall's Remnant Immortal warned that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths needed the Immortal Realm against the Foreign Realm, Lin Xian said the Immortal Realm had rival factions and they could seek allies among its enemies.
• Lin Xian explained that the Life Restricted Areas' masters had once fought alongside the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, then used Shi Hao's emperor flame to refine pills and study the Quasi-Immortal Emperor's cultivation insights.

Lin Xian refined pills from the four Remnant Immortals, punished collaborators in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and began planning to use Dark Creatures as cultivation medicine. He suspected Demon King Pu was hiding in the Lower Realm and prepared to seek him out.

• Lin Xian learned the Immortal-Breaking Curse from the Immortal Hall's Remnant Immortal, resisted its attack, and used the Human Emperor Banner to absorb all four Remnant Immortals.
• After forty-nine days, Lin Xian completed the True Immortal grand pills and sent Meng Tianzheng and Shi Hao to the Primordial Imperial City to visit the Last Stone King.
• Wang Changsheng defended his lineage's ties to the Immortal Realm and explained that Immortal King Feng Wu had died fighting the Foreign Realm; Lin Xian banished the Wang Family, the Wind Family, and the Immortal Hall to the Border Wasteland as sinful clans.
• Lin Xian had Jin Taijun executed and ordered Meng Tianzheng to purge corrupt races and Dao lineages across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
• Lin Xian resolved to refine Dark Creatures into medicine, chose Demon King Pu as his next target, and concluded that Pu was likely hiding in the Lower Realm.

Lin Xian opened a road into the Eight Domains and confronted the Life Restricted Area’s master, suppressing the forbidden zone before restoring its true appearance. When the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master learned Lin Xian had attained the Dao in the Dharma-Ending Era, he and his attendants were stunned.

• An old Supreme Being explained that the Eight Domains were once the heart of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, not a prison.
• Meng Tianzheng said entering the Eight Domains required the right road, but Lin Xian opened one with a punch and led Shi Hao and the others across it.
• The Life Restricted Area halted the golden road and threatened the trespassers, but Lin Xian overpowered its defenses and suppressed the forbidden zone.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master welcomed Lin Xian and revealed the ruined reality behind the area’s illusory immortal paradise.
• Lin Xian told the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master he attained the Dao in the Dharma-Ending Era, shocking him and the two Dao attendants.

Lin Xian revealed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths’ dire situation and declared that Shi Hao would become an emperor, then guided him as he created and merged his cultivation method. After Shi Hao’s breakthrough astonished the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master, Lin Xian asked him to temper Shi Hao with the dangerous Immortal-Breaking Curse.

• Lin Xian told the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master that the Foreign Realm held many more Immortal Kings than the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths could match, making an emperor their best hope for survival.
• Lin Xian named Shi Hao as the future emperor, and Shi Hao admitted that he was the one being discussed.
• At Lin Xian’s prompting, Shi Hao crossed his tribulation and merged the Current Era Method, the Ancient Immortal Method, and his self-created method into a path of Self-as-Seed.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master praised Shi Hao’s breakthrough but warned that advancing too quickly could leave hidden injuries.
• Lin Xian asked the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master to control the Immortal-Breaking Curse and use it to temper Shi Hao, agreeing to bear the blame if the trial went too far.

Shi Hao survived the Slaying Immortal Platform and began shaping a cultivation system centered on the human body, with Lin Xian guiding his ideas. The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master revealed that his former disciples had died beyond the Dam and prepared to teach Shi Hao how to resist the Immortal-Breaking Curse.

• Shi Hao formed the Wheel of the Sea, faced the Slaying Immortal Platform, and used his past Dao Fruit and Reincarnation Seals to survive the tribulation.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master asked Shi Hao to plan the realms of his cultivation system, and Lin Xian helped him develop ideas for the Dao Palace, Four Extremes, and Dragon Transformation realms.
• Shi Hao realized that creating his system meant holding to his own Dao, and he asked the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master to teach him.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master showed Shi Hao images of his eight former disciples and said they had all died on the road beyond the Dam.
• Lin Xian projected the Dam and the Sea of Realms, and the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master announced that he would teach Shi Hao how to resist the Immortal-Breaking Curse.

Lin Xian forced Shi Hao to endure the Immortal-Breaking Curse to temper his foundations, then gave him the Transcendence Chapter of the Primordial True Interpretation. Shi Hao learned that Lin Xian had gone to gather Dark Blood, seeking to test a path that would transcend darkness.

• Lin Xian rebuked Shi Hao’s confidence and ordered him to cut away his foundations and start over under the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master’s guidance.
• Lin Xian cast the Immortal-Breaking Curse, and the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master repeatedly pushed Shi Hao to the brink of ruin for three days and nights.
• After Shi Hao survived the trial, the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master gave him bitter tea called Life and a bone scripture left by Lin Xian.
• Shi Hao read the Transcendence Chapter of the Primordial True Interpretation, improving his Sea of Bitterness Method and completing his Dao Seed.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master told Shi Hao that Lin Xian had gone to gather Dark Blood and planned to transcend its corruption.

In the Void God Realm, Lin Xian accepted Ge Gu’s challenge to fight at the same cultivation level. He ended the battle with one kick, sending the young True Dragon flying.

• Bird Grandpa and Uncle Jingbi displayed the Record God Stele and told visitors about the name Loves Drinking Beast Milk.
• Ge Gu arrived and boasted that Shi Hao had avoided his rise to prominence.
• Lin Xian challenged Ge Gu’s claim to the True Dragon’s title and agreed to fight him at the same cultivation level.
• Uncle Jingbi created a battlefield in the Void God Realm, and Lin Xian and Ge Gu entered as cultivators gathered to watch.
• Ge Gu launched a True Dragon killing assault, but Lin Xian used the True Dragon Secret Technique through his leg and kicked Ge Gu flying.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• True Dragon Ge Gu challenges Lin Xian but is defeated instantly, even after revealing his crimson Divine Dragon form. The spectators are shocked because the victory occurs without realm suppression or cheating.
• Lin Xian reveals that he used the True Dragon Secret Technique, combined with extraordinary movement abilities. Ge Gu is stunned because, despite being a True Dragon descendant, he does not possess his race’s complete inherited technique.
• Lin Xian falsely claims to be “Number Two Under Heaven,” an ancient Immortal King who once fought Ge Gu’s father. Ge Gu accepts this identity with awe.
• Bird Grandpa challenges Lin Xian’s claim, but Lin Xian’s words trigger confusion in him, causing him to forget his own identity. Uncle Jingbi realizes that Lin Xian’s power has affected even the Void God Realm’s ancient Immortal Kings.
• Lin Xian uses a wisdom sword to awaken Bird Grandpa and Uncle Jingbi from their million-year mental decline. Their true identities—Number Two Under Heaven and Immortal Metal Daoist—are restored.
• Their awakening causes immense disturbances near Emperor Pass, terrifying the Foreign Realm’s forces. However, the Foreign Realm dismisses the signs, confident that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are already doomed.
• Lin Xian, Ge Gu, and the two revived Immortal Kings travel deeper into the Void God Realm. The Immortal Kings learn how badly the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths have deteriorated: True Dragon and Wu Zhong have died, and the Primordial Imperial City is being sustained mainly by the Stone Clan.
• Number Two Under Heaven and Immortal Metal Daoist propose abandoning the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and relocating its survivors to the Immortal Realm, since their damaged bodies cannot recover for several epochs.
• Lin Xian rejects this passive strategy. He proposes refining a Nine-Colored Immortal Pill, using it to break through into the Immortal King realm and revive other ancient Immortal Kings.
• The chapter ends with Lin Xian explaining that he came to the lower realm seeking an Immortal King’s Primordial Spirit as an alchemical ingredient. The two Immortal Kings briefly fear that he intends to use them, but Lin Xian clarifies that more suitable materials exist elsewhere.

2. Character Developments

• Lin Xian: Demonstrates overwhelming combat ability, deep knowledge of ancient techniques, mastery of psychological manipulation, and powerful soul-related abilities. He presents himself as a decisive savior willing to pursue an ambitious solution rather than accept defeat.
• True Dragon Ge Gu: Begins as arrogant and confident in his noble bloodline but is humbled by Lin Xian’s one-move victory. His frustration turns into admiration when he learns Lin Xian knows the True Dragon Secret Technique. He also learns more about the tragic loss and degeneration of his race.
• Number Two Under Heaven and Immortal Metal Daoist: Awaken from their long state of confusion and recover their identities as ancient Immortal Kings. Their restoration gives them renewed dignity, but their physical bodies remain severely damaged and nearly useless.
• Bird Grandpa: His mysterious identity is briefly destabilized by Lin Xian’s words, suggesting that his true past and relationship to “Number Two Under Heaven” are more complicated than they appear.
• Foreign Realm forces: Remain arrogant and complacent, underestimating the possibility that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths could recover or produce new Immortal Kings.

3. Significant Themes

• Inherited glory versus actual strength: Ge Gu’s noble True Dragon bloodline cannot compensate for his lack of training and incomplete inheritance, while Lin Xian’s experience allows him to dominate him.
• The loss of cultural and racial heritage: Ge Gu’s inability to learn the True Dragon Secret Technique reflects the devastation caused by the Foreign Realm’s extermination campaigns.
• Awakening and identity: The ancient Immortal Kings’ recovery symbolizes the restoration of memory, selfhood, and forgotten power after a million years of decline.
• Hope amid despair: While the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths seem doomed, Lin Xian refuses evacuation and seeks a nearly impossible alchemical solution.
• Sacrifice and morality: The Nine-Colored Immortal Pill requires an Immortal King’s Primordial Spirit, making its creation dependent on exchanging or sacrificing one life to save many others.
• Arrogance and misjudgment: The Foreign Realm’s confidence blinds it to the significance of the newly awakened powers.

4. Character Interactions

• Lin Xian and Ge Gu: Their battle establishes Lin Xian’s superiority. Lin Xian later exploits Ge Gu’s reverence for ancient True Dragons by claiming a legendary identity, turning the defeated opponent into an admirer.
• Lin Xian and Bird Grandpa: Lin Xian’s words confuse Bird Grandpa and briefly disrupt his identity, revealing the dangerous influence of Lin Xian’s spiritual and conceptual abilities.
• Lin Xian and the two Immortal Kings: Lin Xian awakens them and earns their gratitude, but he also challenges their pessimistic plan to abandon their homeland.
• The two Immortal Kings and Lin Xian: They provide historical context and strategic caution, while Lin Xian offers an aggressive plan centered on alchemy, breakthrough, and revival.
• The Foreign Realm and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths: The Foreign Realm treats its opponent as already defeated, creating dramatic irony as ancient powers begin to awaken beneath its notice.

Lin Xian discovered that the Void God Realm held Fallen Immortal Kings and True Immortals, and proposed testing whether they could be purified with emperor flame. He demonstrated that darkness withered under the Dharma-Ending Era and prepared to use dark blood to connect the secret realm method with the Pollen Path.

• Lin Xian told Number Two Under Heaven and the Immortal Metal Daoist that Demon King Pu was a Dandelion Undying Immortal Medicine, then learned about the imprisoned Fallen Immortal Kings in the Void God Realm.
• Lin Xian questioned whether the supposedly fallen Immortal Kings had been dark infiltrators from the start and followed the two Immortal Kings into the innermost prison.
• Lin Xian replaced the phoenix bone suppressing the prison’s darkness with emperor flame, which drove back the awakened stone statues and burned away dark matter.
• Lin Xian seized a Dark True Immortal and claimed his flame would either purify the prisoner or leave him fit to refine into medicine.
• Lin Xian exposed himself to dark blood and used the Immortal-Breaking Curse to enter the Age of Severed Spirits, where the darkness withered into white dust.
• Lin Xian identified the dark blood as a key to linking the secret realm method with the Pollen Path.

Lin Xian searched the Western Tomb Realm for myriad things soil and discovered three fallen Immortal Kings, whom he persuaded to join his side by promising the Nine-Colored Immortal Pill. He left with six Immortal Kings and planned to recruit another ally before hunting Demon King Pu.

• Lin Xian learned from Number Two Under Heaven that the Western Tomb Realm might contain myriad things soil, then broke through the realm barrier and searched it with Number Two Under Heaven and the Immortal Metal Daoist.
• The group found myriad things soil and awakened three fallen Immortal Kings: a Crystal Skull, a bloodstained eyeball, and a golden hand bone.
• Lin Xian promised the three Forbidden Zone Masters that the Nine-Colored Immortal Pill could revive them and demanded Demon King Pu's whereabouts.
• After learning that Demon King Pu had visited the Western Tomb Realm, Lin Xian convinced the three fallen kings to join the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths' camp.
• Lin Xian announced that the Chaotic Ancient Seven Heroes would surround and slay Demon King Pu, then set out to recruit another Immortal King near the Yin-Yang River.

Lin Xian gathered the Immortal Kings to plan Demon King Pu’s capture and helped the Five-Colored Sparrow recover some memories and join Stone Village. The kings formed the Eight Kings World-Ending Formation across the Lower Realm and trapped Demon King Pu as he tried to flee to the Foreign Realm.

• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master met the Immortal Kings at Stone Village, where the Five-Colored Sparrow recalled fragments of a lost Immortal Court and Number Two Under Heaven exposed his embarrassing past.
• Lin Xian taught the Five-Colored Sparrow the Phoenix Treasure Art, helped kindle her nirvana flame, and made her an honorary elder of Stone Village.
• Lin Xian convened the Immortal Kings, who agreed to capture Demon King Pu and forged the Eight Kings World-Ending Formation to seal the Lower Realm.
• The eight kings planted formation flags across the Eight Domains, preventing Demon King Pu from escaping.
• Demon King Pu sensed danger in his cave and tried to return to the Foreign Realm, but divine chains trapped him as Number Two Under Heaven and the Immortal Metal Daoist attacked.

Demon King Pu fought six Immortal Kings as they tried to stop him from reaching the Three Thousand Dao Provinces, but Lin Xian arrived and burned away his escape seeds. The Immortal Kings discovered that Demon King Pu had hidden blood-essence seeds beyond the Lower Realm, while Lin Xian repeatedly refined his Primordial Spirit for its Immortal King origin.

• The Immortal Metal Daoist, Number Two Under Heaven, the three Forbidden Zone masters of the Western Tomb Realm, and the Five-Colored Sparrow surrounded Demon King Pu and tried to wear him down.
• Demon King Pu drained the Eight Domains’ vitality and fortune with his dandelion seeds, then demanded that the Immortal Kings let the True Dragon come.
• Lin Xian approached unnoticed, burned Demon King Pu’s seeds with Reflecting the Heavens, and intercepted the seeds he released when his body exploded.
• The Immortal Kings activated the formation, searched the Lower Realm, and wiped out the Demon Pu Tree race, but Lin Xian found that Demon King Pu’s blood essence still remained elsewhere.
• Lin Xian seized and refined Demon King Pu’s Primordial Spirit imprint for its Immortal King origin, while Demon King Pu protested that consuming an Immortal King was worse than killing ordinary people.

Chapter Summary: Attaining Dao by Looking Toward the Light in Darkness

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lin Xian defeats and suppresses Demon King Pu after arguing that devouring him is justified revenge for the Red King’s consumption of Nine Heavens Giants. He seals Pu in an earthen jar to refine him later.
• The battle ends a major unresolved conflict from the Ancient Immortal Era. Immortal Metal Daoist, Number Two Under Heaven, and others collect Demon King Pu’s ashes to honor the fallen True Dragon, Wu Zhong, and other heroes.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master and other Immortal Kings warn Lin Xian that devouring Kings without an accepted justification will provoke the condemnation of the entire cultivation world.
• Lin Xian challenges the traditional belief that Kings deserve special protection simply because of their status. He argues that many Immortal Kings have lost their humanity and original Dao Hearts over countless eras of peaceful immortality.
• The Kings begin seriously considering whether their stagnation is caused by abandoning their original aspirations and becoming numb to the passage of time.
• Lin Xian presents darkness, war, and danger as forces that can stimulate progress. He claims that the Dark Matter invasion has disrupted stagnation and created the conditions necessary for powerful beings to continue advancing.
• He declares that he is not a “Demon Venerable,” but someone who seeks light within darkness and intends to awaken the Kings’ lost potential.
• When asked what he will do if the Kings still cannot become Emperors, Lin Xian boldly promises to take them with him toward transcendence.

Character Developments

• Lin Xian reveals both his ruthless ambition and his ability to cloak it in moral rhetoric. He is willing to consume powerful enemies, yet presents himself as a savior devoted to awakening the Kings and guiding them toward Emperorhood.
• His confidence grows as he recognizes that his understanding of the Legend System, selfhood, and the Dao Heart places him ahead of many Kings.
• Demon King Pu is exposed as hypocritical: he condemns Lin Xian’s predation while having committed similar acts himself. His judgment of Lin Xian also reflects his own demonic nature.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master, Number Two Under Heaven, and Immortal Metal Daoist act as cautious elders. They recognize Lin Xian’s potential but fear that his methods may turn him into a universal enemy.
• The other Immortal Kings are shaken by Lin Xian’s arguments and begin questioning whether their immortality and long stagnation have caused them to lose their original aspirations.

Significant Themes

• Moral justification and hypocrisy: Lin Xian uses the same logic as his enemies, but his actions are judged according to whether they serve accepted political and moral standards.
• Status versus humanity: The chapter criticizes the belief that powerful beings automatically deserve greater rights than ordinary people. Lin Xian questions whether Kings who have abandoned compassion still retain their humanity.
• The importance of the original heart: Advancement requires remembering why one began cultivating. Losing one’s identity and ideals may produce power, but it prevents true transcendence.
• Immortality as stagnation: Eternal life removes the pressure of death and hardship, but this comfort can weaken ambition, passion, and the will to improve.
• Light within darkness: Catastrophe and suffering can create opportunities for transformation. The Dark Matter invasion, while destructive, forces the cultivation world to compete and evolve.
• Individual Dao and self-supremacy: To become an Emperor, one must create an independent path rather than merely imitate another’s system. Lin Xian believes his commitment to his own identity gives him an advantage.
• Ambition disguised as benevolence: Lin Xian claims to possess “great love,” but his grand promise to lead all Kings to transcendence also reveals immense confidence and an almost imperial sense of purpose.

Character Interactions

• Lin Xian verbally clashes with Demon King Pu over the legitimacy of devouring powerful beings, ultimately overpowering and imprisoning him.
• The elder Kings caution Lin Xian against attacking Immortal Kings without a politically acceptable reason, emphasizing the special protection traditionally granted to Kings.
• Lin Xian rejects their conservative worldview, arguing that the Kings’ long lives have caused them to lose their passion and original Dao Hearts.
• His words deeply affect the Kings because he speaks as an equal rather than as a lesser cultivator. The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master especially reflects on whether immortality itself has become an obstacle.
• The chapter ends with Lin Xian presenting himself as both challenger and guide: he intends not merely to surpass the Kings, but to awaken or carry them toward the Other Shore with him.

Lin Xian and the old Immortal Kings entered the Chaos Dragon Nest, where the True Dragon’s lingering will revealed the meaning of True Dragon and the secrets of creating a Dao. The True Dragon preserved his will in a horn, while Lin Xian used Demon King Pu’s essence to nourish him and the dragon eggs.

• Lin Xian found three True Dragon Eggs in the Chaos Dragon Nest, and the True Dragon’s lingering will appeared as a bloodstained broken horn.
• Number Two Under Heaven learned that the True Dragon regarded Lin Xian as a True Dragon because he embodied the apex of a lineage, despite being human.
• The True Dragon explained that a Dao Ancestor created a method and gathered the fortune of those who practiced it, prompting the Immortal Kings to think of the Primordial True Interpretation.
• Lin Xian taught the True Dragon a later-era method for preserving a Primordial Spirit in an artifact, and the True Dragon successfully refined his lingering will into a horn.
• The three old Immortal Kings of Xiling considered refining themselves into Immortal King Dharma Artifacts, while Lin Xian gave Ge Gu the True Dragon Horn and told him to gather the True Dragon’s remains.
• Lin Xian shattered Demon King Pu’s Primordial Spirit imprint again, using its essence to nourish the True Dragon Horn and eggs before joking that he could become the Grass Grower.

Lin Xian refined Demon King Pu’s dark blood by combining the pollen path with Self-as-Seed, creating arts that let him resonate with Demon King Pu and unite all beings. After declaring that recognition from all living beings underpinned the emperor path, he announced that he would establish a teaching.

• Lin Xian suppressed Demon King Pu to let his Primordial Spirit recover and planned to harvest him again, then returned to the Void God Realm to refine his dark true blood.
• Lin Xian had the Immortal Kings bury his body in Myriad Things Soil and cover it with bone ash as he cultivated through Self-as-Seed and the pollen path.
• After seven days, Lin Xian’s Dao Seed bloomed, and he experienced Demon King Pu’s life and resonated with his Primordial Spirit imprint.
• Lin Xian reassured the alarmed Immortal Kings that he had not fallen into darkness, explaining that he was digesting Demon King Pu rather than controlling him.
• Lin Xian comprehended the emperor art All Beings as One and concluded that the recognition of all living beings could grant someone the fortune needed to become an emperor or Dao Ancestor.
• Lin Xian announced that he would establish a teaching, leaving the Immortal Kings bewildered and shaken.

Lin Xian completed his path by combining dark matter, pollen, and the faith of living beings, then refined Demon King Pu to perfect his primordial spirit. When an Undying King's decree demanded entry to Emperor Pass and the return of a treasure and several Dao brothers, Lin Xian answered the threat and called for Kundi.

• Lin Xian resolved to pursue the Coffin Master’s primordial power and created Dark Lin Xian through Self-Slaying Enlightenment, while anchoring his light primordial spirit with the faith of living beings.
• Demon King Pu attacked Lin Xian with his memories, but Lin Xian’s faith anchors endured, allowing him to refine the remnant spirit and complete his cultivation.
• Cultivators at Emperor Pass, led by Meng Tianzheng, prayed for help as an Undying King's decree demanded the Rotten Wooden Box and the return of several Dao brothers.
• Lin Xian dispelled the Undying King's pressure through the threads of faith and refused to surrender the box or Demon King Pu.
• Lin Xian dismissed the threat of two Undying Kings and challenged Kundi to come to Emperor Pass.

Lin Xian revealed a new cultivation path that used pollen, bone ash, and soul refinement to resist darkness, while Shi Hao struggled to overcome the Immortal-Breaking Curse. As the Foreign Realm threatened Emperor Pass and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths lacked a champion, Lin Xian arrived and declared he would become an Immortal King.

• Lin Xian demonstrated his new path to the Immortal Kings and explained how future cultivators could refine Dark Creatures’ essence while using faith and other methods to suppress darkness.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master connected Lin Xian’s mention of the Immortal-Breaking Curse to Shi Hao, who was enduring its effects while studying the Transcendence Chapter.
• The White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master eased Shi Hao’s suffering with Dandelion Immortal Liquid essence and told him to return to Emperor Pass, where the Foreign Realm’s army and the decrees of Anlan and Yutu threatened war.
• Shi Hao learned that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had no Immortal King ready to oppose the Foreign Realm, since the White-Clothed Forbidden Zone Master was only a remnant and Number Two Under Heaven and the Immortal Metal Daoist remained gravely injured.
• Lin Xian arrived in the Life Restricted Area along a golden avenue, declared that he would become an Immortal King, and invited Shi Hao to hunt Dark Creatures.

The Last Stone King used the Immortal Pill from Tianxuan King to suppress the Foreign Realm’s decree, while Emperor City’s people placed their hopes in Lin Xian as a prophesied savior. Lin Xian sent Shi Hao into battle, where Shi Hao overwhelmed the Foreign Realm’s younger fighters, and the chapter ended with Meng Tianzheng offering to exchange the prisoner Demon King Pu for resources and captives.

• The Last Stone King drew on his restored strength to make the Primordial Imperial City suppress the Foreign Realm’s decree, and he told the one-armed True Immortal that Lin Xian might fulfill the prophecy of a future emperor.
• The one-armed True Immortal encouraged Emperor City’s people to believe that Tianxuan Immortal Emperor would defeat the Foreign Realm, and their faith reached Lin Xian.
• Lin Xian tossed Shi Hao onto the battlefield, where Shi Hao joined Cao Yusheng and the Skyhorn Ant and killed several Dark Royal Clan fighters with one punch.
• A Foreign Realm Dark Supreme attacked Shi Hao, but Lin Xian crushed the Supreme with the Immortal King Burial Shroud’s power.
• Meng Tianzheng refused the Foreign Realm’s demand for a prisoner and instead offered Demon King Pu in exchange for equivalent resources, people, and goods, startling the Foreign Realm’s forces.

As the Foreign Realm invaded, Dark Lin Xian manipulated the battle and negotiated a ransom for Demon King Pu while secretly cultivating Wang Changsheng as a dark ally. At the Primordial Imperial City, Dark Lin Xian and Meng Tianzheng sprang their trap on Wang Changsheng, leaving him captured and convinced that Meng Tianzheng had betrayed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

• The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths sounded the call to battle, and Shi Hao, Meng Tianzheng, and their allies drove back the Foreign Realm’s forces.
• Dark Lin Xian posed as Demon King Pu and persuaded Wang Changsheng to fight for the Foreign Realm while guiding him toward the Immortal Dao Domain.
• After the Foreign Realm lost the battle, its Undying Kings agreed to ransom Demon King Pu, and both sides negotiated an exchange at the Primordial Imperial City six months later.
• During the ceasefire, Wang Changsheng’s Immortal Fetus neared perfection, and Emperor Pass appointed him to escort Demon King Pu to the exchange.
• At the Primordial Imperial City, Dark Lin Xian attacked Wang Changsheng and called him a ripe medicinal herb, while Meng Tianzheng revealed that he had been a dark creature all along.