Chapter Summaries

After Lin Tian killed Demon Marshal Ghost Chariot, Lu Ya decided to avenge him and set out for the Southern Jambu Continent with Ji Meng. Lin Tian entered seclusion to strengthen himself, while Monk Faming faced the ruins of Golden Mountain Temple and remained bound to his task of awaiting Xuanzang.

• Lin Tian left Ghost Chariot’s surviving Demon Race experts for the cultivators of Jixia Academy to fight after killing Ghost Chariot.
• Ji Meng, Bai Ze, and Lu Ya learned that Ghost Chariot had died, and Lu Ya resolved to kill Lin Tian in revenge.
• Ji Meng warned Lu Ya about the danger, but agreed to accompany him to the Southern Jambu Continent.
• Lin Tian broke through in cultivation and entered seclusion to temper his strength.
• Monk Faming’s disciples asked whether they should rebuild Golden Mountain Temple, but Faming remained there under Guanyin Bodhisattva’s order to await Xuanzang.

Lin Tian discovered that his thirteen Supreme Human Sovereign Points could modify his cultivation, techniques, and treasures, and considered how best to spend them. He rejected direct cultivation upgrades for now and weighed improving the Secret of All instead.

• Monk Faming agreed to rebuild the Golden Mountain Temple, while Bai Suzhen celebrated its misfortune and returned to cultivation.
• Lin Tian analyzed how the Secret of All’s tenfold damage amplification had helped him break through during his battle with Ghost Chariot.
• Lin Tian asked the Spirit Vine True Self how to improve the Secret of All and learned that each completed task granted one Supreme Human Sovereign Point.
• Lin Tian checked his interface and found thirteen points, which could modify his cultivation, techniques, Secret of All, and Kongtong Seal at different costs.
• Lin Tian learned that upgrade costs rose sharply after the first upgrade and dismissed the idea of spending points on his spirit treasures.
• Lin Tian considered upgrading his cultivation but rejected it, believing that he needed to build insight and experience step by step.

Lin Tian upgraded the Secret of All and tested its twentyfold combat-power effect, accidentally breaking the Earth Immortal Realm’s spatial barrier before Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi repaired it. Back at Jixia Academy, Lin Tian encountered Lu Ya and Demon Marshal Ji Meng, who had come to avenge Ghost Chariot, and Ji Meng attacked him.

• Lin Tian spent his supreme human sovereign points to raise the Secret of All’s activation chance to one in a thousand and its effect to twenty times combat power.
• Lin Tian tested the upgraded secret art on a desolate mountain, and one punch shattered the Earth Immortal Realm’s spatial barrier.
• Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi sensed the breach, repaired it with the Earth Book, and reflected that the Human Race was destined to rise.
• Lin Tian returned to Jixia Academy and met Lu Ya and Demon Marshal Ji Meng, who identified themselves and declared their intent to kill him for Ghost Chariot’s death.
• Lin Tian revealed that he wanted to kill Lu Ya for Lady Pingxin’s promised ancestral witch essence blood, and Ji Meng charged at him with the Water-Fire Twin Blades.

Lin Tian gravely wounded Demon Marshal Ji Meng, then faced Lu Ya and Ji Meng together as the two demons attacked him. Lin Tian held his ground and grew to enormous size, but the battle continued as Lu Ya unleashed his Golden Crow claws and Solar True Flame.

• Lin Tian shattered Ji Meng's Water-Fire Twin Dragons with the Executioner Immortal Sword and gravely wounded him.
• Lu Ya blocked Lin Tian from pursuing Ji Meng, and Lin Tian revealed that he knew Lu Ya was the Tenth Crown Prince.
• Lin Tian countered Lu Ya's Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror, while Lu Ya drew the Great Sun True Emperor Sword.
• Ji Meng returned to the fight after taking a healing Golden Core, and Lin Tian refused Xu Mao Gong and Bai Suzhen's offer to join the battle.
• Lu Ya transformed into a Three-Legged Golden Crow and Ji Meng became a divine dragon, while Lin Tian grew to ten thousand zhang and fought them with both swords.
• Lu Ya attacked with his Golden Crow Divine Claw and Solar True Flame as Lin Tian's Secret of All triggered.

Lin Tian severed Lu Ya’s wing, then survived the Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade and seized both it and its Red Gourd with the Kongtong Seal’s protection. Lu Ya and Ji Meng escaped aboard a Golden Tower Ship, but a Quasi-Saint-level expert intercepted them in chaos.

• Lin Tian unleashed overwhelming power and cut off Lu Ya’s claw and wing as Nine Phoenixes arrived and drove Ji Meng back.
• Lu Ya used the Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade against Lin Tian, but the Kongtong Seal’s Human Race fortune protected Lin Tian, who seized the blade and Red Gourd.
• Lu Ya and Ji Meng fled aboard a Golden Tower Ship, which withstood Nine Phoenixes’ and Lin Tian’s attacks and escaped into space-time.
• Lin Tian pursued the ship through chaos, where a gigantic claw struck it and pinned it in place.

Lin Tian watched as the Nine Profound Heavenly Rong Dog King confronted Lu Ya over the Demon Race's treasure, while he and Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes stayed out of the fight. Lu Ya revealed the Chaos Bell when the Dog King attacked, turning the battle into a contest over an Innate Supreme Treasure.

• The Nine Profound Heavenly Rong Dog King emerged from a fissure and demanded that Lu Ya surrender the Demon Race's treasure.
• Lin Tian and Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes watched the confrontation, and Nine Phoenixes said she hoped Lu Ya would die.
• Lu Ya invoked Saint Nuwa to deter the Dog King, but the Dog King refused to back down and attacked with the power of laws.
• Lu Ya revealed the Chaos Bell to defend himself from the Dog King's attack.

Lu Ya revealed the Chaos Bell to defeat the Nine Profound Heavenly Rong Dog King, exposing the treasure and drawing the attention of powerful figures across the world. Lin Tian escaped with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and invited Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes to Jixia Academy, while Lu Ya fled into the chaos with Ji Meng.

• Lu Ya summoned the Chaos Bell, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s remnant will destroyed the Nine Profound Heavenly Rong Dog King.
• Lin Tian fled when Lu Ya turned on him, and Ji Meng urged Lu Ya to escape before other supremes arrived.
• Lu Ya put away the Chaos Bell and vanished into the chaos with Ji Meng, while Lin Tian kept the Immortal-Slaying Gourd.
• Lin Tian invited Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes to Jixia Academy, and she agreed to accompany him to Jiangzhou.
• The Saint Taiqing and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable sensed the Chaos Bell’s emergence and considered claiming it.
• News of the Chaos Bell spread, prompting powerful figures from every faction to seek it.

Lin Tian learned from Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes that the Witch Clan faced dwindling numbers and a generational crisis on the Northern Kuru Continent. Nine Phoenixes proposed renewing the old union between the Witch Clan and Human Race, leaving Lin Tian stunned by her blunt request for male human cultivators.

• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable sent White Crane Boy to order Guang Chengzi and the others to seek the Chaos Bell, while the Two Western Saints gave Maitreya a similar decree.
• Ancient Buddha Randeng left Spirit Mountain, and Immortal Elder Antarctic departed Mount Kunlun on their own errands.
• Lin Tian asked Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes about the Witch Clan, and she described its harsh living conditions and ongoing conflict with the Demon Race.
• Nine Phoenixes explained that the Witch Clan's slow reproduction and dwindling population threatened its survival, despite its cultivators' growing strength.
• Nine Phoenixes suggested that the Witch Clan revive its union with the Human Race and asked Lin Tian to provide male human cultivators to take north.

Lin Tian took the Immortal-Slaying Gourd from Lu Ya, erased his imprint, and claimed the treasure for himself while Lu Ya fled with Ji Meng under pursuit. After Lin Tian emerged from seclusion, Xu Mao Gong announced that Cheng Yaojin had arrived.

• Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes offered to welcome Jixia Academy disciples who chose to join her, then warned Lin Tian to beware of hidden enemies as she left.
• Lin Tian lamented that Lu Ya had escaped, then erased Lu Ya's Primordial Spirit imprint from the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and claimed the treasure.
• Lu Ya suffered a backlash from losing the gourd and fled with Ji Meng toward Wa Emperor Heaven, but another powerful expert attacked their treasure ship.
• Lin Tian refined the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, examined its Immortal-Slaying Flying Blade, and emerged from seclusion.
• Xu Mao Gong told Lin Tian that Cheng Yaojin had arrived, and Cheng Yaojin bowed to the Vine Dao Venerable.

Cheng Yaojin reached the Golden Immortal Realm, received the complete Nine-Revolution Mystic Art and Yangzhi Sweet Dew from Lin Tian, and promised to protect Chang'an. Lin Tian then joined Golden-Banded Immortal Ma Sui to confront Chi Jingzi at Cloud Firmament Cave and claim Jiejiao's Immortal-Slaying Sword.

• Lin Tian welcomed Cheng Yaojin, learned he had advanced to the Golden Immortal Realm after finding a spirit fruit, and gave him the remaining Nine-Revolution Mystic Art methods.
• Lin Tian rewarded Cheng Yaojin with Yangzhi Sweet Dew, answered his cultivation questions, and sent him back to Chang'an.
• Golden-Hooped Immortal Ma Sui told Lin Tian that Chi Jingzi had returned to Cloud Firmament Cave on Mount Taihua with Jiejiao's Immortal-Slaying Sword.
• Lin Tian took Bai Suzhen and rode the Blood Jade Qilin with Ma Sui to Mount Taihua, where they blocked the entrance to Cloud Firmament Cave.
• Ma Sui shouted for Chi Jingzi to come out and meet his death, and Chi Jingzi realized the situation had turned against him.

Lin Tian forced Chi Jingzi to surrender the Immortal-Slaying Sword and stripped him of his other treasures before letting him go. After Chi Jingzi fled, Lin Tian asked the Golden-Hooped Immortal about True Person Yuding, who held the final Zhuxian sword, but there was no news of him.

• Chi Jingzi left Cloud Firmament Cave after Lin Tian threatened to storm in and kill him.
• Lin Tian demanded the Immortal-Slaying Sword, and Chi Jingzi reluctantly handed it over.
• Lin Tian took Chi Jingzi's Eight Trigrams Purple-Ribbon Immortal Robe, Yin-Yang Mirror, and Water-Fire Edge, then released him.
• Lin Tian revealed that he intended Chi Jingzi to seek help from the Chan Sect and return with allies.
• Lin Tian asked the Golden-Hooped Immortal about True Person Yuding and the Immortal-Trapping Sword, but the Golden-Hooped Immortal had heard no news.

Lin Tian warned Jiejiao against pursuing the Chaos Bell recklessly and set out to track Lu Ya, while the Witch and Demon Clans shifted their positions. On the westward journey, Tang Sanzang welcomed the Little White Dragon as a disciple without letting him replace the white horse, leaving Guanyin Bodhisattva watching a pilgrimage that no longer followed her plan.

• Lin Tian told the Golden-Hooped Immortal that Jiejiao should avoid competing for the Chaos Bell and focus on restoring its strength, then left to pursue news of Lu Ya.
• Bai Ze ordered the Demon Race to retreat into a defensive posture, while the Witch Clan expanded into resource-rich parts of the Northern Kuru Continent.
• The Little White Dragon attacked Tang Sanzang at Eagle Sorrow Ravine, but Tang Sanzang recognized him and knew Guanyin Bodhisattva had arranged their meeting.
• Tang Sanzang accepted the Little White Dragon as his disciple but spared the white horse, and the dragon bowed to him.
• Monkey Sun returned, mistook the Little White Dragon for an enemy, then stopped when Tang Sanzang and the dragon called out; he welcomed his new junior brother.
• Guanyin Bodhisattva let Tang Sanzang and his two disciples continue west, while Lin Tian pursued Lu Ya and established academies throughout Great Tang.

Lin Tian searched the chaos for Lu Ya while Quasi-Saints hunted the Tenth Crown Prince and the Chaos Bell. Lu Ya and Ji Meng decided to seek Empress Wa’s protection, but another pursuer caught up with them, and Lin Tian joined the chase.

• Lin Tian found two Quasi-Saints fighting over how Lu Ya had escaped, then continued searching for his trail.
• Lu Ya rejected Ji Meng’s plan to sacrifice himself, reasoning that Nuwa’s inaction showed she would not protect them.
• Lu Ya decided they should offer the Chaos Bell to Empress Wa in exchange for shelter at the Wa Emperor Palace.
• A Quasi-Saint found Lu Ya and Ji Meng, prompting them to flee aboard their treasure ship.
• Lin Tian and the two battling Quasi-Saints stopped fighting and pursued Lu Ya, while Lin Tian wondered why no Chan Sect disciples had appeared.

Lin Tian followed Lu Ya as Quasi-Saints pursued him through the chaos to seize the Chaos Bell. Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s manifestation protected Lu Ya briefly, but after it collapsed, Zhen Yuanzi attacked Kunpeng over an old blood feud, giving the other Quasi-Saints an opening to swarm Lu Ya.

• Lin Tian watched Ancient Buddha Randeng, Immortal Elder Antarctic, and other Quasi-Saints pursue Lu Ya while he kept his distance.
• A Quasi-Saint died in the ensuing battle, and the Chaos Bell summoned Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s manifestation to protect Lu Ya.
• Demon Master Kunpeng and Patriarch Xiahe joined the fighting, and Taiyi’s manifestation collapsed under the Quasi-Saints’ attacks.
• Kunpeng moved to seize Lu Ya, but Zhen Yuanzi severed one of his talons and challenged him over Red Cloud’s death.
• Zhen Yuanzi kept Kunpeng occupied, while the other Quasi-Saints rushed Lu Ya to fight for the Chaos Bell.

Lin Tian avoided Lu Ya’s trap during the battle for the Chaos Bell, then pursued Lu Ya and Ji Meng in their damaged treasure ship. He attacked the ship with the Kongtong Seal, while Lu Ya kept fleeing and insisted they first reach Saint Nuwa.

• Lin Tian withdrew from the Chaos Bell when he suspected it had been thrown toward him as a trap, and several Quasi-Saint Supremes struck the spot where he had stood.
• Lin Tian realized Lu Ya had tried to use the experts to kill him, while Lu Ya and Demon Marshal Ji Meng escaped aboard their damaged treasure ship.
• Lin Tian caught up with the ship and struck it with the Kongtong Seal as it emerged from the void, nearly breaking it apart.
• Lu Ya refused to fight Lin Tian and told Ji Meng they should reach Saint Nuwa, while Lin Tian continued battering their ship with the Kongtong Seal.

Lin Tian cornered Lu Ya and Ji Meng after destroying their tower ship, then fought Lu Ya, who revealed the real Chaos Bell. Lin Tian overwhelmed Lu Ya with his three divine swords, but the Chaos Bell kept him alive even as its power faded and Lu Ya panicked.

• Lin Tian triggered a twentyfold burst with the Kongtong Seal, destroying the tower ship and sending Lu Ya and Ji Meng tumbling into the chaos.
• Lu Ya revealed the real Chaos Bell, while Quasi-Saints elsewhere discovered that the bell they had fought over was a fake and began hunting him.
• Lin Tian inferred that the Chaos Bell had been badly damaged, and Lu Ya admitted he would have to risk everything to unleash its remaining power.
• Lin Tian grew to a million-zhang giant with the Nine-Revolution Mystic Art and attacked Lu Ya's Three-Legged Golden Crow form with three divine swords.
• The Chaos Bell blocked Lin Tian's killing strike, but each attack further dimmed its radiance, and Lu Ya fell into panic.

Lin Tian defeated Daoist Lu Ya, seized the damaged Chaos Bell, and escaped the chaos after killing Lu Ya with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd. He encountered Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, who let him go and invited him to visit Five Villages Temple.

• Lin Tian struck Daoist Lu Ya with the Executioner Immortal Sword, cutting off a wing and half his body, then sealed the damaged Chaos Bell with the Secret of the Soldier.
• Demon Marshal Ji Meng detonated himself to cover Daoist Lu Ya's escape, but Lin Tian killed Lu Ya with the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and collected his corpse.
• Lin Tian fled toward the Primordial World, wary that the Quasi-Saints searching for Lu Ya might discover he had taken the treasure.
• Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi stopped Lin Tian and asked why he was in chaos, and Lin Tian claimed he had come to pursue Chan Sect disciples.
• After other cultivators' Primordial Spirit probes passed over them, Zhen Yuanzi let Lin Tian leave and invited him to visit Five Villages Temple on Mount Longevity.

After returning to Jixia Academy with the Chaos Bell, Lin Tian helped Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes recruit thousands of human cultivators to join the Witch Clan. He then secluded himself to examine the damaged treasure, taking precautions to keep news of it from spreading.

• Zhen Yuanzi gave Lin Tian several ginseng fruits before departing, and Lin Tian returned to Jixia Academy with them.
• Great Shaman Nine Phoenixes returned to collect the human cultivators who had volunteered to join the Witch Clan, and Lin Tian led her to Xu Mao Gong.
• Xu Mao Gong assembled thousands of male cultivators, and Nine Phoenixes took them to the Witch Clan to help bring the two peoples closer together.
• Lin Tian ordered Xu Mao Gong to guard his seclusion, layered restrictions around his quiet chamber, and took out the badly damaged Chaos Bell.
• Lin Tian examined the cracked Chaos Bell and thought its damage had made it possible for him to subdue the treasure.

Lin Tian repaired the Chaos Bell but chose not to spend tens of thousands of years refining it or reveal it before reaching the Quasi-Saint realm. He traveled to the Netherworld of the Dark Springs to see Lady Pingxin and pursue the twelve drops of ancestral witch essence blood.

• Lin Tian used the Spirit Vine True Self's three Supreme Human Sovereign Points to repair the Chaos Bell, then began refining it himself.
• Lin Tian stopped refining the bell when he realized the process could take tens of thousands of years, and decided to conceal it until he reached the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Lin Tian traveled to Fengdu Ghost City to seek the twelve drops of ancestral witch essence blood and asked Zhong Kui to take him to Lady Pingxin.
• Zhong Kui led Lin Tian to Pingxin's Great Hall, where Lady Pingxin received him and dismissed her attendants.

Lin Tian traded Lu Ya’s corpse to Lady Pingxin for twelve drops of Ancestral Witch Essence Blood, then returned to Jixia Academy to refine them. After two drops advanced his Primordial Spirit to the late Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, he swallowed the remaining ten drops to pursue another breakthrough.

• Lin Tian showed Lady Pingxin Lu Ya’s corpse, and she gave him twelve drops of Ancestral Witch Essence Blood in exchange.
• Lin Tian left the Underworld and returned directly to the Jixia Academy, choosing not to ask why Lady Pingxin wanted Lu Ya’s corpse.
• Lin Tian began refining Zhurong’s Fire essence blood and Gonggong’s Water essence blood in the Quiet Chamber.
• The Fire and Water essence blood strengthened Lin Tian’s body and Primordial Spirit and helped him comprehend their Laws.
• Lin Tian’s Primordial Spirit broke through to the late Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, while his physical cultivation neared the middle Great Encompassing Golden Immortal realm.
• Lin Tian swallowed the remaining ten drops of essence blood, including those of the Space, Time, Thunder, and Gale Ancestral Witches.