Chapter Summaries

The secret realm opened, and Lin Changheng secretly refined the five-colored lingzhi into an elixir that advanced his cultivation to the sixth layer of Core Formation. After gathering information from two Song Region Foundation Establishment cultivators, he learned that True Person Yukong had entered the realm and that Core Formation cultivators were gathering near a snowy mountain.

• Illusion-Breaking True Lord used the Essence-Inspecting Glazed Lamp to screen the cultivators before allowing them to enter the secret realm.
• Lin Changheng refined the five-colored lingzhi into a powerful elixir and used it to break through from the fifth to the sixth layer of Core Formation.
• Four Yan demon beasts ambushed a party at the five-colored lingzhi site, killed and devoured the Core Formation cultivator, and sent a surviving Foundation Establishment cultivator away with instructions.
• True Person Yukong and True Person Sword Tide found the half-collapsed cave abode already looted and left vowing revenge on whoever had taken its treasures.
• Lin Changheng finished refining the elixir, improved his lightning escape technique, and questioned two Song Region Foundation Establishment cultivators about the secret realm.
• The two cultivators told Lin Changheng that True Person Yukong was inside and that Core Formation cultivators were gathering near a snowy mountain; he gave them Dust-Forgetting Pills and let them go unconscious.

Lin Changheng watched rival cultivators clash near a strange snowy mountain, then ambushed and killed True Person Yukong to seize a Primordial Jianmu fragment. He took a Yan Kingdom cultivator surnamed Sun as a pawn and learned of Granny Barren Mountain’s Sun-Chasing Cloak, which he intended to claim when he found a safer opportunity.

• Lin Changheng disguised himself, kept his distance from the snowy mountain, and secretly observed the Core Formation cultivators gathered there, including True Person Cloud Crane and True Person Yukong.
• A Jin Kingdom cultivator attacked the Yan Kingdom’s one-eyed True Person, triggering several battles; Granny Barren Mountain fought the White-Robed Exiled Immortal Cultivator while True Person Yukong battled another Yan Kingdom cultivator.
• Lin Changheng struck True Person Yukong with his divine sense, helped the Yan Kingdom cultivator injure him, then killed Yukong with his flying swords and forced the surviving cultivator surnamed Sun to submit.
• Lin Changheng fled before the Jin Kingdom cultivators arrived, while Granny Barren Mountain escaped with the Sun-Chasing Cloak; the Jin cultivators learned that Yukong had likely died.
• Lin Changheng found a fourth Primordial Jianmu fragment in Yukong’s storage bag and decided he would later pursue Granny Barren Mountain’s ancient cloak.

Lin Changheng forged a fifth Myriad Manifestations Origin Sword, tested the combined power of his twin sword formations, and learned of the Yan Kingdom cultivators’ plans. After defeating two ambushers, he saw the Eerie Snow Mountain unleash a terrifying aura that drove five Core Formation cultivators out in panic.

• Lin Changheng forged a new Myriad Manifestations Origin Sword and used Spirit Grafting to make it a treasure artifact, then tested the power and variations of his five swords and twin sword formations.
• The four demons in the Boundless Desert devoured a late Core Formation cultivator, and the two-headed demon wolf broke through to the late third-tier peak.
• Five Core Formation cultivators, including Fairy Han Shuang and True Person Cloud Crane, entered the Eerie Snow Mountain after its radiance appeared and an avalanche began.
• Lin Changheng questioned the Core Formation cultivator surnamed Sun about the Yan Kingdom’s objectives, learned of an unknown leader and the dangers of the eastern desert, and decided to ambush cultivators rather than explore dangerous sites directly.
• Two Core Formation tribulation cultivators ambushed Lin Changheng, but he killed the middle-stage attacker and destroyed the late-stage attacker with his poison mist and twin sword formations.
• The Eerie Snow Mountain split apart and emitted a dark red radiance and terrifying aura, forcing five battered Core Formation cultivators to flee.

Lin Changheng learned that a fourth-tier Truefire Flood Dragon was imprisoned beneath the snowy mountain after it killed Prince Rui and drove the other Core Formation cultivators away. He seized information and sword inheritances from True Person Sword Tide, then discovered a sword-nurturing method that could create a conscious sword spirit.

• The five fleeing cultivators scattered as a flaming claw emerged from the snowy mountain and killed Prince Rui, while the others escaped.
• Lin Changheng saw the claw withdraw and intercepted True Person Sword Tide, defeating him, implanting a Divine Blood Curse Seal, and demanding information and Heavenly Gang Sword Sect swordsmanship inheritances.
• True Person Sword Tide's account revealed that the snowy mountain imprisoned a fourth-tier Truefire Flood Dragon, which had wounded the five intruders and killed Prince Rui after they tried to claim its fire-attribute treasure.
• Lin Changheng considered whether the weakened Flood Dragon could be attacked, then examined the two Tribulation Cultivators' Storage Bags and found Demon Cores and Blazing Origin Essence Blood.
• Lin Changheng studied the sword inheritances and became interested in an unnamed method for nurturing a conscious sword spirit.

Lin Changheng prepared Little Qing to form a core, and she emerged with a heavenly core at the middle stage. While training her in combat, they were ambushed by a seasoned late Core Formation cultivator whom Lin Changheng killed, then he discovered from the man’s memories that a hidden Golden Core Cultivator was involved.

• Lin Changheng completed the Darkwood ancient snake true core and prepared Five Elements Beast-Origin Powder from five Late Core Formation demon cores.
• Little Qing broke through to the third tier, formed a heavenly core, reached the middle stage, and began speaking human words.
• Lin Changheng took Little Qing out to hunt demon beasts and sharpen her fighting skills.
• A conical-hatted late Core Formation cultivator ambushed Little Qing and tried to make her submit, but Lin Changheng and Little Qing killed him with their coordinated attacks.
• Lin Changheng recognized the dead cultivator as the Shi Core Formation Cultivator and used the Soul-Seizing Secret Art to search his memories.
• Lin Changheng learned that a woman was also a Golden Core Cultivator and reacted with surprise.

Lin Changheng killed a Shi family Core Formation cultivator, learned of Moon-Embracing True Person’s hidden golden core and a Nascent Soul medicinal treasure, then disguised himself and joined the cultivators exploring Snow Mountain. When they attacked a seemingly weakened Truefire Flood Dragon, he warned that it was using their strikes to break its seal, then escaped as the dragon unleashed its final breath.

• Lin Changheng learned from the Shi family cultivator’s memories that Moon-Embracing True Person had formed a golden core and that the man carried a three-origin qilin sprout, which Lin Changheng took.
• Lin Changheng decided to use the dead cultivator’s identity and went to Snow Mountain, where he joined the Song and Jin Kingdom cultivators after they clashed with the Yan Kingdom cultivators.
• Lin Changheng concealed his strength during a second battle, feigned an even fight with a Yan Kingdom cultivator, and entered Snow Mountain with the united group.
• The cultivators found a wounded Truefire Flood Dragon and attacked it, while Lin Changheng realized it was feigning weakness to use their attacks against its seal.
• Lin Changheng warned the cultivators, then fled when the Truefire Flood Dragon revealed its scheme and unleashed its breath, which killed a Yan Kingdom cultivator before the others escaped.
• After the cultivators fled, the Truefire Flood Dragon’s final attack spent its remaining strength, and it collapsed with its aura nearly gone.

Lin Changheng returned to the snowy mountain and followed Granny Barren Mountain as she tried to bargain with the weakened Truefire Flood Dragon. With the dragon’s help, he killed Granny Barren Mountain and received her treasures, then asked what cooperation the dragon wanted.

• After the cultivators fled the snowy mountain, Lin Changheng returned in secret and discovered that Granny Barren Mountain had also come back to claim the Truefire Flood Dragon’s treasure.
• Lin Changheng followed Granny Barren Mountain into the ice cavern after she approached the dragon and threatened it into handing over a fire-aspected treasure.
• Lin Changheng ambushed Granny Barren Mountain, but she survived his Three-Colored Flame Pearl and Flying Sword by using a Substitute Talisman.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon struck Granny Barren Mountain with its Breath Exhalation, destroying her true core and killing her.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon gave Lin Changheng Granny Barren Mountain’s Storage Bag, fire-aspected treasure, and Ancient Treasure cloak as a token of sincerity in seeking cooperation.
• Lin Changheng absorbed some energy from the fire-aspected treasure and asked the Truefire Flood Dragon what help it wanted.

Lin Changheng agreed to help the Truefire Flood Dragon escape the secret realm in exchange for its fourth-tier body and knowledge of the realm's secrets. After the dragon transferred its soul into supreme yin soul-nourishing wood, Lin harvested its corpse and discovered a mysterious point where the sealing formation's patterns converged.

• The Truefire Flood Dragon explained that the secret realm intercepted departing souls and living creatures, and asked Lin Changheng to carry it inside his Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land.
• Lin Changheng and the Truefire Flood Dragon agreed to cooperate, with the dragon offering its body and guidance about the secret realm in return for escape.
• Lin Changheng provided supreme yin soul-nourishing wood, and the Truefire Flood Dragon tore its soul, inner core, and essence blood free from its imprisoned body and entered the wood.
• Lin Changheng placed the dragon's soul in the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land, then used Extreme Cold Iceflame and his Cloudsea Sun-Piercing Sword Formation to cut up and store the dragon corpse.
• Lin Changheng investigated where the formation patterns converged and heard a hum as a powerful, rank scent emerged.

Lin Changheng recovered the Truefire Flood Dragon’s essence blood, advanced his body tempering, and refined its Dragonkin Breath talent, which awakened the seventh divine ability true intent, Dragon Breath. He left the chapter eager to learn whether the Truefire Flood Dragon knew where he could find even stronger bloodlines.

• Xiao Hei, Little Qing, and Old Chi discovered the fourth-tier Truefire Flood Dragon’s corpse in the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land and marveled that Lin Changheng had killed it.
• Lin Changheng collected more than 180 masses of the flood dragon’s essence blood from the sealing formation and left Snow Mountain with the dragon’s corpse and other treasures.
• Daoist Heir Songyun arrived at the ice cavern, found the flood dragon gone, and vowed to track down whoever had taken it.
• Lin Changheng absorbed the Fire-Attribute Flood Dragon Breath Treasure, advanced the Crimson Emperor Fire Sovereign Body to its ninth layer and his body tempering to the third-tier peak, and raised the Mountain-Bearing Divine Ability multiplier to five and a half times.
• The four demons left the Boundless Desert after reaching late third-tier peak strength, while Lin Changheng began refining the Truefire Flood Dragon’s Dragonkin Breath talent and gained the Dragon Breath divine ability true intent.
• Lin Changheng witnessed the manifestation of a colossal true dragon in his sea of consciousness and resolved to ask the Truefire Flood Dragon about stronger bloodlines when it awakened.

Lin Changheng mastered the Sun-Chasing Cloak and demonstrated its speed, then used his physical strength and Dragonkin Breath to defeat a late third-tier Giant-Tusked Elephant Demon. After the Truefire Flood Dragon awoke and identified the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land as a possible Heavenly Spirit Treasure, Lin Changheng asked whether they could begin exploring deeper into the secret realm.

• Lin Changheng refined the Sun-Chasing Cloak, learned its abilities, and discovered how its speed and control varied with his magical power and escape arts.
• Lin Changheng watched Little Qing battle a late third-tier Giant-Tusked Elephant Demon, then intervened and used his strength to hurl it into a hill.
• Lin Changheng endured the elephant demon's attacks, then unleashed Dragonkin Breath and killed it with a single blast.
• Lin Changheng collected the elephant demon's materials and learned from the awakened Truefire Flood Dragon that the Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land might be a Heavenly Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Changheng asked the Truefire Flood Dragon whether they could now explore deeper into the secret realm.

Lin Changheng and the Truefire Flood Dragon located a mobile Bronze Palace beneath the Boundless Desert and brought it to the surface, triggering tremors that drew demons and cultivators from across the secret realm. Lin Changheng entered the palace and navigated its maze of corridors and formations until he reached a bronze door.

• The Truefire Flood Dragon revealed that a spirit transformation cultivator had captured him and used him as one of the Four Aspects anchoring the secret realm before sealing him beneath Snow Mountain for three thousand years.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon guided Lin Changheng to the Boundless Desert and promised to use his draconic might to help him escape if the four powerful demons threatened him.
• Lin Changheng descended beneath the desert, found the Bronze Palace, and struck it with magical power to make it rise through the ground.
• Lin Changheng opened the palace doors with the Truefire Flood Dragon's spell seal and hurried inside as tremors drew the four demons and surviving cultivators toward the desert.
• Lin Changheng explored the palace's maze with the Truefire Flood Dragon's help, avoided or passed through its formations, and eventually reached a bronze door.

Lin Changheng chose a bronze door in the labyrinth and entered a sealed boudoir, where he used the Nether Abyss Iceflame and his abilities to overcome its restrictions and seize six objects. After teleporting to a White Jade Corridor, he drank the spirit liquid from a teapot and advanced to Late Core Formation.

• Lin Changheng followed the Truefire Flood Dragon's advice and chose the third of five bronze doors, which led into a sealed boudoir with a faceless portrait and several seemingly ordinary objects.
• Lin Changheng discovered that touching an object would trigger teleportation, then used the Nether Abyss Iceflame and his powers to break the shields and take six items at once.
• The boudoir's restriction teleported Lin Changheng to an empty White Jade Corridor, where his divine sense worked again.
• Lin Changheng found that the teapot's spirit liquid had been suppressed and drank it, causing his Golden Core to reach perfection and break through to the Core Formation Seventh Layer, or Late Core Formation.

Lin Changheng tested the strength he gained from reaching late core formation, used his Candle Gaze Divine Ability to cross an illusion-filled bridge, and found a mural that teleported him to a forest containing a Secret Realm Core. He could not break the Spirit Transformation cultivator’s formation around the Core, while Daoist Heir Songyun waited in the inner hall for another cultivator to arrive.

• Outside the Bronze Palace, six late third-tier demon beasts drove back cultivators and formed a Heavenly Net to wait for those who had entered to emerge.
• Lin Changheng tested his improved natal pill flame, fused it with his dark radiance mystic flame and nether abyss iceflame, and found his divine sense could reach fifty-six li.
• Lin Changheng used the Candle Gaze Divine Ability to dispel the suspension bridge’s illusions and crossed to the White Jade Inner Hall.
• Lin Changheng and the Truefire Flood Dragon found a mural missing the offering table, and Lin Changheng placed the table against it, triggering a teleportation that carried him away.
• Daoist Heir Songyun entered the inner hall, realized he lacked the object needed to activate his matching mural, and waited for another cultivator to arrive so he could take it.
• Lin Changheng found a Secret Realm Core in a forest, but failed to break the powerful formation protecting it.

Lin Changheng discovered that someone could manipulate the altar and waited for an opportunity to seize the spatial origin being extracted from it. When Daoist Heir Songyun’s plan reached its crucial moment, Lin Changheng launched a surprise attack, and Songyun recognized him.

• Lin Changheng found that attacks and magical power vanished in the forest, then decided with the Truefire Flood Dragon to wait for someone capable of opening the altar and take advantage of them.
• In the White Jade Inner Hall, Daoist Heir Songyun killed Fairy Han Shuang and forced Purple Thunder True Person, True Person Zhen, and True Person Xuan Ci to surrender their treasures.
• Daoist Heir Songyun entered the forest, found the Secret Realm Core, and used two formations and a gray bead to extract spatial origin while imprinting the core to help the Yan Kingdom control the secret realm.
• Lin Changheng and the Truefire Flood Dragon watched Songyun’s preparations and concluded that his scheme would strengthen the Yan Kingdom’s control and weaken the former owner’s influence.
• When the spatial origin bead finished forming, Songyun drew it toward himself, and Lin Changheng launched a powerful surprise attack from behind.
• Songyun sensed the attacker and recognized Lin Changheng.

Daoist Heir Songyun fought the black-mist cultivator while Lin Changheng watched from concealment, and Songyun gained the upper hand with his ancient treasure and fourth-tier Treasure Talisman. After the black-mist cultivator survived a beheading with a Substitute Talisman and fled, Lin Changheng learned that Songyun’s fourth-tier Divine Sense likely came from a Divine Seed implanted by his Nascent Soul master.

• Daoist Heir Songyun ambushed the black-mist cultivator, destroyed his Imitation Ancient Treasure Short Saber with the Seven-Star Bracelet, and pressured him with further attacks.
• Lin Changheng secretly watched the duel and learned that Daoist Heir Songyun had killed Fairy Han Shuang and seized entry to the inner hall by coercing other cultivators.
• The black-mist cultivator brought out a Nascent Soul Talisman Treasure, while Daoist Heir Songyun answered with a fourth-tier Treasure Talisman.
• Daoist Heir Songyun struck the black-mist cultivator with fourth-tier Divine Sense, disrupting his Talisman Treasure and cutting off his head, but the man escaped death through a Substitute Talisman.
• The black-mist cultivator fled toward the forest, but Daoist Heir Songyun blocked his route with the Seven-Star Bracelet and forced him into a desperate fight.
• Lin Changheng consulted the Truefire Flood Dragon, who suspected that Songyun’s master had implanted a portion of his soul in him using the Divine Seed Implantation Secret Art.

Lin Changheng used the Truefire Flood Dragon’s help to withstand Daoist Heir Songyun’s fourth-tier divine sense, lured him into the spiritless forest, and killed him with his body-tempering strength. After Tianzhu Daoist’s apparition traced the killing, Lin Changheng returned to the altar and fed the Spatial Origin Bead to his Heaven-in-a-Pot Divine Ability.

• Lin Changheng stole the black-mist cultivator’s Storage Bag and fought Daoist Heir Songyun, evading his attacks with his flying swords, the [Sun-Chasing Cloak], and the Black Stone.
• Daoist Heir Songyun struck Lin Changheng with fourth-tier divine sense, but the Truefire Flood Dragon secretly took the brunt of the assault while Lin Changheng pretended to be gravely affected.
• Lin Changheng lured Daoist Heir Songyun into the spiritless forest and ambushed him, breaking his arms and chest before killing him with a final punch.
• A gray soul power seed emerged from Songyun’s corpse and manifested Tianzhu Daoist, who sensed Lin Changheng before the forest’s rules erased the apparition.
• Lin Changheng returned to the altar, examined the damaged Secret Realm Core, and took the Spatial Origin Bead from Songyun’s Storage Bag.
• Lin Changheng let his Heaven-in-a-Pot Divine Ability devour the Spatial Origin Bead, triggering an earth-shattering rumble.

Lin Changheng’s Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land expanded dramatically, and he examined treasures looted from his defeated enemies, including a complete Ancient Treasure and a fragment of a mysterious bronze token. After leaving the secret site, he was ambushed in the White Jade Inner Hall, but swiftly turned the attack around and crushed True Person Zhen’s neck.

• The Heaven-in-a-Pot Blessed Land grew to a thousand zhang across, with higher skies, expanding hills and ponds, richer spirit fields, and new wild grasses.
• Lin Changheng began refining the intact Seven-Star Bracelet, tested its power by destroying a flying sword, and stored away a Nascent Soul Talisman Treasure and a fourth-tier Purifying Concealment Talisman.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon awoke, marveled at the expanded blessed land, and agreed to break the seal on a jade slip; Lin Changheng then joined two matching bronze-token fragments and dismantled the formations before leaving.
• Two hidden cultivators ambushed Lin Changheng as he appeared in the White Jade Inner Hall, but he dodged their follow-up attacks with golden-tinged lightning and subdued True Person Zhen.
• Lin Changheng crushed True Person Zhen’s neck after overcoming his shields, talisman, and treasure artifact.

Lin Changheng killed True Person Zhen, used the Spirit-Sealing Life Spring to bring True Person Xuan Ci of the Medicine King Valley under his control, and obtained three pill-refining legacies and Fairy Han Shuang’s body. At the Bronze Palace exit, he and three other cultivators broke through a blockade by six peak third-tier demons, and Lin Changheng fled east with the Three-Legged Monstrous Bird and Giant Scorpion Demon King in pursuit.

• Lin Changheng killed True Person Zhen and forced True Person Xuan Ci to submit, then extracted part of his divine soul and true spirit with the Spirit-Sealing Life Spring.
• True Person Xuan Ci gave Lin Changheng three Medicine King Valley pill-refining legacies and agreed to help obtain Nether Void Fire Elephant essence blood; Lin Changheng also found Fairy Han Shuang’s body in True Person Zhen’s Storage Bag.
• Lin Changheng and True Person Xuan Ci left the White Jade Inner Hall and met Purple Thunder True Person and True Person Wulun in the maze, where they discovered six peak third-tier demons sealing the Bronze Palace exit.
• Lin Changheng led the four cultivators in a coordinated charge that broke the demons’ formation, and they scattered in different directions as planned.
• The Three-Legged Monstrous Bird and Giant Scorpion Demon King pursued Lin Changheng east, but his Sun-Chasing Cloak widened the distance as he prepared to kill the demons separately.

Lin Changheng killed two late third-tier demon kings, gathered rare ingredients and nascent-soul materials, and stoked conflict between the Yan and Song-Jin cultivators while planning his escape. After receiving valuable nascent-soul formation insights from the Truefire Flood Dragon, he continued refining their escape plan, but the secret realm began to rumble as its reopening approached.

• Lin Changheng killed the three-legged bird and giant scorpion demon king with his physical strength, sword formations, and dragon-breath attack, while Little Qing held the scorpion king off.
• Lin Changheng collected the demons' cores and materials, completing the five-core set needed for Xiao Hei's Five Elements Beast-Origin Powder.
• Lin Changheng examined the cultivators' Storage Bags and found rare medicines and ingredients that brought him close to completing the recipes for the Nascent Soul Transformation Pill and Illusion-Breaking Pill.
• Lin Changheng directed the White-Robed Exiled Immortal Cultivator and the Core Formation Cultivator surnamed Sun to spread accusations, intensifying hostility between the Song-Jin and Yan camps as he prepared to leave the secret realm.
• The Truefire Flood Dragon gave Lin Changheng a Jade Slip containing nascent-soul formation insights, then helped him assess the risks in his escape plans.
• After another day and a half, thunderous rumbling shook the secret realm, and the cultivators looked up.

Lin Changheng escaped the secret realm disguised as a black-robed Conical Hat Cultivator, but Tianzhu Daoist attacked him as soon as he emerged. Illusion-Breaking True Lord intervened, and the chapter ended with the Nascent Soul cultivators facing off while Tianzhu Daoist’s second nascent soul pursued Lin Changheng.

• The cultivators gathered at the secret realm’s exit, where Yan Kingdom’s cultivators planned to blame the Song-Jin cultivators for Daoist Heir Songyun’s death.
• Lin Changheng used a Purifying Concealment Talisman and Truefire Flood Dragon’s soul-attachment technique to pass the Nascent Soul cultivators’ scrutiny as he left the secret realm.
• Tianzhu Daoist sent a black lightning attack at Lin Changheng, who survived the first strike with a Substitute Talisman and escaped the second using the Sun-Chasing Cloak.
• Illusion-Breaking True Lord destroyed Tianzhu Daoist’s attack and confronted him, while Jingyuan Daoist and Azure Firmament True Lord took sides.
• Tianzhu Daoist revealed a second nascent soul and sent it after Lin Changheng, then blocked Illusion-Breaking True Lord as their Nascent Soul battle began.