Chapter Summaries

Lin Changheng gave Bai Hengwan two premium Nascent Soul Formation pills and his breakthrough insights, and she chose to express her feelings for him. He then traveled with Illusion-Breaking True Lord and Azure Firmament True Lord to Floating Life Immortal City, where the gathering of the Eight Kingdoms’ Nascent Soul cultivators began.

• Lin Changheng gave Bai Hengwan two premium Nascent Soul Formation pills and a jade slip of his cultivation insights, and Bai Hengwan kissed him and quietly told him her intentions.
• Lin Changheng secretly settled Bai Hengwan and Cui'er with the Xu Family before leaving to meet Illusion-Breaking True Lord.
• Lin Changheng explained that Perceiving Calamity Signs had warned him of True Lord White Ash’s hidden malice, so he had searched and erased White Ash’s Nascent Soul.
• Lin Changheng met Illusion-Breaking True Lord and Azure Firmament True Lord, and the three traveled together to Floating Life Immortal City.
• True Lord Youtan welcomed the three at the city, and they entered the Demonic Path headquarters after checking the guest hall for traps.
• Lin Changheng assessed the Nascent Soul forces of the Eight Kingdoms as he joined the gathering with True Lord Prison Soul and True Lord Zuirì.

Lin Changheng attended a gathering of Nascent Soul True Lords in Floating Life Immortal City, where True Lord Zuirì probed him about his reputation and True Lord Hunyu tried to match him with True Lord Youtan and Azure Firmament. The arrival of old enemies Daoist Tianzhu and Daoist Jingyuan left Lin Changheng weighing whether they would expose his control of an Ancient Teleportation Formation.

• True Lord Zuirì arrived and questioned Lin Changheng about how he had killed a Nascent Soul cultivator, but Lin Changheng dismissed the feat as a lucky, unrepeatable accident.
• True Lord Hunyu suggested matching Lin Changheng with True Lord Youtan, then teased Azure Firmament; Lin Changheng declared his admiration and respect for Azure Firmament, and she warned Hunyu to stop joking.
• True Lord Youtan entered with Daoist Tianzhu, Daoist Jingyuan, True Lord Poxiao, and True Lord Fuzheng, bringing the gathering to ten Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Daoist Tianzhu and Daoist Jingyuan fixed their attention on Lin Changheng, and Lin Changheng inferred that Jingyuan had discovered his return and connected him to the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

Lin Changheng faced Daoist Tianzhu and rejected the insinuation that he had harmed White Ash, then left the gathering with Illusion-Breaking True Lord, Azure Firmament True Lord, and True Lord Fuzheng. Afterward, a strange upheaval began at the Xu Family on Mangleng Mountain, where purple light and lightning filled the sky.

• Lin Changheng answered Daoist Tianzhu’s discourtesy with a dismissive greeting and silenced Daoist Jingyuan with a fierce stare.
• Lin Changheng asked True Lord Fuzheng about Songtao and Liuquan, learning that the married couple had become trusted alliance leaders and reached Late Core Formation.
• True Lord Hunyu announced that White Ash and his partner had vanished, and his pointed look led the gathering to suspect Lin Changheng.
• Lin Changheng denied responsibility and warned that he could have killed other cultivators too, prompting Illusion-Breaking True Lord, Azure Firmament True Lord, and True Lord Fuzheng to defend him.
• Lin Changheng and the three allies left the ceremony, then separated after reaching the Song Region.
• Half a year later, a violent rumbling, purple light, and roaming lightning appeared above the Xu Family on Mangleng Mountain.

Lin Changheng refined the Lightning Mastery Divine Ability True Intent, transforming his Thunder Nest into an Archaic Thunder Pool and gaining powerful control over lightning. He discovered that the pool could appear outside his body to absorb lightning safely, though its storage capacity depended on his cultivation.

• Lin Changheng refined the Purple Lightning Bull Dao Fruit, enduring a violent upheaval in his body as the Archaic Thunder Pool replaced his Thunder Nest.
• Lin Changheng used the pool to control Mortal Lightning, forming it into a lightning ball that destroyed a reinforced Test Stone and recognizing its potential as a concealed killing move.
• Lin Changheng manifested the Archaic Thunder Pool outside his body, startling the Xu Family as thunderclouds gathered over Mangleng Mountain.
• Lin Changheng used the Great Thousand Thunder-Breath Truth-Seeking Art to locate a storm and confirmed that the external pool could swallow lightning bolts without letting their force reach him.
• Lin Changheng tested the pool’s limits, finding that he could still absorb lightning through his body and that the pool’s capacity was restricted by his cultivation.

Lin Changheng strengthened his divine sense, witnessed Old Jiao revive in a Single-Horned Flood Dragon body, and discovered he could use its essence blood to begin Spirit Seizure of a new Treasure Seed. After arranging Bai Hengwan’s Nascent Soul formation, he left with her a month later and saw her present him with a jade bottle and sealed boxes.

• Lin Changheng tested his transformed Divine Ability True Intent and found his divine sense range had increased to two hundred and twenty li.
• Old Jiao revived in the Single-Horned Flood Dragon body, and he and Lin Changheng discussed his recovery and the body’s ability, Single-Horned Flamefall, to draw upon fire spiritual power.
• Old Jiao gave Lin Changheng two masses of essence blood, which let him begin Spirit Seizure of the Single-Horned Ferocious Flood Dragon Treasure Seed and reveal its three innate talents.
• Lin Changheng found Bai Hengwan studying his Nascent Soul Formation insights and arranged to take her to form her Nascent Soul after she finished preparing.
• A month later, Lin Changheng flew southeast with Bai Hengwan, who presented him with a jade bottle and several sealed boxes.

Lin Changheng brought Bai Hengwan to the Extreme South Palace to seek a fourth-tier spirit land for her Nascent Soul formation, only to discover Daoist Jingyuan was visiting Illusion-Breaking True Lord. After Jingyuan recognized Bai Hengwan and inferred Lin Changheng had killed True Lord White Ash, Lin Changheng stopped Jingyuan from fleeing and struck him down with a terrifying bolt of lightning.

• Bai Hengwan gave Lin Changheng pill ingredients, and he returned her standard Nascent Soul Transformation Pill while keeping the ingredients for future refining.
• Lin Changheng took Bai Hengwan with him to the Extreme South Palace and reassured her that he could handle threats from Yue and Yan.
• At the palace gates, Lin Changheng learned an unidentified male Nascent Soul True Lord was visiting Illusion-Breaking True Lord, then confirmed the visitor was Daoist Jingyuan when his stolen golden dipper tried to fly toward him.
• Illusion-Breaking True Lord received Lin Changheng and Bai Hengwan, and Daoist Jingyuan recognized Bai Hengwan as the mistress of Floating Life Immortal City and accused Lin Changheng of killing True Lord White Ash.
• Daoist Jingyuan tried to escape the hall, but Lin Changheng halted him with a piercing attack and killed him with a massive bolt of lightning.