Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin had his family begin cultivating the Evergreen Art to improve their health and longevity, while Changqingzi healed their ailments and restored Li Jiaojiao’s sight. A week later, Chen Lin neared Core Formation, Yun Sheng’s resolve began to waver, and Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi reached the tenth layer of Qi Refining.

• Chen Lin gave Chen Guofu, Liu Shuqin, Chen Muyao, and Li Jiaojiao the Evergreen Art, explaining that he wanted them to live safely and longer rather than fight.
• Changqingzi guided Chen Guofu through qi induction, easing his chronic pain and making him look younger, then laid the foundation for Liu Shuqin and Chen Muyao to cultivate.
• With Chen Lin’s approval, Changqingzi restored Li Jiaojiao’s vision, and Chen Lin stopped Chen Muyao from kneeling to thank him.
• Chen Guofu agreed to grow spiritual herbs on his acres, and Chen Qianqian led the family home to rest.
• Over the next week, Yun Sheng watched Chen Lin approach the False Core Realm and felt her long-frozen Dao heart begin to crack.
• Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi each advanced to the tenth layer of Qi Refining.

Chen Lin finished cultivating as Heavenly Hatred True Lord emerged from a thousand-year seal beneath Fuxian Lake and discovered a modern world without spiritual energy. As the weakened cultivator traveled with his two Battle Puppets, national security detected them, and Heavenly Hatred True Lord noticed the surveillance drone.

• Chen Lin stabilized his cultivation and returned to the Master Bedroom of the Song-Style Courtyard House with Yun Sheng.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord escaped the Bronze Pyramid beneath Fuxian Lake with two late Core Formation Battle Puppets, but found no spiritual energy to restore his power.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord reached the surface and was stunned by the modern city, then traveled for two days searching in vain for spiritual veins and spirit herbs.
• Ye Wenjun's intelligence team detected the three figures and identified the two followers as puppets after tracking their unnatural speed and lack of body heat.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord stopped in the mountains and stared directly into the military drone's camera.

Heavenly Hatred True Lord emerged from a thousand-year seal and discovered that the Cultivation World had vanished, then decided to wait for death. Chen Lin arrived in Qian Province after tracking him down, leaving Heavenly Hatred True Lord trapped beneath the power of Chen Lin’s group.

• Ye Wenjun lost contact with a military drone in the Hundred-Thousand Great Mountains and designated the unknown target an SSS-class threat, then called Chen Family Village for help.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord questioned several mountain villagers, but their answers convinced him that no cultivators remained in the world.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord realized his cultivation had dwindled to early core formation and that he had only months to live, so he lay down in a mountain hollow to die.
• Chen Lin brought Yun Sheng and Changqingzi to Qian Province aboard the Silver Flying Boat and located Heavenly Hatred True Lord with his divine sense.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord spotted the powerful cultivators aboard the boat, tried to flee, and froze when an early nascent soul divine sense pinned him in place.

Changqingzi recognized Heavenly Hatred True Lord as his long-lost master, then explained that the cultivation world and its spiritual resources had vanished. Heavenly Hatred True Lord learned that Chen Lin had restored Changqingzi’s cultivation with spirit stones and bristled when Chen Lin criticized his puppets.

• Changqingzi recognized Heavenly Hatred True Lord and knelt before him, revealing that he was the old man’s surviving disciple, Qing.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord learned that Changqingzi had survived a thousand years and reached nascent soul through the Evergreen Art.
• Changqingzi told Heavenly Hatred True Lord that the cultivation world had collapsed after spiritual energy dried up, and Heavenly Hatred True Lord mourned that his enemies were already gone.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord questioned why Changqingzi served Chen Lin, and Changqingzi explained that Chen Lin had given him three thousand low-grade spirit stones to restore his cultivation.
• Chen Lin assessed Heavenly Hatred True Lord’s Black-Armor Puppets as crude despite their fine materials, angering the Puppet Grandmaster.

Chen Lin offered Heavenly Hatred True Lord a hundred mid-grade spirit stones a month, convincing the proud former Demonic Path overlord to join Chen Family Village and bind his life to Chen Lin. Heavenly Hatred True Lord accepted, while Changqingzi prepared to teach him the village’s security rules.

• Heavenly Hatred True Lord refused to serve Chen Lin and tried to leave, insisting he would rather die than surrender his pride.
• Chen Lin offered Heavenly Hatred True Lord a hundred mid-grade spirit stones a month, including food and lodging.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord abandoned his objections, knelt before Chen Lin, and pledged his loyalty.
• Chen Lin ordered Heavenly Hatred True Lord to offer a Life-Bound Divine Soul Blood Pact, and Heavenly Hatred True Lord completed it without hesitation.
• Changqingzi welcomed Heavenly Hatred True Lord as a colleague and offered to teach him Chen Family Village’s security rules, while Heavenly Hatred True Lord privately vowed to surpass him.

Chen Lin brought Heavenly Hatred True Lord to Chen Family Village, where the hidden formations and abundant spiritual treasures awed him. After Chen Lin paid him two hundred mid-grade spirit stones in advance, Heavenly Hatred True Lord handed over control of his two Black-Armor Puppets to prove his loyalty.

• Chen Lin flew with Heavenly Hatred True Lord, Yun Sheng, and Changqingzi to the Sun-Covering Cloudmist Formation protecting Chen Family Village.
• Chen Lin opened a passage through the formation, and Heavenly Hatred True Lord discovered the village's rich spiritual energy and Water Vein Spirit.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord saw the courtyard's Dual Spirit-Gathering Formation and marveled at Friday, Chen Lin's Intelligent Robot.
• Chen Lin gave Heavenly Hatred True Lord two hundred mid-grade spirit stones as two months' wages in advance.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord offered Chen Lin the divine sense imprints controlling his two late Core Formation Black-Armor Puppets.

Chen Lin formed a golden core, reaching early core formation and extending his divine sense twenty kilometers. His breakthrough astonished Yun Sheng and Heavenly Hatred True Lord, and that night his wives gathered around him to celebrate and test his new strength.

• Chen Lin bound the two Black-Armor Puppets to himself, assigned Heavenly Hatred True Lord to outer-courtyard security, and watched him trade barbs with Changqingzi.
• Chen Lin cultivated with over a thousand low-grade spirit stones and broke through from false core to early core formation.
• Chen Lin's divine sense spread twenty kilometers, stunning Yun Sheng with its reach and strength.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord sensed Chen Lin's breakthrough and grew reverent, while Changqingzi ordered him to continue his night patrol.
• That night, Song Qiuya, Li Xiaoyue, Zhang Ruoxi, Qin Chuxia, and Qin Churan gathered around Chen Lin, and Qin Chuxia volunteered to test his strength.

After stabilizing his Core Formation cultivation, Chen Lin scavenged the Transfer Station and found a peak Nascent Soul Sword-Nurturing Gourd containing thirty-six Azure Cloud Swords. He bound the gourd and tested its sword formation before the station cleared away the remaining debris.

• Chen Lin used his Core Formation true essence to cultivate with Qin Chuxia, Qin Churan, and the other women, helping all five make progress before they fell asleep.
• Chen Lin entered the Black Portal and used his divine sense and Object Manipulation Art to sort the Transfer Station's newly fallen waste.
• Chen Lin found a Nascent Soul cultivator's remains and opened its Storage Bag, discovering sixteen thousand mid-grade spirit stones and more than five hundred high-grade spirit stones.
• Chen Lin found a peak Nascent Soul Sword-Nurturing Gourd containing thirty-six Azure Cloud Swords and bound it with his essence blood.
• Chen Lin summoned the swords and tested their formation, then the Transfer Station's fissures sucked away the sorted debris.

Chen Lin challenged Yun Sheng to a sparring match in the Mountains and Rivers Painting and used the Sword-Nurturing Gourd’s three Azure Cloud Swords to overwhelm her. Yun Sheng accepted her defeat, while Chen Lin concealed how much strength he had held back to preserve her confidence as Security Team Captain.

• Chen Lin brought Yun Sheng, Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, and the other women into the Mountains and Rivers Painting and asked Yun Sheng to spar.
• Yun Sheng drew the Cloudborne Sword and attacked Chen Lin, who stayed in place and sent three Azure Cloud Swords from his Sword-Nurturing Gourd.
• Chen Lin’s flying swords formed a formation and forced Yun Sheng to fight defensively as the watching women looked on in shock.
• After more than half an hour, Chen Lin’s swords disarmed and exhausted Yun Sheng, then stopped just inches from her face.
• Chen Lin recalled the swords and pretended he had nearly run out of true essence, while privately deciding not to crush Yun Sheng’s confidence.
• Yun Sheng sheathed her sword and stared at Chen Lin, shaken by her defeat and the gap between their abilities.

Chen Lin defeated Yun Sheng in a sparring match and was fussed over by the women around him. Meanwhile, fifteen fishing vessels and 136 crew members vanished in the East China Sea, prompting officials to seek help from Guoan.

• Chen Lin overwhelmed Yun Sheng, who conceded and went to cultivate in the Bamboo Grove.
• Qin Chuxia, Song Qiuya, Zhang Ruoxi, Li Xiaoyue, and Qin Churan gathered around Chen Lin to care for him.
• A dense, freezing white mist enveloped the Hualu fishing fleet, and all fifteen vessels and their crews disappeared when it cleared.
• Young Zhang reported the fleet's disappearance to Chen Ping, who ordered search-and-rescue vessels to investigate.
• After the search found no wreckage or survivors, Chen Ping ordered a wider search and contacted Director Ye through Guoan.

Ye Wenjun confronted a growing global crisis as ships vanished in sudden fog across the oceans, then called Chen Lin for help. Chen Lin answered from Chen Family Village as Ye warned him that something terrible had happened.

• Ye Wenjun heard that search teams had found no trace of the vessels that disappeared in the East China Sea.
• An intelligence officer reported that three luxury yachts carrying sixty-eight people had vanished in sudden fog in the South China Sea.
• The officer relayed reports of missing fishing vessels, a freighter, and the Ocean Oasis, leaving thousands unaccounted for worldwide.
• Ye Wenjun ordered officials to blame extreme magnetic fields and called Chen Lin, deciding to seek an immortal's help.
• Chen Lin answered the military communicator while meditating, and Ye Wenjun told him that something terrible had happened.

Chen Lin investigated the vanishings of ships at sea and discovered evidence of a fast-moving creature that absorbed immense spiritual energy. As the group reached the latest disappearance site near Honshu Island, a colossal shark burst from the water and charged the Flying Boat.

• Chen Lin took Changqingzi, Yun Sheng, and the five women to investigate the vanished cruise ship while Heavenly Hatred True Lord stayed to guard the Courtyard Compound.
• At the East China Sea site, Changqingzi found seaweed with abnormal vitality, and Chen Lin suspected a creature had taken Wang Tianhe's corpse.
• At the South China Sea site, Changqingzi found similarly altered coral and concluded that a fast, living creature was responsible for the attacks.
• Friday reported a missing cargo ship east of Honshu Island, so Chen Lin ordered the Flying Boat there at full speed.
• Near Honshu Island, a giant shark over thirty meters long erupted from the sea and charged the Flying Boat.

Chen Lin’s group encountered a mutated Megalodon and then a powerful demonic sea beast while searching for the vanished cruise ship. When Yun Sheng tried to strike the fleeing beast, an unknown presence deep beneath the sea blocked her sword and wounded her.

• Yun Sheng killed a giant Megalodon that attacked the Flying Boat, and Chen Lin identified it as an ordinary shark mutated by spiritual energy before storing its corpse for food.
• Chen Lin searched the sea with his divine sense and found a powerful demonic sea beast beneath the Flying Boat.
• The sea beast unleashed venom to cover its escape, and Yun Sheng cut through the venom with a sword strike.
• A cold snort from the depths summoned a massive Water Shield that shattered Yun Sheng’s sword qi and forced her back, leaving blood at the corner of her mouth.

Chen Lin confronted an early nascent soul sea beast that admitted its clan had eaten the people aboard several ships and claimed the deep sea as its territory. He chose not to fight an unknown ancient clan and returned to Chen Family Village, intending to alert Ye Wenjun and prepare for a larger conflict.

• Changqingzi shielded Chen Lin as an early nascent soul sea beast rose from the sea with a core formation sea beast beside him.
• Chen Lin demanded to know what had happened to the missing ships, and the sea beast said his clan had eaten their passengers.
• Changqingzi warned Chen Lin that the sea beast had the advantage underwater and might belong to a powerful ancient clan.
• The sea beast claimed his clan had survived the decline of spiritual energy in the deep sea, then vanished with the squid in a cloud of white fog.
• Chen Lin rejected Yun Sheng's suggestion to pursue the sea beast, explaining that a fight could draw out stronger members of the clan.
• Chen Lin ordered the flying boat back to the village and decided Ye Wenjun would need to respond to the threat.

Chen Lin identified the missing cruise ship case as the work of an ancient Sea Beast Clan that had returned after disappearing three thousand years ago. He warned Ye Wenjun of the threat, then presented a slain thirty-meter sea beast to the authorities and experts at Yicheng's military airfield.

• Chen Lin asked Heavenly Hatred True Lord about humanlike fish-tailed creatures, and Heavenly Hatred True Lord identified them as the Sea Beast Clan in ancient records.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord explained that the Sea Beast Clan had ruled the oceans, vanished three thousand years earlier, and possessed lifespans of thousands of years.
• Chen Lin suspected an enormous undersea spiritual vein had sustained the sea beasts during the eight-hundred-year spiritless era, then called Ye Wenjun to report their return and mythic-level strength.
• Ye Wenjun arrived in Yicheng with five biology experts and two squads of special forces soldiers after reporting Chen Lin's warning to the highest authorities.
• Chen Lin summoned the slain thirty-meter sea beast onto the runway, and a biology expert identified it as a Megalodon.

Chen Lin revealed that the megalodon was only a scout sent by the Deep Sea Race, prompting Huaxia to warn the world’s major powers that a war for survival had begun. The leaders agreed to form a joint defense, while America demanded access to the power behind Huaxia.

• Chen Lin told Ye Wenjun that the dead megalodon was a mindless minor creature and that a far stronger Deep Sea Race had sunk the cruise ships.
• Huaxia presented the megalodon’s corpse and evidence of the Deep Sea Race at a secret meeting with the leaders of America, Bear Country, Britain, and Gaul.
• The Huaxia representative identified the megalodon as a hunting dog and warned that the Deep Sea Race claimed the oceans as its territory.
• Huaxia called for an immediate halt to ocean voyages and the withdrawal of fleets to nearshore defensive lines.
• Gaul and Britain agreed to share resources and establish a Global Joint Defense Line, while America offered Seventh Fleet command authority and demanded Huaxia share its technology.

The Earth Defense Alliance was formed under Huaxia's command as global supernatural terror spread. Three days later, sea beasts attacked Spirit Turtle Island, destroyed its defenders, and drove Withered Wood Ancestor to flee toward Huaxia as a nascent soul.

• Donald Trump agreed to the old man's demands for F-22 avionics technology, lithography machines, and Area 51 archives, while Bear Country offered industrial bases and access to its nuclear arsenal.
• The Earth Defense Alliance was established with Huaxia firmly in command.
• Abyss Bone, Black Thorn, and Scale Fang shattered Spirit Turtle Island's protective formation and surrounded the island with thousands of sea beasts.
• Abyss Bone defeated Withered Wood Ancestor and sent Black Thorn and Scale Fang to slaughter the island's disciples.
• Withered Wood Ancestor detonated his body, escaped as a nascent soul using the Blood Escape Technique, and fled toward Huaxia with a Storage Bag.
• Abyss Bone dismissed the fleeing nascent soul and went underground to devour Spirit Turtle Island's spiritual spring.

The Sea Beast Clan destroyed the four overseas blessed lands, leaving Withered Wood Ancestor, Mystic Radiance True Person, and Violet Frost Fairy to flee toward the mainland. They reached Chen Family Village, where Chen Lin let them through the formation, and they arrived before him and Yun Sheng.

• The Sea Beast Clan killed Mystic Radiance True Person’s body, drove Violet Frost Fairy to flee grievously wounded, and destroyed the four overseas blessed lands within three days.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord and Changqingzi sensed three cultivators outside Chen Family Village, and Chen Lin ordered that they be admitted.
• Changqingzi opened the formation and recognized Withered Wood Ancestor, Mystic Radiance True Person, and Violet Frost Fairy as desperate survivors.
• The three entered the courtyard and were astonished by its dense spiritual energy, flourishing spirit herbs, and Foundation Establishment spirit cats.
• Changqingzi led them to Chen Lin, who stood with Yun Sheng waiting on the bluestone steps.

After learning that the Deep Sea Race had destroyed four overseas blessed lands, Chen Lin made three surviving nascent soul cultivators swear loyalty to him in exchange for shelter and a chance to recover. Chen Family Village gained three new fighters and prepared to face the sea beasts’ eventual invasion.

• Violet Frost Fairy and Withered Wood Ancestor told Chen Lin that organized Deep Sea Race forces had destroyed four overseas blessed lands, including Spirit Turtle Island.
• Violet Frost Fairy, Withered Wood Ancestor, and Mystic Radiance True Person asked to stay in Chen Family Village, but Changqingzi challenged them to prove their worth and urged them to accept Chen Lin as their master.
• Violet Frost Fairy, Withered Wood Ancestor, and Mystic Radiance True Person offered Chen Lin their Divine Soul Blood Pacts, which he refined into his sea of consciousness.
• Chen Lin gave Withered Wood Ancestor and Mystic Radiance True Person two Black-Armor Puppets to inhabit and sent Violet Frost Fairy to collect spirit stones for her recovery.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord realized that Chen Family Village now had five nascent soul-level fighters, giving it strength to challenge the Deep Sea Race.

Chen Lin agreed to share cultivation with foreign powers in exchange for their strategic technologies and ordered Mang Village cleared to house a new transcendence operations base. The village was rapidly relocated, and Chen Lin prepared to select five hundred young recruits.

• General Zhao told Chen Lin that the Global United Defense Line had been established and four countries had transferred key technologies and intelligence in exchange for access to cultivation.
• Chen Lin approved a first batch of five hundred cultivation slots, allocating three hundred to Huaxia and fifty to each of the four countries.
• Chen Lin chose Mang Village for a Global Transcendence Special Operations Base and ordered it emptied within three days so he could extend the formation over it.
• General Zhao arranged Mang Village's forced relocation with fivefold compensation and ordered the selection of five hundred recruits under thirty with strong vitality.
• An Changlin led the relocation, and Mang Village's households accepted compensation and moved while police detained several local thugs who demanded extra money.