Chapter Summaries

Yun Sheng emerged from Chen Lin’s Mountains and Rivers Painting and began forming her nascent soul amid a heavenly omen, prompting Kunpeng to order a desperate assault. The Sea-Covering Heaven-Locking Formation shattered, leaving Yun Sheng exposed as four nascent soul sea beasts charged her and Chen Lin prepared another trump card.

• Changqingzi’s defensive line faltered when the Azure Flood Dragon’s tail sent the three Black-Armor Puppets flying and injured Withered Wood, Violet Frost, and Mystic Brightness.
• Chen Lin brought Yun Sheng out of the Mountains and Rivers Painting as she began her nascent soul breakthrough, summoning a storm of nine-heaven astral winds that drove back the sea beasts.
• Kunpeng ordered the Sea Tribe elders to attack the formation, and the sea beasts battered its barrier while Kunpeng used Heavenly Hatred True Lord’s strike to propel himself toward its weakest point.
• Kunpeng shattered the Sea-Covering Heaven-Locking Formation with his trident, and its backlash hurled Changqingzi, Withered Wood, Violet Frost, and Mystic Brightness backward.
• Kunpeng joined the Azure Flood Dragon, the Devil Ray, and the Giant Crab in charging Yun Sheng, who remained one step from stabilizing her nascent soul.
• Chen Lin faced the four approaching sea beasts without panic and hinted that he had more trump cards.

Chen Lin used the Mountains and Rivers Painting to absorb the Sea Tribe leaders’ strongest attacks, forcing Kunpeng to retreat as Yun Sheng broke through to early Nascent Soul. After the battle, Chen Lin collapsed from the treasure’s strain and was rushed back to the village, while the Sea Tribe’s hundred-mile offshore ban remained in force.

• Chen Lin unfurled the Mountains and Rivers Painting, which silently absorbed two volleys of attacks from Kunpeng and the other Sea Tribe leaders.
• Yun Sheng completed her breakthrough to early Nascent Soul and joined Chen Lin as the human forces gained the upper hand.
• Kunpeng admitted defeat, ordered the Sea Tribe to retreat, and banned human ships from sailing more than a hundred miles offshore.
• Huaxia military commanders celebrated the Sea Tribe’s retreat as Ye Wenjun watched Chen Lin on satellite footage.
• Chen Lin collapsed from the divine sense drain of the Mountains and Rivers Painting, and Yun Sheng caught him.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord and the others rushed Chen Lin back to the village aboard Changqingzi’s Heavenly Shuttle.

Chen Lin lay unconscious after overtaxing his divine sense, and Yun Sheng decided to use the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art to restore him. Their cultivation began recovering through the exchange of energy, and Chen Lin broke through to the middle stage of Core Formation.

• Heavenly Hatred True Lord examined Chen Lin and said he was stable but needed a few days of rest.
• Changqingzi sent the Nascent Soul cultivators away, leaving Yun Sheng alone with Chen Lin.
• Yun Sheng recalled Chen Lin's help and resolved to repay him by using the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art.
• Yun Sheng activated the art and sent her pure yin energy into Chen Lin, whose Azure Origin Sword Art responded.
• The Five-Element Spirit-Gathering Formation gathered spiritual energy as Chen Lin's sea of consciousness recovered and his cultivation advanced to the middle stage of Core Formation.

After Yun Sheng used her primal yin to save Chen Lin and help him break through to middle-stage core formation, she tried to leave, insisting they were even. Song Qiuya and the others emerged from the Mountains and Rivers Painting, caught them together, and heard Chen Lin explain that Yun Sheng had saved his life after the battle at sea.

• Chen Lin woke with his divine sense nearly doubled and realized he had broken through to middle-stage core formation after spending the night with Yun Sheng.
• Yun Sheng said she had repaid her debt by healing Chen Lin with her primal yin, then prepared to leave.
• Song Qiuya sent word that Qin Chuxia's bottleneck was loosening, and Chen Lin stopped Yun Sheng from leaving before the Mountains and Rivers Painting released Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Qin Churan, Li Xiaoyue, and Zhang Ruoxi into the room.
• Qin Chuxia accused Chen Lin of cheating after the five women saw the disheveled bed and bloodstains.
• Chen Lin explained that Yun Sheng had used the Phoenix Yin-Yang Essence Cultivation Art to save him after he exhausted his divine sense fighting the Sea Tribe and Kunpeng.
• Song Qiuya's anger softened when she understood that Yun Sheng had acted to save Chen Lin's life.

After Song Qiuya welcomed Yun Sheng into the household, Chen Lin learned that the East China Sea battle had become public and that China planned to reveal supernatural powers and launch a nationwide martial training initiative. The chapter ended with Chen Lin sensing the Imperial Seal of China growing stronger from the people’s faith.

• Song Qiuya took Yun Sheng’s hand, welcomed her as a sister, and sent Chen Lin to guard Chuxia as she cultivated.
• Videos of the East China Sea battle spread worldwide, prompting public fear and worship of Chen Lin and Chen Family Village.
• Ye Wenjun told Chen Lin that the leadership would announce supernatural powers and begin the “Martial Spirit for All” initiative.
• Chen Lin asked Ye Wenjun to increase training and send five thousand elite soldiers under twenty to Chen Family Village.
• Chen Lin sensed that public faith had greatly strengthened the Imperial Seal of China’s national fortune barrier.

After the East China Sea video revealed Chen Lin’s powers, he invited his closest friends and their partners to his hidden courtyard and demonstrated sword flight. He warned them that the Sea Tribe battle was only the beginning and that the Demon Tribe might threaten them next.

• Chen Lin confirmed to Zhao Jie, Wang Ye, and Wang Shuo that the immortal in the viral East China Sea video was him and invited them to Chen Family Village.
• Chen Lin opened a portal from the wilderness into his courtyard, where Changqingzi and the women greeted the guests.
• Chen Lin’s friends and their partners saw Yun Sheng pour tea with magic and learned that the women were cultivators.
• Chen Lin summoned the Azure Cloud Sword and flew above the courtyard, astonishing his friends and their partners.
• Chen Lin returned to the table and warned that the Sea Tribe battle was only the beginning and the Demon Tribe could be next.

Chen Lin began training Zhao Jie, Wang Ye, Wang Shuo, and their loved ones in the Taiyin Breathing Technique, warning them that cultivation was dangerous. After their first session strengthened their bodies, he ordered them to train at the Global Transcendence Special Operations Base and gave them ten days to draw spiritual energy into their bodies.

• Chen Lin offered Zhao Jie, Wang Ye, and Wang Shuo a chance to cultivate and warned them that the path could cost them their lives.
• Chen Lin taught the three men and their loved ones the Taiyin Breathing Technique and made them hold its demanding stance for half an hour.
• The six trainees sweated out foul-smelling impurities, then returned from showering feeling stronger.
• Zhao Jie shattered a brick with his fist, and Wang Ye celebrated his improved strength before Chen Lin told them they were still beginners.
• Chen Lin ordered Zhao Jie, Wang Ye, Wang Shuo, and their loved ones to report to the Global Transcendence Special Operations Base, where they would have ten days to draw spiritual energy into their bodies.

Chen Lin gave Ye Wenjun the Complete Taiyin Breathing Technique so Huaxia could build a powerful force without relying on spiritual energy. The military began distributing the technique nationwide, while Chen Lin hoped the faith and fortune of its practitioners would strengthen him and the Imperial Seal of China.

• Wang Ye worried about facing the Soldier Kings, but Zhao Jie urged him and Wang Shuo to grow stronger as they headed to the Special Operations Base with Intelligent Robot Friday.
• Ye Wenjun told Chen Lin that sea-beast attacks had halted global shipping, forced mass evacuations, and stalled the plan to promote martial training because existing methods were too weak.
• Chen Lin gave Ye Wenjun the Complete Taiyin Breathing Technique and ordered him to train the military first, then expand instruction to universities and the whole nation.
• Ye Wenjun left with the technique as Chen Lin watched the Imperial Seal of China absorb prayer power and considered the strength he could gain from Huaxia's people practicing his teachings.
• The Grand Elder issued the Taiyin Breathing Technique (General Principles) to military regions, fleets, and secret bases, ordering all military personnel to practice it.

As millions of Huaxia soldiers began cultivating, their faith strengthened Chen Lin’s Imperial Seal. At the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station, Chen Lin discovered a ruined interdomain flying boat and uncovered a hidden cache of spirit stones that greatly replenished his resources.

• Millions of soldiers began Breathing and Qi Circulation after watching Chen Lin’s training video.
• The Imperial Seal of China blazed as the soldiers’ faith surged into Chen Lin, and he guided the power into his cultivation barrier.
• Chen Lin traveled to the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and found a wrecked Starfall-Class Interdomain Flying Boat bearing signs of a violent attack.
• The Star Moon Demon Saint identified a secret compartment beneath the main control room, and Chen Lin broke through the floor and retrieved its storage bag.
• Chen Lin opened the bag and found hundreds of thousands of mid-grade spirit stones and tens of thousands of High-Grade Spirit Stones.

After dismantling a wrecked flying boat, Chen Lin found a Bodhi Seed and used its sudden-enlightenment effect and spirit stones to advance to late Core Formation. He remained in seclusion while Qin Chuxia and Song Qiuya worried outside the West Wing Room.

• Chen Lin dismantled the flying boat and discovered a Bodhi Seed among the ashes.
• The demon sage identified the seed as a rare divine treasure and warned Chen Lin that taking it could entangle him in dangerous karma.
• Chen Lin returned to the Song-Style Courtyard House, entered the Mountains and Rivers Painting, and cultivated with fifty thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones and the Bodhi Seed.
• After three days of sudden enlightenment, Chen Lin advanced to late Core Formation and his divine sense expanded to fifty thousand meters.
• Qin Chuxia and Song Qiuya waited anxiously outside the West Wing Room, fearing for Chen Lin despite knowing Changqingzi and Heavenly Hatred were alive.

After emerging from three days of seclusion at late core formation, Chen Lin learned that powerful demon beasts had appeared beside a massive rift in the Kunlun Mountains. He ordered the area sealed off and set out with Yun Sheng, Heavenly Hatred True Lord, and Changqingzi to investigate.

• Chen Lin emerged from seclusion, reunited with the worried women, and shocked Yun Sheng and the two elders by revealing that he had reached late core formation in three days.
• Ye Wenjun called Chen Lin with a top-level alert that an earthquake had opened a huge rift in Kunlun, where drones had filmed several enormous demon beasts.
• Yun Sheng identified the creatures as core-formation-level demon beasts, and Chen Lin concluded that they were guarding something rather than attacking nearby humans.
• Chen Lin rejected sending newly trained cultivators to Kunlun, ordered the authorities to seal off the area, and decided to go there himself with Yun Sheng, Heavenly Hatred True Lord, and Changqingzi.

Di Shisan emerged from a two-thousand-year slumber with powerful Demon Tribe cultivators and confronted Chen Lin’s group above Kunlun. After Chen Lin warned the demons to stay out of Huaxia’s interior, the gray-robed elder attacked him, and Heavenly Hatred True Lord stepped forward to meet the assault.

• Di Shisan and nine shapeshifted great demons emerged from the abyss in Kunlun, where the three Core Formation great demons bowed before them.
• Di Shisan sensed human cultivators nearby, and the Heavenly Shuttle arrived with Chen Lin, Yun Sheng, Changqingzi, Withered Wood, Mystic Brightness, Violet Frost, and Heavenly Hatred True Lord aboard.
• Both sides formed a standoff, and Heavenly Hatred True Lord recognized Di Shisan’s Demon Emperor bloodline and peak late Nascent Soul cultivation.
• Chen Lin warned Di Shisan that demons were forbidden in Huaxia’s interior.
• The gray-robed elder conjured a giant demonic claw to attack Chen Lin, but Heavenly Hatred True Lord stopped Yun Sheng and stepped forward to face it.

Chen Lin and Di Shisan negotiated a truce between humans and demons after Di Shisan warned that a great upheaval would arrive within a hundred years. Di Shisan accepted Chen Lin’s rule that demons stay out of human cities, and the Demon Tribe retreated into Death Valley.

• Heavenly Hatred True Lord wounded the gray-robed elder with a Bone Spear, but Di Shisan halted the forces before battle began.
• Di Shisan told Chen Lin that Blue Star was an abandoned cage and warned that upheaval was certain within a hundred years.
• Chen Lin connected Di Shisan’s warning to the Black-Robed Figure’s countdown and concluded that a crisis spanning the myriad worlds was approaching.
• Di Shisan proposed that humans and demons avoid attacking each other and prepare separately for the coming upheaval.
• Chen Lin agreed to the truce but decreed that demons who entered human cities would be killed; Di Shisan accepted the terms.
• Di Shisan and the ten Transformed Great Demons withdrew into the dark-red fissure in Death Valley.

After the Kunlun demons withdrew, Chen Lin helped Huaxia build its defenses and prepared Song Qiuya for Foundation Establishment. The chapter ended with him presenting her ten Supreme-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills.

• Chen Lin ordered Ye Wenjun to stand down the missiles, maintain the outer cordon, and transfer elite troops to Chen Family Village for training.
• Huaxia’s forces made rapid progress with the Taiyin Breathing Technique, and three hundred thousand elite troops developed blood-and-qi beacons.
• Chen Lin gathered the faith of 1.4 billion people into the Imperial Seal of China as Song Qiuya reached the great perfection of the thirteenth Qi Refining layer.
• Chen Lin brought Song Qiuya into the Mountains and Rivers Painting to attempt Foundation Establishment, where the others warned her of the dangers.
• Chen Lin produced ten Supreme-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills, stunning Yun Sheng and Changqingzi.

Chen Lin used Supreme-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills to help Song Qiuya form a flawless dao foundation, then found a storage bag among the remains of a high-level battlefield at the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station. He broke through its restrictions and was shocked by what it contained.

• Chen Lin guided Song Qiuya through the pain of consuming seven Supreme-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills until she formed a perfect dao foundation.
• Song Qiuya stabilized her new Foundation Establishment cultivation and thanked Chen Lin, who told her to learn spells and how to fight.
• At midnight, Chen Lin entered the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station as a massive shipment of battlefield debris arrived.
• Chen Lin uncovered a ruined humanoid mechanical puppet with late Nascent Soul-level power and the crystalline skeleton of its owner.
• Chen Lin took the skeleton's starlight-patterned Storage Bag, broke its restrictions, and was stunned by its contents.

Chen Lin discovered the Heavenly Craft Creation Art and a trove of rare materials, giving him the means to pursue Nascent Soul puppets. While searching the wreckage, he found a Divine Transformation corpse, and the Star Moon Demon Saint urged him to let the remnant soul possess it.

• Chen Lin found blueprints for Nascent Soul puppets and a Divine Transformation war fortress among the Heavenly Craft Creation Art, along with mountains of rare materials.
• Chen Lin realized his materials and more than fifty thousand high-grade spirit stones could support the creation of numerous Nascent Soul puppets.
• Chen Lin discovered a remarkably intact Divine Transformation corpse beneath war chariot wreckage and took its Cloud-Treading Boots.
• The Star Moon Demon Saint pleaded with Chen Lin to let him merge with the corpse, claiming it could give him peak late Nascent Soul strength and nearly invulnerable defenses.

Chen Lin began fusing the Star Moon Demon Saint with a Deity Transformation male corpse, then ordered Heavenly Hatred True Lord and Changqingzi to begin producing Nascent Soul puppets. The chapter left them racing to complete ten puppets in twenty days, while the corpse’s fusion continued.

• Chen Lin brought the corpse and the Star Moon Demon Saint’s reverse scale from the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station to his courtyard, where their three-day fusion began.
• Chen Lin summoned Heavenly Hatred True Lord and Changqingzi and showed them rare refining materials and the Heavenly Craft Creation Art, which contained complete Nascent Soul puppet blueprints.
• Chen Lin assigned Heavenly Hatred True Lord to refine one hundred early Nascent Soul puppets, demanding a first batch of ten within twenty days.
• Chen Lin provided supreme-grade pills and promised monthly rewards, but threatened to use Heavenly Hatred True Lord as a formation component if he failed.
• Chen Lin ordered Changqingzi to assist by smelting the puppet shells, and both men hurried to the Artifact Refining Room.

Star Moon Demon Saint regained a Deity Transformation body, and Chen Lin tested its defenses before accepting two powerful battle puppets from Heavenly Hatred True Lord. He brought Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue into the Mountains and Rivers Painting to bind the puppets to them and begin a sparring match.

• Star Moon Demon Saint awakened in his new body and pledged loyalty to Chen Lin, while admitting his damaged soul limited his combat strength.
• Chen Lin ordered Heavenly Hatred True Lord to attack Star Moon Demon Saint, and the Bone Spear shattered against the body's defenses.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord delivered two Nascent Soul battle puppets to Chen Lin, who rewarded him and ordered him to finish the remaining eight.
• Chen Lin brought Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue into the Mountains and Rivers Painting and inscribed their divine sense imprints into the puppets.
• Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue tested their puppet controls, then Chen Lin ordered them to spar with Withered Wood and Violet Frost.
• Song Qiuya sent her puppet charging at Withered Wood at lightning speed as the spar began.

Chen Lin's battle puppets demonstrated overwhelming power, while Qin Chuxia, Zhang Ruoxi, Qin Churan, and Chen Qianqian reached Foundation Establishment. Heavenly Hatred True Lord completed one hundred Azure Battle Puppets, and Chen Lin began distributing them to his allies and family.

• Song Qiuya and Li Xiaoyue used their Azure Battle Puppets to defeat Withered Wood and Violet Frost, whose attacks could not pierce the puppets' defenses.
• Yun Sheng saw the puppets' strength and resolved to cultivate faster so her own power would not fall behind.
• One month later, Qin Chuxia, Zhang Ruoxi, Qin Churan, and Chen Qianqian formed flawless dao foundations and reached Foundation Establishment.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord presented Chen Lin with one hundred completed Azure Battle Puppets, and four women bound puppets of their own.
• Chen Lin invited Heavenly Hatred True Lord, Changqingzi, and his family members to choose or receive puppets.

Chen Lin equipped his family with Nascent Soul Battle Puppets and checked on Zhao Jie, Wang Ye, and Wang Shuo’s punishing training at the Global Transcendence Special Operations Base. The three friends remained among the few survivors, still determined to endure despite their severe injuries.

• Chen Lin bonded his relatives to Nascent Soul Battle Puppets and warned them to use the powerful puppets only in catastrophic danger.
• Chen Lin reviewed the peaceful state of Chen Family Village and called General Zhao to ask how Zhao Jie, Wang Ye, and Wang Shuo were progressing.
• General Zhao reported that the three friends had survived a month of brutal training and were the only remaining ordinary people without martial arts foundations.
• Chen Lin appeared at the Global Transcendence Special Operations Base, where Zhang Long berated the trainees as Zhao Jie, Wang Ye, and Wang Shuo struggled through training while badly wounded.
• Zhao Jie urged Wang Shuo to hold on, and Wang Ye vowed to keep charging forward even if it killed him.