Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin annihilated the Bronze Commander’s forces and stopped the commander’s Nascent Soul from escaping, even after the High Priest intervened from the folded space. He learned about the Ancient Shu Royal Court and its hidden reserves, then vowed to invade and destroy the court.

• Chen Lin’s thirty-six Azure Cloud Swords slaughtered the armored soldiers, and his colossal sword split the Bronze Commander in half.
• The commander’s Nascent Soul fled toward the folded space entrance with a bone talisman, but Chen Lin’s swords blocked the way.
• The High Priest sent a half-step Deity Transformation hand through the rift, but Chen Lin used the East Emperor Bell to freeze it and shattered it with spatial force.
• Chen Lin seized the commander’s Nascent Soul and used the Soul-Searching Art until it dissipated, learning about the Ancient Shu Royal Court, the High Priest, and hidden reserves beneath Sanxingdui.
• Chen Lin sensed a greater aura awakening inside the rift and vowed to enter the folded space and destroy the royal court.

Chen Lin learned that the Ancient Shu Royal Court and Silkworm God Tribe came from another dimension and warned Ye Wenjun that Blue Star’s new treasures were drawing dangerous forces. He sent Huaxia two hundred Nascent Soul Battle Puppets in exchange for rare fruits, then went to cultivate as threats continued to gather.

• Chen Lin told Heavenly Hatred True Lord, Changqingzi, and Star Moon Demon Saint that the Ancient Shu people came from another dimension and that he had killed their attackers and sealed their passage.
• Chen Lin told Ye Wenjun that a half-step Deity Transformation enemy remained beyond the Sanxingdui entrance, while strange fruits were turning wild animals into demon beasts.
• Chen Lin offered Ye Wenjun two hundred early Nascent Soul Battle Puppets to protect military regions and universities, on the condition that the military send rare fruits, especially Golden Essence Fruits, to Yicheng.
• Chen Lin ordered Heavenly Hatred True Lord and Changqingzi to prepare the puppets for the military’s transport planes.
• Chen Lin went to the underground Quiet Chamber to seek stronger trump cards against the enemies threatening Blue Star.

Seven Nascent Soul cultivators emerged in Monkey Philippines and slaughtered nearly fifty million people to widen a passage through folded space. In Yanjing, Ye Wenjun showed world leaders evidence that a much larger force was gathering beyond the rift.

• Seven cultivators emerged from a spatial opening near Manila and ordered a blood sacrifice to widen the passage and bring through their sect’s main force.
• The gray-haired leader activated the Blood Demon Array over Manila, while the other six cultivators attacked separate regions of Monkey Philippines.
• In twenty-four hours, the cultivators killed nearly fifty million people, and the blood gathered at seven spatial nodes to expand the passages.
• In Yanjing, Ye Wenjun presented satellite evidence of the attackers’ strength and explained that their objective was to widen a rift.
• World leaders saw that the Manila rift had expanded to several thousand meters, with figures and enormous warships visible beyond it.

Chen Lin ordered Huaxia to defend its southern border against the forces invading Monkey Philippines while refusing to protect the rest of the world. At the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station, he found six bottles of True Dragon Essence that could strengthen his body with True Dragon Dao Laws.

• Ye Wenjun told Chen Lin that seven Nascent Soul cultivators had devastated Monkey Philippines and stabilized a spatial passage for more invaders.
• Chen Lin told Ye Wenjun to pull back Huaxia's defensive lines and hold the border, promising to act if the invaders crossed it.
• Chen Lin sent Heavenly Hatred True Lord with fifty Nascent Soul Battle Puppets to the southern border and ordered him to destroy the invaders if they threatened Huaxia with blood sacrifices.
• At midnight, Chen Lin went to the Myriad Worlds Garbage Transfer Station and searched a vast new batch of debris.
• Chen Lin found a stone box containing six bottles of True Dragon Essence, which could imbue his physical body with True Dragon Dao Laws.

Chen Lin refined a drop of true dragon liquid, greatly strengthening his body, then ordered the front line to kill anyone who entered Huaxia. The Ancient Shu Royal Court descended through a massive rift in the sky.

• Chen Lin absorbed a drop of true dragon liquid, endured a violent bodily transformation, and gained dark-gold Dao patterns on his bones.
• Chen Lin tested his new physical strength and shattered an alloy desk with a punch that used no true essence.
• Chen Lin returned to the Song-Style Courtyard House, where Clear Wind, Bright Moon, and the Star Moon Demon Saint reacted fearfully to his aura.
• Chen Lin learned that Heavenly Hatred True Lord had gone to the southern border with fifty Battle Puppets and told Ye Wenjun to order the front line to kill anyone who entered Huaxia.
• A thousand-li-long rift opened in the sky, and the Ancient Shu Royal Court began descending in an enormous bronze city.

The Ancient Shu Royal Court’s Bronze Giant City attacked Yicheng, but the Imperial Seal of China shielded the city. Chen Lin and his allies fought back, killing several nascent soul cultivators while the Star Moon Demon Saint engaged High Priest Zhuge Xuan; the battle continued as King Yu Hou watched his forces falter.

• The Bronze Giant City emerged from a spatial rift, and High Priest Zhuge Xuan identified Chen Lin as the man who had killed members of the Divine Silkworm Tribe.
• The Imperial Seal of China raised a barrier around Yicheng, stopping the Bronze Giant City’s assault.
• Chen Lin confronted Zhuge Xuan with the Star Moon Demon Saint, Yun Sheng, Changqingzi, and more than a hundred Battle Puppets behind him.
• Zhuge Xuan sent nascent soul generals to attack Chen Lin, but Chen Lin used the Great Geng Sword Formation to kill three and drive the others back.
• The Star Moon Demon Saint intercepted Zhuge Xuan, and Chen Lin entered the sword formation to kill three more cultivators with his fists.
• King Yu Hou watched his forces suffer heavy losses and condemned his generals for failing to defeat Chen Lin.

Chen Lin fought Yu Ji, the half-step deity transformation princess of Ancient Shu, and overwhelmed her with his True Dragon Essence-enhanced physical strength. Their brutal close-quarters battle continued after Chen Lin cracked Yu Ji’s armor and forced her to swallow blood.

• Yu Ji charged Chen Lin with her World-Breaking Spear after judging that only a half-step deity transformation expert could break his sword formation.
• Chen Lin shattered Yu Ji’s spatial restraint and struck her spear with his bare fist, driving her backward and drawing blood.
• Yu Ji recognized Chen Lin’s strength and said she would kill him and claim the treasure in his bones and blood.
• Chen Lin rushed Yu Ji and began a fierce close-quarters fight, using his transformed body and true dragon dao laws.
• Chen Lin caught Yu Ji’s spear, shattered her spatial shield, and cracked her silver armor with a punch.
• Yu Ji swallowed the blood rising in her throat and whipped her spear toward Chen Lin’s ribs.

Chen Lin battled Yu Ji above the Bronze Giant City and forced her to use the Ancient Shu Royal Court’s guardian treasure, the Four Symbols Ding. As Yu Ji unleashed its Deity Transformation laws, Chen Lin answered with the East Emperor Bell and destroyed her wind dragon.

• Chen Lin overpowered Yu Ji in a physical clash, knocking away her spear and driving her back despite her blood-red aura.
• Yu Ji summoned the Four Symbols Ding, whose Deity Transformation laws froze the space around the battlefield and suppressed Chen Lin, Zhuge Xuan, and the Star Moon Demon Saint.
• Yu Ji used the ding to form an azure wind dragon and sent it to swallow Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin produced the East Emperor Bell and struck it, releasing golden ripples that dissolved the wind dragon.

Chen Lin used the East Emperor Bell to defeat Yu Ji and force the Ancient Shu Royal Court to retreat from Yicheng. The Royal Court headed for Kangaroo Country, where Chen Lin planned to let them clear out resources before taking them for himself.

• Chen Lin and Yu Ji clashed with the East Emperor Bell and Four Symbols Ding, and their shock waves devastated the battlefield and killed or injured many Ancient Shu Royal Court commanders.
• Yu Ji's strength failed under the Four Symbols Ding's strain, so she recalled it and retreated while Chen Lin put away the East Emperor Bell.
• Zhuge Xuan advised Yu Hou to avoid exhausting the Royal Court's strength against Huaxia and establish a foothold on the southern continent instead.
• Yu Hou ordered the Bronze Giant City to retreat to Kangaroo Country, ending the threat to Yicheng for the moment.
• Chen Lin's allies praised him, and the Star Moon Demon Saint warned that the Royal Court could become a threat after taking Kangaroo Country's resources.
• Chen Lin said he would let the Royal Court clear the land and gather its resources before he went to claim them.

The Ancient Shu Royal Court invaded Kangaroo Country, slaughtering tens of millions and enslaving the survivors, while Huaxia refused Western pleas for aid. Chen Lin ordered preparations to strengthen Huaxia’s forces, setting a three-year deadline for ten thousand Nascent Soul Battle Puppets and demanding rapid training for one million Student Soldiers.

• The Bronze Giant City appeared over Sydney, and Yu Hou ordered the Ancient Shu army to clear the area.
• The Ancient Shu forces killed thirty-five million people in Kangaroo Country within a day and enslaved the survivors to build altars and mine resources.
• Ye Wenjun refused emergency requests from seventeen Western countries, then informed Chen Lin about the invasion and the pleas for help.
• Chen Lin rejected any responsibility for protecting countries beyond Huaxia and threatened to strike their capitals with Purple Firmament Divine Thunder if they tried to guilt-trip him.
• Changqingzi received blueprints and purification methods, and Chen Lin ordered him and Heavenly Hatred True Lord to produce ten thousand early Nascent Soul Battle Puppets within three years.
• Chen Lin sent Star Moon Demon Saint and Yun Sheng to accelerate the training of one million Student Soldiers, requiring them to reach the seventh level of Qi Refining within six months.

Chen Lin and Yun Sheng investigated the Black Divine Mountain in Changbai Mountain, where powerful restrictions suppressed cultivation and flight. After reaching a field of corpses, they faced more than thirty black stone giants, and Chen Lin moved to counter their attack.

• Ye Wenjun told Chen Lin that a black divine mountain had appeared in Changbai Mountain and that cultivators and military exploration teams had vanished inside it.
• Chen Lin took Yun Sheng through a spatial rift to the mountain, where an invisible force disabled the Heavenly Shuttle and suppressed their cultivation.
• Chen Lin and Yun Sheng climbed the mountain's Black Stone Steps despite the increasing gravity and restrictions.
• They found dozens of dead independent cultivators and special-operations troops, then watched black rocks assemble into more than thirty stone giants.
• A stone giant swung at Chen Lin, and he blocked its fist with one hand and twisted it aside.

Chen Lin and Yun Sheng climbed Black Divine Mountain, where Chen Lin concluded its precisely scaled enemies and gravity made it a trial ground. At the summit, two peak late Nascent Soul stone men appeared, and Chen Lin destroyed the first while the second attacked.

• Chen Lin pulverized the black stone men blocking the lower path, startling Yun Sheng with his strength.
• Chen Lin defeated the stronger stone guards and reasoned that Black Divine Mountain was a carefully calibrated trial ground.
• As gravity weakened Yun Sheng, Chen Lin crushed five early Nascent Soul stone men and sent qi and blood into her to ease the pressure.
• After two hours, Chen Lin and Yun Sheng reached the summit plaza, where two giant peak late Nascent Soul stone men rose from the ground.
• Chen Lin shattered the first giant's sword and punched through its body, while the second swept its sword at him.

Chen Lin claimed control of Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak and removed it from Changbai Mountain, only to discover that it had been suppressing a seal containing twelve ancient demons. He left with Yun Sheng, knowing the seal could fail in less than ten years and that he had to prepare for a Deity Transformation threat.

• Chen Lin defeated two stone figures, obtained the black jade token, and learned that it controlled the Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak trial treasure.
• Chen Lin bound the token with his True Dragon Qi and Blood, claimed the mountain, and shrank it into his storage ring.
• Removing Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak damaged the sealing formation beneath Changbai Mountain and unleashed a powerful bloody aura.
• Chen Lin used his divine sense to see twelve demons bound beneath the abyss, including an early Deity Transformation flood dragon, and learned the seal could collapse in less than ten years.
• Chen Lin and Yun Sheng departed aboard the Heavenly Shuttle as Chen Lin resolved to grow strong enough to face the threat.

Chen Lin placed the Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak northwest of Yicheng and opened it as a brutal training ground for Huaxia’s forces and cultivators. Two years later, Blue Star had entered a cultivation boom, while Chen Lin’s family had grown powerful through resources, cultivation, and combat training.

• Chen Lin transported the Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak from Changbai Mountain’s folded space and set it down northwest of Yicheng, causing a massive earthquake.
• Chen Lin told Ye Wenjun about the peak’s training formations and declared it open to cultivators at the eighth layer of Qi Refining or above, promising pills to anyone who reached the summit.
• Gu Changfeng led the troops toward the peak, while Yun Sheng warned Chen Lin that its Stone Man Battle Puppets could kill people; Chen Lin said the trials would prepare them to face demons.
• Two years passed as Blue Star expanded, spiritual energy surged, and the Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak strengthened Huaxia’s soldiers and cultivators through harsh trials.
• Chen Lin cultivated in seclusion and supplied his family with resources; six women reached late Core Formation, while Chen Guofu, Liu Shuqin, Chen Muyao, and Li Jiaojiao approached Core Formation at late Foundation Establishment.

Chen Lin advanced to late nascent soul and used True Dragon Essence to transform his body into a powerful physical weapon. He challenged Heavenly Hatred True Lord to a spar using only his body, and charged straight at the True Lord’s strongest attack.

• Chen Lin broke through to late nascent soul and expanded his divine sense to a radius of one hundred and fifty kilometers.
• Chen Lin drank True Dragon Essence, endured a day and night of bodily reconstruction, and gained physical strength exceeding one million jin.
• Chen Lin revealed his breakthrough and transformed body to Yun Sheng, Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, Heavenly Hatred True Lord, and Changqingzi.
• Chen Lin challenged Heavenly Hatred True Lord to force him back half a step without using true essence, while the True Lord could use his full strength.
• Heavenly Hatred True Lord launched ten Nine Abyss Demonic Bone Spears, and Chen Lin sprang toward them using only his physical body.

Chen Lin crushed Heavenly Hatred True Lord’s attack with his bare fists and reviewed the threat posed by a spatial rift in the southern seas. The Great Yu Dynasty’s fleet and army emerged through the rift, led by its ruler Yu Cheng'an and six half-step deity transformation cultivators.

• Chen Lin shattered all ten Demon Bone Spears, stopped his punch just short of Heavenly Hatred True Lord, and forced the peak nascent soul cultivator to kneel.
• Chen Lin ordered Heavenly Hatred True Lord to finish making eighty Battle Puppets and reviewed Changqingzi’s report on Huaxia’s military progress.
• Yun Sheng told Chen Lin that the Blood Demon Array had widened the southern-seas rift to a thousand zhang and that an oppressive military formation lay beyond it.
• Thirteen Great Yu warships emerged through the rift above the southern seas, bringing a vast army of foundation establishment soldiers and core formation cultivators.
• Yu Cheng'an appeared on the largest ship’s dragon throne, accompanied by six half-step deity transformation cultivators and more than two hundred nascent soul generals.

Yu Cheng'an led Great Yu’s invasion of the Ancestral Star and ordered the conquest and enslavement of its people. As Great Yu’s northern army approached Huaxia’s defenses, Chen Lin ordered it destroyed, and three hundred Nascent Soul Battle Puppets appeared to confront it.

• Yu Cheng'an destroyed a joint patrol fleet with a sweep of his sleeve and decreed that all people outside Great Yu would be enslaved or killed.
• Ye Wenjun reported Great Yu’s immense forces to Chen Lin and asked whether Yicheng’s troops should return to defend South China.
• Chen Lin ordered the qi refining defenders to retreat and commanded that Great Yu’s forces be killed if they crossed Shenzhou’s maritime boundary.
• Yu Cheng'an divided Great Yu’s armies into three fronts, assigning Tuoba Hong to advance north and eliminate Huaxia’s resistance.
• Tuoba Hong’s northern fleet approached Huaxia’s defensive line, where Star Moon Demon Saint, Heavenly Hatred True Lord, Changqingzi, and Yun Sheng appeared with three hundred Nascent Soul Battle Puppets.

The Great Yu Dynasty’s northern and eastern invasions were repelled by Chen Lin’s allies and the Ancient Shu forces, while its western campaign succeeded. After suffering heavy losses, Yu Cheng'an ordered the army to consolidate in the West, and Chen Lin chose to let Great Yu gather resources there while his forces defended their own country.

• Star Moon Demon Saint, Heavenly Hatred True Lord, and their allies slaughtered Great Yu’s northern forces, forcing Tuoba Hong to retreat.
• Yu Ji and the Ancient Shu forces crushed the eastern vanguard with the Four Symbols Ding, driving the Second Elder to flee.
• The Grand Elder’s army conquered territory in the West, while Tuoba Hong and the Second Elder reported their defeats to Yu Cheng'an.
• Yu Cheng'an abandoned expansion north and east and ordered Great Yu to secure the West while avoiding conflict with those regions.
• Changqingzi told Chen Lin that Heavenly Hatred True Lord was crafting new battle puppets from the recovered corpses, and Chen Lin ordered Ye Wenjun to focus on defending their own country.

The Hehuan Sect arrived in Huaxia and began looting resources and capturing male cultivators as furnace cauldrons. Chen Lin chose not to confront them, but the sect’s elders discovered a plan to seize a million cultivators at Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak.

• The Great Yu Dynasty’s western campaign overwhelmed resistance, while Heavenly Hatred True Lord completed fifty improved Black-Armored Battle Puppets for Chen Lin.
• A rift opened above Yundian, and the Hehuan Sect’s Peach Blossom Flying Vessel emerged with four half-step Deity Transformation cultivators.
• The Hehuan Sect’s female cultivators disarmed a Huaxia brigade and captured two handsome battalion commanders without killing anyone.
• Chen Lin told Ye Wenjun to leave the Hehuan Sect alone as long as it stayed in the mountains and did not massacre cities.
• Ji Longxue’s Grand Elder revealed that Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak held over a million young male cultivators whom the Hehuan Sect could capture as furnace cauldrons.

Ji Longxue, leader of the Hehuan Sect, investigated Chen Family Village and discovered Chen Lin’s extraordinary body, hoping to use him to advance to Deity Transformation. Chen Lin saw through her intrusion and drove her away, then ordered stronger city patrols as he focused on the threat beneath Changbai Mountain.

• Ji Longxue learned that Chen Family Village had defeated the Great Yu Dynasty’s expeditionary army and decided to investigate Yicheng with the Grand Elder.
• Ji Longxue sensed a Divine Transformation spirit treasure in Ten-Thousand-Fathom Peak and detected Chen Lin’s powerful qi and blood in Chen Family Village.
• Chen Lin and the Star Moon Demon Saint appeared and blocked Ji Longxue and the Grand Elder as they tried to retreat.
• Ji Longxue attempted to charm Chen Lin and invite him to the Hehuan Sect, but Chen Lin threatened her until she fled with the Grand Elder using a teleportation talisman.
• Chen Lin rejected the Star Moon Demon Saint’s offer to attack the Hehuan Sect and ordered him to have Yun Sheng strengthen patrols, warning that the threat beneath Changbai Mountain mattered more.