Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng prepared for the Dai Family’s Dragon Fall Valley Ruins while the Dai Family secretly plotted to make the expedition fatal. Mr. Hong gave Lin Feng his last Golden Light Body Protection Talisman, and a Dai Family guide arrived to take him to the ruins.

• Lin Feng studied ruin records and equipment, then realized the Dai Family might be sending him into a trap.
• Dai Tianshou and the elders agreed to cause a total annihilation in Dragon Fall Valley by having a death warrior activate a hidden mechanism.
• Mr. Hong warned Lin Feng that he would be on his own in the ruin and gave him a Golden Light Body Protection Talisman.
• Lin Feng accepted the talisman as a precious legacy from his master.
• A Dai Family martial artist arrived and invited Lin Feng to follow him to the Dragon Fall Valley Ruins.

Lin Feng arrived at the Dragon Fall Valley Ruins with his seniors and prepared to enter the dangerous trial. After learning basic survival rules from Ji Yunyi, he passed through the ancient gates as they opened, leaving his companions outside.

• Hong Batian kicked the long-winded Dai Family guide into the air, then the guide led the group to Dragon Fall Valley in silence.
• Lin Feng and his companions reached the crowded valley platform, where factions had gathered to send collateral disciples into the ruins for a fee.
• A disciple from the Sect Master's faction asked to enter, but his Senior Brother forbade it, warning that the ruins offered death and no chance of survival.
• Lin Feng said goodbye to Mr. Hong, Yue'e, Zhu Linghua, and Wu Jinlei, then examined the enormous carved gates and met Ji Yunyi, who shared rules for surviving ruins.
• A Dai Family member opened the gates, and Lin Feng entered the ruins with the other participants as the gates began to close.

Lin Feng killed three Dai Family death warriors upon entering the ruin, then used its rules to provoke the surviving shadow guard into being killed by the ruin’s defenses. He and the others reached a passage guarded by rotating statues, where a martial artist stepped forward and triggered a warning.

• Lin Feng attacked the four Dai Family fighters as soon as the ruin gates shut, killing three and badly injuring the innate shadow guard.
• The ruin scanned the hall and warned that further violence would draw a spiritual energy strike.
• Lin Feng pressured the shadow guard toward a newly opened door, and the ruin’s blue beams killed him when he tried to flee.
• Lin Feng told the other martial artists he would only kill Dai Family members, then examined the passage and its rotating statues.
• Ji Yunyi explained that travelers had to stop whenever a statue looked at them, and a martial artist stepped onto the passage as a rapid alarm sounded.

Lin Feng and the survivors were trapped in the ruins after a Dai Family infiltrator triggered an alarm, forcing them to clear every stage to escape. Lin Feng passed the first stage, gained the Ten Directions Limitless Skill, and discovered his attribute panel listed a realm beyond perfection.

• A disguised Dai Family death warrior triggered the ruins’ alarm, and Lin Feng killed him before learning that the exits had been locked.
• Lin Feng inferred the stage’s countdown rules, crossed the path in time, and watched eight others die before the gate sealed behind the nine survivors.
• The first stage’s reward projected a martial art, and Lin Feng used Gaze Scan to learn the Ten Directions Limitless Skill.
• Lin Feng used a Grain-Avoiding Pill and Breakthrough Points to perfect the skill, gaining ten true qi arms and the ability to attack with multiple techniques at once.
• Lin Feng checked his attribute panel and found that the Ten Directions Limitless Skill had a realm beyond perfection.

Lin Feng entered a new ruin trial hall, where a guiding beam selected a martial artist and led him into a chamber filled with deadly blue spheres. The man was killed within seconds, and another beam appeared to select the next participant.

• Lin Feng spent 4,000 Breakthrough Points to raise the Ten Directions Limitless Skill to the Intent Realm and gained the Intent: Size at Will.
• After resting, Lin Feng and the others entered a circular hall containing a transparent chamber, where a blue beam selected one martial artist.
• Lin Feng warned the selected man to follow the beam, and the man entered the chamber with a short staff.
• Blue spheres filled the chamber and burned through the man despite his attempts to dodge and fight back, killing him in twelve seconds.
• The chamber erased the man's remains and returned his staff to the weapon rack, then another blue beam appeared.

The martial artists faced a trial room where they had to destroy blue spheres and survive for at least thirty seconds, though staying longer earned better rewards. After Ji Yunyi lasted forty seconds and claimed blue cubes, Lin Feng entered last with twelve weapons and his perfected Ten Directions Limitless Skill, aiming to reach the full sixty seconds.

• A martial artist tried to evade the blue pillar but was killed for violating the ruins’ rules, while the next entrant survived thirty seconds and passed with severe injuries but no reward.
• Several martial artists attempted the trial; two died before thirty seconds, others passed with lasting injuries, and one earned a pair of armguards by lasting thirty-five seconds.
• Ji Yunyi lasted forty seconds, earned five glowing blue cubes, and left the trial room.
• Lin Feng revealed that he had perfected the Ten Directions Limitless Skill and entered the trial room carrying twelve weapons, intending to endure longer for a greater reward.

Lin Feng cleared the trial by destroying the blue spheres and awakened a five-meter divine sense. He claimed an armguard, fifty blue blocks, and the Demon Slaying Sword, then joined the others as a new doorway opened.

• Lin Feng destroyed the blue spheres for sixty seconds, using his Delusion-Breaking Ice Fire Eyes and divine sense to track them through the blinding light.
• The martial artists outside praised Lin Feng's strength, while Ji Yunyi privately called him a monster and the one-handed Ji Family martial artist grew suspicious of Ji Yunyi's behavior.
• After the trial ended, three platforms appeared and Lin Feng received a black armguard, fifty blue blocks, and a greatsword called the Demon Slaying Sword.
• Lin Feng noticed matching square markings on the armguard and sword that seemed designed to fit the blue blocks, but chose to investigate later.
• Lin Feng left the trial room, accepted Ji Yunyi's congratulations, and followed the others toward a doorway that opened across the hall.

Lin Feng’s group survived a deadly tug-of-war stage, where three crippled martial artists were killed, and Lin Feng learned the Innate True Skill Three Heads Twelve Arms. The next stage sent the survivors into separate mazes, and an unidentified figure slipped into the right maze just as the doors closed.

• Ji Yunyi, Lin Feng, and the armguard-wearing martial artist were assigned to pull against three crippled martial artists, then quickly dragged them across the line and caused their deaths.
• A projection demonstrated a martial skill, and Lin Feng used Gaze Scan to learn the Innate True Skill Three Heads Twelve Arms.
• The hall revealed a timed maze stage with a short, trap-filled route on the left and a longer route with fewer traps on the right.
• Ji Yunyi and Lin Feng entered the left maze while the armguard-wearing martial artist entered the right maze.
• An unidentified figure slipped through the left door into the right maze just before the iron doors shut.

Lin Feng split from Ji Yunyi and traveled through the right-hand maze with Lin Tieyi, while Ji Yunyi faced a dangerous staircase in the left-hand maze. Lin Feng and Ji Yunyi both crossed their respective traps, leaving Ji Yunyi furious at Lin Feng’s speed.

• Lin Feng secretly joined Lin Tieyi in the right-hand maze, saying he trusted him more than Ji Yunyi.
• Lin Feng and Lin Tieyi encountered a moving net of deadly blue beams, and Lin Feng crossed it far faster than Lin Tieyi.
• Lin Tieyi barely passed through the blue beams, suffering a scorched cut to his sleeve while Lin Feng praised his Lightness Skill.
• Ji Yunyi and Lin Feng faced a staircase overwhelmed by bouncing blue light balls, and Ji Yunyi used his sword to fend them off as he advanced.
• Lin Feng floated through the light balls with Soaring Cloud Riding Mist and reached the safe step first, prompting Ji Yunyi to vow to kill him when he caught up.

Sun Yu arrived at Linghua Temple with Faji and used his knowledge of Buddhist sutras to avoid being leashed or eaten. He was placed among thousands of imprisoned demonic beasts, where the monks planned to keep him until an elder claimed him as a mount.

• Sun Yu recited sutras on the way to Linghua Temple, convincing Faji that the Fire Qilin had a strong Buddhist spiritual foundation.
• At the temple gates, Sun Yu chanted against eating meat and invoked karmic retribution, making the martial monks abandon their threats and let him pass without a leash.
• Faji brought Sun Yu into a vast courtyard holding thousands of chained demonic beasts, where Sun Yu saw both mockery and sympathy from the captives.
• Faji told Sun Yu to wait until an elder could accept him as a Divine Beast, and promised to bring him Buddhist sutras and discuss them later.
• Several monks feeding the beasts overheard Sun Yu and Faji's conversation.

Sun Yu ingratiated himself with the Linghua Temple monks and learned that their daily scripture recitations kept the demon beasts obedient. After witnessing monks brutally slaughter a calf while its parents praised the Buddha, he swore to rescue his fellow beasts from the Myriad Beast Garden.

• Sun Yu accepted tea, pastries, and a guest room from the monks, hoping to gain their trust and learn how the temple operated.
• Sun Yu joined the monks' noon service and realized their recitations were used to brainwash the demon beasts into obedience.
• The monks told a bull and cow that their calf had been chosen to serve the Linghua Ancestral Buddha, and the parents gratefully agreed.
• Sun Yu followed the monks and watched them drug and butcher the calf for its hide, bones, tendons, and meat.
• Sun Yu vowed to rescue the demon beasts, while the calf's mother wept as she ate the slop the monks had given her.

Sun Yu built a secret following among the demon beasts in Myriad Beast Garden, using a failed informant to discourage further betrayal. Outside the Dragon Fall Valley Ruins, Mr. Hong and his group worried about the trapped explorers, while Lin Feng and Ji Yunyi continued through a poisonous maze.

• Sun Yu used Beast Speech Transmission to recruit the mother cow and more than a dozen awakened demon beasts as his underlings.
• Sun Yu called on freedom-seeking beasts to rise and gaze east, and more than eight hundred obeyed before he stopped broadcasting to avoid exposing the plan.
• When a Pig Demon reported the nighttime message to a monk, Sun Yu interrupted him with Buddhist scripture and promised to spare him if he found an answer in it.
• The mother cow tricked the Pig Demon into swallowing the scripture, and the monks took him away to be skinned and have his tendons pulled out.
• Sun Yu displayed the Pig Demon's ear above his pen, deterring informants and gradually strengthening his influence in Myriad Beast Garden.
• Outside the ruins, Mr. Hong's group worried about the trapped explorers as Lin Feng and the poisoned Ji Yunyi crossed a poisonous-mist maze, with Lin Feng suspecting Ji Yunyi had been there before.

Lin Feng’s True Qi clone was trapped with Ji Yunyi, who revealed he was Dai Haobo, a Dai Family spy, and ignited a deadly blue-flame mechanism. Ji Yunyi died when the flames exposed Lin Feng’s deception, while Lin Feng’s fading clone collected his belongings and left him wondering where the missing blue cube was.

• Ji Yunyi activated a mechanism that sealed the intersection and revealed he was Dai Haobo, a Dai Family spy sent to kill Lin Feng.
• Dai Haobo explained that many ruin explorers were Dai Family spies and that he had triggered a mechanism to fill the chamber with blue flames.
• Blue flames engulfed the chamber, but Lin Feng remained unharmed because the figure with Dai Haobo was a True Qi clone while Lin Feng’s real body had entered another passage.
• Dai Haobo burned to death, and Lin Feng’s clone collected a treasured sword and four small blue cubes before beginning to fade.
• Lin Feng noticed that one blue cube was missing.

Lin Feng faced Lin Tieyi’s black Armguards, which fired powerful blue beams that drove him back and left his arms numb. When the weapon misfired, Lin Feng used his skills to launch himself and a clone at Lin Tieyi from opposite sides of the labyrinth.

• Lin Tieyi revealed the blue cube embedded in his Armguards and fired a blue beam at Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng blocked the beams with his greatsword, then tried fitting his own blue cube into his Armguards but failed to activate them.
• Lin Tieyi continued firing and taunted Lin Feng, while Lin Feng endured the blows and waited for the weapon to overheat.
• Lin Tieyi’s Armguards misfired, and Lin Feng used the Ten Directions Limitless Skill and Mind Aspect Divine Skill to create a three-headed, twelve-armed form and clone.
• Lin Feng and his clone rushed toward Lin Tieyi from opposite sides, running along the labyrinth walls.

Lin Feng defeated Lin Tieyi, collected his equipment and supplies, and spent ten days navigating the ruins’ maze. He finally reached a corridor marked “Exit,” but sensed that something was wrong before he could leave.

• Lin Feng’s clone and true body overwhelmed Lin Tieyi after his armguards failed, and Lin Tieyi died from their attack.
• Lin Feng looted Lin Tieyi’s armguards, banknotes, pills, and sword, while Little Gold woke, devoured Lin Tieyi, and went back to sleep.
• Lin Feng sent his clone ahead to trigger traps as he advanced through the lengthy maze, and his companions waited anxiously outside the ruins.
• After getting lost and mapping the passages, Lin Feng deduced the route and reached the corridor beyond the maze’s metal gate.
• Lin Feng saw the word “Exit” on the corridor floor, but his smile faded when he sensed something was wrong and reached forward.

Lin Feng was trapped behind an almost indestructible Crystal Wall and considered advancing to the Innate Realm to escape. After resting, he discovered that Mental Power activated his ruin weapons, though whether they could break the wall remained uncertain.

• Lin Feng tested his fists and swords against the Crystal Wall, but his attacks barely marked it and its rebound numbed his arms.
• Lin Feng considered breaking through to the Innate Realm, then chose to rest before deciding whether to do so.
• After meditating for a day, Lin Feng sensed information from his armguards and greatsword using Mental Power.
• Lin Feng activated the armguards with Mental Power and powered up the greatsword by pressing a small blue cube against its hilt.
• Lin Feng approached the Crystal Wall carrying the glowing greatsword, hoping it would let him escape.

Lin Feng cut through the crystal corridor and found a hidden passage leading to the ruins’ control rooms. He discovered a way to set the levels’ difficulty and rewards, then returned to the master control room to try to claim the warehouse supplies.

• Lin Feng expanded his Storage Space and cut large blocks of crystal from the corridor walls.
• Lin Feng pried open a hidden metal door, entered a Celestial observation corridor, and found controls for viewing the ruins’ levels.
• Lin Feng reached the Level Master Control Room and scanned its manual, learning how to adjust level difficulty and rewards.
• Lin Feng viewed the warehouse inventory, which included martial arts, Psionic Crystals, and Nine Heavens Lightning Armor, but could not open the warehouse door.
• Lin Feng returned to the control room to set the levels to their lowest difficulty and their rewards to the highest level so he could claim the supplies himself.

Lin Feng altered the ruins, mastered new skills and the Celestials' language, then entered an exit passage that turned out to be a vacuum train bound for the Northern Continent. He could not stop its launch and was left floating in the passage as the countdown began.

• Lin Feng lowered every stage's difficulty, collected the rewards, and fused the Water Dragon and Flying Dragon techniques with their advanced skills.
• Lin Feng raised the ruins' stage difficulties, redesigned the maze, and had the system repair hidden doors so the Dai Family could no longer exploit them.
• Lin Feng scanned the Celestials' language tutorials into his mind, dug through the crystal wall, and entered the exit passage.
• Lin Feng learned the passage was No. 56 Vacuum Train bound for the Northern Continent and tried to stop it, but the system disabled his sword and shocked him.
• Lin Feng realized the passage was losing air and gravity, but the ruins began the countdown and announced, "9, 8, 7, 6... Launch."

Lin Feng survived the relic’s launch but struggled to breathe in a vacuum passage, while everyone outside believed the sealed gates meant he had died. He strengthened his internal organs to endure the journey, but remained in danger as he raced toward the distant Northern Continent.

• Lin Feng swallowed Little Gold so the snake could hibernate safely inside his stomach, then used the last air in his Storage Space to keep breathing.
• The relic gates sealed, and Hong Batian and the others concluded that Lin Feng and the other explorers had died inside; Mr. Hong waited for Lin Feng to return before dark.
• As the vacuum passage depleted his air and weakened his organs, Lin Feng added points to the Five-Tone Viscera Refining Technique until it reached the entry Innate level.
• Lin Feng’s condition improved temporarily, but began worsening again as he feared he had passed beyond the Shenzhou Continent and might not return home.

Lin Feng strengthened his organs and brain with repeated upgrades to survive the vacuum passage, then slowed his body into a hibernation-like slumber. Outside the ruins, Mr. Hong and his disciples gave up waiting and returned to Cloud Sword Peak, where Mr. Hong’s hair turned white overnight; later, Lin Feng began to revive as he breathed fresh air.

• Lin Feng upgraded the Five-Tone Viscera Refining Technique repeatedly, strengthening his brain and organs until he reached inner and outer unity.
• As the vacuum passage continued and his air ran out, Lin Feng lowered his metabolism and fell into a deep slumber.
• Dai Tianshou taunted Mr. Hong outside the Dragon Fall Valley Ruins, and Mr. Hong ordered his group to withdraw.
• The next morning, Yue'e found that Mr. Hong’s hair had turned completely white, and he told his disciples he had devised the Nine Nether Sword Style.
• After an unknown amount of time, Lin Feng breathed fresh air and began to revive.