Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng became a Grandmaster-level elder of the Sword Sect and exchanged his weapon and medicinal provisions for the final two forms of the Divine Sword martial art. He learned them immediately and went to cultivate, intending to master and fuse the forms into a Star Martial art.

• Lin Feng and Mr. Hong attended the main peak ceremony, where Lin Feng received a Grandmaster-level elder token.
• Lin Feng found only the first thirty forms of the Divine Sword martial art in the Scripture Pavilion and asked Ji Xuanwu why the final two were missing.
• Zhou Haitian explained that the final forms required sect contributions, and Lin Feng agreed to trade away his weapon and medicinal provisions to obtain them.
• Ji Xuanwu taught Lin Feng the final two forms, which Lin Feng learned after watching once.
• Lin Feng entered a secluded cultivation chamber to use Breakthrough Points on the Divine Sword martial art, while Ji Xuanwu complained that Zhou Haitian had tricked him into exchanging for it.

Lin Feng fused the Divine Sword martial arts with Mental Impact and finally obtained the Star Martial art Myriad Swords Returning to Origin. Confident in his new strength, he headed to the Book Pavilion to learn every legacy he was allowed to access.

• Zhou Haitian traded the final two forms of the Divine Sword martial arts to Mr. Hong for his other rewards.
• Lin Feng raised his Divine Sword martial arts to the thirty-second form and fused the forms, but they did not become a Star Martial art.
• Lin Feng discovered that Ten Thousand Snakes Emerge and Mental Impact could be fused into the Divine Sword martial arts.
• Lin Feng fused Mental Impact into the Divine Sword martial arts, transforming them into the Star Martial art Myriad Swords Returning to Origin.
• Lin Feng concluded that even Ji Xuanwu and Zhou Haitian together could not defeat him, then went to the Book Pavilion to study its accessible legacies.

Lin Feng learned that the Innate Tribulation would force every Innate Martial Artist into a deadly war in Taixu in three years, and he revealed to Mr. Hong that he had mastered and comprehended the Divine Sword arts. The chapter ended with Mr. Hong preparing to learn them from Lin Feng and gather resources for Cloud Sword Peak.

• Lin Feng scanned the Book Pavilion’s manuals, then learned that Mr. Hong was still studying the final forms of Divine Sword Style Thirty-Two.
• Zhou Haitian explained that the Innate Tribulation would send Innate Martial Artists’ souls to fight demons in Taixu, where many would die, and urged the elders to strengthen their cultivation and prepare Houtian Peak defenders.
• Mr. Hong lamented how long it would take to master the Divine Sword arts, so Lin Feng offered to infuse all thirty-two arts into him.
• Lin Feng demonstrated Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, and Mr. Hong asked him to help him follow Lin Feng’s path of comprehension.
• Mr. Hong planned to have his senior brothers raid the other three peaks and give the resources they obtained to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng strengthened Mr. Hong and Cloud Sword Peak through martial arts empowerment, gathered resources, and trained a vast force of disciples. After Mr. Hong learned Myriad Swords Returning to Origin and gained roughly Grandmaster-level combat strength, Wu Jinlei warned that at least a million fighters from the Seven Great Forces were approaching Cloud Sword Peak.

• Lin Feng learned Heaven and Earth Samsara Swordplay, perfected it with points, and empowered Mr. Hong with Crimson Gold Glaze until Mr. Hong awakened Mental Power.
• Mr. Hong’s disciples raided the other three peaks for resources, and Lin Feng empowered them with Crimson Gold Glaze and their chosen martial arts; none awakened Mental Power.
• Mr. Hong gave Ji Yunfeng resources and sent him to take control of the Ji Family, then bestowed the Peak Master Token on Lin Feng and ordered disciples to gather recruits for empowerment.
• Over three days, Lin Feng empowered five hundred thousand people, increasing his Mental Power coverage to five hundred thousand meters, and helped Mr. Hong comprehend Myriad Swords Returning to Origin.
• Three days later, Wu Jinlei reported that at least a million forces from the Seven Great Forces were advancing on Cloud Sword Peak, possibly with Grandmaster-level experts among them.

A million martial artists and two Grandmasters marched toward Cloud Sword Peak, while the Sword Sect Main Peak chose to wait and see. Lin Feng prepared to face both Grandmasters alone, and Mr. Hong agreed to stand by in case he needed help.

• Zhou Jianxing told Zhou Haitian that a million martial artists and two Grandmasters were heading for the Sword Sect, and Zhou Haitian decided the Main Peak would intervene only if Cloud Sword Peak could no longer hold out.
• Seven groups advanced toward Cloud Sword Peak, including Grandmasters Li Chunqiu and Mu Chenxiao, while Blade God Zheng Haotian planned to challenge Mr. Hong.
• Mr. Hong sent noncombatants to Myriad Sword City and told Wu Jinlei that Cloud Sword Peak would have to rely on Lin Feng because the Main Peak would not act at first.
• Lin Feng told Mr. Hong he could handle both Grandmasters alone, and Mr. Hong agreed to stand guard while Lin Feng made the first move if a fight began.

Li Chunqiu brought a million martial artists to Cloud Sword Peak to demand justice and sought the secret behind Lin Feng’s slaughter of a million enemies. Lin Feng answered his challenge with an insult, and Li Chunqiu charged at him as battle began.

• Li Wanru helped remove the dying female disciples Li Chunqiu had drained while fearing she would suffer the same fate.
• Li Chunqiu wondered how Lin Feng had slaughtered a million martial artists and planned to obtain his cultivation method.
• Cloud Sword Peak prepared its Houtian Peak fighters, while Lin Feng’s seniors discussed spending their resources on empowerment and seizing their enemies’ territory.
• The million-strong army led by Li Chunqiu and Mu Chenxiao arrived near Cloud Sword Peak, and Li Chunqiu demanded that its defenders kneel to die.
• Lin Feng flew up and insulted Li Chunqiu, who roared and charged at him.

Lin Feng fought Li Chunqiu while the Seven Great Sects’ army attacked Cloud Sword Peak, whose disciples mounted a fierce defense. As casualties mounted, Lin Feng decided to turn his attention to the army below and began using an extraordinary martial art.

• Lin Feng activated the second level of Thunder God Descends and forced Li Chunqiu back, while Mu Chenxiao prepared to pressure him.
• Mu Chenxiao ordered the Seven Great Sects’ million-strong army to attack, and Mr. Hong led Cloud Sword Peak’s defense with arrows, burning oil, and close combat.
• Zhou Haitian refused Ji Xuanwu and Zhou Jianxing’s requests to join the battle, choosing to let Cloud Sword Peak bear the losses before the Main Peak intervened.
• Zhu Linghua and ten thousand martial artists unleashed Ten Thousand Snakes Emerge, raining a million strands of Sword Qi on the enemy and causing heavy casualties.
• The enemy renewed its assault and killed or wounded more than ten thousand Cloud Sword Peak disciples, so Lin Feng blasted Li Chunqiu away and formed an invisible force field around himself.

Lin Feng used Myriad Swords Returning to Origin for the first time, drawing countless swords from Burial Sword Valley and wiping out the invading Houtian Martial Artists on Cloud Sword Peak. Li Chunqiu and Mu Chenxiao then debated attacking him despite the Sword Sect elders’ likely intervention.

• Lin Feng gathered a vast disc of Sword Qi and revealed Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, astonishing Zhou Haitian, Ji Xuanwu, and the Sword Sect disciples.
• Burial Sword Valley resonated with Lin Feng’s technique, and countless buried swords flew into his Sword Qi, amplifying its power.
• Lin Feng sent the Sword Qi through the invading Houtian Martial Artists, slaughtering them and leaving Cloud Sword Peak silent.
• Lin Feng condensed the remaining Sword Qi and stored the swords from Burial Sword Valley for future use.
• Blade God Zheng Haotian stayed away after narrowly escaping, while Li Chunqiu urged Mu Chenxiao to attack Lin Feng despite the risk of the Sword Sect elders intervening.

Lin Feng fought Li Chunqiu while Mu Chenxiao waited for an opening, then launched a sudden attack that Lin Feng survived. Lin Feng unleashed Myriad Swords Combined into One as Mu Chenxiao retreated and Li Chunqiu charged toward him, leaving the sword poised to test whether it could slay a grandmaster.

• Li Chunqiu attacked Lin Feng, who met him with one hundred thousand strands of Sword Qi while keeping the other grandmaster in sight.
• Mu Chenxiao suddenly struck Lin Feng with Falling Star and One Finger Flying Star, but Lin Feng’s defenses held and he was not injured.
• Mr. Hong, Zhou Haitian, and Ji Xuanwu rushed to help Lin Feng as Li Chunqiu broke through the surrounding Sword Qi and charged forward.
• Mu Chenxiao retreated past Li Chunqiu, who realized he had been left exposed and veered toward Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng fused two hundred thousand strands of Sword Qi into a single blade and swung it at Li Chunqiu.

Lin Feng gravely wounded Li Chunqiu with Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, forcing the Grandmaster to escape and leaving the Sword Sect to reckon with the attack. Later, Li Chunqiu summoned Li Wanru to his chambers to heal himself, and she approached him with a hidden dagger.

• Lin Feng wounded Li Chunqiu twice, nearly exposing his heart, while Mr. Hong’s attack briefly hindered the Grandmaster’s escape.
• Li Chunqiu used an costly escape technique to flee after Zhou Haitian urged Lin Feng to show mercy.
• Zhou Haitian warned Lin Feng that the Grandmaster agreement forbade Grandmasters from killing one another and planned to report the battle to the Sect Master.
• Lin Feng told Ji Xuanwu that he had perfected the Divine Sword Style Thirty-Two and comprehended Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, and Zhou Haitian arranged for him to explain the technique at a gathering in three months.
• Mr. Hong asked Lin Feng to keep his own mastery of Myriad Swords Returning to Origin secret.
• Li Chunqiu called Li Wanru into his chambers, intending to use her to heal himself, and she approached with a dagger hidden behind her back.

Lin Feng prepared to leave the Sword Sect and establish a new force, with Mr. Hong urging him to build something that could improve ordinary people's lives. After spending five days with his family, Lin Feng learned his wife Zhou Chunlan was pregnant, empowered her, and set out to begin founding the Martial God Hall.

• The Sword Sect agreed to protect Lin Feng after Zhou Haitian reported his mastery of Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, and Lin Feng gave his senior brothers and sisters resources and empowerment before they left to seize territory.
• Mr. Hong urged Lin Feng to establish his own force rather than contend for the Sword Sect leadership, and Lin Feng promised to build a major force within two years.
• Lin Feng bid farewell to Mr. Hong and Yue'e, collected flying swords from Burial Sword Valley, and decided to keep his family in Qinghe County while he built his strength.
• Lin Feng returned home and spent five days with Zhou Chunlan, his children, and his mother before Zhou Chunlan revealed she was pregnant.
• Lin Feng empowered Zhou Chunlan with Crimson Gold Glaze, Yin Yang Swordplay, and several Lightness Skills, then finalized plans for the Martial God Hall and its Martial God Guard.
• Lin Feng left home after breakfast and told the Cloud Sword Peak disciples protecting his family to gather on the mountain outside the city.

Lin Feng gathered his family’s protectors and Mayi Guards, founded the Martial God Hall, and began planning how to expand it by absorbing other groups. After visiting Xiaohe Village, he flew to the Beast Fist Sect to discuss bringing it under the Hall.

• Lin Feng infused over a thousand protectors with martial arts and invited them to follow him into his new sect; none chose to leave.
• Lin Feng accepted the Mayi Guards and City Guards, named his sect the Martial God Hall, and appointed five hundred loyal members to the Martial God Guard under generals Lin Hu and Zhou Haitao.
• A Beast Fist Sect disciple told Lin Feng that the sect had over ten thousand disciples and several hundred thousand outer disciples, and Lin Feng decided to visit it himself.
• Lin Feng ate grilled shrimp and roasted wild boar with Lin Hu and Zhou Haitao at Xiaohe Village, where he saw how the villagers had prospered with his help.
• Lin Feng sent Lin Hu and Zhou Haitao back to town, then flew toward the Beast Fist Sect.

Lin Feng brought the Beast Fist Sect under the Martial God Hall by demonstrating his Golden Light Infusion and promising its members a path to greater strength. After learning that Liu Dongfang had become Alliance Leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, Lin Feng flew to Fenghua County to confront him.

• Lin Feng visited the Beast Fist Sect and offered to make it a subordinate sect of the Martial God Hall in exchange for its loyalty.
• Lin Feng used Golden Light Infusion to teach Yuan Long and three elders martial skills, convincing them to join him.
• Yuan Long and the elders provided resources, and Lin Feng taught Yuan Long a perfected Innate True Skill that visibly rejuvenated him.
• Lin Feng infused the gathered Beast Fist Sect disciples, planted Mental Imprints in them, and appointed Yuan Long to the Martial God Hall's Elder Council.
• Yuan Long told Lin Feng that Liu Dongfang led the Martial Arts Alliance, which had opened a branch in Fenghua County.
• Lin Feng ordered the Beast Fist Sect to carry out his instructions and flew to Fenghua County to confront Liu Dongfang.

Lin Feng returned from the ruin and discovered that Liu Dongfang had claimed leadership of the Martial Arts Alliance while concealing Lin Feng’s role. At the convention in Qinglian County, Zheng Tiejun exposed Liu Dongfang, and Lin Feng attacked him and three accomplices with Sword Qi.

• Lin Feng confirmed in Fenghua County that Liu Dongfang had declared himself the Martial Arts Alliance’s only Alliance Leader, then traveled to Qinglian County.
• Lin Feng located Liu Dongfang, Zheng Tiejun, and the Alliance’s gathering, and used his Mental Power to read their thoughts as he descended.
• Liu Dongfang kowtowed and welcomed Lin Feng back as Alliance Leader, but Zheng Tiejun accused him of claiming the position and hiding Lin Feng’s connection to the Alliance.
• Liu Dongfang denied the accusation and claimed Shorty, One-Eye, and Little Zhi had left voluntarily, though Lin Feng sensed that Liu Dongfang had driven them out after taking their resources.
• Lin Feng grew impatient and sent four streaks of Sword Qi at Liu Dongfang and three men behind him.

Lin Feng took control of the Martial Arts Alliance, installed Zheng Tiejun as its leader, and reorganized it under the Martial God Hall. He planned to build a force of Innate Martial Artists before the coming tribulation so he could withstand the major sects in the Great Void.

• Lin Feng killed Liu Dongfang and three others, then declared Zheng Tiejun the Martial Arts Alliance's new leader and merged the alliance into the Martial God Hall.
• Lin Feng used Mental Impact to stop more than two hundred people from fleeing, and Zheng Tiejun named Liu Dongfang's loyalists for capture; his subordinates released a dozen people and executed the rest.
• Lin Feng empowered the gathered alliance members, while Zheng Tiejun proposed dividing the alliance into the Iron Robe Sect, Long River Sword Sect, and Money Gang.
• Lin Feng ordered the new sects to gather their disciples in Qinglian County in one month for collective empowerment, and asked Zheng Tiejun to invite Shorty, One-Eye, and Little Zhi back if they wished to return.
• Lin Feng considered the danger of the Innate Tribulation and the major sects in the Great Void, and planned to study the Sword Sect books to learn how many Divine Land martial artists were there.

Lin Feng strengthened the Martial God Hall’s communications and training while reading records from the Sword Sect’s Book Pavilion. He discovered a Grandmaster’s diary describing life in the Great Void and a friendship between a Righteous Path Grandmaster and a Demonic Path Grandmaster.

• Lin Feng returned to Qinghe County after speaking with Zheng Tiejun and considered expanding the Martial God Hall’s use of Mental Imprints and Crimson Gold Glaze.
• Lin Feng shared dinner with his family, supervised the children’s training, and added mental-will training to the Martial God Hall’s rules.
• Lin Feng read histories suggesting the Sword Sect had produced at least four hundred Grandmasters over four thousand years, many of whom had gone to the Great Void.
• Lin Feng found an unsigned diary and deduced that its author was the young Grandmaster Nalan Rongruo.
• Nalan Rongruo’s diary described his arrival in the Great Void, where he encountered Zhu Honglie, a Demonic Path Grandmaster and his friend.
• Lin Feng inferred that the Righteous and Demonic Paths’ upper ranks were on better terms than their disciples on the Shenzhou Continent.

Lin Feng read Nalan Rongruo’s diary about life in the Grand Void, where grandmasters hunted demons and could consume demon crystals. The diary revealed that Star Martial arts could be used there and ended with Nalan suspecting that something was changing the minds and identities of the oldest grandmasters.

• Nalan Rongruo described how grandmasters grew stronger by eating demon crystals, while the Grand Void’s natives could cultivate only to the Skin Refining Realm.
• Two months after arriving, Nalan Rongruo accompanied his master into the Demon Hunting Wilderness, where they fought demons and killed a Wasteland Mammoth before returning to the city as heroes.
• Nalan Rongruo recorded that the Sword City lord used Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, a Star Martial art usable in the Grand Void, but had forgotten how to teach it.
• Nalan Rongruo discovered that the city lords of several sects had all lost memories connected to their Star Martial arts.
• A century later, Nalan Rongruo found Zhu Honglie disoriented and unable to recall it, then concluded that his friend had become someone else and feared a deeper cause.

Lin Feng read the end of Nalan Rongruo’s diary, which described his teacher’s alarming change and his forced return to Taixu. He searched the Sword Sect’s books for more clues and found another note written by Nalan Rongruo, ending the chapter with its contents still unread.

• Nalan Rongruo wrote that he had spent a century in Shenzhou before his teacher returned and ordered him to go back to Taixu.
• Nalan Rongruo realized his teacher could not remember their shared past and suspected that someone else had replaced him.
• Lin Feng feared that Grandmasters who stayed in Taixu were being possessed, and he spent the night searching his mental library for answers.
• Zhou Chunlan brought Lin Feng tea and cultivated after returning to their room so she could become stronger and support him.
• Lin Feng searched through books on martial arts, medicine, and artifact refining, then found tiny writing by Nalan Rongruo that filled him with fear and helplessness.

Lin Feng read Nalan Rongruo’s account of how Grand Void souls preyed on Shenzhou Grandmasters and concluded that Shenzhou’s path to advancement was part of a vast scheme. He resolved to investigate the massacre blamed on Nalan Rongruo, hoping to uncover who was behind it and prepare for the danger.

• Nalan Rongruo recorded that a soul within his Grand Void body tried to devour him, but he wounded it with Mental Power and escaped to Shenzhou.
• Grand Void Grandmasters hunted down Nalan Rongruo, captured him, and planned to return him to the Grand Void so the soul could consume him.
• Lin Feng read Nalan Rongruo’s account and recognized that Grandmasters who entered the Grand Void were being used as prey.
• Lin Feng connected Nalan Rongruo to a historical account of a demon blamed for massacring a commandery city and suspected Grand Void Grandmasters had committed the killings.
• Lin Feng decided the war between the Righteous and Demonic Paths and the Innate Tribulation might be schemes to slaughter people, and set out to investigate the city massacre.

Lin Feng expanded the Martial God Hall in Liuli County and began investigating Great Void Evil Spirits before heading toward Feixue County. There, Li Chunqiu’s disciple Li Wanru struggled to resist the evil soul that had entered her mind after she killed him.

• Lin Feng recruited Miao Zhenzong, studied Liuli County’s massacre records, and planned a secret department to investigate deaths linked to grandmasters.
• Lin Feng sought information about Steward Li, ordered Martial God Hall sects to help search, and spent five days recruiting the Linghuo Gang in Liuli County.
• Lin Feng instructed Miao Zhenzong to watch over the Linghuo Gang and arranged to empower its members after they gathered outside the county.
• Lin Feng set out for Feixue County to control a local gang and plant informants after his conflict with Li Chunqiu.
• Li Wanru fought the evil soul of Li Chunqiu, which had entered her mind after she killed him, while it threatened to devour her soul and take her body.