Chapter Summaries

The Mermaid Clan argued over whether to surrender Bubble to the Shark Tribe, while Lin Feng comforted her and urged her to trust her own judgment. As Zhao Yuan went to find the Second Elder, Imperial Guards arrived with orders from the Third Elder to arrest Bubble.

• The Shark General offered to withdraw the Shark Tribe if the Mermaid Clan handed over Bubble, prompting soldiers to defend her and civilians and guards to demand her surrender.
• Bubble wept as the crowd turned against her, and Lan Hu and Lin Feng comforted her.
• Lin Feng taught Bubble not to depend on others' approval and told her to defend herself if her clansmen tried to hand her over.
• Bubble said she would ignore praise and slander, hold fast to her beliefs, and train to become stronger.
• Zhao Yuan left to find the Second Elder and asked Lan Hu to protect Bubble.
• Imperial Guards entered the camp under the Third Elder's orders and announced they would arrest Bubble.

Lan Hu and the warriors defended Bubble as the Third Elder’s scheme to hand her over to the Shark Tribe turned civilians against them. The chapter ended with Bubble ready to fight as Lan Hu and a dozen old comrades remained to protect her.

• Lan Hu challenged the Imperial Guard’s authority to arrest Bubble, while the Third Elder claimed the Elder Council had authorized him to act.
• The Fourth Elder stalled the Second Elder with a chess game as the Third Elder mobilized the Imperial Guard and planned to surrender Bubble to the Shark Tribe; Zhao Yuan then burst into the room and exposed the delay.
• Bubble’s former centurion rallied the warriors to protect her, but the Third Elder’s supporters incited civilians to demand that she be handed over.
• The civilians pushed into the soldiers’ protective circle, and many soldiers backed away rather than fight their own relatives.
• Lan Hu remained with a dozen old comrades, while Bubble held a trident and a Sky-Shaking Thunder and prepared for a fight.

Bubble’s Sky-Shaking Thunders helped expose the danger of surrendering her to the Shark Tribe, while the Second Elder and Mermaid Queen rallied the Mermaid Clan to resist. The Queen arrested the Third Elder, the Fourth Elder, and the Imperial Guard commander, then asked Bubble to introduce her master.

• Bubble showed Lan Hu a Sky-Shaking Thunder and explained its power, while Lin Feng made a heap of them appear beside her.
• The Second Elder urged the Mermaid Clan to resist the Shark Tribe and ordered the Imperial Guard to guard the city gates, but Hei Lin chose to obey the Third Elder.
• The Third Elder argued that the Mermaid Clan should hand Bubble over and negotiate with the Shark Tribe, and the Second Elder accused him of betraying the clan.
• The Mermaid Queen arrived with the Great Elder and personal guards, declared that the clan must fight, and rallied the people to her side.
• The Mermaid Queen ordered the arrest of the Third Elder, the Fourth Elder, and Hei Lin, appointed Lan Hu commander of the Imperial Guard, and sent the civilians home.
• The Queen comforted Bubble and asked her to have her master come meet her.

Mermaid Queen Hailan agreed to make the Mermaid Clan a vassal of Lin Feng in exchange for his help defeating the Shark Tribe army. Bubble went outside the city alone with poison and Sky-Shaking Thunders, ready to carry out the attack.

• Bubble demonstrated a Sky-Shaking Thunder to Queen Hailan and the Mermaid leaders, revealing its destructive power and that Lin Feng had hundreds of them.
• Lin Feng entered Queen Hailan’s Sea of Consciousness and offered to help the Mermaid Clan if they worshipped him as the Sea God and became his vassals.
• Queen Hailan agreed to Lin Feng’s terms on the condition that he eliminate the Shark Tribe army outside the city.
• Queen Hailan told her ministers that Lin Feng would save them, and Bubble said she could destroy the army within an hour using her master’s weapons.
• Bubble swallowed an antidote pill, took concentrated Black Poison and Sky-Shaking Thunders, then walked alone through the city gate as the soldiers shut it behind her.

Bubble destroyed the Shark Tribe’s army with the Black Poison, killed its general, and returned to Crystal City as a hero. The Mermaid Clan elevated Bubble and began worshiping Lin Feng as the Sea God, while Lin Feng grew interested in Queen Hailan’s plan to transfer Demonic Power.

• Bubble released the Black Poison over the Shark Tribe army, killing tens of thousands of warriors while the Shark Tribe General survived by protecting himself with Demonic Power.
• Bubble chased down the fleeing Shark Tribe General, blasted him with Sky-Shaking Thunders, and killed him with her trident; Lin Feng took the general’s helmet.
• Bubble returned to Crystal City carrying the general’s head, and the Mermaid Clan praised her and promised her a set of armor.
• The Mermaid Clan erected a statue of Lin Feng, named Bubble its foremost warrior and Third Elder, and formed the five-hundred-member Sky-Shaking Army under her command.
• Queen Hailan planned to strip the former Third Elder of his Demonic Power and transfer it to Lan Hu, prompting Lin Feng to wonder whether the power could be transferred to him.

Lin Feng witnessed the Mermaid Clan’s Demonic Power transfer ritual, which killed Third Elder Bai Qi but successfully awakened Lan Hu’s Demonic Power. After discussing the Sea God’s prophecies and arranging supplies with Queen Hailan, Lin Feng planned to empower the Mermaid Clan the next day.

• Queen Hailan showed Lin Feng and the others the Sea God’s temple and murals prophesying an unseen powerhouse’s arrival and the sea races’ future on the continent.
• Queen Hailan attempted to transfer Third Elder Bai Qi’s Demonic Power to Lan Hu, but the ritual failed and Bai Qi died.
• Queen Hailan tried again with the Fourth Elder, and Lan Hu successfully awakened Demonic Power and became the clan’s new Fourth Elder.
• Bubble suggested capturing Shark Tribe commanders with Demonic Power so their abilities could be transferred, and Queen Hailan agreed.
• Lin Feng learned that Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron and Dark Silver were rare metals; he arranged for the Mermaid Clan to forge him a sword and receive iron harpoons in return for Dark Silver.
• Lin Feng told Queen Hailan he would empower the Mermaid Clan the next day, and she planned for the whole clan to witness it.

Lin Feng empowered the Mermaid Clan, armed its soldiers, and helped it prepare to strike back against the Shark Tribe. The Shark Tribe formed a hundred-thousand-strong alliance with the Octopus Clan and Sea Snake Tribe, and the Mermaid Clan decided to ambush them at Black Stone Strait.

• Lin Feng empowered Queen Hailan, the Mermaid Clan's leaders, and its soldiers, eventually granting Internal Energy to the entire clan.
• Lin Feng provided the Mermaid Clan with iron harpoons, and its people forged him a greatsword from Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron and Dark Silver.
• Lin Feng let the Demon Spirit Blood Drinking Sword absorb more Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron and Dark Silver, learning that the weapon could eventually reach the Size at Will state.
• Lin Feng gave the Mermaid Clan five hundred Sky-Shaking Thunders as it prepared to fight for resources and take revenge on the Shark Tribe.
• The Shark Tribe joined the Octopus Clan and Sea Snake Tribe to form a hundred-thousand-strong allied army.
• The Mermaid Clan's leaders decided to ambush the allied army at Black Stone Strait.

Bubble and the Mermaid Clan army ambushed the three-clan alliance at Black Stone Strait, where Black Poison killed most of the enemy force. As the Mermaid Clan fought the survivors, Lin Feng received news that his father had been found alive.

• Lan Hu, Zhao Yuan, and four other generals led the forty-thousand-strong army to Black Stone Strait while Bubble carried Black Poison and Youyou.
• A Sea Snake general detected Bubble, but Lin Feng told her to swim into the allied army and release the poison.
• Bubble charged through the enemy ranks, while Youyou ate more than a hundred sea folk before returning to sleep on her shoulder.
• Bubble released Black Poison, which killed more than eighty thousand warriors before the Shark General ordered the survivors to retreat.
• The Mermaid Clan attacked from both ends of the strait, and Bubble ordered her forces to cripple the enemy leaders rather than kill them.
• Lin Feng lost interest in the battle after Martial God Hall reported that his father had been found alive.

Lin Zhenshan learned that Wang Guixiang had hidden his identity after rescuing him, but chose to stand by her and their family when a creditor demanded payment for her late husband’s debt. With the creditor threatening to make Yadan repay it, Lin Zhenshan left with his bow and arrows, intent on protecting his family.

• Lin Zhenshan learned from Old Zhu that Wang Guixiang had rescued him and lied that he was her husband, but he kept the truth to himself.
• Lin Zhenshan and Wang Guixiang lived peacefully for several years, and Wang Guixiang became pregnant.
• A creditor arrived with two men, revealed Lin Zhenshan was not Wang Guixiang’s former husband, and demanded ten taels of interest on her late husband’s debt.
• Lin Zhenshan comforted Wang Guixiang and agreed to repay the debt, while the creditor threatened that Yadan would have to pay it if they could not.
• Lin Zhenshan took his bow and arrows and left the house with murderous intent to protect his family.

Wang Guixiang waited for Lin Zhenshan while creditors demanded payment, and the village began to suspect he had run away. After she borrowed enough silver to satisfy them, Wang Guixiang resolved to raise her unborn child and trust that Lin Zhenshan would return.

• Lin Zhenshan secretly asked Old Zhu for information about the creditors, then traveled west before circling back toward the east.
• Wang Guixiang gave the creditors eight taels of silver and waited until dusk, but Lin Zhenshan did not return.
• Old Zhu pretended Lin Zhenshan had tried to borrow money and gave Wang Guixiang one tael, which she handed to the creditors.
• Old Granny Zhao and other villagers accused Wang Guixiang of driving Lin Zhenshan away, while Yadan defended her father and Wang Guixiang searched the village for him.
• Wang Guixiang borrowed one tael from the village chief, paid the creditors, and promised herself she would raise her unborn child even if Lin Zhenshan had left.
• Wang Guixiang reassured Yadan that Lin Zhenshan would return, and they planned to eat together when he came home.

Lin Zhenshan ambushed and killed the three creditors who threatened Wang Guixiang and little Yadan, then hid their bodies and returned toward the village. Wang Guixiang and Yadan were still waiting at home for him to come back and eat.

• Lin Zhenshan hid on a hillside along the road and waited for the three creditors to pass.
• Lin Zhenshan shot the creditors and their bodyguards with his bow, killing both bodyguards and wounding the creditor.
• Lin Zhenshan questioned the creditor, learned his brother-in-law was a City Guards general, and then killed him with an arrow.
• Lin Zhenshan hid the three bodies, searched them for silver, and took a detour toward the village's western end.
• Wang Guixiang and little Yadan reheated the food and waited for Lin Zhenshan to return so they could eat together.

Lin Zhenshan reassured Wang Guixiang that he would not abandon her and Yadan, then revealed he had killed their creditors and planned to flee with them to Sword Sect territory that night. As he prepared to leave Little Stone Village, he discovered Gou Shengzi was involved with Old Granny Zhao and intended to target Wang Guixiang if Lin left.

• Lin Zhenshan returned home, reunited with Wang Guixiang and Yadan, and promised he would never abandon them.
• Lin Zhenshan revealed the silver he had taken after killing the three creditors and urged Wang Guixiang to flee with him and Yadan that night.
• Lin Zhenshan repaid Old Zhu the borrowed silver, and Old Zhu advised him to take a donkey cart and never return to the village.
• Lin Zhenshan overheard Gou Shengzi telling Old Granny Zhao he would go after Wang Guixiang if Lin left, then peered inside and drew two arrows.

Lin Zhenshan killed the men at Old Granny Zhao’s house, burned the evidence, and fled Little Stone Village with Wang Guixiang and Yadan. By morning, the City Guards had identified the family as suspects and organized a hunt to capture them.

• Lin Zhenshan set Old Granny Zhao’s house ablaze after retrieving his arrows, then stole Gou Shengzi’s donkey and cart.
• Wang Guixiang loaded their belongings and sleeping Yadan onto the cart, and she and Lin Zhenshan left the village under the moonlight.
• Lin Zhenshan avoided the county town and kept driving toward Sword Sect territory while Wang Guixiang rested.
• Old Granny Zhao’s house burned down, and the City Guards later found two skulls with arrow holes in its ashes.
• The City Guards discovered that Wang Guixiang’s family and Gou Shengzi’s donkey cart were gone, then concluded that Wang Dashan had killed the three creditors.
• The City Guard general ordered a pursuit and alerted nearby towns to intercept the family of three.

Lin Zhenshan’s family was exposed while fleeing after Wang Guixiang entered a town for food, and a City Guard alerted nearby forces with a Cloud-Piercing Arrow. Lin Zhenshan led Wang Guixiang and Yadan into the mountains, where they were surrounded at the edge of a cliff above a raging river.

• Lin Zhenshan changed Wang Guixiang’s hairstyle and sent her into town to buy food and fill the waterskins.
• Wang Guixiang spotted wanted posters, bought supplies, and was followed by a City Guard as she left town.
• Lin Zhenshan fled with Wang Guixiang and Yadan, then wounded the pursuing City Guard with arrows.
• The City Guard fired a Cloud-Piercing Arrow, summoning reinforcements, while two Martial God Hall disciples headed toward the signal.
• Lin Zhenshan took Wang Guixiang and Yadan into the mountains, but after evading search parties, they reached a cliff with pursuers closing in behind them.

Lin Zhenshan, Wang Guixiang, and Yadan were rescued from the City Guards by Martial God Hall members and brought to safety. Lin Feng learned his father had been found and met him without revealing their relationship, offering to treat the injuries that had left Lin Zhenshan with memory loss and a damaged leg.

• Lin Zhenshan and Wang Guixiang prepared to jump from a cliff to escape the City Guards, but two Martial God Hall members arrived and offered to protect them.
• A City Guard force surrounded the group, but the Martial God Hall members summoned reinforcements with a red Cloud-Piercing Arrow, forcing the guards to withdraw.
• The Martial God Hall brought Lin Zhenshan's family to the Sword Sect's territory, where Zheng Tiejun recognized Lin Zhenshan as the man Lin Feng had been searching for and contacted Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng learned that his father had lost his memory and gained a new family, then traveled to meet him and decided to help restore his memories.
• Lin Zhenshan felt familiar with Lin Feng but could not remember him, so Lin Feng posed as a physician and examined his injuries.

Lin Feng treated Lin Zhenshan’s brain injury, and Lin Zhenshan regained his memories and recovered the use of his leg five days later. Meanwhile, Lin Feng ordered a campaign against Wuji Palace’s tyrants and arranged to infiltrate the sect through Li Wanru.

• Lin Feng cleared the pooled blood from Lin Zhenshan’s brain and reset his leg, then told Wang Guixiang he would likely sleep for five days.
• Lin Feng empowered Zheng Tiejun and two disciples, rewarded them, and ordered Zheng Tiejun to join Sun Yu in wiping out Wuji Palace’s oppressive nobles and local tyrants.
• The Martial God Hall swept through Wuji Palace’s territory while Li Wanru used her temporary authority to place Martial God Hall members inside the sect.
• Five days later, Lin Zhenshan regained his memories, recognized Lin Feng as his son, and discovered that his leg had healed.
• Lin Zhenshan told Wang Guixiang he would not abandon her and her daughter, said he wanted to take her as a concubine after Lin Feng’s mother agreed, and went to thank the doctor.

Lin Feng reunited with his father, Lin Zhenshan, and brought him to Houtian Peak through his martial arts imparting ability. He told Mother Lin that Lin Zhenshan was alive, and she agreed to welcome Wang Guixiang and Yadan into the family; Lin Zhenshan eagerly awaited their trip to Kaoshan Village.

• Lin Feng embraced Lin Zhenshan after his father recognized him and learned that Lin Zhenshan intended to make Wang Guixiang his concubine and accept Yadan as his daughter.
• Lin Feng imparted numerous martial arts to Lin Zhenshan, raising him to Houtian Peak.
• Lin Feng told Mother Lin that Lin Zhenshan was alive and explained how Wang Guixiang had saved him and was carrying his child.
• Mother Lin agreed to welcome Wang Guixiang and Yadan and said she would treat them and the unborn child as family.
• Lin Zhenshan told Wang Guixiang about the Lin family, and Yadan looked forward to meeting her new nieces and nephews.
• Lin Feng told Lin Zhenshan that Mother Lin had agreed to accept Wang Guixiang and Yadan, and promised to arrange an escort to Kaoshan Village the next day.

Lin Zhenshan returned to Kaoshan Village with Wang Guixiang and Yadan, and the family reunited and welcomed them into their home. Half a month later, Zhou Chunlan’s labor began, leaving the family to prepare for the delivery.

• Lin Feng sent Lin Zhenshan, Wang Guixiang, and Yadan toward Kaoshan Village aboard flying demonic beasts while his Blood Demon Clone stayed behind to oversee Wuji Palace.
• Lin Feng waited at home with his family and prepared for his father’s return while planning to strengthen his martial forces before the coming Innate Tribulation.
• Lin Zhenshan arrived at the village and reunited tearfully with Mother Lin, while she welcomed Wang Guixiang and Yadan into the family.
• Lin Zhenshan and Mother Lin caught up, and the family shared a meal and helped Wang Guixiang and Yadan settle in.
• Over the next half month, Wang Guixiang and Yadan grew comfortable with the family, and Lin Feng strengthened their bodies.
• Zhou Chunlan cried out with stomach pain, and Mother Lin recognized that she was about to give birth and ordered the family to prepare.

Ten months after two powerful souls chose to gamble on reincarnation, Lin Feng and Zhou Chunlan welcomed Innate Dragon-Phoenix twins. Zhou Chunlan sensed an opportunity to become a Grandmaster soon after giving birth, so Lin Feng helped her recover with Intermediate Demon Crystals and carried her away to attempt the breakthrough.

• Two souls on the Shenzhou Continent buried their past-life memories and risked reincarnation to seek better bodies and a chance to become Martial Saints.
• Zhou Chunlan gave birth to a boy and a girl while Lin Feng and his family waited nearby.
• Lin Feng discovered both newborn twins were Innate and saw their extraordinary potential.
• Zhou Chunlan sensed an opportunity to become a Grandmaster, and Lin Feng gave her two purified Intermediate Demon Crystals to restore her strength.
• After Zhou Chunlan recovered, Lin Feng carried her into the sky to find a suitable place for her breakthrough.

Lin Feng helped Zhou Chunlan enter the Great Void, then brought her back to Kaoshan Village to see their newborn twins. After caring for his family and arranging for Wu Youran to teach the children, Lin Feng turned his attention back to the Great Void, where Zhang Xiaoyu hesitated outside his courtyard.

• Lin Feng helped Zhou Chunlan break through and enter the Great Void, where Ma Xingyuan welcomed her and Lin Feng met her outside the Awakening Land.
• Lin Feng gave Zhou Chunlan demon crystals to restore her strength, then paid Ma Xingyuan to send her outside Red Rain City instead of taking her to the Blood Demon Sect.
• Lin Feng and Zhou Chunlan returned to Kaoshan Village, where they found their newborn twins already sitting up and playing.
• Lin Feng arranged for Wang Guixiang to consume Martial God Pills and named the twins Lin Tianlong and Lin Tianfeng; half a month later, he summoned Wu Youran to teach them.
• Zhang Xiaoyu paced outside Lin Feng's courtyard in the Great Void, unsure whether to knock.