Arc 7Chapters 152–176

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Ch. 152The Sorrow Beneath the Sacred

Lin Fan used the Yellow-Black Banner to drive the Venerables away and claimed the treasures on the floating island. While pursuing an Eight Treasure Qilin underground, he discovered countless ancient bones and witnessed visions of Immortal Ancient’s catastrophic war.

  • Lin Fan revealed the Yellow-Black Banner and threatened the Venerables, forcing them to abandon the Divine Spirit Flowers and leave the valley.
  • Lin Fan harvested the valley’s Divine Spirit Flowers and soil, then roamed the island collecting precious materials.
  • Lin Fan spotted an Eight Treasure Qilin and chased it underground, finally sealing it inside a Jade Box.
  • Lin Fan discovered a vast heap of ancient bones beneath the island and heard their lingering voices and resentment.
  • Lin Fan witnessed visions of Immortal Ancient’s devastation and reflected on the war between the two realms and the horrors beyond the Dark Turmoil.

Ch. 153Reaching the Summit of Reincarnation Peak

Lin Fan climbed Reincarnation Peak, overcoming its immense pressure and defeating a Golden Crow Daoist on the way. After a month of climbing, he reached the summit, where a mysterious bell rang and golden light began transforming his bone text.

  • Lin Fan left the place of white bones and headed for Reincarnation Peak as more powerful beings entered the island.
  • Lin Fan advanced up the mountain path, passing other creatures and killing the Golden Crow Daoist with the Glazed Pagoda and Taiyin divine water.
  • Lin Fan knocked aside two Golden Crows and overtook the Golden Giant and Purple-Gold Ant, startling the creatures climbing behind him.
  • Lin Fan spent six days reaching the mountainside, then continued climbing for more than twenty days as the pressure cracked his bones and the Supreme Bone strengthened them.
  • After exactly one month, Lin Fan reached the summit, where a bell rang, golden light descended, and his bone text began to transform.

Ch. 154The Source of the Yellow Springs

Lin Fan entered the true realm beyond the Light Gate, found the source of the Yellow Springs and ate a Yellow Springs Fruit after reading that he must pass through reincarnation to obtain the Immortal Seed. In the Upper Realm, Yue Chan grew worried about his long absence and ordered a search; Lin Fan remained immersed in the fruit’s power as it strengthened his primordial spirit.

  • Lin Fan broke through the golden barrier at Reincarnation Peak and entered the sacred realm beyond the Light Gate.
  • Lin Fan followed the Yellow Springs River, recognizing it as the purer source of the Yellow Springs Sea and seeking a bridge and Yellow Springs Fruits.
  • Yue Chan learned that Lin Fan had been missing in the Lower Realm for seven or eight months and ordered their sect to search for him.
  • Lin Fan found five Yellow Springs Fruits beside an Immortal Inscription Stele that said the Immortal Seed could be obtained only by passing through reincarnation.
  • Lin Fan ate one Yellow Springs Fruit, and its divine light gathered between his brows, strengthening his primordial spirit as his scriptures imprinted themselves upon it.

Ch. 155The Yellow Springs Fruit's Wondrous Effects

After eating the Yellow Springs Fruit, Lin Fan comprehended the Great Dao and advanced the Divine Ability inscribed on his immortal bone, though the new art remained incomplete. He then awoke in a death-filled realm with his primordial spirit and wondered whether it was a spiritual world someone had created.

  • Lin Fan entered a deep state of enlightenment, grasping how life, death, and reincarnation related to his arts and the Great Dao.
  • His immortal bone began forming a new heavenly scripture, but Lin Fan sensed that the Precious Art had not yet achieved its intended balance between life and death.
  • Lin Fan saw three indistinct figures resembling his past, present, and future incarnations before the patterns from his primordial spirit sank into his Supreme Bone and triggered a transformation.
  • As the Yellow Springs Fruit began strengthening his primordial spirit, Lin Fan lost awareness and then awoke in a desolate realm beside a deathly yellow river.
  • Lin Fan tested his surroundings by pinching himself and kicking a skeleton, then suspected he had entered a spiritual world created by someone.

Ch. 156Trapped in Hell

Lin Fan was dragged into the Infernal Hell, where he endured a brutal judgment that tested his will. As he clung to consciousness, he realized the torment might be strengthening his primordial spirit and preparing him to obtain the Heavenly Seed.

  • Lin Fan searched for a way out of the strange land but was drawn toward the abyss by its devouring force.
  • The abyss erupted, and a powerful force pulled Lin Fan and everything around him into the underworld.
  • Lin Fan explored the vast Infernal Hell, where ghosts and demon gods suffered among floating bone islands, black palaces, and lava.
  • Chains from the lava bound Lin Fan, and an emotionless voice sentenced him to death by a thousand cuts.
  • Lin Fan endured the torture, cursed his captors, and kept himself conscious as he connected the trial to the Yellow Springs Fruit and the Heavenly Seed.

Ch. 157Reincarnation

Lin Fan endured the Yellow Springs Fruit’s Hell, where his Primordial Spirit was shattered and his memories were worn away across countless ages before he was reincarnated. After living an ordinary mortal life, he was reborn into a world with essence, began cultivating, and gradually recovered memories of his past.

  • Lin Fan argued with Hell’s merciless voice and was told that surviving would temper his Primordial Spirit, while failure meant death.
  • The magma shattered Lin Fan’s Primordial Spirit, and he faded into darkness before a soul flame eventually rose from an island of bones.
  • After countless ages on the Reincarnation Road, Lin Fan was judged to have whittled away his sins and was sent through a reincarnation wheel.
  • Lin Fan lived and died as an ordinary mortal in a Spiritless Era, still unable to remember what he had forgotten.
  • In his next life, Lin Fan sensed essence, discovered a glowing bone in his chest, began cultivating, and recalled entering Hell after seeking the Reincarnation Immortal Seed and eating a Yellow Springs Fruit.

Ch. 158Six Paths of Reincarnation Seals

Lin Fan completed his experience of mortal life and death, strengthening his primordial spirit and completing the Heavenly Scripture on his immortal bone. He discovered six reincarnation seals on his palm and obtained the Reincarnation Immortal Seed, completing his objective and preparing to return.

  • Lin Fan lived through another mortal lifetime with a wife resembling Yue Chan, contemplating life, death, and reincarnation until he died and was cast out of Hell.
  • Lin Fan awoke beside the Yellow Springs Tree with a stronger primordial spirit, a completed Heavenly Scripture, and offensive divine power no longer assimilated when used.
  • Lin Fan discovered six reincarnation seals on his palm despite having experienced only two reincarnations, and reflected on their significance to the Mortal World Immortal path.
  • The Metal Stele beside the Yellow Springs Tree cracked open and revealed the Reincarnation Immortal Seed.
  • Lin Fan seized the Reincarnation Immortal Seed, placed it in his heavenly passage to nurture, and completed his objective.

Ch. 159Fading Memories

Lin Fan left the Yellow Springs area with the Heavenly Seed and other treasures, while Yue Chan’s Secondary Body searched for him on Reincarnation Peak. The chapter ended with Lin Fan meeting her on the way down and teasing her about her lack of strength.

  • Yue Chan learned that Lin Fan had gone up Reincarnation Peak and set out alone to find him.
  • Lin Fan’s Primordial Spirit grew stronger, and he advanced to the middle stage of the Array Formation Realm.
  • Lin Fan collected the remaining Yellow Springs Fruits, kept the Heavenly Seed, and realized that his memories of his time in Hell were fading.
  • Lin Fan searched the Immortal Island, gathered many Treasure Medicines and Saint Medicines, then left through the Light Gate.
  • Lin Fan encountered Yue Chan’s Secondary Body on the mountain path and teased her for being exhausted.

Ch. 160Temptation

Lin Fan reunited with Yue Chan, told her about reaching the mountain's summit, and warned of powerful factions gathering below. He persuaded her to eat a Yellow Springs Fruit, but her soul vanished, leaving him to guard her body.

  • Lin Fan teased Yue Chan and helped steady her as she struggled against the mountain's pressure.
  • Yue Chan told Lin Fan that the Upper Realm had sent word seeking him and that her sect's grand elder was waiting at the mountain's foot.
  • Lin Fan told Yue Chan he had reached the summit, and she warned him that the Western Sect and Immortal Mountain had brought powerful experts.
  • Lin Fan explained the Yellow Springs Fruit and persuaded Yue Chan to eat one.
  • Yue Chan became motionless after eating the fruit, and Lin Fan discovered that her soul had disappeared and stayed beside her body.

Ch. 161A Different Reincarnation

After Yue Chan underwent a strange reincarnation experience triggered by the Yellow Springs Fruit, she awakened with an Immortal Form brand and memories of a catastrophic battle. Lin Fan entered her sea of consciousness to investigate, where he encountered a sleeping, more mature version of Yue Chan that suddenly awakened.

  • Lin Fan waited beside Yue Chan, whose body vanished into darkness before reappearing with a glowing Immortal Form brand, and she woke after the disturbance passed.
  • The Immortal Form fired at Lin Fan when he reached toward Yue Chan, but his Immunity to All Techniques blocked it.
  • Yue Chan recalled fragments of Hell, rebirth, a bloodied golden cauldron, a black banner, and a battle that destroyed countless universes, while Lin Fan found her Reincarnation Mark had become a scar and his six marks remained.
  • Yue Chan agreed to let Lin Fan inspect her sea of consciousness, where he discovered a sleeping, more mature version of her in a Jade Palace.
  • The woman in the Jade Palace opened her eyes, formed beams of rune-light, and asked Lin Fan why he was staring instead of continuing his task.

Ch. 162A melee among the sects

Lin Fan and Yue Chan descended Reincarnation Peak and found the major powers fighting over a treasure, with Heaven Mending Sect elders surrounded. Lin Fan went to help them, and his arrows killed one Golden Crow Daoist before the remaining fighters spotted him.

  • Lin Fan examined Yue Chan’s memories but could not uncover the mist-shrouded imprint, then left the mountain with her.
  • At the mountain’s foot, Lin Fan and Yue Chan heard a battle involving the Western Sect’s Golden Body Dharma Form and the Immortal Mountain’s Five Elements Ring.
  • Lin Fan and Yue Chan discovered Elder Yu and Granny Xihua surrounded by six Venerables, so Lin Fan gave Yue Chan the Glazed Pagoda and rushed to their aid.
  • Lin Fan shot and killed a Golden Crow Daoist, then fired another arrow that the surviving Daoist blocked with an Ancestral Artifact.
  • The Golden Giant pointed out Lin Fan on a nearby peak, and the gathered Venerables recognized him as the young master.

Ch. 163The Endless Killing Moves of the Ten Fiends

Lin Fan used the Four Symbols Divine Bow to disrupt the Venerables, then attacked and severely wounded the Golden Giant with the True Dragon Claw and Qilin Foot. He battled the Golden Crow with the True Phoenix Wings, while Elder Yu and Xihua blocked the remaining Venerables from interfering.

  • Lin Fan fired four arrows into the stone forest, forcing the Venerables to defend themselves and allowing Elder Yu and Xihua to withdraw.
  • Lin Fan charged the Golden Giant and wounded it with the True Dragon Claw before crushing its skull with the Qilin Foot.
  • The Venerables noticed Lin Fan's powerful treasures, including his transparent armor and shoes, as he confronted the Golden Crow.
  • Lin Fan's True Phoenix Wings overpowered the Golden Crow's wings and severed one of them.
  • The Golden Crow Daoist called for help, but Elder Yu and Xihua blocked the Purple-Gold Ant, Nine-Headed Serpent, and Ghost Vine.

Ch. 164An Extraordinary Invincible Art

Lin Fan killed the Golden Crow Venerables, the Ghost Vine, and the Purple-Gold Ant while Granny Xihua and Elder Yu defeated the Nine-Headed Serpent. After learning that a Five Elements immortal gold sword had sparked the wider battle, Lin Fan rushed to join the fight and seize it.

  • Lin Fan killed the last Golden Crow Venerable, then used his newly formed Divine Art to drain the Ghost Vine of its vitality until it turned to ash.
  • Lin Fan defeated the Purple-Gold Ant in close combat and stored his body, while Granny Xihua and Elder Yu killed the Nine-Headed Serpent.
  • Elder Yu and Granny Xihua thanked Lin Fan, and Yue Chan asked what had caused the battle between the sects.
  • Elder Yu explained that a rough Five Elements immortal gold sword had appeared and drawn the Deities into a struggle over the treasure.
  • Lin Fan urged the group to support the Grand Elder and seize the immortal gold, while Yue Chan, Elder Yu, and Granny Xihua stared at him in disbelief.

Ch. 165A complete reversal

The Immortal Mountain used the Five Elements Ring to immobilize the battlefield and claim the Five Elements Immortal Gold Sword, but Lin Fan arrived with the Yellow-Black Banner and turned the tables. The Heaven Mending Sect’s First Elder unleashed the banner’s heavenly-god power, though he warned Lin Fan that he could not sustain it for long.

  • Qin De used the Five Elements Ring to immobilize the battlefield and sent an Immortal Mountain venerable to retrieve the Five Elements Immortal Gold Sword.
  • Lin Fan arrived with Yue Chan and two Heaven Mending Sect elders, disrupted the ring’s field with the Yellow-Black Banner, and ordered everyone to surrender their possessions.
  • A Western Sect deity lunged for the sword embryo, triggering a chaotic clash as Lin Fan called on the Heaven Mending Sect’s First Elder to activate the banner.
  • The First Elder unleashed the Yellow-Black Banner’s heavenly-god might, overwhelming the gathered factions and dimming the Five Elements Ring.
  • The First Elder warned Lin Fan that the banner was draining his power and urged him to seize the treasure quickly.

Ch. 166Departure

Lin Fan pulled the Five Elements Immortal Gold Sword Embryo from the Immortal Island, causing the island to sink into the Yellow Springs Sea. After enemies tried to seize his treasures, he used a Heavenly God Forbidden Artifact to annihilate them, then led the Heaven Mending Sect through the Chaos Small World to collect divine materials.

  • Lin Fan unleashed his Indestructible Golden Body and pulled the Five Elements Immortal Gold Sword Embryo free.
  • The Immortal Island expelled everyone and sank into the Yellow Springs Sea, and the survivors blamed Lin Fan for its fall.
  • The Holy Feather Clan's old woman urged the gathered factions to attack the Heaven Mending Sect and divide its treasures.
  • Lin Fan summoned a Heavenly God Forbidden Artifact and wiped out the attackers, leaving only the five Heaven Mending Sect members alive.
  • Lin Fan led the group into the Indigenous People's lairs, where they gathered divine materials and celebrated their haul.

Ch. 167Life Was a Play

Lin Fan examined a mysterious reincarnation seed in the Heaven Mending Sect and gave Yue Chan a Yellow Springs Fruit, which drew her into a strange reincarnation space. After she woke, he teased and guilt-tripped her until she offered him a Forbidden Artifact as an apology.

  • Lin Fan studied the Precious Seed and sensed that it contained the powers of both reincarnation and time while Yue Chan admired his treasures and coveted his Five Elements Immortal Gold Sword Embryo.
  • Lin Fan refused to give Yue Chan the sword, then handed her a Yellow Springs Fruit and explained its effects.
  • Yue Chan ate the fruit and later awoke unable to remember her experience in the mysterious reincarnation space.
  • Yue Chan realized Lin Fan had used her as a test subject and demanded to know who else had eaten a Yellow Springs Fruit.
  • Lin Fan admitted he had given one to Yue Chan's secondary body and feigned heartbreak until Yue Chan apologized and offered him a Forbidden Artifact.

Ch. 168Absurd

Yue Chan kissed Lin Fan, and he returned the kiss before she fled in embarrassment. After Qing Yao discussed his future and the Reincarnation Dao Seed with him, Lin Fan decided to study an immortal array and headed toward a mountain peak to inscribe part of it.

  • Yue Chan kissed Lin Fan, and Lin Fan kissed her back before forgiving her; Yue Chan fled in shame.
  • Qing Yao appeared and offered to arrange an engagement between Lin Fan and Yue Chan, but Lin Fan said he would let things take their course.
  • Qing Yao praised the Reincarnation Dao Seed, but Lin Fan refused to fuse with it because he wanted to forge his own path.
  • Lin Fan declined to go to the Nine Heavens before becoming a deity and said he wanted to pursue opportunities in Immortal Ancient.
  • Qing Yao warned Lin Fan to keep the Immortal Seed secret, and Lin Fan began studying the magic array on the beast hide.
  • Lin Fan decided to inscribe one corner of the array on a mountain peak and headed out, calling for Little Yueyue.

Ch. 169Yue Chan's Maternal Granduncle

Yue Chan’s maternal granduncle, Heavenly God Qingyang, visited Saintess Peak and was trapped by Lin Fan’s powerful formation. After Lin Fan insulted him without knowing who he was, Yue Chan stopped Qingyang from retaliating, and Lin Fan hurried to apologize.

  • Yue Chan’s granduncle asked whether Lin Fan had bullied her, then teased her about her feelings for him.
  • Heavenly God Qingyang went to Saintess Peak to see Lin Fan’s formation, and Yue Chan hurried after him when he disappeared inside it.
  • Lin Fan’s formation trapped Qingyang in a bewildering vision of many lifetimes until Yue Chan called him back to his senses.
  • Lin Fan mistook Qingyang for a rival and insulted him, while Yue Chan tried to signal him to stop.
  • Yue Chan revealed Qingyang was her granduncle and restrained him from striking Lin Fan.
  • Lin Fan apologized and invited Qingyang in for wine, prompting Yue Chan to roll her eyes at him.

Ch. 170Heart-pounding terror

Heavenly God Qing Yang visited Lin Fan and Yue Chan, where Lin Fan revealed a fragment of the Reincarnation Formation and shared a powerful ancient wine with them. After the three got drunk, Lin Fan and Yue Chan fought while Qing Yang slipped away with the remaining wine.

  • Heavenly God Qing Yang hesitated to enter Saintess Peak, then asked Lin Fan about the formation that had trapped him; Lin Fan called it the Reincarnation Formation.
  • Lin Fan reflected that the fragment was only one-sixth of the complete formation and that inscribing the whole formation in his body would be difficult.
  • Lin Fan opened an ancient jar of divine wine, and he, Yue Chan, and Heavenly God Qing Yang drank until they were drunk.
  • Heavenly God Qing Yang and Lin Fan shared embarrassing stories about Yue Chan, who grew furious and attacked Lin Fan.
  • Lin Fan drunkenly teased Yue Chan and struck her with his Tathagata Divine Palm, prompting her to fight him more fiercely.
  • Heavenly God Qing Yang watched Lin Fan and Yue Chan brawl, took the remaining wine, and disappeared into the night.

Ch. 171Facing the Tribulation

Lin Fan attempted to temper himself with a heavenly lightning tribulation to break through the extreme realm of Array Formation. As the tribulation grew far more powerful than expected, the Heaven Mending Sect’s disciples and elders noticed the storm and flew out to investigate.

  • Lin Fan spent a year and a half studying arrays and carefully preparing to inscribe one within his body, but refused to risk acting without sufficient certainty.
  • After another half month, Lin Fan flew into a thunderstorm to temper his body, primordial spirit, and three treasures with lightning.
  • Lin Fan deliberately triggered the tribulation for ascending to Venerable and was badly wounded by a sudden scarlet lightning bolt.
  • The storm intensified into a vast ocean of lightning, leaving Lin Fan struggling to breathe as bolts converged on him.
  • Disciples and elders of the Heaven Mending Sect flew out of their cave abodes and realized someone was facing a tribulation in the mountains.

Ch. 172The Strongest Heavenly Tribulation

Lin Fan underwent a heavenly tribulation, enduring its first two stages while tempering his body and spirit with lightning. He survived the water-fire stage and soared deeper into the lightning sea as the strongest heavenly tribulation continued.

  • A Heaven Mending Sect Heavenly God identified the lightning as a Venerable or Divine Fire Realm tribulation, and Yue Chan realized Lin Fan was undergoing it.
  • Lin Fan endured the first lightning strikes head-on, then fought through a dense storm of colored bolts using runes, divine power, and his unique cave heaven.
  • After the first stage ended, Lin Fan healed with his bone text and strengthened his body, while an elder warned that the nine-stage strongest heavenly tribulation had only begun.
  • Scarlet and blue lightning transformed into fire and water, tormenting Lin Fan and hindering his divine power as they tempered his essence, vital energy, and spirit.
  • Lin Fan formed a furnace with the Primordial True Explanation bone text, survived the second stage, and soared farther into the sea of lightning.

Ch. 173Surviving Great Tribulations in Succession

Lin Fan fought his way through the lightning tribulation, defeating a Golden Crocodile Ancestor and surviving an imprint of the Bell of Wuzhong before reaching the eighth heaven. There, deceptively ordinary snowflakes struck with immense weight, leaving him badly injured as the trial continued.

  • Lin Fan used his Innate Divine Art and Immunity to All Techniques to surge through the early heavens and reach the fifth.
  • A Golden Crocodile Ancestor appeared in the sixth heaven, and Lin Fan killed it after a fierce battle, absorbing its nourishing essence.
  • Lin Fan reached the seventh heaven and fought an imprint of the Bell of Wuzhong until he forced it to retreat, then used Holy Healing Light to recover from a devastating lightning strike.
  • Lin Fan entered the eighth heaven, where heavy, lightning-charged snowflakes battered him and sent him flying as he coughed up blood.

Ch. 174The Most Brutal Battle

Lin Fan survived the final, relentless lightning tribulation and reached the tenth heaven, where he found a pool of Tribulation Lightning Liquid. Though badly injured, he chose to delay becoming a Venerable so he could inscribe part of the Reincarnation Formation first.

  • Lin Fan broke free from the freezing eighth layer of the lightning tribulation and entered its final trial.
  • Lin Fan fought a powerful rider and Heavenly Horse, defeating them with his strongest techniques, but they revived and grew stronger.
  • Lin Fan endured the rider and mount’s repeated attacks until they vanished for good, completing the tribulation with his body wrecked.
  • Lin Fan realized his strength had surpassed the Array Formation extreme realm and decided to inscribe part of the Reincarnation Formation before advancing.
  • Yue Chan and the Heaven Mending Sect disciples watched Lin Fan reach the top of the Nine Heavens and rejoiced that he had survived.
  • Lin Fan entered the tenth heaven and discovered a pool filled with Tribulation Lightning Liquid.

Ch. 175Commanding Fate, Creation and Destruction

After surviving the Lightning Sea, Lin Fan drank Tribulation Lightning Liquid and used its power to create a new Divine Ability, Commanding Fate, Creation and Destruction. The art triggered another, even more powerful Heavenly Punishment, leaving Lin Fan battered as he prepared to face the lightning.

  • Lin Fan reached the Tribulation Lightning Pool and drank its liquid, healing his injuries and strengthening his physique.
  • As the liquid brought him sudden enlightenment, Lin Fan combined life and death, reincarnation, and time into the Divine Ability Commanding Fate, Creation and Destruction.
  • Lin Fan's new art triggered Heavenly Punishment again, and the Heaven Mending Sect Master realized its power had grown several times stronger.
  • Yue Chan and the others watched in alarm as lightning struck Lin Fan, shattering his newly healed bones and tearing his flesh.
  • Lin Fan defied the heavens and invoked Commanding Fate, Creation and Destruction as the lightning continued to fall.

Ch. 176The tribulation ends

Lin Fan endured and survived a devastating lightning tribulation, emerging with a strengthened body and a new surge of power. Yue Chan caught him as he fell from the clouds and carried the exhausted Lin Fan away.

  • Lin Fan used his arts to withstand the escalating lightning while his new secret technique refined the tribulation's power into vitality.
  • Lin Fan transformed himself into a Sword Embryo with the Grass Character Sword Art, cutting through the lightning and tempering his body until the tribulation weakened.
  • After the final bolt vanished, Lin Fan drank and collected Tribulation Lightning Liquid, then left the ancient Tribulation Lightning Pool behind when thunder warned him away.
  • The onlookers feared Lin Fan had died, but he emerged from the clouds alive, stunning the crowd and delighting the Heaven Mending Sect's elders.
  • Yue Chan caught Lin Fan, and he asked her to take him back so he could sleep; she carried him away.
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