Chapter Summaries

After months at the Sacred Emperor Palace, Lin Fan prepared to visit Senior Meng at the Heavenly God Academy to pursue the Body-as-a-Seed path. He agreed to release Wang Xi in exchange for divine herbs, while Yue Chan returned from training and asked where Lin Fan was.

• Lin Fan relaxed on the beach and declined to spar with Ning Fei until he learned that arrangements had been made for him to visit Senior Meng.
• Lin Fan rejected fusing with a heavenly seed and declared that he would pursue the Body-as-a-Seed path to advance beyond the Heavenly God Realm.
• Ning Fei told Lin Fan that the Wang Family had offered three Violet Palace divine herbs but would not trade the Chaos-Quelling Art, and Lin Fan agreed to release Wang Xi.
• Yue Chan returned to the Immortal Academy from training and asked where her big junior brother was.

Lin Fan flew to the Immortal Academy in a Supreme-level fighter and reunited with Yue Chan, who confronted him jealously about the women around him. He carried her into their room to enforce the family rules.

• Lin Fan piloted the fighter, guided by its Artifact Spirit Nannan, across Boundless Heaven to the Immortal Academy.
• The Academy’s residents recognized Lin Fan as the Little Sage Emperor, and he went to Crouching Dragon Ground to find Yue Chan.
• Yue Chan avoided Lin Fan and accused him of keeping company with Lan Xian, the Violet Palace’s fairy, and Wang Xi.
• Lin Fan explained his connections to the women and embraced Yue Chan despite her protests.
• Lin Fan carried Yue Chan to the bed and began enforcing the family rules.

Lin Fan spent several days with Yue Chan before leaving the Immortal Academy to visit the Heavenly Deity Academy and begin preparations for secluded cultivation. He arrived at the academy’s construction site in the Stars Sea, where Sacred Emperor Palace ships already had clearance.

• Lin Fan told Yue Chan he planned to visit the Heavenly Deity Academy and then enter secluded cultivation to advance into Void Dao, and promised to show her the Sacred Emperor Palace’s cultivation path.
• Yue Chan agreed to let Lin Fan leave after several days together and protested when he showed her the revealing garments he had ordered for her.
• Lin Fan left Yue Chan Advanced Evolution Liquid and cultivation resources, then ordered Nannan to take the warship to the Heavenly Deity Academy.
• Lin Fan reached the Stars Sea in less than half a day and noted that the academy was still under construction, with student recruitment several years away.
• Lin Fan flew his silver ship into the academy without obstruction and saw other Sacred Emperor Palace warships parked on its Divine Mountains.

At the Heavenly Deity Academy, Lin Fan met Meng Tianzheng and insisted on pursuing the perilous body-as-a-seed path despite learning that even his father, the Sage Emperor, had died before becoming an immortal. Meng Tianzheng accepted his resolve and sent him to test himself against the inheritance road his father had left behind.

• Lin Fan arrived at Meng Tianzheng's humble marshland residence inside the Heavenly Deity Academy.
• Meng Tianzheng warned Lin Fan that the body-as-a-seed path was deadly and showed him an image of the Sage Emperor dying on the Immortal Ascension Road.
• Lin Fan remained determined to take the path and argued that Meng Tianzheng's founding of the academy showed he too refused to give up hope.
• Meng Tianzheng approved of Lin Fan's resolve and told him to challenge the Sage Emperor's inheritance road as a test.
• Lin Fan agreed to challenge the inheritance road immediately.

Guided by Meng Tianzheng, Lin Fan entered the Metal Stele to attempt the Sage Emperor’s trial, where he had to remain undefeated against an imprint at every cultivation realm. Inside, he endured strange memories and found the remains of failed challengers before facing his first opponent at the Blood Moving Realm.

• Meng Tianzheng explained the trial’s deadly difficulty and gave Lin Fan a Jade Talisman that could save his life once.
• Lin Fan showed Meng Tianzheng his Soul-Nourishing Wood Substitute Death Talisman, and Meng Tianzheng said it could protect him alongside the Jade Talisman.
• Lin Fan entered the Metal Stele and was overwhelmed by memories of a boy seeking revenge and the resurrection of his family and friends.
• Lin Fan recovered his focus, saw the corpses of challengers with strands of immortal qi, and realized how dangerous failure was.
• A near-identical opponent appeared, Lin Fan’s cultivation was suppressed to the Blood Moving Realm, and the two began fighting.

Lin Fan fought and narrowly defeated an equally powerful version of himself in the Blood Moving Realm, then faced the next trial in the Cave Heaven Realm. His opponent revealed a unique cave heaven and the Great Unity Heavenly Art, leaving Lin Fan to recognize how such a supreme technique might have originated.

• Lin Fan adapted to the Blood Moving Realm and discovered his opponent had also cultivated the Indestructible Scripture.
• Lin Fan fought his other self for three days and three nights, finally winning by a narrow margin.
• The next trial began, raising Lin Fan's cultivation to the Cave Heaven Realm, where he recovered with his immortal bone.
• Lin Fan saw that his opponent possessed a unique cave heaven that mirrored his own and began another battle.
• The other Lin Fan's cave heaven formed a black precious vase and used the Great Unity Heavenly Art, prompting Lin Fan to realize the technique may have evolved from a unique cave heaven.

Lin Fan passed a brutal Cave Heaven trial and advanced to Spirit Transformation, but his next battle against an extreme-realm demonic version of himself ended in mutual death. After a Life-Substitution Talisman saved him, he left the stone stele to recover and refine his path.

• Lin Fan condensed his arts into his heavenly passage and narrowly defeated his Cave Heaven opponent after thousands of clashes, advancing to Spirit Transformation.
• Lin Fan faced an opponent who had formed a demonic embryo and broken through the Spirit Transformation extreme realm.
• Lin Fan fought with his phenomena and ten spirit bodies against the opponent's fused true self for days and nights, and they ultimately killed each other.
• A Life-Substitution Talisman saved Lin Fan, who withdrew from the trials to recuperate and study the battle.
• Lin Fan returned to the outside world after more than half a month of fighting, his Battle Garment torn and stained with blood.

After Lin Fan emerged from the Metal Stele without passing its unusually difficult trial, Meng Tianzheng guided him through preparations for breaking through the Heavenly God Realm via body-as-a-seed. With rare treasures delivered by the Sacred Emperor Palace, they began the breakthrough preparations, leaving Lin Fan ready to proceed.

• Lin Fan emerged from the Metal Stele and told Meng Tianzheng that he had faced the Sage Emperor at his youthful peak, making the trial far harder than expected.
• Meng Tianzheng gave Lin Fan Immortal Ancient Script texts and warned him about the dangers of breaking through the Heavenly God Realm along the body-as-a-seed path.
• Lin Fan studied the texts, then arranged for the Sacred Emperor Palace to deliver the rare treasures Meng Tianzheng said were needed for the breakthrough.
• Lin Fan told Meng Tianzheng he had already eaten a Yellow Springs Fruit and described the many treasures that had strengthened his body and primordial spirit.
• The Sacred Emperor Palace delivered the treasures, and Meng Tianzheng prepared medicinal pools before Lin Fan began his breakthrough preparations.

Meng Tianzheng put Lin Fan through brutal medicinal, blade, and venomous-insect trials to develop his Indestructible Golden Body and prepare him to achieve Body-as-a-Seed. Lin Fan endured the repeated torment and vowed to unlock his full potential, while Meng Tianzheng continued the tempering.

• Meng Tianzheng immersed Lin Fan in a medicinal pool, added dragon blood, and struck his bones with a saber as Lin Fan circulated the Indestructible Scripture.
• After more than ten days of torment, Lin Fan used his Supreme Bone to heal, and Meng Tianzheng sent him into a pool filled with venomous Primordial Variants.
• Lin Fan endured ten days and nights of bites and venom, then recovered in divine medicine and felt ready to attempt the trial again.
• Meng Tianzheng told Lin Fan that he needed to reach the pinnacle in every aspect before attempting Body-as-a-Seed and subjected him to more rounds of tempering.
• Meng Tianzheng urged Lin Fan to develop his Indestructible Golden Body fully, and Lin Fan gritted his teeth and vowed to succeed.

Lin Fan spent six months under Meng Tianzheng’s harsh training, strengthening his physique and forging his primordial spirit with an incomplete fragment of the Chaos-Quelling Art. His primordial spirit ultimately repelled a Soul-Striking Weapon, leaving him confident he could win their earlier Metal Stele battle.

• Lin Fan completed three months of physical tempering, reaching a new pinnacle in his Indestructible Golden Body.
• Meng Tianzheng trained Lin Fan’s primordial spirit with ancient methods and taught him an incomplete fragment of the Chaos-Quelling Art.
• Meng Tianzheng used rare medicines and a soul-striking mace to temper Lin Fan’s primordial spirit, while explaining the Sage Emperor’s three Secret Techniques and urging Lin Fan to undertake the trials.
• After six months of training, Lin Fan’s primordial spirit met the Red-Gold Mace’s strike with a Fist Seal and sent the weapon flying.
• Lin Fan thanked Meng Tianzheng and concluded that he would now win if he fought again in the Metal Stele.

After Meng Tianzheng praised Lin Fan’s foundation and sent him to the Heavenly Deity Academy’s forbidden grounds, Lin Fan rapidly cleared the earlier trials of the Sage Emperor’s imprint. The final trial proved overwhelming, and the chapter ended with Lin Fan gravely wounded by his stronger opponent.

• Meng Tianzheng praised Lin Fan’s foundation, recalled the Sage Emperor’s thwarted path, and told him to seek what had been left at the Heavenly Deity Academy.
• Lin Fan entered the golden Metal Stele and defeated the Sage Emperor’s imprint through the True One Realm trials in a little over half a month.
• Lin Fan began the final trial, but the imprint appeared with three strands of immortal qi and a dao cultivation beyond his own.
• Lin Fan attacked with the Immortal Tribulation Sword Art and the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, yet the imprint countered with the technique of body, spirit, and art.
• The imprint’s attack left Lin Fan coughing blood as his life faded and his vision darkened.

Lin Fan struggled against his stronger other self in the Metal Stele until he realized the trial demanded that he surpass his former self by forging his own path. He formed a new sea of qi and Divine Disc in his dantian, but his enlightenment was interrupted when the Sage Emperor’s imprint attacked again.

• Lin Fan used his final Life-Substitution Talisman to recover after dying, then unleashed his Life and Death Precious Art against his other self, who neutralized it with magic power immunity.
• The Sage Emperor’s imprint declared that the trial was a battle of transcendence, and Lin Fan understood that he had to surpass his former self rather than give in to despair.
• Lin Fan compressed his unique cave heaven and three immortal qi into his abdomen, forming a sea of qi and a wheel that marked the beginning of his own path and art.
• Lin Fan entered a state of enlightenment and shaped a Divine Disc in his dantian, contemplating whether he had unified his dantians.
• The imprint recovered from its injuries and charged at Lin Fan while he remained absorbed in his breakthrough, and Lin Fan instinctively fought back as his abdomen blazed with light.

Lin Fan nearly died while trying to refine his unique cave heaven into a Dao Seed, then awoke to find the Ten Thousand Daos Tree inside the Metal Stele. He began cultivating beneath its many law-bearing fruits, determined to use it to forge his own path toward body-as-a-seed.

• Lin Fan compressed his unique cave heaven into a golden-core-like seed and tried to balance the forces of life and death with immortal qi.
• Lin Fan nearly ruptured his abdomen, but used the Healing Art to stabilize his injuries and regain consciousness.
• Lin Fan discovered a tree bearing over ten thousand dao fruits and recognized it as the Ten Thousand Daos Tree.
• Lin Fan wondered how the tree had appeared inside the Metal Stele, though it had been guarded in the Realm Tomb.
• Lin Fan sat beneath the Ten Thousand Daos Tree and resolved to continue pursuing body-as-a-seed and create his own method.

Lin Fan formed a rudimentary inner world by balancing life force, death force, and immortal qi, but the breakthrough triggered a devastating heavenly lightning tribulation. He tried to draw the lightning into his inner world, which briefly produced a life-giving liquid before the world collapsed and his body nearly split apart.

• Lin Fan dispersed the Dao Diagram in his inner world and shaped life force into the sky, death force into the earth, and immortal qi into a sea.
• Lin Fan’s new method triggered a heavenly lightning tribulation that struck him with overwhelming force.
• Lin Fan endured the lightning with his healing techniques and the Thunder Emperor’s secret technique, but his injuries worsened.
• Lin Fan drew the lightning into his abdomen and funneled it into his inner world, where life-giving droplets resembling Tribulation Lightning Liquid appeared.
• Lin Fan’s inner world failed to withstand the lightning and collapsed, cracking his abdomen and nearly splitting his body in two.

Lin Fan nearly died after trying to create an art during his lightning tribulation, but he abandoned the attempt, survived by tempering his body with the True Phoenix Art, and completed a round of refinement. As Lin Fan meditated beneath the Ten Thousand Daos Tree, the Sage Emperor’s imprint reappeared, and a mysterious figure arrived before Meng Tianzheng.

• Lin Fan fought the lightning tribulation until an indifferent voice warned him that he was rushing his path and trying to create an art too soon.
• Lin Fan stopped sustaining his inner world, returned to his unique cave heaven, and used the Indestructible Scripture, Supreme Bone, and True Phoenix Art to withstand and heal from the lightning.
• Lin Fan survived the tribulation, swallowed lightning to temper his bones, and emerged with a stronger, nearly jade-like body.
• Lin Fan meditated beneath the Ten Thousand Daos Tree as the reincarnation on his hand released a streak of white light and the Sage Emperor’s imprint condensed anew on the Metal Stele.
• People gathered at the Heavenly Deity Academy and speculated that the Little Sage Emperor had caused the tribulation, while Meng Tianzheng saw a newcomer appear and heard him say, “Old Meng, it's been a long time.”

The Sage Emperor revealed to Meng Tianzheng that he survived the immortal ascension tribulation but was split into two selves during nirvana. He returned to the Metal Stele, leaving Meng Tianzheng with hope and Lin Fan sensing a change.

• Meng Tianzheng joyfully recognized the Sage Emperor as alive and celebrated that someone had survived the immortal ascension tribulation.
• The Sage Emperor explained that he had begun a new life through nirvana and that Lin Fan was connected to his rebirth.
• The Sage Emperor told Meng Tianzheng that black mist had tried to turn his primordial spirit into a Dark Creature, and that an accident split off an independent copy of his soul.
• The Sage Emperor asked Meng Tianzheng to keep his survival secret and said he and Lin Fan would eventually become one again.
• The Sage Emperor returned to the Metal Stele, while Lin Fan sensed something had happened and stood up with a newly vigorous aura.

Lin Fan entered seclusion after gaining innate qi and sensing origin qi, determined to make his body a seed and create a new cultivation method. Beneath the Ten Thousand Daos Tree, he found a way to contemplate the myriad Daos and continued seeking the mysteries within his body.

• Lin Fan discovered that his body had gained precious innate qi and an obscure aura resembling origin qi.
• Lin Fan entered seclusion to pursue body-as-a-seed and attempt a transcendent transformation.
• Over the following year, Meng Tianzheng kept others away while people speculated about Lin Fan's breakthrough and the Heavenly Deity Academy prepared for recruitment.
• Lin Fan meditated beneath the Ten Thousand Daos Tree and resonated with the world's laws, finding a medium for contemplating the myriad Daos.
• Lin Fan resolved to make his body equal to the great universe, free of reliance on external Dao Seeds.

Lin Fan studied the fundamental laws of the ten thousand Daos through the Ten Thousand Daos Tree and began breaking down and recombining Order Divine Chains to forge his own Dao. While he continued his dangerous cultivation in seclusion, Puppy left the Heaven Mending Sect to search for Lin Fan, leaving the sect relieved.

• Lin Fan used the Ten Thousand Daos Tree to study the Order Divine Chains and resolve to create his own rules rather than imitate existing Daos.
• After half a month, Lin Fan broke Order Divine Chains into radiant particles and began trying to combine them into new chains.
• Lin Fan's first careless attempt caused a collision that collapsed space, so he used the cauldron inscribed with the middle volume of the Primordial True Explanation to purge impurities and avert calamity.
• Lin Fan continued studying the laws, aware that his attempt to seize heaven's secrets defied The Heavens and could bring punishment.
• Puppy complained that Lin Fan had gone to the Nine Heavens without him, then rode away from the Heaven Mending Sect on a great bell.
• The Heaven Mending Sect members celebrated Puppy's departure and recalled how he had subdued cult masters and caused trouble for several great sects.

Lin Fan abandoned his attempt to comprehend the endless Great Dao externally and began treating his body as its own cosmos, drawing rules into himself to cultivate the inner Dao. After enduring a dangerous first trial, he bound himself in a cocoon of laws and used immortal fire to refine it into a seed.

• Lin Fan was struck by the overarching force of the Great Dao while studying the golden particles beneath the Ten Thousand Daos Tree, then healed and reconsidered his approach.
• Lin Fan concluded that he should seek the Dao within his body, regarding his flesh, spirit, and bones as a cosmos and himself as the Dao.
• Lin Fan drew Order Divine Chains into his body and compared their rules with his own, enduring severe pain as the laws damaged his flesh.
• Lin Fan ended his first attempt after nearly being burned to charcoal and decided his body could serve as a vast cosmos containing the Dao.
• Lin Fan wrapped himself in a cocoon of interwoven rules, declared that his body was the Dao, Heaven and Earth, and the seed, then began refining the cocoon with immortal fire.

Lin Fan endured the destructive fire of the myriad heavens’ Dao to force open the gates within his body and awaken his inner Dao. He formed an inner Dao seed, but only began opening his boundless bodily gates and had much further to develop.

• Lin Fan’s Dao cocoon reignited with rules and order, burning his flesh nearly away as he endured the flames and studied the mysteries of the great Dao.
• He discovered clear light emerging from a gate within his body and realized it was the power of his inner Dao resisting the external Dao.
• More gates opened under the flames’ pressure, and Lin Fan’s inner Dao suppressed and drove the external Dao fire from his body.
• Lin Fan found he could open no more gates yet, recognizing that his newly reached Void Dao Realm limited the power he could release.
• He watched the clear lights from his body’s gates intertwine and fuse with his flesh, forming an inner Dao seed.