Chapter Summaries

Lin Yun cultivated the Innate Five-Element Dao Body, opened his mysterious pass aperture, and completed his transformation into an innate Dao body with a five-element heavenly spiritual root. As he drew in spiritual qi from the area, Nangong Wan sensed it while fighting an Ink Flood Dragon underground above him.

• Lin Yun visualized the 365th True-Form Diagram and refined innate and acquired five-element primordial qi as he cultivated.
• On the third day, Nangong Wan led Covering Moon Sect disciples into the Greenstone Hall, where they sealed her inside an underground space.
• Lin Yun guided his five-colored life-bound vital essence into his ancestral aperture and opened his mysterious pass aperture, establishing a connection with his soul.
• Lin Yun completed his innate five-element Dao body, condensed his white yang true qi into liquid true essence, and gained a five-element heavenly spiritual root.
• Lin Yun drew in spiritual qi from several hundred feet around him, nearly causing Nangong Wan to be struck while she fought a second-stage Ink Flood Dragon above.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Lin Yun adapted the Innate One Qi Great Grasping into a powerful finger technique. He used it to save Nangong Wan from a flood dragon in the underground chamber, where she mistook him for a Yellow Maple Valley disciple who had waited for her and the beast to weaken each other.

• Lin Yun placed the Clearvoid Invisible Sword in his mysterious aperture and considered how to choose his next cultivation method.
• Lin Yun practiced Innate One Qi Great Grasping and transformed its hand into a finger that punched a large hole in a stone wall.
• Lin Yun left his cultivation site and entered the underground chamber using Formless Sword Escape.
• Lin Yun found Nangong Wan fighting a snowy-white flood dragon and pinned the beast with his five-colored finger technique.
• Nangong Wan escaped to Lin Yun, then angrily questioned why he had waited so long to intervene.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan worked together to kill the Ink Flood Dragon, then argued over its remains and soul essence. As Nangong Wan carved up the body, she found a strange red core, and Lin Yun urgently told her not to touch it.

• Lin Yun and Nangong Wan attacked the Ink Flood Dragon together, and Lin Yun killed it with three strikes from the Clearvoid Invisible Sword.
• Nangong Wan extracted the dragon's soul essence into a crystal bottle, but Lin Yun seized the bottle and claimed it as his share.
• Lin Yun threatened to expose Nangong Wan's presence in the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land and gave her the dragon's body instead.
• Nangong Wan began carving up the Ink Flood Dragon while Lin Yun worried she might damage its aphrodisiac sac.
• Nangong Wan discovered a red core in the dragon's body, and Lin Yun shouted for her not to touch it.

Lin Yun and Nangong Wan were exposed to the Ink Flood Dragon’s aphrodisiac mist, but used the Purple Palace Secret Manual to regain control before anything happened between them. Afterward, Nangong Wan thanked Lin Yun for saving her and agreed to keep his Formless Sword Escape secret.

• Nangong Wan reached for the Ink Flood Dragon Core and accidentally burst its aphrodisiac gland, releasing pink mist that affected her and Lin Yun.
• Lin Yun escaped with Nangong Wan using Formless Sword Escape, then cultivated the Purple Palace Secret Manual to suppress his desire.
• Lin Yun taught Nangong Wan part of the Purple Palace Secret Manual, helping her regain enough clarity to cultivate and stop her advances.
• Four hours later, Lin Yun and Nangong Wan woke in an awkward embrace; the mist had faded, and nothing had happened between them.
• Nangong Wan threatened Lin Yun to keep their encounter secret and agreed to conceal his escape art, while thanking him for the formula.

Lin Yun escaped the underground space with Nangong Wan and secretly gathered spirit herbs before the forbidden land closed. After the Seven Sects counted their gains, Li Huayuan lost his wager and took the Yellow Maple Valley disciples home.

• Lin Yun gave Nangong Wan his false name, showed her Formless Sword Escape, and carried her out of the underground space after she claimed the Golden Treasure Chest.
• Lin Yun gathered spirit herbs across the Ring Mountain Range, hiding most of them in his Profound Aperture, then left the forbidden land with the other disciples on the fifth day.
• Lin Yun saw the injured Chen siblings and Han Yunzhi among the returning disciples and noticed that Nangong Wan and the Covering Moon Sect had not yet emerged.
• Nangong Wan returned with Covering Moon Sect disciples, and Xiang Zhili emerged just before the passage closed.
• Lin Yun presented ten spirit herbs during the tally, and Li Huayuan lost his wager before leading the Yellow Maple Valley disciples home.

After returning from the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land, Lin Yun gave Han Li spirit herbs, magic artifacts, and cultivation resources before advancing to Foundation Establishment himself. He gained permission to establish a cave abode in the Taiyue Mountain Range, then left it the next morning to head down the mountain.

• Lin Yun returned to the Hundred Herb Garden, revealed his Foundation-Building Stage cultivation to Han Li, and gave him spirit herb seedlings and useful items from the forbidden land.
• Lin Yun received a Foundation Establishment Pill and gave it to Han Li, then separated Cosmic Light True Water and Three Lights Divine Water from Han Li’s green liquid before entering seclusion.
• After three months of cultivating the He Sha Marvelous Book and other methods, Lin Yun emerged at Foundation Establishment and told Martial Uncle Ma he had used a spirit fruit to improve his chances.
• Lin Yun left the Hundred Herb Garden, while Han Li prepared to enter seclusion and Martial Uncle Ma returned to tending the garden.
• Lin Yun met Sect Master Zhong Lingdao, registered as a Foundation-Building cultivator, and received the sect’s reward and permission to establish a cave abode.
• Lin Yun chose an unoccupied peak, carved and furnished a cave abode, set up a Five-Element Strange Gate Formation, and headed down the mountain the next morning.

Lin Yun visited Xin Ruoyin at her secluded hill, praised her progress in formations, and gave her a Foundation Establishment Pill and medicine to suppress her Dragon-Yin Body. After she entered seclusion to establish her foundation, Lin Yun left to continue searching for the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

• Lin Yun used Formless Sword Escape to enter the hill and reunited with Xin Ruoyin and her maid, Xiao Mei.
• Lin Yun praised Xin Ruoyin for working out the fifth layer of the Seven Wonders Formation and improving the Five Elements Reversal Formation.
• Lin Yun gave Xin Ruoyin a Refined Foundation Establishment Pill and pills to suppress the effects of her Dragon-Yin Body, then revealed that he had established his own foundation.
• Lin Yun explained that he helped Xin Ruoyin because he wanted to see how far her talent in formations could take her.
• Lin Yun guided Xin Ruoyin and Xiao Mei for several days before Xin Ruoyin entered seclusion to establish her foundation, and he left to search for the Ancient Teleportation Formation.

After nearly four years of travel, Lin Yun returned to Yellow Maple Valley with a newly refined Taiyi Five-Smoke Gauze and visited Han Li, who asked him to make a magical artifact from a Silver-Armored Horned Python's horn. Lin Yun agreed to craft a wind-and-fire flying boat and told Han Li to return in seven days.

• Lin Yun spent a year and a half refining the Taiyi Five-Smoke Gauze from gathered cloud and mist essence, then ended his travels and returned to Yellow Maple Valley.
• Lin Yun found Han Li's frequent Sound Transmission Talismans and flew to his cave abode on the Taiyi Five-Smoke Gauze.
• Lin Yun recognized the Five Elements Reversal Formation outside Han Li's cave abode and wondered how Han Li had obtained a formation made by Xin Ruoyin.
• Han Li asked Lin Yun to refine a Silver-Armored Horned Python's horn, then explained that Li Huayuan had become his master after trading the horn for Han Li's thousand-year-old spiritual herbs.
• Han Li returned Lin Yun's matured spiritual herb seedlings and presented a Youth-Preserving Pill, which Lin Yun appraised and accepted.
• Lin Yun decided to turn the horn into a wind-and-fire flying boat and told Han Li to collect it in seven days.

Lin Yun refined the Water Essence Pearl together with the cleansed soul essence of the Ink Flood Dragon to create his first self-made magical treasure. He named it the Supreme Goodness Pearl and began nurturing it in his profound aperture.

• Lin Yun took out the Ink Flood Dragon's soul essence and the Water Essence Pearl, deciding to refine them together using water refining.
• Lin Yun used water-element primordial qi to cleanse the soul essence of its lingering toxicity.
• Lin Yun refined the Water Essence Pearl with Yin-Yang Dew, purifying it and reducing its size.
• Lin Yun added the cleansed Ink Flood Dragon's soul essence to the Water Essence Pearl, awakening spirituality within it.
• After three days of refining, Lin Yun named the completed treasure the Supreme Goodness Pearl and drew it into his profound aperture to nurture it.

Lin Yun finished refining Han Li’s Wind-Fire Boat and helped him test its speed, defenses, and attacks before Han Li left with it. Lin Yun then asked Senior Brother Ma about spirit stone mines, but learned only of small deposits and resumed his search.

• Han Li arrived late after Thousand Bamboo Sect cultivators had trapped him at his cave abode, and Lin Yun inferred that the Demonic Path’s invasion was approaching.
• Lin Yun showed Han Li the Wind-Fire Boat, explaining its wood-powered flight, Wind-Fire Shield Formation, and spirit-stone-powered attacks.
• Han Li discovered the boat was a top-grade magical artifact disguised as a mid-grade one and tested its controls.
• Han Li asked Lin Yun to separate the green liquid, received a drop each of Cosmic Light True Water and Three Lights Divine Water, and departed in the boat.
• Lin Yun visited Senior Brother Ma to ask about spirit stone mines, but found that the known mines were too small for his purposes.

Three years after searching across the Yue Kingdom for an ancient teleportation formation, Lin Yun found a hidden spiritual stone mine in Jianzhou and discovered the Ghost Spirit Sect was surveying the kingdom’s resources. He left a divine sense attached to one of its cultivators and learned that the demonic invasion was approaching, while deciding to preserve the man’s usefulness as a possible route to Wang Chan.

• Lin Yun searched Linzhou for three months before a sudden impulse led him to a concealed spiritual stone mine across the border in Jianzhou.
• Lin Yun found a Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator mapping Jianzhou’s resources and used the Soul-Bewitching and Spirit-Seizing Art to influence his thoughts and observe him.
• The Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator left the mine and reported his findings to Martial Uncle Li, who promised to recommend him as a personal guard to the Young Master.
• Lin Yun learned that Ghost Spirit Sect Core Formation cultivators had arrived in the Yue Kingdom and that Spirit Beast Mountain had defected to the demonic path.
• Lin Yun decided not to waste the Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator, since his connection to Wang Chan could prove useful.

Lin Yun found the ancient teleportation formation and five-colored skeleton in the spirit stone mine’s underground caverns, then killed the Blood Jade Spider guarding them. He took the Great Teleportation Token, copied the formation, and burned the skeleton with Solar True Fire, revealing ten Heaven Mending Pills.

• Lin Yun entered the spirit stone mine unseen and followed an underground passage into caverns where he found the Blood Jade Spider, an ancient teleportation formation, and a five-colored skeleton holding a blue token.
• Lin Yun attacked the Level Four Blood Jade Spider with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword, severed its legs, blocked its webs with a five-colored finger, and killed it.
• Lin Yun collected the spider’s body as artifact-refining material and identified the blue token as a Great Teleportation Token.
• Lin Yun copied the damaged Ancient Teleportation Formation onto jade slips and decided that Ruoyin would need to repair it.
• Lin Yun used the Pure Yang Golden Lamp and Solar True Fire to burn away the five-colored skeleton, revealing ten Heaven Mending Pills.

Lin Yun extracted Qianyang Five Elements Stellar Qi from a Heaven Mending Pill while hiding in an underground cavern, then reunited with Han Li in the spirit stone mine. As Lin Yun finished refining pills, Han Li warned him that the outside world was in turmoil, and Lin Yun asked whether the Six Demonic Path Sects had invaded Yue Kingdom.

• Lin Yun explained how Qianyang Five Elements Stellar Qi mended spiritual roots and lamented that the Void Sky Cauldron had wasted it in Heaven Mending Pills.
• Lin Yun set up a Forward-Reverse Nine Palaces Array and spent a year carefully extracting the Qianyang Five Elements Stellar Qi from the pill.
• As the Six Demonic Path Sects invaded Yue Kingdom, Lin Yun sensed activity outside his hidden cavern and replenished his magical power with spiritual qi from raw spirit stone ore.
• Han Li navigated the underground caverns with a Lizard Puppet and followed Lin Yun's five-colored sword qi through the array.
• Lin Yun bottled the extracted stellar qi, began refining the remaining pill ingredients, and asked Han Li whether the Six Demonic Path Sects had invaded Yue Kingdom.

Lin Yun revealed an Ancient Teleportation Formation as a possible escape from the war and gave Han Li a Heaven Mending Pill and Blood Jade Spider eggs. He asked Xin Ruoyin to repair the formation, and the chapter ended with Yellow Maple Valley sending most of its Foundation Establishment cultivators to the Golden Drum Plains.

• Lin Yun showed Han Li the damaged Ancient Teleportation Formation and gave him a Heaven Mending Pill, which Han Li swallowed, along with two Blood Jade Spider eggs.
• Seven days later, Lin Yun and Han Li returned to Yellow Maple Valley as the war between the Seven Sects and the Six Demonic Path Sects intensified.
• Lin Yun asked Xin Ruoyin to repair the Ancient Teleportation Formation and invited her to escape with him when the Seven Sects were defeated.
• Han Li asked Lin Yun about the Great Teleportation Token, and Lin Yun explained that it could transport everyone within its protected area.
• Yellow Maple Valley issued assignments and dispatched most of its Foundation Establishment cultivators to the Golden Drum Plains.

On the Golden Drum Plains, Lin Yun secretly began refining a White Bone Divine Demon from materials taken from Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators. Meanwhile, Nangong Wan learned from Han Li and Li Huayuan where Lin Yun was staying, and Han Li was sent away before he could warn him.

• Lin Yun decided to refine a White Bone Divine Demon from skulls and resentful souls collected from Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators, and concealed his work with a formation.
• Han Li obtained a medicinal herb and reflected on how difficult it was to use Lin Yun's complex pill recipes.
• Nangong Wan heard Han Li's name and asked whether he knew a free-spirited cultivator matching Lin Yun's description.
• Han Li tried to conceal his connection to Lin Yun, but Li Huayuan identified Lin Yun and revealed his location in the Seven Sects' camp.
• Nangong Wan left to seek Lin Yun, while Li Huayuan sent Han Li away on a mission, preventing him from warning Lin Yun.

Lin Yun tested his newly refined White Bone Divine Demon on a Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator and witnessed its devastating power. Nangong Wan discovered that Lin Yun had used a false name, while Lin Yun remained unaware she had followed him and grew cautious of the watcher.

• Lin Yun admired his early Foundation Establishment White Bone Divine Demon and considered how to disguise its sinister aura.
• Nangong Wan questioned a Covering Moon Sect disciple, learned the portrait showed Lin Yun, and realized he had given her a false name.
• Lin Yun sensed he was being watched, escaped with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword, and Nangong Wan returned to camp when Demonic Path cultivators provoked the sects.
• Lin Yun ambushed a mid Foundation Establishment Ghost Spirit Sect cultivator with the White Bone Divine Demon, which drained his vitality and flesh.
• Lin Yun collected the cultivator's Storage Bag and resolved to be more cautious when using Demonic Path arts.

Lin Yun accepted Senior Brother Wu’s assignment to protect his relatives in Xi Zhou and met Wu Ping, the head of the Wu family in Jade Mountain City. After warning Wu Ping to prepare to flee if the war turned hopeless and secretly setting the White Bone Divine Demon to guard the family, Lin Yun explored the city and stopped at a medical clinic.

• Lin Yun reported completing his assignment at Golden Drum Plain Camp, and Senior Brother Wu asked him to protect relatives in Xi Zhou from Demonic Path attacks.
• Lin Yun accepted the assignment and learned that Senior Brother Wu’s relatives lived in Jade Mountain City, where they ran a jade business.
• Lin Yun entered Wu Ping’s study, delivered Senior Brother Wu’s letter, and promised to protect the Wu family while advising them to prepare to leave the Yue Kingdom if necessary.
• Wu Ping summoned his children and grandchildren to discuss the warning, while Lin Yun placed the White Bone Divine Demon beneath the residence to guard the family.
• Lin Yun wandered through Jade Mountain City as an ordinary person and stopped at a medical clinic in the afternoon.

Lin Yun reunited with his mortal parents after nearly thirty years apart and revealed that he had become a cultivator. He stopped Lin Father from calling Lin Feng and Lin Yu, saying he had come only to see his parents and explain a few things before leaving.

• Lin Yun entered the Lin Family Medical Hall and reunited with Lin Father, who hurried him to the courtyard to see Lin Mother.
• Lin Mother recognized Lin Yun and embraced him, grieving over their long separation.
• Lin Yun explained that he was a cultivator and demonstrated his abilities by preparing Spirit Tea for his parents.
• Lin Father told Lin Mother about his origins and the Lin Family's status as a cultivation clan, with Lin Yun adding details about the cultivation world.
• Lin Father offered to call Lin Feng and Lin Yu home, but Lin Yun stopped him and said he would leave after speaking with his parents.

Lin Yun settled his ties with his mortal family and returned to the Wu residence, where Wu Ping prepared his descendants to flee the Yue Kingdom. After agreeing to escort them, Lin Yun discovered the jade Wu Ping offered was suitable for making talismans and crafted two pairs of Voice-and-Image Transmission Talismans.

• Lin Yun left the Lin Family a cultivation method and a Restriction Token to settle his ties with his mortal relatives.
• Wu Ping ordered his sons and grandsons to remain at the old residence, sell their businesses, and prepare to leave the Yue Kingdom.
• Wu Ping gave Lin Yun a box of jade and asked him to escort the Wu Family beyond the kingdom's border, and Lin Yun agreed.
• Lin Yun recognized that the jade could be used to make jade slips and decided to craft Voice-and-Image Transmission Talismans.
• Two days later, Lin Yun completed two pairs of talismans that could transmit voices and images over long distances.

Lin Yun used the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light to destroy spirit snakes sent by two Spirit Controlling Sect disciples, then killed them with the Clearvoid Invisible Sword. He left with their spoils after finding only a top-grade bowl-shaped magical artifact worth keeping.

• Lin Yun arranged for his merchant associations to gather their five-metal raw materials in the Yue Capital while the Wu Family sold its holdings.
• Lin Yun heard two Spirit Controlling Sect disciples plotting to ambush the Wu Family and left to confront them.
• Lin Yun unleashed the Great Five-Element Extinction Divine Light on the disciples’ spirit snakes, destroying them and drawing the cultivators’ attention.
• The two disciples raised a protective barrier and prepared an ambush, but Lin Yun’s Clearvoid Invisible Sword passed through it and beheaded them.
• Lin Yun collected the disciples’ belongings, kept their top-grade bowl-shaped magical artifact, and vanished.