Chapter Summaries

The Golden Wing Sect’s defense faltered after Qinghe True Person entered the Guardian Array with Liu Mingqing and claimed to have captured Zhuge Qi Tian. Zong Ya and Shen Wei rallied the sect, and after Zhuge Qi Tian recovered, he appeared ready to accept Qinghe True Person’s humiliating offer to spare the others.

• Liu Mingqing used the Thousand Mountain Cone to help Qinghe True Person enter the Guardian Array, and Qinghe True Person claimed Zhuge Qi Tian was in his hands.
• The Golden Wing Sect’s cultivators began to flee until Shen Wei and Zong Ya urged them to hold their ground and wait for reinforcements.
• Zong Ya shot Liu Mingqing’s arm, causing him to drop Zhuge Qi Tian, and Dongfang Yao braved enemy spells to rescue him.
• Zong Ya told the cultivators that Cloud Ink Sect disciples and Lin Ke were coming, and their resistance steadied.
• Qinghe True Person faced the Golden Wing Sect and offered to spare its cultivators if Zhuge Qi Tian knelt, kowtowed, and became his dog; Zhuge Qi Tian ordered his disciples to stand down and said he would accept the chance.

Lin Ke returned to the Golden Wing Sect with powerful reinforcements and confronted Qinghe True Person, who had been forcing Zhuge Qi Tian to kneel. The chapter ended with Lin Ke and Qinghe True Person preparing to settle their conflict in a duel.

• Zong Ya called for Senior Brother to wait, and Mirror Ancient Millipedes emerged from the ground, immobilizing the cultivators and strengthening Golden Wing Sect disciples into the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
• Lin Ke arrived with twenty armed blade spirits and hundreds of stone artificial body troops, shifting the balance against the Jade Great Radiance Church.
• Lin Ke supported the injured Zhuge Qi Tian and told him to recover while he handled Qinghe True Person.
• Qinghe True Person recognized Master Zhuang's Purple Mansion presence, while Lin Ke used mental attacks to kill nearby Jade Great Radiance Church cultivators and drive the others back.
• Qinghe True Person accused Lin Ke of harming Mo Qi Qi and challenged him, and Lin Ke insulted him before agreeing to face him.

Lin Ke battled Qinghe True Person in a Secret Realm, countering the Supreme Elder’s attacks with his Mental Power and Dragon Pearl. Qinghe’s massive sword strike stopped above Lin Ke, while Zong Ya and Nan Shang tried to revive Zhuge Qi Tian.

• Qinghe True Person summoned his Dao Companion as a Domain Spirit, and Lin Ke mocked him for killing her to keep her by his side.
• Qinghe True Person formed a thousand-li Secret Realm around Lin Ke, who lifted it above the Guardian Array to contain their fight.
• Qinghe True Person attacked with the Moon-Gazing Army-Breaking Formation, but Lin Ke shattered its moons with Northern Frontier Sea-Calming Seals and struck Qinghe with Dragon Pearl-enhanced lightning.
• Qinghe True Person recovered on his Refinement Throne and unleashed Heavenly Descent, Myriad Transformations Slash, a seventh-level Divine Ability that formed a giant sword above Lin Ke.
• Zong Ya and Nan Shang injected lotus root slurry into Zhuge Qi Tian to try to revive him as the sword descended toward Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke pointed at the giant sword, and its Sword Qi abruptly stopped in midair.

Lin Ke trapped Qinghe True Person in a bell-shaped Insect Formation and unleashed its attacks, while the Golden Wing Sect cultivators turned the Jade Great Radiance Church’s ambush against them. As Qinghe True Person charged toward the formation’s core, Lin Ke activated multiple sources of suction, leaving the Secret Realm trembling.

• Lin Ke used the Formless, Inactive Mantra to bind Qinghe True Person’s Sword Qi, but Qinghe burned through the chains with his Domain Spirit and Supreme Yang Fist.
• Liu Mingqing ordered the Jade Great Radiance Church to attack, but Mirror Ancient Millipedes strengthened the Golden Wing Sect cultivators, who repelled the assault.
• Lin Ke revealed a bell-shaped Insect Formation made from Mechanical Insects and Black Ice Centipedes, then directed it at Qinghe True Person.
• Qinghe True Person used his Yin-Yang Indestructible Body to withstand the Black Ice Falling Goose Slash and charged toward Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke activated the Myriad Insects Devour Heaven Art, combining the formation’s suction with the Purple Mansion Insect and Dream-Eating Gecko until Spiritual Power rushed toward the core and the Secret Realm trembled.

Lin Ke trapped Qinghe True Person in the insect formation and blasted him into the Golden Autumn Mountain Range, but the Substitute Ginseng appeared in the crater as Lin Ke collapsed from exhaustion. Qinghe True Person's fate remained unclear, while the Jade Great Radiance Church disciples cheered at Lin Ke's fall.

• Qinghe True Person's Golden Body broke apart as the insect formation absorbed its fragments and Spiritual Qi.
• Qinghe True Person tried to escape with Mingxia, but Lin Ke sealed the formation and countered her Karmic Desire Flame with Dragon Pearl fire.
• Qinghe True Person cut through the formation's outer wall with his Crescent Moon Saber, but Lin Ke sliced the saber in half with the Golden Flying Sword.
• Lin Ke unleashed the insect formation's stored Spirit Power, blasting Qinghe True Person into the ground and collapsing the surrounding terrain.
• Liu Mingqing found only the Substitute Ginseng in the crater, while Lin Ke exhausted his Mental Power and fell from the Secret Realm.

Lin Ke recovered enough to rejoin the battle and unleashed his Dragon Pearl and saber against the Jade Great Radiance Church. He nearly wiped out the enemy force alone, leaving the Golden Wing Sect cultivators only a few survivors to fight.

• Master Zhuang's Domain Body lowered Lin Ke safely to the ground, while Lu Yuanchun guarded him from hidden attacks.
• Liu Mingqing ordered the Jade Great Radiance Church disciples to retreat, but Liu Fugui defied him and led elders and disciples toward Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke swallowed a Cultivation Pill, ordered the Golden Wing Sect to attack, and rushed forward to kill a row of enemy cultivators.
• Liu Fugui's group formed an emerald Buddha Dharma Body that crushed several Golden Wing Sect cultivators.
• Lin Ke used the Great Heat Dragon Pearl and Dragon Head Annihilation Art to engulf the battlefield in fire, smoke, and attacks, killing nearly all the Jade Great Radiance Church forces and refining their bodies into Blade Spirits.
• The Golden Wing Sect cultivators saw that Lin Ke had taken almost all the spoils, then welcomed the few enemy survivors who escaped the smoke and flames.

Lin Ke weakened Liu Fugui’s nine-person Buddhist Radiance Treasure Array by provoking doubt with a stream of arguments, while the Golden Wing Sect subdued the remaining Jade Great Radiance Church cultivators. The chapter left Lin Ke preparing to exploit the array’s weakness as Nan Shang explained the meaning behind one of Lin Ke’s sayings.

• Lin Ke confronted Liu Fugui’s group after killing hundreds of Jade Great Radiance Church disciples and began provoking them with insults and questions about their beliefs.
• Lin Ke argued that the cultivators’ participation in battle contradicted their Buddhist precepts, causing Liu Fugui and the other eight to question their cultivation.
• The nine cultivators’ divided thoughts weakened their jointly formed Buddhist Radiance Treasure Array, while the Golden Wing Sect captured or killed the remaining opponents.
• Duan Dongqing asked Nan Shang whether Lin Ke was chanting scriptures, and Nan Shang recalled Lin Ke’s saying about defeating strategy, alliances, armies, and cities.
• Nan Shang told the group that the saying used ancient language and had a deeper meaning.

Lin Ke used the Lu Ban Lantern to redirect the karmic cost of the battle, saving the Golden Wing Sect from the Jade Great Radiance Church cultivators. After the victory, Liu Mingqing took Zhang Miaomiao hostage, and Lin Ke began negotiating for her release.

• Nan Shang explained that avoiding battle through strategy or negotiation was better than fighting, and described forging alliances.
• The nine Jade Great Radiance Church cultivators succumbed to cultivation deviation and died after Lin Ke redirected the battle's karmic consequences with the Lu Ban Lantern.
• Lin Ke emerged as the Golden Wing Sect's victor, reassured his allies, and sent them to collect the fallen cultivators' Storage Bags.
• Liu Mingqing seized Zhang Miaomiao and threatened to kill her, while Duan Dongqing's paper figures failed to catch him by surprise.
• Lin Ke offered to let Liu Mingqing leave if he first gave Zhang Miaomiao something to eat.

Lin Ke protected Zhang Miaomiao when Liu Mingqing detonated himself and destroyed the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm’s teleportation formation, leaving the Golden Wing Sect and Cloud Ink Sect isolated. Lin Ke found the drained Ginseng Doll and learned from Mo Tianji that a collector and Master of Miscellaneous Studies might be able to repair the formation.

• Liu Mingqing forced Lin Ke to lead him and Zhang Miaomiao to the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm’s teleportation formation.
• When Liu Mingqing pretended to search for food, Lin Ke moved to rescue Zhang Miaomiao, but Liu Mingqing detonated himself beside the formation.
• Lin Ke carried Zhang Miaomiao to safety, then found the teleportation formation severely damaged and the Ginseng Doll drained of its Spirit Power.
• Zong Ya told Lin Ke that Mo Tianji had returned, and Lin Ke let Mo Tianji into the Guardian Array.
• Lin Ke explained that the Jade Great Radiance Church had destroyed the teleportation formation, and Mo Tianji suggested seeking a collector who was a Master of Miscellaneous Studies.

Mo Tianji returned without finding a teleportation array, so Lin Ke, Mo Tianji, and Duan Dongqing set out to find Duan Jihong, who might help repair one for the Cloud Ink Sect. In the northern ice lands, two ghostly figures passed through Mo Tianji and Duan Dongqing, and Lin Ke learned that the newly hatched Mirror Insects wanted to devour their white souls.

• Mo Tianji told Duan Dongqing and Lin Ke that the Jade Great Radiance Church and the royal family's female cultivators controlled much of the south, making his journey dangerous.
• Duan Dongqing reluctantly agreed to help find her uncle Duan Jihong, a rogue cultivator skilled in miscellaneous disciplines, so he could help repair the Cloud Ink Sect's Teleportation Array.
• The three used Teleportation Talismans to travel north, disguising themselves in Illusionless Gu Sect clothing before following Duan Dongqing's Positioning Talisman toward the ice plains.
• Two ragged Nascent Soul Middle Stage figures appeared beside the group and passed through Mo Tianji and Duan Dongqing, revealing themselves to be nonhuman.
• Lin Can told Lin Ke that the newly hatched Mirror Insects wanted to eat the figures' white souls, and Master Zhuang advised him to ask Lu Yuanchun about the insects.

Lin Ke summoned Lu Yuanchun, who explained White Souls and how Mirror Insects could reveal them. Lin Ke then impersonated Fu Tan to pass an Illusionless Gu Sect patrol and claimed Duan Dongqing and Mo Tianji were his Blood Slaves, leaving the patrol leader questioning why he had not joined the ceremony to revive Gu King True Lord.

• Lin Ke summoned Lu Yuanchun, who absorbed two White Souls and explained their nature and the Mirror Insects’ ability to reveal them.
• Lu Yuanchun told Lin Ke, Mo Tianji, and Duan Dongqing that White Souls came from the souls of the dead and that his mirror showed a person’s lifespan.
• Three poisoned needles released Witch Gu Qi, which Lin Ke absorbed before a patrol of black-armored Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators appeared.
• Lin Ke presented Fu Tan’s Sect Token, convincing the patrol that he was Fu Tan, and described Duan Dongqing and Mo Tianji as his Blood Slaves.
• When the patrol leader asked why Lin Ke had not joined the ceremony to revive Gu King True Lord, Lin Ke angrily demanded that the warriors stop blocking his way.

Lin Ke and his companions infiltrated the Illusionless Gu Sect’s ceremony and learned that the sect was summoning the Bone Emperor with the Dead Spirit Bone Blade. After discovering the ritual burned cultivators’ lifespans to accelerate someone’s reincarnation, Lin Ke sent his stone Artificial Body onto the altar to intervene.

• Lin Ke followed a Black-Armored Warrior to the White Bone Altar while Duan Dongqing and Mo Tianji concealed their auras and followed.
• Lin Ke recognized that the Illusionless Gu Sect was resurrecting the Bone Emperor, whose return could make the sect a major power.
• A ritualist plunged into the altar’s flames, which produced the Dead Spirit Bone Blade, and the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators cheered.
• Mo Tianji warned Lin Ke that the Bone Emperor used the blade to control corpses and would help the sect slaughter the Secret Realm.
• True Person Hanjiang sacrificed a fragment of his Nascent Soul to the flames, and Lu Yuanchun explained that the ritual burned cultivators’ lifespans to accelerate a reincarnation.
• Lin Ke asked whether the formation could be reversed, then tossed his stone Artificial Body onto the altar and joined the ceremony.

Lin Ke diverted True Person Hanjiang’s Bone Emperor ritual by presenting Lu Yuanchun as a Mirror Insect cultivator with immense lifespan. The altar’s mirror exposed how little life remained to the sacrificers, while Hanjiang eagerly prepared to use Lu Yuanchun as the offering.

• Mo Tianji prepared to storm the altar, but Duan Dongqin relayed Lin Ke’s warning that he could reverse the formation and told them to wait.
• Lin Ke told True Person Hanjiang he had brought a magnificent gift for the Bone Emperor and pointed out Lu Yuanchun.
• True Person Hanjiang’s witch gu qi seized Lu Yuanchun and dragged him onto the altar despite his protests.
• Lin Ke lifted Lu Yuanchun’s robes, revealing the Mirror Insect mirror that displayed everyone’s remaining lifespan.
• Cultivators who saw that their sacrifices had left them near death fled in panic, while the others retreated from the altar.
• True Person Hanjiang recognized Lu Yuanchun as a valuable Mirror Insect and rejoiced at the prospect of using his lifespan for the Bone Emperor.

Lin Ke pretended to support True Person Hanjiang’s sacrifice while using the altar to absorb souls and increase his lifespan. As the ritual continued, Jiang Ruoyan offered Duan Dongqing’s uncle Duan Jihong as a gift, but the man demanded wine and fell asleep under Jiang Ruoyan’s blows.

• Lin Ke tossed Lu Yuanchun into the altar’s soul fire, and Lu Yuanchun screamed before secretly absorbing the lifespan power.
• Lin Ke urged Lu Yuanchun to keep acting and absorbed nearby souls while telling True Person Hanjiang to continue the ritual.
• True Person Hanjiang praised the Giant Strength Lineage and promised them a reward for their offering.
• Jiang Ruoyan presented Duan Jihong as the Rogue Cultivator Lineage’s gift, and Duan Dongqing told Lin Ke that Duan Jihong was her uncle.
• Jiang Ruoyan demanded Duan Jihong hand over his offering, but Duan Jihong asked for wine and fell asleep as Jiang struck him.

Duan Dongqing and Lin Ke secretly worked to stall the Illusionless Gu Sect while preparing an escape, and Duan Dongqing managed to alert her uncle Duan Jihong. The chapter ended with Duan Jihong recognizing her message but keeping still to avoid revealing her position.

• Jiang Ruoyan revealed that Duan Jihong carried several White Soul Crystals and demanded that he hand them over.
• Duan Dongqing noticed the Sound Transmission Talisman on Duan Jihong and agreed with Lin Ke to help stall while Mo Tianji prepared Teleportation Talismans.
• Duan Dongqing posed as a member of the Giant Strength Lineage and went onto the altar to offer her lifespan.
• Lin Ke secretly channelled Duan Dongqing's spiritual qi into Duan Jihong's talisman, then covered her from view when Duan Jihong nearly recognized her.
• Duan Dongqing sent Duan Jihong a message identifying herself and urging him to stall for time, and he avoided turning around to protect her cover.

Duan Jihong found a White Soul Crystal after Jiang Ruoyan threatened and beat him, and the offering sent a surge of lifespan power into the soul fire for Lu Yuanchun to secretly absorb. Jiang Ruoyan then poured a jar of urine over Duan Jihong, revealing that the promised vintage liquor had been a trick.

• Duan Jihong offered a transparent stone, but it bounced off Lu Yuanchun and produced fireworks, drawing mockery from Lin Ke and the Giant Strength cultivators.
• Jiang Ruoyan promised Duan Jihong a jar of thousand-year-old vintage if he found the White Soul Crystal, while True Person Hanjiang ordered them to hurry.
• Duan Jihong rummaged through his Storage Bags, releasing pigeons, crystal balls, and gems that burst into clouds of mist and powder.
• Jiang Ruoyan beat Duan Jihong and threatened his niece Duan Dongqing until Duan Jihong produced a milky-white gem.
• Duan Jihong placed the White Soul Crystal in the soul fire, sending lifespan power surging toward Lu Yuanchun, who absorbed it while pretending to weaken.
• Jiang Ruoyan poured the supposed vintage over Duan Jihong and revealed it was a beauty's urine.

During the ritual at the Illusionless Gu Sect altar, Lin Ke and Mo Tianji exploited a beast attack to sabotage the ceremony and escape, but True Person Hanjiang and several Nascent Soul cultivators cornered them. Mo Tianji snapped his Bone Flute as he prepared to face the pursuers.

• Jiang Ruoyan poured fake urine over Duan Jihong and chased him around the altar, trying to seize his Storage Bag.
• Three enormous white bears and a flock of late-Nascent-Soul gyrfalcons attacked the altar, and a gyrfalcon snatched Jiang Ruoyan away.
• Lin Ke cut down stone pillars to extinguish the soul fire, while Mo Tianji teleported Duan Dongqing and Duan Jihong away to repair the formation.
• Lin Ke and Mo Tianji fought through the panicked Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators, then fled as Nascent Soul cultivators pursued them.
• True Person Hanjiang defeated the gyrfalcon with Black Witch Gu Qi and intercepted Lin Ke and Mo Tianji.
• Mo Tianji told Lin Ke that strength was their best hope and snapped his Bone Flute in two.

Mo Tianji used the Qi of Spiritual Wisdom to confront True Person Hanjiang while Lin Ke fought the Nascent Soul Cultivators behind them. As their battles continued, Jiang Ruoyan brought out his trump card, the spirit fork.

• Mo Tianji infused himself and his Yu Dynasty Domain Body with Qi of Spiritual Wisdom, raising their strength close to the Fusion Stage.
• Mo Tianji engaged True Person Hanjiang, whose twin cleavers nearly struck him from behind before the Yu Dynasty woman warned him.
• Mo Tianji merged with his Domain Body and used sound waves from a white jade flute to battle True Person Hanjiang's black blade lotuses.
• Lin Ke used his Golden Flying Sword and Black Ice Centipede to suppress the Nascent Soul Cultivators while watching Mo Tianji fight.
• Jiang Ruoyan, struggling against Lin Ke's Golden Flying Sword, summoned his spirit fork and began activating it.

Lin Ke watched Mo Tianji battle True Person Hanjiang while recording their talisman techniques, as Lu Yuanchun repeatedly delayed Jiang Ruoyan. Jiang Ruoyan consumed Soul-Destroying Pills and raised his aura to just below Fusion, but Lin Ke stepped in with the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber.

• Lin Ke summoned Lu Yuanchun to block Jiang Ruoyan, who killed Lu Yuanchun after piercing him with his long fork.
• Jiang Ruoyan killed an Illusionless Gu Sect cultivator who tried to attack Lin Ke, then devoured him with Witch Gu Qi.
• Lu Yuanchun reappeared because his bond with the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber remained intact, and he repeatedly fought Jiang Ruoyan in new stone bodies.
• When Jiang Ruoyan tried to control Lu Yuanchun with Gu Insects, Lu Yuanchun detonated himself and blasted Jiang Ruoyan away.
• Jiang Ruoyan swallowed a handful of Soul-Destroying Pills, transformed into a black shadow with a Black Sun behind him, and raised his aura to just below Fusion.
• Lu Yuanchun admitted he could not handle what came next, and Lin Ke took out the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber and told him to rest.

Lin Ke instantly killed Jiang Ruoyan, turned his nascent soul into a blade spirit, and explained how his time-and-space trap had produced a domain-tier attack. He then joined Mo Tianji against True Person Hanjiang, despite Mo Tianji urging him to flee.

• Lin Ke used Master Zhuang to crush Jiang Ruoyan's body, then pierced Jiang Ruoyan's nascent soul and made him a blade spirit.
• Lin Ke imposed restrictions on Jiang Ruoyan and appointed him as a test subject for developing domain-tier spell arts.
• Lin Ke explained how he had combined the Lu Ban Lantern's time control with Master Zhuang's invisible palm winds to create a lethal trap.
• Lin Ke left the experiment behind and went to help Mo Tianji, who was badly injured while fighting True Person Hanjiang.
• Mo Tianji urged Lin Ke to escape rather than play the hero, insisting he could hold True Person Hanjiang off a little longer.