Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke and Duan Jihong argued that the Cloud Ink Sect should send troops to support the Imperial Clan, but True Person Fangshan objected and clashed with Duan Jihong. Lin Ke intervened to stop their fight, leaving the dispute over the troop deployment unresolved.

• Lin Ke showed the assembly the Jade Great Radiance Church's battles against Imperial Clan forces and Mantle Spiders, and explained that Golden Autumn Garden could be defended while troops were away.
• Duan Jihong presented his Imperial Clan pass as proof that their army could enter the Imperial Clan's territory, and Lin Ke's proposal won support from all but two of fifty representatives.
• True Person Fangshan arrived late and opposed sending troops, arguing that the Cloud Ink Sect should avoid involvement with the Illusionless Gu Sect.
• Duan Jihong insulted Fangshan and warned him about the Illusionless Gu Sect's dangerous leaders, prompting Fangshan to attack him.
• Duan Jihong and Fangshan fought with formation weapons and a Domain Spirit, damaging the mountain summit as Lin Ke recorded their techniques.
• Lin Ke summoned Master Zhuang's Domain Body and caught both combatants' attacks, urging the elders to stop fighting.

Lin Ke and Duan Jihong studied the Dragon Head Annihilation Art, and Lin Ke used the Scorching Burn Dragon Pearl to complete its Golden Body Dharma Aspect. At dawn, Lin Ke’s allied force departed through teleportation arrays as a Blood-Colored Net began to spread.

• True Person Fangshan and Duan Jihong exchanged threats but refrained from fighting, and Lin Ke assigned Fangshan to guard Golden Autumn Garden while Zhuge and Mo Tianji joined the expedition.
• Duan Jihong examined the Dragon Head Annihilation Art and demonstrated how its formation runes could form a golden Dharma Aspect.
• Lin Ke empowered the formation with the Scorching Burn Dragon Pearl, producing a Domain Spirit Dharma Aspect that took on Duan Jihong’s likeness.
• Lin Ke asked Duan Jihong to teach him the Four-Armed Dharma Aspect True Body after the formation collapsed.
• At dawn, Lin Ke’s force of four thousand Golden Wing Sect and Cloud Ink Sect disciples departed through Duan Jihong’s teleportation arrays as a Blood-Colored Net spread open.

Lin Ke and the two sects’ cultivators recovered from a disrupted teleportation and realized they had been deceived by an illusory formation: the Spirit Stone Veins were occupied, and the princess supposedly guarding them was an undead royal cultivator. After their attempts to capture witnesses failed, Lin Ke revealed he could question the slain woman through his Blade Spirit.

• Lin Ke awoke in a ruined garden after spatial turbulence scattered the teleporting cultivators, and Duan Jihong explained that his own Formation-Breaking Talismans had disrupted the formation.
• Lin Ke realized the garden was an illusion and that the Spirit Stone Veins had already been occupied; five Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators appeared and fled.
• Lin Ke, Mo Tianji, and Zhuge Qi Tian killed three fleeing cultivators, while Zhuge Qi Tian captured another who turned out to be an undead royal family cultivator.
• Mo Tianji accidentally killed the remaining Illusionless Gu Sect cultivator before he could be questioned, leaving the assembled cultivators without a living witness.
• Lin Ke summoned the royal cultivator he had slain as his Blade Spirit, and Duan Jihong asked him to help create one for him too.

Lin Ke and the others learned that the Illusionless Gu Sect had used resurrected soldiers to attack the Eldest Princess and had trapped the forces in the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm. The chapter ended with Lin Ke confronting the group over whether they would help stop the sect.

• The Imperial Clan cultivator recalled how the Illusionless Gu Sect's scouts detonated inside the Traveling Palace and returned as Undead Armored Soldiers, killing her and causing her to attack the Eldest Princess.
• Duan Jihong found that his Positioning Talismans could not locate the Eldest Princess, while Mo Tianji urged the group to return to Golden Autumn Garden and Duan Jihong refused.
• Duan Jihong used the Heaven-Watching Formation to reveal countless Undead Armored Soldiers on the Ice Plains and True Person Hanjiang damaging the Royal Family's Sect-Protection Array.
• True Person Hanjiang sensed the formation's viewpoint, and the Undead Armored Soldiers pointed at it, causing the Heaven-Watching Formation to burst apart.
• True Person Fangshan reported that the Myriad Insect Abyss was destroyed, Golden Autumn Garden's entrance formation had been sabotaged, and the Burial Dragon Bone Ground was the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm's only remaining entrance and exit.
• Lin Ke asked whether the others still believed the Spirit Stone Veins had nothing to do with them.

Lin Ke and his companions went to the Imperial Clan's Traveling Palace to find the eldest princess and learn the state of the Spirit Stone Veins. After they reached her, she questioned why minor sects had come to help, and Lin Ke privately focused on securing the Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearls.

• Lin Ke sent Zhuge Qi Tian and the others to establish defenses while he, Mo Tianji, Nan Shang, Duan Dongqing, and Zong Ya set out for the Traveling Palace.
• The group crossed a wasteland where undead power was stirring the bones of Spirit Beasts and spotted the palace heading west with undead soldiers swarming beneath it.
• Imperial Clan cultivators attacked the newcomers with arrows, but Lin Ke blocked them with the Small Earth Shield Formation and announced their purpose.
• The palace's defenders brought the five inside, where the eldest princess asked what had brought them to her Traveling Palace.
• Lin Ke warned that the Illusionless Gu Sect sought the Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearls and offered to escort the princess to establish defenses at the Golden Autumn Garden.
• The princess questioned why the Imperial Clan needed help from minor sects, while Lin Ke privately resolved to keep the Spirit Power from the Illusionless Gu Sect.

Lin Ke and his companions discovered that the Traveling Palace was a decoy and helped the Eldest Princess, Mu Ting, protect her escape from the Illusionless Gu Sect. They teleported away with the princess and her guards, leaving Blade Spirits and Formations behind as True Person Hanjiang arrived.

• Mo Tianji approached the veiled figure on the Crystal Throne with a gift, but Lin Ke cut the Beaded Curtain and exposed an impostor.
• Lin Ke used the Positioning Talismans to locate the princess and told Duan Dongqing to warn the sect about the northernmost Spirit Stone Vein and possible danger to Golden Autumn Garden.
• Lin Ke and Nan Shang raised protective Formations over the Throne to screen the princess from divination through Karmic Retribution.
• Mu Ting appeared as a Blade Spirit, confirmed Lin Ke's intentions, and ordered her guards to follow his arrangements.
• Lin Ke turned the guards' Divine Souls into Blade Spirits, then Duan Dongqing activated a Teleportation Talisman that carried the group away.
• True Person Hanjiang arrived at the Traveling Palace and sensed the Formations, wondering when the Imperial Clan cultivators had learned to use them.

Lin Ke and Mo Tianji rescued Mu Ting and Mu Cong, while True Person Hanjiang attacked the Traveling Palace and repeatedly sent Shi You through the traps behind the beaded curtain. Hanjiang decided Lin Ke’s trap was harmless and moved to seize the princess, but someone warned him that danger remained.

• Mo Tianji carried Mu Cong through spatial turbulence, then dropped her when he saw Mu Ting arrive with Royal Family Female Cultivators.
• Mu Ting helped Mu Cong up, and Lin Ke thanked the Eldest Princess for her gratitude after the rescue.
• True Person Hanjiang entered the Traveling Palace and repeatedly killed the Royal Family Female Cultivators, who reappeared and continued firing bolts at him.
• Hanjiang suspected Lin Ke had set a trap, then sent Shi You behind the beaded curtain twice; exploding talismans blasted Shi You back both times.
• Shi You confirmed that a woman was behind the curtain, and Hanjiang started forward before his own voice warned him that a trap remained.

True Person Hanjiang entered the Crystal Throne’s formation under the Bone Emperor’s control, triggering an explosion that destroyed the Traveling Palace. Meanwhile, Mu Ting sought protection from Lin Ke’s Golden Wing Sect and agreed to give it a Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearl, leaving Jiang Ruoyan to surrender a strand of his divine soul as security.

• The Bone Emperor suppressed True Person Hanjiang’s divine soul and made him step into the Crystal Throne’s formation.
• Outside the Traveling Palace, Shi Yuan and Fu Tan argued over the Undead Armored Soldiers and their place in the Illusionless Gu Sect.
• The Traveling Palace exploded, and True Person Hanjiang fell from the ruins while arguing with the Bone Emperor.
• After Nan Shang sensed that the formation had been broken, Lin Ke and the others decided to retreat south.
• Mo Tianji urged Mu Ting to ally with the Golden Wing Sect and Cloud Ink Sect, and Lin Ke offered her shelter in exchange for one Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearl.
• Mu Ting accepted Lin Ke’s terms, and Jiang Ruoyan cut off a strand of his divine soul for her.

Lin Ke and the others prepared a defensive line at Golden Autumn Garden, where the Eldest Princess and Mo Tianji exchanged divine souls for Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearls. The Undead Armored Soldiers attacked the garden, and Lin Ke realized the Illusionless Gu Sect was using them to weaken its defenses before a surprise assault.

• The Eldest Princess exchanged a fusion seed's divine soul for her deathsworn's souls and left her own divine soul with Lin Ke, while Mo Tianji traded a wisp of his soul for a Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearl.
• Duan Jihong summoned the group to the defensive line near Golden Autumn Garden, where he and Zhuge Qi Tian explained their preparations and urged the Eldest Princess to hide inside the garden.
• Shi Yuan opened the Imperial Clan's Sect-Protection Array with an Insect Jade, allowing a swarm of Undead Armored Soldiers to pour through and attack Golden Autumn Garden's Guardian Array.
• Lin Ke recognized the undead assault as a ploy to weaken the garden's defenses, then drew the soldiers toward himself with the Scorching Burn Dragon Pearl as Duan Jihong and the others joined the battle.
• Mo Tianji guessed the Five-Ring Gu Sect was targeting the spirit stone veins in Southern Summer Garden, but Lin Ke sensed that the enemy was already there.

Lin Ke and Duan Jihong trapped the Bone Emperor and the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators in the Purple Vine Formation, then Lin Ke turned the captives’ souls into blade spirits. As the battle worsened and their cultivators suffered heavy losses, Lin Ke asked Duan Jihong to contain the undead soldiers while he faced True Person Hanjiang.

• Duan Jihong gave Lin Ke a purple Formation Stone, and Lin Ke used it to trap dozens of Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators and the Bone Emperor in a secret realm.
• Duan Jihong bound the Bone Emperor with the Purple Thorn Vine Formation, then tricked him into entering a separate, empty formation space.
• The Bone Emperor’s Dao Heart shattered, allowing True Person Hanjiang to regain control of his body.
• Lin Ke and Duan Jihong used the formation to trap the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators, and Lin Ke absorbed their souls into the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber as blade spirits.
• True Person Hanjiang appeared outside the formation, while a message warned Lin Ke that their cultivators were dying against the undying soldiers.
• Lin Ke asked Duan Jihong to gather the Undead Armored Soldiers with the Purple Vine Space and prepared to fight Han Jiang with Lu Yuanchun, Jiang Ruoyan, and the blade spirits.

Lin Ke held off True Person Hanjiang while his allies and the Dream-Eating Gecko fought the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators. Lu Yuanchun’s Void Illusion Strangulation Flow nearly killed Shi Yuan before Shi You rescued him, and Shi Yuan fled with Shi You toward Golden Autumn Garden’s Guardian Array as Lin Ke warned Jiang Ruoyan to beware of an ambush.

• Lin Ke sent the Blade Spirits to attack the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators and gave the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber to the Dream-Eating Gecko while he faced True Person Hanjiang.
• Master Zhuang intercepted True Person Hanjiang as Lin Ke began drawing formation talismans, while Lu Yuanchun and Jiang Ruoyan fought Shi Yuan and Shi You.
• Lu Yuanchun used Void Illusion Strangulation Flow to slice through Shi Yuan’s yin souls and defenses, but Shi You caught the threads and saved him from being killed.
• Shi Yuan trapped Lu Yuanchun in a cloud of re-forming yin souls, then escaped with Shi You toward Golden Autumn Garden’s Guardian Array.
• Jiang Ruoyan told Lin Ke that the enemies seemed to be retreating, and Lin Ke ordered him to follow cautiously while the Dream-Eating Gecko stayed to fight.

Lin Ke faced True Person Hanjiang’s hostage threat and offered the Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearl in exchange for peace. The chapter ended with Lin Ke claiming the Golden Wing Sect had nothing to fear, while the Eldest Princess and the others remained in danger.

• Lin Ke finished storing his formation as True Person Hanjiang rushed toward Golden Autumn Garden, where Fang Mengdie had been controlled and was threatening the Eldest Princess with a Soul-Destroying Pill.
• Lin Ke opened the Guardian Array and let Fang Mengdie and the Eldest Princess out, then ordered the Dream-Eating Gecko to withdraw.
• True Person Hanjiang infected Mu Ting with Witch Gu Qi, and Mo Tianji arrived but was quickly subdued by Shi Yuan and Shi You.
• True Person Hanjiang revived more than a thousand slain Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators as Undead Armored Soldiers and demanded the Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearls.
• Lin Ke offered his Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearl for peace, then said he would hand it over only if the Undead Cultivators withdrew.
• Lin Ke dismissed the Eldest Princess’s plight as unrelated to the Golden Wing Sect and claimed his sect had nothing to fear from the Shu Frontier barbarians.

Lin Ke negotiated with True Person Hanjiang for the Eldest Princess and the Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearls, then secretly arranged for both allied sects to withdraw while he stayed behind. True Person Hanjiang revealed that he intended to kill Lin Ke, who faced the Illusionless Gu Sect's army alone.

• Lin Ke demanded three Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearls for a ceasefire, and True Person Hanjiang agreed to hand them over.
• Duan Dongqing rescued Mo Tianji from Shi Yuan and Shi You, while Mu Ting produced a mirrored case containing ten Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearls.
• Duan Dongqing accused Lin Ke of selling out the Eldest Princess, but Lin Ke privately told Duan Jihong to teleport the allied cultivators back to Golden Autumn Garden.
• Duan Jihong transported the Golden Wing Sect and Cloud Ink Sect cultivators away, while Lin Ke had Lu Yuanchun sent back after he was accidentally taken too.
• True Person Hanjiang mocked Lin Ke for remaining alone and released dense Witch Gu Qi as the Illusionless Gu Sect prepared to attack.

Lin Ke resisted True Person Hanjiang’s Gu Poison and revealed an army of blade spirits and talismans, prompting Hanjiang to summon two Gu Emperor True Lords. As the battle escalated, Lin Ke produced a golden-patterned Formation Stone that began forming a giant larger than the skeletal warriors.

• True Person Hanjiang’s Gu Poison failed to affect Lin Ke because the Purple Mansion Insect absorbed and refined it.
• Hanjiang summoned a vast host of Undead Armored Soldiers, and Lin Ke countered with blade spirits formed through his Mental Power and tens of thousands of talismans.
• Shi Yuan tried to rally the Illusionless Gu Sect’s wavering cultivators as they reacted to Lin Ke’s overwhelming forces.
• Hanjiang summoned the Divine Souls of two Gu Emperor True Lords to protect the sect’s disciples and left Lin Ke to himself.
• Lin Ke urged Hanjiang to summon more souls, then tossed out a golden-patterned Formation Stone that rapidly formed a giant skeletal framework.

Lin Ke manifested a Four-Armed Dharma Aspect True Body and faced True Person Hanjiang’s increasingly powerful transformations of the Han Jiang Darkworld Grotto-Heaven Rift. The battle left Lin Ke pinned beneath an enormous python whose spell art had reached the Divine Ability Ninth Stage.

• Lin Ke summoned the Scorching Burn Dragon Pearl to form a Four-Armed Dharma Aspect True Body, startling True Person Hanjiang into pretending to yield the Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearls.
• Lin Ke sent a Black Ice Centipede to retrieve the pearls, and a Gray Unicorn slipped from the centipede into Mu Ting as True Person Hanjiang launched a surprise attack.
• Lin Ke countered Hanjiang’s first cleaver strike with the Dragon Head Annihilation Art, while Hanjiang claimed Lin Ke’s fused power would not last.
• True Person Hanjiang unleashed further transformations of the Han Jiang Darkworld Grotto-Heaven Rift, and Lin Ke answered with Northern Frontier Sea-Calming Seals and Black Ice Falling Goose Slash.
• True Person Hanjiang summoned a towering python that pinned Lin Ke’s dharma aspect in place as the creature emerged from the shattered space.

Lin Ke broke through True Person Hanjiang’s purple python and unleashed a blazing Dharma Aspect attack that devastated the Illusionless Gu Sect’s forces. True Person Hanjiang survived the explosion, but Duan Jihong and reinforcements arrived as both sides faced the aftermath.

• Lin Ke’s saber, empowered by Dragon Pearl Fire, split True Person Hanjiang’s purple python in two.
• True Person Hanjiang summoned a second-layer domain-tier Flood Dragon, which battered Lin Ke’s Golden Body and left it close to collapse.
• Lin Ke combined Spiritual Qi from himself, Jiang Ruoyan, Lu Yuanchun, and the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber to turn his Dharma Aspect into a flaming giant.
• The flaming giant vaporized nearby Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators, seized True Person Hanjiang’s Flood Dragon, and detonated, leaving a crater and a storm of ashes and scales.
• True Person Hanjiang crawled out of the crater, while Lin Ke, Jiang Ruoyan, and the others rose into the air and Duan Jihong arrived with reinforcements.

Lin Ke and Mu Ting survived True Person Hanjiang’s assault, forcing the enemy to withdraw, but both were badly injured. While Zong Ya treated them at Golden Autumn Garden, Lin Ke woke in a hot spring and discovered that his conflicting spiritual qi had begun to fuse.

• Mu Ting used the Gray Unicorn to kill the Gu Insect in her heart meridians, and Lin Ke told her how to protect her damaged circulation until he could treat her.
• True Person Hanjiang ordered his cultivators to retreat to aid the True Lord of the Five Poisons, leaving his plan to use Fang Mengdie and the Treasure-Gathering Spirit Pearl intact.
• After the enemy withdrew, Lin Ke collapsed unconscious, and Mu Ting sealed her heart meridians to become a mortal while Duan Jihong, Zong Ya, and the others came to help.
• Zong Ya treated Mu Ting with the Spirit Lotus Root Vein-Exchange Technique and immersed Lin Ke in a medicinal hot spring to heal his body and meridians.
• Lin Ke woke and realized that the four conflicting streams of spiritual qi within him had fused, then sensed Zong Ya treating the injured Mu Ting nearby and struggled to suppress his sudden lust.

Lin Ke woke in a stone house with Princess Mu Ting while overhearing Duan Jihong and True Person Fangshan discuss the trapped cultivators and the damaged formation. Mu Ting repaid Lin Ke with a powerful saber and offered to exchange healing help, leaving them to begin a treatment that would benefit them both.

• Duan Jihong blamed True Person Fangshan for Lin Ke's injuries as they discussed the broken formation and the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm's sole remaining exit in the Northern Frontier.
• Zong Ya left to treat disciples suffering from Gu Poison, and Mu Ting revealed that she had detected Lin Ke's Divine Sense and knew he was awake.
• Mu Ting offered to remove the restriction on Lin Ke's Fusion Spirit Pearl and gave him the Snow Moon Reflecting Frost Blade, warning him never to summon its Blade Spirit unless he had no other choice.
• Mu Ting asked Lin Ke for his fire-tempered Spiritual Qi to heal her injuries and offered to use an Imperial Clan Secret Technique to restore his body in return.

After recovering, Lin Ke strengthened his cultivation and learned that the Illusionless Gu Sect had nearly surrounded the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm. He volunteered to travel to the Southwestern Front to gather intelligence and retrieve jade needed to repair the teleportation formation.

• Lin Ke refined a Spirit-Gathering Treasure Pearl, gave two others to the Spirit Insects and Lu Yuanchun, and discovered that his Five-Colored Glazed Body had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage.
• Zhuge Qi Tian and Duan Jihong reported that the Illusionless Gu Sect had occupied much of the Southern Summer Garden and surrounded the Southwestern Region with cultivators and Undead Armored Soldiers.
• Duan Jihong explained that the damaged teleportation formation needed a pillar carved from Mountain Stream Jade, and Mu Ting said such a pillar remained in the Myriad Insect Abyss Remnant Formation.
• True Person Fangshan offered rare treasure-guiding talismans to whoever traveled to the Southwestern Front, while Zhuge Qi Tian promised the Ten-Mile Spring Breeze Tower Refinement Method to anyone who returned safely.
• Lin Ke volunteered to travel through the Myriad Insect Abyss, gather intelligence, and retrieve the jade pillar.

Lin Ke prepared for the journey to the southwestern front by improving his techniques, teaching insect control, and opening True Person Hanjiang’s Storage Bag. The bag exploded after he forgot to draw its closing talisman, scattering Hanjiang’s collection of picture books just as Nan Shang arrived with the list of cultivators willing to go southwest.

• Lin Ke melted his ruined Golden Flying Sword into two Formation Stones, boosting the range and speed of his Seven Stars Gaze-Blazing Art.
• Lin Ke taught disciples to raise Mirror Ancient Millipedes and planned an Insect-Controlling Art inheritance after gaining insight toward fusion.
• Lin Ke practiced cracking the restriction on True Person Hanjiang’s Storage Bag, then opened it but forgot to draw the Formation-Closing Talisman.
• The Storage Bag exploded, scattering its contents, including many picture books, and Lin Ke began burning them when Nan Shang entered.
• Nan Shang brought Lin Ke Master Zhuge’s list of cultivators who wanted to go to the southwestern front.