Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke and the consorts turned against the Illusionless Gu Sect after Ancient Charm Mountain collapsed and the secret realm began falling toward Shu Frontier. Lin Ke stayed behind to fight while Consort Liuye evacuated the others, and his Dragon Pearl Fire quickly destroyed the skeletal giants.

• The Heaven-Watching Formation revealed that the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm was descending toward Shu Frontier, while True Person Hanjiang and the True Lord of the Five Poisons celebrated the cultivators' plight.
• Lin Ke split Ancient Charm Mountain with the Mountain-Splitting Axe, causing the Falling Grand Array to hold the formation platform aloft as the mountain's treasures scattered.
• The Second Consort moved the Grand Consort's divine soul into a new body, and the sisters offered to help Lin Ke fight the Illusionless Gu Sect.
• Lin Ke asked Qinghe True Person to control the descent and told Consort Liuye to teleport the other cultivators to Golden Autumn Garden, leaving him behind.
• The True Lord of the Five Poisons sent Han Jiang to fight Qinghe True Person and confronted Lin Ke, the consorts, and the Centipede Dragon Cultivator with eleven skeletal giants.
• Lin Ke and the two consorts divided the giants between them, and Lin Ke's Dragon Pearl Fire destroyed most of them; Shi Yuan fled when Lin Ke intensified the flames.

Lin Ke turned Shi Yuan and Shi You into blade spirits and used their repeated self-detonations against the Illusionless Gu Sect while the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm began crashing toward the Shu Frontier. He joined the fight against the True Lord of the Five Poisons, whose natal domain spirit emerged as poisonous vapor threatened the cultivators below.

• Shi Yuan broke through to Fusion, but Lin Ke killed him and made him a blade spirit, then ordered him to detonate himself against Shi You.
• Lin Ke made Shi You a blade spirit as well and sent both spirits to attack the Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators; the Grand Consort and Second Consort helped defeat the skeletal giants.
• The Cloud Dragon Secret Realm shook as it neared the Shu Frontier, and Lin Ke asked the Centipede Dragon Cultivator to help Qinghe True Person stabilize its descent.
• Duan Jihong told Lin Ke that he had repaired the formation and was leading the sect's cultivators away, so Lin Ke joined the Grand Consort, Second Consort, and Lin Xuanyuan in attacking the True Lord of the Five Poisons.
• The True Lord of the Five Poisons unleashed enormous poisonous creatures from his sword, and Lin Ke answered with Dragon Pearl Fire and a strike from the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber.
• As poisonous vapor killed cultivators below, the True Lord of the Five Poisons revealed his natal domain spirit, a black python coiled around it.

Lin Ke and Lin Xuanyuan turned the battle against the Illusionless Gu Sect after Lin Xuanyuan revealed his True Dragon form and Lin Ke unleashed a devastating attack. The surviving cultivators fled toward a rift and the sect's teleportation formation.

• True Lord of the Five Poisons summoned the Heaven-Swallowing Black-Scaled Python, which destroyed the pavilions and exposed the Red Powder Skeletons.
• Lin Ke called on Lin Xuanyuan, who used the purple Dragon Eye to break through to the Fusion Stage and manifest as a True Dragon.
• Lin Xuanyuan's Dragon Might immobilized most of the battlefield, and Lin Ke killed countless Illusionless Gu Sect cultivators and Undead Armored Soldiers in a rapid assault.
• Lin Ke's Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber advanced to a Divine-Grade Low-Rank Spirit Artifact, and Lin Xuanyuan took his place behind him as the Dragon Might receded.
• The Grand Consort and Second Consort urged the survivors to escape through the rift and use the Illusionless Gu Sect's Teleportation Formation to leave the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm.

After the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm landed in the Shu Frontier, Lin Ke escaped the fighting but was cut off when the spatial rift closed. His pursuers raised an undead army under the awakened Bone Emperor, who turned his attention to Lin Ke and the consorts.

• The Centipede Dragon Cultivator left Lin Ke a strand of divine sense and departed after the Cloud Dragon Secret Realm landed in the Shu Frontier.
• The True Lord of the Five Poisons sent the Heaven-Swallowing Black-Scaled Python after Lin Ke, but the Grand Consort and Second Consort intervened as Lin Ke fled into a Teleportation Formation.
• A fight over supreme-grade spirit stones caused the spatial rift to close, trapping Lin Ke in the Shu Frontier while the True Lord of the Five Poisons shattered the formation.
• The Grand Consort, Second Consort, and Five Poisons agreed to ally against the weakened Lin Ke, who flew into the black mountain forest.
• True Person Hanjiang awakened the Bone Emperor, who raised the dead across the battlefield and reached the false spirit transformation realm.
• The Bone Emperor accepted the True Lord of the Five Poisons' obeisance and set his sights on the Grand Consort and Second Consort.

The Bone Emperor devoured both consorts, gained Spirit Transformation early stage cultivation, and sent his followers to hunt Lin Ke. After fleeing through Black Mountain Forest for eleven days, Lin Ke found a Buddhist sect and entered its formation in search of supplies, but a monk spotted him.

• The Bone Emperor extracted and devoured the Grand Consort's divine soul, then used her body to restore True Person Hanjiang and swallowed the Second Consort, gaining another divine status and reaching Spirit Transformation early stage.
• The Bone Emperor sent two Fusion Cultivators and a false Spirit Transformation cultivator to search for Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke fled through Black Mountain Forest, tried and failed to use its poisonous sea to conceal himself, and continued teleporting as his formation energy dwindled.
• The Bone Emperor found Lin Ke's footprints and a remnant Spirit Artifact that revealed his image, then pursued him with the other cultivators.
• On the eleventh day, Lin Ke spotted a Buddhist sect, disguised himself as a monk, slipped through its sect-protecting formation, and sought Teleportation Array supplies.
• A monk spotted Lin Ke inside the Buddhist courtyard and challenged him.

Disguised as the Buddhist cultivator Kelin, Lin Ke bought supplies and waited in a temple while recovering his meridians and checking his teleportation array. When the temple emptied and a storm began, six mysterious women arrived seeking shelter, and Lin Ke let them in to learn what they were hiding.

• Lin Ke posed as Kelin and asked two monks to provide formation materials, spatial fungi, and motion sickness-relieving herb.
• Lin Ke inspected his teleportation array, estimated it had only three days of power left, and summoned Lu Yuanchun, Jiang Ruoyan, and the others to guard him while he cultivated.
• Lin Ke discovered the temple had been deserted and sensed something watching him as a violent, poisonous storm swept through.
• A beautiful woman asked to shelter in Lin Ke's room, but a formation stopped her when she approached.
• Five more women appeared, and Lin Ke noticed that all six shared only one aura; curious about the mystery, he allowed them to stay.

Lin Ke investigated six concealed auras and discovered that an alluring woman was a Six-Faced Colorful Phoenix Butterfly that attacked with mental power. Mu Ting appeared, explained the rare spirit butterfly, and offered to help Lin Ke evade the Illusionless Gu Sect while exploring Blackstone Mountain.

• A woman who had been among six visitors approached Lin Ke, tried to set him up with a Dao Companion, and stayed behind after the others left.
• Lin Ke let the woman’s mental attack affect him, then realized she was converting his mental power into spiritual qi pearls.
• Mu Ting emerged through a crack in space, and Lin Ke killed the woman, revealing a Spirit Butterfly Blade Spirit marked with six humanlike faces.
• Mu Ting identified the spirit being as a Six-Faced Colorful Phoenix Butterfly and explained how it devoured mental power and took on six forms.
• Mu Ting said she had come to explore while fleeing danger, and Lin Ke asked whether the True Lord of the Five Poisons could find him too.
• Mu Ting said only the Snow Moon Reflecting Frost Blade had let her locate Lin Ke and assured him that her Spatial Ring could protect them from the Illusionless Gu Sect.

Lin Ke and Mu Ting fled through the Wanjiang Heaven-Piercing Way to escape the pursuing Bone Emperor and True Lord of the Five Poisons, but arrived at an unfamiliar sect’s sacred ground. Lin Ke faced a powerful body cultivator there, while the pursuers’ fate remained unknown.

• Mu Ting opened a spatial rift with her Jade Thumb Ring and guided Lin Ke through the Heaven-Piercing Way, warning him to focus on their destination.
• Lin Ke detected the Bone Emperor, the True Lord of the Five Poisons, and others approaching, then recalled that monks could guide travelers to Heavenly Sect Great Mirror Mountain.
• True Person Hanjiang recognized Lin Ke and charged at him, so Lin Ke stalled him with insults while Mu Ting opened a rift toward their destination.
• Lin Ke and Mu Ting arrived at a mountain in an unfamiliar sect, where blue-robed cultivators accused them of violating sacred-ground rules and summoned their master.
• Lin Ke revealed his apparent Nascent Soul middle stage great perfection cultivation and punched an elderly body cultivator, but the man’s body cultivator domain spirit absorbed the blow without effect.

Lin Ke and Mu Ting explained that they had arrived in the Black Sea by accident and negotiated a stay with the resource-conscious Black Tortoise Gate. They hired A Bang as their guide while they prepared to gather spatial energy and find a way back.

• Elder Liu stopped Lin Ke and Mu Ting from fighting and said the sect elders would decide what to do with them.
• The Black Tortoise Ancestor arrived, explained that the Black Tortoise Gate lived on a spirit turtle in the resource-poor Black Sea, and asked Elder Liu to treat the visitors as guests.
• Lin Ke offered tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones, and Mu Ting agreed to pay five per day while they stayed and searched for spatial energy.
• A Bang volunteered to be their guide, and Lin Ke accepted him after Elder Liu praised the boy's sailing skills and cultivation.

Lin Ke and Mu Ting reached Tortoise-Back Mountain after a mistaken teleport and discovered that A Bang had an extraordinary talent for formations. With no nearby source of spatial energy in sight, they planned to search the black sea, while Mu Ting asked Lin Ke to dual cultivate so she could heal.

• Lin Ke and Mu Ting left Elder Liu and the Rong Household behind with A Bang, who eagerly accepted Mu Ting’s berry-flavored Gathering Spirit Pellet.
• A Bang guided them to a cabin on Tortoise-Back Mountain, where Lin Ke explained that they had teleported far away and lacked the energy to return.
• Lin Ke demonstrated the Heaven-Watching Formation, and A Bang quickly learned to draw its Formation-Starting Talisman.
• Lin Ke gave A Bang formation scrolls and runes to study, then surveyed the surrounding black sea and found no nearby islands or mountain ranges.
• Lin Ke proposed traveling with the Black Tortoise Spirit Turtle or searching the sea floor for spatial energy, and Mu Ting asked him to dual cultivate so she could recover.

Lin Ke and Mu Ting’s spiritual qi exchange helped Lin Ke create the Nine-Colored Glazed Body, a crystal armor that could qualify him to become an elder of the Black Tortoise Gate. Their cabin then came under attack during a beast tide, and Lin Ke prepared to defend it as Blood-Colored Bats swarmed in.

• Lin Ke and Mu Ting exchanged spiritual qi, and Lin Ke reopened old meridians and formed new pathways that strengthened his body.
• Lin Ke developed the Nine-Colored Glazed Body, a crystal armor comparable to a Fusion expert’s physical body, and named the technique.
• A Bang discovered Lin Ke’s new spiritual body and suggested that teaching the technique to the Black Tortoise Gate could earn him resources and insight power.
• A huge wave struck the cabin, and Lin Ke used his new armor to shield it while A Bang activated his Elastic Protective Magic Array.
• Blood-Colored Bats attacked the Black Tortoise Spirit Turtle and the cabin’s formation, so Lin Ke drew a mid-tier protective magic array to show A Bang how to defend them.

Lin Ke, Abang, and Mu Ting used a formation and spirit artifacts to slaughter the Blood-Colored Bats, while rival plots against them unfolded on Tortoise-Back Mountain. A powerful sound wave struck the battlefield, and the Black Tortoise Gate cultivators feared a Blizzard Qilin Whale had arrived.

• Lin Ke taught Abang how to draw green runes for an offense-defense reversal formation, and Abang copied them with striking skill.
• Mu Ting supplied spirit artifacts, and Lin Ke activated the completed formation to cut down the Blood-Colored Bats.
• Lady Rong ordered Rong Fatty to let demons attack Lin Ke and Abang, then rescue and kill them, while she planned to release a dangerous specimen to distract the mountain’s elders.
• Black Tortoise Ancestor told four Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators to kill Rong Fatty and the two Outlanders amid the chaos, but said Abang’s fate should be left to chance.
• A sudden sound wave injured Black Tortoise Gate cultivators, and they cried out that a Blizzard Qilin Whale might be responsible.

Lin Ke killed a Blizzard Qilin Whale that had been drawn toward him and Mu Ting, then discovered that four cultivators and Rong Fatty had come to attack them for their high-grade spirit stones. Master Zhuang intervened, and Lin Ke knocked Rong Fatty into the Black Sea, but the four attackers still prepared to fight him.

• Lin Ke refused to retreat from the Blizzard Qilin Whales and protected Mu Ting and A Bang as one whale descended toward their house.
• Lin Ke killed the whale with the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber, and its body crashed over the house and into the sea.
• Rong Fatty and four cultivators rushed to the whale's mouth, where Rong Fatty was launched into the sky by the whale's rising corpse.
• Lin Ke, Mu Ting, and A Bang emerged from a crystal sphere, and the four cultivators admitted they planned to kill them for their high-grade spirit stones.
• Master Zhuang knocked aside the early Fusion-stage cultivator's domain spirit, while Lin Ke blasted Rong Fatty into the Black Sea with a Sky-Piercing Thunderbolt and mental power attack.
• The four cultivators recognized Lin Ke as a Purple Mansion cultivator but decided to join forces and attack him.

Lin Ke defeated the four Black Tortoise Gate elders, drove off the attacking Demon Beasts with Lin Xuanyuan, and exposed the elders’ conduct before the sect. He challenged them to a contest of body cultivation to claim their positions, but they mocked his chances.

• Lin Ke sent Mu Ting and A Bang to safety, then fought and captured the four elders with his Golden Body.
• Lin Ke summoned Lin Xuanyuan, who scattered the Blizzard Qilin Whales and killed or routed the attacking Demon Beasts.
• Lin Ke brought the elders to Tortoise-Back Mountain’s summit, where Black Tortoise Gate cultivators gathered and heard him accuse the elders of causing trouble during the crisis.
• Lin Ke challenged the four elders to a body-cultivation contest, offering to take their positions if he won.
• The four elders laughed at Lin Ke and dismissed his challenge as foolish.

Lin Ke fought a Fusion Realm elder of the Black Tortoise Gate, matching his body cultivation with the Nine-Colored Glazed Body and Dragon Pearl Fire. After the elder summoned a Black Tortoise Divine Beast Form and began to overpower him, Lin Ke relied on his speed and laid explosive formation runes across the sky.

• Lin Ke challenged the elders’ claims about orthodox body cultivation and manifested nine fire dragons with Dragon Pearl Fire.
• The Fusion elder summoned a Black Tortoise Beast Core, and he and Lin Ke exchanged blows, with Lin Ke sending the elder flying.
• The elder used a summoning formation to transform into the Black Tortoise Divine Beast Form and gained the advantage over Lin Ke.
• The elder’s snake head broke through Lin Ke’s armor and bit his leg, while the armor on Lin Ke’s arms began to crack.
• Lin Ke realized the elder was using a formation in their supposed contest of body cultivation and began dodging while laying explosive formation runes across the sky.

Lin Ke battled the Black Tortoise True Person, using his Dragon Pearl and innate spell arts to uncover a weakness in the elder’s defenses. After finding a vulnerable acupoint, Lin Ke charged the elder’s enormous Black Tortoise Shell with his Golden Dharma Form True Body.

• Mu Ting reassured A Bang that Lin Ke was trying to earn respect, and A Bang activated his corrected formation inside her Guardian Magic Array.
• Lin Ke lured the Black Tortoise True Person into an explosion, stabbed him with a Nine-Colored Glazed Crystal dagger, and revealed his innate spell arts.
• Lin Ke repeatedly summoned fire dragons and used the Dragon Pearl, while the elder fought back and tried to kill him to seize the pearl.
• Lin Ke used a wider-area spell to study the elder’s armor, and the other elders supported the enormous Black Tortoise Shell as it threatened the mountain.
• Lin Ke spotted a burn mark on an acupoint on the elder’s neck, then charged the Black Tortoise Shell with his Golden Dharma Form True Body.

Lin Ke defeated the Black Tortoise Gate’s second elder and accepted his position, then took charge of the sect’s poorest branch on the Black Tortoise Spirit Turtle’s tail. He promised Mu Ting he would make the branch’s cultivators useful within three days.

• Lin Ke hurled the Black Tortoise shell into the Black Sea and struck the second elder with his Nine-Turn Jade Dragon Incineration Art, leaving him unconscious.
• The Black Tortoise Patriarch presented Lin Ke with the elder’s token, and Lin Ke accepted his position in the Black Tortoise Gate.
• Mu Ting urged Lin Ke to join the Imperial Clan, but Lin Ke said they needed to join the sect temporarily to access its resources.
• The Black Tortoise Patriarch secretly planned to exploit Lin Ke, while Lin Ke and Mu Ting recognized that both sides intended to use the other.
• Lin Ke and Mu Ting met the impoverished cultivators assigned to Lin Ke’s branch on the turtle’s tail, and Lin Ke promised to make them useful within three days.

Lin Ke began improving conditions for the impoverished refugees on Tortoise-Back Mountain and planned to build a force to challenge its major lineages. He sent the Six-Faced Colorful Phoenix Butterfly to impersonate Rong Fatty and investigate the injured Rong Household Head, who revealed that Lin Ke had defeated the second elder.

• Lin Ke gave Hao Ning high-grade spirit stones and the Mechanical Insect Refining Method, offering payment for insects made from scavenged cultivation waste.
• Lin Ke explained that he wanted the villagers to use their scavenging skills and promised to protect them from being exploited.
• Lin Ke surveyed Tortoise-Back Mountain, learned how its four major lineages controlled the mountain, and decided to improve the refugees' living conditions and build a force.
• Lin Ke found the injured Rong Household Head at the Rong estate and ordered the Six-Faced Colorful Phoenix Butterfly to impersonate Rong Fatty and question her.
• Rong Fatty apologized to the Rong Household Head, who said Lin Ke had knocked the second elder unconscious and asked whether Rong Fatty had not already died.

Lin Ke used the Six-Faced Colorful Phoenix Butterfly to conceal the Rong Household head’s condition, then confronted her and offered an alliance in exchange for inheritance power and the snow pines behind her residence. The Rong Household head accepted his healing pill, and Lin Ke left Lu Yuanchun and Jiang Ruoyan with her as proof of trust.

• Lin Ke placed the Six-Faced Colorful Phoenix Butterfly’s soul inside the Rong Household head’s Soul Lamp, and the butterfly claimed it had taken a pill to feign death.
• Lin Ke revealed himself to the Rong Household head and identified her concealed injuries and strength as a Purple Mansion Cultivator.
• Lin Ke offered to help the Rong Household head seize the Grand Elder’s position, provide a healing pill, and teach the Nine-Colored Glazed Body in exchange for inheritance power and the snow pines behind her residence.
• The Rong Household head accepted Lin Ke’s healing pill and questioned whether he could be trusted.
• Lin Ke conjured Lu Yuanchun and Jiang Ruoyan and told them to greet the Rong Household head as their godmother.

Lin Ke secured the Rong Household's cooperation and timber, then visited other powers while investigating their secrets and testing their intentions. He found the Grand Elder knew nothing of spatial energy and left the Liu Lineage after Liu Anzhong offered to let his juniors study under him.

• The Rong Household head agreed to cooperate with Lin Ke and help him break through to the Fusion Realm if he visited other lineages and let her hear what he said.
• Lin Ke cut down the Rong Household's rear mountain forest with the Windglow Spirit Dragon Saber and stored the timber.
• Lin Ke visited the three elders and discovered the Black Tortoise Ancestor's Dao Companion returned to their room after he left.
• The Grand Elder told Lin Ke that the Black Sea had no spatial energy, so Lin Ke withheld any offer of cooperation and gave him gifts instead.
• Lin Ke offered Liu Ming and Liu Anzhong the Five-Colored Glazed Body hand-seal formula, and Liu Anzhong invited Liu Lineage juniors to study under him.