Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke successfully purified and stored solar essence, then considered how to produce it secretly without provoking the Dawn Herald Immortal Lord. At the Great Wilderness Palace, he negotiated with Jade Great Radiance Church representatives to buy solar essence, but rejected their inflated price, leaving the meeting tense.

• Lin Ke used the Giant Sun Dragonfly's Sun Gathering skill to infuse solar essence into spirit sand, completing its purification and storage.
• Lin Ke planned a discreet production process and worried that the Dawn Herald Immortal Lord might destroy the Golden Wing Sect if he discovered the operation.
• Lin Quan-meng messaged Lin Ke that Zhang Wu and Li Qiangqu of the Jade Great Radiance Church were selling solar essence at the Great Wilderness Palace.
• Lin Ke asked Zhang Wu and Li Qiangqu for two and a half jin of solar essence, but Li Qiangqu demanded one million spirit stones, payable in Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lin Ke rejected the offer and told Zhang Wu and Li Qiangqu to leave, prompting Zhang Wu to accuse him of playing them.

Lin Ke negotiated a purchase of solar essence from Zhang Wu and Li Qiangqu after exposing their bluff and refusing to pay their initial price. Back at the Green Mulberry Garden, he shared precious Jade Ginger Tea with Zong Ya, Lin Quan-meng, and Lin Can, who immediately asked for more.

• Lin Ke rejected Zhang Wu and Li Qiangqu's demand for six hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones and told them to leave.
• Zhang Wu dropped his act and threatened that Lin Ke could not buy solar essence anywhere in the Three Frontiers, but Lin Ke challenged him to force the sale and risk word spreading.
• Zhang Wu offered two and a half jin of solar essence for five hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, and Lin Ke accepted the deal.
• Lin Ke gave Fang Du the money and asked him to receive the solar essence, then returned to the Green Mulberry Garden with Lin Quan-meng.
• Lin Ke served Jade Ginger Tea to Zong Ya, Lin Quan-meng, and Lin Can, explaining that it could strengthen the foundation of someone drinking it for the first time.
• Lin Can gulped down her tea and asked Lin Ke for more.

Lin Ke drank Jade Ginger Tea until the sixteenth leaf transformed his Niwan Palace, then learned about forming a golden core and discovered that Hua Wujiang had secretly been protecting him. The Dream-Eating Gecko explained that the Golden Wing Sect had not yet learned the full extent of Lin Ke’s talent.

• Lin Ke, Lin Can, and Zong Ya drank Jade Ginger Tea, and Zong Ya reached her limit after one cup while Lin Ke and Lin Can continued.
• Lin Ke drank tea brewed from sixteen leaves, causing his joined Embracing Origin Palace and Niwan Palace to expand into a vast world.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko told Lin Ke that a golden core would serve as the sun and moon of his Niwan Palace, then explained the Golden Core stages.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko revealed that Hua Wujiang had placed a trace of divine sense on Lin Ke to protect him from danger.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko said the sect would prioritize Lin Ke’s cultivation if it knew he had opened his Niwan Palace and possessed an eighty-percent Dao Foundation.

Lin Ke learned that his Dual-Origin Palace might let him condense up to nine Yin and nine Yang Void Cores, provided he found enough life-bound treasures or spirit companions. He left the palace planning how to fill the remaining slots and agreed to visit the frontline with Lin Quan-meng after attending to matters with Lin Can.

• The Dream-Eating Gecko explained that Void Cores required paired Yin and Yang cores and realized Lin Ke's vast Dual-Origin Palace might hold nine pairs.
• Lin Ke considered his future core capacity and identified Lin Can, the Dream-Eating Gecko, and possibly Lin Fusang as candidates to help him condense cores.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko hurried off to ask the Spirit Insect Cave's elders to sell it to Lin Ke, declaring that it had taken his surname and become Lin Dream-Eater.
• Lin Ke left the Dual-Origin Palace and told Zong Ya and Lin Quan-meng that the Jade Ginger Tea had stabilized his Embracing Origin Palace.
• Lin Ke declined Lin Quan-meng's invitation to spar and suggested they visit the frontline after he handled matters with Lin Can.

Lin Ke discussed expanding Solar Essence production with Lin Can and agreed to let her leave the Green Mulberry Garden to gather insects. Lin Can chose to develop south of the Red River first and planned to go north after forming her Golden Core.

• Lin Ke assigned roles in Solar Essence production and told Lin Can they needed another Giant Sun Dragonfly and Stinger Hawk Moth.
• Lin Can asked to go outside so she could use the many insects in the Poison Tempering Mountains, and Lin Quan-meng joked that Lin Can would have to call her Mommy.
• Lin Ke agreed that Lin Can should leave, explaining that she needed room to grow and could use a Stinger Moth Queen to gather insects.
• Lin Ke left the choice of where to develop to Lin Can, who decided to go south of the Red River, form her Golden Core, and then head north.
• Lin Quan-meng offered to take Lin Can south because she knew the tribes there.

Lin Ke planned to expand the Green Mulberry Garden and checked the newly released Heavenly Prodigy Ranking with Zong Ya and Lin Quan-meng. The ranking revealed the astonishing feats of first-place Zhuge Qi Tian, and Lin Quan-meng began explaining divine abilities.

• Lin Ke told Zong Ya to expand the Green Mulberry Garden across three nearby mountains, where he planned to develop new uses for its trees, silkworms, and Giant Sun Dragonflies.
• Lin Ke learned that Rain Spider True Person had not replied about Fang Tong's son, and he reflected on the ongoing battles between Nascent Soul cultivators and the demon race.
• Lin Ke, Zong Ya, and Lin Quan-meng received Rain Spider True Person's announcement that the Genius Ranking and Heavenly Prodigy Ranking would be published and updated monthly.
• Lin Ke opened the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking and saw that Zhuge Qi Tian ranked first, with a record of killing six Nascent Soul demon beasts and many golden core demon beasts.
• Lin Quan-meng explained that divine abilities were formed by condensing divine intent and began sharing what Hua Wujiang had taught her.

Lin Ke, Lin Quan-meng, and Zong Ya studied the sect rankings and learned more about the paths from intent to divine abilities and Dao. Lin Ke and Lin Quan-meng both appeared on the Genius Ranking, but the black-spotted blood mosquitoes suddenly grew agitated, making Lin Ke suspect the Blood-Devouring True Person was nearby.

• Lin Quan-meng explained the hierarchy of arts, methods, intent, divine abilities, domains, images, and Dao to Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke and his companions reviewed the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking and discussed Zhuge Qi Tian, Su Nuonuo, and the Blood-Devouring True Person.
• The Genius Ranking listed Lin Ke at eighty-third and Lin Quan-meng at ninety-eighth, surprising them both.
• Lin Quan-meng vowed to surpass Lin Ke and proposed that they hunt demon beasts at the Frontline.
• Lin Ke sensed the black-spotted blood mosquitoes in the Dual-Origin Palace beating their wings frantically and suspected the Blood-Devouring True Person.

Lin Ke flew to meet the Blood-Devouring True Person, who revealed that they were heading to attack the Purple-Flame Kui Ox's lair. The Blood-Devouring True Person ordered Lin Ke to die during the battle by restraining the beast and letting it crush him.

• Lin Ke left the Green Mulberry Garden after instructing Lin Can to breed Stinger Hawk Moths, then changed course when the Black-Spotted Blood Mosquito drew him northeast.
• Lin Ke considered True Person Yuan Yong's motives regarding Zong Ya's Profound Kun Sacred Yin Body and sent messages to several people using the Mystic Vein Book.
• The Blood-Devouring True Person appeared beside Lin Ke, praised his likely seventy-percent Dao Foundation, and struck him twice while mocking him for being a prodigy.
• The Blood-Devouring True Person covered them with Blood-Devouring Mosquitoes and carried Lin Ke at high speed to meet his master.
• The Blood-Devouring True Person said they would attack the Purple-Flame Kui Ox's lair and ordered Lin Ke to restrain the beast so it could stomp him to death.

Lin Ke arrived at Scorpion Palace with Blood-Devouring True Person, where True Person Yuan Yong punished his disciple for pretending to be injured and confronted Lin Ke over Li Le’s death. The chapter ended with True Person Yuan Yong stopping the punishment and ordering Blood-Devouring True Person to save his blood for the battlefield.

• Blood-Devouring True Person took Lin Ke’s storage bag, kept his spirit stones, and warned him that True Person Yuan Yong would torture him.
• Lin Ke and Blood-Devouring True Person reached Scorpion Palace and found the mountain covered in corpses and scavenging spirit insects.
• Blood-Devouring True Person suspected that the enemy Nascent Soul demon beast had survived the recent battle.
• True Person Yuan Yong struck Blood-Devouring True Person for pretending to be heavily injured, then made him kneel and kowtow without using spirit power to heal himself.
• True Person Yuan Yong told Lin Ke that he wanted him dead because Lin Ke had allowed Li Le, his keepsake from a woman, to die.
• Lin Ke replied that he had considered himself dead since becoming Blood-Devouring True Person’s servant, and True Person Yuan Yong ordered his disciple to stop kowtowing and save his blood for the battlefield.

True Person Yuan Yong organized a plan to capture the Ice-Snow Cicada and kill the Purple-Flame Kui Ox, then led his disciples into the Poison Tempering Mountains. Lin Ke suspected Yuan Yong had ulterior motives and secretly dropped a stone grain as the group approached the beasts.

• True Person Yuan Yong ordered Lin Ke to heal his bruises but refused to let the Blood-Devouring True Person heal his own wounds.
• True Person Yuan Yong assigned the gathered cultivators roles in a plan to trap the Ice-Snow Cicada and attack the Purple-Flame Kui Ox's lair.
• Lin Ke noticed that some of Yuan Yong's precautions seemed aimed at his own disciples and considered exploiting an opening while protecting himself.
• At midnight, True Person Yuan Yong led the cultivators into the Poison Tempering Mountains, drawing the attention of nearby Demon Beasts.
• Lin Ke secretly let a stone grain fall as a blizzard swept ahead and the Ice-Snow Cicada shouted Yuan Yong's real name, Li Chongpei.

Lin Ke joined the battle against the Snow-Ice Cicada’s Demon Beast horde while secretly pursuing his own plan. After demonstrating overwhelming strength against the beasts, he went to aid the Blood-Devouring True Person and began to glimpse insight into the Way of Mountain and Stone.

• True Person Yuan Yong and the Snow-Ice Cicada clashed, while Lin Ke and the disciples charged into the Demon Beast horde.
• Lin Ke suspected that True Person Yuan Yong’s real target was the Purple-Flame Kui Ox and decided to hold back while assessing the battlefield.
• Lin Ke unleashed Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning with Turn Earth to Steel, killing many Dao Foundation Demon Beasts and astonishing the disciples.
• Lin Ke flew to the Blood-Devouring True Person’s fight with a Fang-Toothed Otter and, at the True Person’s command, formed a spear that concentrated all his power.
• Lin Ke felt a new insight stirring and thought of mountain-moving and the Way of Mountain and Stone.

Lin Ke comprehended the intent of the Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning Art and helped the Blood-Devouring True Person kill a Golden Core otter. After the otter detonated its Golden Core and the Blood-Devouring True Person survived, he took Lin Ke to hunt more demon beasts.

• Lin Ke realized that the art’s foundation was the force of moving and overturning, then formed a spear of earth and stone with power rivaling a Golden Core.
• Lin Ke joined the Blood-Devouring True Person in attacking the Golden Core otter and blocked its escape with earthen walls.
• The otter detonated its Golden Core, and Lin Ke used the Dragonfly Dash Art and steel-hardened walls to escape the blast.
• The Blood-Devouring True Person survived, slapped Lin Ke, and carried him toward another demon beast to steal its Golden Core.
• Lin Ke replenished his spirit power during the flight and reflected on practicing until he could activate the art’s intent instantly.

Lin Ke’s fighting turned the battle against the Snow-Ice Cicada in the humans’ favor, prompting True Person Yuan Yong to abandon his plan to target the Purple-Flame Kui Ox and attack the cicada in earnest. Lin Ke revealed that he had deliberately helped create this opportunity as part of a hidden scheme against Yuan Yong.

• Lin Ke helped the others fight the demon beasts and killed them with strength that astonished the Golden Core cultivators.
• True Person Yuan Yong’s forces surrounded the Snow-Ice Cicada as their advantage grew, while Yuan Yong weighed the chance to capture it.
• The Snow-Ice Cicada refused Yuan Yong’s demand to submit, and Yuan Yong changed plans to attack it instead of the Purple-Flame Kui Ox.
• Yuan Yong summoned his Golden Core spirit beasts and fired a scorpion-tailed arrow at the Snow-Ice Cicada, whose cries struck the attackers.
• Lin Ke blocked the sound waves with Amethyst Carapace and reflected that his performance had pushed Yuan Yong into the choice Lin Ke wanted.

Lin Ke survived the battle in which True Person Yuan Yong killed the Snow-Ice Cicada and claimed his territory for the Golden Wing Sect. The Purple-Flame Kui Ox then arrived to challenge Yuan Yong, while the Blood-Devouring True Person confronted Lin Ke about his plan.

• The Snow-Ice Cicada burned his nascent soul and clashed with True Person Yuan Yong in a final, devastating attack.
• Lin Ke survived the blast, and True Person Yuan Yong declared that the Golden Wing Sect would occupy the Snow-Ice Cicada’s territory.
• The Blood-Devouring True Person questioned why Lin Ke was still restoring his spirit power, but Lin Ke concealed his intentions.
• The Purple-Flame Kui Ox arrived and accused True Person Yuan Yong of planning to attack him after fighting the Snow-Ice Cicada.
• The Blood-Devouring True Person confronted Lin Ke, who admitted he had devised the plan back at the Scorpion Palace.

Lin Ke’s scheme turned True Person Yuan Yong against the Snow-Ice Cicada and drew the Purple-Flame Kui Ox into the fight, while Blood-Devouring True Person tried to escape. As the Golden Core ape fought Blood-Devouring True Person, a Stone Spear pierced him through the Embracing Origin Palace.

• Blood-Devouring True Person realized Lin Ke had deceived him and fled in the form of a mosquito swarm.
• Lin Ke recalled how Flea had warned the Purple-Flame Kui Ox, prompting him to join the battle after True Person Yuan Yong targeted his great bright bamboo.
• A Golden Core ape attacked Blood-Devouring True Person while True Person Yuan Yong and the Purple-Flame Kui Ox began fighting.
• Blood-Devouring True Person merged with the Blood-Devouring Mosquito Swarm and clashed with the ape using combined formation intent.
• The ape wounded Blood-Devouring True Person, but a Stone Spear suddenly pierced him through the Embracing Origin Palace.

Lin Ke killed Blood-Devouring True Person in a planned sneak attack and began considering how to avoid consequences. As the battle ended, True Person Yuan Yong escaped the Purple-Flame Kui Ox after their attacks collided, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Lin Ke attacked Blood-Devouring True Person, and the Golden Core Ape beheaded him before he could spit out his golden core.
• Lin Ke collected Blood-Devouring True Person's corpse and confirmed that the Golden Core True Person was truly dead.
• Lin Ke considered how to evade blame for the killing and hoped True Person Yuan Yong would die beneath the Purple-Flame Kui Ox's hoof.
• The Purple-Flame Kui Ox overwhelmed True Person Yuan Yong as the other Golden Core disciples were captured or defeated.
• True Person Yuan Yong launched his Tail Needle, swallowed a cultivation pill, and fled while his attack collided with the Purple-Flame Kui Ox's lightning and flames.

Lin Ke watched a great eagle ambush True Person Yuan Yong, then spoke with the Purple-Flame Kui Ox about the Golden Wing Sect and the Great Bright Bamboo Forest. As another fighter joined the distant battle, Lin Ke searched the Blood-Devouring True Person's belongings and discovered a fortune in spirit stones and valuable items.

• Lin Ke saw a great eagle trap True Person Yuan Yong in a Four-Court Thunder Cage, but expected the Golden Wing Sect to intervene before Yuan Yong could die.
• The Purple-Flame Kui Ox told Lin Ke that the Golden-Wing Queen had asked him to look after Lin Ke and said he would fight if the Golden Wing Sect declared war.
• Lin Ke urged the Purple-Flame Kui Ox to pursue friendly relations with the sect and began asking whether he would sell his Great Bright Bamboo.
• A woman's furious voice joined the distant battle, and the Purple-Flame Kui Ox flew over to watch while Lin Ke examined the Blood-Devouring True Person's Storage Bag.
• Lin Ke found about two hundred and forty thousand spirit stones, cultivation pills, Spirit Artifacts, Demon Beast corpses, texts, jade slips, and a superior Golden-Wing Envoy Nest.

Lin Ke examined Blood-Devouring True Person’s Golden-Wing Envoy Nest and discovered two Black-Spotted Blood Mosquitoes, then considered how to use or breed them. After the battle ended, True Person Qing Dian accused him of betraying his senior brother and attacked, but Butterfly Transformation True Person intervened.

• Lin Ke found thousands of Blood-Devouring Mosquitoes and two Black-Spotted Blood Mosquitoes in Blood-Devouring True Person’s nest.
• Lin Ke weighed using the Black-Spotted Blood Mosquitoes to control people against breeding them, while deciding that breeding ordinary Blood-Devouring Mosquitoes would be easier.
• The great eagle drove off True Person Yuan Yong and the Nascent Soul True Person, while Purple-Flame Kui Ox said it had killed only one Golden Core cultivator.
• True Person Qing Dian arrived and accused Lin Ke of attacking his senior brother, then sent a lightning-fast fly at him.
• A white swallowtail butterfly intercepted the fly, and True Person Qing Dian recognized Butterfly Transformation True Person and challenged her.

Butterfly Transformation True Person took Lin Ke as her disciple after confirming he had killed Blood-Devouring True Person. Lin Ke told her about his conflict with True Person Yuan Yong, and she began advising him on cultivation and forming his Golden Core.

• Butterfly Transformation True Person confronted True Person Qing Dian and insisted that Lin Ke had killed Blood-Devouring True Person, then called Lin Ke her disciple.
• Butterfly Transformation True Person brought Lin Ke to Moon Moth Peak and formally accepted him as her disciple.
• Lin Ke explained his feud with True Person Yuan Yong and revealed Zong Ya's profound kun sacred yin body, while keeping the secrets of his niwan palace and explaining the black-spotted blood mosquito's control through the Dream-Eating Gecko.
• Butterfly Transformation True Person dismissed concerns that Zong Ya's constitution would sway her loyalty and agreed to consider their next steps regarding True Person Yuan Yong.
• Butterfly Transformation True Person began teaching Lin Ke about the black-spotted blood mosquito and the considerations involved in forming his Golden Core.

Butterfly Transformation True Person taught Lin Ke about cultivation paths and the importance of compatible life-bound entities, then brought him to the Main Hall to face an inquiry over the rout at the Scorpion Palace. After Lin Ke gave his account, one of the Peak Seats condemned it as lies and called for his death.

• Butterfly Transformation True Person explained three cultivation paths, including the queen-bee path exemplified by the sect’s founding patriarch and the Golden-Wing Queen.
• Lin Ke realized Lin Can might be a broodmother and considered how she and other life-bound entities could fill his future golden-core slots.
• Butterfly Transformation True Person gave Lin Ke a jade slip of her teachings and took him to the Year Festival Square after Rain Spider True Person summoned them.
• Rain Spider True Person began questioning Lin Ke about True Person Yuan Yong’s accusation that he caused the rout at the Scorpion Palace.
• Lin Ke recounted his version of events, and a Peak Seat denounced his account as lies and demanded his death.