Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao dismantled the Luoxia Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation, then compelled its leaders to let him inspect their Scripture Repository. After secretly copying its contents, he left, and the sect leaders decided to report the incident to their Upper Sect without asking for help.

• Lin Hao used twelve flying swords to overwhelm the Luoxia Sect Master, Grand Elder Yanyang, and Perfected Person Zihuo as they tried to repair their formation.
• Yanyang acknowledged Lin Hao’s strength and offered compensation, so Lin Hao demanded access to the sect’s cultivation methods and Scripture Repository.
• Yanyang explained that the Luoxia Sect was subordinate to the Sunu Sect, which in turn served the Hehuan Sect.
• Lin Hao spent less than a day in the Scripture Repository, secretly copied its contents into his database, and left while pretending to dismiss the collection.
• After Lin Hao departed, Yanyang advised reporting the incident to the Sunu Sect without requesting assistance.

Lin Hao planned to infiltrate the Sunu Sect by building a reputation as an alchemist rather than approaching as a powerful fighter. He began supplying pills through Qingfeng Market, while the three families controlling the market agreed to cautiously cooperate and watch for trouble.

• Lin Hao reviewed the Sunu Sect’s nascent soul methods and decided to seek a way inside the sect, where he hoped to gain access to its resources.
• After the Sunu Sect publicly offered to receive the Formation Grandmaster behind the Luoxia Sect attack as an honored guest, Lin Hao considered how his reputation could expose his identity and drew up a quieter plan.
• Crimson told Lin Hao that the Sunu Sect recruited male guest retainers for exceptional skills, and Lin Hao decided to use alchemy to establish himself instead of applying as a fighter.
• Lin Hao asked Crimson about Qingfeng Market and appointed himself the pill shop’s supplier, instructing her to buy ingredients from local cultivation families.
• The heads of the Li Family, Wang Family, and Liu Family agreed to supply ingredients and cautiously observe Lin Hao’s group, while avoiding any rash confrontation.

Lin Hao refined supreme-grade Qi-Recovery Pills and assessed how to produce and sell Foundation Establishment Pills. As Mingyue Market's families moved to pressure Qingfeng Market over ingredient sales, Crimson confronted them at their market entrance.

• Lin Hao refined over a hundred supreme-grade Qi-Recovery Pills, sent them out for gradual sale, and began planning to refine Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Lin Hao considered using monster essence blood for Foundation Establishment Pills and planned to sell the pills in Su Nu City while keeping some for the Settlement and Xiang Zhiguo.
• The Rong Family, Xu Family, and Luo Family blamed Qingfeng Market's new pill shop and ingredient purchases for disrupting their business, and discussed poaching its pill refiner or pressuring herb gatherers.
• Crimson arrived at Mingyue Market on her Flying Sword and demanded that its families explain why they were obstructing Qingfeng Market's medicinal ingredient purchases.

Crimson confronted Mingyue Market over its restrictions on medicinal herbs, defeated Master Kumu’s attack, and took him back to Qingfeng Market. Lin Hao revealed his supreme-grade pills and learned their potential auction value, leaving him weighing how to profit without compromising his cultivation.

• Crimson challenged Mingyue Market, and Master Kumu emerged to confront her from behind its protective formation.
• Crimson sliced apart Kumu’s Magic Pill, prompting Kumu and Elder Rong to apologize and compensate her with medicinal ingredients and a storage bag.
• Kumu asked to join Crimson’s group, and Lin Hao agreed to take him in as a local alchemist and guide.
• At Qingfeng Market, Kumu saw Lin Hao’s supreme-grade Qi-Recovery Pills and asked to serve him.
• Lin Hao showed Kumu a supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pill, and Kumu estimated that it could fetch twenty thousand to over fifty thousand low-grade spirit stones at auction.
• Lin Hao calculated that refining pills could earn him substantial spirit stones, but decided that cultivating had to remain his priority.

Lin Hao impressed Daoist Kumu with batches of supreme-grade pills, then accepted the Luoxia Sect’s invitation and traveled there as an honored guest. At a banquet, he arranged for the sect to take him to Su Nu City and shocked its leaders by offering a supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Daoist Kumu recognized Lin Hao’s extraordinary alchemy and asked to serve as his attendant, which Lin Hao accepted.
• Zhuozhenzi arrived on behalf of the Luoxia Sect, and Lin Hao agreed to visit after hearing the sect would welcome him and could help with his journey to Su Nu City.
• Lin Hao traveled aboard a Luoxia Sect flying vessel and was personally welcomed by the Luoxia Sect Master.
• During a lavish banquet, Lin Hao asked the Luoxia Sect to arrange transport to Su Nu City, and the sect agreed.
• Lin Hao offered the Luoxia Sect Master a Foundation Establishment Pill, which he and Master Chen recognized as supreme-grade.

Lin Hao traveled toward Su Nu City aboard the Luoxia Sect’s Dharma Boat, refining pills and studying its spatial formations. Three Core Formation cultivators ambushed the boat for its cargo, and Lin Hao prepared to intervene while concealing his identity as an alchemist.

• The Luoxia Sect sent Lin Hao toward Su Nu City aboard its finest Dharma Boat, with Perfected Person Zihuo accompanying the shipment.
• Lin Hao agreed to refine Clear-Congealing Pills for Zihuo and used the journey to study the boat’s formations and cultivate.
• Over six days, Lin Hao refined pills and advanced his cultivation while Zihuo repeatedly replenished the spirit stones powering the secluded chamber.
• Three Core Formation cultivators locked onto the boat and revealed that they knew it was carrying money for the Luoxia Sect’s formation materials.
• Daoist Kumu tried to distance himself and Lin Hao from the Luoxia Sect, but the attackers rejected his plea and struck the boat’s defenses with Flying Swords.
• Lin Hao noticed the attack and decided to use wood- and fire-attribute techniques while concealing his true identity.

Lin Hao rescued the Luoxia Sect’s Magic Ship by killing the Three Immortals of Changhong with Jia Wood Divine Thunder, then accepted the recovered treasures and supplies. Perfected Person Zihuo gave Lin Hao the ship and cargo as promised, while Lin Hao still delivered the Clear-Congealing Pills he had agreed to refine.

• Perfected Person Zihuo and the Luoxia Sect disciples struggled to hold off three Core Formation robbers as their Magic Ship’s defenses began to fail.
• Lin Hao offered to drive off the attackers in exchange for a share of the cargo, and Perfected Person Zihuo promised him the ship and everything aboard it.
• Lin Hao struck Changhong Zhenren twice with Jia Wood Divine Thunder, killing him and destroying his defenses.
• Lin Hao killed the other two pursuers with a single lightning strike each, and Perfected Person Zihuo ordered the disciples to recover the scattered loot.
• The Luoxia Sect disciples salvaged supplies and three mid-grade Dharma Treasures while Lin Hao inspected the Magic Ship and accepted the treasures.
• Lin Hao gave Perfected Person Zihuo the ten Clear-Congealing Pills remaining after his agreed share, and Zihuo accepted the deal without complaint.

Lin Hao arrived in Su Nu City, where he learned about the Sunu Sect and its cultivation paths while arranging for the Luoxia Sect to repair and transfer his spirit boat. He met Shen Tong, a Core Formation cultivator from the sect, and persuaded her to share information and help him seek the Sunu Sect’s assistance in forming his Nascent Soul.

• Lin Hao entered Su Nu City with Perfected Person Zihuo, examined its powerful defenses, and heard warnings about Sunu Sect disciples who preyed on male cultivators.
• Lin Hao had Zihuo arrange the sale of the spirit boat’s cargo, repair the vessel, and replace the Luoxia Sect flag with one bearing the name “Hao.”
• Lin Hao and Kumu walked through the city, where Kumu predicted the Sunu Sect would approach Lin Hao after learning of his alchemy skills and late Core Formation cultivation.
• Shen Tong invited Lin Hao to a restaurant, revealed that she belonged to Jiang Suxin’s former lineage, and tried to seduce him.
• Lin Hao used their encounter to question Shen Tong about the Sunu Sect, then asked her to help him obtain assistance with forming his Nascent Soul.
• Shen Tong agreed to help Lin Hao, despite realizing that he was more interested in reaching Jiang Suxin than in her.

Lin Hao learned that the Sunu Sect was facing pressure from powerful suitors pursuing Jiang Suxin and Lin Ruoxi, then decided to build his reputation by selling pills and confronting challengers. At Su Nu City's auction house, he arranged purchases and consignments before taking Shen Tong to a secluded chamber to study the Sunu Sect's cultivation techniques.

• Shen Tong explained that cultivators were pressuring the Sunu Sect for its special cultivation methods and described the threats facing its disciples.
• Shen Tong warned Lin Hao about Adept Fan Yu and Xu Chun, two formidable rivals pursuing Jiang Suxin, but Lin Hao said he would accept an alchemy challenge to raise his reputation.
• Daoist Kumu told Lin Hao that a major quarterly auction would take place in three days, and Lin Hao went to the auction house with Shen Tong and Kumu.
• Lin Hao registered purchases of Clear-Congealing Pill ingredients and studied the auction catalog, including a Nascent Soul cultivation method and a high-grade Dharma Treasure flying sword.
• Shen Tong consigned Lin Hao's supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills, and Lin Hao rented a secluded cultivation chamber with her to explore the Sunu Sect's techniques.

Lin Hao attended Su Nu City's auction, where his supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills drew the attention of rival alchemist Fan Yu and the Young Marquis. While inspecting a rare flying sword, Lin Hao discovered it had belonged to Sword Palace Master Liu Qingqing and learned that an Abyss invasion had disrupted her ascension; the auction was still underway.

• Lin Hao refined his cultivation methods, then went with Shen Tong to the auction after Kumu delivered the ingredients he had gathered.
• Lin Hao bought several cultivation texts and incomplete recipes, including the Golden Cicada Nascent Soul Method, and sold four supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Fan Yu examined Lin Hao's pills, concluded Lin Hao's alchemy surpassed his own, and decided to meet him.
• The Young Marquis learned of Lin Hao's alchemy and planned to approach him about leaving Su Nu City, while his steward warned him that the Hehuan Sect's Holy Son was also traveling.
• Lin Hao inspected the auction's Clear-Cold Sword and discovered it was Liu Qingqing's renamed Frost-Cold Sword, sold after an Abyss invasion disrupted her ascension to the Spirit World.

Lin Hao bid for Liu Qingqing’s flying sword by offering to refine supreme-grade Nascent Soul pills, while Fan Yu publicly conceded that Lin Hao surpassed him in alchemy. Lin Hao met the disguised Liu Qingqing, who introduced herself as Frost and tested his ability to produce true fire.

• Lin Hao considered bidding for the flying sword because its Sword Palace arts suited his abilities, while Fan Yu and Xu Chun also made offers to the seller.
• Lin Hao offered to refine supreme-grade Nascent Soul pills if the seller supplied the ingredients, and Fan Yu openly admitted that his alchemy was inferior to Lin Hao’s.
• Shen Tong grew impressed by Lin Hao, and he gave Kumu pills to sell before going with Shen Tong to meet the seller.
• Xu Chun reconsidered his approach to Lin Hao after Fan Yu’s admission and decided to have the Hehuan Sect Saint Son sound him out.
• Lin Hao met the veiled Liu Qingqing, who used the name Frost, and demonstrated his solar essence fire to show his alchemical skill.
• Frost considered using Lin Hao to make pills for her while keeping her failed ascension and severe injuries secret.

Lin Hao refined a top-grade soul pill for Liu Qingqing and studied Sword Palace techniques while waiting. When he emerged, Fan Yu examined one of the pills and revealed that Lin Hao had made a Soul-Restoring Pill rather than a Soul-Nourishing Pill.

• Liu Qingqing offered Lin Hao a more profound Nascent Soul condensation method if he refined pills for her, and he accepted ingredients for Soul-Nourishing Pills.
• Lin Hao consulted Qingyangzi, deduced a healing-focused formula, and refined nine pills, downgrading five to avoid attracting too much attention.
• While waiting in the chamber, Lin Hao studied the [Clear Sword Heart Sword Art] and the [Sword Light Mind-Splitting Art].
• Fan Yu offered Lin Hao his alchemy insights in exchange for seeing his work, and Lin Hao gave him a top-grade pill.
• Jiang Suxin thanked Lin Hao for saving the Luoxia Sect's disciples and invited him to Su Nu Peak after he fulfilled his agreement.
• Fan Yu identified Lin Hao's pill as a top-grade Soul-Restoring Pill, and Lin Hao decided to claim that was what he had intended to refine.

Lin Hao impressed the Nascent Soul cultivators by refining rare, high-grade Soul-Restoring Pills, then received two nascent soul condensation arts from Liu Qingqing. After spending a month refining commissioned pills and improving his sword techniques, he prepared to leave while keeping his abilities from drawing too much attention.

• Lin Hao revealed that his pills were Soul-Restoring Pills, prompting Jiang Suxin, Xu Chun, the Young Marquis, and other cultivators to seek his favor before departing.
• Lin Hao asked Shen Tong to gather ingredients and sent Kumu to investigate repairs and better flying vessels, then delivered seven Soul-Restoring Pills to Liu Qingqing.
• Liu Qingqing gave Lin Hao the [Sword Embryo Nascent Soul-Nurturing Art] and [Great Yin-Yang Bliss Prose], and warned him that another demon invasion might be approaching.
• Lin Hao spent a month refining pills while studying the secret arts, integrating sword techniques, and using his purple [Swarm Will] to control four sword shadows.
• Lin Hao finished the commissioned batches and decided to leave, concerned that displaying more supreme-grade pills could attract Divine Transformation cultivators.

Long Dingtian and other powerful factions considered recruiting Lin Hao after learning of his exceptional alchemy, while Xu Chun chose to maintain friendly relations amid growing political tensions. Lin Hao accepted the Sunu Sect’s invitation to a banquet, with Fairy Huanxin escorting him there.

• Long Dingtian and True Lord Liuyang discussed recruiting Master Haotian into the Hehuan Sect’s Holy Son faction and sent word to Long Dingtian’s martial uncle.
• Xu Chun learned that Lin Hao had declined his invitation until after his engagement with the Sunu Sect, then burned the invitation and decided to keep treating him courteously.
• Fan Yu offered Lin Hao help and protection alongside True Lord Ling Mu, while Daoist Kumu left after receiving a Supreme-Grade Origin-Congealing Pill.
• Fairy Huanxin teased Lin Hao with her Bewitching Art, but he kept his composure and asked whether she had come about the banquet.
• Fairy Huanxin said the flying boat was ready, and Lin Hao took his leave of True Lord Ling Mu and Fan Yu to follow her.

Lin Hao helped Fairy Huanxin use the Sunu Sect Magic Ship to expose and attack True Lord Wanxiang’s formation while holding off True Lord Liuguang. After the formation collapsed under four nuclear warheads, Huanxin engaged Wanxiang, and Lin Hao turned to face an approaching enemy.

• Fairy Huanxin merged her divine soul with Lin Hao’s and fired the Magic Ship’s Yin-Yang Divine Light at formation nodes he identified.
• True Lord Wanxiang ordered True Lord Liuguang to attack the Magic Ship, but Lin Hao used Gamma-Ray Cannons to detonate Liuguang’s Heavenly Thunder Lei Zi and directed the ship’s weapons at the formation.
• As the Magic Ship ran out of Spirit Stones, Lin Hao used its final strike to clear the way for four nuclear warheads, which detonated at key points and collapsed Wanxiang’s formation.
• The formation’s backlash wounded Wanxiang and cracked the four Formation Ships, while the Sunu Sect cultivators survived behind the Magic Ship’s defenses.
• Fairy Huanxin charged at the wounded Wanxiang and fought him to a draw, while Lin Hao prepared to face a streak of light approaching him.

Lin Hao killed True Lord Liuguang by trapping him in his [Sun Domain] and overwhelming him with a formation of sword shadows, despite Liuguang's Nascent Soul annihilation damaging the domain. He recovered and flew to help Huanxin, leaving True Lord Wanxiang stunned that Liuguang had fallen.

• True Lord Liuguang attacked Lin Hao with his Soul-Shaking Bell and Flying Sword, but Lin Hao revealed his [Sun Domain] and restrained the sword with a magnetic field.
• Lin Hao summoned the Myriad Souls Banner and a vast formation of sword shadows, which overwhelmed True Lord Liuguang and destroyed his body and Nascent Soul.
• True Lord Liuguang's Nascent Soul annihilation shattered Lin Hao's [Sun Domain], but Lin Hao replenished his strength and collected Liuguang's Flying Swords and Soul-Shaking Bell.
• Lin Hao flew toward Huanxin's battle with True Lord Wanxiang while the lingering annihilation weakened the nearby spiritual energy.
• True Lord Wanxiang realized True Lord Liuguang had annihilated himself, and Huanxin celebrated as Lin Hao arrived to help her.

Lin Hao and Huanxin defeated True Lord Wanxiang after he tried to flee, and he annihilated his Nascent Soul rather than be captured. They returned to the Sunu Sect with the attackers’ Dharma Treasures, whose origins pointed to the Myriad Transformations Immortal Dynasty, leaving Lin Ruoxi to seek guidance from the Upper Sect.

• Lin Hao struck True Lord Wanxiang with electromagnetic artillery shells while Huanxin bound and attacked him, leaving him too depleted to escape.
• True Lord Wanxiang chose Nascent Soul annihilation, and Huanxin collected the surviving Dharma Treasures before taking Lin Hao back toward the sect.
• Lin Ruoxi and Fairy Lingxi led the Sunu Sect’s Magic Ships to investigate the battle, then met Huanxin and learned that the two attackers had been defeated.
• Lin Hao presented the Soul-Shaking Bell, the Myriad Manifestation Formation Disk, and other spoils, prompting Lin Ruoxi and Fairy Lingxi to recognize the attackers’ strength.
• Fairy Lingxi identified the Soul-Shaking Bell as True Lord Liuguang’s, and Lin Ruoxi decided to report the matter to the Upper Sect.

After the Myriad Transformations Immortal Dynasty's failed attack on Lin Hao, the Cultivation Realm debated the dynasty's growing power while Lin Hao advanced his cultivation with Jiang Suxin. Liu Qingqing then offered to protect him in exchange for pill refining, leaving Lin Hao with a powerful new ally.

• The Sunu Sect hosted Lin Hao and arranged for him to stay beside Jiang Suxin, while Huanxin told him the Hehuan Sect had appealed to the Upper Sect and other sects about the attack.
• News spread that True Lord Liuguang and True Lord Wanxiang had extinguished themselves, prompting Xu Chun, Fan Yu, and Long Dingtian to consider what the attack meant for their factions and the Cultivation Realm.
• Lin Hao absorbed Jiang Suxin's yin True Essence and found that it had saved him nearly half a year of cultivation.
• Liu Qingqing appeared in Lin Hao's room, offered to protect him while he refined pills for her, and left him a storage pouch of ingredients.

Lin Hao accepted Long Dingtian’s offer to replace him as the Hehuan Sect’s Holy Son and gained the lineage’s inheritance Jade Pendant. Liu Qingqing noticed the sudden change in Lin Hao’s aura, and their exchange left her believing he might be an extraterritorial heavenly demon.

• Jiang Suxin told Lin Hao that Long Dingtian had come to see him, and Lin Hao agreed to meet the Hehuan Sect Holy Son.
• Long Dingtian offered Lin Hao the Holy Son’s inheritance Jade Pendant and asked him to take over the position, explaining that he would step down and protect Lin Hao.
• Lin Hao weighed the benefits and risks, accepted the offer, and took the Jade Pendant, which contained a powerful pure-yang aura and valuable inheritance.
• Liu Qingqing sensed that Lin Hao’s aura had changed and questioned him about his meeting with Long Dingtian.
• Lin Hao admitted he had gained a benefit and was about to become the Hehuan Sect Holy Son; Liu Qingqing suspected he was an extraterritorial heavenly demon and offered to protect him.

After Lin Hao became the Hehuan Sect's Holy Son, the sect celebrated his alchemy while Qin Huanhuan worried that he threatened her claim to leadership and plotted to draw him back from the Sunu Sect. Lin Hao received gifts and considered using Lin Ruoxi's pure yin energy, but Liu Qingqing warned him against exposing his ability to endure it and cautioned him about Divine Lord Miaoyu, leaving him determined to form his Nascent Soul soon.

• News of Lin Hao's appointment as Holy Son spread, and cultivators praised his alchemy while debating the Myriad Transformations Immortal Dynasty's failed attack.
• Qin Huanhuan recognized that Lin Hao's status and pill-making could threaten her future leadership, so she planned to bring him back to the Hehuan Sect and make him dependent on her.
• Lin Ruoxi delivered the sect's gifts to Lin Hao, who was tempted by her pure yin energy but stopped when Liu Qingqing interrupted him.
• Liu Qingqing warned Lin Hao that revealing he could withstand such nourishment at Late Core Formation would expose a weakness, and she urged him to approach Lingxi before Lin Ruoxi.
• Liu Qingqing cautioned Lin Hao to refuse personal instruction from Divine Lord Miaoyu and gave him a Prayer Bead to restore his clarity if necessary.
• Lin Hao accepted the warning and resolved to reach Nascent Soul before attending the Holy Son succession ceremony.