Ch. 482A Strike Against a World

Lin Hao shattered the Myriad Transformations Grand Formation with nuclear bombs, then broke its remaining world with a Cave-Heaven-powered sword strike. Inside his Cave-Heaven, Liu Qingqing and Lin Hao defeated the Myriad Transformations Immortal Dynasty’s Divine Transformation cultivators and dragged them into the Myriad Souls Banner, while Lin Hao set his sights on another wounded cultivator outside.

  • Lin Hao’s nuclear bombs battered the Myriad Transformations Grand Formation, destroyed Myriad Transformations Upper City, and left Prince Xiang struggling to stabilize the damaged formation.
  • The Former Emperor, the Previous Emperor, Zhao Wuji, and Prince Rui attacked Lin Hao’s group, but Lin Hao used the Spirit-Linking Sword Jade with Liu Qingqing’s help to cleave apart the formation’s world.
  • Lin Hao’s Cave-Heaven severed the cultivators’ connection to Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, and Liu Qingqing shattered Zhao Wuji and Prince Rui before their souls were dragged into the Myriad Souls Banner.
  • Lin Hao and Liu Qingqing overwhelmed the Former Emperor and the Previous Emperor, whose bodies and souls were consumed and confined inside the Myriad Souls Banner.
  • Lin Hao noted that the banner was nearing capacity and decided to capture another Divine Transformation cultivator who had suffered the formation’s backlash.

Ch. 483Pacification

Lin Hao and Liu Qingqing destroyed the Myriad Transformations Grand Formation and defeated the Myriad Transformations Immortal Dynasty’s Divine Transformation cultivators. After the other Divine Lords captured Prince Xiang, Lin Hao revealed that he planned to erase Prince Xiang’s will and make him an Artifact Spirit.

  • Lin Hao’s nuclear explosions devastated Myriad Transformations Upper City, while the Myriad Transformations Grand Formation contained most of the blast.
  • Divine Lord Changqing, Divine Lord Tai Xuan, and Divine Lord Ziyun considered resisting the dynasty, but Divine Lord Suoyao used the formation’s power to threaten them.
  • A sword strike split the Myriad Transformations Grand Formation, and Divine Lord Suoyao fled as Divine Lord Ziyun declared that the Divine Lords would oppose the dynasty.
  • Divine Lord Tai Xuan located the gravely wounded Prince Xiang, and Divine Lord Changqing captured him in a Pill Furnace.
  • Lin Hao, Liu Qingqing, and the three demonic Divine Transformation cultivators emerged, and Lin Hao thanked the Divine Lords for helping capture Prince Xiang.
  • Lin Hao said he would try to erase Prince Xiang’s will and refine him into an Artifact Spirit, leaving Prince Xiang horrified.

Ch. 484Getting on track

After the Myriad Transformations Immortal Dynasty fell, Liu Qingqing became the first emperor of the reestablished Great Qi Immortal Dynasty and began organizing the Cultivation Realm’s defenses against the Demon Realm. As the sects mobilized supplies and personnel, Lin Hao coordinated repairs and opened the dynasty’s Secret Treasure Vault.

  • Divine Transformation cultivators condemned the Myriad Transformations Immortal Dynasty and announced Liu Qingqing as Great Qi’s First Emperor, with Master Haotian as National Preceptor.
  • Liu Qingqing ordered the Cultivation Realm to direct the Demon Realm’s arrival points toward the Ancient Battlefield and establish its main defenses there.
  • Lin Hao reviewed the ancient anchoring formation plans and proposed sealing other spatial weak points while making Soul-Breaking Cliff the Cultivation Realm’s frontline outlet.
  • The proclamation and mobilization orders spread throughout the Cultivation Realm, and major sects began sending supplies, formation masters, and workers toward the front.
  • Lin Hao coordinated the repair of Myriad Transformations City while using the Formation-Breaking Awl and formation techniques to open the Secret Treasure Vault.

Ch. 485Change

Lin Hao upgraded his weapons with the World-Suppressing Cauldron and other Spiritual Artifacts, then prepared to handle remaining sects and strengthen the mobile Settlement. Qingyangzi asked to bring the Green Grain Settlement into Lin Hao’s community, and Lin Hao agreed while promising him a Supreme-Grade Nascent Soul-Forming Pill.

  • Lin Hao equipped the World-Suppressing Cauldron, replaced his weapon slots with Spiritual Artifacts, and judged that he could contend with ordinary early Divine Transformation cultivators without using [Cave-Heaven World].
  • Liu Qingqing told Lin Hao that the Beast Taming Sect, Myriad Souls Palace, and Netherworld Sect still needed attention, so Lin Hao set out to handle them while she oversaw the capital.
  • Lin Hao repaired his Spiritual Artifacts and replenished wish power before returning to the mobile Settlement, where Qingyangzi had waited several days to see him.
  • Qingyangzi asked Lin Hao whether the Green Grain Settlement could join the mobile Settlement, and Lin Hao agreed to accept it if it followed their management.
  • Lin Hao promised Qingyangzi a Supreme-Grade Nascent Soul-Forming Pill and directed him to use the Settlement’s contribution system to obtain cultivation methods.

Ch. 486Caution

Lin Hao and Miaoyu reached the Beast Taming Sect, where Lin Hao began dismantling its grand formation while its leaders watched from hiding. Divine Lord Xuehai took the formation disk to confront them, while Divine Lord Suoyao and the others withdrew.

  • Liu Qingqing warned Lin Hao that Divine Lord Suoyao, the Demon Clan, Divine Lord Xuehai, and other traitors were attacking sects and preparing to bring in the Demon Realm.
  • Lin Hao continued toward the Beast Taming Sect, then assessed its defensive formation and began carefully breaking it with Miaoyu’s help.
  • Divine Lord Suoyao, the Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master, Jiao Daoist, and Divine Lord Xuehai watched Lin Hao from a concealed canyon as Suoyao argued against attacking him.
  • Divine Lord Xuehai took the Beast Taming Sect’s formation disk and insisted on confronting Lin Hao, while Divine Lord Suoyao left with the Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master.

Ch. 487Delivered to the doorstep

Lin Hao discovered that Divine Lord Xuehai was controlling the Beast Taming Sect’s Mountain-Guarding Formation and pursued him and his allies. He trapped Xuehai and Jiao Daoist in his cave-heaven, where his forces overwhelmed them and Lin Hao began stripping the flood dragon for materials.

  • Lin Hao located Divine Lord Xuehai outside the formation and rushed toward him aboard the modified Sunrise-class magic ship.
  • Jiao Daoist and Divine Lord Xuehai fled, while Divine Lord Suoyao and Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master tried to escape together; Suoyao and Spirit Tortoise then struck Xuehai to stop him overtaking them.
  • Lin Hao used his flying swords to draw Divine Lord Xuehai and Jiao Daoist into his cave-heaven, while Suoyao and Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master escaped.
  • Divine Lord Xuehai transformed into a sea of blood and offered allegiance, but Lin Hao sent his vengeful spirits to attack him.
  • Lin Hao grappled with Jiao Daoist in his gold-red Dharma form, crushed the flood dragon, and pulled out his tendon while he was still alive.

Ch. 488Demon-Suppressing Tower

Lin Hao defeated Divine Lord Xuehai and took control of the abandoned Beast Taming Sect, where he discovered the Demon-Suppressing Tower was a powerful evacuation item. The chapter ended with him examining the tower and recognizing its value.

  • Lin Hao used his enhanced formation and Cave-Heaven power to capture Divine Lord Xuehai, then studied the Bloodsea Sword and learned about the Blood Sea Scripture.
  • Lin Hao subdued Miaoyu and entered the Beast Taming Sect, whose remaining disciples and spirit beasts had been abandoned by Divine Lord Suoyao.
  • Lin Hao spared the sect's remaining members and ordered Baisongzi and the other elders to organize them and rally affiliated sects to the Great Qi Immortal Dynasty.
  • Lin Hao changed control of the Beast Taming Sect's grand formation, summoned Miaoyu to help reorganize the grounds, and arranged for Liu Qingqing to send helpers.
  • Lin Hao discovered that the Demon-Suppressing Tower was a dark-gold evacuation item with powerful anti-demon properties.

Ch. 489Refinement

Lin Hao seized the Demon-Suppressing Tower, evaded the divination it triggered, and learned from Divine Lord Xuehai that the Demon Realm was preparing a major invasion to force a path to the Spirit World. As Divine Lord Tai Xuan set out to reinforce the Beast Taming Sect, Lin Hao went to Enterprise World to complete a powerful dragon-based mecha for the coming war.

  • Lin Hao stored the Demon-Suppressing Tower in his Equipment Slot, discovered that it could identify the authority of Object Bestowal, and used the World-Suppressing Cauldron to evade a distant attempt to track him.
  • Lin Hao ordered Bo Songzi and the other elders to inventory the Beast Taming Sect, left Miaoyu in charge, and interrogated Divine Lord Xuehai for intelligence about the Demon Realm.
  • Divine Lord Xuehai revealed that Divine Transformation demons had contacted traitors in the Cultivation Realm and intended to enslave it, strengthening both realms’ passage to the Spirit World.
  • Lin Hao asked Divine Lord Tai Xuan to bring treasures and oversee the Beast Taming Sect; Tai Xuan received a Wooden Sword from the patriarch’s statue and departed for the sect.
  • Lin Hao traveled to Enterprise World, gave Liu Qingqing an optimized formation diagram, and inspected a dragon-based mecha fitted with Formation Runes and a nuclear-blast propulsion system.

Ch. 490The art of deduction

Lin Hao received the [Mystic Wood Dharma Sword] after Divine Lord Tai Xuan’s divination revealed his connection to the Cultivation Realm’s Heavenly Dao and Earth Will. He began using the sword’s deduction power to track Divine Lord Suoyao, while Suoyao and the Lord of Spirit-Turtle Mountain tried to evade pursuit.

  • Lin Hao learned that Tai Xuan Palace cultivators sought to merge with the Heavenly Dao, then asked Divine Lord Tai Xuan to lend him the [Mystic Wood Dharma Sword].
  • Divine Lord Tai Xuan performed a divination, and Lin Hao received information about Earth Will’s intrusion, the Cultivation Realm’s dealings with it, and the worlds’ shared threat in the Void Turbulence.
  • The [Mystic Wood Dharma Sword] chose Lin Hao, who accepted the Cultivation Realm’s apparent bargain and agreed to help pursue Divine Lord Suoyao and his allies.
  • Lin Hao used the sword’s [Heavenly Secrets Deduction] attribute and his Computing Power Pool to prepare to analyze the traces left at the Beast Taming Sect.
  • Divine Lord Suoyao and the Lord of Spirit-Turtle Mountain discussed their losses and hoped to act when the two worlds converged, but the Lord of Spirit-Turtle Mountain’s shell revealed that Divine Lord Tai Xuan was tracking them again.

Ch. 491The Demon Realm's Response

Divine Lord Suoyao and the Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master were tracked by Divine Lord Tai Xuan’s divination and prepared to summon help from the Demon Realm. The Demon God Hall agreed to send three powerful demon kings into the Cultivation Realm, while Lin Hao and Miaoyu pursued the two fugitives.

  • The Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master and Divine Lord Suoyao failed to break Divine Lord Tai Xuan’s divination lock and realized their attempts to conceal themselves had exposed them further.
  • Divine Lord Suoyao proposed either fleeing through the Ascension Passage or setting up a temporary formation to summon Divine Transformation Great Demons, and he chose to request help without revealing their full predicament.
  • Lin Hao coordinated with Divine Lord Tai Xuan and sent him to guard the Beast Taming Sect while Lin Hao and Miaoyu pursued the fugitives through the Hehuan Sect’s territory.
  • The Great Demons in the Demon God Hall debated whether to aid Suoyao and the Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master, then agreed to send three demon kings into the Cultivation Realm.
  • The Golden-Winged Peng King, Netherfire Bat King, and an ancient crocodile-like demon king volunteered to go, while a white tiger demon warned them about a powerful human Sword Cultivator.

Ch. 492Greed

Lin Hao tracked Divine Lord Suoyao and Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master as they completed a World-Breaking Grand Formation and summoned three Divine Transformation Great Demons from the Demon Realm. The Golden-Winged Peng King learned about Lin Hao’s Cave-Heaven Dharma Treasure and planned to draw him out by attacking the Sunu Sect.

  • Lin Hao used Cyber Fortune-Telling to uncover that Divine Lord Suoyao was building a formation to bring in the Demon Clan, and he prepared to face the arrivals with his upgraded equipment.
  • Beast Taming Sect disciples abducted cultivators for forced labor while Divine Lord Suoyao and Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master completed the formation with blood sacrifices.
  • Divine Lord Suoyao activated the World-Breaking Grand Formation and summoned the Golden-Winged Peng King, the Netherfire Bat King, and the Ancient Crocodile King.
  • The Netherfire Bat King devoured nearby disciples and captives, while the Golden-Winged Peng King asserted control and claimed Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master as a follower.
  • Divine Lord Suoyao told the demon kings that Lin Hao possessed a Cave-Heaven Dharma Treasure, stirring their greed and prompting the Golden-Winged Peng King to plan an ambush.
  • Divine Lord Suoyao proposed that the demon kings attack the Sunu Sect to force Haotian to come to its aid.

Ch. 493Demon suppression

Lin Hao intercepted the Beast Taming Sect's flagship and used his Demon-Suppressing Tower, [Demon-Suppression] trait, and [Demon-Slaying] Fate Lattice to counter the demons’ attacks. He trapped the four Great Demons and Divine Lord Suoyao in his Cave-Heaven World, where the Demon-Suppressing Tower appeared.

  • Lin Hao divined that the Beast Taming Sect's flagship was heading toward the Sunu Sect and prepared to intercept the demons.
  • Aboard the concealed flagship, Divine Lord Suoyao and the Golden-Winged Peng King agreed to attack the Tai Xuan Palace's flagship and discussed copying the ship's blueprints.
  • Lin Hao flew ahead of the Beast Taming Sect's flagship and blocked its path, then deflected its Demon-Suppression Divine Light with diamond-shaped umbrella-like treasures.
  • The Golden-Winged Peng King and the other Great Demons joined Divine Lord Suoyao in attacking Lin Hao, but Lin Hao's [Demon-Suppression] trait and [Demon-Slaying] Fate Lattice activated.
  • Lin Hao's palm expanded and drew the attackers into his Cave-Heaven World, where the Demon-Suppressing Tower appeared and shocked the Golden-Winged Peng King and Divine Lord Suoyao.

Ch. 494Overwhelming force

Lin Hao used the Demon-Suppressing Tower and his Cave-Heaven to overpower the Demon Realm’s Divine Transformation great demons. After the Golden-Winged Peng King fell, the other demons remained trapped or defeated, leaving Lin Hao in control of the battle.

  • Lin Hao’s Demon-Suppression and Demon-Slaying powers neutralized the demons’ opening attacks, and the Golden-Winged Peng King launched a claw strike that Lin Hao shattered with one punch.
  • The Netherfire Bat King, Ancient Crocodile King, Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master, and Divine Lord Suoyao attacked, but Lin Hao used his treasures and vengeful souls to trap or suppress them.
  • The Golden-Winged Peng King evaded Lin Hao’s pursuit with his speed while Lin Hao continued controlling the other battlefields, defeating the Ancient Crocodile King and capturing the Bat King as Divine Lord Suoyao was overwhelmed.
  • A chain slowed the Golden-Winged Peng King, allowing Lin Hao to strike him into the Demon-Suppressing Tower and bind him there.
  • Lin Hao charged the bound Golden-Winged Peng King and killed him with a blow that also destroyed half of his Dharma form’s arm.

Ch. 495Choice

Lin Hao defeated the Beast Taming Sect’s demon allies, captured their magic ship, and returned to the Demon Realm-linked formation, where he discovered the sect’s collaborators and captives. After killing True Monarch Taotie, Lin Hao ordered Miaoyu to seize the Beast Taming Sect disciples and send them to serve as Living Pillars at Soul-Breaking Cliff.

  • Lin Hao finished off the Ancient Crocodile King, Bat King, and Spirit Tortoise Mountain Master, then collected their remains and began digesting their flesh with his [Blood Sea Scripture].
  • Lin Hao and Miaoyu captured the Beast Taming Sect’s magic ship after its surviving disciples lowered their defenses.
  • True Monarch Taotie tried to win favor with the returning demon kings, while captured disciples condemned the Beast Taming Sect’s alliance with the Demon Realm.
  • Lin Hao and Miaoyu arrived at the grand formation aboard two magic ships, and the Beast Taming Sect disciples realized the demon kings had been defeated.
  • Lin Hao killed True Monarch Taotie and ordered Miaoyu to bind the collaborators and take them to Soul-Breaking Cliff as Living Pillars.

Ch. 496Return

Lin Hao and Liu Qingqing discussed the Demon Realm’s strength and the preparations to defend the Cultivation Realm at Soul-Breaking Cliff. Lin Hao then oversaw the completion of Penglai City and planned its expansion, while preparing to spread the Swarm and exploit newly discovered worlds.

  • Liu Qingqing compared her strength with the Demon Realm’s top Great Demons, and Lin Hao discussed his progress and promised to reach Mid Nascent Soul before the Demon Realm connected.
  • Liu Qingqing briefed Lin Hao on the great formation being built at Soul-Breaking Cliff, the Cultivation Realm’s weakest barrier point, for the Demon Realm’s arrival.
  • Lin Hao returned to the Settlement and attended the topping-out and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completed Mobile City, named Penglai City.
  • Li Yanbing explained plans to use radio broadcasts and patrols to find and merge nearby settlements, and Lin Hao approved increasing the Radio Station’s range.
  • Li Yanbing reported that two of three newly discovered low-difficulty worlds had been integrated, and Lin Hao planned to place Midwife Bugs and raise more God-Eater Insects.

Ch. 497Setting out on a tour

Lin Hao used a formation to trace his blood relatives in the Abyss, confirming that his parents and sister were alive but too far away to locate precisely. He set out aboard a Giant Kun Bug with Li Yanbing, Daphne, Xiao Wen, and the Imperial Guard to find nearby relatives, while Penglai City’s power and intentions became known to settlements along the route.

  • Lin Hao used his bloodline and Earth Will’s help to learn that his parents and sister were alive, though void turbulence made their location difficult to pinpoint.
  • Lin Hao sensed other relatives in the same habitable zone and decided to travel to find them, while asking Earth Will to watch over his parents and sister.
  • Li Yanbing arranged for Daphne, Xiao Wen, and the Imperial Guard to accompany Lin Hao aboard the Giant Kun Bug.
  • Lin Hao’s Giant Kun Bug departed Penglai City at Mach three, openly displaying its banner and claiming territory as it traveled.
  • Imperial Guards mapped settlements, cleared threats, and announced that survivors would be incorporated into Penglai City; the settlements they encountered welcomed them.

Ch. 498Junior college

At Haitian Information Vocational and Technical College, Tang Chao and the survivors received a radio message announcing other survivors and an imminent visit from Penglai City. The college’s leader, Zhang Yao, worried about losing power, but his concerns shifted when three Imperial Guards arrived by air and announced that His Majesty would follow.

  • Tang Chao learned that Zhang Yao’s control of food had helped him remain in charge and suspected Zhang Yao had harassed Tang Chao’s sister and brother-in-law.
  • A sports student announced that the Radio had picked up a message from other survivors, though the college could not yet reply.
  • At a meeting, Zhang Yao and his allies resisted contacting the broadcast’s sender, while Tang Qiang supported establishing contact.
  • Three Imperial Guards riding Shuttle Bugs descended onto the college field, and Chu Yu asked who was in charge.
  • Zhang Yao introduced himself and eagerly welcomed the envoys, then learned that His Majesty would arrive in about half an hour.

Ch. 499A little shock

Lin Hao reunited with his relatives at a survivor settlement and offered to take them and the other survivors to Penglai City. The settlement’s residents all chose to leave, and the chapter ended with them arriving at the thriving city aboard the Giant Kun Bug.

  • Tang Yue and Tang Chao watched the Giant Kun Bug descend and realized Lin Hao had arrived as its leader.
  • Lin Hao reunited with Tang Chao, Tang Yue, and their family, then sent Zhang Yao to prison after learning he had mistreated them.
  • Lin Hao gave Tang Chao a cultivation method and arranged for the settlement’s residents to travel to Penglai City if they wished.
  • The survivors eagerly signed up to leave, and Chu Yu organized Imperial Guards to register them and prepare supplies.
  • Lin Hao welcomed his relatives aboard the Giant Kun Bug and explained that his parents and Yuexin were safe but still far away.
  • The entire settlement traveled to Penglai City, where the survivors gaped at the floating Giant Kun Bugs and the completed city.

Ch. 500Half a year

Over six months, Lin Hao strengthened his cultivation and swarm through Demon Clan bloodline research, then learned that Zixiao Sect had imprisoned Green Grain Sect members over their use of his cultivation method. He went to intervene as True Lord Leiyun threatened Qingyangzi, and the chapter ended with Lin Hao confronting him by divine sense.

  • Lin Hao refined Demon Clan bloodline information, improved his abilities, and considered entering the Demon Realm through the formation once he reached mid Nascent Soul.
  • Lin Hao inspected his newly bred Shuttle Bugs and considered the combat potential of his growing numbers of God-Eater Insects.
  • Changchunzi told Lin Hao that Zixiao Sect had detained Green Grain Sect disciples after one defeated an inner sect disciple using the Five Elements Spirit-Returning Formula.
  • Lin Hao decided to go to Azure Cloud City personally, where Zixiao Sect guards mocked the imprisoned Green Grain Sect disciples.
  • True Lord Leiyun pressured Qingyangzi to surrender the cultivation method and supposed secret treasures, while plotting to keep the method for himself.
  • Lin Hao sent True Lord Leiyun an icy warning for stealing his cultivation method and detaining his people.

Ch. 501Target: the Demon Realm

Lin Hao rescued Qingyangzi and the Green Grain Sect, killed True Lord Leiyun, and accepted the Zixiao Sect's sect-guarding treasure as compensation. After breaking through to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage, he prepared to travel alone to the Demon Realm.

  • True Lord Leiyun activated Azure Cloud City's formation and accused Lin Hao of impersonating the National Preceptor, but Divine Lord Ziyun confirmed Lin Hao's identity and expelled Leiyun from the Zixiao Sect.
  • Lin Hao killed True Lord Leiyun with divine lightning and captured his soul in the Human Sovereign Banner, then rescued Qingyangzi and the Green Grain Sect disciples.
  • Divine Lord Ziyun arrived, apologized to Lin Hao, and gave him the Zixiao Sword as compensation.
  • Lin Hao considered his plans for the Demon Realm, cultivated with Liu Qingqing and Miaoyu, and advanced to the Mid Nascent Soul Stage.
  • Lin Hao announced that he would travel to the Demon Realm alone, while Liu Qingqing advised him to stay cautious and Miaoyu suggested he seek out transformed demon women.
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