Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao reunited with Liu Xudong and the residents of his old neighborhood, offering to bring them into his mobile Settlement and using an avatar to visit his family in another world. Meanwhile, his sister Lin Yuexin thrived in Metropolis with her family, though Lin Weihua still worried about his eldest son.

• Lin Hao revealed himself to Liu Xudong, calmed the gathered residents, and invited them to join his Settlement when it arrived in a few days.
• Lin Hao learned that entering Liu Xudong's world directly might trigger a dangerous stress response, so he sent an avatar there with Liu Xudong while he stayed behind to speak with the residents.
• Lin Hao told the residents about life in the Abyss and showed them items infused with his aura to introduce them to cultivation.
• The Abyss gang gained control of garbage collection near Chinatown in Metropolis after winning several gunfights with rival gangs.
• Lin Yuexin found a blue-grade baseball bat while sorting garbage, continuing her streak of good fortune as her family built a stable life through cultivation.
• Lin Weihua thought about Lin Hao and worried because he did not know how his eldest son was doing.

Lin Weihua rejected Wei Ping’s pressure to recruit his people for drug trials, then learned that his son Lin Hao had reached the same world. Lin Hao appeared as a hologram from Lin Weihua’s phone and asked whether Wei Ping was up to no good.

• Lin Yuexin reassured Lin Weihua that they would eventually rescue her brother, while he left to meet Goldman Sachs representatives.
• Wei Ping and his companions pressured Lin Weihua’s group to accept drug trials, warning that ICE could investigate them and offering help against Velociraptors in exchange for cooperation.
• Lin Weihua resisted Wei Ping’s threats and said his group could settle elsewhere or return to the first world.
• Lin Hao called Lin Weihua, who was delighted to hear his son had reached the world too.
• Lin Hao appeared as a three-dimensional projection from Lin Weihua’s phone and asked whether Wei Ping was an asshole up to no good.

Lin Hao reunited with his father, mother, and sister after crossing the Abyss, then brought them to the Evacuation Point and revealed his true body. He left his family ready to return home while Wei Ping remained silenced and promised a reckoning the next day.

• Lin Hao projected himself through his father's phone, then flew to the window and told Lin Weihua he had crossed the Abyss to find him.
• Lin Weihua accepted Lin Hao's offer to take him home and left Wei Ping, who tried to bargain for Lin Hao's resources.
• Lin Hao silenced Wei Ping and told Lin Weihua that he would deal with him the next day, then carried his father away through the air.
• Lin Hao's joyful laughter spread across the city, easing people's anger, addictions, and other fixations, while he found Lin Yuexin at a waste-sorting station.
• Lin Hao brought his family to the Evacuation Point, showed them his true body, and told them he had used an avatar because the other world could not withstand him.

Lin Hao exposed the Goldman Sachs Group and its allies through a worldwide broadcast of their memories, then brought his floating city to Goldman Settlement to punish its oppressors. After the shuttle bugs killed those he marked, Imperial Guard members invited ordinary survivors to join the city.

• Wei Ping told Goldman Sachs Group leaders and their allies that Lin Hao had appeared and might be displeased with them, but they discussed winning him over and threatening him with weapons and hostages.
• Lin Hao appeared across the world’s screens, declared a judgment on humanity’s devils, and sent angels to restrain the conference attendees and broadcast their memories.
• People worldwide saw evidence of the leaders’ crimes, and victims and other witnesses began stepping forward to identify perpetrators and confess their own involvement.
• At Goldman Settlement, its leaders prepared weapons and ordered residents to search for Lin Hao’s hometown settlement, unaware of events elsewhere.
• Lin Hao’s original body arrived with the urban village residents and confronted Goldman Settlement, while shuttle bugs killed the oppressors he had marked.
• Imperial Guard members invited the settlement’s ordinary survivors to join the floating city and follow its rules.

Lin Hao entered seclusion and used the essence of dozens of Divine Transformation Great Demons and vast stores of wish power to break through to Divine Transformation. After emerging, he glimpsed the Abyss’s underlying laws and considered pursuing an unusual path toward Body Integration.

• Lin Yuexin asked Lin Hao for a cultivation method, and he gave her Qi Refining pills and ordered her to cultivate diligently.
• Lin Hao sensed that his divine soul was ready to advance, warned his family and the Settlement to hold their position, and entered seclusion in Penglai Tower.
• Lin Hao formed an Insect Cocoon in his specially made Divine Transformation Pool and absorbed the Blood Sea’s essence, Swarm information, and wish power.
• As Lin Hao broke through, the worlds bearing his authority showed signs of change, while Liu Qingqing, Miaoyu, and Feng Xi watched the extraordinary spiritual energy and auspicious manifestations above Penglai City.
• Lin Hao emerged as a Divine Transformation cultivator and discovered that his divine sense could glimpse strands of the Abyss’s chaotic laws.
• Lin Hao decided that, after strengthening his foundation, he might pursue Body Integration through the Abyss’s underlying rules.

After reaching Divine Transformation, Lin Hao considered how to enter the Spirit World and decided to use an avatar to investigate the Ascension Platform. He disguised the avatar with the Yin-Yang Divine Lord’s residual karma and prepared to use the Hehuan Sect’s disciples to aid his cultivation.

• Lin Hao assessed the gulf between his strength and that of other Divine Transformation cultivators, then considered seeking resources and laws in the Spirit World to advance further.
• Lin Hao traveled to the Cultivation Realm and examined the abandoned Ascension Platform, concluding that Swarm pheromones and the formation might let an avatar cross safely.
• Lin Hao chose to disguise his avatar as the Yin-Yang Divine Lord, whose ascent the Spirit World would know about but whose death Miaoyu had witnessed.
• Lin Hao searched the Hehuan Sect for the Yin-Yang Divine Lord’s possessions and used their residual fate, reinforced by wish power, to replace the avatar’s karma.
• Lin Hao summoned the Hehuan Sect’s women and told them he required their help with his cultivation; they respectfully agreed.

Lin Hao sent a flesh-and-blood avatar disguised as the Yin-Yang Divine Lord through a damaged Ascension Passage to the Spirit World. After reaching the human Reception Pool at Heavenly Pillar Mountain, the avatar was identified as an ascender from the Cultivation Realm and recruited by the Hehuan Sect, where it learned the Cultivation Realm had been cut off following a disaster.

• Lin Hao opened the damaged Ascension Passage and sent his avatar ahead while planning to wait for Earth Will to establish an escape route.
• The avatar arrived at the Reception Pool on Heavenly Pillar Mountain, where Fairy Linghuan and a Wanxiang Immortal Sect envoy competed to recruit it.
• The avatar introduced itself as Yin-Yang of the Cultivation Realm, prompting the Reception Envoys to examine its identity and ascension time.
• Fairy Linghuan and the Wanxiang envoy confirmed that Yin-Yang had entered the passage before the Cultivation Realm incident and survived temporal turbulence.
• Fairy Linghuan told Yin-Yang that the Cultivation Realm was likely lost and that its connection had been severed to protect the Spirit World.
• Fairy Linghuan took Yin-Yang toward the nearby city to register with the Hehuan Sect as the envoys noted that he might soon be conscripted amid rising tensions with the Demon Clan.

Lin Hao learned about humanity’s precarious position in the Spirit World and discovered that war preparations had reached Heavenly Pillar Mountain. As Fairy Linghuan took him to register for wartime service, Lin Hao considered using the assignments to gain resources and establish himself.

• Fairy Linghuan praised Lin Hao’s strength, gave him Divine Transformation cultivation methods and Spirit-Refining Pills, and explained that he could not yet return to the Hehuan Sect.
• Linghuan told Lin Hao that humanity faced pressure from the Demon Clan, a missing Grand Ascension powerhouse, and growing threats on the three fronts bordering the Demon Realm.
• A Body Integration cultivator’s announcement placed Heavenly Pillar Mountain under wartime administration and ordered all cultivators to register and collect identity tokens.
• Linghuan identified the speaker as Dao Lord Rocksolid and offered to take Lin Hao to register early for potentially better assignments.
• Lin Hao asked about the rewards and considered using the assignments to assess the situation and gain resources.

Lin Hao registered as an ascended cultivator in Heavenly Pillar City and learned about the ascenders’ mutual aid society. He agreed to consider joining and met Yizhen Primordial Lord, who offered to send troublesome female cultivators his way for a fee.

• Lin Hao and Linghuan reached the registration station, where Linghuan arranged for Lin Hao to receive his identity token and leave a Divine Soul trace and soul lamp.
• A Nascent Soul cultivator told Lin Hao that eighty-seven Divine Transformation and seven Void Refinement ascenders were active in Heavenly Pillar Mountain, and described Xuanwei Primordial Lord’s strength.
• Linghuan explained that Xuanwei Primordial Lord had helped found an ascenders’ mutual aid society and that Lin Hao was currently the only Hehuan Sect ascender in the region.
• Yizhen Primordial Lord arrived to meet Lin Hao, introduced the society’s broader connections, and invited him to join.
• Yizhen Primordial Lord offered to pay Lin Hao to handle the female cultivators who kept pestering him, leaving Lin Hao taken aback.

Lin Hao attended a welcoming gathering for the Ascender Mutual Aid Association and learned that hostilities with the Demon Clan were expected to begin. The chapter ended with Xuanwei Primordial Lord explaining that the fighting would likely remain limited to border skirmishes, leaving Divine Transformation cultivators to contest disputed territory.

• More than seventy ascenders welcomed Lin Hao to the association and gave him gifts.
• Lingxu Daoist and Qingyue Zi discussed the dwindling number of ascenders, while Lin Hao learned about the factions around Heavenly Pillar Mountain.
• Qingyue Zi invited Lin Hao to join his team, and Lin Hao mentioned his varied skills in yin-yang arts, crafting, formations, and kendo.
• Xuanwei Primordial Lord arrived and offered to test Lin Hao, while Feiyue and Yizhen Primordial Lord examined Lin Hao's probing technique.
• Lingxu Daoist asked Xuanwei Primordial Lord about the coming conflict, and Xuanwei said it would likely involve border skirmishes with Divine Transformation cultivators fighting over disputed areas.

Lin Hao demonstrated his exceptional swordsmanship and formation skill to Xuanwei Primordial Lord, impressing the ascenders gathered at the mutual aid association. Xuanwei offered to seek him a top-grade Spiritual Artifact as a reward, while warning that the Demon Clan might target him if he stood out too much.

• Xuanwei Primordial Lord explained the conflict with the Demon Clan and warned Lin Hao that the enemy might break their tacit rules whenever it suited them.
• Xuanwei asked Lin Hao to demonstrate his Kendo, and Lin Hao released two Flying Swords embodying Yin-Yang power.
• Qingyue Zi, Yun Miaozi, and Daoist Chihua praised Lin Hao's swordsmanship and formation skill after recognizing the mastery behind his Taiji Two-Yi Sword Formation.
• Lin Hao attacked Xuanwei with a sword strike that expanded into an Eight-Trigrams Sword Intent, and Xuanwei caught it between his fingers.
• Xuanwei offered to help Lin Hao obtain a top-grade Spiritual Artifact through the Heavenly Dao Alliance, then warned him that the Demon Clan might send a Great Demon after him.

Lin Hao impressed the mutual aid association with his combat power and broad cultivation skills as its members discussed the coming war and the strength of both sides. Reinforcements arrived at Heavenly Pillar Mountain, where Dao Lord Rocksolid welcomed Dao Lord Yulong and Demon Transformation Primordial Lord while worrying about the Demon Clan’s encroachment.

• Lin Hao accepted praise for his sword strike, described his alchemy and artifact-refining abilities, and listened as association members warned him about powerful human and Demon Clan cultivators.
• Daoist Jiangjiao and other members described the Central Region sects expected to send reinforcements, including the Beast Taming Sect and the Myriad Souls Palace, while Xuanwei Primordial Lord identified the Demon Clan groups near Heavenly Pillar Mountain.
• Magic Ships carrying reinforcements arrived at Heavenly Pillar City, and Beast Taming Sect cultivators descended on birds and cranes.
• Dao Lord Yulong arrived on a flood dragon with Demon Transformation Primordial Lord, and Dao Lord Rocksolid welcomed them while warning that the Demon Clan had steadily taken control of disputed territory.
• Dao Lord Rocksolid agreed that Supreme-Grade Spiritual Artifacts could be added to the Exchange Pool to raise morale.

Lin Hao examined the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s wartime merit and redemption system and set his sights on the supreme-grade Wanxiang Sword. He gathered intelligence about powerful Spirit World cultivators and bloodlines, then reflected on the strength of the opponents he could face in the war.

• Linghuan struggled to improve Lin Hao’s cultivation because his foundation was exceptionally firm, while Lin Hao noted that his six flesh clones could still help strengthen his main body.
• Lin Hao received the wartime merit and redemption system details and calculated how kills and mission multipliers could earn enough merit to buy spiritual artifacts.
• Lin Hao decided that he would try to obtain the Wanxiang Sword, which cost one hundred million war merit, despite the danger of drawing attention by killing too aggressively.
• Lin Hao read Heavenly Pillar City’s network discussions about the sword and the powerful cultivators expected to compete for it.
• Lin Hao asked Xuanwei Primordial Lord about his defeat by Demon Transformation Primordial Lord and learned that Demon Transformation had beaten him without using spirit beasts.
• Lin Hao reviewed the Sky Wolf, Spirit Fox, and Jade Rabbit bloodlines, noting their strengths in speed, illusions, and spell avoidance.

Demon Transformation ordered Daoist Fuhu to win the Wanxiang Sword, while the Myriad Souls Palace’s disciples prepared to compete for the Holy Son position and fend off outsiders. Lin Hao secured generous Hehuan Sect rewards and joined Zhu Lingzi’s team for a supply convoy escort mission, which promised opportunities for battle merit.

• Demon Transformation returned Daoist Fuhu’s spirit tiger and insisted that Fuhu defeat the Myriad Souls Palace’s four disciples to claim the Wanxiang Sword.
• The Myriad Souls Palace’s palace master declared that whoever obtained the Wanxiang Sword could become Holy Son, and Chang Kui urged his fellow disciples to resist outside contenders.
• Linghuan told Lin Hao that the Hehuan Sect would add fifty percent to his battle-merit redemptions and provide a matching spiritual artifact for any he redeemed.
• Lin Hao met Qingyue Zi, Yun Miaozi, Zhu Lingzi, and the others at the Heavenly Dao Alliance headquarters, where Zhu Lingzi organized a supply convoy escort team.
• Zhu Lingzi explained that the escort mission offered a doubled reward and that attacks on the convoy could make the journey especially profitable.

Lin Hao and Zhu Lingzi’s team traveled through the Spirit World’s disputed region as Zhu Lingzi explained the human-Demon Clan war of attrition. Li Wang of the Myriad Souls Palace tried to recruit the ascenders to earn battle merits for him, but Lin Hao negotiated for a high-grade Spiritual Artifact before agreeing to help.

• Lin Hao examined the interlocking Magic Ships as Zhu Lingzi explained their strength and the tactics both sides used in the war.
• Li Wang arrived from the Myriad Souls Palace and offered the ascenders favorable exchange rates in return for earning battle merits for him.
• Lin Hao asked Li Wang about discounts and Spiritual Artifacts, then rejected his initial offer and demanded the high-grade Spiritual Artifact upfront.
• Li Wang offered to hand over the artifact once one ascender earned him a million battle merits, and Lin Hao accepted after asking him to swear an oath.
• Zhu Lingzi backed Lin Hao’s position, and Li Wang agreed to the arrangement while Lin Hao promised to earn battle merits as long as Li Wang kept his promises.

Lin Hao’s fleet encountered a Sky Wolf Clan force in the Thousand-Layer Forest after resupplying five outposts, and Li Wang ordered the Magic Ships to attack. The Demon Clan’s illusion made their volley miss, leaving the fleet facing a large enemy force with its Spirit Stones depleted.

• Zhu Lingzi explained that the fleet would resupply six outposts in the Contested Zone, while Lin Hao detected three concealed Azure Sparrows scouting them.
• The fleet completed five resupply operations without attack before a Sky Wolf Clan blade struck the thirty-six Magic Ships as they entered the Deep Tree Zone.
• A dozen Sky Wolf Clan wolves and numerous hidden Demon Cultivators appeared, prompting Li Wang to rally the fleet and order its main formations to fire.
• Lin Hao saw through an illusion as the volley destroyed trees but struck no enemies, and Li Wang realized the Demon Clan had tricked them into wasting their remaining Spirit Stones.

Lin Hao took control of the thirty-six Magic Ships and used their formations to absorb and redirect the Demon Clan’s attacks. The battlefield was left poised for a powerful counterblow as the Sky Wolf captain ordered his forces to retreat.

• Li Wang and Zhu Lingzi debated whether to call for reinforcements or withdraw, while Lin Hao decided to use the ambush as an opportunity to earn battle merits.
• Lin Hao asked Zhu Lingzi to hand him control of the Magic Ships, and Li Kui and Li Wang agreed after Zhu Lingzi vouched for his formation skills.
• The Fierce Bears attacked during the transfer of control, followed by Sky Wolf Clan beast orbs and a volley of attacks from the concealed Demon Cultivators.
• Lin Hao made the formations of all thirty-six Magic Ships work as one, absorbing the Fierce Bears’ impact and reflecting it into the Sky Wolves’ attacks.
• The formations stored and redirected successive waves of energy toward the Demon Cultivators, prompting the Sky Wolf captain to order a retreat.

Lin Hao turned the Magic Ships’ defensive formation against the demons, then left Li Wang in control and charged into battle himself. His Tornado Sword Formation slaughtered the Sky Wolf Clan and the other surviving demons, leaving Zhu Lingzi and the human cultivators stunned by his power.

• Lin Hao reversed the Magic Ships’ formation and unleashed their accumulated power, wiping out most of the attacking Demon Cultivators.
• Lin Hao handed control of the damaged ships to Li Wang and flew out to pursue the remaining demons.
• Hu Ling and the Sky Wolf Captain decided to attack Lin Hao, while Zhu Lingzi hurried to support him.
• Lin Hao formed a multicolored Tornado Sword Formation and killed the Sky Wolf Captain and the other Sky Wolf Clan members.
• Lin Hao’s sword formation consumed Hu Ling and the remaining demons, while Fairy Feiyue pulled Qingyue Zi away from its suction.
• Zhu Lingzi and the other cultivators stayed back, awed that Lin Hao had done this despite being only at Early Divine Transformation.

Lin Hao annihilated the demon forces with his tornado sword formation, shocking the cultivators escorting the magic ships. He received Li Wang’s Netherworld Soul Sword, and the fleet prepared to continue the mission as the others began to fear and flatter him.

• Lin Hao’s tornado sword formation swept through the battlefield and slaughtered the demon cultivators, leaving the escorting cultivators stunned.
• Zhu Lingzi and Li Wang discussed Lin Hao’s strength and the battle merits he had earned, while Li Wang worried about the cost and his chances of becoming Holy Son.
• Lin Hao returned with the captured souls, and Li Wang handed him the Netherworld Soul Sword and promised another high-grade spiritual artifact after the mission.
• Li Wang said their employment agreement would end once he fulfilled the promised payment, and Lin Hao agreed as long as they settled everything in full.
• Zhu Lingzi urged the group to resume the escort mission, and the cultivators praised Lin Hao while recognizing that they feared him.

Lin Hao and Li Wang brought a badly damaged supply fleet back to Blackstone Mountain after surviving a demonic ambush. Daoist Fuhu accused them of wasting supplies and failing their assignment, and Lin Hao realized Fuhu’s interference could reduce their reward multiplier.

• The Mammoth Clan repeatedly struck Blackstone Mountain’s grand formation while its formation masters worried over delayed supplies and mounting maintenance costs.
• Daoist Fuhu learned that Li Wang’s delivery fleet had arrived damaged and headed outside the formation to meet it.
• Demon cultivators watching from the shadows were surprised the fleet had survived the ambush and chose to wait rather than attack Fuhu.
• Fuhu publicly questioned Li Wang and the escorting cultivators about their delay, the ship damage, and their use of supplies, prompting others to accuse them of failing their assignment.
• Li Wang told Lin Hao that Fuhu’s reports might lower the fleet’s rating, while promising to pay him as agreed regardless of the multiplier.
• Lin Hao set aside the [Netherworld Soul Sword], learned that the accusations could reduce their reward, and rose after deciding Fuhu was effectively trying to take his money.