Chapter Summaries

Lin Lang investigated the deserted Green Robe Towers and discovered that Bai Yu'er was pursuing revenge against Guan Yutian. After Xiao Feng drove the Supreme Alliance and Sea Shark Palace fighters from the Food God Residence, Lin Lang gave him a martial arts manual and found Bai Yu'er just as she attacked Yan Zangfeng's carriage.

• Lin Lang asked Xiao Feng about Liao's Jianghu factions, learned that the Worship Fire Cult had once existed there, and went with him to the Food God Residence.
• At the restaurant, Lin Lang overheard that Guan Yutian had been wounded and that his son A Bao was being targeted; Ren Qianxing and Sea Shark Palace fighters then clashed over control of the establishment.
• Xiao Feng defeated both groups and warned Guan Yutian and Helian Ba to restrain their men, while Lin Lang gave Xiao Feng Peerless City's Dragon-Subduing Divine Leg manual before leaving to search for Bai Yu'er.
• Bai Yu'er learned that Yan Zangfeng was transporting A Bao and pursued his carriage with Green Robe Tower killers, intending to kill the others and capture A Bao alive.
• Yan Zangfeng used Wind God's Wrath to repel the ambush, but Lin Lang appeared beside Bai Yu'er, broke her dagger, and confronted her.

Lin Lang helped Bai Yu'er question the story behind her parents’ deaths and accompanied her to confront Helian Ba at the Sea Shark Palace. After Helian Ba admitted his betrayal and treated Yu'er as a tool, she killed him and left with Lin Lang for the Supreme Alliance.

• Lin Lang challenged Bai Yu'er’s assumptions about Guan Yutian and suggested Helian Ba had benefited from the Divine Fire Cult’s destruction.
• Bai Yu'er chose to confront Helian Ba, and Lin Lang accompanied her to the Sea Shark Palace disguised as A Bao.
• Helian Ba tried to keep Bai Yu'er and seize A Bao, but Lin Lang revealed himself and struck Helian Ba down.
• Helian Ba confessed that he had arranged Bai Ting’s death for his own ambition and admitted Bai Yu'er was only a tool to him.
• Lin Lang revealed where Helian Ba kept his martial arts legacy, and Bai Yu'er stabbed Helian Ba to death before leaving with Lin Lang for the Supreme Alliance.

Guan Yutian tried to force Yan Zangfeng and Yiyi into the Supreme Alliance, but Lin Lang arrived, crippled Guan Yutian, and let Bai Yu'er exact her revenge. After Lin Lang saved Yiyi in exchange for Yan Zangfeng's martial art, Bai Yu'er chose to spare the couple, and Lin Lang comforted her.

• Guan Yutian ordered Ren Qianxing to leave for Sword-Casting City, then demanded that Yan Zangfeng and Yiyi join the Supreme Alliance.
• Yan Zangfeng threatened Guan Yutian with A Bao, but Guan Yutian killed A Bao and severely wounded Yan Zangfeng and Yiyi.
• Lin Lang arrived with Bai Yu'er, defeated Guan Yutian with one palm, and forced him to reveal his martial legacy and the secret of King's Chess City before Bai Yu'er killed him.
• Yan Zangfeng offered Lin Lang the Heavenly Intent Four Symbols Art in exchange for saving Yiyi, and Lin Lang kept her alive with his true qi.
• Lin Lang told Bai Yu'er that Yan Zangfeng's father had killed her father, but Bai Yu'er chose to let Yan Zangfeng and Yiyi go.
• Bai Yu'er questioned whether she was still fit to be an assassin, and Lin Lang embraced her and assured her she no longer needed to take risks.

Lin Lang helped Bai Yu'er rapidly advance her cultivation before leaving her to rebuild the Green Robe Tower, then went to Lingyun Grotto with Nie Feng and Duan Lang. After overpowering the Fire Qilin, he persuaded it to follow him, while two people in secluded cultivation awoke deeper inside the grotto.

• Lin Lang taught Bai Yu'er the Death-Claiming Sword Techniques and Indestructible Sword Aura, then used the Evil Emperor's Relic and Nine Dragons Stone to help her reach the Heavenly Realm Peak in four hours.
• Three days later, Lin Lang left Bai Yu'er to rebuild the Green Robe Tower and traveled to Lingyun Grotto, where Nie Feng and Duan Lang waited to visit their fathers.
• Lin Lang entered Lingyun Grotto alone and fought the Fire Qilin, overpowering it despite its flames, claws, and strength.
• Lin Lang found the Fire Qilin's vulnerable scale and convinced it to follow him by promising protection and regular food.
• After Lin Lang fed the Fire Qilin True Qi, two people cultivating deep inside Lingyun Grotto opened their eyes.

Lin Lang confronted Duan Shuai in Lingyun Grotto, defeated him, and explained why he had refused to take Duan Lang as a disciple. Nie Renwang led Lin Lang to the Dragon Vein, where Lin Lang discovered it gathered the world's fortune, took the golden spine, and noticed a sword that might be the Xuanyuan Sword.

• Duan Shuai confronted Lin Lang over his refusal to accept Duan Lang as a disciple, and Lin Lang criticized Duan Lang's temperament and the Fire Kirin Sword's corrupting influence.
• Duan Shuai challenged Lin Lang to a fight, but Lin Lang easily defeated him and revealed that Duan Lang and Nie Feng were waiting outside to meet their fathers.
• Duan Shuai tried to stop Lin Lang from reaching the Dragon Vein, but Nie Renwang stepped aside and led Lin Lang deeper into Lingyun Grotto.
• Lin Lang explained that Nie Renwang and Duan Shuai had benefited from the Dragon Vein's power and fortune, then realized that the Dragon Vein gathered the world's fortune rather than anchoring it.
• Lin Lang took the golden spine from Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan's remains, causing the rest of the skeleton to crumble, and saw a sword that might be the Xuanyuan Sword.

Lin Lang drew the Xuanyuan Divine Sword and learned that its power was too great for him to wield safely until he reached Shattering the Void. After changes in heaven and earth brought new fortune and threats, Nie Renwang and Duan Shuai joined the Sun Moon Holy Cult as guest elders, and Lin Lang led Nie Feng and Duan Lang into Lingyun Grotto to feed the Fire Qilin.

• Lin Lang drew the Xuanyuan Divine Sword, learned it could command the world’s fate, and realized he could not yet control its full power.
• A nearly century-old nun awoke from seclusion near Emperor Treading Peak and said she had neared Shattering the Void, while Ren Yingying and Mud Bodhisattva sensed changes in the world and the Sun Moon Holy Cult’s fortune.
• The Emperor of Nihon ordered his experts to accompany him to retrieve the Late Emperor’s remains, intending to seize the Dragon Vein and the Central Plains’ fortune.
• Nie Feng reunited with Nie Renwang, and Duan Lang reunited with Duan Shuai; Duan Shuai thanked Lin Lang for guiding his son.
• Lin Lang told Nie Renwang that Yan Ying had gone to Nihon, borne Jue Wushen a son, and taken her own life after Jue Wushen’s death; Nie Renwang asked him to keep the truth from Nie Feng and accepted a guest elder position.
• Duan Shuai also accepted a guest elder position, and Lin Lang took Nie Feng and Duan Lang into Lingyun Grotto to feed the Fire Qilin.

Lin Lang found Wu Wudi’s mural in Lingyun Grotto and entered sudden enlightenment, comprehending the Ten Strongest Martial Dao and its three moves. After the mural’s destruction, he sent the others away and planned to increase the Fire Qilin’s blood donations to grow more Blood Bodhi.

• The Fire Qilin led Lin Lang, Duan Lang, and Nie Feng to the hidden cave containing Wu Wudi’s mural.
• Lin Lang studied the mural and entered sudden enlightenment, while Duan Lang and Nie Feng joined him in combat to test his moves.
• Nie Renwang and Duan Shuai joined the fight, but the group’s martial arts triggered mad blood and demonic madness before the cave collapsed.
• Lin Lang awakened Duan Lang, Nie Feng, and Nie Renwang, then sat with them and Duan Shuai to reflect on their insights.
• Lin Lang revealed that he had comprehended Xuanwu True Skill, the Ten Strongest Martial Dao, and the three moves of Ten Directions Invincible, then dismissed the others.
• Lin Lang rode the Fire Qilin to collect Blood Bodhi and proposed that it give blood more often in exchange for regular fresh meat.

Lin Lang ripened Blood Bodhi in Lingyun Grotto, gave one to the Divine Eagle, and tested Fire Qilin blood on it. After returning to Blackwood Cliff, he shared news of the divine treasures and martial arts he had found, then drank Fire Qilin blood himself as the Divine Eagle lay weak.

• Lin Lang used the Xuanyuan Divine Sword and the Fire Qilin's blood to ripen Blood Bodhi, then brought the ripe fruit to Qingcheng Mountain.
• The Divine Eagle ate a Blood Bodhi and evolved; Lin Lang gave Second Dream three Blood Bodhi before she entered seclusion.
• Lin Lang returned to Blackwood Cliff and fed Fire Qilin blood to the Divine Eagle, which collapsed as Ren Yingying and Mud Bodhisattva arrived.
• Lin Lang told Ren Yingying about the Dragon Vein, the Xuanyuan Divine Sword, and the martial arts he had brought back, and said Wanwan had advanced toward a third Primordial Spirit transformation.
• Lin Lang stayed beside the weakened Divine Eagle, then drank another bottle of Fire Qilin blood and felt his own bloodline begin to change.

Lin Lang absorbed the Fire Qilin blood and Dragon Vein, strengthening his body and bringing his essence, qi, and spirit to the peak of their third transformations without yet shattering the void. As he began refining his martial dao beside the recovering Divine Eagle, the Emperor of Nihon sensed the changes in the Central Plains and resolved to seize them.

• Lin Lang refined the Fire Qilin blood, condensing his essence blood and strengthening his body while sensing that his essence blood was nearing its fourth transformation.
• Lin Lang absorbed the Dragon Vein, but when he could not stop its power, he directed it into tempering his bones as a golden dragon formed from his aura and circled Blackwood Cliff.
• Shi Potian and others on Blackwood Cliff felt the golden dragon's pressure, which accelerated their cultivation, while Mud Bodhisattva took its appearance as a sign that the mandate of heaven had found its rightful bearer.
• Lin Lang completed the Dragon Vein refinement with his essence, qi, and spirit at the peak of their third transformations, and he learned that his realm was rated martial arts myth peak while retaining the ability to suppress his strength.
• Lin Lang found that the Divine Eagle's condition had stabilized and began refining his martial dao beside it after the Dragon Vein turned to powder.
• The Emperor of Nihon sensed that heaven and earth essence had grown more active and vowed to seize the Central Plains to claim the opportunity.

Lin Lang traveled to Wudang Mountain to witness Yi Tianxing shatter the void, but Yi Tianxing’s primordial spirit ascended into a passage filled with demonic qi and he died. His final warning cast doubt on whether primordial-spirit ascension was a deception, and Zhang Wuji hinted that his master had suspected as much.

• The Emperor of Great Ming asked Wudang to help secure the Free and Unfettered Gate’s surrender, but Zhang Sanfeng refused and invited Lin Lang to witness Yi Tianxing’s ascension.
• Yu Lianzhou told Lin Lang that Yi Tianxing was preparing to shatter the void, and Lin Lang agreed to attend.
• Yi Tianxing demonstrated Eight Swords Flying Together and challenged Lin Lang, whose sword strike helped open a spatial passage.
• Yi Tianxing entered the passage, but Lin Lang sensed demonic qi and caught his falling body as his aura rapidly faded.
• Before dying, Yi Tianxing warned Lin Lang not to ascend as a primordial spirit because it was a deception.
• Zhang Wuji suggested that Yi Tianxing’s suspicion might have been right, prompting Lin Lang and Zhang Sanfeng to demand to know what else he knew.

After Yi Tianxing failed to ascend, Lin Lang gave Zhang Sanfeng a Blood Bodhi and learned the Famous Swords Eight Forms from Zhang Wuji. Meanwhile, Di Ni returned from death seclusion to attack Wanwan, who discovered that Di Ni’s Immortal Embryo Dao Seed could destroy her Demon Seed.

• Zhang Wuji explained that ascending with only the primordial spirit was dangerous and might expose it to demons, and Zhang Sanfeng mourned Yi Tianxing’s failure.
• Lin Lang gave Zhang Sanfeng a Blood Bodhi, then traded another to Zhang Wuji for the Famous Swords Eight Forms and its related sword techniques.
• Zhang Sanfeng used the Blood Bodhi to transform his essence blood and true qi, then chose to remain in the world and discuss his insights with Lin Lang.
• Wanwan punished Holy Sect traitors, strengthened the sect, and restrained herself from ascending before her essence, qi, and spirit had each transformed three times.
• Di Ni emerged from death seclusion and challenged Wanwan, who used superior techniques and an illusion to suppress her despite Di Ni’s greater strength.
• Wanwan planted a Demon Seed in Di Ni, but Di Ni activated her Immortal Embryo Dao Seed and destroyed it, leaving Wanwan injured and horrified.

Lin Lang rescued Wanwan from Di Ni, defeated her attempt to ascend, and let Wanwan absorb her Demon Seed, while they discussed her death-seclusion method and inner elixir. The story then shifted to the Song Kingdom, where the emperor of Nihon landed with Jue Xin and Fist Dao Deity and ordered an attack.

• Di Ni attacked Wanwan, but Lin Lang arrived, healed Wanwan, and challenged Di Ni.
• Lin Lang wounded Di Ni, dragged her back from the spatial passage as she tried to ascend, and subdued her.
• Wanwan extracted and absorbed Di Ni's Demon Seed, then told Lin Lang that Di Ni had mastered an inner elixir method.
• Lin Lang and Wanwan discussed recording Di Ni's death-seclusion method and warned against Primordial Spirit ascension.
• In the Song Kingdom, Zhuge Zhengwo confronted the Great Song Emperor over surrendering, but Divine Constable Heartless reported that the emperor of Nihon had arrived.
• The emperor of Nihon landed with Jue Xin and Fist Dao Deity, declared his intention to conquer the Central Plains, and ordered an attack.

The Emperor of Nihon invaded the Central Plains while seeking the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan’s treasure, and Yagyu Piaoxu secretly came along to find Lin Lang. Lin Lang arranged a Great Ming expedition to Nihon, then learned that his former Nihon language teacher had come looking for him.

• The Emperor of Nihon landed with nearly twenty thousand experts, and Jue Xin pointed him toward Lingyun Grotto and the Fire Qilin’s treasure.
• Yagyu Piaoxu led her female ninjas into the Central Plains, intending to find Lin Lang rather than help conquer it.
• Fist Fool defeated Iron Hand and killed Zhuge Zhengwo and the Four Great Constables, leaving the Song Kingdom exposed to Nihon’s invasion.
• After hearing of Nihon’s attack, Lin Lang ordered Great Ming to invade Nihon and bring back its martial arts texts.
• Shi Potian and Hua Wuque led Great Ming’s fleet and Holy Cult forces toward Nihon, while the Emperor of Great Ming ordered troops and supplies assembled.
• Lin Lang received intelligence saying his Nihon language teacher had come to find him.

Yagyu Piaoxu reunited with Lin Lang, who offered to make her Queen of Nihon and gave her martial arts techniques while pursuing a way to strengthen his own power. Meanwhile, the Sword Emperor returned injured after fighting Fist Dao Deity, and Second Dream learned that Nihon’s emperor and his forces were headed for Lingyun Grotto.

• Five Poisons Child brought Yagyu Piaoxu to Lin Lang, who questioned her absence and then heard her account of Nihon’s rulers and martial experts.
• Lin Lang offered Yagyu Piaoxu the chance to become Queen of Nihon, transferred the Evil Emperor’s Relic essence to her, and gave her martial arts to practice.
• Lin Lang discovered that colliding opposing powers could greatly increase their force and began considering how to use that method to strengthen himself.
• Wuming agreed to face Fist Dao Deity after the Sword Emperor admitted he could not defeat him, while the Sword Sect’s disciples continued their training.
• The Sword Emperor told Second Dream that Nihon’s emperor seemed stronger than Fist Dao Deity and that their forces were headed for Lingyun Grotto, prompting her to hurry to warn Lin Lang.

The Emperor of Nihon planned to seize the Dragon Vein at Lingyun Grotto while Fist Dao Deity fought Central Plains martial artists and grew stronger. Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun awakened Maha Boundless but could not control it, and Fist Dao Deity challenged Lin Lang after they were rescued.

• The Emperor of Nihon killed a subordinate, revealed his Heaven-Shattering Absolute Hand, and ordered his army to advance on Lingyun Grotto within three days.
• Fist Dao Deity abducted women to bear him sons, but Wuming intervened; Fist Dao Deity injured Wuming and was injured in return.
• Lin Lang warned Shangguan Haitang that the Emperor of Nihon was likely a powerful martial artist and sent Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun to attack Fist Dao Deity while he was wounded.
• Third Pig Emperor fought Fist Dao Deity, tested his newly developed Sixth Blade, and withdrew as Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun arrived to take over.
• Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun awakened Maha Boundless during their fight with Fist Dao Deity, but their unstable power broke apart and injured them; Nie Renwang and Third Pig Emperor rescued them.
• Fist Dao Deity declared that he would go to the Sun Moon Holy Cult in three days to take Lin Lang's head.

Duan Lang challenged the injured Fist Dao Deity but was overwhelmed, and Duan Shuai was crippled while saving him. Lin Lang treated them and headed to Lingyun Grotto, where Fist Dao Deity attacked Second Dream; Lin Lang intervened and prepared to fight him.

• Duan Shuai urged Duan Lang to challenge Fist Dao Deity as a trial, and Duan Lang agreed after resolving to kill Jue Xin first.
• Duan Lang fought Fist Dao Deity, who had concealed his strength, and Duan Shuai was severely injured while helping his son escape.
• Lin Lang treated Duan Shuai and Duan Lang, taught Duan Shuai a method to reconnect his meridians, and ordered Duan Lang to kill Jue Xin.
• Fist Dao Deity and the Emperor of Nihon reached Lingyun Grotto, where Fist Dao Deity fought Second Dream and wounded her.
• Lin Lang caught Second Dream, then confronted Fist Dao Deity and declared that he would defeat the man claiming to be number one in fist techniques.

Lin Lang defeated Fist Dao Deity, vanished into the shattered void, and returned after refusing to ascend to the Upper Realm. He learned that the Emperor of Nihon was attacking the Fire Qilin and went to confront him in Lingyun Grotto.

• Fist Dao Deity used his domain-controlling ultimate fist, but Lin Lang countered with Seven Injuries Fist and fatally wounded him.
• The shattered space swallowed Lin Lang, and the Emperor of Nihon rushed into Lingyun Grotto to seize its treasure.
• The Emperor of Nihon fought the Fire Qilin with Heaven-Shattering Absolute Hand and demanded that it submit as his mount.
• Yan Shisan told Second Dream that Lin Lang might have ascended, but Lin Lang tore open the healed space and returned.
• Lin Lang told Yan Shisan he had refused the passage to the Upper Realm, then headed into Lingyun Grotto to rescue the Fire Qilin.
• The Fire Qilin noticed Lin Lang behind the Emperor of Nihon, who turned and struck with Heaven-Shattering Absolute Hand.

Lin Lang defeated the Emperor of Nihon in their palm battle and revealed that Nihon’s imperial family had ties to Xu Fu, but the emperor unleashed a secret art that transformed his primordial spirit and gathered the Central Plains’ fortune. Lin Lang claimed that fortune favored him instead and prepared to tear the emperor’s primordial spirit apart.

• Lin Lang endured the Emperor of Nihon’s Heaven-Shattering Absolute Hand and countered it with palm force based on the Bone-Melting Cotton Palm.
• Lin Lang overwhelmed the Emperor of Nihon, revealed that Yagyu Piaoxu would rule Nihon under Great Ming, and explained that the emperor’s ancestors had come from the Central Plains with Xu Fu.
• The Emperor of Nihon spat a blood arrow at Lin Lang, but Lin Lang shattered it with a snort and kicked him between the legs.
• The Emperor of Nihon’s body exploded as he unleashed the Primordial Spirit Dragon-Transformation Art, gathering the Central Plains’ fortune and increasing his primordial spirit’s power.
• Lin Lang mocked the emperor’s snake-like transformation and drew the gathered fortune toward himself before preparing to tear the primordial spirit apart.

Lin Lang defeated the Emperor of Nihon, helped Second Dream and Wuming improve their cultivation, and returned to Blackwood Cliff after Duan Lang encountered God General. The chapter ended with Nie Renwang preparing to hunt down the remaining Nihon martial artists while Duan Lang considered the World-Extinguishing Demon Body he had learned.

• Lin Lang tore apart the Emperor of Nihon's Primordial Spirit, fed its remains to the Fire Qilin, and asked the beast to provide more blood for Blood Bodhi.
• Yan Shisan left to develop a new sword technique, and Lin Lang taught Second Dream the Famous Swords Eight Forms and Love of the Allure.
• Lin Lang gathered Heaven and Earth Essence on Qingcheng Mountain and taught Wuming how to maintain the concentrated cultivation area.
• Duan Lang killed Jue Xin in Tubo, discovered God General frozen in a glacier, and heard God General's promise to teach him the World-Extinguishing Demon Body.
• Lin Lang returned to Blackwood Cliff, learned Nie Renwang had gained insight from his fight with Fist Dao Deity, and asked him to hunt down the Nihon martial artists.

Duan Lang created Bloodfire Evil Aura and was recruited by Di Shitian into Heaven Gate, though he planned to inform Lin Lang and investigate the sect. Elsewhere, Jian Zun considered forging the Frost-Defying Sword without the Nine Dragons Stone, Nie Renwang killed invading Nihon fighters, Yagyu Piaoxu subdued Nihon martial leaders, and the Young Emperor ordered Great Ming to prepare for war against Southern Yue.

• Duan Lang abandoned his attempt to master the World-Extinguishing Demon Body and combined its methods with the Fire Kirin Sword's influence to create Bloodfire Evil Aura.
• Di Shitian revealed himself as the master of Heaven Gate, recruited Duan Lang, and offered to teach him supreme sword techniques.
• Jian Zun learned that Lin Lang had taken the Nine Dragons Stone but decided Sword-Casting City would forge the Frost-Defying Sword without it.
• Nie Renwang used his improved Ice Heart Spell to kill Nihon experts who were abusing fishermen and their families.
• Yagyu Piaoxu killed the Inoue Family Head and demanded that the Nihon martial leaders aboard her ship submit or die.
• The Young Emperor ordered Great Ming to hunt Nihon infiltrators and prepare an invasion of Southern Yue through Dali.