Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi’s group survived the desert’s dangers, sought refuge from a Black Wind Sandstorm, and discovered North Sand Village’s underground labyrinth. After Lin Yi and three companions found the hidden village, its militia attacked them, and Lin Yi subdued the villagers without seriously injuring them.

• Lin Yi’s team continued across the desert after a night attack by Desert Worm Fish, and he secretly replenished their dwindling water with Liu Yuxi’s Talent.
• Lin Yi spotted an approaching Black Wind Sandstorm, led the team to a buried shelter, and ordered the Born Ones to log off before the storm arrived.
• Lin Yi, Gu Liehai, He Tianlong, and Old Fourth Gu explored a hidden underground labyrinth and found footprints that suggested North Sand Village still had survivors.
• Lin Yi’s group followed the smell of food to a cavern where North Sand Village villagers lived, and the villagers spotted and confronted them.
• After the North Sand Village militia attacked, Lin Yi quickly defeated them without serious harm and told Sha Ge that his group had entered by mistake.

Lin Yi and his companions met Sha Batian, the elder of North Sand Village, who recognized Lin Yi as a Newborn and said the village’s ancient teachings allowed them to leave their underground home. Sha Batian asked the group to escort the villagers to Tianshui City, but Old Fourth Gu questioned the request and warned that the journey could be deadly.

• Sha Batian welcomed Lin Yi and his companions into North Sand Village and questioned Lin Yi about the spirit artifacts he wore.
• Lin Yi admitted that he had forged the artifacts and confirmed that he was a Sequence Bearer, while Sha Batian explained the village’s lost Sand Forging Technique.
• Lin Yi prepared to leave after learning that North Sand Village remained underground because of ancestral rules, but Sha Batian became excited when he heard that Newborns had appeared.
• Sha Batian explained that the village’s teachings allowed them to defy the ancestral rules when Newborns appeared and asked Lin Yi’s group to escort the villagers to Tianshui City.
• North Sand Village’s militia argued over whether to leave, while Old Fourth Gu challenged Sha Batian’s request and warned that many villagers might die on the dangerous journey.

Lin Yi negotiated an escort deal with Sha Batian for a Source Stone and Sand-North Village’s professional-grade Spirit Artifact forging inheritance, in exchange for taking the village’s young Chief as his disciple. While Lin Yi and his companions waited out the Black Wind Sand storm, Sha Batian arrived at their shelter with the veiled girl, who stared at Lin Yi’s hidden Spiritual Power antler.

• Sha Batian offered a Source Stone and Sand-North Village’s Sand Forging Technique as payment for an escort to Tianshui City, but Lin Yi demanded a professional-grade forging method as well.
• Sha Batian agreed to give Lin Yi the village’s forging inheritance if Lin Yi also took Sand-North Village’s teenage Chief as his disciple.
• Lin Yi told Gu Yuan and He Huan about the bargain, and they warned him to be cautious with Sand-North Village.
• Lin Yi used Liu Yuxi’s talent to bring food supplies into the shelter, and the group ate rice porridge, pickled mustard greens, and braised beef while the storm continued.
• Sha Batian entered the shelter with a veiled young girl, who stared at Lin Yi as if she could see his concealed Spiritual Power antler.

Lin Yi accepted Sha Ling'er as his disciple in the shelter and studied the artifact-refining inheritance Old Man Sha gave him. He discovered the book's methods were incomplete and began testing its instructions with his rare Darkblood Motherstone, while the storm delayed the group's travel plans.

• Sha Ling'er ate her fill, and Old Man Sha revealed she was North Sand Village's twelve-year-old Village Chief and asked Lin Yi to take her as his disciple.
• Lin Yi accepted Sha Ling'er, received the inheritance book, and promised to keep her fed; he gave her milk chocolate before logging off.
• Lin Yi read the book's artifact-refining records and found it described only First-grade Martial Dao Spirit Artifacts, omitting later methods and the Sequencer Artifact method.
• Lin Yi began refining his Darkblood Motherstone in the villa's forging room, keeping Jiang Hanxue and Liu Yuxi awake as they discussed the Black Wind Sand and delayed travel.
• The next day, Sha Ling'er told Lin Yi that Old Man Sha had gone to choose people to travel to Tianshui City, and Lin Yi suspected he was avoiding questions about the incomplete book.

Lin Yi tested Sha Ling’er's Sand Treasure and discovered its powerful defensive and corrosive abilities while Black Wind Sand trapped the group in their shelter. After two days, he completed his Dark Blood Blazing Saber, a first-grade Spiritual Artifact infused with Blazing Sun Martial Dao Will.

• Sha Ling'er told Lin Yi that Sand Village had split into four branches and that the artifact-refining inheritance was divided among them; she revealed that her Sand Treasure was a Level 2 Sequencer Artifact.
• Sand Treasure recognized Lin Yi temporarily, transformed into armor, withstood powerful attacks, and damaged He Huan's Spiritual Artifact sword when its sand spread across the blade.
• Lin Yi used Sand Treasure to block the Black Wind Sand from entering the shelter and then shielded the entire shelter, explaining that maintaining a larger barrier consumed Spiritual Power.
• The Black Wind Sand raged for two days, and Old Man Sha selected North Sand Village Militia members, including Sha Ling'er and Sha Ge, to accompany the group to Tianshui City.
• Lin Yi finished forging the Dark Blood Blazing Saber and inspected its description, which showed that it carried Blazing Sun Will and granted True Qi enhancement.

Lin Yi tested his new Dark Blood Flame Saber in a marsh, then led his group through the Hundred Wilds Mountain Range toward Tianshui City. After half a month of travel, they met Changxing Village and learned they were close to the city.

• Lin Yi used the Dark Blood Flame Saber to clear Poison Green Snake Demons, then handed the Level 10 Great Demon to Liu Yuxi to kill.
• Lin Yi discussed Liu Yuxi, Liu Bo, and Jiang Hanxue’s training and progress, and planned to find Liu Yuxi External Technique manuals.
• After the Black Wind Sand subsided, Lin Yi led his group away from the shelter with Sha Ling’er and the others, promising Old Man Sha they would arrive safely.
• Half a month later, Lin Yi’s group crossed the Hundred Wilds Mountain Range and sent Lie Hai and He Tianlong to investigate signs of people ahead.
• Lin Yi met Zhou Fuhai of Changxing Village, copied his map of the area around Tianshui City, and learned the city was about two days away.

Lin Yi and his group reached an abandoned Ancient Temple after escaping the Hundred Wilds Mountain Range, where he began crafting a bowstring and the villagers held a martial tournament. Their night’s rest was interrupted by a Militia Team from Tianshui City, and Gu Yuan worried that Old Fourth Gu’s insults could jeopardize their entry into the city.

• Lin Yi recalled how he had used Sand Treasure to drive off the Earth-Shaking Flood Dragon and led his group out of the Hundred Wilds Mountain Range.
• At the Ancient Temple, Lin Yi polished the Giant Python Snake Demon’s tendon while Sha Ling'er asked about his plans to make a Spirit Artifact Bow.
• He Huan taught martial arts by the campfire, and Lin Yi held a tournament that Gu Liehai won, taking home a jar of Monkey Fruit Wine.
• A Militia Team from Tianshui City arrived seeking shelter, but Sha Ge, He Tianlong, and Old Fourth Gu blocked the entrance and questioned them.
• After He Tianlong kicked away a man who rushed at them, the woman in blue identified her party as Tianshui City’s Militia Team and said they only wanted to rest.
• Old Fourth Gu refused to make room and provoked Yang Zi, prompting Gu Yuan to warn Lin Yi that the dispute could keep them from entering Tianshui City.

Lin Yi's group traded with Yang Zi for a Blood-Red Spirit Horse and reached Tianshui City, where they entered after registering as a joint party from three villages. At the city gate, Captain Five Tian Xukong questioned Lin Yi about the horse's origins but let him proceed.

• Yang Zi apologized to Ancient Pool Village and traded his Blood-Red Spirit Horse for two bottles of Divine Water.
• Lin Yi logged back in, learned about the trade, and agreed that Ancient Pool Village should breed the Spirit Horse.
• Lin Yi and the others traveled for a day and a half until they reached Tianshui City's towering walls.
• Tianshui City's militia registered the party as members of Ancient Pool Village, Hexian Village, and North Sand Village and allowed them into the city.
• Tian Xukong stopped Lin Yi at the gate to ask about the Blood-Red Spirit Horse, then let him continue after Lin Yi explained that he had traded for it from Yang Zi.

Lin Yi’s group settled into Tianshui City ahead of the Warrior Awakening Ceremony and Trade Day, then visited the Tianshui Merchants Headquarters to acquire rare materials. Gu Yuan secured everything on his list with Ancient Pool Village’s Divine Water, while Lin Yi began buying the materials available for his Divine Sequences.

• Lin Yi paid five thousand taels of silver to reserve Sifang Inn for a month and ordered the group to stay inside unless they had permission to leave.
• Gu Liehai and the others reported that Trade Day would begin in three days and the Warrior Awakening Ceremony would take place within half a month.
• Lin Yi, Gu Yuan, and He Huan visited the Tianshui Merchants Headquarters, where steward Yang Junlv welcomed them and led them upstairs.
• Gu Yuan exchanged a bottle of Ancient Pool Village’s Divine Water for all the materials on his list for Gu Liehai’s Artifact Awakening.
• Lin Yi presented a list of materials for his Divine Sequences, and Yang Junlv estimated that the warehouse held about one-third of them; Lin Yi asked him to bring those out for purchase.

Lin Yi traded Spiritual Artifacts for materials in Tianshui City, while the Tian Family learned that Ancient Pool Village might have caused the Monster riot in the mountains. Three days later, Lin Yi attended an Official meeting about invasion incidents and overseas crises, leaving the story with Newborn affairs spreading unevenly around the world.

• Lin Yi inspected the Tianshui Merchants’ Spiritual Artifacts, found their wares unimpressive, and learned that a future Trade Day would bring better goods.
• Lin Yi traded three pairs of Wolfskin Spirit Boots for the materials he had purchased, and Yang Junlv reported the visitors’ abilities to the president.
• Tian Wuhe told Tian Xin and her team about the Monster riot and recognized Ancient Pool Village as a possible cause, warning them against seeking revenge.
• Tian Wuhe recalled Ancient Pool Village’s history and cautioned that its people had once made the City Lord suffer a major loss.
• Over the next three days, Lin Yi gathered resources from the Mount Tianzhu Secret Realm and attended an Official meeting about falling invasion incidents, the National Martial Arts Plan, and overseas Ghost Spirit outbreaks.
• Elder Chen prepared to send Niu Jianjun, Alliance Leader Meng, and others abroad to help, while Lin Yi declined to join them.

Lin Yi attended Tianshui City's Trade Day and traded with several village stalls, buying pills and seeking a rare mind-calming ingredient. He left Dan Village's stall negotiating over Blue Quality Bloodstone after Dan Cheng offered a Spirit Calming Pill in hopes of buying Divine Water.

• Lin Yi arrived at the crowded Trade Day with Sha Ling'er and several Newborns, then let the group browse in pairs while Jiang Hanxue stayed with him.
• Lin Yi visited Immortal Village's stall, learned about its Monster-control powder, and offered to sell Spiritual Artifacts at a discount if the village would share a mind-calming ingredient.
• Lin Yi bought all of Dan Village's remaining Tendon Strengthening and Strength-Boosting Pills with Green Materials.
• Dan Cheng offered Lin Yi a Blue Quality Spirit Calming Pill in exchange for Divine Water, but Lin Yi instead showed him a Blue Quality Bloodstone.
• Dan Cheng eagerly asked Lin Yi where he had obtained the Bloodstone, a key material for refining Vitality Pills.

Lin Yi traded Bloodstone for Spirit Calming Pills, stocked up on resources, and helped Ancient Pool Village’s Trade Day stall thrive. When Wei Bufan stole a Spirit Artifact and invoked his Tianshui City status, Lin Yi’s village beat him and challenged the Trade Day Law Enforcement Team, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Yi traded a piece of Bloodstone to Dan Cheng for two Spirit Calming Pills after Dan Cheng refused to share his Vitality Pill refining method.
• Lin Yi bought Spiritual Object resources from village stalls, then found Ancient Pool Village selling goods and Blood Food samples to a large crowd.
• Lin Yi learned that Old Fourth Gu had organized the sales event and helped Gu Yuan manage the busy stall before Gu Yuan left to buy supplies.
• Gu Man caught Wei Bufan secretly taking a Wolf Boot Artifact, but Wei Bufan denied stealing it and claimed his status as a Tianshui City Militia Vice-Captain.
• Lin Yi ordered Ancient Pool Village’s Militia members to beat Wei Bufan, then refused the Trade Day Law Enforcement Team’s demand to release him until someone in charge arrived.
• The dark-faced Twelfth Deputy Captain drew his saber, but Gu Man seized his arm and warned him that he could not bear the consequences.

Lin Yi confronted Tianshui City’s militia over a theft from Ancient Pool Village and injured the corrupt deputy captain before settling the dispute. He then learned of a Monster King-level threat in Linhe City and set out to help, while Zhao Shuang encountered Lin Caihuan, an officer from Yangcheng who called Lin Yi her uncle.

• Old Fourth Gu exposed Wei Bufan’s theft and accused the Tianshui City militia of protecting him, drawing a crowd and provoking the Twelfth Deputy Captain to attack.
• Tian Xingwu arrived, apologized to Lin Yi, and offered to punish the Twelfth Deputy Captain, but Lin Yi demanded an explanation for the militia’s repeated protection of Wei Bufan.
• Lin Yi struck the Twelfth Deputy Captain with a finger force, leaving him gravely injured, then accepted the matter as settled and left Wei Bufan for Ancient Pool Village to question.
• Lu Hai informed Lin Yi that a Level 1 Monster Invasion Incident was underway in Linhe City, so Lin Yi logged off and called Zhang Baichuan for details about a Monster King in the river.
• Zhang Baichuan sent Zhao Shuang to guard downstream, where Zhao Shuang found Lin Caihuan, an officer from Yangcheng’s Supernatural Center who said Niu Jianjun was her master and Lin Yi was her uncle.

Lin Yi investigated the Lin River Invasion Incident, learned from Lin Caihuan that a Space Passage connected the river to Apocalypse World, and searched the riverbed for its entrance. He had not found the passage yet, but the endless Strange Rotten Fish showed that it was nearby.

• Zhang Baichuan told Lin Yi that a Monster King had invaded the Lin River and that the Newborn sent to investigate had disappeared.
• Lin Yi parted the river, drove Strange Rotten Fish onto the shore, and descended to clear them while Zhang Baichuan and Liu Bo guarded the banks.
• Lin Yi found two anglers’ remains and killed more than a hundred Strange Rotten Fish, but could not locate the Monster King.
• Lin Caihuan told Lin Yi that a riverbed entrance led to Apocalypse World and warned that the passage opened onto a dangerous, Monster-filled river.
• Lin Yi returned underwater to search for the passage, but found only Strange Rotten Fish that kept appearing no matter how many he killed.

After discovering a spatial passage guarded by a terrifying fish Monster, Lin Yi made plans to strengthen himself and returned to Apocalypse World. There, he learned of an upcoming resource auction and confronted Wei Bufan, who finally revealed what happened to the missing Wolfskin Spirit Boots.

• Lin Yi found a crystal spatial passage in the Lin River, where an immense fish Monster warned that it would find a way into his world.
• Lin Yi reported the passage to Elder Chen, then resolved to prioritize Talent Stones, develop the Martial Profession, and keep tempering his body.
• At Ancient Pool Village's stall, Gu Yuan gave Lin Yi an invitation to a Tianshui Merchants gathering and warned that the village might be targeted because it had Demon King Blood.
• Lin Yi decided to attend the gathering and agreed with Gu Yuan to keep the village's remaining Demon King Blood rather than sell it.
• Lin Yi confronted Wei Bufan about the stolen Wolfskin Spirit Boots, and Wei Bufan admitted that the artifact had been swallowed by the wolf Yao.

Lin Yi discovered that Wei Bufan’s invisible ring was a Witch Artifact containing the spirit of Wei Ruhong, a Three-star Shaman, and made a deal to protect Wei Bufan in exchange for Witch inheritance. Wei Ruhong shared information about the distant Southern Domain and an ancient teleportation array, then assessed Lin Yi’s Jianye Meditation Method.

• Lin Yi identified Wei Bufan’s invisible ring as a Witch Artifact and learned from Wei Ruhong that the old Shaman’s spirit resided inside it.
• Lin Yi returned the ring to Wei Bufan and invited him to join Ancient Pool Village, but Wei Bufan refused and was taken back to confinement.
• Lin Yi agreed to protect Wei Bufan and overlook the theft in exchange for part of Wei Ruhong’s Witch inheritance and the location of an ancient teleportation array.
• Lin Yi practiced the Jianye Meditation Method while Wei Ruhong explained that it suited him and that Wei Ruhong’s own Bloodline Meditation Method required an inherited family bloodline.

Lin Yi learned more about the spatial passage threatening Linhe City, then negotiated with Lin Caihuan for information about Talent Stones. She revealed leads involving Yu Huachen and a secret realm on Hainan Island, while claiming her talent was related to prophecy.

• Lin Yi received Wei Ruhong's Spirit Weasel Meditation Method and learned how to make Spirit Burning Incense.
• Zhang Baichuan's report described Monsters emerging from a growing spatial passage, prompting Lin Yi to worry that Linhe City might fall.
• Lin Caihuan persuaded Lin Yi to let her stay by offering Talent Stone information in exchange for defensive Spiritual Artifacts, and they signed an agreement.
• Lin Caihuan told Lin Yi that Yu Huachen had an unused Talent Stone and that his younger brother might trade it for valuable Martial Artist materials.
• Lin Caihuan revealed that another Talent Stone lay in an unopened secret realm on Hainan Island, then claimed her talent involved prophecy.

During Trade Day in Tianshui City, Lin Yi bought Spirit Cleansing Fruits and made Spirit Burning Incense, then joined Gu Yuan and He Huan at a Tianshui Merchants trade fair. The three entered the crowded basement venue after learning the fair would offer Professional-level resources and Demon King's Blood.

• Lin Yi ignored Lin Caihuan's hidden talent and warned her to be careful about exposing her actions.
• Despite heavy rain, Lin Yi and Gu Yuan's group set up their stall, and Lin Yi traded Spiritual Artifacts for ten Spirit Cleansing Fruits from Dan Village.
• Lin Yi made fifty sticks of Spirit Burning Incense, gave ten to Gu Yuan, and planned to cultivate Spirit Cleansing Fruit saplings.
• Yang Junlv welcomed Lin Yi, Gu Yuan, and He Huan to the Tianshui Merchants Headquarters and revealed that the trade fair would sell Professional-level resources and Demon King's Blood.
• Yang Junlv led the three into the basement trade fair venue, where eight stone pillars supported the crowded former warehouse.

Lin Yi and Gu Yuan attended Tianshui City’s trade fair, where Yang Longxian auctioned scarce Demon King's Blood amid a dispute over the Tian Family’s handling of the Awakening Ceremony. Lin Yi sold Ancient Pool Village’s superior Demon King's Blood to Dan Cheng and attracted attention from Yang Longxiang as the trade continued.

• Tian Xin and Tian Wuhe arrived with the Tian Family, followed by Yu Songjin and the Martial Pavilion delegation.
• Yang Longxian announced that his company had obtained nine portions of Demon King's Blood, then auctioned seven while criticizing the Tian Family’s failure to provide any.
• Tian Xin objected to Yang Longxian’s remarks, while Tian Wuhe told her to let them speak; Lin Yi and Gu Yuan stayed out of the dispute.
• Gu Yuan decided that Ancient Pool Village should sell its surplus Demon King's Blood, and Lin Yi sold three enhanced portions to Dan Cheng for five portions of basic Blue Material each.
• Nearby villagers gathered around Lin Yi to ask about his remaining Demon King's Blood, disrupting the auction, and Yang Longxiang noticed the Ancient Pool Village delegation.

Lin Yi sold Ancient Pool Village’s surplus Demon King's Blood, acquired Light Spirit Silkworm Silk, and traded Divine Water for a Ghost Spirit Core Material to help Old Fourth Gu advance. The chapter ended with Lin Yi suspecting that Poison Firefly Village’s Great Village Elder was hiding a Newborn.

• Lin Yi refused to lower the price of Demon King's Blood for Immortal Village but accepted its Light Spirit Silkworm Silk and additional materials in exchange for a portion.
• Lin Yi and Gu Yuan sold all eight portions of Demon King's Blood, earning four Source Stones and twenty-five portions of basic Blue Material, while Tian Wuhe promised to hunt another Monster King before the Awakening Ceremony.
• Tianshui Merchants auctioned rare Blue Materials, and Lin Yi bid for the Extreme Cold Flood Dragon's scale hide while Gu Yuan bought two materials.
• During the villages’ free trade, Lin Yi exchanged a bottle of Divine Water with Poison Firefly Village’s Great Village Elder for a Black Rhombus Stone dropped by a Newborn.
• The Great Village Elder denied that Poison Firefly Village had a Newborn, leaving Lin Yi troubled by rumors about Newborns in Tianshui City.