Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi won a Talent Stone and the Bewitching God Heart Sutra at the auction, then left with Tian Wu Ying. In the Ancient Domain, Qin Jian learned that a four-star Warrior in the Outer Domain might be connected to the missing Seventeen Tong Pass Treasure.

• Wu Di thanked Lin Yi and Tian Wu Ying before leaving, and Tian Wu Ying drove away the warriors who had claimed to be his friends.
• Lin Yi learned from Tian Wu Ying that the Dong Family Auction House regularly sold women, then had him bid for a Talent Stone, which Lin Yi refined to gain another Talent Slot.
• Lin Yi had Tian Wu Ying win the Bewitching God Heart Sutra for 110 Source Stones despite Tian Wu Ying's warning that it was a demonic art with severe side effects.
• Lin Yi and Tian Wu Ying left the auction with the technique, while Dong Tianlang and Wu Di gathered together.
• Qin Jian berated his subordinates for failing to find Seventeen Tong Pass, then ordered them to keep searching.
• Qin Jian learned that Deputy General Nangong and City Lord Zhou had found a four-star Warrior in the Outer Domain who might be connected to the missing Tong Pass Treasure, and he called them in at once.

Lin Yi and his companions seized the Dong Family’s Source Stone Mine, killed its guards, and freed the miners who had been forced to work there. After learning the mine could yield thousands of Source Stones, Lin Yi planned to use Monsters to increase production and let most of the miners go, though a few chose to stay and serve him.

• Lin Yi mastered the Bewitching God Heart Sutra and learned from Ren Hei Xiong that Ning Nan Qiang had found the Dong Family’s Source Stone Mine Cave.
• Lin Yi sent Ren Hei Xiong and Ning Nan Qiang to the mine, ordering them to kill Dong Tianlang’s people but spare the miners.
• Ren Hei Xiong and Ning Nan Qiang killed the mine’s guards and gathered the miners, who told Lin Yi the mine produced four or five Source Stones a day and held thousands in total.
• Lin Yi used Golden Light to extract twenty-eight Source Stones from a cart of ore and decided to have Xian Wu'ai and Sha Ge’s Monsters mine the site.
• Ren Hei Xiong and Ning Nan Qiang executed thirty miners who were notorious criminals, and Lin Yi gave food and freedom to the remaining miners.
• Lin Yi allowed the old man and several other miners to stay and serve him.

Qin Jian and Nangong Ling left the Ancient Domain to capture the mysterious four-star Martial Artist surnamed Lin, whom they suspected of stealing the Tong Pass Treasure. Dong Tianlang pointed them toward Lin Yi while privately worrying that the two commanders might not be strong enough to defeat him.

• Qin Jian and Nangong Ling crossed into the Outer Domain, where Qin Jian criticized the squalid conditions and Nangong Ling hinted at his profits there.
• Qin Jian warned Nangong Ling that he would not let the matter go if Lin did not possess Seventeen Tong Pass, while Nangong Ling asked that Lin be kept alive.
• Nangong Ling and Qin Jian arrived at Dong Tianlang's auction house, where Dong Tianlang greeted them and learned that they planned to blame the missing Tong Pass Treasure on Lin.
• Dong Tianlang changed the account of when Lin first appeared so Qin Jian would suspect him, then privately worried that Qin Jian and Nangong Ling might fail to capture Lin.

Lin Yi arranged new workers for the large Source Stone Mine and tested whether his Source Stones could draw a Red Talent, but his plans were interrupted by news that Dong Tianlang and a powerful Ancient Domain figure were preparing to attack. After confirming the threat, Lin Yi went alone to the Dong Family Bunker, where Nangong Ling was indulging himself.

• Lin Yi sent Xian Wu'ai back to his village and recruited Immortal Village Militia members, Sha Ge, and He Tianlong to work at the large Source Stone Mine.
• Lin Yi placed more than three hundred Source Stones into the Incense Altar, but his wish did not change them or produce a Red Talent.
• Ren Hei Xiong delivered a Secret Letter warning that Dong Tianlang and an Ancient Domain figure planned to attack at dawn, and Ren Hei Xiong and Ning Nan Qiang confirmed the report.
• Lin Yi left Ren Hei Xiong and Ning Nan Qiang behind and headed alone to the Dong Family Bunker to deal with Dong Tianlang.
• Nangong Ling drank wine with young women in a luxurious pavilion inside the Dong Family Bunker.

Lin Yi used Dong Tianlang’s memories to uncover Nangong Ling and Qin Jian’s plan to lure him out, then infiltrated Dong Family Castle and attacked Qin Jian. The chapter ended with Lin Yi smashing Qin Jian unconscious with a single palm.

• Nangong Ling drunkenly told Dong Tianlang about Qin Jian’s background and mocked his marriage into a noble family, prompting Qin Jian to threaten to record Nangong Ling’s conduct.
• Nangong Ling blamed Dong Tianlang for his anger and drove him away, leaving Dong Tianlang resentful and determined to make him pay.
• Lin Yi entered Dong Tianlang’s room, examined his memories, learned of the plan to lure him out, and killed him before taking a Mechanism Lock and disguising the body with a Silk Mask.
• Lin Yi spread White Mist through Dong Family Castle and approached Qin Jian’s room disguised as Dong Tianlang, drawing Qin Jian into the mist.
• Lin Yi used a Golden Light as a feint, shattered Qin Jian’s defensive force with one palm, and knocked him unconscious.

Lin Yi defeated Qin Jian, ambushed and disarmed Nangong Ling, and interrogated him about the Ancient Domain. Nangong Ling revealed the scale of its Martial Saint families before realizing Lin Yi might be planning to impersonate Qin Jian and infiltrate the domain.

• Lin Yi knocked Qin Jian unconscious and carried him away, then went after Nangong Ling through the White Mist.
• Disguised as Dong Tianlang, Lin Yi lured Nangong Ling close, revealed himself, severed both of Nangong Ling’s arms, and took his treasures, including a Martial Saint-powered Command Token.
• Lin Yi carried the half-dead Nangong Ling to a woodshed and threatened him into answering questions about the Ancient Domain.
• Nangong Ling explained that Martial Saint City held more than a thousand families with Martial Saints and that most Martial Saints gathered in a secret realm.
• As Lin Yi asked about Qin Jian, Nangong Ling realized Lin Yi might be trying to impersonate him and infiltrate the Ancient Domain.

Lin Yi killed Nangong Ling, captured Qin Jian, and tried to learn enough about the Tong Pass Garrison Commander to impersonate him and enter the Ancient Domain. When Qin Jian resisted interrogation, Lin Yi returned to Ancient Pool Village to ask Elder Gu Yun for help breaking his will.

• Lin Yi tortured Nangong Ling until he revealed Qin Jian’s history and role as Tong Pass Garrison Commander, then killed him.
• A servant reported Nangong Ling’s death to the Nangong Family Clan Leader, who ordered an investigation at Tong Pass.
• Lin Yi emerged from the Dong Family Bunker with Qin Jian and ordered Ning Nan Qiang and Ren Hei Xiong to seize control of the Dong Family Merchant Guild.
• Lin Yi took Qin Jian to a deserted mine and tried to interrogate him, but Qin Jian resisted and guessed that Lin Yi planned to impersonate him.
• Lin Yi brought Qin Jian to Elder Gu Yun at Ancient Pool Village, and Gu Yun said he knew of spirit materials that could weaken the commander’s will.

Lin Yi used Elder Gu Yun’s potion to break Qin Jian’s resistance and extract his memories, then copied Qin Jian’s appearance and entered Tong Pass City in disguise. He began establishing his cover by questioning City Guard Captain Wang Sheng.

• Lin Yi drugged Qin Jian and used the Bewitching God Heart Sutra to search his memories, learning that Qin Jian had been trained to preserve his primordial yang and had become Tong Pass’s Garrison Commander.
• Qin Jian interrupted the memory search and tried to kill himself, but Lin Yi restrained him and used the potion on a Sow Demon until Qin Jian agreed to cooperate.
• With Qin Jian’s cooperation, Lin Yi learned his memories, martial arts, habits, and preferences, then used a Silk Mask and changed his body to impersonate him.
• Lin Yi entered Tong Pass City through a secret passage and encountered several City Guard Captains discussing Qin Jian’s strict rules.
• Lin Yi singled out Wang Sheng, identified him as a former resident of the Outer Domain, and began questioning him about his service.

Lin Yi, disguised as Qin Jian, took control of Tong Pass resources and obtained five thousand Source Stones by claiming he needed them to repair the damaged Tong Pass Treasure. After returning to the Garrison Mansion, he began preparing a secret chamber and materials for a new Incense Altar.

• Lin Yi had Wang Sheng lead him to the Inner City Treasury, where Xu Nanfeng and Zhou Shangyun met him.
• Lin Yi ordered five thousand Source Stones withdrawn from the treasury despite Zhou Shangyun's objections.
• Lin Yi revealed the Tong Pass Treasure and claimed it had been damaged fighting the Barbarian God and needed the Source Stones for repairs.
• Lin Yi told Zhou Shangyun that Nangong Ling had died, then returned to the Garrison Mansion and asked Qin Hai to prepare building materials.
• Lin Yi received the Source Stones and materials for the Incense Altar, then entered the secret chamber alone.

Lin Yi mastered Qin Jian’s martial arts and established an Incense Altar in Tong Pass, but two attempts to draw a Red Talent failed. After ordering Qin Hai to collect martial arts manuals, Lin Yi learned that a messenger eagle from Martial Saint City had arrived with a letter, leaving him concerned about why it had come.

• Lin Yi mastered Qin Jian’s martial arts, and the Black Profound Long Whip acknowledged him as its master.
• Lin Yi spent two thousand Source Stones on two talent draws, receiving a Blue Talent and then the Longevity Green Body instead of a Red Talent.
• Lin Yi emerged from seclusion and ordered Qin Hai to collect external martial arts manuals in Tong Pass Inner City.
• Qin Hai told Lin Yi that a Green Wood Eagle from Martial Saint City had arrived with a letter two days earlier.
• Lin Yi worried that the letter might relate to his impersonation of Qin Jian or to Nangong Ling’s death.

Lin Yi answered the Tong Pass Prefecture’s inquiry into Nangong Ling’s death by crafting a report that pressured the Nangong Family to protect its reputation. After drawing and solidifying his first Red Talent, he tested its Blazing Flame Fire on the Tong Pass Treasure, causing the artifact spirit to panic and the city wall to shake.

• Lin Yi received the Prefect’s jade letter and wrote that Nangong Ling had died fighting a villain who sought the Tong Pass Treasure.
• Lin Yi made Zhou Shangyun gather evidence of Nangong Ling’s crimes, using it to pressure the Nangong Family into accepting the proposed account of his death.
• Lin Yi spent Source Stones at the Incense Altar and drew the Red Talent Blazing Flame Fire Body, while the altar cracked apart.
• Lin Yi solidified the talent, forming a blue-purple flame in his dantian that consumed his True Qi and Spiritual Qi.
• Lin Yi brought the Blazing Flame Fire near the Tong Pass Treasure, whose terrified artifact spirit trembled as the Tong Pass City Wall shook.

Lin Yi tested the power of his Blazing Flame Fire Body and prepared to confront the Spiritual Vine Son, whom he believed was becoming hostile toward him. After charging the Eye of Thunder Punishment and using hundreds of Source Stones to wish that the Spiritual Vine Son could not sense danger, Lin Yi had Liu Yuxi send him into the Spirit Vine World.

• The Tong Pass Artifact Spirit surrendered when Lin Yi threatened it with Blazing Flame Fire, and Lin Yi reassured the four City Lords that Tong Pass was safe before asking them for External Skill manuals.
• Lin Yi tested his Blazing Flame Fire Body, mastered Blazing Palm almost instantly, and found that his flame could incinerate Purple Grade Meteorite Iron.
• Lin Yi decided to strike the Spiritual Vine Son before it attacked him and charged the Eye of Thunder Punishment with forty bars of power.
• Lin Yi wished for the Spiritual Vine Son to lose its ability to sense danger, spending four hundred Source Stones before the Incense Altar accepted the wish and cracked.
• Liu Yuxi used her talent to send Lin Yi into the Spiritual Vine Son's world after warning him to be careful.

Lin Yi entered the Spirit Vine World to confront Spiritual Vine Son, which tried to make him its Human Puppet. Lin Yi stalled the overwhelming attack until the Blazing Flame Fire found and attacked Spiritual Vine Son’s true body, leaving the battle unresolved as it burned in agony.

• Lin Yi concealed his killing intent and the Blazing Flame Fire while Spiritual Vine Son drained his Spiritual Power and demanded that he bring its avatar to Blue Star.
• Lin Yi provoked Spiritual Vine Son, which revealed its enormous true strength and declared that Lin Yi would replace the girl it had chosen as its Human Puppet.
• Lin Yi used source pills and Plant Divinity to escape Spiritual Vine Son’s vines and attacks, stalling while the Blazing Flame Fire searched for its true body.
• The Blazing Flame Fire found Spiritual Vine Son underground and set its gourd-headed true body ablaze, while Lin Yi mocked its appearance.

Lin Yi killed the Spiritual Vine Son, claimed the Spirit Vine World, and discovered that the Blazing Flame Fire could burn away Black Qi, though refining it would take days. Back in the Tong Pass Ancient Domain, he studied martial arts to advance toward Class Five Star and his fusion Martial Saint path.

• Lin Yi used the Blazing Flame Fire to destroy the Spiritual Vine Son, obtained the Spirit Vine World’s Small World Core, and forced the remaining Black Qi out of his body before suppressing it in his dantian.
• Liu Yuxi’s Activation Code disappeared after the Spiritual Vine Son died, and Lin Yi promised to prepare a new code so she could enter the true Apocalypse World.
• Lin Yi fused with the Small World Core, explored the damaged Spirit Vine World with Yuanyuan, and considered how to rebuild it before it became uninhabitable.
• At the Seventeenth Tong Pass Inner City Garrison Mansion, Lin Yi studied Ancient Domain martial arts and continued pursuing Class Five Star and his fusion Martial Saint path.
• Lin Yi had recently created three Purple Grade external martial arts: Lightning Flash Step, Blazing Flame Saber Art, and Disguise and Bone Changing Technique.

Lin Yi planned to collect inherited External Skills from Tong Pass’s powerful families to speed his path to the Martial Saint realm, and held a tournament to study their techniques. When Deputy General Tai Shangxun arrived with a captured Half-Human Half-Demon, Lin Yi suspected it was his subordinate Ren Hei Xiong and considered rescuing him after the tournament.

• Lin Yi created the Lightning Flash Step, Blazing Flame Saber Art, and Disguise and Bone Changing Technique, and resolved to seek Purple Grade External Skills from six Martial Saint families.
• Lin Yi organized a Martial Arts Tournament in Tong Pass City, offering the top ten competitors in each arena rewards and personal guidance.
• Tai Shangxun arrived at the tournament and revealed that he had captured a Half-Human Half-Demon who could control its Demon Transformation.
• Lin Yi suspected Tai Shangxun had captured Ren Hei Xiong but prioritized beginning the tournament.
• Lin Yi watched the matches to learn the family External Skills used by young competitors and planned to use private guidance sessions to obtain their techniques.

The Martial Tournament’s arena matches ended, and Tai Shangxun proposed a Four-star spar, offering a chance to comprehend his family’s Martial Arts Stone Tablet to whoever defeated him. Yan Qiang challenged him and, after falling behind to Tai Shangxun’s Galaxy Sunset Swordplay, transformed with the Earth Barbarian Strength Art and charged through the sword lights.

• Lin Yi welcomed the chance to teach Wei Wuya’s youngest son and privately hoped to learn the inherited martial arts of the Four Great Families through their descendants.
• Tai Shangxun proposed a Four-star match, and Lin Yi challenged him to provide a prize; Tai Shangxun offered an outsider’s chance to comprehend the Tai Shang Family’s Martial Arts Stone Tablet.
• Yan Qiang accepted Tai Shangxun’s challenge, and the two fought above the arena as a large crowd watched.
• Tai Shangxun unleashed the Galaxy Sunset Swordplay, wounding Yan Qiang and driving him into a defensive position.
• Yan Qiang used the Earth Barbarian Strength Art to enlarge his body and launched himself at the sword lights to break through them.

Lin Yi, impersonating Qin Jian, defeated Tai Shangxun in a public contest and secured Tai Shangxun’s promised spot to comprehend the Martial Arts Stone Tablet. Tai Shangxun conceded but questioned why Qin Jian wanted access to the Tai Shang Family’s tablet when he could visit the Gu Family’s.

• Tai Shangxun defeated Yan Qiang and challenged Lin Yi, offering him a tablet-comprehension spot if he won.
• Lin Yi accepted the challenge and countered Tai Shangxun’s Heaven-Piercing Sword Qi with the perfected Battle Halberd Technique and his Black Profound Long Whip.
• Lin Yi struck Tai Shangxun three times, ruined his Spirit Artifact sword, and forced the White-Clad Sword Attendant to concede on Tai Shangxun’s behalf.
• Lin Yi returned the bent sword to Tai Shangxun, who accepted his defeat and promised the spot while vowing to challenge him again after reaching Martial Saint.
• Tai Shangxun asked why Qin Jian sought the Tai Shang Family’s Martial Arts Stone Tablet when he could visit the Gu Family’s.

Lin Yi strengthened his alliance with Tai Shangxun, extorted Source Stones from Zhou Shangyun, and learned rare martial arts while guiding Tong Pass’s young fighters. He accepted the Tai Shang Family’s recruitment and received a Martial Saint breakthrough method, while Ren Hei Xiong remained captive and under torture.

• Tai Shangxun offered Lin Yi the Tai Shang Family’s resources in exchange for his future loyalty, and Lin Yi played along despite knowing little about Qin Jian’s marriage to the Gu Family.
• Yan Qiang exposed Zhou Shangyun’s disparaging remark, and Lin Yi pressured Zhou Shangyun into providing Source Stones for himself and Tai Shangxun.
• Lin Yi instructed thirty victorious martial artists, secretly mastering their techniques and gaining access to numerous Blue Grade External Techniques.
• Lin Yi visited Tai Shangxun and saw Ren Hei Xiong being tortured by guards while Tai Shangxun watched.
• Lin Yi accepted Tai Shangxun’s Offering Token and the Tai Shang Family’s recruitment, then received a handwritten Martial Saint Breakthrough Method.

Lin Yi rescued Ren Hei Xiong from Tai Shangxun and sent him to the Spirit Vine World to cultivate, while Tai Shangxun prepared for an early-opening secret realm. After three days of seclusion, Lin Yi perfected the Martial Will Ascension and stood ready to attempt a breakthrough to the Martial Saint realm.

• Lin Yi persuaded Tai Shangxun to hand over Ren Hei Xiong, and Tai Shangxun’s attendant raised suspicions about Qin Jian before dismissing them and discussed the coming West Mountain Southern Domain secret realm.
• Lin Yi revealed himself to Ren Hei Xiong, learned how Tai Shangxun had captured him, and sent him to the Spirit Vine World to cultivate and reclaim spirit farmland.
• Lin Yi gave Ren Hei Xiong the Purple Grade Eight Forms Divine Hammer, and Ren Hei Xiong frightened Yuanyuan despite promising not to hurt it.
• Lin Yi entered seclusion with the Martial Path Origin Crystal and, after three days, perfected the twelfth level of Martial Will Ascension with all twelve Martial Dao Wills at Golden Grade.

Lin Yi failed to break through to the Martial Saint realm and learned that he needed to understand the Martial Saint Pill’s role before trying again. When Qin Jian’s wife Gu Tianxue arrived at the Garrison Mansion, Lin Yi struggled to conceal his unfamiliarity with her, and her request for a private chat left him suspecting their marriage was only for show.

• Lin Yi’s attempt to break through to the Martial Saint realm failed when his Martial Spirit conflicted with his Three-Tier Method, and he lost around five thousand Experience Points.
• Qin Hai told Lin Yi that Madam had arrived, and Lin Yi decided he had to personally welcome her despite fearing she might expose his identity.
• Lin Yi met Gu Tianxue and helped her down from the carriage, startling her maid and angering Gu Tianxue when he touched her hand.
• Lin Yi brought Gu Tianxue and her maid to the prepared bedroom, where Gu Tianxue called him Lord Qin and asked to speak with him privately.