Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi carried Gu Tianxue through Black Mountain in exchange for learning her Gu Family’s Circulating Heaven Qi Art, which he quickly comprehended. After fighting hidden monsters, he found Heart Source Grass guarded by a giant Dragon Loach and went to confront it.

• Lin Yi agreed to carry Gu Tianxue through Black Mountain in exchange for the Circulating Heaven Qi Art, then began cultivating it as she recited its method.
• A Black Tree Longworm ambushed Gu Tianxue, and Lin Yi killed it before using his perception and abilities to slay more than ten hidden Black Tree Longworms.
• Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue discussed Reincarnators and the Monster Drops before continuing through Black Mountain more cautiously.
• Lin Yi discovered mature Heart Source Grass and a patch of seedlings in a valley, then left Gu Tianxue with his martial treasures while he entered the pool.
• Lin Yi dragged a hundred-meter-long Dragon Loach out of the pool.

Lin Yi defeated a four-star Dragon Loach, collected its blood and heart, and followed Gu Tianxue’s qi-sensing talent to a hidden canyon full of treasures. He transplanted hundreds of thousands of spirit plants there while a monster horde gathered outside the secret realm and the Barbarian God approached.

• Lin Yi subdued the four-star Dragon Loach, harvested its Monster Blood and heart, and collected its Blue Quality scales after it died.
• Lin Yi picked the mature Heart Source Grass, transplanted over twenty sprouts, and followed Gu Tianxue southwest toward a gathering of qi.
• A horde led by four-star Demon Kings surrounded the canyon outside the secret realm, while Ren Hei Xiong sensed the arrival of his monster father, the Barbarian God.
• Lin Yi used Tong Pass to shield himself and Gu Tianxue from the black Gale Wind and entered a canyon packed with spirit herbs and Spiritual Fruits.
• Lin Yi found no danger in the canyon, protected Gu Tianxue with two Martial Dao Spirit Treasures, and transplanted several hundred thousand spirit materials into the Spirit Vine Small World.

Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue camped in Black Mountain as Ghost Spirits emerged after dark, while other groups faced the realm’s dangers. Saint Shanhe followed the Tong Pass Treasure’s glow toward Lin Yi, and powerful Ghost Spirits ignored him as though he were one of their own.

• Lin Yi set up camp and shared a hot meal with Gu Tianxue, promising to protect her if she helped him find Martial Saint Pill materials.
• Gu Tianxue asked about Blue Star, and Lin Yi offered to take her there for a fee before a Ghost Spirit approached their tent and fled.
• Zhuge Jiujian and Chen Mu'er sheltered in a cave, while the Li Siblings hid from the Ghost Spirits and discussed a huge hand that had attacked a Monster.
• Jian Xuzi traveled openly through the night and burned a Professional-level Wraith, but he took the White-clad Sword Attendant into Void Space when enormous hands crushed a mountain.
• Jian Xuzi agreed to rest until morning and search for Qin Jian, while Saint Shanhe pursued Lin Yi’s location and powerful Ghost Spirits passed him without attacking.

Lin Yi fought the demonized Saint Shanhe, who attacked him to seize his Source Stones, and revealed enough power to destroy the Martial Saint’s regenerating flesh. Lin Yi pursued the fleeing Saint Shanhe, refusing to spare him.

• Saint Shanhe reached Lin Yi’s camp after cultivating the Blood Refining Demonic Art, and Gu Tianxue warned Lin Yi that the technique made its practitioners powerful, bloodthirsty monsters.
• Lin Yi and Saint Shanhe clashed across the mountaintop, while the Tong Pass Treasure protected Gu Tianxue and the camp from their battle’s aftermath.
• Saint Shanhe regained some clarity and demanded Lin Yi’s Source Stones, but Lin Yi attacked with the Sun-Chasing Sword and cut him in two.
• Saint Shanhe’s demonic art split his flesh into two copies, but Lin Yi burned one copy to ash with the Blazing Flame Fire.
• The surviving Saint Shanhe fled, and Lin Yi pursued him across the mountain ridges, rejecting his plea to spare his life.

Lin Yi survived the Black Giant Hand’s attack, which carried Saint Shanhe away, and continued exploring Black Mountain with Gu Tianxue. After finding the final ingredient for Martial Saint Pills, he drew an alchemy Talent and began preparing to refine them, hoping to become a Martial Saint.

• A gigantic Black Giant Hand struck from the clouds, forcing Lin Yi and Saint Shanhe to flee; it crushed Saint Shanhe, then carried him away as it withdrew.
• Lin Yi returned to Gu Tianxue, and the two left the Medicine Garden area after he warned her about the Black Giant Hand.
• With Gu Tianxue’s help, Lin Yi found another Spirit Plant area, defeated one Four-Star Monster, and gathered the Blood Mystery Vine needed for Martial Saint Pills.
• Lin Yi set up a Wish Incense Altar, drew the Grandmaster Alchemist Gold Talent, and divided his limited pill ingredients into three batches.
• Lin Yi forged a compact pill cauldron from Purple Blood Ore and began refining the Martial Saint Pills.

Lin Yi used the Wish Incense Altar to successfully refine six superior Martial Saint Pills, then began another attempt to break through to Martial Saint inside the secret realm. His body and True Qi completed their transformations, but the breakthrough continued.

• Lin Yi's first attempt to refine Martial Saint Pills failed, so he spent over two hundred Source Stones to wish for success with the Wish Incense Altar.
• Lin Yi refined six superior Gold-quality Martial Saint Pills in two batches and destroyed the altar before returning to Gu Tianxue.
• Lin Yi left Gu Tianxue at Tong Pass with the Golden Light Cloak and chose to attempt his breakthrough in the secret realm rather than on Blue Star.
• Lin Yi entered an Underground Cave, reviewed and refined his Martial Spirit Three-Ladder Fusion Martial Saint Method, then swallowed a Martial Saint Pill.
• Lin Yi completed the physical-body transformation and transformed his True Qi into Crimson Sun True Qi as a celestial phenomenon formed above the secret realm.

Lin Yi completed the Three-Ladder Fusion Method and broke through to Martial Saint Sixth Realm Perfection, then learned from Gu Tianxue about the Martial Saint realms and Martial Path Domain. The chapter ended with Gu Tianxue asking him to protect her as she ventured deeper into Black Mountain.

• Lin Yi transformed his Martial Dao Will into Martial Dao Principles by perfecting hundreds of external martial arts, then used a second Martial Saint Pill to begin the Three-Ladder Fusion Method.
• The cloud phenomenon above Mountain Ridge Blessed Land merged into a white deer, and Lin Yi emerged from his breakthrough with a Seven-Colored Deer Martial Spirit.
• Lin Yi's System panel confirmed that he had reached Martial Saint Sixth Realm Peak, with his fleshly body and True Qi perfected but no Martial Path Domain formed.
• Lin Yi returned to Gu Tianxue at night and confirmed that he had successfully become a Martial Saint.
• Gu Tianxue explained that Martial Saints had nine realms divided into the Flesh, True Qi, and Domain realms, but admitted she did not know how to form a Martial Path Domain.
• Gu Tianxue asked Lin Yi to protect her as she entered the depths of Black Mountain to resolve her constitution problem, promising to help him keep his Qin Jian identity in the Ancient Domain.

After reaching the Martial Saint realm, Lin Yi traveled through Black Mountain with Gu Tianxue, hunting Wraiths for their valuable cores. Elsewhere, Zhuge Jiujian fought to protect the poisoned Chen Mu’er from a group of Ghost Spirits, refusing to abandon him.

• Gu Tianxue explained that Tong Pass Prefecture’s Scripture Repository held many Martial Path Domain secret arts and suggested Lin Yi seek one out as Qin Jian; she also told him the Li Family’s Li Fire Domain was among the strongest.
• Lin Yi gave Gu Tianxue Snickers as they set out through Black Mountain at night, then killed a Professional-level Thorn Vine Ghost and collected its spirit stones and core.
• Lin Yi sent his Seven-Colored White Deer Martial Spirit to hunt nearby Ghost Spirits, gathering their drops until the surviving Wraiths fled deeper into the Black Mountain Branches.
• Zhuge Jiujian and Chen Mu’er were trapped in a cave after a Four-Star Snake Demon and its million snakes left them injured, with Chen Mu’er poisoned and unable to fight.
• Zhuge Jiujian battled the Ghost Spirits outside the cave while Chen Mu’er urged him to escape, but Zhuge refused to abandon him.

Zhuge Jiujian was nearly devoured by Ghost Spirits after a lifespan-draining Ghost Domain weakened him, but Lin Yi’s Seven-Colored White Deer clone rescued him and Chen Mu'er. Lin Yi then killed the Bat-Faced Eerie Spirit and confronted the giant black hand, whose attack destroyed his Martial Spirit clone but left Blue-Purple Flame burning across the sky.

• Zhuge Jiujian used a Myriad Sword Manor secret technique to destroy a Ghost Spirit, but the winged Ghost Spirit trapped him in a Ghost Domain that drained hundreds of years from his lifespan.
• Ghost Spirits overwhelmed Zhuge Jiujian, and Chen Mu'er emerged from the Karst Cave but could not save him.
• Lin Yi's Seven-Colored White Deer clone killed seven Professional-level Wraiths with a sword strike, then pursued the winged Ghost Spirit as Zhuge Jiujian and Chen Mu'er mistook the deer for a senior martial artist.
• Lin Yi caught the Bat-Faced Eerie Spirit, shattered its Ghost Domain with the Blazing Flame Saber Art, and burned it to nothingness, gaining a Purple Grade Eerie Spirit Core.
• The giant black hand descended from the clouds, and Lin Yi's Martial Spirit clone attacked it but was destroyed by its index finger.
• Blue-Purple Flame clung to the black hand and ignited the clouds, while Lin Yi suffered only slight backlash and Gu Tianxue watched the burning sky.

Lin Yi carried Gu Tianxue toward the Black Mountain Main Range, harvesting pill ingredients along the way and discovering that a Malice Curse was weakening her. He suppressed the curse by linking their auras and reached the mountainside, where the Bone-Eroding Black Wind blocked the route ahead.

• The Li Siblings saw the blue-purple flames vanish and wondered whether they were connected to Qin Jian.
• Lin Yi rested after the blazing-cloud phenomenon, then continued toward the Black Mountain Main Range with Gu Tianxue.
• Lin Yi harvested Heart Source Grass and other Martial Saint Pill ingredients, and killed three Four-Star Monsters along the way.
• Gu Tianxue grew dangerously weak, so Lin Yi used the Breath Attraction Art to link their auras and found that she carried a Malice Curse from Black Mountain.
• Lin Yi suppressed the curse with his Pure Divinity and carried Gu Tianxue up the mountain while explaining who he was.
• Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue reached the mountainside, where a rock thrown into the Bone-Eroding Black Wind crumbled to dust.

Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue entered the Gu Family’s inheritance ground and began its External Martial Arts trial. Gu Tianxue took command of their Stone Statue Warriors, and the battle began with her side gaining the advantage.

• Lin Yi carried Gu Tianxue through the Bone-Eroding Black Wind to the Sky-Piercing Stone Pillar, which pulled them into a hidden space.
• Gu Tianxue identified the place as the Gu Family’s Inheritance Ground and led Lin Yi to activate its trial by pouring her blood over a black stone sphere.
• At a three-way fork, Gu Tianxue chose the External Martial Arts Path, bringing them to a Chessboard arena with two hundred Stone Statue Warriors.
• Gu Tianxue explained the trial’s rules and began activating their hundred warriors with white-quality martial arts, but the effort quickly drained her energy.
• Lin Yi used the Breath Attraction Art to replenish Gu Tianxue and then activated the remaining warriors himself, allowing her to arrange their formation.
• When the time limit ended, the opposing warriors charged; Gu Tianxue directed her side from above, and her formation destroyed more enemy statues in the first clash.

Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue cleared the External Martial Arts Path Trial, but the black sphere sent them into Black Mountain’s hollow interior, where countless Ghost Spirits gathered. Lin Yi discovered an apparent exit in a Black Membrane, but his Seven-Colored White Deer Martial Spirit was destroyed when it entered.

• Gu Tianxue used formations to defeat the increasingly powerful enemy stone Martial Artists and win the Chessboard Trial.
• Gu Tianxue touched the black sphere, and it transported her and Lin Yi into the interior of Black Mountain.
• Lin Yi saw countless Ghost Spirits on the cavern’s rocky dome and hid with Gu Tianxue using the Phantom Talisman.
• Lin Yi explored the hollow mountain and concluded that the inheritance site had sent them somewhere unexpected, so they needed to find an exit.
• Lin Yi summoned his Seven-Colored White Deer Martial Spirit to provoke the Ghost Spirits and spotted a Black Membrane that appeared to lead outside.
• Lin Yi sent the Martial Spirit through the Black Membrane, but it was destroyed, leaving him grim.

Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue remained trapped inside Black Mountain, where Lin Yi learned the Gu Family’s Three Saints Unity Art and gained a Purple Grade archery skill. After Gu Tianxue found the remains of an ancestor, his message revealed that Black Mountain had changed and cursed every Gu Family member who entered the secret realm.

• Gu Tianxue taught Lin Yi the Three Saints Unity Art, and he mastered it enough to restore his depleted essence, energy, and spirit.
• Gu Tianxue traded Lin Yi a Purple Grade secret archery art for a look at his real face, and Lin Yi removed his disguise.
• Lin Yi questioned Gu Tianxue about the Ancient Domain, the Boundary Stone, and Apocalypse Continent, but she knew little about those mysteries.
• Gu Tianxue left Lin Yi to relieve herself, discovered a buried hand bone, and alerted him that it belonged to a Gu Family member.
• Lin Yi excavated the remains and found a jade message identifying the dead ancestor as Gu Tianxun, who had warned that Black Mountain had developed a consciousness and cursed every Gu Family member who entered.

Lin Yi captured the ghostifying Saint Shanhe and learned that the Ghost Spirits had gathered inside Black Mountain, where a terrifying presence might lurk beyond the dome’s Black Membrane. The chapter left Lin Yi considering whether every Ghost Spirit in the secret realm had once been a living creature.

• Lin Yi laid the Gu Family ancestor to rest and returned with Gu Tianxue, where Saint Shanhe emerged from underground in a ghostlike state.
• Saint Shanhe asked Lin Yi to help him escape, but Lin Yi struck him down and captured him after revealing his Martial Saint strength.
• Lin Yi fled with Gu Tianxue when Ghost Spirits swept through the area, then examined Saint Shanhe and found his blood and True Qi had vanished as he developed a Ghost Domain.
• Saint Shanhe warned Lin Yi that the Black Membrane atop the dome held a terrifying aura and that he would become a Martial Saint-level Ghost Spirit within three to five days.
• Lin Yi suspected that the Black Mountain secret realm’s Ghost Spirits had all once been humans, Monsters, or Spirit Plants.

Lin Yi forced Saint Shanhe to investigate the Black Membrane, then discovered the demonic art behind his transformation and seized its manual and treasures. After learning the enormous Dark Hand lurked beyond the membrane, Lin Yi prepared to slaughter the Ghost Spirits gathered in the dome Karst Cave.

• Lin Yi forced Saint Shanhe to enter the Black Membrane with a Night Vision Recorder, and Saint Shanhe returned with footage of a Black Mist wasteland where the enormous Dark Hand hid.
• Lin Yi demanded Saint Shanhe recite the Blood Refining Demonic Art, then used his ability to retrieve Saint Shanhe's possessions and the art's original manual from his Qi Sea Space.
• Lin Yi learned the Blood Refining Demonic Art was the Eighteen Beast Longevity Method, which required human sacrifices and Monster Blood, and destroyed the manual after studying it.
• Lin Yi gave Saint Shanhe the White Deer Jade and ordered him to guard the Black Membrane while Gu Tianxue hid under his protection.
• Lin Yi released his aura, drawing the dome's Ghost Spirits into an attack, and prepared to kill them for their Wraith Core Materials.

Lin Yi slaughtered Ghost Spirits in the Dome cave, escaped with Gu Tianxue after nightfall, and used Ancient Pool Village’s stone plaque to open the Gu Family inheritance site. The chapter ended with Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue entering the golden gate as it began to vanish.

• Lin Yi killed numerous Professional-level Wraiths and used the Thunder Punishment Eye to destroy the attacking Black Hand Ghost Spirits.
• A massive finger crushed Saint Shanhe’s lower body, then seized him and retreated through the Black Membrane despite Lin Yi’s attack.
• After night fell, Lin Yi realized Ghost Spirits could pass through the Dome walls, captured one, and used it to take himself and Gu Tianxue out of the cave.
• Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue returned to the Heritage Pillar, where Lin Yi’s Ancient Pool Village stone plaque activated the inheritance entrance.
• Lin Yi brought Gu Tianxue through the golden gate before it disappeared.

Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue entered the Legacy Medicine Garden and met an Artifact Spirit pretending to be Gu Xianqin. After discovering its true form, Lin Yi learned that Gu Tianxue’s hoped-for Phoenix Heart Fruit had already rotted and questioned the Artifact Spirit about the inheritance and Black Mountain secret realm.

• Lin Yi held Gu Tianxue back from rushing into the garden and sensed for danger before an unseen voice urged them to gather its ripe fruits.
• The voice claimed to be Gu Xianqin, learned about the Gu Family and Gu Tianxue’s search, then told her the Phoenix Heart Fruit had rotted and would take tens of thousands of years to mature again.
• The voice recognized Lin Yi’s Ancient Pool Village Stone Tablet as a relic left for descendants of Gu Xianqin’s bloodline and allowed him to take extra Spiritual Fruits.
• Lin Yi tracked the voice to a Spirit-Hiding Fruit containing an Artifact Spirit, which admitted it had pretended to be Gu Xianqin and had lied about the time limit.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that Gu Xianqin had left it to guard the medicine garden, knew little about the rest of the secret realm, and said Black Magnetic Mountain’s Artifact Spirit could recognize a new master.

Lin Yi took the Phoenix Heart Fruit from the medicine garden keeper for Gu Tianxue, then forced the keeper to surrender its stash of rare Spiritual Fruits and herbs. After discovering more valuable plants throughout the garden, Lin Yi began transplanting everything into his Spirit Vine small world.

• The artifact spirit revealed that it had saved an overripe Phoenix Heart Fruit, and Lin Yi gave it to Gu Tianxue.
• The keeper introduced the garden’s rare plants, and Lin Yi threatened it until it surrendered four more Phoenix Heart Fruits and a Glazed Gourd.
• Lin Yi emptied the keeper’s hidden storage of mature Spiritual Fruits and herbs, including a Demon Blood Fruit with surviving seeds.
• Lin Yi sent the keeper into his Spirit Vine small world, where it encountered Yuanyuan and cautiously took root in a spirit field.
• Lin Yi uprooted the Huaiyin Wood, Yin Cold Tai Sui, and other rare plants, intending to transplant the entire garden into his small world.

Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue consumed Phoenix Heart Fruits in the emptied Legacy Medicine Garden, strengthening Lin Yi’s Blazing Flame Fire and helping Gu Tianxue resolve her constitution’s hidden danger. Gu Tianxue then attempted to break through directly to Martial Saint, and Lin Yi gave her two Superior Martial Saint Pills when her breakthrough stalled.

• Lin Yi transplanted the Legacy Medicine Garden’s special plants into the Spirit Vine World, while Gu Tianxue prepared to consume a Phoenix Heart Fruit and pursue her secret plan to reach Martial Saint.
• The Blazing Flame Fire devoured a Phoenix Heart Fruit and grew stronger as Lin Yi refined its power; Gu Tianxue also consumed a fruit to harmonize her Innate Meridian Severance.
• Lin Yi covered Gu Tianxue with his Golden Light Cloak when the Fire Phoenixes burned away her clothes, then questioned Old Face Fruit about cultivation realms and learned that the Martial Saint Domain had three realms beyond the sixth realm.
• Gu Tianxue broke through to half-step Martial Saint and used the Yin-Yang Bagua Plate, three Martial Saint Pills, and a heavenly phenomenon to attempt a direct breakthrough to Martial Saint.
• When Gu Tianxue’s True Qi transformation remained incomplete after all three pills, Lin Yi gave her two Superior Martial Saint Pills so she could continue her breakthrough.

Gu Tianxue became a Martial Saint with Lin Yi’s help, and the two began making their way out of the Black Mountain secret realm. Lin Yi searched for the Li Siblings and Sword Void Saint, then secretly drove Ghost Spirits toward the Li Siblings, leaving them surrounded and weakening.

• Gu Tianxue broke through to Martial Saint using the Eight Trigram Plate, and Lin Yi examined and recorded her new Yin Yang Dao Body talent.
• Lin Yi and Gu Tianxue left the Legacy Medicine Garden and headed down the mountain, while Lin Yi chose not to risk searching for Black Magnetic Mountain.
• Lin Yi hunted four-star Monsters as they traveled, and Gu Tianxue questioned his priorities while they discussed her missing uncle Gu Yan.
• Lin Yi used his Seven-Colored White Deer Martial Spirit to search for Sword Void Saint and the Li Siblings after learning Sword Void Saint had entered the secret realm.
• Lin Yi found the Li Siblings gathering spirit herbs and secretly drove Ghost Spirits toward them, leaving Dongshan Li and Huo Weili surrounded and low on True Qi.