Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi used his Martial Saint breakthrough insights to gain access to Tong Pass Prefecture’s Scripture Repository, where he traded a Sprout Thread Fruit for permission to choose a first-class Domain secret technique. He chose Shocking Thunder, and the Mansion Master noted his choice while playing Go with Bright Sun.

• Lin Yi defended Qin Jian’s Martial Saint Sixth Realm cultivation before Lei Buping, and the Prefecture Lord confirmed that he had used no demonic art.
• The Prefecture Lord told Lin Yi he could exchange his Martial Saint breakthrough insights for one Domain secret technique and took him to the Scripture Repository.
• Lin Yi found that his initial contribution entitled him only to browse five second- and third-rate Domain techniques.
• Lin Yi offered the Scripture Repository Artifact Spirit a Sprout Thread Fruit, and it let him choose one of three first-class techniques: Xun Wind, Shocking Thunder, or Moon Glow.
• Lin Yi selected Shocking Thunder, while the Mansion Master sensed his choice and commented on it during a Go match with Bright Sun.

Lin Yi learned how Domains governed advancement through the final Martial Saint realms, then asked the Artifact Spirit Tome about exchanging for more Domain techniques. The Tome reacted with powerful excitement when Lin Yi mentioned the Gen Mountain Domain technique, drawing the Mansion Master’s attention.

• Lin Yi studied records on Domains and Martial Saint realms, then received the Artifact Spirit Tome’s explanation of Great Completion Domains and the requirements for reaching the eighth and ninth realms.
• The Artifact Spirit Tome told Lin Yi that the heaven-and-earth domain surpassed other Great Completion Domains and that the Mansion Master was pursuing it.
• Lin Yi decided to focus on improving his cultivation and considered using Golden Talents to accelerate his Domain training.
• Lin Yi learned that he could exchange an uncollected Domain technique for techniques in the Scripture Repository, and the Tome confirmed that Wither and Bloom was already held there.
• When Lin Yi asked about the Gen Mountain Domain technique, the Artifact Spirit Tome erupted with an unusual aura, alerting the Mansion Master, who had been watching the repository.

Lin Yi traded the Gen Mountain Domain secret technique to the Prefecture Lord and used his permission to memorize the Scripture Repository’s Domains and External Skills. As the Garrison Commanders prepared to depart for the Endless Fire Domain, Lin Yi left the repository after two days of intensive study, while Huo Weili pursued another way to obtain Superior Martial Saint Pills.

• Lin Yi gave the Prefecture Lord the complete Gen Mountain Domain secret technique, earning permission to browse every Domain secret technique and External Skill in the Scripture Repository.
• The Prefecture Lord celebrated that the Eight Laws of Qiankun were complete and left to enter seclusion.
• Lin Yi persuaded the artifact spirit book to reveal all thirteen Domain secret techniques, then began memorizing them in seclusion.
• You Huoli returned to the Li Family injured and refused Huo Weili and Nan Shanli’s request to refine Martial Saint Pills.
• Huo Weili refused to use the family’s medium-quality Martial Saint Pills and decided to try a method suggested by a senior instead of asking Qin Jian for help.
• After memorizing the thirteen Domains and more than two hundred External Skills, Lin Yi left the Scripture Repository bearing a mark that would punish him if he leaked its contents.

Lin Yi chose to cultivate the Shocking Thunder Domain as his next step toward gathering the Eight Laws of Qiankun. The other Garrison Commanders doubted he could master it without its Fundamental Diagram, while Lin Yi relied on his lightning techniques and Thunder Punishment Eye.

• Lin Yi left the Scripture Repository and joined the Garrison Commanders in the great hall, where he listened to them debate how Martial Saints could enter the Domain Seventh Realm.
• The Garrison Commanders discussed Heaven and Earth Power and learned that Li Huo Li had taken the Great Sun Golden Fire from the Endless Fire Domain; Lin Yi regretted letting Blazing Flame Fire consume it.
• Shao Lian asked Lin Yi which Domain he had chosen, and Lin Yi said he intended to gain initial mastery of Shocking Thunder.
• Qian Sanliang mocked Lin Yi for attempting Shocking Thunder without its Fundamental Diagram, but Lin Yi dismissed his taunts and resumed cultivating.
• Lin Yi decided to focus on the Eight Laws of Qiankun and chose Shocking Thunder because Lightning Flash Step and his Thunder Punishment Eye could aid his comprehension.

Lin Yi broke through to the Martial Saint Seventh Realm and comprehended the Shocking Thunder Domain in three days, astonishing the Twelve Town Guardians and the Mansion Master. The guardians formed teams for their expedition into the Endless Fire Domain, and Shao Lian learned that Lin Yi had refined the Superior Martial Saint Pill that enabled his breakthrough.

• Lin Yi awakened from cultivation after breaking through to the Martial Saint Seventh Realm and entering the Shocking Thunder Domain, leaving the Mansion Master and the other guardians stunned.
• The Mansion Master announced that two-person teams would compete to kill Yao Gods in the Endless Fire Domain for the Deputy Prefecture Lord position and a secret realm core quota.
• Fu Feng chose Huang Xian, Qian Xuan chose Gai Duanjian, and Lin Yi chose Shao Lian; the remaining guardians formed the other teams.
• Lin Yi asked Shao Lian about Shao Xing and explained that Shao Xing had received a Martial Saint Pill from him in the Black Mountain secret realm.
• Shao Lian thanked Lin Yi for refining the Superior Martial Saint Pill that had helped him break through, and the revelation surprised the other guardians.

After Lin Yi revealed his strength and pill-refining skill, the other Garrison Commanders treated him with new respect as they prepared to travel to the Endless Fire Domain. At Martial Saint City’s gates, Gu Tianxue reunited with Lin Yi and gave him a Frost Ruyi and pills to help him survive the journey before he departed with the others.

• Qian Sanliang apologized to Lin Yi and asked him for a superior Martial Saint Pill, while Huang Xian also requested one before the Prefecture Lord ordered everyone to leave.
• Deputy Prefecture Lord Wushi welcomed the Garrison Commanders with Spiritual Wine and announced that he would lead them to the Endless Fire Domain after stopping at the city gates.
• Wushi brought the group to the gates, where Lin Yi found Gu Tianxue waiting for him after worrying about his silence.
• Gu Tianxue gave Lin Yi a Gu Family Frost Ruyi and several pills, then publicly fussed over him to counter rumors that the Gu Family did not value him.
• Lin Yi rejoined the Garrison Commanders, and Wushi led the group away toward the Endless Fire Domain.

Huo Weili agreed to let Lin Yi's Clone possess her body to refine a Superior Martial Saint Pill. Meanwhile, Lin Yi obtained the Shao Family's Kan Water Domain secret technique and reached the Fifth Tong Pass, where he prepared to enter the Endless Fire Domain.

• Huo Weili emerged with one inferior and one medium-grade Martial Saint Pill, and Lin Yi's Clone criticized her alchemy methods.
• Lin Yi's Clone said he could refine a Superior Martial Saint Pill only by controlling Huo Weili's body, and Huo Weili agreed despite Nan Shanli's warning.
• Lin Yi and Shao Lian fell behind the other Garrison Commanders, and Shao Lian told Lin Yi that Shao Xing had traded him the Wither and Bloom secret technique for a Superior Martial Saint Pill.
• Lin Yi asked about the Shao Family's Eight Laws of Qiankun inheritance, and Shao Lian gave him the Kan Water Domain secret technique in exchange for a Superior Martial Saint Pill.
• Lin Yi promised to help protect the Shao Family, and he and Shao Lian arrived at the Fifth Tong Pass bordering the Endless Fire Domain.
• Shao Lian warned that Martial Saints below the third realm with incomplete bodies could not remain long in the Endless Fire Domain, and Lin Yi realized Shao Lian might not accompany him inside.

Lin Yi entered the Endless Fire Domain with Shao Lian, then continued alone while the other Garrison Commanders hunted Monsters. After checking on Blue Star and organizing captives in the Spirit Vine World, Lin Yi learned from Old Face Fruit that the Twelve Tong Pass Treasures could fuse into a powerful Earth Vein Divine Artifact.

• You Huoli distributed maps of the Endless Fire Domain, and Fu Feng, Qian Xuan, and the other Garrison Commanders set out to hunt Monsters while Deputy Prefecture Lord Wushi watched from afar.
• Lin Yi flew into the Endless Fire Domain with Shao Lian, who soon had to stop because the heat overwhelmed him, and Lin Yi continued alone.
• Lin Yi avoided drawing attention by passing up weaker Monsters, briefly returned to Blue Star, and later went back to the Fire Domain.
• Lin Yi punished hostile captives in the Spirit Vine World, appointed Lu Shenjian and a four-star Demon King Azure Bird to organize its inhabitants, and considered how to extract secrets from Tai Shangxun.
• Old Face Fruit told Lin Yi that the Twelve Tong Pass Treasures could fuse into an Earth Vein Divine Artifact, potentially rivaling Black Magnetic Mountain.

Lin Yi drew two lightning-focused Golden Talents and used them to accelerate his cultivation of the Shocking Thunder Domain. Meanwhile, the Garrison Commanders hunted Monsters in the Endless Fire Domain, where Fu Feng and Huang Xian joined Qian Xuan and Gai Duanjian after spotting a lotus in the Fire Sea.

• Old Face Fruit told Lin Yi that the Ancient Secret Realm appeared after the Martial Domain fell and reportedly contained rare treasures and a Core Zone leading to the supreme lands.
• Lin Yi drew Thunderous Dao Body, tested its power, and found that it strengthened his Shocking Thunder Domain by at least thirty percent.
• Lin Yi drew Thunder Spirit Affinity and summoned a thunderstorm in the Spirit Vine World to cultivate Shocking Thunder with three lightning talents.
• Lei Buping and Qian Sanliang hunted Monsters in the Endless Fire Domain, while Fu Feng and Huang Xian approached its Core Zone.
• Fu Feng and Huang Xian found Qian Xuan and Gai Duanjian suppressing a Yin Fire Toad with Qian Heaven Domain, then noticed a lotus floating in the Fire Sea.

Qian Xuan and Gai Duanjian killed a Yin Fire Toad and took its Flame Lotus Fruit, while Lin Yi stacked more lightning talents and advanced his Shocking Thunder Domain to minor mastery. He joined Shao Lian to patrol the Endless Fire Domain, where they discovered a vast Fire Yuan Stone Mine beneath the Lava Sea.

• Qian Xuan and Gai Duanjian killed the Yin Fire Toad, claimed its treasures, and kept the Flame Lotus Fruit for trade at the Dragon Phoenix Exchange.
• Fu Feng and Huang Xian decided to clear nearby lone Yao Gods before confronting the Five-Clawed Dark Dragon.
• Lin Yi drew the Indestructible Thunder Body and Thunder Prison Control talents, then reached minor mastery in Shocking Thunder after cultivating through the night.
• Lin Yi met Shao Lian in the Endless Fire Domain and invited him to patrol the outskirts together.
• Lin Yi and Shao Lian crossed the Lava Sea and found a vast Fire Yuan Stone Mine beneath its seabed.

Lin Yi killed a Demigod Demon Python and shared its valuable materials with Shao Lian before the two found a vast Fire Essence Stone mine. After the Garrison Commanders spent two days fighting through the Endless Fire Domain, its Yao Gods learned of their advance and debated seeking reinforcements.

• Lin Yi blocked the Giant Python Demon God's attack and used Shocking Thunder to leave it barely alive for Shao Lian to harvest.
• Shao Lian recovered the python's materials, and Lin Yi let him keep the Demigod heart in exchange for Source Stones.
• Lin Yi and Shao Lian began excavating the Fire Essence Stone mine, then agreed to mark it and return after pacifying the Monsters.
• The twelve Garrison Commanders spent two days killing demons and gathering spiritual objects in the Endless Fire Domain.
• The Thousand-Zhang Flame Giant Python and other Yao Gods learned that the Ancient Domain's people had invaded, and one advised seeking help from the Supreme Demon Domain.

Lin Yi and Shao Lian rendezvoused with six other Garrison Commanders in the Endless Fire Domain, where Li Huo Li revealed their secret mission to draw out the Supreme Demon Domain’s Honored Envoy. The commanders prepared to use their Tong Pass Treasures, while the demons gathered in the Fire Domain braced for the approaching human forces.

• The Five-Clawed Dark Dragon told the Demon Gods that the Ancient Domain’s Garrison Commanders had mobilized and ordered them to recall scattered forces and defend the Endless Fire Domain.
• Lin Yi and Shao Lian followed the attraction of their Tong Passes to a concealed volcanic island and joined six other Garrison Commanders.
• The commanders shared a meal of four-star Molten Fire Fish, which Lin Yi stopped eating because of its unusual effects while Shao Lian ate eagerly.
• Li Huo Li revealed that Deputy Prefecture Lord Wushi had tasked the commanders with restraining the Fire Domain’s Demon Gods so they would seek aid from the Supreme Demon Domain’s Honored Envoy.
• Li Huo Li said the plan might require borrowing the commanders’ Tong Pass Treasures.

You Huoli revealed that he had reached the seventh Martial Saint realm and explained that the Garrison Commanders needed to combine their Tong Pass Treasures to defeat the Five-Clawed Dark Dragon. Lin Yi insisted on trying the Treasure Combination Art first and stunned everyone by taking control of all eight Tong Pass Treasures almost immediately.

• You Huoli explained that the Five-Clawed Dark Dragon's completed fire Domain could overpower even his inherited Li Fire, and that Deputy Prefecture Lord Wushi had taught him a Treasure Combination Art.
• You Huoli revealed that he had entered the seventh Martial Saint realm over a month earlier and demonstrated how his Li Fire suppressed the surrounding molten Fire Sea.
• The Garrison Commanders examined the Treasure Combination Art and learned that a seventh realm Martial Saint could use it, while a suitable Eight Laws of Qiankun Domain would help unleash the Tong Pass Treasures' full power.
• The Garrison Commanders agreed to test the art with their eight Tong Pass Treasures, and Lin Yi insisted on trying it before You Huoli.
• Lin Yi used the Treasure Combination Art to seize all eight Tong Pass Treasures and sever the other Garrison Commanders' control over them, leaving You Huoli astonished at his mastery.

Lin Yi demonstrated the immense power of combining eight Tong Pass Treasures, then used the True Qi Spirit Nurturing Technique to win over their artifact spirits. He sold the technique to the Garrison Commanders for a fortune, while Fu Feng and Huang Xian headed toward the island to investigate the disturbance.

• Lin Yi used the Treasure Combination Art to strike the distant Fire Sea with the eight Tong Pass Treasures, annihilating millions of tons of lava and astonishing the Garrison Commanders.
• Qian Xuan and Gai Duanjian sensed the disturbance but continued deeper into the Endless Fire Domain, while Fu Feng and Huang Xian recognized the Tong Pass Treasures' reaction and hurried toward Lin Yi's island.
• Lin Yi fed Sprout Thread Fruits to the artifact spirits of the seven other Tong Pass Treasures and nurtured all eight with the True Qi Spirit Nurturing Technique, making them eager to answer his summons.
• When Lei Buping could not recall his Tong Pass, Lin Yi claimed the treasures resisted because they liked his nurturing and offered the technique for sale.
• Lei Buping, Qian Sanliang, and the other Garrison Commanders paid Lin Yi with Source Stones or equivalent Spiritual Objects, and Lin Yi taught them the True Qi Spirit Nurturing Technique.

Lin Yi demonstrated that he could control multiple Tong Pass Treasures with the Treasure Combination Art, while the Garrison Commanders learned that their mission was to pressure the Endless Fire Domain’s Monsters. As the group planned to face the Five-Claw Dark Dragon and its Yao Gods, Lin Yi claimed he had an eighty percent chance of defeating them all if they entrusted their Tong Passes to him.

• Li Huo Li explained Wushi’s mission to Fu Feng and Huang Xian, who then tried to comprehend the Treasure Combination Art.
• Fu Feng failed to control the Tong Pass Treasures, and Lei Buping’s Eighth Tong Pass flew to Lin Yi and demanded food and spa massages before reluctantly returning to Lei.
• Lin Yi used the Treasure Combination Art to draw Fu Feng’s and Huang Xian’s Tong Pass Treasures into his hands.
• The group discussed the mission to pressure the Endless Fire Domain’s Monsters and learned that Qian Xuan and Gai were missing, possibly searching the Fire Domain’s core.
• When You Huoli asked whether he could defeat the Five-Claw Dark Dragon, Lin Yi said he had an eighty percent chance and clarified that he meant to use the combined Tong Pass Treasures against the Dragon and its Yao Gods.

Lin Yi led the Garrison Commanders to Black Rock Volcano and overwhelmed the gathered Yao Gods by combining their Tong Pass Treasures. The Monsters were pulled into the treasures’ Suppression Spaces, leaving the Five-Claw Dark Dragon unable to resist.

• The Five-Clawed Dark Dragon recalled its Yao Gods to Black Rock Volcano while the Molten Lava Giant Python mourned its slain son and vowed revenge on the humans.
• Fire Loach Yao scouts warned that the Garrison Commanders were approaching, and the Molten Lava Giant Python recognized their Tong Pass Treasures.
• Lin Yi and the other Garrison Commanders arrived at Black Rock Volcano and found ten Yao Gods waiting, including the Molten Lava Giant Python.
• Lin Yi joined the ten Tong Pass Treasures into a vast golden formation and brought it down over Black Rock Volcano before the Five-Claw Dark Dragon could gather the Yao Gods’ power.
• The combined treasures suppressed the Yao Gods and many other Monsters, while the Garrison Commanders praised Lin Yi for preserving them as resources.

Lin Yi and the Garrison Commanders combined their Tong Pass Treasures to defeat the Five-Clawed Dark Dragon and suppress its forces, while the wounded dragon called on a mysterious Honored Envoy for reinforcements. Elsewhere, Qian Xuan pursued the Crimson Heart Boa, shaken by the power of the combined treasures, and Lin Yi’s group divided their captured Monsters among themselves.

• Lin Yi borrowed True Qi from nine Garrison Commanders and used the combined Tong Pass Treasures to crush Black Rock Volcano and badly wound the Five-Clawed Dark Dragon.
• The Five-Clawed Dark Dragon found the Void Flame Lotus and pleaded with the Honored Envoy, who promised a Heaven-Piercing Demon God would arrive within three days.
• Qian Xuan and Gai Duanjian found the Crimson Heart Boa cultivating in the Fire Domain, then saw the distant combined Tong Pass Treasure attack and Qian Xuan wondered who had mastered the technique.
• The Crimson Heart Boa fled with Heaven and Earth Power in its mouth, and Qian Xuan pursued it to seize the power.
• Lin Yi’s group guarded the collapsed Black Rock Island and divided the captured Yao Gods and Monster Kings equally among the Garrison Commanders.

Lin Yi shared the monsters he had suppressed, winning support from the other Garrison Commanders for his bid to become Deputy Prefect. Qian Xuan returned with Gai Duanjian after claiming the Crimson Heart Boa’s Heaven and Earth Power, and his explanation for knowing how to combine the Tong Pass Treasures drew suspicion.

• The Garrison Commanders praised Lin Yi’s performance and said they would support his bid for the vacant Deputy Prefect position, which Lin Yi accepted.
• Qian Xuan and Gai Duanjian killed the Crimson Heart Boa, while Qian Xuan kept its fire-attributed Heaven and Earth Power and turned away Lei Buping and Qian Sanliang.
• The other Garrison Commanders compared Qian Xuan’s selfishness with Lin Yi’s generosity and began favoring Lin Yi for Deputy Prefect.
• Qian Xuan asked what had happened at Black Rock Volcano, but the Garrison Commanders remained silent.
• Qian Xuan claimed Wushi Deputy Prefecture Lord had taught him the Treasure Combination Art, and Kun Haori suggested that the Qian Family Old Ancestor was the real source.

Qian Xuan tried to prove his mastery of the Treasure Combination Art and rally support for the Deputy Prefect position, but the other guardians favored Lin Yi after Qian Xuan failed to control You Huoli’s Tong Pass. Qian Xuan left to pursue the Five-Clawed Dark Dragon, while the remaining guardians agreed that Lin Yi was the better candidate.

• Kun Haori and the other guardians challenged Qian Xuan for withholding information, and Lin Yi revealed that Qin Jian had used the Treasure Combination Art to control several Tong Pass Treasures.
• Qian Xuan asked to borrow the guardians’ Tong Pass Treasures, but most refused; You Huoli lent him the Fifth Tong Pass to demonstrate his skill.
• Qian Xuan summoned the Fifth Tong Pass but could not make it attack, and the guardians judged his mastery inferior to Lin Yi’s.
• Qian Xuan invited Gai Duanjian to help kill the Five-Clawed Dark Dragon, but Gai refused, so Qian Xuan descended alone into the Lava Sea.
• The guardians congratulated Lin Yi and agreed to support him for Deputy Prefect, and Fu Feng also endorsed him after learning Qian Xuan had treated him as a pawn.

Lin Yi descended into the Fire Sea to help the Garrison Commanders seize the Red Grade Void Flame Lotus, but the Five-Claw Dark Dragon escaped with it after unleashing the Envoy Demon God's Split Soul. The commanders discovered that the Split Soul had cursed them, and Fu Feng warned they had only hours to contact Wushi Deputy Prefecture Lord before Heavenly Punishment struck.

• Qian Xuan fought the Five-Claw Dark Dragon with his Qian Heaven Domain and a Tong Pass Treasure, while Lin Yi learned how the domain restrained other laws.
• The Garrison Commanders discovered the Void Flame Lotus, and Lin Yi accepted their Tong Pass Treasures before diving into the Fire Sea.
• Lin Yi joined Qian Xuan, Fu Feng, Huang Xian, Gai Duanjian, and You Huoli in surrounding the wounded Five-Claw Dark Dragon, which spat out the Void Flame Lotus.
• The Five-Claw Dark Dragon released the Envoy Demon God's Split Soul, then vanished with the Void Flame Lotus as its white light struck the commanders.
• The commanders found black lines spreading through their bodies, and Fu Feng identified them as the Envoy Demon God's curse and urged them to contact Wushi Deputy Prefecture Lord.