Arc 12Chapters 276–289

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Chapters 276–289 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 276A draw

Xuanyuan Wudi fought the Moon Lord across Mount Kunlun, using space-time and his sword to prevent the Moon Lord from reaching the Kunlun Rift. The Moon Lord withdrew, but the battle gravely wounded Xuanyuan Wudi and damaged the rift’s seal, leaving its eventual opening only a matter of time.

  • Xuanyuan Wudi and the Moon Lord exchanged powerful attacks that reshaped Mount Kunlun, with Xuanyuan Wudi’s time-spanning sword strikes wounding the Moon Lord.
  • The Moon Lord tried to reach the Kunlun Rift while Xuanyuan Wudi manipulated space and time to obstruct him and suppress the rift.
  • As Xuanyuan Wudi diverted his power to contain the rift, the Moon Lord passed him, but a sword strike Xuanyuan Wudi had sent into the past pierced the Moon Lord and forced him back.
  • The badly wounded Moon Lord admitted he could not achieve his goal and left Mount Kunlun after warning that the rift would not hold much longer.
  • Xuanyuan Wudi resumed suppressing the Kunlun Rift, but the battle had severely damaged its seal and shattered the balance that had lasted for over a hundred years.

Ch. 277Time to fulfill the promise

After the Kunlun and Alpine Rifts opened, Lin Jin defended the remaining Rocky Mountains Rift while gathering enough world power to reclaim his former abilities. He entered seclusion to unseal Cause-and-Effect Severance, hoping to revive the woman he had promised to bring back.

  • Xuanyuan Wudi withdrew Huaxia's forces from Mount Kunlun, held back the expanding rift alone for three more days, then let its shattered seal open.
  • Ye Wuhen broke through to early Divine Domain, and he and the Moon Lord fought Messiah and Constantine in the Alps until the rift opened.
  • As Abyssal Rifts multiplied, countries established Eerie Forbidden Zones, while Lin Jin hunted powerful weirds and killed the only two newly discovered Divine Domain beings.
  • Lin Jin returned to the Asura Domain with more than 1.2 million world power and told Mo Yuan to monitor the Rocky Mountains Rift while he went into seclusion.
  • Lin Jin prepared to unseal Cause-and-Effect Severance, which could remove the life cost of Outer Path: Rinne Rebirth and let him revive the woman who had been asleep since their wedding.

Ch. 278Restoring His Full Strength

Lin Jin restored his lost abilities and awakened the Jōgan, returning to his peak strength from the Hokage World. As he prepared to leave seclusion, the system offered to fuse all his powers using the world power he had left.

  • Lin Jin unsealed Daikokuten, Territory-Stopping Vortex, All-Killing Ash Bones, and Cause-and-Effect Severance, completing the conditions he needed to resurrect Qianxue without sacrificing his life.
  • Lin Jin unsealed the Jōgan, causing his chakra to double and drawing natural energy toward the Main Hall.
  • Lin Jin tested the Jōgan’s abilities to see the origins of things, evade and counterattack automatically, and erase chakra-based power within its limits.
  • Mo Yuan sensed Lin Jin’s surging aura and ordered the nearby guards to retreat from the Main Hall.
  • The system confirmed Lin Jin’s power had been fully restored and offered to fuse all his abilities for 500000 points of world power.

Ch. 279Origin of All Things

Lin Jin spent 500,000 World Power to fuse his abilities into the Origin of All Things True Principle, a power that placed him beyond the Divine Domain but short of true transcendence. He then entered the preserved Kamui Dimension and carried Su Qianxue back into the real world.

  • Lin Jin asked the system about Origin-Returning Fusion, learned it would unite his powers under a true principle rooted in himself, and chose to proceed.
  • The fusion merged Lin Jin's Sharingan, Rinnegan, Jōgan, Ten-Tails chakra, and other abilities, leaving the Jōgan as the outward form of his unified ocular power.
  • Lin Jin gained new applications of space and other rules, including Void Realm, Spatial Realm, and World Burial, and the system named his true principle Origin of All Things.
  • Lin Jin recognized that he had reached a level beyond the Divine Domain, though he remained only at half-step transcendence, with 8,508 World Power remaining.
  • Lin Jin opened World Burial, entered the preserved Kamui Dimension, and carried Su Qianxue, still in her bloodstained wedding gown, back into the real world.

Ch. 280Yellow Springs

Lin Jin used the power of reincarnation to heal Su Qianxue’s body, but her soul remained asleep in Yellow Springs beyond a boundary between worlds. Unable to draw her soul back with his power, he decided to enter Yellow Springs himself and bring her home.

  • Lin Jin restored Su Qianxue’s fatal injuries with Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin: Reincarnation and severed the cause-and-effect cost that would have fallen on him.
  • Lin Jin found that Su Qianxue did not awaken because her soul had not returned, though her body had regained the foundation for life.
  • Lin Jin followed Su Qianxue’s soul connection beyond the real world and discovered that her intact soul was sleeping in Yellow Springs.
  • Lin Jin failed to pull Su Qianxue’s soul across the boundary between worlds and withdrew his power.
  • Lin Jin decided to go to Yellow Springs himself and bring Su Qianxue back.

Ch. 281The final rift opened

Lin Jin opened the Rocky Mountains rift, prompting the world’s Abyssal Rifts to resonate and intensify their attacks. After leaving North America’s defenses to Mo Yuan, Lin Jin traveled to Mount Fuji to confront the Yellow Springs Rift.

  • Lin Jin ordered Mo Yuan and Yun Mo to evacuate the Rocky Mountains rift’s core area and establish defenses around the Asura Domain.
  • Lin Jin opened the Rocky Mountains rift, crushing its first wave of Eerie as the passage between the Abyss and Earth stabilized.
  • The Global Transcendent Alliance and the Moon Lord learned that Lin Jin had opened the final major rift, while rifts around the world began fluctuating and Eerie attacks increased.
  • Mo Yuan reported that North America’s defensive lines were holding, and Lin Jin left him in charge before opening a Spatial Portal.
  • Lin Jin arrived at Mount Fuji and saw the Seals surrounding the Yellow Springs Rift, while Abe Gensai opened his eyes deep beneath the mountain.

Ch. 282Soul Rule

Lin Jin challenged Abe Gensai at Mount Fuji’s Yellow Springs Rift and fought off Abe’s Soul Rule and two summoned Divine Domain souls by using the Origin of All Things. After Lin Jin severed the souls’ connections to the living world, they returned to Yellow Springs, leaving Abe Gensai facing him alone.

  • Lin Jin demanded that Abe Gensai let him enter Yellow Springs, but Abe refused and attacked him with the Soul Rule.
  • Lin Jin used his Jōgan to erase Abe’s Soul Rule, prompting Abe to summon two Divine Domain souls from Yellow Springs.
  • Lin Jin used Boundary Shadow, Realm Shift, and Time Domain to counter the souls’ attacks inside Mount Fuji.
  • Abe Gensai bound Lin Jin’s soul with hidden traces and Yellow Springs’ pull, but Lin Jin erased the chains and resisted the combined assault.
  • Lin Jin used Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin: Severance to cut the two souls’ connections to Abe Gensai and Yellow Springs, sending them back through the portal.

Ch. 283Stepping Through the Yellow Springs Gateway

Lin Jin defeated Abe Gensai beneath Mount Fuji and broke the seal guarding the Yellow Springs Rift. He stepped through the opening into Yellow Springs, where departed souls gathered.

  • Abe Gensai unleashed his Underworld Divine Domain and challenged Lin Jin to break through it before entering Yellow Springs.
  • Lin Jin used the Origin of All Things True Principle, his Jōgan, and four World Shadows to overwhelm Abe Gensai and shatter his Divine Domain.
  • Lin Jin trapped the gravely wounded Abe Gensai in the Heart World and sent him through World Burial to the God Tree.
  • Lin Jin examined the Yellow Springs Seal and used the Origin of All Things True Principle to break it open.
  • Lin Jin crossed the rift and entered Yellow Springs.

Ch. 284Shinigami Hall

Lin Jin entered Yellow Springs in the flesh and pushed past Shinigami Hall’s attempt to stop him, insisting that he would take a soul back. As he reached the ancient city, he learned more about the souls’ gradual passage toward reincarnation and found a stele recording traces left by the Red Emperor.

  • Lin Jin used his Jōgan to confirm that Yellow Springs was an independent world where departed souls followed ancient roads and gradually settled into Soul Sinking.
  • A Shinigami Hall leader warned Lin Jin that the passage’s seal had vanished and that the dead could not return to the living, but Lin Jin said he would take a soul away.
  • Lin Jin suppressed the Shinigami Hall members’ power and continued down the road; the leader ordered his subordinates to send word.
  • Lin Jin reached a stone forest outside the city and read a stele bearing the words “Red Emperor” and a record of the emperor’s traces surviving reincarnation.
  • The Shinigami Hall leader explained that traces from powerful souls could awaken after reincarnation, while Lin Jin continued toward the city and sensed Yellow Springs’ influence gradually erasing souls’ memories and identities.

Ch. 285Fight Their Way In

Lin Jin fought Shinigami Hall at Yellow Springs’ city gate after refusing to leave the soul he sought behind. He destroyed the gate’s formation and defeated its guardian, then continued into Yellow Springs as the old man warned that the road ahead would be harder.

  • A gray-robed old man told Lin Jin that souls who entered Yellow Springs had to stay, but Lin Jin refused to follow that rule.
  • The old man ordered Shinigami Hall members to seal the gate, and Lin Jin used his Jōgan to break apart the formation’s soul-rule chains.
  • The old man reinforced the formation and summoned a giant ghostly face, but Lin Jin dismantled both with his Jōgan and World Burial.
  • Lin Jin shattered the gate formation, leaving Shinigami Hall’s defenders injured and the old man with a broken staff.
  • The old man burned his soul power to form a giant gray hand, but Lin Jin’s World Burial destroyed it and collapsed most of the gate.
  • The old man warned Lin Jin that the road ahead would be harder, then dispersed as Lin Jin walked past him.

Ch. 286Finally found her

Lin Jin fought his way through Soul Ferry City and continued deeper into Yellow Springs, following his soul connection to Su Qianxue. He found her sleeping peacefully on a vast plain, and the chapter ended with him appearing beside her.

  • Lin Jin entered Soul Ferry City and followed Su Qianxue’s soul connection toward the river beyond it.
  • Han Chuan, head of the Soul Suppression Office, summoned a huge Divine Domain manifestation and attacked Lin Jin on the stone bridge.
  • Lin Jin defeated Han Chuan and dispersed the manifestation, while his World Shadows suppressed the Shinigami Hall members.
  • Lin Jin crossed the river and continued across the hills and plains as Shinigami Hall members watched without confronting him.
  • Lin Jin found Su Qianxue asleep among countless souls and appeared beside her.

Ch. 287I came to take you home

Lin Jin found Su Qianxue’s sleeping soul in the Yellow Springs and fought the Shinigami Hall Master and his experts to free her from the realm’s hold. After Shinigami Hall accepted defeat, Lin Jin carried Su Qianxue through a passage back to the mortal world.

  • Lin Jin used the Jōgan to confirm that Su Qianxue’s memories and sense of self remained intact, then lifted her and said he had come to take her home.
  • The Shinigami Hall Master confronted Lin Jin and demanded that he leave Su Qianxue behind, but Lin Jin severed her connection to the Yellow Springs and began fighting the Shinigami Hall forces.
  • Lin Jin defeated the Shinigami Hall Master’s forces, killing two Divine Domain elders and forcing the remaining experts to retreat.
  • The Shinigami Hall Master admitted he could not stop Lin Jin and said Shinigami Hall accepted defeat, while warning that he would settle the debt when the four worlds overlapped.
  • Lin Jin opened a passage to the mortal world, carried Su Qianxue through it, and vanished into the night.

Ch. 288I'm still here

Lin Jin used reincarnation power to restore Su Qianxue’s soul to her repaired body, bringing her back to life after more than a year. They reunited, shared their feelings, and fell asleep together, leaving their interrupted life together ready to continue.

  • Lin Jin returned to the Asura Domain and reunited Su Qianxue’s soul with her body using his Jōgan and the Origin of All Things True Principle.
  • Su Qianxue’s heart began beating again, and she gradually regained consciousness with Lin Jin beside her.
  • Lin Jin told Su Qianxue that she had been dead for over a year and that he had brought her soul back from the Yellow Springs.
  • Su Qianxue recalled their final moments and embraced Lin Jin, relieved that he had kept his promise to be there when she awoke.
  • Lin Jin and Su Qianxue shared an intimate reunion, then rested together as she fell asleep holding his hand.

Ch. 289It began with Hokage, and ended with Hokage!

After gathering the essences of Earth, the Abyss, Yellow Springs, and the Otherworld, Lin Jin reunited the shattered Primordial World and ascended to Transcendence. He defeated Otsutsuki Shibai, revived his old friends, and eventually settled into a peaceful family life with Su Qianxue.

  • Lin Jin harvested the God Tree’s fruit, gained Earth’s essence, and learned that the four worlds had once formed the Primordial World.
  • The Moon Lord seized the Abyss’s essence, but Lin Jin defeated him and took it; he then killed Yellow Springs’ master and claimed its essence.
  • Lin Jin defeated the holder of the Otherworld’s essence, reunited all four essences, restored the Primordial World, and reached the Origin of All Things Great Dao.
  • Otsutsuki Shibai descended to kill Lin Jin, but Lin Jin defeated him and later resurrected his old friends from the river of time.
  • Years later, Lin Jin and Su Qianxue raised their child together, while Zhou Yan amused the child with flames.
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