Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei and his companions entered the Jianmu Realm and found a village worshipping Gonggong, whose statue Yinglong destroyed. Lin Fei subdued the conflict and asked the terrified villagers to explain what had happened.

• Yinglong landed with Lin Fei and the others after the Jianmu Realm suppressed her, and Lin Fei explained that the realm was a minor world reached through Zhurong City.
• Lin Fei and his companions followed a well-used mountain road and discovered a village with a statue of Gonggong at its center.
• Lin Fei sensed that the villagers carried a corrupted trace of Gonggong's Power of Xuanming that was draining their life force.
• Yinglong shattered the Gonggong statue, and the frightened villagers blamed her and demanded that she be sacrificed.
• Yinglong's draconic might forced the villagers to their knees, but Lin Fei dispelled the pressure and asked them what had happened.

Lin Fei learned that the Xuanming Sect had forced the mountain villages to worship Gonggong and ruled them through fear and the Power of Xuanming, so he set out to destroy the sect. He also revealed that he had come to find Wu Gu's remnant soul and retrieve something Wu Xian had left behind, which Yinglong suspected was the Nine Li Staff.

• The village chief told Lin Fei that the Xuanming Sect had massacred Yang Family Village seven years earlier and forced nearby villages to abandon Zhurong for Gonggong.
• The village chief explained that the sect's Power of Xuanming consumed people's vitality, required monthly baptism, and allowed the sect to exploit and conscript villagers.
• Lin Fei learned that Zhurong City had been renamed Gonggong City and its Zhurong temple replaced with a Gonggong temple.
• Lin Fei announced that he would wipe out the Xuanming Sect and continued toward Gonggong City with his companions.
• Lin Fei said the sect had likely come for Wu Gu's remnant soul and that he also needed to retrieve something Wu Xian had left behind.
• Yinglong guessed that Wu Xian's hidden item was the Nine Li Staff, which had once awed Chiyou's followers and mighty demon gods.

Lin Fei revealed the Nine Li Staff’s origins as he led his companions to Gonggong City and began destroying the Xuanming Sect’s stronghold. After collapsing the Gonggong Divine Temple and killing most of the sect’s followers, he saw Wu Gu appear in a beam of divine light.

• Lin Fei identified Wu Moling’s ancestor’s treasure as the Nine Li Staff, a symbol of authority over Nine Li that he had crafted from Jianmu and given to Wu Xian.
• Lin Fei and his companions reached Gonggong City, where he killed two Xuanming Sect guards after learning they were not innocent villagers.
• Lin Fei flew over the Gonggong Divine Temple and destroyed it with a single stomp, shaking the city and cracking its streets.
• As the Xuanming Sect followers fled, Lin Fei snapped his fingers and killed most of them, sparing only a few whose lives were controlled by Xuanming’s power.
• A beam of divine light rose from the north of the city, and Lin Fei recognized the figure within it as Wu Gu.

Lin Fei reunited with Wu Gu, then confronted Xuanqing after learning she had drained most of Wu Gu’s power. He broke the Xuanming Sect’s formation and freed Wu Gu, while Xuanqing sent Black Water Mystic Serpents to attack him.

• Wu Gu greeted Lin Fei as an old acquaintance from three thousand years earlier and acknowledged Wu Moling as Wu Xian’s descendant.
• Xuanqing challenged Lin Fei and boasted that she had absorbed ninety percent of Wu Gu’s power.
• Xuanqing summoned Black Water Mystic Serpents, whose venom Lin Fei gathered and hurled back into the formation.
• Lin Fei’s attack shattered the formation and killed the Xuanming Sect disciples guarding it, allowing Wu Gu to reach Wu Moling.
• Xuanqing ordered the serpents to attack Lin Fei from every direction.

Lin Fei effortlessly destroyed Xuanqing’s Black Water Mystic Serpents and defeated her Gonggong-powered Unbreakable Body. He left Xuanqing battered in the ruined, sunken city as she demanded to know how he had overcome her divine protection.

• Lin Fei’s shout shattered the Black Water Mystic Serpents, and their poisonous blood killed some fleeing Xuanming Sect followers.
• Xuanqing invoked Gonggong’s power and formed a gigantic Water of Xuanming avatar around herself.
• Xuanqing swung her massive hammer at Lin Fei, but his backhanded slap staggered her avatar and sent her twin hammers flying.
• Lin Fei stomped down, collapsing the city and breaking Xuanqing’s Unbreakable Body of Rushing Water.
• Xuanqing spat blood and asked how Lin Fei had broken Gonggong’s protection, while Lin Fei wondered why people kept mistaking him for a reincarnation.

Lin Fei confronted Xuanqing and the remnant soul of Gonggong, who recognized him as Heavenly Emperor Lin and killed Xuanqing to save himself. Gonggong discovered Lin Fei had been gravely wounded and attacked, but Lin Fei remained confident as the confrontation continued.

• Xuanqing summoned Gonggong with her talisman, but Lin Fei suppressed his overwhelming pressure and Gonggong knelt before him as Heavenly Emperor Lin.
• Lin Fei showed Gonggong what his followers had done, and Gonggong killed Xuanqing when she claimed she had acted on his orders.
• Gonggong demanded that Lin Fei spare his remnant soul, then attacked with a blade of Divine Sense when Lin Fei ordered him to take his own life.
• Gonggong realized Lin Fei had been gravely wounded and declared that he would kill him.
• Lin Fei dismissed Gonggong's confidence and said that even Gonggong's true body would be as easy to kill as a dog.

Lin Fei faced Gonggong despite his Great Dao injury and proved overwhelmingly stronger, then absorbed Gonggong’s floodwaters with an ordinary porcelain bottle. Gonggong demanded to know Lin Fei’s realm, and Lin Fei struck him down without answering.

• Gonggong doubted Lin Fei’s claim that the Demonic Venerable of the Six Paths of Reincarnation was dead, then attacked him and shattered his own fist against Lin Fei’s motionless body.
• Gonggong summoned the Power of Xuanming from across the land, unleashing a flood that threatened the mortal world and broke through Yinglong’s barrier.
• Lin Fei ordered Yinglong to stand down and absorbed the entire flood into an ordinary porcelain bottle imbued with a minor divine ability.
• Gonggong recognized that the bottle was not Princess Longji’s Four Seas Bottle and asked Lin Fei what realm he had reached.
• Lin Fei answered “Guess” and brought his palm down on Gonggong.

Lin Fei destroyed Gonggong and ended the Xuanming Sect’s rule, then Wu Gu sacrificed her remnant soul to awaken Wu Moling’s Divine Shaman Bloodline. The awakening stirred a Shaman Curse in a bandaged man far away in Mingzhu City.

• Lin Fei shattered Gonggong’s remnant soul, destroyed the porcelain bottle, and declared that Gonggong no longer existed.
• Lin Fei named the city Shaman City and decreed that its people would follow the Ten Shamans of Spirit Mountain; the people paid their respects to Wu Gu.
• Wu Gu declined Lin Fei’s offer to preserve her remnant soul and burned it to create a drop of blood that could awaken Wu Moling’s Divine Shaman Bloodline.
• Wu Gu’s blood entered Wu Moling, turning her black hair silver-white as her bloodline awakened.
• Lin Fei asked Wu Moling whether she sensed anything, while a bandaged man in Mingzhu City felt the Shaman Curse act up and wondered how Divine Shaman power could still exist.

Lin Fei and his companions prepared to revive spiritual energy by entering the Jianmu Realm, while Wu Moling revealed that Chu Xiangkuang had suppressed her grandfather’s witch curse. Lin Fei disclosed that he was an Immortal Emperor despite his wounded primordial spirit, and the group entered the unchanged, spirit-rich realm.

• Chu Xiangkuang sealed Wu Moling’s witch curse with the Heavenly Demon God-Sealing Art, cutting off her connection to it.
• Wu Moling told Lin Fei that the curse was in Mingzhu City and that she had sensed a character for “heaven.”
• Lin Fei comforted Ji Yaoguang and said he would visit Mingzhu City after ushering in the cultivation era.
• Lin Fei revealed that a Great Dao wound prevented him from extending his divine sense, though he was still at the Immortal Emperor realm.
• Lin Fei opened the barrier to the Jianmu Realm and led Ji Yaoguang, Wu Moling, Yinglong, and the others inside.
• The group saw that the Jianmu Realm remained a lush ancient wilderness filled with abundant spiritual energy.

Lin Fei and his companions entered the Jianmu Realm, where tree spirits attacked them, and Lin Fei destroyed the attackers with a snap of his fingers. He left the ginseng spirit alive but took its leaves, and the spirit feared he would extract its essence next.

• Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling saw a purple ginseng spirit run from the ground and heard it call for Grandpa Purple Sophora.
• Purple Sophora and the tree spirits surrounded Lin Fei and his companions, intending to kill them for their flesh and blood.
• Lin Fei snapped his fingers and destroyed the attacking tree spirits, then gathered their life essence into a pebble and gave it to Wu Moling.
• Lin Fei pulled the terrified ginseng spirit to him and snapped off its leaves, leaving it wailing that it was bald.
• Lin Fei hinted that he might make the ginseng spirit donate blood, frightening it into tears again.

Lin Fei collected potent medicinal liquid from the ginseng spirit and gave it to Wu Moling before the group reached Jianmu. The tree spirits had gathered around Jianmu to form the All Things Withering and Flourishing Formation, and Lin Fei faced their challenge to break it.

• The ginseng spirit reluctantly filled a wooden bottle with its medicinal liquid, and Lin Fei gave the bottle to Wu Moling.
• Lin Fei explained that the tree spirits intended to use Jianmu as the formation's core and keep the group trapped.
• Lin Fei and the others arrived before Jianmu and saw the tree spirits arranged in the All Things Withering and Flourishing Formation.
• Purple Sophora and Ink Cypress taunted Lin Fei through divine sense, urging him to break the formation, while Red Fir silently hoped he would take the bait.

Lin Fei entered the All Things Withering and Flourishing Formation, absorbed its attack, and reversed it to drain the tree spirits and nourish Jianmu. The Lord of Jianmu descended, claiming the sword qi at Jianmu’s scar as his source of power, while Lin Fei prepared to face him.

• Lin Fei examined Jianmu’s old scar and explained that its remaining sword qi had nearly been absorbed.
• Lin Fei walked into the formation, endured the tree spirits’ combined attack unharmed, and used the Wood Art to reverse the formation.
• The formation drained the tree spirits’ life essence into Jianmu, causing the spirits to wither into ash and strengthening the tree above its scar.
• The Lord of Jianmu questioned how Lin Fei could speak beneath Jianmu, then descended and declared that he had absorbed the sword qi left at the scar.
• Lin Fei called the Lord of Jianmu’s sentience filthy and challenged him, while Ji Yaoguang and the others reacted strangely to his claim about the sword qi.

Lin Fei showed the Lord of Jianmu a memory of the cosmic battle that produced Jianmu’s Calamity, overwhelming him with the sight of Lin Fei’s power and causing him to perish. Lin Fei then retrieved the Nine Li Staff from Jianmu and sealed its pressure.

• Lin Fei sent the Lord of Jianmu a mental imprint revealing that Lin Fei had unleashed the sword strike that severed Jianmu.
• The Lord of Jianmu saw the battle between Lin Fei and the Demonic Venerable of the Six Paths of Reincarnation and suffered grievous damage to his primordial spirit.
• The Lord of Jianmu recognized Lin Fei as the being behind Jianmu’s Calamity, then dissolved along with his primordial spirit.
• Ji Yaoguang asked what had happened, and Lin Fei explained that the Lord of Jianmu could not bear what his eyes had seen.
• Lin Fei reached into Jianmu, caught the Nine Li Staff, and sealed its pressure.

Lin Fei healed Jianmu’s ancient wound and left for Mount Kunlun, triggering a worldwide celestial phenomenon as spiritual energy began to revive. He arrived at Jade Void Peak with his companions, where Douque Palace and the Sound Sect welcomed him as the Heavenly Venerable.

• Lin Fei gave Wu Moling the Divine Shaman Clan’s supreme treasure, then sent an ancient zither and a wood-element life source into Jianmu to heal its wound.
• Lin Fei branded Jianmu with a Barrier Talisman and took everyone out of the Jianmu Realm, heading for Mount Kunlun.
• People around the world saw the Big Dipper shine in daylight and move toward an unprecedented seven-star alignment, while astronomers struggled to explain it.
• Members of the ancient martial arts world recognized the phenomenon as the revival of spiritual energy and rushed toward Mount Kunlun.
• Lin Fei arrived at Jade Void Peak with Yinglong, Ji Yaoguang, and Wu Moling, and Su Caiwei and Mo Li led Douque Palace and the Sound Sect in paying their respects.

Lin Fei explained how hidden sects had survived the Dharma-ending Age in pocket worlds, then watched spiritual energy revive as seven stars aligned. A grotto-heaven opened in Mount Kunlun, revealing Yunhua Palace and its disciples, who confronted the cultivators already gathering there.

• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang and Yinglong that the Immortal Emperors had preserved some human-world lineages in grotto-heavens, while other sects had rejected amnesty or been excluded.
• Lin Fei explained that those pocket worlds held sects and settlements, and that their inhabitants would return when spiritual energy revived.
• Lin Fei announced the moment had arrived as seven stars aligned and spiritual energy surged across the world.
• Cultivators across Earth celebrated the revival, while some elderly practitioners grieved that they would not live to see the new cultivation era.
• Vast spiritual energy enveloped Mount Kunlun, and its people began cultivating as another pocket world appeared among the mountains.
• Yunhua Palace emerged from the pocket world, and its disciples accused the people in Mount Kunlun of stealing the palace's spirit-vein blessings.

Lin Fei gathered and absorbed the spiritual energy of Mount Kunlun, healing part of his Great Dao injuries while shocking the ancient martial world and enraging Yunhua Palace. As the Cloud Blossom Realm opened, Yun Jing ordered her disciples to capture him and extract the energy from his body.

• Yunhua Palace disciples arrived at Mount Kunlun, and Su Caiwei recognized the overwhelming strength of their cultivators, including several Nascent Soul experts.
• Lin Fei gathered Mount Kunlun’s spiritual energy into ninety-nine dragons of light and declared that he would absorb ninety of them.
• Yun Jing and another Yunhua Palace cultivator mocked Lin Fei, insisting that absorbing even one stream would kill him.
• Lin Fei absorbed ninety spiritual energy dragons without harm, using their energy to heal about a quarter of his Great Dao injuries.
• Yun Jing ordered the Yunhua Palace disciples to capture Lin Fei and refine the spiritual energy from his body as the Cloud Blossom Realm opened.
• Lin Fei collected the nine remaining spiritual energy dragons into his porcelain bottle.

Yun Jing and Yun Guang recognized Lin Fei as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages and led Yunhua Palace in bowing to him. After Lin Fei claimed he had reincarnated and was only at the Golden Core Realm, Yun Jing believed she could seize his power and turned against him.

• Yun Jing and Yun Guang demanded Lin Fei hand over the porcelain bottle, but he invoked Lady Yunhua’s past respect for him.
• Su Caiwei identified Lin Fei as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages, prompting Yunhua Palace’s leaders and disciples to kneel before him.
• Yun Jing suspected Lin Fei was a weakened reincarnation and secretly considered capturing him to take the ninety streams of spiritual energy within him and the nine in his bottle.
• Lin Fei said he had escaped the Six Paths of Reincarnation after five hundred thousand years and was now only at the Golden Core Realm.
• Yun Jing abandoned her respectful act, mocked Lin Fei’s supposed weakness, and openly revealed her intent to kill him and take his fortune.

Liu Zongnan challenged Lin Fei to prove himself invincible at the same cultivation level, while Yunhua Palace sought to seize Lin Fei’s legacy and kill him. After Yinglong evacuated the others, Liu Zongnan unleashed his devastating Chaotic Clouds Flying Across technique, leaving Lin Fei facing the attack.

• Liu Zongnan volunteered to fight Lin Fei, and Yun Jing approved his challenge.
• Liu Zongnan summoned a destructive black-and-white aura that darkened the sky and prepared to attack Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei told Yinglong to take the others away, and Yinglong revealed her true form, shocking Yunhua Palace with her identity.
• Liu Zongnan declared his faith in being invincible at the same cultivation level and unleashed Chaotic Clouds Flying Across.
• Nine vast clouds of sword energy surged toward Lin Fei and across the Mount Kunlun Range.

Lin Fei manifested a young Lin Yuan to show Liu Zongnan the overwhelming strength of his disciple at the Golden Core Realm. After Lin Yuan’s phantom vanished, Lady Yunhua appeared and greeted Lin Fei as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.

• Lin Fei used a bone flute to manifest Lin Yuan’s incarnation, which stopped Liu Zongnan’s sword attack with a wall of light.
• Lin Yuan formed the Mountain-Embracing Seal and crushed Liu Zongnan’s sword qi, forcing Yun Jing and Yun Guang to rescue him.
• Liu Zongnan spat blood and trembled as the defeat shook his Dao heart, while Yun Jing and Yun Guang joined their jade pendants to summon Lady Yunhua’s incarnation.
• Lin Fei dismissed Lin Yuan’s phantom and turned away as Lady Yunhua appeared.
• Lady Yunhua bowed to Lin Fei and addressed him as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.

Lady Yunhua appeared and learned that Yunhua Palace’s elders had plotted against Lin Fei, then punished them for betraying the debt she owed him. Lin Fei spared the surviving disciples for Yao Ji’s sake, unaware that Lady Yunhua’s gratitude had saved the entire palace.

• Yun Jing told Lady Yunhua that Lin Fei had injured Liu Zongnan, but Lady Yunhua asked Lin Fei what the disciples had done and learned the truth from his spiritual light.
• Lady Yunhua ordered Yun Jing and Yun Guang to take their own lives for coveting Lin Fei’s fortune, and Yun Jing tried to persuade her to seize his inheritance instead.
• Lady Yunhua slapped Yun Jing, explained that Lin Fei had saved her and Yunhua Palace long ago, then froze Yun Jing as she tried to escape and turned her to dust.
• Lady Yunhua apologized to Lin Fei, while Liu Zongnan fainted and Yun Guang led the disciples in begging for forgiveness.
• Lin Fei spared Yunhua Palace for Yao Ji’s sake, though its disciples still resented him and did not realize Lady Yunhua’s old debt had saved them.