Chapter Summaries

Lin Shen developed the Blood Life Blade Technique, using threats of mutual injury to discourage opponents from attacking. After several days of practice, he joined the Wei family’s team to explore the Underground Space and search for a Gene Mutation Land.

• Lin Shen realized his defense needed to threaten opponents, then began trading minor injuries for the chance to inflict severe wounds.
• Tian Bu Luo tried practicing against Lin Shen but gave up when Lin Shen’s Blood Life Blade Technique made attacking too dangerous.
• Lin Shen refined his blade technique at home and named it the Blood Life Blade Technique.
• Wei Wufu invited Lin Shen to join the Wei family’s next exploration of the Underground Space, and Lin Shen agreed.
• Lin Shen set out for Sky City, planning to find the Gene Mutation Land and take Wei Wufu away before he underwent Nirvana on the home planet.

Wei Changqing sent Lin Shen and three others to explore a strange region in the Underground Space that produced Nirvana Creatures. After entering through an ancient well, Lin Shen discovered that movements to the left and right were reversed, and the team continued into the unknown area.

• Wei Changqing told Lin Shen that Nirvana Creatures kept appearing in the Underground Space and that the suspected Gene Mutation Land seemed to reverse left and right movements.
• Lin Shen set out with Wei Wufu, Wei Shoucheng, and Wei Shouxin, avoiding Nirvana Creatures as they traveled to the region's entrance.
• Wei Shoucheng led the team down an ancient stone well, where they passed through the water into a cave beneath an upside-down well.
• After leaving the cave, Lin Shen found that attempts to move left or right made him move in the opposite direction, while forward and backward movement remained normal.

Lin Shen and the Wei brothers explored a mushroom-filled valley until a strange, hallucinogenic river blocked their path. After Wei Shoucheng fell into the river and had to be pulled out, Lin Shen prepared to test whether he could cross it himself.

• Lin Shen adapted to the valley's bizarre environment as Wei Shoucheng led the group along its left-hand path.
• The group reached a multicolored river that forced anyone who tried to jump across to fall into its hallucinogenic water.
• Wei Shoucheng tried climbing across the mushroom-covered wall but fell into the river, and Wei Shouxin pulled him out and gave him medicine that put him to sleep.
• Lin Shen offered to try crossing the river, but Wei Shouxin stopped him and warned that the water's hallucinations could damage his brain.

Lin Shen crossed a powerful river by running across its surface and carried Wei Wufu, Wei Shouxin, and Wei Shoucheng to the opposite bank. After the group continued through a valley of gigantic mushrooms, Wei Shouxin spotted something strange ahead.

• Lin Shen insisted on crossing the river himself despite Wei Shouxin's warnings and used Light Body on Water to sprint across its surface.
• Lin Shen secured a rope on the far bank, then returned across the river and carried Wei Wufu, Wei Shouxin, and the unconscious Wei Shoucheng over.
• Wei Shoucheng woke up, learned that Lin Shen had carried them across, and warned Lin Shen not to take reckless risks.
• The group continued along the valley and discovered that it had become a forest of enormous mushrooms.
• Wei Shouxin stopped the group and pointed out something strange on a giant mushroom ahead.

Lin Shen and the others cautiously crossed a Mushroom Forest filled with giant mushrooms that sprayed elastic spheres, then watched crystal-gold beetles become uncontrollably frenzied after colorful liquid from the spheres splashed on them. They left the forest and continued along the valley, where they soon encountered an even stranger sight.

• Lin Shen and his companions passed beneath giant mushrooms, whose caps suddenly sprayed bouncing spheres when one mushroom trembled.
• Wei Shouxin warned the group not to puncture the spheres, and the four carefully waded through them.
• The group spotted hundreds of crystal-gold beetles pushing the fallen spheres through the forest.
• One beetle punctured a sphere, and the colorful liquid it released made splashed beetles sway wildly and burst more spheres.
• Wei Shouxin led the others around the frenzied beetles, and they left the Mushroom Forest to follow tracks along the valley.
• Lin Shen and the others soon witnessed an even stranger scene.

Lin Shen and the Wei family discovered countless floating black spheres containing sleeping creatures identical to Chang Hen Dong Li, and Lin Shen suspected they were his clones created by the God-Making Race. As more spheres opened, Wei Shoucheng urged the group to attack before the creatures awoke.

• Lin Shen and the Wei family watched beetles carry beads up strange metal chains that seemed to grow from the ground.
• A black sphere opened after a beetle placed a bead on it, revealing a blue-shelled creature resembling Chang Hen Dong Li.
• Lin Shen saw the bead dissolve in liquid that flowed through tubes into the creature and suggested it might be a Chang Hen Dong Li clone made by the God-Making Race.
• More spheres opened, revealing many Chang Hen Dong Li lookalikes with shells at different stages of development.
• Wei Shoucheng urged the group to take advantage of the creatures being asleep and deal with them.

Lin Shen and the Wei brothers discovered that Dead Powder could break the invisible shields protecting the Chang Hen Dong Li clones and devour them. After they began clearing the black spheres, Wei Shoucheng noticed that one clone seemed different.

• Wei Shoucheng and Wei Shouxin tried to attack a Chang Hen Dong Li inside an opened black sphere, but an invisible shield blocked their strikes.
• Lin Shen sent Dead Powder to attack, and its True Extreme Demon-Slaying Death Light shattered the shield before it swallowed the clone.
• The group gathered beads to lure open more black spheres while Dead Powder devoured the sleeping Chang Hen Dong Li inside them.
• Wei Shoucheng opened another black sphere and noticed that the clone inside seemed different.

Lin Shen and the Wei family fed hundreds of Chang Hen Dong Li clones to Dead Powder before resting. Wei Shoucheng then revealed that the Wei family’s ancient benefactor, a mysterious Jiang Noble, was connected to Lin Shen’s Third Brother and had left a token that led the Wei family to protect Lin Shen.

• Lin Shen told the group not to touch the helmeted, carapace-covered Chang Hen Dong Li clone, and Dead Powder swallowed nearly three hundred other clones before needing time to digest.
• While they rested, Wei Shoucheng praised Dead Powder, and Lin Shen credited his success to the help of his benefactors.
• Wei Shoucheng explained that the Wei family had survived Sky City’s crisis more than two hundred years earlier with help from a benefactor surnamed Jiang.
• Wei Shoucheng revealed that Lin Zongzheng had brought the Jiang benefactor’s token to the Wei family and asked them to protect Lin Shen, so they sent Wei Wufu to Blackbird Base.
• Wei Shoucheng said the Jiang benefactor had given the Wei family the Purple Qi Phoenix Art, but his origins remained unknown, leaving Lin Shen puzzled about the connection to his Third Brother.

Lin Shen and the Wei brothers tried to devour the last black-armored Chang Hen Dong Li, but he proved powerful and explained that the Dong Li Race’s identical members were independent beings with inherited memories, not clones. The discovery left Lin Shen questioning whether the Chang Hen Dong Li they had met before was the same person.

• Lin Shen told Wei Shoucheng and Wei Shouxin about the universe and the Race Ranking List, while admitting he could not say whether they might ever return to the universe.
• Lin Shen, the Wei brothers, and Dead Powder devoured the Chang Hen Dong Li figures in most of the black spheres, then tried to swallow the black-armored one.
• The black-armored Chang Hen Dong Li repelled Dead Powder and dispersed Wei Shoucheng’s Phoenix Blade Qi before appearing on the ground and demanding to know why they were attacking him.
• Lin Shen explained that another Chang Hen Dong Li had tried to kill them, but the black-armored figure said the members of his race were independent individuals rather than one entity.
• Black Armor Chang Hen Dong Li explained that each Dong Li inherited memories from countless generations and asked whether Lin Shen and the others had killed the other Chang Hen Dong Lis.

Black Armor Chang Hen Dong Li explained that he had become the true inheritor and planned to use every living creature on the planet as a vessel for his descendants, calling their deaths a repayment for killing the other Chang Hen Dong Li. Lin Shen and the others attacked, but Chang Hen Dong Li overwhelmed them and left Wei Shoucheng and Wei Shouxin badly injured.

• Black Armor Chang Hen Dong Li told Lin Shen and the others that killing the other Chang Hen Dong Li had helped him become the sole inheritor.
• Black Armor Chang Hen Dong Li revealed that he would implant Inheritance Seeds in every living creature on the planet and kill them to spare them the agony of becoming vessels.
• Lin Shen, Wei Shoucheng, Wei Shouxin, and Dead Powder attacked Chang Hen Dong Li, but he deflected their strikes with ease.
• Lin Shen and Wei Wufu used weakening abilities on Chang Hen Dong Li, but a ghostly glow from his armor dissolved Lin Shen's fan dance skill.
• Chang Hen Dong Li struck Wei Shoucheng and Wei Shouxin into the mountain wall, while Dead Powder's True Extreme Demon-Slaying Death Light continued to clash with his black radiance.

Lin Shen held Chang Hen Dong Li off while Wei Shoucheng carried the injured Wei Wufu and unconscious Wei Shouxin away. Wei Wufu turned back toward the battle, convinced his white robe could help, while Chang Hen Dong Li decided to keep Lin Shen alive as a vessel.

• Chang Hen Dong Li pierced Wei Wufu and Wei Shouxin with a beam, and Lin Shen rushed to attack him but was hurled into a mountainside.
• The Holy Shield Dragon shielded Wei Wufu and Wei Shouxin, allowing Wei Shoucheng to carry them away as Lin Shen stayed behind to face Chang Hen Dong Li.
• Chang Hen Dong Li revealed that he had changed his mind and intended to make Lin Shen a vessel, then attacked Dead Powder with a barrage of techniques.
• Wei Wufu insisted that the Wei family had promised to protect Lin Shen and that his white robe could help, so Wei Shoucheng set him down and let him return to the battlefield.
• Wei Shoucheng carried the unconscious Wei Shouxin onward to inform Lord Qing.

Lin Shen watched Dead Powder battle Chang Hen Dong Li while holding back, hoping to learn the enemy’s abilities before making a fatal strike. Chang Hen Dong Li summoned a monster from black particles as the battle continued.

• Dead Powder used temporary mutations based on its recorded data to match Chang Hen Dong Li’s Elbow Blades, extra arms, and attacks.
• Lin Shen observed that Dead Powder understood Chang Hen Dong Li’s techniques but might not know his black-armored Nirvana abilities well enough to kill him.
• Chang Hen Dong Li grew extra pairs of arms, yet Dead Powder grew matching dragon claws and continued to counter his attacks.
• Chang Hen Dong Li praised Dead Powder as a suitable vessel for inheritance and gathered black particles behind himself into a monster.

Lin Shen watched Chang Hen Dong Li seemingly die after Dead Powder destroyed his walnut-shaped life base, only to discover that a second Chang Hen Dong Li could withstand Dead Powder’s attacks. He realized the apparent corpse was connected to the living Chang Hen Dong Li and cut its face, leaving the same wound on his opponent.

• Chang Hen Dong Li entered his walnut-shaped life base, and Dead Powder pierced the shell and battered it apart, leaving his body amid the fragments.
• A second Chang Hen Dong Li appeared and attacked Dead Powder; its True Extreme Demon-Slaying Death Light vanished against him, while his blows stretched and battered Dead Powder.
• Dead Powder grew gigantic and fought back, but Chang Hen Dong Li drove it into a mountainside and continued attacking.
• Lin Shen suspected the shattered life base and the apparent corpse were linked to the living Chang Hen Dong Li, so he slashed the corpse’s face with the Scrap Blade.
• A bloody cut appeared on the corpse’s face, and an identical crack and wound appeared on Chang Hen Dong Li’s face as he fought Dead Powder.

Lin Shen used Dead Powder and the corpse linked to Chang Hen Dong Li to wound him, but Chang Hen Dong Li still outmatched Lin Shen in speed. Old Wei’s return brought a song and an unknown blessing that greatly increased Lin Shen’s attributes as the fight continued.

• Lin Shen used the corpse to redirect Chang Hen Dong Li’s Black Light and make matching wounds appear on Chang Hen Dong Li’s body.
• Lin Shen wrapped Dead Powder around the corpse’s neck, but Chang Hen Dong Li destroyed the corpse to break their connection.
• Lin Shen attacked Chang Hen Dong Li with Dead Powder, while Chang Hen Dong Li dodged the whip-light and exposed Lin Shen’s weakness in speed.
• A rhythmic clanging and Old Wei’s song came from the Mushroom Forest, boosting Lin Shen’s attributes with two powers.
• Worried Chang Hen Dong Li would attack Wei Wufu, Lin Shen hurled Dead Powder at Chang Hen Dong Li.

Lin Shen fought Chang Hen Dong Li with the Dead Powder and briefly gained the advantage, but Chang Hen Dong Li revealed that his Core of Life could create an identical duplicate. With two coordinated enemies overwhelming him, Lin Shen remained trapped in a losing battle despite using Fei Zai.

• Lin Shen used Wave Treading Step and the Dead Powder’s shifting attacks to wound Chang Hen Dong Li’s shell and force him onto the defensive.
• Chang Hen Dong Li retreated into his Core of Life, which produced a second, identical Chang Hen Dong Li.
• Lin Shen fought both Chang Hen Dong Lis, but their matching abilities and coordination quickly put him at a disadvantage and left him bleeding.
• Lin Shen threw Fei Zai at one Chang Hen Dong Li, temporarily immobilizing him, but the other attacked and freed him.
• The two Chang Hen Dong Lis resumed their assault, and Lin Shen was besieged again while Fei Zai avoided fighting.

Lin Shen struggled to survive the combined attacks of two Chang Hen Dong Lis and prepared to gamble on using the Sacrifice to Heaven Halo. Just as he was about to act, the Life Foundation Defier of Fate emerged from his body on its own.

• Lin Shen found that his defensive techniques could not withstand the Chang Hen Dong Lis, and he relied on his movement technique, Old Wei, and Dead Powder to stay alive.
• A Chang Hen Dong Li struck Lin Shen with black light, breaking several of his breastbones and leaving him badly wounded.
• Lin Shen distinguished the two Chang Hen Dong Lis by their reversed attack patterns and decided the one who appeared from thin air was likely the true body.
• Lin Shen suspected Chang Hen Dong Li's inheritance ritual turned creatures into vessels and that his black armor and black light might come from Black Cap Mushroom Beasts.
• Lin Shen prepared to use the Sacrifice to Heaven Halo, but the Life Foundation Defier of Fate emerged from his body without warning.

The Defier of Fate enhanced Lin Shen’s innate abilities by merging back into him, allowing him to withstand the two Chang Hen Dong Lis and develop a Junk Blade technique that could split their black light. Lin Shen turned the fight around and wounded one Chang Hen Dong Li, but the other withdrew and began transforming his black carapace white.

• The Defier of Fate appeared but rushed back into Lin Shen, greatly enhancing his attributes, recovery, and World Power absorption.
• Lin Shen used the Dead Powder and Junk Blade to hold off both Chang Hen Dong Lis, though their experience and strength kept him under pressure.
• Lin Shen began sawing apart Chang Hen Dong Li’s black light with the Junk Blade, refining a defensive technique based on the Blood Life Blade Technique.
• Lin Shen’s Dead Powder wounded the Chang Hen Dong Li that had emerged from the life foundation, causing the other Chang Hen Dong Li to suffer an identical arm wound.
• One Chang Hen Dong Li withdrew and declared his desire to possess Lin Shen’s body as his black carapace gradually turned white.

Lin Shen and Fei Zai defeated Chang Hen Dong Li after Lin Shen struck his true body’s weakness with an enhanced Fingertip Sand. Chang Hen Dong Li died and left behind a Core of Life and Ashes of Reincarnation, while Lin Shen learned how the Defier of Fate’s Same Root Origin ability worked.

• Chang Hen Dong Li’s white light stripped away Lin Shen’s carapace until Fei Zai appeared and suppressed him, restoring Lin Shen’s power.
• Lin Shen used the Sacrifice to Heaven Halo to enhance Fingertip Sand and pierced the true Chang Hen Dong Li’s acupoint, killing him.
• Fei Zai restrained the other Chang Hen Dong Li as its armor transformed into a Core of Life, and Lin Shen destroyed the corpse to ensure it was dead.
• Wei Wufu emerged from the Mushroom Forest, and Lin Shen realized the Defier of Fate’s Same Root Origin could combine their attributes and innate skills.
• Lin Shen’s Mechanical Watch announced the death of Mutated Nirvana Creature Dong Li Progenitor and the discovery of a Mutated Nirvana Life Foundation Core of Life.
• Chang Hen Dong Li’s body burned to ashes, leaving a black Ashes of Reincarnation on the ground.

Lin Shen returned from the Underground Space with Wei Wufu, Wei Shoucheng, and Wei Shouxin after Dead Powder swallowed the Ashes of Reincarnation and entered Nirvana again. At Lin Shen’s home on Sky Peak Star, An Sai healed Wei Wufu’s severe injuries in under a minute.

• Dead Powder swallowed the Ashes of Reincarnation and began another Nirvana cycle, leaving Lin Shen without his main combat strength.
• Lin Shen found Wei Shoucheng carrying an unconscious Wei Shouxin up a mushroom-covered cliff and rescued them both.
• Lin Shen brought Wei Wufu and the two uncles back to Earth Suppression Hall, where Wei Changqing heard his account of the fight with Black Armor Chang Hen Dong Li.
• Lin Shen took Wei Wufu to Sky Peak Star to recover, and Ouyang Yudu returned and offered to join Lin Shen on his next Underground Space expedition.
• An Sai arrived at Lin Shen’s home and healed Wei Wufu’s wounds in less than a minute.

Lin Shen refined his Blood Life Blade Technique and tested it against Lin Wan before traveling with Tian Bu Luo to Blade Wind Star to train against its unusual blade winds. He arrived on the planet and prepared to begin practicing in a relatively safe region.

• Lin Shen integrated the Slag Blade Skill into the Blood Life Blade Technique and developed a combined blade-and-sheath attack.
• Lin Shen sparred with Lin Wan, whose sword strikes he repeatedly turned aside with his fierce defensive blade technique.
• Lin Wan recommended Blade Wind Star as a place to practice, and Lin Shen invited Tian Bu Luo to accompany him there.
• Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo teleported to Blade Wind Star, where Tian Bu Luo explained how the planet's blade winds varied in strength.
• Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo summoned their armor shells as a gust of Gene Mutation Level blade qi struck them and shattered.