Chapter Summaries

Lin Shen considered Wei Wufu’s risky shortcut for mastering the Old Iron Secret Method, then challenged the Blade System Ranking List at Chiyou Temple. His blade technique earned a 5.0 rating and returned Fist God to the top, surprising Emperor Tian Shu and An Yi.

• Wei Wufu proposed severing Lin Shen’s spinal nerves so he could undergo Nirvana without feeling his body, but Lin Shen rejected the plan and fled.
• Lin Shen teleported to Chiyou Temple and saw that the Blade System and Fan System ratings had both reached 4.3.
• Lin Shen challenged the Blade System Ranking List, and his rating rose to 5.0, knocking Tian He into second place and restoring Fist God to the summit.
• Emperor Tian Shu praised Tian He’s blade technique while playing chess with An Yi, who was proud of his son.
• The ranking news announced that Fist God had returned to the summit and reclaimed the title of Blade King.

Fist God scored 5.0 and claimed the top spots on three ranking lists, convincing many that he was an Immortal-level expert. Emperor Tian Shu decided to arrange a competition whose prize would be the remaining Dark Domain Lotus Seed, intending for An Yi’s son Ga He to win it.

• Fist God raised his score to 5.0, widening the gap with Tian He and stunning An Jia He with his apparent strength.
• Emperor Tian Shu recalled how he and An Yi had used Dark Domain Lotus Seeds to complete Double Nirvana, then resolved to give the last seed to Ga He through a competition at the Celestial Master Academy.
• Fist God earned another 5.0 score, took first place on the blade and spear rankings, and held the King of All Weapons title as well.
• Heavenly Consort saw that Fist God had reclaimed the Fan King position and decided to challenge him again only after becoming Immortal.

Lin Shen met with Emperor Tian Shu, who tasked him with organizing a competition at the Celestial Master Academy with a Dark Domain Lotus Seed as its hidden first-place prize. Lin Shen realized Emperor Tian Shu likely expected him to recover the seed, possibly by entering the competition himself, and wondered who was truly competing for it.

• Lin Shen continued practicing blade and fan techniques, but his progress began to slow.
• Tian Congyun brought Lin Shen to Emperor Tian Shu, who questioned him about the techniques he had studied.
• Lin Shen explained that he had chosen the Butterfly Fan Technique over the Nine Heavens Mysterious Wind Fan Technique and revealed his 5.0 ranking in Chiyou Temple.
• Emperor Tian Shu recognized Lin Shen as the Fist God and assigned him to organize a competition for young talents across Sky Peak Star, with a Dark Domain Lotus Seed as the prize.
• Emperor Tian Shu explained that a Dark Domain Lotus Seed could eliminate the hidden danger of Double Nirvana and had helped Dean An Yi succeed.
• Lin Shen suspected Emperor Tian Shu wanted him to reclaim the prize and considered whether he would have to compete while acting as the referee.

After Tian Xun explained that Emperor Tian Shu’s competition might give Lin Shen a chance to keep the Dark Domain Lotus Seed, Lin Shen began shaping the rules and venue to improve his odds against An Jia He. An Yi warned An Jia He to be cautious of Lin Shen.

• Tian Xun told Lin Shen that Emperor Tian Shu had made him a referee so he could win the Dark Domain Lotus Seed, and she identified An Jia He as his likely main rival.
• Lin Shen considered ways to favor himself, including choosing a harsh competition venue, restricting spirit foundations and pets, and scheduling Nirvana Realm Experts to test An Jia He.
• Lin Shen asked An Sai to draft the Event Rules and insisted that the competition be fair, while planning a short registration period.
• An Jia He asked An Yi why the competition had been arranged despite their agreement over the Dark Domain Lotus Seed, and An Yi said the seed would still be his if he won.
• An Yi warned An Jia He to be careful of Lin Shen, the new dean of the Celestial Master Academy.

Lin Shen revised the competition rules and prepared for a contest crowded with powerful heirs after An Jia He rallied noble descendants to participate. Dead Powder completed its second Nirvana, giving Lin Shen a stronger death light, while the competition’s surprising turnout left him reconsidering how to respond.

• An Jia He and An Yi discussed the competition, and An Jia He decided to send talented Hejia Academy students to guard against Lin Shen’s interference.
• Lin Shen approved An Sai’s rules, then changed them to allow pets after learning Dead Powder had completed its second Nirvana.
• Lin Shen tested Dead Powder’s upgraded death light and found it could overwhelm his blade techniques unless he fused with the Defier of Fate.
• An Sai reported that numerous noble descendants and Imperial Sons had registered, and Lin Shen discovered that many were from An Jia He’s Hejia Academy.
• Lin Shen withdrew Ye Xing Four Daughters from the competition and instructed An Sai to register Ascenders instead as the competition attracted more famous Nirvana Realm Experts.

Lin Shen arranged the competition groups to steer formidable opponents toward An Jia He and recruited Tian Zhi Xia to defeat him. The competition began with Tian Zhi Xia advancing easily while An Jia He struggled against powerful rivals in his group.

• Lin Shen asked the Logistics Minister, An Sai, and Chi Xin Huo to arrange the groups so he would face Ascenders and An Jia He would face strong Nirvana Realm Experts.
• After Vice Dean An suggested Tian Zhi Xia could defeat An Jia He, Lin Shen asked the Little Imperial Uncle to compete, and Tian Zhi Xia agreed.
• Lin Shen placed Tian Zhi Xia in his group and assigned him several weaker opponents as warm-ups before An Jia He.
• An Jia He discovered Lin Shen was absent from the competitor list and Tian Zhi Xia was participating, while Emperor Tian Shu complained about the missing age restriction but upheld the competition rules.
• Tian Zhi Xia's opponents mostly surrendered immediately, while An Jia He had to fight several formidable rivals from Hejia Academy and suspected Lin Shen had rigged the draws.

An Jia He and Tian Zhi Xia reached the tournament final, where An Jia He used a blindingly fast saber strike to wound Tian Zhi Xia’s left shoulder. After praising the strike, An Jia He proposed ending the battle in peace, leaving Tian Zhi Xia to decide whether to continue.

• An Jia He realized Lin Shen had arranged the competition to pit him against Tian Zhi Xia and resolved to win the Dark Domain Lotus Seed.
• An Jia He and Tian Zhi Xia defeated their opponents and advanced to the final for the Mysterious Grand Prize.
• Tian Zhi Xia attacked with his hammer, and An Jia He evaded the blows before a blast exposed his white jade-like armor.
• An Jia He discarded Death God's Proclamation and said he would fight with its sheath, but Tian Zhi Xia forced him to use the blade.
• An Jia He crossed paths with Tian Zhi Xia and struck so quickly that his saber pierced Tian Zhi Xia’s left shoulder down to the bone.
• An Jia He praised Tian Zhi Xia and suggested they end the battle by making peace.

Tian Zhi Xia challenged An Jia He and used the Ten Directions Ghost God Spirit Severing Blade to overpower him. After Tian Zhi Xia was injured by the clash, Lin Shen stopped An Jia He from continuing the fight and confronted him.

• Tian Zhi Xia drew the Ten Directions Ghost God Spirit Severing Blade and demanded that An Jia He draw his blade.
• An Jia He unleashed countless rapid blade techniques, but Tian Zhi Xia blocked them all without attacking.
• Tian Zhi Xia’s slash shattered An Jia He’s Death God's Proclamation and sent him flying, but Tian Zhi Xia redirected his blade before it struck An Jia He.
• An Jia He’s counterattack blasted Tian Zhi Xia into the ground, and An Jia He charged at him again.
• Lin Shen rescued the injured Tian Zhi Xia, evaded An Jia He’s strike, and rebuked him as headmaster of the Celestial Master Academy.

Lin Shen confronted An Jia He after revoking his qualification to compete for the Dark Domain Lotus Seed, then shocked the spectators by fighting the far stronger Nirvana expert head-on. The chapter ended with An Jia He intensifying his attack, empowered by Angel's Halo.

• Lin Shen revoked An Jia He's competition qualification and ordered him to leave, but An Jia He refused.
• Lin Shen drew his shabby blade and split apart An Jia He's Nirvana-powered blade lights, steadily advancing through the assault.
• An Jia He used his See Light, Die blade technique, but Lin Shen shattered the black light blade and slashed An Jia He across the chest.
• An Jia He resolved to kill Lin Shen, summoned black light blades, and empowered himself with Angel's Halo.

Lin Shen held off An Jia He's relentless assault with his defensive blade technique until An Jia He seized the Ten Directions Ghost God Spirit Severing Blade to even the fight. The Slag Blade absorbed the Spirit Severing Blade's power and sent An Jia fleeing, leaving Lin Shen holding both blades.

• An Jia He attacked Lin Shen for three minutes, but Lin Shen blocked and shattered every strike with his blade and sheath.
• Vice Dean An and the others discussed how Lin Shen's economical defense could exhaust An Jia He before Lin Shen made a mistake.
• An Jia He grabbed the Ten Directions Ghost God Spirit Severing Blade and challenged Lin Shen with it.
• Lin Shen blocked An Jia He's strike, and the Slag Blade absorbed the Spirit Severing Blade's power.
• Lin Shen redirected the absorbed force at An Jia He, who abandoned the Spirit Severing Blade and dodged as the blade aura tore through the clouds.
• Lin Shen picked up the Spirit Severing Blade and lifted it easily.

Lin Shen demonstrated that the Spirit Severing Blade would answer to him, then challenged An Jia He to end their contest. An Jia He instead summoned more than a dozen Nirvana pets, leaving Lin Shen facing a daunting disadvantage.

• Lin Shen tossed the Spirit Severing Blade to An Jia He, who failed to control it and was blasted back when the blade flew to Lin Shen.
• Lin Shen returned the blade to Tian Zhi Xia and declared that Tian Zhi Xia had already won, while An Jia He refused to concede because he wanted the Dark Domain Lotus Seed.
• An Jia He challenged Lin Shen to take Tian Zhi Xia's place, and Lin Shen drew his junk blade and accepted.
• An Jia He asked whether pets were permitted, then used a Pet Gun to summon more than a dozen powerful Nirvana Level pets.
• Tian Bu Luo worried that Lin Shen could not match An Jia He's pets, but Tian Qing Yu trusted that Lin Shen had anticipated the rules and would find a way through.

Lin Shen faced An Jia He and more than a dozen top-grade Nirvana Creatures with Dead Powder, a red crystal javelin. He threw it once, and it pierced through every creature, leaving An Jia He's forces dead and the spectators stunned.

• Tian Bu Luo and the Celestial Master Academy members worried that Lin Shen could not defeat An Jia He and his Nirvana Creatures, but Lin Shen told them not to interfere.
• An Jia He challenged Lin Shen as he summoned more than a dozen top-grade Nirvana Creatures, and Lin Shen drew Dead Powder from around his body.
• Lin Shen declared that one throw would be enough and hurled Dead Powder toward the Abyss Walker as the other creatures charged at him.
• Dead Powder flared red, accelerated beyond the Abyss Walker's grasp, and pierced through its head and every other Nirvana Creature in the sky.
• The Nirvana Creatures fell dead, and the spectators realized that Lin Shen had killed them all with one throw.

Lin Shen defeated An Jia He after Dead Powder slaughtered his Nirvana Creatures, earning fame across Sky Peak Star. As Dead Powder began its third Nirvana, Lin Wan focused on Lin Shen’s unfamiliar blade technique, which had evolved from her Obverse Reverse Hand.

• Dead Powder killed An Jia He’s Nirvana Creatures, then enlarged itself and swallowed their corpses as the crowd watched in fear.
• An Jia He retreated from Dead Powder, and the match ended with his complete defeat.
• People across Sky Peak Star celebrated Lin Shen and nicknamed Dead Powder “Red Alert,” while debating Lin Shen’s blade technique and the pet’s power.
• Dead Powder entered its third Nirvana after eating the Nirvana Creatures, and Lin Shen imagined it might one day become Immortal.
• Lin Wan watched Lin Shen at the Celestial Master Academy and wondered how his blade technique had surpassed what she recognized from her Obverse Reverse Hand.

Lin Shen learned that the Dark Domain Lotus Seed was being kept at the An Family First Residence and that he had to retrieve and consume it there himself. He went alone to ask An Yi for it, and an unusual gift left the gate guard visibly unsettled.

• The Emperor Tian Shu told Lin Shen to retrieve the Dark Domain Lotus Seed from the An Family First Residence’s Gouli Nest, explaining that it had to be swallowed there and that its effects would make Double Nirvana possible for a limited time.
• Lin Shen decided to visit the An Family despite expecting trouble, and Tian Xun advised him not to bring companions because they would not deter An Yi and could worsen the situation.
• Lin Shen prepared a modest gift and went alone to the An Family First Residence to ask An Yi for the seed.
• The An Family guard accepted Lin Shen’s calling card and an additional gift, then told him to wait while the gates shut behind him.

Lin Shen visited the An Family First Residence to retrieve the Dark Domain Lotus Seed, but An Yi refused to meet him and forced him to enter Gouli Nest himself. An Zhi Xue led him to the nest and warned him about its history, leaving Lin Shen to face its dangerous energy.

• An Zhi Xue told Lin Shen that An Yi and the young master were unavailable, and insisted Lin Shen take the Dark Domain Lotus Seed or sign a disclaimer.
• Lin Shen agreed to retrieve the seed himself, believing the Theory of Evolution could counter Gouli Nest’s harmful energy.
• An Zhi Xue brought Lin Shen to a mound in the courtyard and explained that Gouli Nest had once made a mischievous child into a Glass Man.
• Lin Shen recognized that An Zhi Xue’s story was an indirect warning aimed at him, but kept his expression unchanged.

Lin Shen entered the Gouli Nest despite An Zhi Xue’s warnings and endured its strange, punishing energies as he descended toward the Dark Domain Lotus Seed. At the bottom, he found the seed embedded in the forehead of a stone statue inside an open coffin.

• An Zhi Xue warned Lin Shen not to enter the Gouli Nest, but Lin Shen waited for the Theory of Evolution to adapt before activating his Gene Mutation Carapace and going inside.
• An Zhi Xue told Lin Shen that Gouli’s father, an Undying-level powerhouse, had died in the nest, but Lin Shen continued down the passage.
• An Jia He told An Zhi Xue that he was satisfied Lin Shen had risked his life, while An Zhi Xue lamented that the Dark Domain Lotus Seed would still be taken away.
• Lin Shen endured sinister winds and rising heat as he descended past carvings showing a celestial being performing a sacrificial ritual.
• Lin Shen reached a cavern with an open stone coffin and found the Dark Domain Lotus Seed embedded in the forehead of a faceless stone statue.

Lin Shen swallowed the Dark Domain Lotus Seed and discovered that the faceless stone man had a shifting network of black and red lines connected to numerous acupoints. After he sealed every acupoint, the stone man's face split open and revealed something hidden inside.

• Lin Shen pulled the Dark Domain Lotus Seed from the stone man's forehead and swallowed it, then expelled a torrent of gas as his body felt increasingly light.
• Lin Shen noticed black and red lines spreading across the stone man's body from the seed's indentation, where a rotating taiji-like pattern formed.
• Lin Shen pressed the stone man's red acupoint dots and found that each one controlled sections of the black and red lines.
• Lin Shen copied the Acupoint Diagram into a notebook and recorded which lines disappeared when he pressed each acupoint.
• Lin Shen sealed every acupoint, making all the lines vanish, and the stone man's face split open to reveal what looked like silk fabric inside.
• Lin Shen used his scrap blade to carefully draw the hidden object out from the stone man's face.

Lin Shen read the writings left inside the Living Dead Stone Statue by a man who believed he alone saw the true world. The man’s nameless technique mapped the same acupoints Lin Shen could see, leaving Lin Shen afraid that he shared the man’s supposed madness.

• Lin Shen unfolded a thin silk bundle covered in writing and read the author’s account of seeing a world unlike everyone else’s.
• The author described hiding his beliefs, searching for someone like himself, and creating a technique to help others perceive the world he saw.
• Lin Shen dismissed the writings as a madman’s ramblings, but was stunned when the technique described humans as stitched-together forms of life.
• Lin Shen saw that the technique’s marked connection points matched the acupoints he could see and feared he might be like the author.

Lin Shen discovered that Gouli had written a strange theory of Pressure-Point Strike and learned that Gouli Nest had collapsed behind him. As its dangerous energy leaked out, An Yi Residence evacuated, and Lin Shen went to seek help from Emperor Tian Shu.

• Lin Shen read Gouli's account of his microscopic vision and Pressure-Point Strike, then left Gouli Nest with the silk cloth.
• An Jia He and An Zhi Xue saw that Lin Shen showed no visible signs of mutation and assumed he had avoided the worst effects of Gouli Nest.
• Gouli Nest suddenly collapsed, and Lin Shen urged An Jia He and An Zhi Xue to flee when cold, mist-like energy began seeping from the ground.
• An Jia He and An Zhi Xue ordered everyone in An Yi Residence to evacuate as the dangerous energy threatened to turn them into Glass Men.
• Lin Shen left An Yi Residence and went to the imperial palace to seek an audience with Emperor Tian Shu.
• The residents of An Yi Residence fled into the streets, prompting onlookers to wonder whether the An Family was collapsing.

Lin Shen told Emperor Tian Shu that the Gouli Nest had collapsed after he retrieved the Dark Domain Lotus Seed, nearly exposing the An Family to its dangerous energy. Emperor Tian Shu helped An Yi seal the nest and protected Lin Shen, but warned that the feud with An Yi Residence would make life difficult for Lin Shen and the Celestial Master Academy.

• An Yi returned to An Yi Residence and suppressed the strange energy leaking from the Gouli Nest while An Jia He and An Zhi Xue searched unsuccessfully for Lin Shen.
• Lin Shen went to the imperial palace and told Emperor Tian Shu that he had obtained the Dark Domain Lotus Seed but that the Gouli Nest had collapsed.
• Lin Shen recounted his journey through the nest and gave Emperor Tian Shu the Gouli Silk, which the Emperor examined and returned to him.
• Emperor Tian Shu went to An Yi Residence and helped An Yi seal the Gouli Nest, spending years of his life in the process.
• Emperor Tian Shu assured Lin Shen that An Yi would not harm him, but warned him that the feud with An Yi Residence endangered him and the Celestial Master Academy.
• Lin Shen went to the Celestial Master Academy, urged everyone to be cautious, and revealed to An Sai and the others that he had caused the crisis at An Yi Residence.