Recaps

Lin Fan killed Huntian, an ancient Holy Spirit, and ignored the blood-rain curse that followed. News of his True Dragon Precious Technique reached Ye Chen and Long Aotian, setting up future confrontations as they advanced through the Immortal Ancient Ruins.

• Lin Fan defeated Huntian, who accepted his loss before his body and remnant soul disintegrated.
• Lin Fan collected Huntian’s shell and origin essence, gaining Villain Points as a blood rain spread across the Immortal Ancient Ruins.
• The blood rain failed to mark Lin Fan, whose Chaos Gods and Devils Body protected him as he headed onward.
• Cultivators spread news that Lin Fan had used the True Dragon Precious Technique to kill Huntian.
• Ye Chen learned of Lin Fan’s technique after completing the Star Immortal Technique and resolved to meet him at the end of the ancient road.
• Long Aotian received news of the True Dragon Precious Technique after defeating a half-step Great Saint beast, and his expression changed.

Long Aotian and Wang Teng decided to let Lin Fan advance through the Immortal Ancient Ruins, with Long Aotian waiting to reclaim the True Dragon Precious Technique. At the fourteenth stage, Lin Fan entered the Heaven-Reaching Tower after learning that a Son of Fortune named Shen Qianqiu was inside, and found himself in an empty hall.

• Long Aotian ordered his followers to watch Lin Fan without stopping him and vowed to wait at the twentieth stage for the True Dragon Precious Technique.
• Wang Teng refused to intercept Lin Fan, saying that conviction mattered more than talent, and grew curious about him.
• Ji Kun explained the Heaven-Reaching Tower's inheritance, trials, and dangers to Lin Fan at the fourteenth stage.
• Lin Fan received a system notification identifying Shen Qianqiu as a Son of Fortune and decided to enter the tower.
• The tower's runes drew Lin Fan through its entrance, and he appeared in an empty hall.

Lin Fan entered the Heaven-Reaching Tower and was swept through its trials at impossible speed while Shen Qianqiu waited on the ninety-eighth floor. The tower’s inheritance ended in a violent collapse, and the cultivators realized Lin Fan had not come back out.

• Lin Fan entered the tower and was carried past dozens of trials, while cultivators outside believed Shen Qianqiu would claim the inheritance first.
• Shen Qianqiu saw the tower’s runes flare and his jade slip crack as the tower shook, then wondered if someone had taken the inheritance.
• The tower’s runes went dark and its formation ejected the cultivators inside, who blamed the disruption on the dark horse reaching the summit.
• Shen Qianqiu emerged pale and trembling, denied obtaining the inheritance, and asked who had punched through the tower.
• The cultivators noticed that Lin Fan had not emerged from the tower.

Lin Fan claimed the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s inheritance, the first half of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, in seconds, then escaped as the tower crumbled. Shen Qianqiu lost the inheritance and swore to take it back, while Lin Fan left him alive to exploit later.

• Lin Fan cleared the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s trials and received the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art, along with a warning that its path would face a higher existence.
• The system awarded Lin Fan 500,000 Villain Points for taking Shen Qianqiu’s destined inheritance and reported improvements to his cultivation, Law of Chaos, and Law of the Fist Dao.
• Lin Fan left the tower as it disintegrated, and the gathered cultivators realized he had taken the inheritance in only seconds.
• Lin Fan identified Shen Qianqiu as the reincarnation of the Reincarnation Immortal King’s eldest disciple and chose not to kill him yet.
• Shen Qianqiu crushed his cracked jade slip and vowed to reclaim what Lin Fan had taken, while Lin Fan departed intending to let him grow stronger before exploiting him again.

Lin Fan reached the Kunpeng Nest at the twenty-third checkpoint and found Gu Chen guarding the Incomplete Kunpeng Treasure Technique. The chapter ended as Lin Fan walked toward the altar and Gu Chen turned to face him.

• Lin Fan spent two and a half years traveling the ruins, advancing his cultivation and reaching the Great Sage Realm after refining Nine-Transformation Divine Soul Grass.
• Lin Fan reached the twenty-third checkpoint, where he found an island said to have been the nest of a Kunpeng offspring.
• Lin Fan saw Gu Chen standing before the altar and claiming the island's fortune as his own.
• Lin Fan walked toward the altar, and Gu Chen noticed him and asked if he had come to die.

Lin Fan defeated Gu Chen, forced the Great Saint to become his underling, and claimed the incomplete Kunpeng Treasure Technique fragment. The chapter ended with Lin Fan learning that he could spend 1.5 million Villain Points to complete the technique.

• Lin Fan confronted Gu Chen at the altar and blocked the Great Saint's full-force halberd strike with one hand.
• Gu Chen challenged Lin Fan again, but Lin Fan unleashed his Chaos Gods and Devils Body and shattered Gu Chen's halberd with a powerful punch.
• Lin Fan defeated Gu Chen and made him agree to become his underling, earning Villain Points from the system.
• Gu Chen explained that the altar held an incomplete Kunpeng Treasure Technique fragment focused on speed and devouring.
• Lin Fan absorbed the fragment and received a system prompt offering to complete the technique for 1.5 million Villain Points.

Lin Fan completed the Kunpeng Treasure Technique and gave the Kunpeng bone to Gu Chen before heading toward the twenty-fifth trial. Feng Jiuge warned him that Long Aotian was waiting there after gaining a True Dragon’s essence blood and reaching the Great Sage Realm, but Lin Fan entered the gate undeterred.

• Lin Fan spent 1.5 million Villain Points to complete the Kunpeng Treasure Technique, then demonstrated its immense speed and power.
• Lin Fan gave the Kunpeng bone to Gu Chen and invited him to follow along and study the technique.
• Lin Fan set off for the next trial in his nine-dragon-drawn carriage and met Feng Jiuge at the void gate.
• Feng Jiuge warned Lin Fan that Long Aotian had reached the Great Sage Realm and was waiting for him in the twenty-fifth trial.
• Feng Jiuge cautioned Lin Fan about ancient killing formations, but Lin Fan said he was prepared and entered the twenty-fifth trial.

At the ancient city in the middle stretch of the ruins, Long Aotian’s Dragon Clan patrol stopped newcomers while waiting for Lin Fan. When a Dragon Clan Great Saint threatened a woman and her companion, Lin Fan arrived in a carriage drawn by nine True Dragons.

• Long Aotian’s patrol searched arrivals at the ancient city gates, hoping to catch Lin Fan before he entered.
• A woman in a moon-white dress and her companions arrived from Tianxuan Province and were stopped by a Dragon Clan Great Saint.
• The Dragon Clan Great Saint demanded they submit to inspection and threatened the woman and her companion when they refused.
• The Great Saint’s dragon claw froze in midair as a powerful bloodline pressure swept over the gate.
• Nine True Dragons arrived pulling a carriage, and Lin Fan stepped out.

Lin Fan arrived at the ancient city to face Long Aotian, whose Dragon Clan demanded Lin Fan surrender his nine true-dragon mounts. Long Aotian offered to spare Lin Fan if he became his battle general, but Lin Fan had Ji Kun prepare a pot, making clear he intended to cook Long Aotian instead.

• Lin Fan arrived in his Nine-Dragon Carriage as spectators debated his chances against Long Aotian, and Feng Jiuge bet everything on Lin Fan.
• Long Aotian confronted Lin Fan, while Dragon Clan experts coveted the nine pure-blooded true dragons drawing his carriage.
• A Dragon Clan Great Saint attacked Lin Fan, but Gu Chen intercepted him and wounded him before Long Aotian stepped in and ordered his clan to stand down.
• Lin Fan's system identified Long Aotian as a legendary Son of Fortune whose future included killing Feng Jiuge and ruling the Dragon Clan.
• Long Aotian offered to spare Lin Fan if he submitted as his battle general and handed over the nine dragons.
• Lin Fan told Ji Kun to heat oil in a pot, then told Long Aotian he wanted his food fresh.

Lin Fan and Long Aotian fought evenly despite their difference in cultivation, and Lin Fan injured Long Aotian with the True Dragon Fist. Long Aotian healed and prepared to use his trump card, the Eternal Dragon Emperor Art: Dragon Emperor's Descent.

• Long Aotian charged Lin Fan with a powerful punch, and Lin Fan met it head-on with his chaos gods and devils body.
• Lin Fan and Long Aotian traded dozens of blows, leaving the ancient city damaged as onlookers marveled that Lin Fan could withstand Long Aotian's attacks.
• Long Aotian unleashed the full power of his eternal dragon emperor physique and struck with the Golden Dragon Heaven-Shattering Claw.
• Lin Fan answered with the True Dragon Fist, and the collision injured Long Aotian by shattering three scales on his shoulder.
• Long Aotian's wound healed, and he declared that he would take Lin Fan's True Dragon Precious Technique before invoking Dragon Emperor's Descent.

Long Aotian unleashed Dragon Emperor's Descent against Lin Fan, but Lin Fan revealed the Kunpeng Treasure Technique and survived their clash with little injury. Long Aotian was badly wounded, yet his defeat only made him more eager to fight Lin Fan again.

• Long Aotian transformed and summoned the Dragon Emperor phantom, preparing to destroy Lin Fan with Dragon Emperor's Descent.
• Feng Jiuge and Gu Chen warned that the attack could kill a Sage King, while Lin Fan calmly faced the descending dragon claw.
• Lin Fan summoned the Kunpeng and used the Kunpeng Treasure Technique to collide with Long Aotian's attack, shattering much of the ancient city's defensive formation.
• The clash left Long Aotian's armor broken and his arm bleeding, while Lin Fan remained standing with only slight disarray.
• Lin Fan mocked Long Aotian's Eternal Dragon Emperor Physique, and Long Aotian laughed, saying Lin Fan's strength made him even more eager to trample him.

Long Aotian burned his essence and unleashed his strongest attack, but Lin Fan used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art to combine three techniques and defeat him. Long Aotian then used a forbidden art to burn his dragon heart and charge again, while Lin Fan answered with five combined powers and struck his dragon head.

• Long Aotian burned his essence and unleashed Ancestral Dragon's Wrath at Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan activated the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Art and combined the True Dragon Fist, Kunpeng Palm, and Hunyuan Fist to shatter Long Aotian's attack and send him crashing through the city gate.
• Long Aotian, badly wounded and terrified, used the Dragon Heart Blood Burning Art to release his remaining power and charged at Lin Fan in dragon form.
• Lin Fan unleashed Devil God's Wrath and combined five techniques and powers into a punch that struck Long Aotian's dragon head.

Lin Fan killed Long Aotian at the twenty-fifth trial, shocking the cultivators and earning rewards from the system. As news of the battle spread through the Immortal Ancient Ruins, Wang Teng learned of Long Aotian’s death and took interest in Lin Fan.

• Lin Fan defeated Long Aotian, whose body shattered in the ruins, and Long Aotian died as dark golden blood rained from the sky.
• The cultivators reacted in shock, while Feng Jiuge pursued the fleeing betting-table operator and Gu Chen recognized Lin Fan’s strength.
• Lin Fan collected Long Aotian’s rewards, including a Mount Saint-Level Upgrade Card, and left for the twenty-seventh trial with Ji Kun, Gu Chen, and the nine True Dragons.
• News of Long Aotian’s death spread throughout the Immortal Ancient Ruins, and cultivators discussed Lin Fan’s victory over the Dragon Clan supreme.
• At the twenty-seventh trial, Wang Teng heard that Long Aotian had died and said that Lin Fan was interesting.

Wang Teng encountered the legendary Five-Crown King, while Lin Fan reached the Nameless Sword Embryo in the Sword Forest. A Triple Crown King appeared and claimed the sword embryo as his own.

• Wang Teng stopped when a black-robed man addressed him and learned that the man was the Five-Crown King.
• Lin Fan entered the Sword Forest, where Peak Sage experts fighting over the Nameless Sword Embryo stepped aside when they recognized him.
• Lin Fan learned that the Nameless Sword Embryo lay deep in the forest beneath an ancient broken sword, and the cultivators retreated.
• Lin Fan found the sinister sword embryo and suspected its vicious nature had turned its former owners against themselves.
• The Triple Crown King confronted Lin Fan and declared that the Nameless Sword Embryo belonged to him.

In the Sword Forest, Lin Fan called the Nameless Sword Embryo to him, proving the Triple Crown King's claim to it false. The Triple Crown King attacked Lin Fan with his strongest sword strike, but Lin Fan's Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique shattered it.

• The Triple Crown King declared that the Nameless Sword Embryo had called to him across three eras and challenged Lin Fan to try to claim it.
• Lin Fan called, “Sword... come!!!,” and the Nameless Sword Embryo broke free of the black sword and flew to his palm.
• The Triple Crown King reacted with disbelief, then launched the sword strike he had comprehended when he earned his third crown.
• Lin Fan used the Heaven-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique, and his strike shattered the Triple Crown King's dark golden sword light.

Lin Fan defeated the Triple Crown King’s claim to the Nameless Sword Embryo, then absorbed the Sword Forest’s swords and refined his powers. As Wang Teng returned from an unresolved battle with the Five-Crown King, he headed toward the Sword Forest, where Lin Fan remained in seclusion.

• Lin Fan summoned the Nameless Sword Embryo and blocked the Triple Crown King’s strike with one finger, prompting the Triple Crown King to accept that the sword embryo had chosen Lin Fan and leave.
• Lin Fan stored the unrefined sword embryo and used a Mount Saint-Level Upgrade Card to raise his nine True Dragons to peak Sage King realm.
• Lin Fan began refining True Dragon blood essence and devoured the ancient swords and remaining Sword Dao energy in the Sword Forest, strengthening his Law of the Sword Dao.
• Word spread that Wang Teng had fought the Five-Crown King in a battle that shattered a sea of stars, but neither fighter had won.
• Wang Teng returned and approached the Sword Forest while Lin Fan remained in seclusion.

Lin Fan refined the Sword Forest and the Nameless Sword Embryo, breaking through to the Great Sage Realm and triggering a terrifying tribulation. He devoured the tribulation lightning as it struck, provoking the clouds into launching a massive final blow.

• Lin Fan absorbed the Nameless Sword Embryo and the Law of the Sword Dao, then broke through from peak Sage to the Great Sage Realm.
• A vast sea of tribulation clouds formed above the Sword Forest, and Lin Fan smashed apart the first lightning bolt with his fist.
• Ye Chen sensed Lin Fan’s breakthrough from beyond the thirty-first checkpoint and headed deeper into a forbidden zone to strengthen himself.
• Lin Fan walked through the lightning and used the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art to devour and refine the tribulation bolts.
• After Lin Fan shouted for more lightning, the tribulation clouds condensed their power into a hundred-zhang pillar and struck at him.

After surviving the Great Saint Tribulation, Lin Fan reached the middle stage of the Great Sage Realm and raised his Sword Dao law to the Sage King level. Wang Teng arrived at the Sword Forest to settle his Wang Clan’s grievances with Lin Fan, leaving the two poised for a confrontation.

• Lin Fan devoured the final lightning pillar of his tribulation, broke through to the middle stage of the Great Sage Realm, and raised his Sword Dao law to the Sage King level.
• The system awarded Lin Fan Villain Points and assessed his combat strength as unrivaled in the Sage King Realm.
• Wang Teng arrived at the Sword Forest, and the watching cultivators recognized his Chaotic Devil Physique and immense strength.
• Lin Fan welcomed Wang Teng as an opponent, and Wang Teng declared that it was time to settle the grievances between him and the Wang Clan.

Lin Fan fought Wang Teng, whose Chaotic Devil Physique distorted space and time to deflect attacks, but Lin Fan’s Kunpeng and True Dragon techniques wounded and sent him flying. Wang Teng acknowledged Lin Fan’s strength, then unleashed the full power of his Chaotic Domain.

• Lin Fan accused Wang Teng’s Wang Clan of repeatedly sending assassins after him and declared he would settle the score by killing Wang Teng.
• Lin Fan’s punch tore through space, but Wang Teng casually redirected it with his Chaotic Devil Physique and taunted Lin Fan and the Lin Clan.
• Lin Fan charged with the Kunpeng Treasure Technique and struck Wang Teng with the True Dragon Precious Technique, piercing his defense and tearing his robe.
• Lin Fan followed with a Kunpeng Palm that sent Wang Teng flying through stellar remnants and left blood at the corner of his mouth.
• Wang Teng praised Lin Fan’s treasure techniques, then unleashed his full Chaotic Domain, twisting and folding the surrounding void.

Lin Fan overwhelmed Wang Teng’s Chaotic Devil Physique and shattered his devil god phantom, but Wang Teng revealed the Phoenix Precious Technique and prepared a deadly final strike. The duel was left unresolved as Wang Teng merged the phoenix’s power into his fist and attacked.

• Lin Fan’s Chaos Domain suppressed Wang Teng’s Laws of Chaos, and Lin Fan struck the domain with a tenfold Hunyuan Fist, driving Wang Teng back.
• Lin Fan mocked Wang Teng and earned Villain Points for suppressing and humiliating him.
• Wang Teng summoned the third-level Devil’s Descent phantom, but Lin Fan’s True Dragon Fist shattered its halberd and tore the phantom apart.
• Wang Teng revealed that he also possessed the Phoenix Precious Technique, shocking the watching cultivators and prompting Feng Jiuge to react.
• Wang Teng used Nirvana in Fire to merge the phoenix phantom into his fist and declared that he would kill Lin Fan with an all-out strike.

Lin Fan defeated Wang Teng’s Phoenix Precious Technique with the True Dragon Precious Technique, but Wang Teng unleashed his Chaotic Devil Physique and attacked with the Chaos Spear, an Emperor Weapon. As the spear closed in, Lin Fan revealed an ancient dark-golden bell radiating immortal might.

• Lin Fan’s True Dragon Heaven Burial shattered Wang Teng’s attack and left him gravely wounded.
• Lin Fan mocked Wang Teng and demanded to know whether he had any other means to fight.
• Wang Teng unleashed the third stage of his Chaotic Devil Physique and summoned the Chaos Spear, an Emperor Weapon forged by his Wang Clan ancestor.
• Wang Teng thrust the Chaos Spear at Lin Fan, prompting alarmed cultivators to warn that Lin Fan was in danger.
• Lin Fan said he also had an Emperor Weapon, then revealed a dark-golden bell that radiated immortal might.

Lin Fan used the Hunyuan Bell to overwhelm Wang Teng and shatter his Chaos Long Spear, leaving Wang Teng gravely wounded in the ruins. As Wang Teng gathered himself for one final attempt, a gray-robed Sage King arrived.

• Lin Fan rang the Hunyuan Bell and suppressed Wang Teng’s Chaos Long Spear with its immortal might.
• Lin Fan struck again, forcing Wang Teng back and injuring his hands despite Wang Teng’s grip on the spear.
• Wang Teng unleashed the third level of his Chaotic Devil Physique and sent a devil god phantom charging at Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan brought the Hunyuan Bell down, shattered the phantom, blasted Wang Teng into an ancient star’s ruins, and knocked the Chaos Long Spear from his hands.
• Wang Teng struggled from the ruins, badly wounded, and prepared one final desperate attempt.
• A gray-robed old man with Sage King realm presence tore through space and arrived.

Lin Fan defeated Wang Teng, killed the Wang Clan's Third Elder, and drove the survivors from the Sword Forest. He obtained the complete Phoenix Precious Technique and left for the next trial, while Wang Teng escaped badly injured and vowed to return.

• Wang Teng urged the Wang Clan's Third Elder to flee because Lin Fan's Hunyuan Bell and other trump cards made him too dangerous to fight.
• As the Wang Clan escaped through a spatial vortex, Lin Fan's fourth bell toll shattered the Third Elder's shield and killed him, while Wang Teng escaped with half his body badly injured.
• Lin Fan collected the Chaos Long Spear and received Villain Points for defeating Wang Teng and killing the Third Elder.
• Lin Fan obtained Wang Teng's Phoenix Precious Technique precious bone and fused its complete inheritance, adding it to his True Dragon and Kunpeng techniques.
• Lin Fan left the Sword Forest with Ji Kun and Gu Chen, saying Wang Teng's injuries had weakened him and that he feared no return challenge.

Lin Fan advanced through the Immortal Ancient Ruins, refining powerful treasures and growing stronger before reaching the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame Forbidden Zone. There he met Ye Chen, who also wanted the flame and refused to yield it to Lin Fan.

• News spread that Lin Fan had defeated Wang Teng, shattered his imperial weapon, and killed the Wang Clan's third elder.
• Lin Fan refined the Flame Emperor Essence Blood and Ancestral Dragon Remains Core, strengthening his body and techniques.
• After two and a half years, Lin Fan reached the late Great Sage Realm and advanced to the thirty-eighth trial.
• Lin Fan entered the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame Forbidden Zone with Ji Kun and found Ye Chen cultivating there.
• Ye Chen told Lin Fan he would not yield the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame, despite being wary of Lin Fan.

Ye Chen challenged Lin Fan in the Purifying Lotus Immortal Flame Forbidden Zone, seeking to avenge past humiliations, but Lin Fan overwhelmed him with his Cosmic Phenomenon. Refusing to accept defeat, Ye Chen absorbed a river of stars and launched another attack.

• Ye Chen confronted Lin Fan over the Immortal Spring Source and Empress Purple Moon's inheritance, then attacked with Star Fist.
• Lin Fan stopped Ye Chen's punch with a Chaos Qi screen and taunted him about their different paths to strength.
• Ye Chen unleashed Star Extinction, but Lin Fan's Cosmic Phenomenon swallowed the attack and shattered Ye Chen's Starry Sky Phenomenon.
• Lin Fan's cosmic pressure hurled Ye Chen into a mountain, badly injuring him as the senior in his mind urged him to retreat.
• Ye Chen rejected the advice, absorbed the radiance of a river of stars, and attacked Lin Fan with Star River Fist.