Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan faced the legendary Eighteen Pass Heavenly Tribulation while experts from across the Three Thousand Provinces watched, and the Wang Clan hoped he would die. He fought and absorbed the lightning through the first seventeen passes, then confronted the eighteenth pass’s ancient gray-white light, which carried the flavor of Immortal Qi.

• News of Lin Fan’s tribulation spread across the Three Thousand Provinces, drawing experts to the Lin Clan’s territory while Wang Clan elders celebrated and the patriarch ordered them to watch for his death.
• Lin Fan shattered the first heavenly pass with his True Dragon Fist, then faced the rapidly forming attacks of all eighteen passes.
• Lin Fan charged through the passes, breaking their lightning and absorbing the tribulation’s essence with the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art.
• The Eighth Elder watched in amazement as the Drunkard Ancestor declared that Lin Fan was wilder than his father and urged him not to underestimate the scion.
• Lin Fan reached the eighteenth pass with injuries that Chaos Qi was repairing, then regarded its gray-white pillar of light with excitement because it carried the flavor of Immortal Qi.

Lin Fan survived the Eighteen Heavenly Pass Tribulation, took its third strand of Immortal Qi, and reached the Quasi-Emperor Realm. He then plunged into the Lightning Tribulation Pool to temper his body, while the frozen tribulation clouds suggested the Heavenly Dao had noticed him.

• Lin Fan shattered the eighteenth heavenly pass, claimed the third strand of Immortal Qi, and broke through to the Quasi-Emperor Realm.
• Cultivators across the Three Thousand Provinces were stunned by Lin Fan's survival, while the Wang Clan patriarch recognized the threat he posed.
• Lin Fan spotted the Lightning Tribulation Pool in the ruins of the nineteenth heavenly pass and jumped into it despite the danger.
• Lin Fan let the tribulation liquid temper his bones, meridians, and Spirit Sea as his three strands of Immortal Qi refined its power.
• The tribulation clouds stopped dissipating, as though the Heavenly Dao had noticed Lin Fan taking the pool's power.

Lin Fan defeated the Heavenly Dao’s sea of laws with one punch, reached the Quasi-Emperor realm, and took the remaining lightning tribulation liquid. As the Lin Clan prepared a feast, news of his breakthrough reached Immortal Burial City, where Emperor Pass factions planned to confront him at the Dao Discussion Assembly.

• Lin Fan shattered the sea of laws with a punch, absorbed its remnants, and caused the tribulation clouds to retreat.
• Lin Fan collected the remaining lightning tribulation liquid and assessed his new Quasi-Emperor strength.
• The Lin Clan elders and ancestors celebrated Lin Fan’s breakthrough and dismissed concerns about his visit to Immortal Burial City.
• News of Lin Fan’s breakthrough spread to Immortal Burial City, where cultivators debated whether he would attend the Dao Discussion Assembly.
• Cultivators reported that the Jin Clan, Feng Clan, and Wang Clan planned to join forces against Lin Fan at the assembly.

On the eve of the Dao Discussion Gathering, cultivators in Immortal Burial City expected Lin Fan to arrive and discussed the Jin Clan’s plan to test his rumored three strands of Immortal Qi. Lin Fan arrived at the city gates in a carriage pulled by nine dragons, where Jin Han had been waiting to provoke him.

• Cultivators at a restaurant predicted that Lin Fan would come to Immortal Burial City and discussed how the Jin Clan planned to test his strength at the gathering.
• Two observers explained that Jin Han would challenge Lin Fan to determine whether his three strands of Immortal Qi were genuine.
• A crowd gathered at the city gates to await Lin Fan, while Jin Han mocked him and claimed he would not dare show up.
• Nine dragons pulled Lin Fan’s ancient carriage down from the sky and settled above the gates.
• Lin Fan stepped from the carriage as Jin Han looked up at him.

Lin Fan arrived at Immortal Burial City and killed Jin Han with an unseen strike after Jin Han challenged him. He headed for the Dao Discussion Arena, where Jin Zhen learned of his cousin’s death as the gathering awaited Lin Fan’s arrival.

• Lin Fan silently split Jin Han in two at the city gate, killing him before the onlookers could see how he attacked.
• Two young men watching from a wine house discussed Lin Fan’s three strands of Immortal Qi and left after calling the Jin Clan’s clash with him a mistake.
• Lin Fan asked for directions to the Dao Discussion Arena and walked through the parted crowd toward the city center.
• News of Jin Han’s death spread to the arena, where cultivators discussed Lin Fan’s strength and the Jin Clan’s Qilin Son, Jin Zhen, heard what had happened.

Lin Fan confronted Jin Zhen at the Dao discussion gathering after killing Jin Han, and exposed that Jin Zhen's second strand of Immortal Qi was impure. The gathering's rules prevented them from fighting immediately, so Lin Fan challenged Jin Zhen to settle their score in the Longevity Dao Field.

• Jin Zhen released his Immortal Qi and demanded an explanation from Lin Fan for killing Jin Han.
• Young Master Tian stopped Jin Zhen from fighting at the gathering and told him to wait until they entered the Longevity Dao Field.
• Lin Fan mocked Jin Zhen's Immortal Qi and used his Double Pupils to reveal that Jin Zhen's second strand was impure.
• The gathered cultivators realized Jin Zhen had obtained his second strand through refinement, and Jin Zhen angrily acknowledged Lin Fan's Double Pupils.
• Lin Fan accused Jin Zhen of repeatedly sending people to steal his things and challenged him to settle their score.

Lin Fan battled Jin Zhen at the Dao discussion grounds, revealing that his two strands of Immortal Qi already outmatched Jin Zhen’s full strength. When Jin Zhen demanded to see the third strand, Lin Fan finally summoned all three.

• Lin Fan struck first, cracking Jin Zhen’s golden protective screen with a strand of Chaos Immortal Qi.
• Lin Fan attacked with True Dragon Palm, and Jin Zhen’s two-strand shield cracked as he was pressed into the ground.
• Jin Zhen unleashed both strands of Immortal Qi and his signature fist technique, but Lin Fan met him head-on and knocked him back half a step.
• Jin Zhen realized Lin Fan had not used his third strand of Immortal Qi and demanded that he reveal it.
• Lin Fan activated all three strands of chaos-colored Immortal Qi, making the void hum and the heavens dim briefly.

Lin Fan revealed three strands of Immortal Qi and destroyed Jin Zhen’s clone, while Jin Zhen vowed to face him in person in the Longevity Ruins. As the Dao discussion gathering began, Ye Tian arrived and was identified by Lin Fan’s system as a Son of Fortune.

• Lin Fan used three strands of Immortal Qi to pierce Jin Zhen’s defenses and shatter his body into golden motes.
• A phantom emerged from the motes, revealing that Jin Zhen had sent a clone; it warned Lin Fan that Jin Zhen would confront him in the Longevity Ruins.
• The gathering’s hosts announced that the first round of Dao discussion had begun and that the Longevity Ruins would open in three days.
• A gray-robed figure arrived, and the young man in azure robes welcomed him as Young Master Ye.
• Lin Fan watched Ye Tian as his system identified him as a Son of Fortune.

Lin Fan learned that Ye Tian, the last direct descendant of the Ye Clan, needed Emperor Pass cultivators to help him enter the Longevity Ruins and reclaim his clan’s possessions. After a day of battles, the ten entrants were chosen, and Lin Fan left for Immortal Burial City as Ye Tian asked for his support.

• Lin Fan read Ye Tian’s system profile and learned that the Longevity Ruins required Ye Clan blood to open and that a traitor in Emperor Pass was colluding with dark forces.
• Ye Tian joined the gathering and explained that the ruins were the Ye Clan’s old grounds, securing himself a place among the entrants.
• The organizers held paired battles to decide six places, but no one challenged Lin Fan after he had defeated Jin Zhen’s avatar.
• After a day of fights, Tian Ming announced the ten entrants and said the ruins would open in three days at Immortal Burial City’s ancient pass.
• Ye Tian asked Lin Fan to look after him on the journey, and Lin Fan casually agreed before privately anticipating the chance to cause trouble.

After Jin Zhen's clone was killed by Lin Fan, Jin Zhen decided to bring the Jin Clan's Immortal Artifact to the Longevity Ruins to seize Lin Fan's three strands of Immortal Qi. Lin Fan learned of the threat through his system and welcomed the chance to acquire the artifact; three days later, all nine figures gathered before the ancient gateway.

• Jin Zhen learned that his secondary body had been destroyed and that Lin Fan possessed three pure strands of Immortal Qi.
• Jin Zhen decided to take the Jin Clan's Immortal Artifact to the Longevity Ruins and use it against Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan's system warned him of Jin Zhen's plan, and Lin Fan looked forward to taking the Immortal Artifact for his Dao Comprehension Stele and Hunyuan Bell.
• Three days later, Lin Fan and the other eight figures arrived before the ancient gateway of Immortal Burial City.

At the ruins of the immortal Ye Clan, Tian Ming explained that the sealed clan grounds required direct Ye Clan blood to open and that the clan had once possessed the Grass Character Sword Art. Ye Tian began the ritual to open the stone gate, while Lin Fan suspected the sword art alone had not caused the Ye Clan’s destruction and resolved to claim it.

• Tian Ming revealed that the ruins were an outer estate of the immortal Ye Clan and that its main grounds could only be unsealed by a direct descendant.
• Tian Ming and others discussed the Grass Character Sword Art, a supreme treasure technique once held by the Ye Clan, and rumors surrounding the clan’s annihilation.
• Lin Fan reasoned that possession of a single treasure technique could not explain the Ye Clan’s destruction and decided to obtain the Grass Character Sword Art.
• Tian Ming called on Ye Tian to begin opening the stone gate, and Ye Tian cut his palm to offer his blood.
• Ye Tian’s blood hung in the air as the gate trembled and the runes on its two pillars lit up.

Lin Fan entered the ruins and discovered a blood-dark world filled with ancient dark creatures, then headed toward Jin Zhen. Elsewhere, a presence in a rift threatened the newcomers, Ye Tian learned his clan had once guarded something, and Tian Ming and Jing Wuxin watched Jin Zhen approach Lin Fan.

• Lin Fan, Tian Ming, Jing Wuxin, Yue Linglong, Ye Tian, and the others entered the ruins through the closing vortex, while a streak of dark golden light slipped inside at the last moment.
• Lin Fan arrived alone in a scorched, blood-dark landscape, sensed ancient dark creatures in the mist, and set off toward Jin Zhen's dark golden presence.
• A scale-covered hand crushed a talisman in a rift, and an unseen figure laughed that none of the newcomers would leave alive.
• Ye Tian questioned his ancestor, learned the Ye Clan had guarded something against outsiders and that the Foreign Domain and Emperor Pass had conspired against them, then vowed to reclaim it.
• Tian Ming and Jing Wuxin found a ruined palace bearing the Ye character and spotted Jin Zhen's main body moving toward Lin Fan.

Lin Fan reached Jin Zhen in the scorched depths, where the two fought with their Immortal Qi. After confirming Lin Fan possessed three strands, Jin Zhen prepared to use the Immortal Artifact he had brought.

• Lin Fan destroyed and devoured waves of dark creatures, earning 30,000 Villain Points.
• Lin Fan found Jin Zhen studying a stone stele and sensed an Immortal Artifact hidden beneath Jin Zhen's two strands of Immortal Qi.
• Jin Zhen attacked Lin Fan with a full-force punch, and their clash shook the surrounding terrain.
• Lin Fan and Jin Zhen traded blows, with Lin Fan retreating two steps and Jin Zhen three.
• Jin Zhen acknowledged Lin Fan's three strands of Immortal Qi, then revealed a golden pattern in his palm and prepared to use the Immortal Artifact.

Lin Fan and Jin Zhen clashed with complete Immortal Artifacts, and Lin Fan’s Hunyuan Bell overwhelmed Jin Zhen’s golden bell. Jin Zhen fused a mysterious bone fragment into his bell, transforming it as he prepared to continue the fight.

• Jin Zhen summoned a complete golden Immortal Artifact bell, and Lin Fan answered with his Hunyuan Bell.
• Lin Fan and Jin Zhen’s bells collided, shattering nearby pillars as their laws clashed.
• Jin Zhen enlarged his bell and sent a river of golden laws at Lin Fan, but Lin Fan smashed through it with the Hunyuan Bell and forced Jin Zhen to retreat.
• Jin Zhen pulled a cracked black-gold bone fragment from his chest and fused it into his bell.
• Jin Zhen’s bell transformed with a dark, decaying presence, and he challenged Lin Fan to withstand its next strikes.

Lin Fan killed Jin Zhen and faced the Jin Clan Great Emperor’s dharma body, destroying it with the Hunyuan Bell and True Dragon Fist. Jin Zhen’s cracked golden bell began to rise and flee into the void.

• Lin Fan shattered Jin Zhen’s bell with the Hunyuan Bell, and Jin Zhen split in two and died.
• The Jin Clan Great Emperor’s dharma body emerged from Jin Zhen’s remains and attacked Lin Fan with the Law of the Emperor Dao.
• Lin Fan blocked the Great Emperor’s attack with the Hunyuan Bell, then struck the dharma body and cracked its arm.
• Lin Fan used the Hunyuan Bell and True Dragon Fist to shatter the Jin Clan Great Emperor’s dharma body into fragments.
• Jin Zhen’s cracked golden bell floated up and tried to escape into the distant void.

Lin Fan killed Jin Zhen, seized the Soul-Splitting Bell and a mysterious bone fragment, and followed the fragment’s pull deeper into the ruins. Elsewhere, an ancient dark-matter force emerged, and Ye Tian’s ancestor urgently warned him that it had arrived.

• Lin Fan examined the bone fragment and discovered ancient patterns unlike those of the Three Thousand Provinces, then stored it and the Soul-Splitting Bell.
• The system awarded Lin Fan eight hundred thousand Villain Points for killing Jin Zhen and claiming the two items, and he headed deeper into the ruins.
• Tian Ming, Jing Wuxin, and Yue Linglong investigated a mural when a fissure opened in the dark red sky and released a vast tide of dark matter.
• A humanoid figure emerged from the dark matter and ordered its forces to search for what the Ye Clan had protected, while Yue Linglong raised a barrier and Tian Ming drew his sword.
• Ye Tian sensed an ancient rhythm beneath a pitch-black palace, and his ancestor urgently told him to hurry because they had arrived.

Ye Tian entered the sealed palace and found the Immortal Seed, while Lin Fan and the others followed the Black Tide toward it. The palace drew the tide closer as Ye Tian felt the seed awaken a hidden resonance in his bloodline.

• Ye Tian used his dark-gold blood to open the palace and entered as dark matter closed in around it.
• Lin Fan followed the bone fragment toward the palace, noticed a heartbeat-like tremor beneath the plaza, and cut apart a Black Tide creature that attacked him.
• Tian Ming, Jing Wuxin, and Yue Linglong realized the Black Tide was gathering at the palace and set off after Ye Tian.
• Ye Tian found a dark-gold skeleton on a central platform with the Immortal Seed pinned beneath it.
• The Immortal Seed resonated with Ye Tian's bloodline, and the aged voice confirmed its identity.

Ye Tian reached for the Immortal Seed left behind by the Ye Clan, but Tang Fengtian and Ouyang Bin arrived and fought him for it. As their battle continued, a dark-matter silhouette appeared and reached for the seed.

• Ye Tian learned that the Ye Clan had been destroyed for refusing to surrender the Immortal Seed, and he reached out to take it.
• Tang Fengtian and Ouyang Bin entered the palace and claimed they deserved a share of the seed.
• Ye Tian fought Tang Fengtian and Ouyang Bin, but their coordinated attacks forced him onto the defensive.
• Dark matter gathered above the stone platform, formed a shadowy figure, and reached for the Immortal Seed.

Ye Tian, Tang Fengtian, and Ouyang Bin tried to stop Tian Ming from taking the Immortal Seed, but discovered he had become a being from the Foreign Domain. The being overwhelmed the hall with dark matter, and the three suspected a traitor had opened a passage through Emperor Pass.

• Ye Tian, Tang Fengtian, and Ouyang Bin attacked the dark figure together, but its shield stopped their strikes and a chain of laws nearly injured Ye Tian.
• Tian Ming revealed himself and threatened the three, while Tang Fengtian sensed that his laws came from beyond the Three Thousand Provinces.
• The three attacked Tian Ming again, seemingly destroying him, but he reformed as a humanoid being made of dark matter.
• The being drew more dark matter through a fissure in the ceiling and revealed a presence stronger than a Quasi-Emperor's.
• Tang Fengtian and Ouyang Bin realized that someone in Emperor Pass must have opened a passage for the Foreign Domain being.

Ye Tian, Tang Fengtian, and Ouyang Bin fought the dark silhouette while their trust in one another crumbled, as Lin Fan watched from outside the hall. When the skeleton protected the Immortal Seed, Ye Tian learned the seal was not placed by his ancestor and suspected the Ye Clan had been used as a pawn; the Dark Matter surged again before he could learn more.

• The dark silhouette attacked Ye Tian, Tang Fengtian, and Ouyang Bin with relentless tendrils of Dark Matter and offered to spare them if they surrendered the Immortal Seed.
• Lin Fan watched from outside the hall, assessed the dark silhouette's strength, and decided to wait while the bone fragment in his hand resonated with the palace.
• The dark silhouette launched a spear of Dark Matter at the Immortal Seed, but the dark-gold skeleton lit up and stopped it.
• The remnant soul told Ye Tian that the skeleton's seal was not made by the Ye Clan's ancestor, leading Ye Tian to suspect his clan had been used to conceal the truth about the Immortal Seed.
• Dark Matter surged through the hall again as Ye Tian struggled with the possibility that his clan's destruction had been part of a larger scheme.