Chapter Summaries

Lin Fan failed to open his Spirit Sea during the lightning tribulation, but his Chaos Gods and Devils Body reached minor accomplishment and manifested two legendary phenomena. As the experts marveled at his power, the Wang Clan and other orthodoxies began plotting against him, while Ancestor Chiyan insisted Wang Teng could still defeat him.

• Lin Fan tried and failed to open his Spirit Sea as the lightning tribulation battered him, but the absorbed power strengthened his body and golden core.
• Lin Fan's Chaos Gods and Devils Body reached minor accomplishment, producing the Three Thousand Gods and Devils Phenomenon and a Chaos Azure Lotus beneath his feet.
• The experts realized Lin Fan's phenomena were the same ones that had shaken the Three Thousand Provinces days earlier, and recognized that he had survived the Nine-Nine Annihilation Divine Lightning and formed ten core patterns.
• Ancestor Chiyan questioned Wang Kun about Lin Fan's supposed Immortal-Exterminating Curse, and Wang Kun and the other experts confirmed that Lin Fan had once been crippled by it.
• Wang Kun secretly proposed a plan to Ancestor Chiyan, prompting experts from several clans to leave and prepare against the Lin Clan.
• Ancestor Chiyan declared that Wang Teng could sweep through Archaic and had nothing to fear from the young Lin Fan.

After Lin Fan survived the lightning tribulation, the Wang Clan and other orthodoxies approached the Lin Clan, while a hidden Great Emperor tried to assassinate him. The Lin Clan’s restored Immortal Annihilation Formation killed the attacker, leaving Lin Fan shaken and granting him Villain Points.

• Lin Fan chased the departing lightning tribulation and returned to the Lin Clan as his parents went to meet him.
• Great Emperor Chiyan and experts from the Wang Clan and other orthodoxies tried to approach the Lin Clan, but Lin Dong and Ji Ningshuang ordered them to leave.
• A hidden Great Emperor launched a sudden attack on Lin Fan, and Lin Dong and Ji Ningshuang rushed to save their son.
• The Lin Clan’s Immortal Annihilation Formation destroyed the incoming strike and killed the Great Emperor who had attacked from the shadows.
• Lin Fan recovered from his terror and received 60,000 Villain Points for the ancestors’ and his parents’ protectiveness.

After a deathsworn Great Emperor tried to kill Lin Fan, Lin Fan and his family suspected the Wang Clan was behind the attack but lacked proof. Lin Fan cornered Great Emperor Chiyan and the visiting factions, demanding congratulatory gifts under threat of the Lin Clan’s Immortal Annihilation Formation.

• Lin Fan learned that the newly unlocked Protecting One's Own function awarded him Villain Points when his elders committed villainous acts on his behalf.
• Lin Dong and Ji Ningshuang checked that Lin Fan was unharmed, while Lin Dong concluded that the dead deathsworn’s attack likely pointed to the Wang Clan.
• Great Emperor Chiyan tried to leave, but Lin Fan invited him to stay and then loudly asked Lin Dong where the Wang Clan’s congratulatory gifts were.
• Ji Dameng arrived with a gift from the Ji Clan, praised Lin Fan, and joined him in challenging the Wang Clan and other factions for arriving empty-handed.
• The Lin Clan’s experts and Immortal Annihilation Formation threatened Great Emperor Chiyan and the others, leaving them to choose between presenting gifts and risking death.

Lin Fan humiliated Great Emperor Chiyan and the Wang Clan into offering a valuable imperial treasure before they fled the Lin Clan. As the celebration continued, the system detected a Son of Fortune, and Lin Fan spotted a middle-aged man and a young man in Daoist robes.

• Wang Kun gave Lin Fan a Sacred Heart Fruit, but Lin Fan mocked the gift until Great Emperor Chiyan offered a black flame emperor stone instead.
• Lin Fan accepted the stone and gained 20,000 Villain Points as the Wang Clan left in humiliation.
• Ancestor Virtue secretly pursued Great Emperor Chiyan after the Lin Clan ancestors decided to kill him once he was alone.
• The Feng Clan, the Luo Clan, and other forces gave the Lin Clan better gifts, and the banquet resumed.
• The system detected a Son of Fortune, and Lin Fan examined a middle-aged man and a young man in black-and-white Daoist robes.

Lin Fan learned that Ji Changju and Ji Kun of the Kun Sect were connected to a Son of Fortune named Xiao Huohuo, then asked Lin Dong and Ji Ningshuang for Chaos Origin to open his Spirit Sea. His parents discovered that Lin Fan’s Spirit Sea was vast beyond anything they had seen, leaving them shocked by the enormous amount of Chaos Origin he needed.

• Lin Fan recognized Ji Changju and Ji Kun as people connected to a Son of Fortune and asked Uncle Fu to bring them to him.
• Lin Fan reunited with Lin Dong and Ji Ningshuang, who scolded him for his dangerous tribulation before the family chatted together.
• Lin Fan explained that he needed Chaos Origin to open his Spirit Sea and that the system required one million Villain Points for the breakthrough.
• Lin Dong offered a few dozen wisps of the Lin Clan’s Chaos Origin, but Lin Fan said he needed more than two jin.
• Lin Dong and Ji Ningshuang examined Lin Fan’s Spirit Sea and were stunned by its universe-like scale.

Lin Fan gathered chaos origin from his family but still could not open his Spirit Sea, then prepared to seek more in the Primordial Chaos Realm. After learning that Xiao Huohuo had attacked the Kun Sect, Lin Fan declared he would hunt him down for insulting the Lin Clan.

• Lin Fan used more than a dozen strands of chaos origin, but his golden core still did not transform into a Spirit Sea.
• Lin Dong gave Lin Fan thirty-eight strands of the Lineage's origin, and Lin Fan said he would seek more in Hunyuan without putting his family at risk.
• After Lin Fan left, Ji Ningshuang confronted Lin Dong for hiding the Lineage's large supply of chaos origin, and he explained that Lin Fan needed to temper himself outside the family.
• Lin Dong reassured Ji Ningshuang that an ancestor would protect Lin Fan and that the Lin Clan could handle any danger in Archaic.
• Ji Changju and Ji Kun told Lin Fan that Xiao Huohuo had gravely wounded the Kun Sect's Half-Step Great Sage ancestor and fled after attacking the sect.
• Lin Fan said he would kill Xiao Huohuo for destroying a subordinate of the Lin Clan.

Ancestor Virtue secretly pursued Great Emperor Chiyan and killed him, while Lin Fan agreed to help the Kun Sect hunt Xiao Huohuo on the way to the Primordial Chaos Realm. Xiao Huohuo fused three Heavenly Flames and learned the Kun Sect's pursuers had found him as he prepared to leave his cave.

• Ancestor Virtue sealed off heaven and earth, ambushed Great Emperor Chiyan, and blasted him to death.
• Lin Fan agreed to visit the Kun Sect and help find Xiao Huohuo, then learned Great Emperor Chiyan had died.
• Xiao Huohuo fused three Heavenly Flames, broke through to Peak Spirit Sea Realm, and celebrated with his master, Dan Chen.
• Xiao Huohuo recalled escaping the Kun Sect after killing Zhang San's grandfather and several elders and gravely wounding its ancestor.
• Dan Chen and Xiao Huohuo decided to head to the Primordial Chaos Realm, but Dan Chen warned that the Kun Sect's people had caught up.

Lin Fan delayed his trip to the Kun Sect when he learned Tang Yin was coming to the Lin Clan to confront Lin Yanran over his mother’s death. After Tang Yin demanded revenge, Lin Fan examined his life script and discovered his mother had arranged a future rebirth; he then faced Tang Yin’s demand for an accounting.

• Lin Fan sent two Sage elders to the Kun Sect to capture Xiao Huohuo and waited for Tang Yin to arrive.
• Tang Yin accused Lin Yanran of taking his mother’s blood essence and challenged her under their three-year pact, while the Haotian Holy Land ancestor urged him to leave.
• Lin Yanran said Tang Yin’s mother had willingly burned her blood essence and pointed out that Tang Yin had failed to stop her.
• Lin Fan entered the hall, read Tang Yin’s life script, and learned his mother had infused him with a Blue Silver Emperor Pill before faking her death to await nirvana and rebirth.
• Tang Yin demanded that Lin Fan make the Lin Clan answer for his mother’s death.

Lin Fan exposed Tang Yin’s role in his mother’s death, killed him, and destroyed Haotian Holy Land. The Immortal Ancient Ruins began showing signs of opening as powerful figures across Archaic sensed the disturbance.

• Lin Fan revealed that Tang Yin’s mother had condensed her blood essence into a pill for him, and Tang Yin’s accusation against Lin Yanran had cost him the Haotian Holy Land ancestor’s support.
• Tang Yin attacked Lin Fan, but Lin Fan froze him with Words Become Law and Uncle Fu crushed his cultivation.
• After the Haotian Holy Land ancestor sacrificed himself begging for mercy, Uncle Fu destroyed Haotian Holy Land and Lin Fan killed Tang Yin, gaining the Blue Silver Emperor Grass blood essence origin and Nirvana Secret Art.
• Lin Fan looked toward the Primordial Chaos Realm and named Xiao Huohuo as his next destination.
• Across the Three Thousand Provinces of the Desolate Ancient Land, powerful figures sensed unusual activity in the Immortal Ancient Ruins and wondered if they were opening in this era.

Lin Fan learned that Xiao Huohuo had injured a Lin Clan Sage and ordered Xiao Tianzhan and the Xiao Clan destroyed, earning Villain Points and a powerful trial card. Meanwhile, Great Emperor Hongyun persuaded the Luo Clan ancestors to cooperate with the Wang Clan against Lin Fan, and they secretly agreed on a plan.

• Lin Fan learned that Xiao Huohuo had escaped toward Luo River Province after injuring a Lin Clan Sage, and that Xiao Huohuo's old grandpa had fallen unconscious.
• Lin Fan ordered Ji Changju to kill Xiao Tianzhan, then ordered the Kun Sect elders to destroy the Xiao Clan.
• The Xiao Clan was destroyed, earning Lin Fan 40,000 Villain Points and a Max-Level Comprehension Trial Card.
• Great Emperor Hongyun arrived at the Luo Clan and urged its ancestors to join the Wang Clan in killing Lin Fan.
• Great Emperor Hongyun proposed testing whether Lin Fan had a Dao protector at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, and the Luo Clan ancestors agreed to a secret plan.

At the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, cultivators discussed the powerful young talents gathering for the Primordial Chaos Realm and Lin Fan’s arrival. Xiao Huohuo learned that the Xiao Clan had been destroyed, spat blood in grief, and heard a dragon roar outside.

• Cultivators named Wang Kunlong, Luo Tianci, Nangong Yu'er, and Lin Yichen as Heavenly Pride Ranking talents headed to the Primordial Chaos Realm.
• A scruffy old man announced that Lin Fan had come, prompting discussion of his feats and the Wang Clan’s missing Great Emperor Chiyan.
• A Wang Clan expert silenced a cultivator who spoke about the clan, while others discussed Lin Fan’s reason for coming: Xiao Huohuo and the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Huohuo stood up and demanded to know what had happened to the Xiao Clan.
• After hearing that the Xiao Clan had been wiped out, Xiao Huohuo spat blood, and a heaven-shaking dragon roar sounded outside.

Lin Fan arrived at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion and learned that Xiao Huohuo was in danger after the Xiao Clan was destroyed. When Lin Fan encountered Xiao Huohuo fighting attackers, Xiao Huohuo revealed a damaged imperial weapon and recognized Lin Fan as his enemy.

• Lin Fan arrived at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion in a palace pulled by nine true dragons, and the proprietor personally welcomed him.
• Lin Fan received notifications that the Xiao Clan of Wutan City had been destroyed and Xiao Huohuo was in danger.
• A fight broke out upstairs, and Lin Fan learned that the attackers were targeting Xiao Huohuo to gain favor with the Lin Clan's Imperial Son.
• Xiao Huohuo fought seven Heavenly Dipper Realm cultivators and destroyed them with a damaged medicine cauldron that carried imperial might.
• Ji Kun identified Xiao Huohuo to Lin Fan, and Xiao Huohuo and Lin Fan met each other's gaze as enemies.

Xiao Huohuo charged Lin Fan despite warnings from his master, but the Drunken Immortal Pavilion master intervened with a Great Emperor’s attack. Xiao Huohuo survived gravely wounded and escaped into the Primordial Chaos Realm, while Lin Fan anticipated their next encounter would be fatal for him.

• The Drunken Immortal Pavilion master recognized Xiao Huohuo as the Medicine Immortal Valley’s successor, while Lin Fan discovered his identity and destiny through his personal panel.
• Xiao Huohuo ignored Dan Chen’s warning and advanced toward Lin Fan, determined to avenge his father and clan.
• The Drunken Immortal Pavilion master attacked Xiao Huohuo with an enormous palm, and Xiao Huohuo countered with the Ancient Spirit Emperor Flame.
• The clash gravely wounded Xiao Huohuo, cost him his damaged imperial weapon, and left Dan Chen near death after he burned his divine soul and damaged his origin.
• Xiao Huohuo escaped into the Primordial Chaos Realm as the cultivators watched, and Lin Fan gained 180,000 Villain Points.

The Primordial Chaos Realm secret realm opened while Lin Fan was at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, where he killed Wang Song after the young prodigy mocked him. The pavilion master protected Lin Fan from the imperial clan leaders, and Lin Fan entered the secret realm with Ji Kun, ready to test his strength.

• The Primordial Chaos Realm secret realm opened, interrupting Lin Fan's visit to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.
• Wang Song and other imperial clan prodigies mocked Lin Fan for being only in the Pill Condensation Realm, and Lin Fan killed Wang Song with a flash of divine power.
• Wang Kunlong demanded that the pavilion master suppress Lin Fan, but the pavilion master denied witnessing a murder and struck Wang Kunlong for challenging him.
• Wang Kunlong and the other prodigies left, warning Lin Fan that they would target him inside the secret realm.
• Lin Fan refused the pavilion master's offer of help and entered the Primordial Chaos Realm with Ji Kun.

Gu Xun'er learned that Xiao Huohuo was safe after the Xiao Clan was destroyed, and she decided to go to Luo River Province to protect him. In the Primordial Chaos Realm, Lin Fan reached the Archaic Sacred Body inheritance site, where Wang Bo challenged him after failing the Heaven Ascension Stairway.

• Gu Xun'er heard that the Xiao Clan had been destroyed and Xiao Tian had died, then learned Xiao Huohuo was unharmed.
• Gu Xun'er announced she would travel to Luo River Province to protect Xiao Huohuo, despite the old woman's warning about the Lin Clan.
• Lin Fan was teleported into the Primordial Chaos Realm, killed a fifth-rank lion-tiger beast, and headed toward the Ancient God Body Refining Art.
• Lin Fan reached the Heaven Ascension Stairway, where cultivators struggled to climb toward the Archaic Sacred Body's inheritance.
• Wang Bo recognized Lin Fan and declared he would use his newly strengthened Gilded Sacred Body to kill him.

Lin Fan killed Wang Bo with a single punch on the cloud stairway, absorbed the origin of his Gilded Sacred Body, and continued climbing despite the immense gravity. He passed Xiang Yunjie on the eight-hundredth steps and headed toward the summit, leaving Xiang Yunjie watching with a cold smile.

• Wang Bo attacked Lin Fan on the cloud stairway, but Lin Fan struck him down with one punch and killed him after absorbing his Gilded Sacred Body’s origin.
• Lin Fan climbed the stairway with ease, while cultivators below wondered whether he could reach its summit.
• Lin Fan reached the eight-hundredth step and endured its crushing gravity by circulating his blood and vitality.
• Xiang Yunjie warned Lin Fan to stop, but Lin Fan ignored him and continued climbing past him.
• Xiang Yunjie realized Lin Fan was attempting to reach higher than he could and watched him with a cold smile.

Lin Fan reached the summit of the cloud stairway and received the Ancient God Lineage’s inheritance: the Ancient God Body Refining Art and the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art. He used Villain Points to advance both arts, and the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art began loosening his Spirit Sea bottleneck.

• Lin Fan stepped onto the nine-hundredth step and continued up the cloud stairway, astonishing Xiang Yunjie and the watching cultivators.
• Lin Fan reached the thousandth step, where the remnant divine sense of an Ancient God Lineage expert entrusted him with part of the lineage’s inheritance and asked him to aid or pass on the lineage.
• The divine statue sent Lin Fan the Ancient God Body Refining Art and the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art.
• Lin Fan spent 400,000 Villain Points to raise the Ancient God Body Refining Art to entry-level second revolution and perfect the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art.
• Lin Fan’s blood began turning golden as he cultivated the Ancient God Body Refining Art, while the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art absorbed Spiritual Qi and tiny amounts of Chaos Origin, loosening his Spirit Sea bottleneck.

Xiao Huohuo reached the middle Heavenly Dipper Realm and gained a Half-Sage-grade flame, while Wang Kunlong sent allies to trap or kill Lin Fan. Lin Fan opened a vast, golden Spirit Sea and set off for the Primordial Chaos Realm’s core to continue cultivating.

• Xiao Huohuo absorbed chaos origin to reach the middle Heavenly Dipper Realm and upgrade his Purple Blaze Flame, then headed deeper to find medicine that could save his master.
• Wang Xun told Wang Kunlong that Lin Fan had killed Wang Bo, and Wang Kunlong gave him a Half-Sage-grade formation to use with the Feng Clan and Luo Clan against Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan used chaos origin to try to open his Spirit Sea, but succeeded only after the stone statue sent him several hundred wisps of origin.
• Lin Fan discovered that his incomplete Spirit Sea was already vast as an ocean, filled with golden lightning and spiritual liquid.
• Lin Fan decided to seek the Primordial Chaos Realm’s core, where he could find more chaos origin to expand his Spirit Sea.

Lin Fan completed the second revolution’s entry stage of the Ancient God Body Refining Art and discovered a concealed formation trap waiting below the cloud stairs. He pretended to be caught so he could lure his enemies out, but the chapter ended with Wang Xun suspecting that Lin Fan was stalling for time.

• Lin Fan left the summit after his cultivation and physical strength surged, then noticed that the cloud stairs and plaza were deserted.
• Using his Double Pupils, Lin Fan spotted concealed formations and people hiding nearby, and decided to turn their ambush into a chance to trap them instead.
• Wang Xun and allies from the Wang Clan, Luo Clan, and Feng Clan watched as Lin Fan stepped into the formations and appeared unable to escape.
• The group emerged and revealed that Xiang Yunjie's concealment formation had helped them lay the trap, while Xiang Yunjie criticized their scheme against Lin Fan.
• Lin Fan threatened the clans and pretended to panic, but Wang Xun asked whether he was trying to stall for time.

Wang Xun and the imperial-clan prodigies trapped Lin Fan in the Blazing Fire Four-Directions Formation and repeatedly attacked him, but he absorbed the flames and emerged unharmed. Lin Fan grew tired of the futile assault and prepared to reveal his true strength, while the prodigies awaited reinforcements and Xiang Yunjie looked forward to fighting him.

• Wang Xun and more than a dozen imperial-clan prodigies powered up the Blazing Fire Four-Directions Formation and engulfed Lin Fan in its flames.
• Lin Fan secretly used the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art to absorb the formation’s power while pretending to suffer, and the prodigies attacked him for a quarter of an hour.
• Lin Fan emerged unharmed and mocked the prodigies, who resumed their assault and discovered that his physique withstood their flames without injury.
• Wang Xun and the others decided to trap Lin Fan until Wang Kunlong, Luo Tianci, and Feng Wuhen returned from the core region, while Xiang Yunjie eagerly anticipated a fair fight.
• Lin Fan declared that he was done pretending and let his presence surge as he prepared to reveal his strength.