Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu returned to the beginning of his cultivation journey with the strength of a Tribulation Transcendence Peak Stage cultivator and killed the Li Household deathsworn who had come for him. He headed to the Lin Household to settle old grievances and arrived as the Li Household threatened the surrounded Lin and Su families.

• Lin Yu learned that the system had sent him back to the start of his immortal path, then discovered he had regained Tribulation Transcendence Peak Stage strength.
• Li Household deathsworn found Lin Yu and attacked him, but he instantly reduced them to dust.
• Lin Yu recalled the Li Household's past injuries to his family and vanished toward Flame City to settle the score.
• At the Lin Household estate, Li Yuan confronted Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan, while onlookers realized he had reached the Golden Core Stage.

Li Yuan overwhelmed the Lin Household and the Su Household after reaching the Golden Core Stage, prompting Lin Tian, Su Zhiyuan, and the elders to burn their souls to protect the younger generation. Just as Li Yuan was about to strike Lin Tian, a mysterious young figure emerged and immobilized him.

• Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan joined forces with the Lin Household’s elders to attack Li Yuan, but he defeated all six Foundation Establishment experts with one sword strike.
• Li Yuan declared that he intended to destroy both households, and Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan resolved to fight for their children.
• Lin Tian, Su Zhiyuan, and the remaining Lin Household cultivators burned their souls to hold Li Yuan back.
• Li Yuan rushed to strike Lin Tian, but his body froze and he lost contact with his power.
• A young figure emerged from the void, declared that the Lin Household and the Su Household were not for Li Yuan to harm, and calmed the burning souls.

Lin Yu appeared in the battle and overwhelmed Li Yuan, leaving Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan stunned by the mysterious expert’s strength. When Li Yuan tried to buy Lin Yu’s allegiance, Lin Yu pretended to accept and then twisted apart Li Yuan’s arms and legs.

• Lin Yu’s arrival halted Li Yuan and astonished the gathered cultivators with his immense strength.
• Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan failed to recognize Lin Yu, then sent elders to search for Lin Yu and Su Ying.
• Li Yuan, pinned by Lin Yu’s pressure, offered him three times the benefits to switch sides.
• Lin Yu agreed to Li Yuan’s offer, then twisted apart all four of Li Yuan’s limbs.

Lin Yu killed Li Yuan and Elder Lu after revealing that the Yin Mystic Sect backed Li Yuan, then warned everyone not to target the Lin Household or Su Household. In the Yin Mystic Sect's hall, a jade tablet bearing Lu Tao's name shattered, and a young man opened his eyes.

• Lin Yu tortured Li Yuan, who warned that killing him would provoke the Yin Mystic Sect.
• Elder Lu appeared and threatened Lin Yu, but Lin Yu seized him with an unseen force, prompting Elder Lu to recognize him as a Nascent Soul expert.
• Lin Yu severed all four of Elder Lu's limbs and crushed both Li Yuan and Elder Lu into dust.
• Lin Yu warned the crowd that anyone who targeted the Lin Household or Su Household would meet the same fate.
• In a black-mist-covered hall, Lu Tao's jade tablet shattered, and a young man opened his eyes.

Lin Yu annihilated the Li Household cultivators and reassured Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan that the younger members of the Lin and Su Households would be safe. A powerful presence then appeared near the Lin Household, and Lin Yu recognized the newcomer as an old acquaintance.

• Lin Yu warned the onlookers to leave, and they and the surviving Li Household cultivators fled.
• Lin Yu destroyed the Li Household's remaining experts with a glance, wiping out everyone who had come from the household.
• Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan asked Lin Yu to save their families, and Lin Yu lifted them before they could kneel.
• Lin Yu promised that the younger members of the Lin and Su Households would be fine and said the Lin Household's junior had his own fortuitous opportunity.
• A powerful presence swept out of the void near the Lin Household, and Lin Yu recognized it as an old acquaintance and greeted them.

Su Ying returned to the Lin Household with Xue Qing'er, the powerful woman who had accepted her as a disciple, and reunited with Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan. Lin Yu recognized Xue Qing'er and warned that the Clear Frost Art she planned to teach Su Ying was unsuitable, leaving Xue Qing'er and the onlookers stunned.

• Xue Qing'er arrived at the Lin Household with Su Ying, and Lin Tian and Su Zhiyuan realized the mysterious woman was not hostile.
• Su Ying told Xue Qing'er that the attackers had vanished, while Xue Qing'er searched the area and found no trace of them.
• Lin Yu greeted Xue Qing'er as an old acquaintance, and the watching experts concluded that the Lin Household had powerful allies.
• Lin Yu asked Xue Qing'er about accepting Su Ying as her disciple, then warned that Su Ying's constitution was poorly suited to the Clear Frost Manor's Clear Frost Art.
• Xue Qing'er grew solemn at Lin Yu's knowledge of her plans and her manor's cultivation method, while the onlookers reacted in shock to hearing about a fifth-tier method.

Lin Yu explained that the Clear Frost Art was freezing Xue Qing’er’s emotions and promised to resolve its side effects for her and Su Ying. He vanished after asking Xue Qing’er to protect the Lin Household and Su Household, leaving her wondering who he really was.

• Lin Yu told Xue Qing’er that the Clear Frost Art gradually stripped away its practitioners’ emotions.
• Xue Qing’er recalled how the Clear Frost Art had helped her rise to become Clear Frost Manor’s youngest Golden Core expert and then a Nascent Soul, while making her increasingly cold.
• Lin Yu said there was a solution to the Clear Frost Art’s side effects, though he had no seventh-tier pills with him.
• Lin Yu asked Xue Qing’er to protect the Lin Household and Su Household until he returned, gave her a jade token for emergencies, and disappeared into the void.
• Xue Qing’er looked at the jade token and wondered who Lin Yu was.

Lin Yu searched for a gentle seventh-tier pill for Xue Qing'er and Su Ying and found the Fire Spirit Earthly Baleful Intent Pill at the Sea Heart Auction House. He appeared before the auction house's master, Ling Shanhai, and proposed a trade, leaving Ling Shanhai relieved but wary.

• Lin Yu found the Fire Spirit Earthly Baleful Intent Pill and headed to the Sea Heart Auction House in Sea Heart City.
• Chief Steward Lu told Ling Shanhai that the auction house had mobilized its Nascent Soul elders and hired a Nascent Soul powerhouse from Sun Radiance Palace to guard the pill.
• Lin Yu's overwhelming presence alarmed Ling Shanhai and Chief Steward Lu as he appeared before them.
• Lin Yu proposed a trade, and Ling Shanhai hurriedly agreed and asked what he wanted.

Lin Yu traded an eighth-tier Holy Infant Pill for ownership of the Sea Heart Auction House while leaving the Ling Household in charge of its operations. As Ling Shanhai handed Lin Yu the Fire Spirit Earthly Baleful Intent Pill, three Nascent Soul experts from the Blazing Flame Sect appeared to seize it.

• Lin Yu gave Ling Shanhai an eighth-tier Holy Infant Pill and proposed trading it for the Sea Heart Auction House.
• Ling Shanhai accepted the deal, and Lin Yu let the Ling Household continue managing the auction house on his behalf.
• Lin Yu asked Ling Shanhai to prepare low-tier pills, cultivation methods, and spiritual treasures for the Lin Household and the Su Household.
• Ling Shanhai handed Lin Yu the Fire Spirit Earthly Baleful Intent Pill, which Lin Yu put into his immortal abode.
• Three Nascent Soul experts appeared and demanded the pill, with their red-haired leader threatening Ling Shanhai in the name of the Blazing Flame Sect.

At the auction house, the Blazing Flame Sect’s three Nascent Soul experts attacked Ling Shanhai to seize a seventh-tier pill. Lin Yu secretly empowered Ling Shanhai, who defeated them with one punch, leaving the crowd stunned and grateful to Lin Yu.

• Onlookers recognized Yan Li, Yan Jin, and Yan Qingtian as Nascent Soul experts from the Blazing Flame Sect, who demanded that Ling Shanhai hand over the pill.
• Yan Qingtian ordered an attack, and the three Blazing Flame Sect elders moved to kill Ling Shanhai.
• Ling Shanhai braced himself and unleashed a punch as the Ling Household watched helplessly.
• A gentle force from Lin Yu surged into Ling Shanhai, raising his power beyond his Nascent Soul sixth tier.
• Ling Shanhai’s punch shattered the trio’s combined attack and sent all three flying into a distant mountainside.
• Ling Shanhai realized Lin Yu had saved him and looked toward him with gratitude.

Ling Shanhai’s punch incapacitated the Blazing Flame Sect’s three Nascent Soul experts, while Lin Yu’s mysterious power left Ling Shanhai on the verge of a breakthrough. After Lin Yu identified the force behind an ambush as the Dark Nether Divine Hall and was introduced as the Sea Heart Auction House’s new owner, Ling Shanhai’s granddaughter mistook him for a blind date.

• Ling Shanhai’s punch left the Blazing Flame Sect’s three experts near death, and he realized Lin Yu had empowered him.
• Several Ling Household elders returned from an ambush in the rear mountains, prompting rival factions to retreat.
• An elder reported that the attackers used a rare darkness-attribute cultivation method, and Lin Yu identified them as likely members of the Dark Nether Divine Hall.
• Lin Yu deduced that the attacker had only meant to keep Ling Shanhai occupied, and Ling Shanhai introduced him as the auction house’s new owner.
• Ling Shanhai’s silver-haired granddaughter appeared, asked whether Lin Yu was her new blind date, and called him handsome.

Lin Yu and Ling Shanhai faced a coalition of Nascent Soul experts seeking the Ling Household’s Fire Spirit Earthly Baleful Intent Pill. When Bing Chen unleashed his hidden sixth-tier Nascent Soul strength and seemed poised to defeat them, Lin Yu stopped the combined attack and challenged all ten enemies at once.

• Ling Yiran flirted with Lin Yu after Ling Shanhai introduced him as the Sea Heart Auction House’s new owner.
• Bing Chen arrived with experts from several sects and demanded that the Ling Household hand over the Fire Spirit Earthly Baleful Intent Pill.
• Ling Shanhai attacked Bing Chen, and the Ling Household elders rushed to join the fight as the coalition launched its assault.
• Bing Chen revealed his Nascent Soul sixth-tier strength, leaving Ling Shanhai convinced that their side could not withstand the attack.
• Lin Yu appeared where the combined attack had struck, stopped the power of all ten Nascent Soul experts, and invited them to attack him together.

Lin Yu defeated Bing Chen after the Extreme Cold Valley expert attacked him with two ice dragons. He crippled Bing Chen and killed the Nascent Soul experts who tried to flee, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Lin Yu effortlessly caught the combined attack from Bing Chen and nine others, then ignored Bing Chen's warning to stay out of the conflict.
• Bing Chen used Extreme Cold Valley's signature technique, Ice Dragon's Reverse Scale, but Lin Yu's power instantly dispersed the ice dragon.
• Bing Chen summoned a second ice dragon in desperation, and Lin Yu shattered it with a punch, severely injuring Bing Chen.
• Lin Yu severed Bing Chen's meridians and destroyed his cultivation, leaving him alive but unable to cultivate again.
• Bing Chen's Nascent Soul companions fled, but Lin Yu's power stopped them and burst their bodies into dust.

Lin Yu annihilated the attackers at the auction house, gave Ling Shanhai and Ling Yiran jade tokens, and told them they might meet again at the Qianyuan Sect recruitment assembly. He returned to the Lin Household just as Xue Qing'er faced Mo Xuantian and Elder Liu, and appeared in time to stop their attack.

• Lin Yu destroyed ten Nascent Soul Cultivators and gave Ling Shanhai a jade token, asking him to supply resources to the Lin Household and Su Household.
• Ling Yiran received a jade token too, learned Lin Yu's name, and resolved to attend the Qianyuan Sect recruitment assembly with Ling Shanhai's support.
• At the Lin Household, Xue Qing'er refused to abandon Su Ying, Lin Tian, and Su Zhiyuan while Mo Xuantian and Elder Liu prepared to attack her.
• Mo Xuantian broke through Xue Qing'er's defenses as she clutched the crushed jade token and prepared for death.
• Lin Yu appeared before Xue Qing'er, stopped Mo Xuantian's attack, and angrily challenged him for threatening the Lin Household.

Lin Yu returned to save the Lin Household and Xue Qing'er, swiftly killing Mo Xuantian and Elder Liu despite their ties to the Yin Baleful Intent Sect. Afterward, he gave Xue Qing'er a precious seventh-tier pill to help her recover.

• Lin Yu appeared as Mo Xuantian attacked, and Lin Tian, Su Zhiyuan, and Xue Qing'er recognized him with relief and surprise.
• Mo Xuantian unleashed the Yin Mystic Sect's strongest technique, but Lin Yu stopped it and lifted him effortlessly.
• Lin Yu killed Mo Xuantian and dismissed the Yin Baleful Intent Sect's Soul Transformation Realm master as a weakling.
• Elder Liu threatened Lin Yu with the Yin Baleful Intent Sect, but Lin Yu killed him as well.
• Lin Yu checked on Xue Qing'er and gave her a Fire Spirit Earthly Baleful Intent Pill to take after resting.

Lin Yu gave Xue Qing'er a Fire Spirit Earthly Baleful Intent Pill to counter the harmful effects of her ice-attribute cultivation. After she absorbed it, she emerged with a vastly stronger presence.

• Lin Yu offered Xue Qing'er the pill, and she hesitated because it was a precious seventh-tier treasure.
• Xue Qing'er recognized it as the pill the Ling Household had obtained at the Sea Heart Auction House, and Lin Yu confirmed he had bought it.
• Lin Yu persuaded Xue Qing'er to accept the pill as payment for nurturing Su Ying and helping the Lin Household and Su Household.
• Xue Qing'er swallowed the pill and focused on absorbing its medicinal power while Lin Yu guided her.
• Xue Qing'er opened her eyes as an overwhelming presence surged from her, changing the color of heaven and earth.

After Lin Yu resolved the cold Qi suppressing Xue Qing'er, her cultivation surged from the Nascent Soul second tier to the fifth tier. Lin Yu vanished before she could learn more about him, leaving Xue Qing'er hoping they would meet again as she departed with Su Ying.

• Xue Qing'er's strength rose four tiers after the accumulated cold Qi was released.
• Lin Yu told Xue Qing'er to nourish herself weekly with fire-attribute treasures when she returned to her sect.
• Xue Qing'er asked whether she and Lin Yu would meet again and whether he was an elder of the Qianyuan Sect, but Lin Yu vanished without answering.
• Xue Qing'er thanked Lin Yu and watched the place where he had disappeared, her feelings unsettled.
• After the sky darkened, Xue Qing'er took Su Ying and vanished into the void.

Lin Yu traveled to the northern ice fields to check on a transforming cat and discovered the four regions’ Holy Lords gathered around an evolving emperor-grade immortal beast. As the Holy Lords prepared to claim it, an undetectable surge of power stirred inside its crystalline shell.

• Lin Yu sensed four familiar presences in the northern ice fields and found the Holy Lords of the four regions watching a crystalline solid.
• Li Lieyang, Han Fei, Xiao Qing, and Liu Weiying discussed the emperor-grade immortal beast and the benefits of obtaining it.
• Liu Weiying warned the others that the beast could escape or be stolen, but Li Lieyang dismissed the possibility.
• A hidden fluctuation of power seeped through the crystalline solid without the Holy Lords noticing.

Lin Yu waited inside the crystal tetrahedron for Xiaobai, a sleeping Six-Winged Holy Tiger from his past life, and used a Purification Spirit Stone to remove the Evil Spirit Holy Fruit’s influence from her. Xiaobai awakened and transformed into a young woman, while the four holy-region lords outside waited to seize the emperor-grade immortal beast.

• Lin Yu discovered that the sleeping Xiaobai carried a trace of the Evil Spirit Holy Fruit and placed a Purification Spirit Stone over her to absorb its evil energy.
• Lin Yu spent two years brewing tea in his immortal abode while the Purification Spirit Stone purified Xiaobai and the four holy-region lords kept watch outside.
• Xiaobai awakened with Spirit Transformation Realm strength and felt a deep closeness to Lin Yu instead of wanting to attack him.
• Lin Yu offered Xiaobai his immortal abode and its heavenly treasures, and Xiaobai transformed into a beautiful young woman.
• Lin Yu noticed that Xiaobai’s new human form differed from the one he remembered, especially her figure.

Lin Yu welcomed the newly transformed Xiaobai into his immortal abode before leaving, while the four Mahayana Realm masters discovered the crystal tetrahedron empty and realized the immortal beast had vanished. Xiao Qing suspected someone had taken it and vowed revenge as the others prepared to search the area.

• Xiaobai transformed into a young girl, argued with Lin Yu about her name, and agreed to live in his immortal abode.
• Lin Yu told Xiaobai the abode was hers, and she moved in after asking what clothes were.
• The crystal tetrahedron cracked and shattered as Li Lieyang, Han Fei, Liu Weiying, and Xiao Qing watched.
• The four holy land masters found only a kitten-shaped crystal platform inside and accused Xiao Qing of hiding the immortal beast.
• Liu Weiying urged the group to search the surroundings, and Xiao Qing vowed to punish whoever had taken the beast.