Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu explained that absorbing demonic cores had changed his eyes and increased his strength, then brought Su Xuemeng to meet her fellow disciples. After refusing her insistence that they were friends and a couple, he agreed to teach her cultivation and gave her the Ninefold Heavenly Thunder Art.

• Lin Yu said that absorbing demonic cores had caused his eyes to mutate and demonstrated his increased strength by smashing a stone wall with an air cannon.
• Su Xuemeng took Lin Yu to the mountain where her fellow disciples gathered and introduced him as her boyfriend.
• Lin Yu told Su Xuemeng that they were enemies and tried to leave, but she insisted on pursuing him and asked how he had become so strong.
• Su Xuemeng asked Lin Yu to teach her immortal cultivation, and he agreed to teach her a basic method without taking her as a disciple.
• Lin Yu taught Su Xuemeng the cultivation method, confirmed that she had memorized it, and handed her the Ninefold Heavenly Thunder Art.

Lin Yu taught Su Xuemeng the Ninefold Heavenly Thunder Art and gave her spirit stones, then rejected her confession because he already had a fiancée. He left to buy medicinal ingredients and began refining spirit herbs at home.

• Lin Yu explained the Ninefold Heavenly Thunder Art and gave Su Xuemeng a hundred low-grade spirit stones for cultivation.
• Su Xuemeng told Lin Yu she believed he had great potential and fortune, and he learned she thought he could defeat ordinary Golden Core Stage experts.
• Su Xuemeng confessed that she liked Lin Yu and wanted to marry him, but Lin Yu rejected her and said he had a fiancée.
• Lin Yu left the restaurant to buy medicinal ingredients for Five Elements Blood Coagulation Pills.
• Lin Yu returned home, took out the third-tier spirit herbs he had bought, and began refining them.

Lin Yu refined the Five Elements Blood Coagulation Pill and used spiritual herbs to rapidly strengthen his cultivation. He decided to seek a breakthrough at Hell Island, and after several days of training, reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Peak and discovered he could control his Nascent Soul directly.

• Lin Yu refined three five-element spiritual herbs, completed the Five Elements Blood Coagulation Pill, and judged that his cultivation was still too low to bring out its full power.
• Lin Yu resolved to cross the difficult gap toward Foundation Establishment Late Stage Perfection and chose Hell Island, with its dangerous ancient ruin, as the place to seek a breakthrough.
• Lin Yu refined and swallowed spiritual herbs to build his strength, then spent the next few days refining five herbs every three days and advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Peak.
• Lin Yu decided to use the hundred spiritual herbs remaining in his identity token to push toward Foundation Establishment Late Stage, then discovered he could control his Nascent Soul directly.

Lin Yu refined the Five Elements spiritual herbs, raising his cultivation to Foundation Establishment Late Stage Great Perfection and gaining a new Nascent Soul. He settled beneath a giant tree near the ruins to cultivate, then killed the spirit beasts that attacked him and drove back the others.

• Lin Yu finished refining the Five Elements spiritual herbs and advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage Great Perfection.
• Lin Yu headed deeper into the cave dwelling and found a valley full of spiritual herbs near the ruins.
• Lin Yu cultivated beneath a giant tree, drawing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and attracting nearby spirit beasts.
• Lin Yu fought back when the spirit beasts attacked, stomping several of them to death.
• The spirit beasts outside Lin Yu's barrier charged it, were thrown back, and then chased him as he teleported behind them and slapped their backsides.

Lin Yu crossed a valley filled with spirit beasts, concealed himself with formations, and killed a woman he caught following him. As spirit beasts repeatedly attacked, he fought his way into a secluded canyon and prepared to hide there.

• Lin Yu entered a cave and knocked the last attacking spirit beast unconscious before continuing through the valley.
• After finding a dead spirit beast in a swamp, Lin Yu set up twenty grand formations to conceal himself and the valley.
• Lin Yu sensed someone following him, caught the fleeing woman, and snapped her neck.
• Dozens of spirit beasts ambushed Lin Yu, but he killed them with a wind blade and continued into the wilderness.
• Lin Yu reached a secluded canyon, where he used the Five Elements Sword to kill a dozen spirit beasts that rushed at him.

Lin Yu fought his way through a canyon and was ambushed by a veiled woman, but their clash was interrupted by a mysterious man who captured her and began trying to brainwash her. The woman was left trapped in his black mist, facing his demand that she serve him.

• Lin Yu killed more than thirty spirit beasts in the canyon, then sat on a boulder to recover his strength while the veiled woman watched him.
• The woman kicked Lin Yu, and he struck her with a palm blade before she chased him and punched him into the ground.
• As the woman approached the fallen Lin Yu, she sensed someone behind her and grabbed a treasured sword, only to face a mysterious man.
• The man offered the woman the Heavenly Dipper treasured sword in exchange for serving him, but she refused and identified herself as the holy maiden of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
• The man trapped the woman in black mist and said he was brainwashing her into loyalty.

A disguised man defeated the Heavenly Demon Sect’s holy maiden, forced the gathered cultivators to submit, and left with them aboard the Heavenly Dipper Airship. Lin Yu recovered from his injuries and planned to turn Tianlang and Li Yan’s schemes against them as the Northern Nether Sect’s victorious disciples returned.

• The man used a Devil Pill to badly injure the holy maiden, struck her into the valley, and sealed the pit with Sword Qi.
• He threatened the gathered cultivators into becoming his slaves, took the Heavenly Dipper Sword, and ordered them to call him Lord Heavenly Dipper.
• Lin Yu descended onto a secluded mountain peak, swallowed a Soul Returning Pill, and began recovering his dantian and meridians.
• The Little Eagle King asked what they would do next, and Lin Yu said they would toy with Tianlang and Li Yan before killing them.
• Lin Yu and the Little Eagle King continued toward the Northern Nether Sect, and two days later its disciples returned celebrating their victory over five sects.

The Northern Nether Sect's leader plotted to lure Lin Yu into a trap while Lin Yu recovered and returned to the sect. In the main hall, Lin Yu confronted the sect leaders and threatened Heavenly Eagle King after being insulted.

• The Northern Nether Sect's leader told his disciples he would marry soon, then planned to study a map and set a trap for Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu healed his damaged dantian and meridians, met Little Eagle King and dozens of Inner Sect Disciples, and learned Tianlang's group had made no move.
• Lin Yu went to the main hall, where the Northern Nether Sect's leader told Tianlang and Heavenly Fox that Lin Yu had killed more than two hundred of his disciples.
• Tianlang and Heavenly Fox questioned the Northern Nether Sect's leader about his motives, but he refused to explain further.
• Heavenly Eagle King insulted Lin Yu and threatened him, and Lin Yu answered that he would send Heavenly Eagle King west first.

Lin Yu demonstrated overwhelming physical strength against the Northern Nether Sect master and the three kings, who retreated but continued to resent him. When the sect master confronted Lin Yu again, their battle resumed with a clash of palms and sword.

• Lin Yu expanded his body, frightening the Heavenly Eagle King and prompting the Northern Nether Sect master to order the three kings to stand down.
• The Northern Nether Sect master attacked Lin Yu, who seized his hands and tore off both his arms.
• The Heavenly Eagle King, the Earth Snake King, and Tianlang fled, while the wounded sect master took a healing pill and decided to investigate Lin Yu and seek revenge for his disciples.
• The Northern Nether Sect master warned Tianlang not to cause more trouble, while the three kings privately discussed reporting Lin Yu to the sect leader and grew more resentful of him.
• Lin Yu emerged from the cave and attacked the Northern Nether Sect master, who met his palm with a longsword and then stabbed at him.

Lin Yu overpowered the Northern Nether Sect's leader and the Heavenly Eagle King and his brothers during their fight. He struck the sect leader hard enough to force him back, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Lin Yu's rebounding palm strike hit the Northern Nether Sect's leader in the shoulder and sent him crashing to the ground.
• The Northern Nether Sect's leader recovered and attacked Lin Yu, but their clashing power left the onlookers stunned.
• Lin Yu used Shrinking the Earth to an Inch and golden spheres to burn through the sect leader's sword net.
• The Northern Nether Sect's leader ordered the Heavenly Eagle King and his two brothers to attack, but Lin Yu smashed their precious sabers.
• Lin Yu lunged at the Northern Nether Sect's leader and drove him back several steps with a punch to his raised arm.

Lin Yu overwhelmed the Northern Nether Sect master and his disciples, leaving the master badly injured. When the master's powerful mentor arrived, Lin Yu mocked the sect master, warned the sect against pursuing him, and left.

• The Northern Nether Sect master tried to flee, but Lin Yu blasted the valley exit with a fireball and stopped him.
• Lin Yu countered the master's black sword beam with golden spheres, then struck him with a powerful golden sphere that caved in his chest.
• The Northern Nether Sect disciples attacked Lin Yu, but he knocked them down one by one while the injured master called for his mentor.
• The white-haired old man emerged from the valley, and the sect master begged him to avenge him, claiming Lin Yu had attacked by trickery.
• Lin Yu challenged the sect master to continue their duel, dismissed his threats, warned the Northern Nether Sect to stay away, and left.

Lin Yu taunted the Northern Nether Sect disciples, left the cave, and clashed with the Northern Nether Sect leader after the leader demanded the Divine Formation Diagram. The leader later attacked Lin Yu at a restaurant, but Lin Yu defeated him and stood on his chest as the disciples called out in alarm.

• Lin Yu challenged the Northern Nether Sect disciples to fight him one-on-one, then left when they stayed silent.
• The Northern Nether Sect leader demanded the Divine Formation Diagram, and Lin Yu kicked apart a nearby house before flying away.
• The Northern Nether Sect leader ordered his disciples to report Lin Yu's actions to the sect.
• Lin Yu stopped at a restaurant to eat while the Northern Nether Sect leader watched him from a distance.
• The Northern Nether Sect leader attacked Lin Yu with the sect's strongest fist technique, but Lin Yu dodged and threw him to the ground.
• Lin Yu planted his foot on the injured Northern Nether Sect leader's chest, and the disciples cried out for their leader.

Lin Yu slaughtered or subdued the Northern Nether Sect disciples who attacked him, then cultivated through the night. The next morning, an elder from the Northern Nether Sect’s Council of Elders approached him and introduced himself as Steward Liu.

• Lin Yu killed the Northern Nether Sect disciples who tried to flee and knocked their sect master unconscious.
• Lin Yu subdued the remaining disciples and put them into his spatial ring, then went to a nearby hillside to cultivate while Little Black stayed behind.
• The Northern Nether Sect master and disciples woke and, fearing Lin Yu’s strength, decided not to provoke or resist him.
• The next morning, Lin Yu sensed a group approaching from Northern Mystic City, and Steward Liu introduced himself as an elder of the Northern Nether Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall.

Lin Yu rejected Steward Liu's demand that he cooperate with the Northern Nether Sect over the disciples he had killed, insisting they had attacked his woman. After Steward Liu left to plan a response, the sect's stewards considered using the Soul Capture Art to lure Lin Yu.

• Steward Liu asked Lin Yu to return with the Northern Nether Sect to assist with an investigation into a dead disciple, but Lin Yu refused.
• Lin Yu explained that he had killed the disciples because they attacked his woman and warned that the Northern Nether Sect had no power to restrain him.
• Steward Liu left with his men after their dispute reached an impasse, while Lin Yu dismissed the sect as too weak to challenge him.
• Steward Liu summoned several Northern Nether Sect stewards and asked how they could lure Lin Yu out.
• A steward proposed using the Northern Nether Sect's Soul Capture Art to bewitch Lin Yu and bring him to them.

Steward Liu arranged to use the Soul-Snatching Great Art on Lin Yu, but Lin Yu resisted it and confronted him with an offer to join forces against a powerful enemy. Steward Liu refused to risk the Northern Nether Sect’s wealth, leaving Lin Yu and the sect headed toward conflict.

• Steward Liu ordered his subordinates to prepare the Soul-Snatching Great Art and bring Lin Yu to him.
• Lin Yu’s internal force and Nine Yin True Classic neutralized the Soul-Snatching Great Art, and he went to Steward Liu’s courtyard.
• Lin Yu proposed that the Northern Nether Sect cooperate with him to eliminate a powerful enemy, but he refused to name the target.
• Lin Yu suggested they could blame the Third Prince for the conflict and threatened to destroy the Northern Nether Sect if Steward Liu refused.
• Steward Liu rejected the offer, saying he wanted to protect the sect’s wealth and that their problems could not be combined with Lin Yu’s fight against the Divine Arrow Strategist.

Lin Yu persuaded Steward Liu to cooperate against the Third Prince and asked him to bring out his sect master for a private discussion. Lin Yu then led new arrivals through Hell to the third level, where they were stunned by its modern buildings.

• Lin Yu convinced Steward Liu to join forces and asked to speak privately with his sect master.
• Lin Yu introduced himself as a supervisor of Hell's third level and warned the new arrivals to obey Hell's laws.
• A man assured Lin Yu that the group had entered Hell voluntarily and would not break its laws, so Lin Yu allowed them to take the assessment.
• Lin Yu led the group through the first and second levels to the third level.
• The group froze at the sight of the third level's rows of magnificent, modern-style buildings, and Lin Yu warned them to be careful.

Lin Yu explained the Hell Trial’s stages and warned the group that they would have to rely on themselves to survive the challenges. He led them to the sixth floor to begin their trials, where a powerful man emerged and challenged him, but quickly admitted defeat.

• Lin Yu explained that passing the fifth floor would qualify the group for the first stage, while the sixth floor would test their strength and determine who could become Hell’s messengers.
• Lin Yu told the group that the fifth and sixth floors offered a one-year trial and warned that he would not rescue anyone who lacked the strength to pass.
• Lin Yu described how he had entered Hell by placing his soul in a storage ring and retrieving it with his own power.
• Lin Yu led the group to the sixth floor and instructed them to choose their challenges as the others rushed off to begin.
• A man carrying a huge spear burst through a wall and attacked Lin Yu, but Lin Yu struck him back, and the man admitted defeat before walking toward a stone door.

Lin Yu encountered the strange restraints of the sixth-level Hell Trial and struggled to overcome the stone gate's power. Outside, Devil King realm experts confronted him, and the chapter ended as he clashed with their attacks.

• Lin Yu stepped onto the stone gate, whose strange force slowed and bound him.
• Lin Yu fought against the gate's power, was blasted into a pit, and examined its nine-colored markings.
• Lin Yu realized the trial's stages governed access to the next level and continued toward the gate.
• Seven or eight armored experts confronted Lin Yu, while others nearby included Devil Emperor-level experts.
• Lin Yu vanished to evade the experts, reappeared beside them, and taunted them before they attacked again.
• Lin Yu met their combined strikes with a palm, shaking the space and splitting the ground beneath him.

Lin Yu confronted a group of Devil Kings and slaughtered them with ease. He faced the last four, who charged him, and used the Golden Light Technique to destroy one Devil King's Nascent Soul as the other two survivors retreated in fear.

• Lin Yu asked the Devil Kings which faction they belonged to, but they mocked him and threatened to make him kneel.
• Lin Yu dodged a Devil King's saber and killed another with a swift sword thrust, then crushed a Devil King's black flames and burned him to death.
• The Devil Kings attacked Lin Yu together, but he killed them with repeated palm strikes and black lightning.
• Four Devil Kings challenged Lin Yu over his attack, and he answered that the Devil Race's war against humans made them enemies.
• The four charged Lin Yu, who unleashed the Golden Light Technique and shattered one Devil King's Nascent Soul, frightening the two who remained.

Lin Yu defeated the Devil Kings, then revealed his origins and plans to two surviving Devil Kings who asked to join him. After searching the Devil Realm for months, he found and secured a powerful Devil Beast body, which he refined into a protected puppet.

• Lin Yu killed the Devil Kings who attacked him, but an ensuing explosion destroyed his body and the devils slaughtered the humans in the city.
• Lin Yu reappeared, told two Devil Kings about the many realms of the God Realm, and heard them ask to join the Divine Land of Huaxia.
• Lin Yu refused the Devil Kings’ offer of military aid and told them not to cause trouble as he set out to find a physical body.
• Lin Yu spent months searching the Devil Realm, found incomplete cultivation methods on a sacred stele, and stored them away.
• Lin Yu found a ninth-tier Devil Beast body, took control of it, and refined its corpse into a puppet protected by restrictions even a Devil Venerable could not break.