Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu fought the Dragon Prince, wounded him, and destroyed his tail before revealing strength beyond a One-Tribulation True Immortal. The Dragon Prince unleashed golden flames that burned one Azure Edge Sword to ash, but Lin Yu drew another and released azure mist as the battle continued.

• Lin Yu threatened to kill the Dragon Prince and drew the Dark Devil Sword, shocking the Demon Race experts with his Immortal Artifact.
• The Dragon Prince mocked Lin Yu, but Lin Yu wounded him with the Azure Edge Sword and stabbed him in the abdomen.
• The Dragon Prince struck Lin Yu with his tail, and Lin Yu shattered it with five-element runes.
• The Dragon Prince transformed into a hundred-times-larger dragon form, but Lin Yu blocked his claw and attacked with a storm of sword lights, driving the watching demonic beasts to flee.
• The Dragon Prince engulfed the mountain in golden flames that burned Lin Yu's Azure Edge Sword to ash, so Lin Yu drew another Azure Edge Sword and met the flames with azure mist.

Lin Yu defeated the Dragon Prince and demanded his help finding Long Yun, while their exchange revealed the Dragon Prince’s hostility toward the Human Race. After Lin Yu overwhelmed him again, he told the Dragon Prince that he had already killed his elder brother.

• Lin Yu’s sword strike severed one of the Dragon Prince’s vertebrae, leaving him gravely injured as the flood dragons cheered.
• Lin Yu told the Dragon Prince that he needed help finding Long Yun, and the Dragon Prince reacted with surprise when Lin Yu mentioned the Dragon King.
• The Dragon Prince grew enraged at Lin Yu’s rebuke and charged, but Lin Yu struck him down with Nine Revolutions of Wind and Thunder.
• Lin Yu said he would kill the Dragon Prince after finding Long Yun, and the Dragon Prince threatened him with his elder brother.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had already killed the Dragon Prince’s elder brother, provoking the Dragon Prince’s killing intent.

Lin Yu threatened the Dragon Prince into considering an alliance against the Dragon Race, but the prince attacked him with the Soul-Devouring Poison Pill’s power. Lin Yu withstood their clash and prepared to strike with Thunder Sword Intent.

• Lin Yu seized the Dragon Prince and proposed that they join forces against the Dragon Race, threatening to kill him and his people if he refused.
• The Dragon Prince warned Lin Yu that the Dragon Race’s ancestor was a Half-Step Heavenly Venerable, then agreed to the deal while vowing to kill Lin Yu first.
• The Dragon Prince released the Soul-Devouring Poison Pill, a Dragon Race secret art that could devour souls and strengthen its user.
• Lin Yu charged the Dragon Prince, and their close-range clash left Lin Yu’s arm bruised while the Dragon Prince remained unharmed.
• Lin Yu invoked the power of lightning and Thunder Sword Intent to answer the Dragon Prince’s disbelief.

Lin Yu killed the Dragon Prince and a flood dragon, then received the Dragon Prince's Treasury from the system. He reached the third level of the Demonic Beast World and met a group of humans, hoping to find a safe place to stay as he prepared to reach the fourth level and search for his mother.

• Lin Yu killed the Dragon Prince with a golden greatsword, then struck down a flood dragon with silver sword light.
• Lin Yu used the Nine Heavens Sword to shred the Dragon Prince's body and collected his Dragon Emperor Ring.
• The system announced that Lin Yu had obtained the Dragon Prince's Treasury, completing his mission.
• Lin Yu went to the third level of the Demonic Beast World, intending to eliminate the demonic beasts and reach the fourth level to search for his mother.
• A group of humans called Lin Yu their savior and worried about finding a safe place to live, so Lin Yu suggested staying at an inn and assured them that the demonic beasts would not harm them.

Lin Yu settled in at an inn in the Immortal Domain and ate and drank heavily at a tavern. After finishing his meal, he prepared to return to the inn.

• Lin Yu agreed to lead the frightened humans, who gathered at the inn and introduced themselves to him.
• A young man offered Lin Yu one of the women in their group, and Lin Yu silently wondered why they thought he liked men.
• Lin Yu booked a room at an inn, then went to a tavern and noticed two people staring at him.
• Lin Yu ordered roast duck and Shaodaozi liquor while the young man asked why he had come to the Immortal Domain instead of the Demonic Beast Forest.
• Lin Yu ate two roast ducks and drank eighteen bowls of Shaodaozi before setting off back to the inn.

Lin Yu chased down and killed the young man in white, then entered a mountain cave in search of treasure. A giant python burst from the cave and charged at him.

• Lin Yu found the young man in white fleeing from his room and pursued him.
• The young man threatened Lin Yu with the backing of the Immortal Sword Sect, but Lin Yu attacked and killed him.
• Lin Yu hacked apart the young man's corpse and headed toward a cave where he sensed treasure.
• A giant python with a human face burst through the cave wall and charged at Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu leaped forward to meet the giant python.

Lin Yu survived the giant python’s attack and defeated a young man who tried to kill him, then discovered and tested a puppet talisman. The chapter left Lin Yu having destroyed the young man with the talisman’s black-hole attack.

• The giant python struck Lin Yu and injured him, while the young man laughed at his predicament.
• Lin Yu accused the young man of luring him into a trap, and the young man attempted to kill Lin Yu by destroying his Nascent Soul and attacking him.
• The young man dug out his heart and died, leaving Lin Yu with a black dagger and a jade tablet containing instructions for refining a puppet talisman.
• Lin Yu used the talisman to summon a black-robed puppet and tested its silver spear against the young man, who had reappeared with the weapon.
• Lin Yu activated the puppet talisman’s black-hole attack, which swallowed the young man and obliterated the surrounding ruins.

Lin Yu kept a mysterious black bead from a young man he chose not to kill, then reaffirmed his ambition to reach the pinnacle of the Immortal World. After gathering materials and earning contribution points, he encountered Li Tianyu on Cloud Mist Star, who wanted to speak with him.

• Lin Yu caught and stored a sinister black bead that the young man had thrown before disappearing, and told Xue Qing he had avoided killing him because he might be a Golden Core Stage cultivator.
• Lin Yu told Xue Qing he wanted true strength and planned to ascend, then enter seclusion after the assessment to prepare.
• Lin Yu collected demonic beast remains near the Azure Dragon Mountain Range and exchanged demon crystals at the Alchemist Guild for contribution points.
• Lin Yu gathered spiritual herbs, refined healing pills, and accumulated around ten million contribution points while traveling toward Cloud Mist Star.
• Li Tianyu appeared behind Lin Yu on Cloud Mist Star and asked him to talk while they flew; Lin Yu questioned why Li Tianyu was there instead of taking part in the assessment.

Lin Yu accompanied Li Tianyu to the Heavenly Sword Sect’s assessment, where they encountered Heavenly Sword True Person among the gathered examinees. Lin Yu planned to avoid the trial and take a talent evaluation afterward, while the chapter recounted his and Li Tianyu’s recent travels and search for rare treasures.

• Li Tianyu persuaded Lin Yu to accompany him to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and Lin Yu agreed on the condition that Li Tianyu not get hurt.
• Lin Yu and Li Tianyu arrived at the sect’s dangerous trial grounds, where thousands of examinees had gathered for the assessment.
• Li Tianyu explained the sect disciples’ backgrounds and combat skills, then pointed out Heavenly Sword True Person standing on a pavilion.
• Lin Yu chose not to participate in the trial and planned to take his talent evaluation after it ended, while allowing Li Tianyu to enter.
• The chapter recounted how Lin Yu had rescued Li Tianyu from demonic cult disciples, and how Li Tianyu later returned to Heavenly Sword Peak seeking Purple Blood Grass.
• Lin Yu searched around Cloud Prefecture City for Heavenly Lightning Liquid and demon cores, but found only traces of low-level demon beasts.

Lin Yu visited a branch of the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion while searching for Heavenly Lightning Liquid and offered a rare pill for sale. The woman in blue explained that his low cultivation left him unable to refine pills for Spirit Transformation Realm experts, leaving Lin Yu puzzled about why the shop had accepted the pill.

• Lin Yu entered the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion and offered a ring, prompting the shopkeeper to value it at three thousand spirit stones.
• Lin Yu presented a pill, and the shopkeeper identified it as an ingredient used to refine a Nascent Soul Tempering Pill.
• Lin Yu offered twenty thousand spirit stones for a batch, and the shopkeeper examined his cultivation but could not detect any fluctuations.
• The woman in blue told Lin Yu that the pill could refine only the Nascent Souls of Peak Nascent Soul Realm experts and that his Qi Refining Realm cultivation was far too low for Spirit Transformation Realm pills.
• Lin Yu questioned why the shopkeeper had accepted the pill and how he could refine a Spirit Transformation Realm expert's Nascent Soul.

Lin Yu tried to learn who had opened a pill shop, then returned to the city lord’s residence and went with the old steward to meet the young woman who had captured him. He offered to give her something in exchange for his freedom, but she threatened to torture him instead.

• Lin Yu offered the shopkeeper a hundred thousand spirit stones for information about the shop’s owner, but the shopkeeper refused to identify her.
• Lin Yu returned to the city lord’s residence, where the old steward said the city lord wanted him to come back and answer a request.
• The old steward led Lin Yu to a courtyard in the western part of the city, where a young woman in purple agreed to receive him.
• The young woman denied knowing what Lin Yu meant by being captured and said she intended to hand him over to his father, the city lord.
• Lin Yu refused to reveal the thing he had offered unless she let him go, and she threatened to torture him when he turned to leave.
• Lin Yu asked the young woman how she planned to torture him.

Lin Yu confronted the girl who had captured him and revealed that he was a grandmaster alchemist by showing her a rare ninth-grade Golden Cloud Pill. The girl poisoned him and attacked, but Lin Yu resisted both, leaving her impressed by his strength and reconsidering how to subdue him.

• Lin Yu entered the girl's room and gave her two pills to prove he had not come for pleasure.
• The girl recognized Lin Yu's Golden Cloud Pill and realized he was a grandmaster alchemist.
• The girl admitted she had captured Lin Yu to make him her slave, then gave him three poisonous pills.
• Lin Yu suppressed the poison's effects and blocked the girl's repeated attacks.
• The girl stopped fighting and faced Lin Yu with a faint smile.

Lin Yu refused Ye Yao’s attempts to make him submit, recovered from his injuries, and learned that the Holy Lord controlled the Holy City and had tracked him down. He then set out for the Holy City to seek treasure, while Ye Yao stayed behind.

• Ye Yao revealed that she was the Heavenly Pill Pavilion’s Core Disciple and tried to make Lin Yu her servant, but he refused and demanded to meet the Holy Lord.
• Lin Yu stayed in Ye Yao’s courtyard overnight to recover, and the two cultivated until dawn.
• Ye Yao warned Lin Yu that her father’s people had tracked him and that the Holy Lord would capture him, but Lin Yu refused to surrender.
• Lin Yu told Ye Yao he was going to the Holy City to look for treasure, and she declined to accompany him.
• Lin Yu left the courtyard and headed toward the Holy City.

Lin Yu learned about the Heavenly Pill Pavilion and fought off men sent to capture him, killing them after they refused his demands. He then headed for Heavenly Pill City to seek the Blood Soul Fruit for Ye Xuan.

• Lin Yu learned that the Heavenly Pill Pavilion had branches across the Heavenly Martial World and was renowned for artifact refining.
• Masked men sent by Ye Yao blocked Lin Yu outside Heavenly Pill City, but he quickly defeated them.
• When the men refused to kneel, cripple themselves, and destroy their cultivation, Lin Yu burned them to ash with golden light, leaving behind a purplish-red pearl.
• A masked man praised Lin Yu and explained that Ye Xuan had assigned the Pavilion’s powerful members to him in the Nine Nether Ghost Domain.
• Lin Yu brushed off the men’s threats and left for Heavenly Pill City to search for the Blood Soul Fruit.

Lin Yu reached Heavenly Pill City seeking Ye Xuan but clashed with the Heavenly Pill Pavilion’s guards over their entry rules and spirit-stone requirement. After defeating dozens of attackers, he agreed to hand over his female companion, leaving the elders surprised by his confidence in her safety.

• Lin Yu arrived at Heavenly Pill City and learned he could not enter the Heavenly Pill Pavilion without passing its test and becoming a formal disciple.
• When Lin Yu refused the test, the elders sent hundreds of black-clad men to attack him, and he killed dozens with a move from the Heavenly Sword Art.
• Lin Yu opened a gateway to the Heavenly Pill Pavilion but admitted he had no spirit stones to enter.
• The elders offered to help Lin Yu find Ye Xuan in exchange for his female companion, whom they described as an honored guest of the pavilion.
• Lin Yu agreed to hand over the girl and insisted that she was safe with him.

Lin Yu confronted the Heavenly Pill Pavilion elders and was drawn into an ancient hall, where Yang Yun attacked him over a woman and the artifact refiner assessment. Lin Yu withstood Yang Yun’s blows and spotted an opening to counterattack.

• Lin Yu told the Heavenly Pill Pavilion elders that their power could not match the Heavenly Sword Sect, and they dismissed his warning.
• Lin Yu entered a Spiritual Qi-filled ancient hall, where Yang Yun and another elder demanded that he hand over a woman.
• Lin Yu refused and challenged Yang Yun over the Heavenly Pill Pavilion’s place in the artifact refiner assessment.
• Yang Yun attacked Lin Yu with the Earth-Splitting Axe and black flames, but Lin Yu’s protective shield held against the assault.
• Lin Yu tracked Yang Yun’s position and recognized a chance to strike back.

Lin Yu overpowered Yang Yun, who tried to recruit him into the Heavenly Pill Pavilion before threatening to keep him from leaving. Yang Yun mistook Lin Yu for the crown prince of the Heavenly Court and begged for mercy, while Lin Yu’s actual identity remained unclear to him.

• Lin Yu appeared behind Yang Yun and crushed his spine, then taunted him about his pill-refining abilities.
• Yang Yun offered Lin Yu a core disciple position in the Heavenly Pill Pavilion, but Lin Yu refused.
• Yang Yun threatened to keep Lin Yu from leaving unless Lin Yu defeated him, and Lin Yu struck him into submission.
• Lin Yu seized Yang Yun and demanded to know how he should punish him.
• Yang Yun guessed that Lin Yu was the crown prince of the Heavenly Court, and Lin Yu confirmed the guess, prompting Yang Yun to beg for his life.

Lin Yu crippled Yang Yun and demanded the location of the three-thousand-year-old snow lingzhi. After Yang Yun refused and Lin Yu killed him with the Azure Edge Sword, Lin Yu gave him a pill and ordered him to recover, leaving Yang Yun under Lin Yu's control.

• Lin Yu defeated Yang Yun, destroyed his meridians, and left him unable to move.
• Heavenly Pill Pavilion disciples recognized Lin Yu, and he demanded that Yang Yun reveal the location of the three-thousand-year-old snow lingzhi.
• Lin Yu activated the Azure Edge Sword and struck Yang Yun, who burst apart and died.
• After Yang Yun pleaded to have his power restored, Lin Yu gave him a pill and said his injuries would heal within six hours.
• Yang Yun realized he had no choice but to obey Lin Yu.

Lin Yu let Yang Yun leave after extracting a promise about the three-thousand-year-old snow lingzhi, then decided to visit the Yang Clan to learn why Yang Yun had framed him. At the Yang residence, Yang Yun was driven away by his father, while Lin Yu continued toward a confrontation with the clan.

• Lin Yu spared Yang Yun and the Heavenly Pill Pavilion disciples, while privately vowing to kill Yang Yun after reaching the nascent soul realm.
• Chen Feng thanked Lin Yu and warned that Yang Yun might seek revenge, but Lin Yu said Yang Yun was no threat in the short term.
• Lin Yu told Chen Feng he wanted to ask Yang Yun where he hid the snow lingzhi and why he had framed him, then set off for the Yang Clan with Chen Feng.
• Yang Tianba angrily expelled Yang Yun from the Yang Clan, and Yang Yun flew away without arguing.
• Chen Feng escorted Lin Yu to the Yang residence, warned him about the clan's strength, then asked to part ways to avoid becoming entangled in further grudges.

Lin Yu visited the Yang residence and asked Yang Yun to help him trade for the clan’s cultivation arts and other resources. Yang Yun led him to the ancestral courtyard, where Lin Yu examined Yang Xuan’s remains and suspected that Yang Xuan had not truly died.

• Lin Yu entered the Yang residence and watched Yang Yun practice swordsmanship before introducing himself to Yang Yun and Yang Tianba.
• Yang Yun invited Lin Yu inside, where Lin Yu said he wanted to trade for the Yang Clan’s cultivation arts, manuals, weapons, and pills.
• When Lin Yu asked about Yang Xuan, Yang Yun recognized the name and led him to the patriarch’s courtyard.
• Yang Yun showed Lin Yu the ancestral stele and Yang Xuan’s remains, explaining the clan’s inheritance and family history.
• Lin Yu noticed that Yang Xuan’s remains and lingering aura suggested his life had not ended, and questioned who Yang Xuan really was.