Chapter Summaries

Sun Yuan fought his way into the top sixteen of the competition, overcoming a Fire Ghost Sect cultivator with the Heaven and Earth Primordial Staff. He drew the Gold Origin Race's Jin Maohou as his opponent in the match for a place in the top eight, and the chapter ended before their fight began.

• Sun Yuan volunteered to fight in the martial competition while Lin Heng reserved his strength for the later struggle for the origin vein.
• Sun Yuan defeated the Five Baleful Intent Gate's Third-Turn Samsara cultivator in seconds and later countered the Fire Ghost Sect's invisibility before killing its fighter.
• Lin Heng told Sun Yuan that his Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff could break through the Time Acceleration used by many Sixth-Turn Samsara opponents.
• Sun Yuan drew blue number three, matching him against Jin Maohou of the Gold Origin Race in the match for the top eight.
• Jin Maohou warned Sun Yuan to forfeit before their battle began, noting the difference between his Sixth-Turn Samsara cultivation and Sun Yuan's First-Turn Samsara cultivation.

Sun Yuan battled Jin Maohou and grew stronger as he used their fight to practice the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff. As Jin Maohou transformed to boost his strength and defense, Sun Yuan chose not to reveal his true form and resolved to win by mastering the technique.

• Sun Yuan accepted Jin Maohou's challenge and fought him in close combat, matching the Sixth-Turn Samsara cultivator despite being at First-Turn Samsara.
• Sun Yuan used the Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff to knock Jin Maohou back, then began practicing the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff against him.
• As the fight continued, Sun Yuan's technique improved and his cultivation began showing signs of breaking through to Second-Turn Samsara, giving him a slight advantage.
• Jin Maohou transformed into a giant to multiply his strength and defense, while nearby sect members discussed the Gold Origin Race's ultimate move.
• Sun Yuan considered transforming into his true form but decided against it to avoid drawing the Beast Race's attention, and trusted that he could win by mastering the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff.

Sun Yuan continued fighting Jin Maohou after he transformed into a giant, then broke through with the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff and overwhelmed him. Jin Maohou surrendered, and Sun Yuan’s victory made his name known throughout the Ninefold Heaven.

• Jin Maohou transformed into a giant and struck Sun Yuan with his enlarged iron hammer, driving him into a deep pit.
• Sun Yuan emerged largely unharmed and unleashed the Eightfold Mountain-Splitting Staff, knocking Jin Maohou and his hammer backward.
• Sun Yuan pressed his advantage, using repeated staff blows to trap and batter Jin Maohou while Jin Maohou’s golden body regenerated.
• Jin Maohou surrendered, and a force transported both fighters out of the battle space.
• Spectators discussed Sun Yuan’s upset victory over the sixth-turn samsara fighter, spreading his name throughout the Ninefold Heaven.

Sun Yuan defeated a Sixth-Turn Samsara cultivator, and Lin Heng assessed the match before the final eight were chosen. When the sects prepared to challenge Sun Yuan’s place, Lin Heng stepped in to face them himself.

• Sun Yuan complained that the golden-haired hou had surrendered before Sun Yuan could practice his staff techniques on him.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan reviewed the golden-haired hou’s mistakes, including his overconfidence and failure to use the Law of Time.
• Yu Changfeng, Keluoduo, and a Rock Race contestant gained the upper hand in their battle circles, and the remaining fights ended to determine the final eight.
• Chen Yulin announced that contestants could challenge anyone in the final eight for their place and the right to compete for the Origin Vein.
• As the sects focused on challenging Sun Yuan, Lin Heng stopped him and declared that he would handle the challengers himself.

Lin Heng challenged the hundred sects and killed a Fifth-Turn Samsara and a Sixth-Turn Samsara fighter with his Killing Sword, revealing extraordinary time abilities. The ascender factions moved to protect him from the Eight Great Imperial Clans, and Lin Heng taunted the remaining challengers to send someone forward.

• Lin Heng invited anyone in the arena to challenge him, and Xiao He of the Eternal Joy Sect stepped forward.
• Lin Heng used Time Acceleration to strike Xiao He from behind and kill him with one stroke.
• A Sixth-Turn Samsara merfolk attacked Lin Heng with a mixed-metal tang, but Lin Heng used Time Stasis and killed him within seconds.
• After Lin Heng defeated the two fighters, no one else dared challenge him, while the Eight Great Imperial Clans and the ascender factions argued over him.
• Lin Heng pointed his Killing Sword toward the factions under the Eight Great Imperial Clans and demanded that they send out an expert.

Lin Heng accepted the Fire Clan representative’s challenge, wagering five million li of territory and an origin vein against a hundred years of confinement. He battled Yan Ming and revealed the strength of his treasures, leaving the Fire Clan and the other powers questioning the secrets behind him.

• The Fire Clan representative challenged Lin Heng to fight his subordinate Yan Ming, offering territory and an origin vein if Lin Heng won and a hundred years of confinement if he lost.
• Lin Heng accepted despite the Firmament Hall representative’s warning, and Yan Ming stepped forward as his opponent.
• Yan Ming attacked with a flaming spear, but Lin Heng absorbed much of its force with his defenses and spatial power.
• Lin Heng countered with the Killing Sword, wounding Yan Ming and making him spit blood.
• The Fire Clan representative and the other powers recognized the Killing Sword’s role in Lin Heng’s strength and speculated about the treasures and hidden backing he possessed.

Lin Heng continued to withstand Yan Ming’s attacks in the arena, growing stronger as he absorbed their force. The Fire Clan conceded the match, but Yan Ming ignored the decision and launched a full-powered strike at Lin Heng.

• The Firmament Hall representative identified the weapon in Lin Heng’s hand as Gao Moyan’s Killing Sword, drawing the other representatives’ attention to him.
• Yan Ming bombarded Lin Heng with spear attacks, but Lin Heng blocked them and absorbed their force, steadily growing stronger.
• Yan Ming gathered all his power for a decisive strike, and the Fire Clan representative ordered him to stop and conceded the match.
• Yan Ming rejected the concession and attacked Lin Heng with his full-powered Flame Dragon Break.
• Lin Heng welcomed Yan Ming’s renewed attack, expecting to absorb its power.

Lin Heng defeated Yan Ming by adapting Sun Yuan’s Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff technique to the Killing Sword, but a Fire Clan representative interrupted the unfinished fight. Lin Heng challenged the representative’s intervention before the watching sects, leaving the Fire Clan under public scrutiny.

• Yan Ming attacked Lin Heng with Flame Dragon Break, and Lin Heng imitated Sun Yuan’s technique to counter with waves of sword shadows.
• Lin Heng’s sword overwhelmed the flame dragon, but the Fire Clan representative intervened and knocked both fighters back, leaving Yan Ming unconscious.
• Lin Heng accused the representative of interfering after Yan Ming had attacked him, while the representative claimed he had ordered Yan Ming to concede.
• When the representative tried to leave with Yan Ming, Lin Heng demanded an explanation for interrupting the match before it was over.
• Lin Heng argued that the Fire Clan’s intervention dishonored those killed in earlier matches, and hundreds of sects turned their questioning gazes on the representative.

Lin Heng negotiated with the Fire Clan representative to spare Yan Ming, secretly securing a high-grade Origin Vein in exchange. After his arena matches ended, Situ Jiannan warned him that the representative might lack the authority to deliver it.

• The Fire Clan representative offered Lin Heng more Source Crystals to release Yan Ming, but Lin Heng demanded territory, Origin Veins, and additional crystals.
• Lin Heng and the representative privately agreed that Lin Heng would receive a high-grade Origin Vein, and Lin Heng left without killing Yan Ming.
• The representative told the gathered forces he would deliver twenty thousand Source Crystals, while Fire Clan members questioned whether he had made a secret deal.
• Lin Heng returned to the Qian Yuan Sect resting area, where Sun Yuan praised his fight against Yan Ming and offered to practice the Nine-Origin Overlapping Waves Staff with him.
• Lin Heng told Situ Jiannan about the agreement, and Situ Jiannan warned that the representative might not have authority to provide a high-grade Origin Vein.

Lin Heng advanced to the semifinals after Keluoduo surrendered, then learned that the Ant Race had found something unusual about the Origin Vein. He faced Longlong Yan next and realized the Rock Race fighter was trying to wear him down for Yu Changfeng, so Lin Heng threatened to kill him.

• Lin Heng dismissed Situ Jiannan’s worries about the Fire Clan, while Sun Yuan looked forward to fighting more Samsara Realm cultivators.
• After the arena defense battles, Lin Heng drew Keluoduo as his quarterfinal opponent, and Keluoduo surrendered rather than face him.
• Keluoduo privately told Lin Heng that the Ant Race had noticed something unusual about the Origin Vein, and Lin Heng agreed to discuss its secret later.
• Lin Heng and Yu Changfeng advanced to the semifinals, while the other quarterfinalists quickly settled their matches.
• Yu Changfeng’s opponent, Chang Shan, surrendered, while Longlong Yan continued fighting Lin Heng after apparently agreeing to help wear him down.
• Lin Heng confronted Longlong Yan with the Killing Sword and warned him to leave his life behind if he insisted on fighting.

Lin Heng fought Longlong Yan underground, where the Rock Race warrior gained a powerful advantage and revealed he had found the Heart of Rock Origin. Lin Heng checked in to obtain the same treasure and prepared to face Longlong Yan as he began to demonstrate its power.

• Longlong Yan dragged Lin Heng underground, where his strength doubled and darkness limited Lin Heng's soul-power detection.
• Longlong Yan told Lin Heng that Yu Changfeng had given him information about the lost Heart of Rock Origin, which he had recovered beneath the Soul-Burying Mountain Range.
• Longlong Yan explained that the Heart of Rock Origin could help restore the Rock Race to its former glory.
• Lin Heng checked in and received the Heart of Rock Origin, learning it could block a Heavenly Venerable attack and unleash a powerful strike.
• Lin Heng challenged Longlong Yan's confidence, and Longlong Yan announced that he would demonstrate the treasure's power.

Lin Heng defeated Longlong Yan after revealing his complete Heart of Rock Origin, then absorbed Longlong Yan’s broken Heart of Rock Origin. His victory left Yu Changfeng furious and the weakened Rock Race facing public scorn.

• Longlong Yan strengthened his origin of rock and suppressed Lin Heng, but Lin Heng used his complete Heart of Rock Origin to overcome the pressure and surge in power.
• Lin Heng froze Longlong Yan with Spacetime Solidification and killed him with a sword strike, then collected his broken Heart of Rock Origin.
• Lin Heng’s Heart of Rock Origin absorbed the broken one and grew stronger before Lin Heng returned to the surface.
• Yu Changfeng was stunned and cursed Longlong Yan when Lin Heng emerged alive and seemingly unharmed.
• Those present mocked the Rock Race, while its two remaining Samsara Realm cultivators could only endure the insults.

Lin Heng and Yu Changfeng fought for the tournament victory and supremacy among the Ninefold Heaven’s sects. Lin Heng shattered Yu Changfeng’s sword rain with the Nine-Origin Wave-Chasing Sword, forcing Yu Changfeng to sacrifice his blood to unleash his ultimate move.

• Lin Heng and Yu Changfeng entered the arena, where Yu Changfeng declared that he would kill Lin Heng before he could become a threat.
• Yu Changfeng attacked with Sword Rain Break, and his countless sword shadows gradually broke through Lin Heng’s blood sword barrier.
• Lin Heng used the Nine-Origin Wave-Chasing Sword to shatter the sword rain and send bloody sword light toward Yu Changfeng.
• Yu Changfeng answered with One Sword Silences the World, spitting his blood onto his longsword to merge his lifeblood with the weapon.

Lin Heng defeated and killed Yu Changfeng in the tournament, then won first place and the rights to territory and three Origin Veins. He planned to establish his sect in ten years, assigning Situ Jiannan to prepare the ceremony and resolving to recruit disciples from the lower realm.

• Lin Heng used the Heart of Rock Origin and his sword techniques to overpower Yu Changfeng and kill him with a final blood-colored tide.
• Chen Yulin announced Lin Heng as the tournament’s first-place winner and awarded his future sect territory and mining rights to three Origin Veins.
• Lin Heng chose the Qian Yuan Sect for the post-tournament banquet and invited the gathered sects to his sect’s founding ceremony ten years later.
• After the guests departed, Lin Heng and Sun Yuan complained about the banquet, and Situ Jiannan reminded Lin Heng to begin preparing for the ceremony.
• Lin Heng left the ceremony preparations to Situ Jiannan and said he would recruit disciples by visiting the lower realm and speaking with his mother and others.

Lin Heng and Sun Yuan confronted Fire Clan envoys Yan Chuan and Yan Yao after learning they had withheld most of the promised compensation. The chapter left Yan Yao injured and terrified as Sun Yuan prepared to strike again.

• Situ Jiannan told Lin Heng and Sun Yuan that two Fire Clan visitors had arrived with a hostile attitude.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan overheard Yan Yao boast that he had taken most of their compensation and that the Fire Clan could destroy Lin Heng.
• Yan Yao offered only two thousand Source Crystals and admitted he had taken resources from the promised twenty thousand, while the territory and Origin Veins were also missing.
• Yan Yao threatened Lin Heng and Sun Yuan with the Fire Clan's power, so Lin Heng pinned him with the Killing Sword and warned him about the Heavenly Venerable Origin Treasure.
• Sun Yuan punched Yan Yao in the face and raised a lightning-wreathed fist as Yan Yao trembled in fear.

Lin Heng learned that the Fire Clan had independently reneged on its promise to cede territory and an Origin Vein, so he devised a public humiliation for Yan Yao. Yan Lan prepared to retaliate against Lin Heng, but learned that Lin Heng and Sun Yuan had arrived at the Fire Clan headquarters with Yan Yao and were shaming the clan before a crowd.

• Yan Chuan left Yan Yao behind after Lin Heng threatened the Fire Clan, and Sun Yuan slapped Yan Yao and ordered him to answer questions only by nodding or shaking his head.
• Lin Heng learned from Yan Yao that the Fire Clan alone had decided not to hand over the territory and Origin Vein, then asked Situ Jiannan to fetch a bronze gong and hammer.
• Yan Chuan returned to the Fire Clan headquarters and told Yan Lan what had happened at the Qian Yuan Sect.
• Yan Lan became enraged and prepared to send Fire Clan experts to attack Lin Heng.
• A Fire Clan disciple reported that Lin Heng and Sun Yuan had brought Yan Yao to the headquarters, hung a bronze gong on him, and were shouting that the Fire Clan had no honor as onlookers gathered.

Yan Lan confronted Lin Heng and Sun Yuan over Yan Yao’s public denunciation, then killed Yan Yao and disputed the Fire Clan’s debt. Sun Yuan exposed that the clan had handed over only two thousand of the promised twenty thousand Source Crystals, and Yan Lan threatened to settle the dispute by force.

• Sun Yuan forced Yan Yao to denounce the Fire Clan publicly, and Yan Lan emerged and ordered him to stop.
• Yan Lan pulled Yan Yao toward him and killed him with a palm strike, then demanded to know what Lin Heng and Sun Yuan had done to him.
• Lin Heng asked why the Fire Clan had not delivered the promised territory and Origin Vein, while Yan Lan insisted the agreement had been for twenty thousand Source Crystals.
• Sun Yuan challenged Yan Chuan to confirm that the Fire Clan had paid the full amount, but Yan Chuan stayed silent.
• Sun Yuan revealed that Yan Yao had given them only two thousand Source Crystals, and Yan Lan blamed Yan Yao before threatening Lin Heng and Sun Yuan with violence.

Lin Heng secured twenty thousand Source Crystals from Yan Lan, but Yan Lan postponed the promised territory and Origin Vein for ten years. Liuyun Lan explained that Lin Heng’s claim would exceed the Ninefold Heaven’s territory limit, forcing him to challenge one of the thirteen factions.

• Liuyun Lan, Chen Yulin, and the other ascender factions backed Lin Heng, while most of the Eight Great Imperial Clans stayed out of the dispute.
• Yan Lan agreed to give Lin Heng twenty thousand Source Crystals immediately and the ten million li of territory and Origin Vein in ten years, when Lin Heng would have to prove he could take them.
• Yan Lan gave Lin Heng the Source Crystals and led the Fire Clan away, whose members left smiling.
• Liuyun Lan explained that the Ninefold Heaven limited ordinary factions to ninety million li of territory and required a faction seeking a hundred million li to defeat one of the thirteen factions.
• Liuyun Lan urged Lin Heng to cultivate for ten years and said he might then be strong enough to fight Yan Lan.

After the Fire Clan broke its promise, Lin Heng prepared the Qian Yuan Sect for a future confrontation and planned to gather resources for Sun Yuan. Keluoduo then visited to discuss the Origin Vein, but Lin Heng challenged his hesitation and warned him not to scheme.

• Sun Yuan told Situ Jiannan how the Fire Clan had deceived them, and Lin Heng said he would confront the clan rather than back down.
• Lin Heng assigned Situ Jiannan preparations for the sect, disciple training, and an intelligence network focused on the Ninefold Heaven's thirteen powers.
• Sun Yuan said that sufficient resources could help him reach the Seventh- or Eighth-Transformation Samsara Realm within ten years, and Lin Heng gave him Source Crystals and a spirit herb.
• Lin Heng gave Situ Jiannan the remaining spirit herbs and lesser treasures to manage for the sect, then said he planned to travel the Ninefold Heaven and gather resources.
• Keluoduo came to the Qian Yuan Sect to investigate the Origin Vein with Lin Heng, but hesitated when asked what it contained.
• Lin Heng threatened Keluoduo against deceiving him, and Keluoduo turned pale.

Keluoduo told Lin Heng that an Origin Soul Spirit might be hidden in the Origin Vein and explained its immense value. Lin Heng agreed to give Keluoduo a Heavenly Venerable Origin Treasure if he found it, and Keluoduo swore to keep the secret.

• Keluoduo explained that an Origin Soul Spirit could continuously produce resources and that the thirteen powers had fought deadly battles over the rare treasure.
• Lin Heng offered Keluoduo a reward for helping him locate the Origin Soul Spirit.
• Keluoduo asked for a Heavenly Venerable Origin Treasure to improve his chances of breaking through.
• Keluoduo offered to borrow the treasure for thirty million years and promised not to reveal their deal or the Origin Soul Spirit.
• Lin Heng agreed to give Keluoduo the treasure once he found the Origin Soul Spirit, provided Keluoduo swore to keep it secret.
• Keluoduo swore on his soul that he would not disclose the matter, or heavenly lightning would strike down the Ant Race.