Chapter Summaries

Yan Lang devoured about a thousand energy beings to strengthen his Fire Dragon's Furious Charge, while Lin Heng welcomed the attack because he could absorb Yan Lang's refined energy. The fire dragon swallowed Lin Heng, but when it vanished, Lin Heng remained unharmed and seemed to have enjoyed the attack, leaving Yan Lang unable to believe what he saw.

• Yan Lang frantically devoured the beings in the Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array, while Lin Heng waited excitedly to absorb the energy Yan Lang refined.
• After swallowing roughly a thousand beings, Yan Lang unleashed Fire Dragon's Furious Charge and formed a ten-thousand-meter Flame Dragon.
• The Flame Dragon plunged down and swallowed Lin Heng as Yan Lang expected the attack to kill him.
• When the Flame Dragon disappeared, Lin Heng was still standing with his arms spread and eyes closed, seemingly enjoying the attack.
• Yan Lang repeatedly checked his eyes but could not accept that Lin Heng had survived unharmed.

Lin Heng absorbed Yan Lang’s attacks and used their energy to break through from the Seventh-Grade to the Eighth-Grade Heavenly Venerable Realm. Yan Lang realized that Lin Heng could absorb his attacks, while Sun Yuan and the Nether Ancestor Puppet continued holding off two Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables.

• Lin Heng endured Yan Lang’s attack unharmed, while Sun Yuan called for help as two Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables forced him onto the defensive.
• Lin Heng sent the Nether Ancestor Puppet to assist Sun Yuan, allowing Sun Yuan to counterattack alongside it.
• Lin Heng taunted Yan Lang into attacking again, and Yan Lang sucked in thousands of living beings before forming a powerful flame lotus.
• Lin Heng charged into the flame lotus and absorbed its energy before Yan Lang could detonate it.
• Lin Heng broke through to the Eighth-Grade Heavenly Venerable Realm, and Yan Lang realized that Lin Heng had absorbed the energy of his attacks.

Lin Heng faced Yan Lang after discovering that a Fire Clan expert had secretly lent him power, and learned that the expert was Yan Zhanfeng, one of the Fire Clan's Eight Generals. As Yan Zhanfeng attacked through Yan Lang's body, Lin Heng summoned the Origin of Water to counter his flames, but Yan Zhanfeng prepared an equally massive fire tornado.

• Lin Heng sensed Cosmic Origin Energy entering Yan Lang and realized that a Fire Clan expert had intervened.
• Yan Zhanfeng spoke through Yan Lang, declared that the Fire Clan intended to kill Lin Heng, and revealed his identity as the General Who Rides the Wind and Slashes, Bathed in Fire.
• Lin Heng judged that Yan Zhanfeng could only use part of his strength through Yan Lang's body and challenged him with the Eight-Origin Heaven-Piercing Spear.
• Yan Zhanfeng surrounded Lin Heng with flaming tornadoes, and Lin Heng answered with the Surging Milky Way Descends from Heaven and the Water Venerable Manifestation.
• Yan Zhanfeng acknowledged Lin Heng's Origin of Water but argued that it could not overcome their difference in strength, then merged his flames into a tornado as large as Lin Heng's divine statue.

Lin Heng fought Yan Zhanfeng, then used his nascent comprehension of the Dao Realm to trap him in an illusion of suffocation and death. A more powerful Dao Realm intervened, rescued Yan Zhanfeng, and left Lin Heng facing the arrival of over ten formidable presences.

• Yan Zhanfeng attacked with a flame tornado, but Lin Heng stopped it with Water Venerable's Wrath and countered with Heavenly Water Destroys the World.
• Yan Zhanfeng used Three Surging Flame Eruptions to vaporize Lin Heng's floodwater and blast him thousands of meters away.
• Lin Heng realized Yan Zhanfeng's attacks drew on a power beyond the Origin of Fire, then invoked the Heavenly Dao and trapped Yan Zhanfeng within his Dao Realm.
• Yan Zhanfeng began to lose the will to live in Lin Heng's Dao Realm, but a stronger Dao Realm shattered the Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array and pulled him free.
• Yan Zhanfeng's cosmic essence detached from Yan Lang and vanished into the clouds, while Yan Lang and two Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerables exploded.
• A voice warned Lin Heng that the Fire Clan would kill him next time, and more than ten formidable presences appeared before him.

After Lin Heng survived the Fire Clan’s attempt to kill him, Ao Zhantian arrived and learned what had happened, then left to discuss the Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array with the other parties. Lin Heng and Sun Yuan decided to retaliate against a force subordinate to the Fire Clan, with the Nether Ancestor Puppet as their weapon.

• Yan Zhanfeng escaped, while Yan Lang and two other ninth-grade Heavenly Venerables were killed to eliminate witnesses.
• Ao Zhantian arrived with Firmament Hall experts, confirmed Lin Heng was safe, and heard his account of the battle.
• Lin Heng said he could have killed Yan Zhanfeng if the mysterious Fire Clan expert had not intervened, astonishing Ao Zhantian and his followers.
• Ao Zhantian said the Heavenly Ghost Fire Spirit Array’s flags remained and announced that he would return to the First Heaven to consult the other parties.
• Lin Heng explained that Firmament Hall’s arrival had also warned the Eight Great Imperial Clans that they were watching him.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan chose to target a Fire Clan subordinate force seventy million li southwest, planning to use the Nether Ancestor Puppet to carry out their retaliation.

Lin Heng gathered valuable rewards by checking in across the Fire Clan's grounds, then sent the Nether Ancestor Puppet to attack the Fire Ghost Clan as part of his revenge. The puppet threatened the clan leader and killed a cultivator who challenged it at the gates.

• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan agreed to take the Nether Ancestor Puppet to a Fire Clan subordinate force and cause trouble under the guise of visiting for tea.
• Lin Heng checked in at locations across the Fire Clan's sect grounds and collected rewards he said would cover the sect's expenses for a hundred years.
• Lin Heng, Sun Yuan, and the Nether Ancestor Puppet left for the Fire Ghost Clan, where Lin Heng planned to make the Battle Heaven Pavilion's counterattack public without exposing himself or Sun Yuan.
• The Nether Ancestor Puppet demanded that Mei Chu come out and threatened to destroy the Fire Ghost Clan if she did not appear within ten breaths.
• A male cultivator challenged the puppet over its violation of the Eighth Heaven's unwritten rules, and the puppet revealed its Heavenly Venerable Realm power and crushed him.

Lin Heng sent the Nether Ancestor Puppet to demand the Fire Ghost Clan submit or be destroyed. After the clan leader Mei Chu rejected the ultimatum and Jin Buhuan intervened, Jin Buhuan launched a sword attack, leaving the confrontation poised for the puppet's response.

• The Nether Ancestor Puppet killed a Samsara man, and the blast wounded two Fire Ghost Clan women before more than a hundred powerful men gathered.
• Lin Heng identified Mei Chu as the Fire Ghost Clan's leader and demanded that her clan pledge loyalty or be destroyed.
• Mei Chu invoked the Fire Clan's protection, while Liu Yuan said he did not recognize the attacker as an ascender.
• Lin Heng began counting down, and Jin Buhuan stepped forward to defend Mei Chu and challenge the Nether Ancestor Puppet.
• Jin Buhuan drew his golden sword and thrust it toward the Nether Ancestor Puppet's brow.

The Nether Ancestor Puppet intimidated the Fire Ghost Clan and ordered the Fire Clan’s subordinate factions to submit within three days. Mei Chu met Lin Heng, who demanded she explain her worth to the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

• The Nether Ancestor Puppet caught Jin Buhuan’s golden longsword barehanded, then dismissed his attempt to call the attack a spar.
• The Nether Ancestor Puppet gave Mei Chu a three-day ultimatum for the Fire Clan’s subordinate factions to submit and arranged a meeting with her through Lin Heng’s voice transmission.
• Mei Chu dismissed the gathered cultivators, gave her disciples instructions, and left to meet Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan discussed Jin Buhuan and the Fire Ghost Clan, and Lin Heng said he would kill Mei Chu if she had no use.
• Mei Chu arrived at Lin Heng and Sun Yuan’s mountain peak, where Lin Heng identified himself as Battle Heaven Pavilion’s master and ordered her to state her worth.

Mei Chu pledged the Fire Ghost Clan’s loyalty to Lin Heng and revealed how the Fire Clan had exploited and oppressed her people for generations. After learning that Lin Heng had killed Yan Lang, the man who had violated her, she broke down in tears, while Lin Heng understood why she had sought his protection.

• Lin Heng reminded Mei Chu of the Fire Clan’s repeated defeats by the Battle Heaven Pavilion, persuading her that his faction could help her people.
• Mei Chu swore loyalty to Lin Heng and asked him to save the Fire Ghost Clan from its suffering.
• Mei Chu explained that the Fire Clan had forced Fire Ghost women to provide cultivation benefits, then slaughtered the clan’s peak experts when they resisted.
• Mei Chu revealed that Yan Lang had violated her when she was a Sixth-Grade Heavenly Venerable, causing her cultivation to fall while his rose.
• Lin Heng told Mei Chu that Yan Lang was dead, and she wept with relief and emotion.

Mei Chu pledged the Fire Ghost Clan’s loyalty to Lin Heng, who rewarded her with treasures and made clear that he wanted a loyal subordinate rather than the clan’s women. Back at the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng and Situ Jiannan prepared a plan to target the Fire Clan’s allies under cover of the Nether Ancestor Puppet’s disruptions, while Mei Chu arrived with what Lin Heng needed and Situ Jiannan asked him to treat her illness.

• Mei Chu offered half the Fire Ghost Clan’s women to Lin Heng, but he said he wanted the clan’s loyalty, not women to aid cultivation.
• Lin Heng and Sun Yuan disappeared, leaving Mei Chu Heavenly Venerable Origin Treasures and ancient materials; Mei Chu kowtowed in gratitude.
• Lin Heng returned to the Battle Heaven Pavilion with Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan inferred that Lin Heng hoped Mei Chu would offer up the Fire Clan’s connections.
• Situ Jiannan arranged to bring ten thousand disciples from the Ninefold Heaven to oversee construction and free three thousand Samsara disciples for Lin Heng’s orders.
• Lin Heng told Sun Yuan that the Nether Ancestor Puppet’s attacks could serve as a pretext for the Battle Heaven Pavilion to target sects allied with the Fire Clan, while concealing its role.
• Mei Chu arrived at the pavilion with what Lin Heng needed, and Situ Jiannan asked Lin Heng to give her a spirit pill to help restore her strength.

Lin Heng realized Situ Jiannan was interested in Mei Chu and encouraged him to pursue her, while ordering Battle Heaven Pavilion forces to protect the Fire Ghost Clan and attack the Fire Clan’s allies. As Situ Jiannan left with a bottle of pills for Mei Chu, Lin Heng prepared to crush the rumors and slander he expected to threaten their relationship.

• Situ Jiannan asked Lin Heng for fifty-million-year-old medicinal herbs for Mei Chu, but Lin Heng angrily refused, and Mei Chu stopped Situ from pressing the request.
• Lin Heng revealed that he had only pretended to be angry and warned Situ not to be too obvious about his feelings for Mei Chu.
• Lin Heng told Situ about Mei Chu’s past, and Situ said he accepted her despite what she had endured.
• Lin Heng ordered Situ to send ten thousand Ninefold Heaven disciples to the Eighth Heaven, with three thousand Samsara disciples guarding the Fire Ghost Clan and the rest of the operation targeting the Fire Clan’s subordinate forces and allies.
• Lin Heng gave Situ a bottle of sixty-million-year-old pills for Mei Chu and resolved to eliminate the rumors and slander that might hinder their relationship.

Lin Heng prepared the Battle Heaven Pavilion for conflict while Sun Yuan entered seclusion to strengthen himself. As Lin Heng began provoking the Eight Great Imperial Clans, a mysterious killer targeted the Fire Clan’s allied sects, until the Fire Clan set a trap for it.

• Lin Heng defended Situ Jiannan and Mei Chu’s relationship, then gave Sun Yuan ancient pills and herbs as Sun Yuan entered seclusion to pursue the Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerable Realm.
• Lin Heng inferred that the Five Ascender Factions wanted to use him to pressure the Eight Great Imperial Clans, but he vowed not to limit his retaliation against the Fire Clan.
• Situ Jiannan began summoning Ninefold Heaven disciples to build the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s grounds, and led three thousand Samsara Realm disciples away the next day.
• Lin Heng visited the sect grounds of the Fire Clan, the other imperial clans, and the ascender factions, alarming the Eight Great Imperial Clans with his repeated visits.
• A mysterious Heavenly Venerable slaughtered more than a dozen Fire Clan-aligned sects in three days, while the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s disciples failed to save them.
• At the Earth Flame Sect, the Nether Ancestor Puppet faced an activated protective formation and was surrounded by more than a hundred Samsara Realm cultivators, including two Heavenly Venerables.

Ao Lie and the Battle Heaven Pavilion attacked the Earth Flame Sect after Lin Heng told them to find an excuse, then used the Nether Ancestor Puppet to draw the Fire Clan into the battle. The puppet fought Yan Fang and the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Venerables while the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s formations overwhelmed the scattered forces, leaving the Fire Clan and Earth Flame Sect trapped and being slaughtered.

• Yan Fang confronted the Nether Ancestor Puppet outside the Earth Flame Sect, and the sect master led his disciples out as the Battle Heaven Pavilion arrived.
• After Lin Heng told him to find an excuse, Ao Lie claimed the Nether Ancestor Puppet had controlled the Earth Flame Sect and ordered his disciples to attack.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion’s five formations overwhelmed the Earth Flame Sect, and the Nether Ancestor Puppet killed the sect master with a surprise attack.
• As Yan Fang’s Fire Clan members charged in, Ao Lie declared that they too had fallen under the fiend’s influence, while the puppet engaged the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Venerables.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion scattered the Fire Clan and Earth Flame Sect forces, then blocked their escape as its disciples continued the slaughter.

After the Fire Clan’s defeat at the Earth Flame Sect, Yan Luo tried to enlist the other seven imperial clans against the Battle Heaven Pavilion, but they left him to confront Lin Heng with only a small escort. Lin Heng appeared at the pavilion and turned his power toward Yan Luo.

• Yan Luo asked the seven imperial clans to help him seek justice for the Fire Clan, and they urged him to lead the demand while offering support from behind.
• The seven clans discussed avoiding a direct conflict, then sent most of their disciples away and followed Yan Luo with only a few experts.
• Lin Xiao and Miao Jingkong informed Lin Heng that Yan Luo was approaching the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Lin Heng left to prepare a welcome for the Fire Clan.
• Yan Luo arrived with several dozen Fire Clan members, threatened to raze the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and demanded that Lin Heng explain himself.
• Lin Heng emerged from the pavilion and unleashed a vast surge of energy that locked onto Yan Luo.

Lin Heng and Ao Lie confronted Yan Luo and the other imperial clans over the Earth Flame Sect incident and the deaths of Fire Clan members. Ao Lie defended Battle Heaven Pavilion’s actions, leaving the Fire Clan unable to press its accusation and the other clans preparing to depart.

• Lin Heng restrained Yan Luo with overwhelming Source Power, then released him as members of the seven imperial clans arrived.
• Lin Heng asked whether the clans had come with the Fire Clan, and the Water Race said they were investigating the Earth Flame Sect incident.
• Ao Lie claimed the fiend had controlled Earth Flame Sect cultivators and that Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples had killed them to protect the Eighth Heaven.
• Yan Luo accused Battle Heaven Pavilion of killing Fire Clan members, and Ao Lie admitted it while arguing that they had been controlled by the fiend.
• Ao Lie denied killing the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Venerable experts and claimed Battle Heaven Pavilion’s arrays had protected its own disciples from the fiend’s demonic art.
• Lin Heng asked whether there was anything else to discuss, and the seven imperial clans prepared to leave after Yan Luo failed to make his case.

Lin Heng stopped Yan Luo from leaving the Battle Heaven Pavilion and negotiated a secret deal for information and the lives of the Fire Clan’s Four Lords and Eight Generals. Yan Luo left after staging an injury, while the other imperial clans departed unaware that the ascender factions had watched the confrontation.

• As the seven great imperial clans prepared to leave, Lin Heng stopped Yan Luo and demanded an explanation for the Fire Clan’s actions.
• Yan Luo apologized and secretly offered to reveal the Fire Clan’s plans against Lin Heng in exchange for being spared.
• Yan Luo offered the lives of the Four Lords and Eight Generals for three ancient spiritual herbs and a million Source Stones, and Lin Heng agreed to pay after Yan Luo delivered one of them.
• Lin Heng struck Yan Luo to make their agreement look like a punishment, and Yan Luo left with the Fire Clan while feigning resentment.
• The other imperial clans departed, unaware that the five ascender factions had watched the confrontation through mystic light mirrors.

Yan Luo secretly visited Lin Heng, gave him intelligence about the Fire Clan, and warned that an envoy had descended from the upper realm. After Yan Luo left, Lin Heng found an item in his storage ring and prepared a gift for the Fire Clan.

• Lin Heng gave Yan Luo thirty-million-year-old spirit pills, and Yan Luo traded him a jade slip detailing the Fire Clan's Four Lords and Eight Generals.
• Yan Luo told Lin Heng that powerful Fire Clan experts, including one of the Four Lords and Eight Generals, would soon descend to take over the Eighth Heaven.
• Yan Luo offered to uncover the Fire Clan's plans against Lin Heng and suggested using Yan Jian's illegitimate son as bait to lure Yan Jian down.
• Yan Luo said the Fire Clan had abandoned plans to strike back directly after people from the Firmament Hall visited them.
• Yan Luo received word that an upper-realm envoy had arrived and hurried away, warning Lin Heng to prepare.
• Lin Heng searched his storage ring, found an item, and resolved to present it as a gift to the Fire Clan.

Lin Heng prepared the Battle Heaven Pavilion for a Fire Clan assault by activating the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation and rallying its disciples. The attack began with a blazing strike that the formation repelled, and dozens of figures appeared overhead, with Yan Luo among them.

• Lin Heng used the Origin of Water and the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples' Source Power to prepare the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation after Yan Luo warned him that the Fire Clan was coming.
• Lin Heng ordered Ao Lie to place the disciples in the formation and explained that the Four Lords had sealed the area, preventing outside help and communication.
• The Battle Heaven Pavilion's disciples took their positions, and Lin Heng strengthened the formation's core with the Origin of Water.
• A huge fire descended on the sect, but the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation rose and pushed back the flames.
• Lin Heng unleashed Heavenly Flow Undercurrent Surge to reinforce the formation, and dozens of figures appeared overhead, including Yan Luo at the back.

Lin Heng faced a powerful Fire Clan force led by the clones of Primordial generals Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming, who attacked the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation. When the formation proved genuine and held firm, the generals suspected the Water Race had aided Lin Heng and wondered how he had learned of their surprise attack.

• Lin Heng assessed the Fire Clan force and concluded that Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming were good and evil clones rather than the generals’ originals.
• Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming taunted Lin Heng, but he refused to back down and challenged them to attack the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Yan Juetian ordered Yan Ye and four Eighth-Grade Heavenly Venerables to test the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation.
• The five joined their attacks into a flaming tiger, but its strike only made the formation tremble briefly before it stabilized.
• Yan Juetian recognized the formation as a genuine Water Race inheritance, while Yan Xuanming questioned how Lin Heng had prepared for their secret attack; Yan Luo trembled at the possibility of a Fire Clan spy.

Yan Juetian used the Flame Dragon Break to destroy the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation protecting Battle Heaven Pavilion. Lin Heng stopped the resulting firestorm and confronted Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming, revealing that he controlled all eight Powers of Origin.

• Yan Juetian suspected a traitor in the Fire Clan, but Yan Xuanming suggested other clans might have helped Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Yan Juetian ordered the attack to continue.
• Yan Ye and the other attackers joined dozens of Heavenly Venerables in striking the Profound Ice Heaven-Defending Formation, but the formation withstood their combined assault.
• Yan Juetian unleashed Flame Dragon Break, shattering the formation with the dragon's head and tail.
• Lin Heng extinguished the Origin of Fire storm with the Origin of Water, though the effort consumed forty percent of his Source Power.
• Lin Heng rose to face Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming with the Eight-Origin Heaven-Piercing Spear, and the two Venerables recognized that he wielded all eight Powers of Origin.