Chapter Summaries

As the Fire Clan surrounded the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng touched the threshold of the Primordial Realm through the disciples’ hopes, prompting Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming to attack him together. Their hidden good selves stabbed Lin Heng, but as he fell, his bloodline began healing him and dragon and tiger roars sounded from within him.

• Yan Xuanming ordered the Fire Clan experts to surround the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Ao Lie and the disciples vowed to stand with Lin Heng.
• The disciples’ determination helped Lin Heng gain an initial insight into the Primordial Realm, alarming Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming.
• Yan Juetian and Yan Xuanming attacked Lin Heng, and he summoned eight origin-formed venerables to defend himself.
• The two Fire Clan experts unleashed their strongest abilities and burned away Lin Heng’s eight venerables.
• Yan Juetian’s and Yan Xuanming’s hidden good selves emerged and stabbed Lin Heng, revealing that four Primordial Realm experts had come to kill him.
• As Lin Heng fell, his bloodline began healing his injuries, and dragon and tiger roars rang out from his body.

After surviving the Fire Clan’s attack with the Dragon-Tiger Destruction Spirit Pill, Lin Heng entered a state of enlightenment as his cultivation surged. The Nether Ancestor Puppet was destroyed protecting him, and Sun Yuan flew to face the four Primordial Realm avatars while Lin Heng remained unable to act.

• Lin Heng’s Dragon-Tiger Destruction Spirit Pill activated, and the Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples’ cheers and prayers helped him enter a state of enlightenment as his cultivation rose.
• Yan Juetian’s malevolent avatar hurled a fireball at Lin Heng to stop him from breaking through to the Primordial Realm.
• The Nether Ancestor Puppet blocked the fireball and was burned to nothing by the Origin of Fire.
• Ao Lie prepared to charge to Lin Heng’s defense, but Sun Yuan stopped him and said he and the disciples must remain Lin Heng’s last line of defense.
• Sun Yuan told Lin Heng he would carry his will to the summit, then rose to confront the four avatars.

Sun Yuan confronted Yan Xuanming’s malevolent clone to buy Lin Heng time, revealing the Five-Spirit Fierce Ape’s strongest combat form and striking with enough force to threaten a Primordial Chaos expert. He was overwhelmed and left on the ground as Yan Xuanming sent a flaming sword to kill him.

• Sun Yuan fought Yan Xuanming’s malevolent clone and was knocked back, realizing the gap in their strength.
• Sun Yuan challenged Yan Xuanming to withstand one strike from his staff, and Yan Xuanming agreed after recognizing Sun Yuan was trying to stall for Lin Heng.
• Sun Yuan transformed into the Five-Spirit Fierce Ape’s strongest combat form and unleashed the Heaven-Shocking Staff Strike.
• Yan Xuanming raised a flame barrier and endured the strike, while Sun Yuan was wounded, disarmed, and hurled to the ground.
• Sun Yuan accepted that he had reached his limit as Yan Xuanming formed a flaming sword and sent it toward him.

Lin Heng broke through to the Primordial Realm and saved Sun Yuan from Yan Xuanming's evil clone. He trapped the four Fire Clan clones in the Eight-Origin Heavenly Desolation Sword Formation, which began cutting them off from outside Source Power and draining their own Power of Origin.

• Lin Heng stopped Yan Xuanming's evil clone from killing Sun Yuan by halting the flaming flying sword.
• Lin Heng revealed that his soul had reached the Primordial Realm and shattered the flying sword.
• Lin Heng summoned eight Origin flying swords and used the Eight-Origin Heaven-Piercing Spear to form the Eight-Origin Heavenly Desolation Sword Formation.
• The four clones discovered that the formation blocked them from absorbing outside Source Power and began drawing away the Power of Origin within their bodies.

Lin Heng used the Eight-Origin Heavenly Desolation Sword Formation to overwhelm the four Fire Clan clones and turn his attention to the Fire Clan cultivators trapped inside. The chapter ended with him sealing Yan Ye and the others in a cage of light.

• Yan Xuanming's evil clone tested Lin Heng's sword formation, but Lin Heng's flaming sword repelled his strike.
• Lin Heng attacked Yan Xuanming's evil clone with the Origin of Water, then the formation's flying swords of all eight Origins attacked all four clones.
• The four clones struggled to evade the thirty-two flying swords while Lin Heng turned toward Yan Ye and the Fire Clan's Heavenly Venerable Realm cultivators.
• The clones objected as Lin Heng prepared to attack the cultivators, but Lin Heng rebuked them for ganging up on him and trapping his disciples.
• Lin Heng summoned eight pillars of Origin light that formed a cage around Yan Ye and the other Fire Clan cultivators.

Lin Heng strengthened the Eight-Origin Heavenly Desolation Sword Formation by absorbing the Fire Clan experts’ attacks, then sent the four great clones into a desperate clash with a fire phoenix they had summoned. The chapter ended as the phoenix and eight Origin flying swords rushed toward each other.

• Yan Xuanming's evil clone realized the sword formation absorbed the experts’ attacks and warned Yan Ye and the others to stop.
• Lin Heng revealed that their attacks had already fed the formation and combined the thirty-two flying swords into eight enlarged Origin flying swords.
• The four great clones discussed the formation’s ability to absorb Origin Power and decided they had to attack before their strength ran out.
• Yan Juetian's good clone led the four great clones in gathering the Origin of Fire into a fire phoenix.
• Lin Heng used Dragon Roar and Tiger Howl to overpower the phoenix’s cry, and the four clones launched Flame Phoenix Break as the eight Origin flying swords descended to meet it.

Lin Heng’s sword formation defeated the four Fire Clan Primordial Realm clones, who escaped and abandoned the trapped Heavenly Venerable experts. Lin Heng and Sun Yuan then considered using the captives to hurt the Fire Clan and extract a profit.

• The eight Origin flying swords devoured the fire phoenix and overwhelmed the four clones’ combined attack.
• Yan Juetian’s good clone proposed retreating, and Yan Xuanming’s good clone asked what would happen to Yan Ye and the other trapped experts.
• Yan Juetian’s evil clone chose to abandon the Heavenly Venerable experts, and all four clones escaped through their spiritual seas’ small worlds.
• Sun Yuan arrived beside Lin Heng and questioned why he had stayed to protect his disciples instead of escaping earlier.
• Sun Yuan asked how Lin Heng would deal with the captives, and Lin Heng proposed keeping them alive to pressure the Fire Clan and gain a profit.

Lin Heng forced the Fire Clan's captured Heavenly Venerables to surrender their valuables and warned the clan to pay within three days or receive their corpses. He then sent Situ Jiannan to question Yan Luo about the captives' value, leaving Yan Luo alarmed by the possibility that he alone would be released.

• After the Fire Clan's four Primordial Realm experts fled, Lin Heng offered their captured Heavenly Venerables a chance to live in exchange for their storage rings and natal Origin Treasures.
• Yan Hua and the other captives surrendered their valuables, and Yan Ye gave in after Lin Heng threatened him; Lin Heng demanded that the Fire Clan show sincerity within three days.
• Situ Jiannan returned to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and Lin Heng told him to learn how much the Fire Clan would pay for the captives.
• Situ Jiannan privately told Yan Luo that Lin Heng might release him even if the other Fire Clan Heavenly Venerables died, leaving Yan Luo worried about how the clan would interpret his survival.

Yan Luo warned Situ Jiannan that the Fire Clan would negotiate to save its captured Heavenly Venerables, and Situ Jiannan used Yan Juetian’s visit to demand greater compensation. Yan Juetian finally handed over the rest of the Fire Clan’s offer after Situ Jiannan threatened to return the prisoners as corpses.

• Yan Luo urged Situ Jiannan to demand a high ransom for the Fire Clan’s captured Heavenly Venerables and estimated their value in Origin Treasures.
• A Fire Clan visitor arrived, and the Battle Heaven Pavilion sent a First-Turn Samsara disciple to escort Yan Juetian into the side hall.
• Situ Jiannan insulted Yan Juetian by refusing him a seat and rejected the storage ring he offered as insufficient compensation.
• Yan Juetian asked how much compensation the Battle Heaven Pavilion wanted, but Situ Jiannan told him to decide since the Fire Clan was asking for a favor.
• Yan Juetian produced another storage ring containing the compensation he had secretly held back.

Yan Juetian paid the Battle Heaven Pavilion additional compensation to secure the release of the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Venerable experts. Situ Jiannan then staged a public farewell ceremony that threatened to expose the Fire Clan’s secret setback, leaving Yan Juetian furious.

• Situ Jiannan accepted the Fire Clan’s apology gifts and pressed Yan Juetian for a personal apology gift before releasing the captives.
• Yan Juetian handed over a valuable gift, and Situ Jiannan promised to return the Fire Clan’s experts intact.
• After an hour’s delay, fireworks erupted over the Battle Heaven Pavilion, drawing attention to the sect.
• A disciple told Situ Jiannan that the Fire Clan seniors were attending a farewell ceremony outside the sect.
• Yan Juetian realized the ceremony would expose his visit and the Fire Clan’s dealings with the Battle Heaven Pavilion, then angrily confronted Situ Jiannan.

Yan Juetian left the Battle Heaven Pavilion after being forced into a costly deal, and rumors of a secret alliance with the Fire Clan spread across the Eighth Heaven. Ao Zhantian met Lin Heng to learn what had happened and warned him that the Fire Clan could attack again.

• Yan Juetian angrily took Yan Ye and the other Fire Clan experts away from the Battle Heaven Pavilion after Situ Jiannan taunted him about their transaction.
• Watching forces spread conflicting rumors across the Eighth Heaven, including claims that the Fire Clan and Battle Heaven Pavilion had formed an alliance or marriage pact.
• At the Mirror Flower Water Moon Pavilion, the seven imperial clan patriarchs debated Yan Juetian’s visit and the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s survival, then decided to wait for the Fire Clan’s explanation and the Lei Clan Saint Emperor’s father’s return.
• Ao Zhantian met Lin Heng at a mountain cliff and heard how the Fire Clan had launched its surprise attack and later paid compensation.
• Ao Zhantian warned Lin Heng that the Fire Clan might attack again, while Lin Heng said he had chosen to fight his way toward the First Heaven; Ao Zhantian recalled his own similar resolve.

Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that the Five Ascender Factions would support him, and Lin Heng decided to leave the Battle Heaven Pavilion to search for treasures for his avatars and strengthen his cultivation. The blue-robed Lord Yu ordered Ao Zhantian to stop secretly protecting Lin Heng and let him face his own trials.

• Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that the ascenders would back his actions, even if they brought war with the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
• Ao Zhantian reported to Lord Yu, who revealed that he could not clearly divine Lin Heng's fate and instructed Ao Zhantian to stop protecting him in secret.
• Lin Heng decided to leave the Battle Heaven Pavilion to find natural treasures for his good and evil avatars before returning to break through to the Primordial Realm.
• Lin Heng promised to return within a hundred years and assigned Ao Lie, Sun Yuan, and Situ Jiannan responsibilities for the pavilion and its disciples.

Lin Heng obtained the Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus at the Drifting Snow Mountain Range, giving him a treasure for housing his evil clone. He went to the Lei Clan seeking a treasure for his good clone, but his excuse for visiting drew a surprised question from two guards.

• Lin Heng heard the legend of Ao Zhantian’s bloody battle against the Eight Great Imperial Clans at the Drifting Snow Mountain Range and went there to sign in.
• Lin Heng obtained the Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus, which Ao Zhantian had used to house his Primordial evil self, and wondered how Ao Zhantian had reached the Primordial Realm.
• Lin Heng spent half a month signing in across the Drifting Snow Mountain Range but failed to find a treasure for his good self.
• Lin Heng decided to seek a supreme thunder treasure from the Lei Clan and traveled to a point ten thousand miles from its sect.
• Two Second-Grade Heavenly Venerable experts stopped Lin Heng, and he said he had come to look at the Lei Clan’s sect and learn from its construction.
• One of the Lei Clan experts asked Lin Heng why he had come when construction of the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s sect had already been completed.

Lin Heng accepted Lei Nuo’s invitation to the Lei Clan, where Lei Nuo offered him a guest elder position on behalf of the clan’s forefather. The forefather promised that Lin Heng could reach the pinnacle of the Nine Heavens within a million years if he agreed.

• Lin Heng learned that the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s sect grounds had already been completed and met Lei Nuo, the Lei Clan’s representative in the Eighth Heaven.
• Lei Nuo invited Lin Heng into the Lei Clan’s grounds and welcomed him with a lavish meal.
• After drinking together, Lei Nuo asked Lin Heng about his plans and offered him a guest elder position with access to the clan’s resources.
• Lin Heng questioned why the Lei Clan was recruiting him, and Lei Nuo explained that the proposal came from the clan’s forefather.
• Lei Nuo relayed the forefather’s promise that Lin Heng would reach the pinnacle of the Nine Heavens within a million years if he joined.

Lin Heng rejected Lei Nuo’s invitation to join the Lei Clan and searched for a treasure to house his Primordial Chaos avatar. After learning about the Demon-Sealing Deathland, he arrived at the site of a sect the Lei Clan had destroyed and found its dead spirits trapped in two tormenting arrays.

• Lei Nuo offered to take Lin Heng to the Seventh Heaven, but Lin Heng refused to submit to the Lei Clan and left its grounds.
• Lei Nuo explained that an important figure had been watching Lin Heng, so the clan had let him go rather than risk interference.
• Lin Heng contacted Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao to ask about treasures that could house his Primordial Chaos avatar, but they knew of no available source beyond sacred lands or trading with the Thirteen Factions.
• Miao Jingkong and Lin Xiao told Lin Heng about the Demon-Sealing Deathland, where the Lei Clan had destroyed a sect and trapped its dead spirits.
• Lin Heng traveled to the Demon-Sealing Deathland and saw that the Soul-Locking Array and Soul-Devouring Array kept the spirits imprisoned and in torment.

Lin Heng entered the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s former site, signed in to obtain Pure Jade Bone, and was mistaken for a Lei Clan member by the trapped souls. When the sect’s spirits attacked, Lin Heng fought back with all eight Powers of Origin, shocking their leader.

• Lin Heng slipped through the Lei Clan’s arrays and signed in at the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s former site, receiving Pure Jade Bone that required pure soul power to activate.
• Lin Heng approached the mountain and tried to explain to the sect’s spirit that he was an ascender, but it accused him of serving the Lei Clan.
• Lin Heng challenged the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s account of its women seeking cultivation resources, then suspected the Lei Clan had spread false rumors about the sect.
• The sect’s spirit sent thousands of Heavenly Venerable dead spirits against Lin Heng, and they merged into a giant soul body that struck his shield.
• Lin Heng summoned the Eight-Origin Heaven-Piercing Spear and clashed with the soul body’s Yellow Springs Heavenly Abode, revealing that he possessed all eight Powers of Origin.

Lin Heng stopped fighting the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s Xiang Nantian and protected the sect’s dead souls from the Soul-Devouring Array. After Xiang Nantian revealed how the Lei Clan destroyed his sect, Lin Heng showed him a duplicated jade bone, and Xiang Nantian offered to teach him its secret art in exchange for an oath.

• Lin Heng and Xiang Nantian stopped their battle after recognizing that Lin Heng possessed all eight Powers of Origin.
• Lin Heng used four array flags to shield Xiang Nantian and the other dead souls from the Soul-Devouring Array’s chilling wind.
• Xiang Nantian told Lin Heng that Lei Wuhen had tried to seize the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s Pure Jade Bone and that the Lei Clan later wiped out the sect and killed him.
• Lin Heng revealed that he had duplicated the jade bone in the array, and Xiang Nantian recognized it as his ancestor’s bone.
• Xiang Nantian offered to teach Lin Heng the jade bone’s secret art and help him forge the strongest jade bone if Lin Heng swore an oath.

Lin Heng agreed to take revenge on the Lei Clan in exchange for Xiang Nantian’s pure jade bone secret technique and the chance to forge a Primordial Chaos clone. He accepted the Jade Bone Soul Sect’s decision to sacrifice their souls, and their soul power began nourishing the pure jade bone.

• Lin Heng challenged Xiang Nantian’s demand that he avenge the Jade Bone Soul Sect by attacking the powerful Lei Clan.
• Xiang Nantian offered to help Lin Heng forge a pure jade bone clone no weaker than his true body, and Lin Heng swore to strike the Lei Clan after entering the First Heaven.
• Lin Heng objected when Xiang Nantian revealed that the sect’s thousands of Heavenly Venerables would give up Samsara and their soul power to him.
• Xiang Nantian explained that breaking the array would alert the Lei Clan and endanger the sect’s last chance for revenge, and Lin Heng promised to exterminate the Lei Clan.
• Lin Heng mastered the secret technique in one day, and Xiang Nantian and the sect’s thousands of souls began transferring their soul power into the pure jade bone.

Lin Heng used the Jade Bone Soul Sect experts’ souls to prepare materials for his good and evil clones, then began breaking through to Primordial Chaos with all eight Powers of Origin. The Eight Great Imperial Clans feared his growing power, but Ao Zhantian vowed to fight them if they tried to harm him.

• Xiang Nantian gave his final thanks as the Jade Bone Soul Sect experts’ pure souls fused into a vast mass for Lin Heng’s Pure Jade Bone.
• Lin Heng used a Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus leaf to absorb the soul impurities, preparing materials for both his good and evil clones.
• Lin Heng communed with heaven and earth and drew in energy and all eight Powers of Origin as he advanced toward Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage.
• Ao Zhantian and other ascender experts arrived alongside the Eight Great Imperial Clans, whose leaders feared Lin Heng would undermine their standing.
• Ao Zhantian broke Lei Zhanchen’s soundproofing restriction and warned the clans that the ascenders would fight them to the death if they attacked Lin Heng.

As Lin Heng broke through to Primordial Chaos, the ascenders forced the Eight Great Imperial Clans to let him proceed, and his breakthrough triggered an extraordinary Primordial Chaos Body Cleansing. Lei Jian recognized that Lin Heng was forming a first-class Primordial Chaos Spiritual Body and regretted letting him grow so powerful.

• Ao Zhantian and the leaders of the ascender factions threatened war if Lei Jian’s Eight Great Imperial Clans attacked Lin Heng.
• Lei Jian weighed the cost of war, then let Lin Heng break through while warning that he would not overturn the Nine Heavens.
• Lin Heng broke through the Ninth-Grade Heavenly Venerable realm, drawing a vast flood of Primordial Spiritual Qi that transformed his body.
• Lei Jian recognized the gathering thunderclouds as a sign that Lin Heng was forming a first-class Primordial Chaos Spiritual Body.
• Lei Jian regretted underestimating Lin Heng and felt his suppressed killing intent rise again.