Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng faced the Primordial Chaos Lightning Tribulation and attacked the golden dragon in the thunderclouds, using his newly comprehended Heavenly Punishment to make the dragon’s lightning backfire. He began absorbing the tribulation’s lightning power, leaving the spectators unsure whether he could withstand it.

• Lei Jian regretted allowing Lin Heng to grow stronger, while Ao Zhantian warned him not to interfere.
• The thunderclouds gathered above Lin Heng, and he answered the golden dragon’s roar with a more imposing dragon cry.
• Lin Heng flew into the sky and struck the golden dragon with Heavenly Punishment, causing its lightning attack to explode inside its mouth.
• Lin Heng raised his hands and absorbed the lightning power from the clouds and the golden dragon, prompting the Eight Great Imperial Clans to mock him and Ao Zhantian to defend his confidence.
• Lin Heng strained under the absorbed lightning power as sweat covered his forehead and his body tensed.

Lin Heng used the Primordial Chaos Lightning Tribulation to forge good and evil clones from a Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus and Pure Jade Bone. After half a month, he completed the clones and created a Primordial Chaos World on the same level as the universe, though it remained empty and unfinished.

• Lin Heng revealed his plan to use the lightning tribulation’s Power of Origin to forge Primordial Chaos Clones, drawing Ao Zhantian’s recognition and Lei Jian’s skepticism.
• Lei Yinxin identified Lin Heng’s white treasure as Pure Jade Bone, while Ao Zhantian recognized the black lotus leaf as a Nine Nether Earth Core Lotus.
• Lin Heng separated his good and evil obsessions and shaped the two treasures into bodies identical to his own.
• Lin Heng infused the clones with soul power, the eight Powers of Origin, and Primordial Spiritual Qi as they endured the lightning tribulation for half a month.
• Lin Heng and his clones awakened with overwhelming power, and the spent thunderclouds and heavenly opening disappeared.
• Lin Heng inspected the Primordial Chaos World he had created and confirmed that its foundation matched the level of the universe, though it was still desolate.

A cosmic voice summoned an unknown young friend after Lin Heng's Primordial Chaos world proved equal to the universe, while his two avatars emerged at a higher stage than he had. After the Eight Great Imperial Clans and other factions departed or sent representatives, Lin Heng went to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, where Ao Zhantian prepared to tell him an important warning.

• A hearty laugh echoed across the universe as the words “I am not alone on my path” appeared in the skies, and the unseen speaker said they were waiting for a young friend.
• Lin Heng recalled his good and evil avatars, who had reached the Primordial Chaos Earth Stage after absorbing most of the energy from his breakthrough.
• Situ Jiannan invited the sects to celebrate Lin Heng's breakthrough at the Battle Heaven Pavilion, while Lei Jian sent younger Lei Clan members to investigate and traded threats with Lin Heng.
• Lei Jian and the other imperial clan patriarchs departed, with the Fire Clan patriarch warning Lin Heng about the responsibilities that came with his breakthrough.
• Ao Zhantian stayed with Lin Heng while the other factions departed, and more than a hundred Eighth Heaven factions arrived at the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Lin Heng went with Ao Zhantian to a side hall, where Ao Zhantian prepared to warn him about something important.

Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng the history of the Foreign Domain’s invasions and explained that cultivators who reached the Primordial Realm had to guard the planar passage. Lin Heng reluctantly agreed to serve, though he remained concerned about the time and opportunities he would lose.

• Lin Heng asked Ao Zhantian why he had come, and Ao Zhantian began recounting the history of the Foreign Domain’s wars with the Nine Heavens.
• Ao Zhantian explained that the Hunt Clan had repeatedly invaded, plundered resources, and used Heavenly Concealment to send small groups into the Nine Heavens.
• Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that every cultivator who reached the Primordial Realm had to guard the planar passage for a hundred thousand years or until an invasion was repelled.
• Lin Heng objected to the long duty, but Ao Zhantian said it was a rule no one could evade.
• Lin Heng reluctantly agreed to go when Ao Zhantian told him it was time.

Ao Zhantian explained the benefits of guarding the plane passage and advised Lin Heng on developing his Primordial Chaos World. Lin Heng left with a plan to expand the Battle Heaven Pavilion and discovered that his world had five layers, exceeding the known structure.

• Lin Heng agreed to guard the plane passage, and Ao Zhantian promised him Source Stones, protection for the Battle Heaven Pavilion, and a time spirit treasure for its disciples.
• Lin Heng told Ao Zhantian he could not freely shape his Primordial Chaos World or create life, so Ao Zhantian explained how its foundation and later development worked.
• Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng that living beings could be created through the Power of Faith and that Lin Heng's eight Powers of Origin made cultivators throughout the Nine Heavens compatible with him.
• Ao Zhantian urged Lin Heng to use his absence at the plane passage to expand the Battle Heaven Pavilion and gather races, allowing him to build strength and protect himself from the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
• Lin Heng considered the layers of his Primordial Chaos World and realized it had five, beyond the three known to Ao Zhantian and the unknown fourth layer of the two beings who transcended the Nine Heavens.

At a celebration of Lin Heng’s breakthrough to the Primordial Realm, Mei Chu announced that the Fire Ghost Clan had left the Fire Clan to join the Battle Heaven Pavilion, prompting more sects to pledge loyalty to Lin Heng. After Banbo’er insulted Mei Chu and challenged the pavilion, Situ Jiannan confronted him and began listing his crimes.

• Lin Heng arrived at the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s plaza with Ao Zhantian as representatives of major Eighth Heaven sects rose to greet him.
• Mei Chu announced that the Fire Ghost Clan was leaving the Fire Clan to join the Battle Heaven Pavilion and that it would no longer have dual cultivation partners.
• The Nether Flame Tribe and more than ten other sects pledged loyalty to Lin Heng, who welcomed them into the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Banbo’er, patriarch of the Fire Longhorn Beetle Clan, insulted Mei Chu and the Fire Ghost Clan and accused the pavilion of threatening war.
• Lin Heng instructed Situ Jiannan to handle Banbo’er, and Situ Jiannan accused him of disrespecting a Primordial Realm expert and insulting his fiancée in the pavilion.

Situ Jiannan ordered Ao Lie and the Zhantian Brigade to exterminate the Fire Longhorn Beetle Clan after Banbo'er insulted Mei Chu and the Fire Ghost Clan. Banbo'er attacked Situ Jiannan but was killed by an unseen force, and Situ Jiannan ended by formally introducing Mei Chu as his fiancée.

• Situ Jiannan accused Banbo'er of insulting Mei Chu and ordered Ao Lie to lead the Zhantian Brigade in exterminating the Fire Longhorn Beetle Clan.
• Banbo'er threatened Situ Jiannan, while other Eighth Heaven forces condemned Banbo'er and his clan.
• Banbo'er transformed into a flaming bull and charged at Situ Jiannan, but an eight-colored cage trapped him and an unseen force killed him.
• The gathered experts suspected Lin Heng had killed Banbo'er and grew more fearful of him.
• Situ Jiannan had the disciples clean up and introduced Mei Chu as his fiancée.

Situ Jiannan formally named Mei Chu as his fiancée, while Lin Heng prepared the Battle Heaven Pavilion for his coming absence at the plane passage. The chapter ended with Situ Jiannan revealing that the Fire Clan held Mei Chu’s maternal grandmother, the former patriarch of the Fire Ghost Clan, captive.

• Situ Jiannan introduced Mei Chu as his fiancée, and Ao Lie returned with three hundred Battle Heaven disciples after wiping out the Fire Longhorn Beetle Clan.
• Situ Jiannan accepted the weaker sects that returned to join the Battle Heaven Pavilion, explaining that they were under the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
• Lin Heng told the pavilion’s senior members he would go guard the plane passage and assigned duties to Liu Ling'er, Ao Lie, Sun Yuan, Situ Jiannan, Mei Chu, and his two clones.
• Liu Ling'er proposed a grand wedding for Situ Jiannan and Mei Chu, and Lin Heng promised to arrange it after he returned.
• Situ Jiannan told Lin Heng that Mei Chu’s maternal grandmother, the former patriarch of the Fire Ghost Clan, was alive but imprisoned by the Fire Clan.

Lin Heng agreed to help Mei Chu rescue her grandmother from the Fire Clan’s Heavenly Origin Fire Prison and approved Situ Jiannan’s plan to strengthen the Battle Heaven Pavilion and seek allies. Ao Zhantian then told Lin Heng he would soon travel to the plane passage, where danger from the imperial clans awaited.

• Mei Chu told Lin Heng that the Fire Clan was holding her grandmother in the Heavenly Origin Fire Prison in the Third Heaven.
• Situ Jiannan proposed strengthening the Battle Heaven Pavilion, contacting other races, and capturing an important Fire Clan member to arrange an exchange.
• Mei Chu suggested using the Water Race’s missing descendant as leverage, and Lin Heng decided to visit the Water Race after returning from the plane passage.
• Ao Zhantian arrived on the eighth day and explained that pressure from the Eight Great Imperial Clans and instability at the plane passage had forced Lin Heng’s departure sooner than usual.
• Ao Zhantian told Lin Heng to stay near Sikong Hong, an Asura Demonic Dao expert guarding the passage, and Lin Heng prepared to go despite the danger.

Ao Zhantian brought Lin Heng to the First Heaven plane passage, where the Eight Great Imperial Clans challenged his right to stay. Lin Heng agreed to a life-or-death duel with Lei Heita, and Ao Zhantian created an independent space for their fight.

• Ao Zhantian entrusted Lin Heng to Sikong Hong, while Yan He and other experts from the Eight Great Imperial Clans openly mocked and threatened Lin Heng.
• Ao Zhantian warned Yan He that the Fire Clan would not be able to protect him if Lin Heng came to harm, but Yan He insisted that danger was simply part of the plane passage.
• Lin Heng challenged the Eight Great Imperial Clans' experts, and Yan He chose Lei Heita, a Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage cultivator, to fight him.
• Lin Heng refused to summon a clone and declared that the duel should be a fight to the death; Yan He accepted and urged Lei Heita to use his full strength.
• Ao Zhantian formed an independent space for the duel, while Yan He and Sikong Hong left subordinates behind to watch for a Hunt Clan attack.

Lin Heng dominated Lei Heita in their duel inside Ao Zhantian's independent space, dodging hundreds of attacks without moving his feet. Lei Heita withdrew and summoned his Third-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure, a lightning spear, as the battle continued.

• The ascenders and the Eight Great Imperial Clans separated and cleared a battlefield for Lin Heng and Lei Heita.
• Lin Heng used Time Acceleration and Time Deceleration to dodge Lei Heita's opening punch and kick him several hundred meters away.
• Lei Heita launched hundreds of accelerated punches, but Lin Heng avoided them without moving his feet, and Yan He realized Lin Heng was waiting for a chance to kill him.
• A Lei Clan expert warned Lei Heita to stop wasting time, drawing ridicule from the ascenders and embarrassment from the Eight Great Imperial Clans.
• Lei Heita ended his assault, summoned a lightning spear that was a Third-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure, and insisted that using it did not break his promise not to use his clone.

Lin Heng overcame Lei Heita’s Primordial Chaos World pressure and absorbed his attack with a spatial black hole, despite still being at the Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage. Yan He admitted defeat to save Lei Heita, and Lin Heng left the confrontation intending to cultivate, while Yan He secretly planned to kill him later.

• Lei Heita attacked Lin Heng with pressure from his Primordial Chaos World and the Fallen Star Spear’s Thunder Star Break.
• Lin Heng shattered the pressure and absorbed Lei Heita’s attack into a spatial black hole formed from five layers of world power.
• Yan He examined Lin Heng and confirmed he was still at the Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage, despite using a Primordial Chaos Profound Stage ability.
• Yan He stopped Lei Heita and admitted defeat, choosing to preserve Lei Heita’s life rather than risk his death.
• Lin Heng accepted the end of the fight so he could seek a breakthrough, while Yan He privately resolved to have him killed in secret.

After Lin Heng defeated Lei Heita, the ascenders explained Primordial Realm combat and sent him to cultivate in a time spirit treasure. Yan He concluded that Lin Heng’s talent posed a growing threat and called for the Eight Great Imperial Clans to kill him before he left the plane passage.

• Lin Heng told Sikong Hong and the other ascenders that continuing to fight Lei Heita could have cost him dearly because he was unfamiliar with Primordial Realm combat.
• Ao Zhantian and the others recognized that Lin Heng had improvised a spatial black hole during his first encounter with a Primordial Realm opponent, and they explained Primordial Chaos World power, laws, and spirit treasures to him.
• Sikong Hong arranged for Lin Heng to cultivate in the time spirit treasure while the Eight Great Imperial Clans guarded the plane passage.
• Lin Heng entered the time spirit treasure to cultivate.
• Yan He told the Eight Great Imperial Clans that Lin Heng’s ability and future potential made him a threat, and urged them not to let him leave the plane passage alive.

The ancestors of the Fire and Lei Clans plotted to loosen the plane passage seal and use the Hunt Clan to kill Lin Heng without triggering open war. Ao Zhantian learned the danger, but the old man in green chose to let events unfold, confident that Lin Heng’s unusual fate and the interest of his eldest senior brother would protect him.

• The Fire Clan's ancestor and the Lei Clan's ancestor agreed to exploit the shift change to secretly loosen the plane passage seal and let Hunt Clan experts through after Lin Heng.
• Ao Zhantian returned to the Heavenly Azure Wave Sea and reported to the old man in green, who warned that the Eight Great Imperial Clans might target Lin Heng through others.
• Ao Zhantian offered to send Firmament Hall experts to guard the plane passage, but the old man in green told him to wait and see how Lin Heng handled the danger.
• The old man in green explained that his eldest senior brother had called Lin Heng interesting, suggesting the powerful figure was watching over him.
• Ao Zhantian accepted the old man's reasoning and promised to act cautiously in the ascenders' contest with the Eight Great Imperial Clans.

After three months outside and an immense span of cultivation inside the time treasure, Lin Heng emerged with greatly increased power and a First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure. He learned Nine Sounds of Gods and Devils at Lantau Mountain and considered seeking better sign-in rewards near the planar passage.

• Lin Heng mastered laws including Space Freezing, Space Shattering, Time Stasis, and Spatial Teleportation during his secluded cultivation.
• Lin Heng assessed his five-layered Primordial Chaos World and concluded that his full strength could rival an Earth Stage expert and let him escape many stronger opponents.
• Lin Heng took up his spear, Fortress Breaker, whose Soul Devouring and Shattering effects could damage enemies and their weapons.
• Lin Heng left the time treasure and signed in at Lantau Mountain, receiving Nine Sounds of Gods and Devils.
• Lin Heng studied the nine-level sound technique and realized he could combine it with Dragon Roar and Tiger Howl.
• Lin Heng wondered what reward he might receive by signing in closer to the planar passage.

Lin Heng joined the ascenders as they took over guarding the plane passage and sensed a fleeting energy fluctuation near Heaven-Seizing Peak. Meanwhile, the Lei Clan patriarch learned that the seal had been loosened and set out to keep the ascenders’ leaders away for three days.

• After several peaceful years at the plane passage, Lin Heng joined Sikong Hong and the ascenders as they replaced the Eight Great Imperial Clans, led by Yan He.
• Sikong Hong showed Lin Heng the guarded mountain range and explained that the plane passage lay in a cave beneath Heaven-Seizing Peak; Lin Heng signed in three times and gained three treasures.
• Lin Heng sensed a brief energy fluctuation near the cave, but Sikong Hong warned him not to send in his soul power or enter; Lin Heng kept his doubts about the seal to himself.
• The Lei Clan patriarch heard that his father had slightly loosened the plane passage seal and that the Hunt Clan would discover it within three days.
• The Lei Clan patriarch promised to prevent Ao Zhantian and the other ascender leaders from reaching the passage, then sent messages to the other twelve factions.

The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor lured Ao Zhantian and the other faction leaders into an isolated meeting with a false plan against the Hunt Clan. At the plane passage, Lin Heng sensed an attack, struck first on a warning from a childlike voice, and learned he might be hearing the Plane Consciousness.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor gathered the twelve factions in the Thunder God Domain and used its formation to cut them off from the outside world while presenting an unworkable plan against the Hunt Clan.
• Sikong Hong showed Lin Heng the plane passage and warned him that its Plane Consciousness could threaten outsiders and that an expert who entered had never returned.
• Lin Heng felt drawn toward the passage, then heard a childlike voice urge him to attack as Hunt Clan experts launched a sneak attack at the entrance.
• Lin Heng struck with a palm formed from eight kinds of Power of Origin, killing several hidden attackers and forcing the others to retreat.
• Sikong Hong realized Lin Heng had heard the voice of the Plane Consciousness, but their conversation stopped as ascender experts and dozens of powerful presences arrived.

Lin Heng helped Sikong Hong repel the Hunt Clan’s first attack at the plane passage, then learned his ability to communicate with the plane had to remain secret. Sikong Hong grew suspicious that the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor’s gathering of the factions’ experts was connected to the attack, but he could not openly accuse anyone.

• Lin Heng claimed he had sensed danger and struck the invisible Hunt Clan attackers, while Sikong Hong concealed that the plane had warned him.
• Sikong Hong ordered Chen Meng, Duoma, and Duoduolang to secure the passage, notify the Thirteen Factions, and guard the peak.
• Sikong Hong privately warned Lin Heng to keep his connection with the plane secret and asked him to investigate the Hunt Clan’s situation through it.
• Duoma reported that the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor had summoned every faction’s top experts to the Thunder God Domain and sealed it off, while Yan He’s group refused to come help.
• Sikong Hong recalled the passage’s red alarm and suspected the Hunt Clan attack, the absent reinforcements, and the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor’s gathering were connected.

Lin Heng and the ascenders defended the plane passage after the plane consciousness warned that the Hunt Clan was coming. A powerful horned Hunt Clan expert emerged from the cave and killed an ascender, leaving the defenders facing a much stronger enemy.

• Sikong Hong issued a level-one alert, and the ascenders took their positions while Lin Heng tried to contact the plane.
• The plane consciousness warned Lin Heng that the Hunt Clan was coming, so he told Sikong Hong to prepare for battle before the cave's level-two alarm sounded.
• The ascenders attacked the cave entrance in succession, killing invisible Hunt Clan cultivators with sword and spear techniques.
• The plane consciousness warned Lin Heng that the Hunt Clan's real experts were about to appear, and he relayed the warning to Sikong Hong.
• A horned Hunt Clan expert forced back the attacks, emerged from the cave, and killed a Primordial Chaos Yellow Stage ascender with a casual wave.

Lin Heng used a warning from the Plane Consciousness to kill two invisible Hunt Clan fighters, then mocked their leader, Dawo Baba, over his name. Dawo Baba attacked Lin Heng, but Sikong Hong intervened and drew him into an independent space to fight.

• Lin Heng and Sikong Hong joked about the Hunt Clan expert’s birdlike appearance, provoking the Hunt Clan.
• The Plane Consciousness warned Lin Heng that two invisible Hunt Clan fighters were approaching, and Lin Heng struck them down with a blast of primordial chaos.
• When asked how he had found the fighters, Lin Heng claimed his sixth sense had warned him of danger.
• Sikong Hong mocked Dawo Baba for losing two Primordial Chaos Heaven Stage fighters to Lin Heng, and Lin Heng and the ascenders laughed at the sound of his name.
• Dawo Baba attacked Lin Heng, but Sikong Hong blocked him, opened an independent space, and entered it with Dawo Baba following.