Chapter Summaries

The Eight Great Imperial Clans and the ascenders agreed to cooperate in climbing the Heavenly Mountain, but Lei Yuxiao urged his clan members to eliminate Lin Heng before he could help the ascenders claim the ruin’s treasures. Ling Wushuang’s group realized Lin Heng was in danger and prepared to protect him as they gathered vines to begin climbing.

• Lei Yuxiao and the Eight Great Imperial Clans agreed to choose separate routes up the Heavenly Mountain and regroup above the clouds.
• Lei Yuxiao warned the others that Lin Heng’s abilities made him a threat, and they agreed to try to kill him on the mountain.
• Ling Wushuang and the ascenders planned to tie themselves together with vines so they could help one another climb.
• Ling Wushuang and the others suspected the Eight Great Imperial Clans were plotting against Lin Heng and placed him in the center of their climbing formation.
• The ascenders began gathering vines, and Lei Yuxiao’s group hurried to do the same while Rushou watched Lin Heng.

Ling Wushuang's group climbed Heavenly Mountain while the Eight Great Imperial Clans followed close behind, and Lin Heng's warning helped them avoid a potentially dangerous spirit herb. They left the billion-year-old Five-Headed Lion's Mane Spirit Herb behind and continued climbing.

• Lei Yuxiao and the Eight Great Imperial Clans began climbing from a spot less than fifty meters from Lin Heng's group, confirming their hostile intentions to Ye Feng.
• Rushou and Tian Wu discussed Dijiang's reasons for making Lin Heng's trial harder and worried that the seal in Pangu Holy Land was weakening.
• After half a day of climbing, Ling Wushuang's group found a billion-year-old Five-Headed Lion's Mane Spirit Herb at around seven hundred meters.
• Lin Heng sensed a brief fluctuation of life energy behind the rock near the herb and warned Ling Wushuang not to touch it.
• Ling Wushuang chose to leave the herb behind, and his group continued climbing despite Ye Feng's reluctance.

Lei Yuxiao warned his group that the billion-year-old Five-Headed Lion's Mane Herb might be guarded, and they chose to leave it alone. A Heaven Yang Clan cultivator secretly took it anyway, awakening a one-eyed monster that swallowed the herb and bit off his arm.

• Lei Yuxiao reasoned that Ling Wushuang's group had likely avoided the herb because Lin Heng sensed danger, and urged everyone to value their lives over the treasure.
• Lei Yuxiao and the others continued climbing, but a Heaven Yang Clan cultivator turned back and approached the Five-Headed Lion's Mane Herb.
• The Heaven Yang Clan cultivator pulled up the herb, believing nothing would happen, and prepared to put it in his storage ring.
• A one-eyed monster burst from the mountainside and fixed its gaze on the herb in the cultivator's hand.
• The monster bit down on the herb and severed the Heaven Yang Clan cultivator's arm, while Lei Yuxiao's companions realized his warning had saved them.

Lei Yuxiao’s group escaped the Taotie by abandoning Yang Fei, while Tian Wu and Rushou discussed Lin Heng’s abilities. The climbers later found the remains of Yang Yuntao caught in a giant spiderweb, and a stone door opened behind it.

• The Taotie devoured the Five-Headed Lion's Mane Herb and Yang Fei, while Lei Yuxiao and the others cut their vines and escaped.
• Tian Wu and Rushou watched the incident and concluded that Lin Heng’s Primordial Chaos World had helped him detect life energy within the Heavenly Mountain.
• The ascenders continued climbing, increasingly wary after Yang Fei’s death, and treated Lin Heng and Ling Wushuang as the group’s core strength.
• Ling Wushuang identified a skeleton caught in a mountainside spiderweb as Yang Yuntao, a missing Heavenly Firmament Saint Realm expert from the Tian Yang Clan.
• Lin Heng warned that something was emerging behind the web, and a three-meter stone door opened in the mountainside.

Lin Heng learned that Heavenly Mountain could not seal the fifth layer of his Primordial Chaos World and used it to capture a Heavenly Silkworm Human Spider. After concealing how he did it, he continued climbing with Ling Wushuang and the others, who no longer underestimated him.

• The Heavenly Silkworm Human Spider appeared and threatened Ling Wushuang, Ye Feng, and the other ascenders.
• The Good Avatar told Lin Heng that Heavenly Mountain sealed only the first four layers of the Primordial Chaos World and explained how to draw power from the fifth layer alone.
• Lin Heng taunted the Heavenly Silkworm Human Spider and lured it close enough for the Good Avatar to pull it into the Primordial Chaos World.
• Lin Heng claimed a rare treasure had absorbed the spider, and Ling Wushuang and the others chose not to question his secret.
• Ling Wushuang led the group onward, while the others stopped considering schemes to deny Lin Heng his share of the treasure.

As Lin Heng climbed Heavenly Mountain with Ling Wushuang, he considered bringing the mountain’s exotic beasts into the Primordial Chaos World. Below, Lei Yuxiao deduced that Lin Heng could deal with the beasts and warned his allies to avoid him, leaving the Eight Great Imperial Clans focused on reaching the inheritance.

• The Good Avatar suggested keeping the Heavenly Silkworm Human Spider as a pet and taking Heavenly Mountain’s exotic beasts into the Primordial Chaos World, explaining that even Heavenly Firmament Venerable-level beings could be captured.
• Lin Heng considered the suggestion and realized his two avatars seemed more powerful than he was.
• Lei Yuxiao and the others found Yang Yuntao’s sword in the Heavenly Silkworm Human Spider’s lair and discussed how a mysterious creature had attacked Lin Heng before vanishing.
• Lei Yuxiao concluded that Lin Heng had made the creature disappear and still had fighting strength despite the cultivation-sealing restriction.
• After Yan Xishan worried that Lin Heng might ambush them, Lei Yuxiao changed their plan and told the group to avoid Lin Heng while pursuing the inheritance.

Lin Heng and his companions climbed into Heavenly Mountain’s cloud-shrouded danger zone, where a mysterious shadow and a scream raised alarm. When Lei Yuxiao and three other experts from the Eight Great Imperial Clans caught up, Lin Heng and Ling Wushuang exposed them as impostors, and Lei Yuxiao transformed into a monster.

• Ling Wushuang suggested the group stay close together, and Lin Heng said he could still use his special ability against some enemies.
• The group climbed slowly through the clouds, then stopped after a black shadow swept past them.
• After hearing a scream from below, Lin Heng advised everyone to keep climbing toward the summit.
• Lei Yuxiao and three companions caught up and asked to join the group, but Lin Heng signaled Ling Wushuang to be wary.
• Ling Wushuang demanded the Heavenly Phoenix Soul Infant Fruit as a test, then warned that the newcomers were impostors.
• Lei Yuxiao revealed himself as a winged, bird-and-tiger-like monster.

Lin Heng exposed and swallowed four birdmen who had disguised themselves as Lei Yuxiao’s group. After surviving the attack, Lei Yuxiao asked to continue onward with Ling Wushuang’s party, recognizing that their only chance of survival depended on Lin Heng.

• The birdman leader admitted his group had attacked Lei Yuxiao’s companions and planned to ambush Lin Heng’s party while disguised as them.
• Lin Heng explained that the birdmen had targeted Lei Yuxiao’s group after sensing danger from his protective shield, and he exposed the flaw in their disguise.
• The four birdmen attacked, but Lin Heng used a terrifying suction force to make them vanish.
• Lei Yuxiao and two surviving experts climbed up, and Ye Feng warned them to keep their distance until Lin Heng confirmed they were genuine.
• Lei Yuxiao asked to continue with Ling Wushuang’s party, swallowing his pride because he believed Lin Heng was their only hope of survival.

Lin Heng agreed to let Lei Yuxiao and his two companions join the climb in exchange for spirit herbs and Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasures. After reaching Heavenly Mountain’s summit and recovering their cultivation, Lei Yuxiao tried to reduce the payment, and Ling Wushuang drew his sword to confront him.

• Lin Heng negotiated with Lei Yuxiao, accepting three two-hundred-million-year-old spirit herbs, two Second-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasures, and one First-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure in exchange for letting his group join.
• The two groups climbed separately, and Lin Heng and the others encountered no exotic beasts for two days.
• Tian Wu and Rushou discussed Lin Heng’s abilities and decided to let him reach the summit as the Heavenly Estate’s potential inheritor.
• After three days and two nights, Lin Heng’s group reached the summit, where everyone’s sealed cultivation returned.
• When Lei Yuxiao offered only the three spirit herbs, Lin Heng accused him of reneging, and Ling Wushuang pointed his Howling Wind Sword at Lei Yuxiao and his companions.

Lin Heng wagered that his Evil Avatar could defeat Jin Tianshuo, and the two began fighting. The Evil Avatar gained the upper hand and trapped Jin Tianshuo inside a black skull as Lei Yuxiao rushed to intervene.

• Lin Heng proposed that Jin Tianshuo fight his Evil Avatar, wagering that the others would owe him twice the promised benefits if the avatar won.
• Lei Yuxiao accepted the wager after Jin Tianshuo and Yan Xishan urged him to agree, and promised Jin Tianshuo two spirit herbs if he won.
• Lin Heng summoned the Evil Avatar, who revealed he had not fought seriously against Lin Heng inside the time spirit treasure.
• Jin Tianshuo's saber passed through the Evil Avatar, but the avatar struck him with a black crescent, wounded his shoulder, and hurled him into the air.
• The Evil Avatar immobilized Jin Tianshuo with the Law of Space and swallowed him in a black skull, prompting Lei Yuxiao to rush forward.

Lei Yuxiao intervened in the duel between Jin Tianshuo and Lin Heng’s avatar, but backed down after Ling Wushuang threatened to fight and made him surrender the promised rewards. Rushou then took the group to an inheritance cave, where he secretly told Lin Heng to enter last, leaving the others competing over who would enter first.

• Lei Yuxiao shattered the Evil Avatar’s black skull attack, rescued Jin Tianshuo, and accused the avatar of fighting to kill.
• Ling Wushuang warned the Evil Avatar that fighting Lei Yuxiao could injure Lin Heng and persuaded the avatar to demand compensation instead.
• Ling Wushuang threatened Lei Yuxiao and the Eight Great Imperial Clans, so Lei Yuxiao surrendered the promised rewards and added a three-hundred-million-year-old spiritual herb.
• Rushou appeared, announced that the group had passed the Heavenly Mountain trial, and transported them to a stone cave for the inheritance baptism.
• Rushou privately told Lin Heng to enter the cave last, while Ling Wushuang, Lei Yuxiao, and the others disputed who should go in first.

Lin Heng and the others took turns entering the cave to seek its inheritance, but the first eight failed. Lin Heng awakened the divine sword and met the master of the Peach Garden Heavenly Abode, who said he could learn the master’s true identity after uniting the three scattered Peach Garden Heavenly Abodes and becoming the new master of the Heavenly Estate.

• Lin Heng proposed drawing lots to decide who would enter the cave first, and both sides agreed.
• Ling Wushuang, Lei Yuxiao, Ye Feng, and the others entered in turn, but each emerged without obtaining the inheritance.
• Lin Heng entered last and found that his rust-covered longsword resonated with the stone sword held by a statue.
• The longsword shed its rust and revealed itself as a divine weapon before a beam of light from the statue drew Lin Heng into a subconscious world.
• The master of the Peach Garden Heavenly Abode told Lin Heng that he would reveal his true identity once Lin Heng united the three scattered Peach Garden Heavenly Abodes and became the new master of the Heavenly Estate.

Lin Heng received the Heavenly Estate master's inheritance and spent over a hundred million years comprehending it inside a time spiritual treasure, greatly improving his understanding and combat ability. He left the cave carrying the sword Eternal Ages, which he still lacked the power to wield.

• Lin Heng comprehended the Heavenly Estate master's Dao, qualified for his inheritance, and received it over three days and nights.
• Before vanishing, the master warned Lin Heng to keep his inheritance secret until the three estates became one.
• Lin Heng spent over a hundred million years digesting the inheritance, then defeated the Evil Avatar in a brief test of strength.
• Lin Heng learned the longsword's name was Eternal Ages but recognized he could not yet supply enough energy to wield it.
• Lin Heng bowed to the statue and left the cave.

Lin Heng and the others entered the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, where guardian Zhu Jiuyin explained the trial’s rules and promised Lin Heng a powerful spatial spirit treasure if he reached the seventh floor. On the first floor, they found a Heavenly Firmament Emperor Realm beast guarding the stairs while using the floor’s treasure chest as a pillow, leaving the group to decide how to get past it.

• Lin Heng emerged from the cave, and a gentle energy transported him and the others to the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda.
• Zhu Jiuyin explained that the pagoda had seven floors, with treasures and guardian beasts on the first six, then opened its doors.
• Zhu Jiuyin privately offered Lin Heng a spatial spirit treasure if he obtained the treasure on the seventh floor, and Lin Heng accepted.
• Lin Heng led the group into the pagoda, followed by Ling Wushuang’s companions and the members of the Eight Great Imperial Clans; the doors closed behind them.
• The group discovered a vast first floor, a Heavenly Firmament Emperor Realm beast, and a treasure chest beneath its head, with the stairs behind it.
• After Zhu Jiuyin explained that the beast had recently broken through, Ling Wushuang and Lei Yuxiao exchanged glances over whether to fight it or sneak past.

Ling Wushuang and Lei Yuxiao persuaded the group to fight the Crimson Flame Golden Ni Beast and agreed that whoever dealt the final blow could claim the treasure. As the battle began, Lin Heng sent out his Evil Avatar, whose strength shocked Ling Wushuang.

• Ling Wushuang argued that the group should test the first-floor beast, and Lin Heng proposed that whoever killed it could open the treasure chest.
• Lei Yuxiao and Ling Wushuang explained the Crimson Flame Golden Ni Beast's abilities and devised a plan for the group to attack while they prepared killing moves.
• Lin Heng chose to send his Evil Avatar into battle, prompting Jin Tianshuo to recoil at the sight of it.
• Ling Wushuang struck first, and Yan Xishan, Jin Tianshuo, and the others followed with a barrage that drove the beast underground.
• The Crimson Flame Golden Ni Beast erupted from the ground, and Ling Wushuang was shocked by the Evil Avatar's immense strength and Nine Netherworlds Death Qi.

Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar wounded the Crimson Flame Golden Ni Beast and used its rage to disrupt the fighters who had been holding back. As Lei Yuxiao and Ling Wushuang began charging their attacks, the Evil Avatar struck first, and the beast unleashed a powerful wall of flame as his black crescent bore down on it.

• The Crimson Flame Golden Ni Beast’s fire seemed to hit the Evil Avatar, but he dodged with an afterimage and cut a deep, decaying wound into its back with Black Moon Slash.
• The beast’s attacks repeatedly missed the elusive Evil Avatar, and Lin Heng watched as the others struggled to understand his ability.
• The Evil Avatar deliberately enraged the beast, which charged Yan Xishan and the others and forced them to spend their strength attacking as they fled.
• After the beast grew tired, Lei Yuxiao and Ling Wushuang prepared powerful attacks, but the Evil Avatar launched Crescent Moon Heavenly Lock before they could finish charging.
• The Crimson Flame Golden Ni Beast covered itself in flames, prompting Lei Yuxiao and Ling Wushuang to retreat while the Evil Avatar’s black crescent continued toward it.

Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar killed the Crimson Flame Golden Ni Beast by freezing it with an unknown power and shattering the space around it. After claiming the Heavenly Yang Chainmail from the beast’s treasure chest, the avatar handed it to Lin Heng, while Lei Yuxiao quietly considered how to kill Lin Heng by targeting his true body.

• Ling Wushuang and Lei Yuxiao retreated as the Crimson Flame Golden Ni Beast unleashed its final fiery counterattack, but Lin Heng’s Evil Avatar attacked without hesitation.
• The Evil Avatar restrained the beast with an unknown power, then shattered the space around it and killed it.
• Lei Yuxiao wondered whether he could defeat the Evil Avatar, then decided he could kill Lin Heng by using his own avatars to occupy Lin Heng’s avatars while attacking Lin Heng’s true body.
• The Evil Avatar broke open the treasure chest and found the Second-Class Primordial Chaos Spirit Treasure Heavenly Yang Chainmail.
• The Evil Avatar dismissed the armor as unimpressive and handed it to Lin Heng, drawing envious looks from Lei Yuxiao, Ling Wushuang, and the others.

Lin Heng gave the Heavenly Yang Chainmail to Ling Wushuang, and the group advanced to the second floor of the Seven Treasures Glazed Pagoda, where they found a Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix guarding another treasure chest. The sides argued over who would fight it, and the Evil Avatar agreed that the ascenders would face it one at a time before the Eight Great Imperial Clans could intervene.

• Lin Heng handed the Heavenly Yang Chainmail to Ling Wushuang, who accepted it and put it on while Lei Yuxiao watched.
• The group entered the second floor and found a Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix resting on a frozen lake above a hidden treasure chest.
• Ye Feng and Ling Wushuang explained that the phoenix was an exceptionally powerful beast formed from Nine Netherworlds Cold Qi and could be reborn after death.
• Lei Yuxiao and Yan Xishan demanded that Lin Heng let their side claim the next treasure, but Ling Wushuang and Ye Feng challenged them to fight the phoenix themselves.
• After Jin Tianshuo taunted the ascenders, the Evil Avatar agreed that they would fight the phoenix first, one at a time, before the Eight Great Imperial Clans could join in.

Lei Yuxiao agreed to let the ascenders face the Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix one at a time, planning to exploit their injuries later. Lin Heng chose this approach because the Eight Great Imperial Clans could not be trusted to fight alongside them, and Ye Feng stepped forward to test the beast in exchange for a hundred-million-year spirit herb.

• Lei Yuxiao agreed that the Eight Great Imperial Clans would not interfere until every ascender had fought, while the ascenders promised not to interfere if they failed to defeat the Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix.
• Ling Wushuang warned that fighting the mature Heavenly Firmament Emperor Realm beast alone was dangerous, and Lin Heng explained that the clans could not be trusted to cooperate wholeheartedly.
• Ye Feng volunteered to test the Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix, and Lin Heng promised him a hundred-million-year spirit herb whether or not they obtained the treasure chest.
• Ling Wushuang offered the same reward to any other ascenders willing to fight, then asked the Evil Avatar who would go first; the Evil Avatar let Ling Wushuang take the lead.
• Ye Feng stepped forward, prompting Lei Yuxiao and the others to suspect the ascenders would wear down the beast before sending in Lin Heng's avatar or Ling Wushuang.

Ye Feng's spear assault failed to injure the Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix, forcing Ling Wushuang to confront it with Blood Ruler Soul Severing. Ling Wushuang cracked its ice-crystal armor but withdrew to change tactics, while Lin Heng wondered what strength Ling Wushuang and Lei Yuxiao were still concealing.

• Ye Feng unleashed tens of thousands of spear shadows against the Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix, but it emerged completely unharmed.
• The Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix chased Ye Feng, and Ling Wushuang intercepted it with Blood Ruler Soul Severing, knocking it back.
• Lei Yuxiao recognized Ling Wushuang's weapon and recalled how it had killed his younger male cousin in a past battle.
• Lin Heng noticed Ling Wushuang's cultivation briefly reached the threshold of the Heavenly Firmament Emperor Realm and suspected he was still holding back.
• Ling Wushuang exchanged dozens of blows with the Mystic Frost Ice Phoenix and cracked its ice-crystal armor, then pulled back to change his strategy.