Chapter Summaries

Tianxuzi trapped Lin Heng with the Lei Clan Ancestor’s formation and struck him with a devastating sword beam, but Lin Heng endured the attack without losing his excitement. Tianxuzi faltered instead of delivering another blow, while Lei Juetian urged him to finish Lin Heng.

• Four seven-colored chains bound Lin Heng, suppressing his Powers of Origin and restricting his movement.
• Tianxuzi used the Heavenly Solitude Slash to send a huge blood-colored sword beam crashing into Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng survived with wounds across his body and blood-soaked clothes, still smiling and showing excitement.
• Tianxuzi became unnerved by Lin Heng’s unflinching gaze and stood without attacking again.
• Lei Juetian urged Tianxuzi to kill Lin Heng before the opportunity passed.

Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian realized Lin Heng had absorbed much of Tianxuzi’s sword attack, despite his bloody appearance. They decided to attack him together and test the limits of his ability, while Lin Heng welcomed the chance to keep experimenting with it.

• Tianxuzi noticed that Lin Heng’s presence and breathing remained steady after the sword strike.
• Lei Juetian entered the formation space and agreed that Lin Heng had not taken the attack normally.
• Lei Juetian suspected Lin Heng had absorbed the sword’s energy, and Tianxuzi linked that possibility to Lin Heng’s Origin Assimilation and Devour Heaven and Absorb Earth abilities.
• Lin Heng mocked Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian for failing to kill him while he was bound.
• Lei Juetian proposed attacking Lin Heng alongside Tianxuzi, and the two prepared to strike as Lin Heng eagerly waited to test his ability.

Lin Heng used Devour Heaven and Absorb Earth with Origin Assimilation to absorb Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian’s attacks while loosening the formation’s chains. Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian stopped attacking, leaving Lin Heng to consider provoking them again so he could absorb enough power to break free.

• Lin Heng decided to use Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian’s attacks to test and refine his divine ability.
• Tianxuzi unleashed Heavenly Solitude, Unmoving Heaven Shattering, while Lei Juetian struck with Nine Movements of the Thunder Serpent, Heavenly Might Destroys the World.
• Lin Heng wrapped his spiritual power around both attacks and used a strange force to alter their power, making Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian hesitate rather than intervene.
• Lin Heng absorbed the giant sword and lightning blade beam as streams of eight-colored light without suffering injuries.
• Tianxuzi recognized that Lin Heng’s eight Powers of Origin let him absorb their attacks, while Lei Juetian questioned how Lin Heng could do so while bound.
• Lin Heng secretly used their attacks to loosen the seven-colored chains, then resolved that he might need to provoke them into attacking again to break free completely.

Lei Lan and Mei Aoxue plotted to kill Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian rather than fight Lin Heng, hoping to save themselves from his retaliation. As the two leaders gathered their allies to attack Lin Heng, the conspirators took positions behind them, while Lin Heng prepared to counterattack.

• Outside the formation space, Lei Lan and other cultivators questioned whether Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian could kill Lin Heng and discussed turning against them.
• Mei Aoxue proposed that Lei Lan’s group ambush Lei Juetian while the Mortal World Inn’s people attacked Tianxuzi, and the others agreed.
• Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian decided to bring their followers into the formation space to strengthen their assault on Lin Heng.
• Lei Lan and Mei Aoxue led their followers behind Lei Juetian and Tianxuzi, secretly preparing to betray them.
• Lin Heng circulated the sixty percent of his recovered Power of Origin as Tianxuzi raised his sword and declared that Lin Heng would be buried there.

As Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian prepared to kill Lin Heng, Lei Lan, Mei Aoxue, and their allies struck the two men by surprise and asked Lin Heng to forgive their earlier opposition. The wounded attackers confronted their former allies, and Mei Aoxue declared that Tianxuzi would not escape death.

• Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian launched an attack on Lin Heng, but Lei Lan, Mei Aoxue, and the others hit them before their weapons could strike.
• Lei Lan and Mei Aoxue bowed to Lin Heng and asked him not to hold Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian's offenses against them, claiming they had acted to preserve peace.
• Lei Juetian returned, gravely wounded, and accused Lei Lan of betraying the Lei Clan; Lei Lan replied that Lei Juetian had betrayed it by starting a war.
• Tianxuzi arrived with a ruined left arm and mocked Lei Lan and Mei Aoxue for fearing Lin Heng and the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Mei Aoxue told Tianxuzi that their paths had ended and that he would not escape death.

Mei Aoxue challenged Tianxuzi after he invoked Venerable Qingyi’s orders, while Lin Heng realized the hidden restrictions preventing Qingyi and the Lei Clan Ancestor from attacking him directly. Lin Heng summoned Eternal Ages and prepared to break the formation, ordering Kunpeng to keep the others alive as he made an example of his enemies.

• Mei Aoxue rejected Tianxuzi’s attempt to use Venerable Qingyi’s name to stop her, and the Mortal World Inn’s experts questioned Tianxuzi’s claim that Qingyi had ordered the attack.
• Mei Aoxue asked Lei Juetian whether he would blame the Lei Clan Ancestor for the attack, leaving him unable to answer.
• Lin Heng connected Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian’s actions and absence of their backers to Dijiang’s claim that Qingyi and the Lei Clan Ancestor could not attack him directly.
• Lin Heng summoned Eternal Ages, and Kunpeng appeared and recognized that the formation had been made by someone from the upper realm.
• Lin Heng told Kunpeng to protect the others and keep them alive while he broke the formation and made an example of the people who had attacked him.

Lin Heng used Heaven and Earth Fusion to absorb energy from his surroundings and the people trapped with him, then destroyed the formation flags with a giant sword. After subduing Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian, he announced that he would kill them as a warning to anyone who targeted him and the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

• Lin Heng used Eternal Ages to shield Tianxuzi, Lei Juetian, Lei Lan, Mei Aoxue and the others from the battle's destructive force.
• Lin Heng unleashed Heaven and Earth Fusion, drawing energy from within a million miles and pulling the Power of Origin from those in the formation space.
• Lin Heng formed a giant sword and used four sword lights to destroy the formation flags, breaking the formation's restraints.
• Lin Heng seized Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian by the throats after the protective barrier vanished, and they stopped resisting.
• Lin Heng told Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian that he would kill them as an example to anyone who targeted him and the Battle Heaven Pavilion.

Lin Heng gathered the Battle Heaven Pavilion army at the Heavenly Elegance Mountain Range and drew the First Heaven’s forces there after capturing Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian. The Lei Clan Ancestor and Venerable Qingyi plotted from afar, while Ao Zhantian and Firmament Hall openly sided with Lin Heng.

• Lin Heng summoned Sun Yuan, the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor, Qin Hongmian, and the Battle Heaven Pavilion army to the Heavenly Elegance Mountain Range.
• Lin Heng shouted across the First Heaven, drawing its forces toward the mountain range.
• The Lei Clan Ancestor and Venerable Qingyi watched through the Mystic Light Mirror and feared Lin Heng would publicly humiliate them, but decided to let others try to eliminate him later.
• Ao Zhantian apologized to Lin Heng for luring him into the trap, then joined the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s side to show his support.
• The Firmament Hall’s other two hall masters also joined Lin Heng’s ranks, adding three top experts to the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s side.

Lin Heng exposed Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian’s attempt to kill him and forced the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian to decide their fate. With the factions and Battle Heaven Pavilion pressing them, the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor stepped forward to kill Lei Juetian.

• Lin Heng threw Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian down and told the assembled factions that they had trapped him and tried to kill him.
• Lin Heng asked the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian to decide how to punish the two men, placing their leaders under suspicion.
• Ao Zhantian, the other Firmament Hall masters, Miao Shanrou, and Lin Miaoyin backed punishment under the Nine Heavens’ rules.
• Sun Yuan questioned whether the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian had been involved, while one hundred thousand Battle Heaven Pavilion disciples released their pressure.
• Tianxuzi and Lei Juetian begged their leaders to spare them, but the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor stepped forward and told Lei Juetian he had to give an account.

The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian killed Lei Juetian and Tianxuzi to appease Lin Heng, but the Battle Heaven Pavilion’s departure left their alliances in ruins. After Qin Hongmian advised keeping a low profile, the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor was left mourning his lost chance to obtain Mu Chen’s inheritance and turned to steadying the Lei Clan.

• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor and Qin Hongmian destroyed Lei Juetian’s and Tianxuzi’s bodies and Divine Souls.
• Lin Heng warned them against repeating the incident and led the Battle Heaven Pavilion away through a spatial vortex.
• Miao Shanrou, Lin Miaoyin, Ao Zhantian, and the other forces departed, leaving the Lei Clan and Mortal World Inn experts to distance themselves from their leaders.
• Lei Lan and Mei Aoxue led their respective groups away, and Qin Hongmian advised the Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor to keep a low profile before leaving herself.
• The Thunder Punishment Saint Emperor mourned losing his chance to obtain Mu Chen’s inheritance and decided to steady the Lei Clan’s people.

After tens of thousands of experts from the Lei Clan, the Mortal World Inn, and their allied factions pledged themselves to the Battle Heaven Pavilion, Lin Heng left their screening to Situ Jiannan. He then asked Dijiang to let him attempt the Heavenly Estate's third-level trial, and Dijiang warned that its opponents would fight without restraint.

• Mei Aoxue led tens of thousands of experts in kneeling before Lin Heng and pledging their service to the Battle Heaven Pavilion.
• Situ Jiannan advised Lin Heng to accept the newcomers to strengthen the Pavilion's ranks, while carefully screening them for loyalty.
• Lin Heng lifted the crowd to their feet and put Situ Jiannan in charge of assigning their duties and handling the Pavilion's affairs.
• Lin Heng visited Dijiang in the Peach Garden Heavenly Abode and asked to challenge the third level of the Heavenly Estate.
• Dijiang said Lin Heng had barely met the minimum requirements and warned that the trial's opponents would obey their master's orders without letting affection influence their fighting.

Lin Heng entered the Heavenly Estate's third level and began Gou Mang's qualification challenge: he had one day to find Gou Mang hidden in a vast forest. Near the deadline, Lin Heng realized his origin of Fire might force Gou Mang out of hiding, and prepared to act.

• Lin Heng insisted on challenging the third level, and Dijiang escorted him to the palace where its trials began.
• Dijiang directed Lin Heng to Gou Mang's residence and explained that Gou Mang controlled the origin of Wood.
• Gou Mang set Lin Heng a one-day test: find him in the vast forest or leave without qualifying to challenge him.
• Lin Heng spread his soul power across the forest but could not detect Gou Mang, whom he suspected had merged with the trees.
• With the deadline approaching, Lin Heng realized he could use his origin of Fire to burn the forest and make Gou Mang reveal himself.

Lin Heng forced Gou Mang to appear by threatening to destroy the Forest of Life, then began the trial to knock him off his green ox within the time it took an incense stick to burn. After Gou Mang repeatedly evaded his attacks through a mysterious connection to the forest, Lin Heng used the Origin of Fire to expose the roots beneath the ground.

• Lin Heng placed four formation flags and activated the Ancient Flame Dragon Great Formation, forcing Gou Mang to reveal himself.
• Gou Mang appeared riding a green ox and told Lin Heng that he had to knock him off its back while Gou Mang limited his cultivation to the Third-Grade Sovereign level.
• Lin Heng attacked, but Gou Mang vanished without any detectable energy or spatial fluctuation and reappeared above a tree.
• Lin Heng suspected Gou Mang used his Origin of Wood and the forest to move, then spread the Origin of Fire across a thousand-mile area.
• Gou Mang emerged beneath another tree, and Lin Heng overturned the ground to reveal a tangled network of tree roots.

Lin Heng defeated Gou Mang in the first trial by overwhelming him with force, then received a warning about the final trial and a hint about merging with all things. He headed toward Xuanming’s palace, planning to test the guardian’s specialized Origin of Water.

• Lin Heng deduced that Gou Mang could merge with the forest’s life energy, then agreed to fight him head-on and promised not to burn the forest again.
• Lin Heng overwhelmed Gou Mang with a powerful fist and a follow-up wave of water, prompting Gou Mang to yield.
• Gou Mang warned Lin Heng that the final trial’s guardian was waiting to kill him and told him that all things possessed spirituality.
• Dijiang praised Lin Heng for passing Gou Mang’s test quickly and recalled that his Master had once threatened Gou Mang in the same way.
• Dijiang explained that Xuanming’s Origin of Water had rain and ice properties, and Lin Heng headed to the next trial intending to study his techniques.

Lin Heng faced Xuanming’s Sovereign Sixth Grade puppet in a rain-filled trial and discovered that the rain was eroding his Power of Origin. He dispelled it with the Origin of Heaven Yang, while Xuanming acknowledged his abilities and warned that the real battle was only beginning.

• Lin Heng met Xuanming, who created a puppet with Sovereign Sixth Grade strength and ordered Lin Heng to kill it to pass the trial.
• Xuanming vanished, and his puppet attacked Lin Heng, beginning a fierce close-combat battle above the lake.
• Lin Heng noticed that the rain was interfering with his Power of Origin and realized Xuanming had infused it with the Origin of Water to weaken him.
• Lin Heng blasted the puppet back and used the Origin of Heaven Yang to scatter the clouds and stop the rain.
• Xuanming expressed surprise at Lin Heng’s quick discovery, recognized his extraordinary qualities, and warned him that the real battle was just beginning.

Lin Heng fought Xuanming’s clone and learned a new way to wield the Origin of Water through ice dust. After understanding that the Heavenly Estate’s third level was meant to teach him how to use the Power of Origin, Lin Heng asked Xuanming’s clone to fight at full strength, and the battle continued.

• Lin Heng escaped Rain’s Bewilderment, and Xuanming’s clone turned water pillars into ice before scattering them into a sea of ice dust that wounded Lin Heng.
• Xuanming explained that the Nine Heavens’ use of the Power of Origin was childish and warned Lin Heng that he would not survive in the upper realm without greater strength.
• Lin Heng realized the Heavenly Estate’s three levels were designed to gradually teach him combat skills and ways to use the Power of Origin.
• Lin Heng thanked Xuanming and asked his clone to fight at full strength, then covered himself with the Origin of Fire.
• Xuanming’s clone formed an ice sword, turned it back into ice dust, and announced, “Dance, Ice Dust Flower Sea!”

Lin Heng endured Xuanming's clone's relentless ice-flower storm, figured out how it had trapped him, and countered with Void Fire Realm. Xuanming withdrew the ice dust but decided to push Lin Heng harder before letting him pass the trial.

• Xuanming's clone trapped Lin Heng inside an ice storm and sent countless ice flowers against his flame barrier.
• Lin Heng realized the storm had formed from hidden ice dust already surrounding him, rather than moving through space.
• As the ice flowers wore down his barrier, Lin Heng condensed the Origin of Fire and unleashed Void Fire Realm.
• Lin Heng's flames destroyed the ice flowers and melted the storm, forcing Xuanming's clone to withdraw its attack.
• Xuanming watched Lin Heng's progress and decided to increase the pressure because the next trials were difficult.

Lin Heng passed Xuanming’s trial after learning from their battle, then prepared to face Xizi, the formidable guardian of the third trial. He reached Xizi’s palace and found the Lightning Origin guardian waiting amid a devastated landscape.

• Xuanming guided Lin Heng through their fight, and Lin Heng defeated his clone even after both were restricted to Sovereign Sixth Grade.
• Xuanming declared Lin Heng had passed and advised him not to rush into the fourth trial after clearing the third.
• Lin Heng returned to Dijiang, who warned him that Xizi wielded destructive Lightning Origin and fought at Ninth Grade Sovereign.
• Lin Heng traveled the lightning-ravaged path to Xizi’s palace and found the guardian floating in the air.
• Xizi opened his eyes, and the red python on his hands transformed into a scepter.

Lin Heng faced Xizi in a trial that required him to fight using only Lightning Origin. Their battle tested speed, timing, and control, and the chapter ended with Xizi caught inside the explosion of Lin Heng’s Thunder Stars.

• Xizi demanded that Lin Heng prove his strength by defeating him and challenged him to fight using only Lightning Origin.
• Lin Heng agreed, and the two watched each other until Lin Heng used a thunderbolt as a feint to begin his Flash Step.
• Xizi unleashed thousands of lightning threads, forcing Lin Heng to dodge and slowing his movements.
• Xizi pursued Lin Heng and thrust a lightning sword at him, but Lin Heng retreated and conjured countless points of lightning around Xizi.
• The points of lightning exploded into a massive blast, and Xizi formed a protective barrier as a mushroom-shaped cloud rose into the air.

Lin Heng and Xizi clashed with lightning origin, each summoning a powerful lightning beast. Xizi tried to secretly strengthen his dragon with scattered lightning, but Lin Heng used Origin Devouring to take control of that power, leaving Xizi shocked.

• Xizi recovered from Lin Heng’s earlier attack and summoned a thousand-meter lightning dragon.
• Lin Heng summoned a lightning qilin, and the two beasts fought fiercely in the air.
• Xizi secretly began gathering scattered lightning origin to strengthen his dragon while Lin Heng watched the battle.
• Lin Heng noticed Xizi’s plan and used Origin Devouring to draw the scattered lightning origin toward the qilin.
• Xizi failed to control the gathered power and realized Lin Heng had learned the divine ability.