Chapter Summaries

After leaving the Grotto-Heaven Bamboo Forest with several treasures, Lin Heng flew toward the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain and was ambushed beyond the Southern Spirit Sacred Sea. He fought back against Venerable Qingyi, while the Lei Clan Ancestor recognized his sword as the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword once wielded by Mu Chen.

• Lin Heng examined his sign-in rewards, including the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword, Nine Shine Chainmail, Heavenly Yang Earth-Shrinking Ruler, and Nine Netherworlds Nether Annihilation Bell.
• Lin Heng told Liu Yuansheng he was leaving, and Liu Yuansheng warned him indirectly not to travel toward the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea.
• Lin Heng left the Grotto-Heaven Bamboo Forest and flew toward the Western Celebratory Demon Sea, becoming alert after crossing beyond the Southern Spirit Sacred Sea.
• The Lei Clan Ancestor and Venerable Qingyi surrounded Lin Heng, and Venerable Qingyi attacked him with a waterspout summoned by his folding fan.
• Lin Heng transformed the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword into peach blossoms that shredded Venerable Qingyi’s waterspout from within.
• The Lei Clan Ancestor recognized the sword as the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword Mu Chen had used in the Archaic Land.

The Lei Clan Ancestor and Venerable Qingyi recognized the immense power of Lin Heng’s Peach Garden Annihilation Sword and joined forces to kill him. Lin Heng deflected their attacks, then stabbed the Lei Clan Ancestor, whose fate was left uncertain as the sword’s peach-blossom blades tore through his body.

• The Lei Clan Ancestor and Venerable Qingyi debated whether Lin Heng’s Peach Garden Annihilation Sword was Mu Chen’s original weapon, then agreed to attack him together rather than summon reinforcements.
• The Lei Clan Ancestor attacked with the Thunder Overlord Spear while Venerable Qingyi sent a waterfall and mountain crashing toward Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng countered Venerable Qingyi’s attack with a sea of peach blossoms and blocked the Lei Clan Ancestor’s spear strike with a peach-blossom shield.
• The Lei Clan Ancestor thrust his spear into Lin Heng’s abdomen, but Lin Heng’s battle armor deflected it.
• Lin Heng formed the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword and pierced the Lei Clan Ancestor, unleashing countless tiny blades inside his body.

Lin Heng killed the Lei Clan Ancestor and Venerable Qingyi after they confronted him, then hurried toward the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain when he discovered Qingyi had sent a warning. In the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea, Hermoz learned of their deaths and continued waiting for his subordinates to capture Lin Heng and obtain Mu Chen’s inheritance.

• Lin Heng killed the Lei Clan Ancestor, who died regretting that he had not killed Lin Heng earlier.
• Venerable Qingyi tried to flee, but Lin Heng used his superior Heaven-Grade Universe to restrain him and killed him with the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword.
• Lin Heng found Venerable Qingyi’s communication spirit bead and realized Qingyi had warned someone before dying, so he hurried toward the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain.
• Hermoz received Qingyi’s message at Jade Wave Lake and learned that Lin Heng had killed both Qingyi and the Lei Clan Ancestor.
• Hermoz considered pursuing Mu Chen’s inheritance but chose to wait for his subordinates rather than risk starting a war by acting personally.

Lin Heng was intercepted near the Western Celebratory Demon Sea by the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea cultivators Nangong Jingyan and Zhong Wuyue. After Lin Heng shattered Zhong Wuyue’s sword attack, Zhong trapped him inside Cavern Annihilation Void and demanded that he surrender.

• Lin Heng flew toward the Western Celebratory Demon Sea, hoping to escape the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea’s pursuit.
• Nangong Jingyan and Zhong Wuyue intercepted Lin Heng just short of the Western Celebratory Demon Sea and ordered him to come with them.
• Lin Heng refused to surrender and faced Zhong Wuyue’s Heavenly Wind Wave-Breaking Sword attack.
• Lin Heng froze and shattered the space containing Zhong Wuyue’s Sword Qi, prompting Nangong Jingyan to warn Zhong about Lin Heng’s high universe grade.
• Zhong Wuyue trapped Lin Heng in Cavern Annihilation Void and offered to spare his life if he surrendered.

Lin Heng resisted Zhong Wuyue’s Cavern Annihilation Void with the power of laws, then used Zhong Wuyue’s rash attack to escape with the Heavenly Yang Earth-Shrinking Ruler. Zhong Wuyue and Nangong Jingyan pursued him, but Lin Heng had already traveled more than a hundred thousand li away.

• Lin Heng discovered that Cavern Annihilation Void sealed his cosmic power but did not prevent him from using the power of laws to withstand its pressure.
• Zhong Wuyue attacked Lin Heng after Lin Heng provoked him, releasing Cavern Annihilation Void and giving Lin Heng an opportunity to escape.
• Lin Heng used the Heavenly Yang Earth-Shrinking Ruler repeatedly to flee beyond Zhong Wuyue’s pursuit range.
• Nangong Jingyan rebuked Zhong Wuyue for letting Lin Heng escape, and the two pursued him.
• Lin Heng reflected that he could not have broken free of Cavern Annihilation Void on his own and noted that the ruler’s long-distance travel consumed substantial soul power.

After failing to catch Lin Heng, Zhong Wuyue and Nangong Jingyan suspected Old Freak Heavenly Yang had helped him escape, but Lin Heng encountered the old man near the Western Celebratory Demon Sea. Just as Old Freak Heavenly Yang prepared to seize him, a message changed his expression, and he asked Lin Heng whether he had the Heavenly Yang Earth-Shrinking Ruler.

• Zhong Wuyue and Nangong Jingyan gave up pursuing Lin Heng and blamed his escape on Old Freak Heavenly Yang, then returned to the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea.
• Lin Heng reached the border of the Western Celebratory Demon Sea, where Old Freak Heavenly Yang was waiting to capture him for Hermoz.
• Lin Heng recognized Old Freak Heavenly Yang as a disgraced former member of the Southern Spirit Sacred Sea and challenged him about showing up near its territory.
• Old Freak Heavenly Yang prepared to attack Lin Heng, but stopped after reading a message on his communication spirit bead.
• Old Freak Heavenly Yang asked Lin Heng whether he had the Heavenly Yang Earth-Shrinking Ruler.

Old Freak Heavenly Yang confronted Lin Heng over his identical Heavenly Yang Earth-Shrinking Ruler and tried to stop him from escaping. Chu Duanhun arrived from the Western Celebratory Demon Sea, claimed authority over Lin Heng, and forced Old Freak Heavenly Yang to retreat.

• Old Freak Heavenly Yang demanded to know where Lin Heng had obtained his Heavenly Yang Earth-Shrinking Ruler, and Lin Heng suggested Zhao Yangqing had told him there were two.
• While Old Freak Heavenly Yang pondered Lin Heng’s claim, Lin Heng searched for a way past him and prepared to draw the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword.
• Old Freak Heavenly Yang noticed Lin Heng’s movements, drew his moon demon saber, and prepared to attack.
• Chu Duanhun appeared between Lin Heng and Old Freak Heavenly Yang and accused the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea of overstepping on Western Celebratory Demon Sea territory.
• Chu Duanhun refused to hand Lin Heng over and challenged Old Freak Heavenly Yang to try taking him.
• Old Freak Heavenly Yang backed down, accepted that Lin Heng was under the Western Celebratory Demon Sea’s authority, and fled.

Chu Duanhun drove Old Freak Heavenly Yang away and told Lin Heng that he had to complete the Western Celebratory Demon Sea's Archaic Land trial to gain freedom to enter and leave. Meanwhile, Hermoz used Time Reversal to confirm Old Freak Heavenly Yang's innocence and left Lin Heng's fate to Dasiwoba, while planning to deal with him later.

• Chu Duanhun told Lin Heng that his lord had no interest in Mu Chen's inheritance and that Lin Heng had to survive the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain's trial to freely enter and leave the Western Celebratory Demon Sea.
• Lin Heng followed Chu Duanhun toward the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain and checked in at the Green Ridge Sea Area, earning the Nine Dragons Soul Devouring Mirror.
• Zhong Wuyue and Nangong Jingyan accused Old Freak Heavenly Yang of helping Lin Heng escape and blamed him for their failure to capture Lin Heng.
• Hermoz used Time Reversal to learn what had happened, confirmed that Old Freak Heavenly Yang had not helped Lin Heng, and ordered Zhong Wuyue to drop the matter.
• Hermoz told Old Freak Heavenly Yang that Lin Heng had gone to Dasiwoba's territory and said he expected Lin Heng might not survive, while privately anticipating a later chance to deal with him.

Lin Heng reached the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain and learned from Dijiang that Dasiwoba had made the Mist Forest and Netherworld Purgatory Tower a brutal trial within his universe world. Lin Heng entered the forest despite Dasiwoba’s grudge against his former master, Mu Chen, and found his soul power suppressed.

• Chu Duanhun brought Lin Heng to the shore of the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain and explained that the only way out was through the forest and Senluo Hall.
• Dijiang told Lin Heng about the Mist Forest’s illusions, ghosts, and trapped cultivators, and warned him that Dasiwoba was a madman who had once been gravely injured by Mu Chen.
• Lin Heng questioned Dijiang for withholding Dasiwoba’s grudge, but accepted that he would have chosen this trial even if he had known sooner.
• Dijiang explained that the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain was part of Dasiwoba’s universe world and that passing its trial could benefit Lin Heng’s own universe.
• Lin Heng entered the Mist Forest, where the shore vanished, chilling voices surrounded him, and his soul power became unusable.

Lin Heng learned that he could be trapped in the Mist Forest for killing a human by mistake, then fought a chi disguised as a stone toad. After defeating it, he met an injured old man who claimed to know the forest’s exit and asked Lin Heng to help him defeat the ghost guarding it.

• Lin Heng read the stele’s warning that killing a human by mistake would prevent him from leaving the Mist Forest.
• A giant stone toad attacked Lin Heng, who recognized it as a chi and destroyed it with fire.
• Lin Heng found an injured old man, gave him a pill, and heard his claim that he had found the forest’s exit.
• The old man said a powerful ghost guarded the exit and asked Lin Heng to join forces with him.
• The old man displayed his universe energy and knowledge to prove he was human, while Lin Heng hid his suspicion and asked whether the exit was real.

Lin Heng discovered that the old man leading him through the Mist Forest was Mei, who had lured him into a trap with Ba. When Ba attacked, Lin Heng immobilized him with the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword and demanded to know where the forest’s exit was.

• Lin Heng realized the old man was guiding him toward a trap and followed because he believed he could defeat the attackers.
• The old man revealed himself as Mei, and Ba arrived to kill Lin Heng and share his flesh and blood.
• Lin Heng summoned the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword, alarming Mei and Ba, who remembered Mu Chen’s massacre through the Mist Forest.
• Ba dismissed the sword’s resemblance to the weapon from the past and lunged at Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng froze Ba with spatial power and pointed his sword at Ba’s heart, asking where the exit was.

Lin Heng learned that the only way out of the Mist Forest was to kill its Nether creatures, so he began slaughtering them. After exposing and killing Wangliang, who had tried to manipulate him with a shadow illusion, Lin Heng spotted more creatures fleeing ahead and prepared to pursue them.

• Ba mocked Lin Heng’s chances of escaping the Mist Forest, and Lin Heng killed it with the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword.
• Mei revealed that a passage had appeared after someone slaughtered more than half the forest’s creatures, but Lin Heng killed Mei for having tried to kill him.
• Lin Heng channeled the eight Powers of Origin into his sword and killed dozens of ghosts and monsters as he traveled through the forest.
• Wangliang appeared in Lin Heng’s likeness and threatened to replace him, but Lin Heng recognized the ghost’s Shadow Illusion Technique and killed him with the eight Origin Cosmic Powers.
• Lin Heng saw more than a dozen figures fleeing through the forest and prepared to chase them, but a sudden change occurred.

Lin Heng entered the Netherworld Purgatory Tower after escaping the Mist Forest, where Chu Duanhun challenged him to a wager over whether he could leave within a month. As ghostly sounds began around him, Dijiang warned that the tower tested mental power, leaving Lin Heng to face an unknown trial with his soul power sealed.

• A beam carried Lin Heng out of the Mist Forest and into the separate space containing the Netherworld Purgatory Tower.
• Lin Heng entered the tower, where gray mist limited his vision and a strange force sealed his soul power.
• Chu Duanhun appeared and wagered that Lin Heng could choose a treasure from his storage ring if he escaped within a month, while Lin Heng would forfeit the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword if he failed.
• Chu Duanhun vanished, and ghostly cries and howls surrounded Lin Heng inside the tower.
• Lin Heng asked Dijiang about the tower, and Dijiang explained that its trials varied but primarily tested a cultivator's mental power.

Lin Heng faced a trial in the Netherworld Purgatory Tower, where Dasiwoba used real punished ghosts and their resentment to try to drive him into slaughter. Lin Heng halted the surrounding ghosts with the pressure of his Heavenly Dao, while Dasiwoba learned that Chu Duanhun had wagered for Lin Heng’s Peach Garden Annihilation Sword and continued to suspect Lin Heng could reproduce treasures.

• Lin Heng recognized that the ghosts appearing in the tower had suffered punishments in Netherworld Hell and realized Dasiwoba intended their resentment to erode his mind.
• Lin Heng rose into the air, closed his eyes, and used the pressure of his Heavenly Dao to freeze tens of thousands of ghosts around him.
• Dasiwoba watched Lin Heng through the Mystic Light Mirror and was surprised that Lin Heng had stopped the ghosts without attacking them.
• Chu Duanhun told Dasiwoba that Lin Heng had entered the tower and that he had wagered for the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword if Lin Heng failed to escape within a month.
• Dasiwoba suspected Lin Heng could reproduce destroyed treasures and planned to take the sword to determine whether it was genuine.

Lin Heng purified the first floor of the Netherworld Purgatory Tower with his vast righteous Qi, revealing to Dasiwoba that he possessed the potential for a Heaven-Grade Universe. Dasiwoba changed his plans around Lin Heng and ordered the Archaic Land advancement competition postponed until Lin Heng left the tower.

• Lin Heng used golden light drawn from his universe to purify the gray mist and ten thousand ghosts across the tower's first floor.
• Dasiwoba recognized Lin Heng's Heaven-Grade Universe potential and told Chu Duanhun that it made Lin Heng far more important to Primordial Chaos and his eldest senior brother.
• Dasiwoba rejected Chu Duanhun's suggestion and decided to leave Lin Heng to Hermoz, while ordering Chu Duanhun to follow the original arrangements in the Netherworld Purgatory Tower.
• Dasiwoba ordered the advancement competition delayed until Lin Heng came out of the tower, dismissing the Blood Return Demon Domain's submitted list of participants.
• The chapter described the Blood Return Demon Domain as a place of life and the Heavenly Punishment Ghost Domain as a place of death for newcomers to the Western Celebratory Demon Sea.

Lin Heng fought his way through the Netherworld Purgatory Tower, killing a Returning Soul Bull Demon after realizing Dasiwoba had set the trials up to kill the cultivators sent there. Dasiwoba watched the fight and ordered Chu Duanhun to take Lin Heng to the Blood Return Demon Domain once he emerged.

• Hongjun watched Lin Heng defeat the ten thousand ghosts and warned Dasiwoba and Hermoz not to try to kill him.
• Lin Heng crossed a blood-red bridge to the tower’s second floor, where he found a Returning Soul Bull Demon and concluded Dasiwoba did not intend for cultivators to survive the trials.
• Lin Heng attacked the bull demon with the Peach Garden Annihilation Sword and destroyed it with Peach Blossom Fall.
• Dasiwoba and Chu Duanhun watched Lin Heng’s victory through the Mystic Light Mirror, and Dasiwoba said the later floors would be harder.
• Dasiwoba ordered Chu Duanhun to take Lin Heng to the Blood Return Demon Domain after he left the tower.

Lin Heng cleared the Netherworld Purgatory Tower’s first fifteen levels with ease before encountering an illusion of Mu Chen on the sixteenth. The false Mu Chen attacked him with Eternal Ages and pierced him with Sword Moves in Eight Directions, but Lin Heng remained defiant.

• Lin Heng learned from Dijiang that the tower’s final three levels held unusual challenges that had nearly trapped Mu Chen, then crossed to the sixteenth level.
• A gentle melody and mental energy caused Lin Heng to lose consciousness, and he awoke facing someone who looked like Mu Chen.
• The apparent Mu Chen summoned Eternal Ages, severed Lin Heng’s connection to the sword, and made Kunpeng’s artifact spirit bow to him.
• The apparent Mu Chen attacked with Sword Moves in Eight Directions, breaking through Lin Heng’s eight-colored shield and piercing his body.
• Mu Chen mocked Lin Heng as he approached, but Lin Heng wiped blood from his mouth and answered with a disdainful smile.

Lin Heng exposed the apparent Mu Chen as a Nightmare and escaped its dream, destroying the creature. He entered the seventeenth floor, where a black-clad double claimed to be him with memories of countless cycles of Samsara and summoned a Mystic Light Mirror.

• Lin Heng recognized that the apparent Mu Chen could not imitate the unique attack energy of Eternal Ages and Kunpeng, then identified him as a Nightmare.
• The Nightmare attacked Lin Heng in the dream, but Lin Heng let the strike pass through him and woke on the sixteenth floor of the Netherworld Purgatory Tower.
• Lin Heng pulled the Nightmare toward him with suction force and destroyed it with eight-colored Origin Cosmic Power.
• Dasiwoba and Chu Duanhun discussed Lin Heng's escape and watched as he crossed the bridge to the seventeenth floor.
• A black-clad man who looked exactly like Lin Heng claimed to have the memories of countless cycles of Samsara, then created a Mystic Light Mirror showing Lin Heng.

The black-clad "Lin Heng" used the Mystic Light Mirror to reveal Lin Heng’s first past life, overwhelming him with memories of love, betrayal, and loss. As Lin Heng spiraled into turmoil, his opponent expected the Samsara memories to destroy his Dao heart.

• Dasiwoba uncovered Lin Heng’s reincarnation memories and used the Mystic Light Mirror to display them.
• Lin Heng remembered meeting Leng Yue'e, falling in love with her, and spending ten years helping her save the realm.
• Lin Heng recalled finding Leng Yue'e married to the master of Mystic Heart Hall, who drove him away after she rejected him.
• After twenty years of seclusion, Lin Heng returned to Mystic Heart Hall and fought its master, while Leng Yue'e struck the hall master from behind and was fatally wounded by his counterattack.
• Lin Heng remembered killing the hall master and watching Leng Yue'e die, then succumbing to grief and dying within half a year.
• The black-clad "Lin Heng" watched Lin Heng struggle with the memories and believed their impact would shatter his Dao heart.

Lin Heng’s recovered memories drove him into a frenzy until his former master’s confession revealed the truth behind Liu Yue'e’s departure. After calming down, Lin Heng entered the extraordinary state of Spirit Returns to the Original Universe, alarming Hongjun and making Dasiwoba fear his growing talent.

• Hongjun watched Lin Heng struggle with the memories of his previous life and left him to face the crisis on his own.
• Dasiwoba anticipated that Lin Heng would suffer even more when further Samsara memories emerged.
• Lin Heng saw his former master confess in the Mystic Light Mirror that he had arranged Liu Yue'e’s departure and marriage to force Lin Heng to abandon her and cultivate.
• Lin Heng calmed down as he considered the confession, and his soul began disappearing from the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• Hongjun recognized Lin Heng’s state as Spirit Returns to the Original Universe, while Dasiwoba suppressed his killing intent and considered how to stop Lin Heng from growing stronger.