Chapter Summaries

Lin Heng continued refining his pill long after the other alchemy experts had finished, while observers noticed he was using Wondrous Fragrance Valley’s Divine Refinement Scripture. Xu Bo produced the highest-quality ninth-grade Mystic Fire Pill, but Yao Jian questioned why Lin Heng had not opened his furnace.

• Lin Heng used the Divine Refinement Scripture’s pill-refining method as he refined his pill and signed in at the Pill Tower each day, while six contestants failed by the eighth day.
• Elder Ji Xin and Dongfang Yan successfully refined ninth-grade Mystic Fire Pills, and five of the sixteen experts who had finished by the fourteenth day had succeeded.
• Xu Bo emerged with an exceptionally high-quality ninth-grade Mystic Fire Pill and received praise from the crowd and Duanmu He.
• Xu Bo and Zheng Yun saw Lin Heng still refining with the Nether Flame Pill Furnace and recognized that he was using their valley’s Divine Refinement Scripture.
• Yao Jian pointed out that Lin Heng had already completed the steps for a ninth-grade Mystic Fire Pill but showed no sign of opening his furnace, while Zheng Yun suggested he might have failed.

Lin Heng delayed retrieving his pill, then revealed he was using a Phoenix Blood Fruit to attempt refining the God Pill Nirvana Pill. The onlookers marveled at his ambition and wondered whether he could succeed, while Dongfang Lin considered what Lin Heng's skill implied about his cultivation.

• Lin Heng kept the Nether Flame Pill Furnace closed as the fifteenth day of the refinement trial neared its end, worrying the observers and easing Zheng Yun and Xu Bo's concerns.
• At dusk, Lin Heng opened the furnace and added a Phoenix Blood Fruit he had brought himself.
• Yao Jian, Ji Xin, and Chi Jian realized that Lin Heng intended to refine a Nirvana Pill, a God Pill far beyond the Ninth-Grade Profound Fire Pill he was expected to make.
• Xu Bo and Zheng Yun insisted Lin Heng could not succeed, while Ji Xin praised his daring and hoped to witness a miracle.
• Dongfang Lin admired Lin Heng's pill-making ability but wondered whether Lin Heng's cultivation had already surpassed Dongfang Yao's by more than one major realm.

Lin Heng refined a Nirvana Pill, proving his alchemy skill to the gathered experts. After Duanmu Yunshang swallowed the pill, she unexpectedly showed no signs of harm, leaving everyone baffled.

• Lin Heng opened the Nether Flame Pill Furnace and revealed the Nirvana Pill he had refined.
• Xu Bo lost composure and spat blood after Lin Heng's achievement, then left with Zheng Yun following him.
• Dongfang Yan knelt to acknowledge Lin Heng's alchemy skill, and Duanmu Lan congratulated him.
• Duanmu Yunshang asked to play with the Nirvana Pill, and Lin Heng handed it to her.
• Duanmu Yunshang swallowed the Nirvana Pill, but only turned bright red and felt no pain.
• Duanmu Yunshang told Duanmu Lan that the pill had burrowed into her tummy by itself.

Duanmu Yunshang survived taking the Nirvana Pill and awakened the Heaven-Burning Battle Physique, astonishing everyone and raising hopes that she could become a great human champion. Dongfang Lin warned that her power was dangerous to control and refused to share the Great Xia Imperial Clan’s cultivation secrets, leaving Duanmu Lan needing the clan’s help.

• Duanmu Yunshang unleashed a powerful force that blasted the people around her backward as fiery red and purple light enveloped her.
• Dongfang Lin recognized her as the bearer of the Heaven-Burning Battle Physique and explained that the Nirvana Pill had awakened it and brought it to its peak.
• Dongfang Lin warned that Yunshang was too young to control the physique and could be harmed by its power, while ordinary cultivation and pills would have little effect on her.
• Duanmu Lan asked Dongfang Lin to teach the Mystic Purity Sect how to cultivate the Heaven-Burning Battle Physique.
• Dongfang Lin refused, citing the Great Xia Imperial Clan’s ancestral rule against sharing its secrets with outsiders.

Lin Heng publicly invoked the engagement terms to break off his engagement to Dongfang Yao, provoking Dongfang Lin’s anger. Yao Jian and Duanmu Lan backed Lin Heng, while Dongfang Lin warned that the Great Xia Imperial Clan would retaliate.

• Duanmu Lan asked what the Great Xia Imperial Clan wanted in exchange for its Heaven-Burning Battle Physique cultivation experience, and Dongfang Lin demanded that Duanmu Yunshang marry into the imperial clan.
• Duanmu He objected to Dongfang Lin’s proposal, and Duanmu Lan asked for time to consider it.
• Lin Heng announced that he wanted to break off his engagement to Dongfang Yao under a clause allowing him to do so if her cultivation lagged more than one major realm behind his before she turned thirty.
• Lin Heng revealed that he was a Quasi-God with a Divine Body and Divine Soul, and he firmly rejected Dongfang Lin’s appeal to reconsider.
• Dongfang Lin threatened Lin Heng with the consequences of opposing the Great Xia Imperial Clan, while Yao Jian declared his support for Lin Heng.
• Duanmu Lan announced that he and the Mystic Purity Sect also supported Lin Heng because he had helped them with his Nirvana Pill.

Dongfang Lin accepted the dissolution of the engagement between Dongfang Yan and Lin Heng, then warned Duanmu Lan that the Great Xia Imperial Clan’s cultivation experience would still be valuable to Duanmu Yunshang. Lin Heng offered a Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus seed to help Yunshang safely strengthen her soul, and the others proposed that she marry him; the chapter ended with Lin Heng speechless as Yunshang innocently agreed.

• Dongfang Lin acknowledged that the engagement was void and left after warning Duanmu Lan about the cultivation experience Yunshang might need.
• Lin Heng reassured Duanmu Lan and Duanmu He that he had divine-grade resources to help Yunshang form a Divine Soul Pearl.
• Lin Heng produced a Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus seed, and Yao Jian proposed that Lin Heng and Yunshang become a couple as a way to repay his generosity.
• Yunshang came out of her trance and apologized to Lin Heng for swallowing his Nirvana Pill.
• Duanmu He asked Yunshang whether she would marry Lin Heng, and Yunshang innocently agreed, leaving Lin Heng uncomfortable.

Lin Heng broke his engagement to Dongfang Yao and agreed to a verbal engagement with Duanmu Yunshang, giving her divine lotus seeds as betrothal gifts. As the news spread, the Great Xia Imperial Clan argued over how to protect its reputation without driving Lin Heng away.

• Lin Heng and Duanmu Lan agreed that Lin Heng could end his verbal engagement to Duanmu Yunshang whenever he wished, and Lin Heng gave Duanmu Lan two Seven-Colored Heavenly Heart Lotus seeds for her.
• Duanmu Lan and the other alchemy experts left the Pill Pavilion as the Alchemy Dao Conference ended, while Lin Heng stayed behind to sign in at the Pill Tower.
• Dongfang Yan told Hong San that Lin Heng had refined a Nirvana Pill, broken his engagement to Dongfang Yao, and become engaged to Duanmu Yunshang, whose Heaven-Burning Battle Physique had been revealed.
• Dongfang Anbang told Dongfang Lin that Lin Heng had engaged himself to Duanmu Yunshang and that the imperial clan had spread a story claiming Lin Heng broke his engagement because he coveted her physique.
• Dongfang Anbang urged Dongfang Lin to expel Lin Heng from the Divine Martial Institute, but Dongfang Lin warned that this would only make Lin Heng their enemy.
• A guard reported that the head of the Great Xia Divine Martial Institute had arrived.

Fan Xiangyuan reassured the Great Xia royals that Lin Heng would eventually leave the Divine Firmament Continent, while the institute’s students and Dongfang Yao reacted to his broken engagement and rumored new betrothal. At the Chishui Royal Palace, Lin Changqing received confirmation that Lin Heng had impressed the Alchemy Dao Conference and arranged a marriage with the Heaven-Burning Battle Physique.

• Fan Xiangyuan told Dongfang Lin and Dongfang Anbang that Lin Heng would likely ascend to the God Realm and take his influence away from Great Xia, and he suspected Lin Heng had killed Luo Tong.
• Students at the Great Xia Divine Martial Institute’s cafeteria discussed Lin Heng’s Nirvana Pill and his dissolved engagement, while gossiping that he was engaged to the Heaven-Burning Battle Physique.
• Dongfang Yao regretted that her family had not dissolved her engagement earlier, and Dongfang Zhan tried to invite Ren Rulong to sit with them after she rejected him.
• Lin Changqing received a message confirming that Lin Heng had astonished the Alchemy Dao Conference and arranged a marriage with the Mystic Purity Sect’s Heaven-Burning Battle Physique.

Lin Changqing regretted his estrangement from his son, while the Devil Race and Demon Race discussed the threat posed by the Human Race’s rising powers and the Devil Race’s newly acquired Heavenly Devil Tyrant Body. The Demon Gods ended by considering an alliance with the Sea Race.

• Lin Changqing dismissed Xi Zhaoqu’s suggestion that his son would return to inherit the throne and received news that Lingxi had sent a congratulatory gift.
• Ao Qin warned Tuoba Kui that the Little Prince of Chishui had refined a Nirvana Pill and reached High-Level Quasi-God, but Tuoba Kui and Tuoba Ke refused to attack the Human Race immediately.
• Tuoba Kui revealed that Tuoba Ke had obtained the Heavenly Devil Tyrant Body and would complete his mastery of it in about three years.
• Ao Qin returned to Dragon Valley and told the Demon Gods that the Devil Race would wait three years before joining them against the Human Race.
• Chi Mei proposed that the Demon Race form an alliance with the Sea Race, surprising the assembled Demon Gods.

Lin Heng took the Nine-Pattern Sun Pill and began a long cultivation process while continuing to wander around the Pill Pavilion and the Great Xia Divine Martial Institute. At Crescent Lake, Fan Xiangyuan urged Ren Rulong to overcome his doubts and hinted that an unusual path might let him surpass the Little Prince of Chishui, leaving Ren wondering how he could reach the God Realm so quickly.

• Lin Heng took the Nine-Pattern Sun Pill, formed a spinning sphere of compressed True Essence, and consumed cultivation pills and energy-rich treasures.
• Ren Rulong sat alone by Crescent Lake, troubled by Dongfang Yao's cold attitude and the Little Prince of Chishui's absence.
• Fan Xiangyuan told Ren Rulong that he had once faced similar circumstances and urged him to build the resolve and confidence needed to reach the God Realm.
• Ren Rulong admitted his mistake and promised to let go of his obsession with Dongfang Yao and focus on cultivation.
• Fan Xiangyuan said Ren Rulong would need to take an unusual path to defeat the Little Prince of Chishui, and Ren asked how he could reach the God Realm before him.

Fan Xiangyuan persuaded Ren Rulong to enter the Demon-Suppressing Tower and cultivate the dangerous Demon-Devouring Art, while Lin Heng resumed refining Nine-Pattern Sun Pills. Meanwhile, Ao Qin and Chi Mei sought an alliance with the Sea Race, whose demands left negotiations on the verge of conflict.

• Fan Xiangyuan told Ren Rulong that the Demon-Devouring Art could help him absorb the energy left in the Demon-Suppressing Tower, and Ren Rulong agreed to enter despite the deadly risks.
• After twenty days of cultivating with a Nine-Pattern Sun Pill, Lin Heng began refining more pills in the Pill Tower so he could continue strengthening his cultivation and help Duanmu Yunshang.
• Lin Heng refined and took a Nine-Pattern Sun Pill, then continued alternating between cultivation, pill-making, and signing in for rewards.
• Ao Qin and Chi Mei met Wu Xigu on an island off the Demon Race's eastern coast to seek an alliance with the Sea Race.
• Wu Xigu demanded ten god-grade items upfront and ten more as tribute every hundred years, prompting Ao Qin and Chi Mei to protest that he was exploiting the Demon Race's predicament.

After negotiating unsuccessfully with the Sea Race, the Demon Race leaders waited to see how the Devil Race would act against humanity. Meanwhile, seven-year-old Lin Heng emerged from seclusion and gave Duanmu Yunshang pills to help her gain Sun Divine Power and form a Divine Soul.

• Wu Xigu rejected Ao Qin and Chi Mei's offer, demanding greater rewards from the Demon Race for an alliance with the Sea Race.
• Chi Mei and Ao Qin decided to wait and see whether the Devil Race attacked the Human Race before turning on the Demon Race.
• Lin Heng reached the God Realm after spending more than two years refining Nine-Pattern Sun Pills in the Pill Pavilion.
• Duanmu Yunshang accused Lin Heng of avoiding her, but he gave her his last Nine-Pattern Sun Pill, which could help her attain Sun Divine Power.
• Yao Jian advised Duanmu Yunshang to form a Divine Soul before pursuing Divine Power, and Lin Heng gave her a Bodhi Pill.
• Duanmu Yunshang promised she would never abandon Lin Heng and teased him to reach the God Realm soon so she would not lose face having him as a husband.

Lin Heng and Duanmu Yunshang joked about their engagement before she returned to the Mystic Purity Sect. In the God Realm, Liu Ling'er had spent four years hiding on the Ten Thousand Ravines Continent after arriving through a dangerous passage, and she continued to wait and cultivate while longing for her son.

• Duanmu Yunshang said she planned to marry Lin Heng, and Duanmu He reminded her that Lin Heng had helped her reach her current strength.
• Duanmu Lan and the others left the Pill Pavilion after two more days and returned to the Mystic Purity Sect with Duanmu Yunshang.
• Liu Ling'er recalled falling through a black vortex into the God Realm and surviving the perilous passage to an icy ruin on Flying Rosy Clouds Star.
• Liu Ling'er learned from a snowman village that the Ten Thousand Ravines Continent had once belonged to ascenders from the Divine Firmament Continent, before the Flying Rosy Clouds Continent conquered it and sealed the Ascension Passage.
• Liu Ling'er hid beneath the ice and snow for four years, prayed for the Ancestral God's blessing, and kept cultivating while hoping to see her son again.

Tuoba Ke completed his Heavenly Devil Tyrant Body and prepared the Devil and Demon Races to attack the Human Race. The Human leaders planned to gather in the Great Xia Imperial City for a decisive battle, relying on Duanmu Yunshang, whose God Realm cultivation and combat training gave them a chance against Tuoba Ke.

• Tuoba Ke announced that his Heavenly Devil Tyrant Body had reached major accomplishment, and Tuoba Kui ordered the Devil Race to prepare for war with the Human Race.
• The Devil Race invited the Demon Race to join the attack, and the Demon Race agreed to cooperate.
• Dongfang Anbang summoned the Human leaders, who debated whether to gather for a decisive battle or scatter and wage guerrilla warfare.
• Dongfang Lin revealed that Duanmu Yunshang had already reached the God Realm, and Duanmu Lan confirmed that she was acclimating to her cultivation.
• Duanmu Lan explained that Yunshang had trained extensively in the Illusory God Pearl and had received the Mystic Purity Sect's inherited divine treasure.
• The leaders agreed to concentrate their forces in the Great Xia Imperial City and have Yunshang confront Tuoba Ke, while Fan Xiangyuan remained determined to protect the Demon-Suppressing Tower and Ren Rulong.

Ren Rulong advanced his cultivation in the Demon-Suppressing Tower while struggling to refine what he absorbed, and Lin Heng continued crafting a Star Divine Pill as the Demon and Devil armies approached the Great Xia Imperial City. The armies arrived before Lin Heng finished, and Dongfang Lin activated the Four Symbols God-Slaying Formation.

• Ren Rulong cultivated on the first underground level of the Demon-Suppressing Tower and discovered that the Demon-Devouring Art let him absorb demonic power, demon souls, and essence blood without fully refining them.
• Duanmu Yunshang returned to Elder Ji Xin’s chamber and learned from Duanmu He that Lin Heng would not come to the Mystic Purity Sect because he was refining a pill.
• Duanmu Yunshang resolved to risk her life to save Lin Heng if he could not reach safety in time, then returned to the Illusory God Pearl to prepare for a surprise attack on Tuoba Ke.
• Lin Changqing and the Chishui Royal Clan took shelter in the Great Xia Imperial City, where Duanmu Lan and Yao Jian reassured him that they would protect Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng continued refining the Star Divine Pill in the Pill Tower, unable to stop without wasting his only Ten-Thousand-Year Star Fruit.
• The Demon and Devil armies reached the Great Xia Imperial City, and Dongfang Lin activated the Four Symbols God-Slaying Formation over the city and the Great Xia Divine Martial Institute.

The Demon and Devil Races attacked Great Xia Imperial City, forcing the Four Symbols God-Slaying Formation to reveal its four Divine Power guardians. As Tuoba Ke destroyed the White Tiger, Duanmu Yunshang seized her chance to strike, while Lin Heng watched from the Pill Tower.

• The Demon and Devil Races sent their warriors against Great Xia Imperial City to exhaust the Four Symbols God-Slaying Formation, while their God Realm experts waited.
• The formation summoned the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise, and Tuoba Kui, Tuoba Ke, Ao Qin, and Chi Mei each attacked one of them.
• Duanmu Yunshang hid in the devil clouds, waiting to ambush Tuoba Ke, while the Human Race's God Realm experts watched and worried about her safety.
• Tuoba Ke battered the White Tiger until it collapsed, and the blast swept him away and shattered many devils.
• Duanmu Yunshang dove toward Tuoba Ke with the Falling Star Spear as he boasted about the Heavenly Devil Tyrant Body and threatened the Human Race.

Duanmu Yunshang fought Tuoba Ke outside the Great Xia Imperial City while the Human Race’s God Realm experts watched from behind the Four Symbols God-Slaying Formation. Tuoba Ke unleashed his Formless Heavenly Devil Kill and broke through her defenses, leaving her facing the full force of his attack.

• Duanmu Yunshang launched a surprise attack with the Falling Star Spear, but Tuoba Ke caught its tip barehanded and then dodged her Scorching Sun Divine Power.
• Duanmu Yunshang and Tuoba Ke fought evenly as the Human Race’s God Realm experts debated whether to leave the city to help her.
• Tuoba Ke refused a devil god’s offer of help and taunted Duanmu Yunshang, who grew more resolute as the battle continued.
• Tuoba Ke used Formless Heavenly Devil Kill, splitting into four bodies and sending three of them at Duanmu Yunshang.
• Duanmu Yunshang’s golden divine-power bell stopped the first two bodies, but the third shattered it; she pierced that body with the Falling Star Spear, yet its force surged into her.

Duanmu Yunshang escaped Tuoba Ke but returned to the Great Xia Imperial City after sensing the Blood Cloud Devil Formation, where the Four Symbols God-Slaying Formation had collapsed. Lin Heng remained ready to fight as the Human Race prepared for a desperate battle.

• Duanmu Yunshang used a divine teleportation talisman to escape a severe defeat by Tuoba Ke, then began healing a thousand li away.
• Tuoba Ke helped destroy the divine formation’s summoned beasts, and the demons and devils raised the Blood Cloud Devil Formation over the imperial city.
• Yao Jian and Duanmu Lan offered to cover Lin Heng’s escape, but Lin Heng refused to flee and asked Yao Jian to protect his divine furnace.
• Duanmu Yunshang sensed the devil formation and returned toward the city, determined to help Lin Heng and her great-grandfather despite her injuries.
• The Four Symbols God-Slaying Formation collapsed, and Duanmu Yunshang entered the city and joined Duanmu Lan and Lin Heng as they prepared to fight to the death.

Lin Heng emerged to confront the demons besieging Great Xia Imperial City, shattered their Blood Cloud Devil Formation, and overwhelmed Tuoba Ke with the Nine Revolutions Golden Body. He remained unharmed after Tuoba Ke's ultimate attack and challenged him with the promise of using Formless Heavenly Devil Kill himself.

• Lin Heng ignored Duanmu Yunshang's protests and flew into the sky to face the demons alone.
• Lin Heng used the Ninefold Rushing Thunder Fist to tear apart the Blood Cloud Devil Formation and clear the sky above the city.
• Lin Heng challenged Tuoba Ke and blasted off his right arm with a single punch using the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Art.
• Tuoba Ke attacked with Formless Heavenly Devil Kill, but his three devil-body swords only destroyed Lin Heng's golden aura and left him unharmed.
• Lin Heng told the stunned Tuoba Ke that he also knew Formless Heavenly Devil Kill and asked if he wanted to face it.

Lin Heng effortlessly killed Tuoba Ke, the Heavenly Devil Tyrant Body, and challenged the demon and devil armies to attack him together. Tuoba Kui and Ao Qin agreed to join forces against him, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Lin Heng used four bodies and Formless Heavenly Devil Kill to shatter Tuoba Ke’s defenses and kill him in midair.
• Tuoba Kui and the other devil gods were stunned by Tuoba Ke’s death, while Duanmu Yunshang, Dongfang Yao, and others praised or reconsidered Lin Heng’s strength.
• Lin Heng told Tuoba Kui to avenge his brother, but Tuoba Kui feared being crushed and hesitated before the armies.
• Lin Heng challenged the demon and devil experts to attack him together and vowed not to let anyone from the Human Race help.
• Tuoba Kui urged Ao Qin to fight alongside the devil race, and Ao Qin agreed to attack Lin Heng with the demon and devil experts.