Chapter Summaries

Dasiwoba and Hermoz considered killing Lin Heng after his tribulation, but Hermoz refused because he wanted to deal with Mo Chen first. Lin Heng continued to endure the heavenly lightning, though the fifty-fifth bolt shattered his defensive array and left him facing a harder tribulation than expected.

• Dasiwoba and Hermoz worried that Lin Heng would become as powerful as Mu Chen if he reached the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm.
• Dasiwoba proposed attacking Lin Heng as soon as his tribulation ended, while he was weakened and his allies were unprepared.
• Hermoz refused to join the attack, saying he would rather die fighting Lin Heng than let Mo Chen go unpunished.
• Dasiwoba abandoned the plan and reconsidered his idea of befriending the Ancient Clan.
• Lin Heng endured more than ten additional bolts of lightning, but the fifty-fifth bolt shattered his Six-Star Heavenly Radiance Array.

Lin Heng’s tribulation grew far more powerful than expected, and his six protective arrays were destroyed by the seventy-second bolt. As the lightning engulfed him, Mo Chen planned to kill him if he survived, while Hongmeng watched from the fifth-layer cosmic world.

• The fifty-fifth bolt shattered Lin Heng’s Six-Star Heavenly Radiance Array, forcing him to activate another array against the unexpectedly powerful golden lightning.
• Mo Chen sensed that Lin Heng was facing the highest grade of Nine-Nine Heaven-Annihilating Lei Jie and resolved to kill him after the tribulation if he survived.
• Hongmeng observed Lin Heng’s tribulation and Mo Chen through water screens, suspecting the lightning came from a higher-level universe.
• The seventieth bolt destroyed four of Lin Heng’s six prepared array flags, and the seventy-first bolt shattered his fifth array.
• Lin Heng activated his sixth array, but the seventy-second bolt broke through it and engulfed him as the onlookers watched.

Lin Heng endured the seventy-second bolt of heavenly lightning, then seized Eternal Ages and attacked the thunderclouds. He confronted the much larger seventy-fourth bolt head-on, but the resulting explosion and smoke left everyone unable to tell whether he had survived.

• The seventy-second bolt shattered Lin Heng's six defensive formations, but he broke the lightning apart with his eight-colored energy.
• Lin Heng used Eternal Ages to pierce the seventy-third bolt and sent a sword attack into the thunderclouds.
• Hongjun warned that attacking the thunderclouds had destroyed someone before, while Dijiang trusted that Lin Heng could withstand the heavenly tribulation.
• The thunderclouds unleashed a seventy-fourth bolt more than fifty meters across, and Lin Heng rose to meet it head-on.
• The collision produced a huge explosion and shockwave, forcing the spectators to retreat; smoke and distorted space concealed Lin Heng, and they could not probe him with soul power.

Lin Heng fought through the lightning tribulation and entered the thunderclouds, where he faced the golden lightning dragon. As the clouds shrank and his presence grew stronger, the Good Avatar realized Lin Heng was devouring the tribulation.

• Lin Heng clashed with the eighty-fourth heavenly lightning bolt, and the battle's shockwaves forced Dijiang and the others to retreat.
• The thunder and sword clashes stopped, but the thunderclouds remained, leaving the onlookers unable to find Lin Heng in the cleared tribulation area.
• Hongjun pointed out Lin Heng and the golden lightning dragon confronting each other inside the thunderclouds.
• Lin Heng's presence began to emerge at the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm level as the thunderclouds steadily shrank.
• The Good Avatar said Lin Heng was devouring the lightning tribulation, astonishing Liu Yuansheng and the other observers.

Lin Heng devoured the Lei Jie Golden Dragon and the remaining thunder tribulation, gaining Heavenly Dao Lightning Punishment and its insights. Just after he broke through, the Ancient Clan launched an attack, and Lin Heng sent the Universe-Piercing Arrow to meet it.

• Lin Heng subdued and devoured the Lei Jie Golden Dragon over seven days and seven nights, gaining its power and memories.
• Lin Heng absorbed the remaining thunder tribulation and released an overwhelming pressure before calming himself.
• Dijiang, the Good and Evil Doppelgangers, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches prepared to congratulate Lin Heng as the thunderclouds disappeared.
• A streak of light targeted Lin Heng, and he recognized the Ancient Clan behind the attack.
• Lin Heng sent the Universe-Piercing Arrow to intercept the incoming streak of light.

Lin Heng used the Universe-Piercing Arrow to counter Mo Chen, but the Ancient Clan’s blood-red harpoon overpowered it. Jian Yin arrived as the harpoon continued toward Lin Heng, who drew the Pangu Axe and unleashed its power.

• Lin Heng’s Universe-Piercing Arrow broke through Mo Chen’s attack and shattered most of his defenses before retreating to Lin Heng.
• Mo Chen confronted Lin Heng and threw a crimson harpoon refined by the Ancient Clan to deal with the Pangu Remnant Clan.
• The Universe-Piercing Arrow clashed with the harpoon but began to lose, prompting Lin Heng to prepare the Pangu Axe.
• Jian Yin appeared nearby, and the Universe-Piercing Arrow fell defeated as he watched.
• Lin Heng retrieved the arrow, summoned the Pangu Axe, and released a burst of golden light as the harpoon bore down on him.

Lin Heng clashed with Mo Chen’s crimson trident, while Jian Yin seized the weapon by tricking Mo Chen into accepting a replacement. Mo Chen withdrew, and Lin Heng returned to the Heavenly Star Sea Region, where Hermoz asked to speak with him privately.

• Lin Heng fought Mo Chen’s crimson trident head-on and forced it into a standstill.
• Jian Yin took control of the crimson trident and kept it after tossing Mo Chen a replacement dharma treasure.
• Mo Chen left after realizing he could not defeat Lin Heng without the trident, and Lin Heng chose not to pursue him.
• Lin Heng returned to the Heavenly Star Sea Region and told the gathered cultivators that he had fought someone from the Ancient Clan.
• The cultivators departed, and Hermoz stayed behind to ask Lin Heng for a private discussion.

Lin Heng and the Lords of the Four Seas discussed the Ancient Clan’s threat and considered how to trap Mo Chen so Lin Heng could kill him. The group agreed to use Mu Chen’s incomplete formation and make an oath to ensure everyone maintaining it could be trusted.

• Hermoz told Lin Heng and the others that Mo Chen and the Ancient Clan had arrived in the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea, explaining how Mo Chen had humiliated him.
• Lin Heng challenged Hermoz’s motives, then explained that the Ancient Clan intended to destroy the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• Lin Heng said he believed he could kill Mo Chen but could not stop him from fleeing, and his treasure could only deal with Mo Chen alone.
• Lin Heng described Mu Chen’s trapping formation, which required six people at the eternal ages cosmic origin realm and risked backlash if anyone left.
• Hongjun proposed that the six people maintaining the formation swear an oath while Lin Heng fought Mo Chen, and Dijiang, Lin Yue Yao, and the others agreed.

Lin Heng and the others prepared a powerful formation and planned how to trap Mo Chen, while Hermoz and Dasiwoba met to discuss Mu Chen's inheritance. Dasiwoba proposed that they try to obtain it together, but Hermoz questioned how they could act against Lin Heng.

• Hongjun, Dijiang, and the others swore not to abandon or betray one another while helping Lin Heng set up the formation against Mo Chen.
• Lin Heng tested the formation with his full-powered Universe-Piercing Arrow, which failed to shake it.
• Lin Heng assigned Hermoz to locate Mo Chen's fake ruin and check for other Ancient Clan members, then proposed preparing a teleportation passage to escape the ruin.
• Hermoz agreed to help and later met Dasiwoba alone on a deserted island.
• Dasiwoba suggested they seek Mu Chen's inheritance together, arguing that they might share its power if it could benefit more than one person.
• Hermoz agreed that the inheritance was tempting but doubted they could scheme against Lin Heng, whose strength surpassed theirs even together.

Dasiwoba persuaded Hermoz to cooperate in killing Mo Chen and bargaining with the Ancient Clan, while still honoring their oath to follow their plan. Back in the Eastern Victorious Divine Sea, Hermoz found Mo Chen had killed his guards and abused two maids, then was summoned back into the hall after vowing to kill Mo Chen within seven days.

• Dasiwoba explained that killing Mo Chen could make the Ancient Clan take them seriously and improve their bargaining position, and Hermoz agreed to cooperate.
• Dasiwoba and Hermoz agreed to ensure that whichever one the Ancient Clan approached would bring the other into cooperation as well.
• Hermoz returned to his palace, now occupied by Mo Chen, and found severed bodies in the hall as Mo Chen held two maids.
• Mo Chen struck Hermoz with invisible force and sent him flying from the hall when Hermoz entered without announcing himself.
• Hermoz's subordinate explained that Mo Chen had tried to violate a maid and killed the guards who rushed in; Hermoz vowed to kill Mo Chen within seven days.
• Mo Chen summoned Hermoz back into the hall, where Hermoz saw the two maids dead, and Mo Chen asked whether Hermoz objected to his killing several subordinates.

Mo Chen sent Hermoz to lure Lin Heng into a fake ruin so he could kill him, while Primordial Chaos exposed Dasiwoba and Hermoz’s betrayal to Hongjun and ordered him to work with Lin Heng. Lin Heng finished testing his new power and explained that he had concealed his full strength because he distrusted the two traitors.

• Mo Chen took Hermoz to the fake ruin and gave him three days to lure Lin Heng there, threatening to kill everyone if he failed.
• Primordial Chaos showed Hongjun a vision of Dasiwoba and Hermoz plotting to betray him and join the Ancient Clan.
• Primordial Chaos stopped Hongjun from killing the traitors, saying they still had a role to play, and ordered him to work with Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng tested his newly gained power in a time spirit treasure, pulverizing space and everything within a hundred thousand li with a wave of his hand.
• Lin Heng told Dijiang that he had held back when testing Hongjun’s grand formation because he never trusted Dasiwoba or Hermoz.

Lin Heng explained why he distrusted Dasiwoba and Hermoz, then waited for Mo Chen to take the bait at the fake ruins. Mo Chen arrived hidden in the shadows, eager to kill Lin Heng, but Hermoz’s act and the gathered cultivators’ questions delayed the entry.

• Lin Heng said Dasiwoba and Hermoz might betray them for a chance to gain power from the Ancient Clan, and Dijiang explained their ambitions to Liu Yuansheng.
• Lin Heng told his group to return to sleep and wait for the chance to enter the fake ruins and kill an Ancient Clan member.
• Hermoz spent three days spreading word of the ruins while Mo Chen indulged in luxuries, then told Mo Chen that Lin Heng had taken the bait.
• Mo Chen left the hall and headed for the fake ruins, telling the maidservants to await his return.
• Hermoz arrived at the deserted island, where Lin Heng and more than a hundred powerful experts had gathered, and explained that the ruins lay beneath the sea.
• Mo Chen watched from hiding and grew impatient with the cultivators’ questions because Hermoz had not yet taken them into the ruins.

Hermoz led Lin Heng and the others to uncover the fake ruins and break their powerful protective formation. After they escaped through a hidden teleportation formation, they trapped the ruins and prepared to attack Mo Chen, who had entered believing he could kill Lin Heng.

• Hermoz revealed that the ruins lay beneath the deserted island and joined Lin Heng and the others in attacking their protective formation.
• The first assault was absorbed by the azure water shield, but Lin Heng and the others shattered it with a coordinated strike using their weapons.
• Lin Heng noticed Mo Chen hiding nearby but concealed his discovery so the group could prepare to trap him.
• Mo Chen entered the fake ruins after Lin Heng and the others, unaware they had escaped through Hermoz's hidden teleportation formation.
• Hongjun and the other experts completed a grand formation around the ruins while Lin Heng readied his Universe-Piercing Arrow.
• Mo Chen shouted furiously from inside the ruins after realizing Hermoz had deceived him.

Mo Chen was trapped by Lin Heng and the others, then fought Lin Heng’s Universe-Piercing Arrow as it steadily drained his strength. Jian Yin watched as Lin Heng unleashed all the energy stored in the arrow, leaving its future usefulness uncertain.

• Mo Chen realized Hermoz had betrayed the Ancient Clan and threatened to kill Lin Heng and the others after escaping.
• Mo Chen tried to fly out of the area but crashed into the formation Hongjun and five other experts had created, trapping him.
• Lin Heng attacked Mo Chen with the Universe-Piercing Arrow, which repeatedly struck from shifting angles and grew faster and stronger.
• The arrow devoured Mo Chen’s attack energy until he began to weaken.
• Jian Yin realized Lin Heng had released all the energy he had placed in the arrow and wondered whether to replenish it.

Lin Heng gained the upper hand against Mo Chen with the Universe-Piercing Arrow, but Mo Chen opened a jade box and summoned the remnant soul of an ancestor to protect him. Jian Yin and Mu Tong realized Mo Chen had brought his ancestor’s spirit tablet without permission, as the furious phantom turned its attention to Lin Heng.

• Mu Tong told Jian Yin that Lin Heng’s potential grew stronger against powerful enemies, and Jian Yin agreed to let him prove himself.
• The Universe-Piercing Arrow pierced Mo Chen’s lower abdomen and left energy wreaking havoc inside his body.
• Mo Chen opened a jade box, and its golden light repelled the Universe-Piercing Arrow.
• A thousand-zhang ancestral phantom appeared behind Mo Chen and demanded to know who had injured his descendant.
• Jian Yin and Mu Tong recognized the spirit tablet in Mo Chen’s box and suspected he had taken it from the clan without permission.

Lin Heng used Myriad Cosmos Transformation to absorb energy from the surrounding area and greatly increase his strength. As Mo Chen called on his ancestor’s remnant soul to kill him, Lin Heng prepared to face the attack.

• Mo Chen summoned his ancestor’s remnant soul from a spirit tablet and threatened to kill Lin Heng.
• Lin Heng invoked the Eternal Ages Divine Weapon and used the first transformation of Myriad Cosmos Transformation to draw in energy from hundreds of thousands of miles around.
• Lin Heng emerged from the vortex wreathed in golden light, and Mo Chen was shocked by his newfound power.
• Jian Yin recognized Myriad Cosmos Transformation as the Pangu Clan’s Thousand Mechanisms Transformation, while Mu Tong explained that Mu Chen had used the art before.
• Mo Chen ordered his ancestor’s remnant soul to kill Lin Heng, and the phantom raised its hand and clenched it toward him.

Lin Heng resisted Mo Chen’s ancestor’s remnant soul and nearly struck Mo Chen with a soul attack, but the remnant soul protected him. Lin Heng then used the Hundred Thousand Mountains divine ability to press down on the remnant soul as Jian Yin and Mu Tong watched, wondering what else Lin Heng could do.

• Mo Chen’s ancestor’s remnant soul compressed the space around Lin Heng, but Lin Heng remained unharmed and summoned Kunpeng.
• Kunpeng’s soul sound waves broke the remnant soul’s spatial pressure and sent a ghost general after Mo Chen, whose ancestor destroyed it and formed a barrier around him.
• Mo Chen accused Lin Heng of disguising a soul attack as sound, and Lin Heng acknowledged that the remnant soul had saved him.
• Lin Heng raised the Eternal Ages Divine Weapon and used Hundred Thousand Mountains to crush the ancestor’s remnant soul under immense pressure.
• Jian Yin identified Lin Heng’s divine ability, while he and Mu Tong wondered whether Lin Heng had also mastered the Sun and Moon Divine Ability.

Lin Heng defeated Mo Chen, burned away his ancestor’s remnant soul, and killed him, rallying the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands against the Ancient Clan. Back in the Heavenly Star Sea Region, Lin Heng suffered backlash from the Myriad Cosmos Transformation and concealed his condition as he prepared to enter seclusion.

• Lin Heng used the pressure of his Hundred Thousand Mountains to pin Mo Chen in midair and set the remnant soul of Mo Chen’s ancestor ablaze until it vanished.
• Lin Heng killed Mo Chen with Eternal Ages and declared war on the Ancient Clan, prompting the watching experts to roar their support.
• Lin Heng returned to the Heavenly Star Sea Region, spat out blood from the Myriad Cosmos Transformation’s backlash, and told Dijiang he would enter seclusion while claiming he sought a breakthrough.
• The Evil Avatar, Zhu Rong, and several Ancestral Witches doubted that Hermoz, Dasiwoba, or their subordinates would help them fight the Ancient Clan.

Lin Heng and his allies planned to discourage the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands from supporting the Ancient Clan, while Jian Yin offered to buy time and help Lin Heng recover. Jian Yin gave Lin Heng cultivation methods to address flaws in his Myriad Cosmos Transformation, then left to confront the Ancient Clan.

• Lin Heng instructed Dijiang to tell visitors he was in seclusion, and the Good Avatar explained that his victory could deter people from helping the Ancient Clan.
• Jian Yin and Mu Tong arrived, and Jian Yin said Mo Chen's attack gave him grounds to challenge the Ancient Clan but would only buy Lin Heng time.
• Lin Heng admitted he could not withstand powerful Ancient Clan experts while recovering from the backlash of the Myriad Cosmos Transformation.
• Jian Yin said the Ancient Clan would not send older-generation experts and gave Lin Heng a golden box of Pangu Remnant Clan cultivation methods to help correct the transformation's flaws.
• Jian Yin left to demand an explanation from the Ancient Clan, promising Lin Heng would have a year or two to recover and prepare.

Lin Heng recovered from the backlash of Myriad Cosmos Transformation and prepared to study Jian Yin’s secret art, Thousand Mechanisms Transformation. He began guiding his Good and Evil Doppelgangers in cultivation so they could help him face the Ancient Clan.

• The Good and Evil Doppelgangers discussed why Lin Heng had risked Myriad Cosmos Transformation to defeat Mo Chen and concluded that the victory had secured Jian Yin’s support against the Ancient Clan.
• Lin Heng suppressed the backlash and told the Good and Evil Doppelgangers to cultivate beside him while he guided them with his soul power.
• The Good and Evil Doppelgangers began cultivating in hopes of reaching the Eternal Ages Cosmic Origin Realm and helping Lin Heng in future battles.
• Lin Heng opened Jian Yin’s golden box and found the Pangu Remnant Clan’s secret art, Thousand Mechanisms Transformation, which Jian Yin had given him as a reference.