Recaps

Lin An explored the Heavenly Vault Army's treasury and chose the Purple Origin Fire to upgrade his Spirit-Devouring Ring. He spent 300,000 attribute points to accelerate its five-year refinement to three minutes.

• Zheng Tang told Lin An he could take any one treasure from the treasury before they went to the Spirit Cleansing Pool the next day.
• Lin An inspected the treasury's cultivation techniques and rare treasures, then chose the Purple Origin Fire because the Spirit-Devouring Ring could devour it to improve its quality.
• Zheng Tang handed Lin An the Purple Origin Fire and told him to rest before the group gathered at the square the next morning.
• Lin An had the Spirit-Devouring Ring absorb the Purple Origin Fire and learned that refinement would take over five years without help.
• Lin An learned that even a King Rank equipment refiner would need a day, so he spent 300,000 attribute points to reduce the refinement time to three minutes.

Lin An upgraded the Spirit-Devouring Ring, hunted more Sin Beasts, and entered the Spirit Cleansing Pool with the tournament’s other top contestants. He became the first player to reach the Diamond Realm and cultivated to Diamond Sixth Grade before the three-day session ended.

• Lin An refined the Purple Origin Fire, upgrading the Spirit-Devouring Ring’s capacity and tripling its refining speed.
• Lin An accepted a hunting mission, killed the Diamond Tier Sin Beasts outside Heavenly Vault Pass, and had his puppets gather more than eight hundred additional Sin Beasts.
• Lin An and the other nine tournament contestants entered the Spirit Cleansing Pool, where Lin An began cultivating after choosing his pool first.
• Lin An broke through to the Diamond Realm, earning a Divine Ability Upgrade Stone and triggering a server-wide announcement.
• Lin An continued absorbing spiritual power from the Spirit-Devouring Ring and reached Diamond Sixth Grade by the end of the three-day session.

After emerging from the Spirit Cleansing Pool at diamond sixth grade, Lin An met the Heavenly Vault King, who tested his strength and offered to take him as a disciple. The king then seized control of Lin An’s storage ring and asked him to explain where he had obtained an azure token.

• The man who collected the group found that Lin An had reached diamond sixth grade and confirmed that his foundation was sound.
• The man led the ten cultivators out of the valley, then asked Lin An to stay and arranged for him to meet the Heavenly Vault King.
• Zheng Tang brought Lin An into the great hall, where the Heavenly Vault King used his authority to transport Lin An to another space and asked him to attack.
• Lin An unleashed his full power and used One Saber Slash, which the Heavenly Vault King stopped and examined.
• The Heavenly Vault King praised Lin An’s strength and offered to make him his disciple, then pulled an azure token from Lin An’s storage ring and asked where it came from.

Lin An learned that the Heavenly Vault King was his maternal grandfather and heard why his mother, Li Xiyun, had left him and his father away from the royal city. He chose to wait until he reached the Epic Realm before visiting her on the First Line of Defense, and the king gave him a token granting access to his help.

• Lin An recognized the token his father had given him, and the Heavenly Vault King revealed that Lin An was Li Xiyun's son and called himself Lin An's grandfather.
• The Heavenly Vault King explained that Li Xiyun had met Lin Xiao after refusing a marriage alliance, and that dangers following a devastating battle had led her to leave Lin An and his father behind.
• Lin An learned that Li Xiyun had reached Mythic Realm Ninth Grade and was in seclusion, with a slim chance of breaking through to the King Realm.
• Lin An decided to wait until he reached the Epic Realm before visiting Li Xiyun at the First Line of Defense, and the Heavenly Vault King agreed she could find him after her seclusion.
• The Heavenly Vault King gave Lin An a purple token and directed him to seek Zheng Tang if he needed anything.

Lin An learned that the Heavenly Vault King was his grandfather and used his status to arrange the accelerated opening of two Diamond Tier Spirit Realms. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Vault King told his injured eldest son Li Zhao about Lin An, who remained at the Third Line of Defense to hunt Sin Beasts.

• The Heavenly Vault King revealed to Zheng Tang that Lin An was Xiyun's son and asked him to take care of Lin An in the Third Army.
• Lin An asked Zheng Tang about upcoming Spirit Realms, then spent military merits to accelerate the opening of two Diamond Tier Spirit Realms.
• Lin An asked Zheng Tang to keep his identity secret, accepted a mission, and left Heavenly Vault Pass to hunt Sin Beasts while the Spirit Realms prepared to open.
• The Heavenly Vault King visited his injured eldest son Li Zhao and showed him Lin An's portrait, explaining that Lin An was his nephew.
• Li Zhao recognized Lin An's resemblance to his little sister and asked whether the Heavenly Vault King had brought the boy there.

Lin An entered a Diamond Tier Spirit Realm and used his puppets and Thundercloud All-Slaying Formation to slaughter waves of Sin Beasts for attribute points. After gaining over three hundred thousand points, he sent the puppets out to lure more beasts and headed deeper into the realm to set up another formation.

• The Heavenly Vault King told Li Zhao about Lin An’s achievements, and Li Zhao urged him to nurture Lin An as a potential future King Realm powerhouse.
• After half a month hunting Sin Beasts near Heavenly Vault Pass, Lin An learned that a Diamond Tier Spirit Realm had opened and chose to enter alone.
• Zheng Tang gave Lin An a storage ring containing supplies, including treasures capable of killing Epic Tier beings, and brought him to the Spirit Realm entrance.
• Lin An released twenty-three fast Diamond Tier puppets equipped with jade tokens to attract Sin Beasts, then set up the Thundercloud All-Slaying Formation on a plain.
• Lin An activated the formation and killed hordes of Sin Beasts, gaining over three hundred thousand attribute points in half an hour.
• Lin An sent the puppets to lure more Sin Beasts and flew toward the Spirit Realm’s central region to find another place for a formation.

Lin An entered the Spirit Realm’s inner region, became the server’s first Epic Tier formation master, and upgraded Spirit Devouring. After using his new formation to kill Epic Tier Sin Beasts, he gained attribute points and cultivation progress, while learning that further upgrades to Spirit Devouring required five Divine Ability Upgrade Stones.

• After seven days of hunting Sin Beasts, Lin An had amassed over 1.5 million attribute points and continued deeper into the Spirit Realm.
• Lin An discovered that his puppets had encountered Epic Tier Sin Beasts and used 200,000 attribute points to become an Epic Tier formation master.
• Lin An received a Divine Ability Upgrade Stone and used it with his existing stone to upgrade Spirit Devouring, adding a small chance to convert energy from slain enemies into realm advancement.
• Lin An deployed the Heavenly Dipper Purple Thunder Great Formation and killed the first Epic Tier Sin Beast, earning another Divine Ability Upgrade Stone and gaining spiritual power.
• After an hour of hunting, Lin An had gained 300,000 attribute points and further cultivation progress, but learned that his next Spirit Devouring upgrade required five stones.

Lin An slaughtered Sin Beasts in the Spirit Realm with Zheng Tang’s jade talisman, gained nearly three million attribute points, and returned to Heavenly Vault Pass. He upgraded the Lin Clan Cultivation Technique to greater mastery and was left considering how to obtain the five million points needed to perfect it.

• Lin An used Zheng Tang’s phantom to kill roughly a hundred thousand Sin Beasts, gaining over four hundred thousand attribute points and reaching diamond seventh grade.
• Lin An farmed Sin Beasts until the Spirit Realm closed, leaving with 2,843,100 attribute points and returning to Heavenly Vault Pass.
• Lin An asked Zheng Tang to capture a thousand epic tier Sin Beasts so he could temper his rapidly rising cultivation after the next Spirit Realm.
• Lin An spent 1,500,000 attribute points to raise the Lin Clan Cultivation Technique to greater mastery, doubling his cultivation speed to 512 times.
• Lin An discovered that perfecting the technique required five million attribute points and considered asking Zheng Tang to speed up another diamond tier Spirit Realm.

Lin An raised all ten secondary professions to Epic Tier, upgraded Spirit Devouring, and advanced to perfected Diamond Ninth Grade through another Spirit Realm. He then began fighting over a thousand Epic Tier Sin Beasts captured by Zheng Tang.

• Lin An spent 680,000 attribute points to raise his remaining secondary professions to Epic Tier and received nine Divine Ability Upgrade Stones.
• Lin An used five stones to upgrade Spirit Devouring, increasing the chance that absorbed energy from a slain target would raise his cultivation realm.
• After the leaderboard settlement awarded him 510,000 attribute points, Lin An entered a second Spirit Realm with Zheng Tang’s help and spent ten days killing Sin Beasts.
• Lin An left the Spirit Realm with 4.5381 million attribute points and perfected Diamond Ninth Grade cultivation, while Zheng Tang grew more certain that he was an Awakened One.
• Zheng Tang led Lin An to over a thousand captured Epic Tier Sin Beasts, which charged at Lin An after Zheng Tang warned them not to hold back.

Lin An upgraded Condemnation, perfected the Lin Clan Cultivation Technique, and broke through to the Epic Realm, earning a lottery draw. He fused twenty perfected techniques into the Mythic Rank Nine Nether Soul Devouring Art, which let him strengthen his soul by devouring others’ souls.

• Lin An and the Sin Beasts fought for two days before his puppets processed their corpses, and he used the materials to upgrade Condemnation to Epic Tier.
• Lin An spent ten days farming in the Spirit Realm, then used five million attribute points to perfect the Lin Clan Cultivation Technique.
• Lin An broke through to the Epic Realm, became the first player on the server to do so, and gained the ability to traverse the void.
• Lin An used his lottery draw to obtain a Mythic Rank Cultivation Technique Furnace, then perfected six Platinum Rank techniques and fused them with his other perfected techniques.
• Lin An obtained the Mythic Rank Nine Nether Soul Devouring Art and learned that it could strengthen his soul by devouring the souls of other living beings.

Lin An upgraded Formation Master and Puppeteer to legendary rank, strengthened Spirit Devouring, and learned two legendary cultivation techniques. After reaching epic second grade, he obtained more cultivation resources from Zheng Tang and resumed training.

• Lin An spent attribute points to raise Formation Master and Puppeteer to legendary rank, earning six Divine Ability Upgrade Stones for becoming the server’s first of each profession.
• Lin An used ten stones to improve Spirit Devouring so absorbed energy could sometimes raise his realm when a target died, then found its next upgrade required fifty stones.
• Lin An bought Nine Heavens Sky-Treading Steps and Purple Sun Battle Armor, leaving himself with 365,500 attribute points.
• Lin An absorbed spiritual energy refined from thousands of epic-tier Sin Beasts and advanced to epic second grade.
• Lin An asked Zheng Tang for epic-realm cultivation resources, and Zheng Tang prepared them before Lin An resumed cultivating.

After reaching Epic Ninth Grade, Lin An prepared to leave the Third Line of Defense for the Second Line and an upcoming Epic Tier Spirit Realm. He comprehended two visualization diagrams in minutes, gaining the Divine Abilities Power of the Dragon and Elephant and Void-Piercing Finger, then returned to his lodgings to inspect them.

• Lin An received 650,000 attribute points for ranking first on eleven leaderboards and continued cultivating until he reached Epic Ninth Grade.
• Lin An asked Zheng Tang where to find large numbers of Epic Realm Sin Beasts, and Zheng Tang told him about the Second Line of Defense and an Epic Tier Spirit Realm opening in half a month.
• Lin An asked Zheng Tang to prepare Legendary Rank materials and an offensive formation before requesting access to the Third Legion's two visualization diagrams.
• Lin An spent 10,000 attribute points to comprehend the Dragon and Elephant Contesting the Heavens Visualization Diagram and gained the Divine Ability Power of the Dragon and Elephant.
• Lin An spent over 17,000 attribute points to comprehend the Void-Piercing Tribulation Light Visualization Diagram and gained the Divine Ability Void-Piercing Finger.
• Lin An declined to take the diagrams, left the treasury with his prepared resources, and returned to his room to inspect his new Divine Abilities.

Lin An strengthened his Divine Abilities and formation before traveling to the Second Line of Defense, where his cousins Li Wei and Li Qing welcomed him. At a reunion feast, Li Qing asked whether Lin An was interested in Epic Tier Spirit Realms.

• Lin An reviewed his new Divine Abilities and spent 760,000 attribute points perfecting the Great Sun Revolving Grand Formation.
• Lin An spent five days making formation flags and Legendary Rank puppets, then told Zheng Tang he was leaving for the Second Line of Defense.
• Li Wei tested Lin An with a punch, but Lin An matched him and revealed that he knew Li Wei and Li Qing were his cousins.
• Li Qing and Li Wei showed Lin An around the Second Line of Defense and explained its role and stationed legions.
• Li Qing welcomed Lin An at a reunion feast and asked if he was interested in Epic Tier Spirit Realms.

Lin An met with Li Qing and Li Wei, arranged to enter the Epic Tier Spirit Realm and hunt Sin Beasts in the mountain ranges. He learned about his mother Li Xiyun’s Unity of Heaven and Man talent, then left Heavenly Vault Pass with his cousins to fight Sin Beasts.

• Lin An asked Li Qing to let him enter the Epic Tier Spirit Realm and have its experts draw Sin Beasts to him so he could test his formations.
• Li Qing told Lin An that three Legendary Realm Sin Beasts gathered other Sin Beasts in mountain ranges outside the Second Line of Defense, and agreed to accompany him there.
• Lin An and Li Wei agreed to compete over who would kill more Sin Beasts the next day.
• Li Qing explained that Li Xiyun’s Unity of Heaven and Man talent helped her comprehend laws and made her attempt to reach the King Realm promising.
• Three Mythic Rank legion commanders met Lin An and offered him their support.
• Lin An had breakfast with Li Qing and Li Wei, then left Heavenly Vault Pass with them for the Sin Beast Mountain Range.

Lin An entered the Second Training Ground with Li Wei and Li Qing to test his strength against its Sin Beasts. He severely injured and then killed an Epic Ninth Grade Sharp-Horned Frenzied Bull, revealing his powerful body cultivation, and began devouring its soul power.

• Li Qing explained that the Second Training Ground held many Sin Beasts and was managed by the powerful Purple-Gold Azure Ape, then Li Wei brought Lin An and Li Qing into the mountains.
• Li Wei asked the Purple-Gold Azure Ape to arrange Epic Ninth Grade opponents and invited Lin An to fight first.
• The Purple-Gold Azure Ape sent out a Sharp-Horned Frenzied Bull, and Lin An met its charge with a punch powered by the Power of the Dragon and Elephant.
• Lin An's punch sent the bull flying and severely injured it, shocking Li Wei and Li Qing.
• Lin An killed the bull with another punch and used the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Art to devour its soul power.

Lin An slaughtered epic ninth grade Sin Beasts one by one, shocking Li Qing, Li Wei, and the Purple-Gold Azure Ape with his strength and soul-devouring technique. He then asked to face every Epic Tier Sin Beast in the training ground at once, and Li Qing ordered a Mythic Rank expert to arrange it.

• Lin An absorbed the Screaming Mad Bull's remaining soul power with the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Art, then had the Purple-Gold Azure Ape bring him another Sin Beast.
• Lin An killed each arriving epic ninth grade Sin Beast with a single slash and absorbed its soul power, leaving Li Qing and Li Wei stunned by his pace and strength.
• Lin An asked whether he could gather all the Epic Tier Sin Beasts in the training ground and fight them at once because killing them individually took too long.
• Li Qing summoned a Mythic Rank man and told him to arrange Lin An's request; the man took the Purple-Gold Azure Ape and left.

Lin An challenged more than ten thousand Epic Realm Sin Beasts alone while the Heavenly Vault Army watched. He killed a charging Blood Jade Leopard and then cut down hundreds of Sin Beasts with a single slash.

• Li Wei declined to join Lin An's challenge, while Li Qing voiced anticipation about seeing what Lin An could do.
• The Purple-Gold Azure Ape gathered more than ten thousand Sin Beasts, and Legendary Realm experts from the Heavenly Vault Army arrived to observe.
• Lin An, Li Qing, and Li Wei appeared, and Lin An told the Sin Beasts he would fight them alone while the army stayed out of it.
• After a one-minute preparation period, Lin An released his Epic Ninth Grade aura and killed an Epic Ninth Grade Blood Jade Leopard with one strike.
• Lin An's One Saber Slash shattered the Sin Beasts' attacks and killed hundreds of them.

Lin An stunned the humans and Sin Beasts by slaughtering hundreds with one slash, then unleashed the Void-Piercing Finger and killed over three thousand more. After upgrading the divine ability and restoring his spiritual power through Spirit Devouring, he reached epic ninth grade perfection and prepared to strike again as the Sin Beasts charged.

• Lin An’s slash killed hundreds of Epic Realm Sin Beasts, leaving Li Qing, Li Wei, Zhao En, and the surrounding Legendary Realm experts stunned.
• The Sin Beasts coordinated their attacks to wear Lin An down, but he chose to test his Void-Piercing Finger.
• Lin An’s first Void-Piercing Finger annihilated incoming attacks and killed over three thousand Sin Beasts, though he felt its power fell short of his expectations.
• Lin An used a Divine Ability Upgrade Stone to enhance the Void-Piercing Finger.
• As the Sin Beasts charged, Lin An’s Spirit Devouring restored his spiritual power and raised him to epic ninth grade perfection, and he launched an even larger Void-Piercing Finger.

Lin An repeatedly unleashed the Void-Piercing Finger to wipe out over ten thousand Sin Beasts, then prepared to test his strength against the Purple-Gold Azure Ape. The chapter ended as Lin An activated Dharma Heavenly Transformation and began to grow larger.

• Li Qing, Li Wei, and Zhao En realized Lin An could replenish his spiritual energy and grow his soul by absorbing the power of fallen Sin Beasts.
• Lin An used the Void-Piercing Finger twice more, leaving only a little over a hundred badly injured Sin Beasts alive.
• Lin An slaughtered the remaining Sin Beasts with his saber, while the Heavenly Vault Army watched in awe.
• Lin An asked whether the Purple-Gold Azure Ape could die too, but the ape begged for mercy and struck himself to appease him.
• Lin An put away Condemnation and prepared to spar with the Purple-Gold Azure Ape, then activated Dharma Heavenly Transformation and began growing.

Lin An used two Divine Abilities together to kill a Legendary First Grade Purple-Gold Azure Ape with one punch, astonishing his cousins and Zhao En. After returning to Heavenly Vault Pass, he kept his strength secret until he and his cousins entered the Epic Tier Spirit Realm with three hundred other Epic Ninth Grade fighters.

• Lin An enlarged himself with Dharma Heavenly Transformation, then combined it with the Power of the Dragon and Elephant to kill the Purple-Gold Azure Ape with one punch.
• Zhao En and Lin An's cousins were shocked by the ape's death, while Lin An realized how powerfully his Divine Abilities complemented each other.
• Lin An asked Zhao En to keep his strength from spreading, then left with Li Qing and Li Wei for Heavenly Vault Pass.
• Lin An spent the next few days sightseeing and relaxing with Li Qing and Li Wei.
• Lin An, Li Qing, and Li Wei joined three hundred Epic Ninth Grade fighters at the teleportation plaza and entered the Epic Tier Spirit Realm.

Inside the Spirit Realm, Lin An had Li Qing and three hundred others lure Sin Beasts to test his formation. He activated the Great Sun Revolving Grand Formation as the beasts charged in, leaving its power about to be revealed.

• Lin An told Li Qing to send three hundred people to lure as many Sin Beasts as possible to him.
• Lin An set up forty-eight Legendary Rank puppets and revealed to Li Qing and Li Wei that he was a Legendary Rank puppet master and an Awakened One with the Heart of Auxiliary Cultivation.
• Li Qing offered to take Lin An to the Heavenly Vault Army treasury after they left the Spirit Realm to look for rare auxiliary professions.
• Lin An completed the Great Sun Revolving Grand Formation, and Li Qing summoned the group and the approaching Sin Beasts to its ten-li radius.
• Lin An activated the formation, raising a great sun whose terrifying force swept outward.

Lin An spent the Spirit Realm’s final days farming Sin Beasts with formations, raising his attribute points beyond ten million before the realm closed. Back at Heavenly Vault Pass, he joined Li Qing to register their haul and began browsing the treasury for secondary profession inheritances.

• Lin An used formations to slaughter Sin Beasts while Li Qing’s puppets processed their corpses and Li Wei relayed messages to the luring teams.
• Over several days, Lin An’s attribute points rose to nine million, and he prepared to hunt the Legendary Rank Sin Beasts in the Spirit Realm’s core mountain range.
• Lin An reflected that Shenglin City’s fall in his previous life suggested a threat beyond the Sin Beasts in Black Mountain.
• After another day of hunting, Lin An surpassed ten million attribute points and left the closing Spirit Realm with Li Qing, Li Wei, and the three hundred Epic Realm experts.
• At Heavenly Vault Pass, Li Qing registered their resources, then accompanied Lin An to browse the treasury for secondary profession inheritances.

Lin An studied three visualization charts in the treasury and gained three Divine Abilities, then learned three secondary professions. He told Li Qing and Li Wei he planned to enter seclusion to break through to the Legendary Realm.

• Lin An used attribute points to comprehend the Great Void World-Rending, Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation, and Formless Mirage Tower visualization charts, gaining Void Escape, Nine Tribulations Thunder Prison, and Formless Illusory Tower.
• Li Qing and Li Wei were astonished when Lin An said he had already comprehended all three charts.
• Lin An learned the brewer, heavenly diviner, and battle formation master secondary professions after Li Qing explained their uses and warned him about divination backlash.
• Lin An thanked Li Qing for his help, and the three of them left the treasury.
• Lin An said he would enter seclusion to break through to the Legendary Realm, leaving Li Qing surprised and Li Wei complaining about how quickly his younger cousin was progressing.

Lin An entered seclusion and broke through from the Epic Realm to the Legendary Realm, then advanced to Legendary fifth grade while strengthening his soul. He upgraded his Formation Master and Puppeteer professions to Mythic Rank, becoming the server’s first to reach both ranks.

• Lin An checked his cultivation panel and decided to wait until after his breakthrough before upgrading his secondary professions.
• Lin An forged his soul with spiritual power for a day and became the server’s first player to reach the Legendary Realm.
• Lin An continued cultivating with the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Art, advancing to Legendary fifth grade before stopping to strengthen his foundation.
• Lin An spent four million attribute points to raise Formation Master and Puppeteer to Mythic Rank, earning Divine Ability Upgrade Stones and server-wide announcements.

Lin An spent millions of attribute points raising his secondary professions, then used the Divine Ability Upgrade Stones he earned to bring Spirit Devouring to its ultimate limit and strengthen Power of the Dragon and Elephant. After checking his panel and estimating his future monthly attribute-point rewards, he left the cultivation room.

• Lin An raised eight Epic Tier secondary professions to Legendary Rank and gained 24 Divine Ability Upgrade Stones, then advanced Battle Formation Master and Heavenly Diviner to Legendary Rank and Brewer to Epic Tier for 22 more.
• Lin An spent 50 stones to bring Spirit Devouring to its ultimate limit, removing its restrictions and adding it to his ultimate Divine Abilities alongside Dharma Heavenly Transformation.
• Lin An used his remaining stones and a prize draw reward to upgrade Power of the Dragon and Elephant until it increased his strength to 40 times its original value.
• Lin An reviewed his panel and calculated that rankings would award him 2.15 million attribute points each month.
• Lin An tidied up, left the cultivation room, and headed outside.