Chapter Summaries

Li Yunshan learned that Lin An had reached mythic realm eighth grade and might have become a King Rank formation master without reaching the King Realm. After Lin An left his Spirit Realm, he went to meet Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun, intending to ask their help with King Rank formations.

• Wei Min reported that Li Qing and Li Wei had reached legendary realm third grade and Lin An had entered his fifth Mythic Rank Spirit Realm.
• Zheng Tang told Li Yunshan that Lin An had upgraded his saber to King Rank and seemed able to command the laws of heaven and earth, suggesting he was a King Rank formation master.
• Li Yunshan ordered Zheng Tang and Wei Min to bring Lin An to see him as soon as he emerged from the Spirit Realm.
• Lin An hunted Sin Beasts until he reached mythic realm eighth grade and considered returning to Shenglin City before it fell on December fifteenth.
• After five days, Lin An emerged from the Spirit Realm, learned that Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun wanted to see him, and set out to meet them.

Lin An confirmed that he had become a King Rank formation master and examined the Sovereign Realm-like corrosive power inside Li Zhao. The Spirit-Devouring Ring reacted to it, and Lin An proposed that it might help the ring advance instead of requiring a King Rank restriction.

• Li Yunshan asked Lin An whether he had become a King Rank formation master, and Lin An confirmed that he had achieved it in the Spirit Realm.
• Lin An learned that Li Zhao’s corrosive power had only been suppressed, and Li Yunshan suspected it came from a Sovereign Realm Sin Beast.
• Lin An examined Li Zhao and found the corrosive power hidden within the cold in his dantian, where it continued to erode its surroundings.
• The Spirit-Devouring Ring reacted to the corrosive power, and Lin An realized it might be able to refine it and advance toward becoming a Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure.
• Lin An told Li Yunshan that they might not need a King Rank restriction because the corrosive power could be an opportunity for him, and revealed the Spirit-Devouring Ring.

Lin An explained his plan to use the corrosive power inside Li Zhao to upgrade the Spirit-Devouring Ring and prepared safeguards for the attempt. He raised three secondary professions to King Rank, maxed out his remaining Divine Abilities, and headed to the treasury for materials.

• Lin An told Li Yunshan, Li Zhao, and Li Xiyun that the Spirit-Devouring Ring could absorb Li Zhao’s corrosive power and potentially become a Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure, and they agreed to help him try.
• Lin An decided to raise his alchemist, artifact refiner, and spirit rune master professions to King Rank so he could prepare a survival pill, advance the ring, and create a fallback restriction.
• Lin An spent sixty million attribute points and three upgrade cards to bring all three professions to King Rank, gaining 150 Divine Ability Upgrade Stones.
• Lin An used stones to max out Resentful Tiger's Eye and Earth Vein Power, leaving him with fifty-five stones and noting that the abilities had gained stronger effects.
• Lin An went to the treasury to select heavenly materials and earthly treasures, while players were shocked by new server-wide announcements.

Lin An’s rise to King Rank in three secondary professions alarmed players and drew attention from Blue Star officials, while Li Yunshan helped him prepare a protective pill, formation, and spirit mark. Lin An planned to enter another Mythic Rank Spirit Realm to gain the attribute points needed to learn them.

• Lin An became the server’s first King Rank artifact refiner, alchemist, and Spirit Mark master, prompting players to discuss his achievements.
• Blue Star officials investigated Lin An, suspected he had entered the game years earlier, and prepared for possible changes and conflict.
• At the treasury, Lin An told Li Yunshan he needed to refine a King Rank pill to protect his uncle, and Li Yunshan agreed to keep his abilities secret.
• Li Yunshan gave Lin An the Nirvana Life-Extending Pill recipe and scrolls for the Great Derivation Seal and Prohibition Spirit Mark, confirming that the required materials were available.
• Lin An said he would enter another Mythic Rank Spirit Realm to reach Mythic Ninth Grade and gather enough attribute points to learn the three arts.

Lin An reached Mythic Ninth Grade after hunting Sin Beasts in the Spirit Realm, then spent most of his accumulated attribute points perfecting three arts. The chapter left him at the Heavenly Vault Army’s treasury, where he comprehended a saber Divine Ability called Time-Reversing Blade.

• Lin An hunted Sin Beasts for eight days, earning 13 million attribute points from the monthly rankings settlement.
• Lin An continued hunting for two more days, raised his attribute points to 41,270,000, and broke through to Mythic Ninth Grade.
• Lin An learned the Nirvana Life-Extending Pill recipe, Great Derivation Seal, and Prohibition Spirit Mark, then spent attribute points raising all three to perfection.
• Li Yunshan told Lin An that the materials he needed were basically ready and would be delivered that evening.
• Lin An went to the First Legion’s treasury and comprehended the Heavenly River Severed Flow Visualization Diagram, gaining the Divine Ability Time-Reversing Blade.

Lin An comprehended three Divine Abilities, then prepared puppets to test whether soul possession would let him earn attribute points in Spirit Realms. He began warming up to refine the Nirvana Life-Extending Pill by first making a Mythic Rank Divine Charm Pill.

• Lin An comprehended the Time-Reversing Blade, the Life Lamp Tribulation Substitution Technique, and the Soul Possession Technique from three visualization diagrams.
• Lin An crafted thirty-six Legendary Rank puppets and used Soul Possession to control them, planning to test whether he could remain connected to them inside a Spirit Realm.
• Lin An asked Zheng Tang to take the puppets into a Legendary Rank Spirit Realm opening the next day.
• Li Yunshan brought Lin An the prepared materials and a Mythic Rank ancient bronze cauldron for refining pills.
• Lin An and Li Yunshan went to a hall, where Lin An chose to begin by refining a Mythic Rank Divine Charm Pill.

Lin An refined thousands of top-quality Divine Charm Pills overnight, while Zheng Tang sent a mission team led by Lin Hu into the Spirit Realm with thirty-six puppets. Lin An found that the Spirit Realm weakened his control over the puppets, so he began upgrading Soul Possession Technique to strengthen their connection.

• Lin An learned the Divine Charm Pill recipe and refined batches of up to five hundred pills at once, quickly reaching perfect proficiency.
• At Li Yunshan's request, Lin An kept refining through the night and produced 2,100 top-quality Divine Charm Pills.
• Zheng Tang sent hundreds of Legendary Realm experts into the Spirit Realm, where Lin Hu deployed thirty-six puppets refined by Lin An.
• Lin An sensed the Spirit Realm weakening his connection to the puppet souls and began upgrading Soul Possession Technique with Divine Ability Upgrade Stones.

Lin An discovered that puppets could kill Sin Beasts across worlds to grant him attribute points and replenish his spiritual power. He began refining the Nirvana Life-Extending Pill with help from Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun, and a King Rank aura emerged from the hall after a week.

• Lin An had Lin Hu bring him three Sin Beasts, and killing them earned him three attribute points apiece.
• Lin An realized the Spirit Devouring Divine Ability replenished his spiritual power even when his puppet killed Sin Beasts in another world, so he sent puppets to hunt while he refined pills.
• Lin An gathered Li Yunshan, Li Xiyun, and three mythic rank alchemists to assist with and observe the Nirvana Life-Extending Pill refinement.
• With Li Yunshan lending King Realm power and Li Xiyun dispersing the ingredients' violent energy, Lin An spent six hours refining the dragon blood crystal.
• After a week of guarded pill refinement, a King Rank aura swept out from the hall.

Lin An refined a King Rank Nirvana Life-Extending Pill, earned a special reward, and upgraded his Soul Possession Technique to its ultimate level. After expanding his puppet farming squads, he began setting up the Great Derivation Seal with two Mythic Rank formation masters observing.

• Lin An completed the King Rank pill in seven days, and the system announced him as the first player on the server to refine one.
• Lin An chose fifty Divine Ability Upgrade Stones from his reward and upgraded the Soul Possession Technique, gaining the ability to seize a possessed target's body once if his original body faced mortal danger.
• Lin An used three days to refine 108 Legendary Rank puppets while his earlier puppets returned with over four million attribute points.
• Zheng Tang confirmed that one Diamond Tier Spirit Realm and three Legendary Rank Spirit Realms would open, and Lin An assigned his puppet teams to enter them.
• Lin An met Li Yunshan, Li Xiyun, and two Mythic Rank formation masters in the great hall, then began setting up the Great Derivation Seal and offered the visitors explanations.

Lin An completed the King Rank Great Derivation Seal while his puppets farmed attribute points in Spirit Realms. After the formation’s success, he planned to rest before removing the corrosive power from his eldest uncle and advancing the Spirit-Devouring Ring.

• Lin An refined the Great Derivation Seal’s foundation, then waited for puppets to enter Spirit Realms before inscribing its patterns.
• Lin An discovered that Legendary Rank puppets could kill Sin Beasts in Spirit Realms and still earn him attribute points, so he sent them to hunt across four realms.
• Lin An spent seven days inscribing the formation patterns, completed the Great Derivation Seal, and received a server-wide first-completion reward.
• Lin An said he would rest for three days before treating Eldest Uncle and advancing the Spirit-Devouring Ring.
• Lin An counted 31.52 million attribute points and continued refining puppets as he planned to farm more Diamond Tier Spirit Realms.

Lin An began refining the corrosive power tormenting Li Zhao with help from Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun, while seven King Realm experts in the Heavenly Revelation Empire learned about the celestials’ resurrection ability. The chapter left the Seventh Clan Elder tasked with investigating the celestials and the emperor suspicious of Li Xiyun’s breakthrough and the Heavenly Vault King’s silence.

• Lin An started using the Great Derivation Seal formation and Spirit-Devouring Ring to refine the corrosive power inside Li Zhao, with Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun helping suppress it.
• Lin An estimated that refining the corrosive power would take nearly a month, and the seven puppet squads entered Spirit Realms to replenish his spiritual power.
• The Heavenly Revelation Emperor summoned seven King Realm clan elders and ordered them to guard the Imperial City’s Sin Abyss amid increased disturbances.
• The Heavenly Revelation Emperor told the elders that celestials had appeared across the three empires and resurrected one day after dying.
• The emperor assigned the Seventh Clan Elder to investigate the celestials, and the alchemist considered capturing them for experiments.
• The Heavenly Revelation Emperor noted that Li Xiyun had reached the King Realm but the Heavenly Vault King had not reported it, and he smiled coldly.

The Heavenly Revelation Emperor planned to use Li Xiyun’s breakthrough as an opportunity to control the Heavenly Vault King’s family and secretly eliminate Li Zhao. Meanwhile, Lin An purified Li Zhao, helped the Spirit-Devouring Ring advance into a Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure, and received a server-wide reward.

• The Heavenly Revelation Emperor ordered the First Clan Elder to take an investiture edict and the Third Prince to Heavenly Vault Pass, while secretly arranging for Li Zhao to be killed.
• Lin An used the Spirit-Devouring Ring to extract the remaining corrosive power from Li Zhao and prepared to leave Heavenly Vault Pass for Shenglin City.
• Lin An borrowed Li Yunshan’s King Realm power to stabilize the Spirit-Devouring Ring as it advanced, while Li Yunshan gave Li Zhao the Nirvana Life-Extending Pill.
• Lin An used his Spirit Devouring Divine Ability to accelerate the ring’s refinement of the corrosive power.
• The Spirit-Devouring Ring became a Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure, and Lin An received a special resource selection gift pack as the first player server-wide to achieve the advancement.

Lin An prepared to leave Heavenly Vault Pass for Shenglin City as the imperial family approached, while his Spirit-Devouring Ring gained new powers and his attribute points climbed past 280 million. He departed the next morning, leaving Li Yunshan to prepare for the imperial delegation.

• Lin An examined his newly advanced Spirit-Devouring Ring and found that it could refine corpses faster and wield erosive power against enemies, including King Realm experts.
• Li Yunshan learned that the imperial family would arrive in five days after discovering Li Xiyun's King Realm breakthrough, and Lin An decided to return to Shenglin City the next day.
• Lin An checked his 270 million attribute points, claimed leaderboard rewards that raised his total above 280 million, and instructed Zheng Tang to keep opening Spirit Realms to farm more points.
• Li Xiyun gave Lin An resources for his journey and items for Lin Xiao, while Lin An promised to deliver them.
• Lin An said goodbye to Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun, checked on Li Zhao in his blood cocoon, and left Heavenly Vault Pass by teleportation.
• After Lin An departed, Li Yunshan gathered the Heavenly Vault Army's senior officers to prepare for the imperial family's arrival.

Lin An returned from the Sin Abyss to Heavenly Vault City and Guangwu City, where he healed Zhou Ping's damaged dantian with a Legendary Rank pill after sensing an unformed opportunity around him. He then teleported back to Shenglin City, hoping the opportunity would soon emerge.

• Lin An returned to Heavenly Vault City at Mythic Realm Ninth Grade and teleported to Guangwu City.
• Lin An reunited with Zhou Ping and learned that a Sin Beast had damaged Zhou Ping's dantian, forcing him to leave Heavenly Vault Pass.
• Lin An gave Zhou Ping a Purple Origin Creation Pill and sent him to the Zhou Clan residence to refine it.
• Lin An sensed an opportunity around Zhou Ping but could not discover where it lay, so he decided to wait for it to emerge.
• Lin An teleported to Shenglin City and welcomed his return.

Lin An returned to Shenglin City and reunited with his father, Lin Xiao, after hearing officials discuss Descenders and the possibility that Lin An shared their ranking system. He told Lin Xiao he had joined the Heavenly Vault Army, met the Heavenly Vault King, and seen his mother, leaving Lin Xiao eager to hear how she was doing.

• Lin Xiao heard Feng Shan report that more than thirteen thousand Descenders were in Shenglin City and that the strongest among them included a personal guard at Bronze Eighth Grade.
• Feng Shan told Lin Xiao that the Descenders ranked someone named Lin An first, prompting Lin Xiao to wonder whether his son was a Descender.
• Lin An greeted Ji Yuan, Feng Shan, and Qian Yang, then entered the council hall without announcing himself.
• Lin Xiao was delighted to discover that Lin An had returned and learned he planned to stay for at least half a month.
• Lin An told Lin Xiao that he had joined the Heavenly Vault Army, met the Heavenly Vault King, and seen his mother, and Lin Xiao asked whether she was well.

Lin An told Lin Xiao that Li Xiyun was a King Realm expert and gave him the storage ring she had prepared. While exploring Shenglin City, Lin An found a city guard who looked exactly like his former self, leaving him questioning his identity and whether he had ever transmigrated.

• Lin An told Lin Xiao about Li Xiyun’s powerful background and gave him the storage ring she had sent.
• Lin An left the City Lord’s Residence and explored Shenglin City, where he saw players and thought about his previous life.
• Lin An used his divine sense to find a city guard who looked exactly like him and wondered who he truly was.
• Uncle Wu told the guard, who shared Lin An’s name, about the young lord’s victories and the rewards Shenglin City had received.
• Lin An left while Uncle Wu continued telling the guard stories about the young lord.

Lin An searched Black Mountain for clues about Shenglin City's fall, then used his remaining upgrade resources to strengthen his secondary professions and Divine Abilities. He prepared to break through to the King Realm in seclusion, with Shenglin City's fall still ten days away.

• Lin An searched Black Mountain for the cause of Shenglin City's future fall but found only a little over a hundred thousand Sin Beasts and no clues.
• Lin An told Lin Xiao he would enter seclusion, then sheltered in a cave on Black Mountain behind a Mythic Rank formation.
• Lin An spent 120 million attribute points and six King Rank Secondary Profession Upgrade Cards to raise six secondary professions to King Rank, bringing his total to ten and earning 300 Divine Ability Upgrade Stones.
• Lin An upgraded Time-Reversing Blade and Life Lamp Tribulation Substitution Technique to their ultimate forms, increasing the former's reach into the past and allowing the latter to be used nine times.
• Lin An reviewed his strengthened panel, put away his remaining Divine Ability Upgrade Stones, and began preparing to break through to the King Realm.

The imperial family’s seventh elder sought to learn the Celestials’ resurrection ability and marked more than a hundred lower cities for destruction. In Guangwu City, Zhou Ping recovered from his injuries with Lin An’s Legendary Rank pill, and the Zhou Clan considered how to repay him.

• The imperial family’s seventh elder, nearing the King Realm’s five-hundred-year lifespan limit, decided to investigate the Celestials’ resurrection ability and selected over a hundred lower cities, including Shenglin City, to destroy.
• Zhou Ping recovered from his dantian injury, advanced to Platinum sixth grade, and found his foundation and combat strength greatly improved.
• Zhou Ping went to the Zhou Clan council hall and told Patriarch Zhou and the elders that Lin An had given him a Purple Origin Creation Pill.
• Patriarch Zhou recognized that the pill was too valuable to repay with ordinary clan assets, and the first elder suggested an item that could serve as repayment.

Lin An upgraded the Lin Clan Cultivation Technique to King Rank while breaking through to the King Realm, allowing him to fuse twelve kinds of rules and roam across the world with his awareness. He discovered a King Realm figure slaughtering people in a lower city.

• Zhou Ping agreed to lead the Zhou Clan's team into a Platinum Rank Spirit Realm, while the clan prioritized building ties with Lin An over claiming its treasure.
• After five days in seclusion, Lin An drew in twelve kinds of rules of heaven and earth, which began clashing inside his body.
• Lin An upgraded the Lin Clan Cultivation Technique to King Rank by spending 100 million attribute points.
• The upgraded technique fused the conflicting rules and gave Lin An an expansive awareness that could reach across the world.
• Lin An spotted a King Realm figure slaughtering people in a lower city.

Lin An witnessed the seventh clan elder slaughtering lower-city residents and capturing the players who revived, learning that the elder planned to disguise his raids as Sin Beast attacks. He realized Shenglin City would fall in three days as it had in his previous life, but his consciousness returned to his body just as a terrifying power erupted and his realm began to rise.

• Lin An watched a King Realm expert kill everyone in a lower city, then wait for the players to revive.
• The seventh clan elder captured the revived players in a black tower, explaining that he had to wait for them to return after death.
• The seventh clan elder began empowering Sin Beasts to attack lower cities, using the chaos to capture players and conceal his actions.
• Lin An realized the elder had caused Shenglin City's fall in his previous life and would reach it in three days, on December fifteenth.
• Lin An's consciousness returned to his body, and a terrifying might erupted as his realm rose.