Chapter Summaries

The Supreme Peace Empire conquered the Heavenly Spirit Empire and the Heavenly Star Empire in five days, despite the two emperors summoning their ancestors’ projections. Lin Xiao then handled the unified realm’s affairs and credited Lin An’s preparations, while Li Xiyun worried about their absent son.

• The Supreme Peace Empire declared war on the Heavenly Spirit Empire and the Heavenly Star Empire, and players received a national war event that rewarded them for killing enemies from opposing factions.
• The Supreme Peace Empire’s armies routed both empires in five days and entered their Imperial Cities.
• The Heavenly Spirit Emperor and the Heavenly Star Emperor summoned projections of their Sovereign Realm ancestors, but a massive hand destroyed them; both emperors then took their own lives.
• The Supreme Peace Empire absorbed the two empires’ territories, leaving Lin Xiao to manage a mountain of memorials.
• Li Xiyun brought Lin Xiao nourishing soup, and he told her that Lin An’s preparations had helped secure the swift victory; they wondered how Lin An was faring in another world.

Lin An continued cultivating in the Domain while the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion negotiated with the Li Clan over the long-standing bounty for three people who had killed its younger generation. After learning that the killer was in the Eastern Extremity Region, the Li Clan sent three Sovereign Realm Ninth Grade experts there.

• Lin An refined Sovereign Pills and cultivated toward the Sovereign Realm Seventh Grade as his one-year rental deadline approached.
• Kang Shan and Wu Bin discussed Lin An’s expected departure and the credit Kang Shan hoped to gain from a deal with the Li Clan.
• Zhou Feng showed Li Qiyuan the erased true spirit of the Heavenly Revelation Grand Progenitor and offered to reveal where the person who killed the three was.
• Li Qiyuan agreed to give the Domain Lord ten inheritance places each time the Immortal Array Dao inheritance grounds opened.
• Li Qiyuan reported the news to the ancestral elders, who sent three Sovereign Realm Ninth Grade experts to the Eastern Extremity Region.

Lin An met with the Li Clan patriarchs and returned the Jade Crescent in exchange for a chance to enter the place holding the Immortal array inheritance. Li Tan agreed to his request.

• After refining the last Sovereign Pill, Lin An learned that the Li Clan had arrived and went to meet them.
• Kang Shan introduced Lin An to Li Tan and two other Sovereign Realm Ninth Grade patriarchs, who placed restrictions around their meeting room.
• Lin An admitted he possessed the Jade Crescent and gave the Li Clan the true spirits of the Heavenly Star Grand Progenitor and the Heavenly Spirit Grand Progenitor.
• Lin An showed the patriarchs that he was a Sovereign Rank array master and asked to enter the place where the Immortal array inheritance lay.
• Li Tan accepted Lin An's request after Lin An handed over the Jade Crescent.

Lin An returned with Li Tan and his companions to the Western Severance Region, where he saw the Li Clan’s ancestral land and learned about the Immortal formations protecting the region’s great cities. The Li Clan prepared to open its inheritance grounds in three days, and Lin An settled into guest accommodations with his bounty reward.

• Li Tan returned the Jade Crescent to Lin An, and Lin An agreed to travel with the Li Clan to its inheritance grounds.
• Li Tan and his companions took Lin An through the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s Teleportation Formation to Western Severance City in less than a month.
• Li Tan showed Lin An the Myriad Stars Heavenly River Overturning Grand Formation and explained its history and the Immortal formations guarding the other heavenly-grade cities.
• Li Qiyuan welcomed Lin An to the Li Clan and agreed with Li Tan to open the place of inheritance in three days, after the Domain Lords’ representatives had arrived.
• Li Tan gave Lin An a guest token and his bounty reward, then led him to his accommodations in the Li Clan’s ancestral land.
• Lin An checked his room for anything unusual before inspecting the storage ring.

Lin An examined the bounty rewards, then toured the Li Clan grounds with Zhao Tong before spending his jade crystal coins on Sovereign Pill materials. He received a storage ring containing 1,250 sets, more than he expected.

• Lin An found one billion jade crystal coins, ten sovereign-rank treasures, and the Heaven-Burning Divine Fire Furnace among his rewards.
• Lin An decided to test the furnace while waiting three days for the Li Clan's inheritance ground to open, and asked Zhao Tong to take him to buy pill materials.
• Zhao Tong showed Lin An the Li Clan's treasure grounds and a combat lesson, but Lin An declined to watch and continued to the Contribution Hall.
• Lin An spent the jade crystal coins on Sovereign Pill materials, and a Li Clan member returned with a storage ring containing 1,250 sets.

Lin An refined Sovereign Pills while formation masters from several regions gathered at the Li Clan to seek its immortal formation inheritance. After three days, Lin An left seclusion to join the inheritance gathering.

• Lin An accepted the Li Clan’s discount, returned to his courtyard, and began refining pills in seclusion.
• Formation masters Tao Yan, Bai Zixuan, and Xu Ming arrived from other regions, while the Li Clan’s leaders welcomed them and concealed that the visitors sought its immortal formation inheritance.
• Li Qiyuan told the visitors that Lin An was refining pills, and Xu Ming said they could meet and exchange knowledge with him when the inheritance grounds opened.
• Lin An refined more than nine hundred Sovereign Pills in three days, then decided to pursue the immortal inheritance before refining more.
• As Lin An left the pill room, Li Tan and two other patriarchs emerged from a spatial rift.

Lin An joined Li Meng and the Li Clan’s guests as the Land of Inheritance opened, then entered it with the Li Clan members and the array masters. After the entrance closed, an unseen presence in the ancestral grounds recognized Lin An as a Heavenly Diviner whose potential had overcome the curse of the Land of Abandonment.

• Lin An returned the Jade Crescent to Li Tan and met Li Meng, who invited him to enter the Land of Inheritance with the Li Clan.
• Li Meng introduced Lin An to Xu Ming and nine other famous array masters who had secured entry through the regional lords and the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.
• A pillar of light rose from the forbidden grounds, and a vortex appeared after the Land of Inheritance opened.
• Lin An entered the vortex with Li Meng and the Li Clan members, followed by Xu Ming and the other nine array masters.
• After the vortex closed, Li Tan and the other patriarchs waited for the entrants, while an unseen presence noticed Lin An’s Heavenly Diviner identity and extraordinary potential.

Lin An passed Li Yang’s formation trial by using his maxed-out Sovereign Rank formation mastery to assemble fifteen formations from damaged runes. He entered the second trial, where he was asked to repair Azure Cloud City’s Immortal Rank protective formation before Sin Beasts attacked.

• Lin An met Li Yang, who explained that passing his inheritance tests would earn him the Immortal formation inheritance.
• Lin An spent a billion attribute points to max out his formation mastery, then sorted the usable runes and assembled fifteen working formations.
• Li Yang declared Lin An the first to pass the trial, and Lin An chose to continue immediately.
• Li Yang sent Lin An into a city for a test of patience, where Shen Wang asked him to repair Azure Cloud City’s protective formation.
• Lin An learned that Sin Beasts were expected to attack in a month and saw that the city’s protective formation was Immortal Rank.

Lin An repaired the Nine Dragons Rotation Grand Formation while uncovering thousands of runes that did not support it, then assembled them into a separate formation. After it destroyed the grand formation, he and Li Yang returned to the void, leaving the outcome of the second trial unresolved.

• Shen Wang asked Lin An to repair the damaged Immortal Rank formation before the Sin Beasts attacked Azure Cloud City in a month.
• As Lin An repaired the formation, he found more than a hundred runes that seemed useless to it and suspected they concealed another purpose.
• Lin An decided to remove the useless runes and spent three days stripping out 7,168 of them.
• Lin An assembled the runes into a formation, then asked Shen Wang whether he had passed the second trial; Shen Wang revealed that he was Li Yang and said Lin An had not passed yet.
• Lin An activated the assembled formation, whose light destroyed the Nine Dragons Rotation Grand Formation, and he and Li Yang returned to the void.

Lin An used his system to learn all nine ancient formations at beginner level for Li Yang’s third trial. Meanwhile, Xu Ming and Li Meng passed the first trial and began the second, while Lin An prepared to digest what he had learned.

• Li Yang explained the Myriad Phenomena Formation Platform and challenged Lin An to fuse three ancient formations to pass or all nine to reach the final trial.
• Lin An spent 18 million attribute points to learn all nine ancient formations at beginner level, then sat down to digest their information.
• Xu Ming completed the first trial and learned from Li Yang that he was the second person to pass, after an unnamed person.
• Li Yang sent Xu Ming into Azure Cloud City to take the second trial.
• Li Meng passed the first trial soon afterward and learned she was third, behind Lin An and Xu Ming.
• Li Yang sent Li Meng into Li Yang City, where she took the second trial as his disciple.

Lin An fused the nine ancient formations into an Immortal Rank formation and passed the third stage of the inheritance. Li Yang recognized his extraordinary talent and urged the Li Clan to build a strong relationship with him.

• Lin An studied the nine formations and began combining them by assigning each a role in the new structure.
• Li Yang watched Lin An work and was shocked that he had reached beginner level in all nine formations in just three days.
• Li Yang asked Li Meng what Lin An had done for the Li Clan, and she explained that he had slain three villains and returned the true spirits and the Jade Crescent.
• Li Yang told Li Meng that Lin An was nearing the end of the third stage and that the Li Clan should build a good relationship with him.
• After five more days, Lin An completed the formation, whose power astonished Li Yang by approaching the second grade of the Immortal Realm.
• Li Yang named the fused formation the Nine Tribulations Myriad Phenomena Formation and confirmed that Lin An had passed the third stage.

Lin An began Li Yang’s final inheritance trial, a hundred-move battle using formations as pieces. After resisting Li Yang’s attacks and exploiting an old formation to trap nine skeletal dragons, Lin An gained the upper hand in the battle, which was still underway.

• Li Yang explained that Lin An only needed to survive a hundred moves in their formation game to obtain the inheritance, then opened the trial board.
• Lin An countered Li Yang’s opening formations, but Li Yang used a glance to disrupt Lin An’s three-move opportunity and continued attacking with powerful formations.
• Li Yang’s formations restricted Lin An’s pieces, while Lin An used decoys, runes, and formations to escape the encirclement and break Li Yang’s attacks.
• After three days, Li Yang sacrificed nine black pieces to summon skeletal dragons, and Lin An detonated an Empty Valley Echo Formation to turn their curses back on them.
• Lin An combined a Dragon-Slaying Tribulation-Cutting Formation with his Seven Stars Spirit Locking Formation and Heaven-Splitting Sword Formation, piercing the dragons and forcing the black pieces to revert to their original patterns for a turn.

Lin An won Li Yang’s formation-board trial and entered the sea of the Origin of the Dao of Formations to receive the inheritance. After a day of comprehension, he had touched the threshold of becoming an Immortal formation master, while Li Meng passed her own trial and learned that Lin An was already receiving the inheritance.

• Lin An defended his white pieces until Li Yang conceded that he had won the trial.
• Li Yang sent Lin An into the sea of the Origin of the Dao of Formations, where Lin An used attribute points to deepen his comprehension.
• Lin An realized that Immortal Rank formations could arise from anything and that a formation master could merge with a formation and make it real wherever his thoughts reached.
• After a day, Li Yang sensed that Lin An had touched the threshold of an Immortal formation master and marveled at his rapid progress.
• Li Meng passed her trial in Li Yang City, then learned from Li Yang that Lin An was already receiving the inheritance.

Lin An became an Immortal Rank formation master in the Sea of the Origin of the Dao of Formations and gained a powerful new reward. After his return, a server-wide announcement revealed his achievement to Blue Star, where players wondered where he had gone.

• Li Meng began the third trial after realizing how far Lin An surpassed her, and Xu Ming entered it after passing the second trial in third place.
• Lin An comprehended Immortal Formation Intent and formed a lotus throne from 129,600 primordial formation patterns, realizing that his path lay in breaking heaven and earth’s grand formation.
• Lin An received the Foundation of the Dao of Formations as the first Immortal Rank formation master on the server and fused it with his Heart of Auxiliary Cultivation, raising its effects by 500 percentage points.
• Lin An left the Sea of the Origin of the Dao of Formations and learned that he could return whenever he wished.
• Blue Star players reacted excitedly to Lin An’s announcement and speculated that he had ascended to the immortal world.

Lin An became an Immortal formation master and stayed in the Land of Inheritance to refine Sovereign Pills and cultivate. After producing thousands of potent pills, he used a formation that accelerated time a hundredfold and began absorbing them.

• Lin An attained the Immortal Dao of Formations, but found he still lacked the realm to break his Lifespan Shackles or wield Immortal Rank power for long.
• Lin An told Li Yang he planned to remain in the Land of Inheritance, and Li Yang warned him not to neglect his main path by pursuing alchemy.
• Lin An used the Heaven-Burning Divine Fire Furnace to refine up to a hundred batches of Sovereign Pills at once, astonishing Li Yang with their quantity and quality.
• Lin An spent half a month refining all his materials and amassed 11,250 Sovereign Pills.
• Lin An created a formation that made time pass about a hundred times faster and began cultivating by absorbing the pills.

Lin An cultivated with his refined Sovereign Pills and reached the Sovereign Realm Ninth Grade before the Land of Inheritance closed. The others continued the trials, unaware that Lin An had already passed the ninth trial and become an Immortal formation master.

• Li Yang watched Lin An cultivate and predicted he would reach the Sovereign Realm Ninth Grade, deciding that the Li Clan needed to keep his support.
• Li Meng, Xu Ming, and Tao Yan advanced through the trials, with Xu Ming and Tao Yan reaching the ninth trial while Li Meng stopped at the seventh.
• Xu Ming and Tao Yan asked Li Yang who had passed the ninth trial, but he refused to reveal that Lin An had done so.
• Lin An stopped cultivating after reaching the Sovereign Realm Ninth Grade and reviewed his status, which listed him as an Immortal-rank formation master.

Lin An asked Li Yang about the Lifespan Shackles, but Li Yang said he could not remove them and advised Lin An to reach the Immortal Realm. Li Yang recounted humanity’s rise from servitude to the totems and its war against the Sin Abyss, ending with the appearance of a giant who slaughtered Immortal Realm experts.

• Lin An realized the accelerated cultivation had brought his apparent age above fifty and considered that he had over four hundred years left to break through to the Immortal Realm.
• Li Yang congratulated Lin An on his rapid progress and noticed the curse of the Lifespan Shackles; he could not remove them but said reaching the Immortal Realm would break them.
• Lin An asked Li Yang about the ancient era, and Li Yang described how humans once served totems, then developed cultivation and fought the War of the Totems to free themselves.
• Li Yang explained that the Sin Abyss unleashed corruption across the myriad races, beginning an age of chaos in which humans grew stronger and led the resistance against sin.
• Li Yang recounted the war against the Sin Abyss and the arrival of a giant who killed many Immortal Realm experts; Lin An recalled a similar giant depicted in a mural at the Ancient Spirit Tower.

Lin An learned more about the ancient war against the Sin Beasts before the Land of Inheritance closed and its participants returned to the Li Clan. Xu Ming planned to visit the Pill Forest Heavenly Stele, while he and Tao Yan also noted that the next Sin Banquet was approaching.

• Li Yang told Lin An that a mysterious sword from the heavens had killed a powerful Sin Beast and turned the ancient war in the myriad races' favor.
• Lin An asked where the Domain's Immortal Realm experts had gone, and Li Yang told him he would understand after reaching the Immortal Realm.
• Li Yang opened passages for Lin An and the other participants as the Land of Inheritance closed, and Lin An promised to look after the Li Clan.
• Xu Ming and Li Meng thanked Li Yang for his guidance before leaving the Land of Inheritance.
• Xu Ming told Tao Yan he planned to visit the Pill Forest Heavenly Stele when it opened in three months.
• Tao Yan brought up the coming Sin Banquet, and Xu Ming's expression turned solemn.

After learning about the Pill Forest Heavenly Stele and the coming Sin Banquet, Lin An attended a banquet hosted by the Li Clan. Li Meng told Li Tan and Li Qiyuan that Lin An had become an Immortal Rank array master, prompting them to plan ways to win his favor and escort him to the Pill Forest Heavenly Stele.

• Xu Ming explained that the Sin Banquet would bring powerful Sin Beasts through passageways, forcing humans to hunt them before they grew stronger.
• Li Meng told Lin An that the Pill Forest Heavenly Stele ruins would open in about three months and that alchemists could enter to seek insight.
• At the banquet, Li Meng secretly informed Li Tan and Li Qiyuan that Lin An had obtained the inheritance and become an Immortal Rank array master.
• Li Tan and Li Qiyuan discussed offering Lin An access to the Li Clan's arrays, alchemy materials, and treasury, while Li Meng agreed to do her best for him.
• Li Meng told Li Tan that Lin An was interested in the Pill Forest Heavenly Stele, and Li Tan proposed that the Li Clan escort him there.

Li Meng brought Lin An to meet Zhou Chang, the lord of the Western Severance Region, who revealed he had noticed Lin An’s abilities and origins. Zhou Chang asked Lin An to help battle the Immortal Realm Sin Beasts at the coming Sin Banquet, offering to help him reach the Heavenly Divination Origin Sea in return.

• Li Meng told Lin An that her master, Zhou Chang, had summoned him to the Western Severance Hall, and Lin An agreed to go.
• Lin An arrived at the hall and met Zhou Chang, who greeted him as a fellow Daoist.
• Zhou Chang showed Lin An a starry sky in which a purple star shone with bloody light, and Lin An identified the omen as the blood moon’s descent.
• Zhou Chang revealed he had noticed Lin An at the Li Clan’s Land of Inheritance, recognized his Sovereign Rank Heavenly Diviner aura and curse, and deduced he came from the Myriad Spirits Realm.
• Zhou Chang asked Lin An to set up a great array and help kill the Immortal Realm Sin Beasts during the coming Sin Banquet, offering to help him reach the Heavenly Divination Origin Sea.