Chapter Summaries

Lin An defeated Ao Che with two slashes, shattering his Dragon Pearl and securing a rise to rank fourteen on the Battle Ranking. After gaining more than a trillion contribution points, he returned to the Heavenly Pass to refine pills as his renown spread among the myriad races.

• Ao Che attacked Lin An with his Dragon Pearl, but Lin An’s first slash broke through the dragon claw, the phantom, and Ao Che’s nine bloodline Divine Abilities.
• Lin An’s next slash shattered Ao Che’s Dragon Pearl and tore his body apart, ending the battle and raising Lin An to rank fourteen.
• The spectators marveled that Lin An had slain Ao Che in two slashes, while Lin An collected more than a trillion contribution points.
• Ao Che challenged Lin An to fight again someday, and Lin An announced that he would only accept challenges from Battle Ranking top-ten fighters.
• Lin An exchanged greetings with Meng Yuan, left the Battle Realm, and returned to the Heavenly Pass to refine pills as his renown spread.

After Lin An defeated Ao Che, the myriad races recognized the threat he posed and prepared their geniuses for the coming Sacred Realm. Lin An finished refining pills, gathered valuable materials from Meng Yuan, and began preparing tools for his journey into the Sacred Realm.

• Rumors of Lin An's victory over Ao Che spread, and the myriad races learned that the Human Race had produced a powerful genius.
• The Nether Race patriarch discussed Lin An with Ye Wuya, then arranged for Ye Wuya to cultivate under the Nether Race's old ancestor before the Sacred Realm opened.
• Ao Che warned Ao Kuang not to challenge Lin An, and the two learned they would cultivate under the Dragon Ancestor.
• Lin An refined 270,000 Black-Yellow Immortal Pills and decided to prepare puppets, formations, and talismans for the Sacred Realm.
• Meng Yuan obtained the costly materials Lin An requested, and Lin An began working with them using the Auxiliary Cultivation Lotus Platform.

With the Sacred Realm opening in three days, Lin An learned the Battle Ranking challenge rules and entered the Battle Realm as the contest for the thrones began. He stood on the fourteenth-ranked platform, with the first-ranked throne in sight and the top contenders gathering around him.

• Meng Yuan explained that ranked prodigies had to accept challenges, and that a battle lasting a month would be judged by the contestants’ condition.
• Lin An met Wu Tianshan and three other Human Race prodigies, and Wu Tianshan asked whether Lin An could claim first place for their race.
• The thrones descended, and a grand voice summoned the top one thousand Battle Ranking prodigies to the contest.
• Lin An arrived on his fourteenth-ranked platform and wondered whether first place offered rewards beyond one extra Origin Fragment.
• Lin An greeted Ao Che, who had grown much stronger since their previous fight but admitted he still could not defeat Lin An.
• Ao Che pointed out that Lei Yun, the fourth-ranked contender, had more reason to worry; Lin An and Lei Yun exchanged nods across the platforms.

Lin An defeated Jin Yu of the Golden-Winged Great Peng Race in two saber strikes and rose to eighth place in the battle rankings. After returning to the eighth platform, he challenged the prodigy in first place.

• Lei Yun avoided Lin An's challenge by entering battle against the prodigy on the seventh platform.
• Lin An challenged Jin Yu, who accepted and met him on the battlefield in his Golden-Winged Great Peng form.
• Lin An cut off Jin Yu's talons and wings with his first strike, then killed him with his second, earning eighth place.
• Human spectators celebrated Lin An's victory, while the Golden-Winged Great Peng Race accepted that he had been stronger than Jin Yu.
• Lin An returned to the eighth platform and challenged the newly returned prodigy in first place.

Lin An challenged Ye Wuya for first place on the Battle Ranking and defeated him after breaking through Ye Wuya’s techniques with ease. Lin An took the top spot and gained access to the throne’s benefits.

• After defeating Yun Lian, Ye Wuya sat on the first-place throne and absorbed Origin Power during his half-hour protection from challenges.
• When the protection ended, Lin An’s challenge was automatically accepted, and Ye Wuya prepared to face him.
• As spectators gathered in the hundreds of billions, Ye Wuya opened with Netherworld Thousand Illusions and a Netherworld Formation, but Lin An destroyed both with Condemnation.
• Ye Wuya summoned a White Bone Demonic Manifestation, but Lin An cut it in two and used Formless Illusory Tower to stun Ye Wuya before piercing him with his blade.
• Lin An defeated Ye Wuya and took first place on the Battle Ranking.

After defeating Ye Wuya, Lin An claimed first place on the Battle Ranking and discovered that its throne granted Origin Power to forge an Eternal Dao Foundation. He remained on the throne absorbing it while defeating Ao Kuang and considering how to erase Jialuo Moye’s lingering curses.

• Lin An defeated Ye Wuya, took first place on the Battle Ranking, and absorbed the Origin Power released by the throne.
• Ye Wuya challenged Yun Lian while Ao Kuang fought, and Lin An was summoned to face Ao Kuang when the Origin Power stopped flowing.
• Lin An killed Ao Kuang in three slashes and explained that Ye Wuya had endured four only because he had held back.
• Ao Kuang challenged Ye Wuya, while Yun Lian chose to challenge another prodigy instead of Lin An.
• Lin An returned to the throne and continued absorbing Origin Power as he reflected that reaching the Eternal Realm would let him erase Jialuo Moye’s curses.

Lin An finished first in the throne contest and entered the Sacred Realm, where he learned that Origin Fragments could be spent to cultivate in the stone tower or obtained by hunting Sin Beasts. Wu Tianshan and four other humans gave Lin An their Origin Fragments to help him forge an Eternal Dao Foundation.

• The throne contest ended, and Lin An reflected that he had laid the groundwork for an Eternal Dao Foundation but needed more time to complete it.
• Lin An and the other Battle Ranking contestants were teleported into the Sacred Realm, where the guardian explained its dangers, the stone tower, and the cost of staying.
• The guardian distributed Origin Fragments according to the contestants' rankings and warned that death in the Sacred Realm was real.
• The contestants discussed whether to cultivate in the city or form teams to hunt Sin Beasts, while Lin An met up with Wu Tianshan and four other humans.
• Wu Tianshan and the other four gave Lin An more than a thousand Origin Fragments so he could focus on forging his Eternal Dao Foundation.

Lin An received Origin Fragments and supplies from Wu Tianshan and four other Human Race geniuses, then entered the stone tower to discover the cultivation benefits granted to the Battle Ranking’s first-place holder. He began cultivating on the throne, but found the Origin Power weaker than expected and wondered whether he could activate the hundredfold time flow.

• Wu Tianshan, Tang Rong, and three other Human Race geniuses gave Lin An their Origin Fragments and promised to help him collect more.
• Lin An gave the five men storage rings stocked with puppets, talismans, formations, and pills before they left the city to hunt Sin Beasts.
• Lin An entered the stone tower and learned that first place let him spend a hundred Origin Fragments per day for highly concentrated Origin Power that flowed directly into his body from the throne.
• Lin An deposited 2,100 of his 2,142 Origin Fragments and began cultivating, but realized the Origin Power was about ten times weaker than during the contest.
• Lin An summoned the Auxiliary Cultivation Lotus Platform and considered activating its hundredfold time flow.

Lin An cultivated in the stone tower while Wu Tianshan and four companions hunted Sin Beasts to gather Origin Fragments for him. When the group reached a mountain range teeming with powerful beasts, Lin An possessed a puppet army and wiped them out, then led the group onward.

• Lin An swallowed a Black-Yellow Immortal Pill and cultivated under the accelerated flow of time, while Wu Tianshan led four companions away from the city to hunt Sin Beasts.
• After three days of hunting, Wu Tianshan’s group reached a mountain range and considered using the puppets and talismans Lin An had given them.
• Lin An revealed that he could possess puppets with part of his consciousness and sent a thousand puppets to the mountain range.
• The puppets formed the Nine Palaces Sword Annihilation Formation, which killed more than ten thousand Sin Beasts, including nine immortal ninth-grade beasts.
• Lin An collected the Origin Fragments dropped by the Sin Beasts and told Wu Tianshan and the others to move on to the next place.

Lin An used his puppets and formations to clear Sin Beast gathering places across the Sacred Realm, gathering Origin Fragments with Wu Tianshan and the others. After half a month, they had collected 7,654 fragments, and Lin An arranged to send them back to the city while continuing the hunt.

• Wu Tianshan and the other four watched Lin An’s puppets kill more than ten thousand Sin Beasts, and Lin An said he knew a little about puppets, formations, talismans, and pills.
• Lin An led the group deeper into the Sacred Realm, where his puppets and formations wiped out Sin Beasts while Wu Tianshan and the others found more gathering places.
• The realm guardian absorbed the dead Sin Beasts’ remains into the Sacred Realm, but black qi soon rose from the ground and formed new Sin Beasts.
• After nearly twenty days, Wu Tianshan reported that the group had collected 7,654 Origin Fragments, and Lin An set up a Teleportation Formation to send them back to the city.
• In the city, Lin An activated another Teleportation Formation, and a puppet carrying the Origin Fragments appeared before the watching prodigies.

Lin An used more than seven thousand Origin Fragments to cultivate in the stone tower while his puppet led Wu Tianshan and four others to hunt Sin Beasts. As the free period ended, the other races struggled to afford staying in the Sacred Realm, while the Human Race remained conspicuously absent.

• Lin An stored the Origin Fragments, puppet, and Teleportation Formation, then returned to the stone tower as the other races marveled at his haul.
• Lin An spent all the Origin Fragments on forging his Eternal Dao Foundation and resumed cultivating with his Auxiliary Cultivation Lotus Platform and a Black-Yellow Immortal Pill.
• Lin An cultivated while his puppet guided Wu Tianshan and four others in hunting Sin Beasts, as the other geniuses gathered Origin Fragments of their own.
• The races discussed which of their members could afford to stay in the Sacred Realm, and Ao Kuang and Ye Wuya wondered how the Human Race had obtained so many Origin Fragments.
• The realm guardian announced that the one-month free period had ended and that anyone staying in the Sacred Realm would have to pay Origin Fragments each day.

Lin An sent Wu Tianshan and the other four back to the city, gave them Origin Fragments to cultivate in the stone tower, and unleashed his puppets across the Sacred Realm. His harvest rose to around five thousand Origin Fragments a day, and a month later fewer than a hundred Battle Ranking prodigies remained in the Sacred Realm.

• Lin An recalled Wu Tianshan and the other four from the Sacred Realm so they could strengthen their foundations in the stone tower.
• Lin An sent the five back to the city, gave each of them a thousand Origin Fragments, and watched them begin cultivating.
• The other races' prodigies envied the Human Race after seeing Lin An support his companions with Origin Fragments.
• Lin An split ten thousand puppets into nine groups to hunt Sin Beasts, raising his daily Origin Fragment haul to around five thousand.
• A month passed, and fewer than a hundred of the thousand Battle Ranking prodigies remained in the Sacred Realm.

Ye Wuya, Ao Kuang, Yun Lian, and the other geniuses planned to hunt Sin Beasts together because they were running low on Origin Fragments. Their plans changed when Lin An revealed he had amassed over eighty thousand fragments using puppets, and he returned to the stone tower while the others prepared to hunt.

• Ao Kuang proposed that the remaining geniuses join forces to hunt Sin Beasts and divide the Origin Fragments they earned.
• Ye Wuya agreed to follow their original plan to hunt Sin Beasts of Immortal Ninth Grade and above, and Yun Lian suggested asking Lin An to join them.
• Lin An emerged from the stone tower, then used a Teleportation Formation to retrieve a puppet carrying more than eighty thousand Origin Fragments.
• Lin An told the stunned geniuses that he controlled many puppets to hunt Sin Beasts outside the city.
• Lin An declined to explain further and returned to the stone tower, while Ye Wuya told the others to prepare to hunt Sin Beasts.

Lin An spent 100,000 Origin Fragments to upgrade the throne, increasing the Origin Power flowing into him and improving his chance of forging an Eternal Dao Foundation. In the Land of Rules, Meng Yuan told the Human Race elders that Lin An was supporting Wu Tianshan and four others as they cultivated in the Sacred Realm.

• Lin An upgraded the throne for 100,000 Origin Fragments, increasing the Origin Power concentration tenfold and his chance of forging an Eternal Dao Foundation by 10%.
• Lin An sensed Eternal Power in the strengthened Origin Power and learned that another throne upgrade would cost 200,000 Origin Fragments.
• Lin An took a Black-Yellow Immortal Pill to advance his cultivation while sending his puppets to hunt more Sin Beasts.
• Meng Yuan told the Human Race elders that Wu Tianshan and the other four had stayed in the Sacred Realm because Lin An had obtained enough Origin Fragments to support their cultivation.
• The grand elder and the other elders approved of the five continuing to cultivate and looked forward to their return.

Lin An reached Immortal Eighth Grade and formed an Origin Seed, giving him a path toward the Eternal Realm. He upgraded his throne to increase the Origin Power available for nurturing the seed and resumed cultivating.

• Lin An broke through to Immortal Eighth Grade and discovered an Origin Seed forming in his dantian.
• Lin An decided to use the Sacred Realm to nurture the Origin Seed while continuing to pursue Immortal Ninth Grade.
• Lin An collected more than eighty thousand Origin Fragments from a returning puppet as Ye Wuya and the others watched.
• Lin An spent his accumulated Origin Fragments to upgrade the throne, increasing the Origin Power in the stone tower tenfold.
• Lin An took a Black-Yellow Immortal Pill and began cultivating again.

Lin An forged an Eternal Dao Body after reaching the immortal ninth grade, then faced an Eternal Realm Sin Beast that had appeared outside the city. The realm guardian told him to kill it for its Eternal Heart, and Lin An stepped out to meet it despite the others’ warnings.

• Lin An completed his Eternal Dao Body, gaining a body that transcended heaven and earth, while the realm guardian began loosening the seal on a Sin Beast in the Sacred Realm.
• A figure in the War Calamity Sin Domain suppressed an angry speaker, and the Thousand-Eyed Evil Dragon feared the Sin Lord would thwart its plans to escape its shackles.
• An Eternal Realm Sin Beast appeared outside the city, and the surviving cultivators gathered as Lin An recognized that it was watching him.
• The realm guardian appeared to Lin An alone and ordered him to kill the wounded Sin Beast, explaining that its Eternal Heart could help Lin An transform his soul.
• Lin An ignored the others’ pleas to stay safe and stepped outside the city to face the Sin Beast.

Lin An killed the Eternal Realm Sin Beast Thousand-Faced Demon Buddha and received an Eternal Heart, which began tempering his soul toward becoming an Eternal Soul. He returned to the city as Ye Wuya and the others marveled at his strength, while elsewhere Lin Xiao sent a group toward the Domain.

• Lin An left the city and fought the Thousand-Faced Demon Buddha, whose karmic fire and Sanskrit seal initially overpowered his attacks.
• Lin An used his formations and a powerful saber strike to break the demon Buddha's Eternal Dao Body, then struck again and killed him with Nine Hells Saber Soul.
• The system announced Lin An as the first player to kill an Eternal Realm Sin Beast and rewarded him with an Eternal Heart, which began transforming his soul.
• Great Xia officials discussed traveling to a new world, while Lin Xiao sent Zheng Tang and nine others toward the Domain.
• Lin An decided to continue pursuing the Immortal Realm Extreme Realm before advancing, returned to the city, and faced Wu Tianshan and the others' questions about whether he had reached the Eternal Realm.

Lin An left the Sacred Realm after defeating the Thousand-Faced Demon Buddha and returned to the Battle Realm, where he revealed his Eternal Dao Body and Immortal Ninth Grade cultivation to Meng Yuan. Meng Yuan celebrated Lin An’s progress and offered the Human Race’s support, while Wu Tianshan and the others remained in the Sacred Realm.

• Lin An gave Wu Tianshan and the other four his remaining Origin Fragments and sent them into the stone tower before leaving the Sacred Realm.
• Lin An asked Ye Wuya and the others to protect the Human Race cultivators, then departed for the Battle Realm.
• The realm guardian noted that a second stone pillar had been destroyed and wondered whether Lin An would flee as someone had before.
• Lin An returned to the Human Race encampment, where the crowd welcomed him and Meng Yuan brought him aside.
• Lin An revealed his Eternal Dao Body and Immortal Ninth Grade cultivation, and Meng Yuan offered to provide whatever resources he needed.
• Meng Yuan asked why Wu Tianshan and the others had not returned from the Sacred Realm.

Lin An learned that the Human Race was safe and that the other contestants were still cultivating, then followed Meng Yuan to the Heavenly Sword Sacred Land. He settled into a cave abode there and began cultivating with the goal of advancing his realm.

• Lin An told Meng Yuan that Wu Tianshan and the other four were safe and still absorbing Origin Power, and Meng Yuan explained that the myriad races had approached the Human Race after Lin An's Battle Ranking success.
• Meng Yuan took Lin An from the Heavenly Pass to the Heavenly Sword Sacred Land and explained that the Heavenly Sword had killed an Eternal Realm Sin Beast, whose remains formed the sacred land.
• Lin An saw the Heavenly Sword reveal a vast world of sword intent, then followed Meng Yuan to a cave abode at the mountain peak, where the rules of heaven and earth were strongest.
• Lin An asked Meng Yuan to gather more auxiliary cultivation paths, and Meng Yuan agreed to help without questioning his request.
• Lin An discovered that he could refine Black-Yellow Immortal Pills ten times faster in the cave abode, considered the power stored in his Spirit-Devouring Ring, and began cultivating.

Lin An refined more than two hundred thousand Black-Yellow Immortal Pills and reached the Extreme Realm Third Heaven, then obtained more pill materials and auxiliary cultivation inheritances from Meng Yuan. He mastered thirty new auxiliary cultivations and began raising their ranks by comprehending their Seas of Origin.

• Lin An discovered that his Eternal Dao Body increased both his pill-refining speed and his cultivation resource needs.
• After refining his remaining Black-Yellow Immortal Pills and drawing on the Spirit-Devouring Ring, Lin An reached the Extreme Realm Third Heaven.
• Lin An contacted Meng Yuan for more pill materials, and Meng Yuan brought him one hundred thousand sets along with auxiliary cultivation inheritances.
• Lin An learned thirty new auxiliary cultivations and went to the Soul Craftsman Sea of Origin.
• Lin An raised his soul craftsman rank to Mythic, then King and Sovereign Rank, as he continued comprehending the Sea of Origin.