Chapter Summaries

Lin An attended a formal gathering of the Heavenly Vault Army’s senior officers, where Li Yunshan revealed that Lin An was his grandson and Li Xiyun’s only son. The army learned that Li Xiyun’s King Realm breakthrough was imminent and discussed the Sin Beasts expected to attack, while Li Yunshan said the breakthrough was meant to lure their King Realm leaders into a trap.

• Lin An entered the great hall with Zheng Tang and formally greeted Li Yunshan, who told him to call him Grandpa.
• Li Yunshan introduced Lin An as Li Xiyun’s only son, and the assembled officers saluted him as their young master.
• Li Yunshan announced that Li Xiyun would likely begin her King Realm breakthrough within a day or two, prompting discussion of how it could change the war.
• An officer reported that seventy million Sin Beasts were gathered a hundred li from Heavenly Vault Pass, including thousands of Mythic Realm beasts.
• The officers suspected the Annihilation Sword Baron had summoned the Heavenfall Dragon King and the Bone War Chief, and Li Qing told Lin An about their powers.
• Li Yunshan said Li Xiyun was breaking through at the front to draw the other King Realm Sin Beasts in and catch them all in one net.

As the Sin Beasts’ assault approached, Li Yunshan assigned defenses and gave Lin An, Li Qing, and Li Wei jade talismans for protection. On September 1, Li Xiyun began breaking through at Heavenly Vault Pass and recognized Lin An, who felt an unexpected bond with her.

• Li Yunshan assigned everyone defensive duties and gave Lin An, Li Qing, and Li Wei jade talismans containing a King Realm expert’s strike.
• Li Zhao worried that Li Yunshan’s plan to fight the three King Realm Sin Beasts would endanger his younger sister, but Li Yunshan reassured him.
• Lin An told Li Qing that he was nearing the Mythic Realm and that his mother’s breakthrough could let him undergo a baptism of rules.
• At midnight on September 1, Lin An received 2.15 million attribute points for holding first place on fourteen leaderboards.
• Li Xiyun began her breakthrough in a vortex above Heavenly Vault Pass, recognized Lin An, and steadied herself after Li Yunshan urged her to focus.

The Sin Beasts launched an assault on Heavenly Vault Pass while Li Xiyun continued her breakthrough, and the Annihilation Sword Baron revealed his plan to use the Spirit-Sealing Chain against Li Yunshan. Li Yunshan then revealed that he had reached King Realm Eighth Grade and faced the Annihilation Sword Baron and the Heavenfall Dragon King in the void battlefield.

• The Annihilation Sword Baron, the Heavenfall Dragon King, and the Bone War Chief agreed to attack Heavenly Vault Pass, with the Annihilation Sword Baron planning to hold off Li Yunshan and the other two targeting Li Xiyun.
• The Annihilation Sword Baron revealed the Spirit-Sealing Chain on his right arm, and he sounded a horn that sent the Sin Beasts charging toward Heavenly Vault Pass.
• The Heavenly Vault Army's war drums sounded, and its Mythic Realm experts activated a formation that annihilated the first wave of Sin Beasts before enemy Mythic Realm experts joined the battle.
• The Annihilation Sword Baron and Li Yunshan entered the void battlefield, but Li Yunshan's apparent body vanished when he intercepted the Heavenfall Dragon King's attack on the pass.
• Li Yunshan appeared beside the Annihilation Sword Baron and the Heavenfall Dragon King, revealed his King Realm Eighth Grade strength, and charged both opponents as the battle began.

The Bone War Chief attacked Heavenly Vault Pass, hoping to kill Li Xiyun, but Li Zhao used the Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure Frostweeping Blade to freeze it. Li Yunshan kept the Annihilation Sword Baron and Heavenfall Dragon King from helping, and Li Zhao smiled as the Bone War Chief turned to ice.

• The Bone War Chief emerged from hiding and struck Heavenly Vault Pass while Li Yunshan fought the Annihilation Sword Baron and Heavenfall Dragon King in the void.
• The Bone War Chief attacked the pass again with both arms, threatening to break its defenses.
• Li Zhao fired the Frostweeping Blade from his mouth, and its extreme cold began freezing the Bone War Chief and eroding its indestructibility rule.
• The Heavenly Vault Army trapped the Bone War Chief in runic cages, while Li Yunshan wounded the Heavenfall Dragon King and prevented the other two enemies from rescuing it.
• The Bone War Chief turned completely into ice crystals, and Li Zhao said the Frostweeping Blade worked well with the power of erosion.

Li Xiyun used the Frostweeping Blade and the power of her breakthrough to refine the Bone War Chief and complete the blade, while Lin An took advantage of the battle to slaughter Sin Beasts with his grand formation. The formation flags began to crack after three hours, and Lin An detonated them for one final attack.

• Li Zhao took a Nirvana Life-Extending Pill, which slowed the corrosive power in his body for no more than seven days.
• Li Xiyun pulled the frozen Bone War Chief before her and used her breakthrough’s gathered rules to help the Frostweeping Blade refine him and complete its rules.
• Lin An joined the battlefield, avoided Mythic Realm enemies, and used 108 formation flags to raise the Wuji Wind Fiend Destruction Grand Formation.
• Lin An’s formation slaughtered Sin Beasts and drove his event points past fifty million as Zheng Tang protected him.
• After three hours, Lin An saw the formation flags cracking and made them self-destruct in a final burst of power.

Lin An slaughtered the Sin Beasts while Li Xiyun absorbed the Frostweeping Blade and broke through to the King Realm. Her arrival halted the battlefield and forced the Annihilation Sword Baron and Heavenfall Dragon King to consider retreating.

• Lin An used his Divine Abilities and Condemnation to kill Sin Beasts in large numbers, including a Mythic Fifth Grade Sin Beast.
• Ice crystals spread across the battlefield, healing humans and weakening or freezing Sin Beasts as Li Xiyun completed the Frostweeping Blade.
• Li Xiyun entered an ice cocoon and drew in the laws of heaven and earth while Lin An continued fighting for three hours.
• Li Xiyun emerged, sat on an ice-crystal throne, and released her King Realm aura, making every living being bow.
• Li Yunshan celebrated Li Xiyun's breakthrough, while the Annihilation Sword Baron berated the fallen Bone War Chief and the Heavenfall Dragon King called for a retreat.

Li Xiyun reunited with Lin An at Heavenly Vault Pass and gave him the Flower of Rules to refine while she and Li Zhao guarded the battle. As Lin An cultivated, players began entering the world of Sin Abyss, and Lin Xiao arrived to investigate their sudden appearance in Shenglin City.

• Li Xiyun summoned Lin An, reunited with him, and handed him the Flower of Rules, which had to be refined within an hour.
• Li Xiyun sent Lin An to Li Zhao before charging into the void battlefield, while Li Zhao urged him to focus on cultivating.
• Lin An entered a cultivation chamber and refined the Flower of Rules, strengthening his body and soul and improving his ability to sense rules.
• At eight in the morning, players put on their gaming helmets and entered Sin Abyss, appearing in Shenglin City's square.
• Lin Xiao investigated reports of humans appearing out of nowhere and found the newly arrived players causing a commotion in the square.

Lin Xiao ordered the arrest and investigation of strange people appearing in Shenglin City, while the newcomers discovered that Lin An dominated the game’s rankings. Ji Yuan identified where the people came from, but the chapter ended before he revealed the answer.

• Lin Xiao sent Feng Shan to arrest people taking off their pants in the square and ordered Ji Yuan to investigate their origins.
• The newcomers compared their personal panels and saw Lin An ranked first across all fourteen rankings, including the Legendary Realm, Mythic Rank Array Master, and Mythic Rank Puppeteer rankings.
• Feng Shan arrested more than a hundred people who had taken off their pants, killing one who resisted, while Ji Yuan took more than a dozen others for questioning and the guards confined the rest to the square.
• Ji Yuan reported to Lin Xiao that they had determined where the newcomers came from.

Lin Xiao learned that billions of immortal Descenders had entered the world and ordered Shenglin City to avoid provoking them while offering some players cultivation techniques and a chance to join the city guard. After Ji Yuan addressed the gathered players, they began seeking quests and setting out to hunt Sin Beasts, while Lin An neared the completion of the rules baptism.

• Ji Yuan told Lin Xiao that the Descenders considered their world a game and could revive a day after being killed.
• Lin Xiao ordered Feng Shan’s victim’s body monitored, then chose to release the players in the square and recruit a few cooperative ones with cultivation techniques and guard positions.
• Ji Yuan revealed that billions of Descenders had appeared across the cities, prompting Lin Xiao to plan to report the matter to his superiors.
• Ji Yuan gave the players an overview of Shenglin City’s laws and offered ways to earn cultivation techniques and resources.
• After the troops left, some players tried to get quests from Ji Yuan while others formed parties to hunt Sin Beasts.
• Lin An neared the completion of the rules baptism.

After the rules of heaven and earth strengthened him, Lin An broke through to the Mythic Realm and announced his achievement to every player on the server. The players were stunned and flooded the chat with accusations and requests, while Lin An turned his attention to his breakthrough reward.

• Lin An checked the players’ chat and read their debates about the game, their arrests, and his suspicious ranking account.
• Lin An prepared to break through and decided to announce his Mythic Realm cultivation openly.
• Lin An absorbed spiritual energy from the Spirit-Devouring Ring and reached the Mythic Realm after about an hour.
• Lin An declined to hide his name, and the server announced him as its first Mythic Realm expert three times.
• Lin An told the chat that he was not cheating, then ignored the players’ replies and examined his special resource selection pack.

After breaking through to the Mythic Realm, Lin An joined the battle at Heavenly Vault Pass and slew Sin Beasts while the King Realm fight continued. Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun killed the Heavenfall Dragon King and the Annihilation Sword Baron, and the siege event ended with Lin An earning 304.5 million event points as the event shop opened.

• Lin An postponed choosing a reward and left to test his new Mythic Realm strength at Heavenly Vault Pass.
• Lin An killed Sin Beasts with Condemnation, rapidly increasing his event points.
• The rule thrones of the Heavenfall Dragon King and the Annihilation Sword Baron shattered, confirming both King Realm Sin Beasts had fallen.
• Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun appeared carrying the two kings' corpses, and Li Yunshan sealed the battlefield so the Sin Beasts could not flee.
• Lin An continued fighting until the siege event ended, earning 304.5 million event points as the event shop opened.

After reuniting with his mother and grandfather, Lin An stayed at Heavenly Vault Pass while they began treating Li Zhao. He spent most of his event points on treasures and upgrades, then raised Power of the Dragon and Elephant to its limit.

• Lin An reunited with Li Xiyun and told her that Lin Xiao was well and had reached the platinum realm.
• Li Xiyun and Li Yunshan left to treat Li Zhao, while Lin An promised to wait for them at Heavenly Vault Pass.
• Lin An returned to the pass with Li Qing and Li Wei, who had both advanced to legendary realm second grade, and reassured them that he did not blame his mother for their years apart.
• Lin An spent 290 million event points on upgrade items, cultivation cards, and the Tranquil Mind Lotus Throne, then exchanged his remaining points for attribute points.
• Lin An used 60 Divine Ability Upgrade Stones, bringing Power of the Dragon and Elephant to its limit.

Lin An brought several Divine Abilities to their ultimate limits, strengthened his subclasses, and upgraded the Spirit-Devouring Ring until it reached its limit. He ended the chapter planning to find a way to raise the ring to the level of a Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure.

• Lin An discovered that the ultimate Power of the Dragon and Elephant boosted his strength about a hundredfold, then upgraded Formless Illusory Tower and Void-Piercing Finger to their ultimate limits.
• Lin An used a Special Resource Selection Pack and raised brewer to Legendary Rank and alchemist to Mythic Rank, earning enough Divine Ability Upgrade Stones to continue upgrading.
• Players across the server reacted angrily and in disbelief to Lin An’s announcements, while the developers gave no response to complaints demanding his account be deleted.
• Lin An brought Void Escape to its ultimate limit, gaining the ability to merge into the void, ignore non-spatial attacks, and bypass physical obstacles and formation blockades.
• Lin An upgraded the Spirit-Devouring Ring until it could refine up to a hundred thousand Sin Beast corpses at once, then noted that it had reached its upgrade limit.

Lin An asked the Heavenly Vault Army to open a Mythic Rank Spirit Realm so he could gather resources, and the army agreed to accelerate one for him. He then studied how to forge a domain and began shaping a saber domain, which took form when his accumulated baleful aura erupted.

• Lin An checked his status and realized he lacked the attribute points needed to use his upgrade cards and improve his weapon.
• Lin An asked Zheng Tang about upcoming Mythic Rank Spirit Realms, and Zheng Tang arranged for the Heavenly Vault Army to accelerate one’s opening.
• Lin An spent several days studying domains and chose to forge a saber domain.
• Lin An entered the void and swung Condemnation, drawing the rules of heaven and earth into his Saber Intent.
• Lin An’s accumulated baleful aura erupted, and a domain began to take shape.

Lin An forged the Slaughter Saber Domain, a domain that grew stronger as he killed and gathered baleful energy. He entered a Mythic Rank Spirit Realm with Heavenly Vault Army commanders and experts to hunt Sin Beasts, beginning to strengthen the domain.

• Lin An revealed that his Slaughter Saber Domain accumulated baleful energy from kills and could use it to strengthen his attacks and refine Condemnation.
• Lin An told Zheng Tang to arrange for people to lure Sin Beasts to him and process their corpses, then asked him to prepare three more Spirit Realms.
• Wei Min and the other Heavenly Vault Army commanders met Lin An, and Wei Min, Zhou Changyuan, and Zheng Tang accompanied him into the Spirit Realm with over a hundred Mythic Realm experts.
• The experts lured Mythic Realm Sin Beasts to a chosen hunting ground while Lin An activated his Slaughter Saber Domain, whose killing intent threatened even Mythic Realm Ninth Grade experts.
• Lin An began unleashing his Divine Abilities against the Sin Beasts.

Lin An spent ten hours slaughtering the Sin Beasts brought to him by Mythic Realm experts, earning attribute points and enough cultivation to break through to Mythic Second Grade. After collecting some of the remaining corpses, he prepared to move on to the next location.

• Lin An used his divine abilities to slaughter the Sin Beasts while his Slaughter Saber Domain absorbed their baleful energy and his attribute points climbed rapidly.
• Wei Min and Zhou Changyuan were shaken by Lin An's ferocity, while Zheng Tang ordered the Mythic Realm experts to keep luring Sin Beasts to him.
• After ten hours, Wei Min asked Zheng Tang to let the exhausted lurers rest, and Lin An agreed before finishing off the remaining Sin Beasts.
• Lin An thanked the hundred Mythic Realm experts, then began a breakthrough while they guarded him and reached Mythic Second Grade an hour later.
• Wei Min reported that the valuable materials had been collected, and Lin An stored as many corpses as he could before announcing that they would go to the next place.

Lin An earned more than 21 million attribute points in a Mythic Rank Spirit Realm and immediately entered another one to continue hunting Sin Beasts. Meanwhile, Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun failed to remove the mysterious corrosive power inside Li Zhao, and players awaited the first monthly ranking rewards.

• Lin An finished ten days of hunting, gained 21,631,400 attribute points, and reached Mythic Third Grade.
• Lin An arranged a short rest for his hundred Mythic Realm companions, then entered another Spirit Realm with three Mythic Realm Ninth Grade experts.
• Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun failed repeatedly to expel the corrosive power inside Li Zhao and suspected it might come from a Sovereign Realm expert.
• Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun suppressed Li Zhao's corrosive power and considered seeking help from the imperial family's King Rank alchemist.
• At the end of September, players discussed their progress and watched the rankings as the first month's rewards neared settlement.

With two days left in his third Spirit Realm, Lin An spent his attribute points to raise ten secondary professions to Mythic Rank and formation master to King Rank. He hid his name for the King Rank announcement, while discovering that his new formation abilities let him command laws of heaven and earth at a steep spiritual-power cost.

• Lin An checked his sixty million attribute points and decided to upgrade his secondary professions and Condemnation.
• Lin An raised ten secondary professions to Mythic Rank, triggering thirty server-wide announcements and shocking the players.
• Lin An chose formation master for his King Rank upgrade and used a King Rank Secondary Profession Upgrade Card.
• Lin An discovered he could command the Spirit Realm’s incomplete laws, but doing so consumed enormous spiritual power and he could not yet form King Rank formations.
• Lin An hid his name before the server announced the first King Rank formation master, and he wondered whether this would spare the players’ morale.

Lin An became the server’s first King Rank Formation Master, collected his monthly ranking rewards, and upgraded Nine Tribulations Thunder Prison to its ultimate form. He then used materials and a King Rank Weapon Upgrade Card to begin raising Condemnation to King Rank.

• Lin An’s hidden King Rank Formation Master announcement sparked chat, and he admitted he had forgotten to hide his name on the rankings.
• Lin An told players that reaching King Rank in a secondary profession required 20 million attribute points and explained ways to earn them.
• At the October 1 ranking settlement, Lin An chose attribute points and received 8.5 million for placing first in fourteen rankings.
• Lin An spent Divine Ability Upgrade Stones to max out Nine Tribulations Thunder Prison and considered combining its domain with Slaughter Saber Domain.
• Lin An fed Condemnation ten million attribute points, used a King Rank Weapon Upgrade Card, and began its upgrade.

Lin An upgraded Condemnation to King Rank and gained the Eternal Night Domain, then continued hunting in Spirit Realms. Meanwhile, Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun temporarily suppressed the corrosion in Li Zhao’s body, and Li Zhao recovered enough to return with them to Heavenly Vault Pass.

• Condemnation advanced to King Rank, and its Eternal Night Domain plunged the area into darkness and briefly halted the movements of the Mythic Realm experts.
• Lin An tested the domain for three seconds, discovered it consumed most of his spiritual power, then put Condemnation away and led everyone onward.
• Lin An continued hunting through successive Spirit Realms while Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun discussed seeking help from the Heavenly Spirit Empire’s King Rank formation master to treat Li Zhao.
• Li Zhao woke, stood, and managed to circulate a small amount of spiritual power after the corrosion was temporarily suppressed.
• Li Zhao thanked Li Yunshan and Li Xiyun, and they took him back to Heavenly Vault Pass.