Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu entered the mass grave and unleashed the full power of his Pure Yang Immortal Body against its hundreds of thousands of resentful souls. The grave’s guardian, an aberrant corpse formed from bones and resentment, emerged and met Lin Yu’s strike in a clash that swept away everything nearby.

• Lin Yu crossed the barrier into a graveyard of bones and ghost flames, where its accumulated resentment attacked him.
• Lin Yu judged the corrupted souls beyond redemption and released his full power, burning away the resentful spirits with his golden light.
• The grave assembled its bones into a giant corpse and covered it in black resentment armor, creating an aberrant guardian.
• The aberrant corpse’s roar struck Lin Yu’s golden domain, but his Pure Yang Faxiang blocked the sound wave.
• The aberrant corpse punched at Lin Yu, and his Pure Yang Faxiang answered with Heaven-Altering Earth-Changing Palm, unleashing a devastating collision.

Lin Yu destroyed the anomalous corpse and confirmed that the formation could reform, then saw that allies across the world were struggling against powerful evil beings. Unable to assist every battlefield himself, he used the Chat Group to issue a world assistance mission.

• Lin Yu defeated the anomalous corpse with his strongest punch, purifying the resentful souls and blasting apart the formation.
• The formation reappeared with its fiendish Qi, though the destroyed demon god did not return.
• Lin Yu saw that Uncle Nine was clearing a horde of Qing Court zombies while several Untransformed Bones watched.
• Lin Yu saw Martial Uncle Four Eyes and the others struggling to restrain a powerful Fushi with the Five Elements Seven Stars Formation.
• Lin Yu asked the Chat Group whether he could issue a mission, then ordered it to issue a world assistance mission.

Lin Yu summoned Chat Group members to aid practitioners across his world, protecting them with the Big Dipper Golden Light Body Protection Art before sending them to fight evil entities. He began isolating the world's crimson formation cores one by one, while Xiao Yan arrived at the Ancient Kingdom of Nanping just as Daoist Chin Hok was threatened by a buried corpse.

• Lin Yu issued a world assistance task, and Zhang Sanfeng, Shi Hao, Xiao Yan, Huang Rong, Yan Lingji, Su Xiaoxiao, and others came to help.
• Lin Yu cast the Big Dipper Golden Light Body Protection Art, shielding the group with golden light and warning them to be careful.
• Xiao Yan, Shi Hao, Yan Lingji, and the others set out for different locations; Lin Yu sent Huang Rong to join Su Xiaoxiao.
• Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye and the Transform Heaven and Earth divine ability to sever a crimson formation core from the world's greater formation so he could dismantle the cores separately.
• At the Ancient Kingdom of Nanping, Daoist Four Eyes and Daoist Chin Hok struggled against a buried corpse, and a fire lotus intercepted its black-light attack aimed at the injured martial uncle.

Xiao Yan and Shi Hao intervened in separate battles against the corpse forces while Lin Yu broke one of the formations sustaining the global array. Lin Yu confirmed that dismantling the formation cores worked and flew toward the next one.

• Xiao Yan arrived to help Lin Yu and blocked the Fu Corpse's attack before clashing with it using his flames and black ruler.
• Shi Hao rescued a cultivator outside a besieged city and charged into the corpse horde, drawing the Emperor Corpse into battle.
• Shi Hao met the Emperor Corpse's ghostly hand with a powerful punch, stopping its descent and prompting the Emperor Corpse to show a hint of surprise.
• Lin Yu completed a new formation diagram that absorbed the blood baleful Qi and severed the scarlet formation core from the global array.
• Lin Yu confirmed that breaking the cores slowed the great formation and headed toward the next one.

Xiao Yan and Shi Hao defeated their undead opponents as the Chat Group members advanced against the evil forces. Lin Yu reached the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, where he discovered that the Surviving Three Miao Clan was corrupting the emperors’ dragon souls to destroy the world.

• Xiao Yan cleaved the mutated lurking corpse in two with Flame Splitting Tsunami and continued attacking it.
• Shi Hao broke the imperial corpse’s Imperial Domain of Annihilation and smashed its arms with Hand of Heaven, leaving it buried beneath rubble.
• Yan Lingji, Su Xiaoxiao, Huang Rong, and Zhang Sanfeng helped suppress evil creatures and formations across the world.
• Lin Yu arrived at the Mausoleum of the First Emperor and found the emperors’ dragon souls surrounded by the gathered sect experts.
• The Grand Heavenly Master of Maoshan told Lin Yu that the Surviving Three Miao Clan was corrupting the dragon souls to combine their power with the earth veins and destroy the world.

Lin Yu and the Heavenly Masters destroyed the demonic thought corrupting the imperial dragon souls, which dispersed after regaining clarity. The formation remained active, and Lin Yu began using his Divine ability: Transform Heaven and Earth to alter its laws without harming the earth veins.

• Lin Yu used the Heaven-Reaching Talisman to imprint golden talismans on the scarlet runes while the patriarch struck the demonic thought with lightning.
• The Heavenly Masters formed the Nine Heavens Demon-Sweeping Lightning Formation and annihilated the demonic thought.
• The cleansed imperial dragon souls dispersed, leaving the dragon vein intact but without its spirit.
• The great Heavenly Master of Maoshan declared that the Dragon Nation's future would be forged by its people and civilization, not a single ruler.
• Lin Yu began overwriting the still-running formation's laws with his Divine ability: Transform Heaven and Earth, prompting a Lingbao Sect elder to compare the method to Fenghou Qimen.

Lin Yu destroyed another core of the evil formation, healed Huang Rong and Su Xiaoxiao, and reunited with the little fox in the ghost domain. The fox recognized Lin Yu and chose to give up the largest ghost pearl, leaving its choice unresolved.

• Lin Yu reversed the underground palace’s formation core, weakened the grand formation, and restored the earth vein.
• Lin Yu urged the gathered experts to aid their fellow Daoists and the common people, then left to find Huang Rong and Su Xiaoxiao.
• Lin Yu found Huang Rong and Su Xiaoxiao injured in an ancient ghost city, healed them, and destroyed the remaining formation node.
• Huang Rong called the little fox out of the temple ruins, and Lin Yu recognized the spirit fox from his training a year earlier.
• The little fox recognized Lin Yu, set aside the largest ghost pearl, and picked the second-largest one instead.

Lin Yu joined the Nine Palaces’ battle against a regenerating thousand-year-old scholar tree demon in the Southern Border and severed its connection to the evil formation. The palace masters finished destroying it, while the wider fight against the formation continued.

• The little fox offered Lin Yu a ghost pearl, and his touch quietly blessed it with a faint golden ripple.
• Lin Yu carried Huang Rong, Su Xiaoxiao, and the fox away from the collapsing ghost-domain city and flew toward the Southern Border battlefield.
• The Nine Palaces struggled against a scholar tree demon that regenerated through the evil formation and threatened to overwhelm their disciples.
• Lin Yu told Huang Rong and Su Xiaoxiao to support the Nine Palaces while he confronted the tree demon.
• Lin Yu used Transform Heaven and Earth to cut off the tree demon’s connection to the formation and drain its energy.
• Elder Feng and the other palace masters attacked the weakened tree demon until it withered and collapsed into dead wood and ash.

After destroying the tree demon, Lin Yu returned the Ninth Palace’s stolen True Understanding of the Gu Dao to Bai Shan and confessed to taking it. Bai Shan forgave him and offered to let him keep the scripture, leaving Lin Yu with both the Nine Palaces’ gratitude and their inheritance.

• Lin Yu accepted a One Heart Gu from Elder Feng as thanks for saving the Nine Palaces.
• Lin Yu privately approached Bai Shan and returned the True Understanding of the Gu Dao.
• Lin Yu admitted that he had stolen the scripture while seeking a way to solve his problem and apologized.
• Bai Shan said Lin Yu’s rescue of the Nine Palaces outweighed the theft and praised his honesty.
• Bai Shan offered the True Understanding of the Gu Dao back to Lin Yu because he believed Lin Yu would make better use of it.

Lin Yu destroyed the world-ending formation, saved the Nine Palaces’ legacy, and saw the other Chat Group members return to their worlds. Back at Maoshan, he learned that Japanese evil cultivators had exploited Dragon Nation’s weakened defenses to establish dozens of vicious formations.

• Bai Shan gave Lin Yu the Nine Palaces’ ancient scripture, and Lin Yu copied the True Understanding of the Gu Dao for Bai Shan in return.
• Lin Yu asked Bai Shan to look after a woman in Flower Bamboo Village, then left the Southern Border with Huang Rong, Su Xiaoxiao, and the little fox.
• Lin Yu traveled around the world, purified the formation cores, and turned the world-spanning evil formation into spiritual formations that nourished the earth.
• The Chat Group task was completed, and Lin Yu distributed points and an insight into Dao resonance to the participants as they returned to their own worlds.
• Lin Yu returned to Maoshan and learned that Japanese evil cultivators had secretly set up dozens of vicious formations across Dragon Nation while its cultivation world fought the calamity.

After learning that Japanese marauders had planted evil formations to poison waterways and drain the Dragon Nation’s spiritual Qi, the exhausted cultivators rallied to destroy them. Heavenly Master Zhang joined a battle at Poyang Lake, while reinforcements reached the Yellow River just as local defenders faced a lethal attack.

• Lin Yu read a jade slip revealing evil formations across the Dragon Nation’s waterways and famous mountains, and the sect leaders vowed to cleanse them.
• Heavenly Master Zhang and cultivators from across the land gathered forces and raced toward the threatened regions.
• At Poyang Lake, Heavenly Master Zhang saved a wounded young Daoist and joined him in fighting the Japanese evil cultivators and water ghosts.
• Word of young disciples dying to hold back the enemy spread, driving the reinforcements to fight with renewed fury.
• At the Yellow River, local Zhengzhou cultivators struggled to defend the shore as a blood formation polluted the water and a giant ghostly claw attacked their barrier.
• A ringing command sounded from the sky as the old Daoist prepared to make a final stand.

Lin Yu rescued the cultivators on the Yellow River, learned the Japanese evil cultivators’ secrets, and found their hidden base in the East China Sea. He attacked the island and tore through its defenders, who failed to harm him.

• Lin Yu destroyed the three onmyoji attacking the cultivators on the Yellow River, extracted their memories, and asked the old Daoist priest to handle the aftermath.
• Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye to find a concealed island in the East China Sea and shattered its concealment formation with a golden sword.
• Nearly a hundred Japanese evil cultivators, including members of the Fire Lotus Society and Kujikuji Sect, confronted Lin Yu on the island.
• Lin Yu charged into the enemy ranks, killing or disabling more than ten cultivators with his bare hands.
• The white-haired onmyoji ordered the remaining defenders to form up and attack, but their spells and weapons could not harm Lin Yu, who killed them with golden sword Qi.

Lin Yu faced the Japanese evil cultivators’ three strongest attacks while the sealed Evil God’s origin awakened inside his golden bead. He released the transformed origin, which rushed toward the summoned Evil God Bodhisattva, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• The Fire Lotus Society leader sacrificed himself to summon the Evil God Bodhisattva, while the Kujikuji Sect elder raised the God-Binding Great Array and the white-haired onmyoji summoned Yamata no Orochi.
• The Japanese forces attacked Lin Yu with the array’s black Qi, the Bodhisattva’s black flames, and Yamata no Orochi’s venom and demonic fire, but Lin Yu broke free and struck Yamata no Orochi into the sea.
• Lin Yu sensed the golden bead reacting to the Evil God Bodhisattva and examined the awakening origin inside it, where the Buddhist, devil, and Dao essences had merged into chaotic light.
• The Fire Lotus Society leader recognized the origin in Lin Yu’s bead, and the awakened being called Lin Yu its master and expressed a desire to eat the summoned Bodhisattva.
• Lin Yu released the seal on the golden bead, and its fist-sized chaotic light shot toward the Evil God Bodhisattva, which shrieked in terror.

Lin Yu defeated Yamata no Orochi and the Kujikuji Sect elder while the chaotic sphere devoured the Evil God Bodhisattva and transformed into a three-headed, six-armed manifestation that called him master. The surviving evil cultivators fled after all three of their trump cards were defeated.

• The sphere slipped into the Evil God Bodhisattva and devoured it, weakening the Fire Lotus Society's leader as the god crumbled away.
• Lin Yu tore apart the Kujikuji Sect elder's formation and swallowed Yamata no Orochi's combined attack with a Heaven-Reaching Talisman technique.
• Lin Yu used a suppressing character to stomp Yamata no Orochi into a crater and pin him in place.
• The sphere transformed into a three-headed, six-armed manifestation and saluted Lin Yu as its master.
• The surviving evil cultivators fled in fear after Lin Yu defeated their three trump cards.

Lin Yu ordered the newly born Faxiang to devour the fleeing Japanese evil cultivators, then killed and exchanged Yamata no Orochi’s corpse for four million points. With the Dragon Nation’s formation still holding against the heavenly lightning and earth-fire, he prepared to return with Faxiang and placed a powerful restraint on it.

• Lin Yu commanded Faxiang to pursue and devour the Japanese raiders, and Faxiang dragged them back with a tremendous force before consuming their souls, Spiritual Power, and bodies.
• Lin Yu bound Yamata no Orochi with golden chains, cut it into pieces, and exchanged its corpse through the Chat Group for four million points.
• Lin Yu saw that the five-elements-and-eight-trigrams formation was holding against the heavenly lightning and earth-fire threatening the Dragon Nation.
• Lin Yu told Faxiang it would have to follow his rules in the Divine Land and created a talisman bearing the character for “forbid.”
• Lin Yu imprinted the restraint on all three of Faxiang’s heads, explaining that it would stabilize Faxiang’s power but activate if it defied him.

Lin Yu returned to the Dragon Nation with the evil god shrunk into a palm-sized child and found the battle against the Japanese evil cultivators nearly won. After the patriarchs redirected the remaining heavenly punishment toward Japan, Lin Yu reunited with the little fox, which was terrified by the child's demonic presence.

• Lin Yu told the evil god to shrink, and it transformed into a palm-sized child that settled on his shoulder.
• Lin Yu returned to the Dragon Nation and saw the cultivators routing the Japanese evil cultivators while the patriarchs calmed the battlefield.
• The patriarchs redirected the remaining power of heavenly punishment toward Japan, causing the Japanese scheme to backfire.
• Lin Yu greeted the patriarchs and reunited with the little fox, which leapt onto his shoulder.
• The child intimidated the little fox until Lin Yu caught it, warned the child, and flicked both of their heads.
• The child withdrew its threatening aura, but the little fox remained frightened and hid in Lin Yu's palm.

After the calamity, Lin Yu returned to the mortuary and learned that Maoshan planned to appoint him Heavenly Master and nominate him for a high-ranking register-bestowal ceremony, hoping his merit might reopen the path to the Heavenly Court. The ceremony was scheduled for the Double Ninth Festival at Maoshan's Shangqing Ancestral Altar.

• Lin Yu discussed the cultivation world's losses and the severed path of ascension with the Grand Heavenly Master and other Heavenly Masters.
• Lin Yu returned to the mortuary, where Uncle Nine welcomed him and he recuperated while the cultivation world began rebuilding.
• Uncle Nine told Lin Yu that Maoshan's leaders had nominated him to become Heavenly Master and receive a Heavenly Register.
• Lin Yu agreed to prepare for the ceremony, understanding that the sects hoped his merit would test whether the Heavenly Court could be reached again.
• Maoshan's formal edict arrived, setting Lin Yu's register-bestowal ceremony for the Double Ninth Festival at the Shangqing Ancestral Altar.

Lin Yu’s Heavenly Master investiture ceremony stalled before the Heavenly Court sent down a Land God appointment, which the presiding elders viewed as an insult to his achievements. As the Grand Heavenly Master read the decree and burned his essence in protest, an unidentified speaker condemned the Heavenly Court and its appointment.

• Lin Yu completed the investiture rites while the assembled righteous sects waited for the Heavenly Court’s response.
• The decree arrived late, and the Grand Heavenly Master discovered it appointed Lin Yu as a Land God.
• The three Heavenly Masters agonized over whether to announce the appointment as the crowd grew uneasy.
• The Grand Heavenly Master read the decree aloud, burning his essence to protest the injustice.
• An abrupt voice denounced the Heavenly Dao and the Heavenly Court’s insulting appointment.

Yang Jian rejected the Heavenly Court’s appointment for Lin Yu and bestowed a military rank on him instead. Lin Yu became General of Manifest Martial Prowess of Guanjiangkou and took command of three thousand Grass-Head Gods.

• Yang Jian appeared above the square with heavenly soldiers and threw the Heavenly Court’s decree back, openly rejecting its authority.
• Yang Jian declared that Lin Yu’s merits deserved recognition and transformed his robes into silver armor, giving him a three-pointed, double-edged saber and a battle standard.
• Yang Jian appointed Lin Yu General of Manifest Martial Prowess of Guanjiangkou, placing three thousand Grass-Head Gods under his temporary command.
• A bridge of golden light carried Lin Yu from the square to Yang Jian’s army, where the three thousand Grass-Head Gods knelt and greeted him as their general.
• Four Eyes, Yixiu, and Uncle Nine watched in shock and pride as Lin Yu took his place among the heavenly forces.

Yang Jian healed the Grand Heavenly Master, then took Lin Yu and the three thousand Grass-Head Gods to Guanjiangkou. He began training Lin Yu, setting a demanding test before Lin Yu could truly exercise his authority as General Zhaowu.

• Yang Jian restored the Grand Heavenly Master's health and strengthened his Dao foundation with a gift of vitality.
• Yang Jian ordered Lin Yu to return with him to Guanjiangkou, and Lin Yu led the three thousand Grass-Head Gods away from Maoshan.
• The Grand Heavenly Master declared Lin Yu's register-bestowal ceremony complete and announced his appointment as General Zhaowu of Guanjiangkou.
• At Yang Jian's training grounds, Yang Jian assessed Lin Yu's cultivation and warned him not to rely too much on heavenly merit.
• Yang Jian began Lin Yu's training in the Eight-Nine Profound Art and other techniques, requiring him to withstand a hundred moves from the Six Sages of Mount Mei before he could properly command the Grass-Head Gods.