Chapter Summaries

Zhao Yan and Lin Yu fought Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang, but Zhao Yan swallowed top-grade Spirit Jade to keep fighting and dragged both enemies into the Two Realms Barrier. Left alone in the cavern, Lin Yu questioned the System and learned it had lured his true body there.

• Zhao Yan broke through during the battle, and Lin Yu activated the cave formation to attack Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang.
• As Zhao Yan's breakthrough strength faded, Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang regained the advantage and prepared to kill him and Lin Yu.
• Zhao Yan swallowed top-grade Spirit Jade, forcing his strength higher and breaking through another level as he fought the two Upper Realm cultivators.
• With his body failing, Zhao Yan seized Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang and dragged them into the Two Realms Barrier.
• Lin Yu picked up Zhao Yan's bloodied blade and asked the System why it had insisted that his true body come there; the System admitted it had been found out.

Lin Yu learned that Zhao Yan had survived and pressured his system into revealing the world’s three layers and possible locations of the Five Elements supreme treasures. He resolved to reach the Supreme Realm and avenge Zhao Yan.

• Lin Yu questioned Zhao Yan’s system about Zhao Yan’s fate and accused it of making Zhao Yan’s life harder by stealing rewards and mishandling its plans.
• Lin Yu threatened to expose the system to Zhao Yan, then negotiated one request in exchange for keeping quiet.
• Lin Yu asked where to find the Five Elements supreme treasures, and the system explained that they were hidden in the Supreme Realm, beyond the small worlds and Upper Realm.
• Lin Yu demanded directions to the higher realms, and the system warned him that reaching the Supreme Realm was perilous even for Zhao Yan.
• Lin Yu vowed to follow the path and avenge Zhao Yan as the system named possible treasure sites across the five Heaven Domains.

Lin Yu left the cavern and seized control of the weakened Golden Bull Martial Arts School, intending to use it as a base to gather resources and prepare for the Upper Realm. After freeing the abducted women, he looked out over Jiangcheng’s stark divide between the powerful and the poor.

• Lin Yu left the cavern, returned to Jiangcheng, and decided to take over the Golden Bull Martial Arts School after Jin Potian died and Bai Xuan and Tie Kuang were taken to the Upper Realm.
• Lin Yu confronted the school’s leaders, defeated its strongest remaining fighters, and ordered the disciples to surrender their weapons and register the school’s supplies.
• Lin Yu punished Jin Potian’s worst loyalists and allowed the other disciples to remain under observation.
• Lin Yu discovered more than a hundred abducted women in an underground palace and ordered their safe return with compensation.
• Lin Yu watched order return to the school and reflected on the contrast between Jiangcheng’s wealthy district and its poor western neighborhood.

Lin Yu took over the Golden Bull Martial Arts School, renamed it the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School, and imposed new rules on its members. After the Su Family and Jiangcheng government learned of the takeover and the disappearance of the Upper Realm envoys, government officials met Lin Yu to question him about it.

• Lin Yu reviewed the Golden Bull Martial Arts School’s resources, rewarded Zhao Chun, renamed the school the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School, and ordered the expulsion or punishment of members who had oppressed civilians.
• Su Wanxiong learned that Lin Yu had killed Jin Potian and subdued the school’s Grandmasters, while the Upper Realm envoys and Zhao Yan had disappeared near the mass grave; he told his people to wait and watch.
• A Jiangcheng government clerk reported Jin Potian’s death and the school’s takeover to the director, who ordered an investigation and decided to meet Lin Yu in person.
• The director, Qin Zhao, and a young clerk arrived at Lin Yu’s residence and asked him to provide a routine record of his identity, cultivation, and legal grounds for taking over the school.
• Lin Yu’s pressure made the young clerk tremble as Qin Zhao questioned him about the school’s change of control.

Lin Yu secured official recognition for the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School and learned that the Upper Realm would investigate its missing envoy. He then examined the school’s manuals and began creating a new technique, but Zhao Chun interrupted him to remind him of the Su Family’s banquet.

• Lin Yu told Investigation Department officials that the Upper Realm’s envoy and Jin Wujiao were dead, and Qin Zhao approved the school’s takeover of the western district while warning of an impending investigation.
• The director thanked Lin Yu for saving more than a hundred young women, and Zhao Chun confirmed that the inspection had gone smoothly.
• Zhao Chun brought Lin Yu an invitation from Su Wanqing, the Su Family’s eldest legitimate daughter and a powerful young cultivator.
• Lin Yu inspected the school’s vault and dismissed most of its martial manuals as crude and worthless.
• Lin Yu studied the manuals and began writing the Hunyuan Art, a technique suited to his clone’s earth affinity.
• After hours of writing, Lin Yu was interrupted by Zhao Chun, who reminded him that it was time to attend the Su Family’s banquet.

Lin Yu met Su Wanqing at a banquet, where she tested whether the new master of the west side would become the Su Family’s enemy or ally. She admitted she wanted stability and to understand the unknown man now controlling the territory, leaving Lin Yu’s response unresolved.

• Lin Yu finished drafting the underlying concept of the Hunyuan Art and set out for the Su Family’s banquet in his bloodstained clothes.
• At the Listening to the Waves Pavilion, Lin Yu met Su Wanqing, the powerful young leader of the Su Family.
• Su Wanqing asked Lin Yu whether he wanted to be enemies or allies after Jin Potian’s death disrupted Jiangcheng’s balance of power.
• Su Wanqing explained that the Su Family could help Lin Yu secure resources and connections, while seeking stability in return.
• Lin Yu questioned her offer and recognized that she had invited him to assess him, then asked if she wanted to see whether he was a man or a ghost.

Lin Yu agreed with Su Wanqing that the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School and the Su Family would respect each other’s territory in Jiangcheng, while recognizing that she would seize any weakness the school showed. Back at the school, he reflected on his cultivation goals and the need for resources and intelligence, then added a guiding line to the Hunyuan Art.

• Su Wanqing proposed that the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School and the Su Family would not encroach on each other and would exchange what each needed, and Lin Yu accepted.
• On the ride back, Zhao Chun asked why powerful groups were paying attention to the school, and Lin Yu compared Jiangcheng’s three powers to the Three Kingdoms.
• Lin Yu concluded that Su Wanqing’s goodwill was strategic and that she would attack if the school revealed weakness, though he did not fear her because his goal lay beyond Jiangcheng.
• Lin Yu returned to the Primordial Unity Martial Arts School and told Zhao Chun to replace its signboard the next day.
• While studying the Hunyuan Art, Lin Yu recognized that he needed resources and intelligence in this unfamiliar world and wrote, “Still as a mountain, moving like thunder. Contest not for a moment, but for a thousand ages.”

Lin Yu fought a Dragon-Horned Elephant alongside Shi Hao and agreed to return with him to Stone Village. There, he reunited with Shi Yunfeng and saw how much the village had prospered, while the Willow God’s presence appeared far stronger than before.

• Lin Yu overpowered a Dragon-Horned Elephant with his physical strength, and Shi Hao knocked it unconscious with a blow.
• Shi Hao offered to teach Lin Yu precious techniques once Lin Yu reached the Blood Transformation Realm Extreme Realm, and Lin Yu agreed to return to Stone Village with him.
• Three days later, Shi Hao brought Lin Yu to Stone Village, where Shi Yunfeng recognized Lin Yu from their childhood.
• Shi Hao showed Lin Yu the village’s new training ground, storehouse, and medicinal herb garden, which had helped provide resources for the children to cultivate.
• Lin Yu sensed that the Willow God had grown much stronger, with a faint glow, flickering runes, and branches resonating with the spiritual Qi around it.

Willow God brought Lin Yu and Shi Hao into a strange space and explained that Lin Yu must follow his own path rather than remain in Shi Hao’s shadow. She urged Shi Hao to leave and travel independently, then told Lin Yu his Dao lay beneath his own feet.

• Willow God drew Lin Yu and Shi Hao into a strange space and revealed that she could see Lin Yu was not the original and that his path came from beyond this world.
• Willow God explained that Lin Yu pursued understanding and would lose himself by following Shi Hao, whose bloody path would overshadow anyone beside him.
• Willow God told Shi Hao to leave and travel on his own, while Shi Hao protested that he could protect Lin Yu.
• Shi Hao gave Lin Yu a piece of beast hide engraved with incomplete precious techniques and asked him to return it later.
• Lin Yu asked Willow God for guidance, and she said she would give him neither power nor precious techniques because his Dao lay beneath his own feet.

Lin Yu left Stone Village and trained alone in the Great Wilderness, pushing his body toward the Blood Transformation Extreme Realm without taking opportunities meant for Shi Hao. Willow God sent him to the Void God Realm to complete his breakthrough, where his first appearance earned a rare reward and stunned the other cultivators.

• Shi Hao left Stone Village to pursue cultivation, while Lin Yu soon said farewell to Shi Yunfeng and ventured into the Great Wilderness alone.
• Lin Yu fought fierce beasts, absorbed the essence of the wilderness, and repeatedly tempered and rebuilt his body with Willow God's vitality as he pursued the Blood Transformation Extreme Realm.
• After Lin Yu reached one hundred thousand jin of arm strength, Willow God told him about a place that could help him complete the Extreme Realm and sent him to the Void God Realm for one month.
• Lin Yu sensed the more complete laws of the Void God Realm and entered an area where a stone stele proclaimed him an Immortal spirit soul and awarded him a bronze treasure book fragment.
• The cultivators nearby stared in disbelief at Lin Yu's reward for his first visit.

Lin Yu visited Su Xiaoxiao’s world, where General Yue Zhenshan thanked him for saving humanity and arranged a huge supply of cultivation resources. Su Xiaoxiao explained that their world was locked in a struggle for survival against an aging world, and Lin Yu learned that only one realm could survive.

• Su Xiaoxiao brought Lin Yu into the military base, where Yue Zhenshan greeted him and thanked him for helping save Earth.
• Yue Zhenshan explained that the front line was close to collapse under the invaders’ renewed offensive, then ordered soldiers to deliver cultivation supplies to Lin Yu.
• Su Xiaoxiao admired the valuable resources and, after Lin Yu offered them to her, swept them into her storage space.
• Lin Yu asked Su Xiaoxiao about the crisis, and she explained that an exhausted world was trying to devour their newborn world to prolong its existence.
• Su Xiaoxiao told Lin Yu that the two worlds had no path to retreat and that one would ultimately devour the other.

Lin Yu learned how the dying enemy world threatened to devour Su Xiaoxiao's world and considered reversing the invasion. After months of cultivation, an all-out enemy offensive breached the front, and Lin Yu decided to visit the battlefield despite warnings about his safety.

• Su Xiaoxiao explained that Lin Yu's shared rules had enabled her world to counterattack and reclaim territory from the eerie.
• Lin Yu sensed the distant front and warned that the enemy's assimilation of its rules could turn the defending soldiers into enemy puppets.
• Lin Yu proposed that Su Xiaoxiao's world might eventually devour the dying invader and study its origin laws.
• Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao cultivated for several months before a full-scale military mobilization interrupted them.
• A staff officer reported that at least three rule-level sovereign monsters had joined an all-out offensive, threatening three main combat legions and breaching the Third Legion's defensive line.
• Lin Yu acknowledged that he could not defeat the enemy in his current form but decided to visit the front and see the army group named after him.

Lin Yu arrived at the collapsing Immortal Fortress, rallied the surviving troops, and exposed puppets hidden among them. After the eerie attacked the eastern defensive line, Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao helped turn the battle, but Lin Yu sensed the giant-eyed enemy from the eerie campus had arrived.

• Lin Yu reached the front with Su Xiaoxiao and learned from Chu Zhen that the Third Legion had been wiped out and the remaining forces were devastated.
• Lin Yu inspected the survivors, destroyed seven puppets hidden among the first group, and ordered Su Xiaoxiao to monitor logistics and communications for signs of otherworldly law.
• Grayish-purple mist poured through a breach in the eastern defensive line, and Lin Yu went there with Su Xiaoxiao while Chu Zhen stayed to command the troops.
• Lin Yu's golden law broke the puppets' control and turned many of them against the eerie, while Su Xiaoxiao fought beside him and stopped a corrupted officer from shooting him.
• After the mist retreated, Lin Yu told Su Xiaoxiao that the giant vertical pupil from the eerie campus was present and ordered Chu Zhen to rebuild the eastern fortifications.

After retreating to the Immortal Fortress, Lin Yu helped Chu Zhen identify soldiers who had been assimilated by the uncanny beings. Chu Zhen arranged to deal with them as Lin Yu warned that assimilation could go unnoticed until a soldier turned against his comrades.

• Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao returned to the Immortal Fortress after an exhausting battle, where Chu Zhen struggled to manage reports from the front lines.
• Chu Zhen told Lin Yu that the Third Legion had been wiped out and fewer than thirty percent of the Second Legion had returned, and Lin Yu explained that assimilated soldiers had betrayed their comrades.
• Lin Yu agreed to help Chu Zhen find the assimilated soldiers and secretly examined troops gathered in a secluded training ground.
• Lin Yu detected faint purple marks on several soldiers, marked them with his rules, and later told Chu Zhen who they were.
• Chu Zhen made arrangements to deal with the marked soldiers as Lin Yu reflected on how gradually the uncanny beings rewrote their victims' thoughts.

Lin Yu taught the fortress soldiers a new cultivation system that combined their power of rules with Qi and blood, and allowed Chu Zhen to send a recording of his sermon to Blue Star. Su Xiaoxiao then tried to persuade Lin Yu to give her a private lesson.

• Lin Yu gave Chu Zhen a method for detecting moles after the suspects were taken away overnight.
• Su Xiaoxiao urged Lin Yu to help the soldiers develop a better cultivation system, and he agreed to teach them.
• Lin Yu preached the Dao to the fortress soldiers and taught them how to circulate the power of rules through their bodies.
• Chu Zhen thanked Lin Yu and received permission to send the sermon recording back to Blue Star.
• Su Xiaoxiao asked Lin Yu for a private lesson, but he walked away as she called after him.

As the uncanny gathered for a renewed invasion, Lin Yu’s training helped Chu Zhen’s troops regain their morale and fight with coordinated formations. The battle turned into a desperate stalemate, and Lin Yu wondered why the enemy was willing to sacrifice so much to break through the defensive line.

• The soldiers at the fortress rebuilt their morale under training, forming an army soul with help from Lin Yu’s formations.
• A scout reported movement in the otherworld, and Chu Zhen assembled the troops as gray mist began to churn.
• Chu Zhen urged the soldiers to defend Blue Star, while Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao refused his offer to send them to the rear.
• The soldiers charged into the mist in formation and initially overwhelmed the uncanny, but the enemy’s numbers soon erased their advantage.
• As the battle became a purgatory, Lin Yu swept away waves of enemies with golden rules and saved Chu Zhen, while Su Xiaoxiao struggled to keep fighting.
• Chu Zhen urged Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao to retreat, but Lin Yu questioned why the uncanny were attacking so recklessly.

Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao led the troops against the abominations, but a Fourth Tier being emerged from the gray fog and threatened to destroy them. Su Xiaoxiao chose to stay with her compatriots, and Lin Yu stayed too, suggesting his original body might be powerful enough to save everyone.

• Lin Yu and Su Xiaoxiao fought through the abominations, then Lin Yu formed the soldiers into a battle array and led their advance.
• A gigantic hand reached out from the gray fog, dispersed the army soul phantom, and brought crushing pressure upon the troops.
• Su Xiaoxiao explained that Blue Star’s strongest experts were occupied elsewhere, while Lin Yu urged her to flee and refused to let her call weaker group members into danger.
• Su Xiaoxiao chose to remain with the soldiers, and Lin Yu reconsidered leaving after seeing her resolve and the troops’ sacrifices.
• Lin Yu sat beside Su Xiaoxiao and asked her to check his original body’s current realm, suggesting it might be able to save them.

Lin Yu (No. 1) fought a giant hand in the Void Realm while Su Xiaoxiao tried to summon Lin Yu, who was sparring with Zhi Jian at Guanjiangkou. After Lin Yu (No. 1) discovered the hand belonged to a dead creature, Lin Yu abruptly left his bout to deal with urgent business.

• Su Xiaoxiao learned that Lin Yu had reached the Sixth Tier, and Lin Yu (No. 1) told her to ask the original for help while he confronted the giant hand.
• Lin Yu (No. 1) drew on the world's rules and repeatedly struck the hand, stopping it while his clone began to break down.
• Lin Yu (No. 1) sensed decay from the hand and realized the creatures of the other world had been corrupted when their world fell ill.
• Chu Zhen and the surviving soldiers rushed to help Lin Yu (No. 1), but an invisible pressure forced them to their knees, and he sent them back to safety.
• At Guanjiangkou, Lin Yu sparred with Zhi Jian but lost after becoming distracted; he then made an excuse and left the Six Sages and Yang Jian.

Lin Yu answered Su Xiaoxiao’s plea for help and arrived in person after learning his clone was losing to a powerful Weird. He destroyed the attackers and entered the dying world they came from, where he began eradicating the monsters drawn to his Immortal Dao.

• Su Xiaoxiao asked Lin Yu for help as Lin Yu (Number One) struggled against a powerful Weird in the Void Realm.
• Lin Yu told Su Xiaoxiao to rely on his clone, but she warned him that the clone was near defeat, so he teleported to her side.
• Lin Yu (Number One) retreated from the giant hand and stood beside Lin Yu (Original Body), who shattered the hand and incinerated the Weirds in the mist with a glance.
• Lin Yu (Original Body) entered the strange world and recognized that its rulers had defied death, driving the world and its people into madness.
• Lin Yu (Original Body) spread his Immortal light to vaporize the attacking monsters, then swept his sleeve to shatter everything within ten thousand zhang.