Chapter Summaries

After the group’s immense energy display drew State Security’s attention, Lin Yu shared his golden rule with Chen An to help Dragon Nation fight the bizarre entities. The world’s will rewarded Lin Yu with merit, revealing that the bizarre rules were invaders from outside.

• Su Xiaoxiao showed the group reports about the energy fluctuations and the sealed-off area, while Shi Hao asked how her phone worked.
• Chen An and State Security secured the area and took Su Xiaoxiao and the others to a safe house for questioning.
• Su Xiaoxiao described their experience at the bizarre campus, and Chen An identified Lin Yu as the key to what had happened.
• Lin Yu revealed his golden rule and gave Chen An a portion so State Security could cultivate it and attack the bizarre rules.
• After Chen An absorbed the rule, Lin Yu received a vast force of merit and realized the bizarre rules were invaders that the world’s will had been resisting.

Lin Yu returned from Su Xiaoxiao's world and refined the rule he had created with the Power of Merit, forming a powerful divine ability. Nearly a week later, Uncle Nine received an urgent plea for help from Four Eyes about a rampaging golden-armored corpse and set out with Lin Yu.

• Lin Yu gave Su Xiaoxiao a strand of golden rule and warned her that using it could draw Him down before he and the others returned to their world.
• Lin Yu checked himself for contamination, received 50,000 points from the Chat Group, and found that his rule was difficult to use outside Su Xiaoxiao's world.
• Lin Yu infused the rule with the Power of Merit and Dao arts, transforming it into a divine ability that could bind and purify evil, form a defensive domain, and strike down enemies.
• Lin Yu tested the golden chain on a ghost soldier and purified it completely.
• Nearly a week later, Uncle Nine showed Lin Yu Four Eyes's message asking for help against a rampaging golden-armored corpse, then told him to pack their gear so they could leave at once.

Lin Yu accompanied Uncle Nine to Black Wind Pass to rescue Four Eyes from a Golden Armored Corpse and its horde of zombies. They found Four Eyes badly wounded, healed him, and learned that their enemy was a powerful Five Elements Zombie.

• Uncle Nine refused to bring Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng, but agreed to take Lin Yu to confront the Golden Armored Corpse.
• Uncle Nine used the Maoshan Thousand-Li Tracking Technique to guide them to Black Wind Pass, where Lin Yu sensed that no living people remained nearby.
• Uncle Nine and Lin Yu reached a mountain god temple filled with walking corpses, and Four Eyes nearly attacked them before recognizing Uncle Nine.
• Uncle Nine treated Four Eyes' corpse-poison wounds, and Lin Yu healed his injuries with the Medicine divine ability.
• Four Eyes explained that the Golden Armored Corpse was a Five Elements Zombie whose metal attribute gave it powerful defenses and control over walking corpses.

Uncle Nine, Four Eyes, and Lin Yu prepared two formations to trap and subdue the thousand-year-old Five Elements Golden Armored Corpse. Lin Yu’s paper figures and talismans let them complete the Six Ding and Six Jia Formation, and both formations were ready for the night’s battle.

• Uncle Nine decided they would lure out the Five Elements Golden Armored Corpse at night and use a Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation against it.
• Four Eyes proposed adding a Six Ding and Six Jia Formation, but Uncle Nine pointed out they lacked the twelve people needed to guard its positions.
• Lin Yu created twelve lifelike paper figures, allowing Four Eyes to set up the additional formation around the first.
• When they ran out of talisman paper, Lin Yu supplied talismans drawn with the Heaven-Reaching Talisman and completed the remaining positions.
• Both formations lit up and concealed themselves, ready to face the enemy that night.

Uncle Nine, Four Eyes, and Lin Yu used animal blood and their living presence to lure the nearby walking corpses into two formations. The horde arrived after dark, and the formations and Lin Yu and Uncle Nine’s attacks began destroying the zombies as Four Eyes cheered from the rear.

• Uncle Nine concluded that few living creatures remained nearby and sent Lin Yu and Four Eyes to gather animal blood for the lure.
• Lin Yu transformed stones into clay jars with the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts, surprising Four Eyes, then he and Four Eyes returned with jars of blood after searching the woods.
• Uncle Nine activated a Ki-Attracting Talisman on a blood jar and spread the blood scent through the woods to draw in the walking corpses.
• The walking corpses surged toward the temple after dark, and Uncle Nine, Lin Yu, and Four Eyes took their places in the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation and the Six Ding and Six Jia Formation.
• Both formations burned walking corpses to ash as Lin Yu bound and purified zombies and Uncle Nine fought through the horde.
• Four Eyes retreated to the rear and cheered for Uncle Nine and Lin Yu without throwing the talismans in his hand.

Uncle Nine and Lin Yu fought the intelligent Thousand-Year Five Elements Gold-Armored Corpse, with Uncle Nine overwhelming it in a brutal fistfight. The battered corpse could barely stand, and Lin Yu prepared to take his turn.

• A Golden Armored Corpse emerged and cleared a path through the walking corpses, prompting Four Eyes to recognize it and warn Uncle Nine and Lin Yu.
• Uncle Nine attacked the corpse while Lin Yu restrained its arms with golden chains, and their combined blow shattered its head armor without injuring it.
• The corpse charged at Lin Yu, but Lin Yu lashed it backward with his chains and broke the rest of its head armor.
• Uncle Nine stopped Lin Yu from finishing the corpse and battered it with his fists until its armor was wrecked and one arm was torn off.
• Four Eyes asked Lin Yu whether Uncle Nine had received power from the Patriarch, and Lin Yu said his master would be even more terrifying if he got serious.
• Uncle Nine declined to let Four Eyes try fighting the corpse, and Lin Yu readied his golden chains to take his turn.

Lin Yu used his golden chain, the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation, and the Innate Xirang’s earth power to destroy the Golden Armored Corpse. Uncle Nine and Four Eyes watched as Lin Yu’s final strike reduced the corpse to ash and left the surrounding ground collapsed.

• The Golden Armored Corpse reattached its severed arm and tried to drain Lin Yu’s Qi and blood, but Lin Yu’s chain burned away its Corpse Qi.
• Lin Yu circled the corpse and repeatedly lashed it with the chain, breaking its armor and severing its newly restored arm.
• Lin Yu activated the earth element of the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation, and earthen spikes pinned the Golden Armored Corpse to the ground.
• Lin Yu struck the trapped corpse with his earth-powered golden chain, crushing its body and burning it with the Golden Light of Merit.
• Uncle Nine and Four Eyes watched as the Golden Armored Corpse disintegrated and the surrounding ground collapsed from the force of Lin Yu’s attack.

Lin Yu, Uncle Nine, and Four Eyes destroyed the remaining walking corpses and traced the Golden Armored Corpse to a half-collapsed ancient tomb near Black Wind Pass. They found damaged Sha-Sealing Talismans at the entrance and prepared to investigate the tomb for other dangers.

• Lin Yu activated the Six Ding and Six Jia Formation and burned the remaining walking corpses to ash.
• Uncle Nine asked Four Eyes where he had encountered the Golden Armored Corpse, and Four Eyes recalled a half-collapsed tomb west of Black Wind Pass.
• Uncle Nine reasoned that the tomb had nurtured the Golden Armored Corpse and might contain other evil things, so the three set out to investigate.
• At the tomb entrance, Uncle Nine found ancient Sha-Sealing Talismans beneath the clay and concluded that someone had damaged them, allowing the Golden Armored Corpse to escape.
• Four Eyes tightened his grip on his peachwood sword and asked whether they were going inside.

Uncle Nine, Lin Yu, and Four Eyes entered the ancient tomb and overcame its working traps before uncovering records of a thousand-year plan to create a Five Elements Golden Armored Corpse. A powerful surge of Yin baleful Qi from the main burial chamber revealed that someone was already inside.

• Uncle Nine identified the tomb's landscape as a site where diverted water channeled Yin baleful Qi into the tomb, then led Lin Yu and Four Eyes inside.
• Uncle Nine triggered a quicksand and crossbow-bolt trap and crossed it safely, while Lin Yu found the formation core and Four Eyes disabled the mechanisms.
• The group found corpse-refining materials and a record stating that King Yue of Donghai had planned to raise a Five Elements Golden Armored Corpse to open the Yin Coffin after a thousand years.
• Uncle Nine led the others toward the main tomb, where a surge of Yin baleful Qi revealed a concealing formation and the presence of someone inside.

Lin Yu, Uncle Nine, and Four Eyes discovered that the tomb’s array had been altered to turn the emperor’s Dragon Qi into a force that would destroy cultivators. The Three Miao tomb guardian awakened the emperor’s corpse and fused his soul with it, leaving the three to fight the newly risen enemy.

• The Three Miao tomb guardian told Uncle Nine and Four Eyes that the emperor’s corpse lay inside the coffin and revealed the ancient plan to use imperial Dragon Qi to restore Spiritual Qi.
• Lin Yu discovered that the Slay the Dragon and Dispel the Sha Spirit-Reversing Array had been altered to gather and nurture Sha Qi, and the guardian declared his intent to make the emperor’s corpse destroy the cultivation world.
• The guardian activated the array, and Lin Yu tried to restrain the cracking coffin with golden chains while Uncle Nine attacked the guardian and Four Eyes invited a grandmaster to possess him.
• The emperor’s corpse burst out of the coffin, the guardian died, and his soul fused with the corpse after Uncle Nine and Lin Yu failed to stop it.
• Uncle Nine attacked with lightning as Lin Yu used his Heavenly Eye, Mountain Shaking, and Kunpeng Precious Technique to block the corpse’s palm and unleash a barrage of golden wind blades.

Lin Yu and Uncle Nine defeated the emperor corpse by tearing the old man's soul from it, then Uncle Nine absorbed its thousand years of Yin Fiend Qi. As they prepared to return to Maoshan, a black array activated at the old man's burial place and his laughter revealed that he had somehow survived.

• Lin Yu used the Kunpeng phantom and golden chains to pull the old man's soul from the emperor corpse, then swallowed and destroyed it.
• Uncle Nine restrained the soulless emperor corpse while Lin Yu bound its arm, allowing Uncle Nine to drain its Yin Fiend Qi until it shriveled.
• Lin Yu and Uncle Nine dug Four Eyes out of the rubble, and Uncle Nine told him to report the damaged array to Maoshan.
• A black array pattern lit up where the old man's corpse had lain, and the old man's voice declared that he had not been killed.

Lin Yu, Uncle Nine, and Four Eyes discovered that the Three Miao Tribe had linked imperial tombs across the mortal world in an Indestructible Samsara Formation that could bring about its destruction. They began mobilizing the cultivation sects to find a way to stop it, while Lin Yu and Uncle Nine returned to the mortuary and woke Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng.

• The old man revealed that imperial tombs served as formation points for the Indestructible Samsara Formation, then escaped through the markings and threatened that the imperial corpses would emerge.
• Lin Yu and Uncle Nine realized the formation covered the mortal world and could not be broken by destroying its points one at a time.
• Uncle Nine decided to contact Maoshan's patriarchs and the major sects, and Four Eyes left with a communication talisman to deliver the warning.
• Lin Yu and Uncle Nine returned to the mortuary, where Lin Yu read the emperor's silk manuscript but found no useful information.
• Lin Yu woke Qiu Sheng and pinched Wen Cai awake while they slept at the mortuary.

Uncle Nine told Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng that the Indestructible Samsara Formation threatened to destroy the mortal world, and they chose to stay and help stop it. After Four Eyes brought word of a gathering at Maoshan, Uncle Nine returned to the sect for the first time in years and was confronted by memories of Shi Jian.

• Uncle Nine explained that the Three Miao Tribe planned to use imperial corpses and the Indestructible Samsara Formation to destroy the world, then let Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng choose whether to stay or leave.
• Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng chose to remain and help, and Uncle Nine sent them to search Maoshan records for information about the formation.
• Four Eyes arrived and reported that Maoshan's sect leader had summoned Mount Lao, Dragon Tiger Mountain, and the Quanzhen Sect to meet at Maoshan in three days.
• Uncle Nine prepared to return to Maoshan with Lin Yu, Four Eyes, Wen Cai, and Qiu Sheng, uncertain how the elders would receive him.
• At Maoshan's Hall of Worship, Uncle Nine stopped when he saw Shi Jian's name carved on a plaque.

Uncle Nine and Four Eyes honored Shi Jian, then joined Lin Yu at Maoshan to discuss the Indestructible Samsara Formation with the three Heavenly Masters. The Heavenly Masters kept Lin Yu behind and revealed that ordained Heavenly Masters could not truly ascend because the passage between Heaven and the mortal world had closed.

• Four Eyes comforted Uncle Nine about Shi Jian, and Uncle Nine offered incense at Shi Jian's memorial tablet.
• A Maoshan disciple escorted Uncle Nine and Lin Yu to the Heavenly Master Hall, where the three Heavenly Masters noticed Lin Yu's unusual cultivation.
• Uncle Nine presented ancient records about the Indestructible Samsara Formation and explained what had happened; the Heavenly Masters scheduled a discussion with other sects in three days.
• The middle Heavenly Master asked Lin Yu to stay behind for a private conversation while Uncle Nine went to the guest room.
• The three Heavenly Masters questioned Lin Yu about his cultivation and his divine ability spell, then explained that the Heavenly Court passage had closed and that breaking through would leave them trapped as caged Immortals.

The three Heavenly Masters explained the five ranks of immortals to Lin Yu and revealed that his cultivation had already brought him close to becoming a Divine Immortal. They encouraged him to pursue the Heavenly Immortal realm while prioritizing the mortal world's safety, then gave him access to Maoshan's halls and texts.

• The middle Heavenly Master described Ghost, Human, Earth, Divine, and Heavenly Immortals and explained the requirements and limits of each rank.
• Lin Yu realized his perfected Primordial Spirit had met the conditions for a Divine Immortal and feared that, with the path to heaven severed, he could have become stranded as a Ghost Immortal.
• The left Heavenly Master said the three Heavenly Masters had reached the Divine Immortal threshold but could not receive Heavenly Court posts, and urged Lin Yu to pursue the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Lin Yu promised to focus on protecting the mortal world before considering immortality, and the three Heavenly Masters praised his priorities.
• The middle Heavenly Master gave Lin Yu a token granting access to Maoshan's halls and texts, and Uncle Nine reacted with surprise when he saw it.

Lin Yu trained at Maoshan while the sects planned how to break the Indestructible Samsara Formation within two years. After the meeting, Lin Yu decided to spend that time traveling to gain experience.

• The three Heavenly Masters discussed Lin Yu's cultivation and concluded that he was not on a wicked path.
• Uncle Nine sent Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng to train with Maoshan disciples while Lin Yu studied in the Scripture Repository and sparred with Grandmaster Zhang.
• After a week, leaders from the major sects met and agreed to locate the imperial tombs, prepare disciples and artifacts, and coordinate a simultaneous attack in two years.
• The Maoshan Heavenly Masters planned to use the two-year deadline to advance their cultivation.
• On the way back to the mortuary, Lin Yu told Uncle Nine he wanted to go out and gain experience, while Wen Cai and Qiu Sheng tried to dissuade him.

Lin Yu left Uncle Nine and spent a month traveling through the mountains, where he encountered a spirit deer guarding a blood lingzhi. When herb gatherers tried to drive the deer away, a spirit tiger appeared and challenged them, and Lin Yu stepped forward to prevent anyone from being hurt.

• Lin Yu set out to see the human world, and Uncle Nine gave him protective talismans and weapons before he departed.
• Over the next month, Lin Yu traveled through the mountains, eliminating creatures that had harmed people and guiding harmless spirits to stay away from mortals.
• Lin Yu joined Li Laosan and a group of herb gatherers, who discovered a blood lingzhi growing on a cliff.
• A spirit sika deer blocked the gatherers from taking the lingzhi, and an arrow bounced off its mud armor.
• The deer called out, and a spirit tiger emerged, asked why the group was trying to steal its lingzhi, and frightened the gatherers.
• Lin Yu stepped forward to protect the group in case the tiger attacked.

Lin Yu persuaded the white-browed tiger to spare Li Laosan, then discovered that the tiger had no cultivation method and asked him for guidance. Lin Yu began teaching the tiger the basics of drawing in Qi, while the sika deer listened nearby.

• The white-browed tiger demanded that one person stay behind, and Li Laosan volunteered so the others could escape.
• Lin Yu revealed that he was a Maoshan cultivator and persuaded the tiger to let Li Laosan go in exchange for offerings at a memorial tablet.
• After Li Laosan left, the tiger knelt before Lin Yu and begged him to teach it a cultivation method.
• Lin Yu agreed to teach the tiger the basics of drawing in Qi and warned it not to harm innocent people.
• Lin Yu began explaining cultivation to the attentive tiger, while the sika deer secretly listened.

Lin Yu taught the mountain tiger and sika deer to cultivate, gave the tiger a talisman, and continued his journey. In a village plagued by a demonic black bear, he killed the beast but found that two young men had already died.

• Lin Yu taught the tiger and sika deer to sense and circulate spiritual Qi, then gave the tiger a talisman to contact him.
• The tiger escorted Lin Yu down the mountain, where villagers thanked the mountain lord for protecting them.
• Lin Yu reached a village troubled by a black bear and sensed demonic Qi in the mountains.
• Lin Yu found the black bear attacking a wounded youth beside two dead men and pinned it down with spiritual power.
• Lin Yu crushed the black bear, then checked the two young men and found he could not save them.

Lin Yu saved a mortally wounded youth and extended his life by three days, allowing him to return home and spend time with his mother and sister. On the third morning, the youth listened as his mother recalled his childhood and asked him to take care of himself.

• Lin Yu stopped the youth's bleeding and learned that the black bear had killed his father and the families of his friends Zhuzi and Ali.
• After refusing to stay and care for the youth's family, Lin Yu offered to extend the youth's life by three days, and the youth accepted.
• The youth returned home, reunited with his mother and sister, shared his food, washed his mother's feet, and gave his savings to his sister.
• Lin Yu followed unseen as the youth repaired the family's leaking roof, shielding him from the sun with a cloud.
• On the third morning, the youth sat beside his mother as she recalled his childhood and asked him to take care of himself.