Lin Ming/Plot

## **Sky Spill Planet**

### **Sky Fortune Kingdom**

Lin Ming had left Green Mulberry City, bid farewell to his parents, and reached the capital city in order to earnestly seek the martial road and enter the Seven Profound Martial House, he was 15 years old.

At 15, Lin Ming began his martial road after finding a magic cube that would forever change his destiny.

Lin Ming obtained the Magic Cube in the kitchen of the Great Clarity Pavilion as he was deboning a gold-backed pangolin; it had come from the beast’s stomach. The reason that Lin Ming had gone to Great Clarity Pavilion was because Zhu Yan’s friend had forced him to lose his lodgings.

All of this had been set in motion by Lan Yunyue leaving Lin Ming.

From the time he had participated in the Seven Profound Martial House’s entrance examination until now, only 4 months had passed.

In less than six months of time, Lin Ming’s strength had already undergone an enormous earth-shaking change. He had gone from being a tender youth at the early Flesh Training stage to now, where his strength was comparable to an early Pulse Condensation Period martial artist.

Lin Ming did not dare to say that he was the strongest amongst all of his peers, but in terms of progress, he was the fastest within the entire Sky Spill Continent!

Ever since he had obtained the Magic Cube, there had been countless riddles he couldn’t figure out at the time. He had sought the blood essence of increasingly powerful martial artists for the Magic Cube to swallow, in order to not just obtain the memory fragments within, but also because he subconsciously desired to know the secrets that surrounded the Magic Cube.

The Magic Cube was the most fundamental cause of Lin Ming’s rise!

### **Divine Phoenix Arc**

After entering the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm, Lin Ming had been mistakenly assumed as dead after months of not emerging from the mystic realm. During that time, Ouyang Boyan who had a grudge with him moved against Qin Xingxuan and had tried to have her killed on Blood Demon Island.

After emerging from that Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm, he learned of this news and in his fury he rushed out on a vermillion bird, passing hundreds of thousands of miles to reach Blood Demon Island and save Qin Xingxuan.

This was one of Lin Ming’s deepest and most profound memories. When he successfully rescued Qin Xingxuan from the jaws of death, this allowed him to truly understand how happy he was to not lose someone he loved.

### **Demon God Imperial Palace**

After he had entered this ancient battlefield, Lin Ming had engaged in a fierce battle with the South Sea Demon Region.

He had swallowed a Scarlet Blood Pill and had exhausted his life like a lamp at the end of its wick, nearly dying in the process. Then, he had been ambushed and betrayed by others, and had to part with Mu Qianyu in life or death circumstances.

He had burned his blood essence, detonated his Blood Drinking Seals, and pushed himself to the limit all in order to flee the jaws of death. He had swallowed the fragment of the Demon Emperor’s soul, and his Samsara martial intent had collapsed several times, nearly turning him into an idiot. In the end, he didn’t even obtain too much valuable information.

Lin Ming then risked his life to enter the Demon God Imperial Palace, and because his cultivation was too low, he had nearly been killed at the hands of Xuan Wuji.

With dangers surrounding him from all sides, Lin Ming had repeatedly unleashed everything he had, not even hesitating to leave behind hidden wounds in his body. He had completely used up the Scarlet Blood Pill and Escape Symbol, and had even eaten three Yang Reversion Pills. Finally, at the very last moment, he had found success and obtained the Nirvana Dragon Root. To Lin Ming, everything he suffered was now worth it.After that he had promised to come with in 10 years. And gone far off lands using ultra-transmission array.

### **Holy Demon Continent**

Although, after reaching the Xiantian and Revolving Core realms, the Magic Cube in truth wasn’t too helpful to Lin Ming. A great portion of why Lin Ming had his current achievements was because of his own hard work, effort, and perseverance. But, it was undoubtedly true that if he didn’t have the Magic Cube, he would likely still be a small martial artist in the Sky Fortune Kingdom. His cultivation would at most be at the Pulse Condensation or Houtian realm; that would have been his limit.

### **Life and Death Struggles**

In the Southern Wilderness he had faced Huo Gong. At Thundercrash Mountain he had faced the Purple Flood Dragon. At the Demon God Imperial Palace he had faced Life Destruction Supreme Elders. At the King’s Cage he had faced the great space locking array. And at Skysplit Tower he had faced the Tower Master’s slave seal. In an extended war with the cunning Xuan Wuji, he had emerged victorious… these were only some of the catastrophic situations he had been caught up in. Every time he had managed to maintain a level head.

### **Life Destruction**

Because he dual cultivated in body and energy, his body was incomparably solid and durable. It was far harder for him to make breakthroughs in Life Destruction than an ordinary martial artist. As for breaking through to the ninth stage of Life Destruction, that was at least a hundred times more difficult than it would be for others!

### **The Asura Divine Kingdom**

When Lin Ming was chased by the Asura Divine Kingdom all the way to the Forsaken God Clan, Lin Ming had been forced to bet on a gambling fight. Finally, he had encountered the hidden genius of the Asura Divine Kingdom, Situ Yaoyue.

That woman had possessed a seventh stage Life Destruction cultivation as well as an Extreme Violet Dantian. She was skilled in the Darkness Laws, and with the Great Desolate Blood Halberd in hand, she had battled Lin Ming. Their battle had been hard to differentiate between victor and loser, but in the end she had lost to Lin Ming’s violent body transformation technique and also lost the Great Desolate Blood Halberd to him.

#### **The Great Battle**

A man named Yang Yun had taken control of most Divine Sea powerhouses in the Sky Spill Continent, slaying all those with variation bloodlines in order to cultivate his Great Blood Refining Art. His acts of terror had made everyone live in fear and dread.

At that time, Yang Yun had possessed absolute, overwhelming strength; he was a calamity upon the entire Sky Spill Continent. But then, a young man had appeared, leading a group of Divine Sea powerhouses to slaughter their way into the Nine Furnace Divine Kingdom’s Divine Palace. He had broken into the Nine Furnace Divine Palace’s grand array and instantly killed 10 Divine Sea powerhouses and then struck down Yang Yun by himself, leaving behind a legend of his own.

This youth was Lin Ming.

Although Lin Ming had ascended, his fame and glory within the Sky Spill Continent was hotter and brighter than the blazing afternoon sun.

He had left behind countless myths and all of the older martial artists respected and admired him. He even inspired the younger generation of martial artists to work hard for the glory of their country.

Within the Sky Spill Continent, it could be said that there was no one who didn’t know Lin Ming’s name.

## **Divine Realm**

After ascending into the Realm of the Gods, Lin Ming had learned the profound difficulty of dual cultivation in body and energy.

In fact, a major reason Lin Ming had stepped onto this road of dual cultivation was because he didn’t know just how difficult it would be at the start. By the time he began to realize it, it was already too late as he had begun to open the Eight Inner Hidden Gates.

Thus, it could be said he was originally daring but learnt that he had bitten more than he could chew. But later on, Lin Ming would realize it was a wise choice to follow through. This was because with his body transformation, he had been capable of jumping ranks to fight and was a great advantage he had in higher levels of cultivation.

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In the Ancient Phoenix Clan, Lin Ming had made new allies and had faced enemies. But in the end, they were all thrown away by his dazzling talent.

During his days in the Ancient Phoenix Clan, he had obtained a great deal of lucky chances. Such as the increase of his faint phoenix bloodlines, crossing Sevenfall and being baptized by a first layer cloud of laws, and an increased level of perception, giving him talent in laws at the level of peak geniuses of the Divine Realm.

But the lucky chance that stood out amongst the rest was the incomparable 1000 feet long dragon marrow bone that he obtained in the four God Beast Clans God Beast Mystic Realm! This lucky chance was a great boost in his cultivation, combat prowess and most importantly his body transformation!

The greatest function of the dragon marrow was how it had changed Lin Ming's marrow. The marrow of a dragon actually replaced Lin Ming's old marrow and blood, making him completely be reborn.

This was truly washing the marrow and bringing in new blood. He was replacing his own blood with dragon blood!

This was a change on the cellular level. Dragon blood now flowed through Lin Ming’s veins, and blood was what carried energy to nourish the cells throughout the body. Even a perfect Ancient Dragon bloodline was a far cry from describing what Lin Ming had become.

Of course, Lin Ming had gone a great deal in order to obtain this dragon bone. The fight dragon marrow had been one of the most intense moment of Lin Ming's martial road, it could be said that he was really close to dying. His opponents was an Asura King with a battle prowess of a Divine Transformation talent and an extremely cunning and sly Dragon One of the Ancient Dragon Clan. If it weren't for Mo Eversnow, then Lin Ming would have really died with from the besiegment of two tigers.

But it was not all in vain, he had obtained Asura King's source energy that even Holy Lords would wage war for! The Asura King’s source energy contained the special Laws of the God Beast Mystic Realm, and it had made up for Lin Ming’s comprehension of Laws to an extremely great degree.

Afterwards he experience a baptism of Six Layered Heavens origin clouds at Eightfall. In the Sky Spill Continent, because of the limitations on one’s horizons due to insufficient resources and inheritances, Eightfall was the symbol of a top character that would be remembered throughout history.

### **Lucky Chances - Divine Realm**

Tracing Lin Ming’s many lucky chances, when he was still in the Pulse Condensation realm he had entered Divine Phoenix Island and then the Divine Phoenix Mystic Realm. There, he obtained a drop of Ancient Phoenix blood, top grade medicines, as well as solar origin spring water, finally reaching the Houtian realm during this trial. After that, he had entered the Demon God Imperial Palace during the Houtian Realm and had obtained the Nirvana Dragon Root that was highly beneficial to Life Destruction realm martial artists. Using that, he had reached the Xiantian realm and had also completed Tempering Marrow.

Then, Lin Ming had entered the Eternal Demon Abyss and accidentally stumbled into the grave of the ancient goddess. He obtained a heaven-step Demon God Bone and had broken into the Revolving Core realm. There was no need to even mention the Life Destruction realm. During this period, he had obtained the 12 dao fruits, the divine thunder of an Empyrean, the supreme dragon bone, Ten Severing Dao Fruit Tree, and all other sorts of various treasures. All of the treasures used by Lin Ming were things that even a Divine Lord powerhouse would find incomparably luxurious.

The reason for needing so many treasures was undoubtedly because Lin Ming dual cultivated in body and energy. Because of this, he had to expend so many resources, but this had also formed an extremely solid foundation for him.

It had to be known that for most martial artists, even if they had many resources, they still might not be able to use them. This was because there was a limit that their bodies could take and their potential was limited. For instance, it was impossible for most of them to use something like the supreme dragon bone or Ten Severing Dao Fruit Tree during the Life Destruction realm. Even the Asura King had to take an extremely long period of time to absorb half the dragon marrow from the supreme dragon bone.

As for the Ten Severing Dao Fruit Tree, after eating it, one’s mortal body would be severed ten times. It wasn’t something that the average human was able to withstand.

There were very few people that could be like Lin Ming, and essentially nearly become something similar to the fusion of a human and God Beast. The toughness of his body had reached an unbelievable degree, one that allowed him to shoulder the medicinal efficacy of any treasures!

#### **Ninefall - Heavenly Tribulation**

For Lin Ming to reach this step could be said to be serendipity. This was not something that a genius could do if they wished it. One needed countless lucky chances aligning together to produce this opportunity. It was not an event that could be repeated.

The Magic Cube, two sets of transcendent divine might, and a dual body and energy cultivation with the first six of the Eight Inner Hidden Gates opened. Each step Lin Ming took could be called perfection. Only by having all of these together was he able to galvanize the heavenly tribulation against him.

Lin Ming had crossed eight levels of heavenly tribulation and also over half of the ninth level of heavenly tribulation. The advantage this had to his flesh, blood, and bones was unfathomable.

His battle spirit had also broken through the elementary gold level, jumping straight over gold small success and reaching gold large success!

Even the Phoenix Blood Spear had transformed from a saint artifact to a spirit artifact after breeding its own source artifact spirit. This was something that a supreme elder might not be able to accomplish even in 100,000 years!

In this situation, Lin Ming still wasn’t satisfied with withstanding the baptism of heavenly tribulation. He wanted to refine the power of heavenly tribulation and use it for himself!

Heavenly tribulation was not some trifling matter. When an extreme genius martial artist similar to Lin Ming crossed heavenly tribulation, they would be absolutely cautious lest they enrage the heavenly tribulation and cause a mutation to occur. Once heavenly tribulation arrived, all they could do was silently withstand it, allowing their body, dantian, revolving core or inner world, and soul to accept the baptism of heavenly tribulation. They had to use their own true essence to disperse the power of heavenly tribulation.

Who would dare to directly refine heavenly tribulation?

That was simply suicidal!

But, Lin Ming had exactly done this!

Because Lin Ming had the Magic Cube and also experienced so many other lucky chances, only then was he able to experience a nine by nine Life Destruction and nine levels of heavenly tribulation. He could be called the only one in the entire Divine Realm to do so!

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Now, Lin Ming had finally crossed heavenly tribulation! At this time, Lin Ming could be called an existence that surpassed the Heavenly Dao! Crossing heavenly tribulation and stepping beyond the Heavenly Dao meant that one’s strength could even resist the Heavenly Dao Laws in the future!

This sort of person’s fate was no longer controlled by the Heavenly Dao. This sort of person could truly say…

My life is controlled not by the heavens but by me!

In comparison to martial artists who had lived for such a long time, Lin Ming was far too young. Even if he were several thousand years old, if he was converted to mortal years he would still only have been in his teens. Lin Ming had plenty of time to attack the next boundary and ascend to the peak of martial arts. Even so, he was so young when he had crossed a 33 Layered Heavens, nine by nine Life Destruction. He had crossed heavenly tribulation and also successfully dual cultivated body and energy. His future was limitless!

Lin Ming’s dantian at the time was a bit dissimilar from other martial artists’. Not only was there the world seed but there was also the Heretical God Seedling as well as a square black crystal that floated there; this was the Magic Cube.

This was the first time that the Magic Cube had condensed into a physical form. Before now, Lin Ming had only been able to sense the Magic Cube with Mo Eversnow’s help. He only knew that it had become a seal that fell onto his heart. But now, it had shifted to his dantian and condensed a physical form, even pushing aside the Heretical God Seedling.

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Also, because Lin Ming had managed to cross heavenly tribulation, to a certain degree he has become someone that lives partially outside the rules of the Heavenly Dao and controls their own destiny. In fact, Lin Ming should be able to control the Heavenly Dao Laws to a certain extent. Lin Ming’s current body, in terms of Laws, could even be compared with a God Beast!

A God Beast was the beloved of the natural Laws. Their bones were carved with the Laws and their flesh and blood were fused with Law runes. They were like amalgamations of the Heavenly Dao, capable of directly accessing and using the power of the world!

If a God Beast’s strength didn’t mainly rely on their talent while their ability to learn was extremely poor, then they would have even surpassed human Empyreans.

And now, Lin Ming had a perception equal to a monstrous genius and he also had a body that could compare with a God Beast in the aspect of Laws. If Lin Ming continued cultivating body transformation in the future and was capable of enhancing his body until it was just as powerful as a God Beast’s body, then he would become like a humanoid God Beast that was also skilled at learning and cultivating.

And the scariest part there was that the intensity of his body was already equal to a young God Beast when he was at the Divine Lord - Holy Lord realms. Even equaling or exceeding a certain male genius of an alien race in terms of mortal body intensity!

It could be said that Lin Ming’s entire body was now a treasure!

The supreme dragon bone had been fused into his bones, engraving runes onto the surface that recorded the Heavenly Dao Laws. His flesh was integrated with Law runes that contained the highest truths of the world. His blood and marrow were filled with phoenix essence, allowing him to communicate with heaven and earth origin energy with ease. His organs and fascia had already been tempered continuously with energy, making them as firm as divine iron!

When Lin Ming was born, his martial talent had only been subpar at best. Now, his current body’s martial talent had reached the levels of a monstrous genius!

### **First Martial Meeting of the Divine Realm (~31 years)**

To enter the Divine Realm First Martial Meeting was to face every young genius in the entire Divine Realm. Lin Ming wasn’t blindly confident in himself. Sometimes, there would be others that underestimated him, but that was because they didn’t understand his strength. But, Mo Eversnow was the singular person in this world who understood just how strong he was. Since she said it would be extremely difficult, she naturally wouldn’t be exaggerating her claims.

It wasn’t wrong that Lin Ming possessed transcendent divine mights, but those geniuses of Empyrean level influences did too!

Lin Ming had consumed a massive amount of resources growing up, but there were also many geniuses in the Divine Realm who had a destiny that soared through the heavens, and there were even talents that were raised by super influences who enjoyed no fewer resources than he did.

Lin Ming’s advantage lay in his dual body and energy cultivation, his large success gold battle spirit, as well as his 33 Layered Heavens nine by nine Life Destruction that had come from the combination of the Magic Cube, transcendent divine mights, and cultivation systems he practiced.

On the other hand, his cultivation was lower. In conclusion, it was hard to say whether or not Lin Ming could enter the top 10.

The Divine Realm was simply too large. It was likely that many other top monstrous geniuses like Lin Ming and Mo Eversnow would appear to contest him.

In order to increase his chances as much as possible, Lin Ming had obtained a Boundless World Pill and had arduously trained for the next three months! Then he had created his elementary transcendent divine might.

### **Returning to the Sky Spill Continent**

Since leaving the Lin Family at Green Mulberry City and going to study martial arts at the Seven Profound Martial House, over 20 years had passed, and unimaginable changes had occurred to him in this time. As Lin Ming recalled the road he walked, he sobered up. It was hard to imagine just how he had arrived at this step.

On his road, there were innumerable moments of sadness, danger, and even despair. He wandered the edge of life and death again and again, experiencing countless intense slaughter battles. In most of these fights, Lin Ming had defeated his opponents. But there were also many times where Lin Ming was hunted down by others and he would have to struggle through dangerous situations again and again.

To walk down the road of martial arts was to battle the heavens! If one was content with their current situation they could easily live a life 10,000 times better than that of a mortal king. But for someone like Lin Ming, who only wished to seek the peak of all martial arts, his true companion during these many years was loneliness and danger.

Such pressures and tribulations required a sturdy heart and mind to withstand. However, even though Lin Ming’s heart of martial arts was extremely firm and resolute, it would still exhaust his mind if this continued for much longer.

### **Alien Race**

After the First Martial Meeting of the Divine Realm ended, a new foreign race had come to the Divine Realm.

This new races intentions were sinister and deep, and they had come to invade humanity!

#### **Resources**

Even though he didn’t have any background at all, he was still able to study the essence of Empyrean Primordius, Empyrean Divine Dream, and Empyrean Divine Seal’s inheritances: the true inheritances of two peak Empyreans and a True Divinity powerhouse.

Now, he had even been able to grasp some insights of Mount Potala, an influence with a 3.6 billion year background.

In the Divine Realm, there were no other Empyrean disciples that were able to experience such things and have such lucky chances.

In addition, Empyrean Divine Dream was willing to support him with any resources at her disposal. Currently, in terms of resources, he was no worse than any top Empyrean disciple.

Lin Ming thanked all of these supreme elders that helped him from the depths of his heart.

#### **Good Fortune Saint Son**

One of them was a Saint Lord genius known as the Good Fortune Saint Son, this person would become humanity's great enemy.

At the time, the saints were at the height of their power and defeating Great World Kings of humanity one after another. The Good Fortune Saint Son suppressed the morale of the humans and even defeated their powerhouses, making it so that they lost any face they had!

With a mere Divine Transformation realm cultivation Lin Ming had challenged the number one genius of the saints – the Good Fortune Saint Son, who was several times older than he was.

This battle concerned not just his reputation, wealth, and momentum, but it also concerned the fate of humanity within the upcoming great calamity and whether or not they would be able to catch a breath in this struggle!

If there was even a slight possibility that Lin Ming could win this battle, it would galvanize humanity’s momentum, giving them more and more strength to push forwards. In the long night of the great calamity, this would be the spark to light the hope of humanity!

At this time, the sorrowful humans needed a win!

Many human martial artists and even Empyreans felt as if humanity was nothing but a pig on the butcher block!

And in just 60 years Lin Ming had surpassed him. At the Monster Emperor’s Grand Longevity Feast, he forced down the Good Fortune Saint Son in a heaven-shaking battle. His actions had greatly inspired the morale of humanity and even affected the alliance between the saints and the monster race to a certain degree.

With just a Holy Lord realm cultivation, Lin Ming was someone who had overturned the 33 Heavens and had nearly relied on his strength alone to find an escape route for humanity.

That day, Lin Ming had written his own legend.

This would be an event recorded in the annals of history. If humanity still persisted for another 3.6 billion years, then after that time the ancient texts of humanity would record Lin Ming’s name, possibly even describing him with more words than Empyrean Divine Seal!

Through his merits alone, humanity had prolonged their existence and was given a chance at redemption.

This person, when he was at the mere Holy Lord realm, had caused even Soaring Feather God King to come out of seclusion to personally hunt him down! One could see how terrifying he was that to the point of making a solemn True Divinity hunt him down personally.

To the humans of the wild universe, Lin Ming was a legendary name. There was no one had not heard of him and no one who did not know of him.

In the confrontations between the saints and humanity, humanity had been defeated and defeated again.

But, it was Lin Ming alone who caused humanity to completely cover the saints’ limelight. Lin Ming had been the number one genius of humanity. Not only was he the number one genius of humanity, he was also the number one genius of the 33 Heavens!

Even the saints and the spiritas were unable to deny this truth.

In the history books of humanity, Lin Ming was described as invincible amongst the heavens and earth, unique and singular. As the stories of him were retold again and again, Lin Ming eventually became an omnipotent presence.

Towards this, some young geniuses were incredibly proud and worked hard with Lin Ming as their goal; they were called Linmaniacs.

## Soul World

Lin Ming was at the Holy Lord realm. He had just defeated the Good Fortune Saint Son and humanity would soon face a great war with the saints.

In order to save humanity, Lin Ming ventured out in all directions in search of all possibilities. He even held onto the faintest glimmer of hope that he could come to the Soul World to look for Sheng Mei and negotiate with her. If possible, humanity could ally with the spiritas to deal with a ‘common enemy’ in the saints.

### **The Rise of Death God Lin Muk**

According to the Vice Palace Master’s explanation, Lin Ming was considering how many merit points he needed to obtain.

His skeletal age had yet to reach 130 years.

In order to exchange for the golden page, one needed a billion merit points.

According to the rules of the Akashic Dream Battlefield, at the very end of the three years when merit points were being calculated, the total would be divided by the martial artist’s skeletal age. In other words, Lin Ming needed to obtain almost 130 billion merit points in order to exchange for that golden page.

130 billion!

Lin Ming didn’t know what sort of concept that number was, but what he was sure of was that this was a truly terrifying number.

He would need to endlessly slaughter in order to reach it.

### **Fallen God Mountain Range - Meeting Sheng Mei**

When Lin Ming first came to the Fallen God Mountain Range to attempt enlightenment, the result was that he had been locked down by the divine sense of a True Divinity and teams of martial artists took transmission arrays to catch up to this place and kill Lin Ming.

Those people had been elites from Great Brahmic God Mountain, characters who had managed to become World Kings when they were a thousand years old and had high chances of becoming Empyreans in the future. These many proud children of heaven led an assault on Lin Ming, even posting a sky-high bounty reward so that the other young elites at the Fallen God Mountain Range would help strike down Lin Ming.

These young elites at the Fallen God Mountain Range had watched as Lin Ming fought until his entire body was bloodied and the situation had reached incredibly tragic levels. When Lin Ming seemed on the verge of defeat, these people had stepped into the fray, hoping to pick up some small advantages, but finally, they met horrible ends.

Then, after reaching the breaking point, Sheng Mei would make an entrance and stop the assault of the surrounding young elites.

He couldn’t see the road ahead of him, he couldn’t completely understand Sheng Mei, and he definitely did not know just what the mysterious Soul Emperor desired.

Everything was nothing but a jumbled mess. In these changing times he was nothing but a tiny splash of water. No matter how much he struggled his actions didn’t seem worthy of mention at all.

From when he had stepped onto the road of martial arts until now, this was the first time he had felt such a deep sense of hopelessness.

Even when he was 15 years old and left Green Mulberry City to go to the capital of the Sky Fortune Divine Kingdom, even facing his childhood girlfriend Lan Yunyue who left him for someone else, even when the army major tried to put up obstacles in his way, even when he had no place to go and was forced to go to Great Clarity Pavilion to work in the kitchen deboning beasts, he had never felt so useless.

At that time, he had believed that as long as he was diligent enough and put in enough effort, he would be able to succeed. No matter how thorny the path was before him, he would struggle for a brighter future with his will and perseverance.

But now, Lin Ming felt that even if he wanted to put in as much effort as he could, he didn’t even have a direction he could go in. There was nothing but confusion all around him.

After growing for over a hundred years, he had come into contact with innumerable people. Some of them were only passing acquaintances, but some of them he shared extremely deep and complex relationships with. Some had helped him grow and given him a new lease on life. Some of them were elders who had recognized and supported him. Some had saved his life before. And some were even his wives.

They were all a part of humanity.

Humanity had nurtured him and made him who he was.

And now, these people had to fight together with humanity, even if their strength was insignificant.

They might all perish and be annihilated along with the rest of humanity.

To live alone and for himself, this caused Lin Ming to feel an inexplicable emptiness.

A person always needed a group to recognize them.

When everything was destroyed, when his family and friends were all gone, leaving him all alone, then even if he could grasp the heavens and earth in his palm in millions of years, even if he could rule over the universe by himself, what meaning was there in that?

Even if he obtained eternal life, what remained would be nothing but eternal loneliness and eternal torment.

“I will not abandon my roots, nor will I have my child be born into a world where his own race doesn’t exist anymore.”

### **Leaving the Spiritas World**

Adding in the time he was on the shrine platform grasping the principles as well as the three years he spent in the Akashic Dream Battlefield, he had been at the Akashic Dream Universe for 32 years already.

To Lin Ming and other martial artists that lived long lives, 32 years was only a brief flicker of time. But, this was actually almost half the time until the great calamity of humanity would descend.

War could erupt at any moment.

Lin Ming had left by himself, headed towards the world of the spiritas to seek out a path to salvation for humanity. But, almost no one had thought he would succeed.

After he finished cultivating in the ancient galactic battlefield of the Akashic Dream Universe, he had run into the Soul Emperor, and then afterwards he had met Sheng Mei.

Sheng Mei asked him whether or not he was willing to abandon humanity and leave alone with her, going to some distant place for a hundred million years.

At that time, Sheng Mei already knew the truth that the Soul Emperor was an abyssal. In her eyes, humanity’s war with the saints was basically meaningless, and even weak. And as she saw Lin Ming toiling so hard for a race that didn’t have any ability to resist the great calamity they were about to suffer, she simply sighed. She sympathized greatly with Lin Ming and even felt… pity.

At that time, Sheng Mei seemed to have things she couldn’t bring up.

Lin Ming asked why Sheng Mei sighed, and her reply was – “Sighing for your destiny.”

Lin Ming was puzzled. However, Sheng Mei didn’t fully explain anything to him. Instead, she simply asked him whether or not he wanted to follow her to some place. They wouldn’t go to the Divine Realm nor would they go to the Soul World. Once they left, they would go for a hundred million years!

The so-called hundred million years was in truth a lifetime. They would go far away from the great vortex of the great calamity, leaving everything behind so that they could pursue the road of martial arts with all their hearts.

At that time, Sheng Mei still had her own ambitions. She hoped that one day she would be able to step Beyond Divinity and create her own world.

She thought that Lin Ming was a suitable companion as he had enough talent to grow to such heights. If they could cultivate to the peak of martial arts together then they could imitate the Immortal Sovereign and his wife from 10 billion years ago, stepping Beyond Divinity together.

But, when Sheng Mei asked Lin Ming, his reply had actually been…

Refusal.

Lin Ming also had things he couldn’t lay down. Thus, he chose to refuse her.

### **The Desperate Escape**

The Good Fortune Saint Sovereign has been severely wounded by the joint efforts of the ancient race martial artists, Lin Ming, and Empyrean Primordius.

After several great void shifts, the fleet returned to the God Lamenting Wall. Because of the great calamity, the God Lamenting Wall connecting this saint race universe and the Divine Realm was extremely fragile. Skyrend Godlord was able to forcefully form a connection through it.

The fleet returned to the Divine Realm in glory and victory.

Looking at these familiar starry skies and feeling the familiar heaven and earth origin energy, Lin Ming bathed himself in the atmosphere.

The Divine Realm – he had finally returned!

During this trip he had been gone for over 20 years. He had been to the Soul World and Primeval Universe, risking his life several times and now finally returning safely.

In the impending universal calamity, Lin Ming couldn’t even be called a small wave. Even the human Empyreans felt the situation was hopeless and had nearly succumbed to sitting down and waiting for death.

In such an atmosphere, Lin Ming had gone to seek out a road for humanity to take. Was that even possible?

But the actual result had left them all bewildered.

Lin Ming had truly found the method to salvation. It wasn’t a way to directly face the saints, but instead an escape route for humanity!

Just an escape route was not enough. In the Divine Realm’s 3000 great worlds and innumerable other worlds, there were countless great human influences. If all of these influences had to be notified and evacuated, that would be a mission of monumental proportions. If the saint race decided to launch their all-out invasion of the Divine Realm now then humanity would have no time to flee.

But… Lin Ming had joined together with the ancient races and had managed to wound the Good Fortune Saint Sovereign, buying time for humanity in the process.

### **Setback**

He walked forwards. The True Divinity mark that Soaring Feather God King left on him was like a life-sucking curse. From time to time it was strong, from time to time it weakened, but it never left him.

Lin Ming didn’t know just what was occurring outside. Did Empyrean Divine Dream manage to escape? Did Xiao Moxian and his child arrive in the wild universe safely?

In a different universe, would his wives and his child live well?

Humanity, was there still a chance for them to rise from the dirt?

Towards all of this, Lin Ming’s mind was filled with worries.

He had always been strong of will. For the past 150 some years, even in his most difficult times and even when he suffered the most, he had never given up.

He deeply loved life. He yearned to reach the peak of martial arts.

He blazed a path forwards, without fear. He fought for his family, friends, and for himself. He didn’t know how many rivals he had forced down, how many times he had turned the tides!

Xuan Wuji, Yang Yun, Tian Mingzi, Good Fortune Saint Son, powerful enemies were out-strategized by Lin Ming or overwhelmed by him. One after another, they suffered defeat beneath Lin Ming’s hands…

In Lin Ming’s life, he had rarely been defeated!

He had never been as lost and confused as he was today.

Perhaps no matter how strong a person was, they also had their fragile side.

No matter how outstanding a person was, there would always be a day when they fell into distress…

### **Samsara of Life and Death**

In a man’s life there was rise and fall, hardship and suffering. Just how many people experienced this?

To overcome this and return to one’s true self, achieving supreme enlightenment and becoming a legend…

The Soul Emperor was right. What he lacked in his life was tribulations.

He had come from nothing and had indeed experienced countless life and death slaughters, walking on the precipice of death innumerable times.

Lan Yunyue’s betrayal, Xuan Wuji’s hunting, Yang Yun’s plotting, Tian Mingzi’s calculations, and then the step-by-step pressure of the Good Fortune Saint Son…

All of these were considered setbacks.

But they weren’t too remarkable.

Because when many martial artists grew up, they all experienced such things.

Lin Ming remembered Dragon Fang; he remembered Jun Bluemoon. They were people who had their own stories, and their experiences, their tribulations, were not necessarily any less than his own.

However, a true great tribulation, a true great setback…

When they encountered it, they simply didn’t know what path to take out.He is thus put in such a setback, however. the road ahead just became broader. Lin Ming would experience samsara and realize the highest truths of the inner universe.

### **Mortality in the Sky Spill Continent - Understanding Life and Death**

In these years, Lin Mings understanding of life had become more deep than it was.

He slowly savored the taste of life. It savored not only his own life, but the life of others. Suffering children, a poor aunty who set up a stall, Zhu Yan whose heart was higher than the heavens but was eventually defeated by reality and even then didnt give up, but decided to pursue a new goal in life. And even Jiang Baoyun, who desperately chased after his goals without any hesitation

He had seen a hundred ways of life. Now that he looked through the Holy Scripture again, his mentality had become completely different from before.

What he felt and had become aware of after wandering the world for dozens of years, the samsara of the Heavenly Dao, all of this was completely fused with the Grand Reincarnation Art, allowing him to find a road to reincarnation that suited him the most.

Empyrean Divine Mist had seen through all this changes on Lin Ming's person, creating a newer and unprecedented outlook on Lin Ming's prospects.

In the past, Empyrean Divine Mist believed that if Lin Ming could become a character similar to the Asura Road Master, then that would be the greatest achievement he could ever obtain. But now, Empyrean Divine Mist had a faint premonition that because Lin Ming had risen from the ashes, rebirthing himself through reincarnation, then there was a chance that he could establish his own road of martial arts in which he could fuse together the inner universe and the outer universe, climbing up to an unprecedented peak of martial arts that no one had ever managed to reach!

From this day on, Lin Ming was completely different from in the past.

Afterwards, he had reincarnated. His body became that of a baby, furthermore, he had chosen to live this new life in the Vermilion Bird Divine Kingdom with his parents. He had been named Lin An and his journey in the Sky Spill Continent began.

#### **First Life**

Then, Lin Ming roamed the universe. He used the world energy of the universe to nourish his own inner world.

And after he absorbed the essence energy of a planet, Lin Ming would return to the Sky Spill Planet and accompany his parents for some time.

Like this, time passed…

Every time Lin Ming returned, it would be after dozens of years or even a hundred years of absence.

He saw his parents grow older. Lin Ming suddenly felt that even though he returned here for this life, he hadn’t spent much time with his parents. As if this was the fate of a wanderer.

Seeing that his parents didn’t have much time remaining, after Lin Ming returned, he didn’t plan to leave anymore. He wanted to accompany his parents and spend the final years of their lives with them.

This was also to bring this first new life of his to a full completion. Before he would ascend and reclaim the Divine Realm, he would cultivate for thousands of years before he was strong enough, even planning to cultivate into an Empyrean within those thousands of years. 10,000 years was the deadline that Lin Ming had set for himself.

To comprehend and fuse the Holy Scripture and Heavenly Sutra, to grow his inner world, to dual cultivate the universe of the body and the world, all of this couldn’t be done rapidly but required an extremely long period of time. 10,000 years was already far too little time.

He wanted to grasp as much time as he could to accomplish all that he could. Only like this could he return to the Divine Realm and have a chance to struggle with the saints and the even more terrifying Soul Emperor.

During these years, Lin Ming had already fully restored his soul force. Moreover, because of the several reincarnations he underwent,  because he experienced the hundred tastes of life and death, because his mood and state of mind had been tempered, his soul force had broken past its previous boundaries to achieve an even more perfect Eternal Soul.

The Eternal Soul, ancient and unchanging.

### **Returning to the World**

After experiencing the samsara of life and death in the mortal realms, Lin Ming had then ascended to the Divine Realm. As he stepped into these familiar yet strange starry skies, all sorts of emotions bloomed in his heart. This starry space, it was this starry space again. But, the aura of it seemed to have changed.

He knew that what he would see were likely scenes that would leave him feeling sad…

There, he saw many things that the saints did. He saw many planets that had been destroyed. Their bodies had collapsed, turned into nothing but countless fragments. Beneath the gravitational pull of the remaining mass they turned into a belt of ring-like fragments that aimlessly floated through the cosmos.

Besides these planets, the sects that had been destroyed were even higher in number. Many sects were annihilated along with their spirit mountains and celestial islands. As for the human martial artists, they were either slain or taken in as slaves. They were used as miners, servants, janitors, or even taken in as living furnaces.

Those top elites that managed to escape were barely able to flee in time. But as for general Holy Lands, they were undoubtedly instantly destroyed by the saint Empyreans.

In the vast and boundless starry space, Lin Ming turned into a beam of light that fled full speed into the universe. He gripped his fists so hard that his nails dug into his flesh.

He told himself –

Everything that had been lost would be returned two-fold…

Later in the Asura Road, he had heard that the humans already found a way to pierce through the God Lamenting Wall that separates the 33 Heavens and fled. They had cultivated in a Wild Universe that was safe from the saints. However, it was a matter of time til the saints could pierce through these lands and end humanity.

With Lin Ming's death, this gave him a grand opportunity to create chaos in the saints' ranks and quite possibly kill their leaders. Of course, this would only be possible if the saint races True Divinities weren't present.

### **Empyrean Lin Ming**

The Magic Cube was the divine tool that Lin Ming obtained at the beginning of his road of martial arts. At the start, he was only barely able to utilize the tiniest soul fragments within the Magic Cube. Slowly he learned to control the Magic Cube, using it to passively defend or even search for information. And now Lin Ming could finally take out the Magic Cube and use it as his own weapon, even in front of his enemies.

After thousands of years, because Lin Ming had chosen an intensely difficult and steep road of martial arts and he had perceived the world of the universe and the world of the body to the peak, his strength hadn’t risen too quickly. One could say he had done everything in perfect order.

Ony after all of these preparations did his strength truly blossom. He had experienced things to perfection, understood the samsara of life and death, mortality and the world, and Lin Ming had reached the peak in existence.

There was no longer anything that could stop his rise to power. From then on, he was an unsurpassed legend in all eras.

## Depths of the Dark Abyss

After Lin Ming fought against the Astral Vault God King and Soaring Feather God King to draw whereupon both sides reached a truce to step out of the war, Lin Ming left the Wild Universe to the Primeval Ruins Realm to enter the Dark Abyss.

Here he meets the skeleton of Mysterious Women that let's him complete his Laws of Death from Holy Scripture. Afterwards he enters the Dark Abyss and learns about the Demon God's Tomb. He kills some world King then Empyrean level powerhouses to steal their Demon Power using Laws of Swallowing (Devourer). Later on he meets Mo Eversnow who now leads an Ancient race rebel army in 12th level named Ancient God Uprising, at that Mo Eversnow had strength greater than an Empyrean but lower than a True Divinity. Then with her help and using Magic cube he kills a True Divinity level Elder from Demon Association and looks through his memories.

Later Lin Ming using this Elders resources would open his Seventh Dao Palace and create a perfect Demon Avatar. Then he would enter the declining Ancient Eon Sect and become the Ninth Elder using the Book of Eon.

Of course as always there will trouble for Lin Ming and to solve them he had become the fiancee of Holy Demoness of Deep King Road who is in truth Sheng Mei.

During the fighting contest to decide the amount of benefits one will get, Sheng Mei decides to participate and being the one with the weakest (Late Empyrean) cultivation she was choosen by four (Two from Ancient Eon Sect and Two from Nine Nether Sect) as their opponent but she defeats all four of them. Later on, Lin Ming will fight and despite having lower cultivation (Middle Empyrean) than her, he defeats her and takes her hand in marriage. But Sheng Mei not wanting to violated by this monstrosity gives him Pages of Death from Holy Scripture to meditate on for three days in exchange for not interfering with each other's life.

During Lin Ming's venture in Demon God's Tomb, he kills Twin Ghosts of Yin and Yang from Demon Association. When the entrance to the underground Mystic Realm opens he, along with Sheng Mei, Deep Ehco and Great Flood Kingdom's Crown prince enter.

During the Heart Demon test, Lin Ming easily passes it due to his Eternal Soul and Magic cube but Sheng Mei having witnessed the death of her own Child at the hands of Soul Emperor erupts with motherly strength erasing the soul mark left by him at the cost of using up half of her soul force that brings her to the brink of death. Lin Ming saves her using the Magic cube.

In the Cave, after Sheng Mei wakes up and finds that her Child is still alive, she comes to conclusion that even the most glorious and illusive peak of Martial Arts cannot compare with the life of her child. Lin Ming finding about her child asks her whose child it was but before she could tell, Great Flood Crown Prince finds them and engages Lin Ming in a brutal Life and Death battle.

During the battle Lin Ming having to find a Mid-True Divinity with his Late Empyrean cultivation through Demon Avatar finds it difficult, so having left with no choice he uses his true self to fight Hong Xuan at his full strength.

Later on with the help from Sheng Mei using her Nine Reincarnation Lotus they manage to defeat and kill him.

When Lin Ming finds that the child Sheng Mei is carrying is his own, he vows to take responsibility and asks Sheng Mei to come with him.

During their time in Demon God's Tomb, Sheng Mei lifts the seal suppressing her Child's growth and decides to give brith to it. During this Lin Ming also finds the Abyssal Spine that has been tempered for 100 Billion years using the blood and vitality of countless Empyrean and True Divinity Abyssals that have died in Demon God's Tomb.

During this time the relationship between Lin Ming and Sheng Mei will also grow due to their child's naughty antics. After Two-three years Lin Meng will be born announcing her own birth herself.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2148 – Sheng Mei’s Past Life (A)
2. ↑ Chapter 498 – Entering the Cave Once More
3. ↑ Chapter 1120 – Double Phenomenon
4. ↑ Chapter 1132 – Mystery of the Black Bead
5. ↑ Chapter 1133 – Divide
6. ↑ Chapter 1390 – The Day of Return
7. ↑ Chapter 1929A – A Beautiful Trap
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 1956 – The End of the First Life
9. ↑ Chapter 1957 – Returning Home