Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi meditated on Fallen Saint Island before twenty-two cultivators attacked him with Saint Weapons and forbidden weapons. He defeated nearly all of them, but Lord Junwei arrived and asked him to spare the three survivors, and Lin Yi refused.

• Lin Yi settled on a mountain to comprehend the Dao, but Hong Liu, Lan Feng, a middle-aged Daoist nun, and their allies surrounded him and demanded that he kneel and destroy his cultivation.
• The attackers detonated five Saint-level forbidden weapons, but Lin Yi escaped the blasts and counterattacked, killing many of them with his fists and battle aura.
• The survivors trapped Lin Yi beneath the Heaven Demon Umbrella and attacked with the Funeral Bell and Heaven-Flipping Seal, but Lin Yi destroyed the Heaven Demon's image and shattered both Saint Weapons.
• Lin Yi pursued the fleeing cultivators, killed Hong Liu and Lan Feng, and reduced the group to the middle-aged Daoist nun and two others.
• Lord Junwei arrived with four figures and asked Lin Yi to spare the three survivors, but Lin Yi refused and pointed his fingers at them like a sword.

Lin Yi pursued Lord Junwei and the three people he had tried to save, then fought Lord Junwei and his four companions in the Thirty-Seventh District. After killing four of them and defeating Lord Junwei, Lin Yi demanded to know about the powerful enemies ahead, but Lord Junwei began burning himself before he could explain.

• Lord Junwei tried to spare the middle-aged nun and her two companions, but Lin Yi refused and pursued them after Lord Junwei’s four companions trapped them in a crystal palace.
• Lin Yi crossed into the Thirty-Seventh District, broke the palace, and killed the middle-aged nun and the other two despite Lord Junwei’s intervention.
• Lord Junwei’s four companions attacked Lin Yi with the Four Symbols Ancient Saint Formation and Magneto Forbidden Art, while Lord Junwei fought him with his own divine abilities.
• Lin Yi defeated Lord Junwei after hundreds of exchanges, killed three of the four formation users, and destroyed the last one as he tried to flee.
• Lin Yi questioned the defeated Lord Junwei about future rivals, but Lord Junwei began burning his body and primordial spirit before revealing more.

Lin Yi defeated Mountain Lord Junwei, explored Fallen Saint Island’s Forbidden Zone, and survived a brutal battle against his own reflection before the trial ended. He emerged as the sole survivor of the thirty-sixth zone, while Mountain Lord Junwei also failed to return, leaving the gathered experts to suspect Lin Yi had killed him.

• Lin Yi shattered Mountain Lord Junwei’s primordial spirit and later entered Fallen Saint Island’s central Forbidden Zone, where he discovered a colossal tooth and a lake formed from the blood of the Human Ancestor and Human Patriarch.
• Lin Yi entered the blood-red battlefield within the lake and fought an evenly matched version of himself for three days, then returned to the thirty-sixth zone to heal.
• When the trial ended, Lin Yi emerged alone from the thirty-sixth zone as the other twenty-eight cultivators there failed to appear.
• The gathered experts recognized Lin Yi as a seed-level figure, while the Thirteen Riders of Wild watched him with hostility.
• Mountain Lord Junwei never emerged from the thirty-seventh zone, and the Grand Commander confirmed that all surviving trial-takers had left Fallen Saint Island.
• The Grand Commander announced that 351 trial-takers had survived, and the experts discussed Lin Yi’s killing of twenty-eight opponents.

After returning to the Human Race's First City, Lin Yi learned of a dangerous unknown killer and survived an assassination linked to a plot by the Thirteen Riders of Tian Huang. He uncovered their attempt to frame him, escaped their surveillance, and prepared to strike back.

• Yuxian invited Lin Yi and Su Tianwen to drink, where she described a mysterious demon who had crossed seventeen realms and might be the Saint Slayer.
• Yuxian told Lin Yi about Evolving Immortal Planet and warned him to keep his origin, the Big Dipper, secret.
• Four cultivators were murdered overnight, but the Guide refused the commander-in-chief's request to investigate, calling such assassinations part of the trial.
• Twelfth and Thirteenth proposed killing Lin Yi, but the second-ranked rider instead devised a trap to make him appear responsible for the murders.
• An ancient-family assassin attacked Lin Yi with a scroll, but Lin Yi broke free, killed him, and discovered the family had been hired with rare divine material.
• Lin Yi used a clone to spy on the Thirteen Riders' gathering, uncovered their plan to frame him, and evaded Gu Ling's attack before returning to meditate and prepare to retaliate.

Lin Yi used his Dao body to publicly massacre members of the Thirteen Riders of Wild and fight the soldiers who tried to enforce the city’s laws. After his Dao body vanished, Lin Yi stepped from the tavern, and Gu Ling recognized him as the purple-robed man.

• Lin Yi waited at a tavern as the Thirteen Riders of Wild arrived and provoked him in the street.
• Lin Yi’s purple-robed Dao body killed Old Thirteen, Old Twelve, and the tenth- and eleventh-ranked riders, then battled the rest of the group.
• When the city soldiers arrived, Lin Yi’s Dao body fought them and the Thirteen Riders of Wild, killing several soldiers and defeating their captain with the Bing Zi Secret.
• Lin Yi’s Dao body vanished when its time ran out, leaving the crowd stunned as the surviving fighters faced one another.
• Lin Yi finished his wine and stepped out of the tavern, and Gu Ling recognized him as the purple-robed man.

Lin Yi reached the ancient battlefield, learned that the Source of Dao could greatly strengthen its bearer, and fought his way through rival factions to capture one. After the Source rejected him and drew down a vast tribulation, he sealed it away and survived, then faced a mass assault from those seeking to steal it.

• The Guide Envoy sent the trialists from the First Human Pass into a deadly world and ordered them to fight their way toward the second pass.
• Lin Yi encountered a jade guide in the Herb Garden, learned about the Source of Dao, and was told that rival factions were battling over it.
• Lin Yi joined the Nine Heavens Kingdom's battlefield and killed the great demon who ambushed him, then shot down the fifth, sixth, and seventh riders of the Thirteen Riders of Wild and many other attackers.
• Lin Yi pursued a stream of Source of Dao underground, fought the Ancient Saints chasing it, and captured it after a two-hour hunt.
• The Source of Dao declared that Lin Yi could not attain the Dao, then shattered; Lin Yi reassembled and sealed it in his Five Elements Sumeru Ring, enduring the resulting Heavenly Tribulation.
• Rival fighters attacked Lin Yi to seize the Source of Dao, and he slaughtered hundreds of demons, Divine Kingdom experts, and other enemies.

Lin Yi fought his way across the ancient battlefields, killing saints and seizing portions of the Source of the Dao. After defeating the Spirit Kingdom’s forces and slaying its ruler, he claimed the third portion and became feared throughout the ancient land.

• Lin Yi slaughtered attackers for half a month, then imprisoned the Source of the Dao and studied it while recovering beside a lake.
• Lin Yi fought more than a hundred battles and seized a second portion of the Source of the Dao.
• Su Tianwen warned Lin Yi that the second leader of the Thirteen Riders of Wild was gathering powerful allies to kill him.
• Lin Yi entered the southern region, tore apart the Spirit Kingdom crown prince’s sacred net and formation, and killed the crown prince and his sacred beast.
• Lin Yi fought the Spirit Race across the ancient land, slew its ruler, and seized the third portion of the Source of the Dao.

Lin Yi seized a fourth Source of Dao and fought his way into the Second Holy City, where the Guide Envoy pardoned the combatants but warned them against breaking the city’s laws again. As news of the Source unsettled the Starry Ancient Road, many exhausted trial-takers chose to leave, while Lin Yi and the remaining cultivators prepared to continue.

• Lin Yi killed the fourth of the Thirteen Riders of Wild, pursued the Source of Dao underground, and seized it before fighting through several Ancient Saints to reach the Five-Colored Altar.
• Lin Yi fought Gu Ling and the second-in-command of the Thirteen Riders of Wild through the passage and into the Second Holy City, where their battle killed four trial-takers and alarmed the city.
• The chief commander identified the fighters, and the Guide Envoy pardoned them while warning that further violence in the city would be punished by death.
• A woman in a distant Ancient City learned that another Source of Dao had appeared and decided to visit the Second Holy City to meet the cultivator who had sealed it and seek it for Di Tian.
• Lin Yi heard despairing trial-takers speak of their losses and abandon the Emperor Path; by night’s end, fewer than a hundred remained, and some of those who stayed reaffirmed their resolve.

Lin Yi learned that Zhe Xian Qing Shi had returned to the Second Holy City and was invited to a gathering at the Jade Wave Immortal Woods. After surviving an assassination and confronting Yan Chifeng’s group in the street, Lin Yi continued toward the gathering.

• Lin Yi heard that Zhe Xian Qing Shi had returned to the city using a Divine Light Ancient Platform and was expected to draw attention because of the Source of Dao.
• Assassins concealed by chaotic mist attacked Lin Yi in his courtyard, but he broke through their formation and killed more than a dozen attackers, including Saints.
• The guide ordered an investigation, and Lin Yi suspected the attack was meant to seize the Source of Dao and stir up trouble.
• Lin Yi accepted an invitation to meet Zhe Xian Qing Shi at the Jade Wave Immortal Woods and set out through the city.
• Yan Chifeng and his companions charged at Lin Yi with savage beasts, but Lin Yi killed six of the beasts with bone arrows after one of their men provoked him.
• When soldiers arrived, Yan Chifeng claimed his beasts had nearly injured someone and had been executed, and Lin Yi continued toward the Jade Wave Immortal Woods.

Lin Yi attended Fairy Qingshi’s gathering, where she and the city’s major powers tried to trade for the Source of Dao. He left the offers unanswered, but Qingshi revealed that he had mastered the first volume of the Dao Scripture, drawing everyone’s attention and stirring hostility from Yan Chifeng and the second leader of the Thirteen Riders of Wild.

• Lin Yi arrived at Fairy Qingshi’s gathering and learned from Ling'er that the Thirteen Riders of Wild served the formidable Great Demon God, Gu Huang.
• Zhe Xian publicly raised the Source of Dao, and Fairy Qingshi asked Lin Yi whether he would part with it.
• Lin Yi avoided committing to a trade, while Grand Commander Yu Han and others offered Star River Divine Sand, an ancient scripture, and the Scarlet Radiance Ancient Scripture.
• Fairy Qingshi offered the first volume of the Dao Scripture, but Lin Yi declined and she sensed that he had already mastered it.
• Fairy Qingshi’s revelation shocked the guests, while Yan Chifeng and the second leader of the Thirteen Riders of Wild watched Lin Yi with hostility.

Lin Yi refused Fairy Qing Shi’s offer of ancient scriptures and rejected an attempt by Di Tian’s followers to recruit him and obtain the Source of Dao. After discovering an assassin’s corpse and surviving a forbidden arrow attack, he was left facing escalating danger in the Ancient City.

• Fairy Qing Shi offered Lin Yi the Moon and Sun Immortal Scriptures in exchange for the Source of Dao and invited him to befriend Di Tian, but Lin Yi refused the exchange.
• Yuxian urged Lin Yi to join her in attacking Fairy Qing Shi, and Lin Yi returned to his residence without agreeing to her proposal.
• An elder from Di Tian’s faction tried to recruit Lin Yi with a Saint artifact and the promise of joining an expedition to an alleged Emperor’s tomb, but Lin Yi mocked the offer and sent him away.
• Lin Yi pulled a dead body from the river, then discovered that the city’s factions could not be trusted and prepared for further attacks.
• The second leader of the Thirteen Riders of Wild shot a forbidden blood-red arrow at Lin Yi, but Lin Yi blocked it with the Five Elements Sumeru Ring and survived.
• The second leader of the Thirteen Riders of Wild escaped to a golden hall and told Yan Chifeng that the arrow had failed to kill Lin Yi.

Lin Yi explored the Primordial Dao Field, broke through its restrictions, and fought Di Tian’s alien subordinates after they demanded his Source of Dao. He revealed the Godly Prohibition and annihilated his attackers, while Yu Han’s soldiers advanced with an artifact meant to suppress him.

• Lin Yi entered the Primordial Dao Field and spent half a month comprehending the Dao of Strength and cultivating among its ancient landscapes.
• Lin Yi encountered Mu Guanghan bathing in dragon saliva fluid, saw Ku Tuotuo cultivating, and learned from Su Tianwen about dangerous forbidden areas.
• Di Tian’s elders entered through a gap in the trial ground and searched for Lin Yi, who tore open the sealed sky and glimpsed an ancient star before the restrictions healed.
• Di Tian’s alien subordinates found Lin Yi, demanded his Source of Dao and allegiance, then attacked him with the Sixfold God-Subduing Formation.
• Yu Han watched the battle through an ancient mirror and sent veteran soldiers to seize the Source of Dao with the artifact.
• Lin Yi entered the saint realm and rose to its peak through the Godly Prohibition, then destroyed the five attackers, leaving the watching commanders wary.

After escaping the Primordial Dao Field, Lin Yi found a dead ancient star and began his Saint Tribulation in the surrounding Star Region. The tribulation shattered his body, Primordial Spirit, Five Elements Sword, and Transcendent Immortal Zither, but he forged them together and began remaking the sword amid the Heaven-Opening Tribulation.

• Lin Yi left the Primordial Dao Field, sensed an Ancient Great Emperor's aura on a lifeless star, and heard broken words about the Emperor's death and Heaven's Court's collapse.
• Lin Yi began his Saint Tribulation in the Void, where successive lightning strikes devastated his body and destroyed the Five Elements Sword and Transcendent Immortal Zither.
• Lin Yi endured the Nine-Nine Great Tribulation, repeatedly reassembling his Primordial Spirit and body as he drove ancient characters into the artifact fragments.
• Lin Yi's flesh, bones, Primordial Spirit, and weapon fragments merged in the lightning, forming a flesh-and-blood sword before the Chaos Tribulation reduced them to dust.
• Lin Yi survived the Chaos Tribulation and used the Heaven-Opening Tribulation to restore himself and forge an ancient, unadorned sword patterned with all things.

Lin Yi completed his transformation into a Saint as the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Sword became an Immortal Saint King Weapon, then faced trials that manifested his own secret arts, nine young Great Emperors, and the ancient Heavenly Court. He reached the Central Heavenly Palace, where Emperor Zun's hazy image faded before a battle could begin, leaving Lin Yi uncertain about what he had witnessed.

• Lin Yi absorbed the World-Opening Tribulation's lightning, entered the Saint realm, and completed the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Sword's transformation into an Immortal Saint King Weapon.
• A young Great Emperor confronted Lin Yi in the Thunder Sea, and they fought with identical golden blood energy and the Heaven-Cutting Divine Fist.
• More young Sacred Bodies appeared, each matching Lin Yi's secret arts, and Lin Yi realized the Heavenly Tribulation was reflecting versions of himself.
• Nine manifestations of young Great Emperors appeared, and Lin Yi barely survived their successive attacks before reaffirming his own invincibility.
• Lin Yi fought through a lightning-formed battlefield of the ancient Heavenly Court and reached its Central Heavenly Palace alone.
• Lin Yi found a hazy figure resembling Emperor Zun on the supreme throne, but the image faded before he could fight it.

Lin Yi emerged from the Primordial Dao Field after advancing to the seventh level of Saint King, then confronted the Second Holy City's officials for letting Di Tian's men attack him and trying to close the gates while he remained inside. He killed Grand Commander Yu Han and several soldiers, challenged Di Tian, and left the Guide Envoy to settle the matter; his name spread along the Starry Ancient Road before he had even set out again.

• Lin Yi completed his tribulation, reached the seventh level of Saint King, and forged the Chaos Heart Sword and Chaos Ring.
• When Lin Yi finally emerged from the Primordial Dao Field, Grand Commander Yu Han tried to close its gates despite knowing Lin Yi was still inside, so Lin Yi pierced Yu Han and condemned his conduct.
• Lin Yi killed soldiers who accused him of rebelling, then revealed evidence that Yu Han had allowed six of Di Tian's Ancient Saint subordinates to enter the Dao Field and attack him.
• Lin Yi declared he would face Di Tian and snapped Yu Han's Dragon-Flood Scissors before killing him when Yu Han tried to leave.
• Fairy Qingshi withdrew after hearing why Lin Yi had killed the six Saints, and the Guide Envoy ruled that Yu Han had violated the Ancient Road's rules and paid for it with his life.
• Lin Yi's breakthrough, escape from the Dao Field, and public challenge to Di Tian spread throughout the Starry Ancient Road.

Lin Yi and the other trial-takers arrived at the Tenth Pass, a Holy City above an ancient Life Star known for its cultivation opportunities and deadly beasts. After a Tyrant Dragon and a nearly Great Saint-level stone man attacked the city over a stolen egg, the gates opened and Lin Yi’s group descended to explore the dangerous star, where reports of a rampaging Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon ended their advance.

• Lin Yi and the others reached the Tenth Pass, where they learned the ancient Life Star offered powerful Dao laws, treasures, and immense dangers.
• A Tyrant Dragon attacked the Holy City to demand the return of its stolen egg, bringing a stone-man Holy Spirit that shook the city’s Great Saint-level formations.
• The guide opened the city’s seal and allowed trial-takers to explore the ancient star’s Forbidden Zones and seek its treasures.
• Lin Yi and the other cultivators descended to the star and scattered across its vast wilderness, passing powerful beasts and dangerous forbidden territories.
• After traveling more than forty thousand li, Lin Yi’s party heard that a Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon had gone berserk and devoured more than a dozen cultivators.

Lin Yi created his own Dao while cultivating beside a lake, where he found a hidden cave containing the Demon Emperor’s ancient notes and a seed of the Flat Peach Immortal Medicine. As reports spread that a powerful Holy Spirit was attacking the Starry Ancient Road, the Tenth City’s trialists faced growing danger and uncertainty about whether their journey could continue.

• Lin Yi secluded himself beside the lake and refined his Chaos Scripture, shaping his own Dao as strange heavenly phenomena appeared around him.
• Lin Yi entered the Nine-Tailed Crocodile Dragon’s territory, defeated it with a single strike, and discovered a hidden cave containing nine jade pieces of the Demon Emperor’s writings and a seed of the Flat Peach Immortal Medicine.
• When Human Race trialists tried to seize the cave’s treasures, Lin Yi drove them away with the Nine Nether Immortal Tune.
• A stone ship fell from deep space after the Tenth City’s Guide Envoy struck it down, and reports linked it to a Holy Spirit preparing to attack the Human Race Ancient Road.
• Ancient beasts and powerful trialists were killed in a rising wave of violence, while rumors spread that hostile forces from beyond the planet had joined the assault.
• News reached the Tenth City that an ancient pass had been destroyed and its Guide Envoy killed, followed by reports that another stretch of the Starry Ancient Road had been severed.

Lin Yi entered the Gods and Ghosts Burial Ground, discovered a sealed Demon Well, and cultivated with the Flat Peach seed’s vitality and the ancient land’s death energy. As his life-and-death cultivation neared a dangerous turning point, Saint Spirit forces arrived, and Lin Yi killed an Eight-Armed Giant before more sacred beasts attacked.

• Lin Yi found the Wild Fox opening the stone doors with the Tyrant Rex’s golden egg, then questioned it about the Saint Spirits’ plans before killing it and entering the Burial Ground.
• Lin Yi explored the ruins, followed the River Styx to its source, and uncovered a sealed Demon Well beneath a black pool in the Ice Mountains.
• Lin Yi combined the Flat Peach seed’s vitality with deathly energy for nine days, forming an unstable Taiji Diagram within his Sea of Reincarnation.
• Saint Spirit forces arrived, and Lin Yi destroyed the Eight-Armed Giant’s weapons and killed him in a direct clash.
• Several powerful sacred beasts charged Lin Yi after the Eight-Armed Giant fell.

Lin Yi returned from the Gods and Ghosts Burial Ground with Tuolan’s child and learned that the Holy Spirits planned to invade and break the seal at the ancient well. As the full-scale battle engulfed the ancient star, Lin Yi killed the Stone Person Mopu and reached the well, where he saw an unfathomable figure working to break its seal.

• Lin Yi took the Golden Divine Egg from the Burial Ground and returned it to Tuolan, who revealed the Holy Spirits’ plan to attack the Human Race’s Tenth City in four days.
• Lin Yi delivered Tuolan’s warning to the Guide Envoy, then joined the defense when the Holy Spirit army invaded and Daoist Qinghuang confronted its supreme Stone Person.
• Tuolan secretly ordered many ancient beasts to aid the Human Race, while Lin Yi fought the invaders and rescued the Lion King from Mopu.
• Lin Yi used his power of death to badly wound Mopu, then killed him after the Guide Envoy intervened and Lin Yi learned that Wugu was already dead.
• Lin Yi fought through the army to the center of the Gods and Ghosts Burial Ground and saw a figure beside the ancient well breaking its seal, guarded by a peak Saint King Holy Spirit.

Lin Yi advanced to Great Saint, killed Wu Lin, and returned to the Great Moon Slope as the Holy Spirit Clan tried to open the ancient well. When Daoist Qinghuang fell before Ao Cang, Lin Yi entered God Forbidden and killed Ao Cang with his newly created Five Elements Annihilation sword art, then approached the Fire Holy Spirit.

• Lin Yi fought the peak stone king, then summoned a heavenly tribulation to break through to Great Saint while slaughtering the alien warriors pursuing him.
• Lin Yi defeated and killed Wu Lin in a battle among the stars, collecting the Holy Spirit's remains and blood.
• The Holy Spirit Clan poured sacred blood into the ancient well, while the Guide Envoy, Tuolan, and their forces fought to stop them from opening it.
• Ye Fan returned to the Great Moon Slope and tried to disrupt the Fire Holy Spirit, but Daoist Qinghuang was defeated by Ao Cang.
• Lin Yi entered God Forbidden, used Nine Secrets: Jie to raise his strength to Half-Step Quasi-Emperor, and killed Ao Cang with Five Elements Annihilation.
• Lin Yi collected Ao Cang's remains and approached the Fire Holy Spirit.