Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi resisted the Myriad Souls Formation’s illusions with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ Dragon Essence and the Radiant Divine Dragon’s aura. The force controlling the Ancient Battlefield ordered its followers to kill him if he entered the Core Zone, while Lin Yi recovered at the ruins’ edge and planned to continue toward the Dragon Stone.

• Lin Yi broke free of the Myriad Souls Formation’s illusions when the Dragon Essence and Radiant Divine Dragon’s aura shielded his mind.
• The master of the dark-red pupils watched Lin Yi resist the formation and ordered Little Black Mist to leave him alone unless he entered the Core Zone, whereupon he was to be killed without mercy.
• Little Black Mist eagerly accepted the order and left the great hall to pass it along.
• After nearly half a day without further attacks, Lin Yi concluded that someone was watching him from behind the scenes.
• Lin Yi used the Myriad Star Core’s Starlight Purification to clear negative effects and recover from his wounds, planning to head deeper in search of the Dragon Stone.

Lin Yi entered the Ancient Battlefield’s Core Area, where relentless Black Beasts attacked him and blocked his retreat. The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon recognized the Radiant Divine Dragon and Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ auras within him, ordered the beasts to keep him trapped, and began plotting to seize his Dragon Essence.

• Lin Yi recovered at a sheltered ledge before advancing into the Core Area, where Black Beasts emerged in overwhelming numbers and attacked him.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon recognized the Radiant Divine Dragon’s aura and the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings’ Dragon Essence within Lin Yi, and considered using them to break free from its restraints.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon ordered its minions to wear Lin Yi down without letting him retreat, while it considered the risks of capturing him.
• Wounded and exhausted, Lin Yi tried to withdraw, but the Black Beasts slowed their pursuit and blocked his way back.
• Lin Yi summoned the Myriad Star Core and decided to rest before choosing his next move.

Lin Yi waited out the Black Beasts, then entered the ruins’ northern passage and found a basin with an active formation and a cluster of ruined buildings. He stopped at the basin’s edge to adapt to the worsening Soul Power suppression, while the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon waited for him to proceed.

• Lin Yi recovered at the ruins while the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon ordered the Black Beasts to clear a path and lead him toward the central area.
• Lin Yi waited another half day after the Black Beasts withdrew, using the concentrated killing intent to strengthen his resistance to it.
• Lin Yi followed a narrow path north and reached a basin where his Soul Power suppression had risen to nearly seventy percent.
• Lin Yi spotted the ruined buildings and active stone pillars, suspected a trap, and sat down at the basin’s edge to observe and adjust to the suppression.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon recognized Lin Yi’s caution as a test and told Little Black Mist to wait because Lin Yi would enter.

Lin Yi crossed the silent city and a field of black stones and skeletons, adapting to the thickening killing intent as he continued deeper into the ruins. He reached a high wall and a half-open stone gate, whose dark interior revealed nothing.

• Lin Yi stabilized his soul-power suppression at seventy percent, then descended into the basin and followed the rows of stone pillars.
• Lin Yi crossed an intact, deserted city and found black stones scattered beyond a gate, resembling the stone Yang Zheng had given him.
• Lin Yi entered the ruins, where killing intent and soul-power suppression intensified, and discovered skeletons scattered among the sand and stones.
• Lin Yi paused to adapt to the killing intent, then continued for several hours without encountering any beasts or illusions.
• Lin Yi reached a gray-white expanse and found a high wall with a half-open black stone gate at its center.

Lin Yi entered the stone gate after cautiously waiting and discovered that the space beyond had almost no killing intent and no Soul Power suppression affecting him. The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon realized he could pass through the gate and hurried toward the Altar, while Lin Yi reached the end of a passage and froze at the sight ahead.

• Lin Yi reached the stone gate, suspected it might be a trap, and sat beside it to cultivate and steady himself.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon watched Lin Yi through a black curtain and waited, hoping he would enter so it could obtain his Dragon Essence.
• Lin Yi tested the gate with his hand, called out, and then walked through without triggering any restrictions.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon ordered its followers to stay away from the Altar and went there itself.
• Lin Yi found that the area beyond the gate had dense Soul Power, almost no killing intent, and suppression that no longer affected him.
• Lin Yi followed a carved black-stone passage to its end and froze at what he saw.

Lin Yi reached the palace at the heart of the Northern Frontier Ancient Battlefield and found the Dragon Stone on an altar, where the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon confronted him. After confirming that Lin Yi had arrived alone and carried dragon essence, the dragon decided to gamble on killing him to escape its seal.

• Lin Yi entered an empty palace and saw a dark red orb above an altar that seemed to resonate with his Sun God Spear.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon appeared as black mist with red eyes and questioned Lin Yi about his arrival.
• Lin Yi told the dragon he had come to temper his killing intent and insisted he had no interest in anything in the palace.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon considered Lin Yi’s calm demeanor and wondered whether he had protection or a connection to “those three.”
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon sensed no other presence nearby and decided to kill Lin Yi and absorb his dragon essence to break the seal.

Lin Yi faced the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon in the Northern Frontier Ancient Battlefield, but the Origin Dragon Stone on the altar briefly deflected the dragon’s attack. As Lin Yi fell unconscious under another assault, Cang Chen arrived to save him and confronted the dragon, who recognized the aura of Cang Chen’s lineage.

• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon struck Lin Yi without warning, but the Origin Dragon Stone sent a dark-red beam that forced the attack back.
• Lin Yi and the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon held a standoff as Lin Yi wondered why the dragon had targeted him.
• Lin Yuan sensed that Lin Yi was in danger and ordered Cang Chen to rescue him without revealing himself unless necessary.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon transformed into a spectral dragon and attacked Lin Yi, who braced himself with the Sun God Spear.
• Cang Chen emerged through a spatial fissure, knocked the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon to the ground, and caught the unconscious Lin Yi.
• Cang Chen confronted the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon, who recognized the aura of his lineage.

Cang Chen rescued the unconscious Lin Yi from the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon, but the Origin Dragon Stone reacted to Lin Yi and left a bead inside him. After Cang Chen carried Lin Yi away, the dragon tried to escape through the weakened restriction and failed.

• Cang Chen warned the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon not to touch Lin Yi and persuaded it to let him go.
• When Cang Chen touched Lin Yi, the Origin Dragon Stone trembled and sensed the Dragon Essence of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings and the origin aura of the Radiant Divine Dragon.
• The Origin Dragon Stone circled Lin Yi, sent red strands of light into his brow, and left a dark red bead beneath his skin without changing his Level 55 Soul Power.
• Cang Chen carried Lin Yi away, while the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon hoped the diminished Origin Dragon Stone would weaken its prison.
• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon rammed the stone doors and then probed the restriction with a thread of black mist, but both escape attempts failed.

The restriction weakened across the Northern Frontier Ancient Battlefield after Lin Yi drew power from the Origin Dragon Stone, prompting mercenaries to rush toward the Core Area. Lin Yi woke outside Looking North Town with greatly enhanced spiritual power and physical abilities, then learned the battlefield’s suppression had suddenly dropped.

• The Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon realized the Origin Dragon Stone still anchored the restriction and resigned himself to remaining in the great hall.
• The weakened restriction reduced Soul Power suppression and killing intent throughout the Ancient Battlefield, and mercenary groups hurried from Looking North Town to take advantage.
• Cang Chen carried Lin Yi out of the spatial rift, checked that he was unharmed, and left him beneath a tree outside Looking North Town.
• Lin Yi woke on a slope, remembered little about what had happened in the great hall, and discovered his spiritual power and body had become much stronger while his Soul Power remained at rank fifty-five.
• Lin Yi headed toward Looking North Town and found the roads crowded with groups preparing to enter the Ancient Battlefield.
• A man told Lin Yi that Soul Power suppression inside the Ancient Battlefield had suddenly weakened.

After hearing that the Ancient Battlefield’s suppression and killing intent had weakened, Lin Yi decided to leave Looking North Town for Silves City rather than risk returning. Bibi Dong arrived at the battlefield to train for the Rakshasa God's trials, while Little Black Mist and the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon reacted to her presence and the changes.

• A traveler told Lin Yi that the Ancient Battlefield’s suppression and killing intent had weakened, and that mercenary groups were rushing inside.
• Lin Yi decided not to return to the battlefield and paid twenty Gold Soul Coins for a ride to Silves City with a merchant caravan.
• Bibi Dong explored the Middle Layer to absorb malevolent aura, but found the battlefield’s pressure and aura far weaker than expected.
• Bibi Dong noticed signs that someone had recently been at the ruins and wondered whether they had caused the changes before heading to a nearby town for information.
• Little Black Mist saw Bibi Dong and reported her arrival to the Abyssal Skeleton Ancient Dragon, which ordered it to handle everything outside unless Lin Yi was involved.

Bibi Dong overheard Lin Yi’s thoughts in Looking North Town and decided to follow him after he left. Scarface and Shi Dun also pursued him, and they confronted Lin Yi in Silves City.

• Bibi Dong heard Lin Yi identify the Ancient Battlefield’s black mist as an illusion and wondered whether he knew more about its changes.
• Lin Yi rested at an inn, then left Looking North Town aboard a freight wagon the next morning.
• Bibi Dong watched Lin Yi depart and decided to follow him.
• Scarface and Shi Dun, two Rogue Soul Masters who suspected Lin Yi had brought something valuable out of the Ancient Battlefield, pursued his wagon.
• Lin Yi arrived in Silves City on the fourth day, left the caravan, and found Scarface and Shi Dun blocking his path.

Lin Yi was confronted by Scarface Zhou and Shi Dun, who wanted to learn what he had found in the Ancient Battlefield, but Yang Ling and Yang Zheng arrived to support him. Lin Yi effortlessly knocked Scarface Zhou away and drove both men off, leaving Yang Ling astonished at his strength.

• Scarface Zhou and Shi Dun trapped Lin Yi in an alley and demanded that he reveal what he had brought back from the Ancient Battlefield.
• Yang Ling and Yang Zheng arrived and stood beside Lin Yi despite Scarface Zhou warning them to stay out of the dispute.
• Scarface Zhou tried to grab Lin Yi, but Lin Yi caught his wrist and stopped him effortlessly.
• Scarface Zhou attacked again, and Lin Yi struck him in the chest, sending him flying several paces.
• Shi Dun helped Scarface Zhou up, and the two men fled after Lin Yi glanced at them.
• Yang Ling asked how Lin Yi had defeated a level sixty-three Soul Emperor with one palm strike.

Lin Yi reunited with Yang Zheng and Yang Ling in Silves City and accepted their invitation to stay at their family base. Bibi Dong realized the siblings belonged to the Breaking Clan and returned to Spirit City to reconsider Yang Wushuang’s situation, while Uncle Six grew wary of Lin Yi’s unusual perception.

• Yang Zheng thanked Lin Yi for saving him and Yang Ling in the Ancient Battlefield and invited him to stay with them in Silves City.
• Lin Yi noticed Yang Zheng’s healing leg and inferred that the siblings were connected to Yang Wushuang’s branch of the Breaking Clan.
• Bibi Dong watched the three leave and decided to reconsider Yang Wushuang’s situation at Spirit Hall.
• Yang Zheng brought Lin Yi to the siblings’ courtyard, where Uncle Six welcomed them and Lin Yi sensed the elder’s concealed strength.
• Uncle Six reacted to Lin Yi’s inner voice, and Yang Ling told him that Lin Yi had saved the siblings and returned alive from the Ancient Battlefield.

Lin Yi learned that Yang Zheng and Yang Ling belonged to the Breaking Clan and discovered Yang Zheng needed black iron marrow to repair his damaged martial soul. He agreed to join the siblings at Myriad Gold Commerce’s auction the next morning.

• Sixth Uncle watched Lin Yi leave and reflected on his survival in the Northern Frontier Ancient Battlefield and his mysterious ability to reveal his thoughts.
• Lin Yi noticed the Breaking Clan emblem in the siblings’ home and recognized the family’s medicinal tea as a soul-power restorative.
• Yang Zheng and Yang Ling revealed that they belonged to the Breaking Clan and were in Silves City for Myriad Gold Commerce’s auction.
• Yang Zheng explained that he needed top-grade black iron marrow to repair the martial soul damaged in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Yang Ling invited Lin Yi to the auction, and he agreed to go with the siblings the next morning.