Chapter Summaries

Ye Lingxi arrived at the Great Xia Dynasty and received Xia Hongwei’s promise to seek justice against Mistveil Sect. Meanwhile, Xia Wuju approached Ye Lin for advice about a romantic predicament, leaving the details of his trouble unexplained.

• Xia Hongwei promised Ye Lingxi that he would make Mistveil Sect answer for its attempt to assassinate her.
• Elena examined Ye Lingxi’s Annihilation Powder poisoning, then remembered that Ye Lingxi was the Medicine King’s personal disciple and could seek help from Medicine King Valley.
• Xia Hongwei suggested taking Ye Lingxi out to enjoy her visit.
• Xia Wuju sat beside Ye Lin, asked about his origins and plans regarding the Bronze Holy Palace, and concluded that Ye Lin was knowledgeable.
• Xia Wuju asked Ye Lin to analyze his strange trouble involving a girl from another power whom he loved and hoped to marry.

Ye Lin learned that a Mistveil Sect disciple had mastered a technique that created three independent, equally powerful incarnations and realized it was another fragment of One Breath Becomes Three Purities. He left Xia Wuju without a countermeasure, while the fragment’s owner remained at the peak of the Spirit Transformation realm.

• Xia Wuju told Ye Lin about the young man who had surpassed him using a strange technique that produced three permanent incarnations.
• Ye Lin recognized the technique as One Breath Becomes Three Purities and asked where the young man was.
• Xia Wuju said the young man was a personal disciple of the Mistveil Sect Master, had reached the peak of the Spirit Transformation realm, and had won the favor of the woman Xia Wuju had loved.
• Xia Wuju offered to pay Ye Lin for a way to counter the technique, but Ye Lin said he knew of no such method.

Xia Wuju paid Ye Lin to teach him, and the group went to Hundred Flowers Valley, where Ye Lingxi explained why the princes had no need to compete for the throne. The chapter ended with Fan Qingqing asking Ye Lin where he came from.

• Xia Wuju gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring filled with valuables as tuition, and Ye Lin accepted it discreetly.
• Ye Lingxi explained that the princes got along because the Xia Emperor was still alive and had arranged their futures.
• Ye Lin told Fan Qingqing that he came from a distant place and did not belong there.
• Xia Hongwei led the group to Hundred Flowers Valley, where Elena described its flowers to Ye Lingxi.
• Fan Qingqing sat beside Ye Lin and asked him to tell her where he came from.

Ye Lin described the Star River Cosmos to Fan Qingqing, then secretly taught Xia Wuju the basics of domains. Xia Wuju grasped a fragment of the technique and demonstrated its power by cutting the clouds apart with a blade of grass.

• Ye Lin told Fan Qingqing that the Human Race was one of the great races in the Star River Cosmos, and she said she wanted to see it.
• After night fell, Xia Wuju approached Ye Lin and asked to learn from him.
• Ye Lin led Xia Wuju into the deepest part of Hundred Flowers Valley and warned him to keep the secret lesson hidden.
• Ye Lin taught Xia Wuju the basics of domains over a day and night.
• Xia Wuju used a blade of grass to unleash sword light that split the clouds in the sky.

Xia Wuju comprehended Ye Lin’s secret art with extraordinary speed, deriving powerful Sword Intent and the beginnings of laws from Ye Lin’s explanations. He agreed to refine his understanding for a month before traveling with Ye Lin to the Mistveil Sect to challenge a young man and hand him over afterward.

• Xia Wuju unleashed vast Sword Intent that split the clouds, drawing notice from powerful figures across the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Xia Wuju declared that all things in the world could become his strength, while Ye Lin was stunned by how much he had comprehended.
• Xia Wuju said he still could not exert his full strength, and Ye Lin told him to fuse a hundred forms of artistic conception into one.
• Xia Wuju praised Ye Lin as his Senior and benefactor, believing the advice had brought him a powerful secret art.
• Ye Lin asked Xia Wuju to take him to the Mistveil Sect in a month and hand over the young man after Xia Wuju defeated him.
• Xia Wuju agreed to refine the art for a month and travel with Ye Lin to challenge the young man.

Ye Lingxi’s Annihilation Powder worsened while she waited to leave the Great Xia Imperial Capital, and five assassins infiltrated the city to kill her. She fled across the rooftops, but the poison surged through her body as she called for help.

• Ye Lin and Ye Lingxi agreed to leave in a month, giving Ye Lin time to remain in seclusion and Ye Lingxi time to spend time with her friends.
• Five black-clad assassins entered the Great Xia Imperial Capital and followed the aura of Annihilation Powder to Ye Lingxi.
• Ye Lingxi realized the poison had spread through her entire arm and still could not be stopped by any method she tried.
• Ye Lingxi evaded a dagger and fled across the rooftops as the five assassins pursued her.
• Ye Lingxi shouted for help, but mobilizing her immortal power caused the Annihilation Powder to rampage through her body.

Xia Hongwei intervened when five Earth Immortal assassins attacked Ye Lingxi, but Ye Lin rescued her and fled while the assassins pursued them. Xia ordered his hidden forces to kill the assassins and identify their faction.

• The five black-clad assassins attacked Ye Lingxi with daggers coated in Annihilation Powder.
• Xia Hongwei arrived in a fury and blasted the daggers into powder.
• Ye Lin appeared, took Ye Lingxi, and ran as the assassins chased them.
• Xia Hongwei tried to stop the assassins, but they bypassed him and continued after Ye Lin and Ye Lingxi.
• Xia Hongwei ordered his hidden forces to kill the assassins and discover which faction they belonged to.

Ye Lin killed five Earth Immortal poisoners in his domain after they attacked Ye Lingxi, then learned they had been sent by the Mistveil Sect. Xia Hongwei ordered everyone to accompany Xia Wuju to the Mistveil Sect the next day and confront it.

• Ye Lin placed Ye Lingxi somewhere safe and drew the five black-clad pursuers into his domain.
• Ye Lin stopped the five poisoners in time and crushed them, leaving behind an Identity Token.
• Ye Lin returned to find Xia Hongwei and others gathered around Ye Lingxi, then gave Xia Hongwei the token.
• Xia Hongwei identified the attackers as Mistveil Sect poisoners and ordered the group to go with Xia Wuju to the sect the next day.
• Ye Lin told Xia Hongwei that he was unharmed and dismissed the poisoners as worthless rabble.

Ye Lin accompanied Xia Wuju to the Mistveil Sect aboard the Highland Snow Eagle, White Cang, whose astonishing speed brought them there in half a day. They arrived over a poisonous mountain range, where Great Elder Bi Yi welcomed the Third Prince.

• Xia Hongwei asked his people to investigate Ye Lin and determine which faction he came from and what he wanted.
• The next morning, Ye Lin met Xia Wuju at the city gate and set off with him for the Mistveil Sect.
• Xia Wuju introduced White Cang, the Highland Snow Eagle gifted to him by his father, and Ye Lin confirmed that it could fly faster than a peak Earth Immortal cultivator.
• Xia Wuju urged White Cang to fly faster, and the eagle carried them through the clouds at tremendous speed.
• After half a day, White Cang stopped above a poisonous mountain range, where Great Elder Bi Yi welcomed Xia Wuju.

Xia Wuju arrived at Mistveil Sect with Ye Lin and demanded that Chu Yunxiao be brought to him, threatening to destroy the sect if Chu remained missing. Ye Lin questioned Bi Yi’s supposed Heavenly Immortal cultivation and wondered why the elder seemed so weak.

• White Cang landed on the platform, and Ye Lin and Xia Wuju dismounted.
• Xia Wuju demanded Chu Yunxiao, but Bi Yi explained that Chu had left for training.
• Xia Wuju used a Profound Immortal’s pressure on Bi Yi and gave Mistveil Sect one day to produce Chu, threatening to wipe out the sect.
• Xia Wuju ordered Bi Yi to find Chu and walked into the sect with Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin asked about Bi Yi’s cultivation and doubted that he was truly a Heavenly Immortal.

Ye Lin asked Xia Wuju whether an Earth Immortal could defeat a Celestial Immortal across realms, and Xia Wuju explained that such victories were only rumored and had happened against an already gravely injured opponent. After they reached the Mistveil Sect and Xia Wuju threatened to destroy it if it failed to find someone by the next day, Xu Yan arrived and he rejected her over her behavior after Chu Yunxiao defeated him.

• Ye Lin questioned Xia Wuju about whether Earth Immortals could defeat Celestial Immortals across realms, and Xia Wuju described a rare victory against a gravely injured Celestial Immortal.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Celestial Immortals in this cosmos were still within the Earth Immortal realm by his standards.
• Xia Wuju said he and Ye Lin would wait at the Mistveil Sect for news the next day and threatened to destroy the sect if it failed to find the person they sought.
• Xu Yan arrived and greeted Xia Wuju, but he told her to keep her distance.
• Xia Wuju accused Xu Yan of watching coldly and secretly applauding when Chu Yunxiao defeated him.

Xia Wuju confronted Chu Yunxiao at the Mistveil Sect and challenged him, while Ye Lin discovered Chu Yunxiao’s extraordinary fortune and a dire fate awaiting him. The chapter ended as Chu Yunxiao’s clones attacked and Xia Wuju began to counter with the power of heaven and earth.

• Xu Yan pleaded with Xia Wuju, but Chu Yunxiao shoved him away and helped her up.
• Xia Wuju ordered his men to seize the Mistveil Sect and called for the Great Xia Dynasty to mobilize its troops before challenging Chu Yunxiao.
• Ye Lin examined Chu Yunxiao’s panel and learned of his immense fortune, his future encounter with an old Celestial Immortal, and his eventual death after glimpsing a terror in the River of Time.
• Chu Yunxiao and Xia Wuju faced off on a platform before Mistveil Sect disciples and elders.
• Chu Yunxiao summoned three clones and sent them to attack Xia Wuju, who stepped forward and invoked the power of heaven and earth.

Xia Wuju suppressed Chu Yunxiao’s clones and overwhelmed him with his strength and the power of the Great Xia Dynasty’s national fortune. As Xia Wuju charged at Chu Yunxiao again, the decisive battle remained unresolved.

• Xia Wuju suppressed Chu Yunxiao’s three clones and charged at him.
• Chu Yunxiao attacked with Dragon-Tiger Fist, but Xia Wuju met it with Rising Dragon Fist and drove him back.
• Xia Wuju immobilized Chu Yunxiao with domain force as the three clones broke free and attacked.
• Xia Wuju invoked heaven and earth and the Great Xia Dynasty’s national fortune, then shattered a bolt of lightning.
• Xia Wuju turned and charged at Chu Yunxiao again.

Xia Wuju overwhelmed Chu Yunxiao, who fled the arena, while Ye Lin left Mistveil Sect and headed to Mystic Heaven Sacred Valley to await him. There, an elderly man near the end of his lifespan noticed Ye Lin and called him out.

• Xia Wuju drew on the Great Xia Dynasty's national fortune and forced Chu Yunxiao to flee the arena.
• Xia Wuju offered an official post to whoever caught Chu Yunxiao, and several figures pursued him.
• Ye Lin left Mistveil Sect and traveled toward Mystic Heaven Sacred Valley, following his panel's map.
• Ye Lin reached the valley and waited for Chu Yunxiao, expecting to exploit the Child of Fortune's opportunities.
• An elderly man hidden in the distant void sensed Ye Lin and invited him to come sit with him.

Ye Lin waited in Mystic Heaven Sacred Valley for Chu Yunxiao, while an old man wondered about his purpose. When Chu Yunxiao arrived, wounded and fleeing the Great Xia Dynasty, Ye Lin went to meet him.

• Ye Lin told the old man he was waiting for someone, and the old man warned him that Mystic Heaven Sacred Valley was a desolate place.
• Ye Lin and the old man waited in silence for three days.
• Ye Lin sensed that the person he was waiting for had arrived.
• Chu Yunxiao limped into the valley, cursing Xia Wuju and the Great Xia Dynasty and planning to seek a cure for the Mistveil Sect's Annihilation Powder at Medicine King Valley.
• Ye Lin told the old man the newcomer had arrived, then appeared beside Chu Yunxiao.

Ye Lin confronted Chu Yunxiao and demanded the One Breath Becomes Three Purities technique, threatening to become his greatest trouble if he refused. Chu Yunxiao agreed to hand it over only if Ye Lin promised that no one else would learn it, and warned that a forced soul search would destroy both the technique and his soul.

• Ye Lin stopped Chu Yunxiao and demanded that he hand over One Breath Becomes Three Purities.
• Chu Yunxiao asked how Ye Lin knew about the technique and grew wary of him.
• Ye Lin threatened to make himself Chu Yunxiao’s greatest trouble if Chu Yunxiao refused.
• Chu Yunxiao agreed to give Ye Lin the technique if Ye Lin promised that only the two of them would possess it.
• Chu Yunxiao warned Ye Lin that the technique was sealed in his mind and would vanish along with his soul if Ye Lin tried to search him.

Ye Lin acquired and studied Chu Yunxiao’s portion of One Breath Becomes Three Purities, learning how its three corpses could help cultivate the Great Dao. He checked his panel to see whether his remarkable luck had changed his Fate Rank.

• Chu Yunxiao asked Ye Lin to swear not to reveal the technique or make things difficult for him again, and Ye Lin swore upon his Dao Heart.
• Chu Yunxiao handed over the technique, and Ye Lin confirmed it was genuine before letting him leave.
• Ye Lin learned that the technique divided emotions and desires among three corpses, which could later merge to perfect the self and prove the Dao.
• Ye Lin reflected that he had found four portions of the technique through extraordinary luck and opened his panel to check his Fate Rank.

Ye Lin examined his panel and was pleased with his Fortune Dao fate rank and powerful traits, but his destiny troubled him: three Primordial Unity Golden Immortals would eventually defeat and suppress him for billions upon billions of immeasurable calamity cycles. He reflected on the vastness of that span of time and his own limited cultivation before setting the thought aside.

• Ye Lin reviewed his panel, which listed his late-stage Earth Immortal cultivation, Fortune Dao fate rank, traits, and a one-time opportunity to advance one major realm.
• Ye Lin learned that his destiny ended with three Primordial Unity Golden Immortals jointly suppressing him after he reached their realm.
• Ye Lin considered how long billions upon billions of immeasurable calamity cycles would last, comparing them with epochs and calamity cycles.
• Ye Lin concluded that the timescale exceeded his understanding as an Earth Immortal and stopped thinking about it.

Ye Lin read Chu Yunxiao’s panel and learned that Chu’s next opportunity involved finding an injured Skyward Sect Saintess who would become his Dao companion and cure his poison. Ye Lin decided to take the opportunity for himself and left, leaving the old man relieved that his presence had vanished.

• Ye Lin opened Chu Yunxiao’s panel and saw his fate, fortune traits, and upcoming opportunity.
• Ye Lin learned that Chu Yunxiao would find an injured woman in a mountain cave, treat her, and later marry her after she cured his poisoning.
• Ye Lin noted that the panel supplied the cave’s map and information about the woman’s faction, Skyward Sect.
• Ye Lin decided that Chu Yunxiao would not claim the opportunity and left.
• The old man sensed Ye Lin’s aura disappear and breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Lin returned to the Mistveil Sect and found it engulfed in battle, then waited with Xia Wuju for Xia Wuju's imperial father to finish fighting the Grand Elder. As dawn came and the battle ripples faded, the fight was nearing its conclusion.

• Ye Lin left the old man after warning him that he would die that day unless he offered something good.
• Ye Lin headed for the Mistveil Sect, planning to borrow Xia Wuju's White Cang and then save the injured Ye Lingxi.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Mistveil Sect at night and found it burning, with corpses everywhere and a powerful battle raging in the clouds.
• Xia Wuju found Ye Lin and asked him to wait until his imperial father finished fighting the Mistveil Sect's Grand Elder.
• The battle continued through the night, and its ripples began to subside at sunrise.