Chapter Summaries

Murong Hanxuan explained that Treasure Island let cultivators graft the power and memories of slain Star River Cosmos prodigies, but that breaking through to True Immortal exposed them to other prodigies. Ye Lin embraced the deadly opportunity and offered Murong Hanxuan a partnership.

• Murong Hanxuan told Ye Lin that Treasure Island had made past prodigies powerful by grafting their victims’ cultivation, techniques, and memories onto them.
• Murong Hanxuan explained that killing three prodigies could raise someone to True Immortal and let them leave, while reaching that realm also revealed the locations of other prodigies.
• Murong Hanxuan warned Ye Lin that other cultivators hunted Star River Cosmos prodigies and urged him to advance quickly to survive.
• Ye Lin considered the chance to grow stronger by hunting prodigies and asked Murong Hanxuan whether he feared being used as a test.
• Murong Hanxuan warned Ye Lin that killing him would create a hidden enemy, and Ye Lin offered to cooperate.

Ye Lin convinced Murong Hanxuan to cooperate by revealing three powerful early Heavenly Immortal auras. Murong Hanxuan shared his guesses about two Star River Cosmos prodigies in the Northern Frontier, and Ye Lin concealed them both as a stealthy figure approached.

• Murong Hanxuan dismissed Ye Lin as too weak to be a useful partner.
• Ye Lin revealed three early Heavenly Immortal auras, impressing Murong Hanxuan, and they agreed to cooperate.
• Murong Hanxuan said he suspected two Star River Cosmos prodigies were in the Northern Frontier.
• Ye Lin said they needed to escape, then hid himself and Murong Hanxuan when he sensed someone approaching.
• A stealthy figure investigated the earlier surge of aura, hoping to take advantage of a battle.

Ye Lin recognized Chu Yunxiao as a powerful, extraordinarily fortunate figure and persuaded Murong Hanxuan to follow him out of the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern. Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan pursued Chu Yunxiao while Chu Yunxiao lamented that the ruins he had found had already been destroyed.

• Ye Lin covered Murong Hanxuan's mouth until Chu Yunxiao had disappeared from sight.
• Murong Hanxuan questioned Ye Lin's fear of Chu Yunxiao, but Ye Lin asked whether he knew a way out of the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern.
• Ye Lin claimed they could escape by following Chu Yunxiao and wagered that Murong Hanxuan could kill the first Star River Cosmos cultivator they encountered if Ye Lin was right.
• Murong Hanxuan accepted the wager, and he and Ye Lin followed Chu Yunxiao.
• Chu Yunxiao found that the area within ten thousand miles had become ruins, likely destroyed by a Demon Beast above the Immortal Realm, and concluded he had arrived too late for any treasures.

After Chu Yunxiao vanished into a sudden opening beneath him in the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern, Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan followed and lost consciousness. Murong Hanxuan awoke in the Northern Frontier, where Ye Lin explained that Chu Yunxiao’s immense fortune had apparently carried them tens of millions of miles away.

• Chu Yunxiao complained that he had been trapped in the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern, then disappeared when the ground opened beneath him.
• Ye Lin immediately jumped into the pit, and Murong Hanxuan followed after hesitating.
• Murong Hanxuan lost consciousness as soon as he entered the cave and later awoke on a grassland.
• Ye Lin told Murong Hanxuan they had left the Ten Thousand Demon Cavern and were in the Northern Frontier.
• Murong Hanxuan accepted that Chu Yunxiao’s extraordinary fortune must have brought them there.

Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan tracked a suspicious man believed to be an important assassin in the Hundred Flowers Tower. They reached the tower’s remote headquarters, planning to confirm the man’s identity and draw him out.

• Ye Lin asked Murong Hanxuan to locate their position and find the suspicious man once his cultivation had recovered.
• Murong Hanxuan used the Delusion-Breaking Void Eye and discovered they were at Heavenly Wolf Mountain in the Northern Frontier, where his tracking trick still marked the man.
• Murong Hanxuan explained that the man had infiltrated the Hundred Flowers Tower and held a high position, making him difficult to kill while Murong Hanxuan had only Earth Immortal cultivation.
• Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan traveled for ten days across twenty million li to the Hundred Flowers Tower’s headquarters in the Northern Frontier’s most remote region.

Ye Lin entered Hundred Flowers Tower to investigate Murong Hanxuan’s suspicion that a red-masked assassin belonged to Star River Cosmos. After passing the tower’s public floor and three Peak Earth Immortals on the second floor, he continued upward.

• Murong Hanxuan told Ye Lin to look for a red-masked man on the third floor and place an order if he was from Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin entered Hundred Flowers Tower wearing a mask and found that the crowded first floor was the only one open to the public.
• A young man stopped Ye Lin at the stairs, then let him pass after Ye Lin said he wanted to conduct business involving murder.
• Ye Lin saw three masked Peak Earth Immortals at separate tables on the second floor and continued up the stairs.

Ye Lin selected Chen Liu, a masked Flower Race assassin, to kill Murong Hanxuan and gave him a strand of Murong’s hair. Chen Liu questioned Ye Lin’s motives and deduced that his choice of assassin was deliberate, leaving Ye Lin wary of how much Chen Liu had discerned.

• Ye Lin inspected Chen Liu’s panel and learned of his powerful bloodline, sharp intellect, and Killing Path Domain.
• Ye Lin sat at Chen Liu’s table and asked him to kill Murong Hanxuan, handing over a strand of Murong’s hair.
• Chen Liu confirmed Murong Hanxuan was an early-stage Heavenly Immortal and questioned why Ye Lin wanted him dead.
• Chen Liu observed that Ye Lin had ignored the other assassins and come straight to his secluded table, then asked whether someone had introduced them and what Ye Lin’s purpose was.

Ye Lin hired Chen Liu to kill a target, and Chen Liu accepted the job for fifty thousand low-grade immortal stones. After tracing the target’s location, Chen Liu suspected Ye Lin might have been followed and left behind a bottle of his blood before departing.

• Ye Lin gave Chen Liu four reasons for hiring him and demonstrated his Heavenly Immortal aura.
• Chen Liu accepted a ten-thousand-stone deposit and promised to deliver the target’s head in five days for a total of fifty thousand low-grade immortal stones.
• Chen Liu refused Ye Lin’s offer to bring the four masked men along, then vanished while the men remained motionless.
• Chen Liu brought the target’s strand of hair to Elder Hu, who used a Compass to locate the target less than a million li away.
• Chen Liu wondered whether Ye Lin had been followed, cut his arm, left a bottle of blood in a hidden corner, and departed the Hundred Flowers Tower.

Ye Lin followed Chen Liu after taking the bottle he had left behind, while Murong Hanxuan fled from Hundred Flowers Tower and prepared a formation to ambush his pursuer. Chen Liu arrived, revealed his identity as the Flower Race patriarch’s son, and Murong Hanxuan withdrew the formation; Chen Liu then asked how his identity had been discovered.

• Ye Lin found the bottle Chen Liu had left behind, put it in his Spatial Ring, and followed him.
• Murong Hanxuan ran a million li from Hundred Flowers Tower, then rested and set up a formation in case Ye Lin’s plan succeeded.
• Murong Hanxuan waited beneath a tree until Chen Liu identified the Heaven Without End Formation and approached him.
• Murong Hanxuan activated the formation to seal the area, but Chen Liu revealed he was the son of the Flower Race patriarch of the Mountain Sea Star Domain.
• Murong Hanxuan withdrew the formation, and Chen Liu asked how he had discovered his true identity.

Chen Liu realized that his deliberate disguise had aroused Murong Hanxuan’s suspicions, then accepted a fight against Murong Hanxuan and Ye Lin. Ye Lin and Chen Liu clashed while Murong Hanxuan joined the attack, and Chen Liu could not identify which great faction his opponent belonged to.

• Murong Hanxuan told Chen Liu that his conspicuously deliberate cleverness had exposed him, and Chen Liu understood the mistake behind his disguise.
• Chen Liu accepted a battle against Murong Hanxuan and Ye Lin, wagering that victory might let him reach the True Immortal realm.
• Murong Hanxuan summoned a nine-tailed flame fox with two talismans, but Chen Liu dispelled it with a sweep of his sword.
• Ye Lin attacked Chen Liu from behind with Heavenfall, and the two fought to a standstill.
• While fighting Ye Lin, Chen Liu wondered which great faction the masked swordsman belonged to and considered the power of Grand Luo Mystic Immortals across the Star River Cosmos.

Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan combined their sword techniques and summoned creatures to trap and attack Chen Liu. Chen Liu broke free of the tentacles and began a powerful sword technique as the chapter ended.

• Murong Hanxuan summoned living plants and towering treefolk to attack Chen Liu.
• Ye Lin trapped Chen Liu with four swords that transformed into the Four Sacred Beasts.
• Murong Hanxuan summoned a nine-tailed heavenly fox, while Ye Lin unleashed the Sword Slash of the Yellow Springs at Chen Liu.
• Chen Liu broke free of the tentacles but remained surrounded by the Four Symbols as transparent threads strengthened them.
• Chen Liu coated his Long Sword in violet flames and began a technique, saying, "One sword opens... Heaven."

Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan defeated Chen Liu’s Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and cornered him as he tried to escape. Chen Liu began a Flower Race bloodline technique that could triple his combat power, leaving the two prodigies racing to stop him.

• The Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox shattered Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan’s attacks, then passed through Chen Liu and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan pursued the wounded Chen Liu, and Murong Hanxuan’s talisman disrupted his attempt to escape through space.
• Ye Lin struck Chen Liu with his Long Sword, leaving him trapped between the two prodigies.
• Chen Liu drove his sword into the ground and activated a scarlet formation, prompting Murong Hanxuan to identify it as a Flower Race technique that could triple Chen Liu’s combat power.
• Murong Hanxuan threw two talismans to interrupt the technique, but they vanished before reaching Chen Liu.

Chen Liu revealed that he had temporarily tripled his combat power by burning his essence blood and overwhelmed Ye Lin in a clash of domains. The chapter ended with Chen Liu’s Killing Path Domain crushing Ye Lin’s domain, while Murong Hanxuan remained outside.

• Chen Liu surged with power after burning his essence blood, and Ye Lin pulled him into his domain before Murong Hanxuan could stop him.
• Chen Liu unfolded his dark crimson Killing Path Domain and revealed that he had inscribed thirty-five Myriad Dao laws, while Ye Lin had only three and a half.
• Chen Liu mocked Ye Lin’s incomplete domain and summoned thirty-five grand phenomena representing Great Daos.
• Chen Liu swept his hand forward, and his domain crushed Ye Lin’s domain with overwhelming force.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Chen Liu with four domains, killed him with Reminiscence, and advanced to late-stage Heavenly Immortal as Chen Liu’s memories and insights flooded into him. After spending a year in seclusion digesting them, Ye Lin emerged, while thirty-five points of light gathered in the domain space behind him.

• Ye Lin revealed three clones using One Breath Becomes Three Purities, and the four domains pressed down on Chen Liu.
• Ye Lin used Space Halt to freeze Chen Liu, then pierced his glabella with Reminiscence.
• Chen Liu broke down and vanished into specks of starlight, and Ye Lin rose from early-stage to late-stage Heavenly Immortal.
• Ye Lin received Chen Liu’s memories, techniques, and insights, while thirty-five points of light gathered in the domain space.
• Ye Lin secluded himself for a year to digest the memories, then said the effort had been worth it.

After absorbing Chen Liu’s memories, techniques, and Dao Laws, Ye Lin gained a massive increase in strength and learned that Chen Liu was the Flower Race patriarch’s son. Ye Lin checked his updated profile and found that, despite inheriting Chen Liu’s abilities, he had not inherited Chen Liu’s luck.

• Ye Lin read Chen Liu’s memories and discovered his exalted status as the son of the Flower Race patriarch, whose race was backed by a Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin realized he had absorbed Chen Liu’s techniques, Dao Laws, and combat experience, becoming far stronger than he had been a year earlier.
• Ye Lin examined his status panel, which showed him as a late-stage Heavenly Immortal with numerous fate traits and a grim future destiny.
• Ye Lin concluded that luck could not be inherited and felt disappointed.

Ye Lin discovered that Fate Traits and bloodlines could be inherited, then finished a year of cultivation and reunited with Murong Hanxuan. He offered to help Murong Hanxuan kill the suspicious person, confident in his new strength.

• Ye Lin realized that Chen Liu’s Fate Traits had become his and concluded that bloodlines could also be inherited.
• Ye Lin chose not to kill Murong Hanxuan, reasoning that their partnership had helped him defeat Chen Liu.
• After a year of waiting, Murong Hanxuan emerged from cultivation as Ye Lin completed his own absorption of Chen Liu’s power.
• Ye Lin told Murong Hanxuan to lead him to the suspicious person so he could kill him.

Murong Hanxuan told Ye Lin that their target was inside Tongtian Pavilion, whose gates were not due to open for seven years. After they discussed the danger of killing someone protected by the powerful Human Race faction, Tongtian Pavilion suddenly opened its gates across the Northern Region, leaving Murong Hanxuan wondering what connection Ye Lin had to the Heavenly Dao.

• Murong Hanxuan explained that he had divined their target's location in Tongtian Pavilion and that its gates opened only once every ten years.
• Murong Hanxuan warned Ye Lin that killing their target inside Tongtian Pavilion could bring the pursuit of the entire Human Race of the Northern Frontier.
• Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan lamented having to wait seven years and the uncertainty of whether they could kill their target.
• A golden scroll appeared across the heavens, and a voice announced that Tongtian Pavilion was opening immediately to recruit human prodigies.
• Murong Hanxuan asked Ye Lin what relationship he had with the Heavenly Dao, suspecting Ye Lin had caused Tongtian Pavilion to break its longstanding rules.

Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan reached Tongtian Pavilion, where they learned that only Immortal Realm cultivators under a thousand years old could take part in its entrance ceremony. The remaining candidates awaited three trials, with their results determining whether they became personal disciples, Outer Sect disciples, or Chore Disciples.

• Ye Lin brought Murong Hanxuan to Tongtian Pavilion, covering a million li in ten minutes.
• A voice at Tongtian Pavilion’s entrance dismissed cultivators who were not Immortal Realm experts under a thousand years old.
• Murong Hanxuan proposed joining Tongtian Pavilion before searching for and possibly killing the man they sought.
• Tongtian Pavilion announced that the entrance ceremony would begin in one day and consist of three trials.
• The remaining cultivators learned that passing all three trials meant joining the Inner Sect as personal disciples, while passing fewer trials could lead to Outer Sect or Chore Disciple status.

Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan discussed the risks of joining Tongtian Pavilion before the candidates began its first trial, the Tongtian Ladder. As the crowd climbed, Ye Lin kept watch on Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu, who had arrived together.

• Tongtian Pavilion’s importance to the Human Race in the Northern Frontier was explained.
• Ye Lin questioned whether joining Tongtian Pavilion would trap them, and Murong Hanxuan suggested escaping during a mission.
• Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu arrived as the appointed time began.
• A Tongtian Pavilion representative opened the Tongtian Ladder and announced that candidates had to climb all 99,999 steps to pass the first trial.
• Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan started climbing with the other candidates, while Ye Lin watched Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu.

Ye Lin recognized Chu Yunxiao as a powerful, heaven-favored figure and worried that he would be difficult to exploit. Chu Yunxiao reached Tongtian Pavilion’s summit despite being in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, prompting struggling candidates to protest his presence.

• Ye Lin read Chu Yunxiao’s panel and was stunned by his Supreme Bloodline, immense fortune, and fate as the Human Race’s hope.
• Murong Hanxuan pointed out that Chu Yunxiao, the boy who had escaped with them, was also at Tongtian Pavilion, and Ye Lin confirmed he was the Heavenly Dao’s favored son.
• Ye Lin hurried toward the finish line, while Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu reached the summit ahead of the struggling cultivators.
• The candidates on the stairs realized Chu Yunxiao was in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm rather than the required Immortal Realm and demanded that he be thrown out.