Chapter Summaries

He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao accepted a low-risk mission to earn resources for building a teleportation array, planning to leave in three days while hiding their identities. Murong Hanxuan and Ye Lin mistakenly believed Tang Qingru had accepted the mission and prepared to use her outing for their plans.

• He Yunyu said joining a major force was the fastest way to gather resources, and Chu Yunxiao agreed to take the mission.
• He Yunyu advised Chu Yunxiao to change clothes, conceal their auras, and wear masks before leaving in three days.
• Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu sneaked out of the Mission Pavilion after taking the jade token.
• Murong Hanxuan searched the pavilion and assumed Tang Qingru had accepted the hidden mission, then said he would consider becoming her Dao companion.
• Murong Hanxuan met Ye Lin and reported that Tang Qingru would leave on a mission in three days.
• Ye Lin said the timing would let him advance to the late stage or peak of the heavenly immortal realm.

Ye Lin met Tang Qingru by a lake and learned that Murong Hanxuan planned to use three Spirit-Seizing Talismans against him. He told Tang Qingru to leave in three days as planned, hiding her whereabouts from everyone except Murong Hanxuan.

• Ye Lin left Murong Hanxuan and suspected that he had gone to meet Tang Qingru during his five-hour disappearance.
• Ye Lin sensed someone following him and called Tang Qingru out by a lake.
• Tang Qingru told Ye Lin that Murong Hanxuan had three Spirit-Seizing Talismans, each requiring three breaths to activate.
• Tang Qingru said Murong Hanxuan had told her to accept a mission to leave in three days, but she could not find it at the Mission Pavilion.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru to leave in three days without exposing her whereabouts, while making sure Murong Hanxuan could see her.

Tang Qingru realized Ye Lin had manipulated her into surrendering her leverage and angrily vowed to hunt him if she escaped. Ye Lin then entered the Artifact Refining Pavilion and surveyed its chaotic workshops.

• Tang Qingru asked who would receive Murong Hanxuan's life, and Ye Lin told her it would be his.
• Ye Lin warned Tang Qingru that she could either follow him and grow stronger or die alongside Murong Hanxuan.
• After Ye Lin left, Tang Qingru realized he had outmaneuvered her and vowed to hunt him across the Star River Cosmos if she escaped.
• Tang Qingru struck the lake in a fit of rage, creating an enormous palm print on its bed.
• Ye Lin entered the Artifact Refining Pavilion and walked through its noisy, furnace-filled workshops.

Ye Lin brought his Chaos Sword Casket and nine divine swords to the Artifact Refining Pavilion, asking for them all to be upgraded to Immortal Grade with a Glazed Immortal Crystal. After arranging the forging, he left to wait for the next stage of his plan, which would unfold in three days.

• A burly artifact refiner asked Ye Lin whether he wanted a weapon forged or purchased.
• Ye Lin revealed his Chaos Sword Casket and asked for all nine swords to be upgraded to Immortal Grade using a large Glazed Immortal Crystal.
• The burly man agreed to have his five masters forge the swords and refine the sword casket, promising they would be ready the next day in exchange for the leftover crystal.
• Ye Lin informed the swords’ artifact spirits before handing over the casket and crystal.
• Ye Lin left the Artifact Refining Pavilion and said he would wait for his plan to draw its target in three days.

Ye Lin and Murong Hanxuan left Tongtian Pavilion to head for a mission, while Murong Hanxuan believed Tang Qingru had already departed. He did not realize that the black-clad figures ahead were He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao in disguise, and the group continued toward the Shuo Feng Dynasty.

• Ye Lin obtained an Immortal Grade Chaos Sword Casket containing nine lower-grade Immortal Grade longswords, and received a top-grade Heaven Grade Blazing Flame Longbow.
• Tang Qingru left in black clothing and a mask while Murong Hanxuan went to find Ye Lin.
• Murong Hanxuan urged Ye Lin to leave, and the two traveled to Tongtian Pavilion's exit.
• Murong Hanxuan saw black-clad figures disappear ahead and assumed Tang Qingru was waiting for a companion.
• Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu hurried toward the Shuo Feng Dynasty alongside Tang Qingru, with He Yunyu disguised to resemble her.
• Murong Hanxuan grew anxious as the figures ahead moved slowly, unaware of the disguise.

Ye Lin followed Murong Hanxuan into a small city, where Murong secretly completed a trapping formation around them. They entered the Myriad Treasure Pavilion looking for two black-clad figures, while Ye Lin had already alerted Tang Qingru.

• Ye Lin recognized the two figures ahead as Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu and followed them toward the city with Murong Hanxuan.
• Ye Lin secretly notified Tang Qingru, who was rushing over, while Murong scattered talismans to reinforce the surroundings.
• Murong completed a trapping formation that sealed the city beneath a faint purple light, and Ye Lin played along with his explanation.
• Ye Lin and Murong entered the Myriad Treasure Pavilion after seeing the two black-clad figures go inside.
• The pavilion manager welcomed Ye Lin and Murong, and Ye Lin asked where the two black-clad visitors had gone.

Murong Hanxuan confronted Ye Lin and Tang Qingru at the Myriad Treasure Pavilion, then attacked Ye Lin with a binding formation and talismans. Ye Lin escaped the formation and destroyed the talisman attack, while Murong Hanxuan called on two others to join the fight.

• Murong Hanxuan asked the pavilion manager about Ye Lin and Tang Qingru, and the manager warned him against causing trouble.
• Murong Hanxuan spotted Tang Qingru and Ye Lin coming down the stairs and slapped the pavilion manager into the rubble.
• Murong Hanxuan trapped Ye Lin in a golden formation and sent dozens of talismans toward him.
• Ye Lin walked out of the formation and used a golden palm to destroy the incoming talismans.
• Murong Hanxuan challenged Ye Lin and ordered two onlookers to attack.

Ye Lin cornered Murong Hanxuan after revealing he had seen through his scheme, while He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao fled. Murong Hanxuan summoned the Fox Ancestor with his essence blood in a desperate attempt to survive.

• Murong Hanxuan blamed the woman watching the fight and considered killing her, while He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao decided to flee.
• He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao escaped, and Ye Lin approached Murong Hanxuan, saying he had known the truth all along.
• Murong Hanxuan accused Tang Qingru of betraying him, summoned a nine-tailed celestial fox phantom to cover his escape, and fled.
• Ye Lin drew the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and cleaved the fox phantom apart with one slash.
• Murong Hanxuan opened a cloud hollow and offered his essence blood to summon Green Hills and call upon the Fox Ancestor for aid.

Murong Hanxuan sacrificed his essence blood to summon a phantom of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and escaped, leaving it to obstruct Ye Lin. Ye Lin fought the phantom and recognized its attempt to trap him in an illusion realm.

• Murong Hanxuan summoned the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox phantom by offering his essence blood, then fled.
• Ye Lin arrived and found the phantom staring at him, while Murong Hanxuan was already gone.
• Tang Qingru joined Ye Lin, then left to pursue Murong Hanxuan as Ye Lin stayed behind to fight.
• Ye Lin attacked with Sword One, Sword Piercing the Firmament, and the phantom struck back with its nine tails.
• The phantom met Ye Lin's gaze and changed the scenery around him, but Ye Lin recognized its illusion technique.

Ye Lin defeated the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox phantom, but its final gaze exposed him to a terrifying presence watching from across the void. He left to pursue Murong Hanxuan, while He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao arrived over the city destroyed in the battle.

• Ye Lin broke the phantom's illusion with a sword strike and dismissed it.
• As the phantom vanished, a distant gaze made Ye Lin feel the threat of death.
• Ye Lin resolved to kill Murong Hanxuan to uncover the phantom's origins and set off in pursuit.
• He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao arrived above the ruins and found that Ye Lin's battle had destroyed the city and killed its tens of thousands of inhabitants.

Tang Qingru chose to help Ye Lin pursue Murong Hanxuan, who tried to escape using a talisman. Murong Hanxuan vanished before she could stop him, and Ye Lin revealed he had been watching her choice from the shadows.

• Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu worried that Senior Ye and Tang Qingru might silence them after they witnessed the pursuit.
• Murong Hanxuan tried to persuade Tang Qingru to spare him by invoking their old ties and threatening her with his master's revenge.
• Tang Qingru refused to change sides and told Murong Hanxuan that Ye Lin, not she, would kill him.
• Murong Hanxuan activated a talisman and escaped before Tang Qingru could stop him.
• Ye Lin emerged from the void and praised Tang Qingru, revealing he had hidden nearby to test her choice.

Ye Lin led Tang Qingru to a river instead of immediately pursuing Murong Hanxuan, then spent half a month waiting while fishing with a bare branch. As Tang Qingru worried about returning to her master on time, lightning gathered over a distant mountain and a figure approached, prompting Ye Lin to say the fish had taken the bait.

• Ye Lin revealed that he had been watching Tang Qingru and ordered her to follow him, and she reluctantly obeyed.
• Ye Lin reached the area near Murong Hanxuan but chose to make a hut beside a river and fish instead of entering the mountain.
• Tang Qingru questioned Ye Lin’s strange fishing, then built a small house and stayed nearby.
• Ye Lin sat motionless for half a month while Tang Qingru waited and worried that she would miss the date to return to her master.
• Lightning spread across the sky above a distant mountain as a figure approached, Ye Lin’s branch snapped, and he said the fish had taken the bait.

Ye Lin left Tang Qingru behind and hurried onward, while Long Wu arrived to find the badly injured Murong Hanxuan. After revealing that he had gained the Thunder Ancestor Sacred Body, Long Wu offered to help Murong Hanxuan kill the person responsible for his condition.

• Ye Lin tossed aside his branch, took the Chaos Sword Casket, and strode away through the sky, leaving Tang Qingru shocked by his speed.
• Long Wu emerged from the thunderclouds and teased Murong Hanxuan about his injuries.
• Long Wu told Murong Hanxuan that he had gained the Thunder Ancestor Sacred Body after encountering a peak Earth Immortal.
• Long Wu offered to help Murong Hanxuan, hoping to benefit from his influence in the Star River Cosmos.
• Murong Hanxuan said Ye Lin was responsible for his condition and asked Long Wu to help kill him.

Long Wu agreed to help Murong Hanxuan fight Ye Lin, believing his newfound power made him unstoppable. Ye Lin ambushed Long Wu, and the two prepared to clash as Long Wu summoned a thunder dragon and Ye Lin called forth nine swords.

• Long Wu learned from Murong Hanxuan that the powerful enemy who had defeated him was from the Star River Cosmos and eagerly agreed to help.
• Murong Hanxuan warned Long Wu that Ye Lin was exceptionally strong and could use One Breath Becomes Three Purities, but Long Wu dismissed his concerns.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Long Wu and stabbed him through the chest with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword.
• Long Wu broke free, retreated, and summoned the Dragon Ancestor as a lightning dragon.
• Ye Lin struck the Chaos Sword Casket and summoned nine swords.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Long Wu with his Nine Swords and fiery arrows, while Tang Qingru cornered Murong Hanxuan as he tried to flee. Murong Hanxuan offered her resources and promised to end their engagement, but she stood ready to confront him.

• Ye Lin's Nine Swords forced Long Wu to activate his Thunder Dao Sacred Body and charge with his thunder spear.
• Ye Lin summoned a longbow and battered Long Wu with fiery arrows, leaving him unable to fight back.
• Ye Lin released a fiery Phoenix arrow toward Long Wu as Murong Hanxuan cursed Long Wu and tried to escape.
• Tang Qingru stepped into Murong Hanxuan's path with twin blades and challenged him to run again.
• Murong Hanxuan backed away and tried to persuade Tang Qingru to join him by offering resources and promising to have his master annul their engagement.

Tang Qingru and Ye Lin overwhelmed Murong Hanxuan and Long Wu as both opponents tried to flee. Tang Qingru severed Murong Hanxuan’s arm, while Ye Lin trapped Long Wu in a formation and prepared another attack.

• Tang Qingru charged Murong Hanxuan, who fled because his vital energy had not recovered.
• Tang Qingru used Moon-Stepping and Phantom Seven Absolutes to cut off Murong Hanxuan’s arm.
• Murong Hanxuan used a talisman to increase his speed and continued running.
• Ye Lin fired arrows at Long Wu, who realized he could not match her and tried to escape.
• Ye Lin destroyed Long Wu’s thunder dragon with nine swords and trapped him in a formation.
• Ye Lin fired seven arrows with Seven Stars Linked Pearls toward different directions.

Ye Lin defeated Long Wu and handed him over to Tang Qingru as a reward for her loyalty. He then captured Murong Hanxuan, while Tang Qingru decided Long Wu's fate.

• Ye Lin blasted Long Wu into a near-death state with the seven-arrow formation and chose to spare him because killing him would bring little benefit.
• Ye Lin pursued Murong Hanxuan as Tang Qingru chased him, and golden chains bound Murong Hanxuan and slammed him into a crater.
• Ye Lin praised Tang Qingru and gave her the crippled Long Wu as her reward.
• Long Wu begged Tang Qingru to spare his life and lamented that his dream of becoming a True Immortal had ended.
• Tang Qingru raised her blade and killed Long Wu.

Ye Lin killed Murong Hanxuan and spent a century refining the power that surged from his death. He emerged far stronger, with thirty-eight new Myriad Dao Imprints and eleven imprints of the Three Thousand Great Daos in his domain.

• Tang Qingru sat in the void and began absorbing the lightning power released when Long Wu was slain.
• Ye Lin rejected Murong Hanxuan's plea for mercy, destroyed his body, and annihilated his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin hid inside his domain and began refining the power that surged from Murong Hanxuan's death while Tang Qingru continued absorbing power.
• After a hundred years, Ye Lin emerged from a blood-red cocoon, having refined the power and gained thirty-eight Myriad Dao Imprints.
• Ye Lin dismissed his domain and found it contained nearly a hundred imprints, including eleven from the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Ye Lin reached peak Heavenly Immortal and inherited two additional Fate Traits. After receiving Tang Qingru’s message at the end of his seclusion, he headed to Tongtian Pavilion, still needing to kill five Heavenly Immortal geniuses from the Star River Cosmos before he could become a True Immortal.

• Ye Lin reviewed his new cultivation level and Fate Traits and felt satisfied with his progress.
• Ye Lin wondered where Tang Qingru had gone and received her message saying she had returned to Tongtian Pavilion.
• Ye Lin set off for Tongtian Pavilion, knowing he still needed to kill five Heavenly Immortal geniuses from the Star River Cosmos to advance to True Immortal.

Ye Lin went to Tongtian Pavilion to take Tang Qingru away from the Northern Frontier, explaining that both of them would be in danger once someone in the Northern Region reached True Immortal. Tang Qingru agreed and left with him, as the pavilion's disciples watched them depart.

• Ye Lin arrived at Tongtian Pavilion after deciding it was time to leave the Northern Frontier.
• Tang Qingru came out of seclusion after a hundred years and sensed Ye Lin's increased strength.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru that he had come to take her away because the Northern Region would become dangerous when someone reached True Immortal.
• Tang Qingru informed her master, settled matters, and agreed to leave with Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru departed together as Tongtian Pavilion disciples watched and speculated that she was eloping.