Chapter Summaries

Tang Qingru left Tongtian Pavilion with Ye Lin, while the Pavilion Master and the old man watched her go with sorrow. After spotting Chu Yunxiao and another figure, Ye Lin decided to follow them, giving the pair a destination.

• The old man asked the Pavilion Master if Tang Qingru could be kept, but the Pavilion Master said she had her own mission and warned him against repeating his mistake.
• The old man watched Tang Qingru leave, reminded of his granddaughter who had died long ago.
• Tang Qingru asked Ye Lin where they were going as they wandered across the Northern Frontier without a destination.
• Ye Lin spotted Chu Yunxiao and another figure approaching, then decided to follow them.
• Tang Qingru followed Ye Lin, having no other way forward after leaving Tongtian Pavilion.

He Yunyu persuaded Chu Yunxiao that stealing from Tongtian Pavilion was worth the risk and planned to take him to the Central Region. They set their sights on stealing Void stone from the Wang Family in Chaotic Mountain City to build a large-scale teleportation array.

• Chu Yunxiao expressed concern that Tongtian Pavilion would hunt them for the treasure they had stolen, but He Yunyu dismissed the danger.
• He Yunyu explained that they needed Void stone for a large-scale teleportation array and identified the Wang Family in Chaotic Mountain City as its holder.
• He Yunyu praised Chu Yunxiao's talent and extraordinary fortune, deciding to keep him close for her own future prospects.
• He Yunyu told Chu Yunxiao that she would gather the array materials and take him to the Central Region, which she called his true stage.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru discovered a starving Human Race city where desperate residents had resorted to eating infants. The chapter ended as a mother begged three men not to take her three-month-old child.

• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru entered Chaotic Mountain City and found its residents starving and hopeless.
• Tang Qingru observed that the city had almost no food or powerful cultivators.
• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru saw a crowd devour infant flesh from a huge pot.
• Three emaciated men emerged carrying a baby while his mother clung to one man’s leg and begged them to spare him.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru witnessed a mother lose her infant, then tracked a man and woman to the Lin Family residence. Ye Lin waited outside the city for an arriving eagle carrying two young men, including Kong Tian, whose fate he recognized.

• A man took a woman's infant away, saying the child would be better off dead, while Ye Lin and Tang Qingru left without intervening.
• Ye Lin bribed guards outside the Lin Family residence and learned that a man and woman had gone inside to visit the family head.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru that their target was there, then looked toward an approaching eagle.
• Kong Tian and another young man landed outside the city on the eagle and walked toward them.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru followed a young man from the Star River Cosmos and Kong Tian to the Lin Family manor, where the young man confronted Family Head Lin over the starving commoners. He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao tried to slip away after learning the two visitors were Heavenly Immortal experts.

• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru watched as the young man criticized the Lin Family for letting the commoners go hungry.
• The young man smashed the manor gate, entered with Kong Tian, and made Lin Hai kneel before him.
• Lin Hai introduced He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao as visitors from the Northern Frontier seeking an item.
• The young man demanded to know where the grain and resources had gone, and Lin Hai blamed the Wang Family and Li Family.
• He Yunyu told Chu Yunxiao to grab him at the main gate so he could take them away from the two Heavenly Immortal experts.

He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao were captured by a young Bone Clan prodigy, who threatened Lin Hai and took the captives away. Ye Lin and Tang Qingru followed the eagle carrying them across the ocean to an island, hoping it would lead them to more prodigies of the Star River Cosmos.

• He Yunyu tried to flee with Chu Yunxiao, but Kong Tian caught them on the young man's command.
• The young man ordered Lin Hai to resolve the problems around the two families within ten years or face death, then left with the captives.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru that following the Bone Clan prodigy would lead them to other Star River Cosmos prodigies.
• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru secretly followed the eagle for three days and three nights, crossed a vast ocean, and reached an island.

Ye Lin followed Kong Tian to a vast island and infiltrated its palace by transforming into a snow eagle. He found Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu captured by a young man, who hesitated after He Yunyu revealed her ties to the Skyward Sect.

• Ye Lin stopped outside the palace’s powerful formation and hid Tang Qingru in a cave while he waited for a chance to kill Kong Tian.
• Ye Lin devoured a white snow eagle, transformed into a small bird, and entered the palace without being detected.
• Ye Lin followed Chu Yunxiao’s aura to a chamber where a young man questioned the captive Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu about their origins and companions.
• He Yunyu identified herself as the Skyward Sect’s Saintess and warned that her master would avenge her, making the young man wary.

He Yunyu claimed that her father was a Divine King who would avenge her death, making the young man holding her captive hesitate. He ordered Kong Tian to investigate her story, while Ye Lin became mostly convinced that her powerful background was real.

• He Yunyu told the young man that her master and father were Divine Kings, and that her father's Primordial Spirit imprint would alert him if she died.
• The young man worried that the Blazing Fire Demon Race could not withstand a Divine King's wrath and ordered Kong Tian to investigate He Yunyu's claim.
• The young man warned that he would release He Yunyu if her account proved true, but would punish her severely if she had lied.
• Chu Yunxiao stared at He Yunyu in shock, while Ye Lin believed most of what she had said.

After learning that He Yunyu was both the Skyward Sect’s Saintess and the He Family’s cherished daughter, the young man freed her and Chu Yunxiao and agreed to repair the teleportation array. He Yunyu planned to return to the Central Region, while Ye Lin decided to follow them there.

• Kong Tian reported that He Yunyu was the Skyward Sect’s Saintess and the He Family’s cherished daughter.
• The young man realized her connections made opposing her dangerous, then freed He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao and apologized.
• He Yunyu demanded that the young man repair the damaged teleportation array so she could return to the Central Region.
• The young man agreed to arrange their needs while they waited for the array to be repaired.
• He Yunyu credited Chu Yunxiao for their reversal of fortune, while Chu Yunxiao remained confused.
• Ye Lin concluded Chu Yunxiao’s fortune would surge in the Central Region and decided to follow them there.

Ye Lin assessed Chu Yunxiao’s extraordinary fate and left, while He Yunyu planned to take Chu Yunxiao to the Central Region once the teleportation array was repaired. Ye Lin and Tang Qingru agreed to wait for that chance to kill Kong Tian, but powerful auras approached the cave.

• Ye Lin finished observing Chu Yunxiao and flew away.
• He Yunyu told Chu Yunxiao they would wait for the teleportation array to be repaired before traveling to the Central Region.
• He Yunyu considered using Chu Yunxiao to confront Ye Lin, but decided they belonged to different worlds.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru they would wait until the array was repaired before killing Kong Tian and heading to the Central Region.
• Powerful auras swept toward Ye Lin and Tang Qingru’s cave.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru hid as Demon Beasts searched the island for a human woman in red who had broken in and escaped after being badly injured. The island was sealed, leaving Ye Lin worried that the search might expose them, and Tang Qingru suspected the woman was a prodigy from the Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin concealed his and Tang Qingru's auras when Demon Beasts began searching the island.
• A pig demon ordered the beasts to find the humans, then rested outside their cave.
• Ye Lin dragged the pig demon into the cave and learned the search was for an unfamiliar woman in red who had forced her way onto the island.
• Ye Lin killed the pig demon after thanking him for the information.
• Ye Lin worried that the island's lockdown and a possible True Immortal search could reveal them.
• Tang Qingru said her intuition suggested the woman in red was a prodigy from the Star River Cosmos.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru encountered the badly wounded Li Unrivaled, whose status panel revealed her extraordinary abilities and powerful family background. Li Unrivaled took a medicinal pill and began recovering as she asked whether they came from the Star River Cosmos.

• A rustling sound outside the cave prompted Ye Lin to get up and investigate.
• A bloodied woman stumbled into the cave, and Ye Lin recognized her as the woman in red.
• Ye Lin saw Li Unrivaled's panel, which identified her as the daughter of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Li Zunyan and showed her many powerful Fate Traits.
• Li Unrivaled asked Ye Lin and Tang Qingru whether they were from the Star River Cosmos.
• Li Unrivaled swallowed a medicinal pill, and her severe wounds began to heal.

Ye Lin confronted Li Unrivaled, who revealed that three True Immortals were hunting Star River Cosmos geniuses and had driven her to hide on the island. She asked Ye Lin to take her with him and showed a sphere of light that revealed her connection to a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

• Ye Lin questioned Li Unrivaled about her identity and severe injuries while warning that neither of them could afford to expose themselves.
• Li Unrivaled said three True Immortals were hunting Star River Cosmos geniuses and that she had barely escaped them.
• Li Unrivaled suspected the three True Immortals were waiting outside the island and asked Ye Lin to take her with him.
• Li Unrivaled raised a golden sphere of light, and Tang Qingru recognized the aura of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

Li Wushuang offered Ye Lin and Tang Qingru a favor in exchange for cooperation and began explaining what she knew about their surroundings. She revealed that the place was the Heavenly Heart Realm, a world formed from the inner world of a fallen Daluo Golden Immortal.

• Li Wushuang said Ye Lin had value to her and offered each of them a Jade Talisman that would let her help them once after they left.
• Ye Lin accepted the Jade Talisman and asked Li Wushuang to share information as proof of her sincerity.
• Ye Lin, Tang Qingru, and Li Wushuang introduced themselves to one another.
• Li Wushuang recovered from her injuries and damaged Primordial Spirit within minutes, astonishing Ye Lin.
• Li Wushuang explained that the Heavenly Heart Realm had formed from the inner world of a fallen Daluo Golden Immortal, whose Daoist essence had nourished it.

Li Unrivaled revealed that killing more than five cultivators in the mysterious world caused a substance to assimilate their Primordial Spirit, eventually turning them into mindless monsters. After agreeing to cooperate with Ye Lin, she asked how she could help with his plan.

• Li Unrivaled explained that the world had formed from a Daluo Golden Immortal's corpse and that killing a sixth cultivator caused a strange substance to corrupt the killer's Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin realized the information was valuable and wondered whether the Star River Cosmos had also come from a great being.
• Ye Lin and Li Unrivaled shook hands and agreed to cooperate while Tang Qingru worried that Li Unrivaled would replace her in Ye Lin's plans.
• Li Unrivaled asked Ye Lin to explain his plan and offered to help, since she could not safely leave the island.

Ye Lin shared his plan with Li Unrivaled, who helped conceal their cave and gave him and Tang Qingru Supreme-grade pills. As they waited for the teleportation array, Ye Lin continued gathering information while remaining wary of Li Unrivaled and keeping his cultivation art secret.

• Li Unrivaled approved Ye Lin's plan and offered to help kill the Bone Clan member, but Ye Lin decided not to waste one of his remaining opportunities on him.
• Li Unrivaled strengthened the concealment around the cave and gave Supreme-grade pills to Ye Lin and Tang Qingru.
• Ye Lin accepted the gift but stayed suspicious of Li Unrivaled despite her kindness.
• Ye Lin went out each day disguised as a Demon Beast to gather information, and Li Unrivaled asked him to teach her the method, even offering a Supreme Artifact.
• Ye Lin refused to reveal the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, which he believed he alone still cultivated in the Star River Cosmos.

After six months of reconnaissance, Ye Lin and Li Wushuang reported that the teleportation array was complete and He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao had departed. Tang Qingru prepared a plan to get them to the array without attracting the attention of its powerful guards.

• Ye Lin kept gathering information while Li Wushuang recovered and helped survey the terrain; Tang Qingru remained in the cave and planned their route.
• Ye Lin reported that a True Immortal-level grand demon guarded the teleportation array, making it too dangerous to approach closely.
• Ye Lin said He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao had set out after the array was completed.
• Li Wushuang confirmed that many powerful figures had rushed toward the array, suggesting He Yunyu held a distinguished status.
• Tang Qingru said they would need a diversion and pointed to a location on the map.

Ye Lin sought Kong Tian's help with a plan to divert the great demons on the island so his group could reach the teleportation array. He offered to take Kong Tian to the Central Region, leaving Kong Tian to decide whether to join him.

• Ye Lin agreed with Tang Qingru that they needed to create a major commotion to draw the great demons' attention.
• Ye Lin left the cave, transformed into a crow, and flew to the palace to find Kong Tian.
• Ye Lin lured Kong Tian into a forest and revealed that three True Immortals were waiting outside the island.
• Ye Lin offered to help Kong Tian escape to the Central Region and warned that staying on the island could leave him trapped or dead.
• Ye Lin waited silently as Kong Tian considered the offer.

Ye Lin had Kong Tian bring Liu Feng, the Blazing Fire Demon Race chief’s son, to him and helped Kong Tian capture him. The chapter left Liu Feng sealed and threatened by a Causality Barrel that would activate in half an hour.

• Ye Lin demonstrated his overwhelming speed and strength to Kong Tian, convincing him to cooperate.
• Kong Tian brought Liu Feng to meet Ye Lin after warning him that the promised treasure had to be worthwhile.
• Liu Feng ordered Kong Tian to seize Ye Lin, but Kong Tian instead sealed Liu Feng’s meridians with a purple ring.
• Kong Tian forced a Causality Barrel into Liu Feng’s mouth and explained that it would activate in half an hour and could not be removed by anyone below the True Immortal realm.

Kong Tian warned Liu Feng that the Causality Barrel carried overwhelming karma, then left him bound and powerless. As the Blazing Fire Demon Race prepared to depart through a repaired teleportation array, Ye Lin unexpectedly rushed into a main hall despite Kong Tian’s warning about its powerful guardian.

• Kong Tian explained that the Causality Barrel would transfer the Bone Clan’s accumulated karma to anyone who had touched it, then left with Ye Lin.
• Liu Feng, unable to remove the ring sealing his cultivation, used a Jade Talisman to call for reinforcements.
• He Yunyu told an old man to activate the teleportation array while Chu Yunxiao and the demons waited nearby.
• A middle-aged man received an urgent message on a Jade Talisman and immediately vanished from the teleportation site.
• Ye Lin charged into a main hall and headed straight for its golden chair as Kong Tian warned him about a Half-Step Taiyi Mysterious Immortal guarding the place.