Chapter Summaries

Li Shanchang, a disciple of the Azure Cloud Sacred Land, approached Ye Lin and asked him to help kill Yang Xiu. Ye Lin refused and let Li Shanchang leave, while weighing the risk of exposing himself by killing him.

• Li Shanchang introduced himself as a personal disciple of the Azure Cloud Sacred Land's Third Elder and revealed that he knew Ye Lin was targeting Yang Xiu.
• Li Shanchang asked Ye Lin to help eliminate Yang Xiu, promising a generous reward.
• Li Shanchang threatened to join forces with Yang Xiu if Ye Lin refused.
• Ye Lin rejected the proposal and warned Li Shanchang that he would die if he acted against him.
• Li Shanchang left, and Ye Lin chose not to attack him to avoid exposing his identity.

After Li Shanchang killed Ye Lin’s five servants, Ye Lin left the Dao Heaven Sect to draw him out, but Li Shanchang did not appear. Ye Lin instead intervened when purple lightning destroyed two men about to kill a wounded boy.

• Li Shanchang left the grand hall, promised to teach Ye Lin a lesson, and departed while Ye Lin waited for his move.
• A day later, Ye Lin found Qingming, Mingyue, and his other three servants dead outside the hall.
• Ye Lin left the Dao Heaven Sect and wandered through the sky for three hours to lure Li Shanchang, but Li Shanchang never appeared.
• Ye Lin saw two masked men attack a wounded boy who was defending his sword, and the men knocked the boy down and raised their sabers to kill him.
• Purple lightning struck and vaporized the two masked men, leaving the boy to ask Ye Lin why he was there.

An Xin reunited with Ye Lin and told him that his mother had sacrificed herself to save him from a Demon Beast. Ye Lin comforted him, examined the green bracelet his mother had given him, and agreed to let him follow and cultivate with him.

• Ye Lin approached An Xin, who clung to him and said his mother was dead.
• An Xin explained that a Demon Beast had attacked them and his mother had lured it away, after which he had mysteriously arrived nearby.
• Ye Lin told An Xin not to assume his mother was dead without seeing her body.
• An Xin showed Ye Lin the green bracelet his mother had given him, and Ye Lin sensed something was wrong with it.
• An Xin asked to follow Ye Lin, cultivate, and avenge his mother by slaying the great demons, and Ye Lin agreed.

Ye Lin took An Xin with him to the Dao Heaven Sect and guided his rapid cultivation while insisting he was not An Xin’s master. When Bai Ziran invited Ye Lin to lead Outer Sect disciples into a newly appeared True Immortal secret realm, he agreed and prepared to leave An Xin protected in the main hall.

• Ye Lin brought An Xin to the Dao Heaven Sect after warning him that he would send him away once he could protect himself.
• Ye Lin taught An Xin martial techniques, and An Xin advanced from the Foundation Establishment Early Stage to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage in half a month.
• Bai Ziran told Ye Lin that a True Immortal secret realm had appeared ten thousand miles away and that he, Bai Ziran, and Yang Xiu would lead Outer Sect disciples there.
• Ye Lin agreed to join the expedition so he could observe Li Shanchang and Yang Xiu, then placed a powerful restriction around the hall to protect An Xin.

Ye Lin and Bai Ziran joined Yang Xiu to escort thirty Outer Sect disciples on a warship, while Li Shanchang confronted Ye Lin and threatened that he might never return. Li Shanchang still had not told Yang Xiu about Ye Lin’s identity, leaving his confidence and plans unclear.

• Ye Lin and Bai Ziran arrived at the Outer Sect plaza, where thirty disciples gathered to depart.
• Yang Xiu led the group aboard a warship, which set off with Ye Lin, Bai Ziran, and Li Shanchang.
• Li Shanchang told Ye Lin he had not yet revealed his identity to Yang Xiu and warned that Ye Lin might never return.
• Ye Lin questioned Li Shanchang’s confidence and cautioned that exposing himself could force him to return sooner or later.
• Li Shanchang said Ye Lin’s stubbornness left him no choice but to be ruthless.

Ye Lin remained wary of Li Shanchang and contacted Li Unrivaled before traveling with the Dao Heaven Sect to a secret realm. There, he saw powerful experts waiting, and Bai Ziran greeted the True Immortal Senior Cang Yun as preparations to begin appeared to be underway.

• Li Shanchang threatened Ye Lin and left, prompting Ye Lin to secretly contact Li Unrivaled in case trouble arose.
• Ye Lin and the others sailed for half an hour before reaching a mountain range surrounded by radiant light and numerous warships.
• Devil Tiger asked whether it was time to begin, and another True Immortal, Senior Cang Yun, agreed after the Dao Heaven Sect arrived.
• Bai Ziran appeared before Senior Cang Yun, who asked whether the Dao Heaven Sect had sent only its younger disciples.

Dao Heaven Sect and the other factions entered the opened secret realm while Li Shanchang secretly attached a treasure to Ye Lin. As the gathered experts waited outside, a massive True Immortal Demon Beast appeared, leaving them to face an unexpected threat.

• Elder Cang Yun told the gathered factions to send their disciples into the secret realm, and they entered one after another.
• Cang Yun challenged Devil Tiger over the Demonic Sect sending only him, but neither elder started a fight.
• Li Shanchang secretly attached a streak of light to Ye Lin’s robes, crushed a bead, and then closed his eyes.
• Ye Lin sensed that something ominous was about to happen.
• A huge blue, spiked True Immortal Demon Beast rushed toward the gathered experts, who turned to face it.

A middle-stage True Immortal Demon Beast revealed itself as a descendant of an Othergod, causing the gathered experts to flee. It then destroyed the Dao Heaven Sect warship, though Ye Lin and the others escaped just in time.

• Cang Yun confronted the approaching Demon Beast, and the other True Immortals joined him in preparing to fight.
• Devil Tiger warned them that the beast was a middle-stage True Immortal and a descendant of an Othergod, then backed away.
• Cang Yun and the other experts scattered after hearing Devil Tiger’s warning.
• The Demon Beast passed the fleeing cultivators and struck at the Dao Heaven Sect warship.
• Ye Lin vanished, while Yang Xiu carried Li Shanchang and Bai Ziran to safety as the Demon Beast smashed the warship into fragments.

Ye Lin fled from a Demon Beast that blamed him for killing her child, but he insisted he had been framed and suspected Li Shanchang. After they fought, Ye Lin offered the Demon Beast one last chance to hear the truth.

• The Demon Beast attacked Ye Lin, who fled with her pursuing him while Bai Ziran and Yang Xiu watched.
• The Demon Beast accused Ye Lin of killing her child when she was wounded and said she had already killed three others who denied knowing her.
• The Demon Beast unleashed demon qi that killed everything within a thousand li, then attacked Ye Lin with a massive black palm.
• Ye Lin destroyed the black palm with a sword strike, but his attack shattered when it touched the Demon Beast.
• Ye Lin denied killing the Demon Beast's child, suspected Li Shanchang had tampered with him, and offered to explain himself.

Ye Lin fought a True Immortal Demon Beast, realized she was being controlled, and freed her from the influence. When she saw him, she became hostile again, so Ye Lin set out to investigate what had happened to her.

• The Demon Beast attacked Ye Lin with claws and black-purple chains, while Ye Lin defended himself with sword intent and lightning-wreathed swords.
• Ye Lin slowed the Demon Beast with an oppressive aura and recognized that her blood-red eyes showed she was under someone’s control.
• Ye Lin sent a streak of light into the Demon Beast’s brow, clearing the red from her eyes and transforming her into a horned woman.
• The woman saw Ye Lin and attacked him, but he scattered her palm strike with a slap.
• Ye Lin resolved to discover why she lost control when he approached and what she was.

Ye Lin defeated Zhang Yue'er and questioned why she had attacked him, learning that a mysterious group had murdered her child and manipulated her into killing her husband. Zhang Yue'er’s demonic aura erupted as she described the tragedy, leaving her consumed by grief and vengeance.

• Ye Lin caught Zhang Yue'er's wrist, twisted it, and kicked her into a distant mountain range.
• Ye Lin told Zhang Yue'er that distance weakened the influence affecting her, while she said it was growing stronger and apologized for wanting to kill.
• Ye Lin asked Zhang Yue'er why she had changed and targeted him.
• Zhang Yue'er recounted how black-cloaked strangers took and killed her newborn after attacking her husband.
• Zhang Yue'er said the strangers obscured her spiritual awareness and placed their aura on her husband, causing her to kill him before the aura vanished.

Zhang Yue'er recounted how she had killed her husband and explained that the aura left by the black-robed people made her lose control and kill anyone who carried it. She lost control again and attacked Ye Lin, who countered her with the Saint-Falling Fist.

• Zhang Yue'er said her husband had died by her hand after she sensed the filthy aura, and that she could not resist losing control whenever it appeared.
• Zhang Yue'er became engulfed in demonic aura and fixed her scarlet eyes on Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin considered how Li Shanchang had tampered with him without leaving any detectable trace.
• Zhang Yue'er recalled that five humans at the Heavenly Immortal realm had died before her during her bouts of losing control.
• Ye Lin destroyed Zhang Yue'er's black-violet lightning, but she appeared directly before him with killing intent.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Saint-Falling Fist, surrounding his right arm with a brilliant crimson light that dispersed the demonic aura.

Ye Lin killed Zhang Yue'er to end her suffering, then crushed a black sphere containing a mysterious wisp. He returned to Bai Ziran and Yang Xiu, who learned that the Demon Beast had likely been sent by one of Ye Lin's enemies, while Li Shanchang quietly assessed Ye Lin's strength.

• Ye Lin pierced Zhang Yue'er's brow with Sword Qi, destroying her Primordial Spirit and ending her suffering.
• Ye Lin examined a black sphere, crushed it, and watched a wisp of black silk dissipate.
• Ye Lin rejoined Bai Ziran, Yang Xiu, and Li Shanchang, claiming he had escaped the Demon Beast by luck.
• Bai Ziran told Ye Lin that her master had divined the Demon Beast's origins and suspected an enemy from another province had sent it after him.
• Ye Lin said there was no need to trouble Bai Ziran's master.

After returning to the Dao Heaven Sect, Ye Lin resumed cultivation, but three months later Li Unrivaled contacted him for help against Li Shanchang and a powerful group of black-robed people. Ye Lin agreed to assess a possible Star River prodigy as the threat approached Mountain-Shaking City.

• Ye Lin warned that Li Shanchang must have powerful backing, then dismissed Li Shanchang's threats as the sects left the secret realm.
• Li Shanchang privately plotted to kill two Star River prodigies, wipe out the Firmament Sacred Land, and take control of the Purple Cloud Star System.
• Ye Lin returned to the Dao Heaven Sect and entered closed-door cultivation for three months.
• Li Unrivaled contacted Ye Lin and asked for help against Li Shanchang and black-robed people who were refining living beings across Yang Province.
• Li Unrivaled said the group, including three peak True Immortals and five late-stage True Immortals, would reach Mountain-Shaking City in three days, and asked Ye Lin to assess someone suspected of being a Star River prodigy.

Ye Lin left seclusion to meet Li Shanchang, suspecting that the matter involved him, and set out for the Dao Heaven Sect’s mountain gate. On the way, he encountered Yang Xiu and said he planned to investigate the Demonic Cultivators in Yang Province.

• Ye Lin decided to go see what Li Shanchang was doing after hearing from Li Unrivaled.
• Ye Lin refused An Xin’s request to come along, promising to bring him a toy instead.
• Ye Lin headed toward the Dao Heaven Sect’s mountain gate after leaving An Xin behind.
• Ye Lin met Yang Xiu, who was carrying spirit plants, and said he was going to investigate the Demonic Cultivators in Yang Province.
• Yang Xiu warned Ye Lin that the Demonic Cultivators were powerful and might have come from another province.

Ye Lin went to Mountain-Shaking City to investigate Li Shanchang and found Li Unrivaled waiting there with intelligence about the Evil Cultivators. The chapter left Ye Lin facing a possible threat from a powerful black-robed man linked to Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin left Yang Xiu and traveled toward Mountain-Shaking City, passing fields of desiccated corpses and drained Demon Beasts.
• Ye Lin arrived in Mountain-Shaking City and found Li Unrivaled atop a towering structure overlooking the city she had seized.
• Li Unrivaled told Ye Lin that her intelligence linked the Evil Cultivators to Star River Cosmos and placed Li Shanchang among them.
• Li Unrivaled explained that she had fought Li Shanchang before, but a black-robed man of comparable strength had rescued him.
• Ye Lin realized the black-robed man could be a formidable opponent and that Li Unrivaled might be the group's target.

Li Unrivaled and Ye Lin faced Li Shanchang and a group of black-clad figures, where Li Unrivaled discovered that Qin An was among them. After Ye Lin saw Qin An’s extraordinary panel, Qin An tried to persuade Li Unrivaled to join him, then threatened to take her by force when she refused.

• Li Unrivaled sensed the approaching black-clad figures and readied her saber as they arrived with Li Shanchang.
• Li Shanchang asked Qin An to severely injure Ye Lin so their karmic connection could be severed, but Qin An ignored him and revealed himself to Li Unrivaled.
• Ye Lin read Qin An’s panel and was stunned by his powerful Fate Traits, including a Sacred Gold trait that prevented his death before reaching the Zenith Heaven realm.
• Qin An asked Li Unrivaled to become his woman and help release the Devil Race’s sealed ancestor, but she refused and accused him of wanting to use her against her father.
• Qin An declared that he would take Li Unrivaled to the Devil Race by force.

Ye Lin destroyed Qin An’s six puppets in his domain, then seized Li Shanchang and demanded to know what other plans he had. Li Shanchang denied targeting Ye Lin and refused to yield, while Li Unrivaled and Qin An continued fighting in the distance.

• Qin An ordered his six black-robed puppets to attack Li Unrivaled while he fought her with a demonic spear.
• Ye Lin pulled the six puppets into his domain, stopped time, and reduced them to dust.
• Ye Lin reappeared beneath the open sky and caught Li Shanchang by the neck before he could react.
• Ye Lin demanded that Li Shanchang reveal his plans, but Li Shanchang denied targeting him and said Ye Lin could kill him if he did not believe him.
• Ye Lin pierced Li Shanchang’s neck, then released him and wiped the blood from his hand.

Ye Lin released Li Shanchang while keeping his own plans hidden. At Mountain-Shaking City, Li Unrivaled faced Qin An, whose half-step True Immortal power and Devil Race treasure threatened to overwhelm her.

• Ye Lin decided Li Shanchang was still useful, then released him and claimed he trusted him.
• Qin An struck Li Unrivaled into Mountain-Shaking City, destroying half the city and revealing his half-step True Immortal cultivation.
• Li Unrivaled stood her ground against Qin An despite her injuries.
• Li Unrivaled summoned the Dawn War Armor and golden saber, drawing on the power of Venerable Taiyi's legacy.
• Qin An formed the top-grade Supreme Artifact Immortal-Slaying Spear from devilish qi, and Li Unrivaled recognized the danger it posed.

Ye Lin and Li Shanchang watched Li Unrivaled and Venerable Taiyi's daughter fight with legendary weapons. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar awakened, learned where Ye Lin was and who the fighters were, and watched the battle with excitement.

• Ye Lin and Li Shanchang watched the battle as Ye Lin admired Li Unrivaled's armor and spear.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar awakened and asked Ye Lin about his cultivation and their location.
• Ye Lin explained that he was a Heavenly Immortal in a training ground formed from a Daluo Golden Immortal's body.
• Ye Lin told the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar that the fighters were Venerable Taiyi's daughter and the young master of the Devil Race.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar recognized the older generation's grudges in the fight and grew excited to watch.