Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin spent five thousand years comprehending the painting and learned the Nine Yang Supreme Law, a mid-grade Supreme Law. After awakening, he discovered the painting had crumbled and manifested the law’s first great sun.

• Ye Lin became immersed in a vision of a rising sun as the grand hall sealed around him.
• Cang Zhong and Li Mu left Ye Lin in seclusion, and Cang Zhong checked on the hall every hundred years.
• The Human Race grew to six Heavenly Immortal experts and made the hall a heavily guarded forbidden ground.
• The Nine Yang Star Lord appeared in Ye Lin’s vision, named himself, and said they might meet again.
• Ye Lin returned to his senses, learned the name and levels of the Nine Yang Supreme Law, and realized five thousand years had passed.

Ye Lin emerged from seclusion and agreed to help Li Mu punish the Ice Sparrow Race for its persecution of the Earth Spirit Race. After bidding farewell to the gathered Human Race powers, Ye Lin left with Lin Yunlu, and the story shifted to a glacier-covered continent inhabited by snow-white birds.

• Ye Lin confirmed that Li Mu’s supreme art was genuine and asked how he could repay the favor.
• Li Mu asked Ye Lin to strike the Ice Sparrow Race, which had hunted Earth Spirit Race prodigies and confined the race to its home stars.
• Ye Lin summoned the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, and Lin Yunlu appeared, saying she had enjoyed five thousand years of play.
• Six Heavenly Immortals arrived as Ye Lin prepared to leave; Ye Lin told them to grow stronger and departed through the void.
• The gathered powers bowed as Ye Lin left, and the story moved to a glacier-covered continent surrounded by revolving stars and snow-white birds.

Ye Lin attacked the Ice Sparrow Race's ancestral land with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and began refining its entire world. The chapter left the Ice Sparrow Race facing destruction as explosions erupted across the continent.

• Ye Lin arrived at the Ice Sparrow Race's territory and ignored the guard's demand that he leave.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which expanded above the clan's ancestral land.
• Ye Lin used the jar's Blood Baleful qi to cover the continent and began refining it.
• An Ice Sparrow Race powerhouse begged Ye Lin to spare the clan and offered its treasures, but Ye Lin continued.
• Screams and explosions spread across the continent as the Ice Sparrow Race's world was destroyed.

Ye Lin used the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to annihilate the Ice Sparrow Race and its world, then rejected the jar’s offer to help him grow stronger by devouring more living beings. He left with the jar on his shoulder, while it remained convinced he would eventually embrace its path.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar drained the Ice Sparrow Race and destroyed its world, leaving only shattered fragments in the Starry Sky.
• The Ice Sparrow Race experts watched in shock as their people and birthplace vanished.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar praised the destruction and offered to help Ye Lin reach the Taiyi Mystic Immortal realm by devouring more.
• Ye Lin carried the jar away but rejected shortcuts that would compromise his nature and cultivation.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar silently expected Ye Lin to become a second Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord someday.

Ye Lin encountered Shen Yunxue while passing a battle in the Starry Sky, then was attacked by Wu Qi, a late-stage True Immortal from the Divine Dynasty. Ye Lin fought back and revealed enough strength to surprise Wu Qi, but their battle remained unresolved.

• Ye Lin headed toward the center of the Immortal Abandoned Land and tried to detour around a battle between two factions.
• Shen Yunxue appeared before Ye Lin and was surprised that he could see her despite her bracelet.
• Ye Lin viewed Shen Yunxue's panel and learned about her background, fate, and future opportunity.
• Wu Qi arrived, accused Ye Lin of belonging to the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom, and attacked when Ye Lin tried to leave.
• Ye Lin shattered Wu Qi's attack, seized him, and smashed him into a star before Wu Qi broke free and recognized Ye Lin's cultivation.

Ye Lin fought Wu Qi, a Divine Dynasty martial general who had attacked him, and easily defeated him. Wu Qi’s companion then intervened and demanded that Ye Lin stop.

• Wu Qi attacked Ye Lin after discovering that he was a mid-stage True Immortal, despite his companion urging him to leave.
• Wu Qi charged Ye Lin with his spear while Shen Junxue watched from a distance.
• Ye Lin redirected Wu Qi’s spear with a finger and slapped him into the starry sky, where he smashed through several stars.
• Ye Lin gathered Blood Baleful Qi as he prepared to continue, but Wu Qi’s companion stepped in and ordered him to stay his hand.

Ye Lin crippled Wu Qi with his Great Sun Descends technique after the Divine Dynasty cultivators challenged him. The surviving young man threatened retaliation from the Divine Dynasty, while Wu Qi floated badly wounded in the Starry Sky.

• Ye Lin slapped the young man, badly injuring him for daring to order Ye Lin around.
• Wu Qi attacked Ye Lin with Heavenly Spear, but Ye Lin shattered the spear with Great Sun Descends and struck Wu Qi down.
• Ye Lin detonated the great sun, destroying stars across tens of thousands of star miles and leaving Wu Qi gravely injured.
• The young man warned Ye Lin that harming Wu Qi would enrage the Divine Dynasty and bring consequences for the Immortal Abandoned Land.

Ye Lin killed the Divine Dynasty cultivators, then he and Shen Junxue were pulled into Water Moon Grotto-Heaven by a strange Milky Way. They learned that escaping required discovering the grotto-heaven’s true secret, which no one had ever found.

• Ye Lin destroyed the young man’s Primordial Spirit and obliterated Wu Qi, then dismissed Shen Junxue’s warning about the Divine Dynasty’s God.
• Shen Junxue followed Ye Lin as a Milky Way appeared in the Starry Sky and began drawing cultivators away.
• A snow-white hand seized Ye Lin, and he and Shen Junxue vanished into Water Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Lin recalled that the grotto-heaven was the inner space of a spear thrown during a battle between two Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Shen Junxue despaired at being trapped, while Ye Lin considered the requirement to find the grotto-heaven’s true secret.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue were trapped in the Water Moon Grotto-Heaven, where their powers were suppressed and escape seemed impossible. As Ye Lin searched for a way out, Shen Junxue’s parents discussed her disappearance and the role of Destiny in her calamity.

• Shen Junxue confronted Ye Lin for making her risk getting trapped while saving him, but he focused on finding a way out.
• Shen Junxue explained that the grotto-heaven had no laws or Immortal Qi, suppressed their cultivation, and brought Water Moon Sacred Beasts, leaving them likely to die there.
• Ye Lin examined the island and its surroundings, insisting there had to be a way out while Shen Junxue lost hope.
• Shen Junxue’s mother told her husband that she had lost contact with Xue'er.
• Shen Junxue’s father said her calamity was tied to Destiny and could not be avoided, but might become a fortunate opportunity for her.

After a year trapped in Water Moon Grotto-Heaven, Ye Lin had perfected the first level of the Great Sun Supreme Art while Shen Junxue despaired over their lack of escape. When a Water Moon Sacred Beast attacked, Ye Lin drove it off, and the two considered how to survive and break their stalemate.

• Shen Junxue lamented that she and Ye Lin had spent a year trapped without finding a way out.
• Ye Lin ended his meditation, pleased that he had perfected the first level of the Great Sun Supreme Art, and felt guilty that Shen Junxue had been trapped while saving him.
• A Water Moon Sacred Beast leaped from the sea and lunged at Ye Lin, who struck it back into the water.
• Shen Junxue warned Ye Lin that more Water Moon Sacred Beasts, possibly even True Immortals, might be beneath the sea.
• Ye Lin reasoned that rules kept the beasts from attacking the island and said they needed to find a way to escape rather than wait for death.
• Shen Junxue accepted Ye Lin's reasoning and turned her attention to breaking their stalemate.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue crossed the sea toward a distant continent while fighting Water Moon Sacred Beasts. They discovered that the beasts feared Shen Junxue’s flames, giving them a way forward.

• Several Water Moon Sacred Beasts attacked Ye Lin and Shen Junxue, and Ye Lin knocked them back into the water.
• Shen Junxue used her powers to blast several beasts apart, then complained that the sea was suppressing her strength.
• Ye Lin spotted a distant continent and pulled Shen Junxue across the waves toward it.
• Ye Lin killed a Water Moon Sacred Beast that attacked from below and told Shen Junxue to continue while he guarded their rear.
• Shen Junxue activated Blazing Sun Incinerates Heaven, driving the beasts away, and Ye Lin realized they were afraid of fire.

Ye Lin rescued Shen Junxue from a mid-stage True Immortal Water Moon Sacred Beast, but the beast’s strength overwhelmed him as his power was suppressed. They landed in an eerie forest, where Ye Lin wondered what was wrong with the place.

• A mid-stage True Immortal Water Moon Sacred Beast emerged behind Ye Lin, and Shen Junxue reached solid ground.
• Shen Junxue attacked the beast with two golden flame dragons, but it bit them apart and charged at her.
• Ye Lin pulled Shen Junxue behind him and struck the beast with the Great Sun Emergence, but the phantom shattered and the beast knocked him away.
• The Water Moon Sacred Beast roared and disappeared into the sea, while Ye Lin coughed up blood and noted that his suppression was worsening.
• Shen Junxue thanked Ye Lin as they found themselves in a strange forest of nearly identical trees beneath eerie moonlight.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue traveled through the dangerous Water Moon Grotto-Heaven, where Ye Lin killed a Long-haired Demon Ape that attacked them. Three strangers calling themselves the Mirror Moon Three Heroes approached and recognized that the pair had only just entered the grotto-heaven.

• Ye Lin pulled Shen Junxue aside to evade a flash of white light, and they discussed finding the spear's artifact spirit as a possible way out.
• Ye Lin sensed another attack, then used a blazing sun of power to pin the white creature to the ground and kill it.
• Shen Junxue approached the creature's corpse, and a cool-voiced woman identified it as a Water Moon Sacred Beast called a Long-haired Demon Ape.
• Three figures approached, and Shen Junxue warily moved back toward Ye Lin.
• The petite girl introduced them as the Mirror Moon Three Heroes and asked whether Ye Lin and Shen Junxue had just entered the Water Moon Grotto-Heaven.

Shen Junxue and Ye Lin met Jade Ruyi, Niu Hanshan, and Jade Rose, who had been trapped in the place for tens of millions of years. The encounter turned tense when Ye Lin and Niu Hanshan recognized that they both cultivated One Breath Becomes Three Purities and prepared to fight.

• Shen Junxue introduced herself and Ye Lin to Jade Ruyi, who introduced Niu Hanshan and Jade Rose.
• Jade Ruyi said the three had been trapped there for tens of millions of years and invited Shen Junxue and Ye Lin to come with them.
• Niu Hanshan recognized that Ye Lin cultivated One Breath Becomes Three Purities, and Ye Lin confirmed it.
• Niu Hanshan planted his great saber in the ground as killing intent filled the air, while Jade Ruyi and Jade Rose moved beside him and Shen Junxue stood with Ye Lin.

Ye Lin and Niu Hanshan prepared to fight over their fragmentary scrolls of One Breath Becomes Three Purities, but Niu Hanshan could not recover his strength after tens of millions of years of suppression. They agreed to settle their rivalry after escaping the place where they were trapped.

• Ye Lin asked whether Niu Hanshan possessed a fragmentary scroll, and Niu Hanshan confirmed that he did.
• Ye Lin and Shen Junxue prepared to fight, but Niu Hanshan's aura faded as he admitted he could not regain his former strength.
• Ye Lin put away the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and said he would not waste his strength fighting there.
• Niu Hanshan said he had been trapped for tens of millions of years and doubted they could escape.
• Ye Lin asked Niu Hanshan to promise they would fight after leaving, and Niu Hanshan agreed, saying he would reincarnate and cultivate again if he lost.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue joined Niu Hanshan’s group, and Jade Ruyi explained how Calamity-Transcending Stones eased the Water Moon Grotto-Heaven’s crushing suppression. She revealed that a powerful group monopolized the stones, leaving the long-trapped cultivators impoverished and struggling to survive.

• Ye Lin accepted Niu Hanshan’s invitation to travel together, and Shen Junxue welcomed the arrangement.
• Jade Ruyi gave Ye Lin and Shen Junxue low-grade Calamity-Transcending Stones, which eased the suppression and restored some of Ye Lin’s strength.
• Ye Lin learned that higher-grade stones could reduce the suppression further, but a powerful group controlled access to them.
• Jade Ruyi explained that she and her companions had traded away their resources and Spatial Rings for stones after spending tens of millions of years in the grotto-heaven.
• Jade Ruyi said that True Immortals without Calamity-Transcending Stones would be crushed after one million years.

Jade Ruyi and Niu Hanshan guided Ye Lin and Shen Junxue across Mirror Moon Land toward Tianyong City, warning them about its dangers and telling them to conceal that they were newcomers. Their journey halted when Jade Rose discovered a group of powerful Jade Scorpions ahead.

• Jade Ruyi explained that Mirror Moon Land could shift into countless forms and that the Long-haired Demon Ape that attacked Ye Lin was a relatively weak Earth Immortal.
• Jade Ruyi said the group was heading to Tianyong City to trade Water Moon Sacred Beast heads for Calamity-Transcending Stones, and warned that nighttime brought deadly beasts.
• Niu Hanshan warned Ye Lin and Shen Junxue to hide their identities as newcomers, so they put on masks to conceal their auras.
• Ye Lin asked why Water Moon Sacred Beast heads were valuable, and Niu Hanshan said they were important materials for refining Calamity-Transcending Stones.
• Jade Rose detected movement, went ahead to investigate, and returned to report that a group of enormous, powerful Jade Scorpions was blocking their way.

With the only route to Tianyong City blocked by a deadly Jade Scorpion swarm, the group had to choose between fighting through and dying on the way around. Niu Hanshan gave Ye Lin the One Breath Becomes Three Purities scroll and charged ahead, while Jade Rose and Jade Ruyi prepared to follow.

• Jade Ruyi explained that the Jade Scorpions blocked the only route to Tianyong City and that the group had less than three days before their Calamity-Transcending Stones ran out.
• Jade Rose decided to carve a path through the swarm, and Jade Ruyi followed her.
• Niu Hanshan gave Ye Lin the One Breath Becomes Three Purities scroll, pointed out that Tianyong City lay fifty star li ahead, and charged at the Jade Scorpions.
• Ye Lin examined the scroll while Shen Junxue hesitated to risk her life alongside people she had just met.
• Jade Rose and Jade Ruyi surveyed the tens of thousands of Jade Scorpions and planned to have Niu Hanshan lead the charge while they cleared the flanks.

Niu Hanshan, Jade Rose, and Jade Ruyi fought through swarms of jade scorpions, but their strength faded as suppression weighed on them. Jade Ruyi unleashed Frost Blossom to freeze and shatter the scorpions around them.

• Niu Hanshan arrived alone, activated his Glazed Divine Body, and volunteered to charge ahead.
• Niu Hanshan, Jade Rose, and Jade Ruyi followed him into the jade scorpion swarm, using their abilities to clear a path.
• The trio grew exhausted as the jade scorpions gathered around them and Niu Hanshan's attacks weakened under the accumulating suppression.
• Jade Rose admitted she could no longer push forward, and Jade Ruyi activated Frost Blossom to freeze and shatter the scorpions within ten meters.

Ye Lin decided to rescue Niu Hanshan and the others after considering the karmic debt he owed, and Shen Junxue cut a path through the Jade Scorpions to reach them. The group followed her, while Ye Lin’s explanation of why he chose to help continued.

• A one-pattern Jade Scorpion appeared, leaving Jade Rose, Jade Ruyi, and Niu Hanshan facing what seemed to be certain death.
• Niu Hanshan prepared to burn his life and Primordial Spirit to fight the Jade Scorpions, despite Jade Ruyi and Jade Rose trying to stop him.
• Shen Junxue arrived and used a sword strike to destroy the Jade Scorpions surrounding the three, then urged them to follow her.
• Niu Hanshan stopped his ascension and joined the others as they followed Shen Junxue.
• A few minutes earlier, Ye Lin decided to help them because Niu Hanshan had given him a scroll, creating a karmic debt.