Chapter Summaries

Lu Changfeng brought Ye Lin from the Water Moon Mystic Realm to the Divine Kingdom’s imperial capital and promised to help him obtain an identity. They entered the bustling city, where powerful beings of many races gathered, while an unknown figure followed them through the portal.

• Lu Changfeng ordered three Qilin Legion squads to seal off the Water Moon Mystic Realm and stop anyone from escaping.
• Lu Changfeng used a Jade Talisman to open a portal and led Ye Lin through it, while a figure slipped in just before it closed.
• Lu Changfeng took Ye Lin to the imperial capital by teleportation array and warned him not to wander without an identity.
• Lu Changfeng said he wanted to befriend Ye Lin and led him through the city gates into the golden capital.
• Ye Lin saw residents from many races whose cultivation ranged from Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal to True Immortal.

Lu Changfeng brought Ye Lin to a golden hall, where Qin An mocked him and attacked him while he was injured. Ye Lin intervened and sent Qin An flying, then challenged him to fight.

• Lu Changfeng led Ye Lin through narrow alleys and into a golden hall.
• Qin An mocked Lu Changfeng’s injuries and ordered his Earth Immortal guards to throw Ye Lin out.
• Lu Changfeng killed the approaching guards with one strike and confronted Qin An.
• Qin An pressured the injured Lu Changfeng and made him bend under his strength.
• Ye Lin grabbed Qin An’s arm, slapped him flying, and challenged him to exchange moves.

Ye Lin examined Qin An’s fate panel and learned that Qin An would find the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder in the ruins of the Immortal World. He defended the injured Lu Changfeng by taunting Qin An, leaving the two facing off.

• Qin An confronted the heavily injured Lu Changfeng and threatened Ye Lin when Ye Lin protected him.
• Ye Lin viewed Qin An’s panel and learned about his background, abilities, fate, and future discovery of the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder.
• Ye Lin recognized Qin An’s future treasure as a valuable opportunity and mocked him for bullying an injured man.
• Qin An demanded to know who Ye Lin was as Ye Lin continued insulting his character and the Divine Kingdom’s prodigies.

Ye Lin confronted Qin An over his attempt to challenge the injured Lu, and Qin An backed down after sensing Ye Lin’s strength. Qin Ziyan apologized for her brother and invited Ye Lin and Lu to a gathering hosted by the Qin family three days later.

• Ye Lin restrained Qin An’s pointing finger and offered to face him himself while Lu recovered.
• Qin An sensed Ye Lin’s dense Blood Baleful aura and withdrew rather than fight.
• Qin Ziyan arrived, rebuked Qin An, and introduced herself to Ye Lin.
• Qin Ziyan apologized for Qin An’s behavior and invited Ye Lin and Lu to the Qin family gathering in three days.

Ye Lin accepted Qin Ziyan’s invitations and received a temporary identity token from Lu Changfeng, then asked to stay in the Divine Kingdom. Lu Changfeng brought him to the Lu Family residence, where he planned to visit his father.

• Qin Ziyan gave Ye Lin two invitations and left, while Lu Changfeng warned him that she was known as the Imperial Capital Witch.
• Lu Changfeng gave Ye Lin a temporary identity token that allowed him to remain in the kingdom for one thousand years.
• Ye Lin said he wanted to stay, and Lu Changfeng invited him to live with the Lu Family after mistaking his interest in Qin Ziyan for romantic intentions.
• Lu Changfeng led Ye Lin to the Lu Family’s self-contained residence and flew ahead to visit his father.

Lu Changfeng brought Ye Lin to meet his father, who healed Lu Changfeng and warned Ye Lin that a tribulation awaited him. Back outside the hall, Lu Changfeng guessed the tribulation involved the demoness and urged Ye Lin to give up pursuing her.

• Lu Changfeng opened the main hall doors and was forced to his knees by the pressure inside, while Ye Lin remained standing.
• Lu Changfeng told his father that a friend had injured him during a spar, and his father healed him and nourished Ye Lin’s meridians.
• Lu Changfeng’s father praised Ye Lin’s cultivation and warned him that he would face a tribulation soon.
• Lu Changfeng told Ye Lin that his father could calculate all things and guessed the tribulation was the demoness, urging Ye Lin to stop pursuing her.

Ye Lin accompanied Lu Changfeng to his residence, where Lu Changfeng introduced the Heavenly Water waterfall he used for body tempering. Ye Lin settled into a room with a Spirit Gathering Formation and examined the incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.

• Lu Changfeng was hurled away after provoking someone in the great hall, then invited Ye Lin to his residence.
• Lu Changfeng showed Ye Lin the waterfall of Heavenly Water, whose every drop weighed hundreds of millions of jin.
• Lu Changfeng began training beneath the waterfall and vowed to make Qin An pay in three days.
• Ye Lin entered a room and discovered that its meditation cushion sat atop a formation that gathered Immortal Qi and enhanced comprehension.
• Ye Lin took out the incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities from Niu Hanshan, bringing his collection to five incomplete volumes.

Ye Lin resolved to raise his Fate Rank so he could find the five remaining fragments of One Breath Becomes Three Purities, and he studied a scroll that taught him to sever his benevolent thoughts. He summoned Lin Xian and considered the mysterious limits holding back his avatars, a problem he suspected the other fragments might explain.

• Ye Lin checked his status panel and saw that his Fate Rank was Fortune Path, with a fortune value of 87,450,000 and a destiny that ended in tragedy.
• Ye Lin decided he needed to become urgent about improving his Fate Rank and said he would have to cross blades with Qin An.
• Ye Lin read the scroll and learned that the complete One Breath Becomes Three Purities required all ten fragments and involved severing the Evil Corpse, Good Corpse, and Self Corpse.
• After two days of comprehension, Ye Lin understood that his fragment explained how to sever benevolent thoughts, but not the other two.
• Ye Lin summoned Lin Xian and reflected that his avatars were falling behind in cultivation, possibly because of a mysterious constraint.

Ye Lin separated his benevolent thoughts from his Primordial Spirit and merged them into Lin Xian, then joined Lu Changfeng on the way to confront the Qin Family. As they reached a vast river beyond the imperial capital, a black dot appeared in its waters.

• Ye Lin used a sword gesture to sever his benevolent thoughts and merged them into Lin Xian, who then entered Ye Lin's body.
• Lu Changfeng noticed Ye Lin seemed less warm after his seclusion, but Ye Lin dismissed his concern.
• Mysterious voices discussed Ye Lin's Dao inheritance and wondered why his future appeared as Chaos.
• Lu Changfeng explained the continent and its enormous river as he traveled with Ye Lin beyond the imperial capital.
• Ye Lin and Lu Changfeng reached the riverbank, where a black dot emerged in the distance and began growing larger.

Ye Lin and Lu Changfeng boarded the Qin Family’s golden ship, Flawless, and met Qin Ziyan on their way to the appointment. Qin Ziyan tested Ye Lin with her charm, and he stayed composed as the ship continued on its journey.

• Flawless appeared on the river, and Lu Changfeng and Ye Lin boarded it using a stairway of golden light.
• Qin Ziyan welcomed Lu Changfeng and Ye Lin, noting that they had arrived late.
• Lu Changfeng explained that they had come as soon as Ye Lin emerged from seclusion.
• Qin Ziyan questioned Ye Lin about entering seclusion before the appointment, then used a bewitching glance to test him.
• Ye Lin apologized and maintained his composure, satisfying Qin Ziyan and easing Lu Changfeng’s concern.
• Lu Changfeng remarked that Qin Ziyan’s beauty and glance had nearly made him lose himself.

Qin Ziyan gathered the younger generation aboard the Flawless and revealed that strange entities had appeared inside the Divine Kingdom and that she had found one of their strongholds. She proposed that they destroy it, leaving the gathered prodigies shaken by the news.

• The prodigies aboard the Flawless discussed why Qin Ziyan had summoned them as Lu Changfeng and Ye Lin joined the gathering.
• Qin Ziyan told everyone that she had discovered a strange stronghold within the Divine Kingdom’s territory.
• Qin Ziyan proposed that the group wipe out the stronghold, noting that it held no strange entities at the Taiyi Mystic Immortal realm.
• The gathered figures reacted with unease and fear upon hearing about the strange entities.

Ye Lin recalled the uncanny’s terrifying powers and the ancient war that had devastated the Star River Cosmos, while the Divine Kingdom’s chosen fell silent at the prospect of facing them. Qin Ziyan rebuked them for their fear, but no one stepped forward.

• Ye Lin remembered that the uncanny could imitate anything and revive from even a speck, and that the ancient war against them had brought the Star River Cosmos into an Age of Dharma Decline.
• The Divine Kingdom’s chosen grew afraid at the mention of the uncanny and stayed silent.
• Qin Ziyan mocked the chosen for being frightened before they had even encountered the uncanny.
• The chosen did not answer because the historical accounts of the uncanny’s infiltration and disguises terrified them.
• Qin Ziyan stood in anger and disappointment as none of the chosen dared step forward.

Qin Ziyan was disappointed when the Divine Kingdom’s Heaven’s Pride hesitated to act against the aberrations. Ye Lin defended the expedition and denounced their fear, prompting a white-clad man to confront him politely.

• Qin Ziyan listened as the Heaven’s Pride proposed delaying action against the aberrations and sending legions to test them, and she grew deeply disappointed.
• Ye Lin declared that the aberrations were worth confronting and recalled how the previous generation had fought them despite terrible losses.
• Ye Lin urged the Heaven’s Pride to accept their responsibility to the Star River Cosmos and criticized them for being afraid of a name.
• A white-clad man stepped forward, bowed to Ye Lin, and asked where he came from and who his master was.

Ye Lin challenged a noble young man who questioned his background, and Lu Changfeng publicly supported Ye Lin while Qin Ziyan urged the gathered nobles to face the strange. Most of the crowd refused and left, leaving Qin Ziyan facing the consequences of their reluctance.

• Ye Lin rebuked a young man for judging him by his background and called him a coward.
• Lu Changfeng praised Ye Lin's courage and made clear that he supported him.
• Several people agreed to go with Qin Ziyan to confront the strange, and she thanked Ye Lin.
• Qin Ziyan allowed anyone unwilling to join to leave, and more than half the crowd departed while criticizing her plan.

Qin Huang arrived and asked Qin Ziyan who had upset her, while Lu Changfeng explained the formidable swordsman’s origins to Ye Lin. Qin Ziyan said she was disappointed by some things, and another powerful figure approached across the waves.

• Qin Ziyan watched the departing prodigies and felt disappointed in them.
• Qin Huang arrived across the river, and Lu Changfeng told Ye Lin that he was Qin Ziyan’s older brother, a peak True Immortal with an Innate Sword Body.
• Qin Huang joined Qin Ziyan on the deck and asked what had disappointed her.
• A laughing figure appeared across the waves and called out to Qin Huang, saying he had chased him all the way there.

Lu Changfeng introduced Ye Lin to his brother, Lu Unrivaled, before Zhao Ling'er of the Zhao Family arrived and asked to befriend Ye Lin. The four prodigies of the Qin and Lu Families and Zhao Ling'er gathered as the group prepared to face anomalies.

• Lu Unrivaled arrived and greeted Lu Changfeng and Ye Lin, and Lu Changfeng introduced them to each other.
• The crowd discussed the arrival of Qin Ziyan, Qin Huang, Lu Changfeng, and Lu Unrivaled.
• Zhao Ling'er arrived on an armored turtle and scolded Lu Unrivaled and Qin Huang for not bringing her along.
• Lu Changfeng warned Ye Lin that Zhao Ling'er was a cunning troublemaker, but she overheard him and confronted him.
• Zhao Ling'er turned to Ye Lin and asked to be friends, while Lu Changfeng quietly moved away from him.

Ye Lin befriended Zhao Ling'er before the First Prince and Second Princess arrived at the gathering. Lu Changfeng explained that their national fortune made them unmatched in battle, while Qin Yanran remained the Divine Kingdom’s strongest young cultivator without that power.

• Zhao Ling'er declared Ye Lin her friend and promised to stand up for him if anyone bullied him.
• A golden dragon appeared on the horizon, carrying the First Prince and Second Princess toward the gathering.
• The crowd recognized the royal siblings and stood respectfully as they arrived.
• Lu Changfeng explained to Ye Lin that Qin Yanran ranked first without national fortune, but the royal siblings could draw on it to defeat anyone within the True Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin understood how national fortune empowered rulers’ descendants, and those present bowed to the First Prince and Second Princess.

The First Prince and Second Princess joined Qin Ziyan’s expedition after the Heaven-Inspecting Mirror revealed Ye Lin’s identity. As the Flawless sped into dark space, Qin Ziyan warned the group that the deadly trial would determine who could inherit important positions and benefit from the Divine Kingdom’s national destiny.

• The First Prince praised Ye Lin’s talent, and Ye Lin realized the Heaven-Inspecting Mirror had exposed his identity.
• The First Prince and Second Princess greeted Qin Ziyan and said the Emperor had sent them to assist and gain experience.
• Qin Ziyan agreed to their company and drove the Flawless at extreme speed into dark space.
• Qin Ziyan told the group that the three ancient Imperial Clans had organized the dangerous trial to cultivate the Divine Kingdom’s next generation.
• The group learned that those who had left had forfeited their chances at important positions and the protection of national destiny.

Qin Ziyan explained the rules for a dangerous battle inside an aberrant stronghold, where the participants could earn merit points and might find a Supreme Venerable Artifact. The group arrived at the mist-shrouded star and prepared to enter, with Ye Lin joining them.

• Qin Ziyan warned that participants could use only True Immortal-level power, could not leave or use elders’ trump cards, and would be eliminated for breaking the rules.
• Qin Ziyan revealed a rumor that the stronghold contained a Supreme Venerable Artifact left by the Divine Sword Celestial Venerable.
• The Flawless arrived above the aberrant stronghold, and Qin Ziyan warned that its aberrant qi could assimilate them and that divine sense and communication would not work inside.
• Qin Ziyan handed out emerald-green bracelets that recorded each aberration killed and explained that the results would determine rankings and merit points.
• Qin Ziyan warned everyone that aberrations could impersonate people they knew and ordered them to enter and slay every aberration before leaving.

Ye Lin entered the strange stronghold and found himself standing on what appeared to be the skin of a creature. When he pierced it, the enormous beast beneath him awoke and demanded to know who had injured it.

• The three great emperor clans departed the Flawless despite Zhang Yiran's challenge about their secret plans.
• Qin Ziyan left without answering Zhang Yiran, and Ye Lin followed Lu Changfeng toward the gray star.
• Lu Changfeng warned Ye Lin not to trust anyone inside the stronghold, even him, before entering with his spear.
• Ye Lin entered the stronghold, fell through gray fog that blocked his vision and divine sense, and landed on soft black ground.
• Ye Lin pierced the ground with his finger, drawing black blood and awakening the enormous beast beneath him.