Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin reached the summit and found the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, whose overwhelming sword Dao charm revealed a vision of its terrifying former master. Zhao Ling'er was thrown back and wounded when she tried to take the sword, and Ye Lin began using his Destruction Sword Dao to remove the baleful aura from her hand.

• Ye Lin sensed a powerful unfamiliar sword Dao charm and climbed to the summit despite its pressure suppressing his Destruction Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin discovered the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and saw a vision of its master seated above a river of blood in a destroyed starry sky.
• Zhao Ling'er awakened and reached for the sword, which erupted with crimson light and sent her flying.
• Ye Lin caught Zhao Ling'er, then found her hand bleeding and sensed that the sword's Blood Baleful aura and Dao charm threatened to ruin it.
• Ye Lin took Zhao Ling'er's injured hand and used his Destruction Sword Dao to drive away the mysterious sword Dao charm.

Lu Changfeng and Lu Unrivaled continued searching for their destination, while Ye Lin attempted to subdue the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor. After its artifact spirit injured his Primordial Spirit, Ye Lin unleashed his aura against the sword.

• Lu Changfeng questioned Lu Unrivaled's directions, but Lu Unrivaled pointed down the only path and walked ahead.
• Zhao Ling'er gave up on subduing the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, and Ye Lin stepped forward to try.
• Ye Lin resisted the sword's Blood Baleful qi and prevented it from controlling him.
• Ye Lin sent his divine sense into the sword, but its force blasted him back and injured his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin erupted with a violent aura and pressed it down upon the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.

Ye Lin subdued the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and entered its inner space to confront its slumbering artifact spirit. He tried to persuade it to follow him and recover, but it gave no response.

• Ye Lin suppressed the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor until it stopped resisting, while Zhao Ling'er watched from a distance.
• Ye Lin guarded himself with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and sent his divine sense into the sword.
• Ye Lin found a wounded, sleeping figure in the sword’s crimson inner space and recognized it as the artifact spirit.
• Ye Lin urged the artifact spirit to follow him and warned that it would never recover on its own, but it remained silent.

Ye Lin tried to persuade the supreme sword artifact spirit to accept him, arguing that fate could be defied and invoking its master's name. As the spirit fell silent and weakened, Ye Lin poured his immortal power toward it, only for the artifact to greedily absorb it.

• Ye Lin questioned the artifact spirit's claim that they had no fate together and argued that cultivators should defy heaven's decree.
• The artifact spirit demanded to know how Ye Lin knew its master, Divine Sword Dao Venerable.
• Ye Lin claimed he admired Divine Sword Dao Venerable, earning the artifact spirit's goodwill.
• Ye Lin urged the artifact spirit to break fate and let him enter its destiny.
• As the artifact spirit fell silent and its aura weakened, Ye Lin sent it his immortal power, which it began to devour.

Ye Lin replenished the ancient artifact spirit with his immortal power until it awakened, then agreed to its requests. The spirit would follow him until it found someone fated to wield it, and Ye Lin would take the swords from the area and find masters they acknowledged.

• The artifact spirit drained more than half of Ye Lin's immortal power before its suction stopped and it thanked him for helping it awaken.
• Ye Lin readily agreed to let the artifact spirit follow him until it encountered someone fated with it.
• The artifact spirit asked Ye Lin to take the swords that had fought against the strange and find living beings whom the swords would acknowledge as their masters.
• Ye Lin considered the difficulty of finding worthy wielders for all the swords and agreed to take them.

After gaining the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor’s acknowledgment, Ye Lin tested the Supreme Artifact and discovered its overwhelming power. He summoned more than ten thousand swords, leaving Zhao Ling'er, Lu Changfeng, and Lu Unrivaled stunned and wary.

• Ye Lin left the blood-colored space after agreeing to the artifact spirit’s conditions, while refusing to call it Master.
• Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and felt its immense Blood Baleful aura.
• Ye Lin poured immortal power into the sword and slashed through the sky, realizing that even a strike using ten percent of his strength could threaten a True Immortal.
• Ye Lin shouted “Swords, come,” summoning more than ten thousand Long Swords that circled above him.
• Zhao Ling'er, Lu Changfeng, and Lu Unrivaled watched the display, and Lu Changfeng feared Ye Lin might accidentally strike them.

Ye Lin gained the acknowledgment of the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and collected the other divine swords into his Spatial Ring. As the group continued their expedition, Zhao Ling'er sulked over the sword on Ye Lin’s back, while Lu Unrivaled warned Lu Changfeng that they had yet to face any truly dangerous opponents.

• Ye Lin sent the divine swords into his Spatial Ring and carried the resisting Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor on his back.
• Lu Changfeng congratulated Ye Lin for gaining the Supreme Artifact’s acknowledgment, and Lu Unrivaled offered his congratulations as well.
• Zhao Ling'er complained that the sword had taken the spot on Ye Lin’s back, then walked away as Lu Changfeng and Lu Unrivaled reacted with surprise to her closeness with Ye Lin.
• Lu Changfeng wondered why they had encountered no strange or dangerous beings, and Lu Unrivaled smacked him and warned him not to get overconfident.

Lu Unrivaled explained that anomalies had three ranks and warned that savage and divine anomalies were far more dangerous than the ordinary ones they had encountered. He concluded that killing anomalies was only a smokescreen for a hidden objective, leaving the group to decide what to do next.

• Lu Unrivaled described ordinary, savage, and divine anomalies and said savage anomalies could match him while divine anomalies were invincible within their realm.
• Lu Unrivaled and Zhao Ling'er said the group had faced only ordinary anomalies so far, and advised them to target savage anomalies and flee if they encountered a divine anomaly.
• Ye Lin looked forward to facing powerful opponents, while Lu Changfeng wondered why the others knew so much more than he did.
• Lu Unrivaled said anomalies could not be eradicated while anomalous qi remained, so the expedition's stated goal of wiping them out was a smokescreen for another secret.
• Lu Changfeng asked what the group should do next.

Ye Lin followed a vast horde of aberrations toward the place drawing them, then encountered Shen Junxue, who explained how she had escaped the Water Moon Mystic Realm and reached the misty region. He discovered that Shen Junxue was destined to obtain the aberration clan's Sacred Relic at Blood Severance Mountain, and the chapter ended with her explaining why she knew he was not an aberration.

• Lu Changfeng and Lu Wushuang watched as aberrations rushed past them toward a single destination, and Ye Lin led the group in pursuit.
• Ye Lin saw Zhao Ling'er vanish into the mist, and Lu Changfeng and Lu Wushuang followed her after saying her innate dual pupils had likely revealed something.
• Ye Lin met Shen Junxue and checked her panel, which revealed her destiny to obtain the aberration clan's Sacred Relic at Blood Severance Mountain three hours later.
• Shen Junxue told Ye Lin she had escaped the Water Moon Mystic Realm with her father's talisman, been hunted by local natives, and stumbled into the area.
• Ye Lin questioned why Shen Junxue trusted that he was not an aberration, and she explained that aberrations usually mimic people their targets hold dear.

Ye Lin learned that Shen Junxue had spent dozens of epochs in the misty realm slaughtering aberrations for Heavenly Dao merit. They headed toward a powerful disturbance, where a dragon roared beyond the gray mist.

• Ye Lin felt the earth shake as trees collapsed and a powerful presence approached.
• Shen Junxue explained that brutal aberrations came from beyond the Star River Cosmos and that killing them earned Heavenly Dao merit.
• Shen Junxue invited Ye Lin to investigate the disturbance, and he walked ahead while she followed.
• Ye Lin pondered the Treasure Compendium’s strange entries as the ground grew more ruined and the auras ahead intensified.
• A dragon roared beyond the gray mist, and Ye Lin hurried toward the sound with his blood boiling.

Ye Lin searched the gray mist for the bizarre sacred relic while guiding Shen Junxue toward it, and the two encountered a powerful brutal bizarre creature. The creature prepared to attack them, leaving their confrontation about to begin.

• Zhao Ling'er unleashed a fierce golden attack, and Ye Lin avoided the battle to search for the bizarre sacred relic.
• Shen Junxue followed Ye Lin and asked why he was avoiding the fighting.
• Ye Lin suggested that the bizarre creatures had gathered because something nearby was drawing them in, and Shen Junxue considered his reasoning.
• A three-zhang-tall, faceless brutal bizarre creature emerged from the mist and confronted Ye Lin and Shen Junxue.
• Shen Junxue summoned a black crescent saber as the bizarre creature said it wanted to kill them.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue encountered a Divine Aberration that overwhelmed them with ease. As the aberration prepared to attack again, it shattered Shen Junxue’s crescent-moon strike and blasted her away.

• The Divine Aberration sent Ye Lin crashing through trees and into a mountain, then knocked Shen Junxue down and disarmed her.
• Shen Junxue identified the enemy as a Divine Aberration, and Ye Lin’s panel warned that it was extremely dangerous.
• The aberration struck Ye Lin repeatedly, crushing his chest and shattering his internal organs.
• A woman shouted “Bright Moon, slash” and sent a crescent-moon attack at the aberration.
• The aberration shattered the crescent with one punch and blasted Shen Junxue away with the shockwave.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue confronted a peak True Immortal god-tier aberration, whose spiritual attack and physical power overwhelmed Ye Lin. The chapter ended with Ye Lin realizing he had encountered a god-tier aberration before even meeting a savage aberration.

• The god-tier aberration found Ye Lin and attacked him with a spiritual assault and a space-piercing punch.
• Ye Lin countered with Saint-Falling Fist, but the collision badly injured him and sent him flying over a thousand miles.
• Shen Junxue arrived and summoned moonlight to strike the aberration, but it shattered her crescent-moon attack with a punch.
• Ye Lin recognized the enemy as a peak True Immortal god-tier aberration and wondered how he had encountered one before a savage aberration.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue confronted a divine aberration in its stronghold, where Ye Lin decided they had to fight rather than flee. Before the battle began, Zhao Ling'er, Lu Changfeng, Lu Unrivaled, Qin Ziyan, and Qin Huang appeared to face the aberration as well.

• Shen Junxue considered retreating, but Ye Lin warned that the faster divine aberration would catch them if they ran.
• Ye Lin activated his Eternal Unrivaled Demon Venerable Body and braced himself to fight the aberration.
• The divine aberration welcomed Ye Lin's anger and expressed excitement at facing a worthy opponent.
• Zhao Ling'er, Lu Changfeng, Lu Unrivaled, Qin Ziyan, and Qin Huang appeared and surrounded the divine aberration.

The seven greatest prodigies of the Divine Kingdom's imperial capital gathered to confront the divine aberration, but it easily escaped Zhang Yiran's top-grade immortal artifact. The chapter ended with Zhang Yiran in disbelief as she summoned a Vermilion Bird phantom.

• The seven prodigies assembled in the sky and brought their combined pressure to bear on the divine aberration.
• The aberration vanished, and Zhang Yiran used the Glazed Divine Fire Canopy to force it out of hiding and suppress it.
• Zhang Yiran claimed the canopy could trap even a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal, but Zhang Yiran warned that something was wrong.
• The aberration tore through the canopy with one punch and vanished again.
• Zhang Yiran erupted in fury and disbelief, summoning the phantom of a Vermilion Bird.

A bizarre god ambushed Zhang Yiran and tore off his arms, prompting Qin Huang, Lu Changfeng, and Zhao Ling'er to join the fight. The bizarre god survived their opening attacks as Zhao Ling'er sent her colossal green giant against him.

• A bizarre figure punched through Zhang Yiran's chest and then tore off his arms before kicking him toward the ground.
• Qin Huang called on everyone to attack so they could save the two royal princes, and his giant sword drove the bizarre god back thousands of miles.
• The bizarre god smashed Qin Huang's sword away with one punch.
• Lu Changfeng summoned a golden giant wielding a spear as Zhao Ling'er called forth a colossal green giant.
• Zhao Ling'er's green giant leaped at the bizarre god and punched him.

The seven True Immortal prodigies attacked the divine aberration, with Lu Changfeng striking it and Lu Unrivaled and Qin Huang following up with their own techniques. As the battle continued, Ye Lin’s Blood Baleful energy built to a level that astonished Shen Junxue.

• The divine aberration shattered the green giant and the spear shadows with a single punch, then appeared in front of Lu Changfeng.
• Lu Changfeng pierced the aberration’s chest, but the aberration placed a hand on his head and threatened him.
• Lu Unrivaled struck the aberration down with his jade fan and blasted its head apart with streams of white radiance.
• Qin Huang sent his giant sword crashing into the ground, causing the earth to collapse and battle aftershocks to prevent the gray mist from gathering.
• Ye Lin continued charging his Eternal Unrivaled Demon Venerable Body until his Blood Baleful energy became too dense for Shen Junxue to approach.

The seven greatest prodigies of the Divine Kingdom discovered that the godly aberration could regenerate after they seemingly destroyed it. Qin Ziyan used her Lock of Void and embryonic Karmic Fire to attack it, but the aberration broke free and struck back.

• The godly aberration reformed at full strength after Lu Changfeng and the others thought they had defeated it.
• Qin Ziyan used Lock of Void to bind the aberration with scarlet chains and set them ablaze with embryonic Karmic Fire.
• The aberration broke the chains, then punched through Qin Ziyan's fiery barrier and forced her throne backward.

Ye Lin fought the divine bizarre being alone and, after trading devastating blows, fused his Blood Baleful aura with the power of the great sun to suppress it. Qin Ziyan and the others helped seal the creature beneath the earth as Ye Lin began to use another technique.

• Ye Lin stepped in front of Qin Ziyan and punched the divine bizarre being back, then exchanged blows with it until both were badly wounded.
• Lu Unrivaled called for the others to help, and they unleashed powerful attacks on the bizarre being.
• Ye Lin invoked Great Sun, Abyss Descends and sent a phantom great sun crashing down to pin the bizarre being beneath the earth.
• Qin Ziyan used Lock of Void to bind the ground around the bizarre being and suppress it.
• Ye Lin prepared Illusion Art, Three Thousand Dao Treasury.

Ye Lin and the other prodigies temporarily restrained the divine aberration, but they could not kill it while the eerie qi remained. When the eerie qi vanished and a stairway to an altar appeared, the aberrations abandoned their rescue attempt and rushed toward the sacred relic in the black box.

• Ye Lin used three thousand talismans to bind the crimson chains, and he explained that the divine aberration could not die while fused with the eerie qi.
• Lu Unrivaled, Qin Ziyan, and Qin Huang recognized that the creature was only temporarily trapped and praised the power of Ye Lin's talismans and their combined efforts.
• Ye Lin looked for Shen Junxue but could not find her, while Lu Changfeng watched Ye Lin, Qin Ziyan, and Zhao Ling'er thoughtfully.
• Countless aberrations swarmed in and began tearing at the talismans to free the divine aberration.
• The eerie qi rapidly vanished, a bell rang across the star, and a luminous stairway appeared leading to an altar with a black box.
• The aberrations abandoned the divine aberration and rushed toward the black box, calling it their race's sacred relic.