Chapter Summaries

The Contest Arena opened, beginning a three-day competition that would end with only ten survivors. Ye Lin and his companions had two days to assess their opponents and withdraw before the final five hours, when fighting to the death became mandatory.

• Eastern Deity noted that six hours had passed and warned that unfamiliar True Immortal powerhouses had made the competition more dangerous.
• Poison Venerable entered the platform with two early-stage True Immortal prodigies and led them away after glancing at Ye Lin.
• The gate closed, a barrier sealed the platform, and a voice announced that the arena would shrink over three days until ten living beings remained.
• The Contest Arena shook and began contracting as the competition officially started.
• Dark Night and Eastern Deity discussed testing opponents and withdrawing if they could not win before the final five-hour Duel Arena stage.

Ye Lin, Eastern Deity, and An Ye moved through the shrinking arena while avoiding fights, but Sword Maniac blocked their way. An Ye confronted Sword Maniac over a century-old humiliation and vanished to attack him.

• Eastern Deity told Ye Lin and An Ye to move toward the center while avoiding fights and watching others battle.
• Ye Lin and Eastern Deity discussed how many contestants had entered and how the shrinking arena would eventually force them into combat.
• Sword Maniac blocked the trio’s path and mocked Eastern Deity and the Three Cities Alliance.
• An Ye confronted Sword Maniac over the humiliation from a hundred years earlier and charged toward him.
• Sword Maniac taunted An Ye, who suddenly vanished and appeared behind him.

Sword Maniac overwhelmed Dark Night and taunted him and Eastern Deity, while Ye Lin learned that Sword Maniac had come from the Hundred Cities Alliance seeking a qualification through the weaker Three Cities Alliance. Sword Maniac challenged Eastern Deity, who held back because he did not know where the swordsman’s two teammates were.

• Sword Maniac struck Dark Night with a casual slash, sending him flying, and Eastern Deity explained Sword Maniac’s origins and reason for coming to the Three Cities Alliance.
• Sword Maniac mocked Dark Night’s lack of progress and his clan’s rejection of him.
• Dark Night unleashed his demonic qi and charged Sword Maniac, but Sword Maniac formed a giant sword and pinned him to the arena.
• Sword Maniac called Eastern Deity a lapdog and challenged him, while Ye Lin was ignored.
• Eastern Deity refrained from acting because Sword Maniac’s two teammates were still unaccounted for.

Dark Night awakened the Dark Night Dragon Clan’s Void Deification and overwhelmed Sword Maniac, but an approaching man and woman struck Dark Night away before he could finish him. They declared that Dark Night’s advance had ended.

• Ye Lin warned Sword Maniac that he was in trouble as Dark Night tore apart the sword suppressing him.
• Dark Night activated Void Deification, transforming as his strength and speed surged.
• Dark Night shattered Sword Maniac’s attacks, battered him, and pinned him to the ground.
• As Dark Night swung to kill Sword Maniac, a black shadow struck Dark Night and sent him flying.
• A man and a woman approached and said Dark Night’s advance had ended.

Eastern Deity confronted Wang Beixing while Sword Maniac faced Dark Night, and Wang Beichen challenged Ye Lin. Ye Lin immobilized Wang Beichen, but he escaped the Contest Arena before Ye Lin could kill him, leaving Ye Lin to watch the remaining fighters.

• Eastern Deity stepped in to protect Dark Night and challenged Wang Beixing, who taunted him over his defeat by Jian Unrivaled.
• Wang Beichen challenged Ye Lin, boasting that he had survived three of Jian Unrivaled's sword strikes.
• Ye Lin froze Wang Beichen with a finger and approached to kill him.
• Wang Beichen vanished after connecting with the Contest Arena and leaving it.
• Ye Lin dismissed the fight and watched Eastern Deity, Wang Beixing, Sword Maniac, and Dark Night battle.

Eastern Deity overwhelmed Wang Beixing and revealed his hidden strength, vowing to challenge the Hundred Cities Alliance and settle his old humiliation. Wang Beixing escaped before he could finish the fight, while Eastern Deity prepared to unleash his power in ten years.

• Wang Beixing learned that Wang Beichen had been eliminated and realized she might soon lose as well.
• Eastern Deity crushed Wang Beixing with a millstone of black-and-white qi while accusing the Hundred Cities Alliance of bullying him.
• Eastern Deity claimed he had also damaged Jian Unrivaled's heart meridians and vowed to kill him in ten years.
• Eastern Deity summoned a figure of black-and-white qi, which Wang Beixing recognized as Blood Slaughter, and she escaped through the Contest Arena.
• Eastern Deity declared that he would make the Hundred Cities Alliance's prodigies tremble and avenge the humiliation of five hundred years ago.

After Sword Maniac and his companions withdrew, Ye Lin and Eastern Deity helped Dark Night recover from his frenzy and learned about Jian Unrivaled, the renowned strongest heaven's chosen of the Hundred Cities Alliance. Ye Lin became interested in challenging Jian Unrivaled, while three bedraggled figures gathered in silence beyond the central region.

• Sword Maniac saw Ye Lin watching him and immediately left the Contest Arena.
• Dark Night returned to normal, and Ye Lin and Eastern Deity helped him to his feet.
• Dark Night apologized for causing trouble, and Eastern Deity reassured him and promised they would deal with Sword Maniac together.
• Ye Lin asked about Jian Unrivaled, and Eastern Deity explained his reputation as the number one heaven's chosen of the Hundred Cities Alliance.
• Eastern Deity told Ye Lin he could seek out Jian Unrivaled after obtaining a Sky Realm slot, and Ye Lin agreed he wanted to test Jian Unrivaled's strength.
• Three bedraggled figures gathered silently beyond the central region.

Sword Maniac, Wang Beixing, and Wang Beichen concluded that Eastern Deity and Ye Lin were headed for the Hundred Cities Alliance, where they might challenge Jian Unrivaled. Meanwhile, Ye Lin and his companions crossed the shrinking Contest Arena without fighting, as other geniuses withdrew from their path.

• Wang Beixing explained that Eastern Deity had hidden methods, while Wang Beichen said Ye Lin’s presence had overwhelmed him more than Jian Unrivaled had.
• Sword Maniac admitted he had fled because he would not face the three opponents alone, and the trio reasoned that Eastern Deity and Ye Lin were bound for the Hundred Cities Alliance.
• Sword Maniac predicted that Jian Unrivaled would soon face a challenge, and the three left for the Hundred Cities Alliance.
• A day passed as Ye Lin and his companions moved through the shrinking Contest Arena, where the geniuses they encountered withdrew instead of fighting.

Ye Lin and Eastern Deity waited for the final stage of the gathering while watching for danger from other prodigies. Poison Venerable arrived and proposed eliminating the others to end the wait early, and Ye Lin agreed.

• Eastern Deity warned Ye Lin and Dark Night that the remaining fifteen shichen would bring danger from people seeking trouble or using underhanded methods.
• Poison Venerable approached Ye Lin with two young men and asked whether he was waiting for time to pass.
• Poison Venerable proposed eliminating the others one by one to speed up the gathering.
• Ye Lin agreed with Poison Venerable's plan, recognizing that they shared the same intent.

Poison Venerable agreed to travel with Ye Lin to the Hundred Cities Alliance after their current business was finished. He then confronted the True Immortal prodigies in the Contest Arena and began forcing them to leave.

• Poison Venerable praised Ye Lin for agreeing with him and invited him to travel to the Hundred Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin accepted the invitation, despite Eastern Deity having spoken poorly of Poison Venerable.
• Poison Venerable demanded that the True Immortal prodigies leave the Contest Arena.
• When a prodigy challenged him, Poison Venerable struck him with a venomous palm and injured him.
• The injured prodigy disappeared, and his two companions also chose to leave.

After Poison Venerable challenged the gathered geniuses, Ye Lin urged them to resist rather than submit, while Eastern Deity wrestled with his unresolved defeat by Jian Unrivaled. A Battle Monkey Clan giant ape rallied the others, and forty-eight True Immortals gathered to confront Poison Venerable.

• Poison Venerable gave the remaining beings three breaths to respond after their companions left.
• Ye Lin told Eastern Deity that his hesitation showed he was inferior to Poison Venerable, prompting Eastern Deity to reflect on his defeat by Jian Unrivaled.
• Ye Lin walked toward Poison Venerable and urged the gathered geniuses to unite and fight back.
• A giant ape from the Battle Monkey Clan called on the other races to attack Poison Venerable rather than be eliminated one by one.
• Forty-eight True Immortal powerhouses stepped forward to face Poison Venerable.

Ye Lin joined Poison Venerable against the True Immortal prodigies in the Contest Arena, and the two overwhelmed their opponents. The prodigies broke free from Ye Lin’s Space Halt and retreated.

• Ye Lin stepped beside Poison Venerable as the gathered prodigies argued over whether to attack.
• Poison Venerable launched a poison-filled assault, striking opponents and infecting them with deadly poison.
• Ye Lin summoned a river of immortal-energy swords and swept them toward the prodigies.
• Ye Lin used Space Halt to freeze the prodigies as the swords pierced their bodies.
• The prodigies broke free after a breath and frantically retreated.

Ye Lin froze a host of True Immortals with his mastery of the Dao of Time and warned them to leave. When they challenged him by relying on their numbers and domains, he trapped them in his blood-red domain, revealing that he had inscribed 931 Dao Rules.

• Ye Lin suspended time for a breath, leaving the True Immortals horrified by his command of the Dao of Time.
• Ye Lin offered to spare the group if they left, but several members boasted about their powerful families and connections.
• Ye Lin unfolded his blood-red domain, and the group decided their combined domains could break it.
• Inside Ye Lin's domain, the True Immortals saw countless points of light and learned that he had inscribed 931 Dao Rules.

Ye Lin explained how inscribing the ten thousand Dao Laws completed a domain and shaped a cultivator’s path to the Taiyi Profound Immortal realm. After the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor killed the suppressed prodigies, it thanked Ye Lin, leaving only dried corpses beneath his domain.

• A prodigy broke down in disbelief that Ye Lin had inscribed so many Dao Laws at such a young age.
• Ye Lin explained that Mysterious Island let him inherit the Dao Laws of those he killed.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and used his domain to suppress the prodigies as the sword killed them.
• Ye Lin reflected that completing his domain required integrating all ten thousand Dao Laws before fusing them into his own Dao.
• The Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor thanked Ye Lin, and he saw only several dozen dried corpses below.

Ye Lin reflected on his four cultivation paths and remained unable to grasp the Dao of Destiny, deciding he needed guidance from a master. He and Poison Venerable then received entry tokens for the Sky Realm and a warning that the factions of the slain prodigies might seek revenge.

• Ye Lin wrapped the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor in bandages and destroyed the dried corpses.
• Ye Lin examined his four cultivation paths and wondered why he could not use the Dao of Destiny.
• Ye Lin concluded that he needed to find a master to guide him.
• Poison Venerable claimed he had emerged slightly faster than Ye Lin, and Ye Lin agreed.
• The middle-aged man revealed that only nine of the forty-eight True Immortal prodigies had survived and gave Ye Lin and Poison Venerable six blue crystal spheres for entering the Sky Realm in a hundred years.
• The middle-aged man warned Ye Lin and Poison Venerable that the slain prodigies' factions might retaliate once they left.

Ye Lin and Poison Venerable agreed to travel together to the Hundred Cities Alliance, then left the site quietly after emerging. The Divine Mountain elders vowed to hunt down Poison Venerable and Blood Baleful for Ye Lin’s killing of their heir.

• Poison Venerable told Ye Lin that the forces behind the slain geniuses had no Grand Unity Mysterious Immortals and agreed to go with him to the Hundred Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin gave Eastern Deity and Dark Night the crystal ball, then told Eastern Deity to sell it because it did not belong to him.
• Ye Lin and Poison Venerable put on masks and left on foot after sensing several peak True Immortals among the gathered cultivators.
• A Divine Mountain elder vowed to kill Poison Venerable and Blood Baleful to avenge the heir Ye Lin had killed.

Ye Lin and Poison Venerable headed toward Dragonhead City while factions pursued them for their actions in the Contest Arena. After revealing themselves, they were surrounded by eight early-stage True Immortals, and Ye Lin prepared to fight.

• A young man learned that Blood Baleful and Poison Venerable had not been found and set off for the Hundred Cities Alliance.
• Poison Venerable warned Ye Lin that many factions were pursuing them as they walked toward Dragonhead City.
• Ye Lin and Poison Venerable revealed their auras and took to the air, drawing their pursuers to them.
• Eight early-stage True Immortals encircled Ye Lin and Poison Venerable.
• Ye Lin summoned the phantom of a blazing sun as the eight attackers charged at him.

Ye Lin defeated and killed eight True Immortal experts, then learned that he and Poison Venerable had been placed on a joint wanted list by the Three Cities Alliance factions. After asking about Jian Unrivaled, Ye Lin heard the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar say that his cultivation was scattered and his sword needed sharpening.

• Ye Lin used one palm strike to send eight True Immortal experts flying, then crushed them and absorbed their Blood Baleful qi into the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Poison Venerable told Ye Lin that their heads carried rewards of fifteen million and ten million mid-grade immortal stones, respectively.
• Ye Lin remarked that the reward was tempting, while Poison Venerable warned that repeated attackers could still cause trouble.
• Ye Lin asked whether Jian Unrivaled was powerful, and Poison Venerable called him the strongest genius in the region and admitted he might lose to him.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that his cultivation was too scattered and his sword needed sharpening.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar urged Ye Lin to build momentum by challenging prodigies, explaining that fame and victory could gather fortune and ease his path to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. It warned that a broken momentum could destroy his cultivation or kill him, leaving Ye Lin to weigh the dangerous path.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that tempering his sword through challenges could help him cultivate.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that reputation and defeating opponents would build momentum and gather fortune.
• Ye Lin realized that the path offered immense benefits but carried the risk of ruin if he lost.
• Ye Lin asked why the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar had not recommended the method earlier, and it said he had not previously been worthy of its attention.
• Ye Lin asked why the jar was recommending the path, and it said the choice was his and promised to protect his true spirit if he died.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar challenged Ye Lin to choose whether he was willing to risk everything for the path.

Ye Lin agreed to the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar’s offer and absorbed its method for gathering momentum and fortune. After three days, he awoke with new understanding, while Poison Venerable had guarded him and slain three True Immortals.

• Ye Lin agreed to gather the world’s fortune, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained how fortune could increase his cultivation speed and combat strength.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar passed a flood of information about gathering momentum into Ye Lin’s sea of consciousness.
• Ye Lin sat and absorbed the information while Poison Venerable guarded him, killing three True Immortals who came looking for trouble.
• After three days, Ye Lin awoke, thanked Poison Venerable, and explained that he had understood how belief and acknowledgment could contribute fortune.