Chapter Summaries

After obtaining Xuanyuan Sword, Ye Lin saw the other races’ prodigies grow wary of the Human Race’s possible resurgence. He reached for a mysterious ruler that folded space, and his hand rapidly aged before returning to normal.

• Ye Lin put away Xuanyuan Sword, knowing he was not yet strong enough to understand its history.
• The other races’ prodigies discussed the sword and resolved to report it, fearing the Human Race would rise again.
• The prodigies speculated that the Star River Cosmos was entering a chaotic age and that news of Xuanyuan Sword would spread across the Demon Domain.
• Ye Lin turned his attention to a transparent ruler floating in folded space.
• When Ye Lin reached for the ruler, his hand became covered in wrinkles and then returned to normal within a breath.

Ye Lin claimed the Time Measuring Ruler and the Void Burial opened the Imperial Road, a trial where the geniuses could challenge legendary experts from history. Ye Lin stepped onto the road first, fully opening it for the others.

• Ye Lin used immortal fortune power to seize the Time Measuring Ruler and sensed that he could control the flow of time around him.
• The Void Burial trembled as golden light formed the Imperial Road, and its will declared that the road had opened.
• The gathered geniuses learned that Ye Lin had to step onto the road first for it to fully open.
• Ye Lin stepped onto the Imperial Road and vanished, allowing the other geniuses to follow and challenge the ancient sages.

Ye Lin encountered the conscious phantom of Yin-Yang Venerable, a former Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, in Void Burial. They began a battle, leaving Ye Lin’s thunderous sword strike facing the Venerable’s Yin-Yang Great Millstone.

• Golden light gathered before Ye Lin and formed a young man who introduced himself as Yin-Yang Venerable.
• Ye Lin realized the phantom was a former Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and grew eager to test himself against him.
• Yin-Yang Venerable challenged Ye Lin to show the strength of the current era’s prodigies.
• Yin-Yang Venerable summoned the Yin-Yang Great Millstone, which threatened to grind the void into Chaos.
• Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and unleashed Nine Heavens Thunderfall toward the millstone.

Ye Lin fought Yin-Yang Venerable, who recognized him as the Human Race’s invincible one of the era and overwhelmed his control of Dao resonance. The chapter ended as Yin-Yang Venerable opened his Yin-Yang Sacred Eye while Ye Lin vanished into space under his opponent’s control.

• Yin-Yang Venerable crushed Ye Lin’s lightning and Sword Qi with the Yin-Yang Great Millstone, but Ye Lin cracked the millstone with a sword strike.
• Yin-Yang Venerable appeared before Ye Lin at overwhelming speed and recognized the aura of fate marking him as an invincible one.
• Yin-Yang Venerable declared that he would test the era’s invincible one, then gathered power and formed seals.
• Ye Lin summoned a phantom Great Sun with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, but Yin-Yang Venerable sealed it away.
• Ye Lin vanished into the void, while Yin-Yang Venerable claimed control of the space and opened his Yin-Yang Sacred Eye.

Yin-Yang Venerable overwhelmed Ye Lin, explaining that he retained the combat awareness and abilities of his peak despite having only True Immortal cultivation. He said the Emperor Road was left behind to instruct future generations and assess the strength of the era’s prodigies.

• Yin-Yang Venerable caught Ye Lin’s Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor between two fingers and sent a powerful force through it.
• Yin-Yang Venerable vanished from Ye Lin’s divine sense, struck him from behind, and sent him flying.
• Ye Lin dispersed the force inside him with his power of immortal fortune and saw a red palm print still eroding his body with yin and yang qi.
• Yin-Yang Venerable explained that he retained his peak memories and combat awareness and could contend with a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal despite having True Immortal cultivation.
• Yin-Yang Venerable said the Emperor Road was meant to instruct later generations and test whether the myriad races’ prodigies had declined.

Ye Lin tested his sword against Yin-Yang Venerable, unleashing a destructive technique that earned the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal’s praise but was effortlessly suppressed. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Yin-Yang Venerable’s mastery placed him far beyond Ye Lin, leaving the battle certain to end in defeat.

• Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and unleashed Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering, manifesting the Sword Dao of Destruction.
• Yin-Yang Venerable praised Ye Lin’s sword as stunning, even by the standards of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin slashed at Yin-Yang Venerable, sending waves through space, but Yin-Yang Venerable calmed them with Yin-Yang Qi.
• Ye Lin recognized that he could not pressure Yin-Yang Venerable and felt frustrated by the vast gap between them.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Yin-Yang Venerable’s Dao rhythm and vision were beyond Ye Lin’s reach and that Ye Lin was certain to lose.

Ye Lin faced Yin-Yang Venerable, whose overwhelming strength left Ye Lin unable to challenge him with ordinary methods. When Yin-Yang Venerable invited him to use every trump card, Ye Lin revealed the Xuanyuan Sword, and Yin-Yang Venerable stood by his offer to let Ye Lin attack.

• Yin-Yang Venerable calmed the turbulent space and praised Ye Lin's sword strike while emphasizing the vast gap between their realms.
• Yin-Yang Venerable challenged Ye Lin to use all his power and promised him an entire great era if he could wound him.
• Ye Lin put away the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and brought out an ancient, battered sword.
• Yin-Yang Venerable recognized it as the Xuanyuan Sword, the Human Emperor's personal sword and a treasure of Human Race's fortune.
• Ye Lin explained that he had no other trump card capable of wounding Yin-Yang Venerable and asked if the sword counted.
• Yin-Yang Venerable upheld his promise and told Ye Lin to attack.

Ye Lin prepared to face Yin-Yang Venerable’s final attack with the Xuanyuan Sword and a pure Sword Heart. Yin-Yang Venerable awakened the Yin-Yang Great Millstone for one last battle, leaving Ye Lin to confront its crushing force.

• Ye Lin lowered the Xuanyuan Sword and gathered a sky-piercing Sword Intent as time and space seemed to freeze around him.
• Yin-Yang Venerable recognized Ye Lin as a human prodigy wielding the Human Race’s supreme treasure and wondered whether the Human Race would rise again.
• Yin-Yang Venerable resolved to use the last of Void Burial’s origin to fight Ye Lin across the river of time.
• Yin-Yang Venerable summoned the Yin-Yang Great Millstone, which crushed Chaos and bore down on Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin reflected that the Great Dao cycled from primal simplicity to complexity and back.

Ye Lin defeated Yin-Yang Venerable by cutting off a strand of his hair with his ultimate sword strike, earning the promised insight into the Yin-Yang Great Dao. Yin-Yang Venerable warned that Void Burial was nearing collapse and vanished, leaving Ye Lin to bid him farewell.

• Ye Lin unleashed Draw Sword Slash, pouring all his sword understanding into the strike and losing his senses afterward.
• Ye Lin believed he had lost when he saw Yin-Yang Venerable unharmed, but Yin-Yang Venerable revealed that Ye Lin had cut off a strand of his hair and won.
• Yin-Yang Venerable sent Ye Lin his insight into the Yin-Yang Great Dao and warned him not to follow its path.
• Yin-Yang Venerable said Void Burial might soon collapse and the Sixth Era would begin, then declared that he would leave the world.
• Yin-Yang Venerable vanished, and Ye Lin bid him farewell as his existence completely dissipated.

Ye Lin defeated Yin-Yang Venerable as Void Burial’s challenge spaces expelled the surviving geniuses. Mo Yun accepted his defeat before a powerful senior, who praised his character and sent him away, while the other eliminated geniuses complained that they had never seen their opponents.

• Yin-Yang Venerable’s body dissipated, and the golden space around Ye Lin collapsed.
• The eliminated geniuses gathered outside Void Burial, confused and angry that they had been sent out before seeing their opponents.
• Mo Yun admitted he could not defeat the senior who had toyed with him for half an hour and asked for a swift end.
• The senior praised Mo Yun for preserving his original heart and sent him out of the golden space.
• The golden spaces vanished, and the geniuses left Void Burial complaining that its battles had not been fair.

Ye Lin stood alone at the end of the collapsing Emperor Road after failing to defeat the ancient projections. Su Qingyu appeared to bid him farewell and urged him to meet her in the Central Continent, while her revealed destiny foretold a tragic end.

• Ye Lin reflected that the Emperor Road’s challenges had never been fair and that he could not defeat the powerful projections.
• Su Qingyu appeared in golden light and told Ye Lin she was leaving and would wait for him in the Central Continent.
• Su Qingyu reminded Ye Lin of his promise to make a name for them throughout the Central Continent, then vanished in a beam of golden light.
• Ye Lin saw Su Qingyu’s profile, which revealed her status as the Supreme Saint Divine Hall’s future Hall Master and her eventual death by her own hand.
• Ye Lin watched Su Qingyu disappear and showed a cold glint in his eyes.

Ye Lin questioned Void Burial’s will about the Emperor Road and used Yin-Yang Venerable’s promise to request a meeting with the creator of One Breath Becomes Three Purities. The will could not bring that powerful figure to him, but it agreed to send a message across the river of time.

• Ye Lin decided to go to the Central Continent to investigate the person who looked exactly like him.
• Void Burial’s will appeared as a gigantic eye and explained that Void Burial was nearing collapse and could grant Ye Lin one wish under Yin-Yang Venerable’s promise.
• Ye Lin asked to speak with the senior who created One Breath Becomes Three Purities so he could learn why it had been split into ten volumes.
• Void Burial’s will said it could not reach the senior because of his immense power and the karma involved, but offered to send a message across the river of time.

Ye Lin escaped as Void Burial collapsed after its giant eye revealed the opportunity for Transcendence. He reunited with Dugu Feng and left with him to speak privately.

• The giant eye told Ye Lin about the opportunity for Transcendence, then shattered as Void Burial began to collapse.
• Ye Lin questioned whether One Breath Becomes Three Purities held the secret of Transcendence before golden light carried him out of Void Burial.
• The gathered prodigies praised Ye Lin, and one entrant said he could fight shoulder to shoulder with Dugu Feng.
• Dugu Feng asked Ye Lin how his trial had gone, and Ye Lin replied that it had ended the same way as Dugu Feng's.
• Dugu Feng suggested they talk elsewhere, and Ye Lin agreed before they departed together.

Pan Feng recounted how Dugu Feng faced a southern genius and a hidden western prodigy in a two-against-one battle during the Void Burial. He left the crowd in suspense as two figures appeared after the fight, without revealing who had won.

• Pan Feng introduced himself as a Coiling Dragon Clan prodigy who had just emerged from the Void Burial.
• Pan Feng explained that northern prodigies had been humiliated by those from the other regions in the Blazing Fire Prairie.
• Pan Feng said Dugu Feng arranged a battle against a southern genius, then had to fight a hidden western prodigy as well.
• Pan Feng described how the northern prodigies could only watch and pray while Dugu Feng fought for half an hour.
• Pan Feng said the clouds parted and two figures appeared in the sunlight, leaving the crowd uncertain about the outcome.

Pan Feng recounted how Dugu Feng and Ye Lin defeated the southern and western prodigies, restoring the Northern Demon Domain’s fortune. He then described the brutal second stage of Void Burial, where prodigies fought for places on a golden ranking.

• Pan Feng said the Northern Demon Domain’s prodigies had expected Dugu Feng to lose when two figures descended from the firmament.
• Pan Feng revealed that the figures were Dugu Feng and Ye Lin, and that they had slain the southern and western prodigies.
• The Northern Demon Domain’s prodigies rejoiced as Pan Feng explained that Dugu Feng and Ye Lin had restored their region’s fortune.
• Pan Feng described the second stage of Void Burial, a battle royale where killing prodigies earned points on a golden ranking.
• The prodigies below grew disheartened as Pan Feng explained that even the weakest fighters in Void Burial had been exceptional prodigies.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng discussed who should lead the Northern Demon Domain’s prodigies, but Ye Lin refused the responsibility and urged Dugu Feng to release the burdens he carried. Dugu Feng reflected on the expectations, hatred, and duties that had shaped his life.

• Ye Lin and Dugu Feng watched Pan Feng speak below and noted that his words would help spread Ye Lin’s reputation through the Northern Demon Domain.
• Dugu Feng asked Ye Lin to lead the Northern Demon Domain’s prodigies in the struggle for fortune, but Ye Lin declined.
• Ye Lin explained that he preferred to walk his path alone and told Dugu Feng not to shoulder every responsibility.
• Dugu Feng recalled living under others’ expectations, seeking revenge for his fallen elder brother, and trying to restore the prodigies’ reputation.
• Dugu Feng began to consider letting go as Ye Lin’s words prompted him to reflect on the burdens he had carried since childhood.

Ye Lin listened as Dugu Feng reflected on the burdens he had carried to avenge his brother and vindicate the Northern Demon Domain’s prodigies. Ye Lin invited him to meet in Eastern Radiance City a thousand years later and travel to the Central Continent together if he could let go of his past.

• Dugu Feng remembered how he had suppressed his cultivation for tens of thousands of years and sealed himself in Divine Source to await the next opening of the Void Burial.
• Ye Lin considered Dugu Feng’s choices and told him that he had been living too wearily and should rest when he needed to.
• Ye Lin invited Dugu Feng to find him in Eastern Radiance City a thousand years later so they could go to the Central Continent together.
• Ye Lin left Dugu Feng to decide for himself whether to accept the invitation.

Ye Lin reached Eastern Radiance City and went into seclusion on a desolate mountain to study Yin-Yang Venerable’s legacy. He realized the legacy could lead him to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, but chose to use it only as a reference while seeking his own Great Dao.

• Dugu Feng watched Ye Lin leave and then vanished into a gust of wind.
• Ye Lin arrived in Eastern Radiance City, where the Human Race had become dominant, and left without notifying anyone.
• Ye Lin prepared a natural formation on a desolate mountain and began a thousand years of seclusion.
• Ye Lin examined the golden light Yin-Yang Venerable had given him, which released a torrent of memories about the Great Dao of Yin and Yang.
• Ye Lin concluded that following Yin-Yang Venerable’s path would cap his cultivation at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, so he decided to forge his own Great Dao.

After a thousand years in seclusion, Ye Lin had inscribed the Yin-Yang Dao Seal into his domain and prepared to enter Central Continent. He asked Ye Feng how to reach it, learning that it stood at the center of the Central Domain’s four other continents.

• Dongfang Shence celebrated the Xuanyuan Sword’s return in Ye Lin’s hands and vowed to become his Dao Protector if Ye Lin became the Demon Domain’s top prodigy.
• Dongfang Shence spread the news among foreign Taiyi Profound Immortals, leaving them furious as the Human Race’s fortunes improved.
• A thousand years passed as Ye Lin’s reputation spread across the Demon Domain and he completed three thousand Great Dao imprints in his domain.
• Ye Lin left seclusion, confident he was ready to enter Central Continent, and met Ye Feng outside his cave.
• Ye Lin asked Ye Feng how to enter Central Continent, and Ye Feng explained that it lay at the center of the Central Domain’s four other continents.

Ye Lin learned that reaching the Central Continent required surviving a perilous sea crossing, while Ye Feng admitted the trial had deterred him. As Ye Lin waited for someone, Dugu Feng arrived outside Eastern Radiance City to fulfill an appointment made a thousand years earlier.

• Ye Feng explained that the Central Continent could only be reached by crossing a sea full of True Immortal sea beasts and other dangers.
• Ye Lin became resolute about facing the trial and said he was waiting for someone, surprising Ye Feng.
• Dugu Feng arrived outside Eastern Radiance City and said he had come to fulfill an appointment from a thousand years ago.
• Several Human Race prodigies in a tavern mocked Dugu Feng and considered testing him.
• The tavern owner warned the youths that Dugu Feng was not someone they could insult, though he was inferior to Ye Lin.