Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin wore down Lu Cang until Lu Cang offered him a tattered book in exchange for being allowed to leave. Ye Lin accepted the deal, and Lu Cang tossed him the book after the formation broke.

• Ye Lin summoned an Azure Dragon Sacred Manifestation after Lu Cang destroyed the Vermilion Bird and showed signs of exhaustion.
• Lu Cang offered Ye Lin a tattered book, claiming it was important to Ye Lin’s friend and asking to be released.
• Ye Lin considered the danger of forcing Lu Cang into a corner and agreed to let him go.
• Ye Lin withdrew his three clones, the formation shattered, and Lu Cang tossed the book to him without attacking.

Ye Lin let Lu Cang leave with the Myriad Poison Dao Art, believing pressure would drive him to grow, then returned the book to the recovering Poison Venerable. Poison Venerable thanked Ye Lin, while Lu Cang promised to seek him out again.

• Ye Lin let Lu Cang leave, and Lu Cang said he would come find Ye Lin again.
• Ye Lin told Wu Wang that pressure could drive a person to grow faster than profit.
• Poison Venerable recovered in Heaven Earth City and asked Snow Maiden where Lu Cang was.
• Ye Lin arrived and told Poison Venerable that Lu Cang had left after trading his life for the Myriad Poison Dao Art.
• Ye Lin handed the Myriad Poison Dao Art to Poison Venerable, who thanked him.

Zhang Zifan arrived in Heaven Earth City after Lu Cang had retreated and took charge of defending the city, restoring the battle damage with his Time Dao Laws. Ye Lin and Long Aotian prepared to leave and hunt down the remaining enemies, while the Poison Venerable stayed behind to cultivate the Myriad Poison Dao Art.

• Zhang Zifan arrived with Long Aotian and a woman, and Ye Lin told them that Lu Cang had left.
• Zhang Zifan examined the lingering auras and battle traces, then recognized that Lu Cang had been driven back.
• Long Aotian said he had fought Lu Cang before but could not reveal more because of his family background.
• Zhang Zifan declared that he would hold Heaven Earth City and used his Time Dao Laws to restore its ruined buildings and ground.
• Long Aotian and Ye Lin prepared to leave to pursue the remaining enemies, while Ye Lin told the Poison Venerable to stay and cultivate with the Myriad Poison Dao Art.

Ye Lin left after his clash with Lu Cang and discussed the growing threat from ancient prodigies with Long Aotian and Hua Jieyu. Dugu Feng then contacted Ye Lin through the Jade Talisman, excitedly hinting that he had found something.

• Ye Lin acknowledged that Lu Cang had shown him room to grow in the True Immortal realm, then departed with Long Aotian and Hua Jieyu.
• Long Aotian reported that four ancient prodigies and three present-age prodigies had died, while ancient prodigies greatly outnumbered their present-age rivals.
• Ye Lin, Long Aotian, and Hua Jieyu discussed how difficult it had become to find ancient prodigies who had blended into the present age.
• Dugu Feng contacted Ye Lin through the Jade Talisman and asked him to guess what he had found.
• Ye Lin told Dugu Feng to speak or face punishment when Ye Lin caught him.

Ye Lin followed Dugu Feng’s Jade Talisman toward three people carrying treasures connected to the laws of destruction, space, and time. Along the way, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar mocked Ye Lin’s weak foundation, then offered him an enhanced version of the Invincible Art.

• Dugu Feng told Ye Lin, Long Aotian, and Hua Jieyu that he had sensed three powerful treasures linked to destruction, space, and time.
• Ye Lin used the Jade Talisman to find the direction of Dugu Feng’s matching talisman, and the three set off toward the treasures.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that his foundation was worse than an ordinary mortal’s and that he had only advanced thanks to his panel.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar offered Ye Lin an enhanced version of the Invincible Art.

Ye Lin and his companions followed the glowing Jade Talisman to Dugu Feng, who showed them three men using a cauldron to extract fate from corpses. The group watched as the men began absorbing the extracted fate.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin about an enhanced Invincible Art but fell silent while searching its incomplete memories for the technique.
• Ye Lin, Long Aotian, and Hua Jieyu followed the glowing Jade Talisman to Dugu Feng.
• Dugu Feng pointed out three men beside a cauldron filled with black liquid and surrounded by corpses from many races.
• The three men threw the corpses into the cauldron, then used hand seals to draw golden light from it into their bodies.
• Ye Lin and the others realized that the three men were extracting fate from the corpses.

Long Aotian realized the stowaways might be hunting present-age geniuses to steal their fortune, a threat that could cost their generation the battle for the Central Domain. He led Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Hua Jieyu in attacking the three men, and Long Aotian and Hua Jieyu quickly suppressed one of them.

• Long Aotian warned that if all the stowaways could extract fortune from geniuses, they might seize the Central Domain’s fortune and doom present-age geniuses.
• Long Aotian charged the three men to capture and interrogate them, and Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Hua Jieyu followed.
• One of the young men confronted Long Aotian, while Hua Jieyu joined the fight and helped suppress him two against one.
• Dugu Feng addressed the other two men and told them to die.

Ye Lin confronted a youth who claimed the Demon Domain’s great powers had abandoned the present-day prodigies and supported the ancient ones. After easily defeating him, Ye Lin was left considering whether the claim was true.

• Dugu Feng drew his weathered wooden sword as the youths declared that Ye Lin and his companions would die.
• One youth attacked Ye Lin, but Ye Lin caught his punch, knocked him down, and demanded an explanation.
• The youth claimed the Demon Domain’s major powers tacitly supported the ancient prodigies because they had not intervened to stop their slaughter of the myriad races.
• The youth warned that if Ye Lin left the Central Domain, Demon Domain experts would hunt him down and he would not survive an hour.
• Ye Lin fell silent at the possibility that the Demon Domain had abandoned the present-day prodigies and supported their enemies.

Ye Lin decided to break the Demon Domain’s deadlock by force and questioned a sealed young man about the method for extracting destiny. After learning that a Golden Immortal force had shared the method with the stowaways, Ye Lin killed him and found a gilded Storage Bag.

• Ye Lin resolved to kill the ancient prodigies and seize the Demon Domain’s destiny through overwhelming strength.
• Ye Lin asked the young man why powerful people had spent Divine Source to seal away someone so weak.
• Ye Lin demanded to know whether the secret method for extracting destiny was known only to the young man or to all the stowaways.
• The young man said the method was common knowledge among the stowaways and had been given to them by a Golden Immortal force in the Demon Domain.
• Ye Lin killed the young man, searched his body, and found a gilded Storage Bag.

Ye Lin found three treasures among the dead smugglers and gave Long Aotian the bead containing Time Dao Rhythm. After learning that Demon Domain’s top factions had preserved the smugglers as followers for ancient monsters, Ye Lin and the others realized they had been marked for replacement.

• Ye Lin identified a broken sword containing Destruction Dao Rhythm, a Formation Disk containing space, and a mysterious bead containing time.
• After two more smugglers fell dead, Ye Lin gave the bead to Long Aotian, who accepted it without asking for the other treasures.
• Long Aotian explained that Demon Domain had abandoned them, and even the sect he had contacted had not responded.
• Ye Lin questioned why top factions had spent precious Divine Source to seal away such weak smugglers.
• Long Aotian revealed that the smugglers had been preserved as followers for ancient monsters and that current-era geniuses were meant to serve as their stepping stones.

Dugu Feng and Long Aotian realized that the Demon Domain’s top factions had planned to unseal ancient monsters and use them to suppress the current generation’s geniuses. They saw the Central Domain as their only chance to resist, though the factions were watching their every move.

• Dugu Feng said he could appeal to his ancestor, whose authority protected him within the Dugu Clan.
• Long Aotian realized that he and the other geniuses had been used as chess pieces in a plan devised by the Demon Domain’s top factions.
• Long Aotian and the others concluded that the factions had unsealed ancient monsters to preserve their own power and prevent any one genius from reshaping the Demon Domain.
• They recognized that the Central Domain was their only chance to turn the tables because older experts risked severe karmic consequences if they intervened there.
• Dugu Feng warned that the Demon Domain’s top factions were watching everything happening in the Central Domain, including their actions.

Ye Lin, Long Aotian, and Dugu Feng discussed how powerful factions planned to use prodigies to eliminate them, but they resolved to fight back and grow stronger. Ye Lin concluded that he needed to reach the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm before his enemies could send one to kill him.

• Dugu Feng explained that the major forces wanted to eliminate their leaders and control the Demon Domain through allied prodigies.
• Long Aotian vowed to kill any prodigy sent after them, and Ye Lin agreed that they should resist rather than give in.
• Dugu Feng said only some of the Demon Domain's Golden Immortal factions had joined the plan and noted that they could flee to another starfield if necessary.
• Ye Lin urged them to focus on becoming stronger and decided to advance to the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm to survive a potential attack.

Ye Lin weighed the danger facing the Central Continent prodigies against the risks of leaving them scattered, while recognizing that breaking into the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm was urgent. He decided to recall everyone and gather them in Heaven Earth City, setting the stage for an inevitable battle with the stowaways.

• Ye Lin considered his damaged Xuanyuan Sword, the Measureless Ruler, and his unused chance to rise directly to Golden Immortal as he judged his need to advance his cultivation.
• Long Aotian asked Ye Lin whether he should recall the Central Continent prodigies, who faced particular danger because of their great fortune.
• Dugu Feng explained that gathering the prodigies might let the stowaways conduct a blood sacrifice, while keeping them scattered would let the enemy defeat them one by one.
• Ye Lin ordered all the Central Continent prodigies to gather in Heaven Earth City because a battle with the stowaways was unavoidable.

Ye Lin and Long Aotian decided to warn Northern Continent’s prodigies about the stowaways slaughtering them and prepare for the coming fight. After most prodigies fled, Ye Lin and the remaining seventy-two reached Heaven Earth City, where Zhang Zifan offered them protection.

• Ye Lin and Long Aotian agreed to spread the warning and face the stowaways rather than let them take the great era.
• News of the stowaways’ attacks spread across Northern Continent, and prodigies fled through teleportation arrays while some who stayed were killed.
• Ye Lin and the remaining seventy-two prodigies raced toward Heaven Earth City to gather their strength.
• Ye Lin’s group arrived at Heaven Earth City, where Zhang Zifan’s power made it the safest place in Central Continent.

Ye Lin, Long Aotian, and Dugu Feng met Zhang Zifan in deserted Heaven Earth City as he warned that resistance against the stowaways was futile and suggested accepting them. Long Aotian angrily rejected Zhang Zifan’s apparent surrender, leaving the resistance’s future in doubt.

• Ye Lin and the others arrived in deserted Heaven Earth City, where Zhang Zifan said their plan to preserve their strength was like boiling a frog in warm water.
• Zhang Zifan said he had contacted the outside world and learned that the stowaways would let those who submitted live and kill those who refused.
• Long Aotian said he had destroyed his communication Jade Talisman after losing contact with the outside world.
• Zhang Zifan said they could not win against the tide of the age and suggested accepting the stowaways.
• Long Aotian angrily reminded Zhang Zifan that he had once led their resistance and condemned him for giving in before the fighting began.

Zhang Zifan told Long Aotian and the others that the Great Azure Sacred Land had forced him to betray them by threatening his younger sister, Zi Yao. With his master imprisoned and Zi Yao under guard, he faced a deadline to leave the Central Domain and believed he had no way out.

• Zhang Zifan revealed that the Sacred Land had used Zi Yao, his only family, to force him to act against the others.
• Long Aotian and Hua Jieyu explained Zi Yao's importance to Zhang Zifan, and Long Aotian asked what the Sacred Land had demanded.
• Zhang Zifan said he had to leave the Central Domain within three days or Zi Yao would be in danger.
• Long Aotian warned that Zhang Zifan and Zi Yao would likely be killed once he left the Central Domain.
• Zhang Zifan said his master had been imprisoned and Zi Yao was guarded, so he had no choice but to go.
• Dugu Feng said the Dugu Clan could not risk opposing more than a dozen Golden Immortal forces to save Zhang Zifan.

Zhang Zifan prepared to leave Heaven Earth City to fight ancient monsters, while Ye Lin and the gathered geniuses faced the bleak prospect of war and focused on becoming stronger. The chapter ended with Long Aotian and the others leaving to cultivate as Zhang Zifan set out to fight.

• Zhang Zifan said he would leave for at most a month and believed his sister Zi Yao would remain safe unless his enemies reached desperation.
• Central Continent geniuses arrived in Heaven Earth City after receiving Ye Lin’s message and spread news across the Northern Continent.
• Zhang Zifan urged the gathered geniuses to use their remaining peaceful time to cultivate and prepare for what lay ahead.
• Zhang Zifan left Heaven Earth City to kill ancient monsters before departing, while Ye Lin recognized that he needed greater strength to challenge the Demon Domain’s great powers.
• Long Aotian condemned the great powers for threatening Zhang Zifan through his family, then urged the others to leave and grow stronger.

Ye Lin used the Broken Sword and Formation Disk to inscribe two more marks on his domain, leaving chaos, balance, and strength before he could prepare to break through. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar then taught him a fortune-based offensive art, and Ye Lin learned its three techniques.

• Ye Lin comprehended the aura on the Broken Sword and Formation Disk, then inscribed two marks over half a month.
• Ye Lin noted that he still needed to inscribe the marks of chaos, balance, and strength to perfect his domain.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar found an offensive art in its recovered memories and passed it to Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin learned that the art contained the Hand of Heaven, the Lock of Void, and the Great Restoration Art, which used his own fortune.
• Ye Lin read about the three techniques and fell into deep thought.

Ye Lin studied three fortune-consuming arts while Zhang Zifan displayed six slain infiltrators outside Heaven Earth City. Long Aotian emerged from seclusion and prepared to leave, leaving Lu Cang poised to become unstoppable.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned Ye Lin that using the three arts would consume his fortune, and Ye Lin acknowledged the risk.
• Ye Lin spent the next half month comprehending the three arts and making them his own.
• Over the following month, Zhang Zifan killed six powerful infiltrators and displayed their corpses outside Heaven Earth City.
• Long Aotian emerged from seclusion and told Zhang Zifan that he had to return or his younger sister and master would be in danger.
• Zhang Zifan apologized that he could not help Long Aotian and promised to fight alongside him if he returned alive.

Zhang Zifan left Heaven Earth City to return to the holy land, where he faced imprisonment or execution, after the holy land used his loved ones to force his return. Long Aotian confirmed Zhang Zifan's departure to the gathered prodigies, who began doubting their chances against the Demon Domain.

• Zhang Zifan apologized to Long Aotian and left to return to the holy land, compelled by the danger facing his master and beloved relative.
• Long Aotian watched Zhang Zifan disappear and worried about Northern Continent, which had been cut off from contact.
• Seventy-one figures, including Dugu Feng, appeared behind Long Aotian and asked whether Zhang Zifan had left.
• Long Aotian confirmed Zhang Zifan's departure rather than conceal it from the gathered prodigies.
• One prodigy asked whether they still had hope in the battle, and the others questioned the meaning of persisting without their strongest ally.