Chapter Summaries

Wounded Lu Cang attempted to transcend his tribulation, but he drew the dreaded Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation. As the thunder gathered overhead, Lu Cang feared the Heavenly Dao had singled him out, while Ye Lin watched to see whether he would survive.

• Lu Cang, already severely wounded by the Hand of Heaven, tried to transcend his tribulation despite Ye Lin knowing his odds of survival were poor.
• The lightning tribulation delayed its descent, then sounded nine thunderclaps, revealing that Lu Cang had drawn the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• The stowaways recognized the tribulation and urged one another to keep fighting the present-world prodigies.
• Ye Lin considered the rarity and lethality of the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation and watched Lu Cang beneath it.
• Lu Cang trembled with fear and suspected the Heavenly Dao had tampered with his tribulation to kill him.

Lu Cang faced the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, surviving its first two bolts with the help of pills that strengthened his body and Primordial Spirit. As the tribulation began gathering even greater power, Ye Lin wondered about Lu Cang’s background.

• Lu Cang resolved to risk everything and compared his potential achievement to that of the Ancient Human Emperor.
• The first bolt of purple divine lightning overwhelmed Lu Cang’s dragon breath and left him blackened and near death.
• Lu Cang swallowed numerous pills to restore his life force, but the Heavenly Dao immediately sent down the second bolt.
• The second bolt ravaged Lu Cang while the pills’ medicinal power clashed with the lightning, strengthening his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Cang taunted the Heavenly Dao as his aura grew stronger, and Ye Lin reacted with surprise when the tribulation began brewing more powerful bolts.

Lu Cang’s Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation destroyed his body and scattered his dragon soul, leaving only a tiny, cracked Primordial Spirit. As the final bolt gathered, Lu Cang faced imminent death while Ye Lin waited with the Xuanyuan Sword in reserve.

• Ye Lin considered using the Xuanyuan Sword to draw on Human Race providence if Lu Cang survived, but held back because of the karmic consequences.
• The lightning tribulation struck Lu Cang with successive bolts, destroying his physical body and severely cracking his Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Cang regretted pursuing perfect bloodline purity and feared he could not endure the remaining bolts.
• Another bolt scattered Lu Cang’s dragon soul, leaving only his dying Primordial Spirit beneath the gathering final strike.

Lu Cang faced the final bolt of his Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation while Ye Lin and the smugglers watched, each hoping for a different outcome. The multicolored lightning enveloped Lu Cang's Primordial Spirit, leaving his survival uncertain.

• The watching prodigies and smugglers weighed how Lu Cang's fate would affect the battlefield.
• Lu Cang prepared to face the last tribulation bolt, hoping to survive and stabilize his Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin studied the gathering lightning to learn from the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.
• The final multicolored bolt descended and shattered space, overwhelming Lu Cang's defenses and enveloping his Primordial Spirit power.
• Ye Lin hoped Lu Cang would die, while the smugglers hoped he would survive and secure victory for their side.

Lu Cang faced the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation on Central Continent while powerful figures across the Demon Domain watched and argued over his chances. When his faint Primordial Spirit aura appeared amid the lightning, the onlookers realized he was still alive, and a mighty figure reacted with fury.

• The Star River Cosmos Heavenly Dao descended on Central Continent as its protective barrier vanished and tribulation qi gathered.
• Powerful figures discussed Lu Cang’s Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, with one mocking his chances and a Qilin-aligned voice blaming Ye Lin for weakening him.
• A voice announced that Lu Cang was still alive, and the onlookers recognized his faint Primordial Spirit aura as a sign that he had survived Tribulation Transcendence.
• A mighty figure sensed something across the Starry Sky, fixed his gaze on Central Continent, and shouted, “You whelp, how dare you!!!”

Ye Lin watched Lu Cang endure the final bolt of his tribulation, which appeared to reduce him to a transparent bead. The present world's prodigies celebrated Lu Cang's apparent death, but Ye Lin sensed a faint trace of his aura and realized he might still be alive.

• Ye Lin watched as a blood-red bolt of lightning struck Lu Cang and engulfed his Primordial Spirit.
• When the lightning faded, only a transparent bead remained, and Ye Lin could no longer sense Lu Cang's aura.
• The interlopers refused to believe Lu Cang had died, while the present world's prodigies celebrated his apparent fall.
• Ye Lin sensed a faint trace of Lu Cang's aura and realized that Lu Cang was not truly dead.

Lu Cang survived the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, and the Heavenly Dao began restoring him with merit. Ye Lin gathered the remaining tribulation lightning to strike Lu Cang before he could recover.

• The crowd realized Lu Cang was still alive as the tribulation clouds began to disperse.
• The Heavenly Dao's merit formed a five-clawed golden Dragon to forge Lu Cang a body, while more merit flew to repair his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin raised the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art to gather the leftover tribulation lightning.
• A crimson bolt struck Ye Lin, shattering his meridians and damaging his organs, but he endured the lightning and raised his sword.
• Ye Lin invoked the destruction Dao essence, declared, "Can this sword slay you?" and unleashed Thunderfall.

Ye Lin killed Lu Cang despite the Void Dragon Clan's threat, then received all the fate and merit meant for Lu Cang. The Central Continent's Heavenly Dao warned the interlopers who protested, while Ye Lin set his sights on the Void Dragon Clan and the Asura Clan.

• Ye Lin slashed Lu Cang with lightning Sword Qi, shattering the pearl and killing him completely.
• The Void Dragon Clan threatened Ye Lin, but another supreme pressure blocked its attack and forced it to withdraw.
• The five-clawed golden dragon body dissolved, and the Heavenly Dao poured Lu Cang's fate and merit into Ye Lin before leaving control of the Central Continent to its minor Heavenly Dao.
• The interlopers complained that the Heavenly Dao had unfairly rewarded Ye Lin for killing Lu Cang.
• The Central Continent's Heavenly Dao sent purple lightning as a warning to the interlopers for insulting its superior.

After Ye Lin fell unconscious from his battle with Lu Cang, the stowaways retreated, and the present-world prodigies gathered around the severely injured Ye Lin. Medicine King discovered that Ye Lin was entering a critical moment and called his recovery a great fortuitous opportunity.

• Dongfang Xiyue asked the stowaways whether they would continue fighting, and they chose to retreat after Lu Cang's death.
• The present-world prodigies confirmed they had suffered no casualties and turned their attention to the unconscious Ye Lin.
• Medicine King examined Ye Lin and found shattered organs, severed meridians, and lingering lightning tribulation aura.
• Medicine King said Ye Lin was at a critical moment and that his condition was a great fortuitous opportunity.
• Dongfang Xiyue carried Ye Lin toward Purple Sky City, and Poison Venerable asked Medicine King how Ye Lin was.

Shangguan Yufan explained that Heavenly Dao merit was healing Ye Lin and would raise his strength, while the group prepared to protect the four figures undergoing breakthroughs. Elsewhere, two Golden Immortals clashed across the Demon Domain, and Purple Cloud pulled Wang Xiao'er away from watching the fight.

• Shangguan Yufan told Poison Venerable that Heavenly Dao merit meant for Lu Cang was repairing Ye Lin's body and Primordial Spirit.
• Poison Venerable urged everyone to protect the four figures breaking through in case the retreating enemies returned.
• A Human Race Golden Immortal fought the Void Dragon Clan's ancestor across the Demon Domain and warned that the clan might be destroyed.
• Purple Cloud carried Wang Xiao'er away from the walls of Purple Sky City as he pleaded to keep watching the battle.

After Ye Lin killed Lu Cang, the stowaways abandoned their attack, and Dugu Feng learned what had happened. Two months later, four figures completed their tribulations and became Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals, then prepared to leave the battlefield.

• The stowaways stopped attacking Dugu Feng and left after one warned that killing him would bring destruction upon their families.
• Dugu Feng returned to the city and learned that Ye Lin had slain Lu Cang, leaving him shocked and excited to have followed Ye Lin.
• The group stayed in Purple Sky City for two peaceful months while some cultivators watched Sacred Cloud Mountain for the stowaways.
• Four figures underwent Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulations across four battlefields and entered the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm with flawless Primordial Unity potential.
• Sui Xin realized he could locate and destroy the stowaways, but the young man beside him told him they had to leave and warned him against acting against them.

After six months of peace, Wang Xiao'er practiced swordsmanship while a young man taught him to treat his sword as a companion. Ye Lin awoke after nearly nine months of sleep and wondered whether the smugglers had attacked again.

• Sui Xin and the other three left Purple Sky City for their battlefield after successfully undergoing Tribulation Transcendence.
• The people of Central Continent spent six months cultivating without any smugglers appearing.
• A young man taught Wang Xiao'er to perceive his wooden sword's emotions and treat it as a companion.
• Ye Lin awoke in a secret chamber after sleeping for nearly nine months and worried about what had happened outside.

After discovering his luck had surged to 4.9 billion, Ye Lin resolved to draw the top factions and their geniuses into a battle in the Demon Domain. He gathered the Central Continent prodigies and asked if they were willing to honor him as their master.

• Ye Lin left the secret chamber, confirmed Purple Sky City was unharmed, and found his luck had risen to 4.9 billion.
• Ye Lin decided to settle accounts with the stowaways and told the Shu Mountain Sword Sect it could make its move, expecting other top factions to intervene.
• Ye Lin planned to defeat the gathered geniuses, claim their fortune, and use it to advance his cultivation.
• Central Continent prodigies gathered in the hall and treated Ye Lin as their leader after he killed Lu Cang.
• Ye Lin asked the prodigies whether they were willing to honor him as their master.

Ye Lin claimed the position of the starfield’s leading prodigy after killing Lu Cang, arguing that the others needed to follow him to face the stowaways. The gathered prodigies accepted his leadership, though Zhang Zifan’s status remained uncertain.

• A prodigy objected that Ye Lin was claiming the position before the stowaways had been dealt with.
• Ye Lin said he had killed Lu Cang and urged the others to let the capable lead, warning that they could not stand alone.
• When the prodigies brought up Zhang Zifan, Ye Lin said no one knew whether he was alive and insisted that the others depended on him.
• A young man acknowledged Ye Lin, and the rest of the prodigies followed suit.

Ye Lin revealed that he had requested support from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect and planned to break the rules first, provoking the Golden Immortal factions backing the stowaways. He aimed to draw them into a larger conflict and claim the fortune of the Demon Domain, but the others reacted with disbelief and anger.

• Ye Lin told the assembled prodigies that the Shu Mountain Sword Sect would send support, shocking them because its intervention could trigger the other Golden Immortal factions.
• Ye Lin said his request for support was why he wanted them to acknowledge him as their leader.
• A skeleton race prodigy asked what Ye Lin meant by making the conflict bigger.
• Ye Lin declared that he would break the rules first, draw the factions backing the stowaways into battle, and claim the fortune of the Demon Domain.
• The skeleton race prodigy called Ye Lin mad and warned that more than a dozen Golden Immortal factions could unite against them.

Ye Lin defended his decision to challenge the Golden Immortal factions and allowed the prodigies who feared the consequences to leave. With more than two hundred followers staying by his side, he announced that they would reclaim the lost territory and take control of the Central Domain.

• Ye Lin told the Skeleton Clan prodigy and the others that they could leave if they were afraid to follow his plan.
• The Skeleton Clan prodigy rejected Ye Lin's decision, withdrew his clan from the struggle, and left with more than a dozen others.
• More than two hundred figures stayed, saying they had nowhere else to go and trusted Ye Lin's judgment.
• Ye Lin welcomed the followers' choice and promised not to disappoint them.
• Ye Lin declared that they would reclaim the lost territory and leave the smugglers nowhere to stand in the Central Domain.

The Shu Mountain Sword Sect’s patriarch decided to support Ye Lin by sending the sect’s hidden Tenfold Sequences into the Central Domain, despite the danger of drawing the sect into a great-age calamity. He also set out to enlist his Golden Immortal friends, while Kuanglan delivered the patriarch’s command to the elders.

• Kuanglan told the Shu Mountain Sword Sect’s patriarch that Ye Lin had asked the sect for help, and the patriarch considered the danger of intervening.
• The patriarch ordered Kuanglan to lead the first through tenth sequences into the world.
• After Kuanglan left, the patriarch decided to bring other Golden Immortals into the matter and vanished to seek his friends.
• Kuanglan presented the patriarch’s Identity Token to the elders and ordered the Tenfold Sequences to follow him into the Central Domain.

Kuanglan arrived at the Shu Mountain Sword Sect with the ancestor’s Identity Token and took the Ten Sequences away on the ancestor’s orders. The elders accepted the order despite fearing its consequences, and Kuanglan departed with the sect’s ten prodigies.

• Kuanglan presented the ancestor’s Identity Token and announced that he had come to take the Ten Sequences.
• The Third Elder questioned whether sending the Ten Sequences into the world was truly the ancestor’s order.
• Kuanglan told the elders to ask the ancestor themselves, and they chose to obey rather than risk confronting him.
• The Ten Sequences arrived, eager to begin the journey with Kuanglan.
• Kuanglan departed with the Ten Sequences as the elders watched.

The Shu Mountain Sword Sect’s decision to break the accepted rules alarmed its elders and provoked a dozen Golden Immortal factions. One faction plotted to destroy Shu Mountain and released a dangerous prisoner to challenge Ye Lin.

• An elder warned that Shu Mountain’s actions could throw the Central Domain and the Demon Domain starry sky into chaos, while Third Elder scoffed at the other elders for leaving before he could boast.
• A dozen blood-red figures condemned Shu Mountain for breaking the rules and discussed using the conflict to wipe out the sect and purge the Human Race.
• The middle-aged leader ordered his men to release Madman and give Ye Lin an additional challenge.
• Two young men traveled to Black Mountain, opened its wooden door, and entered a vast prison lined with iron cells.

Two young men descended into a prison and confronted Li Madman, a chained prisoner whose Blood Baleful aura overwhelmed them. They offered him freedom if he killed someone on the ancestor’s orders, but Li Madman answered only by jerking his chains.

• The two young men passed through the prison, throwing supreme-grade immortal stones into the cells to quiet the inmates.
• They reached the lowest level and opened the rune-covered iron door, releasing a surge of Blood Baleful as Li Madman tackled them.
• One young man warned Li Madman that they carried the ancestor’s command, and Li Madman stopped attacking them.
• A young man approached Li Madman and offered him freedom in exchange for killing someone.
• Li Madman stared at the young man and violently jerked his chained arm without replying.