Chapter Summaries

Two young men freed Madman Li from his chains and told him to kill Ye Lin in exchange for lasting freedom. Madman Li escaped into the open world, but the middle-aged man from the great hall appeared and frightened him into backing away.

• A young man promised Madman Li freedom if he killed Ye Lin, and Madman Li agreed.
• The young man shattered Madman Li’s stone bed and chains, freeing him.
• Madman Li bounded out of the cavern while the two young men chose not to pursue him.
• Outside, Madman Li rejoiced at the open sky until the middle-aged man appeared and ordered him to kill someone for his freedom.

Ye Lin gathered the remaining geniuses in Purple Sky City as the Shu Mountain Sword Sect’s Tenfold Sequence arrived to join his forces against the Demon Domain’s interlopers. He prepared to discuss their response, noting that although the enemy numbers were greater, many were only followers.

• A middle-aged man urged Madman Li to kill Ye Lin in exchange for his freedom and whatever he wanted.
• Golden Immortal factions sent geniuses into the Central Domain, where calamity qi left them with only the choice to die or survive.
• Ye Lin surveyed 290 geniuses in Purple Sky City and judged their number sufficient.
• Ten members of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect’s Tenfold Sequence arrived and greeted Ye Lin as their Young Master.
• Ye Lin told the gathered geniuses that the known interlopers in Central Continent outnumbered them by more than two to one, but many were followers and few could match their strength.

Ye Lin led the present-world prodigies toward Heaven's Condemnation to attack the stowaways, while the stowaways argued over whether to fight or retreat. The stowaways tried to rally themselves by recalling their numbers and powerful backing, despite their fear of Ye Lin after he killed Lu Cang.

• Ye Lin ordered the prodigies to launch a war against the stowaways and pointed out their base at Heaven's Condemnation.
• Ye Lin divided the army into three forces, leading the front while Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable led the left and right.
• The stowaways argued in their cavern over whether to attack or avoid a direct confrontation with Ye Lin.
• One stowaway reminded the others that Ye Lin had killed Lu Cang, making them wary of facing him.
• Another stowaway urged the group to regain its confidence, citing its numbers and the support of more than half the Golden Immortal forces in the Demon Domain.

The Demon Domain’s prodigies argued over their fear of Ye Lin, knowing they were trapped as pawns of Golden Immortal factions. When they learned Ye Lin was leading the present-world prodigies toward them, they compared their forces and prepared for the coming conflict.

• The young man at the top rebuked the gathered prodigies for fearing Ye Lin and reminded them that neither side could retreat from the factions’ contest.
• A black-robed man reported that Ye Lin was leading the present-world prodigies out of Purple Sky City toward them.
• The young man asked how many fighters each side had and learned Ye Lin’s force numbered three hundred, including the Shu Mountain Sword Sect’s Ten Sequences prodigies.
• The black-robed man reported that their side had 283 prodigies, more than four hundred followers, and over three hundred enforcers, including fifty-three with perfected domains.

Ye Lin arrived with a small force to confront Heaven’s Condemnation, whose leaders prepared to meet him with their overwhelming numbers and ordered Purple Sky City destroyed. The chapter ended with Ye Lin facing the gathered geniuses and asking Ye Ming who he was.

• The young leader of Heaven’s Condemnation dismissed Ye Lin’s threat and ordered his forces to prepare for battle.
• The young leader sent two men to destroy Purple Sky City and kill everyone inside.
• Ye Lin sensed the gathered geniuses and considered how their deaths would cripple the Demon Domain’s strength.
• Heaven’s Condemnation’s geniuses confronted Ye Lin and accused him of arrogance for coming with so few people.
• Ye Lin asked Ye Ming who he was, enraging him.

Ye Ming led a numerical advantage against Ye Lin and his allies, expecting to win by overwhelming them before confronting Ye Lin himself. Ye Lin used the Heavenly Heart Art to seize control of the hearts of over a thousand peak prodigies, but the exertion quickly drained him.

• Ye Lin said he did not know Ye Ming and summoned groups to prevent Ye Ming's forces from escaping.
• Ye Ming ordered his fighters to attack, and the three sides clashed as Ye Lin's outnumbered allies struggled against multiple opponents.
• Ye Ming taunted Ye Lin and waited for one of his allies to fall, hoping the freed fighters would turn the battle against them.
• Ye Lin stepped forward and used the Heavenly Heart Art, causing prodigies across the battlefield to suffer intense heart pain.
• Ye Lin paled after controlling the hearts of over a thousand prodigies, as the technique consumed both immortal fortune and spirit.

Ye Lin used the Heavenly Heart Sword Art to cripple the enemies’ hearts and turn the battle in favor of the present-world geniuses, exhausting his immortal fortune power in the process. As Ye Ming seized the chance to attack him, Ye Lin summoned golden chains from shattered space.

• Ye Ming recognized that Ye Lin had orchestrated the fight and asked what technique could influence so many heavenly geniuses.
• Ye Lin used the Heavenly Heart Sword Art to destroy the hearts of the fighters, weakening them and helping his allies regain control of the battle.
• Ye Lin’s immortal fortune power was completely exhausted after he combined the Heavenly Heart Art with the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique.
• Ye Ming noticed Ye Lin’s weakened aura and attacked him with a golden staff, hoping to kill him and make a name for himself.
• Ye Lin calmly faced Ye Ming and summoned the Lock of Void, causing golden chains to emerge from shattered space.

Ye Lin bound and killed Ye Ming with the Lock of Void, then destroyed his Primordial Spirit when it tried to escape. Afterward, Ye Lin reflected that the technique consumed luck rather than power and lamented the cost of killing Ye Ming.

• Ye Lin trapped Ye Ming in the Lock of Void, and Ye Ming questioned how Ye Lin could still use powerful secret arts.
• Ye Lin confirmed that his immortal power was inexhaustible and tightened the chains until Ye Ming's body was destroyed.
• Ye Lin noticed Ye Ming's Primordial Spirit trying to escape and pierced it with Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin explained that the Lock of Void burned luck rather than power and noted that killing Ye Ming had cost over two million luck points.

Ye Lin’s use of the Invincible Art led the Demon Domain’s great powers to suspect his secret and fear that the Human Race intended to recreate the Human Emperor. At Heaven Mountain, a Golden Immortal confronted the old man, who confirmed Ye Lin had cultivated the art and refused to stop anyone from trying to kill him.

• Ye Lin reflected on how much luck the secret arts consumed after killing Ye Ming.
• The Demon Domain’s great powers recognized the aura of the Invincible Art and called for the races to join forces against Ye Lin.
• A voice linked Ye Lin’s Invincible Art and the Xuanyuan Sword to the Human Race’s plan to recreate the Human Emperor.
• A Golden Immortal confronted the old man at Heaven Mountain and demanded an explanation about Ye Lin.
• The old man confirmed Ye Lin had cultivated the Invincible Art and told the Golden Immortal to act himself if he could, then continued fishing.

A Shu Mountain Sword Sect ancestor realized Ye Lin had inherited the Invincible Art from the Xuanyuan Sword and considered backing him as a future Human Emperor. In Purple Sky City, Purple Cloud caught Wang Xiao'er trying to drink and confiscated his wine.

• A mysterious figure threatened the Shu Mountain Sword Sect ancestor and vanished.
• The ancestor recognized that the Xuanyuan Sword had passed the Invincible Art to Ye Lin and saw a chance for the sect to support a future Human Emperor.
• Wang Xiao'er stood atop Purple Sky City's wall and tried to drink from his wine gourd.
• Purple Cloud stopped Wang Xiaoer, took the gourd, and demanded to know where the wine came from.
• Wang Xiao'er blamed another big brother and ran as Purple Cloud confiscated the wine and warned him not to drink again.

Wang Xiao'er watched Purple Cloud and the people of Purple Sky City die during an attack on the Purple Sky Heavenly Palace. The chapter ended with Zi Xin being crushed in front of him, leaving him collapsed in grief and rage.

• Wang Xiao'er taunted Purple Cloud and ran from her until an attacker pierced her with a beam of light.
• Wang Xiao'er tried to stop Purple Cloud's bleeding, but she urged him to run and then died in his arms.
• A young man and two others attacked the Purple Sky Heavenly Palace, and figures fell into the city as battle erupted.
• Wang Xiao'er saw his family members lying dead in Purple Sky City while Zi Xin begged him to flee.
• The young man crushed Zi Xin's head beneath his foot, and Wang Xiao'er collapsed as he watched.

After Sister Purple Cloud, the little elder, and Sister Zi Xin were killed, Wang Xiao'er awakened a terrifying power and defeated the young man who had attacked him. He carried Purple Cloud toward the Purple Sky Heavenly Palace, then disappeared as the White-Haired Sword Demon, known for relentlessly hunting smugglers.

• Wang Xiao'er grieved over the deaths of Sister Purple Cloud, the little elder, and Sister Zi Xin while the young man ordered him to leave.
• The young man attacked Wang Xiao'er with sword light, but it stopped before his brow as his hair turned white and Sword Qi filled the air.
• Wang Xiao'er rose, shattered the sword light, and asked whether the dead had been killed because they were too weak to survive.
• The young man unleashed thousands of strands of Sword Qi, but Wang Xiao'er drew his wooden sword and named his strike Swan Song.
• Wang Xiao'er walked away carrying Purple Cloud as the young man discovered a cut on his brow and collapsed.
• Wang Xiao'er vanished from the Central Continent, and the White-Haired Sword Demon emerged, hunting smugglers and their associates.

Ye Lin used the Lock of Void to turn the battle against the smugglers, who eventually fled toward the distant void. Meanwhile, a strange beast appeared over the ruined Purple Sky City and vanished after raging at the destruction.

• After Wang Xiao'er left, two witnesses saw his dead companion and fled from the clouds in fear.
• A violet-flamed, single-horned beast appeared above the ruined Purple Sky City, roared at the destruction, and vanished into the sky.
• Ye Lin used golden chains and rapidly burned luck value to bind smugglers across the battlefield.
• With Ye Lin's support, the present-world prodigies fought more aggressively and overcame their numerical disadvantage.
• A smuggler charged Ye Lin, but a golden chain pierced him and killed him.
• The smugglers called for a retreat from Central Continent and fled, with a smaller force chasing them.

Ye Lin used the Hand of Heaven to trap the fleeing smugglers and their hired beasts, while Demon Domain factions plotted to kill him before he could become an invincible. He continued pressing the attackers down, but the technique rapidly consumed his destiny.

• The Demon Domain's great powers recognized Ye Lin's Invincible Art and feared what he would become.
• More than a dozen Golden Immortal factions plotted to encircle and kill Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin summoned the Hand of Heaven, sealing the sky above the fleeing smugglers and their hired thugs.
• The strange beasts revealed their true forms and attacked the golden hand, but they could not break it.
• Ye Lin ordered the hand to suppress them again, wounding some beasts as his destiny burned away at tens of millions per second.

Ye Lin trapped the defecting prodigies beneath the Hand of Heaven, but their desperate counterattack caused his fortune to burn at an alarming rate. After invoking Suppress, Ye Lin suffered a blow to his Primordial Spirit and was left standing only with Poison Venerable’s support.

• The trapped prodigies failed to break the Hand of Heaven and regretted defecting to the Stowaways after seeing Ye Lin’s strength.
• Ye Lin realized that his fortune points were burning at a rapidly increasing rate as the prodigies launched a desperate counterattack.
• Ye Lin invoked Suppress, and a thunderous force tore through the heavens and struck his Primordial Spirit.
• Poison Venerable steadied Ye Lin, who said that the consumption had been a little too great.

After using his fortune secret art to kill more than a hundred interlopers, Ye Lin heard a warning that the technique also harmed his spirit. He returned to Purple Sky City with Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng and found the city in ruins, with corpses scattered across the ground.

• Poison Venerable worried that Ye Lin had again weakened after using his secret art, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned that it burned Ye Lin's spirit as well as his fortune.
• Ye Lin acknowledged the warning and told the prodigies to collect the interlopers' spoils before heading back to Purple Sky City with Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng.
• Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Poison Venerable found Purple Sky City and the Purple Sky Heavenly Palace wrecked, with only structures protected by powerful formations still standing.
• Poison Venerable blamed the interlopers, and Ye Lin walked into the city, silently surveying the corpses.

Ye Lin and the returning prodigies found Purple Sky City and Purple Sky Heavenly Palace destroyed, with all their inhabitants dead. Ye Lin vowed to avenge them and ordered the group to rest for three days before searching Central Continent.

• Ye Lin found Zi Xin's corpse and sensed no survivors in Purple Sky City or Purple Sky Heavenly Palace.
• The returning present-world prodigies saw the destruction and erupted in anger at the Stowaways.
• Ye Lin ordered everyone to rest for three days, then search Central Continent and leave none alive.
• Dugu Feng left with the Jade Talisman, and Poison Venerable departed after a moment of silence.
• The others restored Purple Sky City, while Ye Lin walked through the palace and vowed to avenge the dead.

Poison Venerable agreed to become Forbidden Void’s disciple and asked him for True Immortal prodigies to support the struggle for fortune in the Central Domain. Forbidden Void agreed to send them and secured Poison Venerable’s promise to inherit his legacy and take over Forbidden Void.

• Poison Venerable asked what becoming Forbidden Void’s disciple would require, and Forbidden Void rejoiced that he had found a successor.
• Forbidden Void asked Poison Venerable to carry his name and tell the Demon Domain that he had not perished, and Poison Venerable agreed.
• Poison Venerable asked for manpower, and Forbidden Void offered his forces and asked which Golden Immortal force he should attack.
• Poison Venerable clarified that he needed True Immortal prodigies for the struggle for fortune, and Forbidden Void agreed to send demon brats to the Central Continent.
• Forbidden Void asked Poison Venerable to follow him for a thousand years and inherit his legacy and the Forbidden Void force, and Poison Venerable agreed.

Poison Venerable agreed to become the successor of Forbidden Void, while the Dugu Family and the remaining Golden Immortal factions committed their support to Ye Lin. The conflict expanded into a contest between Demon Domain factions backing the Stowaways and those backing the present world, and Ye Lin.

• Poison Venerable accepted the old man's offer to become his disciple and inherit Forbidden Void, agreeing to use the title of its successor.
• The old man left to select demon disciples for Poison Venerable.
• Dugu Feng secured his family's support, and the Dugu Family openly joined the conflict.
• The remaining Golden Immortal factions chose Ye Lin's side, hoping to share in his future rise and leave the Demon Domain.
• Golden Immortal factions sent their heavenly prodigies into the Central Continent, turning the war into a contest between supporters of the Stowaways and supporters of Ye Lin and the present world.

Wu Daozi of the Heaven's Return Clan arrived to support Ye Lin, and Dugu Feng explained the clan's fearsome divination and curse. As powerful factions gathered, Ye Lin learned that even rising Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal factions opposed the Golden Immortal factions' grip on the Demon Domain.

• Wu Daozi entered the hall and told Ye Lin that the Heaven's Return Clan's leader had sent him to help.
• Dugu Feng explained that the Heaven's Return Clan were cursed diviners whose power had once ruined a Golden Immortal faction that tried to enslave them.
• Ye Lin welcomed Wu Daozi and sensed that the old man was an Early True Immortal.
• Successors from major Demon Domain factions, including Golden Immortal and Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal factions, arrived.
• The chapter revealed rumors that Golden Immortal factions hunted prodigies nearing the Golden Immortal threshold to protect their hold on the Demon Domain.