Chapter Summaries

Xiang Cheng's clan faced a siege by the Shangguan Family and three Heavenly Immortal experts, who demanded the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment while holding Xiang Wanyi. Xiang Cheng refused to hand it over without seeing his granddaughter, leaving the clan trapped as he recalled why he had guarded the fragment for hundreds of thousands of years.

• The Shangguan Family Head demanded that Xiang Cheng surrender the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and threatened to kill his family.
• Xiang Cheng refused to give up the fragment until he saw Xiang Wanyi, while the Shangguan Family Head claimed his grandson would bring her back.
• Spectators discussed how the Shangguan Family's alliance with the Blazing Fire Sect had left the Xiang Clan outmatched.
• The Xiang Clan Head worried that Shangguan Su might harm Wanyi, but Xiang Cheng said they could only stall against the three Heavenly Immortal experts.
• Xiang Cheng regretted involving his family in protecting the fragment and remembered the mysterious person's promise that its future claimant would grant the clan one request.

The Xiang Clan faced destruction as the Shangguan Family demanded the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, while Xiang Cheng refused to surrender it without seeing Xiang Wanyi. Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao accompanied Xiang Wanyi toward her home, where her family awaited her in danger.

• Xiang Cheng regretted accepting a promise involving the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment after its existence drew the Shangguan Family, the Blazing Fire Sect, and another mysterious force.
• Xiang Cheng’s son declared he would rather die than abandon his family, and Xiang Cheng’s granddaughter’s elder sister prayed that Xiang Wanyi would stay away and escape.
• The Shangguan Family’s leader demanded the fragment, but Xiang Cheng refused to hand it over until he saw Xiang Wanyi and threatened to take his opponent down with him.
• The Shangguan Family’s leader held back, wary of Xiang Cheng and unwilling to risk his own life.
• Ye Lin asked Xiang Wanyi how much farther they had to travel, while he and Li Xiaoyao followed her toward her home.

Ye Lin investigated why Xiang Wanyi was lost and discovered that her cultivation had risen automatically throughout her life, despite her never cultivating. The chapter ended with Xiang Wanyi realizing she was unharmed after Ye Lin examined her memories.

• Xiang Wanyi admitted she was lost after leading Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao through increasingly remote places.
• Ye Lin told Xiang Wanyi to close her eyes and used Soul Search to examine her memories, while she begged him not to make her an idiot.
• Ye Lin learned that Xiang Wanyi had never cultivated, yet her cultivation and understanding of methods had risen automatically since childhood.
• Xiang Wanyi touched her head in surprise after Ye Lin withdrew his hand and saw that she was fine.

After discovering that Xiang Wanyi was protected by the Great Dao and destined for Transcendence, Ye Lin realized how extraordinary and dangerous her status was. He took her with him as he and Li Xiaoyao left to bring her home.

• Xiang Wanyi thanked Ye Lin and clung to his leg after he showed her mercy.
• Ye Lin inspected Xiang Wanyi's panel and learned of her Transcendence Fate Rank, powerful traits, and Great Dao protection.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Great Dao's protection made Xiang Wanyi nearly impossible to kill and made him fear that any harm to her could bring disaster upon him.
• Ye Lin told Xiang Wanyi that he had found her home and warned her to behave.
• Ye Lin took Xiang Wanyi and Li Xiaoyao through a shattered void, carefully carrying Xiang Wanyi.

Ye Lin learned that he was in the Anlan Great World and headed for White Cloud City, Xiang Wanyi’s hometown. There, Xiang Cheng used the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment to force the Shangguan elder to let his family leave, but he stayed behind.

• Ye Lin absorbed Xiang Wanyi’s memories and learned he was in Yu Commandery of the Upper Heaven Domain, bound for White Cloud City.
• The Shangguan elder learned that Shangguan Su’s life plaque had shattered and threatened to wipe out the Xiang Clan.
• Xiang Cheng laughed at Shangguan Su’s death, then revealed the genuine One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and threatened to destroy it unless his family was allowed to leave.
• The Shangguan elder agreed to let the Xiang family go because destroying the fragment would bring disaster on him and the Shangguan Family.
• Xiang Cheng told his descendants to seek Windless Venerable in Heavenly Water Commandery and warned them not to seek revenge for him.

Xiang Cheng tried to protect his family from the old man encircling White Cloud City, but Xiang Wanyi returned with Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao. After Ye Lin recognized the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, the old man ordered his men to attack the newcomers, and Xiang Cheng intervened.

• Xiang Cheng ordered his descendants to leave, then threw a middle-aged man away when he refused.
• Xiang Wanyi returned to Xiang Cheng despite his order to flee.
• The old man encircled White Cloud City and threatened Xiang Cheng over the item in his hand.
• Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao arrived, and Ye Lin recognized the item as the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment.
• Xiang Wanyi told Xiang Cheng that Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao had saved her.
• The old man ordered his men to kill Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao, and Xiang Cheng roared in their defense.

Ye Lin had Li Xiaoyao kill the Blazing Fire Sect’s attackers, then pressed Xiang Cheng to hand over the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment. Xiang Cheng invited Ye Lin into the residence to talk, while Xiang Wanyi reunited with her family outside.

• Ye Lin ordered Li Xiaoyao to kill everyone in the sky, and Li Xiaoyao blasted the attackers into blood mist.
• The survivors mistook Li Xiaoyao for a True Immortal, and Xiang Cheng was shocked by his strength.
• Ye Lin asked Xiang Cheng to give him the item, and Xiang Cheng invited Ye Lin into the hall for a talk.
• The Xiang Clan members gathered around Xiang Wanyi and asked how she had met such a powerful expert.
• Xiang Wanyi said the expert had appeared when she was in danger and had killed Shangguan Su.
• The injured middle-aged man approached Xiang Wanyi and expressed relief that she had returned safely.

Ye Lin took the dangerous scroll from Xiang Cheng and learned that a dying, black-robed stranger had entrusted it to him hundreds of thousands of years ago. Ye Lin then asked where the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect was so he could fulfill his promise to destroy it.

• Xiang Cheng gave Ye Lin the scroll and explained that a mysterious black-robed man had entrusted it to him hundreds of thousands of years earlier.
• Xiang Cheng warned Ye Lin that a powerful figure had taken an interest in the scroll, but Ye Lin dismissed the danger.
• Ye Lin asked Xiang Cheng where the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect was.
• Xiang Cheng said the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect was one of the five foremost powers of the Upper Heaven Domain and asked why Ye Lin sought it.

Ye Lin asked Xiang Cheng about the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect and told Li Xiaoyao they would destroy it, with Li Xiaoyao leading the attack. Xiang Cheng returned in terror after overhearing their plan, realizing that giving them the sect’s location could put his clan in danger.

• Xiang Cheng explained that the Upper Heaven Domain was dominated by five top powers, including the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect.
• Ye Lin told Xiang Cheng that he only wanted the sect’s location and dismissed his questions about what would happen next.
• Li Xiaoyao asked Ye Lin why he was seeking the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect, and Ye Lin said they would wipe it out because he held a grudge against it.
• Li Xiaoyao eagerly agreed to lead the charge against the sect.
• Xiang Cheng returned to the hall trembling after overhearing Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao’s plan, fearing the consequences of giving them the sect’s location.

Ye Lin obtained a map of the Upper Heaven Domain from Xiang Cheng and left with Li Xiaoyao. Before departing, Ye Lin healed Xiang Cheng’s injuries and raised his cultivation, leaving Li Xiaoyao wondering why he had used his precious source power.

• Xiang Cheng handed Ye Lin a map marking Yu Commandery and the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect.
• Ye Lin thanked Xiang Cheng, stored the map, and told Li Xiaoyao they were leaving.
• Ye Lin sent green light into Xiang Cheng, healing his old injuries and raising his cultivation from late Heavenly Immortal to peak Heavenly Immortal.
• Xiang Cheng regained his youthful appearance and thanked Ye Lin for giving him a new chance to cultivate.
• Li Xiaoyao asked Ye Lin why he had used his source power to help Xiang Cheng.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao traveled to Jingtou Commandery to confront the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect, where they sensed powerful cultivators at the sect’s mountain stronghold. After claiming to be an old friend of the Sect Master, Ye Lin waited while disciples went to notify him.

• Ye Lin explained that he had helped Xiang Cheng to build goodwill with Xiang Wanyi, then set out with Li Xiaoyao for Jingtou Commandery.
• Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao crossed the distance to Jingtou Commandery and sensed a dangerous aura coming from the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect’s stronghold.
• Ye Lin detected three powerful auras in the mountain, including one that was exceptionally strong, and approached with Li Xiaoyao.
• The sect’s light curtain stopped Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao, and disciples asked who they were.
• Ye Lin said he was an old friend of the Sect Master, and a disciple went to notify the Sect Master while the others asked him to wait.

Ye Lin confronted Ji Xingchen at the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect and asked for Dongfang Shengxu, then sent Li Xiaoyao to fight the sect master. Ji Xingchen's Supreme Law attack was extinguished by Li Xiaoyao's fist wind.

• A young man sensed Ye Lin's overwhelming pressure through the Sect Protection Array.
• Ji Xingchen arrived, identified himself as the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect's Sect Master, and dismissed the array.
• Ye Lin asked where Dongfang Shengxu was, and Ji Xingchen challenged their reasons for coming.
• Ye Lin told Li Xiaoyao to handle Ji Xingchen, and Li Xiaoyao charged at him.
• Ji Xingchen used the Supreme Law Heavenly Fire Sunflare, but Li Xiaoyao's fist wind extinguished the flames.

Li Xiaoyao fought Ji Xingchen at the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect and knocked him into a mountain, startling the sect’s disciples. Ji Xingchen emerged with a terrifying aura and demanded to know where Li Xiaoyao and Ye Lin came from, having recognized Li Xiaoyao as a Flawless Taiyi unknown in the Anlan Great World.

• The Blazing Fire Heaven Sect’s disciples mocked Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao as they attacked their sect.
• Li Xiaoyao punched Ji Xingchen into a mountain, despite his fingers being charred by Ji Xingchen’s Supreme Art.
• The sect’s disciples fled after seeing their Sect Master struck down.
• Ji Xingchen emerged from underground with a powerful aura and recognized Li Xiaoyao as a Flawless Taiyi.
• Ji Xingchen questioned where Li Xiaoyao and Ye Lin came from, saying the Anlan Great World had only five known Flawless Taiyis.

Ji Xingchen demanded to know why Li Xiaoyao and Ye Lin had come, while Li Xiaoyao declared that he had to kill Ji Xingchen. Li Xiaoyao attacked, and Ji Xingchen conjured chains of law to fight him.

• Ji Xingchen realized Li Xiaoyao and Ye Lin were outsiders and asked why they had come to the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect.
• Li Xiaoyao said he had to kill Ji Xingchen, then appeared before him and attacked.
• Ji Xingchen, recognizing the gap between their cultivation, summoned golden chains of law and lashed them at Li Xiaoyao.
• Li Xiaoyao ignored the chains and threw a punch at Ji Xingchen.

Li Xiaoyao overwhelmed Ji Xingchen and Dongfang Shengxu, two powerful members of the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect, despite their attempts to fight back. As the pair joined forces against him, Ye Lin watched and noted that Li Xiaoyao was still not using his full strength.

• Li Xiaoyao shattered Ji Xingchen’s Chains of Laws and smashed him into a mountain, leaving his chest caved in.
• Dongfang Shengxu intervened to protect Ji Xingchen, but Li Xiaoyao used his spear to hurl him into a mountain peak.
• Li Xiaoyao beat Dongfang Shengxu until both his arms were destroyed and his chest caved in.
• Ji Xingchen reappeared and joined Dongfang Shengxu in attacking Li Xiaoyao.
• Ye Lin watched as Li Xiaoyao continued overpowering the two without revealing his full strength.

Ye Lin faced an ancient elder of the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect, who offered up the two disciples responsible for an old grievance. Ye Lin accepted, but held back from attacking the sect because he was being hunted by both the Stowaways and Li Changsheng.

• An old man arrived and asked Ye Lin to release his two disciples.
• Ye Lin refused to back down and explained that he had been entrusted to kill the disciples, then asked the elder about a past clash involving the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect.
• The old man recalled sparing the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal who had attacked the sect hundreds of thousands of years earlier and admitted that the old grievance had caused the present conflict.
• The old man handed the two disciples over to Ye Lin and asked him to spare the sect's other disciples.
• After the old man left, Ye Lin regretted losing the chance to refine the sect's members, but decided against escalating the conflict while the Stowaways and Li Changsheng hunted him.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao left the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect after Li Xiaoyao killed Dongfang Shengxu and Ji Xingchen. The sect’s surviving disciples feared the repercussions but trusted that their Grand Elder would keep the sect standing.

• Li Xiaoyao returned to Ye Lin carrying the heads of Dongfang Shengxu and Ji Xingchen, whom he had defeated.
• Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao departed the ruined Blazing Fire Heaven Sect.
• The sect’s disciples emerged from hiding and discussed how easily the Sect Master and Great Elder had been killed.
• One disciple worried that rival factions would attack now that the sect’s leaders were dead.
• Another disciple insisted that the Grand Elder remained and that the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect would not fall.

Ye Lin drew the old man’s remnant consciousness from the statue after Li Xiaoyao brought the heads of the two men who had wronged him. Seeing his vengeance fulfilled, the old man thanked them and vanished, leaving the chapter to explain why ordinary cultivators could not enter reincarnation.

• Li Xiaoyao and Ye Lin brought the two men’s heads back to the cave.
• Ye Lin drew the old man’s remnant consciousness out of the statue that had sustained it.
• The old man saw the heads and rejoiced that the men he had hated for hundreds of thousands of years were dead.
• The old man thanked Li Xiaoyao and Ye Lin, called out to Juan'er, and vanished as his obsession dissipated.
• The narration explained that ordinary cultivators could not reincarnate, and that only great powers could force their way into rebirth.

Ye Lin reflected on his old acquaintance Liu Bai before studying the Three Heaven-Opening Forms with Li Xiaoyao. Elsewhere, Liu Bai faced a siege by the Boundless Sacred Land over its missing Saintess and sacred relic, and refused to hand over the relic.

• Ye Lin wondered how Liu Bai was doing and hoped they might meet again if fate allowed.
• Ye Lin sat down to comprehend the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and the Three Heaven-Opening Forms.
• Li Xiaoyao imitated Ye Lin and examined the memories surfacing in his mind, including the Three Heaven-Opening Forms.
• Liu Bai stood on a snowy mountain as cultivators from the Boundless Sacred Land surrounded him.
• A middle-aged man accused Liu Bai of abducting the Saintess and stealing the sacred relic, but Liu Bai denied taking the Saintess and refused to return the relic.

Liu Bai taunted the Boundless Sacred Land’s Great Elder and his pursuers, then escaped their fifth attempt to capture him by transforming into wind and snow. The Great Elder explained that a Golden Immortal was hiding Liu Bai’s whereabouts, even though the Sect Master wanted to find him because Liu Bai had abducted the Saintess, his youngest daughter.

• Liu Bai challenged the Great Elder, insisting that three peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals were not enough to kill him.
• The enraged Great Elder ordered his companions to attack Liu Bai and leave him alive so they could learn the Saintess’s whereabouts.
• Liu Bai transformed into wind and snow and vanished, escaping the group for the fifth time.
• The Great Elder’s companions lamented Liu Bai’s escape, and one young man asked whether the Sect Master could locate him.
• The Great Elder said a Golden Immortal was concealing Liu Bai’s whereabouts and revealed that the abducted Saintess was the Sect Master’s beloved youngest daughter.