Chapter Summaries

Hang Dali and his group spread the word about Ye Lin's trade, drawing tribes to exchange supplies for top-grade Heavenly Crystal Stones. On the second day, the group waited by the Heaven-Devouring Python's remains as more traders arrived.

• Hang Dali offered tribes one Vitality Pill for every person they brought to the trade, and word spread across the region.
• Tribes gathered top-grade Heavenly Crystal Stones to trade, driving up their value, while some chiefs secretly fled with their tribes' wealth.
• Ye Lin's group absorbed the Heaven-Devouring Python's blood essence and had the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar consume the rest of its remains.
• Wang Tian wondered whether anyone would arrive before the group left in two days.
• Bao Xiaotou spotted newcomers and hurried over to inspect the goods he planned to sell.

Ye Lin and the others prepared to trade weapons, pills, and Formation Disks with the Desolate Tribe. Chieftain Goshawk arrived with two men and reacted with amazement to their goods, beginning negotiations with Ye Lin and Wang Tian.

• Wang Tian inspected his pills and considered how to price and sell them, while Shangguan Wanyu looked through her belongings for items to trade.
• Li Xiaoyao regretted killing people without keeping their Spatial Rings, as he was the only one with nothing to sell.
• Ye Lin encouraged everyone to trade according to their abilities and displayed more than ten thousand weapons for Goshawk and his men.
• Goshawk asked Ye Lin whether the weapons could be exchanged for supreme-grade Heavenly Crystal Stones, and Ye Lin said he could take them all if he had enough stones.
• Wang Tian claimed one pill could double a person's strength, astonishing Goshawk, and Shangguan Wanyu demonstrated that her Formation Disk could control a powerful Killing Formation for half an hour.

Ye Lin and his companions sold their treasures to Goshawk, who spent all his Supreme Heavenly Crystal Stones on weapons, pills, and storage treasures. Goshawk left plotting to plunder other tribes and challenge the Heavenly Kingdom, while Ye Lin prepared to collect Law Fragments.

• Bao Xiaotou pitched a Killing Formation Disk, and Shangguan Wanyu offered a storage treasure to Goshawk and his men.
• Goshawk bought the Heaven-Shaking Hammer and more goods from Ye Lin, spending every Supreme Heavenly Crystal Stone he had brought.
• Goshawk took fifteen storage treasures and promised to return the next day with his two subordinates.
• Goshawk rode away plotting to plunder other tribes and gather enough treasures to overthrow the Heavenly Kingdom.
• Ye Lin watched Goshawk leave, then checked the group's gains with his companions.

Wang Tian, Ye Lin, and Bao Xiaotou traded pills for Law Fragments from a tribe in the secret realm, earning a huge haul. After a day of selling to successive groups of guests, they counted their gains and looked ahead to more tribes and more Law Fragments.

• Bao Xiaotou celebrated receiving thirty-four thousand Law Fragments from the first tribe, while Ye Lin secretly stored ninety-three thousand in his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin considered using enough Law Fragments to break through to the late stage of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm and counterattack the Demon Domain.
• Wang Tian explained that his inexhaustible supply of low-grade pills let him keep selling at virtually no cost.
• Ye Lin welcomed several dozen approaching figures as more precious guests, then wondered where the secret realm was located.
• After a full day of trading, Ye Lin and the others saw off their final guests, and Wang Tian said his junk alone had earned three hundred and forty thousand Law Fragments.

After the group made a fortune selling treasures and formations, Li Xiaoyao grew desperate to earn money too. He left with a Spatial Ring to collect ferocious beast corpses, while Wang Tian wondered where he had gone.

• Wang Tian admired his earnings and looked forward to entering seclusion, while Ye Lin regretted that he had nearly run out of things to sell.
• Ye Lin noted that Shangguan Wanyu, Bao Xiaotou, and Wang Tian had earned different amounts, with Bao Xiaotou selling formations carved onto stones.
• Li Xiaoyao grew anxious as he watched everyone else make money and searched for something of his own to sell.
• Li Xiaoyao spotted the Heaven-Devouring Python's corpse and decided to collect ferocious beast corpses for sale.
• Li Xiaoyao asked Ye Lin for a Spatial Ring, received a top-grade immortal-tier one, and headed into the night with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Wang Tian asked where Li Xiaoyao had gone, and Ye Lin explained that he could not stand watching them make money.

Goshawk and Rising Sun prepared their tribes for a night raid to seize the finest Heavenly Crystal Stones and strengthen their people. Rising Sun led his warriors out, with Dongfang nervous about taking part in the slaughter.

• Goshawk ordered thirty armed warriors to target the finest Heavenly Crystal Stones and recruit people from other tribes, while sparing the old, weak, sick, and disabled.
• Goshawk's warriors vowed to die for their tribe and followed him out.
• Rising Sun ordered fifty hunting-team warriors to seize the finest Heavenly Crystal Stones and women, and kill all the men.
• Rising Sun took up his great hammer and led his warriors out, while Dongfang gripped his Sun-Shooting Bow nervously.
• Hang Dali reassured Dongfang that their tribe had to strike now or risk being killed by other tribes.

Ye Lin’s allies used the strength and weapons he had provided to raid tribes that had not traded with him, killing their people and taking advantage of the new balance of power. The slaughter continued through the night as Hang Dali, Dongfang, and Goshawk attacked separate targets.

• Hang Dali told Dongfang that alliances between tribes depended on strength and survival, easing Dongfang’s concerns.
• Tribes that had traded with Ye Lin avoided fighting one another and instead targeted uninformed tribes with stores of Heavenly Crystal Stones.
• Hang Dali killed a man who questioned the attack, then moved on to the next household.
• Dongfang used his Sun-Shooting Bow to kill three men from a tree before changing positions.
• Goshawk relished the power of his Heaven-Shaking Hammer and ordered his men to kill the old, weak, sick, crippled, and able-bodied men, while sparing the women.

Ye Lin reflected on the overwhelming strength that had let him and thirty tribal warriors destroy three tribes without casualties. At the trading grounds, he sold Goshawk supplies and revealed a Blood Pill, leaving Goshawk eager to obtain its power.

• Ye Lin noted that his thirty warriors had slaughtered three tribes without losing anyone.
• Tribal chiefs arrived at the trading grounds with bloodstained bodies and little black boxes.
• Goshawk gave Ye Lin ten boxes containing five hundred thousand top-grade Heavenly Crystal Stones and asked for a plan.
• Ye Lin recommended a defensive Formation Disk, Healing Pills, and antidote pills for Goshawk's tribe.
• Ye Lin showed Goshawk a Blood Pill that could permanently increase his strength tenfold while consuming all his potential.
• Goshawk stared at the Blood Pill and struggled to contain his desire for it.

Ye Lin sold Blood Pills to Goshawk and the other tribal chieftains, persuading them to spend their tribes’ wealth despite the pills’ permanent side effect. Rising Sun initially refused but bought the last pill after Ye Lin told him the others had purchased theirs.

• Goshawk hesitated over buying a Blood Pill that would prevent him from ever growing stronger, but took one after Ye Lin said there were ten available.
• Goshawk paid Ye Lin for the goods and left with his tribe without explaining the transaction to its members.
• Ye Lin used the same pitch to sell Blood Pills to several other tribal chieftains, selling all ten pills Wang Tianyi had refined.
• Rising Sun gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring containing eight hundred thousand top-grade Heavenly Crystal Stones and initially refused a Blood Pill on the grounds that the wealth belonged to his tribe.
• Ye Lin told Rising Sun that Goshawk and the other eight chieftains had each bought a pill, and Rising Sun took the last one.

Li Xiaoyao sold a mountain of ferocious beast carcasses to the tribal chieftains in exchange for tens of thousands of law fragments. Ye Lin counted the profits and planned to use the fragments to strengthen himself and nurture Li Xiaoyao.

• Li Xiaoyao offered ferocious beast carcasses to the departing tribal chieftains, and Rising Sun persuaded them to inspect the goods.
• Li Xiaoyao revealed a mountain of carcasses, prompting the chieftains to buy them and pay with tens of thousands of law fragments.
• Li Xiaoyao stored the fragments and happily counted them as the chieftains departed on their heavenly horses.
• Bao Xiaotou resolved to reach Flawless Taiyi before refining the fragments.
• Ye Lin noted that his Spatial Ring held more than two million law fragments and planned to save the remaining million for Li Xiaoyao.

Goshawk and the other tribal chiefs suffered through the Blood Pill’s painful effects, then discovered that their abilities had increased tenfold. Empowered, Goshawk and Rising Sun prepared to attack the tribes that had traded with them, with Rising Sun aiming to found a nation.

• Goshawk swallowed Ye Lin’s Blood Pill and endured half a shichen of agony as it transformed his body.
• The other tribal chiefs who had bought Blood Pills suffered the same painful transformation.
• Goshawk tested his new strength by smashing the ground, then ordered the Desolate Tribe to prepare for war so he could reclaim the stones he had spent.
• Rising Sun adapted to his enhanced power and ordered the Eastern Rising Tribe to attack the tribes that had traded with them.
• Rising Sun set his sights on becoming the ruler of a nation.

On the final day of trading, Ye Lin let the tribal chiefs exchange their Heavenly Crystal Stones for the remaining treasures. Goshawk and Rising Sun arrived together seeking stronger items, but Ye Lin said he had nothing better to sell.

• As the third day dawned, the tribal chiefs came to the trading site before the envoys departed.
• Ye Lin told the chiefs to leave their Heavenly Crystal Stones and choose treasures, then let them take a few extra items as a bonus.
• Goshawk and Rising Sun arrived together, their former alliance strained by their rivalry for dominance.
• Goshawk and Rising Sun asked Ye Lin whether he had anything stronger to sell.
• Ye Lin refused, saying he would not sell the truly good items and that they could take what remained or leave it.

Ye Lin split the treasures between Rising Sun and Goshawk before the Heavenly Dao expelled him and the others from the secret realm. He rewarded Hang Dali and his companions with a Sovereign Artifact, but Rising Sun took it for himself and led the five back to the tribe.

• Rising Sun and Goshawk divided the treasures, thanked Ye Lin, and departed in opposite directions, knowing they would become mortal enemies.
• As the Heavenly Dao began driving them out, Ye Lin gathered the law fragments and prepared to leave.
• Hang Dali and four companions arrived to claim the reward Ye Lin had promised them.
• Ye Lin sent Hang Dali a Sovereign Artifact disk and vanished with the others.
• Rising Sun appeared, took the disk from the five men, and led them back to the tribe.

Chen Fan sent Ye Lin and the others out of the secret realm after they demanded the promised reward, and they emerged safely into the starry sky. Ye Lin discovered that they had been transported from the Northern Demon Domain to the distant Western Demon Domain.

• Chen Fan acknowledged that the group had amassed an unexpectedly large number of law fragments and agreed to send them away as promised.
• Ye Lin insisted that Chen Fan honor their deal, while Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian watched warily and Li Xiaoyao prepared to fight.
• Chen Fan sent Ye Lin, Bao Xiaotou, Wang Tian, Li Xiaoyao, and Shangguan Wanyu into the starry sky, where the group celebrated their escape.
• Shangguan Wanyu looked around the dark starry sky and found it unlike the beautiful night sky she had imagined.
• Ye Lin used a Formation Disk to locate their position, and it revealed that they were in the Western Demon Domain rather than the Northern Demon Domain.

Ye Lin decided that his group would enter seclusion for five thousand years to refine their Law Fragments and consolidate their gains. Shangguan Wanyu was shocked by the duration, and Ye Lin reassured her that she would soon consider it too short.

• Ye Lin put away the Formation Disk and proposed that everyone settle down and enter seclusion.
• Wang Tianyi, Bao Xiaotou, Shangguan Wanyu, and Li Xiaoyao agreed to Ye Lin's plan.
• Ye Lin announced that their seclusion would last five thousand years, startling Shangguan Wanyu.
• Ye Lin explained that the Fantasy Continent's cultivation methods and experts lagged far behind those of the Anlan Great World.
• Ye Lin told Shangguan Wanyu that five thousand years would soon seem far too little.

Ye Lin chose a star for the group’s seclusion and tasked Bao Xiaotou with preparing its defenses. Bao Xiaotou completed a formation that concealed the entire star from the Starry Sky.

• Ye Lin dismissed the Fantasy Continent’s Saint Illusion experts as having short lifespans and led the group to a star.
• Ye Lin told Bao Xiaotou to set up a formation, and Bao Xiaotou accepted the task.
• Ye Lin reviewed Bao Xiaotou’s profile and decided that everyone following him had to reach Flawless Taiyi.
• Bao Xiaotou spent three days setting up the formation, which made the enormous star disappear from the Starry Sky.

Bao Xiaotou set up layers of formations before hiding in a cave to enter seclusion, while Ye Lin guided Shangguan Wanyu through abandoning her old cultivation and starting over with a powerful new technique. He gave her the Supreme Boundless-grade Hundred Charms Heavenly Art and resources, then left her to begin her new path.

• Bao Xiaotou set up eighteen concealed formations, eighteen Illusion Formations, and eighteen Killing Formations before entering a cave to begin seclusion.
• Ye Lin told Shangguan Wanyu to disperse her cultivation, and she decisively abandoned the strength she had spent decades building.
• Ye Lin obtained the Supreme Boundless-grade Hundred Charms Heavenly Art from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and passed it to Shangguan Wanyu.
• Ye Lin gave Shangguan Wanyu early-stage resources and said he would provide immortal-realm resources after she reached the Mahayana stage.
• Ye Lin left Shangguan Wanyu to cultivate, setting her a five-thousand-year goal of reaching the Earth Immortal realm.

Ye Lin prepared to refine law fragments while Bao Xiaotou spent a century cultivating and then began his heavenly tribulation. Bao Xiaotou activated 108 defensive formations against the first lightning strike, but 23 Formation Disks were destroyed immediately.

• Ye Lin gathered the law fragments, intending to use them to advance his cultivation to the late Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal stage.
• After a hundred years, Bao Xiaotou left the star alone to undergo tribulation in the Star River Cosmos.
• Bao Xiaotou saw that his tribulation was a six-nine heavenly tribulation and eagerly anticipated reaching Flawless Taiyi.
• Bao Xiaotou arranged 108 defensive formations around himself, wary that the tribulation came from beyond the Anlan Great World’s Heavenly Dao.
• Bao Xiaotou activated all 108 formations as a massive bolt of lightning struck, and 23 Formation Disks shattered.

Bao Xiaotou used up his Formation Disks and golden Compass to withstand eight bolts of the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, hoping to become Flawless Taiyi. With his defenses exhausted, he faced the final bolt, uneasy that the lightning was preparing a devastating strike.

• Bao Xiaotou’s Formation Disks were destroyed by the first five bolts of lightning, so he summoned his golden Compass to shield himself.
• The golden Compass endured the next bolt but developed a crack, and Bao Xiaotou resolved to survive the four remaining strikes.
• Bao Xiaotou used the golden Compass to withstand two more bolts, then watched it shatter under the eighth.
• Bao Xiaotou found that his canvas bag held no remaining trump cards and prepared to face the final lightning bolt head-on.

Bao Xiaotou endured his final tribulation bolt and received the Heavenly Dao's reward, entering the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm as a Flawless Taiyi. Ye Lin noted Bao Xiaotou's progress and judged Shangguan Wanyu's talent to be lacking.

• Bao Xiaotou withstood the final tribulation lightning by summoning his Formation Disk.
• The Heavenly Dao rewarded Bao Xiaotou, and he absorbed its bestowal until his True Immortal body transformed into a body of laws.
• Bao Xiaotou entered Flawless Taiyi and left to stabilize his cultivation through closed-door cultivation.
• Ye Lin sensed Bao Xiaotou's breakthrough and estimated he might advance again within five thousand years.
• Ye Lin sensed Shangguan Wanyu had reached the peak of Dao Integration in a hundred years and judged her talent inferior to Wang Tian and the others.