Chapter Summaries

Bing Ruoxin pressured Xuan Yang into handing over the Identity Token key, then told her friends they could enter and look around. Ye Lin and the others watched the exchange in stunned silence.

• Bing Ruoxin told the injured Xuan Yang to give her the key, promising that she and her friends would only look around.
• Xuan Yang gave Bing Ruoxin an Identity Token bearing the character Yang after she threatened to ignore him.
• Bing Ruoxin's friends praised her and urged her to get rid of Xuan Yang, while she claimed she kept him because of his father's service to her family.
• Bing Ruoxin led her friends inside after they promised not to touch anything.
• Ye Lin and the others stood frozen after witnessing the scene.

Ye Lin and three half-step Golden Immortal experts watched Xuan Yang and Bing Ruoxin mistake them for servants and order them around. When Xuan Yang threatened them with his family’s power, one of the experts struck him, blowing away half his body.

• Ye Lin learned that Bing Ruoxin was a servant’s daughter and Xuan Yang was the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s young master who fawned over her.
• Bing Ruoxin and her companions mistook Ye Lin’s group for servants and ordered them to move aside.
• Bing Ruoxin told Xuan Yang to drive the group away, and he threatened to cripple them.
• After Ye Lin gave permission, the middle-aged expert strode toward Xuan Yang and slapped him, exploding half his body into blood mist.

Ye Lin and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect experts encountered Bing Ruoxin and her companions at the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Ancestral Land, where Zhao attacked them brutally. Ye Lin took Bing Ruoxin’s Identity Token and continued toward the barrier while Zhao stayed behind to torment the injured group.

• Bing Ruoxin and the onlookers protested when Zhao attacked Xuan Yang, invoking the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan and her family’s authority.
• Zhao ignored Bing Ruoxin and blasted apart the bodies of her companions, leaving only her unharmed.
• Bing Ruoxin threatened Zhao, and he cut off her pointing finger before taking her Identity Token and handing it to Ye Lin.
• Zhao announced that he would stay to torture the injured True Immortals, while the two Shu Mountain Sword Sect experts explained his temper to Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin accepted the Identity Token and walked toward the barrier with the two experts.

Ye Lin used the Identity Token to open the barrier and entered the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Central Land with his companions. Xuan Tian ordered the clan’s experts to surround the Ancestral Land, hoping the Ancestor would survive and give them a chance to turn things around.

• Ye Lin ignored Xuan Yang’s pleas, used the Identity Token to dissolve the green barrier, and entered with his companions.
• Xuan Yang despaired as he realized he would be held responsible if anything inside was lost, while the middle-aged man approached him.
• Xuan Tian watched the grand formation collapse and concluded that the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan was finished.
• Xuan Tian ordered the clan’s experts to gather and surround the Ancestral Land, believing the Ancestor’s survival could still save them.

After ten hours of slaughter, the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan had been nearly wiped out, leaving countless powerful corpses across the battlefield. The Puppet Sect’s master refused to collect them, fearing that exposing the sect’s forbidden practices would bring its destruction.

• The battle left the Starry Sky strewn with corpses whose blood and auras could have nurtured entire worlds.
• Puppet Sect disciples urged their master to take the corpses and refine them into puppets.
• The Puppet Sect’s master ordered them to leave the corpses, saying their aid to Ye Lin was merit enough and they had to stay hidden.
• The master recalled that puppet arts were despised because practitioners could turn even their closest kin into puppets.
• The master feared collecting the battlefield’s corpses would expose the Puppet Sect and invite the powerful factions to destroy it.

After the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Ancestral Land was breached, the victorious allied forces headed toward the continent to claim their spoils. The chapter left the surrounding factions realizing that defeating a Golden Immortal faction was unrealistic without a Golden Immortal of their own or Ye Lin’s leadership.

• A powerful expert celebrated the defeat of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan and noted that allied Golden Immortal factions and the clan’s defecting subordinates had made victory possible.
• Powerful experts gathered their disciples and elders and set off toward the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Ancestral Land to see what Ye Lin and the others had found.
• The allied army of Golden Immortal factions advanced toward the continent in formation, and the surrounding faction leaders made way for them.
• The surrounding leaders reflected that Ye Lin’s lead had enabled their rebellion and concluded that ordinary factions could not topple a Golden Immortal faction without a Golden Immortal of their own.

Ye Lin explored the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Scripture Depository and was stunned by its collection of Supreme Grade techniques and other resources. He took a few thousand volumes from the sixth floor, planning to keep them for later use in the Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin toured the eight-floor Scripture Depository and learned that its upper floors held techniques ranging from Immortal Grade to Boundless Grade.
• Ye Lin saw tens of thousands of Supreme Laws and hundreds of thousands of other Supreme Grade volumes, far exceeding anything he had seen in the Demon Domain.
• Ye Lin reasoned that Golden Immortal powers kept such knowledge to themselves to preserve their dominance.
• Ye Lin used his divine sense to collect several thousand volumes from the sixth floor, choosing books with both grandiose and understated names.
• Ye Lin decided to carry the extra techniques with him for use when he entered the Star River Cosmos.

Ye Lin explored the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s collection of Boundless Arts and discovered that the Grass-Character Sword Art could wield swords of will to attack nearly every aspect of an opponent. He left the seventh-floor collection with the technique’s power in mind, though he could not retain its contents after reading.

• Ye Lin traded cultivation techniques and Supreme Laws as valuable resources before heading to the seventh floor.
• Ye Lin found just over a hundred Boundless Arts and considered how many he could take without raising suspicion.
• Ye Lin read the Grass-Character Sword Art, whose sealed pages made him forget each page when he turned to the next.
• Ye Lin learned that the art could forge swords of will capable of cutting physical bodies, Primordial Spirits, karma, time, space, and Destiny.

Ye Lin abandoned the Grass-Character Sword Art as a poor fit, chose three manuals from the seventh floor, and climbed to the eighth floor expecting it to be empty. He was dumbfounded by what he found there.

• Ye Lin stopped practicing the Grass-Character Sword Art and searched the other Boundless Arts.
• Ye Lin chose the Ninefold Spirit-Concentrating Art, the Grass-Character Sword Art, and the True King Sacred Body from the seventh floor.
• Ye Lin decided to consult Senior Xu before cultivating the Ninefold Spirit-Concentrating Art because he feared it might contain a trap.
• Ye Lin climbed to the eighth floor, expecting it to hold no Dao-tier treasures, and was dumbfounded when he arrived.

Ye Lin discovered a mysterious Dao-tier cultivation method in the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s eighth level, but he could not see its name or touch it. Even Mo Ruyu’s Half-Step Golden Immortal sword laws failed to suppress it, leaving Ye Lin and his companions unsure how to approach it.

• Ye Lin entered the tiny eighth level and found an enormous book on a small table.
• Ye Lin approached the golden book, but it burst with light and knocked his hand away.
• Mo Ruyu suggested the Dao-tier cultivation method might possess a spirit, explaining why Ye Lin could not make out its name.
• After Ye Lin approved, Mo Ruyu tried to suppress the book with his sword laws, but it knocked his hand away too.
• Yan Nanbei studied the strange book and admitted he had never encountered anything like it.

Ye Lin forced open a mysterious cultivation manual with the Xuanyuan Sword, and he, Mo Ruyu, and Yan Nanbei read it together. They discovered it was incomplete and not worth cultivating, leaving Yan Nanbei disappointed at the lost chance to pursue the Golden Immortal realm.

• Ye Lin threatened the resistant cultivation manual with the Xuanyuan Sword, and it opened before the astonished Mo Ruyu and Yan Nanbei.
• Ye Lin, Mo Ruyu, and Yan Nanbei read the manual together for half an hour.
• Ye Lin concluded that the manual was incomplete and valuable but did not qualify as a Dao-tier technique.
• Mo Ruyu rejected the manual because cultivating it could ruin his path to the Golden Immortal realm, and Ye Lin preferred his own cultivation manuals.
• Yan Nanbei lamented that the incomplete manual could not give him a chance to rebuild his cultivation and pursue the Golden Immortal realm.

Ye Lin left a damaged Dao-tier cultivation technique behind and found the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan being looted after its destruction. He searched for Xuan Tian and the people suppressing the clan’s fortune, but discovered they were gone.

• Ye Lin transformed the Xuanyuan Sword into a bracelet, left the damaged Dao-tier cultivation technique on the table, and exited the Scripture Depository.
• Ye Lin and the two others encountered the aftermath of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s destruction as Golden Immortal factions stripped the clan’s stronghold for spoils.
• Ye Lin searched the continent with his divine sense but found no sign of Xuan Tian or the people suppressing the clan’s fortune.
• Xuan Tian had taken those people away after Xuan Ming’s death to prevent Ye Lin from killing them and further destroying the clan’s fortune.

Bao Xiaotou led Ye Lin and five half-step Golden Immortal experts to a hidden formation space where powerful enemies were concealed. After breaking the entrance, they learned that three half-step Golden Immortal experts were inside, and Mo Ruyu led the group in first.

• Bao Xiaotou told Ye Lin that he had broken the grand formation and found a hidden space containing powerful experts.
• Ye Lin brought five half-step Golden Immortal experts from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect and followed Bao Xiaotou into the Starry Sky.
• Bao Xiaotou distributed Formation Disks that blocked surveillance and explained that he had left the hidden monitoring formations intact.
• Bao Xiaotou led the group to the space's sole entrance and broke its formation with an Identity Token.
• Bao Xiaotou warned that three half-step Golden Immortal experts were inside, and Mo Ruyu led the five experts through the entrance.

Ye Lin entered the hidden space after Mo Ruyu and the others defeated the Half-Step Golden Immortals, then confronted the captured Xuan Tian. Xuan Tian blamed Ye Lin for ruining his ambition to control the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan, while Ye Lin challenged him to explain his greed.

• Ye Lin and his companions waited outside the hidden space while Half-Step Golden Immortals fought within.
• Mo Ruyu announced that the fighting was over, and Bao Xiaotou sent a paper crane inside to confirm it was safe.
• Ye Lin and the others entered and found three headless Half-Step Golden Immortal corpses and a crowd of captives kneeling before Xuan Tian.
• Xuan Tian accused Ye Lin of destroying his chance to become clan chief and control the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.
• Ye Lin sat before Xuan Tian and asked why he had betrayed their earlier cooperation out of greed.

Ye Lin confronted Xuan Tian over the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s destruction and rejected his attempts to bargain for his life. He killed Xuan Tian and left his corpse behind.

• Ye Lin told Xuan Tian that the clan’s destruction was the consequence of Xuan Tian’s past attempt to kill him.
• Xuan Tian offered to reveal the location of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s half-step Dao Artifact in exchange for his life.
• Xuan Tian offered Ye Lin the artifact, an alliance, and authority over the clan, hoping to stall until reinforcements arrived.
• Ye Lin accused Xuan Tian of fearing death rather than truly regretting his actions and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin tossed Xuan Tian’s corpse onto the ground.

Ye Lin told the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s fortune suppressors that they could choose a swift death at his hands, and three young men stepped forward. They accepted the clan’s defeat and revealed that their long, restricted lives had left them ready to die.

• Ye Lin warned that the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s fortune suppressors would die and offered them a quick death if they volunteered.
• Three young men stepped out of the crowd and approached Ye Lin, knowing they had no chance of survival.
• The three men acknowledged that Ye Lin had destroyed the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan and praised him for surpassing the Chosen Ones of earlier eras.
• The three men said they had long been prepared to die after spending hundreds of thousands of years confined and unable to advance while suppressing the clan’s fortune.

Ye Lin destroyed the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s remaining leaders and claimed most of the clan’s fortune, then prepared to wait for the Golden Immortal battlefield to end. Before he could return to investigate what the Golden Immortals had found, the young girl who once saved him appeared and summoned him, Li Xiaoyao, and Bao Xiaotou to meet her young master.

• Ye Lin killed the three Scorpion Clan leaders after they surrendered, gaining control of eighty percent of the clan’s fortune.
• Ye Lin ordered the five half-step Golden Immortals to kill the remaining influential members of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.
• Ye Lin released the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which left on its own to consume the scattered corpses.
• Ye Lin decided to wait for the Golden Immortal battlefield to end, then head for the Asura Clan before leaving the Demon Domain.
• The young girl who had once saved Ye Lin appeared and summoned Ye Lin, Li Xiaoyao, and Bao Xiaotou to meet her young master.

Chen Feng invited Ye Lin, Li Xiaoyao, and Bao Xiaotou to leave their small star domain and see the wider Star River Cosmos. Ye Lin suspected Chen Feng wanted to recruit them as Dugu Feng had warned, and the chapter ended before Chen Feng explained further.

• Ye Lin agreed to meet the mysterious girl, and Mo Ruyu stepped aside after Ye Lin assured him there was no danger.
• The girl transported Ye Lin, Li Xiaoyao, and Bao Xiaotou to an unfamiliar place in the Starry Sky.
• Chen Feng greeted the three by name and introduced himself.
• Chen Feng said he had watched the small star domain for several thousand years and wanted to take its most outstanding people to a broader world.
• Ye Lin suspected Chen Feng was recruiting them for factions in the Star River Cosmos.

Chen Feng urged Ye Lin and the others to work for him, warning that the Star River Cosmos was far more competitive than they imagined. Ye Lin’s confidence was shaken as he learned that even his long cultivation had left him far behind its strongest young prodigies.

• Chen Feng offered Ye Lin and the others work and said their talents were wasted in their current place.
• Chen Feng described the Star River Cosmos’s powerful cultivators, including an eighty-thousand-year-old seventh-level Golden Immortal and prodigies nearing Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Chen Feng told them they could verify his claims with Forbidden Void and contrasted them with the Ancient Human Emperor.
• Ye Lin compared his own cultivation with the Star River Cosmos’s prodigies and realized he had not reached Golden Immortal despite cultivating for at least eighty thousand years.
• Ye Lin’s lofty ambitions dimmed as Chen Feng warned that heavenly prodigies were common throughout the Star River Cosmos.

Chen Feng offered Ye Lin a place as his enforcer, promising to help him advance and possibly obtain a Dao Fruit, but Ye Lin refused because submission was not his path. Chen Feng dismissed the idea that Ye Lin owed him for saving his life and said that everything depended on equal status.

• Chen Feng offered to help Ye Lin reach the Golden Immortal realm and promised a possible chance at a Dao Fruit if Ye Lin served as his enforcer and obeyed his orders.
• Chen Feng described cultivation as breaking free from successive cages and invited Ye Lin to help him escape the Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin considered the offer but refused, saying that submitting to Chen Feng was not the path he should take, even if Chen Feng tried to use his life debt to pressure him.
• Chen Feng laughed and said Ye Lin was not important enough for him to use the debt of saving his life as leverage.
• Chen Feng told Ye Lin that everything was built upon equal status.