Chapter Summaries

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar urged Ye Lin to abandon his overly kind, honest ways, and Ye Lin led his companions into the Earth Fiend Clan’s territory toward the Taichu Secret Realm. At the Heart of Three Mountains, the Jar began opening the secret realm while Ye Lin prepared to hold off the powerful figures arriving nearby.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that strength, not right or wrong, determined who survived, and Ye Lin killed two Heavenly Immortal cultivators.
• Ye Lin and his companions traveled through the Earth Fiend Clan’s territory, killing the cultivators who tried to stop them.
• The group reached the Heart of Three Mountains and found the unopened Taichu Secret Realm behind a dilapidated gate.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar asked Ye Lin to hold off the approaching powerful figures while it opened the secret realm and told him to search for the Dragon-Binding Rope.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar manifested its artifact spirit, whose overwhelming presence shocked Li Xiaoyao.

Dugu Feng challenged the Earth Fiend Clan after its members demanded an explanation, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar began attacking as the clan mobilized. Ye Lin embraced a ruthless view of cultivation and charged into the enemy ranks, leaving the battle underway.

• The Earth Fiend Clan demanded to know why Dugu Feng had entered its territory and killed its members, threatening to keep the group there if he failed to satisfy it.
• Dugu Feng refused to explain himself, angering the clan, which ordered its forces to kill the outsiders.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar began acting, and Li Xiaoyao blocked a Golden Immortal cloud of blood-red mist before attacking it with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• The Blood Baleful Clan's forces charged, and Ye Lin reflected that cultivation meant struggle, contention, and taking.
• Ye Lin froze three peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals with his Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, annihilated them with Sword Qi, and charged into the enemy ranks.

Ye Lin and his allies fought through the Earth Fiend Clan as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar opened the entrance to the Taichu Secret Realm. They rushed toward the gateway while a furious Earth Fiend Clan Golden Immortal watched from afar.

• Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Poison Venerable slaughtered Earth Fiend Clan and Blood Baleful Clan experts while Wang Tianyi and Bao Xiaotou protected Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar opened a gateway to the Taichu Secret Realm and warned that experts above the fifth level of the Golden Immortal Realm could not enter.
• Ye Lin ordered everyone to move and led the group toward the gateway.
• Dugu Feng wiped out a mass of Earth Fiend Clan fighters, and Wang Tianyi rushed Shangguan Wanyu forward with the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Poison Venerable used Heavenly Decree to kill the Earth Fiend Clan experts blocking his way.
• The Earth Fiend Clan Golden Immortal fighting Li Xiaoyao saw the green pillar of light and stared at it in fury.

Li Xiaoyao entered the newly revealed secret realm, leaving the Earth Fiend Clan to face the fallout. As powerful outsiders rushed toward the ancient realm, the clan chose to abandon its territory and hide.

• Li Xiaoyao put away the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers and entered the gateway, telling the Earth Fiend Clan elder that his troubles were worse.
• The Earth Fiend Clan experts reported that thirty-three Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals and countless True Immortals had been killed.
• The Earth Fiend Clan elder realized the ancient secret realm would attract major factions and said the clan could not defend it.
• The elder ordered the Earth Fiend Clan to abandon the area and go into seclusion until the danger passed.
• The elder entered the gateway, while the other Earth Fiend Clan experts burrowed into the ground to hide from the approaching forces.

Powerful cultivators entered the newly opened secret realm, which Dugu Feng identified as an ancient-era realm that had preserved dense Chaos Qi. The Earth Fiend Clan abandoned the territory, leaving Dugu Feng and the others to explore the realm and learn about its dangerous, beneficial energy.

• Cultivators from across the Origin Continent gathered and entered the secret realm after determining it might date back to the ancient or primordial era.
• The Earth Fiend Clan experts gave up hope of reclaiming their land and fled underground to find somewhere else to live.
• Dugu Feng and the others felt the realm’s dense, violent Immortal Qi, which could burst a terrestrial immortal apart.
• Dugu Feng explained that the realm had preserved Chaos Qi from the ancient era and told the others to draw it into their bodies.

Ye Lin’s group relied on Shangguan Wanyu’s uncanny instincts to find the main burial chamber in Taichu’s secret realm. Her ability earned the group’s trust, and they discovered a chamber filled with pillars and a suspended Bronze Coffin.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Dugu Feng to stop preparing to cultivate and urged the group to explore Taichu’s burial ground.
• Ye Lin asked Shangguan Wanyu to choose their route, and she confidently led the group into the third passage.
• Ye Lin’s inspection of Shangguan Wanyu’s abilities revealed that she could sense treasures and foresee danger in secret realms.
• Shangguan Wanyu guided the group through the passage to a vast chamber containing seventy-two pillars, thirty-six floating pillars, and a Bronze Coffin.
• Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable praised Shangguan Wanyu, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the other passages were traps.

Ye Lin and his companions discovered that the burial chamber’s seventy-two pillars recorded the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts and Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Methods as part of the Heaven-Piercing Earth-Severing Grand Formation. Ye Lin began investigating the pillars for the opportunity tied to Shangguan Wanyu.

• Bao Xiaotou recognized the pillars as records of ancient spell arts and explained that they formed the Heaven-Piercing Earth-Severing Grand Formation.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar praised Bao Xiaotou and told everyone to study the pillars with their spirits and hearts.
• Li Xiaoyao suggested taking the pillars, but Bao Xiaotou warned that moving even one could activate the deadly formation, so Li Xiaoyao held back.
• Ye Lin wondered whether Shangguan Wanyu’s opportunity lay beneath one of the pillars and crouched beside one to investigate.

Ye Lin used Li Xiaoyao’s panel to find a hidden passage in the Taichu Secret Realm, revealing a chamber filled with treasures and the remains of Senior Taichu. Bao Xiaotou discovered that the shelves held the complete Seventy-Two Arts and Thirty-Six Methods.

• Ye Lin and the others failed to remember the runes on the Pillars or find anything unusual beneath them.
• Ye Lin read Li Xiaoyao’s panel and learned that he would discover a mechanism in the burial chamber wall.
• Ye Lin found and pressed a seam in the wall, opening a hidden space that the others entered behind him.
• Ye Lin suggested the seated corpse was Senior Taichu and that the coffin and formation outside had concealed the real burial chamber.
• Bao Xiaotou opened a book from the shelves and realized it contained one of the Seventy-Two Arts.

Ye Lin and his companions looted a hidden chamber of cultivation records and weapons, then left as other visitors arrived. A Golden Immortal old man questioned them about the secret realm, but Ye Lin refused to share anything and departed with his group.

• Bao Xiaotou found records of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts and the Thirty-Six Heavenly Constellation Methods, and Ye Lin stored the records and weapons in his Spatial Ring.
• Li Xiaoyao sensed people approaching, so Ye Lin and the others gathered everything, bowed to the corpse, and left the chamber.
• Ye Lin activated the mechanism to close the stone wall, but an old man and three women arrived in the passageway.
• The old man asked Ye Lin to explain the secret realm's history, but Ye Lin refused and led his group away.
• One of the women asked why the old man had let them go, and he explained that they were envoys of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty and included a Golden Immortal.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao emerged from a passage into a crowd of powerful experts and used the Human Race Emperor’s authority to seek safe passage. Ye Lin warned that someone had entered the main tomb chamber, but some experts still demanded that he hand over his gains.

• The old man told his companions to explore the burial ground without disturbing the ancient expert’s rest.
• Li Xiaoyao sensed many powerful non-Human experts ahead, and Ye Lin hoped the Emperor’s Identity Token would protect them.
• Ye Lin and his companions emerged before a crowd dominated by Golden Immortals, whose stares made the group tense.
• Ye Lin invoked the Human Race Emperor’s name and asked the experts to let them return; half withdrew their gazes.
• Ye Lin warned that someone had already entered the main tomb chamber, prompting some experts to rush toward the passage.
• An expert demanded to know what Ye Lin had found and told him to hand over his treasures.

Ye Lin bluffed the powerhouses guarding the Primordial Secret Realm, but Li Xiaoyao had to drive them back and whisk the group away. After they escaped the realm, the pursuers caught up and filled the sky with Golden Immortal power.

• Ye Lin threatened the greedy powerhouses with the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty’s reinforcements and led his group toward the exit.
• The powerhouses saw through Ye Lin’s bluff and attacked, but Li Xiaoyao blocked them and transported the group away.
• The powerhouses pursued Ye Lin’s group, furious that they had been fooled.
• Dugu Feng and Bao Xiaotou celebrated their escape, but terrifying Golden Immortal power blanketed the sky outside the secret realm.

Ye Lin and his companions hid in a mountain range while at least six Golden Immortals searched for them, backed by an elder of the Sacred Flood Dragon Clan. As Ye Lin tried to plan an escape, three other young men arrived, saying they were also fleeing after killing a major power’s young master.

• Li Xiaoyao led Ye Lin and the others into a mountain range and concealed them from the pursuing Golden Immortals.
• A Sacred Flood Dragon Clan elder ordered the Golden Immortals to search the mountains and dismissed concerns about trespassing in Earth Fiend Clan territory.
• Dugu Feng expressed excitement about being hunted by so many Golden Immortals, but Ye Lin urged everyone to focus on escaping and said Luo Yao must not act unless they had no choice.
• Three young men approached Ye Lin and explained that they were fleeing after accidentally killing a major power’s young master.

Ye Lin and his companions followed Cang Xin, Cang Ran, and Cang Xuan to a hidden cave in the mountain, where they hoped to evade their pursuers. The pursuers began bombarding the mountain, and Cang Xin called for everyone to burrow underground and escape.

• Cang Xin led Ye Lin and his companions through a concealed cave into a hidden space inside the mountain.
• Cang Xin introduced himself, Cang Ran, and Cang Xuan, and explained that they had been hiding from their pursuers.
• Ye Lin asked whether the pursuers might destroy the mountain, and the men assured him the Earth Fiend Clan would prevent it.
• Explosions shook the mountain and caused the cave ceiling to collapse as the pursuers began bombarding the range.
• Ye Lin admitted that the expert pursuing them might not fear the Earth Fiend Clan, and Cang Xin urged everyone to burrow underground and flee.

Ye Lin and his group escaped underground as six Golden Immortals destroyed the mountain range where they had been hiding, then spread out to block the Earth Fiend Clan’s borders. Realizing the pursuers might have surrounded the clan to seize the treasures from the Taichu Secret Realm, Ye Lin considered their next move as Cang Ran suggested fighting their way out.

• Ye Lin’s group burrowed underground just before the Golden Immortals reduced the mountain range to ruins.
• The six Golden Immortals concluded Ye Lin had escaped and decided to search for him and the others instead of returning to the secret realm.
• The six Golden Immortals split up and took positions along the Earth Fiend Clan’s borders to trap Ye Lin’s group.
• Cang Xin admired Ye Lin’s group for drawing six Golden Immortals into the pursuit.
• Ye Lin warned that the Golden Immortals might have surrounded the Earth Fiend Clan, and Cang Ran asked whether they should fight their way out.

Ye Lin received a One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and a letter from Liu Bai, who revealed the location of another fragment and said they could meet only in the Central Star Domain. The letter unlocked Ye Lin’s memories of Liu Bai, leaving him wondering why Liu Bai was watching him without appearing in person.

• Cang Ran admitted that someone had sent the three brothers to deliver a scroll and letter to Ye Lin in exchange for one thousand Law Source Stones.
• Wang Tian paid Cang Ran the stones and handed the scroll and letter to Ye Lin after the brothers left.
• Ye Lin recognized the scroll as a One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and read Liu Bai’s letter.
• Liu Bai revealed that another fragment was in the Supreme Holy Palace on the Origin Continent and said Ye Lin would meet him in the Central Star Domain.
• Ye Lin recovered his memories of Liu Bai as a reincarnated Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Great Being and wondered why Liu Bai had not met him.

Ye Lin and his companions discussed how to obtain the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment from the Supreme Holy Palace, where a powerful Golden Immortal guarded it. Ye Lin decided he would go alone to steal it, but the others rejected the plan and offered to help.

• Dugu Feng asked about Liu Bai after reading the letter, and Ye Lin said Liu Bai had once been a close friend.
• Ye Lin revealed that he planned to visit the Supreme Holy Palace for the fragment before contacting the Void Clan.
• Wang Tian warned that asking for the fragment directly could let the Supreme Holy Palace exploit Ye Lin's need for it.
• Dugu Feng noted that the Human Race Emperor had no reason to help them, since their previous dealings had been settled.
• Ye Lin said he would travel to the Supreme Holy Palace alone and steal the fragment to avoid drawing attention.
• Poison Venerable, Dugu Feng, and the others urged Ye Lin not to go alone, while Luo Yao offered to have Great River steal the fragment.

Ye Lin and his companions tried to escape the Earth Fiend Clan border while Li Xiaoyao drew the Golden Immortal guard away. The foreign-race experts discovered their escape and pursued them underground as Li Xiaoyao fought the guard.

• Li Xiaoyao scanned the area and offered to hold off the lone Golden Immortal while Ye Lin and the others escaped.
• Li Xiaoyao went underground and drew the guard’s attention, while Ye Lin and the others fled through the earth.
• The Golden Immortal guard sensed Li Xiaoyao’s attack, and their battle began above the border.
• The foreign-race experts noticed the fleeing auras underground and pursued Ye Lin and his companions.
• The Golden Immortal guard praised Li Xiaoyao’s combat strength despite his recent breakthrough.

Ye Lin and his companions escaped after Li Xiaoyao held off a Golden Immortal, but their pursuers realized they had made an enemy of a terrifyingly gifted Golden Immortal genius. The five other Golden Immortals arrived too late and were left wondering how to deal with the people they had failed to capture.

• Ye Lin killed the surrounding Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal cultivators with his sword and led his companions away.
• Li Xiaoyao stopped fighting after sensing that Ye Lin and the others had escaped, then threatened the old man with a future visit before leaving.
• The old man admitted that Li Xiaoyao had been too strong for him to stop and regretted provoking such a talented cultivator.
• Five more Golden Immortals arrived and asked why the old man had let Li Xiaoyao escape.
• The Golden Immortals acknowledged that the escaped group would be difficult to capture and asked what they should do after offending them.

The Golden Immortal who fought Li Xiaoyao arranged to spread rumors that Li Xiaoyao’s group had taken treasures from the Primordial Secret Realm, hoping powerful factions would hunt them down. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoyao’s group escaped the Earth Fiend Clan and reached a city controlled by the Feather Clan.

• The Golden Immortal proposed publicizing Li Xiaoyao’s group’s auras and appearances and claiming they carried valuable secret-realm treasures.
• The Five Venerables and other Golden Immortals agreed to investigate secretly and let rival factions pursue the group.
• The Golden Immortal remained behind and lamented that his clan had lost five Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals without gaining anything.
• Li Xiaoyao’s group left the Earth Fiend Clan and arrived in a Feather Clan city.
• The group learned that the Feather Clan had no Golden Immortal protector and survived under the threat of stronger factions.

After escaping pursuit by six Golden Immortals, Li Xiaoyao and his companions reached a Feathered Race city and gathered at an inn to sort through their spoils. Shangguan Wanyu kept the Water-Avoiding Pearl she had found, and the group prepared to rest for a few days.

• The group walked through a city inhabited by the friendly Feathered Race and checked into an inn using the detailed map from the Hidden Sword Pavilion.
• Dugu Feng and Bao Xiaotou reflected on their escape from the six Golden Immortals and credited Li Xiaoyao with protecting them.
• Bao Xiaotou suggested that they organize and share their gains, and the group brought out their treasures and techniques.
• Shangguan Wanyu showed the group the Water-Avoiding Pearl she had found beneath a pillar.
• Ye Lin and the others told Shangguan Wanyu to keep the pearl as her own opportunity, and she put it away gratefully.