Chapter Summaries

After the group divided their treasures, Ye Lin secretly left to travel alone to the Supreme Holy Palace in search of the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, which was key to his becoming a Golden Immortal. He left the others to pursue their own opportunities and planned to meet them again in ten years at the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.

• Ye Lin divided the treasures among the group, keeping three high-grade Supreme Artifacts and one top-grade Supreme Artifact for himself.
• Bao Xiaotou and the others began studying the Earthly Baleful Seventy-Two Arts and the Heavenly Dipper Thirty-Six Methods.
• After night fell, Ye Lin left a letter and quietly departed while the others studied, and Luo Yao watched him leave without calling out.
• Ye Lin headed alone for the Supreme Holy Palace to seek the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and avoid putting his companions in danger.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar assured Ye Lin that it could protect him if he was caught, as he traveled toward the powerful sea-clan-backed Supreme Holy Palace.

Ye Lin traveled alone toward the Supreme Holy Palace while his companions decided to split up and seek their own opportunities. The group left to pursue separate paths, and Ye Lin faced a canyon full of savage beasts as his only route forward.

• Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable agreed to leave and meet the others again in ten years.
• Bao Xiaotou, Wang Tian, Shangguan Wanyu, and Luo Yao departed together, while Li Xiaoyao chose to search for his true self and left alone.
• Ye Lin found his way blocked by savage beasts and other races gathered in a canyon between two hostile territories.
• Ye Lin decided to fight through the beasts rather than enter either race's territory.

Ye Lin tried to escape the canyon but was intercepted by a snow-white beast on the verge of the Golden Immortal realm. The beast led him to a cave, leaving his fate there unknown.

• Ye Lin charged through the canyon, killing the beasts that blocked his path and cutting down three Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal beasts with Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering.
• A snow-white beast with azure eyes appeared on a distant ledge, and its roar awakened the canyon’s other beasts.
• Ye Lin tried to evade the charging creatures and reach the canyon exit, but the snow-white beast moved faster and struck him back.
• Surrounded by the beasts, Ye Lin asked to leave peacefully, and the snow-white beast motioned for him to follow.
• Ye Lin followed the beast along mountain paths to a cave, with the savage beasts and Demon Beasts trailing behind him.

Ye Lin discovered the little beast’s extraordinary potential and formed an equal blood contract with it, accepting the snow-white beast’s request to care for her child. After the mother vanished to fulfill her mission, Ye Lin named the sleeping little beast Xinyou and continued on with his new companion.

• A snow-white exotic beast brought her child to Ye Lin and asked him to take the little beast, but Ye Lin initially refused because his journey to the Supreme Holy Palace was dangerous.
• The exotic beast presented a blood-contract scroll, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the contract would bind Ye Lin and the child to share glory and ruin.
• Ye Lin examined the little beast’s panel and saw its immense potential, powerful fate traits, and destiny of dying in the Origin Creation Land.
• Ye Lin used a drop of his essence blood to form the blood contract with the little beast, and its mother vanished after entrusting her child to him.
• Ye Lin comforted the distressed little beast, placed it on his shoulder, and named it Xinyou after it fell asleep.

Ye Lin left the canyon with the little fellow on his shoulder and reflected on his apparent knack for attracting exotic beasts. He entered the Life-Stealing Wilderness on the way to the Supreme Holy Palace, only to find himself in an unfamiliar forest with a boundless swamp behind him.

• Ye Lin reasoned that Hong Batian, the spirit cat, and the little fellow had each come to him on their own, suggesting he had a talent for taming beasts.
• With the little fellow protecting him, Ye Lin passed through the canyon without any savage beasts or exotic creatures obstructing him.
• Ye Lin entered the Life-Stealing Wilderness, where the grass grew taller around him as he walked.
• The grass vanished and Ye Lin found himself in a dense forest, with a vast swamp where the wilderness had been behind him.
• Ye Lin surveyed the unfamiliar surroundings and realized the map had not described the place or when he had entered it.

Ye Lin became lost in the Mist Forest and joined Gao Xiong’s caravan to find a way out. Gao Xiong explained that the forest required a guiding bell to navigate and began answering Ye Lin’s questions about how humans survived in the Life-Stealing Wilderness.

• A bell-guided caravan arrived, and its saber-bearing guards confronted Ye Lin.
• Gao Xiong identified the area as the Mist Forest and invited Ye Lin to travel with the caravan.
• Ye Lin accepted and introduced himself as Blood Baleful while riding in Gao Xiong’s carriage.
• Ye Lin asked how Gao Xiong’s low-cultivation group survived in the Life-Stealing Wilderness.
• Gao Xiong began explaining that powerful cultivators avoided the wilderness because of its fearsome reputation.

Ye Lin spoke with Gao Xiong about the Human Race’s harsh life in the Life-Stealing Wasteland and learned why its people could not reach the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty. The chapter left Gao Xiong asking Ye Lin whether the dynasty was prosperous.

• Gao Xiong explained that the Mist Forest made the Life-Stealing Wasteland relatively safe for his group because only they could navigate it.
• Gao Xiong told Ye Lin that nearby Human Race tribes survived by trading goods with one another.
• Ye Lin asked why Gao Xiong did not settle in the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty, and Gao Xiong explained that the journey was too dangerous for people with their cultivation.
• Ye Lin apologized for failing to consider the danger, and Gao Xiong asked whether he had come from the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• Ye Lin said he had come from the dynasty, prompting Gao Xiong to ask whether it was prosperous.

Ye Lin described the Human Race Emperor, stirring Gao Xiong’s longing to meet him, before their caravan was stopped by Mist Forest bandits. Gao Xiong confronted their leader Wang Wu, only to discover that Wang Wu had advanced to the Tribulation Transcendence stage.

• Ye Lin told Gao Xiong and the silent woman about the prosperous Human Race and its Emperor, and Gao Xiong said he wanted to meet the Emperor.
• The carriage stopped, and Gao Xiong found Wang Wu and his bandits surrounding the caravan to seize its weapons and stones.
• Gao Xiong offered Wang Wu five low-grade Immortal Stones and ordered him to leave, but Wang Wu demanded half the cargo.
• Wang Wu dismissed Gao Xiong and revealed that he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence stage, shocking Gao Xiong.

Wang Wu forced Gao Xiong to surrender half of the goods, claiming it was the final favor he owed him. Their standoff was interrupted when an old man from the Mist Forest exposed Wang Wu’s connection to the Blood Gang, leaving Gao Xiong furious and Wang Wu silent.

• Wang Wu threatened to kill Gao Xiong and his men unless they gave him half the goods, invoking the debt he owed Gao Xiong.
• Gao Xiong agreed to surrender half the goods because his wife and children were with him.
• Wang Wu ordered his men to take half the goods and leave quickly.
• An old man leaning on a cane emerged from the Mist Forest and accused Wang Wu of consorting with the Blood Gang.
• Gao Xiong denounced Wang Wu for his connection to the Blood Gang, and Wang Wu lowered his head without answering.

Gao Xiong confronted Wang Wu after learning that the Blood Gang gained power by consuming human cultivators’ essence blood, but Wang Wu defeated him and prepared to kill him. A blood-robed stranger stepped from the carriage and immobilized Wang Wu, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Gao Xiong learned that Wang Wu had joined the Blood Gang, whose secret technique consumed Human Race cultivators’ essence blood to advance cultivation.
• Gao Xiong declared that he would fight Wang Wu rather than let the Blood Gang endanger the tribes, and the two sides began battling.
• The old man ordered Wang Wu to kill Gao Xiong and everyone else, and Wang Wu apologized before attacking his former ally.
• Wang Wu struck Gao Xiong down, then promised to let Gao Xiong’s wife and daughters escape before preparing to kill him.
• A blood-robed stranger stepped out of the carriage and used an unfamiliar force to stop Wang Wu from moving.

Ye Lin questioned Wang Wu and the old man about the source of their unusually powerful cultivation. After searching the old man’s memories, he learned that the Blood Gang used a mirror to harvest cultivators’ essence and blood, and he set his sights on finding it.

• Ye Lin immobilized Wang Wu and demanded to know how he had reached the Tribulation Transcendence realm.
• Wang Wu admitted that the Blood Gang’s supreme treasure had raised his cultivation.
• Ye Lin seized the old man and searched his soul before he could finish answering.
• Ye Lin saw in the old man’s memories a mirror that consumed Human Race cultivators’ essence and blood to produce stones that rapidly increased cultivation.
• Ye Lin learned the way to the Blood Gang and decided to inspect the mirror.

Ye Lin left the Mist Forest after crippling Wang Wu and extracting the old man’s memories, then tracked down the Blood Gang’s hidden base. He prepared to visit the gang, while Gao Xiong dealt with the men Ye Lin had left behind.

• Ye Lin thanked Gao Xiong, said he would visit the Blood Gang, and vanished into the Mist Forest.
• Gao Xiong killed the crippled Wang Wu and tied up the badly injured old man to take back to the Exploding Bear Tribe.
• Ye Lin used the old man’s memories to leave the Mist Forest and search the surrounding mountains for the Blood Gang.
• Ye Lin found the Blood Gang concealed beneath a Great River running between two mountain ranges.

Ye Lin broke into the Blood Gang’s hidden underground headquarters and demanded that its members reveal the location of their mirror. The frightened subordinates admitted they did not know where it was and told him to seek out the gang’s higher-ups.

• Ye Lin stopped the Great River and entered the concealed passage beneath it, revealing the Blood Gang’s vast underground world.
• Ye Lin reached the Blood Gang headquarters and flattened half a mountain with a casual strike when its guards confronted him.
• Ye Lin searched the underground world with his divine sense but could not find the mirror he sought.
• Ye Lin demanded the mirror’s location and subdued the assembled cultivators with his pressure.
• The Blood Gang’s subordinates told Ye Lin that only the gang’s higher-ups knew where the mirror was.

Ye Lin failed to find the Blood Gang's higher-ups, who had fled with the mirror, and left to pursue a way to steal the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment. After emerging above the Great River, he was confronted by Jiang Feng, Third Prince of the Demon Beast Royal Court, who demanded that he serve him.

• Ye Lin learned that the Blood Gang's higher-ups had left before he arrived, then turned their remaining experts to ash.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Blood Gang leaders had fled with the mirror and left the small realm to seek the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment at the Supreme Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin emerged above the Great River and found himself surrounded by experts from the Blood Gang and the Demon Beast Royal Court.
• A middle-aged Blood Gang man accused Ye Lin of killing the Third Elder and urged Jiang Feng to capture and search him.
• Jiang Feng offered Ye Lin a chance to serve at his side, while rebuking the middle-aged man for interfering.
• Ye Lin considered the name of the Demon Beast Royal Court.

Ye Lin refused Jiang Feng’s offer to join the Demon Beast Royal Court and insisted on settling his grievance with the Blood Gang member. When Jiang Feng tried to stop him, Ye Lin attacked, prompting an old Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal to emerge from hiding.

• Jiang Feng offered to recruit Ye Lin, claiming he could help him become a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal.
• Ye Lin refused Jiang Feng’s offer and asked him to step aside so he could deal with the Blood Gang member.
• Jiang Feng claimed the Blood Gang member was under his protection and challenged Ye Lin’s right to attack him.
• Ye Lin insulted Jiang Feng and attacked him directly.
• An old man emerged from hiding and confronted Ye Lin, who recognized him as an early-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal.

Ye Lin learned that the Earth Fiend Clan had spread paintings identifying him as the one who took the Primordial Secret Realm’s treasure, making him a target across the Origin Continent. He killed the old man and Jiang Feng after hearing the explanation.

• An old man recognized Ye Lin as the person who had obtained the Primordial Secret Realm’s treasure and tried to flee with Jiang Feng.
• Ye Lin seized the two and demanded to know how they recognized him.
• The old man explained that the Earth Fiend Clan’s secret realm had yielded paintings of Ye Lin and that news of the treasure theft had spread across the Origin Continent.
• Ye Lin realized the paintings were meant to turn factions against him and his companions, including Dugu Feng and the others.
• Ye Lin slapped the old man and Jiang Feng to death, then called out to someone trying to escape.

Ye Lin demanded the Bloodthirst Mirror from the Blood Gang leader, who realized the gang had no chance of surviving and reluctantly handed it over. Ye Lin took the mirror, while the leader was left regretting how his arrogance had brought the gang to ruin.

• The Blood Gang members turned back when Ye Lin called after them, and their leader offered him anything he wanted.
• Ye Lin demanded the Blood Gang's blood-red mirror, but the leader denied having one and offered him a low-grade Immortal-tier sword instead.
• Ye Lin threatened the group with torture and death unless they handed over the mirror within three breaths.
• The leader decided to surrender the Bloodthirst Mirror, the treasure that had helped the Blood Gang rise to power.
• Ye Lin took the mirror as the leader mourned losing it and reflected on how the gang's arrogance had led them to provoke Ye Lin.

Ye Lin gave Xinyou the blood-red mirror to eat, and Xinyou devoured it before breaking through to the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm. Xinyou’s breakthrough sent powerful energy back to Ye Lin, loosening his cultivation and leaving him to wonder how mysterious his beast pet truly was.

• Xinyou woke on Ye Lin’s shoulder and showed a strong desire to eat the mirror.
• Ye Lin gave Xinyou the mirror, and Xinyou bit and ate the entire treasure as its former owner watched in shock.
• White light and a powerful aura surrounded Xinyou, and it broke through to the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Xinyou’s breakthrough aura accidentally shattered the nearby people into powder.
• Ye Lin sensed pure power flowing through his meridians from Xinyou, and his peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal cultivation loosened.
• Xinyou climbed back onto Ye Lin’s shoulder and settled there happily.

Ye Lin was stunned by Xinyou’s effortless rise to the mid-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm, then continued toward the Supreme Holy Palace. Meanwhile, Dugu Feng and the others faced pursuit over the Taichu Secret Realm, and Ye Lin finally reached the Supreme Holy Palace’s territory.

• Ye Lin read Xinyou’s panel, saw its extraordinary cultivation and deadly future, and gave up comparing himself to the sleeping beast.
• Dugu Feng hid from foreign race cultivators hunting him for information about the Primordial Secret Realm and suspected someone had leaked news of his visit to the Taichu Secret Realm.
• Poison Venerable and the others were also pursued, while Ye Lin traveled safely through deserted areas and Li Xiaoyao fought off those who tried to catch him.
• After a month of nonstop travel, Ye Lin entered the territory of the Supreme Holy Palace, which was surrounded by nine Great Emperor cities guarded by fifth-layer Golden Immortal experts.

Ye Lin entered Star Moon Imperial City after showing its Sea Race guards his Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty marquis Identity Token and invoking the Emperor’s order. He walked into the city, where he saw a multitude of foreign races and no Human Race powerhouses.

• Ye Lin told two Sea Race guards at Star Moon Imperial City’s gates that he had come from the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• Ye Lin showed the guards his marquis Identity Token and said he had come by the Emperor’s order to buy alchemy materials.
• The guards let Ye Lin enter after warning him to obey the city’s laws.
• Ye Lin walked through the city and saw many foreign races, especially the Sea Race, but no Human Race powerhouses.