Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin learned that the entire continent was hunting the Human Race youths who had taken treasures from a Primordial Era secret realm. He discovered that an invitation could let him reach the Supreme Holy Palace, but the chapter left him considering how to obtain one.

• Ye Lin sought a way to reach the Supreme Holy Palace, which required an invitation or access to a teleportation formation.
• Ye Lin paid for a seat at a tavern to gather information and overheard that experts across Origin Continent were hunting the Human Race youths who had taken treasures from an ancient secret realm.
• Ye Lin touched his mask as he realized the news of the hunt had spread far, despite his disguise.
• Tavern patrons discussed a Supreme Holy Palace celebration in three days and one man offered his invitation to another.
• Ye Lin concluded that taverns were the fastest and safest places to gather information and realized an invitation could help him reach the Supreme Holy Palace.

Ye Lin learned that invitations to the ceremony in the nine Holy Cities were randomly distributed among registered entrants, but he still did not know whether they were tied to individuals. He decided to steal one and searched the streets for a target, where he witnessed a drunkard being thrown out by a woman.

• A masked man asked how invitations were obtained, and an old man explained that they were randomly selected from people registered before entering the city.
• Ye Lin left without learning whether invitations were tied to specific people and decided to steal one instead.
• Ye Lin searched the streets for someone to ambush, noting that experts in the Imperial City were not using their divine senses.
• A woman berated a scrawny drunkard for repeatedly failing to enter the Supreme Holy Palace and ordered him to leave.
• The drunkard boasted that an important figure at the Supreme Holy Palace would notice him before staggering away with his wine jar.

Ye Lin stole a gilded invitation from a drunken man, but Lin Shishi revealed that its registered name made it useless for entering the Supreme Holy Palace. She offered to take him inside when the teleportation array activated in three days, leaving Ye Lin weighing her terms and extravagant claims about her family’s influence.

• Ye Lin followed a drunken man into an alley and found a gilded invitation on him.
• Lin Shishi appeared and warned Ye Lin that the invitation was registered under the man’s name and could not get him into the Supreme Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin became wary when Lin Shishi revealed she had followed him and knew he intended to enter the palace.
• Lin Shishi offered to bring Ye Lin into the Supreme Holy Palace in three days if he agreed to follow her, and threatened to report him if he refused.
• Ye Lin asked how he could trust her, and Lin Shishi claimed her family could decide who entered the palace.

Ye Lin agreed to accompany Lin Shishi for three days in exchange for her help entering the Supreme Holy Palace, where he planned to steal the One Breath Becomes Three Purities. After confirming that Lin Shishi was a princess of one of the sea race’s nine great Royal Clans, he followed her as she went shopping.

• Ye Lin inspected Lin Shishi’s status and learned that she was the Void Holy Dragon Clan’s little princess, whose clan helped support the Supreme Holy Palace.
• Lin Shishi pressed Ye Lin to accept her offer, and he agreed to follow her orders for three days.
• Lin Shishi led Ye Lin through the streets, buying novel trinkets and leaving him puzzled about why she had required his obedience.

Lin Shishi brought Ye Lin to the Beast Arena, where they watched preparations for a match between a bloodthirst beast and a savage beast. The beasts were brought into the arena as spectators prepared to bet.

• Lin Shishi took Ye Lin through the streets to the Beast Arena.
• Ye Lin sat beside Lin Shishi and tried to close his eyes to regulate his breath, but she told him to keep watch later.
• Spectators discussed the beasts’ strength and placed their bets on the bloodthirst beast.
• An announcer introduced the early Heavenly Immortal beasts and opened betting.
• Cultivators led a chained savage beast into the arena as a man brought in a lean, black bloodthirst beast.

Ye Lin advised Lin Shishi to bet on the Savage Beast, and she wagered one million Supreme Immortal Stones before the arena match began. The Savage Beast appeared to be losing badly as the spectators mocked the bet, leaving the outcome undecided.

• Lin Shishi asked Ye Lin which beast would win, and he warned that battle outcomes were uncertain.
• Ye Lin chose the Savage Beast, reasoning that betting against the crowd might be wise.
• Lin Shishi placed a one-million-Supreme-Immortal-Stone bet on the Savage Beast, and betting closed.
• The Savage Beast and Bloodthirst Beast began fighting, drawing an excited response from the spectators.
• Spectators said the Savage Beast was being overwhelmed and predicted it would soon die.

Lin Shishi questioned Ye Lin about his one-million-Supreme-Immortal-Stone wager, but he stayed unconcerned. On the Arena, the Savage Beast seized an opening and turned the fight around, leaving the spectators who had bet on the Bloodthirst Beast in a panic.

• Lin Shishi watched the Savage Beast endure the Bloodthirst Beast's rapid attacks and suspected Ye Lin had bet on the wrong fighter.
• Ye Lin told Lin Shishi he accepted the wager as a matter of luck and had no money to repay her if he lost.
• The Savage Beast feigned weakness, caught the Bloodthirst Beast off guard, and slammed it onto the Arena.
• The Savage Beast relentlessly beat the Bloodthirst Beast as the spectators shouted and cursed over their wagers.

The Savage Beast defeated the Bloodthirst Beast in a brutal arena fight, winning the match for the few cultivators who had bet on him. Lin Shishi celebrated her winnings despite drawing hostile attention from the other spectators.

• The Savage Beast pinned the Bloodthirst Beast and beat it to death, then collapsed but remained alive.
• The announcer declared the Savage Beast the winner and congratulated the four cultivators who had bet on him.
• Most spectators despaired over losing their bets, while Lin Shishi celebrated her win in front of Ye Lin.
• Spectators fixed hostile gazes on Lin Shishi, who warned them not to provoke her.
• Lin Shishi demanded that the organizers bring her winnings.

Lin Shishi left the Beast Arena with Ye Lin and told him about her lonely childhood and the older sister who had briefly brought her happiness. She revealed that her sister disappeared after being married off to the Vermilion Jade Clan, leaving her story unfinished.

• Lin Shishi left the Beast Arena with Ye Lin after receiving 8.32 million Supreme Immortal Stones, and the arena's manager worried that she would stop coming.
• Lin Shishi wandered through Star Moon Imperial City with Ye Lin and asked what he was called.
• Ye Lin asked why Lin Shishi had made him follow her for three days just to go shopping.
• Lin Shishi told Ye Lin that she had never had a sincere friend and had spent fifty thousand years following the life her parents arranged for her.
• Lin Shishi said an older sister had cared for her and played with her for a hundred years before disappearing in a political marriage with the Vermilion Jade Clan.

Lin Shishi told Ye Lin that she was the Void Dragon Clan’s little princess and explained that she was being sent to the Supreme Holy Palace for a marriage alliance. Ye Lin remained unmoved, and the chapter ended with Lin Shishi warning him not to cause trouble after she brought him inside.

• Lin Shishi revealed that she was the little princess of one of the Sea Clan’s nine great Royal Clans and that she was due to marry in two days.
• Ye Lin showed no surprise at Lin Shishi’s identity, frustrating her.
• Ye Lin asked Lin Shishi why she did not run away, and she implied that a Dao Protector was watching her.
• Lin Shishi asked Ye Lin why he wanted to enter the Supreme Holy Palace, but he refused to say.
• Lin Shishi warned Ye Lin not to do anything bad inside, since she did not want to be blamed for his actions.

Ye Lin created fireworks to entertain Lin Shishi, who feared that entering the Supreme Holy Palace would trap her there. As the display lit the sky, cultivators across Imperial City came out to watch.

• Ye Lin stayed beside Lin Shishi through the night and noticed four people in black nightwear near the Supreme Holy Palace.
• Lin Shishi asked Ye Lin to show her something interesting, saying she might not have another chance to see it.
• Ye Lin left briefly, then used Words Become Law to create many fireworks.
• Ye Lin ignited the fireworks, filling the sky with colorful explosions.
• Cultivators in Imperial City awoke and gathered outside to watch the fireworks.

After sharing a fireworks display with Ye Lin, Lin Shishi took him along to the Supreme Holy Palace despite her Dao protector's objections. Ye Lin approached the place where he hoped to find the key to breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm, knowing that entering put his life at risk.

• Lin Shishi thanked Ye Lin for the fireworks, then watched them fade and wiped away a tear.
• The next morning, Lin Shishi's demeanor had changed, and her Dao protector arrived to escort her to the Supreme Holy Palace.
• Lin Shishi insisted that Ye Lin accompany her, threatening to complain to her father until the elderly woman agreed.
• The Dao protector reminded Lin Shishi that she was the host, and Lin Shishi, Ye Lin, and the elderly woman left for the Supreme Holy Palace.

Ye Lin followed Lin Shishi through a teleportation array into the Supreme Holy Palace, despite the old woman's warnings and the palace's strict invitation requirements. Lin Shishi offered to guide him farther inside but warned that she would not be responsible for what happened to him afterward.

• The old woman brought Lin Shishi and Ye Lin to the teleportation array, telling the guards that Ye Lin was Lin Shishi's friend and a participant in her husband-selection tournament.
• Ye Lin noticed four people dressed in night clothes entering the array and wondered how they planned to sneak into the Supreme Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin emerged in a magnificent realm, where a path paved with Supreme Immortal Stones led to a floating platform of grand halls and a towering pagoda.
• Lin Shishi explained that the Supreme Holy Palace housed the Supreme Holy Church, where the Sea Region's races held meetings, and warned Ye Lin that its powerful guards made entry dangerous without an invitation.

Ye Lin entered the Supreme Holy Palace with Lin Shishi and learned that she was expected to choose a husband at an assembly. Left among the honored guests, he watched four black-clad newcomers while considering how to act inside the heavily guarded palace.

• Ye Lin followed Lin Shishi through the palace grounds and saw that even its weakest cultivators were Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals.
• Lin Shishi gave Ye Lin her identity jade pendant, thanked him for the fireworks, and went to the great hall for the husband-selection assembly.
• Ye Lin learned that the Royal Clans arranged their descendants’ marriages to preserve their bloodlines, though Lin Shishi could choose among the younger Royal Clan descendants.
• Palace cultivators warned the guests to stay in the designated area and led them to a place to wait for the assembly.
• Ye Lin fixed his attention on the four black-clad figures who had blended in with the arriving guests.

Ye Lin followed four disguised men through the Supreme Holy Palace and persuaded them to take him along. They were all headed to the Sea Clan Treasury, where Ye Lin hoped to find the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, and they entered the Supreme Holy Palace Hall.

• Ye Lin secretly followed four black-clad men through the Palace until they noticed him and surrounded him.
• Ye Lin convinced the men to cooperate by explaining that they shared a goal and that killing him would expose them.
• The men said they were racing to retrieve an item from the Supreme Holy Palace Sea Clan Treasury before anyone noticed their disappearance.
• Ye Lin revealed that he wanted the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, and the men confirmed it was in the same treasury.
• The four led Ye Lin into the Supreme Holy Palace Hall and offered him a talisman that could hide him from Golden Immortal experts for one million Supreme Immortal Stones.

Ye Lin paid four black-clothed men to guide him into a hidden passage leading toward the treasury. After they avoided a Golden Immortal and reached a junction, the group split up to approach the treasury by separate routes.

• Ye Lin paid one million Supreme Immortal Stones upfront and agreed to pay another three million after the black-clothed men helped him escape.
• The four men revealed a hidden passage beneath a loose tower brick, and Ye Lin followed them inside.
• The group stopped in the passage to hide while a Golden Immortal passed overhead.
• The men reached a junction with five paths and handed Ye Lin maps marking two routes to the treasury.
• When the passage opened, the men vanished into separate paths, leaving Ye Lin to choose his own route.

Ye Lin escaped into a corridor inside the Supreme Holy Palace and narrowly avoided being spotted by Lin Shishi and her mother. He stayed hidden with Xinyou and studied the route to continue seeking One Breath Becomes Three Purities.

• Ye Lin emerged into a mural-lined corridor after another person sealed the passage and left.
• Lin Shishi’s mother urged her to choose a Royal Clan suitor, while Lin Shishi thought of Ye Lin and noticed something in a distant corner.
• Ye Lin scolded Xinyou for nearly exposing them as Lin Shishi’s group passed nearby.
• Ye Lin studied the map, memorized it, and burned it.

Ye Lin tried to sneak through the Supreme Holy Palace's crowded main hall, using furnishings and a talisman to avoid detection. Lin Shishi discovered him and quietly confronted him, leaving his attempt to cross the hall at risk.

• Ye Lin entered the main hall and struggled to find a way past its many powerful sea clan guards.
• Ye Lin spotted Lin Shishi and used the furnishings to creep forward whenever the experts' lines of sight allowed.
• Ye Lin reached a pillar halfway across the hall but found no cover on the broad stretch ahead.
• Lin Shishi noticed Ye Lin and asked him through voice transmission how he had managed to sneak in.
• Ye Lin saw Xinyou on Lin Shishi's shoulder and realized it had nearly exposed him.

Ye Lin used Lin Shishi’s help to leave the banquet hall and admitted he planned to rob the Supreme Holy Palace treasury. After Lin Shishi warned him about the consequences, Ye Lin left to pursue his goal, while Xinyou demanded he take it along when he escaped.

• Lin Shishi guessed that Ye Lin was targeting the Supreme Holy Palace treasury and hid him in her hand to carry him out of the banquet hall.
• Lin Shishi dismissed a woman who tried to stop her and reached a corridor with Ye Lin.
• Lin Shishi warned Ye Lin that his plan to rob the treasury could damage her reputation and status.
• Ye Lin apologized but said he had no choice because the treasury was tied to his chance to become a Golden Immortal.
• Xinyou joined Ye Lin and threatened to expose him if he did not take it along when he left.

Ye Lin scolded Xinyou for exposing him, then reached the treasure vault and found a black-clad man waiting there. The man explained they had to wait for two others before opening the vault during the banquet’s lax defenses.

• Ye Lin threatened to dissolve his blood pact with Xinyou and kill him if Xinyou exposed him again.
• Ye Lin traveled to the treasure vault and found a black-clad man crouching nearby.
• The black-clad man told Ye Lin they would wait for two companions and leave after taking the treasures during the banquet.
• Ye Lin learned the group had a deadline for their companions to arrive and asked why they risked their lives for the vault’s contents.
• The black-clad man said the vault held something they needed and called Ye Lin a model for people like them.