Chapter Summaries

At Cloud Summit Mountain, Ye Lin watched Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable face a public execution, though their panels still showed their original destinies. The First Prince of the Heavenly Saint Empire intervened and forbade their execution that day, bringing the conflict with Cloud Summit Mountain to a head.

• Cloud Summit Mountain's Nether Race host presented the chained, crippled Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable as thieves of the Sacred World Lotus and announced their execution.
• Ye Lin checked both men's panels, found their destinies unchanged, and prepared to intervene if they were truly in danger.
• As the host raised his blade, the First Prince of the Heavenly Saint Empire stopped him and challenged Cloud Summit Mountain's public treatment of Human Race prodigies.
• The host argued that the execution would display Cloud Summit Mountain's authority as its Young Mountain Master descended the mountain.
• The First Prince revealed that the captives had been tortured for three years and declared that they could not be executed on the Heavenly Saint Empire's founding anniversary.

The First Prince challenged Cloud Summit Mountain's plan to execute two Human Race prodigies, while the Young Mountain Lord probed whether the prince spoke for himself or the Emperor. The First Prince defended the captives as Human Race marquises and accused Cloud Summit Mountain of deliberately choosing the imperial celebration to make their move.

• The First Prince refused to back down when a middle-aged Cloud Summit Mountain man threatened to kill the captives immediately.
• Sword Heart, the Young Mountain Lord of Cloud Summit Mountain, confronted the First Prince and questioned his authority to interfere.
• The First Prince said his intervention was his own decision, not the Emperor's.
• Sword Heart argued that the captives came from a remote star system and had no connection to the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• The First Prince said the captives were Human Race marquises and accused Cloud Summit Mountain of choosing the celebration to execute them after holding them for more than three years.

The First Prince demanded that Cloud Summit Mountain postpone executing two captives until after the Human Race’s celebration, threatening military retaliation if it refused. Enraged by the ultimatum, the Young Mountain Lord ordered Uncle Fu to kill them.

• The First Prince gained support from Human Race experts and several other races, who objected to Cloud Summit Mountain acting against the two captives during the celebration.
• The First Prince told the Young Mountain Lord to wait until the celebration ended before dealing with the captives and warned that the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty would retaliate if Cloud Summit Mountain acted now.
• The Young Mountain Lord rejected the First Prince’s threat and ordered Uncle Fu to kill the captives.

The First Prince ordered an attack on Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng and prepared the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty to wage war on Cloud Summit Mountain. An unknown rescuer struck down the executioner and spirited the prisoners away, prompting a search and the Young Mountain Lord's accusation against the First Prince.

• The First Prince told Wang Gang to alert the dynasty’s generals and prepare to wipe out the Nether Race if Cloud Summit Mountain acted.
• The First Prince’s subordinate began contacting the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty as the middle-aged man approached Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng with his blade.
• Ye Lin searched the crowd for Wang Tian and the others, believing they would not let Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng be killed.
• A lightning-wreathed hammer struck the middle-aged man away, and formations appeared across the open ground.
• When the formations vanished, Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng were gone, so the middle-aged man ordered Cloud Summit Mountain sealed and searched.
• The Young Mountain Lord accused the First Prince of arranging the rescue.

The First Prince left Cloud Summit Mountain with an excuse for the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty to attack the Nether Race and seize its territory. Meanwhile, Wang Tian found a way to save the crippled Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng, though their recovery required rare medicinal ingredients.

• The First Prince warned the Young Mountain Lord that the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty would reclaim Cloud Summit Mountain's lands, then departed after securing a pretext for war against the Nether Race.
• The Young Mountain Lord sensed that something was wrong as Ye Lin slipped away, believing the others remained trapped inside Cloud Summit Mountain.
• Several people found the Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng with nearly shattered Primordial Spirits and crippled cultivation.
• Wang Tian said his pills were keeping them alive and that another pill could restore their cultivation to an even greater level, but its ingredients would be difficult to find.

Wang Tian told Li Xiaoyao and Bao Xiaotou that healing Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable required rare ingredients for a True Unity Source-Splitting Qi Pill. Bao Xiaotou found leads on several ingredients, leaving Li Xiaoyao hopeful that they could begin the search.

• Wang Tian listed the ingredients needed to refine the True Unity Source-Splitting Qi Pill and explained that it could restore Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable.
• Li Xiaoyao and Bao Xiaotou realized they had only the required Supreme Immortal Stones and asked how precious the other ingredients were.
• Bao Xiaotou contacted a fellow Daoist with a Jade Talisman to ask where the ingredients could be found.
• The fellow Daoist said Vermilion Bird Feather Grass grew at Blazing Fire Mountain among the Fire Sparrow Clan, while Radiant Fruit was held by the Snowman Clan in the northern frigid lands.
• The fellow Daoist offered his three Heaven-and-Earth Exquisite Flowers in exchange for Wang Tian improving his Sect Protection Array, and Li Xiaoyao was encouraged by the leads.

Bao Xiaotou, Wang Tian, and Li Xiaoyao escaped Cloud Summit Mountain with the unconscious Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng, then headed for the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty to meet Ye Lin. Ye Lin had already reached the Starry Sky Holy City and was waiting for them there.

• Bao Xiaotou said they had leads on two more items and proposed leaving Cloud Summit Mountain with Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng.
• Bao Xiaotou used a teleportation array to take Wang Tian, Li Xiaoyao, Poison Venerable, and Dugu Feng out of Cloud Summit Mountain despite Golden Immortals surrounding it.
• Ye Lin searched Cloud Summit Mountain for Wang Tian and the others, then realized they would likely honor their agreement and go to the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Starry Sky Holy City and waited at an inn for Wang Tian and the others.
• Wang Tian and his companions decided to travel to the Starry Sky Holy City, believing Ye Lin would be waiting there.

Ye Lin and the others planned to gather the ingredients for the True Unity Source-Splitting Qi Pill, which Wang Tian would have to refine in a single attempt to save Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable. They split up to search for the materials, while Wang Tian stayed behind to study the formula.

• Ye Lin met the group in Starry Sky Holy City and asked about their plan to save Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng.
• Wang Tian explained that they planned to refine the True Unity Source-Splitting Qi Pill, but they still lacked several ingredients and had no substitute for the required Dao Pill.
• Ye Lin urged the group to search for the ingredients they knew about and trust that they would find the rest along the way.
• Li Xiaoyao decided they should split up, with him heading to the Fire Sparrow Clan and others searching for ingredients in different places.
• Ye Lin told Wang Tian to stay with Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable and study the formula, warning him that the gathered materials would allow only one attempt.
• Bao Xiaotou left to find his friend, Li Xiaoyao departed for the Fire Sparrow Clan, and Ye Lin also left.

Ye Lin searched the Endless Icefield for the elusive Snowman Clan, hoping to find help for the injured Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng. After his divine sense failed to penetrate the ice, Xinyou began helping him search.

• Ye Lin realized he had not planned for Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng to be injured and set out to make amends.
• Ye Lin traveled to the northern Endless Icefield, where the mysterious Snowman Clan was said to live.
• Ye Lin searched the vast, frozen landscape but found that the ice blocked his divine sense.
• Ye Lin asked Xinyou to help search, and Xinyou bounded away across the icefield.

Ye Lin followed Xinyou into a cave beneath the Endless Icefield and discovered a hidden world where the Snowman Clan lived. He found one of the clan members, who demanded that he leave their sacred land.

• Xinyou growled at a cave entrance, and Ye Lin understood that it had sensed someone inside.
• Ye Lin entered the cave with Xinyou and slid down its deep, dark passage.
• Ye Lin reached solid soil beneath the icefield and followed the terrain into a vast hidden world.
• Ye Lin encountered a three-zhang-tall, white-furred humanoid and asked whether it belonged to the Snowman Clan.
• The Snowman Clan member confirmed its identity, demanded that Ye Lin leave, and raised its fist at him.

Ye Lin approached the Snowman Clan to ask for the Radiant Fruit, which he needed to save a gravely wounded friend. Wu Feng and a larger snowman denied knowing about it, and Ye Lin warned them not to test his patience.

• Ye Lin asked a large snowman whether it could make decisions, and the snowman left to fetch someone.
• The large snowman returned with Wu Feng, the Snowman Clan's young clan chief, who asked how Ye Lin had found their hidden world.
• Ye Lin explained that he had entered through an ice cave and asked the Snowman Clan for the Radiant Fruit in exchange for something of equal value.
• Wu Feng and the large snowman denied knowing what the Radiant Fruit was.
• Ye Lin warned the two snowmen that they could lose their lives if they kept testing his patience, and Wu Feng suggested he search the Endless Icefield.

Ye Lin confronted Wu Feng and the Snowman Clan over the Radiant Fruit, threatening to search their souls unless they told him the truth. Wu Feng agreed to take him to the Clan Chief, while the snowmen feared Ye Lin’s arrival had exposed their hidden home.

• Ye Lin warned Wu Feng and his companion that he would use Soul Search if they kept denying knowledge of the Radiant Fruit.
• Wu Feng decided to cooperate and led Ye Lin toward the Clan Chief, hoping to send him away quickly.
• Ye Lin followed Wu Feng through the Snowman Clan’s small, habitable world and observed its people and surroundings.
• The snowmen worried that an outsider had discovered their home and feared invasion and slaughter.
• One snowman suggested killing Ye Lin or keeping him there to prevent the hidden world from being exposed.

Ye Lin learned that the Radiant Fruit kept the Snowman Clan’s hidden homeland illuminated, and its removal would plunge them into darkness. The old man ultimately allowed Ye Lin to take it, leaving Ye Lin’s promise to provide the clan with a sun untested.

• Wu Feng brought Ye Lin to meet the Snowman Clan’s dying old man in a small courtyard.
• The old man explained that the Radiant Fruit supplied all the light in the Snowman Clan’s homeland and that losing it would doom his people.
• Ye Lin said he could give the Snowman Clan a sun, but the old man doubted him.
• The old man told Ye Lin that the Radiant Fruit was at the highest point in the sky and said he could take it.

Ye Lin took the three Radiant Fruits, plunging the Snowman Clan’s world into darkness. He acknowledged the karma he had incurred and promised to settle it with the clan.

• Ye Lin took the three Radiant Fruits from the ice at the top of the world.
• The world fell into absolute darkness, leaving the Snowman Clan unable to see.
• The old man asked Ye Lin not to make things difficult for the Snowman Clan.
• Ye Lin said he would resolve the karma caused by taking the fruits and plunging the clan into darkness.

Ye Lin exchanged three Radiant Fruits for a Great Sun that would warm the Snowman Clan’s small world for at least ten million years. After settling the karma between them, he left, and the Snowman Clan resolved to remain in their world rather than seek development on the Origin Continent.

• Ye Lin explained that the Great Dao, unlike the Heavenly Dao, eventually settled all karmic debts without leaving a slender thread of life.
• Ye Lin created a Great Sun with his laws and sent it into the sky, restoring warmth and light throughout the small world.
• Ye Lin told the old man that the Great Sun would last at least ten million years and that their karma was settled in exchange for the Radiant Fruits.
• The old man thanked Ye Lin, while Wu Feng hurried to see him off and felt relieved that he had not offended him.
• Ye Lin left, and the Snowman Clan became more determined to remain in their world and live peacefully.

Ye Lin left the hidden world with the Radiant Fruit and encountered three monks from Still Sea Temple searching for the legendary Snowman Clan. He concealed the clan’s existence and sent the monks away, leaving the other materials he needed still unfound.

• Ye Lin returned to the icefield with the Radiant Fruit and wondered where to find the remaining materials.
• Jingxin and his junior brothers, Jingsha and Jingwu, approached Ye Lin and said they had searched for the Snowman Clan for more than three years.
• Jingxin explained that Still Sea Temple needed the Radiant Fruit to treat the abbot’s recurring old wound.
• Ye Lin closed the ice cave behind him and claimed he had found no trace of the Snowman Clan.
• Ye Lin told the monks the clan was only a legend and urged them to leave.

Ye Lin told Jingxin that the Snowman Clan could not be found, then asked where to obtain ingredients for a pill to save his gravely injured friend. Jingxin revealed that Still Sea Temple had Heavenly Dragon Water and invited Ye Lin to come with them, asking whether he had found an alchemist.

• Jingxin accepted that the Snowman Clan was nowhere to be found and left with his two junior brothers.
• Ye Lin called after Jingxin and asked about four rare medicinal ingredients.
• Jingxin told Ye Lin where to find Heavenly Dragon Water, Dragon-Holding Grass, and Primordial Spirit Fruit, but said he had never heard of Seven-Treasure Flower.
• Ye Lin explained that he needed the ingredients to refine a pill for his gravely injured friend and offered to trade for Still Sea Temple's Heavenly Dragon Water.
• Ye Lin introduced himself as Blood Baleful, and Jingxin invited him to come with them and asked whether he had found an alchemist.

On the road to Still Sea Temple, Ye Lin told Jingxin and the others that he knew a Dao Alchemist, hoping to learn where Still Sea Temple kept the Heavenly Dragon Water and the other ingredients. He agreed to bring his friend to examine the abbot after the friend was safe, leaving the monks to wait at the temple.

• Jingxin asked Ye Lin about finding an alchemist to treat the abbot of Still Sea Temple, whose old injuries had flared up again.
• Ye Lin claimed that his friend was a Dao Alchemist, and Jingxin, Jingwu, and their companion eagerly asked him to arrange a visit.
• Jingxin promised a generous gift and offered the Heavenly Dragon Water and information about the remaining ingredients in exchange for the alchemist examining the abbot.
• Ye Lin told the three monks to wait at Still Sea Temple until his friend was out of danger, then promised to bring the Dao Alchemist to them.

Ye Lin persuaded the three Still Sea Temple monks to trust his promise by explaining that his gravely wounded friend had to come first and presenting his status as a marquis of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty. The monks agreed to take him to Still Sea Temple and provide Heavenly Dragon Water.

• Jingxin and Jingsha doubted Ye Lin’s claim because Heavenly Dragon Water was precious and the Dao Pill Master had not been found.
• Ye Lin said he would not abandon his dying friend to help Still Sea Temple’s abbot and left the decision to the monks.
• The three monks asked Ye Lin for his friend’s address so they could seek help themselves, promising not to reveal their purpose before his friend recovered.
• Ye Lin showed them his genuine Identity Token and offered his marquis status as a guarantee.
• The monks accepted Ye Lin’s assurance and agreed to take him to Still Sea Temple, where they would fetch Heavenly Dragon Water.

Ye Lin secured Jingxin and the other Still Sea Temple masters’ trust by promising to seek Wang Tian’s help, and they hurried him to Still Sea Temple. The chapter ended with Still Sea Temple’s founding history and its current abbot’s role in defending the land from the sea races.

• Jingxin decided to trust Ye Lin because Still Sea Temple had no other hope of saving its abbot.
• Ye Lin planned to ask Wang Tian for help after Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable recovered, leaving the decision to Wang Tian.
• Jingxin and the other masters rushed Ye Lin across the Origin Continent, and no one dared to obstruct them.
• The group arrived at Still Sea Temple, which stood on the coast beside the Endless Sea.
• The chapter recounted how Still Sea Temple’s founder drove back invading sea races and how his injured disciple became the current abbot.