Chapter Summaries

Shangguan Wanyu found a hidden cave beneath the Desolate Mountain, and Ye Lin led the group inside. They discovered a vast chamber filled with Water Spring Crystals.

• Li Xiaoyao suggested blasting the Desolate Mountain flat, but Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian stayed silent as the group suspected danger beneath it.
• Shangguan Wanyu warned that the mountain held great danger and circled it until she found a cave.
• Ye Lin entered the cave first with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, leading Shangguan Wanyu and the others through a deep, muddy tunnel.
• Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao reached an enormous chamber filled with dazzling green Water Spring Crystals and wondered why there were so many.

The group discovered that Water Spring Crystals were guarded by swarms of deadly Water Spring Worms. Ye Lin entered the infested area to test them and survived their attack behind the barrier of the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.

• Wang Tian identified the tiny white bugs around the Water Spring Crystals as Water Spring Worms.
• Li Xiaoyao volunteered to test the worms, but Ye Lin stepped forward instead.
• Ye Lin leaped into the worms' territory, and the swarm immediately surrounded him.
• Ye Lin used the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell to form an earthy-yellow barrier that kept the worms from reaching him.

Ye Lin and the others found that their strongest attacks could not harm the Water Spring Worms, forcing them to retreat from the cracking Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell barrier. They escaped the cave entrance but remained unable to reach the Water Spring Crystals the worms guarded.

• Ye Lin swept the Water Spring Worms with a Sword Qi storm, but they remained unharmed as the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell barrier cracked.
• Ye Lin summoned a storm of thunder with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, but the Water Spring Worms endured it without injury.
• Ye Lin rushed to the cave entrance and looked back at the worms bathing in the Thunder Sea.
• Bao Xiaotou marveled that the lightning had no effect on the Water Spring Worms, while Wang Tian eagerly declared that they had research value.
• Li Xiaoyao confirmed that the lightning hurt even his Golden Immortal body but did not affect the worms, and Bao Xiaotou lamented that they could not reach the Water Spring Crystals.

Xinyou devoured the Water Spring Worms and Thunder Sea, reaching the third layer of the Golden Immortal Realm and astonishing Ye Lin’s group. As they began gathering Water Spring Crystals, a man in a nearby cave confronted them and claimed the crystals belonged to him.

• Xinyou transformed into a giant beast and swallowed every Water Spring Worm along with the Thunder Sea.
• Xinyou’s cultivation surged, and he broke through to the third layer of the Golden Immortal Realm before returning to Ye Lin’s shoulder to sleep.
• Ye Lin and the others examined Xinyou’s extraordinary panel, while Wang Tian regretted losing the chance to study a Water Spring Worm.
• Ye Lin told the group to collect the Water Spring Crystals, and Bao Xiaotou agreed that they could help Golden Immortal cultivators strengthen their foundations.
• A man in a nearby cave confronted Ye Lin’s group, claiming he had discovered the Water Spring Crystals first and ordering them to stay away.

Li Xiaoyao, Bao Xiaotou, and Wang Tian fought Jiang Chenfeng’s group over the Water Spring Crystals while Shangguan Wanyu began collecting them. Ye Lin faced Jiang Chenfeng, who revealed his third-layer Golden Immortal cultivation and confidence in his advantage.

• Jiang Chenfeng demanded all the Water Spring Crystals and threatened Ye Lin’s group, but Bao Xiaotou refused to surrender them.
• Li Xiaoyao, Bao Xiaotou, and Wang Tian engaged three of Jiang Chenfeng’s four young men, while Xinyou pinned the fourth.
• Ye Lin told Shangguan Wanyu to collect the crystals during the fight, then approached Jiang Chenfeng with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Jiang Chenfeng introduced himself and revealed the pressure of his third-layer Golden Immortal cultivation.

Ye Lin fought Jiang Chenfeng in the skies above Desolate Mountain while Shangguan Wanyu collected Water Spring Crystals below with Luo Yao. Jiang Chenfeng acknowledged Ye Lin’s strength but continued to press him, and the battle remained unresolved as Ye Lin unleashed another sword technique.

• Ye Lin and Jiang Chenfeng clashed with sword and spear inside the cavern as the other Golden Immortals fought around them.
• Shangguan Wanyu held Luo Yao and gathered Water Spring Crystals, protected from the battle’s aftershocks.
• Ye Lin used Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering, but Jiang Chenfeng shattered its Sword Qi with Spear Dao, Torch Dragon Emerges from Sea.
• The fighting caused Desolate Mountain to collapse, forcing the combatants to continue their battle in the sky.
• Jiang Chenfeng recognized Ye Lin as a formidable fighter from a remote place, but Ye Lin answered by charging at him again.
• Ye Lin activated Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, Thunder Break, filling the sky with lightning.

Ye Lin and Jiang Chenfeng exchanged powerful attacks, and Ye Lin’s Grass Character Sword Art drained the vitality from Jiang Chenfeng’s arm. Jiang Chenfeng severed the arm’s connection to his body and prepared to keep fighting Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin’s lightning Sword Qi clashed with Jiang Chenfeng’s silver dragon spear attack, and both techniques shattered.
• Ye Lin summoned a great sun with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and sent it crashing toward Jiang Chenfeng.
• Jiang Chenfeng’s golden dragon swallowed the great sun, then exploded.
• Ye Lin struck Jiang Chenfeng’s arm with the Grass Character Sword Art, rapidly stripping away its blood qi and vitality.
• Jiang Chenfeng retreated and severed his connection to the damaged arm before charging into the fight again.

Li Xiaoyao and Bao Xiaotou overpowered their opponents, while Wang Tian prepared to refine a captive in the Nine Provinces Cauldron. The chapter ended with the captive still trapped and cursing as Wang Tian began refining him.

• Li Xiaoyao taunted a young man and crushed his sharper twin-blade attacks with his hammer.
• Bao Xiaotou told a young man trapped in his formations that 132 layers remained, including 50 Killing Formations.
• Bao Xiaotou sat back and watched as the trapped man struggled through the formations.
• Wang Tian said he would beat his captive until he listened and threatened to refine the Golden Immortal's body into pills.
• The figure inside the Nine Provinces Cauldron cursed Wang Tian and demanded to be released.

Wang Tian began refining a Golden Immortal second-layer expert in the Nine Provinces Cauldron, while Xinyou overwhelmed a Flood Dragon and Ye Lin revealed the power of the Great Sun Supreme Art. Ye Lin faced his golden dragon opponent with nine blazing suns behind him.

• Wang Tian tossed herbs into the Nine Provinces Cauldron and began refining the trapped young man into a pill.
• Xinyou attacked the wounded Flood Dragon, dodged its flames, and tore chunks of flesh from its body.
• Ye Lin was blasted away by a golden dragon, then used the Beginningless True Flame with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin summoned nine blazing suns and streams of Great Sun laws as he prepared to attack his opponent.

Ye Lin defeated Jiang Chenfeng with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, first striking him with Beginningless True Flame and then pursuing him with thunder sword energy. Jiang Chenfeng’s life force ran out as he fell to the ground, and Ye Lin rushed to where he landed.

• Ye Lin gathered the Great Sun Laws and Beginningless True Flame into a sword strike called Radiant Sun Descends Upon Heaven.
• Jiang Chenfeng answered with Nine Dragons Contend for the Throne, sending a crimson orb and nine silver Dragons at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin’s Three-Legged Golden Crow burned through the Dragons and orb, then struck Jiang Chenfeng and covered him in Beginningless True Flame.
• Jiang Chenfeng turned and fled, but Ye Lin attacked him with Thunder Shatters from the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.
• Ye Lin’s Thunder Sword Qi pierced Jiang Chenfeng until his life force vanished and his body fell to the ground.
• Ye Lin flashed over to where Jiang Chenfeng had fallen.

Ye Lin watched Jiang Chenfeng escape after taking a hit from the Beginningless True Flame, while the rest of the enemy group fell to his allies. Jiang Chenfeng struggled to extinguish the flames, and Ye Lin wondered whether they could kill a third-layer Golden Immortal.

• Ye Lin found that Jiang Chenfeng had escaped using a shattered talisman and vowed to kill him next time.
• Jiang Chenfeng tried in vain to extinguish the Beginningless True Flame, which fed on his immortal power.
• Li Xiaoyao killed a second-layer Golden Immortal prodigy with one hammer blow.
• Bao Xiaotou kept adding formations as his opponent tried to break free, while Wang Tian continued refining a captive in his pill furnace.
• Xinyou swallowed the Flood Dragon's head and devoured its corpse.
• Ye Lin wondered whether the Beginningless True Flame could kill Jiang Chenfeng.

Jiang Chenfeng abandoned his burning Golden Immortal body and fled the Water Spring Secret Realm as a weakened Primordial Spirit, determined to avenge himself on Blood Baleful. Unbeknownst to him, a wisp of flame followed him, while Bao Xiaotou prepared a massive formation on the battlefield.

• Jiang Chenfeng exhausted his immortal power trying to stop the Beginningless True Flame, but it continued burning his body.
• Jiang Chenfeng abandoned his Golden Immortal body to save his Primordial Spirit and swore revenge on Blood Baleful.
• Jiang Chenfeng's cultivation fell to the first level of the Golden Immortal Realm, and he decided to leave the Water Spring Secret Realm to find a new body.
• A wisp of flame clung to Jiang Chenfeng's Primordial Spirit as he departed.
• Bao Xiaotou formed seals and merged countless formations into a massive grand formation, then prepared to kill his opponent.

After killing the attackers, Wang Tian made nine Blood Spirit Pills but decided to sell them because they consumed the user’s potential. Ye Lin fairly divided the Water Spring Crystals, then led the group to search for more.

• The Killing Formations shredded the trapped young man, while Jiang Chenfeng escaped.
• Wang Tian created nine Blood Spirit Pills that could guarantee a breakthrough for cultivators below the third layer of the Golden Immortal realm, but chose to sell them because they drained potential.
• Shangguan Wanyu gave Ye Lin the Water Spring Crystals she had collected, and Ye Lin divided them equally among the group.
• Xinyou declined his share of the crystals, so Ye Lin redistributed it among the others.
• Ye Lin proposed searching for more Water Spring Crystals, with Xinyou eating Water Spring Worms along the way.
• Bao Xiaotou worried that he was falling behind Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao and said the crystals were not enough to help him reach the second layer of the Golden Immortal realm.

Ye Lin and the group followed Shangguan Wanyu through the Water Spring Secret Realm in search of Water Spring Crystals, but a mass of glowing Water Spring Worms descended on them. After Xinyou refused to eat more and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar failed to respond, Ye Lin fled with the others.

• Ye Lin and the group followed Shangguan Wanyu through the desolate mountains while wondering where the other geniuses had gone.
• As night fell, Ye Lin noticed the stars overhead moving and summoned the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• The group realized the apparent stars were a swarm of Water Spring Worms and fled toward the mountains.
• Ye Lin asked Xinyou to eat the worms, but Xinyou said it had not finished digesting its earlier meal.
• Ye Lin tried to get the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to refine the worms, received no response, and ran away.

Ye Lin and his companions sheltered in a cave as Water Spring Worms covered the sky and blocked their escape. They tested whether Water Spring Crystals were genuine, and Ye Lin decided to use a clone to check their effects on the Primordial Spirit.

• After Ye Lin entered Bao Xiaotou’s cave, Bao Xiaotou reinforced the formation and Ye Lin strengthened its golden barrier with Beginningless True Flame.
• Water Spring Worms swarmed outside the barrier but kept away from the flame, revealing the light-filled sky beneath them.
• Bao Xiaotou worried that he could not reach his Water Spring Crystals, and Ye Lin suggested testing whether the crystals worked while they waited.
• Ye Lin infused a Water Spring Crystal with immortal fortune and sensed an unknown substance moving toward his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin decided to use One Breath Becomes Three Purities to make a clone test the substance first.

Ye Lin and the others gained sudden insights into the laws after a mysterious power entered his new Primordial Spirit, while Luo Yao remained unaffected. Elsewhere, Xu Feng and his companions were trapped in a cave by a Water Spring Worm riot, with no safe way to escape or search for Water Spring Crystals.

• Ye Lin guided the mysterious power into his Primordial Spirit and rapidly comprehended the Destruction Sword Dao Law.
• The others, including Shangguan Wanyu, entered states of enlightenment as their understanding of laws surged.
• Luo Yao picked up Xinyou and carried it away to play while the others cultivated.
• Xu Feng complained that he and his two companions had searched for Water Spring Crystals without finding any and were now trapped by Water Spring Worms.
• Xu Feng explained that the worms surrounded the area and could overwhelm even ninth-level Golden Immortal cultivators.

Xu Feng and his companions hid from the Water Spring Worms during their month-long frenzy, and he cheered himself up by imagining that everyone else was suffering too. Once the worms withdrew, the prodigies emerged and resumed searching for Water Spring Crystals.

• Xu Feng learned that the Water Spring Worm frenzy would last a month and cursed that he had found no Water Spring Crystals before getting trapped.
• Two young men urged Xu Feng to wait out the frenzy, reminding him that everyone else was likely hiding as well.
• Xu Feng accepted their reasoning and felt better by comparing his bad luck with the others'.
• The Water Spring Worms rampaged for a month, and many prodigies hid while some unlucky ones were bitten and left barely alive.
• After the worms returned to the sky and the Water Spring Secret Realm cleared, the prodigies left their hiding places and resumed searching for Water Spring Crystals.

After a month of cultivating with Water Spring Crystals, Ye Lin and the others emerged with greatly improved cultivation. They left the cave to search for more crystals, while Xinyou returned exhausted and Luo Yao remained with Shangguan Wanyu.

• Ye Lin recognized the Water Spring Crystal’s power to improve cultivation and strengthen foundations, while Bao Xiaotou regretted narrowly missing a breakthrough after his crystal ran out.
• Bao Xiaotou urged Ye Lin to search for more Water Spring Crystals so he could enter death seclusion, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Wang Tian and Li Xiaoyao awakened, followed by Shangguan Wanyu, who had continued cultivating longer because of her lower cultivation.
• Xinyou returned from the cave’s depths and collapsed exhausted on Ye Lin’s shoulder after spending the month with Luo Yao.
• Ye Lin checked that the Water Spring Worms were gone, extinguished the Beginningless True Flame, and led the group out of the cave.

Ye Lin used Shangguan Wanyu’s panel to locate three Desolate Mountains containing Water Spring Crystals and split the group up to search them. He entered the central mountain’s cave with Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao, warning them to stay behind him if they encountered Water Spring Worms.

• Ye Lin checked Shangguan Wanyu’s panel and found its directions to three Desolate Mountains with many Water Spring Crystals.
• Ye Lin led the group to the mountains and decided they should split up to search quickly.
• Ye Lin and Shangguan Wanyu headed for the central mountain, Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian went right, and Li Xiaoyao went left.
• Ye Lin opened a cave in the central mountain and led Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao inside.
• Ye Lin warned Shangguan Wanyu to stay behind him if they encountered Water Spring Worms.

Ye Lin discovered that Water Spring Worms were attracted to the green light emitted by Water Spring Crystals, not to the crystals themselves. He lured the worms away from the hollow in Desolate Mountain so Shangguan Wanyu could collect the crystals, then drew in most of the worms across the Water Spring Secret Realm.

• Ye Lin and Shangguan Wanyu entered a hollow in Desolate Mountain filled with Water Spring Crystals and Water Spring Worms.
• Ye Lin tested a sphere of green light and saw the worms swarm toward it.
• Ye Lin told Shangguan Wanyu to gather the crystals while he lured the worms outside with several green lights.
• Shangguan Wanyu began collecting the crystals as Ye Lin left the mountain to draw the worms away.
• Ye Lin attracted most of the Water Spring Worms in the Water Spring Secret Realm, and they gathered around his green light without biting him.