Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoyao faced the mocking figures in the Netherworld Ghost Realm and calmly confronted them with their own deaths. After making them vanish, he found the realm had become an empty, pitch-black void, showing that he had resolved his inner fears, and left believing he might be the first to succeed.

• A group of seven dead figures mocked Li Xiaoyao and called him a monster and the Sect Master's dog.
• Li Xiaoyao answered that they were dead and existed only in his mind, then taunted them for being unable to fight back.
• Li Xiaoyao snapped his fingers, making the figures vanish into smoke.
• The Netherworld Ghost Realm turned into a pitch-black, empty void as Li Xiaoyao resolved his inner issues.
• Li Xiaoyao left alone, saying the test had been easy and wondering if he was the first to finish.

Ye Lin and the others left the Netherworld Ghost Realm and resumed cultivating, while Xu Feng also escaped after confronting memories of his mother. Five hundred years passed, and Ye Lin awakened one year before the next secret realm opened after reaching the third layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.

• Ye Lin gathered the group and led them out of the Netherworld Ghost Realm after everyone had emerged.
• Ye Lin and the others returned to their secluded cultivation, while Xu Feng left the Netherworld Ghost Realm and reflected on seeing his late mother there.
• Most heavenly geniuses avoided entering the Netherworld Ghost Realm, and the expedition passed without major conflicts.
• Five hundred years passed as Ye Lin cultivated and tracked the time until the next secret realm opening.
• Ye Lin awakened one year before the five-hundred-year deadline because he had reached the third layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.

Ye Lin used the Water Spring Crystals to reach the third level of the Golden Immortal Realm and sharpened his understanding of the Destruction Sword Dao Law. When he heard intruders threatening an old man and a young girl near his cave dwelling, he went to test his new strength.

• Ye Lin exhausted his Water Spring Crystals and advanced to the third level of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin reflected on the great era’s blessings and the dangers that came with its luck, then summoned Sword Qi shaped by the Destruction Sword Dao Law.
• Ye Lin found his companions still in secluded cultivation, with one year remaining before the five-hundred-year deadline.
• Ye Lin heard a burly man threaten an old man and a young girl as his followers tried to locate and break a hidden array.
• Ye Lin vanished from his cave dwelling to confront the intruders and test his strength.

Ye Lin protected his home by killing a group of intruders who had been trying to break its formation. After warning him that the Gu Sect might retaliate, the old man and his granddaughter left, while Ye Lin dismissed the threat.

• The burly man struck the old man as he and the woman hesitated to break Ye Lin's formation.
• Ye Lin told the group that the formation protected his home and said they should not have caused a disturbance.
• The burly man tried to retreat, but Ye Lin attacked the group with a force of laws.
• A young man pleaded for mercy and invoked his eldest brother, Xiao Yun, the chief disciple of the Gu Sect, but Ye Lin's attack killed the group.
• The old man thanked Ye Lin and warned him that the Gu Sect would seek revenge, but Ye Lin said to let them come.
• The old man led his granddaughter away after Ye Lin disappeared.

After reaching the third level of Golden Immortal, Xu Feng learned that Xiao Yun had left the Gu Sect and decided to follow him and seize his Time Gu. He dismissed his attendants’ warnings about provoking the Old Gu King and insisted that the plan would succeed.

• Xu Feng celebrated entering the third level of Golden Immortal and asked his attendants about recent events.
• His attendants reported that Xiao Yun had left seclusion and headed for an unfamiliar star system, apparently seeking revenge.
• Xu Feng suspected Xiao Yun had brought his Time Gu and proposed following him to steal it.
• The attendants warned that the Old Gu King would retaliate, but Xu Feng ordered them to go ahead with his plan.
• Xu Feng argued that the Old Gu King had many enemies and was weakened by his Gu insects.

Ye Lin waited in the Starry Sky for Xiao Yun, the Gu Sect’s chief disciple, and faced his attack. Xiao Yun proved elusive even after Ye Lin destroyed what appeared to be a clone, leaving Ye Lin on guard against the unseen foe.

• Xu Feng convinced the two young men that Old Gu King would not come and that his enemies would rally against him, then set out for the Starry Sky with them.
• Ye Lin waited in the Starry Sky for the Gu Sect’s chief disciple to arrive.
• Xiao Yun appeared and declared that Ye Lin would pay for killing his junior brother, then attacked him.
• Ye Lin’s Sword Qi tore apart Xiao Yun’s figure, but Ye Lin realized it had been a clone.
• Xiao Yun struck from behind and evaded Ye Lin’s attacks, leaving Ye Lin unable to detect his whereabouts.

Ye Lin discovered that Xiao Yun was hiding across time with the help of the Time Gu and learned that the Great Dao of Time would eventually erase him. The two continued their standoff, with Ye Lin refusing to attack blindly.

• Ye Lin examined Xiao Yun's panel and learned about his cultivation, Gu Insects, fate traits, and impending death.
• Ye Lin realized the Time Gu let Xiao Yun speak from the past or future, making him impossible to locate in the present.
• Ye Lin concluded Xiao Yun's use of time would provoke the Great Dao of Time to erase him.
• Xiao Yun taunted Ye Lin to attack, but Ye Lin refused and challenged him to make the first move.
• Xiao Yun asked what Ye Lin knew.

Xiao Yun used Time Gu to drag Ye Lin into a distant future, but Xu Feng and two young men were caught up in the journey. Ye Lin recognized the danger of Xiao Yun’s reckless interference with spacetime as they remained stranded in the future.

• Xiao Yun emerged from a shattered space and pulled Ye Lin into a spacetime rift with the power of time laws.
• Xu Feng grabbed Ye Lin, while two young men clung to Xu Feng, and the group vanished from the Starry Sky.
• Xiao Yun revealed that they had arrived in the future, where ruined stars, shattered worlds, and enormous corpses surrounded them.
• Xiao Yun warned Xu Feng that only he could return them to their original spacetime, and Xu Feng asked whether Time Gu could do it.
• Ye Lin judged that Xiao Yun’s repeated manipulation of spacetime would bring him under the Great Dao of Time’s notice.

Xiao Yun tried to escape to his original time after trapping Ye Lin and the others in the future, but Ye Lin’s Fortune Invincibility Method caught him. Xiao Yun realized the karmic cost of dragging an invincible being across time and begged to send them back.

• Xiao Yun claimed he could return to his original time and dismissed the threat posed by Xu Feng and the others.
• Xu Feng used a jade seal and national fortune to seal the void while his companions joined him in trapping Xiao Yun.
• Xiao Yun used Time Gu to freeze Xu Feng and the others and began escaping through a space-time rift.
• Ye Lin bound Xiao Yun with the Lock of Void and dragged him back from the rift.
• Xiao Yun recognized Ye Lin’s Fortune Invincibility Method and begged to send him and the others back.

Ye Lin killed Xiao Yun after Xu Feng warned him that Xiao Yun was bluffing about the Time Gu’s survival. Ye Lin obtained the Time Gu and destroyed Xiao Yun’s body and Primordial Spirit, leaving no chance for him to escape.

• Xiao Yun claimed that killing him would also kill the Time Gu and trap Ye Lin, but Xu Feng warned that the Emperor Gu would survive.
• Ye Lin tightened the Lock of Void, suppressing Xiao Yun as his luck value rapidly fell.
• Ye Lin appeared before Xiao Yun and severed his head with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin threatened to torture Xiao Yun’s Primordial Spirit unless he surrendered the Time Gu, and Xiao Yun released the white worm from his forehead.
• Ye Lin took the Time Gu, crushed Xiao Yun’s head, and burned his Primordial Spirit to ashes with the Beginningless True Flame.

Ye Lin learned from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar how he might gain the Time Gu’s allegiance and tried offering it his blood. Xu Feng believed Ye Lin would eventually need his help, while he and his companions privately doubted Ye Lin could subdue the proud emperor-grade Gu.

• Xu Feng and his two companions watched Xiao Yun’s death and worried that Ye Lin might leave without taking them along.
• Xu Feng reassured them that Ye Lin could not use the Time Gu and would eventually ask for their help.
• Ye Lin examined the seemingly lifeless Time Gu and sensed the power of time within it.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Ye Lin could offer blood to seek the Time Gu’s recognition or pay it with immortal stones.
• Ye Lin offered the Time Gu a drop of blood as Xu Feng and his companions privately laughed at his attempt.

Ye Lin forced Time Gu to absorb his blood, and the Imperial Gu recognized him as its master. He learned that Time Gu let him wield the Dao of Time, though its greatest feats carried a heavy cost and Primordial Unity Golden Immortals remained beyond his reach.

• Time Gu absorbed Ye Lin's blood and recognized him as its master, leaving the three witnesses rooted in shock.
• Ye Lin formed a connection with Time Gu and learned that it could let him steal the power of the Dao of Time.
• Ye Lin discovered that Time Gu could carry him through the past and future and protect him from even ninth-layer Golden Immortals, but changing past events could exhaust the Gu and destroy it.
• Ye Lin learned that Primordial Unity Golden Immortals could traverse time and space, so he still could not afford to provoke them.

Ye Lin learned how the Time Gu consumed Supreme Immortal Stones and entered his sea of consciousness, allowing him to borrow its time-law power. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar recognized that Ye Lin’s Destiny lay beyond the Heavenly Dao’s control, making him and the Gu an ideal match.

• Ye Lin understood that Primordial Unity Golden Immortals could alter the past, though greater changes incurred greater karma.
• Ye Lin learned that the Time Gu ate only Supreme Immortal Stones and needed to be well fed before lending him its power.
• The Time Gu entered Ye Lin’s sea of consciousness, where he could communicate with it and borrow its power.
• Ye Lin activated the Time Gu’s power, and time laws filled his body and eyes.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar concluded that Ye Lin was a variable outside the Heavenly Dao’s jurisdiction and that he and the Time Gu were a perfect match.

Ye Lin took Xu Feng and two young men out of the ruined era after Time Gu acknowledged him as its master. They escaped a giant hand that pursued them through space-time, leaving Xu Feng worried that its owner might seek them out.

• Xu Feng and the two young men asked Ye Lin to take them with him after Time Gu chose him as its master.
• Ye Lin used Time Gu to open a passage through space-time, but a giant hand formed from laws reached for them.
• Ye Lin and the others escaped into the present era, and Ye Lin severed the passage before the hand could follow.
• The giant hand was destroyed beneath the laws of time, though its lonely voice vowed to find them.
• Xu Feng reassured his companions that the pursuer would not cross space-time unless he was a madman.

Ye Lin received the Shadowkill Clan’s gifts for Wang Tian after Xu Feng warned him that killing Xiao Yun had tied him to Old Gu King’s karma. Xu Feng left convinced that someone had been sabotaging his luck, while Ye Lin discovered the ring held a vast trove of precious resources for Wang Tian.

• Xu Feng thanked Ye Lin for saving his life and warned that Old Gu King would track him because he had killed Xiao Yun, Old Gu King’s successor.
• Xu Feng gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring containing the Shadowkill Clan’s thanks for Wang Tian and an Identity Token granting the clan’s help up to three times.
• Xu Feng and his companions departed, and Xu Feng complained that his bad luck had made him work for Blood Baleful’s benefit and nearly cost him his life.
• Xu Feng decided to return home and ask his father to examine his Fortune Path because he suspected someone was tampering with his luck.
• Ye Lin inspected the ring and found countless precious resources, including many medicinal herbs that Wang Tian needed.

Ye Lin learned that Wang Tian’s pill had saved the Shadowkill Clan from ruin, making their resource gift only a small repayment. A year later, Ye Lin and his companions set out for the third secret realm, prepared to face stronger competitors.

• Ye Lin accepted the Shadowkill Clan’s resources and left through the formations surrounding the stars.
• A year passed before the third secret realm began to descend.
• Ye Lin announced that the group would head for the third secret realm as Li Xiaoyao and the others showed confidence in their progress.
• Li Xiaoyao, Bao Xiaotou, and Wang Tian displayed confidence in their Golden Immortal cultivation, while Shangguan Wanyu had reached the peak of Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal.
• The group left their secluded cultivation site, and Bao Xiaotou left the formation in place.

As the Star River Cosmos grew tense ahead of a great age, the long-awaited secret realm opened in the Starry Sky and was revealed to be the ancient Black Tortoise Secret Realm. The gathering geniuses were told that only those with Identity Tokens could enter.

• Factions closed their gates and older-generation powerhouses withdrew or focused on comprehending the laws as the great age began.
• Heavenly geniuses discussed the disappointing previous secret realms and the danger of fighting over Identity Tokens.
• The Starry Sky filled with azure light that formed an enormous Black Tortoise phantom.
• A heavenly genius recognized the apparition as the ancient Black Tortoise Secret Realm, and the gathered geniuses realized its significance.
• An announcement confirmed the secret realm’s identity and said that only those with Identity Tokens could enter.

The Black Tortoise Secret Realm guardian explained why entry was limited to those with Identity Tokens and rebuked Third Region geniuses for blaming cultivators from remote lands. He left them to confront their own lack of ability and their prejudice toward less prosperous regions.

• Third Region geniuses challenged the Black Tortoise Secret Realm guardian over the Identity Token requirement and demanded that cultivators from remote lands be excluded.
• The guardian unleashed his pressure across the Starry Sky, forcing the young geniuses to bend under its weight.
• The guardian said the great age was meant to select true geniuses and blamed those without spots for failing to claim them.
• The guardian explained that the older experts invested in cultivators who could grow strong and later help their homelands.
• The guardian reminded the Third Region geniuses that their region was itself remote and asked what right they had to look down on young geniuses from other remote lands.

The guardian rebuked the Third Region's prodigies for looking down on youths from the remote lands, reminding them that those from the Second and First Regions regarded them as refugees and lesser beings. He then hinted that the final secret realm would hold extraordinary treasures, leaving the prodigies ready to compete fiercely after the Black Tortoise Secret Realm.

• The guardian explained that the Central Star Domain, the First and Second Regions, the Third Region, and the remote lands formed distinct circles of status, and urged the prodigies to stop discriminating against youths from the remote lands.
• The prodigies lowered their heads as the guardian's words made them realize that cultivators from higher-ranked regions looked down on them too.
• The guardian warned that the final secret realm would be far more precious than they imagined and left the prodigies to decide what to do.
• The prodigies rallied at the hint that they should seize opportunities, while those with Identity Tokens feared that the next five hundred years would be difficult.

Ye Lin and his group arrived at the Black Tortoise Secret Realm just as the prodigies were entering, and they passed through despite being challenged over their eligibility. The slotless prodigies were left wondering how a woman and a child could both have slots.

• The guardian opened the Black Tortoise Secret Realm and allowed those with Identity Tokens to enter.
• Proddigies rushed into the ruins of the ancient Black Tortoise Holy Palace, eager to claim its treasures.
• Ye Lin's group arrived after racing across three galaxy clusters, and Bao Xiaotou complained about the journey.
• A young man questioned whether Ye Lin's woman and child had slots, but Ye Lin dismissed him and led the group inside.
• The slotless prodigies saw that the guardian did not stop Ye Lin's group and concluded that the woman and child must have slots.