Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin completed the trial and received the high-grade Limitless Artifact, the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book, whose characters invoked powerful effects through the Great Dao. He declined the final trial for the Black Tortoise Master's inheritance to avoid risking the rewards he had already won.

• Ye Lin opened the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book and found a single character on each page.
• The trial ground explained that the book's thirty-six characters invoked different effects, such as enhancing combat strength or healing injuries, at the cost of immortal power.
• Ye Lin learned that he could activate the book by pouring immortal power into it and using it to invoke the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
• The trial ground offered Ye Lin one final stage for the Black Tortoise Master's inheritance, warning that failure would make him return all his previous rewards.
• Ye Lin ended the challenge, and the trial ground agreed to send him out.

Ye Lin refused the Black Tortoise trial’s inheritance and left the trial ground, then spent the remaining three years in the secret realm absorbing the Human Emperor’s insights into the Destruction Sword Dao Law. As the realm closed, he planned to cultivate for five hundred years and reach the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm before entering the Second Region.

• Ye Lin rejected the inheritance and accepted the trial ground’s rewards before it sent him out.
• Ye Lin calculated that three years remained before the Black Tortoise Secret Realm closed and began cultivating in seclusion.
• Ye Lin absorbed the Human Emperor’s insights and immersed himself in the Destruction Sword Dao Law.
• After three years, Ye Lin emerged from seclusion, having studied only a tiny fraction of the insights.
• Ye Lin prepared to cultivate for five hundred years and expected to reach the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm before entering the Second Region.

As the Black Tortoise Secret Realm closed, Ye Lin reunited with his companions and warned them that other prodigies were waiting to seize their Identity Tokens. The group split up, and Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao stayed behind to fight as their attackers rushed in.

• The realm’s time limit ended, and its young prodigies emerged with varying gains and losses.
• Ye Lin reunited with Wang Tian and the others, warned that they had been targeted, and planned their escape.
• Ye Lin led the group out of the secret realm, where dozens of young prodigies immediately focused on them.
• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian took Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao away while Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao stayed to face the attackers.
• Ye Lin activated the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book, which boosted his strength and increased Li Xiaoyao’s strength by thirty percent.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao fought off cultivators trying to seize their slots. After Ye Lin killed six women from the Immortal-Slaying Sect, the surrounding cultivators fled, leaving his slots secure.

• Li Xiaoyao crushed a young Golden Immortal with the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers and attacked a woman beside him.
• A woman from the Immortal-Slaying Sect offered Ye Lin ten million Law Source Stones for each of his six slots.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art combined with Void True Flame to kill three women and mortally wound the other three.
• Ye Lin dismissed the dying woman's threat and warned the surrounding cultivators to leave or die.
• The surrounding cultivators fled without daring to attack Ye Lin.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao left the starry sky after refusing to fight the other cultivators, who began plotting to use the Immortal-Slaying Sect against a group of six women. Back at their retreat, Ye Lin told everyone to cultivate for five hundred years before the final secret realm and left Xinyou in Luo Yao’s care.

• Ye Lin called Li Xiaoyao away from the frightened cultivators, and the two vanished into the starry sky.
• After Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao left, the cultivators discussed targeting the six women by involving the Immortal-Slaying Sect’s elder.
• Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao returned to their retreat, where Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian welcomed them back.
• Ye Lin told the group to cultivate in seclusion for five hundred years until the final secret realm.
• Ye Lin placed the despairing Xinyou in Luo Yao’s arms, and Xinyou cheered at the prospect of going out to play.

While Ye Lin and his companions entered seclusion to digest their gains, Ye Xin visited the Immortal-Slaying Ancestor and tried to enlist her help against Ye Lin. The ancestor learned that Ye Lin had killed her direct bloodline, but remained displeased at Ye Xin’s attempt to use her.

• Ye Lin returned to his cave dwelling to cultivate, and Wang Tian and the others followed his example by entering seclusion.
• Xinyou took Luo Yao away from the star to play while the others remained in seclusion.
• Ye Xin arrived before the enormous peach tree and paid his respects to the Immortal-Slaying Ancestor.
• Ye Xin told the ancestor that her direct bloodline’s Life Lamp had gone out and that Ye Lin had killed them.
• Ye Xin admitted that he wanted Ye Lin’s quota to enter the Second Region and urged the ancestor to act, suggesting Ye Lin might possess supreme treasures.

Ye Xin traded a low-grade Limitless Artifact to secure the peach tree’s help and a spot to reach the Second Region. The peach tree sent the Immortal-Slaying Sect to search for Ye Lin, while Ye Xin also set out to find him before the final secret realm opened.

• Ye Xin offered the peach tree a low-grade Limitless Artifact in exchange for help and a spot, and she gave him a glowing branch to contact her.
• The peach tree ordered her disciples to search for Ye Lin and said she would send them to help find him.
• The peach tree recalled that Ye Lin had killed one of her direct bloodline descendants and decided to act personally.
• Ye Xin cursed the peach tree for her greed but concluded that the spot was worth the price because he could not reach the Second Region alone.
• Ye Xin left to search for Ye Lin and the others, with only five hundred years remaining before the final secret realm opened.

Ye Lin absorbed the ninth-layer Golden Immortal expert’s cultivation insights and clarified that his path led to the Sword Dao. He swallowed the Black Tortoise Natal Heart to strengthen his foundation and attempt a breakthrough, but it immediately caused intense pain.

• Ye Lin spent three hundred years absorbing the cultivation insights and understanding the Destruction Sword Dao Law.
• Ye Lin realized that both the Destruction Sword Dao and the Great River Sword Dao ultimately led to the Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin concluded that he needed to strengthen his foundation before attempting to break through to the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin swallowed the Black Tortoise Natal Heart, and stabbing pain surged through his abdomen.

Ye Lin used immortal fortune power, the Beginningless True Flame, and Destruction Sword Dao Laws to break the Heart of Destiny’s Black Tortoise form. The resulting azure mist strengthened his body as he guided it through the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique and the True King Sacred Body.

• Ye Lin endured the Heart of Destiny’s scorching pain and tried to refine it with immortal fortune power.
• The Heart of Destiny transformed into a Black Tortoise phantom in Ye Lin’s dantian, where it fought the Three-Legged Golden Crow formed from the Beginningless True Flame.
• Ye Lin suppressed and bound the Black Tortoise phantom with a Great Sun and Destruction Sword Dao Laws, then bombarded it until its shell shattered.
• The Black Tortoise phantom vanished into azure mist that reinforced Ye Lin’s meridians, bones, and internal organs.
• Ye Lin circulated the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique and the True King Sacred Body to guide the energy through his body.

Ye Lin discovered that the Black Tortoise Natal Heart was releasing far more energy than his Golden Immortal body could absorb, putting him at risk of bursting apart. With no way to remove the green mist in his dantian, he looked for an outlet as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and Xuanyuan Sword manifested to watch him.

• Ye Lin realized that the Black Tortoise Natal Heart's energy had saturated his body and that absorbing more could make him burst apart.
• Ye Lin questioned whether the treasure was truly the Natal Heart of the Divine Beast Black Tortoise, whose power would surpass that of ordinary divine beast bloodlines.
• Ye Lin decided he needed to vent the excess energy because he could not remove the green mist from his dantian.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar's blood-red figure and the Xuanyuan Sword's golden figure appeared and watched Ye Lin, puzzled by his intentions.

Ye Lin fed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Xuanyuan Sword a seemingly endless stream of energy from the life-core heart he suspected belonged to the true Divine Beast Black Tortoise. After ten days and nights, the overfed Demon Jar finally begged him to stop.

• Ye Lin offered his powerful surge of energy to the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and began channeling it into the jar and the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Ye Lin suspected the energy came from the life-core heart of a true Divine Beast Black Tortoise because of its immense power and pure aura.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar mistook Ye Lin's offering for filial generosity and promised to help him in future danger.
• Ye Lin continued feeding the artifacts energy for ten days and nights without stopping.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar realized something was wrong and begged Ye Lin to stop because it could not absorb any more.

Ye Lin tried to transfer the energy from a Black Tortoise's Natal Heart into the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Xuanyuan Sword, but the artifacts could absorb only a tiny fraction. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar realized the heart likely belonged to a Great Luo realm innate sacred spirit and warned that Ye Lin had put himself in grave danger by swallowing it.

• Ye Lin kept forcing energy into the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar until it pleaded with him to stop, and the Xuanyuan Sword also signaled him to withdraw.
• Ye Lin saw that the two Dao artifacts had absorbed only about one-thousandth of the azure mist and despaired at how much energy remained.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar asked Ye Lin what he had swallowed, and he identified it as a divine beast Black Tortoise's Natal Heart.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar concluded that the heart must have come from a Great Luo realm divine beast and cursed Ye Lin for swallowing something so dangerous.
• Ye Lin said he had known the heart was exceptionally precious but had not expected to obtain something of such value.

Ye Lin used the azure mist threatening his body to transform his dantian into a Star River Cosmos, where lifeforms began to appear. The mist was nearly gone, but Ye Lin was left unsure what his newly transformed dantian would mean for him.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and Xuanyuan Sword withdrew, leaving Ye Lin to face the danger alone.
• Ye Lin checked his panel and saw that his destiny still predicted his eventual death in the Boundless Sea, not in the current crisis.
• As his body neared its limit, Ye Lin realized his dantian might withstand the azure mist and decided to absorb it.
• The azure mist spread through Ye Lin's dantian, which expanded into a Star River Cosmos filled with stars and emerging lifeforms.
• Ye Lin watched the mist rapidly shrink and realized his dantian had become a genuine cosmos, leaving him uncertain whether the change was good or bad.

Ye Lin realized that his dantian had become an evolving Star River Cosmos that consumed his origin power, but he chose not to dwell on the change and focused on advancing his cultivation. He successfully reached the fourth level of Golden Immortal, then sensed that something about him had changed.

• Ye Lin understood that the azure mist was nurturing his Star River Cosmos and that his origin power would be consumed once the mist ran out.
• Ye Lin decided to set aside his concerns and prepare to break through to the fourth level of Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin cultivated for a month and smoothly advanced to the fourth level of Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin recognized that his new cultivation placed him among the strongest of the younger generation in the Third Region and gave him the power to establish a sect.
• Ye Lin examined the immortal fortune power winding around his arm and wondered why he felt different.

Ye Lin discovered that his immortal fortune power had grown purer and stronger after his dantian transformed. With his cultivation breakthrough complete, he began preparing to cultivate the second layer of the True King Sacred Body and planned to develop his Primordial Spirit with the Starry Formula as well.

• Ye Lin attributed the change in his immortal fortune power to his transformed dantian and felt stronger than an ordinary fourth-layer Golden Immortal cultivator.
• Ye Lin read the Starry Formula and learned that it could strengthen his Primordial Spirit cultivation.
• Ye Lin brought out his cauldron and spent over half a month using more than ten million Supreme Immortal Stones to fill it with liquid Immortal Qi.
• Ye Lin began adding medicinal ingredients to the cauldron as substitutes for the supporting herbs needed to cultivate the True King Sacred Body.

Ye Lin began cultivating the second layer of the True King Sacred Body by combining herbs with immortal fluid and swallowing the Nine-Grade Sacred Lotus. A hundred years passed as he remained frozen in the cauldron, and a woman arrived asking Ye Xin why she could not sense him.

• Ye Lin added the Nine-Grade Sacred Lotus to the cauldron and heated the herbs in immortal fluid.
• When the lotus resisted the heat, Ye Lin climbed into the cauldron and swallowed it whole.
• The lotus released icy energy that gradually froze Ye Lin into an ice sculpture as immortal fluid seeped into his body.
• Ye Lin broke the frost from his arms, formed a seal, and remained motionless for a hundred years.
• A dignified woman asked Ye Xin why she could not sense Ye Lin, despite being told he was there.

Ye Xin brought Wang Qingxian to a concealed array in the Starry Sky, claiming Ye Lin was hiding within it. Wang Qingxian began destroying the surrounding stars to force Ye Lin out, while Ye Xin explained how he had tracked him down.

• Ye Xin assured Wang Qingxian that Ye Lin was nearby, hidden by an array, after searching for him for four hundred years.
• Wang Qingxian agreed to trust Ye Xin and gathered the power of law in her palm.
• Wang Qingxian unleashed her power across the Starry Sky, destroying stars and vowing to force Ye Lin out if he was there.
• Ye Xin recalled that a master diviner had failed to calculate Ye Lin directly, then traced Ye Lin’s friends to the area.
• Ye Xin searched the Starry Sky for three years, sensed array fluctuations, and realized Ye Lin was concealed there.

Ye Xin brought Wang Qingxian to the area where he believed Ye Lin was hiding, fearing she would kill him if he was wrong. Wang Qingxian exposed a concealed green star and prepared to break its array by force.

• Ye Xin panicked as Wang Qingxian searched the stars without finding Ye Lin, and he secretly readied a talisman to flee.
• Ye Xin insisted that Ye Lin was nearby and suggested they search the remaining area.
• Wang Qingxian sensed Ye Lin and led Ye Xin to an apparently empty patch of starry sky.
• Wang Qingxian used her laws to reveal a green star hidden by the array, which vanished again moments later.
• Wang Qingxian declared that she would break the sophisticated array by force.

Bao Xiaotou’s hidden star was discovered, and Wang Qingxian broke through his formation, offering him a place in the Immortal-Slaying Sect. As Li Xiaoyao confronted the visitors, Wang Qingxian demanded that the person who killed one of her sect members come out.

• Bao Xiaotou sensed someone breaking his concealment formation and activated Heaven-Sealing Earth-Ending.
• Bao Xiaotou told Wang Tianyi that the attacker was too powerful for his formation to withstand.
• Wang Qingxian and another figure appeared after shattering the sky above the star, and she offered Bao Xiaotou a place in her sect.
• Li Xiaoyao emerged from seclusion and learned that the visitors had broken Bao Xiaotou’s formation.
• Wang Qingxian said she would take Bao Xiaotou to her sect if he refused her offer, then demanded that the killer of her sect member come forward.

Wang Qingxian confronted Wang Tian, Bao Xiaotou, and their companions, asking about Ye Lin and then attacking when they refused to answer. She left Li Xiaoyao badly injured with a casual display of her power.

• Wang Tian asked Wang Qingxian whether she had mistaken them for members of the Immortal-Slaying Sect, and she asked if anyone among them was named Ye Lin.
• Ye Xin asked about Ye Lin, confirming to Wang Tian and Bao Xiaotou that Wang Qingxian had come looking for them.
• Wang Qingxian said she would force them to talk and raised her hand.
• Li Xiaoyao charged Wang Qingxian with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Wang Qingxian wrapped Li Xiaoyao in peach blossom petals and slammed him into the ground, leaving him bloodied.