Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin agreed to the old man's demand so he could save the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, and the old man stabilized it with a blood-red crystal. After Ye Lin poured in the remaining blood qi, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar revealed that it amounted to only one ten-thousandth of a drop of Great Luo Transcendence blood.

• The old man warned Ye Lin that the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword would collapse and its blood qi would kill him unless he agreed to the old man's demand.
• Ye Lin agreed, intending to finish stabilizing the sword before deciding whether to honor the deal.
• The old man placed a blood-red crystal in the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and used hand seals to repair and stabilize it.
• Ye Lin poured all his remaining blood qi into the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, which absorbed it all.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar said the blood qi totaled roughly one ten-thousandth of a drop of Great Luo Transcendence blood, leaving Ye Lin astonished by the power of such an existence.

The old man finished refining the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and asked Ye Lin to marry his granddaughter. Ye Lin refused at first, then questioned why the old man had chosen him.

• The blood-colored stone shattered after its energy entered the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, and the old man explained that the sword would transform its blood energy into Sword Qi over the next ten years.
• Ye Lin recognized that the old man's artifact-refining skill had raised the sword to the Boundless rank and rescued its sword spirit from demonic corruption.
• The old man asked Ye Lin to marry his granddaughter, and Ye Lin immediately refused.
• The old man argued that his request was neither excessive nor difficult, and clarified that he did not expect Ye Lin to consummate the marriage.
• Ye Lin asked the old man why he had gone to such lengths to find him.

An old man asked Ye Lin to marry his sickly granddaughter and live with her for ten years so Ye Lin’s unusual Fate Rank could protect her from a death tribulation. He explained that Ye Lin had already escaped his own destined death multiple times, leaving Ye Lin to consider the proposal and the secret behind his fate.

• The old man told Ye Lin that his granddaughter had blocked meridians and would either recover if she survived her death tribulation or perish completely.
• He asked Ye Lin to marry her and live with her for ten years, promising immense fortune if she survived and saying Ye Lin would not be blamed if she died.
• Ye Lin checked his status panel and wondered why others considered his Fate Rank unique.
• The old man swore that marrying his granddaughter would link their fates and let Ye Lin’s Fate Rank shelter her without harming him.
• The old man compared Ye Lin to the Ancient Human Emperor, explaining that both had repeatedly veered away from destinies in which they were fated to die.

Ye Lin agreed to accompany the old man for ten years in exchange for a great fortune and followed him toward the Immortal God Realm. During their journey, the old man explained that the Heavenly Dao confined only his true body and dismissed the Demon-Monster Realm’s plan as doomed by its misunderstanding of the Heavenly Dao.

• Ye Lin accepted the old man’s offer to accompany him for ten years in exchange for a great fortune.
• Ye Lin sent a message to the others and followed the old man out of the cave.
• The old man opened a passage through shattered space and took Ye Lin through the turbulent void toward the Immortal God Realm.
• Ye Lin asked how the old man could travel despite the Heavenly Dao’s confinement, and the old man explained that the restriction affected his true body, not his projection.
• Ye Lin asked about the Demon-Monster Realm, and the old man dismissed its leaders as unqualified clowns whose plan failed to account for the Heavenly Dao.
• The old man told Ye Lin they had arrived.

The Third Ancestor brought Ye Lin to a grand hall and declared that he would marry Qingyi the next day to resolve her fatal calamity. The others hurried to prepare, while the Third Ancestor warned Ye Lin not to mistreat her.

• The Third Ancestor led Ye Lin from the turbulent void into a grand hall, where the gathered figures bowed to him.
• The Third Ancestor said Ye Lin was the only one who could resolve Qingyi's fatal calamity and ordered everyone to prepare for their wedding the next day.
• The Third Ancestor introduced Qingyi's father as Ye Lin's father-in-law and ordered him to bring Qingyi to the hall.
• Qingyi's father found others eavesdropping outside, told them to prepare for the wedding, and said he trusted the Third Ancestor's judgment.
• The Third Ancestor reminded Ye Lin of their agreement and threatened him with punishment if he treated Qingyi improperly.

Ye Lin met Yue Qingyi, the dying woman he had been promised in marriage, and explained that their arrangement was a ten-year transaction for a great fortune. Yue Qingyi doubted she would survive even three days, leaving Ye Lin facing the task of keeping her alive.

• The old man brought Yue Qingyi into the hall in a wheelchair and told her Ye Lin would marry her and care for her.
• Yue Qingyi accepted her grandfather's decision, and the old man left her alone with Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi introduced themselves, and she offered to ask her grandfather to let him go.
• Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi he had agreed to stay with her for ten years in exchange for a great fortune.
• Yue Qingyi said she was unlikely to survive three days and urged Ye Lin to give up.

Ye Lin examined Yue Qingyi’s panel and discovered that her extraordinary Fate Traits were suppressed while Heaven’s Jealousy had marked her for death. Her Destiny showed that the Heavenly Dao would kill her with tribulation lightning at their wedding tomorrow.

• Ye Lin checked Yue Qingyi’s panel after seeing her despair over surviving ten years.
• Ye Lin learned that Yue Qingyi possessed many powerful Fate Traits, all suppressed except for Heaven’s Jealousy.
• Ye Lin realized the Heavenly Dao had destined Yue Qingyi to die and suspected her Fate Traits would return if she overcame the death tribulation.
• Ye Lin noticed that Yue Qingyi’s Destiny foretold her death by tribulation lightning at their wedding the next day.

Ye Lin discovered that Yue Qingyi was fated to die at her wedding and resolved to keep her alive for the next ten years. Yue Qingyi agreed to try to live, though she could not control when her death would come.

• Ye Lin saw that the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal God Realm would kill Yue Qingyi with World-Destroying Divine Thunder at her wedding the next day.
• Ye Lin pushed Yue Qingyi out of the hall and decided to watch her Destiny so he could anticipate the Heavenly Dao's actions.
• Ye Lin concluded that taking Yue Qingyi to the Star River Cosmos might free her from the world's suppression, though the Heavenly Dao might stop them from leaving.
• Yue Qingyi questioned why Ye Lin would spend his time protecting someone who felt destined to die.
• Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi that her life belonged to both of them and asked her to wait ten years before giving up on living.
• Yue Qingyi said she would try to live but could not control when she would die.

Ye Lin pushed Yue Qingyi through a plaza and told her that the Yue family’s cultivators resented her for the resources spent on her, despite her relatives’ protection. Yue Qingyi began to question whether her family truly loved her and said she wanted to die, leaving Ye Lin to face her despair.

• Ye Lin pushed Yue Qingyi through the plaza as cultivators gathered to whisper about them.
• Yue Qingyi asked Ye Lin what the cultivators were saying, and he repeated their insults about her being a burden and marrying a cripple.
• Ye Lin explained that people in a great clan valued what members contributed and said Yue Qingyi was fortunate that her relatives protected her.
• Yue Qingyi concluded that her parents and Third Grandpa had deceived her about how the clan saw her.
• Yue Qingyi said she wanted to die and wondered whether her death would relieve the people who cursed her.

Ye Lin convinced Yue Qingyi to choose life and face those who looked down on her, then resolved to stop her wedding to avert the coming lightning tribulation. When Yue Qingyi’s grandfather announced that the wedding would take place the next day, Ye Lin openly refused, provoking his anger.

• Ye Lin urged Yue Qingyi to live for the sake of her loved ones and prove her detractors wrong, and she regained her resolve to survive.
• Ye Lin decided to prevent Yue Qingyi’s wedding, believing that doing so would avert the Heavenly Dao’s lightning tribulation.
• After following them throughout the day, Yue Qingyi’s grandfather told Ye Lin to prepare for the wedding the next day.
• Ye Lin declared that the wedding could not happen tomorrow or ever, and Yue Qingyi’s grandfather demanded a reasonable explanation.

Ye Lin convinced Yue Qingyi’s Third Grandfather to postpone her wedding, claiming he had an eighty percent chance of helping her survive her death tribulation. After Third Grandfather gave Ye Lin authority to use the Yue Family’s resources, Ye Lin checked Yue Qingyi’s fate and saw that marriage would provoke the Heavenly Dao to intervene.

• Ye Lin warned Third Grandfather that Yue Qingyi would die if she married the next day and asked him to trust his plan instead.
• Ye Lin offered to end their transaction and return to the Earth God Realm if Third Grandfather refused to follow his advice.
• Yue Qingyi told Third Grandfather that she trusted Ye Lin, and Third Grandfather gave Ye Lin an Identity Token granting him access to half the Yue Family’s resources.
• Ye Lin checked Yue Qingyi’s fate panel and saw that her future death involved an ambush by Yue Family disciples during a journey to the Ocean of Hearts.
• Ye Lin concluded that marriage would draw the Heavenly Dao’s direct intervention, while delaying it would leave him to handle only its secret interference.

Ye Lin suspected that rejecting Yue Qingyi’s marriage had caused the ninety-percent figure on his panel and might offer a way to avert her death tribulation. He stayed outside her home overnight, and the next morning two men arrived with pills and complained about having to deliver them.

• Ye Lin inferred that rejecting Yue Qingyi’s marriage had changed her destiny and caused the panel’s ninety-percent figure to appear.
• Ye Lin brought Yue Qingyi to her simple mountain residence and decided to find ways to help her escape her death tribulation.
• Ye Lin stayed outside while Yue Qingyi rested inside, and she felt at ease knowing he was nearby.
• At dawn, two men carrying trays of pills complained that Yue Qingyi would not die if she went without them and that the pills were too valuable to give away.
• The second man covered the first man’s mouth and warned him to be careful about speaking so recklessly.

Two Yue Family men delivering Yue Qingyi’s monthly pill planned to steal it, but Ye Lin caught them and sent them flying. Yue Qingyi asked Ye Lin to assess the pill’s value, and he opened the box to examine it.

• One young man persuaded his companion to steal Yue Qingyi’s pill and threatened him into silence.
• The two men entered Yue Qingyi’s courtyard with the red box and found Ye Lin waiting there.
• Ye Lin took the box from the young man and blasted both men away with a wave of sound.
• Yue Qingyi asked Ye Lin to tell her how much the pill was worth.
• Ye Lin opened the box, smelled the pill’s fragrance, and felt his mind grow clear as desire stirred within him.

Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi that her monthly pill was an immensely valuable treasure and that sustaining her treatment had consumed staggering resources. Yue Qingyi questioned whether she would die without it, but Ye Lin urged her to keep taking it, leaving her silent as she reconsidered what her family had told her.

• Ye Lin explained that Yue Qingyi's pill was extremely valuable and that the Yue Family had spent enormous resources on her treatment.
• Yue Qingyi realized that her family's other members might resent the resources spent on her and wondered how much pressure her parents had endured.
• Yue Qingyi asked Ye Lin whether she would die if she stopped taking the pill.
• Ye Lin advised Yue Qingyi to continue taking it because the Yue Family must have had reasons for the treatment.
• Yue Qingyi stared at the red box and fell silent, remembering that her parents and Third Grandpa had called the pill cheap.

Yue Qingyi took the pill and chose to keep living, while Ye Lin discovered that she had died long ago and was being sustained by the Yue Family’s medicine. He secretly used immortal fortune to prolong her life as they explored the Yue Family, but her fate remained unresolved.

• After Ye Lin urged her not to give up, Yue Qingyi swallowed the pill and resolved to live for her parents and repay their care.
• Ye Lin observed the pill’s effects and discovered that Yue Qingyi’s body and Primordial Spirit were filled with deathly qi, with the pill keeping her barely alive.
• Ye Lin realized Yue Qingyi had died long ago and that the Yue Family had been using monthly pills to preserve her final trace of life.
• Ye Lin pushed Yue Qingyi around the Yue Family and secretly used immortal fortune to sustain her life, knowing Heaven’s Jealousy still threatened her.
• A month passed as Yue Qingyi happily explored places throughout the Yue Family with Ye Lin.

Ye Lin discovered that changing Yue Qingyi’s destiny had reduced her Heaven’s Jealousy, but her panel predicted that assassins would kill her in three days. He decided to take her away from the Yue Family, beginning by offering to show her the outside world.

• Yue Qingyi’s parents watched her enjoy the sunset with Ye Lin and hoped she would be happy, even if she died soon.
• Ye Lin checked Yue Qingyi’s panel and saw that her Heaven’s Jealousy had fallen to 85% after he changed her destiny.
• The panel predicted that three Golden Immortal cultivators would infiltrate the Yue Family and kill Yue Qingyi in three days.
• Ye Lin decided to take Yue Qingyi away before the assassins arrived and asked if she wanted to see the outside world.
• Yue Qingyi eagerly accepted, and Ye Lin encouraged her to believe that a change of scenery could improve her condition.

Ye Lin demanded Life-Prolonging Pills from Yue Qingyi’s grandfather so he could take her outside as part of his plan. The old man finally relented and gave him the pills, leaving Ye Lin responsible for keeping Yue Qingyi happy if her condition worsened.

• Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi’s grandfather that he planned to take her outside and demanded twenty Life-Prolonging Pills.
• Yue Qingyi’s grandfather refused, warning that even a slight chill could endanger her fragile life and arguing that staying put might let her survive her death tribulation.
• Ye Lin accused the old man of obstructing his secret plan and tried to leave, but the old man stopped him.
• After Ye Lin claimed his efforts involved karmic ties the old man could not perceive, the old man admitted he had no better choice and handed him a pouch of pills.
• Yue Qingyi’s grandfather instructed Ye Lin to give her one pill each month and to make her happy before she died.

Ye Lin took Yue Qingyi out of the Yue Family’s mountain stronghold and flew with her through the Immortal God Realm, hoping to show her the wider world and help her evade Destiny. After five hours they reached a lively city, and Yue Qingyi asked to go down and explore.

• Ye Lin brought Yue Qingyi out of the Yue Family and shielded her as they flew above the mountains.
• Yue Qingyi marveled at the colossal beasts below, while Ye Lin wondered why so many lived in the area.
• Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi flew for five hours before reaching a continent filled with cities.
• Yue Qingyi spotted a bustling city and asked Ye Lin to take her down to look around.
• Ye Lin agreed to bring Yue Qingyi into the city.

Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi watched a marriage tournament in which a ruthless cultivator killed his opponent and claimed he would take Bai Jiaojiao as his Dao partner. The crowd stayed silent, leaving the victor unchallenged.

• Ye Lin brought Yue Qingyi to the Arena and explained that the contest would determine who became a woman’s husband and Dao partner.
• A young man nearby praised Ye Lin for bringing his Dao partner to a marriage tournament, but Ye Lin said they had only come to watch.
• One fighter killed his opponent, crushed his head, and shattered his Primordial Spirit.
• Yue Qingyi covered her eyes in fright at the gruesome death.
• The victor challenged anyone else to fight for Bai Jiaojiao, warned that he might kill them, and faced a silent crowd.

Ye Lin killed a Heavenly Immortal who threatened Yue Qingyi after warning him not to act arrogantly. He then left the crowd with Yue Qingyi, who marveled at his power.

• Yue Qingyi called the young man on the Arena cruel, and he threatened her for speaking carelessly.
• The young man ordered Yue Qingyi to kneel, but Ye Lin used his power to pin him down.
• Ye Lin crushed the young man and shattered his Primordial Spirit, then pushed Yue Qingyi away from the crowd.
• The onlookers made way for Ye Lin as he wandered through the city with Yue Qingyi.
• Yue Qingyi praised Ye Lin's strength, and Ye Lin acknowledged that he was powerful.