Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin defeated and killed Sui Xingyuan, then destroyed Heavenly Star Pavilion and wiped out those hiding in its ruins. The region was left barren and lifeless.

• Ye Lin struck down Sui Xingyuan, a sixth-layer Golden Immortal, and watched him die.
• Ye Lin found a little girl and used his power to split open the land around her before leaving.
• Cultivators emerged from underground and fled the ruins, while one child vowed to avenge their mother.
• Lightning pursued the hidden cultivators for half an hour, leaving Heavenly Star Pavilion and the surrounding region scorched and lifeless.

After the Heavenly Star Pavilion was annihilated, nearby cultivators fled the scene, terrified of its unknown attacker. The next morning, Yue Qingyi ate pastries with Ye Lin, who told her that Lin Yunlu remained asleep inside the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell; Yue Qingyi asked how she could be helped.

• Nearby cultivators arrived after the lightning vanished and found the Heavenly Star Pavilion destroyed, with its ancestor dead.
• The cultivators feared the person responsible and hurried away.
• Yue Qingyi woke, found Ye Lin beside a table of pastries, and asked whether he had slept.
• Ye Lin showed Yue Qingyi the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and explained that Lin Yunlu had been asleep inside it for a long time.
• Yue Qingyi felt sorry for Lin Yunlu and asked if there was a way to help her.

Ye Lin discovered that Yue Qingyi was destined to die during an outing at Moonfall Gorge and decided to accompany her to prevent the calamity. He met Yue Qingyi’s friends and their Dao companions, whose hidden greed made him wary.

• Ye Lin studied Yue Qingyi’s panel and learned she would be killed after entering a secret realm with her friends and their Dao companions.
• Yue Qingyi invited Ye Lin to Moonfall Gorge, and he agreed to go with her.
• Ye Lin accompanied Yue Qingyi to meet Lin Mingshu, Cloud, and the two women’s True Immortal Dao companions.
• Ye Lin sensed greed in the two men’s eyes and questioned their interest in Earth Immortals.
• Lin Mingshu teased Yue Qingyi by asking if Ye Lin was her Dao companion, and Yue Qingyi denied it.

Yue Qingyi and her companions traveled from the city into the wilderness to visit Moonfall Gorge, while Ye Lin watched the two men accompanying them with suspicion. The men introduced themselves to Ye Lin, leaving their intentions unclear.

• Cloud ended the argument and led Yue Qingyi, her friends, and Ye Lin toward the waterfall at Moonfall Gorge.
• Ye Lin reflected that Yue Qingyi faced fewer dangers when she stayed in one place and planned to keep traveling with her until her death tribulations were gone.
• The group left the city and entered the wilderness, where Ye Lin noticed that Yue Qingyi's two male companions seemed suspicious.
• Yue Qingyi's friends explained how moonlight between the mountain ranges gave Moonfall Gorge its name.
• Bai Yuefeng and Yun Feixue introduced themselves to Ye Lin as members of the Dragon Hunting Gang and Sand Sea Gang, then asked where he was from.

Ye Lin refused to reveal his identity to two greedy True Immortals and led the way to the waterfall with Yue Qingyi. The men quietly discussed testing him, while Ye Lin overheard them and kept silent.

• Ye Lin explained that factions in the Immortal God Realm were ranked by strength and told the two men he was a Rogue Cultivator with no need to share his name.
• Ye Lin warned the men to leave and held back from killing them to preserve his relationship with Yue Qingyi and pursue the opportunity tied to her death tribulation.
• Yue Qingyi exclaimed at the sight of the great waterfall.
• The two men whispered that Ye Lin might be concealing his aura and decided to test him rather than provoke him outright.
• Ye Lin heard their conversation and joined Yue Qingyi beside the hundred-zhang waterfall.

As Yue Qingyi admired a magnificent waterfall, Ye Lin reflected on how the Star River Cosmos had fallen from a virtuous cycle into decline. He realized that the Heavenly Dao used great ages to nurture new powerhouses who could overthrow ancient experts and restore its origin.

• Yue Qingyi marveled at the waterfall while Ye Lin and the others watched.
• Ye Lin considered how powerful cultivators controlled resources and prevented those with talent from rising.
• Ye Lin concluded that cultivators who only plundered weakened the Heavenly Dao and drove the Star River Cosmos toward the Age of Dharma's End.
• Ye Lin understood that the Heavenly Dao launched great ages as a gamble, nurturing a new generation to defeat ancient experts and replenish its origin.

Ye Lin’s group was pulled into a small secret realm, where Yue Qingyi and the others found themselves on an endless grassland. Yun Feixue and another man arrived and reassured the women that they would protect them.

• Ye Lin watched as space folded and the group vanished into the small secret realm, keeping his divine sense fixed on Yue Qingyi.
• Yue Qingyi and the other women found themselves in the middle of an endless grassland and realized they had entered a secret realm.
• Lin Mingshu and the other women complained that they cared more about staying safe than finding opportunities or resources.
• Cloud spotted Yun Feixue and another man approaching and waved to them.
• Yun Feixue helped the women up and promised to protect them, calming Cloud.

Yun Feixue and Bai Yuefeng stopped pretending to protect the three women and revealed that they intended to assault them. As they threatened Yue Qingyi, Ye Lin appeared to be nearby, but his response was left unresolved.

• Yun Feixue and Bai Yuefeng led the group across the seemingly endless grassland while privately concluding that Ye Lin had been teleported elsewhere.
• Yun Feixue and Bai Yuefeng turned on Lin Mingshu, Yue Qingyi, and the third woman, admitting they had feigned affection for years to exploit their physiques.
• Yun Feixue and Bai Yuefeng used their pressure to immobilize the women and threatened to assault them.
• Yue Qingyi warned the men that Ye Lin was nearby, but Yun Feixue mocked her and placed his hand on her neck.
• Ye Lin spoke from nearby, asking if he was the person they had been looking for.

Ye Lin rescued Yue Qingyi and the two women from their attackers, then shattered the secret realm and brought them back to the gorge. He left them safe, though he remained frustrated by the Heavenly Dao’s interference.

• Ye Lin appeared before Yue Qingyi and the two women after they were threatened by two men.
• Ye Lin restored the women’s movement and killed the two men with lightning in a single breath.
• Ye Lin blamed the Heavenly Dao for separating him from Yue Qingyi and wiping out his divine sense.
• Ye Lin shattered the secret realm and opened a path that returned the group to the gorge.
• Cloud marveled at Ye Lin’s power to reshape heaven and earth.

After Xinyou reached Golden Immortal Layer Five, Ye Lin decided to leave the city with Yue Qingyi because her fate could bring danger if they stayed. Yue Qingyi chose not to say goodbye to her friends, and the two set out beyond the city walls.

• Ye Lin explained that Earth Immortals wielded less power in the Immortal God Realm, then led Yue Qingyi and the others back to the city.
• Yue Qingyi found Xinyou had returned from its breakthrough with its cultivation advanced to Golden Immortal Layer Five.
• After checking Yue Qingyi's fate, Ye Lin said they should leave rather than wait for danger that could come two years later.
• Yue Qingyi packed her belongings and declined to say goodbye to her friends, saying she needed to learn to let go.
• Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi left the city on foot, while Ye Lin reflected on the lives of mortals and his experience of entering the mortal world.

Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi continued traveling together as Yue Qingyi’s health improved. The Third Ancestor watched her strengthening life flame and resolved to give Ye Lin his cultivation resources if he saved her from her death tribulation.

• Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi wandered wherever the excitement took them, with Ye Lin protecting her.
• The Third Ancestor and a middle-aged man observed that Yue Qingyi’s life flame had grown stronger over the past year.
• The Third Ancestor said Yue Qingyi’s condition was improving but left her fate in Ye Lin’s hands.
• The Third Ancestor offered to give Ye Lin the resources he had prepared if Ye Lin saved Yue Qingyi, including an opportunity to help Ye Lin break through the seventh level of the Golden Immortal realm.
• The middle-aged man realized the Third Ancestor was giving up the hope his preparations represented for his own cultivation.

Yue Qingyi admired a beautiful sea of clouds while Ye Lin rested nearby, and they met Muyun Qingfeng, a young Beast Taming Sect prodigy who raised the exotic beasts flying overhead. Muyun introduced herself and invited Yue Qingyi to join her in the clouds.

• Yue Qingyi watched the flying beasts and rainbow across the sea of clouds while Ye Lin regulated his breathing beneath a tree.
• Muyun Qingfeng approached and told Yue Qingyi that the beasts belonged to her and were out to play.
• Ye Lin was surprised that Muyun Qingfeng, who was not yet ten, could command so many beasts, including Heavenly Immortals.
• Muyun Qingfeng proudly introduced herself as a prodigy and personal disciple of the Beast Taming Sect Master, and learned Yue Qingyi and Ye Lin's names.
• Muyun Qingfeng teased Ye Lin's name and invited Yue Qingyi to come play with her in the clouds.

Ye Lin realized that Yue Qingyi’s refreshed death tribulation had drawn assassins who were also targeting him, and he prepared to face them while his incarnations guarded her. After Ye Lin called out the hidden attackers, black-clad figures emerged from the sea of clouds.

• Muyun Qingfeng invited Yue Qingyi to fly through the clouds, while Ye Lin noted that Yue Qingyi’s death tribulation could no longer be avoided.
• Ye Lin read Yue Qingyi’s fate panel and inferred that the force behind the Heavenly Star Pavilion had surrounded them and that the Heavenly Dao had begun targeting him too.
• Ye Lin sent his three Golden Immortal, Sixth Layer incarnations to protect Yue Qingyi, then flew above the clouds and challenged the hidden assassins.
• Yue Qingyi urged Muyun Qingfeng to hide with her so she would not become Ye Lin’s burden.
• Ye Lin gave the hidden attackers three breaths to reveal themselves, and black-clad figures carrying crescent-shaped blades emerged around him.

Ye Lin faced a group of black-robed men who tried to intimidate him, then trapped him in a formation that suppressed his thunder. He began breaking free with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.

• Ye Lin sensed that none of the surrounding black-robed men had reached the sixth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• The black-robed men attacked Ye Lin with black threads and activated the Divine Baleful Formation to suppress his thunder.
• They used Divine Baleful Purgatory to wrap Ye Lin in a massive black cocoon.
• Ye Lin struck the cocoon with his sword, and his Thunder Break slash made fine cracks appear across its surface.

Ye Lin broke free from a formation that had trapped him and killed the dozen men who set it, while his avatars killed the culprit behind Yue Qingyi’s death. He sensed that the Immortal God Realm’s Heavenly Dao was watching him, but trusted that it could not act outside its rules.

• The men in black tried to hold Ye Lin in their formation, but the cocoon shattered as his power overwhelmed it.
• Ye Lin used lightning to trap and kill the dozen men in black.
• Ye Lin’s three avatars killed the man responsible for Yue Qingyi’s death.
• Ye Lin sensed a presence watching him and suspected the Immortal God Realm’s Heavenly Dao had taken notice of his interference with Yue Qingyi’s Destiny.
• Ye Lin decided he did not need to fear the Heavenly Dao because it had to obey its own rules.

After defeating the faction that pursued him, Ye Lin discovered that Yue Qingyi’s suppressed Fate Traits could be released by the Xuan Ming Heart, a treasure in Xuan Ming Prison. When Yue Qingyi sensed an opportunity drawing her toward danger, Ye Lin decided to seek the treasure alone and bring it back to her.

• Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi and Muyun Qingfeng that he had wiped out the unknown faction that attacked them.
• Ye Lin saw Yue Qingyi’s panel and learned that the Xuan Ming Heart could break the suppression on her Fate Traits, while her Destiny foretold her death in Xuan Ming Prison.
• Yue Qingyi sensed an opportunity in the distance, and Ye Lin recognized that the Heavenly Dao was influencing her.
• Ye Lin decided not to take Yue Qingyi to Xuan Ming Prison and instead planned to obtain the Xuan Ming Heart himself and give it to her.

Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi that a perilous opportunity could change her fate, then left to retrieve it while secretly arranging protection for her. Yue Qingyi went with Muyun Qingfeng to the Beast Taming Sect, trusting Ye Lin to return safely.

• Ye Lin explained that the opportunity could let Yue Qingyi defy fate but would bring certain death if she went herself.
• Yue Qingyi asked Ye Lin to abandon the plan because of the danger, but he insisted he would retrieve the opportunity for her.
• Ye Lin asked Muyun Qingfeng to look after Yue Qingyi and then vanished to pursue the opportunity.
• Muyun Qingfeng took Yue Qingyi toward the Beast Taming Sect, while Yue Qingyi called after Ye Lin to stay safe.
• Ye Lin secretly left three clones to protect Yue Qingyi, each with Golden Immortal Level Six power.

Ye Lin found Xuan Ming Prison beneath a vast ice field and descended into its depths. He encountered demons chained to flaming restraints, who recognized him as a Human Race cultivator and threatened to devour him.

• Ye Lin reached the southern ice field and searched it with his divine sense.
• Ye Lin stomped on the ice, collapsing the sheet and opening a massive chasm.
• Ye Lin descended to the bottom and found a vast chamber lined with chained ice pillars.
• Chained demons spotted Ye Lin and spoke of wanting to eat him.
• Ye Lin coldly watched the demons as they remarked on the taste of Human Race flesh.

Ye Lin asked the Demonic Beasts for the way to the Xuan Ming Heart and continued toward it as they gathered behind him. The beasts warned him of powerful guardians, but Ye Lin remained undaunted and told them to keep their distance when the fighting began.

• Ye Lin asked two Demonic Beasts where the Xuan Ming Heart was, and they pointed him about three hundred li ahead.
• The two Demonic Beasts followed Ye Lin, drawing more bored, chained Demonic Beasts along behind them.
• A Demonic Beast warned Ye Lin that two sixth-level Golden Immortal puppets and a seventh-level Golden Immortal guarded the Xuan Ming Heart.
• Ye Lin told the Demonic Beasts to stay back during the coming fight and realized their pure demonic qi meant they had never killed living beings.
• Two Demonic Beasts teased one of their companions for having said he wanted to eat Ye Lin, and the frightened beast insisted it had only been joking.

Ye Lin found the Xuan Ming Heart guarded by two powerful puppets and swiftly destroyed them. He stood before the protected gemstone after defeating its guardians.

• Ye Lin spotted the Xuan Ming Heart floating amid chains above the lava.
• Two puppets rose and ordered Ye Lin to leave the restricted area.
• Ye Lin destroyed the first puppet by striking its interior with thunderous Sword Qi.
• The second puppet attacked Ye Lin, who trapped it with Thunder Prison and shattered its neck armor with Thunder Break.
• Ye Lin disintegrated the second puppet from within, defeating both guardians in ten breaths.