Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin defeated the two puppets and moved to take the Xuan Ming Heart to save his gravely ill friend. A hidden seventh-layer Golden Immortal warned him that removing it would disrupt his plans, but Ye Lin grabbed the treasure anyway.

• Ye Lin identified the puppets’ necks and chest cores as weaknesses and destroyed both of them.
• Ye Lin broke the chains binding the Xuan Ming Heart.
• A hidden seventh-layer Golden Immortal told Ye Lin he had been imprisoned by the Supreme Demonic Sect for over ten million years and would regain his freedom in a hundred years.
• Ye Lin refused to leave the Xuan Ming Heart because his friend needed it to survive.
• The hidden expert threatened Ye Lin with the Supreme Demonic Sect’s wrath as Ye Lin grabbed the Xuan Ming Heart.

Ye Lin took the Xuan Ming Heart, freeing the demons imprisoned beneath the Endless Icefield and drawing the Heavenly Dao’s attention. He left with the artifact to help unseal Yue Qingyi’s Fate Traits, while the freed demons surged into the world and the captive elder remained trapped.

• Ye Lin ignored the old man’s warning, took the Xuan Ming Heart, and told him to seek trouble with the Yue Family if he could.
• The Xuan Ming Heart’s removal shattered the chains binding the demons, and they rushed out of the underground prison.
• The old man warned Ye Lin that the Demon-Monster Realm would soon attack the Immortal God Realm, but remained unable to escape his confinement.
• Ye Lin emerged from the collapsing Endless Icefield as demons thanked him for their freedom.
• Ye Lin sensed the Heavenly Dao watching him and left, determined to use the Xuan Ming Heart to unseal Yue Qingyi’s Fate Traits.

The Supreme Demonic Sect’s Devil Master accepted the loss of the Xuan Ming Heart and ordered his subordinate to recapture the escaped demons. Ye Lin reached the Beast Taming Sect to find Yue Qingyi, and an immortal crane recognized him as the man the Saintess had expected.

• A messenger reported that the Supreme Ice Plains and the Xuan Ming Heart were gone, and the Devil Master learned the Yue Family had taken them to save a descendant.
• The Devil Master ordered his subordinate to recapture every escaped demon and let the Yue Family keep the Xuan Ming Heart.
• Ye Lin followed his clone’s information to the remote Beast Taming Sect, where Yue Qingyi was staying.
• An immortal crane confronted Ye Lin, then recognized his blood-red robe as matching the Saintess’s description of an expected visitor.

Ye Lin brought the Xuan Ming Heart to Yue Qingyi at the Beast Taming Sect, promising that it would transform her cultivation and change her fate. Yue Qingyi prepared to accept it, hoping to prove herself to her family and those who had scorned her.

• The immortal crane led Ye Lin to the courtyard where Yue Qingyi was playing chess with Muyun Qingfeng.
• Muyun Qingfeng was startled to see Ye Lin return less than three hours after leaving.
• Ye Lin showed Yue Qingyi the glowing Xuan Ming Heart and said consuming it would make her cultivation surge.
• Yue Qingyi remembered her family's care and disappointment, others' mockery, and how Ye Lin had helped restore her confidence.
• Ye Lin urged Yue Qingyi to return to the Yue Family and make everyone proud, and she looked to him as her savior.

Ye Lin gave Yue Qingyi the Xuan Ming Heart to help her overcome her crippled fate, and she began transforming after swallowing it. Muyun Shangqing arrived to pay his respects, and Ye Lin ordered him to change his taboo name.

• Ye Lin reassured Yue Qingyi and gave her the Xuan Ming Heart, promising to guard her.
• Yue Qingyi swallowed the Xuan Ming Heart, and blue light enveloped her as she began her transformation.
• Muyun Qingfeng asked what Yue Qingyi was doing, and Ye Lin said she was at the most important moment of her life.
• Muyun Shangqing arrived and bowed to Ye Lin, whom he regarded as an unfathomable expert.
• Ye Lin told Muyun Shangqing that his name violated a taboo and that his Fate Rank could not bear it, so Muyun Shangqing agreed to change it.

Ye Lin watched over Yue Qingyi as her Fate Traits began to awaken, but the process drained her life force and left her on the verge of death. After the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the Heavenly Dao’s suppression had left her body depleted, Ye Lin poured his vital essence into her to keep her alive.

• Mu Yun Chunfeng stood guard behind Ye Lin, having changed his name at Ye Lin’s suggestion.
• Ye Lin sensed Yue Qingyi stirring as the blue sphere around her shattered and a powerful deathly aura emerged.
• Yue Qingyi rapidly aged as her life force drained away, and Ye Lin grabbed her shoulders and poured vital essence into her.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Yue Qingyi’s awakening required more vital essence than her depleted body could provide.
• Ye Lin vowed to defy the Heavenly Dao and continued transferring his vital essence to Yue Qingyi, whose eyelids trembled slightly.

Ye Lin and Mu Yun Chunfeng poured life essence into Yue Qingyi, restoring her youth and raising her cultivation from Qi Refining to True Immortal in ten breaths. Her sudden breakthrough triggered a heavenly tribulation, and Ye Lin destroyed its first lightning strike as he challenged the Heavenly Dao.

• Mu Yun Chunfeng infused Yue Qingyi with his life essence to help Ye Lin restore her.
• After Mu Yun Chunfeng exhausted himself, Ye Lin promised to reward him for his help.
• Ye Lin poured more life essence into Yue Qingyi, rapidly raising her cultivation from ninth-level Qi Refining to True Immortal.
• A heavenly tribulation formed above Yue Qingyi and struck her with purple lightning.
• Ye Lin shattered the lightning with Sword Qi and demanded to know why the Heavenly Dao was targeting Yue Qingyi.

Ye Lin helped Yue Qingyi stabilize and awaken her cultivation while the Beast Taming Sect elders defended the sect from her heavenly tribulation. The great seal shattered under the final lightning strike, sending the elders flying as the tribulation continued.

• The Beast Taming Sect elder ordered Muyun Qingfeng to activate the Sect Protection Array against the lightning targeting Ye Lin.
• Mu Yun Chunfeng and the Beast Taming Sect elders reinforced the array and summoned the Heaven-Earth Square Seal to shield the sect.
• Ye Lin withdrew his hand after his life essence stabilized Yue Qingyi, who awakened with immense new power.
• The Heavenly Dao's lightning cracked and shattered the great seal, and the Beast Taming Sect elders coughed up blood and were sent flying.

Yue Qingyi’s altered fate drew the Heavenly Dao’s punishment, and Ye Lin stepped in to protect her despite having lost most of his strength. As the storm intensified, he unleashed his sword arts against the heavens and prepared to use the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.

• The Heavenly Dao’s lightning shattered the Beast Taming Sect’s protection array and suppressed Yue Qingyi.
• Ye Lin stepped between Yue Qingyi and the storm, determined to help her despite his depleted strength.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art to shatter the descending lightning with his sword.
• The Heavenly Dao grew more powerful and the clouds thickened after Ye Lin’s attack.
• Ye Lin invoked the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and burned through his immortal fortune as he faced the Heavenly Dao’s judgment.

Ye Lin confronted the Immortal God Realm’s Heavenly Dao to protect Yue Qingyi from her death tribulation. The Heavenly Dao overwhelmed him with judgment lightning, leaving him gravely wounded and nearly out of power.

• Ye Lin summoned an Eye of Heavenly Punishment and challenged the Heavenly Dao’s attempt to kill Yue Qingyi.
• The Heavenly Dao appeared and declared that Yue Qingyi had to die for defying fate, then struck Ye Lin with blood-red lightning.
• Ye Lin’s attack failed to stop the Heavenly Dao’s lightning, which blasted him into a mountain range.
• The Heavenly Dao condemned Ye Lin again and sent another lightning strike at him as he lay in a crater, nearly spent.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar asked Ye Lin why he was willing to suffer so much.

Ye Lin prepared to use the Human Emperor Sword to survive the Heavenly Dao’s blood-red lightning, but Yue Qingyi sacrificed herself instead. After the lightning destroyed her, Ye Lin was left with regret and sorrow, unsure what he felt or what to do.

• Ye Lin realized he could not activate the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and prepared to use the Human Emperor Sword’s power to survive the calamity.
• Yue Qingyi appeared before Ye Lin and said she had been happy with him, then asked him to take her body to the Third Ancestor after she died.
• Yue Qingyi let the blood-red lightning strike her, while Ye Lin tried to reach her and was blasted into the ground.
• The lightning continued for half an hour, then vanished as Yue Qingyi’s body scattered into heaven and earth.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes and was left with defeat, regret, and sorrow he could not understand.

After Yue Qingyi vanished, Ye Lin collapsed, and Mu Yun Chunfeng used the Beast Taming Sect’s treasures to keep him alive. Three days later, Ye Lin awoke still regretting that he could not protect Yue Qingyi.

• Ye Lin watched Yue Qingyi disappear and passed out, while Mu Yun Chunfeng fed him treasures to save him.
• A middle-aged man pleaded with the Third Ancestor to let him see his dying daughter, Qing'er, but the Third Ancestor said she had already lived happily and should not be disturbed.
• The middle-aged man gave up on seeing Qing'er and sat in despair before her flickering life flame.
• Three days later, Ye Lin awoke in a great hall and lamented that he had failed to protect Yue Qingyi.
• Mu Yun Chunfeng told Ye Lin he was awake after using half the Beast Taming Sect’s accumulated foundations to save him.

Ye Lin recovered from his injuries and discovered that Yue Qingyi had survived the Heavenly Tribulation by entering a Phoenix Nirvana-like state. The chapter ended with Ye Lin understanding that his protection and Yue Qingyi’s Fate Traits had helped her survive and evade the Heavenly Dao.

• Ye Lin examined his severe injuries, then thanked Mu Yun Chunfeng and gave him a lotus that could help him reach the second layer of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin left the hall as Mu Yun Chunfeng excitedly accepted the lotus.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that Yue Qingyi might still be alive, and Ye Lin searched the Beast Taming Sect with his divine sense.
• Ye Lin found a radiant point high in the sky and realized Yue Qingyi was in a state of Phoenix Nirvana.
• Ye Lin recalled Yue Qingyi’s Fate Traits and concluded that his intervention and their blessings had enabled her survival.

Ye Lin guarded Yue Qingyi as Phoenix Nirvana continued nurturing her, while he recovered from his injuries. Five years passed, and he was left waiting for her awakening as the Beast Taming Sect prepared to exploit its Sect Master's breakthrough.

• Ye Lin swallowed healing pills from his Spatial Ring and stayed in the sky to guard Yue Qingyi's transformation.
• Over five years, a blue ball of light beside Ye Lin grew from fist-sized to the height of a person, filled with life force.
• The Beast Taming Sect Master advanced to the second level of the Golden Immortal realm and left to subdue a first-level Golden Immortal Demon Beast.
• The Beast Taming Sect's elders and disciples grew confident and prepared to attack other factions if their Sect Master succeeded.
• Ye Lin recovered most of his injuries and accepted that Yue Qingyi was still alive, though he still could not see her status or know when she would awaken.
• Ye Lin resolved never again to help someone overturn their Destiny, fearing the consequences of challenging the Heavenly Dao.

After three years of waiting, Ye Lin watched Yue Qingyi emerge from Phoenix Nirvana as a Golden Immortal. Her panel revealed that the Heavenly Dao would unleash a World-Destroying Thunder Tribulation in three days, and the chapter ended with Yue Qingyi sensing that Ye Lin was hiding something about her.

• After three years, the sphere surrounding Yue Qingyi cracked and shattered as she emerged reborn in a golden gown.
• Ye Lin checked Yue Qingyi’s panel and saw that she had reached Golden Immortal Layer One, while the Heavenly Dao planned to kill her with a World-Destroying Thunder Tribulation in three days.
• Ye Lin realized that surviving the coming tribulation could finally dispel Yue Qingyi’s death tribulation, but he feared the strength of the attack.
• Yue Qingyi greeted Ye Lin with delight, and he told her she had become a favored daughter of heaven and a Golden Immortal.
• Yue Qingyi studied Ye Lin’s eyes and told him she knew he was hiding something related to her.

Yue Qingyi told Ye Lin that she would face the World-Destroying Great Calamity in three days and asked him not to interfere. Ye Lin agreed to accompany her for the next three days, and she asked him to take her out to enjoy the world one last time.

• Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi that surviving the World-Destroying Thunder Tribulation would leave her future clear, but failure would destroy her body and soul.
• Yue Qingyi refused to let Ye Lin or her family help her, saying she did not want to burden them again.
• Yue Qingyi asked whether Ye Lin had stayed by her side for reasons beyond a promise, but Ye Lin said he had acted only for himself.
• Yue Qingyi asked Ye Lin not to interfere with her tribulation and to accompany her for three days, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Yue Qingyi asked Ye Lin to take her out and let her see the world one last time.

Ye Lin spent Yue Qingyi’s final days with her before she faced the World-Destroying Thunder Tribulation, then secretly saved her at great cost. Yue Qingyi woke three days later, learned Ye Lin had left with catastrophic injuries, and went looking for him.

• Ye Lin accompanied Yue Qingyi through the mountains and cities, then watched the sunset with her as she confessed her feelings and asked him to hold her.
• Ye Lin held Yue Qingyi while she fell asleep and dreamed of traveling the realms with him.
• Yue Qingyi woke after three days, found Ye Lin gone, and rushed to the Yue Family to ask about him.
• The Third Ancestor and Yue Qingyi’s father told her that Ye Lin had fulfilled their agreement and left the previous day after taking his promised reward.
• Yue Qingyi learned that Ye Lin’s meridians were severed, his dantian shattered, his Primordial Spirit damaged, and his realm had fallen, leaving his survival uncertain.

After learning that Ye Lin had taken her world-destroying calamity and suffered devastating injuries, Yue Qingyi broke down over his possible death. She learned he might have returned to the Earth God Realm and began searching for him around the Yue Family.

• Yue Qingyi realized Ye Lin had shielded her from the calamity and wept after hearing his injuries might be fatal.
• Yue Qingyi asked her father where Ye Lin had gone, and he said Ye Lin might have returned to the Earth God Realm.
• The Third Ancestor warned Yue Qingyi that Ye Lin’s injuries were so severe he might already be dead.
• Yue Qingyi refused to believe Ye Lin had died and searched the skies around the Yue Family for him.

After surviving a devastating heavenly tribulation, Ye Lin slowly recovered while the Demon-Monster Realm conquered the Eight Wastelands and plunged the Earth God Realm into chaos. A hundred years later, Ye Lin had recovered eighty percent of his injuries.

• Ye Lin reflected on the severe injuries he suffered after facing the heavenly tribulation alone and threatening the Heavenly Dao with the Human Emperor Sword.
• Ye Lin inspected the black stone containing the Earth Vein Essence of an entire great world, stored it in his Spatial Ring, and began treating his wounds.
• The Demon-Monster Realm conquered the Eight Wastelands and advanced toward the Four Continents, leaving the Four Seas untouched.
• War, internal conflict, and battles over territory and resources spread throughout the Earth God Realm as its calamity aura intensified.
• A hundred years later, Ye Lin emerged from his cave after recovering eighty percent of his strength.

After recovering from his injuries for a century, Ye Lin left seclusion and learned that the Demon-Monster Realm and the Seven Seas had overrun the Eight Wastelands and threatened the Four Continents. He dismissed the merit offered for fighting the invaders, unwilling to risk limiting his path to Great Luo Transcendence.

• Ye Lin emerged from seclusion after a hundred years, with his injuries eighty percent healed and his cultivation stabilized at the sixth level of Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin contacted the others and met Wang Tian, Li Xiaoyao, and Gu Qingzhi in a teahouse in Divine Martial City.
• Gu Qingzhi told Ye Lin that the Demon-Monster Realm had joined forces with the Seven Seas, the Eight Wastelands had fallen, and the Four Continents were seeking aid from the Immortal God Realm.
• Gu Qingzhi explained that the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal God Realm granted merit for killing demons and monsters.
• Ye Lin rejected the value of that merit, believing it could weaken his foundation, limit his strength, and threaten his cultivation if he left the Immortal God Realm.