Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin obtained the Heart of Vastness after Vastness killed Heartless and gave him the treasure. The Buddhist leaders learned that Heartless, the Eighteen Arhats, and the three supreme treasures were lost, and proposed sending more forces to kill the blood-robed man.

• Vastness gave Ye Lin the Heart of Vastness after explaining that Ye Lin was the first person to obtain his heart.
• Vastness swallowed the three supreme treasures and Heartless's Spatial Ring, while Ye Lin thanked him and left the Snowfield.
• Ye Lin reflected that his seventh-layer Golden Immortal cultivation had helped him secure the Heart of Vastness and set out for the next item.
• The Buddhas discussed Heartless's death, the loss of the Eighteen Arhats, and their lost treasures.
• A Buddhist leader blamed the blood-robed man for interfering and proposed sending more forces to execute him.

The Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect decided to send Illusion's End after Ye Lin, while its Buddha prepared to negotiate with Vast Expanse over the three supreme treasures. Following Black Emperor's directions, Ye Lin reached the Black Sea in search of the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale and faced its dense turbid qi.

• The Buddhist cultivators acknowledged that Heartless's death left them unsure who could capture Ye Lin.
• The Buddha ordered Illusion's End to pursue Ye Lin and said he would send an incarnation to negotiate with Vast Expanse for the three supreme treasures.
• The Buddha instructed his incarnation to bring Ye Lin back as well, and the chubby boy left to carry out the orders.
• Ye Lin recalled that the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale was in the Black Sea and followed Black Emperor's marked route there.
• After three days, Ye Lin reached the Black Sea, found it filled with turbid qi, and began to consider turning back.

Ye Lin went to the Black Sea seeking the Mirage Dragon’s reverse scale to break through his cultivation bottleneck, but he could not approach the dragon safely. The Mirage Dragon became furious when Ye Lin asked for its scale, and Ye Lin left to consider another way.

• Ye Lin worried that his cultivation was too low to approach the Mirage Dragon in the Black Sea and obtain its reverse scale.
• The Mirage Dragon noticed Ye Lin and asked why an Earth God Realm cultivator had come to the Black Sea.
• Ye Lin introduced himself as Blood Slaughter and admitted that he wanted the Mirage Dragon’s reverse scale to break through his bottleneck.
• The Mirage Dragon invited Ye Lin to come closer, but Ye Lin refused because he feared being killed.
• The Mirage Dragon angrily told Ye Lin to leave, then plunged into the Black Sea, and Ye Lin departed to consider the matter further.

Ye Lin searched for Black Dragon reverse scales and was directed to a secret gathering at Windwatch Mountain. After giving the password, he entered and found that the Dragon-Slaying Operation involved several Golden Immortal experts.

• Ye Lin entered a black city filled with wounded demons and asked a female demon seller if she could obtain Black Dragon reverse scales, but she drove him away.
• A masked woman who had followed Ye Lin approached him and told him to go to Windwatch Mountain in three days, using the password "Dragon-Slaying Operation."
• Ye Lin left the city and traveled to Windwatch Mountain, curious whether the operation targeted the Mirage Dragon.
• Ye Lin gave the password at the mountain and was allowed inside after several fifth-layer Golden Immortal auras checked him.

Ye Lin joined Yang Qian and a group of powerful cultivators preparing to fight the Mirage Dragon, whose reverse scale he sought. After revealing that he was a seventh-layer Golden Immortal, he boosted the group’s confidence, and they recognized he came from the Earth God Realm.

• Yang Qian introduced Ye Lin to the gathered cultivators and explained their plan to avenge the Mirage Dragon’s victims.
• The cultivators warned Ye Lin that the battle was dangerous and urged him to leave unless he had at least fourth-layer Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Ye Lin asked about their strength, and Yang Qian described a force of more than a hundred Golden Immortals, including three at the seventh layer.
• Ye Lin released his aura, revealing his seventh-layer Golden Immortal cultivation and exciting the group with their improved odds.
• A burly figure with demonic aura asked whether Ye Lin came from the Earth God Realm, and Ye Lin confirmed it.

Ye Lin joined Baili Changhong’s gathering of cultivators preparing to fight the Mirage Dragon, while remaining wary and focused on obtaining its Reverse Scale before withdrawing. After learning the group had spent a long time gathering allies and preparing countermeasures, he was named among its leaders as the Dragon-Slaying Operation began.

• A demon-monster questioned Ye Lin about the dire situation in the Earth God Realm and asked him to wait for more cultivators to arrive.
• Yang Qian explained that Baili Changhong had founded the group, which had gathered allies, treasures, formations, and knowledge of the Mirage Dragon’s weaknesses.
• Ye Lin stayed cautious and planned to use the operation to obtain the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale without risking his life.
• Baili Changhong, a burly demon-monster, and a Demon Race woman stood at the front as the gathering assembled.
• Baili Changhong counted the attendees and welcomed Ye Lin, a seventh-layer Golden Immortal, as an unexpected addition to the group.

Baili Changhong and the prepared cultivators launched their long-planned operation against the Mirage Dragons in the Black Sea. They trapped three ninth-level Golden Immortal Mirage Dragons in the Dragon-Slaying Grand Array, leaving Ye Lin astonished as Baili Changhong explained how the formation grew stronger by absorbing turbid qi.

• Baili Changhong announced that the operation had begun, and the cultivators prepared their equipment and methods.
• Baili Changhong told Ye Lin that they only needed to suppress the Black Dragon at a critical moment, then led him and two others toward the Black Sea.
• The cultivators entered the Black Sea, provoking an enraged Mirage Dragon whose roar sent the waters surging.
• The cultivators activated the Dragon-Slaying Grand Array and suppressed three Mirage Dragons against the seabed with countless black threads.
• Baili Changhong told Ye Lin that they had spent over ten thousand years planning and developing the formation, which grew stronger as it absorbed the Black Sea's turbid qi.

Baili Changhong explained that he and his allies had spent ten thousand years preparing a formation to suppress the three Mirage Dragons, and they finally trapped them in the Black Sea. With the dragons subdued, the group summoned the Dragon-Slaying Blade to carry out their plan, while Ye Lin watched.

• Baili Changhong explained that the group had spent ten thousand years setting up a formation fueled by the Black Sea’s turbid qi.
• The formation grew stronger and forced the three Mirage Dragons into submission.
• Baili Changhong and his two allies formed hand seals above the formation as Ye Lin followed them.
• Baili Changhong summoned the enormous Dragon-Slaying Blade above the suppressed Mirage Dragons.
• The Mirage Dragons mocked the group, but Baili Changhong and his allies remained focused on their plan.

Baili Changhong and two allies fought three regenerating Mirage Dragons in the Black Sea, where turbid qi made the creatures seemingly immortal. Baili revealed their grand formation was draining the dragons’ limited supply of turbid qi, leaving the outcome to a battle of endurance.

• Baili Changhong struck a Mirage Dragon and severed its head, but the creature and its head quickly healed.
• The Mirage Dragons mocked the attackers and claimed they were invincible as long as the Black Sea’s turbid qi remained.
• Baili Changhong explained that each regeneration consumed turbid qi from the Mirage Dragons’ bodies.
• Baili Changhong revealed the grand formation absorbed turbid qi released by the dragons and blocked more from flowing in, trapping them with a dwindling supply.

Baili Changhong’s formation began to falter as the three ninth-level Golden Immortal Mirage Dragons attacked it with their auras and bodies. Ye Lin decided the cultivators had truly suppressed the dragons and joined the fight, hoping to claim a Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale afterward.

• Baili Changhong explained that the plan to kill the Mirage Dragons had been carefully prepared and that they had no allies to interfere.
• The three Mirage Dragons unleashed their ninth-level Golden Immortal power and battered the formation, forcing the cultivators maintaining it to pour out their strength.
• The Mirage Dragons began ramming the formation with their bodies, threatening to break it apart.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art and summoned the Thunder Prison, filling the Black Sea with purple lightning.

Ye Lin and the other cultivators used a strengthening grand formation, thunder, and repeated attacks to trap the three Mirage Dragons, who were desperate to escape before the formation became unbreakable. One Mirage Dragon offered Ye Lin a reverse scale in exchange for help, but Ye Lin refused and attacked, only to see his thunder sword easily shattered.

• Ye Lin’s thunder powers combined with the water to restrict the Mirage Dragons and help the cultivators hold them in the strengthening grand formation.
• The trapped Mirage Dragons realized they had to break the formation or face death, and they continued ramming it despite the cultivators’ attacks.
• A Mirage Dragon recognized Ye Lin and offered him a reverse scale if he helped them escape.
• Ye Lin mocked the Mirage Dragon, saying he would take all three reverse scales after they died, then attacked with Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.
• The Mirage Dragon smashed Ye Lin’s thunder sword apart with a sweep of his tail, revealing the gap between their Golden Immortal cultivation levels.

Ye Lin and the cultivators wore down the three trapped Mirage Dragons until one died, then Ye Lin took its reverse scale. The two survivors remained trapped and furious as Ye Lin secured the scale in his Spatial Ring.

• Ye Lin and the cultivators attacked the Mirage Dragons for a full day, steadily depleting their turbid qi and weakening them.
• One Mirage Dragon died, prompting its two brothers to roar in grief and rage.
• The surviving Mirage Dragons repeatedly rammed the formation, but it held firm.
• Ye Lin raised the dead dragon’s body and ignored the survivors’ demands to put it down.
• Ye Lin used the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor to cut off the dragon’s reverse scale and stored it in his Spatial Ring.

After obtaining the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale, Ye Lin left the Black Sea and learned that his next goal was the Jade Ring Fruit, held by a divine maiden on the Divine Mountain. He reached the mountain after five days of travel and entered its lush, immortal-qi-filled range.

• Ye Lin departed after the cultivators thanked him for helping suppress the Mirage Dragons.
• Ye Lin learned that the rare Jade Ring Fruit grew on a tree possessed by a divine maiden whose cultivation was at least the ninth layer of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin decided to travel to the Divine Mountain rather than worry about how he would obtain the fruit.
• After five days, Ye Lin arrived at the mountain range at the westernmost edge of the Demon-Monster Realm.
• Ye Lin entered the Divine Mountain and felt dense immortal qi rush toward him.

Ye Lin reached the silver palace on Divine Mountain and asked its owner for a Jade Ring Fruit. She refused and sent him back beneath the mountain, leaving him wary of her immense power.

• Ye Lin followed a heavenly staircase to a silver palace, where a woman played a harp.
• The woman saw through Ye Lin’s false name, and he introduced himself truthfully and asked for a Jade Ring Fruit.
• The woman explained the fruit’s rarity and refused to trade or give one to Ye Lin, telling him to have the person behind him ask in person.
• The woman transported Ye Lin beneath Divine Mountain, and he realized he would have had no chance to react if she had attacked him.

Ye Lin failed to obtain the Jade Ring Fruit from the divine woman, but she offered him a deal: kill or capture an unknown man in exchange for as many fruits as he wanted. She sent Ye Lin away to search for the man, whose location and identity were unknown, leaving Ye Lin to endure her treatment and begin considering the task.

• Ye Lin gave up on obtaining the Jade Ring Fruit and started to leave the mountain.
• The divine woman brought Ye Lin back and offered him the fruit if he killed someone for her.
• The woman showed Ye Lin an image of a sleeping man but could not name him or give his location, and she was unsure of his cultivation.
• The woman claimed the man was weaker than Ye Lin and somewhere within hundreds of millions of li, then sent Ye Lin away to find him.
• Ye Lin left the mountain, resentful of the divine woman but unable to challenge her.

Ye Lin sent his three avatars and countless external incarnations to search for someone, then continued the search himself. He arrived in Giant City, a bustling settlement of the humanlike native Giant Race, where everyone he saw had earth immortal cultivation.

• Ye Lin split his three great avatars into separate routes to search for someone.
• Ye Lin condensed countless external incarnations and sent them in every direction, using up his immortal fortune.
• Ye Lin traveled alone until he reached the city of the Giant Race in the Demon-Monster Realm.
• Ye Lin observed that Giant City was crowded and full of trade, but he saw no heavenly immortal experts among its residents.
• Ye Lin recognized that the Giant Race might have powerful experts despite none being visible in the city.

Ye Lin learned that the powerful experts of Giant City had gathered for the Lord of Giant City’s wedding to the Buddhist Maiden of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect. Intrigued by the unusual match, he followed directions to the ceremony’s secret-realm entrance and went inside.

• A young man told Ye Lin that the Lord of Giant City was marrying the Buddhist Maiden of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, and that the ceremony was restricted to Heavenly Immortals and above.
• Ye Lin asked where the celebration was being held, and the young man directed him to a purple light gate in Giant City.
• Ye Lin rewarded the young man with a supreme immortal stone, delighting him.
• Ye Lin reached the gate, where two guards respectfully welcomed him, and entered the secret realm to see the ceremony.

Ye Lin arrived at Xu Xian’s wedding in Giant City and watched as the city lord began the ceremony by showering the gathered experts with treasures. As Xu Xian welcomed Liu Shuangshuang, Ye Lin questioned whether she could really be a Buddhist maiden of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect.

• Ye Lin entered a crowded plaza filled with powerful cultivators from many races and spotted members of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect watching from the shadows.
• After waiting an hour, Ye Lin watched Xu Xian appear on the Arena and announce that his wedding was beginning.
• Xu Xian scattered Supreme Immortal Stones, Moonlight Fruit, and other treasures over the crowd, impressing the guests.
• Xu Xian welcomed his beloved, Liu Shuangshuang, and Ye Lin doubted that the extravagantly dressed woman was a Buddhist maiden.

Ye Lin watched Xu Xian marry Liu Shuangshuang, the Buddha Maiden of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, despite the sect’s prohibitions. The wedding was interrupted when the sect’s disciples surrounded the plaza and accused Liu Shuangshuang of betraying them.

• Ye Lin listened to cultivators discuss Xu Xian’s marriage to the Buddha Maiden and the sect’s three prohibitions.
• Xu Xian introduced Liu Shuangshuang as his wife and declared they would become Dao companions before heaven and the Heavenly Dao.
• Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect disciples appeared and surrounded the plaza, silencing the wedding guests.
• The leading disciple accused Liu Shuangshuang of betraying the sect, violating its prohibitions, and repaying its kindness with ingratitude, then demanded to know if she admitted guilt.
• The cultivators debated the danger while choosing to watch, trusting Xu Xian’s father to protect the city.

At Liu Shuangshuang and Xu Xian’s wedding, Liu challenged the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect’s authority over her after she had left it three years earlier. The sect’s ancient Buddha appeared and demanded that she repent, but Liu stood by her decision to marry Xu Xian.

• Liu Shuangshuang declared that she had left the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect three years ago and asked why its prohibitions still applied to her.
• Xu Xian confirmed he had witnessed Liu’s departure and warned the sect’s disciples to leave unless they had come to celebrate.
• A disciple unfurled a scroll, summoning the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect’s colossal golden Buddha Dharma body.
• The ancient Buddha asked Liu whether she would repent, and Liu thanked him for raising her but insisted her mind was made up.