Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin escaped the Buddhas’ attack, but their palm destroyed the City of Rebirth and annihilated its ghost cultivators. After the Buddhas killed an enraged ghost cultivator who confronted them, they resumed pursuing Ye Lin to carry out Buddha’s decree.

• The Buddhas attacked Ye Lin with a sealing formation and a golden palm, but Ye Lin escaped as their strike demolished the City of Rebirth and killed its hundreds of millions of ghost cultivators.
• A sixth-level Golden Immortal ghost cultivator confronted the Buddhas, demanding to know why they had broken their promise and destroyed the city’s inhabitants.
• The Buddhas dismissed the ghost cultivator as fallen into demonic ways and killed him with Buddha light.
• The Buddhas decided to continue pursuing Ye Lin and carry out Buddha’s decree.

After four hundred years of plundering the Demon-Monster Realm and evading the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, Ye Lin gathered every treasure on Black Emperor’s list. With the realm’s factions hunting him, he set out to reunite with Li Xiaoyao and the others so they could leave.

• Ye Lin used the Time Gu to escape the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect’s pursuit.
• Over four hundred years, Ye Lin searched the Demon-Monster Realm for treasures while repeatedly evading the Buddhist Sect and other pursuers.
• Ye Lin gathered all the treasures on Black Emperor’s list, but his attempts to fight an eighth-layer Golden Immortal ended in a crushing defeat.
• Ye Lin decided to leave the Demon-Monster Realm and headed toward the location Li Xiaoyao had sent him.
• Ye Lin spent a month finding Li Xiaoyao and the others in a hidden spot at the bottom of a mountain range.

Ye Lin reunited with Luo Yao and the others, whose cultivation had advanced dramatically under Black Emperor’s training. After Ye Lin explained that he had angered the major powers of the Demon-Monster Realm, Black Emperor agreed they needed to leave.

• Ye Lin entered the cave and reunited with Luo Yao, Li Xiaoyao, and the others on the plain.
• Ye Lin observed that Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi had reached Golden Immortal Level 7, while Shangguan Wanyu, Wang Tian, and Bao Xiaotou had reached Golden Immortal Level 6.
• Black Emperor credited his training for their progress and said he would train Ye Lin next.
• Ye Lin told the group that the Demon-Monster Realm had become unsafe because he had offended its major powers.
• Black Emperor agreed that they needed to leave the Demon-Monster Realm.

Ye Lin and his companions left the Demon-Monster Realm through a passage Black Emperor knew, while the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect confronted its failure to capture Ye Lin. The sect’s Buddha suspected Ye Lin had already escaped the realm.

• Black Emperor revealed a safe passage to the Earth God Realm, and Ye Lin decided the group should leave immediately.
• Ye Lin and the others followed Black Emperor east through the sky toward the passage.
• The Buddha of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect demanded an explanation for the sect’s failure to capture Ye Lin after more than four hundred years of pursuit.
• A Buddhist cultivator blamed Ye Lin’s secret treasures and special method, and asked for more time to catch him.
• The Buddha pointed out that Ye Lin would likely have left the Demon-Monster Realm now that the entire realm was hunting him.

Black Emperor led Ye Lin, Li Xiaoyao, and the others through a hidden passage from the Demon-Monster Realm to the Earth God Realm, narrowly escaping the Buddhist cultivators. They emerged beneath a clear sky, but Ye Lin did not know where in the Earth God Realm they had arrived.

• The Buddha ordered the Buddhist cultivators to seal every passage from the Demon-Monster Realm to the Earth God Realm and catch the fugitives.
• Black Emperor moved a black Stone Stele to reveal a hidden vortex, then led Ye Lin and the others into it.
• A Buddhist cultivator arrived as Gu Qingzhi entered the vortex, but failed to catch her before the group escaped.
• The group crossed a corridor filled with powerful time-and-space energy and emerged into sunlight.
• Bao Xiaotou enjoyed the clear sky, while Ye Lin wondered which part of the Earth God Realm they had reached.

Ye Lin returned to Western Qin Phoenix Province and found the demon-monsters gone, while Black Emperor sensed that a ninth-layer Golden Immortal had recently died. Black Emperor sent most of their companions away so he could attempt a transformation method on Ye Lin, leaving Ye Lin, Wang Tian, and Bao Xiaotou with him.

• Ye Lin sensed that he was back in Western Qin Phoenix Province, which was lush and free of demon-monsters and demonic qi.
• Black Emperor sensed signs of mourning and concluded that a ninth-layer Golden Immortal had fallen in the Earth God Realm.
• Black Emperor told Ye Lin that they needed a quiet, safe place to try a method that might rebuild Ye Lin’s foundations.
• Black Emperor kept Wang Tian and Bao Xiaotou with them and sent the others away.
• Li Xiaoyao left to test his increased combat strength, while Gu Qingzhi left to investigate the changes in the Earth God Realm.

Ye Lin entered the seventh layer of the Golden Immortal realm and created a hidden small world with the Black Emperor’s help. The Black Emperor then explained that his forbidden technique required Ye Lin to disperse all his cultivation, leaving Ye Lin to face the cost of starting over.

• Shangguan Wanyu took Luo Yao out to play, while Gu Qingzhi reflected on how quickly she had advanced by following Ye Lin.
• The Black Emperor told Ye Lin that his strength was sufficient to carve out a small world, and Ye Lin shattered the space of the Earth God Realm.
• Ye Lin shaped the shattered space into a hidden small world, and Bao Xiaotou used a Formation Disk to keep it stable.
• The Black Emperor explained that his forbidden technique could reverse Ye Lin’s predicament but required pills, concealment formations, and Ye Lin to disperse every trace of his cultivation.
• Ye Lin realized that the technique meant abandoning his cultivation and starting over.

Ye Lin chose to trust the Black Emperor and disperse his Golden Immortal cultivation so he could start over. After an hour, his cultivation was gone, leaving his Golden Immortal body and powerful Primordial Spirit intact, but with severe damage to his foundation if he tried to regain his former peak.

• After weighing the risk that the Black Emperor might be deceiving him, Ye Lin agreed to disperse his cultivation and start anew.
• Ye Lin sat down to meditate while the Black Emperor guided Wang Tian in pill refinement and Bao Xiaotou attended to his own tasks.
• Ye Lin released his immortal fortune and life essence, causing his cultivation to fall from the seventh layer of Golden Immortal through each realm.
• After one hour, Ye Lin had lost all his cultivation, though his Golden Immortal body and Primordial Spirit remained.
• Ye Lin faced the prospect that rebuilding his cultivation could permanently cap him at the seventh layer of Golden Immortal, while the Black Emperor's honesty remained unproven.

Ye Lin meditated after losing his cultivation while Wang Tian refined a pill and Bao Xiaotou prepared an array to conceal their actions from the Heavenly Dao. Once the pill was ready, the Black Emperor ordered Ye Lin to discard nearly all his old techniques and begin rebuilding his sword cultivation, giving him a hundred years to learn a new canon and develop the Yama Sword Dao Body.

• The Black Emperor told Ye Lin to steady his Dao heart as Ye Lin suppressed his disappointment over losing his power.
• Ye Lin checked his panel and saw that his Destiny and other details remained unchanged despite his cultivation being listed as unknown.
• Wang Tian spent thirty years refining the pill while Bao Xiaotou completed the array.
• The Black Emperor gave Ye Lin the pill and told him to forget his old cultivation arts, keeping only the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger.
• Ye Lin discarded the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, the Great Sun Supreme Art, and the Grass Character Sword Art.
• The Black Emperor promised to teach Ye Lin a supreme sword canon and three sword-path techniques, and to help him cultivate the Yama Sword Dao Body within a hundred years.

Black Emperor rewarded Ye Lin for rescuing him by passing on the Grand Void Return to Ruins Sword Canon, a supreme sword cultivation art. As Ye Lin began cultivating its first chapter, pure Chaos Qi emerged from his dantian, leaving Black Emperor bewildered.

• Black Emperor tapped Ye Lin's forehead and passed the Grand Void Return to Ruins Sword Canon into his mind as payment for being rescued.
• Ye Lin spent a year reading the sword canon, then began studying and cultivating its first chapter.
• The first chapter required Ye Lin to use Chaos Qi to forge a supreme Chaos foundation before he could cultivate the art.
• Pure Chaos Qi erupted from Ye Lin's dantian, and he used it to begin forging his foundation.
• Black Emperor stared in confusion because he had prepared Chaos Qi to give Ye Lin, but Ye Lin had already found his own.

Black Emperor guided Ye Lin through the first layer of the Grand Void Return to Ruins Sword Canon, then began remolding his body so he could cultivate it. Ye Lin swallowed a Reshaping Pill and endured its agonizing effects as the process began.

• Black Emperor set aside his prepared Chaos aura and personally began expounding the Dao to Ye Lin, warning him that he had only one chance to enter the Hongmeng-rank Sword Canon.
• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tianyi secretly listened as Black Emperor taught Ye Lin for fifty years.
• Ye Lin successfully entered the first layer of the Grand Void Return to Ruins Sword Canon, impressing Black Emperor with his Wuxing.
• Black Emperor explained that Ye Lin's physique had to be remolded and gave him a Reshaping Pill and a Restoration Pill.
• Ye Lin swallowed the Reshaping Pill, and its searing pain nearly made him cry out.

Black Emperor destroyed Ye Lin’s body while preserving his dantian and supreme foundation, then had Wang Tian use the Nine Provinces Cauldron and rare treasures to refine Ye Lin a new body with the Chaos Sword Body. Wang Tian began the process under Black Emperor’s guidance.

• Black Emperor battered Ye Lin until his body was reduced to scraps, leaving his dantian and supreme foundation intact.
• Ye Lin’s Primordial Spirit remained seated calmly after his fleshly body was destroyed.
• Black Emperor summoned Wang Tian, who placed Ye Lin’s remains into the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Black Emperor added rare treasures and told Wang Tian to begin refining the Chaos Sword Body into Ye Lin.
• Wang Tian agreed to carry out the refinement using the techniques Black Emperor had taught him.

Wang Tian used the Nine Provinces Cauldron and Black Emperor’s help to refine Ye Lin into a body with the Chaos Sword Body. After three hundred years, the cauldron opened, revealing a powerful flesh sphere, and Wang Tian celebrated his success.

• Wang Tian began refining Ye Lin in the Nine Provinces Cauldron with purple Heavenly Flame, while Black Emperor secretly assisted him.
• Bao Xiaotou came to watch, and Xinyou stayed beside Ye Lin to protect him.
• Three hundred years passed as Wang Tian continued refining the new body.
• Wang Tian stopped the cauldron and opened it, releasing powerful Sword Qi and a flesh sphere wrapped in purple qi.
• Black Emperor praised the result, though he had secretly carried out much of the difficult work.

Black Emperor completed Ye Lin’s reconstructed body, replaced his cultivation path with pure sword dao, and gave him three hundred million Chaos Source Stones. Bao Xiaotou eyed the stones, but Black Emperor warned that Chaos qi would destroy his current body.

• Black Emperor shaped the refined flesh into Ye Lin’s likeness and merged it with Ye Lin’s Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin swallowed a pill, and Black Emperor used its medicinal force to form his organs, bones, meridians, and blood vessels.
• Black Emperor crippled Ye Lin’s Invincible Fortune Art and told him to cultivate the purest sword dao with Chaos qi.
• Black Emperor gave Ye Lin three hundred million Chaos Source Stones, and Ye Lin began absorbing their Chaos qi.
• Bao Xiaotou eyed Ye Lin’s stones, but Black Emperor warned that Chaos qi would destroy Bao Xiaotou’s meridians, foundation, and body.

Black Emperor explained that Ye Lin’s Chaos Sword Body could withstand attacks from a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, though his ordinary Primordial Spirit still limited him. After restoring his cultivation and relearning Black Emperor’s sword arts, Ye Lin could easily defeat a ninth-layer Golden Immortal, while Bao Xiaotou came to understand why Black Emperor regarded the Star River Cosmos as a shallow bay.

• Black Emperor told Bao Xiaotou that Ye Lin’s Chaos Sword Body was exceptionally durable and could resist a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal’s attacks for a time.
• Black Emperor clarified that Ye Lin’s ordinary Primordial Spirit left him unable to fight such an opponent, but said he could defeat a ninth-layer Golden Immortal after restoring his cultivation and relearning three sword arts.
• Bao Xiaotou questioned how Ye Lin could fight across two major realms, and Black Emperor compared Ye Lin’s advantages to teaching a Nascent Soul cultivator skills from a higher-level world.
• Bao Xiaotou realized that his willingness to let a Nascent Soul cultivator challenge a Spirit Transformation cultivator revealed how environment and upbringing shaped a cultivator’s confidence.
• Bao Xiaotou understood that Black Emperor viewed the Star River Cosmos as a shallow bay compared with the wider worlds beyond it.

Black Emperor gave Ye Lin a pill that restored his cultivation, and Ye Lin rapidly rose to Golden Immortal Level Seven with his Chaos Sword Body. He returned to his former peak vastly stronger than before.

• Black Emperor told Ye Lin that the pill would restore his peak cultivation without harming his foundation and handed it to him.
• Ye Lin swallowed the pill, and its power awakened insights while his Chaos Qi surged under the control of his Chaos Sword Body.
• Ye Lin advanced from having no cultivation to the Earth Immortal realm in one hour.
• Ye Lin continued advancing through the Immortal realms, eventually returning to Golden Immortal Level Seven after seven hundred years.
• Ye Lin realized that a casual sword swing could kill his former self and marveled at his new strength.

Ye Lin recovered with a Chaos Sword Body and a massive increase in power, while his Destiny now pointed toward reaching Saint Layer Nine. Black Emperor told him that the passage to the Starry Sky would open in about a thousand years and urged him to master three sword arts before then.

• Ye Lin tested his newly strengthened Destruction Sword Dao Law and saw that a single sword could slay his former self.
• Ye Lin reviewed his changed panel, noting that his Fate Rank had stabilized at Transcendence, his Destiny had transformed, and his Fortune Invincibility Method was gone.
• Ye Lin decided to adapt to his new strength and comprehend the three sword arts held within his Primordial Spirit.
• Black Emperor told Ye Lin they were even after Ye Lin rescued him and Black Emperor remade him.
• Black Emperor said the passage to the Starry Sky would open in about a thousand years and told Ye Lin to master the three sword arts before entering it.

After abolishing his previous arts, Ye Lin began comprehending the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword so he could regain the ability to fight. He learned about its two devastating moves but found that mastering even the basics would be difficult.

• Black Emperor left with the others, leaving Ye Lin alone in the little world to practice.
• Ye Lin studied the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword and its two moves, Void Overlapping Shadows and Returning Ruins Draw.
• Ye Lin began comprehending the sword art, and his Chaos Sword Body empowered the Destruction Sword Dao Law around him.
• Ye Lin recognized that the sword art’s immense grade made it extremely difficult for him to comprehend.

Ye Lin reached the entry level of the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword and the Heaven-Burning Karmic Fire Sword during his cultivation. With only two hundred years remaining before his deadline, he began comprehending the Starshift Instant Prison Sword.

• After three hundred years, Ye Lin reached the entry level of the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword.
• Ye Lin studied the Heaven-Burning Karmic Fire Sword, which could burn away an opponent’s sins or sever their Fate Rank and fortune.
• After five hundred years and using thirty Enlightenment Stones, Ye Lin reached the entry level of the Heaven-Burning Karmic Fire Sword.
• With two hundred years left before his deadline, Ye Lin began comprehending the Starshift Instant Prison Sword.

After a thousand years of cultivation, Ye Lin mastered the basics of Black Emperor’s three sword arts and returned to the Earth God Realm. Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian told him that the Four Seas Dragon Clan had captured Gu Qingzhi and Li Xiaoyao, and Ye Lin prepared to respond.

• Ye Lin used the remaining Enlightenment Stones to cultivate and gained initial mastery of all three sword arts.
• Ye Lin left his pocket world and returned to the Earth God Realm with seventh-layer Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian told Ye Lin that Gu Qingzhi had been captured by the Four Seas Dragon Clan and Li Xiaoyao had been captured while trying to rescue her.
• Wang Tian explained that Shangguan Wanyu had disappeared while carrying Luo Yao, while Black Emperor could not be found.
• Ye Lin concluded that a powerful expert from the Four Seas Dragon Clan must have captured Gu Qingzhi and Li Xiaoyao.