Chapter Summaries

Li Xiaoyao and Qin Unrivaled killed the young lord of Mystic Sword Manor after a confrontation in the Starry Sky, then continued toward the Stone Stele. At Mystic Sword Manor, the manor lord learned that his son’s life soul had gone out and sent people to investigate.

• Li Xiaoyao charged the three spear-wielding young men, while Qin Unrivaled killed the fleeing child and two maidservants with Sword Qi.
• Nearby cultivators recognized the child as Mystic Sword Manor’s young lord and fled after witnessing the killings.
• Li Xiaoyao returned to the Flying Boat, and Qin Unrivaled dismissed Mystic Sword Manor as a threat before continuing toward the Stone Stele.
• A servant reported that the Young Manor Lord’s life soul had gone out, and Mystic Sword Manor’s manor lord reacted in disbelief and demanded an investigation.

Mystic Sword Manor’s master learned that his son had been killed and sent his disciples to hunt down the murderer. Meanwhile, Ye Lin and his group reached the summit of the stone stele, where powerful prodigies gathered around a palace imbued with the Heavenly Dao’s aura.

• Mystic Sword Manor’s master raged over his son’s death and ordered his disciples to find and punish the murderer.
• Mystic Sword Manor’s disciples flew out to search for the person who killed the Young Manor Master.
• Ye Lin and his group reached the natural platform at the top of the stone stele.
• Ye Lin recognized the Heavenly Dao’s aura around the palace at the platform’s center.
• Ye Lin saw that the platform held many experts at the seventh level of Golden Immortal or above.

Ye Lin and the others headed to the Heavenly Hall, where the Heavenly Dao issued missions for those seeking a place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking. Ye Lin realized Shangguan Wanyu and the other two were underqualified, but kept the thought to himself as they continued inside.

• Qin Unrivaled put away the Flying Boat and went ahead with Yun Zhilan while Ye Lin led the others onward.
• Ye Lin observed that most Heavenly Hall visitors were seventh-level Golden Immortals seeking to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Heavenly Hall and climbed its stairs among hopeful newcomers and despairing cultivators leaving.
• A young man warned Shangguan Wanyu and Bao Xiaotou that their cultivation was too low, then hurried away when Li Xiaoyao glared at him.
• Ye Lin realized Shangguan Wanyu and the other two were too inexperienced and underpowered, but said nothing and continued forward.

Ye Lin entered the Heavenly Hall and faced the Star River Cosmos’s Heavenly Dao, fearing it would reject his anomalous Chaos Sword Body. When it gave him a mission, he took that as a sign that it accepted his existence.

• Ye Lin arrived at the Heavenly Hall with Wang Tian and Bao Xiaotou, who had come only to look around.
• Ye Lin entered the hall and found himself alone in a timeless void watched by the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao’s gaze lingered on Ye Lin before fading, and blue light formed a scroll before him.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Heavenly Dao had accepted his Chaos Sword Body and given him a mission because he could help it benefit from the coming era.

Ye Lin learned that the Heavenly Dao wanted younger prodigies to overcome the older generation and accepted a mission to kill five ninth-level Golden Immortal monsters in the Star Phantom God Realm. He left the Heavenly Hall and found that Shangguan Wanyu and the others could not accept missions, then urged them to improve their cultivation and combat strength.

• Ye Lin guessed that the Heavenly Dao tolerated and favored him because he could kill the older-generation powerhouses and advance its goal.
• Ye Lin read his mission: kill five ninth-level Golden Immortal monsters who threatened to destroy the Star Phantom God Realm.
• Ye Lin accepted the mission and left the Heavenly Hall.
• Ye Lin found Shangguan Wanyu, Bao Xiaotou, and one other person outside, while Li Xiaoyao and Gu Qingzhi were gone.
• Ye Lin learned the three had seen only empty space inside the hall and lacked the qualifications to accept missions.
• Ye Lin advised the two before him to improve their cultivation and combat strength.

Ye Lin urged Wang Tianyi, Shangguan Wanyu, and the others to strengthen their combat skills, while Li Xiaoyao complained that his new mission demanded more than he could handle. Ye Lin advised him to use strategy and allies, and Gu Qingzhi emerged with a similarly difficult mission.

• Wang Tianyi agreed with Ye Lin that he and the others should cultivate their killing techniques during their free time.
• Ye Lin reminded Shangguan Wanyu to improve herself, and she agreed while reflecting on her connection to Luo Yao.
• Li Xiaoyao complained to Ye Lin that his mission required him to kill three Golden Immortal Realm ninth-layer cultivators despite being at the seventh layer.
• Ye Lin told Li Xiaoyao to use his brain and avoid fighting head-on, suggesting he could rely on allies to complete the mission.
• Gu Qingzhi emerged last, and Ye Lin noted that his own mission was the most difficult of the three.

Ye Lin set out alone for the sealed Star Phantom God Realm, using a scroll that served as both a map and a key to enter and leave. After traveling for a month with the Starshift Instant Prison Sword, he finally left the Thousand Stars Region.

• Bao Xiaotou lamented that the Heavenly Dao had not given him a mission, while Ye Lin and the others prepared to depart.
• Ye Lin bid farewell to Li Xiaoyao, Shangguan Wanyu, Luo Yao, and Bao Xiaotou, trusting Luo Yao to protect the group.
• Ye Lin headed alone toward the Star Phantom God Realm with a scroll that showed its location and allowed him to pass through its seal.
• Ye Lin used the Starshift Instant Prison Sword to travel swiftly, but it still took him a month to leave the Thousand Stars Region.

Ye Lin entered the sealed Star Phantom God Realm and found its cultivators on the verge of defeat by Demonic Beasts. He claimed he had come to solve their troubles, then took the Divine Lord’s seat, provoking an angry challenge from one of the experts.

• Ye Lin used the scroll to open the seal around the Star Phantom God Realm and entered.
• The gathered cultivators lamented that Demonic Beasts had conquered more than two thousand eight hundred of the realm’s three thousand provinces, while their two Lords were badly injured.
• The cultivators noticed the barrier open and wondered whether the Heavenly Dao had sent help.
• Ye Lin entered the divine hall, said he had come to solve their troubles, and asked about the situation.
• Ye Lin sat in the Divine Lord’s seat, and an expert angrily demanded to know who he was and how he had entered.

Ye Lin forced the powerhouses in the great hall to submit and asked them to explain the Star Phantom God Realm’s situation. He learned that the realm had been sealed by the Heavenly Dao and that five Divine Emperors had suffered backlash when they tried to break the seal.

• Ye Lin attacked the man who challenged him, severing his arm and sending him crashing across the hall.
• Ye Lin warned that he needed the assembled powerhouses to help resolve the demonic qi consuming most of the Star Phantom God Realm.
• Ye Lin demanded an account of the realm’s current state, and a young man cautiously offered to explain.
• The young man said that thirty million years earlier, the realm had at least seven Divine Emperor experts and had been sealed by the Heavenly Dao.
• The young man explained that five Divine Emperors had failed to break the seal and were gradually suffering the decay of their bodies from the backlash.

Ye Lin learned that the Star Phantom God Realm was close to falling to five Demonic Beast God Emperors and headed for Heaven's Summit to confront them. At the plateau, two wounded God Emperors struggled to hold off the monsters, and one feared he would soon become one of them.

• A young man told Ye Lin that the five God Emperors had become Demonic Beasts and were leading an invasion that threatened to destroy the Star Phantom God Realm.
• Ye Lin asked where the plateau was, learned it was at Heaven's Summit, and set off to deal with the five monsters.
• The powerhouses in the great hall debated whether Ye Lin could turn the tide and agreed they had no choice but to keep fighting.
• At the plateau, an old man checked on the heavily wounded middle-aged God Emperor, who said the monsters' black substance was contaminating him.
• The middle-aged God Emperor said he could hold on for a few days before trying to delay all five enemies alone, even if it cost him his life.

Yuan Chu and a wounded middle-aged man stood against five demonic former God Emperors who planned to sacrifice the Star Phantom God Realm to break its seal. The middle-aged man recovered the Golden Spear and prepared to fight beside Yuan Chu.

• The middle-aged man woke briefly as Yuan Chu mourned the Star Phantom God Realm’s possible destruction.
• Yuan Chu sensed five figures approaching through black mist and refused their demand to enter the realm.
• One of the demonic former God Emperors argued that sacrificing the realm’s inhabitants would break the seal, and Yuan Chu summoned his Dharma Avatar to oppose them.
• The demonic figure attacked Yuan Chu, but the middle-aged man stopped the blow with a beam of divine light.
• The middle-aged man rose, called the Golden Spear from a distant mountain, and readied himself to fight.

Ye Lin reached the plateau after a middle-aged man killed himself to avoid becoming a monster and an old man sacrificed himself to destroy their attackers. He confronted the four wounded monsters as they headed toward the Star Phantom God Realm.

• The middle-aged man killed a monster with his spear, then ended his own life and crushed his Primordial Spirit to avoid turning into one of them.
• The old man burned his life force and fought four God Emperors, destroying himself in a final blast that left them heavily injured.
• The four monsters declared that no one in the Star Phantom God Realm could stop them and left the plateau.
• Ye Lin arrived too late, faced the four monsters, and declared that he would kill them.
• Ye Lin unleashed countless devastating sword lights around himself.

Ye Lin destroyed the four monsters behind the Star Phantom God Realm’s calamity and returned to the main hall to order the surviving experts to counterattack. The realm’s remaining living beings gathered, placing their hopes in his strength.

• Ye Lin killed one monster with a sword strike and burned away the other three with Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• Ye Lin entered the plateau, glanced at a kneeling figure, and left after eliminating the realm’s true calamity.
• Ye Lin returned to the main hall and ordered the experts to prepare a counterattack.
• The experts doubted they could fight back until Ye Lin revealed overwhelming Sword Qi and insisted they obey.
• The experts summoned the remaining living beings of the Star Phantom God Realm to gather.

Ye Lin gathered the Star Phantom God Realm’s remaining forces and led them against the Demonic Beasts. With his clones and one hundred thousand Golden Immortal incarnations supporting the army, the campaign began as an overwhelming advance.

• The Star Phantom God Realm’s races assembled more than a trillion beings, though Ye Lin found that they had few powerful experts.
• Ye Lin divided his forces into four groups, summoned three powerful clones, and created one hundred thousand Golden Immortal incarnations.
• Ye Lin ordered the army to set out, and three hours later the two sides met and began fighting.
• Ye Lin and his clones helped the army crush the Demonic Beasts as they advanced through the realm.
• The army reclaimed one hundred great continents in each of the first two months, pausing occasionally to recover.

Ye Lin completed his mission by helping the Star Phantom God Realm eradicate its Demonic Beasts over five years, though only a fraction of its population survived. He left the realm with its seal intact and headed for the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

• Ye Lin's allies fought through the Demonic Beasts with growing confidence, and after five years they reclaimed the Star Phantom God Realm.
• The surviving beings celebrated their victory, though fewer than ten billion remained and the realm would take millions of years to recover.
• Ye Lin withdrew his avatars and left the seal intact to protect the survivors from forces in the Second Region.
• Ye Lin departed for the Starry Sky with the scroll for the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

A month after his previous visit, Ye Lin returned to the Heavenly Hall to submit a mission but was confronted by people from Mystic Sword Manor, who accused him of helping kill their young manor lord. After Ye Lin swiftly killed them, the onlookers speculated that he would challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

• Ye Lin arrived at the Heavenly Hall carrying a scroll and was surrounded by white-robed swordsmen from Mystic Sword Manor.
• A bystander accused Ye Lin of being allied with the person who killed the young manor lord, and the swordsmen attacked him.
• Ye Lin sent the attackers flying with Sword Qi, then destroyed them with another sword strike.
• Ye Lin killed the sixth-level Golden Immortal who had accused him and continued toward the Heavenly Hall.
• After Ye Lin left, the onlookers recognized the scroll as a Heavenly Dao mission and guessed that he intended to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

After completing a Heavenly Dao mission, Ye Lin entered the Heavenly Hall to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking. As he climbed the Heavenly Ladder, the Heavenly Dao broadcast his attempt across the Second Region.

• Cultivators realized Ye Lin’s completed mission made him a formidable threat to Mystic Sword Manor and followed him to watch his ranking challenge.
• Ye Lin submitted the mission scroll in the Heavenly Hall, and a stairway appeared after half an hour.
• Ye Lin began climbing the Heavenly Ladder, enduring steadily increasing pressure without difficulty.
• The Heavenly Dao displayed Ye Lin’s climb on light screens across the Second Region, spreading his name before he had entered the ranking.

Ye Lin rapidly crossed the Heavenly Ladder, completing the trial in 748 breaths and setting a time more than twice as fast as the previous record. He continued toward the second trial as the Second Region erupted in astonishment over his strength.

• Ye Lin's accelerating climb left the experts watching the Hundred Heroes Ranking baffled, while several geniuses hurried off to report the unknown Rogue Cultivator to their sects.
• Ye Lin said the Heavenly Ladder's pressure did not affect him and raced up several steps at a time.
• Ye Lin reached the end in 748 breaths, though he thought he could have finished sooner if he had not wasted time at the start.
• Ye Lin continued toward the second trial as the Second Region compared his time with the record of 1,323 breaths and marveled at his strength.

Ye Lin entered the second trial, which tested his Dao heart by tempting him with enchanting women. As he recognized the trial’s purpose, observers debated whether anyone could resist the Heavenly Dao’s influence.

• Experts across the star domains sought information about Ye Lin, while powerful factions considered recruiting or protecting him.
• Ye Lin arrived at the second trial and sat down in the empty void.
• The trial transported Ye Lin into a hall where women tried to seduce him and shake his Dao heart.
• Ye Lin recognized that feminine allure was the trial and welcomed the challenge.
• Observers discussed the difficulty of resisting the women, and one expert explained that the Heavenly Dao had altered them.

Ye Lin endured the trial’s seductive visions, but after they disappeared, he awoke in a wooden cabin with no memories. A woman who knew him entered, leaving him confused about who he was and where he had come from.

• Cultivators learned that the women in Ye Lin’s vision represented lost loves and worried that he might succumb to the trial.
• A man watching Ye Lin from within molten lava praised his strength and wondered whether he could pass the second trial, while a woman teased him about his own regrets.
• Ye Lin remained unmoved by the women around him, and they vanished after half an hour.
• Ye Lin tried to open his eyes, fell into darkness, and awoke in a wooden cabin unable to remember who he was.
• A woman came to check on Ye Lin after hearing that he had fallen into a river, and he stared at her in a daze when she entered.