Chapter Summaries

Guan Qingsi faced a council demanding that she lose her position, abort her child, and be punished for bringing Ye Lin to the Ice Snow Sacred Sect. When the Holy Lord refused to protect her, Guan Qingsi launched into a furious round of insults against the women who had condemned her.

• A frosty woman demanded that Guan Qingsi be stripped of her position, that her unborn child be aborted, and that she be sent to the Frozen Ice Hell, while Ye Lin was seized and executed.
• The other women joined in, accusing Guan Qingsi of disgracing the Ice Snow Sacred Sect and demanding punishment.
• The Holy Lord told Guan Qingsi she could no longer protect her, then closed her eyes and left Guan Qingsi to handle the matter herself.
• Guan Qingsi rolled up her sleeves and insulted the frosty woman, mocking her age and appearance.
• Guan Qingsi berated another woman for glaring at her and accused an elder of making trouble to secure the Saintess position for her granddaughter.
• Guan Qingsi accused another elder of withholding her resources and rewards out of long-standing spite.

Guan Qingsi unleashed a furious tirade against the Ice Snow Sacred Sect’s elders, believing Ye Lin could back her up. When she hid behind him, Ye Lin admitted he could not defeat them, leaving her insults to stand without a solution.

• Guan Qingsi cursed out the Ice Snow Sacred Sect’s foundation-level elders, shocking Ye Lin and the Sacred Lord.
• An elder declared that Guan Qingsi was no longer the sect’s Saintess and demanded that she be sentenced to death by a thousand cuts.
• Guan Qingsi boasted that Ye Lin was her backer and threatened the elders before hiding behind him.
• Guan Qingsi urged Ye Lin to suppress the elders, but he whispered that he could not beat them, and everyone in the hall heard him.

Ye Lin defended Guan Qingsi when Ice Snow Sacred Sect powerhouses attacked him over her pregnancy. He suppressed the entire group with his Sword Dao Laws, leaving Guan Qingsi confident that she was safe.

• Guan Qingsi begged Ye Lin not to let her down and reminded him that the child was his good brother's only flesh and blood.
• The disciples outside the door praised Guan Qingsi for confronting the old witch, while one woman attacked Ye Lin with three ice swords.
• Ye Lin shattered the ice swords and released his Destruction Sword Dao Law, suppressing the Ice Snow Sacred Sect's high-ranking members without striking them.
• Guan Qingsi celebrated Ye Lin's strength and felt certain that nobody could threaten her now.

Ye Lin asserted control over the Ice Snow Sacred Sect, warning its powerhouses that he would stay as a guest for three months and would kill anyone who challenged him. After everyone fell silent, one powerhouse slowly stood up.

• Ye Lin confronted a woman from the Ice Snow Sacred Clan and smashed a chair against her, then mocked her for being exiled and warned her not to provoke him again.
• Guan Qingsi tried to stop Ye Lin from approaching the Holy Master, but he lifted the Holy Master from her seat and moved her aside.
• Ye Lin took the highest seat and announced he would stay at the Ice Snow Sacred Sect for three months, threatening a slaughter if anyone objected.
• The gathered powerhouses stayed silent under Ye Lin's pressure, and Ye Lin declared they would cooperate peacefully during his stay.
• Ye Lin released his pressure and Destruction Sword Dao Law, then watched as one powerhouse slowly stood up.

Ye Lin secured the Ice Snow Sacred Sect members’ agreement, then the Sacred Lord invited him to her room that night to discuss something. After Guan Qingsi teased him about the invitation, Ye Lin set off to explore the sect with a map.

• Ye Lin saw the gathered figures stand in agreement with his proposal and dismissed them.
• Guan Qingsi praised Ye Lin and jokingly proposed that he become her partner and raise her child, but Ye Lin sternly refused.
• The Sacred Lord offered to yield her position as Sect Master and invited Ye Lin to her room that night to discuss something.
• Guan Qingsi warned Ye Lin that the Sacred Lord’s Dao companion had died thirty thousand years earlier, and Ye Lin told her to focus on her duties as Saintess.
• Ye Lin asked Guan Qingsi where the Sacred Lord’s room was, took a map, and wandered through the Ice Snow Sacred Sect.

Ye Lin visited the Sacred Lord, Yun Ziyan, who showed him her late husband's Sword Talisman and asked him to help comprehend its sword intent. She proposed a cooperation in which Ye Lin would share what he learned, leaving the terms of their arrangement open.

• Ye Lin followed a map to the Sacred Lord's quiet courtyard and entered a hall where Yun Ziyan was bathing.
• Yun Ziyan teased Ye Lin about entering her boudoir, but he ignored her advances and asked why she had summoned him.
• Yun Ziyan revealed a Sword Talisman left by her husband that contained a natal Sword Dao pointing directly to Taiyi.
• Yun Ziyan said she had studied the sword intent for over ten thousand years without understanding it and asked Ye Lin to help.
• Yun Ziyan asked Ye Lin to call her by name and proposed that he share whatever he comprehended from the talisman.

Ye Lin took Yun Ziyan’s Sword Talisman and entered its sword-dao trial, where a giant sword demanded that he define what a sword was. He answered by describing the sword as a weapon, a path, and a vessel for the Dao.

• Ye Lin agreed to Yun Ziyan’s request, then snatched the box and left when she asked him to put her at ease.
• Ye Lin opened the box on a mountain peak and pressed the Sword Talisman to his forehead to seek a breakthrough in sword dao.
• Ye Lin entered a mysterious space and realized the Sword Talisman had drawn him into a dangerous test of sword-dao understanding.
• Ye Lin answered the giant sword’s question by explaining that the sword was both a weapon and a path, reflecting the Dao.

Ye Lin absorbed the Sword Dao true intent hidden in a colossal sword and began comprehending it. Half a month later, experts from the Anxuan Great World arrived at the Ice Snow Sacred Sect demanding that Yun Ziyan hand him over, and she offered to lead them to Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin accepted the Sword Dao true intent from the sword and refused to be drawn into the question of what the Dao was.
• The sword shattered, and Ye Lin sat in seclusion as Sword Dao laws and Sword Qi spread across the area.
• After half a month, figures emerged from a rupture in the sky above the Ice Snow Sacred Sect.
• Yun Ziyan confronted the experts, who accused her of harboring Ye Lin and demanded she hand him over.
• Yun Ziyan offered to take the experts to Ye Lin.

Yun Ziyan brought a group of experts to confront Ye Lin, who learned they had come to punish him for killing their sects’ Holy Sons. Ye Lin destroyed an elder’s massive palm attack, but the elder countered his Sword Qi with a bell and challenged him to fight.

• Yun Ziyan led the gathered experts to Ye Lin and announced that they had come to make trouble for him.
• Ye Lin realized the elders had exposed him and resolved to kill them as they demanded his execution.
• An old expert summoned a vast palm meant to strike Ye Lin and the Ice Snow Sacred Sect.
• Ye Lin shattered the palm with Sword Qi and attacked the old man.
• The old man used a bell to break Ye Lin’s Sword Qi and claimed Ye Lin was no match for him.

Ye Lin defeated the old man and shattered his Limitless Artifact, terrifying the assembled experts. The survivors abandoned their aggressive stance and praised Ye Lin for killing their sect’s Holy Sons.

• Ye Lin struck the old man through the great bell and sent him flying.
• Ye Lin killed the old man with a sword strike that sealed the surrounding space.
• Ye Lin shattered the great bell with three punches, revealing it to be a Limitless Artifact.
• The assembled experts feared Ye Lin and realized he could kill them with a single punch.
• One expert claimed his sect’s Holy Son had been troublesome, and the others joined in praising Ye Lin for killing their Holy Sons.

Ye Lin trapped the powerful figures who had tried to leave and attacked them with his newly comprehended Sword Dao. As his Sword Qi overwhelmed them, they accepted that they were facing death.

• The powerful figures thanked Ye Lin and began to retreat, but Ye Lin said he preferred their earlier arrogant faces.
• Ye Lin drove the Emperor Sword into the ground, binding the figures with Sword Dao laws and telling them to stay and witness his newly comprehended Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin released Sword Qi formed from pure Sword Dao intent and the Destruction Sword Dao Law, without using any sword techniques.
• The figures attacked together but found they could neither block nor evade the bizarre Sword Qi, which pierced their bodies.
• The wounded figures marveled at Ye Lin's Sword Dao and laughed as they accepted their fate.

Ye Lin demonstrated that his eighth-level Golden Immortal strength could overwhelm even ninth-level Golden Immortals from the First Region, but chose not to rush into the Central Star Domain. He then confronted Yun Ziyan about the Sword Talisman and sought something in return for the Sword Dao intent he had comprehended.

• Ye Lin bid farewell as the figures around him shattered, having defeated ninth-level Golden Immortals with ease.
• Ye Lin decided to focus on cultivation, the First Region's Genius Ranking, destiny, and opportunities before heading to the Central Star Domain.
• Yun Ziyan flirted with Ye Lin and offered him a night together, but he refused and asked whether her Sword Talisman had a hidden trap.
• Yun Ziyan eagerly asked Ye Lin what he had discovered in the Sword Talisman after realizing he had comprehended the Sword Dao's true intent.
• Ye Lin said he would not share the Sword Dao intent for free, and Yun Ziyan protested that the Sword Talisman belonged to her.

Ye Lin pressured Yun Ziyan into giving him a Heavenly God Fruit, then returned the memories he had taken from her. He killed the Ice Snow Sacred Sect elders who had betrayed him and continued cultivating, still far from the sword-law comprehension he needed to reach the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• Ye Lin walked away until Yun Ziyan caught up and asked what he wanted in exchange for her things.
• Yun Ziyan gave Ye Lin a Heavenly God Fruit, and he restored her memories by touching her forehead.
• Ye Lin asked whether Yun Ziyan wanted him to spare the elders, and she told him to do whatever he wanted.
• Ye Lin visited the Ice Snow Sacred Sect elders who had leaked information and killed them.
• Yun Ziyan resolved to reach the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm without destiny, while Ye Lin returned to sword Dao cultivation with fifteen percent comprehension of the Destruction Sword Dao Law.

After three months, Ye Lin completed his training and prepared to leave the Anxuan Great World, while Guan Qingsi obtained the second half of her cultivation technique and asked to go with him. After Ye Lin refused and departed, Guan Qingsi contacted Liu Bai, who said Ye Lin might be the powerhouse destined to turn the tide in the Star River Cosmos’s coming crisis.

• Ye Lin destroyed a distant snow-capped mountain with a flick of his finger after three months of training.
• Guan Qingsi told Ye Lin she had obtained the second half of her cultivation technique and was finally free.
• Ye Lin refused Guan Qingsi’s request to accompany him and vanished to leave the Anxuan Great World.
• Guan Qingsi used a Jade Talisman to contact Liu Bai and told him Ye Lin seemed much stronger than he was.
• Liu Bai said Ye Lin was likely the powerhouse destined to turn the tide as the Star River Cosmos faced a possible final crisis.

Ye Lin forced the Heavenly Dao to open a passage out of the Anxuan Great World and entered the Starry Sky of the First Region. He encountered a warship crewed by human-headed, snake-bodied creatures and asked where to find the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

• Ye Lin threatened to slaughter everyone in the Anxuan Great World, and the Heavenly Dao opened a crack in its barrier.
• Ye Lin left the Anxuan Great World and reflected on the First Region’s superior cultivation conditions and the few remote-region prodigies who survived to reach it.
• Ye Lin noticed a bright point approaching through the Starry Sky and waited to meet it.
• A warship carrying human-headed, snake-bodied creatures approached, and its middle-aged man asked Ye Lin to make way.
• Ye Lin appeared before the middle-aged man and asked where the Hundred Heroes Ranking was.

Ye Lin obtained a star map and discovered that the Hundred Heroes Ranking lay across the First Region, so he traveled toward a teleportation array instead of making the journey on foot. He reached Red Cloud City in disguise, ready to teleport to the star domain where the ranking was located.

• Ye Lin received a star map from a middle-aged man and paid him three Supreme Immortal Stones.
• Ye Lin saw that reaching the Hundred Heroes Ranking on foot would take thirty years, then decided to use a teleportation array.
• Ye Lin messaged Wang Tian, Li Xiaoyao, and Gu Qingzhi that he was setting off alone.
• Ye Lin crossed several thousand star domains and arrived at Red Cloud City in the Red Cloud Star Domain.
• Ye Lin put on a mask before entering the city to avoid being recognized and causing trouble.

Ye Lin entered Red Cloud City, an ancient city forged by three Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and inhabited by powerful beings of many sizes. After hearing that a family scandal was drawing a crowd, he was approached by a young man who asked whether he was new to the city.

• Ye Lin arrived at Red Cloud City and learned of its ancient origins and lasting protection from powerful experts.
• Ye Lin entered the enormous city and walked through the void to avoid being dwarfed by its giant inhabitants.
• Ye Lin overheard passersby discussing Old man Wang's granddaughter, who had secretly kept three men despite being Dao companions with the young master of the Liu Family.
• A young man approached Ye Lin and asked whether he was visiting Red Cloud City for the first time.

Ye Lin met Xuan Mingzi in Red Cloud City and agreed to go with him to see the commotion on the city's west side. As they walked, Xuan Mingzi explained that the city's enormous buildings were made for the Titan Clan, whose members had remained after helping defend the city from the Aberrations.

• Xuan Mingzi guessed that Ye Lin was new to the area and introduced himself.
• Ye Lin gave his real name, and Xuan Mingzi warned him that many geniuses wanted to challenge the famous Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin agreed to accompany Xuan Mingzi to the west side of Red Cloud City.
• Xuan Mingzi explained that the Titan Clan had stayed in the city after the war against the Aberrations.
• Xuan Mingzi pointed out a Titan, which turned to grin at him before continuing on its way.

Xuan Mingzi told Ye Lin about the Titan Clan’s protection under the Ancient Human Emperor’s edict and warned him against challenging the Hundred Heroes Ranking. Ye Lin remained determined to go to the Holy Tribulation Star Domain and chose to pay fifty million Supreme Immortal Stones for the teleportation array rather than travel for thirty years.

• Xuan Mingzi explained that the Ancient Human Emperor’s edict protected the Titan Clan from attacks and still deterred the myriad races.
• Ye Lin told Xuan Mingzi that he had come to Red Cloud City to use its teleportation array to reach the Holy Tribulation Star Domain.
• Xuan Mingzi recognized that Ye Lin intended to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking and warned him that it was beyond people like them.
• Xuan Mingzi explained that activating the teleportation array cost fifty million Supreme Immortal Stones, and Ye Lin decided to pay rather than spend thirty years traveling.

Ye Lin and Xuan Mingzi watched a public dispute in Red Cloud City as a young man accused Elder Wang’s granddaughter of infidelity and demanded his gifts back. Elder Wang agreed to return everything and dissolve the marriage, accepting that the scandal had ruined his reputation.

• Ye Lin arrived at a crowd gathered around a young man berating a woman, and Xuan Mingzi led him to a good viewing spot.
• The woman pleaded for another chance, but the young man rejected her and demanded the return of the three million Supreme Immortal Stones and other treasures he had given her.
• Elder Wang, sitting in the courtyard, lamented the damage his granddaughter had caused to his reputation.
• Elder Wang promised to return everything and agreed to dissolve the marriage, prompting the young man to soften his tone.
• The onlookers praised Elder Wang’s reasonableness and lamented that his granddaughter had ruined his good name.