Chapter Summaries

After the crowd dispersed from the dispute over the woman’s supposed Dao partnership, Ye Lin agreed to join Xuan Mingzi at an auction. They reached a towering trading house built for the Titan Clan and entered its immense inner hall.

• The young man left after Elder Wang intervened, and the onlookers dispersed, leaving the confused woman behind.
• Xuan Mingzi criticized the woman and explained that she and the young man had never sworn a Dao oath before the Heavenly Dao.
• Xuan Mingzi invited Ye Lin to the auction, and Ye Lin agreed to go with him.
• Ye Lin and Xuan Mingzi flew through the void toward the trading house as other cultivators headed there too.
• Xuan Mingzi explained that the trading house had built its headquarters to accommodate the Titan Clan, and the pair entered its vast inner hall.

Ye Lin and Xuan Mingzi secured a private room at the auction venue, where Xuan Mingzi wondered if Ye Lin was the legendary prodigy himself. They arrived at their room ahead of the auction, which was set to begin the next day.

• Xuan Mingzi led Ye Lin to the upper floors, where guests without invitations could choose seats or pay for a private room.
• Ye Lin paid three hundred Supreme Immortal Stones for a private room, despite Xuan Mingzi’s objections.
• Ye Lin said he had more money than he could spend, prompting Xuan Mingzi to ask whether he was Ye Lin, the living legend.
• A staff member led Ye Lin and Xuan Mingzi to their private room and explained that the auction would begin the next day.

Ye Lin and Xuan Mingzi entered a private room at the venue, where Xuan Mingzi soaked in a body-tempering pool with Xiao Qing while Ye Lin drank tea and watched the hall below. Ye Lin spotted Yue Qingyi walking through the void and wondered why she had come there.

• Xiao Qing introduced herself and guided Ye Lin and Xuan Mingzi into a private room with a misty pool and a view of the hall below.
• Xuan Mingzi entered the pool and discovered that its water could temper his body, then invited Ye Lin to join him.
• Xuan Mingzi invited Xiao Qing to soak with him, and she accepted.
• Ye Lin declined to enter the pool and quietly drank tea by the window.
• Ye Lin saw Yue Qingyi walking through the void below and wondered why she had come there.

Ye Lin examined Yue Qingyi's fate and concluded that their paths would not cross again. The next day arrived in Red Cloud City, and the auction was about to begin.

• Ye Lin read Yue Qingyi's cultivation and fate, saw that she was destined to die despite her extraordinary talents, and stopped paying attention to her.
• Yue Qingyi sensed a familiar, unfamiliar gaze from above, but dismissed it as an illusion.
• Time passed until the next day in Red Cloud City, where people reckoned time in twelve-hour days.
• Someone announced that the auction was about to begin and told the others to stop playing around.

Xuan Mingzi and Ye Lin prepared to bid as the Red Cloud City auction began. The first lot, a Vermilion Bird Fruit, sold for 150,000 Supreme Immortal Stones, and the auctioneer announced that twelve more treasures remained.

• Xiao Qing explained the three bidding stones and placed them before Xuan Mingzi and Ye Lin.
• The Red Cloud City auctioneer opened the auction and presented a Vermilion Bird Fruit as the first lot.
• Xuan Mingzi dismissed the Vermilion Bird Fruit as an unworthy treasure for the auction.
• The bidding reached 150,000 Supreme Immortal Stones, and guest 311 won the fruit.
• The auctioneer announced the second treasure and said the auction would feature thirteen treasures in total.

Ye Lin bid aggressively on the Sword Domain Compass, which contained the Sword Intents of twelve ancient-era geniuses, and drove its price up to thirteen million Supreme Immortal Stones. Xuan Mingzi watched in shock as Ye Lin’s wealth far exceeded what he had imagined.

• The auctioneer introduced the Sword Domain Compass and explained its Sword Domain and its use for studying twelve ancient Sword Intents.
• Ye Lin became interested in the compass and raised the bid to one million Supreme Immortal Stones.
• Ye Lin and bidder 368 pushed the price higher while the other powerhouses withdrew from the bidding.
• Ye Lin raised the bid to thirteen million Supreme Immortal Stones.
• Xuan Mingzi watched Ye Lin bid without hesitation and realized that Ye Lin had far more money than he did.

Ye Lin outbid his rival to win the Sword Domain Compass for twenty million Supreme Immortal Stones. Xiao Qing and Xuan Mingzi brought him the compass, while the auction continued.

• Ye Lin raised the bid for the Sword Domain Compass to twenty million Supreme Immortal Stones, leaving Xuan Mingzi and the auction crowd shocked.
• The auctioneer declared Ye Lin, bidding as guest 351, the winner of the Sword Domain Compass.
• Ye Lin gave Xiao Qing a bag containing twenty million Supreme Immortal Stones and told her to bring him the compass.
• Xuan Mingzi accompanied Xiao Qing to collect the compass, wary of letting her carry such a large payment alone.
• Xuan Mingzi returned with the Sword Domain Compass and Xiao Qing, while the auction moved on to the third treasure.

Ye Lin studied the Sword Intent in the Sword Domain Compass during the auction, seeking to improve his comprehension of the Laws of the Sword Dao. He exhausted the Compass’s Sword Qi and destroyed it, then turned his attention to the auction’s current treasure.

• Xuan Mingzi warned Ye Lin that the Sword Domain Compass was not worth twenty million Supreme Immortal Stones, but Ye Lin bought it to study its Sword Intent.
• Ye Lin entered the Compass’s dark space and sensed the Sword Intent in the twelve streams of Primordial Era Sword Qi.
• Xuan Mingzi watched the auction and occasionally placed small bids while Ye Lin meditated.
• When the ninth treasure was auctioned, Ye Lin opened his eyes and found that the Sword Domain Compass had cracked after its Sword Qi was exhausted.
• Ye Lin shattered the Compass into powder and saw that the auction was displaying a sky-blue necklace whose price had reached thirty million Supreme Immortal Stones.

Ye Lin learned that the necklace could resist a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal’s strike and conceal its wearer from divination, but he had no use for it. After it sold for fifty-three million Supreme Immortal Stones, the auction introduced its tenth treasure: a woman in a cage, drawing complaints from the crowd.

• Xuan Mingzi told Ye Lin about the necklace’s protective formation and its ability to conceal heavenly secrets, but Ye Lin said it was useless to him.
• The necklace’s bids climbed to fifty-three million Supreme Immortal Stones, and a mysterious expert bought it.
• The auctioneer announced the tenth treasure and had two experts bring a red-cloth-covered cage onto the stage.
• The auctioneer revealed a frail woman inside the cage, and the crowd complained that a woman was not a rare or worthwhile treasure.

At the auction, the old man presented a woman who could perfectly transform into someone from a buyer’s memories, drawing intense interest and rapidly rising bids. Ye Lin stayed uninterested and asked Xuan Mingzi about the cost of activating the teleportation array, while the auction price climbed to forty-five million Supreme Immortal Stones.

• The old man claimed the woman in the cage could replicate a person’s appearance, aura, and memories, including a buyer’s deceased loved one.
• Xuan Mingzi became desperate to buy her and asked Ye Lin to lend him money, but he gave up when bidding started at ten million Supreme Immortal Stones.
• Ye Lin asked Xuan Mingzi how much it cost to activate the teleportation array, and Xuan Mingzi said one activation required fifty million Supreme Immortal Stones.
• The bidding for the woman rose to forty-five million Supreme Immortal Stones as Xuan Mingzi watched enviously and Ye Lin waited for the remaining auction items.

Ye Lin decided to obtain the heart of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Qiongqi after sensing that his Chaos Sword Body yearned for it. The bidding reached one hundred million Supreme Immortal Stones, but the auction was still underway.

• The mysterious necklace sold for eighty million Supreme Immortal Stones, leaving Xuan Mingzi stunned.
• The auctioneer announced two final treasures with starting prices of fifty million Supreme Immortal Stones each.
• The auctioneer unveiled the enormous, chained heart of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Qiongqi.
• The experts marveled at the heart, but many said they could not afford to bid.
• Ye Lin placed his bidding stone before him and resolved to claim the heart, even by force.
• Bids for the heart climbed to one hundred million Supreme Immortal Stones.

Ye Lin left Xuan Mingzi in charge of bidding on a low-grade Dao artifact and followed Yue Qingyi out of Red Cloud City. Yue Qingyi confronted five eighth-level Golden Immortals in the starry sky, and Ye Lin's pursuit left him on the verge of an ambush.

• Ye Lin told Xuan Mingzi to secure the item at any price and left the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar as payment.
• Ye Lin left his clone Xiaoyao in the private room and followed Yue Qingyi after she departed the auction house.
• Yue Qingyi left Red Cloud City and stopped in the starry sky, drawing a glowing sword and calling for her pursuers to come out.
• Five black-robed eighth-level Golden Immortals emerged, and Yue Qingyi remarked that they thought highly of her.

Ye Lin rescued Yue Qingyi from five Golden Immortals who had trapped and overpowered her with a formation. He faced the men in black as they surrounded him and threatened him on behalf of their young master.

• Five men in black sealed the space around Yue Qingyi with a formation and demanded that she come with them.
• Yue Qingyi fought back, but the men overpowered her, injured her, and bound her with chains.
• Ye Lin appeared, took Yue Qingyi from the men, and stood beside her.
• The men in black surrounded Ye Lin and warned him that their young master had claimed Yue Qingyi.

Ye Lin rescued Yue Qingyi from five black-clad attackers, then joined Xuan Mingzi at an auction and drove the bidding into the tens of billions of Supreme Immortal Stones. The auction price continued climbing as the bidders switched to Law Source Stones.

• Ye Lin unleashed Sword Qi that killed the five figures attacking Yue Qingyi, then left without answering her question about who he was.
• Yue Qingyi watched Ye Lin disappear and thought his back looked familiar.
• Xuan Mingzi gave Ye Lin his seat at the auction after the bidding pressure became too much for him.
• Ye Lin raised the bid to 500 million Supreme Immortal Stones, and the price climbed past 30 billion as bidders used Law Source Stones.
• Ye Lin raised the bid to 31.5 billion Supreme Immortal Stones while the auctioneer watched without earning a commission.

At the auction, several great families tried to suppress the price of the Qiongqi heart, but bidder 351 kept raising it. The old auctioneer asked the auction house to send people into the bidding, and the auction remained unresolved.

• The old man on the platform urged the crowd to bid higher after the price reached forty billion Supreme Immortal Stones.
• Bidder 351 raised the price to forty-one billion, disrupting the great families’ plan to buy the Qiongqi heart cheaply.
• A private-room voice ordered two young men to investigate bidder 351 and invite him to cooperate.
• The old man continued the auction despite suspecting the great families were manipulating the bidding.
• Bidder 351 raised the price to forty-two billion, and the old man secretly asked the auction house to arrange for people to bid.

Ye Lin refused the four great families’ request to stop bidding on the Qiongqi Heart, despite Xuan Mingzi warning him that they controlled the Red Cloud Star Domain. The auction continued with Ye Lin and bidder 368 competing, and the price reached fifty billion Supreme Immortal Stones.

• Four young men from the Liu, Wang, Zhao, and Yun Families visited Ye Lin and Xuan Mingzi and asked them to stop bidding, promising them a share of the Qiongqi Heart.
• Xuan Mingzi warned Ye Lin that the four great families were powerful and that opposing them could prevent their escape from the Red Cloud Star Domain.
• Ye Lin insisted that he wanted the entire Qiongqi Heart and kept raising his bid as bidder 368 competed with him.
• The four young men left after threatening Ye Lin, while Xuan Mingzi urged him to flee.
• Ye Lin refused to leave, and the bidding between him and bidder 368 continued until the price reached fifty billion Supreme Immortal Stones.

Ye Lin drove the auction price up to 103 billion Supreme Immortal Stones, while the Four Great Families’ patriarch ordered the bidders surrounded and killed after they left Red Cloud City. The auctioneer began the countdown, and the threatened bidders remained in danger.

• Xuan Mingzi left after explaining that he could not risk angering the Four Great Families and endangering his family.
• Ye Lin repeatedly raised the bid until it reached 103 billion Supreme Immortal Stones, competing with bidder 368.
• The auctioneer celebrated the high price and recognized bidders 351 and 368 for disrupting the Four Great Families’ plan.
• The Four Great Families’ patriarch ordered his men to discreetly surround Red Cloud City and attack the two bidders when they left.
• The auctioneer announced that the 103-billion bid was going once.

Ye Lin and a red-dressed Saintess competed fiercely for a Qiongqi Heart, driving its price past 190 billion Supreme Immortal Stones. The Saintess kept bidding despite her maid warning that they lacked enough money.

• Ye Lin raised the auction price to 130 billion Supreme Immortal Stones while deciding he could take the treasure by force if he could not pay.
• The Saintess insisted the Qiongqi Heart was worth far more than its current price and bid 140 billion.
• Ye Lin and the Saintess alternated bids in ten-billion increments, pushing the price to 190 billion.
• The Saintess's maid clung to her arm and begged her to stop bidding because they did not have enough money.

Ye Lin won the Qiongqi Heart for nineteen billion Supreme Immortal Stones, and the auction moved on to the One-Armed Venerable’s spear manual. A woman in red and her maid entered Ye Lin’s room uninvited, and he awaited the delivery of his prize.

• The woman in red calmed down and took Xiao Qian with her to confront the bidder who had beaten them.
• Ye Lin won the Qiongqi Heart with a bid of nineteen billion Supreme Immortal Stones, and the auction staff carried it away for delivery.
• The auctioneer introduced the One-Armed Venerable’s Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Spear as the final treasure and opened bidding at one billion Supreme Immortal Stones.
• The woman in red and her maid entered Ye Lin’s private room and sat down, while Ye Lin asked if they had come to the wrong room.
• Someone knocked on Ye Lin’s door, and he expected the Qiongqi Heart to have arrived.

Ye Lin bought the Qiongqi Heart for 190 million Law Source Stones and stored it in his Spatial Ring, eager to refine it. After the auction house staff left, he prepared to head to the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

• The old man brought the Qiongqi Heart into Room 351 and asked Ye Lin to inspect it.
• The woman in the red dress approached the heart, but Ye Lin drove her back with a sword cry and told her to get lost.
• Ye Lin confirmed the Qiongqi Heart was satisfactory and paid the old man 190 million Law Source Stones.
• Ye Lin stored the Qiongqi Heart in his Spatial Ring, and the old man left with the two young men after offering the auction house's thanks and benefits.
• Ye Lin decided to leave the auction and head to the Hundred Heroes Ranking through the teleportation array.