Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin reflected on mortality while Du Shuangshuang slept, then accompanied her to Falling Leaf Valley. He saw how isolated she was despite her status as she ran happily through her favorite place.

• Ye Lin pondered why mortals existed if death was inevitable and briefly felt he had glimpsed an answer.
• Du Shuangshuang woke after three hours and said she wanted to see a beast from the Chaos world.
• Du Shuangshuang took Ye Lin, carrying her Dragon Scale Spear, out to visit Falling Leaf Valley.
• Ye Lin noticed that people treated Du Shuangshuang with hollow respect and realized she had no one she could truly relax with.
• Du Shuangshuang ran through the yellow-leaved forest of Falling Leaf Valley like a carefree child.

Ye Lin took Du Shuangshuang beyond the few places she had always been allowed to visit, helping her explore the vast Heavenly Court. As they traveled, Ye Lin memorized its layout, while Du Shuangshuang eagerly followed a delicious smell.

• Du Shuangshuang told Ye Lin that she loved Falling Leaf Valley, where her mother had brought her to play and where she had planted every tree herself.
• Ye Lin learned that Du Shuangshuang had never explored beyond her residence and nearby places because her father had forbidden her from going far.
• Ye Lin persuaded Du Shuangshuang to tour the other parts of Heavenly Court, and she excitedly agreed.
• Ye Lin led Du Shuangshuang through the palace grounds, and powerful figures who came to scold them backed down when they saw her.
• Du Shuangshuang marveled at the size of Heavenly Court, while Ye Lin memorized its layout.
• Du Shuangshuang caught the scent of something delicious and exclaimed that it smelled good.

Du Shuangshuang and Ye Lin entered the Alchemy Room, where Du Shuangshuang devoured flavor-focused pills while Ye Lin realized the room had been prepared for her. After leaving, Ye Lin grew wary that the Heavenly Court's powerful figures were watching him and would settle scores once Du Shuangshuang was gone.

• Du Shuangshuang spotted an enormous pill-furnace-shaped building and headed down to investigate the pill-refining hall.
• Du Shuangshuang transformed into a mouse and slipped into the Alchemy Room, with Ye Lin following her.
• Du Shuangshuang ate pills from the furnaces while Ye Lin watched and recognized that they had no medicinal properties and were made for their flavor.
• Du Shuangshuang left with Ye Lin after warning him that the old man might scold them, and Ye Lin saw the old man open his eyes and smile at him.
• Du Shuangshuang praised the pills as they flew away, while Ye Lin resolved to prepare for the Heavenly Court's powerful figures to come after him.

Ye Lin realized the Heavenly Court had noticed him and took Du Shuangshuang traveling toward the horizon. The Heavenly Emperor ordered his forces not to harm Ye Lin while his daughter had one year left to live, but also commanded an invasion to exterminate the Human Race.

• Ye Lin recognized that the Heavenly Court had marked him as an outsider and decided to prepare for the danger around him.
• Du Shuangshuang asked to keep playing, and Ye Lin led her onward toward the horizon.
• A Heavenly Court expert identified Ye Lin as a Human Race prodigy and proposed capturing him.
• The Heavenly Emperor forbade anyone from touching Ye Lin before the Ninth Princess died, saying he wanted her to be happy during her final year.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered three armies to encircle and exterminate the Human Race.

The Heavenly Emperor mourned his estrangement from Du Shuangshuang as she explored Heavenly Court with Ye Lin, who secretly planted clones around it. Their journey brought them to the Ascension Passage, where soldiers explained how cultivators from small worlds arrived in Heavenly Court.

• The Heavenly Emperor refused to visit the dying Du Shuangshuang, saying he had failed her and that she did not truly see him as her father.
• Du Shuangshuang admired a waterfall of stars while Ye Lin continued memorizing Heavenly Court and planting hidden clones.
• Du Shuangshuang hurried from sight to sight, and Ye Lin suspected she knew she was about to die.
• Du Shuangshuang asked about an enormous gate of light, and two soldiers identified it as the Ascension Passage for cultivators arriving from small worlds.

Du Shuangshuang and Ye Lin used a teleportation array to leave the Heavenly Court for a small world, escaping the Third Elder’s attempt to capture Ye Lin. They arrived safely, and Ye Lin chose to accompany Du Shuangshuang as she explored.

• Du Shuangshuang asked whether they could use the teleportation array to visit a small world, and Ye Lin agreed.
• A soldier went to report their departure, but Du Shuangshuang pulled Ye Lin into the array before he returned.
• The Third Elder arrived too late, killed the soldier, and lamented that the Chaos-aptitude Human Race prodigy had escaped.
• Ye Lin and Du Shuangshuang arrived in an unfamiliar small world, where Du Shuangshuang repeatedly shattered and healed the space with her finger.
• Du Shuangshuang wanted to explore the world, and Ye Lin decided to keep her company.

Du Shuangshuang shopped through the city while Ye Lin paid for everything with conjured gold. They entered an auction pavilion, where the guards recognized Ye Lin as a powerful expert and sent for the Hall Master.

• Du Shuangshuang bought a piece of jade and made Ye Lin pay the seller with a gold ingot.
• Du Shuangshuang bought all kinds of wares from the city vendors while Ye Lin paid lavishly.
• Ye Lin guided Du Shuangshuang past a pavilion where women called out to them.
• Du Shuangshuang entered an auction pavilion with Ye Lin.
• The pavilion guards found themselves unable to move, then sent word to the Hall Master that a powerful expert had arrived.

Men in uniform suspected Ye Lin of being a great demon and called for reinforcements to capture him. At an auction, Du Shuangshuang excitedly placed an extravagant bid, drawing attention to herself and her apparent wealth and status.

• A man in uniform examined the gold ingot Ye Lin had thrown and heard his lackeys warn that Ye Lin’s wealth and cultivation made him dangerous.
• The leader ordered his men to call for backup before they tried to capture Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin explained to Du Shuangshuang that the highest bidder would win an auction item.
• Du Shuangshuang joined the bidding and offered ten thousand taels for a Liuli cup listed at fifteen hundred taels.
• The crowd mocked Du Shuangshuang’s bid, then fell quiet when they saw her beauty and luxurious clothing.

Ye Lin and Du Shuangshuang attended an auction, where Du Shuangshuang bought a glazed glass cup and a supposed Dragon King's Dragon Ball went up for bid. The Demon-Hunting Squad sealed the auction house and accused Ye Lin of being a demon who had used magic to make fake gold, leaving him demanding proof.

• Du Shuangshuang bought the glazed glass cup for ten thousand taels, and Ye Lin paid the old man in gold.
• The old man presented a large pearl as the Dragon King's Dragon Ball, and the guests began bidding on it.
• The Demon-Hunting Squad sealed the auction house and entered with three figures.
• The squad's leader confronted Ye Lin, accused him of being a demon who had spread fake gold, and threw a gold ingot to the ground.
• Ye Lin challenged the leader to prove the gold was fake within three breaths, threatening him if he could not.

Ye Lin punished the young man who had tried to leave the auction house, trapping him in an endless cycle of agony. Ye Lin and Du Shuangshuang then left the city and wandered through the barren countryside as night fell.

• The young man failed to explain the gold ingot, and Ye Lin stopped him from leaving the auction house.
• Ye Lin condemned the young man to endless torture, causing the onlookers to flee in terror.
• Ye Lin and Du Shuangshuang left the city and wandered among barren mountains as the sun set.
• Du Shuangshuang examined her glass cup while Ye Lin followed her like a bodyguard.

Ye Lin spent a year traveling with Du Shuangshuang, whose final days were brightened by seeing the wider world. After she died on a cliff, Ye Lin confronted her father, the Heavenly Emperor, for refusing to see her before her death.

• Ye Lin accompanied Du Shuangshuang around the small world for a year, broadening her experience of life.
• Du Shuangshuang told Ye Lin that she had understood her illness and her family's efforts, and that their year together had been the best of her life.
• The Heavenly Emperor arrived and silently watched Du Shuangshuang speak with Ye Lin.
• Du Shuangshuang kissed Ye Lin, thanked him for staying with her, and died as the sun set.
• Ye Lin laid Du Shuangshuang down and challenged the Heavenly Emperor for letting his daughter die without seeing him.

After Du Shuangshuang died, Ye Lin destroyed the small world and escaped the Heavenly Court’s pursuit. He reached the Human Race’s gathering place a month later, where he told Li Jinhuang that the Ninth Princess had died.

• The Heavenly Emperor took Du Shuangshuang’s corpse, thanked Ye Lin for staying with her, and warned him that Heavenly Court experts surrounded the world.
• Ye Lin used World Extinction in a Thought to destroy the small world and disappeared before the Heavenly Court experts arrived.
• The Heavenly Court experts realized Ye Lin had escaped, and their leader sensed that the Heavenly Emperor had been there.
• Ye Lin traveled for a month to reach the Human Race, which had been uniting weaker races while evading the Heavenly Court’s army.
• Li Jinhuang teased Ye Lin about the Ninth Princess, and Ye Lin told him she had died a month earlier.

Sword Venerable explained that Ye Lin’s apparent love tribulation was only a brief warning, since the Human Race needed him to survive and grow stronger. Ye Lin and Li Jinhuang then faced the Heavenly Court army, preparing to attack despite being badly outnumbered.

• The Third Ancestor questioned Sword Venerable about Ye Lin’s love tribulation, and Sword Venerable explained that he had only briefly extended a thread of fate for Ye Lin.
• The Third Ancestor accepted that Ye Lin could not be allowed to fall into danger before he led the Human Race to rise.
• Sword Venerable said the encounter had disturbed Ye Lin’s state of mind and was meant to prepare him for a future love tribulation.
• Li Jinhuang told Ye Lin that the Human Race faced at least thirty-two Chaos-grade prodigies, while their side had only the two of them.
• Li Jinhuang rallied the Human Race army to wipe out the Heavenly Court forces and advance on the Heavenly Court, while Ye Lin readied his Emperor Sword.
• The Heavenly Court sent four Chaos-grade prodigies to crush the Human Race and its allied races before they could grow stronger.

Ye Lin and Li Jinhuang drew two Heavenly Court prodigies with Chaos aptitude away from the main battlefield to fight in the starry sky. Ye Lin told them he came from the future, where the Human Race won and the Heavenly Court fell, leaving the two young men doubtful about how that outcome could happen.

• Li Jinhuang challenged the two Heavenly Court prodigies and led them, with Ye Lin, toward the depths of the starry sky.
• One young man asked Ye Lin where he came from, and Ye Lin said he had come from the future.
• The young man accepted Ye Lin's claim and asked why he had come to the past, and Ye Lin said he wanted to find worthy opponents.
• The other young man asked what happened to the Heavenly Court in the future, and Ye Lin said the Human Race won, the Heavenly Court fell apart, and the Human Race ruled over all races.
• The two young men exchanged doubtful looks because they could not understand how the Heavenly Court could lose.

Ye Lin fought Zhao Qiankun and Xuanyin, who joined forces to test the invincible warrior from the later ages. The battle left Zhao Qiankun astonished by Ye Lin’s time-stopping eye technique.

• Zhao Qiankun and Xuanyin introduced themselves and challenged Ye Lin to a fight to the death.
• Ye Lin charged at them, and all three exchanged powerful attacks across the Starry Sky.
• Xuanyin used his Delusion-Breaking Void Eye to shatter Ye Lin’s Sword Domain.
• Zhao Qiankun struck at Ye Lin, but Ye Lin stopped time and sent him flying with a slash of Sword Qi.
• Zhao Qiankun marveled at Ye Lin’s eye technique, and Xuanyin unleashed the Delusion-Breaking Void Eye again.

Ye Lin fought Xuanyin and Zhao Qiankun in the Starry Sky, proving stronger than both and overwhelming Xuanyin in a clash of eye techniques. The battle continued as Ye Lin pressed his attack with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus.

• Xuanyin ambushed Ye Lin with divine light, but Ye Lin dodged and struck Xuanyin from behind with the Emperor Sword.
• Zhao Qiankun acknowledged Ye Lin's strength, and he and Xuanyin attacked him with genuine killing intent.
• Ye Lin used Sword Qi to separate the two and targeted Xuanyin with Origin Holy Light.
• Ye Lin's divine light overpowered Xuanyin's Innate Dual Pupils, forcing Xuanyin to escape its path.
• Ye Lin launched Karmic Fire Red Lotus at Xuanyin, who angrily resisted.

Ye Lin fought Xuanyin and Zhao Qiankun in the starry sky, overcoming their coordinated attacks with his abilities. He left both men severely wounded and closing in on them as they retreated.

• Xuanyin shattered Ye Lin's Karmic Fire Red Lotus, but Ye Lin stabbed him from behind before he could turn around.
• Xuanyin unleashed Divine Spear Suppresses the World, but Ye Lin evaded it and destroyed it with Origin Holy Light.
• Zhao Qiankun joined the fight while Xuanyin attacked from behind, putting Ye Lin under pressure with their teamwork.
• Ye Lin stopped time, cut away half of Zhao Qiankun's body, and pierced Xuanyin with Origin Holy Light, severely wounding both men.
• Zhao Qiankun praised Ye Lin through gritted teeth, and Ye Lin summoned sword cries as the two wounded men retreated.

Ye Lin fought Zhao Qiankun and Xuanyin inside his Sword Domain, countering their attacks and driving Zhao Qiankun to the brink. The chapter ended as Xuanyin used his double pupils to form an eerie vortex before Zhao Qiankun’s brow, just as Ye Lin’s sword was about to strike.

• Ye Lin trapped Zhao Qiankun and Xuanyin within his Sword Domain and advanced with the Emperor Sword.
• Zhao Qiankun attacked with Shattering Star Form while Xuanyin assaulted Ye Lin’s soul with his double pupils.
• Ye Lin dispelled Xuanyin’s illusions and absorbed Zhao Qiankun’s spear attack into a Sword Qi vortex.
• Ye Lin charged at the weakened Zhao Qiankun and aimed a sword strike at his brow.
• Xuanyin formed an eerie vortex before Zhao Qiankun’s brow as Ye Lin’s sword was about to hit.

Ye Lin attacked Xuanyin to remove the spatial threat while Xiaoyao joined the battle to hold Zhao Qiankun back. Ye Lin overwhelmed Xuanyin and sealed his escape with the Origin Holy Light, leaving Xuanyin in immediate danger.

• Xuanyin warped space to divert Ye Lin's sword strike and save Zhao Qiankun.
• Ye Lin charged at Xuanyin, but Zhao Qiankun tried to block him.
• Ye Lin summoned Xiaoyao, who began fighting Zhao Qiankun and held him off.
• Ye Lin split Xuanyin's Annihilation Holy Light with a sword strike.
• Ye Lin sealed the space around Xuanyin and fired the Origin Holy Light at him.

Ye Lin defeated and killed Xuanyin and Zhao Qiankun, two supreme prodigies with Chaos-grade aptitude, in the Primordial Era. He then headed to the battlefield, where the Human Race and the Heavenly Court’s army were already fighting.

• Ye Lin killed Xuanyin with golden holy light, erasing him from the Star River Cosmos.
• After Xuanyin fell, Zhao Qiankun attacked Ye Lin in a rage, but Ye Lin severed his arm and struck him with Origin Holy Light.
• Zhao Qiankun admitted he was inferior before karmic fire engulfed him.
• Ye Lin reflected on the strength of the Primordial Era’s prodigies and decided to finish his business there before exploring the Chaos Era.
• Ye Lin reached the battlefield as the Human Race and the Heavenly Court’s regular army fought in a massive war.