Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin killed the Third Ancestor of the Human Race, triggering a violent backlash in human fortune as he went to the Ancestral Hall to suppress it with the race’s three great fortune treasures. He arrived before the gathered human powerhouses, who deferred to him.

• Primordial Unity Golden Immortals across the Star River Cosmos discussed the blood rain and feared that Ye Lin had begun killing them.
• Ye Lin put away the Human Emperor Sword after killing the Third Ancestor of the Human Race.
• The Third Ancestor’s death left human fortune without its suppressor, and newborns across the human race began dying from its backlash.
• Ye Lin entered the Ancestral Hall, where human powerhouses bowed to him.
• Ye Lin prepared to use the Kongtong Seal, Human Emperor Sword, and Human Emperor Banner to stabilize human fortune.

Ye Lin told the Human Race’s powerful cultivators that the three ancestors had fallen and that he would temporarily oversee the race’s affairs. He revealed that he had killed them to repay the Human Race’s karmic debt, then discovered the Ancient Human Emperor’s blood, the race’s hidden trump card.

• A Human Race cultivator told Ye Lin that they had come to ask the three ancestors about the Human Race’s destiny.
• Ye Lin announced that the three ancestors had fallen and that he would temporarily oversee the Human Race’s affairs.
• Ye Lin approached the Kongtong Seal and Human Emperor Banner as the gathered cultivators questioned how the ancestors had died.
• Ye Lin said that he had killed the three ancestors, and the cultivators asked him why.
• Ye Lin explained that the ancestors had willingly died to repay the Human Race’s karmic debt.
• Ye Lin noticed a drop of golden blood and recognized it as the Ancient Human Emperor’s essence blood, the Human Race’s trump card.

Ye Lin suppressed the Human Race's restless destiny after the three ancestors passed away and promised to protect the Human Race from Primordial Unity Golden Immortals while he remained in the Star River Cosmos. He then went to the Phoenix Clan to thank those who had helped him, before beginning to settle accounts with his enemies.

• Ye Lin suppressed the Human Race's destiny with the three destiny treasures, and the Human Race powerhouses realized the three ancestors were gone.
• Ye Lin told the Human Race to continue as before and promised that no Primordial Unity Golden Immortal would attack them while he remained in the Star River Cosmos.
• The Human Race powerhouses resolved to nurture their younger generation and prepare for the dangers ahead.
• Ye Lin crossed the Starry Sky as Aberrations, monsters, and Evil Cultivators hid from him.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Phoenix Clan, where a middle-aged man welcomed him, and he went to thank those who had helped him before settling accounts with his enemies.

After thanking the middle-aged man for protecting him during his breakthrough, Ye Lin revealed that he planned to kill those who had opposed him. He left behind a vast supply of immortal peaches and wine, then departed as the man considered the coming reckoning.

• Ye Lin thanked the middle-aged man for helping protect his breakthrough, but the man credited his son for forcing him to act.
• Ye Lin said he planned to kill his enemies and explained that the Heavenly Dao had protected him as he became a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• The middle-aged man realized Ye Lin’s plans could bring a second reckoning and warned him to be careful of his powerful opponents.
• Ye Lin gave the middle-aged man immortal peaches and Immortal Peach Wine from the Chaos Secret Realm before leaving the hall.
• The middle-aged man celebrated his windfall and decided to keep the wine from his son.

Ye Lin destroyed the Supreme Immortal Sect and tracked down the hidden ancestor who had attacked him by searching through the river of time. He mocked her cultivation, and she attacked him in anger.

• Ye Lin summoned law-made Sword Qi and destroyed the Supreme Immortal Sect while its hidden figure watched without intervening.
• When the figure told Ye Lin to leave, Ye Lin activated the Origin Eye Technique and found him in a remote corner of the river of time.
• Ye Lin confronted the Supreme Immortal Sect's hidden old ancestor, a beautiful woman who had attacked him before.
• Ye Lin saw that the woman was only at the initial stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and called her worthless.
• The woman became enraged and stepped forward, causing the river of time and surrounding space to churn and collapse.

Ye Lin overwhelmed a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal woman and killed her despite her pleas for mercy. Her death fed the Heavenly Dao, providing enough origin essence to revive spiritual energy and cultivation in the remote lands beyond the Third Region.

• Ye Lin shattered the woman's laws and spacetime projections, leaving her unable to withstand his attack.
• Ye Lin turned the woman into a blood mist, but the River of Time and Heavenly Dao power restored her enough to beg for her life.
• The woman warned that her allies would join forces against Ye Lin, but he dismissed the threat and bound her with chains.
• Ye Lin pierced the woman with Sword Qi until her Primordial Spirit shattered and the Heavenly Dao devoured its power.
• The Heavenly Dao gained enough origin essence from her death to revive cultivation in the remote lands beyond the Third Region.

Ye Lin hunted Primordial Unity Golden Immortals along the river of time and realized how thoroughly the Heavenly Dao sustained the cosmos. After effortlessly killing another early Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, he concluded that the legends about their unmatched vitality had been spread to protect the older immortals from future challengers.

• Ye Lin explored the river of time, killed Aberrations and unfamiliar monsters, and sensed the Heavenly Dao's vast power.
• Ye Lin noticed the Heavenly Dao's will following him and devouring the corpses of those he killed.
• An early Primordial Unity Golden Immortal emerged from the river of time and demanded that Ye Lin stop fighting.
• Ye Lin killed the man with Sword Qi before he could react.
• Ye Lin dismissed the legends about Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and reasoned that the older immortals had spread them to discourage future generations from challenging them.

Ye Lin hunted down and killed Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, finding them far weaker than expected and uncovering how they had drained the Star River Cosmos of resources. As he continued his purge, the Sword Venerable and Sky Vault discussed his eventual rise to Da Luo and the future Golden Age his actions might bring.

• Ye Lin concluded that the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals were weak parasites and blamed their earlier attack for setting him on a path of vengeance.
• The Sword Venerable watched Ye Lin hunt through the river of time and explained to Sky Vault why he no longer pursued the same fight.
• Sky Vault asked how much longer the Sword Venerable had, and the Sword Venerable said he was waiting to observe Ye Lin's Da Luo Dao before taking his final step.
• Ye Lin killed another Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and collected resources that had been plundered from across the Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin foresaw that killing the remaining parasites would restore the Heavenly Dao's origin and usher in a Golden Age.

Ye Lin killed another Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and declared himself truly invincible across the Star River Cosmos, then searched the cosmos and found Taiyuan imprisoned in the Second Region. Taiyuan and two women had been trapped and tortured for ten thousand years, and one woman was fading away.

• Ye Lin killed a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal powerhouse in the river of time, bringing the number he had killed to ten.
• Ye Lin sent three avatars into the river of time and left, judging his opponents too weak to fight personally.
• Ye Lin walked through the Starry Sky and chose not to interfere with the calamity, waiting for the Emperor Road to emerge.
• Ye Lin searched scenes from the Star River Cosmos, found Taiyuan, and traveled to the Second Region.
• Taiyuan and two women remained chained in a blazing place after ten thousand years of captivity, as Qingqing began to fade and the other woman said she could no longer endure.

Ye Lin rescued Taiyuan from the Liu Family’s imprisonment, freed Yun Muyao, and revived Qingqing. Taiyuan begged his master to avenge him, while Ye Lin scorned him for bringing his misery upon himself.

• Taiyuan vowed to slaughter the Liu Family as he watched Qingqing disappear, while Yun Muyao warned that they were all in danger of being refined to death.
• Ye Lin appeared before Taiyuan, broke his chains, and extinguished the flames surrounding them.
• Taiyuan embraced Ye Lin and asked him to free Yun Muyao, whose chains Ye Lin then removed.
• Ye Lin revived Qingqing, leaving her stunned and Taiyuan amazed by his master’s power.
• Ye Lin rebuked Taiyuan for ending up imprisoned, but Taiyuan insisted he had been framed and pleaded for revenge.

Ye Lin rescued Taiyuan and the two women, then left them to continue on their own. He reunited with Luo Yao in an unfamiliar Starry Sky, where she claimed she had not been having fun.

• Ye Lin dismissed the surrounding fighters with a single word and warned Taiyuan to be careful before departing.
• Taiyuan told the two women that he had not been able to contact Ye Lin since their last parting and thought his master might have sensed his danger.
• In an unfamiliar Starry Sky, the river-water figure dragged Luo Yao along until they encountered Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin embraced Luo Yao, who insisted she had not been happy despite looking like she was plotting something.

Ye Lin traveled through the starry sky with Luo Yao to visit his second disciple, Taiyuan, and then approached Ye Buqu. Ye Buqu tried to attack the mysterious newcomer, but his swords stopped before reaching him.

• Ye Lin reflected that Taiyuan had done well to survive and advance in the starry sky, while Ye Buqu had exceeded expectations despite his crippled physique.
• Ye Buqu complained about waiting through the calamity as a middle-aged man urged him to endure it.
• Ye Buqu sensed an approaching figure with no discernible aura, and the middle-aged man recognized the newcomer as an expert.
• Ye Buqu challenged the figure and formed a sword formation around him.
• Ye Buqu sent his Long Swords at the newcomer, but they stopped three zhang away and could not move farther.

Ye Lin reunited with Ye Buqu and Toutian at the Sword Sect after becoming a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, while introducing Luo Yao as his younger sister. He reflected on how much Ye Buqu had changed as preparations began for a feast.

• Ye Buqu recognized Ye Lin, knelt to greet his master, and learned that Luo Yao was Ye Lin's younger sister.
• Ye Lin recognized that Ye Buqu had reached the first level of the Golden Immortal Realm and helped him rise.
• Toutian greeted Ye Lin as a Venerable after realizing he was a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, and Ye Lin lamented that they could no longer talk as they once had.
• Two Sword Sect disciples asked Ye Buqu what had happened, and he told them to prepare a grand feast for his master's arrival.
• Ye Lin looked out over the sea of clouds and remarked on Ye Buqu's progress, while Ye Buqu admitted he had not expected to come so far.

Ye Lin reunited with Ye Buqu and Toutian, shared Immortal Peach Wine with them, and learned that Ye Buqu planned to remain hidden until the Star River Cosmos’s calamity passed. After Ye Buqu drunkenly wished to catch up to his master, Ye Lin prepared one final grand gift before ending their master-disciple bond.

• Ye Lin praised Ye Buqu’s progress and invited him and the trembling Toutian to drink Immortal Peach Wine.
• Ye Buqu told Ye Lin he would hide from the calamity in the Star River Cosmos before venturing into the Starry Sky.
• Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu chased Xinyou over a wine jar while Ye Lin watched them play.
• Ye Buqu asked whether Ye Lin had become a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, then drank too much and passed out.
• Ye Lin held Luo Yao, let Xinyou rest on his shoulder, and reached toward the sleeping Ye Buqu to give him one final grand gift before their bond ended.

Ye Lin passed his Sword Dao insights to Ye Buqu, strengthened his cultivation, and left him to continue his path alone. Carrying Luo Yao, Ye Lin revisited the Purple Cloud Star System and reached Firmament Sacred Land as he prepared to wait for the Emperor Road.

• Ye Lin bestowed his Sword Dao insights on Ye Buqu, raising him to the eighth level of the Golden Immortal Realm with a solid foundation.
• After Ye Lin left, Ye Buqu woke three days later, read the message ending their master-disciple bond, and knelt to honor Ye Lin as his master.
• Toutian reflected that Ye Buqu was unlikely to reach Ye Lin's Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin carried Luo Yao through the Starry Sky to revisit old friends and places before the Emperor Road descended.
• Ye Lin entered the Purple Cloud Star System, remembered meeting his third master Zhuge Yun there, and arrived at Firmament Sacred Land, the first faction he had joined there.

Ye Lin entered the Firmament Sacred Land and reunited with his former master, Zhuge Yun, and Nangong Yunlan, bringing Luo Yao along. He told Zhuge Yun that he had come specifically to see him.

• Ye Lin carried Luo Yao through the Firmament Sacred Land, where a young disciple questioned how he had entered its sealed grounds.
• Ye Lin found Zhuge Yun tending flowers while Nangong Yunlan directed him.
• Zhuge Yun recognized Ye Lin as his former disciple, and Nangong Yunlan took Luo Yao to play.
• Ye Lin and Zhuge Yun sat together with wine, and Ye Lin said he had come especially to see him.

Ye Lin reunited with his master, Zhuge Yun, and confirmed that this would be their last meeting before he severed his attachments and began a new journey. Zhuge Yun accepted his modest life and refused Ye Lin’s offer to raise his cultivation.

• Zhuge Yun recalled hearing legends of Ye Lin and admitted he had feared Ye Lin was dead when the stories stopped.
• Ye Lin confirmed that this was their final meeting and shared Immortal Peach Wine with Zhuge Yun.
• Ye Lin asked whether Zhuge Yun was content with his life tending flowers and herbs, and Zhuge Yun said it was happiness enough.
• Zhuge Yun advised Ye Lin to rest if he was tired, but Ye Lin remained committed to pursuing the Great Dao.
• Ye Lin offered to help Zhuge Yun cultivate, but Zhuge Yun declined, saying he had struggled enough and wanted no further ambitions.

Ye Lin said farewell to Zhuge Yun and Nangong Yunlan before leaving with Luo Yao. He left valuable resources and protective Sword Qi behind, while Nangong Yunlan watched him go and accepted that their meeting was likely their last.

• Zhuge Yun refused Ye Lin's offer to increase his cultivation, advised him to stay alive, and drank himself unconscious.
• Nangong Yunlan arrived with Luo Yao, and Ye Lin told her he would soon leave.
• Ye Lin left Immortal Peach Wine, immortal peaches, and cultivation resources for Nangong Yunlan and Zhuge Yun.
• Ye Lin gave Nangong Yunlan and Zhuge Yun Sword Qi to protect them, then departed with Luo Yao.
• Nangong Yunlan stored the resources and lay beside Zhuge Yun beneath the stars.

Ye Lin brought Luo Yao to his hometown, the Xuanhuang Great World, and revisited Nameless Mountain, where he found the landscape unchanged but all the people he had known gone. He began wandering the mountain with a new disciple named Li Qingning.

• Ye Lin took Luo Yao through the Starry Sky to the Xuanhuang Great World, his hometown.
• Ye Lin entered the world, and its Heavenly Dao power fled from him.
• Ye Lin found Nameless Mountain and entered its hidden independent world.
• Li Qingning mistook Ye Lin for a new disciple, introduced herself, and offered to show him around.
• Ye Lin wandered Nameless Mountain with Li Qingning and reflected that everyone he had known there was gone.

Ye Lin revisited the Azure Cloud Sect with Luo Yao and showed her the humble place where he had once risen to prominence. He rewound time to see the sect as it had been when he first joined, then restored it to the present.

• Li Qingning asked Ye Lin about his cultivation realm and offered to teach him, then bashfully asked him to become her disciple’s master.
• Ye Lin refused and vanished with Luo Yao, leaving Li Qingning stunned when she realized his claimed Golden Core stage was false.
• Ye Lin pointed out the Azure Cloud Sect below and told Luo Yao that he had nearly died there before rising to prominence.
• Ye Lin used his power over time to rewind the Azure Cloud Sect to the day he had first joined, where strangers had replaced his former self.
• Ye Lin waved his hand and returned the Azure Cloud Sect to its present state.