Chapter Summaries

After reaching twenty-first place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking, Ye Lin rested for a year and then entered the ranking again to continue his climb. The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals watched as he faced a refined man in an ink-black robe, who acknowledged Ye Lin’s achievement.

• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals praised Ye Lin for reaching twenty-first place despite his early-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Ye Lin rested in the Starry Sky for a year, then rose and entered the Hundred Heroes Ranking again.
• The spectators debated whether Ye Lin could challenge the highest ranks, comparing him with the Ancient Human Emperor and the Sword Venerable.
• A refined middle-aged man in an ink-black robe greeted Ye Lin and remarked that he had managed to reach him.

Ye Lin faced Xuan Su, the Chess Sage, who drew him into a chessboard and attacked him with beasts formed from black pieces. Ye Lin unleashed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, clearing the black pieces and filling their spaces with white ones.

• Ye Lin recognized Xuan Su as the ancient Chess Sage, who had died attempting to reach the Great Luo realm.
• Xuan Su summoned a chessboard and pulled Ye Lin into it, challenging him to a game.
• A black chess piece transformed into a Taotie, and Ye Lin killed it with the Emperor Sword.
• More black pieces turned into beasts and surrounded Ye Lin, while he searched for a way to escape the chessboard.
• Ye Lin used the Karmic Fire Red Lotus to destroy the beasts and black pieces, and white pieces appeared in their place.

Ye Lin broke Xuan Su’s chess formation and passed his trial, then prepared to face the twentieth-ranked Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned him about its former master’s fearsome power, leaving Ye Lin to meet the next challenge with caution.

• Ye Lin shattered Xuan Su’s chessboard formation before its momentum could fully build.
• Xuan Su conceded, praised Ye Lin, and confirmed that he had passed the trial.
• Ye Lin learned that his next opponent was the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord, who had once nearly slaughtered half the Star River Cosmos.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar teased Ye Lin and offered to ask its former master to go easy on him.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar acknowledged that the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord had been exceptionally powerful.

Ye Lin entered the blood-soaked world to challenge the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord at full strength, but the Devil Lord easily countered his attacks. The Devil Lord told Ye Lin to leave and return when he was stronger, then attacked him with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar.

• Ye Lin restored himself to peak condition and stepped into the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord’s world.
• The Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord recognized the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and challenged Ye Lin to show his abilities.
• Ye Lin struck at the Devil Lord with the Emperor Sword, but his Sword Qi broke apart before reaching him.
• Ye Lin used Karmic Fire Red Lotus and retreated, but the Devil Lord neutralized his attacks with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar.
• The Devil Lord declared Ye Lin too weak to contend with him and brought the jar down in a terrifying attack.

Ye Lin’s sword strike failed against the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord, who absorbed it with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar. The Devil Lord lamented that Ye Lin had abandoned his cultivation technique and legacy, while Ye Lin promised to return for another challenge.

• Ye Lin used the Emperor Sword to unleash a powerful strike, but the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord absorbed and refined it with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar.
• The Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord criticized Ye Lin for rejecting the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and failing to carry on his legacy.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Ye Lin’s rapid growth and independent choices had led it to give up guiding him.
• Ye Lin acknowledged that he was no match for the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord yet and promised to return for instruction.

Ye Lin received advice from the Heaven-Devouring Devil Master about the Emperor Road and the opportunity it offered to advance his cultivation. After leaving, he wondered why no other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals had appeared as the road’s opening drew near.

• The Heaven-Devouring Devil Master told Ye Lin to travel as far as possible along the Emperor Road and seek cultivation at its end rather than rely on the Great Luo Dao Fruit.
• The Heaven-Devouring Devil Master recalled reaching the end of the Emperor Road, refusing the Dao Fruit, and later being stopped while trying to forge his own path to Great Luo.
• Ye Lin thanked the Heaven-Devouring Devil Master for the guidance and left, noting that the Devil Master ranked twentieth among the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Ye Lin wondered why the Emperor Road had shown no signs of opening and why no other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, including Hong Batian, Liu Bai, or Li Xiaoyao, had emerged.

Liu Bai decided to risk breaking through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm despite the chaotic laws, while Hong Batian prepared to do the same under the Phoenix Clan's protection. After thousands of years of waiting, Ye Lin sensed the Emperor Road approaching just as powerful auras appeared across the Star River Cosmos.

• Liu Bai regretted missing his chance to break through when the laws briefly returned, then resolved to attempt the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm despite the danger.
• Hong Batian decided his foundation was ready and set out to break through while Primordial Unity Golden Immortal experts of the Phoenix Clan protected him.
• Ye Lin waited in the void for the Emperor Road, continuing to consolidate his cultivation as he sensed the laws of heaven and earth beginning to return.
• Ye Lin reflected that the calamity had killed ninety percent of the Star River Cosmos's living beings, mostly cultivators, while remote mortals had largely been spared.
• Deafening booms shook the Starry Sky as terrifying auras spread across the Star River Cosmos, and Ye Lin suspected several people had planned to act at once.

Seven prodigies began breaking through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Ye Lin watched and reflected on how few such cultivators remained. When the Demon Race tried to attack Liu Bai during his breakthrough, Ye Lin intervened, leaving Liu Bai to pursue Great Luo Transcendence.

• Ye Lin watched Hong Batian, Liu Bai, Li Xiaoyao, and four other prodigies begin breaking through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin considered how many Primordial Unity Golden Immortals died or left the Emperor Road, and noted that he had killed over a hundred himself.
• A law-formed giant hand reached for Liu Bai during his breakthrough, but Ye Lin cleaved it apart with Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin challenged the attacker to confront him directly, and the depths of the River of Time fell silent.
• Liu Bai resumed his breakthrough, intending to achieve Great Luo Transcendence.

Ye Lin remained in cultivation while seven figures underwent tribulation and became Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, as the laws of heaven and earth returned and the Star River Cosmos recovered from its calamity. The new immortals prepared to await the Emperor Road, and Ye Lin praised Li Xiaoyao’s surging aura.

• Ye Lin cultivated undisturbed as lightning tribulations and the returning laws of heaven and earth swept across the Star River Cosmos.
• Evil Cultivators hid or restarted their cultivation, while Aberrations and monsters faced the coming reckoning.
• Several years later, Hong Batian, Liu Bai, Li Xiaoyao, and four others became Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• The older Primordial Unity Golden Immortals retreated into the Star River Cosmos to await the Emperor Road.
• Ye Lin looked at Li Xiaoyao and said his progress was not bad.

After waiting thousands of years, Ye Lin and the other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals saw the Emperor Road appear and began its first trial. Ancient powerhouses gathered behind them, bound by the rule that they could advance only as far as the current era’s prodigies.

• Li Xiaoyao reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Ye Lin wondered why the others had not advanced as the panel had predicted.
• Ye Lin and the other newly advanced Primordial Unity Golden Immortals waited thousands of years for the laws of heaven and earth to return.
• The Emperor Road emerged across the Star River Cosmos, and Ye Lin recognized its steps as a trial before the ancient gate.
• Ye Lin climbed the steps, endured their mounting pressure, and was followed by the other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals of the present age.
• Ancient Primordial Unity Golden Immortals appeared but waited for the present age’s prodigies, since Heavenly Dao rules limited how far they could advance.

Ye Lin passed the trial before the ancient gate and entered the Emperor Road, where the dense chaotic qi and sword dao laws promised rapid cultivation. The Star River Cosmos immortals followed him toward the vortex and the road’s next stage.

• Sword Venerable hoped Ye Lin would reach the end of the Emperor Road so he could have a chance to become a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin crossed all nine pressure-laden steps and reached the ancient gate.
• Ye Lin entered the Emperor Road and found an ancient path filled with chaotic qi and sword dao laws that greatly boosted cultivation.
• Hong Batian marveled at the cultivation conditions and estimated he could reach the middle stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm in ten thousand years.
• The other immortals followed Ye Lin toward the vortex after learning that cultivation would improve further in the second stage.

The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals reflected on the dwindling chances of ascending the Emperor Road before climbing its stairs. Ye Lin encountered a spacetime projection of Xuan Su and told him bluntly that his future self was dead.

• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals worried that their era might be the last to produce someone capable of ascending the Emperor Road, then climbed the stairs.
• Ye Lin walked among countless ancient roads and met Xuan Su, whom he recognized as the Chess Sage.
• Ye Lin asked whether telling Xuan Su about the future could change it, and Xuan Su explained that he was only a spacetime projection left behind after his death.
• Xuan Su asked Ye Lin whether his future self was dead, and Ye Lin confirmed it bluntly.

Ye Lin and Xuan Su traveled along the Emperor Road as its first trial began, with the ancient paths collapsing beneath them. Xuan Su explained the road’s rules, and Ye Lin continued toward the distant vortex.

• Ye Lin wondered whether he might meet someone from the future, and Xuan Su warned that learning his future would make his spacetime a projection.
• Xuan Su warned Ye Lin that the first trial had begun as the ancient road collapsed and a massive tentacle attacked him.
• Ye Lin cut the tentacle apart with a sword gesture and sped along the crumbling road toward a distant vortex.
• Ye Lin realized each ancient road held only one person, preventing anyone from coasting through alongside another.
• Ye Lin asked whether he could attack the other travelers, and Xuan Su explained that they shared a goal and only needed to contend with Primordial Unity Golden Immortals from their own era for the Dao Fruit.

Ye Lin entered a new stretch of the Emperor Road, where he found Dragon Island and challenged its golden dragons for a Daluo Golden Immortal True Dragon’s Dragon Ball. After taking the treasure, he fought the dragons as Sword Venerable watched from the ancient road.

• Ye Lin and Xuan Su fought through Qilin on the Emperor Road, then emerged onto an ancient road filled with dense Chaos aura and corridors leading to floating islands.
• Ye Lin entered Dragon Island, where five-clawed golden Dragons offered him the chance to take a Daluo Golden Immortal True Dragon’s Dragon Ball or retreat.
• Ye Lin accepted the challenge, took the Dragon Ball, and summoned the Human Emperor Sword alongside the Emperor Sword, with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar above him.
• The five-clawed golden dragons attacked Ye Lin, who fought them with powerful Sword Qi as Sword Venerable watched from the ancient road.

Ye Lin endured the final dragon-breath attack on Dragon Island and claimed the Dragon Balls. He returned to the Emperor Road and continued toward the next secret realm after the Sword Venerable explained that each trial could only be entered once.

• Ye Lin fought through the immortal five-clawed golden dragons and neared Dragon Island's exit.
• The golden dragons unleashed a barrage of dragon breath, and Ye Lin broke through it with his twin swords and Sword Qi.
• The five-clawed golden dragon let Ye Lin leave, and Ye Lin took the Dragon Balls and returned to the Emperor Road.
• The Sword Venerable asked Ye Lin whether he had obtained the Dragon Balls, then told him each trial could only be entered once.
• Ye Lin headed toward the next secret realm while the Sword Venerable urged him to keep moving forward.

Ye Lin entered the Emperor Road and met Xuan Su, who explained that the later trials were guarded by unparalleled Taiyi from different spacetimes. The Heavenly Dao adjusted the road's difficulty to the strength of each age, potentially using a peerless prodigy as its measure.

• Ye Lin entered the vortex while Sword Venerable waited outside, unable to pass through because no Taiyi of the present age had cleared the trial.
• Ye Lin met Xuan Su on the ancient road, and Xuan Su offered to travel with him as a friend.
• Xuan Su explained that from the eighth trial onward, Ye Lin would have to defeat an unparalleled Taiyi guarding each trial.
• Ye Lin asked how anyone from an age could finish the road if its strongest figure guarded a trial, and Xuan Su said the Heavenly Dao adjusted the difficulty to each age's strength.
• Xuan Su added that an age's peerless prodigy could set the road's difficulty, leaving Ye Lin to suspect that he alone might reach the end in his age.

Ye Lin emerged from the law-comprehension stage and was overwhelmed by the Emperor Road’s cultivation environment, so he began cultivating immediately. Sword Venerable arrived and urged him onward, but Ye Lin remained absorbed in cultivation.

• Xuan Su told Ye Lin that the stage tested comprehension of laws, then entered the vortex ahead of him.
• Ye Lin passed through the vortex and found the chaotic qi, laws, and Sword Dao pouring into his mind.
• Ye Lin sat down to cultivate, deciding that the Emperor Road’s eighteen thousand years were not enough time.
• Sword Venerable passed through the stage, found Ye Lin cultivating, and sighed as he waited for him to move on.
• Sword Venerable reflected that Ye Lin was safe on the Emperor Road because the veteran Taiyi would protect him.

Ye Lin explored an island on the Emperor Road, where the God Clan told him he had to reach the end to obtain Thousand Divine Gold. He continued forward under their watch, knowing the powerful creatures would soon try to stop him.

• After a hundred years of cultivation, Ye Lin opened his eyes, and Sword Venerable told him the Emperor Road grew even more terrifying farther ahead.
• Ye Lin chose a corridor leading to an island and entered it, where countless green-skinned creatures surrounded him.
• A God Clan creature told Ye Lin that reaching the island’s end would earn him Thousand Divine Gold.
• Ye Lin asked about the creatures’ race, and one explained that the God Clan existed only on the Emperor Road.
• A God Clan creature warned Ye Lin that they would move to stop him in ten breaths, so Ye Lin accelerated toward the island’s end.

Ye Lin took a mysterious golden stone from a secret realm, then entered the third trial and absorbed its sword-law Sword Qi to improve his comprehension. He left the trial as his Chaos Sword Body and Void Return-to-Ruin Sword Hall began drawing in chaos qi.

• Ye Lin collected the diamond-shaped golden stone, suspecting it might be Thousand Divine Gold, as God Clan members charged at him.
• Ye Lin fought through and left the secret realm, remembering Xuan Su’s warning that the real main event was still to come.
• Under Sword Venerable’s resentful gaze, Ye Lin entered the third trial and found himself bombarded by Sword Qi condensed from sword laws.
• Ye Lin slowed his pace to absorb the Sword Qi and improve his comprehension of the laws of the sword.
• After leaving the trial, Ye Lin’s Chaos Sword Body and Void Return-to-Ruin Sword Hall activated and began absorbing chaos qi.

Ye Lin left the sword-path vortex to avoid wasting time cultivating, then cleared the fourth trial and continued toward the remaining trials. He reached an unfamiliar island and was asked whether he was Venerable Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin decided to hurry onward instead of cultivating in the vortex, though he still planned to collect treasures from the islands.
• Sword Venerable explained that the Emperor Road’s cultivation environment improved deeper along the route and urged Ye Lin to make use of his limited time.
• Ye Lin swept through the island for half an hour, left with murderous intent, and entered the fourth vortex.
• Ye Lin passed through the fourth vortex and continued toward the fifth, sixth, and seventh trials as his cultivation rose rapidly.
• Ye Lin reached an unfamiliar island, summoned the Emperor Sword, and heard someone ask whether he was Venerable Ye Lin.