Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin learned that the young man carried the Heavenly Traverse Pearl, an acquired spirit treasure that could predict events guaranteed to happen, but suspected the offer was a trap and walked away. The young man also left, only to be pursued through the void by a streak of sword light.

• The young man told Ye Lin that the Heavenly Traverse Pearl could predict the future and had helped him evade capture.
• The young man claimed Ye Lin could use the pearl on Emperor Road and protect it from the Heavenly Dao by exposing it to Transcendence dust.
• Ye Lin refused to follow the young man, suspecting danger, and left after gaining useful information.
• The young man complained that another deal had fallen through, then abruptly fled into the distant void.
• A dazzling streak of sword light pursued the young man.

Ye Lin and the young man fell through collapsing space into a desolate world of volcanoes and meteors. Ye Lin restrained the young man, took the Heavenly Traverse Pearl, and remained unsure how to use it.

• The young man used the Heavenly Traverse Pearl to predict Ye Lin’s movements and trap him in collapsing space.
• Ye Lin bound the young man with law chains, and both fell into the Void.
• Ye Lin emerged in a volcanic wasteland with the young man still bound to him.
• The young man begged Ye Lin to let him go, but Ye Lin took the Heavenly Traverse Pearl from him.

Ye Lin defeated a young man and learned from his memories that he was trapped in the Battle of Annihilation, a deadly stage with a possible way out. He set off to find an escape while examining the Heavenly Traverse Pearl.

• The young man offered Ye Lin the Heavenly Traverse Pearl, but Ye Lin cut away his lower body and asserted that the pearl was already his.
• The young man begged for his life and offered to guide Ye Lin out, but Ye Lin used Soul Search to absorb his memories and cripple his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin learned that the Land of Annihilation was part of the Battle of Annihilation, where killing one person earned a point and killing three cleared the stage.
• The young man's memories revealed that escaping the Land of Annihilation's restraints was the only sliver of hope for survival.
• Ye Lin killed the twitching young man and began searching for a way out while studying the Heavenly Traverse Pearl.

Ye Lin confirmed that the Heavenly Traverse Pearl was a rare postnatal spirit treasure that could predict the future by consuming his chaotic power. After using it to foresee a dangerous meteor shower, he found a cave that the pearl said would keep him safe.

• Ye Lin learned that the Heavenly Traverse Pearl was a postnatal spirit treasure from the Chaos era, and that its predictions consumed chaotic power.
• Ye Lin used the pearl to predict an hour ahead and saw a heavenly calamity of meteors condensed from laws.
• Ye Lin fled the area and searched for shelter before the predicted meteor shower arrived.
• Ye Lin found a cave and used the pearl again, which predicted that hiding there would protect him.

Ye Lin entered a cave and discovered Xuan Su with two women, then left to wait outside as the Heavenly Traverse Pearl’s predicted meteor disaster began. He watched the law-formed meteors fall and realized they posed a serious threat even to him.

• Ye Lin sensed three auras in the cave and followed strange cries to a frozen chamber.
• Ye Lin found Xuan Su entangled with two women, and Xuan Su asked him to help share the pressure.
• Ye Lin cursed Xuan Su and left the cave to meditate outside.
• The sky churned and countless law-formed fireballs fell, devastating the surrounding land.
• Ye Lin watched the meteors and concluded that being struck by one would be dangerous even for him.

Ye Lin learned that Xuan Su and the two women traveling with him had been trapped on the Emperor Road for over ten thousand eras. The chapter ended with Xuan Su asking whether Ye Lin knew a way out.

• Xuan Su approached Ye Lin and said that he, too, had been tricked into entering the area.
• Xuan Su explained that Snow Lotus and her younger sister, Snow Velvet, had been trapped there for over ten thousand eras and suffered from fire poison.
• Snow Lotus introduced herself and Snow Velvet to Ye Lin, who gave them his name.
• Xuan Su explained that anyone who failed to leave before the Emperor Road closed would remain trapped until it appeared again in the Star River Cosmos.
• Xuan Su asked Ye Lin whether he had found a way to escape.

Ye Lin and Xuan Su decided to search for a way out of the apocalyptic world rather than wait three thousand years for the lava beasts to disappear. Snow Velvet and her sister followed them as they flew into an attack by the beasts.

• Ye Lin reassured Xuan Su that his future escape meant they would get out, while the two women wondered why the men were so calm.
• After five hours of meteorite strikes, Snow Velvet warned that lava beasts would roam the land for three thousand years.
• Xuan Su refused to wait, and Ye Lin agreed to fight their way out and search for an exit.
• Snow Velvet and her sister followed Ye Lin and Xuan Su, saying they had found no one else in the world.
• The four flew onward, and the lava beasts spotted them, leaped into the air, and charged.

Ye Lin and Xuan Su searched the endless volcanic prison for an exit but found only more lava behemoths and empty void. With no way out in sight, Ye Lin concealed a sharp glimmer in his eyes and led the others back to consider another approach.

• Ye Lin and Xuan Su fought through the lava behemoths while the two trapped women watched and regained a little hope.
• Ye Lin searched the volcanic landscape, then flew upward into the void but found no exit.
• Snow Lotus and Snow Velvet told Ye Lin that they had searched the prison for tens of thousands of epochs without success.
• Ye Lin concealed a sharp glimmer in his eyes and led Xuan Su, Snow Lotus, and Snow Velvet back down to think of another way.
• Xuan Su wondered how his future self had escaped if they were truly trapped.

Ye Lin realized that the trapped cave was part of the Emperor Road trial and that killing its inhabitants could earn the points needed to escape. He attacked Snow Velvet and explained the trial’s rules, leaving Snow Lotus wounded and the others stunned.

• Ye Lin and Xuan Su despaired over being trapped, while Snow Lotus offered them a comfortable life in the safe cave.
• Ye Lin realized the Heavenly Dao had left a way out and drew Azure Frost.
• Ye Lin charged Snow Velvet and cut her in two despite her attempt to flee.
• Snow Lotus attacked Ye Lin to avenge her sister, but he knocked her back and made her vomit blood.
• Ye Lin told Snow Velvet that the cave was part of the trial and that each person was worth one point, with three points needed to leave.

Ye Lin killed Snow Velvet, inferred the trial’s point system, and entered another secret realm after Xuan Su killed Snow Lotus to claim the remaining point. Ye Lin found a gigantic spider in the new realm and wondered what reward awaited him.

• Ye Lin killed Snow Velvet, gained the third point, and entered the vortex to the next stage.
• Xuan Su realized the trial rules still applied, killed Snow Lotus for the remaining point, and entered his own vortex.
• Ye Lin emerged in a familiar secret realm and chose a corridor at random.
• Sword Venerable entered the vortex but was immediately sent onward by another vortex before he could fight.
• Ye Lin encountered a mountain-sized spider, found no treasure, and turned to face it.

Ye Lin collected Snowfield Divine Spider silk and met Auntie Xue, who agreed to weave him a garment during the next Emperor Road trial. She began telling him how she had once been an ordinary mortal, while hinting at her rivalry with the Sword Venerable.

• Ye Lin defeated the giant spider by gathering its indestructible silk until it could no longer produce any, then destroyed it and returned to the Emperor Road.
• The Sword Venerable warned Ye Lin to be careful in the next round but refused to explain why.
• Ye Lin entered the vortex and found Auntie Xue weaving beneath a peach tree beside a sea of clouds.
• Ye Lin gave Auntie Xue his Snowfield Divine Spider silk and asked her to make him a garment; she agreed to alter the design of his blood-red robe.
• Auntie Xue said Ye Lin's low cultivation meant she could not beat the Sword Venerable, then began telling Ye Lin about her life as an ordinary mortal.

Aunt Xue recounted how she rescued the Sword Venerable as a beggar, entered a cultivation sect alongside him, and repeatedly watched him get deceived by women. The chapter ended with her recalling that, a hundred years later, she took in the injured Sword Venerable after he regretted ignoring her warnings.

• Aunt Xue said she took the nearly frozen Sword Venerable home, cared for him, and later entered a sect with him after immortals recruited them.
• Aunt Xue warned the Sword Venerable about a demoness, but he ignored her and was robbed, crippled, and left with a shattered dantian.
• Aunt Xue stayed beside the Sword Venerable as he recovered over ten years, then accompanied him when he sought revenge and killed the demoness.
• The Sword Venerable fell for another woman despite Aunt Xue's warnings, while Aunt Xue withdrew to cultivate in seclusion.
• A hundred years later, the injured Sword Venerable told Aunt Xue that he had been deceived again and regretted not listening, so she treated his wounds and sheltered him.

Aunt Xue told Ye Lin how Sword Venerable repeatedly fell in love and was deceived, until he sealed his heart with a Sword Dao oath. After giving Ye Lin his finished garment, she let him leave, but Ye Lin warned her that Sword Venerable was right behind him.

• Aunt Xue recounted how she and Sword Venerable reunited several times, only for him to keep falling for other women and getting deceived.
• Aunt Xue said Sword Venerable eventually sealed away his heart in the Nine Nether Cold Prison and explained that even at her current cultivation, she would not be his match.
• Aunt Xue showed Ye Lin the blood-red garment she had made, and he put it on.
• Aunt Xue opened a vortex for Ye Lin to leave, and he told her that Senior Sword Venerable was right behind him.
• Aunt Xue summoned silver needles and watched the vortex warily.

The Sword Venerable confronted Xue'er in the vortex, where she blamed him for her wrongful death and refused to move aside. Ye Lin emerged into an extraordinary cultivation environment and hurried on toward the next trial, aiming to grow stronger on the Emperor Road before pursuing the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

• After Ye Lin left, the Sword Venerable entered the vortex and stopped Xue'er's silver needles with ease.
• Xue'er accused the Sword Venerable of causing her wrongful death, while he insisted that her death had nothing to do with him.
• Xue'er said she had told Ye Lin about the Sword Venerable's past deeds, but the Sword Venerable remained unconcerned and demanded that she move aside.
• Ye Lin emerged into a realm where Chaos Qi and the laws of heaven and earth poured into him, and he estimated he could reach the late stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm in a thousand years.
• Ye Lin continued to the next trial, planning to reach the peak of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm on the Emperor Road before pursuing the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

Ye Lin entered a trial of Arenas where he had to defeat an opponent to advance. He killed Ren Feifan with ease and stepped into the vortex leading to the next trial.

• Ye Lin entered a vast arena trial and learned that defeating an opponent would let him advance.
• Ren Feifan challenged Ye Lin, confident that a cultivator from a later era would be weaker.
• Ye Lin wounded Ren Feifan with his aura alone, then killed him with a streak of Sword Qi.
• The Arena dissolved, and Ye Lin stepped into the vortex to continue the trial.

Ye Lin entered a starry realm and encountered the Sword Venerable, who recognized him as a swordsman from the future. They clashed in a fierce sword battle, which continued as the chapter ended.

• Ye Lin entered the vortex and found the Sword Venerable waiting in a starry sky beside an ancient sword.
• The Sword Venerable attacked Ye Lin with a Myriad Calamity Sword Prison of Geng Metal Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin shattered the Sword Mountain and cleaved the Sword Prison with a single strike, though his Sword Qi dissipated before reaching the Sword Venerable.
• Ye Lin charged the Sword Venerable, and the two fought across the starry sky, their swords colliding with devastating force.

Ye Lin defeated the Sword Venerable in a single clash, then left the stage. The Sword Venerable blamed his loss on Ye Lin’s Acquired Spirit Treasure and was unsettled to find Ye Lin waiting ahead after entering the next vortex.

• The Sword Venerable taunted Ye Lin as they fought, but Ye Lin’s relentless strikes forced him to defend.
• The Sword Venerable proposed settling the fight with one sword strike, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Ye Lin and the Sword Venerable unleashed their strongest sword attacks, tearing through space and shattering stars.
• Ye Lin sheathed Azure Frost and left after the Sword Venerable dissipated, with the Sword Venerable realizing Ye Lin’s weapon was an Acquired Spirit Treasure.
• The Sword Venerable questioned why Ye Lin had advanced so quickly, entered the vortex, and saw Ye Lin waiting in the distance.

Ye Lin continued along the Emperor Road, frustrated that it had given him no secret realms, while Liu Bai and Hong Batian struggled through its trials. The chapter ended with Hong Batian emerging from a trial battered and cursing the road.

• Sword Venerable argued with his distant counterpart, who claimed he had lost quickly because Ye Lin possessed a postnatal spiritual treasure.
• Ye Lin complained that the Heavenly Dao had provided no secret realms, then entered the next vortex, believing he was nearing the end of the Emperor Road.
• Liu Bai cursed the Emperor Road after barely defeating the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord in the eighth trial and entered the next vortex.
• Hong Batian emerged from the vortex filthy and battered, complaining that the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord and the Emperor Road had nearly killed him.

Ye Lin faced a checkpoint where only three of the ten people on each road could reach the exit vortex. He fought off the others and entered the vortex, passing the trial.

• Ye Lin learned that the first three people to reach the vortex would pass the checkpoint.
• When the trial began, Ye Lin fended off attacks and used Sword Qi to knock three figures ahead of him away.
• A young man ensnared Ye Lin's legs with Golden Cicada Silk, but Ye Lin cut through the threads with Azure Frost.
• Ye Lin reached the vortex, struck back at the figures pursuing him with the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword, and stepped through.

Ye Lin entered a secret realm filled with chaos qi on the Emperor Road and headed toward its center. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoyao escaped the eighth trial, where most challengers remained trapped by the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord.

• Ye Lin arrived on the Emperor Road, discovered a secret realm, and walked toward a distant corridor with Azure Frost.
• Li Xiaoyao emerged from the eighth trial after facing the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord and complained about the danger.
• Many Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and most younger geniuses remained stuck at the eighth trial, blaming Ye Lin for its extreme difficulty.
• Ye Lin entered a chaos-filled secret realm that resembled one he had visited before and heard terrifying shrieks from the void.
• Ye Lin carried Azure Frost toward the secret realm’s center, expecting its treasures to be there.