Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin found a drop of blood essence guarded by colossal beasts and suspected it belonged to the mysterious figure whose blood had transformed his dantian. Determined to claim it, he unleashed his full power and charged into the beasts.

• Ye Lin followed the shrieks through the void and discovered a drop of golden blood surrounded by beasts from the Chaos Secret Realm.
• Ye Lin sensed that his dantian yearned for the blood and suspected it came from the mysterious expert whose blood had once changed him.
• Ye Lin decided he had to obtain the blood and advanced toward the beasts with Azure Frost.
• Three colossal beasts charged Ye Lin, and he cut them into blood mist with the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword.
• Ye Lin surrounded himself with Purgatory Ice Flame and charged alone into the remaining beasts.

Ye Lin fought through the Chaos Beasts and seized the essence blood, suppressing the urge to refine it until he could escape. Surrounded by countless beasts, he summoned the Emperor Sword, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, and his three clones, then charged into battle.

• Ye Lin discovered that the Chaos Beasts revived as they fought and decided to push past them instead of getting bogged down.
• Ye Lin cut through the beasts and reached the essence blood, whose presence made his dantian throb.
• Ye Lin stored the essence blood in his Spatial Ring and turned to face the beasts surrounding him.
• Ye Lin summoned the Emperor Sword and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, then called forth his three clones.
• Ye Lin and his clones charged at the Chaos Beasts as the creatures surged forward to attack.

Ye Lin fought through the chaotic colossal beasts and reached the next stage of the Emperor Road, where he entered a flower-filled world. Sword Venerable kept pace with him but evaded Ye Lin’s questions about how quickly he had completed the road in his own era.

• Ye Lin and his three clones fought through the chaotic colossal beasts, and he used the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword to clear a path out of the secret realm.
• Ye Lin recovered his spent power of chaos as he followed the corridor toward the Emperor Road and found Sword Venerable waiting.
• Sword Venerable said he would have reached the end already if the Emperor Road had not been opened specifically for Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin asked how long Sword Venerable had taken to complete the Emperor Road in his era, but Sword Venerable dismissed the question.
• Ye Lin entered the next vortex and found himself in a world covered with fragrant flowers.

Ye Lin encountered Flower Fairy, the immensely powerful being ranked second on the Hundred Heroes Ranking, and learned she wanted to fight him before allowing him to pass. Flower Fairy disappeared into the surrounding petals, and Ye Lin prepared to face her.

• Flower Fairy appeared before Ye Lin and introduced herself, surprising him with her strength and beauty.
• Ye Lin recognized Flower Fairy from the Hundred Heroes Ranking and recalled that legends said she would die miserably in the future.
• Flower Fairy read Ye Lin's expression, realized he foresaw her fate, and chose not to question him further.
• Flower Fairy sensed an innate lifeform within Ye Lin and challenged him to fight, saying he could pass if he won and would remain if he lost.
• Ye Lin summoned Azure Frost and reasoned that Flower Fairy was attaching herself to the flowers around him.

Ye Lin fought the Flower Fairy’s flower-filled trap, but petals fused with his skin and transformed him into a flowering tree. He freed himself with Infernal Prison Ice Flame and confronted the Flower Fairy again.

• Ye Lin destroyed the surrounding flowers with Sword Qi, then sliced apart Dragons made of petals with Azure Frost.
• Petals falling from the sky pierced Ye Lin and sprouted flowers across his body, eventually turning him into a tree.
• The Flower Fairy appeared, admired the fragrant flowers growing from Ye Lin, and left him to keep her company.
• Ye Lin sent Sword Qi at the Flower Fairy, then burned away the flowers with Infernal Prison Ice Flame and returned to normal.

Ye Lin used the Purgatory Ice Flame to destroy Flower Fairy’s law-formed flowers, forcing her to emerge and attack him. He then drew Azure Frost and unleashed the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword as she charged.

• Flower Fairy praised Ye Lin for breaking her spell and vanished, inviting him to keep playing with her.
• Ye Lin spread the Purgatory Ice Flame across the small world, burning Flower Fairy’s flowers into nothingness.
• Enraged by the destruction, Flower Fairy transformed into petals and swept toward Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin welcomed her anger, drew Azure Frost, and slashed at her with the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword.

Ye Lin battled Flower Fairy, using flames to destroy what he believed was her, but discovered the burning figure was only a petal-made incarnation. He countered her attack with his own external incarnation, leaving Flower Fairy gravely wounded and asking how he had seen through her deception.

• Ye Lin drove Flower Fairy back with Sword Qi until she erased it with petals.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Flower Fairy and trapped her in Purgatory Ice Flame, then sent a Karmic Fire Red Lotus after her.
• Flower Fairy revealed that the figure burning in the distance was a petal incarnation and attacked Ye Lin by making flowers bloom across his skin.
• Ye Lin revealed that he had also used an external incarnation, which struck Flower Fairy from behind and shattered her meridians and bones.
• Flower Fairy turned to Ye Lin and asked how he had discovered the deception.

Ye Lin saw through Flower Fairy’s disguise and defeated her by using a clone as bait, then entered the vortex expecting to face the Ancient Human Emperor. There, he reunited with Xuan Su.

• Ye Lin realized Flower Fairy’s apparent death had been a deception and concealed his true body while a clone drew her in.
• Ye Lin trapped Flower Fairy with Sword Qi, explaining that her eager performance had aroused his suspicions.
• Flower Fairy laughed as Ye Lin’s Sword Qi scattered her, and a vortex appeared.
• Ye Lin entered the vortex, anticipating the Ancient Human Emperor as his next opponent.
• Ye Lin found Xuan Su beside him, and she greeted him as they met again.

Ye Lin and Xuan Su learned the rules of the final trial, a deadly chase through enormous buildings where they would be hunted by powerful creatures. As the trial began, Xuan Su vanished, leaving Ye Lin to find the exit while avoiding both Hunters and the other contestants.

• Ye Lin thanked Xuan Su for helping him escape, and the two agreed that their repeated encounters showed they were fated to meet.
• Xuan Su explained that the trial was called Death Battle Royale and that contestants had to navigate the buildings to reach an exit.
• Xuan Su said the Heavenly Dao would suppress everyone to the early stage of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, while peak-stage Hunters pursued them.
• Xuan Su warned Ye Lin that the other contestants would betray him and urged him to focus on finding the exit.
• Xuan Su disappeared as the group entered the trial.

Ye Lin found himself trapped in a sealed room with his cultivation suppressed, then escaped into a maze of streets where a hunter with a blood-red Sickle began pursuing him. He fled at full speed, with the hunter close behind.

• Ye Lin waited for the sealed door to open, then stepped into a street lined with buildings.
• Ye Lin used the alleys to move through the maze and spotted a black-robed hunter carrying a blood-red Sickle.
• Ye Lin briefly lost sight of the hunter, only for it to appear directly in front of him.
• Ye Lin fled down the street, and the hunter followed, relishing the chase.

Ye Lin mapped the maze while fleeing the black-robed pursuers, and Xuan Su failed to divine a shortcut after discovering the Heavenly Dao had blocked the secrets of heaven. The hundred Taiyi Golden Immortals were left searching for the exit by trial and error.

• Ye Lin explored the alleys and memorized their paths as he built a map of the maze.
• Ye Lin saw three black-robed figures hacking a young man with blood-red sickles, then left him behind.
• Ye Lin sensed at least three black-robed figures pursuing him and sped through the alleys to avoid being caught.
• Xuan Su tried to calculate a shortcut with a chessboard but found no route out because the Heavenly Dao had blocked the secrets of heaven.
• Xuan Su gave up on divining the exit, and the hundred Taiyi Golden Immortals hurried through the maze to search for it themselves.

Ye Lin realized that searching the maze for an exit could take an impossibly long time, so he considered using its hunters to find a way out. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar confirmed the idea could work but pointed out that hunters moved, leaving Ye Lin without a way to pinpoint them.

• Ye Lin recognized that the maze’s branching paths made a straightforward search impractical, especially with eight pursuers behind him.
• Ye Lin asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar about the maze, and it explained that the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord had escaped by spending three hundred years killing people and using Soul Search to piece together routes.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar wondered why the people Ye Lin had encountered seemed so weak despite keeping pace with his rapid progress.
• Ye Lin proposed locating the hunters guarding each area to find the exit, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar agreed the plan could work but noted that hunters changed locations when they moved.

Ye Lin used the Heavenly Traverse Pearl to find danger and speed through the hunters' territory, drawing a growing crowd of hunters behind him while helping those who followed his path. After covering half the distance, his Chaos power ran low and he put the pearl away, confident he could outrun the hunters while he recovered.

• Ye Lin used the Heavenly Traverse Pearl to locate danger and avoid detours, while more than a hundred hunters gathered in pursuit.
• Xuan Su followed Ye Lin's route and wondered why he had not encountered any hunters.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned Ye Lin that the hunters were closing in behind him.
• Ye Lin covered half the distance but ran low on Chaos power from using the pearl continuously.
• Ye Lin put away the Heavenly Traverse Pearl and insisted the hunters could not catch him.

A colossal warship from beyond the Star River Cosmos broke through its barrier and entered the cosmos, prompting the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals to abandon the Emperor Road and confront the intruders. The two sides faced off in the Starry Sky, where a mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal demanded to know who the three-eyed beings were and where they had come from.

• A thunderous blast shattered the Star River Cosmos's barrier, and a massive warship began entering from beyond it.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals left the Emperor Road to investigate and defend the Star River Cosmos.
• The three-eyed creatures aboard the warship surveyed the cosmos and wondered whether it was barren, while their vessel crushed nearby star domains and living beings.
• The burly three-eyed creature sensed approaching experts and went to the front of the warship.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals appeared and faced the three-eyed creatures in the Starry Sky.
• A mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stepped forward and asked the intruders who they were and where they came from.

Yun Feihu and the Three-Eyed Gods Clan arrived in the Star River Cosmos, where scans revealed more than a hundred Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and no Daluo Golden Immortals. Facing demands to leave, Yun Feihu claimed their damaged warship needed a thousand years to repair, leaving the two sides in a tense standoff.

• Yun Feihu introduced himself and claimed the Three-Eyed Gods Clan had arrived while traveling through the Boundary Sea.
• The Star River Cosmos's Primordial Unity Golden Immortals demanded that the visitors leave and warned they would attack otherwise.
• The Three-Eyed Gods Clan scanned the universe and learned it had no Daluo Golden Immortals but more than a hundred Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Yun Feihu realized his group of just over thirty Primordial Unity Golden Immortals could not easily take the universe.
• Yun Feihu claimed the Heavenly Dao had crippled their warship and asked for a thousand years to repair it before leaving.

The Star River Cosmos Primordial Unity Golden Immortals clashed with Yun Feihu and the Three-Eyed Divine Clan after refusing to let them remain in the Starry Sky. The Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable arrived and, after Yun Feihu recognized his ancestor’s name, brought him aboard the warship to hear about the Nine Suns Sacred Venerable while the others kept the ship surrounded.

• Yun Feihu refused to leave, and the Star River Cosmos Primordial Unity Golden Immortals attacked his group.
• Yun Feihu ordered the Three-Eyed Divine Clan’s experts to fight back as both sides faced off in the starry sky.
• The Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable arrived and revealed that he was a descendant of the Nine Suns Sacred Venerable, whose name alarmed Yun Feihu and his companions.
• Yun Feihu abruptly agreed to stay as a guest, and the Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable escorted him aboard the warship to ask about his ancestor.
• The Star River Cosmos Primordial Unity Golden Immortals surrounded the warship and resolved not to let anyone aboard enter the Starry Sky.

Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable questioned Yun Feihu about Nine Suns Sacred Venerable and Li Jinhuang, revealing that the Three-Eyed Divine Clan feared the people connected to them. Yun Feihu withdrew to gather reinforcements and spread the news, convinced he had uncovered a major secret.

• Yun Feihu explained that Nine Suns Sacred Venerable had destroyed the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan, leaving the survivors to rename themselves the Three-Eyed Divine Clan.
• Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable asked Yun Feihu about Li Jinhuang, and Yun Feihu admitted the name was taboo and he dared not discuss it.
• Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable left, and Yun Feihu led his group away from the dangerous area.
• Yun Feihu decided to return with reinforcements and spread news about Nine Suns Sacred Venerable and Li Jinhuang.

The Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable let the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals go, while the Sword Venerable realized the Boundary Sea had made matters more complicated. Ye Lin reached the final stage of the Emperor Road and confronted Li Jinhuang, demanding a fight.

• The Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable explained that he let the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals leave because they feared his ancestor and could deter their allies, but warned that they should prepare.
• The Sword Venerable revealed that he had awakened the Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable and noted that the Boundary Sea was complicating matters.
• Ye Lin escaped the trial in one and a half days, setting a record, and arrived on the Emperor Road with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar.
• Ye Lin entered the golden vortex at the final stage and found Li Jinhuang waiting across an enormous plain.
• Li Jinhuang greeted Ye Lin as a little brother, but Ye Lin drew Azure Frost and demanded that they fight.

Ye Lin reached the Great Luo Dao Fruit on the Emperor Road, but refused to use it and began cultivating toward Daluo Golden Immortal by his own efforts. The Sword Venerable arrived and found him meditating, while Li Jinhuang revealed that he had chosen not to fight.

• Li Jinhuang avoided fighting Ye Lin and vanished through a golden vortex.
• Ye Lin emerged on the Emperor Road and found three Great Luo Dao Fruits growing on a peculiar tree.
• Ye Lin rejected the fruit and began cultivating, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar approved of his choice.
• The Sword Venerable entered the vortex, questioned Li Jinhuang about not fighting, and left after Li Jinhuang brushed him off.
• The Sword Venerable found Ye Lin cultivating and remarked that the three Dao Fruits were unnecessary for this generation.

Ye Lin and Sword Venerable cultivated at the end of the Emperor Road while Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable guarded the exposed Star River Cosmos against a feared future attack. After five thousand years, Ye Lin reached the late stage of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, and Hong Batian begged Li Jinhuang to let him pass after learning he was connected to Ye Lin.

• Sword Venerable began cultivating at the end of the Emperor Road, determined to break through to Daluo Golden Immortal, while Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable guarded the Star River Cosmos.
• Five thousand years later, Liu Bai reached the end of the Emperor Road and began cultivating beside Ye Lin and Sword Venerable.
• Ye Lin advanced to the late stage of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and resumed cultivating with more than ten thousand years remaining.
• Hong Batian begged Li Jinhuang to spare him, and Li Jinhuang let him pass after sensing Ye Lin's aura on him.
• Li Jinhuang told Hong Batian that Ye Lin was his little brother and asked whether Hong Batian knew him.