Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin watched as the Spirit King defeated and devoured Ling Qing'er, then took her weapons and Spatial Ring. The Spirit King invited Ye Lin to his kingdom, and Ye Lin accepted while remaining wary.

• Ye Lin watched Ling Qing'er battle the Spirit King and believed her defeat was inevitable.
• The Spirit King struck Ling Qing'er down, and Ye Lin praised him.
• The Spirit King swallowed the grievously wounded Ling Qing'er and sent her two swords and Spatial Ring to Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin found only tree trunks and leaves in the Spatial Ring, then thanked the Spirit King.
• The Spirit King invited Ye Lin to his kingdom and offered him treasures, and Ye Lin agreed while staying guarded.

Ye Lin remained wary of the Spirit King and questioned him about the world beneath the surface. The Spirit King explained that his people had fled a world-ending crisis and led Ye Lin to see the kingdom he had built.

• Ye Lin worried the Spirit King might eat him and resolved to leave after gathering treasures.
• Ye Lin asked the Spirit King whether he had ever visited the surface.
• The Spirit King said the surface had become barren after a world-ending crisis, so his people had brought their world seed underground to survive.
• Ye Lin observed the underground world's vast terrain and creatures as he traveled with the Spirit King.
• The Spirit King brought Ye Lin to his kingdom, where endless aerial pavilions stood amid clouds and vitality-filled rivers.

The Spirit King showed Ye Lin its strange kingdom and the White King Palace, which it had built to honor the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s legendary White King. Ye Lin recognized the Everlasting Stone above the throne as a powerful treasure, and the Spirit King explained that it could heal even quasi-saint injuries.

• The Spirit King led Ye Lin through its kingdom, where its unusual subjects watched him curiously.
• The Spirit King explained that its grandfather had escaped the world-ending calamity with part of the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan, and that it had built the White King Palace to honor the fallen White King.
• The Spirit King brought Ye Lin inside the palace and sat on its white throne beneath a radiant diamond-shaped stone.
• Ye Lin praised the stone, and the Spirit King identified it as the Everlasting Stone, capable of healing most injuries, including wounds suffered by quasi-saint experts.

The Spirit King offered Ye Lin a trove of creation-powered treasures in exchange for bringing him blood food. Ye Lin questioned the Spirit King’s warning that he would die if he revealed the secret realm, and the Spirit King claimed he had his own methods before offering Ye Lin two paths.

• The Spirit King transformed into a middle-aged man and told Ye Lin he would give him the item he wanted and discuss a deal.
• The Spirit King had attendants bring in trays of treasures filled with dense creation power.
• The Spirit King offered Ye Lin all the treasures if he brought him enough blood food.
• Ye Lin asked whether the Spirit King feared he would summon powerful experts by revealing the secret realm, and the Spirit King warned Ye Lin would die if he did.
• Ye Lin asked if the Spirit King had tampered with his body, but the Spirit King denied it and said he had other ways to kill him.
• The Spirit King told Ye Lin he thought highly of him and was about to offer him two paths.

Ye Lin accepted the Spirit King's offer to work together after testing whether he had Quasi-Saint experts. Confident in his ability to summon the Sword Saint or escape, Ye Lin followed the Spirit King into a cave covered with books and murals about Heaven-Devouring Toads.

• The Spirit King offered Ye Lin a choice between becoming enemies or bringing him blood prey in exchange for rewards and a place as his little brother.
• Ye Lin asked whether the Spirit King had Quasi-Saint experts, and the Spirit King warned that Ye Lin would have been eaten if he had attacked.
• Ye Lin agreed to work with the Spirit King, who gave him eighteen supreme treasures as a welcoming gift.
• The Spirit King opened a passage in the wall and led Ye Lin through a tunnel into a cave.
• Ye Lin saw that the cave held books and murals depicting Heaven-Devouring Toads.

Spirit King told Ye Lin how the Origin Continent’s ten supreme races ruled before a catastrophe wiped out its Saints and weakened its people, allowing the cosmic races to take control. He revealed that the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan had been one of the ten supreme races, then assured Ye Lin that he would not harm him.

• Spirit King explained that the ten supreme races once dominated the Origin Continent with powerful racial divine abilities.
• Spirit King recounted how an unknown catastrophe made the seven Saints vanish and caused countless quasi-saints and Daluo Golden Immortals to die.
• Spirit King said surviving quasi-saint powers created secret realms to shelter their races, but the cosmic races later conquered the weakened Origin Continent.
• Spirit King revealed that the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan had been one of the ten supreme races and still retained some of its former foundation.
• Ye Lin feared that Spirit King might harm him, but Spirit King assured him that he had no reason to do so.

The Spirit King explained that he needed blood food to replenish himself and break the formation trapping him and his followers, while urging Ye Lin to cooperate in exchange for great benefits. Ye Lin felt no moral burden but remained wary that the Spirit King might be using him.

• The Spirit King told Ye Lin that the heavens and the future order would change, and promised to protect him if they cooperated.
• The Spirit King admitted he was unsure whether the races that once served the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan still remembered it.
• The Spirit King explained that blood food would replenish him and help open a formation leading out of the secret realm, and that only blood from outside the formation could break it.
• The Spirit King reassured Ye Lin that cosmic races had also exploited secret realms and promised him benefits for cooperating.
• Ye Lin said he felt no psychological burden but wondered whether the Spirit King was manipulating him.

Ye Lin left the Spirit King's secret realm after receiving the incantation for entering it, while weighing whether to trust the Spirit King and pursue his own plans. The Spirit King remained confident that Ye Lin would not expose them and that they had nothing to fear if their realm was discovered.

• The Spirit King told Ye Lin that the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan would support him and warned him to keep the secret realm hidden.
• Ye Lin considered the Spirit King's claims and decided his plan could work as long as it brought him benefits.
• The Spirit King placed the secret-realm entry incantation in Ye Lin's mind and offered to send experts to help, but Ye Lin refused.
• The Spirit King told Ye Lin he could come and go freely, and Ye Lin vanished from the great hall.
• A shadow asked the Spirit King whether Ye Lin would expose them, and the Spirit King laughed that they had no reason to fear discovery.

After leaving the ruins with eighteen supreme treasures, Ye Lin sought to verify the Spirit King’s claims about cosmic races cooperating with hidden realms. In Divine Capital City, Zhao Family experts escorted him to their manor, where he faced the family head alone.

• Ye Lin left the ruins, emerged from the canyon, and headed to Divine Capital City to investigate the Spirit King’s claims.
• Five Zhao Family experts surrounded Ye Lin and asked him to meet their family head, and he agreed to go with them.
• On the way to the manor, passersby speculated about Ye Lin and the Zhao Family, while Ye Lin ignored them.
• At the manor, Ye Lin saw Luo Yao playing with maidservants, then followed the experts into the main hall.
• The middle-aged family head dismissed everyone else, leaving him alone with Ye Lin.

Ye Lin told Zhao Qing that his daughter, Zhao Yuyan, was dead and explained that she had been caught in a conflict between Daluo Golden Immortals. As Zhao Qing resolved to investigate her death, Ye Lin offered to cooperate with him.

• Ye Lin told Zhao Qing that Zhao Yuyan was dead, but denied killing her.
• Ye Lin said Zhao Yuyan had possessed something she should not have and learned things she should not have, and Zhao Qing realized she had been caught up in a Daluo Golden Immortal conflict.
• Zhao Qing thanked Ye Lin for the information and said he would investigate his daughter's death himself.
• Ye Lin offered Zhao Qing a chance to cooperate with him while Zhao Qing was still furious over his daughter's death.

Ye Lin offered Zhao Qing a creation-rich fruit in exchange for supplying living beings, leaving Zhao Qing torn between the reward and the risk of joining what he believed was an evil cultivator scheme.

• Ye Lin produced a powerful red fruit and proposed that Zhao Qing provide him with living beings in exchange for treasures.
• Zhao Qing suspected Ye Lin was an evil cultivator, but Ye Lin said he would also approach the other great families and possibly the city lord.
• Ye Lin warned that the Zhao Family would not survive in Divine Capital City if it refused to cooperate.
• Zhao Qing concluded that Ye Lin led an evil cultivator faction and hesitated over whether to accept the dangerous offer.

Ye Lin persuaded Zhao Qing to convene the major family heads and the City Lord to discuss working together for resources. Zhao Qing learned that Ye Lin had killed his daughter’s murderer, and Wang Yufei arrived as the first invited guest.

• Ye Lin asked Zhao Qing to arrange a meeting with the other major families and the City Lord, proposing they work together.
• Zhao Qing sent word to the others and asked Ye Lin who had killed his daughter and where the murderer was.
• Ye Lin told Zhao Qing that he had killed the murderer and that Zhao Qing’s daughter had been caught up in the incident.
• Zhao Qing accepted the explanation without blaming Ye Lin, believing his daughter would have died regardless.
• Wang Yufei arrived, and Zhao Qing introduced him to Ye Lin.

Ye Lin proposed a deal to Divine Capital City's leaders, offering a treasure with immense vitality in exchange for a steady supply of living blood food. The leaders received a portion each, leaving negotiations to follow.

• Sun Sheng tried to leave, saying he had no time to waste, but Zhao Qing invited Ye Lin to begin.
• Ye Lin introduced himself and offered to compensate the city’s leaders for supplying him with fresh, preferably living, high-cultivation blood food.
• Ye Lin brought a massive tree root into the hall, and its overwhelming vitality shocked Sun Sheng and the others.
• Ye Lin split the root into five portions and gave one to each leader as a gift before they discussed the deal.

Ye Lin won the agreement of the powerful figures to cooperate by demonstrating the value of his cultivation treasure and offering a bonus. Sun Sheng joined the arrangement too, leaving them all committed to pursuing it together.

• Ye Lin offered the group a piece of a root, and Wang Yufei refined it and gained a small but valuable increase in cultivation.
• Ye Lin showed them a red fruit imbued with the power of creation and promised an extra bonus to whoever contributed the most.
• Wang Yufei and the representatives of the other two great families agreed to cooperate with Ye Lin.
• Zhao Qing agreed after the three families accepted, and Sun Sheng reluctantly joined to avoid being left vulnerable.
• Ye Lin smiled as the group’s agreement settled the matter.

Ye Lin waited in an inn while the Four Great Families and City Lord Mansion seized people outside Divine Capital City. The city’s powerhouses eventually ignored the rumors and carried on with their lives.

• Ye Lin left after urging the major families to bring him good news, and Sun Sheng warned them not to seize anyone inside the city.
• After Sun Sheng left, Wang Yufei and the other family leaders agreed to seize people outside the city instead of risking a conflict with him.
• Ye Lin carried Luo Yao to an inn and waited by the window, while Luo Yao slept and Xinyou rested on his shoulder.
• The Four Great Families and City Lord Mansion began seizing people outside the walls, targeting those without powerful backing.
• Powerhouses in the city discussed the seizures for a few days, then stopped paying attention when they remained unaffected.

Ye Lin met with City Lord Sun Sheng and the Four Great Families to review the results of their month-long preparations and discuss a trade. The factions reported their captured experts, and Sun Sheng ended by hinting that he had more to reveal.

• Ye Lin woke after a month and went with three messengers to the City Lord Mansion.
• Ye Lin asked City Lord Sun Sheng and the Four Great Families whether they had prepared enough goods and said he might end their cooperation if their haul was too small.
• The Li Family Patriarch asked how they would set prices, and Ye Lin promised a satisfying price for their first collaboration.
• Sun Sheng reported capturing forty-eight Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, five hundred and thirty-three Golden Immortals, and over a thousand Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals.
• The Li Family Patriarch and the other three family leaders reported their captures, with each family taking around twenty Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Ye Lin nodded in satisfaction, and Sun Sheng smiled mysteriously before saying, “However...”

Ye Lin rewarded Sun Sheng and the Four Great Families for the cultivators they had captured, then went with them to collect his due at a heavily guarded Desolate Mountain. The chapter ended as they arrived at the mountain.

• Sun Sheng revealed that he had captured a Dao Fruit Grand Luo, astonishing the leaders of the Four Great Families.
• Ye Lin gave Sun Sheng a red fruit and three enormous roots, and Sun Sheng accepted the reward with satisfaction.
• Ye Lin distributed roots to the leaders of the Four Great Families according to their contributions, leaving them envious of Sun Sheng's share.
• Ye Lin asked the group to take him to collect what belonged to him, and Sun Sheng agreed.
• Ye Lin followed Sun Sheng and the family leaders to a Desolate Mountain guarded by countless experts.

Ye Lin gathered beings in the canyon and brought them to the Spirit King at White King Palace. Sun Sheng returned to Divine Capital City to cultivate and prepare for the Four Great Families’ ambitions, while their leaders began plotting among themselves.

• Ye Lin used the law of space to compress the beings gathered in the canyon and urged the leaders of the Four Great Families to gather more.
• Sun Sheng left for Divine Capital City to contact friends in the cosmos and cultivate toward the middle stage of the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• The leaders of the Four Great Families watched Sun Sheng depart and began pursuing their own schemes.
• Ye Lin returned to the secret realm and made his way to White King Palace, where powerful figures greeted him without hostility.
• Ye Lin handed the captured beings to the Spirit King, who welcomed him at the palace entrance.

Spirit King gave Ye Lin a trove of creation-powered resources and said he could use them to hire allies, then took him to a sealed land hidden beneath a mountain range. The chapter ended as Spirit King's experts opened the range and revealed a huge altar.

• Spirit King accepted the living beings Ye Lin had brought and told him to focus on results while avoiding a mess.
• Spirit King led Ye Lin into White King Palace and gave him mountains of treasures, including permission to recruit cosmic lifeforms and members of the Chaos Ancient Clan.
• Ye Lin stored the treasures in his Spatial Ring, and Spirit King took him to an enormous mountain range guarded by Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Spirit King ordered the experts to open the Sealed Land, and the mountain range split to reveal a massive altar.

Spirit King revealed that the figure on the altar was a puppet at the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm and offered it to Ye Lin. He explained that the puppet came from the Ancient Human Race, whose puppet refiners were wiped out after attempting to create quasi-Saint puppets.

• Ye Lin asked Spirit King about the figure lying on the altar.
• Spirit King identified the figure as a peak Daluo Golden Immortal realm puppet and offered it as a gift to Ye Lin.
• Spirit King explained that the Ancient Human Race once included skilled puppet refiners whose creations were powerful and loyal.
• Spirit King said the puppet refiners were wiped out after they tried to refine quasi-Saint realm puppets.