Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin discovered the Chaos Ancient Clan was infiltrating Long River Prefecture and replacing its inhabitants, then hurried to investigate Divine Capital City. He alerted Wang Mingyang and left for the city, while a Saint arrived in the Death Desert.

• Ye Lin watched Chu Qinxin address a hidden gathering of Chaos Ancient Clan members in the Death Desert.
• Chu Qinxin said the clan had replaced more than three hundred forces and cities and planned to replace the Xuanyin Sect next.
• Ye Lin realized the woman was not Chu Qinxin and decided to investigate what the clan had done to Divine Capital City.
• Ye Lin contacted Wang Mingyang, reported the clan's plans, and asked him to come to the Death Desert.
• Ye Lin headed for Divine Capital City, and a stern-faced middle-aged man arrived in the Death Desert with Saint's might.

Ye Lin returned to Divine Capital City, found no visible changes, and met Sun Sheng to collect the beings the city and the Four Great Families had captured. After taking them, Ye Lin offered to show Sun Sheng what he needed them for.

• Ye Lin inspected Divine Capital City and the City Lord Mansion but found nothing amiss.
• Sun Sheng greeted Ye Lin and led him to the canyon where the captured beings were held.
• Sun Sheng reported that they had captured three Law Great Luos, twelve Dao Fruit Great Luos, and countless beings below the Great Luo realm.
• Ye Lin inspected the array, noticed the three Law Great Luos were at the early Daluo Golden Immortal stage, and gathered the captives into his palm.
• Ye Lin asked whether Sun Sheng wanted to know why he needed the beings, then agreed to show him.

Ye Lin led Sun Sheng to a hidden secret realm, claiming it held a great opportunity while privately intending to have the Spirit King inspect him. Sun Sheng entered the vortex despite his fear, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Sun Sheng believed Ye Lin’s offer and agreed to follow him to see the place for himself.
• Ye Lin suspected that Divine Capital City’s inhabitants had been tampered with and planned to have the Spirit King examine Sun Sheng.
• Sun Sheng followed Ye Lin to an enormous gorge, excited by the prospect of an opportunity but afraid Ye Lin might treat him as merchandise.
• Ye Lin opened a vortex in the gorge and invited Sun Sheng to enter, offering him the chance to leave instead.
• Sun Sheng feared Ye Lin would target him if he left, so he plunged into the vortex just before it vanished.

Sun Sheng entered Ye Lin’s secret realm and grew ambitious after sensing its abundant life force and power of creation. As Ye Lin led him through the realm, Sun Sheng discovered it was populated and dangerous, and his excitement gave way to fear and numbness before the White King Palace.

• Sun Sheng entered an unfamiliar secret realm and suspected Ye Lin’s treasures had come from there.
• Sun Sheng considered killing Ye Lin to claim the secret realm, but decided to follow him and learn more before acting.
• Sun Sheng sensed the dense power of creation underground and imagined the realm could help him become a Quasi-Saint.
• Ye Lin led Sun Sheng across the populated secret realm, where danger turned Sun Sheng’s excitement into wariness and fear.
• Sun Sheng became numb when he saw the towering White King Palace.

Ye Lin brought Sun Sheng to White King Palace so Spirit King could investigate what was unusual about him. A Quasi-Saint discovered and removed a Companion God-Devouring Insect planted by the Chaos Ancient Clan, leaving Sun Sheng alive and the insect’s continued existence unexplained.

• Spirit King welcomed Ye Lin and asked why Sun Sheng had come with him.
• Ye Lin explained that Sun Sheng was the city lord of Divine Capital City and asked Spirit King to examine him.
• Spirit King restrained Sun Sheng and searched him but found nothing unusual.
• A kindly old Quasi-Saint appeared and pulled a Companion God-Devouring Insect from Sun Sheng’s forehead.
• Sun Sheng regained control of his body, thanked the old man, and heard Spirit King wonder how the supposedly exterminated insects still existed.

The Spirit King explained that the Companion God-Devouring Insects were secretly bred by the Chaos Ancient Clan and could control victims while evading detection. He revealed that his parents had died to the insects, and the chapter ended with him suspecting the clan was plotting against the Origin Continent again.

• The Spirit King and the old man discussed the return of the Companion God-Devouring Insects and left Sun Sheng kneeling nearby.
• The old man urged the Spirit King to plan for his clan’s future, then smiled at Ye Lin and vanished.
• The Spirit King told Ye Lin that the insects could invade minds, evade detection, and control victims on command.
• The Spirit King revealed that his parents had been infected and killed by the insects.
• The Spirit King recalled how the sages had once killed the Chaos Ancient Clan’s three Saints and Worm Mother, then suspected the clan was plotting against the Origin Continent again.

The Spirit King explained that Companion God-Devouring Insects could only be removed by powerful Quasi-Saints or Saints before they assimilated their hosts’ Primordial Spirits, and revealed the danger facing Divine Capital City. He gave Ye Lin the Heavenly Mirror to detect parasitized beings and warned him to seek help immediately if he suspected infection.

• The Spirit King told Ye Lin that only a mighty expert above the third level of the Quasi-Saint Realm could remove a Companion God-Devouring Insect before it received an order, while a king insect required a ninth-level Quasi-Saint or a Saint.
• The Spirit King explained that an uncommanded insect would eventually assimilate its host’s Primordial Spirit, and Ye Lin realized that every living being in Divine Capital City might be doomed.
• Sun Sheng collapsed in fear as the Spirit King told Ye Lin to bring him the other parasitized beings around Sun Sheng.
• Ye Lin handed the living beings he had gathered to the Spirit King and recalled Chu Qinxin’s claim that half of Long River Prefecture had been parasitized.
• The Spirit King gave Ye Lin the Heavenly Mirror, which could detect parasitized people, and told him to come for help if he suspected he had been infected.

Ye Lin left with Luo Yao after the Spirit King warned him to watch for the Companion God-Devouring Insect. Sun Sheng tried to become the Spirit King's follower, but the Spirit King rejected him and ordered him to leave.

• The Spirit King told Ye Lin to take Luo Yao away, then recounted how her mischief with the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan's children had frightened him.
• Luo Yao insisted she was well-behaved, and Ye Lin believed her before saying goodbye to the Spirit King.
• The Spirit King warned Ye Lin to use the Heavenly Mirror to check for the Companion God-Devouring Insect and return immediately if he was parasitized.
• After Ye Lin left, Sun Sheng begged to follow the Spirit King and claimed he could serve even better than Ye Lin.
• The Spirit King called Sun Sheng unqualified, ordered him to get lost, and walked toward the White King Palace.

Spirit King explained why he valued Ye Lin and dismissed Sun Sheng, who fled after hearing he faced certain death. In White King Palace, a chubby boy confessed to manipulating Luo Yao into her misdeeds, and Spirit King took over punishing him from Aunt Bai.

• Spirit King recalled that neither he nor the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan's strongest ancestor could see through Ye Lin, so he sought to earn Ye Lin's goodwill.
• Spirit King judged Sun Sheng talentless and doomed to die within a hundred years, prompting Sun Sheng to flee and catch up with Ye Lin.
• Aunt Bai confronted Spirit King in White King Palace while beating her crying son, and Spirit King asked what the boy had done.
• The chubby boy confessed that he had tricked and threatened Luo Yao into misbehavior, then blamed her to avoid punishment.
• Spirit King stopped Aunt Bai from striking the boy and summoned a whip to punish him himself.

After the Spirit King questioned the little fatty, he learned that Luo Yao could enter forbidden grounds and secretly take others outside. Ye Lin brought Luo Yao and his companions to Divine Capital City, where he planned to trap its parasitized inhabitants before handing them over to the Spirit King.

• The little fatty told the Spirit King that Luo Yao could go wherever she wanted and had taken them to a city to trade stolen treasures for food.
• The Spirit King dismissed the little fatty and resolved to watch Ye Lin and Luo Yao for clues to their secrets.
• Ye Lin, Luo Yao, Sun Sheng, and Ye Xin arrived at Divine Capital City, whose inhabitants Sun Sheng knew and pitied.
• Ye Lin told Sun Sheng to activate the city's grand formation and allow entry while preventing anyone from leaving.

Ye Lin told Wang Mingyang that the Chaos Ancient Clan had spread Companion God-Devouring Insects throughout Long River Prefecture, where many low-level living beings were already parasitized. Wang Mingyang asked to borrow the Heavenly Mirror to inspect the Wang Family.

• Ye Lin entered Divine Capital City and received Wang Mingyang's message through the Jade Talisman.
• Wang Mingyang reported finding traces of the Chaos Ancient Clan in Death Desert and asked what they were planning in Long River Prefecture.
• Ye Lin explained the Companion God-Devouring Insects and shared what the Spirit King had told him about their effects and spread.
• Wang Mingyang recognized the threat could endanger the entire Origin Continent and asked to borrow Ye Lin's Heavenly Mirror to inspect the Wang Family.

Ye Lin agreed to inspect the Wang Family for members of the Chaos Ancient Clan who had been parasitized, using his Heavenly Mirror in exchange for a reward. The Wang Family head brought him instantly to the main hall, where Wang Mingyang had gathered the family’s upper ranks for the inspection.

• Wang Mingyue asked Ye Lin to bring his Heavenly Mirror to the Wang Family and check whether its members had been parasitized, promising him a reward and a return trip.
• Ye Lin agreed, and Wang Mingyang cut off contact to notify his elder brother.
• The Wang Family head arrived in Divine Capital City almost immediately and greeted Ye Lin.
• The Wang Family head transported Ye Lin to the Wang Family main hall, where Wang Mingyang said the upper ranks were waiting for the inspection.

Ye Lin used the Heavenly Mirror to inspect the Wang Family’s upper ranks and found no one had been parasitized. He agreed to check the clan’s core juniors as well, while Wang Mingyang planned to obtain a Heavenly Mirror from the Spirit King for future inspections.

• Wang Mingyang led Ye Lin and the Wang Family Head to the council hall to inspect the family’s upper ranks.
• Ye Lin tested each gathered higher-up with the Heavenly Mirror and found none had been parasitized.
• Wang Mingyang asked Ye Lin to inspect the Wang Family’s few thousand core juniors among its more than a million descendants.
• Ye Lin advised Wang Mingyang to ask the Spirit King for a Heavenly Mirror, and Wang Mingyang agreed to seek one after the inspection.

Ye Lin used the Heavenly Mirror to identify Wang Family prodigies who had left the family and been marked by a blood-red glow. Wang Mingyang kept the twenty-one affected people and forbade the remaining younger generation from leaving the mountain.

• Ye Lin examined the Wang Family disciples with the Heavenly Mirror, which glowed red above a young man who had once left the family.
• Ye Lin warned the young man that his days ahead would not be easy, and Wang Mingyang took him aside.
• The Heavenly Mirror revealed red light over twenty-one Wang Family prodigies as Ye Lin continued the examination.
• Wang Mingyang ordered the unaffected disciples to leave and banned them from going down the mountain without permission.
• Wang Mingyang kept the twenty-one marked prodigies, realizing that Ye Lin's discovery gave them a chance to address the danger.

Wang Mingyang and the Wang Family Head discovered that they could not remove the unusual presence in the victims’ seas of consciousness, so they planned to seek the Spirit King’s help. Ye Lin warned that the threat likely affected all of Long River Prefecture and, after returning to his room, decided to prepare for the prefecture’s possible fall.

• The Wang Family Head examined one of the affected people but could not extract the unusual presence from their sea of consciousness.
• Wang Mingyang decided to ask the Spirit King for help and gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring in thanks.
• Ye Lin warned that the other factions were likely affected too, and Wang Mingyang considered warning them and fleeing Long River Prefecture if no reinforcements came.
• Wang Mingyang told the Wang Family Head to send Ye Lin back, then prepared to trade the family’s goods with the Spirit King for assistance.
• The Wang Family Head transported Ye Lin back to his room, where Ye Lin concluded that Long River Prefecture might fall and resolved to prepare early.

Ye Lin decided Long River Prefecture was too dangerous to stay in and moved to capture everyone in Divine Capital City before fleeing. After the Heavenly Mirror reacted violently, he seized the Four Great Families’ patriarchs and ordered Ye Xin to capture City Lord Sun Sheng, leaving the city in chaos.

• Ye Lin concluded that Long River Prefecture might be infiltrated by the Chaos Ancient Clan and decided to bundle up the people of Divine Capital City and leave.
• Ye Lin took out the Heavenly Mirror above Divine Capital City, and it glowed red and trembled more violently than before.
• Ye Lin sealed the city and sent a massive hand down over it, causing its inhabitants to panic and flee.
• The patriarchs of the Four Great Families confronted Ye Lin, who ordered Ye Xin to seize them before they could react.
• Sun Sheng appeared and questioned Ye Lin, but Ye Lin declared that it was time to end things and had Ye Xin attack him.
• Sun Sheng fled in disbelief as Ye Lin ignored his protests that they were partners.

Ye Lin uprooted Divine Capital City and brought it to the secret realm, where the Wang Family Head shrank it down after Luo Yao left the city. The city’s inhabitants were left wondering where their home had gone.

• Sun Sheng fled from Ye Lin, but Ye Xin caught him and fought him while Ye Lin tore Divine Capital City from the ground.
• Ye Lin dragged the city toward the secret realm as its trapped inhabitants panicked inside.
• Ye Lin arrived at the canyon and met Wang Mingyang and the Wang Family Head, then asked the Wang Family Head to compress the city.
• Luo Yao left Divine Capital City, and the Wang Family Head shrank it to palm size with its inhabitants still inside.
• At the city’s former site, the remaining living beings stared into the vast sinkhole and wondered how their home had disappeared.

The Wang family entered the secret realm with Ye Lin, where the Spirit King welcomed them and Ye Lin handed over Divine Capital City. The Spirit King apologized to Luo Yao for her mistreatment and took her to White King Palace to see the people who had bullied her.

• The Wang Family Head, Ye Lin, Wang Mingyang, and the others entered the secret realm, where an overwhelming aura prevented the Wang family from considering a claim to the place.
• The Wang family members were stunned by the power of creation underground as the Spirit King arrived with an old man behind him.
• Ye Lin gave Divine Capital City to the Spirit King's attendant, and the Spirit King praised him for bringing it.
• The Spirit King apologized to Luo Yao, promised that no one would bully her again, and carried her toward White King Palace to see the bullies kneeling there.
• Ye Lin called for the Wang family to follow the Spirit King, and Wang Mingyang and the Wang Family Head went along without showing offense at the White King's indifference.

Wang Mingyang traded the Wang Family’s goods to the Spirit King in exchange for removing the Companion God-Devouring Insects from the family’s children. A powerful ancestor destroyed the parasites, leaving the Spirit King satisfied with the deal.

• Wang Mingyang offered the Wang Family’s goods to the Spirit King but refused the resources offered in exchange.
• Wang Mingyang asked the Spirit King to remove the Companion God-Devouring Insects infecting the Wang Family’s children.
• The Spirit King agreed that the goods would pay for an ancestor to act, and Wang Mingyang accepted the cost.
• The ancestor released overwhelming holy might and crushed the black insects that emerged from the children.
• Wang Mingyang thanked the Spirit King and the ancestor, and the Spirit King declared the transaction complete.

Wang Mingyang received Heavenly Mirrors from the Spirit King, while Ye Lin obtained a token that let him return to the Spirit King’s realm from anywhere on the Origin Continent. Ye Lin left with Luo Yao to return to Long River Prefecture, and the Spirit King stayed behind with the eight figures still kneeling.

• Wang Mingyang asked for Heavenly Mirrors, and the Spirit King gave him three so his group could detect Companion God-Devouring Insects.
• Ye Lin asked for a way to return to the Spirit King’s realm from anywhere, and the Spirit King gave him an ancient Identity Token.
• Ye Lin explained that the Chaos Ancient Clan’s schemes might force him to abandon Long River Prefecture, and the Spirit King remarked that another cycle of reincarnation had begun.
• The Spirit King scolded a little fatty for complaining about his numb legs while he and seven others knelt in the corner.
• Ye Lin left with Luo Yao, and the Spirit King vowed that no one would take the eight kneeling figures away.