Chapter Summaries

Star Saint asked Ye Lin and Wang Zheng to recover an important item stolen from his tavern during the attack three days earlier. Ye Lin agreed, having memorized the attackers’ faces and auras.

• Wang Zheng knelt before Star Saint and blamed people from Heaven Province for attacking the tavern and driving them away.
• Star Saint lamented the damage to his tavern’s reputation and asked Wang Zheng to get up.
• Star Saint explained that the attackers had stolen an important item and offered Ye Lin and Wang Zheng a generous reward for recovering it.
• Wang Zheng realized he had been too drunk to remember the attackers and looked to Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin nodded, confident that his Daluo Golden Immortal Primordial Spirit had preserved the attackers’ faces and auras.

Wang Zheng and Ye Lin accepted Star Saint’s request to search for a phantom while concealing their real intentions. They set off to hunt Heaven Province cultivators in Yun Province, where Quasi-Saints were forbidden to intervene.

• Wang Zheng agreed to look for the phantom and left with Ye Lin after promising to bring it to Star Saint if they found it.
• Star Saint’s attendant asked why he had not killed the pair, and Star Saint said he would protect his reputation by posting a notice about the tavern incident.
• Wang Zheng admitted to Ye Lin that they would only pretend to search for the phantom while hunting the people who had humiliated him three days earlier.
• Wang Zheng warned Ye Lin to stay alert because cultivators from both provinces were hunting one another while Quasi-Saints held back.
• Wang Zheng led Ye Lin toward a place where he expected to find Heaven Province cultivators.

Wang Zheng and Ye Lin traveled through the wilderness to avoid detection but were spotted by three peak Daluo Golden Immortals. They split up to fight, and Ye Lin attacked the Vermilion Bird as she unleashed her divine flames.

• Wang Zheng and Ye Lin concealed their auras while traveling on foot through the wilderness.
• A giant bear, a White Tiger, and a Vermilion Bird appeared on a distant mountaintop, and Wang Zheng said they were now the prey.
• Wang Zheng charged the giant bear and White Tiger while Ye Lin went after the Vermilion Bird.
• The Vermilion Bird engulfed the mountain range in flames and shattered Ye Lin's first Sword Qi attack.
• Ye Lin vanished into the fire and reappeared near the Vermilion Bird, striking again as she cried out and the flames erupted.

Ye Lin fought the Vermilion Bird, overwhelming her with sword techniques and using the Law of Space to land a series of attacks. Just as he moved to suppress her, the apparently dying Vermilion Bird healed completely and regained her strength.

• Ye Lin used the Nine Nether Prison Flame to shield himself from the Vermilion Bird's flames and struck back with his sword.
• Ye Lin shattered the Vermilion Bird's fire tornadoes, cut off both of her wings, and attacked with the Great Void Rift-Cleaving Sword.
• The Vermilion Bird blocked Ye Lin's attack with a flaming shield, but he used Time Stop to freeze her briefly and pierce her with Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin continued striking the Vermilion Bird and raised the Great Void Ashen Extinction Finger to suppress her.
• The Vermilion Bird sneered as her injuries healed and her aura returned to its peak.

Ye Lin faced a Vermilion Bird that recovered from a devastating blow and revealed it had a second form. Ye Lin entered his own full-power state and launched an attack, leaving the fight poised for a clash of their strongest abilities.

• The Vermilion Bird shattered Ye Lin’s attack and returned to its peak, prompting Ye Lin to wonder whether it had used a Vermilion Bird divine ability.
• The Vermilion Bird declared that it would kill Ye Lin within three moves and revealed its second form.
• Ye Lin summoned the Godslayer Sword, the Heaven-Shaking Bell, and Nine Nether Prison Flame, then said he would defeat the Vermilion Bird within three moves as well.
• The Vermilion Bird assessed Ye Lin and considered whether she should flee, but Ye Lin shot toward her in a streak of black light.

Ye Lin fought through the Vermilion Bird’s increasingly powerful True Fire, relying on the Nine Nether Prison Flame and the Heaven-Shaking Bell to withstand its heat. He pressed on toward the Vermilion Bird, aiming to exploit her weakness in close combat.

• The Vermilion Bird attacked Ye Lin with her Vermilion Bird True Fire, but his sword energy scattered the flames as he advanced.
• Seeing her fire fail to stop him, the Vermilion Bird unleashed True Fire Descends Upon the Mortal Realm and intensified the flames until space twisted around Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin realized the flames would overwhelm him without the Nine Nether Prison Flame and the Heaven-Shaking Bell protecting him.
• Ye Lin continued fighting toward the Vermilion Bird, believing he could defeat her if he reached her and engaged in close combat.
• Ye Lin spread the Nine Nether Prison Flame, suppressing the Vermilion Bird True Fire in its path.

Ye Lin struggled through Vermilion Bird’s True Fire until she unleashed the forbidden art All Things Fall Silent, blasting him away despite his Heaven-Shaking Bell. Vermilion Bird pursued him to finish him off, unaware that a white figure was following her through the void.

• Ye Lin pushed through Vermilion Bird’s True Fire, while she worried that he would reach her before she could stop him.
• Vermilion Bird used the forbidden art All Things Fall Silent and fired black flames at Ye Lin, exhausting much of her vital essence.
• Ye Lin used the Heaven-Shaking Bell to block the flames, but the impact sent him flying and razed the surrounding land.
• Vermilion Bird flew after Ye Lin, believing he was gravely injured and could still be killed.
• A white figure followed Vermilion Bird unseen and remarked on her hidden trump card.

Ye Lin survived the Vermilion Bird’s forbidden technique and drew her into a direct attack, where an unexpected beast ambushed her from behind. The Vermilion Bird was left wounded and shocked by the sudden assault.

• Ye Lin spat blood in a mountain cave and realized the Heaven-Shaking Bell had shielded him from most of the Vermilion Bird’s attack.
• Ye Lin shattered the mountain range to counter the Vermilion Bird’s pursuing flames, but she cleared the dust and found him among the ruins.
• The Vermilion Bird mocked the injured Ye Lin and rained Vermilion Bird True Fire on him as he rushed toward her.
• The Vermilion Bird expected Ye Lin to attempt a close-range attack and prepared to keep him at a distance.
• A beast roared behind the Vermilion Bird, bit her neck, and inflicted bloody wounds with white light, leaving her to wonder where it had come from.

Ye Lin and Xinyou killed Vermilion Bird after she nearly killed Ye Lin with her black flames. With his luck at more than 1.6 trillion points, Ye Lin headed toward Wang Zheng, sensing fierce law fluctuations ahead.

• Vermilion Bird dismissed Xinyou as a weak beast and prepared to kill it, but Ye Lin struck her chest with two swords.
• Ye Lin pinned Vermilion Bird’s Primordial Spirit with a sword, and Xinyou held her in place as Ye Lin shattered it.
• Xinyou devoured Vermilion Bird’s corpse, then returned to Ye Lin’s shoulder.
• Ye Lin checked his panel and saw 3.7 trillion Luck and 1.6921 trillion Shop Luck.
• Ye Lin set off to check on Wang Zheng and sensed intense law fluctuations ahead.

Ye Lin inspected Wang Zheng’s panel and learned that his many slaughter-based Fate Traits made him stronger through killing. After Wang Zheng defeated the giant bear, he and Ye Lin continued toward the place Wang Zheng called a true paradise.

• Ye Lin arrived to find Wang Zheng fighting a giant bear while the White Tiger lay dead nearby.
• Ye Lin viewed Wang Zheng’s panel and read about his slaughter-based Fate Traits and grim future in the Boundary Sea.
• Wang Zheng hacked the giant bear into mangled flesh, then regained his composure and spoke with Ye Lin.
• Wang Zheng urged Ye Lin to be careful if his strength was lacking, then headed onward.
• Ye Lin recalled the Heaven-Shaking Bell and followed Wang Zheng, confident that he could escape any opponent below the Quasi-Saint realm.

Ye Lin and Wang Zheng were captured by a Quasi-Saint after being lured into a desert, and they woke up imprisoned in a guarded cave. The chapter left them both trapped and disoriented.

• Wang Zheng led Ye Lin through the mountains until the forest gave way to an endless desert, where he realized he could not find the route.
• Wang Zheng sensed something nearby, but the ground collapsed and a Quasi-Saint’s pressure knocked him and Ye Lin unconscious.
• A mysterious captor recognized Wang Zheng and Ye Lin as powerful cultivators and took them away.
• Ye Lin woke in a cave guarded at three exits and suspected Wang Zheng had led him into a trap.
• Wang Zheng woke nearby, confused and in pain, confirming that both he and Ye Lin were prisoners.

Ye Lin and Wang Zheng were captured and tied up, then learned that two Quasi-Saints guarded the site and they would be taken as sacrifices in three hours. While Wang Zheng gave up hope, Ye Lin concealed himself in a corner and continued looking for a way out.

• Ye Lin blamed Wang Zheng’s bad luck for the repeated dangers they had encountered together.
• A young man mocked them and revealed that they would be sacrificed in three hours, with two Quasi-Saints guarding the area.
• Wang Zheng said their special rope could not be broken and urged Ye Lin to beg for mercy instead of trying to escape.
• Ye Lin ignored Wang Zheng’s despair and concealed himself in a corner, leaving Wang Zheng confused about his plan.

Ye Lin contacted the Qilin Saint with the Wind-Stabilizing Pearl after Quasi-Saints captured him and Wang Zheng. The Qilin Saint located them and promised to arrive in one shichen, while Ye Lin resolved to part ways with Wang Zheng once they were free.

• Ye Lin used the Wind-Stabilizing Pearl to contact the Qilin Saint, hoping for help against his captors.
• The Qilin Saint confirmed he was nearby in Yun Province, learned that Ye Lin faced two Quasi-Saints and several Daluo Golden Immortals, and said he would arrive in one shichen.
• Wang Zheng regained hope after realizing Ye Lin had called a Quasi-Saint for help.
• Ye Lin told Wang Zheng they would go their separate ways after they escaped, and Wang Zheng pleaded that his involvement had been an accident.

The Qilin Saint rescued Ye Lin and Wang Zheng by killing the two quasi-Saints who had captured them. After freeing the pair, he declared his debt to Ye Lin repaid and departed, leaving Ye Lin’s connection to him a surprise to Wang Zheng.

• The Qilin Saint arrived in Buddha Prefecture, pleased that Ye Lin had called in his favor against two quasi-Saints.
• The Qilin Saint confronted the two captors and crushed them both with a casual move.
• The Qilin Saint found Ye Lin and Wang Zheng bound underground and snapped their ropes.
• The Qilin Saint told Ye Lin they were even, then left.
• Wang Zheng remarked that he had never expected Ye Lin to have such connections.

After the Qilin Saint rescued Wang Zheng and Ye Lin, Ye Lin agreed to explore the ruins with Wang Zheng rather than leave. The two split up to search, and Ye Lin found only junk and corpses while wondering who the captives had been meant to sacrifice them to.

• The Qilin Saint left, and Ye Lin told Wang Zheng that they would go their separate ways because Wang Zheng’s trouble had cost him a favor owed by a Quasi-Saint.
• Wang Zheng persuaded Ye Lin to investigate the place where the two Quasi-Saints had been, and Ye Lin agreed to explore before leaving.
• Ye Lin and Wang Zheng emerged into a vast underground ruin that had partly collapsed under the Qilin Saint’s attack.
• Wang Zheng suggested they search separately, and Ye Lin walked in the opposite direction, scanning the ruins with his divine sense.
• Ye Lin found only junk and corpses, then wondered who the young man had meant when he said they would be sacrificed.

Ye Lin searched the ruins of the Qilin Saint’s destroyed stronghold and discovered Blood-Colored Beads made from the lives of entire universes. After learning the Sacred Descent Sect had been buying them, he took the beads and fled before its investigators arrived.

• Ye Lin searched beneath the ruins for Wang Zheng’s opportunity and found a hidden chamber filled with thirty Blood-Colored Beads.
• Ye Lin read a notebook and learned that each bead contained the refined living beings of an entire universe and that the Sacred Descent Sect purchased them for its blood arts.
• Ye Lin stored the beads in his Spatial Ring and fled toward Buddha Prefecture, anticipating that the Sacred Descent Sect would investigate the destroyed stronghold.
• Wang Zheng fled the ruins after Ye Lin had left.
• About an hour later, dozens of powerful figures arrived at the ruins.

Ye Lin kept his blood pearl and arrived at Broken Bone City, where he used his Blood Baleful qi to prove his strength and gain entry. He stepped inside as a blast of demonic flame failed to reach him.

• Ye Lin decided the blood pearl would be harmful to refine but might prove useful to the Sacred Descent Sect, so he put it away.
• Ye Lin descended onto a vast plain divided by five rivers and approached a city wreathed in demonic qi.
• A city guard barred Ye Lin from Broken Bone City because he was not a Demonic Cultivator.
• Ye Lin released his overwhelming Blood Baleful qi, and the guard respectfully let him enter.
• Demonic flames surged toward Ye Lin inside the city but could not come within an inch of him.

Ye Lin explored Broken Bone City, a dilapidated gathering place for injured Demonic Cultivators, before an old man summoned him and asked for help finding his granddaughter in Liuli Commandery. Ye Lin had not yet agreed to the request.

• Ye Lin entered Broken Bone City and warned its residents to stop staring at him.
• Ye Lin explored the city and found no features beyond its gathering of weakened Evil Cultivators.
• An old man in a black cloak emerged from a building and invited Ye Lin inside to talk.
• The old man recognized Ye Lin as a cultivator from Heaven Province and asked him to find his granddaughter in Liuli Commandery.

Ye Lin agreed to search for the old man’s granddaughter in Liuli Commandery in exchange for eighty million transaction points, though the old man could not guarantee she was still there. The old man explained that his injuries and the land of extreme yin kept him from leaving.

• The old man offered Ye Lin a transaction card containing eighty million points if he searched for his granddaughter and delivered it to her, or kept the points if he failed to find her.
• Ye Lin asked for a more precise location, but the old man only suggested searching outward from the Abyss Gate in Liuli Commandery.
• Ye Lin decided the reward was worth the journey and agreed, while admitting he could not promise to find the granddaughter.
• Ye Lin questioned why the old man did not search himself, and the old man said he could not leave because his serious injuries would worsen outside the land of extreme yin.

Ye Lin learned that the old man had drawn him into an independent space and asked him to find his granddaughter and deliver a red brocade pouch. Ye Lin accepted the task, received a communication Jade Talisman and the promise of eighty million transaction points, and left to search Buddha Prefecture.

• The old man told Ye Lin he was inside an independent space and explained that he had brought him there to request a favor.
• The old man gave Ye Lin a red brocade pouch to deliver to his granddaughter and offered him eighty million transaction points.
• Ye Lin took the pouch, golden card, and communication Jade Talisman, then left the dilapidated wooden house.
• Ye Lin departed Broken Bone City and traveled through the skies, uncertain whether he had truly escaped the independent space.