Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin returned to Mara Temple and learned that Zhang Ling'er had become a Quasi-Saint. He reunited with Luo Yao and prepared to leave for Liuli Commandery with her and Zhang Ling'er.

• Ye Lin hurried back to Mara Temple, intending to bring Luo Yao, Ye Xin, and Zhang Ling'er with him on his journey.
• Wang Mingyang told Ye Lin that Zhang Ling'er had attained the Quasi-Saint realm three days earlier.
• Ye Lin learned that Zhang Ling'er had reached the realm without needing the opportunity he had taken, easing his guilt over it.
• Luo Yao ran to greet Ye Lin, and Zhang Ling'er followed behind her.
• Ye Lin congratulated Zhang Ling'er, then said it was time for them to set out for Liuli Commandery.

Ye Lin told Zhang Ling'er they were heading to Liuli Commandery to find someone and offered her ten million transaction points to accompany him. Zhang Ling'er did not know about the Origin Chamber of Commerce, so Ye Lin promised to explain it to her later as they continued their journey.

• Zhang Ling'er questioned why Ye Lin wanted to go to Liuli Commandery, and he said someone had entrusted him to find a person there.
• Wang Mingyang sensed the awkward atmosphere, bid Ye Lin farewell, and watched the group depart before reflecting on his own lost youthful freedom.
• Zhang Ling'er repeatedly asked Ye Lin whether he had received a reward and whether she would get a share.
• Ye Lin offered Zhang Ling'er ten million transaction points from a fifty-million-point reward if she went with him.
• Zhang Ling'er asked what transaction points were, and Ye Lin learned she had never encountered the Origin Chamber of Commerce.

As Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er hurried toward Liuli Commandery, Ye Lin asked what she planned to do after reaching the quasi-Saint realm. Zhang Ling'er said she would leave her future to Destiny, and Ye Lin warned that her words could provoke powerful cultivators.

• Ye Lin decided he wanted Zhang Ling'er to stay by his side because she was powerful and her opportunities could benefit him.
• While they traveled toward Liuli Commandery, Ye Lin asked Zhang Ling'er what direction she would take after becoming a quasi-Saint.
• Zhang Ling'er said the quasi-Saint realm meant little to her and that she would follow whatever Destiny arranged.
• Ye Lin said other cultivators might attack or challenge Zhang Ling'er if they heard her claim that Destiny controlled their paths.

Ye Lin, Zhang Ling'er, and Ye Xin reached Liuli Commandery by tearing through space and searched for a map. They found a wedding and a funeral taking place on opposite sides of the same mountain, leaving Ye Lin puzzled by the strange sight.

• Zhang Ling'er said she was willing to face anyone in a Dao debate as the group traveled toward Liuli Commandery.
• Ye Lin asked Zhang Ling'er to use her Quasi-Saint abilities to take them there, and she opened a spatial rift in the direction he indicated.
• Ye Lin and the others emerged in unfamiliar territory, which he identified as Liuli Commandery and decided to explore for a map.
• The group saw a wedding celebration on one side of a mountain and a funeral procession on the other.
• Ye Lin wondered how such contrasting ceremonies could be happening so close together in the cultivation world.

Ye Lin and his companions investigated a wedding in Liuli Commandery, finding nothing strange at the celebration. He asked an old man for a map, but the man said he did not have one.

• Ye Lin chose to visit the wedding rather than the funeral, and Zhang Ling'er and the others followed him inside.
• A cultivator welcomed the unfamiliar group to Young Master Zhao's wedding and invited them to eat and drink.
• Ye Lin asked Zhang Ling'er if she noticed anything unusual, and she said everything seemed normal.
• Ye Lin split up from the others to seek a map and approached an old man drinking alone beneath a tree.
• Ye Lin asked the old man for a map of Liuli Commandery, but the old man said he did not have one.

Ye Lin learned why the Zhao and Liu Families were holding a wedding and funeral at the same time, then failed to find a map of Liuli Commandery. Zhang Ling'er wanted to watch the wedding before leaving, and she told Luo Yao to show Ye Lin something.

• Ye Lin learned from an old man that the Zhao Family's eldest son was marrying the Liu Family's eldest daughter while the Liu Family Patriarch's funeral was being held.
• The old man explained that the Liu Family's eldest daughter had allied with the Zhao Family to avenge her father, who had been framed and killed by the Liu Family's Great Elder.
• Ye Lin left to search for a map of Liuli Commandery but found that no one had one.
• Zhang Ling'er insisted on watching the wedding before leaving, but Ye Lin refused because he needed to find a map and locate someone.
• Zhang Ling'er teased Ye Lin for failing to find a map and told Luo Yao to show him something.

Luo Yao gave Ye Lin a map of Liuli Commandery, and Zhang Ling'er watched a wedding hoping to understand love. The bride was clearly unhappy and had been forced to marry the groom, so Zhang Ling'er left without finding the answer she wanted.

• Luo Yao handed Ye Lin a map of Liuli Commandery and said she wanted to watch the wedding before they left.
• Ye Lin agreed to let Zhang Ling'er watch the wedding, though he knew it was not a genuine match.
• Zhang Ling'er watched the groom smile while the bride remained expressionless and radiated an icy aura.
• After the wedding, Zhang Ling'er complained to Ye Lin that the bride seemed forced to marry her mortal enemy.
• Ye Lin told Zhang Ling'er he had known the bride was forced to marry, and said he had not told her because she never asked.
• Luo Yao said she knew what love was.

Ye Lin began searching Liuli Commandery for a woman, using Abyss Gate as the center of his search. He reached the mapped location with Ye Xin but found only barren mountains before someone confronted him.

• Ye Lin found Abyss Gate on the map and decided to investigate it first.
• Ye Lin showed Zhang Ling'er a simulated image of the woman and told her to search outward from Abyss Gate and contact him if she found her.
• Zhang Ling'er took Luo Yao to search separately while Ye Lin headed toward Abyss Gate with Ye Xin.
• Ye Lin reached Abyss Gate and saw a bare peak surrounded by empty mountain ranges, leaving him unsure where the place was.
• An unseen person asked Ye Lin what he was sneaking around for.

Ye Lin encountered Wang Zheng at the mountains where Abyss Gate was supposedly located and learned that Wang Zheng claimed to be one of its disciples. Wang Zheng had never seen the woman Ye Lin sought, but promised to keep watch for her as Ye Lin prepared to continue his search.

• Wang Zheng told Ye Lin that the Sacred Descent Sect had put out a warrant for him, forcing him to flee Buddha Prefecture.
• Ye Lin asked where Abyss Gate was, and Wang Zheng revealed that he was an Abyss Gate disciple.
• Ye Lin showed Wang Zheng a portrait of the woman he was seeking.
• Wang Zheng said he had never seen the woman but offered to look for her.
• Ye Lin thanked Wang Zheng and prepared to leave to continue his search.

Ye Lin reached the Holy Sword Sect after failing to find what he sought in the vast mountain ranges, and entered the sect to ask for help. Its elder revealed that the sect had existed in name only for a thousand years, with him as its sole remaining member.

• Ye Lin left Wang Zheng, and Wang Zheng accepted that they were not on the same path.
• Ye Lin searched the mountain ranges with his divine sense but found almost no life or other clues.
• Ye Lin spotted the floating island of the Holy Sword Sect and approached its golden barrier to seek help.
• An old man welcomed Ye Lin and Ye Xin into the sect and led them to a tea table beneath a peach tree.
• Ye Lin asked whether the old man was the only one there, and the old man said he was the Holy Sword Sect's sole remaining member.

Ye Lin visited the Holy Sword Sect, where its lone guardian told him he had waited more than 124,000 years for the woman who planted a peach tree to return when it bloomed. Ye Lin examined the living but barren tree and remained unable to explain why it had never flowered.

• Ye Lin realized the Holy Sword Sect had no disciples to help him search for someone, and the old man asked if he was disappointed.
• The old man explained that he guarded the sect because he was waiting for the woman who planted the peach tree to return when it bloomed.
• The old man revealed he had waited 124,533 years and 42 days, believing the woman would return after achieving fame and success.
• Ye Lin suggested that something might have happened to the woman or that she might have forgotten the old man, but the old man remained hopeful.
• Ye Lin examined the peach tree and found it full of life despite its bare branches, while the old man said it was an ordinary tree he had studied many times.

Ye Lin failed to discover why the peach tree would not bloom, then continued searching for someone across Liuli Commandery. He sent out avatars to scout, settled in a mountain cave to cultivate with a white pearl, and left Ye Xin to guard him.

• Ye Lin examined the peach tree and found nothing unusual, then bid farewell to the old man.
• Ye Lin scattered countless Primordial Unity Golden Immortal avatars across Liuli Commandery to search for people.
• Ye Lin traveled to a mountain range and decided to wait for his avatars and Zhang Ling'er while cultivating.
• Ye Lin entered a cave with Ye Xin guarding him and began absorbing the energy of the white pearl.
• Many of Ye Lin's avatars were killed as they searched across the Origin Continent.

Ye Lin stopped refining the white pearl when his body neared saturation and planned to seek further lectures on laws. Most of his avatars had been killed by exotic beasts, and the survivors had not found the person he was looking for.

• Ye Lin reflected on the dangers Primordial Unity Golden Immortals faced on the Origin Continent and the greater chances it offered to reach the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• After refining the white pearl for a month, Ye Lin found that most of its energy remained.
• Ye Lin stopped refining the pearl because his body was nearing saturation and further cultivation could damage his foundation.
• Ye Lin decided to attend more lectures, since comprehending and applying laws mattered more than simply absorbing resources.
• Ye Lin learned that most of his avatars had died to exotic beasts and the survivors had not found the person he sought.

Ye Lin continued searching for the person in the portrait and received word from Zhang Ling'er that she had found someone who looked exactly like him. When Ye Lin reached her location, he found a scorched wasteland where humans and strange beasts lived without any cultivation, leaving him puzzled about how mortals could survive on the Origin Continent.

• Ye Lin decided to search for one more year before giving up on finding the missing person.
• Zhang Ling'er told Ye Lin that she had found someone who looked exactly like the person in the portrait, though she seemed troubled.
• Ye Lin set off immediately after Zhang Ling'er gave him her location.
• Ye Lin arrived at a vast blackened wasteland and saw humans and strange beasts living together there without cultivation.

Ye Lin followed Zhang Ling'er beneath the scorched earth and found a woman imprisoned on a platform by chains and a nail that sealed her Primordial Spirit. He tried to find out whether she could hear him.

• Ye Lin landed on the strange scorched earth and sensed a suppressive force, but could not find Zhang Ling'er among the lifeless-looking inhabitants.
• Zhang Ling'er appeared with Luo Yao and led Ye Lin across the scorched earth, saying the person he sought was below.
• Ye Lin entered a pitch-black opening and descended through increasingly cold, gloomy air.
• Ye Lin reached a platform and saw a bloodstained woman in white, bound by rune-covered chains with a nail driven into her forehead.
• Ye Lin asked the imprisoned woman whether she could hear him.

Ye Lin found the woman who resembled the old man's granddaughter, but Zhang Ling'er said she was trapped by powerful restraints and could not be freed. The old man recognized her and, seeing her suffering, asked Ye Lin to end her life.

• Ye Lin sensed that the motionless woman was alive and asked whether she needed help.
• Zhang Ling'er said she could neither break the special chains nor remove the restrictions without killing the woman.
• Ye Lin used the Jade Talisman to summon the old man, who recognized the woman as his granddaughter.
• The old man cursed the person responsible for trapping her in the Ten Thousand Locks Heart-Devouring Array and tried, unsuccessfully, to reach her.
• The old man thanked Ye Lin and asked him to end his granddaughter's suffering.

Ye Lin read the diary of the dying girl after granting her release, learning how she had fallen in love with her senior brother and sacrificed herself to protect him from a powerful enemy. The diary revealed that a peach tree in her senior brother’s dojo would bloom only upon her death, and Ye Lin left with the truth of her final goodbye.

• The old man gave Ye Lin the trade card password and entrusted him with the secret realm before dissolving into the Void.
• Ye Lin used Sword Qi to destroy the girl’s Primordial Spirit and end her suffering, then found her diary nearby.
• Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er read how the girl had grown up on Peach Blossom Island, lost her master, and stayed behind with her senior brother to keep vigil.
• The diary revealed that the girl’s Perception Marks warned of a powerful expert approaching, so she became Dao companions with her senior brother and enjoyed a brief time together.
• The girl wrote that she had lied about leaving to seek a breakthrough and planted a peach tree linked to her Fate Heart, which would bloom only after her death.

Ye Lin read about the woman’s tragic love and carried her restored corpse toward the Holy Sword Sect to show Zhang Ling’er what true love looked like. He left the story unresolved as he set out to find the woman’s senior brother, who had waited for her for 120,000 years.

• Ye Lin finished reading the diary and suspected that the woman’s senior brother from the Holy Sword Sect had been waiting for her.
• Zhang Ling’er and Luo Yao cried over the story, while Ye Lin severed the woman’s limbs and neck, then restored her body without bringing her back to life.
• Zhang Ling’er mistook Ye Lin’s actions for a strange fetish, and Ye Lin told her to stop imagining things.
• Ye Lin led Zhang Ling’er and Luo Yao back to the surface and found that the short buildings and living creatures had vanished.
• Ye Lin told Zhang Ling’er he would show her true love and headed toward the Holy Sword Sect, reflecting on the tragedy of the woman’s promise and her senior brother’s long wait.

Ye Lin brought Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao to the Holy Sword Sect as the peach blossoms bloomed, where a young man waited for the woman who had promised to return. After reading her diary, he learned the truth and asked Ye Lin where she was.

• Ye Lin arrived at the Holy Sword Sect with Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao and found the peach tree in full bloom.
• The white-haired young man rejoiced, believing the woman who had promised to return would soon come back.
• Ye Lin showed the young man the woman's diary, and the young man read it in tears.
• The young man asked where the woman was, and Ye Lin revealed her icy corpse from the mist.

Ye Lin, Zhang Ling'er, and Luo Yao left the island as a heartbroken young man embraced a corpse and died with the island. Ye Lin remained unmoved and continued toward the Origin Chamber of Commerce to deposit his eighty million transaction points, while Zhang Ling'er challenged his claim that he had no heart.

• The young man told Ye Lin to leave, and Ye Lin departed with Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao after patting him on the shoulder.
• Once they were gone, the young man embraced the corpse as peach blossoms engulfed the island, which exploded and vanished along with him.
• Ye Lin concluded that the young man had died for love, while Zhang Ling'er wondered aloud whether this was love.
• Ye Lin headed toward the Origin Chamber of Commerce to deposit his eighty million transaction points, and Zhang Ling'er criticized him for showing no empathy.
• Ye Lin said that experience had made him cold, and Zhang Ling'er argued that cultivators who followed the Dao of Heartlessness only suppressed their emotions rather than truly casting them aside.