Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin defeated Bai Ze with a single sword strike, shattering his Dao Heart and leaving him unable to recover. Bai Ze thanked Ye Lin for sparing his life, then wandered away from the Arena as the cultivators watched.

• The watching Daluo Golden Immortals sensed Ye Lin's laws filling the sky and turned their attention to the Arena.
• Ye Lin's sword strike tore through the darkness, and Bai Ze was left kneeling with his fan split in two.
• Bai Ze realized Ye Lin had shattered his Dao Heart again and that he had lost completely.
• Bai Ze thanked Ye Lin for sparing his life, laughed, and wandered away from the Arena with his cultivation scattered.
• The cultivators watched Bai Ze leave, believing his path had ended and that he would vanish from public view.

Ye Lin won the Dao Gathering after no one dared challenge him again, and the elders awarded him first place. He declined the ten million transaction points and left, leaving the reward for the second-place winner.

• After Ye Lin defeated Wang Tiezhu and Bai Ze in single moves, no one stepped forward to challenge him again.
• The elder awarded Ye Lin full marks for the second and third rounds, declaring him the Dao Gathering’s first-place winner with eighty points.
• The cultivators voiced no objections to Ye Lin taking first place.
• Ye Lin declined the ten million transaction points and asked the elders to leave the reward for the second-place winner.
• Ye Lin took his leave, saluted the elders and spectators, and vanished from the gathering.

Ye Lin went to a Holy Palace branch to take on the final task of hunting a murderer in the Boundary Sea, after completing his first two tasks. He arranged a teleportation to Fire Province and waited for the array to be prepared.

• Ye Lin decided not to accept the ten million trade point reward, believing he had already received enough from the Water Province event.
• Ye Lin went to a Holy Palace branch to begin his final task: hunting down a murderer in the Boundary Sea.
• A Holy Palace employee told Ye Lin that a teleportation to Fire Province would cost one million Great Luo Divine Source, with the Holy Palace subsidizing half.
• Ye Lin agreed to the fee and waited while the Holy Palace prepared the teleportation array.

Ye Lin traveled from the border regions to Fire Province, then reached the Boundary Sea and surveyed its exposed universes. He took out an ancient Compass, preparing to continue his search for Wang Yongxin.

• Ye Lin paid to enter a teleportation array and traveled to Fire Province.
• Ye Lin crossed Fire Province toward the Boundary Sea, reflecting on the Daluo Golden Immortals arriving in the Origin Continent.
• Ye Lin reached the Boundary Sea and saw faint lights representing universes hidden in the darkness.
• Ye Lin considered how exposed universes were protected by Daluo Golden Immortals or quasi-Saints and raised an ancient Compass.

Ye Lin followed the Formation Disk through the Boundary Sea to track Wang Yongxin, who was enjoying a life of indulgence while lamenting that his cultivation had stalled. Wang Yongxin sensed something was wrong but continued entertaining himself as Ye Lin closed in.

• Ye Lin used the Formation Disk to find Wang Yongxin's direction and charged through the Boundary Sea.
• Wang Yongxin lounged among powerful women who obeyed him, and granted a woman’s request to spare everyone in the Empress Palace.
• Wang Yongxin reflected that he wanted to return to the Origin Continent to advance his cultivation, and resented the Holy Palace for cutting him off.
• Wang Yongxin felt a sudden bad premonition, then dismissed it and continued enjoying the women’s company.

After tracking Wang Yongxin across the Boundary Sea for ten years, Ye Lin finally found him preparing to flee from his palace. Wang Yongxin realized the Holy Palace had sent Ye Lin after him and understood that escape was futile.

• Ye Lin traveled through the Boundary Sea for ten years while following the Formation Disk toward Wang Yongxin.
• Wang Yongxin grew increasingly uneasy and decided to leave his palace and flee.
• Ye Lin tore through the cosmic barrier and confronted Wang Yongxin in the Starry Sky.
• Wang Yongxin asked who Ye Lin was, and Ye Lin confirmed he had come from the Holy Palace.
• Wang Yongxin realized the Holy Palace had tracked him down and concluded he had no chance of escaping.

Ye Lin confronted Wang Yongxin, who tried to bargain for his life by offering his treasures, but Ye Lin refused to leave him alive as a potential weakness. Wang Yongxin then proposed moving their fight to the Boundary Sea to avoid destroying the fragile universe, and Ye Lin stepped aside.

• Ye Lin threatened Wang Yongxin and offered him the choice of suicide or death.
• Wang Yongxin guessed that Ye Lin had come on a mission or to train and offered his treasures in exchange for his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin rejected Wang Yongxin’s offer, unwilling to trust him or leave a potential threat alive.
• Wang Yongxin challenged Ye Lin to fight in the Boundary Sea to keep their battle from destroying the universe.
• Ye Lin agreed and slowly stepped aside.

Ye Lin pursued Wang Yongxin into the Boundary Sea to settle their fight without risking karma by battling inside the universe. Wang Yongxin charged at Ye Lin, but Ye Lin quickly overwhelmed him and severed both his arms.

• Ye Lin cleared a path for Wang Yongxin, and the two left the universe for the Boundary Sea.
• After they departed, voices in the palace said Wang Yongxin would die and vowed to reach the Da Luo realm in this life.
• Wang Yongxin admitted he could not escape and decided to try to kill Ye Lin before he died.
• Ye Lin and Wang Yongxin clashed in the Boundary Sea, where Ye Lin severed one of Wang Yongxin's arms and then destroyed the other.
• Wang Yongxin asked how Ye Lin could be so strong, and Ye Lin mocked him as weak.

Ye Lin killed Wang Yongxin and carried his Primordial Spirit toward the Holy Palace, ignoring his pleas to be released. After reaching Fire Continent, Ye Lin arranged to travel by teleportation array to Blazing Fire Continent and agreed to wait a month.

• Ye Lin sliced Wang Yongxin's body into dust and seized his Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Yongxin begged Ye Lin to kill him or accept his treasures, but Ye Lin carried him toward the Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin spent ten years returning to Fire Continent with Wang Yongxin's Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin asked a Holy Palace branch attendant for passage to Blazing Fire Continent and learned the teleportation array would be available in about a month for three million Great Luo Divine Sources.
• Ye Lin agreed to wait for the teleportation array.

Ye Lin discovered that the teleportation array he was about to use had been set to send him to Heaven Province, whose array was supposed to have been destroyed. The chapter left him confronting the people at the Holy Palace, with Sword Qi poised before the young man who had arranged the teleportation.

• After a month of waiting, Ye Lin followed the young man to the teleportation array and prepared to travel to Blazing Fire Continent.
• Just before the array activated, Ye Lin sensed something was wrong, stepped out, and seized the young man by the throat.
• Ye Lin questioned the young man and the middle-aged man about the array as cultivators gathered and warned him not to cause trouble at the Holy Palace.
• The middle-aged man inspected the array and realized its destination was Heaven Province, even though the teleportation array there had supposedly been destroyed.
• Ye Lin dropped the young man to the ground, then held a strand of Sword Qi before him.

Ye Lin confronted a Holy Palace member who had tried to teleport him to the fallen Heaven Province and demanded to know who had ordered it. He suppressed the Holy Palace with his peak Daluo Golden Immortal aura and waited for Manager Wang, suspecting Wang Yongxin was behind the attack.

• Ye Lin realized the young man had tried to send him to Heaven Province, which was overrun by the Chaos Ancient Clan.
• The young man claimed the teleportation mishap was accidental, and Ye Lin cut off his arm and demanded to know who had sent him.
• A woman from the Holy Palace told Ye Lin to stop attacking and offered to overlook his actions, angering him.
• Ye Lin asked who was in charge and unleashed his peak Daluo Golden Immortal aura, forcing those nearby to kneel.
• As the crowd called for Manager Wang, Ye Lin questioned the injured young man about Wang Yongxin and waited for an answer.

Ye Lin confronted the Holy Palace array operator after discovering the teleportation array had sent him to Heaven Province, suspecting Wang Yongxin had arranged the sabotage. A Quasi-Saint official arrived and began questioning the operator, who still claimed it was a mistake.

• Ye Lin restrained the young array operator and demanded to know why the teleportation array had been altered.
• The operator denied knowing Wang Yongxin and offered Ye Lin a free teleportation to make peace.
• Ye Lin reasoned that Wang Yongxin had secretly contacted the operator and waited for the Holy Palace branch’s Quasi-Saint to investigate.
• A stern middle-aged official arrived and asked the operator to explain what had happened.
• The operator called the incident a misunderstanding, and the official slapped him and accused him of plotting against Ye Lin’s life.

Ye Lin confronted the Holy Palace over a teleportation scheme and learned that Wang Yongxin had ordered the attack. After the middle-aged man took the guilty young man away for punishment, Ye Lin asked to deal with him personally.

• The middle-aged man apologized to Ye Lin and asked how he wanted the matter handled.
• Ye Lin requested a soul search, and the young man confessed that Wang Yongxin had ordered him to send Ye Lin to Heaven Province to be killed.
• Ye Lin revealed that he had captured Wang Yongxin and was taking him to Blazing Fire Continent to turn him in.
• The middle-aged man recognized Wang Yongxin as a Holy Palace wanted criminal and declared that the young man would face severe punishment.
• The middle-aged man seized the young man and arranged for Ye Lin to be sent to Blazing Fire Continent, but Ye Lin asked to deal with the culprit himself.

Ye Lin challenged Wang Gao’s attempt to keep the man who had framed him, then revealed he was a direct disciple of the Heavenly Blade Sage. Wang Gao immediately changed his tune and handed the culprit over to Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin demanded that Wang Gao hand over the man who had framed him so he could deal with him personally.
• Wang Gao refused, citing Holy Palace rules, and threatened to detain Ye Lin if he caused trouble.
• Ye Lin showed Wang Gao his Identity Token and said he would report the matter to his master before leaving the branch.
• Wang Gao hurried after Ye Lin, tossed the culprit at his feet, and said Ye Lin was free to deal with him.
• Ye Lin questioned Wang Gao’s sudden change of position, and Wang Gao claimed Ye Lin’s actions also counted as impartial enforcement.

Ye Lin secured Wang Gao’s help to travel to the Blazing Fire Continent, and Wang Gao sent him through the teleportation array without changing its destination. Ye Lin arrived safely and went to the Holy Palace to submit his mission, where the receptionist recognized him as Yun Qiyue’s junior brother.

• Ye Lin accepted Wang Gao’s offer to prepare a teleportation array while keeping the Primordial Spirits of two Daluo Golden Immortal experts in hand.
• Wang Gao assured Ye Lin that the array led to the Blazing Fire Continent, and Ye Lin entered it after warning that his master was watching.
• After Ye Lin departed, Wang Gao cursed the cultivators whose failed scheme had nearly implicated him and warned them not to cause trouble again.
• Ye Lin arrived in the Blazing Fire Continent and headed to the Holy Palace where he had taken his mission.
• Ye Lin introduced himself to the receptionist to submit the mission, and she recognized him as Yun Qiyue’s junior brother.

Ye Lin obtained the qualification to challenge the Eastern Region Top Hundred after completing all three tasks. He returned to Meteor Island to ask Yun Qiyue about the challenge and learned that Master had already arranged someone to deliver his letter.

• Ye Lin submitted Wang Yongxin's Primordial Spirit and confirmed that he had completed all three tasks.
• The woman at the Holy Palace verified his achievements and gave him an Identity Token naming him a candidate for the Eastern Region Top Hundred.
• Ye Lin returned to Meteor Island and found Yun Qiyue beneath the Undying Divine Tree.
• Ye Lin asked Yun Qiyue what to consider before challenging the Eastern Region Top Hundred.
• Yun Qiyue said a person with sufficient standing had to deliver his challenge letter and that Master had already prepared someone for him.

Yun Qiyue explained that the Eastern Region Top Hundred was a contest controlled by powerful factions and gave Ye Lin the Eastern Region Storm Rankings to study. As Ye Lin read about rank one hundred, Nanming Chuixue, he realized even the lowest-ranked contender was formidable.

• Yun Qiyue warned Ye Lin that challenging the Eastern Region Top Hundred could entangle him in the interests of the factions backing them.
• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that competitors needed the Holy Palace's backing and gave him a booklet detailing the current Top Hundred.
• Yun Qiyue said she would take Ye Lin to see the ranked experts when the Origin Holy City opened in three days, then vanished.
• Ye Lin read that rank one hundred, Nanming Chuixue, had defeated three half-step Quasi-Saints and numerous Daluo Golden Immortals in a battle lasting three days and nights.
• Ye Lin set aside his contempt for the rankings and turned to the next page with caution.

Ye Lin studied the Eastern Region Storm Rankings and was overwhelmed by the strength of the top hundred, especially the first-ranked fighter’s feat against three Third Heaven quasi-Saints. Yun Qiyue came to encourage him and offer to introduce him to some ranked cultivators, but Ye Lin instead asked how she had defeated a Second Heaven quasi-Saint and badly injured three Third Heaven quasi-Saints.

• Ye Lin read Zhuo Haoxuan’s battle record and was shocked that a peak Daluo Golden Immortal had fought a First Heaven quasi-Saint for three days before escaping.
• Ye Lin continued studying the rankings for three days, growing more solemn as he considered how difficult the listed fighters would be to defeat.
• Ye Lin tried and failed to understand how the first-ranked fighter had counter-killed three Third Heaven quasi-Saints while at peak Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Yun Qiyue approached Ye Lin, mistook his solemn expression for discouragement, and offered to take him to meet some of the ranked cultivators.
• Ye Lin asked Yun Qiyue how she had killed a Second Heaven quasi-Saint barehanded and severely wounded three Third Heaven quasi-Saints, startling her.

Yun Qiyue took Ye Lin to observe the ceremony at Origin Holy City and explained the city’s history and its secret arts. Ye Lin learned that the ancient city was guarded by a Quasi-Saint Ninth Heaven expert from the Origin Continent’s earliest era.

• Yun Qiyue dismissed the Eastern Region Romance Rankings booklet and gave Ye Lin the Eastern Region Storm Rankings instead.
• Ye Lin read the rankings, which placed Xuanyuan Dihuang first for exchanging three moves with a Quasi-Saint First Heaven expert without being defeated.
• Yun Qiyue took Ye Lin toward Origin Holy City and explained that it opened once every ten million years, drawing cultivators to study its secret arts.
• Yun Qiyue said she was taking Ye Lin to meet the Eastern Region’s upper echelon, learn about future enemies, and comprehend secret arts, offering to lend him resources if needed.
• Yun Qiyue explained that a Quasi-Saint Ninth Heaven expert from the Origin Continent’s most ancient era guarded the city, and Ye Lin wondered if he was from the Spirit King’s era.

Ye Lin followed Yun Qiyue into Origin Holy City, where he learned the city’s strict rules and saw its ancient buildings and customs. Yun Qiyue led him toward Drunken Flower Pavilion, and they arrived at a lake pavilion beneath a flowering ancient tree.

• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue reached Origin Holy City, a vast ancient city guarded by jade qilins.
• Yun Qiyue warned Ye Lin that flying, making loud noise, and fighting were forbidden in the city.
• Ye Lin entered the quiet city and saw cultivators keep their distance from its ancient buildings and ornaments.
• Yun Qiyue explained that Drunken Flower Pavilion was one of only two places open in the city and offered the rare Drunken Flower Brew.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue followed the ancient road to a lake, where they saw a huge pavilion beneath a flowering ancient tree.