Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin waited in seclusion for the conflict in Heavenly Water Commandery to begin while cultivating his Primordial Spirit. Half a year later, the Dao Sect and Human Sect launched a war against the Demonic Sect, and the fighting escalated until Quasi-Saints joined in.

• Ye Lin left the city, carved out a cave, and decided to wait for the war so he could pick up the scraps.
• Ye Lin took out the Ultimate Dao Visualization Diagram and began strengthening his Primordial Spirit.
• Cultivators sensed trouble brewing in Heavenly Water Commandery, and some fled while others stayed in hopes of finding opportunities.
• Half a year later, the Dao Sect and Human Sect joined forces to seize the Demonic Sect's territory and began killing its cultivators.
• The conflict intensified, Quasi-Saints entered the battle, and most cultivators fled Heavenly Water Commandery while others anticipated the chance to profit.

The Demonic Sect mobilized for war against the Dao Sect and Human Sect after their leaders accused the other sects of using the deaths of two juniors as an excuse to attack. A month later, all three sects were locked in a devastating battle across Heavenly Water Commandery, with no outside force intervening.

• The Demonic Sect leader told his daughter that the Dao Child and Holy Son had been killed by their own people, and ordered the sect to fight with its full strength.
• The Demonic Sect, Dao Sect, and Human Sect sent their forces into battle, and fighting between Quasi-Saints devastated cities and killed countless innocents.
• Cultivators seeking to profit from the chaos fled Heavenly Water Commandery as the three sects continued fighting for a month.
• The Sect Masters joined the battle, while observers doubted that the deaths of two juniors were the true cause of the war.
• Other commanderies became alarmed, but none stepped in to mediate.

After a year in seclusion, Ye Lin emerged to find Heavenly Water Commandery devastated by the three sects’ all-out war. He headed for the Human Sect, where he intended to take advantage of its leaders being away in battle.

• The three sects launched an all-out war across Heavenly Water Commandery, while outsiders waited for them to weaken each other.
• Ye Lin ended his seclusion and found the surrounding land reduced to ruins, though his mountain had remained untouched.
• Ye Lin wondered why he had not sensed the destruction, then set out for the Human Sect after learning Yun Qiyue had plundered treasures during the chaos.
• Ye Lin reached the Human Sect’s stronghold, where the sect’s treasure vault held most of its cultivation resources.

Ye Lin went to the Human Sect stronghold, hoping to plunder its treasure vault while its experts were away fighting. He failed to break the Sect Protection Array, but new arrivals offered to help him.

• Ye Lin approached the Human Sect stronghold and questioned the young guard about whether a Quasi-Saint was stationed there.
• Ye Lin demanded that the guard open the Sect Protection Array, but the guard refused and warned that the Sect Master and elders would return.
• Ye Lin struck the array with a law-infused palm, but it held firm against his attack.
• Several newcomers arrived and offered to help Ye Lin break through, while one declared the Human Sect's treasure vault would be his.

Ye Lin watched cultivators trick a young Human Sect disciple into lowering the Sect Protection Array by claiming the Sect Master and elders had died. As the crowd rushed toward the treasury, a masked woman exposed the disciple’s mistake, then vanished.

• Cultivators arrived behind Ye Lin and falsely claimed the Human Sect’s leaders had died, pressuring the young disciple to open the array.
• The young disciple used his Identity Token and hand seals to dispel the Sect Protection Array.
• The cultivators rushed toward the treasury, and Ye Lin blended into the crowd while the disciple tried to flee.
• A masked woman stopped the disciple and pointed out that the cultivators could not have broken the array quickly, giving him time to take the treasury and escape.
• The disciple stood stunned as the masked woman vanished.

Ye Lin found the Human Sect's sealed treasure vault, where cultivators argued over whether to keep attacking its formation as more people arrived. A cultivator urged them to work together, but the crowd remained silent as the standoff continued.

• Ye Lin followed the crowd to the Human Sect's treasure vault and watched cultivators bombard its formation without success.
• As more cultivators gathered, those attacking the vault stopped, unwilling to let newcomers claim the treasures for free.
• Ye Lin stayed quiet and stepped back as tensions rose and the cultivators seemed ready to fight.
• A cultivator proposed joining forces to open the vault and discussing the treasures afterward, but no one answered.
• The cultivator warned that more arrivals would further divide their share of the limited treasures.

Ye Lin followed a fat cultivator who secretly discovered an entrance to the Human Sect treasure vault and entered it using his clone, Wu Wang. Inside, Ye Lin found a vast prairie covered in precious herbs, where the fat cultivator confronted him.

• The cultivators agreed to work together to open the treasure vault and divide its treasures afterward.
• Ye Lin followed a little fatty who left the group and reached a flat stretch at the end of the canyon.
• The little fatty used a jade pendant to open a green vortex and entered, believing he had found the Human Sect treasure vault.
• Ye Lin sent in his clone, Wu Wang, and followed the little fatty through the vortex.
• Ye Lin arrived in a vast prairie covered in herbs and felt delighted by the riches.
• The little fatty asked Ye Lin who he was and why he had followed him.

Ye Lin confronted Wang Fugui in the Human Sect’s treasure vault and claimed its treasures for himself. He threatened Wang Fugui into choosing between losing everything or accepting a share, then waited for his decision.

• Ye Lin used his peak Daluo Golden Immortal pressure to overpower Wang Fugui and argued that the stronger thief should take the treasures.
• Ye Lin collected countless great medicinal herbs into his Spatial Ring while telling Wang Fugui to leave.
• Wang Fugui threatened to detonate the treasure vault and send its treasures into the void’s chaotic currents.
• Ye Lin learned Wang Fugui’s name and rejected his proposal to split the treasures equally.
• Ye Lin offered Wang Fugui ten percent and threatened to kill him if he refused, then waited for him to choose.

Ye Lin pressured Wang Fugui into accepting a ten-percent share of the treasure vault, then began collecting its riches. After clearing the grassland of great herbs, Ye Lin reached a cluster of buildings and entered the Alchemy Room to take its most valuable pills, leaving the rest for Wang Fugui.

• Ye Lin warned Wang Fugui that delaying would risk losing the treasure vault and his life, and rejected Wang Fugui's proposed shares until Wang agreed to take ten percent.
• Ye Lin gathered the great herbs across the grassland while Wang Fugui followed and collected the portion Ye Lin left for him.
• Ye Lin estimated that his haul of great herbs could be worth tens of millions of Trading Points and planned to keep some and exchange the rest.
• Ye Lin reached a cluster of palaces and residences, entered the Alchemy Room, and collected the high-value, useful pills while leaving the others for Fatty Wang.

Ye Lin and Wang Fugui hurried through the treasure vault, taking valuable pills and reaching a palace with five supreme treasures. Ye Lin claimed the Void Scroll and Myriad Tribulations Delusion-Breaking Brush, while Wang Fugui hoped one of the remaining treasures would be his.

• Ye Lin ignored pills with harmful side effects and left them for Wang Fugui, who decided his master was treating him fairly.
• Ye Lin sped up after learning the group outside was close to breaking the formation and might search the vault.
• Ye Lin and Wang Fugui entered the palace and found five counters, each holding one item.
• Ye Lin identified the Void Scroll as a Postnatal Supreme Treasure that could control time and put it away.
• Ye Lin identified the Myriad Tribulations Delusion-Breaking Brush as a Postnatal Supreme Treasure that could rewrite rules, then claimed it as Wang Fugui watched.

Ye Lin collected the final treasures in the Human Sect, including the Space-Breaking Pearl and the Mirror of Reincarnation. He refused to give Wang Fugui one of the five supreme treasures, offered him pills instead, and urged him to open the exit before their pursuers found them.

• Ye Lin kept the no-grade Nameless Painting after deciding to study it later.
• Ye Lin claimed the Space-Breaking Pearl, which could break restrictions, formations, and illusions.
• Ye Lin took the Mirror of Reincarnation, a supreme treasure that could reveal a target's past, present, future, and previous life.
• Wang Fugui demanded his share of the five treasures, but Ye Lin refused and gave him pills as compensation.
• Ye Lin warned Wang Fugui that people outside were searching for them and told him to open the exit so they could escape.

After escaping the Human Sect with Wang Fugui, Ye Lin headed for the nearby Demonic Sect to plunder its treasury. He arrived there two hours later, as cultivators flocked to the sect and Quasi-Saints stayed away to avoid being identified and earning the survivors’ revenge.

• Wang Fugui opened a passage with his jade pendant, and Ye Lin left before his clone returned to his main body.
• Ye Lin fled the Human Sect after emptying its treasury, while Wang Fugui escaped in another direction.
• Ye Lin chose to raid the Demonic Sect because it was close to the Human Sect.
• Ye Lin saw many cultivators heading toward the Demonic Sect’s treasury, but no Quasi-Saints had appeared because they risked being identified by surviving sect members.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Demonic Sect after two hours.

Ye Lin discovered that the cultivators searching Demon Mountain had not found the Demonic Sect’s treasures, then used Yun Qiyue’s panel to locate a secret passage. He headed after her, realizing the sect’s witch held the treasures and planning to take them for himself.

• Ye Lin surveyed Demon Mountain and learned that the cultivators had searched for hours without finding the Demonic Sect’s treasure vault.
• Ye Lin waited among the searchers, then noticed a figure racing underground and saw Yun Qiyue’s panel.
• Ye Lin learned that Yun Qiyue would discover a secret passage and encounter the Demonic Sect’s witch, who possessed a vast quantity of treasures.
• Ye Lin followed the panel’s directions toward the secret passage while Yun Qiyue headed there as well.

Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue discovered a hidden passage leading to an underground hall, where they confronted Bai Yuzhen, the Demonic Sect witch. Yun Qiyue demanded the Demonic Sect’s treasure vault and gave Bai Yuzhen a choice: surrender it or be killed.

• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue found the location shown on the panel and uncovered a secret passage beneath the ground.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue walked through the passage and reached a vast underground hall with a black throne.
• Bai Yuzhen asked how they had found her, and Yun Qiyue identified her as the Demonic Sect witch.
• Yun Qiyue demanded the Demonic Sect’s hidden treasure vault and offered Bai Yuzhen the choice of surrendering it or dying.

Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin demanded the Demonic Sect’s wealth from Bai Yuzhen, who tried to delay them by asking how they would divide its uneven treasures. When they pressed her for the Spatial Ring, Bai Yuzhen activated a teleportation formation.

• Bai Yuzhen revealed that the Spatial Ring held the Demonic Sect’s million-year wealth, worth at least five hundred million transaction points, and said her father had entrusted it to her.
• Yun Qiyue gave Bai Yuzhen an ultimatum, while Bai Yuzhen questioned how Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin would divide the treasures and resources.
• Ye Lin offered Yun Qiyue the Postnatal Supreme Treasures and sixty percent of the remaining resources, taking the Postnatal Spirit Treasures and the rest.
• Yun Qiyue demanded the Spatial Ring, and Ye Lin silently moved closer to Bai Yuzhen.
• Bai Yuzhen refused to hand over the Demonic Sect’s inheritance and stomped on the ground, triggering a teleportation formation that surrounded her in black light.

Ye Lin followed Bai Yuzhen through her teleportation array and took the Spatial Ring containing the Demonic Sect's foundation from her. He left her alive and vanished, while Bai Yuzhen was left wondering what to do without her father, sect, or money.

• Bai Yuzhen escaped Yun Qiyue using a teleportation array, and Ye Lin vanished with her while Yun Qiyue stayed behind.
• Ye Lin appeared with Bai Yuzhen in an unfamiliar mountain range and demanded the item she carried.
• Bai Yuzhen released her peak Daluo Golden Immortal aura and threatened Ye Lin, but he ignored it and removed her Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin inspected the ring, spared Bai Yuzhen, and warned her that she would die the next time they met before vanishing.
• Bai Yuzhen realized the Demonic Sect's foundation was gone and lamented that she had no father, sect, or money.

Ye Lin kept the valuable items he had earned and brought them to the Origin Chamber of Commerce to exchange for transaction points. Yun Qiyue took only the black flag she had come for, while Ye Lin prepared to head to the Great Blade Association afterward.

• Ye Lin estimated that his haul was worth hundreds of millions of transaction points and noted that he would keep most of the proceeds.
• Yun Qiyue met Ye Lin and took only the black flag from the Spatial Ring, returning the rest of the items to him.
• Ye Lin kept the remaining items and set off for the Origin Chamber of Commerce to exchange them for transaction points.
• At the Origin Chamber of Commerce, a young man led Ye Lin into a private chamber.

Ye Lin exchanged the Human Sect and Demonic Sect’s surplus treasures for more than 345 million trade points. He ran into Zhang Ling’er and Luo Yao afterward and spent time listening to Luo Yao recount their travels while Zhang Ling’er went to exchange her own goods.

• Ye Lin gave the Origin Chamber of Commerce a Spatial Ring of surplus items, which the young appraiser valued at 345,449,356 trade points.
• Ye Lin checked the funds on his trade card, accepted the result, and left the chamber.
• Ye Lin encountered Zhang Ling’er and Luo Yao while heading toward the Great Blade Association.
• Luo Yao happily told Ye Lin about the places she and Zhang Ling’er had visited and the food they had eaten.
• Zhang Ling’er said she had run out of money and went to exchange some while Ye Lin wandered through the city with Luo Yao.

Ye Lin encountered Sword Venerable, his old acquaintance from the Star River Cosmos, after following him out of the city. They reunited over wine on a cliff and compared how they had fared, with Ye Lin asking Sword Venerable about his life in the Boundary Sea.

• Ye Lin noticed a familiar figure while carrying Luo Yao and followed him out of the city.
• Sword Venerable stopped and asked Ye Lin why he was following him, then recognized him.
• Ye Lin and Sword Venerable went to a cliff to drink while Luo Yao sat nearby.
• Sword Venerable said he was surprised they had met again in the Boundary Sea and asked how Ye Lin had been.
• Ye Lin said he had become a disciple of the Heavenly Blade Sage, and Sword Venerable praised him.
• Ye Lin asked Sword Venerable how he had fared, as an unspoken rivalry emerged between them.

Ye Lin reunited with the Sword Venerable on the Origin Continent, and they shared stories of how they had survived and found their footing there. After Zhang Ling'er joined them, the friends parted, hoping to meet again at the summit.

• The Sword Venerable told Ye Lin how he crossed the Boundary Sea, reached the Origin Continent, and joined a mysterious faction.
• Ye Lin and the Sword Venerable compared their progress and drank together, reflecting on how the Origin Continent offered greater opportunities than the Star River Cosmos.
• Zhang Ling'er arrived at the place Ye Lin had given her, and Ye Lin introduced her to the Sword Venerable as a friend.
• After night fell, Ye Lin and the Sword Venerable said farewell and promised to meet again at the summit.
• The Sword Venerable vanished into the distance, and Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er remained behind.