Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin and his allies ambushed the newcomers to the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm and killed Li Song and the other opponents. After Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer finished their battles, Ye Lin judged that everything had been settled.

• Ye Lin welcomed Li Song, then had Sword Demon and two others surround him and his companions.
• Li Song pleaded to be spared, but Ye Lin attacked and instantly destroyed his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin waited while Iron Hammer fought Wang and smashed him apart.
• Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic finished their battles, demonstrating their overwhelming strength against the Quasi-Saint Third Heaven experts.
• Ye Lin concluded that the fighting was over.

Ye Lin and his three Dao Protectors defeated the eight Quasi-Saint Third Heaven experts who had injured the old man. After confirming their success, the old man gave Ye Lin the rest of the map, which marked every crystal's location.

• Ye Lin decided to secure the rest of the map before searching for another crystal.
• Ye Lin and the three Dao Protectors returned to the Time Forest and found the old man, whose injuries had worsened.
• Ye Lin presented the heads of the men who had attacked the old man.
• The old man confirmed the heads belonged to his attackers and was stunned that the four had defeated eight Quasi-Saint Third Heaven experts in four or five hours.
• The old man gave Ye Lin the remaining map, showing the locations of all the crystals.

Ye Lin accepted the old man’s map, then combined it with his own to locate the nine Origin Crystals. He led Sword Demon and the other two to their first destination, Shattered Star Lake.

• Ye Lin told the old man he would not be deceived without consequence and left with the map.
• The old man admitted Ye Lin had seen through him and accepted that his injuries left him awaiting death.
• Ye Lin pieced together the two maps, revealing six additional points of light around Time Forest.
• Ye Lin chose to keep the group together and led them northeast from Time Forest toward Shattered Star Lake.
• Ye Lin and the others reached Shattered Star Lake, whose black waters reflected enormous star-like fragments.

Ye Lin and his companions found the target beneath a reef and discovered dangerous beasts in the lake. They left the lake undisturbed for diving and instead lured one beast to the surface, where Blade Fanatic struck it with a silver arrow.

• Ye Lin pointed out the reef that marked their destination beneath the lake.
• Sword Demon sensed several vicious beasts in the water and warned that the heavy lake water would suppress their strength.
• Blade Fanatic proposed fishing from the surface, and Iron Hammer volunteered as bait.
• Iron Hammer stomped across the lake until a gigantic beast lunged from the water at him.
• Blade Fanatic fired a silver arrow that pierced the beast and splattered blood across the lake.

Iron Hammer and his companions hunted the lake’s giant beasts as he advanced toward the reef and its Origin Crystals. Three second-layer Quasi-Saint fish then rose to block him, and Iron Hammer charged the largest with his hammer.

• Iron Hammer knocked a giant beast out of the lake, and Sword Demon pinned it with Sword Qi while Ye Lin roasted it.
• Iron Hammer pressed toward the central reef as the group killed and roasted thirteen giant beasts that attacked him.
• Three dark-blue monstrous fish with Bone Spikes and Flood Dragon-like heads burst from the water, each carrying a second-layer Quasi-Saint aura.
• Blade Fanatic’s arrows failed to pierce the three fish, so Iron Hammer charged the largest and smashed its head with his hammer.

Ye Lin’s companions subdued the monstrous fish guarding an Origin Crystal and retrieved it from the lake. After the group feasted on thirteen giant beasts, Ye Lin refined their energy while the others rested or kept watch.

• Blade Fanatic wounded the monstrous fish with his saber, and Iron Hammer struck them into the lake with his hammer.
• Iron Hammer retrieved the watery-blue Origin Crystal and the map, then returned them to Ye Lin.
• Iron Hammer pledged to follow Ye Lin’s orders before eagerly joining the others to eat grilled fish.
• Ye Lin and his three companions devoured thirteen giant beasts, and Ye Lin sat down to refine their energy.
• Two hours later, Ye Lin finished refining the energy.

Ye Lin and his companions entered the Ancient Vine Forest in search of a crystal hidden among the Mother Vine's roots. They kept the living vines from attacking by restraining their auras, then discovered four quasi-Saint cultivators fighting a swarm of vines.

• Ye Lin led Iron Hammer, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic toward the Ancient Vine Forest to find the crystal in the Mother Vine's roots.
• Blade Fanatic cut a vine, causing the forest's vines to writhe, while Ye Lin observed that they had not attacked the group on their own.
• Ye Lin stopped Iron Hammer from charging ahead and told everyone to restrain their auras as they walked through the forest.
• Ye Lin and his companions heard voices and battle sounds, then found four quasi-Saint cultivators besieged by dozens of thick vines.

Ye Lin and his companions evaded the Mother Vine’s deadly tendrils and reached its core, where the Origin Crystals were hidden. With no way to approach unnoticed, Ye Lin ordered the group to fight their way through.

• Ye Lin watched the vines devour one Quasi-Saint and recognized the trapped cultivators as natives of the secret realm.
• Ye Lin and his companions circled around the natives and pressed deeper through increasingly thick, savage vines.
• Ye Lin’s group reached the enormous Mother Vine, whose roots and stem concealed the Origin Crystals.
• Iron Hammer proposed blasting through the vines, and Ye Lin agreed that a direct attack was their only option.
• Ye Lin ordered Iron Hammer to lead, Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic to take the flanks, and himself to guard the rear as they attacked the Mother Vine.

Iron Hammer, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic fought their way through the Mother Vine’s attacks, and the Mother Vine surrendered an Origin Crystal before Iron Hammer could strike. The three decided to leave without killing it, with Ye Lin following behind them.

• Iron Hammer smashed through the Mother Vine’s vines while Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic protected his flanks, and Ye Lin followed behind.
• Iron Hammer reached the Mother Vine and prepared to deliver his final hammer strike.
• The Mother Vine’s vines withdrew and revealed a green crystal, which Iron Hammer identified as an Origin Crystal and took.
• Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic urged Iron Hammer to leave since they had obtained the crystal and killing the Mother Vine would bring no benefit.
• Iron Hammer abandoned his attack, and the group prepared to withdraw.

Ye Lin and the others left the Ancient Vine Forest with the green crystal and traveled to Thunderclap Valley to claim another crystal. Iron Hammer entered the lightning-filled valley and pressed onward through a growing Thunder Sea.

• Iron Hammer put away his hammer and returned through the Ancient Vine Forest as the vines shrank back.
• Ye Lin and the others left the forest with the green crystal and headed for Thunderclap Valley.
• Ye Lin and Blade Fanatic assessed the valley’s dense lightning laws and identified the crystal’s location at its center.
• Iron Hammer entered the valley, shattered a lightning bolt with one palm, and continued deeper as lightning engulfed him.
• Iron Hammer pressed on through the Thunder Sea while Ye Lin watched in alarm.

Ye Lin, Iron Hammer, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic crossed Thunderclap Valley, using its lightning to temper their bodies. At the valley’s center, they found an Origin Crystal suspended inside a deadly Thunder Domain formed by nine pillars.

• Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Ye Lin followed Iron Hammer into Thunderclap Valley to test its body-tempering lightning.
• Ye Lin endured increasingly intense lightning as it scorched his skin and strengthened his meridians and flesh.
• After half an hour, the four reached the center of Thunderclap Valley without showing much strain.
• The four saw nine rune-covered pillars channeling powerful lightning into a Thunder Domain around a dark-violet Origin Crystal.
• Sword Demon warned that approaching the crystal would expose them to a far more powerful heavenly lightning baptism.

Iron Hammer, Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Ye Lin endured the lightning in the valley as they advanced toward a crystal. Ye Lin pressed on through the pain while Iron Hammer reached the crystal first, seemingly unharmed by the lightning.

• Iron Hammer stepped into the lightning and advanced despite its growing intensity.
• Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic joined Iron Hammer, drawing some of the lightning pressure away from him.
• Ye Lin entered, took three golden lightning bolts head-on, and followed the others deeper into the valley.
• As the lightning intensified, it scorched Ye Lin's skin and tempered his organs, meridians, and Primordial Spirit, but he continued onward.
• Iron Hammer reached the crystal at the front of the group with his bronze-colored skin apparently unaffected by the lightning.

Iron Hammer took the crystal from Thunderclap Valley, and Ye Lin led the group onward to Bone-Eroding Swamp. The four arrived at the poisonous, dangerous wetlands and prepared to face whatever threats lay within.

• Iron Hammer endured the lightning and seized the crystal, then returned to Blade Fanatic, Sword Demon, and Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin suggested they leave Thunderclap Valley, and the four flew toward their next destination.
• Ye Lin recalled that Bone-Eroding Swamp lay southeast of the valley, and the group traveled there.
• The four reached Bone-Eroding Swamp, where foul-smelling poisonous miasma obscured their vision and hindered divine sense.
• Ye Lin and the others surveyed the swamp's treacherous waters, poisonous mushrooms, and swarms of venomous insects.

Ye Lin and his companions crossed a poisonous swamp in search of the Origin Crystals and were attacked by a powerful giant python. Blade Fanatic wounded the beast, and an unseen Sword Qi struck its eye as the battle continued.

• Ye Lin led Iron Hammer, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic into the swamp, with Iron Hammer taking the lead and Ye Lin traveling at the rear.
• The group cautiously crossed the poisonous mire for two hours as twisted tree remains and bones appeared around them.
• A dark-green giant python ambushed the group with venom and a sweeping tail, targeting Blade Fanatic.
• Blade Fanatic blocked the venom with a wall of fiery Blade Qi and struck the python, breaking its scales without killing it.
• The enraged python lunged at Blade Fanatic, and a silent strand of Sword Qi pierced one of its eyes.

Ye Lin and the others fought through the swamp and reached a bone altar holding an Origin Crystal. As skeletons began assembling around the altar, the chapter left them facing its hidden danger.

• Blade Fanatic killed the giant python by striking the wound Sword Demon had made, and the two traded insults.
• Ye Lin warned the group that the python's blood might attract other creatures, so the four hurried onward through the swamp.
• The group survived piranhas, demonic flowers, quicksand, and poisonous miasma before finding a bone altar.
• Ye Lin recognized the grayish-white crystal above the altar as an Origin Crystal, but the group held back and watched their surroundings.
• Green ghostfire lit in the skeletons' eye sockets, and bones around the altar began assembling themselves.

Ye Lin and his companions fought Quasi-Saint-level skeletons that revived stronger every time they were destroyed. As Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer were trapped in an escalating battle, Ye Lin suspected the altar was creating the skeletons and turned his attention to it.

• Ye Lin saw skeleton warriors and bone beasts assemble, all radiating Quasi-Saint auras, and Sword Demon judged that they were weaker than real Quasi-Saints.
• Iron Hammer smashed dozens of skeletons apart, but they reassembled unharmed with stronger auras.
• Iron Hammer kept attacking and was surrounded as the skeletons repeatedly revived and grew stronger.
• Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic joined Iron Hammer, but the three remained trapped by the strengthening skeletons.
• Ye Lin watched the altar's crystal and dark-red patterns and concluded that the altar was the source of the skeletons and had to be dealt with.

Ye Lin discovered that the altar’s runes powered the skeletons’ endless resurrections, destroyed the runes, and claimed the Origin Crystal. He and his companions returned safely with six crystals in total and set out to find the final three.

• Ye Lin identified the altar’s mysterious patterns as the source of the skeletons’ resurrections and asked Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer to clear him a path.
• Ye Lin destroyed the rune-inscribed bones around the altar, permanently stopping the skeletons from reviving.
• Ye Lin took the unaffected Origin Crystal from the altar and left with his companions.
• Ye Lin and the others crossed the swamp and returned outside without much trouble.
• Ye Lin noted they had obtained six Origin Crystals and urged the group to continue searching for the final three.

Ye Lin and his companions reached the Phantom Light Maze, a vast crystal forest that distorted perception and resisted even Iron Hammer’s powerful hammer blows. The group faced the maze’s formidable barriers as they prepared to find a way through.

• Ye Lin hurried his three companions toward the Phantom Light Maze, hoping to reach the sacred land before time ran out.
• After two hours of travel, the four arrived at the maze, where enormous, colorful crystal clusters formed twisting paths.
• Ye Lin tested his divine sense and found that the maze’s illusions and distortions disrupted perception and direction.
• The Sword Demon identified the maze’s powerful natural Illusion Formation, interference with perception, unbreakable crystals, and air-restriction formation.
• Iron Hammer struck a crystal wall hundreds of times without leaving a mark, then lowered his hammer in frustration.

Ye Lin and his companions entered the Phantom Light Maze to search for the crystal, relying on Sword Demon to guide them through illusions that suppressed their senses. They followed him deeper into the maze without yet finding the crystal.

• Ye Lin proposed that the group enter the Phantom Light Maze and explore despite its dangers.
• Sword Demon warned that the maze’s illusions came from both its surroundings and inner demons, then stepped inside.
• Blade Fanatic and Iron Hammer joined Ye Lin and Sword Demon, and the four agreed to stay together as they advanced.
• Sword Demon led the group through forks and deceptive walls despite being unable to see, while the others followed his lead.
• Ye Lin ignored phantom sounds and reflections as Sword Demon continued finding a path through the maze.

Ye Lin, Blade Fanatic, Sword Demon, and Iron Hammer crossed the Phantom Light Maze, resisting illusions drawn from their pasts and inner desires. They reached the maze’s core, where a vast living orb of phantom light filled a spherical space.

• The group encountered light-and-shadow creatures that made illusory copies of Sword Demon, Blade Fanatic, and Iron Hammer, and quickly defeated them.
• Personal illusions showed Ye Lin the deaths of people he knew, Blade Fanatic the destruction of his sect, and Sword Demon a past defeat, but none of them acted on the visions.
• Ye Lin noticed Iron Hammer muttering about keeping roasted mythical beasts for himself, and decided not to interfere as long as he was safe.
• Ye Lin dismissed the ghosts of enemies he had killed as they charged him, continuing onward with Sword Demon and the others.
• The group passed through a rippling curtain of light and entered the maze’s central spherical space, where an enormous shifting orb radiated pure phantom-light laws.