Chapter Summaries

Number 305 reported to the First Prime Minister that Su Tao had unified the Southern Region and planned to establish an imperial dynasty in nine days. The Prime Minister ordered someone to bring Su Tao back, unwilling to let his grandson become a ruler and diminish his own standing.

• Number 305 hurried through the Imperial Capital marketplace and entered the First Prime Minister’s residence.
• Number 305 reported that Su Tao had unified the Southern Region and was preparing to establish an imperial dynasty in nine days.
• The First Prime Minister remarked that he had not expected his obscure grandson to prove so capable.
• The First Prime Minister ordered someone to bring Su Tao back, explaining that Su Tao could not be allowed to become ruler of the Southern Region.
• Number 305 realized the First Prime Minister feared losing status if his grandson became an emperor.

A Prime Minister discussed why the Southern Region’s new imperial dynasty would be vulnerable to the other three regions and ordered a man in black to bring Young Master Su Tao home. After the Imperial Lord summoned him, several figures raced toward the Southern Region, where events were growing lively.

• The Prime Minister warned the man in black that the Southern Region’s seal would fail if a new imperial dynasty emerged, leaving it exposed to the other regions.
• The man in black worried that he could not retrieve Young Master Su Tao because of the expert protecting him, but the Prime Minister told him to go and said someone would assist.
• The Prime Minister reflected that he had once abandoned Su Tao and would nurture him if he returned and let bygones be bygones.
• A messenger summoned the Prime Minister to meet the Imperial Lord, and the Prime Minister burned the paper bearing Su Tao’s name before leaving.
• Several figures raced through the Void toward the Southern Region as it became unusually lively.

The Great Frost Dynasty drew rulers and powerful cultivators from across the regions as it prepared to become an Imperial Dynasty. Black Tortoise Venerable let Zhu Xiao go to help build it, while lamenting that their world was a cage and doubting that its decaying Sacred Dynasty could ever break it.

• Rulers and Prime Ministers from the southern dynasties carried fragments of the Imperial Jade Seal and Supreme Purity Mystic Bell to the Great Frost Dynasty.
• Northern dynasty rulers also set out after the notice, while reclusive powerhouses traveled to witness the Imperial Dynasty's establishment.
• Black Tortoise Venerable told Zhu Xiao that their world was a cage and that fortune dynasties offered no true way out.
• Zhu Xiao recalled the legend that a Sacred Dynasty ruling everything could break the cage, but Black Tortoise Venerable said the Central Region's Sacred Dynasty was too rotten to do so.
• Black Tortoise Venerable accepted Zhu Xiao's decision to join the newborn Imperial Dynasty and said he might someday rely on his grandson's favor.

Su Tao told Ye Lin that he planned to establish an imperial dynasty and asked him to help defend it from the other three regions. Ye Lin refused unless the other regions also had Innate Spirit Treasures, and Su Tao said they did not.

• Su Tao said he would hold an ascension ceremony the next day and establish an imperial dynasty, after which Ye Lin could retrieve the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell fragments and have them reassembled.
• Su Tao explained that the dynasty’s rise would break the Heavenly Dao’s seal on the Southern Region and draw attacks from the other three regions.
• Su Tao asked Ye Lin to help him face the coming war, but Ye Lin refused.
• Su Tao offered to give Ye Lin anything he wanted, and Ye Lin said he was only interested if the other regions had Innate Spirit Treasures.
• Su Tao said the other three regions had no Innate Spirit Treasures.

Ye Lin refused to help Su Tao unless he received an Innate Spirit Treasure, leaving Su Tao with no choice but to abandon his request. The next day, Su Tao arrived at the ceremony in a grand procession, while the gathered experts kept their distance from Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin told Su Tao that only an Innate Spirit Treasure would persuade him to act.
• Su Tao gave up after realizing he had nothing else valuable enough to offer Ye Lin.
• At dawn, experts gathered to witness the ceremony but left a wide space around Ye Lin, with only Green Lotus standing beside him.
• Nine golden dragons pulled Su Tao's carriage through shattered space, accompanied by women scattering petals, officials, and the Great Frost Dynasty's army.
• Su Tao emerged from the carriage in a golden robe and surveyed the ceremony grounds.

Su Tao proclaimed the founding of the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and tried to gather the Southern Region’s fortune under its Imperial Jade Seal. When the seal began to crack, he decided to hold down the fortune himself rather than use the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell fragments he had promised to Ye Lin.

• The rulers of the great dynasties presented Su Tao with their Imperial Jade Seals and fragments of the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell.
• Su Tao arranged the seals with the Great Frost Dynasty’s seal at the center, then dismissed the rulers and the Prime Minister.
• Su Tao proclaimed the founding of the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and called for heaven, earth, and the Heavenly Dao to assent.
• The other dynasties’ seals crumbled as the Southern Region’s fortune converged on the Great Frost Dynasty’s seal, which began to crack.
• Su Tao considered using the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell fragments but chose to step forward and hold down the fortune himself.

Su Tao rejected the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell and crushed the Great Frost Dynasty's Imperial Jade Seal, declaring that he would absorb and suppress the Southern Region's fortune with his own body. The dynasty rulers accepted his decision as he risked his life and the lives of his blood relatives, but the outcome remained unknown.

• The dynasty rulers panicked when cracks appeared on the Great Frost Dynasty's Imperial Jade Seal and questioned why Su Tao was not using the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell.
• Su Tao strode into the Void and crushed the Great Frost Dynasty's Imperial Jade Seal, leaving the gathered rulers and experts stunned.
• Su Tao declared that he would absorb the Southern Region's fortune into himself and use his body to suppress it, following the rulers of the other three regions.
• The dynasty rulers realized that Su Tao's success would make him the Southern Region's true ruler, while failure would destroy him and curse his blood relatives.
• The dynasty rulers accepted Su Tao's choice and resolved not to blame him even if his gamble failed.

Su Tao endured the overwhelming fate of the Southern Region as it drove his cultivation upward, while three men in black watched and hoped he would succeed. His aura reached the third level of the Quasi-Saint Realm and continued to rise, and Ye Lin observed that borrowed power was still external power.

• Three men in black worried that Su Tao’s failure would bring down the fate curse and debated whether to intervene.
• One man in black decided Su Tao’s success could let the Prime Minister and his family seek refuge with him in the Southern Region.
• Su Tao struggled through unbearable pain as the Southern Region’s fate poured into his body and he refused to give up.
• A boom sounded from the sky, and the incoming fate pushed Su Tao’s cultivation to the third level of the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Ye Lin remarked that external power was still external power as Su Tao’s aura continued to surge.

Su Tao broke through to the fourth level of the Quasi-Saint realm as the Southern Region’s powerhouses celebrated his success. With his cultivation nearing the fifth level but the remaining providence running short, Ye Lin continued to wait before handing him the fragment.

• Ye Lin watched Su Tao’s breakthrough and judged that even at the fourth level of the Quasi-Saint realm, Su Tao would not be a threat to him.
• Su Tao’s aura transformed, and he reached the fourth level of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• The surrounding powerhouses celebrated Su Tao’s success and anticipated the Southern Region rising under its strongest ruler.
• One of the black-clad men left to inform the Prime Minister, while the other two stayed to watch Su Tao.
• Su Tao enjoyed the power of destiny as his cultivation neared the fifth level, but there was not enough destiny left.

Su Tao established the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and declared the Southern Region under his rule. Afterward, Ye Lin joined him in the bedchamber, where Su Tao gave him the fragment and explained how he could restore it.

• Su Tao proclaimed himself the Great Frost Imperial Lord and ordered the Southern Region’s dynasties and factions to submit to his rule.
• Su Tao threatened to destroy factions that failed to register or resisted the dynasty, and forbade unapproved experts from the other regions from entering the Southern Region.
• Ye Lin followed Su Tao after the assembled experts departed, intending to reclaim what belonged to him.
• Su Tao asked Ye Lin who would win in a fight, but abandoned the idea when Ye Lin invited him to try.
• Su Tao gave Ye Lin the fragment and explained that an artifact refiner could piece it together or that the innate spirit treasure could acknowledge Ye Lin as its master.

Ye Lin rejected Su Tao’s offer and left the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty, telling Green Lotus she could no longer follow him. He wandered across the Southern Region with the fragment, leaving its fate for later.

• Ye Lin thanked Su Tao for the fragment and told Green Lotus to stop following him, warning that the path ahead meant death.
• Green Lotus begged to stay with Ye Lin, but he refused and said his heart held only the Dao.
• Su Tao tried to recruit Ye Lin by offering him everything, but Ye Lin said their paths were different and left him behind.
• Su Tao told Green Lotus she could go anywhere in the Southern Region without fear, but she chased after Ye Lin and lost sight of him.
• Ye Lin carried the fragment away from the Great Frost Imperial Dynasty and explored the Southern Region, crossing a vast river in enormous strides.

Ye Lin reached a continent in the secret realm and continued exploring despite sensing an unseen watcher. In the Northern Region, the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s ruler decided to invite him to court, while First Prime Minister Su Wu returned home troubled by his declining influence.

• Ye Lin found land after walking across the ocean and sensed someone watching him, but he continued exploring the continent.
• The ruler of the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty watched Ye Lin in a golden mirror and asked whether to recruit him as prime minister.
• The ruler ordered Wang Feng to invite Ye Lin to the throne hall respectfully and dismissed the court.
• Su Wu left the throne hall alone, returned to his residence, and brooded over how long it had taken him to become First Prime Minister.

Su Wu feared losing his power because his grandson ruled the Southern Region and the Heavenward Imperial Lord distrusted him. After learning Su Tao had let Ye Lin leave, Su Wu ordered his household to contract its forces, but rival factions began taking advantage.

• Su Wu worried that the Imperial Lord would strip him of his authority and that his grandson might attack, while he had no way to leave the Northern Region.
• Su Wu grew furious when he learned Su Tao had let Ye Lin leave after Ye Lin won a decisive battle in the Southern Region.
• Su Wu ordered the industries connected to his Prime Minister's Residence to contract and warned his subordinates to avoid causing trouble.
• The Prime Minister's Residence began pulling back its forces, and rival factions moved against them.

Ye Lin watched a deadly arena match after betting a valuable medicinal pill on the golden-armored side. The battle began, and he immediately realized his bet was lost.

• A middle-aged man invited Ye Lin to bet on a fight between two groups of ordinary soldiers.
• Ye Lin wagered a medicinal pill worth three million Chaotian Coins on the golden-armored soldiers.
• The man cleared the mist and ordered the soldiers to fight for a chance to cultivate.
• The silver-armored soldiers fought with greater skill and ruthlessness, while the golden-armored soldiers flailed wildly and wounded their own allies.
• Ye Lin saw that the golden-armored side would lose.

Ye Lin challenged the Duel Arena’s middle-aged operator after losing a rigged match, but Lin Qiyu intervened and promised to recover his three million. She brought Ye Lin to confront her father, accusing him of running the scam.

• Ye Lin saw the silver-armored soldiers defeat the gold-armored soldiers and challenged the middle-aged operator to fight him next.
• Lin Qiyu accused the operator of scamming Ye Lin and demanded that he return the money.
• Lin Qiyu introduced herself to Ye Lin, learned he had lost three million, and promised to get it back.
• Lin Qiyu took Ye Lin to a room and accused her father of cheating someone out of three million.

Ye Lin rejected Lin Zhenxiong’s offer to pay for the pill and tried to leave, but Lin Qiyu insisted her father compensate him. Lin Zhenxiong gave Ye Lin ten million Skyward Coins, and Ye Lin left with the money.

• Lin Qiyu confronted Lin Zhenxiong over cheating someone out of three million and demanded that he return the money.
• Lin Zhenxiong offered Ye Lin five million Skyward Coins for the pill, but Ye Lin said he did not want it back and started to leave.
• Lin Qiyu stopped Ye Lin and urged Lin Zhenxiong to offer ten million, promising to escort Ye Lin safely out of the city.
• Lin Zhenxiong handed Ye Lin a cloth bag containing ten million Skyward Coins.

Ye Lin rejected Lin Zhenxiong’s pill and left with Lin Qiyu, only to be invited by Wang Feng to meet the Heavenward Emperor. Ye Lin refused the invitation, while Wang Feng continued trying to persuade him.

• After Ye Lin and Lin Qiyu left, Lin Zhenxiong examined the pill Ye Lin had refused and wondered about its unusual refinement.
• Lin Qiyu stayed beside Ye Lin as they walked through the city.
• Wang Feng arrived and invited Ye Lin to the Imperial Capital on behalf of the Heavenward Emperor.
• The surrounding pedestrians, including Lin Qiyu, knelt when Wang Feng announced his identity.
• Ye Lin refused to meet the Heavenward Emperor, leaving Wang Feng and the onlookers stunned.
• Wang Feng urged Ye Lin to reconsider, offering the Heavenward Imperial Dynasty’s help as Ye Lin traveled through the Northern Region.

Ye Lin agreed to meet the Imperial Lord and followed Wang Feng to the Imperial Capital, where the city’s powerful array caught his attention. As Wang Feng led him across the city, onlookers assumed Ye Lin was an important guest whom no one should offend.

• Ye Lin agreed to meet the Imperial Lord, and Wang Feng eagerly offered to lead the way.
• Ye Lin handed the sack of flowers to Lin Qiyu, saying he had no interest in the ten million Skyward Coins.
• After three hours of travel, Ye Lin and his companions reached a giant city floating in the Void.
• Ye Lin sensed a powerful array suppressing those inside the Imperial Capital as he followed Wang Feng across the city.
• Cultivators recognized Wang Feng and concluded that Ye Lin must be an important figure personally summoned by the Imperial Lord.

Ye Lin met Imperial Lord Su Cheng in the Northern Region after helping Su Tao unify the Southern Region. He explained that he had come simply to look around, leaving Su Cheng speechless at his casual attitude.

• Su Cheng invited Ye Lin into his palace and questioned why he had entered the Imperial Capital despite its protective formation.
• Ye Lin said he had no grudge against Su Cheng and could leave whenever he wished.
• Su Cheng praised Ye Lin for settling the Southern Region and said he enjoyed befriending powerful people.
• Su Cheng asked why Ye Lin had left Su Tao and traveled to the Northern Region.
• Ye Lin explained that Su Tao had given him what he wanted, so he had fulfilled his task and come north just to look around.

Su Cheng invited Ye Lin to stay in the Northern Region and help him pursue his plans against the Southern Region, offering him the Heaven-Sundering sword. Ye Lin admired the sword but said the offer was not enough, and Su Cheng insisted he had no ulterior motive.

• Su Cheng invited Ye Lin to stay in the Northern Region, saying his help would improve Su Cheng’s chances against the Southern Region.
• Ye Lin asked what benefits Su Cheng could offer and refused to work for nothing.
• Su Cheng gave Ye Lin the postnatal supreme treasure Heaven-Sundering, the former Northern Region Imperial Lord’s sword.
• Ye Lin examined the sword, said it was not enough, and Su Cheng claimed he was giving it with no other intentions.