Chapter Summaries

At White King Palace, the Spirit King discussed Ye Lin’s draw with Ning Yi and wondered whether Ye Lin could help end the ancient feud between the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan and the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan. The old man rejected the idea, insisting the feud began with their ancestor taking the other clan’s ancestor’s Dao companion.

• The old man reported that Ye Lin had drawn with Ning Yi, though Ye Lin held the upper hand and Ning Yi had not used his full strength.
• The Spirit King asked Elder Qin whether Ye Lin could be the era’s protagonist, but Elder Qin said that was impossible.
• Elder Qin warned that the Spirit King’s younger brother had accepted Ning Yi’s token and might be used by someone else.
• The Spirit King said he hoped Ye Lin could help resolve the clans’ ancient hatred, but Elder Qin reminded him that their ancestor had taken the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan ancestor’s Dao companion.
• The Spirit King defended his ancestor, claiming the Dao companion had chosen to go willingly.

After returning to Meteor Island, Ye Lin took the pill Ning Yi had given him to heal his severe injuries. The pill’s violent medicinal force shattered and rebuilt his bones, muscles, and meridians, leaving his recovery still underway.

• Ye Lin returned to Meteor Island after submitting his mission at the Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin swallowed the pill Ning Yi had given him despite his hesitation.
• The pill’s medicinal force rampaged through Ye Lin’s meridians, and he stopped trying to control it.
• The medicinal force shattered Ye Lin’s damaged chest bones and grew denser, stronger bones marked with faint golden patterns.
• The medicinal force pulverized Ye Lin’s arm injuries and began rebuilding his muscles, fascia, and meridians while expelling impurities.

Ye Lin's pill continued rebuilding his injured body, repairing his dantian and Primordial Spirit. After the damage from his recent battles was healed, the black aura left by Ning Yi's Primordial Origin Force escaped as smoke.

• The medicinal power rebuilt Ye Lin's legs, making them stronger and lighter than before.
• Ye Lin let the medicinal power enter his dantian, where it stitched every crack in the walls with golden threads.
• The medicinal power repaired the dantian's void turbulence and spatial fissures, leaving its walls tougher and marked with golden runes.
• Golden motes healed the crack and dent in Ye Lin's Primordial Spirit and drove away the black aura left by Ning Yi.

Ye Lin recovered from his injuries after taking Ning Yi’s pill, which also strengthened his origin and advanced his cultivation. He returned to peak condition and began eyeing ancient cultivators as potential targets to rob.

• The pill’s medicinal power seeped into Ye Lin’s origin, a silver-white sword, and its ancient Sword Dao insights strengthened the blade.
• Ye Lin realized Ning Yi’s pill was both a healing medicine and a gift containing ancient power.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes after an unknown time and found that his injuries had healed and he had returned to peak condition.
• Ye Lin sensed that he was one step away from the second level of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Ye Lin considered robbing ancient cultivators for their treasures and regretted not keeping Dragon One and the other two earlier.

Ye Lin met his Second Senior Sister, Shen Muge, after Yun Qiyue brought him to the main hall. Shen Muge said she had come to meet the new junior and avenge an old grudge, then ordered Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to accompany her.

• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that Hua Feiyi was fine and explained she had many pursuers, including cultivators from the Central Region.
• Yun Qiyue brought Ye Lin to the main hall and introduced him to Shen Muge, the Second Senior Sister who had come from the Central Region.
• Ye Lin greeted Shen Muge and found her strikingly beautiful but profoundly cold and indifferent.
• Shen Muge said she had come to meet Ye Lin and avenge an old grudge, then told him and Yun Qiyue to go with her.
• Yun Qiyue agreed at once, and Ye Lin followed her lead and accepted.

Shen Muge led Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin to settle an old grudge in the Eastern Region. Yun Qiyue explained Shen Muge’s painful past, but Shen Muge overheard their secret conversation, and Yun Qiyue revealed that her senior sister had reached the fifth level of the Quasi-Saint Realm.

• Shen Muge set off from the main hall, and Yun Qiyue took Ye Lin along after her.
• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that Shen Muge had fallen in love with a man seventy thousand years earlier, then killed his other lover and began cultivating the Dao of Heartlessness.
• Shen Muge revealed that she had heard Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin’s voice transmissions, then continued on without further comment.
• Ye Lin marveled at Shen Muge’s cultivation progress, and Yun Qiyue told him that Shen Muge was at the fifth level of the Quasi-Saint Realm.

Ye Lin learned that Yun Qiyue and Shen Muge were far stronger than he had expected, then followed Shen Muge to confront Mountainwalker Venerable. The chapter ended as Mountainwalker Venerable appeared in a powerful Dharma manifestation after Shen Muge destroyed his mountain gate.

• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that she had reached the Fifth Heaven of the Quasi-Sage Realm and that Eldest Senior Brother had been at the Seventh Heaven twenty thousand years earlier.
• Shen Muge challenged Ye Lin to spar, and Yun Qiyue warned him that Shen Muge would not suppress her cultivation.
• Shen Muge led Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to Mountainwalker Venerable’s mountain gate and demanded that he release the person she wanted.
• Shen Muge smashed the mountain gate with a palm strike, prompting Mountainwalker Venerable to appear as a towering golden Dharma manifestation wielding a Long Sword.

Shen Muge attacked the Mountain Walking Sect, demanding that Wu Chen hand over the man she considered her death calamity. After learning he had fled, she left to pursue him with Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin.

• Shen Muge demanded that Wu Chen hand over the man she sought and threatened to destroy the Mountain Walking Sect.
• Yun Qiyue explained to Ye Lin that Wu Chen was the sixth-level Quasi-Saint Mountainwalker Venerable, but Shen Muge was stronger in a fight.
• Shen Muge shattered Wu Chen's Dharma manifestation, entered the sect, and searched for the man.
• Wu Chen told Shen Muge that the man had fled before she arrived, but she refused to abandon her pursuit.
• Shen Muge traveled away at terrifying speed with Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin, and Yun Qiyue asked where they were going.

Shen Muge spent a year searching the Eastern Region with Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue before tracking Gu Chen to Great Forest Chan Temple. She demanded that the Venerable surrender him, but the Venerable claimed Gu Chen had become a monk and refused to hand him over.

• Shen Muge forced Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to search the Eastern Region with her, striking Yun Qiyue when she complained.
• After a year of searching, Shen Muge traced the severed karmic thread to Great Forest Chan Temple.
• Shen Muge formally requested an audience with the temple's Venerable and demanded that he release Gu Chen.
• The Venerable said Gu Chen had entered monastic life and would remain a disciple of the Buddhist Sect.
• Shen Muge warned that the Venerable and the temple could not protect Gu Chen, while Ye Lin wondered whether her cultivation of the Dao of Heartlessness had truly severed her emotions.

Shen Muge attacked the Venerable after he refused to surrender Gu Chen, and the two fought in a battle far beyond Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue’s understanding. The fight continued with the outcome still uncertain, though cracks in the Venerable’s golden Buddha manifestation suggested Shen Muge might be gaining the upper hand.

• The Venerable told Shen Muge that Gu Chen had joined Great Forest Chan Temple and urged her to let go of their settled grudges.
• Shen Muge rejected the Venerable’s words and attacked him when he refused to hand over Gu Chen.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue watched from a distance, and Yun Qiyue prepared a Jade Talisman to summon the Great Blade Association’s experts if Shen Muge was in danger.
• Ye Lin noticed cracks in the Venerable’s golden Buddha manifestation as Shen Muge questioned why Wu Chen and the Venerable protected Gu Chen.
• The Venerable defended his duty to protect Gu Chen, challenged Shen Muge’s understanding of the Dao of Ruthlessness, and the battle intensified beyond Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue’s sight.

Shen Muge defeated the Venerable and entered Great Forest Chan Temple with Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to take Gu Chen. After warning off a powerful presence with the threat of summoning her senior brother, she found Gu Chen inside a great hall before a Buddha manifestation.

• Shen Muge shattered the Venerable’s golden Buddha manifestation and declared that she would enter Great Forest Chan Temple to seize Gu Chen.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue followed Shen Muge through the mountain gate into the temple.
• Shen Muge warned a powerful presence not to interfere, threatening that her senior brother would raze Great Forest Chan Temple if it did.
• Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin followed Shen Muge to a great hall, where they saw a solemn Buddha manifestation.
• Shen Muge found Gu Chen inside the hall.

Shen Muge found Gu Chen, now known as Qingran, and tried to kill him, but his master intervened and set limits on his protection. Shen Muge ordered Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to attack instead, but twenty-eight monks arrived to shield Qingran.

• Shen Muge confronted Qingran, who said he had left behind the name Gu Chen and taken the Dharma name Qingran.
• Qingran's master blocked Shen Muge's attack and explained that Qingran was his disciple.
• Shen Muge left after threatening to return in a year, and Qingran's master said he would only intervene if Shen Muge used her greater strength to bully him.
• Shen Muge ordered Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to kill Qingran, but Ye Lin stayed back while Yun Qiyue stepped forward.
• Twenty-eight monks entered the hall and stood between Qingran and Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin.

Shen Muge and Yun Qiyue confronted monks from the Great Forest Chan Temple who were protecting Gu Chen, while the old monk warned that the Great Thunderclap Temple had taken an interest in him. Ye Lin killed one monk with a single sword strike and challenged the other twenty-seven to fight him in the Void.

• Yun Qiyue prepared to summon reinforcements as Shen Muge faced twenty-eight monks, all below the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.
• The old monk said he would protect Qingran and revealed that Gu Chen had drawn the attention of the Central Region's Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Shen Muge asked Ye Lin and his companion whether they could defeat the monks, saying the grudge was hers.
• Ye Lin drew the Godslayer Sword and killed a First Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm monk with one effortless strike.
• Ye Lin invited the remaining twenty-seven monks to attack him together in the Void, and they left the great hall to face him.

Outside Great Forest Chan Temple’s great hall, Ye Lin faced twenty-seven monks in the Void and dismissed them as weak. He killed Yuanji with one sword strike, leaving the other monks stunned.

• Ye Lin faced twenty-seven Great Forest Chan Temple monks, including the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Yuantong.
• Yuantong vowed that Ye Lin would not leave the temple alive after killing their fellow disciples.
• Yuanji attacked Ye Lin with the Great Brahma Prajna Palm.
• Ye Lin split the Buddhist palm with the Godslayer Sword and killed Yuanji with a single strike.

Ye Lin faced Yuantong and the twenty-five remaining monks after killing Yuanji, calmly deflecting their combined assault with the Godslayer Sword. He then drew his sword to counterattack.

• Yuantong and the other monks reacted to Yuanji's death and unleashed twenty-six attacks on Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin used the Godslayer Sword and Sword Dao Law to cleave every attack apart without being harmed.
• Yuantong was shocked that his Demon-Subduing Vajra could not break Ye Lin's protective halo.
• Ye Lin drew his sword as Yuantong questioned how someone at the First Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm could withstand their attacks.

Ye Lin unleashed two forms of the Primeval Sword Art, killing many of the monks and forcing Yuantong to summon a Vajra Dharma Manifestation. As its eight attacks bore down on him, Ye Lin put away the Godslayer Sword and closed his eyes, then opened them again.

• Ye Lin used Primeval Heaven-Opening to cut down five or six monks with one sword strike.
• Ye Lin unleashed Yin-Yang Division, and its black and white Flood Dragons killed seven or eight more monks.
• Yuantong ordered the surviving monks to form the Vajra Demon-Subduing Formation.
• The monks summoned a thousand-zhang Vajra Dharma Manifestation, and Yuantong empowered it with his essence blood.
• The Vajra Dharma Manifestation attacked Ye Lin with all eight of its artifacts, while Ye Lin put away his sword and closed his eyes before opening them again.

Ye Lin unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin and destroyed the Vajra Dharma Form, defeating Yuantong and the Great Forest Chan Temple’s Quasi-Saints. He left the monks dead and sheathed the Godslayer Sword, while the chapter ended with a vow that he would spare someone because he owed her.

• Ye Lin summoned countless Sword Qi strands with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin.
• Ye Lin’s sword shadows destroyed all eight attacks of the Vajra Dharma Form and shattered its golden body.
• The monks maintaining the formation vomited blood as the destruction grievously damaged their dantians, and Yuantong fell from the air.
• Yuantong watched Ye Lin’s Sword Qi approach and realized he could not escape it.
• Ye Lin’s strike killed Yuantong and the remaining monks, leaving all twenty-eight Quasi-Saints dead.
• Ye Lin sheathed the Godslayer Sword, and a voice declared that the person he faced was no match and would be spared because he owed her.

Shen Muge rejected the Great Forest Chan Temple elder’s plea to spare Qingran, whose Mystic Origin Buddha Body had defeated Yun Qiyue’s attacks. She insisted Qingran was too dangerous to let live and ordered Ye Lin to kill him.

• Yun Qiyue attacked Qingran again, but his golden Buddhist light sent her flying without him moving.
• Shen Muge recognized Qingran’s Mystic Origin Buddha Body, which made him immune to Evil Slayer and other techniques.
• The old monk pleaded with Shen Muge to spare Qingran, saying he was destined to help resist the Chaos Ancient Clan.
• Shen Muge challenged the claim that Buddhist practice had purified Qingran and warned that he could become a great calamity.
• Ye Lin descended, and Shen Muge ordered him to kill Qingran.

Ye Lin fought Qingran after Shen Muge ordered him to kill the monk, but Qingran’s Mystic Origin Buddha Body stopped Ye Lin’s attacks and sent him flying. Ye Lin gathered his Sword Dao Law and launched a serious attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Shen Muge told Ye Lin to kill Qingran, and Ye Lin accepted her decision.
• Ye Lin tested Qingran with Sword Qi, but Qingran’s Buddha light absorbed it without effect.
• Ye Lin struck Qingran at close range with the Godslayer Sword, but Qingran caught the blade between two fingers and flung Ye Lin backward.
• Qingran claimed his Mystic Origin Buddha Body made him nearly indestructible and Ye Lin’s sword could not harm him.
• Ye Lin intensified his Sword Dao Law and attacked Qingran in earnest.

Ye Lin’s ordinary sword strikes could not break Qingran’s Mystic Origin Buddha Body, so he unleashed the Taichu power in the Primeval Sword Art’s First Form. Qingran answered with a giant Buddhist seal, and their attacks collided.

• Ye Lin struck Qingran’s Buddha light repeatedly, but it held firm and pushed Qingran back only slightly.
• Qingran explained that the Mystic Origin Buddha Body could withstand Ye Lin’s attacks, while Ye Lin realized the Buddha light suppressed his powers at the level of laws.
• Ye Lin declared that he would cut through Qingran himself and unleashed Primeval Sword Art’s First Form, Primeval Heaven-Opening.
• The blood-red sword light cracked Qingran’s Buddha light, revealing the Taichu power Ye Lin had gained from the ruins.
• Qingran summoned a hundred-zhang Buddha phantom with a golden Buddhist seal, which collided with Ye Lin’s sword light.