Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin helped Shi Jian and Li Miaoling defeat the Evil Cultivators surrounding the Heavenly Sword Sect disciples, then killed their leader, Chen Song, and took a jade box. The survivors revealed that the Evil Cultivators had been guarding Demon Beads and that their base lay beneath Tiger City, leaving the group ready to investigate it.

• Ye Lin chased Chen Song outside Tiger City and killed him with an Ice Soul Needle after their fight turned against him.
• Ye Lin took Chen Song's Ice Soul Needle and a jade box, then returned to find Shi Jian and Li Miaoling had defeated the remaining Evil Cultivators.
• Xu Yin introduced himself and his companions, Xu Long and Xia Yu, and explained that they had found the Evil Cultivators' base while investigating the Evil Demon.
• Xu Long showed three Demon Beads, and Ye Lin explained that each could extend a person's life by three months but was made from the blood of a thousand people.
• Xu Long revealed that the Evil Demon's base was in an underground passage in Tiger City's center, and the group realized they could investigate it now that its guards were dead.

Ye Lin exposed Xu Long as Lord Evil Demon's servant after Xu Long tried to lure the group into a false hideout, and Xu Long escaped after injuring Xia Yu. Ye Lin and his companions searched the underground site, then he concluded Golden City might contain the real Evil Cultivators' hideout and began cultivating for the coming conflict.

• Ye Lin recognized that Xu Long's claim to know the Evil Cultivators' hideout was suspicious and confronted him.
• Xu Long admitted he served Lord Evil Demon, increased his cultivation with demonic qi, and escaped after shattering Xia Yu's life-bound Flying Sword.
• Ye Lin, Shi Jian, and Li Miaoling explored the underground cavern, found a site used to refine Demon Beads, and collapsed its entrance after leaving.
• Shi Jian prepared to claim the mission reward while Ye Lin returned to Lone Peak and reasoned that Golden City might hold the real hideout and that Lord Evil Demon would trigger a war between the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Ye Lin used a Spirit Gathering Formation Disk and a Mid-grade Spirit Stone to cultivate.

Ye Lin recovered three Mid-grade Spirit Stones from the Wutong Tree in Golden City and returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, where he learned about Lin Zisheng’s latest opportunities and the coming opening of Dragon Profound Cave. He left knowing Lin Zisheng had advanced to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and was gathering resources, while Dragon Profound Cave offered a new potential prize.

• Ye Lin visited Golden City, paid Wang Laoliu to locate its Wutong Tree, and found three Mid-grade Spirit Stones hidden at its base.
• Ye Lin returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and saw that Lin Zisheng had reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, with an opportunity to find a sword in Dragon Profound Cave in a month.
• Lin Zisheng noticed Ye Lin, gave him a cold glance, and hurried away from the Inner Sect Mission Pavilion.
• Sun Xiao told Ye Lin that Lin Zisheng had been taking missions and exchanging Evil Cultivator Marks for rewards.
• Sun Xiao explained that Dragon Profound Cave was the ruin of a destroyed sect, opened every five years, and was due to open soon.

Ye Lin entered the Lanyun Cave to hunt a mid-stage Foundation Establishment Demon Beast and strengthen his foundation ahead of the Dragon Profound Cave opening. He killed a giant spider but left aware that his soul remained vulnerable to mental attacks.

• Sun Xiao told Ye Lin that each sect could send only three disciples to the Dragon Profound Cave, which was expected to open next month.
• Ye Lin headed to the Lanyun Cave, seeking a mid-stage Foundation Establishment Demon Core to support a stable breakthrough.
• A giant black spider attacked Ye Lin with webs and mental cries, but he used Phoenix Fire and his sword techniques to fight back.
• Ye Lin overwhelmed the spider with Phoenix Fire and sword attacks, then killed it with One Sword of Yin and Yang.
• Afterward, Ye Lin recognized that mental attacks were a serious weakness and resolved to look for a mental cultivation technique.

After obtaining a Realm Breaking Pill and a Demon Core, Ye Lin learned about the Azure Cloud Sect’s annual resource collection and was assigned to collect tribute from the Long Family. He prepared to break through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage before heading to Heavy Armor City.

• Ye Lin retrieved a Mysterious Grade Middle Tier Realm Breaking Pill from Lanyun Cave and returned toward the Azure Cloud Sect.
• Li Miaoling gave Ye Lin his share of the Evil Cultivator reward and explained that the Azure Cloud Sect collected resources from the Three Great Sects and Four Great Families each year.
• Ye Lin warned Li Miaoling about Xu Long and saw that her future opportunities involved the Heavenly Sword Sect and Golden City.
• Chu Xue ordered Ye Lin to collect resources from the Long Family in Heavy Armor City and told him to put the family in its place.
• Chu Xue gave Ye Lin three Calm Heart Pills to help him break through to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Ye Lin advanced to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, strengthened his Tiger Roars in the Mountain Forest technique, and checked his Destiny. He learned that Lin Zisheng would later conspire with Song Changsheng and two sect disciples to ambush him in the Dragon Profound Cave, but Ye Lin hinted that he had a hidden weapon of his own.

• Chu Xue gave Ye Lin three Calm Heart Pills and told him to display the Azure Cloud Sect's dominance at the Long Family.
• Ye Lin consumed a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Demon Core, a Realm Breaking Pill, and the Calm Heart Pills, then used five Mid-grade Spirit Stones to advance after two days of seclusion.
• Ye Lin discovered that his Fifth-Grade Dao Platform was the size of a water vat and held more than ten times the spiritual fluid of an ordinary cultivator's.
• Ye Lin trained behind Lone Peak for a day and night, then broke through to the second level of Tiger Roars in the Mountain Forest, multiplying the technique's power fivefold.
• Ye Lin checked his Destiny and learned that Lin Zisheng planned to hire an assassin, then conspire with Song Changsheng and two sect disciples to ambush him in the Dragon Profound Cave.
• Ye Lin realized Lin Zisheng's hidden weapon could shatter his Dao Platform and smiled, thinking that he had a hidden weapon of his own.

Ye Lin arrived in Heavy Armor City to collect resources from the Long Family and accepted Long Sheng’s challenge after recognizing the family’s scheme. The two headed to the Martial Arts Arena, where Ye Lin intended to defeat Long Sheng and secure the resources.

• Ye Lin flew from the Azure Cloud Sect to Heavy Armor City to collect the Long Family’s resources.
• Long Xuan and the elders discussed testing the visiting Azure Cloud Sect disciple against Long Sheng, who had recently reached Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Ye Lin entered the city and objected to being greeted by a mortal, then met Long Xuan at the family hall.
• Long Sheng challenged Ye Lin to a duel, while Long Xuan acted as though the challenge were unplanned.
• Ye Lin inspected Long Sheng’s cultivation and future opportunity, then accepted the challenge.
• Long Xuan led Ye Lin and Long Sheng toward the Martial Arts Arena in the rear courtyard.

Ye Lin defeated Long Sheng in a Martial Arts Arena fight and collected the resources Long Xuan had promised. Long Xuan let Ye Lin leave safely but vowed to reclaim the Long Family’s losses after reaching the Golden Core Stage.

• Long Sheng challenged Ye Lin and offered to suppress his cultivation, but Ye Lin told him to fight at full strength.
• Long Sheng’s spear attack clashed with Ye Lin’s bare fist, leaving Long Sheng’s arm numb and Ye Lin unharmed.
• Ye Lin overpowered Long Sheng with two attacks, knocking him off the Arena and leaving his life uncertain.
• Long Xuan handed Ye Lin the promised resources, and Ye Lin collected them and departed the Long Family.
• The Great Elder asked to kill Ye Lin, but Long Xuan refused because the Azure Cloud Sect would suspect the Long Family and vowed to reclaim their losses after breaking through to the Golden Core Stage.

Ye Lin bought and cultivated the Mystic Light Pagoda, a defensive spiritual technique that could protect him from attacks below the Golden Core Realm, while Lin Zisheng hired an assassin to kill him. Chu Xue then told Ye Lin that the Dragon Profound Cave would open in half a month and asked him to obtain a rare Hundred-Color Flower.

• Ye Lin delivered the Long Family’s resources to Chu Xue, who rewarded him with three Mid-grade Spirit Stones as their contest with the Sect Master began.
• Ye Lin bought the Mystic Light Pagoda for five Mid-grade Spirit Stones at the Department Building, where an old Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator took notice of him.
• Ye Lin cultivated the Mystic Light Pagoda for ten days and gained protection from spiritual attacks below the Golden Core Realm.
• Lin Zisheng hired an assassin from the Killing Sect to kill Ye Lin.
• Chu Xue told Ye Lin that the Dragon Profound Cave would open in half a month and that she wanted him to obtain a Mysterious Grade High Tier Hundred-Color Flower.

Ye Lin accepted missions to kill Evil Cultivators after learning they had slaughtered half of Green Mountain City. He infiltrated their gathering and began eliminating them, starting with a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator.

• Ye Lin learned that Evil Cultivators had killed nearly a hundred thousand people in Green Mountain City and accepted missions to kill them.
• Ye Lin reached Green Mountain City and found the streets strewn with dried corpses.
• Ye Lin followed two Evil Cultivators to the Qian Family estate and overheard their leader order the remaining mortals killed before they withdrew.
• The Evil Cultivators split up to search the city, and Ye Lin planned to pick them off one by one.
• Ye Lin ambushed a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Evil Cultivator and pierced his throat with his sword.

Ye Lin used the God-Hiding Bead to kill the Evil Cultivators who had infiltrated Green Mountain City and returned to the Azure Cloud Sect after eliminating their leader. He sensed a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage pursuer near the sect and suspected Lin Zisheng had hired an assassin.

• Ye Lin killed the remaining Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Evil Cultivators and learned that their life-extending technique drained their bodies and cultivation.
• Wang Dali ordered the surviving Evil Cultivators to gather at the Qian Family compound after realizing their strongest fighters had vanished.
• Ye Lin killed a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Evil Cultivator, then told a boy who witnessed it to return to his mother.
• Wang Dali tried to flee with his gathered followers, but Ye Lin killed the Qi Refining cultivators and killed Wang Dali with the Life and Death Three Swords technique.
• Ye Lin took the Aurora Sword and returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, where he sensed a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivator following him and suspected Lin Zisheng had hired the assassin.

Ye Lin turned in his missions, killed the assassin sent after him, and returned to cultivating before the Dragon Profound Cave opened. After learning the assassin had died, Lin Zisheng received advice from the Third Elder and began plotting to kill Ye Lin inside the cave.

• Ye Lin turned in the demonic tokens and the Aurora Sword to Sun Xiao, who verified them and gave him his rewards.
• Ye Lin lured the assassin into attacking him outside the sect and killed the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage One-Armed Masked Man with a punch.
• Ye Lin found only three Low-Tier Spirit Stones on the assassin, then returned to the Azure Cloud Sect to cultivate.
• Lin Zisheng learned that the assassin had disappeared and admitted to the Third Elder that he had hired the Killing Sect to kill Ye Lin.
• The Third Elder told Lin Zisheng to kill Ye Lin himself inside the Dragon Profound Cave, and Lin Zisheng began forming a plan.

Ye Lin and Chu Xue traveled with the Azure Cloud Sect’s personal disciples to the Dragon Profound Cave, where their sect’s rivals had gathered. After Zhang Wushuang’s disciple Liu Neng threatened Ye Lin, Chu Xue ordered Ye Lin to show no mercy when the cave opened the next day.

• Ye Lin mastered the third layer of Tiger Roars in the Mountain Forest and prepared to enter the Dragon Profound Cave with Chu Xue.
• At the Inner Sect Main Hall, the Sect Master warned the six personal disciples that the cave contest was a clash between major powers and told them to help one another.
• Ye Lin saw Lin Zisheng’s panel reveal several hidden treasures in the cave’s Alchemy Room and Artifact Refining Room.
• Chu Xue led the Azure Cloud Sect group to the cave entrance, where Zhang Wushuang introduced his disciple Liu Neng and hinted that he should target Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin addressed Liu Neng as Junior Brother, and Chu Xue ordered Ye Lin to show no mercy before he quietly asked Shi Jian about her history with the Holy King Mansion.

Ye Lin entered the Dragon Profound Cave with the Azure Cloud Sect disciples and found the ruins of an ancient faction. After the group split up to explore, he confronted Wang Tian, who claimed the Alchemy Room for the Wang Family, and left him stunned by destroying his sword with one punch.

• Shi Jian explained how Chu Xue and the Holy King Sect's Great Elder had carried a long-standing grudge after she repeatedly beat him.
• The Dragon Profound Cave opened, and Rogue Cultivators entered first before Ye Lin and the other direct disciples followed.
• Ye Lin and the other disciples explored separately after Li Miaoling handed them Jade Talismans for communication.
• Ye Lin found the Alchemy Room, where Wang Tian ordered him to leave because the Wang Family had claimed it.
• Ye Lin blocked Wang Tian's Tyrant Blade Slash with a punch and damaged his broadsword, leaving Wang Tian shocked.

Ye Lin killed Wang Tian, collected pills from the Alchemy Room, and entered the Artifact Refining Room in search of treasures. After defeating two assassins from the Killing Sect and securing a mysterious golden metal, he returned to the side hall to look for Black Gold.

• Ye Lin killed Wang Tian, searched his body for fifteen Low-Tier Spirit Stones, and continued deeper into the ruins.
• Ye Lin found three Energy Recovery Pills and a pill-filled wooden box in the Alchemy Room, then headed to the Artifact Refining Room.
• Two disciples discovered Wang Tian's corpse and concluded that his killer had been strong enough to overwhelm him instantly.
• Ye Lin entered the Artifact Refining Room, avoided a poisoned-arrow trap, and confronted two masked Killing Sect members stealing golden metal.
• Ye Lin killed both assassins, took the golden metal, and returned to the side hall to retrieve his Black Gold.

Ye Lin rescued Shi Jian from Zhao Wuji and three other disciples, then set out to find the Hundred-Color Flower. Liu Neng ambushed him, but Ye Lin killed him with Phoenix Fire and took notice of his fallen blade.

• Ye Lin followed his Jade Talisman to a hall, where he knocked Zhao Wuji away and saved Shi Jian from four attackers.
• Shi Jian showed Ye Lin a roughly thousand-year-old Ginseng, and Ye Lin told him to keep it safe and watch for the Hundred-Color Flower.
• Ye Lin left Shi Jian and continued on, but Liu Neng stepped out from hiding and challenged him with a Long Blade.
• Liu Neng attacked after spotting Ye Lin's Spirit Fire, but Ye Lin struck back and Phoenix Fire burned Liu Neng to ash.
• Ye Lin looked over Liu Neng's Yellow-Grade High-Tier Long Blade.

Ye Lin followed a false treasure signal into a formation where Lin Zisheng and two Heavenly Sword Sect allies ambushed him. He used Phoenix Fire to break through the fog and overwhelmed his attackers, leaving the fight at its bloody conclusion.

• Ye Lin flew toward the rosy light, but entered a formation where Lin Zisheng, Xiao Chen, and Wu Tian were waiting to ambush him.
• Xiao Chen attacked with Long Rainbow Piercing the Sun, but Ye Lin dodged and revealed his Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivation while fighting off Lin Zisheng.
• Wu Tian thickened the formation’s fog with his Compass, but Ye Lin discovered that Phoenix Fire dispersed it and pressed toward him.
• Ye Lin clashed with Lin Zisheng, broke his Yellow-Grade High-Tier sword, and drove him back while fending off Xiao Chen’s attacks.
• Wu Tian lost control of the formation and the fog vanished; Ye Lin struck Xiao Chen with Seven Kill Fist and attacked again as Xiao Chen tried to rise.

Ye Lin killed Xiao Chen and Wu Tian, then fought Lin Zisheng and forced him to flee. Lin Zisheng’s panel revealed that his past-life soul would awaken earlier than expected and showed a valuable spirit mine opportunity, so Ye Lin planned to exploit him before killing him and flew toward another battle.

• Ye Lin killed Xiao Chen with two punches and killed Wu Tian before taking the Formation Disk from him.
• Ye Lin fought Lin Zisheng, dodged his powerful hidden weapon, and let him escape while the Ice Soul Needle continued to weaken him.
• Ye Lin inspected Lin Zisheng’s panel and learned that his past-life soul would awaken at the Foundation Establishment Peak Stage and that a Small Spirit Mine awaited him after leaving the Dragon Profound Cave.
• Ye Lin decided to take advantage of Lin Zisheng’s fortune and opportunities before killing him, then flew toward the distant battle to investigate its treasure.

Ye Lin joined the Azure Cloud Sect disciples at the Hundred-Color Flower, where rival factions threatened them and drew them into battle. After defeating three attackers and claiming the flower, he faced two masked Killing Sect cultivators who demanded it.

• Ye Lin met Shi Jian at the mountaintop and learned that the Hundred-Color Flower was growing there.
• Li Changye and the other factions refused to respect the Azure Cloud Sect, and the Azure Cloud Sect disciples realized they were facing a rebellion.
• Xia Yan and the other Azure Cloud Sect disciples drew away the opposing Foundation Establishment Middle Stage cultivators, leaving Ye Lin to face three early-stage attackers.
• Ye Lin killed the three attackers and stored the Hundred-Color Flower in his Spatial Ring.
• Two masked Killing Sect cultivators confronted Ye Lin, and he prepared to fight Wang San and his companion.

Ye Lin defeated the Killing Sect assassins and reunited with the Azure Cloud Sect disciples after their fights. The group decided to leave Dragon Profound Cave and wait by the exit to extort the other powers, while Lin Zisheng remained missing as he suppressed the Ice Soul Needles.

• Ye Lin used Demon Shadow No Trace and his sword techniques to kill one masked assassin, then used Phoenix Fire and his Fifth-Grade Dao Platform to reduce the fleeing assassin to ash.
• Shi Jian, Li Miaoling, and Xia Yan joined Ye Lin, reporting that some opponents had escaped and Shi Jian had been wounded by hidden weapons.
• Li Miaoling and Shi Jian said the Azure Cloud Sect would report the other powers' misconduct and raise the resources they collected to twenty percent.
• Ye Lin suggested leaving Dragon Profound Cave, and the group agreed to wait by the exit and extort the other powers.
• Li Miaoling wondered where Lin Zisheng was, and Ye Lin thought Lin Zisheng was suppressing the Ice Soul Needles.