Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin and Hong Batian arrived at the Qilin Empire to deal with it before seeking the artifact that could complete Ye Lin’s Unrivaled Sacred Body. Hong Batian killed a Divine King with one finger and confronted the Qilin Empire’s old Divine Emperor, then raised a fiery palm over the imperial capital.

• Ye Lin agreed to visit the world’s highest point after they dealt with the Qilin Empire, hoping to find the artifact that would complete his Unrivaled Sacred Body.
• Hong Batian and Ye Lin tore through space and arrived above the Qilin Empire’s imperial capital.
• Hong Batian killed a Divine King who challenged them with a single flick of his finger.
• The Qilin Empire’s old Divine Emperor appeared and asked whether the empire had offended Hong Batian.
• Hong Batian dismissed the old Divine Emperor as an ant and summoned a fiery palm above the imperial capital.

Hong Batian attacked the Qilin Empire's imperial capital with a fiery giant palm, overwhelming the capital's defenses. The Qilin Empire's sole God Emperor rallied its experts to resist as the attack continued.

• A voice from below challenged Hong Batian and formed a giant blue sphere from the capital's formation to oppose his attack.
• Hong Batian's fiery palm shattered the blue sphere without slowing, and people fled the imperial capital.
• Hong Batian killed those above the Heavenly God realm who tried to escape, while the Qilin Empire's experts activated the capital's formations.
• The Qilin Empire's old, black-robed God Emperor ordered everyone to attack and led their combined power with a dazzling sword strike.

Hong Batian destroyed the Qilin Empire’s imperial capital with one palm, and Ye Lin found a drop of Qilin essence blood amid the ruins. He stored it in the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar so he could use it to strengthen his Unrivaled Sacred Body later.

• Hong Batian crushed the imperial capital, killing countless people, and Ye Lin told him to steady his mindset.
• Ye Lin spotted a drop of Qilin essence blood floating above the ruins and recognized its value for tempering his body.
• Ye Lin took out the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which cursed at the sight of another divine beast’s essence blood.
• Ye Lin asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to store the Qilin essence blood until he completed his Unrivaled Sacred Body.

Ye Lin persuaded the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to contain the Qilin blood essence in exchange for half of it to help repair the jar. The jar agreed to hold it for one hour, while Hong Batian realized the jar could pose a deadly threat.

• Ye Lin explained that he had no other vessel capable of containing the Qilin blood essence.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar refused at first, saying that containing the Golden Crow blood essence had nearly overwhelmed it.
• Ye Lin offered the jar half of the Qilin blood essence to help repair it, and the jar accepted.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar drew the Qilin blood essence into its black hole and warned Ye Lin it could hold it for only one hour.
• Hong Batian sensed a deadly threat from the jar's phantom and lost the confidence he had just regained.

Ye Lin and Hong Batian reached the Holy Pool, where the divine race’s power was revealed when a voice shattered the eyes of those watching. The Holy Pool’s guardian, Shuo Feng, confronted them and demanded they kneel for three thousand years, but Hong Batian responded with contempt.

• Ye Lin set out with Hong Batian to reach the Holy Pool before the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar’s one-hour limit expired.
• Ancient experts sensed their approach, and a divine voice shattered the eyes of those who spied on the Holy Pool.
• Ye Lin and Hong Batian arrived at the Holy Pool in a floating peach grove, and Hong Batian dispersed Shuo Feng’s sound-wave attack.
• Shuo Feng identified himself as the Holy Pool’s guardian and ordered Ye Lin and Hong Batian to kneel for three thousand years.
• Hong Batian mocked Shuo Feng and flicked a finger.

Ye Lin entered the Holy Pool and began absorbing its precious contents, prompting fifteen peak experts to attack him. Hong Batian killed all fifteen, and explosions then rang out across the Eternal Balance World.

• Shuo Feng was killed by Hong Batian in a burst of red light.
• Ye Lin leapt into the Holy Pool and greedily absorbed its water, rapidly lowering its level.
• Fifteen peak God Emperor experts appeared and prepared to attack Ye Lin to protect the Holy Pool.
• Hong Batian mocked the fifteen experts and pressed both hands down, making them explode into blood mist.
• After the God Emperors died, explosions rang out throughout the Eternal Balance World.

Ye Lin completed the Unrivaled Sacred Body and swallowed the qilin blood essence while Hong Batian fought the Eternal Balance World's Heavenly Dao to buy him time. Hong Batian transformed into a phoenix and doubled his combat power, but the battle continued as the world trembled.

• A massive earthquake shattered space as the Heavenly Dao appeared and attacked Hong Batian with increasingly powerful bolts of purple lightning.
• Ye Lin completed the Unrivaled Sacred Body and received the nine-punch Saint-Falling Fist in his mind.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar gave Ye Lin the qilin blood essence, and Hong Batian promised to hold off the Heavenly Dao for ten minutes.
• Ye Lin swallowed the qilin blood essence and endured its scorching effects as white mist enveloped him.
• Hong Batian, badly charred from the fight, transformed into a fiery phoenix and doubled his combat power, leaving the world's experts horrified.

Hong Batian confronted the Heavenly Dao after killing fifteen Divine Emperors, then agreed to leave after ten minutes when it threatened him with the world's power. As the world settled, Ye Lin broke through to the Mahayana realm while still holding most of the Qilin blood essence in his dantian.

• Divine-race experts marveled at Hong Batian's strength and wondered whether they could follow a path beyond the Divine Emperor realm.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered the world's power and warned Hong Batian to leave, and he negotiated ten minutes before departing.
• The Heavenly Dao explained that Hong Batian's killing of fifteen Divine Emperors had disrupted its arranged future timeline and the world's balance.
• Ye Lin broke through to the Mahayana realm and discovered that he had absorbed only one-tenth of the Qilin blood essence.

Ye Lin and Hong Batian left the ruined Holy Pool after Ye Lin reached the Mahayana stage and gained the ability to open interrealm passages. They arrived at the Qilin Empire’s ruined capital and found that the Golden Crow Empire had conquered the Qilin Empire.

• Ye Lin noted that his physical strength had grown enormously, while his divine soul strength still lagged behind.
• Hong Batian warned Ye Lin that Heavenly Dao’s tolerance had reached its limit and urged him to leave.
• Ye Lin opened an interrealm passage, and he and Hong Batian took Old Garden with them before departing.
• Order Taboos inspected the vanished Holy Pool, lamented their lack of a path forward, and dispersed after witnessing Hong Batian’s power.
• Ye Lin and Hong Batian arrived at the Qilin Empire’s imperial capital and found Golden Crow Empire soldiers amid the ruins.
• The Golden Crow Empire had taken the Qilin Empire’s territory in three days, and its cities had surrendered after the Emperor’s death.

Ye Lin found Old Garden and brought him and Hong Batian to meet Fu Heng, who was still reading outdated reports about the war. Ye Lin told Fu Heng that the Qilin Empire had fallen and came to make him honor his promise, but Fu Heng refused to believe him.

• Ye Lin located Old Garden, who revealed the ruined city he had conjured and recalled the woman who once lived there.
• Ye Lin, Old Garden, and Hong Batian left to find Fu Heng.
• Fu Heng read reports claiming the Third Prince had declared war on the Qilin Empire and criticized his strategy.
• Ye Lin told Fu Heng that the Qilin Empire had already fallen and demanded that he honor his promise.
• Fu Heng called Ye Lin's claim impossible and accused him of making it up to force the promise.

Fu Heng confirmed that the Qilin Empire had been destroyed, gave Ye Lin a black Sword Talisman, and sent Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden away. They reappeared in the Endless Deep Sea, where Ye Lin said they had reached an entirely new world, but Old Garden doubted him.

• Fu Heng verified that the Golden Crow Empire had annihilated the Qilin Empire and destroyed its capital.
• Fu Heng replaced his promised surprise with a stroke of fortune and gave Ye Lin a black Sword Talisman to keep close.
• Fu Heng sent Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden away, then vanished as the Eternal Balance World collapsed into a wasteland.
• Ye Lin and the others reappeared in the Endless Deep Sea beside a bronze gate and surrounding marine creatures.
• Old Garden guessed they were in the Boundless Sea, but Ye Lin said they had arrived in an entirely new world, which Old Garden did not believe.

Ye Lin showed Old Garden that the new world had no divine power and explained that its energy belonged to a different system. Meanwhile, Hong Batian failed to reopen the bronze gate, watched it vanish, and remained trapped in the Xuanhuang Great World with his strength suppressed.

• Ye Lin told Old Garden to test the world's laws, and Old Garden found that his divine power could not resonate with the energy around him.
• Ye Lin took Old Garden out of the deep sea to show him the world.
• Hong Batian sensed no life beyond the bronze gate and tried to open it, but it would not move.
• Hong Batian struck the gate, causing it to turn illusory and disappear into the Endless Deep Sea.
• Hong Batian realized that the Xuanhuang Great World's Heavenly Dao could kill him and that its suppressive force had reduced his cultivation to the level of a Three Tribulations Loose Immortal.

Ye Lin showed Old Garden the vast Xuanhuang Great World and promised to help him become an immortal. When Ye Lin tried to recall Xiaoyao after sensing his call for help, Xiaoyao resisted because he wanted to protect a girl in red from three Beast Emperors and their sea-beast forces.

• Ye Lin took Old Garden across the Eastern Continent, convincing him that they had entered a new and immensely vast world.
• Ye Lin explained immortals to Old Garden and offered to help him attain immortality if he performed well.
• Ye Lin sensed Xiaoyao calling for help and used a secret art to try to pull his avatar back.
• Xiaoyao resisted Ye Lin's will, and Ye Lin saw him wounded and surrounded by three Beast Emperors and countless sea beasts.
• Xiaoyao said he wanted to protect the girl in red standing behind him.

Xiaoyao faced three peak-Mahayana sea beasts seeking revenge for their clan’s young master, while Ye Lin agreed to reach him within half an hour. The sea beasts threatened Xiaoyao’s disciple Ye Yun, and Xiaoyao prepared to fight to protect her.

• Ye Lin warned Xiaoyao that he might die if he kept protecting Ye Yun, but Xiaoyao pleaded for one chance to save her.
• Ye Lin agreed to arrive within half an hour, then ordered Hong Batian to travel to the Southern Continent with him.
• Three peak-Mahayana sea beasts confronted Xiaoyao and demanded he surrender for killing their clan’s young master.
• Xiaoyao asked whether surrendering would spare Ye Yun, but the sea beasts declared that everyone connected to him must die.
• Xiaoyao drew his Long Sword as Ye Yun urged him to escape and said she had no regrets about dying for him.

Xiaoyao burned his life fighting three peak Mahayana sea beasts to protect Ye Yun, but they defeated him and moved to kill her. He opened a spatial rift and urged Ye Yun to escape, but she refused to leave him.

• Xiaoyao shielded Ye Yun and fought the three sea beasts with his sword, burning his life to increase his strength.
• The sea beasts overwhelmed Xiaoyao and left him gravely injured on the ground.
• One sea beast moved to kill Ye Yun while the others prepared to take Xiaoyao away.
• Xiaoyao summoned a Sword Qi River to slow the attack and opened a spatial rift for Ye Yun.
• Ye Yun clung to Xiaoyao and refused to leave him.

A young man rescued Ye Yun from the sea beasts and revealed that he was her brother, who had searched for her for twenty years. When Ye Yun refused to leave without Xiaoyao, the young man confronted Fanyun and identified himself as a Slaughterer.

• Xiaoyao shoved Ye Yun toward a spatial rift, but a sea beast caught her and knocked Xiaoyao down.
• A young man appeared, rescued Ye Yun, and told her he was her brother who had searched for her for twenty years.
• Ye Yun refused to leave with her brother unless he also took her master.
• The young man swatted aside Fanyun's tentacle and called the Eight-Tentacled Beast Emperor Clan lackeys of the Royal Clan.
• The young man charged at Fanyun with a dagger, and Fanyun recognized him as the Slaughterer.

Zhao Ran rescued Ye Yun from Fanyun by bluffing that he belonged to the Slayers, but Fanyun caught up with him and discovered his true cultivation. The chapter ended with Fanyun preparing to torment Zhao Ran while Ye Yun wept beside her wounded master, Xiaoyao.

• The Slayers were described as an organization formed by Southern Continent creatures to hunt arrogant sea beasts.
• Zhao Ran pretended to challenge Fanyun, then fled with Ye Yun while Fanyun believed his bluff.
• Fanyun sent his tentacles after Zhao Ran, who had left Xiaoyao badly wounded behind.
• Ye Yun begged Zhao Ran to save Xiaoyao, but Zhao Ran said he could not defeat the Mahayana-stage sea beasts.
• Fanyun's tentacle caught Zhao Ran and dragged him back, where Fanyun realized Zhao Ran was only a Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Fanyun confronted Zhao Ran about deceiving him, while Zhao Ran suspected Fanyun intended to torture him.

As Fanyun prepared to kill Zhao Ran, Xiaoyao died after telling Ye Yun to live well, and a Flood Dragon arrived to attack the group. A bolt of lightning destroyed the Flood Dragon’s blue pillar of light, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Zhao Ran told Fanyun that Slayers were on their way, but Fanyun dismissed the threat as the sea beasts began to retreat.
• Xiaoyao apologized to Ye Yun, told her he could see her brother coming, and died.
• Fanyun attacked Zhao Ran, but golden light burst from Zhao Ran’s chest and freed him.
• A Flood Dragon appeared, scolded Fanyun, and unleashed a blue pillar of light that shattered the surrounding space.
• Zhao Ran wondered why the promised Slayers great power had not arrived, then lightning struck from the heavens and crushed the blue pillar of light.

Ye Lin arrived after Xiaoyao died and used the legendary Sword Heart Demon Seed to revive his clone. Ye Yun and Zhao Ran watched from behind him as the seed took effect.

• Ye Lin appeared before Xiaoyao's corpse, while Ye Yun and Zhao Ran struggled to distinguish him from Xiaoyao.
• Ye Lin examined Ye Yun's panel and recognized her as a talented disciple with a dangerous future.
• Ye Lin placed the Sword Heart Demon Seed into Xiaoyao's mouth and pressed a sword sign to his forehead, causing golden light to spread across Xiaoyao's body.
• Ye Lin warned Ye Yun and Zhao Ran to stand behind him before the coming commotion began.

Old Garden let the Flood Dragon flee, then killed him despite his escape to the deep sea, provoking the dragon clan chief. Meanwhile, Xiaoyao was enveloped in golden light as his Sword Heart Demon Seed caused a vast disturbance across Southern Continent.

• Old Garden whipped and injured the Flood Dragon, then gave him three breaths to escape.
• The Flood Dragon used a secret art to flee to the deep sea and planned to ask his clan chief to attack Southern Continent.
• Old Garden's golden whip struck through shattered space and killed the Flood Dragon in a cloud of blood.
• An enormous old Flood Dragon appeared over the deep sea and accused Southern Continent of starting a war.
• A pillar of golden light lifted Xiaoyao into the sky as Sword Dao Rules and a river of sword qi surrounded him.
• A voice across Southern Continent expressed disbelief that someone possessed a Sword Heart Demon Seed.