Chapter Summaries

The Sword Heart Demon Seed revived Xiaoyao and drew the attention of transcendent factions, but a powerful, mysterious expert warned them not to interfere. Xiaoyao awoke at the peak of the Mahayana stage, confused by his return from death.

• Transcendent factions recognized the Sword Heart Demon Seed as a heaven-defying treasure, and some moved to claim it.
• A mysterious expert struck down cultivators who tried to observe the scene and warned everyone against targeting the Sword Heart Demon Seed.
• The Sword Heart Demon Seed drew spiritual energy into Xiaoyao, restoring his life and advancing his Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin watched the revival and reflected on how difficult the Sword Heart Demon Seed was to create.
• Xiaoyao awoke, found his body intact and his cultivation at the peak of the Mahayana stage, and wondered how he had returned from death.

Ye Lin revived Xiaoyao with the Sword Heart Demon Seed, and Xiaoyao returned at the peak of Mahayana, raising Ye Lin’s cultivation to the same level. Ye Yun questioned how Ye Lin and Xiaoyao could share the same appearance and aura.

• Xiaoyao realized he had returned to life and reached the peak of Mahayana.
• Xiaoyao appeared before Ye Lin, and Ye Yun rejoiced that her master had been revived.
• Zhao Ran explained that Ye Lin had used the Sword Heart Demon Seed to revive Xiaoyao.
• Xiaoyao thanked Ye Lin, who said their shared fate made Xiaoyao’s survival important to him.
• Ye Lin’s cultivation also rose to the peak of Mahayana, and he noticed a possible loophole in the One Breath Becomes Three Purities technique.
• Ye Yun asked Xiaoyao how he and Ye Lin could have identical appearances and auras.

Ye Lin left for the Central Continent, drawn by a mysterious calling despite Xiaoyao’s warning that it had become a stronghold for Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. A young man resolved to follow him there and fight, while his master warned that the world faced a trial that could destroy them all.

• Xiaoyao said he and Hong Batian had been brothers for a long time before Ye Lin announced he was leaving for the Central Continent.
• Ye Lin vanished into space, followed by Hong Batian and Old Garden.
• A young man told his master he was determined to battle Ye Lin, and the force of his resolve sent fish flying from the lake.
• The master warned that Ye Lin might be one who rose in response to the calamity and described the invasion as a deadly trial for the world.
• The young man departed for the Central Continent, promising to follow Ye Lin if he lost and kill him if he won.

Ye Lin learned that becoming an immortal in the sealed Profound Yellow World required gathering five representative items to awaken the world's will, and he and his companions crossed the barrier into Central Continent. Hong Batian’s hands were left wounded and corroded by the barrier’s power.

• The old man told his arrogant disciple that setbacks could be good for him, then left after the fish in the lake had been killed.
• Hong Batian found a barrier of world power blocking the way into Central Continent, and Ye Lin asked whether it could be broken.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar had told Ye Lin that immortality could be achieved by gathering five items from the continents and using them to awaken the world's will.
• Hong Batian tore open a small gap in the barrier, and he, Ye Lin, and their companion rushed through it before it closed.
• Hong Batian found that the barrier had wounded his hands and was corroding them.

Hong Batian, Ye Lin, and Old Garden arrived in a Central Continent overrun by demonic qi and encountered two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons boasting about eating humans. Ye Lin restrained them and began questioning them, leaving the group poised to learn what had happened to the human race.

• Hong Batian used immortal power to purge most of the world will from their hands.
• Ye Lin noticed the Central Continent's thin spiritual qi and the faint demonic qi in the air.
• Old Garden sensed someone approaching, and the three concealed themselves.
• Two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons discussed eating human cultivators and a sect, and talked about humans being kept in pens elsewhere.
• Ye Lin and his companions appeared and immobilized the demons with their power.
• Ye Lin demanded answers from the demons, who obediently agreed to respond.

Ye Lin learned that the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons had conquered Central Continent and killed the two demons who informed him. When he tried to inspect Old Garden’s panel, he discovered it was undergoing a three-month upgrade.

• A demon told Ye Lin that the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons controlled all thirty-two commanderies of Central Continent, with only a few human forces resisting.
• Ye Lin praised the two demons for their honesty, then killed them to prevent them from returning with reinforcements.
• Hong Batian realized Central Continent’s fall could mean the other continents were in danger, and his hopes for the Profound Yellow World faded.
• Ye Lin tried to inspect Old Garden’s panel and saw a notice that it would undergo maintenance and an upgrade for three months, followed by a compensation gift pack.

Ye Lin followed a strange pull toward the Immortal-Treading Grass, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that it could identify the plant but would not reveal more. Elsewhere, a proud young master entered the demon-infested Central Continent alone, and his attendant departed after warning him to call for help if needed.

• Ye Lin took the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar out of his Spatial Ring, and it complained about being trapped in frozen darkness.
• Ye Lin asked where to find the Immortal-Treading Grass, and the jar told him to trust the feeling drawing him forward.
• A young man reached the Central Continent and ordered his attendant to leave him to explore alone.
• The attendant warned the young man that Outer Realm Heavenly Demons had overrun most of the Central Continent and told him to use his Identity Token if he faced danger.
• The young man flew away, and the attendant departed.

A young man lamented that no one could challenge him as he waited for a long-awaited battle with Ye Lin. Meanwhile, an old master and his five disciples were discovered hiding from Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, who threatened to eat them.

• A young man said he looked forward to fighting Ye Lin and wondered whether Ye Lin had grown stronger.
• An old master led five disciples into a mountain cave to avoid Outer Realm Heavenly Demons and recover their sect’s guarding treasure.
• Two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons discovered the group and argued over how to divide them as food.
• The demons threatened to eat the group alive unless they came out, and the disciples looked to their master for help.
• The old master told his disciples to follow him out of the cave without saying a word.

The old man discovered that the two Outer Realm Heavenly Demons were only in the Golden Core Realm and easily subdued them. After they sent a distress signal before dying, he tried to flee with his disciples, but another enemy appeared and called them blood food.

• The old man led his five disciples out of the cave and faced two identical Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• The demons attacked, and the old man realized they were only in the Golden Core Realm.
• The old man used his Nascent Soul power to pin the demons down, but they sent a signal for help with their glowing horns.
• The old man crushed the two demons into blood mist and warned his disciples that a vanguard general might be coming.
• As the old man and his disciples tried to leave, someone called them blood food.

A Demonic Sect member attacked the Vanguard General, who fought back before fleeing, while his five disciples ran toward their sect in search of its supreme treasure. As the disciples fled, a winged Tiger spotted them and roared.

• The Vanguard General’s five disciples abandoned him and fled when the Demonic Sect member confronted them.
• The Demonic Sect member fought the Vanguard General, cutting through his chains and knocking him away with a saber strike.
• The wounded Vanguard General vanished, and the Demonic Sect member pursued the disciples instead.
• The senior brother led the disciples toward their sect, hoping to find its supreme treasure, and guessed that their Master might be dead.
• A winged Tiger spotted the fleeing disciples and roared at them.

Xue Ming saved two of his disciples from a Golden Core Realm tiger and reflected on how unreliable all five of his disciples were. He decided to take the two women to the ruined Dao Advent Sect to seek its hidden sect-protecting treasure.

• Three of Xue Ming's disciples fled when a Golden Core Realm tiger attacked, leaving the two women behind.
• Xue Ming killed the tiger in one blow and asked the women where the other three disciples had gone.
• The women said the three had run away, and Xue Ming lamented that all five of his hastily chosen disciples were ungrateful and unreliable.
• Xue Ming told the women they would go to the ruins of the Dao Advent Sect, destroyed a hundred years earlier, to find the hidden sect-protecting treasure.

Xue Ming and his two remaining disciples reached the Dao Advent Sect ruins to seek the sect's supreme treasure, which he believed lay beneath three ancient formations. Their search exposed their aura, and the pursuing Demonic Sect attacked them.

• Xue Ming told his two disciples that the sect's supreme treasure was buried beneath the ruins and protected by formations laid by the patriarch.
• Xue Ming reflected that his five disciples had followed him for forty years, though only two remained with him after the others fled.
• The Demonic Sect, unable to find them, smashed the surrounding mountains until he sensed their location.
• Xue Ming and his disciples reached the ruins and leaked their aura while dismantling the formation.
• The Demonic Sect found the three of them and immediately launched an attack.

Ye Lin and his companions discovered treasures hidden beneath a mountain and arrived at Xue Ming’s formation site after Demonic Sect defeated him. They examined Xue Ming’s formation books, but none of them could understand them.

• Xue Ming attacked Demonic Sect while his two disciples tried to decipher his formation books and break the formation.
• Ye Lin learned that three humans and an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon were nearby, then sensed three formations hiding treasures beneath a mountain.
• Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden went to investigate, leaving the roasted tiger meat behind until Old Garden carried it after them.
• Demonic Sect defeated Xue Ming, who found his disciples still unable to understand the books and prepared to die.
• Ye Lin and his companions appeared beside Xue Ming’s disciples and examined the formation books, but Hong Batian and Old Garden admitted they could not understand them.

Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden bypassed the formations and entered a hidden hall, where Ye Lin found a bead filled with immense life force. Xue Ming arrived and revealed that the chamber lay within the ruins of the Dao Advent Sect.

• Ye Lin and Hong Batian prepared to break through the formations while Old Garden put away his roasted meat.
• Hong Batian blasted a hole through the ground, then shattered the formations below with his aura.
• Ye Lin opened the hall’s doors and found a green bead containing life force comparable to that of a Mahayana-stage Half-Immortal.
• Ye Lin stored the bead in his Spatial Ring, disappointing Hong Batian, who had wanted it.
• Xue Ming arrived with his two female disciples, bowed to the three seniors, and identified the place as the Dao Advent Sect’s ruins.

Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden followed Xue Ming into a hidden chamber in the Dao Advent Sect, where Xue Ming found the sect’s Heaven-Monitoring Instrument. Old Garden immediately took the Compass and demanded to know how it worked, leaving Xue Ming stunned.

• Ye Lin asked Xue Ming about the secret chamber and the hidden item inside it.
• Xue Ming found that the essence bead meant to mislead intruders was missing, then used a blueprint to reveal a mechanism in the wall.
• Xue Ming opened a second chamber behind a gold-like wall that blocked divine sense, and Hong Batian examined its unusual material.
• Ye Lin and the others entered the small, unfinished chamber, where Xue Ming found the Heaven-Monitoring Instrument and celebrated.
• Old Garden snatched the Compass from Xue Ming and demanded that he explain how to use it.

Xue Ming explained that the Heaven-Monitoring Instrument could glimpse ten minutes into the future, but Hong Batian tested it and Ye Lin took it. As Outer Realm Heavenly Demons surrounded the group and aimed three cannons at them, Old Garden charged to fight despite his injuries.

• Xue Ming told Old Garden that the Heaven-Monitoring Instrument was a treasure that could foresee the future.
• Hong Batian activated the instrument and saw an explosion and a swarm of Outer Realm Heavenly Demons in the future ten minutes ahead.
• Hong Batian passed the instrument to Ye Lin, who put it in his Spatial Ring as the ruins began to shake.
• Ye Lin destroyed the great hall and the mountain above the group with a punch, revealing the surrounding Outer Realm Heavenly Demons and their cannons.
• Old Garden charged the demon forces, and the armored general ordered his troops to kill him.

Old Garden wiped out the million-strong Outer Realm Heavenly Demon army, and Ye Lin decided to head for the Central Continent’s central region. After the others departed, Xue Ming renounced his inheritance and severed his ties to the ruined Dao Advent Sect.

• Old Garden destroyed the demon army with two slaps, leaving the general stunned and terrified.
• Ye Lin heard the dying general mention the central region and chose it as their next destination.
• Ye Lin, Old Garden, and their companion flew toward the central region.
• Xue Ming knelt before the ruins of the Dao Advent Sect and mourned handing over the Heaven-Monitoring Instrument.
• Xue Ming renounced his status as the Dao Advent Sect’s sole inheritor and declared himself a Rogue Cultivator.

After three months of travel, Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden reached a seemingly primitive settlement in Central Continent and discovered it concealed a powerful formation. As Hong Batian proposed negotiating with the humans hidden below, Ye Lin was stunned by the completed update to his panel, which had added a shop and a missions category.

• Ye Lin, Hong Batian, and Old Garden traveled for three months across Central Continent, surviving numerous dangers on the way.
• The three reached a settlement of crude huts and people wearing animal hides, which shocked Ye Lin and Hong Batian.
• Ye Lin installed the completed panel update and watched its progress bar load.
• Hong Batian used his divine sense to discover that the settlement was bait concealing a powerful formation beneath the ground.
• Hong Batian suggested that they negotiate with the humans hiding below Central Continent.
• Ye Lin saw that his updated panel now had a shop filled with costly treasures and a missions category containing one mission.

Ye Lin discovered that seizing opportunities had earned him 580,000 Fortune Points and learned about a mission to lead the Profound Yellow World in conquering the Heavenly Demon Great World. He found an Immortal Ascension Pill that could take him into the Earth Immortal realm, then examined Hong Batian’s fortune and powerful Phoenix Clan traits.

• Ye Lin checked the shop and found that he had 580,000 Fortune Points, enough to buy several divine items.
• Ye Lin read the main mission to defeat the Heavenly Demons and occupy the Heavenly Demon Great World, with a reward of advancing one major realm.
• Ye Lin learned that he could gain Fortune Points by seizing opportunities or killing others, though the panel warned against killing the fortunate.
• Ye Lin found an Immortal Ascension Pill for 1,000,000 Fortune Points that could take a peak Mahayana cultivator directly to the Earth Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin examined Hong Batian and saw that he had 780,000 Fortune Points, a rare Phoenix bloodline, and powerful fortune-protecting traits.

Ye Lin learned that Hong Batian was the young master of the Phoenix Clan and heard that the Profound Yellow World needed to unite its continents to resist the Heavenly Demon Great World. Ye Lin's group reached the Human Race's fortified refuge, where an elderly man welcomed them and invited them inside.

• Ye Lin saw Hong Batian's immense Fate value and learned he was the young master of the Phoenix Clan.
• Ye Lin heard that cultivators from the four other great continents needed access to Central Continent to strengthen the fight against the Heavenly Demon Great World.
• Ye Lin led Old Garden and Hong Batian toward the Human Race refuge, where Zhao Gang challenged them and demanded they leave.
• An elderly man arrived, overruled Zhao Gang, and welcomed Ye Lin's group into the refuge.