Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin returned to the Azure Cloud Sect and severed his ties to his past, including his identity as Ye Lin of Blue Star. His cultivation advanced to the mid-stage Earth Immortal Realm, and he arrived at Nameless Mountain, where Taichu sensed how far Ye Lin had surpassed him.

• Two Azure Cloud Sect gatekeeping disciples confronted Ye Lin for calling their Sect Master by name.
• Ye Lin severed his past at the Azure Cloud Sect, and the disciples found they could no longer remember his face.
• Ye Lin cut all ties to Blue Star, and his cultivation advanced from the early stage to the mid-stage Earth Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin arrived at Nameless Mountain, where Taichu admitted he understood Ye Lin less and less and sensed Ye Lin could easily overpower him.

Ye Lin returned to Nameless Mountain after twenty years and learned how his disciples Taiyuan and Ye Buqu had fared. He decided to visit them and meet Taiyuan’s daughter.

• Taichu led Ye Lin into Nameless Mountain, where Ye Lin saw that its sect-protecting formation remained unchanged.
• Taichu told Ye Lin that Taiyuan was an elder in charge of the War God Division and had a sixteen-year-old daughter.
• Ye Lin learned he had been away for twenty years and realized time passed differently in the Central Continent.
• Taichu reported that Ye Buqu had cultivated the Diamond Iron Body and could fight Golden Core cultivators with his body alone.
• Ye Lin decided to visit Taiyuan, Ye Buqu, and his disciple’s daughter.

Ye Lin returned to his residence after more than twenty years away and found Ye Buqu still caring for the place. Ye Buqu tearfully reunited with his master, who apologized for leaving without a word.

• Ye Lin returned to his residence and dispersed its formation.
• Ye Buqu, sweeping the residence while complaining about the Nine Heavens Savage Bull, bumped into Ye Lin.
• Ye Buqu recognized Ye Lin, fell to his knees, and clung to his leg as he wept over his master's long absence.
• Ye Lin admitted he had left too hastily, told Ye Buqu to get up, and erased the snot from his clothes.
• Ye Buqu wiped his tears and revealed that Ye Lin was the only family he had.

Ye Lin praised Ye Buqu’s cultivation and resilient state of mind, then asked about Taiyuan’s daughter, Taiqing. After learning she practiced the dangerous Supreme Emotion-Severing Art, Ye Lin reacted with concern.

• Ye Lin examined Ye Buqu’s progress and praised his cultivation and firm state of mind.
• Ye Buqu said he had diligently trained during Ye Lin’s absence but still lagged behind his senior and junior brothers.
• Ye Lin told Ye Buqu not to measure himself by others and said his state of mind would help him avoid cultivation bottlenecks.
• Ye Lin asked whether Taiyuan had a daughter, and Ye Buqu described Taiqing as cold and aloof.
• Ye Buqu revealed that Taiqing cultivated the Supreme Emotion-Severing Art, and Ye Lin recalled the art’s dangers and the high price its practitioners paid.

Ye Lin criticized the Supreme Emotion-Severing Art after learning that Taiqing had chosen it, while Ye Buqu praised her talent and kindness. Taiyuan arrived eager to leave Eastern Continent and fight in Central Continent, but Ye Lin told him his strength would make him only an ordinary soldier there.

• Ye Lin told Ye Buqu that the Supreme Emotion-Severing Art was a poor cultivation choice because mastering it meant abandoning one's family.
• Ye Buqu said Taiqing had chosen the art herself and had reached early Spirit Transformation in ten years while continuing to treat him kindly.
• Taiyuan arrived at Ye Lin's door, bowed, and eagerly asked whether his master would take him to Central Continent to wage war.
• Ye Lin told Taiyuan that with his current strength, he would only be an ordinary soldier in Eastern Continent, shocking both Taiyuan and Ye Buqu.

Ye Lin examined Taiyuan’s fate and learned that he was destined to die fighting the Heavenly Demon Great World, so he vowed to prevent that ending. Taiyuan doubted Ye Lin’s warning that he would be cannon fodder in the Central Continent, and Ye Lin challenged him to go there and see for himself.

• Ye Lin read Taiyuan’s panel, which showed his future sacrifice against the Heavenly Demon Great World and his upcoming discovery of a secret realm containing Snow-Treading Without Trace.
• Ye Lin decided not to take Taiyuan’s opportunity and resolved to change his fate so he would not die destroying the Heavenly Demon Great World.
• Taiyuan questioned Ye Lin’s claim that he would be cannon fodder in the Central Continent, while Ye Buqu also struggled to believe it because he idolized his senior brother.
• Ye Lin told Taiyuan to go to the Central Continent and find out for himself, then wait for him there.
• Taiyuan began to protest that he could not get there.

Taiyuan brought his daughter Taiqing to meet Ye Lin, who discovered that she possessed three extraordinary but unawakened physiques. After seeing her future opportunity, Ye Lin called her over to investigate further.

• Taiyuan pleaded with Ye Lin to help him reach the Central Continent, but Ye Lin refused and told him to solve the problem himself.
• Taiqing arrived and greeted Ye Lin as her Grandmaster.
• Ye Lin inspected Taiqing and learned she had three unawakened physiques and a future opportunity involving the Mountain-Backed Sect.
• Ye Lin beckoned Taiqing over, and she glanced at Taiyuan for permission before approaching.

Ye Lin cleared Taiqing’s blocked meridians and awakened her Ice-Pure Jade Body, raising her cultivation to the late Spirit Transformation realm. He told her that she would have to awaken her other two supreme constitutions herself, then questioned Taiyuan about why Taiqing had cultivated the Supreme Emotion-Severing Art.

• Ye Lin examined Taiqing and discovered that her meridians were blocked.
• Ye Lin cleared Taiqing’s meridians, awakening her Ice-Pure Jade Body and causing intense cold to spread across a thousand-mile radius.
• Taiqing’s cultivation rose from early to late Spirit Transformation, and Ye Lin said she had two more constitutions to awaken herself.
• Ye Lin noted that the Ice-Pure Jade Body was a furnace cauldron constitution, while Taiyuan vowed that no faction would dare harm his daughter.
• Ye Lin asked Taiyuan why he had let Taiqing cultivate the Supreme Emotion-Severing Art, and Taiyuan said he had been unable to stop her.

Ye Lin gave his useless treasures to Taiyuan, Taiqing, and their companion, then took the matured Earth Grade Enlightenment Tea Tree and departed after encouraging Ye Buqu to cultivate. He searched Eastern Continent for its treasures and found Outer Realm Heavenly Demons gathering in Black Sand Prefecture around a figure radiating treasure light.

• Ye Lin handed his unused treasures to Taiyuan and the others, who divided them among themselves.
• Ye Lin harvested the matured Earth Grade Enlightenment Tea Tree and stored it in his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin encouraged Ye Buqu to cultivate until he could achieve Unrivaled talent, then left.
• Taiyuan held a bellyband as the three wondered what Ye Lin did.
• Ye Lin searched Eastern Continent and found demonic qi and Outer Realm Heavenly Demons in Black Sand Prefecture, where a figure sat amid treasure light.

Ye Hong was a wandering scavenger at Peak Tribulation Transcendence with powerful fortune and numerous exceptional fate traits. His recent opportunity was a mysterious white mass of qi beneath the border between Central Continent and Eastern Continent, while his recorded destiny foretold his death at the peak of True Immortal.

• Ye Hong wandered without purpose as a scavenger.
• Ye Hong possessed Peak Tribulation Transcendence cultivation and a fortune value of 5.84 million.
• Ye Hong discovered a mysterious white mass of qi containing unfathomable power beneath the border between Central Continent and Eastern Continent.

Ye Lin discovered that Ye Hong had reached the peak of Tribulation Transcendence and sensed the Heavenly Dao warning him not to kill him. Ye Lin ordered Ye Hong to leave the Demonic Dao Abyss, where he had spent a year suppressing the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons he had unleashed.

• Ye Lin recognized Ye Hong as another Child of the Plane whose cultivation and fortune had rapidly grown, but he abandoned the thought of killing him after sensing the Heavenly Dao's threat.
• Ye Hong noticed Ye Lin and heard Old Li warn him that an Immortal Dao expert stood before him.
• Ye Hong greeted Ye Lin respectfully and explained that he could not leave because he was suppressing the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons beneath him.
• Ye Lin told Ye Hong to come out, saying the threat would soon exceed what Ye Hong could handle, and Ye Hong looked delighted.

Ye Lin freed Ye Hong, suppressed the demonic qi and the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, then found the fifth treasure in the depths of the passage. With all five treasures gathered, he prepared to begin his plan to connect the continents and awaken the world's will.

• Ye Hong thanked Ye Lin for freeing him and flew away as demonic qi surged from beneath the ground.
• Ye Lin suppressed the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon with a single strike, making the demonic qi and its terrifying auras vanish.
• Ye Hong praised Ye Lin's power, and Elder Li encouraged him to keep striving toward greater strength.
• Ye Lin entered the enormous black hole and found the white cluster of qi, completing his collection of all five treasures.
• Ye Lin identified the natural void teleportation passage as a route from Eastern Continent to Central Continent and planned to use it to advance his scheme.

Ye Lin began coordinating the continents and summoned the Eastern Continent’s Mahayana experts to Black Sand Prefecture to prepare for the Heavenly Demon Great World. He remained puzzled by how his One Breath Becomes Three Purities had developed as his decree brought the Eastern Continent’s factions and races into action.

• Ye Lin contacted Xiaoyao and Wu Wang, who headed for the Western and Southern Continents while he stayed in the Eastern Continent.
• Ye Lin wondered why his One Breath Becomes Three Purities clones had become immortals and could grow independently, then decided to leave the mystery for the future.
• Xiaoyao and Wu Wang reached their destinations, where experts helped prepare the ancient teleportation arrays for repair.
• Ye Lin ordered every Eastern Continent expert above the Mahayana realm to gather at Black Sand Prefecture, threatening execution for disobedience.
• Li Yixian ordered Nameless Mountain’s experts to join the gathering, and hesitant factions and races followed the major powers’ lead.

Ye Lin assembled the Dawn Alliance and the experts of the Eastern, Western, and Southern Continents to launch an expedition to Central Continent. After the teleportation array was stabilized, he entered first to scout, warning that Outer Realm Heavenly Demons might be waiting on the other side.

• Ye Lin raised a massive teleportation array from the Abyss and summoned the Dawn Alliance's forces, including thousands of Half-Immortals and hundreds of Loose Immortals.
• Ye Lin ordered three formation masters to stabilize the array and summoned the experts of the Western and Southern Continents.
• The formation masters reported that the repaired array could transport everyone once before being destroyed, and Ye Lin said new arrays could be built.
• Ye Lin warned that cultivators below the Mahayana realm must stay behind and that Central Continent might be guarded by Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, then stepped into the array to scout.
• Taiyuan and other figures hiding in the void left after hearing Ye Lin's warning.

Ye Lin’s promise drove Central Continent’s factions to prepare a coordinated counterattack against the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. In the Heavenly Demon Great World, its ruler confronted his subordinates over their million-year failure to conquer the Xuanhuang Great World.

• Central Continent’s factions sent powerful figures out to seek a chance to strike the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons a fatal blow.
• Central Continent’s leaders ordered their forces to watch nearby enemy encampments and destroy them if they moved.
• The ruler of the Heavenly Demon Great World demanded that his subordinates explain why they had failed to conquer Central Continent after a million years.
• A leading expert blamed the Empress Consort’s interference and reported that a Saint Realm-level expert had led the counterattack.
• The ruler grew furious as the experts in the hall fell silent.

The dragon-robed ruler of the Nangong Clan ordered an investigation into the Ji Family and threatened to destroy it if its ancestor was dead. Meanwhile, Ye Lin faced an advancing force of Outer Realm Heavenly Demons in Central Continent, whose leader carried a dangerous immortal-path Little Tower.

• The dragon-robed man gave the Third Army its tiger tally and warned its officers that they would be punished if they failed to settle the Empress matter.
• The dragon-robed man accused the Ji Family of plotting to overthrow the Nangong Clan and ordered a black shadow to investigate whether the Ji Family's old ancestor was alive.
• Ye Lin surveyed the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons in Central Continent with the experts who had arrived behind him.
• An Outer Realm Heavenly Demon leader holding a black Little Tower challenged Ye Lin and claimed that the sealed world prevented him from using his full strength.
• The Outer Realm Heavenly Demon leader ordered his forces to attack Ye Lin and the others.

Ye Lin was ambushed by six Four-Tribulation Loose Immortals, who trapped him with the Heaven-Suppressing Tower and a five-element formation. The Outer Realm Heavenly Demon then used ancestral dragon qi to summon a golden dragon, and the tower suppressed Ye Lin as the Central Continent experts watched in disbelief.

• Ye Lin prepared to fight, but the leading Outer Realm Heavenly Demon summoned five Four-Tribulation Loose Immortals to surround him.
• The leader activated the Heaven-Suppressing Tower while the five Loose Immortals formed a five-element formation that bound Ye Lin and sealed the space around him.
• The Outer Realm Heavenly Demon gathered dragon qi from Central Continent's dragon veins and formed a golden dragon that swallowed Ye Lin.
• The Heaven-Suppressing Tower crashed down and suppressed Ye Lin, prompting the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon to declare the attack successful.
• The Central Continent experts below reacted with disbelief that Ye Lin had been suppressed.

After Ye Lin was trapped inside the Heaven-Suppressing Tower, Di Yuan ordered the Dawn Alliance’s cultivators to retreat and scatter across the Central Continent. Ye Lin revealed a true immortal artifact and began resisting the tower, prompting the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons to prepare to crush him inside it.

• Di Yuan told the Dawn Alliance’s cultivators to scatter across the land and wait for news of Ye Lin.
• The Outer Realm Heavenly Demons chased the fleeing cultivators and ordered their forces to search for them and guard the spatial passage.
• Ye Lin took Bai Ling from his Spatial Ring and struck the Heaven-Suppressing Tower’s wall, making the tower tremble.
• The six Outer Realm Heavenly Demons at the level of Four-Tribulation Loose Immortals realized Ye Lin was alive and ordered everyone to form a formation and activate the tower to kill him.

Ye Lin used his Seventh Sword to break the attacks of six Outer Realm Heavenly Demons inside the Heaven-Suppressing Tower. The tower was left close to collapsing, and the six demons were blasted into the mountains below.

• The six Outer Realm Heavenly Demons activated the Heaven-Suppressing Tower together and unleashed attacks strong enough to threaten a Nine-Tribulation Loose Immortal.
• Ye Lin used his Seventh Sword, One Sword Sweeps Nine Provinces, and infused it with his Destruction Sword Dao Rule.
• Ye Lin's Sword Qi erased the incoming attacks and destroyed the runes inside the tower, leaving the Heaven-Suppressing Tower on the brink of collapse.
• The tower shook and sent a terrifying shockwave at the six Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
• The six Outer Realm Heavenly Demons were sent flying and crashed through several mountain ranges.

Trapped inside the Heaven-Suppressing Tower, Ye Lin advanced from comprehending rules to borrowing them and declared that the tower would fall to one sword strike. He unleashed an ordinary-looking slash as the tower’s sealing power weakened, leaving the six cultivators outside scrambling to reform their formation.

• The six cultivators’ formation shattered, and the Heaven-Suppressing Tower’s light dimmed as their support failed.
• Ye Lin realized the tower’s suppressive power was weakening and understood that he had reached the stage of borrowing rules.
• Ye Lin reflected that true cultivation depended on personal enlightenment and prepared to test his rule power.
• Ye Lin declared that the Heaven-Suppressing Tower could be broken with a single sword strike and slashed it with Bai Ling.
• The cultivators outside shouted for everyone to rise and reform the formation before Ye Lin escaped.