Arc 178The Black Tortoise Natal Heart

Ye Lin completed the ancient trial, received the Xuanyuan Sword, and returned to the Black Tortoise Secret Realm. As he prepared for the final secret realm, he absorbed the Black Tortoise Natal Heart and transformed his dantian into a cosmos.

  • Ye Lin followed Chen Changsheng through the ancient Heavenly Court, learned the Near Yet Far divine ability, and watched the Human Emperor unite the Star River Cosmos under Human rule.
  • The Human Emperor recognized Ye Lin as a traveler from the future, promised to protect him, and gave him treasures before sending him back with the Xuanyuan Sword as his master.
  • Ye Lin rejected the Black Tortoise Master's final inheritance challenge, studied the Human Emperor's Destruction Sword Dao insights, and reunited with Wang Tian and the others as the secret realm ended.
  • Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao fought off the cultivators who targeted their group, then returned to their retreat and began five hundred years of secluded cultivation.
  • Ye Xin persuaded the Immortal-Slaying Ancestor to help him take Ye Lin's quota for the Second Region, prompting her to send disciples to search for Ye Lin.
  • After three hundred years of cultivation, Ye Lin swallowed the Black Tortoise Natal Heart and subdued its phantom, which released a vast surge of energy through his body.
  • Ye Lin fed the excess energy to the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Xuanyuan Sword, but the artifacts absorbed only a tiny portion before they withdrew.
  • Ye Lin absorbed the remaining azure mist into his dantian, which expanded into a Star River Cosmos filled with stars and emerging lifeforms.
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Ch. 4429Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm

Ye Lin recognized Chen Changsheng as the future Venerable Changsheng and decided to stay close to him to survive the coming four hundred years. As the two traveled deeper into the Heavenly Court, they heard explosions ahead and realized they had found their destination.

  • Ye Lin recognized Chen Changsheng by the Yin-Yang Twin Swords and pretended that celestial soldiers had killed his younger brother.
  • Chen Changsheng comforted Ye Lin and urged him to avenge his brother by killing more celestial soldiers.
  • Ye Lin decided to follow Chen Changsheng after realizing he was the historical powerhouse who could keep him alive.
  • Chen Changsheng recognized Ye Lin as the former Human Race prodigy, and the two chatted as they hurried through the Heavenly Court.
  • Explosions shook the firmament ahead, and Ye Lin and Chen Changsheng exchanged excited glances, realizing they had found what they sought.

Ch. 4430Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm 91

With the Heavenly Court nearing defeat, Ye Lin stayed cautious as the Human Race army advanced. He took a glowing Heavenly Book from a Human Race cultivator and began reading its ancient divine script.

  • Chen Changsheng drew his swords and joined the battle against the heavenly soldiers while Ye Lin watched.
  • Ye Lin noticed a streak of golden light and approached a wounded Human Race cultivator arguing with five heavenly soldiers over a scroll.
  • The Human Race cultivator respectfully handed the scroll to Ye Lin, and the heavenly soldiers watched without daring to intervene.
  • Ye Lin opened the scroll, recognized its writing as ancient divine script, and began to read it.

Ch. 4431Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm

Ye Lin discovered that a scroll held the Dao-tier divine ability Near Yet Far, then killed five Heavenly Court soldiers who tried to claim it. He hid in a secret chamber to study the ability while waiting out the remaining four hundred years of his mission.

  • Ye Lin read the scroll and recognized Near Yet Far as a precious Dao-tier divine ability.
  • Five Heavenly Court soldiers demanded the scroll, and Ye Lin killed them with two palm strikes.
  • Ye Lin returned the scroll to a Human Race expert and learned that Near Yet Far could eventually let him cross the Star River Cosmos in a single step.
  • Ye Lin surveyed the battles, decided not to fight without a reward, and hid in a Heavenly Court secret chamber to study Near Yet Far.

Ch. 4432Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm 93

After the Human Race seized the Heavenly Court, it subdued the Star River Cosmos and restored peace while the decisive battle between its top experts continued. Ye Lin emerged from three hundred years of cultivation with Near Yet Far at the beginner stage, able to teleport tens of millions of star li.

  • The Heavenly Court lost its war, and rebellions spread through the Star River Cosmos.
  • The Human Race and several other races took the Heavenly Court, after which the Human Race began suppressing the cosmos.
  • The Human Race destroyed some races and won over others until the Star River Cosmos was subdued and relative peace returned.
  • The races continued plotting in secret because the Human Emperor's defeat could undo the Human Race's victories.
  • Ye Lin emerged from secluded cultivation after three hundred years and reached the beginner stage of Near Yet Far.

Ch. 4433Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm 94

Ye Lin emerged from the secret chamber and wandered through the Human Race’s newly conquered Heavenly Court, with one hundred years left before his mission ended. Blood rain then fell across the Star River Cosmos, signaling the death of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and leaving the Human Race fearing the Human Emperor had fallen.

  • Ye Lin left the secret chamber and saw the Human Race rebuilding the conquered Heavenly Court.
  • Ye Lin noted that one hundred years remained before his mission was complete and wandered through the Heavenly Court.
  • Blood rain began falling as thunder shook the Star River Cosmos, causing the Human Race powerhouses to stop their work.
  • Ye Lin recognized the blood rain as an omen that a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal had died.
  • The Human Race prayed that the fallen powerhouse was not the Human Emperor, whose defeat could leave them vulnerable to retaliation.

Ch. 4434Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm 95

After a month of blood rain marked by the deaths of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, the Human Emperor emerged and declared the Human Race foremost among the Star River Cosmos. His destiny had risen so high that his words could affect the Heavenly Dao, while Ye Lin watched him from afar.

  • Human Race powerhouses prayed for the Human Emperor as they feared the outcome of his unfinished battle.
  • Blood rain continued for a month as Primordial Unity Golden Immortals fell, keeping the myriad races on edge.
  • The blood rain stopped, and the living beings of the Star River Cosmos waited to learn who had won.
  • The Human Emperor emerged from the void and decreed that the Human Race would be honored above all others, with the Heavenly Dao punishing those who defied it.
  • Supreme experts sensed that the Human Emperor's decree had briefly halted the Heavenly Dao, as his destiny made his strength rival it.
  • Ye Lin looked across boundless space at the Human Emperor and said that seeing him made the journey worthwhile.

Ch. 4435Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm

After the war, the Human Emperor gathered the allied races in the Heavenly Court to assess their merits and distribute rewards. As Ye Lin stood among the Walker Realm Golden Immortals, the Human Emperor fixed his gaze on him and asked whether he came from the future.

  • The Human Emperor arrived at the Heavenly Court as Human and allied-race powerhouses gathered for rewards and a new division of interests.
  • Chen Changsheng found Ye Lin and pulled him toward the Central Heavenly Court to watch the merit assessment.
  • Ye Lin and Chen Changsheng joined the Walker Realm Golden Immortals as the Human Emperor prepared to bestow rewards.
  • The Human Emperor's gaze settled on Ye Lin, and he asked whether Ye Lin was from the future.

Ch. 4436Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm

Ye Lin was discovered by the Human Emperor while taking part in a fabricated mystic realm trial set in the ancient era. After Ye Lin explained how he had arrived, the Human Emperor asked about his trial mission, and Ye Lin revealed that he had only a hundred years left to survive.

  • The Human Emperor noticed Ye Lin and deduced that he came from the future because he lacked the aura of the ancient era.
  • Ye Lin admitted that he was from the future and learned that the Human Emperor could sense members of the Human Race who invoked his true name across time and space.
  • Ye Lin explained that the ancient scene was fabricated by a mystic realm trial, and the Human Emperor inferred that a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal had created it.
  • The Human Emperor asked whether Ye Lin's mission was to help unify the Star River Cosmos, and Ye Lin said he had to survive for ten million years, with only the final hundred years remaining.

Ch. 4437Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm 98

Ye Lin told the Human Emperor that his mission would end in a hundred years, earning a promise of protection and a stream of treasures. He could not warn Chen Changsheng about his future death, and the chapter left him refusing to reveal more because the karmic consequences were too dangerous.

  • Ye Lin told the Human Emperor that he would complete his mission in a hundred years and receive a Limitless Artifact.
  • The Human Emperor promised to keep Ye Lin safe for the next hundred years and began giving him treasures.
  • Chen Changsheng asked Ye Lin about the future and the Human Race.
  • Ye Lin began to warn Chen Changsheng against becoming a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal but stopped when he sensed the danger of speaking.
  • Ye Lin told Chen Changsheng that he could not reveal the future because his body could not bear the karma.

Ch. 4438Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm 99

Ye Lin spoke with Chen Changsheng about fate, and Chen Changsheng accepted that an unavoidable future event concerned him. As the Human Emperor’s month-long rewards ended, everyone had received something except Ye Lin.

  • Ye Lin confirmed that the matter he wanted to discuss concerned Chen Changsheng, but Chen Changsheng told him not to explain further.
  • Ye Lin realized Chen Changsheng had likely known his fate before his death yet had chosen to act because he had no alternative, deepening his understanding of the laws.
  • Chen Changsheng asked Ye Lin whether the future was enjoyable, and Ye Lin said the weak being prey to the strong remained the world's underlying order.
  • Chen Changsheng concluded that knowing the future was of little use without the power to control one's Destiny.
  • The Human Emperor finished a month of rewards, giving treasures, resources, and status to everyone present except Ye Lin.

Ch. 4439Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm

The Human Emperor gave Ye Lin the cultivation insights of a ninth-level Golden Immortal who practiced the Sword Dao of Destruction, while warning him to use them only as reference. He renamed the Heavenly Court the Human Ancestor Hall and told Ye Lin to prepare something for him in three days, then Ye Lin walked alone through the Heavenly Court.

  • The Human Emperor gave Ye Lin a sphere containing a ninth-level Golden Immortal's Sword Dao of Destruction insights and warned him not to imitate them.
  • The Human Emperor told Ye Lin that the world's deeper mysteries would become clear only when he grew stronger.
  • The Human Emperor declared the meeting adjourned and renamed the Heavenly Court the Human Ancestor Hall, naming himself its first Hall Master.
  • The Human Emperor told Ye Lin to prepare something for him in three days and warned the Human Race powers not to question Ye Lin about the future.
  • After the meeting ended, Ye Lin walked alone through the Heavenly Court.

Ch. 4440Path of Invincibility - Black Tortoise Secret Realm 101

After a hundred years, Ye Lin’s trial in the ancient era ended with the Human Race ruling the Star River Cosmos. The Human Emperor sent him back to his own world, and the Xuanyuan Sword acknowledged Ye Lin as its master and vowed to continue assisting each generation’s Human Lord.

  • Over the next hundred years, the Human Emperor led the Human Race in settling scores with the myriad races and bringing the Star River Cosmos under Human rule.
  • Ye Lin reached the end of his trial and reflected that it had been easy because he belonged to the Human Race.
  • The Human Emperor appeared beside Ye Lin as his time in the ancient era ran out.
  • The Xuanyuan Sword flew to the Human Emperor, who told it to follow Ye Lin and continue its mission.
  • The Xuanyuan Sword took Ye Lin’s blood, acknowledged him as its master, and returned to his wrist as a golden bracelet.
  • The Human Emperor told Ye Lin to return to his world.

Ch. 4441Path of Invincibility - Yang Gang Severed Meridian Book

Ye Lin completed the trial and received the high-grade Limitless Artifact, the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book, whose characters invoked powerful effects through the Great Dao. He declined the final trial for the Black Tortoise Master's inheritance to avoid risking the rewards he had already won.

  • Ye Lin opened the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book and found a single character on each page.
  • The trial ground explained that the book's thirty-six characters invoked different effects, such as enhancing combat strength or healing injuries, at the cost of immortal power.
  • Ye Lin learned that he could activate the book by pouring immortal power into it and using it to invoke the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
  • The trial ground offered Ye Lin one final stage for the Black Tortoise Master's inheritance, warning that failure would make him return all his previous rewards.
  • Ye Lin ended the challenge, and the trial ground agreed to send him out.

Ch. 4442Path of Invincibility - Preparing to Leave

Ye Lin refused the Black Tortoise trial’s inheritance and left the trial ground, then spent the remaining three years in the secret realm absorbing the Human Emperor’s insights into the Destruction Sword Dao Law. As the realm closed, he planned to cultivate for five hundred years and reach the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm before entering the Second Region.

  • Ye Lin rejected the inheritance and accepted the trial ground’s rewards before it sent him out.
  • Ye Lin calculated that three years remained before the Black Tortoise Secret Realm closed and began cultivating in seclusion.
  • Ye Lin absorbed the Human Emperor’s insights and immersed himself in the Destruction Sword Dao Law.
  • After three years, Ye Lin emerged from seclusion, having studied only a tiny fraction of the insights.
  • Ye Lin prepared to cultivate for five hundred years and expected to reach the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm before entering the Second Region.

Ch. 4443Path of Invincibility - A Bunch of Brain-Dead Idiots

As the Black Tortoise Secret Realm closed, Ye Lin reunited with his companions and warned them that other prodigies were waiting to seize their Identity Tokens. The group split up, and Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao stayed behind to fight as their attackers rushed in.

  • The realm’s time limit ended, and its young prodigies emerged with varying gains and losses.
  • Ye Lin reunited with Wang Tian and the others, warned that they had been targeted, and planned their escape.
  • Ye Lin led the group out of the secret realm, where dozens of young prodigies immediately focused on them.
  • Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian took Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao away while Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao stayed to face the attackers.
  • Ye Lin activated the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book, which boosted his strength and increased Li Xiaoyao’s strength by thirty percent.

Ch. 4444Path of Invincibility - Striking Directly

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao fought off cultivators trying to seize their slots. After Ye Lin killed six women from the Immortal-Slaying Sect, the surrounding cultivators fled, leaving his slots secure.

  • Li Xiaoyao crushed a young Golden Immortal with the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers and attacked a woman beside him.
  • A woman from the Immortal-Slaying Sect offered Ye Lin ten million Law Source Stones for each of his six slots.
  • Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art combined with Void True Flame to kill three women and mortally wound the other three.
  • Ye Lin dismissed the dying woman's threat and warned the surrounding cultivators to leave or die.
  • The surrounding cultivators fled without daring to attack Ye Lin.

Ch. 4445Path of Invincibility - Eager to Improve

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao left the starry sky after refusing to fight the other cultivators, who began plotting to use the Immortal-Slaying Sect against a group of six women. Back at their retreat, Ye Lin told everyone to cultivate for five hundred years before the final secret realm and left Xinyou in Luo Yao’s care.

  • Ye Lin called Li Xiaoyao away from the frightened cultivators, and the two vanished into the starry sky.
  • After Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao left, the cultivators discussed targeting the six women by involving the Immortal-Slaying Sect’s elder.
  • Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao returned to their retreat, where Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian welcomed them back.
  • Ye Lin told the group to cultivate in seclusion for five hundred years until the final secret realm.
  • Ye Lin placed the despairing Xinyou in Luo Yao’s arms, and Xinyou cheered at the prospect of going out to play.

Ch. 4446Path of Invincibility - Ye Xin

While Ye Lin and his companions entered seclusion to digest their gains, Ye Xin visited the Immortal-Slaying Ancestor and tried to enlist her help against Ye Lin. The ancestor learned that Ye Lin had killed her direct bloodline, but remained displeased at Ye Xin’s attempt to use her.

  • Ye Lin returned to his cave dwelling to cultivate, and Wang Tian and the others followed his example by entering seclusion.
  • Xinyou took Luo Yao away from the star to play while the others remained in seclusion.
  • Ye Xin arrived before the enormous peach tree and paid his respects to the Immortal-Slaying Ancestor.
  • Ye Xin told the ancestor that her direct bloodline’s Life Lamp had gone out and that Ye Lin had killed them.
  • Ye Xin admitted that he wanted Ye Lin’s quota to enter the Second Region and urged the ancestor to act, suggesting Ye Lin might possess supreme treasures.

Ch. 4447The Path of Invincibility - Ye Xin's Schemes

Ye Xin traded a low-grade Limitless Artifact to secure the peach tree’s help and a spot to reach the Second Region. The peach tree sent the Immortal-Slaying Sect to search for Ye Lin, while Ye Xin also set out to find him before the final secret realm opened.

  • Ye Xin offered the peach tree a low-grade Limitless Artifact in exchange for help and a spot, and she gave him a glowing branch to contact her.
  • The peach tree ordered her disciples to search for Ye Lin and said she would send them to help find him.
  • The peach tree recalled that Ye Lin had killed one of her direct bloodline descendants and decided to act personally.
  • Ye Xin cursed the peach tree for her greed but concluded that the spot was worth the price because he could not reach the Second Region alone.
  • Ye Xin left to search for Ye Lin and the others, with only five hundred years remaining before the final secret realm opened.

Ch. 4448Path of Invincibility - Secluded Cultivation

Ye Lin absorbed the ninth-layer Golden Immortal expert’s cultivation insights and clarified that his path led to the Sword Dao. He swallowed the Black Tortoise Natal Heart to strengthen his foundation and attempt a breakthrough, but it immediately caused intense pain.

  • Ye Lin spent three hundred years absorbing the cultivation insights and understanding the Destruction Sword Dao Law.
  • Ye Lin realized that both the Destruction Sword Dao and the Great River Sword Dao ultimately led to the Sword Dao.
  • Ye Lin concluded that he needed to strengthen his foundation before attempting to break through to the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.
  • Ye Lin swallowed the Black Tortoise Natal Heart, and stabbing pain surged through his abdomen.

Ch. 4449Path of Invincibility - Refine It For Me

Ye Lin used immortal fortune power, the Beginningless True Flame, and Destruction Sword Dao Laws to break the Heart of Destiny’s Black Tortoise form. The resulting azure mist strengthened his body as he guided it through the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique and the True King Sacred Body.

  • Ye Lin endured the Heart of Destiny’s scorching pain and tried to refine it with immortal fortune power.
  • The Heart of Destiny transformed into a Black Tortoise phantom in Ye Lin’s dantian, where it fought the Three-Legged Golden Crow formed from the Beginningless True Flame.
  • Ye Lin suppressed and bound the Black Tortoise phantom with a Great Sun and Destruction Sword Dao Laws, then bombarded it until its shell shattered.
  • The Black Tortoise phantom vanished into azure mist that reinforced Ye Lin’s meridians, bones, and internal organs.
  • Ye Lin circulated the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique and the True King Sacred Body to guide the energy through his body.

Ch. 4450Path of Invincibility - Too Many

Ye Lin discovered that the Black Tortoise Natal Heart was releasing far more energy than his Golden Immortal body could absorb, putting him at risk of bursting apart. With no way to remove the green mist in his dantian, he looked for an outlet as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and Xuanyuan Sword manifested to watch him.

  • Ye Lin realized that the Black Tortoise Natal Heart's energy had saturated his body and that absorbing more could make him burst apart.
  • Ye Lin questioned whether the treasure was truly the Natal Heart of the Divine Beast Black Tortoise, whose power would surpass that of ordinary divine beast bloodlines.
  • Ye Lin decided he needed to vent the excess energy because he could not remove the green mist from his dantian.
  • The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar's blood-red figure and the Xuanyuan Sword's golden figure appeared and watched Ye Lin, puzzled by his intentions.

Ch. 4451Path of Invincibility - Pie in the Sky?

Ye Lin fed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Xuanyuan Sword a seemingly endless stream of energy from the life-core heart he suspected belonged to the true Divine Beast Black Tortoise. After ten days and nights, the overfed Demon Jar finally begged him to stop.

  • Ye Lin offered his powerful surge of energy to the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and began channeling it into the jar and the Xuanyuan Sword.
  • Ye Lin suspected the energy came from the life-core heart of a true Divine Beast Black Tortoise because of its immense power and pure aura.
  • The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar mistook Ye Lin's offering for filial generosity and promised to help him in future danger.
  • Ye Lin continued feeding the artifacts energy for ten days and nights without stopping.
  • The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar realized something was wrong and begged Ye Lin to stop because it could not absorb any more.

Ch. 4452Path of Invincibility - As expected, a pie falling from the sky is not to be trusted

Ye Lin tried to transfer the energy from a Black Tortoise's Natal Heart into the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and the Xuanyuan Sword, but the artifacts could absorb only a tiny fraction. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar realized the heart likely belonged to a Great Luo realm innate sacred spirit and warned that Ye Lin had put himself in grave danger by swallowing it.

  • Ye Lin kept forcing energy into the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar until it pleaded with him to stop, and the Xuanyuan Sword also signaled him to withdraw.
  • Ye Lin saw that the two Dao artifacts had absorbed only about one-thousandth of the azure mist and despaired at how much energy remained.
  • The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar asked Ye Lin what he had swallowed, and he identified it as a divine beast Black Tortoise's Natal Heart.
  • The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar concluded that the heart must have come from a Great Luo realm divine beast and cursed Ye Lin for swallowing something so dangerous.
  • Ye Lin said he had known the heart was exceptionally precious but had not expected to obtain something of such value.

Ch. 4453Path of Invincibility - Anomaly

Ye Lin used the azure mist threatening his body to transform his dantian into a Star River Cosmos, where lifeforms began to appear. The mist was nearly gone, but Ye Lin was left unsure what his newly transformed dantian would mean for him.

  • The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and Xuanyuan Sword withdrew, leaving Ye Lin to face the danger alone.
  • Ye Lin checked his panel and saw that his destiny still predicted his eventual death in the Boundless Sea, not in the current crisis.
  • As his body neared its limit, Ye Lin realized his dantian might withstand the azure mist and decided to absorb it.
  • The azure mist spread through Ye Lin's dantian, which expanded into a Star River Cosmos filled with stars and emerging lifeforms.
  • Ye Lin watched the mist rapidly shrink and realized his dantian had become a genuine cosmos, leaving him uncertain whether the change was good or bad.
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