Arc 42Meteorite and Black Cloud

Ye Lin pursued the Meteor Star Stone with a gathering of prodigies, then escaped a swarm of creatures with a mysterious stone that seemed to repel them. After returning to the Asura Clan’s territory, he encountered a devouring cloud of insects and left the response to the clan’s mighty experts.

  • Taiyuan claimed the War God Blazing Fire Sword, gave Ye Buqu a Spatial Ring, and Ye Buqu traded the lower volume of the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art to Ye Hong for the upper volume.
  • Five years later, Ye Lin found Ye Buqu training by striking a post and taught him the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art, setting him the goal of defeating a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator within a year.
  • Ye Lin traveled to the Asura Clan meteorite and joined Xuan Yi, Li Gang, and other prodigies seeking the Meteor Star Stone.
  • Ye Lin helped drive the Heaven-Piercing Awl through the meteorite, found a trove of Meteor Star Stones, and secretly took the diamond-shaped stone he had sought.
  • Black creatures attacked the group, and Ye Lin fled through a passage where he found a pitch-black stone before Yin Wuxie confronted him and then departed.
  • Ye Lin found that the creatures avoided him, gathered the remaining Meteor Star Stones, and decided to seek a Yin-Yang Spirit Stone from the Yin-Yang Divine Sect.
  • Ye Lin encountered Asura Clan cultivators fleeing a growing cloud of insects that consumed everything, warned that it could devour a prefecture, and vanished without intervening.
Chapters 1026–1050 Vol. 11 Read

Ch. 1026Ye Buqu 12

Ye Buqu obtained the Blazing Fire Battle Armor, while Ye Hong plotted another way to secure the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art. Taiyuan then called the Long Sword from the Arena, and its Sword Intent filled the main hall.

  • Ye Buqu dismissed the Blazing Fire Battle Armor into its wooden box and returned to Taiyuan with it.
  • Taiyuan congratulated Ye Buqu, while Ye Hong brooded over his lost chance to obtain the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art and resolved to find another path.
  • A young man obtained a broadsword from the Arena, prompting the crowd to rush for the remaining weapons.
  • Taiyuan called out to the Long Sword at the Arena's center, and it flew into his hand, releasing powerful Sword Intent throughout the main hall.

Ch. 1027Ye Buqu 13

Taiyuan acquired the Heaven Grade high-grade War God Blazing Fire Sword and gave Ye Buqu a Spatial Ring. Ye Hong led Ye Buqu away to a teahouse to discuss something, leaving the subject of their conversation unknown.

  • Taiyuan recognized the War God Blazing Fire Sword, laughed at its name, and stored it in his Spatial Ring.
  • Taiyuan gave Ye Buqu a Spatial Ring with one hundred cubic meters of space.
  • Ye Buqu explained that he carried the heavy box containing his Blazing Fire Battle Armor to train his body.
  • Ye Hong approached Ye Buqu and asked to speak with him elsewhere.
  • Ye Buqu followed Ye Hong to a teahouse, where Ye Hong looked around and got straight to the point.

Ch. 1028Ye Buqu 14

Ye Hong approached Ye Buqu with a proposal to exchange the upper volume of the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art for Ye Buqu’s lower volume. After showing him three pages as proof, Ye Hong waited for Ye Buqu to agree to the trade.

  • Ye Hong introduced himself and asked whether Ye Buqu had gained an opportunity in the thatched hut.
  • Ye Buqu tried to leave, but Ye Hong warned that the lower volume could cause qi deviation without the upper volume.
  • Ye Hong claimed he possessed the upper volume and proposed exchanging it for Ye Buqu’s lower volume.
  • Ye Buqu doubted Ye Hong’s claims but asked how he could verify them.
  • Ye Hong showed Ye Buqu three pages from the upper volume, and Ye Buqu read them without understanding much.
  • Ye Hong urged Ye Buqu to make the trade, but Ye Buqu had not yet agreed.

Ch. 1029Ye Buqu 15

Ye Buqu exchanged the second volume of the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art with Ye Hong after warning him not to deceive him. Ye Hong left with both books, while Ye Buqu was left reflecting on the gulf between his abilities and those of heavenly geniuses.

  • Ye Buqu decided against robbing or buying the sacred art and used Nameless Mountain's name to pressure Ye Hong.
  • Ye Buqu agreed to exchange the books and warned Ye Hong that he would not forgive any deception.
  • Ye Hong handed over his book, briefly memorized Ye Buqu's volume, and completed the trade.
  • Ye Hong left with both books, then felt defeated as he compared his poor reading ability with the geniuses who could memorize a book at a glance.

Ch. 1030Ye Buqu 16

Five years after Ye Buqu and Taiyuan left the main hall, the world’s seal lifted and prodigies from transcendent powers emerged, weakening the Dawn Alliance’s influence. After fifteen years of secluded cultivation, Ye Lin reached the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence and welcomed the chance to fight powerful rivals.

  • Ye Buqu told Taiyuan that he had only cleared up a misunderstanding with Ye Hong, and the two left the main hall.
  • Five years later, heaven and earth were unsealed, allowing Loose Immortals to emerge and dozens of transcendent powers’ prodigies to announce themselves across the Eastern Continent.
  • The newly emerged prodigies dismissed the Dawn Alliance’s ability to restrain them, while the transcendent powers’ growing Loose Immortal forces threatened the alliance.
  • Ye Lin ended fifteen years of secluded cultivation at the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence and welcomed the arrival of stronger rivals.
  • Ye Lin left his residence and heard a series of banging sounds nearby.

Ch. 1031Ye Buqu 17

Ye Lin discovered that Ye Buqu had reached only the third level of Qi Refining after fifteen years because he had forgotten the cultivation method and trained like a mortal martial artist. Ye Buqu asked whether there was a method that did not require memorizing a circulation route, leaving Ye Lin to consider what could help him.

  • Ye Lin found Ye Buqu striking a wooden post and learned he had just broken through to the third level of Qi Refining.
  • Ye Lin destroyed the post and criticized Ye Buqu for training like a mortal instead of practicing the cultivation method he had been taught.
  • Ye Buqu admitted he had forgotten the method after Ye Lin entered seclusion and later forgot Taiyuan's instructions too.
  • Ye Buqu asked Ye Lin for a cultivation method that required no circulation route, and Ye Lin fell into thought.

Ch. 1032Ye Buqu 18

Ye Lin discovered that the cultivation art Ye Buqu had brought him was a powerful body-tempering method suited to his disciple. After explaining it and giving Ye Buqu an Enlightenment Pill, he ordered him to begin arduous body cultivation and daily medicinal baths.

  • Ye Buqu offered Ye Lin two books containing a cultivation art he had failed to understand after studying it for five years.
  • Ye Lin recognized the art as a powerful body-tempering method and told Ye Buqu that body cultivation suited him better than Dharma cultivation.
  • Ye Lin explained the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art to Ye Buqu and gave him an Enlightenment Pill to help him understand it.
  • Ye Buqu grasped the cultivation art and felt the exhilaration of understanding it immediately.
  • Ye Lin instructed Ye Buqu to recite and cultivate the art daily, and to obtain ingredients from the treasury for daily medicinal baths.

Ch. 1033Meteor Star Stone

Ye Buqu accepted Ye Lin’s challenge to defeat a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator within a year and began preparing for painful medicinal baths. Ye Lin learned that a meteor containing the Meteor Star Stone had fallen in Asura Clan territory, where powerful prodigies were also heading.

  • Ye Lin set Ye Buqu the goal of defeating a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator with his physical body within one year.
  • Ye Buqu resolved to meet the challenge and went to the treasure vault to gather ingredients for medicinal baths.
  • Ye Lin reflected that he still needed the Meteor Star Stone and Yin-Yang Spirit Stone to refine a clone.
  • Taichu told Ye Lin that a meteor had struck Asura Clan territory and that its heart might contain the Meteor Star Stone.
  • Taichu warned Ye Lin that top-tier prodigies were heading to the Asura Clan, and Ye Lin said he had been waiting for them.

Ch. 1034Meteor Star Stone 2

Ye Lin left after speaking with Taichu, while an unknown group claimed an Asura Clan prefecture where a meteor had recently caused devastating destruction. The white-robed Exalted One secured the clan’s cooperation by gifting them a treasure, and the group took control of the prefecture for one day.

  • Ye Lin told Taichu he was leaving before others claimed the opportunity, then tore through space and departed.
  • A huge meteor struck an Asura Clan prefecture, destroying half its territory and causing many casualties.
  • A group of powerful outsiders entered the Asura Clan’s territory and claimed the damaged prefecture, threatening the clan’s experts.
  • The white-robed Exalted One offered the Asura Clan a treasure in exchange for borrowing the prefecture for one day and promised not to harm its people.
  • The Asura Clan experts accepted the offer and left, while the Exalted One explained that the gift would earn goodwill from a major clan.

Ch. 1035Meteor Star Stone 3

Ye Lin encountered Xuan Qing and Xuan Yi while heading toward the meteorite to search for Meteor Star Stone, and accepted their invitation to travel together. After learning that Xuan Yi was the Holy Son of High Heaven Holy Land, Ye Lin confirmed he was a living being of the current era, astonishing Xuan Qing.

  • Ye Lin appeared before a snow-white carriage approaching the enormous meteorite.
  • Xuan Qing introduced himself and invited Ye Lin to travel with him and his Exalted One, Xuan Yi.
  • Ye Lin learned that Xuan Yi was the Holy Son of High Heaven Holy Land and agreed to join them.
  • Xuan Yi appeared from behind the carriage curtain and asked whether Ye Lin was a living being of this era.
  • Ye Lin confirmed that he was, leaving Xuan Qing incomparably astonished.

Ch. 1036Meteor Star Stone 4

Ye Lin met Xuan Yi, a formidable cultivator burdened by a long-lasting curse, while both traveled to the Meteor Star Stone’s impact site. They arrived among several powerful figures, where a golden-armored man mocked Xuan Yi.

  • Ye Lin asked Xuan Yi whether he had come to seek the Meteor Star Stone, and Xuan Yi said he was traveling for relaxation.
  • Xuan Qing explained that a vicious curse had left Xuan Yi frail despite his Tribulation Transcendence cultivation.
  • Ye Lin admired Xuan Yi for reaching the first echelon of combat strength while bearing the curse.
  • Ye Lin and Xuan Yi arrived at the impact site, where dozens of figures and three sedan chairs had gathered.
  • A golden-armored man mocked Xuan Yi for being sickly and warned that he might cough himself to death when the fighting began.

Ch. 1037Meteor Star Stone

Xuan Yi restrained Xuan Qing from confronting Li Gang, while a black-robed man warned Li Gang and then told Ye Lin that Zhao Wuji of the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land was hunting him. The black-robed man left Ye Lin with the warning that Zhao Wuji was absent today, so Ye Lin would live a few more days.

  • Xuan Qing sprang into the air to challenge Li Gang, but Xuan Yi ordered him back to the sedan.
  • Li Gang taunted Xuan Yi, who said he would ignore the insults rather than fight.
  • The black-robed man warned Li Gang that his behavior would eventually bring consequences, but Li Gang dismissed him.
  • The black-robed man asked Ye Lin his name and was startled to learn who he was.
  • The black-robed man told Ye Lin that Zhao Wuji of the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land was searching for him, then remarked that Zhao Wuji's absence today let Ye Lin live a few more days.

Ch. 1038Meteor Star Stone 6

Ye Lin watched as Li Gang’s group tried to break open the enormous meteorite, which they believed contained a Meteor Star Stone. Savage Bull’s attacks made little progress, leaving the meteorite intact.

  • Ye Lin dismissed the onlookers and asked who would break open the meteorite.
  • Li Gang ordered Savage Bull to strike it with his Earth-Shattering Fist, but the punch only made a small pit.
  • Li Gang told Savage Bull to continue, and Savage Bull attacked the meteorite with a spiked Great Hammer for half an hour.
  • Savage Bull stopped after making a hole only twenty meters wide and ten meters deep, telling Li Gang he could not break through the meteorite.

Ch. 1039Meteor Star Stone

Li Gang and the other cultivators failed to break open the meteorite, so Xuan Yi offered his Heaven-Piercing Awl in exchange for forty percent of the Meteor Star Stone. The five prodigies’ attendants powered the artifact and brought it down toward the meteorite.

  • Savage Bull failed to damage the meteorite, and Li Gang told him to return, recognizing that the stone was simply too hard.
  • The man in black suggested searching for a weak point, but the woman in the emerald-green sedan said the meteorite had no such weakness.
  • Xuan Yi produced the Heaven-Piercing Awl and demanded forty percent of the Meteor Star Stone for its use.
  • The three distant prodigies accepted Xuan Yi’s terms, and five attendants joined their spiritual energy to enlarge the awl.
  • Ye Lin sensed that the Heaven-Piercing Awl’s tip could kill him outright as its five controllers shouted, “Break,” and swung it down.

Ch. 1040Meteor Star Stone 8

Li Gang and the others struggled to drill into the meteorite with the Heaven-Piercing Awl, drawing more cultivators into the effort as the tool barely penetrated its outer layer. Ye Lin finally joined in, but instead of supplying spiritual energy, he punched the rear of the awl.

  • Li Gang and four others drove the Heaven-Piercing Awl into the meteorite, but it advanced only a few dozen meters despite their efforts.
  • Li Gang and the black-robed man urged the others to help, and the black-robed man, a woman in green robes, and Xuan Qing added their spiritual energy to the awl.
  • Xuan Yi stayed inside the sedan chair while Li Gang and the black-robed man pressed Ye Lin to contribute or lose any claim to the Meteor Star Stone.
  • Ye Lin moved behind the Heaven-Piercing Awl and punched its rear, confusing the woman in green.

Ch. 1041Meteor Star Stone

Ye Lin helped the group speed up the Heaven-Piercing Awl as they drilled toward the meteorite’s center. After Li Gang ran out of spiritual energy and stopped to rest, Ye Lin inspected his panel and learned about the Holy Star Stone and Evil-Warding Stone.

  • Ye Lin pushed the Heaven-Piercing Awl from behind, making it surge forward and drill deeper into the meteorite.
  • The group followed the Heaven-Piercing Awl toward the meteorite’s center.
  • Li Gang ran out of spiritual energy, stopped powering the awl, and sat down to rest.
  • Ye Lin read Li Gang’s panel and learned that the meteorite’s center contained Meteor Star Stones and a Holy Star Stone, while a third passage held an Evil-Warding Stone.
  • Ye Lin wondered how Li Gang’s Heavenly Dipper Sacred Body compared with his Unrivaled Sacred Body and recalled what the old man on Penglai Island had said.

Ch. 1042Meteor Star Stone

Ye Lin and the others pushed toward the meteorite’s central region in the Heaven-Piercing Awl, seeking Meteor Star Stone and answers about the Ascension Gate. Their advance ended when the awl struck an obstacle it could not break through, and they decided to test whether it could be bypassed.

  • Ye Lin considered warnings that danger lay beyond the Ascension Gate and decided to inspect more panels before judging.
  • Li Gang recovered and urged the group to continue, while the woman in blue called for everyone to stop holding back.
  • The black-robed man said he had to fulfill his sect’s mission and find out whether Meteor Star Stone was in the center.
  • The group powered the Heaven-Piercing Awl and sped toward the central region as the unicorn followed them into the drilled passage.
  • The Heaven-Piercing Awl crashed into something too durable to penetrate, and Li Gang suggested changing direction to see whether the obstacle extended beyond that point.

Ch. 1043Meteor Star Stone

Li Gang, Ye Lin, and the others tried to break through a barrier blocking their way inside the meteorite by launching the Heaven-Piercing Awl down the passage with everyone's combined strength. The awl tore into the hole, but whether it broke through the barrier remained unknown.

  • The Heaven-Piercing Awl could not advance through the meteorite, so Li Gang and the others stopped drilling.
  • Ye Lin proposed removing the awl and sending it down the straight passage at high speed to break through the obstacle.
  • Li Gang and the others agreed, carried the awl outside, and Xuan Yi asked why they had returned.
  • Ye Lin checked that nobody remained below, and the group poured their spiritual energy into the awl.
  • Li Gang and Ye Lin unleashed the Heaven-Piercing Awl, which blasted into the hole and widened its opening.

Ch. 1044Meteor Star Stone

Li Gang, Ye Lin, and the others entered the meteorite and found a vast chamber filled with Meteor Star Stones, agreeing that forty percent belonged to Xuan Yi. When they prepared to divide the stones, the man in black noticed the Heaven-Piercing Awl had vanished, while Ye Lin continued searching for diamond-shaped stones.

  • An explosion widened the cave entrance, and Li Gang led the group inside.
  • Ye Lin entered first and found a cavern filled with purple-glowing Meteor Star Stones.
  • Xuan Qing reminded everyone that forty percent of the stones belonged to Xuan Yi, and the others accepted the arrangement.
  • Xuan Yi arrived in a snow-white sedan chair pulled by three unicorns and was astonished by the trove.
  • As Li Gang prepared to divide the stones, the man in black pointed out that the Heaven-Piercing Awl was missing.
  • Ye Lin searched for diamond-shaped Meteor Star Stones, remembering Li Gang's opportunity.

Ch. 1045Meteor Star Stone

Ye Lin found a hidden cave and claimed the only diamond-shaped Meteor Star Stone, drawing the man in black robes’ suspicion. The men realized the woman in azure had disappeared and that their vigilance had mysteriously weakened.

  • Ye Lin broke through a wall to reveal a dark cave, and the woman in azure entered it while he continued searching.
  • Ye Lin found the diamond-shaped Meteor Star Stone near Li Gang and stored it in his Spatial Ring.
  • The man in black robes questioned Ye Lin about taking the stone, but accepted his choice when Ye Lin gave up his share of the other Meteor Star Stones.
  • The man in black robes privately asked Ye Lin what secret the stone held, and Ye Lin pointed out that the woman in azure was missing.
  • Ye Lin and the man in black robes realized they had both failed to notice the woman’s disappearance and that their vigilance had weakened.

Ch. 1046Meteor Star Stone

Ye Lin and the others were attacked by creatures that could reassemble after being destroyed, and even the black-robed man's protective divine light failed to stop them. Ye Lin fled into a cave passage while the hollow filled with monsters, leaving the search for the Meteor Star Stone unresolved.

  • Ye Lin warned that something was approaching just before black creatures burst through the surrounding walls and charged the group.
  • The black-robed man shattered the creatures, but they reassembled, broke through his protective divine light, and wounded him.
  • Ye Lin counted the cave entrances and rushed into the third, with the black-robed man following him.
  • Ye Lin found the passage free of creatures and continued toward its end while the hollow outside filled with them.
  • Li Gang crushed nearby creatures, chose a cave, and entered as the others also headed into the unknown passages.

Ch. 1047Meteor Star Stone

Ye Lin discovered a mysterious black stone in a hollow inside the meteorite and hung it at his waist. When he tried to leave, Yin Wuxie, a disciple of the Lord of Yin Mountain, blocked his way and demanded to know what he had found.

  • Xuan Yi told Xuan Qing to leave the hollow, and the pursuing creatures stopped at its boundary.
  • Ye Lin reached a hollow and picked up a mysterious pitch-black stone whose material did not belong to this world.
  • Ye Lin heard footsteps and saw the black-robed man emerge from the passage.
  • The man introduced himself as Yin Wuxie, a disciple of the Lord of Yin Mountain, and asked Ye Lin what he had obtained.
  • Ye Lin refused to tell Yin Wuxie and tried to leave, but Yin Wuxie blocked the passage and put his hand against Ye Lin's chest.

Ch. 1048Meteor Star Stone

Ye Lin confronted Yin Wuxie, whose unusual wariness suggested that a powerful future opponent threatened even the top prodigies. After Yin Wuxie left, Ye Lin departed the hollow, which was now overrun with creatures and missing some Meteor Star Stones.

  • Ye Lin recognized Yin Wuxie as sinister and cunning, and learned that he was destined to find a strange Gu insect in a minor world beyond a gate of light.
  • Yin Wuxie asked Ye Lin what he had obtained, but Ye Lin refused to answer and prepared to defend himself.
  • Yin Wuxie said Ye Lin would die sooner or later, then decisively left.
  • Ye Lin noticed that Yin Wuxie had seemed apprehensive and concluded that his future opponent, the owner of the Unrivaled Sacred Body, was powerful.
  • Ye Lin left the area and found the hollow swarming with creatures, with some Meteor Star Stones missing.

Ch. 1049Meteor Star Stone

Ye Lin gathered the Meteor Star Stones and realized that the mysterious stone at his waist repelled the creatures from beyond the heavens. He left the hollow with the stones, planning to seek a path beyond the heavens and recognizing that the Yin-Yang Spirit Stone was still his biggest obstacle.

  • Ye Lin noticed that the creatures avoided him and concluded they feared the mysterious stone at his waist.
  • Ye Lin considered what lay beyond the heavens, the Ascension Gate, and the danger said to wait beyond it.
  • Ye Lin decided that the land beyond the heavens would be his likely path and that the stone might protect him from its creatures.
  • Ye Lin gathered the Meteor Star Stones and left the hollow, then focused on obtaining a Yin-Yang Spirit Stone from the powerful Yin-Yang Divine Sect.

Ch. 1050Meteor Star Stone

Ye Lin considered how to obtain the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s supreme treasure and decided to visit a small world that would descend in three days. When Asura Clan cultivators begged him to stop a spreading cloud of essence-devouring insects, he left after informing them that he had alerted their powerful experts.

  • Ye Lin rejected forcible seizure and schemes as ways to take the Yin-Yang Divine Sect’s sect-suppressing treasure.
  • Ye Lin decided to visit the small world due to descend in three days and noted that his Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art was hungry after fifteen years without absorbing essence or blood qi.
  • Ye Lin encountered fleeing Asura Clan cultivators beneath a black cloud that drained the land and consumed all things.
  • The Asura Clan cultivators told Ye Lin the cloud had appeared after a meteorite fell and was growing as it devoured essence.
  • Ye Lin saw that the cloud consisted of multiplying insects and warned that it could consume an entire Asura Clan prefecture.
  • Ye Lin said he had informed the Asura Clan’s mighty experts, then vanished without intervening.
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