Vol. 17The Tower and the Mirror

Ye Lin joined the Firmament Sacred Land, survived the Kunlun Secret Realm and Heaven-Reaching Tower, and uncovered illusions through his bronze mirror and Killing Dao. He returned with Liu Bai to the Firmament Sacred Land, where Demon Subduer ordered them to stay.

  • Ye Lin freed a giant Black Tortoise, stole the Holy Spring and a Sea-Calming Divine Pearl, then agreed to join the Firmament Sacred Land with Liu Bai.
  • Ye Lin recognized the Black Turtle Clan dispute as a consequence of freeing the hatchling and told Yuexi and Liu Bai to follow him.
  • The Holy Lord made Ye Lin and Liu Bai Inner Sect disciples, and Ye Lin defeated Lin Feng to earn his concession.
  • Ye Lin and Liu Bai fought their way through the Kunlun Secret Realm, gathered treasures, and traveled with the disciples toward the central region.
  • Gu Tianxing led the Purple Cloud Star System’s forces against rival factions, and Ye Lin and Liu Bai entered the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s trials.
  • Liu Bai gained a Golden Immortal inheritance, and Ye Lin agreed to accompany Yuexi to Fire Cloud Star to hunt Blazing Beasts.
  • Ye Lin took a bronze mirror from a dying old man, then developed a domain that could rewrite the world’s rules.
  • Ye Lin broke the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s illusion with his Killing Dao and returned with Liu Bai, where Demon Subduer ordered them to remain.
Chapters 1603–1702 Read from Ch. 1603

Arc 65The Sacred Mountain Crisis

Ye Lin and Liu Bai traveled through the Star River, where Ye Lin questioned his Dao and Liu Bai pursued a soul secret art. After Ye Lin stole the Holy Spring and freed a captive Black Turtle, he reunited with Liu Bai and agreed to join the Firmament Sacred Land, offering to resolve its standoff with the Black Turtle Clan.

  • Ye Lin and Liu Bai hunted exotic creatures on Saintess Star, where Ye Lin found Mutated Sacred Gold and fought Bai Cai before choosing to leave him alive.
  • After Liu Bai helped Ye Lin through a crisis of faith, Ye Lin reaffirmed his own path, and the pair traveled with Yuexi to Sky Cloud Star.
  • Liu Bai and Ye Lin entered the Sacred Mountain using Yuexi’s Identity Token, where an old beggar gave Liu Bai the Tathagata Palm and Ye Lin the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms.
  • Ye Lin disguised himself as Rogue Cultivator Li Bai, sneaked into the forbidden grounds, and agreed to extinguish the lamp binding a giant Black Tortoise in exchange for help reaching the Holy Spring.
  • Ye Lin freed the Black Tortoise, collected the Holy Spring, and stole a Sea-Calming Divine Pearl as the Black Turtle Clan mobilized and the Sacred Mountain descended into chaos.
  • Ye Lin spent ten years cultivating the Holy Spring and the Nine Lives Tower, then reunited with Liu Bai and met Yuexi, who invited them to join the Firmament Sacred Land.
  • Ye Lin agreed to follow Liu Bai into the Firmament Sacred Land, then recognized the Black Turtle Clan dispute as the incident involving the freed hatchling and told Yuexi and Liu Bai to follow him.
Chapters 1603–162725 summaries Read

Arc 66The Kunlun Secret Realm

Ye Lin entered the Firmament Sacred Land, earned Inner Sect status, and defeated Lin Feng while struggling to understand domains. In the Kunlun Secret Realm, he fought demons and snow beasts, gathered treasures, and set out with the others for the central region and the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

  • Ye Lin used the token from the rescued hatchling to secure safe passage past the Black Turtle Clan, then traveled with Yuexi and Liu Bai to the Firmament Sacred Land.
  • The Holy Lord made Ye Lin and Liu Bai Inner Sect disciples and promised them places in the Kunlun Secret Realm if they endured the coming month.
  • After the Holy Lord offered their status to anyone who could defeat them, Ye Lin fought Lin Feng, wounded him despite his Yin-Yang Domain, and earned his concession.
  • The Holy Lord led a hundred disciples into the Kunlun Secret Realm, where Ye Lin killed a peak Earth Immortal Heavenly Demon and collected its blood and Soul-Tempering Grass.
  • Ye Lin and Liu Bai joined the disciples’ assault on the snow beast village, then fought Xue Yun and a black-robed cultivator near the clan’s hidden treasury.
  • Ye Lin and Liu Bai opened the vault and took its treasures while leaving most for the Firmament Sacred Land disciples, then learned that powerful rivals would gather in the central region.
  • After five years of cultivation, Gu Tianxing warned the disciples about the Star River races and took them aboard a golden warship bound for the central region.
Chapters 1628–165225 summaries Read

Arc 67The Heaven-Reaching Tower

Gu Tianxing and the Purple Cloud Star System’s forces fought rival factions for entry to the Heaven-Reaching Tower, where Ye Lin cleared its trials and Liu Bai gained a Golden Immortal inheritance. Back at Firmament Sacred Land, Ye Lin agreed to accompany Yuexi to Fire Cloud Star to hunt Blazing Beasts.

  • Gu Tianxing defeated Leonard and led the three great sacred lands in destroying the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan’s forces, while Ye Lin began studying how domains reflected the laws of nature.
  • Tongtian rejected an immediate war over his son’s death and instead planned to make the Purple Cloud Star System’s factions turn against one another.
  • The Evil Spirit Race and Ghost Shark Race attacked the gathered factions, while Apocalypse recruited Ye Lin and Liu Bai for a future expedition to Mo Yuan’s ruins.
  • After a battle left more than a thousand Earth Immortal cultivators dead, the Heaven-Reaching Tower opened, and Ye Lin and Liu Bai entered its trials.
  • Ye Lin defeated the first floor’s puppets, then cleared the tower’s emotional trials without realizing he had left it, while Liu Bai obtained a Golden Immortal inheritance.
  • The Holy Lord returned the surviving Firmament Sacred Land disciples home and named Liu Bai Holy Son, while Ye Lin began building his cave abode.
  • Yuexi reminded Ye Lin of their mission and took him to Fire Cloud Star, where she asked him to help kill three peak Earth Immortal Blazing Beasts.
Chapters 1653–167725 summaries Read

Arc 68The Mirror and the Tower

Ye Lin found a bronze mirror that cast doubt on the world around him, then honed his domain and entered a perilous ruin with Liu Bai and Apocalypse. After breaking an illusion and leaving the Heaven-Reaching Tower, he returned to the Firmament Sacred Land with Liu Bai, where Demon Subduer summoned them to stay.

  • Ye Lin killed the double-horned Blazing Fire Beast, claimed its True-False Pearl, and secretly kept a bronze mirror from a dying old man whom Yuexi killed.
  • The mirror showed Ye Lin a world of rotting flesh and maggots, while the Fire Cloud Clan Chief let him take an ancient book from the treasury in exchange for a Heaven-Mending Pill and a flaming spear.
  • Ye Lin encountered conflicting claims about the ominous beings, then secluded himself for a hundred years and developed a domain that could rewrite the world's rules.
  • Ye Lin and Liu Bai joined Apocalypse to explore a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal ruin, where Ye Lin's mirror showed that the monsters were actually cultivators.
  • Liu Bai and his apparent doubles disputed Ye Lin's memories, so Ye Lin killed every Liu Bai he encountered and broke through the illusion with his Killing Dao.
  • Ye Lin claimed a Stellar Warboat after passing the second-floor trial, cleared the third and fourth floors, and withdrew from the fifth rather than face three domain-wielding experts.
  • Liu Bai emerged from the Heaven-Reaching Tower with a jade-white folding fan after gaining insights from a Golden Immortal remnant, and the factions departed believing he had obtained a Golden Immortal inheritance.
  • Demon Subduer returned with the three Sacred Lands' warships, sent the other two groups home, and ordered Ye Lin, Liu Bai, Yuexi, and Heavenly Star to remain.
Chapters 1678–170225 summaries Read
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