Chapter Summaries

Little Blue sacrificed itself to send the woman through the collapsing golden gate, and Zhuge Yun reunited with Nangong Yunlan after waiting hundreds of thousands of years. Nangong Yunlan woke but could not yet move, while Zhuge Yun told her how long he had waited.

• Little Blue flung the woman into the golden gate, then exploded into starlike motes as the gate and golden bridge collapsed.
• Liu Bai declared success, and he and Ye Lin recovered by absorbing immortal stones.
• Zhuge Yun guided an illusory figure into Nangong Yunlan's body and watched her finger twitch.
• Nangong Yunlan opened her eyes but could not yet control her body.
• Zhuge Yun told Nangong Yunlan he had waited 389,435 years and 33 days for her.

Zhuge Yun reunited with Nangong Yunlan after she awakened, and he comforted her by telling her a story. Half a month later, Ye Lin and Liu Bai recovered, and Zhuge Yun introduced them to Nangong Yunlan.

• Zhuge Yun broke down in tears after Nangong Yunlan awakened and comforted him by placing her hand on his head.
• Nangong Yunlan asked Zhuge Yun to tell her a story, and he held her hand and began recounting one.
• Half a month later, Ye Lin and Liu Bai opened their eyes after recovering.
• Ye Lin used his aura to turn the Spirit Stones around him into powder.
• Zhuge Yun arrived with Nangong Yunlan and introduced her to Ye Lin and Liu Bai, thanking them for helping save her.

Nangong Yunlan invited Ye Lin and Liu Bai to return to the Nangong Family with her while Zhuge Yun stayed behind to prepare for his breakthrough into True Immortal. The three set off together, and Nangong Yunlan began asking Ye Lin and Liu Bai about their ages.

• Ye Lin and Liu Bai greeted Nangong Yunlan, who asked whether Ye Lin was married and offered to introduce him to girls from the Nangong Family.
• Nangong Yunlan asked Zhuge Yun to let Ye Lin accompany her home, and Zhuge Yun agreed while warning Ye Lin to protect her as her cultivation recovered.
• Zhuge Yun invited Liu Bai to escort them, and Liu Bai agreed to go with Nangong Yunlan and Ye Lin.
• Nangong Yunlan said goodbye to Zhuge Yun, who stayed at the Firmament Sacred Land to prepare for his Heavenly Immortal-to-True Immortal breakthrough.
• Nangong Yunlan led Ye Lin and Liu Bai away and asked them how old they were.

Ye Lin, Liu Bai, and Nangong Yunlan traveled by Stellar Warboat toward the Nangong Family while Nangong Yunlan reminisced about her era. As they drank and listened to her stories, Liu Bai reflected on how his life had changed.

• Nangong Yunlan teased Ye Lin for not knowing his age and offered to keep track of his years for him.
• Ye Lin took out the Stellar Warboat, and the three set off for the Nangong Family, which Nangong Yunlan located on a star map.
• Nangong Yunlan asked Ye Lin to tell her about recent events, but he asked her to share stories from her own era instead.
• Ye Lin brought out fine wine, and he and Liu Bai listened and laughed as Nangong Yunlan recounted her memories.
• Liu Bai reflected that life with Nangong Yunlan and Ye Lin felt different from his previous life devoted solely to cultivation.

The Ferocious Beast Clan, the Demon God Hall, and the Heaven and Earth Sacred Church invaded the Nangong Family’s Twenty-Third Region, accusing the family of provoking widespread resentment. Nangong Lie faced the enemy commander on the battlefield and was pressured to stand aside, with Elder Zhuge’s judgment invoked as a justification for the attack.

• The chapter described the Nangong Family’s control over more than three hundred worlds in the resource-rich Twenty-Third Region and its protection by Zhuge Yun.
• Nangong Lie confronted the giant ape leading the Ferocious Beast Clan and demanded to know why it had invaded the Nangong Family.
• The giant ape accused the Nangong Family of hoarding resources and mistreating others, and revealed that the Demon God Hall and Heaven and Earth Sacred Church had joined the invasion.
• Nangong Lie warned that Elder Zhuge and the Firmament Sacred Land would hold the invaders accountable for starting a war.
• The giant ape dismissed Nangong Lie’s threat and demanded that he and his silver-armored soldiers either step aside or die.

The Silver Armor Army fought a bloody battle against a horde of ferocious beasts led by a giant ape. Meanwhile, Nangong Yunlan returned to the Nangong Family after hundreds of thousands of years and was escorted to meet the Family Head.

• The giant ape and the Silver Armor Army commander rejected a truce and led their forces into battle.
• The commander and the giant ape fought while soldiers and beasts died across the starry battlefield.
• A Silver Armor Army guard stopped an unfamiliar warship outside the Heavenly Palace and recognized Nangong Yunlan.
• Nangong Yunlan said she had returned home, and the guard led her, Ye Lin, and Liu Bai toward the main hall.
• Nangong Yunlan asked what had happened to the family while she was unconscious, and the guard said the Family Head would explain.

Nangong Yunlan saw how the Nangong Family had changed and learned that Uncle Tian had died. When a spoiled young man touched Ye Lin, Ye Lin struck him, and the youth ordered his hidden guards to kill them all.

• Nangong Yunlan watched the Third Elder's grandson play blindfolded with four women and condemned the family's conduct.
• The silver-armored soldier told Nangong Yunlan that Uncle Tian had fallen a hundred thousand years earlier and that the current Third Elder was the Blood Demon Daoist.
• The blindfolded youth approached Ye Lin and placed his hands on Ye Lin's chest.
• Ye Lin slapped the youth, sending him flying and knocking off his blindfold.
• The youth summoned four black-clad guards and ordered them to kill Ye Lin, Nangong Yunlan, their companions, and the gatekeeper.

Nangong Yunlan and Ye Lin headed to the Nangong Family after Ye Lin crushed four men and captured Xue Tian. Along the way, Ye Lin noticed a crippled young man whose mysterious panel left him stunned.

• Ye Lin crushed four men in black, then seized the young man who claimed his grandfather was the Nangong Family's Third Elder.
• Nangong Yunlan ordered the silver-armored guard to lead them to the Nangong Family and asked why he was still a gate guard after all these years.
• The silver-armored guard said many things had changed while Nangong Yunlan slept and told her to ask the Family Head.
• A young girl spotted Xue Tian in Ye Lin's grasp and called Huo to the courtyard entrance.
• Huo, a crippled young man, looked at Ye Lin and Xue Tian and murmured, “Good”; Ye Lin saw a panel appear before his eyes and froze.

Ye Lin discovered that Xiao Yan possessed an extraordinary fate and began thinking about befriending him. Nangong Yunlan reunited with her elder brother Nangong Yunfeng, the Nangong Family’s current head, and asked him to explain how the family had changed.

• Ye Lin read Xiao Yan’s panel, saw that it listed him as favored by heaven, the Great Dao, and all Daos, and noticed it showed the location of an opportunity.
• Nangong Yunlan called Ye Lin after he stood staring at Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan wondered at Ye Lin’s unsettling gaze and enjoyed seeing Xue Tian carried away.
• Nangong Yunlan entered the family hall and took the seat of honor, then met Nangong Yunfeng, who hurried in to welcome her.
• Nangong Yunlan realized her kind but conciliatory elder brother had become family head and blamed his leadership for the family’s decline.
• Nangong Yunlan asked Nangong Yunfeng to tell her about the changes in the Nangong Family, while Ye Lin considered how to earn Xiao Yan’s trust.

Nangong Yunlan urged Nangong Yunfeng to abandon the hollow remnants of the Nangong Family, then Blood Daoist arrived and demanded to know why his grandson had been beaten. Nangong Yunlan claimed responsibility and challenged him to seek revenge.

• Nangong Yunlan told Nangong Yunfeng that the Nangong Family had become an empty shell and urged him to leave with their surviving kin.
• Nangong Yunlan condemned Xue Tian as trash and blamed people like him for the Nangong Family’s conflicts.
• Blood Daoist entered the grand hall and found Xue Tian injured on the floor.
• Xue Tian pleaded with Blood Daoist to save him, and Blood Daoist demanded that Nangong Yunfeng explain the punishment.
• Nangong Yunlan declared that she had beaten Xue Tian and asked Blood Daoist if he wanted revenge.

Nangong Yunlan confronted Blood Daoist over his grandson’s misconduct, while Ye Lin stopped Blood Daoist from reaching Xue Tian and exposed his blood-based cultivation. The dispute escalated as Nangong Yunlan dismissed Blood Daoist from the Nangong Family, and Nangong Yunfeng defended his sister.

• Nangong Yunlan demanded that Blood Daoist discipline his lawless son, but Blood Daoist rejected her and went to help Xue Tian.
• Ye Lin stomped Xue Tian’s head into the ground and destroyed Blood Daoist’s Blood Baleful attack with a flash of sword light.
• Ye Lin accused Blood Daoist of cultivating with the blood and vital energy of living people, prompting Blood Daoist to treat him as an equal threat.
• Nangong Yunlan declared that Blood Daoist was no longer an elder of the Nangong Family and ordered him to leave.
• Nangong Yunfeng angrily told Blood Daoist that Nangong Yunlan was his younger sister and that Blood Daoist had gone too far.

Ye Lin threw Blood Daoist out after he threatened Nangong Yunlan, and Nangong Yunfeng intervened when Blood Daoist attacked the main hall. Blood Daoist defended his actions by accusing the family head of siding with outsiders against a loyal elder, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Blood Daoist questioned Nangong Yunlan’s claim to be the family head’s younger sister and insisted on teaching her a lesson.
• Ye Lin grabbed Blood Daoist’s shoulder and flung him away when he refused to leave.
• Blood Daoist moved his grandson to safety and sent giant skulls of yin aura toward the main hall.
• Nangong Yunfeng blocked the skulls with an ancient book and rebuked Blood Daoist for defying him.
• Blood Daoist argued that the visitors had beaten his grandson and insulted him, and accused Nangong Yunfeng of turning against a devoted Nangong Family elder for outsiders.

Nangong Yunfeng confronted Blood Daoist over his past crimes and ordered him to leave, but Blood Daoist revealed that three powerful allies and an army had come to attack the Nangong Family. The assault began with the family’s own disciples turning on one another, leaving half the ancestral grounds’ inhabitants dead in an instant.

• Nangong Yunfeng accused Blood Daoist and his grandson of exploiting the Nangong Family and slaughtering inhabitants of three Great Worlds, then demanded that Blood Daoist leave.
• Blood Daoist threatened Nangong Yunfeng and summoned three Heavenly Immortal experts, while cultivators gathered behind them.
• Young Nangong Family disciples began killing their companions, and Senior Brother Bai told one victim that he was carrying out a mission against the family.
• The betrayal spread across the Nangong Family’s ancestral grounds, where half of the inhabitants were killed and Blood Baleful aura filled the air.

Blood Daoist revealed that he had plotted to overthrow the Nangong Family for thousands of years and ordered three Nangong elders to kill Nangong Yunfeng. Nangong Yunfeng summoned the Divine Strategy Army as fighting spread across the clan grounds, and he faced the three elders alone.

• Blood Daoist declared his plan to take over the Nangong Family and offered Nangong Yunfeng a dignified death if he crippled his cultivation.
• Nangong Yunfeng realized Blood Daoist had plotted against the family since the day he had saved him thousands of years earlier.
• Nangong Yunfeng summoned the Divine Strategy Army, and defenders clashed with the traitors throughout the clan grounds.
• Blood Daoist ordered three elders to kill Nangong Yunfeng while he watched from behind.
• The three elders surrounded Nangong Yunfeng and asked him to die, and he condemned their betrayal.

Nangong Yunfeng ordered the Divine Strategy Army to crush the rebels while he fought the three elders, and Ye Lin went to face Blood Daoist. Ye Lin challenged Blood Daoist’s claim that they were alike, leaving their battle about to begin.

• Nangong Yunfeng told Ye Lin to hold off Blood Daoist and ordered the Divine Strategy Army to kill the rebels.
• The three elders attacked Nangong Yunfeng, while Nangong Yunlan asked Ye Lin to help her master’s wife.
• Ye Lin charged at Blood Daoist with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword as the Divine Strategy Army attacked the rebels.
• Blood Daoist pointed out Ye Lin’s dense Blood Baleful aura and claimed they followed the same path.
• Ye Lin said everyone he had killed deserved death and challenged Blood Daoist to make the same claim.

Blood Daoist unleashed countless wronged souls and a powerful yin general against Ye Lin. Ye Lin destroyed the souls, but the yin general crushed his sword light, leaving him facing a formidable half-step Heavenly Immortal foe.

• Blood Daoist released the wronged souls held in his tattered banner and sent them to attack Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin swung the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and scattered the wronged souls, then sent its sword light toward Blood Daoist.
• Blood Daoist broke the seal on a jar and sacrificed his own blood to summon a powerful yin general, which crushed Ye Lin's sword light.
• Blood Daoist fed more wronged souls into the yin general to strengthen it as Ye Lin recognized its half-step Heavenly Immortal power and considered the dangers of raising such a creature.

Blood Daoist sent his half-step Heavenly Immortal Yin General to kill Ye Lin, hoping to use Ye Lin’s essence to help it advance. Ye Lin faced the attack and prepared to test the ghost cultivator’s weakness against hard, pure-yang forces.

• Ye Lin considered the Yin General’s immense resentment and the danger it posed to Blood Daoist, who was only at the peak of the Earth Immortal realm.
• Blood Daoist dismissed the risk and ordered the Yin General to kill Ye Lin, hoping its next advancement would make it a Heavenly Immortal.
• The narration explained that ghost cultivators faced severe limits and heavenly tribulations, making powerful ones rare.
• The Yin General rushed at Ye Lin and brought down its enormous saber.
• Ye Lin said the Yin General was weaker than a true cultivator and challenged it with things of utmost hardness and pure yang.

Ye Lin discovered that the Nether General feared Phoenix Fire and used it alongside his Unrivaled Blood God Body to suppress the ghostly opponent. He battered the Nether General with the Saint-Falling Fist, leaving the fight firmly in his favor.

• Ye Lin struck the Nether General with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, and Phoenix Fire made the ghost cultivator retreat in apprehension.
• Ye Lin realized the Nether General feared Phoenix Fire, then unleashed the golden aura of his Unrivaled Blood God Body.
• Ye Lin hit the Nether General with the Saint-Falling Fist, and his pure-yang aura weakened the opponent.
• The Nether General slashed at Ye Lin, but Ye Lin blocked the great saber with his fist and sent him flying.
• Ye Lin pursued the Nether General with repeated punches, exploiting its limited intelligence and its weakness to Phoenix Fire and pure yang.

Ye Lin overwhelmed the Yin General while Blood Daoist tried to empower it with a blood sacrifice and then attacked Ye Lin himself. Ye Lin sent his clone Xiaoyao to fight Blood Daoist and used Demonic Ape True Form to send the Yin General flying.

• Ye Lin continued beating the Yin General, leaving Blood Daoist furious at how badly his trump card was faring.
• Blood Daoist used the Blood Sacrifice Art to gather the dead cultivators’ blood and try to force the Yin General into the Heavenly Immortal realm, but Ye Lin dispersed the blood qi.
• Blood Daoist charged Ye Lin with his tattered banner, and Ye Lin sent out his clone Xiaoyao to fight him.
• Blood Daoist discovered Xiaoyao had strength identical to Ye Lin’s and was no match for him.
• The Yin General attacked Ye Lin with blade qi, but Ye Lin summoned Demonic Ape True Form and punched it away like a falling meteor.

Blood Daoist summoned a peak Celestial Immortal from the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan, who overwhelmed Xiaoyao and entered the battle. Ye Lin recognized the danger after Nangong Yunlan identified the intruder as the War God Palace’s vice palace master.

• Blood Daoist cut his arm and drew a symbol while fighting Xiaoyao, who severed one of his arms.
• Blood Daoist’s symbol opened a golden gateway, and a three-eyed man stepped through.
• The newcomer sent Xiaoyao flying with a flick of his finger and dismissed the surrounding fighters as lowly lifeforms.
• Nangong Yunlan recognized the man as the War God Palace’s vice palace master, a peak Celestial Immortal from the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan.
• Ye Lin dispersed his Demonic Ape True Form, retrieved Xiaoyao, and stopped when he realized the newcomer was a Celestial Immortal.