Chapter Summaries

Kuang Sheng defeated Xuanmiao, then lost to Ming Ye, the Yin Mountain disciple whose soul-devouring techniques terrified the spectators. Wuxin recognized Ming Ye’s challenge as a confrontation between Buddha Mountain and Yin Mountain and stepped forward to face him.

• Kuang Sheng knocked Xuanmiao out of the arena, and Xuanmiao fainted after lamenting that Jian Wushuang had halted his Sword Intent five years earlier.
• Kuang Sheng boasted after his victory, but Ming Ye, a disciple of Old Man of Yin Mountain, entered the arena and challenged him.
• Wuxin explained to Ye Lin that Yin Mountain cultivated by consuming souls and that Buddha Mountain’s Buddhist methods countered its techniques.
• Ming Ye used Ten Thousand Ghosts Devouring Heart to overwhelm Kuang Sheng, who fell from the arena covered in horrific bite wounds.
• After Ming Ye waited on the arena for an hour, Wuxin left Ye Lin and stepped forward to confront him.

Wuxin defeated Ming Ye in their battle at Divine Sword City, overcoming Yin Mountain’s Ghost Venerables and soul-locking array. After Ming Ye left the Arena, Jian Wushuang challenged Wuxin, and the two prepared to fight.

• Ming Ye and Wuxin began their battle, summoning the Ghost Venerables and a golden Buddha as their powers clashed across the Arena.
• Ming Ye unleashed his Nine Nether Soul-Locking Array, but Wuxin broke the chains with the final syllable of his mantra and defeated him.
• Ming Ye admitted his loss and left the Arena, while Ye Lin praised the battle and Li Youwei dismissed it as boring.
• Jian Wushuang stood before Wuxin and waited for him to recover, drawing excited reactions from the crowd.
• Wuxin finished recovering, rose to face Jian Wushuang, and accepted his challenge.

Jian Wushuang defeated Wuxin with two swords, while Ye Lin chose to pursue a top-three place before challenging him. Ye Lin then began fighting Xuanming on the leftmost Arena, where his evasive skill frustrated the spear prodigy.

• Jian Wushuang offered Wuxin three moves, but Wuxin insisted on facing him directly.
• Jian Wushuang shattered Wuxin's golden Buddha palm with his first sword, then sent him crashing beneath the Arena with his second.
• Wuxin admitted defeat and joined Ye Lin in the spectator seats, while no remaining disciple dared challenge Jian Wushuang.
• Ye Lin decided to avoid Jian Wushuang for now and pursue a top-three position by challenging another Arena.
• Ye Lin faced Xuanming, chief disciple of the Spear Sect Master, and evaded his attacks as their duel continued.

Ye Lin defeated Xuanming and held his Arena as challengers dwindled, securing a place in the top three with Jian Wushuang and Li Youran. Li Youran withdrew, leaving Ye Lin and Jian Wushuang to begin their decisive battle, which ended with Jian Wushuang asking Ye Lin to judge his sword strike.

• Ye Lin exhausted Xuanming with evasive tactics, then shattered his spear technique and blasted him off the Arena.
• Jian Wushuang watched Ye Lin with renewed battle intent, while the remaining challengers avoided the Arenas held by Ye Lin and Jian Wushuang.
• Lv Xuan declared Ye Lin, Jian Wushuang, and Li Youran the top three after no further challengers appeared.
• Li Youran withdrew, and Jian Wushuang formally challenged Ye Lin, who accepted.
• Jian Wushuang's Heaven and Earth Sword Intent clashed with Ye Lin's Destruction Sword Intent before Jian Wushuang combined his two swords and slashed at him.

Ye Lin and Jian Wushuang fought an intense sword duel in the Arena, matching each other through increasingly powerful techniques. Jian Wushuang unleashed his ultimate strike, Sword Opens the Heavenly Gate, and Ye Lin gathered his hidden powers to face it.

• Ye Lin and Jian Wushuang's opening clash ended in a draw as Ye Lin combined the Life and Death Three Swords with Destruction Sword Intent.
• Jian Wushuang used Sword Opens Heaven and Earth, and Ye Lin countered with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, filling the Arena with blinding light and explosive clashes.
• Jian Wushuang praised Ye Lin after their exchange, then revealed a final sword he had nurtured for three years and invited Ye Lin to become his brother if he survived it.
• Jian Wushuang summoned a sky-blue Spirit Fire and unleashed Sword Opens the Heavenly Gate, a strike comparable to an ordinary Nascent Soul Realm attack.
• Ye Lin summoned Phoenix Fire, his Nine-Colored Golden Core's power, and Destruction Sword Intent, then prepared his black giant sword as Jian Wushuang swung.

Ye Lin defeated Jian Wushuang in the Divine Sword City grand event, then followed Lv Xuan to claim the first-place reward and comprehend the Sword Scripture. Jian Wushuang befriended Ye Lin and Wuxin while waiting for him.

• Ye Lin and Jian Wushuang clashed swords, and Jian Wushuang admitted defeat and respectfully acknowledged Ye Lin’s strength.
• Jian Wushuang invited Ye Lin to drink, and Ye Lin agreed to become friends with the future City Lord of Divine Sword City.
• Lv Xuan ended the grand event, announced that the top hundred cultivators could claim their rewards, and took Ye Lin to read the Sword Scripture.
• Jian Wushuang invited Wuxin to become his third brother, and Wuxin accepted.
• A bookshelf grouping feature notice appeared after the story.

Ye Lin discovered that the Jade Talisman from Dragon Profound Cave unlocked the secrets of Divine Sword City’s stele and helped him comprehend a powerful sword move. After leaving the pavilion, he rejoined Jian Wushuang and Wuxin, with the other eight steles still scattered across the Eastern Continent.

• Ye Lin studied the apparently blank stele until the Jade Talisman flew from his Spatial Ring into it and a beam of light knocked him unconscious.
• Ye Lin learned that Dragon Profound Cave had been the fall site of a peak Dao Integration Realm expert, and that the Jade Talisman was the key to comprehending nine sword moves hidden in fragments of a stele.
• Ye Lin inherited the Heaven Grade Low Tier move Sword Piercing the Firmament and learned that the remaining eight steles were scattered across the Eastern Continent.
• Lv Xuan called Ye Lin out after five hours, and Ye Lin assured himself the stele was unharmed before leaving the pavilion.
• Ye Lin told Lv Xuan that he had comprehended three sword techniques, and Lv Xuan praised him before sending him to spend time with Jian Wushuang and Wuxin.

Ye Lin, Jian Wushuang, and Wuxin shared a drink, and Jian Wushuang warned them that a war would soon engulf the Eastern Continent. Ye Lin looked forward to rising amid the coming chaos as he prepared to return to Nameless Mountain.

• Jian Wushuang asked Ye Lin how many sword techniques he had comprehended, and Ye Lin said he had comprehended three.
• Ye Lin recognized Huang Ruyan, Lin Zisheng’s former lover, working as a waitress in the tavern but denied being interested in her when Jian Wushuang and Wuxin teased him.
• Jian Wushuang gave Ye Lin and Wuxin communication jade talismans, and Ye Lin said he would return to Nameless Mountain now that his mission was complete.
• Jian Wushuang revealed that war was approaching across the Eastern Continent, with Tianhe Prefecture likely to fall into chaos first and the Demon Race posing a major threat.
• Ye Lin and Wuxin were shaken by the warning, while Ye Lin thought he could grow stronger and rise during the upheaval.

Ye Lin left his friends after a drinking gathering and traveled to Sanghai City to investigate the Sea of No-Delusion, where he hoped to seize a Spirit Transformation sword cultivator’s legacy. He learned that the sea had been erupting repeatedly and suspected a cave abode was about to appear.

• Li Youwei demanded that Ye Lin repay Spirit Stones and a drop of genuine ancient divine-beast blood, and Jian Wushuang offered to cover the debt before admitting he could not provide the blood.
• Ye Lin, Jian Wushuang, Wuxin, and Li Youwei drank until they passed out; Ye Lin covered the others with blankets, left a farewell note, and departed.
• Jian Wushuang revealed he had awakened earlier to test Ye Lin, accepted him as his second brother, and praised the message Ye Lin had left.
• Ye Lin flew toward the Sea of No-Delusion and reached Sanghai City, where he entered a tavern to gather information.
• Ye Lin overheard cultivators discussing repeated upheavals and a radiant treasure in the sea, and he suspected a Spirit Transformation True Person’s cave abode was emerging.

Ye Lin learned that the Long and Zhao Families were targeting the Wang Family over a mysterious Stone that might be one of the nine Stone Steles. He reached the Wang estate and offered Wang Qing help against the coming attack, but Wang Qing doubted that he could make good on his promise.

• Ye Lin questioned a waiter about the Sea of No-Delusion and learned that the Long and Zhao Families planned to destroy the Wang Family and seize its mysterious Stone.
• The waiter explained that Old Master Wang had been gravely injured while studying the Stone, convincing Ye Lin it might be one of the nine Stone Steles.
• Ye Lin gave the waiter a Low-Tier Spirit Stone and left for the Wang estate, while the waiter quit his job and vowed to buy the restaurant.
• A wary little girl admitted Ye Lin to the estate and led him to her father, Wang Qing.
• Ye Lin told Wang Qing he could resolve the Wang Family's difficulties, and Wang Qing questioned whether he could truly help.

Ye Lin agreed to help the Wang Family defeat the Zhao and Long Families in exchange for their Stone Stele. The Wang Family’s Old Master proposed that Ye Lin and Su Zeduan compete to resolve the crisis, leaving the Stone Stele’s fate unsettled.

• Ye Lin demonstrated his Golden Core strength to Wang Qing and offered to protect the Wang Family in exchange for its Stone Stele.
• Wang Qing consulted his father, who agreed to hand over the Stone Stele if Ye Lin helped them survive the coming attack.
• Wang Qing told Ye Lin that the Zhao and Long Families planned to attack that night, but Ye Lin refused the offer of Spirit Stones and said he would wait for them.
• Wang Hong arrived with Su Zeduan, a Mountain and Sea Sect elder who also demanded the Stone Stele, and ordered Ye Lin to leave.
• Old Master Wang entered and proposed that whoever resolved the Wang Family’s crisis would receive the Stone Stele, a condition both Ye Lin and Su Zeduan accepted.

Ye Lin defended the Wang Family by instantly killing Zhao Gao’s forces and the two Heaven One Sect elders. Afterward, he spotted the pair who had chased Su Zeduan and heard them discuss a plan to destroy the Mountain and Sea Sect.

• Zhao Gao revealed that two Heaven One Sect elders were present, and they attacked Su Zeduan, who fled rather than face them both.
• Zhao Gao’s men surrounded the Wang Family, and Old Master Wang promised Ye Lin the Stone Stele if he saved them.
• Ye Lin killed the attacking fighters with Sword Qi, then slew the two Golden Core elders with two blades of Qi.
• Ye Lin killed the remaining hundreds of attackers, while the Wang Family survived and Wang Qing thanked him.
• Two figures appeared in the sky and discussed killing witnesses before returning to begin their plan against the Mountain and Sea Sect; Ye Lin recognized them as the men who had chased Su Zeduan.

Ye Lin killed the attackers at the Wang family, took the Mysterious Stone Stele and Wood Spirit Bead, and discovered his Fate Rank had risen to blue. He reached the storm-wracked Sea of No-Delusion and decided not to risk using heavenly lightning to temper his body yet.

• Ye Lin killed the two men attacking Old Master Wang and had Wang Qing lead him to the Mysterious Stone Stele.
• Ye Lin took the Stone Stele and Wood Spirit Bead from the Wang family, then flew toward the Sea of No-Delusion.
• Ye Lin checked his status panel and found his Fate Rank had risen to blue, though it remained incomplete and unstable.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Sea of No-Delusion, where lightning struck the turbulent ocean, and considered using it to temper his body.
• Ye Lin decided to wait until his Fate Rank rose further before attempting to use heavenly lightning.

Ye Lin discovered an underwater cave containing Emerald Bamboo, an ancient Spirit Transformation sword cultivator whose remnant soul survived inside a Jade Talisman. He swore to nourish her soul and eventually restore her body in exchange for her sword-path insights, then accepted the inheritance while the Mystic Light Pagoda checked it for danger.

• Ye Lin followed a radiant treasure light to a tiny island, which sank to the seabed and revealed an underwater cave.
• Ye Lin entered the cave and found a Jade Talisman that summoned a woman of light.
• The woman revealed she was Emerald Bamboo, a sword cultivator from the ancient era, and asked Ye Lin to nourish her remnant soul and restore her body.
• Ye Lin agreed to Emerald Bamboo's request and swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao.
• Emerald Bamboo passed her sword-path insights to Ye Lin, and the Mystic Light Pagoda screened them to ensure they would not harm his divine soul.

Ye Lin completed a month of sword cultivation under Emerald Bamboo, advancing his Destruction Sword Intent to the fourth layer, then returned to his residence at Nameless Mountain. After learning from Qi Mengmeng that his mission rewards were already credited, he began improving his Five Elements Spirit Roots and raised his Water and Wood roots to Mid-Tier.

• Ye Lin comprehended Emerald Bamboo’s insights for a month, advanced his Destruction Sword Intent to the fourth layer, and received her Jade Talisman.
• Ye Lin returned to the Nameless Mountain stronghold and used the Jade Talisman to travel back to his residence.
• Ye Lin visited the Mission Pavilion, where Qi Mengmeng told him she had submitted his mission and credited him with five thousand points.
• Qi Mengmeng warned Ye Lin not to stay in closed-door cultivation too long because major events and opportunities were approaching.
• Ye Lin refined the Water Spirit Bead and Wood Spirit Bead for half a month, raising his Water and Wood Spirit Roots to Mid-Tier.

After comprehending a powerful Heaven Grade Low Tier sword technique, Ye Lin broke through to Golden Core peak during three months of seclusion. He learned that the Myriad Demon Palace was targeting Tianhe Prefecture and accepted a Demon Beast-slaying mission that offered a chance to enter Nameless Mountain’s Inner Sect.

• Ye Lin comprehended One Sword Opens Mountains and Seas but still gained no insight into the Sword Dao Rule.
• Ye Lin cultivated for three months and broke through to Golden Core peak.
• Ye Lin visited the Mission Pavilion and learned from Qi Mengmeng that the Myriad Demon Palace was plotting to seize Human Race territory in Tianhe Prefecture.
• Qi Mengmeng explained that Nameless Mountain had issued five-month missions to slay Demon Beasts, with rewards based on the beasts’ cultivation.
• Qi Mengmeng told Ye Lin that the three disciples who killed the most Demon Beasts could bypass the usual requirements for Inner Sect admission upon reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ye Lin accepted the mission and received a Storage Bag, then wondered how the sect would verify that disciples had killed the Demon Beasts themselves.

Ye Lin accepted Qi Mengmeng’s borderlands mission and discovered her upcoming opportunity: a mutated spirit plant on Medicine Mountain. He went to find it for its body-tempering benefits, but Luo Sanpang caught him approaching the herb field and accused him of trying to steal it.

• Qi Mengmeng explained that Nascent Soul cultivators on the borderlands would draw attacks from great demons, and Ye Lin accepted the mission.
• Ye Lin checked Qi Mengmeng’s panel and learned she would discover a Mutated Half-Moon spirit plant on Medicine Mountain in five days.
• Ye Lin decided to seek the plant to improve his physical cultivation and flew to Medicine Mountain.
• Ye Lin spotted the unusual plant and sneaked toward the field, claiming it was diseased when Luo Sanpang confronted him.
• Luo Sanpang identified himself as the herb-field overseer and challenged Ye Lin’s claim that the plant was diseased.

Ye Lin tricked Luo Sanpang into removing a supposedly dangerous plant and handing over ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones, then headed to the Outer Sect Office to collect his overdue resources. There, Wang Wu finally found him and drew his saber, threatening to break his legs.

• Ye Lin convinced Luo Sanpang that a mutated plant could spread and ruin the Herb Field unless it was removed.
• Luo Sanpang used his Identity Token to enter the Herb Field and pulled out the plant, then gave it to Ye Lin to conceal the problem.
• Ye Lin requested payment for his help, and Luo Sanpang handed him ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Ye Lin stored the plant and Spirit Stones, remembered he had never collected his sect resources, and flew to the Outer Sect Office.
• Wang Wu spotted Ye Lin in the collection line, accused him of evading him, and drew his saber.

Ye Lin confronted Wang Wu, who attacked him over an old grudge, but Ye Lin easily overpowered him with his black sword. Wang Wu’s final strike failed, and Ye Lin shattered his Golden Core, leaving him crippled with only five years to live.

• Wang Wu recognized Ye Lin and attacked him with the Nine-Turn Mad Blade Slash, but Ye Lin dodged effortlessly.
• Ye Lin flicked a small black sword at Wang Wu, forcing him back despite Wang Wu using his full strength to block.
• Wang Wu unleashed the ninth turn of his blade technique, while the watching disciples feared Ye Lin would be badly hurt.
• Ye Lin sent his black giant sword against Wang Wu’s full-power strike and hurled him into the ground.
• Wang Wu realized Ye Lin had shattered his Golden Core, ending his cultivation and leaving him with at most five years to live.

Ye Lin crippled Wang Wu, collected his accumulated sect resources, and received word that Little Red had reached the Nascent Soul Realm and comprehended the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique. The chapter ended with Ye Lin confirming that he wanted the technique.

• Ye Lin severed his ties with Wang Wu by shattering his Golden Core, then rejoined the queue as the other disciples made way for him.
• Wang Sanpang recognized Ye Lin and praised his rise before checking his Identity Token and calculating his unclaimed resources.
• Wang Sanpang gave Ye Lin nine hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones and exchanged his pills for a Heart-Nurturing Pill and an Enlightenment Pill.
• Ye Lin discovered that Little Red's feather was sending him a message and learned that Little Red had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, awakened its bloodline inheritance, and comprehended the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique.
• Ye Lin told Little Red that he wanted the technique, then joked that he was not there when Little Red asked if he could hear the reply.