Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin stayed with An Ran and An Xin, refusing their attempts to give him special treatment as he cleaned up a donkey pen for his bed. After An Ran served a meal of boiled wild vegetables, Ye Lin accepted it gratefully and ate.

• An Ran welcomed Ye Lin into the family’s small wooden hut and began preparing a bed for him.
• Ye Lin chose to clean the donkey pen himself, despite An Ran warning him about its smell.
• An Xin asked Ye Lin where he came from, and he told her it was a very distant place.
• An Xin gave Ye Lin a quilt to spread over the hay in the cleaned pen.
• An Ran served boiled wild vegetables, and Ye Lin reassured her before drinking them down.

Ye Lin shared a meal with An Ran and An Xin, then gave An Ran a precious seasoning to help keep her son nourished. Later, he contacted Li Unrivaled and learned that they had both been badly hurt by the teleportation formation; Ye Lin told him to recover and meet him in Yangzhou.

• Ye Lin added emerald-green liquid from a jade bottle to An Ran and An Xin's bowls, making their simple meal delicious.
• Ye Lin offered the jade bottle to An Ran, who accepted it after he urged her to think of An Xin's health.
• Ye Lin went to the donkey pen after dinner and used a Jade Talisman to contact Li Unrivaled.
• Li Unrivaled said he was lost deep in the mountains, badly injured, and that the person with him remained unconscious.
• Ye Lin told Li Unrivaled to recover first and then come find him in Yangzhou.

Ye Lin decided not to use the precious healing pill and began recovering from his wounds in the donkey shed. An Xin sought him out to learn cultivation, and Ye Lin taught him the Five Elements Qi Refining Art before sending him back to bed.

• Ye Lin chose to save Li Unrivaled’s pill and began recuperating in the donkey shed.
• An Xin knelt before Ye Lin and asked him to teach him cultivation so he could protect his mother from Demon Beasts.
• Ye Lin agreed to teach An Xin but forbade him from revealing Ye Lin’s identity or their lessons.
• Ye Lin passed the Five Elements Qi Refining Art to An Xin, gave him three Top-Tier Spirit Stones, and explained how to begin cultivating.
• Ye Lin sent An Xin back to sleep.

Ye Lin continued recovering his meridians while An Xin secretly began studying the cultivation technique Ye Lin had given him. An Ran’s home was soon invaded by an angry villager who accused her of taking up with Ye Lin and made lewd advances toward her.

• An Xin thanked Ye Lin and slipped away with three Spirit Stones to study the cultivation technique Ye Lin had given him.
• Ye Lin cultivated through the night, and An Ran asked him about Little Xin after finding him missing in the morning.
• Ye Lin told An Ran he was content sleeping in the donkey pen, and she grew emotional hearing about his hardship.
• A bald villager barged into An Ran’s courtyard, accused her of pursuing Ye Lin, and crudely propositioned her.
• An Ran raised her broom and ordered the bald villager to leave.

Ye Lin rescued An Ran from the bald man, then learned that Li Unrivaled and Tang Qingru were on their way. An Xin reached Qi Refining Level One, and Ye Lin left him to keep cultivating as he sensed a disturbance in the trees.

• The bald man broke An Ran’s broom and advanced on her, but Ye Lin threw him more than ten meters and drove him off.
• An Ran thanked Ye Lin, who contacted Li Unrivaled and learned that he and the awakened man were approaching.
• An Xin told Ye Lin that he had reached Qi Refining Level One after cultivating overnight.
• Ye Lin confirmed An Xin’s progress, encouraged him to protect his mother and continue cultivating, then headed into the trees after sensing a disturbance.

Ye Lin met Li Unrivaled and the badly injured Tang Qingru in Yang Province, where they discussed the region and the dangers posed by powerful local experts and Star River Cosmos prodigies. They agreed to seek information and recover, with a plan to meet again in a year.

• Ye Lin found Li Unrivaled and Tang Qingru in the forest and asked about their injuries.
• Li Unrivaled reported that he was recovering, while Tang Qingru's injuries had severely weakened her cultivation.
• Li Unrivaled explained that they were in remote northern Yang Province, described its ruling sects and dynasties, and reported that Mountain-Shaking City lay a thousand miles away.
• Tang Qingru estimated that at least a hundred Star River Cosmos prodigies might be in Yang Province and urged them to contact its major powers.
• Li Unrivaled proposed that the injured group go to Mountain-Shaking City to recuperate and gather information, then reconnect in a year.

Ye Lin realized the village sat at the eye of a natural trapping formation and stayed behind to investigate while Li Unrivaled took Tang Qingru toward Mountain-Shaking City. After six quiet months, Ye Lin had nearly recovered his strength, and An Xin showed him a tiger he had slain.

• Ye Lin explained that his injuries and the suspicious village made it safer for him and Li Unrivaled to travel separately, and they agreed to contact each other if danger arose.
• Li Unrivaled took Tang Qingru and left for Mountain-Shaking City while Ye Lin investigated the village and its surroundings.
• Ye Lin recognized that the mountains, sea, beach, and village formed a natural trapping formation with the village as its eye.
• Six peaceful months passed as Ye Lin recovered to the late Heavenly Immortal realm and An Xin advanced to the ninth level of Qi Refining.
• An Xin brought Ye Lin the corpse of a huge ferocious tiger he had slain, despite suffering a scratch on his face.

Ye Lin encouraged An Xin to stop seeking others’ approval and grow strong for himself, while refusing to take him as a disciple. After An Xin reached Foundation Establishment at age seven and Ye Lin attained the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm, An Xin sensed that Ye Lin was about to leave.

• Ye Lin told An Xin about his two former disciples, Taiyuan and Ye Buqu, and explained that he would not take An Xin as a disciple because they had no fate between them.
• Ye Lin urged An Xin to focus on becoming strong rather than desperately seeking recognition, and An Xin vowed to earn Ye Lin’s acknowledgment someday.
• An Xin asked what lay beyond heaven and earth, and Ye Lin told him to grow strong enough to explore those mysteries himself.
• A month later, An Xin reached the Foundation Establishment Realm at seven years old, while Ye Lin reached the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• An Xin told Ye Lin that his intuition said Ye Lin would soon leave to do something important, and Ye Lin smiled without denying it.

Ye Lin said goodbye to An Xin and left the village, then discovered that a trapping formation had been arranged nearby to catch a giant demon. He rushed back when the formation activated and saw three cultivators fighting the demon while the village lay at the formation's core.

• Ye Lin told An Xin he was leaving and urged him to cultivate well before departing as An Xin held back his tears.
• An Xin ran to An Ran and cried after Ye Lin disappeared beneath the setting sun.
• Ye Lin wondered why a recently built trapping formation had shown no signs of activity as he traveled toward Mountain-Shaking City.
• Li Unrivaled warned Ye Lin that a giant demon at the peak of the heavenly immortal realm was approaching from behind.
• Ye Lin realized the village was at the formation's core and rushed back, where he saw three cultivators attacking the giant demon as it battered the barrier.

Ye Lin rescued An Ran and An Xin while observing Yang Xiu, a cautious peak Heavenly Immortal disguised as a weaker cultivator. Yang Xiu and his companions realized their formation had trapped them with the giant demon, and they faced the choice of fighting on or risking Mountain-Shaking City’s destruction.

• The giant demon mocked the three cultivators as they attacked it, while Ye Lin entered the formation and quietly moved An Ran and An Xin out of the village.
• Ye Lin examined Yang Xiu’s panel and learned that Yang Xiu was a peak Heavenly Immortal with a cautious nature and extraordinary combat abilities.
• Yang Xiu’s companion admitted that the giant demon was stronger than they had expected and that their trapping formation had trapped them instead.
• Yang Xiu suggested retreating, but his companion warned that abandoning the formation could leave Mountain-Shaking City’s cultivators to be slaughtered.

Ye Lin fought the giant demon after it attacked him, while Yang Xiu and the two women from the Dao Heaven Sect debated whether to intervene. The women joined the battle, but the demon revealed that it had once killed eight peak Heavenly Immortals.

• Yang Xiu warned that the Dao Heaven Sect would bear the karmic consequences if they abandoned their vow to save living beings, but said they could not resist the giant demon alone.
• The giant demon attacked Ye Lin, and Ye Lin split its palm with a sword strike.
• The demon struck at Ye Lin with a powerful punch, destroying the village and sending seawater flooding into the crater it made.
• Ye Lin called on the three distant cultivators for help, and the red-robed woman attacked the demonic dragons while the woman in white charged the giant demon.
• The giant demon boasted that it had slaughtered eight peak Heavenly Immortals and threatened its new opponents.

Ye Lin, Yang Xiu, and the woman in white fought a giant demon, but its ability to swallow attacks and regenerate made it nearly impossible to kill. The woman in white called for them to retreat, leaving the battle unresolved.

• The giant demon attacked the woman in white with a blade of demonic qi as Ye Lin joined her in fighting it.
• Yang Xiu hesitated, then used a bell to slow the giant demon while the woman in white severed its arms and Ye Lin struck with his sword.
• The giant demon swallowed Ye Lin's sword light and quickly regrew its severed arms.
• The woman in white warned Ye Lin that they should retreat because only a True Immortal might destroy the giant demon in one blow.
• Yang Xiu hurried to his senior sister and urged her to retreat, though he showed no real anxiety.

The Dao Heaven Sect cultivators debated whether to retreat from the giant demon, knowing that either choice could bring disaster. Yang Xiu and Ye Lin chose to stay and help, while Ye Lin secretly planned to use Yang Xiu to reach the True Immortal realm.

• The woman in white and the woman in red realized that retreating could let the demon destroy Mountain-Shaking City and burden the Sect Master, while staying could cost them their lives.
• Yang Xiu warned that the giant demon was beyond their strength and that the Dragon-Trapping Array was the only thing suppressing it.
• The woman in red told Yang Xiu he could leave and asked him to bring word of the trap back to the sect, while the woman in white urged Ye Lin to escape.
• Yang Xiu chose to remain and help his Senior Sisters.
• Ye Lin agreed to help, claiming he would leave if his life was in danger, but secretly intended to kill Yang Xiu to reach the True Immortal realm.

Ye Lin, the woman in red, and the woman in white battled the giant demon while Yang Xiu watched from a distance. The demon trapped the group in its Heavenly Demon Domain, and Yang Xiu moved to help the two women.

• The woman in red and the woman in white thanked Ye Lin for his righteousness before the giant demon urged them to resume their attack.
• The woman in red, the woman in white, and Ye Lin divided their attacks against the giant demon, while Yang Xiu searched his canvas bag.
• Ye Lin pretended to be kicked through a distant mountain after his sword strike failed to hurt the giant demon.
• The giant demon unleashed its Heavenly Demon Domain, suppressing the two women and draining their vital essence while trapping Yang Xiu inside.
• Yang Xiu took a Long Sword from his canvas bag and went to the two women, deciding to use fifty percent of his strength.

Yang Xiu used the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Sword Art to wound the giant demon, but the two women were nearly out of strength and the giant remained dangerous. With their lives at risk, Yang Xiu decided to stop hiding his true strength.

• Yang Xiu unleashed his Sword Intent and called down lightning while the two women attacked the giant demon from both sides.
• The giant demon endured their attacks with little real damage as the women’s immortal power and strength dwindled.
• Yang Xiu smeared blood across his sword and summoned violet divine thunder that pierced the giant demon’s head and weakened its demonic energy.
• Seeing his senior sisters near collapse, Yang Xiu decided to reveal his true strength despite his usual practice of concealing it.

Yang Xiu stopped hiding his strength and destroyed the giant demon with the Myriad Thunder Killing Formation. Afterward, he suppressed his cultivation and injured himself, leaving Ye Lin and the others to wonder about his true nature.

• Ye Lin arrived and agreed to buy Yang Xiu ten breaths while he prepared a powerful technique.
• Ye Lin drove the two women out of the demon domain and held off the giant demon with arrows and Phoenix's Lament.
• Yang Xiu revealed his peak Heavenly Immortal strength and trapped the giant demon in the Myriad Thunder Killing Formation.
• Yang Xiu reduced the giant demon to ashes, then suppressed his cultivation and struck himself in the chest, spitting blood.

Ye Lin pretended to be unconscious so the two senior sisters would bring him into the Dao Heaven Sect and place him near Yang Xiu. A month later, he woke in Bai Ziran’s room and began exploring the sect.

• Yang Xiu joined the two senior sisters in carrying the supposedly unconscious Ye Lin back to the Dao Heaven Sect.
• Ye Lin revealed that he had faked his unconsciousness to infiltrate the sect and get close to Yang Xiu.
• A month passed before Ye Lin woke in a woman's room and received medicine from Bai Ziran.
• Bai Ziran told Ye Lin the Sect Master had ordered his care, and Ye Lin introduced himself.
• Ye Lin got out of bed despite Bai Ziran's concern and walked toward the room's exit.

After recovering at the Dao Heaven Sect, Ye Lin followed Bai Ziran to meet her master, an elder whose control of spatial power made his palace seem like a small world. The elder thanked Ye Lin for saving Bai Ziran and offered him a low-grade Immortal-tier Immortal Ginseng to heal his injuries.

• Bai Ziran told Ye Lin that the mountain territory belonged to the Dao Heaven Sect and invited him to meet her master.
• Ye Lin agreed to accompany Bai Ziran, hiding his eagerness behind feigned reluctance.
• Bai Ziran brought Ye Lin to a vast palace atop a towering peak and introduced him to her master.
• Ye Lin sensed that the elder wielded terrifying spatial power and that the palace concealed a small world.
• The elder thanked Ye Lin for saving Bai Ziran and sent him a low-grade Immortal-tier Immortal Ginseng.

Ye Lin accepted immortal ginseng and used his situation as a Rogue Cultivator to encourage the old man to offer him protection and a place in the Dao Heaven Sect. The old man offered him an Inner Sect elder position, and Bai Ziran urged him to accept.

• Ye Lin accepted the immortal ginseng and thanked the old man for rewarding his defense of the Dao.
• The old man asked Ye Lin where he planned to go, and Ye Lin described himself as an injured Rogue Cultivator with nowhere safe to stay.
• The old man offered Ye Lin the position of Ninth Elder of the Dao Heaven Sect's Inner Sect, along with Five Peaks Mountain, an annual stipend, and an immortal-grade pill.
• Bai Ziran encouraged Ye Lin to join the Dao Heaven Sect for protection and reliable cultivation resources.

Ye Lin explained that he had fled to Yang Province after killing a spoiled young master, and the Dao Heaven Sect elder promised to protect him. Ye Lin accepted the offer, using the story to establish an identity that would help him stay near Yang Xiu and plot against him.

• Bai Ziran reassured Ye Lin that the Dao Heaven Sect could protect him from the giant demon’s mastermind and other pursuers.
• Ye Lin told the elder he came from another province and was being hunted after killing a spoiled young master.
• Bai Ziran empathized with Ye Lin because she had also killed a young master who harassed her and been pursued by his forces.
• The elder laughed off Ye Lin’s trouble and promised to protect him if his pursuers came to Yang Province.
• Ye Lin accepted the elder’s offer and resolved to use his outsider identity to ease Yang Xiu’s suspicions while plotting to kill him.