Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin settled into his new cultivation grounds as a Dao Heaven Sect elder and learned that Yang Xiu was an Inner Sect disciple and vice chairman. He decided to contact Li Unrivaled, who appeared and asked why Ye Lin had been unreachable for a month.

• Bai Ziran showed Ye Lin around Five Mountains and explained that five disciples would serve as his attendants.
• Bai Ziran told Ye Lin that his inauguration ceremony would take place in the Inner Sect in three days.
• Ye Lin learned that Yang Xiu was an Inner Sect disciple and vice chairman, and considered using his higher rank to gain an advantage.
• Ye Lin entered the main hall and used a Jade Talisman to contact Li Unrivaled.
• Li Unrivaled appeared before Ye Lin and asked what he had been doing for the past month.

Ye Lin and Li Unrivaled compared their progress investigating Star River Cosmos geniuses in Yang Province and agreed to work together against Yang Xiu. They left the details of their plan to kill him unresolved, knowing they would have only one chance.

• Li Unrivaled told Ye Lin that she had infiltrated the Dao Heaven Sect and taken control of Mountain-Shaking City's intelligence organizations.
• Li Unrivaled said the intelligence network had narrowed the search for suspicious newcomers to several people, with an eighty percent chance of identifying them.
• Ye Lin told Li Unrivaled that he had made an unexpected discovery and was beginning to lay out a plan.
• Ye Lin asked Li Unrivaled to help him deal with Yang Xiu, warning that a failed attempt would bring deadly retaliation.
• Li Unrivaled agreed to help Ye Lin, saying his entry into the True Immortal realm would make things easier for her.

Ye Lin ended his conversation with Li Unrivaled and met the five servants assigned to him at the Dao Heaven Sect. He dismissed them and planned to visit the Inner Sect in three days, while remaining wary that one of them might be Yang Xiu’s spy.

• Li Unrivaled reasoned that cooperating with Ye Lin benefited them both and that he had little reason to betray her.
• Ye Lin ended his connection with Li Unrivaled.
• Mingyue, Qingfeng, Xiaoyun, Taxue, and Xunmei arrived and introduced themselves as Ye Lin’s servants.
• Ye Lin suspected Yang Xiu might have placed one of the five near him and ordered them to show him around the Dao Heaven Sect and take him to the Inner Sect in three days.
• The five withdrew to serve Ye Lin, and he closed his eyes to rest, judging that cultivation would take him a hundred thousand years to reach the True Immortal realm.

Yang Xiu grew suspicious after learning that Ye Lin had been appointed the Dao Heaven Sect’s Ninth Elder and ordered an investigation into his identity. Three days later, Ye Lin attended his succession ceremony, received his Identity Token and God-Striking Whip, and spotted Yang Xiu among the disciples.

• Yang Xiu learned that Ye Lin had been appointed Ninth Elder and ordered a disciple to investigate Ye Lin’s identity within one day.
• Three days later, Mingyue escorted Ye Lin to his succession ceremony at the Inner Sect.
• Shen Yue presented Ye Lin with his Identity Token and the God-Striking Whip, explaining the whip’s authority to punish disciples who broke sect rules.
• Ye Lin spotted Yang Xiu in the crowd, and the two exchanged nods.

Ye Lin completed his succession ceremony as a Dao Heaven Sect elder and learned he was expected to choose disciples during the sect’s recruitment. Yang Xiu congratulated him, while Ye Lin discovered Yang Xiu’s hidden potential and future opportunity involving Li Shanchang.

• After investigating for three days, Yang Xiu temporarily ruled out Ye Lin as a prodigy from the Star River Cosmos because Ye Lin’s background did not match the clues.
• Ye Lin presided over his succession ceremony as the disciples of the Dao Heaven Sect paid their respects.
• Shen Yue told Ye Lin that the sect’s recruitment was taking place and that he should choose several disciples.
• After the ceremony, Yang Xiu approached Ye Lin and congratulated him on becoming an elder.
• Ye Lin examined Yang Xiu’s profile and learned about his powerful traits and his future encounter with Li Shanchang.

Ye Lin joined Bai Ziran, Hong Yanran, and Yang Xiu to observe the Dao Heaven Sect’s disciple selection. When Bai Ziran asked whether he would take on disciples, Ye Lin said he would consider it.

• Ye Lin noticed Yang Xiu’s good fortune and considered making use of his connection with Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran.
• Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran congratulated Ye Lin on becoming an elder, and he asked them to address him as a fellow Daoist.
• Yang Xiu led Ye Lin and the two women to the mountain gate, where candidates from across Yang Province were undergoing selection.
• Ye Lin stood among the crowd as disciples who recognized him bowed, and Bai Ziran asked whether he planned to take in disciples.
• Ye Lin replied that he would look around before deciding, since he did not want to take disciples casually.

At the Dao Heaven Sect’s disciple recruitment, a wounded mortal begged the four seniors to take him in and told them bandits had killed his family and fiancée. Yang Xiu agreed to teach him cultivation without making him his disciple, and the young man accepted.

• A mortal youth knelt before Ye Lin and the other seniors, begging them to accept him as a disciple.
• Yang Xiu healed the youth’s wounds and asked him to explain himself.
• The youth recounted how bandits had killed his parents, neighbors, and fiancée, and said he wanted to cultivate so he could take revenge.
• Moved by the youth’s plight and his resemblance to his own past, Yang Xiu offered to teach him without taking him as a disciple.
• The youth thanked Yang Xiu and kowtowed until Yang Xiu helped him up.

Ye Lin gave Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran Beauty-Preserving Pills and agreed to join their investigation of the Myriad Demon Mountain Range in a month. After Yang Xiu left, Ye Lin asked Mingyue about his past, and she began recounting how he had fallen into the Dao Heaven Sect more than a hundred years earlier.

• Ye Lin gave Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran Beauty-Preserving Pills after explaining he had not taken a disciple because the right fate had not arrived.
• Bai Ziran told Ye Lin that a Demon Emperor had emerged in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, and Ye Lin agreed to join their investigation in one month.
• Yang Xiu felt wounded when he saw Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran's closeness with Ye Lin and realized they had not told him about the trip.
• After Bai Ziran, Hong Yanran, and Yang Xiu left, Ye Lin asked Mingyue whether she knew Yang Xiu well.
• Mingyue said Yang Xiu had fallen from the sky into the Dao Heaven Sect more than a hundred years ago and that the Sect Master had said something after finding him.

Ye Lin built a good reputation in Dao Heaven Sect by advising its disciples, while Yang Xiu stopped suspecting him. Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran brought news that the Demon Emperor was preparing to attack human cities, and Ye Lin asked whether Yang Xiu would join their mission to observe the demon’s movements.

• Mingyue told Ye Lin that the Dao Heaven Sect Master had taken Yang Xiu as his direct disciple after recognizing him as a fate star.
• Ye Lin spent a month in seclusion and answered the cultivation questions of disciples who visited him, earning their respect.
• Yang Xiu watched Ye Lin and eventually cast aside his suspicions.
• Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran visited Ye Lin and reported that the Demon Emperor was gathering demon beasts to attack human cities in Dao Heaven Sect territory.
• Bai Ziran explained that the True Immortal Demon Emperor could not be met by Dao Heaven Sect’s unavailable True Immortal experts, so the Sect Master had sent them ahead to observe its movements.
• Ye Lin asked whether Yang Xiu would be going with them.

Ye Lin left with Yang Xiu, Bai Ziran, Hong Yanran, and Li Shanchang to travel toward Laiyue City and the Myriad Demon Mountain Range. After they set off on Yang Xiu’s flying gourd, Yang Xiu offered Bai Ziran a pendant.

• Ye Lin left the grand hall with Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran to meet Yang Xiu at the mountain gate.
• Bai Ziran questioned Yang Xiu about bringing Li Shanchang, and Yang Xiu explained that he planned to leave him in Laiyue City.
• The group departed Dao Heaven Sect on Yang Xiu’s enlarged flying gourd.
• Yang Xiu handed Bai Ziran a pendant and asked whether she liked it.

Yang Xiu gave Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran gifts before taking them and Ye Lin toward the Myriad Demon Mountain Range. After dropping off Li Shanchang, the group concealed their auras and prepared to enter the range.

• Bai Ziran accepted a naturally formed pendant from Yang Xiu, who placed it around her neck.
• Hong Yanran complained that Yang Xiu had only prepared a gift for Bai Ziran, so Yang Xiu gave her a gemstone ring he had forged.
• As the group traveled toward the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, Yang Xiu dropped Li Shanchang off in a city, saying he was sending him out to gain experience.
• Bai Ziran warned that they could not enter the Myriad Demon Mountain Range openly, so Yang Xiu landed the gourd and handed the women Concealment Talismans.
• Yang Xiu found that Ye Lin had already hidden his aura, and Ye Lin explained that years of being hunted had taught him methods to conceal it.

Bai Ziran and her companions infiltrated the Myriad Demon Mountain Range to investigate rumors of a True Immortal great demon and a breakthrough treasure. The sheer number of powerful demons they encountered suggested the rumor might be true, and they continued deeper into the range.

• Bai Ziran told Ye Lin, Yang Xiu, and Hong Yanran to prioritize staying hidden while searching for a True Immortal great demon and a related treasure.
• Ye Lin secretly sent a speck of light into the forest as the group followed Bai Ziran into the range.
• Yang Xiu sensed three Earthly Immortal great demons nearby and one early Heavenly Immortal great demon.
• Hong Yanran noted that demons of such strength gathering together was abnormal and reasoned that a powerful being might have united them.
• After traveling more than a thousand li, the group counted over a hundred Earthly Immortal demons and thirty-eight Heavenly Immortal great demons, leaving Bai Ziran troubled by the change.

Ye Lin, Yang Xiu, Hong Yanran, and Bai Ziran discussed the danger posed by the gathered Demon Beasts before splitting up to investigate the Myriad Demon Mountain Range. Ye Lin met Li Unrivaled in a cave to discuss the Star River Cosmos prodigy, but warned that the young man would not be easy to deal with.

• Yang Xiu explained why a Demon Beast attack on Yang Province was unlikely, despite the Dao Heaven Sect's vulnerability if its Sect Master fell from the Taiyi Mysterious Immortal realm.
• Hong Yanran urged the group to discover why the Demon Beasts had gathered, and Ye Lin proposed that they split up and seek help if they encountered danger.
• Ye Lin, Bai Ziran, and Hong Yanran and Yang Xiu headed off in separate directions to search the Myriad Demon Mountain Range.
• Ye Lin reached a cave and met Li Unrivaled, who had followed the group using Ye Lin's updates.
• Li Unrivaled offered to deal with the Star River Cosmos prodigy, but Ye Lin said the man was no simple opponent.

Ye Lin told Li Unrivaled that Yang Xiu was a Rogue Cultivator whose true cultivation was far stronger than she had sensed. Li Unrivaled rejected his warning, insisting her Delusion-Breaking Void Eye could not be deceived.

• Li Unrivaled asked whether Yang Xiu might belong to an Immortal Dao Lineage, which she said even her father feared.
• Ye Lin clarified that Yang Xiu was an ordinary Rogue Cultivator, prompting Li Unrivaled to question why Ye Lin feared him.
• Li Unrivaled believed Yang Xiu was only a mid-stage Heavenly Immortal because her Delusion-Breaking Void Eye had sensed that realm.
• Ye Lin revealed Yang Xiu was actually at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal realm and might surpass him in a one-on-one fight.
• Li Unrivaled insisted that no one whose cultivation was not higher than hers could deceive her eyes.

Ye Lin persuaded Li Unrivaled to test Yang Xiu and claim his possessions if she found the rumored treasure. Li Unrivaled left to seek Yang Xiu, while Ye Lin secretly followed to observe their confrontation.

• Li Unrivaled doubted that Yang Xiu possessed a supreme-grade Sovereign artifact and challenged Ye Lin's claim.
• Ye Lin told Li Unrivaled to test Yang Xiu, and they agreed that she would help him if she failed.
• Li Unrivaled left the cave to find Yang Xiu, with Ye Lin following behind under concealment.

Li Unrivaled followed Yang Xiu’s aura into a trap and realized she had been fooled by his clone and formation. After she returned defeated, Ye Lin was summoned by the Jade Talisman to join Bai Ziran, who said she had discovered a huge secret.

• Li Unrivaled tracked Yang Xiu’s black aura to a valley, where it vanished and the surroundings shifted into an illusion of corpses and blood.
• Yang Xiu’s clone confronted Li Unrivaled, revealing that he had lured her into a formation without being there himself.
• Li Unrivaled crushed three Earth Immortal Realm Demon Beasts and left the valley, while Ye Lin watched and inferred that she had been outschemed.
• Li Unrivaled returned to Ye Lin, admitted defeat, and left.
• The Jade Talisman summoned Ye Lin beside Bai Ziran, where Yang Xiu and Hong Yanran also arrived.
• Bai Ziran told them she thought she had discovered a huge secret.

Bai Ziran reported that powerful Demon Beasts had gathered in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range, prompting the group to return to Dao Heaven Sect. Back at his dojo, Ye Lin was confronted by Li Shanchang, who revealed that he knew Ye Lin was the Demon Subduer Holy Lord’s disciple.

• Bai Ziran told Hong Yanran that she had found more than ten True Immortal Demon Beasts, along with auras that might belong to Taiyi Mysterious Immortals.
• Hong Yanran concluded the Demon Beasts had likely come from other provinces, and she and Bai Ziran hurried to report the discovery to the Sect Master.
• Yang Xiu, Bai Ziran, Hong Yanran, and Ye Lin left the Myriad Demon Mountain Range and returned to Dao Heaven Sect.
• Ye Lin reflected that Yang Xiu had outmaneuvered Li Unrivaled and would be difficult to kill.
• Li Shanchang visited Ye Lin’s dojo and identified him as the Demon Subduer Holy Lord’s disciple, making Ye Lin draw his Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and demand to know how he had learned the secret.

Li Shanchang, a disciple of the Azure Cloud Sacred Land, approached Ye Lin and asked him to help kill Yang Xiu. Ye Lin refused and let Li Shanchang leave, while weighing the risk of exposing himself by killing him.

• Li Shanchang introduced himself as a personal disciple of the Azure Cloud Sacred Land's Third Elder and revealed that he knew Ye Lin was targeting Yang Xiu.
• Li Shanchang asked Ye Lin to help eliminate Yang Xiu, promising a generous reward.
• Li Shanchang threatened to join forces with Yang Xiu if Ye Lin refused.
• Ye Lin rejected the proposal and warned Li Shanchang that he would die if he acted against him.
• Li Shanchang left, and Ye Lin chose not to attack him to avoid exposing his identity.

After Li Shanchang killed Ye Lin’s five servants, Ye Lin left the Dao Heaven Sect to draw him out, but Li Shanchang did not appear. Ye Lin instead intervened when purple lightning destroyed two men about to kill a wounded boy.

• Li Shanchang left the grand hall, promised to teach Ye Lin a lesson, and departed while Ye Lin waited for his move.
• A day later, Ye Lin found Qingming, Mingyue, and his other three servants dead outside the hall.
• Ye Lin left the Dao Heaven Sect and wandered through the sky for three hours to lure Li Shanchang, but Li Shanchang never appeared.
• Ye Lin saw two masked men attack a wounded boy who was defending his sword, and the men knocked the boy down and raised their sabers to kill him.
• Purple lightning struck and vaporized the two masked men, leaving the boy to ask Ye Lin why he was there.

An Xin reunited with Ye Lin and told him that his mother had sacrificed herself to save him from a Demon Beast. Ye Lin comforted him, examined the green bracelet his mother had given him, and agreed to let him follow and cultivate with him.

• Ye Lin approached An Xin, who clung to him and said his mother was dead.
• An Xin explained that a Demon Beast had attacked them and his mother had lured it away, after which he had mysteriously arrived nearby.
• Ye Lin told An Xin not to assume his mother was dead without seeing her body.
• An Xin showed Ye Lin the green bracelet his mother had given him, and Ye Lin sensed something was wrong with it.
• An Xin asked to follow Ye Lin, cultivate, and avenge his mother by slaying the great demons, and Ye Lin agreed.