Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin followed a jade butterfly along a strange white road until a sinister fortune-teller made the butterfly disappear. Ye Lin approached the old man and asked him not to hinder his urgent business.

• Ye Lin chased the jade butterfly onto a moonlit road surrounded by white trees and forests.
• An old man beneath a tree offered to tell Ye Lin’s fortune, while a motionless child in red sat beside him.
• Ye Lin refused the offer, but the jade butterfly vanished when he looked away.
• Ye Lin realized the old man was responsible and respectfully asked him not to make things difficult for him.

Ye Lin asked an old fortune-teller how to leave, and the old man transported him to the outskirts of Tianyong City. Ye Lin reached the city gate seeking supplies and the Calamity-Transcending Stone, while keeping the jade butterfly for finding Shen Junxue and the others.

• Ye Lin paid the old man to divine how he could leave, and the old man said the road was right before his eyes.
• The old man pointed ahead, and Ye Lin suddenly appeared on a grassland outside Tianyong City as the jade butterfly fluttered before him.
• Ye Lin reflected on the old man's unfathomable power, then prioritized obtaining the Calamity-Transcending Stone.
• Ye Lin put on his mask, hid the jade butterfly in his robes, and headed for the city gate.
• A golden-armored soldier questioned Ye Lin, who claimed he had come from the wilderness and slipped the soldier several low-grade immortal stones.

Ye Lin entered Tianyong City and saw how desperate life had become for the immortals trapped in Water Moon Grotto-Heaven. He went to Jade Fragrance Pavilion to exchange Calamity-Transcending Stones, where the clerk recognized his Spatial Ring as a sign that he was either powerful or a newcomer.

• Ye Lin entered Tianyong City after being warned he could stay for only three hours without household registration.
• Ye Lin saw weakened immortals lying along the road and realized he might suffer the same fate if he could not escape Water Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Several people watched Ye Lin from behind with ill intent as he walked toward the city.
• Ye Lin entered Jade Fragrance Pavilion and asked to exchange his Calamity-Transcending Stones.
• The middle-aged demon clerk saw Ye Lin's Spatial Ring and suspected he was a newcomer.

Ye Lin learned how Calamity-Transcending Stones reduced the accumulating suppression in Water Moon Grotto-Heaven and how Tianyong City priced them. He realized the stones only delayed death and that powerful figures likely controlled the city’s supply.

• A middle-aged man counted Ye Lin’s bags and said their value was almost enough for a third-grade Calamity-Transcending Stone.
• Ye Lin secretly read information about the stones with his divine sense without the middle-aged man noticing.
• Ye Lin learned that the three grades reduced daily suppression by thirty, fifty, and eighty percent for different durations.
• The middle-aged man explained that nine of Ye Lin’s items could buy a second-grade stone, while immortal stones could also be exchanged for them.
• Ye Lin concluded that Tianyong City’s rulers were gathering resources and likely had a Taiyi Profound Immortal supporting their monopoly.

Ye Lin bought nine second-grade and three third-grade Calamity-Transcending Stones in Tianyong City, then left with Rain Butterfly. Thirteen refugees ambushed him for the stones, but he easily knocked them all away.

• Ye Lin exchanged thirty thousand low-grade immortal stones for nine second-grade and three third-grade Calamity-Transcending Stones.
• The middle-aged merchant warned Ye Lin to keep the stones in a Spatial Ring, and Ye Lin left Tianyong City with them.
• Ye Lin sensed that he was being watched as he crossed a white grassland with Rain Butterfly.
• Thirteen figures surrounded Ye Lin and demanded that he hand over some Calamity-Transcending Stones.
• The attackers charged, and Ye Lin sent them flying with a casual burst of force.

Ye Lin learned that the people in Water Moon Grotto-Heaven had taken up martial cultivation because the realm lacked Immortal Qi and resources. After killing the young men who had attacked him, he continued with Jade Butterfly and returned to Jade Rose and the others at their shelter.

• The young man explained that Water Moon Grotto-Heaven's inhabitants turned to martial cultivation because they lacked Immortal Qi and needed flesh and blood to survive.
• The young man began to guess Ye Lin's cultivation realm, but Ye Lin shattered his head with a flick of his finger.
• Ye Lin killed the other young men to prevent them from spreading information about him.
• Ye Lin hurried onward with Jade Butterfly and returned to the shelter, where Jade Rose and the others sat around a bonfire.

Ye Lin returned safely with the Calamity-Transcending Stone and asked Jade Rose to explain Mirror Moon Land and the Water Moon Grotto-Heaven. He learned about its eight mysterious regions and the unexplained death of a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal, leaving his hopes of finding an exit uncertain.

• Ye Lin returned to the shelter and gave Jade Rose the Calamity-Transcending Stone, temporarily resolving the women’s crisis.
• Ye Lin asked Jade Rose to explain the continent and the Water Moon Grotto-Heaven so he could find a way out.
• Jade Rose described Mirror Moon Land’s eight regions, including Mirror Moon Forest and Blazing Fire Prairie, and said the group knew the others only by hearsay.
• Jade Rose warned Ye Lin that a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal had explored all eight regions for a hundred thousand years and then died suddenly.
• Ye Lin realized that even reaching the mid-stage Taiyi Mysterious Immortal might not help him escape the grotto-heaven.

Wang Feng and Tianyong City’s soldiers surrounded Ye Lin, Jade Rose, Niu Hanshan, and Shen Junxue, demanding their Spatial Rings. Shen Junxue refused and unleashed her Blazing Sun flames, leaving the confrontation on the verge of a fight.

• Jade Rose gave Ye Lin and the others Calamity-Transcending Stones after Niu Hanshan warned that trouble was approaching.
• Wang Feng arrived with armored soldiers and greeted Jade Rose, saying his group had come for Ye Lin.
• Wang Feng recognized Ye Lin as a newcomer and demanded his Spatial Ring, then made the same demand of Shen Junxue.
• Jade Rose challenged Tianyong City’s authority, but Wang Feng boasted that the city made the rules and offered her a place at his side.
• Shen Junxue rejected Wang Feng’s demand and summoned golden flames with her Blazing Sun technique.

Wang Feng’s soldiers used rune-covered chains to suppress Shen Junxue’s strength, leaving her trapped beneath a descending iron net. Jade Rose sent Ye Lin to wait while she, Niu Hanshan, and Jade Ruyi charged to rescue Shen Junxue.

• Jade Rose warned Ye Lin that the chains could suppress even an Immortal Realm cultivator and urged him to find a chance to escape.
• Wang Feng ordered his soldiers to reveal their chains and attack Shen Junxue.
• Shen Junxue sent golden flame Dragons against the soldiers, but their chain formation destroyed the Dragons.
• The soldiers formed an iron net that steadily suppressed Shen Junxue’s strength and threatened to bind her.
• Jade Rose told Ye Lin to stay back, then charged at the soldiers with Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi to save Shen Junxue.

Ye Lin asked Lin Yunlu to see if she could break the chains holding Shen Junxue, while Jade Rose fought Wang Feng over his role in the capture. The remaining soldiers moved to form a formation around Ye Lin and Lin Yunlu.

• Ye Lin took out the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell as Jade Rose charged toward the soldiers holding Shen Junxue.
• Jade Rose and Niu Hanshan killed silver-armored soldiers, but the iron net remained unchanged.
• Wang Feng confronted Jade Rose, and they began fighting hand to hand.
• Lin Yunlu arrived and agreed to examine the chains after Ye Lin asked whether she could break them.
• The remaining soldiers began closing in on Ye Lin and Lin Yunlu and called for a formation.

Lin Yunlu tried to escape the golden-armored soldiers’ iron net with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, but the soldiers captured the bell and severed Ye Lin’s connection to it. A soldier identified it as a Supreme Artifact and picked it up.

• The golden-armored soldiers trapped Lin Yunlu beneath an iron net reinforced by a black dome.
• Lin Yunlu summoned the Mysterious Yellow Twin Qi and called forth an elderly Daoist, who shattered the iron net with one strike before fading away.
• The soldiers dropped the iron net over Lin Yunlu, and she hid inside the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.
• The iron net enclosed the bell and severed Ye Lin’s connection to it.
• A golden-armored soldier put on a black glove and picked up the bell, recognizing it as a Supreme Artifact.

Ye Lin’s attacks failed against the golden stones carried by the gold-armored soldiers, leaving him unable to stop them from suppressing Shen Junxue, Jade Rose, and the others. As Ye Lin faced despair, an unknown voice remarked that even he could run into trouble.

• Ye Lin realized the soldiers’ gloves isolated the chains and seized a gold-armored soldier, but a silver-armored soldier used a golden stone to knock him down.
• Ye Lin struck the soldiers with a palm attack, but the gold-armored soldier used the stone to shatter it.
• The gold-armored soldier wrapped the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell in black cloth and ordered his companions to surround Ye Lin with their Soul-Suppressing Locks.
• Ye Lin’s Great Sun and Time Stop techniques were both blocked by the golden stones.
• Ye Lin saw Shen Junxue nearly suppressed and Jade Rose and the others in danger, then heard an unknown voice comment that even he could run into trouble.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar gave Ye Lin a trace of its divinity, allowing him to break free of the chains’ suppression and defeat the soldiers. After rescuing Shen Junxue, Ye Lin turned his attention to Wang Feng, who was fighting three opponents.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the chains contained Primordial Unity Golden Immortal divinity and Soul-Suppressing Crystal aura, then offered Ye Lin protection lasting half an hour.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar sent a trace of its divinity into Ye Lin, and he charged at the soldiers.
• Ye Lin’s punch destroyed the soldiers and left a massive ravine, while the chains became powerless against his aura.
• Ye Lin reached Shen Junxue and snapped his fingers, turning the soldiers around her and their chains to ash.
• Shen Junxue asked how Ye Lin had defeated the soldiers, and Ye Lin looked toward Wang Feng as he fought three opponents.

Ye Lin defeated Wang Feng and his soldiers despite the Soul-Suppressing Lock, but Wang Feng vanished before he could explain the chains. Ye Lin suspected a hidden Taiyi Mystic Immortal was involved, while Jade Rose insisted Tianyong City had none.

• Ye Lin lifted Wang Feng into the air and demanded to know the origin of the Soul-Suppressing Lock, then destroyed Wang Feng’s arms.
• Wang Feng began explaining the lock but disappeared without a trace, leaving Ye Lin unable to detect what had taken him.
• Jade Rose asked Ye Lin how he resisted the Soul-Suppressing Lock, and he kept the reason secret.
• Ye Lin asked whether Tianyong City had any Taiyi Mystic Immortals, and Jade Rose said it did not.
• Ye Lin told Jade Rose that Wang Feng had vanished from his grasp and suspected a Taiyi Mystic Immortal had intervened.

After Wang Feng escaped, Jade Rose and the others feared Tianyong City might have a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal protecting it, but Ye Lin decided they had to return there to seek a way out of Water Moon Grotto-Heaven. Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi began recruiting allies to challenge Tianyong City’s monopoly on Calamity-Transcending Stones.

• Jade Rose concluded that a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal might have descended into Water Moon Grotto-Heaven and worried that Tianyong City would retaliate after Wang Feng escaped.
• Niu Hanshan offered to follow Ye Lin to Tianyong City, suggesting its long history and knowledge of Water Moon Grotto-Heaven might help them find a way out.
• Ye Lin decided to return to Tianyong City, and Shen Junxue agreed that escaping was preferable to remaining trapped.
• Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi began contacting friends to gather allies against Tianyong City.
• Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi explained that many cultivators resented Tianyong City for monopolizing Calamity-Transcending Stones and forcing them to work for a chance to survive.

Ye Lin learned that many of Water Moon Grotto-Heaven’s imprisoned prodigies wanted to overthrow Tianyong City, despite the threat posed by its old monsters. Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi gathered a crowd willing to follow Ye Lin’s plan to obtain Tianyong City’s records and seek a way out.

• Jade Rose explained that desperate prisoners were considering rebellion, though Tianyong City’s suspected Taiyi Profound Immortal elders remained a major obstacle.
• More prisoners arrived after Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi summoned them, and Shen Junxue woke as the crowd gathered.
• Niu Hanshan told the crowd that Ye Lin wanted Tianyong City’s records to find a way out and that a clash with the city would be unavoidable.
• The prisoners offered to help Ye Lin, saying they would rather risk death than remain trapped.
• An older man told Ye Lin he was the third person to attempt this and that he was still willing to follow him.

Ye Lin learned why cultivators who entered Water Moon Grotto-Heaven had willingly attacked Tianyong City despite knowing they would die, and he resolved to gather information before leading anyone there. The group offered him maps, tunnels, and intelligence about the city’s personnel.

• Ye Lin and the others understood why earlier cultivators had launched doomed attacks against Tianyong City after enduring Water Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Lin recognized how the grotto-heaven had broken the Dao hearts of even powerful cultivators, and Shen Junxue stood solemnly beside him.
• Ye Lin said they needed to learn about Tianyong City before attempting to enter it.
• A decrepit old man gave Ye Lin a detailed map of Tianyong City that he had made after lurking nearby for thirty million years.
• A plump man gave Ye Lin plans for fifty tunnels he had dug beneath the city.
• Another cultivator offered to share his research on Tianyong City’s personnel distribution.

A young girl explained Tianyong City's ranks and forces, while its oppressed residents revealed their contacts and resources to Ye Lin and Shen Junxue. The old man warned that resistance could not succeed without experts capable of standing against the city's powerful upper echelons.

• A young girl described Tianyong City's Bronze Armor, Silver Armor, and Gold Armor ranks, along with its Immortal Realm upper echelons and rumored Grand Unity Mysterious Immortals.
• Several residents offered Ye Lin their contacts, passwords, and knowledge of Tianyong City's treasury and information stores.
• Ye Lin and Shen Junxue were stunned that so many people in Tianyong City appeared willing to help them.
• The old man warned Ye Lin that the upper echelons had crushed two previous resistance wars and could only be challenged by powerful experts.

Ye Lin learned that most cultivators who entered Water Moon Grotto-Heaven were suppressed and forced into labor by Tianyong City. He decided to raid the city for its information about the grotto-heaven and Calamity-Transcending Stones, and the group prepared to move in twelve hours.

• Ye Lin asked where the many cultivators who descended into Water Moon Grotto-Heaven had gone.
• A cultivator explained that few reached the Mirror Moon Continent or Tianyong City, where newcomers were suppressed, robbed, imprisoned, and eventually made to work for the city.
• Ye Lin chose to target Tianyong City's accumulated information about Water Moon Grotto-Heaven and its Calamity-Transcending Stones, with fighting as a secondary concern.
• The group agreed to rest and plan for twelve hours before acting, and a cultivator promised to lead Ye Lin to the information treasury using its password.

Ye Lin prepared to use the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar’s divinity against Tianyong City as allies assembled for an assault. After twenty shichen, the operation was ready, and the group planned to infiltrate the city through an underground passage and signal the others to attack.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the chain contained a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal’s divinity and Soul-Suppressing Crystal, making it powerful enough to suppress supreme artifacts.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar offered Ye Lin its divinity for half a shichen at a time and asked him to help it devour Tianyong City to recover.
• Ye Lin waited while the gathered figures prepared their plan, and twenty shichen passed as Tianyong City sent soldiers to patrol the surrounding area.
• A young man reported that thirty-six thousand, eight hundred and fifty-four cultivators were ready to participate in the operation.
• The group planned for three people to escort Ye Lin through an underground passage to the intelligence and Calamity-Transcending Stone, after which Ye Lin would signal the others to attack Tianyong City.