Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin followed Zhao Ling'er through the mist to a cave marked “Strange Cave,” guided by her ability to find directions. He reached its entrance, where eerie statues watched him, and discovered Zhao Ling'er had fallen asleep on his back.

• Zhao Ling'er asked Ye Lin whether he believed she was the real Ling'er, and he affirmed that she was.
• Zhao Ling'er offered to team up with Ye Lin and carried him on her back as she directed him through the mist.
• Ye Lin noticed that Zhao Ling'er's directions matched the locations of opportunities shown on her panel.
• Ye Lin arrived at a cave called Strange Cave, flanked by two unsettling statues.
• Ye Lin turned to speak to Zhao Ling'er and found her asleep on his shoulder.

Ye Lin carried the unresponsive Zhao Ling'er deeper into the strange cave, where he narrowly avoided a deadly attack. He was then surrounded by strange beings wearing Lu Changfeng’s and Qin Ziyan’s appearances, and “Qin Ziyan” urged him to move forward.

• Ye Lin carried Zhao Ling'er into the cave and pressed on through its bitter cold.
• Ye Lin dodged a fast-moving black shadow that left a pool of black liquid behind.
• Ye Lin continued cautiously and found that the cave walls blocked his divine sense.
• Two strange beings appeared around Ye Lin wearing Lu Changfeng’s and Qin Ziyan’s appearances.
• “Qin Ziyan” moved close to Ye Lin and told him to keep walking.

Ye Lin entered a cave with the impostors Lu Changfeng and Qin Ziyan, who urged him to destroy the eerie Sacred Tree and earn the Divine Kingdom’s favor. He refused to trust them and attacked with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.

• A young man was surrounded by eerie figures wearing familiar faces and fell without resisting.
• Ye Lin followed Lu Changfeng and two Qin Ziyan into a cave where a white Sacred Tree emitted gray mist.
• Qin Ziyan and Lu Changfeng claimed destroying the tree would wipe out the eerie stronghold and earn Ye Lin a place in the Divine Kingdom.
• Ye Lin refused their offer and prepared to leave with Zhao Ling'er on his back.
• Ye Lin summoned the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and sent it toward Lu Changfeng and the two Qin Ziyan.

Ye Lin suppressed the two aberrations disguised as Qin Ziyan and Lu Changfeng with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell. Zhao Ling'er offered to help him take advantage of Qin Ziyan, then used Dream Entry on an aberration to make it reveal what the Sacred Tree was.

• The disguised Lu Changfeng attacked Ye Lin while the disguised Qin Ziyan roared, but Ye Lin suppressed both aberrations with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.
• The aberration disguised as Lu Changfeng protested that it had saved Ye Lin's life, but its sound waves could not pass through the bell's light.
• Zhao Ling'er jumped down and offered to hold Qin Ziyan down for Ye Lin, shocking him with her suggestion.
• Ye Lin denied wanting that and demanded to know what the Sacred Tree was, while Zhao Ling'er complained that he had flicked her forehead.
• Zhao Ling'er used Dream Entry on one of the aberrations, causing its gaze to grow vacant.

Zhao Ling'er revealed a mysterious way to kill the strange creatures and explained that the Sacred Tree was the core of a formation trapping them. She and Ye Lin stood before the tree as she warned that destroying it would release the creatures into the Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin watched Zhao Ling'er kill a strange creature with her unexplained ability, then discovered it had no Primordial Spirit.
• Zhao Ling'er used her ability to kill the creature disguised as Lu Changfeng.
• Zhao Ling'er told Ye Lin that the star was a massive formation designed to trap the strange creatures, with the Sacred Tree as its core.
• Ye Lin asked Zhao Ling'er why the formation produced gray mist that blocked divine sense.

Zhao Ling'er explained that an ancient formation suppressed the strange aura on the star and prevented it from escaping, then led Ye Lin into a cave to investigate a promising discovery. They activated an ancient teleportation formation and arrived in a desolate place strewn with corpses.

• Zhao Ling'er told Ye Lin that a Golden Immortal had created a formation to contain the strange aura and keep the star's strange entities from escaping.
• Zhao Ling'er sensed something good in a dark cave and led Ye Lin inside, leaving behind figures that emerged to feed on two corpses.
• Zhao Ling'er found an ancient, damaged teleportation formation at the end of the cave and activated it with hand seals.
• Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er appeared in a pitch-black expanse where corpses from many races covered the ground.

Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er explored an ancient battlefield and discovered wisps of weak Chaos Qi, which Zhao Ling'er recognized as a rare body-refinement treasure. They tried to capture it, but Ye Lin's attempt left his palm cut open.

• Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er crossed a corpse-strewn battlefield where they found aberration corpses without any aberrant aura.
• They spotted purple-black wisps of gas, and Zhao Ling'er identified them as Chaos Qi from beyond the Star River Cosmos.
• Zhao Ling'er said the weak Chaos Qi was a body-refinement treasure and rushed to seize it, while Ye Lin also tried to capture a wisp.
• The Chaos Qi cut Ye Lin's palm and slipped free, leaving him astonished by its power.

Ye Lin tried to refine a weak strand of chaos qi to temper his body, but it rampaged through him and threatened his sea of consciousness. He suppressed and divided it with three powers, leaving the gentler fragments to strengthen his body.

• Ye Lin seized a strand of chaos qi and absorbed it with the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique.
• The chaos qi destroyed Ye Lin's meridians and internal organs as it moved toward his brain.
• Ye Lin activated the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, fiery red energy, and Phoenix Fire to suppress the chaos qi.
• The three powers pinned the chaos qi in Ye Lin's dantian and divided it into gentler fragments.
• The fragments tempered Ye Lin's body as his meridians rapidly healed and grew stronger.

Zhao Ling'er struggled to capture chaos qi while Ye Lin refined it with ease, rapidly strengthening his body. After three days, Zhao Ling'er finally refined one wisp and advanced her physical strength to the middle Heavenly Immortal realm.

• Zhao Ling'er repeatedly failed to catch chaos qi and injured her arms, but drew motivation from thinking that Ye Lin would take the fall for her.
• Ye Lin captured and swallowed his third wisp of chaos qi, relying on the forces within his body to suppress it.
• Ye Lin continued capturing chaos qi, eager to use it to strengthen his physical cultivation.
• After three days of effort, Zhao Ling'er refined one wisp of chaos qi and raised her physical strength from the early to the middle Heavenly Immortal realm.

Ye Lin reached the mid-stage True Immortal realm after refining 137 strands of Chaos qi, but found little Chaos qi left nearby. When Zhao Ling'er arrived, he pretended he had not refined any strands.

• Ye Lin tested his body with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and found that it could not pierce his skin.
• Ye Lin marveled at his immense physical strength and rapid progress in body cultivation.
• Ye Lin realized he had nearly exhausted the Chaos qi in the area.
• Zhao Ling'er told Ye Lin she had refined only one strand of Chaos qi and asked how many he had refined.
• Ye Lin played along, telling Zhao Ling'er he had not successfully refined a single strand.

Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er witnessed a blood-red moon revive the dead and unleash a war across the world. They remained untouched as the battlefield began tearing apart the continent and the firmament, and Ye Lin saw a strange being destroy a galaxy cluster with one attack.

• Zhao Ling'er comforted Ye Lin, believing he had failed to refine the Chaos Qi.
• A blood-red moon appeared, and the creatures that had died rose again with scarlet eyes and took up their weapons.
• The revived creatures plunged into battle, while powerful figures clashed in the sky and shook the world.
• Ye Lin grabbed Zhao Ling'er and fled, but they discovered that the fighting creatures could not see them.
• The earth and firmament broke apart as the battle escalated, and Ye Lin saw a strange being destroy a galaxy cluster with a casual strike.

Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er escaped a devastating battle in the past after a powerful expert sent them back through time. They returned to the cave and Ye Lin realized the formation had brought them to a battlefield caught in a cycle of replayed events.

• Zhao Ling'er clung to Ye Lin as they witnessed a strike destroy a cluster of star systems.
• A mysterious voice warned Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er to leave, then sent them back to the cave and the shattered teleportation formation.
• Zhao Ling'er checked that they were safe and described the terrifying battle they had witnessed.
• Ye Lin deduced that the formation had taken them to a past battlefield where battles replayed when Hong Yue appeared.
• Ye Lin concluded that the expert who returned them possessed power far beyond his own mastery of the Dao of Time.

Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er hid from a large group of strange creatures using the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, but the creatures sealed every cave exit. Zhao Ling'er sized up the enemies and asked Ye Lin to handle the weaker ones while she fought the three at the peak of the True Immortal realm.

• Zhao Ling'er and Ye Lin returned to the main hall and found the remains of the strange creatures they had killed scattered across the ground.
• Ye Lin sensed many powerful auras approaching and used the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell to conceal himself and Zhao Ling'er.
• Lin Yunlu appeared and explained that the bell's concealment ability could hide them even from a Grand Unity Mysterious Immortal.
• The strange creatures failed to find Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er, then sealed all three cave entrances.
• Zhao Ling'er counted the creatures' cultivation levels and asked Ye Lin to fight the weaker ones while she took on the three peak True Immortals.

Ye Lin unleashed his powerful physique and fought off the aberrations while Zhao Ling'er held back several of them. Zhao Ling'er warned him that they were in the formation's core, and they lured the pursuing aberrations out of the cave, where they surrounded her.

• Zhao Ling'er activated her mysterious power while Ye Lin activated his Divine Body and strengthened his defenses with crimson talismans.
• Ye Lin killed and battered aberrations with his fists, terrifying them with his strength and causing them to flee.
• Zhao Ling'er told Ye Lin to draw the aberrations outside so the formation's core would not be destroyed, then led a swarm toward a cave.
• Ye Lin followed Zhao Ling'er out of the cave, where the aberrations surrounded her and stared at her with strange smiles.

Zhao Ling'er summoned savage beasts and unleashed a powerful attack that crushed the Aberrants, but the effort left her exhausted. After she fell asleep on Ye Lin's back, he continued onward through the gray mist.

• Zhao Ling'er sent conjured savage beasts to fight the Aberrants while Ye Lin observed their claw-based combat.
• Zhao Ling'er summoned Tianhua's phantom and unleashed a crushing attack that made the Aberrants flee.
• The phantom's green pillar of light struck the battlefield, destroying the Aberrants and reducing the surrounding land to ruins.
• Zhao Ling'er fell asleep from exhaustion, and Ye Lin carried her forward as the gray mist returned.

Ye Lin followed Zhao Ling'er's guidance through the ruins toward a Sword Mountain, where her status panel revealed the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor. He decided not to forcefully claim her opportunity and left his next move for when they reached the sword.

• After walking for two hours through ruins, Ye Lin found no anomalies and could not tell which direction he was heading.
• Zhao Ling'er, already falling asleep again, told Ye Lin to keep going straight because she sensed something drawing her ahead.
• Ye Lin read Zhao Ling'er's status panel and learned that a Sword Mountain lay a hundred li ahead, with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor at its summit.
• Ye Lin considered taking the sword but decided to continue onward and judge the situation when they arrived.

Ye Lin entered Sword Mountain to face the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor's artifact spirit trial, knowing he could not force the supreme artifact to submit. As he climbed the mountain's narrow path, his Sword Dao essence awakened countless swords, and he wondered whether they belonged to experts who had died in an ancient battle.

• Ye Lin considered the difficulty of destroying and replacing a supreme artifact's spirit and continued into the Sword Mountain trial.
• Ye Lin followed a narrow, winding path up the black mountain through dense gray and black mist.
• Ye Lin heard swords trembling and felt Sword Dao essence gathering around him.
• Ye Lin summoned his Dao essence, causing hundreds of swords of various grades and conditions to rise and circle him.
• The number of swords around Ye Lin grew to more than a thousand, leading him to suspect they had belonged to fallen experts from an ancient battle.

Ye Lin reached the summit and found the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, whose overwhelming sword Dao charm revealed a vision of its terrifying former master. Zhao Ling'er was thrown back and wounded when she tried to take the sword, and Ye Lin began using his Destruction Sword Dao to remove the baleful aura from her hand.

• Ye Lin sensed a powerful unfamiliar sword Dao charm and climbed to the summit despite its pressure suppressing his Destruction Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin discovered the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and saw a vision of its master seated above a river of blood in a destroyed starry sky.
• Zhao Ling'er awakened and reached for the sword, which erupted with crimson light and sent her flying.
• Ye Lin caught Zhao Ling'er, then found her hand bleeding and sensed that the sword's Blood Baleful aura and Dao charm threatened to ruin it.
• Ye Lin took Zhao Ling'er's injured hand and used his Destruction Sword Dao to drive away the mysterious sword Dao charm.

Lu Changfeng and Lu Unrivaled continued searching for their destination, while Ye Lin attempted to subdue the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor. After its artifact spirit injured his Primordial Spirit, Ye Lin unleashed his aura against the sword.

• Lu Changfeng questioned Lu Unrivaled's directions, but Lu Unrivaled pointed down the only path and walked ahead.
• Zhao Ling'er gave up on subduing the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, and Ye Lin stepped forward to try.
• Ye Lin resisted the sword's Blood Baleful qi and prevented it from controlling him.
• Ye Lin sent his divine sense into the sword, but its force blasted him back and injured his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin erupted with a violent aura and pressed it down upon the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.

Ye Lin subdued the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and entered its inner space to confront its slumbering artifact spirit. He tried to persuade it to follow him and recover, but it gave no response.

• Ye Lin suppressed the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor until it stopped resisting, while Zhao Ling'er watched from a distance.
• Ye Lin guarded himself with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and sent his divine sense into the sword.
• Ye Lin found a wounded, sleeping figure in the sword’s crimson inner space and recognized it as the artifact spirit.
• Ye Lin urged the artifact spirit to follow him and warned that it would never recover on its own, but it remained silent.