Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin overwhelmed Iron Fist in battle, destroying his Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation and exhausting his power. Ye Lin tried to kill him, but Iron Fist fled, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Ye Lin used Nine Heavens Divine Thunder and Saint-Falling Fist to strike Iron Fist, who was shocked and enraged that Ye Lin still had not drawn his sword.
• Iron Fist fired arrows at Ye Lin, but Ye Lin smashed them aside as Iron Fist's immortal power dwindled.
• Iron Fist unleashed nine arrows with Wind-Chasing, break, but Ye Lin's Nine Stars Shining Sun suppressed them.
• Ye Lin struck Iron Fist and shattered his Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, leaving him lying in a massive crater.
• Ye Lin moved to kill Iron Fist, but Iron Fist, drained of power, rolled over and fled.

Ye Lin killed Iron Fist with a fiery arrow, and the other seven of the Eight Suns fell as well. As factions sought new patrons and turned their attention to Ye Lin, he remained unaware of the changes in Sacred King City.

• Ye Lin used his fiery red longbow to kill Iron Fist and destroy his Primordial Spirit.
• The watching beings were shocked as news and signs of the deaths of Ghost Shaman Venerable, Blast Bear Venerable, Spirit Shaman Venerable, Dragon Ao Venerable, Venerable Tianxiong, and Venerable Isa appeared.
• Jian Feng stood atop a divine sword beside Blazing Sun Venerable's corpse, marking the fall of the last of the Eight Suns.
• News of the Eight Suns' deaths spread through Sacred King City, nearby cities, and half the Demon Domain.
• The factions that had served the Eight Suns sought new patrons and chose Ye Lin as their preferred target for allegiance.
• Ye Lin remained unaware that the major factions were turning to him.

After defeating Iron Fist, Ye Lin gained his fortune and learned that it protected him from attacks by ordinary True Immortals. He joined Shui Linglong and the others to investigate the Human Emperor Seal, while Jian Feng ordered the gathered races to withdraw.

• Poison Venerable explained that Ye Lin's newly acquired fortune would deter ordinary True Immortals from attacking him and could inflict terrifying backlash.
• Shui Linglong invited Ye Lin to join the group in place of Jian Unrivaled, and Ye Lin agreed after learning they were going to investigate the Human Emperor Seal.
• Shui Linglong asked Tianyi to lead the way, and Tianyi placed his hand on the earth to sense their destination.
• Jian Feng told the surrounding beings that the battle was over and ordered them to withdraw before the group searched for the Human Emperor Seal.
• An expert above the clouds complained that Jian Feng was being domineering.

Jian Feng killed a late-stage True Immortal with one sword strike, driving away the surrounding experts. Unable to locate where Eight Suns were refining the Human Emperor Seal, Tianyi’s group suspected it was in the sky and headed for the Heaven-Facing Road.

• Jian Feng killed a fish-tailed late-stage True Immortal with one sword strike, frightening away more than a thousand experts.
• Tianyi searched the surrounding earth veins but could not find a cave abode or any sign of where the Human Emperor Seal was being refined.
• Wu Daozi and Shui Linglong discussed how the refining site should be near Sacred King City and difficult to conceal from Tianyi.
• Ye Lin suggested that the refining site might be in the sky, and his companions followed his gaze toward the Heaven-Facing Road.
• Nine streaks of light, including Poison Venerable, flew toward the Heaven-Facing Road.

After killing Iron Fist, Ye Lin checked his panel and found that his luck had risen to 110,000 as his reputation spread through the Thousand Cities Alliance. As he and his companions traveled along Heaven-Facing Road, the four sects enjoyed a surge in status and influence, while their leaders faced a flood of visitors hoping to reach Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin checked his panel, saw his luck had climbed from 5,000 to 110,000, and attributed the increase to the impact of killing Iron Fist.
• Ye Lin reflected that the great era forced people to keep growing stronger or risk being killed, then traveled with the group along Heaven-Facing Road.
• The disciples of the four sects gained status and resources as visitors sought their help to join Ye Lin, and former enemies came to reconcile.
• Chen Feng, Chen Yang, Void, and Xia Yu met after their sects gave them broad authority to represent their forces.
• Xia Yu said countless powerful figures had crowded into Divine Mountain, hoping to meet Ye Lin after hearing that it had been the first force to favor Blood Baleful.

Chen Yang and the others planned how to screen factions seeking to join them and cautiously approach the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance. Meanwhile, Ye Lin’s group reached the end of the Heaven-Facing Road, where Tianyi stepped forward to face a puppet.

• Void warned that the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance was far more dangerous than the Thousand Cities Alliance and urged the others to infiltrate it cautiously.
• Chen Yang said he had sent people to contact the nearest Ten Thousand Cities Alliance, and Chen Feng told everyone to screen interested factions and prepare a list for Ye Lin.
• The group on the Heaven-Facing Road sensed they were being watched, and Poison Venerable explained that someone might be spying from the shadows.
• The group reached an island with eight open spaces and a puppet in each one.
• Tianyi entered one of the open spaces, awakening its puppet, which taunted him about taking a beating.

Tianyi and Ye Lin defeated the Iron Fist and Spirit Shaman puppets, opening paths to a heavenly road and a majestic palace. The group gathered at the palace, which Shui Linglong believed was where the Human Emperor Seal had been forged, and Tianyi attacked its closed gates.

• Tianyi destroyed the Iron Fist puppet, causing a heavenly road to appear before the island.
• Poison Venerable yielded his chance to enter a path to Ye Lin, who defeated the Spirit Shaman puppet with lightning and tore off its head.
• Tianyi and the other challengers followed their roads to the palace, while those who had not secured a path were left behind.
• Shui Linglong identified the palace as the likely place where the Human Emperor Seal had been forged.
• Tianyi punched the palace's tightly shut gates.

Tianyi and the others entered the palace and found the Human Emperor Seal drawing providence from thousands of cocoons. Jian Feng discovered that the cocoons held missing Human Race prodigies, including Tang Qing, and began breaking them open.

• Tianyi shattered the palace gates, revealing the Human Emperor Seal floating at the center of a vast chamber.
• Tianyi admired the Human Emperor’s ambition as Ye Lin sensed the dense providence filling the palace.
• Wu Daozi broke a cocoon and found Tang Qing inside, unconscious and in agony as golden light flowed from her into the seal.
• Wu Daozi recalled that their group had watched Eight Suns’ plans, hoping to claim the Human Emperor Seal after Eight Suns completed their work.
• Jian Feng grew uneasy, drew his sword, and shattered more cocoons, revealing thousands of missing Human Race prodigies, including Wang Feng, Zhao Long, and Void.

Jian Feng learned that Eight Suns had used Human Race prodigies to forge the Human Emperor Seal, and his fury and grief drove him to claim the treasure. He left Ye Lin to handle matters there while he went to deal with affairs in the outer starry sky.

• Jian Feng realized that Eight Suns had stripped Human Race prodigies of their destiny and bloodlines to forge the Human Emperor Seal.
• Zhan Unrivaled explained that the Human Race's destiny and bloodline had been used to steal the supreme treasure's power.
• Jian Feng demanded the Human Emperor Seal, and the others agreed that it belonged with him and accepted his promise of compensation.
• Jian Feng took the seal and mourned the tens of thousands of prodigies whose lives and cultivation prospects had been ruined.
• Jian Feng asked Ye Lin to handle matters there while he dealt with affairs in the outer starry sky, and Ye Lin agreed.

After discovering the truth behind the Human Emperor Seal, Jian Feng left to deal with the forces involved, while Ye Lin prepared for the Central Land. Ye Lin then ordered his followers to exclude every force that had once served Eight Suns from Sacred King City and the Thousand Cities Alliance.

• Jian Feng left the group, intending to address the matter of how the Human Emperor Seal had been forged.
• The others departed for the Central Land, and Shui Linglong urged Ye Lin to come there as well.
• Ye Lin returned to the inn, where Chen Yang presented a list of forces seeking refuge.
• Ye Lin ordered his followers to reject all forces that had once attached themselves to Eight Suns and to bar them from Sacred King City and the Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin's followers were stunned as he considered the Central Domain's importance as a hub connecting the Demon Domain's races and forces.

Ye Lin ordered his allies to drive the forces once affiliated with Eight Suns out of the Central Domain, while reassuring them that the Demon Domain would be dealt with elsewhere. After learning that a Karma Pearl would be auctioned in ten years, he became eager to obtain its karma Dao resonance.

• Chen Yang warned Ye Lin that expelling the Eight Suns forces could provoke dozens or hundreds of True Immortal forces and ignite widespread wars.
• Ye Lin said someone would handle the forces in the Demon Domain and explained that distance protected Central Domain forces from retaliation by distant enemies.
• Chen Yang gave Ye Lin a list showing that no Eight Suns forces had yet joined the forces watching from the sidelines, and Ye Lin handed the list back without studying it.
• Void told Ye Lin that the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance would auction a Karma Pearl in ten years, containing a trace of karma Dao resonance.
• Ye Lin reacted with greed because the resonance could help him inscribe karma Dao laws and perfect his domain.

Ye Lin sought supreme-grade immortal stones to bid for the Karma Pearl and ordered his allies to seize them from the Eight Suns forces and coordinate attacks on other True Immortal forces. His allies were eager to begin the campaign that would put them in conflict with the wider Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin learned that the Karma Pearl auction required supreme-grade immortal stones, which Void said were scarce even among powerful True Immortal forces.
• Ye Lin ordered his allies to purge the Eight Suns forces in Sacred King City and take any supreme-grade immortal stones they found.
• Ye Lin proposed that the forces behind Void and the others cooperate to conquer the remaining True Immortal forces, leaving him only the supreme-grade immortal stones.
• Void and the others became excited as Ye Lin's plan brought them to the point of launching their campaign.

Ye Lin organized the four allied sects to expand their influence and ordered a cleanup of the Human Race prodigies at the end of the Heaven-Facing Road. The chapter left Chen Yang and the others poised to use the prodigies’ powerful backers against Eight Suns’s forces.

• Ye Lin explained how following the same prodigy had united the four sects and proposed waging war against forces that had chosen no side.
• Void agreed to the campaign and planned to borrow experts from the Forbidden Sect and Boundless Sacred Land to wipe out the Minotaur Clan.
• Ye Lin ordered the four leaders to handle tens of thousands of Human Race prodigies at the end of the Heaven-Facing Road and let their forces claim them.
• Ye Lin instructed them to tell the claiming forces that Eight Suns and its followers were responsible for the prodigies’ suffering.
• Ye Lin told the leaders to seek his or Poison Venerable’s help if they met resistance, expecting the prodigies’ backers to retaliate against Eight Suns’s forces.

While Ye Lin secluded himself to cultivate, Chen Yang and the other three exposed the truth about Eight Suns’ factions, triggering a bloody purge across the Thousand Cities Alliance. The four sects took control of nearly every city except Sacred King City and gained eighteen new factions under Ye Lin’s command.

• Ye Lin began secluded cultivation, but his progress toward the late True Immortal stage remained stalled.
• Chen Yang and the other three reached the hall at the end of the Divine Mountain and understood why Ye Lin had sent them there.
• Chen Yang and the others spread the truth about the situation and identified the factions behind Eight Suns, prompting Human Race prodigies to flock to the Thousand Cities Alliance.
• The prodigies massacred members of Eight Suns’ factions and destroyed their shops as True Immortal powerhouses fought across the cities.
• The four sects took control of every city in the Thousand Cities Alliance except Sacred King City, and eighteen more factions joined Ye Lin’s command.

The Shu Mountain Sword Sect purged the factions that had harmed Jian Feng’s clansmen, shocking the Demon Domain and prompting rival powers to send their successors to the Central Domain. Meanwhile, Ye Lin’s four sects took full control of the Thousand Cities Alliance and profited from its trade, leaving expelled factions desperate to return.

• Jian Feng knelt before the Sect Master Hall for three days, and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect sent three Taiyi Mysterious Immortals to destroy the factions that had attacked his clansmen.
• The Shu Mountain Sword Sect’s purge shocked the Demon Domain and prompted its rival forces to send their successors to the Central Domain.
• Ye Lin’s four sects gained complete control of the Thousand Cities Alliance, while eighteen newly arrived factions also benefited from the takeover.
• The four sects and eighteen factions charged outsiders monthly land rental fees equal to twenty percent of their trading profits.
• After factions that opposed the fees were expelled, their sect masters apologized and paid far greater sums to regain access to the Thousand Cities Alliance.

After ten years of cultivation, Ye Lin awoke to learn that the Four Sects had consolidated the Thousand Cities Alliance and gathered 300,000 premium immortal stones for him. With an auction in ten days, he set out toward the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance as Sacred King City prospered under the Four Sects’ rule.

• Over ten years, the Four Sects and eighteen allied factions conquered Starry Sky and gathered resources while expanding their power.
• Ye Lin awoke from secluded cultivation and met Chen Yang and the other three, who reported that the Thousand Cities Alliance was under their control.
• Chen Yang told Ye Lin that they had collected 300,000 premium immortal stones through seizures and exchanges.
• Void informed Ye Lin that an auction would be held in ten days and that arrangements had been made in the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin agreed to set out immediately and walked through the prosperous Sacred King City.

Ye Lin learned that Poison Venerable had departed for the Central Land and set off by cloud vessel for the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance. As the vessel crossed the Central Domain, Ye Lin saw the immense ferocious beasts inhabiting its primordial wilderness.

• Void told Ye Lin that the cloud vessel had stopped outside the city, and Ye Lin asked where Poison Venerable was.
• Xia Yu gave Ye Lin a letter from Poison Venerable, who had left ten years earlier with a message saying he would wait in the Central Land.
• Ye Lin burned the letter and told Void to lead the group to the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin and his companions boarded the cloud vessel and traveled across the Central Domain toward the alliance.
• Ye Lin watched giant apes, enormous pythons, and other powerful ferocious beasts from the cloud vessel.

Lin Yunlu awoke from her long slumber and asked Ye Lin for delicious food, so he left the cloud vessel to hunt a giant beast. Ye Lin suppressed a late True Immortal flying tiger with his Great Sun technique, while the surrounding land and beasts were devastated.

• Void offered to catch ferocious beasts for Ye Lin to eat as they traveled through the Central Domain.
• Lin Yunlu suddenly appeared on Ye Lin's shoulder, and Ye Lin reassured Void and the others that she was his companion.
• Lin Yunlu told Ye Lin she was fine after sleeping for many days and wanted something delicious to eat.
• Ye Lin left the cloud vessel and targeted a late True Immortal winged flying tiger.
• Ye Lin used Great Sun, Descend to the Mortal World to suppress the flying tiger, incinerating countless beasts and triggering a massive earthquake.

Ye Lin defeated a Flying Tiger and continued toward the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance, but his cloud vessel was forced to stop when the Third Prince of the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty called for help against assassins. Ye Lin realized the prince’s public plea had drawn him into the conflict.

• Ye Lin killed the Flying Tiger, and his companions butchered its corpse and cooked its meat aboard the cloud vessel.
• Lin Yunlu ate much of the Flying Tiger and kept asking a disciple of the Four Sects to cook more for her.
• On the second night, the cloud vessel stopped suddenly, throwing Lin Yunlu aside and alerting Ye Lin that trouble had arisen.
• Ye Lin saw the Third Prince and a princess of the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty surrounded by black-clad late-stage True Immortals.
• The Third Prince called to the cloud vessel and asked its passengers to help repel the assassins, leaving Ye Lin unable to avoid the conflict.

Ye Lin and the disciples of the four sects rescued Princess Sheng'an Ye Liuli and Third Prince Ye Huang of the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty from coordinated black-robed attackers. The attackers withdrew, and Ye Liuli promised Ye Lin a generous reward at the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.

• Chen Yang told Ye Lin that the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty was a powerful Demon Race force ruled by a Taiyi Profound Immortal.
• Black-clad cultivators attacked the cloud vessel and the two Great Shang royals, but the four sects' disciples held off the attackers.
• Ye Lin sent Void and the other three young leaders to assist the royals, turning the battle against the black-clad cultivators.
• The black-clad leader ordered an orderly retreat after the attackers began losing.
• Ye Liuli introduced herself and Ye Huang, apologized for her brother, and promised Ye Lin a generous gift at the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.