Chapter Summaries

Ye Huang and Ye Liuli apologized to Ye Lin for involving him in their danger, and Ye Huang offered him a valuable promise of assistance. After Ye Lin declined the offer, Ye Liuli exchanged contact details with him and she and Ye Huang headed to the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance, leaving Void surprised by Ye Lin’s choice.

• Ye Liuli apologized to Ye Lin and Ye Huang admitted he had acted rashly by bringing Ye Lin aboard without knowing his strength.
• Ye Huang offered Ye Lin his protective jade pendant and promised the Third Prince of the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty would help him, but Ye Lin refused it.
• Ye Lin asked Ye Liuli for the generous gift she had promised, and she requested a way to contact him at the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin gave Ye Liuli a Jade Talisman, and Ye Liuli and Ye Huang departed for the alliance after exchanging farewells with him.
• Void asked Ye Lin whether he was worried that Ye Huang and Ye Liuli might break their promise.

Ye Lin and his companions arrived in Eastern Radiance City, where the lavish city and the locals’ remarks hinted at the Human Race’s poor standing. Chen Changfeng, a fox-race scout posing as a member of the Chen Family, led Ye Lin’s group to their lodging.

• Ye Lin and his companions reached Eastern Radiance City, a vast city under the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin entered the city with his followers and heard nearby cultivators discuss the Human Race’s place in Eastern Radiance City.
• Chen Changfeng introduced himself to Ye Lin as a scout who had arranged lodging for the group.
• Ye Lin recognized Chen Changfeng as a fox through his Spirit Fox Sacred Body and followed him to a palace.

Ye Lin arrived in Eastern Radiance City and learned about the powerful factions and prodigies he might face at the auction. When he asked about the Human Race’s position, Chen Changfeng revealed that humans were treated poorly throughout the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.

• Chen Changfeng brought Ye Lin into the Chen Family’s palace and told him the auction would take place atop Holy Mountain in six days.
• Chen Changfeng described the Heaven and Earth Sword Sect, the Great Rock Empire, and the Shadow Kill Pavilion, along with their strongest prodigies.
• Ye Lin learned that Ethereal and Yan Batian had reportedly reached peak True Immortal, while Heavenly Heart and Tian Chen had reportedly reached late True Immortal.
• Ye Lin asked about the Human Race, and Chen Changfeng hesitantly said its circumstances were poor across Eastern Radiance City and the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.

Chen Changfeng explained how the Human Race was oppressed and enslaved in the Northern Continent, and Ye Lin reacted with barely restrained fury. After dismissing his companions, Ye Lin sat alone in the pavilion while Void reproached Chen Changfeng for telling him everything.

• Chen Changfeng told Ye Lin that humans were treated as lowly beings in Eastern Radiance City, used as restaurant ingredients, and sold in slave markets.
• Chen Changfeng explained that the city's rules did not protect humans and that other races could blame them for any conflict.
• Ye Lin's aura overwhelmed the True Immortal geniuses around him as he grew furious over the Human Race's treatment.
• Ye Lin calmed himself, told the others to leave, and said they would secure the Karma Pearl at the auction in six days.
• After everyone left Ye Lin alone in the pavilion, Void reproached Chen Changfeng for revealing the full extent of the oppression.

On the day of the auction, Ye Lin set out for Holy Mountain after hearing that the Human Race had been excluded from Eastern Radiance City and that the mountain had been made from Human Race flesh, blood, and souls. The four people accompanying him grew grim as the crowds followed, anticipating trouble.

• Void warned Chen Changfeng that Ye Lin would stir up trouble in Eastern Radiance City and ordered him to prepare resources for the auction.
• Chen Changfeng obeyed Void and went to arrange a batch of top-grade immortal stones.
• Six days later, beings of many races filled Eastern Radiance City on the day of the auction, while no one belonging solely to the Human Race appeared among them.
• Ye Lin rose from his seat and set out with four companions and dozens of True Immortal cultivators clearing the way.
• The crowds recognized Ye Lin and followed him toward Holy Mountain, openly discussing how it had been built from Human Race flesh, blood, and souls.
• Ye Lin remained calm as he listened, while the four people behind him grew grim at the provocation.

Void confronted Yan Cheng, the tyrannical Fifth Prince of the Great Rock Empire, after Yan Cheng’s carriage injured a Divine Mountain disciple. Void tried to avoid a conflict, but Yan Cheng demanded that the three cultivators who challenged him be killed.

• Yan Cheng ordered the cultivators clearing the road to yield and summoned twelve peak True Immortal soldiers when they surrounded his carriage.
• Void recognized Yan Cheng and respectfully offered to let him pass, wary of provoking the Great Rock Empire.
• Yan Cheng demanded that Void kill the three Divine Mountain cultivators to settle the matter.
• A Divine Mountain genius told Void that Yan Cheng’s carriage had struck and injured their unconscious junior while they were clearing a path for Young Master Wei.

Yan Cheng ordered the Golden Guard to kill Void and his junior brothers after rejecting Void’s offer of compensation. Ye Lin intervened, sending one Golden Guard crashing into the ground, and Yan Cheng turned his attention to him.

• Void offered Yan Cheng ten thousand Top-Tier Spirit Stones and an apology, but Yan Cheng rejected the offer and ordered the Golden Guard to attack.
• A Golden Guard threatened Void and demanded that he move aside.
• Void refused to abandon his junior brothers, and Yan Cheng ordered the Golden Guard to leave none of them alive.
• A Golden Guard thrust his spear at Void, but Ye Lin struck him away and moved Void behind him.
• Yan Cheng angrily demanded to know who had attacked his Golden Guard, and Ye Lin identified himself.

Ye Lin confronted Yan Cheng after the prince tried to make him a hired thug, and the encounter escalated into a battle in Eastern Radiance City. Ye Lin appeared before Yan Cheng to challenge him directly, while the guards fought the four sects’ disciples.

• Yan Cheng offered Ye Lin a chance to become his hired thug, but Ye Lin instead demanded that Yan Cheng admit his mistake.
• Yan Cheng ordered the Golden Guard to kill the four sects’ disciples and capture Ye Lin alive, and the two sides clashed.
• Ye Lin leapt onto Yan Cheng’s carriage, destroyed it with a stomp, and forced Yan Cheng to retreat.
• Yan Cheng summoned his private Silver Guard, who charged at the four sects’ disciples as fighting spread through the street.
• Ye Lin appeared in front of Yan Cheng and challenged him to show his abilities, startling the prince with his speed.

Ye Lin brutally attacked Yan Cheng, the Fifth Prince of the Great Rock Empire, after Yan Cheng provoked him. With Chen Changfeng and his cultivators arriving, Ye Lin ordered the Silver Guard killed and began beating Yan Cheng, leaving their confrontation ongoing.

• Ye Lin slammed Yan Cheng into the ground and struck him again when Yan Cheng demanded to know how he dared.
• Ye Lin sent the Silver Guard flying with a wave of his hand, while horrified onlookers fled and warned that Yan Cheng was favored by the Great Rock Emperor.
• Yan Cheng ordered the Silver Guard to kill Ye Lin, but his guards were too afraid to move.
• Chen Changfeng arrived with True Immortal cultivators, and Ye Lin ordered him to kill every Silver Guard.
• Ye Lin declared he would kill Yan Cheng and tossed him around helplessly like a ball.

Ye Lin killed Yan Cheng, the Fifth Prince of the Great Rock Empire, despite Yan Cheng's pleas for mercy. He then led the group toward the auction, leaving witnesses to discover the prince's corpse and fear the consequences.

• Ye Lin rejected Yan Cheng's plea for his life and crushed his head.
• Ye Lin destroyed Yan Cheng's Primordial Spirit, killing him completely.
• Void feared the Great Rock Empire's retaliation, while Chen Changfeng trusted Ye Lin's judgment.
• Ye Lin led the Chen Family, Void, and the others toward the auction at the Holy Mountain.
• Cultivators arrived at the ruined scene, recognized Yan Cheng's headless corpse, and realized the Great Rock Empire's prince had been killed.

News that the Fifth Prince had been killed by a Human Race prodigy spread through Eastern Radiance City, while a messenger brought urgent news to the First Prince in the Great Rock Imperial Palace. The chapter ended with the soldier kneeling before the First Prince, poised to report what had happened.

• The Fifth Prince's death sent the Great Rock Empire's forces in Eastern Radiance City rushing toward the Holy Mountain.
• A soldier hurried through the Great Rock Imperial Palace and entered the First Prince's palace.
• The First Prince sat beneath a peach tree feeding strange red-feathered creatures as two maidservants stood behind him.
• The soldier cried out that something terrible had happened, then knelt before the First Prince.

Yan Batian learned that Blood Baleful, an outsider from another star domain, had killed the Fifth Prince, Yan Cheng. After hearing the report and the Emperor’s decision to leave the response to him, Yan Batian considered the matter interesting.

• Yan Batian reprimanded General Wu for rushing in, and his gaze left the general terrified.
• General Wu reported that Yan Cheng had been killed by the Human Race prodigy Blood Baleful.
• General Wu recounted Blood Baleful’s rise through the Hundred Cities and Thousand Cities Alliances and his arrival in the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance for an auction.
• General Wu revealed that Blood Baleful was an outsider from another star domain and that the Emperor had left the decision to Yan Batian.
• Yan Batian reflected on Blood Baleful and the Shu Mountain Sword Immortal as someone noted that Yan Cheng’s death damaged the Great Rock Empire’s prestige.

Yan Batian ordered General Wu to attack Human Race star systems while he headed to the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance to meet the person who killed his brother. At the Holy Mountain, Ye Lin discovered its staircase was built from Human Race bones, and Void and the others realized the alliance might face his wrath.

• General Wu pledged to kill the person who beheaded the Fifth Prince, and Yan Batian ordered him to lead ten million troops against Human Race star systems.
• Yan Batian announced that he would visit the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance himself, then left as General Wu watched him with reverence.
• Chen Changfeng led Ye Lin to the Holy Mountain, where the surrounding beings cleared a path for them out of fear.
• Ye Lin noticed something about the white steps and reacted with killing intent before continuing toward the auction site.
• Void and the others discovered that the staircase was made from Human Race bones and ordered their sect to send more disciples and notify Human Race factions.

Void prepared the disciples and Human Race factions to help Ye Lin make trouble against the Great Rock Empire, anticipating his reaction to the stairs made from Human Race bones. Chen Changfeng explained that the Human Race’s persecution began after the Ten Thousand Swords Sacred Sect was destroyed a million years earlier, with the Great Rock Empire among the worst offenders.

• Void told the disciples to summon Human Race factions and prepare to fight alongside Ye Lin, even if it meant risking everything.
• Void and the others anticipated that the Great Rock Empire would retaliate and planned to confront its cultivators and allied factions.
• Ye Lin, disturbed by the stairs made from Human Race bones, asked Chen Changfeng where they came from.
• Chen Changfeng explained that the destruction of the Ten Thousand Swords Sacred Sect had triggered a dark age of persecution for the Human Race in the northern Demon Domain.
• Chen Changfeng said the Great Rock Empire had been among the worst forces suppressing Human Race prodigies.

Ye Lin and Chen Changfeng reached the center of Holy Mountain, where human captives were humiliated beside a lake of human blood. After Chen Changfeng showed Ye Lin their remote camp, the Snakefolk prodigy Niu Er confronted him and mocked the human race.

• Chen Changfeng told Ye Lin that the myriad races suppressed and killed human prodigies while spreading rumors against them.
• Ye Lin saw a lake of human blood surrounded by camps where human prodigies served the other races as captives.
• Chen Changfeng led Ye Lin to a remote tent and said the auction atop the Holy Pool would begin in three hours.
• Niu Er approached Chen Changfeng with a chained human True Immortal and insulted the Fox Clan for associating with humans.
• Niu Er called the human race lowly as he glanced toward Ye Lin.

Niu Er humiliated a former human Saintess and provoked Ye Lin at the Holy Mountain while Chen Changfeng struggled to contain his anger. As other races gathered to mock Ye Lin’s apparent silence, Chen Changfeng and the fox race prodigies began to doubt whether they had followed the right person.

• Niu Er struck the chained former Saintess with his snake body and mocked her past as a Canglan Sacred Land Saintess.
• Ye Lin told Niu Er to leave, but Niu Er refused and dragged the iron chain toward him while Chen Changfeng followed.
• Niu Er insulted Chen Changfeng and his shabby tent as prodigies from other races gathered to watch.
• The gathered prodigies mocked Ye Lin and the human race, prompting doubt among Chen Changfeng and the fox race prodigies.
• Niu Er continued taunting Chen Changfeng about the fox race’s poor foundation and offered to tidy his tent.

Niu Er tested Ye Lin and believed his stillness meant he could be broken and added to his collection of Human Race prodigies. Meanwhile, the northern Demon Domain’s Human Race Alliance debated supporting Blood Baleful, whose rise in the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance could give their people a foothold in the Central Domain.

• Niu Er recalled how he collected Human Race prodigies by crushing their pride and decided Ye Lin would become another of his works.
• Chen Changfeng clenched his fists and radiated killing intent, but Niu Er dismissed him as no threat.
• Disciples and True Immortal prodigies from the four sects and other factions converged on the Thousand Cities Alliance, drawing the attention of the Human Race’s remaining factions.
• The northern Demon Domain’s Human Race Alliance gathered to discuss Blood Baleful’s seizure of the Thousand Cities Alliance and its favorable attitude toward the Human Race.
• A sword-wielding man urged the alliance to help Blood Baleful, warning that the Human Race would be finished if it failed to support its prodigies and secure a place in the Central Domain.

The human race’s elders argued over whether to help Blood Baleful after he killed the Great Rock Empire’s Fifth Prince, whose soldiers retaliated by massacring three human star systems. The Divine Sword Sect Master rejected the elders’ cowardice and left to support Blood Baleful, while others warned that the Great Rock Empire was trying to destroy humanity.

• White Eyebrow urged the elders to wait and help Blood Baleful only if he won.
• An elder blamed Blood Baleful for the deaths of everyone in three star systems, slaughtered by the Fifth Prince’s soldiers.
• The Divine Sword Sect Master condemned the elders for blaming their own prodigy and refusing to aid him.
• The Divine Sword Sect Master declared that he and the Divine Sword Sect would support Blood Baleful or die fighting, then left the Holy Palace.
• Another speaker agreed with the Divine Sword Sect Master and said the Great Rock Empire was systematically targeting the human race.

The Human Race Alliance leaders split over whether to aid Blood Baleful, while the Alliance Leader secretly backed him and ordered the dissenting leaders replaced. The Divine Sword Sect Master also committed to helping, sending young sword-wielders toward the Central Domain.

• The Divine Sword Sect Master and other ambitious leaders left the alliance gathering to support Blood Baleful, while most of the remaining leaders departed with contempt.
• The Alliance Leader ordered a black-clad man to send promising Shadow Guards to the Central Domain with his decree and told him to replace those who had stayed in the hall.
• The Alliance Leader praised the Shu Mountain Sword Sect and showed interest in Blood Baleful before vanishing.
• The Divine Sword Sect Master returned to his sect, and its young disciples began traveling to the Central Domain through a teleportation array.

Ye Lin attacked Niu Er after rejecting his offer to share the chained woman, then overwhelmed the Snakefolk prodigy in their fight. Niu Er transformed into a giant python and fixed his killing intent on Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin approached Niu Er and declared that he wanted Niu Er's life.
• Ye Lin struck Niu Er's chest, and Niu Er retaliated with peak True Immortal strength.
• Ye Lin severed one of Niu Er's tails with a single Saint-Falling Fist.
• Niu Er transformed into a black giant python over a hundred zhang long and glared at Ye Lin with killing intent.