Chapter Summaries

The old man forged Evil Slayer into an Earth Grade Spirit Artifact, and Ye Lin bonded with it using his blood. On his way back, Ye Lin was confronted by Zhou Qingyun, who tried to recruit him into the Ninth Sequence, and Ye Lin proposed a bet.

• The old man forged Evil Slayer by forming its Sword Embryo, infusing it with Soul Power, and inscribing Array Formulas.
• The old man gave Evil Slayer to Ye Lin, who bonded with the sword using a drop of his vital blood.
• Evil Slayer responded to Ye Lin's thoughts and transformed into six Sword Pellets that coiled around his wrist.
• Zhou Qingyun and two companions stopped Ye Lin and demanded that he join the Ninth Sequence.
• Ye Lin examined Zhou Qingyun's panel and offered to make a bet.

Ye Lin challenged Zhou Qingyun to a duel for his jade pendant and cultivated until he reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage. At the combat arena, their fight began as onlookers debated Ye Lin’s reputation.

• Ye Lin bet that Zhou Qingyun would give him his jade pendant if Ye Lin won their fight, while Zhou Qingyun agreed to make Ye Lin obey him if he won.
• Ye Lin cultivated for three days and broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Ye Lin arrived at the combat arena, where Zhou Qingyun and a crowd of Inner Sect disciples were waiting.
• After the barrier sealed the arena, Zhou Qingyun told Ye Lin to draw his sword, but Ye Lin said Zhou Qingyun was not worthy.
• Zhou Qingyun charged with his spear, and Ye Lin retreated and struck back with three streams of Sword Qi, which Zhou Qingyun blocked.
• Watching disciples argued over whether Ye Lin’s battlefield feats were exaggerated.

Ye Lin defeated Zhou Qingyun in the Duel Arena and learned that Ren Feiyang, Wang Teng’s strategist under the Ninth Sequence, had manipulated him. Ye Lin’s victory drew the attention of the Ten Sequences as the contest for Nameless Mountain’s next Sect Master approached.

• Demon Concubine taunted a burly man, who left after she mocked his losses and reliance on his brother.
• Ye Lin overwhelmed Zhou Qingyun with his sword intent and knocked him down when he refused to admit defeat.
• Ye Lin took Zhou Qingyun’s jade pendant and learned that Ren Feiyang had sent him to attack Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin released Zhou Qingyun and warned him not to confront Ren Feiyang, then left the arena.
• Ye Lin’s victory spread through the Inner Sect and attracted the Ten Sequences’ attention as they prepared to contend for the Sect Master’s seat.

Ren Feiyang realized Ye Lin might have uncovered his plot and ordered a disciple to watch him, while Ye Lin worried about protecting Little Red during his imminent Spirit Transformation breakthrough. After half a month of cultivation, Ye Lin went to the Lecture Platform for the monthly lecture, where the disciples were already gathered and the powerful expert had yet to appear.

• Ren Feiyang learned that Ye Lin and Zhou Qingyun had spoken and suspected his scheme had been exposed, so he ordered a disciple to keep watch on Ye Lin without being discovered.
• Little Red told Ye Lin that he would need to break through to Spirit Transformation within five months, and that the heavenly tribulation could expose his divine beast bloodline.
• Ye Lin considered asking Nameless Mountain to protect Little Red and keeping Jian Wushuang, Wuxin, and his Spirit Transformation experts as a last resort, but settled on preparing as events unfolded.
• Ye Lin cultivated for half a month, then went to the Lecture Platform for the monthly lecture and found Inner Sect disciples gathered before the powerful expert arrived.

Ye Lin attended True Person Jian Xu’s three-day Sword Dao lecture and entered a prolonged state of sudden enlightenment. He left with his Sword Intent close to great mastery, while Demon Concubine wondered whether he could measure up to the Ten Sequences.

• Demon Concubine explained that the Ten Sequences had cultivated so deeply that ordinary True Person lectures were useless to them, and Ye Lin dismissed the idea that they could never be surpassed.
• True Person Jian Xu began his Sword Dao lecture, and Ye Lin’s Jade Talisman glimmered as he entered sudden enlightenment.
• Ye Lin’s Sword Intent grew so powerful that the nearby disciples moved away, while Jian Xu advanced his lecture to the Sword Dao Rule.
• On the third day, a black greatsword formed behind Ye Lin as his Sword Intent evolved, and Jian Xu ended the lecture when Ye Lin opened his eyes.
• Ye Lin regretted that his enlightenment had been cut short, noticed his Jade Talisman had broken, and returned to his lodgings to consolidate his gains.
• Demon Concubine watched Ye Lin leave and considered whether he might be able to match the Ten Sequences.

Ye Lin received Chu Xue’s plea for help and raced toward Cloud Peak Mountain, where she was defending Xiao Li, a little girl with a feared Demon Body, from Nascent Soul Realm cultivators. As one cultivator raised a palm to strike Chu Xue, an unseen arrival threatened to destroy him and his lineage.

• Ye Lin failed to break through to the Sword Dao Rule, then sensed Chu Xue’s Life-Bound True Feather activate and heard her call for help.
• Little Red located Chu Xue at Cloud Peak Mountain in Tianhe Prefecture, and Ye Lin rushed there on her back while Wuxin followed their trail.
• At Cloud Peak Mountain, Chu Xue and Xiao Li faced Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who intended to kill the girl because she had a Demon Body and destroy the Tianyan Sect.
• Chu Xue urged Xiao Li to flee and stood in the cultivators’ way, despite being gravely wounded and outmatched.
• As a cultivator struck at Chu Xue, a voice threatened to wipe out him and his lineage if he brought his palm down.

Ye Lin arrived to save Chu Xue, and Little Red destroyed the thirty-four Nascent Soul Realm cultivators attacking her. Xiao Yin recognized Little Red as the lost young lord of the Snow Wolf Clan and began recounting the Divine Beasts’ ancient war against the Immortal World.

• Ye Lin reached Chu Xue on Little Red’s back and caught her as she warned him that thirty-four Nascent Soul Realm cultivators were too strong to face.
• Ye Lin ordered Little Red to attack, and Little Red wiped out all thirty-four cultivators with a single Phoenix Fire strike.
• Xiao Li arrived with the silver giant wolf, Xiao Yin, and introduced it to Ye Lin and Chu Xue.
• Xiao Yin recognized Little Red, knelt before it, and identified himself as Yinchuan, young clan leader of the Mobei Snow Wolf Clan.
• Yinchuan explained that Little Red was the lost young lord, the son of the Phoenix Clan’s lord who had led the Divine Beasts in a war against the Immortal World.
• Yinchuan said the Heavenly Gate was ultimately shattered and many Divine Beast clans crossed into the Immortal World.

Yinchuan explained that Little Red was the Phoenix Clan leader’s premature son, whom the Snow Wolf Clan had searched for over countless millions of years. Little Red agreed to go with Yinchuan to the Snow Wolf Clan and planned to leave after reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm, while Ye Lin suspected the clan had ulterior motives and hoped to benefit from its resources.

• Yinchuan told Little Red about his Phoenix Clan origins and invited him to return to the Snow Wolf Clan, which held half the sway in the Myriad Demon Palace.
• Little Red initially refused, but Ye Lin suggested he go to the clan to cultivate while making clear the choice was his.
• Ye Lin inspected Yinchuan’s panel and learned Yinchuan was fated to die after being besieged in the Central Continent.
• Little Red privately agreed with Ye Lin to go, break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, and bring back half the Snow Wolf Clan’s resources.
• Little Red told Yinchuan he would go with him but leave once he reached the Spirit Transformation Realm, and Yinchuan happily accepted.

Yinchuan took Little Red back toward the Snow Wolf Clan, while Xiao Li chose to stay with Chu Xue and received a Jade Talisman. Ye Lin discovered Xiao Li’s extraordinary potential, and he and Chu Xue set out for the Tianyan Sect as Wuxin summoned reinforcements.

• Yinchuan departed with Little Red after giving Xiao Li a Jade Talisman and promising to return for her.
• Chu Xue continued healing and struggled to process what she had learned about Ye Lin and the world’s powerful beings.
• Wuxin appeared before Ye Lin, and Ye Lin examined Xiao Li’s panel, discovering her red Fate Rank, Forbidden Demon Body, and reincarnated Empress status.
• Chu Xue decided to return to the Tianyan Sect, fearing it had been attacked while its people defended her.
• Ye Lin promised to destroy those who hunted Chu Xue and threatened the Tianyan Sect, while Wuxin summoned reinforcements.

Ye Lin, Chu Xue, Yuan Li, and Wuxin arrived at Tianyan Sect and found its mountain gate in ruins. Inside, White Eyebrow and the surviving disciples faced five Nascent Soul Peak cultivators and a coalition bent on destroying the sect; as the attackers’ forces closed in, Tianyan Sect’s defenders were left gravely wounded and unable to fight back.

• Ye Lin and Wuxin followed Chu Xue and Yuan Li into Tianyan Sect, where they found the gate in ruins.
• White Eyebrow confronted five Nascent Soul Peak cultivators, who accused Tianyan Sect of sheltering a Demon Body and offered to spare three disciples.
• White Eyebrow’s disciples refused to flee, though he allowed three who pleaded to leave the sect.
• White Eyebrow attacked the five cultivators while his disciples trapped one of them in an array, but he was knocked down and the array was shattered.
• A Nascent Soul cultivator ordered the coalition’s hidden forces to kill the remaining Tianyan Sect disciples, who were too injured to resist.

Wuxin arrived at the Tianyan Sect and confronted the fifteen Nascent Soul Peak cultivators who had come to kill Chu Xue. Ye Lin effortlessly destroyed them all, leaving the sect safe for the moment.

• Wuxin appeared at the Tianyan Sect, and his Buddhist light killed countless disciples from the other sects.
• Chu Xue reunited with White Eyebrow and introduced Wuxin as Buddha Mountain's Buddha Son and Ye Lin as her disciple's disciple from Nameless Mountain.
• Wuxin told the five Nascent Soul Peak cultivators that he had come to bury them, and they summoned ten more cultivators.
• Wuxin admitted he could not handle all fifteen cultivators and asked Ye Lin to act.
• Ye Lin formed a Long Sword from six Sword Pellets and killed all fifteen Nascent Soul Peak cultivators with Sword One, Sword Piercing the Firmament.

Ye Lin rescued Chu Xue and Xiao Li, then used Wuxin’s authority to retaliate against the sects behind the attack. Chu Xue chose to remain in Tianyan Sect, and Ye Lin prepared to explore its Back Mountain.

• The disciples watched Ye Lin kill fifteen Nascent Soul Peak cultivators, and Wuxin ordered the Eighteen Arhats to destroy the participating sects and leave no survivors.
• Chu Xue chose to stay in Tianyan Sect, and Ye Lin respected her decision while promising to help protect Xiao Li, whose Forbidden Demon Body could attract powerful enemies.
• Ye Lin gave Chu Xue resources to help her reach the Nascent Soul Realm and offered to help White Eyebrow break through from the peak of the Golden Core Realm.
• Ye Lin asked White Eyebrow for permission to visit Tianyan Sect’s Back Mountain, and White Eyebrow agreed.
• The Eighteen Arhats returned and reported to Wuxin that they had killed everyone who knew about the incident.

Ye Lin collected an Earth Grade Enlightenment Tea Tree seed and left Tianyan Sect after warning Chu Xue to protect Xiao Li’s identity. As Ye Lin and Wuxin departed, a massive disturbance revealed the nearby cave abode of an ancient Dao Integration Talisman Lord, and they headed toward it.

• Ye Lin found the Enlightenment Tea Tree seed beneath a spring and learned that it needed Post-Heaven Breath Soil to grow.
• Three disciples who had secretly stayed nearby regretted abandoning Tianyan Sect when they realized it was destined to rise.
• Ye Lin told Chu Xue he had to leave, warned her to keep Xiao Li’s identity secret, and departed with Wuxin.
• Rosy light, purple qi, and Dao hymns appeared in the distance as powerful cultivators rushed toward their source.
• Wuxin recalled rumors of an ancient Dao Integration Talisman Lord’s cave abode and invited Ye Lin to investigate it.

Ye Lin arrived at a Dao Integration True Lord’s cave abode as cultivators gathered to enter its small world. After Spirit Transformation True Person Black Mountain Elder was barred from entering because the realm was unstable, the guardians limited entry to Nascent Soul cultivators and drove away the Rogue Cultivators.

• Ye Lin and his companion reached the cave abode, where the merging small world opened as an enormous light gate.
• A cultivator entered first, and others followed when the gate appeared safe.
• Black Mountain Elder arrived, prompting cultivators to identify him as a notorious but powerful fugitive.
• Three Spirit Transformation True Persons warned Black Mountain Elder that the unstable realm could collapse if someone of his cultivation entered.
• The three men restricted entry to a thousand Nascent Soul cultivators and ordered the Rogue Cultivators to leave, threatening to kill anyone who stayed.

Ye Lin and Wuxin entered the Dao Integration Talisman Lord’s abode and discovered that its miniature world and inhabitants were all created from talismans. They agreed to follow the Talisman Being Su Qi to meet the Great Emperor he served.

• After Black Mountain Elder left, Ye Lin and Wuxin passed through the light gate into the Talisman Lord’s abode.
• Ye Lin realized the seemingly real landscape and its creatures were made from talismans, and demonstrated this by making a yellow cow vanish.
• Su Qi, a golden-armored Talisman Being at the Nascent Soul Peak, confronted Ye Lin and Wuxin and demanded to know their purpose.
• Ye Lin stopped Wuxin from attacking and persuaded him to accompany Su Qi to meet the Great Emperor.
• Su Qi said other cultivators had already been subdued and led the two onward.

Su Qi brought Ye Lin and Wuxin to meet the Golden God, who ruled a world populated by living beings made from talismans. After the Golden God learned about the outside world, a Prime Minister reported that the Celestial Star Shift had changed, and the group went to investigate a golden fortress that had begun moving.

• Su Qi led Ye Lin and Wuxin through the Golden God Empire and warned them not to offend the Golden God.
• The Golden God asked where Ye Lin and Wuxin came from, and Ye Lin explained that the outside world was like an Immortal World.
• Ye Lin inspected the Golden God and realized that the talisman-made beings had no souls and could not survive in the greater world.
• The Prime Minister reported that the Celestial Star Shift had changed, so the Golden God ordered him to investigate.
• Ye Lin and Wuxin followed the Golden God and the Prime Minister to a fortress that had begun moving, and the Golden God ordered the area sealed off.

Ye Lin and Wuxin followed Golden God and the Prime Minister into the Golden Fortress, where murals revealed that their world and its inhabitants had been created by a mighty being. As Golden God and the Prime Minister reeled from the truth, Wuxin pressed a button that made the chained coffin shake violently.

• Golden God suppressed Wuxin for acting presumptuously, but Ye Lin dispelled the pressure and reassured him.
• The Golden Fortress doors opened, and Golden God and the Prime Minister entered to uncover the world's secrets; Ye Lin and Wuxin followed.
• Ye Lin and Wuxin found treasures scattered across the hall, bowed to the chained Bronze Coffin, and collected the valuables while studying the murals.
• The murals revealed that Golden God and their world were creations of a mighty being, leaving Golden God devastated and the Prime Minister stunned.
• Wuxin pressed a button, causing the coffin to shudder and its chains to swing; he worried the Talisman Lord might revive and suggested they flee.

Ye Lin received the ancient Talismans Dao Lord’s insights and five Spirit Root treasures after promising to make the teachings available to the Human Race. As intruders approached the tomb, Golden God regained his resolve and prepared to defend his creator’s resting place.

• A remnant soul appeared above the Bronze Coffin, identified itself as a Human Race cultivator, and revealed that millions of years had passed.
• Golden God knelt before his Father God, while Wuxin declined the Lord’s insights and Ye Lin accepted them on the condition that he compile them for the Human Race.
• The remnant soul passed its insights to Ye Lin, then dissipated; the Bronze Coffin released five Spirit Root treasures for Ye Lin and a Buddha Sarira for Wuxin.
• Ye Lin saw Golden God’s cultivation collapse after his Dao Heart shattered, while voices outside announced they were approaching the tomb.
• Golden God stood up and told the Prime Minister they would give their lives to keep the intruders from disturbing Father God’s resting place.

Ye Lin and Wuxin protected the fortress from cultivators seeking its inheritance, while Golden God prepared to fight the invaders slaughtering his people. Wuxin then took his leave as the Golden God Empire began gathering its armies.

• Golden God and the Prime Minister resolved to fight to the death, but Ye Lin and Wuxin left the fortress to see what was happening outside.
• Ye Lin saw cultivators killing Talisman Beings, including children, and realized the victims yielded Pre-Heaven Spiritual Qi.
• When five Nascent Soul Peak cultivators questioned Ye Lin, he wounded them with one sword strike and warned everyone not to enter the fortress.
• Ye Lin and Wuxin stood against several hundred cultivators, and the crowd eventually backed down and left the inheritance undisturbed.
• Golden God ordered his empire's armies to assemble and slaughter the invaders, while Wuxin told Ye Lin he would take his leave.

After leaving the Golden God Empire, Ye Lin returned to Nameless Mountain and recorded the inheritance of a mighty expert before attempting to raise his Spirit Root with five God Stones. His defiance of fate enraged the Heavenly Dao, which struck Nameless Mountain’s Sect Protection Array with World Annihilation lightning.

• Golden God gave Ye Lin and Wuxin a chance to leave, and they withdrew while his Nascent Soul Peak army attacked the invaders.
• Ye Lin and Wuxin left the cave, parted ways, and returned to Nameless Mountain and Buddha Mountain respectively.
• Ye Lin spent five days writing the expert’s knowledge of the Talismans Dao into a book for Nameless Mountain to share with the Human Race.
• Ye Lin began refining five God Stones to improve his Spirit Root from mid-grade to high-grade.
• The Heavenly Dao unleashed World Annihilation lightning against Nameless Mountain’s Sect Protection Array, alarming its residents and stirring an ancient aura within the mountain.