Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin completed his Spirit Root transformation into a High-Tier Spirit Root, triggering a violent Heavenly Dao tribulation that drew Nameless Mountain’s strongest figures. After learning the eight True Persons had come to investigate, he shared the Talisman Lord’s legacy with them and discovered he had earned a reward, while the True Persons chose not to pry into his secrets.

• Ye Lin’s Spirit Root transformed from mid-tier to high-tier as thunder battered Nameless Mountain’s Sect Protection Array, and eight True Persons gathered above his residence.
• Ye Lin checked his status panel and found that his Destiny had changed, then left his residence carrying the book he had compiled about the Talisman Lord’s legacy.
• The eight True Persons questioned Ye Lin about the Heavenly Dao’s wrath, and he explained that he had obtained the Talisman Lord’s legacy and handed them his compiled book.
• A True Person praised the legacy and promised Ye Lin a hundred thousand points for offering it, while the eight agreed to copy and distribute the book throughout the Human Territory.
• Ye Lin learned that the tribulation had been caused by his Spirit Root upgrade and feared he might have died if he had been outside Nameless Mountain.
• The leading True Person told the others not to investigate Ye Lin’s secrets, and they left him alone.

Ye Lin planted an Enlightenment Tea Tree, examined his enormous haul, and cultivated before visiting the Inner Sect Mission Pavilion. There, he met a young man named Taichu, who greeted him as if they had met before.

• Ye Lin replaced the fruitless Blood Soul Tree with an Enlightenment Tea Tree and buried High-Tier Spirit Stones in the Post-Heaven Breath Soil to nourish it.
• Ye Lin sorted his spoils, discovered a huge collection of treasures and Spirit Stones, and swallowed three rare Spirit Fruits before cultivating.
• Li Yun reported Ye Lin’s disturbance to Ren Feiyang, who told her to keep watching him and said an event would open within half a month.
• After ten days of cultivation, Ye Lin left to seek missions and went to the seventh floor of the Inner Sect Mission Pavilion.
• Taichu greeted Ye Lin as an old acquaintance, and Ye Lin replied that they had never met.

Taichu explained the Heavenly Palace Ruins to Ye Lin and offered him a place among the Nascent Soul cultivators entering them. He asked Ye Lin to retrieve a Night-Shining Pearl from the Queen Mother Shrine and revealed that Nameless Mountain already knew about Little Red.

• Ye Lin could not see Taichu’s cultivation and realized Taichu was far beyond his realm.
• Taichu told Ye Lin that the Heavenly Palace Ruins would open the next day and described their ancient legacy and the rules for entering.
• Taichu offered Ye Lin an extra place in the ruins, then asked him to bring back the Night-Shining Pearl from the Queen Mother Shrine.
• Taichu revealed that he knew Little Red was nearing a breakthrough and said Nameless Mountain’s leaders already knew about her.

Ye Lin agreed to retrieve the Night-Shining Pearl from the Queen Mother Shrine in exchange for Taichu’s backing and studied a map of the Heavenly Palace Ruins. The ruins opened the next day as Ye Lin joined the crowd to see the Ten Sequences and heard Taiheng warn everyone to prioritize survival.

• Taichu offered to make Ye Lin his personal disciple and back his bid to become a Ten Sequence if Ye Lin obtained the Night-Shining Pearl, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Taichu gave Ye Lin a detailed map of the Heavenly Palace Ruins and told him to head for the Queen Mother Shrine.
• Ye Lin studied the map, memorized the shrine’s location, and prepared for the prodigies arriving to enter the ruins.
• The next day, Ye Lin joined a crowd at the plaza, where the Ten Sequences appeared and he noticed their powerful Fate Ranks.
• Taiheng appeared above the plaza, announced that the Heavenly Palace Ruins were open, and urged everyone to prioritize staying alive.

Taiheng took Ye Lin and the Ten Sequences toward the Heavenly Palace Ruins, warning them that survival and cooperation mattered more than opportunities. After joining the other Human Race forces at the border, he led one hundred young cultivators into Demon Race territory and left their escorts waiting for their return.

• Taiheng warned the Ten Sequences to protect their lives, help Human Race members, and kill outsiders when possible.
• Ye Lin boarded Taiheng’s golden warship despite other disciples mocking him for being only at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Taiheng explained that the Heavenly Palace Ruins lay in Demon Race territory and that they were heading to meet the other Human Race forces.
• Taiheng gathered the young cultivators from dozens of warships, bringing the group to exactly one hundred.
• Taiheng took the warship through a spatial opening toward the ruins, while the Spirit Transformation True Persons stayed behind to await their return in a month.

Ye Lin and Jian Wushuang arrived with the gathered races as the Heavenly Palace Ruins were opened. The prodigies entered the portal under a one-month deadline, while Jian Wushuang worried that a race might seize the ruins’ keys.

• Jian Wushuang greeted Ye Lin and proposed that they help each other inside the ruins, and Ye Lin agreed.
• The gathered races assembled beneath their Dao Integration True Lords, and Ye Lin and Jian Wushuang saw the fearsome Asura Clan among them.
• The eighty-three True Lords raised the white-jade gate and used their Jade Talismans to open the portal to the Heavenly Palace Ruins.
• Jian Wushuang explained that every race’s key was required to open the ruins, and Ye Lin asked whether one race could claim them all.
• An Asura Clan True Lord gave the prodigies one month to return, and the races rushed into the portal.

Ye Lin entered the Heavenly Palace Ruins with the Human Race prodigies, then separated from Jian Wushuang to search for the Night-Shining Pearl. He fought Bai Jin, the White Tiger descendant, and forced him to retreat, but suffered an arm injury.

• Zhao Huaian organized the Human Race prodigies into a formation, distributed communication Jade Talismans, and set a return date for the twenty-ninth day.
• The Asura Clan and Demon Race agreed to fight on the twenty-ninth day, then scattered to search for treasures.
• Ye Lin left Jian Wushuang and flew toward the Queen Mother Shrine to find the Night-Shining Pearl.
• Bai Jin confronted Ye Lin and attacked, but Ye Lin's sword strikes dispelled his claws and made him take the fight seriously.
• Bai Jin fled after their final clash, leaving Ye Lin with blood streaming from his arm.

After wounding Bai Jin, Ye Lin searched the Queen Mother Shrine for the Night-Shining Pearl and found it in Ming Yi’s possession. Ming Yi offered the pearl in exchange for Ye Lin helping the Asura Clan fight the Demon Race, leaving Ye Lin to decide whether to accept.

• Ye Lin withdrew from his clash with Bai Jin, who also retreated to recover from Ye Lin’s Destruction Sword Intent.
• Ye Lin entered the ruined Queen Mother Shrine and searched for the Night-Shining Pearl, eventually reaching a well-preserved side hall where the Queen Mother’s body lay.
• Ming Yi emerged from behind a curtain with the Night-Shining Pearl and proposed an alliance between the Human Race and the Asura Clan against the Demon Race.
• Ming Yi offered Ye Lin the pearl if he would hold off one Demon Race fighter for half an hour, and Ye Lin had not yet answered.

Ye Lin accepted Ming Yi’s Night-Shining Pearl and learned that the Cleansing Heavenly Pool could greatly strengthen his body. After sealing the Queen Mother Shrine, he followed the map to the pool and found an unusual waterfall on a floating island.

• Ming Yi gave Ye Lin the Night-Shining Pearl in exchange for half an hour to explore the Queen Mother Shrine, then left.
• Ye Lin read Ming Yi’s panel and learned that Ming Yi would find a body-tempering treasure in the Cleansing Heavenly Pool.
• Ye Lin paid his respects to the Queen Mother, repaired the shrine’s doors, and sealed it.
• Ye Lin followed Taichu’s map to the Cleansing Heavenly Pool, reaching a floating island in a dangerous, unexplored region.
• Ye Lin spotted a thriving patch of life on the otherwise barren island and approached a massive waterfall.

Ye Lin absorbed the vitality-rich liquid in a hidden cave, raising his physical cultivation to Nascent Soul Peak and changing his hair silver-white. After deciding to use his panel to seek other people’s opportunities, he found the bloodied Shangguan Xihe in a ruined palace and learned about her fate and an upcoming opportunity in the Holy Sword Forbidden Land.

• Ye Lin found a cave behind a waterfall and absorbed all of its white liquid while cultivating with the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique.
• Ye Lin’s physical cultivation reached Nascent Soul Peak, and his hair turned silver-white.
• Ye Lin left the island after realizing there were no more opportunities nearby and decided to find people whose opportunities he could seize.
• Ye Lin entered a ruined palace and found the injured Shangguan Xihe, whose panel revealed her fate and a sword opportunity in the Holy Sword Forbidden Land.

Ye Lin entered the unmapped Holy Sword Forbidden Land to find a sword he could use to upgrade Evil Slayer, but his Destruction Sword Intent stirred the swords and revealed the Sword Dao Rule. He chose to remain under the pressure and comprehend the rule.

• Ye Lin took Shangguan Xihe’s Spatial Ring and gave her a Mysterious Grade High Tier healing pill before leaving her.
• Ye Lin flew beyond the mapped region and found the Holy Sword Forbidden Land, a mountain covered in swords and crowned by a Heaven Grade giant sword.
• Ye Lin entered the forbidden land cautiously, hoping to find an Earth Grade Low Tier Long Sword to fuse into Evil Slayer.
• Ye Lin released his Destruction Sword Intent, causing the embedded swords to tremble and unleash a mass of Sword Intents that suppressed him.
• Ye Lin sensed the Sword Dao Rule among the Sword Intents and sat down to comprehend it instead of retreating.

After enduring ten days of Sword Intent, Ye Lin comprehended the Sword Dao Rule and gained the acknowledgment of many swords in the Holy Sword Forbidden Land. He absorbed numerous Sword Intents into Evil Slayer, then stopped before the weapon could break and turned toward the remaining swords.

• Shangguan Xihe entered the Holy Sword Forbidden Land seeking her ancestor’s sword, but the Sword Intents blasted her back outside.
• Ye Lin awakened after ten days and declared that he had comprehended the Sword Dao Rule.
• Ye Lin stood up, causing sealed swords to rise and circle him as their Sword Intents and rules responded to him.
• Ye Lin used Evil Slayer to absorb Sword Intent from the circling swords, enraging their spirits and prompting them to attack.
• Ye Lin absorbed the attacks until Evil Slayer began to strain, then stopped and turned his attention to the dozens of swords that had not yet moved.

Ye Lin left the Holy Sword Forbidden Land after gaining Sword Dao insights and encountered the injured Shangguan Xihe, whose Spatial Ring he had stolen. He agreed to protect her until the trial ended in exchange for half a barrel of the Elf Race’s Holy Water.

• Ye Lin left the Holy Sword Forbidden Land after deciding to consolidate the Sword Intent he had absorbed into a supreme Sword Intent.
• Ye Lin denied stealing Shangguan Xihe’s Spatial Ring and flew away, but Shangguan Xihe realized she had lost her treasures and could not safely return to the forbidden land or rely on her fellow elves.
• Shangguan Xihe chased after Ye Lin and asked him to protect her for the remaining days of the trial, promising a reward from her mother.
• Ye Lin demanded a barrel of the Elf Race’s Holy Water in exchange for protecting Shangguan Xihe, then lowered his price to half a barrel.
• Shangguan Xihe accepted Ye Lin’s terms and promised to give him half a barrel of Holy Water once they got out.

Ye Lin and Shangguan Xihe entered the Martial God Hall, where Ye Lin collected its weapons before meeting two members of the Backing Clan. Shi Yan asked Ye Lin to help locate a missing clansman, and Ye Lin asked whether they had anything bearing the missing member’s aura.

• Shangguan Xihe swore a Heavenly Dao oath to fulfill his promise to Ye Lin, and the two set off together.
• Ye Lin brought Shangguan Xihe to the Martial God Hall and collected its floating weapons while Shangguan Xihe watched.
• Two stone figures from the Backing Clan entered, and Ye Lin told them the hall was his.
• Shi Yan introduced himself and asked Ye Lin to help find a Backing Clan member who had gone missing.
• Ye Lin asked Shi Yan whether he had anything belonging to the missing member that carried his aura.

Ye Lin used a white cloth to locate Shi Yan’s missing companion and discovered that Demon Race members were attacking him. He then followed a Jade Talisman’s distress signal to a standoff between the Human Race and the Shadow Clan, where Zhao Huaian confronted the clan over its attack on a wounded woman.

• Ye Lin used Shi Yan’s white cloth to find the missing Backing Clan member and warned that he was in poor condition.
• Shi Yan and another stone person hurried southeast, and Shi Yan promised the Backing Clan would repay Ye Lin’s favor.
• Ye Lin told Shangguan Xihe that five Demon Race members had attacked a Backing Clan member and predicted the Demon Race would face the clan’s retaliation.
• Ye Lin followed a Jade Talisman sending a group distress signal, with Shangguan Xihe following him.
• Zhao Huaian confronted the Shadow Clan on a vast platform after its members attacked a Human Race woman, and he invoked the Shadow Clan’s past massacre by a Human prodigy.

Zhao Huaian led the Human Race prodigies into battle against the Shadow Clan, but the outnumbered group struggled against the Shadow Clan’s underhanded attacks. The chapter left Zhao Huaian poisoned and surrounded, while the watching clans refused to intervene.

• Zhao Huaian ordered two people to guard a wounded cultivator and led the remaining Human Race prodigies into battle against the Shadow Clan’s ninety-two members.
• Jian Wushuang used his Heaven and Earth Sword Intent to suppress a Shadow Clan prodigy despite being at a lower cultivation stage.
• The fighting drew prodigies from other clans, who watched as the two sides clashed in the Heavenly Palace Ruins.
• Four Shadow Clan prodigies surrounded Zhao Huaian, and one ambushed and poisoned him while he was already fighting three opponents.
• Zhao Huaian swallowed several pills, but the Shadow Clan prodigies claimed the poison had no antidote and continued closing in on him.
• The man beside Zhao Huaian fought furiously to reach him, but the surrounding clans refused to help, wary of the Demon Race’s alliance with the Shadow Clan.

Zhao Huaian and Zhao Huaiping faced death after the Shadow Clan overwhelmed them, and they recalled their childhood and wished they could have spent more time together. Their execution was interrupted when an unseen speaker complained about their conversation behind him.

• A Shadow Clan prodigy poisoned and defeated Zhao Huaian, then prepared to kill him while taunting him.
• Zhao Huaiping rushed to defend his brother, but Dark Night and five other Shadow Clan prodigies quickly overwhelmed him.
• The Shadow Clan leader, Dark Night, ordered the brothers killed before Human Race reinforcements arrived.
• As Dark Night attacked, Zhao Huaian and Zhao Huaiping recalled growing up together and spoke about their absent parents and their regrets.
• After the brothers wondered why their deaths were taking so long, an unseen speaker told them to reminisce somewhere else.

Ye Lin joined the battle against the Shadow Clan and held off six prodigies while Shangguan Xihe used the Elf Race's Holy Water to treat Zhao Huaian. When reinforcements arrived, Ye Lin wounded dozens of retreating Shadow Clan prodigies with two sword strikes, leaving the onlooking races stunned.

• Ye Lin blocked Dark Night's attack, then fought six Shadow Clan prodigies while Shangguan Xihe guarded the Zhao Huaian brothers.
• Shangguan Xihe gave Zhao Huaian a drop of the Elf Race's Holy Water, and he swallowed it to dissolve the poison in his body.
• Dark Night ordered the Shadow Clan prodigies to retreat after spotting Human Race reinforcements approaching.
• Ye Lin used two powerful sword strikes to wound more than half of the fleeing Shadow Clan prodigies, though none were killed.
• The watching races bowed to Ye Lin and left, stunned by his strength.

Ye Lin drove away the watching prodigies, checked on Zhao Huaian and Zhao Huaiping, and learned from Leng Ning’s status panel that she was destined to find the World-Suppressing Pagoda in the Jade Emperor Divine Palace. The survivors turned their attention to avenging the Shadow Clan’s attack.

• Ye Lin’s display of strength sent the visiting prodigies from other races away, and the Human Race cultivators praised him.
• Zhao Huaian thanked Shangguan Xihe for using Holy Water to clear most of his poison, but Ye Lin refused to let the cost change their agreement.
• Leng Ning asked Ye Lin whether they had met before, and he inspected her status panel, discovering her background, fate, and opportunity to obtain the World-Suppressing Pagoda.
• After Ye Lin told Leng Ning that she looked familiar, she said the same to Zhao Huaian.
• Zhao Huaian declared that the Human Race would avenge the Shadow Clan’s attack.

Ye Lin and the Human Race prodigies planned to attack the Shadow Clan, arranging for the Asura Clan to keep the Demon Race occupied. Their plans were interrupted when a gigantic island appeared above the Heavenly Palace Ruins, drawing cultivators toward it.

• Zhao Huaian and the Human Race prodigies agreed to retaliate against the Shadow Clan for its attack on them.
• Ye Lin proposed asking the Asura Clan to occupy the Demon Race while the Human Race attacked the Shadow Clan, and Zhao Huaian urged caution.
• Ye Lin contacted Ming Yi, who agreed that the Asura Clan would attack the Demon Race and arranged a signal with Ye Lin.
• The Heavenly Palace Ruins shook as a gigantic island surrounded by black lightning descended, and Ming Yi ended the call.
• Zhao Huaian led the Human Race cultivators toward the island, while Jian Wushuang complimented Ye Lin's silver hair.