Chapter Summaries

Dugu Feng’s ancestor chose to personally train him, believing the era’s prodigies had an advantage over ancient monsters preserved in seals. Elsewhere, an elder learned that Ye Lin was somewhere in Central Continent and ordered his people to keep watching him.

• Dugu Feng asked his ancestor whether the Dugu Family had any ancient monsters preserved in seals.
• Dugu Feng’s ancestor said he had more faith in Dugu Feng and promised to train him to bring glory to their era.
• Dugu Feng accepted the training, and his ancestor began teaching him the paths of the True Immortal and domains.
• A middle-aged man told an elder that Ye Lin’s whereabouts were unknown but that he was in Central Continent.
• The elder concluded that Ye Lin had made plans and ordered the man to keep watching him.

A Patriarch warned his subordinate not to repeat a past failure and explained why he was backing Ye Lin while preparing other options. Across the Demon Domain, peak forces began quietly gathering strength for the war expected in a thousand years.

• The Patriarch reminded the middle-aged man that the sect must not again leave Ye Lin vulnerable as it had when a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal threatened him.
• The middle-aged man raised concerns about the sect's other candidates, but the Patriarch argued that Ye Lin was the strongest living member of the younger generation and warned against relying on sealed geniuses alone.
• The middle-aged man accepted the Patriarch's warning, saluted, and left.
• The peak forces of the Demon Domain contracted their territories and secretly accumulated strength while smaller forces continued their usual conflicts.
• The Demon Domain's powers anticipated that in a thousand years their rivalries would become a brutal war, with revenge and any means necessary replacing the earlier gentleman's agreement.

After a century of secluded cultivation, Ye Lin began studying the ten Dao imprints and the Samsara Disk. Meanwhile, Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu rampaged through the Purple Sky Heavenly Palace, and Zhang Wujue ordered them to clean up his ruined Alchemy Room.

• Ye Lin finished a hundred years in seclusion and, dissatisfied that it had ended so soon, entered seclusion again to study the ten Dao imprints and the Samsara Disk.
• Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu played through the Purple Sky Heavenly Palace, bringing the palace to life while angering its elders.
• Zhang Wujue discovered that the girls had ransacked his Alchemy Room and eaten many of his immortal pills.
• When Zhang Wujue demanded to know who was responsible, Lin Yunlu blamed Luo Yao, and the two girls began wrestling.
• Zhang Wujue ordered Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu to clean his Alchemy Room spotless.

Lin Yunlu and Luo Yao disrupted Zhang Wujue’s Alchemy Room before Yun Feng arrived and calmed them down. As Zhang Wujue restored the room, Yun Feng reflected on the ominous calm across Central Continent ahead of the ancient monsters’ emergence.

• Lin Yunlu and Luo Yao argued over territory and pills while cleaning Zhang Wujue’s Alchemy Room, then fought with a broom and dustpan.
• Zhang Wujue lifted the two little ones apart as they demanded to fight, and Yun Feng arrived to find the room in disarray.
• Yun Feng sent Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu to play with Little Gray, and Zhang Wujue restored the Alchemy Room after they left.
• Zhang Wujue explained that he had prepared the pills as treats for the children and did not resent their antics.
• Yun Feng remarked that Central Continent had become unnervingly quiet while heavenly prodigies improved themselves in anticipation of the ancient monsters.

Yun Feng rejected Zhang Wujue’s concerns about ancient prodigies targeting him and prepared to face them rather than retreat from the Central Continent. He left Zhang Wujue to manage the sect, confident that Purple Sky Heavenly Palace would survive even if he fell.

• Zhang Wujue hesitated to warn Yun Feng about the ancient prodigies, but Yun Feng said he had nothing to fear.
• Yun Feng explained that Little Gray’s unusual bloodline and the Solitary Family could help protect Purple Sky Heavenly Palace if anything happened to him.
• Zhang Wujue considered Yun Feng’s option to withdraw from the Central Continent, but knew Yun Feng would not flee before fighting.
• Yun Feng told Zhang Wujue to do what needed to be done and declared that Purple Sky Heavenly Palace would not fall, then left the Alchemy Room.

After nine hundred years, fortune surged through the Demon Domain as the great calamity and the battle for the Great Luo Dao Fruit began. Dugu Feng finished a thousand years of training under a Golden Immortal and left to join the struggle.

• Fortune and calamity aura swept across the Demon Domain, prompting smaller factions to seal themselves away.
• Powerful factions unsealed ancient monsters to compete for the few available Dao Fruits.
• An old man told Dugu Feng that a thousand years had passed and it was time for him to return.
• Dugu Feng acknowledged his ancestor, then departed with a wooden sword at his waist.

The Shu Mountain Sword Sect's ancestor ordered someone to secretly follow Ye Lin and ensure his safety as ancient monsters converged on the Central Continent. The newcomers entered the region ready to challenge its geniuses and resume old battles.

• The Shu Mountain Sword Sect's ancestor told a middle-aged man to send someone to follow Ye Lin in secret.
• Geniuses emerged from seclusion and streamed toward the Central Continent as the storm gathered.
• A young man aboard an extravagant vessel and a greatsword-bearing young man exchanged taunts before entering the Central Continent through a teleportation array.
• Ancient monsters entered the Central Continent to suppress its current geniuses and settle unfinished battles with old friends.
• A Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal expert acknowledged the ancient monsters' arrival, while another dismissed the threat and challenged their worth.

Top-ranked geniuses of the present age gathered in the void to oppose ancient prodigies who had been sealed away and were returning to compete for the Great Luo Dao Fruit. They left the story awaiting the stowaways’ arrival, determined to defend their era’s fortune.

• Dozens of top-hundred Genius Ranking members, all flawless Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, waited for the ancient prodigies to arrive.
• True Immortal geniuses came from across the Demon Domain, declaring that they would not let the stowaways claim the present age’s Dao Fruits or fortune.
• The gathered geniuses vowed to fight the ancient prodigies, insisting that every era’s fortune belonged to those born in it.
• The ancient prodigies had been sealed away by great powers because they were exceptional enough to contend for the Great Luo Dao Fruit.

Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals discussed why peak factions preserved ancient monsters and praised the True Immortal prodigies preparing to resist outsiders. They wondered whether a Human Emperor-like powerhouse would rise to cleanse the corrupt factions and races.

• The narration explained that peak factions preserved ancient monsters to ensure they had powerful prodigies when the great age arrived.
• Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals praised the gathered True Immortal prodigies for uniting against those who would interfere.
• A Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal pointed out Dugu Feng and said the Dugu Family's old master had made his choice.
• A Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal prodigy lamented the corruption of factions and races and hoped a Human Emperor-like powerhouse would emerge to cleanse them.

Ye Lin emerged from a thousand years of seclusion just as Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal geniuses prepared to confront the ancient monsters. He had completed his preparations and planned to test his strength against them.

• The Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal geniuses agreed to try talking with the ancient monsters first and fight them if no agreement could be reached.
• The gathered great powers wondered why Ye Lin had not appeared and speculated about his whereabouts.
• The others recalled that the Shu Mountain Sword Sect had chosen to support Ye Lin, rejecting the idea that he was afraid to face the ancient monsters.
• Ye Lin emerged from seclusion and realized that a thousand years had passed.
• Ye Lin said his preparations were complete and manifested his domain to test himself against the ancient monsters.

After a thousand years of seclusion, Ye Lin had inscribed nearly all the Great Dao imprints and raised his Luck to 948,000,000, leaving him eager to test his strength. Yun Feng brought him to the center of Central Continent, where the present-age favored geniuses were preparing to confront the ancient prodigies.

• Ye Lin reviewed his cultivation panel and saw that he had reached Peak True Immortal with 948,000,000 Luck.
• Ye Lin realized his domain enhancement nearly doubled his battle prowess, and only five Great Dao imprints remained before his domain was complete.
• Yun Feng entered and told Ye Lin that the ancient monsters and the present-age favored geniuses were gathering for a standoff.
• Ye Lin followed Yun Feng to Central Continent's center, where the atmosphere was tense as both sides converged.

The present-age geniuses confronted the ancient geniuses, who needed their recognition to secure luck and survive in the current era. Fang Heng challenged Mad Blade, and the exchange left them on the brink of a fight.

• The ancient geniuses mocked the present-age geniuses and called them all flawless Primordial Unity.
• Mad Blade urged the present-age geniuses to leave, explaining that their recognition was needed to graft luck onto the ancient geniuses.
• Fang Heng called Mad Blade a failure from the previous era and a stray dog.
• Mad Blade asked Fang Heng's name, then questioned whether a mid-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal had the qualifications to address him.
• Fang Heng identified himself as a Genius Ranking genius ranked twelfth and mocked Mad Blade for never entering the Emperor Road.

Fang Heng provoked the ancient monsters confronting the present-world prodigies, escalating tensions on the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal battlefield. Yun Feng arrived to support his side as Ye Lin headed to the True Immortal battlefield, leaving both confrontations on the brink of battle.

• Fang Heng insulted Mad Blade and the other ancient monsters, taunting them over their failure to enter the Emperor Road and daring them to fight.
• The present-world prodigies stayed alert as the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals faced off above and the True Immortals formed opposing camps below.
• Yun Feng and Ye Lin arrived at the battlefields, and Yun Feng said he would handle the tense confrontation in the sky.
• Ye Lin went to the True Immortal battlefield while Yun Feng joined the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal prodigies, raising their confidence.

Ye Lin watched Jun Lin confront Liu Qingfeng and the sealed prodigies who had emerged from hiding. Jun Lin rejected Liu Qingfeng’s plea for understanding and stood ready to fight.

• Ye Lin arrived at the crowd of peak True Immortal prodigies gathered to face the stowaways.
• Liu Qingfeng stepped forward and said her group meant no harm and hoped to negotiate.
• Jun Lin introduced himself, refused to talk, and demanded that Liu Qingfeng’s group either fight or leave.
• Liu Qingfeng explained that her group had sealed themselves away because they were born before the great age and would otherwise have no chance to attain Great Luo.
• Jun Lin rejected her argument and warned that he would show them true strength if they refused to leave.

After Liu Qingfeng and the smugglers withdrew without fighting, Ye Lin learned that they planned to seize the Demon Domain’s fortune, threatening to plunge the Central Domain and Star River Cosmos into chaos. Jun Lin and the other geniuses faced the prospect of competing with powerful outsiders who ignored the rules, but some insisted the present world’s geniuses could still match them.

• Liu Qingfeng gave Jun Lin a cryptic smile and led the smugglers away without fighting.
• Ye Lin wondered why the confrontation had ended before he could test his strength, while Jun Lin and the other geniuses looked grave.
• Dugu Feng explained to Ye Lin that the smugglers’ powerful backers let them act freely and that they would seek fortune across the Demon Domain.
• Ye Lin realized that the smugglers’ departure left their strength unknown and could lead to widespread deaths and disorder.
• Jun Lin said the outsiders had disrupted the Genius Ranking’s rules and might replace the present world’s geniuses.
• One of the geniuses argued that they could ignore the outsiders’ disregard for the rules and compete with them on equal terms.

A white-robed young man proposed that the Demon Domain’s prodigies divide up to hunt the newcomers and deny them fortune, relying on the Heavenly Dao to eventually suppress them. The group accepted the danger, though the newcomers’ many local followers remained a problem.

• The white-robed young man told Ye Lin that the newcomers would likely seek fortune in the Central Domain rather than travel to the Star River Cosmos.
• He proposed splitting the prodigies among the four outer continents and the Central Domain so they could intercept the newcomers and deny them fortune.
• The white-robed young man said the Heavenly Dao would eventually suppress the newcomers if they were prevented from gaining fortune.
• A prodigy warned that the newcomers had many local prodigies serving as their dogs, making the enemies outnumber them.
• The white-robed young man acknowledged the problem, and the prodigies resolved to keep fighting despite the risks.

The white-clad man began assigning captains to lead the geniuses from the Four Continents. Feng Xi became Eastern Continent’s captain, while Blood Shura Sui Xin claimed the Western Continent’s position, leaving Ye Lin wary of him.

• The white-clad man announced that the 348 geniuses would be divided among four captains, each leading 75.
• Feng Xi stepped forward and became Eastern Continent’s captain without opposition.
• Seventy-five peak True Immortal geniuses gathered behind Feng Xi.
• Sui Xin revealed himself as Blood Shura and asked to lead Western Continent’s geniuses.
• Seventy-five geniuses stood behind Sui Xin, while Ye Lin watched him with suspicion.

The Four Continents chose Ye Lin as Northern Continent’s captain, and he gathered enough powerful geniuses to follow him. Poison Venerable finally found Ye Lin, only to discover they would be returning to Northern Continent together.

• The white-robed youth proposed Dugu Feng as Northern Continent’s captain, but Jun Lin supported Ye Lin instead.
• The gathered geniuses praised Ye Lin’s reputation and agreed that he should lead Northern Continent.
• Dugu Feng encouraged Ye Lin, who stepped forward and invited those willing to follow him to stand behind him.
• Powerful geniuses gathered behind Ye Lin until they reached the required number.
• Poison Venerable realized that following Ye Lin meant returning to Northern Continent, but accepted that the people mattered more than the place.

Zhang Zifan assigned the geniuses to defend their territories while Ye Lin and his companions returned to Northern Continent. As negotiations between the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals collapsed, Bai Feng confronted the stowaways’ representative and accepted his threat of a future duel.

• Zhang Zifan introduced himself as rank one hundred and one on the Genius Ranking and urged the geniuses to defend Demon Domain’s present age.
• Ye Lin led his companions back to Northern Continent, while Poison Venerable reluctantly followed.
• Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals discussed the True Immortal battlefield as negotiations between the two sides broke down.
• Bai Feng identified himself as the present age’s number one genius and refused to retreat from the stowaways’ representative.
• The stowaways’ representative threatened to kill Bai Feng in a future encounter, and Bai Feng welcomed the challenge.

A powerful visitor from the Central Continent demanded Eastern Radiance City and sent Feng Xiao to attack Void. Void was badly wounded by a single palm strike, and Human Race prodigies gathered to confront the invaders.

• Void challenged the occupants of a lavish carriage hovering over Eastern Radiance City and warned them that outsiders had to enter on foot.
• A man in the carriage ordered Feng Xiao to seize the city and demanded that Void submit or die.
• Feng Xiao attacked Void, blasted apart his arm, and hurled him into Eastern Radiance City.
• Human Race prodigies from across the city rushed to Void’s side, enraged by his injuries.