Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin escaped with Li Xiaoyao as the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal powerhouses pursued them, while the calamity spread among the gathered True Immortals. The remaining powerhouses recognized the danger and began fleeing as the corrupted cultivators descended into slaughter.

• Ye Lin grabbed Li Xiaoyao and used the Time Measuring Ruler to escape through collapsing space.
• The Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal powerhouses pursued Ye Lin, leaving the True Immortal spectators bewildered.
• Calamity qi affected several True Immortal cultivators, who began attacking those around them, including their own kin.
• The Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal powerhouses recognized the calamity and feared its spread among the gathered cultivators.
• A sharp-eyed Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal powerhouse fled, warning that the others could be affected if they stayed.

Ye Lin escaped the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts who had pursued him and reassured Wang Tian that the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers would not bring the Wang Family serious trouble. Wang Tian remained anxious about the consequences and wished he could leave the Anlan Great World.

• Ye Lin used the Time Measuring Ruler to shatter space and erase his trail, leaving his pursuers roaring that they would find and kill him.
• Ye Lin dismissed the threats and noted that his vanished aura kept the pursuers from discovering he had come to the Wang Family.
• Wang Tian worried that the experts would come to the Wang Family over the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers he had taken.
• Ye Lin reassured Wang Tian that his status as a Flawless Taiyi would deter the experts and that Ye Lin had drawn their hatred onto himself.
• Wang Tian nodded but remained uneasy and wished he could leave the Anlan Great World.

The five venerables’ scheme to use a Boundless Artifact and calamity tribulation to ensnare powerful cultivators was ruined when Ye Lin seized the treasure. They debated what to do next as the Anlan Great World’s native experts slaughtered one another, risking damage to their own foundation.

• The five venerables lamented that Ye Lin had disrupted their plan and taken the high-grade Boundless Artifact.
• They recalled how they had planned to draw cultivators to the Hundred-Broken Mountain Range, use calamity tribulation to corrupt their minds, and trap them during the fight for the treasure.
• After Ye Lin’s intervention drew away most Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts, the venerables activated the calamity tribulation to keep the gathered True Immortals from dispersing.
• Zhao Xiong explained that Invincible Ones were unpredictable variables who could not be made to follow the venerables’ plans.
• Fourth Venerable Mo Yu warned that continuing to consume Anlan Great World’s native experts could weaken the world and undermine the venerables’ own foundation.

Great Venerable Qin Changsheng and the other Venerables considered using outsiders to strengthen the Anlan Great World, while a fleet from the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan arrived to claim it. The young commander led most of the fleet inside without resistance, leaving the reason for the Anlan Great World’s lack of defense unclear.

• Qin Changsheng and the other four Venerables agreed that powerful Starry Sky cultivators could be lured into the Anlan Great World and killed for its growth.
• A fleet of more than a hundred warships reached the Anlan Great World, and a young man declared that it should belong to the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.
• The young man rejected an old man’s caution and ordered twenty warships to blockade the world while the rest followed him inside.
• The young man entered the Anlan Great World without resistance and wondered why its Heavenly Dao had not opposed the invasion.

A young man suspected the Anlan Great World’s Heavenly Dao might be intelligent and ordered a Heaven-Binding Lock brought from his clan. After three peaceful days, Ye Lin set out to take Wang Tian to the Snake Water Region, learning that it belonged to the terrifying Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan.

• The young man ordered an old man to bring him the Heaven-Binding Lock in case the Anlan Great World’s Heavenly Dao had developed intelligence.
• Ye Lin told Wang Tian that three peaceful days had passed, easing Wang Tian’s fears that a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal had come seeking revenge.
• Ye Lin asked Wang Tian where the Snake Water Region was and considered how to make up for Wang Tian’s dissatisfaction over the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Wang Tian warned Ye Lin that the Snake Water Region belonged entirely to the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan and that even Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals could die there if they provoked its members.

Ye Lin persuaded Wang Tian to enter the Snake Water Region in search of a life-changing opportunity, despite the danger posed by the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python. Meanwhile, a Profound Origin Scorpion Clan envoy threatened the Python clan’s patriarch with an ultimatum to submit.

• Ye Lin told Wang Tian that his opportunity lay in the Snake Water Region and convinced him to go despite the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python’s hostility toward the Human Race.
• Wang Tian agreed to follow Ye Lin, then suggested they sneak into the region without being discovered.
• A young man from the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan urged the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python patriarch to affiliate with his clan and help conquer the Anlan Great World.
• The young man threatened to wipe out the Python clan, citing the more than one hundred Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts he had brought and the clan’s small number of pure-blooded members.

Xuan Tian threatened Mu Wanqing and the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python clan, demanding that she serve the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan or face annihilation. After he left, Mu Wanqing refused to flee with her family, while Li Yu vowed to seek help from his old friends and fight back.

• Xuan Tian offered Mu Wanqing power and protection if she worked for him, but threatened to destroy her clan if she refused.
• Xuan Tian gave Mu Wanqing one month to decide and left with the old man, after which the watchers in the void disappeared.
• Li Yu urged Mu Wanqing to resist the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan, but she said their clan was too weak to win a war.
• Li Yu proposed fleeing with the clan, but Mu Wanqing refused to abandon her people and told him to escape with their daughter.
• Li Yu revealed that he had once been a leading candidate to become a Golden Immortal and promised to seek help from his old friends.

Li Yu left to seek help for Mu Wanqing and promised to protect her and the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan. In the Snake Water Region, Ye Lin, Wang Tian, and Li Xiaoyao encountered a fleeing young woman and ten men from Snake-Hunting Valley, and Li Xiaoyao attacked them.

• Li Yu told Mu Wanqing to wait one month for good news, then left the hall to seek help.
• Ye Lin, Wang Tian, and Li Xiaoyao searched the vast Snake Water Region for the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• The group spotted a young woman in pink fleeing from ten men who identified themselves as members of Snake-Hunting Valley.
• Li Xiaoyao charged the ten men, eager to fight ten opponents at once.
• The men realized Li Xiaoyao was a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal and begged him to spare them.

Li Xiaoyao killed the ten attackers who had pursued Li Miaoling, then asked her to lead him and Ye Lin to the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Li Miaoling refused, warning that her father’s restriction would reveal her location if Ye Lin tried a Soul Search.

• The ten attackers sensed Li Xiaoyao’s Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal aura, begged for mercy, and were wiped out by his lightning.
• Li Miaoling thanked Li Xiaoyao for saving her and declared that she was willing to serve him for life.
• Li Xiaoyao asked Li Miaoling to lead them to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, but she refused because she had just escaped from there.
• Wang Tian told Ye Lin that Li Miaoling had a pure Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python bloodline and likely had an extraordinary background.
• Ye Lin demanded that Li Miaoling reveal the mountains’ location or submit to a Soul Search, and she warned that her father’s restriction would expose her location if he tried.

Wang Tian forced Li Miaoling to reveal her identity and details about the Hundred Thousand Mountains. He learned that reaching the mountains required passing three checkpoints guarded by the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python clan.

• Wang Tian used a Truth Pill to make Li Miaoling answer his questions.
• Li Miaoling revealed that she was the clan leader’s eldest daughter and that her father was Saint Longevity, once the Anlan Great World’s top prodigy.
• Li Miaoling explained that the Hundred Thousand Mountains lay in the heartland of her clan and were heavily guarded.
• Li Miaoling described the three checkpoints: Flame Mountain, the dangerous Swamp Forest, and the clan’s own defenses, which entrants had to evade or fight through.

Wang Tian learned that the route into the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python clan’s territory passed through Flame Mountain and the Swamp Forest, and Ye Lin decided they would take it. As they prepared to head out, Ye Lin raised the question of what to do with the clan’s young miss.

• Li Miaoling explained that the group could enter through three checkpoints, be taken inside by the clan chief, or fight their way in.
• Li Miaoling gave Wang Tian a map showing the checkpoints and warned that Flame Mountain and the Swamp Forest were dangerous.
• Ye Lin studied the map and chose to travel through Flame Mountain and the Swamp Forest toward the clan’s territory.
• Li Miaoling was shocked that they intended to proceed despite the dangers.
• Ye Lin asked whether they should kill the young miss, since she could report their infiltration.

Ye Lin took Li Miaoling along as a captive and followed the map toward Flame Mountain. After three days, the group found only an empty plateau, and Ye Lin realized an array was concealing the mountain.

• Ye Lin ordered Li Xiaoyao to keep Li Miaoling with the group as a bargaining chip, and Wang Tian apologized to her before following Ye Lin.
• Li Xiaoyao threatened Li Miaoling while she persistently asked his name and celebrated learning that they shared the surname Li.
• Ye Lin and Wang Tian followed the map for three days to the plateau where Flame Mountain was supposed to be.
• Ye Lin saw that the mountain was missing and suspected an array concealed it, but he admitted he could not understand profound arrays.
• Li Miaoling said she had stolen the map and had never visited Flame Mountain or learned what was happening there.

Ye Lin and Wang Tianyi discovered Bao Xiaotou hiding on a mound near Flame Mountain and learned that he was an exceptionally gifted array cultivator seeking a breakthrough. Ye Lin recognized Bao Xiaotou as the array talent he needed and was pleased with the discovery.

• Wang Tianyi pointed out a figure lying on a small earthen mound, and Ye Lin spotted him.
• Bao Xiaotou muttered that he had seen through Flame Mountain's illusion array and hoped to reach the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin examined Bao Xiaotou's profile and saw his extraordinary array talents, fortune, and future opportunities.
• Ye Lin decided Bao Xiaotou was the array talent he needed, having already found Wang Tianyi as a Dao Pill master.

Bao Xiaotou used formations to reveal a hidden entrance to Flame Mountain, and Ye Lin and the others followed him inside. The gate closed behind them, leaving the plateau unchanged.

• Bao Xiaotou placed treasures across the plain and used hand seals to expose a web of threads in the natural formation.
• Bao Xiaotou waved a black flag and revealed the intermittently visible Flame Mountain.
• Bao Xiaotou scattered white powder and opened a gate to the burning mountain range.
• Bao Xiaotou entered the gate with his canvas bag, and Ye Lin and the other three followed before it closed and the formation disappeared.

Ye Lin encountered Bao Xiaotou at Flame Mountain and tried to recruit him by offering protection. Bao Xiaotou mistook Li Miaoling for the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan’s captured little princess, and Ye Lin pressed him to lead the way into the clan’s territory.

• Bao Xiaotou noticed Ye Lin and his companions near Flame Mountain and introduced himself as Li Feiyu.
• Ye Lin questioned Bao Xiaotou about seeking a fortuitous opportunity beyond Flame Mountain, and Bao Xiaotou cautiously admitted his goal.
• Ye Lin revealed Li Miaoling, and Bao Xiaotou excitedly identified her as the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan’s little princess.
• Ye Lin told Bao Xiaotou to lead the way and promised to protect him if danger arose.

Bao Xiaotou revealed that his jade box held Pre-Heaven Breath Soil, which Ye Lin wanted as the main ingredient for the Heaven-Mending Pill. Bao Xiaotou gave it to Ye Lin to secure his safety, then warned that they would need it to cross Flame Mountain.

• Bao Xiaotou showed Ye Lin and Wang Tian a jade box containing what he claimed was Pre-Heaven Breath Soil, which could protect them from Flame Mountain's fire.
• Ye Lin insisted on buying the soil, but Bao Xiaotou offered it to him as a tribute instead.
• Ye Lin accepted the gift and promised Bao Xiaotou a favor, while Bao Xiaotou introduced himself as Li Feiyu.
• Bao Xiaotou warned that Flame Mountain's Dao Fire could burn even powerful cultivators to ash, and asked how they would cross without the soil.

Ye Lin led the group across Flame Mountain under the protection of the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, but fire spirits appeared and revealed that the Dao Fire had gained intelligence. He sent the others out and decided to face the Dao Fire alone, believing it held a great opportunity for him.

• Ye Lin used the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell to shield the group from Flame Mountain's Dao Fire and led them onward.
• Bao Xiaotou considered escaping but followed the others, then marveled at the bell's power.
• Fire spirits appeared and attacked the group with their piercing cries.
• Bao Xiaotou explained that fire spirits meant the Dao Fire had developed intelligence and that the spirits could not be destroyed while its source remained.
• Ye Lin sent Li Xiaoyao, Li Miaoling, and Bao Xiaotou out of Flame Mountain, then stayed behind to deal with the Dao Fire.

Ye Lin used his Great Sun Phoenix Flame to suppress Flame Mountain’s Dao Fire and destroy its Fire Spirits, then demanded that the intelligent Dao Fire reveal itself. When it stayed hidden, he attacked Flame Mountain with Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering.

• Ye Lin stood unharmed in the Dao Fire while Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian watched from outside the flames.
• Ye Lin summoned the Great Sun Phoenix Flame, which suppressed Flame Mountain’s fire and instantly destroyed its Fire Spirits.
• Ye Lin punched Flame Mountain, leaving a huge fist mark, and ordered the Dao Fire to come out.
• When the Dao Fire did not respond, Ye Lin unleashed Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering, and sent a million-zhang Sword Qi crashing into Flame Mountain.

Ye Lin confronted the Dao Fire origin at the heart of Flame Mountain and demanded that it merge with the Great Sun Phoenix Flame while keeping its intelligence. The Dao Fire questioned his offer, and Ye Lin made clear that refusal meant having its intelligence erased.

• Ye Lin blasted apart Flame Mountain with his sword, drawing the Dao Fire origin out of its heart.
• Ye Lin offered the manifested young man a chance to merge with the Great Sun Phoenix Flame and retain his intelligence.
• The young man protested that he had never harmed Ye Lin, while Ye Lin warned that other powerful beings would try to exploit him.
• Ye Lin gave the Dao Fire three breaths to decide and said he would not force it to submit.
• The young man asked what Ye Lin meant by not forcing him, and Ye Lin replied that he would erase its intelligence if it refused.
• The young man grew angry at Ye Lin's threat.

Ye Lin attacked the young man who had refused to submit, declaring that weakness was the original sin. The young man fought back with Flame Burst, but Great Sun Phoenix Flame emerged unharmed, and Ye Lin recognized that his opponent lacked combat experience.

• Ye Lin warned the young man to accept his chance or have his spiritual intelligence erased.
• The young man protested that he had never harmed anyone and refused to surrender.
• Ye Lin sent Great Sun Phoenix Flame to suppress the young man.
• The young man used Flame Burst to engulf the phoenix phantom, but it emerged unharmed.
• The young man unleashed Flame Burst again as Ye Lin dismissed his attempt as naive and noted his lack of combat experience.