Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin and his companions saw a crowd rushing to Spring Moon Pavilion to watch its courtesan queen perform. After the pavilion admitted guests with Purple Crystal City Tokens, Bao Xiaotou led Ye Lin and the others through the crowd and toward the entrance.

• Ye Lin and his companions walked through the city wearing fourth-tier entry permits, which caused passersby to make way for them.
• People suddenly rushed down the street after hearing that Spring Moon Pavilion's courtesan queen would perform that day.
• Bao Xiaotou grew curious about the courtesan queen, and Ye Lin agreed that the group should go see her.
• The crowd gathered outside the glowing Spring Moon Pavilion until a voice announced that guests with Purple Crystal City Tokens could enter.
• Bao Xiaotou led Ye Lin and the other two forward, and the crowd watched them respectfully as they approached the pavilion.

Ye Lin, Bao Xiaotou, and their companions entered Spring Moon Pavilion and took the privileged seats reserved for Purple Crystal City Token holders. Bao Xiaotou remained deferential toward the three Flawless Taiyi experts, while sensing that something in the pavilion was drawing him in.

• Two attendants welcomed Bao Xiaotou and his companions after seeing their Purple Crystal City Tokens.
• The group entered Spring Moon Pavilion and saw a performance platform surrounded by seats, with three token holders already seated near the front.
• Two attendants led Bao Xiaotou, Ye Lin, and the others to four luxurious front-row seats.
• Bao Xiaotou pulled out chairs for Ye Lin and the others, and Wang Tian teased him about his excessive courtesy.
• Bao Xiaotou sat only after the three experts had taken their seats and sensed something drawing him in.

Ye Lin and the others waited at Spring Moon Pavilion for the courtesan queen, while Ye Lin noticed something hidden in the pavilion. The queen finally appeared behind a gauze curtain and sent her intimate garment into the crowd, sparking a scramble.

• A man asked Ye Lin where he came from, and Ye Lin quietly answered that he was a Rogue Cultivator.
• Ye Lin observed Spring Moon Pavilion and noticed something in the depths of its rooftop.
• After the guests waited and complained for half an hour, Spring Moon Pavilion's doors and windows shut and its lights went out.
• A purple spotlight revealed the courtesan queen behind a gauze curtain, and she apologized for making the guests wait.
• The courtesan queen's intimate garment drifted down from above, and the guests argued over who would claim it.

Ye Lin met Zhang Caifeng, the Second City Lord’s son, and learned why he was wary of Spring Moon Pavilion. The courtesan appeared onstage, but the crowd still demanded to see her unveiled.

• Zhang Caifeng took a purple dudou from another man and offered Ye Lin a chance to touch it.
• Ye Lin asked Zhang Caifeng why he was obsessed with a courtesan, and Zhang Caifeng explained that Spring Moon Pavilion was backed by the powerful Seven Illusion Sect.
• Zhang Caifeng asked Ye Lin about his origins, and Ye Lin claimed he was a Rogue Cultivator.
• The crowd demanded that the courtesan reveal her face as the gauze curtain drifted away.
• The courtesan appeared in a long dress and half-veil, and a man in the audience called for her to remove it.

Shangguan Wanyu faced the crowd at Spring Moon Pavilion and released a fragrant substance that drew suspicion from Ye Lin and Wang Tian. Bao Xiaotou recognized her pendant as the object that had lured him there, but held back from taking it because he sensed a terrifying Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal nearby.

• Men in the crowd heckled Shangguan Wanyu and demanded that she remove her veil.
• Shangguan Wanyu introduced Western Region Heavenly Fragrance, and the scent filled Spring Moon Pavilion.
• Ye Lin sensed something was wrong with the fragrance, while Wang Tian recognized the trick and dismissed it.
• Bao Xiaotou realized Shangguan Wanyu's pendant was what had drawn him to the pavilion.
• Bao Xiaotou restrained himself from taking the pendant after sensing a powerful presence in the city.

Ye Lin watched Bao Xiaotou resist the hallucinogenic poison and realized he was focused on the pendant worn by a courtesan, which promised an array inheritance. As the poison took hold of the guests and Zhang Caifeng made a scene, Shangguan Wanyu addressed the audience, while Ye Lin anticipated trouble within half an hour.

• Bao Xiaotou recognized the hallucinogenic poison and secretly swallowed an antidote pill.
• A courtesan pleaded with Ye Lin to let her stay, and he allowed her to serve him.
• Ye Lin checked Bao Xiaotou's fate and learned the courtesan's pendant would lead him to a first-rank Dao Array Master's inheritance in half an hour.
• Zhang Caifeng became infatuated with the courtesan and loudly offered her his family's fortune, while the guests stayed silent because he was Zhang Erhe's son.
• Shangguan Wanyu asked the audience what they thought of her little sister's dance, and the guests praised it despite its stiffness.

Shangguan Wanyu and her black-clad followers seized Spring Moon Pavilion, and she demanded money from the trapped spectators. Deadly Scholar Lian Caixing, who had expected to stop her, grew furious after she ignored him.

• Shangguan Wanyu summoned black-clad followers who took control of Spring Moon Pavilion as the strange fragrance and lights vanished.
• The spectators recognized Shangguan Wanyu as the Heaven-Ending Bandit Saint and panicked, while Deadly Scholar Lian Caixing stood up to challenge her.
• The spectators discovered that Shangguan Wanyu's forty-eight followers were all at the Illusion Sect level and gave up trying to escape.
• Shangguan Wanyu demanded Supreme Illusion Stones from the spectators according to their jade plaque tiers.
• Shangguan Wanyu set her leg on the table before Ye Lin, who watched her with interest, while Deadly Scholar Lian Caixing angrily called her out for ignoring him.

Shangguan Wanyu used Seven Absolutions Cultivation-Dispelling Incense to disable Lian Caixing and force the gathered spectators to pay for their lives. She then confronted the Purple Crystal City Token holders and singled out Ye Lin, leaving her intentions toward him unclear.

• Shangguan Wanyu taunted Lian Caixing, who tried to attack her with Killing Character Art, Heavenly Slay.
• The Killing character vanished, and Lian Caixing collapsed after recognizing Seven Absolutions Cultivation-Dispelling Incense.
• Shangguan Wanyu explained that circulating cultivation triggered the incense’s effects and warned everyone not to resist.
• Black-clad men blocked the exits and demanded five hundred thousand Supreme Illusion Stones, prompting many spectators to pay.
• The Purple Crystal City Token holders refused to move, so Shangguan Wanyu approached Ye Lin and lifted his chin as an unfamiliar fragrance reached him.

Shangguan Wanyu demanded ten million Supreme Illusion Stones from each Purple Crystal City Token holder, and Ye Lin’s suggestion prompted her to make the demand. After she chopped off Zhang Caifeng’s hand when he could not pay, Ye Lin warned her that the disturbance had already been discovered and it might soon be too late to act.

• Ye Lin told Shangguan Wanyu to demand ten million Supreme Illusion Stones per person, and she accepted his suggestion.
• Shangguan Wanyu demanded the money from the token holders and selected Zhang Caifeng to pay first.
• Zhang Caifeng said he could not afford the sum, so Shangguan Wanyu chopped off his right hand.
• Shangguan Wanyu exempted Ye Lin from payment and tried to persuade him to follow her.
• Ye Lin warned Shangguan Wanyu that their disturbance had been discovered and urged her to act before it was too late.

Ye Lin and Shangguan Wanyu extorted the wealthy visitors before escaping together, while Zhang Caifeng and Wang Tian revealed they had been acting. Wang Tian then told Bao Xiaotou that Shangguan Wanyu’s pendant was what he needed.

• Shangguan Wanyu demanded payment from Zhang Caifeng and the others, and they handed over ten million Supreme Illusion Stones each.
• Shangguan Wanyu kicked Zhang Caifeng after the others left, then offered Ye Lin a partnership.
• Shangguan Wanyu carried Ye Lin up the rope as Zhang Caifeng got up unharmed and told Wang Tian and the others to leave.
• Wang Tian revealed that he had seen through the scheme and called it boring.
• Wang Tian told Bao Xiaotou that the pendant around Shangguan Wanyu’s neck was what he needed.

Ye Lin followed Shangguan Wanyu and her men from Spring Moon Pavilion to their hidden mountain lair after they robbed the Fantasy Capital’s wealthy guests. Shangguan Wanyu split the proceeds with Zhang Caifeng, then turned to Ye Lin and frowned at Bao Xiaotou beside him.

• Wang Tian and the others followed the black-clad men, while Zhang Caifeng hurried after them and City Lord Mansion guards arrived too late to find anyone at Spring Moon Pavilion.
• News spread through Fantasy Capital that Shangguan Wanyu was the Heaven-Ending Bandit Saint and that Deadly Scholar had lost cultivation and wealth in the robbery.
• Ye Lin followed Shangguan Wanyu through an underground passage to a hidden base inside a desolate mountain.
• Shangguan Wanyu counted a haul of 134.5 million Supreme Illusion Stones and gave Zhang Caifeng ten million for helping her evade the City Lord Mansion.
• Shangguan Wanyu had her men escort Zhang Caifeng away, then looked at Ye Lin and frowned at Bao Xiaotou beside him.

Shangguan Wanyu tried to recruit Ye Lin and explained the power of the Great Illusion Sect, while Bao Xiaotou asked for the keepsake around her neck. Ye Lin claimed that Great Illusion Sect powerhouses were ants to him, and the chapter ended with him declaring himself a Dao Saint.

• Shangguan Wanyu warned Bao Xiaotou not to ask for the keepsake her mother had left her and said she would spare him because he was Ye Lin's friend.
• Bao Xiaotou looked to Ye Lin for a sign, ready to kill Shangguan Wanyu if Ye Lin agreed.
• Shangguan Wanyu offered Ye Lin a chance to join her and promised that he could reach the Illusion Sect realm and perhaps the Great Illusion Sect realm.
• Ye Lin offered to work with Shangguan Wanyu instead and said Great Illusion Sect powerhouses were ants in his eyes.
• Shangguan Wanyu laughed at Ye Lin's claim and described the Great Illusion Sect's immense power, including how one had nearly killed them all.
• Ye Lin remained unmoved as Shangguan Wanyu rested a hand on his shoulder, then declared himself the Heaven-Ending Dao Saint.

Ye Lin recognized Shangguan Wanyu’s exceptional talent and demonstrated his strength by flattening the mountains around them. Shangguan Wanyu reconsidered his offer to have her follow him, while Bao Xiaotou worried about how he could obtain her pendant.

• Ye Lin read Shangguan Wanyu’s panel and saw her potential as a capable guide through secret realms and tombs.
• Shangguan Wanyu turned to leave after Ye Lin appeared to reject her offer.
• Ye Lin unleashed a palm strike that destroyed the cave and flattened the mountains for a million li.
• Shangguan Wanyu was stunned by Ye Lin’s power as he again asked her to follow him for great profits.
• Bao Xiaotou worried that Ye Lin’s taking Shangguan Wanyu in would make it harder to ask for her pendant.

Ye Lin offered to help Shangguan Wanyu resolve the grudge behind her mother's death in exchange for the pendant she treasured and her joining him. Shangguan Wanyu began telling him about her enemy, the son of the strongest person on the continent, after creating an intricate illusion realm.

• Shangguan Wanyu flirted with Ye Lin, but he asked her to give her pendant to Bao Xiaotou.
• Shangguan Wanyu pulled away and refused, explaining that the pendant was her only keepsake from her mother.
• Ye Lin said he knew her grief was tied to her mother's death and offered to help her if she gave the pendant to Bao Xiaotou and followed him.
• Shangguan Wanyu asked whether Ye Lin could help against her enemy, the son of the continent's strongest person.
• Shangguan Wanyu transformed the ruins into a courtyard within an illusion realm and prepared to explain her enemy's identity.

Shangguan Wanyu told Ye Lin and the others how Chen Changsheng murdered her mother and how she became the Heaven-Ending Bandit Saint to seek revenge. Ye Lin agreed to help her, and they planned to use Chen Changsheng’s hundredth-birthday banquet in half a month to enter and kill him.

• Shangguan Wanyu recounted how her father, Chen Fan, favored Chen Changsheng and neglected her and her mother.
• Shangguan Wanyu described returning with ginseng to find Chen Changsheng had beaten her mother to death while Chen Fan did nothing.
• Shangguan Wanyu buried her mother, left home, and became the Heaven-Ending Bandit Saint to grow strong enough to seek revenge.
• Ye Lin agreed to help Shangguan Wanyu avenge her mother.
• Shangguan Wanyu proposed entering Chen Changsheng’s hundredth-birthday banquet in half a month and killing him in front of everyone.

Powerhouses from across the Fantasy Continent traveled to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain for Chen Changsheng’s hundredth-birthday banquet, where they hoped to see Chen Fan, the strongest man under heaven. Ye Lin and Shangguan Wanyu arrived at the mountain, and Ye Lin prepared to climb toward the summit with Li Xiaoyao.

• News spread that Chen Changsheng would hold a grand banquet at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and invite powerhouses from across the world.
• Travelers discussed the mountain’s lethal cold and smooth, pathless slopes, which made Phantom Sect the minimum strength needed to approach and climb it.
• Shangguan Wanyu told Ye Lin that Jade Dragon Snow Mountain was Chen Fan’s residence and lamented that, as his daughter, she was not qualified to reach its summit.
• Ye Lin urged Shangguan Wanyu to climb the mountain and witness the strongest man under heaven.
• Li Xiaoyao’s blood boiled as he resolved to test Chen Fan’s strength with his hammer.

Ye Lin brought Shangguan Wanyu to the summit of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, where she discovered Chen Fan and the others lived above the clouds. She gave Bao Xiaotou her pendant and prepared to confront Chen Changsheng, with Li Xiaoyao promising to help hold Chen Fan back.

• Shangguan Wanyu struggled to climb the snow mountain and watched a Great Illusion Sect expert fall into the Endless Abyss.
• Ye Lin grabbed Shangguan Wanyu and carried her up to the summit.
• Shangguan Wanyu saw the cloud sea and realized Chen Fan and the others lived in a Heavenly Palace while she and her mother had stayed in a hut below.
• Shangguan Wanyu put on a mask, gave Bao Xiaotou her pendant, and said she planned to kill Chen Changsheng to avenge her mother.
• Li Xiaoyao promised to help hold Chen Fan back as Shangguan Wanyu headed toward the mountain gate.

Bao Xiaotou discovered that Shangguan Wanyu’s pendant contained the inheritance of a first-rank Dao Array Master, leaving him indebted to her. The group entered the Mansion Above Heaven, while Ye Lin hinted that Shangguan Wanyu’s abilities would shine elsewhere.

• Bao Xiaotou absorbed the pendant’s memories and realized they held a first-rank Dao Array Master’s inheritance.
• Bao Xiaotou recognized that Shangguan Wanyu had saved him from a karmic debt he could not settle by killing her.
• Shangguan Wanyu entered the magnificent Mansion Above Heaven and grieved that her mother had never seen it.
• Li Xiaoyao questioned Ye Lin about recruiting Shangguan Wanyu, and Ye Lin said her abilities would shine somewhere else.

Shangguan Wanyu arrived at Heavenly Mansion with Ye Lin's group and planned to publicly disgrace Chen Fan and kill Chen Changsheng at the banquet. After the others settled in, she asked Ye Lin why he had gone to such lengths to help her, and he told her he knew her better than she knew herself.

• Little Lotus welcomed Shangguan Wanyu and her companions to Heavenly Mansion and led them to a luxurious residence.
• Shangguan Wanyu resolved to kill Chen Changsheng and confront Chen Fan publicly at the banquet to clear her mother's name and ruin Chen Fan's reputation.
• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian went to their rooms to continue absorbing an inheritance and refining the Nine Provinces Cauldron, while Li Xiaoyao asked Wang Tian for more Enlightenment Pills.
• After the others left, Shangguan Wanyu asked Ye Lin why he had come to help someone as ordinary as her.
• Ye Lin told Shangguan Wanyu that he knew her better than she knew herself.

Ye Lin told Shangguan Wanyu that he and his companions came from beyond the heavens and described the vast Demon Domain Starry Sky. After three days of conversation, Little Lotus summoned them to the banquet.

• Shangguan Wanyu questioned Ye Lin about his origins and the pendant, and he said he came from beyond the heavens and had noticed her special talent.
• Shangguan Wanyu asked about the world beyond the heavens, and Ye Lin dismissed Chen Fan's claim that their world was the only one.
• Ye Lin described the Demon Domain Starry Sky to Shangguan Wanyu over the next three days, and she grew eager to see it.
• Little Lotus arrived and invited Ye Lin and Shangguan Wanyu to the banquet, and Ye Lin agreed to go.