Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin and Toutian fought through the Dark Forest toward its main hall while a Spirit Transformation Realm ghost realized what they were approaching. The ghost summoned thousands of allies to stop them before they disturbed the powerful beings inside.

• Ye Lin conserved his strength while asking Toutian how far they had to go, and Toutian said they were three kilometers from their destination.
• Ye Lin engulfed himself in fiery red energy, carried Toutian, and charged ahead, causing nearby ghosts—including Nascent Soul Realm ghosts—to vanish while draining his spiritual energy faster.
• The Spirit Transformation Realm ghost realized the two Humans were heading for the main hall, where powerful beings and the Dark Forest's precious treasures were kept.
• The ghost summoned at least ten thousand Spirit Transformation Realm ghosts and warned them that the beings in the hall might awaken if disturbed.
• The ghosts agreed to attack Ye Lin and Toutian together and stop them.

Ye Lin and Toutian struggled through a growing horde of ghosts in the Dark Forest as they approached a palace containing the Heavenly Secret Pavilion’s Half-Immortal Artifact. With Ye Lin nearly out of spiritual energy, Toutian urged him to reach the treasure before the ghosts stopped them.

• The ghosts could not move or harm Ye Lin and Toutian, while more Spirit Transformation ghosts gathered around them.
• The Demon Race sent a great army to guard the Dark Forest’s perimeter after the commotion alarmed them.
• Toutian urged Ye Lin to unleash his full power, saying he could activate the treasure once they got close enough.
• Ye Lin burned through most of his spiritual energy as ghosts packed the road and surged toward them.
• Toutian spotted the palace a thousand meters away and told Ye Lin to hurry toward the Half-Immortal Artifact.

Ye Lin used a Blood Explosion Pill to escape the ghosts with Toutian and reach the palace holding the Heavenly Secret Pavilion’s treasure. Inside, they found the golden compass guarded by three Dao Integration Realm True Lords, leaving Toutian stunned.

• Ye Lin swallowed a Blood Explosion Pill, boosting his power to the half-step Spirit Transformation Realm and wiping out the ghosts around him.
• Ye Lin rushed to the palace with Toutian, and the pursuing ghosts stopped outside its threshold.
• Toutian told Ye Lin that the palace held the Heavenly Secret Pavilion’s most prized treasure, and they entered together.
• Toutian spotted a golden compass on a table and moved toward it, but Ye Lin stopped him.
• Ye Lin pointed out three Dao Integration Realm True Lords sitting beside the compass, and Toutian froze under their gaze.

Ye Lin and Toutian sought the Heavenly Secret Pavilion’s Compass from three Human Race True Lords, but the guardians refused until Ye Lin revealed that Taichu was his master. When Ye Lin contacted Taichu, Taichu scolded him for stealing a True Lord’s mountain-guarding treasure and getting caught.

• Ye Lin asked the three True Lords for the treasure beside them, and they ordered him and Toutian to leave.
• Toutian offered to nurture the True Lords’ souls and give them new bodies in exchange for the Compass, but the True Lords refused.
• Ye Lin told the True Lords that his master was Taichu, prompting the central True Lord to ask for proof.
• Ye Lin used his Identity Token to contact Taichu, who appeared and scolded him for stealing the Dragon Tiger Mountain True Lord’s mountain-guarding treasure.
• Taichu berated Ye Lin for getting caught and said he should have asked for help stealing it.

Ye Lin discovered that the True Lord in the Dark Forest was Taichu’s long-lost master, making him Ye Lin’s grandmaster. Taichu began catching up with his master while Ye Lin and Toutian watched, still confused by the reunion.

• Taichu complained that someone had taken his Immortal Brew, then tried to get Ye Lin to show him treasures from the Jade Emperor’s seclusion chamber as compensation.
• Ye Lin showed Taichu the Identity Token, and the True Lord recognized Taichu as his disciple.
• Taichu learned that his master was alive and asked where he was so he could come meet him.
• The True Lord warned Taichu not to come because he was in the Dark Forest, then recognized Ye Lin as his grand-disciple.
• Taichu explained recent events to his master while Ye Lin, Toutian, and the other two True Lords watched.

Ye Lin received True Lord Taichu’s Identity Token and agreed to take his grandmaster’s soul out of the Dark Forest before joining Nameless Mountain. Taiyu persuaded the two other Dao Integration Realm True Lords to follow him back to Human Race territory, then asked Ye Lin and Toutian for a treasure that could conceal souls.

• True Lord Taichu gave Ye Lin the Identity Token and told him to bring his grandmaster out of the Dark Forest, meet him at the Human Race border, and join Nameless Mountain.
• Toutian accepted the situation after his identity was exposed, and Taiyu introduced himself to Ye Lin as his grandmaster.
• Taiyu offered the two other True Lords a chance to return to Human Race territory and live again, and they agreed to follow his orders.
• Taiyu asked whether Ye Lin or Toutian had a treasure that could conceal souls, and Toutian awkwardly admitted he owned a treasure that could nurture souls.

Ye Lin revealed the Jade Purification Bottle, giving Taiyu and the others a place to hide while Toutian claimed the Heaven-Peering Compass. The Compass accepted Toutian as its master, though its artifact spirit had not fully awakened.

• Ye Lin took the Jade Purification Bottle from his Spatial Ring, and Taiyu and Toutian recognized it as the Queen Mother's soul-nourishing treasure.
• Taiyu and the other two Dao Integration True Lords entered the bottle, and Ye Lin tucked it into his robes.
• Toutian approached the Heaven-Peering Compass and used the Heavenly Secret Pavilion's hand seals to awaken it.
• Toutian placed a pearl at the Compass's center and asked it to help him restore the Heavenly Secret Pavilion.
• The Heaven-Peering Compass accepted Toutian as its master and drifted into his hand, though its artifact spirit remained only partly awakened.

Toutian and Ye Lin escaped the Dark Forest aboard the Heaven-Peering Compass, which concealed their departure. The Heavenly Dao’s punishment drove the forest’s ghosts into a rampage against the Demon Race as the pair quietly headed toward Human Territory.

• Toutian claimed the Heaven-Peering Compass, and he and Ye Lin left the palace aboard its Flying Boat.
• After the pair escaped, ghosts discovered they could leave the Dark Forest without being struck by lightning.
• The Dark Forest’s protective energy vanished, and sunlight destroyed ghosts at the Qi Refining stage while unsettling those at the Foundation Establishment stage.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered storm clouds and threatened the Dark Forest with immense pressure and lightning.
• Spirit Transformation ghosts fled, and countless ghosts attacked Demon Beasts, starting a war with the Demon Race.
• The Demon Race mobilized to suppress the ghosts while Toutian and Ye Lin quietly flew toward Human Territory.

Ye Lin and Toutian fled the Dark Forest aboard a slow Flying Boat, fearing the Demon Race’s Dao Integration True Lords would pursue them. As they struggled to escape, the Myriad Demon Palace sent a Dao Integration True Lord to flatten the Dark Forest.

• Ye Lin relaxed after confirming no one was following them, then accelerated the Flying Boat with his remaining Spirit Stones.
• Ye Lin demanded that Toutian repay him with a favor and ten thousand High-Tier Spirit Stones, blaming him for the damage to his Nascent Soul.
• Toutian warned Ye Lin that the Demon Race’s Dao Integration True Lords might notice their Flying Boat after the Dark Forest’s rampage.
• Ye Lin said his reserves could not power the Flying Boat at full speed, leaving Toutian to hope the Dark Forest would hold out.
• The Myriad Demon Palace Master summoned a Demon Race Dao Integration True Lord, who swept the Dark Forest flat with a wave of his hand.

Ye Lin and Toutian evaded the Dao Integration Realm Demon Race True Lord and headed through a forest to retrieve another Stone Stele. The chapter leaves them approaching a Human Race village where an old man was teaching children about the stele that protected their home and helped produce its Sword Gods.

• After the Demon Race True Lord destroyed the ghosts, Ye Lin and Toutian concealed themselves with the Heaven-Peering Compass and escaped his attention.
• Toutian divined that another Stone Stele lay ahead, and Ye Lin agreed to retrieve it on foot while the compass recovered.
• Ye Lin warned Toutian that the Blood Explosion Pill had left him with less than a tenth of his strength, but Toutian promised to protect them from beasts.
• The pair traveled through the forest and encountered only weak Demon Beasts.
• In a small Human Race settlement, an old man told children that the Stone Stele protected their village and had helped its Ten Great Sword Gods comprehend the sword.

Little Dot sat beside the Stone Stele to try to comprehend sword arts, and his growing aura astonished the village. The chapter left the villagers watching as the number of sword arts he comprehended continued to rise.

• The Old Village Chief invited Little Dot to sit beside the Stone Stele and try to comprehend sword arts.
• Two Sword Gods discussed the restless Demon Beasts and trusted the Stone Stele to protect the village.
• Little Dot’s aura rose, and the villagers believed he might become another Sword God.
• Two Sword Gods counted fifteen little swords around Little Dot, and the number kept increasing.

Little Dot’s rapid comprehension of the Stone Stele’s sword techniques astonished the Old Village Chief, while Ye Lin and Toutian arrived at the village seeking the stele. They were admitted after Toutian said they had come looking for food.

• Little Dot comprehended hundreds of sword techniques from the Stone Stele, and the Old Village Chief imagined the strength he might gain.
• Ye Lin sensed that the Stone Stele’s Sword Intent was spilling out and wondered who was comprehending its techniques.
• A village man with a Long Sword stopped Ye Lin and Toutian and demanded to know where they had come from.
• Toutian claimed they were travelers looking for food, and the man let the two Human Race visitors enter the village.

Ye Lin saw Little Dot's extraordinary status panel and decided the gifted child should become his disciple. As Toutian wondered why he could not read Little Dot, a swordsman named Shen Shang questioned how Ye Lin and Toutian had entered the village.

• Ye Lin reached the village center and spotted Little Dot beside the Stone Stele, surrounded by swirling small swords.
• Ye Lin read Little Dot's panel, learning that he had a Red Fate Rank, exceptional sword-related traits, and the potential to comprehend the Elegant Sword technique.
• Ye Lin decided that Little Dot was too promising to be overlooked and wanted to take him as his disciple.
• Toutian found that he could not read Little Dot's fortune and muttered that the child was strange.
• Shen Shang approached Ye Lin and Toutian, questioned Wu Ya about bringing them in, and asked how many sword techniques Little Dot had comprehended.

Ye Lin and Toutian reached a village and demanded its Stone Stele, which the villagers regarded as the God Stone that protected them. As the villagers resisted, Ye Lin incapacitated Shen Shang and Wu Ya while approaching Little Dot.

• Shen Shang accused Ye Lin and Toutian of possibly being Demon Beasts in disguise and demanded to know their origins.
• Ye Lin disabled Shen Shang's sword with a touch, convincing Shen Shang that he was outmatched.
• Ye Lin said he had come for the village's Stone Stele, and the villagers refused to surrender the God Stone.
• Toutian warned Ye Lin that they had little time and urged him to take the Stone Stele and leave.
• Ye Lin stepped toward Little Dot, and when Shen Shang and Wu Ya charged at him, he made them kneel with a single word.

Ye Lin waited as Little Dot completed a mysterious transformation, then asked to take him as his disciple. Little Dot accepted, and Ye Lin said he would take the boy away to train him.

• The village chief pleaded with Ye Lin to spare Little Dot during the boy's transformation, and Ye Lin promised not to hurt him.
• After three hours, Little Dot opened his eyes and excitedly told the village chief that he had seen a beautiful golden Long Sword.
• Ye Lin offered to teach Little Dot cultivation and promised he could become far stronger than the Sword God.
• Little Dot agreed to become Ye Lin's personal disciple.
• Ye Lin told the village chief he would take Little Dot to a sacred place of the Human Race, leaving the village chief dismayed.

Ye Lin persuaded the Old Village Chief to let him take Little Dot to the Human Race Holy Land and become his disciple. Little Dot agreed after Ye Lin promised he could return to his friends once he had learned to cultivate, while Ye Lin examined the village’s Stone Stele.

• The Old Village Chief agreed to let Ye Lin take Little Dot, trusting the Stone Stele’s failure to react as proof that Ye Lin was human.
• Little Dot protested that he did not want to leave the Old Village Chief, the village, or his friends Da Hua and Er Niu.
• Ye Lin told Little Dot that cultivation would let him reunite with his friends and teach them to cultivate.
• Little Dot agreed to go with Ye Lin after saying goodbye to Da Hua and Er Niu.
• Ye Lin took out the Jade Talisman and examined the Stone Stele, puzzled by its ability to attack Demon Beasts and its high cultivation level.

Ye Lin learned that the Stone Stele's Heaven Grade sword technique had gained intelligence and had protected the village, then comprehended its Sword Slash of the Yellow Springs. Before leaving with Little Dot and Toutian, he gave the villagers cultivation techniques and martial skills to help them and their Sword Gods.

• Ye Lin discovered that the villagers' worship had given the intelligent sword technique enough incense power to grow strong and protect the village.
• Ye Lin comprehended the Sword Slash of the Yellow Springs, which drew on the Yellow Springs Nine Netherworlds, and left the technique to keep guarding the village.
• Ye Lin gave the village chief Mystic-Grade techniques and martial skills, explaining that the Ten Great Sword Gods lacked proper cultivation methods and that one was close to going berserk.
• The village chief realized Ye Lin was right about the Sword God who had gone berserk and accepted the books for him.
• Ye Lin told the village chief the gifts were for Little Dot, then picked up Little Dot and left the village with Toutian.

Ye Lin left the village with Little Dot and Toutian after promising the villagers a chance to learn cultivation. On the way back, a Fire-Red Giant Bird appeared and excitedly greeted Ye Lin as its boss.

• The village chief and villagers thanked Ye Lin as he departed, and Little Dot asked why he had not brought Da Hua and Er Niu along.
• Ye Lin explained that he was not strong enough to protect everyone from Demon Beasts, and Little Dot vowed to bring his friends to live with them once he became powerful.
• Toutian asked whether Little Dot had great talent, and Ye Lin said the child had limitless potential before asking Toutian to check for more Stone Steles.
• Toutian reported that all remaining Stone Steles were in Human Race territory, then questioned Ye Lin about the steles and Jade Talisman.
• Ye Lin continued flying with Little Dot, and a Fire-Red Giant Bird appeared and eagerly called him boss.

Ye Lin reunited with Little Red, who had become a Spirit Transformation Demon Venerable and the Snow Wolf Clan’s young master, and the two flew with Toutian toward Human Territory. Little Red revealed that the Myriad Demon Palace’s Young Palace Master made him feel threatened, while Ye Lin suspected the Jade Emperor had possessed him.

• Ye Lin greeted Little Red and climbed onto his back, then invited Toutian to join them.
• Ye Lin told Little Red they were heading to Human Territory, and Little Red flew off at tremendous speed.
• Little Red explained that he was now the Snow Wolf Clan’s young master, giving him powerful backing in the Myriad Demon Palace.
• Little Red said the Myriad Demon Palace’s Young Palace Master felt dangerous despite being at the same cultivation realm as him.
• Ye Lin introduced Toutian as his new disciple and suspected the Young Palace Master had been possessed by the Jade Emperor.
• An unidentified Demon Venerable called out for them to stop.

Little Red confronted Mad Python, a True Lord of the Demon Race, who demanded the three humans on his back be taken in for questioning over unrest in the Dark Forest. Little Red warned him that taking them would mean their deaths and offered an alliance, leaving Mad Python tempted by the prospect of raising his clan’s standing.

• Little Red stopped before Mad Python, who asked where he was going.
• Mad Python demanded that Little Red leave the three humans with him for questioning about the Dark Forest unrest.
• Little Red warned Mad Python that the humans would likely be killed and threatened consequences for his clan if he blocked the way.
• Little Red offered Mad Python an alliance, saying he would become the future Young Palace Master of Myriad Demon Palace.
• Mad Python weighed the offer against his clan’s weak position in Myriad Demon Palace.