Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin accepted the Buddhist Sect’s Twelve-Leaf Treasure Lotus in exchange for peace and its support. Nian Yi then revealed that Li Xiaoyao’s heart demon had gained a spirit and offered to treat him at the Buddhist Sect, leaving Ye Lin wary of what that treatment might do to him.

• Ye Lin respectfully greeted Nian Yi, who gifted him the Twelve-Leaf Treasure Lotus and pledged the Buddhist Sect’s full support.
• Ye Lin accepted the treasure and agreed to put aside conflict with the Buddhist Sect.
• Nian Yi examined Li Xiaoyao and warned that his spirit-bearing heart demon could eventually make him lose himself.
• Nian Yi offered to eradicate Li Xiaoyao’s heart demon over roughly ten years at the Buddhist Sect’s Heavenly Pool.
• Ye Lin hesitated, worrying that the treatment might make Li Xiaoyao wholeheartedly devoted to Buddhism, and Nian Yi pointed out that he was overthinking it.

Nian Yi agreed to take Li Xiaoyao away and treat the danger inside his body, while Ye Lin accepted the arrangement and led the Qilin Clan army home. The onlookers debated why the Buddhist Sect had backed down, with some calling it cowardice and others saying it had wisely recognized Ye Lin’s influence.

• Nian Yi explained that the Buddhist Sect’s conversion arts could not easily change a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal’s beliefs, and Ye Lin accepted his offer to help Li Xiaoyao.
• Ye Lin warned Li Xiaoyao to behave while he stayed with Nian Yi, and Li Xiaoyao reluctantly agreed to go.
• Nian Yi led Li Xiaoyao away as Ye Lin and the prodigies watched.
• Ye Lin called off the fighting and led the Qilin Clan and Heavenly Demons back home.
• The gathered spectators argued over whether the Buddhist Sect had acted cowardly or wisely by yielding to Ye Lin.

Ye Lin chose to target the Southern Demon Domain while preparing to confront the Golden Immortal factions that had wronged him. Over five years, the Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect built a teleportation formation and supplied the army for the coming invasion.

• Ye Lin’s forces debated their next move, and a Qilin Clan general recommended attacking the divided Southern Demon Domain.
• Ye Lin asked about Chen Feng’s control of the Northern Demon Domain, then chose to follow the Qilin Clan’s plan and prepare for ten years before attacking the south.
• Ye Lin resolved to conquer the other three regions before seeking revenge on the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan and the Asura Clan.
• One year later, the Buddhist Sect’s army joined the Qilin Clan, and the former enemies cooperated.
• The Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect constructed a large-scale teleportation formation over the next four years, then began transporting resources to the army.

Ten years after Ye Lin announced he would reclaim the Southern Demon Domain, five Golden Immortal powers and their armies plunged the region into chaos. Ye Lin welcomed the disorder as he prepared to move, while the Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect also entered the wider struggle.

• The Buddhist Sect and Qilin Clan reinforced their forces, and Forbidden Void deployed another three million troops without opposition.
• Stowaways in the Southern Demon Domain joined forces, while three million Shu Mountain Sword Sect cultivators and armies from five Golden Immortal powers advanced into the region.
• The Dugu Clan sent three million troops led by Dugu Feng to the Southern Demon Domain.
• Ye Lin and Poison Venerable discussed the turmoil and Dugu Feng’s arrival, and Ye Lin said the chaos would make it easier to enter.
• Ye Lin considered the Demon Domain’s distribution of Golden Immortal powers and noted that the Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect had entered the struggle while five other powers remained hidden.

Li Xiaoyao returned after the Buddhist Sect removed the problem within his Primordial Spirit, and his cultivation had risen to the peak of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm. Ye Lin sent him to lead the vanguard as the group prepared to unify the Western and Southern Demon Domains, while Wang Tian distributed fasting pills to the Heavenly Demons.

• Li Xiaoyao told Ye Lin that he felt lighter after enduring ten years of Buddhist chanting and vowed not to return to that place.
• Ye Lin saw that Li Xiaoyao had recovered completely and discovered that he had reached the peak of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin assigned Li Xiaoyao to lead the vanguard, and Li Xiaoyao eagerly accepted.
• Wang Tian finished refining fasting pills aboard a warship and let the Heavenly Demons take one each.
• The Heavenly Demons rushed and shoved one another to collect the pills while Wang Tian watched.

Wang Tian profited by trading fragrant fasting pills to the Heavenly Demons as Ye Lin’s army traveled to the Southern Demon Domain. After crushing a small opposing force, Ye Lin studied a map and prepared to advance through the region.

• Wang Tian agreed to refine more fasting pills for the Heavenly Demons in exchange for black iron scraps.
• After three months of travel, Ye Lin’s army arrived at the Southern Demon Domain and learned that a large army stood ahead.
• Ye Lin ordered the Qilin Clan soldiers to attack, and the battle ended quickly.
• Ye Lin’s group gathered around a map that divided the Southern Demon Domain into outer, inner, and core regions.

Ye Lin led an army backed by ten Half-Step Golden Immortal experts into the chaotic core region of the Southern Demon Domain to join the fighting. The native Golden Immortal factions had lost control as outside forces and Half-Step Golden Immortals plunged the region into further disorder.

• Ye Lin set out for the core region with five Half-Step Golden Immortal experts each from the Qilin Clan and the Buddhist Sect.
• Ye Lin declared that his army would join the turmoil, and a Qilin Clan expert welcomed the chance to profit from it.
• Xu Changsheng laughed as he watched the Southern Demon Domain descend into chaos.
• Shu Mountain Sword Sect, the Dugu Clan, native Stowaways, and factions from other Demon Domains fought and looted across the south.
• The native Golden Immortal factions sent in Half-Step Golden Immortal experts, but opposing reinforcements arrived and the core region became even more chaotic.

Xu Changsheng watched the conflict engulf the Southern Demon Domain as Ye Lin reached its core region and learned that twenty-three camps were fighting over territory and resources. With the region already divided among rival factions, Ye Lin asked whether any unoccupied land remained for his army.

• Xu Changsheng observed that the Southern Demon Domain's Golden Immortal factions were losing experts and predicted their foundations would decline after the battle.
• Ye Lin halted his army outside the core region and sent experts from the Buddhist Sect and Qilin Clan to gather intelligence.
• Three days later, the scouts reported that twenty-three camps occupied the core region and fought daily over territory and resources.
• The scouts explained that outsiders, local factions led by the Stowaways, and unknown armies were all seizing land and gathering resources.
• Ye Lin studied the map, asked whether any land remained unoccupied, and realized his army might have to fight its way into the conflict.

Ye Lin led his forces into the Southern Demon Domain to seize territory after finding no vacant land. The ruler of the territory ahead decided to gather allies and oppose him, believing the battle could not be avoided.

• Ye Lin decided to carve out territory by force and ordered his army to advance.
• The young ruler learned that Ye Lin's warships were heading straight for his territory and suspected he had been singled out.
• The ruler's followers admitted they could not stop Ye Lin alone, but none volunteered to surrender territory.
• The ruler ordered the others to call for reinforcements and insisted they fight Ye Lin while their Golden Immortal allies still supported them.

Ye Lin’s army reached the enemy’s fortified star system, where the opposing forces prepared to stop him. Bao Xiaotou dismantled their formations from afar, clearing the way toward the core region.

• The young man rallied the failures, insisting they had to win or die, and ordered that Ye Lin must not be allowed in.
• Ye Lin’s army arrived outside a star system bristling with defensive formations and enemy troops.
• Ye Lin ordered his forces to study the formations before charging in to avoid heavy casualties.
• Bao Xiaotou dismissed the formations as crude, then formed a Formation Disk and attacked the star system.
• Bao Xiaotou’s strike triggered a succession of explosions as the grand formations inside the star system were destroyed.

Bao Xiaotou shattered the formation surrounding the star system, allowing Ye Lin’s three armies to launch their assault. Ye Lin’s forces entered from three directions, and the chapter ended as the Buddhist Sect charged into battle.

• Bao Xiaotou destroyed more than half of the star system’s formation nodes, collapsing the grand formation.
• The Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect experts marveled at Bao Xiaotou’s formation skills, and Ye Lin recognized him as a second-rank Dao Formation Master.
• Ye Lin ordered Poison Venerable to lead the Heavenly Demons from the left, Li Xiaoyao to lead the Qilin Clan from the right, and the Buddhist Sect to attack through the center.
• Li Xiaoyao, Poison Venerable, and Ye Lin led their armies into the star system from their assigned directions.
• An opposing commander warned Ye Lin to withdraw, but Ye Lin ordered his forces to attack instead of replying.
• The Buddhist Sect experts charged forward with their weapons and legions.

Qin Jiang ordered his army to attack the Buddhist Sect forces, but his soldiers recoiled from their overwhelming presence. After Qin Jiang promised reinforcements and warned that Ye Lin intended to unify the Southern Demon Domain, the adjutant rallied the army to charge, and Ye Lin appeared above the battlefield demanding to meet its commander.

• Qin Jiang ordered his army to attack the Buddhist Sect forces, but the soldiers retreated in fear.
• Qin Jiang's adjutant urged him to avoid the Buddhist Sect army's advance.
• Qin Jiang warned that Ye Lin would threaten them if he established himself in the Southern Demon Domain and claimed reinforcements were coming.
• Qin Jiang's adjutant rallied the cultivators, and they charged toward the Buddhist Sect army.
• Ye Lin appeared above the battlefield in a blood-red robe and demanded that the army's commander come forward.

Ye Lin confronted Qin Jiang and dismissed the Southern Demon Domain’s complexity, insisting that anyone who blocked his path should be killed. Qin Jiang wrongly concluded that Ye Lin had needed outside help to kill Li Changsheng, and Ye Lin prepared to prove his strength in battle.

• Qin Jiang faced Ye Lin and warned him that the Southern Demon Domain was too chaotic for him to handle alone.
• Ye Lin said he would crush and kill anyone who stood in his way.
• Qin Jiang decided Ye Lin’s words showed he was unimpressive and suspected that someone else had helped him kill Li Changsheng.
• Qin Jiang reasoned that Ye Lin must have made a deal with Li Changsheng’s Primordial Unity Golden Immortal father after using an improper method to kill Li Changsheng.
• Ye Lin summoned the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and challenged Qin Jiang to a fight.

Ye Lin fought Qin Jiang, who used his Shadowkill ability to vanish and evade direct combat. Suspecting Qin Jiang was buying time for reinforcements, Ye Lin sealed and shattered the surrounding space, but Qin Jiang remained missing.

• Qin Jiang summoned two daggers and vanished with Shadowkill, then attacked Ye Lin from behind.
• Ye Lin countered Qin Jiang’s ambush and spread thunder across tens of thousands of miles to detect him.
• Ye Lin realized Qin Jiang was stalling for reinforcements while their armies fought below.
• Ye Lin used the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell to seal the starry sky and the Time Measuring Ruler to halt time and break space.
• Ye Lin found no trace of Qin Jiang within a hundred thousand miles and expanded his search, causing space to crumble.

Ye Lin failed to catch Qin Jiang, who repeatedly vanished into the void to evade his attacks. Ye Lin turned to slaughter the enemy cultivators on the battlefield, forcing them to flee while Qin Jiang remained hidden.

• Qin Jiang attacked Ye Lin from behind, but Ye Lin countered with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.
• Ye Lin used the bell to force Qin Jiang out of hiding and attacked him with Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering.
• Qin Jiang escaped into the void again, evading Ye Lin's sword strike despite the sealed space.
• Ye Lin charged into the battlefield and killed the enemy cultivators as he tried to force Qin Jiang to reveal himself.
• The enemy cultivators recognized Ye Lin's strength and fled, while Ye Lin continued clearing the battlefield.

Ye Lin’s arrival broke the enemy army’s morale, and Qin Jiang emerged from hiding to stop the prodigies from fleeing. The chapter ended with Ye Lin confronting Qin Jiang as reinforcements were expected to arrive.

• Ye Lin overwhelmed the enemy prodigies, causing many of them to flee and suspect Qin Jiang had abandoned them.
• Qin Jiang appeared in the retreating army’s path and ordered the powerhouses to stay and fight until reinforcements arrived.
• With the enemy’s Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals distracted, the Buddhist Sect’s Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals began slaughtering the remaining troops.
• Qin Jiang forced the fleeing prodigies back into battle, then reflected that he had meant only to stall Ye Lin until reinforcements came.
• Ye Lin spotted Qin Jiang and taunted him for finally coming out of hiding.

Ye Lin faced Qin Jiang and four peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal reinforcements as their warships joined the battle. He overwhelmed the four with time laws, but they shattered his Time Millstone through their combined strength, and Ye Lin discovered they had no Boundless Artifacts.

• Qin Jiang's reinforcements arrived on a fleet of black warships, bringing four more peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal prodigies.
• Ye Lin summoned the Time Measuring Ruler and dismissed the five opponents as unworthy of his time.
• The four newcomers attacked together while Qin Jiang slipped into the void and the warships joined the melee.
• Ye Lin used Time Stop and Time Millstone to suppress the four attackers.
• The four peak cultivators combined their strength to shatter the Time Millstone, and Ye Lin realized none of them owned a Boundless Artifact.

Ye Lin battled Qin Jiang, whose Shadow Escape technique let him evade Ye Lin’s sword strike. After Wu Wang and Xiaoyao drew away the other four attackers, Ye Lin trapped Qin Jiang with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and Time Laws.

• Ye Lin struck Qin Jiang with his sword, but Qin Jiang used Shadow Escape to let the blade pass through him unharmed.
• Four attackers rushed Ye Lin from behind while he faced Qin Jiang.
• Ye Lin summoned Wu Wang and Xiaoyao, who each pulled two of the attackers away.
• Ye Lin suppressed Qin Jiang with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and immobilized him with Time Laws.

Ye Lin exposed Qin Jiang’s Shadow Transformation and attacked him with lightning and sunlight to eliminate the darkness Qin Jiang used to hide. The Starry Sky became bright as day, but Qin Jiang’s fate remained unclear.

• Ye Lin used One Breath Becomes Three Purities and struck Qin Jiang’s shadow, forcing Qin Jiang out of it.
• Ye Lin explained that Qin Jiang had merged into his shadow and that the apparent body he had attacked was a phantom.
• Qin Jiang vanished into the dark Starry Sky, and Ye Lin filled the area within a million li with lightning.
• Ye Lin used the Great Sun Supreme Art to summon nine suns and spread light across the Starry Sky.

Ye Lin defeated Qin Jiang, who accepted his loss and reflected on how those from a past era could never truly belong to the present one. After Ye Lin killed him, the battle below remained locked in a stalemate despite reinforcements.

• Qin Jiang admitted that Ye Lin was stronger and threw away a jade talisman containing a Golden Immortal's projection.
• Qin Jiang reflected that he and others from his era had failed to take root in the new age, then Ye Lin killed him with a sword strike.
• Ye Lin collected the objects around him and turned to the battlefield below, leaving the other four opponents to Wu Wang and Xiaoyao.
• The battle below remained deadlocked after four armies of reinforcements joined, as the Buddhist Sect's support proved limited.