Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin avoided the Qilin Clan’s half-step Golden Immortals and plunged into the battle, killing Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals as the Demon Domain’s destiny gathered around him. Elsewhere, the Heavenly Demons routed the larger army, and Poison Venerable watched the battlefield collapse into victory.

• Ye Lin sensed five incoming half-step Golden Immortals and fled before they reached the battlefield.
• Five Buddhist Sect half-step Golden Immortals appeared to face the five sent by the Qilin Clan, including those Li Xiaoyao had drawn away.
• Ye Lin returned to the battle and targeted Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals, pushing the scales of victory toward his side as the Demon Domain’s destiny favored him.
• Poison Venerable watched three million Heavenly Demons force an army of over a hundred million to retreat.
• The Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals fled, the army’s resistance collapsed, and Poison Venerable saw victory settle over the battlefield.

After Ye Lin’s armies conquered a star system in the Southern Demon Domain, he announced that he would unite the entire domain within half a year. His allies were shocked by his willingness to challenge the Golden Immortal factions, and they wondered why those factions seemed less untouchable than in past eras.

• Li Xiaoyao led the Qilin Clan experts forward to rendezvous with Ye Lin after routing the opposing forces.
• Ye Lin’s three armies converged and took control of the star system.
• Ye Lin told his allies that they had secured territory in the Southern Demon Domain and ordered them to unify the region within half a year.
• The Buddhist Sect and Qilin Clan experts were shocked by Ye Lin’s plan to accelerate the conflict with the Golden Immortal factions.
• Ye Lin’s allies reflected on how this era differed from earlier ones and questioned why the Golden Immortal factions seemed to lack their former grandeur.

Ye Lin persuaded the Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect to support his plan to unite the Southern Demon Domain, promising them a share of its territory. As his coalition grew, three powerful figures concluded that they could neither kill him safely nor stop his unification without accepting a loss of face.

• Ye Lin told the Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect experts that helping him unite the Southern Demon Domain would let their forces claim territory there.
• A Qilin Clan expert agreed to try, and the Buddhist Sect expert tacitly approved.
• Ye Lin said another force in the Southern Demon Domain could join them and help overcome resistance from Golden Immortal factions.
• Three figures in a pitch-black space discussed Ye Lin's plan and the support of five Golden Immortal factions: Forbidden Void, the Qilin Clan, the Buddhist Sect, the Dugu Clan, and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.
• The three figures ruled out killing Ye Lin because he bore half the Demon Domain's fortune, and considered yielding to him the option with the least loss.

The Golden Immortals debated whether to fight Ye Lin or yield to him, weighing the Demon Domain’s fortune against the dangers of continued civil war. They chose to test Ye Lin further and consider giving him the title if he proved capable of bearing the Demon Domain’s destiny.

• The shadow on the far left angrily decided to stop Ye Lin and punish anyone who tried to take advantage of the conflict.
• The middle shadow questioned whether risking a faction’s true foundation to kill Ye Lin was worthwhile.
• The Golden Immortals noted that the wider Star River Cosmos was entering a turbulent era while the Demon Domain remained trapped in civil strife.
• Two shadows agreed to test Ye Lin again and said they could give him the title if he proved fit to shoulder the Demon Domain’s fortune.
• The shadows vanished as the chapter explained that star fields tested their fated ones through slaughter and trials set by major factions.

Ye Lin’s rise as a Rogue Cultivator made him a favored candidate to inherit the Demon Domain’s fortune, though powerful factions still resisted yielding to him. Dugu Feng arrived at Ye Lin’s hall after five thousand years, bringing his Dao companion Yun Xiyue, and Ye Lin greeted them.

• The chapter explained that Golden Immortal factions cultivated Chosen Ones to compete for the Star River Cosmos and sought to gather the Demon Domain’s fortune within their own ranks.
• Some factions considered Ye Lin the best candidate because he was a talented Rogue Cultivator who would not favor any faction, while others resisted accepting a junior’s rise.
• Dugu Feng entered Ye Lin’s hall with Yun Xiyue and complained that Ye Lin had not told him about his rise to prominence.
• Ye Lin acknowledged that he had failed to keep their ten-thousand-year agreement, and Dugu Feng revealed that he had reached the late-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Dugu Feng introduced Yun Xiyue as his Dao companion, and she greeted Ye Lin before he returned the formal greeting.

Dugu Feng arrived with Yun Xiyue, confirmed that he had married for love, and discussed Ye Lin’s plan to take the Southern Demon Domain within half a year. The group learned they were surrounded by armies whose true forms resembled Flood Dragons, and Dugu Feng identified them as the Void Dragon Clan as Ye Lin’s killing intent surged.

• Dugu Feng told Ye Lin that he had chosen Yun Xiyue himself and married her willingly.
• Dugu Feng objected to Ye Lin’s plan to take the Southern Demon Domain within half a year, warning that the Golden Immortal factions had not yet fought seriously.
• Ye Lin argued that the Golden Immortal factions would avoid a major assault that could trigger a war, and that Dugu Feng and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect could help.
• Dugu Feng accepted Ye Lin’s plan and agreed to proceed as he saw fit.
• A Qilin Clan expert reported that armies had surrounded them from all four directions and that their true forms resembled Flood Dragons.
• Dugu Feng identified the armies as the Void Dragon Clan, and Ye Lin’s killing intent surged.

Ye Lin learned that the Void Dragon Clan had come to avenge Lu Cang and prepared to face them with his allies. As the warship’s fighters gathered, Shangguan Wanyu resolved to cultivate and break through to True Immortal.

• Ye Lin recognized the Void Dragon Clan as the force that had tried to kill him after he killed Lu Cang and declared that he would make them fear him.
• Dugu Feng explained that the Void Dragon Clan had come for Ye Lin because he had killed their ancestor’s favored prodigy, Lu Cang.
• Dugu Feng left with Yun Xiyue to summon reinforcements, while Ye Lin led Poison Venerable, Li Xiaoyao, Wang Tian, and Bao Xiaotou outside.
• Shangguan Wanyu, feeling useless among the powerful fighters, decided to cultivate in seclusion and reach the True Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin and the other powerhouses gathered on the warship and considered whether to divide into three groups or four.

Ye Lin rejected splitting his army to defend the star system and instead led everyone in a direct charge toward the Southern Demon Domain’s core. His forces broke into battle with the Void Dragon Clan, and the warships continued pressing through the encirclement.

• Poison Venerable asked how they should respond as the Void Dragon Clan’s experts closed in.
• Ye Lin ordered the entire army to attack one point and break through into the Southern Demon Domain.
• A scout reported that the enemy was less than ten thousand star li away, and Ye Lin’s warships charged toward the core region.
• The Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect experts left their warships to escort them as Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts prepared to fight.
• Ye Lin’s warships collided with the Void Dragon Clan fleet, and experts from both sides clashed across the battlefield.
• The warships kept charging through the encirclement, taking advantage of the Void Dragon Clan’s limited number of Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts.

Ye Lin’s army broke through the Void Dragon Clan’s encirclement and entered the core region of the Southern Demon Domain. The group found a vast number of life-bearing worlds, but the worlds along their route had been plundered and destroyed.

• Poison Venerable sent three million Heavenly Demons into the Void Dragon Clan’s forces, letting Ye Lin’s army break through the encirclement in five hundred breaths.
• A Void Dragon Clan general reported three million True Immortals and five Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals dead, then ordered his troops to withdraw after sensing a half-step Golden Immortal aboard the enemy warship.
• Ye Lin and Poison Venerable entered the core region and were astonished that one in ten stars could support life.
• Ye Lin discovered that the life-bearing worlds along the route had been drained of spirit veins, stripped of resources, and left lifeless.
• Wang Tian saw a shattered continent and a withered star filled with deathly aura, resentment, and vengeful spirits.

Ye Lin studied the territories seized across the Southern Demon Domain and chose the Void Dragon Clan as his next target. He planned to draw out and defeat its young prodigies in an Arena, hoping to win the Demon Domain’s recognition and later rally its Golden Immortal factions against their rivals.

• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian watched in silence as they witnessed an entire world being destroyed.
• Ye Lin saw that outsiders had taken half the territory from the Southern Demon Domain’s native Golden Immortal factions.
• Ye Lin chose the Void Dragon Clan and planned to weaken it by slaughtering its younger generation’s strongest fighters.
• Ye Lin decided to establish an Arena in the Void Dragon Clan’s territory and use public pressure to force its prodigies to accept his challenges.

Ye Lin planned to draw the Void Dragon Clan and other Golden Immortal factions into a public contest between their younger generations. A Void Dragon Clan young master learned of the Arena and decided to attend, intending to kill Ye Lin himself.

• Ye Lin headed toward Void Dragon Clan territory to establish an Arena and challenge the factions’ younger generations.
• A young man aboard a lavish warship learned that General Liu had failed to stop Ye Lin and ordered his whereabouts investigated.
• The old man reported that Ye Lin had set up the Arena in the Celestial Origin Star Cluster.
• The young man recognized Ye Lin’s scheme but agreed to attend and ordered the clan to summon the Ten Cardinal Sacred Gods.
• The young man vowed to crush Ye Lin before the Demon Domain’s powerful experts.

Ye Lin’s challenge to the Void Dragon Clan’s younger generation drew attention across the Demon Domain, and powerful young men decided to visit the Arena and judge him for themselves. They considered taking him under their wing if he proved useful.

• News spread that Ye Lin had established an Arena in the Celestial Origin Star Cluster and challenged the Void Dragon Clan’s younger generation, drawing crowds toward the Southern Demon Domain.
• Two young men discussed Ye Lin’s backing from Golden Immortal factions and the Forbidden Void, then vanished to see him, with one considering taking him as a follower.
• A young man in a sky-blue robe questioned whether the Invincible Art had chosen Ye Lin correctly, but agreed to visit and consider taking him as a servant.

Ye Lin waited in the Celestial Origin Star Cluster for the Void Dragon Clan to answer his challenge, while Wang Tian questioned what they stood to gain if the clan refused to come. Three days passed without any response, leaving the gathered spectators increasingly impatient.

• Ye Lin set up an arena in Void Dragon Clan territory, and experts from across the Demon Domain gathered to watch.
• Spectators wondered why the Void Dragon Clan had not appeared, despite a day passing since Ye Lin announced the challenge.
• Wang Tian asked Ye Lin what they would gain if the Void Dragon Clan refused to fight, and Ye Lin explained that the clan would suffer unseen losses to its reputation and standing.
• Ye Lin said they would challenge other Golden Immortal factions if the Void Dragon Clan did not come, and that their silence would mean victory in the wider conflict.
• One, two, and then three days passed without the Void Dragon Clan making a move, and the spectators grew impatient.

After fifteen days of waiting, Liu Zhen and the Void Dragon Clan arrived, and Ye Lin challenged them to a series of deadly arena fights. Liu Zhen accepted, and Ye Lin returned to the Arena to begin.

• A Void Dragon Clan expert killed a spectator who insulted the clan and ordered an investigation into his faction and world.
• Liu Zhen arrived with a fleet of warships and called for Ye Lin to meet him.
• Ye Lin asked Liu Zhen whether he could represent the entire Void Dragon Clan, and Liu Zhen said he could.
• Ye Lin proposed unlimited fights between warriors below Half-Step Golden Immortal, with each loser dying, until one side stopped taking the stage.
• Liu Zhen accepted, and Ye Lin returned to the Arena to start the battles.

Ye Lin sent Li Xiaoyao to fight first against the Void Dragon Clan, confident that his strength would secure the opening victory. After examining Li Xiaoyao’s destiny and opportunity, Ye Lin noticed the unfamiliar prospect of reaching the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal Extremity.

• Liu Zhen looked down on Ye Lin as he retreated, while the old man worried about the consequences of the coming battle.
• Ye Lin boarded the warship and saw the Heavenly Demons eagerly waiting to fight.
• Li Xiaoyao stepped forward and asked Ye Lin to let him fight first, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Ye Lin reviewed Li Xiaoyao’s profile and saw that thirty consecutive battles could help him reach the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal Extremity.
• Ye Lin wondered when the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm had gained an Extremity.

Li Xiaoyao entered the battlefield to face Wang Hu of the Void Dragon Clan, while the experts watched and Li Dazhuang arranged for his men to take turns fighting afterward. The chapter ended as Li Xiaoyao charged at Wang Hu with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.

• The spectators lamented that young prodigies had surpassed their cultivation despite having lived for far less time.
• Ye Lin sent Li Xiaoyao onto the battlefield, and Li Dazhuang asked Poison Venerable to let his brothers fight in later rounds.
• Poison Venerable told Li Dazhuang to arrange the fighters by rank, while Ye Lin planned to have Li Xiaoyao fight thirty consecutive battles.
• Wang Hu of the Void Dragon Clan challenged Li Xiaoyao and demanded to know his name.
• Li Xiaoyao said only the living deserved to know his name and charged at Wang Hu with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.

Li Xiaoyao overwhelmed Wang Hu and killed him in ten breaths, leaving the watching Void Dragon Clan and other powerhouses stunned. He remained eager for another opponent as the Starry Sky fell silent.

• Li Xiaoyao charged Wang Hu and knocked aside his spear with a hammer blow.
• Li Xiaoyao unleashed the First Form of the Three Heaven-Opening Forms and sent Wang Hu flying.
• Li Xiaoyao battered Wang Hu with his hammers until the Three Heaven-Opening Forms shattered Wang Hu's body and Primordial Spirit.
• Li Xiaoyao demanded another opponent while the onlookers marveled that he had killed a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal in ten breaths.

Li Xiaoyao defeated Liu Zhen’s peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal fighters one after another, astonishing the onlookers with his overwhelming strength. Liu Zhen kept sending more Fifth Branch prodigies to their deaths, while Li Xiaoyao laughed and demanded another opponent.

• Li Xiaoyao beheaded Wang Hu in ten breaths, shocking the watching experts and enraging Liu Zhen.
• Liu Zhen sent a second peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal fighter, whom Li Xiaoyao killed after several dozen breaths.
• An old man urged Liu Zhen to stop and withdraw, but Liu Zhen ordered the fight to continue.
• Li Xiaoyao killed a third fighter, and Liu Zhen immediately sent another of his loyalists onto the battlefield.
• Li Xiaoyao laughed with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers and called for more opponents as the Fifth Branch’s losses mounted.

Li Xiaoyao continued fighting Void Dragon Clan experts while Poison Venerable realized he had reached the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal Extremity. The battle continued as the Heavenly Demons waited for their turn.

• Li Xiaoyao killed one Void Dragon Clan opponent, and the Fifth Young Master sent another to fight him.
• Li Dazhuang urged Poison Venerable to let him and the other Heavenly Demons join the battle, but Poison Venerable told him to wait until Li Xiaoyao grew exhausted.
• Poison Venerable noticed Chaos Qi within Li Xiaoyao’s Killing Intent and recognized that he had reached the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal Extremity.
• Poison Venerable recalled that reaching the Extremity greatly increased a cultivator’s combat strength and could lead to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm or even Great Luo.

Li Xiaoyao slaughtered fifteen Void Dragon Clan prodigies, while Liu Zhen tried to rally the remaining fighters by offering a Boundless artifact. One prodigy accepted the reward and prepared to challenge Li Xiaoyao.

• Li Xiaoyao killed fifteen Void Dragon Clan prodigies with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers and called for more opponents.
• An old man urged Liu Zhen to retreat before the clan suffered further losses.
• Liu Zhen ignored the warning and found that the remaining prodigies were too frightened to attack Li Xiaoyao.
• Liu Zhen offered a low-grade Boundless artifact to anyone who killed Li Xiaoyao.
• A Void Dragon Clan prodigy accepted Liu Zhen's offer.