Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin joined the attack on the savage beast but found its defenses too strong to penetrate. As prodigies searched for a weakness, Ye Lin began studying the beast’s movements, hoping to claim its million-point reward.

• Ye Lin urged Li Xiaoyao and the others to conserve their strength, then led them into the attack.
• Ye Lin struck at the savage beast with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, but its flames blasted him away without harming him.
• The prodigies struggled against the beast’s powerful defenses and discussed whether it had a weakness.
• Ye Lin realized the beast could not be perfect and began watching its attacks for a flaw.

Ye Lin discovered a purple crystal beneath the savage beast’s abdomen and suspected it was the source of the creature’s power. He shared the weakness with the other prodigies, who prepared to join forces, but they still needed a way through the crystal’s tough tendrils.

• Ye Lin charged toward the savage beast’s abdomen, drawing the other prodigies after him.
• The savage beast stomped the ground and unleashed flames and a shockwave that sent Ye Lin and many prodigies flying.
• As he was thrown back, Ye Lin spotted a purple crystal beneath the beast’s abdomen, surrounded by tendrils that glowed when it attacked.
• Ye Lin told several injured young men about the crystal and his suspicion that it was the beast’s power source.
• The prodigies agreed to work together, and Ye Lin announced that they needed to break the crystal despite the tendrils’ durability.

Ye Lin revealed the savage beast’s weak point, and the gathered prodigies organized a coordinated attack. As the battle began, the beast’s aura slowed everyone’s movements.

• A young man asked Ye Lin for his name, and Ye Lin introduced himself as Blood Baleful.
• The prodigies thanked Blood Baleful and devised a plan to distract the savage beast, restrain it, and attack its weak point.
• The prodigies split into groups, with over a thousand assigned to the frontal feint and Li Xiaoyao leading them.
• Ye Lin joined the group preparing to sneak beneath the savage beast and attack its weak point.
• The front group unleashed attacks on the savage beast’s head, provoking it to roar and release an aura that slowed everyone down.

Li Xiaoyao broke free from the savage beast’s pressure and struck it with the Third Form of the Three Heaven-Opening Forms, but its beam shattered his attack and left him gravely injured. His companions rescued him and fed him precious pills, while the battle against the beast continued.

• The savage beast’s pressure trapped the attacking prodigies and prevented them from dodging its approaching attack.
• Li Xiaoyao soared into the air and used the Third Form of the Three Heaven-Opening Forms, summoning a giant axe to strike the savage beast’s beam.
• The beam shattered Li Xiaoyao’s axe, smashed him into the ground, and left him badly injured, but its force ended the pressure holding the others in place.
• The prodigies rushed to save Li Xiaoyao while the others resumed attacking the savage beast.
• Three young men helped Li Xiaoyao up and poured several bottles of precious pills into his mouth, hoping he would survive.

Several young men poured dozens of pills into Li Xiaoyao after he survived a Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beast’s blow. White light then emerged from his body as his injuries and Primordial Spirit rapidly recovered.

• One young man argued that Li Xiaoyao had survived the beast’s attack and began feeding him pills.
• Another young man added valuable healing, Primordial Spirit, and other pills, saying he had plenty more made by his family’s alchemy masters.
• The first two young men continued pouring in pills, and one snatched the last youth’s two bottles and added those as well.
• After running out of pills they were willing to give, the two young men left Li Xiaoyao’s recovery to fate.
• White light appeared around Li Xiaoyao as his mangled body healed and his aura and Primordial Spirit grew stronger.

After the three geniuses healed Li Xiaoyao, they waited beside him as white vapor rose from his body and he remained unconscious. Elsewhere, Ye Lin and dozens of fighters entered the savage beast’s abdomen and attacked the purple crystal that powered it, but its tentacle resisted even the Measureless Artifact.

• The three geniuses saw Li Xiaoyao’s injuries heal but grew concerned when he did not wake and white vapor began rising from his skin.
• The three geniuses decided against feeding Li Xiaoyao more pills and stayed beside him while others held the battlefield.
• As the savage beast retreated, Ye Lin led dozens of people into its abdomen and showed them the purple crystal.
• The fighters attacked the crystal, but the tentacle guarding it deflected the Measureless Artifact and proved too hard to break.
• The fighters admitted they had no Dao artifact and resolved to keep attacking until they wore the tentacle down.

Ye Lin and the other prodigies continued wearing down the savage beast while its flames failed to break through Ye Lin’s Beginningless True Flame. After the beast summoned help, the group hurried to destroy the purple crystal in its abdomen, but the hundreds of tentacles protecting it left them facing a seemingly impossible task.

• The savage beast spewed flames from its abdomen, and Ye Lin shielded everyone with the Beginningless True Flame as they attacked its tentacles with Limitless Artifacts.
• The savage beast howled to summon other savage beasts, and the prodigies realized they had to kill it before reinforcements arrived.
• The prodigies agreed to press on rather than flee, despite the danger of being overwhelmed by gathered savage beasts.
• Five young men severed one tentacle but despaired at the hundreds remaining around the purple crystal, which could absorb every form of power.
• One prodigy urged the others to keep fighting because the people outside had not given up.

Ye Lin held back the enraged Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beast while the prodigies prepared to wear it down, but he warned them that he could only last another hundred breaths. When countless Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal savage beasts arrived as reinforcements, Ye Lin and the others abandoned the fight and fled.

• The prodigies gave Ye Lin pills, immortal stones, and a Sovereign Artifact to help him withstand the savage beast’s flames.
• Ye Lin warned the prodigies that he could hold the line for only another hundred breaths against the Half-Step Golden Immortal beast.
• Ye Lin spotted countless savage beasts charging toward them and shouted for everyone to run.
• Ye Lin dispelled his Beginningless True Flame and raced through the herd with the prodigies following close behind.
• The prodigies fled without looking back, abandoning their plan to kill the savage beast.

As the prodigies fled the savage beast horde, Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Poison Venerable realized Li Xiaoyao was missing and began searching for him. Ye Lin spotted a mountain of beasts gathered around something and feared Li Xiaoyao might be beneath them.

• The young men guarding Li Xiaoyao fled from the approaching beasts, and the last one left him behind because he could not carry him.
• Ye Lin contacted Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable, and they realized none of them had seen Li Xiaoyao.
• Ye Lin told Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable to search for Li Xiaoyao while staying safe, and both agreed.
• Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Poison Venerable rushed through the beast horde, searching for Li Xiaoyao as the other prodigies fled.
• After searching without finding Li Xiaoyao, Ye Lin spotted a mound of beasts gathered around something and feared it might be Li Xiaoyao's corpse.

Powerful figures debated whether to keep the prodigies under pressure from five savage beasts, arguing that the trial would build solidarity among the remote star domains. As attention shifted to an intriguing figure at the assessment grounds, Ye Lin charged toward him but was blasted away.

• An aged voice defended using the five savage beasts to force the prodigies to adapt to the dangers of the Central Star Domain.
• Other voices warned that the beasts had left more than a million prodigies seriously injured and discussed removing the cultivation suppression.
• The voices agreed that the trial would continue because it could teach the remote-domain prodigies to unite against the contempt they faced in the Central Star Domain.
• A voice noticed an interesting figure at the assessment grounds, prompting others to wonder whether it was Li Xiaoyao.
• Ye Lin rushed forward with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor to find out, but an enormous force sent him flying before he could get close.

Li Xiaoyao erupted with overwhelming strength and battered a Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beast while Ye Lin realized he was on the verge of entering the Golden Immortal realm. Ye Lin withdrew with Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng to watch as Li Xiaoyao delivered a final, fatal hammer blow.

• Li Xiaoyao emerged in a violent aura and used his twin hammers to tear through savage beasts and repeatedly smash a Half-Step Golden Immortal beast.
• Ye Lin inspected Li Xiaoyao's panel and learned that he was about to enter the Golden Immortal realm after absorbing the effects of many pills and a Mirror-Breaking Pill.
• Ye Lin left the battlefield, reasoning that he would only hinder Li Xiaoyao, and Poison Venerable and Dugu Feng joined him to watch.
• Ye Lin told Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable that Li Xiaoyao was about to become a Golden Immortal, and reassured Dugu Feng that Li Xiaoyao would not abandon them.
• Li Xiaoyao's final hammer blow smashed the savage beast's head apart.

Li Xiaoyao defeated the savage beast and broke through to the Golden Immortal realm. He offered to help Ye Lin and the others hunt the remaining savage beasts so they could secure their spots.

• Li Xiaoyao smashed the savage beast's hooves and left its body mangled across the ground.
• Li Xiaoyao broke through the barrier and officially entered the Golden Immortal realm, forcing Ye Lin and the others to their knees with his pressure.
• Li Xiaoyao crushed the savage beast into a bloody pulp and walked over to Ye Lin and the others.
• Li Xiaoyao told Ye Lin that his new strength made him feel capable of shattering the continent with his hammer.
• Li Xiaoyao offered to hunt the four remaining savage beasts for Ye Lin and the others so each could earn one million points and secure a spot.

After Li Xiaoyao reached the Golden Immortal realm, a voice summoned him to the Starry Sky, and he left the game behind. Ye Lin reflected on how his own breakthrough depended on finding the missing volumes of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.

• Savage beasts stayed cowed by Li Xiaoyao’s pressure after he killed their boss.
• A Golden Immortal invited Li Xiaoyao to the Starry Sky, ending his plan to act on Ye Lin’s suggestion.
• Li Xiaoyao bid Ye Lin farewell and departed, having become one of the game’s controllers.
• Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable lamented that they did not know how to reach the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin noted that he had seven volumes of One Breath Becomes Three Purities, one was held by the Void Clan, and two had no known whereabouts.

Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and the Poison Venerable slaughtered unresisting savage beasts, believing Li Xiaoyao had left them a safeguard before departing. After three days, Ye Lin received a message from Shangguan Wanyu saying she and Luo Yao were surrounded by powerful experts.

• Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and the Poison Venerable charged into the savage beasts and noticed that the beasts were not fighting back.
• Dugu Feng credited Li Xiaoyao with leaving them a trump card, while two other cultivators discussed why a man they had abandoned would survive.
• Three days later, Dugu Feng killed the last beast in their area, and Ye Lin checked his 18,000 points and rank of 339th on the leaderboard.
• Ye Lin left to find another hunting ground and felt his Jade Talisman glow.
• Shangguan Wanyu contacted Ye Lin through the talisman and warned him that she and Luo Yao were surrounded while powerful experts searched for them.

Ye Lin led Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable toward a forest where a Golden Immortal’s arrogant son ordered a search for a True Immortal and a little girl to seize their treasure. When Dugu Feng questioned Ye Lin about bringing Shangguan Wanyu along, Ye Lin said she had a special talent in the secret realm but had not yet explained what it was.

• A young man ordered his followers to search the forest for a True Immortal and a little girl so he could take their treasure.
• A servant warned the young man that provoking the True Immortal was unwise, but the young man insisted that his status would protect him.
• Ye Lin hurried toward the forest with Dugu Feng, Poison Venerable, and Shangguan Wanyu after Li Xiaoyao had left.
• Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable questioned Ye Lin about bringing Shangguan Wanyu, whose talent they considered unimpressive.
• Ye Lin said Shangguan Wanyu possessed a special talent within the secret realm and asked Dugu Feng whether he had encountered the top factions’ prodigies.

Ye Lin explained that Shangguan Wanyu could foresee dangers in secret realms, easing Dugu Feng and the Poison Venerable’s suspicions. Meanwhile, Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao were found by Chen Zi’ang and his men, leaving Shangguan Wanyu wary as Chen introduced himself.

• Ye Lin told Dugu Feng and the Poison Venerable that Shangguan Wanyu could foresee events in secret realms and help them survive danger.
• Dugu Feng said he believed Ye Lin, and the two companions’ discomfort faded.
• Chen Zi’ang’s men found Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao hiding in a cave despite the Formation Disk concealing their auras.
• Shangguan Wanyu told Luo Yao to run if the men attacked, then carried her out of the cave.
• Chen Zi’ang introduced himself as the son of the Mountain Lord of Green Peak Mountain, and Shangguan Wanyu asked what he wanted.

Chen Zi'ang tried to force Shangguan Wanyu to hand over a hidden treasure and threatened her and Luo Yao, but Ye Lin arrived with Dugu Feng and the Poison Venerable. Chen Zi'ang ordered his men to attack, and Ye Lin engulfed his opponent in Beginningless True Flame.

• Chen Zi'ang demanded Shangguan Wanyu give him her treasure and threatened to search her and break her fingers if she refused.
• Shangguan Wanyu told Luo Yao to run, but the five young men began backing away as Ye Lin appeared with Dugu Feng and Li Xiaoyao.
• Luo Yao ran to Ye Lin, who confronted Chen Zi'ang and rejected his attempt to leave.
• Chen Zi'ang ordered his five peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal subordinates to attack Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and the Poison Venerable.
• Ye Lin unleashed Sword Qi and used Beginningless True Flame to engulf the young man who charged at him.

Ye Lin attacked Chen Zi'ang after Chen tried to dismiss his subordinate’s defeat as a joke and rely on his family’s status. Chen fled under Ye Lin’s sword strike, vowing to summon reinforcements if he escaped.

• Ye Lin’s Beginningless True Flame burned Chen Zi'ang’s subordinate despite the young man’s attempts to extinguish it.
• Chen Zi'ang claimed his husband was the Golden Immortal lord of Green Peak Mountain and asked Ye Lin to make peace.
• Ye Lin rejected Chen’s excuse and struck him with Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering.
• Chen Zi'ang was thrown into a mountaintop but got up and continued fleeing while Ye Lin’s Sword Qi ravaged his body.
• Chen Zi'ang cursed Ye Lin and recalled that Mist Map Star Region heirs had come to look down on prodigies from small star regions.

Ye Lin killed Chen Zi'ang after Chen failed to escape, then turned to the battle where Dugu Feng had already defeated the attendants. The powerful figures watching revealed that the Mist Map Star Region's families had sent spoiled heirs into the assessment grounds, expecting them to provoke prodigies from smaller star regions.

• Ye Lin noticed Chen Zi'ang was still alive and struck again, cutting him in half with sword energy.
• Ye Lin saw that Dugu Feng had quickly finished off the attendants.
• Old Chen accepted Chen Zi'ang's death, saying his grandson had wasted the Chen Family's resources and brought it upon himself.
• The powerful figures explained that the families had sent their spoiled young masters into the assessment grounds so they would provoke outsiders and face consequences.
• The observers noted that Ye Lin had killed both Xue Feng and Chen Zi'ang after they provoked him.

Ye Lin and his companions fled from the Half-Step Golden Immortal savage beasts and hid in a vast underground cave network. They reached temporary safety, but Ye Lin sensed something watching them in the darkness.

• Ye Lin compared Golden List rankings with Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable and wondered how the top-ranked people had earned so many points.
• A savage beast as large as a mountain appeared with a horde of smaller beasts, forcing Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, Poison Venerable, Shangguan Wanyu, and Luo Yao to flee.
• Ye Lin spotted a deep underground hole and jumped in, followed by Dugu Feng, Poison Venerable, Shangguan Wanyu, and Luo Yao.
• The group reached a vast underground space filled with caves, where the narrow entrance kept the enormous beasts from following them.
• Ye Lin warned the others to stay cautious because he felt something watching them from the shadows.