Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin named his blood-essence-draining sword strike Last Stand and began cultivating the Heart-Protecting Pagoda technique. Taichu then gave him a mission to retrieve something from the newly opened Ascension Platform in Ascension Prefecture.

• Ye Lin assessed Last Stand's immense power and the severe risks of losing half his blood essence, then vowed to use it only in a critical moment.
• Ye Lin studied Li Miaoyin's Earth Grade Low Tier mental cultivation technique and formed the Heart-Protecting Pagoda in his mind.
• Taichu silently observed Ye Lin's cultivation and remarked that the technique matched one used by another child, though he could not determine its grade.
• Ye Lin finished contemplating and greeted Taichu, who told him the Ascension Platform had opened and asked him to retrieve something from it.
• Ye Lin asked Taichu what he was supposed to retrieve.

Ye Lin agreed to retrieve the Ascension Pool for Taichu and set out alone, confident he could face the factions competing for it. On his way, he stopped at Tianyan Sect to see Chu Xue, but the chapter ended when a guard stopped him at the entrance.

• Taichu asked Ye Lin to move the Ascension Pool from the Ascension Platform and warned that many factions would compete for it.
• Ye Lin declined Taichu's offer to bring True Persons and set out alone after stabilizing his cultivation for five days.
• Ye Lin decided to visit his master, Chu Xue, on the way and arrived at the bustling Tianyan Sect.
• A guard stopped Ye Lin at the entrance, and Ye Lin released a trace of his aura, startling the guard.

Ye Lin entered the Tianyan Sect and visited Chu Xue, where he found Xiao Li had reached Foundation Establishment Early Stage. He discovered Xiao Li’s extraordinary fate and a hidden opportunity in the sect’s back mountain.

• The gatekeeper let Ye Lin enter the Tianyan Sect after sensing his overwhelming aura.
• A young disciple directed Ye Lin to Chu Xue’s mountain residence.
• Ye Lin found Chu Xue teaching Xiao Li in the courtyard and sat down to visit them.
• Ye Lin’s panel revealed Xiao Li’s Forbidden Demon Body, her future as a reincarnated empress, and her opportunity to find an Enlightenment Tea Tree seed in a back-mountain spring.
• Ye Lin remarked that the Tianyan Sect had changed greatly since his last visit.

Ye Lin reassured Chu Xue that Xiao Li’s growing demonic energy came from her Demon Body and then left to seek the Ascension Pool. Elsewhere, Little Dot faced three cultivators who competed to buy Big Fire Turkey.

• Chu Xue told Ye Lin that demonic energy around Xiao Li had been growing stronger and sometimes affected her mood.
• Ye Lin explained that Xiao Li’s Demon Body was awakening and advised Chu Xue to guide her with kindness and contact him if Xiao Li lost control.
• Ye Lin tore open space and left, stunning Chu Xue with his Spirit Transformation-level power.
• Three cultivators offered Little Dot increasingly high prices for Big Fire Turkey, raising their bids from three hundred to five hundred High-Tier Spirit Stones.

Little Dot and Little Red killed three cultivators who tried to buy Little Red, while eight leaders of Ascension Prefecture’s great powers gathered to contest the Ascension Disk. A mediator urged Tianyi Sect and Heaven Earth Gate to avoid fighting as tensions rose.

• Three cultivators tried to buy Little Red, and Little Dot mocked them.
• Little Red’s crimson flames burned the three cultivators to ashes.
• Eight figures from Ascension Prefecture’s leading powers gathered near the Ascension Disk, and a Tianyi Sect representative claimed the Ascension Pool for his sect.
• A Heaven Earth Gate cultivator challenged Tianyi Sect’s claim, and the two rivals traded threats as the other six leaders watched.
• A cultivator urged the leaders to keep the peace amid turmoil in the Eastern Continent.

Eight powerful cultivators disputed who owned the Ascension Disk until Little Red arrived carrying Little Dot and was caught by a false Dao Integration cultivator. Little Red realized he could not defeat the old man and the chapter ended with the old man demanding to know which faction they belonged to.

• A Heaven Earth Gate cultivator and the others argued over ownership of the Ascension Disk, then considered settling the dispute with a sparring match.
• The white-haired old man proposed a fight between the Spirit Transformation cultivators, while another suggested the younger generation fight instead.
• A Heaven Earth Gate cultivator spotted Little Red approaching the Ascension Disk and attacked him.
• Little Red scattered the attack, but all eight cultivators struck at once, forcing him to flee while protecting Little Dot.
• The white-haired old man trapped Little Red in a golden curtain of light, and Little Red realized the man was a false Dao Integration cultivator.
• The old man demanded to know which faction Little Red and Little Dot belonged to.

Ye Lin arrived at the Ascension Disk and stopped Xuan Du from attacking Little Red, then invoked Nameless Mountain’s authority over the Five Prefectures to claim the disk. Xuan Du backed down, and Ye Lin left with Little Dot and Little Red, while the eight men watched helplessly.

• Xuan Du noticed Little Dot on Little Red’s back and withdrew his murderous intent.
• Ye Lin emerged from spatial turbulence, freed Little Red, and introduced himself as a disciple of Nameless Mountain.
• Ye Lin challenged Xuan Du to explain whether Ascension Prefecture would defy Nameless Mountain’s authority over its territory.
• Xuan Du conceded that Nameless Mountain set the rules, and Ye Lin uprooted the Ascension Disk and its Ascension Pool into his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin flew away on Little Red with Little Dot, leaving the eight men unwilling to accept his taking the disk.

Ye Lin reunited with Little Dot and Little Red after they left Nameless Mountain, then gave his disciple a Dao name and began teaching him. As they flew back toward Nameless Mountain, Toutian wondered why Ye Lin was ignoring him.

• Xuan Du and the other seven figures vanished after Xuan Du tore open space, while distant cultivators rushed toward the place where the Ascension Disk had been.
• Ye Lin scolded Little Dot and Little Red for leaving Nameless Mountain, then praised Little Dot for reaching the peak of the Golden Core Realm.
• Ye Lin named Little Dot Taiyuan and explained that his high Fate Rank let him bear the karma tied to the name.
• Ye Lin lectured Taiyuan on the Dao from the Qi Refining Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm as Little Red listened while flying toward Nameless Mountain.
• At Nameless Mountain, Toutian wondered why Ye Lin had ignored him despite his half-hour of calling.

Toutian left seclusion and used the Heaven-Peering Compass to learn that Ye Lin had reached Spirit Transformation and departed, then divined a gathering where Wang Teng warned two young men that Ye Lin might challenge the Ten Sequences. The chapter left the two men’s response unknown.

• Toutian left seclusion after twenty years and went to Ye Lin’s residence, but could not enter or reach him.
• Toutian used the Heaven-Peering Compass and learned that Ye Lin had reached Spirit Transformation and left several days earlier.
• Toutian sensed that Ye Lin faced another deadly trial and used the compass to glimpse a hall where Wang Teng spoke with two young men.
• Wang Teng warned that Ye Lin’s growing reputation and strength could lead him to challenge the Ten Sequences, and admitted he could not defeat Ye Lin.

Wang Teng conspired with two fellow members of the Ten Sequences to kill Ye Lin before he could challenge them. They decided their True Lord backers could shield them from the consequences.

• Wang Teng warned his two friends that Ye Lin's strength threatened their competition for the Sect Master position.
• One friend pointed out that three powerful figures were still around, but Wang Teng said they had no interest in the position.
• Wang Teng proposed killing Ye Lin before he challenged the Ten Sequences.
• One friend raised the danger of angering the True Lord backing Ye Lin.
• Wang Teng argued that their own True Lord backers would join forces and that Ye Lin's growth had already angered influential figures on Nameless Mountain.
• The two friends considered Wang Teng's plan feasible, believing they would face only punishment if Ye Lin died.

Wang Teng and Ren Feiyang arranged for two other Ten Sequences to ambush Ye Lin on his way back from Ascension Prefecture, hoping to conceal Wang Teng’s role. The plotters prepared a backup plan in case the assassination went wrong.

• Wang Teng promised to take responsibility if the plan failed, and the two men agreed to help assassinate Ye Lin.
• Wang Teng proposed combining his three Spirit Transformation cultivators with three from each of the other men to surround Ye Lin.
• Wang Teng said Ye Lin was returning from Ascension Prefecture and urged them to prepare an ambush outside Nameless Mountain.
• After the two men left, Ren Feiyang emerged and revealed that he had devised the plan to make them bear Ye Lin’s wrath while keeping Wang Teng out of sight.
• Wang Teng and Ren Feiyang decided to prepare three Spirit Transformation True Persons to deal with the two men if needed.

Ren Feiyang and Wang Teng agreed to prepare for an attack on Ye Lin, while each secretly considered how to deal with the other. As Ye Lin taught Taiyuan about cultivating the Great Dao, Toutian arrived to see how Ye Lin would respond to the coming threat.

• Ren Feiyang told Wang Teng to prepare to withdraw his own people so their plot against Ye Lin would not implicate him, and Wang Teng agreed while secretly planning to kill Ren Feiyang.
• After Wang Teng left, Ren Feiyang watched him go with a mysterious smile, while Toutian observed their exchange and decided to find Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin finished teaching Taiyuan and invited him to ask any remaining questions as Little Red carried them through the air.
• Taiyuan asked whether someone could cultivate all three thousand Great Dao, and Ye Lin advised him that focusing on one Dao was usually better, though he should choose his own path.
• Little Red spotted a fast-flying, fat Nascent Soul Realm cultivator approaching, and Ye Lin smiled as he looked toward him.

Toutian found Ye Lin and warned him that nine Spirit Transformation experts were waiting nearby to assassinate him. Ye Lin remained calm and gave a single command: “Kill.”

• Toutian landed on Little Red’s back and complained that he had waited eight hours outside Ye Lin’s place.
• Toutian told Ye Lin that he had seen nine Spirit Transformation experts planning an ambush nearby.
• Toutian said he recognized one of the attackers as Wang Teng but did not know the other two.
• Ye Lin dismissed the threat and commanded, “Kill.”

Wang Teng and six other Spirit Transformation cultivators prepared an ambush to kill Ye Lin, sealing off the space and planning to hide their involvement. As Ye Lin approached, he prepared to fight alongside Little Red and told Toutian to protect Taiyuan.

• Wang Teng told the two men that their help would ensure Ye Lin died, and said scouts expected Ye Lin to arrive in half an hour.
• Wang Teng and six other Spirit Transformation cultivators set up a formation to trap Ye Lin and prepared Concealment Beads to hide their involvement.
• Ye Lin told Toutian to protect Taiyuan when the ambush began.
• Ye Lin rose onto Little Red's back with Evil Slayer and prepared to fight alongside him.

Ye Lin and Little Red were ambushed by six Spirit Transformation cultivators inside a golden cage. Ye Lin struck back with a powerful sword attack, shaking the barrier as his opponents tried to withstand it.

• Ye Lin sent Toutian away with Taiyuan, then prepared to fight alongside Little Red.
• Four pillars of light formed a golden cage around Ye Lin and Little Red, and several attackers launched a barrage at them.
• Little Red shielded Ye Lin from the attacks, then transformed into a phoenix to fight three Spirit Transformation cultivators.
• Ye Lin charged the other three with Evil Slayer and discovered they were only at the initial stage of Spirit Transformation.
• Ye Lin unleashed Sword One, Sword Piercing the Firmament, and the three cultivators tried to withstand its thousand-meter sword beam inside the cage.

Ye Lin and Little Red defeated the Spirit Transformation cultivators who had ambushed them, while Wang Teng abandoned the attackers. After the battle, Little Red asked Ye Lin whether he might get another chance to kill more members of the Human Race.

• Ye Lin struck down three Spirit Transformation True Persons with his sword, while Little Red killed another with his claws and devoured its soul.
• Two attackers called for Wang Teng to help, but he did not appear, and they realized he had deceived them.
• One attacker dispelled the barrier and fled as Ye Lin killed the three enemies and destroyed their souls.
• Little Red devoured two more Spirit Transformation True Persons, crushing their spiritual senses.
• Little Red told Ye Lin the battle had been satisfying and asked if he would get another chance to let loose.

Ye Lin prepared to search for the Stone Stele with Toutian while sending Taiyuan to exchange his Identity Token points for resources. When Taiyuan admitted he missed home, Ye Lin promised to bring his family from the Demon Race's territory to safety within three years.

• Ye Lin identified the two escaped Ten Sequences as Li Qingxuan and Wang Shengtian, then told Taiyuan to use his remaining points to seek resources and advance toward the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Ye Lin and Toutian set out to search for the Stone Stele, leaving their enemies alive for the time being.
• Taiyuan told Ye Lin that he missed his childhood home and friends.
• Ye Lin promised to retrieve Taiyuan's family from the Demon Race's territory and keep them safe within three years.

Ye Lin realized he had neglected the family and home of the body he now inhabited, so he traveled with Toutian and Little Red to revisit his old village in the Glazed Dynasty. He arrived at the familiar village and told his companions to wait while he went down alone.

• After Taiyuan left, Toutian admitted that he missed home, prompting Ye Lin to remember the family and childhood sweetheart he had never visited.
• Ye Lin asked Toutian to accompany him, and Little Red flew them toward the Glazed Dynasty.
• Taichu watched from the clouds, reflected on Ye Lin’s rapid growth, and disappeared after deciding that taking him as a disciple had been wise.
• As they passed the Azure Cloud Sect, Ye Lin saw that its former grounds had been flattened and suspected the witch was responsible.
• Little Red brought Ye Lin and Toutian to Ye Lin’s old village, and Ye Lin flew down alone after telling them to wait.

Ye Lin encountered the two young sons of his predecessor’s childhood sweetheart and met Qingling again after years apart. The chapter ended with them recognizing each other as old memories resurfaced.

• Toutian tried to persuade Little Red to overlook her inherited dislike of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion.
• Ye Lin watched two boys playing and sensed the bloodline aura of his predecessor’s childhood sweetheart in them.
• The boys approached Ye Lin, and he learned they were called Ah Hua and Ah Di.
• Qingling came to call her sons home and froze when she saw Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin and Qingling recognized each other by name.

Ye Lin returned decades after leaving to pursue immortality and reunited with Qingling, who had waited for him before marrying and starting a family. As Qingling grieved over his broken promise, Ye Lin confronted the pain of his lingering attachments, and their reunion left them divided by the gulf between immortals and mortals.

• Ye Lin returned unchanged by age and found Qingling, now old, with their two young boys.
• Qingling asked Ye Lin why he had returned and whether he had achieved immortality, then broke down in tears.
• Qingling recalled waiting ten years for Ye Lin before her parents' pressure led her to marry a villager.
• Qingling beat Ye Lin's chest and demanded that he leave and die, while he apologized for breaking his promise.
• Ye Lin stood still as Qingling wept against him for over twenty minutes, and the two boys sat helplessly nearby.