Chapter Summaries

After robbing the Supreme Hall, Ye Lin fled its territory with Lin Shishi following him, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar helped him escape. At the heavily guarded border, Ye Lin attacked a Golden Immortal who tried to stop them.

• The four men parted from Ye Lin, and he immediately set off with Lin Shishi close behind.
• Ye Lin used his knowledge of the Supreme Hall’s territory to guide them through the wilderness, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar promised to handle their escape.
• Ye Lin and Lin Shishi reached the border in half an hour and found its defenses on alert after news of the vault robbery spread.
• A middle-aged Golden Immortal ordered them to stop for inspection, but Ye Lin struck him with a blood-red palm and slammed him into the ground.

Ye Lin fled after the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned him that robbing the Supreme Hall would bring Golden Immortal pursuers. The Sea Clan learned of the theft and ordered a continent-wide search for the thieves and Lin Shishi.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned Ye Lin to flee because the Supreme Hall would send Golden Immortals after him.
• Ye Lin told Lin Shishi to leave him and sped away, while Lin Shishi angrily fled in another direction.
• A Sea Clan middle-aged man reported to the Golden Immortals that a Golden Immortal had injured him and that he had sensed Lin Shishi nearby.
• A Sea Clan elder ordered a full-scale search for Lin Shishi and the thieves, and directed the Sea Clan to spread news of the incident among the deep-sea races.

After fleeing the Supreme Holy Palace, Ye Lin traveled to the Void Clan’s Ancestral Land to obtain the final fragmented scroll. A Void Clan elder gave him the scroll and offered to protect him as he attempted to enter the Golden Immortal realm.

• Ye Lin escaped far from the Supreme Holy Palace, though the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned that its reach made him unsafe.
• Ye Lin used Xing Yi’s transparent disc to open a gateway to the Void Clan’s Ancestral Land.
• A Void Clan elder appeared in the dream space and recognized Ye Lin as a bearer of Human Race fortune and the Xuanyuan Sword.
• The elder gave Ye Lin the final fragmented scroll and said he could now enter the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin accepted the elder’s protection and sat down to begin his breakthrough.

Ye Lin cultivated the complete One Breath Becomes Three Purities and learned how it could reunite his Primordial Spirit and create three avatars with a single thought. After successfully merging the Primordial Spirits, he continued comprehending the technique while the old man watched.

• Ye Lin gathered the three scrolls containing the complete One Breath Becomes Three Purities and absorbed their contents.
• Ye Lin learned that the complete technique reunited the Primordial Spirit and allowed him to summon three avatars equal to his own strength.
• Ye Lin began cultivating by merging the Primordial Spirits of his three avatars with his own.
• The Primordial Spirits merged smoothly, restoring Ye Lin's Primordial Spirit to a complete and perfected state.
• Ye Lin continued struggling to comprehend the technique as time passed, while the old man watched him with a benevolent smile.

After completing One Breath Becomes Three Purities, Ye Lin learned that its fragments had given his Primordial Spirit transcendent power and that he must not use a Dao Fruit to reach Daluo Golden Immortal. The old man told him his foundation was not yet sufficient for Golden Immortal, so Ye Lin resumed cultivation in the dream-space, where time passed far more slowly than outside.

• After five years of stillness, Ye Lin completed One Breath Becomes Three Purities, formed three peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal avatars, and strengthened his Primordial Spirit enough to contend with a first-level Golden Immortal.
• At the old man's urging, Ye Lin assembled all ten technique fragments, which fused into a scroll bearing a message about self-transcendence and warned him not to use a Dao Fruit or teach the technique to others.
• The scroll's old man explained that the fragments had given Ye Lin's Primordial Spirit a trace of transcendent power, then vanished as the scroll burned away.
• The old man told Ye Lin that his foundation was insufficient for Golden Immortal and that one year in the dream-space equaled one day outside.
• Ye Lin resumed secluded cultivation and examined his foundation, determined to reach Golden Immortal before leaving the dream-space and facing pursuit across the Origin Continent.

Ye Lin contemplated the Destruction Sword Dao Law while a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal personally expounded the Dao to him. After three thousand years of cultivation, the senior ended the session, and Ye Lin emerged deeply grateful and absorbed in his insights.

• Ye Lin realized that his comprehension of the Destruction Sword Dao Law was below ten percent and that reaching ten percent would let him enter the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin began contemplating the law, and the old senior expounded the Dao to guide him.
• Ye Lin cultivated in deep absorption for three thousand years as the senior shared his insights.
• The old senior called Ye Lin out of his cultivation, and Ye Lin thanked him for the teaching.

Ye Lin prepared to break through to the Golden Immortal realm and formed three flower buds in his sea of consciousness. He began nourishing them with the power of laws, the next step toward sprouting and entering the realm.

• Ye Lin absorbed treasures, medicinal power, and Immortal Qi to prepare for his breakthrough.
• Ye Lin reviewed how the Three Flowers Above the Crown represented essence, qi, and spirit, and how cultivators now had to nurture them through the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin formed three flower buds in his sea of consciousness, with the power of laws circulating around them.
• Ye Lin began nourishing the flower buds with the power of laws, knowing that insufficient cultivation or foundation could jeopardize his breakthrough.

Ye Lin’s Primordial Spirit and cultivation advanced in tandem as he nurtured the growing flower bud with the Destruction Sword Dao Law. He asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar about a Dao Seed he had found and learned it would hinder his cultivation in the Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin used the Destruction Sword Dao Law to nourish his flower bud while his Primordial Spirit cultivation kept pace with his realm.
• Ye Lin’s flower bud began to sprout a tiny branch as immortal power flowed through his body.
• Ye Lin remembered the Dao Seed he had obtained and asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar what it was for.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that ancient cultivators used Dao Seeds to form the foundation of the Three Flowers, but nurturing one required Chaos energy.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar called the Dao Seed useless in the Star River Cosmos and advised Ye Lin to discard it and follow the path of laws.

Ye Lin successfully entered the Golden Immortal realm after his three flowers sprouted and his Destruction Sword Dao Law condensed into a sword. He reflected on the stages of Golden Immortal cultivation and the Star River Cosmos’s decline.

• Ye Lin saw three divine shoots sprout from the flower buds in his sea of consciousness, confirming his breakthrough was underway.
• Ye Lin condensed his Destruction Sword Dao Law into a pitch-black sword beneath the flowers.
• Ye Lin’s three flowers fully sprouted, and he entered the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin examined his new Golden Immortal laws and considered how cultivation advanced through comprehending laws and nurturing the three flowers.

Ye Lin advanced to the First Layer Golden Immortal after the old man expounded the Dao and protected his cultivation. Before the dream world disappeared, the old man explained that consuming the Star River Cosmos's Dao Fruit would grant Great Luo power but bind Ye Lin to the Heavenly Dao, so Ye Lin resolved to reach Great Luo through his own efforts.

• Ye Lin checked his panel, confirmed his Golden Immortal cultivation, and reflected on how the current cultivation path differed from the primordial-era path.
• Ye Lin thanked the old man for expounding the Dao and protecting him, then learned the old man’s dream world would vanish when its main body awakened in one day.
• Ye Lin asked what it meant to avoid touching the Dao Fruit.
• The old man explained that consuming the Dao Fruit would grant Great Luo power within the Star River Cosmos but bind Ye Lin to its Heavenly Dao and weaken him if he left.
• Ye Lin resolved not to consume the Dao Fruit and instead to reach the Great Luo Transcendence Realm through his own cultivation.

Ye Lin asked an elder what the Emperor Road was and learned that it was a path to attaining the Dao, spanning past and future eras. The elder warned him of its dangers, and Ye Lin chose to stop asking and face the unknown when the time came.

• Ye Lin asked the elder to explain the Emperor Road and whether he still needed to walk it to obtain a Dao Fruit.
• The elder explained that the Heavenly Dao formed the Emperor Road across time and space, where cultivators could encounter prodigies from past and future eras.
• The elder said present-day prodigies alone could obtain the current era’s Dao Fruits, but would still face hunters from other eras on the road to Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin asked how present-day cultivators could defeat powerful primordial prodigies, and the elder told him that fear disqualified anyone seeking Zenith Heaven.
• Ye Lin decided he had no more questions and accepted that he would have to explore the Emperor Road himself.

Ye Lin declined to hear about the Central Star Domain, resolved to grow stronger and eventually enter the Emperor Road. The old man sent him back to the wilderness, leaving Ye Lin to continue his path as a first-level Golden Immortal.

• Ye Lin told the old man he would learn about the Central Star Domain after arriving and focused on establishing himself in the Third Region and strengthening his foundations.
• Ye Lin reaffirmed his determination to reach the Emperor Road and acknowledged that he was far weaker than the ancient monsters he hoped to face.
• The old man promised that the Void Clan would support Ye Lin only after he reached the Central Star Domain, then sent him away without offering help before then.
• The old man wondered whether Ye Lin truly was his old friend's fated person and judged that Ye Lin's Invincible Art lacked strong foundations.
• Ye Lin returned to the wilderness as a first-level Golden Immortal and reflected on how much farther he still had to go.

Li Xiaoyao and the others struggled to save Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable, who were set to be executed on Cloud Summit Mountain in three days. Li Xiaoyao prepared to go alone despite Bao Xiaotou warning that it would mean certain death.

• Wang Tian proposed asking the Emperor of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty to intervene, but Bao Xiaotou said the Emperor would not challenge the three Golden Immortal factions holding Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable.
• Bao Xiaotou explained that Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable had been captured three years earlier while trying to steal a breakthrough treasure from Cloud Summit Mountain.
• Li Xiaoyao decided to head to Cloud Summit Mountain himself because he feared Ye Lin would blame him if the captives died.
• Bao Xiaotou warned Li Xiaoyao that Cloud Summit Mountain had an eighth-level Golden Immortal expert and urged him not to go.
• The group remained without a plan as Li Xiaoyao asked whether they should simply watch Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable die.

Bao Xiaotou and the others headed for Cloud Summit Mountain to rescue Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable during the Young Mountain Lord’s celebration, hoping the Human Race Emperor would intervene. Ye Lin searched for his missing companions and learned that the First Prince had also gone to Cloud Summit Mountain, apparently interested in recruiting the accused prodigy.

• Bao Xiaotou and the others decided to infiltrate Cloud Summit Mountain during the Young Mountain Lord’s celebration and rescue Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable.
• The group left their residence and set out for Cloud Summit Mountain, counting on the Human Race Emperor to help or on the celebration’s chaos to cover their rescue.
• Ye Lin sat masked in a Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty tavern and wondered why he could not contact or find his companions.
• Tavern patrons discussed the heirs entering the world and Cloud Summit Mountain’s plan to execute a Human Race prodigy in three days.
• The patrons said the First Prince had brought his retainers to Cloud Summit Mountain under the pretext of attending the celebration, intending to recruit the prodigy.

Ye Lin learned that his inability to contact Wang Tian and the others might be connected to Cloud Summit Mountain, so he traveled there to investigate. He arrived as the Nether Race prepared for its young mountain master to descend and challenge the gathered prodigies.

• Ye Lin realized his Golden Immortal senses let him inspect and alter the Destiny of cultivators below the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin suspected Cloud Summit Mountain was connected to his inability to reach Wang Tian and the others, and decided to investigate.
• The chapter described Cloud Summit Mountain as the Nether Race's domain and noted that its members were renowned for controlling time.
• Three days later, powerful figures gathered at Cloud Summit Mountain to celebrate the young mountain master's descent and his plan to suppress the prodigies before entering the second region.
• Ye Lin blended into the crowd wearing a new mask and a changed aura.

Ye Lin arrived at Cloud Summit Mountain to witness the ceremony and entered after revealing a trace of his Golden Immortal might to a gatekeeping disciple. He followed the crowd through the mountain’s beautiful grounds and reached a packed plaza filled with beings of many races.

• A gatekeeping disciple asked Ye Lin for an invitation, and Ye Lin released a trace of Golden Immortal might before entering without one.
• The frightened disciple apologized and struck himself, but Ye Lin forgave him and continued inside.
• Ye Lin followed the crowd through Cloud Summit Mountain, admiring its scenery and dense Immortal Qi.
• Ye Lin arrived at a crowded plaza where humanoid beings from many races had gathered.

Ye Lin attended a gathering at Cloud Summit Mountain and was given an exclusive seat among the Golden Immortals. He rebuffed Liu An’s attempt to befriend him, while Liu An continued looking for connections.

• Cloud Summit Mountain disciples escorted Ye Lin to a platform overlooking the plaza and offered to meet his needs.
• Ye Lin sat at the edge of the platform and watched the gathering below.
• Liu An, the Great Elder of the Heavenly Blade Antelope Clan, approached Ye Lin and proposed they get acquainted.
• Ye Lin refused Liu An, who accepted the rejection and decided to seek out other Golden Immortal friends.

At Cloud Summit Mountain, Ye Lin watched Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable face a public execution, though their panels still showed their original destinies. The First Prince of the Heavenly Saint Empire intervened and forbade their execution that day, bringing the conflict with Cloud Summit Mountain to a head.

• Cloud Summit Mountain's Nether Race host presented the chained, crippled Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable as thieves of the Sacred World Lotus and announced their execution.
• Ye Lin checked both men's panels, found their destinies unchanged, and prepared to intervene if they were truly in danger.
• As the host raised his blade, the First Prince of the Heavenly Saint Empire stopped him and challenged Cloud Summit Mountain's public treatment of Human Race prodigies.
• The host argued that the execution would display Cloud Summit Mountain's authority as its Young Mountain Master descended the mountain.
• The First Prince revealed that the captives had been tortured for three years and declared that they could not be executed on the Heavenly Saint Empire's founding anniversary.

The First Prince challenged Cloud Summit Mountain's plan to execute two Human Race prodigies, while the Young Mountain Lord probed whether the prince spoke for himself or the Emperor. The First Prince defended the captives as Human Race marquises and accused Cloud Summit Mountain of deliberately choosing the imperial celebration to make their move.

• The First Prince refused to back down when a middle-aged Cloud Summit Mountain man threatened to kill the captives immediately.
• Sword Heart, the Young Mountain Lord of Cloud Summit Mountain, confronted the First Prince and questioned his authority to interfere.
• The First Prince said his intervention was his own decision, not the Emperor's.
• Sword Heart argued that the captives came from a remote star system and had no connection to the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• The First Prince said the captives were Human Race marquises and accused Cloud Summit Mountain of choosing the celebration to execute them after holding them for more than three years.

The First Prince demanded that Cloud Summit Mountain postpone executing two captives until after the Human Race’s celebration, threatening military retaliation if it refused. Enraged by the ultimatum, the Young Mountain Lord ordered Uncle Fu to kill them.

• The First Prince gained support from Human Race experts and several other races, who objected to Cloud Summit Mountain acting against the two captives during the celebration.
• The First Prince told the Young Mountain Lord to wait until the celebration ended before dealing with the captives and warned that the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty would retaliate if Cloud Summit Mountain acted now.
• The Young Mountain Lord rejected the First Prince’s threat and ordered Uncle Fu to kill the captives.