Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin reunited with Qingling and Tian Qing after decades and reassured them that he was happy they had married. He learned his parents were alive, though his mother had been bedridden with grief after hearing he had died.

• Qingling grieved that Ye Lin had become immortal while she had grown old, and Ye Lin promised to make things up to her and Tian Qing.
• Tian Qing arrived, mistook Ye Lin for a man embracing his wife, then recognized him and greeted him as Brother Ye.
• Ye Lin ate with Qingling and Tian Qing and told Tian Qing he was glad they made a good couple.
• Tian Qing asked whether Ye Lin had become a powerful cultivator, and Ye Lin confirmed it.
• Ye Lin asked about his parents, and Tian Qing said they were healthy but that his mother had been bedridden with grief after believing Ye Lin was dead.

Ye Lin offered Tian Qing and Qingling the chance to cultivate, but they chose to remain in their village. At Tian Qing’s request, Ye Lin prepared their children for cultivation and left the family resources for their future.

• Ye Lin asked Tian Qing whether he wanted to enter the world of cultivation, but Tian Qing and Qingling declined.
• Ye Lin placed a seed in each of them that would let them enter the world of cultivation if they changed their minds.
• Tian Qing asked Ye Lin to help his two children cultivate so they could leave the village and see the world.
• Ye Lin used treasures to give the children cultivation aptitude and sealed techniques, skills, and knowledge in their minds to unlock as they grew.
• Ye Lin gave Tian Qing and Qingling pills, weapons, notes, and a Storage Bag containing the family’s resources.

Ye Lin left Tian Qing and Qingling after confirming they were safe, then set out for the Glazed Dynasty Imperial Capital to find the next Stone Stele. He reached the prosperous capital and saw that an array barred flight over the city.

• Ye Lin gave Tian Qing a Storage Bag and left without meeting the elderly couple, letting them believe he was dead.
• Tian Qing and Qingling accepted Ye Lin's departure and left together as husband and wife.
• Ye Lin asked Toutian where the next Stone Stele was, and Toutian named the Glazed Dynasty Imperial Capital.
• Ye Lin flew there on Little Red, with Toutian following, and learned that the Emperor's fortune made him invincible within the capital.
• Ye Lin arrived at the capital's gates and saw an array that forbade flight over the city.

Ye Lin and Toutian entered the Imperial Capital and discovered that the Glazed Dynasty’s fortune was powerful but had developed along the wrong path. They went to meet Emperor Xue Dao, who approved Ye Lin’s request for an audience.

• Ye Lin and Toutian walked into the Imperial Capital, where Ye Lin observed that about one in ten people was a cultivator.
• Toutian examined the Glazed Dynasty’s fortune and judged that it was flourishing but had taken the wrong path.
• Toutian believed the thing they sought was at the center of the Imperial Capital, where the Emperor lived, so Ye Lin headed there.
• A Golden Armored Divine General stopped Ye Lin and Toutian at the restricted area, and Ye Lin asked to see the Emperor.
• The request passed up the chain of command until Emperor Xue Dao approved it.

Ye Lin asked Xue Dao for the Sword Intent Stone Stele and offered him a precious Dao Pill in exchange. Xue Dao considered the deal, but the chapter ended before he gave his answer.

• The Golden Armored Divine General bowed to Ye Lin after receiving Xue Dao's message.
• Ye Lin brought Toutian to meet Xue Dao in the imperial hall.
• Ye Lin asked Xue Dao to give him the Stone Stele that emanated Sword Intent.
• Xue Dao hesitated because the Stone Stele was valuable to him and he wondered how Ye Lin had learned of it.
• Ye Lin offered Xue Dao a nine-mark Heaven Grade Low Tier Dao Pill to improve his chances of breaking through to Dao Integration.

Ye Lin offered Xue Dao a nine-pattern Dao Pill in exchange for the Stone Stele, stunning Xue Dao and Toutian with its rarity and power. Xue Dao confirmed Ye Lin was certain about the trade, while Toutian grew more curious about the secrets hidden in the stele.

• Xue Dao recognized the pill Ye Lin held as an ancient Dao Pill that could help him withstand a heavenly tribulation and break through to Dao Integration.
• Xue Dao asked Ye Lin whether he was certain, wary of taking a treasure from a Nameless Mountain disciple.
• Ye Lin smiled and confirmed that he was certain.
• Toutian recognized the pill’s nine patterns and wondered why Ye Lin would trade it for the Stone Stele.
• Toutian recalled that his divination had failed and that he did not dare probe the Stone Stele again because of the karma surrounding it.

Ye Lin traded Xue Dao the Dao Pill for the Sword Intent stone stele and left the Glazed Imperial Capital. Taichu urgently summoned Ye Lin back to Nameless Mountain, leaving his search for the remaining steles on hold.

• Xue Dao hurried to retrieve the stone stele after Ye Lin offered him a Dao Pill.
• Ye Lin exchanged the Dao Pill for the stele, then left the hall with Tongtian as Xue Dao rushed off to cultivate.
• Xue Dao secluded himself to pursue a breakthrough to Dao Integration, leaving Glazed Dynasty officials afraid to approach him.
• Taichu's voice ordered Ye Lin to return, and Ye Lin set out for Nameless Mountain with Little Red and Toutian.
• Little Red carried them through spatial turbulence to Nameless Mountain in about ten minutes, and Ye Lin led them toward his residence.

Taichu sent Ye Lin to Black Sand Prefecture to suppress the Evil Demons and use the mission to build his reputation before challenging the Ten Sequences and claiming the Sect Master seat. Ye Lin departed with three late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivators secretly cultivated by Taichu, while the Nameless Mountain remained divided and the Shadow Clan threatened the border.

• Taichu told Ye Lin to suppress the Evil Demons in Black Sand Prefecture and outshine the Ten Sequences.
• Taichu explained that the Shadow Clan had been attacking the Human Race's border while the Nameless Mountain's factions struggled over the coming Sect Master selection.
• Taichu urged Ye Lin to defeat the Ten Sequences and seize the Sect Master seat so the Nameless Mountain could be stabilized.
• Taichu gave Ye Lin a map of Black Sand Prefecture and assigned three late-stage Spirit Transformation cultivators to assist him.
• Ye Lin left with Toutian, Little Red, and the three cultivators, while Taichu celebrated the prospect of entering the Ancestral Land.

Ye Lin gathered a formidable force and set out for Black Sand Prefecture, where an escalating Evil Demon crisis had given Nameless Mountain a chance to tighten its control. The prefecture’s troubles were worsening as Nameless Mountain prepared to use the crisis to reclaim its home front before expanding beyond its borders.

• Ye Lin asked three True Persons for their support, and each pledged three hundred Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and five hundred Golden Core cultivators.
• Ye Lin brought the assembled army aboard the Flying Boat and headed toward Black Sand Prefecture with Little Red and Toutian.
• Evil Demons spread across Black Sand Prefecture, grew stronger, and overwhelmed local efforts after more than a dozen Spirit Transformation Realm Evil Demons appeared.
• Black Sand Prefecture’s major factions and Nameless Mountain sent out armies to suppress the Evil Demons.
• Nameless Mountain planned to use the crisis to send the Ten Sequences into the prefecture and bring its factions firmly under control.

Ye Lin and the forces of Nameless Mountain began their campaign to subdue Black Sand Prefecture, planning to sweep in from its borders and eliminate the Evil Demons at its center. After assigning three True Persons to lead the flanks, Ye Lin set out with the largest force.

• Ye Lin arrived with his party at the chaotic Black Sand Prefecture and explained the plan to advance from its outskirts, killing Evil Demons and factions that resisted.
• Three True Persons each took a force of cultivators and set out along separate routes, while Ye Lin was assigned the central advance.
• The three True Persons departed, leaving Ye Lin with six hundred Nascent Soul cultivators and six hundred Golden Core cultivators.
• Ye Lin ordered his remaining forces to set out.

Ye Lin traveled through Black Sand Prefecture while pursuing the Stone Steles, and Toutian found the location of another one. Ye Lin arrived at Black Mountain, where its lord Fang Xiu greeted him and asked why he had come.

• Ye Lin reasoned that after Black Sand Prefecture was subdued, he would kill Wang Teng and two others before Nameless Mountain chose its Sect Master.
• Toutian found the whereabouts of another Stone Stele but said he could not locate the remaining two without finding them one at a time.
• Toutian identified Black Mountain as a Spirit Transformation faction with three Spirit Transformation True Persons.
• Ye Lin announced his arrival to Black Mountain, and Fang Xiu came out, introduced himself as its lord, and asked what Ye Lin wanted.

Ye Lin confronted Fang Xiu over Black Mountain’s failure to resist the Evil Demons and used Nameless Mountain’s authority to order its disciples to mobilize. He left to continue onward, intending to force Black Sand Prefecture’s powers to help exterminate the Evil Demons.

• Ye Lin accused Fang Xiu and Black Mountain of abandoning the people while the Evil Demons slaughtered them.
• Fang Xiu explained that Black Mountain feared provoking a Spirit Transformation Evil Demon and risking its million-year foundation.
• Ye Lin invoked his status as a Nameless Mountain Inner Sect disciple and ordered Black Mountain’s disciples to mobilize against the Evil Demons.
• Fang Xiu obeyed after Ye Lin’s pressure and authority left him no choice.
• Ye Lin warned Fang Xiu not to pretend to cooperate, then departed on his Flying Boat to continue his journey.

Ye Lin led the Ten Sequences of Nameless Mountain through Black Sand Prefecture, compelling major powers to help hunt the Evil Demons. At a corrupt city where Evil Cultivators, Demonic Cultivators, Demon Cultivators, and an Evil Demon lived openly, Ye Lin ordered his forces to surround the city and summoned its three Spirit Transformation Demon Cultivators.

• Ye Lin invoked Nameless Mountain's authority to make major powers send their forces after the Evil Demons.
• Toutian used the Heaven-Peering Compass to guide the group to a vast city with black walls.
• Ye Lin's divine sense revealed the city's depravity, its three Spirit Transformation Demon Cultivators, and an Evil Demon in an underground cavern.
• Ye Lin ordered his cultivators to surround the city and then called its three Demon Cultivators out.
• Toutian grew furious at the sight of Human Race traitors serving evil races and turning against their own people.

Ye Lin and his forces attacked Blood City after its leaders tried to intimidate him, and Little Red quickly overwhelmed the three elders. The city’s scum were slaughtered while the powerless mortals were spared.

• The three elders of Blood City warned Ye Lin to leave, citing the city’s long history and the forces behind it.
• Ye Lin sent Little Red to fight the elders, and Little Red suppressed all three in a single exchange.
• As enemies of the Human Race poured out of Blood City, Ye Lin’s forces sealed the city and surrounded them.
• Ye Lin ordered his cultivators to kill everyone except their own kind, sparing mortals without cultivation.
• Taichu’s cultivators slaughtered Blood City’s scum despite being outnumbered by more than ten to one.

Ye Lin watched Little Red battle three Spirit Transformation True Persons while his cultivators slaughtered their enemies in Blood City. When the three summoned a crimson face, Little Red confronted it with his Phoenix True Form, and the fight remained evenly matched in rank.

• The three Spirit Transformation True Persons faltered under Little Red’s assault and threatened Ye Lin, but he ordered Little Red to kill them.
• The three men summoned Blood Baleful Qi from Blood City, which formed a crimson face that they addressed as their lord.
• Little Red attacked the crimson face with Phoenix Fire, but the flame vanished when it struck.
• Little Red summoned his Phoenix True Form to face the crimson face while the slaughter in Blood City intensified.
• Ye Lin watched as Little Red prepared to fight the late-stage Spirit Transformation crimson face, whose strength was roughly equal to his own.

Little Red confronted the ancient blood-red face while Ye Lin descended into Blood City to find the Stone Stele. The chapter ended with Ye Lin entering the City Lord Mansion and heading for its main hall.

• The blood-red face suppressed Little Red and dismissed him as an immature Divine Beast.
• Little Red grew furious and sent his Phoenix phantom charging at the blood-red face.
• Ye Lin left Little Red to fight and flew down toward Blood City to find the Stone Stele.
• Ye Lin fought his way through Blood City to the City Lord Mansion.
• Ye Lin entered the mansion and headed toward the main hall where the Stone Stele was kept.

Ye Lin took the Stone Stele from the hall and subdued the mysterious girl before leaving. After his forces cleared the city of Evil Demons, he forced captured cultivators to help search the surrounding area, leaving them terrified of his punishment.

• Ye Lin stored the Stone Stele in his Spatial Ring, then put the wary girl to sleep and left her in the hall.
• Little Red proudly stood over the defeated threat as the terrifying face vanished from the sky and roared that it would kill her when they met again.
• Ye Lin's forces reported that they had cleared the city of vermin and captured Human Race cultivators, including thirty-eight Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and fifty-four Golden Core cultivators.
• Ye Lin ordered the captured cultivators to search within a thousand li for Evil Demons and killed an Ancient God Sect disciple who threatened him.
• The remaining Ancient God Sect disciples submitted, and Ye Lin warned them that they would not escape punishment if Evil Demons remained nearby.

Ye Lin and Toutian encountered a Demon Cave where demonic qi was spreading and discussed the danger of its sealed Great Demons. Ye Lin decided to seal off the area, then saw a vast tornado of demonic qi ahead.

• Ye Lin and the remaining disciples boarded the Flying Boat and continued onward.
• Toutian warned Ye Lin that a Demon Cave lay ahead and explained the danger posed by its demonic qi and sealed Great Demons.
• Ye Lin concluded that they should seal off the surrounding area rather than enter the Demon Cave.
• Ye Lin formed hand seals as Toutian announced their arrival.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes and saw a colossal tornado of demonic qi spreading ahead.

Ye Lin sealed the black tornado’s demonic energy and sent Nameless Mountain’s cultivators to compel Black Sand Prefecture’s factions to fight the Evil Demons. He then asked Toutian to locate the other Ten Sequences.

• Ye Lin used the Heaven and Earth Trap Formation to bind the black tornado and silenced the furious voice trapped within it.
• Ye Lin finished the seal, which would stop the tornado from spreading for three years unless a being above the Spirit Transformation realm appeared inside it.
• Toutian warned Ye Lin that reaching the center of Black Sand Prefecture would take at least three years, while more than a dozen Spirit Transformation Evil Demons were already there.
• Ye Lin ordered the cultivators with him to find factions with Spirit Transformation cultivators and force them to leave their gates and fight the Evil Demons.
• Ye Lin asked Toutian to find out where the other Ten Sequences were.

Ye Lin hurried toward the center of Black Sand Prefecture after learning the Ten Sequences were close to reaching it, and decided to visit factions along the way. As he traveled, Toutian warned him that using the fortune he had gained as Sect Master of Nameless Mountain would make becoming an immortal far more difficult.

• Toutian used the Heaven-Peering Compass and discovered that the Ten Sequences were only three hours from the center of Black Sand Prefecture.
• Ye Lin asked Toutian to locate factions with Dao Integration True Lords and set out to visit them on the way.
• Toutian explained that concealed sects could only be located approximately because their Dao Integration True Lords hid their heavenly secrets.
• Toutian warned Ye Lin that using the Human Race's fortune to improve his cultivation would bind him with causality and hinder his immortal tribulation.