Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin traveled with Toutian and Little Red to a desolate region where a hidden mountain range had appeared and vanished. He announced himself as a disciple of Nameless Mountain, but received no response.

• Ye Lin explained that he intended to use the Human Race's fortune to cultivate a second clone and eventually destroy all three clones to boost his power.
• The Flying Boat carried Ye Lin, Toutian, and sleeping Little Red onward until Ye Lin woke them at their destination.
• Ye Lin and Toutian saw a towering mountain range beneath auspicious clouds, but it vanished to reveal a gloomy sky and cracked earth.
• Ye Lin called out that he was an Inner Sect disciple of Nameless Mountain who had come to pay his respects, but no one answered.
• Ye Lin called out again, and the Evil Demons nearby fled or hid from his Flying Boat.

Ye Lin used his status as Taichu’s direct disciple to make the Ancient God Sect open its gates and receive him. The sect accepted his visit, realizing it could no longer avoid getting involved in Nameless Mountain’s affairs.

• Ye Lin decided not to attack the Evil Demons himself and planned to rely on Black Sand Prefecture’s local forces.
• The Ancient God Sect initially turned Ye Lin away, claiming its gates were closed for ten years.
• Ye Lin showed his identity token and invoked Taichu’s name, prompting the Ancient God Sect to open its gates.
• Su Bai greeted Ye Lin and explained that activating the Sect Protection Array had delayed him.
• Ye Lin entered the Ancient God Sect, and Su Bai concluded the sect would have to step back into the world.

Ye Lin entered the Ancient God Sect and was led to its grand central hall, where the sect’s elders awaited him. After the Phoenix statue’s eyes startled Ye Lin, an immense pressure suddenly struck Su Bai and hurled him into a pillar.

• Ye Lin marveled at the Ancient God Sect’s vast independent space and traveled toward its central island with Toutian, Su Bai, and Little Red.
• Su Bai noticed Little Red speaking and realized the beast was a Spirit Transformation Realm Demon Venerable.
• Ye Lin and Toutian entered the hall, where three figures waited beneath a statue made with the eyes of an ancient Phoenix.
• Ye Lin recoiled from the Phoenix statue’s lingering pressure, and Su Bai explained its origin.
• An immense pressure appeared and blasted Su Bai into a golden pillar.

Ye Lin confronted the Ancient God Sect’s elders and demanded that they drive the Evil Demons from Black Sand Prefecture, using his Master’s name to pressure them. Meng Yun warned that the situation was more dangerous than Ye Lin realized, and Ye Lin began to threaten the elders when they would not agree.

• Little Red released its pressure and left Su Bai sprawled on the ground, but Ye Lin assured him he was fine.
• Meng Yun, Buxiu, and Wang Dao welcomed Ye Lin, and Su Bai introduced the three elders of the Ancient God Sect.
• Meng Yun claimed the sect had secluded itself because its Grand Elder was attempting a breakthrough, but Ye Lin offered to summon his Master to protect him.
• Ye Lin demanded that the elders sweep the Evil Demons from Black Sand Prefecture and warned them against refusing.
• Meng Yun told Ye Lin the situation was too dangerous for him to handle, and Ye Lin began to threaten the elders.

Ye Lin dismissed Wang Dao’s wager until Wang Dao offered him the Sun-Shooting Bow if he cleared forty levels of the Heaven-Reaching Tower. Ye Lin tested the bow’s power, then learned its artifact spirit could grant him an Earth Grade High Tier archery technique.

• Wang Dao challenged Ye Lin to clear forty levels of the Heaven-Reaching Tower in exchange for the Ancient God Sect wiping out the Evil Demons.
• Ye Lin rejected the wager, so Wang Dao offered him the Sun-Shooting Bow as a reward if he passed.
• Meng Yun assured Ye Lin that the first forty levels suited Spirit Transformation cultivators and handed him the Divine Bow.
• Ye Lin drew the bow and fired an arrow that shattered space, discovering it had immense power even without recognizing him as its master.
• Wang Dao explained that the bow’s artifact spirit could grant Ye Lin an Earth Grade High Tier archery technique.

Ye Lin entered the Heaven-Reaching Tower after Meng Yun promised him a treasure if he cleared level forty. The tower began to shake and glow as the sect disciples wondered who had started the challenge.

• Meng Yun gave Ye Lin the Divine Bow, and Ye Lin agreed to challenge the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
• The elders led Ye Lin to the tower, where Toutian explained its trials and Ye Lin declared he was no weaker than ancient prodigies.
• Meng Yun explained how the tower’s levels worked and promised to honor his deal if Ye Lin cleared level forty.
• Ye Lin entered the tower, which boomed and shone with golden light as disciples speculated about the challenger.

Ye Lin entered the Heaven-Reaching Tower and cleared its early tests at astonishing speed, shocking the Ancient God Sect disciples watching outside. He reached the eleventh test without stopping, facing the tower’s rule that challengers had no time to recover between stages.

• Disciples gathered outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower and speculated about who would spend thirty thousand contribution points to challenge it.
• Ye Lin destroyed thirteen early-stage Spirit Transformation Realm wolves with one sword strike and entered the second test.
• The disciples watched the tower’s levels light up rapidly as Ye Lin cleared the tests, reaching the tenth in three minutes and forty seconds.
• Ye Lin spent a minute and thirty seconds on the tenth test before advancing to the eleventh, while the disciples wondered who was inside.
• The tower’s rules allowed challengers only ten seconds between tests, or they would be expelled and forced to start over.

Ye Lin rapidly cleared the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s stages, defeating a peak Spirit Transformation stone man on the eighteenth stage and continuing upward. The watching Ancient God Sect disciples were left stunned as the tower’s lights reached the twenty-fourth floor.

• Meng Yun wondered whether he and the two old men should break their agreement, but the old men reminded him that he had sworn an oath to the Heavenly Dao.
• Ye Lin split the gigantic stone man on the eighteenth stage with Sword Two, then passed through the gate of light.
• The disciples marveled at Ye Lin’s speed and learned that he was an Inner Sect disciple of Nameless Mountain.
• The Heaven-Reaching Tower’s lights successively reached the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth floors, leaving the onlookers speechless.

Ye Lin entered the thirty-first trial, where his cultivation and body were reduced to those of an ordinary mortal and he faced ten tigers at the first level of Qi Refining. As the Ancient God Sect disciples doubted he could surpass the Sword God's legendary record, Ye Lin dodged the tigers' charge and hit the ground to avoid one leaping over him.

• The Ancient God Sect disciples saw the thirty-first-floor light appear and debated whether Ye Lin could pass the trial that had stopped the Sword God.
• Ye Lin found his cultivation, physical strength, and body suppressed, leaving him frail and mortal before ten Qi Refining tigers.
• When the tigers charged, Ye Lin turned and ran rather than face them head-on.
• Ye Lin dropped to the ground as a tiger leaped over him.

Ye Lin fought the tigers with his mortal body, relying on Bone Blade to pierce their defenses. After retrieving the weapon and taking a Bone Spike from a dead tiger, he killed another tiger but was left exhausted and in severe pain.

• Ye Lin stabbed a tiger in the neck with Bone Blade, and it collapsed after throwing him off.
• Another tiger struck Ye Lin, sending him flying and leaving him badly hurt.
• Ye Lin dodged a charging tiger, reached the dead tiger, and pulled Bone Blade from its neck.
• As nine tigers closed in, Ye Lin took a Bone Spike from the dead tiger’s neck.
• Ye Lin charged an airborne tiger and sliced it in half with Bone Blade.
• Ye Lin dropped to one knee, exhausted and suffering intense chest pain.

Ye Lin fought the remaining Bloodthirsty tigers with desperate resolve and killed them despite losing both legs and his left hand. After the last tiger swallowed his head, Ye Lin struck back with his Bone Blade and killed it, though the chapter left his fate uncertain.

• The eight remaining Bloodthirsty tigers charged Ye Lin, who attacked them with his Bone Blade and Bone Spike.
• Ye Lin killed the tigers by stabbing one through the throat and driving his Bone Blade into another's brain.
• After five minutes of fighting, Ye Lin had lost both legs and his left hand, and the last tiger cautiously approached him.
• Ye Lin collapsed and appeared to have died, so the tiger swallowed his head.
• Ye Lin's right hand stabbed the tiger's neck with the Bone Blade and cut its windpipe, killing it.

Ye Lin cleared the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s thirty-first level, received a powerful cultivation reward, and entered the thirty-second level. His record-breaking progress shocked the watching disciples and attracted the attention of the Ancient God Sect’s hidden powers.

• Ye Lin regained his strength after defeating the ten tigers and received a reward that raised his cultivation to the middle stage of Spirit Transformation.
• Ye Lin suspected the Heaven-Reaching Tower had reset after hundreds of thousands of years and decided to test his theory by continuing.
• Ye Lin entered the thirty-second level after discovering he could rest inside the tower between levels.
• The disciples outside the tower were stunned that Ye Lin had surpassed the Sword God’s record and cleared the thirty-first level.
• A hidden power of the Ancient God Sect watched the Heaven-Reaching Tower from atop a mountain.

Ye Lin struggled against three peak Spirit Transformation golden dragons on the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s thirty-fifth level. He activated First Turn and halted the dragons with two sword strikes, then prepared to unleash his strongest attack.

• Ancient God Sect disciples watched Ye Lin remain on the thirty-fifth level, while Toutian marveled that he had reached so far.
• Inside the tower, Ye Lin faced three golden dragons whose divine beast bloodlines and golden defenses had held him back for half an hour.
• Ye Lin activated First Turn, doubling his cultivation and combat strength.
• Ye Lin used Sword One and Sword Two, and the combined strikes stopped the three dragons’ charge.
• Ye Lin began Sword Three, Sword Slash of the Yellow Springs, as his full-power attack.

Ye Lin used the World-Suppressing Pagoda and his First Turn’s overwhelming power to suppress and strike down three golden dragons in the Heaven-Reaching Tower. As the First Turn neared its end, he realized that clearing each floor brought a reward and prepared to keep fighting.

• The golden dragons attacked Ye Lin with beams of golden energy, but the World-Suppressing Pagoda shielded him.
• Ye Lin invoked his rules to bind and suppress the three dragons with golden chains and swords.
• Ye Lin struck the dragons with Sword Three, Sword Slash of the Yellow Springs, sending them crashing toward the ground.
• Ye Lin noticed that the First Turn was about to wear off and realized that clearing each floor granted him a reward.
• Ye Lin laughed as a terrifying aura rose around him and the surrounding space began to fracture.

Ye Lin defeated three golden dragons on the Heaven-Reaching Tower's thirty-sixth floor and continued climbing, shattering the confidence of the Ancient God Sect's prodigy Su Bai. When Ye Lin reached the fortieth floor, the sect's elders faced the loss of the Divine Bow and their obligation to send troops against the Evil Demon.

• Ye Lin used Sword Four, Last Stand to kill the three golden dragons and received a golden pillar of light as his aura recovered.
• The light on the thirty-sixth floor illuminated, leaving Su Bai stunned and his belief in his own invincibility shattered.
• A little girl asked Su Bai what was wrong, and he told her he was fine before watching Ye Lin's progress.
• Over the following half-hours, the lights on the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, and thirty-ninth floors lit up, making Su Bai increasingly grim.
• The fortieth-floor light appeared, and the three elders realized the Ancient God Sect would lose the Divine Bow and have to send troops to exterminate the Evil Demon.

Meng Yun sought the Grand Elder’s advice because Ye Lin was about to pass the fortieth level, forcing the Ancient God Sect to confront its vow and the coming conflict. The Grand Elder told him the outcome had been decided since Ye Lin entered the sect and urged him to act with courage as Sect Master.

• Meng Yun left two old men to watch Ye Lin and flew to the Grand Elder’s mountain to discuss what to do if Ye Lin passed the fortieth level.
• Meng Yun admitted he was anxious because the Ancient God Sect faced the Evil Demons’ turmoil and he could not decide whether to act.
• The Grand Elder said Ye Lin’s arrival had already determined the outcome, since the Ancient God Sect could not influence Nameless Mountain’s decisions.
• The Grand Elder reminded Meng Yun that he was now Sect Master and reproached him for hesitating to make decisions and lead the two old men.

The old man warned Meng Yun that his life was nearing its end and urged him to assert himself as Sect Master of the Ancient God Sect. After Meng Yun left, the old man’s failing health showed, while two powerful auras rose and then retreated at his command.

• The old man rebuked Meng Yun for relying on him and failing to control the two rivals eyeing the Sect Master position.
• The old man revealed that he was nearing the end of his life and urged Meng Yun to earn the sect’s acknowledgment before he died.
• Meng Yun accepted the old man’s advice, and the old man sent him away to prove himself.
• The old man spat out corrosive black blood as two terrifying auras rose from opposite sides of the Ancient God Sect.
• The old man ordered the two presences to behave, and their auras vanished.

Meng Yun asserted his authority as Sect Master of the Ancient God Sect and ordered a sect-wide assembly. As he watched the Heaven-Reaching Tower, its forty-first floor lit up.

• Meng Yun told Wang Dao to summon all elders and disciples not in seclusion for a sect-wide assembly.
• Wang Dao said the Grand Elder's approval was required, but Meng Yun insisted he be addressed as Sect Master and declared that absentees would be held accountable.
• Wang Dao accepted Meng Yun's change in bearing and went to notify the sect.
• Meng Yun watched the Heaven-Reaching Tower confidently as the fortieth-floor light went out and the forty-first-floor light came on, stirring the nearby disciples.

Ye Lin passed the fortieth level of the Four Seas Barrier but failed the forty-first, then received the Divine Bow from Meng Yun and learned that the Ancient God Sect would send out troops within three days. He declined Meng Yun’s invitation to stay and left to continue his unfinished mission.

• Ye Lin reached the forty-first level of the Four Seas Barrier but failed to defeat five peak Spirit Transformation Great Demons because his cultivation was only at the mid-stage.
• Meng Yun congratulated Ye Lin and honored their agreement by giving him the Divine Bow and promising the Ancient God Sect would send out troops within three days.
• Meng Yun asked Ye Lin to call him Sect Master Meng, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Meng Yun invited Ye Lin to stay and look around the Ancient God Sect, but Ye Lin declined because he still had a mission to complete.

Ye Lin saw Su Bai’s status panel and learned that the young disciple was destined for great power but would die before discovering the Central Continent’s secret. After spotting the opportunity Su Bai would find in the Abyss, Ye Lin considered how the Ancient Great Demon’s remnant soul could help create a true artifact spirit.

• Ye Lin noticed Su Bai staring at him and read the young disciple’s status panel.
• Ye Lin learned that Su Bai would find an Ancient Great Demon’s remnant soul in the Abyss and use it to strengthen his weapon.
• Ye Lin recognized Su Bai’s White Jade Ring and hidden remnant-soul companion as the makings of a powerful protagonist.
• Ye Lin realized the Ancient Great Demon’s remnant soul could nourish an Earth Grade weapon into gaining a true artifact spirit.