Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin watched the Human Race’s rapid counterattack against the Heavenly Court and realized it had been planned far in advance. He remained in the secret chamber, pretending to recover from injuries, and discovered that the trial ground’s treasures were only projections.

• Ye Lin realized the Human Emperor was not present and resolved to wait before entering the Heavenly Court to meet him.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Human Race’s swift victory over the Heavenly Court was the result of preparations made over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.
• A young True Immortal delivered Ye Lin a Seven-Colored Treasure Lotus, which Ye Lin accepted while claiming he would storm the Heavenly Court after recovering.
• After the young man left, Ye Lin touched the lotus and watched it vanish, confirming that the trial ground’s treasures were fake.

Ye Lin had spent a peaceful hundred years in seclusion, with four hundred years left before he could complete his mission and receive a Limitless Artifact. Meanwhile, Heavenly Court soldiers moved to seize Myriad Source Mountain, and three Golden Immortals confronted the Human Race defenders.

• Ye Lin continued lying low in his secret chamber after a hundred peaceful years of cultivation.
• Heavenly Court soldiers gathered outside Myriad Source Mountain and planned to seize it to cut off the Human Race's route to the Heavenly Court.
• Human Race experts came out to defend the mountain and refused to let the Heavenly Court soldiers take it.
• The two sides exchanged insults but hesitated to attack because the Heavenly Court force was led by three apparent Golden Immortals.
• The three Golden Immortal soldiers stepped forward and unleashed their power over Myriad Source Mountain.

Ye Lin arrived at Myriad Source Mountain and destroyed the three Golden Immortal heavenly soldiers and their army. He then entered the Heavenly Court to see the ancient-era battlefield and found it devastated and apparently deserted.

• The Human Race experts realized three Golden Immortals led the heavenly soldiers and prepared to summon Ye Lin for help.
• Ye Lin appeared, crushed the three Golden Immortals with a golden hand, and wiped out the remaining heavenly soldiers.
• Ye Lin told the Human Race experts to stay at Myriad Source Mountain and left for the Heavenly Court.
• Ye Lin entered the Heavenly Court and found corpses, ruined buildings, and no living beings in sight.
• Ye Lin wandered through the wreckage and wondered how far the Human Race army had advanced.

Ye Lin explored the ruined Heavenly Court, killed a strange creature that offered him power in exchange for escape, and later watched a Human Race Golden Immortal defeat three foreign-race Golden Immortals. The surviving man invited Ye Lin to travel deeper into the battlefield together.

• Ye Lin continued through the deserted Heavenly Court to learn its layout and remember the ruins.
• A mangled creature emerged from broken space and offered to help Ye Lin gain power if he took it away, but Ye Lin killed it with one sword strike.
• Ye Lin spent three days racing through the Heavenly Court and memorizing its surroundings.
• Ye Lin watched a Human Race Golden Immortal defeat and kill three foreign-race Golden Immortals without intervening.
• The Golden Immortal asked Ye Lin to join him in heading deeper to support the battlefield.

Ye Lin recognized Chen Changsheng as the legendary Human Race prodigy who died when the Human Race's fortune struck back as he advanced to Primordial Unity Golden Immortal. The chapter ended with the revelation that the Human Emperor's hold over the race's fortune had doomed Chen Changsheng and cost the Human Race a potential invincible powerhouse.

• Ye Lin introduced himself to the young man and learned that his name was Chen Changsheng.
• Ye Lin recalled an ancient text about Exalted Changsheng, a Primordial Era prodigy who wielded Yin-Yang swords and fought for the Human Race.
• Ye Lin remembered how Chen Changsheng rose to the ninth level of the Golden Immortal realm after defeating countless rivals.
• Chen Changsheng died when the Human Race's fortune struck back as he attempted to break through to Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin recalled that the Human Emperor's claim over the Human Race's fortune prevented other prodigies from reaching that realm.

Ye Lin recognized Chen Changsheng as the future Venerable Changsheng and decided to stay close to him to survive the coming four hundred years. As the two traveled deeper into the Heavenly Court, they heard explosions ahead and realized they had found their destination.

• Ye Lin recognized Chen Changsheng by the Yin-Yang Twin Swords and pretended that celestial soldiers had killed his younger brother.
• Chen Changsheng comforted Ye Lin and urged him to avenge his brother by killing more celestial soldiers.
• Ye Lin decided to follow Chen Changsheng after realizing he was the historical powerhouse who could keep him alive.
• Chen Changsheng recognized Ye Lin as the former Human Race prodigy, and the two chatted as they hurried through the Heavenly Court.
• Explosions shook the firmament ahead, and Ye Lin and Chen Changsheng exchanged excited glances, realizing they had found what they sought.

With the Heavenly Court nearing defeat, Ye Lin stayed cautious as the Human Race army advanced. He took a glowing Heavenly Book from a Human Race cultivator and began reading its ancient divine script.

• Chen Changsheng drew his swords and joined the battle against the heavenly soldiers while Ye Lin watched.
• Ye Lin noticed a streak of golden light and approached a wounded Human Race cultivator arguing with five heavenly soldiers over a scroll.
• The Human Race cultivator respectfully handed the scroll to Ye Lin, and the heavenly soldiers watched without daring to intervene.
• Ye Lin opened the scroll, recognized its writing as ancient divine script, and began to read it.

Ye Lin discovered that a scroll held the Dao-tier divine ability Near Yet Far, then killed five Heavenly Court soldiers who tried to claim it. He hid in a secret chamber to study the ability while waiting out the remaining four hundred years of his mission.

• Ye Lin read the scroll and recognized Near Yet Far as a precious Dao-tier divine ability.
• Five Heavenly Court soldiers demanded the scroll, and Ye Lin killed them with two palm strikes.
• Ye Lin returned the scroll to a Human Race expert and learned that Near Yet Far could eventually let him cross the Star River Cosmos in a single step.
• Ye Lin surveyed the battles, decided not to fight without a reward, and hid in a Heavenly Court secret chamber to study Near Yet Far.

After the Human Race seized the Heavenly Court, it subdued the Star River Cosmos and restored peace while the decisive battle between its top experts continued. Ye Lin emerged from three hundred years of cultivation with Near Yet Far at the beginner stage, able to teleport tens of millions of star li.

• The Heavenly Court lost its war, and rebellions spread through the Star River Cosmos.
• The Human Race and several other races took the Heavenly Court, after which the Human Race began suppressing the cosmos.
• The Human Race destroyed some races and won over others until the Star River Cosmos was subdued and relative peace returned.
• The races continued plotting in secret because the Human Emperor's defeat could undo the Human Race's victories.
• Ye Lin emerged from secluded cultivation after three hundred years and reached the beginner stage of Near Yet Far.

Ye Lin emerged from the secret chamber and wandered through the Human Race’s newly conquered Heavenly Court, with one hundred years left before his mission ended. Blood rain then fell across the Star River Cosmos, signaling the death of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and leaving the Human Race fearing the Human Emperor had fallen.

• Ye Lin left the secret chamber and saw the Human Race rebuilding the conquered Heavenly Court.
• Ye Lin noted that one hundred years remained before his mission was complete and wandered through the Heavenly Court.
• Blood rain began falling as thunder shook the Star River Cosmos, causing the Human Race powerhouses to stop their work.
• Ye Lin recognized the blood rain as an omen that a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal had died.
• The Human Race prayed that the fallen powerhouse was not the Human Emperor, whose defeat could leave them vulnerable to retaliation.

After a month of blood rain marked by the deaths of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, the Human Emperor emerged and declared the Human Race foremost among the Star River Cosmos. His destiny had risen so high that his words could affect the Heavenly Dao, while Ye Lin watched him from afar.

• Human Race powerhouses prayed for the Human Emperor as they feared the outcome of his unfinished battle.
• Blood rain continued for a month as Primordial Unity Golden Immortals fell, keeping the myriad races on edge.
• The blood rain stopped, and the living beings of the Star River Cosmos waited to learn who had won.
• The Human Emperor emerged from the void and decreed that the Human Race would be honored above all others, with the Heavenly Dao punishing those who defied it.
• Supreme experts sensed that the Human Emperor's decree had briefly halted the Heavenly Dao, as his destiny made his strength rival it.
• Ye Lin looked across boundless space at the Human Emperor and said that seeing him made the journey worthwhile.

After the war, the Human Emperor gathered the allied races in the Heavenly Court to assess their merits and distribute rewards. As Ye Lin stood among the Walker Realm Golden Immortals, the Human Emperor fixed his gaze on him and asked whether he came from the future.

• The Human Emperor arrived at the Heavenly Court as Human and allied-race powerhouses gathered for rewards and a new division of interests.
• Chen Changsheng found Ye Lin and pulled him toward the Central Heavenly Court to watch the merit assessment.
• Ye Lin and Chen Changsheng joined the Walker Realm Golden Immortals as the Human Emperor prepared to bestow rewards.
• The Human Emperor's gaze settled on Ye Lin, and he asked whether Ye Lin was from the future.

Ye Lin was discovered by the Human Emperor while taking part in a fabricated mystic realm trial set in the ancient era. After Ye Lin explained how he had arrived, the Human Emperor asked about his trial mission, and Ye Lin revealed that he had only a hundred years left to survive.

• The Human Emperor noticed Ye Lin and deduced that he came from the future because he lacked the aura of the ancient era.
• Ye Lin admitted that he was from the future and learned that the Human Emperor could sense members of the Human Race who invoked his true name across time and space.
• Ye Lin explained that the ancient scene was fabricated by a mystic realm trial, and the Human Emperor inferred that a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal had created it.
• The Human Emperor asked whether Ye Lin's mission was to help unify the Star River Cosmos, and Ye Lin said he had to survive for ten million years, with only the final hundred years remaining.

Ye Lin told the Human Emperor that his mission would end in a hundred years, earning a promise of protection and a stream of treasures. He could not warn Chen Changsheng about his future death, and the chapter left him refusing to reveal more because the karmic consequences were too dangerous.

• Ye Lin told the Human Emperor that he would complete his mission in a hundred years and receive a Limitless Artifact.
• The Human Emperor promised to keep Ye Lin safe for the next hundred years and began giving him treasures.
• Chen Changsheng asked Ye Lin about the future and the Human Race.
• Ye Lin began to warn Chen Changsheng against becoming a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal but stopped when he sensed the danger of speaking.
• Ye Lin told Chen Changsheng that he could not reveal the future because his body could not bear the karma.

Ye Lin spoke with Chen Changsheng about fate, and Chen Changsheng accepted that an unavoidable future event concerned him. As the Human Emperor’s month-long rewards ended, everyone had received something except Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin confirmed that the matter he wanted to discuss concerned Chen Changsheng, but Chen Changsheng told him not to explain further.
• Ye Lin realized Chen Changsheng had likely known his fate before his death yet had chosen to act because he had no alternative, deepening his understanding of the laws.
• Chen Changsheng asked Ye Lin whether the future was enjoyable, and Ye Lin said the weak being prey to the strong remained the world's underlying order.
• Chen Changsheng concluded that knowing the future was of little use without the power to control one's Destiny.
• The Human Emperor finished a month of rewards, giving treasures, resources, and status to everyone present except Ye Lin.

The Human Emperor gave Ye Lin the cultivation insights of a ninth-level Golden Immortal who practiced the Sword Dao of Destruction, while warning him to use them only as reference. He renamed the Heavenly Court the Human Ancestor Hall and told Ye Lin to prepare something for him in three days, then Ye Lin walked alone through the Heavenly Court.

• The Human Emperor gave Ye Lin a sphere containing a ninth-level Golden Immortal's Sword Dao of Destruction insights and warned him not to imitate them.
• The Human Emperor told Ye Lin that the world's deeper mysteries would become clear only when he grew stronger.
• The Human Emperor declared the meeting adjourned and renamed the Heavenly Court the Human Ancestor Hall, naming himself its first Hall Master.
• The Human Emperor told Ye Lin to prepare something for him in three days and warned the Human Race powers not to question Ye Lin about the future.
• After the meeting ended, Ye Lin walked alone through the Heavenly Court.

After a hundred years, Ye Lin’s trial in the ancient era ended with the Human Race ruling the Star River Cosmos. The Human Emperor sent him back to his own world, and the Xuanyuan Sword acknowledged Ye Lin as its master and vowed to continue assisting each generation’s Human Lord.

• Over the next hundred years, the Human Emperor led the Human Race in settling scores with the myriad races and bringing the Star River Cosmos under Human rule.
• Ye Lin reached the end of his trial and reflected that it had been easy because he belonged to the Human Race.
• The Human Emperor appeared beside Ye Lin as his time in the ancient era ran out.
• The Xuanyuan Sword flew to the Human Emperor, who told it to follow Ye Lin and continue its mission.
• The Xuanyuan Sword took Ye Lin’s blood, acknowledged him as its master, and returned to his wrist as a golden bracelet.
• The Human Emperor told Ye Lin to return to his world.

Ye Lin completed the trial and received the high-grade Limitless Artifact, the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book, whose characters invoked powerful effects through the Great Dao. He declined the final trial for the Black Tortoise Master's inheritance to avoid risking the rewards he had already won.

• Ye Lin opened the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book and found a single character on each page.
• The trial ground explained that the book's thirty-six characters invoked different effects, such as enhancing combat strength or healing injuries, at the cost of immortal power.
• Ye Lin learned that he could activate the book by pouring immortal power into it and using it to invoke the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
• The trial ground offered Ye Lin one final stage for the Black Tortoise Master's inheritance, warning that failure would make him return all his previous rewards.
• Ye Lin ended the challenge, and the trial ground agreed to send him out.

Ye Lin refused the Black Tortoise trial’s inheritance and left the trial ground, then spent the remaining three years in the secret realm absorbing the Human Emperor’s insights into the Destruction Sword Dao Law. As the realm closed, he planned to cultivate for five hundred years and reach the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm before entering the Second Region.

• Ye Lin rejected the inheritance and accepted the trial ground’s rewards before it sent him out.
• Ye Lin calculated that three years remained before the Black Tortoise Secret Realm closed and began cultivating in seclusion.
• Ye Lin absorbed the Human Emperor’s insights and immersed himself in the Destruction Sword Dao Law.
• After three years, Ye Lin emerged from seclusion, having studied only a tiny fraction of the insights.
• Ye Lin prepared to cultivate for five hundred years and expected to reach the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm before entering the Second Region.

As the Black Tortoise Secret Realm closed, Ye Lin reunited with his companions and warned them that other prodigies were waiting to seize their Identity Tokens. The group split up, and Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao stayed behind to fight as their attackers rushed in.

• The realm’s time limit ended, and its young prodigies emerged with varying gains and losses.
• Ye Lin reunited with Wang Tian and the others, warned that they had been targeted, and planned their escape.
• Ye Lin led the group out of the secret realm, where dozens of young prodigies immediately focused on them.
• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian took Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao away while Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao stayed to face the attackers.
• Ye Lin activated the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book, which boosted his strength and increased Li Xiaoyao’s strength by thirty percent.