Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin tracked Ye Xin to the Immortal-Slaying Sect and confronted the old demon hag, whose true body was an enormous peach tree. He rejected her offer to end the conflict and struck at the women surrounding him, beginning the fight.

• Ye Xin led Ye Lin to the enormous peach tree and identified it as the old demon hag’s true body and the location of the Immortal-Slaying Sect.
• Ye Lin set a wisp of Beginningless True Flame on Ye Xin, who fled while Ye Lin approached the tree.
• The old demon hag surrounded Ye Lin with numerous women and demanded to know if he intended to fight her to the death.
• The old demon hag offered Ye Lin the women and blamed Ye Xin, but Ye Lin rejected her excuse and raised the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin unleashed Sword Qi and shredded the women around him.

Ye Lin fought Wang Qingxian, whose true body was an enormous peach tree, and used the Beginningless True Flame to burn through her defenses. He unleashed Great Sun Xuan Ming as the flames spread across her, leaving Wang Qingxian afraid of his power.

• Ye Lin refused Wang Qingxian’s offer of reconciliation and declared that he would kill her.
• Wang Qingxian attacked Ye Lin with countless branches, but he met them with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin summoned the Three-Legged Golden Crow and used the Beginningless True Flame to burn Wang Qingxian’s branches.
• Ye Lin formed nine Great Suns of Beginningless True Flame, which burned through Wang Qingxian’s branch net and spread across her true body.
• Wang Qingxian expressed fear as Ye Lin summoned the black-and-white Great Sun Xuan Ming.

Ye Lin attacked Wang Qingxian with his Beginningless True Flame and declared that he would kill her to establish his power in the Third Region. As he brought his black-and-white Great Sun down to suppress her, Wang Qingxian insisted she still had a way to resist.

• Powerful figures across the Starry Sky noticed the disturbance and gathered to watch Wang Qingxian face trouble.
• Wang Qingxian abandoned branches consumed by Ye Lin's Beginningless True Flame, which overcame her usual resistance to fire.
• Ye Lin said he intended to kill Wang Qingxian in front of the Third Region's powerful figures and deter others from taking his slot.
• Ye Lin poured immortal fortune into his black-and-white Great Sun and sent it crashing down to suppress Wang Qingxian.
• Wang Qingxian cursed Ye Lin and declared that killing her would not be easy.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Wang Qingxian with his Beginningless True Flame and burned her peach-tree true body. The chapter ended with Wang Qingxian engulfed in white fire and screaming as the flames consumed her.

• Wang Qingxian summoned a rain of pink petals, but they melted before reaching Ye Lin’s Great Sun.
• Ye Lin summoned nine more Great Suns and sent them crashing into Wang Qingxian’s true body.
• Ye Lin’s black-and-white Great Sun struck Wang Qingxian, and its white flames spread across her peach tree.
• Wang Qingxian’s law power failed to suppress the Beginningless True Flame, which burned even laws.
• Ye Lin explained that Wang Qingxian’s peach-tree body could not withstand his strengthened Beginningless True Flame.

Ye Lin continued burning Wang Qingxian with the Beginningless True Flame while the hidden powers of the Starry Sky rejoiced at her suffering. Wang Qingxian regretted entering the world during the great era and, as the peach tree lost its divine radiance, resolved to make Ye Lin pay even if she died.

• The hidden powers in the Starry Sky laughed as they watched Ye Lin burn Wang Qingxian.
• Wang Qingxian begged Ye Lin to stop and offered him her treasures, but he remained unmoved.
• Wang Qingxian realized she had become tainted by tribulation aura after following Ye Xin to search for Ye Lin, and regretted entering the world.
• Ye Lin formed seals and repeatedly sent Great Suns crashing into Wang Qingxian's peach tree as the Beginningless True Flame continued burning her.
• Wang Qingxian roared that she would not let Ye Lin off easily, and the peach tree's radiance dimmed until it seemed devoid of divinity.

Ye Lin killed Wang Qingxian after breaking through to the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal realm, then returned to the star and found its people training diligently. He reflected on how narrowly the outcome might have changed if he had not grown stronger in time.

• Wang Qingxian abandoned her physical body and attacked Ye Lin with her Primordial Spirit, but Ye Lin split it apart with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.
• Wang Qingxian pierced Ye Lin's chest with a flower petal, but his wound healed as her Primordial Spirit was destroyed.
• Ye Lin watched the Beginningless True Flame burn Wang Qingxian's peach tree to ashes, ending the two-hour battle.
• Experts in the starry sky marveled at Ye Lin's victory over a fifth-layer Golden Immortal and left after he departed.
• Ye Lin returned to the star, saw its people training, and reflected that strength had determined the outcome.

Ye Lin secluded himself to cultivate Near Yet Far while his killing of Wang Qingxian reshaped how the Third Region viewed its older-generation powerhouses. The chapter ended with a young man on a Divine Mountain acknowledging Ye Lin’s influence and his attendant warning that the region would fall into chaos.

• Ye Lin reviewed his cultivation and fate, then returned to seclusion to cultivate Near Yet Far for the hundred years before the next secret realm appeared.
• News of Ye Lin killing Wang Qingxian spread throughout the Third Region and made Ye Lin famous among both younger- and older-generation powerhouses.
• Rogue Cultivators began considering hunting older-generation powerhouses for their resources, making those elders fear the younger generation.
• A young man on a Divine Mountain praised Ye Lin, while his attendant warned that Ye Lin’s actions would throw the Third Region into chaos.

After Ye Lin killed Wang Qingxian, a woman warned a young man that the killing had broken the established divide between the older and younger generations in the Third Region. The precedent threatened to provoke a bloody struggle over the resources controlled by older-generation powerhouses.

• A woman told the young man that the Third Region's power structure was settled, but Ye Lin had crossed a dangerous boundary.
• She explained that older-generation powerhouses had long controlled the great eras and guided younger geniuses along paths they chose.
• Ye Lin's killing of Wang Qingxian showed that older-generation powerhouses were not beyond the younger generation's reach.
• The woman predicted that Ye Lin's example would spread and that resource-holding older powerhouses would soon fear a bloody storm in the Third Region.

A young man decided to personally compete for a quota and set out with Xiao Qing to meet Ye Lin, whom he believed was confident enough to face the dangers around him. Meanwhile, the Emperor of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty recognized the trouble Ye Lin’s killing had caused and prepared to protect him.

• A young man dismissed his clan’s quota arrangement and said he would personally fight for a quota before going to meet Ye Lin with Xiao Qing.
• The young man told Xiao Qing that Ye Lin would not be in danger because anyone who entered the cultivation world was no fool and Ye Lin must have confidence.
• Xu Feng told the Emperor that Ye Lin had come from a remote place, had reached Golden Immortal Fourth Layer, and had killed Wang Qingxian, a Golden Immortal Fifth Layer cultivator.
• The Emperor said Ye Lin’s killing had insulted the old experts of the Third Region and would make them restless.
• Xu Feng asked the Emperor to protect Ye Lin, and the Emperor pointed out that Ye Lin and his friends were marquises of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.

Xu Feng learned that his father had broken through to the ninth level of the Golden Immortal Realm and recognized that the Emperor intended to repay a karmic debt to Wang Tianyi by protecting Ye Lin and his companions. He ordered the dynasty to warn off anyone who might target them, then went to cultivate himself.

• Xu Feng accepted his father's advice that he must not fall behind Ye Lin and left the grand hall.
• Xu Feng ordered two young men to announce that Ye Lin and his friends were marquises of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty and would be protected.
• Xu Feng reflected that the Emperor's breakthrough had left him owing Wang Tianyi a debt of karma.
• The two young men left to cultivate, shaken by Ye Lin's strength and achievements.
• Xu Feng dismissed them and headed to his cultivation chamber, determined to cultivate as well.

Over the next hundred years, young Golden Immortals in the Third Region hunted older powerhouses for resources, driving the region into chaos and worsening the tribulation aura. The older generation blamed Ye Lin, but after a Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty powerhouse reached the ninth level of the Golden Immortal realm, they backed off targeting him and instead forced the younger generation to quiet down.

• Young prodigies began targeting older powerhouses, destroying factions and seizing their resources.
• The Third Region descended into widespread conflict, and its tribulation aura grew dangerous even for powerful Golden Immortals in seclusion.
• Older powerhouses blamed Ye Lin for breaking the barriers between circles and called for him to be killed to restore order.
• They learned that Ye Lin was an official of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty, whose protective leader had reached the ninth level of the Golden Immortal realm, so they chose not to target him.
• Supreme powerhouses killed several younger-generation figures from afar, frightening the rest into stopping their reckless attacks.

After a hundred years in seclusion, Ye Lin emerged at the fourth layer of Golden Immortal, still determined to grow strong enough to stand above all others. Xinyou brought Luo Yao back to him, while Li Xiaoyao remained frustrated by his stalled cultivation.

• A hundred years after entering seclusion, Ye Lin emerged and found that his Dao-rank divine ability Near Yet Far had not improved.
• Ye Lin assessed his fourth-layer Golden Immortal cultivation and reaffirmed his ambition to become the strongest beyond the Dao itself.
• Xinyou brought Luo Yao back to Ye Lin, and she happily told him about the places they had visited together.
• Li Xiaoyao discovered that he was still at the third layer of Golden Immortal and wondered how Ye Lin had broken through.

Ye Lin and the others emerged from five hundred years of seclusion to enter the final secret realm, but Shangguan Wanyu was still absent. Thunderclouds formed in the Starry Sky, and they realized she was likely undergoing a Golden Immortal breakthrough accompanied by an unfamiliar lightning tribulation.

• Ye Lin failed to reach the fourth level of Golden Immortal after five hundred years of cultivation and left his secluded grounds for the secret realm's opening.
• Ye Lin, Wang Tian, and Bao Xiaotou reunited after emerging from seclusion, with their injuries healed and their auras strengthened.
• Bao Xiaotou noticed Shangguan Wanyu was missing, and Ye Lin and the others guessed she was still cultivating to break through.
• Thunderclouds gathered over the Starry Sky, and Bao Xiaotou, Li Xiaoyao, Wang Tian, and Ye Lin remarked that none of them had faced a lightning tribulation when entering Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin wondered why Shangguan Wanyu's Golden Immortal breakthrough had triggered a tribulation and recalled that Golden Immortal had been established as a realm by later generations.

Ye Lin and the others fled the star after a lightning tribulation appeared around Shangguan Wanyu, who had been in seclusion as a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal. Her panel revealed no clue about the tribulation, so they watched from the Starry Sky as she faced it alone.

• Ye Lin realized that a lightning tribulation should not normally accompany a breakthrough into the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin carried Luo Yao away from the star and led the others to safety, fearing Shangguan Wanyu's tribulation would destroy it.
• Shangguan Wanyu rose toward the dark clouds as the group watched from deep within the Starry Sky.
• Ye Lin read Shangguan Wanyu's panel but found nothing that explained why the lightning tribulation had appeared.
• Ye Lin and the others continued watching Shangguan Wanyu face the tribulation alone.

Ye Lin learned from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar that Shangguan Wanyu was undergoing tribulation on the ancient Human Immortal Path, which gained power through self-mutilation. The jar explained the path’s history and urged Ye Lin not to judge cultivation methods by convention.

• Ye Lin noticed Shangguan Wanyu’s tribulation lightning lacked the Heavenly Dao’s presence and asked what kind of tribulation it was.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar recognized that Shangguan Wanyu was walking the Human Immortal Path and praised her resolve.
• Ye Lin asked what the Human Immortal Path was, and the jar described the Human Sect, its worship of Supreme Dharma Heaven, and its practice of gaining power through self-mutilation.
• The jar explained that cultivation methods were created by cultivators, that many strange paths had existed, and that they all aimed to make their practitioners stronger.
• Ye Lin and the others listened as the jar cautioned them against judging other cultivation methods by their own standards.

Ye Lin and the others reconsidered the Human Immortal Path after the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained its purpose and trials. Shangguan Wanyu broke through her lightning tribulation and entered the Golden Immortal realm.

• Ye Lin admitted he had judged the Human Immortal Path too narrowly, and the three behind him agreed that different cultivation methods could all lead to strength.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the Human Immortal Path harmed only its practitioners and compared its lightning trial to the Heavenly Dao's tribulation for cultivators who plundered the Star River Cosmos's resources.
• Shangguan Wanyu shattered the descending lightning bolts, growing stronger as the tribulation continued.
• Shangguan Wanyu used Heavenly Gang, Sever to destroy the lightning and disperse the clouds.
• Shangguan Wanyu's aura surged as she entered the Golden Immortal realm, becoming capable of protecting herself in future secret realms.

Shangguan Wanyu emerged from her tribulation as a powerful Cataclysm Realm cultivator, and Ye Lin wondered what her unusual self-harm opportunity involved. A voice then announced that the secret realm would never open again, leaving the geniuses of the Third Region furious and ready to force their way forward.

• Shangguan Wanyu joined Ye Lin and the others after her tribulation, and Ye Lin read her panel and questioned the meaning of the Cataclysm Realm and her self-harm opportunity.
• Ye Lin and the others congratulated Shangguan Wanyu, who smiled and gathered Luo Yao into her arms.
• A majestic voice announced that the secret realm would no longer open.
• Ye Lin and the others were stunned, while geniuses across the Third Region grew angry and vowed to kill anyone who blocked their path.

After the secret realm failed to open, the prodigies of the Third Region united and began hunting older-generation cultivators for resources and combat experience. They targeted powerhouses below Golden Immortal seventh level, leaving those in seclusion to suffer while the strongest remained untouched.

• The prodigies blamed the older generation for blocking their cultivation and began forming groups to raid wealthy factions across the worlds.
• Rogue Cultivators united to hunt older-generation powerhouses, and leading faction prodigies joined them rather than risk becoming targets.
• The prodigies hunted cultivators below Golden Immortal seventh level, including those at Golden Immortal sixth level, while supreme experts remained unchallenged.
• Hidden and secluded older cultivators lamented that the strongest had stopped the secret realm from opening but left them to face the prodigies.

After emerging from five hundred years of seclusion, Ye Lin and the others found the Third Region engulfed in chaos and set out to learn what had happened. They came upon a group preparing to attack the Immortal-Slaying Sect and kill its elders.

• Powerful experts across the Third Region cursed the decision-makers whose actions had made them targets, driving some from their homes and sects.
• Ye Lin and Bao Xiaotou wondered what had happened during their seclusion and what to do now that the secret realm was gone.
• Ye Lin suggested exploring the starry sky to learn what had changed, and the group set off.
• As they traveled, Ye Lin noticed an unusually dense aura of slaughter throughout the starry sky.
• The group heard attackers plan to break the Immortal-Slaying Sect's protective array, kill only its elders, seize its treasures, and move on.

Ye Lin and his companions watched Golden Immortal cultivators battle on a fragile continent until the Heavenly Dao began forming a high-grade secret realm in the Starry Sky. The secret realm drew the fighters and other cultivators toward it, and Ye Lin decided to investigate as news of its appearance spread.

• Golden Immortal cultivators fought across the continent, which began breaking apart under the force of their battle.
• A dazzling phenomenon appeared in the Starry Sky as golden lotuses and raindrops gathered around a forming secret realm.
• The returning cultivators recognized the secret realm as a creation of the Heavenly Dao and rushed toward it.
• Heavenly prodigies left the collapsing continent, while the old men there were relieved the secret realm had interrupted their fight.
• Ye Lin decided to go inspect the secret realm, and news of its appearance spread, drawing more cultivators to the area.