Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin entered Heavenly Fate Heavy City's pagoda to buy the Earth Lotus Grass, despite it being one of the city's treasures. Little Red showed him the grass and offered to arrange a transaction.

• Ye Lin sensed a formidable aura atop the pagoda and walked inside.
• Little Red greeted Ye Lin and asked what he needed.
• Ye Lin asked for the Earth Lotus Grass and said he could pay with immortal stones, Law Source Stones, or other valuables.
• Little Red led Ye Lin to a room and opened it with hand seals.
• Ye Lin saw the one-meter-tall Earth Lotus Grass, and Little Red offered to bring in the person responsible for the transaction.

Ye Lin, posing as Blood Slaughter, pretended to negotiate for the Earth Lotus Grass while looking for a way to steal it from Heaven-Earth Heavy City. Little Black quoted an enormous price and hesitated when Ye Lin asked to inspect the grass beyond its restrictions.

• Ye Lin decided that buying the Earth Lotus Grass was impossible and considered how to take it while avoiding the Golden Immortal guards.
• Little Red fetched Little Black, the fiend in charge, after Ye Lin said he wanted the Earth Lotus Grass.
• Ye Lin introduced himself as Blood Slaughter, and Little Black explained the grass’s value and demanded thirty million Supreme Immortal Stones, thirty million Law Source Stones, and a huge quantity of flesh and blood.
• Ye Lin rejected the price and asked Little Black to open the restrictions so he could examine the Earth Lotus Grass up close.
• Little Black hesitated, explaining that the restrictions protected the treasure and questioning whether Ye Lin might try to steal it.

Ye Lin tricked Little Black into opening the restriction on the Earth Lotus Grass vault, memorizing the hand seals before claiming he needed to consult his master about the price. Little Black saw through the ruse after Ye Lin left and refused to wait for him.

• Ye Lin feigned anger until Little Black agreed to open the vault's restriction.
• Ye Lin memorized Little Black's hand seals as the restriction dissipated and he absorbed the dense aura inside.
• Ye Lin said the Earth Lotus Grass cost too much and claimed he would ask his master before returning with an answer.
• Little Black reset the restriction and told Ye Lin the lowest price was twenty-five million, with the flesh and blood unchanged.
• After Ye Lin left, Little Black dropped his friendly act and told Little Red that Ye Lin had never intended to negotiate.

Ye Lin sent three clones to create chaos in Heavenly Fate Heavy City, then entered the city to steal the Earth Lotus Grass while its strongest defenders were distracted. After subduing Little Black, he forced him to lead the way to the treasury.

• Ye Lin summoned three clones, who triggered explosions in three parts of Heavenly Fate Heavy City and drew the powerful experts away.
• Ye Lin entered the city and killed Little Red when she greeted him.
• Ye Lin broke through the restriction guarding the Earth Lotus Grass and prepared to take it.
• Little Black confronted Ye Lin but was crushed by his pressure and forced to surrender.
• Ye Lin lifted Little Black by the neck and ordered him to lead the way to the treasury while his clones held off the city's defenders.

Ye Lin broke into Heavenly Fate Heavy City's treasure vault, seized its unrestrained treasures, and killed Little Black before escaping. The furious city lord ordered the city-protecting formation activated after learning that three Buddhist cultivators had entered the city.

• Ye Lin forced Little Black to open the underground treasure vault and swept its unrestrained treasures into his Spatial Ring.
• Little Black admitted he could not remove the restrictions on the remaining treasures and asked Ye Lin for a quick death.
• Ye Lin destroyed Little Black's Primordial Spirit and escaped the underground chamber, leaving the restricted treasures behind.
• Ye Lin left Heavenly Fate Heavy City and dismissed his three avatars after they had nearly reached their limit.
• The demonic old man found the treasure vault empty and ordered his subordinates to investigate the thief.
• A demon reported that three cultivators from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect had entered the city, and the old man ordered the city-protecting grand formation activated.

Ye Lin was confronted by Heartless and the Eighteen Arhats of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect, who tried to take him to their Buddha. He escaped their formation and reached the Snowfield, where he questioned how snow could exist in the Demon-Monster Realm.

• Heartless introduced himself and the Eighteen Arhats, then demanded that Ye Lin accompany them to meet the Buddha of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect.
• Ye Lin refused, and Heartless activated the Eighteen Arhats Grand Formation to capture him.
• Ye Lin used Near Yet Far to escape the formation and told the pursuers he would remember the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect.
• Heartless guessed that Ye Lin was heading to the Snowfield and led the Eighteen Arhats after him.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Snowfield and wondered how snow could fall in the Demon-Monster Realm.

Ye Lin searched the boundless snowfield for the Heart of Vastness while Heartless and the Eighteen Arhats followed his trail. When a child fled toward Ye Lin with a Demon Beast in pursuit, Ye Lin killed the beast with a single strike.

• Ye Lin entered the snowfield and searched for the Heart of Vastness, but found nothing after three hours.
• Heartless used a Buddha Bead to confirm Ye Lin was in the snowfield, then led the Eighteen Arhats inside to capture him and claim the treasure.
• A child ran toward Ye Lin while a large Demon Beast chased him, though neither figure appeared in Ye Lin's divine sense.
• Ye Lin sent a streak of Sword Qi through the Demon Beast, killing it in front of him.

Ye Lin questioned Sheng Sang about the Heart of Vastness and learned that the divine beast Vastness lived in the Heavenly Kingdom at the Snowfield’s northernmost edge. Ye Lin headed north, while Sheng Sang began cutting apart the Demon Beast he had slain and Heartless arrived searching for a man in a blood-red robe.

• Ye Lin asked Sheng Sang about unusual buildings and the Heart of Vastness, but Sheng Sang said he had never heard of it.
• After Ye Lin gave Sheng Sang a chicken drumstick, Sheng Sang explained that Vastness was a divine beast protecting the Snowfield.
• Sheng Sang told Ye Lin that Vastness lived in the Heavenly Kingdom at the Snowfield’s northernmost edge.
• Ye Lin gave Sheng Sang another drumstick and set off alone toward the far north.
• Sheng Sang began slicing open the slain Demon Beast as Heartless and the Eighteen Arhats arrived and asked whether he had seen a man wearing a blood-red robe.

Sheng Sang denied seeing the people Heartless was searching for, but Heartless used Buddhist light to discover the blood-red-robed man’s trail and left him to die. Ye Lin reached the summit of a colossal pillar in the far north and found a vast plain, palaces, and a vortex he suspected led to the Earth God Realm.

• Sheng Sang denied seeing the golden, flying figures and returned to dissecting the Demon Beast.
• Heartless used Buddhist light on Sheng Sang, learned the blood-red-robed man’s location, and headed north with the Eighteen Arhats.
• Sheng Sang collapsed on the Snowfield and died as his hopes of becoming the tribe’s bravest man vanished.
• Ye Lin reached the far north and flew for three hours up a colossal pillar before arriving at its summit.
• Ye Lin found a plain of palaces beneath a spinning vortex and speculated that it connected to the Earth God Realm.

Ye Lin found the divine beast Vastness while searching for the Heart of Vastness, but left after Vastness threatened him. Hidden nearby, he heard Buddhist Sect visitors demand to borrow Vastness’s heart and waited to see what would happen.

• Ye Lin searched the plains with his divine sense and discovered the colossal divine beast Vastness.
• Ye Lin asked Vastness about the Heart of Vastness, and Vastness warned him to leave or be killed.
• Ye Lin withdrew and hid nearby after sensing the danger of confronting Vastness.
• Buddhist Sect visitors arrived and said they had come at the Buddha’s command to borrow Vastness’s heart.
• Vastness challenged the visitors by asking whether they would lend him their own hearts.

Vast Expanse confronted Heartless and the Eighteen Arhats, who had come on the orders of their sect's Buddha. As Vast Expanse froze the battlefield, Heartless used a golden mirror to suppress him, leaving the divine beast slowed beneath its light.

• Vast Expanse rose and appeared before Ye Lin in his enormous divine beast form.
• Heartless asked Vast Expanse not to make trouble, but Vast Expanse scorned the Arhats and demanded that their Buddha face him.
• Heartless ordered the Eighteen Arhats to activate their formation, which sealed off space around Vast Expanse.
• Vast Expanse struck the ground with a claw, sending ice crystals across the plain that froze even space.
• Heartless summoned a golden mirror that engulfed Vast Expanse in light and slowed him, suppressing the advancing ice.

Heartless used the Heaven-Tilting Mirror and Heavenly Buddha Bead to suppress Vast Expanse and demanded his heart. Vast Expanse remained defiant as Ye Lin watched from afar.

• Ye Lin watched as Vast Expanse recognized the Heaven-Tilting Mirror and reacted with fear.
• Heartless said the mirror had sealed away sixty percent of Vast Expanse's cultivation and summoned a golden Buddha.
• Vast Expanse shattered the Eighteen Arhats Grand Formation with a stomp, leaving its members gravely wounded.
• Heartless used the Heaven-Tilting Mirror, Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, and Heavenly Buddha Bead to pin Vast Expanse in place.
• Heartless demanded that Vast Expanse hand over his heart, but Vast Expanse refused.

Heartless attacked Vast Expanse with three powerful treasures after Vast Expanse refused to cooperate. Though Vast Expanse resisted fiercely, the treasures continued to suppress him, and he was left exhausted and bleeding.

• Vast Expanse resented being restrained and vowed to seek justice from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect once Heavenly Dao lifted its confinement.
• Heartless summoned three blades and sent them into Vast Expanse's chest, joining the Sky-Tilting Mirror and Buddha Bead in suppressing him.
• Vast Expanse erupted with power and nearly shattered Heartless's Dharma manifestation, but the three treasures kept him pinned in place.
• The blades' resentment contaminated Vast Expanse's meridians and blood, and his strength faded as the treasures wore away the divinity in his hair.

Heartless extracted Vast Expanse’s heart, but Ye Lin teleported behind him and pierced his heart with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor. Heartless then pinned Vast Expanse down again to fight Ye Lin, who summoned the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.

• Heartless used his hand seals to make the blades in Vast Expanse’s body extract his heart.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Heartless and stabbed him through the heart with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Heartless forced the sword out and widened the distance between himself and Ye Lin.
• Vast Expanse laughed at Heartless and urged Ye Lin to kill him in exchange for his heart.
• Heartless used two supreme treasures to suppress Vast Expanse and turned to fight Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin summoned the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, filling the sky with dark clouds and lightning.

Ye Lin fought Heartless while the Buddhist cultivator focused on suppressing Vastness, then struck Heartless with a powerful technique that pierced his defenses. Vastness urged Ye Lin to continue attacking and kill Heartless.

• Ye Lin's Thunder Sword Qi clashed with Heartless's golden Buddhist palm, and neither could overcome the other's defenses.
• Heartless proposed ending the fight, but Ye Lin revealed that he was also attacking for the Heart of Vastness.
• Ye Lin summoned the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and fired a blood-red bolt of lightning at Heartless.
• The lightning pierced Heartless's golden barrier and body, making him spit blood.
• Vastness praised Ye Lin and urged him to keep attacking Heartless.

Heartless trapped Ye Lin in the Eighteen Arhats Grand Formation while he moved to seize the Heart of Vastness. Ye Lin unleashed his sword art and shattered the formation, leaving Heartless's plan to obtain the treasure unresolved.

• Heartless activated the Eighteen Arhats Grand Formation, trapping Ye Lin, then approached Vastness to obtain the Heart of Vastness.
• Vastness renewed his resistance against the three supreme treasures and urged Ye Lin to break free and stop Heartless.
• Ye Lin attacked the formation with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art and Purgatory Ice Flame.
• Ye Lin's sword strike shattered the Arhats Grand Formation, and the Eighteen Arhats were blasted away while Heartless remained by Vastness.

Ye Lin destroyed the supreme treasures suppressing Vast Expanse and freed him. Heartless fled but was killed by Vast Expanse, leaving the foremost prodigy of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect dead.

• Heartless asked Ye Lin to withdraw, but Ye Lin attacked him with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.
• Heartless abandoned his suppression of Vast Expanse to evade Ye Lin's sword strike, then used the supreme treasures to block it.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger and blasted away the two supreme treasures.
• Vast Expanse broke free and rose to his feet as Heartless tried to flee.
• Vast Expanse stopped Heartless and killed him with waves of lightning.

Ye Lin obtained the Heart of Vastness after Vastness killed Heartless and gave him the treasure. The Buddhist leaders learned that Heartless, the Eighteen Arhats, and the three supreme treasures were lost, and proposed sending more forces to kill the blood-robed man.

• Vastness gave Ye Lin the Heart of Vastness after explaining that Ye Lin was the first person to obtain his heart.
• Vastness swallowed the three supreme treasures and Heartless's Spatial Ring, while Ye Lin thanked him and left the Snowfield.
• Ye Lin reflected that his seventh-layer Golden Immortal cultivation had helped him secure the Heart of Vastness and set out for the next item.
• The Buddhas discussed Heartless's death, the loss of the Eighteen Arhats, and their lost treasures.
• A Buddhist leader blamed the blood-robed man for interfering and proposed sending more forces to execute him.

The Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect decided to send Illusion's End after Ye Lin, while its Buddha prepared to negotiate with Vast Expanse over the three supreme treasures. Following Black Emperor's directions, Ye Lin reached the Black Sea in search of the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale and faced its dense turbid qi.

• The Buddhist cultivators acknowledged that Heartless's death left them unsure who could capture Ye Lin.
• The Buddha ordered Illusion's End to pursue Ye Lin and said he would send an incarnation to negotiate with Vast Expanse for the three supreme treasures.
• The Buddha instructed his incarnation to bring Ye Lin back as well, and the chubby boy left to carry out the orders.
• Ye Lin recalled that the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale was in the Black Sea and followed Black Emperor's marked route there.
• After three days, Ye Lin reached the Black Sea, found it filled with turbid qi, and began to consider turning back.

Ye Lin went to the Black Sea seeking the Mirage Dragon’s reverse scale to break through his cultivation bottleneck, but he could not approach the dragon safely. The Mirage Dragon became furious when Ye Lin asked for its scale, and Ye Lin left to consider another way.

• Ye Lin worried that his cultivation was too low to approach the Mirage Dragon in the Black Sea and obtain its reverse scale.
• The Mirage Dragon noticed Ye Lin and asked why an Earth God Realm cultivator had come to the Black Sea.
• Ye Lin introduced himself as Blood Slaughter and admitted that he wanted the Mirage Dragon’s reverse scale to break through his bottleneck.
• The Mirage Dragon invited Ye Lin to come closer, but Ye Lin refused because he feared being killed.
• The Mirage Dragon angrily told Ye Lin to leave, then plunged into the Black Sea, and Ye Lin departed to consider the matter further.