Chapter Summaries

Ao Guang told Ye Lin that the Demon-Monster Realm’s plan had failed, though its invasion had killed half the living beings in the three realms. At the West Sea Dragon King’s wedding, Gu Qingzhi was brought forward as the bride, and Ao Ye warned her not to resist or her friends would die.

• Ao Guang explained that the passage would open in three days, allowing cultivators from the Starry Sky to enter the Immortal God Realm and thwart the Demon-Monster Realm’s plan.
• Ao Ye welcomed the Sea Clan experts to his father’s wedding and introduced himself as the West Sea Dragon King’s only son and a seventh-level Golden Immortal.
• Ao Xuan, the ninth-level Golden Immortal Dragon King of the West Sea, appeared and called for his bride to be brought forward.
• Ao Ye quietly threatened Gu Qingzhi, telling her to marry Ao Xuan without making a scene or her friends would be killed.

Ao Xuan began a Heavenly Dao marriage oath with Gu Qingzhi, but Ye Lin interrupted before she could be bound to him. Ao Ye attacked Ye Lin with a silver spear as the sea clan watched.

• Ao Xuan announced his marriage to Gu Qingzhi and took out a golden scroll to report the oath to the Heavenly Dao.
• Ye Lin stepped forward and objected, saying Gu Qingzhi had not agreed to marry Ao Xuan.
• Ao Xuan ordered Ye Lin to leave, while Dragon clan experts waited around the plaza to seize him.
• Ye Lin accused the West Sea Dragon clan of using its wealth and power to bully others.
• Ao Ye rebuked Ye Lin, summoned a silver spear, and thrust it at him.

Ye Lin effortlessly defeated Ao Ye at the West Sea Dragon Palace and demanded that Ao Xuan release his two friends. Ao Xuan refused and summoned powerful figures to surround Ye Lin.

• Ao Ye attacked Ye Lin with a law-infused spear, but Ye Lin caught it between two fingers and struck him down with a single sword-like slash.
• The Sea Clan experts were shocked that Ye Lin had so easily wounded Ao Ye despite sharing his seventh-level Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Ye Lin demanded that Ao Xuan release his two friends and warned that he would turn the Dragon Palace upside down if they remained captive.
• Ao Xuan rejected Ye Lin's demand and signaled for powerful figures to surround him.

Ye Lin attacked the West Sea Dragon Palace, defeating five eighth-layer Golden Immortal Dragon Clan experts and confronting Ao Xuan. As Ao Xuan revealed his dragon form, five ninth-layer Golden Immortal Venerables rushed to join the fight.

• Ao Xuan ordered the Dragon Clan experts to attack Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, burning five eighth-layer Golden Immortal experts and charging at Ao Xuan.
• Ye Lin easily broke through Ao Xuan's Demon-Subduing Palm and pointed his sword at the Dragon King.
• Ao Xuan transformed into a colossal dragon and summoned the power of the West Sea Dragon Palace.
• Ye Lin sensed five ninth-layer Golden Immortal Venerables approaching and remarked on the Dragon Palace's strength.

Ye Lin defeated Ao Xuan, the ninth-layer Golden Immortal Dragon King of the West Sea, despite being at the seventh layer. After killing Ao Xuan and destroying the Dragon Palace, Ye Lin fed the dragon’s body to the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword.

• Ao Xuan attacked Ye Lin with his dragon tail, but Ye Lin cut it and sent scales and blood flying.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, which overwhelmed Ao Xuan’s cyan beam and set his body ablaze.
• Ye Lin used Void Overlapping Shadows to kill Ao Xuan, severing his body and sending his head crashing into the Dragon Palace.
• Ye Lin tossed the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword onto Ao Xuan’s body to absorb the ninth-layer Golden Immortal’s blood essence.

Ye Lin killed Ao Xuan, the West Sea Dragon King, with two sword strikes despite using only sixty percent of his strength. As the Sea Clan witnesses fled, Ye Lin set his sights on the prodigies of the Central Star Domain.

• Ao Guang watched Ye Lin kill Ao Xuan and realized he could no longer even look directly at Ye Lin’s power.
• The Sea Clan witnesses marveled at Ye Lin’s strength and fled from the scene.
• Ye Lin revealed that he had used only sixty percent of his strength and believed one serious sword strike would be enough to kill a ninth-level Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin challenged the sons of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, descendants of divine beasts, and other prodigies to await his arrival.

Ye Lin confronted the five ninth-layer Golden Immortal experts of the West Sea Dragon Clan after killing their Dragon King. He attacked them with the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, and one elder was caught in its crimson flames.

• Ye Lin told the five West Sea Dragon Clan elders that he had killed the Dragon King and threatened to kill them too.
• Ye Lin decided to wipe out the clan before leaving the Immortal God Realm in three days.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus as the five elders joined forces to attack him.
• An elder used the Azure Sky Art to strike at Ye Lin, but his palm was shattered by the crimson Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin's Sword Qi transformed into a lotus that enveloped the elder, who screamed as the Karmic Fire Red Lotus burned him.

Ye Lin killed five ninth-layer Golden Immortal experts and crippled Ao Ye while destroying the West Sea Dragon Clan’s power. Ao Ye revealed where Li Xiaoyao was being held, and Ye Lin set out for the underground palace.

• Ye Lin killed the five ninth-layer Golden Immortal experts in ten breaths as Karmic Fire left them unable to resist.
• The sea clan witnesses fled, and Ao Guang watched in disbelief as Ye Lin approached.
• Ye Lin asked the crippled Ao Ye where his friend Li Xiaoyao was.
• Ao Ye revealed that the underground palace lay beneath a Stone Stele thirty thousand li ahead.
• Ao Ye’s Dao Heart shattered, and he lay down to await death.

Ye Lin found and freed Li Xiaoyao from the underground palace beneath the West Sea Dragon Palace. He left with Li Xiaoyao and the others for Western Qin Phoenix Province to gather before the passage to the Starry Sky opened in three days.

• Ye Lin followed Ao Ye's directions to a stone stele and entered the underground palace beneath it.
• Ye Lin used his divine sense to locate Li Xiaoyao, who was bound by rune-covered chains.
• Ye Lin cut through the chains, and Li Xiaoyao joined him as they left the underground palace.
• Ye Lin thanked Ao Guang, then led the others through the sea toward Western Qin Phoenix Province.
• Ao Guang watched them leave, unable to ask Ye Lin what had made him so powerful.

Ye Lin and his companions traveled to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion to find Shangguan Wanyu, only to discover that its shabby mountain gate concealed a hidden courtyard. Inside, they found Shangguan Wanyu, Luo Yao, an old man, and a strikingly beautiful woman.

• Ye Lin learned that Shangguan Wanyu was at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion and invited Gu Qingzhi and the others to come along.
• Ye Lin and his companions reached the Pavilion’s small, dilapidated mountain gate and confirmed it was the right place.
• Before entering, Ye Lin changed his blood-red robe into a white one and put on a mask.
• Ye Lin and the others passed through the deceptive gate and arrived in a hidden courtyard filled with livestock and a stream.
• Ye Lin’s group saw Luo Yao playing in the stream, Shangguan Wanyu watching nearby, and an old man meditating beside a beautiful woman in purple.

Ye Lin encountered Yue Qingyi again and saw that her fate still ended in death despite her extraordinary gifts. After she left, the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's ancestor predicted that their fates would bring them together again, but Ye Lin vowed to cut off any love tribulation with his sword.

• Ye Lin read Yue Qingyi's fate panel and learned that she was a Golden Immortal whose future ended in death after her Primordial Spirit scattered through the Chaos Sea.
• Yue Qingyi greeted Ye Lin, asked his name, and introduced herself before leaving the small world.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's ancestor told Ye Lin that his fate with Yue Qingyi was unfinished and that they would meet again.
• Ye Lin rejected the idea that he could not escape a love tribulation and said he would sever it with one sword.

Ye Lin left the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion with Luo Yao and waited with the others for the passage to open. Three days later, the Starry Sky passage appeared, signaling the failure of the Demon-Monster Realm's plan, while a stranger commented on the Starry Sky.

• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian speculated about Ye Lin's history with Luo Yao as the old man warned Ye Lin about love tribulations.
• Ye Lin took Luo Yao from the river, bid farewell to the old man, and left the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion with the group.
• Bao Xiaotou asked where Black Emperor had gone, and Ye Lin said he had likely gone to handle his own affairs.
• Three days later, a vortex formed in the sky, and Ye Lin recognized the Starry Sky passage opening.
• An irritating voice from afar remarked that the Starry Sky was at least a somewhat bigger place.

After the passage to the Starry Sky opened, Ye Lin learned that the Hundred Heroes Ranking rewarded those who made the list with fortune, treasures, and other benefits, while helping determine who could enter the Emperor Road. Qin Unrivaled invited Ye Lin to travel with him, and Ao Guang joined them as they prepared to set out for the ranking.

• Black Emperor praised Wang Tian for defeating six Golden Immortal ninth-layer cultivators, then realized Wang Tian could afford to act arrogantly in the remote Star River Cosmos.
• Several cultivators flew through the opened passage to the Starry Sky, excited to compete for the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• Qin Unrivaled explained the ranking's benefits and its connection to fortune and the Emperor Road, then invited Ye Lin to travel with him.
• Ao Guang arrived and asked to join them.
• Ye Lin agreed to go, seeking more fortune, and the group prepared to leave.

Ye Lin and the others left the Earth God Realm through the opened vortex and returned to the starry sky. Qin Unrivaled offered to guide them to the Hundred Heroes Ranking in the Thousand Stars Region.

• Ye Lin entered the vortex, followed by Black Emperor and the others, while Qin Unrivaled sensed an unusual aura from Ye Lin and felt a faint sense of danger.
• Qin Unrivaled left without showing Ao Guang any warmth, and Ao Guang entered the vortex as well.
• Countless demons and monsters returned to the Demon-Monster Realm, while surviving geniuses departed the Immortal God Realm; the West Sea Dragon Clan was destroyed and its territories were divided among the other three sea dragon clans.
• The Heavenly Dao's confinement was lifted, and an ancient Buddha from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect left the Immortal God Realm in fury.
• Ye Lin and the others arrived in the starry sky, where Li Xiaoyao recognized its familiar aura.
• Qin Unrivaled offered to lead Ye Lin and the others to the Hundred Heroes Ranking in the Thousand Stars Region, and Ye Lin accepted.

The Black Emperor and Ao Guang parted ways with Ye Lin’s group as they traveled toward the Thousand Stars Region. Ye Lin reflected on how his growing strength had changed his attitude toward others as the Flying Boat carried the remaining group onward.

• The Black Emperor left the group to seek old acquaintances, and Wang Tian felt reluctant to see him go.
• Bao Xiaotou comforted Wang Tian, while Ao Guang suspected the Black Emperor had caused changes in Ye Lin’s group.
• Qin Unrivaled summoned a Flying Boat and led the group toward the Thousand Stars Region.
• Ao Guang wished Ye Lin well and departed alone after deciding they were not suited to be friends.
• Ye Lin watched Ao Guang leave and reflected that his strength had changed his mindset and narrowed the circle of people he might befriend.
• Qin Unrivaled’s Flying Boat carried Ye Lin and the others into the dark Starry Sky.

Ye Lin saw the Hundred Heroes Ranking in the Thousand Stars Region and asked how to claim a place on it. Qin Unrivaled explained the three requirements, while Ye Lin resolved to make the ranking.

• Qin Unrivaled brought Ye Lin to the Thousand Stars Region, where Ye Lin saw the towering Hundred Heroes Ranking and its Golden Immortal eighth-layer cultivators.
• Qin Unrivaled explained that most of the ranked cultivators had gone to the First Region, but their positions remained unchanged.
• Ye Lin asked what was required to enter the ranking and resolved to claim a place on it.
• Qin Unrivaled said a challenger had to complete a Heavenly Dao mission, pass an aptitude assessment at the Heavenly Hall, and defeat the projection of a ranked cultivator.

Ye Lin, Qin Unrivaled, and Li Xiaoyao headed toward the Heavenly Hall at the Stone Stele, but their journey was interrupted by a hostile Flying Boat. Li Xiaoyao destroyed the vessel and killed its attacker, while its surviving occupants challenged them.

• Qin Unrivaled asked Ye Lin to accompany him to the Heavenly Hall at the top of the Stone Stele, and Ye Lin agreed.
• As their Flying Boat traveled through the Thousand Stars Region, another Flying Boat ordered them to move aside or be rammed.
• Li Xiaoyao hurled the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers through the approaching Flying Boat, then destroyed it with fire.
• An attacker launched a spear at Li Xiaoyao, who fought back and smashed the man's head with a hammer.
• The remaining occupants called Ye Lin's group worms from a backwater and demanded to know whether they recognized whose Flying Boat it was.

Li Xiaoyao and Qin Unrivaled killed the young lord of Mystic Sword Manor after a confrontation in the Starry Sky, then continued toward the Stone Stele. At Mystic Sword Manor, the manor lord learned that his son’s life soul had gone out and sent people to investigate.

• Li Xiaoyao charged the three spear-wielding young men, while Qin Unrivaled killed the fleeing child and two maidservants with Sword Qi.
• Nearby cultivators recognized the child as Mystic Sword Manor’s young lord and fled after witnessing the killings.
• Li Xiaoyao returned to the Flying Boat, and Qin Unrivaled dismissed Mystic Sword Manor as a threat before continuing toward the Stone Stele.
• A servant reported that the Young Manor Lord’s life soul had gone out, and Mystic Sword Manor’s manor lord reacted in disbelief and demanded an investigation.

Mystic Sword Manor’s master learned that his son had been killed and sent his disciples to hunt down the murderer. Meanwhile, Ye Lin and his group reached the summit of the stone stele, where powerful prodigies gathered around a palace imbued with the Heavenly Dao’s aura.

• Mystic Sword Manor’s master raged over his son’s death and ordered his disciples to find and punish the murderer.
• Mystic Sword Manor’s disciples flew out to search for the person who killed the Young Manor Master.
• Ye Lin and his group reached the natural platform at the top of the stone stele.
• Ye Lin recognized the Heavenly Dao’s aura around the palace at the platform’s center.
• Ye Lin saw that the platform held many experts at the seventh level of Golden Immortal or above.

Ye Lin and the others headed to the Heavenly Hall, where the Heavenly Dao issued missions for those seeking a place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking. Ye Lin realized Shangguan Wanyu and the other two were underqualified, but kept the thought to himself as they continued inside.

• Qin Unrivaled put away the Flying Boat and went ahead with Yun Zhilan while Ye Lin led the others onward.
• Ye Lin observed that most Heavenly Hall visitors were seventh-level Golden Immortals seeking to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Heavenly Hall and climbed its stairs among hopeful newcomers and despairing cultivators leaving.
• A young man warned Shangguan Wanyu and Bao Xiaotou that their cultivation was too low, then hurried away when Li Xiaoyao glared at him.
• Ye Lin realized Shangguan Wanyu and the other two were too inexperienced and underpowered, but said nothing and continued forward.