Chapter Summaries

Li Yuerou forced the five boys who had led Ye Lin to the river to take responsibility for him and repay his medicine costs. After she left, Ye Lin regained his memories and remembered how he had hit his head in the river.

• Li Yuerou took the buns intended for Ye Lin and confronted the five boys, blaming them for his fall into the river.
• Li Yuerou assigned the five boys to take turns providing Ye Lin with meals for two years.
• Li Yuerou collected two copper coins from each boy to reimburse Ye Lin for his medicine, then sent them away.
• Li Yuerou left Ye Lin with the buns and instructions about his medicine.
• Ye Lin regained his clarity and remembered that he was an orphan from Big Ox Village who had struck his head on a rock after falling into the river.

Ye Lin stayed in the village with Li Yuerou, built a life with her, and avoided military conscription as she used her connections to protect him. Years later, a scene inside a volcano revealed that his life with Li Yuerou had been part of a trial, leaving a beautiful woman questioning its purpose.

• Li Yuerou told Ye Lin that she had arranged for him to avoid military service and remain in the village because she did not want him to leave.
• Ye Lin and Li Yuerou watched the other young men from Big Ox Village depart for the army, then went to the city and built a successful business together.
• Li Yuerou arranged for Ye Lin to avoid conscription again in the second year, and they married in the third year.
• In the fourth year, Ye Lin learned that his former companions had died in battle, while Li Yuerou gave birth to their son.
• Ye Lin told Li Yuerou that he felt something was calling to him, then carried her away after she said their son was asleep.
• Inside a volcano, a beautiful woman asked a young man whether the scene on the light screen was the second level's trial and what its purpose was.

Ye Lin lived out twenty years of married life with Li Yuerou, growing old and raising a son. Li Yuerou died before their son could marry, and Ye Lin lay down alone after her burial.

• The prodigies watching the trial questioned why its domestic scenario seemed so simple and unlike a Heavenly Dao trial.
• Twenty years passed, and Ye Lin grew old while living with Li Yuerou and their son.
• Ye Lin and his son hurried to Li Yuerou’s bedside after hearing she was dying.
• Li Yuerou told Ye Lin she regretted not living to see their son marry, then died with him holding her hand.
• Ye Lin gave Li Yuerou a grand burial in the snow and later returned to bed alone.

Ye Lin passed the second trial by resisting the vision of his own death and awakening before he fell into the Abyss. He stepped through the light gate into another land of nothingness and wondered why the Heavenly Dao kept creating empty realms.

• Ye Lin watched his own death and funeral before beginning to fall into the depths beneath his grave.
• Observers argued over whether the trial tested Ye Lin’s Dao Heart as he struggled to stop his descent.
• Ye Lin shouted for himself to wake up, unleashed divine light, and vanished from the vision.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes in the land of nothingness, dismissed the seductive woman and the trial scene, and saw a gate of light appear.
• Ye Lin entered the gate, passed the second trial, and emerged into another empty realm.

Ye Lin passed the Heavenly Dao’s three trials and challenged Mad Blade for a place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking. He defeated the eighth-level Golden Immortal with one strike, leaving the Second Region stunned.

• The Heavenly Dao examined Ye Lin and confirmed that he had passed all three trials.
• Ye Lin entered a desert challenge arena and faced Mad Blade, the Hundred Heroes Ranking’s hundredth-ranked prodigy.
• Mad Blade tried to evade Ye Lin and activated the laws of the Blade Dao.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Mad Blade and knocked him unconscious with a single sword strike.
• Ye Lin dismissed Mad Blade as unimpressive, while prodigies across the Second Region reacted in disbelief.

Ye Lin stunned the Second Region by instantly killing Mad Blade and rapidly climbing the Hundred Heroes Ranking. After reaching fifth place in two hours, he left the region’s prodigies in despair and unwilling to compete.

• Ye Lin killed Mad Blade, a Golden Immortal eighth layer, in a single strike, shocking the cultivators who witnessed it.
• The hidden old monsters speculated that Ye Lin came from the Central Star Domain because the Second Region could not have produced someone so powerful.
• Ye Lin’s ranking rose rapidly as he instantly killed every prodigy he encountered.
• Within two hours, Ye Lin climbed to fifth place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• Many prodigies lost their composure or had their Dao Hearts shatter, while others gave up on competing.

Ye Lin continued his climb through the Hundred Heroes Ranking, leaving his projections in every position from one hundredth to fourth and despairing the prodigies who could not defeat him. At third place, he faced Baili Changfeng, whose ancient projection challenged him to battle.

• Ye Lin's projections occupied every rank from one hundredth through fourth, locking down the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• Baili Changfeng introduced himself and recognized that Ye Lin's arrival meant a dazzling prodigy had emerged in the Second Region.
• Ye Lin greeted Baili Changfeng and accepted his challenge.
• Baili Changfeng unleashed his spear and law power as Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin began using Karmic Fire Red Lotus, gathering red lights into a fiery lotus before him.

Ye Lin defeated Baili Changfeng with a single sword strike and continued toward the next Hundred Heroes Ranking challenger. The defeat left many young geniuses despairing, while Baili Changfeng’s descendants accepted the loss and encouraged the next generation to rise.

• Ye Lin sent a Karmic Fire Red Lotus at Baili Changfeng, whose full-strength spear strike failed to damage it.
• The lotus engulfed Baili Changfeng, killing him instantly, and Ye Lin moved on to challenge the second-ranked person.
• The watching geniuses reacted with shock, and some gave up watching or lost their resolve to contend for the future.
• A young woman told her father that their ancestor had lost, and the current head of the Baili Family confirmed he already knew.
• The Baili Family head accepted Baili Changfeng’s defeat without anger and urged his daughter to shine in the future.

After slaying Baili Changfeng, Ye Lin faced the second-ranked opponent, Butcher, while news of his victory spread to the First Region. Butcher attacked after Ye Lin refused to linger, and Ye Lin answered with a sword technique.

• News of Ye Lin's single-strike slaying of Baili Changfeng spread through the Second Region and reached the First Region, drawing prodigies and great powers to watch for Ye Lin's arrival.
• Ye Lin arrived before Butcher, a former pig butcher known for slaughtering his sect and carving through the Second Region with two machetes.
• Butcher invited Ye Lin to talk and offered to let him pass, but Ye Lin said he was in a hurry and asked Butcher not to waste his time.
• Butcher grew angry, drew his blades, and charged at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin used Void Overlapping Shadows and sent countless streams of Sword Qi through the space as Butcher dismissed the attack as a petty trick.

Ye Lin defeated Butcher with a single sword strike, leaving geniuses in the Second Region devastated by the gap between them. Deep inside a Demon Mountain, a chained head reacted to Ye Lin’s words and vowed to eat him.

• Ye Lin defeated Butcher, dismissed his questions, and continued onward.
• Cultivators in the Second Region broke down after witnessing Ye Lin’s repeated instant victories.
• A chained head inside a Demon Mountain awoke, laughed at Ye Lin’s words, and threatened to eat him.
• Five figures subdued the head with incantations until it closed its eyes and fell quiet.

Ye Lin reached the final floor and met Qian Xue, the top-ranked figure on the Hundred Heroes Ranking. After Qian Xue challenged his claim of defeating Butcher with one sword, Ye Lin unleashed his sword technique against him.

• Five figures discussed Butcher's violent reaction after his projection was defeated by a single sword, and they hoped the person who defeated him would grow stronger.
• Ye Lin met Qian Xue on the final floor and estimated that countless boundless kalpas separated their eras.
• Qian Xue asked how Ye Lin had defeated Butcher, and Ye Lin said it had taken one sword.
• Qian Xue challenged Ye Lin to attack with his strongest sword, and Ye Lin replied that neither Qian Xue nor Butcher deserved his full strength.
• Qian Xue transformed into a deadly snowfall with his Falling Snow technique, and Ye Lin froze the snow with Void Overlapping Shadows before striking.

Ye Lin cleared the Hundred Heroes Ranking and discovered that his name occupied all one hundred places, earning a low-grade Dao artifact from the Heavenly Dao. He left the platform amid the stunned prodigies, then realized the ranking had been completely filled with his name.

• Ye Lin defeated the opponents in the desert with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and left the area.
• Ye Lin's name appeared in every position on the Second Region's Hundred Heroes Ranking, from first to hundredth.
• The Heavenly Dao sent Ye Lin a golden Long Sword, which he identified as a low-grade Dao artifact and placed in his Spatial Ring.
• The surrounding prodigies made way for Ye Lin as he descended from the platform in silence.
• Ye Lin looked at the Stone Stele, realized every ranking entry bore his name, and heard a fellow Daoist praise his unprecedented achievement.

Ye Lin learned how the Hundred Heroes Ranking reflected his strength and left to avoid the attention his feats had drawn. As more prodigies resolved to challenge him, his fame continued to bring danger.

• Qin Unrivaled explained that the Hundred Heroes Ranking displayed opponents with increasing portions of Ye Lin's strength, with the first-ranked version matching him fully.
• Qin Unrivaled warned Ye Lin that powerful figures were coming to meet him, and Ye Lin left to avoid getting entangled in trouble.
• Yun Zhilan remarked that Ye Lin had not been so strong before, and Qin Unrivaled speculated that Ye Lin had encountered a unique opportunity.
• Yun Zhilan reflected that she had failed to defeat even the ranking's last opponent but had kept her Dao heart intact.
• Several prodigies declared that they would challenge Ye Lin, and his name became known throughout the Second Region.

As the Second Region descended into chaos, Ye Lin sat in seclusion for thirty years and reflected on the return of ancient threats. He suspected Heavenly Dao was behind the upheaval but doubted it could have released the aberrations, a race that had nearly destroyed the Star River Cosmos.

• Countless prodigies searched for Ye Lin, hoping to defeat the living legend and win glory.
• The Second Region fell into chaos as secret realms, the Devil Race, the aberrations, and the Devouring Spirit Race appeared, while hidden factions sent their heirs into the Starry Sky.
• Three ancient secret realms appeared but remained unopened, while ancient devils massacred star systems and defeated three Ninth-Layer Golden Immortals who tried to stop them.
• The aberrations seized three star domains, and the Devouring Spirit Race preyed on countless experts as dozens of Ninth-Layer Golden Immortals died in the turmoil.
• Ye Lin, seated on a snowy mountain for thirty years, wondered whether Heavenly Dao had caused the chaos but questioned how it could have released the aberrations.

After thirty years of secluded cultivation, Ye Lin remained just short of the eighth Golden Immortal layer when Wang Sheng found him. Wang Sheng asked him to leave seclusion and lead the Second Region’s young geniuses against the Devil Race, Devouring Spirit Race, and aberrations, who had allied and seized three unopened secret realms.

• Ye Lin reflected on his progress after thirty years of cultivation and found that he was still at the seventh Golden Immortal layer.
• Wang Sheng, a descendant of one of the Eight Ancient Clans, found Ye Lin after searching for him for thirty years.
• Wang Sheng explained that the Devil Race, Devouring Spirit Race, and aberrations had formed an alliance and were overwhelming the Second Region’s younger generation.
• Wang Sheng told Ye Lin that the three factions had occupied three unopened secret realms and asked him to lead the Second Region’s geniuses in taking them back.

Wang Sheng sought Ye Lin’s help against the alliance of three clans, but Ye Lin rejected his appeal and cut off his arm. Ye Lin said the Eight Ancient Clans could return if they brought a Primordial Spirit secret art, and Wang Sheng left to relay his words.

• Wang Sheng asked Ye Lin to lead the Eight Ancient Clans against the three clans’ alliance.
• Ye Lin refused, saying the Second Region’s fate had nothing to do with him and criticizing Wang Sheng’s attitude.
• Ye Lin severed Wang Sheng’s arm with a sword strike and demanded a Primordial Spirit secret art as a condition for another visit.
• Wang Sheng apologized, agreed to convey Ye Lin’s words, and departed into the snowstorm.

Ye Lin considered how to obtain a powerful Primordial Spirit secret art, while Wang Sheng reported his encounter with Ye Lin to the Royal Clan’s Third Ancestor. The Third Ancestor explained why Ye Lin had taken offense and warned Wang Sheng to think before acting.

• Ye Lin recognized his Primordial Spirit as a fatal weakness and considered seeking secret arts from the Eight Ancient Clans once he became a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Wang Sheng entered a scroll in the Starry Sky and appeared before the Royal Clan’s Third Ancestor.
• Wang Sheng recounted his meeting with Ye Lin, including how his words had angered him.
• The Third Ancestor reprimanded Wang Sheng and explained that Ye Lin’s achievements and status made his pride understandable.
• Wang Sheng realized why Ye Lin had been angry, and the Third Ancestor urged him to think carefully before acting.

Wang Sheng’s Third Ancestor gave him the Royal Clan’s Sacred King Visualization Method and ordered him to offer it to Ye Lin with a sincere apology, hoping to persuade him to end his seclusion. As Wang Sheng went to meet Ye Lin, the Third Ancestor reflected that Ye Lin might be a new Human Emperor.

• Wang Sheng asked his Third Ancestor what to do, and the old man said Ye Lin’s weakness was his Primordial Spirit and that he had requested a Primordial Spirit secret art.
• The Third Ancestor handed Wang Sheng the Sacred King Visualization Method and told him to apologize sincerely, watch Ye Lin’s reaction, and ask him to leave seclusion if he was receptive.
• The Third Ancestor said he would visit Ye Lin himself if Wang Sheng failed, and Wang Sheng realized how highly his ancestor regarded Ye Lin.
• Wang Sheng arrived at the desolate planet where Ye Lin was staying, still unable to understand his Third Ancestor’s deference.
• The Third Ancestor recalled Ye Lin’s strength and mild temper, compared him with the Human Emperor, and wondered whether another Human Emperor was about to arise.

Ye Lin accepted the Wang Family’s Sacred King Visualization Diagram and began cultivating it, while Wang Sheng returned home to prepare a gathering of young experts for a future confrontation. The major powers and the three clans remained in a stalemate as both sides avoided risking their strongest Golden Immortals.

• Wang Sheng apologized to Ye Lin and presented him with the Dao-tier Sacred King Visualization Diagram.
• Ye Lin accepted the diagram and told Wang Sheng to return in three years.
• Ye Lin began visualizing the diagram, gradually strengthening his Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Sheng returned to the Wang Family and sent messages to the other seven ancient clans to gather young experts.
• The major powers sent their younger generation to attack the three clans while their strongest experts stayed out of the conflict.

Three years later, Ye Lin agreed to help Wang Sheng and the Eight Ancient Clans’ young experts confront the three clans that had seized the great secret realms. The group reached the Starry Sky, where Wang Sheng pointed out the sealed realms and asked Ye Lin to lead the way in.

• Three years passed, and Wang Sheng returned with a group of the Eight Ancient Clans’ strongest young experts.
• Wang Sheng asked Ye Lin to help drive the three clans from the secret realms, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Ye Lin set out with Wang Sheng and the prodigies, hoping to resolve the conflict and find a chance to advance to the eighth level of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Wang Sheng led the group into the Starry Sky and pointed out the three secret realms, which the three clans had sealed off.