Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin watched the black smoke from the altar consume the secret realm before drawing the Emperor Sword to face the female demon. She appeared before him as a ninth-level Golden Immortal whose aura was still rising, and Ye Lin prepared to attack.

• Ye Lin retreated over a hundred li as black smoke engulfed the altar and drained the life from the surrounding mountains.
• The gathered prodigies decided to wait and watch the blood-robed Ye Lin before fleeing.
• Ye Lin sensed bloodthirsty eyes watching him from inside the altar and summoned the Emperor Sword.
• As Ye Lin began invoking Karmic Fire, the female demon appeared in front of him.
• Ye Lin recognized the woman as a ninth-level Golden Immortal and formed seals as the Emperor Sword spun before him.

Ye Lin encountered Li Rushuang, a mysterious woman from beyond the Star River Cosmos whose overwhelming powers made him realize he could not defeat her. She stopped his attempt to flee and claimed that he belonged to her.

• Ye Lin attacked Li Rushuang with his Karmic Fire Red Lotus, but she caught it and extinguished it, saying it could not judge her because she bore no sins.
• Ye Lin examined Li Rushuang's panel and learned that she had once pursued the Dao Realm, possessed numerous formidable demonic Fate Traits, and had suffered a vast loss of cultivation.
• Ye Lin decided to run because he knew he could not beat Li Rushuang, but she appeared in his path and said he could not escape her again.
• Li Rushuang caressed Ye Lin's face and claimed that he belonged only to her, while his body became unable to move.

Li Rushuang captured Ye Lin and claimed that she had been his Dao companion in the future, while Ye Lin doubted her because he believed he had no fixed future. The chapter left Ye Lin separated from his pursuers but uncertain about Li Rushuang’s intentions.

• The fleeing prodigies saw Ye Lin trapped and ran, but Li Rushuang stopped them with black flames and reduced dozens of eighth-level Golden Immortals to Void.
• Li Rushuang spared Gu Qingzhi because he was Ye Lin’s friend.
• Li Rushuang released Ye Lin and introduced herself, saying that she knew him from the future and would not lose him again.
• Ye Lin questioned Li Rushuang’s claim and reflected that his changing Destiny made him a variable with no predetermined future.

Ye Lin questioned Li Rushuang and learned she was searching for Li Xiaoyao, a future companion who cultivated the Dao of Strength. After Ye Lin clarified that he was Ye Lin and cultivated the Sword Dao, Li Rushuang realized she had mistaken him for someone else and wondered whether the backlash of karma and time had muddled her thoughts.

• Ye Lin reasoned that Li Rushuang had either mistaken him for someone else or was deceiving him, and asked her to name the person she sought and his cultivation law.
• Li Rushuang said the man was Li Xiaoyao, who cultivated the Dao of Strength, and claimed they would advance together in the Boundary Sea and live through long years.
• Ye Lin felt relieved that Li Rushuang was searching for someone else and told her he was Ye Lin, a cultivator of the Sword Dao.
• Li Rushuang recognized the Sword Dao, accepted that she had mistaken Ye Lin for someone else, and wondered whether the backlash of karma and time had confused her.

Ye Lin recognized Li Rushuang’s description of the person she sought as resembling his friend Li Xiaoyao and summoned him. Li Rushuang recognized Li Xiaoyao by his aura and eagerly claimed his attention, leaving him unable to move and visibly aggrieved.

• Ye Lin contacted Li Xiaoyao after telling Li Rushuang that her sought-after person might be his friend.
• Li Xiaoyao arrived with another figure, and Li Rushuang recognized his familiar aura despite his different appearance.
• Li Rushuang immobilized Li Xiaoyao and caressed his face while he panicked and looked to Ye Lin for help.
• Dugu Feng asked Ye Lin who Li Rushuang was, and Ye Lin called her Li Xiaoyao’s opportunity.
• Li Xiaoyao spoke privately with Li Rushuang, who grew happier, then returned with her arm around his shoulders as he gave Ye Lin an aggrieved look.

After the group finished exploring the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, Ye Lin led them toward the two remaining secret realms. Dugu Feng showed off his new inheritance and cultivation to Poison Venerable, while Li Xiaoyao remained troubled by Li Rushuang’s closeness.

• Ye Lin suggested leaving the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, and Li Xiaoyao noted that several people were still missing.
• Bao Xiaotou and the others arrived, complaining that they had found no worthwhile treasures.
• Dugu Feng teased Poison Venerable for remaining at the sixth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin set off for the two other secret realms, and the others followed.
• Li Rushuang watched Shangguan Wanyu leave with a contemplative expression, while Li Xiaoyao resigned himself to her attention.

After leaving the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, Ye Lin discovered the Eight Ancient Clans had trapped him in a Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation and sent three ninth-layer Golden Immortals to capture him. He confronted them while ordering Gu Qingzhi to stay inside the secret realm, and vowed to destroy the Eight Ancient Clans if they failed to kill him.

• Ye Lin sensed that the starry sky was unnaturally devoid of law fluctuations and realized a formation covered the area.
• Ye Lin warned Gu Qingzhi not to leave the secret realm, while Bao Xiaotou recognized the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation.
• The formation activated, cutting off the power of laws and weakening Ye Lin’s senses as he summoned the Emperor Sword.
• Three ninth-layer Golden Immortal elders emerged and claimed they wanted to invite Ye Lin to the Eight Ancient Clans as a guest.
• The elders attacked, confident the formation had suppressed Ye Lin, but he rejected their demand to surrender and threatened to wipe out their clans.

Ye Lin fought three ninth-layer Golden Immortals inside the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation, while Li Rushuang revealed that he possessed the Chaos Sword Body. The battle continued as Ye Lin summoned a Karmic Fire Red Lotus to face their renewed attack.

• Li Xiaoyao urged Li Rushuang to help Ye Lin, but she said his Chaos Sword Body made him capable of handling the fight.
• Li Rushuang wondered how the Chaos Sword Body could have appeared in the Star River Cosmos.
• One of the old men was shocked that the three attackers still could not defeat Ye Lin despite the formation suppressing his senses and half his strength.
• The three old men attacked Ye Lin again, and he calmly raised the Emperor Sword against them.
• Ye Lin summoned the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, gathering crimson rays into a lotus charged with Sword Dao laws and karmic fire.

Ye Lin destroyed three elders with his Karmic Fire Red Lotus while Li Xiaoyao questioned Li Rushuang about her claim to come from the future. After the elders vanished, Bao Xiaotou offered to search for the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation’s core.

• Ye Lin unleashed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and burned the three elders to ash.
• Li Rushuang said Ye Lin’s name felt familiar but that she had never met him, and Li Xiaoyao wondered whether they would part ways in the future.
• Li Xiaoyao doubted Li Rushuang’s claim that she had come from three hundred immeasurable calamities in the future, but feared confronting her.
• Bao Xiaotou offered to search for the core of the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation.

Ye Lin attacked the barrier of the Eight Ancient Clans’ formation and drew out a group of young experts who tried to kill him. He slaughtered them and struck at the space-time distortion, but the chapter ended before showing whether he broke the formation.

• Ye Lin fired Sword Qi at the Starry Sky and discovered that an invisible barrier stopped it.
• Figures from the Eight Ancient Clans charged at Ye Lin, and he met them with the Emperor Sword.
• Ye Lin killed the attackers, including three Golden Immortal seventh-layer experts, and the remaining fighters hesitated.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, sending the surrounding space-time into disorder as experts repeatedly died and revived.
• Ye Lin stepped forward and struck with the Emperor Sword, producing an earth-shaking roar.

Ye Lin destroyed the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation and confronted the three clans, rejecting an Aberration's offer to help him destroy the Eight Ancient Clans. The Aberration revealed that Ye Lin's friends in the Star River Cosmos had enabled its return and tried once more to recruit him.

• Bao Xiaotou was about to reveal the formation eye when the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation shattered and figures across the Starry Sky were sent flying.
• Ye Lin stood with the Emperor Sword and vowed to visit each of the Eight Ancient Clans.
• An Aberration mocked the Eight Ancient Clans and invited Ye Lin to join forces with the three clans against them.
• Ye Lin rejected the offer, warned the three clans not to provoke him, and ordered them to leave.
• The Aberration claimed Ye Lin's friends in the Star River Cosmos had helped the three clans return, then urged him to join them in controlling the Heavenly Dao.

After the three clans withdrew, Ye Lin set out alone for the Eight Ancient Clans to confront them over their scheme. The Eight Ancient Clans learned he was coming and struggled to understand his audacity.

• The three clans offered to support Ye Lin’s rise to Daluo Golden Immortal and invited him to cooperate because of his Chaos Sword Body.
• Ye Lin told the others to wait while he went to the Eight Ancient Clans, and he refused Li Xiaoyao’s offer to accompany him.
• Li Rushuang reassured Li Xiaoyao that Ye Lin could handle the journey, while Li Xiaoyao realized his weakness had kept him from fighting alongside Ye Lin.
• The Eight Ancient Clans’ experts learned that their Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation had been broken, their three elders had died, and Ye Lin was coming for them.
• An elder questioned why Ye Lin dared to challenge the Eight Ancient Clans, and another dismissed the clan as laughable.

The Eight Ancient Clans’ elders realized that attacking Ye Lin again could provoke the Human Ancestor Hall, which regarded him as a vital Human Race prodigy. Following Wang Sheng’s map, Ye Lin reached the Liu Family’s vast starfield, beginning his journey to confront the clans.

• The eldest elder condemned the clans for holding back during their failed plan and warned them that Ye Lin was on his way.
• The elders fell silent as they considered the Human Ancestor Hall’s support for Ye Lin and its power to punish the Eight Ancient Clans.
• The elders worried about which clan Ye Lin would reach first and how they could avoid further conflict with him.
• Ye Lin followed Wang Sheng’s map to the Liu Family’s starfield and stood outside its vast territory.

Ye Lin entered the Liu Family Star Domain and demanded that the family meet him, but no one appeared. He began attacking the star system at its edge, intent on forcing the Liu Family to respond and using the battle to cultivate his Sword Nurturing technique.

• Ye Lin ignored the Liu Family’s warning, destroyed an incoming sword light, and killed the hidden expert with a sword strike.
• Ye Lin announced himself to the Liu Family and warned that he would fight his way in if no one came out within three breaths.
• Liu Family members watched from afar, while some fled and others remained in their caves, confident Ye Lin would not dare attack.
• Ye Lin decided to slaughter his way into the domain and cultivate his Sword Nurturing technique with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin slashed at a nearby star system with the Emperor Sword, shattering stars along its edge.

Ye Lin slaughtered his way through the Liu Family’s starfield, destroying star systems and killing the cultivators who tried to stop him. He silenced the screams of the dead and continued toward the heart of the Liu Family, while its ancestors had yet to appear.

• Ye Lin destroyed star systems with his sword, killing the beings within and feeding their blood aura to the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• A young Liu Family cultivator charged Ye Lin with a spear, but Ye Lin crushed his head beneath his foot and drained his corpse.
• Liu Family cultivators fled as Ye Lin continued slaughtering his way through the starfield, and the family’s ancestors still did not act.
• Ye Lin amassed a terrifying Blood Baleful aura and heard the screams of those he had killed.
• Ye Lin ordered the dead to be silent, and their screams vanished as he continued his attack on the Liu Family.

Ye Lin unleashed his avatars and Xinyou against the Liu Family after they hunted him outside the secret realm. As the slaughter spread across countless galaxies, Ye Lin effortlessly killed an eighth-level Golden Immortal who challenged him.

• Ye Lin created three avatars, which scattered in different directions to attack the Liu Family clansmen.
• Ye Lin sent Xinyou to join the slaughter and test whether devouring Liu Family clansmen would help him advance.
• Ye Lin dismissed the Liu Family’s ongoing resistance as he continued forward through the devastation.
• A cold, sword-wielding eighth-level Golden Immortal confronted Ye Lin and tried to draw his sword.
• Ye Lin struck twice with the Emperor Sword, shattering the man’s attack and killing him along with his Primordial Spirit.

The Liu Family debated how to respond after Ye Lin targeted their lands, knowing they could neither defeat him nor risk killing him because of the Human Ancestor Hall. They decided to send Elder Liu to negotiate, leaving the family hoping he could persuade Ye Lin to withdraw.

• The Liu Family head learned that Ye Lin had come to their lands first and asked the family powerhouses to devise a plan.
• A Liu Family powerhouse proposed mobilizing their reserves to kill Ye Lin.
• The Liu Family head warned that the Human Ancestor Hall was backing Ye Lin and could destroy the family if they killed him.
• The Liu Family powerhouses rejected apologizing openly but worried that doing nothing would encourage dissent among their clansmen.
• Elder Liu volunteered to meet Ye Lin, and the family told him to agree to any demands that would make Ye Lin withdraw.

Ye Lin killed an elderly Golden Immortal the Liu Family sent to appease him, then unleashed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus across the Liu Family Star Domain. The lotus began consuming the eastern region, destroying worlds, star systems, and countless Liu Family experts.

• An elderly man asked Ye Lin to stop, but Ye Lin saw through his shallow cultivation and recognized that he was not part of the Liu Family’s true foundation.
• Ye Lin attacked the old man with the Emperor Sword and cut him in two.
• Angered that the Liu Family kept trying to brush him off, Ye Lin formed the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and sent it into the void.
• The lotus bloomed in the starry sky, destroying worlds, stars, and countless Liu Family experts as it spread through the eastern region of the Liu Family Star Domain.

Ye Lin confronted the Liu Family’s experts and, after they refused to take his demand for an explanation seriously, attacked them with the Emperor Sword. The battle erupted in the Starry Sky, where Ye Lin’s strength shocked the Liu Family fighters.

• A middle-aged Liu Family leader told Ye Lin to leave, promising to let the matter go, but Ye Lin demanded an explanation.
• The leader blamed Ye Lin for killing Liu Family members, and Ye Lin decided to stop holding back.
• Ye Lin summoned the Emperor Sword and unleashed his Destruction Sword Dao Law, shocking the experts with his overwhelming aura.
• Ye Lin slashed at the group, and the ninth-level Golden Immortal experts attacked together to subdue him.
• Ye Lin used Void Overlapping Shadows as Sword Qi and powerful laws clashed across the Starry Sky.

Ye Lin killed the Liu Family head with one sword strike that slew his past self, then faced the enraged Liu Family experts. He struck them with the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger, sending an old man flying as the battle continued.

• Ye Lin confronted the middle-aged man and identified him as the Liu Family head.
• The Liu Family head summoned a bell and attacked, but Ye Lin used his sword to slay the man's past self across time.
• Ye Lin stored the bell in his Spatial Ring after the Liu Family head dissolved into the void.
• The Liu Family experts demanded revenge and threatened to activate the Blood Refining Grand Array.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger, and an old man who tried to block it was sent flying while bleeding.