Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin secluded himself to refine the Qiongqi Heart and develop his Chaos Sword Body. After thirty years, he finished refining it and felt the immense power within him.

• Wei Yunxi smiled at Ye Lin, waved, and left, while Ye Lin thought of reuniting with Hong Batian in the Central Star Domain.
• Ye Lin found a secluded star, concealed it, and entered to refine the Qiongqi Heart and absorb the remaining Dragon Soul.
• Ye Lin swallowed the Qiongqi Heart and used his Chaos Sword Body and chaotic power to suppress and refine it.
• Over thirty years, Ye Lin gradually developed his Chaos Sword Body while refining the heart of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal expert.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes after completing the refinement and sensed the immense power within his body.

Ye Lin continued absorbing the Dragon Soul in seclusion while prodigies waited for him to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking in the Holy Tribulation Star Domain. After thirty years without a sign of him, a middle-aged swordsman remained certain Ye Lin would come and planned to challenge him.

• Ye Lin resumed absorbing the remaining Dragon Soul, and his comprehension of the laws of heaven and earth surged as he entered meditation.
• Proddigies gathered in the Holy Tribulation Star Domain, expecting Ye Lin to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking after his earlier feats.
• After thirty years with no sign of Ye Lin, many prodigies grew angry, called him a coward or a fraud, and some left the star domain.
• A chubby young man asked a middle-aged man whether Ye Lin would come, and the man insisted that public pressure would eventually bring him there.
• The middle-aged man said he would challenge Ye Lin because they both followed the path of the sword and were each considered invincible.

After twenty years in seclusion, Ye Lin reached the ninth layer of the Golden Immortal realm and set out for the Holy Tribulation Star Domain to climb the rankings. As he arrived, a middle-aged sword cultivator prepared to challenge him, believing the fight was essential to advancing his Sword Dao.

• Ye Lin broke through to the ninth layer of the Golden Immortal realm and split a distant galactic river with a sword strike.
• Ye Lin checked his increased luck and headed to the Holy Tribulation Star Domain, determined to make the First Region remember his name.
• After waiting fifty years, many prodigies left the Holy Tribulation Star Domain, assuming Ye Lin would not appear.
• The middle-aged man told the fatty that Ye Lin had arrived and gave him his Spatial Ring in case he died.
• The middle-aged man said he had to defeat Ye Lin to clarify his Sword Heart and pursue the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, then prepared to leave.

Ye Lin accepted Wu Xuan’s challenge to a battle of sword cultivators outside the Holy Tribulation Star Domain. He effortlessly stopped Wu Xuan’s massive sword and struck it back, sending Wu Xuan flying.

• Wu Xuan introduced himself as a rogue cultivator who had waited for Ye Lin and sought a life-or-death duel to break through the limits of his Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin accepted Wu Xuan’s challenge out of respect for his courtesy.
• Wu Xuan charged Ye Lin with his massive sword, unleashing Sword Qi that shattered the surrounding stars.
• Ye Lin caught the massive sword with one hand and struck it with his palm, sending Wu Xuan flying.

Ye Lin defeated Wu Xuan with three palm strikes, killing him with his own enormous sword. After Wu Xuan’s friend recovered the body, Ye Lin continued toward the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

• Ye Lin struck Wu Xuan with the enormous sword, pinning him to a distant star and mortally wounding him.
• Wu Xuan accepted his defeat, praised Ye Lin as a true prodigy, and died.
• Ye Lin told Wu Xuan’s friend to collect the body, then continued toward the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• Wu Xuan’s friend arrived, mourned him, pulled out the enormous sword, and carried the corpse away without blaming Ye Lin.

Ye Lin completed his mission and challenged the Hundred Heroes Ranking, where he swiftly defeated the arrogant white-clad genius. The cultivators outside watched the rankings to see whether he was truly Ye Lin, the living legend.

• Cultivators suspected that the man entering the hall was Ye Lin and turned their attention to the Hundred Heroes Ranking to find out.
• Ye Lin submitted his mission by presenting a scroll and the corpses of three Star Beasts.
• Ye Lin challenged the Hundred Heroes Ranking and appeared in a desert facing a white-clad figure.
• The white-clad figure repeatedly used the law ability “Still” against Ye Lin’s sword attack, but failed to stop it.
• Ye Lin’s Sword Qi shredded the white-clad figure into dust, leaving Ye Lin confused by his opponent’s behavior.

Ye Lin killed the white-robed prodigy who had held the last place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking, astonishing the gathered spectators. He then faced the woman ranked ninety-ninth, who warned him she would not hold back.

• The white-robed young man discovered that his Hundred Heroes Ranking position had disappeared and left the Celestial Spirit Sect to investigate.
• Spectators saw Ye Lin's name appear at the bottom of the ranking and learned that he had killed the former last-ranked prodigy in fewer than ten breaths.
• Ye Lin entered the challenge space and encountered the woman ranked ninety-ninth in a sea of flames.
• The red-dressed woman teased Ye Lin and vanished, warning him to be careful.

Ye Lin rapidly climbed the Hundred Heroes Ranking by killing its ranked geniuses, astounding the First Region with his strength and speed. After forty breaths, he had taken every position from sixty-fifth downward, and the chapter left the remaining geniuses in awe and despair.

• Ye Lin found the hidden woman in the sea of fire and killed her with a colossal sword made of Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin dismissed his opponents as weak and continued to the next stage.
• Ye Lin killed ranked geniuses at a pace of one per breath, rapidly advancing up the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• The First Region's geniuses watched Ye Lin's name fill the rankings and praised him as a living legend.
• After forty breaths, Ye Lin had reached sixty-fifth place, leaving the onlookers too intimidated to mock or underestimate him.

Word of Ye Lin’s rise through the rankings spread, while powerful figures in the First Region discussed his overwhelming strength and decided to avoid provoking him. They hoped the upcoming Heavenly Dao Secret Realm would send him to the Central Star Domain, leaving his future clash with the Imperial Sons to others.

• Geniuses who had returned to see Ye Lin’s climb fell silent and watched the battle after learning who he was.
• Geniuses Ye Lin had knocked off the rankings arrived at the Holy Tribulation Star Domain, curious and furious to see him.
• Powerful figures in the First Region gathered to discuss Ye Lin’s feats and compared his talent to that of the Ancient Human Emperor.
• The powerful figures agreed to warn their disciples not to provoke Ye Lin, recognizing that the Human Ancestors protected him and that he was beyond their control.
• The powerful figures expected the Heavenly Dao Secret Realm to send Ye Lin to the Central Star Domain, where the Imperial Sons would eventually have to face him.

Ye Lin’s rapid rise on the Hundred Heroes Ranking left former ranked prodigies stunned and powerless. They abandoned any plans to oppose him and accepted that he would take the ranking.

• Observers watched Ye Lin climb to forty-sixth place and predicted that he would sweep the rankings.
• Former Hundred Heroes Ranking prodigies gathered in a hall and lamented that Ye Lin had turned them into stepping stones.
• A white-robed young man proposed killing Ye Lin, but the others warned that he was too powerful to provoke.
• The prodigies chose to leave and let Ye Lin claim the ranking, accepting their defeat.

Ye Lin climbed the Hundred Heroes Ranking in the First Region, defeating its top contenders until he reached first place. He faced Baili Shengxue, who proposed that the two sword cultivators decide the match with one strike.

• Ye Lin defeated the tenth-ranked fighter and began challenging the top ten, aiming to reach first place within a hundred breaths.
• Ye Lin defeated the ninth-, eighth-, seventh-, sixth-, fifth-, fourth-, and third-ranked fighters, reaching third place in fifty breaths.
• Ye Lin saw through Sheng Lingxue’s hidden position and defeated her to claim second place.
• Ye Lin encountered Baili Shengxue, the first-ranked fighter, in a snowy world.
• Baili Shengxue summoned his cyan Long Sword and challenged Ye Lin to settle the match with one strike.

Ye Lin defeated Baili Shengxue in a sword-dao duel and completed his sweep of the First Region’s Hundred Heroes Ranking. He left the ranking bearing only his name, while setting his sights on the Central Star Domain and the Ancient Human Emperor.

• Baili Shengxue warned Ye Lin about his Wind and Snow sword strike, which had slain 433 sword-dao prodigies.
• Ye Lin countered with Slay Cang Sheng, stopping Baili Shengxue’s wind and snow and defeating him.
• Ye Lin reflected that he had swept the Hundred Heroes Rankings of both the First and Second Regions and resolved to challenge the Ancient Human Emperor’s place in the Central Star Domain.
• Ye Lin appeared atop the First Region’s Hundred Heroes Ranking, where his name filled all one hundred spots.
• The gathered spectators watched in astonishment as Ye Lin became a legend and an insurmountable rival to the cosmos’s prodigies.

After sweeping the Hundred Heroes Ranking, Ye Lin received a great bell from the Heavenly Dao and found that his Luck had surged, though his Destiny predicted an even earlier death. Bao Xiaotou then told him that Gu Qingzhi had been killed, and Ye Lin headed to meet him.

• The Heavenly Dao bestowed an ancient great bell on Ye Lin, and the assembled geniuses declined to challenge him.
• Ye Lin checked his panel, saw that his Luck had risen to 240 billion, and noticed that his Destiny now predicted he would die sooner.
• Bao Xiaotou contacted Ye Lin and reported that Gu Qingzhi had been killed by three unidentified ninth-level Golden Immortals.
• Ye Lin asked Bao Xiaotou for his location and set off to meet him.

Ye Lin traveled to a trading ground to find Wang Tian and the others, intending to avenge Gu Qingzhi. He arrived safely and headed toward the location Bao Xiaotou had sent him.

• Ye Lin decided to avenge Gu Qingzhi, whose death had involved him in a death tribulation.
• Ye Lin learned that Wang Tian and the others had also left their world and were not far away.
• After traveling for three days, Ye Lin reached a trading ground jointly established by several prosperous star domains.
• Ye Lin entered the guarded trading ground without anyone stopping him.
• Ye Lin followed the location Bao Xiaotou had sent and made his way toward it.

Ye Lin arrived at the high-rise and found Gu Qingzhi dead, her True Spirit scattered beyond Wang Tian’s power to save. After seeing her Destiny marked as death, Ye Lin accepted that she was gone and promised to avenge her.

• A woman led Ye Lin to the room where Bao Xiaotou, Wang Tian, and the others had gathered around Gu Qingzhi.
• Wang Tian said Gu Qingzhi could not be saved because her injuries were severe and her True Spirit had scattered.
• Ye Lin inspected Gu Qingzhi’s panel and saw that her Destiny was death, extinguishing his last hope.
• Ye Lin said he had done what he could to help Gu Qingzhi and promised to avenge her.

Ye Lin used the Human Race's fortune and the Human Emperor Sword to trace the karmic thread connected to Gu Qingzhi's killers. He found the killer nearby, but had not yet revealed who it was.

• Bao Xiaotou told Ye Lin that three elderly men had killed Gu Qingzhi, but their identities and faction remained unknown.
• Ye Lin used the Human Emperor Sword and the Human Race's fortune to view events from Gu Qingzhi's perspective and follow her karmic thread.
• Ye Lin announced that he had found the killer and that the killer was there.
• Li Xiaoyao angrily demanded to know who the killer was so he could kill him.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao tracked down the people who had captured a powerful woman, while Li Rushuang could not locate them. At the chapter’s end, three merchant-house young masters discussed Ye Lin’s strength in a hot spring, unaware that he was approaching.

• Li Xiaoyao summoned his Great Hammers and grew furious after realizing he had been deceived, while Li Rushuang clung to his arm.
• Ye Lin examined Li Rushuang’s cultivation and fate, then decided to move on without asking her for help.
• Ye Lin led the way toward the captors, and Li Xiaoyao killed the woman who had brought him there before attacking the surrounding people.
• Three young masters from the Dawn, Prosperous, and Ledi Merchant Houses discussed their capture of a powerful woman and dismissed one man’s fears about the consequences.
• The young masters praised Ye Lin’s strength and reputation as Ye Lin quietly approached their location.

Ye Lin found the three young masters who had killed Gu Qingzhi and slaughtered them with the Emperor Sword. When three half-step Taiyi men came to punish him, he attacked them too, leaving them horrified by his power.

• Ye Lin reached a hot spring where the three young masters were being served by women.
• The young masters mistook Ye Lin for someone seeking their favor and invited him to join them.
• Ye Lin released his Destruction Sword Dao Law and killed all three eighth-layer Golden Immortal young masters with one strike.
• Three half-step Taiyi men arrived and threatened Ye Lin for killing the merchant guilds' young masters.
• Ye Lin slashed at the three men, whose expressions changed in alarm as his Sword Qi approached.

Ye Lin avenged himself on the Trade Star, killing the three Half-step Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and anyone who kept challenging him. As experts from the three great merchant associations arrived to surround the planet, the conflict escalated.

• Ye Lin crippled and killed three Half-step Primordial Unity Golden Immortals with his sword.
• Ye Lin warned the onlookers to withdraw their gazes, then killed those who continued watching him.
• Experts fled the Trade Star while Li Xiaoyao slaughtered those who remained, and Ye Lin did not stop him.
• The three great merchant associations condemned Ye Lin for killing their young masters and consecrated elders, sealed off the Trade Star, and sent experts to suppress him.

Ye Lin faced an ancient expert who questioned him over his revenge against the three great trading firms. After recognizing Ye Lin as Venerable Ye, the old man apologized and withdrew, and the other experts left as well.

• An ancient expert confronted Ye Lin and demanded to know why he had attacked the three great trading firms.
• Ye Lin said he had come for vengeance, and the old man considered his strength and possible backing.
• After Ye Lin gave his name, the old man recognized him as Venerable Ye and apologized.
• The old man left without fighting, and Ye Lin let him go.
• The remaining experts lowered their heads and departed, unwilling to interfere.