Chapter Summaries

Sky Vault Venerable brought Ye Lin to meet Sword Venerable and asked him to teach the young swordsman. Sword Venerable agreed to train Ye Lin for fifty thousand years and took him away through the river of time.

• Ye Lin watched Sky Vault Venerable manipulate the river of time and asked why he had been brought there.
• Sky Vault Venerable called for Sword Venerable, who emerged from the river of time in the form of a middle-aged man.
• Sky Vault Venerable asked Sword Venerable to teach Ye Lin, explaining that Ye Lin was the one destined for whom the Void Clan had waited.
• Sword Venerable recognized Ye Lin's exceptional Sword Dao talent and agreed to teach him while keeping Sky Vault Venerable's favor.
• Sword Venerable took Ye Lin away for fifty thousand years, promising to return him if he could not become invincible among those of the same realm.

Sword Venerable brought Ye Lin to his residence in the River of Time and began a fifty-thousand-year secluded cultivation, starting with ten thousand years studying the Sword Stele. Ye Lin resonated with the stele’s Sword Dao insights and entered a wondrous state.

• Sword Venerable took Ye Lin to his courtyard in the deepest part of the River of Time and told him to remain there for fifty thousand years.
• Sword Venerable explained his standing among the Star River Cosmos’s Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and reminded Ye Lin to remember Sky Vault’s favor.
• Sword Venerable summoned a Sword Stele containing his lifetime of Sword Dao insights and gave Ye Lin ten thousand years to study it.
• Ye Lin thanked Sword Venerable, sat beneath the Sword Stele, and released his Destruction Sword Dao Law.
• Ye Lin’s Destruction Sword Dao Law resonated with the Sword Stele, drawing him into a wondrous state.

Ye Lin severed the Law of Destruction and let his cultivation fall so he could pursue a pure Dao of the Sword through the stone stele. Meanwhile, cultivators across the Star River Cosmos imitated his example and attacked powerful elders and their sects.

• Ye Lin questioned whether he truly sought the Dao of the Sword, then cut away the Law of Destruction.
• Ye Lin's Dao of the Sword and cultivation declined to Golden Immortal Layer One, but he began comprehending the sword stele.
• Sword Venerable approved of Ye Lin's courage to abandon his cultivation and begin anew.
• Geniuses across the Star River Cosmos imitated Ye Lin and began slaughtering old powers and plundering their sects.
• Forces without Primordial Unity Golden Immortal guardians suffered disaster as the violence spread from remote lands to the First Region.

The Star River Cosmos descended into chaos as Rogue Cultivators and major forces fought, with Ye Lin’s past actions having shattered the powers’ hold and helped restore vitality to the Heavenly Dao. The Central Star Domain remained stable, while its hidden prodigies waited for Ye Lin to stir up trouble again.

• Tribulation aura spread everywhere, making hiding useless as powerhouses fell across the Star River Cosmos.
• Rogue Cultivators rose against the major forces after Ye Lin shattered their reputation for invincibility by slaying Golden Immortals, destroying the Liu Family, and challenging a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• The major forces joined the fighting, and the deaths of countless powerhouses replenished the Heavenly Dao’s origin.
• The Central Star Domain remained guarded by Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, while hidden prodigies waited for Ye Lin to lead another rebellion.
• Ye Lin reached the most crucial juncture as Rogue Cultivators and prodigies looked to him for hope.

After ten thousand years studying the Sword Stele, Ye Lin reached Golden Immortal Level Nine and gained a clearer path to strengthen his Chaos Sword Body. Sword Venerable then brought him to a sea of magma to begin a thousand-year trial of willpower, with the number of falling meteors set to rise dramatically over time.

• Sword Venerable removed the Sword Stele after Ye Lin had studied it for ten thousand years.
• Ye Lin reached Golden Immortal Level Nine and sensed that his Chaos Sword Body had grown stronger.
• Sword Venerable changed the courtyard into a sea of fire and told Ye Lin he would temper his willpower there for a thousand years.
• Sword Venerable demonstrated the trial by dropping a meteor into the magma, then explained that the hourly meteor count would increase each day.

Sword Venerable trapped Ye Lin in a thousand-year trial where he had to shatter falling meteors with full-strength sword strikes while standing in place. As the number of meteors rose, Ye Lin’s Primordial Spirit approached its limit, but he continued without using his avatar.

• Sword Venerable warned Ye Lin that the meteors could kill him and began the trial, forbidding weapons and movement.
• Ye Lin shattered the first meteor with a full-strength sword strike and realized the meteors would grow more numerous over time.
• As the days passed, the meteor count increased from one to one hundred every two hours, and Ye Lin began to feel the strain.
• By the five-hundredth day, five hundred meteors fell every two hours, pushing Ye Lin’s Primordial Spirit to its limit.
• Ye Lin considered how much harder the trial would become but kept fighting and refused to use his avatar.

Ye Lin realized that the meteor trial was meant to teach him to use his Sword Dao laws, not simply endure the strain. He grew more proficient with each strike as Sword Venerable watched in disbelief at how little guidance Ye Lin had received.

• Ye Lin reached the brink of exhaustion and wondered how he could survive the trial.
• Ye Lin recalled that the trial involved comprehending the Sword Stele and recognized that Sword Venerable wanted him to apply his Sword Dao laws.
• Ye Lin used his understanding of the Sword Dao to destroy the meteors with increasingly powerful sword strikes.
• Ye Lin realized how much he still had to learn, while Sword Venerable wondered how he had cultivated so far without knowing the basic use of laws.

Ye Lin spent over a thousand years mastering Sword Qi under Sword Venerable’s guidance and returned to the courtyard transformed. Sword Venerable learned that Ye Lin had cultivated largely without a master since reaching the Heavenly Immortal realm and was astonished by his talent.

• Ye Lin entered a state of enlightenment and effortlessly cleaved apart every meteor with Sword Qi.
• Sword Venerable observed Ye Lin’s progress approvingly as hundreds of years passed, followed by another thousand years of training.
• When the trial ended, Ye Lin opened his eyes with a vastly more powerful aura and reappeared in the courtyard.
• Sword Venerable asked who had taught Ye Lin, remarking that he used laws in an unconventional way despite reaching the top of the regional rankings.
• Ye Lin explained that he had taken one master after leaving the small world but had cultivated on his own since reaching the Heavenly Immortal realm.
• Sword Venerable realized Ye Lin’s talent explained his success and marveled at him.

The Sword Venerable challenged Ye Lin to create a sword strike from the wind and snow and use it to break the Sword Qi he had left behind. Ye Lin’s first attempts failed, and the Sword Venerable warned that brute force would not pass the trial.

• The Sword Venerable gave Ye Lin a thousand years to create a sword strike amid the wind and snow and break his Sword Qi, promising eight thousand years of personal instruction if he succeeded.
• Ye Lin tried a probing sword strike, but it scattered before reaching the Sword Venerable’s Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin created a wind-and-snow sword strike and launched it, but it also dissipated before it could get close.
• The Sword Venerable watched Ye Lin struggle and said that relying on brute force meant he had already failed the trial.

Hong Batian and Liu Bai could not contact Ye Lin and entered the Firecloud Secret Realm without him. Li Hongying searched for Ye Lin to challenge him over her brother Li Changsheng’s death, then left a message for him.

• Hong Batian tried to contact Ye Lin, then ordered the Firecloud Secret Realm opened and went inside without him.
• Liu Bai failed to reach Ye Lin, entered a vortex, and vanished into the secret realm.
• Li Hongying confronted a young man at Liu Bai’s residence and demanded to know where Ye Lin was.
• Li Hongying said Ye Lin had killed her brother, Li Changsheng, but she wanted to challenge Ye Lin openly rather than seek revenge.
• Li Hongying told the young man to pass her challenge to Ye Lin, then left.

After a thousand years of secluded cultivation, Ye Lin used his sword to shatter the Sword Venerable’s Sword Qi and completed the test. The Sword Venerable then began his promised eight-thousand-year exposition on the Sword Dao.

• The Sword Venerable watched as Ye Lin sat motionless in the snow for a thousand years, gathering strength through comprehension.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes and named his sword Vicissitudes before striking with the wind and snow.
• Ye Lin shattered the distant Sword Qi with one sword and passed the test.
• The Sword Venerable returned Ye Lin to the small courtyard and promised to expound the Dao for eight thousand years.
• The Sword Venerable explained that Ye Lin should learn from his understanding without imitating him, and described the Sword Dao as embracing all things.

Ye Lin spent eight thousand years learning the Sword Dao from Sword Venerable, rapidly improving through his teaching. When the lesson ended, Sword Venerable judged Ye Lin’s talent formidable but warned that the Emperor Road would test him against prodigies from every era.

• Sword Venerable expounded the Sword Dao to Ye Lin for eight thousand years, and Ye Lin became deeply immersed in the lesson.
• After the Dao exposition ended, Sword Venerable assessed Ye Lin’s talent and combat power but decided they were not yet enough for the Emperor Road.
• Sword Venerable explained that the Emperor Road crossed the Star River Cosmos’s past and future, allowing genuine prodigies from different eras to meet and fight.
• Sword Venerable said the Emperor Road held three Great Luo Dao Fruits for each era, while its qualified entrants would naturally seek to challenge one another.

After twenty thousand years of cultivation, Ye Lin was sent by the Sword Venerable to the ancient era to prove himself by becoming more renowned than its prodigies. The Sword Venerable brought him safely upstream through the River of Time and stopped at the ancient era.

• The Sword Venerable told Ye Lin to begin actual combat after twenty thousand years of cultivation.
• The Sword Venerable explained that Ye Lin had to make a name for himself in the Central Star Domain of the ancient era, then spend ten thousand years each in the distant ancient and primordial ancient eras.
• The Sword Venerable protected Ye Lin and led him upstream through the River of Time, explaining the eras and ages of the Star River Cosmos.
• The Sword Venerable stopped and told Ye Lin they had reached the ancient era.

Sword Venerable brought Ye Lin to a branch of the ancient era’s timeline and gave him ten thousand years to suppress the Central Star Domain’s prodigies. He explained that Ye Lin’s actions there could not affect the present world, leaving Ye Lin to begin his challenge in the past.

• Sword Venerable severed the river of time and brought Ye Lin into the ancient era.
• Sword Venerable told Ye Lin to spend ten thousand years suppressing the Central Star Domain’s prodigies and making his name known throughout the Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin asked whether killing people in the ancient era could alter the present or prevent his own birth.
• Sword Venerable explained that their arrival had placed them in a branch of time whose future could not affect the main timeline.
• Ye Lin understood the explanation, then wondered how many time branches and powerful cultivators might exist.
• Sword Venerable told Ye Lin that the power of time could only be understood through greater strength.

After Sword Venerable left Ye Lin to make his own way for ten thousand years, Ye Lin checked his unchanged panel and devised a plan to build his fame in the ancient era. He persuaded the Third Ancestor to take him to the Human Emperor Immortal Domain, where he could meet the era’s top Human Race prodigies.

• Sword Venerable departed to meet his old friends, leaving Ye Lin to handle the next ten thousand years on his own.
• Ye Lin checked his panel and found that only his luck had increased, by twenty billion.
• Ye Lin ruled out the Hundred Heroes Ranking and killing strangers as ways to gain fame, then used the Human Emperor Sword to summon the Third Ancestor.
• Ye Lin asked the Third Ancestor to take him to the Human Emperor Immortal Domain and introduce him to talented Human Race prodigies.
• The Third Ancestor agreed and carried Ye Lin away, while Ye Lin planned to enter the highest circles and defeat their prodigies to make his name known.

Ye Lin entered Wuji Hall as the Human Race’s eleventh heritage-level prodigy and asked the ten existing prodigies to help him gain fame in the Central Star Domain. He rejected their offer to arrange challenges against Human Race prodigies and hinted that his ambitions were greater.

• The Third Ancestor named Ye Lin the Human Race’s eleventh heritage-level prodigy and left to apologize to the Sword Venerable.
• Ye Lin entered Wuji Hall, where the ten heritage-level prodigies were discussing the Dao.
• Ye Lin announced his new status, and the prodigies accepted that the Third Ancestor had authorized his entry.
• A green-robed woman invited Ye Lin to discuss the Dao, but he asked the group to help him make a name for himself in the Central Star Domain.
• A young man offered to arrange challenges with Human Race prodigies, but Ye Lin said his ambitions were greater.

Ye Lin told the Human Race’s ten foundation-level prodigies that he wanted to challenge the strongest prodigies of the other races. When they doubted his confidence, he released his Sword Qi to demonstrate his strength, leaving them shaken.

• Ye Lin said he had no time to waste on anyone except the strongest opponents.
• The ten Human Race foundation-level prodigies questioned his confidence and wondered where he had come from.
• A woman warned Ye Lin that challenging other races’ prodigies could bring shame to the Human Race if he lost.
• Ye Lin declared that defeat did not exist in his dictionary and engulfed the hall in terrifying Sword Qi.
• The ten prodigies struggled under Ye Lin’s Sword Qi, and one asked him to disperse it.

Ye Lin subdued ten Human Race geniuses and insisted that they let him challenge other races’ geniuses. Shangguan Qingyi agreed to guide him through the Starry Sky, and the group set out for the Asura Clan.

• Ye Lin withdrew his Sword Qi after a Human Race genius asked him to, leaving the ten geniuses unharmed.
• Ye Lin refused to reveal his origins and said he would kill the supreme geniuses and other races’ geniuses who stood in the Human Race’s way.
• Shangguan Qingyi introduced herself and offered to accompany Ye Lin as they challenged other factions.
• A white-clad young man warned Ye Lin not to risk his life over victory, but Ye Lin said he did not recognize defeat.
• Shangguan Qingyi led Ye Lin out of the hall and ordered two women to take them to the Asura Clan.

Shangguan Qingyi revealed that Wang Chaozong of the Asura Clan had killed her younger sister, and she urged Ye Lin to fight the clan and avenge her. She explained that the major races each trained ten prodigies for the Chaos Secret Realm, whose ancient beasts, inheritances, and resources drew Ye Lin’s interest.

• Ye Lin noticed Shangguan Qingyi’s hatred when she mentioned the Asura Clan, and she confessed that Wang Chaozong had killed her younger sister ten thousand years earlier.
• Shangguan Qingyi admitted she had been using Ye Lin and promised to satisfy any request if he killed Wang Chaozong.
• Ye Lin asked whether the Asura Clan also had ten heritage-tier prodigies, and Shangguan Qingyi said every major race prepared ten candidates for the Chaos Secret Realm.
• Shangguan Qingyi described the Chaos Secret Realm as a vast realm from the Chaos era, full of ferocious beasts, treasures, inheritances, and resources.

Shangguan Qingyi explained that the Chaos Secret Realm appeared once each great era and that each race could send ten foundation-grade prodigies inside. Ye Lin realized the Human Ancestors had positioned him to become one of the Human Territory’s ten prodigies, and he remained confident that strength would let him keep the status.

• Shangguan Qingyi explained the Chaos Secret Realm’s schedule, entry limits, and importance to the races.
• Shangguan Qingyi said survivors of the realm had all become Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, though most later died on the Emperor Road.
• Ye Lin concluded that the three Human Ancestors had arranged Li Changsheng’s challenge to make him a Human Territory foundation-grade prodigy if he won.
• Shangguan Qingyi warned Ye Lin that foundation-grade prodigies faced constant challenges and could lose their status if defeated.
• Ye Lin said that sufficient strength would silence all doubts.