Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin reached the Black Tortoise Star Domain and secretly watched Li Jinhuang fight off a Demon Race siege while protecting two women. As Li Jinhuang searched for Ye Lin and found no sign of him, two brothers appeared to challenge him.

• Ye Lin reflected on his plan to lead the Human Race and wondered whether Li Jinhuang was the Human Emperor.
• Ye Lin arrived near the Black Tortoise Star Domain and saw Li Jinhuang fighting the Demon Race while protecting two women.
• Ye Lin concealed himself and watched, hoping to discover the limits of Li Jinhuang's strength.
• Li Jinhuang searched for Ye Lin, then complained that his little brother had not come to help.
• The Demon Race surrounded Li Jinhuang and the two women, and two brothers stepped forward to confront him.

Li Jinhuang fought the Ancient Royal Clan’s two Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies while Yu Ruomin and Yu Ruoxi watched, hoping Ye Lin would arrive. Ye Lin appeared and advanced toward the Demon Race army as Li Jinhuang noticed him and prepared to keep fighting.

• Li Jinhuang asked the two Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies to let Yu Ruomin and Yu Ruoxi leave, but they refused and attacked him.
• Yu Ruoxi recognized the brothers’ shared mind and strength, while Yu Ruomin blamed herself for putting the others in danger.
• Ye Lin watched the battle, sensed a powerful presence hidden among the Demon Race army, and summoned the Emperor Sword.
• Li Jinhuang taunted the brothers and challenged them to continue fighting him two against one.
• Ye Lin walked toward the Demon Race experts, and Li Jinhuang spotted his blood-red figure in the distance.

Li Jinhuang fought the Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies at full strength while Ye Lin waited among the Demon Race for a powerful hidden figure to appear. White Wind emerged and confronted Li Jinhuang, who refused to surrender and prepared to face him.

• Li Jinhuang charged the Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies with Ye Lin backing him, driving them back through the starry sky.
• The Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies struck Li Jinhuang and sent him flying, but he recovered as the Demon Race noticed his exhaustion.
• White Wind emerged from the Demon Race and praised Li Jinhuang before demanding that he seal his cultivation and accept death.
• Li Jinhuang told White Wind he did not believe he would die by his hand and raised his sword against him.
• White Wind stopped the Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies from intervening and said he would fight Li Jinhuang himself.

White Wind overwhelmed Li Jinhuang, who was weakened from an earlier fight, and moved in to kill him. Li Jinhuang called for help, and Ye Lin arrived as the Demon Race prepared to face him.

• White Wind transformed his hands into twin blades and attacked Li Jinhuang in the starry sky.
• White Wind repeatedly struck Li Jinhuang, worsening his wounds and forcing him to spit blood.
• Two women helped Li Jinhuang stand as he complained that his earlier losses of strength had left him at a disadvantage.
• Li Jinhuang called out to his little brother for help, and White Wind turned toward the approaching Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin arrived holding a golden sword, and White Wind ordered the Demon Race experts to kill him.

Ye Lin effortlessly destroyed White Wind’s Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies, shocking the Demon Race experts and making them believe he surpassed Li Jinhuang. White Wind questioned how the Human Race had produced another such prodigy as Ye Lin challenged him to a fight.

• White Wind sent the Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies to test Ye Lin, suspecting he was a Human Race prodigy rivaling Li Jinhuang.
• Ye Lin used two sword attacks to defeat and destroy both Yin-Yang Heaven-Treading Bodies.
• The watching Demon Race experts retreated and wondered whether Ye Lin was even stronger than Li Jinhuang.
• Ye Lin challenged White Wind, who looked between Ye Lin and Li Jinhuang in confusion.
• Li Jinhuang claimed he had only used too much strength, and Ye Lin told him not to slander him.

Ye Lin fought White Wind, who had come to punish the culprit behind the damage to the Black Tortoise Star Domain. After Ye Lin demonstrated his sword power, White Wind took him seriously and ordered the Demon Race experts to watch Li Jinhuang and the others.

• Li Jinhuang protested that his earlier poor condition had kept him from defeating White Wind.
• White Wind dismissed the feud and charged at Ye Lin with his twin blades.
• Ye Lin evaded White Wind with the Starshift Instant Prison Sword and felt close to reaching its second level.
• Ye Lin summoned the Emperor Sword and unleashed a powerful strike that blasted White Wind away, but White Wind remained unharmed and praised him.
• White Wind recognized that Ye Lin was at least as strong as Li Jinhuang and charged at him again while ordering the Demon Race experts to watch Li Jinhuang and the others.

Ye Lin fought White Wind, whose extreme speed and concealment made him impossible to track. Ye Lin opened his Sword Domain to force him out, and White Wind was sent flying backward.

• White Wind vanished into the Starry Sky, concealing himself with his speed and control over space and other forces.
• Ye Lin cut through White Wind's hidden wind blades and used the Starshift Instant Prison Sword to evade his attacks.
• Unable to locate White Wind, Ye Lin released a ring of Sword Intent that erased the wind blades around him.
• Ye Lin opened his Sword Domain and unleashed Sword Qi condensed from the laws of the Sword Dao.
• The Sword Domain shook the Starry Sky and forced White Wind to fly backward into view.

Ye Lin faced White Wind, who unleashed his Inconstant Wind Prison and forced Ye Lin to cut a path through the deadly storm. As Ye Lin tried to escape, White Wind sprung a trap and swept him into a silver-white storm.

• White Wind recognized the depth of Ye Lin’s Sword Domain and declared him stronger than Li Jinhuang.
• White Wind unleashed his Inconstant Wind Prison, filling the Starry Sky with law-infused wind blades and hiding himself within the attacks.
• Ye Lin’s Sword Domain began to shrink under the relentless assault, so he used One Sword Breaks Chaos to cut open the wind prison.
• Ye Lin rushed through the passage to escape the prison, but White Wind revealed that he had been waiting for him.
• Silver-white storms surged from every direction and swept Ye Lin away.

Li Jinhuang and Yu Ruoxi watched Ye Lin remain trapped in White Wind’s storm while discussing how difficult it would be to kill the Chaos-aptitude prodigy. As the Demon Race experts stayed back, Li Jinhuang began to fear Ye Lin was dead, but Yu Ruoxi insisted her idol could not die.

• Li Jinhuang said Ye Lin had underestimated White Wind and been caught by his cunning Wind Prison.
• Yu Ruoxi asked whether Ye Lin could defeat White Wind, and Li Jinhuang said victory might be possible but killing him was nearly impossible.
• Yu Ruoxi teased Li Jinhuang for becoming a backdrop, while the watching Demon Race experts resented the group’s relaxed attitude but dared not attack.
• When Ye Lin failed to emerge from the storm, Li Jinhuang feared he had died and blamed himself, but Yu Ruoxi rejected the thought.

Ye Lin fought White Wind inside the Wind Prison, using his Karmic Fire Red Lotus to blast apart much of the domain and escape its range. White Wind remained confident that he was invincible even outside the prison, leaving their battle unresolved.

• White Wind waited as Ye Lin survived inside the Wind Prison and taunted him to come out.
• Ye Lin emerged protected by crimson flames, and he and White Wind clashed repeatedly until their shockwaves destabilized the Wind Prison.
• Ye Lin formed a Karmic Fire Red Lotus and launched it at White Wind.
• White Wind recognized the Karmic Fire and hid beneath the Wind Prison as the lotus exploded, destroying half the domain.
• Ye Lin escaped beyond the Wind Prison while White Wind faced him with twin blades and claimed he was invincible even outside it.

Ye Lin used the Emperor Sword to banish White Wind and drove back the Demon Race experts, allowing Li Jinhuang and the two women to escape. He left the Starry Sky, while three powerful figures arrived and set out to search for White Wind.

• Ye Lin charged the Emperor Sword with chaotic power and used Returning Ruins Draw to unleash a terrifying aura.
• Ye Lin revealed that he had secretly prepared the Wind Prison, then split it open and banished White Wind into the Abyss.
• Ye Lin struck the Demon Race experts with Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger, killing the weaker ones and scattering the rest.
• Li Jinhuang grabbed the two women and fled through the Starry Sky while Ye Lin departed, saying he would return to the Primordial Era.
• Three powerful figures arrived, recognized the spatial fluctuations from Ye Lin's sword, and went to search for White Wind.

After banishing White Wind into Chaos, Ye Lin learned that Chaos-aptitude prodigies were extremely rare and realized he belonged among the strongest of them. The group parted ways, and Ye Lin went alone to a life-bearing star to study Li Jinhuang’s tortoise shell.

• Li Jinhuang asked whether White Wind was dead, and Ye Lin explained that he had only banished him into Chaos.
• Ye Lin asked how many Chaos-aptitude prodigies existed, and Li Jinhuang said there were only a little over a hundred across the Star River Cosmos.
• Li Jinhuang reassured Ye Lin that few Chaos-aptitude prodigies could match him, while Ye Lin recognized his own aptitude was among the very highest tier.
• Li Jinhuang suggested they separate because they were wanted criminals, and Yu Ruoxi and Yu Ruomin said goodbye and thanked Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin left alone and entered a life-bearing star to study the tortoise shell Li Jinhuang had given him.

Ye Lin studied the golden tortoise shell while the awakened Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar learned that he had reached the ninth level of Golden Immortal cultivation in a Primordial Era spacetime projection. The jar recognized the shell as coming from a Chaos Divine Turtle and asked whether Ye Lin planned to comprehend one of the Ten Methods of Opening Heaven from it.

• Ye Lin examined the golden tortoise shell and pondered its mysterious patterns and runes.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar awakened, noticed Ye Lin's cultivation and the surrounding chaos currents, and asked where he had ended up.
• Ye Lin told the jar that he was in a spacetime projection of the Primordial Era, brought there by someone who crossed the river of time.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar inferred that a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal had created the projection and praised Ye Lin for knowing such a powerful cultivator.
• Ye Lin reflected that he had relied chiefly on his own efforts rather than the jar, the panel, or other external aids.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar identified the shell as coming from a Chaos Divine Turtle and asked if Ye Lin sought to comprehend one of the Ten Methods of Opening Heaven.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that the turtle shell came from the Chaos Divine Turtle and bore the ten primordial Heaven-Opening Methods. Ye Lin focused on the shell, revealed its golden runes, and began comprehending them, leaving the jar astonished by his aptitude.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the Chaos Divine Turtle’s shell contained the ten Heaven-Opening Methods from which all cultivation methods in the Star River Cosmos derived.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar urged Ye Lin to focus on the turtle shell while it hovered above him.
• Ye Lin poured his mind into the shell, causing golden light and mysterious ancient runes to appear.
• Ye Lin began comprehending the runes’ intent despite not understanding their characters.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar wondered whether Ye Lin had truly comprehended one of the Heaven-Opening Methods.

While Ye Lin sat in meditation, Wang Dazhuang and his pregnant wife found shelter from a snowstorm in the warm, grass-covered space around him. After Wang Dazhuang delivered their baby, the newborn's cry was followed by an unbelievable scene.

• Ye Lin remained motionless as the seasons passed, while snow melted and grass grew within three zhang of him.
• Wang Dazhuang and his wife stumbled through the storm, mistook Ye Lin for an immortal, and asked him for shelter.
• The couple entered the warm space around Ye Lin and waited quietly for the storm to pass.
• Wang Dazhuang's wife went into labor, and he delivered the baby while trying not to disturb Ye Lin.
• The newborn cried loudly, and an unbelievable scene unfolded.

Ye Lin comprehended the Origin Eye Technique from a turtle shell, restoring life to the frozen land. He granted Wang Dazhuang’s newborn daughter the Origin Divine Body and a cultivation technique, named her Wang Xinyi, and departed.

• Ye Lin opened his eyes after comprehending the Origin Eye Technique, and the frozen mountains and river returned to life.
• Ye Lin approached Wang Dazhuang and the newborn, who grabbed his finger and smiled.
• Ye Lin bestowed the Origin Divine Body on the infant and placed a cultivation technique in her mind to appear when she turned eighteen.
• Ye Lin named the infant Wang Xinyi and vanished into the heavens, leaving multicolored lotuses blooming in his wake.

After leaving a newborn girl with a cultivation method and name, Ye Lin used the Origin Eye Technique to travel through space and appeared in the Heavenly Court. He escaped the Ninth Princess’s guards, but landed somewhere unexpected and was confronted by a woman.

• Wang Dazhuang and his wife thanked Ye Lin for bestowing a cultivation method and name on their daughter.
• Ye Lin questioned the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar about the Origin Eye Technique, and the jar concealed how little help it had actually provided.
• Ye Lin used spatial power and arrived at the Ninth Princess’s residence in the Heavenly Court.
• The guards identified Ye Lin as an intruder and began searching for him after he vanished.
• Ye Lin reappeared in an unknown place, where a woman called him a pervert.

Ye Lin accidentally appeared in Du Shuangshuang’s residence while using the Origin Eye Technique to traverse space. The Ninth Princess tried to recruit him as her companion for ten years, but he refused and left despite her warning.

• Ye Lin appeared in the residence of Du Shuangshuang, the Heavenly Court’s Ninth Princess, after his spatial traversal went awry.
• Du Shuangshuang dismissed her guards and asked Ye Lin who he was and where he came from.
• Ye Lin said he had arrived after dreaming, and Du Shuangshuang warned him that her residence was protected by powerful experts and a formation capable of trapping Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Du Shuangshuang ordered Ye Lin to stay by her side for ten years and obey her, promising to protect him throughout the Heavenly Court.
• Ye Lin rejected Du Shuangshuang’s offer and headed for the door as she warned she could have him captured and exposed.

Ye Lin accepted Du Shuangshuang’s task to win the Heavenly Court’s drifting boat race and received an Identity Token that let him move freely. He contacted Li Jinhuang to ask how to escape, but Li urged him to stay inside as the Human Race’s informant.

• Du Shuangshuang told Ye Lin to secure first place in the Heavenly Court’s drifting boat race three days later and gave him an Identity Token.
• Ye Lin left Du Shuangshuang’s residence and contacted Li Jinhuang with a Jade Talisman.
• Ye Lin told Li Jinhuang that he had infiltrated the Heavenly Court and asked how to get out.
• Li Jinhuang praised Ye Lin and urged him to remain inside, gather information, and map the Heavenly Court’s strength and teleportation formations.
• Li Jinhuang ended the connection, leaving Ye Lin with a faint ache in his teeth.

The Sword Venerable forcibly created a thread of romantic fate for Ye Lin, arguing that experiencing love would help him overcome future trials. The Third Ancestor accepted the reasoning and watched Ye Lin continue wandering on the light screen.

• The Sword Venerable told the Third Ancestor that Ye Lin’s thread of romantic fate was too unstable to control.
• The Sword Venerable replaced it with a powerful red thread and entwined the two threads of fate.
• The Sword Venerable argued that Ye Lin should experience love in advance so it would not overcome him later.
• The Third Ancestor agreed that experiencing life’s fundamental troubles could aid cultivation.
• After the Sword Venerable left, the Third Ancestor watched Ye Lin wandering on the light screen.