Chapter Summaries

After two thousand years in the Chaos Secret Realm, Ye Lin left with treasures and prepared to break through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. Outside, he found dozens of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals watching him, but the Third Ancestor offered to escort him back to the Ancestral Hall while his allies stood behind him.

• Ye Lin finished exploring the Chaos Secret Realm and decided to leave so he could prepare for his breakthrough and seek revenge.
• Ye Lin left the realm alone, and Hong Batian followed shortly afterward, choosing to support Ye Lin instead of the other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Dozens of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals watched Ye Lin emerge, but he walked calmly toward the Third Ancestor of the Human Race.
• Ye Lin gave Hong Batian a Spatial Ring in front of the watching mighty figures, and Hong Batian agreed to help him later.
• The Third Ancestor told Ye Lin he would send him back to the Ancestral Hall so he could focus on breaking through.

Ye Lin left the Human Ancestor Hall with Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu, increasingly convinced that something was wrong with the Human Race’s ancestors. Sword Venerable rescued him from an attack by the Third Ancestor and warned that the human race was no longer safe, leaving Ye Lin seeking answers about the threat.

• Luo Yao told Ye Lin she had found nothing strange about the two ancestors, and Ye Lin apologized to them before leaving the hall with her and Lin Yunlu.
• The First Ancestor and Second Ancestor struggled against black qi, insisting Ye Lin had to become a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal to preserve the human race’s foundation.
• Sword Venerable brought Ye Lin to a cliff, where Xinyou appeared at Golden Immortal Level Nine.
• Sword Venerable warned Ye Lin that the human race was no longer safe and asked what he planned to do as his breakthrough approached.
• The Third Ancestor attacked Ye Lin with a golden palm, but Sword Venerable split it with a sword strike and ordered the attacker to leave.

Sword Venerable explained how the human race wagered its future fortune to create the Ancient Human Emperor, then suffered a long decline after he left. He said the Aberrations now threatened the remaining human Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, including the Third Ancestor.

• Sword Venerable told Ye Lin that the human forebears wagered the human race's future fortune to produce a prodigy with Chaos aptitude.
• The Ancient Human Emperor led the human race to defeat the myriad races and rule the Star River Cosmos.
• After the Ancient Human Emperor left, fortune's backlash caused human Primordial Unity Golden Immortals to fall and the human race to weaken.
• The human forebears made a deal allowing Aberrations to reside in Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and extend their lifespans.
• Sword Venerable warned Ye Lin that the Aberrations were growing stronger and the Third Ancestor of the Human Race would eventually become possessed.

Sword Venerable warned Ye Lin that the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals across the Star River Cosmos intended to kill him before his breakthrough, when the Aberrations might seize his body. Ye Lin calmly accepted the danger and asked who wanted him dead.

• Sword Venerable explained that the Aberrations coveted Ye Lin's body and would act when he began his breakthrough.
• Sword Venerable warned that the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals were plotting to eliminate Ye Lin and that even he might eventually hand him over.
• Ye Lin remained calm and resolved to refuse to die.
• Ye Lin asked Sword Venerable which Primordial Unity Golden Immortals wanted him dead.
• Sword Venerable said nearly everyone in the Star River Cosmos wanted Ye Lin dead, except him and the Void Clan's elder, and warned that the Phoenix Clan could not be trusted.

Ye Lin prepared to break through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, relying on Luo Yao and the Human Race's destiny to protect him. The Void Clan's ancestor, Sky Vault, arrived to guard him as he began his breakthrough.

• Ye Lin thanked the Sword Venerable, who sent him and Luo Yao into an unfamiliar stretch of Starry Sky.
• Ye Lin asked Luo Yao to have Great River protect him if anyone attacked, and she agreed.
• Ye Lin drew the Human Emperor Sword and gathered the Human Race's destiny into a golden wall around himself.
• Sky Vault appeared and promised to hold off anyone who approached while Ye Lin broke through.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes to begin the breakthrough as Sky Vault urged him to calm his mind.

The Human Race's three patriarchs remained chained in a sea of fire so they would not interfere with Ye Lin's breakthrough. As Ye Lin prepared to advance, Sky Vault blocked a group of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals who sought to stop him, and one of them attacked.

• The Human Race's three patriarchs stayed bound by the rune-covered chains they had devised, hoping to help Ye Lin by keeping themselves from interfering.
• Ye Lin raised his aura to its peak as Luo Yao watched nearby and ate Pan Yao.
• Sky Vault blocked more than a hundred Primordial Unity Golden Immortals from approaching Ye Lin.
• A Primordial Unity Golden Immortal threatened to suppress Sky Vault and wipe out the Void Clan if he refused to step aside.
• A Primordial Unity Golden Immortal attacked Sky Vault after he rejected their demands.

Sword Venerable intervened when the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals moved against Sky Vault, explaining that he had come to protect his only remaining old friend. The others urged him to leave rather than risk injury, recalling his unmatched record apart from his ancient defeat by the Ancient Human Emperor.

• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals attacked, but a streak of Sword Qi forced them back.
• The group recognized the Shuo Feng Sword and Sword Venerable, who approached and stood between them and Sky Vault.
• Sword Venerable said he had come because Sky Vault was his only remaining old friend and agreed they would part ways after the battle.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals offered to let Sword Venerable leave with Sky Vault and warned that an injury could ruin his chance to reach the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• They recalled that Sword Venerable had once fought the Ancient Human Emperor and lost by half a move, but had never otherwise been defeated.

Ye Lin began his breakthrough while the Sword Venerable, Sky Vault, and three Phoenix Clan ancestors protected him from fifty-six Primordial Unity Golden Immortals. As the two sides clashed, Ye Lin remained undisturbed, and the Sword Venerable mocked the attackers as the breakthrough continued.

• Ye Lin closed his eyes and began breaking through as three thousand laws gathered around him, frightening demons, devils, monsters, and fiends across the Star River Cosmos.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals moved to attack, but three Phoenix Clan ancestors arrived to defend Ye Lin alongside the Sword Venerable and Sky Vault.
• The five defenders faced fifty-six Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, and a battle erupted whose terrifying fluctuations shook the Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin continued his breakthrough behind the defenders as golden lotuses and mysterious runes appeared around and upon him.
• The Sword Venerable mocked the attackers, saying Ye Lin would be able to kill them once he reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Sword Venerable and the Phoenix Clan fought to help Ye Lin, but the countless Primordial Unity Golden Immortals attacking him overwhelmed them. They withdrew, leaving Ye Lin alone to face his enemies as he continued his breakthrough.

• Sword Venerable fought the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, and their battle shattered starfields and threw the laws and time into chaos.
• As their enemies fought more fiercely, Sword Venerable and the others began retreating.
• Sword Venerable took the grievously wounded Sky Vault and fled, saying he had done all he could for Ye Lin.
• The three members of the Phoenix Clan withdrew to the Phoenix Clan's Ancestral Land after declaring their duty fulfilled.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals focused on Ye Lin, leaving him to face them alone.

The Heavenly Dao shielded Ye Lin from the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, who had attacked after everyone else left. Unable to harm him through the barrier, they decided to attack it together before Ye Lin could break through.

• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals prepared to kill Ye Lin, and one struck him with a palm.
• The Heavenly Dao raised a wall of Great Dao power that blocked the attack and protected Ye Lin.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals questioned the Heavenly Dao, but it gave them no response.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals worried that Ye Lin would take revenge if he reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals agreed to attack the barrier and try to break it.

Sword Venerable and Sky Vault discussed how the Heavenly Dao protected Ye Lin without violating Boundary Sea laws, while Hong Batian’s father urged him to grow stronger. Hong Batian left, having done all he could for Ye Lin, as Ye Lin faced an unexpectedly sturdy obstacle.

• Sword Venerable and Sky Vault realized that the Heavenly Dao’s intervention would help Ye Lin remember his enemies and allow the Star River Cosmos to rid itself of parasites.
• Sword Venerable explained that the Heavenly Dao had not broken Boundary Sea laws because Ye Lin’s destiny had never belonged to the Star River Cosmos.
• At the Phoenix Clan, Hong Batian’s father assured him that the Heavenly Dao’s protection meant Ye Lin would be safe and told Hong Batian to work harder.
• Hong Batian reflected that he had fulfilled his promise to Ye Lin and left the rest to him.
• Ye Lin wondered why something was so sturdy.

Ye Lin broke through to the threshold of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal while the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals failed to break through the Heavenly Dao’s barrier. As his lightning tribulation began, he vowed to settle accounts with them and walked into the storm.

• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals bombarded the Great Dao wall but could not move it, while Luo Yao and the Great River watched.
• Ye Lin’s aura reached its limit, and he shattered a shackle within himself as thunder gathered in the Starry Sky.
• The wall of the Great Dao broke, and the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals stopped attacking when Ye Lin’s lightning tribulation began.
• Ye Lin declared that he would enter Primordial Unity, reached the realm’s threshold, and warned the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals that he would settle accounts with them.
• Ye Lin walked into the depths of the lightning tribulation.

Ye Lin entered the thunder tribulation to break through to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm while the gathered Primordial Unity Golden Immortals argued over how to stop him. Their attempt to interfere was punished by the Heavenly Dao, leaving them unsure how to prevent his breakthrough.

• The Great River carried a little girl away as the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals debated whether to stop Ye Lin.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals realized they had no way to disrupt Ye Lin's tribulation while the Heavenly Dao protected him.
• Thunder rolled across the Star River Cosmos as Ye Lin faced the powerful tribulation.
• One Primordial Unity Golden Immortal attacked the thunder tribulation, but a violet divine bolt struck him and left golden blood in the starry sky.
• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals recognized that the Heavenly Dao would punish anyone who interfered and wondered whether to let Ye Lin break through.

Ye Lin completed his tribulation and entered the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, triggering a day of miraculous changes throughout the Star River Cosmos. He sensed a few remaining enemies but left them alone as he turned to more urgent business.

• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals abandoned their plans and fled, leaving Ye Lin to face the ongoing lightning tribulation alone.
• After a year, the lightning tribulation dissipated, and Ye Lin emerged as a white-haired youth with the power of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Great Dao music, golden lotuses, and renewed Immortal Qi spread across the Star River Cosmos, briefly giving its hidden survivors hope that the calamity had passed.
• The cosmic phenomena faded after a day, and Ye Lin tested his immense strength, finding that his divine sense could cover the entire Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin sensed a few remaining enemies but dismissed them because he had more important business to attend to.

Ye Lin reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, gaining the power to stand unchallenged in the Star River Cosmos. After thanking the Sword Venerable and Sky Vault, he set out to learn whether the Human Race’s three ancestors could be saved from the aberrations bound to them.

• Ye Lin’s cultivation advanced to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, and his luck rose to 300 billion.
• The Sword Venerable congratulated Ye Lin, and Ye Lin thanked him and the wounded Sky Vault for their help.
• Ye Lin gave Sky Vault a healing sacred lotus and shared Immortal Peaches and Immortal Peach Wine with the Sword Venerable.
• Ye Lin said he would visit the three ancestors of the Human Race to learn their condition, and the Sword Venerable warned that removing the aberrations might require killing them.
• Ye Lin accepted that he might have to act if the ancestors could not be saved, then bid the seniors farewell and departed.

Ye Lin visited the three human ancestors, who were bound and infected by a parasitic force, and learned they wanted him to end their suffering. After they revealed their true, savage selves and tried to bargain for release, Ye Lin was left facing the choice of whether to kill them.

• The three human ancestors apologized to Ye Lin for failing to help him and entrusted the future of the human race to him.
• Ye Lin admitted he could not cure their affliction, while resolving to foster a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal for the human race after reaching the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• The ancestors asked Ye Lin to kill them so they could finally rest.
• The ancestors turned savage and warned Ye Lin that killing them would bring him infamy among humans who did not know the truth.
• The parasitic force offered to cooperate with Ye Lin and help him defeat other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals if he released them.

Ye Lin killed the corrupted Three Ancestors of the Human Race with the Human Emperor Sword and took control of the Human Race's destiny. Their deaths caused bloody rain across the Star River Cosmos, alerting everyone that a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal had fallen.

• Ye Lin rejected the Aberrations' offer and said he did not care about infamy.
• Ye Lin severed the First Ancestor of the Human Race's head with the Human Emperor Sword.
• Ye Lin suppressed the three headless bodies in the sea of fire and reinforced the chains sealing them.
• Ye Lin destroyed the three Aberrations' heads with the Human Emperor Sword, killing the Three Ancestors of the Human Race.
• Ye Lin gained full control of the Human Race's destiny, and bloody rain swept across the Star River Cosmos as heaven and earth mourned the fallen Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.

Ye Lin killed the Third Ancestor of the Human Race, triggering a violent backlash in human fortune as he went to the Ancestral Hall to suppress it with the race’s three great fortune treasures. He arrived before the gathered human powerhouses, who deferred to him.

• Primordial Unity Golden Immortals across the Star River Cosmos discussed the blood rain and feared that Ye Lin had begun killing them.
• Ye Lin put away the Human Emperor Sword after killing the Third Ancestor of the Human Race.
• The Third Ancestor’s death left human fortune without its suppressor, and newborns across the human race began dying from its backlash.
• Ye Lin entered the Ancestral Hall, where human powerhouses bowed to him.
• Ye Lin prepared to use the Kongtong Seal, Human Emperor Sword, and Human Emperor Banner to stabilize human fortune.

Ye Lin told the Human Race’s powerful cultivators that the three ancestors had fallen and that he would temporarily oversee the race’s affairs. He revealed that he had killed them to repay the Human Race’s karmic debt, then discovered the Ancient Human Emperor’s blood, the race’s hidden trump card.

• A Human Race cultivator told Ye Lin that they had come to ask the three ancestors about the Human Race’s destiny.
• Ye Lin announced that the three ancestors had fallen and that he would temporarily oversee the Human Race’s affairs.
• Ye Lin approached the Kongtong Seal and Human Emperor Banner as the gathered cultivators questioned how the ancestors had died.
• Ye Lin said that he had killed the three ancestors, and the cultivators asked him why.
• Ye Lin explained that the ancestors had willingly died to repay the Human Race’s karmic debt.
• Ye Lin noticed a drop of golden blood and recognized it as the Ancient Human Emperor’s essence blood, the Human Race’s trump card.

Ye Lin suppressed the Human Race's restless destiny after the three ancestors passed away and promised to protect the Human Race from Primordial Unity Golden Immortals while he remained in the Star River Cosmos. He then went to the Phoenix Clan to thank those who had helped him, before beginning to settle accounts with his enemies.

• Ye Lin suppressed the Human Race's destiny with the three destiny treasures, and the Human Race powerhouses realized the three ancestors were gone.
• Ye Lin told the Human Race to continue as before and promised that no Primordial Unity Golden Immortal would attack them while he remained in the Star River Cosmos.
• The Human Race powerhouses resolved to nurture their younger generation and prepare for the dangers ahead.
• Ye Lin crossed the Starry Sky as Aberrations, monsters, and Evil Cultivators hid from him.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Phoenix Clan, where a middle-aged man welcomed him, and he went to thank those who had helped him before settling accounts with his enemies.