Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin defeated the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord by evading him until he lowered his guard, then striking with Azure Frost and Sword Qi. After the eighth trial collapsed, Ye Lin returned to the Emperor Road and sensed that his cultivation was nearing a breakthrough.

• Ye Lin evaded the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord, who could not keep pace and was steadily consuming his blood qi.
• The Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord conceded, then sat cross-legged as Ye Lin waited and approached him.
• The Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord suddenly attacked with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, but Ye Lin dodged and countered with Azure Frost and Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin's attacks destroyed the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord, causing the trial world to collapse and return Ye Lin to the Emperor Road.
• Ye Lin sensed that his cultivation was about to break through.

Ye Lin continued breaking through toward the middle stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm after just over ten thousand years of cultivation. Sword Venerable encountered Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord at the eighth stage, then watched Ye Lin's astonishing progress without interrupting him.

• Sword Venerable entered the vortex and found Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord guarding the eighth stage.
• Sword Venerable told Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord to go easy on those following, then left without fighting.
• Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord lamented that the age had produced a ruthless figure like the Ancient Human Emperor and that his Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar had betrayed him.
• Sword Venerable noticed Ye Lin nearing the middle stage of the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and waited quietly as he broke through.
• Sword Venerable reflected on the vast gap between Ye Lin's rapid advancement and other powerhouses who remained at the early stage for hundreds of thousands of epochs.

Ye Lin broke through to the mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and entered the ninth stage of the Emperor Road. There, Xuan Su explained that the stages alternated between guardian battles and Heavenly Dao assignments, and Ye Lin learned he had to kill every monster marked for his era.

• Ye Lin advanced to the mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and realized he could now contend with the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord.
• The Sword Venerable urged Ye Lin to continue, and Ye Lin entered the ninth stage through a vortex.
• Ye Lin found Xuan Su fighting among countless figures and asked why the stage differed from the previous one.
• Xuan Su explained that stages alternated between guardian battles and Heavenly Dao assignments, and that the ninth stage required killing every monster assigned to one's era.
• Ye Lin recognized golden sword marks on the monsters that belonged to his era, including the one he had already slain.

Ye Lin fought waves of monsters on the Emperor Road, discovering that killing them steadily increased his cultivation and strengthened his Sword Dao. He continued slaughtering the monsters while observing how the Great Dao of Time kept other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals in separate time and spaces.

• Ye Lin slaughtered monsters that possessed mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal cultivation but were weaker than their Star River Cosmos counterparts.
• Ye Lin discovered that killing monsters gradually increased his cultivation without harming his foundation, while dense laws of heaven and earth sent Sword Dao insights into his mind.
• Ye Lin marveled at the Emperor Road’s benefits and wondered why earlier Primordial Unity Golden Immortals had remained weak despite entering it.
• Ye Lin found that he could see and speak with other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals from different times and spaces, but his attacks could not affect them.
• Ye Lin unleashed Sword Falls Star River, destroying the surrounding monsters as his cultivation continued to rise.

Ye Lin cleared the monster-filled stage with ease, then entered a secret realm and took a mysterious black stone from an island. After finding nothing else there, he left and entered the next vortex, while Sword Venerable watched with approval.

• Ye Lin swept away the remaining monsters and entered the vortex after clearing the stage.
• Sword Venerable entered the stage and swiftly killed every monster in his path.
• Ye Lin explored a secret-realm island, endured its pressure, and found a smooth black stone on a raised platform.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar said it did not recognize the stone but advised Ye Lin to keep it, so he stored it in his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin left the island, encountered Sword Venerable, and entered the vortex without being urged.

Ye Lin defeated a mysterious woman guarding the checkpoint with his twin swords and Sword Qi, then left, judging her weaker than the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord. Sword Venerable entered next and caught the same woman’s spear between his fingers.

• A white-robed woman attacked Ye Lin with a spear as soon as he entered, but he caught its tip and challenged her.
• Ye Lin fought the woman with the Emperor Sword, Azure Frost, and Karmic Fire Red Lotus, anticipating her movements and cutting off her escape routes.
• Ye Lin appeared behind the woman and pierced her chest with both swords before grinding her into dust with Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin left, remarking that the woman was not as strong as the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord.
• Sword Venerable entered the checkpoint, caught the woman’s spear tip between two fingers, and looked at her helplessly.

Sword Venerable reunited with Bai Shuang, who remained trapped in the trial, then encountered Ye Lin and declined to explain her background. Ye Lin entered the next trial, where he could not advance along a chain and recognized the figures emerging from nearby passageways.

• Bai Shuang asked Sword Venerable to stay with her, but he promised to return for her and left through the vortex.
• Ye Lin asked Sword Venerable about Bai Shuang, and Sword Venerable only called her pitiable without explaining further.
• Ye Lin entered the next trial and found himself unable to move forward along a chain leading to a distant platform.
• Figures emerged from the surrounding passageways, and Ye Lin recognized them as people he knew.

Ye Lin entered a trial where he had to seize the pearl belonging to him while fighting off Heavenly Dao spies. He took the purple pearl and headed for the exit, but Shadowkill Venerable and another attacker pursued him.

• Xuan Su explained that Ye Lin had to claim his pearl and warned that Heavenly Dao spies could destroy it.
• Ye Lin rushed across the chains, knocked away an approaching expert, and grabbed the purple pearl from the central platform.
• Shadowkill Venerable confronted Ye Lin, who recognized the famed assassin and fled toward the vortex.
• A twin-blade attacker pursued Ye Lin, and he sensed Shadowkill Venerable threatening him from behind.

Ye Lin defeated Shadowkill and the Twin-Blade Venerable, entered the vortex, and continued along the Emperor Road. After marveling at its extraordinary cultivation environment, he stepped into the twelfth trial and recognized the old man awaiting him as Senior Sky Vault.

• Shadowkill and the Twin-Blade Venerable blocked Ye Lin from entering the vortex, but Ye Lin used Azure Frost to wound the Twin-Blade Venerable and drive them both away.
• Ye Lin spared the two opponents because he was pressed for time, then entered the vortex and returned to the Emperor Road.
• Ye Lin marveled at the Emperor Road’s cultivation environment and believed that enough time there could let him reach the Daluo Golden Immortal realm through cultivation alone.
• Ye Lin found no secret realm, entered the next vortex, and encountered an old man whose surrounding space folded and flickered.
• Ye Lin recognized the old man as Senior Sky Vault.

Ye Lin fought Senior Sky Vault, the Void Clan ancestor, in a trial arranged by the Heavenly Dao. Ye Lin’s instincts let him track Sky Vault through space and wound him, leaving Sky Vault wary of his uncanny accuracy.

• Ye Lin recognized Senior Sky Vault and realized the Heavenly Dao had placed the powerful space Dao master before him.
• Sky Vault vanished and attacked Ye Lin from behind, but Ye Lin escaped with Starshift Instant Prison Sword.
• Ye Lin used Grand Void Space-Rending Sword and sensed blood where his strike reached Sky Vault.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes and sent out Sword Qi, relying on instinct to anticipate Sky Vault’s movements.
• Ye Lin split open the distant space with another Grand Void Space-Rending Sword strike, revealing Sky Vault with a bleeding chest.
• Sky Vault questioned Ye Lin’s uncanny instincts, and Ye Lin apologized for offending him.

Ye Lin fought Sky Vault Venerable, whose mastery of space let him attack faster than Ye Lin could react. Just as Sky Vault moved to finish him, Ye Lin’s mismatched black-and-white pupils froze him in place.

• Ye Lin attacked Sky Vault, but Sky Vault appeared behind him and pierced his chest, taking his heart.
• Ye Lin regenerated and recognized that Sky Vault’s spatial abilities and speed surpassed Shadowkill Venerable’s.
• Sky Vault repeatedly emerged from shattered space to tear away Ye Lin’s limbs and wound his torso while Ye Lin waited for an opening.
• Sky Vault reached for Ye Lin’s head, but froze when he met Ye Lin’s black-and-white pupils.

Ye Lin defeated Sky Vault and left the third stage of the Emperor Road. Sword Venerable then passed through the vortex and predicted who Ye Lin would face in the stages ahead.

• Ye Lin used Grand Void Space-Rending Sword to destroy Sky Vault after catching him, then left through the vortex with his body restored.
• Sword Venerable entered the vortex and found Sky Vault, who dismissed him after admitting he had been beaten.
• Sword Venerable passed through without fighting Sky Vault, relying on their personal connection.
• Sword Venerable calculated that Ye Lin's next guardians would include a powerful figure, himself, the one above him, and the Ancient Human Emperor at the final stage.

Ye Lin entered a checkpoint where participants had to kill three people to advance, after finding no secret realm and continuing along the Emperor Road. He chose a powerful golden-glowing young man as his first target, despite the warning to reconsider.

• Ye Lin found no secret realm and entered the next vortex, sensing that he was nearing the end of the Emperor Road.
• He arrived in a vast battlefield and searched unsuccessfully for Xuan Su.
• Ye Lin asked a young man about the trial and learned that killing three people would let him pass.
• Ye Lin chose to challenge a golden-glowing young man whose aura surpassed the early Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage.
• The young man warned Ye Lin that attacking him would be a grave mistake, but Ye Lin refused to back down.

Ye Lin fought Wang Chongming, using his superior speed and strength to overwhelm him. After losing an arm, Wang Chongming fled and realized Ye Lin was a monstrous Taiyi from a later age.

• Wang Chongming introduced himself and charged at Ye Lin with a powerful punch.
• Ye Lin evaded Wang Chongming and attacked from the void with Sword Qi, revealing that he was much faster.
• Ye Lin used the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger, and Wang Chongming barely shattered the attack with a punch.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Wang Chongming and cut off one of his arms with Azure Frost.
• Wang Chongming fled after recognizing that he was no match for Ye Lin and wondered how such a powerful Taiyi had appeared in the future.

Ye Lin hunted down Wang Chongming and killed him in a clash of supreme techniques. He emerged from the void with his point secured.

• Wang Chongming fled while pleading with Ye Lin to spare him, but Ye Lin refused to let him escape.
• Ye Lin used his speed and sword to injure Wang Chongming and cut apart his attacks.
• Ye Lin bound Wang Chongming with Sword Qi and prepared the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword.
• Wang Chongming unleashed One Fist Shakes the World as Ye Lin struck with Sever, and Ye Lin's Sword Qi overwhelmed him, cleaving him into dust.
• Ye Lin emerged from the void with Azure Frost and considered his one point secured.

Ye Lin confronted a young man who had been watching his fight with Wang Chongming and chased him through the void after he tried to escape. The young man evaded Ye Lin’s attacks with the help of a flashing pearl, leaving Ye Lin to suspect it was a treasure or time-related power.

• Ye Lin spotted a young man hiding in the void and rejected his claim that he had only been observing.
• The young man tried to leave, but Ye Lin declared him a target for points and pursued him when he fled.
• Ye Lin used the Origin Eye Technique to reverse space and bring the young man’s retreating figure back into view.
• The young man escaped through the void, changing direction whenever the pearl in his hand flashed and dodging Ye Lin’s Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin considered whether the young man’s evasions came from a treasure or mastery of the laws of time.

Ye Lin pursued a young man through the Void, suspecting he carried a treasure that warned him of danger. When the young man lured him into a blood-red region, Ye Lin sensed a trap and turned away, leaving the young man scrambling to stop him.

• Ye Lin concluded that the young man's escapes were likely aided by a treasure that predicted danger and decided he wanted to seize it.
• The young man failed to shake Ye Lin's pursuit and deliberately changed direction to lead him somewhere.
• As they crossed the Void, Ye Lin noticed the surroundings turning blood-red and the nearby Primordial Unity Golden Immortals disappearing.
• Ye Lin slowed down, recognized the danger, and told the young man he would leave rather than chase him into the unknown region.
• The young man stepped out of the Void, taunted Ye Lin, then grew anxious and tried to stop him by showing him something in his hand.

Ye Lin learned that the young man carried the Heavenly Traverse Pearl, an acquired spirit treasure that could predict events guaranteed to happen, but suspected the offer was a trap and walked away. The young man also left, only to be pursued through the void by a streak of sword light.

• The young man told Ye Lin that the Heavenly Traverse Pearl could predict the future and had helped him evade capture.
• The young man claimed Ye Lin could use the pearl on Emperor Road and protect it from the Heavenly Dao by exposing it to Transcendence dust.
• Ye Lin refused to follow the young man, suspecting danger, and left after gaining useful information.
• The young man complained that another deal had fallen through, then abruptly fled into the distant void.
• A dazzling streak of sword light pursued the young man.

Ye Lin and the young man fell through collapsing space into a desolate world of volcanoes and meteors. Ye Lin restrained the young man, took the Heavenly Traverse Pearl, and remained unsure how to use it.

• The young man used the Heavenly Traverse Pearl to predict Ye Lin’s movements and trap him in collapsing space.
• Ye Lin bound the young man with law chains, and both fell into the Void.
• Ye Lin emerged in a volcanic wasteland with the young man still bound to him.
• The young man begged Ye Lin to let him go, but Ye Lin took the Heavenly Traverse Pearl from him.

Ye Lin defeated a young man and learned from his memories that he was trapped in the Battle of Annihilation, a deadly stage with a possible way out. He set off to find an escape while examining the Heavenly Traverse Pearl.

• The young man offered Ye Lin the Heavenly Traverse Pearl, but Ye Lin cut away his lower body and asserted that the pearl was already his.
• The young man begged for his life and offered to guide Ye Lin out, but Ye Lin used Soul Search to absorb his memories and cripple his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin learned that the Land of Annihilation was part of the Battle of Annihilation, where killing one person earned a point and killing three cleared the stage.
• The young man's memories revealed that escaping the Land of Annihilation's restraints was the only sliver of hope for survival.
• Ye Lin killed the twitching young man and began searching for a way out while studying the Heavenly Traverse Pearl.