Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin entered the Eighth City Defense Army’s hall and learned that the previous Deputy City Lord had vanished on the Purple Sea. As he took the golden throne, he detected Soul-Bewildering Incense in the hall and remained wary of its unknown effects.

• Luo Song explained that the previous City Lord had captured the two Divine Dragons at the entrance and taken their Primordial Spirits.
• Luo Song told Ye Lin that the previous Deputy City Lord had disappeared on the Purple Sea and that the three City Lords had eventually stopped investigating.
• Ye Lin rebuked the dead dragons, causing their draconic might to vanish, and Luo Song was astonished by his power.
• Ye Lin entered the hall, sat on the golden throne, and recognized the familiar Soul-Bewildering Incense invading his sea of consciousness.
• Figures began entering the hall while Ye Lin remained troubled by the incense’s unknown purpose.

Ye Lin took command of the Eighth City Defense Army and learned that it hunted people called rats who opposed Heavenly Capital City. After dismissing the army’s leaders, he had three captured rats brought to him and sent their captor away so he could question them in private.

• Luo Rulie introduced the sixteen squad leaders of the Eighth City Defense Army to Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin asked about the army’s duties, and a young squad leader explained that it hunted rats who spread rebellion and could evade quasi-saint investigations.
• The young man said he had captured three rats, and Ye Lin ordered him to bring them in.
• Ye Lin dismissed the squad leaders and Luo Rulie, then had the young man bring the three bound captives to the hall.
• Ye Lin ordered the young man to leave so he could question the three rats alone.

Ye Lin questioned three captured rebels about the secrets of Heavenly Capital City and offered to help them in exchange for information. One woman tested his claim that he was trapped in the city, then believed him after a jade bottle glowed blue.

• Ye Lin asked the three prisoners why they hated him, and one woman called him a lackey.
• The young man warned that restrictions in their minds prevented Soul Search, even by a quasi-Saint.
• Ye Lin said he wanted to uncover Heavenly Capital City's secrets and escape, and offered the prisoners their lives if they told him what they knew.
• One woman asked Ye Lin to release her so she could verify his story, and he cut her chains.
• The woman used a jade bottle that glowed blue, then said she believed Ye Lin.

Ye Lin learned that Soul-Bewildering Incense gradually controlled Primordial Spirits and transformed bodies so Heavenly Capital City could refine Daluo Golden Immortals into human pills. He questioned the exhausted woman about the city's purpose and its powerful backers.

• Ye Lin examined the jade bottle and deduced that the woman had not been in Heavenly Capital City long, confirming her account was true.
• The woman explained how Soul-Bewildering Incense eroded Primordial Spirits and altered bodies before victims were refined into human pills.
• The woman revealed that the previous deputy city lord of the Eighth City Defense Army had discovered the secret, tried to overthrow Heavenly Capital City, and been made into a human pill.
• Ye Lin learned that the incense took three hundred years to control a Daluo Golden Immortal and wondered why Chu Qinxin seemed affected after only a few days.
• Ye Lin asked whether Heavenly Capital City had always operated this way and challenged the woman about the quasi-saint power behind its restrictions.

A woman told Ye Lin that three foreign Quasi-Saints had seized Heavenly Capital City, trapped its inhabitants, and used them to refine pills. The three survivors sought the Three-Life Sacred Lotus to heal the wounded Qilin Saint, and Ye Lin considered whether helping him could bring a reward.

• The woman revealed that three foreign Quasi-Saints had ambushed Heavenly Capital City's original rulers and taken control of the city.
• She explained that the new rulers had sealed the city, replaced those who knew the truth, and used Soul-Bewildering Incense to refine pills from its inhabitants.
• Ye Lin asked what the survivors hoped to accomplish and noted that they were too weak to overthrow Heavenly Capital City.
• The three survivors said they wanted the Three-Life Sacred Lotus to heal the Qilin Saint, who could expose the city's crimes if restored to health.
• Ye Lin considered saving the gravely wounded Qilin Saint for a possible reward, but decided he needed to think carefully.

Ye Lin learned that the Three-Life Sacred Lotus could help restore the Qilin Saint and agreed to consider stealing it from Heavenly Capital City. After obtaining a way to resist Soul-Bewildering Incense, he freed the three prisoners and told them to escape on their own.

• The three prisoners told Ye Lin that the Three-Life Sacred Lotus was in the Central Land and could restore the Qilin Saint with their secret art.
• Ye Lin agreed to consider stealing the lotus, reasoning that Luo Yao could take him away if the plan failed.
• The woman gave Ye Lin a bottle containing the Qilin Saint's blood to block Soul-Bewildering Incense and warned him to avoid the three city lords.
• A young man entered and demanded that Ye Lin execute the prisoners, but Ye Lin rebuked him and sent him flying with a wave of his hand.
• Ye Lin broke the prisoners' chains and told them he could not protect them for long, urging them to escape on their own.

After Team Leader Wang reported Deputy City Lord Ye to the three City Lords, they decided to monitor Ye Lin and use him to find Qilin. Ye Lin went to the entrance of the Central Land, intending to infiltrate it without being detected.

• Team Leader Wang left the great hall after Ye Lin's words injured him, then accused Ye Lin of shielding their enemies and secretly colluding with them before the three City Lords.
• The three City Lords dismissed Wang's complaint and ordered that Ye Lin be watched as a possible way to find Qilin.
• Ye Lin walked toward the Central Land, relying on his concealing panel to keep powerful figures from tracking him.
• Two sword-carrying Primordial Unity Golden Immortals stopped Ye Lin at a strange gate and warned him that the area was restricted.
• Ye Lin turned away, suspecting stronger guards were hidden nearby and deciding he needed to enter without causing a disturbance.

Ye Lin devised a plan to use his clones to distract the guards at a gate into the Central Land while he infiltrated the city. He secretly took control of Delusion and waited nearby as Lin Xian and Xiaoyao began their diversion.

• Ye Lin scouted the Central Land and found that its guarded gates were his only way inside.
• Ye Lin decided not to ask Luo Yao for help and planned to use his clones to draw the gate guards away.
• Ye Lin sent out his three clones, leaving one at his residence as an alibi while Lin Xian and Xiaoyao prepared the diversion.
• Ye Lin took control of Delusion and hid in an alley near the city gate.
• Lin Xian and Xiaoyao released powerful, unfamiliar Law Great Luo auras as they attacked the enormous building.

Ye Lin used his avatars to create chaos in Heavenly Capital City, then slipped through its gates and infiltrated the Central Land. He headed toward the suspected human-pill refinement site while the city’s officials investigated the attack.

• Lin Xian and Delusion set buildings ablaze and fought toward Heavenly Capital City’s gates, drawing out the city’s experts.
• Ye Lin passed through the gates unnoticed while the experts confronted the avatars, then recalled the avatars and left them bewildered.
• Ye Lin moved through the sparsely populated Central Land toward the suspected place where Daluo Golden Immortals were refined into pills.
• The deputy city lord went to report the strange attack to the three city lords.

Ye Lin entered the enormous hidden tower to verify the giants’ human-pill refining and steal the Three-Life Sacred Lotus for the Qilin Saint. He found the lotus immediately on the second floor but hesitated to take it, fearing the City Lord would discover him.

• Ye Lin found a sky-piercing tower hidden from outside by spatial laws and slipped inside.
• He saw a massive pill furnace and giant humanoids, confirming the claim that they were refining human pills.
• Ye Lin flew up the tower unnoticed, intending to steal the Three-Life Sacred Lotus and search for other treasures.
• On the second floor, Ye Lin found the Three-Life Sacred Lotus and worried that taking it would expose him to the City Lord.

Ye Lin cautiously explored the giant tower, leaving the Three-Life Sacred Lotus untouched for now and discovering a sealed Quasi-Saint Evil Demon and a trove of spiritual herbs. He continued to the next level, where a powerful stench of blood greeted him.

• Ye Lin decided to postpone taking the Three-Life Sacred Lotus until after he had plundered the tower.
• Ye Lin incapacitated the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals guarding an iron chest, then learned from a purple-robed young man that it imprisoned a Quasi-Saint Evil Demon.
• Ye Lin slapped the young man away and suppressed his cultivation, choosing not to kill him in case doing so alerted the three city lords.
• Ye Lin planned to return for the lotus and open the chest later, hoping the Evil Demon would distract the three city lords.
• Ye Lin swept the spiritual herbs and other resources on the next level into his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin reached another level and encountered an overwhelming stench of blood.

Ye Lin found a tower filled with corpses but could not pass the quasi-saint power blocking the upper floors. He freed the Evil Demon from its box and hid nearby, waiting for it to cause chaos so he could escape.

• Ye Lin saw human corpses suspended above a floor covered in blood and suspected they would be refined into human pills.
• Ye Lin reached a floor blocked by quasi-saint power and turned back because he could not go farther.
• Ye Lin killed the youth guarding the imprisoned Evil Demon and cut through the chains around its box with the Godslayer Sword.
• Ye Lin pried open the box and quickly fled, while the Evil Demon absorbed the youth's corpse and released terrifying demonic energy.
• Ye Lin put away the Three-Life Sacred Lotus, left the tower, and hid while waiting for the Evil Demon to make its move.

Ye Lin freed a terrifying Quasi-Saint demon in Central Land, escaped the spreading demonic qi, and returned to his residence with what he needed. Several Deputy City Lords questioned him about his whereabouts, but Chu Qinxin intervened, and Ye Lin turned the interrogation back on Luo Rulie.

• A freed Quasi-Saint demon unleashed purple demonic qi across Central Land, killing cultivators, then sent Ye Lin to the outskirts and warned that he would kill him next time.
• Ye Lin returned to his residence and prepared to search for the Qilin Saint, while the three City Lords rushed toward Central Land to suppress the demon.
• Several Deputy City Lords confronted Ye Lin in his garden and demanded proof that he had stayed home, with Luo Rulie among them.
• Chu Qinxin arrived and vouched that Ye Lin had never left his residence, challenging the group for questioning a Deputy City Lord without authorization.
• Luo Rulie claimed the group had acted out of concern for Heavenly Capital City, and Ye Lin asked where Luo and the other Deputy City Lords had been that night.

Ye Lin confronted Luo Rulie and the other deputy city lords after they investigated him, while Chu Qinxin’s appearance cleared his name. Luo Rulie apologized and left, and Ye Lin asked Chu Qinxin why she had stopped him from attacking.

• Ye Lin challenged Luo Rulie to prove his own innocence and suggested the deputy city lords might have staged the incident.
• A young man accused Ye Lin of talking nonsense, and Ye Lin noticed the Soul-Bewildering Incense seemed to have damaged the group’s minds.
• The young man began to reveal that Ye Lin would have been locked in the dungeon, but Luo Rulie slapped him and apologized to Ye Lin.
• Luo Rulie left with the others, and Ye Lin put away Azure Frost after they had gone.
• Ye Lin asked Chu Qinxin why she had stopped him from attacking the group.

Chu Qinxin warned Ye Lin that the three City Lords would suspect him and urged him to prepare before the Evil Demon was suppressed. After Chu Qinxin revealed she was also Elder Chu and departed, Ye Lin set out to save the Qilin Saint.

• Chu Qinxin told Ye Lin that killing the captives would alert the three City Lords and that he had only one shichen before the Evil Demon was suppressed.
• Chu Qinxin identified herself as both Chu Qinxin and Elder Chu, then vanished.
• Ye Lin questioned Chu Qinxin’s strange behavior but decided to focus on saving the Qilin Saint for a favor.
• Ye Lin left the manor and reflected on the disasters that had followed his arrival in Heavenly March Prefecture and Heavenly Capital City.
• Ye Lin realized the Evil Demon was at the half-step Quasi-Saint realm and wondered at the strength of Quasi-Saints.

Ye Lin presented the Three-Life Sacred Lotus to three captives and forced them to lead him to the Qilin Saint. They left the city defense army headquarters as Ye Lin killed anyone who tried to stop them, heading toward an unknown area of Heavenly Capital City.

• Ye Lin showed the three captives the Three-Life Sacred Lotus and demanded that they take him to the Qilin Saint.
• The captives agreed, and Ye Lin broke their chains and used Chaos Qi to restore their strength.
• Three middle-aged men tried to block their way, and Ye Lin killed them with Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin and the three captives left the headquarters and traveled through Heavenly Capital City, where Ye Lin killed those who obstructed them.

Luo Rulie and the Shadow Guards discussed how to capture Ye Lin and place shackles on his Primordial Spirit after Chu Qinxin stopped their attempt to detain him. They decided they had to proceed carefully because Chu Qinxin was favored by the City Lords and the other Deputy City Lords could become suspicious.

• Luo Rulie learned that Ye Lin and Chu Qinxin were fellow disciples from the Myriad Heavens Divine Sect.
• Luo Rulie ordered the Shadow Guards to find an excuse to capture Ye Lin and refine his Primordial Spirit before he uncovered Heavenly Capital City's secrets.
• The Shadow Guards acknowledged that Chu Qinxin's intervention had disrupted their plan to detain Ye Lin.
• A Shadow Guard suggested that Ye Lin might have caused a recent major event in the Central Land, prompting Luo Rulie to ask what he meant.
• Luo Rulie and the Shadow Guards agreed they could not seize Ye Lin by force because Chu Qinxin protected him and the other Deputy City Lords might grow suspicious.

Ye Lin escaped into a hidden space after Luo Rulie ordered Heavenly Capital City sealed and searched. The men who brought him there claimed he could save the Qilin Saint with the Three-Life Sacred Lotus and could be trusted.

• A messenger reported that Ye Lin had vanished, many Eighth City Defense Army experts were dead, and the five captains had disappeared.
• Luo Rulie ordered the Shadow Guards and Deputy City Lords to guard the walls, activated the city-protecting grand formation, and led a search for Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin entered a vortex in an alley with three men and emerged in a vast hidden space filled with hostile onlookers.
• A furious middle-aged man confronted Tianyi and the other two men for bringing Ye Lin there.
• Tianyi said Ye Lin could save the Qilin Saint because he possessed the Three-Life Sacred Lotus and was not controlled by the three fiends.

Ye Lin used the Three-Life Sacred Lotus to make Ling Fan take him to meet the Qilin Saint. Ling Fan agreed after Ye Lin threatened to leave, and the two entered a dark passage.

• Ling Fan calmed down when Ye Lin mentioned the Three-Life Sacred Lotus and asked to see it.
• Ye Lin showed Ling Fan the lotus, then put it away and said he wanted to meet the Qilin Saint.
• Ling Fan offered to help Ye Lin escape Heavenly Capital City, but Ye Lin insisted that he be taken to the Qilin Saint.
• Ye Lin warned that he would leave with the lotus if Ling Fan refused, and Ling Fan agreed to lead him.
• Ye Lin followed Ling Fan into a pitch-black passage.

Ye Lin followed Ling Fan to a hidden chamber and was offered a trade by the supposedly dying Qilin Saint, but he saw through their deception and attacked. The Qilin Saint and Ling Fan escaped the strike, and Ling Fan asked how Ye Lin had uncovered their ruse.

• Ling Fan led Ye Lin through a passage to the secret chamber where the Qilin Saint was hiding.
• Ling Fan claimed the Qilin Saint had been wounded by three Evil Demons and introduced Ye Lin as the bearer of the Three-Life Sacred Lotus.
• Ye Lin offered the lotus in exchange for cultivation resources, but the Qilin Saint reached for it and the lotus vanished, revealing Azure Frost.
• Ye Lin attacked the Qilin Saint, who dodged to Ling Fan's side as his saintly might failed to affect Ye Lin.
• Ling Fan asked Ye Lin how he had seen through their deception.