Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin cultivated in Divine Capital City for five years while the Four Great Families and City Lord Mansion hunted powerful cultivators outside the city. When he wondered how to expand the operation, Ye Xin arrived with a smiling middle-aged man.

• Ye Lin began cultivating at an inn, still wary of the Spirit King despite the gifts he had received.
• The Four Great Families formed hunting squads, and the City Lord Mansion sent troops to capture powerful cultivators outside the city.
• Ye Lin remained in seclusion for five years, but his Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation barely improved despite his resources.
• Ye Lin wondered how many cultivators had been captured and considered expanding the operation.
• Ye Xin opened Ye Lin’s door, bringing a smiling middle-aged man with an eight-shaped mustache.

Wang Mingyang of the Wang Family visited Ye Lin to offer a large shipment of living beings for trade. Ye Lin agreed to take them all but insisted on inspecting them first, and Wang Mingyang led him to do so.

• Wang Mingyang introduced himself to Ye Lin as a Wang Family elder and explained that his family had captured living beings for him over several years.
• Wang Mingyang said the family head had sent him to make a transaction and listed three Law Daluo, eleven Dao Fruit Daluo, hundreds of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, and over ten thousand other cultivators.
• Ye Lin agreed he could take the entire shipment but said he needed to inspect the goods first.
• Wang Mingyang agreed and invited Ye Lin to come with him.

Wang Mingyang led Ye Lin to a sealed gorge filled with captured experts and proposed cooperating with the secret realm’s living beings. Ye Lin rejected the request to introduce him to them, leaving Wang Mingyang’s attempt to form a three-way trade unresolved.

• Wang Mingyang invited Ye Lin to inspect his goods, and Ye Lin brought Ye Xin along as a precaution.
• Wang Mingyang removed the seals around an unfamiliar gorge, revealing experts of many races, including early-stage Daluo Golden Immortals, bound by chains.
• Ye Lin agreed to trade for the captives, but Wang Mingyang said he wanted no resources and asked where Ye Lin planned to take them.
• Wang Mingyang revealed that he wanted to cooperate with the living beings of the secret realm through Ye Lin and proposed a three-party trade.
• Ye Lin refused to connect Wang Mingyang with the people behind him, while Wang Mingyang tried to persuade him by promising the Wang Family’s favor.

Ye Lin rejected Wang Mingyang’s proposal to cut him out and deal directly with the Spirit King, insisting that Wang Mingyang either sell him the goods or leave. Wang Mingyang accepted ten treasures in the trade and departed, hoping they could cooperate again.

• Wang Mingyang offered Ye Lin a share of the Wang Family’s profits if Ye Lin introduced him to the Spirit King.
• Ye Lin refused, explaining that he would buy Wang Mingyang’s goods but would not let him bypass their existing arrangement.
• Wang Mingyang asked what price Ye Lin would offer for the goods he had brought.
• Ye Lin presented ten treasures imbued with the power of creation and argued that they were sufficient payment.
• Wang Mingyang accepted the ten treasures, stored them in his Spatial Ring, and left while expressing hope for future cooperation.

Ye Lin returned to Divine Capital City, completed a trade with the Four Great Families and Sun Sheng, then headed for the secret realm while expecting Wang Mingyang to follow. He exposed Wang Mingyang in hiding, and Wang Mingyang proposed that they cooperate separately with the secret realm’s creatures.

• Ye Lin suspected Wang Mingyang was plotting against him and resolved to remain vigilant.
• Ye Lin gathered the chained creatures and returned to Divine Capital City.
• Ye Lin traded with the Four Great Families and Sun Sheng, then took the creatures toward the secret realm.
• Ye Lin sensed someone following him and called out to Wang Mingyang, who emerged from hiding.
• Wang Mingyang denied bearing ill intent and proposed that he and Ye Lin cooperate with the secret realm’s creatures without interfering with each other.

Ye Lin refused Wang Mingyang’s offer to cooperate and warned him to stop following him. He entered the secret realm to deliver five years’ worth of living beings to the Spirit King and told him the Wang Family had taken an interest in him.

• Ye Lin rejected Wang Mingyang’s proposal and warned him not to follow again.
• Wang Mingyang left, vowing to deal with Ye Lin, and Ye Xin departed after confirming Wang Mingyang was gone.
• Ye Lin entered the secret realm and reached the underground space sealed by the Spirit King’s restriction.
• Ye Lin handed the Spirit King the living beings he had gathered over five years.
• Ye Lin told the Spirit King that the Wang Family, led by a quasi-saint expert, had approached him about cooperation.

Ye Lin agreed to bring Wang Mingyang to the Spirit King, who wanted to negotiate transactions through Ye Lin and promised him ten percent of their value. The Spirit King then took Ye Lin to the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s grand gathering and explained that its underground home was overcrowded, though its inhabitants refused to move to the surface.

• The Spirit King asked Ye Lin to bring Wang Mingyang to him and promised to route any deals through Ye Lin, giving him ten percent of their value.
• Ye Lin agreed, recognizing that Wang Mingyang might cause him trouble after their earlier disagreement.
• The Spirit King invited Ye Lin to the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s once-in-a-million-years grand gathering.
• The Spirit King led Ye Lin through a bustling city where its residents and former vassal races greeted him respectfully.
• The Spirit King explained that the underground population had grown too large, but its inhabitants did not want to move to the surface.

Ye Lin questioned how the underground realm’s creation energy and resources remained inexhaustible, and the Spirit King led him to reveal their source. Ye Lin saw the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s World Seed and recognized it as the origin of the Great Dao of Creation.

• Ye Lin wondered how the underground realm could sustain such abundant resources despite its vast population of powerful beings.
• The Spirit King praised Ye Lin for asking the crucial question and offered to show him the source of the realm’s abundance.
• The Spirit King led Ye Lin away from the city, where Ye Lin sensed numerous Zenith Heaven auras and several powerful Quasi-Saints.
• The Spirit King revealed the glowing World Seed, the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s absolute treasure and source of the realm’s resources.
• Ye Lin recognized the World Seed as the origin of the Great Dao of Creation.

The Spirit King explained that the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan survived through its World Seed, which sustained the secret realm with abundant resources. He told Ye Lin that strict rules and the clan’s control had prevented any major wars, then took him to the White King Palace for a drink.

• The Spirit King said the clan’s ancestor had brought back and refined the World Seed, making it the clan’s supreme treasure and the reason it had endured.
• He explained that other long-lasting secret realms also relied on treasures to sustain themselves and their inhabitants.
• Ye Lin doubted the Spirit King’s claim that no wars had ever occurred in the underground realm.
• The Spirit King said abundant resources, a ban on fighting, and the clan’s authority had prevented major wars, though minor disputes still happened.
• The Spirit King pulled Ye Lin toward the White King Palace to have a drink.

The Spirit King brought Ye Lin to the White King Palace to introduce him to the gathered clan members and ease his doubts. Ye Lin accepted five Succubus Race maids and tasted the wine, only to find it terrible.

• The Spirit King led Ye Lin into the crowded White King Palace, where the gathered toads bowed to him.
• The Spirit King introduced Ye Lin as his human little brother and asked the clan members to take Human Race forms.
• Ye Lin sat beside the Spirit King on a seat just below the throne.
• Five Succubus Race maids approached and began attending to Ye Lin at the Spirit King's invitation.
• Ye Lin accepted a cup of wine, tasted it, and found it disgusting.

Ye Lin offered the Spirit King a jar of Immortal Peach Wine after the Spirit King served him the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s treasured wine. The Spirit King loved it and kept the jar for himself, leaving the other powerhouses eyeing Ye Lin for more.

• The Spirit King asked Ye Lin why he looked unhappy after serving him the clan’s treasured wine.
• Ye Lin gave the Spirit King a jar of Immortal Peach Wine to taste.
• The Spirit King opened the jar, savored a sip, and declared the wine far better than their Immortal Brew.
• The Spirit King put the jar away and refused to share it with the gathered powerhouses.
• The Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan powerhouses turned their gazes toward Ye Lin.

Ye Lin shared Immortal Peach Wine with the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan experts, who praised it and asked to trade for more. He told the Spirit King he had little wine left and would not sell it, while the Spirit King grew annoyed at the guests’ insults toward Immortal Brew.

• The Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan experts asked Ye Lin to trade them more Immortal Peach Wine.
• Ye Lin gave each expert a jar, despite having only a few thousand jars left.
• The Spirit King asked whether Ye Lin would sell the wine, and Ye Lin explained that he had little stock and intended to keep it.
• The experts praised Immortal Peach Wine and compared Immortal Brew unfavorably to horse piss.
• The Spirit King silently fumed as the wine’s fragrance spread through White King Palace.

After the banquet, Ye Lin left Spirit King's secret realm to return to Divine Capital City and check on Luo Yao. Spirit King concluded that Ye Lin had passed his test with the succubi, while Ye Lin remained puzzled about what Spirit King had intended.

• Spirit King urged Ye Lin to stay, but Ye Lin said he had to leave to protect his younger sister from Elder Wang.
• Spirit King promised to protect Ye Lin's sister and threatened to destroy the Wang Family if Elder Wang harmed her.
• After Ye Lin left, Spirit King said he trusted his little brother and stopped testing him with the succubi.
• Ye Lin realized Spirit King had secretly watched him while the succubi stirred only a trace of desire that he suppressed.
• Ye Lin headed for Divine Capital City, worried that Wang Mingyang might have harmed Luo Yao.

Ye Lin returned to Divine Capital City and learned that Sun Sheng had protected Luo Yao from Wang Mingyang. Wang Mingyang appeared and claimed he had only wanted to take Luo Yao as his disciple, leaving Ye Lin to judge his explanation.

• Ye Lin and Ye Xin arrived in Divine Capital City, and Ye Lin found Luo Yao sleeping in the City Lord Mansion.
• Sun Sheng told Ye Lin that he had brought Luo Yao to the mansion after stopping Wang Mingyang from harming her, and Ye Lin thanked him.
• Ye Lin asked where Wang Mingyang was, and Wang Mingyang appeared before Sun Sheng could answer.
• Wang Mingyang said he had wanted to take Luo Yao as his disciple because of her unusual constitution and denied being the kind of person who harmed children.

Ye Lin proposed cooperating with Wang Mingyang over the secret realm, which Wang Mingyang had long coveted. The chapter ended before Ye Lin revealed the terms, as Wang Mingyang insisted on visiting the realm and speaking with its inhabitants.

• Wang Mingyang denied intending to harm Ye Lin’s younger sister, and Ye Lin mocked his integrity.
• Ye Lin invited Wang Mingyang to discuss a deal, and Wang Mingyang agreed to hear him out.
• Sun Sheng stayed behind with Luo Yao and observed that Xinyou had an extraordinary origin.
• Ye Lin met Wang Mingyang on a distant mountain and confirmed that his proposal concerned the secret realm.
• Wang Mingyang demanded to visit the secret realm and speak with the beings inside before agreeing to cooperate.

Ye Lin offered to take Wang Mingyang to meet the secret realm’s denizens and negotiate directly, but Wang Mingyang suspected a trap and left. After consulting the Wang Family Head, Wang Mingyang was told to approach Ye Lin again because the family needed a powerful backer amid impending chaos on the Origin Continent.

• Ye Lin offered to guide Wang Mingyang to meet the secret realm’s denizens and let them negotiate directly.
• Wang Mingyang suspected Ye Lin had made a secret arrangement, refused the offer, and vanished.
• Ye Lin wondered why Wang Mingyang had pursued him before but left as soon as he agreed.
• Wang Mingyang contacted the Wang Family Head with a Jade Talisman and recounted his dealings with Ye Lin.
• The Wang Family Head told Wang Mingyang to approach Ye Lin again and pursue cooperation if the secret realm’s denizens did not demand too much.

Wang Mingyang visited Ye Lin to apologize and discuss cooperation after his family head told him Ye Lin posed no danger. Ye Lin accepted the apology and welcomed him into the side hall.

• Wang Mingyang decided to visit Ye Lin the next day and sorted valuable items to prepare as benefits for a possible partnership.
• Ye Lin spent the night at the City Lord Mansion while Luo Yao slept.
• Wang Mingyang arrived at the City Lord Mansion and asked Ye Lin to let bygones be bygones.
• Ye Lin teased Wang Mingyang, then accepted his apology and invited him inside.
• Sun Sheng watched the two enter and wondered what was going on between them.

Wang Mingyang apologized to Ye Lin and confirmed that the Wang Family would cooperate with him in negotiating with the secret realm beings, offering him gifts and a share of future transactions. He also gave Ye Lin an Origin Chamber of Commerce transaction card and asked if they could leave for the secret realm the next day.

• Sun Sheng left Ye Lin and Wang Mingyang alone to talk.
• Wang Mingyang apologized for doubting Ye Lin and said the Wang Family had agreed to cooperate with him.
• Wang Mingyang gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring as payment for guiding the Wang Family and as an apology gift.
• Wang Mingyang explained that the Origin Chamber of Commerce spanned Origin Continent and gave Ye Lin a transaction card containing thirty thousand points, along with a map to the nearest exchange location.
• Wang Mingyang asked Ye Lin if they could set out for the secret realm the next day and explained that the card was inscribed with Saint Path runes.

Wang Mingyang gave Ye Lin a card for the Origin Chamber of Commerce and explained its features before taking Luo Yao out to play. Ye Lin entered the card’s space, inspected his profile, and became trapped in the endless Void until a figure appeared before him.

• Wang Mingyang explained that the card contained a space where people could communicate with experts and access paid teachings, then left Ye Lin to examine it.
• Wang Mingyang took Luo Yao out to play, and Xinyou leaped onto his shoulder.
• Ye Lin bonded with the card using his blood and entered its space, where he viewed his cultivation profile, abilities, and recorded destiny.
• Ye Lin explored the endless Void but could not find a way out.
• A figure gradually appeared before Ye Lin.

Ye Lin registered his identity in the Origin Chamber of Commerce’s alternate-dimensional space and explored its city of shops. He found that his thirty thousand transaction points could not buy anything, then noticed a pavilion just as he was about to leave.

• A young man registered Ye Lin and activated his permissions in the alternate-dimensional space.
• Ye Lin entered the Scripture Depository and saw that its cultivation methods cost at least one million transaction points.
• Ye Lin toured the city’s shops and found that he could not afford their wares with his thirty thousand points.
• Ye Lin reached the end of the city, considered topping up his points later, and spotted a pavilion as he prepared to leave.