Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er searched the cave maze for an exit and discovered what seemed to be a treasury. They left with a vast amount of Great Luo Divine Source and other valuable treasures, still wandering through the maze.

• Ye Lin warned Zhang Ling'er that the people outside might find them, and the two continued through the cave with Luo Yao.
• Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er searched the branching cave maze but found no exit.
• Ye Lin discovered a lake of Great Luo Divine Source, and he and Zhang Ling'er stored all of it in their Spatial Rings.
• Zhang Ling'er enjoyed the thrill of taking the treasure, and Ye Lin suggested they look for more.
• Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er found more valuable items that Ye Lin planned to exchange for transaction points through the Origin Chamber of Commerce.

Ye Lin discovered a Quasi-Saint corpse being revived and fled the mountain with Zhang Ling'er, Ye Xin, and Luo Yao. He split from his companions to draw off their pursuers, then used Xinyou to vanish from sight.

• Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er saw a Quasi-Saint corpse reviving inside a cave and fled through a tunnel.
• Ye Lin emerged from the mountain, where dozens of enemies spotted him and pursued him as he escaped with Luo Yao.
• Ye Lin gave Zhang Ling'er a Jade Talisman and split the group into three routes, with Zhang Ling'er and Ye Xin taking separate directions.
• Most of the pursuers chased Ye Lin, so he called on Xinyou, who made him vanish and left them baffled.

Ye Lin and Luo Yao escaped Death Valley on Xinyou’s back and continued across the Endless Icefield toward the border of Sunset Prefecture. As Ye Lin considered the Puppet Sect’s destruction, he concluded that its mass production of powerful puppets had made its downfall inevitable.

• Several cultivators failed to track Ye Lin after Xinyou’s burst of speed and decided to report their secret to the elders.
• Ye Lin and Luo Yao rode Xinyou out of Death Valley while the other powerful cultivators were distracted.
• After half an hour, Ye Lin carried the exhausted Xinyou and Luo Yao across the Endless Icefield toward Silent Ridge and the Nether Sea.
• Ye Lin sent Zhang Ling’er a message and sensed Ye Xin approaching at great speed.
• Ye Lin reflected that the Puppet Sect’s powerful, mass-produced puppets had threatened the Origin Continent and made the sect’s destruction unsurprising.

Ye Lin wandered through the Origin Continent’s endless icefield with Luo Yao, reflecting on the vast gulf between cultivators’ power in different worlds. He entered a strange ice forest and discovered he was trapped in an aerial-restricting Illusion Formation while trying to reach Luo Yao.

• Ye Lin set Luo Yao down, and she ran freely across the icy plain.
• Ye Lin considered how even powerful cultivators from a universe were weak on the Origin Continent and reflected on the importance of an unbroken Dao Heart.
• Ye Lin found a crystalline ice forest and plucked an ice flower, whose cold energy could not harm him.
• Ye Lin followed Luo Yao’s laughter but noticed that the scenery kept repeating and her laughter never grew louder.
• Ye Lin tried to fly above the forest, but a restriction slammed him back to the ground, revealing that he was trapped in an aerial-restricting Illusion Formation.

Ye Lin became trapped in the naturally formed Ice-Snow Illusion Formation in the Endless Icefield while searching for Silent Ridge and the Nether Sea. An unfamiliar being offered to guide him through, and Ye Lin began following its Dao-rhythm footwork.

• Ye Lin tried to break the illusion by destroying the ice trees and ground, but they immediately reappeared.
• Ye Lin kept walking and attacking the ice trees as he searched for a way out, unable to locate Luo Yao.
• A white figure flashed behind Ye Lin, and he demanded that the unknown being reveal itself.
• An unseen voice asked why Ye Lin had entered the icefield, and he explained that he was heading to Silent Ridge to reach the Nether Sea.
• The voice revealed that the entire Endless Icefield was a naturally formed illusion formation and instructed Ye Lin to follow its directions.
• Ye Lin began taking the prescribed steps and sensed that the footwork contained a trace of Dao rhythm.

Ye Lin entered the Endless Icefield and escaped an Illusion Formation with help from White Sprite, who returned Luo Yao to him. When he asked White Sprite to guide him out in exchange for a reward, she asked him to heal her injured father.

• Ye Lin stepped into the Endless Icefield and found himself trapped in an Illusion Formation.
• White Sprite appeared with Luo Yao and explained that she had found Ye Lin inside the formation.
• White Sprite warned Ye Lin that the icefield contained many Illusion Formations and dangerous snow monsters.
• Ye Lin offered White Sprite anything he possessed if she guided him out of the icefield.
• White Sprite asked Ye Lin to heal her father's injured foundation in return for guiding him through the icefield.

Ye Lin agreed to follow the White Sprite to see whether he could save her father, letting her guide him through the Endless Icefield’s illusion formation. She brought him to the Ice People’s settlement, where he entered her home and saw a woman beside a bed.

• Ye Lin told the White Sprite he could not promise to save her father without first seeing him.
• The White Sprite led Ye Lin, carrying Luo Yao, across the snow by following her footprints through the illusion formation.
• Ye Lin asked about the Endless Icefield, and the White Sprite explained that powerful cultivators avoided it because its terrain was deadly.
• The White Sprite brought Ye Lin to the Ice People’s settlement and led him into her warm ice-carved home.
• The White Sprite called out to her mother, and Ye Lin saw a beautiful married woman sitting beside a bed.

Ye Lin examined White Sprite’s gravely injured father and found a sacred fruit that could heal him. He bought and administered it, but the chapter ended before the man’s recovery was revealed.

• White Sprite introduced Ye Lin and Luo Yao to her mother, Liu Feng, and explained that Ye Lin might treat her father.
• Liu Feng told Ye Lin that a blood beast had wounded her husband a hundred years earlier and that his condition had steadily worsened.
• Ye Lin examined White Sprite’s father and discovered that his body was badly injured and his Primordial Spirit shattered, with only a thread of True Spirit remaining.
• Ye Lin searched his shop and found the Ice Snow Sacred Fruit, which could heal injuries to the body and Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin bought the fruit and sent it into the injured man’s body.

Ye Lin used the Ice Snow Sacred Fruit to heal Bai Bing, White Sprite’s father and the Ice People’s chieftain. After Bai Bing recovered and reunited with his family, Ye Lin explained that saving him had been part of his deal with White Sprite to leave the Endless Icefield.

• Ye Lin used his power to help Bai Bing refine the Ice Snow Sacred Fruit, restoring his body and repairing his Primordial Spirit.
• Bai Bing woke up, and Liu Feng and White Sprite embraced him as Ye Lin left them to reunite in private.
• A wary young man questioned Ye Lin, who said he was White Sprite’s guest before the young man entered the ice house.
• The Ice People gathered after discovering their chieftain had recovered, and Bai Bing, Liu Feng, and White Sprite knelt to thank Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin raised the family and said he had saved Bai Bing because he and White Sprite had agreed she would lead him out of the Endless Icefield.
• Bai Bing insisted that Ye Lin’s life-saving kindness still deserved thanks.

Ye Lin learned that Ye Xin and Zhang Ling'er had entered the Endless Icefield’s Illusion Formation and set out to find them with White Sprite and Bai Bing. Bai Bing guided the group through the formation’s safe paths as they headed south toward Ye Lin’s friends.

• Ye Lin sensed that Ye Xin and Zhang Ling'er were trapped in an Illusion Formation.
• White Sprite agreed to accompany Ye Lin, and Bai Bing offered to guide him through the Endless Icefield.
• Ye Lin pointed south toward the friends’ approximate location, and Bai Bing led the way while Ye Lin carried Luo Yao.
• Bai Bing explained that the Endless Icefield was a natural Illusion Formation whose inhabitants guarded its secrets from outsiders.

Bai Bing rescued Ye Xin from the Illusion Formation and led Ye Lin’s group toward the edge of the Endless Icefield. He revealed a secret ancestral cave that bypassed the formation and asked Ye Lin to keep it confidential.

• Bai Bing entered the Illusion Formation and found Ye Xin while Ye Lin waited with White Sprite.
• Bai Bing returned with Ye Xin, and Ye Lin thanked him for rescuing his friend.
• Bai Bing led Ye Lin, Luo Yao, Ye Xin, and White Sprite along a hidden route out of the Endless Icefield.
• After an hour, Bai Bing opened a concealed cave in a snow-covered mountain wall.
• Bai Bing explained that the Ice People had excavated the cave over generations to bypass the Illusion Formation and asked Ye Lin not to reveal it.

Ye Lin promised Bai Bing and the White Sprite to keep the Endless Icefield's secret as they guided him through a winding cave. He reunited with Zhang Ling'er by communication talisman, then left the Ice People behind and continued toward Silent Ridge with Ye Xin.

• Bai Bing warned Ye Lin that outsiders discovering the Endless Icefield would threaten the Ice People's peace, and Ye Lin promised not to reveal its location.
• Ye Lin and the others traveled through the cave for two months, during which Zhang Ling'er contacted him and said she had been waiting beyond the Endless Icefield for a month.
• Ye Lin learned that Zhang Ling'er had passed through the Illusion Formation without realizing it was there, and he put away the communication Jade Talisman.
• A month later, Bai Bing and the White Sprite escorted Ye Lin to the Endless Icefield's exit and explained that ancestral rules prevented them from leaving.
• Ye Lin thanked Bai Bing and the White Sprite, then continued toward the distant end with Ye Xin.

After crossing the Endless Icefield, Ye Lin and Luo Yao reached a vast grassland and reunited with Zhang Ling'er, whose opportunity lay in Silent Ridge. As they headed there, Ye Lin noticed the grassland had no visible creatures, and Zhang Ling'er warned that they had all hidden from the evil things in Silent Ridge.

• Bai Bing sealed the cave after Ye Lin and the others left, then departed with her daughter.
• Ye Lin carried Luo Yao onto the grassland and recalled that Silent Ridge and the Nether Sea lay ahead on their route out of Heaven Province.
• Zhang Ling'er appeared after waiting for two months, and Ye Lin learned that her opportunity was a wisp of Annihilation Sacred Flame inside a Tree of Death at Silent Ridge.
• Ye Lin noticed that no creatures lived on the seemingly pleasant grassland, and Zhang Ling'er explained that they had hidden from the evil things in Silent Ridge.

Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er crossed the grassland toward Silent Ridge, where Ye Lin discovered its creatures were far stronger than expected. After he slew a giant demonic bird with one sword strike, he wondered how dangerous Silent Ridge must be.

• Zhang Ling'er explained that the creatures on the plains hid from Silent Ridge and the Endless Icefield.
• Ye Lin led Zhang Ling'er toward Silent Ridge despite the absence of Quasi-Saint experts there.
• A giant demonic bird approached and declared it had come to hunt for fresh blood.
• Ye Lin cut the bird in two with a single Sword Qi strike and extinguished the black flames from its corpse.
• Ye Lin judged the bird comparable to an early-stage Daluo Golden Immortal and noted its unusually pure demonic qi.

Ye Lin and his companions crossed the empty grasslands and reached the ominous Silent Ridge, where he hoped to find the Annihilation Sacred Flame. He led Ye Xin and Zhang Ling'er toward the forest, determined to enter despite its oppressive demonic qi.

• Ye Lin insisted on continuing toward Silent Ridge despite Zhang Ling'er's warning that the place was unusual.
• As the group crossed the deserted plains, Ye Lin reflected on fusing the Annihilation Sacred Flame with his Purgatory Ice Flame.
• Zhang Ling'er pointed out Silent Ridge, a dark forest covered by thick demonic qi and surrounded by a stark contrast of life and death.
• Ye Lin dismissed the forest's frightening appearance and walked toward it with Ye Xin and Zhang Ling'er following.
• As they approached Silent Ridge, Ye Lin swept Luo Yao into his arms.

Ye Lin, Luo Yao, and Zhang Ling'er ventured into Silent Ridge, where demonic aura and eerie surroundings failed to frighten them. They encountered a ragged old man outside a hut, who warned them that Silent Ridge was no place for them.

• Ye Lin entered Silent Ridge and resisted its demonic aura as it tried to affect his mind.
• Ye Lin and his companions crossed writhing ground and passed twisted trees while searching for an opportunity.
• Ye Lin noticed that Luo Yao showed excitement rather than fear, while Zhang Ling'er remained calm behind him.
• Ye Lin spotted a ragged old man beside a hut and judged that death aura surrounded him.
• The old man asked what the group had come to Silent Ridge for and warned them they should not have come.

Ye Lin and his companions crossed Silent Ridge and encountered a deadly anomaly in the ground. The chapter left them facing the disappearance of Zhang Ling’er’s summoned white bear.

• An old man warned Ye Lin that his days were numbered, but Ye Lin and Zhang Ling’er dismissed him and continued onward.
• Ye Lin worried about the dangers of Silent Ridge while Zhang Ling’er remained unconcerned as they traveled.
• Ye Lin sensed danger ahead and drew Azure Frost as Zhang Ling’er noticed the ground writhing.
• Zhang Ling’er sent a giant white bear ahead, but the ground split open, swallowed it, and closed again.

Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er suspected that Silent Ridge itself was a living creature, then met a talking withered tree that directed them toward the Annihilation Divine Bridge. The tree revealed that countless fiendish creatures lived in Silent Ridge and had hidden because they could not afford to provoke the group.

• Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er considered that Silent Ridge might be a colossal living creature, and Ye Lin decided to avoid the dangerous ground and continue searching for the Annihilation Divine Bridge.
• Ye Lin led the group on a wide detour and encountered a gigantic withered tree with a face on its trunk.
• Ye Lin asked the tree for directions, and it said the Annihilation Divine Bridge lay at Silent Ridge's center, farther along the road ahead.
• Zhang Ling'er asked whether Silent Ridge held many living beings, and the tree said its fiendish creatures had hidden because they feared the group.

Ye Lin and Zhang Ling'er traveled deeper into Silent Ridge in search of the Annihilation Sacred Flame, after a giant tree warned them that its inhabitants were evil and watching. Three hostile creatures ambushed them, and Ye Lin prepared to face them.

• A giant tree warned Zhang Ling'er that Silent Ridge’s living creatures were evil and watching them, then disappeared back into its ordinary appearance.
• Zhang Ling'er followed Ye Lin onward, eager to fight, while Ye Lin focused on finding the Annihilation Sacred Flame and fusing it with his Purgatory Ice Flame.
• Zhang Ling'er asked Ye Lin how he knew about the Annihilation Divine Bridge, and he said he had heard about it and asked whether her ancestor had not told her.
• Ye Lin sensed an attack and pulled Zhang Ling'er back as green flames devastated the ground where they had stood.
• A black bear, a mass of black mist, and a strange humanlike creature approached, and Ye Lin suggested that he and Zhang Ling'er take one opponent each.

Ye Lin fought Black Bear with Azure Frost, using sword techniques and spatial laws to trap him despite the gap in their strength. Black Bear shattered Ye Lin’s attacks but became entangled in spatial laws and was dragged toward a crack beneath him.

• Ye Lin approached Black Bear while Ye Xin and Zhang Ling'er faced the other two overlords of Silent Ridge.
• Black Bear attacked Ye Lin with a massive paw, but Ye Lin retreated and struck back with Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin used Grand Void Space-Rending Sword and Returning Ruins Draw, sealing the space around Black Bear and tearing open a crack beneath him.
• Black Bear shattered Ye Lin’s Great Void Ashen Extinction Finger and tried to fly away.
• Spatial laws entangled Black Bear and pulled him toward the crack as he gripped the ground to resist.