Chapter Summaries

Baili Tusu emerged from the lava with a renewed aura and challenged Ye Lin again. Ye Lin dodged his attacks and urged him to keep improving as their fight continued.

• Ye Lin prepared to finish Baili Tusu, but the Arena erupted with lava and Baili Tusu sank beneath its surface.
• Baili Tusu rose from the lava, summoned his Long Sword, and absorbed the remaining molten rock into his body.
• Baili Tusu charged at Ye Lin with increased speed and strength, warning him that blades had no eyes.
• Ye Lin dodged Baili Tusu’s attacks and countered with Sword Qi while praising his improvement.
• Baili Tusu stayed focused and searched for an opening in Ye Lin’s defenses.

Baili Tusu turned the fight against Ye Lin by exploiting an opening and chaining several attacks. Ye Lin fell onto the defensive as a Sword Qi barrier blocked Baili Tusu’s relentless charge.

• Quasi-Saint experts criticized Baili Tusu’s temper, while the Baili Family Patriarch endured their remarks and agreed with Li Sheng.
• Heavenly Blade Sage praised Ye Lin to a middle-aged Saint, who mocked him for teaching a sword cultivator despite being a blade cultivator.
• Baili Tusu baited Ye Lin into an exchange, then struck him with a series of fiery Sword Qi attacks.
• Ye Lin retreated under Baili Tusu’s pressure and raised a Sword Qi barrier to block his continued assault.

Ye Lin continued to hold back Baili Tusu without drawing his sword, provoking Baili Tusu into a frenzy that shattered the Sword Qi barrier. As Baili Tusu’s cultivation began to break through and his attacks overwhelmed Ye Lin, the spectators worried about both Ye Lin’s safety and how the fight’s outcome would be judged.

• Baili Tusu demanded to know why Ye Lin would not draw his sword, and Ye Lin replied that Baili Tusu was not worthy.
• Baili Tusu flew into a rage and struck the Sword Qi barrier until his Wu Tian slash shattered it.
• Baili Tusu’s aura rose as his cultivation slipped beyond his control, and Ye Lin realized he had to stop him from breaking through.
• Baili Tusu sent Ye Lin flying with a powerful blood-red Sword Qi attack.
• The spectators recognized that Baili Tusu was about to break through and debated whether the fight should be stopped and how the result would count.
• A spectator worried about Ye Lin, but another assured them that someone was watching over him.

Baili Tusu neared a breakthrough during his battle with Ye Lin, putting the Baili Family’s standing in the Eastern Region Top Hundred at risk. The Heavenly Blade Sage chose to let the fight continue as Ye Lin faced Baili Tusu’s overwhelming aura.

• A Quasi-Saint mocked Baili Tusu’s inability to endure a setback, while rivals of the Baili Family taunted Patriarch Baili about his impending breakthrough.
• Patriarch Baili feared that Baili Tusu breaking through during the fight would ruin the family’s reputation and threaten its place in the Eastern Region.
• A Quasi-Saint suggested stopping the battle to protect Ye Lin, but the Heavenly Blade Sage told everyone to wait.
• Ye Lin watched Baili Tusu’s powerful aura from the edge of the Arena as Baili Tusu vowed to kill him for destroying his foundation.

Ye Lin used his Heaven-Opening sword technique to kill Baili Tusu before he could complete his breakthrough. The Heavenly Blade Sage and the middle-aged Quasi-Saint were left unable to understand Ye Lin’s strike.

• Yun Wan'er urged Yun Qiyue to save Ye Lin, but Yun Qiyue told her not to worry and threatened to slap her.
• Ye Lin drew Azure Frost and warned Baili Tusu that he would not hold back.
• Ye Lin explained that his Heaven-Opening sword could destroy Baili Tusu’s Dao foundation, then struck with the sword art he had mastered using the Enlightenment Fruit.
• Baili Tusu tried to counter with Heaven Severance, but Ye Lin’s formless Sword Qi cleaved his body, Primordial Spirit, and true soul in two.
• The Heavenly Blade Sage and the eighth-level Quasi-Saint were shocked that they could not understand Ye Lin’s sword strike.

Ye Lin killed Baili Tusu with a single sword stroke, winning a place among the Eastern Region Top Hundred. After the Heavenly Blade Sage dismissed the matter, the grieving Baili Family patriarch left the Arena.

• Ye Lin cut Baili Tusu in two with one sword stroke, and the blow cracked the barrier and Arena.
• A powerful figure declared Ye Lin the victor, and he took Baili Tusu's place among the Eastern Region Top Hundred.
• The Baili Family patriarch grieved over his son's death as his rival warned him that the Blade Saint might hold him responsible for the rule-breaking breakthrough.
• The Baili Family patriarch apologized to the Heavenly Blade Sage, who dismissed the matter and let him leave.

Ye Lin became one of the Eastern Region Top Hundred after killing Baili Tusu with a single sword strike, leaving spectators uncertain of his true strength. A Dark Guard then delivered his next mission: travel to the Boundary Sea and capture a newly born purebred True Dragon.

• Yun Wan'er begged Yun Qiyue to let Ye Lin teach her his sword strike, but Yun Qiyue dismissed her and left.
• The audience concluded Ye Lin had defeated Baili Tusu without using his full strength, and Ye Lin left the Arena as the event ended.
• Yun Qiyue asked Ye Lin whether he had comprehended his sword strike with the Enlightenment Fruit, and he nodded.
• A Dark Guard arrived at Ye Lin's residence and delivered an order from her master to capture a purebred True Dragon in the Boundary Sea.
• Ye Lin accepted the mission and took the envelope containing an array that would guide him.

Ye Lin accepted Heavenly Blade Sage’s mission to capture a pure-blooded True Dragon and headed to the Boundary Sea, unaware that the target was a mutated dragon with Taowu bloodline. As major factions sent people to investigate, Ye Lin followed the formation deeper into the vast Boundary Sea.

• Ye Lin wondered why Heavenly Blade Sage wanted a low-ranked pure-blooded True Dragon captured, then packed and set off for the Boundary Sea.
• Heavenly Blade Sage learned that Ye Lin had accepted the mission and ordered his black-clad disciple to follow and protect him.
• Yun Qiyue asked for the mission information and left to protect Ye Lin, while Heavenly Blade Sage hinted that a Taowu-blooded mutated True Dragon was involved.
• Top factions across the Eastern Region secretly dispatched disciples to the Boundary Sea, and mid-tier factions sent people to gather information.
• Two months later, Ye Lin reached the Boundary Sea and followed the small formation deeper into it.

Ye Lin traveled through the Boundary Sea until his formation ran out of energy, then encountered an enormous glowing sphere that could detect him in hiding. The sphere’s speaker proved to be a quasi-saint, who called Ye Lin out.

• Ye Lin followed his formation through the dark Boundary Sea for five years until it lost its energy.
• Ye Lin relied on his sense of the Origin Continent to know he could find his way back.
• Ye Lin heard a deep sound and saw a gigantic glowing sphere approaching, so he concealed himself in the void.
• An aged voice told Ye Lin to come out because it could see him, and Ye Lin realized the speaker was a quasi-saint.

Ye Lin entered the glowing sphere and met nine Civilization Plunderers, who spared him after sensing danger behind him. They directed him toward a pure-blooded True Dragon, while they fled the region.

• Ye Lin approached the glowing sphere and entered after its occupants extended a bridge to him.
• The nine figures identified themselves as Civilization Plunderers and decided not to attack Ye Lin because they suspected he had powerful backing.
• Ye Lin told them he was searching for a pure-blooded True Dragon, and they gave him directions to its location.
• After Ye Lin left, the leader revealed that attacking him would have brought danger upon them, so the group hurried away from the region.

Ye Lin followed the old man's directions through the Boundary Sea in search of a pure-blooded True Dragon and discovered that many cultivators had gathered there. He learned they were hunting a variant True Dragon for its Taowu-blooded heart, which could grant a chance to inherit an innate divine ability, and he became tempted by the prospect.

• Ye Lin traveled through the Boundary Sea for five years while searching for the pure-blooded True Dragon.
• Ye Lin recognized many cultivators who had watched his earlier fight with Baili Tusu and grew suspicious of their gathering.
• Ye Lin asked a nearby young man why the cultivators had come, and the man said they were after a variant True Dragon rumored to carry Taowu's bloodline.
• The young man explained that eating the heart of a creature with Taowu's bloodline could grant one of Taowu's innate divine abilities.
• Ye Lin became captivated by the possibility of gaining such an ability by eating the variant True Dragon's heart.

Ye Lin sought the heart of a pure-blooded True Dragon, believing it could grant him another innate divine ability. Yun Wan'er tried to entice him, but Yun Qiyue appeared and demanded to hear the dirt Yun Wan'er claimed to have on her.

• Ye Lin decided to claim the True Dragon's heart and moved closer to the people searching for it.
• Yun Wan'er approached Ye Lin and offered to find him a Dao companion, even suggesting herself.
• Ye Lin rejected Yun Wan'er's advances and kept his distance because he distrusted her methods.
• Yun Wan'er offered to reveal dirt about Yun Qiyue, then noticed Yun Qiyue standing behind her.
• Yun Qiyue demanded that Yun Wan'er produce the dirt or face a beating.

Yun Qiyue joined Ye Lin to search for the mutant True Dragon after sending Yun Wan'er away. She warned Ye Lin that the dragon was powerful and many cultivators could die if they rushed in recklessly.

• Yun Wan'er claimed she had only been joking with Ye Lin, but Yun Qiyue did not believe her.
• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that their master had sent her to assist him because he knew few of the cultivators gathered nearby.
• Yun Qiyue asked Yun Wan'er where the mutant True Dragon was, and Yun Wan'er said she did not know before leaving after arguing with her sister.
• Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin searched with the other cultivators, none of whom knew where the dragon was.
• Yun Qiyue warned Ye Lin not to rush toward the mutant True Dragon, explaining that it was monstrously strong and many people would die.

Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue waited for the mutant True Dragon to appear, planning to claim its heart and corpse after the other cultivators weakened it. The dragon emerged from a Chaos vortex as nearby cultivators gathered, and they prepared to fight over it.

• Ye Lin learned from Yun Qiyue's panel that the mutant True Dragon would appear and that Yun Qiyue was fated to obtain its corpse.
• Yun Qiyue proposed that she take the dragon's corpse while Ye Lin took its heart, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue traveled onward and waited as the Chaos currents began to tremble and form a vortex.
• Nearby cultivators rushed toward the disturbance as a dragon roar came from the vortex.
• The mutant True Dragon emerged, and the gathered cultivators discussed its strength and the divine ability its heart might grant.

Cultivators surrounded a newly emerged mutant True Dragon and agreed to join forces to kill it, while Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue stayed inconspicuous. The cultivators began planning their attack in front of the enraged dragon.

• Cultivators encircled the mutant True Dragon but hesitated to attack, each wary of bearing the brunt of its fury.
• The mutant True Dragon tried to slip away, but the surrounding cultivators noticed its movements.
• A young man in a green robe proposed that the cultivators cooperate to kill the dragon before deciding who would claim it.
• Cultivators pledged to cooperate and warned one another against betrayal, while Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue kept quiet.
• The leaders planned how to kill the mutant True Dragon, angering it as they discussed its death within earshot.

Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue watched as cultivators battled the mutated True Dragon, whose half-step Quasi-Saint strength let him withstand their attacks and devastate those who had engaged him. The dragon unleashed a roar that sent nearby cultivators flying, and the fighters feared he was about to break through to the Quasi-Saint realm.

• The cultivators attacked the mutated True Dragon, enraging him and starting a fierce battle.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue watched from the sidelines as many cultivators held back and waited for the dragon to weaken.
• The mutated True Dragon overwhelmed the cultivators who had charged first, severely injuring more than a dozen Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Yun Qiyue assessed the dragon as a half-step Quasi-Saint who had touched the Quasi-Saint threshold.
• The bloodied mutated True Dragon unleashed a roar that sent nearby cultivators flying, prompting them to fear he was about to break through to the Quasi-Saint realm.

The cultivators joined forces against the variant True Dragon to stop it from breaking through to Quasi-Saint and claiming its heart. They battered it until its aura declined, while deliberately leaving its heart untouched.

• The cultivators realized the variant True Dragon was nearing a breakthrough to Quasi-Saint and rushed to attack it.
• Yun Qiyue led the charge, and Ye Lin followed her into battle.
• The powerful cultivators overwhelmed the variant True Dragon and drove it back with their attacks.
• Ye Lin held back, occasionally striking the dragon with Sword Qi.
• The dragon abandoned its breakthrough as its aura and strength declined, while the cultivators left its heart unharmed.

After the mutant True Dragon was defeated, fifteen powerful Eastern Region figures tried to claim it, but Yun Qiyue arrived with Ye Lin and demanded they leave. The rivals hesitated after Yun Qiyue warned them that her backing and strength made resistance fatal.

• The attackers stopped once the mutant True Dragon was nearly dead and began discussing who would claim it.
• The leading figures expelled weaker experts and left fifteen powerful contenders to divide the dragon.
• Yun Qiyue emerged with Ye Lin and announced that she wanted the mutant True Dragon.
• The contenders recognized Ye Lin as the one who had slain Baili Tusu and discussed joining forces against Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin.
• Yun Qiyue threatened the fifteen figures and warned them to leave, citing her powerful backing.

Yun Qiyue revealed that the Heavenly Blade Sage had intended the mutant True Dragon for Ye Lin, who claimed its heart as his reward. After Yun Qiyue killed the dragon, she discovered it was not a mutant True Dragon, and realized the others had staged the encounter.

• Yun Qiyue told the experts that the dragon had been meant for her and dismissed them after their task was done.
• Some experts left, while a young man complained that the Heavenly Blade Sage had made them toil for nothing.
• Ye Lin asked Yun Qiyue why the Heavenly Blade Sage had arranged the mission, and she explained that accepting it made the dragon his.
• Ye Lin asked to keep the dragon's heart and offered Yun Qiyue everything else.
• Yun Qiyue beheaded the dragon and removed its heart, then realized it was not a mutant True Dragon.
• Yun Qiyue concluded that the people involved had all been actors and that they had been tricked.

Ye Lin realized Yun Qiyue and he had been deceived into killing a fake mutant True Dragon, while Yun Wan'er and her accomplices had taken the real one. He followed the panel’s direction with Yun Qiyue and confronted Yun Wan’er as the group prepared to flee with their prize.

• Ye Lin checked Yun Qiyue’s panel and realized its updated timing revealed that the dragon they had killed was fake and the real mutant True Dragon lay to the right.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue headed toward the real dragon while resentment rose from the fake dragon’s corpse.
• Yun Wan’er and seven accomplices argued over how to divide the real mutant True Dragon and who deserved its heart.
• Yun Wan’er persuaded the group to take the dragon away and divide it somewhere safe.
• Yun Wan’er turned and found Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue waiting with weapons drawn.