Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin defeated Bai Zhan in a spar at the White Tiger Clan’s Weapon Grave, leaving the clan’s disciples wary of his strength. Bai Huang sent Bai Li, Bai Meng, and Bai Ying to face Ye Lin together and test his abilities before he challenged him himself.

• Bai Zhan admitted defeat and left the Weapon Grave after Ye Lin comforted him.
• White Tiger Clan disciples whispered about Ye Lin’s strength, while Bai Zhan told his friends he had been unable to fight back.
• Ye Lin asked whether anyone else wanted to spar, and the gathered disciples looked to Bai Huang.
• Bai Huang ordered Bai Li, Bai Meng, and Bai Ying to use their joint attack technique against Ye Lin to reveal his capabilities.
• Bai Li questioned the fairness of fighting three against one, but Bai Huang urged them to go so the clan would not lose face.

Bai Li, Bai Meng, and Bai Ying challenged Ye Lin with their joint attack technique in the White Tiger Clan’s Weapon Grave. They launched a coordinated assault, leaving Ye Lin surrounded by their killing intent.

• Bai Li, Bai Meng, and Bai Ying agreed to fight Ye Lin first to protect the White Tiger Clan’s reputation and clear a path for Bai Huang.
• Bai Li introduced the trio’s joint attack technique, and Ye Lin accepted their challenge without mocking them.
• Bai Li, Bai Meng, and Bai Ying formed a triangle around Ye Lin inside the Weapon Grave.
• Bai Li unleashed star-like Daluo Golden Immortal power, Bai Meng struck with overwhelming strength, and Bai Ying concealed himself in the shadows to seek a killing blow.

Ye Lin used a Sword Talisman he had formed from his trials with Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic to stop Bai Li, Bai Meng, and Bai Ying’s attacks. The three White Tiger Clan members were left defeated and shaken, while Ye Lin asked if they were all right.

• Ye Lin formed an ancient rune in his palm, silencing the Weapon Grave and drawing the Geng Metal Baleful Qi toward him.
• The rune’s rumbling overwhelmed the White Tiger Clan’s weaker members and made the stronger ones retreat.
• Ye Lin crushed the rune and unleashed an invisible boundary that stopped Bai Li and Bai Meng’s attacks and pulled Bai Ying from stealth.
• Ye Lin dispelled the boundary and asked the three whether they were all right.
• Bai Li, Bai Meng, and Bai Ying each realized they had been decisively defeated and questioned how Ye Lin could be a Daluo Golden Immortal.

Ye Lin used a series of effortless sparring matches to break the White Tiger Clan’s younger generation psychologically, leaving without anyone daring to challenge him. He left satisfied that he had become an insurmountable obstacle in their hearts.

• Ye Lin watched Bai Li and the two others leave in defeat after their encounter with him.
• Ye Lin reflected that his calm, overwhelming display had crushed the young White Tiger Clan members’ confidence without giving them reason to hate him.
• Ye Lin invited anyone else to spar, but the White Tiger Clan’s younger generation lowered their heads and stayed silent.
• Bai Huang considered stepping forward but held back, believing he would lose and wanting to preserve the clan’s remaining dignity.
• Ye Lin declared the sparring over and left the Weapon Grave, satisfied that his warning had achieved its purpose.

After leaving the White Tiger Clan, Ye Lin headed with Sword Demon to Li Fire County to visit the Vermilion Bird Clan. He reached the clan’s ancestral land, the living Li Fire Divine Nest, and was stunned by the immense tree.

• Bai Feng gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring and asked him to speak favorably of the White Tiger Clan to the Blade Saint.
• Ye Lin left the White Tiger Clan and chose the Vermilion Bird Clan as his next destination.
• Ye Lin and Sword Demon traveled through space to Li Fire County in the Eastern Region.
• Ye Lin saw the Vermilion Bird Clan’s ancestral land, the Li Fire Divine Nest, and realized the enormous crimson tree was alive.

Ye Lin arrived at the Vermilion Bird Clan’s Li Fire Divine Nest and learned the history of its Fire God Tree. Chi Lian welcomed him and led him, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic inside, where Ye Lin saw the clan’s fiery inner domain and its powerful members.

• Sword Demon told Ye Lin that a ninth-level Quasi-Saint had brought the Fire God Tree from the Boundary Sea and that the Vermilion Bird Clan had defended it from outsiders.
• Ye Lin approached the flaming waterfall, and Chi Lian emerged to greet him and offer to show him around the clan.
• Ye Lin, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic passed through the waterfall with Chi Lian.
• Ye Lin saw the inverted sea of flames, the clan’s buildings and flame parasol trees, and the Vermilion Bird clansmen whose power far surpassed those he had encountered in the Star River Cosmos.

Ye Lin learned that the Vermilion Bird Clan’s prodigies had gathered for the Nirvana Festival and persuaded Chi Lian to take him to see it. Chi Lian led Ye Lin and his companions through the Meteor Fire Sea to a passage inside a towering crystalline tree.

• Ye Lin asked Chi Lian where the Vermilion Bird Clan’s outstanding young cultivators were, and she said most clan members were attending the Nirvana Festival at the Ancestral Flame Pool.
• Ye Lin asked to visit the festival, and Chi Lian agreed to guide him there.
• Ye Lin asked the Sword Demon and the Blade Fanatic whether the festival was real, but neither knew.
• Chi Lian brought Ye Lin and his companions to the Meteor Fire Sea, a vast crimson forest of crystalline trees.
• A towering tree opened a passage for the group, and they followed Chi Lian inside, where the heat felt pleasantly warm rather than scorching.

Ye Lin visited the Vermilion Bird Clan’s Ancestral Flame Pool during their Nirvana Festival and learned about the Golden Crow Fire Essence that could be captured there. As he considered trying his luck, a Vermilion Bird Clan youth’s attempt failed when the pool’s flames destroyed his fire sparrow.

• Chi Lian led Ye Lin and his companions to the Ancestral Flame Pool, where Vermilion Bird Clan members gathered for the Nirvana Festival.
• Chi Lian explained that Golden Crow Fire Essence could be caught from the pool and used to temper one’s natal true flame.
• A red-haired Vermilion Bird Clan youth sent a fire sparrow toward the pool to catch an essence.
• The pool’s flames engulfed the sparrow and made it vanish, drawing sighs and murmurs from the clan members.

Ye Lin met Lei Chong, the Vermilion Bird Clan patriarch’s son, and accepted his invitation to try catching Golden Crow Fire Essence in the Ancestral Flame Pool. Both Lei Chong’s firebird and Ye Lin’s Sword Qi were rejected, leaving Ye Lin to consider what might attract the elusive treasure.

• Chi Lian introduced Ye Lin, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic to Lei Chong.
• Lei Chong invited Ye Lin to try catching Golden Crow Fire Essence in the Ancestral Flame Pool.
• Lei Chong sent a firebird made of firelight toward the pool, but it vanished before reaching the center.
• Ye Lin sent Sword Qi toward the pool, but it too vanished before reaching the center.
• Lei Chong said the Golden Crow Fire Essences had no interest in Ye Lin’s Sword Qi.

Ye Lin tried to draw the Golden Crow Fire Essence from the Vermilion Bird Clan’s Ancestral Flame Pool using his Nine Nether Prison Flame. The pool fell completely still, and the Golden Crow Fire Essence rose to circle his flame.

• Ye Lin checked his panel and decided to try using his Nine Nether Prison Flame after his Sword Qi failed to stir the pool.
• Ye Lin sent a small tricolored flame over the Ancestral Flame Pool, where it continued burning without dissipating.
• The pool began to boil, then abruptly fell into absolute stillness, leaving Lei Chong uneasy.
• A golden blaze containing the phantom of a three-legged divine bird rose from the pool and circled Ye Lin’s Nine Nether Prison Flame.

Ye Lin seized and absorbed an entire mass of Golden Crow Fire Essence, alarming Lei Chong, Chi Lian, and the others. As Ye Lin suppressed it with the Nine Nether Prison Flame, he anticipated that the two flames might fuse and transform.

• Ye Lin drew the Nine Nether Prison Flame toward himself, and the Golden Crow Fire Essence followed it before trying to flee.
• Ye Lin caught the Golden Crow Fire Essence and forcibly absorbed the entire mass into his body.
• Lei Chong tried to stop Ye Lin, while Chi Lian worried that the tyrannical essence would consume him from within.
• Sword Demon stopped Chi Lian from fetching the Golden Crow Clan's treasured artifact, insisting that Ye Lin knew what he was doing.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Nether Prison Flame to suppress the Golden Crow Fire Essence and considered how their fusion might transform his flame.

Ye Lin used the Great Void Return-to-Emptiness Sword Canon and the Nine Nether Prison Flame to subdue the rampaging Golden Crow Fire Essence, enduring searing pain as the two flames fought inside him. The Golden Crow Fire Essence made a final stand by taking the form of a miniature Three-Legged Golden Crow.

• Ye Lin awakened the Nine Nether Prison Flame and used it to trap the Golden Crow Fire Essence inside his meridians.
• Ye Lin circulated the Great Void Return-to-Emptiness Sword Canon to reconcile the flames, enduring intense pain as they clashed within his body.
• Lei Chong watched Ye Lin's body alternate between crimson and darkness, while Chi Lian prepared to protect him and Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic stayed calm.
• Black flames rose from Ye Lin's left side and golden radiance from his right as the two forces battled at his chest.
• The Golden Crow Fire Essence transformed into a miniature Three-Legged Golden Crow and made one final resistance.

Ye Lin fused the Golden Crow Fire Essence with the Nine Nether Prison Flame, creating the Great Sun Nether Flame during his visit to the Vermilion Bird Clan. He checked his panel afterward and was pleased with his new flame.

• The Nine Nether Prison Flame bound the rampaging Golden Crow phantom in black chains until it stopped resisting and merged with the dark flames.
• Ye Lin used his Primordial Spirit and Sword Dao to fuse the two flames into a new, three-layered fire.
• Ye Lin tested the flame, and Lei Chong saw that it suppressed the Vermilion Bird Divine Fire within him.
• Ye Lin named the new flame the Great Sun Nether Flame, while Chi Lian mourned the loss of the clan's Golden Crow Fire Essence.
• Ye Lin checked his panel and nodded in satisfaction.

Ye Lin visited the Vermilion Bird Clan for its Nirvana Festival and drew the attention of the Golden Crow Fire Essences. Lei Chong invited him to watch the clan’s younger generation compete, opening the way for the sparring Ye Lin had come to arrange.

• Ye Lin thanked Lei Chong and Chi Lian for their hospitality after the Golden Crow Fire Essences flocked to him.
• Lei Chong and Chi Lian congratulated Ye Lin and praised his connection with the Golden Crow Fire Essence.
• Ye Lin asked whether the Nirvana Festival offered other events and waited for the Vermilion Bird Clan to raise the matter of sparring.
• Lei Chong explained that the clan held an arena Grand Competition for its younger generation and invited Ye Lin to watch and possibly compete.

Ye Lin followed Lei Chong to a Vermilion Bird Clan sparring arena, where Yang Tian and Qin Hao were fighting before a huge crowd. After judging that Qin Hao had the upper hand, Ye Lin predicted that Yang Tian would ultimately win.

• Ye Lin agreed to spar with the Vermilion Bird Clan and followed Lei Chong toward the arena with Chi Lian, Sword Demon, and Blade Fanatic.
• Ye Lin sensed powerful law fluctuations ahead as the group approached the source of the commotion.
• Ye Lin found thousands of Vermilion Bird clansmen cheering as Yang Tian and Qin Hao fought at the bottom of a sinkhole.
• Lei Chong identified Yang Tian and Qin Hao as outstanding young clan members and asked Ye Lin who he thought would win.
• Ye Lin said Qin Hao seemed to have the advantage but predicted Yang Tian would win in the end.

Ye Lin watched Yang Tian defeat Qin Hao after correctly predicting that Qin Hao’s relentless attacks would leave him vulnerable. Lei Chong introduced Ye Lin as the Heavenly Blade Sage’s personal disciple to the Vermilion Bird Clan, whose members reacted with admiration and prepared for the next battles.

• Ye Lin told Lei Chong that Yang Tian was holding back and waiting for Qin Hao to expose an opening.
• Yang Tian unleashed his strength, knocked Qin Hao into a wall, and declared himself the victor.
• Qin Hao left the arena in humiliation after losing before the clan members.
• Lei Chong introduced Ye Lin to the Vermilion Bird Clan and cited his victory over Baili Tusu on Meteor Island.
• The clan members praised Ye Lin and called for stronger fighters to take part in the battles.

Ye Lin watched nine Vermilion Bird Clan matches without showing interest, stirring resentment among the clan. Lei Chong invited him into the Arena, and Ye Lin agreed to spar with everyone.

• Three Vermilion Bird clansmen fought in the Arena while Ye Lin watched impassively.
• Nine matches took place over three hours, but Ye Lin's expression did not change.
• The Vermilion Bird clansmen grew dissatisfied and stopped competing as the venue fell silent.
• Lei Chong invited Ye Lin to enter the Arena and spar with the clan.
• Ye Lin accepted and said he would spar with everyone.

Ye Lin entered the Arena and agreed to face challengers from the Vermilion Bird Clan. Yang Tian attacked in his true form, but Ye Lin countered with the Great Sun Nether Flame, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Ye Lin stepped into the Arena, and Lei Chong invited the Vermilion Bird Clan's experts to challenge him.
• Yang Tian, who had won an earlier match, volunteered to face Ye Lin.
• Yang Tian transformed into his true Vermilion Bird form and dove at Ye Lin with burning flames.
• Ye Lin raised his hand and summoned a gray flame, which made Yang Tian's flames tremble and filled him with a sense of danger.
• Yang Tian pressed on with his attack, and Ye Lin spread the gray flames upward to meet him.

Ye Lin defeated Yang Tian by engulfing his Vermilion Bird True Fire with the Nine Nether Prison Flame, then invited another Vermilion Bird Clan cultivator to spar. After the venue fell silent, someone stepped forward to accept.

• Ye Lin's gray flames swallowed Yang Tian's Vermilion Bird True Fire and spread across his wings.
• Ye Lin declared Yang Tian defeated and dispersed the flames after Yang Tian yielded.
• Yang Tian thanked Ye Lin for sparing his life, bowed, and left the Arena.
• The Vermilion Bird Clan's younger generation watched in disbelief, while Lei Chong recognized Ye Lin's flame as the Great Sun Nether Flame.
• Ye Lin invited another cultivator to spar, and someone responded, "I'll do it."

Qin Hao stepped forward to face Ye Lin, hoping to regain some standing after losing to Yang Tian, but Ye Lin defeated him with a single strike. The Vermilion Bird Clan’s cultivators accepted the outcome as expected.

• Qin Hao volunteered to fight Ye Lin after Yang Tian’s defeat, while the Vermilion Bird Clan’s young members doubted him.
• Qin Hao greeted Ye Lin and launched his strongest move, the Vermilion Bird Rending Sky Strike.
• Ye Lin formed a gray-flame blade and split Qin Hao’s attack with one slash, sending him flying and disrupting his power.
• Qin Hao admitted defeat and realized he had lost even more face.