Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin bid five hundred thousand fortune stones for a shackled woman at an auction, while the auction-house young master recognized his group and schemed to exploit their valuable beads. The bidding was pushed to one million, and the young master beat the burly man who had made the inflated bid.

• Ye Lin offered five hundred thousand fortune stones for the shackled woman, silencing the auction crowd.
• The young master recognized Ye Lin's group from the bead they had given his men and ordered the burly man to raise the price.
• The young master explained that the beads were worth five million fortune stones each and planned to get more from Ye Lin's group after the auction.
• The burly man bid one million for the woman, shocking the auction hall.
• The young master punched and kicked the burly man for bidding one million instead of raising the price more carefully.

A young auctioneer scolded his burly accomplice for driving bidders away, then took over and sold the woman to Ye Lin for three million Fortune Stones. The auctioneer celebrated the unexpected windfall as Ye Lin went to complete the transaction.

• The young man beat the burly man for jumping straight to a one-million bid and nearly ruining their plan.
• Ye Lin’s group bid two million, and the young man cautiously raised the price to two million one hundred thousand.
• Ye Lin bid three million, and the young man decided not to raise the price further.
• The auctioneer declared the woman sold to Ye Lin for three million Fortune Stones and celebrated the high price.
• The old man respectfully invited Ye Lin to complete the transaction, and Ye Lin went with him.

Ye Lin refused to pay three million fortune stones for the captive woman, and Zhao Dingding stepped in to settle the deal with him. Ye Lin traded an unidentified pill for her and left with her, while Zhao Dingding kept the pill.

• Ye Lin reached the rear of the auction and told the old man he had no fortune stones to pay for the woman.
• The old man surrounded Ye Lin with the auction house's people, but Zhao Dingding arrived and ordered him to leave.
• Zhao Dingding offered to release the woman in exchange for five beads like the one Ye Lin had seen Su Tao give away.
• Ye Lin said he had no beads and handed Zhao Dingding an unidentified pill instead.
• Zhao Dingding accepted the pill and let Ye Lin take the woman.

Ye Lin decided to take Zhao Wanyi back to his elder brother, believing her extraordinary bloodline could make her a suitable Dao companion for the Spirit King. Su Tao recognized that she might be a direct descendant of a Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan Saint, while Su Qing comforted her.

• Ye Lin asked Zhao Wanyi her name and told her to come with him, intending to bring her to his elder brother as a wife.
• Su Tao sensed Zhao Wanyi's unusual bloodline and asked Ye Lin whether his elder brother's clan had produced Saints.
• Ye Lin confirmed that the clan had produced more than one Saint.
• Su Tao urged Su Qing to comfort Zhao Wanyi, and Su Qing took her arm and spoke reassuringly.
• Su Tao told Ye Lin that Zhao Wanyi might carry the direct bloodline of a Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan Saint.
• Ye Lin considered Zhao Wanyi a suitable Dao companion for the Spirit King and thought he could ask his elder brother to reforge his damaged innate spirit treasure.

Su Tao asked Ye Lin about the Origin Continent and learned that his seventh-level Quasi-Saint cultivation would amount to roughly the fourth or fifth level there. The group continued toward the Western Region as Su Tao accepted the comparison.

• Su Tao led the group through the clouds toward the Western Region and voiced his hatred of the region’s bald inhabitants.
• Su Tao asked Ye Lin what the Origin Continent was like, and Ye Lin explained that it was the true great world while their world was a mysterious secret realm.
• Su Tao asked how his cultivation compared with cultivators on the Origin Continent.
• Ye Lin estimated that Su Tao’s strength corresponded to at least the fourth level of Quasi-Saint, and Su Tao accepted the answer.

Ye Lin and Su Tao arrived on the continent and traveled to the Imperial Capital of the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty. They reached the vast Buddhist kingdom centered on Great Thunderclap Temple, whose splendor Ye Lin observed.

• Ye Lin and Su Tao descended onto the continent, followed by the two women.
• Ye Lin saw many bald preachers surrounded by cultivators listening to their teachings.
• Su Tao stopped and told Ye Lin they had reached the Imperial Capital of the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty.
• Ye Lin surveyed the immense capital, a city of Buddhist halls, pagodas, golden Bodhi trees, and Great Thunderclap Temple.

Ye Lin and Su Tao entered the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty’s majestic capital, where a vast Buddhist formation surrounded them with more than ten thousand Buddhas. A leading elder accused Su Tao of killing three Emperors and their strongest experts and declared that the monks would slay him, but Su Tao mocked their strength.

• Ye Lin admired the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty’s capital and its Buddhist temples, floating peaks, and radiant formations.
• Su Tao led Ye Lin and the other two into the capital, where golden threads and a huge pattern appeared beneath them.
• More than ten thousand Buddhas materialized around the four men and encircled them.
• The leading elder accused Su Tao of killing three Emperors and their foundational experts, then announced that the monks would kill him.
• Su Tao dismissed the assembled monks as weak and mocked the elder for bringing them to their deaths.

The leading elder activated the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Slaying Grand Array and explained that it drew power from the faith and accumulated cultivation of the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty’s Buddhist cultivators. Su Tao and the other three remained trapped inside as the array’s power grew.

• The leading elder told Su Tao that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Slaying Grand Array could slay even a seventh-layer Quasi-Saint.
• The Buddha phantoms opened their eyes as golden patterns rose and formed a cage around Su Tao and the other three.
• The Buddha phantoms moved through the array, summoning weapons, chanting golden chains, sealing the space with light, and adding their power to the formation.
• The leading elder revealed that Buddhist cultivators had merged their cultivation, wisdom, and faith into the array over countless years.

Su Tao faced the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty’s Buddhist grand formation and asked that Su Qing, Ye Lin, and Zhao Wanyi be spared. He revealed that after killing the Emperor and devouring a vast army, he had broken through to the Seventh Heaven of Quasi-Sainthood, then raised a finger bearing black flame.

• The leading Buddhist cultivator activated the grand formation, sending tens of thousands of Buddha phantoms and Dharma treasures toward Su Tao.
• Su Tao asked the old man to let Su Qing, Ye Lin, and Zhao Wanyi leave, but the old man declared them all deserving of execution.
• Su Tao mocked the dynasty’s hypocrisy and said the formation might have injured him a month earlier.
• Su Tao revealed that he had killed the Emperor, slain more than a hundred Quasi-Saints, and devoured an army of several billion in the Southern Region.
• Su Tao announced that he had reached the Seventh Heaven of Quasi-Sainthood and summoned black flame on his finger.

Su Tao used a bean-sized black flame to destroy the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Slaying Grand Array, revealing an aura at the seventh level of the Quasi-Saint realm. The array’s Buddhist cultivators fell from the sky, while the elderly man stood frozen in fear.

• Su Tao released a black flame whose aura surpassed the array’s limits.
• The black flame shattered the ten thousand Buddha phantoms and the array’s Buddhist weapons and protections.
• The flame struck the cage and destroyed the entire Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon-Slaying Grand Array within five breaths.
• The seated Buddhist cultivators spat blood and fell from the sky as the golden ground pattern collapsed.
• The elderly man stared at Su Tao in disbelief and fear.

Su Tao explained why the Buddhist formation could not overcome him, then killed the Buddhist cultivators in the Imperial Capital. Su Qing and Zhao Wanyi watched in fear while Ye Lin remained calm.

• Su Tao said the formation could slay a seventh-level Quasi-Saint when whole, but its fused cultivators had never exceeded the second level of the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Su Tao dismissed the Buddhist cultivators’ inheritance and mocked them for trying to kill him after their Emperor had died.
• Su Tao snapped his fingers, causing the Buddhist cultivators’ heads to explode one after another.
• Su Qing clung to her father, Zhao Wanyi held Ye Lin’s clothes and shut her eyes, and Ye Lin remained calm amid the slaughter.

Su Tao led Ye Lin, Su Qing, and Zhao Wanyi to the Buddhist city's treasury and broke through its hidden entrance. Inside, they discovered a vast underground vault filled with Buddhist treasures and millions of scriptures, including a quasi-Saint-level Great Compassion Mantra.

• Su Tao sensed the treasury's location and led the others to the hall at the city's center.
• Su Tao smashed the hall and shattered the formation beneath it, revealing a golden passage underground.
• Su Tao entered the passage first, followed by Ye Lin, Su Qing, and Zhao Wanyi.
• The group reached an immense underground vault filled with Buddhist murals, precious objects, and countless scriptures.
• Ye Lin opened a scripture and found that it recorded a quasi-Saint-level Great Compassion Mantra.

Ye Lin and Su Tao explored a Buddhist Sect treasure vault filled with scriptures and Dharma artifacts. Ye Lin discovered that the vault held powerful treasures and ended by testing a Wooden Fish, whose sound cleared his mind and eased his fatigue.

• Ye Lin examined Buddhist scriptures that could guide cultivation from an ordinary mortal to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Su Tao explained that the Buddhist Sect’s million years of inheritance had allowed it to amass such a collection.
• Ye Lin and Su Tao looked through the vault’s vast display of Buddhist Dharma artifacts, including vajras, demon-subduing swords, conches, parasols, and alms bowls.
• Ye Lin struck a Wooden Fish made from ten-thousand-year bodhi wood and felt his mind clear and his fatigue fade.

Ye Lin and Su Tao explored the Buddhist sect’s treasure vault, where Su Tao identified rare Spirit Roots and revealed the sect’s collection of dangerous demonic artifacts and forbidden research. They reached a small hall at the vault’s deepest point, where its contents made Ye Lin stop in his tracks.

• Ye Lin saw a Bodhi tree, and Su Tao explained that its fruits could help Primordial Unity Golden Immortals break through to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Su Tao identified a Nine-Grade Golden Lotus and a Fire Dragon Fruit, then ate one of the fruits.
• Ye Lin surveyed numerous rare Spirit Roots, including ten-thousand-year vermilion fruits, Nine-Revolution lingzhi, and branches of the Tree of Life.
• Ye Lin found demonic artifacts, an Evil Demon cultivation art, strange pills, Aberrant-law crystals, and a sealed corpse; Su Tao described the Buddhist sect’s secret research.
• Su Tao led Ye Lin to a small hall at the deepest part of the treasure vault, where Ye Lin stopped in astonishment.

Su Tao claimed the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty’s founding Emperor’s Sarira from the treasure vault and gave Ye Lin permission to take everything else. Ye Lin accepted and prepared to move the vault’s treasures into his Spatial Ring.

• Su Tao opened the golden box guarded by four Quasi-Saint golden Arhat bodies, revealing a seven-colored Sarira.
• Su Tao identified it as the Sarira of the founding Emperor of the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty, a treasure from the Sixth Heaven Quasi-Saint realm.
• Su Tao subdued the Sarira with black flame, took it, and offered Ye Lin the rest of the treasure vault.
• Ye Lin accepted Su Tao’s offer and planned to store the treasures in his Spatial Ring.

Ye Lin and Su Tao left the treasury after Ye Lin took the treasures he wanted, leaving other Buddhist figures to fight over what remained. As Ye Lin traveled through the Western Region, Su Tao explained how the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty had changed since its founding, and Ye Lin questioned how its Emperors could have ruled for such short spans.

• Ye Lin collected most of the treasury's treasures and left the rest behind as trash before departing with Su Tao and the others.
• Buddhist figures rushed into the treasury and fought over the remaining treasures.
• Ye Lin noticed that cultivators below the Daluo Golden Immortal realm across the Western Region had hollow eyes like puppets.
• Su Tao explained that the Buddhist sect had brainwashed the Western Region's living beings to serve the Tranquil Heart Imperial Dynasty's pursuit of faith.
• Su Tao said the dynasty had changed after its founding Emperor died, and Ye Lin questioned how it could have passed through more than a dozen generations in a million years.

Su Tao told Ye Lin that powerful cultivators in this world eventually died when something went wrong in their cultivation, explaining why dynasties relied on fortune to produce Quasi-Saints. Ye Lin agreed to leave the Western Region with Su Tao and head for the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty in the Eastern Region, while Su Tao remained convinced that no amount of sacrifice or cultivation could make him a Saint or free him from the world.

• Su Tao confirmed that the former Emperors had died after problems arose in their cultivation, despite cultivators’ supposedly limitless lifespans.
• Ye Lin realized that fortune cultivation let people reach the Quasi-Saint realm faster in a world where powerful cultivators eventually perished.
• Su Tao dismissed the Western Region as a place of hypocrites and brainwashed people, then proposed traveling to the Eastern Region.
• Ye Lin agreed to visit the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty, the Demon Race’s territory.
• Su Tao said he had no interest in sacrificing the Western Region’s people because greater power would not let him escape the world or become a Saint.

Ye Lin and Su Tao traveled across the sea toward the Eastern Region after Ye Lin sensed he might have only a month left in the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm. They reached the continent five days later, while Ye Lin wondered whether he would forget the realm after leaving and whether the others had survived.

• Ye Lin told Su Tao that his time in the secret realm might end within a month to a year, and Su Tao urged the group to move faster.
• Ye Lin wondered whether he would forget what happened in the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm after leaving, then reviewed his gains, including a Saint's insights and an innate spiritual treasure.
• Ye Lin wondered how many cultivators had survived and whether Sword Demon, the other two, his senior sister, and the others had escaped safely.
• After five days of travel, Ye Lin and the group reached the vast Eastern Region, whose mountains, rivers, and luxuriant vegetation stretched beyond sight.

Ye Lin and Su Tao surveyed the Eastern Region, a vast primeval jungle filled with enormous rivers, waterfalls, mountains, and beasts. Su Tao explained that the wilderness would give way to scenery like the other regions near the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty, and Ye Lin saw many strange Demon Race creatures along the way.

• Ye Lin looked over the Eastern Region’s rivers, immense waterfall, mountain ranges, clearings, coastline, and colossal beasts.
• Su Tao said he liked the untouched primeval environment and identified it as the Eastern Region.
• Su Tao explained that the scenery would resemble the other regions once they reached the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty’s territory.
• Ye Lin saw many bizarre Demon Race creatures as the four of them traveled through the clouds.

Su Tao and his companions continued through the Eastern Region toward the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty’s imperial capital after a giant dragon approached out of curiosity and left unharmed. They reached the vast city, whose imposing walls and scale revealed the dynasty’s carefully constructed façade.

• A colossal five-clawed dragon asked Su Tao whether he was the demon who had killed the Emperor, then admitted it had come only to see him and departed.
• Su Tao let the dragon leave and continued onward with Ye Lin and the other two companions.
• The group passed through increasingly developed surroundings and saw countless enormous cities gathered around a gigantic floating city.
• Ye Lin learned that the floating city was the imperial capital of the Myriad Demon Imperial Dynasty, built as the dynasty’s façade.
• The four approached the capital and saw its immense black stone walls, carved with lifelike reliefs of colossal beasts.