Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin awakened the Unrivaled Sacred Body, vastly increasing his strength, while Taichu and Tai Du discussed the ancient factions whose seals were weakening. Taichu believed the Eastern Continent’s human future rested on Ye Lin as the ancient powers prepared to emerge.

• Tai Du recognized Ye Lin’s golden transformation as the awakening of the Unrivaled Sacred Body, astonishing Taichu.
• Ye Lin discovered that his strength had doubled and believed he could now defeat Xilia with ease.
• Ye Lin challenged the ancient Great Terrors to appear, then returned to his residence to study a secret manual about the ancient era.
• Taichu warned Tai Du that the weakening seal could release the ancient factions within ten years, and said the Human Race’s future depended on Ye Lin.

Tai Du warned Taichu that ancient forces far beyond the Jade Emperor might threaten Nameless Mountain, and he went into seclusion to seek a breakthrough. Ye Lin opened the ancient book and witnessed a devastating battle between mighty cultivators, leaving him with powerful but unclear insights.

• Tai Du told Taichu that ancient beings dwarfed even the Jade Emperor and might target Nameless Mountain when they emerged.
• Tai Du suggested Ye Lin already knew of the danger because he had shifted from expansion to consolidating and developing Nameless Mountain.
• Tai Du vanished to enter seclusion, and Taichu hoped his elder brother would break through to Half-Immortal.
• Ye Lin opened the ancient book with ease and immersed his consciousness in its contents.
• Ye Lin witnessed a battlefield where Spirit Transformation cultivators filled the ground and mighty powers shattered heaven, earth, and the laws.
• Ye Lin gained elusive insights from watching the battle but could not yet understand them clearly.

Ye Lin watched visions of battles and betrayals that stirred grief, anger, joy, and sorrow before he settled into meditation. Outside, Taiyuan realized his master had remembered their past all along and wept.

• Ye Lin watched two elderly swordsmen duel, as one killed his old friend and departed in sorrow.
• Ye Lin witnessed scenes of wars, family killings, betrayal, and vengeance, and felt each one deeply.
• After the final scene faded, Ye Lin closed his eyes and continued meditating as his aura shifted.
• Taiyuan looked at his childhood playmates, the Sword God senior, and the uncles who had cared for him, then cried as he realized his master had remembered everything.

After ten years in seclusion, Ye Lin comprehended the Emperor-tier divine ability Reminiscence, a sword that attacked the heart by stirring up memories and inner demons. He left to learn how the world had changed, while an unseen observer marveled at his achievement.

• Taiyuan led the people he had brought out of Demon Race territory into Nameless Mountain and felt grateful to Ye Lin.
• Ten years passed while Ye Lin remained in seclusion to comprehend a new sword.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes and named the sword he had comprehended Reminiscence.
• Ye Lin demonstrated Reminiscence above Nameless Mountain and explained that it could not be blocked or evaded and attacked the heart.
• Ye Lin decided to see how the world had changed and flew toward the Sect Master Hall.
• After Ye Lin left, an unseen observer called his achievement an Emperor-tier divine ability.

Taichu realized that Ye Lin had created an Imperial Grade divine ability and was shaken by its power and rarity. He began plotting to persuade Ye Lin to teach it to him, unaware that Ye Lin did not know his master was already scheming.

• Taichu watched Ye Lin leave after recognizing that his sword strike had revealed a divine ability.
• Taichu judged Ye Lin's divine ability to be Imperial Grade, a level rarer and more terrifying than any divine ability he possessed.
• Taichu considered how divine abilities involved laws, resisted countermeasures, and could overwhelm those who lacked firm wills.
• Taichu decided to trick Ye Lin into sharing the Imperial Grade divine ability and hoped Ye Lin would teach him how to use it.
• The chapter explained that divine abilities were ranked Heaven, King, Emperor, Imperial, and God.

After ten years in seclusion, Ye Lin convened Nameless Mountain's leaders and learned that powerful Pioneers had arrived on islands across the Eastern Continent, slaughtering and displacing the local races. He learned that the Pioneers' strength remained unknown and left the meeting facing a growing threat.

• Ye Lin summoned Nameless Mountain's upper echelon, but most leaders sent projections instead of attending in person.
• Zhuge told Ye Lin that spatial rifts had appeared across the Eastern Continent and islands bearing the Pioneers had descended through them.
• The Pioneers seized territory and slaughtered the Human Race's hidden power, including its Dao Integration ancestor, before the True Lords stationed themselves near the ten islands.
• A True Lord's intent projection told Ye Lin that special forces shielded the islands, blocking divine senses and making approach impossible.
• Ye Lin realized that the island forces could overwhelm even Dao Integration True Lords and considered the situation troublesome.

Ye Lin left Zhuge in charge of Nameless Mountain while he refined an avatar using One Breath Becomes Three Purities. After a month, he completed a body identical to himself, but it remained lifeless.

• Ye Lin ordered the True Lords to monitor the ten descending factions, learn their strength, and seek peaceful contact if possible.
• Ye Lin appointed Zhuge as temporary Sect Master of Nameless Mountain and told the True Lords to follow his decisions.
• Ye Lin gathered his treasures and began refining an avatar, using flames, hand seals, and Spirit Stones to sustain the process.
• Ye Lin spent a month shaping the avatar and recreating his own meridians and bodily details.
• Ye Lin finished an identical body, but its vacant eyes and lack of aura showed that it was still lifeless.

Ye Lin split his soul to awaken his clone using One Breath Becomes Three Purities, leaving himself near death. Taichu arrived and began pouring Soul Power into him after discovering his soul was badly injured.

• Ye Lin cut his soul in half and sent one half into the clone, then used One Breath Becomes Three Purities to awaken it.
• Ye Lin swallowed treasures that aided the soul and endured the dangerous process as his aura weakened and the clone's grew stronger.
• Taichu noticed Ye Lin's life soul had nearly gone dark and rushed to his residence.
• Taichu saw Ye Lin's soul injury, poured Soul Power into him, and rebuked him for acting recklessly without asking for help.

Taichu discovered that Ye Lin had severed half his soul to create a clone and used his origin and treasures to restore most of the damage. Ten years later, Ye Lin recovered fully and recognized that Taichu’s help had saved him from a much longer recovery.

• Taichu found that Ye Lin’s soul had hidden injuries and stabilized him with spiritual medicines and Soul Power.
• Taichu examined Ye Lin’s identical clone and realized Ye Lin had cut away half his own soul to make it.
• Taichu spent thirty percent of his origin and more than half his treasures restoring eighty percent of Ye Lin’s soul, leaving the remaining damage for Ye Lin to heal himself.
• Taichu left to recover after his realm became unstable, while Ye Lin secretly sensed what he had done.
• Ten years later, Ye Lin opened his eyes with his soul restored and returned to peak condition.

Ye Lin woke and spoke with his newly refined clone, who named himself Xiaoyao and left Nameless Mountain to explore the world. Ye Lin then faced a terrifying Tribulation Transcendence lightning tribulation as he advanced toward the Dao Integration realm.

• Ye Lin woke to find his clone keeping watch and thanked him for standing guard.
• The clone asked for protective items, took Ye Lin's Spatial Ring, and named himself Xiaoyao.
• Xiaoyao left Nameless Mountain to explore the world, while Ye Lin watched him go.
• Dark clouds and lightning gathered over Nameless Mountain, prompting its disciples to hide and curse the tribulation.
• Ye Lin rose into the sky to undergo Tribulation Transcendence and advance toward the Dao Integration realm.
• A disciple recognized the Nine Heavens Profound Lightning as a vast lightning net and thundercloud vortex formed overhead.

Ye Lin faced the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder, a rare and deadly tribulation that could make him invincible among Dao Integration cultivators if he survived. After shattering its first strike with a punch, he met a storm of divine generals and began absorbing the energy released as he destroyed them.

• A young man explained that the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder had four tribulations and had killed most prodigies who attempted it.
• Ye Lin punched apart the first golden lightning strike, causing the remaining tribulations to grow stronger.
• A cultivator asked the book-holding young man about stronger lightning tribulations, and he listed several, including the world-destroying Great Dao Lightning Tribulation.
• The Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder sent countless divine generals charging at Ye Lin, and he activated the Unrivaled Sacred Body.
• Ye Lin smashed the divine generals with his fists, absorbing the pure energy they released.

Ye Lin survived the first seven waves of the lightning tribulation with the overwhelming power of his Unrivaled Sacred Body. The third tribulation summoned a peerless prodigy calling himself the Heavenly Emperor, who challenged Ye Lin to withstand one Spirit Transformation-level attack.

• Ye Lin repeatedly charged through the Nine Heavens Mystic Lightning and shattered its bolts with his fists, growing stronger as his wounds healed.
• Ye Lin destroyed the final bolt and withdrew his aura, having reached the limit of the Spirit Transformation realm.
• Thunderclouds spread across a vast area as a golden light revealed a figure summoned from the river of history.
• A young man explained that the third tribulation summoned ancient peerless prodigies to fight the one undergoing tribulation.
• The figure named himself the Heavenly Emperor and gave Ye Lin three breaths to prepare for one attack that would decide whether he lived or died.
• A young spectator cursed that the Heavenly Dao was trying to kill Ye Lin, then began explaining himself as everyone stared at him.

A golden phantom recounted how the Heavenly Emperor had led the Human Race to rise during the Primordial Era, then tested Ye Lin with a single punch. Ye Lin barely blocked it, and the phantom disappeared.

• The young man described how powerful races had oppressed the Human Race in the Primordial Era until the Heavenly Emperor united them and led them to rise.
• The onlookers admired the Heavenly Emperor and wondered whether Ye Lin could withstand even one of his moves.
• The golden phantom told Ye Lin that the three breaths were up and announced the Heavenly Emperor Fist.
• Ye Lin activated the Unrivaled Sacred Body, advanced I Alone Reign Supreme Above and Below to its third revolution, and met the punch with his own.
• The clash shook Nameless Mountain and shattered the surrounding space, but Ye Lin barely blocked the phantom's strike.
• The phantom praised Ye Lin and dissipated.

Ye Lin endured the tribulation lightning and answered three questions posed by a voice in the heavens. Golden light healed him and strengthened his aura, leaving him transformed after his final answer.

• Ye Lin was battered by peak Spirit Transformation lightning until the storm faded, though the tribulation had not yet ended.
• Purple-black lightning formed a gigantic eye, which asked Ye Lin why he cultivated immortality.
• Ye Lin said he sought freedom from others’ control, freedom from fear of death, and the power to protect those he cared about, and golden light restored him to full health.
• The eye asked what an immortal was, and Ye Lin answered that immortality meant living forever, freely, and with the heart’s wishes fulfilled.
• Asked what longevity was, Ye Lin said he would remain undying when heaven and earth were destroyed and unfallen when the ten thousand Daos collapsed.
• Three beams of golden light descended and enveloped Ye Lin for three minutes.

After completing the Three Questions of Immortality, Ye Lin reached the early Dao Integration stage and learned that powerful inheritors had emerged from the ten islands. He decided to visit the factions they had challenged and discover their intentions.

• Ye Lin realized the Heavenly Dao had bestowed the Three Questions of Immortality on him and felt the overwhelming power of the Dao Integration stage.
• Ye Lin demonstrated his new ability to manipulate space and travel instantly before summoning Nameless Mountain's upper echelons.
• A True Lord reported that Spirit Transformation cultivators calling themselves inheritors had emerged from the ten islands and defeated every peerless prodigy they had challenged.
• Ye Lin decided to visit the factions and investigate the inheritors, judging that Nameless Mountain could not match their foundations.

Ye Lin decided to travel himself and warned Zhuge to reform Nameless Mountain while he was away. After seeing that Zhuge would die three years later at the hands of a powerful heir’s guardian, Ye Lin ordered him to stay at the mountain for five years, and Zhuge agreed.

• Ye Lin rejected Zhuge’s warning and said he would make the trip himself, then told Zhuge to purge Nameless Mountain’s internal problems.
• Ye Lin inspected Zhuge’s panel and learned that Zhuge would encounter a revived Great Demon and later be killed by an heir’s Heavenly Lord guardian.
• Ye Lin told Zhuge not to leave Nameless Mountain for five years, then vanished.
• Zhuge accepted Ye Lin’s order and decided he would not leave.

Ye Lin visited a powerful sect in Tianhe Prefecture and was stunned by its vast inner world and formidable strength. The chapter ended with him facing its mysterious leader and fifteen terrifying figures seated in the palace.

• Ye Lin arrived before the island and asked its sect to open its gates for him.
• Two Spirit Transformation realm gatekeepers welcomed Ye Lin onto the island.
• Ye Lin saw that the island contained a vast world of floating islands, mountains, factions, and cities.
• A mysterious voice summoned Ye Lin to a silver-white palace, where he met the veiled leader and fifteen powerful figures.
• Ye Lin suspected the figures included Heavenly Lords or half-immortals and realized the sect had not revealed its full foundation.

Ye Lin met Wen Ruxue, leader of one of the ancient factions, and learned that the factions had returned to pursue immortality rather than harm the Human Race. Wen Ruxue offered the factions’ aid in exchange for Ye Lin recognizing their identities and granting them the Human Race’s authority in the Eastern Continent.

• Wen Ruxue praised Ye Lin and offered him a seat of honor, then introduced herself by name.
• Ye Lin asked about the factions’ intentions, and Wen Ruxue said they had no plans to harm or encroach upon the Human Race.
• Wen Ruxue warned that the golden age would descend in three years, bringing great terrors and upheaval.
• Wen Ruxue proposed that she and the other nine factions help Nameless Mountain expand and manage the coming chaos in exchange for Ye Lin’s recognition of their identities and authority.

Wen Ruxue explained that her people needed Ye Lin to grant them a share of the Eastern Continent's Human Race fortune so they could safely appear in the current era. Ye Lin agreed in principle but demanded an alliance led by Nameless Mountain, and Wen Ruxue accepted.

• Wen Ruxue explained that her people were hidden from the Heavenly Dao and could not safely leave their islands without protection.
• Wen Ruxue asked Ye Lin to acknowledge their existence and grant them a portion of the Eastern Continent's Human Race fortune.
• Ye Lin considered that granting the fortune would cost him little and decided to use the request to negotiate.
• Ye Lin demanded that Nameless Mountain and Wen Ruxue's ten great factions form an alliance, with Nameless Mountain holding absolute leadership.
• Wen Ruxue accepted Ye Lin's alliance terms.

Ye Lin secured the ten great sects’ agreement to send experts to Nameless Mountain monthly, and promised to spread providence across the island. Wen Ruxue hinted at a major change coming in three years, then revealed her face and left Ye Lin stunned by her beauty.

• Ye Lin demanded that the ten great sects send alchemy, artifact-refining, or other experts to Nameless Mountain each month, and Wen Ruxue agreed after consulting the other factions.
• Ye Lin required the factions to aid Nameless Mountain in future dangers or lose the providence shielding them.
• Wen Ruxue said the Golden Age would truly descend in three years and that providence would face a fiercer backlash.
• Ye Lin took out Jade Creek to spread providence over every living being on the island, after Wen Ruxue promised the factions would not harm them without cause.
• Ye Lin teased Wen Ruxue about hiding her face, so she dispelled the mist, leaving him stunned by her beauty.