Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin’s group tested their strength on a stone that ranked battle prowess, and Yun Qiyue and Hua Feiyi produced stronger golden readings than Shi Potian. The chapter left Shi Potian humiliated after Hua Feiyi mocked him for pursuing her.

• Shi Potian explained the stone’s color rankings and warned that it only roughly measured a cultivator’s current strength.
• Most cultivators failed to pass the test and left, while those who qualified showed gold readings.
• Yun Qiyue placed her hand on the stone and produced a brilliant golden radiance.
• Shi Potian tested next, but his golden light was noticeably dimmer than Yun Qiyue’s.
• Hua Feiyi produced a brighter golden reading than Shi Potian and scorned him for pursuing her.
• Shi Potian blushed and could not find a way to reclaim his dignity.

Ye Lin tested his strength at the entrance and produced a faint red glow, surprising Yun Qiyue, Hua Feiyi, and Shi Potian. The group entered the banquet hall, where Long Aotian stood on a platform as the cultivators gathered.

• Shi Potian asked Ye Lin to test the stone, hoping he would be no stronger than himself.
• Ye Lin touched the stone, which showed a faint red glow and shocked the trio.
• Hua Feiyi openly flirted with Ye Lin, leaving Shi Potian convinced he had lost his goddess.
• Yun Qiyue praised Ye Lin’s hidden strength, and the four entered the banquet hall.
• The guards identified Ye Lin as the Blade Saint’s direct disciple and remarked on his red strength.
• Long Aotian welcomed the arriving cultivators to find seats.

Long Aotian told the gathered cultivators that a ruin the Chaos Ancient Clan was exploring seemed to come from outside the Boundary Sea or was beyond his father’s ability to divine. He offered the qualified guests a chance to join the expedition, leaving them to weigh its risks and keep the information secret.

• Long Aotian welcomed Ye Lin and the other cultivators, then revealed that the ruin might not belong to the Boundary Sea.
• Long Aotian said his father, a peak ninth-level Quasi-Saint, had divined no karmic entanglements around the ruin, suggesting it either came from beyond the Boundary Sea or was connected to a Saint.
• Long Aotian explained that the Chaos Ancient Clan had allowed the Eastern Region’s Holy Palace to explore the ruin in exchange for meeting its qualifications.
• Long Aotian invited the cultivators to register for the dangerous expedition and warned them to keep the meeting and its revelations secret.
• The cultivators erupted into discussion as they considered whether to join the expedition.

Long Aotian invited Ye Lin and the other cultivators to explore a ruin beyond the Boundary Sea, assuring them that Holy Palace experts would escort them against the Chaos Ancient Clan. Ye Lin agreed to go, and Yun Qiyue followed, leaving the group ready to set out.

• Long Aotian invited Ye Lin to join the expedition and promised that Holy Palace experts would protect the group.
• Ye Lin questioned whether the Chaos Ancient Clan might attack, and Long Aotian assured him the expedition would be safe.
• Shi Potian agreed to go first, prompting the other prodigies to join the expedition.
• Hua Feiyi agreed to go, and Long Aotian continued to watch for Ye Lin's decision.
• Ye Lin agreed to explore the ruin, and Yun Qiyue said she would go with him.

Ye Lin agreed to join Long Aotian’s expedition to the ruins, and Long Aotian offered to handle Ye Lin’s unfinished Holy Palace task. Three days later, thirty-six powerful cultivators departed the Eastern Region and entered the Boundary Sea.

• Long Aotian set the expedition’s departure for three days later, despite some cultivators objecting to the short notice.
• Ye Lin hesitated because he had an unfinished Holy Palace task, but Long Aotian offered to postpone it or consolidate his tasks.
• After three days, thirty-six cultivators gathered to depart, while Long Aotian ignored the absence of more than a dozen others.
• Long Aotian led the thirty-six cultivators through the Void, out of the Eastern Region, and into the Boundary Sea.

Long Aotian led the group through the Boundary Sea to a vast expanse of ruins. Ye Lin surveyed the ancient, mysterious remains, and the group stood before the ruined palace at the center of a ring of pillars and chains.

• Long Aotian used a Compass to guide the group through the Boundary Sea.
• Long Aotian announced that they had reached their destination.
• Ye Lin saw a vast sea of ruins emerging from the gray-white mist.
• Ye Lin observed colossal rune-covered pillars encircled by chains stained with dried blood.
• Ye Lin examined a ruined palace floating at the center of the array and saw towers, a gate, broken stairs, and a gigantic skeleton among the surrounding ruins.

Ye Lin saw the ruins crowded with bizarre members of the Chaos Ancient Clan, suspended among the wreckage in countless strange forms. As they noticed Ye Lin and his group, their attention shifted from the ruins to the newcomers.

• Ye Lin spotted figures floating, hanging, and frozen throughout the ruins.
• Ye Lin recognized the figures as members of the Chaos Ancient Clan, whose mist-like bodies varied in color, size, and shape.
• Ye Lin observed several bizarre members, including a many-eyed spider-like figure, a tentacled figure, and a turning wheel with eyes.
• The Chaos Ancient Clan members turned their gazes toward Ye Lin's group and scrutinized them.

Long Aotian and the others encountered members of the Chaos Ancient Clan in the ruins, where Long Xiu challenged Long Aotian and another enemy provoked Shi Potian. Long Aotian and Shi Potian accepted their fights, and the clashes began.

• Long Xiu mocked Long Aotian and gathered the Chaos Ancient Clan members around him.
• Long Aotian said they should focus on exploring the ruins but accepted Long Xiu's challenge when he insisted on fighting.
• Long Xiu and Long Aotian vanished to battle after Long Aotian summoned his crimson spear.
• A Chaos Ancient Clan member insulted the people of the Origin Continent and challenged them to fight.
• Shi Potian charged at the provoker, and they began fighting with deadly attacks.

Ye Lin faced the Chaos Ancient Clan at the Boundary Sea while the cultivators behind him and his companions joined battles elsewhere. Yuan Zhou called in two allies, leaving Ye Lin surrounded by three bizarre enemies.

• Ye Lin ordered the cultivators behind him to attack the Chaos Ancient Clan, and battles erupted around the Boundary Sea.
• Yun Qiyue went to test the enemies’ strength, and Hua Feiyi also joined the fighting.
• Yuan Zhou introduced himself to Ye Lin and said he had friends.
• Bone Slayer and Cockroach emerged from the mist and took positions beside Yuan Zhou, surrounding Ye Lin.

Ye Lin faced Yuan Zhou, Bone Slayer, and Cockroach, three first-level Quasi-Saint Realm prodigies from the Chaos Bone Clan’s Imperial Clan, after they surrounded him. He blocked their opening attacks, but Yuan Zhou’s giant palm was still coming down toward him.

• Yuan Zhou threatened Ye Lin as he, Bone Slayer, and Cockroach formed a triangle around him.
• Ye Lin summoned the Godslayer Sword and calmly challenged the three Imperial Clan prodigies to attack.
• Yuan Zhou fired rays from his eyes, Bone Slayer charged with his legs, and Cockroach sent down a net of light.
• Ye Lin cut open the void to swallow Cockroach’s net and parried Bone Slayer’s repeated strikes with his sword.
• Yuan Zhou’s eye rays formed a gigantic palm that slammed toward Ye Lin’s head.

Ye Lin fought Cockroach, Bone Slayer, and Yuan Zhou as their coordinated attacks pressed him. He broke free of Cockroach’s threads and wounded Bone Slayer with a swift sword strike.

• Ye Lin cut Yuan Zhou’s descending palm but found it remained intact and leaked corrosive black liquid.
• Cockroach sent resilient white threads toward Ye Lin, which wrapped around and restrained his sword.
• Bone Slayer formed his twelve legs into a spear and charged Ye Lin while Yuan Zhou fired a rain of light needles.
• Ye Lin swallowed Yuan Zhou’s needles with a black hole and evaded Bone Slayer’s spear.
• Ye Lin snapped Cockroach’s threads with a forceful shake, then slashed Bone Slayer from shoulder to waist.

Ye Lin was trapped and wounded by Cockroach, Bone Slayer, and Yuan Zhou, but he broke free and healed rapidly. He challenged Bone Slayer to fight again.

• Bone Slayer retreated after Ye Lin wounded him, then began healing with the Imperial Clan’s powerful recovery ability.
• Cockroach cast a vast net while Bone Slayer blocked Ye Lin’s escape and Yuan Zhou slowed him by solidifying the Void around him.
• The net bound Ye Lin, allowing Bone Slayer to pierce his shoulder and Yuan Zhou to cut deeply into his arm.
• Ye Lin snapped the threads and healed his wounds at a speed that surpassed Bone Slayer’s.
• Ye Lin pointed his sword at Bone Slayer and said, “Again.”

Ye Lin fought Bone Slayer and Cockroach while Yuan Zhou prepared a devastating attack. He broke free of the pressure from Bone Slayer’s speed and began damaging Cockroach’s Heavenly Net, but Yuan Zhou’s combined beam forced him to retreat with Bone Slayer blocking his escape.

• Bone Slayer attacked Ye Lin from three directions with afterimages, and Ye Lin opened a spatial rift with his sword to drag out Bone Slayer’s true body.
• Ye Lin turned on Cockroach and repeatedly struck the weakest points of the Heavenly Net, cracking its meshes as Cockroach reinforced them.
• Yuan Zhou fired a multicolored pillar of light that annihilated everything in its path, forcing Ye Lin to abandon his attack on the net and retreat.
• Bone Slayer blocked Ye Lin’s escape route as Yuan Zhou’s destructive beam advanced.

Ye Lin used a single sword strike to counter Yuan Zhou's pillar of light, Bone Slayer's leg-spikes, and Cockroach's heavenly net. All three attacks were neutralized, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Bone Slayer raised his twelve legs to attack Ye Lin while Yuan Zhou sent a seven-colored pillar of light and Cockroach brought down a heavenly net.
• Ye Lin traced silver-white patterns along his sword and delivered one slow yet swift strike in three directions.
• Ye Lin split Yuan Zhou's pillar of light in two, sending its upper half into the Boundary Sea.
• Ye Lin's sword light bound Bone Slayer's twelve legs and wounded them, leaving them numb and stiff.
• Ye Lin's sword-light net clashed with Cockroach's heavenly net until both shattered.

Ye Lin fought Yuan Zhou and Bone Slayer through a darkness that erased all perception, relying on his swordsmanship to locate and strike his enemies. He severed Bone Slayer’s leg-spikes one by one, leaving Bone Slayer stunned and afraid.

• Yuan Zhou and Bone Slayer acknowledged Ye Lin’s strength, but Yuan Zhou unleashed a storm of black beams that engulfed the battlefield in darkness.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes and relied on his sword rather than sight to defend himself.
• Bone Slayer attacked Ye Lin from multiple directions with his leg-spikes, but Ye Lin severed them with successive sword strikes.
• Bone Slayer cried out in disbelief, and Ye Lin continued fighting without answering.

Ye Lin defeated Bone Slayer in the darkness, but Yuan Zhou pulled him back and the three Imperial Clan members prepared to continue fighting. Yuan Zhou launched black mist that rotted the Void as it slithered toward Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin used his sword to predict Bone Slayer's movements, cut down his legs, and pierce his chest as Bone Slayer tried to flee.
• Yuan Zhou dragged the wounded Bone Slayer back and insisted that the Imperial Clan did not flee from battle.
• The darkness receded, revealing Ye Lin unharmed, Bone Slayer regenerating, and Cockroach weakened; Yuan Zhou acknowledged Ye Lin's formidable swordsmanship but threatened to wear him down with the others.
• Ye Lin challenged Yuan Zhou to try, and Yuan Zhou sent streams of black mist toward him that caused the Void to rot.

Ye Lin faced Yuan Zhou’s Law of Decay, which eroded his sword attacks and the space around him, but revealed his Sword Dao law and pierced Yuan Zhou’s head with Sword Qi. Yuan Zhou survived and recovered slowly as Bone Slayer and Cockroach prepared to use their full strength against Ye Lin.

• Yuan Zhou’s black mist decayed Ye Lin’s sword light and corroded a spatial rift, while Yuan Zhou claimed his law could corrode the Great Dao.
• The black mist swallowed Ye Lin, but silver-white light erupted from his body and forced it back.
• Ye Lin pierced Yuan Zhou’s head with Sword Qi, leaving a wound that healed slowly because his Sword Intent hindered regeneration.
• Yuan Zhou recognized Ye Lin as a serious threat and exchanged glances with Bone Slayer and Cockroach.
• Bone Slayer and Cockroach recovered from their injuries, and the three decided to unleash their full strength to kill Ye Lin.

Yuan Zhou, Bone Slayer, and Cockroach revealed their true forms and unleashed their full power against Ye Lin. Ye Lin put away the Godslayer Sword and summoned the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell, declaring that he would finish them off as the three Imperial Clan experts attacked.

• Yuan Zhou transformed into a gigantic head surrounded by countless eyes and writhing tentacles.
• Bone Slayer regrew and enlarged his twelve legs as dark-red light poured from cracks across his body.
• Cockroach became a flat disc whose fuzz twisted the Void while his floating eyes formed a web of colored rays.
• Ye Lin calmly faced the three first-level Quasi-Saint experts as their auras shook the Boundary Sea.
• Ye Lin put away the Godslayer Sword, summoned the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell, and said he would end the fight.
• Yuan Zhou ordered an attack, and the three figures moved against Ye Lin.

Ye Lin revealed the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell as an Innate Spirit Treasure, prompting Yuan Zhou and the other Imperial Clan powerhouses to intensify their transformations. Yuan Zhou launched his attack by firing black beams into his own body, forming a sphere of power around himself.

• Ye Lin held the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell, whose runes stirred in response to his aura.
• Yuan Zhou recognized the bell as an Innate Spirit Treasure and declared that Ye Lin would die.
• Bone Slayer completed his transformation, with magma pouring from his body and a black hole forming in his mouth.
• Cockroach transformed into a vast disc and created a force field and array from twelve colored beams.
• Yuan Zhou fired black beams into his own body, swelling larger and forming a huge black sphere around himself.

Ye Lin used the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell to destroy Yuan Zhou’s attack and overwhelm his true body with its chimes. Yuan Zhou was left shattering under the bell’s power as Bone Slayer and Cockroach watched in alarm.

• Yuan Zhou launched his full-force Decaying Heaven Burial attack, sending a black sphere toward Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin enlarged the Supreme Purity Mystic Bell and rang it, freezing the Boundary Sea and cracking the black sphere.
• Yuan Zhou protested that Ye Lin’s innate spirit treasure could not be so powerful as the bell’s second chime shattered the sphere.
• The bell chime struck Yuan Zhou’s exposed body, cracking him and bursting his eyes as he tried to flee.
• Bone Slayer and Cockroach watched Yuan Zhou’s suffering with alarm.