Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin proposed that the clans hunt experts from the descending transcendent factions while Heavenly Dao suppression limited them to Heavenly Lord strength. He urged the clans to use the time to grow stronger, but their response remained uncertain.

• Wen Ruxue said the descending factions' experts could currently wield no more than Heavenly Lord cultivation while in the world.
• Ye Lin proposed hunting members of the transcendent factions and letting whoever made a kill keep the spoils.
• A powerful expert from a minor clan worried that the factions would take revenge, and Ye Lin argued they would attack regardless.
• Wen Ruxue and the others were stunned by Ye Lin's proposal, while the clan experts hesitated to agree.
• Ye Lin urged the clans to strike first, strengthen themselves during the Heavenly Dao's suppression, and stop fearing the enemies of their era.

Tian Yuan and Ao Lie backed a resolution to kill members of the transcendent factions, and the alliance’s vote passed it. Ye Lin left open the possibility of cooperation or admitting a transcendent faction through a future vote.

• Tian Yuan argued that the alliance could resist the transcendent factions as the Golden Age strengthened its members.
• Ao Lie supported the proposal, and all twenty vice alliance leaders voted in favor, passing the resolution.
• Ye Lin ordered alliance members to kill people from transcendent factions they encountered, while allowing for possible cooperation.
• A Sacred Turtle Clan vice alliance leader asked how the alliance would handle a transcendent faction seeking to join, and Ye Lin said the alliance would vote on it.

Ye Lin learned about the Dawn Alliance’s extensive growth and received its supreme-authority token. He then ordered the Alliance to prepare a welcome gift for hostile experts from transcendent factions who had arrived in the world.

• Ye Lin declared that Vice Alliance Leaders could be stripped of their posts and expelled if they harmed the Alliance, and that only those already present could compete for vacancies.
• A representative explained that the Alliance had built branch alliances, halls, an auction house, a War God Hall, an intelligence department, and forces including ten thousand True Lords and one hundred and thirty consecrated experts.
• Wen Ruxue gave Ye Lin the Alliance Leader Identity Token, which granted him authority to mobilize the Alliance’s experts and resources.
• Ye Lin praised the Alliance’s development and told everyone to act against the hostile experts from the transcendent factions who had arrived.

Ye Lin learned that five Heavenly Lords had come to Nameless Mountain to take control of the sect and demand the Kongtong Seal. He arrived to confront them, leaving their demand unanswered.

• Ye Lin heard that five Heavenly Lords had arrived at Nameless Mountain and ordered the alliance members to give them a meeting gift.
• The five Heavenly Lords mocked Tai Du and demanded that Nameless Mountain replace its sect master, but Tai Du's Half-Immortal pressure forced them to the ground.
• Ye Lin entered the hall and took the sect master's seat after apologizing to Tai Du.
• One of the Heavenly Lords demanded the Kongtong Seal from Ye Lin, who pretended not to understand what he meant.

Ye Lin used the Kongtong Seal and Human Territory's fortune to crush five arrogant powerhouses, then collected their Spatial Rings. Meanwhile, leaders of the transcendent factions discovered their envoys had been killed and discussed how to retaliate despite the Heavenly Dao's suppression.

• Ye Lin used Human Territory's fortune to pin five powerhouses to the ground and killed them when they demanded the Kongtong Seal.
• Ye Lin told Tai Du to kill any more fools who challenged them, and Tai Du agreed.
• Ye Lin collected the five Spatial Rings and found valuable items inside.
• Transcendent faction leaders gathered after their envoys' soul lamps went out and learned that their people had been hunted.
• The leaders considered sending True Lords to retaliate but worried they could not intimidate their targets under the Heavenly Dao's suppression.

The transcendent factions decided to challenge local sect prodigies, offering martial arts manuals or formation methods and seeking land before Heavenly Dao expelled them in half a year. Ye Lin heard the terms from ten Spirit Transformation cultivators and remained suspicious of the proposed exchange.

• A mighty expert proposed having the transcendent factions' prodigies challenge local prodigies, with rewards and land at stake.
• The experts discussed how they needed territory acknowledged by the world's living beings within half a year or Heavenly Dao would expel them.
• The mighty expert ordered the others to arrange the challenges, and the projected figures disappeared as they began making plans.
• Several uninvited guests visited the major races of the Eastern Continent and the deep sea almost a day later.
• Ten peak Spirit Transformation True Persons asked Ye Lin to arrange challenges, offering a Heaven Grade pill for each loss and demanding a hundred-li tract of land for each victory.
• Ye Lin did not agree immediately because he suspected the transcendent factions' offer concealed a catch.

Ye Lin abandoned a proposed contest with five prodigies to investigate the Heavenly Palace Ruins after they began breaking through their seal. The Jade Emperor revealed that the Ancient Heavenly Palace’s ten Half-Immortal experts, long believed dead, might still be alive and attacking from within.

• Five prodigies offered Ye Lin pills, martial skills, and a divine ability if he fought them, but he grew suspicious of their generosity.
• A treasure’s rosy light appeared, and Ye Lin slapped the five prodigies away before heading toward it.
• Ye Lin found the Heavenly Palace Ruins in Demon Race territory, glowing beneath golden chains that suppressed them.
• The Jade Emperor told Ye Lin that mysterious powerful figures inside the ruins were attacking the seal.
• The Jade Emperor said the ten Half-Immortal experts of the Ancient Heavenly Palace had never died and might be the ones attacking the seal.

Ye Lin learned from the Jade Emperor that the ten ancient Heavenly Palace powerhouses had sealed themselves to survive until the present era and might be attacking the ruins’ seal. The Jade Emperor warned that the seal would not hold for long, leaving the ten half-immortals’ emergence looming.

• The Jade Emperor explained that he had survived his failed attempt to ascend as a remnant soul, while the other nine powerhouses sealed themselves to await the Ascension Gate.
• The Jade Emperor said the Heavenly Palace seal protected the sealed powerhouses’ bodies while they were unaware and vulnerable.
• Ye Lin asked whether the Queen Mother could have been harmed while she appeared lifeless, and the Jade Emperor explained that the ruins restricted entrants and the sealed bodies had protective measures.
• Ye Lin asked whether the attackers could break through the seal, and the Jade Emperor said they knew the formation’s weak points and would not be stopped for long.

Ye Lin learned that the Ten Half-Immortals knew the formation’s weak point and could break the seal on the Heavenly Palace Ruins within three days. The Jade Emperor recounted how he and the ten ancient experts had reached a dead end in cultivation, while Ye Lin prepared to deal with them if they emerged and refused to submit.

• The Jade Emperor said the Ten Half-Immortals could strike the formation’s weak point and collapse it within three days.
• Ye Lin asked whether the Ten Half-Immortals would still obey the Jade Emperor, and the Jade Emperor dismissed the idea.
• Ye Lin said they would wait for the Ten Half-Immortals and that his alliance would suppress them if they misbehaved.
• The Jade Emperor explained that he and the ten experts had surpassed Half-Immortals but lacked a path to become Loose Immortals.
• The Jade Emperor recalled that he had tried to forge a way forward by shattering the void, but had failed.

Ye Lin agreed to let the Jade Emperor retrieve items from his former residence in the Heavenly Palace Ruins, though Ye Lin had already taken everything valuable. As the seal shook, a little girl in the Southern Continent faced a Demon Beast that craved the scent of human children.

• Ye Lin said he would suppress anyone who refused to join the alliance and confiscate the treasures in the Heavenly Palace Ruins.
• The Jade Emperor asked Ye Lin to let him enter his former residence and retrieve a few items.
• Ye Lin agreed, concealing that he had already cleared out the Jade Emperor's secluded cultivation grounds.
• Ye Lin and the Jade Emperor sat unmoved as the seal below them shook.
• In a distant mountain range on the Southern Continent, a little girl faced a Demon Beast that said it wanted to eat a human child.

Nannan killed a newly advanced Golden Core wolf demon with Xiaoyao’s sword, but Xiaoyao caught her and punished her for sneaking away and stealing it. He took her back while worrying that the great age had brought trouble to Southern Continent.

• A Golden Core wolf demon tried to eat Nannan, but she killed it with Xiaoyao’s sword.
• Xiaoyao appeared and scolded Nannan for running off and stealing his personal sword.
• Xiaoyao ordered Nannan to copy the Heavenly Scripture of Morality ten times, refusing to reduce the punishment when she pleaded.
• Xiaoyao took Nannan back and reflected that the great age had descended and Southern Continent faced a worse situation than Eastern Continent.

Ye Lin and the Jade Emperor watched the great formation break after ten peak Half-Immortals attacked its weak point for three days and nights. The ten experts emerged, and the Queen Mother and a sword-wielding expert recognized the Jade Emperor’s aura.

• Ye Lin worried that Nannan’s carefree nature could put her in danger as the Southern Continent’s battles threatened to worsen.
• Three days later, Ye Lin and the Jade Emperor watched the great formation collapse under the ten experts’ attacks.
• Ten powerful figures emerged from the shattered formation, and Ye Lin recognized the Queen Mother among them.
• The Queen Mother sensed a familiar aura from the Jade Emperor, who revealed his identity by releasing his distinctive aura.
• A sword-wielding expert questioned whether the figure before them was the Jade Emperor, and the Jade Emperor challenged the ten to recognize him.

The Jade Emperor failed to recruit his former subordinates, and Ye Lin tried to keep the ten Half-Immortals from leaving the Eastern Continent. The Half-Immortals rejected both men’s advice and departed, despite the Jade Emperor’s warning.

• The Jade Emperor invited his former subordinates to join him, but they refused, saying they only wanted to ascend and become immortals.
• Ye Lin told the ten Half-Immortals that he needed to protect the Eastern Continent’s stability and offered them a place to stay.
• Queen Mother rebuked Ye Lin and insisted that she and the others could leave without answering to him.
• The Jade Emperor advised the Half-Immortals to listen to Ye Lin, but a middle-aged man with a long saber disowned the Jade Emperor and threatened to kill him if they met again.
• The ten Half-Immortals prepared to leave, and the Jade Emperor shrugged after they ignored his warning.

Ye Lin summoned fifty Half-Immortal figures from the Alliance to capture Queen Mother and the other nine, ordering them stripped of their treasures and forced to reveal their techniques. After they were taken away, the Jade Emperor warned Ye Lin that ancient factions would soon become impossible to suppress and asked what he planned to do next.

• Ye Lin used the Alliance Leader's Identity Token to summon fifty Half-Immortal figures.
• Ye Lin ordered the Alliance elders to bind Queen Mother and the other nine and take them to Alliance headquarters.
• Ye Lin instructed the elders to seize the ten prisoners' treasures and force them to disclose their secret arts, martial skills, and cultivation techniques.
• The elders departed with Queen Mother and the others, while the Jade Emperor accepted that they were no longer his subordinates.
• The Jade Emperor warned Ye Lin that ancient factions would eventually overwhelm him and asked about his next move.

Ye Lin discussed his plans to leave Nameless Mountain and pursue his Dao after reaching the Heavenly Lord realm, while the Jade Emperor warned him that the Eastern Continent’s upheaval and the Ascension Gate were approaching. The Jade Emperor departed, and Ye Lin returned to Nameless Mountain, leaving the alliance to take over the Heavenly Palace Ruins.

• Ye Lin explained that he was delaying the transcendent factions only to give the living beings time to adapt, and planned to resign from Nameless Mountain and the alliance when he advanced.
• Ye Lin reflected that his prominence had suppressed the era’s true child of destiny and said he would seek out ancient monstrous geniuses after reaching the Heavenly Lord realm.
• The Jade Emperor agreed that Ye Lin should prioritize his own strength and warned that transcendent factions were settling in the Eastern Continent, Emperors would descend within decades, and the Ascension Gate was approaching.
• The Jade Emperor urged Ye Lin to raise his cultivation, then vanished.
• Ye Lin returned toward Nameless Mountain, expecting the alliance to take over the Heavenly Palace Ruins.

Ye Lin arrived at Nameless Mountain after Taiyuan had defeated five challengers and told the surviving man that negotiations could proceed if the other side showed sufficient sincerity. He gave Taiyuan a powerful sword, and Taiyuan asked Little Red to join him in exploring a mysterious Abyss.

• Taiyuan defeated the five men who had challenged Ye Lin while the disciples cheered him on.
• Ye Lin suppressed four of the challengers and sent the last one back to tell the people behind him that talks required sufficient sincerity.
• Ye Lin told Taiyuan to raise his cultivation from late Spirit Transformation to its peak.
• Ye Lin gave Taiyuan a long sword that was better than the treasures he already owned.
• Taiyuan told Little Red about the sword and proposed that they explore the mysterious Abyss they had discovered.

Taiyuan and Little Red entered the Abyss, where a mysterious voice led Taiyuan toward a chained giant beast. Little Red broke the beast’s hold over Taiyuan, leaving him startled before the creature.

• Little Red agreed to accompany Taiyuan into the Abyss, then kicked him through the spatial rift when he tried to ride him.
• Taiyuan and Little Red arrived at the Abyss and plunged into it, descending for several minutes before reaching the ground.
• Taiyuan, bewitched by an indistinct sound, walked into a vast underground cave as Little Red followed and watched.
• A gigantic chained beast called Taiyuan its fated one and beckoned him closer.
• Little Red shouted to wake Taiyuan, who came to his senses and recoiled in terror at the beast.

Little Red fought a chained Behemoth while Taiyuan faced the skeletons it summoned. The Behemoth remained powerful despite its seal, and Taiyuan discovered that the skeletons reassembled after being cut apart.

• The Behemoth tried to reach Taiyuan, but its golden chains flared and wounded it as it struggled against its restraints.
• The Behemoth blamed Little Red for its imprisonment and summoned skeletons to attack Taiyuan.
• Little Red recognized the Behemoth and rushed to fight it, while Taiyuan drew his sword to face the skeletons.
• The Behemoth knocked Little Red into a wall, but Little Red emerged and transformed into its Phoenix form to continue the battle.
• Taiyuan cut down several skeletons, then watched them reassemble and kept attacking them.

Taiyuan and Little Red fought the Behemoth and its regenerating skeletons in a cavern, while Taiyuan used the World-Suppressing Pagoda to refine the smaller skeletons. The fight escalated when five enormous, blue-flamed skeletons emerged and surrounded Taiyuan.

• Taiyuan's sword attack shattered the skeletons, but they reassembled without a scratch.
• The Behemoth knocked Little Red into a crater, and Little Red attacked again as the two beasts began fighting.
• Taiyuan used the World-Suppressing Pagoda to absorb and refine the smaller skeletons into energy.
• Five enormous skeletons armed with flaming longswords emerged from the ground and surrounded Taiyuan.

Taiyuan struggled to withstand five powerful skeletons while Little Red fought the Behemoth Beast. Little Red engulfed the beast in Phoenix True Fire, but the seal around it was already weakening.

• Taiyuan discovered that the World-Suppressing Pagoda could not shake the five skeletons and was battered by their attacks.
• Taiyuan fled the skeletons and urged Little Red to deal with the creature controlling them.
• Little Red remained occupied as the Behemoth Beast fought him and the seal around it began to collapse.
• The Behemoth Beast grabbed at Little Red, who summoned a phoenix phantom and engulfed it in Phoenix True Fire.
• The Behemoth Beast screamed as the flames ignited its fur, while Little Red declared that the fire would defeat it.