Chapter Summaries

Little Red discovered that the Behemoth Beast was a Half-Immortal whose ancient seal was weakening, and the beast captured him before he could flee. The Behemoth Beast then turned its attention to Taiyuan, while its skeletons blocked the cave exit.

• The Behemoth Beast used purple light to extinguish Little Red’s Phoenix True Fire and revealed that he recognized Little Red as a descendant of the Divine Beast Phoenix.
• Little Red realized the Behemoth Beast was a Half-Immortal and that their battle had weakened the seal restraining it.
• Little Red tried to escape, but the Behemoth Beast caught him in its enormous hand.
• The Behemoth Beast spotted Taiyuan playing with five skeletons and ordered them to block the cave entrance.
• The Behemoth Beast explained that the seal still suppressed most of its cultivation, but using its power risked triggering the formation.

Taiyuan rescued Little Red from the Behemoth Beast by burning his cultivation and unleashing a powerful sword strike, but the Beast's blood awakened an overwhelming desire in him. The chapter ended with Taiyuan asking Little Red to send him into the Behemoth Beast's mouth so he could absorb its blood.

• The Behemoth Beast tried to swallow Little Red, and Taiyuan decided he had to save him.
• Taiyuan burned his cultivation, divine soul, and origin to unleash Ultimate Nine Swords, injuring the Behemoth Beast and forcing it to release Little Red.
• Little Red escaped and came to take Taiyuan away, but Taiyuan became transfixed by the Behemoth Beast's blood.
• Taiyuan told Little Red that the Beast's blood was calling to him and asked to be sent into its mouth.
• Little Red was shocked and warned that the Beast would likely digest Taiyuan immediately.

Taiyuan resisted the urge to leave and chose to absorb the Behemoth Beast's blood, believing Destiny had brought him to this opportunity. Little Red used Phoenix True Form to help him, which alerted one of Little Red's powerful elders to the possible survival of a descendant.

• Taiyuan rejected Little Red's warning and insisted that this was an opportunity arranged by Destiny.
• Little Red agreed to help Taiyuan and activated Phoenix True Form, summoning the phantom of his father.
• A powerful middle-aged man in a divine hall sensed a stir in his bloodline and wondered whether a descendant was still alive.
• The middle-aged man ordered a figure to search the Immortal World for his surviving descendant.

Taiyuan let the Behemoth Beast swallow him so he could attack it from within, while Little Red distracted it from outside. After Taiyuan used a Void-Piercing Awl to breach its body and absorb its essence blood, the Behemoth Beast mobilized its cultivation to erase him.

• Little Red blasted open the Behemoth Beast's mouth and kicked Taiyuan into it, then kept attacking to prevent it from focusing on digesting him.
• Taiyuan used the World-Suppressing Pagoda to hold off the rules inside the Behemoth Beast while his spiritual energy rapidly dwindled.
• Taiyuan's Long Sword failed to harm the Behemoth Beast, so he used a single-use Void-Piercing Awl to open a hole beneath him.
• Taiyuan sat amid the Behemoth Beast's blood and absorbed its essence blood, draining its strength.
• The Behemoth Beast sensed its essence blood disappearing and mobilized its cultivation to erase Taiyuan.

Taiyuan used the Behemoth Beast's vital essence to awaken a World Tree seed inside his body, draining the beast until only its skeleton remained. He realized the sapling could absorb energy and return vital essence to him, giving him a way to keep growing stronger.

• The Behemoth Beast tried to resist Taiyuan's absorption, but streams of Dao Fire disrupted his spiritual energy circulation.
• A World Tree sapling emerged above Taiyuan, restoring him and strengthening the World-Suppressing Pagoda's golden barrier.
• The Behemoth Beast collapsed and withered as Taiyuan absorbed all the flesh and blood from his body.
• Taiyuan recognized the sapling as a World Tree and realized it could absorb energy and feed vital essence back to him.
• Taiyuan recalled swallowing a green-glowing stone he found in a secret realm, which had turned out to be the World Tree seed.

Taiyuan discovered that the World Tree seed had sprouted after draining the Behemoth Beast, then returned with Little Red. Meanwhile, Ye Lin opened the golden Jade Talisman and inherited an immortal’s complete memories and a powerful cultivation technique.

• Taiyuan realized that the seed he had swallowed was the World Tree, which had sprouted by draining the Behemoth Beast.
• Taiyuan left the Beast’s mouth and told Little Red nothing about what had happened.
• Taiyuan and Little Red headed back, while Taiyuan planned to study the World Tree.
• Ye Lin found the golden Jade Talisman from the Jade Emperor’s secluded cultivation grounds and used the Kongtong Seal as protection before opening it.
• Ye Lin absorbed the Jade Talisman’s memories and discovered that he had inherited an immortal’s complete memories and an extraordinary cultivation technique.

Ye Lin learned the history of the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord and inherited the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, a powerful technique that consumed its cultivator without fresh blood and mental discipline. He weighed its promise of rapid growth against the risk of becoming the enemy of all races, but had not yet decided whether to cultivate it.

• Ye Lin learned how the Heaven-Devouring Devil Lord rose to become the Human Race’s first immortal and protected humanity before falling in battle against the great races.
• Ye Lin discovered that he had inherited the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, which absorbed a victim’s cultivation, insights, and memories.
• Ye Lin considered the technique’s need for endless fresh blood and the danger that its memories and killing urges could consume his sanity.
• Ye Lin weighed the chance to grow stronger quickly against the likelihood of drawing the hostility of all races and wondered whether to cultivate the art.

Ye Lin mastered the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art after cultivating it for half a year, learning that it could eventually devour his physiques and let him control the Law of Devouring. As transcendent factions spread across the Eastern Continent and dismissed the Dawn Alliance, Ye Lin wondered what the continent had become.

• Ye Lin decided to cultivate the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and endured its brutal visions and dangerous memories.
• Transcendent factions descended across the Eastern Continent, gaining territory and dismissing the Dawn Alliance as an easy target.
• Over the next half year, new lineages recruited disciples and sent them to fight other people of the era.
• Ye Lin mastered the art and learned it could form a Heaven-Devouring Demon Body that would consume his Fire God Physique and Unrivaled Sacred Body.
• Ye Lin concealed the demonic markings on his skin and wondered how the Eastern Continent had changed during his cultivation.

Ye Lin tested the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art in Demon Race territory and discovered that a spreading Killing Intent was turning living beings into bloodthirsty monsters. He headed for the remote Artifact Race lands to find another identity and take advantage of the coming chaos.

• Ye Lin traveled to Demon Race territory to test the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art without harming humans.
• Three Spirit Transformation realm beasts attacked Ye Lin, but his devouring force drained their essence blood and left only skeletons and skin.
• Ye Lin devoured the beasts’ memories and learned that Killing Intent was stripping intelligence from living beings across the Eastern Continent.
• Ye Lin decided the coming slaughter would give him an opportunity while powerful figures were distracted.
• Ye Lin set out for the remote region where the weak Artifact Race lived, seeking another identity.

Ye Lin traveled to the remote territory of the Artifact Race, a weak but renowned race whose Heaven-Bestowed Divine Patterns made their weapons coveted across the myriad races. After Ye Lin offered to pay for their help, an Artifact Race member escorted him inside.

• The chapter explained that the Artifact Race's divine patterns made its weapons far superior to those forged by other races.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Artifact Race's remote mountain territory in the Eastern Continent.
• Two Nascent Soul Realm members of the Artifact Race confronted Ye Lin and asked why he had come.
• Ye Lin said he wanted the Artifact Race to do something for him and that they could discuss payment.
• One Artifact Race member agreed to escort Ye Lin, pleased by the prospect of a wealthy customer.

Ye Lin visited the Artifact Race and commissioned a blood-red mask that would conceal his aura and let him pass as someone else. As Ye Lin waited for it to be forged, Xiaoyao sensed what his true body had done and opened his eyes in disbelief.

• Ye Lin followed an Artifact Race guide through the mountain passages to meet Shang Gong, one of the Nine Great Elders.
• Ye Lin privately asked Shang Gong to forge a mask that could hide his aura and make others believe he was someone else.
• Ye Lin chose a gloomy blood-red design, and Shang Gong promised to forge it within three days.
• Ye Lin told Shang Gong to prioritize quality over speed, then waited in the restricted cave.
• In the Southern Continent, Xiaoyao shuddered while teaching little Nannan and opened his eyes in disbelief after sensing what his true body had done.

Xiaoyao accepted that he would cultivate the demonic art and resolved to grow stronger, while Ye Lin received a mask forged by the Artifact Race. Ye Lin put it on and became indistinguishable from a fearsome God of Slaughter, as Shang Gong prepared to complain about the effort and expense.

• Xiaoyao decided to cultivate the demonic art despite the danger of becoming consumed by bloodlust, believing strength would let him define the truth.
• Ten days later, Shang Gong brought Ye Lin a Heaven Grade Low Tier blood-red mask containing eighty-one divine inscriptions.
• Shang Gong explained that the mask concealed its wearer's aura and replaced it with overwhelming killing intent that even Mahayana half-immortals could not see through.
• Ye Lin put on the mask, erasing his own aura and appearing to Shang Gong as a terrifying God of Slaughter.
• Ye Lin praised the mask, and Shang Gong began describing the Artifact Race's exhausting work to forge it.

Ye Lin secretly obtained a mask from Shang Gong, who concealed the visit to protect the Artifact Race. Elsewhere, a mysterious killer massacred Demon Beasts and Asura Clan beings, becoming known as the Blood-Robed God of Slaughter and drawing a continent-wide hunt.

• Ye Lin gave Shang Gong a Spatial Ring as payment and warned him to keep the visit secret.
• Shang Gong ordered his clansmen not to reveal Ye Lin's whereabouts, fearing the Artifact Race would be destroyed if they did.
• A blood-robed figure absorbed the flesh and blood of battling Demon Beasts and Asura Clan beings, killing everyone in the valley.
• The Blood-Robed God of Slaughter slew three Dao Integration True Lords and became infamous across the Eastern Continent.
• The Dawn Alliance issued a kill order offering one unconditional request, and the races began searching for the killer.

After reaching the peak of Dao Integration, Ye Lin was summoned to the Dawn Alliance and learned that transcendent factions were infiltrating the alliance, recruiting people to fight their own era, and seeking a newly appeared deep-sea secret realm. The chapter leaves Ye Lin considering the threats as the alliance’s leaders await his response.

• Ye Lin reflected on his rapid rise to the peak of Dao Integration and decided to consolidate his strength and purge the forces tempting his mind.
• Ye Lin received a meeting summons from the Dawn Alliance and traveled to its headquarters.
• Ye Lin found the gathered leaders tense and asked what had happened.
• Di Yuan reported that the transcendent factions had planted hundreds of spies in the Dawn Alliance, recruited people of the era as enforcers, and sought access to a deep-sea secret realm.
• Ye Lin recognized that the factions were turning people of the era against one another and endangering the Dawn Alliance.

Ye Lin told the Dawn Alliance’s leaders to stop worrying about races that had refused to join and to focus on the transcendent factions behind them. He declared that spies would be punished with mass killings and accepted a transcendent faction’s offer to interfere in the secret realm.

• Ye Lin argued that the alliance was not responsible for protecting races that had rejected it and should concentrate on the transcendent factions.
• Ye Lin ordered the alliance to kill ten million members of a spy’s race for every transcendent-faction spy it captured.
• Ye Lin said the alliance would not tolerate infiltration and threatened to slaughter those who served as spies.
• Ye Lin agreed to let the transcendent faction in the secret realm interfere.

Ye Lin addressed concerns about the Dawn Alliance and its members’ ties to transcendent forces. He reassured Di Yuan about the absent Vice Alliance Leaders while acknowledging that he needed to learn more about them.

• Ye Lin told the Dawn Alliance to kill anyone who interfered with its races, but to leave those forces alone unless they acted first.
• The Dao Slayer little boy remarked that Ye Lin had changed, and Ye Lin replied that adapting to the world was necessary to survive.
• Ye Lin asked why the ten Vice Alliance Leaders were absent and learned that transcendent forces were pressuring the factions behind them.
• Di Yuan voiced distrust of the ten Vice Alliance Leaders, but Ye Lin stopped him and said he would mediate the matter.
• Ye Lin privately resolved to understand the ten Vice Alliance Leaders better, fearing they might undermine the Dawn Alliance at a critical moment.

Ye Lin visited Wen Ruxue’s sect to learn more about the Vice Alliance Leaders and reassure the alliance members who distrusted them. Wen Ruxue summoned projections of the other nine leaders, and Ye Lin asked them to give him a guarantee.

• Ye Lin learned that the deep-sea secret realm was a small world created by a Half-Immortal and ordered the transcendent factions to explore it with the alliance in ten days.
• Ye Lin decided to investigate the ten Vice Alliance Leaders after realizing he knew little about them.
• Ye Lin visited Wen Ruxue’s sect and told her that alliance members suspected the Vice Alliance Leaders because they knew much more about the alliance than he knew about them.
• Wen Ruxue summoned projections of the other nine Vice Alliance Leaders and said Ye Lin wanted to understand their intentions.
• Ye Lin told the group that alliance members had pressured him and asked them to give him a guarantee.

Ye Lin questioned representatives of the ten major sects about their forces, strength, and intentions, learning that they feared no one beneath Five-Tribulation Loose Immortals and had chosen to follow him. After leaving, Ye Lin suffered the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art’s bloodthirsty backlash and vanished as a group traveled through a nearby forest.

• Ye Lin asked the nine figures on the light screens to introduce their sects and explain their strength and intentions.
• The sect representatives said their forces were roughly equal and feared no one beneath Five-Tribulation Loose Immortals, and they chose to follow Ye Lin despite doubts about his survival.
• After Ye Lin left, the representatives argued over whether their decision to gamble on his future was their only path.
• Ye Lin’s Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art backlash struck, making his eyes turn blood-red and igniting crimson flames around him.
• Ye Lin vanished from the road as three men and two women traveled through a forest.

Three cultivators from another era searched for an ancient tomb, despite Ling'er’s fears about the beings of this world. Their confident senior brother was confronted by a blood-robed figure just as he boasted about protecting her.

• A man with a Long Sword lamented how thin the world’s spiritual energy had become, while another said the Golden Age would eventually restore it.
• Ling'er worried that the beings of this era would hunt them, but her senior brother said they were seeking an ancient tomb where their Patriarch had died.
• Her senior brother showed Ling'er a pitch-black Identity Token that he believed would open the tomb and lead him to great resources.
• The senior brother promised to deal with anyone who threatened Ling'er and boasted that he was a true heaven’s chosen.
• A blood-red hand landed on the senior brother’s shoulder, and he turned to see a figure in blood-colored robes and a savage red mask.

Ye Lin killed two men who confronted him and forced the survivors to answer his questions. He learned that Wen Tian knew the location of the Great Tomb of the True Martial Great Emperor and ordered him to lead the way.

• Ye Lin killed a young man who challenged him and took his jet-black Identity Token.
• Ye Lin killed another man who rebuked him, then demanded that the remaining three answer his questions.
• Ye Lin asked who knew the great tomb’s location, and Wen Tian admitted that he did.
• Ye Lin inspected Wen Tian’s identity and learned he was a peak Spirit Transformation chore disciple of the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin told Wen Tian to take him to the tomb and promised to spare his life.