Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin forced Wen Tian to lead him to the hidden True Martial Great Emperor's Tomb, absorbing the blood qi of creatures they encountered along the way. Wen Tian opened the tomb with Ye Lin's Identity Token, revealing a massive black palace as its protective formations vanished.

• Ye Lin dismissed two women, then killed them by draining their blood qi as they fled.
• Ye Lin made Wen Tian guide him for three hours, absorbing the blood qi of every creature they encountered.
• Wen Tian led Ye Lin to an empty clearing and explained that the tomb was hidden there.
• Ye Lin's Identity Token radiated black light, and Wen Tian used hand seals to open the tomb.
• A huge black palace rose from the ground, and the Identity Token dispersed its restrictive formations.

Wen Tian opened the True Martial Great Emperor's Tomb under Ye Lin's orders and discovered a hidden passage leading to a mysterious gate. Ye Lin concealed the tomb as they proceeded, and the chapter ended when Wen Tian used the Identity Token to activate the gate.

• Ye Lin ordered Wen Tian to scout the tomb, threatening to kill him if he refused.
• Wen Tian opened the tomb's black gates and entered its hall with Ye Lin.
• Wen Tian found a hidden button beneath the True Martial Great Emperor's statue and used the Identity Token to reveal a passage.
• Ye Lin followed Wen Tian into the passage and made the grand hall vanish behind them.
• Wen Tian placed the Identity Token atop a black gate, causing a curtain of light to appear.

Ye Lin followed Wen Tian into the True Martial Great Emperor's Tomb and discovered that Wen Tian planned to use the Identity Token to trap him or summon help. Ye Lin caught up with Wen Tian and began taking control of him.

• Wen Tian told Ye Lin that the tomb lay within and offered to guard the entrance, but Ye Lin kicked him inside and followed.
• Ye Lin found himself in a vast desert, while Wen Tian disappeared after entering the tomb.
• Wen Tian used the Identity Token to shift hundreds of millions of miles away and planned to trap Ye Lin or report him to his sect.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Wen Tian, who collapsed in fear when he realized he had been found.
• Ye Lin placed his hand on Wen Tian's head, and Wen Tian began trembling as he lost control of his body.

Ye Lin took the Identity Token from Wen Tian and used it to reach the True Martial Great Emperor's main tomb. He left Wen Tian wounded as bait for the peak Dao Integration Demon Beast guarding the tomb and waited to see if it would appear.

• Ye Lin took Wen Tian's Identity Token, which let him ignore the tomb's restrictions and locate the main tomb.
• Ye Lin brought Wen Tian to the main tomb, where he entered the peach grove using the Identity Token to bypass its Killing Formations.
• Ye Lin noticed footprints that led into the grove but none that led back out.
• Wen Tian asked why Ye Lin had found him, and Ye Lin said Wen Tian's acting had been too poor and that he had secretly marked him.
• Ye Lin threw Wen Tian into the distance, wounded him to draw out the guarding Demon Beast, and waited.

Ye Lin encountered the enormous beast guarding the True Martial Great Emperor’s tomb and learned it wanted to escape with the Great Emperor’s token. Rather than free it, Ye Lin drew the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, intending to claim the beast’s qi for himself.

• Ye Lin sensed a powerful aura approaching and retreated from Wen Tian.
• A giant beast swallowed Wen Tian and appeared before Ye Lin.
• The beast asked Ye Lin to use the Great Emperor’s token to free it, promising him everything in the tomb.
• Ye Lin refused and drew the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword as the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art circulated within him.

Ye Lin fought the giant beast with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, but its immense durability let it survive his attacks. After Ye Lin unleashed a devastating Sword Dao strike and began recovering his spiritual energy, the beast was still alive and howling in pain.

• Ye Lin charged the giant beast and wounded its face, then dodged its violet light attack and stabbed its head from behind.
• The giant beast blasted Ye Lin away with violet light, and Ye Lin struck it with Sword One, only breaking its skin.
• The giant beast copied Ye Lin’s chain technique, but Ye Lin countered with golden chains and bombarded it with Sword Qis.
• Ye Lin unleashed a massive Sword Dao slash that sank the surrounding ground into a colossal pit.
• Ye Lin absorbed Top-Tier Spirit Stones to recover while the injured giant beast roared furiously from the dust.

Ye Lin defeated the giant beast with a series of sword formations and drained its essence and Qi. The beheaded beast recognized his technique as the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and questioned how he had obtained it.

• The giant beast suddenly struck Ye Lin into the ground and hammered the earth around him.
• Ye Lin emerged beneath the beast and trapped it inside the Four Direction Absolute Formation with golden chains.
• Ye Lin summoned the Five Direction Sword Formation and sent a golden Long Sword plunging into the giant beast's head.
• Ye Lin used the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art to absorb the beast's essence and Qi.
• The still-living giant beast recognized the technique and exclaimed that the art had vanished after its wielder died.

Ye Lin killed a half-step Tribulation Transcendence colossal beast and refined its vital essence, then reached the True Martial Great Emperor’s Tomb. As he prepared to enter, a remnant soul resembling the woman beside the tomb appeared and identified herself.

• Ye Lin absorbed the colossal beast’s vital essence after killing it, then spent three hours refining the power.
• Ye Lin judged his combat strength to be at the half-step Heavenly Lord level but decided to temper himself before attempting a breakthrough.
• Ye Lin found the True Martial Great Emperor’s Tomb, a jade-like woman beside it, and countless fallen figures seated before it.
• Ye Lin used the Identity Token to open the tomb after finding that he could not damage its surface.
• A green radiance formed into the woman’s likeness and told Ye Lin that she was only a wisp of remnant soul.

Ye Lin met Wondrous Source True Person, the fading remnant soul of True Martial Great Emperor’s Dao companion, and received her permission to take the tomb’s treasures as long as he left her husband’s body undisturbed. Before vanishing, she warned that a familiar aura on Ye Lin might bring fortune or calamity, leaving him to wonder about the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and Jade Emperor’s past.

• Wondrous Source True Person explained that she was a remnant soul from the Primordial Era and asked Ye Lin what era it was.
• Ye Lin explained that two eras had passed since her time, and Wondrous Source True Person accepted that he could take the tomb’s items because he held her husband’s token.
• Ye Lin promised not to disturb True Martial Great Emperor’s eternal rest.
• Wondrous Source True Person warned Ye Lin that a familiar aura on him might bring fortune or calamity, then dissipated.
• Ye Lin wondered why Jade Emperor had not cultivated the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and noted that Jade Emperor was searching the Heavenly Palace for belongings Ye Lin had already taken.

Ye Lin explored the True Martial Great Emperor's Tomb and used his Identity Token to enter a chamber filled with treasures. He began absorbing rare resources to strengthen Phoenix Fire and nourish his Unrivaled Sacred Body.

• Ye Lin avoided the coffin at the tomb's center and searched the surrounding corridors for treasures.
• Ye Lin opened a stone door with his Identity Token and found a vast collection of weapons and rare herbs, along with a statue of the True Martial Great Emperor.
• Ye Lin found Three Immortals Flower, Sacred Fruit, and Seven-Treasure Exquisite Grass among the treasures.
• Ye Lin sat down to cultivate, removed his mask, suppressed the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, and activated the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique.
• Phoenix Fire enveloped Ye Lin and melted the surrounding treasures so he could absorb them.

Ye Lin's newly awakened Unrivaled Sacred Body devoured most of the treasures he had prepared for Phoenix Fire, consuming enormous amounts of precious medicines before finally feeling full. Phoenix Fire then cautiously resumed absorbing resources as Ye Lin began drawing the surrounding treasures into himself.

• Ye Lin watched as his Unrivaled Sacred Body awakened and forcibly devoured the resources he had gathered for Phoenix Fire.
• The Unrivaled Sacred Body consumed the nearby treasures and signaled that it still craved more, so Ye Lin sent it additional treasures below Heaven Grade.
• After absorbing fifty Earth Grade precious medicines and countless Mysterious Grade ones, the Unrivaled Sacred Body finally fell silent and felt full.
• Ye Lin recalled the five levels of the Unrivaled Sacred Body and the legend that its final level could make its wielder invincible.
• Phoenix Fire cautiously began absorbing resources, while Ye Lin closed his eyes and drew the surrounding treasures into his body.

After eight days of cultivation, Ye Lin reached the peak of Dao Integration and judged his foundation still insufficient. He then discovered three ancient martial techniques and learned their powers and limitations.

• Ye Lin finished cultivating for eight days, reached the peak of Dao Integration, and decided to keep tempering his foundation.
• Ye Lin gathered his violent aura into his body until he appeared like an ordinary mortal.
• Ye Lin approached the statue and imprinted Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation, Myriad Dao Killing Tribulation, and the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Body in his mind.
• Ye Lin learned that Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation could expand the body and increase strength, while Myriad Dao Killing Tribulation could form a powerful array using tribulation qi.
• Ye Lin learned that the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Body grew stronger by absorbing tribulation qi but was useless for cultivation without it.

Ye Lin chose to cultivate the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Body, then left True Martial Great Emperor's tomb after nine days. Outside, Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land's pursuers waited for the tomb to open so they could find the person who killed Ling'er.

• Ye Lin decided to cultivate the Myriad Tribulations Immortal Body and stored it and two other martial techniques in his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin bowed to True Martial Great Emperor's coffin and left the small world using his Identity Token.
• Eight peak Dao Integration True Lords and a True Person waited outside the tomb, believing Ling'er's killer was inside because the tomb had been opened.
• The True Person explained that Ling'er's life soul had gone out and that his investigation had led them to the tomb.
• After waiting nine days, the True Lords asked how they could break through the light barrier around the tomb.

Ye Lin ambushed the True Lords gathered near the True Martial Great Emperor’s Tomb, killing two and trapping the rest in a formation. He revealed himself in blood-red robes and challenged them as they tried to flee.

• The young man explained that only the single token could open the True Martial Great Emperor’s Tomb, whose owner had been a True Immortal.
• A hidden attacker killed one True Lord with a streak of bloody light, leaving his body dried up.
• The attacker severed another True Lord’s arm and inflicted a violent force that prevented the wound from healing.
• A second streak of bloody light killed the injured True Lord, and the remaining six tried to escape by tearing open space.
• Ye Lin raised the Four Direction Absolute Formation, sealed the void with four Long Swords, and appeared before the trapped True Lords.

Ye Lin killed the young Spirit Transformation True Person who accused him of murdering Ling'er, then fought six peak True Lords inside his sword formation. He wiped them all out, and the survivors recognized his Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art before they died.

• The young Spirit Transformation True Person pointed at Ye Lin and accused him of killing Ling'er, so Ye Lin killed him with a wave of his hand and absorbed his blood qi.
• One of the remaining six True Lords asked Ye Lin to let them go, but Ye Lin mocked them and activated the sword formation.
• Ye Lin fought the six True Lords while controlling the formation and killed two of them with sword strikes.
• A True Lord recognized Ye Lin's Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and warned that the myriad races would hunt him if they learned he practiced it.
• Ye Lin unleashed a massive crimson sword radiance and killed everyone remaining in the formation.

Ye Lin concealed the True Martial Great Emperor's Tomb and traveled to the Endless Deep Sea, where he confronted experts from transcendent factions seeking to enter an ancient battlefield secret realm. He insisted they reveal their identities or leave, and they agreed to follow his terms.

• Ye Lin hid the True Martial Great Emperor's Tomb again and left with its Identity Token, making the tomb inaccessible to anyone without it.
• Three Heavenly Lords found a dried corpse at the tomb and ordered an investigation into who had offended the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin arrived at the Endless Deep Sea, where members of the Dawn Alliance greeted him before the secret realm's gate.
• Ye Lin challenged the mist-shrouded experts from transcendent factions for concealing their appearances and told them to leave if they would not reveal themselves.
• A young expert explained that the ancient battlefield contained Heaven-Slaying Beasts whose baleful-and-blood-qi gas could aid cultivation, then agreed to follow Ye Lin's terms.

Ye Lin allowed the gathered transcendent factions and his own people to enter the secret realm under a Dao Integration cultivation limit. He headed inside with the Deep Sea Imperial Clan’s heir, who wanted to test the factions’ heirs, while Ye Lin expected none of them to survive.

• The transcendent factions revealed their peak Dao Integration cultivators and asked Ye Lin for permission to enter the secret realm.
• Ye Lin confirmed with Di Yuan that everyone on his side had arrived, then permitted both groups to enter with a peak Dao Integration cultivation limit.
• The young man from the transcendent factions agreed to the rules but secretly planned to kill Ye Lin inside the secret realm.
• Ye Lin’s True Lords and the transcendent factions’ disciples rushed toward the secret realm entrance.
• The Deep Sea Imperial Clan’s heir decided to enter and test the transcendent factions, and Ye Lin went with him.

Ye Lin entered the blood-red secret realm, where black creatures emerged from the ground and forced the Dawn Alliance and the transcendent factions to put aside their feud. He discovered that the creatures’ black energy strengthened his body and began slaughtering them to absorb it.

• A Half-Immortal remained outside the secret realm to deter the ten Heavenly Lords of the transcendent factions.
• Ye Lin arrived in a corpse-covered, blood-red world as black creatures formed from streams of qi and gathered across the land.
• A young man from the transcendent factions proposed that both sides temporarily set aside their grievances, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Ye Lin flew away and killed most of the nearby creatures with one sword strike, absorbing strands of black energy that strengthened his body.
• Ye Lin continued cutting down the creatures with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, absorbing their energy even as their numbers kept growing.

Ye Lin led the Dawn Alliance against the transcendent factions after they crossed the agreed dividing line. Although the Alliance was suppressed, Ye Lin outmaneuvered Zhang Chao and prepared to strike from behind him.

• A black-light giant resembling Ye Lin formed, but Ye Lin dodged its punch and split it in two with his sword.
• A creature warned Ye Lin that the transcendent factions had crossed the dividing line, and Ye Lin ordered his forces to kill them.
• The Dawn Alliance clashed with the transcendent factions and was quickly suppressed by their superior resources and combat arts.
• Zhang Chao charged Ye Lin with his spear, but his attack pierced only an afterimage as Ye Lin appeared behind him.

Ye Lin exploited Zhang Chao’s lack of combat experience to wound him and pierce his heart. Zhang Chao survived by pulling himself free from the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, and Ye Lin condemned the prodigies of the transcendent factions.

• Ye Lin slashed Zhang Chao across the back, and Zhang Chao retreated to dispel the sword qi.
• Ye Lin sent a river of swords at Zhang Chao, who blocked it with his spear technique.
• Ye Lin used the sword attack to distract Zhang Chao and stabbed him through the heart from behind.
• Zhang Chao pulled himself free from the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and accused Ye Lin of fighting dishonorably.
• Ye Lin criticized Zhang Chao and the transcendent factions for wasting their resources on weak fighters.