Chapter Summaries

Xiaoyao scolded Nannan for getting into trouble and made her kneel, warning that he could not always protect her. Elsewhere, a young man returned to the village and found his parents dead.

• Nannan showed Xiaoyao a kitten she had saved, and he ordered her to kneel.
• Xiaoyao warned Nannan that she might someday provoke an enemy he could not defeat, but she insisted he was the strongest.
• Xiaoyao left Nannan kneeling, and Red Tiger watched before settling down to sleep.
• A young man arrived at Nannan's former village and found corpses scattered throughout it.
• The young man found his parents' bodies at his former home and wept over them.

A young man found his village destroyed and his little sister missing, then left to search for her as members of the Skyward Sect pursued him. Meanwhile, Ye Lin taught Ye Buqu to cultivate by guiding spiritual energy through his meridians, before a violent disturbance shook the world.

• A young man discovered his parents dead and his little sister missing, buried his parents, and left to find her.
• Three young men arrived at the ruined village and pursued the young man, accusing him of stealing from the Skyward Sect.
• Ye Buqu admitted he recognized the characters in a Heaven Grade cultivation technique but could not understand their meaning, so Ye Lin guided spiritual energy through his meridians for a day until he could complete one circulation alone.
• Ye Lin observed that spiritual energy was growing denser as energy flowed in from the stars.
• A tremendous boom shook the world as the sky seemed to tear open and space began to shatter.

After another Heavenly Dao seal broke, Ye Lin sensed a Sword Stele and set out to find it. At Extreme Yin Mountain, Zhao Liu and his companions entered in search of Ghost Lord’s corpse and the Soul-Summoning Banner.

• Golden light crossed the sky as another seal broke, loosening the world’s suppression and allowing transcendent factions to send out Half-Immortal experts.
• Ye Lin sensed that the world had grown larger and detected the aura of a Sword Stele, then vanished to pursue it.
• Zhao Liu and four companions arrived at Extreme Yin Mountain, following guidance that pointed to Ghost Lord’s burial place.
• Zhao Liu’s group discussed the Soul-Summoning Banner and entered the mountain together, wary of the dangers within.

Zhao Liu led his group into Extreme Yin Mountain to reach its interior, but they discovered that an unseen presence was following them and Yanran had vanished. The group illuminated the cave to search for her despite the danger of provoking the Soul-Summoning Banner.

• Yanran felt uneasy about entering Extreme Yin Mountain, but her senior sister reassured her that Zhao Liu could protect them.
• Zhao Liu led the group through a dark cave, guiding them with a glowing jade talisman.
• A junior brother sensed that an extra person was among them, though he saw no one when he examined the group.
• Zhao Liu suspected a mysterious creature was following them and moved to the rear of the group.
• Zhao Liu discovered Yanran was missing, and the others unleashed golden light to illuminate the cave despite the Soul-Summoning Banner's danger.

Zhao Liu’s group continued deeper into the strange mountain to search for Nangong Yanran, who had been separated from them and trapped in a sealed cave. The chapter ended as the group encountered an unknown thing.

• Zhao Liu rejected the idea of turning back and led his companions deeper into the cave to find Nangong Yanran.
• Zhao Liu took the lead and assigned Wang Zhao to guard the rear as the group pressed onward.
• Nangong Yanran called for her senior brother and senior sister after finding herself alone in a cave with no exits.
• Nangong Yanran’s silver-white sword shattered against the unbreakable wall, leaving her unable to escape.
• Nangong Yanran lit a flame and waited by the wall, while the other group ran into trouble and wondered what they had encountered.

Zhao Liu led his group through Extreme Yin Mountain, where they fought off a swarm of insects. Ye Lin found a hidden chamber and broke through its sealed wall, startling Nangong Yanran; he asked how she had gotten inside.

• A reckless young man smashed a fleshy tumor, releasing a swarm of insects that attacked Zhao Liu’s group.
• Zhao Liu burned the insects with flames and ordered the group to stay behind him and not act without permission.
• Ye Lin entered Extreme Yin Mountain and followed the footprints and lingering auras left by Zhao Liu’s group.
• Ye Lin sensed an aura behind a sealed wall and blasted it apart, causing Nangong Yanran to fall at his feet.
• Nangong Yanran apologized, and Ye Lin asked how she had entered the sealed chamber.

Ye Lin agreed to let Nangong Yanran follow him through a dark cave on Extreme Yin Mountain, while Zhao Liu and his group reached a staircase leading deeper underground. The groups continued toward the mountain’s dangerous depths, where powerful yin energy and a dreadful presence awaited.

• Nangong Yanran told Ye Lin she did not know how she had become separated from her senior brothers and sisters.
• Ye Lin noticed Nangong Yanran following him, and she asked to stay with him until she found her companions.
• Ye Lin agreed, and Nangong Yanran followed him through the pitch-black cave, drawn to his aura.
• Zhao Liu and his group reached stairs descending underground and worried about the dense yin energy and traces of Killing Intent.
• Zhao Liu reassured his group that an elder’s treasure could help them retreat safely, then decided they should continue downward.

Zhao Liu led the disciples deeper into the cave while Ye Lin confronted a shadow at a fork and followed the path it chose. He and Nangong Yanran then encountered hundreds of red dots in the darkness.

• Zhao Liu decided not to turn back and led the disciples down into the cave.
• Ye Lin grabbed a shadow at a fork and forced it to point out a path.
• Ye Lin crushed the shadow and followed the path it indicated, with Nangong Yanran clinging to his back.
• Ye Lin stopped when hundreds of red dots appeared ahead, and Nangong Yanran screamed and clung to his arm.

Ye Lin burned through most of the spiders in the cave with Phoenix Fire while Nangong Yanran clung to him. Elsewhere, Zhao Liu and the other disciples carefully descended a spiral staircase around a horrifying floating face with eight tentacles.

• Nangong Yanran grabbed Ye Lin's arm in fear as palm-sized spiders filled the cave.
• Ye Lin used Phoenix Fire to kill most of the spiders, and the survivors fled deeper into the cave.
• Ye Lin told Nangong Yanran to let go, then walked onward with her following behind him.
• Zhao Liu and the disciples found a gigantic human-like face with eight tentacles floating in a shaft beneath the spiral staircase.
• Zhao Liu urged the group not to alarm the creature, and they cautiously continued down the stairs on foot.

Zhao Liu and Li Shengtian continued down the stairs in search of the Soul-Summoning Banner, but Li Shengtian accidentally woke the enormous creature pursuing them. As the group fled, the creature swallowed one of their junior brothers.

• Li Shengtian urged Zhao Liu to turn back, but Zhao Liu insisted they risk continuing to find the Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Li Shengtian stepped on a branch, and the sound woke the enormous creature.
• Zhao Liu ordered everyone to flee down the stairs as the creature pursued them with its tentacles.
• Zhao Liu used a chain to swing rapidly down the hollow, and the others followed his example.
• The creature's cries dazed the fleeing group, and it swallowed a junior brother in one bite.

Zhao Liu, Li Shengtian, and Wang Zhao escaped the giant eye and continued deeper into Extreme Yin Mountain, though the other two began plotting against Zhao Liu. Ye Lin and Nangong Yanran reached a human-faced monster, whose attack vanished before reaching Ye Lin.

• Zhao Liu, Li Shengtian, and Wang Zhao escaped through an opening as a huge eye watched them, then saw it disappear.
• Zhao Liu blamed himself for the deaths they had witnessed and insisted they keep searching for the Soul-Summoning Banner, threatening to use his Jade Talisman against another monster.
• Li Shengtian told Wang Zhao he wanted to abandon Zhao Liu, and Wang Zhao agreed to wait for a chance to subdue him because of the Jade Talisman's power.
• Ye Lin and Nangong Yanran arrived at a human-faced monster on a spiraling staircase, and its roaring attack dispersed before reaching Ye Lin.

Ye Lin and Nangong Yanran descended into the cave, where Ye Lin killed the human-faced monster despite promising to spare it. Meanwhile, Zhao Liu led Li Shengtian and Wang Zhao across a perilous bridge over a river of wronged souls, and Li Shengtian’s attempt to form another bridge failed.

• Ye Lin forced the human-faced monster to carry him and Nangong Yanran down the shaft, where they noticed blurred and damaged murals.
• After reaching the bottom, Ye Lin killed the monster with Sword Qi, and Nangong Yanran challenged him for breaking his promise.
• Ye Lin dismissed the value of keeping promises, leaving Nangong Yanran to follow him in thought.
• Zhao Liu stepped onto a narrow bridge above a river of wronged souls and made Li Shengtian and Wang Zhao follow by holding a Jade Talisman.
• As the three crossed cautiously, Li Shengtian tried to create a bridge with a spell, but the multicolored light shattered.

Zhao Liu led Li Shengtian and Wang Zhao toward the Soul-Summoning Banner, while the two secretly planned to turn against him. Ye Lin and Nangong Yanran crossed the river toward the Stone Stele, with Ye Lin continuing onward despite the traps and monsters.

• Zhao Liu warned Li Shengtian that the extreme yin energy was too strong to resist, so they should follow the area's rules.
• Zhao Liu led Li Shengtian and Wang Zhao across the single-plank bridge toward the Soul-Summoning Banner, while the two planned to suppress or kill him and blame him afterward.
• Nangong Yanran asked Ye Lin whether he had come looking for something, and Ye Lin confirmed that he had.
• Ye Lin created a rainbow bridge over the river and crossed it with Nangong Yanran following close behind.
• Ye Lin sensed the Stone Stele's aura growing stronger and continued onward, puzzled by the journey's tomb-like traps and monsters.

Li Shengtian and Wang Zhao killed Zhao Liu at the altar and took his Jade Talisman as evidence, then encountered Nangong Yanran and Ye Lin. Li Shengtian decided to kill Nangong Yanran too and charged at her with a blade.

• Li Shengtian and Wang Zhao attacked Zhao Liu as he approached the altar, killing him before he could take the Soul-Summoning Banner.
• Li Shengtian took the Jade Talisman from Zhao Liu’s hand, and he and Wang Zhao decided to report the matter to their sect elders.
• Ye Lin and Nangong Yanran reached the altar, where Nangong Yanran recognized Li Shengtian and Wang Zhao as her senior brother and senior sister.
• Li Shengtian and Wang Zhao realized Nangong Yanran was still alive and decided to kill her to protect themselves.
• Li Shengtian charged at Nangong Yanran with a long blade as she stood frozen, sensing his killing intent.

Ye Lin stopped Li Shengtian from killing Nangong Yanran, then approached the altar and awakened its two stone giants. He destroyed them with a single slap and crouched beside the altar’s corpse.

• Li Shengtian attacked Nangong Yanran, but Ye Lin sent him flying with a flick of his finger.
• Nangong Yanran struggled to understand why Li Shengtian had tried to kill her, while Ye Lin dismissed her confusion and headed for the altar.
• Wang Zhao warned Ye Lin that approaching the altar would awaken the stone statues, but he ignored her.
• The Soul-Summoning Banner sent streams of light into the statues, which shed their stone shells and attacked Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin smashed both giants into fragments with a single slap, then crouched beside the altar.

Ye Lin found the Eighth Sword and a Soul-Summoning Banner in the corpse-filled area, then discovered the corpse’s lingering soul had used a million vengeful spirits to seek rebirth. He killed Wang Zhao, spared Nangong Yanran, and left her sitting quietly nearby.

• Ye Lin found the stone stele containing the Eighth Sword and stored it in his Spatial Ring for later study.
• Ye Lin picked up the Soul-Summoning Banner, recognized its sinister nature, and kept the Heaven Grade Mid Tier treasure.
• Ye Lin sensed a lingering divine soul in the corpse and realized its owner had used a million vengeful spirits to try to live another life.
• Ye Lin killed Wang Zhao with a flick of his finger.
• Ye Lin told Nangong Yanran she could leave, but she refused and sat silently to one side.

Ye Lin absorbed a corpse with the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and could no longer suppress his cultivation, so he prepared to break through into the Tribulation Transcendence Realm. His lightning tribulation engulfed Extreme Yin Mountain and startled a distant sect elder, who wondered if it was a Spirit Transformation tribulation.

• Ye Lin used the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art to absorb the corpse's blood qi, vital essence, and memories.
• Ye Lin's three powers manifested as he calmed his aura, but he realized his cultivation could no longer be suppressed.
• Ye Lin decided to break through into the Tribulation Transcendence Realm and moved Nangong Yanran far away for her safety.
• Thunderclouds gathered over Extreme Yin Mountain, the mountain's yin qi vanished, and nearby living beings fled the million-li range.
• A distant sect elder watched the tribulation clouds and wondered whether the display could be a Spirit Transformation lightning tribulation.

Ye Lin faced a devastating lightning tribulation atop Extreme Yin Mountain, enduring its attacks with the protection of his Unrivaled Sacred Body. The tribulation grew stronger, and the chapter ended as a vast sphere of lightning gathered above him while a nearby old man fled with his grandson.

• An old man realized the lightning tribulation was far beyond the Nascent Soul Realm and feared its aura could crush him near its center.
• A massive bolt split Extreme Yin Mountain, and Ye Lin punched it before leaping into the air to face the tribulation.
• Hundreds of lightning bolts struck Ye Lin, but his Unrivaled Sacred Body withstood them as the first wave subsided.
• Ye Lin split a terrifying bolt of purple lightning, though it damaged his meridians and blasted mountains across a thousand miles.
• Hundreds of bolts converged into a growing sphere above Ye Lin, and the old man recognized a Tribulation Transcendence Realm tribulation and fled with his grandson.

Ye Lin absorbed the lightning of his Tribulation Transcendence tribulation, discovered a new use for the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, and broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. After he departed, an old man and his grandson reflected on his overwhelming power.

• Ye Lin absorbed a scarlet lightning bolt with the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and felt his body and spiritual energy grow stronger.
• Ye Lin flew into the thunderclouds and absorbed lightning bolts until his aura broke through to the Tribulation Transcendence stage.
• The thunderclouds dispersed, and Ye Lin marveled at his new power before vanishing.
• The old man recovered from his shock and told his grandson that Ye Lin was what a strong person looked like.
• The grandson felt a longing for power for the first time.

Ye Lin left Nangong Yanran after learning she could find her own way home, then studied her unusual fate panel. He returned to Nameless Mountain, where he planned to refine his third avatar before departing.

• Ye Lin told Nangong Yanran to go home and left after she claimed she could not find the way.
• Nangong Yanran asked Ye Lin's name, learned it, and set off, determined to remember him and find him again.
• Ye Lin examined Nangong Yanran's panel and noted her Divine Phoenix Body, Heavenly Dao's Protection, and devotion to a beloved.
• Ye Lin arrived at Nameless Mountain and prepared to use its fortune to refine his third avatar and leave.