Chapter Summaries

Ye Buqu stayed alert as Ye Hong followed him, while the powerful cultivators finished claiming Unrivaled City’s buildings. Taiyuan took the building he wanted, and the main hall opened to reveal a vast arena and ten wooden boxes.

• Ye Buqu sensed someone following him but could not find them, while Ye Hong watched and learned that Ye Buqu was only at the second level of Qi Refining.
• Ye Hong considered killing Ye Buqu after they left the city, while Elder Hong warned that Ye Buqu might have powerful backing.
• Taiyuan claimed a building from a rival, who angrily cursed and departed rather than fight him.
• Taiyuan stored away the building, activating Unrivaled City's mechanisms and opening the main hall.
• The great powers entered the main hall first, followed by the other cultivators, and found mechanism creations and ten wooden boxes around a central arena.

At the inheritance ceremony, young prodigies and other visitors tried to earn the ten weapon spirits’ approval, but everyone who approached the Arena was blasted away. Taiyuan urged Ye Buqu to try, but Ye Buqu declined.

• A puppet announced that anyone acknowledged by a weapon spirit could take one of the ten Heaven Grade high-grade weapons, while warning that rejected candidates would be thrown off the Arena.
• Li Xian confidently approached the weapons but was hurled out of the hall, drawing laughter before he fled in embarrassment.
• A burly man and dozens of others tried to approach the weapons, but every attempt failed.
• Taiyuan asked Ye Buqu to try, and Ye Buqu declined.

Ye Buqu reluctantly approached the Arena to test whether a supreme treasure would acknowledge him, expecting failure. The Blazing Fire Battle Armor chose him, leaving the crowd astonished and convinced he was Ye Lin’s disciple.

• Taiyuan urged Ye Buqu to try for a supreme treasure and promised to punish anyone who laughed at him.
• Ye Buqu stepped onto the Arena, bracing for the impact of rejection, but nothing happened for a full minute.
• The Blazing Fire Battle Armor glowed, broke apart, and fitted itself onto Ye Buqu.
• The crowd marveled that the Heaven Grade armor had acknowledged Ye Buqu and speculated that he had hidden depths.

Ye Buqu obtained the Blazing Fire Battle Armor, while Ye Hong plotted another way to secure the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art. Taiyuan then called the Long Sword from the Arena, and its Sword Intent filled the main hall.

• Ye Buqu dismissed the Blazing Fire Battle Armor into its wooden box and returned to Taiyuan with it.
• Taiyuan congratulated Ye Buqu, while Ye Hong brooded over his lost chance to obtain the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art and resolved to find another path.
• A young man obtained a broadsword from the Arena, prompting the crowd to rush for the remaining weapons.
• Taiyuan called out to the Long Sword at the Arena's center, and it flew into his hand, releasing powerful Sword Intent throughout the main hall.

Taiyuan acquired the Heaven Grade high-grade War God Blazing Fire Sword and gave Ye Buqu a Spatial Ring. Ye Hong led Ye Buqu away to a teahouse to discuss something, leaving the subject of their conversation unknown.

• Taiyuan recognized the War God Blazing Fire Sword, laughed at its name, and stored it in his Spatial Ring.
• Taiyuan gave Ye Buqu a Spatial Ring with one hundred cubic meters of space.
• Ye Buqu explained that he carried the heavy box containing his Blazing Fire Battle Armor to train his body.
• Ye Hong approached Ye Buqu and asked to speak with him elsewhere.
• Ye Buqu followed Ye Hong to a teahouse, where Ye Hong looked around and got straight to the point.

Ye Hong approached Ye Buqu with a proposal to exchange the upper volume of the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art for Ye Buqu’s lower volume. After showing him three pages as proof, Ye Hong waited for Ye Buqu to agree to the trade.

• Ye Hong introduced himself and asked whether Ye Buqu had gained an opportunity in the thatched hut.
• Ye Buqu tried to leave, but Ye Hong warned that the lower volume could cause qi deviation without the upper volume.
• Ye Hong claimed he possessed the upper volume and proposed exchanging it for Ye Buqu’s lower volume.
• Ye Buqu doubted Ye Hong’s claims but asked how he could verify them.
• Ye Hong showed Ye Buqu three pages from the upper volume, and Ye Buqu read them without understanding much.
• Ye Hong urged Ye Buqu to make the trade, but Ye Buqu had not yet agreed.

Ye Buqu exchanged the second volume of the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art with Ye Hong after warning him not to deceive him. Ye Hong left with both books, while Ye Buqu was left reflecting on the gulf between his abilities and those of heavenly geniuses.

• Ye Buqu decided against robbing or buying the sacred art and used Nameless Mountain's name to pressure Ye Hong.
• Ye Buqu agreed to exchange the books and warned Ye Hong that he would not forgive any deception.
• Ye Hong handed over his book, briefly memorized Ye Buqu's volume, and completed the trade.
• Ye Hong left with both books, then felt defeated as he compared his poor reading ability with the geniuses who could memorize a book at a glance.

Five years after Ye Buqu and Taiyuan left the main hall, the world’s seal lifted and prodigies from transcendent powers emerged, weakening the Dawn Alliance’s influence. After fifteen years of secluded cultivation, Ye Lin reached the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence and welcomed the chance to fight powerful rivals.

• Ye Buqu told Taiyuan that he had only cleared up a misunderstanding with Ye Hong, and the two left the main hall.
• Five years later, heaven and earth were unsealed, allowing Loose Immortals to emerge and dozens of transcendent powers’ prodigies to announce themselves across the Eastern Continent.
• The newly emerged prodigies dismissed the Dawn Alliance’s ability to restrain them, while the transcendent powers’ growing Loose Immortal forces threatened the alliance.
• Ye Lin ended fifteen years of secluded cultivation at the middle stage of Tribulation Transcendence and welcomed the arrival of stronger rivals.
• Ye Lin left his residence and heard a series of banging sounds nearby.

Ye Lin discovered that Ye Buqu had reached only the third level of Qi Refining after fifteen years because he had forgotten the cultivation method and trained like a mortal martial artist. Ye Buqu asked whether there was a method that did not require memorizing a circulation route, leaving Ye Lin to consider what could help him.

• Ye Lin found Ye Buqu striking a wooden post and learned he had just broken through to the third level of Qi Refining.
• Ye Lin destroyed the post and criticized Ye Buqu for training like a mortal instead of practicing the cultivation method he had been taught.
• Ye Buqu admitted he had forgotten the method after Ye Lin entered seclusion and later forgot Taiyuan's instructions too.
• Ye Buqu asked Ye Lin for a cultivation method that required no circulation route, and Ye Lin fell into thought.

Ye Lin discovered that the cultivation art Ye Buqu had brought him was a powerful body-tempering method suited to his disciple. After explaining it and giving Ye Buqu an Enlightenment Pill, he ordered him to begin arduous body cultivation and daily medicinal baths.

• Ye Buqu offered Ye Lin two books containing a cultivation art he had failed to understand after studying it for five years.
• Ye Lin recognized the art as a powerful body-tempering method and told Ye Buqu that body cultivation suited him better than Dharma cultivation.
• Ye Lin explained the Ten Thousand Dao Sacred Art to Ye Buqu and gave him an Enlightenment Pill to help him understand it.
• Ye Buqu grasped the cultivation art and felt the exhilaration of understanding it immediately.
• Ye Lin instructed Ye Buqu to recite and cultivate the art daily, and to obtain ingredients from the treasury for daily medicinal baths.

Ye Buqu accepted Ye Lin’s challenge to defeat a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator within a year and began preparing for painful medicinal baths. Ye Lin learned that a meteor containing the Meteor Star Stone had fallen in Asura Clan territory, where powerful prodigies were also heading.

• Ye Lin set Ye Buqu the goal of defeating a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator with his physical body within one year.
• Ye Buqu resolved to meet the challenge and went to the treasure vault to gather ingredients for medicinal baths.
• Ye Lin reflected that he still needed the Meteor Star Stone and Yin-Yang Spirit Stone to refine a clone.
• Taichu told Ye Lin that a meteor had struck Asura Clan territory and that its heart might contain the Meteor Star Stone.
• Taichu warned Ye Lin that top-tier prodigies were heading to the Asura Clan, and Ye Lin said he had been waiting for them.

Ye Lin left after speaking with Taichu, while an unknown group claimed an Asura Clan prefecture where a meteor had recently caused devastating destruction. The white-robed Exalted One secured the clan’s cooperation by gifting them a treasure, and the group took control of the prefecture for one day.

• Ye Lin told Taichu he was leaving before others claimed the opportunity, then tore through space and departed.
• A huge meteor struck an Asura Clan prefecture, destroying half its territory and causing many casualties.
• A group of powerful outsiders entered the Asura Clan’s territory and claimed the damaged prefecture, threatening the clan’s experts.
• The white-robed Exalted One offered the Asura Clan a treasure in exchange for borrowing the prefecture for one day and promised not to harm its people.
• The Asura Clan experts accepted the offer and left, while the Exalted One explained that the gift would earn goodwill from a major clan.

Ye Lin encountered Xuan Qing and Xuan Yi while heading toward the meteorite to search for Meteor Star Stone, and accepted their invitation to travel together. After learning that Xuan Yi was the Holy Son of High Heaven Holy Land, Ye Lin confirmed he was a living being of the current era, astonishing Xuan Qing.

• Ye Lin appeared before a snow-white carriage approaching the enormous meteorite.
• Xuan Qing introduced himself and invited Ye Lin to travel with him and his Exalted One, Xuan Yi.
• Ye Lin learned that Xuan Yi was the Holy Son of High Heaven Holy Land and agreed to join them.
• Xuan Yi appeared from behind the carriage curtain and asked whether Ye Lin was a living being of this era.
• Ye Lin confirmed that he was, leaving Xuan Qing incomparably astonished.

Ye Lin met Xuan Yi, a formidable cultivator burdened by a long-lasting curse, while both traveled to the Meteor Star Stone’s impact site. They arrived among several powerful figures, where a golden-armored man mocked Xuan Yi.

• Ye Lin asked Xuan Yi whether he had come to seek the Meteor Star Stone, and Xuan Yi said he was traveling for relaxation.
• Xuan Qing explained that a vicious curse had left Xuan Yi frail despite his Tribulation Transcendence cultivation.
• Ye Lin admired Xuan Yi for reaching the first echelon of combat strength while bearing the curse.
• Ye Lin and Xuan Yi arrived at the impact site, where dozens of figures and three sedan chairs had gathered.
• A golden-armored man mocked Xuan Yi for being sickly and warned that he might cough himself to death when the fighting began.

Xuan Yi restrained Xuan Qing from confronting Li Gang, while a black-robed man warned Li Gang and then told Ye Lin that Zhao Wuji of the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land was hunting him. The black-robed man left Ye Lin with the warning that Zhao Wuji was absent today, so Ye Lin would live a few more days.

• Xuan Qing sprang into the air to challenge Li Gang, but Xuan Yi ordered him back to the sedan.
• Li Gang taunted Xuan Yi, who said he would ignore the insults rather than fight.
• The black-robed man warned Li Gang that his behavior would eventually bring consequences, but Li Gang dismissed him.
• The black-robed man asked Ye Lin his name and was startled to learn who he was.
• The black-robed man told Ye Lin that Zhao Wuji of the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land was searching for him, then remarked that Zhao Wuji's absence today let Ye Lin live a few more days.

Ye Lin watched as Li Gang’s group tried to break open the enormous meteorite, which they believed contained a Meteor Star Stone. Savage Bull’s attacks made little progress, leaving the meteorite intact.

• Ye Lin dismissed the onlookers and asked who would break open the meteorite.
• Li Gang ordered Savage Bull to strike it with his Earth-Shattering Fist, but the punch only made a small pit.
• Li Gang told Savage Bull to continue, and Savage Bull attacked the meteorite with a spiked Great Hammer for half an hour.
• Savage Bull stopped after making a hole only twenty meters wide and ten meters deep, telling Li Gang he could not break through the meteorite.

Li Gang and the other cultivators failed to break open the meteorite, so Xuan Yi offered his Heaven-Piercing Awl in exchange for forty percent of the Meteor Star Stone. The five prodigies’ attendants powered the artifact and brought it down toward the meteorite.

• Savage Bull failed to damage the meteorite, and Li Gang told him to return, recognizing that the stone was simply too hard.
• The man in black suggested searching for a weak point, but the woman in the emerald-green sedan said the meteorite had no such weakness.
• Xuan Yi produced the Heaven-Piercing Awl and demanded forty percent of the Meteor Star Stone for its use.
• The three distant prodigies accepted Xuan Yi’s terms, and five attendants joined their spiritual energy to enlarge the awl.
• Ye Lin sensed that the Heaven-Piercing Awl’s tip could kill him outright as its five controllers shouted, “Break,” and swung it down.

Li Gang and the others struggled to drill into the meteorite with the Heaven-Piercing Awl, drawing more cultivators into the effort as the tool barely penetrated its outer layer. Ye Lin finally joined in, but instead of supplying spiritual energy, he punched the rear of the awl.

• Li Gang and four others drove the Heaven-Piercing Awl into the meteorite, but it advanced only a few dozen meters despite their efforts.
• Li Gang and the black-robed man urged the others to help, and the black-robed man, a woman in green robes, and Xuan Qing added their spiritual energy to the awl.
• Xuan Yi stayed inside the sedan chair while Li Gang and the black-robed man pressed Ye Lin to contribute or lose any claim to the Meteor Star Stone.
• Ye Lin moved behind the Heaven-Piercing Awl and punched its rear, confusing the woman in green.

Ye Lin helped the group speed up the Heaven-Piercing Awl as they drilled toward the meteorite’s center. After Li Gang ran out of spiritual energy and stopped to rest, Ye Lin inspected his panel and learned about the Holy Star Stone and Evil-Warding Stone.

• Ye Lin pushed the Heaven-Piercing Awl from behind, making it surge forward and drill deeper into the meteorite.
• The group followed the Heaven-Piercing Awl toward the meteorite’s center.
• Li Gang ran out of spiritual energy, stopped powering the awl, and sat down to rest.
• Ye Lin read Li Gang’s panel and learned that the meteorite’s center contained Meteor Star Stones and a Holy Star Stone, while a third passage held an Evil-Warding Stone.
• Ye Lin wondered how Li Gang’s Heavenly Dipper Sacred Body compared with his Unrivaled Sacred Body and recalled what the old man on Penglai Island had said.

Ye Lin and the others pushed toward the meteorite’s central region in the Heaven-Piercing Awl, seeking Meteor Star Stone and answers about the Ascension Gate. Their advance ended when the awl struck an obstacle it could not break through, and they decided to test whether it could be bypassed.

• Ye Lin considered warnings that danger lay beyond the Ascension Gate and decided to inspect more panels before judging.
• Li Gang recovered and urged the group to continue, while the woman in blue called for everyone to stop holding back.
• The black-robed man said he had to fulfill his sect’s mission and find out whether Meteor Star Stone was in the center.
• The group powered the Heaven-Piercing Awl and sped toward the central region as the unicorn followed them into the drilled passage.
• The Heaven-Piercing Awl crashed into something too durable to penetrate, and Li Gang suggested changing direction to see whether the obstacle extended beyond that point.