Chapter Summaries

Ye Lin recognized the Demon Emperor’s golden treasure as the Sword Heart Demon Seed, a relic capable of restoring someone to life and granting an indestructible Sword Heart. After considering its value, he asked the Demon Emperor’s real name as he contemplated recruiting him to protect Ye Buqu.

• The Demon Emperor explained that he had found the strange, golden object in the mortal realm and kept it after it failed to grow when planted.
• Ye Lin identified the object as a Sword Heart Demon Seed and recalled the immense cost and lost crafting method behind its creation.
• Ye Lin considered keeping the seed for himself rather than using it to restore the Demon Emperor’s cultivation.
• Ye Lin decided the talented Demon Emperor could serve as Ye Buqu’s Dao Protector and asked him for his real name.

Ye Lin explained to Demon Wuji that his world was dying and offered to take him to a greater world where he could regain and surpass his former cultivation. Demon Wuji pledged his loyalty and agreed to leave with Ye Lin, who trusted his word without taking his life soul.

• Ye Lin told Demon Wuji that his small world’s Heavenly Dao was withering and its spiritual energy would vanish, eventually causing the world’s destruction.
• Ye Lin offered to take Demon Wuji to a broader world where he could recover his cultivation and possibly advance further, if he submitted and remained loyal.
• Demon Wuji considered his choices and firmly agreed to follow Ye Lin out of the world.
• Demon Wuji offered Ye Lin his life soul as proof of loyalty, but Ye Lin refused to take it and said he trusted Demon Wuji’s word.

Ye Lin left the Demon World with Demon Wuji, who had pledged himself to Ye Lin and left behind techniques and inheritances before departing. On their way to the exit, they met Lin Ping again, who hinted that he had good news for Ye Lin.

• Demon Wuji collected the treasury’s contents and followed Ye Lin out of the Demon World.
• Ye Lin let Demon Wuji take one last look at the world, and Demon Wuji left for half an hour before returning after leaving techniques and inheritances behind.
• Ye Lin led Demon Wuji out of the Demon World, pleased that he had obtained the Sword Heart Demon Seed.
• Ye Lin encountered Lin Ping again, questioned why Lin Ping kept appearing, and dismissed his talk of fate.
• Lin Ping offered to tell Ye Lin some good news, and Ye Lin told him to speak or let them leave.

Lin Ping told Ye Lin that the transcendent factions had found the Heavenly Dao’s residence and planned to seize its origin. Ye Lin weighed the danger against the chance to use the origin to create a powerful clone and agreed to consider joining them.

• Lin Ping complained that Ye Lin was cold and explained why he wanted to befriend him.
• Lin Ping told Ye Lin that the group had discovered where the Heavenly Dao resided and planned to contend against it for its origin.
• Lin Ping reassured Ye Lin that they would flee if the weakened Heavenly Dao became too dangerous.
• Ye Lin considered using the Heavenly Dao Origin to give a clone the authority to wield a world’s power.

Lin Ping led Ye Lin and the gathered cultivators to the eastern edge of Heavenly Billows World, where they planned to break into the Heavenly Dao Space and seize its Origin. Lin Ping assigned Ye Lin to block the Heavenly Dao’s counterattack, leaving the group poised to strike.

• Lin Ping told Ye Lin to leave Mo Wuji behind, and Mo Wuji headed down the mountain while Ye Lin followed Lin Ping east.
• Lin Ping and Ye Lin joined dozens of cultivators gathered above the sea, where blue light marked the suspected location of the Heavenly Dao Space.
• The Heavenly Dao stirred storms and struck the sea with lightning as the cultivators prepared to attack.
• Lin Ping explained that the Heavenly Dao Origin lay beyond the blue light and ordered the forty cultivators to split into two groups and strike together.
• Lin Ping told Ye Lin to block the Heavenly Dao’s counterattack once they attacked.

Lin Ping and the cultivators attacked the Heavenly Dao while Ye Lin and fifteen others prepared to withstand its retaliation. Their first strike made the Heavenly Dao's space ripple, and Ye Lin stayed to face the counterattack.

• Ye Lin warned the cultivators that the Heavenly Dao's counterattack could kill them, and fifteen people joined him.
• Lin Ping called on the cultivators to gather their strongest attacks and strike the Heavenly Dao.
• The cultivators' attacks hit the Heavenly Dao's origin as lightning ravaged the sea, but its blue-lit space remained intact.
• Ye Lin noticed the Heavenly Dao's space ripple, then stood before the group with Evil Slayer as the fifteen prepared behind him.
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Ye Lin and the others repeatedly fought the Heavenly Dao, whose counterattacks weakened as its world began to collapse. The Heavenly Dao then unleashed its source power, leaving the group exhausted and prompting them to urge Lin Ping to retreat.

• Ye Lin led the group in striking back against a devastating lightning attack from the Heavenly Dao.
• Ye Lin, Lin Ping, and the others traded attacks with the Heavenly Dao until they were nearly out of spiritual energy.
• The Heavenly Dao's space grew fragile as its counterattacks weakened and the world moved closer to destruction.
• The Heavenly Dao used its source power, and the group warned Lin Ping to retreat or break through its space with a single strike.

Ye Lin revealed his full strength and summoned nine swords, joining Lin Ping in refusing to give up despite the danger. The chapter ended with Lin Ping agreeing to fight alongside Ye Lin and stake everything.

• Ye Lin took out the Chaos Sword Casket and summoned nine swords, including Bai Ling.
• Ye Lin unleashed seven named sword techniques while the other two swords gathered Sword Dao destruction rules.
• The gathered prodigies were shocked by Ye Lin's power, and Lin Ping sensed that the nine swords could threaten him.
• Ye Lin's strength drained away as he struggled to control all nine swords and use Bai Ling's power.
• Lin Ping agreed to join Ye Lin and face the danger together.

Ye Lin, Lin Ping, and the others attacked the powerful lightning blocking their path. Lin Ping’s Yin-Yang Reversal shattered the void, leaving the way forward open.

• Lin Ping summoned a black-and-white Divine Dragon and a Taiji diagram to withstand the lightning.
• Ye Lin urged the remaining fighters to join the attack, and they took pills before rising to fight.
• Ye Lin sent his nine swords at the lightning, but they were knocked back toward the Chaos Sword Casket.
• Bai Ling charged with Primal Unity and cut through part of the lightning before returning to the Chaos Sword Casket.
• Lin Ping’s Divine Dragon absorbed the lightning until the Taiji diagram cracked, then Lin Ping used Yin-Yang Reversal to smash the lightning and shatter the void.

Lin Ping blocked Heavenly Dao’s strongest attack, giving the prodigies time to break into the Heavenly Dao space. Ye Lin entered and found the Heavenly Dao Origin beneath a blue tree.

• Lin Ping survived his devastating strike, and the prodigies attacked the weakened Heavenly Dao space.
• The prodigies opened a rift in the Heavenly Dao space and rushed inside to claim the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Ye Lin and Lin Ping followed the others through the rift despite their injuries.
• Ye Lin arrived in a blue space, where he found a bowl of pale blue liquid beneath a leafless tree and recognized it as the Heavenly Dao Origin.

Ye Lin was trapped in a trial that stripped away his strength and forced him to kill one hundred starving wolves within three hours. He killed just over thirty before a wolf sent him flying, leaving the trial unresolved.

• Ye Lin was transported to a wasteland, where a giant eye announced the trial and a saber appeared beside him.
• Ye Lin picked up the saber and fled from a pack of starving wolves, then killed the lead wolf with a single slash.
• Ye Lin decided to fight the wolves rather than exhaust himself running and cut down one wolf after another.
• A starving wolf clawed Ye Lin’s back, and he killed it, but his stamina rapidly dwindled as more wolves attacked.
• A wolf’s thunderous howl sent Ye Lin flying after he had killed only a little over thirty wolves.

Ye Lin fought off a pack of starving wolves while trapped in a weakened body, surviving despite severe injuries and exhaustion. After killing the final wolf, he completed the challenge and returned to the space containing the Heavenly Dao origin, where he questioned how realistic the illusion had been.

• Ye Lin slaughtered waves of starving wolves, but the fight left him covered in wounds and nearly out of strength.
• The final five wolves charged, and Ye Lin killed several while losing an arm and part of his right leg.
• Ye Lin stabbed the last wolf through its mouth as it leaped for his head, completing the challenge.
• Ye Lin returned to the space with the Heavenly Dao origin and wondered what level of illusion could feel so real.

Ye Lin realized the Heavenly Dao had trapped him in a deadly illusion and discovered that its Origin wielded the Law of Time. He collected as much of the Origin as he could before an unseen force stopped him, then left satisfied with what he had obtained.

• Ye Lin realized the Heavenly Dao’s powerful illusion could have killed his true body by shattering his divine soul.
• Ye Lin touched the Heavenly Dao Origin and found that its power reversed time, sending his hand back to an era before he existed.
• Ye Lin carefully transferred the Origin into a jade bottle, but the bottle began to turn illusory when it held too much.
• Ye Lin tried to collect more Origin with another bottle, but it vanished, and he concluded that an unseen force limited how much he could take.
• Ye Lin accepted the limit, looked at the Heavenly Dao Origin once more, and left.

Ye Lin left the realm and brought Mo Wuji to Nameless Mountain, giving him treasures and a month to recover his former strength. Ye Lin then began preparing to refine his avatar, but wondered where the Yin-Yang Spirit Stone had gone.

• Three figures respectfully greeted Ye Lin and told him that each person could only take a limited share of the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Ye Lin found Mo Wuji waiting, brought him through the spatial storm, and took him to Nameless Mountain.
• Ye Lin gave Mo Wuji a palace and treasures, ordering him to recover to his peak before Ye Lin left seclusion.
• Mo Wuji said he expected to recover within a month, then went to his palace.
• Ye Lin gathered the treasures he had collected and wondered where the Yin-Yang Spirit Stone was hiding.

Ye Lin began refining a clone with precious materials and the secret method in One Breath Becomes Three Purities. After shaping its body and pouring in Nameless Mountain’s fortune, he started the lengthy, exacting process of inscribing its incantations.

• Taichu brought Ye Lin the Yin-Yang Spirit Stone and left when he saw Ye Lin was preparing to perform a major technique.
• Ye Lin used Phoenix Fire to melt the materials, taking seven days to overcome the Meteor Star Stone and Yin-Yang Spirit Stone.
• Ye Lin shaped the clone’s bones, meridians, flesh, blood, and organs from the melted materials.
• Ye Lin drew Nameless Mountain’s fortune into the clone and began driving in the ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine incantations.

Ye Lin finished forming a lifelike clone and fed it Heavenly Dao Origin, which fused with its blood and gave it an unknown power. He then began the painful process of splitting his divine soul to bring the clone to life.

• Ye Lin spent a day and a half continuously forming hand seals until the clone's body and sea of consciousness took shape.
• Ye Lin poured Heavenly Dao Origin into the clone, and it remained intact as the origin fused with its blood.
• Ye Lin examined the clone's blue-streaked blood but could not identify the mysterious power within it.
• Ye Lin condensed a blade in his sea of consciousness and split his divine soul in two, leaving him with searing pain.

Ye Lin created a third avatar by placing half of his divine soul into it and using One Breath Becomes Three Purities. After recovering for three months, he named the mysterious avatar Wu Wang and tested whether he could still control it.

• Ye Lin endured the pain of severing half his divine soul and placed it in the avatar's sea of consciousness.
• After three months of recovery, Ye Lin met the newly self-aware avatar, who named himself Wu Wang.
• Ye Lin reviewed the status of his other avatars: Lin Xian was in the Eastern Continent seeking treasures, while Xiaoyao was fleeing the deep-sea races in the Southern Continent.
• Ye Lin found that he could not determine Wu Wang's cultivation and sensed a faint danger from him.
• Ye Lin tested the Dissolution Art and confirmed he could still use it to dissolve Wu Wang's divine soul if the avatar rebelled.

Ye Lin let Wu Wang leave to explore the world, then remembered the sword hidden in a stone stele and successfully comprehended its technique. He now held eight of the Nine Swords and sought the final one to complete their union.

• Wu Wang asked Ye Lin for supplies and permission to explore, then left Nameless Mountain with a Heaven Grade Mid Tier Long Sword and life-saving pills.
• Ye Lin sent Wu Wang and Lin Xian messages asking them to search for stone steles.
• Ye Lin opened the stone stele with the Jade Talisman and spent ten days comprehending the sword within it.
• Ye Lin learned that the sword technique drew on the momentum of heaven and earth across a thousand li to suppress opponents.

Ye Lin named his new technique Eight-Direction Sword Assault and decided he should step down as Sect Master of Nameless Mountain now that he had achieved his purpose. He checked Ye Buqu's progress and found the young disciple advancing along the body-tempering path.

• Ye Lin named the technique Sword Eight, or Eight-Direction Sword Assault, and planned to use it to suppress opponents before fighting them.
• Ye Lin considered how he would fare against Lin Ping and concluded that he still needed to grow stronger, even with his trump cards.
• Ye Lin decided to relinquish the position of Sect Master of Nameless Mountain because he could not shoulder the responsibility of guiding the Human Race.
• Ye Lin visited Ye Buqu and saw him shatter a person-sized boulder with one punch.
• Ye Lin assessed Ye Buqu's strength and judged his body-tempering progress satisfactory despite his Qi Refining Level 5 cultivation.

Ye Lin tested Ye Buqu’s strength and gave him a new medicinal-bath prescription, but Ye Buqu revealed that he had stopped using the baths because Nameless Mountain disciples mocked and bullied him. The chapter left Ye Lin hearing how his disciple had been driven into isolation and deprived of the herbs he was meant to receive.

• Ye Buqu greeted Ye Lin, who tested his punches and praised his physical strength.
• Ye Lin gave Ye Buqu a new prescription for medicinal baths, but Ye Buqu hesitated and said he no longer needed them.
• Ye Buqu explained that gathering herbs for his baths had burdened the disciples responsible for collecting them, while his cultivation still lagged behind the newer disciples.
• Nameless Mountain disciples began ridiculing Ye Buqu, resenting his status as the Sect Master's disciple despite his low cultivation.
• The disciples mocked Ye Buqu whenever he left his residence and withheld the herbs meant for him, leaving him afraid to go outside.