Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Lin Yi and Ye Xing teleport into a dark underground passage, apparently inside an ancient tomb. Lin Yi quickly secures their teleportation array and checks the area with his Spirit Eyes.
• Murals identify the ancient people depicted as the Snow Li Li, whose history includes hunting and rituals. At a chamber entrance, two guardian puppets activate; Lin Yi disables them instantly by removing the Spirit Stones powering them.
• Lin Yi breaks the chamber’s barrier and deduces that they are in a side chamber of the Snow Li Li ancestral tomb. The tribe was relatively weak, with only three members ever reaching the Venerable Realm.
• They are still trapped in the Snow Region, where an Extreme Coldstorm is raging outside. Since they cannot safely leave and Lin Yi refuses to depart empty-handed, they open the stone coffin.
• Lin Yi carefully breaks the coffin’s restriction, preventing Ye Xing from opening it recklessly. Inside is a well-preserved Snow Li corpse and a valuable Spirit Crystal, worth about 500,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones. Ye Xing gives the crystal to Lin Yi for safekeeping.
• Lin Yi decides they should explore the main burial chamber next.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Yi is cautious and observant, using his Spirit Eyes to assess threats and locate weaknesses in barriers. He is also confident in his abilities, efficient in combat, and willing to take risks for potential rewards. He shows practical authority by stopping Ye Xing from triggering the coffin’s restriction.
• Ye Xing remains loyal and eager to follow Lin Yi, but is easily startled and impulsive—he rushes toward the coffin before being corrected. His excitement at finding treasure is tempered by good judgment when he hands the Spirit Crystal to Lin Yi.
• Their relationship is familiar and teasing: Ye Xing calls Lin Yi “Big Bro” or “Eldest Brother,” while Lin Yi scolds him and jokes about giving him another beating.

Significant themes

• Caution amid danger: Lin Yi’s careful inspections and controlled actions contrast with Ye Xing’s impulsiveness.
• Opportunity in adversity: Though stranded during a deadly storm, they turn their situation into a chance to explore and gain treasure.
• Power and resourcefulness: Lin Yi’s skill lies not only in strength but in detecting and exploiting weaknesses in magical defenses.
• Loyalty and trust: Ye Xing follows Lin Yi’s lead and entrusts the valuable find to him.

Plot points and events

• Lin Yi identifies two routes from the coffin chamber: one appears to lead outside, while the passage marked with dense restrictions seems to go deeper into the tomb.
• Ye Xing rushes ahead, lured by the promise of treasure, and enters an Illusion Array that makes him believe he is surrounded by Spirit Crystals and Heavenly Treasures.
• Lin Yi uses his Spirit Eyes’ Unerring Insight to see through the illusion. He finds its core in the red eyes of a Snow Li Li carving, removes them, and frees Ye Xing with a slap.
• Lin Yi discovers that the entrance also carried a Killing Array, but he has already broken its restrictions while dispelling the illusion. He sends the wary Ye Xing through the doorway with a playful kick.
• Beyond it, they find a grand hall containing twelve coffins arranged around a Bagua pattern. Lin Yi recognizes the floor, coffins, and ceiling markings as a powerful Grand Killing Array.
• Inside the coffins are humanoid, withered corpses bearing Snow Li Li features. Lin Yi suspects the array could animate them to attack intruders. Ye Xing asks what they should do.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Yi is cautious and observant, using his Spirit Eyes and analytical ability to identify and dismantle the illusion and recognize the deadly array. He repeatedly has to restrain or rescue Ye Xing.
• Ye Xing is energetic and treasure-hungry, charging into danger before checking for traps. After Lin Yi snaps him out of the illusion, he becomes temporarily obedient, though his eagerness to open a coffin quickly returns.
• Their relationship is teasing and familiar: Lin Yi scolds and physically jolts Ye Xing out of trouble, while Ye Xing complains, defers to him, and continues to rely on him.

Significant themes

• Greed and recklessness: Ye Xing’s fixation on treasure makes him an easy target for the illusion.
• Caution and expertise: Lin Yi’s careful observation and specialized abilities keep the pair from blundering into lethal traps.
• Appearance versus reality: The apparent treasure is an illusion, while the true danger lies in the hall’s intricate array and seemingly dormant bodies.

Plot points and events

• While Lin Yi studies the hall’s array, Ye Xing notices spiritual energy flowing into a coffin. A desiccated corpse absorbs it, awakens, and rises—but initially does not attack.
• The array activates, and the remaining eleven coffins open. All twelve corpses rise as the array steadily strengthens them.
• Lin Yi attacks before they grow more powerful, quickly smashing the corpses apart. Their bones reassemble, however, and the skeletons return—now coordinating their attacks in groups.
• Lin Yi briefly freezes them with his Ultimate Dao suppression technique and escapes their encirclement, but their teamwork soon overwhelms him. He suffers multiple wounds and is knocked to the ground.
• Suspecting that something is directing the skeletons, Lin Yi searches the hall and spots Ye Xing lying in a coffin, his eyes bloodred. Lin Yi realizes Ye Xing may be connected to the creatures’ coordinated behavior.

Character developments

• Lin Yi shifts from confident array researcher to pressured fighter. He relies on speed, strength, and tactical restraint, holding back his Phenomenon because using it without defeating every corpse could leave him vulnerable.
• Ye Xing is frightened at first and hides from the battle, but his bloodred eyes and apparent link to the skeletons make him suddenly suspicious.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and danger: Studying the array gives Lin Yi insight, but he cannot prevent its activation.
• Escalating threats and adaptation: The corpses grow stronger, regenerate, and change tactics after their first defeat.
• Control and suspicion: The skeletons’ intelligence suggests an unseen controller, turning Lin Yi’s attention toward Ye Xing.

Character interactions

• Ye Xing warns Lin Yi about the coffin; Lin Yi initially dismisses the danger, then moves to stop it too late.
• Lin Yi protects Ye Xing by telling him to hide, while Ye Xing watches from a coffin.
• The chapter ends with Lin Yi questioning Ye Xing’s role in the attack, setting up a possible confrontation or revelation.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Suspecting a remnant soul was hidden on Ye Xing, Lin Yi breaks through the withered bones surrounding the coffin and pulls Ye Xing out to inspect him.
• He finds an extremely faint remnant soul behind Ye Xing’s neck and tears it free with his Divine Sense. Its aura matches one of the mummies. When Lin Yi destroys it, the twelve mummies lose their coordinated formation and attack erratically.
• Lin Yi puts the unconscious Ye Xing back in a coffin, then exploits the mummies’ disorganization. He burns one to ash with Thunder Fire, discovering that destroyed mummies cannot recover.
• Lin Yi freezes the remaining eleven with his Ice and Snow Intent and incinerates them. As each falls, the array’s power concentrates in the last survivor—the mummy associated with the remnant soul—which rises to the Venerable Realm.
• With his Spiritual Power dwindling, Lin Yi activates his Phenomenon, “Matchless Elegance.” Its icy domain restrains the final mummy, and Lin Yi destroys it with “Sword Dao—Extreme Ice—Dao Resonance.”
• The Phenomenon lasts only ten breaths. Once it ends, Lin Yi collapses, exhausted and with his Divine Soul overdrawn. He calls out to Ye Xing, demanding to know whether he has woken up.

Character developments

• Lin Yi shows quick judgment and adaptability: he prioritizes finding the remnant soul, recognizes how the array redistributes its power, and adjusts his tactics accordingly. He also pushes himself to the limit, revealing both the strength of his Phenomenon and its severe cost.
• Ye Xing remains unconscious and vulnerable throughout the fight. His body has been used to conceal the remnant soul, though the chapter does not clarify how it got there or whether he knew about it.
• The mummies shift from coordinated guardians to chaotic attackers after the remnant soul is destroyed. Their remaining power ultimately gathers in one exceptionally strong final mummy.

Significant themes

• Resourcefulness under pressure: Lin Yi survives by observing the enemies’ behavior and changing tactics rather than relying on brute force alone.
• Power and its price: His strongest technique wins the battle but leaves him physically and spiritually depleted.
• The persistence of evil: The remnant soul continues to manipulate events even after its owner’s death, forcing Lin Yi to confront a lingering threat.
• Escalating danger: The array’s power concentrates into the last mummy, turning apparent progress into a new and more formidable challenge.

Character interactions

• Lin Yi forcibly restrains and examines Ye Xing, then protects him by placing him back in the coffin while fighting.
• The remnant soul’s destruction disrupts the mummies’ coordinated attacks and provokes their increased aggression.
• After defeating the final mummy, Lin Yi’s only direct interaction is his hoarse, frustrated shout at Ye Xing, underscoring both his exhaustion and concern over Ye Xing’s condition.

Key events

• Lin Yi recovers after using his power to defeat the threat in the tomb, though he remains wounded and has been exposed to corpse poison. Ye Xing emerges from a coffin and helps him.
• Lin Yi explains that Ye Xing was possessed by a Remnant Soul, which made him trigger the Illusion Array and attack Lin Yi alongside the dried corpses. Ye Xing apologizes, and Lin Yi reassures him that it is over.
• While Ye Xing searches the hall, Lin Yi studies the Bagua array and realizes that repositioning the twelve coffins will transform it into a teleportation array.
• Following Lin Yi’s instructions, Ye Xing moves the coffins into place. The array activates, and the two travel to the Main Tomb Chamber.
• They arrive in a vast, richly stocked chamber centered on an enormous, intricately decorated coffin. Its walls are covered in arrays and restrictions, and the room contains Spirit Stones, herbs, weapons, and ancient texts. Ye Xing worries that danger may still await them.

Character development and interactions

• Lin Yi shows resilience and expertise: despite his depleted strength and injuries, he restores his Spiritual Power, deduces what happened to Ye Xing, and solves the coffin array. He also comforts Ye Xing instead of blaming him.
• Ye Xing feels guilty and anxious about being possessed, but remains helpful and follows Lin Yi’s directions. He serves as lookout, searches the hall, and physically repositions the coffins.
• Their relationship is protective and cooperative. Lin Yi guides and reassures Ye Xing, while Ye Xing trusts him and assists him throughout their escape from the chamber.

Significant themes

• Trust and teamwork: Lin Yi’s knowledge and Ye Xing’s labor together unlock the route forward.
• Resilience and perseverance: Lin Yi continues working despite exhaustion and injury.
• Knowledge as power: Careful study of the array reveals a hidden passage that brute-force searching could not find.
• Guilt and forgiveness: Ye Xing accepts responsibility for his actions under possession, while Lin Yi responds with understanding.

Plot points and events

• After confirming the Main Tomb Chamber was clear of immediate danger, Lin Yi and Ye Xing cautiously approached the central coffin.
• Lin Yi sent Ye Xing to test the burial offerings. When nothing happened, Ye Xing eagerly began collecting them, prompting Lin Yi to scold him and set his share at 20 percent. They then gathered the remaining treasures together.
• Their haul included two fist-sized spirit crystals, a million high-grade spirit stones, cultivation supplies, manuals, martial techniques, and spirit artifacts.
• Lin Yi analyzed and broke the powerful restrictions sealing the central coffin. Inside was a well-preserved Snow Li Li corpse, apparently once a half-step Emperor, along with an Emperor-Rank spear and an enormous spirit crystal.
• Lin Yi claimed the spirit crystal and spear, gave Ye Xing one severed claw as a consolation prize, and stored the corpse and coffin. Ye Xing then suggested taking the chamber’s stone slabs as well.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Yi is cautious and methodical, checking for traps before acting. He is also decisive and acquisitive, quickly claiming the finest finds, though he gives Ye Xing a small share and a claw.
• Ye Xing is nervous at first but becomes greedily enthusiastic once collecting proves safe. He keeps eyeing the best treasures and ends the chapter looking for even more to loot.
• Their relationship is teasing and unequal: Lin Yi gives the orders and reprimands Ye Xing for trying to take too much, while Ye Xing jokes, bargains, and accepts whatever share he can get.

Significant themes

• Caution versus greed: Careful inspection makes the treasure-taking possible, but Ye Xing’s eagerness repeatedly threatens to outrun prudence.
• The dead and worldly wealth: The characters briefly wonder why the dead were buried with riches; Lin Yi dismisses the question, emphasizing that the living are now the beneficiaries.
• Comedic treasure hunting: The vast haul and Ye Xing’s escalating desire for loot give the chapter a playful tone, even as it reveals valuable and potentially powerful resources.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• After Lin Yi permits Ye Xing to take whatever he wants from the ancestral tomb, Ye Xing begins prying up its floor tiles.
• Lin Yi senses that someone is approaching through the tomb’s Teleportation Array and starts charging his own teleportation slab so they can escape.
• A furious Venerable Realm cultivator arrives and finds the tomb stripped of its burial goods and half its floor. He attacks the thieves with a powerful spiritual claw.
• With the array not yet ready, Lin Yi activates his “Matchless Elegance” phenomenon and uses Ultimate Mysterious Ice Sealing to slow the attacker. Holding him back nearly exhausts Lin Yi’s spiritual power and divine soul.
• As the array finishes charging, Ye Xing activates it. The attacker’s claw strikes just as they escape; Lin Yi throws his little Snow Rabbit at the cultivator, leaving the rabbit dead and the teleportation slab destroyed.
• Back in their courtyard, Lin Yi orders Ye Xing to destroy the courtyard’s Teleportation Array as a precaution, then collapses from exhaustion. Ye Xing and two maids hurry to get him inside.

Character developments

• Lin Yi acts quickly under pressure, using his phenomenon to protect their escape despite the severe cost to himself. His decision to sacrifice the rabbit at the last instant underscores his desperation to survive.
• Ye Xing is eager to loot the tomb but becomes terrified when confronted by the Venerable Realm cultivator. He nevertheless follows Lin Yi’s instructions and helps secure their escape.
• The tomb’s defender is revealed as a powerful, enraged clan member, furious at the robbery and unable to catch the pair before they teleport away.

Significant themes

• Greed and consequences: The extensive looting provokes a deadly response from the Snow Li Li clan.
• Resourcefulness under pressure: Lin Yi’s quick judgment and use of his phenomenon buy the time needed to escape.
• Sacrifice and survival: Lin Yi’s desperate use of the Snow Rabbit helps save him and Ye Xing, but costs the animal its life.
• The price of power: Lin Yi’s defensive technique succeeds only briefly and leaves him unconscious.

Character interactions

• Lin Yi teases Ye Xing’s unusual determination to take the floor, then warns him when danger arrives and entrusts him with activating the array.
• Ye Xing follows Lin Yi’s directions during the escape and, after they return, catches him and carries him inside.
• The arriving clan members question the defender about the thieves, but he can identify them only as two humans.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Yi collapses after using a powerful phenomenon twice in quick succession, leaving his Spiritual Power depleted and his Divine Soul cracked.
• Ye Xing urgently asks the Snow Elf clan for a Qingshen Snow Lotus, but the clan has none left.
• Matriarch Xue Ling examines Lin Yi and determines that his physical injuries and empty meridians are manageable; the main danger is the damage to his Divine Soul.
• To heal him, Xue Ling gives Lin Yi a portion of her own Origin Soul Power. This severely weakens her, but the pure soul energy repairs his cracks.
• Lin Yi’s consciousness awakens during the recovery. His Divine Soul strengthens, his Sea of Consciousness expands, and his Divine Sense reaches a range of 100 kilometers. He has not yet reached the Perfect Soul Extremity Realm and senses that further growth is possible.

Character developments and interactions

• Xue Ling risks her own foundation to save Lin Yi, showing both her resolve and her determination to secure a future for her clan. Xue Rou and Xiaodie protest, while Xue Wu and Snow Spirit support her afterward.
• Ye Xing is anxious about Lin Yi’s condition and grateful for Xue Ling’s sacrifice. He recognizes that her decision is driven by the clan’s desperate circumstances.
• Lin Yi, though unconscious outwardly, becomes aware of Xue Ling’s gift and deduces its source from its purity and the fact that she is the city’s only Venerable Realm cultivator.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and obligation: Xue Ling gives up part of her own soul foundation, seeing the risk as worthwhile for her clan’s prospects.
• Reciprocity and alliance: Her insistence that the Snow Elf clan will prove its worth frames the rescue as part of a larger relationship with Ye Xing and his group.
• Growth beyond apparent limits: Lin Yi’s rapid increase in soul strength suggests his potential exceeds that of ordinary cultivators, though he has not yet reached his personal limit.

Plot points and events

• Lin Yi wonders whether his divine soul’s limits will keep rising alongside his brain’s evolution, preventing him from reaching the perfect Soul Extremity Realm.
• He theorizes that his divine soul can bypass his sea of consciousness and connect directly to his brain. When he touches his brain with his soul, mysterious platinum markings appear and begin spreading across his divine soul.
• His brain draws in vast amounts of spiritual energy. The resulting force consumes the spirit crystal in his abdomen and pulls its energy into his brain. Lin Yi also feeds Xue Ling’s remaining soul essence into the process.
• Lin Yi undergoes a fifteen-day reconstruction of his divine soul. Outside, the energy forms a huge vortex that draws attention across Snow Elf City.
• His divine soul becomes covered in platinum markings and begins breaking through its limits repeatedly. Its divine-sense range reaches 300 kilometers and continues to grow.
• Afterward, Lin Yi confirms that Xue Ling gave him soul essence while he was injured. He sends her soul-nourishing treasures and asks Ye Xing to tell her he owes her a favor.

Character developments

• Lin Yi successfully discovers a way for his divine soul to grow beyond its previous ceiling. He also recognizes his debt to Xue Ling and acts to repay her help.
• Ye Xing remains loyal and impressed by Lin Yi, though Lin Yi teases him about his lack of cultivation progress.
• Xue Ling, absent while recovering, is revealed to have sacrificed some of her soul essence to aid Lin Yi.
• Xue Wu, Xue Rou, and Xue Jin, along with the other Snow Elves, witness the extraordinary energy phenomenon and respond with astonishment.

Character interactions

• Ye Xing and the Snow Elf maids ask what is causing the vortex; Ye Xing can only speculate that Lin Yi is breaking through.
• After emerging, Lin Yi asks Ye Xing whether Xue Ling gave him her essence. Ye Xing confirms it.
• Lin Yi entrusts soul-nourishing treasures to Xue Wu for Xue Ling and asks that his gratitude be conveyed.
• Ye Xing congratulates Lin Yi, who then jokes about Ye Xing’s stagnant cultivation.

Significant themes

• Self-transcendence and evolution: Lin Yi uses his brain’s evolutionary potential to overcome the limits of his divine soul.
• Reciprocity and gratitude: Xue Ling’s aid creates a debt Lin Yi feels compelled to acknowledge.
• The cost of power: Lin Yi’s breakthrough consumes his spirit crystal and requires an immense influx of energy.
• The extraordinary disrupting the ordinary: Lin Yi’s private cultivation becomes a citywide spectacle.

Key plot points and events

• After returning to his room, Lin Yi tests the Venerable Realm claw technique Rift-Splitting Nether Claw. He masters it quickly, then modifies how it works: he can form the claw beside a target without a visible approach and adjust its chilling Dao Power to immobilize and suppress them.
• Lin Yi tests the altered technique on Ye Xing, who panics and mistakes the attack for an invasion by the Snow Li Li clan. Lin Yi releases him and agrees, somewhat ominously, to give warning next time.
• Lin Yi decides not to risk more Teleportation Array travel because his Heaven’s Annoyance brings bad luck. Instead, he stays in the Snow Region to cultivate, aiming to perfect the Soul Extremity Chapter of the Human Emperor’s Prison-Suppressing Scripture before breaking through to the One Dao Realm.
• He enters seclusion with a large Spirit Crystal. Over the next half-month, Ye Xing turns away visitors, while Xue Wu and Xue Rou repeatedly try to tell Lin Yi that their clan leader, Xue Ling, has stabilized and is recovering.
• Lin Yi reaches 100,000 Origin Points, completing his cultivation at the perfect Soul Extremity Realm. The effort consumes more than half the Spirit Crystal and greatly strengthens his body.
• As he finishes, his Divine Soul reacts unexpectedly: platinum Divine Markings reappear and move across its surface. Lin Yi recognizes the sensation as resembling sudden enlightenment.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Yi demonstrates exceptional comprehension by mastering and adapting a powerful technique, then commits to patient cultivation rather than pursuing a risky escape. His physical strength has also risen dramatically.
• Ye Xing remains far behind in cultivation, but loyally watches over Lin Yi’s courtyard. His comic fright at being used as a test subject highlights both his trust in Lin Yi and his understandable wariness of Lin Yi’s experiments.
• Xue Wu and Xue Rou continue trying to update Lin Yi about Xue Ling’s recovery, but his seclusion prevents them from speaking to him directly.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity and mastery: Lin Yi does not merely learn a technique; he reshapes it for stealth and control.
• Patience and preparation: He postpones his breakthrough to build a stronger foundation.
• Power and its cost: His cultivation yields major gains but drains a valuable resource.
• Uncertain advancement: The resurfacing Divine Markings suggest a new development in Lin Yi’s Divine Soul, though its significance is not yet clear.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Yi discovers that the platinum markings on his Divine Soul grant a temporary innate ability: roughly three hours of tenfold-enhanced comprehension, apparently usable about once every half month.
• He uses the boost to master the One Dao section of the Qilin Origin Imperial Scripture far faster than normal.
• He adapts its breakthrough method into his foundational Great Wilderness Art. Rather than simply fusing essence, energy, and spirit, the method makes them circulate and replenish one another, allowing one to help restore the others when damaged.
• With his three prior realms already cultivated to their limits, Lin Yi begins his breakthrough. He draws spiritual power and Divine Soul origin into his body until the origins of essence, energy, and spirit merge.
• Lin Yi successfully enters the One Dao Realm. The breakthrough also causes platinum markings on his brain, Spirit Eyes, and Divine Soul to evolve and absorb spiritual energy simultaneously, consuming his Spirit Crystals rapidly.
• Ye Xing senses Lin Yi’s new aura and is astonished that he has advanced so soon after reaching Soul Extremity.

Character developments

• Lin Yi gains a clearer understanding of his Divine Soul’s new ability, including its limits and likely recovery interval.
• His careful, methodical approach is evident as he adapts the scripture to his own art rather than risking an untested change to his foundation.
• His breakthrough gives him a more resilient system: essence, energy, and spirit can transform into one another, potentially letting him rapidly heal physical, spiritual-power, or Divine Soul injuries.

Significant themes

• Cultivation through insight and preparation: Lin Yi’s sudden boost in comprehension helps him study efficiently, while his breakthrough depends on careful adaptation and advance preparation.
• Interdependence and resilience: The One Dao method turns essence, energy, and spirit into a mutually sustaining cycle rather than making them vulnerable as a single fused whole.
• The cost of advancement: Lin Yi’s breakthrough requires enormous spiritual energy, quickly consuming his stored Spirit Crystals.

Character interactions

• Lin Yi has no direct conversation with Ye Xing, but his breakthrough’s aura reaches Ye Xing in the same courtyard.
• Ye Xing reacts with disbelief and envy, recognizing Lin Yi’s rapid progress and contrasting it with the usual pace of cultivation.

Key plot points and events

• After reaching the One Dao Realm, Lin Yi’s spiritual-energy absorption returns to normal. His divine soul has become nearly solid and platinum-colored, with divine-sense coverage approaching a 900-kilometer radius.
• He understands the realm as the cultivation of a “seed”—his Dao Foundation—whose future potential depends on how deeply he establishes it.
• Lin Yi discovers that his Spirit Eyes have developed nested, rotating inner pupils. Their existing powers have grown, and they now let him see the Dao Principles that govern everything.
• Looking into these principles triggers a terrifying presence that seems to target him. Lin Yi shuts off his Spirit Eyes and spits blood, narrowly avoiding death.
• Far away, the principles gather into the Eye of the Great Dao, which has apparently been disturbed. Powerful beings sense the disturbance but do not know what caused it.
• Lin Yi concludes that his new ability exceeds what his current cultivation can safely support. He and Ye Xing decide to leave the Snow Region using another Random Teleportation Array.

Character developments

• Lin Yi grows stronger and gains a profound new perception of the world, but learns that power comes with dangerous limits. He remains confident that his weakness is a matter of insufficient cultivation rather than an inherent lack of worthiness.
• Ye Xing remains anxious and protective, urging Lin Yi to address the dangers around them—even if he voices his concern bluntly.

Significant themes

• Cultivation as potential: The One Dao Realm lays the foundation for what a cultivator may eventually become.
• Power and its limits: Lin Yi’s enhanced eyes reveal truths he is not yet strong enough to withstand.
• The hidden order of the world: All things possess Dao Principles, forming an immense web of underlying laws.
• Fortune and misfortune: The pair have suffered repeated disasters but gained benefits along the way, leaving them wary of what may come next.

Character interactions

• Ye Xing congratulates Lin Yi, then helps steady him after the eye-induced backlash and urges him to get rid of their troublesome “Heaven’s Annoyance.”
• Lin Yi teases and threatens Ye Xing for bluntly suggesting he might die, but ultimately agrees with his practical advice to leave the Snow Region.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Yi prepares a Random Teleportation Array, a Directional Teleportation Array, and a teleportation slab, using Devouring Divine Markings to speed up the arrays’ absorption of spirit stones.
• He repeatedly sends Snow Rabbits carrying linked teleportation anchors through the random array, hoping to locate a route out of the Snow Region. More than a dozen attempts fail, costing over a hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones.
• After Ye Xing suggests trying again, Lin Yi lets him make the next attempt. This time, Lin Yi detects a distant anchor and confirms they can leave.
• Ye Xing leaves a message for the Snow Elves, and the two teleport away. They emerge in a new location as their stone slab breaks apart.
• A frightened young woman and her older companion confront them. The young man, who had been skinning the dead Snow Rabbit, senses Lin Yi’s superior cultivation and hesitates to draw his saber. Lin Yi says they mean no harm and asks where they are.

Character developments

• Lin Yi shows technical skill and persistence, but grows frustrated by repeated failures and wasted spirit stones. His teasing, impatient manner with Ye Xing continues; despite his irritation, he keeps control and handles the encounter diplomatically.
• Ye Xing remains enthusiastic and trusting, initially boasts too confidently, then cautiously suggests a pause. His attempt succeeds, prompting him to celebrate.
• The young woman and young man are introduced as wary and frightened by the unexpected arrivals. The young man acts protectively toward the girl while remaining cautious of Lin Yi’s strength.

Significant themes

• Persistence amid uncertainty: Lin Yi keeps trying despite costly failures.
• Luck and control: The repeated random outcomes frustrate Lin Yi, while Ye Xing’s successful attempt highlights how much their escape depends on chance.
• Power and restraint: Lin Yi’s strength gives him the upper hand, but he chooses to defuse the confrontation with calm words.
• Trust and protection: The young man’s instinct is to shield the girl, while Lin Yi and Ye Xing must prove they pose no threat.

Character interactions

• Lin Yi scolds and playfully threatens Ye Xing for jinxing their escape, then lets him operate the next attempt.
• Ye Xing’s successful teleportation attempt leads Lin Yi to kick him into action to leave the Snow Elves a message.
• On arrival, both sides react with suspicion: the girl and young man threaten them, while Lin Yi assesses their strength and asks for information without escalating the standoff.

Chapter Summary: “Guzhi Pass”

Key plot points

• Lin Yi and Ye Xing meet Xiao Yi and his younger sister, Xiao He, outside Guzhi Pass. Xiao Yi initially suspects they may not be human, since members of other races can assume human form.
• Lin Yi learns they have accidentally arrived on the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, with Heaven’s Annoyance likely responsible for the unexpected teleportation.
• Xiao Yi explains that Guzhi Pass is a major human stronghold: it guards against the ten thousand races and serves as a supply, rest, and intelligence hub for cultivators venturing into the battlefield. The Daqian Dynasty and Celestial Desolation Ancient Domain are among its main contributors, with the dynasty’s armies leading its defense and administration.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao He are orphans whose parents, soldiers of the Daqian Dynasty, died defending the pass. Their pension has been spent on cultivation, and they have left the city hoping to find an opportunity.
• Lin Yi gives Xiao Yi ten High-Grade Spirit Stones for the information. Ye Xing gives Xiao He the roasted rabbit legs, which she eagerly accepts.
• After learning the way to the city, Lin Yi and Ye Xing fly to Guzhi Pass. They admire its immense, battle-scarred walls, powerful Saint Realm-level formations, and heavily guarded gates, then prepare to enter.

Character developments

• Lin Yi responds to the unexpected arrival with resignation and practical curiosity. His generosity toward the siblings shows sympathy for their hardship.
• Ye Xing is blunt and inquisitive, but compassionate: he shares the food with Xiao He and encourages her to keep living despite the harshness of the world.
• Xiao Yi is cautious at first, then becomes more open once he trusts Lin Yi and Ye Xing. Though he speaks matter-of-factly about his parents’ deaths, his clenched hand reveals lingering pain.
• Xiao He is shy and visibly affected by memories of her parents, but her delight at receiving food offers a small moment of relief.

Significant themes

• War’s human cost: The siblings’ loss shows how conflict leaves children to fend for themselves even when society provides some support.
• Resilience and hardship: Xiao Yi and Xiao He continue searching for a way forward despite poverty and grief.
• Duty and sacrifice: Guzhi Pass embodies the sacrifices made by soldiers and cultivators to defend humanity.
• Compassion amid danger: Lin Yi and Ye Xing offer practical help and kindness in a hostile battlefield setting.

Plot points and events

• Lin Yi and Ye Xing enter Guzhi Pass, an important Daqian Dynasty stronghold on the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield. They admire the soldiers’ strength and the busy city, where war could erupt at any moment.
• To avoid the offense of using divine sense to scout, Lin Yi asks Ye Xing to find a guide. They hire Zhang San, a sharp-eyed rogue cultivator, for one Mid-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Zhang San leads them past the city’s markets and establishments, explaining who runs them and which offer fair prices. He points out Miaochen Pavilion, which Ye Xing finds intriguing, while Lin Yi politely declines the invitation to visit.
• Zhang San takes them to Qianheng Pavilion, a Daqian Dynasty shop known for fair prices. There, they buy a complete battlefield map for 300,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones. The map includes regional details, forbidden zones, and the locations of the various races.
• Lin Yi is relieved that the purchase goes smoothly, with none of the dramatic trouble he had anticipated. They leave to find Zhang San still waiting outside.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Yi is cautious and pragmatic: he avoids provoking powerful cultivators, hires local help, and buys the map without hesitation once its value is explained. His private worry about a sudden confrontation adds a lightly comic note.
• Ye Xing is curious and more openly reactive. He marvels at the soldiers, asks what to do next, is fascinated by Miaochen Pavilion, and blurts out at the map’s steep price.
• Zhang San proves knowledgeable and professional, earning Lin Yi’s confidence through useful local guidance. He observes the shop’s boundary by waiting outside Qianheng Pavilion.
• The maid treats the visitors respectfully and clearly justifies the map’s price before completing the sale.

Significant themes

• Respect and caution in a dangerous world: Even an ordinary use of divine sense can cause offense, and war may begin without warning.
• Trust and reputation: The Daqian Dynasty’s fair pricing has earned it a good name among cultivators, while Zhang San’s expertise makes his modest fee worthwhile.
• Preparation for conflict: The map’s information—especially about forbidden zones and enemy distributions—underscores the importance of planning in the battlefield.

Plot points and events

• Lin Yi asks Zhang San for the best place to repair their damaged saint-grade flying boat. Zhang San directs him to the Mystic Forge Hall, a repair shop run by the Ten Thousand Forges Sacred Land.
• Ye Xing worries they cannot afford repairs, but Lin Yi insists he has a plan.
• At the hall, the staff summon the hall master, who examines the boat and identifies the damage as the result of a Snow Region coldstorm.
• The hall master quotes a steep price: ten million high-grade spirit stones or one hundred jin of spirit crystals. Lin Yi cannot pay in cash, so he offers five intact Imperial Dao Realm weapons from Ye Xing’s storage.
• The hall master accepts the weapons, adds five hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones, and promises the repaired boat in three days.
• Outside, Ye Xing demands some of his old weapons back. Lin Yi dodges the request and gives him the storage pouch—but has secretly removed two hundred thousand stones, leaving Ye Xing with only three hundred thousand.

Character developments

• Lin Yi stays composed despite the repair cost and finds a practical way to pay by trading valuable weapons. His resourcefulness is paired with a shameless streak: he keeps part of the money meant for Ye Xing.
• Ye Xing shifts from anxious concern about the cost to anger over Lin Yi’s handling of his possessions. He recognizes Lin Yi’s scheming nature and uses a feigned demand to secure at least some of the payment.
• The hall master comes across as imposing and highly perceptive, quickly assessing both the boat’s damage and the value of the weapons.

Character interactions

• Zhang San respectfully guides Lin Yi and Ye Xing to the forge hall.
• Ye Xing privately questions Lin Yi’s ability to pay; Lin Yi reassures him without explaining his plan.
• The hall master negotiates the repair transaction directly with Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi and Ye Xing end on a teasing but adversarial note, with Ye Xing confronting Lin Yi after discovering the missing money.

Significant themes

• Resourcefulness and improvisation: Lin Yi solves a financial problem through barter rather than cash.
• Trust and self-interest: Lin Yi’s dealings with Ye Xing mix companionship with opportunism.
• Wealth and value: The scene emphasizes the enormous cost of high-grade repairs and the worth of powerful spirit artifacts.

Lin Yi and Ye Xing stayed at the Cloudrest Lodge in Guzhi Pass while waiting for their Flying Boat to be repaired. After Lin Yi discovered that the red-clad woman’s coordinates led to a dangerous forbidden zone, Ye Xing dragged him to the Miaochen Pavilion to see a holy maiden from the Acacia Sect.

• Zhang San led Lin Yi and Ye Xing to the Cloudrest Lodge, where Lin Yi paid for their lodging and meal.
• Ye Xing devoured the lodge’s signature dishes and complained that Lin Yi still had not returned his resources.
• Lin Yi booked two rooms for three days and told Ye Xing they would leave when the Flying Boat was repaired.
• Lin Yi used a jade map token to locate the red-clad woman’s coordinates and discovered they lay inside a forbidden zone.
• Ye Xing persuaded Lin Yi to visit the Miaochen Pavilion after hearing that a holy maiden from the Acacia Sect had arrived, then dragged him there.

Lin Yi discovered that an array in Miaochen Pavilion was stirring cultivators’ desires and watched Murong Yunhai spend a million high-grade spirit stones on a hairpin for the Acacia Sect’s Holy Maiden. After Lin Yi returned to his inn to cultivate, Ye Xing stayed behind to enjoy the pavilion and was startled when he encountered Ye Chen.

• Lin Yi spotted a concealed formation that heightened the lust of cultivators below the One Dao Realm, while Ye Xing briefly joined the crowd in demanding the auction begin.
• Murong Yunhai bid one million high-grade spirit stones for a hairpin that might win him a private favor from the Acacia Sect’s Holy Maiden.
• Lin Yi left Miaochen Pavilion and returned to Cloudrest Lodge, where he cultivated using his spirit crystal and the One Dao section of the Human Emperor's Prison-Suppressing Scripture.
• Ye Xing stayed at the pavilion to enjoy the food and entertainment, then froze when Ye Chen called out to him.

Ye Chen visited Ye Xing to investigate the deaths of his parents, but found no leads and resolved to keep searching. After Ye Xing left the Miaochen Pavilion, Chu Lianxi bewitched him into revealing Lin Yi’s speculation about a mysterious woman, and Ye Chen intervened; Chu Lianxi then pressed them for more information.

• Ye Chen told Ye Xing that his parents’ Soul Lamps had gone out and that neither the Lineage nor the Miaochen Pavilion had uncovered what happened.
• Ye Xing urged Ye Chen to return to the Lineage, but Ye Chen refused and left the pavilion.
• Chu Lianxi confronted Ye Xing outside the Miaochen Pavilion and used her charm technique to question him.
• Ye Xing revealed that he and his elder brother had escorted a woman and that his brother had returned to the inn, then disclosed Lin Yi’s speculation about the woman’s identity.
• Ye Chen returned and attacked Chu Lianxi, interrupting her questioning, while Ye Xing realized he had been bewitched.
• Chu Lianxi said she was interested in the mysterious woman and asked Ye Xing to tell her more.

Ye Xing revealed to Lin Yi that he had told Chu Lianxi about the mysterious woman, and Lin Yi decided to use Chu Lianxi’s interest to help with the dangerous delivery. When Chu Lianxi met Lin Yi, he offered her a share of the reward and swore his account was true, while concealing key details.

• Ye Xing admitted that Chu Lianxi had used her Bewitching Art to learn about the mysterious woman and Lin Yi’s guess about her identity.
• Lin Yi decided Chu Lianxi could help with the dangerous journey to the coordinates, which lay in a forbidden zone.
• Ye Xing told Lin Yi that Ye Chen had left, and Lin Yi brought Ye Xing downstairs to wait for Chu Lianxi.
• Lin Yi set a Restriction and told Chu Lianxi about the mysterious woman, the coordinates, and the promised Emperor-Tier Martial Art, while hiding the Heaven's Annoyance and Emperor Scripture.
• Chu Lianxi questioned Lin Yi’s claims, and Lin Yi offered to swear upon his Great Dao that he was telling the truth.