Chapter Summaries

Bai Canghai confessed how he stole and ruined the Wind Thunder Apricot, then revealed that he had restored it and cultivated a Twin Emperor Fruit. Lin Yi offered to plead for his return to Starfall Academy in exchange for a copy of Bai Canghai’s Emperor Grade Spirit Liquid refining method, and Bai Canghai offered him the fruit to strengthen his case.

• Bai Canghai told Lin Yi that the Great Elder discovered his theft of the Wind Thunder Apricot, expelled him from Starfall Academy, and left him remorseful.
• Bai Canghai revealed that he had revived the Wind Thunder Apricot and used Emperor Grade Spirit Liquid to cultivate a Twin Emperor Fruit.
• Lin Yi asked Bai Canghai to project the spiritual root rather than enter his inner world, and Zhou Quan saw the extraordinary fruit.
• Lin Yi agreed to put in a good word for Bai Canghai with the Great Elder and the Vein Master of the Seventh Branch if Bai Canghai gave him a copy of the refining method.
• Bai Canghai offered Lin Yi the Twin Wind Thunder Apricot Emperor Fruit to increase his confidence in securing Bai Canghai’s return to the Academy.

Lin Yi told the Great Elder about Bai Canghai’s offer to help him return to Starfall Academy in exchange for support, and the Great Elder explained the obstacles and a possible path forward. The Ten Thousand Year Auction then began, and Lin Yi, the Great Elder, and Zhou Quan entered the Vast Sea Merchant Alliance.

• Lin Yi recounted his dealings with Bai Canghai and the offer of the Twin Emperor Fruit and Emperor-grade Pill Liquid formula to the Great Elder.
• The Great Elder warned that Lin Yi’s promise could threaten his position and explained that the Academy’s upper echelons would likely oppose Bai Canghai’s return.
• The Great Elder proposed that sharing Lin Yi’s secret art for modifying Emperor Artifacts could help secure Bai Canghai’s reinstatement, but Lin Yi deferred until he could protect himself.
• The Great Elder agreed to advocate for Bai Canghai while leaving the final decision to the Academy’s upper echelons.
• Lin Yi, the Great Elder, and Zhou Quan arrived at the Vast Sea Merchant Alliance for the Ten Thousand Year Auction using Lin Yi’s invitation.

Lin Yi attended the Vast Sea Merchant Alliance’s once-in-ten-thousand-years auction with the Great Elder, hoping to trade with Seventh Branch Vein Master Zong Tieshan for the Enlightenment Tea Tree. The auction began after Shen Yuan announced its rules, leaving Lin Yi waiting for the item he sought to appear.

• Shen Yuan welcomed the Great Elder and exchanged memories with him before greeting other powerful guests.
• The Great Elder explained the auction venue and introduced Lin Yi to several late Emperor Realm experts gathered in Starfall City.
• The Great Elder pointed out Zong Tieshan and Wang Ke, and explained that Zong Tieshan was strict about accepting disciples into the Seventh Branch.
• Shen Yuan announced the auction rules, including the use of Void Crystal Coins and sealed bids for finale items, then declared the auction open.

Lin Yi attended a major Emperor Realm auction where the Flame Emperor’s Sky Burning Cauldron sold for 20 million Void Crystal Coins. After several other valuable treasures were auctioned, the next item was a Purifying Spirit Pill available only through barter.

• Shen Yuan opened the auction with the Flame Emperor’s Sky Burning Cauldron, and Lin Yi learned about the Flame Emperor’s Myriad Fire Method and its rumored connection to their master.
• Dan Chen Zi outbid the other bidders and bought the Sky Burning Cauldron for 20 million Void Crystal Coins.
• Lin Yi considered the potential profits of crafting high-grade Emperor Artifacts but noted that he could not reveal artifacts planted with Innate Restrictions.
• The Everlasting Life Reversal Talisman sold for 8 million Void Crystal Coins after the Great Elder failed to win it.
• An Emperor Puppet Inheritance sold for 9 million Void Crystal Coins, and Shen Yuan introduced a Purifying Spirit Pill that could only be obtained through barter.

At the auction, Shen Yuan offered a Purifying Spirit Pill whose supposed ability to protect inner worlds from Dark Mist remained unverified, until Flame Emperor revealed he had attended in person and rebuked Shen Yuan for invoking his silence as an endorsement. The auction later presented the Enlightenment Tea Tree, drawing Lin Yi’s keen attention and renewed interest from the crowd.

• Lin Yi asked the Great Elder about the Purifying Spirit Pill and learned it was a rare Taiyi City Emperor Pill rumored to let cultivators resist Dark Mist.
• Shen Yuan claimed Flame Emperor had shown no concern after examining pill powder, prompting bidders to consider the pill.
• Flame Emperor spoke from a private room, clarified that he had learned too little to judge the pill, and said he wanted to study it himself.
• Shen Yuan offered the pill to Flame Emperor as an apology, but Flame Emperor refused, and no one else dared bid on it.
• Lin Yi watched the auction without bidding until Shen Yuan displayed the Enlightenment Tea Tree consigned by Zong Tieshan.
• Shen Yuan explained that Starfall Academy could cultivate the tree into an Innate Spiritual Root, and the crowd grew eager to obtain it.

Lin Yi traded Bai Canghai’s Emperor-grade Pill Liquid Formula to Zong Tieshan for the Enlightenment Tea Tree. The auction then presented a Supreme Body Diagram containing thirty-five Star Cores, leaving Lin Yi poised to consider another bid.

• The Great Elder advised Lin Yi to offer Bai Canghai’s Emperor-grade Pill Liquid Formula to secure the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Zong Tieshan rejected offers arranged by his two direct disciples and chose the trade involving the Emperor-grade Pill Liquid Formula.
• Zong Tieshan recognized the formula’s submitter as someone who might have become Wang Ke’s senior brother if he had not stepped in halfway.
• Lin Yi won the Enlightenment Tea Tree without spending Void Crystal Coins and suspected the Great Elder had contacted Zong Tieshan beforehand.
• Shen Yuan introduced the Splitting Sun Heavenly Ape Supreme Body Diagram, which contained thirty-five Star Cores and opened bidding at five million Void Crystal Coins.

Lin Yi won the Splitting Sun Heavenly Ape Supreme Body Diagram at auction, but the Flame Emperor bought Lin Yi’s Black Rock Gold at a low price. As the auction reached its finale, the Flame Emperor used the Star Brilliance Tower’s power to abduct Lin Yi, leaving the Great Elder furious.

• Lin Yi bid eleven million five hundred thousand Void Crystal Coins for the Splitting Sun Heavenly Ape Supreme Body Diagram and won it.
• The Great Elder advised Lin Yi to focus on either the Indestructible Body or the World Law, but Lin Yi insisted he knew what he was doing.
• Bidders drove the price of Lin Yi’s consigned Black Rock Gold to twenty-one million Void Crystal Coins before the Flame Emperor bid twenty-two million and won it.
• The Flame Emperor learned Lin Yi had consigned the Black Rock Gold and recognized him as an old friend’s disciple.
• As the auction’s sealed bidding for the Heavenly Origin Emperor Pill began, the Flame Emperor used the Star Brilliance Tower’s power to envelop Lin Yi in Seven-Colored Light and take him away.
• The Flame Emperor told the Great Elder that he was borrowing Lin Yi, and the Great Elder recognized the power behind the abduction and angrily called out his name.

Flame Emperor took Lin Yi to his Fire Domain and revealed the Profound Heaven Artifact Stele, which could examine artifacts across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds. Lin Yi recognized the Chaos Profound Bell on the stele and asked Flame Emperor to explain why he had brought him there.

• The Great Elder reassured Zhou Quan that Flame Emperor was unlikely to harm Lin Yi because of his ties to Time Master and their sect.
• Flame Emperor brought Lin Yi to his hall, questioned him about the Black Rock Gold, and tested his composure with threats and mockery.
• Flame Emperor transported Lin Yi to his Fire Domain, where tens of thousands of Emperor Fire origins were stored.
• Flame Emperor revealed the Profound Heaven Artifact Stele, which he had forged to examine artifacts from across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.
• Lin Yi spotted the Chaos Profound Bell among the artifacts inscribed on the stele, and Flame Emperor asked whether he recognized something.

The Flame Emperor revealed that he had tracked Lin Yi because the Profound Heaven Artifact Stele detected the Chaos Profound Bell, then discovered Lin Yi’s new Artifact Forging Method within it. He brought Lin Yi to a tea hall and prepared to make him an offer, leaving Lin Yi wary of the Flame Emperor’s intentions.

• The Flame Emperor explained that the Profound Heaven Artifact Stele had identified the Chaos Profound Bell and asked Lin Yi to show it to him.
• Lin Yi brought out the Chaos Profound Bell, and the Flame Emperor examined its construction and noticed its unusual restriction patterns.
• The Flame Emperor realized that Lin Yi had developed a new Artifact Forging Method using Heavenly Essence Condensate and praised his skill.
• The Flame Emperor transported Lin Yi to an extravagant tea hall and brewed Enlightenment Tea for him.
• Lin Yi warned the Flame Emperor not to expect him to hand over the Artifact Forging Inheritance, but agreed to hear his offer.

Flame Emperor offered Lin Yi the Myriad Fire Method, more than a hundred Chaos Particles, and a position as White Tiger Captain Steward in exchange for the exclusive Innate Restriction Method. Lin Yi remained undecided, and Flame Emperor pressed him to give an answer before leaving the tea hall.

• Flame Emperor promised not to pass on Lin Yi's Innate Restriction Method and offered to teach him the Myriad Fire Method in return.
• Flame Emperor invited Lin Yi to join the Star Brilliance Tower as a White Tiger Captain Steward, explaining the authority and duties of the post.
• Lin Yi declined to decide immediately because he was still registered with Starfall Academy, but Flame Emperor said he would need to pass an internal assessment and answer before leaving.
• Flame Emperor revealed that Time Master had been a Star Brilliance Envoy before Flame Emperor joined, and confirmed that several Envoys died during an internal conflict.
• Flame Emperor offered Lin Yi more than a hundred Chaos Particles, or resources such as World Minor Pills and World Origin, as an additional incentive.

Lin Yi asked the Flame Emperor for resources to strengthen his Supreme Body Extreme Intent Dao cultivation, but the Flame Emperor lacked spare Supreme Body Inheritances. The Flame Emperor revealed that he had remains from three powerful enemies, leaving Lin Yi a possible new source of inheritances.

• The Flame Emperor showed Lin Yi more than a hundred Chaos Particles, but Lin Yi declined to pursue them because they would not address his cultivation needs.
• Lin Yi asked whether the Flame Emperor had high-quality Supreme Body Inheritances, and the Flame Emperor said the Star Brilliance Tower held a forty-Star-Core inheritance that required merit to obtain.
• Lin Yi told the Flame Emperor that he cultivated the Supreme Body Extreme Intent Dao, and the Flame Emperor said he had only found fragmented passages of it during his travels.
• Lin Yi asked for the flesh and blood of past enemies who had cultivated high-quality Supreme Bodies.
• The Flame Emperor guessed that Lin Yi could derive Supreme Body Inheritances from the remains and revealed three miniature Fire Prisons within his Emperor Fire.

Lin Yi returned from the auction with the inheritances and spiritual materials he had acquired, while the Great Elder prepared to explain his new White Tiger Captain Steward position. Back in his quarters, Lin Yi reviewed his gains and began tending the Enlightenment Tea Tree before examining the three Indestructible Body remnants he had received from the Flame Emperor.

• The Great Elder waited for Lin Yi after the auction and told him Shen Yuan was holding his purchases until he settled the account.
• Shen Yuan waived the several million Void Crystal Coins Lin Yi owed after learning he had met privately with the Flame Emperor.
• The Great Elder escorted Lin Yi to the Cave Abode and said they would return to the Academy within a couple of days.
• Lin Yi set up an isolating formation and laid out his Heavenly Essence Condensate, inheritances, Emperor Grade Spirit Liquid formula, and other acquisitions.
• Lin Yi reviewed the Myriad Fire Method, stored it away, and used the Three-Turn Spirit Nourishing Method to care for the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Lin Yi took out the three late Emperor Realm Indestructible Body remnants and regretted trading more than a hundred Chaos Particles for them.

Lin Yi used the Flame Emperor’s Fire Talisman to remove an incomplete late Emperor Realm corpse from the Death Spirit Meteor Fire and fed it to the Bronze Coffin. The Transforming Corpse gave him the corpse’s Primordial Whale Devouring Beast Supreme Body Inheritance, while two more emperor corpses remained for Lin Yi to process.

• Lin Yi used the Fire Talisman to shield himself from the Death Spirit Meteor Fire and carefully removed one of the three incomplete emperor corpses.
• The corpse began regenerating and pleaded with Lin Yi, but he trapped it beneath the Chaos Profound Bell and took it into his inner world.
• The Bronze Coffin emerged and devoured the corpse, restoring its origin and recovering much of its sealed memory.
• The Transforming Corpse extracted the corpse’s Supreme Body Inheritance and passed it to Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi identified the inheritance as the thirty-nine-Star Core Primordial Whale Devouring Beast, then considered the two remaining emperor corpses.

Lin Yi prepared to return to Starfall Academy after completing his business in Starfall City, while the Flame Emperor used his newly forged Innate Spirit Treasure to seek Lin Yi’s help with artifact forging. The Flame Emperor secured a White Tiger Captain Steward Token for Lin Yi and arrived at the Great Elder’s Cave Abode to find him.

• Lin Yi decided to delay feeding the Transforming Corpse and focus on consolidating his cultivation before returning to Starfall Academy with the Great Elder.
• The Flame Emperor tested Lin Yi’s Innate Restriction Method by forging an Innate Spirit Treasure and realized it could advance his plans to create a powerful artifact.
• The Flame Emperor contacted Glazed Empress and ordered her to waive Lin Yi’s assessments and send him a White Tiger Captain Steward Token.
• The Flame Emperor took the token to the Great Elder’s Cave Abode and asked where Lin Yi was.

The Flame Emperor summoned Lin Yi to inspect a cauldron forged with Lin Yi’s Innate Restriction Method, then offered him a Starfall City post and urged him to become his disciple. He brought Lin Yi to the Profound Heaven Artifact Stele and began revealing a secret tied to a chance at reaching a higher realm.

• The Flame Emperor swept Lin Yi into the Fire Domain and asked him to inspect a cauldron he had forged.
• Lin Yi identified flaws in the compatibility between four of the cauldron’s Innate Restrictions and its Emperor Materials, impressing the Flame Emperor.
• The Flame Emperor offered to make Lin Yi his disciple and give him the Star Brilliance Tower, but Lin Yi demanded to know why he had been summoned.
• The Flame Emperor gave Lin Yi a White Tiger Steward Token, making him a White Tiger Captain Steward of Starfall City without the usual assessment.
• The Flame Emperor took Lin Yi to the Profound Heaven Artifact Stele and demanded secrecy about a matter that could shake the Source Realm, promising it could offer a path to a higher realm.

The Flame Emperor swore Lin Yi to secrecy before revealing that he sought a way to break through to the Seven Stars of the Great Dao and needed Lin Yi’s help. He tested Lin Yi in the Fire Domain, where Lin Yi revealed the Primordial Shield and impressed him with its defense against the Emperor Fire origin.

• The Flame Emperor explained that he wanted to verify his Dao and pursue the Great Dao Realm, so Lin Yi swore before the Profound Heaven Artifact Stele not to reveal what he witnessed or heard.
• The Flame Emperor warned that other peak Emperor Realm experts, including the Star Brilliance Envoys, might sabotage a rival’s breakthrough.
• The Flame Emperor led Lin Yi to the core of the Fire Domain, where ten thousand clusters of Emperor Fire origin surrounded them.
• The Emperor Fire overwhelmed the Chaos Profound Bell’s defenses, so Lin Yi replaced it with the Primordial Shield.
• The Primordial Shield withstood the Emperor Fire, and the Flame Emperor hurried to inspect its restriction patterns.

The Flame Emperor revealed that he had secretly taken an Ancient Meteorite fragment from beneath Starfall City and asked Lin Yi to help him devise a way to forge it into a Dao Artifact. He explained that the artifact would embody his lifelong cultivation of the Great Dao of Fire and serve as his chosen path to the Great Dao Realm.

• The Flame Emperor showed Lin Yi the Ancient Meteorite fragment he had secretly pried from the meteorite beneath Starfall City.
• He admitted that the Time Master had also taken fragments and said the Star Brilliance Envoys shared an unspoken understanding about the practice.
• Lin Yi approached the fragment and felt its Starfall Origin power greatly amplify his cultivation.
• The Flame Emperor declared that he wanted to forge a Dao Artifact from the fragment, defining it as a weapon embodying its creator’s lifelong Dao.
• He said forging a Dao Artifact was the path he had chosen to break through to the Great Dao Realm.

The Flame Emperor revealed his nearly complete Dao Artifact Forging Method to Lin Yi and asked him to find ways to incorporate the Innate Restriction Method. Lin Yi studied its five stages and recognized the immense risks before him, leaving the Flame Emperor’s unprecedented forging attempt still awaiting his review.

• Lin Yi admired the Flame Emperor’s plan to forge a Dao Artifact and asked whether he wanted help designing it.
• The Flame Emperor asked Lin Yi to examine the forging process and determine how Innate Restrictions could strengthen the artifact without disrupting its balance.
• The Flame Emperor projected the complete forging process, and Lin Yi studied its stages for several hours.
• Lin Yi identified five stages: selecting Great Dao Realm materials, forging the core, infusing the creator’s insights, nurturing an Artifact Spirit, and stabilizing the artifact with the creator’s life force.
• Lin Yi recognized that the method appeared rigorous but carried unprecedented risks, while the Flame Emperor hoped his expertise would expose any flaws.

Lin Yi identified risks in Flame Emperor's Dao Artifact forging plan and advised him to revise its structure and reconsider the materials. Flame Emperor eagerly agreed to Lin Yi’s suggestions and proposed sworn brotherhood, but Lin Yi postponed it until they had finalized a complete plan.

• Flame Emperor offered Lin Yi access to Star Brilliance Tower’s resources and help with his cultivation if Lin Yi could find flaws in the Dao Artifact plan.
• Lin Yi warned that Flame Emperor’s anxiety could taint the Dao Artifact and that his tightly linked five-step method might need structural changes.
• Lin Yi pointed out that the Ancient Meteorite Fragment might conflict with Flame Emperor’s Fire Dao and that relying on a single material could leave the artifact with defects.
• Flame Emperor praised Lin Yi’s insights and insisted they become sworn brothers before the Profound Heaven Artifact Stele.
• Lin Yi accepted Flame Emperor as an elder brother in address but delayed the sworn brotherhood until they had a complete forging plan.

Lin Yi stayed in the Fire Domain to help the Flame Emperor perfect a Dao artifact forging method, while the Great Elder returned to Starfall Academy and investigated the coming Heavenly Palace Secret Realm. After more than half a year of work, Lin Yi and the Flame Emperor completed a Seven-Step Casting Method, leaving their collaboration at a major breakthrough.

• Lin Yi chose to remain with the Flame Emperor to study artifact refinement, and the Great Elder accepted his message and departed for Starfall Academy.
• The Great Elder instructed Zhou Quan to investigate the movements surrounding the approaching Heavenly Palace Secret Realm.
• The Flame Emperor supplied Lin Yi with Enlightenment Tea and the Ziwei Taiheng Body inheritance to aid his work.
• Lin Yi and the Flame Emperor spent more than half a year testing Ancient Meteorite Fragment material and refining the Dao artifact forging process.
• Lin Yi and the Flame Emperor completed the Seven-Step Casting Method, adding Innate Restriction Casting Material and Extreme Dao Quenching.