Chapter Summaries

Lei Kun pursued Xiu Wudao while Lin Yi treated Sang Tai and left to search for other enemies. When Lei Kun and two Hai Team cultivators cornered Xiu Wudao, he unleashed a swarm of Spirit Devouring Mosquito Evil to cover his escape.

• Lin Yi gave Sang Tai an Emperor Pill and told him to search for the other two Emperor Realm evil cultivators after recovering.
• Lei Kun chased Xiu Wudao and attacked him with his Purple Lightning Bowl, destroying many of the wraiths summoned from Xiu Wudao's Skull Banner.
• Two Hai Team deacons arrived and joined Lei Kun in cornering Xiu Wudao.
• Xiu Wudao released Spirit Devouring Mosquito Evil from a Living Creature Bag, forcing Lei Kun and the Hai Team cultivators to defend themselves.
• Xiu Wudao escaped toward the northwest while the others held back the mosquito swarm.

Lin Yi used the Myriad Fire Thousand Refinements Divine Hammer to destroy the Spirit Devouring Mosquito Evil swarm and stop Xiu Wudao from escaping. Xiu Wudao survived the hammer’s final blow, leaving Lin Yi with a captive to interrogate and valuable artifact materials salvaged by the hammer spirit.

• As Xiu Wudao fled, Lin Yi summoned the Myriad Fire Thousand Refinements Divine Hammer and burned the Spirit Devouring Mosquito Evil swarm to ash with Seven-Colored Emperor Fire.
• Lin Yi sent the hammer after Xiu Wudao, who threw Emperor Talismans and three defensive Imperial Evil Artifacts at it in a desperate attempt to escape.
• The hammer destroyed Xiu Wudao’s defenses and scorched his Skull Banner before withdrawing its fire and smashing him into a deep pit, leaving him barely alive.
• Lin Yi arrived at the pit and learned from the hammer spirit that it had deliberately spared Xiu Wudao so he could be interrogated.
• The hammer spirit told Lin Yi it had preserved the core essence of Xiu Wudao’s three destroyed artifacts for use as Emperor Artifact material.

Lin Yi captured Xiu Wudao, then moved to District Thirteen to organize a search for two escaped evil cultivators. Meanwhile, the Five-Route Suppression Plan began across Starfall Inner City, where White Tiger Captains and Azure Dragon Lord attacked the forces left behind by Cangxue Mang Mountain.

• Lin Yi ordered Xiu Wudao sealed with a Forbidden Source Emperor Talisman and sent to the White Tiger Realm for imprisonment.
• Lin Yi offered Lei Kun a chance to commission a better Emperor Artifact from him at cost, then hurried with Lei Kun to District Thirteen to pursue two escaped evil cultivators.
• Lin Yi silenced a confrontation between Sang Tai and Lei Kun, then displayed a map of District Thirteen and began arranging a search plan.
• The Venus Tower Master activated the Five-Route Suppression Plan, sending Li Xuanba, Gu Hanshuang, and Azure Dragon Lord's forces to attack evil forces throughout the Inner City.
• Inner City Emperor Realm cultivators noticed the fighting, but many treated the purge as a familiar occurrence and did not intervene.

Zun Sheng, hiding among the Cangnan Merchant Alliance’s servants during the battle, overheard stewards discuss Cangxue Mang Mountain and Starfall City’s secrets. When they mentioned Lin Yi’s new position as a White Tiger Captain steward, Zun Sheng wondered if he had found the Lin Yi he knew.

• Zun Sheng hid among the servants beneath the Merchant Alliance’s defensive formation while an Emperor Evil battle raged nearby.
• The Cangnan Merchant Alliance stewards discussed rumors that a former Star Brilliance Envoy had fled to Cangxue Mang Mountain and become an Evil Creature.
• The Chief Steward said Azure Dragon Lord was recruiting Emperor Realm cultivators, though the stewards doubted they would qualify and feared the role meant fighting on the dangerous front lines.
• The stewards learned that Lin Yi had become a White Tiger Captain steward through his connections with the Flame Emperor and the Venus Tower Master.
• Zun Sheng recognized Lin Yi’s name and wondered whether the new steward was the Lin Yi he knew.

Lin Yi used Yanwu to track down and capture the two Emperor Realm evil cultivators who had escaped from the underground Auction, then secured the Outer City while the Inner City’s fighting ended. He arrived at Venus Hall and met Gu Hanshuang, whose bloodstained robe made him ask whether Gu was injured.

• Lin Yi ordered Yanwu to search District Thirteen for the two fugitives’ battle auras.
• Lin Yi led Lei Kun, Sang Tai, Wang Hai, and dozens of White Tiger Captains to surround the two Emperor Realm evil cultivators in an abandoned battlefield, where they surrendered without resisting.
• Sang Tai counted the White Tiger Captains and confirmed that no one had been hurt or killed, while Lin Yi confined the captured evil beings and creatures in the Tiger Prison Cage.
• Lin Yi ordered Sang Tai and the others to keep guarding the Outer City and its Spirit Gathering Disk, then headed for the Inner City.
• Lin Yi received word that the Inner City’s evil beings had been nearly cleared and that the Tower Master would meet the teams at Venus Hall to discuss rewards and compensation.
• Lin Yi arrived at Venus Hall, where Gu Hanshuang greeted him in a bloodstained Emperor robe, prompting Lin Yi to ask if he was injured.

Lin Yi joined Gu Hanshuang and Li Xuanba at Venus Hall after their missions, where the Venus Tower Master briefed the assembled leaders on the operation against Cangxue Mang Mountain's hidden agents. The Glazed Empress presided over the deliberations, and the Venus Tower Master left Lin Yi's major Outer City contribution unmentioned, apparently to protect him from drawing unwanted attention.

• Lin Yi told Gu Hanshuang and Li Xuanba that he and Lei Kun had uncovered and destroyed Cangxue Mang Mountain's Blood Sacrifice Great Formation in the Outer City.
• Lin Yi, Gu Hanshuang, and Li Xuanba entered Venus Hall after the Venus Tower Master summoned them.
• The Glazed Empress arrived in imperial dress and ordered the Venus Tower Master to begin the deliberations.
• The Venus Tower Master reviewed the six teams' missions against the hidden Emperor Evil agents and confirmed that two of Azure Dragon Lord's cultivators had died under Steward Cang's team.
• A White Tiger Captain official granted compensation to the fallen cultivators' families and exemption from the Star Brilliance Guard entrance examination for their descendants.
• Gu Hanshuang and Li Xuanba noticed that the Venus Tower Master had omitted Lin Yi's achievements and realized he was shielding Lin Yi from further attention.

The Venus Tower Master and the Glazed Empress reviewed the operation’s rewards and punishments, while the Venus Tower Master kept Lin Yi’s greatest contributions confidential to protect him. After the meeting, he privately promised Lin Yi a separate reward and assigned him and the other stewards to repair Starfall City’s defenses and assess the damage.

• The Glazed Empress and the Venus Tower Master reviewed the merits and faults from the operation, and the Glazed Empress awarded the two fallen Azure Dragon Lord subordinates posthumous honors and generous compensation for their families.
• Lei Kun had his position restored and received a major merit after Lin Yi recommended him for his actions during the purge and capture of the Emperor Evil.
• Lin Yi declined his ordinary rewards and chose to save his merits for later redemption.
• After the public meeting ended, the Venus Tower Master privately explained that he had concealed Lin Yi’s foremost merit to protect him from hostile attention and promised a separate, private reward for Lin Yi and his capable subordinates.
• The Venus Tower Master ordered Lin Yi, Gu Hanshuang, and Li Xuanba to reinforce the Inner and Outer City defenses, repair areas damaged by the Blood Sacrifice Great Formation, and assess casualties and material losses.

The Venus Tower Master warned Lin Yi, Gu Hanshuang, and Li Xuanba to prevent further trouble in Starfall City and prepare for the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm. After learning that the White Tiger Captain’s ten entry quotas could be sold, Lin Yi took four and traveled to the Death Prison to deliver the Emperor Evil and harvest Auspiciousness Force from condemned evil cultivators.

• The Venus Tower Master warned the three stewards that Cangxue Mang Mountain might retaliate and ordered them to protect Starfall City before the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm opened.
• The Venus Tower Master assigned the White Tiger Captain ten secret realm quotas and left Lin Yi, Gu Hanshuang, and Li Xuanba to decide how to use them.
• Gu Hanshuang explained that quotas were commonly sold for Void Crystal Coins, then proposed that Lin Yi take four while he and Li Xuanba took three each.
• Gu Hanshuang suggested Lin Yi could sell his quotas to Starfall Academy, and Lin Yi considered offering them to the Great Elder.
• Lin Yi left Venus Hall and traveled to the Death Prison in the White Tiger Realm to hand over the Emperor Evil and harvest Auspiciousness Force from condemned evil cultivators.

Lin Yi delivered six Emperor Realm Evil Creatures from Cangxue Mang Mountain to the Death Prison and asked Zhou Yue to let him kill dying Emperor Realm evil cultivators. Zhou Yue scrutinized Lin Yi’s request, leaving his answer unresolved.

• Lin Yi entered the Death Prison and met Zhou Yue, captain of the Heavenly Branch Ding Squad.
• Lin Yi handed over the six captured Emperor Evils, and Zhou Yue verified the records and accepted them.
• Zhou Yue ordered his guards to imprison the six Evil Creatures in the Earth character cells under the Triple Evil Locking Formation.
• After the guards returned the empty Tiger Prison Cage, Lin Yi explained that he wanted to kill dying Emperor Realm evil cultivators to temper his cultivation.
• Zhou Yue paused with his teacup and silently assessed whether Lin Yi was telling the truth.

Lin Yi negotiated with Zhou Yue for permission to enter the Death Prison and kill designated Emperor Realm evil cultivators, but Zhou Yue demanded help getting his timid grandson into the White Tiger Captain in return. Lin Yi promised to do his best, and Zhou Yue led him deeper into the prison to begin.

• Lin Yi asked Zhou Yue for permission to kill Emperor Realm evil cultivators in the Death Prison, and Zhou Yue agreed under strict conditions of secrecy and restraint.
• Zhou Yue asked Lin Yi to arrange for his grandson to join the White Tiger Captain, explaining that the young Emperor Realm cultivator had repeatedly failed assessments because he feared danger.
• Zhou Yue also requested a safe, leisurely assignment for his grandson, but Lin Yi knew he could not guarantee either request.
• Lin Yi promised to do everything within his power to arrange the grandson's entry, while making clear he could not guarantee success.
• Zhou Yue accepted Lin Yi's promise and led him through the inner passage of the stone fortress into the Death Prison.

After finishing the aftermath of the battle in Starfall Outer City, Lin Yi received Zhou Duoyu, Zhou Yue’s grandson, who hoped to join the White Tiger Captain. Zhou Duoyu presented Lin Yi with valuable gifts, including Void Essence Iron, and Lin Yi refused to accept the precious material without merit.

• Lin Yi spent three days handling the battle’s aftermath and restoring order in Starfall Outer City.
• Zhao Honglie brought Zhou Duoyu to meet Lin Yi at the Steward’s Residence.
• Zhou Duoyu addressed Lin Yi as Uncle Lin and explained that he had come to thank him, though joining the White Tiger Captain was not his only purpose.
• Zhou Duoyu presented Emperor pills, Emperor Realm defensive talismans, and a crystal that Lin Yi identified as Void Essence Iron.
• Lin Yi recognized the Void Essence Iron’s value and told Zhou Duoyu he could not accept it without merit.

Lin Yi agreed to help Zhou Duoyuan’s Tai Xu Alliance member, whose sentence for selling a damaged Imperial Evil Technique was reduced to two more months. He then commissioned the alliance to discreetly locate Zun Sheng and Gan Wuliang, and Zhou Duoyuan promised to investigate across the Source Realm.

• Zhou Duoyuan asked Lin Yi to help release a Tai Xu Alliance member imprisoned for selling a low-grade Imperial Evil Technique.
• Lin Yi checked the prison records and asked Gu Hanshuang to review the case, reducing the member’s hundred-year detention to two more months.
• Zhou Duoyuan explained that the Tai Xu Alliance had twelve Emperor Realm cultivators and connections in eight of the Source Realm’s main cities.
• Lin Yi gave Zhou Duoyuan portraits of Zun Sheng and Gan Wuliang and asked the alliance to find them discreetly and report any clues.
• Zhou Duoyuan pledged to have the alliance search throughout the Source Realm and ensure Lin Yi learned of any leads.

Lin Yi returned to the Spirit Vine World and learned that Ronglong and Jianmu had spent days holding off a Black-striped, Two-Eyed Centipede trying to devour the world. After helping them recover and confronting the Great Shamans, he learned that the Nirvana Demonic Dragon Egg had hatched and might help defeat the Void Beast.

• Lin Yi entered the Spirit Vine World and found that Ronglong and Jianmu were missing, then discovered they had gone outside its barrier to fight a Void Beast.
• Ronglong explained that the Black-striped, Two-Eyed Centipede had attacked for days, leaving both trees badly injured as they defended the world.
• Lin Yi concluded that he needed to suppress the centipede and eventually move the Spirit Vine World’s inhabitants into an internal world.
• Lin Yi gave Ronglong and Jianmu Emperor Pills and told them to conceal their recovery so the centipede would return.
• Lin Yi summoned Bruce, Garier, and the other Great Shamans, who explained that the Wizard Tower had been damaged by the battle’s aftermath.
• Bruce told Lin Yi that the Nirvana Demonic Dragon Egg had hatched and had promised it could help resolve the threat to the Spirit Vine World.

After learning that the Nirvana Demonic Dragon had hatched and fled, Lin Yi found it secretly hunting dragons in the Vast Mountain Range. The dragon attacked him and tried to escape, but Lin Yi struck it down with the Myriad Fire Thousand Refinements Divine Hammer, leaving its fate unclear.

• Bruce and Garier told Lin Yi that they had used their Five-Star Giant Dragon Origin to hatch the Nirvana Demonic Dragon, which then flew away after breaking their agreement.
• The Nirvana Demonic Dragon devoured an adult Flame Giant Dragon and planned to hunt more dragons to restore its strength while avoiding Ronglong.
• Lin Yi appeared above the Vast Mountain Range as the Nirvana Demonic Dragon prepared to attack more dragons.
• The Nirvana Demonic Dragon unleashed its Nirvana Dragon Flame, but Lin Yi's Divine Hammer swallowed the fire.
• The Nirvana Demonic Dragon fled, and Lin Yi enlarged the Myriad Fire Thousand Refinements Divine Hammer and smashed it into the depths beneath the mountain range.

Lin Yi killed the treacherous Nirvana Demonic Dragon despite suffering mild backlash from their life-and-death bond, then learned an Emperor Puppet Inheritance that could turn its corpse into a powerful battle puppet. He returned to the World Fetal Membrane and prepared to refine the dragon corpse while Ronglong and Senior Jianmu continued guarding the barrier.

• Lin Yi struck down the Nirvana Demonic Dragon, burned away its consciousness to prevent its reincarnation, and swallowed a Soul-Nourishing Emperor Pill to ease the bond's backlash.
• The hammer spirit offered Lin Yi the Flame Emperor's corpse-refining inheritance and asked him to preserve the Nirvana Dragon Flame for it.
• Lin Yi comprehended the Emperor Puppet Inheritance and learned that a refined Emperor Fire Dragon Corpse could retain its strength and continue to cultivate.
• Lin Yi returned to the World Fetal Membrane with the Nirvana Demonic Dragon's corpse, shocking Ronglong with the dragon's death.
• Lin Yi ordered Ronglong and Senior Jianmu to keep guarding the barrier while he prepared to refine the corpse into a puppet.

Lin Yi began nourishing the spirit inside the Nirvana Demonic Dragon’s corpse to create an Emperor Realm battle puppet, but an Ancient Giant Ship appeared in the Tidal Spirit Sea and changed course toward the Spirit Vine World. As Lin Yi prepared the world’s defenses, a streak of light shot from the ship directly toward him.

• Lin Yi used Profound Yellow Qi and heavenly treasures to nourish the Nirvana Demonic Dragon’s corpse, and gained the golden talent [Corpse Raising Prodigy].
• Ronglong warned Lin Yi that an enormous ship had appeared beyond the World Fetal Membrane, so Lin Yi went to inspect it.
• Lin Yi saw an Ancient Giant Ship as large as a Great World drifting through the Tidal Spirit Sea.
• The ship’s dark-gold hands crushed the Black-striped Two-Eyed Centipede Void Beast, then the ship turned toward the Spirit Vine World.
• Lin Yi raised his Emperor’s might and deployed the Myriad Fire Thousand Refinements Divine Hammer and Chaos Profound Bell to protect the world.
• The hammer spirit said the ship was likely an ancient supreme treasure, and a streak of light shot from the ship toward Lin Yi.

Lin Yi met the mysterious Palace Master of the Heavenly Spirit Palace, who came from the unexplored Tidal Spirit Sea seeking rare resources. Lin Yi traded his Heart Source Grass for Spirit Source Stones, discovering that the crystals could strengthen Emperor Realm cultivators.

• A veiled stranger stopped outside the Spirit Vine World, asked Lin Yi for a Sea Chart, and identified himself as the Palace Master of the Heavenly Spirit Palace in the Dunhuang Domain.
• The Palace Master gave Lin Yi a Spirit Scroll listing tens of thousands of resources and asked whether his realm had any of them.
• Lin Yi offered his stock of fourth-grade Heart Source Grass, and the Palace Master agreed to buy all forty-seven thousand portions for his Heavenly Spirit Palace.
• Lin Yi handed over the Heart Source Grass, but the Palace Master insisted on compensating him and gave him two Spirit Source Stones.
• Lin Yi sensed the stones' vast energy and realized they could temper Source Qi and nourish his Indestructible Body.

Lin Yi bargained with Nai Tianqu for protection and an Emperor Realm inheritance, then joined the Heavenly Spirit Palace as an elder. He learned that the palace had been destroyed and branded a heretical sect, leaving him to keep his identity secret as its homeless members drifted through the Tidal Spirit Sea.

• Nai Tianqu offered two Spirit Source Stones for Lin Yi’s Heart Source Grass and asked him to cultivate more for the Heavenly Spirit Palace.
• Lin Yi returned the stones and asked to join the Heavenly Spirit Palace in exchange for protection and a high-level inheritance.
• Nai Tianqu accepted Lin Yi as an exception, appointed him an elder, and gave him a token and a World Containment Method inheritance.
• Nai Tianqu revealed his name and told Lin Yi that the palace’s residence had been destroyed thirty thousand years earlier.
• Nai Tianqu warned Lin Yi that enemies had branded the Heavenly Spirit Palace heretical and that revealing his identity in the Dunhuang Domain would put him in danger.

Lin Yi joined Heavenly Spirit Palace and boarded its ancient sect-defending ship, Lingxiao Ferry, with Palace Master Nai Tianqu. After the ship’s artifact spirit, Leng Qingning, reacted warmly to Lin Yi, he entered the vessel and discovered it contained a sealed world grotto-heaven.

• Nai Tianqu told Lin Yi that Heavenly Spirit Palace hoped to return to Dunhuang Domain and invited him aboard its ancient giant ship.
• Lin Yi concealed his treasures and accepted Nai Tianqu’s invitation, preparing for possible danger.
• Nai Tianqu explained that the ship was Heavenly Spirit Palace’s sect-defending treasure and led Lin Yi to its hull.
• Lin Yi touched the ship, and his Artifact Master talent earned the trust of its spirit, revealing that the vessel was called Lingxiao Ferry and that Leng Qingning controlled it.
• Leng Qingning sensed the ship spirit’s unusual reaction and watched Lin Yi and Nai Tianqu from Spirit Pivot Hall.
• Nai Tianqu opened a gate in the hull, and Lin Yi entered Lingxiao Ferry, discovering a sealed world grotto-heaven within.

Nai Tianqu showed Lin Yi the Lingxiao Ferry and explained how it preserved Heavenly Spirit Palace after the sect’s calamity. He introduced Lin Yi to Leng Qingning, who warned him to obey palace rules and remain loyal, while Nai Tianqu revealed he hoped Lin Yi would accompany her on a dangerous supply mission.

• Nai Tianqu explained that the Lingxiao Ferry held a vast world and had preserved Heavenly Spirit Palace’s surviving lineage after its stronghold was destroyed.
• Nai Tianqu introduced Lin Yi to Law Enforcement Elder Leng Qingning and praised Lin Yi’s talent and cultivation.
• Leng Qingning privately questioned Nai Tianqu’s decision to recruit an unknown Emperor Realm cultivator, but Nai Tianqu said Lin Yi could help protect her on a dangerous journey to the Kunlong Domain.
• Leng Qingning warned Lin Yi not to reveal the palace’s secrets, cooperate with Dunhuang Domain’s enemies, or break sect rules.
• Lin Yi agreed to follow the rules, and Leng Qingning corrected him when he addressed her by the wrong name.