Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi bought up Spirit Ascension Flowers and refined a batch of unusually potent Seven-Pattern World Minor Pills to earn the Void Crystal Coins he needed. He sought Zhou Huan’s help selling them, while Starfall Academy faced growing concern over disciples disappearing in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm.

• Lin Yi purchased every available Spirit Ascension Flower in Starfall City, mortgaging Emperor-grade treasures to cover the cost.
• Lin Yi used Starfall Academy’s Fire Room to refine four Seven-Pattern World Minor Pills, then calculated that repeated batches could earn him the coins he needed.
• Lin Yi saw that two more Academy disciples had lost contact in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, while familiar names including Ling Yunxiao and Fu Dao remained active.
• Lin Yi visited Zhou Huan because the Pill Alliance’s rules made it difficult to sell World Minor Pills without an authorized intermediary.
• Lin Yi told Zhou Huan about the attacks on the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm and Starfall City, then asked him to sell the pills on his behalf.

Lin Yi arranged for Zhou Huan to sell his four exceptionally potent World Minor Pills, then returned to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm and examined the treasures his Fuzhu Incarnation had taken from Wind Thunder Floating Island. He recognized the Four Directions Cauldron’s vast stock of Profound Yellow Qi as a potential source of immense wealth and began planning how to mint it into Void Crystal Coins.

• Lin Yi showed Zhou Huan four seven-mark World Minor Pills, and Zhou Huan agreed to sell them for him at a starting bid of 1.3 million Void Crystal Coins each.
• Zhou Huan paid Lin Yi 4.8 million Void Crystal Coins for the pills, then secretly sent offers to prospective buyers while worrying about the risks to his Pill Alliance license and Academy position.
• Lin Yi returned to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm entrance and learned from Lei Kun and Chong Changming that the Myriad Emperor Alliance had failed to send anyone into the stabilized secret realm.
• Lin Yi sealed himself in his tent and took control of his Fuzhu Incarnation, which remained hidden from the rampaging Thunder Roar Beast inside the Seven Luminaries Star Great Formation.
• Lin Yi examined his captured treasures and realized the Four Directions Cauldron held enormous reserves of Profound Yellow Qi and other rare essence qi.
• Lin Yi planned to use the Spider-men from his Spirit Vine World to mint Void Crystal Coins, but recognized that he would need permission from Star Brilliance Tower.

Lin Yi entered seclusion to strengthen his Divine Demon Body by condensing Star Cores with Chaos Particles, discovering that his body could absorb them at a remarkable rate but could safely refine only three at once. After a week, he had condensed five Star Cores and gained five innate divine abilities.

• Lin Yi manifested his Divine Demon true body and found that condensing the first Star Core through his own power was painfully slow.
• Lin Yi swallowed one Chaos Particle and used its energy to rapidly advance the Wood Indestructible Star Core.
• Lin Yi increased the number of Chaos Particles he refined to three, enduring severe damage as the energies accelerated his cultivation.
• Lin Yi swallowed a fourth particle, found that it exceeded his current limit, and spat it out before it could damage his foundation.
• After a week of seclusion, Lin Yi had condensed five Star Cores and mastered Wood Indestructible, Metal Slaughter, Black Tortoise Bone Armor, Sky Burning Flame Fire, and Creation Power.

Lin Yi condensed five Star Cores in a week, gaining five divine abilities and discovering that four of them could work together to temper his Divine Demon Body. Just as he prepared to condense a sixth Star Core, a rule-punishment storm erupted at the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm after the Myriad Emperor Alliance conducted an experiment at its entrance.

• Lin Yi used Sky Burning Flame Fire with his Wood Indestructible, Metal Slaughter, and Black Tortoise Bone Armor abilities to temper his Divine Demon Body and repair the damage it caused.
• Lin Yi condensed his fifth Star Core using the Creation Demonic Dragon inheritance and gained Creation Power, which could nurture life and vitality but which he chose to conceal.
• Over the course of a week, Lin Yi condensed five Star Cores and realized that later Star Cores would require increasingly more pathways and Chaos Particles.
• Lin Yi prepared seven Chaos Particles to attempt to condense his sixth Star Core, but a violent explosion disrupted his cultivation and shattered the tent’s formation restrictions.
• Lin Yi emerged from his tent and recognized the rule-punishment thunderclouds around the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm; Lei Kun told him that the Myriad Emperor Alliance had triggered them while conducting an experiment at the entrance.

Lin Yi learned that the Myriad Emperor Alliance had sent Emperor Realm Death Warriors into the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, triggering a thunderstorm that Di Xian’s formation eventually suppressed. Zhou Huan then told Lin Yi about a major auction on the Spirit Boat Fleet, where rare Emperor Pills that could help Lin Yi cultivate the Indestructible Body might be sold.

• The Venus Tower Master told Lin Yi that the Myriad Emperor Alliance had used a secret medicine to disguise Emperor Realm cultivators and send them into the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, triggering its rule-based punishment.
• Di Xian and two formation masters set up a formation that contained and dispelled the thunderstorm, while Lin Yi suspected the Alliance had successfully sent its Death Warriors inside.
• The Great Elder asked Lin Yi about the thunderstorm, and Lin Yi told him the Myriad Emperor Alliance had sent Emperor Realm cultivators into the secret realm.
• Zhou Huan told Lin Yi that demand for his World Minor Pills had surged and proposed auctioning them at the Spirit Boat Fleet’s once-in-a-hundred-thousand-years event.
• Zhou Huan revealed that an elder from Taiyi Academy’s Ziwei Emperor lineage would auction Emperor Pills, which could nourish Lin Yi’s Star Cores and aid his Indestructible Body cultivation.

Lin Yi agreed to auction twenty World Minor Pills so he could raise funds for an Emperor Pill, then asked the Glazed Empress for help. She offered to bid for the pill in exchange for his assistance with her upcoming cultivation trial, and gave him a Joy Palace secret technique to study.

• Lin Yi agreed to let Zhou Huan auction twenty World Minor Pills after his Star Core cultivation stalled and he needed funds for an Emperor Pill.
• Zhou Huan refused to lend Lin Yi money, so Lin Yi went to Starfall City and asked the Glazed Empress for a loan.
• The Glazed Empress offered to buy the Emperor Pill for Lin Yi if he assisted her during a future breakthrough trial, and Lin Yi accepted on the condition that he would face no mortal danger or violate his principles.
• The Glazed Empress gave Lin Yi a Joy Palace Spirit Scroll, and he mistakenly thought its title meant she wanted him to dual cultivate with her.
• The Glazed Empress angrily explained that the secret technique refined an Indestructible Body cultivator's yang energy, then ordered Lin Yi to study it for her upcoming trial.

Lin Yi learned that the revived Mecha Persons had escaped with powerful components, while he continued cultivating his Divine Demon Body and discovered that his Battle Power ability doubled its strength. The One-armed Mecha Person entered Lin Yi’s residence and sensed his aura as Lin Yi remained unaware and continued training at the secret realm entrance.

• Lin Yi visited Gu Hanshuang and Li Xuanba in the White Tiger Realm, gave Li Xuanba a healing Emperor Pill, and then left for the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm entrance.
• A fragment of a Mecha World Fragment reassembled Mecha-Armor components in a White Tiger Realm treasury, broke through its defenses, and escaped as a One-armed Mecha Person.
• Gu Hanshuang discovered the theft, alerted the other Star Brilliance Tower stewards, and led a search for the revived Mecha Persons, including another one with Emperor Realm battle power hiding outside Starfall City.
• The One-armed Mecha Person entered Lin Yi’s Steward’s Residence and sensed his aura near his meditation cushion, while Lin Yi cultivated elsewhere, unaware of its presence.
• Lin Yi activated Battle Power and found that it doubled the number of Chaos Particles his Divine Demon Body could refine at once, allowing him to consume fourteen as he worked on his seventh Star Core.
• Lin Yi failed to combine Star Core cultivation with the simultaneous tempering effects of all four Sacred Beasts’ divine abilities and continued testing whether some of them could raise his Chaos Particle limit.

Lin Yi attended Taiyi Academy’s Spirit Boat Auction, where the wanted Jupiter Tower Master approached him under his real name, Lin Zhongmo. Lin Zhongmo left him a Star Brilliance Box and asked him to deliver it to Time Master, warning that a powerful lord expected Time Master to make a choice.

• Lin Yi joined Starfall Academy’s elders at the auction after learning that Zhou Huan had consigned his World Minor Pills for two million Void Crystal Coins each.
• Lin Yi took a prime seat at the auction and recognized the disguised Jupiter Tower Master sitting nearby.
• Lin Zhongmo told Lin Yi that he had defected from the Star Brilliance Tower and asked him to tell the Glazed Empress not to implicate the whole Azure Dragon Lord faction.
• Lin Zhongmo revealed that he had come on behalf of a powerful lord to deliver a Star Brilliance Box to Time Master and demand that he choose a side.
• Lin Yi challenged the lord’s threat, and Lin Zhongmo left the box behind before vanishing.

Lin Yi attended the Spirit Boat Auction, where he assessed the auction items and drew Emperor Shouxin’s attention with his apparent disdain for the man’s artifact. Meanwhile, his Fuzhu Incarnation discovered two powerful Emperor Realm cultivators near the hidden Wind Thunder Floating Island and stayed concealed as Lin Yi tried to determine their purpose.

• Lin Yi stored the Star Brilliance Box and attended the Spirit Boat Auction, where Xu Hengdi introduced the first item, Emperor Shouxin’s Double Dragon Flood Dragon Scissors.
• Lin Yi judged the scissors’ forging as imperfect, prompting Emperor Shouxin to learn who he was and resolve to compete with him.
• A talisman inheritance came up for auction, but Lin Yi gave up bidding because its starting price exceeded his budget; the Chaos Particles, Emperor Pill, and Seven-Pattern World Minor Pill had not yet appeared.
• Lin Yi sensed that the Thunder Roar Beast had hidden itself on the Wind Thunder Floating Island and stopped his Fuzhu Incarnation from fleeing its hiding place.
• Two powerful black-clad Emperor Realm cultivators arrived near the island, and Lin Yi kept the Fuzhu Incarnation concealed beneath the Seven Luminaries Star Formation while watching them.

Lin Yi escaped the Thunder Roar Beast’s territory while two Myriad Emperor Alliance cultivators failed to obtain what they wanted from Wind Thunder Floating Island. At the Spirit Boat Auction, Lin Yi bought Chaos Particles, and the Glazed Empress secured the Purple Star Emperor Pill for him.

• The two Myriad Emperor Alliance cultivators attacked the Thunder Roar Beast, used strange objects to evade the secret realm’s Thunder Punishment, and drove it from Wind Thunder Floating Island.
• Lin Yi withdrew his formation and fled the area; the two cultivators later detected traces of his Emperor Formation but chose to prioritize their mission over pursuing him.
• At the auction, Lin Yi learned that his World Minor Pills had sold for 2.3 million Void Crystal Coins per set and bought two sets of Chaos Particles.
• The Purple Star Emperor Pill’s price climbed to 34 million Void Crystal Coins before the Glazed Empress bid 40 million and secured it for Lin Yi.

At the Spirit Boat Auction, the damaged Fallen Heaven Lord Armor went unsold, while Lin Yi collected the Emperor Pill the Glazed Empress had bought for him. The Glazed Empress pressed Lin Yi about his progress on the Joy Palace Great Law and said she might soon need him as she prepared to strengthen herself amid the growing danger around Starfall City.

• Xu Hengdi revealed that the damaged, hard-to-control Fallen Heaven Lord Armor was one of the three Five Materials armors, but no one bid on it and the auction ended with it unsold.
• Lin Yi settled his accounts with Zhou Huan, paid for the Chaos Particles, and returned to the White Tiger Captain Camp.
• The Glazed Empress gave Lin Yi the Emperor Pill she had purchased for forty million Void Crystal Coins and asked how his research on the incomplete Joy Palace Great Law was progressing.
• Lin Yi claimed he had made great progress and could act whenever needed, though he had not seriously studied the technique.
• The Glazed Empress said she would adjust her condition and might soon need Lin Yi, explaining that Starfall City faced growing instability and she needed greater strength to protect it.
• Lin Yi warned the Glazed Empress not to force a breakthrough, and she assured him that she would not act recklessly.

Lin Yi condensed his seventh Star Core and awakened the incomplete Ziwei Taiheng Body, then learned that the Fallen Heaven Lord Armor had been stolen. Seeking more Ziwei Emperor Pills, he met with Sang Xun and several artifact-refining masters, where he confronted Ximen Pan over his past crimes.

• Lin Yi refined the Ziwei Emperor Pill and Chaos Particles for several days, condensing his seventh Star Core and awakening the Ziwei Taiheng Body.
• Lin Yi tested his strength and found that his body could refine nine and a half Chaos Particles, while the Emperor Pill had already lost twenty percent of its medicinal power.
• Zhou Huan told Lin Yi that an unknown expert had stolen the Fallen Heaven Lord Armor from Taiyi Academy's Spirit Boat, but Lin Yi continued his patrol with Chong Changming.
• Sang Xun invited Lin Yi to Taiyi Academy's Spirit Boat to discuss selling him Ziwei Emperor Pills, and Lin Yi brought him Enlightenment Tea as a gift.
• Lin Yi entered a meeting with Sang Xun and several renowned artifact-refining masters, including the hostile Ximen Pan.
• Lin Yi exposed Ximen Pan's past imprisonment for forging Imperial Evil Artifacts and threatened to have his residence investigated again.

Lin Yi exposed Ximen Pan’s secret study of forbidden Imperial Evil Secret Arts and arranged for the White Tiger Captain to arrest him after he fled. With Ximen Pan captured, Sang Xun returned to the search for a master who could solve his artifact-refining problem.

• Emperor Shouxin challenged Sang Xun’s gathering, and Sang Xun explained that he would test the invited artifact refiners in his inner world.
• After another refiner failed the test, Ximen Pan entered and claimed he could repair Sang Xun’s treasure using the Imperial Evil Secret Arts.
• Lin Yi used his Steward Token to order an investigation of Ximen Pan, and Gu Hanshuang confirmed that forbidden scrolls and an Imperial Evil Artifact embryo had been found in his residence.
• Lin Yi rejected Sang Xun’s request to intervene, and Ximen Pan fled the spirit vessel after the investigation implicated him in forbidden practices.
• More than ten White Tiger Captains led by Lei Kun captured Ximen Pan outside the vessel, while Lin Yi calmly watched the fight.
• Sang Xun accepted Ximen Pan’s arrest and invited the remaining artifact refiners to attempt his problem.

Lin Yi passed Sang Xun’s test by identifying how to repair the Ziwei Emperor Armor’s damaged shoulder guards and arms, securing a chance to obtain two Ziwei Emperor Pills. After returning to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, he investigated Ximen Pan’s case, continued cultivating and searching for Fu Dao and Xing Yao, and discovered the true nature of the Joy Palace Great Law.

• Emperor Shouxin and other artifact-refining Imperial Masters inspected Sang Xun’s inner world, but only Lin Yi and two others qualified to help repair the armor.
• Lin Yi examined the Ziwei Emperor Armor, agreed to repair its shoulder guards and arms for two Ziwei Emperor Pills, and noticed it resonated with his Ziwei Taiheng Body.
• Sang Xun asked Lin Yi, Emperor Shouxin, and the other two refiners to repair the armor within three months, and Lin Yi prepared a materials list.
• Emperor Shouxin invited Lin Yi to exchange artifact-refining techniques after matters in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm were settled, while Lin Yi instructed Gu Hanshuang to investigate Ximen Pan’s possible ties to the bandits.
• Lin Yi strengthened his Divine Demon Body, continued searching for Fu Dao and Xing Yao through his Fuzhu Incarnation, and mastered the Joy Palace Great Law in Dreaming Reincarnation.
• Lin Yi realized the Joy Palace Great Law was fundamentally an orthodox yin-and-yang dual-cultivation art that the Glazed Empress had altered to extract yang energy.

Lin Yi used the Joy Palace Great Law to lend the Glazed Empress his unusually potent Primordial Yang Qi in her volcanic hot spring, helping her loosen a cultivation bottleneck. After compensating him with restorative treasures, she offered to forgive his two-hundred-million Void Crystal Coin debt if he repeated the process five more times.

• The Glazed Empress summoned Lin Yi to her inner world and tested his understanding of the Joy Palace Great Law before asking him to help refine his Primordial Yang Qi.
• Lin Yi entered the hot spring, raised a water curtain between them, and began releasing Primordial Yang Qi as the Glazed Empress gathered her Primordial Yin Qi.
• The Glazed Empress discovered that Lin Yi's Divine Demon Origin made his yang qi far more potent than expected, so she drew it into herself and felt her cultivation bottleneck begin to loosen.
• After half an hour, Lin Yi and the Glazed Empress finished cultivating, and she gave him a Storage Ring filled with restorative treasures.
• The Glazed Empress confirmed Lin Yi had fulfilled their agreement but offered to cancel his two-hundred-million Void Crystal Coin debt if he helped her five more times.

Lin Yi completed the repair of the Ziwei Emperor Armor in Taiyi Academy’s fire room and secretly studied its structure, discovering its close connection to his Ziwei Taiheng Body. Meanwhile, powerful factions arrived at the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm and began establishing permanent bases near its entrance.

• After exhausting his second Emperor Pill, Lin Yi went to Taiyi Academy to repair the Ziwei Emperor Armor in exchange for another pill.
• Sang Xun brought Lin Yi to the Academy’s artifact-forging fire room and left him alone with the armor and repair materials.
• Lin Yi sensed a connection between the armor and his Ziwei Taiheng Body, and decided to study its inheritance while repairing it.
• A huge fleet from the Source Realm’s major powers arrived at the secret realm entrance, and the Venus Tower Master ordered the White Tiger Captains to remain vigilant.
• Lin Yi completed the armor’s repair, concealed its nearly awakened artifact spirit, and studied its internal structure.
• Lin Yi discovered that the armor’s energy patterns and plate arrangement matched the meridians and muscle fibers of his Ziwei Taiheng Body.

After restoring the Ziwei Emperor Armor, Lin Yi returned to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm camp and learned that Starfall Academy’s disciples had gathered inside. His Fuzhu Incarnation found Ling Yunxiao, Gu Chengan, Fu Dao, and Ming Yao after they left their stronghold, and Lin Yi appeared before them with the Emperor Talismans Ming Yao had mentioned.

• Lin Yi restored the Four Materials Ziwei Emperor Armor, received the final Ziwei Emperor Elixir from Sang Xun, and paid thirty-six million Void Crystal Coins.
• Lin Yi returned to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm camp, took patrol and guard shifts, and cultivated his Divine Demon Body with the Ziwei Emperor Elixir and Chaos Particles.
• At Starfall Academy’s stronghold, Ling Yunxiao, Gu Chengan, Fu Dao, and Ming Yao decided to leave after older students unfairly targeted them over Fu Dao’s Emperor Heart Rock.
• Feng Ye let the four leave with their allotted resources because he feared causing trouble with Lin Yi, who had ties to them.
• While the four searched for a safe foothold, Lin Yi’s Fuzhu Incarnation emerged from the forest and said he had brought Ming Yao’s Emperor Talismans.

Around a bonfire, Lin Yi told Ming Yao, Ling Yunxiao, Gu Chengan, and Fu Dao about the dangers gathering inside and outside the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm. Fu Dao revealed that a woman from the old Heavenly Palace had saved him, and Lin Yi asked for her name as the group learned she could transform into a Fire Phoenix.

• Ming Yao complained that senior students at Mountain Hollow Stronghold had tried to take the Emperor Heart Rock and withhold the group's resources.
• Lin Yi explained that Starfall City had been attacked and that the Myriad Emperor Alliance of Taiyi City had sent Emperor Realm Death Warriors into the Secret Realm, leaving the group to decide whether to stay or leave.
• Ming Yao volunteered to leave with Lin Yi, and Lin Yi agreed to help him obtain the resources needed for his breakthrough later.
• Fu Dao revealed that his Emperor Heart Rock was connected to a surviving descendant of the old Heavenly Palace and asked Lin Yi to help bring her out of the Secret Realm.
• Fu Dao recounted how he and the woman in red escaped a group led by Chu Zhao, fled into Death Valley, and were rescued when she transformed into a Fire Phoenix.
• Lin Yi asked Fu Dao what the woman in red was called.

Lin Yi agreed to help Fu Dao find the Fire Phoenix Woman and used a hidden Heavenly Palace communication method to summon her from Death Valley. The Fire Phoenix Woman responded, while Chu Zhao prepared a Taiyi Academy team to enter the valley and capture her alive.

• Fu Dao explained that the Fire Phoenix Woman had saved his life, and Lin Yi decided to help rescue her despite the danger.
• Lin Yi, Fu Dao, Gu Chengan, Ling Yunxiao, and Ming Yao traveled for two days to Death Valley, where the deadly terrain drained vitality and prevented flight.
• Lin Yi used Ground Waves along the Earth Veins to send the Fire Phoenix Woman a message to come out and meet him.
• The injured Fire Phoenix Woman recognized the Divine Palace communication method and hurried toward its source.
• Chu Zhao learned that his backup teams could not assist, then ordered the Taiyi Academy disciples to enter Death Valley and capture the Fire Phoenix Woman alive.

Chu Zhao followed a captured Heavenly Palace disciple’s claim that Fire Phoenix Woman had sent a signal, leading Taiyi Academy’s group to Lin Yi’s hidden formation. When Chu Zhao chose to set up a counter-formation rather than attack, Lin Yi decided to strike first and kill them before they could summon reinforcements.

• Chu Zhao spared the wounded Heavenly Palace disciple after he claimed Fire Phoenix Woman had communicated through ground vibrations, then ordered Xian San to watch him and lead the group.
• The prisoner guided Chu Zhao’s disciples to several signal points, where they found traces but no people; at the last point, Chu Zhao’s Scarlet Talisman detected a nearby formation.
• Lin Yi, Ming Yao, Gu Chengan, and Ling Yunxiao watched from within the Seven Luminaries Star Great Formation as Chu Zhao’s men searched for its Formation Base.
• After Lyu Yan identified the formation and explained that they could not break it, Chu Zhao ordered his disciples to set up an Emperor Formation and wait for Fire Phoenix Woman.
• Lin Yi judged that delay would endanger Fire Phoenix Woman and expose his Fuzhu Incarnation, so he chose to ambush Taiyi Academy’s group and brought out three Emperor Talismans.