Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi’s group used three Emperor Talismans to annihilate Chu Zhao’s Taiyi Academy team, while Lin Yi’s Disaster-Averting Small Formation weakened the secret realm’s Thunderstorm punishment. As the group sheltered inside the formation, they noticed that only two Thunderstorms had appeared despite three talismans being used.

• Lin Yi gave Fu Dao the Nether Wind Fire Talisman and assigned Gu Chengan and Ling Yunxiao Seizing Immortal Emperor Talismans to target Chu Zhao.
• Lin Yi layered a Disaster-Averting Small Formation over the Seven Luminaries Star Great Formation as Chu Zhao’s group prepared to attack.
• Fu Dao unleashed the Nether Wind Fire Talisman, and its Black Phoenix Flames overwhelmed the Taiyi Academy disciples’ defenses.
• Gu Chengan and Ling Yunxiao struck Chu Zhao with their talismans as he fled, and the flames killed him and the remaining Taiyi Academy disciples.
• Lin Yi’s formation weakened the Thunderstorm punishment, and the group noticed that only two Thunderstorms had formed after three Emperor Talismans were used.

Lin Yi and his companions survived the Secret Realm’s Thunder Punishment, divided the spoils from the fallen Taiyi Academy disciples, and discovered that Fu Dao had incurred a hidden punishment. As Taiyi Academy and the Myriad Emperor Alliance reacted to deaths inside the Secret Realm, the Fire Phoenix Woman confronted Fu Dao over revealing her existence.

• Gu Chengan and Ling Yunxiao left the Disaster-Averting Small Formation and endured the Thunder Punishment, while Lin Yi warned that Fu Dao’s missing thunderstorm might signal a more dangerous hidden punishment.
• Lin Yi and the others divided the surviving treasures from the Taiyi Academy disciples, but a black mystic blade cut Fu Dao when he tried to take it, prompting Lin Yi to identify it as the start of the Secret Realm’s targeted punishment.
• Xu Hengdi gathered Taiyi Academy elders after Chu Zhao and sixteen others died, and the elders suspected the Myriad Emperor Alliance might be involved.
• Di Xian ordered the Myriad Emperor Alliance teams to press on with their mission regardless of casualties and dismissed Taiyi Academy’s questions about its dead disciples.
• The Fire Phoenix Woman attacked the formation around Lin Yi’s group and accused Fu Dao of breaking his promise to keep her existence secret, while Ling Yunxiao defended him.

Lin Yi convinced Fire Phoenix Woman to leave the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm with him after proving his connection to the Heavenly Palace and Yan Ling. Before they departed, she revealed that a hidden Great Dao Realm Inheritance might remain in the secret realm, prompting Lin Yi to suspect the Myriad Emperor Alliance was searching for it.

• Ling Yunxiao challenged Fire Phoenix Woman over the debt she owed the group, and Lin Yi stepped forward to answer her questions about the infrasonic message.
• Lin Yi used the Mountain Splitting Sword to prove his connection to the Heavenly Palace, and Fire Phoenix Woman agreed to leave the secret realm with him after asking whether he knew Yan Ling.
• Lin Yi told Fire Phoenix Woman that he had a connection to Yan Ling, then brought her into the Seven Luminaries Star Formation and said the group would soon leave the secret realm.
• Fire Phoenix Woman revealed that a Great Dao Realm Inheritance was hidden outside the Ancient Palaces and was connected to the secret realm's forbidden zones.
• Fire Phoenix Woman explained that finding the inheritance required comprehending six Great Dao Techniques, and Lin Yi suspected the Myriad Emperor Alliance's Death Warriors were searching for it.

Lin Yi discovered that the One-armed Mecha Person, Number Three, recognized him as a master because he carried the Yanwu Heavenly Dao Stone Fragment. He took Number Three to the Spirit Vine World, ordered it to build a secret Mecha fleet, and left it there under safeguards.

• The Glazed Empress warned Lin Yi to keep the White Tiger Captains out of trouble at the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm while the Myriad Emperor Alliance handled matters.
• Lin Yi found that Number Three had tampered with the formations around his residence, but the One-armed Mecha Person knelt and acknowledged him as Master.
• Number Three explained that Yanwu was one of three Origin Stones left by its fallen Mecha Lord and that holders of the stones could command the Mecha clan, though another stone-holder also held authority.
• Lin Yi ordered Number Three to conceal his identity, sever outside connections, and obey his commands, then brought it through a teleportation array to the Spirit Vine World.
• Lin Yi transferred Number Three into a weaker Beast-shaped Mecha Person and instructed it to build as many complex Mecha People as possible, none above Emperor Realm.

Lin Yi ordered the White Tiger Captains to destroy a lurking Mecha Person near Li Qing, then visited his disciple and warned him to remain inside the Star Brilliance Office. At the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm entrance, Lin Yi intervened to prevent a clash between the Myriad Emperor Alliance and West Spirit City, but Qin Nantong challenged him over the Alliance’s own Emperor Realm cultivators entering the secret realm.

• Lin Yi sent White Tiger Captains into the Black Wind Mountain Range, where they killed a Mecha Person and destroyed its core components.
• Lin Yi answered Li Qing’s questions about World Law secret arts, gave him cultivation resources, and told him to avoid missions outside the Star Brilliance Office.
• Lin Yi and his subordinates continued guarding the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm entrance as factions secretly investigated the area.
• After the Venus Tower Master ordered him to prevent fighting near the unstable entrance, Lin Yi led more than fifty White Tiger Captains to confront the Myriad Emperor Alliance Elder and Qin Nantong’s group from the Purple Nether Pavilion.
• Lin Yi told Qin Nantong that West Spirit City had already sent trial disciples into the secret realm and asked why it wanted to send Emperor Realm cultivators in; Qin Nantong replied that the Myriad Emperor Alliance had done the same.

Lin Yi kept the White Tiger Captains out of the factions’ struggle over the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, then watched as Di Xian suppressed four Emperor Realm cultivators and confronted their backers. The incident ended with Elder Zhou Huan exposed as one of the fighters and taken away by Lin Yi’s Great Elder senior brother, leaving Lin Yi unsure whether Zhou had acted by chance or on purpose.

• Lin Yi refused Qin Nantong’s offer to help Purple Nether Pavilion and warned the factions not to fight near the secret realm before leaving with the White Tiger Captains.
• Two hours later, Lu Xun fought three concealed Emperor Realm cultivators over the Tidal Spirit Sea, and Lin Yi kept his forces on alert while the battle stayed far from the secret realm.
• Di Xian appeared and suppressed all four fighters, but Lu Yuan, the Flying Corpse Emperor, and a three-eyed Daoist confronted him and demanded their people’s release.
• After a private discussion, Di Xian released the four and exposed one as Zhou Huan, prompting the Great Elder senior brother to insist Zhou had acted alone and take him away.
• Lin Yi watched Zhou Huan leave and wondered whether his investigation of the secret realm had been an accident or deliberate.

Rumors about an Emperor Realm treasure in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm drew forces across the Source Realm, while Starfall Academy investigated Zhou Huan’s suspicious involvement near the secret realm. Great Elder Xuan Ming punished Zhou Huan and told Lin Yi that Vein Master Zong Tieshan, likely backed by the Gu Family and Gu Sanqian, may have arranged the affair.

• Lin Yi ignored small Emperor Alliances seeking information about the secret realm and gathered with Starfall Academy’s elders to hear Zhou Huan’s explanation.
• Zhou Huan claimed an old friend had lured him to trade for a nearly mature Soul Spirit Emperor Fruit Tree, and he showed the tree as evidence.
• Su Xiaoxiao challenged Zhou Huan’s account, arguing that his actions had endangered the Academy’s neutrality.
• Great Elder Xuan Ming fined Zhou Huan ten thousand years of salary and confiscated the Soul Spirit Emperor Fruit Tree for the Academy treasury.
• Xuan Ming told Lin Yi that Zong Tieshan was the likely instigator and that the Vein Master was connected to the Gu Family and Gu Sanqian.

Lin Yi met the Past Self Time Master, who examined his unusual cultivation and heard Xuan Ming’s report about the factions pursuing the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm. The Time Master gave Lin Yi an Emperor-Breaking Pill and forbade him from handing it to Xuan Ming, warning that it would destroy his unstable foundation and kill him.

• Lin Yi asked Xuan Ming about Gu Sanqian and learned that the Gu Family Old Ancestor had once held an important position in the Heavenly Palace.
• Xuan Ming took Lin Yi through a time node to meet the Past Self Time Master, who praised Lin Yi’s Divine Demon Body and heard about the scheming around the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm.
• Xuan Ming revealed that Emperor Ling Gan had told him about a Great Dao Realm inheritance and had sent a Star Brilliance Box for the Time Master.
• The Time Master identified the box’s contents as an Emperor-Breaking Pill and refused to let Xuan Ming have it, warning that Xuan Ming’s unstable foundation would cause his death if he used it.
• The Time Master opened the box and ordered Lin Yi to keep the pill, even if Xuan Ming begged him for it.

The Past Self Time Master warned Lin Yi and Xuan Ming that the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm’s Great Dao inheritance was tied to a bloody civil war and had long been reserved for Venerable Xuantian. Lin Yi and Xuan Ming abandoned their plans to pursue it, and the Time Master revealed that he had once entered the secret realm as a young prodigy before sending them back.

• The Past Self Time Master explained that the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm’s inheritances had sparked fierce competition, the deaths of many prodigies, and civil unrest among the Source Realm’s factions.
• He revealed that the remaining Great Dao inheritance had been bestowed upon Venerable Xuantian and warned Xuan Ming that he lacked the strength and foundation to challenge Taiyi City for it.
• The Time Master told Xuan Ming to refuse Emperor Ling Gan’s invitation to join Restore Heaven, while accepting the Emperor-Breaking Pill without promising support.
• Lin Yi concluded that Venerable Xuantian likely controlled the Myriad Emperor Alliance and decided to withdraw his Fuzhu Incarnation and companions from the inheritance search.
• The Time Master advised Lin Yi on his Indestructible Body, then showed Lin Yi and Xuan Ming his younger self among the first prodigies to enter the secret realm before sending them back.

Lin Yi trapped the Fire Phoenix Woman to stop her from confronting Venerable Xuantian, then prepared to escort his companions out of the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm. At the exit, he defied the Myriad Emperor Alliance’s inspection order and attacked its guarding elder.

• On the World Annihilation Spirit Boat, Xuan Ming declined the Emperor-Breaking Pill, and Lin Yi kept it.
• The Fire Phoenix Woman refused to abandon her revenge against Venerable Xuantian, so Lin Yi trapped her in the Seven Luminaries Star Formation and suppressed her inside the Heaven Suppressing Earth Locking Pagoda.
• Lin Yi’s Fuzhu Incarnation left the secret realm with Ling Yunxiao, Gu Chengan, Fu Dao, and Ming Yao, while Lin Yi’s true body waited at the entrance with White Tiger Captain forces.
• The Myriad Emperor Alliance elder demanded that the departing trial participants submit to inspection, but Lin Yi refused and positioned himself between the elder and his companions.
• Lin Yi attacked the elder with the Chaos Profound Bell and a punch, cracking the elder’s black shield.

Lin Yi fought and defeated Elder Ji of the Myriad Emperor Alliance, capturing him after enduring the elder’s talismans and sealing away Lin Yi’s Primordial Shield. He returned to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm entrance and demanded permission to take the Academy’s trial disciples away.

• Lin Yi destroyed Elder Ji’s shield and pursued him, blocking his Bone-Eroding Finger with the Primordial Shield.
• Elder Ji unleashed killing talismans, but Lin Yi’s Divine Demon Body and shield let him break through their attacks unharmed.
• Elder Ji sealed the Primordial Shield and bombarded Lin Yi with more talismans, but Lin Yi’s wounds healed rapidly before he captured the elder.
• Lin Yi shattered Elder Ji’s defensive talismans and armor, then trapped him in the Chaos Profound Bell and returned to the entrance.
• Lin Yi recalled the Fuzhu Incarnation, approached Ling Yunxiao and the others, and asked the Myriad Emperor Alliance to let him take the Academy’s trial disciples away.

Lin Yi confronted Di Xian over the Myriad Emperor Alliance’s attempt to take Starfall Academy’s trial participants away for questioning. After Di Xian invoked Venerable Xuantian’s decree to demand that every participant be isolated, Lin Yi secured agreement for a public investigation, though Di Xian reserved the right to detain anyone found abnormal.

• Lin Yi refused to release the trial participants or let the Myriad Emperor Alliance take them, while keeping Ji Yuan suppressed inside the Chaos Profound Bell.
• Di Xian arrived, demanded that Lin Yi release Ji Yuan and hand over the four Starfall Academy disciples, and threatened him with his late Emperor Realm pressure.
• Great Elder Xuan Ming backed Lin Yi, and Di Xian announced that Venerable Xuantian had ordered every participant from the secret realm returned to the Alliance Camp for investigation.
• Lu Yuan, the Nether Bone City powerhouse, and other factions objected to Di Xian’s demand, but many hesitated when he invoked Venerable Xuantian’s authority.
• Lin Yi rejected the Alliance’s authority over Starfall City and proposed an open investigation witnessed by all factions instead of taking the participants away.
• Di Xian accepted the public investigation but declared that the Myriad Emperor Alliance could detain any participant found to have an abnormality.

Lin Yi protected Ling Yunxiao and the other Starfall Academy disciples from Di Xian by forcing the Myriad Emperor Alliance to conduct a public inspection instead of taking them away. After the inspection exposed nothing unusual, Lin Yi returned Ji Yuan and discovered valuable formation materials and a five-talisman inheritance among the Storage Artifacts he had seized.

• Ling Yunxiao, Fu Dao, Gu Chengan, and Ming Yao underwent a public inspection by the Myriad Emperor Alliance, which found none of the valuable items they had entrusted to Lin Yi’s Fuzhu Incarnation.
• A Myriad Emperor Alliance elder insulted the four disciples’ meager gains, but Great Elder Xuan Ming silenced him with his pressure.
• Di Xian released the four disciples but warned Lin Yi not to interfere again, and Lin Yi returned the battered Ji Yuan while threatening Di Xian about his safety.
• Di Xian rebuked Ji Yuan for disgracing the alliance and left with him, while Xuan Ming warned Lin Yi of the feud and promised to help if Di Xian retaliated.
• The Venus Tower Master sent Lin Yi messages of anger, warning, and eventual acceptance after the Glazed Tower Master allowed him to act as he pleased.
• On the way back to Starfall City's Camp, Lin Yi examined Ji Yuan’s seized ear-clasp Storage Artifact and found valuable formation materials, Emperor Talismans, and an inheritance for five mid-Emperor Realm talismans.

Lin Yi sorted the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm’s spoils, examined his Emperor Artifacts, and kept the Fire Phoenix Woman confined while planning her future. Meanwhile, Di Xian learned that Venerable Xuantian was pursuing the secret realm’s inheritance, and the Flame Emperor emerged from seclusion to seal Starfall City and recall its forces.

• Lin Yi distributed Ji Yuan’s resources and copies of his talisman inheritance among the White Tiger Captains before returning to his residence.
• Lin Yi examined the Chaos Source Crystal and four Emperor Artifacts, promised the Mountain Splitting Sword he would help avenge its former master, and kept the Fire Phoenix Woman inside the Heaven Suppressing Earth Locking Pagoda.
• Di Xian ordered more Emperor Realm cultivators sent to help Xuan Three break through restrictions in the secret realm and learned that Restore Heaven had contacted numerous peak Emperor Realm experts.
• The Flame Emperor emerged from seclusion and ordered Starfall City sealed, its defenses activated, and its personnel recalled because Venerable Xuantian and three peak Emperor Realm experts were coming.
• The Flame Emperor questioned the Glazed Empress about her dangerous cultivation method and learned that Lin Yi had helped her, then teased her about becoming his younger sister-in-law.

Lin Yi cultivated with a Chaos Source Crystal and met the Flame Emperor, who had emerged from seclusion after temporarily resolving his Dao Artifact bottleneck. As the Flame Emperor warned that many peak Emperor Realm experts were converging on the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, Lin Yi revealed that his master had said Venerable Xuantian already possessed its Great Dao inheritance, surprising the Flame Emperor.

• Lin Yi used a Chaos Source Crystal and an Emperor Pill to cultivate his Divine Demon Body, but the pill's power nearly ran out.
• The Flame Emperor visited Lin Yi's camp and explained that the Restore Heaven organization had helped him temporarily overcome his Dao Artifact bottleneck.
• The Flame Emperor gave Lin Yi the remaining Star Dew Immortal Tea he had received from Venerable Xuantian, who had arrived at the Myriad Emperor Alliance with three peak Emperor Realm experts.
• The Flame Emperor said he had gathered Gu Sanqian, Emperor Ling Gan, and the Northern Great Emperor to help protect Starfall City, but warned that ten to twenty peak Emperor Realm experts sought the secret realm's inheritance.
• Lin Yi said his master had told him Venerable Taiyi had already bestowed the inheritance on Venerable Xuantian, and the Flame Emperor reacted with surprise.

Lin Yi learned more about Venerable Xuantian and the Restore Heaven organization from the Flame Emperor, who also publicly backed Lin Yi and promised to help him obtain Emperor Pills. As Venerable Xuantian arrived in Starfall City, returning trial-takers were subjected to strict reviews, and Lin Yi began questioning Starfall Academy disciples about the secret realm.

• Lin Yi shared what he knew about the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm with the Flame Emperor, who explained that Restore Heaven opposed the Source Realm’s order and might be led by someone from Taiyi City.
• The Flame Emperor visited Lin Yi’s camp, affirmed their sworn-brother relationship before the White Tiger Captains, and offered to ask a friend of the Ziwei Emperor for Emperor Pills.
• Starfall City held an elaborate banquet to welcome Venerable Xuantian, who arrived with three peak Emperor Realm experts and entered the Myriad Emperor Alliance’s base.
• Venerable Xuantian ordered that everyone leaving the secret realm undergo a strict review, and Myriad Emperor Alliance cultivators escorted the returning trial-takers to a Review Camp.
• Over ten days, growing numbers of trial-takers, including Starfall Academy disciples, left the secret realm and were reviewed before release.
• Lin Yi summoned several Starfall Academy disciples and asked them about conditions inside the secret realm.

Lin Yi learned that the Myriad Emperor Alliance was clearing trial participants from the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, while Venerable Xuantian prepared to begin the inheritance trial in three days. Venerable Xuantian secretly monitored a gathering of powerful figures plotting to contest the Great Dao inheritance, then ordered Jin Manzi to guard the secret realm and approved an Emperor Pill gift for the Flame Emperor.

• Lin Yi heard that the Myriad Emperor Alliance was driving trial participants out of the secret realm and wondered whether Venerable Xuantian had found the Great Dao Realm Inheritance.
• Venerable Xuantian ordered his subordinates to begin the inheritance trial in three days and kill any remaining outsiders in the secret realm.
• Emperor Ling Gan told gathered peak Emperor Realm cultivators that Venerable Xuantian had located the inheritance and that they had only a few days to disrupt the trial or intercept Taiyi City's disciples.
• Jin Manzi arrived at the gathering in his Geng Metal Warship, scattering the white-mist projections before returning to Venerable Xuantian, who revealed that he had attended the gathering himself.
• Venerable Xuantian sent Jin Manzi to guard the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm Entrance and told him to give the Flame Emperor Emperor Pills from Di Xian's treasury for Lin Yi.

Lin Yi investigated the growing unrest around the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, agreed to help Zong Tieshan in exchange for future influence, and secretly provided him with information about the Myriad Emperor Alliance’s outer defenses. After spending more than ten years studying talismans in a dream, Lin Yi completed three Purple Thunder Emperor Talismans before sensing a deadly danger approaching.

• Lin Yi warned the White Tiger Captains to stay vigilant as hidden Emperor Realm cultivators watched the secret realm entrance.
• Lin Yi studied the talisman inheritance he had taken from Ji Yuan while avoiding the notice of the powerful cultivators at the Myriad Emperor Alliance camp.
• Zong Tieshan asked Lin Yi for help, and Lin Yi agreed after weighing the benefits of gaining his support.
• Lin Yi gave Zong Tieshan a map of the Myriad Emperor Alliance’s outer defenses and details about the Emperor Formation restrictions, then accepted two boxes of Enlightenment Tea.
• Lin Yi used Dreaming Reincarnation to study the five Emperor Talismans, then returned and drew three Purple Thunder Emperor Talismans.
• As Lin Yi began his fourth Purple Thunder Emperor Talisman, his instincts warned him that deadly danger was rapidly approaching.

Lin Yi and the Venus Tower Master defended the White Tiger Captain Camp from destructive shockwaves caused by two peak Emperor Realm fighters battling at the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm Entrance. Lin Yi let other Myriad Emperor Alliance cultivators take shelter but refused Ji Yuan, who died after his protective talismans failed, while the battle continued and Venerable Xuantian remained absent.

• Lin Yi raised the Chaos Profound Bell to shield the White Tiger Captain Camp from a massive battle aftershock, and the Venus Tower Master reinforced the barrier with a defensive pearl.
• The Venus Tower Master discovered two peak Emperor Realm experts were fighting at the secret realm entrance, and their clashes sent further shockwaves through the Tidal Spirit Sea.
• Lin Yi and the Venus Tower Master opened the camp barrier to rescue fleeing Myriad Emperor Alliance cultivators, but Lin Yi feigned exhaustion and refused Ji Yuan entry.
• Ji Yuan's protective talismans failed, and after a Death-Substitution Emperor Talisman restored him once, another shockwave killed him completely.
• Lin Yi thanked the Venus Tower Master for secretly causing Ji Yuan's talismans to fail, then wondered why Venerable Xuantian had not appeared.

After a peak Emperor Realm battle nearly destroyed the Space Channel to the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, Great Emperor Jin Man stabilized it while Lin Yi rescued survivors and checked on Starfall Academy. Great Emperor Jin Man summoned Lin Yi and offered a hundred years of Emperor Pills if he helped stabilize the channel, leaving Lin Yi ready to assist.

• Di Xian and six other late Emperor Realm cultivators struggled to keep the cracking Space Channel open as Great Emperor Jin Man drove the mysterious black-robed expert away and repaired the damage with his Supreme Emperor Body.
• The Venus Tower Master left to investigate the battlefield, while Lin Yi questioned a Myriad Emperor Alliance cultivator about the attack and learned that the alliance’s formations had failed when space collapsed.
• Lin Yi reported the battle to Star Brilliance Tower and learned from Su Xiaoxiao that Starfall Academy had suffered no injuries, though its World Annihilation Spirit Boat’s defensive formation was damaged.
• The Venus Tower Master told Lin Yi that Great Emperor Jin Man wished to see him, and Lin Yi went to the channel, where he found roughly a hundred battered Myriad Emperor Alliance survivors and greeted Di Xian.
• Great Emperor Jin Man examined Lin Yi’s Chaos Profound Bell but found that it rejected his control, then offered Lin Yi a hundred years of Emperor Pills in exchange for helping stabilize the channel.