Chapter Summaries

The Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao captured Bliss Ancestor, destroyed his main body, and vowed to hunt him down. After meeting Lin Yi in Starfall City, he spoke with him privately and rewarded him with a divine fruit made from Bliss Ancestor’s essence.

• The Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao bound Bliss Ancestor, crushed his Emperor Body, and absorbed his essence into a divine fruit, though Great Emperor Gan Jin suspected Bliss Ancestor had survived through a substitute.
• The Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao reaffirmed his agreement to join the Source Realm emperors against the Nine Heavens World, then went to Starfall City to see his disciple.
• Yan Guinan attacked the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao, who easily dispelled the strike and said he had slain Bliss Ancestor and come to see his disciple.
• Lin Yi escorted Yan Guinan back to Star Brilliance Tower, then met the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao alone while disguised as Ji Hunhai and recounted Ji Wangzu’s betrayal and Bliss Ancestor’s attack.
• The Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao praised Lin Yi for protecting the Foundation-Melting Substance and gave him the divine fruit refined from Bliss Ancestor.

Lin Yi learned that the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao had killed Bliss Ancestor’s main body and received a divine fruit made from his cultivation essence. After Lin Yi confronted the Flame Emperor over his failure to defend Starfall City and accepted compensation, the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao pursued Bliss Ancestor’s surviving body to a cluster of Small Worlds and began erasing everything there to flush him out.

• The Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao told Lin Yi that the divine fruit contained Bliss Ancestor’s refined peak Emperor Realm essence and instructed him to keep the foundation-melting item safe until his return from the Ancestral Land.
• Lin Yi met the Flame Emperor at Star Brilliance Tower, recounted how he became the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao’s disciple, and learned about the wagered duel between the Source Realm and five peak experts from the Nine Heavens World.
• Lin Yi accused the Flame Emperor of neglecting his duty during Bliss Ancestor’s attack, and the Flame Emperor admitted his failure and offered Lin Yi three treasures from Starfall City’s treasury.
• The Flame Emperor invited Lin Yi to watch the peak-level duel when the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao returned, and Lin Yi agreed.
• The Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao followed Bliss Ancestor’s Origin Essence Blood to Small Worlds under Dark Mist City, then blanketed the worlds with five-colored light to destroy their inhabitants and expose Bliss Ancestor’s surviving Remnant Soul.

Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao destroyed Bliss Ancestor’s remnant body in Yellow Spirit Sky Island’s territory and drove Yellow Spirit Ancestor away, prompting Dark Mist City’s Ancestors to plan their response. Meanwhile, Lin Yi selected three treasures from Starfall City’s deepest vault, and the Flame Emperor gave him additional Lotus Ox Fragrance Stone.

• Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao killed the late Emperor Realm guardian and the evil spirit creatures, then located and erased Bliss Ancestor’s remnant body.
• Yellow Spirit Ancestor arrived, failed to stop Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao, and fled as Bliss Ancestor’s death triggered a heavenly phenomenon.
• Yellow Spirit Ancestor returned with Primordial Chaos Island Ancestor, Yama Sky Island Ancestor, and Extreme Pestilence Sky Island Ancestor, and they agreed to summon Dark Mist City’s other Ancestors.
• The Flame Emperor escorted Lin Yi into Starfall City’s deepest treasure vault and encouraged him to choose rare treasures.
• Lin Yi chose an Asura Blood Fruit, an Ancient Meteorite fragment, and Lotus Ox Fragrance Stone.
• The Flame Emperor combined several more pieces of Lotus Ox Fragrance Stone and gave them to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi watched the Ancestral Land duel from within Flame Emperor’s inner world as the Source Realm and Nine Heavens World faced off. Great Emperor Jin Man lost the opening battle to a poison method that turned his Silver Void Dao cultivation against him, and Great Emperor Eclipse Wind’s fight began with his opponent’s five-colored defense suddenly shattered.

• Lin Yi ended his seclusion and hid within Flame Emperor’s inner world before they traveled to the Six Source Ancestral Land.
• Great Emperor Gan Jin and the gathered peak Emperor Realm experts entered the Ancestral Land with the Six Source Emperor Talisman and assembled at the duel arena.
• The five experts from the Nine Heavens World arrived and traded insults with the Source Realm contingent before Great Emperor Zi Wei ended the confrontation.
• Great Emperor Jin Man fought a green-robed Nine Heavens expert, whose poison corrupted the Silver Void bones and meridians in Jin Man’s body, forcing Jin Man to retreat in defeat.
• Great Emperor Eclipse Wind began fighting a five-colored-robed expert using the genuine Five Directions Dao Qi Cultivation Method.
• Great Emperor Eclipse Wind blew transparent five-colored sand toward his opponent’s radiance shield, causing it to lose its color and shatter.

Great Emperor Eclipse Wind won the second battle for the Source Realm, tying the score before the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao faced the Nine Heavens World’s leader. The Ancestor killed the leader and another challenger, then pursued a fleeing opponent as the other three ancestors of the Six Source Ancestral Land joined the chase.

• Great Emperor Eclipse Wind used time-infused wind and sand to defeat the five-colored-robed challenger, tying the contest at two victories apiece.
• The Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao fought the Nine Heavens World’s Control of Six Qi prodigy and overwhelmed his Six-Qi Spirit Disc with his modified Five-Colored Radiance.
• The Ancestor killed the prodigy, then attacked the four other Nine Heavens World experts as they charged onto the platform.
• The Ancestor killed the orthodox Five Directions Dao inheritor, while the other three experts fled in different directions.
• The Ancestor pursued the challenger who had defeated Great Emperor Gan Jin, and the remaining three ancestors of the Six Source Ancestral Land chased after two fleeing opponents.

After the Source Realm and Six Source Ancestral Land agreed to cooperate, Lin Yi and the Flame Emperor explored the Ancestral Land’s ruins and copied its inheritances. In a manuscript by an ancient Silver Void Dao ancestor, Lin Yi discovered a theory about the Human Race’s forty-nine physical body secrets and their potential to merge into a single, immensely powerful secret.

• The Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao and the three Ancestral Land ancestors killed the remaining Nine Heavens World pursuers, then agreed to cooperate with Great Emperor Zi Wei and Great Emperor Gan Jin.
• Three days later, the Six Source Ancestral Land declared a truce, agreed to share Qi Cultivation Method inheritances, and required the Source Realm’s peak Emperor Realm cultivators to return occupied territories.
• The Silver Void Dao ancestor showed the Source Realm cultivators the six-island ruin and opened the Ninefold Tower, where they could study the Ancestral Land’s inheritances.
• The Flame Emperor and Lin Yi copied the tower’s inheritances, while Great Emperor Jin Man and Great Emperor Gu Nan argued over their value and another cultivator called for the Source Realm to claim most Qi Cultivation Method resource sites.
• Lin Yi discovered an ancient Silver Void Dao ancestor’s manuscript identifying the Human Race’s forty-nine physical body secrets and theorizing that awakening them all could fuse them into a single secret with inexhaustible power.

After five years of secluded cultivation, Lin Yi perfected the forty-nine Star Cores of his Divine Demon Body but repeatedly failed to fuse them into a Furnace Star Core. He left the Seclusion Chamber after demanding better advice from the Transforming Corpse and the Remnant Soul, who remained trapped together and at odds.

• Lin Yi spent five years cultivating in the White Tiger Realm while his Fuzhu Incarnation handled outside affairs, and he condensed all forty-nine Star Cores.
• A violent tremor alarmed the White Tiger guards, but Lin Yi’s message assured them he was cultivating and there was no danger.
• Lin Yi attempted to fuse his forty-nine Star Cores, suffered a backlash that injured his origin, and concluded that he could not achieve the fusion quickly.
• Lin Yi demanded advice from the Transforming Corpse and the Remnant Soul; the Remnant Soul said turning the divine abilities into instinct could take a thousand years.
• Lin Yi threatened to confine both beings permanently if they failed to offer better guidance, then left the Seclusion Chamber.
• The Remnant Soul pressed the Transforming Corpse for help, but the Transforming Corpse refused to engage, and the two fell silent.

Lin Yi returned to Heavenly Palace Small City, reviewed Star Brilliance Tower’s reduced earnings, and delivered Fire God Pills to the Glazed Empress. At the Five Directions Residence, he confirmed the Foundation-Melting Substance was ready and asked the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao for guidance on fusing the body’s forty-nine hidden aspects.

• Lin Yi inspected Star Brilliance Tower’s earnings and learned Ancestral Land forces had taken resource sites in the Heavenly Palace Secret Realm, reducing profits by more than half.
• Lin Yi divided the earnings among himself, Lei Kun, the other captains, and Star Brilliance Tower’s subordinates.
• Lin Yi gave Mars Tower Master three Fire God Pills for the Glazed Empress and advised her not to force a breakthrough if she failed.
• Lin Yi visited the Five Directions Residence in Ji Hunhai’s appearance and confirmed that the Foundation-Melting Substance could help harmonize the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao’s five kinds of Qi.
• Lin Yi asked the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao how to fuse the body’s forty-nine hidden aspects, and the Ancestor said the Silver Void Dao inheritance contained a possible solution.
• Lin Yi explained that his friend could not cultivate the Silver Void Dao or obtain its Source Qi, and asked whether another method existed.

Lin Yi traveled to Five Ancestors Mountain to borrow the Mind-Clearing Monkey Stone and investigate the Star Core fusion problem in his Divine Demon Body. The Silver Void Dao Ancestor initially kept him there after accepting two Emperor Pills, but grew wary that Lin Yi might be connected to Great Emperor Zi Wei and changed course, allowing him to leave and offering Silver Void Sacred Water.

• Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao gave Lin Yi a token and directed him to borrow the Mind-Clearing Monkey Stone from the Silver Void Dao Ancestor.
• Lin Yi entered the Six Source Ancestral Land as a disciple of the Five Directions Dao lineage and reached Five Ancestors Mountain.
• The Silver Void Dao Ancestor demanded ten Emperor Pills to lend the stone, then agreed to accept Lin Yi's two pills for a temporary loan.
• After receiving the Mind-Clearing Monkey Stone, the Silver Void Dao Ancestor insisted Lin Yi remain at Five Ancestors Mountain, so Lin Yi sealed himself inside a Cave Abode to use it quickly.
• The Silver Void Dao Ancestor suspected Lin Yi had refined the pills and feared provoking Great Emperor Zi Wei, so he ordered a gift of Silver Void Sacred Water and told Lin Yi he could leave whenever he wished.

Lin Yi used the Mind-Clearing Monkey Stone to identify the origin conflict preventing his Divine Demon Body’s Star Cores from fusing and devised a gradual approach to the problem. When Five Ancestors Mountain disciples confronted him over his Source Realm origins, he drove them off with a single punch and returned to his Cave Abode.

• Lin Yi accepted the Silver Void Sacred Water from a disciple but stayed at Five Ancestors Mountain to study the Mind-Clearing Monkey Stone.
• Lin Yi used the stone to simulate his Divine Demon Body and discovered that conflicting divine ability origins prevented his forty-nine Star Cores from fusing.
• Lin Yi planned to fuse Star Cores with similar origins first, while recognizing that he would eventually need to resolve the deeper conflicts between opposing origins.
• Lin Yi found several hundred Five Ancestors Mountain disciples gathered outside his Cave Abode to protest his presence and the treasures he had received.
• Lin Yi explained that he was a Five Directions Dao disciple and urged the crowd to cultivate rather than let their hatred be used by others.
• Lin Yi intimidated the disciples with a single punch, sent them away, and returned to his Cave Abode.

Lin Yi left Five Ancestors Mountain and inspected the sealed passage to the Nine Heavens World, where he encountered Qiu Yue again. After refusing her request to help break the blockade, he returned from the Six Source Ancestral Land to Starfall City and resumed cultivation.

• The Ancestor of Silver Void Dao withdrew after witnessing Lin Yi's strength, and Lin Yi left Five Ancestors Mountain without obstruction.
• Lin Yi observed the sealed ascension passage and fled after a peak Emperor Realm expert warned him away; Qiu Yue recognized his Kunpeng Floating Spell and pursued him.
• The Ancestor of Immortal Spirit Dao and Great Emperor Gu Nan discussed the blockade, possible traitors, and the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao's origins while playing chess.
• Qiu Yue asked Lin Yi to help destroy the blockade in exchange for a complete set of Source Qi for Control of Six Qi, but he refused and warned her not to follow him.
• Lin Yi left the Six Source Ancestral Land, returned to Starfall City, gave the Fuzhu Incarnation instructions, and entered the Seclusion Chamber to cultivate.

Lin Yi studied the Mind-Clearing Monkey Stone and chose to create a supplementary inheritance to resolve the incompatible origins of his forty-nine Star Cores. After consulting the Transforming Corpse’s ancient inheritance and studying the Star Brilliance Tower’s archives, he produced the first version of the Divine Demon Body Bloodline Fusion Method.

• The Transforming Corpse and the Crystal Remnant Soul tried to bargain for freedom by offering a solution to Lin Yi’s Star Core fusion problem, but he separated and suppressed them.
• Lin Yi used the Mind-Clearing Monkey Stone to identify two possible approaches, discarded the time-consuming Foundation-Melting method, and chose to create the Divine Demon Body Bloodline Fusion Method.
• Lin Yi agreed to grant the Transforming Corpse a chance to revive and transform when he reached the peak Emperor Realm if its inheritance proved useful, then studied its ancient method as a reference.
• Lin Yi used [Great Dream Samsara] to begin developing his method, then searched the Star Brilliance Tower’s archives for texts on bloodline evolution, origin harmonization, and Indestructible Bodies.
• After three months of study and repeated dream deductions, Lin Yi completed the first version of the Divine Demon Body Bloodline Fusion Method, though it was not yet ready to cultivate.

Lin Yi learned that the Source Realm Competition would distribute unclaimed Source Qi through battles after a massacre and resource dispute forced new rules. He declined to compete and returned to seclusion to perfect his Divine Demon Body Bloodline Fusion Method before the event began in half a year.

• The Mercury Tower Master announced the competition and explained that Great Emperor Gan Jin had proposed it after a merchant convoy massacre and conflict over illegally mined Source Qi.
• Gu Hanshuang asked Lin Yi to participate, but Lin Yi declined because he needed to repair flaws in his cultivation technique.
• The Mercury Tower Master took charge of the competition, and Lin Yi agreed with the decision and sent three hundred White Tiger Captain cultivators to help secure the arena.
• Zun Sheng and the Old Prefecture Master asked to compete, and Lin Yi encouraged them to treat it as training without expecting high rankings.
• Ling Yunxiao and Lin Yi's other Academy friends asked about participating, and Lin Yi answered their questions before returning to seclusion.

As the Starfall Competition began, Lin Yi remained in seclusion refining his Divine Demon Body Bloodline Fusion Method, while his fellow Starfall Academy disciples gathered in Starfall City and prepared to compete. Ling Yunxiao used Lin Yi’s promised rewards to unite their cohort, and Niu Chuangchuang began considering how to ask Lin Yi for help after his early elimination.

• The Starfall Competition opened, sending millions of below-Emperor Realm contenders into batch preliminaries across subordinate Small Worlds.
• Lin Yi completed his understanding of the Azure Dragon Imperial Clan bloodline and absorbed its Star Core into the one at his heart before beginning work on the next Star Core.
• Ling Yunxiao hosted a banquet for the Academy cohort and announced that Lin Yi would reward disciples who earned places on the competition rankings, including with World Minor Pills.
• Long Quan asked whether disciples outside Lin Yi’s Demon Dragon Realm group could qualify for rewards, and Ling Yunxiao assured him they could, winning his support.
• Niu Chuangchuang revealed that he had been eliminated in his first preliminary match, then decided to ask Lin Yi for Indestructible Pills to help him break through to the Emperor Realm.

Lin Yi completed the fusion of all forty-nine Emperor Clan Star Cores, perfecting his Divine Demon Body and awakening the Chaos Profound Bell’s final three Innate Restrictions. After leaving seclusion, he learned that Fu Dao and Gu Chengan had ranked in the Starfall Competition, then visited Zun Sheng and Gu Chaokuang, who showed him a secret letter from Yuanshi saying they might not be able to return to the Ancient Domain.

• Lin Yi fused all forty-nine Emperor Clan Star Cores, completing his Divine Demon Body and gaining combat power that could contend with peak Emperor Realm opponents.
• The Chaos Profound Bell completed its eighteen Innate Restrictions, gaining powers to devour and refine opponents’ origins and create a Divine Demon Clone equal to Lin Yi’s true body.
• Lin Yi absorbed the Fuzhu Incarnation’s memories and learned that Fu Dao and Gu Chengan had placed in the top ten thousand of the early Emperor Realm division.
• Lin Yi read Zun Sheng and Gu Chaokuang’s messages and went to their residence to hear about a matter concerning Yuanshi.
• Zun Sheng and Gu Chaokuang gave Lin Yi Yuanshi’s secret letter, which said they might not be able to return to the Ancient Domain.

After receiving Yuanshi’s secret letter, Lin Yi learned that Yuanshi had failed to locate the Ancient Domain and suspected it had merged with Blue Star. Lin Yi traveled with Zun Sheng and Gu Chaokuang to Ascension Iron City to investigate, where he found no trace of Yuanshi but sensed his nominal martial uncle Wu Chen.

• Lin Yi read Yuanshi’s letter, which described his failed attempts to find the Ancient Domain and his theory that it had merged with Blue Star.
• Lin Yi left his Fuzhu Incarnation to manage his duties and promised rewards, then departed Starfall City with Zun Sheng and Gu Chaokuang aboard the Thousand Illusions Dragon Pattern Boat.
• After several days crossing the Tidal Spirit Sea, Lin Yi reached Ascension Iron City, a frontier city ruled by the mid-Emperor Realm Ice Emperor.
• Lin Yi concealed his group and slipped through the city’s protective formations without raising an alarm.
• Lin Yi scanned Ascension Iron City, found no trace of Yuanshi, and detected his nominal martial uncle Wu Chen instead.

Wu Chen reunited with Lin Yi, Zun Sheng, and Gu Chaokuang in Ascension Iron City and revealed that Wu Shi and Gan Wuliang had disappeared into the Black Mist. When a Rhino-Fire Evil Ape pursued them to the city and launched a siege, Lin Yi identified the threat and learned that Wu Shi had deliberately led it there, expecting Lin Yi to help defeat it.

• Wu Chen left his cave abode and was startled to encounter Lin Yi, Zun Sheng, and Gu Chaokuang outside the tavern.
• Wu Chen told Lin Yi and the others that Wu Shi and Gan Wuliang had entered the Black Mist six months earlier to search for the Ancient Domain's minor world coordinates.
• Wu Chen's Sensing Jade Talisman flickered erratically, and Lin Yi used the Mountain-Sea Disk to locate the connected aura about ten thousand miles east of the city.
• A Rhino-Fire Evil Ape emerged from the Black Mist with a vast evil tide, prompting the Ice Emperor to activate Ascension Iron City's defenses and request reinforcements from Starfall City.
• Lin Yi identified the Rhino-Fire Evil Ape and discovered that it had chased Wu Shi and Gan Wuliang to the city after Wu Shi disturbed it in the Black Mist.
• While fleeing the evil tide, Wu Shi told Gan Wuliang that his deduction predicted the Rhino-Fire Evil Ape would die if it advanced farther, and said Lin Yi had arrived.

Wu Shi used the Star Constellation Heavenly Chart to protect the cultivators outside Ascension Iron City from the Rhino-Fire Evil Ape, but the Ice Emperor suspected Wu Shi had caused the disaster. Zun Sheng arrived with orders from Lin Yi, and after the Ice Emperor engaged the Evil Ape, Zun Sheng gave Wu Shi Emperor pills and revealed Lin Yi’s method for fighting the enemy.

• The Rhino-Fire Evil Ape unleashed an Emperor-level attack, and Wu Shi summoned the Star Constellation Heavenly Chart to shield the cultivators trapped outside Ascension Iron City.
• The Ice Emperor realized Wu Shi had brought the Evil Ape to the city, but Zun Sheng arrived with the White Tiger Captain Token and asked to be taken to the battlefield.
• Wu Shi exhausted his Emperor power blocking the Evil Ape’s attacks, while the Evil Ape revealed its true body and sent an army of evil creatures toward Ascension Iron City.
• Zun Sheng asked the Ice Emperor to hold the Evil Ape briefly, and the Ice Emperor used the Ice Soul Cold Pearl to block the advancing army and battle the enemy.
• Zun Sheng gave Wu Shi Emperor pills and explained that Lin Yi could not appear because peak Emperor Realm experts were investigating him, then showed Wu Shi the Mountain Splitting Sword Lin Yi had left behind.

Zun Sheng used the Mountain Splitting Sword to kill the Rhino-Fire Evil Ape in one strike, ending the attack on Ascension Iron City. After the Ice Emperor hosted Zun Sheng, Wu Shi, and Gan Wuliang at a banquet, three Azure Dragon Lords arrived and questioned their presence, until a calm voice addressed them.

• Zun Sheng launched the Mountain Splitting Sword, which pierced the Rhino-Fire Evil Ape's origin and killed it instantly.
• Zun Sheng stored the Emperor Evil's body, and the Ice Emperor froze the fleeing evil creatures with the Ice Soul Cold Pearl.
• The Ice Emperor questioned Zun Sheng's group at a banquet, but Zun Sheng claimed they had secretly investigated and eliminated the threat.
• Three Azure Dragon Lords arrived, heard that a single sword strike had killed the mid-Emperor Realm evil, and grew suspicious of Zun Sheng's group.
• A calm voice addressed the Azure Dragon Lords and remarked that they had barely arrived in time to save Ascension Iron City.

Lin Yi reunited with Wu Shi and learned that the route back to the Ancient Domain had vanished, possibly because the Black Mist passages collapsed or Blue Star fused with the Tianqi Small World. The two entered the turbulent Black Mist to investigate, while Lin Yi also recalled Yu Huaqing’s vision and wondered what had happened to Yu Huachen and the other missing Blue Star Newborn.

• Lin Yi ordered the Azure Dragon Lords to stay in Ascension Iron City and guard against further evil turmoil, then reunited with Wu Shi, Zun Sheng, and Gan Wuliang.
• Wu Shi explained that the passage between Ascension Iron City and the Tianqi Small World had disappeared, and he suspected either Black Mist unrest or a fusion between Blue Star and the Tianqi Small World had erased its coordinates.
• Lin Yi noted that Blue Star and the Tianqi Small World had shown no signs of accelerating fusion before he left, so Gu Chaokuang proposed investigating the Black Mist directly.
• Lin Yi left Zun Sheng, Gu Chaokuang, and Gan Wuliang in the city with the Mountain Splitting Sword, then set out with Wu Shi toward the Black Mist.
• On the way, Wu Shi described Star Constellation Academy, and Lin Yi recalled Yu Huaqing’s vision of him at Ascension Iron City and considered whether Yu Huachen had reached the Source Realm.
• Lin Yi and Wu Shi reached the turbulent Black Mist, where Wu Shi warned him not to provoke Emperor Evils as they began searching for the lost route.