Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi led the reorganized evil army through an interrealm passage into the Phoenix-Speech Realm under Taiyi City's jurisdiction, where the Evil Venerables planned to seize nearby Small Worlds. After Dark Sun Evil Venerable exposed a Taiyi City spy, the invasion force pressed ahead while preparing to hunt for more hidden spies.

• Lin Yi gathered intelligence from Azure Dragon Lord and absorbed Nine Nether Evil Emperor's wealth, bloodline origin, and divine abilities while the army marched.
• Dark Sun Evil Venerable transported the evil army to a new interrealm node, where seven Evil Venerables opened a passage into the Source Realm.
• The invading army crossed the violent Tidal Spirit Sea into the Phoenix-Speech Realm, and Lin Yi silently resolved to destroy those who preyed on the Human Race.
• Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor learned that the region belonged to Taiyi City, and the Evil Venerables decided to seize nearby Small Worlds instead of attacking the city directly.
• Dark Sun Evil Venerable exposed and devoured a Human Race spy, then ordered the army to continue its plan and deliberately draw out other spies.

Lin Yi tried to protect lives in Vault Cauldron while serving in Mixed Immortal Evil Venerable’s army, but the Venerable’s surveillance stopped him from sending a warning. Meanwhile, Taiyi City recognized the danger too late, and Great Emperor Zinan escaped an ambush by three Evil Venerables using Great Emperor Zi Wei’s talisman.

• Mixed Immortal Evil Venerable sealed Vault Cauldron, slaughtered its Emperor Realm defenders, and ordered Lin Yi’s forces to kill the remaining inhabitants.
• Lin Yi secretly preserved Human Race civilians in his Primordial World while maintaining his Heaven Python persona, but Mixed Immortal Evil Venerable caught and killed an alleged spy before Lin Yi could send a message.
• Taiyi City’s investigators disappeared, prompting Great Emperor Fengyan and his allies to discuss the missing worlds as the Ziwei Lineage prepared for an emergency.
• Great Emperor Zinan and a companion entered the Tidal Spirit Sea, where Dark Sun Evil Venerable, Spirit-Severing Evil Venerable, and Calamity-Transforming Evil Venerable ambushed them.
• Great Emperor Zinan used Great Emperor Zi Wei’s talisman to break through the blockade and escape with her companion.

Lin Yi uncovered Mixed Immortal Evil Venerable’s plan to leak intelligence about the invading Evil Venerables and sent Zhou Zhihao to warn Taiyi City. Zhou Zhihao returned with news that Great Emperor Zinan and another peak Emperor Realm expert had been ambushed, and said Great Emperor Zinan wanted to speak with Lin Yi.

• Dark Sun Evil Venerable ordered the next stage of the invasion after Great Emperor Zi Wei’s lingering fist force broke the three Evil Venerables’ blockade.
• Mixed Immortal Evil Venerable questioned Lin Yi about Dark Mist City, verified his connection to Yellow Heaven Ancestor with the Heaven-Changing Art, and ordered him to leak intelligence to Taiyi City.
• Lin Yi released Zhou Zhihao, showed him the destruction of the Vault Cauldron Realm, and revealed the Ziwei Emperor Armor, leading Zhou Zhihao to believe Lin Yi was Great Emperor Zi Wei’s disciple.
• Zhou Zhihao sent Taiyi City intelligence about the seven Evil Venerables’ invasion, then returned after learning that Great Emperor Zinan and another peak Emperor Realm expert had been ambushed.
• Zhou Zhihao told Lin Yi that Great Emperor Zinan wanted to speak with him, and Lin Yi suspected Zhou Zhihao had exposed him.

Lin Yi spoke with Great Emperor Zinan about the invasion of Taiyi City and refused to summon reinforcements from Starfall City. After killing a late Emperor Realm Evil Creature that had tracked Zhou Zhihao, he discovered that the enemy was searching for scouts and imprisoned Zhou Zhihao in his Primordial World to prevent him from leaking secrets.

• Zhou Zhihao revealed to Lin Yi that he had met a secret disciple of Great Emperor Zi Wei and urged him to take charge of Taiyi City's crisis.
• Great Emperor Zinan contacted Lin Yi, identified him as the prodigy from Starfall City, and asked him to seek reinforcements from Flame Emperor.
• Lin Yi refused to help Starfall City intervene and advised Great Emperor Zinan to request aid from Great Emperor Gan Jin, while Zhou Zhihao disclosed Gan Jin's past rejected proposal to Zinan.
• Lin Yi sensed Demon Emperor Tianhao approaching and killed the late Emperor Realm Evil Creature in a brief clash.
• Lin Yi searched Demon Emperor Tianhao's soul, learned that the Evil Venerables were hunting scouts, cut off his communication with Great Emperor Zinan, and sealed Zhou Zhihao inside his Primordial World.

Lin Yi reported the seven Evil Venerables’ invasion to Starfall City, then learned they planned to abandon their armies after their presence was exposed. He persuaded Mixed Immortal’s Emperor Evils to hide inside the Chaos Profound Bell, while more than ten suspicious Emperor Evils fled with a map Lin Yi gave them.

• Lin Yi sent intelligence about the seven Evil Venerables near Taiyi City to Starfall City and retreated into the Tidal Spirit Sea.
• Dark Sun Evil Venerable told the gathered Evil Venerables their invasion had been exposed and ordered them to split up, leaving their armies to attack small worlds as abandoned pawns.
• Mixed Immortal Evil Venerable warned Lin Yi that the Source Realm’s peak experts would soon surround the area, then left its army in Lin Yi’s hands.
• Lin Yi gathered 264 Emperor Evils, told them they had been abandoned, and convinced most of them to hide in a concealed space using his Imperial Evil Artifact.
• More than ten Emperor Evils refused Lin Yi’s plan and fled with a map he provided, while Lin Yi led the remaining army into the space beneath the Chaos Profound Bell.

Lin Yi trapped the evil army in his spatial domain and slaughtered its members, then discovered the Divine Statue had devoured their remains. He pursued the Emperor Evils who had escaped into the Tidal Spirit Sea and began tracking the three who had discarded his maps.

• Lin Yi sealed the evil army inside his spatial domain and used the Chaos Profound Bell to kill most of its creatures in a surprise attack.
• Lin Yi revealed his Source Realm Indestructible Body and fought the surviving Emperor Evils, defeating their attempt to break out and destroying them all.
• Lin Yi found the three-inch Divine Statue secretly devouring the remains, sealed it, and set off after the fleeing Emperor Evils.
• Lin Yi tracked down and killed eight of the eleven Emperor Evils who had fled, while three cautious fugitives discarded their maps and escaped deeper into the Tidal Spirit Sea.
• Lin Yi used the Mountain-Sea Disk to resume tracking the three fugitives who had tried to erase their trail.

Lin Yi destroyed the last surviving Emperor Evils, then investigated the Divine Statue and learned it connected him to the ancient Great Dao Realm expert Daoist Zhoutian, imprisoned beneath Cangxue Mang Mountain by the Dark Mist Dao Lord. Daoist Zhoutian’s memories revealed the danger of the Dark Mist Realm and explained Dao Foundations, leaving Lin Yi wary of returning and newly aware of the difference between Innate and Acquired Dao Foundations.

• Lin Yi used the Mountain-Sea Disk to find and kill the three remaining Emperor Evils, wiping out the evil army and claiming its spoils.
• Lin Yi fed Emperor Evil Origin to the Divine Statue, which awakened and drew his consciousness into the darkness beneath Cangxue Mang Mountain.
• Lin Yi experienced Daoist Zhoutian’s torment and received fragmented memories of his imprisonment by the Dark Mist Dao Lord.
• Lin Yi learned that Daoist Zhoutian was a Great Dao Realm expert whose flesh and soul had been dismembered and sealed as nourishment for the Dark Mist Realm.
• Lin Yi decided the Dark Mist Realm was too dangerous to enter and learned that Great Dao Realm experts needed Dao Foundations, which could be Innate or Acquired.

Lin Yi studied Daoist Zhoutian’s Great Dao inheritance and realized he needed to forge a path beyond the Source Realm’s existing systems. After five years in seclusion, he was discovered by Myriad Emperor Alliance patrols, who recognized his Enlightenment Tea and began to withdraw before he opened his eyes.

• Lin Yi found Daoist Zhoutian’s complete Zhoutian Meridian Aperture Dao Foundation Method but decided not to follow its established path, using it instead to recognize the limits of his own cultivation methods.
• After the Evil Venerables vanished from around Taiyi City, Great Emperor Gan Jin redeployed the forces, and the Evil Venerables later attacked Heavenly Palace Small City before the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao killed one and drove the rest away.
• Great Emperor Gan Jin left a small garrison in Taiyi City and withdrew the other Emperor Realm peaks, while the Myriad Emperor Alliance continued searching for hidden Emperor Evils.
• Five years later, a Myriad Emperor Alliance patrol opened a concealed void space and found Lin Yi meditating amid piles of discarded Enlightenment Tea leaves.
• The patrol’s grand deacon judged Lin Yi to be a powerful Starfall City figure and ordered the team to withdraw, but Lin Yi opened his eyes and made their souls tremble.

After five years of secluded cultivation, Lin Yi gained the first glimpse of a new Dao path and traveled to Taiyi City to learn how the Source Realm had changed. He discovered that the threat near Starfall City was growing, but chose to stay in Taiyi City for now and study its vast collection of inheritances.

• Lin Yi emerged from seclusion, gave three Myriad Emperor Alliance patrol cultivators Enlightenment Tea, and left without revealing his identity.
• Lin Yi traveled through the Tidal Spirit Sea and entered Taiyi City after passing its strict identity inspection.
• Lin Yi bought intelligence showing that the seven Evil Venerables had withdrawn from Taiyi City, while hidden Emperor Evil had gathered near Starfall City and Heavenly Palace Small City.
• Lin Yi decided to remain in Taiyi City during the lull and collect its cultivation resources and inheritances to develop his own path.

Lin Yi gathered and comprehended countless inheritances in Taiyi City, then sought a Heavenly Wisdom Fruit to help him forge a new Great Dao path. Just as he prepared to leave, the Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor was exposed near the city, triggering a regional lockdown, while Dark Sun Evil Venerable realized their hiding places had been compromised.

• Lin Yi spent tens of millions of Void Crystal Coins collecting inheritances and defeated Emperor T Luo in three moves after the Skynet Alliance tried to interfere.
• Lin Yi used Dreaming Reincarnation to study the inheritances and concluded that he needed a Heavenly Wisdom Fruit to establish a new Great Dao foundation.
• Lin Yi prepared to leave Taiyi City for Starfall City, Ascension Iron City, and the search for the Tianqi Small World, but the city imposed martial law after an Evil Venerable was detected nearby.
• The Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor killed the Myriad Methods Alliance investigation squad and destroyed the Small World whose Earth Veins it had contaminated.
• Dark Sun Evil Venerable saw the Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor's exposure from its hiding place and realized the Evil Venerables had been discovered.

After the Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor and Dark Sun Evil Venerable revealed themselves, Great Emperor Zinan struggled to organize a response as the Ziwei and Xuantian Lineages refused to cooperate. She decided to search for the Evil Venerables with Great Emperor Bingxin and Great Emperor Kun Yuan, then went to visit Lin Yi.

• The Dark Sun Evil Venerable learned that the Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor had exposed them and swept the living from his hiding place before seeking him out.
• Taiyi Main City received news of the two Evil Venerables, and Great Emperor Zinan convened an emergency council with the city’s peak Emperor Realm experts.
• Great Emperor Bingxin urged the council to hunt the Evil Venerables, but Great Emperor Fengyan, Great Emperor Void God, and Great Emperor Dib ei refused to commit the Xuantian Lineage’s forces.
• Great Emperor Zinan arranged for two Ziwei peak Emperor Realm experts to remain in the city and planned to leave secretly with Great Emperor Bingxin and Great Emperor Kun Yuan.
• After the council, Great Emperor Zinan changed into plain clothes and went alone to Lin Yi’s rented Cave Abode.

Great Emperor Zinan visited Lin Yi to recruit him to track two hidden Evil Venerables, but he initially refused and asked for a permit to leave Taiyi City. She offered access to a Dao Lord’s Painting to persuade him, and Lin Yi agreed to help, though Zinan warned that viewing the painting would still depend on Great Emperor Zi Wei.

• Zinan traced Lin Yi’s identity to the Starfall City administrator who had warned Taiyi City about the Evil Venerables five years earlier.
• Lin Yi let Zinan into his Cave Abode, rejected her appeal for help, and asked her to grant him a permit to leave the city.
• Zinan offered Lin Yi treasures and Emperor Pills, but he refused to help when she explained that she wanted him to track down two hidden Evil Venerables.
• Zinan offered access to the Ziwei Lineage’s inheritance records, then revealed that she possessed a Dao Lord’s Painting from the Nine Heavens World.
• Lin Yi agreed to help Zinan in exchange for the painting, and she cautioned that Great Emperor Zi Wei would decide whether he could view it.

Lin Yi agreed to help Great Emperor Zinan locate an Evil Venerable in exchange for access to Ziwei Lineage records and a chance to study the Dao Lord's Painting, while refusing to join the lineage. He identified Dark Sun Evil Venerable as their target and traced his aura to an abandoned Small World as Zinan's group began the hunt.

• Great Emperor Zinan offered Lin Yi a chance to study the Dao Lord's Painting if he joined the Ziwei Lineage and helped hunt an Evil Venerable, but Lin Yi refused to join and revealed that the Ancestor of the Five Directions Dao was his master.
• Great Emperor Zinan agreed to let Lin Yi study the painting and Ziwei Lineage records after he made a major contribution, and Lin Yi negotiated the risks and terms of the hunt with her.
• Lin Yi said he had recorded the source auras of all seven Evil Venerables and agreed to help Zinan target Dark Sun Evil Venerable, who she blamed for her earlier defeat.
• Dark Sun Evil Venerable argued with Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor over his recklessness, then hid his aura and disguised himself as a stone in a remote, abandoned Small World.
• Great Emperor Zinan secretly left Taiyi City with Great Emperor Bingxin and Great Emperor Kun Yuan, carrying Lin Yi inside her Inner World.
• Lin Yi used the Mountain-Sea Disk to trace Dark Sun Evil Venerable's aura to an abandoned Small World and said they needed to get closer to pinpoint him.

Lin Yi used Dreaming Reincarnation and the Mountain-Sea Disk to distinguish Dark Sun Evil Venerable’s true body from his many false traces, enabling Great Emperor Zinan, Great Emperor Bingxin, and Great Emperor Kun Yuan to ambush him. Dark Sun survived their opening assault, broke Bingxin’s sealing formation with exploding clones, and counterattacked by charging her.

• Great Emperor Zinan led Great Emperor Bingxin and Great Emperor Kun Yuan to the location Lin Yi had identified, but Dark Sun’s clone traces overwhelmed the Mountain-Sea Disk’s deductions.
• Lin Yi used four rounds of Dreaming Reincarnation to devise a way to distinguish the clones, then pinpointed Dark Sun’s true body in ancient-world ruins three hundred and sixty million li away.
• Great Emperor Bingxin sealed the ruins, and Great Emperor Zinan and Great Emperor Kun Yuan struck Dark Sun’s disguised body with their Emperor Artifacts, wounding him.
• Dark Sun unleashed the Devouring Sun Evil Art and hundreds of clones, disrupting the three Great Emperors’ coordinated attack.
• Great Emperor Zinan attacked Dark Sun’s true body while Great Emperor Bingxin restrained his clones and Great Emperor Kun Yuan destroyed them, but Dark Sun detonated dozens of clones and broke the formation.
• Dark Sun chose to continue fighting and charged Great Emperor Bingxin, whose defense he considered the weakest.

Great Emperor Zinan used the Myriad Heavy Stone to suppress the Dark Sun Evil Venerable, and Zinan and Great Emperor Kun Yuan joined Great Emperor Bingxin in attacking him. After Zinan tricked Dark Sun into fleeing with an ordinary talisman, Bingxin revealed a second talisman containing Great Emperor Zi Wei’s full-strength strike, forcing Dark Sun to call on a safeguard left by Venerable Shadow.

• The Dark Sun Evil Venerable targeted Great Emperor Bingxin, but she evaded his attacks with the Moonlit Frost Shadow Step while his clones kept Great Emperor Zinan and Great Emperor Kun Yuan occupied.
• Great Emperor Zinan revealed the Myriad Heavy Stone, crushing Dark Sun’s clones and suppressing his Corrupting Power as Zinan, Bingxin, and Kun Yuan attacked.
• Great Emperor Zinan used a talisman containing Great Emperor Zi Wei’s strike to shatter Dark Sun’s body, then deceived him with an ordinary talisman and made him burn his origin to escape the stone’s gravity.
• Great Emperor Bingxin revealed a second talisman carrying Great Emperor Zi Wei’s full-strength strike and attacked Dark Sun from behind.
• Dark Sun called on Venerable Shadow to save him and unleashed a strand of black light, causing Zinan, Bingxin, and Kun Yuan to brace themselves.

Lin Yi lent Great Emperor Zinan the World-Purifying White Lotus, helping her and the other Great Emperors overwhelm Dark Sun Evil Venerable. As Dark Sun neared defeat, the Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor arrived to aid him, and Great Emperor Kun Yuan moved to intercept.

• Great Emperor Zi Wei's killing blow and Venerable Shadow's black light erased each other, so Great Emperors Zinan, Bingxin, and Kun Yuan attacked Dark Sun Evil Venerable as he tried to flee.
• Lin Yi warned Great Emperor Zinan that Dark Sun's escape could bring other Evil Venerables, then lent her the World-Purifying White Lotus to use with the Myriad Heavy Stone.
• Great Emperor Zinan refined the lotus, purged the corruption within her Taiheng Body, and combined its cleansing power with the Myriad Heavy Stone to trap and weaken Dark Sun.
• Great Emperor Zinan struck Dark Sun while Great Emperor Bingxin sealed the void and Great Emperor Kun Yuan attacked, leaving Dark Sun badly injured and struggling to escape.
• The Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor sensed Dark Sun's peril, chose to help him, and emerged with a mass of corroding Vines; Great Emperor Kun Yuan broke away to intercept him.

Great Emperor Zinan, Great Emperor Bingxin, and Great Emperor Kun Yuan grievously wounded Dark Sun Evil Venerable and killed Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor, though Dark Sun escaped with its core origin. After the battle, Zinan divided the spoils into four shares, while Venerable Xuantian and a mysterious black-robed figure discussed the defeat of their forces near Taiyi City.

• Dark Sun Evil Venerable sacrificed part of its body and split into clones to escape the Myriad Heavy Stone and World-Purifying White Lotus, but Great Emperor Bingxin and Great Emperor Zinan destroyed most of them before one clone fled into the Tidal Spirit Sea.
• Great Emperor Zinan and Great Emperor Bingxin joined Great Emperor Kun Yuan to trap and kill Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor, purifying and crushing its origin.
• Great Emperor Zinan credited Lin Yi's World-Purifying White Lotus and promised to seek the Dao Lord's Painting so he could study its teachings.
• Venerable Xuantian and a black-robed figure learned that Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor had died and Dark Sun's origin had been badly wounded, and they blamed Zi Wei's influence.
• Great Emperor Bingxin gathered the battlefield spoils, and Great Emperor Zinan divided them evenly into four shares, with Great Emperor Bingxin and Great Emperor Kun Yuan accepting Lin Yi's share.

Lin Yi received rare spoils for helping defeat the Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor, then entered the Ziwei Lineage’s Archive Pavilion and was granted seven days to study the Dao Lord’s Painting. Sitting on the ordinary-looking cushion drew his soul into Purple Heaven Palace, where he heard an ancient teacher explain the Great Dao Realm and its cultivation paths.

• Great Emperor Zinan gave Lin Yi three strands of Netherfall Source Qi, a damaged core-source fragment, an intact imperial vine offshoot, and part of the Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor’s life-bound vine.
• Great Emperor Zinan announced the Myriad Spirits Evil Ancestor’s fall and the Dark Sun Evil Venerable’s flight, then used the victory to strengthen the Ziwei Lineage’s control in Taiyi City.
• Great Emperor Zinan opened the Archive Pavilion to Lin Yi and secured him seven days to study the Dao Lord’s Painting, while Lin Yi declined her offer to remain in Taiyi City.
• After repeated attempts to sense the cushion’s mysteries failed, Lin Yi sat on it and was drawn into a vast hall identified as Purple Heaven Palace.
• An ancient teacher described the Dao Foundation, Dao Lord, and Transcendence realms, and said that reaching the Dao Lord Realm with an Acquired Dao Foundation was possible but exceptionally unlikely.
• Lin Yi listened as figures in the hall asked the teacher about Dao cultivation, foundations, laws, and the dangers of the Tidal Spirit Sea.

Lin Yi entered the Purple Heaven Palace through the Dao Lord’s Painting cushion and learned how to forge an innate Dao foundation, along with the true nature and uses of Dao Fall Stones. The teaching exhausted the cushion, and Great Emperor Zinan asked Lin Yi to record what he had learned before she reported the damage.

• Lin Yi asked how an Emperor could comprehend an innate Dao foundation and enter the Great Dao Realm, and the being in the Purple Heaven Palace explained its principles and methods.
• After the hall and its listeners vanished, Lin Yi returned to the Enlightenment Pavilion and discovered that his session had drained the meditation cushion’s miraculous power.
• Lin Yi realized that his five Heavenly Dao Stones were more properly called Dao Fall Stones and could be refined to forge a powerful innate Dao foundation.
• Two days later, Great Emperor Zinan found the ruined cushion, and Lin Yi explained his experience and accepted responsibility for the damage.
• Great Emperor Zinan asked Lin Yi to record his insights and promised to intercede so he could leave safely; Lin Yi handed over the record he had prepared.

Lin Yi offered Great Emperor Zinan a manuscript of Dao foundation insights to settle the Ziwei Lineage’s grievance over the destroyed Dao Lord’s Meditation Cushion, then spent months developing a unique path combining his Primordial World and Divine Demon body methods. Great Emperor Zi Wei returned, ended the dispute over the cushion, and visited Lin Yi before preparing to return to the Six Source Ancestral Land.

• Great Emperor Zinan read Lin Yi’s Spirit Scroll manuscript, accepted its insights as valuable compensation, and told him to wait in Taiyi City while she consulted Great Emperor Zi Wei.
• Lin Yi studied the Ziwei Archive Pavilion and cultivated an Emperor Vine offshoot, while forming a plan to fuse his Primordial World Method with his Divine Demon Fleshly Body Method.
• Great Emperor Zi Wei returned to Taiyi City with Great Emperor Gu Nan, and Zinan defended Lin Yi while Gu Nan argued that he should still be punished for destroying the Dao Lord’s Painting.
• Great Emperor Zi Wei ruled that the matter of the cushion was settled, saying it had revealed its mysteries to Lin Yi by fate, then decided to meet him at the Enlightenment Pavilion.
• Great Emperor Zi Wei visited Lin Yi, praised his homegrown Enlightenment Tea, and explained that he would soon return to the Six Source Ancestral Land, where he had found the Dao Lord’s Meditation Cushion in an ancient ruin.