Chapter Summaries

High Person Xueqing and Chen Xue accused the Ye Lineage of assaulting and murdering Falling Snow Sect disciples and sentenced them to execution. When Ye Yan broke free and led the lineage in a desperate charge, their attack vanished and a powerful white figure appeared.

• Ye Xuan cautiously asked High Person Xueqing why the Falling Snow Sect had come, and Chen Xue accused the Ye Lineage of raping and murdering sect disciples.
• Ye Xuan questioned the accusation, but High Person Xueqing dismissed his objections and declared that the Ye Lineage deserved execution.
• Ye Yan broke free of Ye Xuan's restraint after reaching the Qi Sea Third Layer and attacked, inspiring the Ye Lineage disciples to join him.
• Ye Xuan and the lineage elders accepted the risk of death and charged alongside the younger members.
• High Person Xueqing sent flying snow and ice blades at the charging Ye Lineage, but the attack vanished as an overwhelming white figure appeared.

Ye Chen returned to save the Ye Lineage, killed High Person Xueqing and Chen Xue, and praised his family for standing their ground. He then ordered the entire Ye Lineage to march on the Breeze Sect and wipe it out.

• Ye Chen appeared before the Ye Lineage, and its members recognized him as their ancestor and celebrated his return.
• High Person Xueqing lost her Dao heart and was crippled when she learned Ye Chen was the Ye Lineage's ancestor, while Chen Xue panicked and called on her master for protection.
• Ye Chen declared that anyone who insulted the Ye Lineage would die, then killed High Person Xueqing and Chen Xue with a punch.
• Ye Chen praised Ye Yan and the other Ye Lineage members for fighting back and led them to the council hall.
• Ye Chen said the Ye Lineage needed a battle to intimidate nearby powers and ordered everyone to wipe out the Breeze Sect.

Ye Chen ordered the Ye Lineage to attack the Breeze Sect, entrusting Ye Xuan with leadership and giving him a spirit beast pouch and supplies. The Ye Lineage set out in high spirits, while Steward Qian dismissed their chances and expected them to be destroyed.

• Ye Xuan and the elders warned Ye Chen that the Ye Lineage was too weak to challenge the Breeze Sect, but Ye Chen insisted they go and said he would handle everything.
• Ye Chen gave Ye Xuan a spirit beast pouch and told the lineage to distribute their spirit weapons and pills before returning to seclusion.
• Ye Xuan declared his trust in Ye Chen, and the elders and Ye Yan rallied behind the attack on the Breeze Sect.
• The Ye Lineage gathered its disciples and marched toward the Breeze Sect under Ye Xuan's leadership as other forces mocked them.
• A black-robed man told Steward Qian that the Ye Lineage was heading to attack the Breeze Sect, and Steward Qian dismissed their prospects and ordered him to report once they were gone.

Zhao Si learned that the Ye Lineage was coming to destroy the Breeze Sect and sought guidance from Ancestor Zhao Heng, who suspected the lineage possessed an emperor artifact. Zhao Heng revealed his trap was ready and waited for the Ye Lineage to arrive.

• A deacon told Zhao Si that the Ye Lineage was heading toward the Breeze Sect to wipe it out, but Zhao Si ordered him to keep watch instead of striking first.
• Zhao Si reported the threat to Ancestor Zhao Heng and explained that Hao'er had led disguised men to frame the Ye Lineage for crimes against the Falling Snow Sect.
• Zhao Heng said Hao'er and his men would not return because the Falling Snow Sect had been destroyed, apparently erased by an emperor artifact or another object containing a powerful expert's strike.
• Zhao Si realized the Ye Lineage might possess an emperor artifact and grew eager to claim it, but Zhao Heng warned that it could destroy the Breeze Sect.
• Zhao Heng said he had already made preparations and would wait for the Ye Lineage to walk into his trap.

The Breeze Sect prepared to rely on a Myriad Origins Holy Land elder to seize the Ye Lineage’s treasures, while the Ye Lineage arrived at Breeze Mountain and faced the sect’s overwhelming forces. As Ye Xuan opened a black spirit beast pouch, a terrifying pressure swept over everyone, and Zhao Heng and Zhao Si mistook it for the power of the emperor artifact they hoped to claim.

• Zhao Heng told Zhao Si that he had contacted an elder of the Myriad Origins Holy Land, who was traveling to investigate the Ye Lineage and might take its emperor artifact and treasures.
• The Holy Land elder decided to kill anyone who knew the Ye Lineage’s identity and seize its treasury, then traveled to Heavenly Profound Province.
• The Breeze Sect’s disciples confronted the Ye Lineage outside Breeze Mountain, and the Ye disciples wavered under the disparity in strength while others urged them to trust their ancestor.
• Ye Xuan prepared to open a black spirit beast pouch as Zhao Heng, Zhao Si, and the Breeze Sect’s elders arrived and mistook it for a storage pouch containing the emperor artifact.
• Ye Xuan opened the pouch, unleashing immense pressure that made everyone tremble as Zhao Heng and Zhao Si rejoiced, believing the emperor artifact had appeared.

The Primordial Demon Lightning Ape emerged from the spirit beast pouch and overwhelmed the Breeze Sect, prompting the Ye Lineage to rally behind Ye Chen. Just as the ape attacked, Nan Fa of the Myriad Origins Holy Land arrived and prepared to fight it.

• A hundred-zhang Primordial Demon Lightning Ape burst from the spirit beast pouch, and its roar injured the Breeze Sect disciples and elders.
• Zhao Heng and Zhao Si mistook the demon ape's appearance as evidence of the Ye Lineage's reserves, while the Ye Lineage celebrated and regretted doubting Ye Chen.
• Ye Yan urged the Ye Lineage to focus on destroying the Breeze Sect, and the demon ape prepared to finish the sect with one strike.
• Nan Fa intervened with a blade of spiritual power that drove the demon ape back, then demanded to know where the Ye Lineage's imperial artifact was.
• Nan Fa recognized the ape's strength and readied himself to subdue it as the demon ape's fighting spirit rose.

Ye Chen appeared as a giant face in the heavens, restrained the battlefield, and killed Nan Fa before ordering the Breeze Sect’s destruction. The Ye Lineage wiped out the sect, and Ye Xuan sent Ye Yan to search for survivors and seize its resources.

• Nan Fa pierced the demon ape’s lightning attack and prepared to strike its head, leaving the Ye Lineage fearing defeat and the Breeze Sect celebrating.
• A giant face resembling Ye Chen appeared in the heavens and suppressed everyone; Ye Yan recognized the ancestor, and the Ye Lineage knelt to welcome him.
• Nan Fa realized the giant face belonged to the Ye Lineage’s ancestor and begged for mercy, but Ye Chen ordered him to perish and erased him.
• The giant face annihilated the Breeze Sect’s senior members and ordered the Ye Lineage to wipe out the sect before disappearing; the demon ape followed him.
• The Ye Lineage slaughtered the remaining Breeze Sect members, and Ye Yan reported their deaths to Ye Xuan.
• Ye Xuan ordered Ye Yan to check for survivors and search the Breeze Sect’s treasury and scripture pavilion for useful resources.

After the Ye Lineage destroyed the Breeze Sect, Ye Chen rewarded his followers and declared that the Ye Lineage would eventually rule the Heavenly Profound Continent. Meanwhile, the Myriad Origins Holy Land began investigating Elder Nan’s death, and powers across the Clear Wind Kingdom moved to court the victorious Ye Lineage.

• An elder reported Elder Nan’s shattered soul tablet to Wan Kong, who ordered an investigation into the Saint who had killed him.
• Ye Chen used three accumulated check-ins to obtain a Great Emperor puppet, then resumed cultivating the Chaos Dao Scripture.
• The Ye Lineage returned triumphantly to Clearwater Town, and news spread that it had wiped out the Breeze Sect.
• Steward Qian learned of the Breeze Sect’s destruction and hurried to prepare gifts for a personal visit to the Ye Lineage; other powers and the ruler also brought gifts.
• Ye Chen praised the Ye Lineage, ordered a victory banquet and rewards, and told Ye Xuan that the Clear Wind Kingdom, Heavenly Profound Province, and Heavenly Profound Continent would belong to the Ye Lineage.

The Ye Lineage received gifts and congratulations from Clear Wind Kingdom’s leaders, then Ye Xuan accepted Ye Chen’s preparations to protect the lineage as Ye Chen set out with Ye Yan. They arrived at Boundless Mountain, where Azure Province’s major forces had gathered for the opening of the Boundless Secret Realm.

• Ye Lineage members feasted on fifth-tier demonic beasts, astonishing visiting leaders and making them wary of the lineage.
• Ye Xuan received gifts from Steward Qian and heard the ruler and other leaders congratulate the Ye Lineage for destroying the Breeze Sect.
• Ye Xuan declared that the Ye Lineage would replace the Breeze Sect; after an unknown force killed a patriarch who started to object, the visitors agreed and presented gifts.
• Ye Chen gave Ye Xuan spirit beast pouches, a Great Emperor puppet, spirit stones, and a communication stone, then prepared to leave with Ye Yan so he could train him.
• Qingxuan and the Shangguan Lineage’s patriarch gathered with other forces at Boundless Mountain for the secret realm’s opening, and Ye Chen teleported there with Ye Yan.

Ye Chen brought Ye Yan into Wuyazi’s secret realm and directed him to claim its inheritances by passing the trials. While Ye Yan struggled through the fourth trial, Ye Chen revealed to the palace’s artifact spirit that he was an eighteen-year-old Quasi-Emperor.

• Ye Chen bypassed the guards and the secret realm’s restrictions, entering with Ye Yan before it officially opened.
• Ye Chen took Ye Yan to the palace at the realm’s heart, where its artifact spirit revealed Wuyazi’s three inheritances: a cultivation technique, a sword, and a pill.
• Ye Chen sent Ye Yan into the trial space to earn the inheritances while he spoke with the artifact spirit about Wuyazi.
• The artifact spirit doubted Ye Chen’s claim that he had quickly advanced beyond the Saint Realm, so Ye Chen revealed his Quasi-Emperor presence.
• Ye Chen told the stunned artifact spirit that he had entered the Emperor Realm only days earlier, when he was almost eighteen.
• Ye Yan reached the fourth trial, where four mirror images matching his cultivation overwhelmed him as he weakened and neared defeat.

Ye Chen helped Ye Yan claim Wuyazi's inheritance and plunder the Wuya Secret Realm before they left. When the other factions entered and found the realm stripped bare, Shangguan Hai attacked Qingxuan and then declared that the Azure Province Academy still had to die.

• Ye Chen cleared every trial for Ye Yan, who received Wuyazi's inheritance and the sacred artifact temple, whose artifact spirit chose to follow him.
• Ye Yan gathered resources throughout the secret realm, and Ye Chen suppressed an enormous fruit tree so Ye Yan could take its ripe fruit.
• Ye Chen and Ye Yan left the secret realm as Qingxuan, Shangguan Hai, and the other faction leaders opened its entrance and sent their disciples inside.
• Disciples emerged battered and reported that the secret realm had been plundered, the inheritance was gone, and its demonic beasts and fruit tree had attacked them.
• Shangguan Hai attacked Qingxuan, but after hearing what happened, he acknowledged that the academy's disciples were not responsible before threatening to kill them anyway.

Luo Chen returned to find the academy on the brink of war with the Shangguan Lineage, aided by the powerful Yama Hall. When Luo Chen begged Ye Chen for help, Ye Chen killed Shangguan Hai and the Yama Hall experts, leaving everyone stunned by his strength.

• Qingxuan warned Luo Chen to escape as the Shangguan Lineage and the academy prepared to fight over the Wuya Secret Realm.
• Four Yama Hall experts joined Shangguan Hai, and Qingxuan ordered the academy disciples to flee while he held them back.
• Luo Chen fled wounded, but Shangguan Hai sent an elder and several disciples after him.
• Luo Chen encountered Ye Chen and pleaded for him to save the academy, but Ye Chen initially prepared to leave.
• The Shangguan elder tried to detain Ye Chen, who killed him; Shangguan Hai then arrived and was killed by Ye Chen with a single palm.
• Ye Chen killed all four Yama Hall experts, terrifying everyone who witnessed his power.

Ye Chen visited Azure Province Academy and studied the history of the Heavenly Profound Continent, learning how the Human Heavenly Court collapsed and the Ye Lineage was destroyed. Qingxuan began explaining the calamity’s causes and ended with the Ye Lineage’s last followers dying while escorting Heavenly Emperor Ye Ming’s coffin.

• Ye Chen killed the Shangguan Lineage disciples and Yama Hall visitors, then accepted Qingxuan’s invitation to visit Azure Province Academy.
• Ye Chen spent half a month in the academy library studying the Heavenly Court’s fall, the continent’s division, and the foreign races’ domains.
• Qingxuan told Ye Chen that Heavenly Emperor Ye Ming founded the Heavenly Court and that resentment against the powerful Ye Lineage had grown before the foreign races invaded.
• Qingxuan explained that Ye Ming died after the second battle, the Heavenly Court fractured, and the Ye Lineage’s remaining allies perished escorting his coffin to its ancestral land.

Ye Chen learned that powerful forces were secretly searching for the Ye Lineage and revealed to Qingxuan that he was a Quasi-Emperor from that lineage. After leaving Ye Yan with a protective jade pendant and restoring Xuan Danzi’s soul, Ye Chen set out for Heavenly Origin Holy Land while Ye Yan began training to become an alchemist.

• Qingxuan gave Ye Chen a storage ring, and Ye Chen told him to give it to Ye Yan instead before confirming that he was a Quasi-Emperor.
• Ye Chen used his accumulated check-ins to obtain the Bronze Trial Tower, then left Azure Province Academy for Heavenly Origin Holy Land.
• Outside Azure Province City, Ye Chen gave Ye Yan a jade pendant containing three of his strikes and departed.
• Xuan Danzi appeared after Ye Chen’s soul power restored him completely, and he offered to teach Ye Yan alchemy.
• Xuan Danzi and Ye Yan set off for Pill Province to begin Ye Yan’s alchemy training.

Elder Wei traced Elder Nan's death to Breeze Mountain in Heavenly Profound Province and connected it to the Ye Lineage, prompting Holy Lord Wan Kong to investigate personally. At Yama Hall's Eastern Domain headquarters, the Divine Son set out for Azure Province after the branch's senior members were reported dead, while Hall Master ordered those involved to be eliminated.

• Elder Wei told Holy Lord Wan Kong that Elder Nan had fallen at Breeze Mountain after being defeated with a single move.
• Elder Wei linked Elder Nan's death and the destruction of the Huayun Sect and two small sects to the Ye Lineage, and Wan Kong decided to go there himself.
• A gaunt old man reported that the Azure Province branch's senior members had been killed after the branch master conspired with the Shangguan Lineage against Azure Province Academy.
• The middle-aged Hall Master killed the messenger and ordered an investigation that would leave none of those involved alive.
• The Divine Son chose to travel to Azure Province, and the Hall Master assigned Great Saint Realm Elder Yan to follow and protect him.

Ye Chen met Ye Tian, a boy seeking strength after losing his family and master, and secretly helped him before continuing to Heavenly Origin Holy City. There, Ye Chen entered without paying the guards, who raised the entry fee after he left.

• Ye Chen shared roasted rabbit with Ye Tian and learned that Ye Tian hoped to join the Heavenly Origin Holy Land despite being too weak for its assessment.
• Ye Tian told Ye Chen that a martial cultivator in black had slaughtered his village, his mother had died after giving him a jade pendant, and his master had recently been killed while his junior sister was taken away.
• Ye Chen infused Ye Tian with immortal spirit Qi and left the power of one of his strikes in Ye Tian's body before departing.
• Ye Tian vowed to avenge his family and master and find his junior sister.
• Ye Chen reached Heavenly Origin Holy City and used a trace of Saint Realm pressure to pass the guards without paying the entry fee.
• After Ye Chen left, the guards increased the fee to three spirit stones per person.

Ye Chen began refining the Demon Slayer Immortal Sword while Ye Tian entered Heavenly Origin Holy City and confronted Zhang Yue, the man who had destroyed his sect and abducted his junior sister. The City Guard commander stopped their fight, but Ye Tian refused to let the matter end.

• Ye Chen used the Seventh Ancestor’s method to open the Demon Slayer Immortal Sword’s first seal, unleashing its immense killing intent.
• Ye Tian arrived at Heavenly Origin Holy City after Ye Chen’s touch had strengthened him and raised his cultivation to the Xiantian Realm.
• Ye Tian stopped a carriage from striking a little girl and discovered that its owner, Zhang Yue, had killed his master and sold his junior sister to a brothel.
• Ye Tian attacked Zhang Yue, but the City Guard commander struck him down and declared that the matter was over.
• Zhang Yue rejected the commander’s ruling, and Ye Tian also declared that he did not agree.

Ye Tian challenged Zhang Yue to a duel to the death, but the City Guard commander tried to sentence him to death. Ye Chen’s powerful phantom appeared and struck down the commander, after which the City Lord arranged for the duel to take place in one hour.

• The commander ordered Ye Tian and Zhang Yue taken to Blood Prison, and Ye Tian demanded a duel to the death under Holy City law.
• The commander dismissed Ye Tian’s challenge and attacked him, declaring him sentenced to death for disrespecting the Holy City.
• Ye Chen’s phantom appeared around Ye Tian and blasted the commander through dozens of buildings.
• The City Lord arrived and bowed to Ye Chen’s phantom, then offered to grant Ye Tian’s request.
• Ye Tian renewed his challenge, while Zhang Yue begged the City Lord to save him.
• The City Lord ordered Ye Tian and Zhang Yue to rest before dueling in one hour, then crushed a communication stone.

Ye Tian killed Zhang Yue in a duel, but the Zhang Clan's newly ascended Saint ancestor attacked him. Ye Chen's phantom destroyed the ancestor with one finger, while two elders at the Heavenly Origin Holy Land sensed the power and went to investigate.

• Ye Tian used his Origin Core Realm strength to kill Zhang Yue with a single sword strike.
• The Zhang Clan's ancestor appeared after breaking through to the Saint Realm and sent a giant palm toward Ye Tian.
• Ye Chen's phantom shattered the palm and obliterated the Zhang Clan's ancestor before vanishing.
• The Holy City's lord and the onlookers were stunned by the ancestor's sudden death.
• At the Heavenly Origin Holy Land, an elder sensed the immense pressure near the Holy City and went to investigate with his companion.

After Tian Yuanzi and Elder Wan arrived in Holy City, Tian Yuanzi decided to punish Ye Tian for the death of Heavenly Origin Holy Land’s elder. He struck at Ye Tian to draw out the mysterious expert behind him, and a sigh sounded from the void as his palm descended.

• Ye Tian looted Zhang Yue’s corpse while the Zhang Clan watched, furious and helpless after their ancestor’s death.
• Tian Yuanzi and Elder Wan appeared, and Holy City’s city lord explained how a phantom had killed Elder Zhang.
• Elder Wan suspected Ye Tian’s protector was a Central Province genius, but Tian Yuanzi insisted Heavenly Origin Holy Land could not let the elder’s death pass unpunished.
• Tian Yuanzi attacked Ye Tian while secretly watching for his protector to appear, and Ye Tian braced himself for death.
• A sigh rang out from the void as Tian Yuanzi’s palm descended, and Tian Yuanzi realized the mysterious expert had arrived.