Lin Ye

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Power Progression

Cultivation realms, physical-body transformations, and Golden Core changes are distinguished below; physical strength frequently exceeds his cultivation realm.

Background and History

Inheriting the Black-Yellow Sect

Lin Ye inherits the Black-Yellow Sect from Liu Wuya, who dies after being caught in a battle between powerful experts. Most disciples leave afterward, leaving only Lin Ye and his junior sister, Yu Yu. Following a failed cultivation breakthrough, Lin Ye awakens memories of his previous life on Earth, whose personality becomes dominant 1.

The sect’s immediate problem is survival: without five disciples, it risks losing its one-star status and the right to recruit. Lin Ye begins searching for candidates accepted by the Supreme Devil Dao System, using concealed cultivation and an imposing presence to appear more powerful than he initially is 1 2 6.

Recruiting the First Disciples

Ye Chen becomes his first disciple despite having severed meridians. Lin Ye supplies him with cultivation methods and pills, and Ye Chen’s progress begins returning tenfold benefits to his master 3 4.

In Spirit Yang City, Lin Ye recruits Dongfang Bai and Dongfang Rou, followed by Yang Yang. He also allows Yang Yang to bring the blind girl Liu Ya. His fifth disciple, Han Bing, joins after Lin Ye frees him from the Hu Household’s control 7 9 10.

With the initial recruitment requirement satisfied, Lin Ye obtains additional system rewards, distributes protective communication tokens, and gives Yu Yu the heaven-grade Supreme Clarity Jade Canon. After the sect assessment, he installs the rewarded sect hall and scripture pavilion 12 13.

Conflict with the Divine Paper Sect

Lin Ye’s destruction of Qu Fu, his paper figures, and a county town draws the Divine Paper Sect’s attention. Its sixth elder, Qu Ce, travels to the Chu Kingdom to investigate the Martial Saint responsible 78 82.

Lin Ye later rescues Chu He from a Golden Core elder, seals the elder’s Golden Core, and possesses his body through the Heavenly Devil Tower. He uses that identity to enter the Divine Paper Sect undetected 93.

The conflict culminates in Lin Ye’s assault on the sect headquarters. He kills Golden Body True Lords Luo Fu and Dong Chen, survives being pierced by a damaged Saint Weapon, and uses the Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique to kill Xu Shan. He destroys the sect’s grotto-heaven and takes its treasury and scripture pavilion, receiving 30 million Devil Dao Points 118 119.

Expansion into the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty

Lin Ye accompanies Nalan Xi toward the imperial dynasty and reconnects with Dongfang Bai near the Supreme Yin Sect. He initially limits the number of disciples traveling with him because the dynasty contains experts he cannot safely oppose 120.

A later system mission requires him to secure a grotto-heaven and territory there, promote the Black-Yellow Sect to eight-star status, and obtain imperial recognition. He negotiates Nalan Yu’s agreement to arrange these conditions in exchange for helping pursue treasures in the Sword Ruins 172.

He also intervenes against the Tantai Household and settles its collateral members near the Black-Yellow Sect’s territory. Their clan becomes affiliated with his sect 182 183.

Clan Annihilation and the Abyss Kingdom

Using Heavenly Demon Karma Kill, Lin Ye hunts Blood Soul Clan members throughout the Chu Kingdom and follows their spatial rift into their own world. He survives an ambush, breaks a formation led by thirty-seven Great Saints, and fights for ten days before hunting down every remaining survivor. The task and the Annihilate a Clan Achievement award him a combined 1.5 billion Devil Dao Points 186.

After killing Yuantun and the remaining Taboo Beings, he discovers the Abyss Kingdom, whose population of more than one hundred million had been kept captive and forbidden to cultivate. He places the kingdom under the Black-Yellow Sect, leaves Zhou Pu in charge, eliminates every Abyss Guard, and orders cultivation inheritances distributed 211.

Yu Yu’s Awakening and the Emperor Road

After learning that Yu Yu’s previous life was Great Emperor Fuyao, Lin Ye tries to delay that consciousness’s revival. He travels with her, asks her to stop cultivating, and later seals her cultivation. When Fuyao Holy Land’s elder Luo Shu attempts to take her away, Lin Ye defeats him and searches his memories 193 194 215.

Lin Ye becomes a Great Emperor inside a sealed Primordial Fragment rather than competing for the Profound Heaven Realm’s sole Emperor’s throne. He later reveals his breakthrough to his disciples and explains that becoming an emperor without the Emperor Road is possible, though more difficult 214 216.

When his disciples prepare to enter the Emperor Road, he supplies treasures, forbids them from fighting one another to the death for the throne, and appoints Bai Shi to supervise them. He subsequently helps Yin Xiang and Bai Shi undergo their Emperor Tribulations inside the Primordial Fragment 223 232 237.

Immortality and Transcendence

On the Immemorial Immortal Road, Lin Ye hunts Immortal Slaves for Devil Dao Points. He rescues Yuan Kong, retrieves the Ancient Azure Lotus Flower from the Weak Water Immortal River, and gives the herb to him. Killing an Extreme Dao Immortal Slave later earns Lin Ye 50 billion Devil Dao Points 251 254.

After becoming a True Immortal, he returns to the sect, frees Jiang Yuqiong from a silver cocoon, and accepts her as a disciple. He gives her an Immortal herb and the Immortal Ascension Scripture to restore her cultivation 261.

As an Immortal King, Lin Ye infiltrates the Immortal Palace’s forbidden area and rescues Yang Xun, leaving a substitute clone behind. Yang Xun becomes his disciple and recovers under his protection in the Mountain Grain Realm 279 280.

Over thousands of years, Lin Ye accepts and trains more than twenty disciples. After reaching the Dao Ancestor Realm, he begins merging the Immortal Realm and the Taboo Abyss into the Black-Yellow Realm. Eleven ancient Dao Ancestors return to oppose him, but he dismisses Dao Ancestor Changqing’s attack as too weak 288.

Once more disciples become Dao Ancestors, Lin Ye releases his stored feedback and becomes a Transcendent. His presence appears at countless points along the River of Space and Time 289.

Personality

Lin Ye prefers comfort to conspicuous personal effort. He frequently rests, eats snacks, and receives massages while his disciples cultivate. Yu Yu notices that his strength rises despite his apparently idle routine 4 13 290.

He is deceptive about his resources and methods. He presents system rewards as inheritances or discoveries from ruins, disguises demonic pills, and rewrites devil-path manuals under righteous-sounding names. Early in his recruitment efforts, he also conceals his weak cultivation to impersonate a senior expert 2 5 6 8 12 13.

His caution is practical rather than absolute. He delays confronting a Golden Core enemy until confident of overwhelming victory and avoids exposing his sect unnecessarily. Once committed, however, he can be exceptionally ruthless, destroying the Divine Paper Sect and exterminating the Blood Soul Clan 83 86 119 186.

He invests heavily in his disciples’ survival and development, buying escape methods, defensive techniques, pills, and weapons. Their growth directly benefits him, but he also insists that they must not kill one another over the Emperor’s throne 60 132 223 267.

Abilities and Skills

Supreme Devil Dao System

The system connects Lin Ye’s personal advancement to recruiting and cultivating suitable disciples 4 10.

• Candidate detection: Identifies disciples who meet its standards; suitability for devil-path cultivation alone is insufficient without system approval 10 213.
• Tenfold feedback: Returns amplified benefits from disciple breakthroughs, technique comprehension, physical cultivation, and improvements in their states of mind 4 5 80 232.
• Stored energy: Allows him to reserve cultivation feedback while continuing to accept physical improvements, then release the accumulated energy for breakthroughs 202 205 274 289.
• Rewards and purchases: Recruitment, missions, and kills provide draws or Devil Dao Points, which he exchanges for techniques, resources, weapons, and sect facilities 12 119 254 267.
• Early limitation: His second original body does not receive cultivation feedback in the documented Golden Body period and must advance using pills and Spirit Stones 126.

Cultivation-Method Revision

Lin Ye rewrites demonic techniques to resemble righteous-path inheritances 5 8 15.

• Renames the Succubus Body Refining Instruction as the Icy Heart and Jade Purity Body Refining Technique, altering its wording before teaching it 8.
• Presents White Bone Claw, Demonic Shadow Clone Technique, and Blood Demon True Body as Pure Yang Claw, Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, and Pure Yang True Body 15.
• The renamed Multiple Shadow Clone Technique creates misleading afterimages, not independently attacking clones 15.

Concealment and Spatial Movement

His concealment and spatial techniques support recruitment, infiltration, travel, and combat 2 151 194.

• Devil Shadow Breath-Returning Technique: A heaven-grade secret method that conceals his presence and sharpens his sensitivity to others’ auras 2 7.
• Great Void Technique: Transports disciples, crosses the void, and allows rapid close-range attacks 151 194 203.
• Heavenly Devil Formless Technique: Reaches minor mastery through Bai Shi’s tenfold feedback; Lin Ye also teaches it to his disciples 151.

Layered Body Refining and Regeneration

Lin Ye combines multiple body-refining systems rather than relying on a single physique 53 89.

• Stacks the Hell Devil-Forging Body, Taotie methods, Corpse Zombie Body Tempering Technique, and Undying Demonic Body Refining Technique to exceed ordinary cultivators’ physical strength 4 53.
• Combines the Undying Corpse Sha Art, Corpse King Indestructible Body, and related methods for exceptional survivability 89.
• Survives penetration by a damaged Saint Weapon and begins healing rapidly 118.
• Reaches perfection in True Devil Blood Armor Technique and Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique through disciple feedback 132 155.
• Stacks recovery techniques with a reverse-modified Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique, making his regeneration far stronger than Chu He’s 147.

Yin-Yang Devil Body

This Divine Art-level method replaces his former body with two original bodies sharing one consciousness 109.

• Initially creates a male Yang Body and female Yin Body 109.
• A Yin-Yang Devil Pill transforms the Yin Body into a male body 109.
• Both bodies initially possess equivalent physiques, cultivation levels, and Nine-Transmutation Golden Cores 109.
• Gives him two lives without the danger of an independently minded clone rebelling 109.

Devour Heaven and Earth

A destructive Divine Ability Technique centered on a controllable gravitational point 56.

• At minor accomplishment, Lin Ye can place the point dozens of meters away 56.
• Becomes his first Divine Ability Technique at greater mastery 75.
• Overwhelms Qu Fu’s paper forces and destroys the surrounding county town 78.
• Devastates the Divine Paper Sect headquarters during his final assault 118.

Weapon and Multi-Arm Combat

Lin Ye combines weapon techniques with his physical strength, including simultaneous attacks through illusory arms 118.

• Heavenly Devil Heaven-Imprisoning Palm: Perfected using a Martial Arts Enlightenment Card; used to defeat Huangpu 28 29.
• Heartless Demon Saber: At minor accomplishment, cuts a chasm hundreds of meters long 68.
• Demonic Shadow Ten Arms Technique: Produces ten arms; at perfection, Lin Ye uses different weapons and Divine Ability Techniques simultaneously against three Golden Body True Lords 67 118.
• Samsara Saber: Reaches perfection as a Saint Technique through feedback 163.
• Immemorial Devil God Fist: Its progression to perfection gives him Great Emperor-level combat power while still a Great Saint 189 190.
• Nirvanic Emperor Spear: At minor mastery, can kill an ordinary Great Emperor instantly when used with his own cultivation 223.

Possession, Puppetry, and Karma Attacks

These methods let Lin Ye infiltrate enemy organizations and attack targets beyond conventional direct combat 93 186 211.

• Heavenly Devil Tower possession: Invades a captured Golden Core elder’s body and uses it to enter the Divine Paper Sect 93.
• Puppet Technique: At major mastery, can easily refine Great Grandmaster puppets and has a high success rate with Martial Saint puppets 105.
• Heavenly Demon Karma Kill: Locates and kills hidden Blood Soul Clan survivors; later kills every Abyss Guard across the Abyss Kingdom 186 211.
• Taotie Domain: Protects him during the Blood Soul Clan’s ambush in their world 186.

Immortal and Transcendent Techniques

His later arsenal advances from Emperor Techniques to Extreme Dao Immortal Techniques and Innate Treasure Techniques 231 280 286.

• Masters Black Tortoise Devil Body, his second Extreme Dao Emperor Technique, at minor completion 231.
• Perfects Daluo Devil Body, Daluo Devil Blade, and Extreme Dao Shadow Escape Technique through feedback 280.
• Perfects Great Destruction Body, Primordial Devil Shadow Technique, and Grand Beginning Devil Fist through the combined progress of his disciples 286.
• As a Transcendent, grasps the River of Space and Time and can take any Dao Ancestor from it with a thought 289.

Equipment and Items

• Sect master identity token — His communication token; he supplies subsidiary elder and disciple tokens with communication and one-use defensive functions 12.
• Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure-grade identity token — Purchased after destroying the Divine Paper Sect to improve the sect’s communication network 119.
• Demonic puppets — Initially receives one peak True Qi puppet and ten peak Body Forging puppets; trains the strongest as a masseur 12 13.
• Beast-Taming Ring — Subdues a fourth-tier golden eagle used to carry him and Yu Yu to Bianjing 44.
• Invisibility and Teleportation Talismans — Used to infiltrate the imperial prison and rescue his prospective sixth disciple 45.
• Heavenly Devil Blade — Top-tier Saint Weapon specializing in offense 167.
• Heavenly Devil Diagram — Top-tier Saint Weapon with defensive, restraining, and enemy-capture spaces; purchased with the blade for a combined 90 million Devil Dao Points 167.
• Taiyi Devil Diagram — Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon used to seal the Primordial Fragment during his Great Emperor breakthrough 213 214.
• Replacement Immortal Talisman — Extracts Yang Xun from his restrictions while leaving a clone behind 280.
• Primordial Devil Bell — Used to take Yang Xun out of the Immortal Palace’s forbidden area 280.
• Time Devil Disc — Provides the setting for prolonged disciple cultivation that rapidly strengthens Lin Ye through feedback 286.

Relationships

Master and Junior Sister

• Liu Wuya — Master and predecessor as Black-Yellow Sect leader. Entrusts Lin Ye with preserving and developing the sect before dying 1.
• Yu Yu — Junior sister and the only fellow disciple who remains after Liu Wuya’s death. Lin Ye gives her resources, techniques, and treasures; later protects her consciousness from Great Emperor Fuyao’s revival and helps her become a True Immortal 1 6 12 194 233 267.

Disciples

• Ye Chen — First disciple. His early breakthroughs establish Lin Ye’s tenfold-feedback growth; Lin Ye later intervenes on behalf of Ye Chen and Tantai Yao 3 4 183.
• Dongfang Bai — Second disciple. Infiltrates the Supreme Simplicity Sect, becomes its sect master, and supplies intelligence and mission rewards to Lin Ye 7 60 84 86.
• Dongfang Rou — Third disciple and Dongfang Bai’s sister. Receives revised cultivation methods and provides information about the Yin Puppet Sect 7 8 66.
• Yang Yang — Fourth disciple. Cultivates Taotie methods; his advances repeatedly improve Lin Ye’s devouring techniques and cultivation 9 11 56 111 274.
• Han Bing — Fifth disciple. Rescued from the Hu Household; his corpse-refining and armor techniques provide major physical and defensive feedback 10 23 64 126 155.
• Chu He — Sixth disciple. Lin Ye rescues him from a Golden Core ambush and gains perfected Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique through his progress 93 110 148.
• Nalan Xi — Disciple associated with the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty. Her royal summons prompts Lin Ye’s journey toward the dynasty 119 120.
• Sun Hou — Eighth disciple, a Sun Monkey rescued from the Six-Winged Demon King and named by Lin Ye 101.
• Bai Shi — Ninth disciple. Receives techniques chosen to exploit his lifespan-burning cultivation ability; Lin Ye entrusts him with supervising the others on the Emperor Road 123 132 223 267.
• Li Si — Disciple whose mastery of the reverse-modified Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique further strengthens Lin Ye’s regeneration 147.
• Ye Si — Disciple whose Golden Core breakthrough transforms Lin Ye’s core into a Heavenly Dao Golden Core. Lin Ye plans to extend his lifespan before teaching him True Devil Sacrifice Technique 155.
• Yin Xiang — Reincarnated Great Emperor accepted as a disciple. Lin Ye helps her pass her Emperor Tribulation and gives her the Black Tortoise Emperor Physique method 203 232.
• Jiang Yuqiong — Great Emperor Yuqiong, recruited after Lin Ye becomes a True Immortal. Becomes his first disciple to reach Immortal Emperor 261 288.
• Xu Ke — Disciple whose Golden Immortal breakthrough contributes to Lin Ye’s late Immortal King advancement 280.
• Yang Xun — The Heavenly Emperor’s imprisoned grandson. Lin Ye rescues him, accepts him as a disciple, and guides his recovery while warning against premature revenge 279 280.

Allies and Subordinates

• Nalan Yu — Nalan Xi’s father and Lin Ye’s negotiating partner. Agrees to arrange territory and sect recognition in exchange for cooperation in the Sword Ruins 172 189.
• Yuan Kong — False Emperor initially subdued while observing the Black-Yellow Sect. Becomes an information source and is later rescued by Lin Ye on the Immemorial Immortal Road 219 220 221 251.
• Zhou Pu — Left in charge of the Abyss Kingdom under Black-Yellow Sect authority; organizes the distribution of cultivation inheritances 211.

Notable Quotes

“I broke through to the True Qi Realm! This was all thanks to my own hard work!” 13

“Whoever has the best chance of claiming the Emperor’s throne should have it. Don’t fight one another to the death over it.” 223

“I still need to raise my disciples’ cultivation as quickly as possible!” 221