Arc 1The Black-Yellow Sect Rises
Lin Ye recruited disciples, built up the Black-Yellow Sect, and used their cultivation gains to advance while sending them on missions that spread the sect’s name. The arc leaves Ye Chen having won the Bai Household contest but refused Bai Xuan’er’s hand, provoking Bai Jiuzhong.
- Before dying, Liu Wuya entrusted the sect master position to Lin Ye, who awakened the Supreme Devil Dao System and set out to recruit disciples.
- Lin Ye recruited Ye Chen, then Dongfang Bai, Dongfang Rou, Yang Yang, and Han Bing, disguising their Devil Dao cultivation methods as he trained them.
- Lin Ye established the Black-Yellow Sect’s halls, library, points system, Cultivation Tower, Pure Yang Blood Spring, and Illusory Devil Cave as his disciples advanced.
- Ye Chen rescued enslaved miners from the Chen Household and brought fifteen new outer disciples to the sect.
- Lin Ye sent Ye Chen and Yang Yang out to gain experience and spread the sect’s name, while Xu Yan set out to find and eliminate the Ye Household.
- Ye Chen and Yang Yang carried out their missions, killing criminals and sect members, while Han Bing cultivated rapidly in a Corpse Sha Formation and Lin Ye reached the Innate Realm.
- Lin Ye gave Ye Chen, Yang Yang, and Han Bing the Formless Secret Method to conceal their Qi and appearances.
- At the Bai Household contest, Ye Chen defeated every challenger, won the contest, and refused Bai Xuan’er’s hand in marriage, angering Bai Jiuzhong.