Chapter Summaries

After inheriting the Black-Yellow Sect, Lin Ye awakened a system that rewarded him for recruiting Devil Dao disciples, but its powerful cultivation methods were too painful or inaccessible for him to use. He left the sect to find a suitable disciple, while Yu Yu stayed behind to guard it.

• Before dying, Liu Wuya entrusted the sect master position to Lin Ye and urged him to guide the gifted Yu Yu.
• Lin Ye awakened the Supreme Devil Dao System, which rewarded him for recruiting Devil Dao disciples and gave him tenfold feedback on their cultivation gains.
• Lin Ye claimed a sign-in gift of Devil Dao techniques and treasures, but the Hell Devil-Forging Body caused him unbearable pain, and he could not yet use the other rewards to improve his strength.
• Yu Yu rushed to Lin Ye after hearing him scream, and he assured her he was all right.
• Lin Ye told Yu Yu he was recruiting disciples to meet next year's sect assessment requirement, then ordered her to stay behind and guard the sect.
• Lin Ye set off to find a Devil Dao disciple and planned to conceal his role in spreading the Devil Dao.

Lin Ye searched Black Spirit Town for a disciple suited to the Devil Dao and learned about Ye Chen's ruined life and severed meridians. The system detected a suitable disciple at the Ye Household, and Lin Ye met Ye Long and asked to see Ye Chen.

• Lin Ye searched Black Spirit Town but found no suitable disciple until he overheard townspeople describe Ye Chen's broken engagement, betrayal by Xu Yan, and severed meridians.
• Lin Ye went to the Ye Household after deciding Ye Chen fit the profile of a suitable disciple.
• Ye Chen grieved in bed while the Ye Household prepared to leave Black Spirit Town to escape Xu Yan's future retaliation.
• Lin Ye received the system's notification that a suitable Devil Dao disciple was nearby and introduced himself to the Ye Household guards.
• Ye Long welcomed Lin Ye, who identified himself as the newly appointed sect master of the Black-Yellow Sect and asked where Ye Chen was.

Lin Ye brought Ye Chen, whose meridians had been severed, into the Black-Yellow Sect by promising him a way to cultivate through body refinement. He rewrote the Hell Devil-Forging Body under the righteous-sounding name Pain Dao-Body Forging, and Ye Chen was stunned to learn that his new method was high Black-grade.

• Lin Ye told Ye Long that Ye Chen could continue cultivating without meridians, and Ye Chen agreed to join the Black-Yellow Sect despite the method's unbearable pain.
• Ye Long consented, and guards escorted Lin Ye and Ye Chen to the sect, where Ye Chen met Yu Yu and formally acknowledged Lin Ye as his master.
• Lin Ye drew several rewards, including the Earth-grade Blood Gang Earth Sha Formation, then rewrote the Hell Devil-Forging Body as Pain Dao-Body Forging.
• The next day, Lin Ye gave Ye Chen the new manual, and Ye Chen was deeply moved when Lin Ye said it was a high Black-grade Cultivation Method.

Ye Chen endured the punishing Pain Dao-Body Forging until he mastered it, triggering tenfold feedback that transformed Lin Ye’s body and advanced him to the Second Layer of the Body Forging Realm. After Ye Chen rapidly improved with Lin Ye’s disguised pills, the sect’s grain ran low, leaving Lin Ye to call Ye Chen over.

• Ye Chen began cultivating Pain Dao-Body Forging, repeatedly fainting from the pain until he reached its beginner level on the seventh day.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback when Ye Chen mastered the Hell Devil-Forging Body, reaching the Peak of the Ninth Heaven of Body Refining and gaining immense physical strength.
• Lin Ye disguised Blood Extreme Body Refining Pills with flour and gave them to Ye Chen, promising two Profound-rank martial arts if he reached minor accomplishment.
• Ye Chen swallowed a pill and advanced to the Fourth Layer of the Body Refining Realm, while Lin Ye’s tenfold feedback raised him to the Second Layer of the Body Forging Realm.
• Ye Chen continued cultivating for more than ten days as the sect’s grain nearly ran out, so Lin Ye called him over.

Ye Chen advanced rapidly, and Lin Ye passed him two Devil Cultivation Methods disguised as righteous martial arts. After drawing new rewards, Lin Ye discovered that the Sunflower Body Refining Technique required self-castration to cultivate.

• Ye Chen bought grain for the sect, then advanced to the sixth level of the Body Refining Realm while Yu Yu reached the eighth level of the Body Forging Realm.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from Ye Chen’s cultivation and comprehension, reaching the eighth level of the Body Forging Realm and perfecting Hell Devil-Forging Body.
• Lin Ye renamed and altered Blood Escape Technique and Blood Demon Finger into Pure Yang Escape Technique and Pure Yang Finger, then gave the manuals to Ye Chen.
• Yu Yu asked to learn the manuals, but Lin Ye convinced her that women who cultivated them would grow beards and become brawny, so she declined.
• Lin Ye drew pills, storage bags, silver, and the Sunflower Body Refining Technique, then discovered it required self-castration to cultivate.

Lin Ye gave Yu Yu a Storage Bag and continued supplying Ye Chen with pills, then learned that the Black-Yellow Sect had to present five disciples for its upcoming assessment. He set out with Yu Yu for Spirit Yang City to recruit four demonic-path disciples before the sect lost its one-star status.

• Lin Ye gave Yu Yu a high-grade Yellow-rank Storage Bag and disguised Blood Extreme Body Refining Pills before giving them to Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen improved his Blood Escape Technique, and Lin Ye received tenfold feedback that raised his own technique to major accomplishment.
• A Martial Alliance envoy warned Lin Ye that the Black-Yellow Sect needed five disciples present at its assessment in a month or lose its one-star status.
• The system ordered Lin Ye to gather five demonic-path disciples within a month, so he planned to recruit four more.
• Yu Yu insisted on accompanying Lin Ye, and he left Ye Chen to guard the sect as they traveled toward Spirit Yang City.

Lin Ye found two Devil Dao disciples in Spirit Yang City and recruited Dongfang Bai and Dongfang Rou into the Black-Yellow Sect. After taking them to an inn, he revised a cultivation method and drew rewards suited to his new disciples.

• Lin Ye and Yu Yu explored Spirit Yang City, where Lin Ye spotted a zither player and a child stealing money pouches from the audience.
• Lin Ye confronted the pair and revealed that the white-clad zither player was a man, Dongfang Bai, while the child was his sister, Dongfang Rou.
• Lin Ye offered to help Dongfang Bai cultivate despite his reversed meridians and Yin-Yang imbalance, and both siblings agreed to become his disciples.
• Lin Ye named Dongfang Bai and Dongfang Rou his second and third disciples of the Black-Yellow Sect and took them to an inn.
• Lin Ye revised the Sunflower Body Refining Technique so that it suited those born eunuchs, then drew rewards that included the Sunflower Manual and the Succubus Body Refining Instruction.
• Lin Ye decided Dongfang Rou would cultivate the Succubus Body Refining Technique after he altered it to conceal its Devil Cultivation origins.

Lin Ye found a new disciple candidate, a frail boy whose hunger seemed impossible to satisfy, and followed him to a ruined home where he cared for a blind girl. After feeding the boy and promising him enough food, Lin Ye persuaded him to become his disciple.

• Lin Ye gave Dongfang Bai and Dongfang Rou their disguised cultivation manuals and pills, then took Yu Yu into the city to search for more disciples.
• The system identified a suitable Devil Dao disciple, and Lin Ye watched a skinny boy named Xiao Yang carry grain, buy buns, and save one for later.
• Lin Ye and Yu Yu followed Xiao Yang home and found him living in a ruined house with the blind girl Xiao Ya, to whom he gave his last bun.
• Lin Ye offered Xiao Yang dry rations and watched him devour them without becoming full, then gave him more food until his complexion improved.
• Lin Ye promised Xiao Yang that he and Xiao Ya would always have enough to eat, and Xiao Yang knelt and agreed to become his disciple.

Lin Ye modified the Taotie Swallowing Devil Cultivation Method into the Furnace Body Refining Technique and taught it to Yang Yang, while his other disciples advanced in their cultivation. With four disciples now training, Lin Ye left to find a fifth so he could return to the sect.

• Lin Ye used his new lottery chance and received the Taotie Swallowing Devil Cultivation Method, Blood Extreme Body Refining Pills, and other rewards.
• Lin Ye brought Yang Yang and the blind girl Liu Ya to the inn and introduced them to his other disciples.
• Lin Ye modified the Taotie Swallowing Devil Cultivation Method into the Furnace Body Refining Technique and gave it, along with pills, to Yang Yang.
• Lin Ye guided Yang Yang through the technique, while Dongfang Bai broke through to the Body Refining First Layer and Dongfang Rou later reached the Third Layer.
• Yang Yang began cultivating in earnest and broke through to the Body Refining First Layer, after which Lin Ye left to find his fifth disciple.

Lin Ye found and accepted Han Bing as his fifth disciple, then rescued him from Hu Miaomiao and the Hu Household before returning with his followers to the Black-Yellow Sect. The four disciples saw how small the sect was but agreed to join, while Ye Chen greeted Lin Ye on his return.

• Lin Ye met Han Bing in Spirit Yang City, accepted him as his disciple, and drove off the men watching him.
• Han Bing explained that Hu Miaomiao had kept him against his will for two years, and Lin Ye led him back to the inn to meet Yu Yu and the other disciples.
• Hu Miaomiao pursued the group and demanded Han Bing back, but Lin Ye defeated her attendants, broke her club, and sent her fleeing.
• Lin Ye and the others rode the Hu Household's Crimson Blood Steeds to the Black-Yellow Sect, where the four new disciples saw its modest size but agreed to join.
• Ye Chen excitedly welcomed Lin Ye back to the sect.

After taking Han Bing as a disciple, Lin Ye won a body-tempering method and formation, revised them into respectable-sounding techniques, and set Han Bing to cultivate. Han Bing broke through that night, bringing Lin Ye to the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer and advancing his own body-tempering technique.

• Lin Ye introduced Ye Chen to Dongfang Bai, Dongfang Rou, Yang Yang, and Han Bing, then arranged lodging for them and Liu Ya.
• Lin Ye won the Corpse Zombie Body Tempering Technique, Blood Extreme Body Refining Pills, and Corpse Sha Formation, then renamed and revised the technique and formation for Han Bing.
• Lin Ye set up the formation at the sect’s mass grave and activated the Blood Gang Earth Sha Formation across the sect as a warning system, telling Yu Yu he had installed a simple formation.
• Lin Ye gave Han Bing the revised Supreme Yin Body Refining Technique and instructed him to bury himself, take a pill, and cultivate; he also advised Yang Yang to hunt animals for food.
• That night, Han Bing absorbed corpse sha Qi, reached the Body Refining First Layer, and cultivated a bronze body, while Lin Ye’s cultivation rose to the Body Forging Realm Ninth Layer and his technique reached bronze body greater accomplishment.

After receiving five system draws, Lin Ye distributed communication and defensive tokens to his junior sister and disciples, then gave Yu Yu the heaven-grade Supreme Clarity Jade Canon. When his disciples’ breakthroughs triggered tenfold feedback, Lin Ye used the energy to cultivate Heavenly Devil True Qi and advance to the True Qi First Layer.

• Lin Ye claimed five rewards, including the Supreme Clarity Jade Canon, identity tokens, and eleven demonic puppets, and decided to postpone placing the sect hall and scripture pavilion until after the sect assessment.
• Lin Ye gave Yu Yu an elder token and gave his five disciples and Liu Ya disciple tokens, explaining their communication and defensive abilities.
• Lin Ye gave Yu Yu the Supreme Clarity Jade Canon, which she recognized as a heaven-grade Cultivation Method and took away to study.
• After several days of his disciples’ cultivation breakthroughs, Lin Ye reached the limit of the Body Forging Realm and planned to use tenfold feedback to advance.
• Breakthroughs by Han Bing, Yang Yang, Dongfang Rou, Dongfang Bai, and Ye Chen granted Lin Ye vast energy, which he refined into Heavenly Devil True Qi and used to reach the True Qi First Layer.

After breaking through to the True Qi Realm, Lin Ye helped the Black-Yellow Sect pass the Martial Alliance’s assessment and revealed a sect hall and library pavilion. The system then ordered him to abduct at least ten Devil Dao disciples, leaving him to consider whether to risk the task.

• Lin Ye broke through to the True Qi Realm, then sent Ye Chen to buy more grain for the hungry sect.
• A Martial Alliance envoy inspected the Black-Yellow Sect and confirmed it qualified as a one-star sect for the next three years.
• Lin Ye brought out the sect hall, changed its plaque from Heaven and Earth Devil Sect to Black-Yellow Sect, and let Yu Yu move in with him.
• Lin Ye installed a library pavilion, stocked it with cultivation methods and martial arts, and had its array spirit create a points system linked to the disciples’ identity tokens.
• The system ordered Lin Ye to send Black-Yellow Sect disciples to abduct at least ten outer sect Devil Dao disciples, and Lin Ye weighed whether to accept the task.

Lin Ye sent Ye Chen to investigate abuses in Songxi Town, then gave him a powerful puppet to rescue the Chen Household’s prisoners. Ye Chen destroyed the Chen Household’s upper ranks and set out for its mine.

• Lin Ye told Ye Chen to investigate nearby enslavement and imprisonment, offering him ten points for completing the task.
• Ye Chen learned that the Chen Household of Songxi Town enslaved miners and had massacred a village, then reported its crimes to Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye assigned Ye Chen to rescue the miners and lent him a Peak Body Casting Realm demonic puppet, promising 100 points for the task.
• Ye Chen went to Songxi Town and attacked the Chen Household with the puppet, killing its guards and wiping out its upper ranks, including its strongest expert.
• Ye Chen took the Chen Household’s wealth and headed to its mine to rescue the prisoners.

Ye Chen rescued more than a dozen suitable recruits from the Chen Household mine and brought them to the Black-Yellow Sect, where Lin Ye made them outer sect disciples. Lin Ye received major system rewards, added revised martial arts to the Scripture Pavilion, and unveiled a Cultivation Tower that disciples could use for points.

• Ye Chen and the Devil Dao puppet killed the Chen Household guards and members at the mine, then freed the miners.
• Ye Chen examined the miners, chose fifteen with decent aptitude, gave the others money, and led the chosen group to the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Lin Ye welcomed the fifteen as outer sect disciples and ordered Ye Chen to arrange their lodgings and register them.
• The system rewarded Lin Ye with a Cultivation Tower, spirit stones, a Devil Spring, an Illusory Devil Cave, and several martial arts, which he revised before adding them to the Scripture Pavilion.
• Lin Ye claimed the Cultivation Tower, and the disciples explored it before he announced that its use would cost one point per day.
• Lin Ye issued simple sect missions so the disciples could earn points.

Lin Ye let Yu Yu earn points by massaging him, then helped her borrow enough to obtain the Supreme Clarity Dharma Robe. He installed the Devil Spring behind the Black-Yellow Sect and posted a Demon Beast hunting task to supply it, while disciples including Dongfang Bai and Dongfang Rou set out to hunt.

• Yu Yu massaged Lin Ye for several sessions and earned 700 points before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Lin Ye explained that Yu Yu could borrow points, and she borrowed enough to exchange for the Supreme Clarity Dharma Robe.
• Yu Yu refined the robe, tested its defenses and self-cleaning ability, then went to cultivate.
• Lin Ye installed the Devil Spring at an abandoned spring behind the sect and considered how to disguise its devilish nature from the disciples.
• Lin Ye posted a task offering points for hunting Demon Beasts, and the high rewards attracted the disciples.
• Dongfang Bai invited Dongfang Rou to hunt Demon Beasts with him so he could earn points toward the Taiyi Needle Technique.

Lin Ye's five disciples hunted Demon Beasts in the Western Mystic Mountain Range, then he used their corpses to activate the Devil Spring. He brought them to cultivate in the spring for points, hoping their breakthroughs would strengthen him through tenfold feedback.

• Ye Chen, Dongfang Bai, Dongfang Rou, Yang Yang, and Han Bing set out to hunt Demon Beasts, and Lin Ye let them go without worrying about rescuing them unless they called for help.
• Yang Yang used Han Bing to draw the attacks of a Frenzied Pig Demon Beast while he punched it to death, then split its points with him.
• The five disciples returned with an average of at least three Demon Beasts each, and Lin Ye fed their corpses and ten Spirit Stones into the Devil Spring's formation to make scarlet spring water.
• The next morning, Lin Ye stopped the disciples from hunting and told them the Pure Yang Blood Spring could speed body tempering, charging each of them ten points to use it.
• Lin Ye forbade Yang Yang from devouring the spring water, and the disciples began cultivating as Ye Chen screamed through the pain of his Pain Dao-Body Forging.

Lin Ye’s disciples advanced rapidly through Devil Spring cultivation and hunting, while their breakthroughs raised his own cultivation to the fifth level of the True Qi Realm. Yang Yang abandoned hunting for missions and began swallowing Demon Beasts whole, nearing the eighth level of Body Refining.

• Lin Ye refused Yu Yu’s request to cultivate in the Pure Yang Blood Spring, warning that its foreign energy would damage her foundation in the Supreme Clarity Jade Canon.
• Dongfang Bai, Yang Yang, Han Bing, Dongfang Rou, and Ye Chen made successive breakthroughs, and the feedback raised Lin Ye’s cultivation to the fourth level of the True Qi Realm.
• Ye Chen entered the Body Forging Realm, then killed a Blood Wolf with the Pure Yang Escape Technique and Pure Yang Finger while hunting in the Western Mystic Mountain Range.
• Lin Ye reached the fifth level of the True Qi Realm as the Black-Yellow Sect’s outer disciples improved and the sect’s grounds were rebuilt.
• Yang Yang swallowed a Demon Rat whole and refined it with the Taotie Swallowing Devil Cultivation Method, bringing himself close to the eighth level of Body Refining.

Lin Ye established and modified the Illusion Cave to temper his disciples, whose rapid progress raised his cultivation to the peak of the ninth layer of the True Qi Realm. After Ye Chen mastered the Demonic Shadow Clone Technique, the system tasked Lin Ye with spreading the sect’s name and killing righteous-path disciples, so he summoned Ye Chen and Yang Yang to leave the mountain.

• Lin Ye installed the Illusory Devil Cave on the back mountain, modified its illusions, and required his disciples to enter it monthly.
• The disciples trained in the cave, Yu Yu became the Black-Yellow Sect’s second True Qi Realm martial artist, and their breakthroughs raised Lin Ye to the peak of the True Qi Realm’s ninth layer.
• Lin Ye saved his disciples from a third-tier Demon Beast, while they exchanged for powerful martial arts and Ye Chen trained in the cultivation tower.
• Ye Chen mastered the entry stage of the Demonic Shadow Clone Technique, and tenfold feedback raised Lin Ye’s mastery to the major accomplishment stage.
• The system tasked Lin Ye with making one hundred thousand people aware of the Heaven and Earth Devil Sect and killing ten righteous-path disciples, so Lin Ye summoned Ye Chen and Yang Yang to gain experience.

Ye Chen and Yang Yang left the Black-Yellow Sect to gain experience, while Xu Yan broke through to the Body Forging Realm and set out to destroy the Ye Household. Ye Chen found his family’s new estate near Liuyang Lake and reunited with Ye Quan and Steward Liu.

• Lin Ye sent Ye Chen and Yang Yang down the mountain with tasks, Body Forging Realm puppets, and Spirit Stones.
• Ye Chen and Yang Yang parted ways; Ye Chen headed for Binyang Mountain to find his family, while Yang Yang set out to travel and cultivate.
• Xu Yan broke through to the Body Forging Realm, and Li Xuansu praised her Mystic Asura Physique while warning that she lacked the aptitude for the Supreme Yin Body Refining Technique.
• Xu Yan asked to gain experience and left the Supreme Simplicity Sect with life-saving treasures, intending to eliminate the Ye Household.
• Ye Chen found the Ye Household estate near Liuyang Lake and reunited with Ye Quan and Steward Liu.