Chapter Summaries

The Tantai Household sealed its grotto-heaven and prepared to extract the collateral clansmen’s bloodlines to strengthen Tantai You. Tantai Yao’s remnant-soul protector sent a message to Ye Chen, who asked Lin Ye for help as Lin Ye’s second body rushed to meet him.

• The Tantai Clan summoned its absent members, barred them from leaving, and sealed the grotto-heaven once they had returned.
• Tantai Xun gathered the collateral clansmen and revealed that the Lineage would sacrifice their bloodlines to help Tantai You revert to his ancestral form and nurture a Quasi-Emperor.
• A collateral elder tried to escape, but Tantai Xun grievously injured him, while Tantai Yao’s parents sheltered her.
• Tantai Yao chose to have the Saint Realm old granny use a Secret Method to send Ye Chen a warning, leaving the granny in a deep sleep.
• Ye Chen learned that Tantai Yao was in danger and asked his master for help.
• Lin Ye received Ye Chen’s message and sent his second body through the Great Void Technique to meet him.

Lin Ye rushed to the Tantai clan’s grotto-heaven after Ye Chen told him Tantai Yao was in danger, then overwhelmed the clan’s three Great Saints and stopped them from extracting her bloodline. He agreed to take Tantai Yao and her family, and asked Tantai Zhe which other branch-family members he wanted saved.

• Ye Chen told Lin Ye that Tantai Yao was in danger, and Lin Ye hurried to the Tantai clan’s grotto-heaven without him.
• The Tantai clan’s formation drained the branch-family elders’ bloodlines and began targeting Tantai Yao, her parents, and their companions.
• Lin Ye shattered the grotto-heaven’s formations, defeated one Great Saint ancestor, and knocked away the clan’s Bright Moon Sword.
• The three Great Saints backed down when Lin Ye demanded to take Tantai Yao and her family, and Tantai Yao and her parents left the crowd.
• Tantai Zhe asked Lin Ye to save the other branch-family members, and Lin Ye asked him to name those he wanted rescued.

Lin Ye rescued most of the Tantai Clan’s collateral branch and settled them near the Black-Yellow Sect, while the clan’s ancestors sacrificed members of the direct line to restore Tantai You’s bloodline. Later, Yang Yang reached the peak of the Golden Body Realm Ninth Layer and received the Taotie Dharma Form cultivation method.

• Tantai Zhe selected collateral clansmen to leave with Lin Ye, and the Tantai Clan’s ancestors let them go after Lin Ye threatened them.
• The three ancestors decided to extract bloodlines from direct-line clansmen with little potential, and the victims begged for mercy as Tantai You watched.
• Lin Ye brought the rescued collateral branch to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty, where it settled near the Black-Yellow Sect; Ye Chen reunited with Tantai Yao.
• A month later, Tantai You completed his bloodline transformation through a forbidden technique and awakened a Blood Nether Saint Physique.
• Yang Yang advanced to the Golden Body Realm Ninth Layer Peak, returned to the Black-Yellow Sect, and received Lin Ye’s Taotie Dharma Form cultivation method.

Lin Ye gave the Immemorial Devil God Fist to his King Conferment Realm disciples, while strange blood-colored beings began possessing people in the Chu Kingdom. After reports of widespread disappearances reached Lin Ye, the system issued him a new mission.

• Nalan Yu emerged from seclusion as a Great Saint Realm Second Layer cultivator and judged that he needed to become a Quasi-Emperor to contend in the coming age.
• The Supreme Profound Sect emerged from hiding, and factions and geniuses across the Profound Heaven Realm began competing as spiritual energy and cultivation opportunities increased.
• Yang Yang, Chu He, and Lin Ye's other disciples reached the King Conferment Realm, and Lin Ye exchanged for the Immemorial Devil God Fist to teach them.
• Lin Ye gave copies of the Emperor Technique to Chu He, Yang Yang, Han Bing, and Ye Chen, who wondered whether he was a reincarnated Great Emperor.
• Blood-colored figures emerged from a rift in the Chu Kingdom and possessed people, whose eyes turned red.
• Half a month later, Lin Ye heard that many people, including Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters, had gone missing in the Chu Kingdom, and a new system mission appeared.

Lin Ye sent disciples to investigate the Blood Soul Clan’s invasion of the Chu Kingdom, where Ye Chen and the others captured clan members and uncovered their plans. After Blood Soul Clan Saints attacked the disciples, Lin Ye killed the attackers and set out to eradicate the clan from the kingdom.

• Lin Ye accepted a mission to investigate the invasion of the Chu Kingdom, dispatched Black-Yellow Sect disciples, and traveled there himself.
• Ye Chen and the other disciples arrived, searched the kingdom, captured Blood Soul Clan members, and learned the clan’s name and that it had Great Saint-level experts.
• The Blood Soul Clan’s Ten Saints planned to capture Ye Chen and his companions and use human bodies to seize control of the Chu Kingdom.
• Blood Soul Clan King Conferment Realm fighters ambushed Ye Chen and the others, but the disciples fought back with their full strength.
• Blood Soul Clan Saints revealed themselves and attacked with Blood Soul Saint Claw, prompting the disciples to call for Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye shattered and killed the Blood Soul Clan attackers, then left to hunt down every remaining clan member in the Chu Kingdom.

Lin Ye tracked down and killed the Blood Soul Clan members hiding in the Chu Kingdom, then crossed their spatial rift and annihilated the clan in its own world. After killing the last survivors, he received the system task reward and the Annihilate a Clan Achievement.

• Lin Ye used Heavenly Demon Karma Kill to slay Blood Soul Clan members hiding throughout the Chu Kingdom and discovered their concealed spatial rift.
• Lin Ye entered the Blood Soul Clan’s world, survived their ambush with Taotie Domain, and slaughtered the forces there.
• Thirty-seven Great Saints led a vast killing formation against Lin Ye, but he broke through it and fought the Blood Soul Clan for ten days.
• Lin Ye searched the ruined world with Heavenly Demon Karma Kill and hunted down the remaining Blood Soul Clan members.
• After Lin Ye killed the last survivor, the system awarded him 500 million Devil Dao Points for completing the task and one billion Devil Dao Points for the Annihilate a Clan Achievement.

After wiping out the Blood Soul Clan, Lin Ye exchanged his rewards for the Immemorial Devil God Tower and installed it in the Black-Yellow Grotto-Heaven to strengthen the sect and train his disciples. The disciples made rapid progress inside the tower, and Xiao Gu later found potentially useful information in the Blood Soul Clan’s records.

• Lin Ye collected the Blood Soul Clan’s resources and inheritances, then returned to his disciples and told them the clan had been completely wiped out.
• Lin Ye exchanged his Devil Dao Points for the Immemorial Devil God Tower, spent a month gaining preliminary control of it, and placed it at the center of the Black-Yellow Grotto-Heaven.
• Lin Ye tasked Xiao Gu with managing the sect’s buildings, inheritances, treasures, and points, and handed it the Blood Soul Clan’s records to sort.
• Lin Ye explained that the tower could create Primordial Devil Gods for his disciples to fight without dying, and they entered it to train in the Emperor Technique he had taught them.
• Chu He repeatedly fought a Primordial Devil God, tempering his body and gaining insight into the Immemorial Devil God Fist as Lin Ye supplied Spirit Stones to keep the tower running.
• Xiao Gu contacted Lin Ye after finding useful information in the Blood Soul Clan’s inheritance records.

Lin Ye learned that the Immemorial Immortal Road was nearing its next opening and asked Nalan Yu about the past catastrophe and the Great Emperors who fought in it. Nalan Yu explained how ancient Emperors could survive into later eras, leaving Lin Ye to wonder whether Great Emperor Xuanyang was still alive.

• The Immemorial Devil God Tower's artifact spirit gave Lin Ye scattered records describing the Immemorial Immortal Road, its catastrophic openings, and a battle in which seventeen Emperors appeared.
• Lin Ye concluded that the Blood Soul Clan had entered the Profound Heaven Realm because the Immemorial Immortal Road was about to open, then sent his second true body to question Nalan Yu.
• Nalan Yu told Lin Ye that rumors of the road's return had spread from the four great holy lands and that the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty had gathered information about previous openings.
• Nalan Yu explained that Immortality medicine could let Great Emperors live multiple lives, and that ancient Emperors could relinquish the Profound Heaven Realm's origin and hide until the road appeared.
• Lin Ye asked whether Great Emperor Xuanyang might still be alive, and Nalan Yu said he could have survived a second life but would be weaker without the realm's origin.

Lin Ye advanced to the Great Saint Realm and mastered the Immemorial Devil God Fist, then rose another layer after Bai Shi broke through to the King Conferment Realm. He began teaching Bai Shi the Emperor Technique, aiming to build his strength through his disciples’ progress.

• After Lin Ye left, Nalan Yu reflected on the coming Immemorial Immortal Road and his plans to unite partners and protect the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty through the dark age.
• Lin Ye returned to the Black-Yellow Sect and focused on training his disciples while waiting for their breakthroughs to raise his cultivation.
• Sun Hou cultivated the Six Paths Devil Ape Dharma Form and broke through to the King Conferment Realm, triggering feedback that advanced Lin Ye to the Great Saint Realm First Layer.
• Chu He reached initial mastery of the Immemorial Devil God Fist, and feedback let Lin Ye cultivate the Emperor Technique to minor mastery.
• Bai Shi asked to attempt a breakthrough, received the Primordial Devil God Dharma Form from Lin Ye, and reached the King Conferment Realm after a month of training.
• The system’s feedback advanced Lin Ye to the Great Saint Realm Second Layer, and he passed the Immemorial Devil God Fist to Bai Shi to cultivate.

Lin Ye gained Great Emperor-level strength as his disciples’ progress perfected the Immemorial Devil God Fist, then chose and taught them the Dragon Devil True Body Technique. The chapter ended with Li Si, mentally exhausted after serving as a cultivation furnace in the Hehuan Sect, contacting his master to ask to be taken away.

• Ye Chen and Yang Yang cultivated the Immemorial Devil God Fist to the introductory stage, and Bai Shi’s breakthrough pushed Lin Ye’s technique to the major accomplishment stage.
• Bai Shi trained in the Immemorial Devil God Tower, reaching King Conferment Realm Second Layer and cultivating the Immemorial Devil God Fist to the minor accomplishment stage.
• Sun Hou reached the introductory stage with the fist technique, and Lin Ye’s tenfold feedback brought it to perfection.
• Lin Ye chose the Dragon Devil True Body Technique, taught it to his disciples, and instructed Xiao Gu to assign them dragon-type Primordial Devil Gods.
• Bai Shi cultivated the Dragon Devil True Body Technique to the introductory stage, allowing Lin Ye to reach its minor accomplishment stage and further increase his strength.
• Li Si, having reached King Conferment Realm Seventh Layer in the Hehuan Sect, used a bead to contact his master and request rescue.

Lin Ye rescued Li Si from the Hehuan Sect, and Li Si recovered before returning to cultivation at the Black-Yellow Sect. Meanwhile, Dongfang Bai cleared the tenth floor of the Supreme Yin Saint Tower, revealing that he knew an Emperor Technique and qualifying for a True Disciple position.

• Lin Ye severed Li Si’s connection to the Hehuan Gu Worm, allowing Li Si to kill it safely and escape with him from the Hehuan Sect.
• Xiao Hongyi discovered that the Gu Worm’s offspring had died and Li Si had disappeared, prompting the Hehuan Sect’s leaders to suspect her and sparking internal strife.
• Li Si rested for ten days at the Black-Yellow Sect, then resumed cultivating with poisonous fog and poison pills instead of the Immemorial Devil God Fist.
• Dongfang Bai decided to seek a True Disciple position by clearing the Supreme Yin Saint Tower’s tenth floor before turning thirty.
• Dongfang Bai fought through the tower, killed all thirty foreign-race opponents on the tenth floor, and emerged gravely injured.
• The Supreme Yin Holy Sect’s artifact spirit informed the sect’s higher-ups that Dongfang Bai had cleared the tenth floor, and Liu Yun was stunned by the news.

Dongfang Bai became a True Disciple of the Supreme Yin Sect after concealing the source of his Emperor Technique, earning Lin Ye a mission reward. Lin Ye then discovered that Yu Yu was growing a mysterious bone that contained a Secret Method, and a physique test revealed something astonishing about her.

• Liu Yun and the Supreme Yin Sect elders questioned Dongfang Bai about his Emperor Technique, and he claimed an oath prevented him from sharing it.
• Liu Yun named Dongfang Bai a True Disciple, advancing Lin Ye’s infiltration mission and earning him 500 million Devil Dao Points.
• Yu Yu told Lin Ye that a bone was forming beside her heart and that it contained an incomplete Secret Method.
• Lin Ye examined Yu Yu, detected the bone’s immense power, and used a physique detection talisman to test her.
• Lin Ye was shocked when the test revealed Yu Yu’s extraordinary physique.

Lin Ye discovered that Yu Yu had an incomplete Emperor Physique and Emperor Bone, then used a Deduction Talisman to learn she was the reincarnation of Great Emperor Fuyao. As he searched for a way to protect her, the Fuyao Holy Land’s bell rang nine times, prompting its leaders to seek Fuyao’s reincarnated self.

• Lin Ye detected Yu Yu’s incomplete Emperor Physique and Emperor Bone and worried that a past life might take control of her.
• Lin Ye used a costly Deduction Talisman and learned that Yu Yu had been an ordinary farmer’s child in this life and Great Emperor Fuyao in her only past life.
• Lin Ye concealed the discovery from Yu Yu and tried, without success, to find a way to protect her without sealing her origin and cultivation.
• Nalan Yu told Lin Ye that Great Emperor Fuyao had lived three lives, ruled the Profound Heaven Realm for 230,000 years, and fallen through Liberation by Violence.
• The Fuyao Bell rang nine times, and the Fuyao Holy Land’s lord sent Great Saints to find Great Emperor Fuyao’s reincarnated self.

Lin Ye tried to delay Yu Yu’s awakening of Great Emperor Fuyao while traveling with her, but Luo Shu of Fuyao Holy Land found them and tried to take her away. Lin Ye defeated Luo Shu and discovered that Fuyao Holy Land had powerful sealed Quasi-Emperors and was preparing for Great Emperor Fuyao’s return.

• Lin Ye took Yu Yu on a months-long tour of the Eastern Domain and asked her to stop cultivating to delay Great Emperor Fuyao’s revival.
• Luo Shu used a projection of the Fuyao Bell to locate Yu Yu and flew to the city where she and Lin Ye were staying.
• Luo Shu identified himself as an elder of Fuyao Holy Land and ordered Lin Ye and Yu Yu to accompany him.
• Lin Ye refused, then used the Great Void Technique to seize and severely injure Luo Shu, revealing himself as a powerful Quasi-Emperor.
• Lin Ye searched Luo Shu’s memories and learned how Fuyao Holy Land had tracked Yu Yu and that it had sealed Quasi-Emperors to bolster its strength.

After Fuyao Holy Land’s Great Saints provoked Lin Ye, the system gave him a mission to invade it, and he launched a devastating attack. The holy land’s forces summoned Great Emperor Fuyao’s power incarnation and prepared to activate their Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon as the battle continued.

• Lin Ye accepted the system’s mission to invade Fuyao Holy Land and sent his second true body to the Azure Billows Domain.
• Fuyao Holy Land’s leaders discovered Luo Shu’s death and decided to send a Quasi-Emperor to investigate.
• Lin Ye concealed his identity and struck Fuyao Holy Land with the Samsara Saber, damaging its formations and buildings.
• Lin Ye’s Immemorial Devil God Fist killed more than ten Great Saints and injured Quasi-Emperors, while the Fuyao Bell and Soaring Sword failed to stop him.
• Fuyao Holy Land invoked a token containing Great Emperor Fuyao’s power, and Lin Ye fought her incarnation in the void.
• Fuyao Holy Land’s powerhouses agreed to pool their strength to activate the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon.

Lin Ye survived a devastating attack from Fuyao Holy Land’s Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon but fled rather than risk losing his second true body. After escaping the notice of a Taboo Sovereign and a Great Emperor, he returned to Black-Yellow Sect and received his mission reward.

• Fuyao Holy Land’s leaders powered the Fuyao Bow and fired its Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon arrow at Lin Ye.
• The arrow shattered Lin Ye’s body, but the Nine-Tailed Life Substitution Technique restored him at the cost of three lives.
• Lin Ye struck Fuyao Holy Land once more, then severed the karma linking him to a Taboo Sovereign and a Great Emperor before escaping with the Great Void Technique.
• The Taboo Sovereign and a white-haired old man noticed Lin Ye but chose not to pursue him.
• Lin Ye returned to Black-Yellow Sect, and the system rewarded him with three billion Devil Dao Points for attacking Fuyao Holy Land.

After attacking the Fuyao Holy Land, Lin Ye chose not to pursue further rewards, while the injured sect sealed itself off and the Supreme Yin Sect prepared a contingency plan against the coming dark age. Lin Ye continued growing stronger, reaching the Fifth Layer of the Great Saint Realm as his cultivation and body neared further transformations.

• Lin Ye decided not to risk his true body for more Devil Dao Points after earning three billion from his attack on the Fuyao Holy Land.
• Liu Yun learned of the Fuyao Holy Land's losses and confirmed that the Supreme Yin Sect's Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell Plan was ready.
• The Fuyao Holy Land repaired its formations, closed itself off, and stopped searching for Great Emperor Fuyao's reincarnated body.
• Lin Ye and Yu Yu continued traveling without being pursued, and Lin Ye said his junior sister's situation was stable.
• Lin Ye broke through to the Fifth Layer of the Great Saint Realm and reflected on how Principles, Law Power, and Emperor-level cultivation worked.
• Lin Ye's disciples grew stronger, and their feedback brought his body close to breaking its shackles and transforming.

Lin Ye gave Li Si the Unbroken Virgin Saint Physique Secret Method, and Li Si accelerated his cultivation by repeatedly visiting brothels. Meanwhile, a black mist began devouring cities in the Wu Kingdom, and Liu Yun and Nalan Yu identified it as a Forbidden Land.

• Lin Ye gave Li Si the Unbroken Virgin Saint Physique Secret Method, which Li Si believed suited his Reverse Calamity Devil Physique.
• Li Si cultivated the secret method with poisonous resources, then repeatedly lost his virginity to increase his cultivation speed and earned the title Brothel Saint Son.
• After several months, Li Si's cultivation advanced enough that he expected to forge the Unbroken Virgin Saint Physique and reach the Saint Realm within months.
• Lin Ye noted that Li Si was nearing a breakthrough and that his own physical bottleneck might soon be overcome.
• A black mist spread from a mountain in the Wu Kingdom, consuming people, cities, and villages; King Conferment Realm experts fled and reported the disaster.
• Liu Yun and Nalan Yu went to investigate, recognized the black mist as a Forbidden Land, and suspected a Taboo Being was harvesting humans.

After learning that a Forbidden Land had swallowed the Wu Kingdom, Li Xuanyin awakened the Supreme Yin Sect's ancestor, Li Rou, to investigate it. Li Rou prepared to restore her strength before taking the sect's incomplete Emperor Weapon to the Forbidden Land, while Lin Ye also learned of the danger.

• Liu Yun reported the Forbidden Land's appearance in the Wu Kingdom to Li Xuanyin, who decided to awaken the peak Great Saint Li Rou.
• Li Xuanyin and Liu Yun broke the Immortal Soil statue sealing Li Rou in the Supreme Yin Sect's ancestral grounds.
• Li Rou learned that 180,000 years had passed, the Immemorial Immortal Road was about to open, and a Forbidden Land was swallowing a kingdom in the Eastern Domain.
• Li Rou said she would recover her strength before investigating the Forbidden Land with the sect's incomplete Emperor Weapon.
• Lin Ye received Nalan Yu's message about the Forbidden Land and frowned.

Lin Ye entered the Forbidden Land in the Wu Kingdom and killed its powerful Taboo Being, then studied how to seize control of the land. News of the kill reached the Supreme Yin Sect, where Li Xuanyin wondered if they had awakened Li Rou too soon.

• Lin Ye considered how to control the Forbidden Land and traveled to the Wu Kingdom to inspect it.
• Lin Ye found a giant black serpent harvesting lives to restore its strength and learned it intended to flee once it had gathered enough energy.
• The Taboo Being attacked Lin Ye, but he overwhelmed it with the Immemorial Devil God Fist and killed it despite its pleas for mercy.
• Lin Ye threw the Taboo Being's corpse out of the Forbidden Land, and its arrival in the Wu Kingdom stunned the Great Saints, including Nalan Yu.
• Liu Yun, Li Xuanyin, and Li Rou of the Supreme Yin Sect learned that the Taboo Being had been killed, and Li Xuanyin questioned whether they had awakened Li Rou too early.