Chapter Summaries

After Hu Lu reported the Sun Monkey to Lin Ye, Lin Ye flew to the Six-Winged Demon King's territory, defeated the Demon King, and rescued the monkey. Back at the Black-Yellow Sect, the Sun Monkey accepted Lin Ye as its master and was named Sun Hou.

• Hu Lu used his identity token to tell Lin Ye about a Sun Monkey that had made the Devil Jade light up, and the system urged Lin Ye to accept it as a disciple.
• Lin Ye chose the Sun Monkey as his eighth disciple and flew to the Six-Winged Demon King's territory using the Devil Wings.
• The Six-Winged Demon King attacked Lin Ye, who sent him crashing into a mountainside with one slap before taking the caged Sun Monkey and leaving.
• The Six-Winged Demon King regained consciousness and ordered his subordinates to guard him while he entered seclusion to heal.
• Lin Ye brought the Sun Monkey to the Black-Yellow Sect, where it agreed to become his disciple, and he named it Sun Hou.

Lin Ye’s new disciple Sun Hou began cultivating under his guidance, while Dongfang Bai and Dongfang Rou broke through to the Great Grandmaster Realm. Their breakthroughs pushed Lin Ye into the Golden Core Realm, where he formed a Nine-Transmutation Golden Core and faced a lightning tribulation above the Black-Yellow Sect.

• Lin Ye welcomed Sun Hou as his eighth disciple and selected the Heavenly Sha Devil Ape Body Refining Technique, the Thousand-Jun Devil Ape Staff, and the Hundred Sha Devil Staff for him.
• Sun Hou learned to read with Ye Chen’s help, began cultivating, and reached the Innate Realm Seventh Layer as his Great Sun Demon Monkey bloodline grew stronger.
• Dongfang Bai broke through to the Great Grandmaster Realm, earning Lin Ye tenfold cultivation feedback.
• Dongfang Rou also reached the Great Grandmaster Realm, causing Lin Ye’s suppressed True Qi to condense into a Nine-Transmutation Golden Core.
• A Golden Core Lightning Tribulation formed above the Black-Yellow Sect, and Lin Ye emerged from the main hall.

Lin Ye underwent his Golden Core Lightning Tribulation while Chu He and Yang Yang used its power to temper their bodies and improve their cultivation. Lin Ye sealed the first wave with a treasure, and as the stronger second wave began, Chu He and Yang Yang continued absorbing its power.

• Nalan Xi recognized the lightning tribulation and explained that Lin Ye had broken through to the Golden Core Realm.
• Lin Ye brought the disciples to a clearing and told Chu He to absorb the tribulation power leaking from its edge.
• Chu He used the lightning to break through to the Fourth Layer of the Great Grandmaster realm, while Yang Yang devoured the power with his Taotie Devil Cultivation Method.
• Lin Ye used the Heavenly Demon Lightning Sealing Pearl to seal the first wave of the tribulation.
• The stronger second wave descended, and Chu He and Yang Yang continued tempering their bodies with its leaking power.

Lin Ye endured successive lightning tribulations and formed a legendary nine-transmutation golden core, astonishing his disciples. The tribulation remained overhead after the eighth strike, revealing that an even greater trial was underway.

• Lin Ye sealed the first four lightning tribulations while Chu He endured their power to temper his body, broke through to the great grandmaster fifth level realm, and withdrew when Lin Ye warned him away from the fifth tribulation.
• Nalan Xi explained how golden core transformations corresponded to lightning tribulations, and the disciples guessed Lin Ye might form a sixth- or seventh-transformation golden core.
• Lin Ye endured the fifth, sixth, and seventh lightning tribulations, sealing each one with the Heavenly Demon Lightning Sealing Pearl.
• The eighth lightning tribulation descended, and Nalan Xi realized Lin Ye had formed an eighth-transformation golden core, stunning the disciples.
• When the lightning cloud failed to disperse, Nalan Xi and the other disciples realized Lin Ye had formed a legendary nine-transmutation golden core.

After overcoming his Golden Core tribulation, Lin Ye used its power to strengthen his disciples and received tenfold feedback that began a Primal Golden Body Transformation. Meanwhile, Han Bing discovered a source of Corpse Sha Qi in the Yin Puppet Sect’s ancestral tomb that could help him advance rapidly.

• Lin Ye survived the ninth lightning tribulation, broke through to the Golden Core Realm, and entered seclusion to stabilize his cultivation.
• Lin Ye and the artifact spirits created lightning cultivation rooms, where his disciples tempered their bodies and strengthened him through tenfold feedback.
• Lin Ye began a Primal Golden Body Transformation, completed the transformation of one arm, and advanced to the second level of the Golden Core Realm through his disciples’ progress.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback when Han Bing mastered the Puppet Technique, raising Lin Ye’s skill to major mastery.
• Han Bing learned that Ancestor Huiyin had died and followed Qin Huan and the elders into the Yin Mist Ancestral Ground to bury him.
• Han Bing sensed the Corpse Sha Qi inside the ancestral tomb and realized that cultivating there could help him reach the Martial Saint Realm quickly.

Han Bing cultivated in the Yin Puppet Sect’s burial ground, and his breakthrough strengthened Lin Ye through tenfold feedback. Meanwhile, the Supreme Yin Sect prepared for upheaval in the Profound Heaven Realm by searching its subordinate factions for promising disciples, and a visitor arrived to meet Dongfang Bai.

• Han Bing persuaded Qin Huan to let him cultivate in the burial ground, then absorbed Corpse Sha Qi and broke through to the Great Grandmaster Seventh Layer.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from Han Bing’s breakthrough and advanced to the Golden Core Realm Third Layer.
• Liu Yun and the Supreme Yin Sect elders discussed the possible death of a powerful figure in the Central Domain and ordered a search for talented disciples among their subordinate factions.
• Dongfang Bai advanced to the Great Grandmaster Third Layer with pills and sealing talismans from his master, though he felt pressured by his rapidly progressing junior brothers and sisters.
• A disciple reported that a woman from the Supreme Yin Sect had arrived, so Dongfang Bai used the Yin-Yang Devil Body to assume his yin form before going to meet her.

Ouyang Xin'er assessed the Supreme Simplicity Sect's three Great Grandmasters and found Xu Xi and Huang Qin lacking, but Dongfang Bai impressed her with his techniques and strength. She invited him to join the Supreme Yin Sect as an outer disciple, and he accepted while planning to conceal that he was a man.

• Ouyang Xin'er introduced herself as an inner disciple of the Supreme Yin Sect and explained that she had come to assess the affiliated sect's promising disciples.
• Xu Xi challenged Ouyang Xin'er but was swiftly defeated, and Huang Qin suffered the same result.
• Dongfang Bai used his perfected Demonic Shadow Clone Technique and Supreme Yin Divine Sword, forcing Ouyang Xin'er to use greater power during their test.
• Ouyang Xin'er judged Dongfang Bai qualified to join the Supreme Yin Sect as an outer disciple and invited him to come with her.
• Dongfang Bai accepted, intending to gain resources and send intelligence to his master while maintaining his yin form around others.

Dongfang Bai infiltrated the Supreme Yin Sect and advanced rapidly, earning Lin Ye mission rewards and cultivation feedback. After Dongfang Bai perfected the Yin-Yang Devil Body, Lin Ye received its perfection-stage feedback and entered seclusion to cultivate it himself.

• Ouyang Xin'er recruited Dongfang Bai into the Supreme Yin Sect, where he became an outer disciple and began gathering information for Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye received a long-term infiltration mission and earned 500,000 Devil Dao Points when Dongfang Bai officially joined the sect.
• Dongfang Bai cultivated in the Marrow-Cleansing Pool and rose to the Great Grandmaster Fifth Layer, then advanced to the Ninth Layer Peak over the following month.
• Dongfang Bai broke through to the Martial Saint Realm and brought the Yin-Yang Devil Body to great accomplishment, raising Lin Ye's cultivation to the Golden Core Realm Eighth Layer and the technique to perfection.
• Lin Ye decided to cultivate the Yin-Yang Devil Body himself, activated a formation, and entered seclusion, astonishing Yu Yu and his disciples.

Lin Ye cultivated the Yin-Yang Devil Body and formed two original bodies, then used tenfold feedback to strengthen one of them. After emerging from seclusion, he passed them off as a clone Secret Method and told his disciples they could not cultivate it yet.

• Lin Ye divided his body into a Yang Body and a Yin Body, using Spirit Stones and his disciples’ cultivation breakthroughs to help them form.
• Lin Ye’s Yin Body swallowed a Yin-Yang Devil Pill and transformed into a second male body, giving him two original bodies with shared consciousness and Nine-Transmutation Golden Cores.
• Chu He’s progress with the True Devil Body Refining Technique triggered tenfold feedback, and Lin Ye chose his original Yang Body to receive it.
• Lin Ye emerged from seclusion and showed his disciples his second body, claiming he had cultivated a clone Secret Method.
• Lin Ye told Chu He and Yang Yang that the Great Sumeru Clone Technique required higher cultivation and a special material he had used up.

Lin Ye selected Great Divine Ability Techniques for his disciples and decided to teach them to whoever first reached major accomplishment in their current Divine Ability Technique. After Chu He achieved that stage, Lin Ye gave him the Undying Annihilation Fist, leaving Chu He excited to study it.

• Lin Ye chose to reward the first disciple to reach major accomplishment in their current Divine Ability Technique with a Great Divine Ability Technique.
• Lin Ye exchanged for the Undying Annihilation Fist for Chu He, the Taotie Devil Armor Technique for Yang Yang, and the Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique for Han Bing, planning to use Demon Race materials for Han Bing’s cultivation.
• Chu He reached major accomplishment in the Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique, and the system’s tenfold feedback brought Lin Ye’s technique to perfection.
• Lin Ye summoned Chu He and gave him the modified Undying Annihilation Fist, explaining that Chu He could cultivate it at his current Martial Saint Realm.
• Chu He thanked Lin Ye and left without reading the Great Divine Ability Technique, intending to study it later.

Chu He endured the destructive power of the Undying Annihilation Fist while Lin Ye’s disciples advanced rapidly and earned him cultivation feedback. Han Bing perfected the Corpse King Indestructible Body, prompting Lin Ye to prepare to visit the Yin Puppet Sect with his second main body.

• Chu He began practicing the Undying Annihilation Fist, repeatedly suffering severe injuries and healing through his physiques so he could continue training.
• Yang Yang broke through to the Martial Saint Realm, raising Lin Ye to the ninth level of the Golden Core Realm through tenfold feedback.
• Sun Hou reached the Great Grandmaster Realm, developed the Great Sun Devil Ape bloodline and its Ferocious Ape True Body ability, then entered the lightning tribulation chamber to temper himself.
• Nalan Xi broke through to the Martial Saint Realm, bringing Lin Ye’s golden body transformation to 97 percent through tenfold feedback.
• Lin Ye gave Yang Yang the Taotie Devil Armor Technique, and Yang Yang began cultivating the defensive Great Divine Ability Technique.
• Han Bing reached major accomplishment in the Corpse King Indestructible Body, and Lin Ye decided to visit him at the Yin Puppet Sect with his second main body.

Lin Ye reunited with Han Bing and gave him a Great Divine Ability Technique, while Sun Hou asked to return to the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains to avenge the monkeys killed by the Three-Tailed Great Demon. Sun Hou confronted the demon, who grew greedy and planned to kill him for the treasure he believed Sun Hou had stolen.

• Lin Ye took Han Bing to the Yu Kingdom, praised his Martial Saint Realm cultivation, and gave him the Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique.
• Han Bing asked Yin Puppet Sect Master Qin Huan for Demon Race materials and received bones and scales from an eighth-tier Demon King.
• Sun Hou asked Lin Ye to let him return to the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains to kill the Three-Tailed Great Demon, and Lin Ye agreed.
• Sun Hou reached Three-Tailed Mountain and confronted the sixth-tier peak Three-Tailed Great Demon.
• The Three-Tailed Great Demon assumed Sun Hou had stolen a human treasure and decided to kill him to take it.

Sun Hou activated his Ferocious Ape True Body and defeated the Three-Tailed Great Demon despite its forbidden breakthrough to Seventh-Tier Demon King strength. After killing it, Sun Hou returned toward the Black-Yellow Sect, aware that stronger Demon Kings still threatened him.

• The Three-Tailed Great Demon attacked Sun Hou, hoping to seize a chance to break through and escape into the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains.
• Sun Hou transformed into a hundred-meter golden ape and shattered the Three-Tailed Great Demon's tails with the Thousand-Jun Devil Ape Staff.
• The Three-Tailed Great Demon used a forbidden technique to reach Seventh-Tier Demon King strength, but Sun Hou's defense and staff technique kept it from gaining the upper hand.
• Sun Hou struck the Three-Tailed Great Demon with Thousand-Jun Kill, breaking its claws and crushing its chest.
• The Three-Tailed Great Demon pleaded for Sun Hou to save it, but Sun Hou killed it with another blow.
• Sun Hou gained insight into his Divine Ability Techniques and ran back toward the Black-Yellow Sect.

Lin Ye upgraded the Black-Yellow Sect to a four-star sect and received a mission to secretly take control of Chu Kingdom. He sent Chu He to the imperial palace, where Chu He confronted the Chu Emperor and waited for Sword Saint Li Xu to arrive.

• Sun Hou returned to the Black-Yellow Sect and paid his respects to Lin Ye, who told him to resume cultivating.
• Lin Ye recruited disciples and raised the sect’s strength and numbers to meet the requirements for four-star status.
• Jiang Yi inspected the Black-Yellow Sect, approved its promotion, and completed the formalities at the Martial Alliance branch.
• The system rewarded Lin Ye with one million Devil Dao Points and gave him a mission to secretly control Chu Kingdom.
• Lin Ye sent Chu He to the imperial palace with a storage ring and instructions to win the imperial family’s submission.
• Chu He entered the palace, subdued the Chu Emperor’s Great Grandmaster eunuch, and waited for Sword Saint Li Xu to arrive.

Chu He defeated Sword Saint Li Xu and confronted the Chu Emperor, revealing that he wanted the imperial family to submit to the sect behind him. He offered the Ascension Golden Body method and the promise of cultivation support, leaving the Chu Emperor tempted by the chance to become a Martial Saint.

• Sword Saint Li Xu attacked Chu He, but Chu He shattered the palace formation and the Ascension Sword with a punch, gravely injuring Li Xu.
• Chu He spared Li Xu and told the frightened Chu Emperor that he had come to discuss cooperation, not to take the throne.
• Chu He revealed that he wanted the Chu Kingdom's imperial family to come under the control of his sect, though he did not disclose the sect's name.
• Chu He offered the Ascension Golden Body cultivation method, but the Chu Emperor said no one in the family could currently cultivate it.
• Chu He promised that his sect could train the Chu Emperor to reach the Great Grandmaster or Martial Saint Realm, stirring the emperor's interest.

Chu He secured the Chu Kingdom’s submission to the Black-Yellow Sect in exchange for cultivation resources and teachings, while Lin Ye advanced to the Golden Body Realm. After Chu He mastered the Undying Annihilation Fist, Lin Ye received tenfold feedback and reached lesser mastery of the technique, leaving him ready to pursue his long-term mission.

• Chu He persuaded the Chu Emperor and Sword Saint Li Xu to accept a contract that placed the Chu Kingdom under the Black-Yellow Sect’s control in exchange for cultivation methods, a Divine Ability Technique, and Spirit Stones.
• Chu He gave the imperial family the Ascension Golden Body method and other rewards, then tasked them with finding talented people to send to the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Lin Ye received 10 million Devil Dao Points after the Heaven and Earth Devil Sect gained control of the Chu Kingdom.
• Lin Ye broke through to the Golden Body Realm after his disciples advanced, strengthening his cultivation and Primal Golden Body.
• Chu He mastered the Undying Annihilation Fist, triggering tenfold feedback that raised Lin Ye’s mastery of the technique to the lesser mastery stage.
• Lin Ye decided the Divine Paper Sect was no longer a threat and considered pursuing his long-term mission.

Lin Ye led his disciples to destroy a Divine Paper Sect branch in the Cang Kingdom, where they killed its Golden Core True Person, thirteen Martial Saints, and hundreds of disciples. After earning a system reward, they set off for another branch as the sect headquarters learned of the attack and began to suspect an enemy was targeting them.

• Lin Ye announced that he would attack the Divine Paper Sect and reassured Nalan Xi that its Golden Body experts and hidden weapons posed little threat.
• Lin Ye brought Ye Chen, Chu He, Yang Yang, Nalan Xi, and the other disciples to the Cang Kingdom branch and had them conceal their identities before attacking.
• Ye Chen and the others shattered the branch's paper formations and fought through its paper figures, while Chu He defeated the Golden Core-level figures and killed the branch's Golden Core True Person.
• Lin Ye received one million Devil Dao Points for the branch's destruction and led the disciples toward the Divine Paper Sect's second branch in the Hu Kingdom.
• Luo Dongxu told True Lord Xu Shan that the Cang Kingdom branch had likely been wiped out by the force targeting the Divine Paper Sect.

Lin Ye destroyed two Divine Paper Sect branches before attacking its headquarters alone, where he killed two Golden Body True Lords and fought True Lord Xu Shan. A damaged Saint Weapon pierced Lin Ye's body, but he survived and began healing, leaving Xu Shan stunned.

• Lin Ye and the disciples destroyed the Divine Paper Sect's second branch, prompting Luo Dongxu to order every remaining branch to evacuate to headquarters.
• Lin Ye found the third branch empty, returned the disciples to the Black-Yellow Sect, and went alone to attack the Divine Paper Sect headquarters in disguise.
• Lin Ye used Devour Heaven and Earth to devastate the headquarters, then fought True Lords Xu Shan, Luo Fu, and Dong Chen under the suppression of the Ten Thousand Talisman Pagoda.
• Lin Ye killed True Lords Luo Fu and Dong Chen and battered Xu Shan, but two Golden Body Realm paper figures briefly bound him with the Ten Thousand Paper Array.
• Xu Shan struck Lin Ye with a damaged Saint Weapon that pierced his body, but Lin Ye survived and rapidly healed, leaving Xu Shan shocked.

Lin Ye destroyed the Divine Paper Sect, returned to the Black-Yellow Sect with its resources, and used his Devil Dao Points to strengthen the sect's communication network. Nalan Xi then received a summons from the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty to attend the royal hunt.

• Lin Ye activated the Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique, killed True Lord Xu Shan, and wiped out the Divine Paper Sect's grotto-heaven before escaping with its treasury and scripture pavilion.
• Lin Ye received 30 million Devil Dao Points for destroying the Divine Paper Sect and exchanged some for resources for the Black-Yellow Sect's disciples.
• Lin Ye bought a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure-grade identity token, created subsidiary tokens, and gave one to Han Bing, while wondering how to reach Dongfang Bai.
• Nalan Xi received a royal summons to attend the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty's royal hunt because she had reached the Martial Saint Realm.
• Nalan Xi went to tell her master about the summons.

Nalan Xi revealed her imperial-family origins and prepared to attend the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty’s hunt, so Lin Ye accompanied her and then met Dongfang Bai. The chapter left Dongfang Bai astonished when Lin Ye gave him a Great Divine Ability Technique.

• Nalan Xi told Lin Ye that she belonged to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty’s imperial family and had to attend its hunt for young Martial Saint descendants.
• Lin Ye explained that he would accompany Nalan Xi partly to meet Dongfang Bai and explore the dynasty, while his other disciples stayed behind in the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Lin Ye and Nalan Xi traveled to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty, then parted near Eastern Mountain City so Nalan Xi could return to the imperial family and Lin Ye could find Dongfang Bai.
• Lin Ye contacted Dongfang Bai near the Supreme Yin Sect, and they met in a small city in the Supreme Yin Mountain Range.
• Lin Ye praised Dongfang Bai’s Fourth Layer Martial Saint cultivation and gave him a manual for a Great Divine Ability Technique.