Chapter Summaries

Lin Ye discovered that Bai Shi, a seemingly hopeless martial arts student, possessed the Hundred-Lifetime Physique, which let him live successive lifetimes but came with extremely poor talent. He realized Bai Shi was not in his first lifetime, though the chapter left unexplained how Bai Shi had reached the Body Forging Realm.

• Lin Ye gave Dongfang Bai the Yin-Yang Devil Hand and a token for contacting him and his fellow disciples.
• Lin Ye traveled around the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty before spotting Bai Shi struggling to learn the Liu Clan Six Slaughters Fist at the Liu Clan Martial Arts Hall.
• Lin Ye secretly observed Bai Shi and questioned why the Supreme Devil Dao System had selected someone with such poor talent.
• Lin Ye used a low-grade physique-detection talisman on Bai Shi, but it failed to reveal any special physique.
• Lin Ye bought the highest-grade physique-detection talisman and discovered that Bai Shi possessed the Hundred-Lifetime Physique, which could grant him up to a hundred lifetimes while leaving his talent weak.
• Lin Ye concluded that Bai Shi was not living his first lifetime and wondered how he had cultivated to the Body Forging Realm.

Lin Ye discovered that Bai Shi had the Hundred-Lifetime Physique and chose a cultivation method that could turn his repeated lives into rapid progress. After taking Bai Shi as his disciple, Lin Ye gave him a modified Divine Art-grade Cultivation Method, which left Bai Shi wondering what a Divine Art was.

• Lin Ye recognized that Bai Shi's Hundred-Lifetime Physique could be exposed to dangerous old monsters and searched for a simple method suited to his poor aptitude.
• Lin Ye selected the Years Devil Cultivation Method, which burned lifespan to accelerate cultivation, and planned to modify it into the Years Cultivation Method.
• Lin Ye woke Bai Shi and overpowered him when he tried to flee, then threatened to reveal what he knew about Bai Shi's unusual circumstances.
• Bai Shi agreed to become Lin Ye's disciple, and the system awarded Lin Ye 200,000 Devil Dao Points.
• Lin Ye modified the cultivation method, took Bai Shi to a feast, and gave him the Divine Art-grade manual.
• Bai Shi asked Lin Ye what a Divine Art-grade Cultivation Method was.

Lin Ye taught Bai Shi the Years Devil Cultivation Method and explained that Bai Shi had the Hundred-Lifetime Physique, then helped him begin cultivating. Bai Shi broke through to the Fourth Layer of the Body Forging Realm and learned about Lin Ye’s other disciples, while the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty’s imperial family hunt was about to begin.

• Lin Ye explained cultivation grades and revealed that Bai Shi had the Hundred-Lifetime Physique, advising him to use the Years Devil Cultivation Method to raise his cultivation and extend his future lives.
• Bai Shi left his martial arts school and struggled to learn the Years Devil Cultivation Method until Lin Ye gave him a Devil Soul Fruit to improve his comprehension.
• After seven days, Bai Shi learned the method’s basics and began burning his lifespan to cultivate the Years Body Refining Technique.
• Bai Shi broke through to the Fourth Layer of the Body Forging Realm after three days, and Lin Ye explained the higher realms and introduced his eight senior disciples.
• Lin Ye gave Bai Shi talismans and Law Treasures for protection as Bai Shi focused on strengthening himself.
• Nalan Xi met her imperial brothers and sisters ahead of the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty’s imperial family hunt, but few recognized her.

Nalan Xi entered the High Antiquity Fragment for the imperial hunt, where she fought powerful remnants and revealed a Nine-Tailed Black Fox transformation. Watching through the Void Mirror, Nalan Yu learned that her bloodline had awakened and realized she was his daughter.

• Nalan He mocked Nalan Xi for only recently reaching the second stage of the Martial Saint Realm, but Nalan Xi gave her a brief greeting and ignored the taunt.
• The Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty sent its eligible offspring into different regions of the High Antiquity Fragment according to their cultivation levels.
• Nalan Xi found and collected a century-old Purple Blood Ginseng, then killed a middle seventh-tier Jiu Snake with her Heavenly Fox Demon Claw.
• Nalan Yu and the King Conferment Realm experts watched the hunt through a mirror and saw Nalan Xi confront a peak seventh-tier High Antiquity Remnant Species.
• Nalan Xi transformed into a Nine-Tailed Black Fox and fought the remnant with her Heavenly Fox Demon Claw and Demon Fox Devil Body.
• Nalan Yu suspected Nalan Xi was not his daughter, but an expert explained that she was his half-demon child and that her special Cultivation Method had awakened an ancestral bloodline.

Nalan Xi killed a powerful High Antiquity Remnant Species, advanced to the Third Layer of the Martial Saint Realm, and was sent by Nalan Yu to join the Eastern Divine Guard in Eastward-Looking City. After receiving her message, Lin Ye decided to take Bai Shi there and teach Nalan Xi a Great Divine Ability Technique.

• Nalan Xi broke through to major mastery in the Heavenly Fox Demon Claw and killed the High Antiquity Remnant Species, then recovered from her injuries.
• Nalan Xi emerged from the High Antiquity Fragment a month later after advancing to the Third Layer of the Martial Saint Realm.
• Nalan Yu summoned Nalan Xi and ordered her to leave Eastern Mountain City and join the Eastern Divine Guard in Eastward-Looking City.
• Lin Ye watched Bai Shi advance to the Fourth Layer of the True Qi Realm while growing older through his cultivation.
• Nalan Xi told Lin Ye she had arrived in Eastward-Looking City, and Lin Ye decided to bring Bai Shi there and teach her a Great Divine Ability Technique.

Lin Ye brought Bai Shi to Eastward-Looking City to meet his senior sister Nalan Xi and gave her the life-saving Great Divine Ability Technique, the Nine-Tailed Life Substitution Technique. While his disciples’ cultivation strengthened him, Han Bing mastered another Great Divine Ability Technique, and Lin Ye received tenfold feedback.

• Lin Ye took Bai Shi to Eastward-Looking City and told him that his senior sister Nalan Xi was an imperial princess and an East God Guard.
• Nalan Xi welcomed Lin Ye and Bai Shi at her residence, and Lin Ye explained that Bai Shi was her junior brother whose old appearance came from his cultivation method.
• Lin Ye passed Nalan Xi the Nine-Tailed Life Substitution Technique, which let her sacrifice a tail to survive a lethal attack, and she began studying it.
• Lin Ye bought a nearby residence and stayed in Eastward-Looking City as his disciples advanced; their breakthroughs raised his cultivation to the Third Layer of the Golden Body Realm.
• Han Bing reached the Fifth Layer of the Martial Saint Realm and cultivated the Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique to the initial realm.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from Han Bing’s breakthrough in the technique and advanced his own Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique to minor mastery.

Han Bing’s identity as a fake Holy Son Yintian was exposed when Nine Sha True Lord recognized him, forcing him to flee the Yin Puppet Sect. After surviving a day-long battle against three Golden Core True Persons, he escaped and returned with Lin Ye to the Black-Yellow Sect.

• Qin Huan summoned Han Bing after the Yin Puppet Sect recovered Nine Sha True Lord’s remnant soul from a Yin artifact.
• Nine Sha True Lord declared that Han Bing was not Holy Son Yintian, and Han Bing escaped with a Teleportation Talisman.
• Three Golden Core True Persons cornered Han Bing in the Yin Heaven Mountain Range and attacked him, but his Corpse King Indestructible Body repeatedly healed his wounds.
• Han Bing fought and fled from the pursuers for a day and a night until he finally escaped.
• Lin Ye met Han Bing and took him back to the Black-Yellow Sect to meet his junior brothers.

Han Bing returned to the Black-Yellow Sect while Bai Shi began his third life and advanced to the Innate Realm. Han Bing then sought Demon King materials for his cultivation technique and persuaded Sun Hou to plan a trip to the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains.

• Han Bing reunited with Ye Chen and met Chu He and Sun Hou, then sparred frequently with Chu He.
• At Lin Ye's urging, Bai Shi exhausted his lifespan and entered his third life, regaining his youth while keeping his Eighth Layer of the True Qi Realm cultivation.
• Bai Shi cultivated with Lin Ye's help, reached the Ninth Layer of the True Qi Realm, and broke through to the Innate Realm after a month of attempts.
• Han Bing asked Lin Ye for Eighth-Tier Demon King materials, and Lin Ye suggested that Sun Hou search for them in the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains.
• Han Bing persuaded Sun Hou to seek Demon King corpses and promised puppets and payment; Sun Hou agreed to go after reaching the Martial Saint Realm.

Dongfang Bai attracted the Supreme Yin Sect's attention after placing thirteenth in its outer disciple competition and was selected to try to comprehend a Secret Method from High Antiquity. Lin Ye learned of the opportunity and urged him to succeed, while the sect prepared to send more disciples into the ruin.

• Lin Ye learned that Dongfang Bai had placed thirteenth in the competition and earned him 200,000 Devil Dao Points.
• Elder Huang Shan summoned Dongfang Bai and other outer disciples to explain that a stone stele in an ancient ruin contained a Secret Method they could attempt to comprehend.
• Dongfang Bai registered, swore an oath to give any method he comprehended to the Supreme Yin Sect, and contacted Lin Ye about the opportunity.
• The system assigned Lin Ye a mission to obtain the Secret Method before the righteous factions, promising a massive amount of Devil Dao Points.
• Supreme Yin Sect leaders discussed the failure of the first batch of disciples and the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty's interest in the stele.
• Three days later, Dongfang Bai and the other outer disciples entered the ruin from High Antiquity.

Dongfang Bai struggled to comprehend the High Antiquity Secret Method in the ruins while Sun Hou broke through to Martial Saint. Emperor Yu secured permission for the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty to send Martial Saints into the ruins after revealing that the secret method was the Great Void Technique, and Nalan Xi informed Lin Ye that she would enter.

• Dongfang Bai and the other outer disciples reached the stone stele and began trying to comprehend its shifting patterns, but Dongfang Bai doubted he could succeed within three months.
• Sun Hou reached the Great Grandmaster Ninth Layer Peak, broke through to Martial Saint, and took human form, while Jin Diao Hu Lu envied his progress.
• Emperor Yu asked Sect Master Liu Yun to let the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty send people into the ruins and revealed that the method was the Great Void Technique.
• Liu Yun agreed to let the imperial family's Martial Saints enter after Emperor Yu promised to keep the technique's identity secret.
• Emperor Yu ordered his Martial Saint-level descendants to enter the ruins, and Nalan Xi told Lin Ye that she had received the notice.

Nalan Xi and the Supreme Yin Sect disciples failed to comprehend the Great Void Technique in the High Antiquity ruins, while Bai Shi entered his fourth life and broke through to the Grandmaster Realm. Lin Ye decided to raise Bai Shi to the Martial Saint Realm so he could burn his lifespan to comprehend the technique.

• Nalan Xi and the other Martial Saints studied the High Antiquity stone stele for two months but found the Great Void Technique too difficult to comprehend.
• Bai Shi exhausted his third life attempting to reach the Grandmaster Realm, entered his fourth life, and then broke through with the Years Devil Cultivation Method.
• Lin Ye sensed the cultivation feedback from Bai Shi and noted his own progress in the Golden Body Realm.
• Dongfang Bai and Nalan Xi left the ruins without comprehending the Great Void Technique, and Emperor Yu and Liu Yun agreed to keep sending occasional visitors.
• Lin Ye decided to focus on raising Bai Shi to the Martial Saint Realm so Bai Shi could burn his lifespan to comprehend the High Antiquity Secret Method.

Lin Ye gave Bai Shi a Heaven-Defying Pill and a defensive Divine Ability Technique, then passed Sun Hou the Size-Altering Ruyi Technique. Sun Hou prepared to travel to the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains to gain experience and gather materials.

• Lin Ye bought a Heaven-Defying Pill and the True Devil Blood Armor Technique for Bai Shi, whose survival skills he wanted to improve.
• Bai Shi took the pill, burned decades of lifespan, and cultivated the True Devil Blood Armor Technique to the major accomplishment realm; Lin Ye’s system feedback raised his own technique to perfection.
• Lin Ye received system feedback that Sun Hou had reached major accomplishment in the Thousand-Jun Devil Ape Staff and decided to pass him a Great Divine Ability Technique.
• Sun Hou reached the second level of the Martial Saint realm and told Han Bing he would prepare before going to the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains.
• Lin Ye gave Sun Hou the Myriad Transformations Devil Body Ruyi Technique, which Sun Hou recognized as the Size-Altering Ruyi Technique.
• Sun Hou decided to head to the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains to gain experience and collect Demon King materials for Han Bing.

Sun Hou challenged the Six-Winged Demon King and defeated him, then questioned him about the forces of the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains. The chapter left Sun Hou learning that far stronger Demon Kings and another formidable Demon Race force underpinned the region.

• Sun Hou entered the Six-Winged Demon King's territory and brushed aside the demons who tried to stop him.
• The Six-Winged Demon King learned Sun Hou was the monkey captured by the Three-Tailed Great Demon and accepted his challenge.
• Sun Hou used his staff technique and Ferocious Ape True Body to break the Six-Winged Demon King's defenses and badly injure him.
• Sun Hou spared the Six-Winged Demon King and asked how the Demon Race's forces were distributed across the mountains.
• The Six-Winged Demon King explained that the Ten Saints and 108 ninth- and tenth-tier Demon Kings ruled the region, and said he served the late-stage ninth-tier Red Crow Demon King.
• The Six-Winged Demon King revealed another terrifying Demon Race force that helped the Demon Race resist the Eastern Domain's powers.

Sun Hou learned about the Demon Saint Abyss and guided Han Bing there, where Han Bing began cultivating with its Sha Qi and Demon King bones. Han Bing hoped to advance quickly, while Lin Ye worried about the danger of the Demon Race territory and focused on his own cultivation.

• Sun Hou questioned the Six-Winged Demon King about the Black Mountain Demon Kingdom and the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains, then spared him and left.
• At the Crimson Dove Demon Market, Sun Hou learned that the Demon Saint Abyss contained powerful Sha Qi and Demon King bones, then informed Han Bing.
• Han Bing met Sun Hou at the edge of the Hundred Thousand Desolate Mountains and disguised himself as a Demon King with a Transformation Talisman.
• Sun Hou and Han Bing traveled through Demon Race territory to the Demon Saint Abyss, where Sun Hou turned back and Han Bing ventured inside.
• Han Bing found a fragment of Ninth-Tier Demon King bone and began cultivating the Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique with it and the Sha Qi.
• Lin Ye learned that Han Bing had entered the Demon Saint Abyss, worried about his safety, and anticipated reaching the ninth level of the Golden Body Realm.

Han Bing advanced rapidly in the Demon Saint Abyss, while Ye Chen struggled to cultivate the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Selfless Saber. With Lin Ye’s guidance and intervention, Ye Chen severed all six desires, including the desires for life and death, and left ready to continue training.

• Han Bing absorbed Sha Qi in the Demon Saint Abyss, advanced to the Eighth Layer of the Martial Saint Realm, and improved his Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique with Demon Kings’ remains.
• Ye Chen told Lin Ye he had severed anger, fear, and aversion but had made little progress severing lust, so Lin Ye advised him to focus on the six desires instead.
• Ye Chen sealed his ears, eyes, mouth, and nose and endured ten days of sensory deprivation until he severed those four desires.
• Lin Ye told Ye Chen to seek battle experience to sever the desires for life and death, and Ye Chen left the Black-Yellow Sect to train.
• A powerful Golden Core True Person attacked Ye Chen, and Lin Ye’s staged near-death encounter helped Ye Chen sever the desires for life and death before Lin Ye revealed the final killing blow had been an illusion.

Ye Chen pursued Tantai Yao after Lin Ye sealed his memories so he could experience love and sever the last of his emotions, but he left her when his memories returned. Tantai Yao revealed her Golden Core True Person cultivation after finding his farewell letter.

• Ye Chen entered a brothel in Xianghe City to stir and then sever his lust, and later severed sorrow after witnessing suffering across the land.
• Ye Chen returned to Lin Ye and asked him to seal his memories so he could experience love; Lin Ye used a Soul Seal Pearl and the Dream Illusion Devil Pupil to guide him toward a relationship.
• Lin Ye's cultivation neared the King Conferment Realm, while Bai Shi began his fifth life and broke through to the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Han Bing received the Heavenly Devil Feather Ring from Sun Hou and used it to compress his Martial Saint-level True Qi at the Demon Saint Abyss.
• Ye Chen met Tantai Yao in Hundred Flowers City, pursued her, and began a relationship with her.
• Ye Chen's sealed memories returned, so he left Tantai Yao a farewell letter and departed; Tantai Yao read it and revealed her Golden Core True Person cultivation as an old woman's phantom mocked her.

Lin Ye’s disciples advanced their cultivation and strengthened his power through system feedback. After Han Bing reached the Golden Core Realm, Chu He and Yang Yang set out to gain experience, while Han Bing returned to the Demon Saint Abyss and helped Lin Ye master the Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique.

• Tantai Yao searched the Flower Kingdom for Ye Chen, found no clues, and left to look for him elsewhere.
• Ye Chen cultivated the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Selfless Saber, and Lin Ye received tenfold feedback that raised his mastery to the minor mastery level.
• Han Bing returned from the Demon Saint Abyss and broke through to the Golden Core Realm, enduring eight lightning bolts to form an Eighth-Transformation Golden Core.
• Lin Ye received feedback from Han Bing’s breakthrough that advanced his cultivation and slightly improved the quality of his Nine-Transmutation Golden Core.
• Han Bing’s sealed lightning tribulation power helped the disciples temper their bodies, and Chu He used it to reach the Ninth Stage of the Martial Saint Realm.
• Chu He and Yang Yang left to gain experience, while Han Bing returned to the Demon Saint Abyss and later advanced the Extreme Dao Corpse Armor Technique to minor mastery, raising Lin Ye’s mastery to major mastery.

Jin Diao Hu Lu broke through to the Seventh-Tier Demon King realm and indulged himself at a brothel, while Chu He tempered his body with lightning and prepared to advance. After compressing his True Qi, Chu He successfully reached the Golden Core Realm with an Eighth-Transformation Golden Core.

• Jin Diao Hu Lu broke through to the Seventh-Tier Demon King realm, transformed into a burly human, and received permission from Lin Ye to leave the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Hu Lu exchanged spirit medicine for silver, spent seven days at a brothel, and came to prefer human women over female golden eagles.
• Chu He traveled to the Thunder Kingdom and used natural lightning to temper his body before discovering the Thunder River Sect's Thunder-Attracting Formation.
• Chu He purchased a Thunder-Attracting Formation Plate, set it up in a lightning-filled valley, and trained there until his cultivation reached the limit of the ninth level of the Martial Saint stage.
• Lin Ye gave Chu He a Heavenly Devil Feather Ring, and Chu He spent another month compressing his True Qi while continuing to cultivate in the valley.
• Chu He returned to the Black-Yellow Sect and broke through to the Golden Core Realm, forming an Eighth-Transformation Golden Core.

Chu He and Yang Yang each broke through to the Golden Core Realm with Eighth-Transformation Golden Cores, while Yang Yang’s discovery of a dangerous devil-insect nest led Lin Ye to keep him in the sect. Yang Yang’s breakthrough later pushed Lin Ye into the King Conferment Realm, and Ye Chen’s saber training brought Lin Ye another surge of mastery.

• Chu He passed his Golden Core Lightning Tribulation, and Lin Ye received cultivation feedback that slightly improved his Golden Core.
• Lin Ye gave each of his disciples a Heavenly Devil Feather Ring to help them prepare for the Golden Body Realm.
• Yang Yang tracked black devil insects to an underground nest, devoured many of them, and fled after sensing an overwhelming spiritual force.
• Yang Yang reported the nest to Lin Ye, who warned him to remain in the sect and cultivate rather than investigate further.
• After refining the insects and compressing his True Qi with the Heavenly Devil Feather Ring, Yang Yang broke through to the Golden Core Realm with an Eighth-Transformation Golden Core.
• Yang Yang’s breakthrough feedback advanced Lin Ye to the King Conferment Realm, and Ye Chen’s progress with the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Selfless Saber raised Lin Ye’s mastery to major accomplishment.

Dongfang Bai cultivated separate Yin and Yang bodies, while Lin Ye’s disciples continued advancing and Bai Shi reached the Martial Saint Realm. In the Wind Pool Kingdom, Hu Lu discovered a boy who might be suitable to become Lin Ye’s disciple.

• Dongfang Bai left the Supreme Yin Sect, returned to the Black-Yellow Sect, reached the Golden Core Realm, and cultivated Yin and Yang bodies.
• Dongfang Rou met Dongfang Bai’s two bodies, and Lin Ye sent his Yin Body back to the Supreme Yin Sect while his Yang Body stayed to cultivate in the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Dongfang Bai passed the Supreme Yin Sect’s assessment to become an inner disciple, earning Lin Ye one million Devil Dao Points.
• Nalan Xi, Ye Chen, and Dongfang Rou advanced in cultivation, while Lin Ye reached the King Conferment Realm Second Layer.
• Bai Shi began his sixth life, reached the Martial Saint Realm with Lin Ye’s support, and Lin Ye planned to send him to the High Antiquity ruins in his next life.
• Hu Lu visited a brothel in the Wind Pool Kingdom, where his Devil Jade led him to a frail, fair-looking boy who might be suitable as Lin Ye’s disciple.