Chapter Summaries

Han Bing rose to seventh on the Phoenix Ancient Ranking as Bai Luo fell to tenth, while Ye Chen tried to convince Tantai Yao that his junior brothers had defeated Bai Luo. Outside the trial, Lin Ye strengthened his plans through Bai Shi’s cultivation and let Li Si return to the Wind Pool Kingdom, where Li Si intended to confront the Li Household.

• Han Bing rose to seventh place on the Phoenix Ancient Ranking, and Bai Luo fell to tenth, leaving the Four Symbols Sect disciples questioning his strength.
• Ye Chen told Tantai Yao that Han Bing and Chu He had likely defeated Bai Luo, but she and the Saint Realm old granny inside her dismissed his explanation as a lie.
• Bai Shi reached minor mastery in Samsara Saber, and Lin Ye received tenfold feedback that raised the technique to major mastery.
• Lin Ye instructed Bai Shi to focus on Samsara Saber so he could become stronger quickly and eventually combine it with the Nine-Lifetime Samsara Devil Seal.
• Li Si reached the Golden Core Realm Second Layer and asked Lin Ye for permission to return to the Wind Pool Kingdom.
• Lin Ye agreed, and Li Si flew toward the kingdom, intent on settling matters with the Li Household.

Li Si returned to the Li Household during Li Xu’s five-hundredth birthday banquet, announced that he had become a Golden Core True Person, and rejected Li Xu’s offer to make him the household’s second ancestor. After Li Xu attacked him, Li Si overwhelmed him and beat him to death, leaving the household stunned and terrified.

• Li Xu celebrated his five-hundredth birthday as powerful forces presented him with valuable gifts.
• Li Si appeared at the banquet and presented Li Xu with a great clock, provoking the guests and household members.
• Li Tonghe recognized Li Si and explained that the Li Household had once sold him; Li Xu then identified Li Si as a Golden Core True Person.
• Li Xu offered Li Si the position of second ancestor while secretly coveting the fortuitous opportunity behind his rapid cultivation.
• Li Si refused and declared that he had come to give Li Xu and Li Zhenshan a clock.
• Li Xu activated the Mountain-Suppressing Formation and attacked, but Li Si’s techniques let him overpower Li Xu and beat him into a pulp.

Li Si killed the Li Household ancestor and two other enemies before leaving, while Lin Ye's disciples climbed the Phoenix Ancient Ranking and claimed its top places. After they emerged with inheritances, Qin Xu tried to seize Lin Ye, who dodged and condemned the Four Symbols Sect's attack.

• Li Si killed Li Zhenshan, Li Tonghe, and the Li Household ancestor, then left as the banquet guests abandoned the weakened household.
• Li Si toured the Wind Pool Kingdom before returning to the valley to cultivate, while Lin Ye perfected the Samsara Saber through Bai Shi's progress.
• Ye Chen and Lin Ye's other disciples climbed the Phoenix Ancient Ranking, with Ye Chen finishing first, Chu He second, and Bai Luo eighth.
• Ye Chen chose the Phoenix Soul-Illuminating Seal and other inheritances, and Lin Ye's disciples selected their own rewards before leaving the Phoenix Ancient Realm Fragment.
• Bai Luo accused Ye Chen and the others before Qin Xu, who tried to capture Lin Ye as Lin Ye and his disciples prepared to depart.
• Lin Ye dodged Qin Xu's colossal hand with the Great Void Technique and criticized the Four Symbols Sect for attacking after losing the expected benefits.

Lin Ye defeated Qin Xu and brought his disciples back to the Black-Yellow Sect, where Nalan Xi revealed that she was his disciple to her father, Nalan Yu. After the Four Symbols Sect abandoned its investigation and chose a new heir, Lin Ye used his reward to find suitable Golden Body cultivation methods for his disciples.

• Lin Ye slapped Qin Xu flying with a strike powered by the Great Void Technique and Yin-Yang Devil Hand, then left with his disciples.
• Liu Yun and Nalan Yu discussed Lin Ye's strength and concluded that he likely came from a hidden power rather than the Supreme Profound Sect.
• Nalan Xi told Lin Ye that Nalan Yu knew she had entered the Phoenix Ancient Realm Fragment, and Lin Ye instructed her to say she had taken him as her master without revealing the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Nalan Yu learned that Lin Ye was Nalan Xi's master and decided not to risk offending him.
• The Four Symbols Sect demoted Bai Luo from its succession plans, chose to nurture an eight-year-old disciple with an incomplete Qilin Sacred Body, and dropped its investigation into Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye received 100 million Devil Dao Points for his disciples taking the top seven places on the Phoenix Ancient Ranking and began searching the system shop for suitable Golden Body cultivation methods.

Lin Ye chose Golden Body cultivation methods for his disciples and Yu Yu, then sent them to cultivate. Four months later, Yang Yang completed the Taotie Golden Body and became the first of Lin Ye’s disciples to break through to the Golden Body Realm.

• Lin Ye selected Golden Body methods suited to his disciples’ physiques and bloodlines, while postponing choices for Sun Hou, Bai Shi, and Li Si.
• Lin Ye gave Yu Yu the Phoenix Golden Body method and phoenix blood, and she eagerly left to cultivate.
• The disciples used resources from the Phoenix Ancient Realm Fragment to temper their bodies, with Yang Yang progressing especially quickly by devouring and refining materials.
• After four months of cultivating the Taotie Golden Body, Yang Yang broke through to the Golden Body Realm and celebrated being the first among his master’s disciples to do so.

Lin Ye rewarded Yang Yang with the Taotie Domain Saint Technique as his disciples’ golden bodies advanced and their breakthroughs strengthened him. Unable to suppress his cultivation any longer, Lin Ye began breaking through to the Saint Realm and transformed into a Heavenly Demon Saint Body.

• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from Yang Yang’s Golden Body Realm breakthrough, then gave Yang Yang the Taotie Domain Saint Technique to cultivate.
• Ye Chen, Chu He, and Han Bing each reached the Golden Body Realm, and their golden bodies’ feedback brought Lin Ye’s physical strength to the level of a Great Saint Realm body.
• Tantai Yao met Ye Chen in Chu Kingdom, reunited with him, and traveled with him while he trained and cultivated the Selfless Heavenly Demon Blade.
• Chu He cultivated the Great Destruction Demon Fist, while Han Bing cultivated the Blade of Extreme Sha.
• Lin Ye’s cultivation began breaking through to the Saint Realm, transforming his physique into a Heavenly Demon Saint Body.

Lin Ye strengthened his power with top-tier Saint Weapons and received cultivation feedback as his disciples advanced. Bai Shi perfected the Nine-Lifetime Samsara Devil Seal, broke through to the Golden Core Realm with a Nine-Transmutation Golden Core, and faced his tribulation.

• Lin Ye exchanged 90 million Devil Dao Points for the Heavenly Devil Blade and Heavenly Devil Diagram, raising his strength to match a top Great Saint.
• Bai Shi brought the Great Void Technique to major accomplishment, and Lin Ye’s feedback perfected it.
• Dongfang Bai, Dongfang Rou, and Nalan Xi mastered their Golden Bodies, and Lin Ye gained further cultivation feedback.
• Bai Shi completed his seventeenth lifetime and perfected the Nine-Lifetime Samsara Devil Seal, transforming his constitution and aptitude.
• Bai Shi formed a Nine-Transmutation Golden Core and began undergoing its lightning tribulation as the sect’s disciples watched.

Bai Shi passed his Golden Core tribulation and began strengthening his body for a future Golden Body breakthrough, while Li Si mastered the Curse Golden Body and reached the Golden Body Realm. Lin Ye then began searching for a suitable Saint Technique for Li Si.

• Bai Shi shattered the ninth lightning bolt with the Samsara Saber, passed his tribulation, and became a Golden Core cultivator with a Nine-Transmutation Golden Core.
• Lin Ye gave Bai Shi several Body Refining Techniques and resources, and Bai Shi began rapidly strengthening his body.
• Sun Hou and Li Si reached the peak of the Golden Core Realm, and Lin Ye gave Sun Hou the Great Sun Ape Devil Golden Body and Li Si the Curse Golden Body.
• Li Si incorporated 200 kinds of curse power, used them to temper his body, and mastered the Curse Golden Body after a little over ten days.
• Li Si broke through to the Golden Body Realm, and Lin Ye began looking for a Saint Technique to increase his strength.

Lin Ye gave Li Si the Sacrifice Blade Saint Technique, and Li Si sought devil path cultivators to master it. After killing one, Li Si was ambushed by Kui Dou and Yao Ya, but his True Devil Sacrifice Technique made them mistake him for a servant of a powerful Devil Race figure.

• Lin Ye chose Sacrifice Blade for Li Si, who learned it could injure enemies and set out to practice it on evildoers.
• Kui Dou and Yao Ya discussed their mission to recruit Devil Cultivators and gather the Profound Heaven Realm's fortune.
• Ye Si discovered and killed the devil path cultivators Kui Dou and Yao Ya had recruited, prompting them to plan a trap.
• Li Si killed their bait and neared mastery of Sacrifice Blade, but Kui Dou struck him with a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure spear.
• Li Si survived by using the Heavenly Demon Body Disintegration Technique, then activated the True Devil Sacrifice Technique when Kui Dou and Yao Ya attacked him.
• Kui Dou and Yao Ya sensed the Devil Race power surrounding Li Si and asked which Devil Race Great Saint he served.

Li Si killed two peak Golden Body Realm members of the Devil Race and reported their infiltration to Lin Ye. Meanwhile, Nalan Yu broke through to the Great Saint Realm, and Liu Yun asked whether the Supreme Yin Sect had found any promising geniuses.

• Li Si used the Sacrifice Blade to kill Yao Ya and then defeated Kui Dou, claiming their treasures and resources.
• Li Si told Lin Ye that the Devil Race had infiltrated the Profound Heaven Realm and secretly nurtured devil cultivators.
• Lin Ye received a tenfold cultivation reward after Li Si advanced his Sacrifice Blade to the beginner stage.
• Nalan Yu broke through to the Great Saint Realm with the aid of the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty's fortune.
• Liu Yun heard of Nalan Yu's breakthrough and asked an elder about the Supreme Yin Sect's recent geniuses.

Nalan Xi reunited with her mother, Fu Yu, after Nalan Yu arranged for her to return from Green Hill. Lin Ye met Emperor Yu in Eastern Mountain City to discuss a proposed collaboration.

• Liu Yun promoted Dongfang Bai to core disciple of the Supreme Yin Sect, earning Lin Ye 50 million Devil Dao Points.
• Nalan Yu told Nalan Xi that her mother, Fu Yu, was alive in Green Hill and offered to arrange a meeting in exchange for meeting Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye agreed to meet Nalan Yu, and Nalan Yu went to Green Hill to bring Fu Yu back to the Profound Heaven Realm.
• Nalan Xi embraced Fu Yu after they reunited in the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty.
• Lin Ye met Nalan Yu in Eastern Mountain City and asked what he wanted to discuss.

Lin Ye initially refused Nalan Yu’s request to help seize a Nine-Leaf Saint Grass, but a system mission gave him a reason to negotiate. After securing Nalan Yu’s agreement to establish and promote his sect within the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty, Lin Ye learned their destination was the Sword Ruins.

• Nalan Yu asked Lin Ye to help seize the Nine-Leaf Saint Grass and other treasures, but Lin Ye repeatedly refused because he had no interest in Saint medicines.
• The system issued Lin Ye a mission to occupy a grotto-heaven and territory in the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty, make his sect an eight-star sect, and gain the imperial family’s recognition.
• Lin Ye offered to cooperate if Nalan Yu arranged those conditions, and Nalan Yu agreed despite the difficulty of securing the sect’s promotion.
• Lin Ye and Nalan Yu signed an ancient contract and agreed to travel beyond the Profound Heaven Realm to the Sword Ruins, where a Great Saint-level creature had taken over.
• Nalan Yu explained what he knew about Forbidden Lands after Lin Ye admitted he had never paid attention to them.

Nalan Yu explained Taboo Beings and Forbidden Zones to Lin Ye before taking him beyond the Profound Heaven Realm to retrieve saint medicines from a Forbidden Land. They escaped after the Crimson Blood Ancient Ape, empowered by the Power of Taboo, wounded Nalan Yu, and Lin Ye realized how dangerous a fully transformed Taboo Being could be.

• Nalan Yu told Lin Ye that Taboo Beings prolonged their lives by slaughtering living beings and warned him that Taboo Forbidden Zones could contain Taboo Sovereigns with Great Emperor-level power.
• Nalan Yu and Lin Ye traveled through the outer void to a hidden Forbidden Land occupied by the Crimson Blood Ancient Ape.
• Nalan Yu fought the Crimson Blood Ancient Ape while Lin Ye used the Great Void Technique to bypass the restrictions and collect the Nine-Leaf Saint Grass and other saint medicines.
• The Crimson Blood Ancient Ape unleashed the Power of Taboo, shattered Nalan Yu's defenses, and wounded him as it tried to stop Lin Ye from escaping.
• Lin Ye carried Nalan Yu out of the Forbidden Land with the Great Void Technique and returned with him to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty.
• Nalan Yu said his injuries were minor, while Lin Ye noted that the Crimson Blood Ancient Ape could reach Quasi-Emperor strength if it became a Taboo Being.

Lin Ye secured territory and a grotto-heaven for the Black-Yellow Sect, moved the sect there, and strengthened its cultivation environment. After the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty recognized the sect as an eight-star force, the system rewarded him with 300 million Devil Dao Points, and he planned to pursue Emperor Techniques once his disciples reached the King Conferment Realm.

• Nalan Yu arranged a territory and grotto-heaven for Lin Ye and transferred them to the Black-Yellow Sect.
• Lin Ye moved the sect's disciples, buildings, formations, Devil Spring, and underground Spirit Veins to the new territory, then merged in a large Spirit Vein to improve the grotto-heaven.
• The Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty announced the Black-Yellow Sect's new territory, and the Martial Alliance recognized the sect as an eight-star force.
• The system rewarded Lin Ye with 300 million Devil Dao Points after the sect's status and grotto-heaven were secured.
• Lin Ye sent most disciples to cultivate at the sect while Li Si, Yang Yang, Han Bing, and his second body pursued their own training and tasks.
• Lin Ye considered exchanging for an Emperor Technique once his disciples reached the King Conferment Realm.

Li Si was captured by Xiao Hongyi, the Hehuan Sect’s Holy Maiden, and used as a cultivation cauldron. His Reverse Calamity Devil Physique turned her harvesting into a source of strength, leaving him vigorous while Xiao Hongyi grew exhausted.

• Li Si cultivated in Poison Mist Valley until his cultivation reached the Golden Body Realm Second Layer.
• Xiao Hongyi sent her Hehuan Gu Worm into the valley, and Li Si chased it out before she seized him and made him unconscious.
• Xiao Hongyi brought Li Si to the Hehuan Sect and used the Hehuan Yang-Harvesting Art to harvest his essence.
• Li Si realized his Reverse Calamity Devil Physique was making him stronger instead of weaker as Xiao Hongyi harvested him.
• After two days, Li Si remained full of vigor while Xiao Hongyi was exhausted.

Li Si was controlled by Xiao Hongyi’s Hehuan Gu Worm, but his unusual physique let him benefit from repeated cultivation sessions and rapidly advance. After the Hehuan Sect’s elders and sect master discovered him, the sect claimed him as a shared cultivation cauldron, and Xiao Hongyi agreed in exchange for its supreme physique method.

• Xiao Hongyi warned Li Si that he could not remove the Hehuan Gu Worm without cultivation far beyond hers, while he found that the place blocked messages and his cultivation was advancing quickly.
• Chen Xiaoyue took advantage of Xiao Hongyi’s absence to cultivate with Li Si, and he broke through to the Third Layer of the Golden Body Realm.
• Lin Ye received system feedback from Li Si’s breakthrough, but his messages went unanswered as Li Si continued advancing.
• Six Hehuan Sect elders visited Li Si while Xiao Hongyi was away, and she later returned to find the sect master, Huang Shan, with him.
• Huang Shan told Xiao Hongyi to offer Li Si to the sect and promised her the Seven-Colored Sacred Physique method, so Xiao Hongyi agreed.

Li Si was captured by the Hehuan Sect, where the sect members used him as a cultivation furnace until he reached the Golden Body Realm Ninth Layer. When Lin Ye failed to contact him, he searched the poisonous mist valley, used a Retrospection Talisman to discover Li Si’s abduction and Gu worm, then went to ask Nalan Yu about the woman responsible.

• The Hehuan Sect’s upper echelons decided to take turns using Li Si for cultivation and kept him busy for months.
• Li Si reached the Golden Body Realm Eighth Layer, then broke through to the Ninth Layer, while still lacking a Dharma Aspect cultivation method from Lin Ye.
• Lin Ye received tenfold cultivation feedback from Li Si’s breakthrough and grew concerned when Li Si did not return or answer his calls.
• Lin Ye searched the poisonous mist valley, found the spatial rift and strange river, but found no trace of Li Si.
• Lin Ye used a Retrospection Talisman to learn that a King Conferment Realm woman had abducted Li Si and planted a Gu worm in him.
• Lin Ye went to the Eastern Mountain Imperial Dynasty to ask Nalan Yu about the Gu worm.

Lin Ye found Li Si at the Hehuan Sect, where Li Si chose to stay and continue improving his cultivation despite being unable to leave because of a Hehuan Gu Worm. Lin Ye discovered the worm was tied to Li Si’s life and returned to the Black-Yellow Sect to seek a karmic Saint Technique that could sever their connection.

• Lin Ye asked Nalan Yu about the Hehuan Gu Worm and learned that its sect’s headquarters blocked outside communications and that the sect had no Great Saint Realm experts.
• Lin Ye traveled to the Hehuan Sect and contacted Li Si, who said he wanted to stay because the women there helped him cultivate, though the Gu Worm prevented him from leaving.
• Lin Ye gave Li Si the Blood Devil Golden Body and Heavenly Incantation Dharma Aspect methods, which suited Li Si’s Reverse Calamity Devil Physique.
• Lin Ye examined the Hehuan Gu Worm and found that it was bound to Li Si’s life, so removing it directly would kill him.
• Lin Ye realized a karmic Saint Technique could sever the bond, left Li Si at the Hehuan Sect, and searched the system shop for one.

Lin Ye mastered Heavenly Demon Karma Kill through Bai Shi and prepared to protect Li Si from the Hehuan Gu Worm. Bai Shi broke through to the Golden Body Realm, while Li Si secretly reached the King Conferment Realm, pushing Lin Ye’s cultivation to the Saint Realm Sixth Layer.

• Lin Ye gave Bai Shi Heavenly Demon Karma Kill to cultivate, and a month later Bai Shi’s progress gave Lin Ye the technique at minor accomplishment.
• Lin Ye realized he could sever the connection between Li Si and the Hehuan Gu Worm, but decided to wait until Li Si was ready to leave the Hehuan Sect.
• Bai Shi perfected his Body Refining Techniques, cultivated the Primordial Gods and Devils Golden Body Cultivation Method, and broke through to the Golden Body Realm.
• Li Si persuaded Huang Shan to let him enter seclusion, then used the Hehuan Cave’s resources and a concealing treasure to break through to the King Conferment Realm and form his Heavenly Incantation Dharma Aspect.
• Lin Ye received tenfold feedback from Li Si’s breakthrough, reached the Saint Realm Sixth Layer, and gained the Heavenly Incantation Dharma Aspect at minor accomplishment.

Tantai Yao returned to the Tantai Household after it summoned her and learned that the Lineage planned to emerge from seclusion as a dangerous age approached. The clan’s leaders secretly decided to extract the bloodlines of collateral members and fuse them into Tantai You to strengthen him.

• Ye Chen and Tantai Yao learned that the Tantai Lineage had summoned her, and she returned to the Tantai Household alone.
• Tantai Yao reunited with her parents, Tantai Zhe and Tantai Yu, and asked why the Lineage had called her back.
• Tantai Zhe told Tantai Yao that the Lineage planned to emerge from seclusion and compete for the emperor’s throne or nurture a Quasi-Emperor to survive the coming age.
• Six senior Tantai leaders discussed the weakening of their Quasi-Emperor bloodline and the danger posed by the approaching Immemorial Immortal Road and dark age.
• The Tantai leaders agreed to use a forbidden Technique to extract collateral clan members’ bloodlines and fuse them into Tantai You, keeping the plan secret.