Recaps

Yan Batian ordered General Wu to attack Human Race star systems while he headed to the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance to meet the person who killed his brother. At the Holy Mountain, Ye Lin discovered its staircase was built from Human Race bones, and Void and the others realized the alliance might face his wrath.

• General Wu pledged to kill the person who beheaded the Fifth Prince, and Yan Batian ordered him to lead ten million troops against Human Race star systems.
• Yan Batian announced that he would visit the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance himself, then left as General Wu watched him with reverence.
• Chen Changfeng led Ye Lin to the Holy Mountain, where the surrounding beings cleared a path for them out of fear.
• Ye Lin noticed something about the white steps and reacted with killing intent before continuing toward the auction site.
• Void and the others discovered that the staircase was made from Human Race bones and ordered their sect to send more disciples and notify Human Race factions.

Void prepared the disciples and Human Race factions to help Ye Lin make trouble against the Great Rock Empire, anticipating his reaction to the stairs made from Human Race bones. Chen Changfeng explained that the Human Race’s persecution began after the Ten Thousand Swords Sacred Sect was destroyed a million years earlier, with the Great Rock Empire among the worst offenders.

• Void told the disciples to summon Human Race factions and prepare to fight alongside Ye Lin, even if it meant risking everything.
• Void and the others anticipated that the Great Rock Empire would retaliate and planned to confront its cultivators and allied factions.
• Ye Lin, disturbed by the stairs made from Human Race bones, asked Chen Changfeng where they came from.
• Chen Changfeng explained that the destruction of the Ten Thousand Swords Sacred Sect had triggered a dark age of persecution for the Human Race in the northern Demon Domain.
• Chen Changfeng said the Great Rock Empire had been among the worst forces suppressing Human Race prodigies.

Ye Lin and Chen Changfeng reached the center of Holy Mountain, where human captives were humiliated beside a lake of human blood. After Chen Changfeng showed Ye Lin their remote camp, the Snakefolk prodigy Niu Er confronted him and mocked the human race.

• Chen Changfeng told Ye Lin that the myriad races suppressed and killed human prodigies while spreading rumors against them.
• Ye Lin saw a lake of human blood surrounded by camps where human prodigies served the other races as captives.
• Chen Changfeng led Ye Lin to a remote tent and said the auction atop the Holy Pool would begin in three hours.
• Niu Er approached Chen Changfeng with a chained human True Immortal and insulted the Fox Clan for associating with humans.
• Niu Er called the human race lowly as he glanced toward Ye Lin.

Niu Er humiliated a former human Saintess and provoked Ye Lin at the Holy Mountain while Chen Changfeng struggled to contain his anger. As other races gathered to mock Ye Lin’s apparent silence, Chen Changfeng and the fox race prodigies began to doubt whether they had followed the right person.

• Niu Er struck the chained former Saintess with his snake body and mocked her past as a Canglan Sacred Land Saintess.
• Ye Lin told Niu Er to leave, but Niu Er refused and dragged the iron chain toward him while Chen Changfeng followed.
• Niu Er insulted Chen Changfeng and his shabby tent as prodigies from other races gathered to watch.
• The gathered prodigies mocked Ye Lin and the human race, prompting doubt among Chen Changfeng and the fox race prodigies.
• Niu Er continued taunting Chen Changfeng about the fox race’s poor foundation and offered to tidy his tent.

Niu Er tested Ye Lin and believed his stillness meant he could be broken and added to his collection of Human Race prodigies. Meanwhile, the northern Demon Domain’s Human Race Alliance debated supporting Blood Baleful, whose rise in the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance could give their people a foothold in the Central Domain.

• Niu Er recalled how he collected Human Race prodigies by crushing their pride and decided Ye Lin would become another of his works.
• Chen Changfeng clenched his fists and radiated killing intent, but Niu Er dismissed him as no threat.
• Disciples and True Immortal prodigies from the four sects and other factions converged on the Thousand Cities Alliance, drawing the attention of the Human Race’s remaining factions.
• The northern Demon Domain’s Human Race Alliance gathered to discuss Blood Baleful’s seizure of the Thousand Cities Alliance and its favorable attitude toward the Human Race.
• A sword-wielding man urged the alliance to help Blood Baleful, warning that the Human Race would be finished if it failed to support its prodigies and secure a place in the Central Domain.

The human race’s elders argued over whether to help Blood Baleful after he killed the Great Rock Empire’s Fifth Prince, whose soldiers retaliated by massacring three human star systems. The Divine Sword Sect Master rejected the elders’ cowardice and left to support Blood Baleful, while others warned that the Great Rock Empire was trying to destroy humanity.

• White Eyebrow urged the elders to wait and help Blood Baleful only if he won.
• An elder blamed Blood Baleful for the deaths of everyone in three star systems, slaughtered by the Fifth Prince’s soldiers.
• The Divine Sword Sect Master condemned the elders for blaming their own prodigy and refusing to aid him.
• The Divine Sword Sect Master declared that he and the Divine Sword Sect would support Blood Baleful or die fighting, then left the Holy Palace.
• Another speaker agreed with the Divine Sword Sect Master and said the Great Rock Empire was systematically targeting the human race.

The Human Race Alliance leaders split over whether to aid Blood Baleful, while the Alliance Leader secretly backed him and ordered the dissenting leaders replaced. The Divine Sword Sect Master also committed to helping, sending young sword-wielders toward the Central Domain.

• The Divine Sword Sect Master and other ambitious leaders left the alliance gathering to support Blood Baleful, while most of the remaining leaders departed with contempt.
• The Alliance Leader ordered a black-clad man to send promising Shadow Guards to the Central Domain with his decree and told him to replace those who had stayed in the hall.
• The Alliance Leader praised the Shu Mountain Sword Sect and showed interest in Blood Baleful before vanishing.
• The Divine Sword Sect Master returned to his sect, and its young disciples began traveling to the Central Domain through a teleportation array.

Ye Lin attacked Niu Er after rejecting his offer to share the chained woman, then overwhelmed the Snakefolk prodigy in their fight. Niu Er transformed into a giant python and fixed his killing intent on Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin approached Niu Er and declared that he wanted Niu Er's life.
• Ye Lin struck Niu Er's chest, and Niu Er retaliated with peak True Immortal strength.
• Ye Lin severed one of Niu Er's tails with a single Saint-Falling Fist.
• Niu Er transformed into a black giant python over a hundred zhang long and glared at Ye Lin with killing intent.

Ye Lin’s Sword Qi wounded Niu Er’s dragon-blooded true form as onlookers learned that Ye Lin had killed the Fifth Prince of the Great Rock Empire. The chapter left Niu Er shocked by the dragon might Ye Lin possessed, while news of the prince’s death threatened to shake the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.

• Niu Er revealed his true form and attacked Ye Lin with a wave of blood charged with Blood Baleful aura.
• Ye Lin pierced the blood with ten thousand Sword Qi and shattered Niu Er’s scales, drawing blood.
• A Stubborn Stone Clan prodigy told the spectators that Blood Baleful had killed the Fifth Prince of the Great Rock Empire two hours earlier.
• The spectators reacted with alarm, contacted their clans, and anticipated conflict between the Great Rock Empire and the human race.
• Niu Er cried out in disbelief, asking how Ye Lin could possess dragon might.

Ye Lin killed Niu Er at the Holy Spring, using dragon might and Sword Qi to overpower the serpent prodigy. Afterward, he looked coldly at the watching prodigies and went to Chen Changfeng, while the others marveled at his strength.

• Ye Lin released dragon might that left Niu Er wary and unable to attack.
• Ye Lin sent blood-red Sword Qi at Niu Er, who smashed some of it aside with his tail but suffered numerous wounds.
• Ye Lin struck again with a powerful Sword Qi that froze Niu Er’s blood and severed him, killing him.
• Niu Er’s corpse sank into the Holy Spring, and Ye Lin considered the human blood that must have formed it.
• Ye Lin walked toward Chen Changfeng as the watching prodigies erupted in astonishment at his strength.

The Ten Thousand Cities Alliance auction began, with Fate Heart hosting and the Karma Pearl announced as its final treasure. Ye Lin ignored the opening lot and learned that his Genius Ranking was 43,542.

• Fate Heart opened the auction, announced its sponsors and thirteen treasures, and revealed that the Karma Pearl would be the final grand treasure.
• Fate Heart presented the Seven-Colored Holy Lotus, and fierce bidding quickly pushed its price above a thousand supreme-grade immortal stones.
• Ye Lin decided to save his resources for the Karma Pearl and sensed a dangerous strength in Fate Heart.
• Ye Lin asked Chen Changfeng about his Genius Ranking, and Chen Changfeng said he was ranked 43,542.

Ye Lin learned about his standing on the Genius Ranking and watched a member of the Void Clan win the Seven-Colored Holy Lotus at auction. Chen Changfeng explained the Void Clan’s innate command of spatial power, leaving Ye Lin astonished by the race.

• Chen Changfeng reflected that Ye Lin had defeated Niu Er in two moves and believed Ye Lin could rise beyond the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance to the Central Land.
• Ye Lin considered his rank of just over forty thousand insufficient, despite the Genius Ranking covering countless geniuses across the Demon Domain.
• Fate Heart announced that a Void Clan genius had won the Seven-Colored Holy Lotus for five thousand top-grade immortal stones.
• Chen Changfeng explained that the Void Clan wielded spatial power from birth and could conceal themselves in the void.
• Ye Lin listened to Chen Changfeng’s explanation and was astonished by the Void Clan.

Ye Lin learned more about the Void Clan after one of its prodigies exchanged five thousand supreme-grade immortal stones for the Seven-Colored Holy Lotus. Fate Heart then began auctioning a Void Clan elder’s Space Magic Box, and Ye Lin considered bidding on the reusable escape treasure.

• A black-robed Void Clan prodigy appeared on the auction platform, took the Seven-Colored Holy Lotus, and left five thousand supreme-grade immortal stones.
• Fate Heart was surprised by the prodigy’s mastery of space, while Chen Changfeng explained that the Void Clan was ancient, extremely rare, and uninvolved in the struggles of other powers.
• Ye Lin decided he would seek an opportunity to contact the mysterious Void Clan.
• Fate Heart introduced the Space Magic Box, which could repeatedly teleport its user a million star li and be recharged with immortal stones.
• Bidders quickly raised the price, and Ye Lin was tempted by the box’s usefulness for escaping danger.

Ye Lin held back from bidding on the Space Magic Box and stayed focused on acquiring the Karma Pearl. As the auction paused before its final three treasures, he sent Chen Changfeng away on a shocking errand, then approached the secluded Void Race prodigies.

• A Demon Race prodigy won the Space Magic Box and left the auction.
• After ten of the thirteen treasures had been sold, Fate Heart paused the auction for two hours to prepare the final three.
• Ye Lin told Chen Changfeng to carry out a secret plan, shocking him, and Chen Changfeng departed with the Fox Race cultivators.
• Ye Lin looked over the immortal stones gathered to bid for the Karma Pearl, then walked toward the Void Race prodigies.
• Other attendees recognized Ye Lin as Blood Baleful and wondered why he was approaching the Void Race.

Ye Lin approached the Void Clan to ask about One Breath Becomes Three Purities, and the clan allowed him into its hidden camp. There, he learned that only one outsider had spoken with the clan before him: a Human Race senior from the primordial era.

• A black-robed Void Clan figure stopped Ye Lin and initially refused to answer his questions.
• Ye Lin asked about One Breath Becomes Three Purities, and the figure invited him into the Void Clan's territory.
• The Void Clan's camp vanished from view after Ye Lin entered, prompting nearby races to speculate about the clan's power and intentions.
• Three cloaked figures received Ye Lin at the camp's center.
• A Void Clan figure told Ye Lin that he was only the second outsider the clan had spoken with, after a Human Race senior from the primordial era.

Ye Lin learned that the Void Clan had ties to the Human Race’s ancient history and possessed a fragment of One Breath Becomes Three Purities. Xing Yi welcomed him as an honored guest because he had gathered more than three fragments, leaving Ye Lin poised to seek the Void Clan’s scroll.

• Ye Lin watched Xing Yi reveal his blue-skinned true appearance and introduce Star Two, Star Three, and Star Four.
• Xing Yi explained that he had recognized the aura of One Breath Becomes Three Purities on Ye Lin and invited him because Ye Lin had gathered more than three fragments.
• Xing Yi told Ye Lin that Taiqing Supreme had been close friends with the Void Clan’s ancestor and had split One Breath Becomes Three Purities into ten portions before departing.
• Xing Yi revealed that the Void Clan possessed one fragment, and Ye Lin rose and bowed, making clear that he wanted it.
• Xing Yi said the Void Clan’s ancestor had ordered them to fully support anyone who gathered more than three fragments, regardless of race.

Ye Lin learned that the Void Clan held the final incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities but would only give it to him after he gathered the other nine parts and proved his potential. He left the camp knowing he could visit the clan’s Ancestral Land once he reached the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.

• Xing Yi told Ye Lin that the Void Clan possessed the final incomplete volume and would present it after he gathered all nine other parts.
• Xing Yi said the Void Clan would aid Ye Lin only after he reached the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm and proved his potential at their Ancestral Land.
• Ye Lin accepted the Void Clan’s conditions and prepared to leave after Xing Yi ended their discussion.
• Ye Lin bade Xing Yi farewell and walked out of the camp, where onlookers speculated about his meeting with the Void Clan.

Fate Heart introduced a Ginseng Fruit at the auction, astonishing the crowd. A cultivator explained that it was created by sacrificing Human Race infants to preserve their innate qi and could guarantee a True Immortal’s breakthrough to Taiyi Mystic Immortal, though the resulting cultivator was weaker than one who advanced naturally.

• Fate Heart returned to the auction platform and unveiled a Ginseng Fruit.
• A cultivator explained that a Ginseng Fruit was made by sealing and refining a Human Race infant to stabilize its innate qi.
• The cultivator recounted how a demonic cultivator slaughtered dozens of Human Race star systems to create the first Ginseng Fruit.
• The cultivator said consuming a Ginseng Fruit guaranteed a peak True Immortal’s breakthrough to Taiyi Mystic Immortal, but left them somewhat inferior to a natural Taiyi Mystic Immortal.
• The dog-headed cultivator was stunned by the explanation.

Ye Lin learned that the Ginseng Fruit could help a True Immortal reach the Taiyi Mysterious Immortal realm and watched the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance auction it to a frenzy. As the bidding climbed, he concealed his anger over the Human Race’s suffering and confirmed with Chen Changfeng that their preparations were complete.

• The dog-headed clan genius realized the Ginseng Fruit’s refining required the sacrifice of countless Humans and pitied Ye Lin.
• Fate Heart began the auction of the Ginseng Fruit, provided by the Great Rock Empire, at ten thousand top-grade immortal stones.
• Cultivators of many races rapidly bid, driving the price to two hundred thousand top-grade immortal stones as they sought a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal ally.
• Ye Lin sat calmly while inwardly furious, believing the myriad races were targeting the Human Race now that the Human Emperor was gone.
• Chen Changfeng told Ye Lin that the investigation and preparations were complete, then stood behind him.

Fate Heart revealed the auction’s second treasure: an embryonic world whose developing myriad Daos could help cultivators perfect their domains and approach the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. The prodigies reacted with awe, though one dismissed the embryo as the remnant of a failed world that would take countless billions of years to develop.

• An Undead Race prodigy won the Ginseng Fruit with a bid of four hundred and seventy thousand top-grade immortal stones.
• Fate Heart introduced the second treasure as the embryonic form of a world.
• Fate Heart explained that the world embryo had no living beings and could expose its myriad Daos as they formed.
• A prodigy praised the treasure’s potential to help cultivators perfect their domains and glimpse the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Another prodigy dismissed the embryo as a failed world’s birth that would need countless billions of years to develop.

Fate Heart explained the value of a world embryo, which could eventually become a true world and offer a chance to reach the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. She opened the bidding, and a heavenly prodigy made the first offer.

• A heavenly prodigy questioned whether sacrificing the great era for a world embryo was worthwhile.
• Another heavenly prodigy argued that even a remote chance to become a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal justified waiting for countless kalpas.
• Fate Heart set the starting price for the world embryo at one supreme-grade immortal stone, with minimum increases of ten thousand.
• A heavenly prodigy opened the auction with a bid of one hundred thousand supreme-grade immortal stones.

The nascent world sparked fierce bidding at the auction and sold for 550,000 top-grade immortal stones to a man in a black robe. Fate Heart then brought out the Karma Pearl, the treasure Ye Lin was determined to obtain.

• The prodigies bid for the nascent world, driving its price above 500,000 top-grade immortal stones.
• Ye Lin realized he could afford only a little over 300,000, or at most 400,000, but remained set on claiming the Karma Pearl.
• A timid bidder offered 550,000 top-grade immortal stones, and Fate Heart sold the nascent world to a man in a black robe.
• The black-robed man paid and hurried away with the nascent world.
• Fate Heart announced the Karma Pearl as the final treasure and accepted a red-cloth-covered tray from a cloud person.

Fate Heart presented the Karma Pearl, which contained a trace of the Law of Karma, and opened bidding at thirty thousand top-grade immortal stones. The geniuses raised the price cautiously as Fate Heart waited for the real contest to begin, secretly preparing an emerald-green sword.

• Fate Heart unveiled the Karma Pearl and explained that its aura could help cultivators inscribe the Dao Law of Karma.
• Fate Heart set the starting bid at thirty thousand top-grade immortal stones, with each increase requiring at least fifty thousand.
• A genius opened at eighty thousand top-grade immortal stones, and the other bidders followed with minimum increases.
• Fate Heart watched the slow auction, expecting the competition to intensify later.
• Fate Heart drew an emerald-green long sword behind her back and let a faint Sword Intent radiate from her.

Ye Lin watched the bidding for the Karma Pearl climb beyond what he and Chen Changfeng could afford, while wealthy prodigies kept raising the price. Two figures arrived and bid seven hundred and ten thousand, announcing that the Karma Pearl would be their gift of thanks to the person who had saved them and their sister.

• The Undead Race prodigy opened the bidding at two hundred and eighty thousand top-grade immortal stones, and the offers rose slowly to three hundred and thirty thousand.
• Ye Lin bid three hundred and eighty thousand, but another bidder immediately outbid him, and Chen Changfeng realized their funds were nearly exhausted.
• A bidder raised the price to six hundred and thirty thousand, stunning the crowd with the enormous sum.
• The Undead Race prodigy bid six hundred and eighty thousand, prompting Ye Lin to consider earning more money after the auction.
• Two figures strode through the distant sky, bid seven hundred and ten thousand, and offered the Karma Pearl as thanks for saving them and their sister.

Ye Huang and Ye Liuli backed Ye Lin, bidding 710,000 top-grade immortal stones for the Karma Pearl after recognizing him as Blood Baleful. Their support silenced the other bidders, and Fate Heart was about to declare Ye Lin the winner when someone interrupted.

• Ye Lin recognized Ye Huang and Ye Liuli, the brothers he had saved, and Ye Huang assured him that the Karma Pearl would be his.
• Ye Huang and Ye Liuli’s ties to the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty shocked the gathered prodigies, who realized they had come to support Ye Lin.
• Ye Huang bid 710,000 top-grade immortal stones for the Karma Pearl.
• The other prodigies stopped bidding, wary of getting involved with Ye Lin after his killing of the Great Rock Empire’s Fifth Prince and the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty’s show of support.
• Fate Heart prepared to declare Ye Lin the winner, but someone shouted, “Wait!”