Recaps

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng discussed who should lead the Northern Demon Domain’s prodigies, but Ye Lin refused the responsibility and urged Dugu Feng to release the burdens he carried. Dugu Feng reflected on the expectations, hatred, and duties that had shaped his life.

• Ye Lin and Dugu Feng watched Pan Feng speak below and noted that his words would help spread Ye Lin’s reputation through the Northern Demon Domain.
• Dugu Feng asked Ye Lin to lead the Northern Demon Domain’s prodigies in the struggle for fortune, but Ye Lin declined.
• Ye Lin explained that he preferred to walk his path alone and told Dugu Feng not to shoulder every responsibility.
• Dugu Feng recalled living under others’ expectations, seeking revenge for his fallen elder brother, and trying to restore the prodigies’ reputation.
• Dugu Feng began to consider letting go as Ye Lin’s words prompted him to reflect on the burdens he had carried since childhood.

Ye Lin listened as Dugu Feng reflected on the burdens he had carried to avenge his brother and vindicate the Northern Demon Domain’s prodigies. Ye Lin invited him to meet in Eastern Radiance City a thousand years later and travel to the Central Continent together if he could let go of his past.

• Dugu Feng remembered how he had suppressed his cultivation for tens of thousands of years and sealed himself in Divine Source to await the next opening of the Void Burial.
• Ye Lin considered Dugu Feng’s choices and told him that he had been living too wearily and should rest when he needed to.
• Ye Lin invited Dugu Feng to find him in Eastern Radiance City a thousand years later so they could go to the Central Continent together.
• Ye Lin left Dugu Feng to decide for himself whether to accept the invitation.

Ye Lin reached Eastern Radiance City and went into seclusion on a desolate mountain to study Yin-Yang Venerable’s legacy. He realized the legacy could lead him to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, but chose to use it only as a reference while seeking his own Great Dao.

• Dugu Feng watched Ye Lin leave and then vanished into a gust of wind.
• Ye Lin arrived in Eastern Radiance City, where the Human Race had become dominant, and left without notifying anyone.
• Ye Lin prepared a natural formation on a desolate mountain and began a thousand years of seclusion.
• Ye Lin examined the golden light Yin-Yang Venerable had given him, which released a torrent of memories about the Great Dao of Yin and Yang.
• Ye Lin concluded that following Yin-Yang Venerable’s path would cap his cultivation at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, so he decided to forge his own Great Dao.

After a thousand years in seclusion, Ye Lin had inscribed the Yin-Yang Dao Seal into his domain and prepared to enter Central Continent. He asked Ye Feng how to reach it, learning that it stood at the center of the Central Domain’s four other continents.

• Dongfang Shence celebrated the Xuanyuan Sword’s return in Ye Lin’s hands and vowed to become his Dao Protector if Ye Lin became the Demon Domain’s top prodigy.
• Dongfang Shence spread the news among foreign Taiyi Profound Immortals, leaving them furious as the Human Race’s fortunes improved.
• A thousand years passed as Ye Lin’s reputation spread across the Demon Domain and he completed three thousand Great Dao imprints in his domain.
• Ye Lin left seclusion, confident he was ready to enter Central Continent, and met Ye Feng outside his cave.
• Ye Lin asked Ye Feng how to enter Central Continent, and Ye Feng explained that it lay at the center of the Central Domain’s four other continents.

Ye Lin learned that reaching the Central Continent required surviving a perilous sea crossing, while Ye Feng admitted the trial had deterred him. As Ye Lin waited for someone, Dugu Feng arrived outside Eastern Radiance City to fulfill an appointment made a thousand years earlier.

• Ye Feng explained that the Central Continent could only be reached by crossing a sea full of True Immortal sea beasts and other dangers.
• Ye Lin became resolute about facing the trial and said he was waiting for someone, surprising Ye Feng.
• Dugu Feng arrived outside Eastern Radiance City and said he had come to fulfill an appointment from a thousand years ago.
• Several Human Race prodigies in a tavern mocked Dugu Feng and considered testing him.
• The tavern owner warned the youths that Dugu Feng was not someone they could insult, though he was inferior to Ye Lin.

Dugu Feng revealed himself as the legendary number one of the Northern Continent from a thousand years ago and announced his visit to Ye Lin in Eastern Radiance City. The Human Race prodigies recognized his name and marveled at his reputation.

• The wine-shop owner identified Dugu Feng as the Northern Continent's number one from a thousand years ago, silencing the prodigies who had questioned him.
• A youth teased Gangzi about challenging Dugu Feng, but Gangzi backed down in fear.
• Dugu Feng realized he had stood in the void for half an hour while recalling the past, then formally announced his visit to Ye Lin of the Human Race.
• Dugu Feng's voice resounded through Eastern Radiance City, drawing the attention of countless Human Race prodigies.
• A Human Race prodigy recognized Dugu Feng as the swordsman who had swept across the Northern Continent with his Void Sword Art.

Ye Lin waited for Dugu Feng to arrive in Eastern Radiance City, while Ye Feng chose to leave rather than travel with him. Ye Lin reunited with Dugu Feng, and the two silently understood each other’s decision to follow their own paths.

• Human Race prodigies in Eastern Radiance City wondered why Dugu Feng had come, and others pointed out that he had fought alongside Ye Lin in the Void Burial.
• Ye Lin smiled when he heard Dugu Feng had arrived, certain that he had come to honor their appointment.
• Ye Feng wished Ye Lin well and left, accepting that their paths would diverge.
• Ye Lin watched Ye Feng depart, then vanished from Desolate Mountain and appeared before Dugu Feng.
• Dugu Feng greeted Ye Lin, and the two exchanged smiles, understanding each other without speaking.
• Prodigies gathered below admired Ye Lin and compared themselves to him.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng set off together for the Central Continent, and Ye Lin left the Eastern Radiance City prodigies with a rain of Dao resonance to help their cultivation. After reaching the Northern Continent’s edge, they prepared to cross the dangerous deep sea separating the four continents from the Central Continent.

• Ye Lin released a rain filled with Dao resonance over the Eastern Radiance City prodigies, who thanked him and began comprehending it.
• Ye Lin and Dugu Feng traveled toward the edge of the Northern Continent while Dugu Feng warned him about sea beasts and cultivators who hunted travelers in the deep sea.
• After a day and night of travel, Ye Lin and Dugu Feng reached the Northern Continent’s edge and looked out over the turbulent sea.
• Dugu Feng explained that the deep sea separated the four continents from the Central Continent and that crossing it was the only way to reach their destination.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng raced across the sea until they entered the domain of a powerful creature, which attacked them for trespassing. Dugu Feng went to deal with it while Ye Lin stayed behind to watch.

• Ye Lin eagerly accepted Dugu Feng’s challenge to race across the sea, and the two sped toward Central Continent.
• After Ye Lin and Dugu Feng passed, the sea beasts emerged and followed them, mocking their chances in Black Venerable’s territory.
• Ye Lin sensed a huge phantom ahead and discovered that the surrounding space had been sealed by a powerful creature’s domain.
• Dugu Feng judged the creature to be at most at the peak of the True Immortal realm and drew his wooden sword.
• The creature ordered Ye Lin and Dugu Feng to die, and Dugu Feng charged toward it while Ye Lin remained behind.

Dugu Feng killed the sea beast Black Venerable with a single sword strike, and he and Ye Lin continued on their way. After they left, the surrounding sea beasts devoured Black Venerable's corpse and gained breakthroughs.

• Dugu Feng struck down Black Venerable, turning the surrounding sea red and splitting the sky with his Sword Qi.
• Dugu Feng rejoined Ye Lin and described Black Venerable as a larger sea beast before they left.
• The sea beasts arrived at Black Venerable's corpse and realized their overlord had been killed.
• A sea beast began eating Black Venerable's corpse, prompting the others to swarm over it.
• The sea beasts devoured the corpse, and some broke through to higher cultivation realms.

The Envoy gathered the Evil Spirit Sacred Church and announced that two prodigies from the Northern Continent were approaching. He asked the church members how they should deal with the pair, whom he called heretics.

• An alarm summoned the black-robed members of the Evil Spirit Sacred Church to the black iron tower.
• The Envoy arrived, bowed to the black cat statue, and took his seat on the throne.
• The Envoy told the gathered members that two living beings had been found ten thousand star miles away and were heading toward the church.
• The Envoy identified the approaching pair as Northern Continent prodigies and asked how the church should deal with them.

A middle-aged man used his influence over the Chaos Cat Venerable’s followers to send them after two peak True Immortals, hoping to seize their resources. Meanwhile, Ye Lin and Dugu Feng traveled toward Central Continent, and Ye Lin stopped Dugu Feng when he sensed something was wrong.

• The middle-aged man ordered the Chaos Cat Venerable’s True Immortal followers to purge two heretics while lower-ranked cultivators stayed on Cat Island.
• The middle-aged man privately revealed that he had manipulated the followers and planned to take their cultivation resources while keeping himself safe.
• Dugu Feng estimated that he and Ye Lin were still a million star li from Central Continent, though the old map might be inaccurate.
• Ye Lin reflected on his rising luck and his Transcendence Fate Rank as he anticipated meeting Central Continent’s prodigies.
• Ye Lin told Dugu Feng not to move just as Dugu Feng was about to stand.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng were ambushed by black-robed members of the Holy Church, who declared that the world belonged to Chaos Cat Venerable. They easily slaughtered the attackers, and Ye Lin confronted their leader.

• Ye Lin sensed powerful auras approaching, and he and Dugu Feng prepared to welcome the newcomers.
• Black-robed figures wearing white masks surrounded the island and attacked Ye Lin and Dugu Feng in the name of the Holy Church.
• Dugu Feng unleashed Void Sword Qi and killed the charging attackers, including those at the early True Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin walked toward the leader as the surrounding black-robed figures turned to ashes before they could reach him.
• The black-robed leader declared that the world belonged to Chaos Cat Venerable and that heretics must be purged.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng defeated the black-robed True Immortals and decided to investigate the evil cult behind them. Unaware his men had been killed, Wang Wu opened a hidden passage beneath his throne.

• Ye Lin dragged the black-robed man out of shattered space, killed him, and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• Dugu Feng used the Void Sword Art to kill all the surviving black-robed men with one strike.
• Ye Lin suggested that he and Dugu Feng investigate the evil cult, and Dugu Feng agreed.
• Wang Wu waited for news and gloated over his plan to dominate True Immortals.
• Wang Wu turned the black cat statue on his throne, revealed a hidden opening, and entered it.

Wang Wu entered an underground cavern where he kept over a thousand imprisoned cultivator women in iron cages and abused one of them. A young girl vowed to kill him, but remained trapped as he promised that her turn would come in three years.

• Wang Wu reached a cavern filled with cages holding more than a thousand vacant-eyed women and sealed the exit behind him.
• Wang Wu taunted the captive women, kicked one cage, and forced his way inside to assault the woman within.
• A young girl in a green dress struck her cage and challenged Wang Wu to face her.
• Wang Wu told the girl that he was waiting for the right time and that her turn would come in three years.
• The young girl swore to kill Wang Wu, but could not break free from her cage.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng attacked the island of the Holy Sect after discovering its sinister buildings and practices. Ye Lin began collapsing the island and confronted Wang Wu, who realized he had provoked an overwhelmingly powerful expert and tried to flee.

• The woman in the green dress collapsed after the green stone above her head flashed, while Ye Lin and Dugu Feng arrived over the island.
• A black palm attacked Ye Lin, who crushed it, and Dugu Feng flew into the sect to face an opponent.
• Ye Lin destroyed the black cat statues and entered the great hall, where he sensed the island's underground space.
• After discovering the sect's filthy acts, Ye Lin stomped and caused the island and its buildings to collapse.
• Wang Wu looked up through the collapsing ceiling, recognized Ye Lin as an unprecedentedly powerful expert, and tried to escape.

Ye Lin crippled Wang Wu’s arm and freed the women imprisoned in iron cages. As they released one another, they surrounded Wang Wu, ready to make him answer for his crimes.

• Ye Lin attacked Wang Wu with Sword Qi, stripping the flesh from his arm and revealing his strength as a Taiyi Mystic Immortal.
• Ye Lin recognized that green stones were suppressing the women and told them to settle their score with Wang Wu themselves.
• Ye Lin removed a green stone and shattered the first cage before leaving the women to act.
• The freed woman in white released the other women by removing the stones from their cages.
• The women approached Wang Wu with weapons and declared that he would pay for what he had done.

Ye Lin destroyed the green gemstones that Wang Wu had used to control the imprisoned cultivators, freeing the women beneath the island and exposing a monstrous Chaos Cat Venerable underling. As Dugu Feng approached the creature, Ye Lin questioned whether he could handle it.

• Ye Lin crushed the eerie green gemstones, and the island began to quake and split apart.
• Ye Lin shattered a blood-red tentacle as the island broke open and revealed a gigantic flesh monster beneath it.
• The women imprisoned by Wang Wu emerged into the sky after the stones' suppression ended.
• A petite woman in a green dress warned Ye Lin that the monster was a powerful underling of the Chaos Cat Venerable.
• Ye Lin dismissed the creature as a stray cat, and Dugu Feng approached it with killing intent.
• Ye Lin asked Dugu Feng whether he could not handle the monster.

Ye Lin confronted a giant sea creature fused with an earth-vein spirit, while Dugu Feng explained that killing it could devastate the surrounding region. After the creature attacked, Ye Lin overwhelmed it with thunder and prepared a finishing blow.

• Dugu Feng told Ye Lin that the creature had fused with an earth-vein spirit and that killing it could shatter the earth veins and harm nearby island inhabitants.
• The creature roared and shattered the space around Ye Lin, leaving the women behind him in pain.
• Ye Lin summoned the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art and struck the creature with a storm of violet lightning.
• The wounded creature pleaded for mercy, but Ye Lin gathered a vast sword of thunder at his fingertips.

Ye Lin destroyed the True Immortal creatures with a single attack, calmed the sea, and left with Dugu Feng after the rescued women asked his name. As they traveled, Ye Lin and Dugu Feng discussed the green-clad girl's powerful bloodline and her interest in Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin unleashed a Thunder Sea that killed the True Immortal creatures, then suppressed the raging ocean.
• The woman in white asked Ye Lin's name, and he introduced himself before disappearing.
• The green-clad girl admired Ye Lin and vowed to make him submit to her when they met again.
• Dugu Feng remarked that the green-clad girl was unusual and seemed to have feelings for Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin said the girl descended from a powerful bloodline, likely that of a Taiyi Mystic Immortal, and dismissed Dugu Feng's teasing about her interest in him.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng reached the Thunder Sea on their journey to the Central Continent and entered it to test its legendary danger. Both withstood the lightning with ease as they made their way toward its center.

• Dugu Feng checked the map and told Ye Lin that the Thunder Sea lay ahead and that they were close to the Central Continent.
• Dugu Feng read that the Thunder Sea’s lightning could injure True Immortals and kill them near its center.
• Ye Lin and Dugu Feng entered the Thunder Sea, provoking a storm of lightning bolts.
• Dugu Feng protected himself with Sword Qi while Ye Lin endured the lightning without taking defensive measures.
• Ye Lin walked toward the center through the lightning, and Dugu Feng dropped his barrier to test his own physique against it.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng used the Thunder Sea to temper their bodies, but Ye Lin absorbed so much lightning that it fled into the void. Dugu Feng questioned whether Ye Lin could really be a True Immortal, leaving Ye Lin confused by his strange look.

• Ye Lin reached the Thunder Sea's center, sat down, and began absorbing its lightning to temper his body.
• Dugu Feng followed Ye Lin's example and absorbed lightning as well.
• Ye Lin continued drawing in the lightning until the Thunder Sea's bolts retreated into the void.
• Ye Lin rose after his physical strength improved slightly and joked that the lightning was afraid of him.
• Dugu Feng said he could no longer tell whether Ye Lin was a True Immortal or a Great Luo Profound Immortal.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng reached Central Continent but found a powerful wall of turbulent air blocking their way. Ye Lin’s arm was stripped to the bone as he tested it, and he sensed familiar black qi rising from the injury.

• Ye Lin spotted Central Continent through the clouds and headed toward it with Dugu Feng.
• Ye Lin and Dugu Feng encountered a solid air barrier at the continent’s edge.
• Ye Lin pushed his hand into the barrier, which shredded his flesh despite his True Immortal defenses.
• Dugu Feng questioned how anyone could cross the barrier after seeing Ye Lin’s arm reduced to bone.
• Ye Lin regenerated his arm and noticed familiar black qi rising from the bones.

Ye Lin used the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell to bring Dugu Feng through the powerful barrier surrounding Central Continent. They endured violent currents and a bolt of void-born lightning, and Ye Lin emerged unharmed.

• Ye Lin summoned the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and led Dugu Feng into the wall of air around Central Continent.
• Ye Lin struggled against the barrier's currents while Dugu Feng reinforced the Mysterious Yellow Qi shield with Void Sword Qi.
• Dugu Feng wondered why entering Central Continent was so difficult, even for powerful cultivators.
• A blood-red bolt of lightning pierced the shield and struck Ye Lin between the brows.
• Ye Lin healed the wound and told Dugu Feng he was fine after protecting his Primordial Spirit.

Ye Lin and Dugu Feng pressed through the dangerous Void Sea toward Central Continent, refusing to turn back despite the deadly currents of energy. On Central Continent, five onlookers watched them approach and realized they were True Immortals from the four continents attempting an unprecedented crossing.

• Ye Lin insisted that he would reach the world beyond the Void Sea, and Dugu Feng continued with him through the surging Sword Qi and deadly energy currents.
• Five people on a Central Continent mountain watched two figures struggle through storm clouds and thunder dragons in the distance.
• The group reasoned that the travelers could not be Taiyi Mysterious Immortals and concluded they were True Immortal geniuses who had crossed the Endless Sea and were now crossing the Void Sea.
• The onlookers decided to wait and see whether the pair succeeded, noting that they would make history and considering befriending them.