Recaps

Ye Lin and Wang Tianyi discovered Bao Xiaotou hiding on a mound near Flame Mountain and learned that he was an exceptionally gifted array cultivator seeking a breakthrough. Ye Lin recognized Bao Xiaotou as the array talent he needed and was pleased with the discovery.

• Wang Tianyi pointed out a figure lying on a small earthen mound, and Ye Lin spotted him.
• Bao Xiaotou muttered that he had seen through Flame Mountain's illusion array and hoped to reach the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin examined Bao Xiaotou's profile and saw his extraordinary array talents, fortune, and future opportunities.
• Ye Lin decided Bao Xiaotou was the array talent he needed, having already found Wang Tianyi as a Dao Pill master.

Bao Xiaotou used formations to reveal a hidden entrance to Flame Mountain, and Ye Lin and the others followed him inside. The gate closed behind them, leaving the plateau unchanged.

• Bao Xiaotou placed treasures across the plain and used hand seals to expose a web of threads in the natural formation.
• Bao Xiaotou waved a black flag and revealed the intermittently visible Flame Mountain.
• Bao Xiaotou scattered white powder and opened a gate to the burning mountain range.
• Bao Xiaotou entered the gate with his canvas bag, and Ye Lin and the other three followed before it closed and the formation disappeared.

Ye Lin encountered Bao Xiaotou at Flame Mountain and tried to recruit him by offering protection. Bao Xiaotou mistook Li Miaoling for the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan’s captured little princess, and Ye Lin pressed him to lead the way into the clan’s territory.

• Bao Xiaotou noticed Ye Lin and his companions near Flame Mountain and introduced himself as Li Feiyu.
• Ye Lin questioned Bao Xiaotou about seeking a fortuitous opportunity beyond Flame Mountain, and Bao Xiaotou cautiously admitted his goal.
• Ye Lin revealed Li Miaoling, and Bao Xiaotou excitedly identified her as the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan’s little princess.
• Ye Lin told Bao Xiaotou to lead the way and promised to protect him if danger arose.

Bao Xiaotou revealed that his jade box held Pre-Heaven Breath Soil, which Ye Lin wanted as the main ingredient for the Heaven-Mending Pill. Bao Xiaotou gave it to Ye Lin to secure his safety, then warned that they would need it to cross Flame Mountain.

• Bao Xiaotou showed Ye Lin and Wang Tian a jade box containing what he claimed was Pre-Heaven Breath Soil, which could protect them from Flame Mountain's fire.
• Ye Lin insisted on buying the soil, but Bao Xiaotou offered it to him as a tribute instead.
• Ye Lin accepted the gift and promised Bao Xiaotou a favor, while Bao Xiaotou introduced himself as Li Feiyu.
• Bao Xiaotou warned that Flame Mountain's Dao Fire could burn even powerful cultivators to ash, and asked how they would cross without the soil.

Ye Lin led the group across Flame Mountain under the protection of the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, but fire spirits appeared and revealed that the Dao Fire had gained intelligence. He sent the others out and decided to face the Dao Fire alone, believing it held a great opportunity for him.

• Ye Lin used the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell to shield the group from Flame Mountain's Dao Fire and led them onward.
• Bao Xiaotou considered escaping but followed the others, then marveled at the bell's power.
• Fire spirits appeared and attacked the group with their piercing cries.
• Bao Xiaotou explained that fire spirits meant the Dao Fire had developed intelligence and that the spirits could not be destroyed while its source remained.
• Ye Lin sent Li Xiaoyao, Li Miaoling, and Bao Xiaotou out of Flame Mountain, then stayed behind to deal with the Dao Fire.

Ye Lin used his Great Sun Phoenix Flame to suppress Flame Mountain’s Dao Fire and destroy its Fire Spirits, then demanded that the intelligent Dao Fire reveal itself. When it stayed hidden, he attacked Flame Mountain with Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering.

• Ye Lin stood unharmed in the Dao Fire while Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian watched from outside the flames.
• Ye Lin summoned the Great Sun Phoenix Flame, which suppressed Flame Mountain’s fire and instantly destroyed its Fire Spirits.
• Ye Lin punched Flame Mountain, leaving a huge fist mark, and ordered the Dao Fire to come out.
• When the Dao Fire did not respond, Ye Lin unleashed Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering, and sent a million-zhang Sword Qi crashing into Flame Mountain.

Ye Lin confronted the Dao Fire origin at the heart of Flame Mountain and demanded that it merge with the Great Sun Phoenix Flame while keeping its intelligence. The Dao Fire questioned his offer, and Ye Lin made clear that refusal meant having its intelligence erased.

• Ye Lin blasted apart Flame Mountain with his sword, drawing the Dao Fire origin out of its heart.
• Ye Lin offered the manifested young man a chance to merge with the Great Sun Phoenix Flame and retain his intelligence.
• The young man protested that he had never harmed Ye Lin, while Ye Lin warned that other powerful beings would try to exploit him.
• Ye Lin gave the Dao Fire three breaths to decide and said he would not force it to submit.
• The young man asked what Ye Lin meant by not forcing him, and Ye Lin replied that he would erase its intelligence if it refused.
• The young man grew angry at Ye Lin's threat.

Ye Lin attacked the young man who had refused to submit, declaring that weakness was the original sin. The young man fought back with Flame Burst, but Great Sun Phoenix Flame emerged unharmed, and Ye Lin recognized that his opponent lacked combat experience.

• Ye Lin warned the young man to accept his chance or have his spiritual intelligence erased.
• The young man protested that he had never harmed anyone and refused to surrender.
• Ye Lin sent Great Sun Phoenix Flame to suppress the young man.
• The young man used Flame Burst to engulf the phoenix phantom, but it emerged unharmed.
• The young man unleashed Flame Burst again as Ye Lin dismissed his attempt as naive and noted his lack of combat experience.

Ye Lin overpowered the young man with Great Sun Phoenix Flame and used his immortal fortune power to erase the spiritual being’s intelligence. The young man begged to live, but Ye Lin refused and left only a crimson blaze where he vanished.

• Ye Lin condensed his power into a fireball and detonated it against the young man.
• Great Sun Phoenix Flame pinned the young man down as Ye Lin increased his suppressions and damaged Flame Mountain.
• Ye Lin explained that cultivation alone did not determine combat strength and began erasing the young man’s spirituality.
• The young man begged Ye Lin to spare him and offered to become his servant, but Ye Lin refused.
• Ye Lin suppressed the young man until his body and head vanished, leaving a crimson blaze behind.

Ye Lin absorbed the Dao Fire origin with his Great Sun Phoenix Flame and spent three days refining it, while Wang Tian and the others waited. The chapter ended with Ye Lin still refining the fire and the group awaiting his return to consciousness.

• Ye Lin recognized the red flame as the Dao Fire origin and had his Great Sun Phoenix Flame devour it.
• Wang Tian compared his own low-grade immortal fire with Ye Lin's and reflected on the need to improve it and grow stronger.
• Wang Tian predicted that refining the Dao Fire would help Ye Lin reach the mid-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin refined the immortal fire for three days while Wang Tian, Li Xiaoyao, Li Miaoling, and Bao Xiaotou waited nearby.

Ye Lin refined the Dao Fire into the Beginningless True Flame and advanced to the middle stage of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm. He left Flame Mountain with Wang Tian and Li Xiaoyao, intending to secure the Nine Provinces Cauldron for Wang Tian at their next stop, Swamp Forest.

• Ye Lin’s Great Sun Phoenix Flame devoured and refined the Dao Fire, advancing his cultivation to the middle stage of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin named his fused flame the Beginningless True Flame and assessed his strength and growing Luck value.
• Ye Lin recalled his ten-thousand-year agreement and vowed to make the Demon Domain Starry Sky heed his voice when the time came.
• Ye Lin retrieved the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, then left the now-barren Flame Mountain with Wang Tian and Li Xiaoyao.
• Ye Lin headed for Swamp Forest to help Wang Tian obtain the Nine Provinces Cauldron and considered bringing Bao Xiaotou under his wing.

Ye Lin and his companions reached the Swamp Forest, where resentful spirits attacked them but fled when they recognized Ye Lin as a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal. The group crossed the forest safely, while Li Miaoling mistook Li Xiaoyao's reluctant act of grabbing her for a sign of affection.

• Ye Lin and his companions crossed Flame Mountain and arrived at the Swamp Forest.
• Bao Xiaotou explained that the swamp’s resentful spirits could cloud the hearts of True Immortals, though a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal might face no danger.
• Resentful spirits surged out of the swamp and attacked Ye Lin, but his golden light and laws suppressed them.
• The spirits recognized Ye Lin as a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal and fled back into the swamp.
• Wang Tianyi took Bao Xiaotou across the forest, and Li Xiaoyao reluctantly grabbed Li Miaoling and followed.
• Li Miaoling believed Li Xiaoyao had grabbed her because he secretly had feelings for her.

As Ye Lin led the group deeper into the Swamp Forest, the resentful spirits grew strong enough to threaten True Immortals, raising the possibility of a battle that could alert the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan. Ye Lin forced the spirits to retreat, and Wang Tian concluded that a treasure must be hidden in the forest.

• Li Miaoling blushed faintly while Li Xiaoyao held him in his arms.
• Ye Lin noticed the resentful spirits growing stronger and worried that fighting Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal-level spirits would expose the group to the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan.
• Ye Lin asked Bao Xiaotou for a way through the Swamp Forest, but Bao Xiaotou hesitated because Ye Lin had taken his Pre-Heaven Breath Soil.
• Ye Lin threatened to raze the Swamp Forest, and the resentful spirits retreated into the swamp.
• Wang Tian told Ye Lin that the forest's suppression of flight suggested a treasure was hidden there.

Ye Lin told Wang Tian that the opportunity he had promised was the legendary Nine Provinces Cauldron, a supreme alchemy treasure lost since its master's death. He offered to take Wang Tian to search for it, while the strange wraith-sustaining swamp remained unexplored.

• Ye Lin and Wang Tian discussed the unnatural swamp and agreed to postpone investigating it until they had found the opportunity.
• Wang Tian doubted that Ye Lin could know where an opportunity was, so Ye Lin asked him about the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Wang Tian described the cauldron's history, alchemy laws, inheritance, and disappearance, explaining its significance to alchemists and to himself.
• Ye Lin revealed that he had come to the Anlan Great World to search for the Nine Provinces Cauldron and invited Wang Tian to join him.
• Ye Lin said Wang Tian's talent as a young third-grade Dao Pill Master made him worth nurturing and that the cauldron might help him become a first-grade Dao Pill Master.

Ye Lin led Wang Tian through the Swamp Forest, planning to win his loyalty by giving him the Nine Provinces Cauldron. At the marshland’s edge, three law-wreathed figures blocked their path, and Li Xiaoyao attacked them before Ye Lin could act.

• Ye Lin kept Wang Tian hopeful about the Nine Provinces Cauldron, intending to gain the allegiance of the promising alchemist.
• Ye Lin and Wang Tian crossed the Swamp Forest and reached its edge, with Wang Tian ready to follow Ye Lin if he received the cauldron.
• Three figures formed from black smoke appeared and told Ye Lin to take another route.
• Ye Lin warned the figures that blocking his path would cost them their lives and learned they were bound by orders to guard the place.
• Li Xiaoyao appeared and challenged the three figures, who attacked him with their power of laws.

Li Xiaoyao effortlessly killed three opponents with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers, leaving him frustrated by the lack of a real fight. As the group reached the woodland guarded by the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Pythons, Ye Lin pressured Li Miaoling to reveal the clan’s defenses, and she said there were no Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts there.

• Li Xiaoyao killed three figures with one hammer strike and complained that the battle had been no fun.
• Ye Lin reassured Li Xiaoyao that he would have more chances to fight as the group left the Swamp Forest.
• Bao Xiaotou told Ye Lin that the group had reached the woodland guarded by the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Pythons, with the entrance to the Hundred Thousand Mountains ten thousand li ahead.
• Ye Lin asked whether the woodland held any Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals, and Bao Xiaotou admitted he did not know.
• Ye Lin threatened to kill his way through the clan if Li Miaoling refused to reveal its defenses.
• Li Miaoling said there were no Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts in the woodland.

Ye Lin and his companions infiltrated the Hundred Thousand Mountains under his laws, evading the snakefolk guards and reaching the wall without being detected. They discovered the mountain range was rich in herbs, but Ye Lin warned that a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal guarded the Nine Provinces Cauldron at its center.

• Ye Lin confirmed that no Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals were stationed nearby and concealed his group with his laws.
• Three snakefolk True Immortal guards passed the group without noticing them as they approached the entrance.
• Ye Lin and Wang Tianyi brought the group onto the wall, where they saw the vast, herb-filled Hundred Thousand Mountains.
• Wang Tianyi asked about the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and Ye Lin said it lay at the center of the mountains.
• Ye Lin revealed that a Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal guarded the mountains and admitted he was not confident they could act undetected.

Bao Xiaotou gave Ye Lin and the others Heaven-Shrouding Pills that concealed their bodies and auras from Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals at a distance. Ye Lin planned to search the center of the realm with Wang Tian for the Nine Provinces Cauldron, leaving Bao Xiaotou to decide whether to join them and Li Miaoling to watch Li Xiaoyao.

• Bao Xiaotou handed out Heaven-Shrouding Pills, and Wang Tian swallowed one to test its power, vanishing from sight and divine sense.
• Wang Tian confirmed the pill worked, and Bao Xiaotou explained that pill users could see one another while Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals could sense them only within three zhang.
• Ye Lin announced that he and Wang Tian would search the realm's center for traces of the Nine Provinces Cauldron and offered Bao Xiaotou a chance to follow them or wait for him.
• Ye Lin told Li Miaoling to keep Li Xiaoyao from causing trouble and said she could kill him if necessary.

Ye Lin and Wang Tianyi left Li Xiaoyao and Li Miaoling behind on the city wall and continued toward the Nine Provinces Cauldron. As Wang Tianyi marveled at the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan’s power and grew eager to reach the treasure, Ye Lin told him to wait while he inspected the area.

• Ye Lin left the city wall with Wang Tianyi, while Bao Xiaotou disappeared separately, leaving Li Xiaoyao and Li Miaoling behind.
• Li Xiaoyao threatened to kill Li Miaoling if he caused trouble, but Li Miaoling sat beside him and clung to his arm, daring him to do it.
• Wang Tianyi told Ye Lin that he had sensed more than ten Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals among the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan and remarked on the clan’s formidable strength.
• Wang Tianyi asked whether they were nearing the center of the Hundred Thousand Mountains and would still need to search for the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Ye Lin told Wang Tianyi not to rush and said he would inspect things further.

Ye Lin guided Wang Tian to Thousand Caverns Cave, where Wang Tian’s Nine Provinces Cauldron was hidden. They sensed a terrifying presence suppressed below the cave, leaving them uncertain whether to descend.

• After reading Wang Tian’s panel, Ye Lin hurried with him to the location of the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Ye Lin recognized the enormous sinkhole as Thousand Caverns Cave and told Wang Tian the cauldron was at its bottom.
• Wang Tian warned Ye Lin that an extraordinary presence below the cave made him feel dread.
• Ye Lin sensed the same overwhelming aura and realized something frightening was suppressed beneath the cave.
• Wang Tian asked Ye Lin whether they should descend despite the danger.

Ye Lin and Wang Tian descended into Thousand Caverns Cave, certain that the Nine Provinces Cauldron lay below. They found a hidden passage radiating terrifying dragon might, and Ye Lin urged the frightened Wang Tian to lead the way.

• Ye Lin told Wang Tian that the Nine Provinces Cauldron was beneath them and let him decide whether to continue.
• Wang Tian set aside his fear and led the descent, with Ye Lin following behind.
• The two reached the muddy bottom of the cave, where overwhelming dragon might made Wang Tian tremble.
• Ye Lin spotted a hidden passage in the wall and identified it as the source of the dragon might.
• Wang Tian hesitated at the passage, but Ye Lin urged him to lead the way.

Wang Tianyi and Ye Lin entered a cavern where a powerful purple dragon guarded the Nine Provinces Cauldron. Ye Lin located the cauldron beneath the dragon, but Wang Tianyi doubted his claim.

• Wang Tianyi steeled himself and walked toward the source of the dragon's might as Ye Lin followed cautiously with the Time Measuring Ruler.
• Wang Tianyi and Ye Lin entered a vast chamber and saw a giant purple dragon coiled around a stone pillar.
• Ye Lin judged that the dragon was near the Golden Immortal realm and knew he could not defeat it.
• Wang Tianyi asked where the Nine Provinces Cauldron was, and Ye Lin pointed to a well beneath the dragon.
• Wang Tianyi questioned Ye Lin's certainty and said the claim seemed too fantastical.

Ye Lin and Wang Tianyi hid while Mu Wanqing sought her ancestor’s help against the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan, which threatened to conquer the Anlan Great World. The ancestor left to confront the threat after noticing the two intruders and warning them not to take what was not theirs.

• Ye Lin pulled Wang Tianyi into hiding as Mu Wanqing emerged from the secret passage and approached the Dragon.
• Mu Wanqing told her ancestor that the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan had demanded her help in attacking the Anlan Great World and threatened to exterminate her clan if she refused.
• The Dragon revealed his powerful presence, discovered Ye Lin and Wang Tianyi, and agreed to wipe out the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.
• The Dragon transformed into a purple-robed middle-aged man and left with Mu Wanqing, warning Ye Lin and Wang Tianyi to take only what they ought to take.
• Ye Lin emerged from hiding and acknowledged that the ancestor had discovered them.

Ye Lin and Wang Tian discovered that the Nine Provinces Cauldron was hidden in a well and summoned it using Wang Tian’s alchemy Dao laws. The middle-aged ancestor sensed the cauldron’s appearance and recognized that the old fellow’s successor had arrived, while Mu Wanqing learned that two outsiders had infiltrated the clan’s heartland.

• Ye Lin realized that the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan possessed the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and was trying to control the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan.
• Ye Lin and Wang Tian reached the well and Wang Tian used his alchemy Dao laws to draw out the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• The Nine Provinces Cauldron emerged from the well, and Wang Tian recognized it from his memories.
• The middle-aged ancestor sensed the cauldron’s appearance and said the old fellow’s successor had arrived to repay an old debt.
• Mu Wanqing asked whether the two interesting visitors were talented members of her clan, and the ancestor told her they were outsiders.

Wang Tian gained preliminary control of the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and Ye Lin prepared to leave the Hundred Thousand Mountains with him. Bao Xiaotou decided to follow Ye Lin, while Ye Lin returned to the city wall without finding the prodigy of the Dao of Formations he had hoped to meet.

• Mu Wanqing questioned why her Ancestor was pleased that outsiders had entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains, but the Ancestor dismissed her concerns and asked to visit the council hall.
• Wang Tian refined the Nine Provinces Cauldron for half an hour and gained preliminary control over it, strengthening his trust in Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin and Wang Tian left the underground space after obtaining the cauldron.
• Bao Xiaotou weighed whether to trust Ye Lin, then decided to follow him despite his doubts.
• Ye Lin returned to the city wall with Wang Tian and found only Li Xiaoyao and Li Miaoling; the prodigy of the Dao of Formations was still absent.