Recaps

After their trip ended, Li Xiaoyao tried to shake off Li Miaoling, who insisted on following him, while Ye Lin and Wang Tian left them behind. Bao Xiaotou arrived at the Swamp Forest too late and found the group gone.

• Ye Lin told Li Xiaoyao that Li Miaoling was his responsibility, and Wang Tian joined in teasing him.
• Li Xiaoyao ordered Li Miaoling to leave, but she clung to him and insisted she would follow him or die.
• Li Xiaoyao threatened Li Miaoling with the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers, then shoved her aside and vanished.
• Ye Lin and Wang Tian left, while Li Miaoling angrily accused the three men of using and abandoning her.
• Bao Xiaotou rushed after the group, but found the Swamp Forest empty and feared he had missed his chance.

Ye Lin left the Swamp Forest with Bao Xiaotou, who agreed to follow him and revealed his real name. Ye Lin planned to wait for the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan to arrive in a month so he could trade Xuan Yong for the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and settle his grievances with the clan.

• Bao Xiaotou agreed to serve Ye Lin and admitted that Bao Xiaotou was his real name.
• Ye Lin led the group out of the Swamp Forest, deciding to seek the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan rather than pursue the mysterious treasure.
• Ye Lin told Wang Tian that he would wait a month for someone, intending to use Xuan Yong to negotiate for the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment.
• Ye Lin returned with the group to the plateau near Flame Mountain and showed them the map toward the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan and the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.
• Ye Lin promised Li Xiaoyao a chance to fight one against ten and confirmed to Wang Tian that he planned to settle his personal grievances with the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.

Ye Lin led his group to wait outside the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan while the clan’s ancestor emerged from seclusion and learned of the Golden Immortal faction’s threat. The ancestor reassured Mu Wanqing about Li Yu, but warned that the Anlan Great World was in danger because of the five traitors and the growing chaos.

• Ye Lin led Wang Tian, Bao Xiaotou, and Li Xiaoyao on a wide detour to wait near the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan’s territory.
• The clan’s ancestor summoned its elders and confirmed that a Golden Immortal faction had threatened to destroy the clan unless it declared war on the surrounding great domains within twenty days.
• The ancestor dismissed the elders and assured them that the clan faced no danger.
• Mu Wanqing told the ancestor she feared for her husband, Li Yu, who had gone out to seek help for the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.
• The ancestor said Li Yu was unlikely to be harmed and warned that the five traitors had filled the Anlan Great World with chaotic tribulation aura, drawing the Golden Immortal faction’s attention.

An elder condemned the Five Venerables for drawing tribulation aura into the Anlan Great World and planned to confront them. Meanwhile, Xuan Tian surrounded the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan and demanded that Mu Wanqing submit or face destruction.

• Mu Wanqing told the middle-aged man that no one dared defy the Five Venerables, and he vowed to speak with them after the current matter was settled.
• Twenty days later, Xuan Tian arrived with dozens of warships at the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan.
• Mu Wanqing refused Xuan Tian's demand, explaining that she would not sacrifice her clansmen as cannon fodder.
• Xuan Tian offered the clan one last chance to join him, then ordered his warships to gather energy and threatened to destroy them.

Mu Wanqing and the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan confronted Xuan Tian, whose forces vastly outnumbered theirs. With the clan facing overwhelming odds, Mu Wanqing could only hope that their absent ancestor would intervene.

• Mu Wanqing's elders urged her to strike first, but she had not yet given the order.
• Xuan Tian heard the elders' threats and had his warships fire pillars of light at the clan.
• Mu Wanqing scattered the blasts, and Xuan Tian ordered eighty experts to attack.
• Xuan Tian revealed that his force included fifty early-stage, twenty mid-stage, and eight late-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals, along with two late-stage Flawless Taiyi experts.
• Mu Wanqing realized the clan could not match Xuan Tian's forces and wondered why their ancestor had not appeared.

The Five Venerables watched Xuan Tian’s forces confront the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python, and Qin Changsheng revealed that he had allowed the outside forces into the Anlan Great World to lure hidden powers into the open. The chapter left the other Venerables worried that Qin Changsheng’s scheme could plunge the world into catastrophe.

• Zhao Ming worried that Xuan Tian’s forces could sweep through the Anlan Great World and weaken the Five Venerables’ power.
• Qin Changsheng told Zhao Ming that the Anlan Great World concealed powerful old figures and that he had let the invaders in to force them out.
• Zhao Ming praised Qin Changsheng’s plan, and Qin Changsheng left the Heavenly Dao Space to see whether one of the hidden figures would appear.
• Blazing Fire accused Qin Changsheng of making decisions without consulting the other Venerables.
• One of the remaining Venerables warned that Qin Changsheng’s risky scheme could plunge the Anlan Great World into crisis.

The four Mo Yus realized Qin Changsheng had secretly allowed Xuan Tian and his force into the Anlan Great World, leaving them unable to intervene under the Heavenly Dao’s rules. Ye Lin and his companions watched the overwhelming force from hiding as tensions mounted.

• The four Mo Yus complained that Qin Changsheng had let Xuan Tian’s eighty early-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals enter without their consent.
• Second Blazing Fire left the Heavenly Dao space, angry that Qin Changsheng had treated the Anlan Great World as his own domain.
• The Mo Yus recognized they could not interfere in the coming conflict and hoped the Anlan Great World’s native experts could resist Xuan Tian’s force.
• Ye Lin, Wang Tianyi, Bao Xiaotou, and Li Xiaoyao watched Xuan Tian’s forces from a cave, each reacting to their immense power.
• Ye Lin restrained the eager Li Xiaoyao and decided to wait for a middle-aged man to mediate before entering the confrontation.

Mu Shenqing intervened when Xuan Tian threatened to wipe out the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan, revealing power enough to make the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan retreat. The crisis ended, though Mu Shenqing considered the possibility that Xuan Ming might come to confront him.

• Mu Shenqing appeared and challenged Xuan Tian to bring Xuan Ming if the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan intended to attack the Seven-Colored Heaven-Devouring Python Clan.
• Mu Shenqing introduced himself and warned Xuan Tian that he would spare him because he was Xuan Ming's direct descendant.
• Mu Shenqing killed a late-stage Flawless Taiyi expert with a flick of his finger, shocking Xuan Tian into recognizing him as a likely Golden Immortal.
• Xuan Tian apologized, promised to relay Mu Shenqing's message to Xuan Ming, and fled with his men.
• Mu Shenqing told the elders that the crisis was over and vanished, while the elders looked on in awe at their Patriarch's strength.

Qin Changsheng brooded over Mu Shenqing’s strength while Ye Lin and his companions followed Xuan Tian’s fleet. Ye Lin revealed himself to Xuan Tian and asked whether he recognized Xuan Yong.

• Ye Lin ordered his companions to follow the departing warships and left with Bao Xiaotou, while Wang Tian and Li Xiaoyao pursued them.
• Qin Changsheng watched from hiding, questioned whether merging with the Heavenly Dao had been the right choice, and resolved to kill his old enemies.
• Xuan Tian sensed Ye Lin and his companions following his fleet and confronted them.
• Ye Lin removed his mask, and Xuan Tian recognized him as the person the Stowaways had been searching for.
• Ye Lin asked Xuan Tian whether he recognized Xuan Yong.

Ye Lin tried to trade the captured Xuan Yong to Xuan Tian for the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, but learned the brothers were rivals for the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan chief position. He left after warning Xuan Tian that he might ally with Xuan Yong against him.

• Ye Lin released Xuan Yong from the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and brought him before Xuan Tian.
• Xuan Tian recognized Xuan Yong, but dismissed Ye Lin’s offer to trade him for the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment.
• Xuan Yong told Ye Lin that Xuan Tian coveted the clan chief position and wanted him dead.
• Ye Lin threatened to release Xuan Yong and let him compete with Xuan Tian for the chief position.
• Ye Lin insulted Xuan Tian and warned that he and Xuan Yong might join forces against him before departing.

Ye Lin refused Xuan Tian’s offer to trade for Xuan Yong, demanding the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment instead. When Xuan Tian surrounded Ye Lin’s group with experts, Ye Lin ordered Li Xiaoyao to attack, leaving the confrontation on the verge of battle.

• Ye Lin put Xuan Yong back inside the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, and Xuan Tian stopped him to request Xuan Yong’s release.
• Ye Lin demanded the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and warned Xuan Tian that Xuan Yong could hear their conversation.
• Xuan Tian offered Ye Lin a major galaxy cluster’s territory, but Ye Lin refused and reminded him that Xuan Yong knew about his ambitions.
• Xuan Tian had the remaining Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts surround Ye Lin’s group, while Li Xiaoyao readied his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Ye Lin ordered Li Xiaoyao to teach the experts a lesson, and Li Xiaoyao charged at the late-stage Flawless Taiyi expert with his hammers.

Ye Lin forced Xuan Tian to agree to hand over the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment after Li Xiaoyao overwhelmed the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s experts. The chapter ended with Xuan Tian silently enduring Ye Lin’s taunts and envying his powerful subordinate.

• Li Xiaoyao smashed a mid-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal expert with his hammer and continued attacking Xuan Tian’s subordinates.
• As Li Xiaoyao killed six Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts, Xuan Tian agreed to give Ye Lin the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and asked to plan the matter properly.
• Ye Lin told Li Xiaoyao to stop, and the surviving Profound Origin Scorpion Clan experts were relieved to have survived.
• Bao Xiaotou watched Li Xiaoyao’s display of strength and became more certain that following the group was the right choice.
• Ye Lin taunted Xuan Tian about the lesson he had learned, while Xuan Tian stayed silent and envied Ye Lin for having Li Xiaoyao as a subordinate.

Ye Lin exposed Xuan Tian’s plan to use him to kill Xuan Yong and Xuan Tian’s eldest brother, then blackmailed Xuan Tian for an enormous payment. Xuan Tian rejected the demands, leaving their bargain unresolved.

• Xuan Tian offered to arrange a meeting with his eldest brother, who possessed the One Breath Becomes Three Purities, in exchange for Ye Lin handing over Xuan Yong.
• Ye Lin let Xuan Yong hear their conversation and accused Xuan Tian of planning to make him take the blame for killing both brothers.
• Xuan Tian admitted his plan and argued that the arrangement would benefit them both.
• Ye Lin demanded three hundred million Supreme Immortal Stones, three thousand Dao Pills, three thousand Supreme-grade-or-better healing sacred herbs, and three hundred Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal corpses with blood qi.
• Xuan Tian called Ye Lin’s demands outrageous and refused to agree.

Ye Lin pressured Xuan Tian into accepting his demands by threatening to expose their conversation and endanger Xuan Tian’s life. After Xuan Tian agreed, Ye Lin gave him three days to gather the requested items and left the Anlan Great World with his companions.

• Ye Lin mocked Xuan Tian and warned that he would send Xuan Yong back if they failed to reach an agreement.
• Xuan Tian stopped Ye Lin and agreed to all his demands, saying he needed time to gather the items.
• Ye Lin gave Xuan Tian three days to deliver the items and warned him against trying any tricks.
• Ye Lin handed Xuan Tian a Jade Talisman for contacting him, then left the Anlan Great World with the three people.
• Xuan Tian watched Ye Lin’s group disappear while gripping the Jade Talisman with a dark expression.

Xuan Tian agreed to Ye Lin’s demands while plotting to kill Ye Lin and Xuan Yong afterward. As Ye Lin prepared to leave the Anlan Great World, Qin Changsheng, one of its Five Venerables, appeared and invited him to talk.

• After Ye Lin and his group left, Xuan Tian told his elder that Ye Lin had manipulated him and that he planned to kill Ye Lin and Xuan Yong to secure the clan-head position.
• Xuan Tian dismissed his elder’s concerns and vowed to deal with Ye Lin if he broke their agreement.
• Ye Lin felt pleased with the resources he had extorted and planned to use three hundred Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal corpses to restore the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar.
• As Ye Lin was about to leave the Anlan Great World, Heavenly Dao power gathered into Qin Changsheng, who asked Ye Lin to speak with him.
• Wang Tian recognized Qin Changsheng as the Great Venerable among the Five Venerables, and Qin Changsheng acknowledged that he had watched Wang Tian’s growth.

Qin Changsheng asked Ye Lin to remain in the Anlan Great World for a hundred years, but Ye Lin refused and insisted on leaving. Qin Changsheng ended the discussion without revealing what he planned to do next.

• Ye Lin sensed Qin Changsheng’s effortless command of the Heavenly Dao and warned that their paths should not have crossed.
• Qin Changsheng asked Ye Lin to stay in the Anlan Great World for a hundred years, saying the world needed him.
• Ye Lin refused, explaining that his time was too valuable to spend a hundred years there.
• Qin Changsheng offered to meet Ye Lin’s conditions, but Ye Lin said Qin Changsheng could not provide what he wanted.
• Bao Xiaotou watched from behind Wang Tian and marveled at Ye Lin’s confidence and the vast wealth involved.
• Qin Changsheng admitted he could not force Ye Lin to stay, and Ye Lin again refused before apologizing.

Ye Lin left the Anlan Great World with Wang Tian and the others, then waited in the Starry Sky for news from Xuan Tian. Xuan Yong appeared before him and pleaded to cooperate, but Ye Lin rejected him as an unworthy prisoner.

• Qin Changsheng let Ye Lin depart, then warned Zhao Ming to handle only his assigned duties.
• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian marveled at the Starry Sky as Ye Lin led the group to settle on a star and await news from Xuan Tian.
• The Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell trembled, and Ye Lin summoned the badly injured Xuan Yong.
• Xuan Yong offered Ye Lin anything, including One Breath Becomes Three Purities, and urged him not to work with Xuan Tian.
• Ye Lin told Xuan Yong that he lacked the status, strength, and position to negotiate and reminded him that he was a prisoner.

Xuan Yong begged Ye Lin to release him, promising to gather what Ye Lin wanted, but Ye Lin refused to trust him and returned him to the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell. Later, Xuan Tian arrived with the requested items, leaving Ye Lin ready to receive them.

• Xuan Yong pleaded with Ye Lin for one day to gather everything he wanted and warned that Xuan Tian would destroy the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan as chieftain.
• Ye Lin refused to release Xuan Yong, explaining that he could use Xuan Yong to restrain Xuan Tian but could not trust Xuan Tian to restrain Xuan Yong, then returned him to the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.
• Ye Lin, Li Xiaoyao, Wang Tian, and Bao Xiaotou remained on the star while they waited, with Wang Tian refining the Nine Provinces Cauldron and Bao Xiaotou exploring.
• Ye Lin received Xuan Tian's message, calculated that only one day had passed, and sent him coordinates after crushing the Jade Talisman.
• Xuan Tian arrived on the star about half an hour later and tossed Ye Lin a Spatial Ring containing the requested items.

Ye Lin accepted Xuan Tian’s payment and agreed to lure Xuan Yong to him in three days, while insisting that Xuan Tian’s scheme depended on obtaining the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment. After Xuan Tian left, Ye Lin prepared to refine three hundred Taiyi Mystic Immortal corpses with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar.

• Ye Lin handed Wang Tian the Spatial Ring to inspect the Dao Pills, then accepted Wang Tian’s confirmation that they were genuine.
• Ye Lin agreed to lure Xuan Yong to the meeting place in three days, and Ye Lin warned Xuan Tian that he would not release Xuan Yong without the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment.
• Xuan Tian said the fragment was always carried by Xuan Yong and left after telling Ye Lin to kill him to learn its whereabouts.
• Ye Lin retrieved the Spatial Ring and brought out three hundred recently slain Taiyi Mystic Immortal corpses, shocking Wang Tian and Bao Xiaotou.
• Ye Lin activated the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and began drawing the corpses’ Blood Baleful energy into it.

Ye Lin awakened the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar by offering it three hundred Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal corpses, and its artifact spirit returned as a powerful Dao artifact. The jar settled onto Ye Lin’s shoulder and recognized his mid-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal cultivation.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar’s runes lit up, and the Xuanyuan Sword bracelet on Ye Lin’s wrist reacted to its aura.
• A voice from the jar awoke, and its blood-red artifact spirit praised Ye Lin for offering three hundred Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal corpses.
• Ye Lin felt relieved that the jar had awakened and repaid the karmic debt he had incurred when it took a lightning tribulation for him.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar absorbed the corpses and settled onto Ye Lin’s shoulder in a burst of crimson light.
• The jar identified Ye Lin’s cultivation as mid-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal, surprising him by detecting it without any aura leaking.

Ye Lin and the others heard the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar describe powerful descendants of Great Luo Transcendence beings in the Star River Cosmos. The jar urged Ye Lin to reach transcendence in his lifetime, warning that he would have no second chance.

• Ye Lin said he would not slack off in cultivation, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told him to reach the peak of the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm before they traveled to the Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin asked whether descendants of Great Luo Transcendence beings remained in the Star River Cosmos, drawing the attention of Wang Tian and the others.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Great Luo Transcendence beings had left descendants behind and described their powerful bloodlines and past feats.
• Wang Tian was shocked to hear that a peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal descendant had once defeated a Half-Step Golden Immortal expert.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin to transcend in this lifetime, warning him that he would never get another chance.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin and the others that the current Golden Age was the Star River Cosmos’s last, after which the Heavenly Dao would destroy and remake heaven and earth. Ye Lin and his companions learned that the Demon Domain was too remote and insignificant to know about the coming reckoning.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the Star River Cosmos had passed through four eras and was now in its final Golden Age.
• The jar said that when this Golden Age ended, the decayed Heavenly Dao would reckon with all living beings and remake heaven and earth, leaving those who had not transcended to die without reincarnation.
• Ye Lin and the others were shocked, and Wang Tian asked why they had never heard of the coming catastrophe.
• The jar mocked them, saying the Demon Domain was a remote, insignificant starfield whose inhabitants knew little of the wider cosmos.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar revealed that the Demon Domain was among the lowest-ranked territories in the Star River Cosmos and urged the group to cultivate quickly. Ye Lin remained confident, while Wang Tian was left shaken after realizing how much greater the wider cosmos was.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar described the vast factions and powerful cultivators in the highest-tier star domains, placing the Demon Domain at the bottom of the ninth tier.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar said it needed time to sort through its memories and urged the group to improve their cultivation and leave the Demon Domain before the Emperor Road opened.
• Ye Lin reflected on how he had repeatedly reached realms once described as beyond his limits and remained confident he could achieve his goals.
• Li Xiaoyao took the revelations in stride, while Bao Xiaotou focused on reaching Flawless Taiyi.
• Wang Tian suffered the greatest shock, as his recent achievement of Flawless Taiyi had made him think his life was perfect.

Ye Lin helped Wang Tian recover from the shock of learning how vast the Star River Cosmos was by reminding him of his value as a Dao Pill Master. He then reassured Bao Xiaotou too, recognizing both men as extraordinary talents worth cultivating.

• Wang Tian became despondent after learning that Flawless Taiyi was only the bare minimum in the Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin reminded Wang Tian that he was a young Dao Pill Master whose skill mattered more than his cultivation.
• Wang Tian regained his Qingming state of mind and thanked Ye Lin for stabilizing his Dao Heart.
• Ye Lin told Bao Xiaotou that he valued him as well, noting that he had become a Dao Formation Master while still a peak True Immortal.
• Ye Lin considered how a first-grade Dao Pill Master and a first-grade Dao Formation Master would attract the attention of powerful figures across the Star River Cosmos.

Ye Lin and his companions prepared to confront Xuanji after he came for his captured brother, Xuan Yong. Xuanji demanded Xuan Yong’s release, but Li Xiaoyao attacked him, and Xuanji answered with a powerful sword strike.

• Ye Lin learned from Xuan Tian that Xuanji was already on his way and told Li Xiaoyao to lead the fight.
• Xuanji arrived with the pressure of a Peak Flawless Taiyi and demanded that Ye Lin’s group release Xuan Yong.
• Xuanji offered resources, treasures, or women in exchange for his brother’s release.
• Li Xiaoyao charged Xuanji with the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers, wielding the Laws of Wind and Thunder alongside his Law of Strength.
• Xuanji drew his sword and unleashed a streak of Sword Qi across the starry sky.