Recaps

Xu Changsheng watched the conflict engulf the Southern Demon Domain as Ye Lin reached its core region and learned that twenty-three camps were fighting over territory and resources. With the region already divided among rival factions, Ye Lin asked whether any unoccupied land remained for his army.

• Xu Changsheng observed that the Southern Demon Domain's Golden Immortal factions were losing experts and predicted their foundations would decline after the battle.
• Ye Lin halted his army outside the core region and sent experts from the Buddhist Sect and Qilin Clan to gather intelligence.
• Three days later, the scouts reported that twenty-three camps occupied the core region and fought daily over territory and resources.
• The scouts explained that outsiders, local factions led by the Stowaways, and unknown armies were all seizing land and gathering resources.
• Ye Lin studied the map, asked whether any land remained unoccupied, and realized his army might have to fight its way into the conflict.

Ye Lin led his forces into the Southern Demon Domain to seize territory after finding no vacant land. The ruler of the territory ahead decided to gather allies and oppose him, believing the battle could not be avoided.

• Ye Lin decided to carve out territory by force and ordered his army to advance.
• The young ruler learned that Ye Lin's warships were heading straight for his territory and suspected he had been singled out.
• The ruler's followers admitted they could not stop Ye Lin alone, but none volunteered to surrender territory.
• The ruler ordered the others to call for reinforcements and insisted they fight Ye Lin while their Golden Immortal allies still supported them.

Ye Lin’s army reached the enemy’s fortified star system, where the opposing forces prepared to stop him. Bao Xiaotou dismantled their formations from afar, clearing the way toward the core region.

• The young man rallied the failures, insisting they had to win or die, and ordered that Ye Lin must not be allowed in.
• Ye Lin’s army arrived outside a star system bristling with defensive formations and enemy troops.
• Ye Lin ordered his forces to study the formations before charging in to avoid heavy casualties.
• Bao Xiaotou dismissed the formations as crude, then formed a Formation Disk and attacked the star system.
• Bao Xiaotou’s strike triggered a succession of explosions as the grand formations inside the star system were destroyed.

Bao Xiaotou shattered the formation surrounding the star system, allowing Ye Lin’s three armies to launch their assault. Ye Lin’s forces entered from three directions, and the chapter ended as the Buddhist Sect charged into battle.

• Bao Xiaotou destroyed more than half of the star system’s formation nodes, collapsing the grand formation.
• The Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect experts marveled at Bao Xiaotou’s formation skills, and Ye Lin recognized him as a second-rank Dao Formation Master.
• Ye Lin ordered Poison Venerable to lead the Heavenly Demons from the left, Li Xiaoyao to lead the Qilin Clan from the right, and the Buddhist Sect to attack through the center.
• Li Xiaoyao, Poison Venerable, and Ye Lin led their armies into the star system from their assigned directions.
• An opposing commander warned Ye Lin to withdraw, but Ye Lin ordered his forces to attack instead of replying.
• The Buddhist Sect experts charged forward with their weapons and legions.

Qin Jiang ordered his army to attack the Buddhist Sect forces, but his soldiers recoiled from their overwhelming presence. After Qin Jiang promised reinforcements and warned that Ye Lin intended to unify the Southern Demon Domain, the adjutant rallied the army to charge, and Ye Lin appeared above the battlefield demanding to meet its commander.

• Qin Jiang ordered his army to attack the Buddhist Sect forces, but the soldiers retreated in fear.
• Qin Jiang's adjutant urged him to avoid the Buddhist Sect army's advance.
• Qin Jiang warned that Ye Lin would threaten them if he established himself in the Southern Demon Domain and claimed reinforcements were coming.
• Qin Jiang's adjutant rallied the cultivators, and they charged toward the Buddhist Sect army.
• Ye Lin appeared above the battlefield in a blood-red robe and demanded that the army's commander come forward.

Ye Lin confronted Qin Jiang and dismissed the Southern Demon Domain’s complexity, insisting that anyone who blocked his path should be killed. Qin Jiang wrongly concluded that Ye Lin had needed outside help to kill Li Changsheng, and Ye Lin prepared to prove his strength in battle.

• Qin Jiang faced Ye Lin and warned him that the Southern Demon Domain was too chaotic for him to handle alone.
• Ye Lin said he would crush and kill anyone who stood in his way.
• Qin Jiang decided Ye Lin’s words showed he was unimpressive and suspected that someone else had helped him kill Li Changsheng.
• Qin Jiang reasoned that Ye Lin must have made a deal with Li Changsheng’s Primordial Unity Golden Immortal father after using an improper method to kill Li Changsheng.
• Ye Lin summoned the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and challenged Qin Jiang to a fight.

Ye Lin fought Qin Jiang, who used his Shadowkill ability to vanish and evade direct combat. Suspecting Qin Jiang was buying time for reinforcements, Ye Lin sealed and shattered the surrounding space, but Qin Jiang remained missing.

• Qin Jiang summoned two daggers and vanished with Shadowkill, then attacked Ye Lin from behind.
• Ye Lin countered Qin Jiang’s ambush and spread thunder across tens of thousands of miles to detect him.
• Ye Lin realized Qin Jiang was stalling for reinforcements while their armies fought below.
• Ye Lin used the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell to seal the starry sky and the Time Measuring Ruler to halt time and break space.
• Ye Lin found no trace of Qin Jiang within a hundred thousand miles and expanded his search, causing space to crumble.

Ye Lin failed to catch Qin Jiang, who repeatedly vanished into the void to evade his attacks. Ye Lin turned to slaughter the enemy cultivators on the battlefield, forcing them to flee while Qin Jiang remained hidden.

• Qin Jiang attacked Ye Lin from behind, but Ye Lin countered with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.
• Ye Lin used the bell to force Qin Jiang out of hiding and attacked him with Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering.
• Qin Jiang escaped into the void again, evading Ye Lin's sword strike despite the sealed space.
• Ye Lin charged into the battlefield and killed the enemy cultivators as he tried to force Qin Jiang to reveal himself.
• The enemy cultivators recognized Ye Lin's strength and fled, while Ye Lin continued clearing the battlefield.

Ye Lin’s arrival broke the enemy army’s morale, and Qin Jiang emerged from hiding to stop the prodigies from fleeing. The chapter ended with Ye Lin confronting Qin Jiang as reinforcements were expected to arrive.

• Ye Lin overwhelmed the enemy prodigies, causing many of them to flee and suspect Qin Jiang had abandoned them.
• Qin Jiang appeared in the retreating army’s path and ordered the powerhouses to stay and fight until reinforcements arrived.
• With the enemy’s Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals distracted, the Buddhist Sect’s Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals began slaughtering the remaining troops.
• Qin Jiang forced the fleeing prodigies back into battle, then reflected that he had meant only to stall Ye Lin until reinforcements came.
• Ye Lin spotted Qin Jiang and taunted him for finally coming out of hiding.

Ye Lin faced Qin Jiang and four peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal reinforcements as their warships joined the battle. He overwhelmed the four with time laws, but they shattered his Time Millstone through their combined strength, and Ye Lin discovered they had no Boundless Artifacts.

• Qin Jiang's reinforcements arrived on a fleet of black warships, bringing four more peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal prodigies.
• Ye Lin summoned the Time Measuring Ruler and dismissed the five opponents as unworthy of his time.
• The four newcomers attacked together while Qin Jiang slipped into the void and the warships joined the melee.
• Ye Lin used Time Stop and Time Millstone to suppress the four attackers.
• The four peak cultivators combined their strength to shatter the Time Millstone, and Ye Lin realized none of them owned a Boundless Artifact.

Ye Lin battled Qin Jiang, whose Shadow Escape technique let him evade Ye Lin’s sword strike. After Wu Wang and Xiaoyao drew away the other four attackers, Ye Lin trapped Qin Jiang with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and Time Laws.

• Ye Lin struck Qin Jiang with his sword, but Qin Jiang used Shadow Escape to let the blade pass through him unharmed.
• Four attackers rushed Ye Lin from behind while he faced Qin Jiang.
• Ye Lin summoned Wu Wang and Xiaoyao, who each pulled two of the attackers away.
• Ye Lin suppressed Qin Jiang with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and immobilized him with Time Laws.

Ye Lin exposed Qin Jiang’s Shadow Transformation and attacked him with lightning and sunlight to eliminate the darkness Qin Jiang used to hide. The Starry Sky became bright as day, but Qin Jiang’s fate remained unclear.

• Ye Lin used One Breath Becomes Three Purities and struck Qin Jiang’s shadow, forcing Qin Jiang out of it.
• Ye Lin explained that Qin Jiang had merged into his shadow and that the apparent body he had attacked was a phantom.
• Qin Jiang vanished into the dark Starry Sky, and Ye Lin filled the area within a million li with lightning.
• Ye Lin used the Great Sun Supreme Art to summon nine suns and spread light across the Starry Sky.

Ye Lin defeated Qin Jiang, who accepted his loss and reflected on how those from a past era could never truly belong to the present one. After Ye Lin killed him, the battle below remained locked in a stalemate despite reinforcements.

• Qin Jiang admitted that Ye Lin was stronger and threw away a jade talisman containing a Golden Immortal's projection.
• Qin Jiang reflected that he and others from his era had failed to take root in the new age, then Ye Lin killed him with a sword strike.
• Ye Lin collected the objects around him and turned to the battlefield below, leaving the other four opponents to Wu Wang and Xiaoyao.
• The battle below remained deadlocked after four armies of reinforcements joined, as the Buddhist Sect's support proved limited.

Ye Lin avoided the Qilin Clan’s half-step Golden Immortals and plunged into the battle, killing Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals as the Demon Domain’s destiny gathered around him. Elsewhere, the Heavenly Demons routed the larger army, and Poison Venerable watched the battlefield collapse into victory.

• Ye Lin sensed five incoming half-step Golden Immortals and fled before they reached the battlefield.
• Five Buddhist Sect half-step Golden Immortals appeared to face the five sent by the Qilin Clan, including those Li Xiaoyao had drawn away.
• Ye Lin returned to the battle and targeted Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals, pushing the scales of victory toward his side as the Demon Domain’s destiny favored him.
• Poison Venerable watched three million Heavenly Demons force an army of over a hundred million to retreat.
• The Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals fled, the army’s resistance collapsed, and Poison Venerable saw victory settle over the battlefield.

After Ye Lin’s armies conquered a star system in the Southern Demon Domain, he announced that he would unite the entire domain within half a year. His allies were shocked by his willingness to challenge the Golden Immortal factions, and they wondered why those factions seemed less untouchable than in past eras.

• Li Xiaoyao led the Qilin Clan experts forward to rendezvous with Ye Lin after routing the opposing forces.
• Ye Lin’s three armies converged and took control of the star system.
• Ye Lin told his allies that they had secured territory in the Southern Demon Domain and ordered them to unify the region within half a year.
• The Buddhist Sect and Qilin Clan experts were shocked by Ye Lin’s plan to accelerate the conflict with the Golden Immortal factions.
• Ye Lin’s allies reflected on how this era differed from earlier ones and questioned why the Golden Immortal factions seemed to lack their former grandeur.

Ye Lin persuaded the Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect to support his plan to unite the Southern Demon Domain, promising them a share of its territory. As his coalition grew, three powerful figures concluded that they could neither kill him safely nor stop his unification without accepting a loss of face.

• Ye Lin told the Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect experts that helping him unite the Southern Demon Domain would let their forces claim territory there.
• A Qilin Clan expert agreed to try, and the Buddhist Sect expert tacitly approved.
• Ye Lin said another force in the Southern Demon Domain could join them and help overcome resistance from Golden Immortal factions.
• Three figures in a pitch-black space discussed Ye Lin's plan and the support of five Golden Immortal factions: Forbidden Void, the Qilin Clan, the Buddhist Sect, the Dugu Clan, and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect.
• The three figures ruled out killing Ye Lin because he bore half the Demon Domain's fortune, and considered yielding to him the option with the least loss.

The Golden Immortals debated whether to fight Ye Lin or yield to him, weighing the Demon Domain’s fortune against the dangers of continued civil war. They chose to test Ye Lin further and consider giving him the title if he proved capable of bearing the Demon Domain’s destiny.

• The shadow on the far left angrily decided to stop Ye Lin and punish anyone who tried to take advantage of the conflict.
• The middle shadow questioned whether risking a faction’s true foundation to kill Ye Lin was worthwhile.
• The Golden Immortals noted that the wider Star River Cosmos was entering a turbulent era while the Demon Domain remained trapped in civil strife.
• Two shadows agreed to test Ye Lin again and said they could give him the title if he proved fit to shoulder the Demon Domain’s fortune.
• The shadows vanished as the chapter explained that star fields tested their fated ones through slaughter and trials set by major factions.

Ye Lin’s rise as a Rogue Cultivator made him a favored candidate to inherit the Demon Domain’s fortune, though powerful factions still resisted yielding to him. Dugu Feng arrived at Ye Lin’s hall after five thousand years, bringing his Dao companion Yun Xiyue, and Ye Lin greeted them.

• The chapter explained that Golden Immortal factions cultivated Chosen Ones to compete for the Star River Cosmos and sought to gather the Demon Domain’s fortune within their own ranks.
• Some factions considered Ye Lin the best candidate because he was a talented Rogue Cultivator who would not favor any faction, while others resisted accepting a junior’s rise.
• Dugu Feng entered Ye Lin’s hall with Yun Xiyue and complained that Ye Lin had not told him about his rise to prominence.
• Ye Lin acknowledged that he had failed to keep their ten-thousand-year agreement, and Dugu Feng revealed that he had reached the late-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal realm.
• Dugu Feng introduced Yun Xiyue as his Dao companion, and she greeted Ye Lin before he returned the formal greeting.

Dugu Feng arrived with Yun Xiyue, confirmed that he had married for love, and discussed Ye Lin’s plan to take the Southern Demon Domain within half a year. The group learned they were surrounded by armies whose true forms resembled Flood Dragons, and Dugu Feng identified them as the Void Dragon Clan as Ye Lin’s killing intent surged.

• Dugu Feng told Ye Lin that he had chosen Yun Xiyue himself and married her willingly.
• Dugu Feng objected to Ye Lin’s plan to take the Southern Demon Domain within half a year, warning that the Golden Immortal factions had not yet fought seriously.
• Ye Lin argued that the Golden Immortal factions would avoid a major assault that could trigger a war, and that Dugu Feng and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect could help.
• Dugu Feng accepted Ye Lin’s plan and agreed to proceed as he saw fit.
• A Qilin Clan expert reported that armies had surrounded them from all four directions and that their true forms resembled Flood Dragons.
• Dugu Feng identified the armies as the Void Dragon Clan, and Ye Lin’s killing intent surged.

Ye Lin learned that the Void Dragon Clan had come to avenge Lu Cang and prepared to face them with his allies. As the warship’s fighters gathered, Shangguan Wanyu resolved to cultivate and break through to True Immortal.

• Ye Lin recognized the Void Dragon Clan as the force that had tried to kill him after he killed Lu Cang and declared that he would make them fear him.
• Dugu Feng explained that the Void Dragon Clan had come for Ye Lin because he had killed their ancestor’s favored prodigy, Lu Cang.
• Dugu Feng left with Yun Xiyue to summon reinforcements, while Ye Lin led Poison Venerable, Li Xiaoyao, Wang Tian, and Bao Xiaotou outside.
• Shangguan Wanyu, feeling useless among the powerful fighters, decided to cultivate in seclusion and reach the True Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin and the other powerhouses gathered on the warship and considered whether to divide into three groups or four.

Ye Lin rejected splitting his army to defend the star system and instead led everyone in a direct charge toward the Southern Demon Domain’s core. His forces broke into battle with the Void Dragon Clan, and the warships continued pressing through the encirclement.

• Poison Venerable asked how they should respond as the Void Dragon Clan’s experts closed in.
• Ye Lin ordered the entire army to attack one point and break through into the Southern Demon Domain.
• A scout reported that the enemy was less than ten thousand star li away, and Ye Lin’s warships charged toward the core region.
• The Qilin Clan and Buddhist Sect experts left their warships to escort them as Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts prepared to fight.
• Ye Lin’s warships collided with the Void Dragon Clan fleet, and experts from both sides clashed across the battlefield.
• The warships kept charging through the encirclement, taking advantage of the Void Dragon Clan’s limited number of Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts.

Ye Lin’s army broke through the Void Dragon Clan’s encirclement and entered the core region of the Southern Demon Domain. The group found a vast number of life-bearing worlds, but the worlds along their route had been plundered and destroyed.

• Poison Venerable sent three million Heavenly Demons into the Void Dragon Clan’s forces, letting Ye Lin’s army break through the encirclement in five hundred breaths.
• A Void Dragon Clan general reported three million True Immortals and five Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals dead, then ordered his troops to withdraw after sensing a half-step Golden Immortal aboard the enemy warship.
• Ye Lin and Poison Venerable entered the core region and were astonished that one in ten stars could support life.
• Ye Lin discovered that the life-bearing worlds along the route had been drained of spirit veins, stripped of resources, and left lifeless.
• Wang Tian saw a shattered continent and a withered star filled with deathly aura, resentment, and vengeful spirits.

Ye Lin studied the territories seized across the Southern Demon Domain and chose the Void Dragon Clan as his next target. He planned to draw out and defeat its young prodigies in an Arena, hoping to win the Demon Domain’s recognition and later rally its Golden Immortal factions against their rivals.

• Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian watched in silence as they witnessed an entire world being destroyed.
• Ye Lin saw that outsiders had taken half the territory from the Southern Demon Domain’s native Golden Immortal factions.
• Ye Lin chose the Void Dragon Clan and planned to weaken it by slaughtering its younger generation’s strongest fighters.
• Ye Lin decided to establish an Arena in the Void Dragon Clan’s territory and use public pressure to force its prodigies to accept his challenges.

Ye Lin planned to draw the Void Dragon Clan and other Golden Immortal factions into a public contest between their younger generations. A Void Dragon Clan young master learned of the Arena and decided to attend, intending to kill Ye Lin himself.

• Ye Lin headed toward Void Dragon Clan territory to establish an Arena and challenge the factions’ younger generations.
• A young man aboard a lavish warship learned that General Liu had failed to stop Ye Lin and ordered his whereabouts investigated.
• The old man reported that Ye Lin had set up the Arena in the Celestial Origin Star Cluster.
• The young man recognized Ye Lin’s scheme but agreed to attend and ordered the clan to summon the Ten Cardinal Sacred Gods.
• The young man vowed to crush Ye Lin before the Demon Domain’s powerful experts.

Ye Lin’s challenge to the Void Dragon Clan’s younger generation drew attention across the Demon Domain, and powerful young men decided to visit the Arena and judge him for themselves. They considered taking him under their wing if he proved useful.

• News spread that Ye Lin had established an Arena in the Celestial Origin Star Cluster and challenged the Void Dragon Clan’s younger generation, drawing crowds toward the Southern Demon Domain.
• Two young men discussed Ye Lin’s backing from Golden Immortal factions and the Forbidden Void, then vanished to see him, with one considering taking him as a follower.
• A young man in a sky-blue robe questioned whether the Invincible Art had chosen Ye Lin correctly, but agreed to visit and consider taking him as a servant.