Recaps

Bao Xiaotou began countering the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s enormous formation by deploying tens of thousands of Formation Disks, while Xuan Tian’s side struggled to activate its own formation. The battle remained unsettled as the activation process still needed more than a hundred breaths.

• Bao Xiaotou recognized the formation as a vast combination of trapping, killing, and illusion formations, but decided he could break it.
• Bao Xiaotou released tens of thousands of Formation Disks and sent their beams into the Starry Sky, shaking the entire star system with his seals.
• Xuan Tian mocked Master Wang for failing to break the formation and claimed only several Golden Immortal experts could overcome it.
• Xuan Tian impatiently demanded that his side activate the formation, but a third-grade Formation Immortal Master reported that the complex process was only halfway complete.
• Xuan Tian waved the Formation Immortal Master away and ordered him to continue, accepting that activation would take more than a hundred breaths.

Xuan Tian recognized Bao Xiaotou’s aura as identical to that of a Dao Formation Master from the main family and feared the formation might be at risk. With the formation still taking another hundred breaths to activate and Ye Lin nearing the Central Land, he ordered his people to kill Bao Xiaotou immediately.

• Over ten thousand pillars of light shot into the Starry Sky as the formation trembled.
• Xuan Tian used the formation’s light screen to find Bao Xiaotou and sensed a familiar aura from him.
• Xuan Tian recalled that the aura matched the one emitted by a Dao Formation Master from the main family.
• Xuan Tian demanded to know how long the formation would take to activate, and an elder said it needed another hundred breaths.
• Xuan Tian ordered his people to kill Bao Xiaotou at any cost, warning that the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan would otherwise be finished.

As Bao Xiaotou worked to break the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s formation, he was surrounded by enemy experts, but Li Xiaoyao stepped in to protect him. Bao Xiaotou found the formation’s core node and continued dismantling it while Li Xiaoyao held off their attackers.

• Xuan Tian regretted provoking Ye Lin as Ye Lin advanced toward the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Ancestral Land.
• Bao Xiaotou noticed Profound Origin Scorpion Clan experts surrounding him while he focused on breaking their formation.
• Li Xiaoyao appeared before Bao Xiaotou and told him to keep working while he dealt with the attackers.
• Bao Xiaotou continued breaking the formation and explained that its many sections depended on a single core formation node.
• Bao Xiaotou found the core node and began bringing down the formation.

Li Xiaoyao held off the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s forces while Bao Xiaotou broke their formation, and Ye Lin led an attack on the clan’s foundation. Ye Lin’s group encountered a powerful half-step Golden Immortal defending the continent, with three Shu Mountain Sword Sect experts standing between them.

• The battlefield’s fighters recognized Bao Xiaotou as a formation master and charged to protect him while Li Xiaoyao held back the enemy.
• Ye Lin led experts toward the foundation of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan to seize its resources and destroy its inheritance.
• A powerful aura surged from the continent, and three half-step Golden Immortals from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect appeared to protect Ye Lin.
• An old man holding an ancient bell confronted Ye Lin’s group and revealed his half-step Golden Immortal strength.

Ye Lin faced a deadly attack from an ancient half-step Golden Immortal, who broke through the Shu Mountain Sword Sect experts and trapped him. With his Invincible Technique unlikely to stop the attack, Ye Lin prepared to use his one-time cultivation advancement card and become a Golden Immortal.

• The old man knocked aside three half-step Golden Immortal experts from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect with a single slap.
• The old man shattered the sect experts' sword lights with his ancient bell and appeared before Ye Lin.
• The old man trapped Ye Lin with his presence and struck at him with a deadly palm.
• Ye Lin weighed using his Invincible Technique but recognized that its power was limited by his cultivation.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes and prepared to use his one-time card to advance to the Golden Immortal realm.

A mysterious twin-ponytailed girl saved Ye Lin by killing the half-step Golden Immortal who attacked him, then took the ancient bell for her young master. After she left, Ye Lin ordered the Shu Mountain Sword Sect experts to search the continent for its resources and inheritances.

• The girl appeared before Ye Lin and killed the old man with a finger flick.
• The girl took the ancient bell, told Ye Lin he owed her young master a life-saving favor, and vanished.
• Ye Lin realized the girl possessed Golden Immortal strength despite her young age.
• Three half-step Golden Immortal experts from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect apologized to Ye Lin for failing to protect him.
• Ye Lin told the three experts to lead the search for the continent's resources, inheritances, and valuables.

Ye Lin led the experts into the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s continent, reflecting on the life-saving favor he owed a mysterious woman from beyond the Demon Domain. The clan’s younger generation faced the invading force in despair as the visitors took in the continent’s powerful Immortal Qi and laws.

• The five Half-Step Golden Immortal experts scouted ahead while the other experts surrounded Ye Lin to protect him.
• Ye Lin wondered what the woman and her young master might ask of him in return for saving his life, then decided to deal with it when the time came.
• Ye Lin followed the main force onto the continent, trusting Bao Xiaotou’s skill to handle its formation.
• The experts entered a continent filled with dense Immortal Qi and clear laws, while the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s younger generation lamented Elder Xuan’s death and feared their faction’s destruction.
• The visitors recognized the continent as a top-tier blessed land and heavenly grotto shaped by Golden Immortal laws.

Ye Lin entered the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Ancestral Land and let the experts who had helped him take what they saw fit. He searched for the clan’s inheritance while its young heirs hid, soon to face the vengeance of their former victims.

• Ye Lin told the gathered experts to take what they saw fit, leaving them unsure how much to claim.
• The fighters outside hurried to finish the battle so they could enter the Ancestral Land and seize its treasures.
• Ye Lin went ahead alone and searched the clan’s halls for its valuable inheritance.
• Ye Lin sensed the clan’s young heirs hiding among the buildings but left them for the other factions to deal with.

Ye Lin reached the Scripture Depository but found its entrance protected by a barrier linked to the building, making it dangerous to break through by force. He encountered Ruoxin of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan and her entourage near the building.

• Ye Lin found the Scripture Depository and discovered a green barrier blocking its entrance.
• Ye Lin tried to force the barrier open, but his sword strike only made it ripple and shake the building.
• Ye Lin realized the barrier was bound to the building and that breaking it could destroy everything inside.
• Ruoxin arrived with a group of young men and women, boasting that the continent belonged to her wealthy Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.

Bing Ruoxin’s friends demanded entry to an important site of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan, while its young attendant refused to hand over the key and was beaten. Ye Lin and three powerful experts watched from a distance, and the attendant remained on the ground after Bing Ruoxin finally stopped the assault.

• Bing Ruoxin agreed to take her friends inside the clan site and demanded the key from the young attendant holding it.
• The attendant refused, warning that opening the site would bring punishment from the clan.
• Bing Ruoxin’s friends attacked the attendant while she watched with folded arms, and Ye Lin chose to keep watching rather than intervene.
• Bing Ruoxin called off the beating, but her friends insulted and spat on the trembling attendant as he lay on the ground.

Bing Ruoxin pressured Xuan Yang into handing over the Identity Token key, then told her friends they could enter and look around. Ye Lin and the others watched the exchange in stunned silence.

• Bing Ruoxin told the injured Xuan Yang to give her the key, promising that she and her friends would only look around.
• Xuan Yang gave Bing Ruoxin an Identity Token bearing the character Yang after she threatened to ignore him.
• Bing Ruoxin's friends praised her and urged her to get rid of Xuan Yang, while she claimed she kept him because of his father's service to her family.
• Bing Ruoxin led her friends inside after they promised not to touch anything.
• Ye Lin and the others stood frozen after witnessing the scene.

Ye Lin and three half-step Golden Immortal experts watched Xuan Yang and Bing Ruoxin mistake them for servants and order them around. When Xuan Yang threatened them with his family’s power, one of the experts struck him, blowing away half his body.

• Ye Lin learned that Bing Ruoxin was a servant’s daughter and Xuan Yang was the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s young master who fawned over her.
• Bing Ruoxin and her companions mistook Ye Lin’s group for servants and ordered them to move aside.
• Bing Ruoxin told Xuan Yang to drive the group away, and he threatened to cripple them.
• After Ye Lin gave permission, the middle-aged expert strode toward Xuan Yang and slapped him, exploding half his body into blood mist.

Ye Lin and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect experts encountered Bing Ruoxin and her companions at the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Ancestral Land, where Zhao attacked them brutally. Ye Lin took Bing Ruoxin’s Identity Token and continued toward the barrier while Zhao stayed behind to torment the injured group.

• Bing Ruoxin and the onlookers protested when Zhao attacked Xuan Yang, invoking the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan and her family’s authority.
• Zhao ignored Bing Ruoxin and blasted apart the bodies of her companions, leaving only her unharmed.
• Bing Ruoxin threatened Zhao, and he cut off her pointing finger before taking her Identity Token and handing it to Ye Lin.
• Zhao announced that he would stay to torture the injured True Immortals, while the two Shu Mountain Sword Sect experts explained his temper to Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin accepted the Identity Token and walked toward the barrier with the two experts.

Ye Lin used the Identity Token to open the barrier and entered the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Central Land with his companions. Xuan Tian ordered the clan’s experts to surround the Ancestral Land, hoping the Ancestor would survive and give them a chance to turn things around.

• Ye Lin ignored Xuan Yang’s pleas, used the Identity Token to dissolve the green barrier, and entered with his companions.
• Xuan Yang despaired as he realized he would be held responsible if anything inside was lost, while the middle-aged man approached him.
• Xuan Tian watched the grand formation collapse and concluded that the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan was finished.
• Xuan Tian ordered the clan’s experts to gather and surround the Ancestral Land, believing the Ancestor’s survival could still save them.

After ten hours of slaughter, the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan had been nearly wiped out, leaving countless powerful corpses across the battlefield. The Puppet Sect’s master refused to collect them, fearing that exposing the sect’s forbidden practices would bring its destruction.

• The battle left the Starry Sky strewn with corpses whose blood and auras could have nurtured entire worlds.
• Puppet Sect disciples urged their master to take the corpses and refine them into puppets.
• The Puppet Sect’s master ordered them to leave the corpses, saying their aid to Ye Lin was merit enough and they had to stay hidden.
• The master recalled that puppet arts were despised because practitioners could turn even their closest kin into puppets.
• The master feared collecting the battlefield’s corpses would expose the Puppet Sect and invite the powerful factions to destroy it.

After the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Ancestral Land was breached, the victorious allied forces headed toward the continent to claim their spoils. The chapter left the surrounding factions realizing that defeating a Golden Immortal faction was unrealistic without a Golden Immortal of their own or Ye Lin’s leadership.

• A powerful expert celebrated the defeat of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan and noted that allied Golden Immortal factions and the clan’s defecting subordinates had made victory possible.
• Powerful experts gathered their disciples and elders and set off toward the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Ancestral Land to see what Ye Lin and the others had found.
• The allied army of Golden Immortal factions advanced toward the continent in formation, and the surrounding faction leaders made way for them.
• The surrounding leaders reflected that Ye Lin’s lead had enabled their rebellion and concluded that ordinary factions could not topple a Golden Immortal faction without a Golden Immortal of their own.

Ye Lin explored the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s Scripture Depository and was stunned by its collection of Supreme Grade techniques and other resources. He took a few thousand volumes from the sixth floor, planning to keep them for later use in the Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin toured the eight-floor Scripture Depository and learned that its upper floors held techniques ranging from Immortal Grade to Boundless Grade.
• Ye Lin saw tens of thousands of Supreme Laws and hundreds of thousands of other Supreme Grade volumes, far exceeding anything he had seen in the Demon Domain.
• Ye Lin reasoned that Golden Immortal powers kept such knowledge to themselves to preserve their dominance.
• Ye Lin used his divine sense to collect several thousand volumes from the sixth floor, choosing books with both grandiose and understated names.
• Ye Lin decided to carry the extra techniques with him for use when he entered the Star River Cosmos.

Ye Lin explored the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s collection of Boundless Arts and discovered that the Grass-Character Sword Art could wield swords of will to attack nearly every aspect of an opponent. He left the seventh-floor collection with the technique’s power in mind, though he could not retain its contents after reading.

• Ye Lin traded cultivation techniques and Supreme Laws as valuable resources before heading to the seventh floor.
• Ye Lin found just over a hundred Boundless Arts and considered how many he could take without raising suspicion.
• Ye Lin read the Grass-Character Sword Art, whose sealed pages made him forget each page when he turned to the next.
• Ye Lin learned that the art could forge swords of will capable of cutting physical bodies, Primordial Spirits, karma, time, space, and Destiny.

Ye Lin abandoned the Grass-Character Sword Art as a poor fit, chose three manuals from the seventh floor, and climbed to the eighth floor expecting it to be empty. He was dumbfounded by what he found there.

• Ye Lin stopped practicing the Grass-Character Sword Art and searched the other Boundless Arts.
• Ye Lin chose the Ninefold Spirit-Concentrating Art, the Grass-Character Sword Art, and the True King Sacred Body from the seventh floor.
• Ye Lin decided to consult Senior Xu before cultivating the Ninefold Spirit-Concentrating Art because he feared it might contain a trap.
• Ye Lin climbed to the eighth floor, expecting it to hold no Dao-tier treasures, and was dumbfounded when he arrived.

Ye Lin discovered a mysterious Dao-tier cultivation method in the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s eighth level, but he could not see its name or touch it. Even Mo Ruyu’s Half-Step Golden Immortal sword laws failed to suppress it, leaving Ye Lin and his companions unsure how to approach it.

• Ye Lin entered the tiny eighth level and found an enormous book on a small table.
• Ye Lin approached the golden book, but it burst with light and knocked his hand away.
• Mo Ruyu suggested the Dao-tier cultivation method might possess a spirit, explaining why Ye Lin could not make out its name.
• After Ye Lin approved, Mo Ruyu tried to suppress the book with his sword laws, but it knocked his hand away too.
• Yan Nanbei studied the strange book and admitted he had never encountered anything like it.

Ye Lin forced open a mysterious cultivation manual with the Xuanyuan Sword, and he, Mo Ruyu, and Yan Nanbei read it together. They discovered it was incomplete and not worth cultivating, leaving Yan Nanbei disappointed at the lost chance to pursue the Golden Immortal realm.

• Ye Lin threatened the resistant cultivation manual with the Xuanyuan Sword, and it opened before the astonished Mo Ruyu and Yan Nanbei.
• Ye Lin, Mo Ruyu, and Yan Nanbei read the manual together for half an hour.
• Ye Lin concluded that the manual was incomplete and valuable but did not qualify as a Dao-tier technique.
• Mo Ruyu rejected the manual because cultivating it could ruin his path to the Golden Immortal realm, and Ye Lin preferred his own cultivation manuals.
• Yan Nanbei lamented that the incomplete manual could not give him a chance to rebuild his cultivation and pursue the Golden Immortal realm.

Ye Lin left a damaged Dao-tier cultivation technique behind and found the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan being looted after its destruction. He searched for Xuan Tian and the people suppressing the clan’s fortune, but discovered they were gone.

• Ye Lin transformed the Xuanyuan Sword into a bracelet, left the damaged Dao-tier cultivation technique on the table, and exited the Scripture Depository.
• Ye Lin and the two others encountered the aftermath of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s destruction as Golden Immortal factions stripped the clan’s stronghold for spoils.
• Ye Lin searched the continent with his divine sense but found no sign of Xuan Tian or the people suppressing the clan’s fortune.
• Xuan Tian had taken those people away after Xuan Ming’s death to prevent Ye Lin from killing them and further destroying the clan’s fortune.

Bao Xiaotou led Ye Lin and five half-step Golden Immortal experts to a hidden formation space where powerful enemies were concealed. After breaking the entrance, they learned that three half-step Golden Immortal experts were inside, and Mo Ruyu led the group in first.

• Bao Xiaotou told Ye Lin that he had broken the grand formation and found a hidden space containing powerful experts.
• Ye Lin brought five half-step Golden Immortal experts from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect and followed Bao Xiaotou into the Starry Sky.
• Bao Xiaotou distributed Formation Disks that blocked surveillance and explained that he had left the hidden monitoring formations intact.
• Bao Xiaotou led the group to the space's sole entrance and broke its formation with an Identity Token.
• Bao Xiaotou warned that three half-step Golden Immortal experts were inside, and Mo Ruyu led the five experts through the entrance.

Ye Lin entered the hidden space after Mo Ruyu and the others defeated the Half-Step Golden Immortals, then confronted the captured Xuan Tian. Xuan Tian blamed Ye Lin for ruining his ambition to control the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan, while Ye Lin challenged him to explain his greed.

• Ye Lin and his companions waited outside the hidden space while Half-Step Golden Immortals fought within.
• Mo Ruyu announced that the fighting was over, and Bao Xiaotou sent a paper crane inside to confirm it was safe.
• Ye Lin and the others entered and found three headless Half-Step Golden Immortal corpses and a crowd of captives kneeling before Xuan Tian.
• Xuan Tian accused Ye Lin of destroying his chance to become clan chief and control the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan.
• Ye Lin sat before Xuan Tian and asked why he had betrayed their earlier cooperation out of greed.

Ye Lin confronted Xuan Tian over the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s destruction and rejected his attempts to bargain for his life. He killed Xuan Tian and left his corpse behind.

• Ye Lin told Xuan Tian that the clan’s destruction was the consequence of Xuan Tian’s past attempt to kill him.
• Xuan Tian offered to reveal the location of the Profound Origin Scorpion Clan’s half-step Dao Artifact in exchange for his life.
• Xuan Tian offered Ye Lin the artifact, an alliance, and authority over the clan, hoping to stall until reinforcements arrived.
• Ye Lin accused Xuan Tian of fearing death rather than truly regretting his actions and destroyed his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin tossed Xuan Tian’s corpse onto the ground.