Recaps

Ye Lin unleashed a fused sword attack that crippled the remaining twenty-nine Demon Beasts in the trial. He then finished them with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, leaving the small world strewn with corpses.

• Ye Lin assessed the Demon Beasts and prepared to cut down the twenty-nine charging creatures.
• Ye Lin fused the manifestations of his three techniques into a colossal sword.
• Ye Lin’s strike tore through the landscape and severely wounded all twenty-nine Demon Beasts.
• Ye Lin used Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin to kill every remaining Demon Beast.

Ye Lin passed the first trial and received three Origin Transformation Pills and a Nine-Grade Sacred Lotus. He entered the second trial, where his strength was sealed and he had to cross a desert as a mortal to qualify for the third layer and earn the Starry Formula.

• Ye Lin received three Origin Transformation Pills and a Nine-Grade Sacred Lotus for finishing the first trial in the top ten.
• Ye Lin chose to continue and rested for half an hour before the second-layer trial began.
• The trial grounds transported Ye Lin to a desert and sealed his power, requiring him to cross it as a mortal.
• Ye Lin struggled with the heat and thirst but rested briefly before pressing onward through the desert.

Gu Congshuang searched the Black Tortoise Secret Realm for Ye Lin and entered a mysterious spatial gate. Ye Lin, stripped of his cultivation in a harsh trial ground, struggled to survive the desert night as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told him he was on his own.

• Gu Congshuang found only disappointing treasures and failed to locate Ye Lin, concluding that he had taken the pearl and left the Black Tortoise Secret Realm.
• Gu Congshuang discovered a spatial gate guarded by Black Tortoise statues and stepped inside to investigate.
• Ye Lin endured a day of walking through the desert without food or water, then faced plunging temperatures as night fell.
• Ye Lin buried himself in a pit of warm sand to shelter from the cold.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that it could not help him and urged him to survive the trial on his own.

Ye Lin struggled to survive the desert as a mortal, enduring hunger, thirst, and extreme temperatures before collapsing from fever. He woke three days later in a carriage, where a young woman told him that her father had found and rescued him.

• Ye Lin endured a sleepless night of hunger and thirst, then continued walking through the desert at dawn.
• Ye Lin realized he had developed a fever and collapsed beneath the blazing sun.
• Ye Lin woke in a carriage after sleeping for three days and three nights.
• The young woman explained that her father had found Ye Lin in the desert and brought him along, impressed by how far he had traveled.

Ye Lin recovered after White Lotus and her merchant caravan rescued him in the Endless Desert, and he joined them on their journey across it. He met White Lotus’s father, the caravan leader, who welcomed him and asked how he was feeling.

• White Lotus gave Ye Lin water and asked his name, and he introduced himself as Blood Baleful.
• Ye Lin told White Lotus that he had fled into the desert after offending people he could not challenge, and she offered to take him across with the caravan.
• The caravan stopped for the night, and its leader ordered the travelers to camp and keep watch against wolf packs.
• White Lotus told her father, the caravan leader, that Ye Lin had awakened and shared his name.
• Ye Lin thanked White Lotus’s father for rescuing him, and the man asked whether he had recovered.

Ye Lin accepted White Wind’s offer to travel with his caravan across the Endless Desert. White Lotus brought the exhausted, hungry Ye Lin to the campfire, where a young man offered her a roasted lamb leg.

• White Wind introduced himself as White Lotus’s father and invited Ye Lin to join the caravan.
• Ye Lin accepted, recognizing he could not cross the desert alone.
• White Lotus questioned Ye Lin about his frail appearance and how he had offended someone, but Ye Lin refused to explain.
• White Lotus pulled Ye Lin over to the campfire after he smelled the meat and realized how hungry he was.
• A young man offered White Lotus a freshly roasted lamb leg.

Ye Lin accepted food from White Lotus, who defended him from Li Shou’s jealousy. After eating, Ye Lin assessed the trial’s next stage and prepared for possible dangers as he explored the camp.

• White Lotus gave Ye Lin the lamb leg Li Shou had roasted for her.
• Li Shou became angry at Ye Lin, but White Lotus ordered him to leave and he threatened Ye Lin before returning to the campfire.
• White Lotus apologized for Li Shou’s behavior, and Ye Lin said he understood why the outsider had upset him.
• After finishing the lamb leg, Ye Lin told White Lotus to eat and began looking around the camp.
• Ye Lin reasoned that the trial’s second stage would bring challenges, but believed he could handle them now that he had food and water.

After the caravan settled in for the night, Ye Lin stayed awake by the fire and was attacked by Li Shou, who was jealous of White Lotus. Ye Lin easily disarmed and subdued him, then warned him before letting him go.

• White Wind arranged watches and told the caravan to rest in shifts.
• Ye Lin declined to sleep, explaining that he had just awakened after three days and could not cultivate in the trial ground.
• Li Shou crept up behind Ye Lin and attacked him with a dagger, driven by possessiveness toward White Lotus.
• Ye Lin dodged the strike, disarmed Li Shou, and pinned him with the dagger at his throat.
• Ye Lin released Li Shou and threw the dagger into the sand, warning him that his attack had been crude.

Ye Lin joined White Wind’s caravan as it traveled through the Endless Desert, hoping to complete the trial he had failed to cross alone. After Ye Lin frightened Li Shou the previous night, Li Shou remained afraid of him as the journey resumed.

• Ye Lin warned Li Shou that he would die if he threatened him again, and Li Shou fled in terror.
• Ye Lin spent the night sitting awake by the fire, and White Wind offered him the chance to rest in a carriage during the day’s travel.
• White Lotus gave Ye Lin a flatbread and questioned his endurance, while Ye Lin explained that he might have made up for his sleep during his earlier unconsciousness.
• White Wind set out with the caravan, and Li Shou kept glancing at Ye Lin fearfully.
• Ye Lin traveled with the caravan through the Endless Desert, relying on it to help him complete the trial.

Ye Lin sensed three enormous creatures beneath the desert, and a giant scorpion called a Desert Loner burst out and attacked the caravan. Unable to pierce its armor, Ye Lin followed as it charged toward the camels, while White Wind and the others prepared to fight.

• Ye Lin stopped and felt the sand, then warned White Lotus and the caravan that three huge creatures were beneath them.
• A Desert Loner erupted from the desert, and White Wind ordered the caravan to secure the camels and prepare for battle.
• Ye Lin dodged the scorpion and struck its armor, but his sword failed to damage it.
• Ye Lin realized the scorpion was charging toward the camels and pursued it, while White Wind drew his broadsword to confront it.

Ye Lin fought the giant scorpions that attacked the caravan and discovered that three were lurking beneath the sand. After killing two, he caught White Wind’s saber to face the last one.

• White Wind charged the first scorpion but was knocked away, and White Lotus hurried to check on him.
• Ye Lin stabbed the first scorpion through the unarmored spot on the back of its neck and killed it.
• Ye Lin avoided a second scorpion that burst from the sand, then killed it by driving his sword into the back of its neck.
• Ye Lin backed away from the remaining scorpion until White Wind threw him his saber.
• Ye Lin caught the saber, leaped onto the scorpion’s back, and drove the blade into its vulnerable neck.

Ye Lin killed the giant Desert Loner by striking its weak point, then learned from White Lotus that the desert held many other legendary creatures. The chapter left him worried that more powerful threats might appear.

• Ye Lin climbed down from the dead scorpion and realized his mortal body was nearly exhausted.
• White Wind thanked Ye Lin for saving his caravan, and Ye Lin credited White Wind's kindness for the rescue.
• White Wind considered Ye Lin a better match for White Lotus than Li Shou.
• White Lotus told Ye Lin the giant creature was a legendary Desert Loner that her father had never encountered before.
• Ye Lin asked whether other creatures like it existed, and White Lotus said the desert had many strange and powerful creatures from legend.

Ye Lin warned White Lotus that more legendary creatures might appear, though she doubted him, and urged the caravan to move faster. Li Shou accepted that White Lotus would not marry him, while Ye Lin slept in the carriage, exhausted by his frail mortal body.

• Ye Lin predicted that the trial ground would bring out more legendary creatures, but White Lotus argued that they could not all appear.
• White Wind told Li Shou that White Lotus did not love him and that he should let her go, and Li Shou left after accepting it.
• Ye Lin urged the caravan to leave quickly, and White Lotus retrieved the weapons from the scorpion's body.
• White Wind sped up the caravan, while Ye Lin fell asleep in the carriage from exhaustion.

Ye Lin woke when the caravan stopped and found another caravan trying to join their ranks. He killed its spokesman and walked toward the other caravan, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The caravan members hurried onward and kept close to Ye Lin after witnessing his earlier fight with the Desert Loners.
• After three hours, the caravan stopped in front of another group hauling goods.
• White Wind argued with the other caravan's spokesman, who insisted that traveling together would make both groups safer.
• Ye Lin took a Long Sword from a nearby young man and warned the spokesman to move or die.
• When the spokesman dismissed Ye Lin's threat, Ye Lin cut his throat and walked toward the other caravan.

Ye Lin killed the apparent merchant caravan's leader and another man, then drove the rest away and exposed them as highway robbers lying in wait. The group took the robbers' camels and resumed crossing the desert, with White Lotus estimating they had three days left at their current pace.

• Ye Lin threatened the supposed merchants and killed two men when they refused to leave.
• The survivors fled, and Ye Lin explained that the lack of tracks showed the caravan had been waiting for them.
• White Wind uncovered a large stone beneath the goods and realized the group had been highway robbers.
• White Wind ordered the group to take the camels and continue across the desert.
• Ye Lin asked White Lotus how long the crossing would take, and she estimated three days at their current pace.

Ye Lin traveled with the caravan through the desert and spoke with Wang Hu, who wanted to learn martial arts. After hearing about Wang Hu’s devotion to his mother, Ye Lin agreed to teach him a few moves, and Wang Hu began walking strangely.

• Ye Lin rode a camel and watched the surroundings, focused on surviving the trial and leaving the desert.
• Wang Hu asked Ye Lin to teach him martial arts, but Ye Lin said his strength came from quick reactions.
• Wang Hu told Ye Lin that his mother had renamed him from Chen An and explained how he planned to care for her when he returned home.
• Ye Lin agreed to teach Wang Hu a few moves to help him protect himself.
• Wang Hu began walking with an extremely strange gait after Ye Lin’s lesson.

Ye Lin taught Wang Hu the Heavenly Star Step as the caravan crossed the desert, and Wang Hu practiced despite the strain. At night, Ye Lin stayed awake by the campfire, expecting something major to happen, while White Lotus spoke with him before going to sleep.

• Ye Lin taught Wang Hu the Heavenly Star Step and said it would make him a minor expert by the time they left the desert.
• Wang Hu persisted with the strange footwork and said he planned to beat Liu Dazhuang once he learned martial arts.
• The caravan stopped for the night, and Ye Lin stayed awake because he sensed something major would happen.
• White Wind asked why Ye Lin was not sleeping, then settled down to rest after Ye Lin declined.
• White Lotus told Ye Lin she was no longer afraid of him, spoke with him by the fire, and left when she grew sleepy.
• Wang Hu offered to keep Ye Lin company.

Ye Lin spoke with Wang Hu by the campfire, encouraging him to keep practicing the footwork and hinting that powerful figures existed beyond ordinary people’s knowledge. Wang Hu learned that these people outranked even the emperor, and Ye Lin said he might encounter them as he grew stronger.

• Wang Hu told Ye Lin that practicing the footwork made him feel energetic and mentally sharper.
• Ye Lin encouraged Wang Hu to keep training so he could teach his enemies a lesson after returning home.
• Wang Hu asked who had forced Ye Lin to risk his life crossing the desert, and Ye Lin suggested that extraordinary beings and hidden powers existed among humans.
• Wang Hu wondered why he had never heard of such powerful people, and Ye Lin compared their secrecy to the emperor’s private affairs.
• Ye Lin said those figures had higher status than the emperor and that Wang Hu would meet them once he became stronger.

Ye Lin sensed danger at the camp and prepared for an approaching wolf pack. As more than a hundred giant wolves attacked, he charged into them alone while the others began to rally behind him.

• Ye Lin sensed danger, took Wang Hu’s saber, and ordered him to hide inside the tent.
• A sentry warned the camp that a huge wolf pack was approaching, and White Wind and the others armed themselves.
• A giant wolf lunged at Ye Lin, who dodged and killed it with a slash to the throat.
• Ye Lin charged into the pack of more than a hundred giant wolves, stunning the others.
• The people at the camp called out for everyone to help Brother Blood Baleful fight the wolves.

Ye Lin and the caravan fought off the giant wolf pack, but the battle left Ye Lin too exhausted to defend himself. Wang Hu died protecting him, leaving Ye Lin beside his fallen companion.

• White Wind ordered the caravan to fight alongside Ye Lin and keep him alive.
• Ye Lin killed the last giant wolf but collapsed from exhaustion and could not lift his sword.
• Three giant wolves approached the helpless Ye Lin, and Wang Hu stepped in to protect him.
• Wang Hu fought the wolves until one bit his neck, and White Wind killed the attacking wolf.
• Ye Lin reached Wang Hu as he died, and Wang Hu said he wanted to become a master.

Ye Lin led the caravan through three grueling days in the desert after Wang Hu died protecting him, and reached the oasis to complete the second trial. The trial voice rewarded him with the Starry Formula and agreed to fulfill Wang Hu’s wish before the third trial began.

• Wang Hu died saving Ye Lin from the wolves, and Ye Lin buried him before ordering the caravan to travel through the night.
• White Lotus tried to comfort Ye Lin, but he explained that he was pushing onward because a sandstorm was coming.
• Ye Lin led the exhausted caravan across the desert for three days without rest, and they encountered no further danger.
• The caravan reached an oasis, where Ye Lin completed the second trial and received the lower-grade Boundless Art, Starry Formula.
• The trial voice restored Ye Lin’s third-layer Golden Immortal strength and agreed to fulfill Wang Hu’s wish.

Ye Lin completed the second trial and received the Starry Formula before entering a new challenge as a Heavenly Court soldier. He was ordered to survive for one thousand years, and the chapter ended when a fellow soldier approached him about a new mission.

• Ye Lin watched an image of Wang Hu returning home, building a house for his mother, marrying, and raising two children.
• Ye Lin received the Starry Formula, a Primordial Spirit cultivation method, and waited for the third trial to begin.
• The trial announced that Ye Lin could earn the Severed Meridian Yang-Force Book by surviving one thousand years in the Heavenly Court.
• Ye Lin found himself guarding the Heavenly Gate as an obscure soldier, retaining his third-layer Golden Immortal strength.
• A silver-armored soldier called Ye Lin over to report a new mission, and Ye Lin asked what it was.

Ye Lin received a mission to kill a Human Race prodigy, a task Lin Yun intended to use to force him into betraying his own people. Ye Lin recognized the trap and left for the mission, determined to survive while he weighed his choices.

• Lin Yun told Ye Lin to destroy the prodigy's physical body and bring back his Primordial Spirit for punishment.
• Lin Yun taunted Ye Lin about whether he would protect a fellow Human Race member and hoped the mission would sever Ye Lin's ties with the Human Race.
• Ye Lin took the mission token and left, realizing that killing the prodigy would leave him rejected by both the Human Race and the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Yun watched Ye Lin go and wondered how he would choose.
• Ye Lin entered a palace filled with powerful Heavenly Soldiers, most of whom were at the third layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.

Ye Lin accepted a Heavenly Court mission to eliminate a Human Race prodigy and a suspected strange entity in World Number Thirty-Eight, then traveled there with more than a hundred bronze-armored Heavenly Soldiers. The prodigy, Feng'er, had killed the local Heavenly Court guardian, and the elders urged him to flee before the court's hunters arrived.

• Ye Lin collected a teleportation token for World Number Thirty-Eight and learned he was also tasked with eliminating a suspected strange entity.
• Ye Lin summoned more than a hundred Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal Heavenly Soldiers and led them through a teleportation formation to World Number Thirty-Eight.
• The chapter revealed that Feng'er had defeated local Golden Immortal experts and killed the Heavenly Court guardian.
• Human Race elders warned Feng'er that the Heavenly Court would send hunters within three days and urged him to escape.

Xu Feng rejected the clan elder’s pleas to flee and vowed to protect the Human Race from the Heavenly Court. When Heavenly Court forces arrived to capture him, he led the young fighters outside to confront Ye Lin, whom he condemned as a traitor.

• Xu Feng refused to abandon the clan and declared war on the Heavenly Court, telling the elder to leave instead.
• A Heavenly Court messenger demanded that Xu Feng come out and face capture for killing one of its guardians.
• Xu Feng took his great halberd and led the young men out to fight the Heavenly Court’s forces.
• Xu Feng mocked Ye Lin as a disgrace to the Human Race, while the youths behind him glared at Ye Lin in anger.