Recaps

Shangguan Wanyu explored a strange underground space and discovered countless demons and fiends imprisoned around a colossal stone pillar. As she retreated, the creatures began to awaken.

• Shangguan Wanyu followed a purple-lit passage and found a stream of purple water.
• Shangguan Wanyu explored the underground space for half an hour and discovered countless demons and fiends gathered around a massive stone pillar.
• Shangguan Wanyu realized a Golden Immortal must have imprisoned the demons and fiends because they could not be destroyed, and decided to retreat.
• The demons and fiends on the ground, walls, and pillar began opening their eyes as Shangguan Wanyu backed away.

Shangguan Wanyu was overwhelmed by a vast horde of demons while trying to flee, and her attacks passed harmlessly through them. As demons invaded her body and drained her immortal power, she lost consciousness while repeating a warning to guard her mind.

• Shangguan Wanyu saw countless demons surge toward her and fled back the way she had come.
• Shangguan Wanyu realized the demons were too fast to outrun and struck them with Heaven Severance, but her palm passed through them without harm.
• A demon entered Shangguan Wanyu’s body, and more demons followed as she tried to suppress them with her immortal power.
• Shangguan Wanyu’s body turned blackish-purple as the demons drained her strength and gnawed at her Primordial Spirit.
• Shangguan Wanyu repeatedly urged herself to guard her mind, but she eventually shut her eyes while the demons continued invading her body.

After surviving a demonic assault, Shangguan Wanyu discovered that she had advanced to the fifth level of the Golden Immortal Realm. Meanwhile, Ye Lin continued cultivating in seclusion and planned to study the Grass-Character Sword Art during the ten years remaining.

• Shangguan Wanyu woke after the demons vanished and found that her injuries had healed.
• Shangguan Wanyu discovered that her cultivation had risen from the third to the fifth level of the Golden Immortal Realm, unaware she had been unconscious for ninety years.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes after studying the visualization diagram and found his Sword Dao comprehension had reached the level of a sixth-level Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin chose to strengthen his foundation before advancing and decided to study the Grass-Character Sword Art for the remaining ten years.

Ye Lin received Ao Guang’s summons and went to Sea-Suppressing City to decide whether to search for the Seven-Colored Lotus. He accepted Ao Guang’s offer and learned he had one hundred years to find the lotus in the Northern Frontier.

• Ye Lin’s Jade Talisman warmed, displayed a message from Ao Guang to meet in Sea-Suppressing City, and crumbled to ash.
• Ye Lin left the sleeping Luo Yao in the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar’s care and traveled to Sea-Suppressing City.
• Ao Guang and Ao Ping met Ye Lin above the city, and Ao Guang asked him once more to make the deal.
• Ao Guang promised Ye Lin friendship with him and the Four Seas Dragon Clan, along with the agreed benefits even if Ye Lin failed.
• Ye Lin accepted the search, and Ao Guang said the Seven-Colored Lotus was somewhere in the Northern Frontier and gave him one hundred years to find it.

Ye Lin accepted a Jade Talisman from Ao Guang, who trusted him to search for the Seven-Colored Lotus. Ao Guang revealed that Ye Lin’s Fate Rank matched the Ancient Human Emperor’s, leaving Ao Ping stunned and wary.

• Ao Guang gave Ye Lin a Jade Talisman containing a top-grade Boundless-tier sword art and asked him to send word if he found the Seven-Colored Lotus.
• Ao Ping told Ye Lin he would not hinder him, provided Ye Lin did not block the sea clan’s path.
• Ao Ping asked Ao Guang why he trusted Ye Lin so completely, and Ao Guang explained that he could see Ye Lin’s extraordinary Fortune Path.
• Ao Guang said that only the Ancient Human Emperor had possessed a Fate Rank like Ye Lin’s.
• Ao Ping accepted Ao Guang’s claim aloud, though he remained unconvinced and committed Ye Lin’s name to memory.

Ye Lin studied the Sword Nurturing technique and considered which sword to cultivate, ruling out his two most important blades. He opened the Chaos Sword Casket and found Bai Ling, leaving the choice of whether to nurture her unresolved.

• Ye Lin decided he would visit the Northern Frontier in ten years to honor his promise.
• Ye Lin learned that Sword Nurturing could turn a sword into a fearsome weapon, but the chosen sword had to stay at his side and could not be drawn until its nurturing was complete.
• Ye Lin ruled out the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor because he still needed it for battle.
• Ye Lin rejected the Human Emperor Sword because nurturing it could damage the Human Race's fortune.
• Ye Lin opened the Chaos Sword Casket and found Bai Ling, the snow-white Long Sword he had once promised to take to the Immortal World.

Ye Lin chose the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword as his partner and spent a month refining it with special runes so he could nurture it with the essence of living things. He set out for the Northern Frontier to find the Seven-Colored Lotus, where a major upheaval was unfolding in the Gold Clan.

• Ye Lin passed over Bai Ling and chose the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword from the Chaos Sword Casket, recalling their past battles.
• Ye Lin refined the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword with special runes for a month, preparing it to be nurtured with the essence of living things.
• Ye Lin told the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to care for Luo Yao and said he would return in ten years.
• Ye Lin left to search for the Seven-Colored Lotus in the Northern Frontier and test his sword-nurturing method.
• A tremendous upheaval began within the Gold Clan, one of the Nine Ancient Clans that ruled the Northern Frontier.

After the Gold Clan's Everlasting Fruit was stolen, the clan sealed its cities and searched everyone in Gold City. Ye Lin confronted the nervous Yun Xi, suggesting that she was the thief.

• The Gold Clan discovered that its Everlasting Fruit had vanished and locked down its cities while searching the Northern Frontier.
• Gold Clan youths used a black-and-white bug to inspect people in Gold City and warned them not to resist.
• Ye Lin sat drinking tea beside a visibly tense young woman while the search approached.
• Ye Lin told Yun Xi that he suspected she had stolen the Everlasting Fruit, and she bristled at his accusation.

Ye Lin pressured Yun Xi to hand over the Gold Clan's stolen supreme treasure as the clan's search party approached. Yun Xi agreed reluctantly, asking him to return it so she could save her grandfather.

• Ye Lin accused Yun Xi of acting guilty and warned that the Gold Clan would use gu insects to trace the treasure's aura.
• Yun Xi grew terrified as the approaching Gold Clan group neared, knowing how cruel the Nine Ancient Clans could be.
• Ye Lin offered to protect Yun Xi if she gave him the Everlasting Fruit, while warning that she would be captured and tortured otherwise.
• Yun Xi agreed to hand over the treasure but asked Ye Lin to return it afterward so she could save her grandfather.

Ye Lin took the five-colored Everlasting Fruit from Yun Xi, then confronted a Gold Clan group demanding to inspect them. After recognizing Ye Lin as a Golden Immortal, their leader apologized and his Gu insect failed to detect the fruit under the Time Gu’s influence, leaving Ye Lin and Yun Xi free to go.

• Yun Xi gave Ye Lin the five-colored fruit after he counted down, and Ye Lin sensed its immense life force.
• A Gold Clan youth demanded that Ye Lin and Yun Xi submit to inspection.
• Ye Lin intimidated the youth by revealing his Golden Immortal strength, and the youth apologized and presented his Gu insect for inspection.
• Ye Lin awakened the Time Gu, whose gaze made the youth’s Gu insect tremble and lose its ability to detect the Everlasting Fruit on Yun Xi.
• The youth found no problem and let Ye Lin and Yun Xi proceed.

Ye Lin left the city with Yun Xi after she pleaded for help saving her grandfather, whom she hoped to save with the Everlasting Fruit. They reached a small Human Race village in the mountains, where an old man told Yun Xi the clan leader was close to death, leaving Ye Lin puzzled that the villagers were mortals.

• After the young man and his group departed, Ye Lin ignored Yun Xi’s questions and tried to leave.
• Yun Xi chased Ye Lin and offered her Spatial Ring in exchange for help saving her grandfather.
• Ye Lin agreed to go with Yun Xi, and she led him out of the city and into the mountains.
• Yun Xi brought Ye Lin to a small village, where an old man said the clan leader was nearly unable to hold on.
• Ye Lin wondered how the villagers could survive in the world’s crushing gravity.

Ye Lin examined Yun Xi’s dying grandfather and found his mortal body unusually strong, while Yun Xi seemed unaware of how a True Immortal could extend his lifespan. Unable to determine Yun Xi’s background, Ye Lin restored her grandfather, who rapidly became a vigorous young man.

• Yun Xi took Ye Lin to a hut where her grandfather lay near death and begged him to use the Everlasting Fruit.
• Ye Lin examined the old man and found that he was a mortal with a remarkably strong physique and a lifespan nearing its end.
• Ye Lin asked Yun Xi why she had not extended her grandfather’s lifespan herself, and she admitted she did not know how.
• Ye Lin failed to identify Yun Xi’s background with his panel, then tapped her grandfather’s forehead and restored him to a youthful, vital state.

Yun Xi's grandfather awakened in a young body after she extended his lifespan, and the villagers learned that Ye Lin had helped him. Their pleas for youth and longevity left Ye Lin more determined to investigate Yun Xi.

• Yun Xi's grandfather awoke, and she tearfully embraced him as he recognized her.
• Ye Lin left the wooden house, then reconsidered leaving when he saw the mortal villagers and became curious about Yun Xi.
• The villagers recognized Yun Xi's grandfather as the village chief and reacted with shock at his youthful appearance.
• The village chief credited Ye Lin with extending his lifespan and restoring his youth, prompting the villagers to beg Ye Lin for similar help.
• The little fatty grabbed Ye Lin's leg and pleaded to become bigger.

Ye Lin granted the villagers extra lifespan and fulfilled the little fatty’s request before questioning Yun Xi about her origins. Yun Xi explained that she had grown in the mountains, gained a human body, and sought the Everlasting Fruit to save her grandfather.

• Ye Lin gave the villagers a hundred extra years of life and increased their strength.
• Ye Lin granted the little fatty’s wish, and the man promised to serve him before fleeing when threatened with losing the gift.
• After the villagers left, Ye Lin asked Yun Xi where her cultivation and human form had come from.
• Yun Xi said she had grown in the mountains and gained a body while her grandfather cared for her.
• Yun Xi explained that she sought the Gold Clan’s Everlasting Fruit to save her gravely ill grandfather.

Ye Lin spared Yun Xi after realizing she was a transformed great medicine and left to continue his search for the Seven-Colored Lotus. Soon afterward, three strangers confronted Yun Xi over the missing Everlasting Fruit.

• Ye Lin recognized Yun Xi as a medicinal herb transformed into a True Immortal and decided not to take her.
• Yun Xi offered Ye Lin the Everlasting Fruit, and he left to pursue the Seven-Colored Lotus and focus on nurturing his Bloodthirsty Demon Sword with blood.
• Yun Xi felt relieved after Ye Lin departed, though she thought he had been kind and honest.
• Three figures arrived on Flying Swords and accused Yun Xi of stealing the Gold Clan's Everlasting Fruit.
• Yun Xi appeared in midair, denied stealing the treasure, and ordered the strangers to leave her home.

Ye Lin discovered the horrors of Myriad Demon Mountain, where demons kept human cultivators as food, and sealed the mountain behind a blood-red barrier. As its demons gathered to break free, the Tiger King attacked the barrier.

• Yun Xi denied taking the Everlasting Fruit, warned the three men not to bother her, and watched them leave before returning to the village.
• Ye Lin entered Myriad Demon Mountain, where a demon approached him and was destroyed by a glance; the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword absorbed its blood.
• Ye Lin used his divine sense to discover demons feeding on human cultivators imprisoned across Myriad Demon Mountain.
• Ye Lin rose into the sky and sealed the entire mountain beneath a massive blood-red barrier.
• Countless great demons emerged from their caves, and the snow-white Tiger King struck the barrier as the other demons cheered him on.

Ye Lin sealed Myriad Demon Mountain and slaughtered its demons to feed the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword. Finding the sacrifice too slow, he began gathering power for a devastating palm strike.

• The white tiger-shaped Demon Beast struck Ye Lin’s blood-red barrier and was sent crashing into Myriad Demon Mountain.
• Ye Lin judged the demons’ strength inadequate but sufficient as an appetizer, then used his power to turn them into blood mist for the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword.
• The trapped demons fled and pleaded for mercy, but Ye Lin ignored them and continued sacrificing them to the sword.
• Ye Lin frowned at the slow pace and raised his hand, gathering immense power of laws before forming an enormous blood-red palm print.

Ye Lin destroyed Myriad Demon Mountain and restored the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword after it absorbed the mountain’s blood qi. A young man whose influence in the Demon Hall depended on the mountain ordered Elder Wang to identify Ye Lin, while conceding they would back down if he was too powerful to challenge.

• Ye Lin razed Myriad Demon Mountain with a single slap, and the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword absorbed the demons’ blood qi.
• Ye Lin judged that the sword could now let even a mortal slay an Earth Immortal, then concealed its demonic aura and left.
• Cultivators emerged from hiding, celebrated the mountain’s destruction, and discussed whether the Demon Hall would retaliate before scattering.
• A young man arrived with Elder Wang, saw the ruins, and lamented that his three-hundred-year foundation had been destroyed.
• The young man ordered Elder Wang to discover who had destroyed Myriad Demon Mountain and said he would seek revenge if the culprit could be provoked.

An old man used Time Reversal to investigate the destruction of Myriad Demon Mountain, but a version of Ye Lin from the past sensed him and killed him. The young man fled, while Ye Lin reflected on the complexity of time and why he avoided cultivating its Dao.

• The old man reversed time around Myriad Demon Mountain and saw a blood-red figure at the scene of its destruction.
• The figure sensed the old man spying and killed him with a single command, turning him into blood mist.
• The young man recognized the dead old man as Elder Wang, his protector, and fled because neither he nor the Demon Hall could challenge the culprit.
• Ye Lin explained that the one who killed Elder Wang was his projection from the timeline in which he had destroyed Myriad Demon Mountain.
• Ye Lin considered the countless possible timelines and said the Dao of Time was too difficult for him to pursue.

Ye Lin reached a Blood Clan city while searching for the Seven-Colored Lotus and chose the Blood Clan as a source of blood for Sword Nurturing. He destroyed the city with a single palm strike, leaving its ruins beneath him.

• Ye Lin lamented that his long search had revealed no clues about the Seven-Colored Lotus.
• Ye Lin arrived above a Blood Clan city and decided the Blood Clan’s blood would help him cultivate Sword Nurturing.
• Ye Lin drew the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and struck at the city with his palm.
• A Blood Clan member roared and charged at Ye Lin, but Ye Lin’s strike smashed him and razed the city.

Ye Lin left the ruins of Blood City after feeding its blood into the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, while witnesses speculated about the powerful senior who had destroyed it. Elsewhere, Yun Xi watched an unstoppable inferno engulf the mountain range where her village stood.

• Ye Lin absorbed the blood from Blood City into the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, stored the weapon, and departed to search for the Seven-Colored Lotus and cultivate his Sword Nurturing method.
• Living beings gathered at Blood City's ruins and discussed its destruction and the likely response of the blood clan and the Yuan clan.
• A young man recognized that Blood City and Myriad Demon Mountain had been destroyed by the same powerful cultivator and resolved to meet that senior.
• Yun Xi saw an inextinguishable fire consume the mountain range around her village.

After her grandfather was apparently killed in a mountain inferno, Yun Xi blamed three cultivators who had sought the Everlasting Fruit and set out for revenge. Meanwhile, Ye Lin continued searching the Northern Frontier for the Seven-Colored Lotus without finding a lead.

• Yun Xi found the mountain range burned to ash and sensed no life within it.
• Yun Xi concluded that the three cultivators who had asked about the Everlasting Fruit had killed her grandfather and vowed to take revenge on them.
• Ye Lin left a tavern after spending a month searching the Northern Frontier for news of the Seven-Colored Lotus without success.
• Ye Lin reflected that he had massacred several places during his search and had killed many Heavenly Immortals and True Immortals.
• Ye Lin decided to look elsewhere for the Seven-Colored Lotus.

Ye Lin went to Corpse Sea City, the Blood Clan’s headquarters, intending to draw out the Yuan Clan expert backing them. Surrounded by the Blood Clan’s forces, he remained confident and waited for their hidden support to appear.

• Ye Lin concluded that finding a Golden Immortal was difficult and decided not to storm the major powers directly.
• Ye Lin arrived above Corpse Sea City, the Blood Clan’s headquarters, after destroying three of their cities over the past month.
• The Blood Clan ancestor, a first-layer Golden Immortal, appeared with Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals surrounding Ye Lin in an ambush.
• Ye Lin revealed no fear, confident that none of the Blood Clan forces or Yuan Clan experts up to the sixth Golden Immortal layer could defeat him.
• The Blood Clan ancestor avoided attacking and said he would ask Old Lin to take action.

Ye Lin confronted an old man who demanded the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and its tempering method. Ye Lin overpowered him and forced the sword to absorb his blood and vital essence, while the old man threatened him with the Yuan Clan and the Nine Ancient Clans.

• An old man appeared beside the Blood Clan ancestor and demanded Ye Lin surrender the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword in exchange for his life.
• Ye Lin mocked the old man and offered the sword, but the old man discovered it was the sword’s tempering method he wanted.
• Ye Lin struck the sword, sending the old man flying, then pulled him back and seized him by the throat.
• Ye Lin slammed the old man’s face onto the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, which began absorbing his blood and vital essence.
• The old man identified himself as the Ninth Elder of the Yuan Clan and threatened Ye Lin with the Yuan Clan and the Nine Ancient Clans.

Ye Lin killed the Yuan Clan’s retainer and destroyed Corpse Sea City, absorbing the blood of the dead with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword. The Yuan Clan learned that its Ninth Elder had been killed and discussed sending Yuan Chu to intercept Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin ignored the old man’s threats, killed him, and let the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword absorb his blood and essence.
• Ye Lin stopped the Blood Clan Patriarch and dragged him and the others into Corpse Sea City.
• Ye Lin split Corpse Sea City with a Sword Qi, killing the Blood Clan Patriarch and the other Blood Clan members.
• Ye Lin used hand seals to speed up the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword’s absorption of the blood.
• The Yuan Clan elders condemned Ye Lin for killing their Ninth Elder and proposed sending Yuan Chu to kill him.