Recaps

Gu Qingzhi revealed that no one could leave the Path of Time by retracing their steps, forcing the group to continue deeper into the secret realm. Ye Lin discovered that Li Xiaoyao and Ao Guang each had a powerful opportunity waiting ahead, including a supreme-grade treasure and a River of Time Fragment.

• Gu Qingzhi warned that the only way out was to find a fated treasure that could carry them away or onward to another layer of space.
• A Dragon prodigy tested the path behind them, and his finger withered to powder within three breaths.
• The Dragon prodigy reported to Ao Guang that time flowed more slowly ahead but accelerated fatally for anyone who tried to retreat.
• Ye Lin examined Li Xiaoyao's status and learned that he would obtain the Heaven and Earth Punishment Book on the Path of Time.
• Ye Lin checked Ao Guang's status and discovered that he would find a River of Time Fragment in the Ninefold Heaven Ruins.

Ye Lin, Ao Guang, Li Xiaoyao, and the others continued along the only path through the imitation River of Time. San Zang discovered a pearl that let him leave for another layer of space, leaving the group to follow after him.

• Ye Lin told Ao Guang and Li Xiaoyao that they had no choice but to keep moving forward, while privately coveting Ao Guang’s fragment of the River of Time.
• Ao Guang learned that his clan’s experts were coming, led by the eldest young master, and followed Ye Lin with the other Dragon clan prodigies.
• The group traveled upstream along the imitation River of Time, which the Golden Immortals recognized was not the true River of Time.
• San Zang found a jade-white pearl beneath his foot and picked it up, triggering a burst of light and a flood of information.
• San Zang told everyone the pearl could take him to another layer of space, then vanished in a flash of white light.

Ye Lin watched everyone leave the river of time after finding their opportunities, while his own never appeared. Alone and losing lifespan, he faced the possibility of dying there but dared not retreat because of the warnings in his mind.

• Zhang Wusheng and Wang Xiaoyun resented San Zang's luck, while Bao Xiaotou searched for treasure with his Formation Disk.
• Ye Lin used Words Become Law to resist the river's rapid lifespan drain as he followed Li Xiaoyao.
• Gu Qingzhi found a streak of light and left for the next destination, prompting others to depart as well.
• After half an hour, Li Xiaoyao found a full moon in the river and left Ye Lin behind, saying he would wait on the next level.
• Ye Lin remained alone as his laws drained away, unable to retreat despite fearing he would die before finding his opportunity.

Ye Lin found no opportunity in the strange realm and prepared to destroy it with the Human Emperor Sword, but a figure formed from time laws appeared and called him the Human Emperor. The figure restored Ye Lin’s lost lifespan and asked why he had returned after more than a dozen immeasurable kalpas while still a fifth-layer Golden Immortal.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned Ye Lin that using the Human Emperor Sword to destroy the realm might save him but would cost him the sword.
• Ye Lin checked his panel and saw that his fate still foretold his eventual death, despite his immense fortune and many fate traits.
• Xinyou ate a bright red fruit, turned translucent, and vanished after Ye Lin told him to go ahead.
• Ye Lin decided he might destroy the realm because he could find no opportunity and his lifespan was draining faster.
• The time laws gathered into a half-real figure, which restored Ye Lin’s lost lifespan and addressed him as the Human Emperor.
• The figure asked Ye Lin why he had returned after more than a dozen immeasurable kalpas and was still only at the fifth layer of the Golden Immortal realm.

Ye Lin encountered a powerful figure who mistook him for the Ancient Human Emperor, then obtained a Pure Saint Lotus and entered the next level. He arrived on a continent saturated with violent laws and recognized whoever had been causing trouble.

• Ye Lin denied being the Human Emperor and asked the powerful figure to help him leave.
• The figure sensed the Human Emperor Sword and Ye Lin’s matching Fate Rank, but accepted his explanation and vanished without taking him away.
• A Pure Saint Lotus drifted to Ye Lin, and he caught it, gaining the choice to leave or proceed to the next level.
• Ye Lin chose the next level and appeared on a continent filled with intertwined, violent laws.
• Ye Lin realized that the person before him had been making trouble all along.

Ye Lin explored a boundless continent filled with extraordinarily dense Five Element Laws and discovered that their interactions had become chaotic. As the laws began exploding across the land, he fled and searched for a way to survive.

• Ye Lin realized someone had been interfering behind the scenes and turned his attention to the strange world around him.
• Ye Lin sensed that the continent was saturated with Five Element Laws, though their density was of no benefit to him.
• Ye Lin discovered that the Five Element Laws were behaving chaotically, with the elements producing unexpected interactions despite having equal strength.
• Explosions of high-level laws erupted across the continent, and Ye Lin fled from their devastating shockwaves.
• Ye Lin worried that the explosions would spread until nowhere remained safe, leaving him with no way to escape death.

Ye Lin used the Destruction Sword Dao to suppress the chaotic Five Elements laws and tried to restore their order, but his attempt to fuse them triggered a catastrophic explosion. He survived at the edge of the abyss, badly injured and aware that he had underestimated the laws.

• Ye Lin stopped fleeing and activated the Destruction Sword Dao to suppress the rampaging Five Elements laws.
• Ye Lin drew the laws toward himself and rearranged them according to their cycles of generation and restraint.
• Ye Lin tried fusing the laws in a new arrangement, but the fused laws exploded and tore apart space, leaving a vast abyss across the continent.
• Ye Lin crawled out at the abyss's edge, bloodied and without his mask, and admitted that his lack of understanding had made his attempt reckless.

After a failed attempt to control the Five Elements laws, Ye Lin realized he could study the balance behind their explosions to create a new spell technique. He immersed himself in experiments and advanced his understanding of laws, ending with laughter echoing across the continent.

• Ye Lin recovered from his reckless experiment and recognized that its failure had given him inspiration.
• Ye Lin decided to investigate the balance among the Five Elements laws and use it to develop a new way to fight.
• Ye Lin suppressed the ownerless laws with his Destruction Sword Dao Law and repeatedly tested how they interacted.
• As Ye Lin continued experimenting, he became immersed in a mysterious state and grew more adept at controlling the laws.
• After an unknown span of time, laughter rang across the continent.

Ye Lin broke through to the sixth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm by mastering the balance of the Five Elements Laws, then used that understanding to escape the secret realm. He emerged in the Chaos Sea, where he found the others struggling against its currents.

• Ye Lin reached the sixth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm and fully grasped the balance between the Five Elements Laws.
• Ye Lin demonstrated that he could make clashing Laws merge calmly and then detonate them at will.
• Ye Lin realized the secret realm was a cage formed by the Five Elements Laws and found its exit by balancing them in one location.
• Ye Lin opened a black vortex and stepped through it, leaving the secret realm.
• Ye Lin recognized the Chaos Sea and found the people who had been separated from him struggling as Laws protected them from the Chaos currents.

Ye Lin gathered body-tempering treasures and prepared a medicinal bath to cultivate the third layer of the True King Sacred Body in the Chaos Sea. He began training in the boiling mixture while Wang Tian watched in dismay.

• Ye Lin saw Luo Yao swimming happily through the chaotic currents and realized the Chaos Sea could help temper his body.
• Ye Lin put the Pure Saint Lotus and other body-tempering treasures into a large pot, then filled it with immortal liquid.
• Ye Lin used a white flame to boil the mixture and shattered the Pure Saint Lotus’s protective radiance so it would melt.
• Ye Lin climbed into the pot and began circulating the True King Sacred Body.
• Wang Tian opened his eyes at the strange fragrance and angrily lamented Ye Lin’s waste of precious materials.

Ye Lin absorbed the medicinal power in a great cauldron and broke through to the third layer of the True King Sacred Body. He learned that his body’s shackles were the Locks of Destiny, then sensed the Chaos currents growing stronger and wondered what the secret realm’s third layer tested.

• Ye Lin absorbed the medicinal power in the great cauldron, while Wang Tian watched in dismay at how much was wasted.
• Ye Lin broke one of the golden shackles on his body and completed the third layer of the True King Sacred Body in half an hour.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the shackles were the Locks of Destiny and that breaking them brought Ye Lin closer to Transcendence.
• Ye Lin put away the cauldron and sensed that the Chaos currents were growing more violent.
• Ye Lin wondered what the third layer of the secret realm tested as he realized that delaying might leave him crushed by the currents.

Trapped in the deadly Chaos Sea trial, Ye Lin struggled to understand what it was testing until Gu Qingzhi urged everyone to hold fast to their true hearts and open a pure land for their Dao hearts. Gu Qingzhi passed the trial and departed with a World Seed, while Ye Lin began to grasp the trial’s connection to the Primordial Spirit and his own convictions.

• Ye Lin realized the strengthening chaotic currents would tear him apart if he did not find a solution.
• Gu Qingzhi rose above the Chaos Sea, played her zither, and urged the others to hold fast to their true hearts and open a pure land for their Dao hearts.
• Gu Qingzhi discovered that she had received a World Seed and left for the next level.
• Ye Lin reflected on Gu Qingzhi’s words and used the chaos battering him to deepen his understanding.
• Ye Lin concluded that the pure land of the Dao heart concerned the Primordial Spirit, then questioned whether everything in the trial was false except himself.

Ye Lin realized the Chaos Sea trial required him to comprehend the Dao Heart Pure Land and focused his Primordial Spirit on achieving it. As Xinyou departed, Ye Lin’s comprehension began to manifest as a lotus of overwhelming Primordial Spirit power.

• Ye Lin concluded that the Chaos Sea lay between illusion and reality and that comprehending a Dao Heart Pure Land would reveal the true exit.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes and devoted himself to understanding the Dao Heart Pure Land, confident that he could succeed like Gu Qingzhi.
• More people left the Chaos Sea while Ye Lin remained immersed in his spiritual world, and the strengthening chaotic currents began to draw blood from his skin.
• Xinyou saw that Ye Lin was not in immediate danger, took the World Seed, and left.
• Golden lights, lotus flowers, and Dao sounds appeared around Ye Lin as his Primordial Spirit power spread and a powerful lotus bloomed in the void.

Ye Lin completed his comprehension of the Dao Heart Pure Land and gained control over the chaotic currents around him. He took the World Seed and entered a strange realm filled with ancient black chains.

• Ye Lin’s Primordial Spirit power formed a golden lotus around him as he comprehended the Dao Heart Pure Land.
• Ye Lin emerged from the lotus and found that the chaotic currents moved aside wherever he went.
• Ye Lin shattered the space before him and summoned the World Seed, then examined and stored it.
• Ye Lin crossed the Chaos Sea and arrived in a realm with no ground or sky, where battered black chains stretched through the void.

Ye Lin entered a level of the trial where a watching eye and binding chains subjected his body and Primordial Spirit to crushing pressure. Though he could leave at any time, he chose to endure and investigate the level’s secret while Gu Qingzhi and the others waited outside.

• An eye fixed on Ye Lin as the chains bound him and intensified the pressure on his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin received a message that he could leave the level at any time, but stayed because he suspected it concealed a great secret.
• As Ye Lin struggled under the pressure, Gu Qingzhi, Ao Guang, and the others discussed how long he might endure.
• Luo Yao ate chicken legs from Shangguan Wanyu while a Dragon Clan expert served her more.
• Zhang Wusheng struck San Zang with a hammer and told him to stop talking.

Ye Lin endured the single eye’s crushing pressure and searched for a way through the trial, refusing to accept that it was a dead end. He summoned the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and attacked the eye, leaving their beams locked in a fierce clash.

• Ye Lin activated his True King Sacred Body and rose against the single eye’s pressure, but it forced him back to his knees and shattered his Dharma manifestation.
• Though bloodied and near collapse, Ye Lin searched his surroundings with his eyes and divine sense for another way out of the trial.
• Ye Lin declared that he would show the eye what the Heavenly Dao truly was and activated the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, Eye of Heavenly Punishment.
• Ye Lin’s golden beam collided with the single eye’s black beam, spreading terrifying auras in every direction.

Ye Lin fought the giant eye inside the secret realm, shattered it, and escaped after it healed and attacked him. He rejoined Ao Guang and the others, learned that ten years had passed, and Ao Guang suggested they might be able to enter the secret realm again.

• Ye Lin poured immortal fortune power into the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and used its golden light to shatter the giant eye, collecting the liquid that seeped from it.
• The giant eye healed, destroyed Ye Lin's summoned eye, and fixed its gaze on him, so Ye Lin escaped the secret realm just before a streak of black light struck.
• Ye Lin appeared before the others, healed his wounds, and asked whether they had seen the giant eye.
• Ye Lin told Ao Guang and the others that he had shattered the eye before it healed, leaving them stunned.
• Ye Lin calculated that ten years had passed since he entered the secret realm.
• Ao Guang suggested that they might be able to enter the secret realm again to seek its opportunities.

Ye Lin and the others left the secret realm after Ye Lin warned Ao Guang not to enter it alone. Ao Guang shared news of the coming invasion and the Immortal God Realm’s arrival, then remained behind to consider the realm.

• Ao Guang considered sending the Dragon Clan into the secret realm repeatedly to collect its treasures, and Ye Lin warned him that something intelligent inside could kill him.
• Ye Lin and the others thanked Ao Guang and prepared to leave; Ao Guang told them the Demon-Monster Realm was invading the Crimson Wasteland and that the Immortal God Realm’s passage would open in a few decades.
• Ao Guang asked Ao Dong to escort Ye Lin and the others, then watched them depart while focused on the secret realm.
• A Dragon Clan prodigy suggested keeping the group captive to take their World Seeds, but Ao Guang had not yet responded.

Ao Guang let Ye Lin and his companions leave, recognizing that the Dragon Clan could not stop them, and a Dragon Clan expert escorted them to the devastated Crimson Wasteland. The group decided to seek the Four Continents, but Gu Qingzhi warned that reaching them meant crossing three deadly sea regions.

• Ao Guang dismissed a dragon prodigy’s plan to keep Ye Lin and his companions in the East Sea, believing the Dragon Clan could not hold them.
• A Dragon Clan King escorted Ye Lin and his companions safely to the Crimson Wasteland, then departed.
• Ye Lin’s group found the Crimson Wasteland scorched, covered in bones, and overwhelmed by demonic aura.
• Wang Xiaoyun and San Zang concluded that the Demon-Monster Realm had devastated the region and that its demonic aura made it unsuitable for cultivation.
• Ye Lin proposed traveling to the Four Continents, but Gu Qingzhi warned that crossing the three great sea regions would be fatal for them.

Know-All offered to take Ye Lin and his companions to the Four Continents for 500,000 Law Source Stones per person, warning them that the Demon-Monster Realm was conquering Crimson Wasteland. The group was left deciding whether to trust his offer as a second wave of troops threatened to arrive.

• Know-All approached Ye Lin and his companions and offered to take them to the Four Continents for one million Law Source Stones per person.
• Zhang Wusheng bargained the price down to 500,000 Law Source Stones per person, and Know-All immediately accepted.
• Know-All warned that the Demon-Monster Realm had already conquered nearly half of Crimson Wasteland and that staying there would likely mean death.
• Know-All urged the group to leave for the Four Continents before the second wave of troops arrived, insisting they could not cross the three seas safely.

As the Demon-Monster Realm neared collapse, Ye Lin negotiated with Know-All to take the group out of the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands. Ye Lin pressured Know-All by pointing out that the Heavenly Immortal would be vulnerable when the demons’ second wave arrived, and Know-All lowered his price to two hundred thousand Law Source Stones per person.

• Ye Lin offered to take Know-All and the others out for one hundred thousand Law Source Stones per person.
• Know-All countered with a price of four hundred and fifty thousand per person, claiming the trip would otherwise cost him money.
• Ye Lin threatened to lower his offer further and argued that Know-All would be in danger when the Demon-Monster Realm’s second wave arrived.
• Zhang Wusheng backed Ye Lin and warned Know-All that the group could prevent him from leaving if he refused.
• Know-All accused Ye Lin and the others of acting like bandits, then offered to take them for two hundred thousand Law Source Stones per person.

Ye Lin and Zhang Wusheng negotiated with Know-All over the cost of passage to the land of the Four Continents. Know-All accepted one million Law Source Stones after agreeing not to charge for Luo Yao or Xinyou, then prepared to take them there.

• Ye Lin and Zhang Wusheng refused Know-All's demand for 120,000 Law Source Stones per person and insisted on paying 100,000 each.
• Zhang Wusheng handed Know-All a Spatial Ring containing one million Law Source Stones, excluding Luo Yao from the count.
• Know-All demanded payment for Xinyou, but Ye Lin argued that the little beast was his friend and should count with him.
• Xinyou fixed Know-All with a savage gaze, and Ye Lin soothed him by patting his head.
• Know-All accepted the one million Law Source Stones and agreed to leave with them.

Know-All summoned the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle and hurried Zhang Wusheng, Ye Lin, and the others aboard to reach Crimson Wasteland before the next demons arrived. The group set off with a clear view of the demon-covered continent and the Boundless Sea from inside the vessel.

• Know-All summoned the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle and explained that it could cross a starfield in an instant but still needed half an hour to reach the Four Continents.
• Know-All warned that the second batch of demons would land at Crimson Wasteland within a few dozen breaths and urged everyone to leave.
• Zhang Wusheng led the group aboard the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle as Know-All opened its hatch.
• After everyone boarded, Know-All closed the hatch and began operating the vessel while Ye Lin explored its spacious interior.
• Ye Lin looked outside through the shuttle’s one-way view and saw the demon-shrouded continent and the distant Boundless Sea.

Zhang Wusheng and Know-All tried to get the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle moving, but its broken Formation Disk left them stranded. Their delay became dangerous when a vast Demon-Monster Realm army appeared from the East Sea, prompting Know-All to suspect the East Sea Sea Clan had sided with the invaders.

• Zhang Wusheng questioned whether anyone might shoot down the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle, and Know-All boasted about the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's influence.
• Know-All discovered that the shuttle's Formation Disk was broken and said repairs would take at least a hundred breaths.
• Zhang Wusheng spotted a vast expanse of demonic clouds approaching from the direction of the East Sea.
• Know-All recognized the approaching force as the Demon-Monster Realm's second wave and hurried to repair the shuttle.
• Know-All cursed the East Sea Sea Clan for letting the demon-monsters pass and suspected that the Sea Clan had allied with them.

Ye Lin and his allies left the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle to hold off the approaching demon monsters while Know-All repaired the vessel. Ye Lin blocked the enemy army with a lightning Sword Qi, but a powerful horned demon then appeared and ordered him to move aside.

• Ye Lin decided to buy Know-All time to repair the Cloud-Piercing Shuttle, and warned him not to flee.
• Shangguan Wanyu stayed aboard with Luo Yao while Ye Lin, Zhang Wusheng, and the others went out to face the approaching demon monsters.
• Ye Lin stood at the front and cleaved the sky and sea with lightning Sword Qi, stopping the demon monsters’ advance.
• Five demon monsters recognized Ye Lin’s sixth-layer Golden Immortal strength and retreated warily.
• A towering, purple-horned demon emerged from the demonic clouds and demanded that Ye Lin move aside within three breaths.