Recaps

As Yue Qingyi admired a magnificent waterfall, Ye Lin reflected on how the Star River Cosmos had fallen from a virtuous cycle into decline. He realized that the Heavenly Dao used great ages to nurture new powerhouses who could overthrow ancient experts and restore its origin.

• Yue Qingyi marveled at the waterfall while Ye Lin and the others watched.
• Ye Lin considered how powerful cultivators controlled resources and prevented those with talent from rising.
• Ye Lin concluded that cultivators who only plundered weakened the Heavenly Dao and drove the Star River Cosmos toward the Age of Dharma's End.
• Ye Lin understood that the Heavenly Dao launched great ages as a gamble, nurturing a new generation to defeat ancient experts and replenish its origin.

Ye Lin’s group was pulled into a small secret realm, where Yue Qingyi and the others found themselves on an endless grassland. Yun Feixue and another man arrived and reassured the women that they would protect them.

• Ye Lin watched as space folded and the group vanished into the small secret realm, keeping his divine sense fixed on Yue Qingyi.
• Yue Qingyi and the other women found themselves in the middle of an endless grassland and realized they had entered a secret realm.
• Lin Mingshu and the other women complained that they cared more about staying safe than finding opportunities or resources.
• Cloud spotted Yun Feixue and another man approaching and waved to them.
• Yun Feixue helped the women up and promised to protect them, calming Cloud.

Yun Feixue and Bai Yuefeng stopped pretending to protect the three women and revealed that they intended to assault them. As they threatened Yue Qingyi, Ye Lin appeared to be nearby, but his response was left unresolved.

• Yun Feixue and Bai Yuefeng led the group across the seemingly endless grassland while privately concluding that Ye Lin had been teleported elsewhere.
• Yun Feixue and Bai Yuefeng turned on Lin Mingshu, Yue Qingyi, and the third woman, admitting they had feigned affection for years to exploit their physiques.
• Yun Feixue and Bai Yuefeng used their pressure to immobilize the women and threatened to assault them.
• Yue Qingyi warned the men that Ye Lin was nearby, but Yun Feixue mocked her and placed his hand on her neck.
• Ye Lin spoke from nearby, asking if he was the person they had been looking for.

Ye Lin rescued Yue Qingyi and the two women from their attackers, then shattered the secret realm and brought them back to the gorge. He left them safe, though he remained frustrated by the Heavenly Dao’s interference.

• Ye Lin appeared before Yue Qingyi and the two women after they were threatened by two men.
• Ye Lin restored the women’s movement and killed the two men with lightning in a single breath.
• Ye Lin blamed the Heavenly Dao for separating him from Yue Qingyi and wiping out his divine sense.
• Ye Lin shattered the secret realm and opened a path that returned the group to the gorge.
• Cloud marveled at Ye Lin’s power to reshape heaven and earth.

After Xinyou reached Golden Immortal Layer Five, Ye Lin decided to leave the city with Yue Qingyi because her fate could bring danger if they stayed. Yue Qingyi chose not to say goodbye to her friends, and the two set out beyond the city walls.

• Ye Lin explained that Earth Immortals wielded less power in the Immortal God Realm, then led Yue Qingyi and the others back to the city.
• Yue Qingyi found Xinyou had returned from its breakthrough with its cultivation advanced to Golden Immortal Layer Five.
• After checking Yue Qingyi's fate, Ye Lin said they should leave rather than wait for danger that could come two years later.
• Yue Qingyi packed her belongings and declined to say goodbye to her friends, saying she needed to learn to let go.
• Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi left the city on foot, while Ye Lin reflected on the lives of mortals and his experience of entering the mortal world.

Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi continued traveling together as Yue Qingyi’s health improved. The Third Ancestor watched her strengthening life flame and resolved to give Ye Lin his cultivation resources if he saved her from her death tribulation.

• Ye Lin and Yue Qingyi wandered wherever the excitement took them, with Ye Lin protecting her.
• The Third Ancestor and a middle-aged man observed that Yue Qingyi’s life flame had grown stronger over the past year.
• The Third Ancestor said Yue Qingyi’s condition was improving but left her fate in Ye Lin’s hands.
• The Third Ancestor offered to give Ye Lin the resources he had prepared if Ye Lin saved Yue Qingyi, including an opportunity to help Ye Lin break through the seventh level of the Golden Immortal realm.
• The middle-aged man realized the Third Ancestor was giving up the hope his preparations represented for his own cultivation.

Yue Qingyi admired a beautiful sea of clouds while Ye Lin rested nearby, and they met Muyun Qingfeng, a young Beast Taming Sect prodigy who raised the exotic beasts flying overhead. Muyun introduced herself and invited Yue Qingyi to join her in the clouds.

• Yue Qingyi watched the flying beasts and rainbow across the sea of clouds while Ye Lin regulated his breathing beneath a tree.
• Muyun Qingfeng approached and told Yue Qingyi that the beasts belonged to her and were out to play.
• Ye Lin was surprised that Muyun Qingfeng, who was not yet ten, could command so many beasts, including Heavenly Immortals.
• Muyun Qingfeng proudly introduced herself as a prodigy and personal disciple of the Beast Taming Sect Master, and learned Yue Qingyi and Ye Lin's names.
• Muyun Qingfeng teased Ye Lin's name and invited Yue Qingyi to come play with her in the clouds.

Ye Lin realized that Yue Qingyi’s refreshed death tribulation had drawn assassins who were also targeting him, and he prepared to face them while his incarnations guarded her. After Ye Lin called out the hidden attackers, black-clad figures emerged from the sea of clouds.

• Muyun Qingfeng invited Yue Qingyi to fly through the clouds, while Ye Lin noted that Yue Qingyi’s death tribulation could no longer be avoided.
• Ye Lin read Yue Qingyi’s fate panel and inferred that the force behind the Heavenly Star Pavilion had surrounded them and that the Heavenly Dao had begun targeting him too.
• Ye Lin sent his three Golden Immortal, Sixth Layer incarnations to protect Yue Qingyi, then flew above the clouds and challenged the hidden assassins.
• Yue Qingyi urged Muyun Qingfeng to hide with her so she would not become Ye Lin’s burden.
• Ye Lin gave the hidden attackers three breaths to reveal themselves, and black-clad figures carrying crescent-shaped blades emerged around him.

Ye Lin faced a group of black-robed men who tried to intimidate him, then trapped him in a formation that suppressed his thunder. He began breaking free with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.

• Ye Lin sensed that none of the surrounding black-robed men had reached the sixth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• The black-robed men attacked Ye Lin with black threads and activated the Divine Baleful Formation to suppress his thunder.
• They used Divine Baleful Purgatory to wrap Ye Lin in a massive black cocoon.
• Ye Lin struck the cocoon with his sword, and his Thunder Break slash made fine cracks appear across its surface.

Ye Lin broke free from a formation that had trapped him and killed the dozen men who set it, while his avatars killed the culprit behind Yue Qingyi’s death. He sensed that the Immortal God Realm’s Heavenly Dao was watching him, but trusted that it could not act outside its rules.

• The men in black tried to hold Ye Lin in their formation, but the cocoon shattered as his power overwhelmed it.
• Ye Lin used lightning to trap and kill the dozen men in black.
• Ye Lin’s three avatars killed the man responsible for Yue Qingyi’s death.
• Ye Lin sensed a presence watching him and suspected the Immortal God Realm’s Heavenly Dao had taken notice of his interference with Yue Qingyi’s Destiny.
• Ye Lin decided he did not need to fear the Heavenly Dao because it had to obey its own rules.

After defeating the faction that pursued him, Ye Lin discovered that Yue Qingyi’s suppressed Fate Traits could be released by the Xuan Ming Heart, a treasure in Xuan Ming Prison. When Yue Qingyi sensed an opportunity drawing her toward danger, Ye Lin decided to seek the treasure alone and bring it back to her.

• Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi and Muyun Qingfeng that he had wiped out the unknown faction that attacked them.
• Ye Lin saw Yue Qingyi’s panel and learned that the Xuan Ming Heart could break the suppression on her Fate Traits, while her Destiny foretold her death in Xuan Ming Prison.
• Yue Qingyi sensed an opportunity in the distance, and Ye Lin recognized that the Heavenly Dao was influencing her.
• Ye Lin decided not to take Yue Qingyi to Xuan Ming Prison and instead planned to obtain the Xuan Ming Heart himself and give it to her.

Ye Lin told Yue Qingyi that a perilous opportunity could change her fate, then left to retrieve it while secretly arranging protection for her. Yue Qingyi went with Muyun Qingfeng to the Beast Taming Sect, trusting Ye Lin to return safely.

• Ye Lin explained that the opportunity could let Yue Qingyi defy fate but would bring certain death if she went herself.
• Yue Qingyi asked Ye Lin to abandon the plan because of the danger, but he insisted he would retrieve the opportunity for her.
• Ye Lin asked Muyun Qingfeng to look after Yue Qingyi and then vanished to pursue the opportunity.
• Muyun Qingfeng took Yue Qingyi toward the Beast Taming Sect, while Yue Qingyi called after Ye Lin to stay safe.
• Ye Lin secretly left three clones to protect Yue Qingyi, each with Golden Immortal Level Six power.

Ye Lin found Xuan Ming Prison beneath a vast ice field and descended into its depths. He encountered demons chained to flaming restraints, who recognized him as a Human Race cultivator and threatened to devour him.

• Ye Lin reached the southern ice field and searched it with his divine sense.
• Ye Lin stomped on the ice, collapsing the sheet and opening a massive chasm.
• Ye Lin descended to the bottom and found a vast chamber lined with chained ice pillars.
• Chained demons spotted Ye Lin and spoke of wanting to eat him.
• Ye Lin coldly watched the demons as they remarked on the taste of Human Race flesh.

Ye Lin asked the Demonic Beasts for the way to the Xuan Ming Heart and continued toward it as they gathered behind him. The beasts warned him of powerful guardians, but Ye Lin remained undaunted and told them to keep their distance when the fighting began.

• Ye Lin asked two Demonic Beasts where the Xuan Ming Heart was, and they pointed him about three hundred li ahead.
• The two Demonic Beasts followed Ye Lin, drawing more bored, chained Demonic Beasts along behind them.
• A Demonic Beast warned Ye Lin that two sixth-level Golden Immortal puppets and a seventh-level Golden Immortal guarded the Xuan Ming Heart.
• Ye Lin told the Demonic Beasts to stay back during the coming fight and realized their pure demonic qi meant they had never killed living beings.
• Two Demonic Beasts teased one of their companions for having said he wanted to eat Ye Lin, and the frightened beast insisted it had only been joking.

Ye Lin found the Xuan Ming Heart guarded by two powerful puppets and swiftly destroyed them. He stood before the protected gemstone after defeating its guardians.

• Ye Lin spotted the Xuan Ming Heart floating amid chains above the lava.
• Two puppets rose and ordered Ye Lin to leave the restricted area.
• Ye Lin destroyed the first puppet by striking its interior with thunderous Sword Qi.
• The second puppet attacked Ye Lin, who trapped it with Thunder Prison and shattered its neck armor with Thunder Break.
• Ye Lin disintegrated the second puppet from within, defeating both guardians in ten breaths.

Ye Lin defeated the two puppets and moved to take the Xuan Ming Heart to save his gravely ill friend. A hidden seventh-layer Golden Immortal warned him that removing it would disrupt his plans, but Ye Lin grabbed the treasure anyway.

• Ye Lin identified the puppets’ necks and chest cores as weaknesses and destroyed both of them.
• Ye Lin broke the chains binding the Xuan Ming Heart.
• A hidden seventh-layer Golden Immortal told Ye Lin he had been imprisoned by the Supreme Demonic Sect for over ten million years and would regain his freedom in a hundred years.
• Ye Lin refused to leave the Xuan Ming Heart because his friend needed it to survive.
• The hidden expert threatened Ye Lin with the Supreme Demonic Sect’s wrath as Ye Lin grabbed the Xuan Ming Heart.

Ye Lin took the Xuan Ming Heart, freeing the demons imprisoned beneath the Endless Icefield and drawing the Heavenly Dao’s attention. He left with the artifact to help unseal Yue Qingyi’s Fate Traits, while the freed demons surged into the world and the captive elder remained trapped.

• Ye Lin ignored the old man’s warning, took the Xuan Ming Heart, and told him to seek trouble with the Yue Family if he could.
• The Xuan Ming Heart’s removal shattered the chains binding the demons, and they rushed out of the underground prison.
• The old man warned Ye Lin that the Demon-Monster Realm would soon attack the Immortal God Realm, but remained unable to escape his confinement.
• Ye Lin emerged from the collapsing Endless Icefield as demons thanked him for their freedom.
• Ye Lin sensed the Heavenly Dao watching him and left, determined to use the Xuan Ming Heart to unseal Yue Qingyi’s Fate Traits.

The Supreme Demonic Sect’s Devil Master accepted the loss of the Xuan Ming Heart and ordered his subordinate to recapture the escaped demons. Ye Lin reached the Beast Taming Sect to find Yue Qingyi, and an immortal crane recognized him as the man the Saintess had expected.

• A messenger reported that the Supreme Ice Plains and the Xuan Ming Heart were gone, and the Devil Master learned the Yue Family had taken them to save a descendant.
• The Devil Master ordered his subordinate to recapture every escaped demon and let the Yue Family keep the Xuan Ming Heart.
• Ye Lin followed his clone’s information to the remote Beast Taming Sect, where Yue Qingyi was staying.
• An immortal crane confronted Ye Lin, then recognized his blood-red robe as matching the Saintess’s description of an expected visitor.

Ye Lin brought the Xuan Ming Heart to Yue Qingyi at the Beast Taming Sect, promising that it would transform her cultivation and change her fate. Yue Qingyi prepared to accept it, hoping to prove herself to her family and those who had scorned her.

• The immortal crane led Ye Lin to the courtyard where Yue Qingyi was playing chess with Muyun Qingfeng.
• Muyun Qingfeng was startled to see Ye Lin return less than three hours after leaving.
• Ye Lin showed Yue Qingyi the glowing Xuan Ming Heart and said consuming it would make her cultivation surge.
• Yue Qingyi remembered her family's care and disappointment, others' mockery, and how Ye Lin had helped restore her confidence.
• Ye Lin urged Yue Qingyi to return to the Yue Family and make everyone proud, and she looked to him as her savior.

Ye Lin gave Yue Qingyi the Xuan Ming Heart to help her overcome her crippled fate, and she began transforming after swallowing it. Muyun Shangqing arrived to pay his respects, and Ye Lin ordered him to change his taboo name.

• Ye Lin reassured Yue Qingyi and gave her the Xuan Ming Heart, promising to guard her.
• Yue Qingyi swallowed the Xuan Ming Heart, and blue light enveloped her as she began her transformation.
• Muyun Qingfeng asked what Yue Qingyi was doing, and Ye Lin said she was at the most important moment of her life.
• Muyun Shangqing arrived and bowed to Ye Lin, whom he regarded as an unfathomable expert.
• Ye Lin told Muyun Shangqing that his name violated a taboo and that his Fate Rank could not bear it, so Muyun Shangqing agreed to change it.

Ye Lin watched over Yue Qingyi as her Fate Traits began to awaken, but the process drained her life force and left her on the verge of death. After the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the Heavenly Dao’s suppression had left her body depleted, Ye Lin poured his vital essence into her to keep her alive.

• Mu Yun Chunfeng stood guard behind Ye Lin, having changed his name at Ye Lin’s suggestion.
• Ye Lin sensed Yue Qingyi stirring as the blue sphere around her shattered and a powerful deathly aura emerged.
• Yue Qingyi rapidly aged as her life force drained away, and Ye Lin grabbed her shoulders and poured vital essence into her.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Yue Qingyi’s awakening required more vital essence than her depleted body could provide.
• Ye Lin vowed to defy the Heavenly Dao and continued transferring his vital essence to Yue Qingyi, whose eyelids trembled slightly.

Ye Lin and Mu Yun Chunfeng poured life essence into Yue Qingyi, restoring her youth and raising her cultivation from Qi Refining to True Immortal in ten breaths. Her sudden breakthrough triggered a heavenly tribulation, and Ye Lin destroyed its first lightning strike as he challenged the Heavenly Dao.

• Mu Yun Chunfeng infused Yue Qingyi with his life essence to help Ye Lin restore her.
• After Mu Yun Chunfeng exhausted himself, Ye Lin promised to reward him for his help.
• Ye Lin poured more life essence into Yue Qingyi, rapidly raising her cultivation from ninth-level Qi Refining to True Immortal.
• A heavenly tribulation formed above Yue Qingyi and struck her with purple lightning.
• Ye Lin shattered the lightning with Sword Qi and demanded to know why the Heavenly Dao was targeting Yue Qingyi.

Ye Lin helped Yue Qingyi stabilize and awaken her cultivation while the Beast Taming Sect elders defended the sect from her heavenly tribulation. The great seal shattered under the final lightning strike, sending the elders flying as the tribulation continued.

• The Beast Taming Sect elder ordered Muyun Qingfeng to activate the Sect Protection Array against the lightning targeting Ye Lin.
• Mu Yun Chunfeng and the Beast Taming Sect elders reinforced the array and summoned the Heaven-Earth Square Seal to shield the sect.
• Ye Lin withdrew his hand after his life essence stabilized Yue Qingyi, who awakened with immense new power.
• The Heavenly Dao's lightning cracked and shattered the great seal, and the Beast Taming Sect elders coughed up blood and were sent flying.

Yue Qingyi’s altered fate drew the Heavenly Dao’s punishment, and Ye Lin stepped in to protect her despite having lost most of his strength. As the storm intensified, he unleashed his sword arts against the heavens and prepared to use the Eye of Heavenly Punishment.

• The Heavenly Dao’s lightning shattered the Beast Taming Sect’s protection array and suppressed Yue Qingyi.
• Ye Lin stepped between Yue Qingyi and the storm, determined to help her despite his depleted strength.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art to shatter the descending lightning with his sword.
• The Heavenly Dao grew more powerful and the clouds thickened after Ye Lin’s attack.
• Ye Lin invoked the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and burned through his immortal fortune as he faced the Heavenly Dao’s judgment.

Ye Lin confronted the Immortal God Realm’s Heavenly Dao to protect Yue Qingyi from her death tribulation. The Heavenly Dao overwhelmed him with judgment lightning, leaving him gravely wounded and nearly out of power.

• Ye Lin summoned an Eye of Heavenly Punishment and challenged the Heavenly Dao’s attempt to kill Yue Qingyi.
• The Heavenly Dao appeared and declared that Yue Qingyi had to die for defying fate, then struck Ye Lin with blood-red lightning.
• Ye Lin’s attack failed to stop the Heavenly Dao’s lightning, which blasted him into a mountain range.
• The Heavenly Dao condemned Ye Lin again and sent another lightning strike at him as he lay in a crater, nearly spent.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar asked Ye Lin why he was willing to suffer so much.