Recaps

Ye Lin questioned Sheng Sang about the Heart of Vastness and learned that the divine beast Vastness lived in the Heavenly Kingdom at the Snowfield’s northernmost edge. Ye Lin headed north, while Sheng Sang began cutting apart the Demon Beast he had slain and Heartless arrived searching for a man in a blood-red robe.

• Ye Lin asked Sheng Sang about unusual buildings and the Heart of Vastness, but Sheng Sang said he had never heard of it.
• After Ye Lin gave Sheng Sang a chicken drumstick, Sheng Sang explained that Vastness was a divine beast protecting the Snowfield.
• Sheng Sang told Ye Lin that Vastness lived in the Heavenly Kingdom at the Snowfield’s northernmost edge.
• Ye Lin gave Sheng Sang another drumstick and set off alone toward the far north.
• Sheng Sang began slicing open the slain Demon Beast as Heartless and the Eighteen Arhats arrived and asked whether he had seen a man wearing a blood-red robe.

Sheng Sang denied seeing the people Heartless was searching for, but Heartless used Buddhist light to discover the blood-red-robed man’s trail and left him to die. Ye Lin reached the summit of a colossal pillar in the far north and found a vast plain, palaces, and a vortex he suspected led to the Earth God Realm.

• Sheng Sang denied seeing the golden, flying figures and returned to dissecting the Demon Beast.
• Heartless used Buddhist light on Sheng Sang, learned the blood-red-robed man’s location, and headed north with the Eighteen Arhats.
• Sheng Sang collapsed on the Snowfield and died as his hopes of becoming the tribe’s bravest man vanished.
• Ye Lin reached the far north and flew for three hours up a colossal pillar before arriving at its summit.
• Ye Lin found a plain of palaces beneath a spinning vortex and speculated that it connected to the Earth God Realm.

Ye Lin found the divine beast Vastness while searching for the Heart of Vastness, but left after Vastness threatened him. Hidden nearby, he heard Buddhist Sect visitors demand to borrow Vastness’s heart and waited to see what would happen.

• Ye Lin searched the plains with his divine sense and discovered the colossal divine beast Vastness.
• Ye Lin asked Vastness about the Heart of Vastness, and Vastness warned him to leave or be killed.
• Ye Lin withdrew and hid nearby after sensing the danger of confronting Vastness.
• Buddhist Sect visitors arrived and said they had come at the Buddha’s command to borrow Vastness’s heart.
• Vastness challenged the visitors by asking whether they would lend him their own hearts.

Vast Expanse confronted Heartless and the Eighteen Arhats, who had come on the orders of their sect's Buddha. As Vast Expanse froze the battlefield, Heartless used a golden mirror to suppress him, leaving the divine beast slowed beneath its light.

• Vast Expanse rose and appeared before Ye Lin in his enormous divine beast form.
• Heartless asked Vast Expanse not to make trouble, but Vast Expanse scorned the Arhats and demanded that their Buddha face him.
• Heartless ordered the Eighteen Arhats to activate their formation, which sealed off space around Vast Expanse.
• Vast Expanse struck the ground with a claw, sending ice crystals across the plain that froze even space.
• Heartless summoned a golden mirror that engulfed Vast Expanse in light and slowed him, suppressing the advancing ice.

Heartless used the Heaven-Tilting Mirror and Heavenly Buddha Bead to suppress Vast Expanse and demanded his heart. Vast Expanse remained defiant as Ye Lin watched from afar.

• Ye Lin watched as Vast Expanse recognized the Heaven-Tilting Mirror and reacted with fear.
• Heartless said the mirror had sealed away sixty percent of Vast Expanse's cultivation and summoned a golden Buddha.
• Vast Expanse shattered the Eighteen Arhats Grand Formation with a stomp, leaving its members gravely wounded.
• Heartless used the Heaven-Tilting Mirror, Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, and Heavenly Buddha Bead to pin Vast Expanse in place.
• Heartless demanded that Vast Expanse hand over his heart, but Vast Expanse refused.

Heartless attacked Vast Expanse with three powerful treasures after Vast Expanse refused to cooperate. Though Vast Expanse resisted fiercely, the treasures continued to suppress him, and he was left exhausted and bleeding.

• Vast Expanse resented being restrained and vowed to seek justice from the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect once Heavenly Dao lifted its confinement.
• Heartless summoned three blades and sent them into Vast Expanse's chest, joining the Sky-Tilting Mirror and Buddha Bead in suppressing him.
• Vast Expanse erupted with power and nearly shattered Heartless's Dharma manifestation, but the three treasures kept him pinned in place.
• The blades' resentment contaminated Vast Expanse's meridians and blood, and his strength faded as the treasures wore away the divinity in his hair.

Heartless extracted Vast Expanse’s heart, but Ye Lin teleported behind him and pierced his heart with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor. Heartless then pinned Vast Expanse down again to fight Ye Lin, who summoned the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.

• Heartless used his hand seals to make the blades in Vast Expanse’s body extract his heart.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Heartless and stabbed him through the heart with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Heartless forced the sword out and widened the distance between himself and Ye Lin.
• Vast Expanse laughed at Heartless and urged Ye Lin to kill him in exchange for his heart.
• Heartless used two supreme treasures to suppress Vast Expanse and turned to fight Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin summoned the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, filling the sky with dark clouds and lightning.

Ye Lin fought Heartless while the Buddhist cultivator focused on suppressing Vastness, then struck Heartless with a powerful technique that pierced his defenses. Vastness urged Ye Lin to continue attacking and kill Heartless.

• Ye Lin's Thunder Sword Qi clashed with Heartless's golden Buddhist palm, and neither could overcome the other's defenses.
• Heartless proposed ending the fight, but Ye Lin revealed that he was also attacking for the Heart of Vastness.
• Ye Lin summoned the Eye of Heavenly Punishment and fired a blood-red bolt of lightning at Heartless.
• The lightning pierced Heartless's golden barrier and body, making him spit blood.
• Vastness praised Ye Lin and urged him to keep attacking Heartless.

Heartless trapped Ye Lin in the Eighteen Arhats Grand Formation while he moved to seize the Heart of Vastness. Ye Lin unleashed his sword art and shattered the formation, leaving Heartless's plan to obtain the treasure unresolved.

• Heartless activated the Eighteen Arhats Grand Formation, trapping Ye Lin, then approached Vastness to obtain the Heart of Vastness.
• Vastness renewed his resistance against the three supreme treasures and urged Ye Lin to break free and stop Heartless.
• Ye Lin attacked the formation with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art and Purgatory Ice Flame.
• Ye Lin's sword strike shattered the Arhats Grand Formation, and the Eighteen Arhats were blasted away while Heartless remained by Vastness.

Ye Lin destroyed the supreme treasures suppressing Vast Expanse and freed him. Heartless fled but was killed by Vast Expanse, leaving the foremost prodigy of the Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect dead.

• Heartless asked Ye Lin to withdraw, but Ye Lin attacked him with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.
• Heartless abandoned his suppression of Vast Expanse to evade Ye Lin's sword strike, then used the supreme treasures to block it.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger and blasted away the two supreme treasures.
• Vast Expanse broke free and rose to his feet as Heartless tried to flee.
• Vast Expanse stopped Heartless and killed him with waves of lightning.

Ye Lin obtained the Heart of Vastness after Vastness killed Heartless and gave him the treasure. The Buddhist leaders learned that Heartless, the Eighteen Arhats, and the three supreme treasures were lost, and proposed sending more forces to kill the blood-robed man.

• Vastness gave Ye Lin the Heart of Vastness after explaining that Ye Lin was the first person to obtain his heart.
• Vastness swallowed the three supreme treasures and Heartless's Spatial Ring, while Ye Lin thanked him and left the Snowfield.
• Ye Lin reflected that his seventh-layer Golden Immortal cultivation had helped him secure the Heart of Vastness and set out for the next item.
• The Buddhas discussed Heartless's death, the loss of the Eighteen Arhats, and their lost treasures.
• A Buddhist leader blamed the blood-robed man for interfering and proposed sending more forces to execute him.

The Myriad Dharma Buddhist Sect decided to send Illusion's End after Ye Lin, while its Buddha prepared to negotiate with Vast Expanse over the three supreme treasures. Following Black Emperor's directions, Ye Lin reached the Black Sea in search of the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale and faced its dense turbid qi.

• The Buddhist cultivators acknowledged that Heartless's death left them unsure who could capture Ye Lin.
• The Buddha ordered Illusion's End to pursue Ye Lin and said he would send an incarnation to negotiate with Vast Expanse for the three supreme treasures.
• The Buddha instructed his incarnation to bring Ye Lin back as well, and the chubby boy left to carry out the orders.
• Ye Lin recalled that the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale was in the Black Sea and followed Black Emperor's marked route there.
• After three days, Ye Lin reached the Black Sea, found it filled with turbid qi, and began to consider turning back.

Ye Lin went to the Black Sea seeking the Mirage Dragon’s reverse scale to break through his cultivation bottleneck, but he could not approach the dragon safely. The Mirage Dragon became furious when Ye Lin asked for its scale, and Ye Lin left to consider another way.

• Ye Lin worried that his cultivation was too low to approach the Mirage Dragon in the Black Sea and obtain its reverse scale.
• The Mirage Dragon noticed Ye Lin and asked why an Earth God Realm cultivator had come to the Black Sea.
• Ye Lin introduced himself as Blood Slaughter and admitted that he wanted the Mirage Dragon’s reverse scale to break through his bottleneck.
• The Mirage Dragon invited Ye Lin to come closer, but Ye Lin refused because he feared being killed.
• The Mirage Dragon angrily told Ye Lin to leave, then plunged into the Black Sea, and Ye Lin departed to consider the matter further.

Ye Lin searched for Black Dragon reverse scales and was directed to a secret gathering at Windwatch Mountain. After giving the password, he entered and found that the Dragon-Slaying Operation involved several Golden Immortal experts.

• Ye Lin entered a black city filled with wounded demons and asked a female demon seller if she could obtain Black Dragon reverse scales, but she drove him away.
• A masked woman who had followed Ye Lin approached him and told him to go to Windwatch Mountain in three days, using the password "Dragon-Slaying Operation."
• Ye Lin left the city and traveled to Windwatch Mountain, curious whether the operation targeted the Mirage Dragon.
• Ye Lin gave the password at the mountain and was allowed inside after several fifth-layer Golden Immortal auras checked him.

Ye Lin joined Yang Qian and a group of powerful cultivators preparing to fight the Mirage Dragon, whose reverse scale he sought. After revealing that he was a seventh-layer Golden Immortal, he boosted the group’s confidence, and they recognized he came from the Earth God Realm.

• Yang Qian introduced Ye Lin to the gathered cultivators and explained their plan to avenge the Mirage Dragon’s victims.
• The cultivators warned Ye Lin that the battle was dangerous and urged him to leave unless he had at least fourth-layer Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Ye Lin asked about their strength, and Yang Qian described a force of more than a hundred Golden Immortals, including three at the seventh layer.
• Ye Lin released his aura, revealing his seventh-layer Golden Immortal cultivation and exciting the group with their improved odds.
• A burly figure with demonic aura asked whether Ye Lin came from the Earth God Realm, and Ye Lin confirmed it.

Ye Lin joined Baili Changhong’s gathering of cultivators preparing to fight the Mirage Dragon, while remaining wary and focused on obtaining its Reverse Scale before withdrawing. After learning the group had spent a long time gathering allies and preparing countermeasures, he was named among its leaders as the Dragon-Slaying Operation began.

• A demon-monster questioned Ye Lin about the dire situation in the Earth God Realm and asked him to wait for more cultivators to arrive.
• Yang Qian explained that Baili Changhong had founded the group, which had gathered allies, treasures, formations, and knowledge of the Mirage Dragon’s weaknesses.
• Ye Lin stayed cautious and planned to use the operation to obtain the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale without risking his life.
• Baili Changhong, a burly demon-monster, and a Demon Race woman stood at the front as the gathering assembled.
• Baili Changhong counted the attendees and welcomed Ye Lin, a seventh-layer Golden Immortal, as an unexpected addition to the group.

Baili Changhong and the prepared cultivators launched their long-planned operation against the Mirage Dragons in the Black Sea. They trapped three ninth-level Golden Immortal Mirage Dragons in the Dragon-Slaying Grand Array, leaving Ye Lin astonished as Baili Changhong explained how the formation grew stronger by absorbing turbid qi.

• Baili Changhong announced that the operation had begun, and the cultivators prepared their equipment and methods.
• Baili Changhong told Ye Lin that they only needed to suppress the Black Dragon at a critical moment, then led him and two others toward the Black Sea.
• The cultivators entered the Black Sea, provoking an enraged Mirage Dragon whose roar sent the waters surging.
• The cultivators activated the Dragon-Slaying Grand Array and suppressed three Mirage Dragons against the seabed with countless black threads.
• Baili Changhong told Ye Lin that they had spent over ten thousand years planning and developing the formation, which grew stronger as it absorbed the Black Sea's turbid qi.

Baili Changhong explained that he and his allies had spent ten thousand years preparing a formation to suppress the three Mirage Dragons, and they finally trapped them in the Black Sea. With the dragons subdued, the group summoned the Dragon-Slaying Blade to carry out their plan, while Ye Lin watched.

• Baili Changhong explained that the group had spent ten thousand years setting up a formation fueled by the Black Sea’s turbid qi.
• The formation grew stronger and forced the three Mirage Dragons into submission.
• Baili Changhong and his two allies formed hand seals above the formation as Ye Lin followed them.
• Baili Changhong summoned the enormous Dragon-Slaying Blade above the suppressed Mirage Dragons.
• The Mirage Dragons mocked the group, but Baili Changhong and his allies remained focused on their plan.

Baili Changhong and two allies fought three regenerating Mirage Dragons in the Black Sea, where turbid qi made the creatures seemingly immortal. Baili revealed their grand formation was draining the dragons’ limited supply of turbid qi, leaving the outcome to a battle of endurance.

• Baili Changhong struck a Mirage Dragon and severed its head, but the creature and its head quickly healed.
• The Mirage Dragons mocked the attackers and claimed they were invincible as long as the Black Sea’s turbid qi remained.
• Baili Changhong explained that each regeneration consumed turbid qi from the Mirage Dragons’ bodies.
• Baili Changhong revealed the grand formation absorbed turbid qi released by the dragons and blocked more from flowing in, trapping them with a dwindling supply.

Baili Changhong’s formation began to falter as the three ninth-level Golden Immortal Mirage Dragons attacked it with their auras and bodies. Ye Lin decided the cultivators had truly suppressed the dragons and joined the fight, hoping to claim a Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale afterward.

• Baili Changhong explained that the plan to kill the Mirage Dragons had been carefully prepared and that they had no allies to interfere.
• The three Mirage Dragons unleashed their ninth-level Golden Immortal power and battered the formation, forcing the cultivators maintaining it to pour out their strength.
• The Mirage Dragons began ramming the formation with their bodies, threatening to break it apart.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art and summoned the Thunder Prison, filling the Black Sea with purple lightning.

Ye Lin and the other cultivators used a strengthening grand formation, thunder, and repeated attacks to trap the three Mirage Dragons, who were desperate to escape before the formation became unbreakable. One Mirage Dragon offered Ye Lin a reverse scale in exchange for help, but Ye Lin refused and attacked, only to see his thunder sword easily shattered.

• Ye Lin’s thunder powers combined with the water to restrict the Mirage Dragons and help the cultivators hold them in the strengthening grand formation.
• The trapped Mirage Dragons realized they had to break the formation or face death, and they continued ramming it despite the cultivators’ attacks.
• A Mirage Dragon recognized Ye Lin and offered him a reverse scale if he helped them escape.
• Ye Lin mocked the Mirage Dragon, saying he would take all three reverse scales after they died, then attacked with Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.
• The Mirage Dragon smashed Ye Lin’s thunder sword apart with a sweep of his tail, revealing the gap between their Golden Immortal cultivation levels.

Ye Lin and the cultivators wore down the three trapped Mirage Dragons until one died, then Ye Lin took its reverse scale. The two survivors remained trapped and furious as Ye Lin secured the scale in his Spatial Ring.

• Ye Lin and the cultivators attacked the Mirage Dragons for a full day, steadily depleting their turbid qi and weakening them.
• One Mirage Dragon died, prompting its two brothers to roar in grief and rage.
• The surviving Mirage Dragons repeatedly rammed the formation, but it held firm.
• Ye Lin raised the dead dragon’s body and ignored the survivors’ demands to put it down.
• Ye Lin used the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor to cut off the dragon’s reverse scale and stored it in his Spatial Ring.

After obtaining the Mirage Dragon Reverse Scale, Ye Lin left the Black Sea and learned that his next goal was the Jade Ring Fruit, held by a divine maiden on the Divine Mountain. He reached the mountain after five days of travel and entered its lush, immortal-qi-filled range.

• Ye Lin departed after the cultivators thanked him for helping suppress the Mirage Dragons.
• Ye Lin learned that the rare Jade Ring Fruit grew on a tree possessed by a divine maiden whose cultivation was at least the ninth layer of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin decided to travel to the Divine Mountain rather than worry about how he would obtain the fruit.
• After five days, Ye Lin arrived at the mountain range at the westernmost edge of the Demon-Monster Realm.
• Ye Lin entered the Divine Mountain and felt dense immortal qi rush toward him.

Ye Lin reached the silver palace on Divine Mountain and asked its owner for a Jade Ring Fruit. She refused and sent him back beneath the mountain, leaving him wary of her immense power.

• Ye Lin followed a heavenly staircase to a silver palace, where a woman played a harp.
• The woman saw through Ye Lin’s false name, and he introduced himself truthfully and asked for a Jade Ring Fruit.
• The woman explained the fruit’s rarity and refused to trade or give one to Ye Lin, telling him to have the person behind him ask in person.
• The woman transported Ye Lin beneath Divine Mountain, and he realized he would have had no chance to react if she had attacked him.

Ye Lin failed to obtain the Jade Ring Fruit from the divine woman, but she offered him a deal: kill or capture an unknown man in exchange for as many fruits as he wanted. She sent Ye Lin away to search for the man, whose location and identity were unknown, leaving Ye Lin to endure her treatment and begin considering the task.

• Ye Lin gave up on obtaining the Jade Ring Fruit and started to leave the mountain.
• The divine woman brought Ye Lin back and offered him the fruit if he killed someone for her.
• The woman showed Ye Lin an image of a sleeping man but could not name him or give his location, and she was unsure of his cultivation.
• The woman claimed the man was weaker than Ye Lin and somewhere within hundreds of millions of li, then sent Ye Lin away to find him.
• Ye Lin left the mountain, resentful of the divine woman but unable to challenge her.