Recaps

Yuan Chu and a wounded middle-aged man stood against five demonic former God Emperors who planned to sacrifice the Star Phantom God Realm to break its seal. The middle-aged man recovered the Golden Spear and prepared to fight beside Yuan Chu.

• The middle-aged man woke briefly as Yuan Chu mourned the Star Phantom God Realm’s possible destruction.
• Yuan Chu sensed five figures approaching through black mist and refused their demand to enter the realm.
• One of the demonic former God Emperors argued that sacrificing the realm’s inhabitants would break the seal, and Yuan Chu summoned his Dharma Avatar to oppose them.
• The demonic figure attacked Yuan Chu, but the middle-aged man stopped the blow with a beam of divine light.
• The middle-aged man rose, called the Golden Spear from a distant mountain, and readied himself to fight.

Ye Lin reached the plateau after a middle-aged man killed himself to avoid becoming a monster and an old man sacrificed himself to destroy their attackers. He confronted the four wounded monsters as they headed toward the Star Phantom God Realm.

• The middle-aged man killed a monster with his spear, then ended his own life and crushed his Primordial Spirit to avoid turning into one of them.
• The old man burned his life force and fought four God Emperors, destroying himself in a final blast that left them heavily injured.
• The four monsters declared that no one in the Star Phantom God Realm could stop them and left the plateau.
• Ye Lin arrived too late, faced the four monsters, and declared that he would kill them.
• Ye Lin unleashed countless devastating sword lights around himself.

Ye Lin destroyed the four monsters behind the Star Phantom God Realm’s calamity and returned to the main hall to order the surviving experts to counterattack. The realm’s remaining living beings gathered, placing their hopes in his strength.

• Ye Lin killed one monster with a sword strike and burned away the other three with Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• Ye Lin entered the plateau, glanced at a kneeling figure, and left after eliminating the realm’s true calamity.
• Ye Lin returned to the main hall and ordered the experts to prepare a counterattack.
• The experts doubted they could fight back until Ye Lin revealed overwhelming Sword Qi and insisted they obey.
• The experts summoned the remaining living beings of the Star Phantom God Realm to gather.

Ye Lin gathered the Star Phantom God Realm’s remaining forces and led them against the Demonic Beasts. With his clones and one hundred thousand Golden Immortal incarnations supporting the army, the campaign began as an overwhelming advance.

• The Star Phantom God Realm’s races assembled more than a trillion beings, though Ye Lin found that they had few powerful experts.
• Ye Lin divided his forces into four groups, summoned three powerful clones, and created one hundred thousand Golden Immortal incarnations.
• Ye Lin ordered the army to set out, and three hours later the two sides met and began fighting.
• Ye Lin and his clones helped the army crush the Demonic Beasts as they advanced through the realm.
• The army reclaimed one hundred great continents in each of the first two months, pausing occasionally to recover.

Ye Lin completed his mission by helping the Star Phantom God Realm eradicate its Demonic Beasts over five years, though only a fraction of its population survived. He left the realm with its seal intact and headed for the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

• Ye Lin's allies fought through the Demonic Beasts with growing confidence, and after five years they reclaimed the Star Phantom God Realm.
• The surviving beings celebrated their victory, though fewer than ten billion remained and the realm would take millions of years to recover.
• Ye Lin withdrew his avatars and left the seal intact to protect the survivors from forces in the Second Region.
• Ye Lin departed for the Starry Sky with the scroll for the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

A month after his previous visit, Ye Lin returned to the Heavenly Hall to submit a mission but was confronted by people from Mystic Sword Manor, who accused him of helping kill their young manor lord. After Ye Lin swiftly killed them, the onlookers speculated that he would challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

• Ye Lin arrived at the Heavenly Hall carrying a scroll and was surrounded by white-robed swordsmen from Mystic Sword Manor.
• A bystander accused Ye Lin of being allied with the person who killed the young manor lord, and the swordsmen attacked him.
• Ye Lin sent the attackers flying with Sword Qi, then destroyed them with another sword strike.
• Ye Lin killed the sixth-level Golden Immortal who had accused him and continued toward the Heavenly Hall.
• After Ye Lin left, the onlookers recognized the scroll as a Heavenly Dao mission and guessed that he intended to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking.

After completing a Heavenly Dao mission, Ye Lin entered the Heavenly Hall to challenge the Hundred Heroes Ranking. As he climbed the Heavenly Ladder, the Heavenly Dao broadcast his attempt across the Second Region.

• Cultivators realized Ye Lin’s completed mission made him a formidable threat to Mystic Sword Manor and followed him to watch his ranking challenge.
• Ye Lin submitted the mission scroll in the Heavenly Hall, and a stairway appeared after half an hour.
• Ye Lin began climbing the Heavenly Ladder, enduring steadily increasing pressure without difficulty.
• The Heavenly Dao displayed Ye Lin’s climb on light screens across the Second Region, spreading his name before he had entered the ranking.

Ye Lin rapidly crossed the Heavenly Ladder, completing the trial in 748 breaths and setting a time more than twice as fast as the previous record. He continued toward the second trial as the Second Region erupted in astonishment over his strength.

• Ye Lin's accelerating climb left the experts watching the Hundred Heroes Ranking baffled, while several geniuses hurried off to report the unknown Rogue Cultivator to their sects.
• Ye Lin said the Heavenly Ladder's pressure did not affect him and raced up several steps at a time.
• Ye Lin reached the end in 748 breaths, though he thought he could have finished sooner if he had not wasted time at the start.
• Ye Lin continued toward the second trial as the Second Region compared his time with the record of 1,323 breaths and marveled at his strength.

Ye Lin entered the second trial, which tested his Dao heart by tempting him with enchanting women. As he recognized the trial’s purpose, observers debated whether anyone could resist the Heavenly Dao’s influence.

• Experts across the star domains sought information about Ye Lin, while powerful factions considered recruiting or protecting him.
• Ye Lin arrived at the second trial and sat down in the empty void.
• The trial transported Ye Lin into a hall where women tried to seduce him and shake his Dao heart.
• Ye Lin recognized that feminine allure was the trial and welcomed the challenge.
• Observers discussed the difficulty of resisting the women, and one expert explained that the Heavenly Dao had altered them.

Ye Lin endured the trial’s seductive visions, but after they disappeared, he awoke in a wooden cabin with no memories. A woman who knew him entered, leaving him confused about who he was and where he had come from.

• Cultivators learned that the women in Ye Lin’s vision represented lost loves and worried that he might succumb to the trial.
• A man watching Ye Lin from within molten lava praised his strength and wondered whether he could pass the second trial, while a woman teased him about his own regrets.
• Ye Lin remained unmoved by the women around him, and they vanished after half an hour.
• Ye Lin tried to open his eyes, fell into darkness, and awoke in a wooden cabin unable to remember who he was.
• A woman came to check on Ye Lin after hearing that he had fallen into a river, and he stared at her in a daze when she entered.

Ye Lin woke in Big Ox Village with no memory and learned from Li Yuerou that they had grown up together. Li Yuerou brought him to Mr. Lu for help, leaving Ye Lin about to be examined.

• Ye Lin woke beside Li Yuerou and asked who she was and where he was.
• Li Yuerou explained that Ye Lin was an orphan from Big Ox Village who had fallen into a creek while fishing and lost his memories.
• Li Yuerou took Ye Lin to the village schoolhouse to see Mr. Lu.
• Li Yuerou told Mr. Lu that Ye Lin seemed to have lost his memory and asked him to check for aftereffects.

After Mr. Lu diagnosed Ye Lin with amnesia caused by a minor blood clot, Li Yuerou took him to get medicine and claimed authority over him. They reached Grandpa Wang’s cottage, where he filled the prescription while grumbling that the villagers no longer came to him for treatment.

• Mr. Lu confirmed Ye Lin had amnesia and said the blood clot would likely disperse within one or two years.
• Li Yuerou took Mr. Lu’s prescription and led Ye Lin away, telling him he had to listen to her because she was his big sister.
• Ye Lin and Li Yuerou passed Uncle Liu in the rapeseed field, and he checked that Ye Lin was all right after falling into the river.
• Li Yuerou brought Ye Lin to Grandpa Wang’s cottage and asked him to fill Mr. Lu’s prescription.
• Grandpa Wang gathered the medicine and complained that the villagers only asked him to fill prescriptions now.

Li Yuerou bought medicine for Ye Lin and brought him home to prepare it, while he remained dazed and complained that her head-patting made him feel worse. Five children arrived to visit Ye Lin with steamed buns, but Li Yuerou stopped them from leaving and demanded the bundle from the chubby boy.

• Li Yuerou bought three packets of medicine from Grandpa Wang and explained how Ye Lin should take it.
• Li Yuerou took Ye Lin to his hut and began simmering the medicine, filling the room with its pungent smell.
• Li Yuerou opened the windows, then questioned Ye Lin about his dazed state as he told her to stop patting his head.
• Five children came to visit Ye Lin, and the chubby boy tried to leave when he saw Li Yuerou.
• Li Yuerou dragged the chubby boy inside, ordered the others into the hut, and held out her hand for his bundle of steamed buns.

Li Yuerou forced the five boys who had led Ye Lin to the river to take responsibility for him and repay his medicine costs. After she left, Ye Lin regained his memories and remembered how he had hit his head in the river.

• Li Yuerou took the buns intended for Ye Lin and confronted the five boys, blaming them for his fall into the river.
• Li Yuerou assigned the five boys to take turns providing Ye Lin with meals for two years.
• Li Yuerou collected two copper coins from each boy to reimburse Ye Lin for his medicine, then sent them away.
• Li Yuerou left Ye Lin with the buns and instructions about his medicine.
• Ye Lin regained his clarity and remembered that he was an orphan from Big Ox Village who had struck his head on a rock after falling into the river.

Ye Lin stayed in the village with Li Yuerou, built a life with her, and avoided military conscription as she used her connections to protect him. Years later, a scene inside a volcano revealed that his life with Li Yuerou had been part of a trial, leaving a beautiful woman questioning its purpose.

• Li Yuerou told Ye Lin that she had arranged for him to avoid military service and remain in the village because she did not want him to leave.
• Ye Lin and Li Yuerou watched the other young men from Big Ox Village depart for the army, then went to the city and built a successful business together.
• Li Yuerou arranged for Ye Lin to avoid conscription again in the second year, and they married in the third year.
• In the fourth year, Ye Lin learned that his former companions had died in battle, while Li Yuerou gave birth to their son.
• Ye Lin told Li Yuerou that he felt something was calling to him, then carried her away after she said their son was asleep.
• Inside a volcano, a beautiful woman asked a young man whether the scene on the light screen was the second level's trial and what its purpose was.

Ye Lin lived out twenty years of married life with Li Yuerou, growing old and raising a son. Li Yuerou died before their son could marry, and Ye Lin lay down alone after her burial.

• The prodigies watching the trial questioned why its domestic scenario seemed so simple and unlike a Heavenly Dao trial.
• Twenty years passed, and Ye Lin grew old while living with Li Yuerou and their son.
• Ye Lin and his son hurried to Li Yuerou’s bedside after hearing she was dying.
• Li Yuerou told Ye Lin she regretted not living to see their son marry, then died with him holding her hand.
• Ye Lin gave Li Yuerou a grand burial in the snow and later returned to bed alone.

Ye Lin passed the second trial by resisting the vision of his own death and awakening before he fell into the Abyss. He stepped through the light gate into another land of nothingness and wondered why the Heavenly Dao kept creating empty realms.

• Ye Lin watched his own death and funeral before beginning to fall into the depths beneath his grave.
• Observers argued over whether the trial tested Ye Lin’s Dao Heart as he struggled to stop his descent.
• Ye Lin shouted for himself to wake up, unleashed divine light, and vanished from the vision.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes in the land of nothingness, dismissed the seductive woman and the trial scene, and saw a gate of light appear.
• Ye Lin entered the gate, passed the second trial, and emerged into another empty realm.

Ye Lin passed the Heavenly Dao’s three trials and challenged Mad Blade for a place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking. He defeated the eighth-level Golden Immortal with one strike, leaving the Second Region stunned.

• The Heavenly Dao examined Ye Lin and confirmed that he had passed all three trials.
• Ye Lin entered a desert challenge arena and faced Mad Blade, the Hundred Heroes Ranking’s hundredth-ranked prodigy.
• Mad Blade tried to evade Ye Lin and activated the laws of the Blade Dao.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Mad Blade and knocked him unconscious with a single sword strike.
• Ye Lin dismissed Mad Blade as unimpressive, while prodigies across the Second Region reacted in disbelief.

Ye Lin stunned the Second Region by instantly killing Mad Blade and rapidly climbing the Hundred Heroes Ranking. After reaching fifth place in two hours, he left the region’s prodigies in despair and unwilling to compete.

• Ye Lin killed Mad Blade, a Golden Immortal eighth layer, in a single strike, shocking the cultivators who witnessed it.
• The hidden old monsters speculated that Ye Lin came from the Central Star Domain because the Second Region could not have produced someone so powerful.
• Ye Lin’s ranking rose rapidly as he instantly killed every prodigy he encountered.
• Within two hours, Ye Lin climbed to fifth place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• Many prodigies lost their composure or had their Dao Hearts shatter, while others gave up on competing.

Ye Lin continued his climb through the Hundred Heroes Ranking, leaving his projections in every position from one hundredth to fourth and despairing the prodigies who could not defeat him. At third place, he faced Baili Changfeng, whose ancient projection challenged him to battle.

• Ye Lin's projections occupied every rank from one hundredth through fourth, locking down the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• Baili Changfeng introduced himself and recognized that Ye Lin's arrival meant a dazzling prodigy had emerged in the Second Region.
• Ye Lin greeted Baili Changfeng and accepted his challenge.
• Baili Changfeng unleashed his spear and law power as Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin began using Karmic Fire Red Lotus, gathering red lights into a fiery lotus before him.

Ye Lin defeated Baili Changfeng with a single sword strike and continued toward the next Hundred Heroes Ranking challenger. The defeat left many young geniuses despairing, while Baili Changfeng’s descendants accepted the loss and encouraged the next generation to rise.

• Ye Lin sent a Karmic Fire Red Lotus at Baili Changfeng, whose full-strength spear strike failed to damage it.
• The lotus engulfed Baili Changfeng, killing him instantly, and Ye Lin moved on to challenge the second-ranked person.
• The watching geniuses reacted with shock, and some gave up watching or lost their resolve to contend for the future.
• A young woman told her father that their ancestor had lost, and the current head of the Baili Family confirmed he already knew.
• The Baili Family head accepted Baili Changfeng’s defeat without anger and urged his daughter to shine in the future.

After slaying Baili Changfeng, Ye Lin faced the second-ranked opponent, Butcher, while news of his victory spread to the First Region. Butcher attacked after Ye Lin refused to linger, and Ye Lin answered with a sword technique.

• News of Ye Lin's single-strike slaying of Baili Changfeng spread through the Second Region and reached the First Region, drawing prodigies and great powers to watch for Ye Lin's arrival.
• Ye Lin arrived before Butcher, a former pig butcher known for slaughtering his sect and carving through the Second Region with two machetes.
• Butcher invited Ye Lin to talk and offered to let him pass, but Ye Lin said he was in a hurry and asked Butcher not to waste his time.
• Butcher grew angry, drew his blades, and charged at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin used Void Overlapping Shadows and sent countless streams of Sword Qi through the space as Butcher dismissed the attack as a petty trick.

Ye Lin defeated Butcher with a single sword strike, leaving geniuses in the Second Region devastated by the gap between them. Deep inside a Demon Mountain, a chained head reacted to Ye Lin’s words and vowed to eat him.

• Ye Lin defeated Butcher, dismissed his questions, and continued onward.
• Cultivators in the Second Region broke down after witnessing Ye Lin’s repeated instant victories.
• A chained head inside a Demon Mountain awoke, laughed at Ye Lin’s words, and threatened to eat him.
• Five figures subdued the head with incantations until it closed its eyes and fell quiet.

Ye Lin reached the final floor and met Qian Xue, the top-ranked figure on the Hundred Heroes Ranking. After Qian Xue challenged his claim of defeating Butcher with one sword, Ye Lin unleashed his sword technique against him.

• Five figures discussed Butcher's violent reaction after his projection was defeated by a single sword, and they hoped the person who defeated him would grow stronger.
• Ye Lin met Qian Xue on the final floor and estimated that countless boundless kalpas separated their eras.
• Qian Xue asked how Ye Lin had defeated Butcher, and Ye Lin said it had taken one sword.
• Qian Xue challenged Ye Lin to attack with his strongest sword, and Ye Lin replied that neither Qian Xue nor Butcher deserved his full strength.
• Qian Xue transformed into a deadly snowfall with his Falling Snow technique, and Ye Lin froze the snow with Void Overlapping Shadows before striking.

Ye Lin cleared the Hundred Heroes Ranking and discovered that his name occupied all one hundred places, earning a low-grade Dao artifact from the Heavenly Dao. He left the platform amid the stunned prodigies, then realized the ranking had been completely filled with his name.

• Ye Lin defeated the opponents in the desert with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and left the area.
• Ye Lin's name appeared in every position on the Second Region's Hundred Heroes Ranking, from first to hundredth.
• The Heavenly Dao sent Ye Lin a golden Long Sword, which he identified as a low-grade Dao artifact and placed in his Spatial Ring.
• The surrounding prodigies made way for Ye Lin as he descended from the platform in silence.
• Ye Lin looked at the Stone Stele, realized every ranking entry bore his name, and heard a fellow Daoist praise his unprecedented achievement.