Recaps

Ye Lin used his three Dao artifacts to suppress and attack the weakened dragon soul, which begged for its life and offered secret knowledge. Ye Lin ignored it and left the dragon soul near collapse, preparing to finish it with one final sword.

• Ye Lin suppressed the dragon soul with the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and attacked it with the Human Emperor Sword and the Emperor Sword.
• The dragon soul was stunned by Ye Lin's three Dao artifacts and the Human Emperor Sword before Ye Lin's strikes caused it intense soul pain.
• As Ye Lin absorbed the dragon soul's leaking Primordial Spirit power, it begged him to stop and offered secret manuals, techniques, and treasure locations.
• Ye Lin severed the dragon soul in two, leaving it too weak to speak, and announced that his final sword would finish it.

Ye Lin absorbed the soul energy left by the Dragon soul to strengthen his Primordial Spirit while Gu Qingzhi guarded the well outside. A group of cultivators discovered the well and began to suspect the Dragon head was at its bottom, leaving Gu Qingzhi facing a growing threat.

• Ye Lin returned his Primordial Spirit to his body and began absorbing the Dragon soul’s energy with the Sacred King Visualization Diagram as the three Dao artifacts guarded him.
• Gu Qingzhi held Xinyou outside the well until an approaching group noticed her, the well, and the broken chains.
• Gu Qingzhi warned the group to leave and placed Xinyou somewhere safe before standing in front of it.
• Some cultivators recognized Gu Qingzhi as someone who had been with Ye Lin, and one urged the others to retreat while another mocked him for being afraid.
• The group suspected the Dragon head lay at the bottom of the well, and one cultivator used a Jade Talisman to call for reinforcements.

Gu Qingzhi defended the well where Ye Lin had gone against six cultivators seeking to enter. She held them off with her zither, but the standoff continued as they waited for reinforcements.

• The six cultivators threatened Gu Qingzhi and demanded access to the well, but she refused to let them pass.
• The six attacked, and Gu Qingzhi used her zither and law domain to hold them in place.
• Gu Qingzhi played a piece taught to her by Black Emperor, forcing the six to retreat from its dangerous music.
• The six waited for reinforcements while Gu Qingzhi continued playing, knowing that stopping would leave her vulnerable.

Gu Qingzhi exhausted herself holding off the prodigies while Ye Lin remained below the well, and Xinyou awakened with overwhelming power to protect her. Ye Lin emerged from his cultivation with his Primordial Spirit power at the ninth level of Golden Immortal.

• Gu Qingzhi used her zither to repel the twenty prodigies, then rushed toward the sleeping Xinyou after exhausting her immortal power.
• White light enveloped Gu Qingzhi, and Xinyou transformed into a huge snow-white beast and charged the prodigies.
• The prodigies attacked Xinyou while Gu Qingzhi sat down to absorb immortal stones and recover.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes at the bottom of the well and realized the Dragon soul had raised his Primordial Spirit power to the ninth level of Golden Immortal.

Ye Lin advanced to the ninth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm and repeatedly struck the dragon head beneath the well, while Xinyou defeated the attackers aboveground. Xinyou drove the survivors away and fell asleep beside Gu Qingzhi, still in the middle of his breakthrough.

• Ye Lin adapted to his increased power and repeatedly attacked the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal dragon's uninjured head.
• Xinyou swallowed three attackers and faced the dozen or so remaining figures after fighting twenty and killing three.
• The Eight Ancient Clans' prodigies lost confidence and fled when Xinyou charged at them again.
• Gu Qingzhi was astonished by Xinyou's strength as he turned back into a little beast and fell asleep beside her.

Ye Lin absorbed the Dragon Ball of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal True Dragon and broke through to the eighth layer of the Golden Immortal realm. More than half the Dragon Ball’s energy remained after his breakthrough.

• Ye Lin decided to refine the Dragon Ball and advance his cultivation.
• Ye Lin absorbed the Dragon Ball’s violent energy, which his Chaos Sword Body crushed and refined.
• Ye Lin spent three days refining the Dragon Ball as his aura and Destruction Sword Dao Law grew stronger.
• Ye Lin opened his eyes and achieved the eighth layer of the Golden Immortal realm.
• The three Dao artifacts returned to their usual forms and positions, while Ye Lin saw that more than half the Dragon Ball’s energy remained.

Ye Lin checked his panel after reaching the Eighth Layer of Golden Immortal and resumed settling his cultivation. Gu Qingzhi explored the ruins, found a gemstone with a trace of laws, and confronted an unseen presence in a hall.

• Ye Lin checked his panel, put away the Dragon Balls, and closed his eyes to stabilize his cultivation.
• After recovering, Gu Qingzhi noticed Xinyou was gone and left Ye Lin at the well to explore the ruins.
• Gu Qingzhi searched the ruins and entered a well-preserved hall containing a transparent chair and a blue gemstone.
• Gu Qingzhi pried the gemstone loose, sensed a fluctuation of laws within it, and put it in her Spatial Ring.
• As Gu Qingzhi prepared to leave, she took out her zither and called for an unseen presence to come out.

Gu Qingzhi was surrounded by the heavenly prodigies who had waited three days to ambush her, but playing Black Emperor’s zither piece pushed her into a state of enlightenment. As she played the complete piece, her music kept the attackers at bay and sent them flying from the hall.

• More than a dozen cultivators confronted Gu Qingzhi and said they had waited three days to ambush her while Xinyou was absent.
• Gu Qingzhi criticized their tactics, sat down with her zither, and began playing Black Emperor’s melody as the cultivators attacked together.
• Gu Qingzhi entered a state of deep concentration and began comprehending the parts of the piece she had not previously understood.
• The melody prevented the attackers from approaching within thirty feet, shattered a heavenly prodigy’s Heaven and Earth Great Hand Seal, and blasted the cultivators from the hall.
• Gu Qingzhi continued playing and completed the piece Black Emperor had passed on to her.

Gu Qingzhi played the zither in a strange state, suppressing the geniuses around her, while Ye Lin left the well and discovered Xinyou had advanced to Golden Immortal Level 7. Ye Lin realized that Xinyou had removed Gu Qingzhi’s death tribulation and that he had inadvertently taken the Dragon Soul opportunity meant for her.

• Gu Qingzhi continued playing the zither, leaving more than a dozen geniuses writhing in pain as the music shook their Primordial Spirits.
• Ye Lin emerged from the well after stabilizing his cultivation and found Xinyou, whose cultivation had risen from Golden Immortal Level 5 to Golden Immortal Level 7.
• Xinyou returned to Ye Lin’s shoulder, and Ye Lin asked where Gu Qingzhi was.
• Ye Lin followed the distant rumbling and found Gu Qingzhi playing the zither underwater while the remaining geniuses suffered within thirty zhang of her.
• Ye Lin recalled that Gu Qingzhi had been destined to die after obtaining the Dragon Soul and being besieged by twenty geniuses, and realized Xinyou had killed three of them and he had taken her opportunity.

Gu Qingzhi unexpectedly broke through to Golden Immortal Level 8 while playing her zither, and Ye Lin reflected on how his powerful Chaos Sword Body made his own cultivation breakthroughs harder. Gu Qingzhi was pleased with her progress and joined Ye Lin, while her fate showed no recent opportunity and a future death among starry sky bandits.

• A tremendous blast erupted in the seawater around Gu Qingzhi, scattering the figures lying nearby as she stopped playing and released a terrifying aura.
• Gu Qingzhi opened her eyes and was revealed to have reached Golden Immortal Level 8, with no recent opportunity and a destiny to die fighting starry sky bandits.
• Ye Lin reflected that Gu Qingzhi had caught up to his cultivation level, though he believed their strength remained far apart and that his Chaos Sword Body made breakthroughs more difficult.
• Gu Qingzhi wondered how the people she had left behind were doing, then put away her zither and walked toward Ye Lin.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi left the sea floor after congratulating each other on their progress. Elsewhere, Li Xiaoyao discovered murals depicting a technique and began comprehending them, while Dugu Feng failed to understand any of the murals.

• Ye Lin congratulated Gu Qingzhi, and the two left the sea floor for an unknown land.
• Dugu Feng asked Li Xiaoyao whether the caves were dangerous, and Li Xiaoyao told him he would die first if danger appeared.
• Li Xiaoyao and Dugu Feng found a mural that recorded a technique and stared at it until they could look away.
• Li Xiaoyao sat down to study the mural, and Dugu Feng copied him beside it.
• Dugu Feng gave up after half an hour, wandered through the cave, and found he could gain no insight from any of its murals.

Dugu Feng, frustrated by his declining talent, discovered a hidden passage and crawled through it in search of a chance to grow stronger. He found an empty cave with a silent old man, but no treasure.

• Dugu Feng lamented his lost opportunity and wished the mysterious Black Emperor would appear to help him.
• Dugu Feng noticed a tiny hole beneath the wall, crawled inside, and watched it seal behind him.
• Li Xiaoyao opened his eyes, noticed Dugu Feng was gone, and resumed meditating.
• Dugu Feng emerged into a vast space, found a cross-legged old man, and searched the cave for anything valuable.
• Dugu Feng decided to check whether the old man had a Spatial Ring and walked toward him.

Dugu Feng encountered an apparently dead old man who revealed that he was a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and offered him the inheritance of the Void Sword Dao. Suspicious that the old man intended to possess him, Dugu Feng was pulled close and overwhelmed with immortal power and information, then fainted.

• The old man opened his eyes and offered Dugu Feng his Void Sword Dao inheritance.
• Dugu Feng questioned the old man's cultivation, and the old man identified himself as a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Dugu Feng asked whether the old man planned to possess his body, but the old man dismissed his suspicion.
• The old man dragged Dugu Feng over, seized his head, and poured immortal power and information into him.
• Dugu Feng thought his life was over and fainted.

Dugu Feng woke from unconsciousness to discover that the old man had passed him his entire inheritance, raising his cultivation to the seventh level of Golden Immortal. After paying his respects to his benefactor, Dugu Feng broke through the cave wall to leave.

• Dugu Feng woke in the empty cave and realized his cultivation had reached the seventh level of Golden Immortal.
• Dugu Feng learned from the old man’s message that he had inherited the Void Sword Dao, its techniques, and the method to cultivate the Void Sword Body.
• Dugu Feng realized the old man had intended to pass the inheritance to him because he cultivated the Void Sword Dao, while Li Xiaoyao already had an inheritance.
• Dugu Feng respectfully kowtowed three times to honor the old man and resolved to discover his benefactor’s identity.
• Dugu Feng could not find the cave entrance, so he struck the wall and brought it crashing down.

Dugu Feng emerged from a month spent comprehending the murals, having reached the seventh level of Golden Immortal and gained the Void Sword Art along with far greater knowledge. He and Li Xiaoyao left the cave to explore the lifeless secret realm.

• Dugu Feng stepped out from the collapsed wall and rebuked Li Xiaoyao for his tone.
• Li Xiaoyao sensed that Dugu Feng had reached the seventh level of Golden Immortal and realized the opportunity had belonged to him.
• Dugu Feng confirmed that one month had passed and recognized the mural as the Void Sword Art.
• Li Xiaoyao and Dugu Feng left the cave and continued through the mountain range, where they still found no living creatures.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi reached the continent after a month crossing the deep sea, and Ye Lin searched the land with overwhelming confidence. He detected a mysterious fluctuation and hurried toward its source.

• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi arrived at the continent, and Ye Lin decided to explore it.
• Ye Lin traveled across the land at incredible speed while scanning the surroundings with his divine sense.
• A woman hiding in a cave sensed Ye Lin’s divine sense and feared she could not resist him.
• Ye Lin found the local geniuses too weak to interest him.
• Ye Lin detected a faint mysterious fluctuation and sped toward its source.

Ye Lin uncovered a mysterious altar beneath a barren mountain and found a woman lying inside a nine-legged cauldron. After discovering a book warning him to run, he gave it to Gu Qingzhi and began inspecting the altar.

• Ye Lin destroyed the barren mountain and revealed a massive altar beneath it.
• Ye Lin approached the cauldron and saw a motionless woman wearing a necklace with a glowing golden gemstone.
• Prodigies gathered nearby but stopped at a distance, afraid to approach Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin found a yellowed book beside the woman, opened it, and saw the words “Run!!!”
• Ye Lin handed the book to Gu Qingzhi and walked around the altar alone.

Gu Qingzhi and the Eight Ancient Clans’ prodigies learned that the woman sealed in the altar was an ancient demon who could not be killed. When the altar began to shake and black smoke rose, Ye Lin pulled Gu Qingzhi back as the demon appeared to awaken.

• Gu Qingzhi lent the ancient tome to the Eight Ancient Clans’ prodigies and approached the altar.
• The prodigies read that the woman was an ancient demon who had been sealed away because even a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal could not kill her.
• The prodigies realized the demon would awaken upon sensing living beings’ auras.
• The great cauldron shook as black smoke enveloped the altar, and the prodigies retreated in alarm.
• Ye Lin recognized that the demon was reviving, grabbed Gu Qingzhi, and retreated with her.

Ye Lin watched the black smoke from the altar consume the secret realm before drawing the Emperor Sword to face the female demon. She appeared before him as a ninth-level Golden Immortal whose aura was still rising, and Ye Lin prepared to attack.

• Ye Lin retreated over a hundred li as black smoke engulfed the altar and drained the life from the surrounding mountains.
• The gathered prodigies decided to wait and watch the blood-robed Ye Lin before fleeing.
• Ye Lin sensed bloodthirsty eyes watching him from inside the altar and summoned the Emperor Sword.
• As Ye Lin began invoking Karmic Fire, the female demon appeared in front of him.
• Ye Lin recognized the woman as a ninth-level Golden Immortal and formed seals as the Emperor Sword spun before him.

Ye Lin encountered Li Rushuang, a mysterious woman from beyond the Star River Cosmos whose overwhelming powers made him realize he could not defeat her. She stopped his attempt to flee and claimed that he belonged to her.

• Ye Lin attacked Li Rushuang with his Karmic Fire Red Lotus, but she caught it and extinguished it, saying it could not judge her because she bore no sins.
• Ye Lin examined Li Rushuang's panel and learned that she had once pursued the Dao Realm, possessed numerous formidable demonic Fate Traits, and had suffered a vast loss of cultivation.
• Ye Lin decided to run because he knew he could not beat Li Rushuang, but she appeared in his path and said he could not escape her again.
• Li Rushuang caressed Ye Lin's face and claimed that he belonged only to her, while his body became unable to move.

Li Rushuang captured Ye Lin and claimed that she had been his Dao companion in the future, while Ye Lin doubted her because he believed he had no fixed future. The chapter left Ye Lin separated from his pursuers but uncertain about Li Rushuang’s intentions.

• The fleeing prodigies saw Ye Lin trapped and ran, but Li Rushuang stopped them with black flames and reduced dozens of eighth-level Golden Immortals to Void.
• Li Rushuang spared Gu Qingzhi because he was Ye Lin’s friend.
• Li Rushuang released Ye Lin and introduced herself, saying that she knew him from the future and would not lose him again.
• Ye Lin questioned Li Rushuang’s claim and reflected that his changing Destiny made him a variable with no predetermined future.

Ye Lin questioned Li Rushuang and learned she was searching for Li Xiaoyao, a future companion who cultivated the Dao of Strength. After Ye Lin clarified that he was Ye Lin and cultivated the Sword Dao, Li Rushuang realized she had mistaken him for someone else and wondered whether the backlash of karma and time had muddled her thoughts.

• Ye Lin reasoned that Li Rushuang had either mistaken him for someone else or was deceiving him, and asked her to name the person she sought and his cultivation law.
• Li Rushuang said the man was Li Xiaoyao, who cultivated the Dao of Strength, and claimed they would advance together in the Boundary Sea and live through long years.
• Ye Lin felt relieved that Li Rushuang was searching for someone else and told her he was Ye Lin, a cultivator of the Sword Dao.
• Li Rushuang recognized the Sword Dao, accepted that she had mistaken Ye Lin for someone else, and wondered whether the backlash of karma and time had confused her.

Ye Lin recognized Li Rushuang’s description of the person she sought as resembling his friend Li Xiaoyao and summoned him. Li Rushuang recognized Li Xiaoyao by his aura and eagerly claimed his attention, leaving him unable to move and visibly aggrieved.

• Ye Lin contacted Li Xiaoyao after telling Li Rushuang that her sought-after person might be his friend.
• Li Xiaoyao arrived with another figure, and Li Rushuang recognized his familiar aura despite his different appearance.
• Li Rushuang immobilized Li Xiaoyao and caressed his face while he panicked and looked to Ye Lin for help.
• Dugu Feng asked Ye Lin who Li Rushuang was, and Ye Lin called her Li Xiaoyao’s opportunity.
• Li Xiaoyao spoke privately with Li Rushuang, who grew happier, then returned with her arm around his shoulders as he gave Ye Lin an aggrieved look.

After the group finished exploring the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, Ye Lin led them toward the two remaining secret realms. Dugu Feng showed off his new inheritance and cultivation to Poison Venerable, while Li Xiaoyao remained troubled by Li Rushuang’s closeness.

• Ye Lin suggested leaving the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, and Li Xiaoyao noted that several people were still missing.
• Bao Xiaotou and the others arrived, complaining that they had found no worthwhile treasures.
• Dugu Feng teased Poison Venerable for remaining at the sixth layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin set off for the two other secret realms, and the others followed.
• Li Rushuang watched Shangguan Wanyu leave with a contemplative expression, while Li Xiaoyao resigned himself to her attention.

After leaving the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, Ye Lin discovered the Eight Ancient Clans had trapped him in a Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation and sent three ninth-layer Golden Immortals to capture him. He confronted them while ordering Gu Qingzhi to stay inside the secret realm, and vowed to destroy the Eight Ancient Clans if they failed to kill him.

• Ye Lin sensed that the starry sky was unnaturally devoid of law fluctuations and realized a formation covered the area.
• Ye Lin warned Gu Qingzhi not to leave the secret realm, while Bao Xiaotou recognized the Heaven-Shrouding Grand Formation.
• The formation activated, cutting off the power of laws and weakening Ye Lin’s senses as he summoned the Emperor Sword.
• Three ninth-layer Golden Immortal elders emerged and claimed they wanted to invite Ye Lin to the Eight Ancient Clans as a guest.
• The elders attacked, confident the formation had suppressed Ye Lin, but he rejected their demand to surrender and threatened to wipe out their clans.