Recaps

Ye Lin rescued Taiyuan and the two women, then left them to continue on their own. He reunited with Luo Yao in an unfamiliar Starry Sky, where she claimed she had not been having fun.

• Ye Lin dismissed the surrounding fighters with a single word and warned Taiyuan to be careful before departing.
• Taiyuan told the two women that he had not been able to contact Ye Lin since their last parting and thought his master might have sensed his danger.
• In an unfamiliar Starry Sky, the river-water figure dragged Luo Yao along until they encountered Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin embraced Luo Yao, who insisted she had not been happy despite looking like she was plotting something.

Ye Lin traveled through the starry sky with Luo Yao to visit his second disciple, Taiyuan, and then approached Ye Buqu. Ye Buqu tried to attack the mysterious newcomer, but his swords stopped before reaching him.

• Ye Lin reflected that Taiyuan had done well to survive and advance in the starry sky, while Ye Buqu had exceeded expectations despite his crippled physique.
• Ye Buqu complained about waiting through the calamity as a middle-aged man urged him to endure it.
• Ye Buqu sensed an approaching figure with no discernible aura, and the middle-aged man recognized the newcomer as an expert.
• Ye Buqu challenged the figure and formed a sword formation around him.
• Ye Buqu sent his Long Swords at the newcomer, but they stopped three zhang away and could not move farther.

Ye Lin reunited with Ye Buqu and Toutian at the Sword Sect after becoming a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, while introducing Luo Yao as his younger sister. He reflected on how much Ye Buqu had changed as preparations began for a feast.

• Ye Buqu recognized Ye Lin, knelt to greet his master, and learned that Luo Yao was Ye Lin's younger sister.
• Ye Lin recognized that Ye Buqu had reached the first level of the Golden Immortal Realm and helped him rise.
• Toutian greeted Ye Lin as a Venerable after realizing he was a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, and Ye Lin lamented that they could no longer talk as they once had.
• Two Sword Sect disciples asked Ye Buqu what had happened, and he told them to prepare a grand feast for his master's arrival.
• Ye Lin looked out over the sea of clouds and remarked on Ye Buqu's progress, while Ye Buqu admitted he had not expected to come so far.

Ye Lin reunited with Ye Buqu and Toutian, shared Immortal Peach Wine with them, and learned that Ye Buqu planned to remain hidden until the Star River Cosmos’s calamity passed. After Ye Buqu drunkenly wished to catch up to his master, Ye Lin prepared one final grand gift before ending their master-disciple bond.

• Ye Lin praised Ye Buqu’s progress and invited him and the trembling Toutian to drink Immortal Peach Wine.
• Ye Buqu told Ye Lin he would hide from the calamity in the Star River Cosmos before venturing into the Starry Sky.
• Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu chased Xinyou over a wine jar while Ye Lin watched them play.
• Ye Buqu asked whether Ye Lin had become a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, then drank too much and passed out.
• Ye Lin held Luo Yao, let Xinyou rest on his shoulder, and reached toward the sleeping Ye Buqu to give him one final grand gift before their bond ended.

Ye Lin passed his Sword Dao insights to Ye Buqu, strengthened his cultivation, and left him to continue his path alone. Carrying Luo Yao, Ye Lin revisited the Purple Cloud Star System and reached Firmament Sacred Land as he prepared to wait for the Emperor Road.

• Ye Lin bestowed his Sword Dao insights on Ye Buqu, raising him to the eighth level of the Golden Immortal Realm with a solid foundation.
• After Ye Lin left, Ye Buqu woke three days later, read the message ending their master-disciple bond, and knelt to honor Ye Lin as his master.
• Toutian reflected that Ye Buqu was unlikely to reach Ye Lin's Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ye Lin carried Luo Yao through the Starry Sky to revisit old friends and places before the Emperor Road descended.
• Ye Lin entered the Purple Cloud Star System, remembered meeting his third master Zhuge Yun there, and arrived at Firmament Sacred Land, the first faction he had joined there.

Ye Lin entered the Firmament Sacred Land and reunited with his former master, Zhuge Yun, and Nangong Yunlan, bringing Luo Yao along. He told Zhuge Yun that he had come specifically to see him.

• Ye Lin carried Luo Yao through the Firmament Sacred Land, where a young disciple questioned how he had entered its sealed grounds.
• Ye Lin found Zhuge Yun tending flowers while Nangong Yunlan directed him.
• Zhuge Yun recognized Ye Lin as his former disciple, and Nangong Yunlan took Luo Yao to play.
• Ye Lin and Zhuge Yun sat together with wine, and Ye Lin said he had come especially to see him.

Ye Lin reunited with his master, Zhuge Yun, and confirmed that this would be their last meeting before he severed his attachments and began a new journey. Zhuge Yun accepted his modest life and refused Ye Lin’s offer to raise his cultivation.

• Zhuge Yun recalled hearing legends of Ye Lin and admitted he had feared Ye Lin was dead when the stories stopped.
• Ye Lin confirmed that this was their final meeting and shared Immortal Peach Wine with Zhuge Yun.
• Ye Lin asked whether Zhuge Yun was content with his life tending flowers and herbs, and Zhuge Yun said it was happiness enough.
• Zhuge Yun advised Ye Lin to rest if he was tired, but Ye Lin remained committed to pursuing the Great Dao.
• Ye Lin offered to help Zhuge Yun cultivate, but Zhuge Yun declined, saying he had struggled enough and wanted no further ambitions.

Ye Lin said farewell to Zhuge Yun and Nangong Yunlan before leaving with Luo Yao. He left valuable resources and protective Sword Qi behind, while Nangong Yunlan watched him go and accepted that their meeting was likely their last.

• Zhuge Yun refused Ye Lin's offer to increase his cultivation, advised him to stay alive, and drank himself unconscious.
• Nangong Yunlan arrived with Luo Yao, and Ye Lin told her he would soon leave.
• Ye Lin left Immortal Peach Wine, immortal peaches, and cultivation resources for Nangong Yunlan and Zhuge Yun.
• Ye Lin gave Nangong Yunlan and Zhuge Yun Sword Qi to protect them, then departed with Luo Yao.
• Nangong Yunlan stored the resources and lay beside Zhuge Yun beneath the stars.

Ye Lin brought Luo Yao to his hometown, the Xuanhuang Great World, and revisited Nameless Mountain, where he found the landscape unchanged but all the people he had known gone. He began wandering the mountain with a new disciple named Li Qingning.

• Ye Lin took Luo Yao through the Starry Sky to the Xuanhuang Great World, his hometown.
• Ye Lin entered the world, and its Heavenly Dao power fled from him.
• Ye Lin found Nameless Mountain and entered its hidden independent world.
• Li Qingning mistook Ye Lin for a new disciple, introduced herself, and offered to show him around.
• Ye Lin wandered Nameless Mountain with Li Qingning and reflected that everyone he had known there was gone.

Ye Lin revisited the Azure Cloud Sect with Luo Yao and showed her the humble place where he had once risen to prominence. He rewound time to see the sect as it had been when he first joined, then restored it to the present.

• Li Qingning asked Ye Lin about his cultivation realm and offered to teach him, then bashfully asked him to become her disciple’s master.
• Ye Lin refused and vanished with Luo Yao, leaving Li Qingning stunned when she realized his claimed Golden Core stage was false.
• Ye Lin pointed out the Azure Cloud Sect below and told Luo Yao that he had nearly died there before rising to prominence.
• Ye Lin used his power over time to rewind the Azure Cloud Sect to the day he had first joined, where strangers had replaced his former self.
• Ye Lin waved his hand and returned the Azure Cloud Sect to its present state.

Ye Lin reunited with Taichu at the Azure Cloud Sect and offered to help him advance by taking him to the Central Star Domain. Taichu declined, content with his life and his achievements in the True Immortal realm, then asked Ye Lin why he had come.

• Ye Lin called out to Taichu, who appeared from the void and remarked on Ye Lin's astonishing growth.
• Taichu looked over the Azure Cloud Sect and recalled how powerful figures had settled in the Xuanhuang Great World because of Ye Lin's fame.
• Ye Lin offered to take Taichu to the Central Star Domain and give him a position of power.
• Taichu declined, saying he had reached his limit and was satisfied with his life in the Xuanhuang Great World.
• Taichu asked Ye Lin why he had come.

Ye Lin revisited his old home and met Taichu, telling him he would not return again. After they parted, Taichu found the resources and Chaos Sword Casket Ye Lin had left behind, and wept.

• Taichu told Ye Lin that he had only encountered him by chance, and Ye Lin confirmed he had come for one last look.
• Ye Lin recalled that he could no longer find Chu Xue, his first master, and accepted that she was gone.
• Taichu urged Ye Lin not to look back at what he had lost and to keep moving forward.
• Ye Lin said this might be the last time he turned back, then vanished and left a Spatial Ring behind.
• Taichu found piles of valuable resources and the Chaos Sword Casket in the ring, then cried.

Ye Lin returned to the isolated village where he had once lived, accompanied by Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu. The villagers welcomed him after learning he had passed through the Heavenly Dao’s barrier, and the chapter ended with the village chief introducing himself as Martial King.

• Ye Lin walked through the primeval forest with Luo Yao and the two girls, restoring life to the trees as he passed.
• Ye Lin reached a village protected by a Heavenly Dao barrier and told the armed villagers he had once lived there.
• The villagers let Ye Lin enter, and he recalled Naya, the girl he had nearly married before leaving and never returning.
• Martial King, the village chief of Stone Village, welcomed Ye Lin and asked his name.

Ye Lin returned to Stone Village and visited its ancestral hall, where he found the spirit tablet of Naya, the woman he had left behind. He traced her life through time and saw that she had kept his necklace, become village chief, and lived alone until her death.

• The Martial King asked Ye Lin about his origins, and Ye Lin said he had once lived in Stone Village but had left long ago.
• The Martial King explained that Stone Village had been rebuilt repeatedly but always returned to its original layout.
• The Martial King brought Ye Lin to the ancestral hall and showed him the village chiefs' spirit tablets.
• Ye Lin found Naya's tablet and recognized the blue-bead necklace he had given her.
• Ye Lin followed the river of time and saw Naya keep his necklace, become village chief, and die without ever marrying.

Ye Lin left Stone Village after accepting that Naya’s past could not be changed, then gathered Heavenly Dao origins from ruined worlds and visited the Lord of the Forbidden Void. The Lord was surprised by Ye Lin’s progress, while Ye Lin marveled that the old man was still alive.

• Ye Lin let the river of time dissipate and departed Stone Village with Luo Yao and Lin Yunlu.
• The Martial King watched the three vanish, then found an old book and wondered whether Ye Lin was the man Naya had yearned for.
• Ye Lin collected the Heavenly Dao origins of dozens of ruined small worlds and sent them to the Xuanhuang Great World.
• Ye Lin arrived in the Forbidden Void and mocked the Lord of the Forbidden Void for surviving.
• The Lord of the Forbidden Void sent away his sword-bearing attendant and told Ye Lin that he had exceeded expectations.

Ye Lin offered the old man a Reincarnation Flower, but the old man refused and asked Ye Lin to protect his subordinates after his death. Ye Lin agreed, took the Source of the Forbidden Void and carried the entire Forbidden Void away, leaving the old man to die in peace.

• The old man told Ye Lin he had only a few decades to a hundred years left and refused Ye Lin's offer to reincarnate.
• The old man asked Ye Lin to find a safe place for his subordinates, and Ye Lin promised to take them to the Human Territory.
• The old man gave Ye Lin the Source of the Forbidden Void and relaxed after his concerns were settled.
• Ye Lin took the entire Forbidden Void in his hand and left through the Starry Sky.
• The old man wondered why none of his enemies had come for revenge, unaware that Ye Lin's three great avatars had nearly wiped them out.

Ye Lin traveled through the devastated Star River Cosmos and saw the Heavenly Dao’s calamity wiping out most living beings, while he chose not to interfere. In the Human Emperor Domain, the Human Race’s strongest forces had assembled in a sanctuary that the Aberrations dared not approach.

• Ye Lin entered the Third Region, saw the ruin caused by the Heavenly Dao’s great reshuffling, and decided not to intervene.
• Ye Lin crossed the Second Region and Central Star Domain, observing Aberrations and Evil Cultivators slaughtering living beings while some cultivators hid and struggled to survive.
• Ye Lin discovered that the evil forces avoided people and factions connected to Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• Ye Lin arrived in the Human Emperor Domain and found the Human Race’s top powers gathered in a safe sanctuary that Aberrations would not approach.

Ye Lin placed Forbidden Void alongside humanity and forbade the two sides from killing one another. After an initial battle and several thousand years of uneasy coexistence, Forbidden Void had merged peacefully with the Human Territory, and its Golden Immortals had begun forming ties with humanity.

• Ye Lin left Forbidden Void in humanity's territory and ordered both races to coexist, trade, and refrain from killing one another.
• Human and Forbidden Void powerhouses immediately fought, drawing in more humans, but Ye Lin's prohibition prevented any deaths.
• After three days and nights, both sides stopped fighting and gradually integrated through repeated, nonlethal clashes.
• Several thousand years later, Forbidden Void had merged with humanity, and its Golden Immortals had established ties with human Golden Immortals.

After waking from a nap thousands of years long, Ye Lin discovered that no one else had advanced to the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and found that the Heavenly Dao had allowed a grave threat to persist. He entered the River of Time to intervene, joined by the Sword Venerable and Sky Vault, and arrived in a world crowded with Aberration creatures and nine Primordial Unity Golden Immortal evil beings.

• Ye Lin woke after several thousand years and noted that more than ten thousand years remained before the Emperor Road opened.
• Ye Lin used his divine sense to survey the Star River Cosmos and accused the Heavenly Dao of allowing something intolerable to happen.
• Ye Lin sent Xinyou to find Luo Yao, then entered the River of Time to intervene.
• The Sword Venerable and Sky Vault decided to accompany Ye Lin and set out to destroy the threat.
• Ye Lin stood in a gloomy world filled with Aberration creatures, demons, devils, ghosts, monsters, and nine Primordial Unity Golden Immortal evil beings.

Ye Lin confronted the Aberrations and monsters that the Heavenly Dao had freed to replace the living beings of the Star River Cosmos. He revealed the Heavenly Dao’s purge plan and stood ready to kill them.

• A monster appeared before Ye Lin and asked why he had come, while other creatures gathered around him.
• Ye Lin drew the Emperor Sword and declared that he had come to kill them.
• The Aberrations urged Ye Lin to leave and wait for the Emperor Road, claiming they had not harmed his interests.
• Ye Lin recognized that the Heavenly Dao had released the sealed Aberrations and monsters to rule the Star River Cosmos.
• The Heavenly Dao had begun its plan after Ye Lin’s killing of Primordial Unity Golden Immortals weakened their ranks, while it helped Ye Lin enter the Primordial Unity realm in return for his settling accounts with them.

Ye Lin confronted the Aberrations after discovering Heavenly Dao’s plan to let them prey on the Star River Cosmos, and refused their demands that he leave. Sword Venerable and Sky Vault arrived with reinforcements, leaving the Aberrations facing a group of seven Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.

• Ye Lin discovered Heavenly Dao’s plan and decided to stop the Aberrations from turning the Star River Cosmos into their playground.
• The Aberrations tried to persuade Ye Lin to leave, promising not to harm his friends, but he vowed to kill them all.
• The Aberrations threatened Ye Lin and claimed Heavenly Dao had permitted their plan to flourish.
• Sword Venerable and Sky Vault arrived with three Primordial Unity Golden Immortals of the Phoenix Clan and two of the Dragon Clan.
• The Aberrations were startled that Heavenly Dao had allowed the seven reinforcements to come.

Ye Lin and the Sword Venerable led the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals into battle against the Aberrations, and the Heavenly Dao watched without taking sides. The fighting left the Star River Cosmos in chaos, while Ye Lin’s actions gave its remaining sentient beings a chance to survive.

• The Primordial Unity Golden Immortals arrived and condemned the Aberrations surrounding Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin raised the Emperor Sword and attacked a peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, while the newcomers launched their own attacks.
• Ye Lin dragged an Aberration into the river of time, and the great melee erupted among the Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• The battle shattered the river of time and disrupted the laws of heaven and earth, frightening powerful cultivators across the Star River Cosmos.
• The Heavenly Dao watched without helping either side, recognizing that Ye Lin’s intervention had likely prevented the Aberrations from destroying the remaining sentient beings.

Ye Lin overwhelmed the Aberration in the River of Time, then used acquired-grade techniques and revealed his Chaos Sword Body. The Aberration recognized the techniques as impossible for the Star River Cosmos and demanded to know who Ye Lin’s master was.

• The Aberration complained that Ye Lin was far stronger than it had expected as he continued to suppress it.
• Ye Lin mocked the Aberration and attacked it with Sword Qi, which vanished before it could cause substantial harm.
• Ye Lin used the Grand Void Ashen Extinction Finger and Karmic Fire Red Lotus, astonishing the Aberration with their acquired-grade power.
• The Aberration used black mist to destroy both attacks but remained wary of Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin revealed his Chaos Sword Body, and the Aberration cursed in shock and demanded to know who his master was.

Ye Lin used his Chaos Sword Body and sword techniques to pursue a powerful Aberration, but its superior cultivation let it evade his attacks. He trapped it in a sword formation and tried to sever its karma, but the Aberration remained unharmed.

• The Aberration offered to tell Ye Lin about the Boundary Sea if he spared it, but Ye Lin rejected the offer and kept attacking.
• The Aberration fled instead of fighting Ye Lin head-on, confident that its speed and cultivation would keep it safe.
• Ye Lin formed a sword formation around the Aberration and struck it with lightning Sword Qi, but it felt no pain.
• Ye Lin used Karma Severance to target the Aberration's thread of Destiny, but the Aberration claimed it had no such thread and laughed off the attack.

Ye Lin and his allies used specially crafted God-Binding Ropes to pull the Aberrations out of the River of Time and restrain it. Ye Lin attacked with sword techniques and flames, then stabbed its head with the Emperor Sword as its consciousness and life force faded.

• The Aberrations escaped into the River of Time, but Ye Lin revealed that he had prepared a trap with several allies.
• The allies used golden God-Binding Ropes to drag the Aberrations out of the River of Time and bind it.
• Ye Lin slashed the Aberrations with the Emperor Sword and burned it with Karmic Fire Red Lotus while his allies held it fast.
• As the Aberrations weakened and begged for its life, Ye Lin imbued his sword with Purgatory Ice Flame and plunged it into the Aberrations' head.
• The Aberrations struggled as its consciousness scattered and its life force faded.