Recaps

The Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable realized Ye Lin had used his promise to kill him in three swords to control the fight and defeat him. Ye Lin then met the black bear guarding the next stage, who called himself Long Aotian and challenged him to attack.

• After Ye Lin left, the Radiant Sun Sacred Venerable recognized that Ye Lin had used the first two sword strikes as bait before delivering the real third strike.
• Young prodigies gathered around the Hundred Heroes Ranking and admired Ye Lin, whose name had reached eighth place.
• Ye Lin encountered a black bear and asked whether it guarded the stage.
• The black bear identified himself as Long Aotian, claimed he had once roamed the world by that name, and told Ye Lin to attack.

Ye Lin fought Black Bear with Azure Frost and used his sword to sever the bear’s paw. Black Bear transformed into a colossal flaming bear and injured Ye Lin in return, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ye Lin ignited Purgatory Ice Flame and attacked Black Bear with his sword.
• Ye Lin severed Black Bear’s paw, and Black Bear recognized Azure Frost as an acquired spirit treasure.
• Black Bear grew into a hundred-zhang flaming bear and used his aura to hinder Ye Lin’s movements.
• Ye Lin poured his Chaos power into Azure Frost and unleashed a powerful sword strike.
• Black Bear’s clash with Ye Lin shattered space, and Black Bear stared at his bleeding palm.

Ye Lin found the hidden Void Walker and recognized him from his history, recalling how the old man and a black bear had remained devoted to each other through hardship. The account ended with the black bear guarding the Void Walker’s grave for countless eras before disappearing into the Star River Cosmos.

• Black Bear searched for Ye Lin after Ye Lin vanished from his perception.
• Ye Lin sensed a barrier, slashed through it with Azure Frost, and entered a hidden space.
• Ye Lin told the old man he recognized him as the Void Walker, not Black Bear or Long Aotian.
• Ye Lin recalled how the Void Walker had raised an ordinary wounded black bear despite mockery and hardship.
• The black bear became a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, stayed with the Void Walker until his death, and later disappeared after guarding his grave for countless eras.

Ye Lin discovered the dead old man behind Black Bear’s trial and learned that Black Bear had stayed loyal to him. After refusing to exploit the old man’s presence to win, Ye Lin returned to the battlefield to face Black Bear in a fair fight, and Black Bear launched the first attack.

• Ye Lin found the Void Walker hidden behind a barrier and learned that he had chosen death so he would not become a burden to Black Bear.
• The Void Walker declared that Ye Lin had passed the trial, and Black Bear found Ye Lin at the hidden space.
• Ye Lin restored the barrier and told Black Bear he would settle their victory and defeat in person rather than use the old man to win.
• Black Bear left, saying the old man had never been a burden and that he would teach Ye Lin a lesson.
• Ye Lin and Black Bear returned to the battlefield, where Black Bear charged and brought his massive fist down toward Ye Lin.

After Hong Batian, Li Xiaoyao, and Liu Bai failed to enter the Hundred Heroes Ranking, Ye Lin defeated Black Bear and advanced to eighth place. He then faced Snow Velvet, who was Aunt Xue, as onlookers expected him to keep climbing.

• Hong Batian, Li Xiaoyao, and Liu Bai left after failing to make the Hundred Heroes Ranking.
• An unseen observer watched the ranking from a distant place.
• Black Bear conceded defeat to Ye Lin and disappeared after confirming that Ye Lin had passed.
• Ye Lin advanced to eighth place, drawing admiration from the young prodigies gathered before the ranking.
• Ye Lin saw Snow Velvet, who was Aunt Xue, and she marveled that a junior had reached such heights.

Ye Lin fought Snow Velvet, testing his sword techniques against her silver needles. Snow Velvet shattered his Sword Qi and pursued him with the needles, while Ye Lin evaded them behind a Sword Qi barrier.

• Snow Velvet recognized the stitching on Ye Lin’s clothes, and Ye Lin explained that she had made them when they met on the Emperor Road.
• Snow Velvet invited Ye Lin to show his abilities, and he attacked with dense Sword Qi.
• Snow Velvet shattered Ye Lin’s Sword Qi with silver needles while remaining calm.
• Ye Lin used the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword, but Snow Velvet saw through his stronger concealed attack and sent needles after him.
• Ye Lin dodged the pursuing needles and raised a Sword Qi barrier as they struck it with deafening booms.

Ye Lin fought Snow Velvet, who attacked him with silver needles and mistook him for the Sword Venerable. After her lightning needle pierced his chest and she threatened him with a golden needle, Ye Lin escaped her immediate reach but remained in danger.

• Ye Lin shattered Snow Velvet's silver needles and destroyed the cliff and peach tree with his Grand Void Space-Rending Sword.
• Ye Lin unleashed his aura and Sword Qi to destroy more hidden needles and tear apart the distant white-clad figure.
• Snow Velvet accused Ye Lin of bearing the Sword Venerable's likeness and attacked him in anger.
• A silver needle pierced Ye Lin's chest and sent lightning pain through his body, disrupting his control.
• Snow Velvet thrust a golden needle toward Ye Lin's brow, but he forced out the silver needle and retreated beyond her reach.

Ye Lin defeated Snow Velvet and the challengers ranked above him until he reached second place, then faced Li Jinhuang, the final opponent. The battle brought him to the Holy Palace inside the Ten Thousand Races Arena, where Li Jinhuang sat waiting on a golden throne.

• Ye Lin used Karmic Fire Red Lotus and Grand Void Space-Rending Sword to defeat Snow Velvet.
• Ye Lin defeated the Sword Venerable at fifth place and a spear-wielding woman at fourth place.
• Ye Lin silently fought and defeated a black-robed man at third place.
• Ye Lin used the Flower Fairy’s weakness to defeat her and claim second place.
• Ye Lin entered the Ten Thousand Races Arena’s Holy Palace and found Li Jinhuang seated on a golden throne.

Ye Lin faced Li Jinhuang, the Ancient Human Emperor, after climbing to second place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking. As the two prepared to fight, spectators disputed whether Ye Lin could win and Primordial Unity Golden Immortals set out for the Phoenix Clan to find Hong Batian.

• Li Jinhuang recognized Ye Lin as a prodigy of a later generation and raised his domineering aura, forcing Ye Lin to step back.
• Li Jinhuang challenged Ye Lin to show his strength, and Ye Lin accepted while gripping Azure Frost.
• Young prodigies cheered as Ye Lin reached second place on the Hundred Heroes Ranking and prepared to challenge Li Jinhuang for first place.
• Spectators argued over whether Ye Lin could defeat Li Jinhuang and discussed Hong Batian's reported encounter with the Ancient Human Emperor at the end of the Emperor Road.
• Primordial Unity Golden Immortals headed toward the Phoenix Clan to seek out Hong Batian and witness his abilities.

Li Jinhuang tested Ye Lin by increasing his sword strikes from ten to ninety percent of his strength, and Ye Lin shattered each attack. The final strike forced Ye Lin back three steps, leaving him trembling and struggling to hold Azure Frost.

• Li Jinhuang began testing Ye Lin with sword strikes that grew from ten to sixty percent of his strength, and Ye Lin shattered them all.
• Li Jinhuang increased his strength to seventy and eighty percent, while Ye Lin stepped forward and broke both attacks despite his trembling sword and arm.
• Li Jinhuang unleashed a ninety-percent-strength strike that shattered the ground and surrounding space.
• Ye Lin fused his essence, energy, and spirit to break Li Jinhuang's attack, then staggered back three steps, trembling as he held Azure Frost.

Ye Lin faced Li Jinhuang’s full-strength strike and realized the Ancient Human Emperor’s power far exceeded his previous understanding. Their swords collided, shattering space and driving both men back, with the outcome unresolved.

• Ye Lin recognized that Li Jinhuang’s earlier sword strikes had tested his resolve as much as his strength.
• Li Jinhuang summoned a golden dragon around the simulated Human Emperor Sword and unleashed a devastating strike.
• Ye Lin answered with the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword, wielding Azure Frost as his Chaos Sword Body cried out.
• Ye Lin’s and Li Jinhuang’s Sword Qi clashed, shattering space and creating a bottomless Abyss.
• The collision’s aftershock spread outward and forced both Ye Lin and Li Jinhuang backward.

Ye Lin passed the Hundred Heroes Ranking’s trial when Li Jinhuang declared him the winner and explained that the ranking’s incarnation could not show his true strength. Ye Lin took first place, and spectators celebrated as his name replaced Ancient Human Emperor’s at the summit.

• Li Jinhuang told Ye Lin that withstanding his ten swords had won the trial and that a true battle required finding his real body.
• Li Jinhuang sat on the golden chair, declared Ye Lin first on the Hundred Heroes Ranking, and vanished with the chair.
• Ye Lin put away Azure Frost and left, reflecting that the ranking could not represent the true strength of its incarnations.
• The Hundred Heroes Ranking changed its first-place name from Ancient Human Emperor to Ye Lin, filling nearly every position with Ye Lin’s name.
• The gathered cultivators cheered Ye Lin’s achievement and talked about reaching the ranking themselves.

Ye Lin left the Hundred Heroes Ranking after becoming number one, then visited the Sword Venerable deep in the River of Time. The Sword Venerable praised Ye Lin and explained that even the Zenith Heaven realm was only the beginning.

• Primordial Unity Golden Immortals discussed Ye Lin's rise and whether they should reincarnate to cultivate anew.
• Young cultivators from the Human Race and other races bowed to Ye Lin, who lifted them to their feet and departed.
• Ye Lin arrived deep in the River of Time and found the Sword Venerable drinking tea.
• The Sword Venerable praised Ye Lin for shattering the Hundred Heroes Ranking and achieving what he had failed to do.
• The Sword Venerable told Ye Lin that Daluo Golden Immortal and Zenith Heaven were only beginnings, and that attaining Zenith Heaven revealed the vastness of heaven and earth.

Ye Lin asked Sword Venerable about the Zenith Heaven lightning tribulation and his plans beyond the Star River Cosmos. After Sword Venerable departed for the Origin Continent, Ye Lin resolved to leave the Void Clan a blood essence safeguard once he reached Zenith Heaven.

• Ye Lin asked Sword Venerable how powerful the Zenith Heaven lightning tribulation was, and Sword Venerable said Ye Lin's talent would let him overcome it.
• Ye Lin asked where Sword Venerable was going, and Sword Venerable said he would wander the Boundary Sea on his way to the Origin Continent.
• Sword Venerable explained that the Boundary Sea contained many universes and invited Ye Lin to visit the Origin Continent someday.
• Sword Venerable urged Ye Lin not to disappoint Sky Vault, then faded away.
• Ye Lin decided that once he reached Zenith Heaven, he would leave the Void Clan a drop of blood essence that could summon him during a crisis.

Ye Lin left the Star River Cosmos to prepare for a breakthrough to Daluo Golden Immortal, while Hong Batian, Liu Bai, and Li Xiaoyao reflected on the gap between their cultivation and his. The story left Liu Bai heading off to settle an old grudge and the other two looking for entertainment.

• Ye Lin considered advancing to Daluo Golden Immortal, confident in his foundation but concerned about the lightning tribulation.
• Ye Lin tore through the Star River Cosmos barrier and stepped outside it.
• Hong Batian and Liu Bai envied Ye Lin’s progress, while Li Xiaoyao joined their sighing.
• Liu Bai refused Hong Batian’s offer of help and left to settle a personal grudge against remnants of the Ancient Royal Clan.
• Hong Batian and Li Xiaoyao decided to visit the pleasure quarters and listen to music.

Ye Lin traveled deep into the Boundary Sea to break through to the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, away from any universe. He began gathering the Three Flowers by cultivating his understanding of the sword dao laws, and the flowers showed the first signs of blooming.

• Ye Lin entered the Boundary Sea and found that his Chaos Sword Body let him withstand its violent chaotic currents.
• Ye Lin moved far from the Star River Cosmos so his breakthrough tribulation would not endanger it.
• After a day of travel, Ye Lin settled in a remote, lightless part of the Boundary Sea and prepared to break through.
• Ye Lin communicated with heaven and earth and reviewed his sword dao law comprehension to nourish the Three Flowers.
• Ye Lin continued his long process of gathering the Three Flowers as they grew denser and began to bloom.

Ye Lin manifested the Three Flowers of Law and faced the Great Luo Heavenly Tribulation. After he weathered its first wave, a more dangerous assault targeted the flowers that formed the foundation of his Dao.

• Ye Lin drew his Golden Immortal power inward and manifested the Heaven Flower, Earth Flower, and Human Flower above his head.
• The Three Flowers triggered a Great Luo Heavenly Tribulation, and chaotic lightning, karmic fire, and storms began raining down on Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin used the Heaven Flower's time law, the Earth Flower's spatial defenses, and the Human Flower's Sword Qi to overcome the first wave.
• A massive vortex formed in the tribulation clouds as weapons and chains made of law attacked the Three Flowers, forcing Ye Lin to brace for the test of his Dao foundation.

Ye Lin completed the Heavenly Dao Trial of his Three Flowers, proving that his cultivation and foundation were solid. He then faced the physical and Primordial Spirit baptism of the Great Luo lightning tribulation, which left his body badly cracked as the third bolt struck.

• Ye Lin endured a year of attacks against his Three Flowers, and the Human Flower scattered them with waves of Sword Qi.
• The Heavenly Dao Trial ended, confirming Ye Lin's cultivation was solid and his foundation was firm.
• Ye Lin prepared for the baptism of his body and Primordial Spirit as the tribulation clouds roared overhead.
• The first violet lightning bolt struck Ye Lin, causing pain to his Primordial Spirit but little trouble for his body.
• The second bolt cracked Ye Lin's skin, and the third, blood-red bolt shattered it further until he resembled a cracked porcelain doll.

Ye Lin endured three years of increasingly violent lightning tribulation, which left his dantian and Primordial Spirit unharmed and imbued with a mysterious aura. As he neared the final step to becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal, his consciousness was drawn into a darkness filled with reflections of himself standing on rivers of time.

• Ye Lin accepted the lightning tribulation without resisting as it destroyed his flesh, organs, and eventually his skeleton, while his dantian, Primordial Spirit, and Three Flowers remained intact.
• The tribulation unleashed countless powerful kinds of lightning against Ye Lin, but he endured without making a sound.
• After three years, the lightning stopped, and Ye Lin saw a faint, mysterious aura on his dantian and Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin wondered what final step remained before he could become a Daluo Golden Immortal while the tribulation clouds still lingered.
• Ye Lin's consciousness entered a boundless darkness, where countless reflections of himself appeared on rivers of time.

Ye Lin broke free of the Star River Cosmos’s control over his Destiny, then faced a severe test of his Dao heart during his Transcendence. He resisted the voices and temptations urging him to abandon his breakthrough.

• Ye Lin’s reflections shattered one after another, erasing his traces from the Star River Cosmos’s timelines and completing his Fate Rank Transcendence.
• Ye Lin saw and then lost the reflection of his previous life, affirming that he was simply himself.
• Voices questioning his Dao and tempting him with bliss or a false Great Luo realm attacked Ye Lin’s mind.
• Black chains bound Ye Lin as exhaustion and spiritual torment threatened to make him surrender to sleep.
• Ye Lin remained silent and held fast to his original heart, refusing to let his guard down.

Ye Lin overcame the heart demon tribulation by affirming his own Dao, then fused his Three Flowers and survived the final lightning strike to form a true Great Luo Dao Fruit. He became a Daluo Golden Immortal with an innate Chaos Sword Body and discovered he could freely manipulate others' Destiny.

• Ye Lin used the light of his Flower of Laws to break the chains and reject the heart demon's voices, declaring that his Dao followed his own heart and responsibility.
• Ye Lin's Heaven Flower, Earth Flower, and Human Flower merged, and their Laws formed a single point of light that pierced the tribulation clouds.
• After three hours of lightning, Ye Lin's Great Luo Dao Fruit condensed as the culmination of his cultivation and Laws, distinct from the Heavenly Dao's false Great Luo fruit.
• The Dao Fruit merged with Ye Lin's Primordial Spirit, and a beam from the Boundary Sea rebuilt his body and transformed his Chaos Sword Body into an innate one.
• Ye Lin sensed his new Daluo Golden Immortal power and realized he could freely arrange the Destiny of others.

Ye Lin achieved true Zenith Heaven and became a law Daluo Golden Immortal, sending a transcendent aura across the Boundary Sea. After he vanished, the Boundary Sea’s factions and experts debated his breakthrough and the arrival of two new supreme experts.

• Ye Lin completed his transformation, becoming one with the Dao and attaining true Zenith Heaven.
• Ye Lin announced that he had finally become a Daluo Golden Immortal, and his transcendent aura swept across the Boundary Sea.
• Experts throughout the Boundary Sea sensed Ye Lin’s breakthrough but could only glimpse his distant silhouette.
• Ye Lin stepped into the Void and disappeared.
• The Boundary Sea’s experts argued over the two recent Daluo Golden Immortal breakthroughs and the threat they might pose.
• The experts discussed a Demon Venerable who planned to use a universe’s Dao Fruit to achieve Zenith Heaven.

After Ye Lin and the Sword Venerable’s emergence sent Boundary Sea factions into hiding, Ye Lin returned to the Star River Cosmos and saw that his panel had begun upgrading. He decided to keep his unused realm-advancement opportunity in reserve while he waited for the upgrade’s reward.

• Boundary Sea powerhouses concealed themselves more deeply after two Law Daluo Golden Immortals appeared, fearing they might be discovered and killed.
• Ye Lin arrived in the Star River Cosmos and sensed everything happening there, while the Sword Venerable had already departed.
• Ye Lin inspected his panel and received notices that it had begun upgrading, with the process expected to take three thousand years.
• Ye Lin recalled that his unused one-time realm advancement could raise him above Daluo Golden Immortal and chose to save it as a future trump card.

Ye Lin gave Sky Vault a drop of his essence blood as a means for the Void Clan to summon him if it faced danger. Before leaving the Star River Cosmos, he summoned eight companions to say farewell.

• Ye Lin arrived in the Void Clan's territory, where Sky Vault praised his rise to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin offered Sky Vault a drop of his essence blood and promised to answer if the Void Clan called for help.
• Sky Vault accepted the essence blood, and Ye Lin bid him farewell before vanishing.
• Ye Lin summoned Liu Bai, Hong Batian, Li Xiaoyao, Wang Tian, Bao Xiaotou, Poison Venerable, Dugu Feng, and Shangguan Wanyu into the void.

Ye Lin reunited with his companions, revealed that he was leaving the Star River Cosmos, and asked about their plans. He assigned them to protect the Human Race and left Poison Venerable in command of the Heavenly Demons.

• Ye Lin saw that most of his companions were at the ninth level of Golden Immortal and that the others had reached the late stage of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Hong Batian realized Ye Lin had become a Daluo Golden Immortal when his hand passed through Ye Lin's body.
• Li Rushuang arrived and sat beside Li Xiaoyao, while Ye Lin noted how quickly her cultivation was advancing.
• Ye Lin told the group he would soon leave and asked what they intended to do.
• Bao Xiaotou said the group planned to guard the Human Race, and Ye Lin assigned Poison Venerable to command the Heavenly Demons.