Recaps

The Spirit King tried to persuade Luo Yao to stay with him, but she insisted on remaining with Ye Lin. After enduring the overwhelming presence of the secret realm's experts, Wang Mingyang submitted to the Spirit King and began discussing the Wang Family's proposed cooperation.

• The Spirit King offered to make Luo Yao his little sister and promised to care for her, but Luo Yao said she wanted to stay with Brother Ye Lin.
• Wang Mingyang, surrounded by powerful Daluo Golden Immortals and intimidated by the two elders, grew increasingly frightened while Ye Lin did not help him.
• Wang Mingyang concluded the secret realm beings were trying to assert dominance and saluted the Spirit King on behalf of the Wang Family.
• The Spirit King welcomed Wang Mingyang, gave him a seat, and asked what cooperation the Wang Family proposed.

The Spirit King made Wang Mingyang’s cooperation with the secret realm contingent on Ye Lin’s approval of every transaction. Wang Mingyang agreed, leaving Ye Lin with a role in the Wang Family’s future dealings.

• Ye Lin realized the Spirit King had used the earlier encirclement and negotiations to pressure Wang Mingyang into accepting less favorable terms.
• After the cooperation terms were settled, the Spirit King required Wang Mingyang to obtain Ye Lin’s approval before every transaction.
• Wang Mingyang was surprised by the condition but agreed, saying he and Ye Lin got along well.
• Wang Mingyang considered that he could offer Ye Lin benefits, but resolved to execute him if Ye Lin deliberately obstructed the Wang Family.

Wang Mingyang and the Spirit King finalized their cooperation, giving the Wang Family a path to dominate Long River Prefecture. As Ye Lin prepared to leave for the Origin Chamber of Commerce, the Spirit King asked him to trade the resources in a Spatial Ring for Xuan Yang Jinyi Iron.

• The Spirit King and Wang Mingyang agreed to cooperate, while Ye Lin was allowed to continue overseeing the Wang Family.
• The Spirit King invited Wang Mingyang and Ye Lin to stay and enjoy his hospitality, but Ye Lin said he had to visit the Origin Chamber of Commerce.
• Ye Lin explained transaction points to the Spirit King, who became interested in the Saint-built chamber of commerce.
• The Spirit King handed Ye Lin a Spatial Ring and asked him to exchange its resources for as much Xuan Yang Jinyi Iron as possible.

Ye Lin left Luo Yao with Spirit King after she chose to stay and enjoy the food. As he departed the secret realm, Ye Lin began to doubt why Spirit King treated him so well when he seemed to have no value to offer.

• Spirit King stopped Ye Lin from taking Luo Yao and offered to keep her company.
• Ye Lin asked Luo Yao whether she wanted to stay, and she chose to wait there for him.
• Ye Lin accepted Luo Yao's choice, promised to return for her, and left her in Spirit King's care.
• Spirit King happily watched over Luo Yao while Wang Mingyang reflected on Ye Lin's fondness for classes.
• After leaving the secret realm, Ye Lin wondered why Spirit King valued him despite having nothing left to use.

Ye Lin traveled across Origin Continent toward the only Origin Chamber of Commerce branch in Long River Prefecture, stopping to recover after ten days. When a bloodied woman asked him for help, he refused and ordered her to leave.

• Ye Lin left for the distant Origin Chamber of Commerce branch, suppressing Demon Beasts with his Daluo Golden Immortal pressure as he traveled.
• Ye Lin estimated the journey would take a month and continued accelerating across the great prefecture.
• After ten days of nonstop travel, Ye Lin descended into a canyon and entered a cave to recover his chaotic power.
• Thunderous fighting outside the cave drew Ye Lin out, where he saw three figures attacking a young man.
• A bloodied woman appeared behind Ye Lin and begged for help, but he told her to leave within three breaths or he would kill her.

Ye Lin forced Chunxin to surrender her Spatial Ring before leaving the cave and intervening in the battle against her senior brother. He effortlessly struck down one attacker, while the other two faced him.

• Chunxin begged Ye Lin to rescue her senior brother, but Ye Lin threatened to kill her when she failed to leave after three breaths.
• Chunxin offered her possessions, and Ye Lin took her Spatial Ring, discovering it held vast resources and rare medicines given to her by her master for the Origin Chamber of Commerce.
• Ye Lin emerged from the cave and saw three attackers about to kill Chunxin's badly wounded senior brother, a disciple of Sword True Person from the Supreme Sword Sect.
• Ye Lin stopped the attackers' strikes and appeared before them; when one demanded to know who he was, Ye Lin sent him crashing into a wall with a glance.

After recovering in a cave, Ye Lin left Chunxin and her injured senior brother a ten-thousand-year spiritual medicine and continued toward his destination in Long River Prefecture. His journey was halted by an immense transparent barrier that he could not move.

• Ye Lin killed three Dao Fruit Great Luos with a glance and brought their half-dead captive back to the cave, where Chunxin reunited with her senior brother.
• Ye Lin crushed the three attackers' Spatial Rings, found nothing useful, and recuperated while Chunxin treated her senior brother.
• After three days, Ye Lin left Chunxin a ten-thousand-year spiritual medicine and set off toward his destination.
• Ye Lin traveled across Long River Prefecture until he encountered a transparent barrier stretching endlessly across his path.
• Ye Lin pressed his hand against the barrier and found it immovable.

Ye Lin encountered an impassable barrier on the route to the Origin Chamber of Commerce and learned it had been erected by a quasi-saint to contain an Evil Demon. He discovered the barrier could not be bypassed nearby, leaving his journey blocked.

• Ye Lin found that a powerful barrier blocked the route shown on his map and left to find out why.
• Ye Lin entered a nearby city and met an old man known as Know-It-All in an alley.
• Ye Lin paid Know-It-All to learn that a quasi-saint had erected the barrier ten years earlier to contain an Evil Demon threatening Long River Prefecture.
• Ye Lin asked about reaching the Origin Chamber of Commerce and learned the barrier stretched tens of thousands of Pengcheng in either direction.
• Ye Lin learned that no one knew when the barrier would disappear and realized his route was blocked.

Ye Lin followed directions to the entrance of the barrier surrounding a vortex, where cultivators paid a million Supreme Immortal Stones to enter. He received an Identity Token and learned it was needed to distinguish cultivators from demons inside, leaving him poised to enter the dangerous region.

• Ye Lin paid an old man for directions and learned the entrance lay at the end of the main road, with entry costing one million Supreme Immortal Stones.
• Ye Lin followed the road and wondered whether a Quasi-Saint was using the barrier to collect money, then dismissed the idea.
• Ye Lin reached the vortex and saw powerful cultivators queuing to enter, including Daluo Golden Immortals seeking a chance to advance.
• Ye Lin reflected on how the Dao had no end and how even Daluo Golden Immortals were ants to Quasi-Saints.
• Ye Lin paid for entry and received an Identity Token, which he was warned to keep safe because demons inside could disguise themselves as ordinary beings.

Ye Lin entered the region wearing an Identity Token and stayed alert for Evil Demons. He left the area after killing several beings who lacked tokens and whose panels he could not see.

• Ye Lin crossed the barrier and traveled quickly through the seemingly ordinary landscape, wary of Evil Demons.
• A young man without an Identity Token ran after Ye Lin and claimed he had lost it.
• Ye Lin saw that he could not view the young man's panel and killed him with Azure Frost.
• Ye Lin continued onward and killed the other Evil Demons he encountered, who were mostly weak cultivators.

Ye Lin discovered that nightfall unleashed Evil Demons and followed a Daluo Golden Immortal woman to a protected city. He made it inside just before the darkness overtook the outside, where the woman questioned why he had been wandering without knowing the rules.

• Ye Lin realized the Evil Demons he had encountered were likely only the weaker ones and suspected a greater threat remained.
• As the sky darkened, a woman called out to Ye Lin and urged him to follow her to a safe zone.
• Ye Lin followed the woman as chilling roars arose from the darkness and terrifying creatures closed in around them.
• The woman led Ye Lin down to a city protected by a barrier, and his Identity Token allowed him to pass through it.
• Inside, an old man teased them for arriving just in time, and the woman asked Ye Lin why he had been outside without knowing the rules.

Ye Lin learned that Evil Crystals could be exchanged for trading points at the Origin Chamber of Commerce and decided to search for them before continuing his journey. He planned to explore the surrounding area after dawn, when the wilderness was safer.

• A woman warned Ye Lin that daytime and nighttime each lasted thirty shichen and that Evil Demons grew much stronger after dark.
• Ye Lin asked what Evil Crystals were, surprising the woman and the powerful figures nearby.
• The woman explained that the Origin Chamber of Commerce paid a thousand trading points for each Evil Crystal and said they could be found in canyons, ruins, or by questioning Evil Demons.
• The woman gave Ye Lin an Evil Crystal, and he stored it in his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin decided to explore for Evil Crystals after dawn and postpone his trip to the Origin Chamber of Commerce if the search proved worthwhile.

Ye Lin and the cultivators endured mind-rattling howls from beyond the city’s light barrier. After a Daluo Golden Immortal returned bloodied from the darkness, the newcomers learned that it blocked the six senses and stayed inside until morning.

• Ye Lin and the cultivators struggled to withstand howls that disrupted meditation and agitated their minds.
• A Daluo Golden Immortal charged beyond the light barrier, unable to endure the noise.
• The cultivator returned bloodied and warned that the darkness blocked the six senses and made it impossible to find direction.
• The restless newcomers settled down inside the city, while Daluo Golden Immortals suppressed Primordial Unity Golden Immortals whose minds were unraveling.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes and remained unmoved by the continuing howls.

After daylight returned, Ye Lin left the safe zone to investigate the strange light and search the ruins for Evil Crystals. He found an empty, devastated city and left without learning what had happened there.

• Daylight arrived after thirty hours, and the Evil Demons vanished.
• A middle-aged man said thirty-two Primordial Unity Golden Immortals had died during the night.
• Ye Lin suspected the daylight came from a magic artifact that restrained the darkness and wondered what the quasi-sages were plotting.
• Ye Lin left the safe zone to search for Evil Crystals in ruined faction sites.
• Ye Lin explored a ruined city but found no corpses, Evil Demons, or Evil Crystals.

Ye Lin discovered an enormous hollow beneath the ruins, where Evil Demons guarded a pit filled with Evil Crystals. He slaughtered the demons surrounding him and prepared to move on after destroying their three Daluo Golden Immortal leaders.

• Ye Lin sensed something wrong with the ground and stomped until the ruins collapsed, revealing a hollow beneath them.
• Countless Evil Demons surrounded Ye Lin, and he spotted a pit filled with black Evil Crystals.
• Ye Lin used his twin swords to kill the surrounding Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Evil Demons.
• Ye Lin faced the three Daluo Golden Immortal Evil Demons and erased them with the Grand Void Space-Rending Sword.

After defeating the Evil Demons, Ye Lin collected 634 foul-smelling Evil Crystals from the sinkhole but doubted whether they were genuine. He returned to the safe zone to have them identified before continuing his search.

• Ye Lin wondered why the Evil Demons had fought to the death despite being able to communicate and recognize danger.
• Ye Lin uncovered a dense trove of Evil Crystals, but their unbearable stench made him question whether they were real.
• Ye Lin stored the 634 crystals in a separate Spatial Ring and calculated they might be worth 6,340,000 trading points.
• Ye Lin decided to return to the safe zone to identify the crystals before exploring further.
• Ye Lin reached the safe zone, found only a handful of seriously injured survivors, and approached an old man.

Ye Lin learned that Evil Demon blood could remove the stench from an Evil Crystal, then set out to hunt Evil Demons and search for ruins. After an hour without finding any, he discovered a cloud-hidden mountain that opened onto a vast continent.

• Ye Lin showed the wounded old man an Evil Crystal, and the old man confirmed its identity and explained that Evil Demon blood would remove its stench.
• Ye Lin thanked the old man, put away the Evil Crystal, and left the safe zone to begin hunting.
• Ye Lin examined the Evil Crystal he had received from a woman but could not determine its purpose or sense any energy from it.
• Ye Lin searched the land for an hour without finding ruins, then spotted a mysterious mountain concealed by clouds.
• Ye Lin flew through the clouds and found a vast continent filled with mist-shrouded mountain peaks.

Ye Lin searched the continent for the Evil Demons whose auras had vanished, hoping to use their blood to cleanse his Evil Crystal. He traced them to a cave and sent in a clone, which recognized the familiar stench of Evil Crystals.

• Ye Lin entered the continent and found that the dozens of unfamiliar auras he had sensed earlier had disappeared.
• Ye Lin searched the area and decided to capture Evil Demons to wash away the stench on his Evil Crystal.
• Ye Lin tracked the vanished auras to a cave and sent a clone inside while he stayed outside.
• Ye Lin's clone smelled Evil Crystals in the cave and realized there were likely many of them.

Ye Lin found Chunxin tied up by Evil Demons deep underground and rescued her. Chunxin explained that she had come to exchange her dead senior brother’s belongings for transaction points, fearing her strict master’s punishment if she returned without them.

• Ye Lin discovered Evil Demons gathered around a bound woman in an underground chamber filled with Evil Crystals.
• Ye Lin recognized the captive as Chunxin and killed the surrounding Evil Demons, including their Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin freed Chunxin and asked why she had come to such a dangerous place.
• Chunxin said her senior brother had died and she had brought his belongings to the Myriad Heavens Pawnshop for transaction points.
• Chunxin told Ye Lin she feared her master would beat her if she returned without the transaction points.

Ye Lin finished cleansing the Evil Crystals and refused Chunxin’s request to travel with him, but she followed him as he searched for more. After hours without finding ruins, Ye Lin reached a safe zone just before nightfall.

• Ye Lin processed the remaining Evil Crystals, gaining another three hundred or so.
• Chunxin asked Ye Lin to take her with him, but he refused and left.
• Chunxin followed Ye Lin while he searched for ruins and Evil Crystals.
• After traveling for ten hours without finding unlooted ruins, Ye Lin headed toward mountains and valleys.
• With nightfall approaching, Ye Lin found a safe zone and entered a room.

Ye Lin waited in the safe zone as Chunxin entered from the darkness beneath an umbrella that protected her from both the darkness and the Evil Demons. After a cultivator’s attack failed to harm her, Chunxin revealed she was the personal disciple of a Supreme Sword Sect Grand Elder, and the gathered cultivators backed off.

• Ye Lin meditated in his room while the familiar screams continued outside.
• Chunxin crossed the darkness beneath a radiant umbrella, which kept the Evil Demons from approaching her.
• Cultivators in the safe zone recognized the umbrella’s power and prepared to seize it when Chunxin arrived.
• A Daluo Golden Immortal attacked Chunxin as she entered the safe zone, but the umbrella blocked the strike without harm.
• Chunxin identified herself as the personal disciple of the Sage of Delusion Breaking, and the cultivators abandoned their plans to take her umbrella.

Chunxin searched the safe zone for Ye Lin while he waited out the night and set off toward the Origin Chamber of Commerce. On the way, Ye Lin spotted Evil Demons searching a mountain range and suspected they were looking for Evil Crystals, but another cultivator challenged his claim to the area.

• Chunxin searched the safe zone for two hours without finding Ye Lin, then waited for daylight.
• Ye Lin left the safe zone alone and traveled toward the Origin Chamber of Commerce while looking for ruins.
• Ye Lin spotted countless Evil Demons exploring a mountain range and wondered whether they were searching for Evil Crystals.
• The Evil Demons vanished into the mountains, and Ye Lin prepared to investigate with Azure Frost.
• A cultivator blocked Ye Lin with a flying sword and told him to leave because he had claimed the place first.

Ye Lin sent a clone into a mountain cave and discovered Evil Demons turning black qi into Evil Crystals. As he watched them work, a woman spoke to him from nearby.

• A woman in white confronted Ye Lin, then entered the mountain range ahead of him.
• Ye Lin waited, entered a cave briefly, and sent in a clone carrying Azure Frost in case the woman was lying in ambush.
• The clone followed the stench deeper into the cave and reached a clearing filled with black qi and Evil Demons.
• Ye Lin saw the Evil Demons compress black qi into crystals identical to Evil Crystals and wondered why cultivators hunted them for the same crystals the Origin Chamber of Commerce bought.
• A cool voice told Ye Lin not to move if he needed Evil Crystals.

Ye Lin learned from Bai Xue that Evil Demons sealed mutated earthly spiritual energy into Evil Crystals while absorbing its evil aura. As the two watched the demons work, more than twenty Daluo Golden Immortals entered the mountain range, and Ye Lin told Bai Xue that his true body had seen them.

• Ye Lin met Bai Xue and learned that Evil Demons formed Evil Crystals by sealing mutated earthly spiritual energy.
• Bai Xue explained that the demons absorbed the evil aura in the mutated energy, leaving pure earthly spiritual energy inside the crystals.
• Ye Lin and Bai Xue hid nearby and watched the Evil Demons transform more crystals without interrupting them.
• Ye Lin's true body saw powerful experts approaching and chose not to attack because they were too strong.
• The experts rushed into the mountain range, and Ye Lin's avatar told Bai Xue that more than twenty Daluo Golden Immortals had arrived.

Ye Lin and Bai Xue stole the converted Evil Crystals before a crowd of cultivators could reach the cave, then escaped while the newcomers clashed with the enraged Evil Demons. Ye Lin counted his haul in a canyon as Bai Xue wondered whether the Ye Lin beside her was his true body or a clone.

• Ye Lin revealed his clone and persuaded Bai Xue to take the converted Evil Crystals instead of trying to stop the approaching cultivators.
• Ye Lin and Bai Xue swept up the Evil Crystals and fled, with Ye Lin capturing two Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Evil Demons as they left.
• Dozens of cultivators entered the cave, found no Evil Crystals, and were attacked by the Evil Demons, including more than a dozen Great Luo Golden Immortals.
• Ye Lin killed two Evil Demons in a distant canyon and used their blood to baptize the crystals, counting a haul of 233.
• Bai Xue watched Ye Lin and questioned whether he was a clone, while Ye Lin warned that she would lose her crystals if she did not leave.