Recaps

Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue left Meteor Island and headed toward Blazing Fire Continent while discussing the Chaos Ancient Clan’s conquest of Heaven Province. They arrived at the prosperous continent’s coast.

• Ye Lin left Meteor Island with Yun Qiyue, while Zhang Ling'er wandered the island with Luo Yao and Ye Xin.
• Yun Qiyue learned that the Chaos Ancient Clan had completely occupied Heaven Province and explained that the Holy Palace had chosen not to intervene while its Saint was gravely weakened.
• Ye Lin understood that the Holy Palace was avoiding a wider war to buy time for the next Saint to emerge.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue reached Blazing Fire Continent, which Yun Qiyue identified as one of the Eastern Region’s most prosperous major continents.

Yun Qiyue brought Ye Lin to the Holy Palace’s Eastern Region branch, explaining the resources and mission opportunities available to him as a direct disciple. Ye Lin entered the bustling branch as onlookers speculated about his relationship with Yun Qiyue.

• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin that the central region gathered powerful factions and that Master had founded the Great Blade Association, where direct disciples could use three ninety-percent discounts.
• Yun Qiyue brought Ye Lin to the Holy Palace’s Eastern Region branch and warned him that its missions could be deadly, but Ye Lin remained confident.
• As they walked through the branch, people recognized Yun Qiyue and murmured about Ye Lin’s identity and whether he was her Dao companion.
• Ye Lin followed Yun Qiyue inside the vast golden sphere, where bridges connected the busy interior and powerhouses moved in every direction.

Ye Lin drew three missions at the Holy Palace, including investigating a missing envoy, pursuing a criminal in the Boundary Sea, and winning a Dao Assembly. He received clues for the first two missions, leaving him better prepared to begin them.

• Ye Lin followed Yun Qiyue to a room and drew three random missions from a box that blocked divine sense.
• Ye Lin learned that the first mission was to investigate a missing Holy Palace envoy in Cloudwater Commandery and bring the culprit to justice.
• Ye Lin drew a second mission to find and capture Wang Yongxin, a criminal hiding in the Boundary Sea.
• Ye Lin drew a third mission to take first place as a Holy Palace envoy at the Dao Assembly in Water Province three years later.
• The woman gave Ye Lin Jade Talismans with information about the missing envoy and a formation to locate Wang Yongxin.

Ye Lin accepted tasks at the Holy Palace and set out to investigate a missing Holy Palace messenger in Constant Province. He learned the journey could take ten years on foot, but Wang Tiezhu told him the Holy Palace had a teleportation formation to get there faster.

• Yun Qiyue offered to help Ye Lin with his tasks, but he said he would try to handle them himself and ask her if he ran into trouble.
• Ye Lin decided to investigate the disappearance of the Holy Palace messenger before pursuing Wang Yongxin or completing the task with a time limit.
• Ye Lin studied a map at the Holy Palace and discovered that reaching Constant Province overland would take at least ten years.
• Wang Tiezhu introduced himself as one of the Eastern Region's top hundred candidates and told Ye Lin about the Holy Palace's teleportation formations, which cost one hundred jin of Great Luo Divine Source per trip.

Ye Lin traveled by teleportation array to Cloudwater Commandery in Constant Province and checked the first mission prompt. He found that the mission concerned the Liu Family and wondered if they had killed the Holy Palace envoy.

• Ye Lin thanked Wang Tiezhu and went to the teleportation array.
• A young man sold Ye Lin a map and sent him through the array to Constant Province for one hundred jin of Great Luo Divine Source.
• Ye Lin learned that he had arrived at the Holy Palace branch in Cloudwater Commandery and confirmed the location on his map.
• Ye Lin checked the Jade Talisman, found the words "Liu Family," and located their residence on the map.
• Ye Lin wondered whether the Liu Family had killed the Holy Palace envoy.

Ye Lin went to the Liu Family to investigate whether they were connected to the death of a Holy Palace envoy. After presenting his credentials, he revealed that he was the personal disciple of the Heavenly Blade Sage, leaving Liu Qing startled.

• Ye Lin reached the Liu Family's gate and asked to see the family head while investigating the death of a Holy Palace envoy.
• Ye Lin showed the gatekeepers his Holy Palace Identity Token and warned that obstructing him would bring a harsher investigation later.
• One gatekeeper went to report to the family head, and Liu Qing soon arrived to meet Ye Lin.
• Liu Qing asked for proof of Ye Lin's identity, and Ye Lin showed his personal disciple Identity Token.
• Liu Qing recognized the Heavenly Blade Sage's name and realized Ye Lin was his personal disciple.

Ye Lin questioned Liu Qing about the Holy Palace envoy’s death and asked to inspect the Liu Family, the only family implicated by the available clues. Liu Qing gathered the clan at its plaza, where Ye Lin was about to begin his investigation.

• Liu Qing recognized Ye Lin as the Heavenly Blade Sage’s personal disciple and invited him into the Liu Family.
• Liu Qing revealed that Holy Palace experts had already investigated the envoy’s death, and Ye Lin concluded that their failure to find anything weakened the case against the Liu Family.
• Liu Qing denied the family’s involvement and said they would never dare harm a Holy Palace envoy.
• Ye Lin asked Liu Qing to gather the Liu Family members so he could inspect them, and Liu Qing summoned everyone to the clan plaza.

Ye Lin investigated the Liu Family for the Holy Palace envoy’s death but found no useful leads in its records. He asked Liu Hai to secretly investigate every Liu-named family in Cloudwater Commandery.

• Liu Hai introduced himself as head of the Liu Family and showed Ye Lin the family roster.
• Ye Lin learned that the Holy Palace had investigated the Liu Family many times over the eighteen years since the envoy’s death.
• Ye Lin explained that investigating the case was his mission for the Eastern Region’s top hundred preliminary selection.
• Ye Lin asked whether Cloudwater Commandery contained other Liu Families, and Liu Hai said there were several.
• Ye Lin asked Liu Hai to investigate every Liu-named family in the commandery, and Liu Hai agreed.

Ye Lin asked Liu Hai to investigate the Liu Family and left to search Cloudwater Commandery for clues about the Holy Palace envoy’s death. He headed for Xuanyuan City to seek help from its city lord, an old friend of Yun Qiyue.

• Liu Hai agreed to investigate for Ye Lin, who gave him a communication Jade Talisman and declined his offer to stay.
• After Ye Lin left, Liu Hai and Liu Qing praised his talent and ordered the Liu Family to investigate and train its younger generation more seriously.
• Ye Lin traveled through Cloudwater Commandery toward Xuanyuan City, planning to recruit help in investigating the Holy Palace envoy’s death.
• Ye Lin intended to seek out the city lord whom Yun Qiyue had described as an old friend, though the chapter also referred to the destination as Xuanyi City.

Ye Lin arrived in Xuanyuan City, a magnificent city known for its beautiful and powerful City Lord, who was Yun Qiyue’s longtime friend. He asked for directions to the City Lord Mansion, and a local warned him that the City Lord rarely received outsiders; Ye Lin remained unconcerned.

• Ye Lin recalled that Xuanyuan City's City Lord was a peerless beauty and a Quasi-Saint who had entered the realm ten thousand years earlier.
• Ye Lin traveled from the Liu Family's region to Xuanyuan City and marveled at its vast city built atop five mountain ranges.
• Ye Lin entered the bustling city and sensed several Quasi-Saint auras among the cultivators on its streets.
• Ye Lin asked a young man where the City Lord Mansion was, and the young man warned him that the City Lord generally did not receive outsiders.
• Ye Lin understood the young man's implication but did not care.

Ye Lin reached the City Lord Mansion in Xuanyuan City and tried to meet the Xuanyuan City Lord at Yun Qiyue’s request. The waiting cultivators learned that he was Yun Qiyue’s junior brother, leaving them shocked and jealous.

• A young man directed Ye Lin toward the City Lord Mansion and warned him that its guards would stop visitors.
• Ye Lin found crowds of powerful cultivators waiting outside the mansion for a glimpse of the City Lord.
• When Ye Lin crossed the boundary, five city defense soldiers surrounded him and ordered him to step back.
• Ye Lin showed his Identity Token and said he was a direct disciple of the Heavenly Blade Sage, Yun Qiyue’s junior brother, and had come at her request.
• The onlookers recognized Ye Lin as the new disciple who had slain Chu Jingming and reacted with shock and envy.

After comprehending all Seventy-Two Transformations, Ye Lin moved on to the Dao Gathering’s strength round. The elder made him the target of five consecutive challenges, and Ye Lin accepted and stepped onto the Arena.

• A year passed, and the stone pillars sank as the cultivators finished comprehending the Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Ye Lin registered among the thirteen cultivators who had comprehended all Seventy-Two Transformations.
• The elder announced a friendly spar as the second round and proposed that Ye Lin face five challengers for full marks if he remained undefeated.
• The cultivators agreed to the elder’s proposal, and Ye Lin accepted despite realizing the elder had singled him out.
• Ye Lin stepped onto the Arena and asked the other cultivators for their guidance.

Ye Lin faced Wang Tiezhu in an arena challenge and defeated him with a single display of Sword Qi. Wang Tiezhu was knocked unconscious against the arena wall, leaving the watching cultivators stunned.

• Wang Tiezhu volunteered to challenge Ye Lin and introduced himself on the Arena.
• The elder overseeing the match told both cultivators to avoid serious harm and began the fight.
• Wang Tiezhu charged Ye Lin and swung his rune-marked chains at him.
• Ye Lin stepped forward, summoned a storm of Sword Qi, and stopped the chains.
• Ye Lin slapped Wang Tiezhu back into the stone wall, where Wang Tiezhu spat blood and lost consciousness.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Wang Tiezhu and earned full marks for his second match after no one else dared challenge him. Sacred beast Bai Ze then appeared to fight Ye Lin, while onlookers recalled his past challenge to Dragon Slayer.

• Ye Lin defeated Wang Tiezhu in one move, shocking the cultivators and the five old men watching.
• The central old man declared Ye Lin the winner, but no one stepped forward to challenge him, so Ye Lin received full marks for the second match.
• Bai Ze appeared on the Arena and introduced himself as someone who had come to seek Ye Lin's guidance.
• Bai Ze advanced with a Five Elements Eight Trigrams formation beneath each step, building pressure as Ye Lin remained unmoved.
• Onlookers identified Bai Ze as a flawless innate sacred beast who had once challenged Dragon Slayer, ranked forty-fourth among the Eastern Region's top hundred.

Bai Ze revealed his sacred beast true form after gathering three hundred years of power and challenged Ye Lin with Dragon Subjugation. Ye Lin answered with Heaven-Opening, and the chapter ended as their attacks met.

• The cultivators watching the Arena reconsidered Bai Ze after learning he had survived a direct strike from Dragon Slayer.
• Ye Lin let Bai Ze gather his full power, explaining that he wanted to see how strong Bai Ze had become.
• Bai Ze transformed into his sacred beast true form and said his Dragon Subjugation move was the fruit of three hundred years of contemplation.
• Bai Ze unleashed Dragon Subjugation, and its pressure cracked the platform and alarmed the Golden Immortals watching nearby.
• Ye Lin named his sword Heaven-Opening and declared that one sword would open the heavens.

Ye Lin defeated Bai Ze with a single sword strike, shattering his Dao Heart and leaving him unable to recover. Bai Ze thanked Ye Lin for sparing his life, then wandered away from the Arena as the cultivators watched.

• The watching Daluo Golden Immortals sensed Ye Lin's laws filling the sky and turned their attention to the Arena.
• Ye Lin's sword strike tore through the darkness, and Bai Ze was left kneeling with his fan split in two.
• Bai Ze realized Ye Lin had shattered his Dao Heart again and that he had lost completely.
• Bai Ze thanked Ye Lin for sparing his life, laughed, and wandered away from the Arena with his cultivation scattered.
• The cultivators watched Bai Ze leave, believing his path had ended and that he would vanish from public view.

Ye Lin won the Dao Gathering after no one dared challenge him again, and the elders awarded him first place. He declined the ten million transaction points and left, leaving the reward for the second-place winner.

• After Ye Lin defeated Wang Tiezhu and Bai Ze in single moves, no one stepped forward to challenge him again.
• The elder awarded Ye Lin full marks for the second and third rounds, declaring him the Dao Gathering’s first-place winner with eighty points.
• The cultivators voiced no objections to Ye Lin taking first place.
• Ye Lin declined the ten million transaction points and asked the elders to leave the reward for the second-place winner.
• Ye Lin took his leave, saluted the elders and spectators, and vanished from the gathering.

Ye Lin went to a Holy Palace branch to take on the final task of hunting a murderer in the Boundary Sea, after completing his first two tasks. He arranged a teleportation to Fire Province and waited for the array to be prepared.

• Ye Lin decided not to accept the ten million trade point reward, believing he had already received enough from the Water Province event.
• Ye Lin went to a Holy Palace branch to begin his final task: hunting down a murderer in the Boundary Sea.
• A Holy Palace employee told Ye Lin that a teleportation to Fire Province would cost one million Great Luo Divine Source, with the Holy Palace subsidizing half.
• Ye Lin agreed to the fee and waited while the Holy Palace prepared the teleportation array.

Ye Lin traveled from the border regions to Fire Province, then reached the Boundary Sea and surveyed its exposed universes. He took out an ancient Compass, preparing to continue his search for Wang Yongxin.

• Ye Lin paid to enter a teleportation array and traveled to Fire Province.
• Ye Lin crossed Fire Province toward the Boundary Sea, reflecting on the Daluo Golden Immortals arriving in the Origin Continent.
• Ye Lin reached the Boundary Sea and saw faint lights representing universes hidden in the darkness.
• Ye Lin considered how exposed universes were protected by Daluo Golden Immortals or quasi-Saints and raised an ancient Compass.

Ye Lin followed the Formation Disk through the Boundary Sea to track Wang Yongxin, who was enjoying a life of indulgence while lamenting that his cultivation had stalled. Wang Yongxin sensed something was wrong but continued entertaining himself as Ye Lin closed in.

• Ye Lin used the Formation Disk to find Wang Yongxin's direction and charged through the Boundary Sea.
• Wang Yongxin lounged among powerful women who obeyed him, and granted a woman’s request to spare everyone in the Empress Palace.
• Wang Yongxin reflected that he wanted to return to the Origin Continent to advance his cultivation, and resented the Holy Palace for cutting him off.
• Wang Yongxin felt a sudden bad premonition, then dismissed it and continued enjoying the women’s company.

After tracking Wang Yongxin across the Boundary Sea for ten years, Ye Lin finally found him preparing to flee from his palace. Wang Yongxin realized the Holy Palace had sent Ye Lin after him and understood that escape was futile.

• Ye Lin traveled through the Boundary Sea for ten years while following the Formation Disk toward Wang Yongxin.
• Wang Yongxin grew increasingly uneasy and decided to leave his palace and flee.
• Ye Lin tore through the cosmic barrier and confronted Wang Yongxin in the Starry Sky.
• Wang Yongxin asked who Ye Lin was, and Ye Lin confirmed he had come from the Holy Palace.
• Wang Yongxin realized the Holy Palace had tracked him down and concluded he had no chance of escaping.

Ye Lin confronted Wang Yongxin, who tried to bargain for his life by offering his treasures, but Ye Lin refused to leave him alive as a potential weakness. Wang Yongxin then proposed moving their fight to the Boundary Sea to avoid destroying the fragile universe, and Ye Lin stepped aside.

• Ye Lin threatened Wang Yongxin and offered him the choice of suicide or death.
• Wang Yongxin guessed that Ye Lin had come on a mission or to train and offered his treasures in exchange for his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin rejected Wang Yongxin’s offer, unwilling to trust him or leave a potential threat alive.
• Wang Yongxin challenged Ye Lin to fight in the Boundary Sea to keep their battle from destroying the universe.
• Ye Lin agreed and slowly stepped aside.

Ye Lin pursued Wang Yongxin into the Boundary Sea to settle their fight without risking karma by battling inside the universe. Wang Yongxin charged at Ye Lin, but Ye Lin quickly overwhelmed him and severed both his arms.

• Ye Lin cleared a path for Wang Yongxin, and the two left the universe for the Boundary Sea.
• After they departed, voices in the palace said Wang Yongxin would die and vowed to reach the Da Luo realm in this life.
• Wang Yongxin admitted he could not escape and decided to try to kill Ye Lin before he died.
• Ye Lin and Wang Yongxin clashed in the Boundary Sea, where Ye Lin severed one of Wang Yongxin's arms and then destroyed the other.
• Wang Yongxin asked how Ye Lin could be so strong, and Ye Lin mocked him as weak.

Ye Lin killed Wang Yongxin and carried his Primordial Spirit toward the Holy Palace, ignoring his pleas to be released. After reaching Fire Continent, Ye Lin arranged to travel by teleportation array to Blazing Fire Continent and agreed to wait a month.

• Ye Lin sliced Wang Yongxin's body into dust and seized his Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Yongxin begged Ye Lin to kill him or accept his treasures, but Ye Lin carried him toward the Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin spent ten years returning to Fire Continent with Wang Yongxin's Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin asked a Holy Palace branch attendant for passage to Blazing Fire Continent and learned the teleportation array would be available in about a month for three million Great Luo Divine Sources.
• Ye Lin agreed to wait for the teleportation array.

Ye Lin discovered that the teleportation array he was about to use had been set to send him to Heaven Province, whose array was supposed to have been destroyed. The chapter left him confronting the people at the Holy Palace, with Sword Qi poised before the young man who had arranged the teleportation.

• After a month of waiting, Ye Lin followed the young man to the teleportation array and prepared to travel to Blazing Fire Continent.
• Just before the array activated, Ye Lin sensed something was wrong, stepped out, and seized the young man by the throat.
• Ye Lin questioned the young man and the middle-aged man about the array as cultivators gathered and warned him not to cause trouble at the Holy Palace.
• The middle-aged man inspected the array and realized its destination was Heaven Province, even though the teleportation array there had supposedly been destroyed.
• Ye Lin dropped the young man to the ground, then held a strand of Sword Qi before him.