Recaps

Ye Lin persuaded Wang Qingyu to abandon suicide and consider taking the Liu Family young master down with her on their wedding night. When the carriage reached the Liu Family, Ye Lin stepped out first, leaving the groom bewildered by the unexpected man.

• Ye Lin found Wang Qingyu holding a dagger to her throat and asked what she was doing.
• Wang Qingyu explained that she intended to die rather than become the Liu Family young master's cultivation furnace, and that she wanted to spare her family trouble.
• Ye Lin suggested that Wang Qingyu wait until her wedding night and take the Liu Family young master down with her.
• Wang Qingyu accepted Ye Lin's advice and asked who he was, but Ye Lin said she did not need to know and that she might not have to die.
• The carriage arrived at the Liu Family, and Ye Lin stepped out to find a wedding crowd and a crimson-robed young man staring at him in confusion.

Ye Lin identified himself as an investigator from the Holy Palace Heaven-Seeking Bureau and halted Wang Qingyu’s wedding to Liu Dazhuang while he investigated accusations against the Liu Family. The Great Elder let Ye Lin lead the investigation, then quietly ordered someone to inform Lord Sikong.

• Ye Lin claimed to be Wang Qingyu, but Wang Qingyu stepped out of the carriage and identified herself and Liu Dazhuang.
• Ye Lin presented his Heaven-Seeking Bureau token and announced that he had come to investigate reports that the Liu Family captured cultivators to refine pills.
• The Great Elder welcomed Ye Lin but asked him to let Liu Dazhuang’s wedding proceed first.
• Ye Lin postponed the wedding until after his investigation and said he would not let Wang Qingyu marry into danger.
• The Great Elder’s expression darkened after Ye Lin left, and he ordered someone to inform Lord Sikong.

Ye Lin investigated the Liu Family’s Alchemy Room after hearing that Wang Qingyu had been brought there as a cultivation cauldron. Using the Origin Eye Technique, he uncovered signs of a slaughter and confronted the Great Elder about hundreds of thousands of unjust deaths.

• Ye Lin questioned the Great Elder about Wang Qingyu’s role and rejected the claim that her arrangement was a marriage.
• The Great Elder led Ye Lin to the Liu Family’s Alchemy Room and insisted the rumor was baseless.
• Ye Lin inspected the furnaces and had a young alchemist open one, finding only ingredients already ruined by the interrupted process.
• Ye Lin activated the Origin Eye Technique and saw traces of blood, filth, and severed limbs throughout the room.
• Ye Lin sensed resentment from hundreds of thousands of unjustly slain Daluo Golden Immortals, along with traces of quasi-saint aura, and demanded an explanation from the Great Elder.

Ye Lin accused the Liu Family of killing hundreds of thousands of Daluo Golden Immortal cultivators to refine pills and slaughtered the alchemists in the Alchemy Room. As the Great Elder challenged his lack of evidence, Liu Yun, the Liu Family’s ancestor, arrived with reinforcements and questioned his authority, but Ye Lin declared that his eyes were the evidence.

• Ye Lin accused the Liu Family of using Daluo Golden Immortal cultivators to refine pills and killed the alchemists in the Alchemy Room with Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin pronounced that the Liu Family would be exterminated, and the Great Elder demanded evidence while secretly sending a message outside.
• Ye Lin rejected the demand for evidence and said he would kill the Great Elder first.
• Liu Yun arrived with several figures and challenged Ye Lin’s judgment and rank as a Heaven-Seeking Bureau officer.
• Ye Lin met Liu Yun’s gaze and declared that his eyes were the evidence.

Ye Lin confronted the Liu Family over his judgment and was challenged by their protector, Sikong Nantian, a first-rank Heaven-Seeking Bureau agent. Ye Lin quickly defeated and captured Sikong Nantian, exposing him as the Liu Family’s long-standing protector.

• Ye Lin told Liu Yun that he had already judged the Liu Family and would not waste time seeking further evidence.
• Sikong Nantian arrived, flaunted his superior rank, and ordered Ye Lin to leave or face arrest.
• Ye Lin attacked Sikong Nantian and severed his head with a strand of Sword Qi before Sikong Nantian could react.
• Ye Lin threatened to destroy Sikong Nantian’s Primordial Spirit if he resisted, and Sikong Nantian gave up resisting.
• Ye Lin sealed Sikong Nantian’s sea of consciousness and accused him of protecting the Liu Family for over a million years.

Ye Lin subdued Sikong Nanfeng and pressured Liu Yun into describing the Liu Family’s crimes and its partners. He revealed that he had been gathering evidence, leaving Liu Yun’s attempted bargain exposed.

• Ye Lin killed Sikong Nanfeng in a single move, frightening the Liu Family and making Liu Yun wary of him.
• Liu Yun offered Ye Lin a Spatial Ring and proposed cooperation, claiming the Liu Family had powerful backers.
• Ye Lin acted interested and asked Liu Yun to explain the Liu Family’s sincerity and arrangements.
• Liu Yun detailed the Liu Family’s crimes and named the major forces involved in the scheme.
• Ye Lin declared that Liu Yun’s account was evidence of the Liu Family’s crimes.

Ye Lin revealed that he had recorded Liu Yun admitting to the Liu Family’s crimes and declared that he would exterminate the clan. Liu Yuan and the Liu Family’s elders confronted him, preparing to fight.

• Ye Lin showed Liu Yun an Image Recording Stone containing her confession and sentenced the Liu Family to extermination.
• Liu Yun questioned whether the recording was enough to bring down her family, but Ye Lin insisted he would destroy them.
• Liu Yuan stepped forward, released his second-level Quasi-Saint aura, and threatened to keep Ye Lin from leaving.
• Ye Lin dismissed Liu Yuan’s threat and pointed out that Sikong Nanfeng had already fallen to him.
• Liu Yuan vowed to defeat Ye Lin even at the cost of his essence blood and origin, while Liu Yue and the other elders joined him and unleashed their powers.

Ye Lin rejected Liu Yun’s offer to spare the Liu Family and declared that his task was to kill them all. Liu Yun ordered an attack, and Liu Yuan began with a law-powered ice assault.

• More than a dozen peak Daluo Golden Immortal elders unleashed their laws, destroying the Alchemy Room and the surrounding area while the ground beneath Ye Lin remained unharmed.
• Ye Lin shielded Wang Qingyu from the overwhelming pressure, and Liu Yun realized that the power around him was beyond her understanding.
• Liu Yun offered to cancel the marriage alliance and cooperate, but Ye Lin refused and said he had come to kill everyone.
• Liu Yun ordered the elders to attack, and Liu Yuan launched Myriad Fathoms Ice Seal, sending tens of thousands of law-ice spikes toward Ye Lin.

Ye Lin used a circle of Sword Qi to annihilate the clan elders’ combined assault while protecting Wang Qingyu. The elders were left stunned by the overwhelming superiority of his sword law.

• Liu Yuan attacked Ye Lin with his ice law, while Liu Yue summoned stone pillars through his earth law.
• Three Quasi-Saint elders combined their powers into a fire dragon and blasted Ye Lin with flames.
• More than a dozen Daluo Golden Immortal elders joined in with attacks based on thunder, wind, sword, formations, and alchemy.
• Ye Lin drew a circle of Sword Qi around himself and Wang Qingyu, erasing every attack that touched it.
• Liu Yuan and Liu Yue realized Ye Lin’s sword law far surpassed their own laws.

Ye Lin overwhelmed the Liu Family elders and killed their Great Elder, Liu Yuan, with a single strike. The Liu Family faced his power with Liu Yuan dead and Liu Yun wary.

• Ye Lin's attack dispersed the three first-layer Quasi-Sage elders' flame dragons and injured them through a backlash.
• Ye Lin dismissed the Liu Family's strength, while Liu Yun recognized the danger of his Sword Dao laws.
• Ye Lin appeared before Liu Yuan and pierced his law-formed ice wall with a Sword Qi strike.
• Ye Lin's Sword Qi pierced Liu Yuan's chest and annihilated his body, laws, and Primordial Spirit.

After Liu Yuan died, Liu Yue and the Alchemy Room’s elders unleashed a combined assault on Ye Lin. Ye Lin answered by slicing through the falling peaks with a silver-white thread of Sword Qi, and the battle continued.

• Liu Yue went mad with grief and summoned dozens of law-condensed peaks to crush Ye Lin.
• Three Quasi-Saint elders burned their blood essence and sent flame dragons at Ye Lin while other elders attacked with formations, poison, and lightning.
• Ye Lin calmly slashed the air and sent a thin line of silver-white Sword Qi toward the falling peaks.
• Ye Lin’s Sword Qi cleanly cut through the peaks one after another.

Ye Lin effortlessly destroyed the elders’ combined attack, then killed Liu Yue with a single Sword Qi. With Liu Yue’s body and soul erased, the battle ended in Ye Lin’s favor.

• Ye Lin’s Sword Qi sliced apart dozens of mountain peaks and destroyed all three flame Dragons in a single breath.
• Liu Yue and the elders realized their strongest attack had barely mattered against Ye Lin and were overcome with despair.
• Ye Lin stepped toward Liu Yue, who unleashed his Law of Earth’s Origin Strike with his remaining power.
• Ye Lin’s Sword Qi erased the sphere of earth power and pierced Liu Yue’s chest.
• Liu Yue’s body and soul dissipated into motes of light.

Ye Lin destroyed the three first-level Quasi-Saint elders of the Liu Family after they merged into a fire phoenix and tried to bargain for their lives. With the Liu Family’s Quasi-Saint higher-ups dead, he turned toward the remaining peak Daluo Golden Immortal elders as they begged for mercy.

• The three Quasi-Saint elders burned their blood essence, Primordial Spirits, and origins to form a colossal fire phoenix and attack Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin sent Sword Qi into the fire phoenix, shattering its Law of Fire and dispersing its body.
• The three elders offered to surrender and serve Ye Lin, but he said they were not worthy and killed them with Sword Qi.
• The remaining peak Daluo Golden Immortal elders collapsed, pleaded for their lives, and blamed Liu Yun while Ye Lin watched them without reaction.

Ye Lin used the Primeval Sword Art to destroy the Liu Family’s Cangwu Mountain Range and slaughter its clansmen. With her family reduced to ruins, Liu Yun faced Ye Lin as he turned his attention to her.

• Liu Yun offered Ye Lin her life and the entire Liu Family, but he remained silent and summoned the Godslayer Sword.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Primeval Sword Art’s First Form, Primeval Heaven-Opening, and sent sword light through the earth veins of the Cangwu Mountain Range.
• The sword light destroyed the Liu Family’s mountains, palaces, fields, and springs, while killing clansmen who fled, hid, or tried to resist.
• Liu Yun watched her family and its legacy collapse, and Ye Lin told her it was her turn to die.

Ye Lin defeated Liu Yun, who burned his lifespan and bloodline power to unleash his strongest attack. The chapter ended with Ye Lin erasing Liu Yun’s body, Primordial Spirit, and origin with Sword Qi.

• Liu Yun burned his lifespan and bloodline power and summoned his Great Dao shadow to attack Ye Lin with a colossal golden palm.
• Ye Lin used the second move of the Primeval Sword Art, Yin-Yang Division, to shatter the golden palm from within.
• The attack wounded Liu Yun and left him buried in rubble with a feeble aura.
• Ye Lin sent hundreds of millions of sword strikes at Liu Yun, erasing his body, Primordial Spirit, and origin.

After destroying the Liu Family, Ye Lin prepared to return to the Holy Palace but was intercepted by three powerful members of the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan. The trio sealed the Void around him and began explaining who they were, leaving Ye Lin demanding to know why they had targeted him.

• Ye Lin wiped out the Liu Family and told Wang Qingyu she could leave, and she hurried away in fear.
• Ye Lin declared his mission complete and set off to return to the Holy Palace.
• Ye Lin sensed that three figures had been following him and ordered them to come out.
• Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three encircled Ye Lin and sealed the surrounding Void.
• Dragon Two introduced the three as members of the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan, and Ye Lin asked why they had intercepted him.

Dragon Two revealed that the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan intended to kill Ye Lin to hurt the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan, and Dragon One ordered an immediate attack. Ye Lin fought back but was sent flying by Dragon Three’s powerful punch, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Dragon Two told Ye Lin that the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan planned to kill him because he bore the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s mark.
• Ye Lin summoned his sword light and prepared to fight rather than let the three dragons back down.
• Dragon One ordered the attack, and Dragon Three struck first with Mystic Soul Dragon Fist: Void Shatter.
• Ye Lin blocked Dragon Three’s punch with a sword shield, but the shield shattered and the blow sent him flying hundreds of zhang.

Ye Lin faced Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three as they attacked him together. He held off their combined assault with a sword sphere, but suffered internal injuries.

• Dragon One ordered Dragon Two and Dragon Three to attack Ye Lin with him.
• Ye Lin spun and unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Ring Slash, but Dragon One swallowed the Sword Qi with a dragon phantom.
• Dragon Two used Mystic Soul Dragon Finger—Lietian to send an Abyss fissure toward Ye Lin.
• Dragon Three struck with Mystic Soul Dragon Fist—World Annihilation as the other two attacks arrived.
• Ye Lin used Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin—Defensive Stance to block the three attacks, keeping his sword sphere intact despite bleeding and damaged meridians.

Ye Lin endured the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan’s assault and countered Dragon One’s rain of spears with a powerful sword technique. His beam of swordlight confronted Dragon One, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Dragon Three shattered Ye Lin’s sword sphere, and Dragon One struck him into a crater with a dragon-shaped palm attack.
• Ye Lin assessed the three third-level Quasi-Saints and rose from the crater, determined to kill them despite his injuries.
• Dragon One summoned countless dragon spears and unleashed them at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin gathered his Sword Dao laws with Myriad Swords Return to One and fired a pillar of light that annihilated the spears.
• Dragon One watched Ye Lin’s attack confront him and recognized that Ye Lin’s strength could not be underestimated.

Ye Lin fought Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three, three third-layer Quasi-Saints, and revealed sword techniques powerful enough to crack their defenses. The battle remained unresolved as his Yin-Yang Division struck Dragon Two and Dragon Three.

• Dragon One ordered the three to unleash their full strength after Ye Lin shattered ten thousand dragon spears.
• Ye Lin’s Sword Intent sharpened under the trio’s pressure, and he attacked with Primeval Sword Art’s First Form, Primeval Heaven-Opening.
• Dragon One raised a dragon qi barrier, but Ye Lin’s strike cracked it nearly in two.
• Ye Lin used Primeval Sword Art’s Second Form, Yin-Yang Division, sending black and white sword light toward Dragon Two and Dragon Three.
• Dragon Two’s shield was eroded by the black sword light, while Dragon Three felt the white sword light’s force tear at his fist.

Ye Lin continued fighting Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three after they unleashed the full power of the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan bloodline. As his swordsmanship grew stronger in battle, the three dragons launched simultaneous attacks at him.

• Dragon Three was blasted back by Ye Lin's sword strike, which cracked his dragon scales and wounded his fists.
• Dragon One ordered Dragon Two and Dragon Three to stop holding back, and all three summoned powerful dragon-shaped phantoms.
• Ye Lin's Primeval Heaven-Opening strike shattered against Dragon One's phantom, but his Yin-Yang Division attack began eroding its defenses.
• Dragon One warned Dragon Two and Dragon Three not to give Ye Lin an opening.
• Dragon Two fired a pillar of light at Ye Lin while Dragon Three's phantom brought both claws down on him.

Ye Lin unleashed his Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin strike and halted Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three’s attacks, but suffered severe injuries. The three Mystic Soul Dragons abandoned their human forms and transformed into million-zhang true dragons, preparing to finish him.

• Ye Lin poured his power into Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin and struck Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three with a colossal sword phantom.
• The three dragons blocked the strike, but the clash damaged their dragon phantoms and sent Ye Lin flying back, badly wounded.
• Dragon One ended their restraint and ordered Dragon Two and Dragon Three to reveal their true forms.
• Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three transformed into enormous deep-blue true dragons, their auras surging as they filled the void.

Trapped by three Third Heaven Quasi-Saint dragons, Ye Lin grasped the Sword Dao’s origin as he faced death. He unleashed a nameless strike rooted in Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, leaving the clash’s outcome unresolved.

• Dragon One acknowledged Ye Lin’s strength, while Dragon Two said he would die and promised to raise a memorial stone for him.
• Dragon Three gathered a destructive dark-blue sphere of light as Ye Lin stood battered but ready to fight.
• Ye Lin recalled the sword strike from the ruins and realized it was the pure origin of the Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin’s aura changed, and countless sword shadows gathered around him as he fused Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin with the nameless strike.
• Ye Lin struck with the Sword Dao’s source, making all things return to the void.

Ye Lin used the Godslayer Sword’s technique, Return to the Void, to badly wound Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three despite their combined attacks. He was left near collapse, but Dragon One feared another strike and did not dare attack again.

• Ye Lin unleashed Return to the Void with the Godslayer Sword, releasing sword light that returned everything in its path to nothingness.
• Dragon One, Dragon Two, and Dragon Three used their strongest attacks to block Ye Lin’s sword light, but it dissolved all three attacks.
• Ye Lin’s sword light cut through Dragon One and Dragon Two, then pierced Dragon Three after he tried to swallow it.
• The sword light faded, leaving all three dragons grievously wounded and bleeding in the void.
• Ye Lin stood with his power spent and his body badly damaged, while Dragon One hesitated to attack because he feared Ye Lin might strike again.

Ye Lin survived the battle with the three Mystic Soul Dragon Clan elders, then spent a thousand years recovering on Meteor Island. Once strong enough to leave seclusion, he planned to submit his mission at the Holy Palace and visit the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan to settle the score.

• Dragon One ordered Dragon Two and Dragon Three to flee with him using Void Escape, and Ye Lin, too exhausted to pursue, left Heaven-Equaling Commandery.
• Meng Ting watched Ye Lin return to Meteor Island and judged his strength nearly equal to the Blade Saint’s first disciple.
• Meng Ting chose not to intervene because the attack was tied to the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan and the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan, leaving Ye Lin to handle it himself.
• Ye Lin secluded himself on Meteor Island for a thousand years while his severe injuries slowly healed.
• After emerging from seclusion, Ye Lin planned to submit his mission at the Holy Palace and visit the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan for revenge.