Recaps

Shen Muge defeated the Venerable and entered Great Forest Chan Temple with Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to take Gu Chen. After warning off a powerful presence with the threat of summoning her senior brother, she found Gu Chen inside a great hall before a Buddha manifestation.

• Shen Muge shattered the Venerable’s golden Buddha manifestation and declared that she would enter Great Forest Chan Temple to seize Gu Chen.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue followed Shen Muge through the mountain gate into the temple.
• Shen Muge warned a powerful presence not to interfere, threatening that her senior brother would raze Great Forest Chan Temple if it did.
• Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin followed Shen Muge to a great hall, where they saw a solemn Buddha manifestation.
• Shen Muge found Gu Chen inside the hall.

Shen Muge found Gu Chen, now known as Qingran, and tried to kill him, but his master intervened and set limits on his protection. Shen Muge ordered Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to attack instead, but twenty-eight monks arrived to shield Qingran.

• Shen Muge confronted Qingran, who said he had left behind the name Gu Chen and taken the Dharma name Qingran.
• Qingran's master blocked Shen Muge's attack and explained that Qingran was his disciple.
• Shen Muge left after threatening to return in a year, and Qingran's master said he would only intervene if Shen Muge used her greater strength to bully him.
• Shen Muge ordered Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue to kill Qingran, but Ye Lin stayed back while Yun Qiyue stepped forward.
• Twenty-eight monks entered the hall and stood between Qingran and Yun Qiyue and Ye Lin.

Shen Muge and Yun Qiyue confronted monks from the Great Forest Chan Temple who were protecting Gu Chen, while the old monk warned that the Great Thunderclap Temple had taken an interest in him. Ye Lin killed one monk with a single sword strike and challenged the other twenty-seven to fight him in the Void.

• Yun Qiyue prepared to summon reinforcements as Shen Muge faced twenty-eight monks, all below the Fourth Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm.
• The old monk said he would protect Qingran and revealed that Gu Chen had drawn the attention of the Central Region's Great Thunderclap Temple.
• Shen Muge asked Ye Lin and his companion whether they could defeat the monks, saying the grudge was hers.
• Ye Lin drew the Godslayer Sword and killed a First Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm monk with one effortless strike.
• Ye Lin invited the remaining twenty-seven monks to attack him together in the Void, and they left the great hall to face him.

Outside Great Forest Chan Temple’s great hall, Ye Lin faced twenty-seven monks in the Void and dismissed them as weak. He killed Yuanji with one sword strike, leaving the other monks stunned.

• Ye Lin faced twenty-seven Great Forest Chan Temple monks, including the Third Heaven Quasi-Saint Yuantong.
• Yuantong vowed that Ye Lin would not leave the temple alive after killing their fellow disciples.
• Yuanji attacked Ye Lin with the Great Brahma Prajna Palm.
• Ye Lin split the Buddhist palm with the Godslayer Sword and killed Yuanji with a single strike.

Ye Lin faced Yuantong and the twenty-five remaining monks after killing Yuanji, calmly deflecting their combined assault with the Godslayer Sword. He then drew his sword to counterattack.

• Yuantong and the other monks reacted to Yuanji's death and unleashed twenty-six attacks on Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin used the Godslayer Sword and Sword Dao Law to cleave every attack apart without being harmed.
• Yuantong was shocked that his Demon-Subduing Vajra could not break Ye Lin's protective halo.
• Ye Lin drew his sword as Yuantong questioned how someone at the First Heaven Quasi-Saint Realm could withstand their attacks.

Ye Lin unleashed two forms of the Primeval Sword Art, killing many of the monks and forcing Yuantong to summon a Vajra Dharma Manifestation. As its eight attacks bore down on him, Ye Lin put away the Godslayer Sword and closed his eyes, then opened them again.

• Ye Lin used Primeval Heaven-Opening to cut down five or six monks with one sword strike.
• Ye Lin unleashed Yin-Yang Division, and its black and white Flood Dragons killed seven or eight more monks.
• Yuantong ordered the surviving monks to form the Vajra Demon-Subduing Formation.
• The monks summoned a thousand-zhang Vajra Dharma Manifestation, and Yuantong empowered it with his essence blood.
• The Vajra Dharma Manifestation attacked Ye Lin with all eight of its artifacts, while Ye Lin put away his sword and closed his eyes before opening them again.

Ye Lin unleashed Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin and destroyed the Vajra Dharma Form, defeating Yuantong and the Great Forest Chan Temple’s Quasi-Saints. He left the monks dead and sheathed the Godslayer Sword, while the chapter ended with a vow that he would spare someone because he owed her.

• Ye Lin summoned countless Sword Qi strands with Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin.
• Ye Lin’s sword shadows destroyed all eight attacks of the Vajra Dharma Form and shattered its golden body.
• The monks maintaining the formation vomited blood as the destruction grievously damaged their dantians, and Yuantong fell from the air.
• Yuantong watched Ye Lin’s Sword Qi approach and realized he could not escape it.
• Ye Lin’s strike killed Yuantong and the remaining monks, leaving all twenty-eight Quasi-Saints dead.
• Ye Lin sheathed the Godslayer Sword, and a voice declared that the person he faced was no match and would be spared because he owed her.

Shen Muge rejected the Great Forest Chan Temple elder’s plea to spare Qingran, whose Mystic Origin Buddha Body had defeated Yun Qiyue’s attacks. She insisted Qingran was too dangerous to let live and ordered Ye Lin to kill him.

• Yun Qiyue attacked Qingran again, but his golden Buddhist light sent her flying without him moving.
• Shen Muge recognized Qingran’s Mystic Origin Buddha Body, which made him immune to Evil Slayer and other techniques.
• The old monk pleaded with Shen Muge to spare Qingran, saying he was destined to help resist the Chaos Ancient Clan.
• Shen Muge challenged the claim that Buddhist practice had purified Qingran and warned that he could become a great calamity.
• Ye Lin descended, and Shen Muge ordered him to kill Qingran.

Ye Lin fought Qingran after Shen Muge ordered him to kill the monk, but Qingran’s Mystic Origin Buddha Body stopped Ye Lin’s attacks and sent him flying. Ye Lin gathered his Sword Dao Law and launched a serious attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Shen Muge told Ye Lin to kill Qingran, and Ye Lin accepted her decision.
• Ye Lin tested Qingran with Sword Qi, but Qingran’s Buddha light absorbed it without effect.
• Ye Lin struck Qingran at close range with the Godslayer Sword, but Qingran caught the blade between two fingers and flung Ye Lin backward.
• Qingran claimed his Mystic Origin Buddha Body made him nearly indestructible and Ye Lin’s sword could not harm him.
• Ye Lin intensified his Sword Dao Law and attacked Qingran in earnest.

Ye Lin’s ordinary sword strikes could not break Qingran’s Mystic Origin Buddha Body, so he unleashed the Taichu power in the Primeval Sword Art’s First Form. Qingran answered with a giant Buddhist seal, and their attacks collided.

• Ye Lin struck Qingran’s Buddha light repeatedly, but it held firm and pushed Qingran back only slightly.
• Qingran explained that the Mystic Origin Buddha Body could withstand Ye Lin’s attacks, while Ye Lin realized the Buddha light suppressed his powers at the level of laws.
• Ye Lin declared that he would cut through Qingran himself and unleashed Primeval Sword Art’s First Form, Primeval Heaven-Opening.
• The blood-red sword light cracked Qingran’s Buddha light, revealing the Taichu power Ye Lin had gained from the ruins.
• Qingran summoned a hundred-zhang Buddha phantom with a golden Buddhist seal, which collided with Ye Lin’s sword light.

Ye Lin attacked Qingran with the second form of the Primeval Sword Art, but Qingran countered with the Great Sun Tathagata Seal and destroyed the Yin-Yang Flood Dragons. The fight continued as Ye Lin dismissed Qingran’s strength by comparing him to someone he would never meet.

• Ye Lin and Qingran recovered from their clash as the ruins crumbled around them.
• Qingran asked where Ye Lin’s swordsmanship came from, but Ye Lin answered with the Primeval Sword Art’s second form, Yin-Yang Division.
• Ye Lin’s black-and-white Flood Dragons corroded Qingran’s golden Buddha statue, forcing Qingran to repair it with Buddhist seals.
• Qingran used the Great Sun Tathagata Seal to melt and destroy both Flood Dragons, blasting Ye Lin backward and burning his robes.
• Ye Lin said Qingran was weaker than someone else, and told him he would never get the chance to meet that person.

Ye Lin unleashed the third form of the Primeval Sword Art, Five Elements Cycle, and Qingran answered with Ten Thousand Buddhas Worship the Sect. Their powers met in a silent clash that continued to intensify.

• Ye Lin traced the Godslayer Sword and awakened the third form of the Primeval Sword Art.
• Ye Lin summoned a five-colored divine sword and sent it toward Qingran, creating a miniature Five Elements world in the void.
• Qingran formed a complex hand seal and invoked Ten Thousand Buddhas Worship the Sect.
• Qingran gathered the power of ten thousand Buddha phantoms into a towering golden Buddha whose eye beams met Ye Lin's sword.
• Ye Lin's Five Elements power and Qingran's Buddhist power eroded and suppressed each other as their radiance brightened.

Ye Lin and Qingran’s battle ended in a draw, with Ye Lin’s sword wounding Qingran’s Mystic Origin Buddha Body for the first time. Qingran launched his Great Annihilation divine ability against Ye Lin, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Ye Lin and Qingran’s attacks remained locked for thirty breaths before both techniques shattered and the fighters were thrown back.
• Qingran discovered that Ye Lin’s sword had wounded his Mystic Origin Buddha Body, while Ye Lin acknowledged Qingran’s formidable strength.
• Qingran praised Ye Lin and offered to end the fight, but Ye Lin raised the Godslayer Sword and refused.
• Qingran summoned his Great Annihilation divine ability, and its golden light began reducing the ruins to nothingness.

Ye Lin awakened the power of his Sword Dao origin and defeated Qingran with a strike that erased the golden sun. Qingran died after declaring that he had repaid his debt to Ye Lin, and his final gaze fell on Shen Muge.

• Ye Lin awakened his Sword Dao origin and gathered every Sword Dao he had comprehended into one strike.
• Ye Lin's Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin collided with Qingran's Great Nirvana Golden Light, and the two forces annihilated each other.
• The golden sun split apart, and Qingran suffered a wound that eroded his Mystic Origin Buddha Body and unraveled his origin.
• Qingran told Ye Lin that he had repaid his debt, then dissipated into golden motes as he looked toward Shen Muge.

After the death at Great Forest Chan Temple, Shen Muge left Ye Lin a Star Gate token and departed, while Yun Qiyue went into seclusion. Ye Lin then met Ning Yi, who invited him to visit the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan.

• The old monk released Shen Muge, Ye Lin, and Yun Qiyue after the man died, and Shen Muge took them to Meteor Island.
• Shen Muge gave Ye Lin a golden pentagram token and left without explaining herself.
• Yun Qiyue identified the token as a Star Gate token and said the powerful sect would help Ye Lin if he faced danger.
• Yun Qiyue left to go into seclusion after admitting Ye Lin's strength made her feel pressured.
• Ning Yi appeared in the Void and invited Ye Lin to visit the Mystic Soul Dragon Clan.

Ye Lin refused Ning Yi’s offer to train in the Dragon-Tempering Pool and entered seclusion on Meteor Island. As he cultivated, news of his victories spread, making him famous across the Origin Continent.

• Ye Lin refused Ning Yi’s invitation, wary of what the Spirit King would think and warning that he might kill Ning Yi.
• Ning Yi offered Ye Lin three hours in the Dragon-Tempering Pool to help him break through to the second level of the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Ye Lin returned to Meteor Island, dismissed the offer, and began cultivating in seclusion to calm his mind.
• While Ye Lin meditated, reports spread that he had killed three Chaos Ancient Clan Imperial Clan bloodline bearers, severely wounded a Holy Clan bloodline bearer, and slain the owner of the Mystic Origin Buddha Body.
• Ye Lin’s deeds made him famous, and cultivators were shocked that the Mystic Origin Buddha Body’s owner had been killed so soon after the physique appeared.

After the Mystic Origin Buddha Body was killed by Ye Lin, Great Thunderclap Temple decided to seek revenge. The Blade Saint interrupted the temple’s meeting while carrying Venerable Jiana, the monk who had set out for the Eastern Region.

• Cultivators across the Eastern Region discussed the Mystic Origin Buddha Body’s death and speculated that Buddhism would target Ye Lin.
• At Great Thunderclap Temple, Buddhist venerables agreed that Ye Lin had to pay for killing their supreme constitution.
• A kasaya-clad venerable declared that he would personally go to the Eastern Region to settle the debt, and left the hall.
• The Blade Saint appeared at the temple carrying the departing Venerable Jiana in one hand.
• A Buddhist expert demanded that the Blade Saint release Venerable Jiana.

Blade Saint Heaven Severance killed Venerable Jiana at the Great Thunderclap Temple and effortlessly dispersed the Buddhist sect’s attacks. My Buddha intervened, sent Heaven Severance away, and rebuked the Buddhist experts for their hostility.

• Blade Saint Heaven Severance crushed Venerable Jiana’s head and Primordial Spirit origin after challenging the Buddhist experts.
• The Buddhist experts attacked Heaven Severance, but he dispelled their abilities with a single word.
• My Buddha arrived, prompting the Buddhist experts to stop and Heaven Severance to greet him respectfully.
• My Buddha congratulated Heaven Severance and told him to return, and Heaven Severance left after asking him not to reveal where he had gone.
• My Buddha rebuked the Buddhist experts for their conduct, and they lowered their heads and resolved to study Buddhist teachings.

Ye Lin reached Quasi-Saint Second Heaven after fifty years in seclusion, but his Destiny still foretold that he would die at Saint Ninth Heaven. He left Meteor Island and arrived at a city celebrating the wedding of Young Master Shang Tian and the Snow Maiden.

• Ye Lin examined his panel and wondered why his Destiny no longer changed, but decided the prediction was too far in the future to worry about.
• Ye Lin left Meteor Island and noted that he would need to reach Quasi-Saint Sixth Heaven to dominate a region safely.
• Ye Lin found a vast city covered in wedding decorations and followed the crowds inside.
• Ye Lin heard cultivators discussing how Young Master Shang Tian had finally won over the Snow Maiden after pursuing her for three thousand years.

Ye Lin followed the crowd to the wedding venue and rented the inn’s most expensive room for one hundred thousand Zenith Heaven Divine Source. Xiao Qing led him to the top-floor private room, where he found a swimming pool and an enormous mountain range.

• Ye Lin reached the crowded wedding venue and decided to find an inn.
• The innkeeper described the rooms and quoted one hundred thousand Zenith Heaven Divine Source for the top floor.
• Ye Lin paid for Heaven-Class Room Number One, despite no one having rented it before.
• The innkeeper sent Xiao Qing to escort Ye Lin upstairs.
• Xiao Qing showed Ye Lin a private room with a swimming pool and a mountain range inhabited by exotic beasts.

Ye Lin watched the crowd gather for Young Master Shang Tian’s wedding, then sensed that the hidden Ice Goddess was nearby. He closed his eyes and asked whether she could see him.

• Ye Lin watched the wedding platform from a terrace while Xiao Qing stood behind him.
• The cultivators below speculated about why the wedding had not begun and joked about Shang Tian’s pursuit of the Ice Goddess.
• Young Master Shang Tian arrived, welcomed the crowd, and offered to cover their expenses for food and drink.
• The cultivators rushed into nearby taverns and ordered lavishly.
• Ye Lin addressed the still-hidden woman and asked, "You can see me?"

Ye Lin encountered the Goddess of Ice and Snow and warned her to leave, then stayed to watch the wedding until assassins attacked the groom. The Goddess killed the attackers and confronted someone still hiding nearby.

• Ye Lin identified the woman who appeared behind him as the Goddess of Ice and Snow and recognized that she was a Quasi-Saint.
• Ye Lin told the Goddess to leave or he would kill her, and she departed.
• Ye Lin noticed dozens of black figures rushing toward the wedding platform and preparing to attack the fat groom.
• The Goddess of Ice and Snow appeared on the platform and destroyed the attackers with frost.
• The groom called the Goddess his wife, but she kicked him away and challenged the person hiding nearby to reveal themselves.

Ye Lin calmly watched as Lu Shuang confronted a mysterious lightning-wreathed Quasi-Sage, while he protected Xiao Qing from Lu Shuang’s frost. The two powerhouses faced off above the city, leaving its cultivators crushed by their aura.

• Ye Lin drank wine as the city’s residents fled the street.
• A lightning-wreathed figure appeared in the sky and mocked Lu Shuang for protecting Ye Lin.
• Lu Shuang stepped down from the platform and released freezing energy that made Xiao Qing shiver.
• Ye Lin gave Xiao Qing a drop of wine that warmed her and loosened her cultivation, then advised her to seek a universe where she could cultivate safely.
• Xiao Qing said the Origin Continent offered more opportunities, and Ye Lin turned his attention to Lu Shuang and the lightning-wreathed figure confronting each other.
• The two first-layer Quasi-Sages’ pressure made Daluo Golden Immortals struggle to breathe and left Primordial Unity Golden Immortals trembling on the ground.

Ye Lin discovered an ancient jade pendant inside the fat man as Wei Sinan joined him and revealed the man was his son, Wei Shang Tian. Wei Sinan explained that Wei Shang Tian had a Taotie constitution but had fallen for the woman above, and he intended to show him what she was really like.

• Ye Lin used the Origin Eye Technique and found an ancient jade pendant inside the fat man near his dantian.
• Wei Sinan appeared, sat beside Ye Lin, and shared wine with him.
• Wei Sinan recognized Ye Lin as the prodigy who had shaken the Eastern Region, and Ye Lin said the fat man below was related to him.
• Wei Sinan confirmed the fat man was his son, Wei Shang Tian, and said he had a Taotie constitution.
• Wei Sinan explained that Wei Shang Tian had fallen for the woman above and said he would make her reveal her true nature to him.

Ye Lin learned that Wei Shang Tian’s Taotie physique required enormous resources but could never advance beyond Quasi-Saint, while Wei Sinan watched his son and the battle overhead. Lu Shuang defeated the lightning-wreathed opponent and returned to the arena, where she kicked Wei Shang Tian away again.

• Ye Lin considered the Taotie physique’s immense resource demands and fixed limit, and Wei Sinan admitted he had some family wealth to support his son.
• As Lu Shuang and her opponent fought above the city, Wei Sinan secretly shielded the city from their battle.
• Wei Sinan asked Ye Lin who would win, and Ye Lin predicted that the woman would prevail.
• Lu Shuang defeated the lightning-wreathed fighter, who threatened to return before vanishing.
• Wei Shang Tian rushed toward Lu Xue, calling her his wife, and she coldly kicked him flying again.