Recaps

Ye Lin arrived in the devastated Southern Continent and found no living beings across hundreds of millions of miles. He summoned Xiaoyao, who explained that a catastrophic battle three years earlier had nearly destroyed the continent.

• Ye Lin crossed from the Western Continent to the Southern Continent, considering the vastness of the Endless Sea and his plans for the sea races.
• Ye Lin surveyed the ruined land and found it covered with corpses, with no living beings within hundreds of millions of miles.
• Ye Lin summoned Xiaoyao from a spatial rift and asked what had happened in the Southern Continent.
• Xiaoyao said a battle involving nearly every major race had erupted three years earlier and shattered heaven and earth.
• Xiaoyao reported that fewer than one in ten of the Southern Continent's top powers and living beings had survived.

Ye Lin learned that a war had devastated the Southern Continent, with the deep-sea races and transcendent factions helping fuel the conflict. He left Xiaoyao to hold the continent while he investigated further, and Xiaoyao worried that Ye Lin might eventually sacrifice him.

• Ye Lin asked Xiaoyao what had caused the great war, and Xiaoyao said the deep-sea races appeared to have stirred up trouble behind the scenes.
• Xiaoyao told Ye Lin that the transcendent factions had joined the war and fanned the flames, suffering heavy losses and losing their next generation of heirs.
• Ye Lin told Xiaoyao to hold the Southern Continent and await orders, then departed through the shattered void to investigate.
• Xiaoyao reflected that Ye Lin could sacrifice him and the other avatars to greatly increase his cultivation, and hoped that Ye Lin would not do so yet.

Ye Lin confronted the Heavenly Constant Sect over the war in the Southern Continent, killing two guards and forcing his way inside. He demanded an explanation from the sect’s dying elder, who refused to answer, and their powerful auras collided.

• Ye Lin gave the Heavenly Constant Sect three breaths to open its protection array and explain the war in the Southern Continent.
• Two silver-armored First Tribulation Loose Immortal guards threatened Ye Lin, and he killed them with a casual palm strike.
• The Heavenly Constant Sect lowered its protection array, and Ye Lin entered and broke open the door to a secret chamber.
• The sect’s dying elder said the Southern Continent’s war was an internal affair and ordered Ye Lin to leave.
• Ye Lin demanded that the elder answer him, and their powerful auras clashed as the elder struggled against Ye Lin’s pressure.

Ye Lin defeated the old man and learned that he had helped devastate Southern Continent because of a supposed Heavenly Dao decree demanding blood sacrifices to expand the Ascension Gate. Ye Lin argued that the decree was actually issued by the Devourer, which seemed close to awakening, and challenged the old man to consider why the Heavenly Dao would demand such a sacrifice.

• Ye Lin overpowered the old man in their aura contest, then withdrew his aura and asked why he had acted as he did.
• The old man said the Heavenly Dao had ordered them to sacrifice living beings’ qi and blood to make room for more ascenders in the Ascension Gate.
• Ye Lin condemned the devastation of Southern Continent and said the Heavenly Dao would not issue a decree that harmed its own world.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Devourer had issued the decree and warned that it was nearing full awakening.
• The old man insisted the decree’s powerful aura proved it came from the Heavenly Dao, and Ye Lin questioned why the Heavenly Dao would use blood sacrifices to enable ascension.

Ye Lin confronted Wang, the Blood Saber Butcher, and argued that the Heavenly Dao would not destroy its own world to help cultivators ascend. After Wang challenged his authority, Ye Lin overwhelmed him and demanded that he summon the leaders of the other transcendent factions, leaving Wang intimidated and more willing to comply.

• Ye Lin berated Wang for believing the Heavenly Dao would sacrifice the Profound Yellow World to aid cultivators' ascension.
• Wang demanded to know who else could wield the power Ye Lin described and threatened to make him pay if he could not explain.
• Ye Lin told Wang to contact the leaders of the other transcendent factions so he could reveal the truth.
• Wang invoked the Heavenly Constant Sect's foundation and ordered Ye Lin to leave.
• Ye Lin unleashed his aura, made Wang tremble in agony, and threatened to slaughter the Heavenly Constant Sect if Wang disobeyed.
• Wang softened his stance and showed that he did not want to become Ye Lin's enemy.

Ye Lin summoned the Heavenly Constant Sect’s hidden experts and showed them a ball of light containing the details of his request. The gathered figures fell silent as they considered what they had learned, leaving their decision unresolved.

• Wang Sandao agreed to summon the hidden experts, then used golden talismans to bring them into the secret chamber.
• The summoned figures questioned Wang Sandao, and a dragon-headed Demon Beast mocked him and threatened to seize the Heavenly Constant Sect.
• Wang Sandao traded threats with the Demon Beast, reminding him that he had spent thirty million years at the Nine-Tribulation Loose Immortal realm.
• A figure seated on a golden Dragon Throne demanded that Ye Lin explain why he had summoned them and warned him of the price of wasting their time.
• Ye Lin sent out a ball of light with the details, and the summoned experts silently reviewed it, with some contacting friends on other continents.

Ye Lin explained that the Devourer had issued the decree and was close to awakening, then proposed uniting the five continents to invade the Heavenly Demon Great World. The powerful figures agreed to support him, and the chapter ended with calls to recruit the deep-sea forces as well.

• Ye Lin rebuked the assembled experts for their selfish actions in Southern Continent and their failure to notice the suspicious signs.
• Wang Sandao asked about the decree, and Ye Lin said the Devourer had issued it and was nearly ready to awaken.
• Ye Lin proposed using the five continents’ strength to counterattack the Heavenly Demon Great World, claiming the seal’s fall would let them enter the Immortal Realm.
• Wang Sandao learned that Ye Lin had reached the Immortal Realm, and the assembled experts focused on the realm they had long pursued.
• The Southern Continent forces offered their support and urged Ye Lin to seek help from the deep sea.

Ye Lin agreed to the powerful figures’ demand that he help them enter the Immortal Realm, then left Wang Sandao’s ruined secret chamber. Outside, the Heavenly Constant Sect surrounded him over the deaths of two elders, and its Sect Master introduced himself.

• The powerful figures warned Ye Lin they would stop acting once heaven and earth were unsealed unless he could help them enter the Immortal Realm, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Ye Lin told Wang Sandao to wait for his decree and left the secret chamber, which his aura had badly damaged.
• The Heavenly Constant Sect gathered around Ye Lin, and a young man accused him of killing the Third Elder and the Fifth Elder.
• The crowd whispered about Ye Lin and the sect’s internal tensions, while some women admired his appearance.
• Wang Erdao identified himself as Sect Master of the Heavenly Constant Sect and greeted Ye Lin.

Ye Lin dismissed Wang Erdao’s demand for an explanation, sent him flying, and left the Heavenly Constant Sect. After Wang Erdao hurried to ask his father what had happened, an ancient voice ordered the sect to shut its gates and withdraw from worldly affairs, and its protection array concealed it in the void.

• Wang Erdao demanded that Ye Lin explain why he had killed two Heavenly Constant Sect elders.
• Ye Lin called the elders ants, sent Wang Erdao flying with a sleeve flick, and swaggered out while the sect’s disciples and experts stood aside.
• Wang Erdao told the gathered disciples that he would explain the incident, then hurried toward Wang Sandao’s private chamber.
• An immense aura struck Wang Erdao and hurled him away before he reached the chamber.
• An ancient voice ordered the Heavenly Constant Sect to close its gates and withdraw from worldly affairs, and its protection array hid the sect within the void.

Ye Lin searched the ruined Southern Continent, where the Azure Dragon Dragon Venerable allowed sea beasts to occupy the land because its spiritual veins had been severed. As the Dragon Venerable prepared to leave, Ye Lin appeared and pinned the sea beasts and the Azure Dragon beneath his overwhelming pressure.

• Ye Lin crossed the devastated Southern Continent and found no living creatures.
• The Azure Dragon Dragon Venerable said the continent’s severed spiritual veins made it unworthy of occupation but permitted sea beasts to travel there if they avoided the transcendent factions.
• The Dragon Venerable dismissed the sea beasts and said it would return to seclusion to await its lord’s awakening.
• Ye Lin arrived, and his pressure forced the sea beasts and the Azure Dragon to the ground.
• Long Aotian identified himself as the son of the divine beast Azure Dragon and asked Ye Lin who he was.

Ye Lin crushed Long Aotian’s avatar and questioned him after learning the Azure Dragon Clan was on its way. Long Aotian remained defiant, while the sea beasts realized their lives were at risk.

• Long Aotian challenged Ye Lin after Ye Lin dismissed his claim to be a descendant of the divine beast Azure Dragon.
• Ye Lin stomped Long Aotian into the ground, leaving his avatar bloodied and badly injured.
• Long Aotian said he had notified the Azure Dragon Clan and threatened Ye Lin with its arriving experts.
• Ye Lin realized Long Aotian was using an avatar and asked whether it carried something important to him.
• The sea beasts understood that Long Aotian could survive the avatar’s death, but they could not.

Ye Lin killed Long Aotian and the sea beasts, then claimed the Immortal-Shattering Stone. An old man arrived demanding the stone, and Ye Lin prepared to face his attack.

• Ye Lin seized Long Aotian and crushed him into blood mist despite his threats.
• Ye Lin found the Immortal-Shattering Stone and put it away.
• Ye Lin killed every sea beast below with a glance.
• An old man crossed the sea and demanded that Ye Lin surrender the stone or die.
• The old man attacked Ye Lin with an azure dragon claw, and Ye Lin called the attack dull.

Ye Lin crippled a Three-Tribulation Loose Immortal dragon and forced him to guide the way to the Azure Dragon Clan’s Ancestral Land. As they crossed the sea, a giant creature swallowed the dragon’s discarded sinews, while Ye Lin demanded to know where they were going.

• Ye Lin ripped out the old man’s dragon sinews, crippled his cultivation, and forced him to point the way to the Azure Dragon Clan’s Ancestral Land.
• The old man secretly hoped the clan’s Ancestral Land would let him take revenge and restore his dragon sinews.
• Ye Lin traveled across the sea with the old man, reflecting on the immense scale of the ancient Xuanhuang Great World.
• A gigantic sea creature swallowed the dragon sinews and disappeared beneath the water.
• Ye Lin looked across the boundless sea and threatened the old man to reveal their destination.

Ye Lin killed the old man after learning that he could no longer sense the array concealing the Azure Dragon Clan's Ancestral Land. He entered the hidden land and discovered that its supposed Azure Dragon descendants were merely blue snakes.

• The old man admitted that crippling him had left him unable to sense the array or find the Ancestral Land.
• Ye Lin crushed the old man's divine soul, absorbed his memories, and learned the location and opening hand seals for the Ancestral Land.
• Ye Lin opened the concealment array and entered the Azure Dragon Clan's Ancestral Land.
• Ye Lin saw blue dragons rolling in the sea and concluded that the clan members were shameless snakes, not descendants of the divine beast Azure Dragon.

Ye Lin met Long Aoxiang, the Azure Dragon Clan's patriarch, and explained that he had killed the Ninth Elder. Long Aoxiang calmly set aside the feud and asked what important matter had brought Ye Lin to the clan.

• Long Aoxiang appeared beside Ye Lin and identified himself as the Azure Dragon Clan's patriarch.
• Ye Lin admitted that he had killed the Ninth Elder after the elder spoke out of turn.
• Long Aoxiang said the Ninth Elder's death had been fated and claimed the Azure Dragon Clan had not participated in the Southern Continent events.
• Long Aoxiang dismissed the conflict involving his son, Long Aotian, as a minor matter and urged Ye Lin to let it end.
• Long Aoxiang asked Ye Lin what he had come to discuss.

Ye Lin asked Long Aoxiang to help unite the five continents and the deep sea against the threat to the Xuanhuang Great World. Long Aoxiang agreed to contact old friends and gave Ye Lin a token to help him approach the deep-sea races.

• Ye Lin showed Long Aoxiang information about the danger facing Central Continent and the Xuanhuang Great World.
• Long Aoxiang believed the information and recognized that Ye Lin was seeking support for Central Continent.
• Ye Lin explained his plan to make their allies immortals and said they might have to enter the Heavenly Demon Great World if no other option remained.
• Long Aoxiang asked why Ye Lin was doing all this, but Ye Lin refused to reveal his reasons.
• Long Aoxiang agreed to consult his old friends and gave Ye Lin a token from the Lord of the Deep Sea to help him gain an audience with deep-sea races.

Long Aoxiang explained the ancient history of the three Daos and why the Identity Token he gave Ye Lin commanded respect among deep-sea races. Ye Lin learned that Deep Sea Dao had been weakened to a mere wisp of consciousness but still held enough authority to offer him protection.

• Ye Lin accepted Long Aoxiang's azure Identity Token but questioned whether every deep-sea race would truly respect it.
• Long Aoxiang explained that the Primordial Era's Xuanhuang Great World was vastly larger than it was now and had been governed by Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Deep Sea Dao.
• Long Aoxiang recounted how Heavenly Dao's wars destroyed Earthly Dao and left Deep Sea Dao barely alive.
• Long Aoxiang told Ye Lin that the Identity Token was condensed from Deep Sea Dao's will and would earn him some respect from any deep-sea race.
• Ye Lin was surprised by the ancient history and reflected that old, powerful beings knew more than the records preserved in texts.

Ye Lin obtained Long Aoxiang’s Identity Token and set out to win the other races’ support before collecting the last two items needed to awaken the Xuanhuang Great World’s will. He reached Northern Continent and found a desolate land where drought and scarce spiritual energy had left ordinary people suffering.

• Ye Lin accepted the Identity Token from Long Aoxiang, who agreed to discuss his proposal with the clan’s elders.
• After Ye Lin left, Long Aoxiang told the Azure Dragon Clan patriarch that he believed Ye Lin had no reason to deceive him.
• Ye Lin decided to settle matters on land before seeking support from the deep-sea races and headed for Northern Continent.
• Ye Lin arrived in Northern Continent and found its spiritual energy weaker than Eastern Continent’s, with barren earth, dried rivers, and people praying for rain.
• Ye Lin saw only one Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator within a thousand li and observed that the region’s broken spirit veins and incomplete laws made cultivation difficult.

Ye Lin saw the Northern Continent’s desperate drought and granted rain to the starving people and Demon Beasts. The people rushed to collect water as Ye Lin watched in silence.

• Ye Lin saw that spiritual energy was scarce in the Northern Continent and doubted its factions could match the Central Continent’s strength.
• Starving people and weak Demon Beasts knelt and begged Ye Lin to bring rain after ten years without rainfall.
• A little girl pleaded with Ye Lin to save her three-year-old brother from thirst.
• Ye Lin summoned dark clouds and brought down a torrential rainstorm.
• The people hurried to collect rainwater and thanked Ye Lin while the Demon Beasts rested in the rain.

Ye Lin summoned rain over a drought-stricken area, giving desperate mortals and Demon Beasts hope despite a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator warning him about the cost. Ye Lin revealed the rainfall had barely cost him anything, then stopped the man as he was leaving to ask him something.

• A middle-aged Nascent Soul Realm cultivator arrived beside Ye Lin and criticized him for spending spiritual energy to bring rain for mortals.
• Humans and Demon Beasts from across the region rushed toward Ye Lin's rainfall, desperate for water.
• Ye Lin told the middle-aged man that helping the mortals was worthwhile and that the rain had cost him almost nothing.
• The middle-aged man gave up trying to persuade Ye Lin and prepared to leave.
• Ye Lin stopped the man, saying he had something to ask him.

Ye Lin learned that the Northern Continent had become so resource-poor that it had no cultivation forces and even Nascent Soul cultivators were considered powerful. The middle-aged cultivator told Ye Lin about a newly discovered low-grade Spirit Mine and invited him to go there.

• Ye Lin asked the middle-aged man where cultivation forces gathered in the Northern Continent.
• The middle-aged man explained that scarce resources prevented forces from forming and that rogue cultivators would destroy any group that accumulated wealth.
• The middle-aged man said even transcendent forces avoided the Northern Continent, where a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator could rule as a lord.
• Ye Lin lamented the Northern Continent’s decline and doubted it could help oppose the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons or invade the Heavenly Demon Great World.
• The middle-aged man said a low-grade Spirit Mine had appeared a million li away and invited Ye Lin to join him there.

Ye Lin dismissed a Nascent Soul cultivator’s offer to share the spoils from a low-grade Spirit Mine and decided not to open Northern Continent’s spatial passageway, fearing it would invite Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. He searched for Proud Cloud Immortal and, finding Northern Continent in decline, noticed Golden Core cultivators arguing over a Spirit Stone mine.

• A middle-aged Nascent Soul cultivator offered to split the spoils from a low-grade Spirit Mine with Ye Lin, but Ye Lin waved him away.
• Ye Lin decided not to open Northern Continent’s spatial passageway because Outer Realm Heavenly Demons could invade through it.
• Ye Lin flew across Northern Continent in search of Proud Cloud Immortal and found a dying True Lord nearing the Dao Integration Realm.
• Ye Lin spotted Golden Core cultivators below fiercely arguing over a Spirit Stone mine, though none dared to attack.

Ye Lin found and collected the Proud Cloud Immortal, then searched the Northern Continent for a transcendent faction but found none. He left the continent convinced its cultivation lineage would disappear within ten thousand years.

• Ye Lin appeared before the cultivators at a Spirit Stone vein and took the Proud Cloud Immortal growing there.
• Ye Lin shattered space and left, shocking the Golden Core cultivators who realized he was a Spirit Transformation True Person.
• Ye Lin traveled across the rest of the Northern Continent in search of a transcendent faction but found none.
• Ye Lin observed that the Northern Continent had only eight Dao Integration True Lords and no Tribulation Transcendence Heavenly Lords.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Northern Continent's cultivation factions would vanish within ten thousand years, leaving the continent to mortals.

Ye Lin returned to the Eastern Continent and ordered the Dawn Alliance to prepare its forces to support the Central Continent, while gathering the other races and the deep-sea races. After he left to visit his disciples, the Eastern Continent’s major powers mobilized and fell silent.

• Ye Lin arrived at the Eastern Continent and summoned the Dawn Alliance’s leaders to its headquarters.
• Ye Lin questioned whether his authority still held, and an old member affirmed the Alliance’s loyalty to him.
• Ye Lin sent the leaders information that stirred their auras and ordered the Dawn Alliance to prepare to support the Central Continent.
• Ye Lin told the Alliance to prepare the Eastern Continent’s other races and invite the deep-sea races to discuss the matter.
• Ye Lin ended the meeting to visit his disciples, while Eastern Continent powerhouses gathered at the headquarters and major factions fell silent.

Ye Lin returned to the Azure Cloud Sect, whose fortunes had risen under Nascent Soul Realm Sect Master Shi Jian, and walked its familiar grounds while recalling his past. At the gate, he told the guards he had come only to look around and asked whether Shi Jian was still Sect Master.

• Ye Lin revisited the Azure Cloud Sect and remembered the paths he had walked there before.
• A prospective disciple offered to use his connections to help Ye Lin join the sect, but Ye Lin smiled and continued up the mountain.
• Ye Lin reached the sect gate, where two Foundation Establishment Realm disciples told him the sect was not accepting disciples.
• Ye Lin clarified that he only wanted to look around, then asked if Shi Jian was the current Sect Master.