Recaps

Cang Yun and two other Immortal Realm experts encountered Devil Abyss, an ancient Devil Ancestor who proved vastly stronger than them. Devil Abyss sent Cang Yun flying with one palm, leaving the other two afraid to attack.

• Cang Yun challenged an elderly newcomer who identified himself as Devil Abyss, the ancient Devil Ancestor.
• Devil Abyss sealed the space around Cang Yun and blocked his spear strike with his bare palm.
• Devil Abyss struck Cang Yun and sent him crashing through dozens of mountain ranges.
• The other two Immortal Realm experts hesitated, realizing they might have underestimated the Heavenly Demon Great World.

Devil Abyss confronted two Most Sacred Realm experts, then fought Cang Yun when he returned to challenge him. Cang Yun was wounded by Devil Abyss’s counterattack as the battle continued.

• Devil Abyss mocked the two Most Sacred Realm experts and prepared to attack while they debated whether to fight or retreat.
• Cang Yun returned wrapped in a five-clawed golden Dragon and told the two experts to protect the army below.
• Devil Abyss sent successive waves at Cang Yun, who shattered them with his spear.
• Devil Abyss used Heaven and Earth Reversal to gather Cang Yun’s attacks into his sleeve and send them back as a black Dragon.
• Cang Yun met the black Dragon with his golden Dragon, but the explosion forced him to retreat and spit blood.

Cang Yun and two old men joined forces to trap Devil Abyss and unleash their strongest attacks, but Devil Abyss survived and emerged from the shattered void. The chapter ended with him advancing toward the three of them.

• Devil Abyss halted his retreat after clashing with Cang Yun, who realized the old man was far stronger than he was.
• Cang Yun and the two old men trapped Devil Abyss in a shattered pocket of space.
• Cang Yun unleashed Hidden Dragon in the Abyss and then Flying Dragon in the Heavens, sending a nine-clawed golden dragon into the void.
• The resulting explosion shattered space across a radius of ten thousand miles, leaving deadly spatial rifts drifting around them.
• Devil Abyss emerged with tattered clothes, coughing but still steady on his feet, and walked toward the three men.

Devil Fury arrived to aid Devil Abyss and attacked Cang Yun and his two companions. He crippled Cang Yun and badly wounded the other two, who responded by activating their Heaven and Earth Grand Formation and Heaven and Earth Domain.

• A middle-aged man named Devil Fury appeared and mocked Devil Abyss before drawing his two broadswords.
• Devil Fury struck Cang Yun, blasting apart his arms and sending him crashing into a vast crater.
• Cang Yun’s two companions tried to flee, but Devil Fury blocked the spatial passage with his swords.
• The pair attacked Devil Fury, who blasted apart half of each of their bodies with a punch.
• Devil Fury activated his Heavenly Demon True Body as the two companions opened their Heaven and Earth Grand Formation and Heaven and Earth Domain.

Mo Nu fought two old men in the Nine Nether Land, where one unleashed a Heaven-Opening Axe technique that injured him despite his peak Most Sacred Realm cultivation. Devil Abyss urged Mo Nu to join forces and suggested they investigate the Xuanyuan Empire after the battle.

• One old man used laws to create a territory and summoned a giant to wield the Heaven-Opening Axe against Mo Nu.
• The Heaven-Opening Axe illuminated the Nine Nether Land and reduced countless ghosts to ash.
• Mo Nu countered with the Heavenly Demon Rage Hammer, and the clash shattered space and laws before both attacks faded.
• The old man who used the axe coughed up blood and suffered severe injuries, while Mo Nu's Heavenly Demon True Body shattered.
• Devil Abyss joined the fight and proposed attacking together, then visiting the Xuanyuan Empire to question that Emperor about recent events.

Devil Fury battered two early-stage Saints and was about to kill them when Ye Lin arrived and stopped his attack. Ye Lin then used golden law chains to bind Devil Fury as Devil Abyss retreated.

• Devil Fury blasted the two Saints into a crater and prepared to finish them off.
• The two Saints waited for the fatal blow, then opened their eyes to find Ye Lin standing between them and the demons.
• Ye Lin calmly challenged Devil Fury and Devil Abyss for attacking the Xuanhuang Great World.
• Ye Lin summoned golden chains embodying the laws and wrapped them around Devil Fury.
• Devil Fury failed to break free, while Devil Abyss hurriedly retreated.

Ye Lin captured and killed Devil Fury after Devil Abyss abandoned him, then considered the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty and the incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities that Heavenfall had said was there. He absorbed Heavenfall's blood essence and resolved to go to the Imperial Dynasty despite sensing danger there.

• Ye Lin bound Devil Fury with chains, while Devil Abyss fled from the fight and escaped Ye Lin's pursuit.
• Devil Fury offered to kill Devil Abyss in exchange for his freedom, but Ye Lin refused and killed him with a single finger.
• Ye Lin reflected on how the Heavenly Demon Great World's energy made Supreme Saints weaker than Immortals of comparable realms.
• Ye Lin sensed danger from the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty but decided to go there to find the incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.
• Ye Lin absorbed all the blood essence from Heavenfall's corpse, leaving it a dried husk.

Ye Lin entered the void in Devil Fury’s appearance to infiltrate the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty. Elsewhere, Old Garden mistook Li Qingqing for a woman from his past, then learned she was gathering herbs to treat her father.

• Ye Lin thanked the rescued men and sent them toward the Xuanhuang Great World before transforming into Devil Fury’s appearance.
• Old Garden saw Li Qingqing and, overwhelmed by memories, reached to touch her face.
• Li Qingqing slapped Old Garden’s hand away and warned him not to act presumptuously on Li Family territory.
• Old Garden apologized and learned that Li Qingqing was gathering medicinal herbs for her injured father.
• Old Garden offered to carry Li Qingqing’s basket, seeing her herbs as ordinary weeds.

Li Qingqing tried to escape Old Garden, who followed her all the way to the Li Residence. After claiming he was visiting a family restaurant nearby, Old Garden entered a Dawn Auction House branch as Li Qingqing watched to see what would happen.

• Li Qingqing backed away from Old Garden and tried to leave, but he followed her like a bodyguard.
• Li Qingqing demanded that Old Garden stop following her, but he insisted they were going the same way.
• Li Qingqing ran through the bushes toward the city, yet Old Garden calmly kept pace behind her.
• At the Li Residence, Old Garden claimed he had come to visit a nearby restaurant owned by his family and walked toward it.
• Li Qingqing recognized the restaurant as a costly Dawn Auction House branch and watched as a smiling, pot-bellied man approached Old Garden.

Old Garden visited a prestigious restaurant in the Herb Capital and questioned its manager, Sun Shang, about the Li residence across the street. Sun Shang explained the city’s three great families and revealed that the Li Family was a powerful martial family led by a Heavenly Human realm expert.

• Sun Shang politely led Old Garden to a private room after recognizing his extraordinary status.
• Old Garden asked why mortals were dining at a restaurant rumored to serve only cultivators, and Sun Shang explained that anyone who could afford it was welcome.
• Old Garden asked Sun Shang about the Li residence across the way.
• Sun Shang described the Li, Wang, and Song Families, explaining that the Wang and Song Families controlled the region’s medicinal herbs while the Li Family handled escort work and transport.
• Sun Shang said the Li Family head had reached the Heavenly Human realm and was renowned among mortal powers within ten thousand li.

Sun Shang explained why martial arts existed alongside cultivation and recounted how the Li Family head had been gravely injured while hunting a Demon Beast. He began introducing Li Qingqing, the Li Family head’s beautiful second daughter, but left his explanation unfinished.

• Sun Shang told Old Garden that the Li Family head had found a Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Core, been badly injured by a Demon Beast, and been told he had only three months to live.
• Sun Shang explained that martial arts had emerged as a path for people without Spirit Roots who still wanted strength.
• Old Garden asked Sun Shang to introduce Li Qingqing, and Sun Shang described her as kind, gentle, and admired throughout the Herb Capital.
• Sun Shang lowered his head and began to explain that Li Qingqing’s peerless beauty had stirred the hearts of many men.

Old Garden became fixated on Li Qingqing and hinted at a plan after learning that her family’s protection could disappear. Meanwhile, Ye Lin infiltrated the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty’s capital as Devil Fury to search for One Breath Becomes Three Purities, where he encountered Devil Fury’s old friend Li Yuanba.

• Sun Shang warned Old Garden that Li Qingqing would be in danger if the Li Family ceased to exist.
• Old Garden sent Sun Shang away and smiled as he thought of something fun involving Li Qingqing.
• Ye Lin entered the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty’s thriving capital in Devil Fury’s guise and searched for the cultivation technique.
• Li Yuanba recognized Ye Lin as Devil Fury, and Ye Lin recalled their long-estranged friendship.
• Li Yuanba told Ye Lin that he had entered the Supreme Saint Realm after finding a senior Supreme Saint’s tomb and inheriting its teachings.

Li Yuanba reunited with Ye Lin, believing him to be his old brother Devil Fury, and invited him to explore the Purple Gold Secret Realm, which was expected to open soon. They flew across the Xuanyuan Imperial Capital and arrived at the place where the realm had appeared.

• Li Yuanba greeted Ye Lin warmly and recalled his former closeness with Devil Fury.
• Li Yuanba told Ye Lin that the Purple Gold Secret Realm was expected to open in the next few days and might contain knowledge beyond the Most Holy Realm.
• Ye Lin agreed to explore the secret realm with Li Yuanba.
• Li Yuanba led Ye Lin over the Xuanyuan Imperial Capital to the site where the Purple Gold Secret Realm had appeared.

Ye Lin and Li Yuanba waited for the violet-gold rift to open, while increasingly powerful experts gathered around it. The Blade Saint arrived, but Ye Lin’s presence kept him cautious as the story ended with the secret realm still unopened.

• Ye Lin and Li Yuanba waited beside the rift, expecting it to open within a few days and anticipating more powerful experts.
• The Blade Saint arrived and challenged Li Yuanba, who recognized him as a peak Supreme Saint from the Sacred Blade Sect.
• The Blade Saint noticed Devil Fury and treated him warily, remembering their past fight and recognizing his immense cultivation.
• Ye Lin dismissed the Blade Saint with a glance, and Li Yuanba sat beside Devil Fury for confidence.
• A day passed as many Saint Realm cultivators and Supreme Saints gathered, while Ye Lin ignored the weaker arrivals.

Five Supreme Saints gathered as the secret realm began to open, and the Emperor of the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty appeared to declare that he would not claim its treasures. After he vanished, the Sword Saint and others feared the Emperor had surpassed the Supreme Saint realm.

• The gathered Saints discussed the five Supreme Saints present, including Blood Hand Li Yuanba, and feared their overwhelming power.
• The secret realm’s rift began to widen, signaling that it was opening.
• The Emperor of the Xuanyuan Imperial Dynasty appeared, and everyone, including Ye Lin and the four Supreme Saints beside him, bowed in greeting.
• The Emperor said the secret realm’s treasures would go to those fated to find them and declared that he would not participate.
• After the Emperor disappeared, a Saint and the Sword Saint remarked on his growing strength and wondered whether he had surpassed the Supreme Saint realm.

Ye Lin entered the Purple Gold Secret Realm alongside the Sword Saint, two other Supreme Saints, and Li Yuanba. After arriving in its purple world, he sent the cultivators following them to spread out and seek opportunities on their own.

• Ye Lin judged the imposing cultivator guarding the rift to be a late Earth Immortal and too powerful for him to defeat.
• The Purple Gold Secret Realm opened, and cultivators rushed inside to seek treasures and a chance to advance.
• The Sword Saint entered with two other Supreme Saints, followed by Ye Lin and Li Yuanba.
• Ye Lin found himself in a world of purple ground and sky, where cultivators scattered in every direction.
• Ye Lin told the cultivators following him to spread out and pursue their own opportunities.

Ye Lin and Li Yuanba wandered through the lifeless world after the other powerhouses departed. When they sensed a battle ahead, Li Yuanba suggested they investigate.

• Ye Lin sent the surrounding powerhouses away, leaving only himself, Li Yuanba, the Sword Saint, the Saber Saint, and an old man.
• The Sword Saint left alone, and Ye Lin set off in the opposite direction with Li Yuanba.
• The Saber Saint wondered why Ye Lin seemed so different from the Devil Fury he remembered, but the old man said time had changed him.
• Ye Lin and Li Yuanba wandered through the strange, lifeless land without a destination.
• Li Yuanba sensed a fight ahead and suggested they go see whether the Saint-level battle involved a treasure.

Ye Lin and Li Yuanba arrived as a group of experts struggled against a giant spatial beast they could neither harm nor escape. The beast attacked the man with the white jade fan, leaving the group in immediate danger.

• Ye Lin demonstrated how he moved through the secret realm, and Li Yuanba followed close behind him.
• A group of experts found themselves trapped by a colossal purple beast after one of them uprooted a strange plant.
• The experts explained that the beast’s tough scales and control over space prevented them from defeating it or fleeing.
• The group renewed their attacks before the beast could recover, but its roar weakened them without noticeably injuring it.
• The giant beast raised its head and lunged at the man holding the white jade fan.

Ye Lin and Li Yuanba arrived as eight Saints struggled against a giant beast, and Li Yuanba deduced that it was guarding a treasure. The Saints handed over a purple plant and escaped, while Ye Lin declined it and Li Yuanba turned to face the still-roaring beast.

• The White Jade Disk and the twin-blade man failed to injure the giant beast meaningfully and worried that their Saint Qi would run out.
• Ye Lin and Li Yuanba arrived, and the eight Saints flew to them and paid their respects.
• Li Yuanba said the beast was likely guarding something and demanded that the Saints hand it over before leaving.
• A Saint gave Li Yuanba an extraordinary purple plant, and Li Yuanba let the group go.
• Li Yuanba offered the plant to Ye Lin, who refused it, then put it in his Spatial Ring and looked toward the giant beast.

Li Yuanba destroyed a colossal beast and refused to hand over its remains when Blade Saint demanded them. Ye Lin discovered Blade Saint’s opportunity involved a scripture containing One Breath Becomes Three Purities, then headed north with Li Yuanba while Blade Saint held back from attacking.

• Li Yuanba annihilated the colossal beast with one finger and told Blade Saint he had arrived too late.
• Blade Saint demanded that Li Yuanba show him the thing he had found, but Li Yuanba refused with Ye Lin at his side.
• Ye Lin read Blade Saint’s panel and learned that Blade Saint’s northern opportunity involved a grotto-heaven, a Supreme Saint beast, and a scroll of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.
• Ye Lin told Blade Saint to scram and headed north, with Li Yuanba following him.
• Blade Saint considered drawing his blade but lowered his hand rather than risk making an enemy of Ye Lin and Li Yuanba.

Ye Lin rushed north to a cave containing strange purple plants and a hidden giant beast. He harvested the plants and wounded the beast with a sword strike, but it closed its jaws to withstand his next attack.

• The Saber Saint threatened to kill Li Yuanba the next time they met and left.
• Ye Lin traveled north so quickly that Li Yuanba could not keep up, then Li Yuanba gave up following him.
• Ye Lin reached the cave, entered its deepest chamber, and absorbed the strange power drifting there.
• Ye Lin found the hidden giant beast, collected the purple plants in his Spatial Ring, and caused the cave to collapse.
• Ye Lin slashed into the beast's maw, shattering nearly half its teeth and badly wounding it.
• Ye Lin prepared another sword strike as the beast shut its mouth to defend itself.

Ye Lin killed the giant beast and found the scroll he had been searching for, but Blade Saint appeared and took it. Blade Saint dismissed Ye Lin’s threat and prepared to leave with the scroll.

• Ye Lin’s sword strike wounded the giant beast, and its attempt to break his barrier shattered its own tail.
• Ye Lin pierced the fleeing beast with a golden sword and destroyed its sea of consciousness, killing it.
• Ye Lin dismembered the beast and found a scroll wrapped in white light, recognizing it as what Devil Fury had wanted.
• Blade Saint stepped out of the void, seized the scroll, and mocked Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin threatened Blade Saint, but Blade Saint said Ye Lin could not stop him from leaving and planned to study the scroll.

Ye Lin killed the Blade Saint with his Imperial Ultimate divine ability, Reminiscence, and left the underground cavern. Elsewhere, Old Garden waited outside Li Manor for a chance to rescue Li Qingqing and revive the dying Li Family Patriarch.

• The Blade Saint tried to leave, but golden chains trapped him before he could escape.
• Ye Lin used Reminiscence to awaken the Blade Saint’s regrets, causing him to disappear.
• Ye Lin reflected that he had used Reminiscence only twice and had rarely faced hardships on his cultivation path.
• Old Garden waited outside Li Manor, hoping the Li Family Patriarch would die and enemies would attack so he could save Li Qingqing and win her affection.
• Old Garden considered extending the Li Family Patriarch’s life by a hundred years with a casual gesture.

Old Garden sent Sun Shang to infiltrate the Li Manor as armed attackers gathered to assault the Li Family. Wang Tiangang barred Grandmaster experts from entering Herb Capital, but ordinary assassins continued into the city.

• Old Garden sensed hostile auras approaching and ordered Sun Shang to infiltrate the Li Manor, promising him a reward.
• Old Garden said he would make the person at Li Manor become the woman he had once missed, even if she was not truly her.
• Wang Tiangang ordered that Grandmaster-level experts be forbidden from entering Herb Capital and threatened to kill anyone who defied him.
• An old Grandmaster confronted Wang Tiangang at the city gate but backed down rather than enter the city.
• Countless armed men and women passed into Herb Capital behind the old man.

Li Qingqing joined Li Manor’s battle against masked attackers as Old Garden watched and secretly manipulated the fight. He planned to let Li Manor’s allies suffer before stepping in to save them and earn Li Qingqing’s gratitude.

• Li Qingqing armed herself and refused to stay back while the burly man warned her about her ailing father.
• The burly man led Li Manor’s fighters out to confront masked attackers, and the two sides began fighting in the street.
• Li Manor gained the upper hand, but another group joined the battle and targeted its ordinary members.
• Old Garden had Sun Shang’s martial fighters help the attackers while keeping Li Qingqing’s important allies alive, intending to rescue them later.