Recaps

Yuexi warned Ye Lin and Liu Bai that the Heaven-Reaching Tower in the Kunlun Secret Realm offered a Golden Immortal's inheritance but would draw powerful disciples into deadly competition. Ye Lin and Liu Bai decided to go to the central region anyway, while Liu Bai continued to conceal the full extent of his power.

• Yuexi explained that reaching the Heaven-Reaching Tower's eighteenth floor could grant the inheritance of the Golden Immortal who created the Kunlun Secret Realm.
• Yuexi warned Ye Lin and Liu Bai that powerful disciples from across the Star River would gather in the central region and that they should prepare trump cards or avoid the tower.
• Ye Lin decided to go to the central region despite the danger and thanked Yuexi for her warning.
• Liu Bai said he would go with Ye Lin and kept his Primordial Unity Golden Immortal power concealed.

Five years passed as Ye Lin cultivated to the mid-stage Earth Immortal realm, but he still could not understand domains. He joined Gu Tianxing and the others aboard a golden warship as they prepared to travel to the secret realm’s central region.

• Five years passed, and Ye Lin’s foundation grew stronger, though he still could not grasp the power of domains.
• Gu Tianxing warned everyone that Star River races could kill through strange methods, including by using a person’s voice.
• Gu Tianxing formed hand seals and summoned a golden warship.
• Ye Lin boarded the warship with the others as they set out for the central region.

Gu Tianxing led the Firmament Sacred Land’s warship toward the Kunlun Secret Realm’s central region and clashed with the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan along the way. After ten days of travel, the group reached the central region and saw a colossal eighteen-level tower.

• Gu Tianxing’s warship traveled toward the central region, where he expected possible attacks from other factions.
• Leonard and the Three-Eyed Gods intercepted the warship, and Gu Tianxing traded insults with Leonard before both sides withdrew.
• Yuexi told Ye Lin and Liu Bai that the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan was a sworn enemy of the Purple Cloud Star System and warned them to be wary.
• Gu Tianxing’s group completed the ten-day journey and arrived at the central region, where they saw a tower with eighteen million-meter-tall levels.

Gu Tianxing defended the Firmament Sacred Land disciples as they waited for the Heaven-Reaching Tower to open, then fought Leonard of the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan. He defeated Leonard and returned to his war vessel, leaving the rival factions wary of his strength.

• Gu Tianxing warned the Firmament Sacred Land disciples to stay aboard their war vessel until the Heaven-Reaching Tower opened in three days.
• Leonard challenged Gu Tianxing to a fight, and Gu Tianxing accepted to protect his standing among the gathered factions.
• Gu Tianxing overwhelmed Leonard and pierced his shoulder with his spear.
• Leonard retreated while clutching his severed arm, and Gu Tianxing returned to his war vessel after surveying the surrounding ships.

The forces gathered outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower learned that they would have to fight for the limited entry slots. As the purge began, the young man Apocalypse was revealed as the Awakened Dragon Clan’s powerful young master, whose future opportunity lay inside the tower.

• A display of force by Gu Tianxing made nearby cultivators restrain their dubious intentions.
• Yuexi explained that forces overseen by Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals were guaranteed entry, while weaker forces had to compete for the remaining slots.
• A young man aboard a warship announced that only 290 of the gathered forces could qualify within three days, and that driving back a hundred forces would secure advancement.
• The young man declared that the slaughter could begin and showed his enjoyment of the coming violence.
• Apocalypse was identified as the Awakened Dragon Clan’s peak Earth Immortal young master, destined to earn a top-grade immortal-tier cultivation technique in the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

Gu Tianxing and the Firmament Sacred Land prepared to face Leonard and three allies, who sought revenge for the last Kunlun Secret Realm expedition. As Leonard ordered an attack, two powerful young men arrived to oppose the invaders.

• Ye Lin read Tianqi's panel and was surprised by its power to make words become law.
• Gu Tianxing ordered the warship's offensive cannons charged while guarding his junior brothers.
• Leonard arrived with three allies and challenged Gu Tianxing, citing the slaughter of the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan's disciples in the previous Kunlun Secret Realm trip.
• Gu Tianxing rose into the air and declared he would defeat the attackers as the Sacred Lord had before him.
• Leonard summoned two swords and ordered his three allies to help kill everyone from the Firmament Sacred Land.
• Two warships arrived with young men whose auras matched Gu Tianxing's, and one of them objected to the attack on the Purple Cloud Star System.

The three great sacred lands joined forces against the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan and its allies. After the other three warships abandoned Leonard and fled, Yuexi confronted the isolated clan and demanded that they come out to fight or have their ships destroyed.

• Ye Lin saw the Heaven-Overturning Sacred Land and Azure Cloud Sacred Land arrive, and their leaders promised to help Gu Tianxing while offering disciples points for killing the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan.
• Gu Tianxing charged at Leonard as the battle erupted, while the three sacred lands surrounded the enemy warships.
• The other three Flying Boats asked to withdraw, and the three great sacred lands let them leave the encirclement.
• The Three-Eyed Sacred Clan realized it had been left heavily outnumbered as hundreds of disciples surrounded its warships.
• Yuexi demanded that the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan come out and fight or face the destruction of its warships.

The Three-Eyed Sacred Clan was surrounded by more than three hundred cultivators, and the two sides began a battle. Ye Lin watched the fighting from the perimeter and started discerning patterns in the domains, while Apocalypse noticed his insight.

• The Three-Eyed Sacred Clan members decided to fight rather than flee and hoped some would survive to report the location to their Sacred Clan.
• At Yuexi's command, the surrounding cultivators attacked the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan.
• A Firmament Sacred Land disciple sent Ye Lin and Liu Bai to guard the perimeter and prevent anyone from escaping.
• Ye Lin studied the combatants' domains and began noticing patterns in their laws while Liu Bai drank wine nearby.
• Apocalypse observed Ye Lin's apparent epiphany, and a young man beside him asked whether they should help Ye Lin comprehend domain power.

Ye Lin discovered the direction he needed to take to comprehend the power of a domain, but realized he still needed to study the workings of heaven and earth. Liu Bai congratulated him and predicted he would wield domain power within a hundred years.

• Apocalypse refused to guide Ye Lin, saying he needed to forge his own path.
• Ye Lin realized that a domain imitated the operation of all things between heaven and earth and began merging his three phenomena.
• Ye Lin’s aura subsided when he saw that his understanding and foundation were still insufficient to complete a domain.
• Ye Lin joined Liu Bai and said he would enter seclusion to observe all things between heaven and earth.
• Liu Bai predicted Ye Lin would wield domain power within a hundred years, and Ye Lin agreed that the estimate was reasonable.

As the war between the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan and its enemies neared its end, White Crane of White Cloud Temple offered Ye Lin and Liu Bai two top-grade immortal artifacts. Liu Bai rejected the offer, and the chapter ended with White Crane privately doubting his claim that such treasures were trash.

• Liu Bai pointed out that the fighting inside was nearly over as the wounded Three-Eyed Sacred Clan disciples dwindled.
• White Crane appeared behind Ye Lin and Liu Bai without their noticing and introduced himself as a cultivator from White Cloud Temple.
• White Crane offered Ye Lin and Liu Bai a Heaven-War Halberd and a Heaven-Mixing Staff, claiming he wanted nothing in return.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warned Ye Lin that White Cloud Temple's gifts carried dangerous karmic debts.
• Liu Bai refused White Crane's offer, saying top-grade immortal artifacts were trash to him.
• White Crane privately cursed Liu Bai and questioned how an Earth Immortal could dismiss such rare treasures.

White Crane failed to persuade Liu Bai or Ye Lin to accept his top-grade immortal artifact and left. Gu Tianxing killed Leonard, and the Kunlun Secret Realm annihilated the powerful projection summoned by Leonard’s father.

• White Crane offered his top-grade immortal artifact to Liu Bai, who refused it.
• White Crane asked Ye Lin to take the artifact, but Ye Lin also declined, saying it was worthless to him.
• White Crane put away the artifact and left after both cultivators refused it.
• Leonard threatened Gu Tianxing with his father’s aura imprint, but Gu Tianxing killed him with a spear thrust.
• A terrifying projection appeared after Leonard’s death, but the Kunlun Secret Realm’s rules shattered it before it could act.

After the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan's geniuses were wiped out in the Kunlun Secret Realm, the clan's leaders blamed the three great sacred lands of the Purple Cloud Star System and debated starting a war. The clan chief had not yet announced a decision.

• Gu Tianxing said the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan had been dealt with and urged vigilance for the next three days.
• The Three-Eyed Sacred Clan's armored leader learned that all its geniuses had died in the Kunlun Secret Realm.
• The Three-Eyed Sacred Clan's leaders discovered that the three great sacred lands of the Purple Cloud Star System were responsible.
• Several leaders called for war against the Purple Cloud Star System, arguing that conquest could help their clan chief advance to the Taiyi Mysterious Immortal realm.

Tongtian restrained his anger over his son's death and chose to undermine the three Sacred Lands rather than risk a direct war. In the Kunlun Secret Realm, Ye Lin reflected on the betrayals and ruthless struggles he had witnessed, leaving Liu Bai unconvinced by his view that people simply lived according to their own stances.

• Tongtian's followers discussed how peace could weaken a civilization and agreed to fracture the shared interests of the three Sacred Lands from within.
• Tongtian, grieving his only son's death, rejected a reckless war and ordered a plan to make the Purple Cloud Star System's factions collapse against one another.
• After two days in the Kunlun Secret Realm, Ye Lin witnessed disciples betray allies and fight over scarce opportunities.
• Liu Bai asked Ye Lin what he thought of the cruelty, and Ye Lin said people lived for themselves and that right and wrong depended on their differing stances.
• Liu Bai said he did not know about Ye Lin's thoughts.

As the Heaven-Reaching Tower’s opening approached, Apocalypse gave the factions a final deadline to settle their quotas, prompting the fighting to erupt again. Gu Tianxing and the three great holy lands then faced the arrival of the notorious Evil Spirit Race and Ghost Shark Race, who preyed on humans.

• Apocalypse warned the factions that they had two hours to allocate their quotas or he and the other experts would intervene.
• Gu Tianxing tightened his grip on his spear as the factions resumed killing over access to the Golden Immortal inheritance.
• The Evil Spirit Race and Ghost Shark Race arrived before the three great holy lands’ warships, with around two hundred fighters between them.
• Gu Tianxing identified the two races, and the holy land disciples grew uneasy as he faced the threat.

The three holy lands faced a force of Ghost Shark Race and Evil Spirit Race fighters, whose cruel reputations and unusual abilities made them dangerous opponents. The two races disembarked from their Flying Boats and prepared to attack the Human Race forces.

• The chapter described how the Evil Spirit Race and Ghost Shark Race raised their young through deadly trials and hunted other factions relentlessly.
• A Human Race Golden Immortal had once killed eighteen True Immortals from the two races by using karma and the River of Time, then abandoned his plan to exterminate them.
• Members of the three holy lands discussed the enemy's reputation and strength, with some expressing fear and others confidence in their numbers.
• The Ghost Shark Race and Evil Spirit Race fighters left their Flying Boats and called for a feast on the Human Race.

The Sacred Lands’ disciples clashed with the Evil Spirit Race and Ghost Shark Race, while Gu Tianxing’s group faced the two enemy prodigies. Ye Lin and Liu Bai watched from the sidelines as the battle continued.

• Ye Lin prepared to use the Supreme Artifact fragment if anyone threatened him.
• The Sacred Lands’ disciples and their enemies began fighting while Gu Tianxing and two companions confronted the Evil Spirit Race and Ghost Shark Race prodigies.
• The Evil Spirit Race prodigy played a zither to strengthen the Ghost Shark Race prodigy, who charged Gu Tianxing’s group.
• Gu Tianxing and his companions battled the two prodigies, with the fight appearing evenly matched.
• Ye Lin and Liu Bai sat together in a corner watching, while the other disciples tacitly let them stay out of the fight.

Apocalypse noticed Ye Lin and Liu Bai and invited them to meet him. After introductions, he told Liu Bai that he sensed he was not as simple as he appeared.

• Apocalypse watched Ye Lin and Liu Bai relaxing below and decided to invite them over.
• Apocalypse's attendant approached Ye Lin and Liu Bai with the invitation.
• Ye Lin agreed to go meet Apocalypse, while Liu Bai remained calm.
• Apocalypse stood to greet them and introduced himself, and Ye Lin and Liu Bai gave their names.
• Apocalypse told Liu Bai that his intuition suggested Liu Bai was not as simple as he appeared.

Apocalypse offered Ye Lin and Liu Bai resources in exchange for becoming his followers, then proposed investing in them as friends instead. Ye Lin hesitated over the favor attached to the offer, while Liu Bai returned his ring, leaving Ye Lin's decision unresolved.

• Apocalypse asked Ye Lin and Liu Bai to become his followers, but Ye Lin immediately refused.
• Apocalypse offered them identical Spatial Rings of resources in exchange for a future favor to the Awakened Dragon Clan.
• Ye Lin examined the resources and questioned the price, recognizing that the favor could be costly.
• Liu Bai returned his Spatial Ring to Apocalypse, judging the offer insufficient for one favor.

Apocalypse told Ye Lin and Liu Bai about the dangerous ruins of Mo Yuan, a Supreme Unity Mystic Immortal, and proposed that they explore them together. Ye Lin was tempted by the rumored treasures but questioned why Apocalypse had chosen them, leaving the proposal unresolved.

• Ye Lin and Liu Bai refused Apocalypse’s offered Spatial Rings, and he invited them to hear about a place he wanted to explore.
• Apocalypse required Ye Lin and Liu Bai to swear Great Dao oaths before he revealed the secret.
• Apocalypse explained that Mo Yuan’s ruins were filled with strange presences limited to Earth Immortal strength by the aura inside.
• Apocalypse offered to explore the ruins with Ye Lin and Liu Bai and divide three treasures among them, reserving the Time Tower for himself.
• Ye Lin grew interested in the fragmentary volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities but asked Apocalypse why he had approached them instead of someone else.

Ye Lin and Liu Bai agreed to join Apocalypse in exploring the ruins a hundred years later, hoping to obtain the incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities. Apocalypse then ordered an assault on the remaining war vessels, and fighting resumed while the three great holy lands were spared.

• Apocalypse told Ye Lin and Liu Bai that the ruins would be safest to enter in a hundred years, when the ominous auras weakened.
• Liu Bai agreed to join the expedition, and Ye Lin accepted after deciding he had reason to trust Apocalypse.
• Apocalypse gave Ye Lin and Liu Bai Jade Talismans and said he would find them at the Purple Cloud Star System in a hundred years.
• Apocalypse declared that thirteen war vessels remained and ordered the Awakened Dragon Clan disciples to attack.
• The other nine factions guarded by Grand Luo Golden Immortals joined the battle, while the Awakened Dragon Clan disciples avoided the three great holy lands and protected their Flying Boats.

Ye Lin entered the Heaven-Reaching Tower, where death in its trials would destroy his true body, and discovered that Liu Bai was destined to claim a Golden Immortal inheritance. The first trial began with Ye Lin facing three mid-stage Earth Immortal puppets, and they attacked before he could respond.

• The Heaven-Reaching Tower opened after more than a thousand Earth Immortal cultivators died in the battle, while none of the ten Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal factions' disciples were killed.
• Apocalypse announced that the entrants had ten years to clear the tower's trials, and Ye Lin and Liu Bai headed inside.
• Liu Bai warned Ye Lin that death inside the tower would kill his true body, and both of them entered after Ye Lin accepted the danger.
• Ye Lin read Liu Bai's panel and learned that Liu Bai would obtain a Golden Immortal inheritance, though its attempt to possess him would be overcome.
• The first-floor trial required Ye Lin to defeat three mid-stage Earth Immortal puppets, and he drew the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword as they attacked.

Ye Lin fought three mid-stage Earth Immortal puppets whose flawless coordination repeatedly interrupted his attacks. He damaged two puppets with powerful sword techniques, but the remaining pair kept pressing him as the chapter ended.

• Ye Lin exchanged thousands of blows with the three puppets, struggling against their coordinated attacks.
• Ye Lin used One Sword Opens Mountains and Seas to send all three puppets flying.
• Ye Lin followed with Saint-Falling Fist and punched through one puppet's chest.
• Ye Lin used Enemy Slayer to destroy another puppet's arm, but a puppet kicked him backward after catching his Bloodthirsty Demon Sword.
• Ye Lin summoned a phoenix formed from Phoenix Fire as the two remaining puppets continued their assault.

Ye Lin cleared the first floor of the trial and claimed ten mid-stage Earth Immortal puppets. On the second floor, he easily passed the test of lust, but the trial of rage began by showing him his former friends and masters being massacred.

• Ye Lin used upper-tier Heaven Grade Phoenix Fire and Sword Qi to cripple the three mid-stage Earth Immortal puppets.
• A booming voice declared the first floor cleared and awarded Ye Lin ten mid-stage Earth Immortal puppets, which he stored in his Spatial Ring.
• Ye Lin used ten top-grade Immortal Stones to cultivate while waiting for the second floor to open.
• The second-floor trial began with tests of lust, rage, love, and fear, and Ye Lin dismissed the tempting beauties without difficulty.
• The scene changed to the trial of rage, where Ye Lin saw his former friends and masters being massacred.

Ye Lin experienced trials that forced him to watch his former companions and Dao companion die without reacting, then emerged from the Heaven-Reaching Tower with a top-grade Immortal-tier Flame Spear and missing memories. As his companions treated a Ghost Shark Race prodigy as an ally, Ye Lin suspected he was trapped in an illusion and decided to check his panel.

• Ye Lin watched blood-red puppets slaughter his former friends and masters during the trial called Wind and Frost, remaining unmoved.
• Ye Lin watched his Dao companion die during the trial called Love without showing any emotion.
• Ye Lin found himself outside the Heaven-Reaching Tower with Yuexi and Liu Bai, who said he had cleared the tower and obtained a top-grade Immortal-tier Flame Spear.
• Ye Lin checked his Spatial Ring and found unfamiliar items, including a crimson spear, but could not remember anything that had happened in the tower.
• Ye Lin saw Gu Tianxing exchange friendly words with the Ghost Shark Race's strongest prodigy, whom Ye Lin remembered as having been killed before entering the tower.
• Ye Lin concluded that he might be inside an illusion and decided to check his panel.

Ye Lin discovered that Liu Bai’s extraordinary status and abilities were real after seeing his panel, then told him he planned to perfect his domain. Liu Bai said he would take missions to earn money for wine, leaving Ye Lin awkwardly aware that he owed him wine.

• Ye Lin saw Liu Bai’s panel, which revealed his immense luck, rare traits, and future path to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin realized the panel confirmed that the events around him were real, not an illusion.
• Liu Bai asked Ye Lin what he planned to do after they returned to the Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin said he intended to observe the laws governing all things and perfect his domain.
• Liu Bai complained that he was out of wine and would take missions to earn immortal stones, while hinting that Ye Lin had not repaid his wine debt.