Recaps

Ye Lin discovered that the Nether General feared Phoenix Fire and used it alongside his Unrivaled Blood God Body to suppress the ghostly opponent. He battered the Nether General with the Saint-Falling Fist, leaving the fight firmly in his favor.

• Ye Lin struck the Nether General with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, and Phoenix Fire made the ghost cultivator retreat in apprehension.
• Ye Lin realized the Nether General feared Phoenix Fire, then unleashed the golden aura of his Unrivaled Blood God Body.
• Ye Lin hit the Nether General with the Saint-Falling Fist, and his pure-yang aura weakened the opponent.
• The Nether General slashed at Ye Lin, but Ye Lin blocked the great saber with his fist and sent him flying.
• Ye Lin pursued the Nether General with repeated punches, exploiting its limited intelligence and its weakness to Phoenix Fire and pure yang.

Ye Lin overwhelmed the Yin General while Blood Daoist tried to empower it with a blood sacrifice and then attacked Ye Lin himself. Ye Lin sent his clone Xiaoyao to fight Blood Daoist and used Demonic Ape True Form to send the Yin General flying.

• Ye Lin continued beating the Yin General, leaving Blood Daoist furious at how badly his trump card was faring.
• Blood Daoist used the Blood Sacrifice Art to gather the dead cultivators’ blood and try to force the Yin General into the Heavenly Immortal realm, but Ye Lin dispersed the blood qi.
• Blood Daoist charged Ye Lin with his tattered banner, and Ye Lin sent out his clone Xiaoyao to fight him.
• Blood Daoist discovered Xiaoyao had strength identical to Ye Lin’s and was no match for him.
• The Yin General attacked Ye Lin with blade qi, but Ye Lin summoned Demonic Ape True Form and punched it away like a falling meteor.

Blood Daoist summoned a peak Celestial Immortal from the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan, who overwhelmed Xiaoyao and entered the battle. Ye Lin recognized the danger after Nangong Yunlan identified the intruder as the War God Palace’s vice palace master.

• Blood Daoist cut his arm and drew a symbol while fighting Xiaoyao, who severed one of his arms.
• Blood Daoist’s symbol opened a golden gateway, and a three-eyed man stepped through.
• The newcomer sent Xiaoyao flying with a flick of his finger and dismissed the surrounding fighters as lowly lifeforms.
• Nangong Yunlan recognized the man as the War God Palace’s vice palace master, a peak Celestial Immortal from the Three-Eyed Sacred Clan.
• Ye Lin dispersed his Demonic Ape True Form, retrieved Xiaoyao, and stopped when he realized the newcomer was a Celestial Immortal.

Lu Guan confronted Nangong Yunlan and tried to seize her, but Liu Bai intervened and revealed overwhelming power. Lu Guan fled after Liu Bai crushed his avatar’s arm.

• Blood Daoist presented the Nangong Family members to Lu Guan, who recognized Nangong Yunlan among them.
• Nangong Yunlan taunted Lu Guan and warned him that Zhuge Yun was preparing to enter the True Immortal Realm and would kill him.
• Lu Guan reached for Nangong Yunlan, but Liu Bai seized his arm and challenged him.
• Liu Bai crushed Lu Guan’s arm, and Lu Guan retreated in fear of his strength.

Liu Bai forced Lu Guan to withdraw, and Ye Lin killed Blood Daoist, ending the scheme against the Nangong Family. Nangong Yunfeng punished the elders who had submitted to the plot and stopped the family’s infighting, while Nangong Yunlan urged him to take the family to the Firmament Sacred Land.

• Liu Bai warned Lu Guan that resisting him would cost Lu Guan his origin power, so Lu Guan dispersed his avatar and abandoned Blood Daoist.
• Ye Lin executed Blood Daoist for colluding with foreign races and took his Spatial Ring.
• After Blood Daoist’s death, the three elders accepted Nangong Yunfeng’s judgment, and he stripped them of their positions and sent them to repent at the ancestral temple.
• Nangong Yunfeng ordered the Nangong Family disciples to stop fighting, and they realized they had killed their own clansmen for profit.
• Nangong Yunlan urged Nangong Yunfeng to take the family to the Firmament Sacred Land rather than keep clinging to the failing Nangong Family.

Nangong Yunfeng refused to leave the Nangong Family, choosing to bear its troubles alone and severing its ties to Nangong Yunlan, Elder Zhuge, and the Firmament Sacred Land. Nangong Yunlan left with Liu Bai and Ye Lin, and they returned to the Firmament Sacred Land, where Ye Lin finally found peace and quiet.

• Nangong Yunfeng told Nangong Yunlan to leave, saying he had to honor their father's wish and take responsibility for the Nangong Family.
• Nangong Yunfeng declared that the Nangong Family had no ties to Nangong Yunlan, Elder Zhuge, or the Firmament Sacred Land, then left to deal with the family's troubles.
• Nangong Yunlan told Liu Bai to go, while Ye Lin searched for the missing Yin General and then gave up.
• Ye Lin and Liu Bai traveled with the silent Nangong Yunlan aboard the Stellar Warboat back to the Firmament Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin bid Nangong Yunlan farewell and relaxed, glad that things were quiet again.

After sleeping for a year at the Firmament Sacred Land, Ye Lin set out to explore the Star River and discovered a vast mountain unlike anything he had seen in the Purple Cloud Star System. He decided to enter and take a closer look.

• Liu Bai left after seeing Ye Lin resting on the lawn, while Ye Lin continued to sleep beneath the Sacred Land’s extraordinary sun.
• Ye Lin woke after a year and reflected on how maintaining a mortal way of life could help cultivators align with the Great Dao.
• Ye Lin left the Firmament Sacred Land to seek opportunities by exploring the Star River.
• After wandering for many days, Ye Lin came upon a mountain so immense that it seemed like a world and wondered whether it belonged to the Purple Cloud Star System.
• Ye Lin decided to enter the mountain, confident that few dangers in the Purple Cloud Star System could threaten him.

Ye Lin entered the illusory mountain and arrived in an unfamiliar forest, where he was caught up in a chase between a woman in red and two assassins. He discovered that his strength was heavily suppressed in this strange world as the pursuit continued.

• Ye Lin entered the mountain, and Liu Bai appeared before the Star River and resolved to wait for him.
• Ye Lin emerged in an unfamiliar forest and realized the mountain had transported him somewhere unknown.
• Two black-clad assassins attacked a fleeing woman in red, and Ye Lin dodged their dagger.
• The woman in red begged Ye Lin to save her and led the chase toward him, but he refused to help.
• Ye Lin noticed that his strength was suppressed and the world's spatial barrier was unusually sturdy.

Ye Lin’s spatial gemstone took time to activate in the powerful world, and a wounded woman in red dragged him along when he teleported. After they escaped their pursuers, she revealed that Mistveil Sect’s Annihilation Powder had poisoned her and planned to visit her younger sister.

• Ye Lin realized the greater world weakened his cultivation and used his spatial gemstone to escape.
• The woman in red grabbed Ye Lin and teleported with him, leaving the two black-clothed pursuers behind.
• The pursuers found the cave and decided to report the unexpected teleportation to their sect and request reinforcements.
• Ye Lin confronted the woman in a riverside valley for involving him in her escape.
• The woman in red tended her poisoned wound and said she would visit her younger sister once she dealt with the Annihilation Powder.

Ye Lin learned that the Mistveil Sect was hunting him because Ye Lingxi had implicated him, and she urged him to travel with her to Medicine King Valley. After Ye Lin asked what a Mystic Immortal was, Ye Lingxi agreed to explain, while concealing that she was injured by the sect’s Annihilation Powder.

• Ye Lingxi introduced herself to Ye Lin and flirted with him, but Ye Lin warned her off and tried to leave.
• Ye Lingxi told Ye Lin that the Mistveil Sect had memorized his aura and might already be hunting him because he had saved her.
• Ye Lingxi offered to take Ye Lin to Medicine King Valley and give him information about the Bronze Holy Palace, or let him risk being captured by the Mistveil Sect.
• Ye Lin asked what cultivation realm a Mystic Immortal belonged to, surprising Ye Lingxi, who wondered if he had just come down from a mountain.
• Ye Lin demanded an answer, and Ye Lingxi agreed to explain while avoiding the use of her cultivation because she was poisoned by Annihilation Powder.

Ye Lingxi explained the cultivation realms and the Bronze Holy Palace, offering Ye Lin stolen information about it if he accompanied her to Medicine King Valley. Ye Lin questioned why anyone would publicize such a valuable secret, leaving Ye Lingxi unable to answer as he began to suspect a plot.

• Ye Lingxi listed the cultivation realms, and Ye Lin struggled to make sense of them.
• Ye Lingxi said rumors claimed the Bronze Holy Palace held the secret to reaching Primordial Unity Profound Immortal and offered to share her stolen information if Ye Lin went with her to Medicine King Valley.
• Ye Lin asked who had spread the rumor, and Ye Lingxi admitted she did not know.
• Ye Lin pointed out that whoever knew the secret would have benefited from keeping it private, stumping Ye Lingxi.
• Ye Lin proposed that someone might be using the Bronze Holy Palace as bait to manipulate the Northern Frontier, and Ye Lingxi took offense.

Ye Lin concluded that the Bronze Holy Palace rumors were likely a trap designed to let a powerful faction manipulate the Northern Frontier, and Ye Lingxi began to believe she had been deceived. After discovering her fate and urgent need for an antidote, Ye Lin agreed to take her back to Medicine King Valley, but added one condition.

• Ye Lin explained that a faction might have spread the Bronze Holy Palace rumors to make others search while it reaped the benefits, and told Ye Lingxi she had been played.
• Ye Lingxi argued that the information could have leaked by accident, but reconsidered and feared that the Northern Frontier's factions were being manipulated.
• Ye Lin read Ye Lingxi's panel and learned that she was destined to be tortured to death by a Demonic Cultivator and would soon encounter an assassination attempt tied to the Bronze Holy Palace.
• Ye Lingxi told Ye Lin that only her junior sister could cure the Annihilation Powder and asked him to take her back to Medicine King Valley before it killed her.
• Ye Lin agreed to help Ye Lingxi return, on the condition that she meet one more demand.

Ye Lin agreed to escort the injured Ye Lingxi to Medicine King Valley in exchange for cultivation resources. They set out across the Northern Frontier, facing a long journey through dangerous territory, and Ye Lingxi estimated they would need at least ten days to reach the Great Xia Dynasty.

• Ye Lin demanded a batch of cultivation resources in exchange for taking Ye Lingxi to Medicine King Valley, and she readily agreed.
• Ye Lingxi explained that they had to cross the Great Xia Dynasty, the Heavenly Constant Sect, and the Northern Wasteland to reach Medicine King Valley.
• Ye Lin realized the journey would be perilous and extremely long because Ye Lingxi could not use immortal power and assassins were pursuing them.
• Ye Lin took out the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, and he and Ye Lingxi flew north toward the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Ye Lingxi praised Ye Lin’s sword and estimated that reaching the Great Xia Dynasty would take at least ten days.

Ye Lin traveled with the poisoned Ye Lingxi for three days, observing the unfamiliar world and finding almost no human cultivators. Ye Lingxi woke and said she could endure the Annihilation Powder for years, while Ye Lin regretted that she would not die sooner.

• Ye Lin worried that the Mistveil Sect might send more pursuers, including a Celestial Immortal, and reflected on how the world's sturdy spatial barriers weakened his effective strength.
• Ye Lingxi went to sleep behind Ye Lin while secretly suppressing the poison, and Ye Lin wondered what poison could harm an Earth Immortal so badly.
• Ye Lin spent three peaceful days traveling, memorizing their route and seeing tribes of ordinary humans but no human cultivators.
• Ye Lingxi woke with a still-pale complexion, and Ye Lin told her three days had passed and asked whether she could continue.
• Ye Lingxi said the Annihilation Powder would not kill her for at least three years, and Ye Lin said it was a pity.

Ye Lingxi explained that humans in the Northern Region were oppressed by the myriad races and that the Human Race in the Northern Frontier was slowly dying amid scarce resources and constant danger. As she and Ye Lin traveled, three black-clad figures attacked them, accompanied by a powerful cultivator in golden robes.

• Ye Lin asked Ye Lingxi why they had not encountered any Human Race cultivators along the way.
• Ye Lingxi explained that humans were treated as slaves in the Northern Region and that the Northern Frontier was their barren refuge, where cultivators were scarce.
• Ye Lingxi described the dangers facing Northern Frontier cultivators and said the Human Race was slowly declining without powerful successors.
• Ye Lin sensed someone approaching as a streak of sword light shot toward them, and he dodged with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword.
• Three black-clad figures closed in on Ye Lin while a powerful golden-robed cultivator stood behind them.

Ye Lin and Ye Lingxi were confronted by Mistveil Sect assassins seeking the message in Ye Lingxi’s mind, which revealed the words “Three Rivers.” Ye Lin stepped in to face the late-stage Earth Immortal, and their first clash ended with the cultivator shattering his sword strike.

• The gold-robed cultivator demanded that Ye Lingxi hand over what she knew, and she explained that the message had entered her mind.
• Ye Lingxi revealed that the message said “Three Rivers,” prompting the gold-robed cultivator to kill the three black-robed assassins to keep the secret.
• Ye Lingxi prepared to fight, but Ye Lin pushed her behind him and advanced with Bai Ling as his aura and domain grew stronger.
• The gold-robed cultivator vanished, and Ye Lin inferred that he was moving covertly rather than escaping through the solid space.
• Ye Lin struck with “Sword One, Sword Piercing the Firmament,” but the gold-robed cultivator met the sword light with a punch and shattered it.

Ye Lin trapped the golden-robed cultivator inside his domain and defeated him with Bai Ling. The cultivator’s mask shattered as he fell, leaving Ye Lin to question why he had killed his own subordinates.

• The golden-robed cultivator charged Ye Lin with a lightning-powered punch, but Ye Lin opened his domain and evaded the attack.
• The golden-robed cultivator failed to recognize the domain and tried to overpower Ye Lin with another lightning charge.
• Ye Lin folded the space around the golden-robed cultivator, immobilizing him inside the blood-red domain.
• Ye Lin struck the golden-robed cultivator with Bai Ling, while the domain suppressed the man’s strength and left him helpless.
• The golden-robed cultivator’s golden mask shattered, and Ye Lin asked him why he had killed his own subordinates.

After killing the golden-robed assassin, Ye Lin learned that the Bronze Holy Palace was connected to Three Rivers and considered searching for it. Ye Lingxi abandoned the dangerous pursuit, while Ye Lin sent out three avatars to gather information across the Northern Frontier.

• Ye Lin returned to the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword after the golden-robed assassin vanished, and Ye Lingxi asked where he had gone.
• Ye Lin linked the assassin's clue, Northern Commandery, with Ye Lingxi's mention of Three Rivers and asked her where it was.
• Ye Lingxi said Three Rivers was not known in the Northern Frontier, and Ye Lin proposed that it might not be a place name or might lie elsewhere.
• Ye Lingxi gave up searching for the Bronze Holy Palace because the pursuit could draw in Heavenly Immortals and cost her life.
• Ye Lin teased Ye Lingxi, then sent three avatars in different directions to learn about the Northern Frontier.

Ye Lingxi and Ye Lin arrived at the Great Xia Dynasty’s imperial capital, where Ye Lingxi reunited with her old friend, Third Prince Xia Hongwei. Xia Hongwei invited them to a gathering, and they entered a golden residence to meet three waiting cultivators.

• Ye Lingxi and Ye Lin entered the Great Xia Dynasty’s imperial capital on foot, and Ye Lingxi sent out three immortal-power birds to contact old friends.
• Xia Hongwei approached Ye Lingxi, greeted her, and asked about Ye Lin, whom Ye Lingxi introduced as her friend.
• Xia Hongwei invited Ye Lingxi and Ye Lin to gather with him, and the two accepted.
• Xia Hongwei led them through a golden residence into a grand hall, where two women and one man sat around a red table.

Ye Lingxi reunited with her friends and explained how Ye Lin had saved her from the Mistveil Sect. Xia Hongwei sent an elder to warn the sect, while Xiaoyao continued fighting three Earth Immortal crocodiles in a swamp.

• Ye Lingxi introduced Ye Lin to Fan Qingqing, Xia Wuju, and Elena, then told them Ye Lin had saved her.
• Ye Lin watched Xiaoyao battle three early Earth Immortal crocodiles in a swamp.
• Xia Hongwei and Xia Wuju condemned the Mistveil Sect and voiced suspicions about the Bronze Holy Palace.
• Xia Hongwei summoned an elder and ordered him to warn the Mistveil Sect against overstepping its bounds.

Ye Lingxi arrived at the Great Xia Dynasty and received Xia Hongwei’s promise to seek justice against Mistveil Sect. Meanwhile, Xia Wuju approached Ye Lin for advice about a romantic predicament, leaving the details of his trouble unexplained.

• Xia Hongwei promised Ye Lingxi that he would make Mistveil Sect answer for its attempt to assassinate her.
• Elena examined Ye Lingxi’s Annihilation Powder poisoning, then remembered that Ye Lingxi was the Medicine King’s personal disciple and could seek help from Medicine King Valley.
• Xia Hongwei suggested taking Ye Lingxi out to enjoy her visit.
• Xia Wuju sat beside Ye Lin, asked about his origins and plans regarding the Bronze Holy Palace, and concluded that Ye Lin was knowledgeable.
• Xia Wuju asked Ye Lin to analyze his strange trouble involving a girl from another power whom he loved and hoped to marry.

Ye Lin learned that a Mistveil Sect disciple had mastered a technique that created three independent, equally powerful incarnations and realized it was another fragment of One Breath Becomes Three Purities. He left Xia Wuju without a countermeasure, while the fragment’s owner remained at the peak of the Spirit Transformation realm.

• Xia Wuju told Ye Lin about the young man who had surpassed him using a strange technique that produced three permanent incarnations.
• Ye Lin recognized the technique as One Breath Becomes Three Purities and asked where the young man was.
• Xia Wuju said the young man was a personal disciple of the Mistveil Sect Master, had reached the peak of the Spirit Transformation realm, and had won the favor of the woman Xia Wuju had loved.
• Xia Wuju offered to pay Ye Lin for a way to counter the technique, but Ye Lin said he knew of no such method.

Xia Wuju paid Ye Lin to teach him, and the group went to Hundred Flowers Valley, where Ye Lingxi explained why the princes had no need to compete for the throne. The chapter ended with Fan Qingqing asking Ye Lin where he came from.

• Xia Wuju gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring filled with valuables as tuition, and Ye Lin accepted it discreetly.
• Ye Lingxi explained that the princes got along because the Xia Emperor was still alive and had arranged their futures.
• Ye Lin told Fan Qingqing that he came from a distant place and did not belong there.
• Xia Hongwei led the group to Hundred Flowers Valley, where Elena described its flowers to Ye Lingxi.
• Fan Qingqing sat beside Ye Lin and asked him to tell her where he came from.

Ye Lin described the Star River Cosmos to Fan Qingqing, then secretly taught Xia Wuju the basics of domains. Xia Wuju grasped a fragment of the technique and demonstrated its power by cutting the clouds apart with a blade of grass.

• Ye Lin told Fan Qingqing that the Human Race was one of the great races in the Star River Cosmos, and she said she wanted to see it.
• After night fell, Xia Wuju approached Ye Lin and asked to learn from him.
• Ye Lin led Xia Wuju into the deepest part of Hundred Flowers Valley and warned him to keep the secret lesson hidden.
• Ye Lin taught Xia Wuju the basics of domains over a day and night.
• Xia Wuju used a blade of grass to unleash sword light that split the clouds in the sky.

Xia Wuju comprehended Ye Lin’s secret art with extraordinary speed, deriving powerful Sword Intent and the beginnings of laws from Ye Lin’s explanations. He agreed to refine his understanding for a month before traveling with Ye Lin to the Mistveil Sect to challenge a young man and hand him over afterward.

• Xia Wuju unleashed vast Sword Intent that split the clouds, drawing notice from powerful figures across the Great Xia Dynasty.
• Xia Wuju declared that all things in the world could become his strength, while Ye Lin was stunned by how much he had comprehended.
• Xia Wuju said he still could not exert his full strength, and Ye Lin told him to fuse a hundred forms of artistic conception into one.
• Xia Wuju praised Ye Lin as his Senior and benefactor, believing the advice had brought him a powerful secret art.
• Ye Lin asked Xia Wuju to take him to the Mistveil Sect in a month and hand over the young man after Xia Wuju defeated him.
• Xia Wuju agreed to refine the art for a month and travel with Ye Lin to challenge the young man.