Recaps

Tang Qingru chose to help Ye Lin pursue Murong Hanxuan, who tried to escape using a talisman. Murong Hanxuan vanished before she could stop him, and Ye Lin revealed he had been watching her choice from the shadows.

• Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu worried that Senior Ye and Tang Qingru might silence them after they witnessed the pursuit.
• Murong Hanxuan tried to persuade Tang Qingru to spare him by invoking their old ties and threatening her with his master's revenge.
• Tang Qingru refused to change sides and told Murong Hanxuan that Ye Lin, not she, would kill him.
• Murong Hanxuan activated a talisman and escaped before Tang Qingru could stop him.
• Ye Lin emerged from the void and praised Tang Qingru, revealing he had hidden nearby to test her choice.

Ye Lin led Tang Qingru to a river instead of immediately pursuing Murong Hanxuan, then spent half a month waiting while fishing with a bare branch. As Tang Qingru worried about returning to her master on time, lightning gathered over a distant mountain and a figure approached, prompting Ye Lin to say the fish had taken the bait.

• Ye Lin revealed that he had been watching Tang Qingru and ordered her to follow him, and she reluctantly obeyed.
• Ye Lin reached the area near Murong Hanxuan but chose to make a hut beside a river and fish instead of entering the mountain.
• Tang Qingru questioned Ye Lin’s strange fishing, then built a small house and stayed nearby.
• Ye Lin sat motionless for half a month while Tang Qingru waited and worried that she would miss the date to return to her master.
• Lightning spread across the sky above a distant mountain as a figure approached, Ye Lin’s branch snapped, and he said the fish had taken the bait.

Ye Lin left Tang Qingru behind and hurried onward, while Long Wu arrived to find the badly injured Murong Hanxuan. After revealing that he had gained the Thunder Ancestor Sacred Body, Long Wu offered to help Murong Hanxuan kill the person responsible for his condition.

• Ye Lin tossed aside his branch, took the Chaos Sword Casket, and strode away through the sky, leaving Tang Qingru shocked by his speed.
• Long Wu emerged from the thunderclouds and teased Murong Hanxuan about his injuries.
• Long Wu told Murong Hanxuan that he had gained the Thunder Ancestor Sacred Body after encountering a peak Earth Immortal.
• Long Wu offered to help Murong Hanxuan, hoping to benefit from his influence in the Star River Cosmos.
• Murong Hanxuan said Ye Lin was responsible for his condition and asked Long Wu to help kill him.

Long Wu agreed to help Murong Hanxuan fight Ye Lin, believing his newfound power made him unstoppable. Ye Lin ambushed Long Wu, and the two prepared to clash as Long Wu summoned a thunder dragon and Ye Lin called forth nine swords.

• Long Wu learned from Murong Hanxuan that the powerful enemy who had defeated him was from the Star River Cosmos and eagerly agreed to help.
• Murong Hanxuan warned Long Wu that Ye Lin was exceptionally strong and could use One Breath Becomes Three Purities, but Long Wu dismissed his concerns.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Long Wu and stabbed him through the chest with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword.
• Long Wu broke free, retreated, and summoned the Dragon Ancestor as a lightning dragon.
• Ye Lin struck the Chaos Sword Casket and summoned nine swords.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Long Wu with his Nine Swords and fiery arrows, while Tang Qingru cornered Murong Hanxuan as he tried to flee. Murong Hanxuan offered her resources and promised to end their engagement, but she stood ready to confront him.

• Ye Lin's Nine Swords forced Long Wu to activate his Thunder Dao Sacred Body and charge with his thunder spear.
• Ye Lin summoned a longbow and battered Long Wu with fiery arrows, leaving him unable to fight back.
• Ye Lin released a fiery Phoenix arrow toward Long Wu as Murong Hanxuan cursed Long Wu and tried to escape.
• Tang Qingru stepped into Murong Hanxuan's path with twin blades and challenged him to run again.
• Murong Hanxuan backed away and tried to persuade Tang Qingru to join him by offering resources and promising to have his master annul their engagement.

Tang Qingru and Ye Lin overwhelmed Murong Hanxuan and Long Wu as both opponents tried to flee. Tang Qingru severed Murong Hanxuan’s arm, while Ye Lin trapped Long Wu in a formation and prepared another attack.

• Tang Qingru charged Murong Hanxuan, who fled because his vital energy had not recovered.
• Tang Qingru used Moon-Stepping and Phantom Seven Absolutes to cut off Murong Hanxuan’s arm.
• Murong Hanxuan used a talisman to increase his speed and continued running.
• Ye Lin fired arrows at Long Wu, who realized he could not match her and tried to escape.
• Ye Lin destroyed Long Wu’s thunder dragon with nine swords and trapped him in a formation.
• Ye Lin fired seven arrows with Seven Stars Linked Pearls toward different directions.

Ye Lin defeated Long Wu and handed him over to Tang Qingru as a reward for her loyalty. He then captured Murong Hanxuan, while Tang Qingru decided Long Wu's fate.

• Ye Lin blasted Long Wu into a near-death state with the seven-arrow formation and chose to spare him because killing him would bring little benefit.
• Ye Lin pursued Murong Hanxuan as Tang Qingru chased him, and golden chains bound Murong Hanxuan and slammed him into a crater.
• Ye Lin praised Tang Qingru and gave her the crippled Long Wu as her reward.
• Long Wu begged Tang Qingru to spare his life and lamented that his dream of becoming a True Immortal had ended.
• Tang Qingru raised her blade and killed Long Wu.

Ye Lin killed Murong Hanxuan and spent a century refining the power that surged from his death. He emerged far stronger, with thirty-eight new Myriad Dao Imprints and eleven imprints of the Three Thousand Great Daos in his domain.

• Tang Qingru sat in the void and began absorbing the lightning power released when Long Wu was slain.
• Ye Lin rejected Murong Hanxuan's plea for mercy, destroyed his body, and annihilated his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin hid inside his domain and began refining the power that surged from Murong Hanxuan's death while Tang Qingru continued absorbing power.
• After a hundred years, Ye Lin emerged from a blood-red cocoon, having refined the power and gained thirty-eight Myriad Dao Imprints.
• Ye Lin dismissed his domain and found it contained nearly a hundred imprints, including eleven from the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Ye Lin reached peak Heavenly Immortal and inherited two additional Fate Traits. After receiving Tang Qingru’s message at the end of his seclusion, he headed to Tongtian Pavilion, still needing to kill five Heavenly Immortal geniuses from the Star River Cosmos before he could become a True Immortal.

• Ye Lin reviewed his new cultivation level and Fate Traits and felt satisfied with his progress.
• Ye Lin wondered where Tang Qingru had gone and received her message saying she had returned to Tongtian Pavilion.
• Ye Lin set off for Tongtian Pavilion, knowing he still needed to kill five Heavenly Immortal geniuses from the Star River Cosmos to advance to True Immortal.

Ye Lin went to Tongtian Pavilion to take Tang Qingru away from the Northern Frontier, explaining that both of them would be in danger once someone in the Northern Region reached True Immortal. Tang Qingru agreed and left with him, as the pavilion's disciples watched them depart.

• Ye Lin arrived at Tongtian Pavilion after deciding it was time to leave the Northern Frontier.
• Tang Qingru came out of seclusion after a hundred years and sensed Ye Lin's increased strength.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru that he had come to take her away because the Northern Region would become dangerous when someone reached True Immortal.
• Tang Qingru informed her master, settled matters, and agreed to leave with Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru departed together as Tongtian Pavilion disciples watched and speculated that she was eloping.

Tang Qingru left Tongtian Pavilion with Ye Lin, while the Pavilion Master and the old man watched her go with sorrow. After spotting Chu Yunxiao and another figure, Ye Lin decided to follow them, giving the pair a destination.

• The old man asked the Pavilion Master if Tang Qingru could be kept, but the Pavilion Master said she had her own mission and warned him against repeating his mistake.
• The old man watched Tang Qingru leave, reminded of his granddaughter who had died long ago.
• Tang Qingru asked Ye Lin where they were going as they wandered across the Northern Frontier without a destination.
• Ye Lin spotted Chu Yunxiao and another figure approaching, then decided to follow them.
• Tang Qingru followed Ye Lin, having no other way forward after leaving Tongtian Pavilion.

He Yunyu persuaded Chu Yunxiao that stealing from Tongtian Pavilion was worth the risk and planned to take him to the Central Region. They set their sights on stealing Void stone from the Wang Family in Chaotic Mountain City to build a large-scale teleportation array.

• Chu Yunxiao expressed concern that Tongtian Pavilion would hunt them for the treasure they had stolen, but He Yunyu dismissed the danger.
• He Yunyu explained that they needed Void stone for a large-scale teleportation array and identified the Wang Family in Chaotic Mountain City as its holder.
• He Yunyu praised Chu Yunxiao's talent and extraordinary fortune, deciding to keep him close for her own future prospects.
• He Yunyu told Chu Yunxiao that she would gather the array materials and take him to the Central Region, which she called his true stage.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru discovered a starving Human Race city where desperate residents had resorted to eating infants. The chapter ended as a mother begged three men not to take her three-month-old child.

• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru entered Chaotic Mountain City and found its residents starving and hopeless.
• Tang Qingru observed that the city had almost no food or powerful cultivators.
• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru saw a crowd devour infant flesh from a huge pot.
• Three emaciated men emerged carrying a baby while his mother clung to one man’s leg and begged them to spare him.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru witnessed a mother lose her infant, then tracked a man and woman to the Lin Family residence. Ye Lin waited outside the city for an arriving eagle carrying two young men, including Kong Tian, whose fate he recognized.

• A man took a woman's infant away, saying the child would be better off dead, while Ye Lin and Tang Qingru left without intervening.
• Ye Lin bribed guards outside the Lin Family residence and learned that a man and woman had gone inside to visit the family head.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru that their target was there, then looked toward an approaching eagle.
• Kong Tian and another young man landed outside the city on the eagle and walked toward them.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru followed a young man from the Star River Cosmos and Kong Tian to the Lin Family manor, where the young man confronted Family Head Lin over the starving commoners. He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao tried to slip away after learning the two visitors were Heavenly Immortal experts.

• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru watched as the young man criticized the Lin Family for letting the commoners go hungry.
• The young man smashed the manor gate, entered with Kong Tian, and made Lin Hai kneel before him.
• Lin Hai introduced He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao as visitors from the Northern Frontier seeking an item.
• The young man demanded to know where the grain and resources had gone, and Lin Hai blamed the Wang Family and Li Family.
• He Yunyu told Chu Yunxiao to grab him at the main gate so he could take them away from the two Heavenly Immortal experts.

He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao were captured by a young Bone Clan prodigy, who threatened Lin Hai and took the captives away. Ye Lin and Tang Qingru followed the eagle carrying them across the ocean to an island, hoping it would lead them to more prodigies of the Star River Cosmos.

• He Yunyu tried to flee with Chu Yunxiao, but Kong Tian caught them on the young man's command.
• The young man ordered Lin Hai to resolve the problems around the two families within ten years or face death, then left with the captives.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru that following the Bone Clan prodigy would lead them to other Star River Cosmos prodigies.
• Ye Lin and Tang Qingru secretly followed the eagle for three days and three nights, crossed a vast ocean, and reached an island.

Ye Lin followed Kong Tian to a vast island and infiltrated its palace by transforming into a snow eagle. He found Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu captured by a young man, who hesitated after He Yunyu revealed her ties to the Skyward Sect.

• Ye Lin stopped outside the palace’s powerful formation and hid Tang Qingru in a cave while he waited for a chance to kill Kong Tian.
• Ye Lin devoured a white snow eagle, transformed into a small bird, and entered the palace without being detected.
• Ye Lin followed Chu Yunxiao’s aura to a chamber where a young man questioned the captive Chu Yunxiao and He Yunyu about their origins and companions.
• He Yunyu identified herself as the Skyward Sect’s Saintess and warned that her master would avenge her, making the young man wary.

He Yunyu claimed that her father was a Divine King who would avenge her death, making the young man holding her captive hesitate. He ordered Kong Tian to investigate her story, while Ye Lin became mostly convinced that her powerful background was real.

• He Yunyu told the young man that her master and father were Divine Kings, and that her father's Primordial Spirit imprint would alert him if she died.
• The young man worried that the Blazing Fire Demon Race could not withstand a Divine King's wrath and ordered Kong Tian to investigate He Yunyu's claim.
• The young man warned that he would release He Yunyu if her account proved true, but would punish her severely if she had lied.
• Chu Yunxiao stared at He Yunyu in shock, while Ye Lin believed most of what she had said.

After learning that He Yunyu was both the Skyward Sect’s Saintess and the He Family’s cherished daughter, the young man freed her and Chu Yunxiao and agreed to repair the teleportation array. He Yunyu planned to return to the Central Region, while Ye Lin decided to follow them there.

• Kong Tian reported that He Yunyu was the Skyward Sect’s Saintess and the He Family’s cherished daughter.
• The young man realized her connections made opposing her dangerous, then freed He Yunyu and Chu Yunxiao and apologized.
• He Yunyu demanded that the young man repair the damaged teleportation array so she could return to the Central Region.
• The young man agreed to arrange their needs while they waited for the array to be repaired.
• He Yunyu credited Chu Yunxiao for their reversal of fortune, while Chu Yunxiao remained confused.
• Ye Lin concluded Chu Yunxiao’s fortune would surge in the Central Region and decided to follow them there.

Ye Lin assessed Chu Yunxiao’s extraordinary fate and left, while He Yunyu planned to take Chu Yunxiao to the Central Region once the teleportation array was repaired. Ye Lin and Tang Qingru agreed to wait for that chance to kill Kong Tian, but powerful auras approached the cave.

• Ye Lin finished observing Chu Yunxiao and flew away.
• He Yunyu told Chu Yunxiao they would wait for the teleportation array to be repaired before traveling to the Central Region.
• He Yunyu considered using Chu Yunxiao to confront Ye Lin, but decided they belonged to different worlds.
• Ye Lin told Tang Qingru they would wait until the array was repaired before killing Kong Tian and heading to the Central Region.
• Powerful auras swept toward Ye Lin and Tang Qingru’s cave.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru hid as Demon Beasts searched the island for a human woman in red who had broken in and escaped after being badly injured. The island was sealed, leaving Ye Lin worried that the search might expose them, and Tang Qingru suspected the woman was a prodigy from the Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin concealed his and Tang Qingru's auras when Demon Beasts began searching the island.
• A pig demon ordered the beasts to find the humans, then rested outside their cave.
• Ye Lin dragged the pig demon into the cave and learned the search was for an unfamiliar woman in red who had forced her way onto the island.
• Ye Lin killed the pig demon after thanking him for the information.
• Ye Lin worried that the island's lockdown and a possible True Immortal search could reveal them.
• Tang Qingru said her intuition suggested the woman in red was a prodigy from the Star River Cosmos.

Ye Lin and Tang Qingru encountered the badly wounded Li Unrivaled, whose status panel revealed her extraordinary abilities and powerful family background. Li Unrivaled took a medicinal pill and began recovering as she asked whether they came from the Star River Cosmos.

• A rustling sound outside the cave prompted Ye Lin to get up and investigate.
• A bloodied woman stumbled into the cave, and Ye Lin recognized her as the woman in red.
• Ye Lin saw Li Unrivaled's panel, which identified her as the daughter of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Li Zunyan and showed her many powerful Fate Traits.
• Li Unrivaled asked Ye Lin and Tang Qingru whether they were from the Star River Cosmos.
• Li Unrivaled swallowed a medicinal pill, and her severe wounds began to heal.

Ye Lin confronted Li Unrivaled, who revealed that three True Immortals were hunting Star River Cosmos geniuses and had driven her to hide on the island. She asked Ye Lin to take her with him and showed a sphere of light that revealed her connection to a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

• Ye Lin questioned Li Unrivaled about her identity and severe injuries while warning that neither of them could afford to expose themselves.
• Li Unrivaled said three True Immortals were hunting Star River Cosmos geniuses and that she had barely escaped them.
• Li Unrivaled suspected the three True Immortals were waiting outside the island and asked Ye Lin to take her with him.
• Li Unrivaled raised a golden sphere of light, and Tang Qingru recognized the aura of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

Li Wushuang offered Ye Lin and Tang Qingru a favor in exchange for cooperation and began explaining what she knew about their surroundings. She revealed that the place was the Heavenly Heart Realm, a world formed from the inner world of a fallen Daluo Golden Immortal.

• Li Wushuang said Ye Lin had value to her and offered each of them a Jade Talisman that would let her help them once after they left.
• Ye Lin accepted the Jade Talisman and asked Li Wushuang to share information as proof of her sincerity.
• Ye Lin, Tang Qingru, and Li Wushuang introduced themselves to one another.
• Li Wushuang recovered from her injuries and damaged Primordial Spirit within minutes, astonishing Ye Lin.
• Li Wushuang explained that the Heavenly Heart Realm had formed from the inner world of a fallen Daluo Golden Immortal, whose Daoist essence had nourished it.

Li Unrivaled revealed that killing more than five cultivators in the mysterious world caused a substance to assimilate their Primordial Spirit, eventually turning them into mindless monsters. After agreeing to cooperate with Ye Lin, she asked how she could help with his plan.

• Li Unrivaled explained that the world had formed from a Daluo Golden Immortal's corpse and that killing a sixth cultivator caused a strange substance to corrupt the killer's Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin realized the information was valuable and wondered whether the Star River Cosmos had also come from a great being.
• Ye Lin and Li Unrivaled shook hands and agreed to cooperate while Tang Qingru worried that Li Unrivaled would replace her in Ye Lin's plans.
• Li Unrivaled asked Ye Lin to explain his plan and offered to help, since she could not safely leave the island.