Recaps

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue joined Niu Hanshan’s group, and Jade Ruyi explained how Calamity-Transcending Stones eased the Water Moon Grotto-Heaven’s crushing suppression. She revealed that a powerful group monopolized the stones, leaving the long-trapped cultivators impoverished and struggling to survive.

• Ye Lin accepted Niu Hanshan’s invitation to travel together, and Shen Junxue welcomed the arrangement.
• Jade Ruyi gave Ye Lin and Shen Junxue low-grade Calamity-Transcending Stones, which eased the suppression and restored some of Ye Lin’s strength.
• Ye Lin learned that higher-grade stones could reduce the suppression further, but a powerful group controlled access to them.
• Jade Ruyi explained that she and her companions had traded away their resources and Spatial Rings for stones after spending tens of millions of years in the grotto-heaven.
• Jade Ruyi said that True Immortals without Calamity-Transcending Stones would be crushed after one million years.

Jade Ruyi and Niu Hanshan guided Ye Lin and Shen Junxue across Mirror Moon Land toward Tianyong City, warning them about its dangers and telling them to conceal that they were newcomers. Their journey halted when Jade Rose discovered a group of powerful Jade Scorpions ahead.

• Jade Ruyi explained that Mirror Moon Land could shift into countless forms and that the Long-haired Demon Ape that attacked Ye Lin was a relatively weak Earth Immortal.
• Jade Ruyi said the group was heading to Tianyong City to trade Water Moon Sacred Beast heads for Calamity-Transcending Stones, and warned that nighttime brought deadly beasts.
• Niu Hanshan warned Ye Lin and Shen Junxue to hide their identities as newcomers, so they put on masks to conceal their auras.
• Ye Lin asked why Water Moon Sacred Beast heads were valuable, and Niu Hanshan said they were important materials for refining Calamity-Transcending Stones.
• Jade Rose detected movement, went ahead to investigate, and returned to report that a group of enormous, powerful Jade Scorpions was blocking their way.

With the only route to Tianyong City blocked by a deadly Jade Scorpion swarm, the group had to choose between fighting through and dying on the way around. Niu Hanshan gave Ye Lin the One Breath Becomes Three Purities scroll and charged ahead, while Jade Rose and Jade Ruyi prepared to follow.

• Jade Ruyi explained that the Jade Scorpions blocked the only route to Tianyong City and that the group had less than three days before their Calamity-Transcending Stones ran out.
• Jade Rose decided to carve a path through the swarm, and Jade Ruyi followed her.
• Niu Hanshan gave Ye Lin the One Breath Becomes Three Purities scroll, pointed out that Tianyong City lay fifty star li ahead, and charged at the Jade Scorpions.
• Ye Lin examined the scroll while Shen Junxue hesitated to risk her life alongside people she had just met.
• Jade Rose and Jade Ruyi surveyed the tens of thousands of Jade Scorpions and planned to have Niu Hanshan lead the charge while they cleared the flanks.

Niu Hanshan, Jade Rose, and Jade Ruyi fought through swarms of jade scorpions, but their strength faded as suppression weighed on them. Jade Ruyi unleashed Frost Blossom to freeze and shatter the scorpions around them.

• Niu Hanshan arrived alone, activated his Glazed Divine Body, and volunteered to charge ahead.
• Niu Hanshan, Jade Rose, and Jade Ruyi followed him into the jade scorpion swarm, using their abilities to clear a path.
• The trio grew exhausted as the jade scorpions gathered around them and Niu Hanshan's attacks weakened under the accumulating suppression.
• Jade Rose admitted she could no longer push forward, and Jade Ruyi activated Frost Blossom to freeze and shatter the scorpions within ten meters.

Ye Lin decided to rescue Niu Hanshan and the others after considering the karmic debt he owed, and Shen Junxue cut a path through the Jade Scorpions to reach them. The group followed her, while Ye Lin’s explanation of why he chose to help continued.

• A one-pattern Jade Scorpion appeared, leaving Jade Rose, Jade Ruyi, and Niu Hanshan facing what seemed to be certain death.
• Niu Hanshan prepared to burn his life and Primordial Spirit to fight the Jade Scorpions, despite Jade Ruyi and Jade Rose trying to stop him.
• Shen Junxue arrived and used a sword strike to destroy the Jade Scorpions surrounding the three, then urged them to follow her.
• Niu Hanshan stopped his ascension and joined the others as they followed Shen Junxue.
• A few minutes earlier, Ye Lin decided to help them because Niu Hanshan had given him a scroll, creating a karmic debt.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue chased after the three people, fighting through a swarm of Jade Scorpions. Ye Lin unleashed Great Sun Overlooks the Abyss, wiping out the swarm and leaving the group facing what lay beyond.

• Ye Lin said he needed to settle his karma and sensed that he needed the three people, so he and Shen Junxue went after them.
• Ye Lin cleared a path with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword while Shen Junxue discovered that fire frightened the Water Moon Sacred Beasts.
• A True Immortal realm Jade Scorpion attacked Ye Lin, who struck it with a phantom great sun but failed to harm it.
• Ye Lin gathered power for Great Sun Overlooks the Abyss as Shen Junxue's golden flames turned nearby Jade Scorpions to ash.
• Ye Lin's great sun crashed down and annihilated the Jade Scorpion swarm within a thousand-mile radius.

Ye Lin and his companions hurried toward Tianyong City after he returned to repay Niu Hanshan for giving him a fragmentary scroll. Their journey was interrupted by a rain that could suppress cultivation, and Niu Hanshan collapsed in a critical state.

• Ye Lin told Niu Hanshan that saving his life had repaid him for the fragmentary scroll, and Jade Ruyi warned Ye Lin that using his full strength would intensify the world's suppression.
• Jade Rose led the group toward Tianyong City, while Niu Hanshan accepted Ye Lin and followed with his sabers.
• The group traveled for a day and night, as Niu Hanshan's body grew cracked and weak from exhaustion.
• Rain began falling, and Jade Ruyi warned Ye Lin and Shen Junxue that anyone touched by it would lose all cultivation and become mortal.
• Niu Hanshan collapsed beside the group, trembling and deathly pale, leaving Jade Ruyi frantic with worry.

With only one day left to find the Calamity-Transcending Stone, Ye Lin volunteered to travel to Tianyong City while the others remained behind. He followed Rain Butterfly into the forest, and the rain curved around his immortal body.

• Niu Hanshan collapsed from exhaustion, and Jade Ruyi gave him immortal stones to help him recover.
• Jade Rose worried that the torrential rain would prevent them from finding the Calamity-Transcending Stone before time ran out.
• Ye Lin offered to go to Tianyong City, and Jade Rose gave him Rain Butterfly to guide him.
• Shen Junxue offered to accompany Ye Lin, but he asked her to protect the weakened group instead.
• Ye Lin set off into the forest, and the raindrops curved around him.

Ye Lin followed a jade butterfly along a strange white road until a sinister fortune-teller made the butterfly disappear. Ye Lin approached the old man and asked him not to hinder his urgent business.

• Ye Lin chased the jade butterfly onto a moonlit road surrounded by white trees and forests.
• An old man beneath a tree offered to tell Ye Lin’s fortune, while a motionless child in red sat beside him.
• Ye Lin refused the offer, but the jade butterfly vanished when he looked away.
• Ye Lin realized the old man was responsible and respectfully asked him not to make things difficult for him.

Ye Lin asked an old fortune-teller how to leave, and the old man transported him to the outskirts of Tianyong City. Ye Lin reached the city gate seeking supplies and the Calamity-Transcending Stone, while keeping the jade butterfly for finding Shen Junxue and the others.

• Ye Lin paid the old man to divine how he could leave, and the old man said the road was right before his eyes.
• The old man pointed ahead, and Ye Lin suddenly appeared on a grassland outside Tianyong City as the jade butterfly fluttered before him.
• Ye Lin reflected on the old man's unfathomable power, then prioritized obtaining the Calamity-Transcending Stone.
• Ye Lin put on his mask, hid the jade butterfly in his robes, and headed for the city gate.
• A golden-armored soldier questioned Ye Lin, who claimed he had come from the wilderness and slipped the soldier several low-grade immortal stones.

Ye Lin entered Tianyong City and saw how desperate life had become for the immortals trapped in Water Moon Grotto-Heaven. He went to Jade Fragrance Pavilion to exchange Calamity-Transcending Stones, where the clerk recognized his Spatial Ring as a sign that he was either powerful or a newcomer.

• Ye Lin entered Tianyong City after being warned he could stay for only three hours without household registration.
• Ye Lin saw weakened immortals lying along the road and realized he might suffer the same fate if he could not escape Water Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Several people watched Ye Lin from behind with ill intent as he walked toward the city.
• Ye Lin entered Jade Fragrance Pavilion and asked to exchange his Calamity-Transcending Stones.
• The middle-aged demon clerk saw Ye Lin's Spatial Ring and suspected he was a newcomer.

Ye Lin learned how Calamity-Transcending Stones reduced the accumulating suppression in Water Moon Grotto-Heaven and how Tianyong City priced them. He realized the stones only delayed death and that powerful figures likely controlled the city’s supply.

• A middle-aged man counted Ye Lin’s bags and said their value was almost enough for a third-grade Calamity-Transcending Stone.
• Ye Lin secretly read information about the stones with his divine sense without the middle-aged man noticing.
• Ye Lin learned that the three grades reduced daily suppression by thirty, fifty, and eighty percent for different durations.
• The middle-aged man explained that nine of Ye Lin’s items could buy a second-grade stone, while immortal stones could also be exchanged for them.
• Ye Lin concluded that Tianyong City’s rulers were gathering resources and likely had a Taiyi Profound Immortal supporting their monopoly.

Ye Lin bought nine second-grade and three third-grade Calamity-Transcending Stones in Tianyong City, then left with Rain Butterfly. Thirteen refugees ambushed him for the stones, but he easily knocked them all away.

• Ye Lin exchanged thirty thousand low-grade immortal stones for nine second-grade and three third-grade Calamity-Transcending Stones.
• The middle-aged merchant warned Ye Lin to keep the stones in a Spatial Ring, and Ye Lin left Tianyong City with them.
• Ye Lin sensed that he was being watched as he crossed a white grassland with Rain Butterfly.
• Thirteen figures surrounded Ye Lin and demanded that he hand over some Calamity-Transcending Stones.
• The attackers charged, and Ye Lin sent them flying with a casual burst of force.

Ye Lin learned that the people in Water Moon Grotto-Heaven had taken up martial cultivation because the realm lacked Immortal Qi and resources. After killing the young men who had attacked him, he continued with Jade Butterfly and returned to Jade Rose and the others at their shelter.

• The young man explained that Water Moon Grotto-Heaven's inhabitants turned to martial cultivation because they lacked Immortal Qi and needed flesh and blood to survive.
• The young man began to guess Ye Lin's cultivation realm, but Ye Lin shattered his head with a flick of his finger.
• Ye Lin killed the other young men to prevent them from spreading information about him.
• Ye Lin hurried onward with Jade Butterfly and returned to the shelter, where Jade Rose and the others sat around a bonfire.

Ye Lin returned safely with the Calamity-Transcending Stone and asked Jade Rose to explain Mirror Moon Land and the Water Moon Grotto-Heaven. He learned about its eight mysterious regions and the unexplained death of a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal, leaving his hopes of finding an exit uncertain.

• Ye Lin returned to the shelter and gave Jade Rose the Calamity-Transcending Stone, temporarily resolving the women’s crisis.
• Ye Lin asked Jade Rose to explain the continent and the Water Moon Grotto-Heaven so he could find a way out.
• Jade Rose described Mirror Moon Land’s eight regions, including Mirror Moon Forest and Blazing Fire Prairie, and said the group knew the others only by hearsay.
• Jade Rose warned Ye Lin that a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal had explored all eight regions for a hundred thousand years and then died suddenly.
• Ye Lin realized that even reaching the mid-stage Taiyi Mysterious Immortal might not help him escape the grotto-heaven.

Wang Feng and Tianyong City’s soldiers surrounded Ye Lin, Jade Rose, Niu Hanshan, and Shen Junxue, demanding their Spatial Rings. Shen Junxue refused and unleashed her Blazing Sun flames, leaving the confrontation on the verge of a fight.

• Jade Rose gave Ye Lin and the others Calamity-Transcending Stones after Niu Hanshan warned that trouble was approaching.
• Wang Feng arrived with armored soldiers and greeted Jade Rose, saying his group had come for Ye Lin.
• Wang Feng recognized Ye Lin as a newcomer and demanded his Spatial Ring, then made the same demand of Shen Junxue.
• Jade Rose challenged Tianyong City’s authority, but Wang Feng boasted that the city made the rules and offered her a place at his side.
• Shen Junxue rejected Wang Feng’s demand and summoned golden flames with her Blazing Sun technique.

Wang Feng’s soldiers used rune-covered chains to suppress Shen Junxue’s strength, leaving her trapped beneath a descending iron net. Jade Rose sent Ye Lin to wait while she, Niu Hanshan, and Jade Ruyi charged to rescue Shen Junxue.

• Jade Rose warned Ye Lin that the chains could suppress even an Immortal Realm cultivator and urged him to find a chance to escape.
• Wang Feng ordered his soldiers to reveal their chains and attack Shen Junxue.
• Shen Junxue sent golden flame Dragons against the soldiers, but their chain formation destroyed the Dragons.
• The soldiers formed an iron net that steadily suppressed Shen Junxue’s strength and threatened to bind her.
• Jade Rose told Ye Lin to stay back, then charged at the soldiers with Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi to save Shen Junxue.

Ye Lin asked Lin Yunlu to see if she could break the chains holding Shen Junxue, while Jade Rose fought Wang Feng over his role in the capture. The remaining soldiers moved to form a formation around Ye Lin and Lin Yunlu.

• Ye Lin took out the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell as Jade Rose charged toward the soldiers holding Shen Junxue.
• Jade Rose and Niu Hanshan killed silver-armored soldiers, but the iron net remained unchanged.
• Wang Feng confronted Jade Rose, and they began fighting hand to hand.
• Lin Yunlu arrived and agreed to examine the chains after Ye Lin asked whether she could break them.
• The remaining soldiers began closing in on Ye Lin and Lin Yunlu and called for a formation.

Lin Yunlu tried to escape the golden-armored soldiers’ iron net with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, but the soldiers captured the bell and severed Ye Lin’s connection to it. A soldier identified it as a Supreme Artifact and picked it up.

• The golden-armored soldiers trapped Lin Yunlu beneath an iron net reinforced by a black dome.
• Lin Yunlu summoned the Mysterious Yellow Twin Qi and called forth an elderly Daoist, who shattered the iron net with one strike before fading away.
• The soldiers dropped the iron net over Lin Yunlu, and she hid inside the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.
• The iron net enclosed the bell and severed Ye Lin’s connection to it.
• A golden-armored soldier put on a black glove and picked up the bell, recognizing it as a Supreme Artifact.

Ye Lin’s attacks failed against the golden stones carried by the gold-armored soldiers, leaving him unable to stop them from suppressing Shen Junxue, Jade Rose, and the others. As Ye Lin faced despair, an unknown voice remarked that even he could run into trouble.

• Ye Lin realized the soldiers’ gloves isolated the chains and seized a gold-armored soldier, but a silver-armored soldier used a golden stone to knock him down.
• Ye Lin struck the soldiers with a palm attack, but the gold-armored soldier used the stone to shatter it.
• The gold-armored soldier wrapped the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell in black cloth and ordered his companions to surround Ye Lin with their Soul-Suppressing Locks.
• Ye Lin’s Great Sun and Time Stop techniques were both blocked by the golden stones.
• Ye Lin saw Shen Junxue nearly suppressed and Jade Rose and the others in danger, then heard an unknown voice comment that even he could run into trouble.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar gave Ye Lin a trace of its divinity, allowing him to break free of the chains’ suppression and defeat the soldiers. After rescuing Shen Junxue, Ye Lin turned his attention to Wang Feng, who was fighting three opponents.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the chains contained Primordial Unity Golden Immortal divinity and Soul-Suppressing Crystal aura, then offered Ye Lin protection lasting half an hour.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar sent a trace of its divinity into Ye Lin, and he charged at the soldiers.
• Ye Lin’s punch destroyed the soldiers and left a massive ravine, while the chains became powerless against his aura.
• Ye Lin reached Shen Junxue and snapped his fingers, turning the soldiers around her and their chains to ash.
• Shen Junxue asked how Ye Lin had defeated the soldiers, and Ye Lin looked toward Wang Feng as he fought three opponents.

Ye Lin defeated Wang Feng and his soldiers despite the Soul-Suppressing Lock, but Wang Feng vanished before he could explain the chains. Ye Lin suspected a hidden Taiyi Mystic Immortal was involved, while Jade Rose insisted Tianyong City had none.

• Ye Lin lifted Wang Feng into the air and demanded to know the origin of the Soul-Suppressing Lock, then destroyed Wang Feng’s arms.
• Wang Feng began explaining the lock but disappeared without a trace, leaving Ye Lin unable to detect what had taken him.
• Jade Rose asked Ye Lin how he resisted the Soul-Suppressing Lock, and he kept the reason secret.
• Ye Lin asked whether Tianyong City had any Taiyi Mystic Immortals, and Jade Rose said it did not.
• Ye Lin told Jade Rose that Wang Feng had vanished from his grasp and suspected a Taiyi Mystic Immortal had intervened.

After Wang Feng escaped, Jade Rose and the others feared Tianyong City might have a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal protecting it, but Ye Lin decided they had to return there to seek a way out of Water Moon Grotto-Heaven. Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi began recruiting allies to challenge Tianyong City’s monopoly on Calamity-Transcending Stones.

• Jade Rose concluded that a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal might have descended into Water Moon Grotto-Heaven and worried that Tianyong City would retaliate after Wang Feng escaped.
• Niu Hanshan offered to follow Ye Lin to Tianyong City, suggesting its long history and knowledge of Water Moon Grotto-Heaven might help them find a way out.
• Ye Lin decided to return to Tianyong City, and Shen Junxue agreed that escaping was preferable to remaining trapped.
• Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi began contacting friends to gather allies against Tianyong City.
• Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi explained that many cultivators resented Tianyong City for monopolizing Calamity-Transcending Stones and forcing them to work for a chance to survive.

Ye Lin learned that many of Water Moon Grotto-Heaven’s imprisoned prodigies wanted to overthrow Tianyong City, despite the threat posed by its old monsters. Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi gathered a crowd willing to follow Ye Lin’s plan to obtain Tianyong City’s records and seek a way out.

• Jade Rose explained that desperate prisoners were considering rebellion, though Tianyong City’s suspected Taiyi Profound Immortal elders remained a major obstacle.
• More prisoners arrived after Niu Hanshan and Jade Ruyi summoned them, and Shen Junxue woke as the crowd gathered.
• Niu Hanshan told the crowd that Ye Lin wanted Tianyong City’s records to find a way out and that a clash with the city would be unavoidable.
• The prisoners offered to help Ye Lin, saying they would rather risk death than remain trapped.
• An older man told Ye Lin he was the third person to attempt this and that he was still willing to follow him.

Ye Lin learned why cultivators who entered Water Moon Grotto-Heaven had willingly attacked Tianyong City despite knowing they would die, and he resolved to gather information before leading anyone there. The group offered him maps, tunnels, and intelligence about the city’s personnel.

• Ye Lin and the others understood why earlier cultivators had launched doomed attacks against Tianyong City after enduring Water Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Ye Lin recognized how the grotto-heaven had broken the Dao hearts of even powerful cultivators, and Shen Junxue stood solemnly beside him.
• Ye Lin said they needed to learn about Tianyong City before attempting to enter it.
• A decrepit old man gave Ye Lin a detailed map of Tianyong City that he had made after lurking nearby for thirty million years.
• A plump man gave Ye Lin plans for fifty tunnels he had dug beneath the city.
• Another cultivator offered to share his research on Tianyong City’s personnel distribution.