Recaps

Ye Lin tried to refine a weak strand of chaos qi to temper his body, but it rampaged through him and threatened his sea of consciousness. He suppressed and divided it with three powers, leaving the gentler fragments to strengthen his body.

• Ye Lin seized a strand of chaos qi and absorbed it with the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique.
• The chaos qi destroyed Ye Lin's meridians and internal organs as it moved toward his brain.
• Ye Lin activated the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, fiery red energy, and Phoenix Fire to suppress the chaos qi.
• The three powers pinned the chaos qi in Ye Lin's dantian and divided it into gentler fragments.
• The fragments tempered Ye Lin's body as his meridians rapidly healed and grew stronger.

Zhao Ling'er struggled to capture chaos qi while Ye Lin refined it with ease, rapidly strengthening his body. After three days, Zhao Ling'er finally refined one wisp and advanced her physical strength to the middle Heavenly Immortal realm.

• Zhao Ling'er repeatedly failed to catch chaos qi and injured her arms, but drew motivation from thinking that Ye Lin would take the fall for her.
• Ye Lin captured and swallowed his third wisp of chaos qi, relying on the forces within his body to suppress it.
• Ye Lin continued capturing chaos qi, eager to use it to strengthen his physical cultivation.
• After three days of effort, Zhao Ling'er refined one wisp of chaos qi and raised her physical strength from the early to the middle Heavenly Immortal realm.

Ye Lin reached the mid-stage True Immortal realm after refining 137 strands of Chaos qi, but found little Chaos qi left nearby. When Zhao Ling'er arrived, he pretended he had not refined any strands.

• Ye Lin tested his body with the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword and found that it could not pierce his skin.
• Ye Lin marveled at his immense physical strength and rapid progress in body cultivation.
• Ye Lin realized he had nearly exhausted the Chaos qi in the area.
• Zhao Ling'er told Ye Lin she had refined only one strand of Chaos qi and asked how many he had refined.
• Ye Lin played along, telling Zhao Ling'er he had not successfully refined a single strand.

Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er witnessed a blood-red moon revive the dead and unleash a war across the world. They remained untouched as the battlefield began tearing apart the continent and the firmament, and Ye Lin saw a strange being destroy a galaxy cluster with one attack.

• Zhao Ling'er comforted Ye Lin, believing he had failed to refine the Chaos Qi.
• A blood-red moon appeared, and the creatures that had died rose again with scarlet eyes and took up their weapons.
• The revived creatures plunged into battle, while powerful figures clashed in the sky and shook the world.
• Ye Lin grabbed Zhao Ling'er and fled, but they discovered that the fighting creatures could not see them.
• The earth and firmament broke apart as the battle escalated, and Ye Lin saw a strange being destroy a galaxy cluster with a casual strike.

Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er escaped a devastating battle in the past after a powerful expert sent them back through time. They returned to the cave and Ye Lin realized the formation had brought them to a battlefield caught in a cycle of replayed events.

• Zhao Ling'er clung to Ye Lin as they witnessed a strike destroy a cluster of star systems.
• A mysterious voice warned Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er to leave, then sent them back to the cave and the shattered teleportation formation.
• Zhao Ling'er checked that they were safe and described the terrifying battle they had witnessed.
• Ye Lin deduced that the formation had taken them to a past battlefield where battles replayed when Hong Yue appeared.
• Ye Lin concluded that the expert who returned them possessed power far beyond his own mastery of the Dao of Time.

Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er hid from a large group of strange creatures using the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell, but the creatures sealed every cave exit. Zhao Ling'er sized up the enemies and asked Ye Lin to handle the weaker ones while she fought the three at the peak of the True Immortal realm.

• Zhao Ling'er and Ye Lin returned to the main hall and found the remains of the strange creatures they had killed scattered across the ground.
• Ye Lin sensed many powerful auras approaching and used the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell to conceal himself and Zhao Ling'er.
• Lin Yunlu appeared and explained that the bell's concealment ability could hide them even from a Grand Unity Mysterious Immortal.
• The strange creatures failed to find Ye Lin and Zhao Ling'er, then sealed all three cave entrances.
• Zhao Ling'er counted the creatures' cultivation levels and asked Ye Lin to fight the weaker ones while she took on the three peak True Immortals.

Ye Lin unleashed his powerful physique and fought off the aberrations while Zhao Ling'er held back several of them. Zhao Ling'er warned him that they were in the formation's core, and they lured the pursuing aberrations out of the cave, where they surrounded her.

• Zhao Ling'er activated her mysterious power while Ye Lin activated his Divine Body and strengthened his defenses with crimson talismans.
• Ye Lin killed and battered aberrations with his fists, terrifying them with his strength and causing them to flee.
• Zhao Ling'er told Ye Lin to draw the aberrations outside so the formation's core would not be destroyed, then led a swarm toward a cave.
• Ye Lin followed Zhao Ling'er out of the cave, where the aberrations surrounded her and stared at her with strange smiles.

Zhao Ling'er summoned savage beasts and unleashed a powerful attack that crushed the Aberrants, but the effort left her exhausted. After she fell asleep on Ye Lin's back, he continued onward through the gray mist.

• Zhao Ling'er sent conjured savage beasts to fight the Aberrants while Ye Lin observed their claw-based combat.
• Zhao Ling'er summoned Tianhua's phantom and unleashed a crushing attack that made the Aberrants flee.
• The phantom's green pillar of light struck the battlefield, destroying the Aberrants and reducing the surrounding land to ruins.
• Zhao Ling'er fell asleep from exhaustion, and Ye Lin carried her forward as the gray mist returned.

Ye Lin followed Zhao Ling'er's guidance through the ruins toward a Sword Mountain, where her status panel revealed the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor. He decided not to forcefully claim her opportunity and left his next move for when they reached the sword.

• After walking for two hours through ruins, Ye Lin found no anomalies and could not tell which direction he was heading.
• Zhao Ling'er, already falling asleep again, told Ye Lin to keep going straight because she sensed something drawing her ahead.
• Ye Lin read Zhao Ling'er's status panel and learned that a Sword Mountain lay a hundred li ahead, with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor at its summit.
• Ye Lin considered taking the sword but decided to continue onward and judge the situation when they arrived.

Ye Lin entered Sword Mountain to face the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor's artifact spirit trial, knowing he could not force the supreme artifact to submit. As he climbed the mountain's narrow path, his Sword Dao essence awakened countless swords, and he wondered whether they belonged to experts who had died in an ancient battle.

• Ye Lin considered the difficulty of destroying and replacing a supreme artifact's spirit and continued into the Sword Mountain trial.
• Ye Lin followed a narrow, winding path up the black mountain through dense gray and black mist.
• Ye Lin heard swords trembling and felt Sword Dao essence gathering around him.
• Ye Lin summoned his Dao essence, causing hundreds of swords of various grades and conditions to rise and circle him.
• The number of swords around Ye Lin grew to more than a thousand, leading him to suspect they had belonged to fallen experts from an ancient battle.

Ye Lin reached the summit and found the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, whose overwhelming sword Dao charm revealed a vision of its terrifying former master. Zhao Ling'er was thrown back and wounded when she tried to take the sword, and Ye Lin began using his Destruction Sword Dao to remove the baleful aura from her hand.

• Ye Lin sensed a powerful unfamiliar sword Dao charm and climbed to the summit despite its pressure suppressing his Destruction Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin discovered the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and saw a vision of its master seated above a river of blood in a destroyed starry sky.
• Zhao Ling'er awakened and reached for the sword, which erupted with crimson light and sent her flying.
• Ye Lin caught Zhao Ling'er, then found her hand bleeding and sensed that the sword's Blood Baleful aura and Dao charm threatened to ruin it.
• Ye Lin took Zhao Ling'er's injured hand and used his Destruction Sword Dao to drive away the mysterious sword Dao charm.

Lu Changfeng and Lu Unrivaled continued searching for their destination, while Ye Lin attempted to subdue the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor. After its artifact spirit injured his Primordial Spirit, Ye Lin unleashed his aura against the sword.

• Lu Changfeng questioned Lu Unrivaled's directions, but Lu Unrivaled pointed down the only path and walked ahead.
• Zhao Ling'er gave up on subduing the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, and Ye Lin stepped forward to try.
• Ye Lin resisted the sword's Blood Baleful qi and prevented it from controlling him.
• Ye Lin sent his divine sense into the sword, but its force blasted him back and injured his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin erupted with a violent aura and pressed it down upon the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.

Ye Lin subdued the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and entered its inner space to confront its slumbering artifact spirit. He tried to persuade it to follow him and recover, but it gave no response.

• Ye Lin suppressed the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor until it stopped resisting, while Zhao Ling'er watched from a distance.
• Ye Lin guarded himself with the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell and sent his divine sense into the sword.
• Ye Lin found a wounded, sleeping figure in the sword’s crimson inner space and recognized it as the artifact spirit.
• Ye Lin urged the artifact spirit to follow him and warned that it would never recover on its own, but it remained silent.

Ye Lin tried to persuade the supreme sword artifact spirit to accept him, arguing that fate could be defied and invoking its master's name. As the spirit fell silent and weakened, Ye Lin poured his immortal power toward it, only for the artifact to greedily absorb it.

• Ye Lin questioned the artifact spirit's claim that they had no fate together and argued that cultivators should defy heaven's decree.
• The artifact spirit demanded to know how Ye Lin knew its master, Divine Sword Dao Venerable.
• Ye Lin claimed he admired Divine Sword Dao Venerable, earning the artifact spirit's goodwill.
• Ye Lin urged the artifact spirit to break fate and let him enter its destiny.
• As the artifact spirit fell silent and its aura weakened, Ye Lin sent it his immortal power, which it began to devour.

Ye Lin replenished the ancient artifact spirit with his immortal power until it awakened, then agreed to its requests. The spirit would follow him until it found someone fated to wield it, and Ye Lin would take the swords from the area and find masters they acknowledged.

• The artifact spirit drained more than half of Ye Lin's immortal power before its suction stopped and it thanked him for helping it awaken.
• Ye Lin readily agreed to let the artifact spirit follow him until it encountered someone fated with it.
• The artifact spirit asked Ye Lin to take the swords that had fought against the strange and find living beings whom the swords would acknowledge as their masters.
• Ye Lin considered the difficulty of finding worthy wielders for all the swords and agreed to take them.

After gaining the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor’s acknowledgment, Ye Lin tested the Supreme Artifact and discovered its overwhelming power. He summoned more than ten thousand swords, leaving Zhao Ling'er, Lu Changfeng, and Lu Unrivaled stunned and wary.

• Ye Lin left the blood-colored space after agreeing to the artifact spirit’s conditions, while refusing to call it Master.
• Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and felt its immense Blood Baleful aura.
• Ye Lin poured immortal power into the sword and slashed through the sky, realizing that even a strike using ten percent of his strength could threaten a True Immortal.
• Ye Lin shouted “Swords, come,” summoning more than ten thousand Long Swords that circled above him.
• Zhao Ling'er, Lu Changfeng, and Lu Unrivaled watched the display, and Lu Changfeng feared Ye Lin might accidentally strike them.

Ye Lin gained the acknowledgment of the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and collected the other divine swords into his Spatial Ring. As the group continued their expedition, Zhao Ling'er sulked over the sword on Ye Lin’s back, while Lu Unrivaled warned Lu Changfeng that they had yet to face any truly dangerous opponents.

• Ye Lin sent the divine swords into his Spatial Ring and carried the resisting Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor on his back.
• Lu Changfeng congratulated Ye Lin for gaining the Supreme Artifact’s acknowledgment, and Lu Unrivaled offered his congratulations as well.
• Zhao Ling'er complained that the sword had taken the spot on Ye Lin’s back, then walked away as Lu Changfeng and Lu Unrivaled reacted with surprise to her closeness with Ye Lin.
• Lu Changfeng wondered why they had encountered no strange or dangerous beings, and Lu Unrivaled smacked him and warned him not to get overconfident.

Lu Unrivaled explained that anomalies had three ranks and warned that savage and divine anomalies were far more dangerous than the ordinary ones they had encountered. He concluded that killing anomalies was only a smokescreen for a hidden objective, leaving the group to decide what to do next.

• Lu Unrivaled described ordinary, savage, and divine anomalies and said savage anomalies could match him while divine anomalies were invincible within their realm.
• Lu Unrivaled and Zhao Ling'er said the group had faced only ordinary anomalies so far, and advised them to target savage anomalies and flee if they encountered a divine anomaly.
• Ye Lin looked forward to facing powerful opponents, while Lu Changfeng wondered why the others knew so much more than he did.
• Lu Unrivaled said anomalies could not be eradicated while anomalous qi remained, so the expedition's stated goal of wiping them out was a smokescreen for another secret.
• Lu Changfeng asked what the group should do next.

Ye Lin followed a vast horde of aberrations toward the place drawing them, then encountered Shen Junxue, who explained how she had escaped the Water Moon Mystic Realm and reached the misty region. He discovered that Shen Junxue was destined to obtain the aberration clan's Sacred Relic at Blood Severance Mountain, and the chapter ended with her explaining why she knew he was not an aberration.

• Lu Changfeng and Lu Wushuang watched as aberrations rushed past them toward a single destination, and Ye Lin led the group in pursuit.
• Ye Lin saw Zhao Ling'er vanish into the mist, and Lu Changfeng and Lu Wushuang followed her after saying her innate dual pupils had likely revealed something.
• Ye Lin met Shen Junxue and checked her panel, which revealed her destiny to obtain the aberration clan's Sacred Relic at Blood Severance Mountain three hours later.
• Shen Junxue told Ye Lin she had escaped the Water Moon Mystic Realm with her father's talisman, been hunted by local natives, and stumbled into the area.
• Ye Lin questioned why Shen Junxue trusted that he was not an aberration, and she explained that aberrations usually mimic people their targets hold dear.

Ye Lin learned that Shen Junxue had spent dozens of epochs in the misty realm slaughtering aberrations for Heavenly Dao merit. They headed toward a powerful disturbance, where a dragon roared beyond the gray mist.

• Ye Lin felt the earth shake as trees collapsed and a powerful presence approached.
• Shen Junxue explained that brutal aberrations came from beyond the Star River Cosmos and that killing them earned Heavenly Dao merit.
• Shen Junxue invited Ye Lin to investigate the disturbance, and he walked ahead while she followed.
• Ye Lin pondered the Treasure Compendium’s strange entries as the ground grew more ruined and the auras ahead intensified.
• A dragon roared beyond the gray mist, and Ye Lin hurried toward the sound with his blood boiling.

Ye Lin searched the gray mist for the bizarre sacred relic while guiding Shen Junxue toward it, and the two encountered a powerful brutal bizarre creature. The creature prepared to attack them, leaving their confrontation about to begin.

• Zhao Ling'er unleashed a fierce golden attack, and Ye Lin avoided the battle to search for the bizarre sacred relic.
• Shen Junxue followed Ye Lin and asked why he was avoiding the fighting.
• Ye Lin suggested that the bizarre creatures had gathered because something nearby was drawing them in, and Shen Junxue considered his reasoning.
• A three-zhang-tall, faceless brutal bizarre creature emerged from the mist and confronted Ye Lin and Shen Junxue.
• Shen Junxue summoned a black crescent saber as the bizarre creature said it wanted to kill them.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue encountered a Divine Aberration that overwhelmed them with ease. As the aberration prepared to attack again, it shattered Shen Junxue’s crescent-moon strike and blasted her away.

• The Divine Aberration sent Ye Lin crashing through trees and into a mountain, then knocked Shen Junxue down and disarmed her.
• Shen Junxue identified the enemy as a Divine Aberration, and Ye Lin’s panel warned that it was extremely dangerous.
• The aberration struck Ye Lin repeatedly, crushing his chest and shattering his internal organs.
• A woman shouted “Bright Moon, slash” and sent a crescent-moon attack at the aberration.
• The aberration shattered the crescent with one punch and blasted Shen Junxue away with the shockwave.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue confronted a peak True Immortal god-tier aberration, whose spiritual attack and physical power overwhelmed Ye Lin. The chapter ended with Ye Lin realizing he had encountered a god-tier aberration before even meeting a savage aberration.

• The god-tier aberration found Ye Lin and attacked him with a spiritual assault and a space-piercing punch.
• Ye Lin countered with Saint-Falling Fist, but the collision badly injured him and sent him flying over a thousand miles.
• Shen Junxue arrived and summoned moonlight to strike the aberration, but it shattered her crescent-moon attack with a punch.
• Ye Lin recognized the enemy as a peak True Immortal god-tier aberration and wondered how he had encountered one before a savage aberration.

Ye Lin and Shen Junxue confronted a divine aberration in its stronghold, where Ye Lin decided they had to fight rather than flee. Before the battle began, Zhao Ling'er, Lu Changfeng, Lu Unrivaled, Qin Ziyan, and Qin Huang appeared to face the aberration as well.

• Shen Junxue considered retreating, but Ye Lin warned that the faster divine aberration would catch them if they ran.
• Ye Lin activated his Eternal Unrivaled Demon Venerable Body and braced himself to fight the aberration.
• The divine aberration welcomed Ye Lin's anger and expressed excitement at facing a worthy opponent.
• Zhao Ling'er, Lu Changfeng, Lu Unrivaled, Qin Ziyan, and Qin Huang appeared and surrounded the divine aberration.

The seven greatest prodigies of the Divine Kingdom's imperial capital gathered to confront the divine aberration, but it easily escaped Zhang Yiran's top-grade immortal artifact. The chapter ended with Zhang Yiran in disbelief as she summoned a Vermilion Bird phantom.

• The seven prodigies assembled in the sky and brought their combined pressure to bear on the divine aberration.
• The aberration vanished, and Zhang Yiran used the Glazed Divine Fire Canopy to force it out of hiding and suppress it.
• Zhang Yiran claimed the canopy could trap even a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal, but Zhang Yiran warned that something was wrong.
• The aberration tore through the canopy with one punch and vanished again.
• Zhang Yiran erupted in fury and disbelief, summoning the phantom of a Vermilion Bird.