Recaps

Ye Lin joined the Dao Heaven Sect as its Ninth Elder while plotting against Yang Xiu and investigating the gathering demons. After taking An Xin under his protection, Ye Lin departed with Yang Xiu, Bai Ziran, and Li Shanchang for a True Immortal secret realm, where Li Shanchang warned him he might not return.

• Bai Ziran brought Ye Lin to her master, who rewarded him with Immortal Ginseng and offered him the Ninth Elder position, Five Peaks Mountain, and sect resources, which Ye Lin accepted.
• Ye Lin met Li Unrivaled and recruited his five new servants while preparing to use his position to get close to Yang Xiu.
• At his succession ceremony, Ye Lin received the Identity Token and God-Striking Whip, then met Yang Xiu and accompanied him during the sect's recruitment.
• Yang Xiu helped a bereaved youth named An Xin, while Ye Lin grew closer to Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran and learned Yang Xiu had been taken in as the Sect Master's direct disciple.
• Ye Lin joined Bai Ziran, Hong Yanran, and Yang Xiu in investigating the gathering demons, then learned Li Unrivaled could not outwit Yang Xiu and saw evidence of powerful demons assembling in the range.
• Li Shanchang revealed that he knew Ye Lin's identity and his plan against Yang Xiu, but Ye Lin refused to help him and later found his five servants dead.
• Ye Lin rescued An Xin from two masked attackers, agreed to teach him to seek revenge, and brought him to the Dao Heaven Sect, where An Xin quickly advanced in cultivation.
• Ye Lin joined Yang Xiu, Bai Ziran, Li Shanchang, and thirty Outer Sect disciples on a warship bound for a True Immortal secret realm, while Li Shanchang warned Ye Lin he might not return.

Ye Lin uncovered Li Shanchang’s schemes, helped Li Unrivaled resist Qin An, and returned to test Bai Ziran’s Illusion Formation. The illusion placed him back at the beginning of his journey to Azure Cloud Sect, where he and his companions struggled to cross Beast Forest and a deep gorge.

• Li Shanchang’s tampering led the Demon Beast Zhang Yue’er to attack Ye Lin, and Ye Lin ended her suffering after learning that black-cloaked strangers had driven her to kill her husband and newborn.
• Ye Lin returned to the Dao Heaven Sect, then answered Li Unrivaled’s request for help against Li Shanchang and the Evil Cultivators in Yang Province.
• At Mountain-Shaking City, Qin An attacked Li Unrivaled and demanded she join him, while Ye Lin destroyed his black-robed puppets and confronted Li Shanchang.
• Qin An defeated Li Unrivaled, but Ye Lin summoned the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, which drained the Immortal-Slaying Spear of its divinity and forced Qin An to retreat.
• Ye Lin returned to the Dao Heaven Sect and entered Bai Ziran’s Illusion Formation, where her Jade Flute made him relive the start of his journey as a cripple with trash talent.
• Ye Lin joined Gu Qing, Li Luo, and Qin Feng on the road to Azure Cloud Sect, and Li Luo was swallowed after luring a giant python away from the others.
• Ye Lin, Gu Qing, and Qin Feng made a rope from tree bark to descend a gorge, then reached its bottom and faced the task of climbing back up.

Ye Lin avenged An Xin, killed Yang Xiu before he could break his seal, and emerged from a century-long recovery with the Heaven-Slaying Sword. He left Dao Heaven Sect and headed toward Qin An, seeking Dao blood essence while the coming sacrifices in Cang Province offered him an opportunity.

• Ye Lin woke from Bai Ziran’s illusion, returned to his dojo, and found An Xin dead in a Desire Formation, and he learned Li Shanchang had hired the Blood Tower and killed the assassin responsible.
• Ye Lin buried An Xin, then accompanied Bai Ziran and Hong Yanran to Yang Xiu’s residence, where Yang Xiu killed Li Shanchang and was captured by the sect.
• The Sect Master ordered Ye Lin to escort Yang Xiu to the Nine Nether Thunder Domain, but Ye Lin attacked him and killed him with Sword Nine—Heaven-Sundering before he could break the seal.
• Bai Ziran guarded Ye Lin inside a golden sphere for a hundred years, and when he emerged, he retrieved the Heaven-Slaying Sword from Dao Lintian and left Dao Heaven Sect.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that Ye Lin was an anomaly who had disrupted the world’s destined order, and Ye Lin agreed to obtain Dao blood essence for it.
• Ye Lin met Li Unrivaled and warned Qin An not to target her, then decided to seek blood qi in Azure Province, where Demon Beasts were fighting and killing.
• Ye Lin absorbed a golden-winged tiger’s Blood Baleful aura and asked Li Wushuang to track Qin An, and they followed her paper bird to a canyon where Qin An was waiting.

Ye Lin gained new powers, fought Qin An’s allies, and entered the Primordial Spirit Realm after meeting Liu Bai. He arrived as a masked Rogue Cultivator and began learning how the realm operated.

• Ye Lin disrupted Qin An’s Sacred Void Grand Formation and used the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to absorb the corpses’ blood essence, while Qin An fled to pursue his breakthrough.
• Li Unrivaled defeated Li Ao and spent five years breaking through as Ye Lin trained nearby and discovered Lin Yunlu inside the Mysterious Yellow All-Things Bell.
• After Li Unrivaled reached the True Immortal realm, Qin An and three black-robed fighters attacked them, but Ye Lin broke the Immortal-Binding Rope and battled Cang Gu, Xue Ao, and Lu Chen.
• Ye Lin used Reminiscence to weaken Cang Gu’s divine body, killed him, inherited his abilities, and then pursued and killed Lu Chen.
• Li Unrivaled defeated Qin An but spared him, while Ye Lin grew stronger and left the mysterious realm to meet Liu Bai in the Starry Sky.
• Liu Bai told Ye Lin about the Primordial Spirit Realm and admitted him after a thousand-year game of Go, which helped steady Ye Lin’s foundation.
• Ye Lin entered the Primordial Spirit Realm, exchanged Immortal Stones for Origin Crystals, and learned from Wang Xinyue that the realm connected beings across the Star River Cosmos and rewarded strength.