Recaps

Ye Lin joined the Human Race counterattack and helped capture Myriad Source Mountain by defeating its strongest defender, Lu Yun. He then stayed in seclusion to pursue his trial, while the Heavenly Court gathered forces to retake the mountain.

• Ye Lin accepted the old man's request to join the Human Race counterattack and later traveled to the Holy Palace, where the old man announced a campaign to capture Myriad Source Mountain.
• Ye Lin and five Golden Immortals attacked Myriad Source Mountain's formation, then Ye Lin faced six first-layer Golden Immortals alone and killed them.
• Ye Lin fought Lu Yun across the Starry Sky, using his three clones and allies to wear him down before killing him with a final assault.
• Ye Lin brought back the Third Ancestor's corpse, breaking Myriad Source Mountain's defenders' resolve as the Human Race army seized the territory.
• After the Human Race secured the mountain, Ye Lin claimed his injuries needed a long recovery, while privately intending to avoid battle and complete his trial.
• The Human Emperor's commander awarded Ye Lin the foremost merit and sent him a Seven-Colored Treasure Lotus, which Ye Lin discovered was fake after it vanished.
• After a hundred peaceful years, Heavenly Court soldiers arrived to retake Myriad Source Mountain, and three apparent Golden Immortals unleashed their power against the defenders.

Ye Lin survived the ancient-era trial, gained the Xuanyuan Sword, and returned to the secret realm with new rewards. As he cultivated for the final stage, Ye Xin sought the Immortal-Slaying Ancestor’s help against him, and Ye Lin began absorbing the Black Tortoise Natal Heart.

• Ye Lin entered the ruined Heavenly Court, met Chen Changsheng, and found the Dao-tier ability Near Yet Far on a scroll.
• After the Human Emperor defeated his enemies and unified the Star River Cosmos, he recognized Ye Lin as a traveler from the future and promised to protect him.
• The Human Emperor gave Ye Lin treasures, renamed the Heavenly Court the Human Ancestor Hall, and entrusted the Xuanyuan Sword to him before Ye Lin’s trial ended.
• Ye Lin rejected the Black Tortoise Master’s final inheritance, accepted his trial rewards, and spent three years studying the Human Emperor’s insights.
• After the secret realm closed, Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao defeated attackers who targeted their group, then returned to their retreat to cultivate for five hundred years.
• Ye Xin asked the Immortal-Slaying Ancestor to help him take Ye Lin’s quota for the Second Region, and she sent her disciples to search for Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin studied the Destruction Sword Dao, swallowed the Black Tortoise Natal Heart, and endured its energy as it strengthened his body.
• When Ye Lin could absorb no more of the Black Tortoise Natal Heart’s energy, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar and Xuanyuan Sword appeared and watched him.

Ye Lin absorbed the Black Tortoise’s Natal Heart, transformed his dantian into a cosmos, and advanced to the fourth layer of Golden Immortal before killing Wang Qingxian. His victory sparked conflict between younger and older powerhouses across the Third Region, and he emerged from a century of seclusion to find Luo Yao returned.

• Ye Lin fed the azure mist from the Black Tortoise’s Natal Heart to his artifacts, then absorbed it into his dantian, which grew into a Star River Cosmos.
• Ye Lin cultivated to the fourth layer of Golden Immortal and began preparing the True King Sacred Body, while Wang Qingxian and Ye Xin searched for him.
• Wang Qingxian broke Bao Xiaotou’s concealment formation and wounded Bao Xiaotou, Wang Tian, and Li Xiaoyao before Ye Lin appeared and drove her away.
• Ye Lin made Ye Xin lead him to Wang Qingxian’s true body, then burned her peach tree with Beginningless True Flame and destroyed her Primordial Spirit.
• News of Ye Lin killing Wang Qingxian spread through the Third Region, inspiring young prodigies to target older powerhouses and triggering widespread conflict.
• The Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty declared Ye Lin and his friends its marquises and promised them protection, while older powerhouses retaliated against younger fighters.
• After a hundred years of seclusion, Ye Lin emerged without improving Near Yet Far, and Xinyou brought Luo Yao back to him.

Shangguan Wanyu survived her unusual tribulation and reached the Golden Immortal Realm just as the original secret realm was canceled and a new Heavenly Dao realm appeared. Ye Lin joined a powerful alliance and led his companions into a fragment of the Immortal World, where they followed a river toward the ruins of the Divine Gu Sect.

• Ye Lin reunited with Wang Tian and Bao Xiaotou, then watched Shangguan Wanyu face a lightning tribulation that the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar identified as part of the Human Immortal Path.
• Shangguan Wanyu shattered the tribulation lightning with Heavenly Gang, Sever and entered the Golden Immortal Realm, but a voice soon announced that the secret realm would no longer open.
• As older cultivators became targets of angry prodigies, a Heavenly Dao secret realm formed and drew powerful figures including Sanzang, Zhang Wusheng, Gu Qingzhi, Wang Xiaoyun, and Xu Feng.
• Ye Lin killed a black-cloaked man who tried to force him out of line, then entered the secret realm with Li Xiaoyao and his companions.
• Xu Feng and the other great figures invited Ye Lin into an alliance, and Ye Lin insisted that his longtime companions be included before accepting their apology and revealing his face briefly.
• The alliance followed a surviving scout’s route through a dangerous passage into a beautiful landscape, where Wang Tian identified deadly Soul-Ending Grass and supplied antidote pills.
• The group discovered that the landscape was a fragment of the ancient Immortal World, and a tree spirit directed them along the river toward the Divine Gu Sect ruins.
• Ye Lin led the group along the seemingly endless river toward the ruins while they discussed what they might find there.