Recaps

Ye Lin followed the Time Gu into the ruined Divine Gu Sect, where he fought its guardians and uncovered the sect’s dying Third Elder. After the elder died, Ye Lin led the group down a hidden stairway, while a black shadow watched from the hall.

• Ye Lin followed the Time Gu into a pit, fought the regenerating monster guarding the depths, and Xinyou devoured it to reach the fourth layer of Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin found a Divine Gu cocoon and let the Time Gu devour its contents, then rejected an impostor posing as Xu Feng.
• Li Xiaoyao fought the Mountain God for its green pearl, but a counterfeit Ye Lin intervened, and the Mountain God died after Li Xiaoyao took the pearl.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi met the Divine Gu Sect’s Third Elder in a ruined hall and learned he wanted vital essence to extend his life.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi left without making a deal, then waited outside the hall with Xu Feng as the Third Elder approached death.
• After the Third Elder died, Ye Lin buried him, found a stairway beneath his cushion, and led the group down as a black shadow appeared in the hall.

Ye Lin’s group uncovered the Divine Gu Sect’s Mother-Child Gu and fought its immortal victims until Ye Lin used the Human Emperor Sword to cleanse the mother and child. The group left with Heavenly Dao merit and Soul-Ending Grass, while a masked figure watched Ye Lin depart.

• Ye Lin and his companions found a chamber of human cocoons surrounding a furnace that held a living mother and child infested with Gu insects.
• Ye Lin took the jade pendant from the furnace, provoking the Mother-Child Gu and the dead cultivators it controlled to attack the group.
• Wang Xiaoyun, Zhang Wusheng, Xu Feng, and the others fought the Gu’s undying victims, but the old men repeatedly overwhelmed them and blocked the exit.
• Ye Lin summoned the Human Emperor Sword and the Human Race’s fortune, erasing the controlled figures before cleansing the mother and child, who thanked him and vanished.
• Heavenly Dao merit appeared and entered the fragment, and Ye Lin gave it to the Human Emperor Sword instead of using it to raise his cultivation.
• Wang Tian treated Shuang’er’s Primordial Spirit injury, and she awoke after taking a Three-Turn Soul-Returning Pill.
• Wang Tian discovered that the ancient tree was Soul-Ending Grass, agreed to spare its roots, and used the Nine Provinces Cauldron to take the tree above ground.
• A black-robed figure in a golden mask appeared after the group left the Divine Gu Sect and remarked on the Human Emperor Sword and the Mother-Child Gu.

Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi hunted uncanny spirits in the ruins of the Immortal World fragment, while San Zang confronted spirits that wore the faces of his murdered friends. The arc ended with powerful factions claiming the secret realm, and Ye Lin explaining how they were exploiting the Heavenly Dao’s great age.

• Ye Lin identified the aura in the ruined world as belonging to the Eerie and warned the group that uncanny spirits could imitate people and corrupt cultivators.
• San Zang killed a woman tainted by gray mist, then destroyed sinister spirits that appeared as his childhood friends and recalled how he had killed them under his former master's orders.
• Ye Lin found the Nine Saints Meteoric Iron and fought a spirit resembling Jian Unrivaled before confronting Fu Kong at the Profound Void Temple.
• Ye Lin exposed Fu Kong's gray-mist corruption and killed him, while Gu Qingzhi fought the monks and a golden Buddha cleansed the temple's resentment as it collapsed.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi investigated the Holy Tower, where Ye Lin trapped the uncanny spirits and fought their leader while Gu Qingzhi fended off the others.
• After Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi continued hunting spirits, powerful Golden Immortals arrived, killed a prodigy who challenged them, and claimed the secret realm.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi found the Blood God Cave collapsed, then faced the factions' demand that everyone leave the realm.
• Ye Lin explained that older factions were exploiting the great age and the Heavenly Dao's need to restore its depleted origin, while Gu Qingzhi condemned their seizure of the secret realm.

Ye Lin left the secret realm after arranging to have his sword refined, then spent five hundred years in the Music Sect and advanced to the fifth layer of Golden Immortal. He traveled with Gu Qingzhi and his companions to the Second Region, only to discover they had been sent into a prison-like illusion formation in the Great Wasteland.

• Ye Lin left the secret realm with Gu Qingzhi, who brought him to the Music Sect and arranged for Grandpa Zhong to refine his Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin cultivated for five hundred years, reached the fifth layer of Golden Immortal, and received his sword back as a high-grade Limitless Artifact.
• Ye Lin and Gu Qingzhi left for the Second Region, reunited with Li Xiaoyao and the others, and entered the teleportation array with the leading prodigies.
• The group arrived in the Second Region surrounded by monstrous creatures, then fought through them as Zhang Wusheng killed Zhu Ganglie and the giant eagle.
• A glowing willow tree told Ye Lin that they were in the Great Wasteland on the Divine Martial Continent, a prison created by heavenly immortals from which even peak ninth-layer Golden Immortals could not escape.
• Bao Xiaotou investigated the formation and used his golden eyes to locate an exit to the east, but the shifting formation core repeatedly altered their route.
• Bao Xiaotou told Ye Lin and the others that someone had watched them and changed the formation core as they moved.