Recaps

After overcoming his fear, Ye Lin killed Chu Jingming and reached the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. He gained the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan’s help, became Heavenly Blade Sage’s fourth personal disciple, and prepared to pursue a place among the Eastern Region’s top hundred.

• Ye Lin admitted his fear to Ye Xiu, resolved to fight Chu Jingming again, and returned to life with his injuries healed and his power at the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin defeated Chu Jingming with Heaven-Opening, restored his confidence, and claimed the Bloodthirst Essence while Nangong Xuanyi told him about the Holy Palace and its path toward Sainthood.
• Ye Lin gave the Bloodthirst Essence to Spirit King, who merged the secret realm with the Origin Continent and established the Heaven-Devouring Toad Clan in Cloud Province.
• Ye Lin warned cultivators away from the dangerous veiled territory, then met Uncle Blade, who revealed himself as Heavenly Blade Sage and offered to take Ye Lin as his disciple.
• Ye Lin accepted Heavenly Blade Sage as his master and was formally inducted as his fourth personal disciple on Meteor Island, where he met his Third Senior Sister, Yun Qiyue.
• Yun Qiyue explained the rewards and requirements for entering the Eastern Region’s top hundred, including Holy Palace missions and access to the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm.
• Ye Lin chose to pursue Holy Palace missions for resources and trading points, while Zhang Ling'er and Luo Yao stayed behind with Ye Xin to explore.

Ye Lin pursued his Holy Palace missions, won first place at the Dao Gathering, and captured Wang Yongxin in the Boundary Sea. As he prepared to return to Blazing Fire Continent, he discovered that a teleportation array had been redirected to Heaven Province.

• Ye Lin reached the Liu Family while investigating the missing Holy Palace envoy, questioned its members, and asked Liu Hai to investigate every Liu-named family in Cloudwater Commandery.
• Ye Lin traveled to Xuanyuan City to seek help from its City Lord, but the account shifted to a year later, when he registered among the thirteen cultivators who had mastered the Seventy-Two Transformations.
• Ye Lin accepted a series of sparring matches, defeated Wang Tiezhu in one move, and then beat Bai Ze with a single sword strike that shattered Bai Ze's Dao Heart.
• The elder declared Ye Lin the Dao Gathering's first-place winner with eighty points, and Ye Lin declined the ten million transaction-point reward.
• Ye Lin traveled to the Boundary Sea and followed the Formation Disk for ten years until he found Wang Yongxin, then fought him outside the universe and seized his Primordial Spirit.
• After returning to a Holy Palace branch, Ye Lin waited for a teleportation array to Blazing Fire Continent, but sensed something wrong just before it activated.
• Ye Lin seized the young attendant, and a middle-aged man discovered that the array was set for Heaven Province rather than Blazing Fire Continent.

Ye Lin exposed Wang Yongxin’s scheme, completed his Holy Palace mission, and entered Origin Holy City with Yun Qiyue to study its ranked cultivators and secret arts. After years of waiting and comprehending Ye Xiu’s sword strike, they attended the city’s auction, where Ye Lin passed on a rare Blood Pearl and a supreme treasure sword.

• Ye Lin forced the Holy Palace branch to acknowledge that Wang Yongxin had ordered the teleportation operator to send him to Heaven Province, then left with Wang Yongxin’s Primordial Spirit to submit his mission.
• Ye Lin completed all three tasks, received an Identity Token naming him a candidate for the Eastern Region Top Hundred, and asked Yun Qiyue how to challenge the ranked experts.
• Yun Qiyue warned Ye Lin about the factions behind the rankings and took him to Origin Holy City, where they visited Drunken Flower Pavilion and tasted Drunken Flower Brew.
• Yun Qiyue introduced Ye Lin to ranked cultivators and Yun Wan'er, while Lin Feng explained how Yun Wan'er's matchmaking had damaged her relationship with Yun Qiyue.
• Ye Lin rejected the dangerous secret arts in the Dharma Comprehension Hall and explored the city while waiting for the challenge process to begin.
• Ye Lin suppressed his realm and secluded himself to comprehend Ye Xiu's sword strike, while Yun Qiyue spent ten years studying a secret art and later brought him to the city's auction.
• Ye Lin and Yun Qiyue rested in the auction room's hot spring before the bidding began, then watched a Blood Pearl sell for fifty-four million trading points.
• Ye Lin declined Yun Qiyue's offer to buy a golden Postnatal Supreme Treasure sword because he already had the Godslayer Sword and Azure Frost.

Ye Lin used the Enlightenment Fruit to deepen his understanding of his sword strike, then helped Yun Qiyue defeat Yun Shen and learned of her Shadow Blade Clan origins. He challenged Baili Tusu for a place in the Eastern Region Top Hundred, and their duel began on Meteor Island.

• Ye Lin spent one hundred million transaction points on the Enlightenment Fruit and used it to study the sword strike that had killed Chu Jingming.
• Yun Qiyue bought the Nine-Revolution Liuli Lamp, and after Ye Lin emerged from seclusion, she led him outside Origin Holy City to confront Yun Shen.
• Ye Lin killed Yun Shen’s twelve peak Daluo Golden Immortal allies while Yun Qiyue pursued and killed Yun Shen at Broken Soul Mountain.
• Yun Qiyue told Ye Lin how Yun Shen had betrayed Meteor Island and showed him the lamp’s vision of the Shadow Blade Clan’s destruction and her escape as an infant.
• Ye Lin learned that Yun Qiyue was the last member of the Shadow Blade Clan, while she decided not to seek revenge or reunite with her relatives.
• The Heavenly Blade Sage arranged Ye Lin’s challenge to Baili Tusu, and cultivators from across the region gathered on Meteor Island for their duel.
• Baili Tusu and Ye Lin entered the sealed arena and began by testing each other before agreeing to fight seriously.
• Baili Tusu slashed at Ye Lin with his rusty broken sword, and Ye Lin met the attack with his palm.