Recaps

Ye Lin killed Wang Dong, joined the Heaven-Seeking Bureau, and accepted a mission to find the Sacred Heart Lotus. At the lotus, rival factions and powerful newcomers gathered, and an unknown person claimed it as a holy aura swept over them.

• Ye Lin found Wang Dong in Star Chess City, where Wang Dong used the city's Blood Baleful Qi to strengthen himself while secretly drawing power from an array.
• Ye Lin used Heaven-Opening to kill Wang Dong, completed his trial, and became a Level Three Heaven-Seeking Bureau agent.
• Ye Lin reunited with Xinyou, who left with a purple colossal beast to restore her damaged bloodline, then registered as an agent and returned to Meteor Island.
• After studying Bing Ruoxin's lectures for a thousand years, Ye Lin merged ten overdue assessments and drew a mission to find the Sacred Heart Lotus in the Boundary Sea.
• Ye Lin followed a purple bead toward the lotus as eight factions gathered to claim it, each hoping to secure its power for their own purposes.
• Xue Yunxuan and Guo Hua of the Divine Sword Sect demanded a place in the contest, then secretly agreed to split the lotus while Black Mountain's warboats arrived.
• Liu Hei ordered the factions to surrender the lotus, but Xue Yunxuan challenged him and the black-robed elder refused to yield it.
• Liu Hei rejected Xue Yunxuan's demand and warned that calling their elders could endanger them, then an overwhelming holy aura swept over the gathering as an unknown person claimed the lotus.

Ye Lin claimed the Heavenly Heart Lotus, earned rare cultivation essences, and began preparing for the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm. As challengers fought to take places in the Eastern Region Top Hundred, Su Cheng killed Zheng Shu in three punches.

• Ye Lin took the mature Heavenly Heart Lotus after the Third Elder yielded, then defeated Ye Wen in a sword battle and left him wounded but alive.
• Ye Lin delivered the lotus to the Holy Palace, completed his trial, and received three hundred essences that greatly accelerated his cultivation.
• The Heavenly Blade Sage announced that the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm would open in five hundred years and explained the entry rules for Daluo Golden Immortals and their Quasi-Saint Dao Protectors.
• Ye Lin received offers from Xu Shen, Fu Chen, and other Quasi-Saints, then visited the Spirit King, agreed to give him a secret-realm slot, and heard that the realm formed from a fragment of the Creation Sacred Lotus.
• Yun Qiyue brought Ye Lin to Heaven Earth City, where Su Cheng challenged the Eastern Region Top Hundred after defeating three competitors and taking their slots.
• Su Cheng defeated Zheng Shu after allowing him three moves, then killed him with three punches when Zheng Shu refused to kneel.

Ye Lin recruited Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic by completing their demanding trials, earning their support as Dao Protectors. Back on Meteor Island, he learned the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm quotas were being contested and prepared to challenge the powers protecting them.

• Ye Lin consulted Heavenly Blade Sage, who gave him letters recommending Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic and explained that winning their loyalty could help him build a foundation.
• Ye Lin found Sword Demon and agreed to grow the sword grass in his field, then spent nearly a hundred years subduing the Sword Field’s violent intents and bringing it into harmony.
• Sword Demon approved of Ye Lin’s completed trial, gave him a Sword Talisman, and agreed to accompany him into the Cloud Heaven Secret Realm.
• Ye Lin traveled to Holy Blade City, where Blade Fanatic challenged him to awaken the city’s blade intent by leaving a spiritual imprint with his Sword Heart.
• Ye Lin practiced walking a winding path for decades, inspiring blade cultivators to seek their true selves and eventually stirring the Holy Blade Remains before the hundred-year deadline.
• After Ye Lin returned to Meteor Island, Heavenly Blade Sage warned him that factions were maneuvering around the secret realm and ordered him to visit eight factions with his two allies.
• Yun Qiyue explained that the Eastern Region’s major powers controlled the secret realm quotas through the Top Hundred and warned Ye Lin that challengers could die, while she planned to challenge thirteen halls.
• Blade Fanatic and Sword Demon arrived on Meteor Island, accepted Yun Qiyue’s gifts, and told Ye Lin they would protect his path, respect his choices, and carry out his orders.

Ye Lin visited the White Tiger Clan and defeated its strongest young fighters, making clear that he had come to investigate rumors of the clan’s unrest. At the Vermilion Bird Clan, he absorbed the Golden Crow Fire Essence to create the Great Sun Nether Flame, then accepted the clan’s challenge to spar with everyone.

• Ye Lin chose the White Tiger Clan as his destination and arrived at its Hundred Thousand Sword Mountains with Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic, where Bai Feng welcomed them.
• At Bai Feng’s gathering, Ye Lin raised the rumors of the White Tiger Clan’s restlessness, then accepted Bai Huang’s invitation to visit the Weapon Grave.
• Ye Lin defeated Bai Zhan with a casual display of Sword Qi, then overcame Bai Li, Bai Meng, and Bai Ying’s combined attack, leaving the younger generation unwilling to challenge him further.
• Bai Feng gave Ye Lin a Spatial Ring and asked him to speak favorably of the clan, and Ye Lin departed for the Vermilion Bird Clan with Sword Demon and Blade Fanatic.
• At the Ancestral Flame Pool, Ye Lin drew out the Golden Crow Fire Essence with his Nine Nether Prison Flame and absorbed it despite Lei Chong and Chi Lian’s concerns.
• Ye Lin fused the Golden Crow Fire Essence with the Nine Nether Prison Flame and named the resulting three-layered fire the Great Sun Nether Flame.
• At the Vermilion Bird Clan’s arena, Ye Lin watched Yang Tian defeat Qin Hao and observed nine more matches without reacting.
• Lei Chong invited Ye Lin to spar with the clan, and Ye Lin accepted, saying he would fight everyone.