Recaps

Ye Lin ordered his allies to drive the forces once affiliated with Eight Suns out of the Central Domain, while reassuring them that the Demon Domain would be dealt with elsewhere. After learning that a Karma Pearl would be auctioned in ten years, he became eager to obtain its karma Dao resonance.

• Chen Yang warned Ye Lin that expelling the Eight Suns forces could provoke dozens or hundreds of True Immortal forces and ignite widespread wars.
• Ye Lin said someone would handle the forces in the Demon Domain and explained that distance protected Central Domain forces from retaliation by distant enemies.
• Chen Yang gave Ye Lin a list showing that no Eight Suns forces had yet joined the forces watching from the sidelines, and Ye Lin handed the list back without studying it.
• Void told Ye Lin that the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance would auction a Karma Pearl in ten years, containing a trace of karma Dao resonance.
• Ye Lin reacted with greed because the resonance could help him inscribe karma Dao laws and perfect his domain.

Ye Lin sought supreme-grade immortal stones to bid for the Karma Pearl and ordered his allies to seize them from the Eight Suns forces and coordinate attacks on other True Immortal forces. His allies were eager to begin the campaign that would put them in conflict with the wider Star River Cosmos.

• Ye Lin learned that the Karma Pearl auction required supreme-grade immortal stones, which Void said were scarce even among powerful True Immortal forces.
• Ye Lin ordered his allies to purge the Eight Suns forces in Sacred King City and take any supreme-grade immortal stones they found.
• Ye Lin proposed that the forces behind Void and the others cooperate to conquer the remaining True Immortal forces, leaving him only the supreme-grade immortal stones.
• Void and the others became excited as Ye Lin's plan brought them to the point of launching their campaign.

Ye Lin organized the four allied sects to expand their influence and ordered a cleanup of the Human Race prodigies at the end of the Heaven-Facing Road. The chapter left Chen Yang and the others poised to use the prodigies’ powerful backers against Eight Suns’s forces.

• Ye Lin explained how following the same prodigy had united the four sects and proposed waging war against forces that had chosen no side.
• Void agreed to the campaign and planned to borrow experts from the Forbidden Sect and Boundless Sacred Land to wipe out the Minotaur Clan.
• Ye Lin ordered the four leaders to handle tens of thousands of Human Race prodigies at the end of the Heaven-Facing Road and let their forces claim them.
• Ye Lin instructed them to tell the claiming forces that Eight Suns and its followers were responsible for the prodigies’ suffering.
• Ye Lin told the leaders to seek his or Poison Venerable’s help if they met resistance, expecting the prodigies’ backers to retaliate against Eight Suns’s forces.

While Ye Lin secluded himself to cultivate, Chen Yang and the other three exposed the truth about Eight Suns’ factions, triggering a bloody purge across the Thousand Cities Alliance. The four sects took control of nearly every city except Sacred King City and gained eighteen new factions under Ye Lin’s command.

• Ye Lin began secluded cultivation, but his progress toward the late True Immortal stage remained stalled.
• Chen Yang and the other three reached the hall at the end of the Divine Mountain and understood why Ye Lin had sent them there.
• Chen Yang and the others spread the truth about the situation and identified the factions behind Eight Suns, prompting Human Race prodigies to flock to the Thousand Cities Alliance.
• The prodigies massacred members of Eight Suns’ factions and destroyed their shops as True Immortal powerhouses fought across the cities.
• The four sects took control of every city in the Thousand Cities Alliance except Sacred King City, and eighteen more factions joined Ye Lin’s command.

The Shu Mountain Sword Sect purged the factions that had harmed Jian Feng’s clansmen, shocking the Demon Domain and prompting rival powers to send their successors to the Central Domain. Meanwhile, Ye Lin’s four sects took full control of the Thousand Cities Alliance and profited from its trade, leaving expelled factions desperate to return.

• Jian Feng knelt before the Sect Master Hall for three days, and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect sent three Taiyi Mysterious Immortals to destroy the factions that had attacked his clansmen.
• The Shu Mountain Sword Sect’s purge shocked the Demon Domain and prompted its rival forces to send their successors to the Central Domain.
• Ye Lin’s four sects gained complete control of the Thousand Cities Alliance, while eighteen newly arrived factions also benefited from the takeover.
• The four sects and eighteen factions charged outsiders monthly land rental fees equal to twenty percent of their trading profits.
• After factions that opposed the fees were expelled, their sect masters apologized and paid far greater sums to regain access to the Thousand Cities Alliance.

After ten years of cultivation, Ye Lin awoke to learn that the Four Sects had consolidated the Thousand Cities Alliance and gathered 300,000 premium immortal stones for him. With an auction in ten days, he set out toward the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance as Sacred King City prospered under the Four Sects’ rule.

• Over ten years, the Four Sects and eighteen allied factions conquered Starry Sky and gathered resources while expanding their power.
• Ye Lin awoke from secluded cultivation and met Chen Yang and the other three, who reported that the Thousand Cities Alliance was under their control.
• Chen Yang told Ye Lin that they had collected 300,000 premium immortal stones through seizures and exchanges.
• Void informed Ye Lin that an auction would be held in ten days and that arrangements had been made in the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin agreed to set out immediately and walked through the prosperous Sacred King City.

Ye Lin learned that Poison Venerable had departed for the Central Land and set off by cloud vessel for the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance. As the vessel crossed the Central Domain, Ye Lin saw the immense ferocious beasts inhabiting its primordial wilderness.

• Void told Ye Lin that the cloud vessel had stopped outside the city, and Ye Lin asked where Poison Venerable was.
• Xia Yu gave Ye Lin a letter from Poison Venerable, who had left ten years earlier with a message saying he would wait in the Central Land.
• Ye Lin burned the letter and told Void to lead the group to the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin and his companions boarded the cloud vessel and traveled across the Central Domain toward the alliance.
• Ye Lin watched giant apes, enormous pythons, and other powerful ferocious beasts from the cloud vessel.

Lin Yunlu awoke from her long slumber and asked Ye Lin for delicious food, so he left the cloud vessel to hunt a giant beast. Ye Lin suppressed a late True Immortal flying tiger with his Great Sun technique, while the surrounding land and beasts were devastated.

• Void offered to catch ferocious beasts for Ye Lin to eat as they traveled through the Central Domain.
• Lin Yunlu suddenly appeared on Ye Lin's shoulder, and Ye Lin reassured Void and the others that she was his companion.
• Lin Yunlu told Ye Lin she was fine after sleeping for many days and wanted something delicious to eat.
• Ye Lin left the cloud vessel and targeted a late True Immortal winged flying tiger.
• Ye Lin used Great Sun, Descend to the Mortal World to suppress the flying tiger, incinerating countless beasts and triggering a massive earthquake.

Ye Lin defeated a Flying Tiger and continued toward the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance, but his cloud vessel was forced to stop when the Third Prince of the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty called for help against assassins. Ye Lin realized the prince’s public plea had drawn him into the conflict.

• Ye Lin killed the Flying Tiger, and his companions butchered its corpse and cooked its meat aboard the cloud vessel.
• Lin Yunlu ate much of the Flying Tiger and kept asking a disciple of the Four Sects to cook more for her.
• On the second night, the cloud vessel stopped suddenly, throwing Lin Yunlu aside and alerting Ye Lin that trouble had arisen.
• Ye Lin saw the Third Prince and a princess of the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty surrounded by black-clad late-stage True Immortals.
• The Third Prince called to the cloud vessel and asked its passengers to help repel the assassins, leaving Ye Lin unable to avoid the conflict.

Ye Lin and the disciples of the four sects rescued Princess Sheng'an Ye Liuli and Third Prince Ye Huang of the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty from coordinated black-robed attackers. The attackers withdrew, and Ye Liuli promised Ye Lin a generous reward at the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.

• Chen Yang told Ye Lin that the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty was a powerful Demon Race force ruled by a Taiyi Profound Immortal.
• Black-clad cultivators attacked the cloud vessel and the two Great Shang royals, but the four sects' disciples held off the attackers.
• Ye Lin sent Void and the other three young leaders to assist the royals, turning the battle against the black-clad cultivators.
• The black-clad leader ordered an orderly retreat after the attackers began losing.
• Ye Liuli introduced herself and Ye Huang, apologized for her brother, and promised Ye Lin a generous gift at the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.

Ye Huang and Ye Liuli apologized to Ye Lin for involving him in their danger, and Ye Huang offered him a valuable promise of assistance. After Ye Lin declined the offer, Ye Liuli exchanged contact details with him and she and Ye Huang headed to the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance, leaving Void surprised by Ye Lin’s choice.

• Ye Liuli apologized to Ye Lin and Ye Huang admitted he had acted rashly by bringing Ye Lin aboard without knowing his strength.
• Ye Huang offered Ye Lin his protective jade pendant and promised the Third Prince of the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty would help him, but Ye Lin refused it.
• Ye Lin asked Ye Liuli for the generous gift she had promised, and she requested a way to contact him at the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin gave Ye Liuli a Jade Talisman, and Ye Liuli and Ye Huang departed for the alliance after exchanging farewells with him.
• Void asked Ye Lin whether he was worried that Ye Huang and Ye Liuli might break their promise.

Ye Lin and his companions arrived in Eastern Radiance City, where the lavish city and the locals’ remarks hinted at the Human Race’s poor standing. Chen Changfeng, a fox-race scout posing as a member of the Chen Family, led Ye Lin’s group to their lodging.

• Ye Lin and his companions reached Eastern Radiance City, a vast city under the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin entered the city with his followers and heard nearby cultivators discuss the Human Race’s place in Eastern Radiance City.
• Chen Changfeng introduced himself to Ye Lin as a scout who had arranged lodging for the group.
• Ye Lin recognized Chen Changfeng as a fox through his Spirit Fox Sacred Body and followed him to a palace.

Ye Lin arrived in Eastern Radiance City and learned about the powerful factions and prodigies he might face at the auction. When he asked about the Human Race’s position, Chen Changfeng revealed that humans were treated poorly throughout the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.

• Chen Changfeng brought Ye Lin into the Chen Family’s palace and told him the auction would take place atop Holy Mountain in six days.
• Chen Changfeng described the Heaven and Earth Sword Sect, the Great Rock Empire, and the Shadow Kill Pavilion, along with their strongest prodigies.
• Ye Lin learned that Ethereal and Yan Batian had reportedly reached peak True Immortal, while Heavenly Heart and Tian Chen had reportedly reached late True Immortal.
• Ye Lin asked about the Human Race, and Chen Changfeng hesitantly said its circumstances were poor across Eastern Radiance City and the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.

Chen Changfeng explained how the Human Race was oppressed and enslaved in the Northern Continent, and Ye Lin reacted with barely restrained fury. After dismissing his companions, Ye Lin sat alone in the pavilion while Void reproached Chen Changfeng for telling him everything.

• Chen Changfeng told Ye Lin that humans were treated as lowly beings in Eastern Radiance City, used as restaurant ingredients, and sold in slave markets.
• Chen Changfeng explained that the city's rules did not protect humans and that other races could blame them for any conflict.
• Ye Lin's aura overwhelmed the True Immortal geniuses around him as he grew furious over the Human Race's treatment.
• Ye Lin calmed himself, told the others to leave, and said they would secure the Karma Pearl at the auction in six days.
• After everyone left Ye Lin alone in the pavilion, Void reproached Chen Changfeng for revealing the full extent of the oppression.

On the day of the auction, Ye Lin set out for Holy Mountain after hearing that the Human Race had been excluded from Eastern Radiance City and that the mountain had been made from Human Race flesh, blood, and souls. The four people accompanying him grew grim as the crowds followed, anticipating trouble.

• Void warned Chen Changfeng that Ye Lin would stir up trouble in Eastern Radiance City and ordered him to prepare resources for the auction.
• Chen Changfeng obeyed Void and went to arrange a batch of top-grade immortal stones.
• Six days later, beings of many races filled Eastern Radiance City on the day of the auction, while no one belonging solely to the Human Race appeared among them.
• Ye Lin rose from his seat and set out with four companions and dozens of True Immortal cultivators clearing the way.
• The crowds recognized Ye Lin and followed him toward Holy Mountain, openly discussing how it had been built from Human Race flesh, blood, and souls.
• Ye Lin remained calm as he listened, while the four people behind him grew grim at the provocation.

Void confronted Yan Cheng, the tyrannical Fifth Prince of the Great Rock Empire, after Yan Cheng’s carriage injured a Divine Mountain disciple. Void tried to avoid a conflict, but Yan Cheng demanded that the three cultivators who challenged him be killed.

• Yan Cheng ordered the cultivators clearing the road to yield and summoned twelve peak True Immortal soldiers when they surrounded his carriage.
• Void recognized Yan Cheng and respectfully offered to let him pass, wary of provoking the Great Rock Empire.
• Yan Cheng demanded that Void kill the three Divine Mountain cultivators to settle the matter.
• A Divine Mountain genius told Void that Yan Cheng’s carriage had struck and injured their unconscious junior while they were clearing a path for Young Master Wei.

Yan Cheng ordered the Golden Guard to kill Void and his junior brothers after rejecting Void’s offer of compensation. Ye Lin intervened, sending one Golden Guard crashing into the ground, and Yan Cheng turned his attention to him.

• Void offered Yan Cheng ten thousand Top-Tier Spirit Stones and an apology, but Yan Cheng rejected the offer and ordered the Golden Guard to attack.
• A Golden Guard threatened Void and demanded that he move aside.
• Void refused to abandon his junior brothers, and Yan Cheng ordered the Golden Guard to leave none of them alive.
• A Golden Guard thrust his spear at Void, but Ye Lin struck him away and moved Void behind him.
• Yan Cheng angrily demanded to know who had attacked his Golden Guard, and Ye Lin identified himself.

Ye Lin confronted Yan Cheng after the prince tried to make him a hired thug, and the encounter escalated into a battle in Eastern Radiance City. Ye Lin appeared before Yan Cheng to challenge him directly, while the guards fought the four sects’ disciples.

• Yan Cheng offered Ye Lin a chance to become his hired thug, but Ye Lin instead demanded that Yan Cheng admit his mistake.
• Yan Cheng ordered the Golden Guard to kill the four sects’ disciples and capture Ye Lin alive, and the two sides clashed.
• Ye Lin leapt onto Yan Cheng’s carriage, destroyed it with a stomp, and forced Yan Cheng to retreat.
• Yan Cheng summoned his private Silver Guard, who charged at the four sects’ disciples as fighting spread through the street.
• Ye Lin appeared in front of Yan Cheng and challenged him to show his abilities, startling the prince with his speed.

Ye Lin brutally attacked Yan Cheng, the Fifth Prince of the Great Rock Empire, after Yan Cheng provoked him. With Chen Changfeng and his cultivators arriving, Ye Lin ordered the Silver Guard killed and began beating Yan Cheng, leaving their confrontation ongoing.

• Ye Lin slammed Yan Cheng into the ground and struck him again when Yan Cheng demanded to know how he dared.
• Ye Lin sent the Silver Guard flying with a wave of his hand, while horrified onlookers fled and warned that Yan Cheng was favored by the Great Rock Emperor.
• Yan Cheng ordered the Silver Guard to kill Ye Lin, but his guards were too afraid to move.
• Chen Changfeng arrived with True Immortal cultivators, and Ye Lin ordered him to kill every Silver Guard.
• Ye Lin declared he would kill Yan Cheng and tossed him around helplessly like a ball.

Ye Lin killed Yan Cheng, the Fifth Prince of the Great Rock Empire, despite Yan Cheng's pleas for mercy. He then led the group toward the auction, leaving witnesses to discover the prince's corpse and fear the consequences.

• Ye Lin rejected Yan Cheng's plea for his life and crushed his head.
• Ye Lin destroyed Yan Cheng's Primordial Spirit, killing him completely.
• Void feared the Great Rock Empire's retaliation, while Chen Changfeng trusted Ye Lin's judgment.
• Ye Lin led the Chen Family, Void, and the others toward the auction at the Holy Mountain.
• Cultivators arrived at the ruined scene, recognized Yan Cheng's headless corpse, and realized the Great Rock Empire's prince had been killed.

News that the Fifth Prince had been killed by a Human Race prodigy spread through Eastern Radiance City, while a messenger brought urgent news to the First Prince in the Great Rock Imperial Palace. The chapter ended with the soldier kneeling before the First Prince, poised to report what had happened.

• The Fifth Prince's death sent the Great Rock Empire's forces in Eastern Radiance City rushing toward the Holy Mountain.
• A soldier hurried through the Great Rock Imperial Palace and entered the First Prince's palace.
• The First Prince sat beneath a peach tree feeding strange red-feathered creatures as two maidservants stood behind him.
• The soldier cried out that something terrible had happened, then knelt before the First Prince.

Yan Batian learned that Blood Baleful, an outsider from another star domain, had killed the Fifth Prince, Yan Cheng. After hearing the report and the Emperor’s decision to leave the response to him, Yan Batian considered the matter interesting.

• Yan Batian reprimanded General Wu for rushing in, and his gaze left the general terrified.
• General Wu reported that Yan Cheng had been killed by the Human Race prodigy Blood Baleful.
• General Wu recounted Blood Baleful’s rise through the Hundred Cities and Thousand Cities Alliances and his arrival in the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance for an auction.
• General Wu revealed that Blood Baleful was an outsider from another star domain and that the Emperor had left the decision to Yan Batian.
• Yan Batian reflected on Blood Baleful and the Shu Mountain Sword Immortal as someone noted that Yan Cheng’s death damaged the Great Rock Empire’s prestige.

Yan Batian ordered General Wu to attack Human Race star systems while he headed to the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance to meet the person who killed his brother. At the Holy Mountain, Ye Lin discovered its staircase was built from Human Race bones, and Void and the others realized the alliance might face his wrath.

• General Wu pledged to kill the person who beheaded the Fifth Prince, and Yan Batian ordered him to lead ten million troops against Human Race star systems.
• Yan Batian announced that he would visit the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance himself, then left as General Wu watched him with reverence.
• Chen Changfeng led Ye Lin to the Holy Mountain, where the surrounding beings cleared a path for them out of fear.
• Ye Lin noticed something about the white steps and reacted with killing intent before continuing toward the auction site.
• Void and the others discovered that the staircase was made from Human Race bones and ordered their sect to send more disciples and notify Human Race factions.

Void prepared the disciples and Human Race factions to help Ye Lin make trouble against the Great Rock Empire, anticipating his reaction to the stairs made from Human Race bones. Chen Changfeng explained that the Human Race’s persecution began after the Ten Thousand Swords Sacred Sect was destroyed a million years earlier, with the Great Rock Empire among the worst offenders.

• Void told the disciples to summon Human Race factions and prepare to fight alongside Ye Lin, even if it meant risking everything.
• Void and the others anticipated that the Great Rock Empire would retaliate and planned to confront its cultivators and allied factions.
• Ye Lin, disturbed by the stairs made from Human Race bones, asked Chen Changfeng where they came from.
• Chen Changfeng explained that the destruction of the Ten Thousand Swords Sacred Sect had triggered a dark age of persecution for the Human Race in the northern Demon Domain.
• Chen Changfeng said the Great Rock Empire had been among the worst forces suppressing Human Race prodigies.

Ye Lin and Chen Changfeng reached the center of Holy Mountain, where human captives were humiliated beside a lake of human blood. After Chen Changfeng showed Ye Lin their remote camp, the Snakefolk prodigy Niu Er confronted him and mocked the human race.

• Chen Changfeng told Ye Lin that the myriad races suppressed and killed human prodigies while spreading rumors against them.
• Ye Lin saw a lake of human blood surrounded by camps where human prodigies served the other races as captives.
• Chen Changfeng led Ye Lin to a remote tent and said the auction atop the Holy Pool would begin in three hours.
• Niu Er approached Chen Changfeng with a chained human True Immortal and insulted the Fox Clan for associating with humans.
• Niu Er called the human race lowly as he glanced toward Ye Lin.