Recaps

Ye Lin fought Yan Batian, whose dual pupils let him wield a formidable Killing Path Domain and attack with the power of a giant eye. Ye Lin nullified Yan Batian’s heavenly lightning with blade intent and began unleashing his own power as a true immortal.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar praised Yan Batian’s dual pupils and asked to taste his blood, and Ye Lin agreed.
• Yan Batian activated his Killing Path Domain, but Ye Lin advanced without being hindered.
• Yan Batian summoned a giant eye and struck Ye Lin with violet lightning, which Ye Lin erased with blade intent.
• Yan Batian recognized that Ye Lin had used the power of laws and attacked again with his Three Forms of Divine Punishment.
• Ye Lin declared that he would wield the power of heaven and earth as his aura erupted and he became a true immortal.

Ye Lin battled Yan Batian, surviving his Heavenly Punishment before being trapped in the Purgatory realm. Ye Lin unleashed his sword and Great Sun techniques against the realm’s trapped spirits and its crushing attacks, leaving the world on the verge of collapse.

• Ye Lin used the power of heaven and earth to withstand Yan Batian’s Heavenly Punishment, but the attack sent him flying and left him bleeding.
• Yan Batian trapped Ye Lin in Purgatory, where the spirits of defeated geniuses and the magma world attacked him.
• Ye Lin’s Sword Nine, Pacify the Eight Directions, tore apart the spirits and split the Purgatory realm open.
• The damaged realm unleashed lightning against Ye Lin, but he used Great Sun Emergence, Abyss Descent, to crush the bolts.
• Ye Lin followed with Great Sun Emergence, Mortal Descent, sending another great sun crashing down as the realm groaned under the impact.

Ye Lin faced Yan Batian’s Third Form, Dao Punishment, and suffered devastating injuries inside a world of blinding white light. Guided by the sword spirit of the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, he learned to sense and counter the attacks with his heart, while Yan Batian prepared to press the assault.

• Ye Lin charged Yan Batian with the Saint-Falling Fist, but Yan Batian unleashed Dao Punishment and blasted a hole through Ye Lin’s chest.
• Purple qi clung to Ye Lin and exploded, destroying his limbs before his body regenerated; Ye Lin realized he was trapped in an endless expanse of white light.
• Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, and its sword spirit told him to use his heart rather than his eyes to sense the world.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes, sensed an incoming attack behind him, and slashed it away; he then used the same method to shatter another attack to his right.
• Yan Batian recognized the sword as a Supreme artifact, judged Ye Lin’s recovery with interest, and pressed his palm downward.

The geniuses of the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance watched Ye Lin’s battle with Yan Batian, while those around them reacted to the possibility that Yan Batian could be challenged. Ye Lin sensed that Yan Batian’s terrifying attack had formed an array around him, and the chapter left him preparing to face it.

• The geniuses of the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance discussed the battle as Chen Changfeng worried that Ye Lin might fall.
• Fate Heart wondered whether Yan Batian’s Three Forms of Divine Punishment had finally met its match.
• Ye Huang urged his brother to save Blood Baleful, but the young man reassured him that Ye Lin might create a miracle.
• Ye Lin sensed a terrifying attack forming around him and realized that he had been inside an array all along.

Ye Lin used the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder Sword Art to break Yan Batian’s Dao Punishment, advancing to the late True Immortal realm. Their attacks collided in a devastating clash that left the watching prodigies retreating in shock.

• Ye Lin struck the ground with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and tried to break Yan Batian’s Dao Punishment.
• Yan Batian unleashed divine light to suppress Ye Lin, but Ye Lin crushed it with his Blood Baleful aura.
• Ye Lin invoked the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder Sword Art and broke through to the late True Immortal realm.
• Ye Lin’s Blood Baleful tainted the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder, increasing its power and alarming Yan Batian.
• Yan Batian attacked with divine light from his double pupils, and Ye Lin answered with a thunder-infused Sword Qi that shook the battlefield.
• The watching prodigies retreated as the clash’s shockwaves made their blood and qi churn.

Ye Lin broke through to the late True Immortal realm while surviving Yan Batian’s Three Forms of Divine Punishment, then challenged him to use his full strength. Yan Batian drew a silver spear and the two continued their battle, shaking the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance with their clashes.

• Ye Lin’s battle with Yan Batian pushed him into the late True Immortal realm, while nearby geniuses wondered how cultivators of the same realm could differ so greatly in strength.
• Yan Batian acknowledged Ye Lin as a worthy opponent and revealed that his incomplete dual pupils limited the power of his Three Forms of Divine Punishment.
• Ye Lin declared that it was his turn to attack and gathered Dao Rhymes and Blood Baleful qi around the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Yan Batian laughed, summoned a silver spear, and pointed it at Ye Lin as he began taking him seriously.
• Ye Lin and Yan Batian exchanged blows high in the heavens, sending aftershocks through the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance despite its thousandfold pressure.

Ye Lin faced Yan Batian as the latter unleashed his full strength, revealing himself as a half-step Grand Unity Mysterious Immortal. The two launched their next attacks, but the chapter ended before their clash was resolved.

• Yan Batian praised Ye Lin's fighting ability and pulled back from him.
• Yan Batian raised his power to the half-step Grand Unity Mysterious Immortal level, while Ye Lin recognized that his lower cultivation put him at a disadvantage.
• Yan Batian attacked with the Purgatory Sacred Spear, wrapped in black-purple chains.
• Ye Lin answered with the second form of the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder Sword Art, Mystic Firmament.
• Yan Batian thrust his spear toward Ye Lin's sword light, and their attacks collided.

Ye Lin rejected Yan Batian’s offer to recruit him and continued their battle. He struck Yan Batian with two supreme sword techniques, leaving the True Immortal gravely wounded but still moving through instinct.

• Yan Batian praised Ye Lin’s strength and offered to take him to a broader world if he joined him.
• Ye Lin refused to follow Yan Batian and declared that he would either kill him or die trying.
• Yan Batian charged Ye Lin with his spear, and Ye Lin met him head-on with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Ye Lin used Reminiscence to leave Yan Batian stunned, then struck him with the Heavenly Heart Sword Art’s first form, Heart-Shattering.
• Yan Batian’s heart and meridians were destroyed, but his body retreated on instinct even after his Primordial Spirit had perished.

Ye Lin nearly defeated Yan Batian after Reminiscence left him gravely weakened, but Yan Rulie, Emperor of the Great Rock Empire and a Grand Luo Mystic Immortal, intervened. Yan Rulie apologized for breaking the rules, offered treasures as compensation, and asked Ye Lin to release his son.

• Ye Lin saw Yan Batian weakening under Reminiscence and attacked with the second form of the Nine Heavens Mystic Thunder Sword Art, Mystic Firmament.
• A mysterious voice disrupted Ye Lin, but the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor awakened him and warned that a Grand Luo Mystic Immortal had arrived.
• Yan Rulie appeared behind Yan Batian, whose cultivation had fallen to the mid-stage True Immortal realm.
• Yan Rulie acknowledged Yan Batian's defeat, apologized to Ye Lin for interfering, and offered Heavenly Saint Gold and Ice Soul Grass as compensation.
• Yan Rulie said his five sons' deaths had nothing to do with Ye Lin and asked him to release Yan Batian.

Yan Rulie intervened to save Yan Batian, breaking the Central Domain’s rules, but offered Ye Lin treasures and an apology to settle the dispute. Ye Lin accepted, and Yan Rulie promised that the Great Rock Empire would no longer trouble the Northern Region’s Human Race.

• Yan Rulie descended into the Central Domain to intervene as Yan Batian faced death, violating the rules that protected the younger generation.
• Ye Lin asked the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor’s sword spirit whether the two offered treasures would be useful, and the spirit confirmed they would.
• Ye Lin agreed to Yan Rulie’s proposal and accepted the two treasures.
• Yan Rulie thanked Ye Lin, promised to personally kill anyone under the Great Rock Empire who harmed the Northern Region’s Human Race, and then departed.

Ye Lin defeated Yan Batian but let him leave, then collected the Karma Pearl from Ye Huang. He sensed that the young man beside Ye Huang was an exceptionally powerful prodigy.

• Yan Batian admitted defeat, vowed to meet Ye Lin again, and departed.
• Ye Lin stored the two treasures, wrapped the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, and noted that he needed to stabilize his newly reached late True Immortal cultivation.
• Ye Huang gave Ye Lin the Karma Pearl he had won at auction, and Ye Lin thanked him.
• Ye Lin noticed the young man beside Ye Huang and sensed that his strength surpassed Yan Batian's.

After defeating Yan Batian, Ye Lin faced praise from the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance’s prodigies and announced he would settle the crimes committed against humanity. The other races called for reinforcements as the Undead Race prodigy challenged him.

• Ye Feng thanked Ye Lin for saving his imperial sister and said they would meet again, while privately vowing revenge on Yan Batian.
• The alliance’s prodigies congratulated Ye Lin for defeating Yan Batian and began to leave.
• Ye Lin stopped them and received a list from Chen Changfeng.
• Ye Lin accused the Undead, Minotaur, Sky Qilin, Snakefolk, and Blood Witch Clans of atrocities against humans and demanded that their debts be settled.
• The other races called for reinforcements, and the Undead Race prodigy argued that the strong preyed on the weak.

Ye Lin faced thousands of True Immortals from the myriad races after defeating Yan Batian, as they demanded he stop and offered concessions to the Human Race. Human Race sects rallied around him, and a black-clad man delivered his master's permission for Ye Lin to command the major sects' younger generation.

• Thousands of True Immortals surrounded Ye Lin, and the myriad races' prodigies urged him to stop after his victory over Yan Batian.
• Wan Feng, Wen Tian, and Ying Lian led disciples from their sects to support Ye Lin, while Human Race forces surrounded the Holy Mountain and Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• A black-clad man gave Ye Lin a token and said his master allowed Ye Lin to command the younger generation of the major sects.
• Ye Lin recalled that Chen Changfeng had negotiated with the sects to settle accounts with the myriad races and avenge the Human Race's past humiliation.

After defeating Yan Batian, Ye Lin led the Human Race to fight back against the races that had oppressed them. The Ten Thousand Cities Alliance erupted into battle as Ye Lin watched the conflict unfold.

• Ye Lin told the Human Race cultivators to settle their score with the myriad races and ordered them to kill anyone who had harmed Human Race prodigies.
• Liu Xing challenged the Undead Race prodigy, who was astonished to learn Liu Xing was still alive, and the two began fighting.
• Human Race cultivators and allied weaker races clashed with the other races throughout the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance.
• Ye Lin remained where he was and watched as battles between True Immortals spread across the alliance.

Dongfang Shence confronted three Taiyi Mysterious Immortals who demanded that the human race stop purging the other races. After they withdrew, he looked toward the Central Domain and reflected that the Northern Demon Domain’s human race had finally produced a remarkable young talent.

• A Blood Witch Clan prodigy challenged Ye Lin, but a human prodigy dragged him into the void to fight.
• Three powerful figures confronted Dongfang Shence over the human race’s campaign against the other races.
• Dongfang Shence told them to take their demand to the figure in the Central Domain and offered to fight them if they wished.
• The three Taiyi Mysterious Immortals departed after deciding not to challenge Dongfang Shence.
• Dongfang Shence looked toward the Central Domain and said the human race of the Northern Demon Domain had finally produced a dragon.

Ye Lin watched the Human Race and its allies gain the upper hand in the Central Domain as his own strength and fortune grew. As the name Blood Baleful drew attention from the Demon Domain’s major races, the Shadow Kill Pavilion asked permission to withdraw.

• The weak races joined the Human Race’s war, honoring their ancestors’ teaching to follow the Human Race and avoid oppression.
• Ye Lin observed that the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance was close to being purged and felt his comprehension, strength, and fortune increase.
• The Demon Domain’s major races began questioning where the Human prodigy Blood Baleful had come from.
• A representative of the Shadow Kill Pavilion told Blood Baleful that the pavilion had never killed a Human prodigy and asked to lead its people away.

Ye Lin let Ethereal and the Shadow Kill Pavilion leave, then continued the purge of the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance alongside the Human Race prodigies. After Wan Feng reported that some enemies had escaped through teleportation arrays, Ye Lin ordered the Human Race to wipe out the myriad races in the affiliated Thousand Cities Alliances.

• Ethereal confirmed her identity to Ye Lin and led the Shadow Kill Pavilion members away.
• Chen Changfeng explained that the Shadow Kill Pavilion accepted abandoned people from many races and had never targeted the Human Race.
• The Human Race prodigies massacred the myriad-race prodigies, while many of the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance's forces escaped through teleportation arrays.
• Wan Feng reported the escapees to Ye Lin, who ordered the Human Race to clear out the myriad races in the affiliated Thousand Cities Alliances.

Ye Lin entered seclusion to stabilize his late True Immortal cultivation and ordered Chen Changfeng to gather information on the Central Land. Meanwhile, Void oversaw the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar as they absorbed the corpses and blood of the myriad races.

• Ye Lin told Chen Changfeng to gather information on the Central Land before he began his seclusion.
• Chen Changfeng accepted the order, and the Human Race prodigies continued to respect Ye Lin as their leader.
• Void directed the Human Race prodigies to fill the Holy Spring with the corpses of the myriad races.
• Void planted the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and placed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar in the spring, where both artifacts absorbed blood and blood baleful aura.
• Void sat down to keep watch over the two artifacts, following Ye Lin's instructions.

Ethereal approached Void as he examined the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, then revealed that she had once belonged to the Human Race. She began recounting her origins to Void and the Human Race cultivators who gathered to listen.

• Void examined the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar when Ethereal approached him.
• Void greeted Ethereal warily, and she assured him she held no deep-seated hatred toward the Human Race.
• Ethereal admitted that she had once been Human Race, confirming a long-standing rumor and leaving Void wondering why she had not helped them.
• Ethereal said she had been born in a small mortal world without cultivation, while Void and several Human Race cultivators listened.

Ethereal recounted the hardships of his childhood, from losing his parents to being betrayed after trying to help three young men. He ended his story barely alive after the city guards beat him and cast him into the wilderness.

• Ethereal described how his father died in the war and his mother was violated and killed by three young men from their village.
• Ethereal buried his mother, left the village, and survived by eating wild grass and drinking dew.
• Ethereal tried to save three young men from a Qi Refining Demon Beast, but they fled and he followed them toward a city.
• The group led the Demon Beast into the city, where it was slain after more than a dozen soldiers died.
• The three young men blamed Ethereal for leading the Demon Beast into the city, and the guards beat him nearly to death before throwing him into the wilderness.

Ethereal recounted how her childhood suffering led her to leave the Human Race, while the Human Race expanded its foothold in the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance. A century later, Ye Lin emerged from seclusion and summoned the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, suggesting Blood Baleful had returned.

• Ethereal explained that her master rescued her as she was dying and brought her to the Starry Sky, where she became a disciple of the Shadow Kill Pavilion.
• Ethereal told Void that she was happy to see him rise with Blood Baleful, then faded away and severed her ties with the Human Race.
• Over the next hundred years, the Human Race took control of the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance, and oppressed Human Race prodigies gathered there for refuge.
• Ye Lin emerged from a century of seclusion as a late-stage True Immortal, with his cultivation stabilized and his providence at its peak.
• Ye Lin summoned the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar, causing sword cultivators across the Ten Thousand Cities Alliance to feel their swords tremble.

After his cultivation and luck surged, Ye Lin learned from Ye Feng that the Void Burial would open in ten years and that he qualified to lead Human Race prodigies inside. Ye Feng invited him to select ten companions and compete with the Southern, Eastern, and Western Continents for the treasures and inheritances within.

• Ye Lin reviewed his improved Fate Rank and greatly increased luck.
• Chen Changfeng announced that Ye Feng had come to see Ye Lin, and Ye Lin welcomed him for tea.
• Ye Feng told Ye Lin that the Void Burial would open in ten years and described it as a treasury of treasures, secret arts, and expert inheritances.
• Ye Feng explained that Ye Lin could lead ten Human Race prodigies into the Void Burial to compete against the Southern, Eastern, and Western Continents.

Ye Feng explained Void Burial and warned Ye Lin that it was a deadly contest where the Human Race needed to choose its strongest talents. Ye Lin arranged preparations and offered one of the Fox Race a slot, leaving Chen Changfeng excited despite the danger.

• Ye Feng told Ye Lin that the four continents would send ten chosen talents each to Heaven Earth City before Void Burial opened in ten years, while Central Continent did not participate because its geniuses would dominate.
• Ye Lin thanked Ye Feng and resolved to visit Central Continent after building his foundation.
• Ye Feng warned Ye Lin that Void Burial was a meat grinder and urged him to select only the strongest Human Race geniuses before departing.
• Ye Lin told Chen Changfeng to inform the others to prepare, and Chen Changfeng hurried to report the matter to the Human Race.
• Ye Lin asked whether the Fox Race had sent geniuses into Void Burial, then offered the Fox Race a slot and warned Chen Changfeng not to let greed or luck outweigh strength.

Ye Lin gave the fox clan a place in the Void Burial and then began comprehending the Law of Karma with the Karma Pearl. News of the opportunity reached the Human Race Alliance, where leaders argued over who should enter and assist Blood Baleful.

• Chen Changfeng excitedly thanked Ye Lin for granting the fox clan a place in the Void Burial, and Ye Lin sent him to prepare.
• Ye Lin decided not to send disciples from the four sects that had followed him, judging the danger too great, and planned to compensate them another way.
• Ye Lin crushed the Karma Pearl in a secret chamber and began comprehending the Law of Karma.
• Chen Changfeng told Void about the Void Burial, and Void informed Wan Feng, who rushed to tell his master.
• The Human Race Alliance convened, and an old red-haired man proposed sending his disciple Lu Feng to aid Blood Baleful.
• A middle-aged man accused the red-haired man of abandoning Blood Baleful a hundred years earlier and now seeking a share of the benefits.

Wan Dang confronted the elders who had refused to help Blood Baleful but now sought to send their disciples to share in the rewards. The elders then called for Blood Baleful’s slot for a member of the Fox Race to be intercepted and given to one of their own.

• The red-haired elder Wang defended his earlier inaction and offered to send his personal disciple to help Blood Baleful.
• The white-browed elder, who had previously opposed aiding Blood Baleful, also offered to send disciples, prompting Wan Dang to glare at him with murderous intent.
• Other faction leaders joined in, each proposing that their disciples be sent to gain experience and help Blood Baleful.
• The elders criticized Blood Baleful for giving a slot to the Fox Race and argued that it should be intercepted for one of their own.