Recaps

Ye Lin used Wu Wang to ambush and kill Wuchen, then asked his three incarnations whether they wanted Wuchen’s powerful body. None of them wanted it, so Ye Lin decided to destroy it.

• Ye Lin had sent Wu Wang into the void to wait for an opening, and Wu Wang ambushed Wuchen and crushed his Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin considered how the foundations and cultivation of Lin Xian, Xiaoyao, and Wu Wang differed.
• Ye Lin asked his three incarnations whether they wanted to take over Wuchen’s body.
• Wu Wang, Lin Xian, and Xiaoyao all refused the body.
• Ye Lin decided to destroy Wuchen’s corpse rather than force an incarnation to use it.

Ye Lin reunited with the nine Human Race prodigies after defeating two supreme prodigies and nine Buddhist prodigies in the Void Burial. He ordered the exhausted group to rest for five hours before continuing, determined to bring them all back safely.

• Wu Wang killed Wuchen with a palm strike, and the True Immortal's corpse fell to the ground.
• Ye Lin withdrew his three clones and saw the nine Human Race prodigies arrive, all alive but several visibly exhausted.
• Wan Feng reported that the enemy group had been dealt with, while Zhao Zilong praised Ye Lin for defeating the powerful opponents.
• Ye Lin wrapped the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and warned that many southern forces seemed to be gathered nearby.
• Ye Lin told the nine prodigies to rest for five hours before they continued through the Void Burial.

Ye Lin led his group deeper into the vast Void Burial while Taiqing and her Human Race prodigies faced an attack by Cang Sheng and the Demon Race prodigy Caged Bird. The chapter ended as Caged Bird charged Taiqing and Cang Sheng prepared to join the battle.

• Ye Lin led the group forward through the Void Burial.
• Cang Sheng demanded that Taiqing and her bloodied Human Race prodigies surrender, while Caged Bird offered the same ultimatum.
• Taiqing rejected their demands and condemned Cang Sheng for joining outsiders against his own people.
• Caged Bird ordered his nine giant beasts to attack as Cang Sheng sent his soldiers against Taiqing's group, which quickly fell behind.
• Caged Bird charged Taiqing, and she met him with her sword as Cang Sheng rose to fight.

Taiqing watched her Human Race juniors sacrifice themselves to kill Demon Race geniuses, leaving her grief-stricken and alone. After the final explosion, she faced the surviving enemies with a cold fury.

• Cang Sheng and another powerful enemy joined forces to overwhelm Taiqing, who began to fall behind.
• A Human Race genius self-destructed to kill a Demon Race genius, prompting Taiqing’s juniors to sacrifice themselves one after another.
• Cang Sheng struck Taiqing while taunting her over her loved ones’ deaths, and she fell helplessly to the ground.
• Taiqing’s last remaining junior disciple charged a Demon Race genius, who fled while his companions kept their distance.
• The final explosion killed Taiqing’s junior disciple, and Taiqing declared that the enemies all deserved to die as the void trembled around her.

Taiqing prepared to enter the demonic Dao after the deaths of those she cared about, prompting Cang Sheng and another figure to move against her. Ye Lin appeared behind her just as she recognized him as her Grandmaster.

• Taiqing unleashed a chilling power and stood ready to fight, having abandoned her efforts to preserve her emotions.
• Cang Sheng realized Taiqing was entering the demonic Dao and warned that the power would eventually destroy her.
• Cang Sheng ordered the two figures in the sky to kill Taiqing before she completed the transformation.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Taiqing and addressed her as she prepared to lose herself.
• Taiqing turned in disbelief and recognized Ye Lin as her Grandmaster.

Ye Lin reunited with Taiqing, his eldest disciple Taiyuan’s daughter, and learned that Little Nine and Little Eight had died protecting her. He vowed to avenge them and confronted Cang Sheng as his fortune formed a nine-clawed golden Dragon behind him.

• Taiqing broke down in Ye Lin’s arms and told him that Little Nine and Little Eight had died protecting her.
• Ye Lin comforted Taiqing, then ordered his nine companions to kill the enemies without leaving anyone alive.
• Ye Lin promised Taiqing he would make the two foes kneel before her and let her decide their fate.
• Cang Sheng mocked Ye Lin’s peak True Immortal cultivation and questioned how he could be Taiqing’s grandmaster.
• Ye Lin approached Cang Sheng, his aura growing as a massive nine-clawed golden Dragon formed from his fortune.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Cang Sheng and Caged Bird with the power of his Luck Golden Dragon after they attacked him. Enraged over what had happened to his disciple’s daughter, he pursued the fleeing pair.

• Cang Sheng and Caged Bird sensed Ye Lin’s growing aura but attacked, believing he was still only at the peak of True Immortal.
• Ye Lin used Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering, and erased their attacks with a golden orb of compressed power.
• The Luck Golden Dragon behind Cang Sheng cried out as Cang Sheng and Caged Bird realized they had badly misjudged Ye Lin and tried to flee.
• Ye Lin declared it was too late and pursued them, furious because his eldest disciple Taiyuan’s daughter had been bullied.

Ye Lin defeated Cang Sheng and Caged Bird, then let Taiqing decide their fate. Taiqing killed Caged Bird and used the forbidden Soul-Suppressing Prison on Cang Sheng, leaving him screaming in agony.

• Ye Lin subdued Cang Sheng and Caged Bird and placed them before Taiqing.
• Taiqing killed Caged Bird with her sword to avenge Little Nine.
• Cang Sheng asked Taiqing for a dignified death, but she invoked the Soul-Suppressing Prison instead.
• The Soul-Suppressing Prison took effect, and Cang Sheng fell to the ground howling and begging to be killed.

Taiqing captured Cang Sheng's Primordial Spirit in a purple jar to suffer the Supreme Dao Sect's forbidden Soul-Suppressing Prison technique, then grieved over her fallen junior brothers and sisters. After Ye Lin urged her to accept death or leave the path, Taiqing composed herself and resumed her cultivation of ruthlessness.

• Cang Sheng's aura vanished, and Taiqing trapped his Primordial Spirit in a halo before sealing him in her purple jar.
• Taiqing used Soul-Suppressing Prison to condemn Cang Sheng's Primordial Spirit to eternal torment.
• Taiqing dropped her sword and collapsed as she mourned her junior brothers and sisters, who had died before her.
• Ye Lin comforted Taiqing and warned that she should abandon the path if she could not accept death.
• Taiqing picked up her sword, regained her composure, and affirmed that she would come to terms with the loss.

Ye Lin learned that Taiqing had escaped the fate of dying beneath the Daluo Sacred Tribulation, though she still faced a solitary path. After Mo Yun and the others returned from battle, Taiqing chose to travel with Ye Lin for a time and told him that her parents had vanished ten thousand years ago.

• Ye Lin checked Taiqing's panel and saw that his intervention had changed her destiny.
• A clash ended in the distance, and Mo Yun and the others returned with injuries, including Mo Yun's missing left arm.
• Ye Lin asked Taiqing whether she would travel with the group or continue alone, and she chose to accompany him for a while.
• As they traveled, Taiqing told Ye Lin that her parents had disappeared after leaving the Xuanhuang Great World and that she did not know whether they were alive.

Ye Lin and his companions crossed the vast Blazing Fire Prairie in search of the Blazing Fire Stele, collecting powerful treasures along the way. After twenty days without seeing another person or the Stele, they sensed an intense heat.

• Ye Lin worried about his youngest disciple, Ye Buqu, but reflected that he valued strength and freedom above emotional bonds.
• Ye Lin learned through Taiqing's panel that they were in the Blazing Fire Prairie and followed Taiqing toward the Blazing Fire Stele.
• The group walked for twenty days without finding the Stele or encountering anyone, though they collected several heavenly treasures.
• Mo Yun remarked on how vast the Void Burial was, and Xiaoyaozi explained that mighty figures, at least Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals, had created it.
• The group sensed a scorching aura.

Ye Lin and his group headed toward the Blazing Fire Stele, a supreme treasure containing the Dao resonance of the great powers of all races. They arrived to find the Demon Domain’s top geniuses gathered around it in four opposing groups, with a major conflict threatening to erupt.

• Ye Lin sensed a scorching aura ahead and identified the Blazing Fire Stele as their destination.
• Ye Lin led his group through the shattered void toward the stele.
• The chapter described the Blazing Fire Stele’s immense value and the inheritance of Dao resonance it held for all beings of the Star River Cosmos.
• The Demon Domain’s top geniuses gathered within sight of the stele but stayed at least three miles away from it.
• The geniuses formed four groups from the Demon Domain’s north, east, south, and west, watching one another as tensions rose.

Dugu Feng faced a dispute over the Northern Region’s claim to space near the Blazing Fire Stele while his region was vastly outnumbered by the Southern Region. The Eastern and Western Regions watched as tensions rose, and the Northern and Southern Regions had yet to reach an agreement.

• Dugu Feng saw that only a little over twenty Northern Region peak prodigies had gathered, while each of the other regions had more than a hundred.
• A black-robed man told Dugu Feng that Void Burial’s random teleportation made it unclear how many Northern Region prodigies had reached Blazing Fire Prairie.
• A peak prodigy proposed dividing the area around the Blazing Fire Stele among the Demon Domain’s four regions, leaving each region to decide who stood closest.
• A Southern Region prodigy objected to the Northern Region receiving an entire section despite its small numbers.
• The black-robed man warned Dugu Feng that the Southern Region had 180 peak prodigies, and Dugu Feng calmly acknowledged the disparity.
• The Eastern and Western Regions watched the confrontation, hoping the Northern and Southern Regions would fight.

Dugu Feng faced the South’s demand to take half of the North’s territory despite the overwhelming disparity between their supreme prodigies. He chose to fight, and the North’s thirty supreme prodigies prepared to stand with him.

• A Southern supreme prodigy proposed dividing half of the North’s territory among the other three regions, provoking outrage among the North’s prodigies.
• Dugu Feng assessed the South’s 137 supreme prodigies against the North’s 30 and feared that fighting would lead to the North’s annihilation.
• The Southern prodigy pressed Dugu Feng for an answer while the South mocked the North and the other regions watched in silence.
• Dugu Feng raised his ink-green sword and declared that cultivators of their generation should not begrudge a battle.
• The thirty supreme prodigies behind Dugu Feng released their powerful auras and prepared to fight.

Dugu Feng confronted the Southern Demon Domain’s prodigies, and Qin Hua of the Dao Advent Sect stepped forward, prompting onlookers to recall the betrayal and death of Dugu Feng’s brother, Gudu Mo, in the previous Void Burial. The chapter ended with the two sides facing off amid the prospect of another continental conflict.

• Dugu Feng’s aggressive stance alarmed the watching prodigies, who retreated in case the two domains began fighting.
• Qin Hua, the Dao Advent Sect Master’s second direct disciple, came forward and recognized Dugu Feng as Gudu Mo’s younger brother.
• The onlookers identified the encounter between Dugu Feng and Qin Hua as a battle of destiny.
• A spectator recounted how Dong Shuo betrayed Gudu Mo and the northern prodigies during the last Void Burial.
• Gudu Mo burned his Primordial Spirit to hold back the southern and western prodigies, but Dong Shuo and the western Buddha Son killed him at the Void Burial’s gates.
• The northern forces later waged war on the Southern Demon Domain in response to Gudu Mo’s death.

Qin Hua and Dugu Feng confronted each other over Gudu Mo’s death, with Dugu Feng demanding vengeance on behalf of himself and the Northern Demon Domain. They moved their duel to the nine heavens, where Qin Hua ordered the Southern prodigies to yield the North’s share of the Blazing Fire Stele.

• The prodigies learned that Dugu Feng was Gudu Mo’s younger brother and that Qin Hua’s senior brother had killed Gudu Mo.
• Qin Hua and Dugu Feng exchanged words about Gudu Mo’s death, and Dugu Feng demanded an explanation written in blood.
• Dugu Feng challenged Qin Hua and flew to the nine heavens, declaring that the North would take its share and kill anyone who tried to seize it.
• Qin Hua agreed to Dugu Feng’s terms and followed him to the nine heavens to avoid fighting near the Blazing Fire Stele’s dangerous Dao rhythms.
• Qin Hua ordered the Southern prodigies to comply, and they did not dare to object.

The prodigies gathered for the Blazing Fire Stele while Dugu Feng faced Qin Hua and Wenxin high above the nine heavens. Dugu Feng prepared to settle the karmic debt as the battle began.

• An eastern prodigy urged everyone to take their positions for the Blazing Fire Stele, and the prodigies sat according to their standing.
• The northern prodigies worried that Dugu Feng’s defeat would sever Northern Demon Domain’s destiny, but the black-cloaked young man told them to focus on cultivation.
• Wenxin revealed himself beside Qin Hua and said that he had come to settle the Myriad Saint Buddhist Sect’s karmic debt with Dugu Feng.
• Qin Hua formed a Golden Spear from a golden Dragon phantom, while Wenxin summoned a Great Buddha.
• Dugu Feng raised his sword and released Sword Qi, declaring that he would settle the karmic debt.

Ye Lin and his companions arrived at the Blazing Fire Stele, where Xiaoyaozi was shaken by the gathering of prodigies and Taiqing went to meet acquaintances. A battle of destiny erupted in the sky, leaving the watching prodigies—especially those from the north—anxiously awaiting its outcome.

• Ye Lin and his companions reached the Blazing Fire Stele and saw a vast gathering of prodigies.
• Xiaoyaozi felt overwhelmed by the powerful prodigies around him and questioned his own standing.
• Taiqing told Ye Lin she was going to meet acquaintances, and he let her go.
• Terrifying auras, Sword Qi, Buddhist light, and dragon roars filled the sky as three figures fought.
• The watching prodigies recognized Buddha Son Wenxin and suspected that Dugu Feng was involved in a repeating battle of destiny.
• The northern prodigies worried about the battle but could only watch, unable to intervene.

Ye Lin went ahead to watch Dugu Feng battle Qin Hua and Wenxin, while his companions headed down to train. Dugu Feng fought back against both opponents, but Wenxin’s Buddha Kingdom in the Palm descended as Qin Hua attacked, leaving Dugu Feng trapped under pressure.

• Ye Lin told his companions to go ahead and flew into the clouds to watch the battle.
• Wan Feng comforted Mo Yun, and the group headed down, knowing they were too weak to join the fight.
• Wenxin praised Dugu Feng, while Qin Hua vowed to kill him the following year; Dugu Feng challenged them to fight.
• Qin Hua attacked Dugu Feng with his spear, and the two exchanged blows without either gaining the upper hand.
• Wenxin summoned Buddha Kingdom in the Palm and brought its golden palm down as Qin Hua pressed his attack, forcing Dugu Feng to defend against both men.

Dugu Feng shattered Qin Hua’s golden palm imprint, but Qin Hua pressed the attack until Ye Lin appeared and challenged him. As Ye Lin and Qin Hua prepared to continue their duel, Dugu Feng faced Wenxin again, leaving the two battles unresolved.

• Dugu Feng broke Qin Hua’s golden palm imprint with a powerful sword strike.
• Qin Hua attacked Dugu Feng with a golden Dragon phantom, but Ye Lin appeared and destroyed it with Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin introduced himself as Blood Baleful and charged Qin Hua with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Dugu Feng moved to fight Wenxin, who accepted the challenge despite Ye Lin’s arrival.
• Qin Hua praised Ye Lin as a worthy opponent, shattered his golden spear, and warned Ye Lin to be careful.

Qin Hua attacked Ye Lin with a bizarre saber that seemed to surpass the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, forcing Ye Lin to take the fight seriously. Ye Lin unleashed Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering, and Qin Hua’s expression changed as the immense Sword Qi descended.

• Qin Hua revealed his unnamed saber and charged at Ye Lin, explaining that it had accompanied him for over ten thousand years and that everyone who saw it had to die by it.
• Qin Hua’s saber clashed with Ye Lin’s Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, and Ye Lin realized the saber was powerful enough to suppress his Supreme Artifact.
• Qin Hua repeatedly targeted Ye Lin’s neck, attacking from behind as his madness and Killing Intent intensified.
• Ye Lin used Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering, merging his nine great phenomena into an immense force that bore down on Qin Hua.
• Qin Hua’s expression changed as he faced Ye Lin’s heaven-spanning Sword Qi.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Qin Hua with lightning Sword Qi and then appeared behind him to stab him through the heart. As Qin Hua questioned Ye Lin’s origins and strange power, the fight ended with Qin Hua gravely wounded.

• Ye Lin struck Qin Hua with the Nine Schools Profound Thunder Sword Art, sending him flying and coughing up blood.
• Ye Lin gathered purple lightning around the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and unleashed a devastating slash at Qin Hua.
• Qin Hua used the Three Skybreaking Forms to gather the power of heaven and earth and dissipate Ye Lin’s lightning Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin appeared behind the exhausted Qin Hua and embedded his blood-red sword in Qin Hua’s heart.
• Qin Hua questioned Ye Lin about his strength, origins, and the power suppressing his immortal power.

Ye Lin rejected Qin Hua’s questions and resumed their fierce battle above the cultivators gathered for Void Burial. The clash continued as those below watched in awe, with no victor yet decided.

• Qin Hua tore himself free from Ye Lin’s Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and demanded to know why he had never heard of Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin said Qin Hua would remain there, refusing to answer his questions.
• Qin Hua challenged Ye Lin to kill him, and Ye Lin agreed before attacking again.
• Ye Lin and Qin Hua traded blows in a battle that sent terrifying shockwaves across the sky.
• The cultivators below reacted to the combat’s overwhelming power and compared themselves unfavorably to the fighters.

The prodigies learned that another powerful figure had joined Dugu Feng in the sky, prompting the Southern and Northern Continents to trade accusations and insults. The confrontation beneath the Blazing Fire Stele remained verbal, while the Eastern and Western Continent prodigies watched.

• A young man in hemp robes noticed a fourth aura in the sky and suggested the Northern Continent had come prepared.
• The Southern Continent prodigies accused the Northern Continent of hiding a prodigy as strong as Dugu Feng.
• The Northern Continent prodigies defended Dugu Feng, saying he had fought the Buddha Son and another opponent alone before their ally appeared.
• The Southern and Northern Continent prodigies traded insults beneath the Blazing Fire Stele, while the Eastern and Western Continent prodigies watched without intervening.

Ye Lin defeated Qin Hua, who chose to disintegrate himself rather than die fighting, while Wenxin also fell to Dugu Feng. Their deaths brought blood rain and a wave of grief across the heavens, leaving the other prodigies stunned.

• Ye Lin defeated Qin Hua, who discarded his saber and accepted death after asking Blood Baleful to seek greater heights.
• Qin Hua disintegrated himself, and Ye Lin put away the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• Wenxin died seated in the void after Dugu Feng inflicted a fatal wound on him.
• Dark clouds, lightning, and crimson rain appeared as heaven and earth seemed to mourn the two fallen prodigies.
• The prodigies below stopped comprehending the Dao's charm and questioned how blood rain could occur without a sovereign of the Way of Heaven.