Recaps

After blood rain marked a death in the battle above the heavens, Ye Lin and Dugu Feng returned to the gathered prodigies. Dugu Feng revealed that Qin Hua and Wenxin had fallen, leaving the crowd stunned.

• A young man with a single horn explained that the blood rain signaled someone had died in the battle above the heavens.
• The blood rain and lightning ended, and Ye Lin and Dugu Feng appeared beneath the clear sky.
• The prodigies recognized Dugu Feng and realized that the unfamiliar man beside him was Blood Baleful.
• Dugu Feng announced that Qin Hua and Wenxin had already fallen.
• The prodigies reacted with shock that the second direct disciples of the Myriad Saint Buddhist Sect and the Dao Advent Sect had perished.

After the Northern Demon Domain won the battle and Qin Hua and Wenxin fell, Ye Lin revealed his identity as a Human Race supreme genius and drew a flood of fortune. His Fortune value surged from 3.5 million to five million and continued to rise.

• The Southern Demon Domain’s young elites accepted Qin Hua’s defeat, while the Northern Demon Domain’s young elites celebrated their victory.
• Ye Lin felt streams of luck force pour into him and declared himself a supreme genius of the Northern Demon Domain.
• Dugu Feng wondered whether Ye Lin was his true name, and the Human Race’s young elites cheered at the emergence of a Human Race genius.
• Ye Lin checked his status panel and saw that his Fortune had climbed to five million, with the value still increasing.

Ye Lin went with Dugu Feng to the Blazing Fire Stele and claimed the seat closest to it without anyone objecting. The Human Race great power’s Dao aura favored Ye Lin, and he began comprehending it as the other prodigies watched and followed suit.

• Dugu Feng invited Ye Lin to visit the Blazing Fire Stele, calling it an opportunity for people like them.
• Ye Lin stepped directly to the seat closest to the Blazing Fire Stele, and the surrounding prodigies did not challenge him.
• Ye Lin manifested his domain beneath the stele, displaying countless Myriad Dao Imprints and causing the void to tremble.
• The Dao aura left by a Human Race great power favored Ye Lin, startling the nearby prodigies.
• Ye Lin closed his eyes and comprehended the Dao aura, engraving more Myriad Dao Imprints into his domain.
• The surrounding prodigies also began comprehending the stele’s Dao aura.

After a hundred years of cultivating before the Blazing Fire Stele, Ye Lin and the other prodigies found that the Dao Rhymes had vanished. Dugu Feng explained that the Void Burial’s second stage, the Fortune Path, would turn the realm into a slaughterhouse where killing determined rank and rewards.

• Several hundred thousand prodigies gathered around the Blazing Fire Stele and released their domains as they cultivated for a hundred years.
• Ye Lin and the other prodigies opened their eyes together when the Dao Rhymes disappeared.
• Ye Lin wondered whether the disappearance signaled a restriction or a change in the trial.
• Dugu Feng told Ye Lin that the first stage had involved comprehending the Dao Rhymes on the three stone steles.
• Dugu Feng explained that the second stage, the Fortune Path, would merge the Void Burial into a vast battleground where prodigies killed one another for rank and rewards.

Dugu Feng explained the trials of Void Burial, including the Fortune Path ranking and the endless Emperor Pass. As Fortune Path opened, Ye Lin urged his companions to leave if they feared the danger, but Mo Yun chose to stay and face the challenge.

• Dugu Feng explained that Fortune Path would rank heavenly geniuses by kills and that Emperor Pass would pit survivors against projections of powerful experts.
• More than a hundred thousand heavenly geniuses left Void Burial after collecting the benefits they could obtain.
• Ye Lin told his companions that the perilous road ahead was theirs to face and that they could leave if they were afraid.
• Mo Yun declared that he would stay, accepting even death rather than retreating from the challenge.

The Fortune Path began, scattering the remaining prodigies to random locations as a ranking list recorded their kills. Ye Lin set out with his mask removed and the Sword Dao of Destruction unleashed, while Mo Yun found himself alone in a vast sea.

• Ye Lin accepted the resolve of the companions who chose to stay behind and fight.
• The Fortune Path began, and Dugu Feng and the others were teleported away from Ye Lin.
• A golden ranking list appeared and recorded Feathered Race—Li Yifei with 1 point, marking a prodigy’s death.
• Ye Lin removed his mask and walked through a forest, with his Sword Dao of Destruction turning trees and grass to ash.
• Mo Yun found himself alone over a boundless sea and released his demonic qi in anger.

Mo Yun hunted Rakshasa across the Boundless Sea and captured him despite his attempt to flee. Rakshasa identified himself as a member of the Asura Clan, but Mo Yun attacked him anyway, saying he was beating up the Asura Clan.

• Mo Yun sensed a hidden opponent in the Void Burial and vanished from the sky above the Boundless Sea.
• Rakshasa relaxed in a small boat, believing no one would find him, until Mo Yun’s demonic qi and towering waves approached.
• Rakshasa tried to escape, but Mo Yun formed a giant hand of demonic qi and pulled him back.
• Rakshasa introduced himself as a member of the Asura Clan and hoped the connection might prevent a fight.
• Mo Yun declared that he was targeting the Asura Clan and punched at Rakshasa, who retreated and warned that they could both suffer if Mo Yun tried to kill him.

Mo Yun revealed that he was human and attacked Rakshasa, who belonged to the Asura Clan, then refused Rakshasa’s offer to end the fight peacefully. They battled fiercely above the sea, and Mo Yun summoned a long blade from the void as the clash continued.

• Mo Yun identified himself as a member of the Human Race and punched Rakshasa into the sea.
• Rakshasa resurfaced and asked Mo Yun to let them part without fighting, but Mo Yun charged him instead.
• Rakshasa activated his Asura True Body and attacked Mo Yun with two blood-red blades.
• Mo Yun and Rakshasa traded blows above the sea, suffering serious wounds as the water churned and space cracked.
• Mo Yun summoned a long blade wrapped in demonic qi from the depths of the void.

Mo Yun used his low-grade Supreme artifact to defeat and kill Rakshasa, then left the Endless Sea. Meanwhile, Ye Lin questioned how Dragon God had earned eight points so quickly as he continued through a forest without appearing on the rankings.

• Mo Yun revealed that his Demon Blade was a low-grade Supreme artifact and overwhelmed Rakshasa with it.
• Mo Yun used Demonization, First Turn Grinding Wheel to cleave Rakshasa in two.
• Mo Yun checked the golden ranking list, saw himself in one hundred and thirty-seventh place, and departed the Endless Sea.
• Ye Lin saw that Dragon God of the Celestial God Clan led the list with eight points and suspected he had used an underhanded trick.
• Ye Lin continued through the forest on foot to avoid attracting attention.

Ye Lin sensed a fierce battle and rushed toward it, arriving as a burly man defeated a young prodigy. The burly man was about to finish his opponent when he recognized Ye Lin standing beyond the wind and sand.

• Ye Lin detected powerful aura fluctuations and hurried toward the fighting prodigies.
• The young man challenged the burly man, who taunted him and claimed he had defeated him three thousand years earlier.
• The young man unleashed his ultimate Sublimation punch, but the burly man’s wind and sand overwhelmed him and left him barely alive.
• The burly man prepared to deliver the final blow, then noticed Ye Lin in his blood-red robes and white cloth.

Ye Lin killed a burly peak prodigy and the wounded youth for points, then the story shifted to a canyon where black-robed men had captured the beast race’s last six prodigies. It left the captives bound before a powerful figure as his subordinate reported their capture.

• The burly man recognized Ye Lin and tried to flee, but Ye Lin seized him and crushed him to death.
• Ye Lin killed the wounded youth, then wondered how the two had earned their rankings despite having only two points.
• In a vast canyon, a black-robed subordinate reported that his group had wiped out the beast race’s prodigies and captured its final six.
• The six wounded beast race prodigies knelt bound before the peerless figure on the high platform.

A beautiful black-robed woman slaughtered six Orc Race prodigies to feed her divine art. She then turned to her followers and asked them to help complete it.

• The woman mocked the Orc Race and declared that its members did not deserve to live.
• She used pink petals to drain the flesh and blood from six Orc Race prodigies, leaving only skeletons.
• The woman said the meal was delicious but insufficient and asked the black-robed men to help finish her divine art.
• One black-robed man crawled to her feet and reached out to hold her foot.

Mei Jiaojiao reached first place on the golden ranking after spending a day with her black-robed followers. Ye Lin found a plain where more than a dozen heavenly geniuses had gathered, while a confrontation between two sects was about to begin.

• Mei Jiaojiao dominated her black-robed followers, then saw her name at the top of the ranking with fifteen points.
• Mei Jiaojiao left the canyon, satisfied with her first-place position.
• After searching day and night for a target, Ye Lin found a plain where more than a dozen heavenly geniuses faced off.
• Ye Lin wondered how Mei Jiaojiao had risen from outside the top hundred to first place so quickly.
• A man in white asked a woman in a white dress whether she intended to settle the grudge between their sects, as nine women stood behind her.

The Xiaoyao Sect and Sword Sect fought a deadly battle while hidden observers gathered, hoping to profit from the clash. Ye Lin secretly set up formations around the area as an ancient giant dragon waited to capture the onlookers.

• A young man from the Xiaoyao Sect mocked the Sword Sect women, and the two groups charged into a lethal sword fight.
• The fierce battle drew more than a dozen powerful observers from other regions, who hid nearby and watched.
• An ancient giant dragon remained concealed behind the observers, waiting to gather them all at the right moment.
• Ye Lin watched from deeper in hiding and began placing treasures and immortal stones to set up formations around the area.
• A group of onlookers recognized the feud between Xiaoyao Sect and Sword Sect and hoped both sides would be badly wounded so they could claim the spoils.

The chapter explains the feud between the Xiaoyao Sect and the Sword Sect, then follows Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe fighting in the Void Burial. Gu Xinghe grows wary of unseen observers and orders his junior brothers to retreat.

• A heavenly prodigy explained that the Xiaoyao Sword Sect split after its last Taiyi Mystic Immortal died, dividing the Xiaoyao Sword Art between the two sects.
• Gu Xinghe demanded that the wounded Gu Tianyi kneel, but she healed her shoulder and charged at him again.
• Gu Xinghe worried that hidden heavenly prodigies were waiting to ambush them after their fight.
• Gu Xinghe drove Gu Tianyi back and shouted for his junior brothers to withdraw.

Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe faced a sudden ambush while they and their companions were already weakened from battle. Watching from the clouds, Ye Lin placed a stone on the Yin-Yang Chessboard, unleashing a tremendous boom that halted the fighting.

• The young men fled, prompting more than a dozen hidden cultivators to reveal themselves and surround Gu Tianyi, Gu Xinghe, and their companions.
• Gu Tianyi assessed that the attackers included three top-tier heavenly geniuses, while he and Gu Xinghe were weakened and outnumbered.
• A young man charged with a massive sword, and the others joined the attack, grievously wounding the disciples as Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe struggled to fight back.
• Ye Lin watched from the distant clouds and set out his Yin-Yang Chessboard, a lower-grade immortal-tier supreme treasure that also served as a Formation Disk.
• Ye Lin placed a black stone on the chessboard, causing a tremendous boom that stopped the combatants in their tracks.

Ye Lin sealed the prodigies inside a formation and confronted them, rejecting their offers of treasure in exchange for their lives. The trapped cultivators prepared to resist as Ye Lin made clear he intended to kill them.

• Ye Lin placed the final black stone on the chessboard, darkening the sky and sealing space around the prodigies.
• The trapped prodigies and Gu Xinghe and Gu Tianyi wondered who had created the formation.
• Ye Lin approached the group, shocking the prodigies when they recognized him.
• Several prodigies offered Ye Lin their Spatial Rings and treasures if he would let them go.
• Ye Lin said their belongings would be his after he killed them and unleashed a suffocating pressure.
• One prodigy snarled that their numbers gave them a chance against Ye Lin.

Ye Lin effortlessly killed a True Immortal prodigy and trapped the remaining cultivators in his domain. He suppressed their attempt to break free, leaving them overwhelmed by the power of his domain and Dao imprints.

• Ye Lin waved his palm, turning the charging young man to ash and leaving only his skeleton kneeling before him.
• The surviving prodigies stared at Ye Lin in fear after seeing how easily he had killed their companion.
• Ye Lin announced that he had come to send them on their way, then drew everyone into a blood-red domain.
• The prodigies released their domains together and tried to break Ye Lin's domain by force.
• Ye Lin invoked his domain's power and suppressed them, using a domain strengthened by his cultivation of Luck and mastery of more than two thousand eight hundred Dao imprints.

Ye Lin revealed a domain empowered by more than 2,800 Myriad Dao Imprints, leaving the gathered prodigies terrified by the gap in their strength. The prodigies urged one another to hold the line, but Ye Lin’s domain remained overwhelmingly superior.

• Ye Lin explained that prodigies generally avoided deploying their domains because doing so exposed their Myriad Dao Imprints and could reveal an opponent’s advantage.
• Ye Lin used his domain, strengthened by fortune and more than 2,800 Myriad Dao Imprints, against the prodigies.
• One prodigy panicked upon learning how many Myriad Dao Imprints Ye Lin possessed.
• The prodigies questioned how Ye Lin’s domain could be so much stronger than theirs and called on one another to hold the line.

Ye Lin overwhelmed a group of peak True Immortal prodigies, including five supreme prodigies, and revealed that he had been holding back most of his strength. The chapter ended as more than 2,800 pillars of Dao intent and a destructive dark-purple river descended upon them.

• Ye Lin pressed the gathered prodigies down with his domain, and they struggled to resist his overwhelming power.
• The prodigies realized they could not match Ye Lin, while Gu Tianyi judged him stronger than Dugu Feng.
• Ye Lin acknowledged the strain of facing so many opponents and said their weakness had led them to this fate.
• Ye Lin unleashed more than 2,800 pillars of Dao intent and transformed his domain power into a dark-purple river.
• The prodigies despaired as Ye Lin's full attack descended, realizing he had not used his full strength before.

As Dao Rhymes erased the geniuses one by one, Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe reunited the upper and lower halves of the Xiaoyao Sword Art. Their newly formed Sword Qi challenged Ye Lin, who answered with a devastating lightning sword.

• The geniuses succumbed to the Dao Rhymes and vanished until only Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe remained.
• Gu Xinghe asked Gu Tianyi to join him in restoring the complete Xiaoyao Sword Art, and she agreed.
• Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe combined their Sword Qi and brought the true Xiaoyao Sword Art back into the world.
• Ye Lin sensed their Sword Qi wearing away his Dao Rhymes and summoned the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Sword Art.
• Gu Tianyi and Gu Xingchen called out that they would measure heaven and earth with their swords.

Ye Lin defeated Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe, then returned to find himself first on the rankings with thirty-eight points. With seven days left in the second stage, he left to continue hunting while another woman confronted a black-robed woman at a cliff.

• Ye Lin overwhelmed Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe with his supreme thunderbolt sword, shattering their Sword Qi.
• Gu Tianyi and Gu Xinghe shared a calm smile before lightning swallowed them, and Ye Lin bid them farewell.
• Ye Lin returned from his domain and saw that he ranked first with thirty-eight points after three days of the second stage.
• Ye Lin reflected on the prodigies who had died and the stronger contestants still remaining, then left.
• A woman standing above a cliff told the black-robed woman below that she would send her back to heaven and earth.

Su Qingyu confronted Mei Jiaojiao and attacked her with her Mystic Spirit True Body. Mei Jiaojiao blocked the saber and prepared to fight back, leaving their battle underway.

• Mei Jiaojiao taunted Su Qingyu about taking her Qinglang, but Su Qingyu declared she would sacrifice the demoness to Heaven.
• Su Qingyu unleashed golden light and sent a sacred lotus toward Mei Jiaojiao, who evaded the attack.
• Su Qingyu summoned her Mystic Spirit True Body, which swung a golden saber at Mei Jiaojiao.
• Mei Jiaojiao blocked the saber with a river of pink petals, changed into a purple gown, and challenged Su Qingyu to continue fighting.

Mei Jiaojiao used a rain technique to destroy Su Qingyu’s Mystic Spirit True Body, then taunted her about the technique’s origins. Su Qingyu drew a sword imbued with the Dao of Light and demanded an explanation.

• Mei Jiaojiao and Su Qingyu fought in the void, and Su Qingyu accused Mei Jiaojiao of betraying their bond by seducing her husband.
• Mei Jiaojiao said their bond was already broken and claimed she would defeat Su Qingyu’s Mystic Spirit True Body herself.
• Mei Jiaojiao summoned corrosive rain that pierced Su Qingyu’s shield and riddled the Mystic Spirit True Body with holes until it collapsed.
• Mei Jiaojiao mocked Su Qingyu for not understanding how the rain technique had come to be.
• Su Qingyu summoned a golden sword radiating the Dao of Light and demanded that Mei Jiaojiao explain.

Mei Jiaojiao confronted Su Qingyu, revealing that she had studied her father's bones to learn a technique and resented the favoritism Su Qingyu had received. Mei Jiaojiao unleashed a sinister illusion that preyed on Su Qingyu's longing for her husband, while Su Qingyu faced her with the Holy Light Meteor Sword.

• Mei Jiaojiao recognized the Holy Light Meteor Sword and accused Su Qingyu's father of favoring her.
• Mei Jiaojiao said she had skinned her father and studied his bones to comprehend a technique, and she lamented that he had given Su Qingyu the sword and other gifts.
• Su Qingyu condemned Mei Jiaojiao for betraying her master, stealing another's husband, and killing fellow disciples.
• Mei Jiaojiao summoned a black lotus and cast Flowers Fall, Three Thousand Mortal Realms, plunging the surrounding world into darkness.
• Su Qingyu drove back the darkness with golden light as Mei Jiaojiao used drifting petals and visions of Su Qingyu's husband to tempt her to close her eyes.