Recaps

Ye Lin and his companions arrived at the front-line battlefield, where Li Longevity welcomed them with a crushing display of pressure. Ye Lin resisted him and recognized his attempt to seize Ye Lin’s fortune, leaving the two wary rivals walking together.

• Li Longevity approached Ye Lin and the others while unleashing his overwhelming aura, forcing most of them to retreat.
• Ye Lin stepped forward and absorbed Li Longevity’s pressure, shielding the people behind him despite being injured.
• Ye Lin realized Li Longevity was trying to suppress him and claim his fortune, though Li Longevity dared not kill him.
• Li Longevity laughed, stepped aside, and invited Ye Lin to proceed; Ye Lin agreed and walked beside him while their companions watched angrily.

Ye Lin blocked Li Changsheng’s attempt to intimidate the prodigies gathered at the defensive line. Li Changsheng explained that the line kept powerful outsiders from bringing disaster to the Demon Domain, though their backing by Golden Immortal factions had trapped both sides in a stalemate.

• Li Changsheng tried to make the prodigies submit by releasing his pressure and targeting Ye Lin, but Ye Lin blocked his effort.
• The prodigies recognized Li Changsheng’s strength and endured his provocation, growing more resentful of him.
• Li Changsheng told Ye Lin that the outsiders had attacked them for years and had increased their raids from once a month to once every half month.
• Li Changsheng explained that the defensive line trapped the outsiders to prevent them from wreaking havoc across the Demon Domain.
• Li Changsheng said both sides were locked in a stalemate because the outsiders were backed by Golden Immortal factions and could not be punished without provoking their patrons.

Li Longevity brought Ye Lin to confront Luo Chen and the Stowaways, framing Ye Lin as their chief enemy while revealing their True Immortal Battlefield had collapsed. Luo Chen offered to abandon the great age and leave the Demon Domain, but Li Longevity gave no answer, glancing toward Ye Lin.

• Li Longevity pointed out the Stowaways' position and said they were about to counterattack.
• Luo Chen warned Li Longevity against approaching, and Li Longevity introduced him to Ye Lin as the Stowaways' leader.
• Li Longevity announced Ye Lin had ended the Stowaways' True Immortal Battlefield and walked the invincible path, making Ye Lin a target in their eyes.
• Luo Chen appeared before Ye Lin, judged him unimpressive, and left Ye Lin wary of his overwhelming power.
• Luo Chen asked Li Longevity to let the Stowaways leave the Demon Domain, and Li Longevity smiled and glanced toward Ye Lin.

Ye Lin rejected Li Longevity’s invitation and recognized that their group could not challenge him because of the strength gap. After Li Longevity left, Ye Lin’s companions discussed joining forces with Luo Chen, but Ye Lin warned them against cooperating with Stowaways.

• Li Longevity taunted Luo Chen and offered him self-destruction as his only way out, but Luo Chen dismissed him and left.
• Li Longevity told Ye Lin that he expected Ye Lin’s help to eventually kill his enemies, while Ye Lin privately vowed to kill Li Longevity once he grew stronger.
• Ye Lin refused Li Longevity’s invitation to visit his stronghold, and Li Longevity warned him to stay out of the formation before departing.
• Li Xiaoyao complained that Ye Lin had stopped him from attacking Li Longevity, and Dugu Feng said Li Longevity was not simple.
• Long Aotian suggested that they join forces with Luo Chen to kill Li Longevity, but Ye Lin warned that they could not collude with Stowaways.

Ye Lin and his newly ascended allies struggled to find their footing among the powerful factions in the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal battlefield. When Luo Chen abruptly returned with over a hundred cultivators and attacked Li Changsheng, Ye Lin suspected something was wrong and led his group away to watch from a distance.

• Ye Lin urged his allies not to despair and said they needed to make plans rather than confront stronger cultivators directly.
• Luo Chen returned with over a hundred armed figures and challenged Li Changsheng to fight.
• Luo Chen and Li Changsheng clashed, unleashing powerful battle waves and laws across the starry sky.
• Dugu Feng and Ye Lin sensed that the sudden battle was suspicious, so Ye Lin led his group farther away.
• Ye Lin's group watched as the battle grew fiercer and reflected on the gap between their strength and that of the late-stage and peak cultivators.

Ye Lin recognized that Li Changsheng had maneuvered him into a trap where either choice could damage his standing, as four Stowaways attacked a crucial formation. He intervened to bind them with the Lock of Void and threatened to kill them if they did not leave.

• Four figures used strange cone-shaped objects to bombard the formation until cracks appeared in its black barrier.
• Ye Lin realized that letting the Stowaways escape or attacking them could both give Li Changsheng a chance to undermine him.
• Dugu Feng suspected Li Changsheng had colluded with the Stowaways and worried over how Ye Lin should respond.
• Ye Lin sent golden chains through space with the Lock of Void and bound all four attackers.
• Ye Lin warned the bound men to leave or face death, even if he had to exhaust all his fortune.

Ye Lin established a base on a lifeless continent after driving off four cultivators with a show of force. His followers discussed their growing numbers and began to suspect that Li Changsheng had colluded with the Stowaways, leaving their next move uncertain.

• Ye Lin used chains to frighten off four late-stage Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals and told his people to make the continent their base.
• Ye Lin's followers rapidly formed a lifeless continent and gathered in its great hall, where Ye Lin took command.
• Ye Lin told the gathering that his people would not help those who had rejected them, and his followers argued that their growing numbers could overcome their cultivation disadvantage.
• One follower suggested that Li Changsheng and the others might have colluded with the Stowaways, and the group cited the recent battle and the neglected formation as evidence.

Ye Lin decided that his group would stop following Li Changsheng’s plans and focus on growing stronger across the Demon Domain. They agreed to reunite in ten thousand years, leaving Li Changsheng to deal with the Stowaways.

• Dugu Feng asked what the group should do given that they lacked the strength to fight the Stowaways.
• Ye Lin said they should raise their strength and leave the Stowaways to Li Changsheng.
• Ye Lin reasoned that he could avoid Li Changsheng’s traps by stepping away from the situation and pursuing opportunities elsewhere.
• The group agreed to go their separate ways and meet again in ten thousand years.
• Ye Lin wished everyone well as they prepared to depart.

After leaving the Demon Domain gathering, Ye Lin took Li Xiaoyao to explore the region, while Li Changsheng’s faction turned against him for abandoning the battlefield. Li Changsheng then ordered his people to release the Stowaways, leaving the defensive line in jeopardy.

• Dugu Feng left the hall with his wooden sword, saying he would see everyone in ten thousand years.
• Ye Lin left with Li Xiaoyao to explore the Demon Domain.
• The battle in the Starry Sky ended without anyone suffering serious injuries.
• At the War God Hall, Li Changsheng’s followers condemned Ye Lin for leaving and feared the defensive line would eventually fall.
• Li Changsheng said Ye Lin had escaped his trap and considered killing him now that he was gone.
• Li Changsheng ordered his people to stop resisting and release the Stowaways.

Li Changsheng persuaded the gathered prodigies to stop defending the Demon Domain against the Stowaways, using their anger over Ye Lin’s departure to justify abandoning the battlefield. Yun Feng knew Ye Lin had been right to leave but stayed silent as the prodigies rallied behind Li Changsheng.

• Li Changsheng argued that the prodigies should release the Stowaways rather than keep risking their lives to contain them.
• The prodigies complained that they had sacrificed years of opportunities defending the Demon Domain without recognition and declared they would stop fighting.
• Li Changsheng secretly approved of how his words had turned the prodigies against continuing their duty.
• Yun Feng knew Ye Lin had come to help after breaking through and had been justified in leaving, but feared speaking up against Li Changsheng.

Luo Chen planned to seize territory across the Demon Domain once the grand formation broke, while Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao reached a radiant continent in the Northern Demon Domain. They prepared to enter and investigate the Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal cultivators there.

• Luo Chen learned that Ye Lin had left and that living beings were steadily escaping War God Hall as its grand formation weakened.
• Luo Chen ordered his followers to reclaim territory across the Demon Domain and secretly vowed to kill Li Changsheng.
• Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao traveled through the Northern Demon Domain without finding any inhabitants.
• Ye Lin spotted a vast continent surrounded by rosy radiance and sensed Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal cultivators within it.
• Li Xiaoyao suggested entering the continent, and Ye Lin agreed.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao arrived on a mysterious continent with both an Immortal World and a mortal realm, and Ye Lin used Li Xiaoyao’s fate panel to locate a cave containing a rare Boundless Art. At the waterfall near the cave, they witnessed Xiang Wanyi being captured by a young man seeking her family’s incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.

• Ye Lin broke through the continent’s protective barrier and realized the land had an Immortal World above a mortal realm.
• Ye Lin inspected Li Xiaoyao’s fate panel and learned that he would soon find a cave containing the low-grade Boundless Art Three Heaven-Opening Forms.
• Ye Lin brought Li Xiaoyao to the cave’s location behind a waterfall, then hid when he heard someone approaching.
• Xiang Wanyi stumbled beneath the waterfall while fleeing a young man and his two guards.
• The young man had the guards seize Xiang Wanyi and seal her meridians, intending to trade her for her family’s incomplete volume of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao intervened when Shangguan Su’s men kidnapped Xiang Wanyi, and Li Xiaoyao killed the men and Shangguan Su. Ye Lin began questioning the frightened Xiang Wanyi about the fragment of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.

• Ye Lin arrived with Li Xiaoyao after overhearing that Xiang Wanyi’s kidnappers had a fragment of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.
• Shangguan Su ordered his two burly men to attack Li Xiaoyao, but Li Xiaoyao turned them into yellow sand with a wave of his hand.
• Li Xiaoyao grabbed Shangguan Su and reduced him to yellow sand despite his threats about his Heavenly Immortal father and the Shangguan Family.
• Xiang Wanyi curled up in fear, and Ye Lin crouched beside her to ask her something.
• Xiang Wanyi tentatively told Ye Lin that she was not with Shangguan Su’s group.

Ye Lin questioned Xiang Wanyi about the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and learned that the Shangguan Family had besieged her home to seize the Xiang Clan's secret technique. He offered to help save her family in exchange for the fragment and pressed her to lead him there.

• Ye Lin threatened Xiang Wanyi with Soul Search until she revealed that the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment was her family's secret and was held by her grandfather.
• Xiang Wanyi explained that the Shangguan Family had surrounded her home and demanded the technique, then targeted her after her grandfather refused.
• Ye Lin asked Xiang Wanyi to show him the way home, but she claimed she did not know where it was.
• Ye Lin offered to destroy the Shangguan Family and save her relatives in exchange for the fragment, urging Xiang Wanyi to take him to her home.

Ye Lin uncovered a hidden cave and found a lingering will belonging to a former Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal. The old man offered Ye Lin a Boundless Method in exchange for completing a task, but had not yet revealed what it was.

• Xiang Wanyi agreed to take Ye Lin to the cave containing the fragment of One Breath Becomes Three Purities.
• Ye Lin severed the waterfall and entered the cave behind it.
• Ye Lin broke through a wall and found a stone statue, then placed his palm against it and entered a vision.
• Ye Lin met the old man's lingering will, who offered him a Boundless Method if he agreed to do one thing for him.
• Ye Lin asked the old man to explain the condition.

Ye Lin learned that the old man’s wife had been murdered by Dongfang Shengxu and Ji Xingchen of the Blazing Sun Heaven Sect, prompting the old man to seek revenge and leave behind his Boundless Method. Ye Lin agreed to destroy the sect and bring the old man his enemies’ heads, leaving the old man hopeful that he might live to see his vengeance fulfilled.

• The old man asked Ye Lin to kill Dongfang Shengxu and Ji Xingchen and, if possible, destroy the Blazing Sun Heaven Sect.
• The old man explained that Dongfang Shengxu and Ji Xingchen had conspired to murder his wife.
• The old man said he had sought revenge but was defeated and severely wounded by three Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals of the Blazing Sun Heaven Sect.
• Ye Lin agreed to destroy the Blazing Sun Heaven Sect and bring the old man his enemies’ heads.
• The old man excitedly accepted Ye Lin’s promise.

Ye Lin received the Three Heaven-Opening Forms from the remnant consciousness of an old man and promised to avenge him by killing the Blazing Sun Heaven Sect. He shared the art with Li Xiaoyao, then left the cave and ordered Xiang Wanyi to take them to her home.

• The old man gave Ye Lin the Three Heaven-Opening Forms and warned him that the Blazing Sun Heaven Sect had three Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals, including one at the mid stage.
• Ye Lin promised to bring the heads of everyone in the Blazing Sun Heaven Sect within three months, then left the cave.
• Ye Lin transmitted a copy of the Three Heaven-Opening Forms to Li Xiaoyao and said the cave held nothing else of value.
• Ye Lin found Xiang Wanyi waiting outside and ordered her to take them home, warning her not to play tricks.
• Xiang Wanyi trembled and promised she would not lie or play tricks.

Xiang Cheng's clan faced a siege by the Shangguan Family and three Heavenly Immortal experts, who demanded the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment while holding Xiang Wanyi. Xiang Cheng refused to hand it over without seeing his granddaughter, leaving the clan trapped as he recalled why he had guarded the fragment for hundreds of thousands of years.

• The Shangguan Family Head demanded that Xiang Cheng surrender the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and threatened to kill his family.
• Xiang Cheng refused to give up the fragment until he saw Xiang Wanyi, while the Shangguan Family Head claimed his grandson would bring her back.
• Spectators discussed how the Shangguan Family's alliance with the Blazing Fire Sect had left the Xiang Clan outmatched.
• The Xiang Clan Head worried that Shangguan Su might harm Wanyi, but Xiang Cheng said they could only stall against the three Heavenly Immortal experts.
• Xiang Cheng regretted involving his family in protecting the fragment and remembered the mysterious person's promise that its future claimant would grant the clan one request.

The Xiang Clan faced destruction as the Shangguan Family demanded the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, while Xiang Cheng refused to surrender it without seeing Xiang Wanyi. Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao accompanied Xiang Wanyi toward her home, where her family awaited her in danger.

• Xiang Cheng regretted accepting a promise involving the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment after its existence drew the Shangguan Family, the Blazing Fire Sect, and another mysterious force.
• Xiang Cheng’s son declared he would rather die than abandon his family, and Xiang Cheng’s granddaughter’s elder sister prayed that Xiang Wanyi would stay away and escape.
• The Shangguan Family’s leader demanded the fragment, but Xiang Cheng refused to hand it over until he saw Xiang Wanyi and threatened to take his opponent down with him.
• The Shangguan Family’s leader held back, wary of Xiang Cheng and unwilling to risk his own life.
• Ye Lin asked Xiang Wanyi how much farther they had to travel, while he and Li Xiaoyao followed her toward her home.

Ye Lin investigated why Xiang Wanyi was lost and discovered that her cultivation had risen automatically throughout her life, despite her never cultivating. The chapter ended with Xiang Wanyi realizing she was unharmed after Ye Lin examined her memories.

• Xiang Wanyi admitted she was lost after leading Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao through increasingly remote places.
• Ye Lin told Xiang Wanyi to close her eyes and used Soul Search to examine her memories, while she begged him not to make her an idiot.
• Ye Lin learned that Xiang Wanyi had never cultivated, yet her cultivation and understanding of methods had risen automatically since childhood.
• Xiang Wanyi touched her head in surprise after Ye Lin withdrew his hand and saw that she was fine.

After discovering that Xiang Wanyi was protected by the Great Dao and destined for Transcendence, Ye Lin realized how extraordinary and dangerous her status was. He took her with him as he and Li Xiaoyao left to bring her home.

• Xiang Wanyi thanked Ye Lin and clung to his leg after he showed her mercy.
• Ye Lin inspected Xiang Wanyi's panel and learned of her Transcendence Fate Rank, powerful traits, and Great Dao protection.
• Ye Lin concluded that the Great Dao's protection made Xiang Wanyi nearly impossible to kill and made him fear that any harm to her could bring disaster upon him.
• Ye Lin told Xiang Wanyi that he had found her home and warned her to behave.
• Ye Lin took Xiang Wanyi and Li Xiaoyao through a shattered void, carefully carrying Xiang Wanyi.

Ye Lin learned that he was in the Anlan Great World and headed for White Cloud City, Xiang Wanyi’s hometown. There, Xiang Cheng used the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment to force the Shangguan elder to let his family leave, but he stayed behind.

• Ye Lin absorbed Xiang Wanyi’s memories and learned he was in Yu Commandery of the Upper Heaven Domain, bound for White Cloud City.
• The Shangguan elder learned that Shangguan Su’s life plaque had shattered and threatened to wipe out the Xiang Clan.
• Xiang Cheng laughed at Shangguan Su’s death, then revealed the genuine One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment and threatened to destroy it unless his family was allowed to leave.
• The Shangguan elder agreed to let the Xiang family go because destroying the fragment would bring disaster on him and the Shangguan Family.
• Xiang Cheng told his descendants to seek Windless Venerable in Heavenly Water Commandery and warned them not to seek revenge for him.

Xiang Cheng tried to protect his family from the old man encircling White Cloud City, but Xiang Wanyi returned with Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao. After Ye Lin recognized the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment, the old man ordered his men to attack the newcomers, and Xiang Cheng intervened.

• Xiang Cheng ordered his descendants to leave, then threw a middle-aged man away when he refused.
• Xiang Wanyi returned to Xiang Cheng despite his order to flee.
• The old man encircled White Cloud City and threatened Xiang Cheng over the item in his hand.
• Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao arrived, and Ye Lin recognized the item as the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment.
• Xiang Wanyi told Xiang Cheng that Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao had saved her.
• The old man ordered his men to kill Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao, and Xiang Cheng roared in their defense.

Ye Lin had Li Xiaoyao kill the Blazing Fire Sect’s attackers, then pressed Xiang Cheng to hand over the One Breath Becomes Three Purities Fragment. Xiang Cheng invited Ye Lin into the residence to talk, while Xiang Wanyi reunited with her family outside.

• Ye Lin ordered Li Xiaoyao to kill everyone in the sky, and Li Xiaoyao blasted the attackers into blood mist.
• The survivors mistook Li Xiaoyao for a True Immortal, and Xiang Cheng was shocked by his strength.
• Ye Lin asked Xiang Cheng to give him the item, and Xiang Cheng invited Ye Lin into the hall for a talk.
• The Xiang Clan members gathered around Xiang Wanyi and asked how she had met such a powerful expert.
• Xiang Wanyi said the expert had appeared when she was in danger and had killed Shangguan Su.
• The injured middle-aged man approached Xiang Wanyi and expressed relief that she had returned safely.

Ye Lin took the dangerous scroll from Xiang Cheng and learned that a dying, black-robed stranger had entrusted it to him hundreds of thousands of years ago. Ye Lin then asked where the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect was so he could fulfill his promise to destroy it.

• Xiang Cheng gave Ye Lin the scroll and explained that a mysterious black-robed man had entrusted it to him hundreds of thousands of years earlier.
• Xiang Cheng warned Ye Lin that a powerful figure had taken an interest in the scroll, but Ye Lin dismissed the danger.
• Ye Lin asked Xiang Cheng where the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect was.
• Xiang Cheng said the Blazing Fire Heaven Sect was one of the five foremost powers of the Upper Heaven Domain and asked why Ye Lin sought it.