Recaps

Yang Tian offered Yan Yu four precious black-and-white stones in exchange for help locating someone he intended to kill. Yan Yu accepted and ordered the Yin-Yang Sacred Land to search within the Heavenly Capital Region, while Yang Tian went to wait at Hill Mountain.

• Yang Tian showed Yan Yu a black-and-white stone and asked him to help find a person.
• Yan Yu initially refused to involve the Yin-Yang Sacred Land, despite his interest in the stone.
• Yang Tian offered more stones, and Yan Yu accepted all four after Yang Tian said the target was his beloved, kin, and flesh-and-blood brother.
• Yan Yu promised to mobilize the Yin-Yang Sacred Land to search the Heavenly Capital Region and warned that its influence was weaker beyond it.
• Yang Tian told Yan Yu to do his utmost and was escorted to Hill Mountain to wait.

After Yang Tian left, Yan Yu ordered a public search for Ye Lin while secretly investigating his identity so he could decide whether to protect himself. The Yin-Yang Sacred Land’s agents quickly spread throughout the Heavenly Capital Region in search of Ye Lin.

• Yan Yu reflected on how he had survived three great eras by keeping a low profile and avoiding worldly affairs.
• Yan Yu summoned two subordinates and ordered them to search the Heavenly Capital Region for Ye Lin without alerting him, promising a handsome reward for information.
• Yan Yu also ordered a secret investigation into Ye Lin’s identity, including inquiries through the Sacred Land’s outposts in the Starry Sky.
• Yan Yu admitted that the public search was meant to satisfy Yang Tian, while the secret investigation would let him cut his losses if Ye Lin proved dangerous.
• Within half an hour, Yin-Yang Sacred Land disciples had spread throughout the Heavenly Capital Region to search for Ye Lin.

Yang Tian arranged a search for Ye Lin and moved to seal off the Anlan Great World, while Ye Lin brought Li Xiaoyao to the Heavenly Capital Region to seek the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers. Their plans were interrupted when a chubby stranger confronted Ye Lin and led him away.

• Yang Tian admired the Yin-Yang Sacred Land and waited for his five searchers to find Ye Lin.
• Yang Tian realized Ye Lin might leave the Anlan Great World and contacted his backer to seal the entire world.
• Ye Lin brought Li Xiaoyao to the Heavenly Capital Region, where the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers were expected to appear in half a year.
• Ye Lin worried that the artifact's arrival might draw the attention of the remaining Stowaways.
• A chubby little fat man confronted Ye Lin, ordered him to come along, and led Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao away from the inn.

Wang Tian brought Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao to his manor after recognizing Ye Lin as the person the Yin-Yang Sacred Land was searching for. Ye Lin learned that the Sacred Land’s pursuers were stopped outside the city, but he still did not know why they wanted him.

• Tavern diners whispered about Wang Tian’s powerful Wang Family connections, and he silenced them with a threat.
• Wang Tian beckoned Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao to follow him through the alleys to a manor.
• Wang Tian introduced himself and asked Ye Lin why the Yin-Yang Sacred Land might be searching for him.
• Wang Tian manifested a phantom image of Ye Lin, and Ye Lin confirmed that it was him.
• Wang Tian told Ye Lin that the Sacred Land’s people were stopped outside the city and asked whether Ye Lin had offended them.

Ye Lin realized the Yin-Yang Sacred Land was pursuing him at the Stowaway’s request and considered using Wang Tian’s planned attack to create an opening. Wang Tian revealed his strength and timeline, and Ye Lin offered to help, leaving them poised to join forces against the Sacred Land.

• Ye Lin deduced that the Stowaway had persuaded the Yin-Yang Sacred Land to target him.
• Wang Tian explained that he was gathering powerful allies to settle his old grudge against the Yin-Yang Sacred Land.
• Wang Tian warned Ye Lin that the Sacred Land had at least five Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals, including one at the peak of the realm.
• Ye Lin learned that Wang Tian might attack within a month and planned to use the ensuing chaos to search for the Stowaway with Li Xiaoyao and pursue the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Ye Lin offered to help Wang Tian attack, and Wang Tian accepted his offer after recognizing Ye Lin’s intent.

Ye Lin agreed to help Wang Tiangang compete for the Wang Family patriarch position, after verifying Wang Tiangang’s claims. They set out for the Wang Family, where Wang Tiangang promised Ye Lin a generous reward.

• Wang Tiangang asked Ye Lin to accompany him to the Wang Family and help him win the patriarch position so he could lead the family against the Yin-Yang Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin sent Li Xiaoyao to investigate Wang Tiangang’s claims, and Li Xiaoyao returned with confirmation.
• Ye Lin agreed to help, provided Wang Tiangang attacked the Yin-Yang Sacred Land within half a year of becoming patriarch.
• Wang Tiangang promised Ye Lin a generous gift, and the masked Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao followed him toward the Wang Family.

Wang Tian told Ye Lin how the Yin-Yang Sacred Land and its Holy Son took away the woman he loved after his cultivation stalled at the Mahayana stage. He left the story describing how he signed the annulment document and watched her leave in despair.

• Wang Tian complained to Ye Lin about the Yin-Yang Sacred Land and Holy Lord Yan Yu.
• Wang Tian explained that he had loved a woman who cared for him while he was unable to cultivate beyond the Mahayana stage.
• Wang Tian said the woman was found to possess the Profound Yin Divine Physique, prompting the Yin-Yang Holy Son to seek her hand in marriage.
• Wang Tian recounted how the Yin-Yang Holy Son came to the Wang Family and annulled their engagement with the family head's agreement.
• Wang Tian said he signed the annulment document and watched the woman leave with the Yin-Yang Holy Son.

Wang Tian told Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao that he planned to destroy the Yin-Yang Sacred Land to avenge the woman he loved. After returning to the Wang Family estate, he reunited with Wang Xu and declared that he would compete for the position of family head.

• Wang Tian recalled the woman’s death and explained that he had spent fifty thousand years cultivating to uncover why he could not cultivate and to prepare to avenge her.
• Wang Tian led Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao into the Wang Family estate, where preparations were underway for the Grand Competition in three days.
• Wang Xu recognized Wang Tian and embraced him tearfully after he returned home.
• Wang Tian introduced Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao as his friends and said he had returned to compete for the position of family head.
• Wang Xu urged Wang Tian to visit his father, who had thought of him every day since he ran away from home.

Wang Tian brought Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao to stay in a quiet courtyard at the Wang Family grounds until the Grand Competition began. Ye Lin enjoyed tea there and reflected on Li Xiaoyao’s recovery, while Li Xiaoyao kept eyeing Ye Lin’s Bamboo Leaf Green.

• Wang Tian led Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao to a courtyard on a mountain and asked them to stay there until the Grand Competition.
• Ye Lin asked Li Xiaoyao whether Wang Tian might deceive them, and Li Xiaoyao said he would defeat Wang Tian if he tried.
• Ye Lin noted that Li Xiaoyao’s hatred was fading and that his strength would grow as he recovered.
• Ye Lin conjured chairs and a table, brewed Enlightenment Tea, and relaxed with Li Xiaoyao in the courtyard.
• Li Xiaoyao repeatedly glanced at Ye Lin’s Bamboo Leaf Green, but Ye Lin kept it, anticipating that Li Xiaoyao would later receive the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao drank Enlightenment Tea beneath the sentient great locust tree, whose spirit enjoyed the tea they poured for it. Wang Xiaomeng tried to steal a drink, but Ye Lin caught her and warned that too much Enlightenment Tea could leave her unconscious indefinitely.

• Ye Lin poured the remaining tea beneath the great locust tree, which eagerly absorbed it.
• Wang Xiaomeng crept toward Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao's table while they pretended to sleep.
• Wang Xiaomeng grabbed the teapot and gulped down the tea, but Ye Lin startled her and she dropped it.
• The teapot shattered, and the great locust tree absorbed the spilled tea and Enlightenment Tea Leaves before Ye Lin restored the pot.
• Ye Lin told Wang Xiaomeng that one drop of Enlightenment Tea was enough for someone at the Golden Core stage and warned her against drinking too much.

Ye Lin warned Wang Xiaomeng about the dangers of drinking too much Dao Comprehension Tea, then told Wang Xuan that he and his companion were friends of Wang Tian. Three days later, the Wang Family gathered for its grand competition, where eligible descendants would contend for the clan-chief position.

• Ye Lin warned Wang Xiaomeng that too much Dao Comprehension Tea could leave her lost in the Great Dao, and she pleaded with him not to tell her parents.
• Wang Xuan arrived, apologized for Wang Xiaomeng's intrusion, and asked Ye Lin and his companion who they were.
• Ye Lin said that they were friends of Wang Tian and had come to help him, prompting Wang Xuan to ask about her brother before leaving with Wang Xiaomeng.
• Three days later, Wang Family members gathered at the Ancestral Land for the grand competition and the contest for clan chief.
• The chapter explained that only direct descendants with sufficient strength, character, and virtue could become clan chief.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao woke after two days of sleep and joined Wang Tianyi on the way to the Wang Family Grand Competition. Wang Tianyi planned to win the family head position and use the family’s strength against Yin-Yang Sacred Land, while Ye Lin anticipated his own coming battles.

• Wang Tianyi told Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao that the Grand Competition would begin in an hour and asked them to secure victory in the opening battle.
• Wang Tianyi explained that he planned to appear at the end, become family head, reorganize the Wang Family, and settle accounts with Yin-Yang Sacred Land.
• Ye Lin considered his plans to kill the Stowaway at Yin-Yang Sacred Land and contend for the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Ye Lin followed Wang Tianyi toward the competition grounds through a dense crowd and spotted powerful Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals in the sky.

Wang Tian brought Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao to the Wang Family Grand Competition, where he explained that their strength as his followers would help demonstrate his ability to lead. The competition was about to begin, with the three seated among the third branch’s disciples.

• Two collateral descendants mocked Wang Tian for returning from ten thousand years of training to enter the Grand Competition, but he ignored them and walked on with Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao.
• Wang Tian led Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao to the plaza, where five Arenas stood before a crowd of Wang Family disciples.
• Wang Tian explained that the Grand Competition would begin shortly and told Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao to show some of their strength.
• Wang Tian described how followers’ cultivation and recruitment reflected a candidate’s ability, then pointed out that they were seated with the third branch’s disciples.

Ye Lin agreed to help Wang Tian in the Wang Family Grand Competition after learning that Wang Tian was a Dao Pill Master who offered an Eight-Pattern Enlightenment Supreme Pill for every Fifth Branch member killed. As the competition began, its first event was announced as a test of the contestants’ connections and the forces they had cultivated.

• Wang Tian offered Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao an Eight-Pattern Enlightenment Supreme Pill for each person from the Fifth Branch they killed.
• Ye Lin checked Wang Tian’s panel and learned that he was a gifted Dao Pill Master destined to discover the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Ye Lin decided to win Wang Tian over, believing a Dao Pill Master could help him progress and prepare for the Star River Cosmos’s future turmoil.
• The Grand Competition began, and its first event was announced as a contest in which each junior’s cultivated forces would demonstrate their strength and management.

Wang Tian entered the Wang Family Grand Competition with Ye Lin, despite the Third Branch having almost no supporters. After the lots were drawn, the Third Branch was matched against the Fourth Branch, drawing attention to Wang Tian’s unexpected return.

• Wang Tian explained to Ye Lin that his cultivation and participation were still unknown to his father and grandfather, and that his reputation as a good-for-nothing had kept others from supporting him.
• Wang Tian drew the lot for the Fifth Branch and said he was confident his side could win.
• The organizers announced the matchups: the First Branch would face the Sixth, the Second Branch the Fifth, and the Third Branch the Fourth.
• The participants were told to enter the three Arenas, with each branch sending one fighter per round.
• Onlookers reacted with surprise at the Third Branch’s participation and wondered whether Wang Tian had returned.

Wang Tian returned to compete for the Family Head position, but the Wang Family disciples doubted his chances against the stronger Fourth Branch. When Zhao Wuji challenged the Third Branch, Li Xiaoyao took the arena, leaving the fight about to begin.

• The Wang Family disciples discussed Wang Tian's return and mocked the Third Branch's chances in the competition.
• Zhao Wuji, the Blood Baleful Sect Master backed by the Fourth Branch, challenged the Third Branch.
• Li Xiaoyao asked Ye Lin if he could fight Zhao Wuji, and Ye Lin agreed while reminding him of their agreement.
• Li Xiaoyao appeared on the arena as an early-stage True Immortal, and Zhao Wuji looked down on him as a weaker opponent.

Li Xiaoyao took the Arena to fight Zhao Wuji, pretending to be a newly advanced True Immortal while Ye Lin tried to secure Wang Tian’s Enlightenment Pill. The chapter ended with Li Xiaoyao killing Zhao Wuji with one punch.

• The crowd feared Li Xiaoyao would lose to the stronger Zhao Wuji, while Wang Tian realized Ye Lin was using the fight to fish for his Enlightenment Pill.
• Zhao Wuji offered Li Xiaoyao three moves and confidently told him to attack.
• Li Xiaoyao warned Zhao Wuji repeatedly about his strength, then rushed forward and punched him before he could react.
• Li Xiaoyao killed Zhao Wuji with one punch and apologized as he stood beside Zhao Wuji’s headless corpse.

Li Xiaoyao killed Zhao Wuji with one punch in the Wang Family Arena, prompting the Fourth Branch’s Second Brother to rage over his loss. The Third Brother sent Xiao Tian to challenge Li Xiaoyao, and the two branches watched as the next fight began.

• Li Xiaoyao killed Zhao Wuji with one punch, and the surrounding Wang Family disciples blamed Zhao Wuji for ignoring his warnings.
• The Fourth Branch’s Second Brother raged over Zhao Wuji’s death and wondered how Wang Tian had changed during the past ten thousand years.
• The Third Brother taunted the Second Brother for losing and announced that Xiao Tian would avenge him.
• Xiao Tian, a peak True Immortal with paired swords, leaped onto the Arena to face Li Xiaoyao.

Li Xiaoyao fought Xiao Tian in the Arena, enduring his sword techniques and shattering his Sun and Moon Shine Together attack with a punch. Xiao Tian then closed in with his twin swords, believing he had found Li Xiaoyao’s weakness.

• Xiao Tian arrived and greeted Li Xiaoyao before the duel began.
• Li Xiaoyao warned Xiao Tian to be careful, then forced him back with a powerful punch.
• Xiao Tian attacked with Sword Qi and used Sun and Moon Shine Together against Li Xiaoyao.
• Li Xiaoyao shattered the sun and moon manifestations with a punch, and Xiao Tian rushed at him with twin swords after spotting a weakness.

Xiao Tian exploited the gap in Li Xiaoyao’s attacks and blasted him to the edge of the Arena. The crowd pitied Li Xiaoyao and blamed Wang Tian, while Ye Lin realized Li Xiaoyao’s act had become more convincing than expected.

• Xiao Tian attacked Li Xiaoyao during the gap between his moves and sent him crashing to the Arena’s edge.
• Li Xiaoyao clutched his wounds and acted so pitifully that the Wang Family disciples believed he was mentally incomplete and cursed Wang Tian for mistreating him.
• Wang Tian complained to Ye Lin that the performance had ruined his reputation.
• Ye Lin admitted he had only told Li Xiaoyao to deliberately show weakness and wondered how to keep Li Xiaoyao from stealing the spotlight.

Li Xiaoyao pretended to be a badly wounded, devoted child to make the Arena spectators blame Wang Tian and keep fighting him. When the performance stirred up the Wang Family disciples and angered the Wang Family Patriarch, Li Xiaoyao realized he had gone too far and needed to stop.

• Li Xiaoyao acted terrified and wounded while facing Xiao Tian, who offered to let him leave the Arena alive.
• Li Xiaoyao refused to quit and said he owed Wang Tian his life and would repay him even if it cost his own.
• The spectators cursed Wang Tian for sending Li Xiaoyao to die, and Wang Family disciples glared angrily at the Third Branch.
• Li Xiaoyao worried that his act had offended the spectators and could cost him the Enlightenment Pill, so he decided to stop acting.

Wang Chenfeng and Wang Dong decided to save Li Xiaoyao if necessary, while Xiao Tian allowed him to unleash his forbidden technique. Li Xiaoyao activated One Punch Opens Heaven, and Xiao Tian braced himself for its attack.

• Wang Chenfeng praised Li Xiaoyao’s talent and loyalty, and told Wang Dong to preserve his life even if it meant forfeiting the Grand Competition.
• Wang Dong agreed that Li Xiaoyao was his son’s greatest future asset.
• Xiao Tian stepped back and resolved to give Li Xiaoyao a chance to use his full strength, while refusing to kill him himself.
• Wang Tian warned Xiao Tian that Li Xiaoyao’s forbidden technique was difficult to control and that Li Xiaoyao did not want to kill anyone again.
• Xiao Tian encouraged Li Xiaoyao to use the technique, and Li Xiaoyao unleashed One Punch Opens Heaven using his blood as a catalyst.

Li Xiaoyao killed Xiao Tian with a single punch after Xiao Tian attacked with Myriad Swords Return to One. The Wang Family disciples realized Xiao Tian had died, while Li Xiaoyao pretended to grieve and displayed the aura of a middle-stage True Immortal.

• Xiao Tian used Myriad Swords Return to One against Li Xiaoyao, but Li Xiaoyao smashed the sword light with a punch.
• Li Xiaoyao's punch struck Xiao Tian, whose body was destroyed until nothing remained.
• The Wang Family disciples saw Li Xiaoyao alone on the Arena and learned Xiao Tian's life plaque had shattered.
• A young man who had sent Xiao Tian out wondered how Li Xiaoyao had hidden such formidable strength.
• Li Xiaoyao knelt and wept, pretending to regret killing Xiao Tian while displaying a middle-stage True Immortal aura.
• A voice in the plaza broke the silence by asking whether Li Xiaoyao had really killed Xiao Tian.

After Li Xiaoyao killed Xiao Tian, the Wang Family disciples marveled at his strength while Ye Lin and Wang Tian recognized his act and watched the Fourth Branch remain unaware. The Wang Family head asked whether the Third Branch would substitute contestants, and Wang Tian refused.

• The Wang Family disciples discussed Li Xiaoyao's breakthrough and his victory over Xiao Tian, while Ye Lin noted that his act would keep the Fourth Branch sending out challengers.
• Wang Tian admired Li Xiaoyao's strength and shamelessly simple nature, despite his Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal cultivation.
• The Wang Family head appeared and announced that Li Xiaoyao had won the second match, leaving the Fourth Branch three losses from elimination.
• The Wang Family head asked whether the Third Branch would switch contestants, and Wang Tian said there would be no substitution.

Li Xiaoyao continued his staged run through the Wang Family trials while Wang Tian sent him into another fight, drawing outrage from the onlookers. He faced a woman in green from the Fourth Branch, pretending to be exhausted and unable to control his strength.

• Wang Tian called for another Fourth Branch fighter, and the Wang Family disciples condemned him for pushing Li Xiaoyao after two battles and a breakthrough.
• Li Xiaoyao began panting heavily to make the crowd believe he was near collapse, while Ye Lin struggled to hide his surprise at the performance.
• The clan chief asked whether the Fourth Branch had another contestant and allowed the trial to continue despite seeing Li Xiaoyao's apparent exhaustion.
• A woman in white urged the woman in green to kill Li Xiaoyao to preserve the Fourth Branch's chance in the competition.
• The woman in green entered the arena, and Li Xiaoyao begged her to leave, claiming he could not control himself and did not want to kill again.