Recaps

Bidders drove the auction price for the item to millions of Law Source Stones while Ye Lin learned how valuable they were and quietly reassured Wang Tianyi. The bidding ended with an expert threatening to bring the entire Shadowkill Clan into the contest.

• Several experts raised their bids for the item, reaching seven million Law Source Stones.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained to Ye Lin that Law Source Stones contained traces of laws and were extremely valuable to Golden Immortal cultivators.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar offered to share pill formulas because Ye Lin had befriended a second-grade Dao Pill master.
• Wang Tianyi silently sought Ye Lin's guidance, and Ye Lin nodded to reassure him without risking a voice transmission.
• An expert bid ten million Law Source Stones and threatened to use the entire Shadowkill Clan against anyone who bid higher.

Wang Tian sold the nine-pattern Heavenly Origin Pill to Shen Tian of the Shadowkill clan, whose ancestor needed it to recover and advance. After Shen Tian left to gather the Law Source Stones, the other experts recognized the clan’s likely resurgence and began bidding for Wang Tian’s remaining pill.

• Wang Tian sold the nine-pattern Heavenly Origin Pill to Shen Tian after the other experts stopped bidding.
• Shen Tian took the pill and offered his Spatial Ring as collateral while promising to return with the Law Source Stones.
• Wang Tian said he trusted Shen Tian, who gave him a contact Jade Talisman and promised to help if he faced trouble.
• Shen Tian left by tearing through space, and the gathered experts predicted the Shadowkill clan would rise again.
• An expert offered Wang Tian eight million Law Source Stones for his final pill, proposing an immediate trade.

Bidding for the Heavenly Origin Pill escalated among powerful factions, until the Emperor of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty arrived. The other bidders realized they could hardly compete with him.

• Golden Immortals raised their bids for the Heavenly Origin Pill, reaching twelve million Law Source Stones.
• Ning Wu offered the Heaven-Slaying Sword and thirteen million Law Source Stones on behalf of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, angering the other factions.
• The Emperor of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty arrived with his guards and servants.
• Ning Wu and the other experts greeted the Emperor, recognizing him as an eighth-level Golden Immortal and a supreme Human Race leader.
• The Emperor invited everyone to rise and remarked that they did not seem pleased to see him.

The Emperor outbid the gathered experts for Wang Tianyi’s pill and granted Wang Tianyi and his party eight Marquis identities. Wang Tianyi accepted the reward and handed over the pill to the Emperor’s attendant.

• The Emperor arrived as the crowd, including Ye Lin, bowed and flattered him.
• The Emperor offered fifteen million Law Source Stones, a mid-grade Limitless Artifact, and eight Marquis identities for the pill, silencing the other bidders.
• The Emperor said Wang Tianyi could use the Identity Tokens to claim Marquis status and warned that anyone who disrespected him would answer to the Emperor.
• Wang Tianyi accepted the rewards and gave the pill to the attendant, who sealed it in a jade box for the Emperor.

After Emperor accepted Wang Tian’s Nine-Pattern Saint Pill, he promised to protect the young alchemist and warned the other races not to harm him. The experts departed, regretting that they had failed to win Wang Tian’s favor.

• Emperor praised Wang Tian’s Nine-Pattern Saint Pill and told him to use his name for protection before leaving.
• The experts from the various races feared Emperor’s warning and approached Wang Tian to offer friendship and help.
• The experts left their contact information and departed, reluctant to leave Wang Tian behind.
• One elderly figure cursed himself for having sided with the Shadowkill Clan, while the other Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal experts also left.

Wang Tianyi’s group received a detailed map, supplies, and support from the Hidden Sword Pavilion before departing to pursue their plans. After they left, Ning Wu’s grandfather explained that he had let her handle the negotiations so she could prepare to lead the Pavilion.

• Ning Wu explained that the Emperor of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty was the strongest Human Race expert in the Third Region and that Wang Tianyi’s marquis title would help protect him.
• Ning Wu gave Wang Tianyi a Spatial Ring, a detailed map of the Origin Continent, and a Jade Talisman offering the Hidden Sword Pavilion’s help.
• Wang Tianyi declined Ning Wu’s offer of accommodations, thanked her, and led his group away.
• Ning Wu reproached her grandfather for remaining silent during the meeting.
• Ning Wu’s grandfather said he had let her take charge because she was the next Sword Master and needed to cultivate the bearing of a leader.

After Wang Tian helped the group obtain a detailed map, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar identified the Taichu Secret Realm as the burial ground of an ancient ninth-layer Golden Immortal. Ye Lin decided the group would travel there to investigate.

• Bao Xiaotou celebrated Wang Tian's role in securing the map, while Wang Tian recalled how disastrous a failed pill refinement could have been.
• The group gathered at an inn, where Ye Lin admitted he had mainly helped Wang Tian stand out and Wang Tian spread out the map.
• Ye Lin located their position in Starry Sky Holy City within the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar examined the map and identified the Taichu Secret Realm east of the dynasty, near the Heart of Three Mountains.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the secret realm was the burial ground of the ancient ninth-layer Golden Immortal Taichu, though it did not know whether the site had already been opened.
• Ye Lin decided the group would go investigate, and Bao Xiaotou eagerly anticipated finding treasures.

Ye Lin and his companions left the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty to travel toward the Taichu Secret Realm, hoping to find a fragment of One Breath Becomes Three Purities. After Li Xiaoyao dispatched a pack of wolves, the group flew onward through the Origin Continent, attracting the attention of powerful figures below.

• Ye Lin memorized the map and decided that the group would set out for the Taichu Secret Realm.
• The group left the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty after five hours of travel and sensed that they were being watched.
• Ye Lin pointed out a pack of giant wolves, and Li Xiaoyao made the wolves vanish with a wave of his hand.
• Li Xiaoyao warned that great terrors lurked in the Origin Continent's space, so the group flew through the skies instead of traveling by tearing through space.
• The group raced across the nine heavens, drawing the attention of countless powerful figures below.

Ye Lin’s group traveled openly beyond the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty, drawing the attention of powerful beings who hunted Human Race prodigies for their flesh and treasures. Three Golden Immortals appeared to target Li Xiaoyao, leaving the group facing an imminent fight.

• Powerful beings from other races discussed how Human Race prodigies from remote lands were easy prey outside the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• The hunters spotted Ye Lin and his group flying through the wilderness and expected to capture them for their flesh and Spatial Rings.
• Li Xiaoyao sensed that three Golden Immortals had targeted the group.
• The three Golden Immortals emerged from the void and planned to divide Li Xiaoyao among themselves.
• Dugu Feng wondered aloud why Golden Immortals seemed so common.

Li Xiaoyao battled three Golden Immortals while Ye Lin’s group watched, but another Golden Immortal appeared and attacked them. Li Xiaoyao remained pinned down, leaving the group facing the old man’s grasp.

• Li Xiaoyao challenged three Golden Immortals and began fighting them with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Poison Venerable watched the battle and desperately wished to reach the Golden Immortal realm.
• An old man appeared behind Ye Lin’s group and revealed himself as another Golden Immortal.
• The old man reached out with a massive palm to seize Ye Lin’s group while Li Xiaoyao could not break away from his opponents.

Ye Lin used his Identity Token to stop a Golden Immortal from attacking his group, revealing the token’s protection from the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty. The old man withdrew, and the group left determined to grow stronger before entering the more dangerous regions.

• Ye Lin presented his Identity Token, and the old man halted his attack rather than risk provoking the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• The old man explained that the token could report Ye Lin’s death to the dynasty, then warned Ye Lin before leaving.
• Dugu Feng and Ye Lin were surprised by the token’s power, and Ye Lin put away the Golden Immortal’s talisman paper.
• Ye Lin told everyone to wear their Identity Tokens, and the group resolved to pursue the Golden Immortal realm as they considered the dangers ahead.

Li Xiaoyao rejoined Ye Lin's group after failing to stop three fleeing Golden Immortals, and the group continued toward the Taichu Secret Realm under the protection of their Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty Identity Tokens. Near their destination, the Earth Fiend Clan barred their way, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar urged Ye Lin to fight through.

• Li Xiaoyao told Ye Lin that the three Golden Immortals had escaped, and the group set off with their Identity Tokens.
• The three Golden Immortals emerged after the group left and lamented that they had been unable to stop Ye Lin.
• The group traveled for a day and a night without being challenged because they carried Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty Identity Tokens.
• Two Earth Fiend Clan guards stopped Ye Lin's group at the border and refused to let them enter, despite Ye Lin saying they were searching for a missing friend.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar urged Ye Lin to kill his way into Earth Fiend Clan territory.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar urged Ye Lin to abandon his overly kind, honest ways, and Ye Lin led his companions into the Earth Fiend Clan’s territory toward the Taichu Secret Realm. At the Heart of Three Mountains, the Jar began opening the secret realm while Ye Lin prepared to hold off the powerful figures arriving nearby.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that strength, not right or wrong, determined who survived, and Ye Lin killed two Heavenly Immortal cultivators.
• Ye Lin and his companions traveled through the Earth Fiend Clan’s territory, killing the cultivators who tried to stop them.
• The group reached the Heart of Three Mountains and found the unopened Taichu Secret Realm behind a dilapidated gate.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar asked Ye Lin to hold off the approaching powerful figures while it opened the secret realm and told him to search for the Dragon-Binding Rope.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar manifested its artifact spirit, whose overwhelming presence shocked Li Xiaoyao.

Dugu Feng challenged the Earth Fiend Clan after its members demanded an explanation, and the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar began attacking as the clan mobilized. Ye Lin embraced a ruthless view of cultivation and charged into the enemy ranks, leaving the battle underway.

• The Earth Fiend Clan demanded to know why Dugu Feng had entered its territory and killed its members, threatening to keep the group there if he failed to satisfy it.
• Dugu Feng refused to explain himself, angering the clan, which ordered its forces to kill the outsiders.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar began acting, and Li Xiaoyao blocked a Golden Immortal cloud of blood-red mist before attacking it with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• The Blood Baleful Clan's forces charged, and Ye Lin reflected that cultivation meant struggle, contention, and taking.
• Ye Lin froze three peak Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals with his Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, annihilated them with Sword Qi, and charged into the enemy ranks.

Ye Lin and his allies fought through the Earth Fiend Clan as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar opened the entrance to the Taichu Secret Realm. They rushed toward the gateway while a furious Earth Fiend Clan Golden Immortal watched from afar.

• Ye Lin, Dugu Feng, and Poison Venerable slaughtered Earth Fiend Clan and Blood Baleful Clan experts while Wang Tianyi and Bao Xiaotou protected Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar opened a gateway to the Taichu Secret Realm and warned that experts above the fifth level of the Golden Immortal Realm could not enter.
• Ye Lin ordered everyone to move and led the group toward the gateway.
• Dugu Feng wiped out a mass of Earth Fiend Clan fighters, and Wang Tianyi rushed Shangguan Wanyu forward with the Nine Provinces Cauldron.
• Poison Venerable used Heavenly Decree to kill the Earth Fiend Clan experts blocking his way.
• The Earth Fiend Clan Golden Immortal fighting Li Xiaoyao saw the green pillar of light and stared at it in fury.

Li Xiaoyao entered the newly revealed secret realm, leaving the Earth Fiend Clan to face the fallout. As powerful outsiders rushed toward the ancient realm, the clan chose to abandon its territory and hide.

• Li Xiaoyao put away the Wind Thunder Twin Hammers and entered the gateway, telling the Earth Fiend Clan elder that his troubles were worse.
• The Earth Fiend Clan experts reported that thirty-three Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals and countless True Immortals had been killed.
• The Earth Fiend Clan elder realized the ancient secret realm would attract major factions and said the clan could not defend it.
• The elder ordered the Earth Fiend Clan to abandon the area and go into seclusion until the danger passed.
• The elder entered the gateway, while the other Earth Fiend Clan experts burrowed into the ground to hide from the approaching forces.

Powerful cultivators entered the newly opened secret realm, which Dugu Feng identified as an ancient-era realm that had preserved dense Chaos Qi. The Earth Fiend Clan abandoned the territory, leaving Dugu Feng and the others to explore the realm and learn about its dangerous, beneficial energy.

• Cultivators from across the Origin Continent gathered and entered the secret realm after determining it might date back to the ancient or primordial era.
• The Earth Fiend Clan experts gave up hope of reclaiming their land and fled underground to find somewhere else to live.
• Dugu Feng and the others felt the realm’s dense, violent Immortal Qi, which could burst a terrestrial immortal apart.
• Dugu Feng explained that the realm had preserved Chaos Qi from the ancient era and told the others to draw it into their bodies.

Ye Lin’s group relied on Shangguan Wanyu’s uncanny instincts to find the main burial chamber in Taichu’s secret realm. Her ability earned the group’s trust, and they discovered a chamber filled with pillars and a suspended Bronze Coffin.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Dugu Feng to stop preparing to cultivate and urged the group to explore Taichu’s burial ground.
• Ye Lin asked Shangguan Wanyu to choose their route, and she confidently led the group into the third passage.
• Ye Lin’s inspection of Shangguan Wanyu’s abilities revealed that she could sense treasures and foresee danger in secret realms.
• Shangguan Wanyu guided the group through the passage to a vast chamber containing seventy-two pillars, thirty-six floating pillars, and a Bronze Coffin.
• Dugu Feng and Poison Venerable praised Shangguan Wanyu, while the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the other passages were traps.

Ye Lin and his companions discovered that the burial chamber’s seventy-two pillars recorded the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts and Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Methods as part of the Heaven-Piercing Earth-Severing Grand Formation. Ye Lin began investigating the pillars for the opportunity tied to Shangguan Wanyu.

• Bao Xiaotou recognized the pillars as records of ancient spell arts and explained that they formed the Heaven-Piercing Earth-Severing Grand Formation.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar praised Bao Xiaotou and told everyone to study the pillars with their spirits and hearts.
• Li Xiaoyao suggested taking the pillars, but Bao Xiaotou warned that moving even one could activate the deadly formation, so Li Xiaoyao held back.
• Ye Lin wondered whether Shangguan Wanyu’s opportunity lay beneath one of the pillars and crouched beside one to investigate.

Ye Lin used Li Xiaoyao’s panel to find a hidden passage in the Taichu Secret Realm, revealing a chamber filled with treasures and the remains of Senior Taichu. Bao Xiaotou discovered that the shelves held the complete Seventy-Two Arts and Thirty-Six Methods.

• Ye Lin and the others failed to remember the runes on the Pillars or find anything unusual beneath them.
• Ye Lin read Li Xiaoyao’s panel and learned that he would discover a mechanism in the burial chamber wall.
• Ye Lin found and pressed a seam in the wall, opening a hidden space that the others entered behind him.
• Ye Lin suggested the seated corpse was Senior Taichu and that the coffin and formation outside had concealed the real burial chamber.
• Bao Xiaotou opened a book from the shelves and realized it contained one of the Seventy-Two Arts.

Ye Lin and his companions looted a hidden chamber of cultivation records and weapons, then left as other visitors arrived. A Golden Immortal old man questioned them about the secret realm, but Ye Lin refused to share anything and departed with his group.

• Bao Xiaotou found records of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Arts and the Thirty-Six Heavenly Constellation Methods, and Ye Lin stored the records and weapons in his Spatial Ring.
• Li Xiaoyao sensed people approaching, so Ye Lin and the others gathered everything, bowed to the corpse, and left the chamber.
• Ye Lin activated the mechanism to close the stone wall, but an old man and three women arrived in the passageway.
• The old man asked Ye Lin to explain the secret realm's history, but Ye Lin refused and led his group away.
• One of the women asked why the old man had let them go, and he explained that they were envoys of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty and included a Golden Immortal.

Ye Lin and Li Xiaoyao emerged from a passage into a crowd of powerful experts and used the Human Race Emperor’s authority to seek safe passage. Ye Lin warned that someone had entered the main tomb chamber, but some experts still demanded that he hand over his gains.

• The old man told his companions to explore the burial ground without disturbing the ancient expert’s rest.
• Li Xiaoyao sensed many powerful non-Human experts ahead, and Ye Lin hoped the Emperor’s Identity Token would protect them.
• Ye Lin and his companions emerged before a crowd dominated by Golden Immortals, whose stares made the group tense.
• Ye Lin invoked the Human Race Emperor’s name and asked the experts to let them return; half withdrew their gazes.
• Ye Lin warned that someone had already entered the main tomb chamber, prompting some experts to rush toward the passage.
• An expert demanded to know what Ye Lin had found and told him to hand over his treasures.

Ye Lin bluffed the powerhouses guarding the Primordial Secret Realm, but Li Xiaoyao had to drive them back and whisk the group away. After they escaped the realm, the pursuers caught up and filled the sky with Golden Immortal power.

• Ye Lin threatened the greedy powerhouses with the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty’s reinforcements and led his group toward the exit.
• The powerhouses saw through Ye Lin’s bluff and attacked, but Li Xiaoyao blocked them and transported the group away.
• The powerhouses pursued Ye Lin’s group, furious that they had been fooled.
• Dugu Feng and Bao Xiaotou celebrated their escape, but terrifying Golden Immortal power blanketed the sky outside the secret realm.

Ye Lin and his companions hid in a mountain range while at least six Golden Immortals searched for them, backed by an elder of the Sacred Flood Dragon Clan. As Ye Lin tried to plan an escape, three other young men arrived, saying they were also fleeing after killing a major power’s young master.

• Li Xiaoyao led Ye Lin and the others into a mountain range and concealed them from the pursuing Golden Immortals.
• A Sacred Flood Dragon Clan elder ordered the Golden Immortals to search the mountains and dismissed concerns about trespassing in Earth Fiend Clan territory.
• Dugu Feng expressed excitement about being hunted by so many Golden Immortals, but Ye Lin urged everyone to focus on escaping and said Luo Yao must not act unless they had no choice.
• Three young men approached Ye Lin and explained that they were fleeing after accidentally killing a major power’s young master.

Ye Lin and his companions followed Cang Xin, Cang Ran, and Cang Xuan to a hidden cave in the mountain, where they hoped to evade their pursuers. The pursuers began bombarding the mountain, and Cang Xin called for everyone to burrow underground and escape.

• Cang Xin led Ye Lin and his companions through a concealed cave into a hidden space inside the mountain.
• Cang Xin introduced himself, Cang Ran, and Cang Xuan, and explained that they had been hiding from their pursuers.
• Ye Lin asked whether the pursuers might destroy the mountain, and the men assured him the Earth Fiend Clan would prevent it.
• Explosions shook the mountain and caused the cave ceiling to collapse as the pursuers began bombarding the range.
• Ye Lin admitted that the expert pursuing them might not fear the Earth Fiend Clan, and Cang Xin urged everyone to burrow underground and flee.