Recaps

In the Desolate Land, Ye Lin’s group split up to hunt Heavenly Demons and pursue two spots for Luo Yao and Shangguan Wanyu. Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao hid with Bao Xiaotou’s Concealment Formation Disk, leaving Ye Lin free to act on his own.

• Ye Lin judged the ruined Desolate Land to be the remains of a faction.
• Li Xiaoyao encouraged the group to split up, complete their tasks within three hundred days, and secure two spots for Luo Yao and Shangguan Wanyu.
• Bao Xiaotou gave Shangguan Wanyu a Concealment Formation Disk to hide with Luo Yao, then left with Wang Tian.
• Ye Lin told Shangguan Wanyu to stay safe and contact them if she faced danger.
• Shangguan Wanyu carried Luo Yao away to hide, and Ye Lin prepared to act without holding back.

Ye Lin explored the Desolate Land and encountered a Heavenly Demon resembling one from the Forbidden Void. He contacted the old man through a Jade Talisman and asked whether he knew of the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land in the Star River Cosmos’s third region.

• Ye Lin followed a path through the Desolate Land, where he could not use divine sense and saw enormous footprints.
• A purple Heavenly Demon attacked Ye Lin and knocked him back, after which he studied its appearance and golden markings.
• Ye Lin used a Jade Talisman to speak with the old man from the Forbidden Void and asked about Poison Venerable’s lost memories.
• The old man said Poison Venerable’s memory loss was ordained by Destiny and warned Ye Lin that his disciple might outpace him.
• Ye Lin asked the old man whether he knew of the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land in the third region of the Star River Cosmos.

Ye Lin asked the old man about the Heavenly Demon’s weaknesses and learned that it would stay still as long as he did, with a golden point on its chest as its vulnerable spot. He stabbed the point with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and watched the creature die, stunned by how easily he had defeated it.

• Ye Lin asked the old man about the Heavenly Demon and learned that it only moved when he did and could be killed by striking the golden point on its chest.
• Ye Lin stayed still as the Heavenly Demon appeared less than a foot away, then confirmed it stopped moving when he did.
• Ye Lin poured his power of immortal fortune into the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and stabbed the golden point on the Heavenly Demon’s chest.
• The Heavenly Demon’s power dissipated, and it fell dead as Ye Lin stared at it in disbelief.

After discovering how to kill the resilient Heavenly Demons, Ye Lin set out across the Desolate Land. Elsewhere, the prodigies struggled to meet the test’s quota as Li Xiaoyao fought five demons and Bao Xiaotou prepared a canyon of killing formations to lure them in.

• Ye Lin realized the Heavenly Demons had a weakness that could let him kill many of them.
• The prodigies complained that hunting enough Golden Immortal Heavenly Demons within three hundred days seemed impossible.
• Li Xiaoyao, wounded and facing five first-layer Golden Immortal Heavenly Demons, charged back into battle with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Bao Xiaotou arranged more than a thousand Killing Formations in a canyon and released his aura to draw the Heavenly Demons toward them.

Bao Xiaotou used Formation Disks to trap a swarm of Heavenly Demons in the canyon. As over a thousand Golden Immortal demons battered his formation, he fused it into a sword formation to strike them down.

• Bao Xiaotou sensed a huge swarm of Heavenly Demons approaching and realized more than a thousand had entered the canyon.
• Bao Xiaotou activated the Formation Disks, using Killing Formations to wound the Heavenly Demons.
• Bao Xiaotou merged the formations into a Life-and-Death Killing Formation, but the demons' attacks threatened to break it.
• Bao Xiaotou fused the formations into Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin, and Sword Qi pierced the Heavenly Demons, leaving them fallen with their fate unclear.

Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian struggled against powerful Heavenly Demons as the creatures relentlessly hunted the trial’s prodigies, driving many to despair. After thirty days, Ye Lin had killed 1,333 Heavenly Demons by exploiting their fatal weaknesses and kept hunting so he could be the first to reach the Path of Life.

• Bao Xiaotou’s sword formation killed one Heavenly Demon before the others broke through, forcing him to flee.
• Wang Tian’s full-force strike barely cracked a second-layer Golden Immortal Heavenly Demon, which charged at him.
• For thirty days, Heavenly Demons pursued the prodigies, and many questioned the trial’s difficulty or gave up.
• Ye Lin counted his 1,333rd kill and continued hunting without rest, aiming to reach the Path of Life first.

Ye Lin continued hunting Heavenly Demons and shared their golden chest weakness with his companions, then was confronted by Xu Feng, who had secretly watched him for three days. The chapter ended with Xu Feng appealing to their shared humanity after Ye Lin refused to reveal how he immobilized the demons.

• Ye Lin remembered that he had not told the others about the Heavenly Demons' weakness and sent them the information through a Jade Talisman.
• Ye Lin prepared to resume hunting, but a man who had followed him for three days asked how he made the Heavenly Demons stand still.
• Ye Lin recognized the man as Xu Feng, the First Prince of the Heavenly Saint Imperial Dynasty.
• Xu Feng introduced himself, explained that he had discovered the golden point on the demons' chests, and asked Ye Lin to share his method in exchange for a reward.
• Ye Lin refused to reveal either secret, and Xu Feng urged him to support a fellow member of the Human Race.

Ye Lin rejected Xu Feng’s offer and continued hunting Heavenly Demons to secure a slot. He and his companions completed the task, but Ye Lin noticed that the Heavenly Demons seemed unlike living beings.

• Ye Lin refused Xu Feng’s offer to trade compensation for his secrets and warned him not to follow.
• Xu Feng left, and Ye Lin resumed hunting Heavenly Demons to earn a slot.
• Over the next hundred days, Ye Lin killed nine thousand Heavenly Demons, keeping a substantial lead as Bao Xiaotou and the other prodigies caught up.
• Ye Lin reached nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-two kills, while Wang Tian and the others were nearing their own slots.
• Thirty days later, Ye Lin completed the task with twelve thousand three hundred points, and Li Xiaoyao and the others had also secured their slots.
• Ye Lin and his companions planned to earn enough points to buy slots for Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao, while Ye Lin wondered why the Heavenly Demons seemed not to be living beings.

Ye Lin learned from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar that the mindless celestial demons were puppets formed from the resentment of a great terror suppressed beneath Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land. The jar hinted that the demons and the land concealed further secrets, leaving Ye Lin to consider what he had overlooked.

• Ye Lin examined the celestial demon and found that it had no internal organs or Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar whether it knew about Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land and the celestial demons.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar confirmed that the celestial demons were puppets formed from the resentment of a great terror suppressed beneath the land.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the demons became frenzied when they encountered living beings but stopped moving when their targets stayed still.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that the celestial demons and Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land held great secrets.

Ye Lin learned that killing heavenly demons turned their resentment into Great Dao merit and agreed to follow the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar to a place where he could gain more. The jar revealed that a corpse from beyond the Star River Cosmos had been dismembered by Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, and that one of its arms was sealed beneath the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin that killing heavenly demons had strengthened his body and slightly raised his cultivation by turning their resentment into merit.
• The jar promised to take Ye Lin somewhere with far more resentment, where he might gain enough Great Dao merit to advance several Golden Immortal levels.
• Ye Lin accepted the risk and followed the jar's directions, continuing to kill heavenly demons for points as they traveled toward the large teleportation array.
• Ye Lin asked what was sealed beneath the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land, and the jar revealed that it was an arm belonging to a genuine Great Luo expert.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that a wounded corpse had drifted into the Star River Cosmos, collapsed many star domains, and was dismembered by Primordial Unity Golden Immortals after a hundred years.

The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained why the corpse of a Great Luo Transcendence expert had been dismembered and suppressed across the Star River Cosmos, then brought Ye Lin to the ruins beneath the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land. Ye Lin learned that the resentment there could yield great rewards but remained wary of entering it.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar told Ye Lin where the corpse's parts had been suppressed and why the experts could neither destroy it nor cast it beyond the Star River Cosmos.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that the Desolate Land suppressed the resentment and the Land of Life suppressed the arm, and said dissolving the resentment could bring Ye Lin immense rewards.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar said it had brought Ye Lin there mainly to broaden his horizons, since even Primordial Unity Golden Immortals struggled with the resentment.
• Ye Lin tempered his excitement about the possible rewards and stopped at the ruins to ask whether the resentment could harm him.

Ye Lin entered the passage to the place of suppression with Xinyou, despite the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar warning that it could not protect the beast. As resentment flooded the passage, Xinyou remained unaffected, and Ye Lin suspected it was drawn to the resentment.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar advised Ye Lin to leave Xinyou behind, but Xinyou showed its desire to enter the passage.
• Ye Lin opened a way into the ruins and brought Xinyou with him, warning it to flee if danger arose.
• The Guardian sensed Ye Lin entering the place of suppression, wondered how he had found it, then decided not to interfere.
• Resentment attacked Ye Lin's sea of consciousness inside the passage, but a flash of blood-red light drove it back.
• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar marveled that Xinyou showed no reaction to the resentment, and Ye Lin suspected the beast wanted to devour it.

Xinyou absorbed the Great Luo Transcendence expert’s resentment, refined it, and broke through from Primordial Unity Mystic Immortal to Golden Immortal. After clearing the resentment, Xinyou purified its energy and gave the pure portion to Ye Lin, whose own cultivation began to loosen.

• Ye Lin led Xinyou deeper into the area and realized Xinyou was drawn to the dense resentment.
• Xinyou transformed into a larger, majestic form and absorbed the resentment into its body.
• Xinyou refined the resentment and rose to the first level of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Xinyou cleared all the surrounding resentment, then spat purified energy over Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin felt his Golden Immortal cultivation loosen as the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar marveled at Xinyou’s abilities.

Ye Lin let Xinyou absorb the surrounding resentment and use it to strengthen him, but he remained at the first layer of the Golden Immortal Realm because his comprehension of the Destruction Sword Dao Law was insufficient. He decided to leave the dangerous depths of the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land, while a voice remarked that he lacked the cultivation to properly study a severed arm.

• Xinyou absorbed the nearby resentment and told Ye Lin he could do it only one more time without harming himself.
• Ye Lin continued deeper, and Xinyou gathered the resentment into a ball of white light that entered Ye Lin's body.
• Ye Lin circulated the Phoenix Bathing Heaven Technique for half an hour, but chose not to break through because his law comprehension was lacking.
• Ye Lin decided the deeper area was too dangerous and left with Xinyou, satisfied with their gains.
• A voice said the severed arm was the only worthwhile thing in the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land, but Ye Lin's cultivation was too low to study it properly.

Ye Lin left the cave after failing to study the mysterious arm and resumed hunting Heavenly Demons. As the demons became scarce, prodigies began ambushing one another on the Path of Life, unaware to many that the route was the assessment’s greatest danger.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar lamented that Ye Lin’s cultivation was too low for him to study the arm, and Ye Lin buried the cave before heading into the forest to hunt Heavenly Demons.
• The guardian watched Ye Lin emerge and judged him a talent worth molding, though otherwise unremarkable.
• The prodigies realized that Heavenly Demons had become too scarce for everyone to earn enough points by hunting them.
• Some prodigies began lying in wait along the Path of Life, where the guardian confirmed they could kill others and take their opportunities and fortunes.
• Most prodigies continued searching for Heavenly Demons, unaware that crossing the Path of Life was the most perilous part of the assessment.

With their points secured, Ye Lin's group headed for the Path of Life, expecting others to prey on those seeking passage. At the Desolate Land border, Jiang Ran and his allies blocked a group of prodigies, who finally charged forward together.

• Ye Lin's group reunited after finding Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao, and Bao Xiaotou complained that hunting Heavenly Demons had worn him out.
• Ye Lin warned that people would wait on the Path of Life to steal points, and the group set out in pairs.
• Jiang Ran demanded a quota from a former brother at the Desolate Land border, refusing to let the point-rich prodigies pass.
• A Daoist-robed man led the blocked prodigies in a charge against Jiang Ran and the others on the Path of Life.

Ye Lin and his companions reached the chaotic Path of Life and began pushing forward before the limited crossing slots ran out. Li Rufeng tried to claim one of their slots, but Ye Lin warned him off, and Li Rufeng stepped aside.

• Ye Lin saw cultivators fighting, hiding, and watching near the Path of Life as a young man mocked him for bringing a woman and child.
• Ye Lin led Li Xiaoyao, Shangguan Wanyu, Luo Yao, Bao Xiaotou, and Wang Tian onto the Path of Life, assigning them roles as they advanced.
• Li Rufeng of the Wind Snow Sword Sect asked Ye Lin for one of the group's slots and offered to take Luo Yao and the child into his sect.
• Ye Lin refused and warned Li Rufeng that he would seriously injure him if he continued to obstruct them.
• Li Rufeng chuckled and moved aside to let Ye Lin's group pass.

Ye Lin and his companions made their way along the Path of Life without resistance until the First Prince, Xu Feng, appeared near the Land of Life. Xu Feng, who had already secured enough points, challenged Ye Lin and offered to let the woman and child pass.

• Li Rufeng chose not to fight Ye Lin and gave up the chance to challenge his group on the Path of Life.
• Ye Lin and his companions continued toward the Land of Life, facing almost no opposition.
• Ye Lin spotted Xu Feng waiting near the Land of Life with two young men behind him.
• Xu Feng said he had secured enough points three days earlier and had waited for Ye Lin for three days to settle their grievance.
• Ye Lin pointed out that Xu Feng risked losing his spot by fighting, but Xu Feng invited him to attack and said the woman and child could pass.

Ye Lin escorted Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao into the Land of Life, then fought Xu Feng while Li Xiaoyao took on the two generals’ sons. Ye Lin’s Thunder Domain answered Xu Feng’s Heaven-Suppressing Seal as their battle continued.

• Ye Lin agreed to fight Xu Feng after escorting Shangguan Wanyu and Luo Yao safely into the Land of Life.
• Xu Feng attacked Ye Lin with a golden jade seal, while Li Xiaoyao charged at the two generals’ sons with his Wind Thunder Twin Hammers.
• Ye Lin forced Xu Feng back with a sword strike, and Xu Feng recognized that Ye Lin’s strength rivaled a second-level Golden Immortal.
• Xu Feng used the Heaven-Suppressing Seal to suppress Ye Lin, but did not draw on the national fortune within it.
• Ye Lin unleashed the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, filling the surrounding Starry Sky with thunder Sword Qi.

Ye Lin fought Xu Feng in the starry sky and overcame the First Prince after their powers clashed. Xu Feng accepted his defeat, and Ye Lin spared him in return for Xu Feng’s earlier kindness.

• Ye Lin broke through Xu Feng’s suppressive force and challenged him to fight.
• Xu Feng summoned a golden dragon with Heavenly Dragon Hand, but Ye Lin destroyed it with Sword Nine, Heaven-Sundering.
• Ye Lin and Xu Feng exchanged attacks with their great sun and imperial seal until Xu Feng shattered the great sun phantom.
• Ye Lin appeared behind Xu Feng with his sword at the First Prince’s neck, declared victory, and chose not to kill him.
• Xu Feng accepted his loss and explained that he had never intended to kill Ye Lin or make things difficult for a Human Race prodigy.

Xu Feng explained that he had arranged a brief fight with Ye Lin and Blood Baleful to build goodwill with the Human Race prodigies before they entered the harsher second region. He left the two young men with orders to focus on growing stronger while he handled strategy and expansion.

• Ye Lin left, and Li Xiaoyao praised his opponent before they agreed to fight again.
• The two young men questioned why Xu Feng had concealed his cultivation and let the opponent go after three days of waiting.
• Xu Feng explained that he wanted to leave Blood Baleful with a good impression so they could cooperate if they met again in the second region.
• Xu Feng told the two young men to focus on raising their cultivation and said he would handle the thinking while they fought to expand their lands.

Ye Lin reached the Land of Life but learned that Xinyou needed its own spot to enter, so he told the Golden Immortal pet to obtain one itself. After the group received Identity Tokens, they learned they had three thousand years to survive the third trial and qualify for the second region.

• The guardian stopped Ye Lin from entering because Xinyou also needed a spot.
• Ye Lin told Xinyou to handle the matter itself, and Xinyou grew larger and ran toward the Path of Life.
• Bao Xiaotou questioned Xinyou's Golden Immortal cultivation, while Li Xiaoyao worried that it might be in danger; Ye Lin reassured them.
• The guardian gave Ye Lin and the others black Identity Tokens and warned that only token holders could enter the second region's teleportation formation in three thousand years.
• Ye Lin realized that the three thousand years formed the third trial, and failure at any stage would cost them their qualification for the second region.

Ye Lin assessed the dangers of the three-thousand-year trial and chose to cultivate so he could protect his Identity Token and improve his strength. Bao Xiaotou, Li Xiaoyao, and other arriving geniuses followed his example, turning the Land of Life into a place of group cultivation while fighting continued on the Path of Life.

• Ye Lin considered how secret realms and rival geniuses would threaten the Identity Tokens during the three-thousand-year trial.
• Ye Lin sat down to comprehend laws, reasoning that killing was forbidden on the Path of Life and strength mattered most.
• Bao Xiaotou saw Ye Lin cultivating and sat down behind him, followed by Li Xiaoyao and the others.
• Luo Yao skipped around nearby as more arriving geniuses copied Ye Lin and began cultivating.

With only days left before the quota filled, Ye Lin worried that Xinyou had died before returning to claim a spot. Xinyou arrived safely, stronger than before, and the guardian told the departing prodigies when the secret realms would descend.

• Ye Lin watched the final days pass and feared Xinyou would miss the nearly full quota.
• Xinyou arrived in a streak of white light, uninjured and nearly at the second level of the Golden Immortal realm.
• Xinyou swallowed the Identity Token and settled onto Ye Lin’s shoulder.
• A horned man asked the guardian whether the prodigies could leave, and the guardian said they could depart.
• The guardian announced that the first secret realm would descend in one thousand years and that secret realms would arrive on a large scale in two thousand years.
• The prodigies bowed to the guardian and left.

Ye Lin and his companions left the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land and made plans for the thousand years before the secret realm descended. As they began cultivating or pursuing their opportunities, Ye Lin entered seclusion on a star he transformed into a small world.

• Ye Lin and the others left the Heaven-Hiding Sacred Land, while the guardian watched the deadly struggle on the Path of Life.
• Ye Lin said he would enter seclusion for the thousand years before the secret realm descended, and Wang Tian and Bao Xiaotou also chose to cultivate.
• Ye Lin read Li Xiaoyao's panel and learned that wandering through the Star River Cosmos would help Li Xiaoyao find himself and reach the second level of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Li Xiaoyao departed to seek his opportunity, while Ye Lin turned a barren star into a thriving small world and began preparing for seclusion.
• Ye Lin asked Luo Yao to take Xinyou to play, gave Shangguan Wanyu cultivation resources, and watched Wang Tian refine pills and Bao Xiaotou complete a protective array.