Recaps

Bao Xiaotou led the group out of the shattered formation through a black hole, bringing them into the true Second Region. They arrived above a vast ocean and discovered that its laws and gravity were much stronger than those of the Third Region.

• Bao Xiaotou explained that the broken formation could be escaped in any direction and led the group toward an exit.
• The group found a black hole formed by the shattered formation, and Bao Xiaotou and Ye Lin entered first.
• Ye Lin emerged above a vast ocean, and the others soon followed.
• Zhang Wusheng sensed that the Second Region had twice the law density of the Third Region, along with stronger gravity and sturdier space.
• The group felt a hint of pressure in the Second Region.

Ye Lin and his companions emerged from a strange place into the East Sea Dragon Clan’s territory and encountered a powerful dragon. After learning how to reach land, they set off, unaware that the dragon watched them leave.

• San Zang said he wanted to challenge the strong prodigies of the Second Region, and Zhang Wusheng suggested they first find land and learn their location.
• A colossal dragon confronted Ye Lin and his group, demanding to know why they had entered the East Sea Dragon Clan’s domain.
• Wang Xiaoyun respectfully explained that they had just emerged from a special place and asked the dragon for directions to land.
• The dragon recognized them as people from the Second Region, directed them to travel ten thousand trillion star-li, and warned them not to pry into what they saw or heard.
• Wang Xiaoyu led the group away, while the dragon surfaced again and watched them depart.

A giant dragon agreed to capture Ye Lin and her companions for the East Sea Dragon Clan’s Third Young Master in exchange for Divine Province Sacred Wine. As Ye Lin’s group hurried toward land, she sensed the dragon had returned to attack them.

• The Third Young Master asked his Third Uncle to capture three women, offering him Divine Province Sacred Wine.
• The giant dragon accepted the offer and left to pursue the women, while the Third Young Master revealed his greedy intentions.
• Ye Lin and her companions rushed toward land, wary of the danger posed by the sea races.
• Ye Lin stopped the group and warned them that the giant dragon had gone back on his word.

Ye Lin’s group was surrounded by the East Sea Dragon Clan after entering its territory, and a battle broke out as they tried to escape quickly. The fight continued above the sea, with dragons falling into the water.

• Li Xiaoyao stepped in front of Wang Tian and Bao Xiaotou after Ye Lin warned of danger.
• A gray-robed middle-aged man and countless dragons surrounded Ye Lin’s group, claiming they had come to seize them on the Third Young Master’s orders.
• Ye Lin stalled the middle-aged man while his companions prepared to attack, with Xu Feng and San Zang assigned to fight the strongest enemy.
• Ye Lin cleaved two first-level Golden Immortal dragons in two with his sword.
• San Zang collided palms with the middle-aged man as the group fought the surrounding dragons, and dragon bodies began crashing into the sea.

Ye Lin and his companions fought through the East Sea Dragon Clan’s forces, with San Zang and Xu Feng keeping the Third Elder occupied. Ye Lin found that some of the other races’ fighters were reluctant cannon fodder and persuaded them to flee, opening a path toward land.

• The Third Elder of the East Sea Dragon Clan knocked Xu Feng back and transformed into a giant dragon to unleash his full strength.
• Ye Lin called for the group to break through, and he and the others charged ahead while San Zang and Xu Feng stayed to fight the dragon.
• Ye Lin noticed that the other races’ frail, elderly Golden Immortals formed the main force blocking them and realized the East Sea Dragon Clan had forced them to fight.
• Ye Lin urged the outmatched fighters to move aside, and some fled into the seawater instead of continuing to fight.
• Ye Lin saw land ahead and continued leading the group toward it, hoping the dragons would stop pursuing them there.

A powerful East Sea Dragon Clan general confronted Ye Lin and the others, killing the retreating experts and declaring that he would decide their fate. Zhang Wusheng summoned his grandfather’s golden apparition to fight the general, and the chapter ended as the general answered its attack with a punch.

• A blue-robed, horned Golden Immortal seventh-layer general appeared and mocked Ao Lie.
• The general condemned the other races’ experts for desertion and killed them with a wave of pressure.
• The general ordered Ye Lin and the others to submit, saying their guilt was his to decide.
• Zhang Wusheng stepped forward and summoned his grandfather by breaking a golden paper talisman.
• The golden apparition attacked with a beam of light, and the general countered with Heaven-Shaking Fist.

A middle-aged man shattered Zhang Wusheng’s grandfather’s Dharma body and overwhelmed Zhang Wusheng, preparing to kill him as Ye Lin readied his sword. Just as the middle-aged man raised his palm, countless strands of Sword Qi gathered over the sea and began forming a figure.

• The middle-aged man destroyed Zhang Wusheng’s grandfather’s Dharma body with a single punch.
• He dismissed the Dharma body as weak and explained that his strength surpassed Golden Immortals from the Third Region.
• The middle-aged man approached Zhang Wusheng, crushing his confidence and taunting him about his background.
• He raised his palm to kill Zhang Wusheng while Ye Lin gripped the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, ready to act.
• Thunderous sword cries filled the sea as countless strands of Sword Qi intertwined and formed a figure.

Yun Xuan intervened when the East Sea Dragon Clan tried to capture Ye Lin and his companions, forcing the dragons to retreat. After Yun Xuan warned them not to cause trouble in the Second Region, Ye Lin led the shaken group toward land.

• Yun Xuan arrived and told the middle-aged East Sea Dragon Clan man to let Ye Lin and the others go.
• The middle-aged man recognized Yun Xuan, withdrew, and the battling dragons fled into the sea.
• Yun Xuan warned the group that the Second Region differed from the Third Region, then vanished in a burst of Sword Qi.
• San Zang and the others reflected on Yun Xuan's overwhelming strength and felt their confidence falter.
• Ye Lin led the group toward land while San Zang's companions and Gu Qingzhi followed in silence.

Ye Lin and his companions escaped the Endless Sea and reached Sea-Suppressing City, where they sought to learn more about their situation. They entered the guarded city and discovered that flight was forbidden, leaving them to explore its strangely quiet streets on foot.

• Ye Lin led the group through a forest until they found Sea-Suppressing City.
• A soldier on the city wall questioned them and scanned them with a mirror before opening the gates.
• The soldier warned Ye Lin that an eighth-layer Golden Immortal guarded the city and told him not to cause trouble.
• Bao Xiaotou noticed the flight-ban formation after the group entered, and the gates closed behind Shangguan Wanyu.
• The group saw heavy buildings and moving figures in the streets, where only footsteps could be heard.

Ye Lin and the others arrived in Sea-Suppressing City, where Know-All offered to sell them information and brought them to his teahouse. Ye Lin paid for his first question, asking where they were.

• Gu Qingzhi sensed a powerful divine sense that reminded her of her mother.
• Know-All approached Ye Lin and offered information for one hundred high-grade Immortal Stones per question.
• Ye Lin followed Know-All to a small teahouse, where Know-All closed the doors and windows before lighting candles.
• Know-All identified the group as exceptional talents from the Third Region and explained that beings from other regions could recognize their origins.
• Ye Lin handed Know-All a Supreme Immortal stone and asked what place they were in.

Know-All explained the three realms and the regions within the Earth God Realm, revealing that Ye Lin and the others were in the Crimson Wasteland. Zhang Wusheng then asked about Yun Xuan, and Know-All described the powerful Heavenly Sword Sect disciple before wondering whether Zhang Wusheng had met him.

• Know-All explained that the Immortal God Realm had three realms and that the group was in the Crimson Wasteland of the Earth God Realm.
• Know-All described the Earth God Realm’s four provinces, seven seas, and eight wastelands, and said the Crimson Wasteland’s strongest powers were the three sects and two pavilions.
• Zhang Wusheng asked who Yun Xuan was and placed a supreme-grade immortal stone on the table.
• Know-All said Yun Xuan was the Heavenly Sword Sect Master’s personal disciple, a sixth-level Golden Immortal feared even by seventh-level Golden Immortals.
• Know-All recalled Yun Xuan’s victory over an army of three hundred thousand from the East Sea Dragon Clan and asked Zhang Wusheng if he had met him.

Know-All offered the group portrait albums and news about major events in the Crimson Wasteland. After learning about a Heavenly Sword Sect ceremony and a strange phenomenon at the Eastern Sea, the group had possible destinations to pursue.

• Know-All offered his portrait albums of beauties for sale, and Bao Xiaotou bought them all.
• Know-All offered to share amusing happenings and future events for two hundred high-grade immortal stones each.
• Know-All told the group that the Heavenly Sword Sect's divine sword would be unsheathed at a ceremony in three months.
• Know-All described a year-long strange phenomenon at the Eastern Sea that cultivators suspected signaled a secret realm opening, and said Yun Xuan had recently arrived there.
• Know-All charged Wang Xiaoyun and the group four hundred high-grade immortal stones for the two events.

Ye Lin and his companions learned where they stood in the Second Region, then encountered Yun Xuan announcing an anomaly in the East Sea Shore Secret Realm. They decided to follow him and investigate.

• Ye Lin left four Supreme Immortal Stones with Know-All and departed with his companions.
• After the group left the teahouse, they found True Sea City’s streets deserted and saw Yun Xuan appear in the sky amid surging Sword Qi.
• Yun Xuan announced that an anomaly had manifested in the East Sea Shore Secret Realm and invited fellow Daoists to accompany him.
• Bao Xiaotou noticed that the air-restriction formation had vanished, and more than a hundred cultivators gathered behind Yun Xuan.
• Ye Lin agreed to investigate the anomaly, and San Zang welcomed the chance to test the strength of the Second Region’s geniuses.

Li Xiaoyao and the others followed Yun Xuan toward a secret realm in the East Sea, despite concerns about Shangguan Wanyu joining them with a child. Yun Xuan forced their way past a colossal Dragon and continued into the sea domain, leaving the gathered sea clans unable to stop them.

• Ye Lin set out, and Li Xiaoyao insisted Shangguan Wanyu could come along because of her secret realm.
• Wang Xiaoyun led the group to join Yun Xuan, who took the gathered cultivators toward the East Sea.
• A colossal Dragon blocked Yun Xuan at the shore and demanded that the land cultivators withdraw from the sea-domain secret realm.
• Yun Xuan threatened to cut down the Dragon unless the Four Great Kings came, and the Dragon retreated into the sea.
• Yun Xuan and the cultivators continued across the sea while the sea clans watched, unable to challenge him without risking war.

Four Seas leaders discussed Yun Xuan, the Four Kings’ impending bloodline baptism, and a plan to capture newcomers from the Third Region. Meanwhile, Yun Xuan led his group to a newly appeared island secret realm, where land geniuses gathered and Ye Lin and the others assessed the Immortal God Realm’s power structure.

• A furious Four Seas figure blamed Yun Xuan for acting unchecked, but others warned that killing him could provoke Crimson Wasteland and Sand Wasteland.
• The Four Seas leader ordered everyone to avoid drawing attention until the Four Kings and ancestors emerged from seclusion, and commanded them to capture newcomers from the Third Region.
• Yun Xuan led his group to an island that had appeared over the Eastern Sea, surrounded by divine light and chanting scriptures.
• Geniuses from several wastelands gathered above the sea and remarked that no Four Seas geniuses, apart from the four kings, seemed capable of contesting the secret realm.
• Ye Lin and the others listened to the crowd and began analyzing the Immortal God Realm’s power structure.

As the secret realm neared opening, Ye Lin and the other prodigies questioned why the powerful Four Seas had made no move. Yun Xuan and representatives of the Wastelands shared their suspicions, but admitted they lacked the strength to discover what the Four Seas were planning.

• A prodigy observed that the Four Seas were unusually absent despite having enough strength to threaten the Crimson Wasteland, prompting the others to consider why they were keeping such a low profile.
• As the island's chanting and divine radiance intensified, Ye Lin assessed the balance of power between the Four Seas, the Four Great States, and the Seven Wastelands.
• Yun Xuan greeted three women and one man representing the Wastelands, including an unfathomable prodigy from the Eastern Wasteland.
• Yun Xuan raised the Four Seas' silence as a concern, and the woman from the Snow Wasteland said the Eight Wastelands could not investigate while the Four Great States focused on the other sea regions.

Yun Xuan decided to seal the secret realm and bar the Four Seas races from entering, hoping to force the Four Seas Dragon Clan to reveal its plans. When the island formed, he and his allies blocked the deep-sea races, and Yun Xuan prepared to kill a Flood Dragon that challenged them.

• Yun Xuan proposed sealing off the secret realm to test how much the Four Seas Dragon Clan would endure.
• Explosions shook the sea as the island finished forming and the Four Seas races rushed toward it.
• Yun Xuan summoned five enormous swords to protect the island and declared that sea races could not enter.
• The woman from Snow Province froze the sea for ten thousand li, forcing the deep-sea races back.
• A Flood Dragon confronted Yun Xuan, who gathered Sword Qi and told it to die.

Yun Xuan effortlessly killed a fifth-layer Golden Immortal Flood Dragon with a strand of Sword Qi, silencing the deep-sea prodigies and establishing control of the secret realm. With no one daring to object, he dismissed the crowd and led his group inside.

• Yun Xuan killed the Flood Dragon with a single strand of Sword Qi, cutting off its head and leaving its corpse in the sea.
• San Zang recognized that Yun Xuan was far beyond his strength, while Ye Lin became excited at the thought of facing such a powerful opponent.
• Yun Xuan asked whether anyone else objected, and the deep-sea prodigies stayed silent.
• Yun Xuan dismissed the deep-sea prodigies, who vanished from the area.
• Yun Xuan told everyone to enter the secret realm and begin their work.

The Four Seas leaders decided to send the Four Great Kings and elite troops against Yun Xuan’s group while buying time for their ancestors’ baptism. Meanwhile, Yun Xuan and the other young prodigies reached an island and found a seemingly endless jade staircase beneath terrifying heavenly pressure, but none dared approach it.

• A middle-aged man in the Dragon Palace urged the Four Seas leaders to act before the land’s great powers uncovered their plan.
• The old man leading the meeting ordered the Four Great Kings to attack Yun Xuan’s group and demanded Yun Xuan’s head.
• The middle-aged man left the Dragon Palace, pleased that the Four Seas could finally make their move.
• Yun Xuan and the other young prodigies stepped onto the island and saw a white-jade staircase rising into the clouds beneath blood-red lightning and immense heavenly pressure.
• A young prodigy searched an old book for records about the scene while Yun Xuan and the others waited cautiously, unwilling to approach the staircase.

Shangguan Wanyu carried Luo Yao onto the Heavenly Stairway, and Ye Lin followed after seeing that Shangguan Wanyu’s Fate Rank showed she would survive the trial and break through. The group trusted their allies and continued up the stairs while Yun Xuan watched, and Luo Yao said that Great River would protect her.

• Shangguan Wanyu carried Luo Yao up the Heavenly Stairway despite its suppressive force and heavenly lightning.
• Ye Lin checked Shangguan Wanyu’s fate panel, saw that she would break through to the third layer of Calamity Transformation, and stepped onto the stairs.
• Li Xiaoyao, Gu Qingzhi, San Zang, and the others followed Ye Lin’s group onto the stairway.
• Yun Xuan watched the group and remarked that the people from the Third Region had nerve.
• Shangguan Wanyu asked Luo Yao if she was afraid, and Luo Yao said Great River would protect her.

Ye Lin and the other prodigies climbed the Trial Heavenly Ladder, where blood-red lightning battered them and tempered their bodies. When a sheet bearing the image of a wooden sword appeared ahead, Ye Lin raced toward it as other sword-path prodigies challenged him for the treasure.

• Ye Lin adjusted to the pressure on the ladder and continued forward, prompting Yun Xuan and the other prodigies to follow.
• Blood-red lightning struck Shangguan Wanyu and the other climbers, while Ye Lin noticed that it strengthened his body.
• A sheet of paper bearing a wooden sword appeared on the steps ahead, and Ye Lin hurried toward it, recognizing it as a treasure.
• Several sword-path prodigies told Ye Lin to back off and claimed the treasure for themselves.

Ye Lin claimed a treasure blueprint from the Heavenly Stairway, then fled as Yun Xuan attacked to take it from him. Yun Xuan unleashed a mass of Sword Qi, but Ye Lin countered with the Thunder Sea technique.

• Ye Lin ignored a warning and rushed to claim a blueprint he sensed was a treasure.
• Yun Xuan arrived and demanded that Ye Lin surrender the blueprint, but Ye Lin stored it in his Spatial Ring.
• Yun Xuan attacked Ye Lin with countless strands of Sword Qi, and Ye Lin fought back before fleeing up the staircase.
• Yun Xuan pursued Ye Lin as the other prodigies followed, drawn by the possibility that the Heavenly Stairway held more treasures.
• Yun Xuan surrounded Ye Lin with Sword Qi and launched it at him, but Ye Lin used Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, Thunder Sea to absorb and crush the attack.

Ye Lin faced Yun Xuan on the stairs and matched him in a fierce sword fight despite being only a fifth-level Golden Immortal. Their battle continued evenly as Yun Xuan recognized Ye Lin's unusual strength.

• Yun Xuan summoned the Bixiao Sword and prepared to fight Ye Lin seriously.
• San Zang and the others considered intervening, but Wang Xiaoyun urged them to watch and wait.
• Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and charged at Yun Xuan instead of retreating.
• Ye Lin and Yun Xuan exchanged over ten thousand blows, with neither gaining the upper hand.
• Yun Xuan realized Ye Lin had matched thirty percent of his strength despite Ye Lin's lower cultivation.

Ye Lin and Yun Xuan tested each other in a duel, but Yun Xuan quickly overpowered Ye Lin. After sensing the Four Seas Dragon Clan approaching, Yun Xuan launched a powerful sword attack at him.

• Yun Xuan taunted Ye Lin and sent sharp sword qi at him, but Ye Lin dodged it.
• Ye Lin charged Yun Xuan with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor, but Yun Xuan blocked his strike with the Bixiao Sword without moving.
• Yun Xuan struck Ye Lin with his palm and sent him flying.
• Yun Xuan sensed the sea clan approaching and pursued Ye Lin.
• Yun Xuan unleashed a vast river of sword qi with his Bixiao Sword toward Ye Lin.

Ye Lin countered Yun Xuan’s Azure Heavens, Yellow Springs with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, drawing on the mystic realm’s trial lightning to form a powerful blood-colored thunder Dragon. The Dragon tore through Yun Xuan’s Sword Qi River and continued toward him, while spectators doubted Ye Lin could harm Yun Xuan.

• Spectators watched Yun Xuan unleash Azure Heavens, Yellow Springs and sensed the pressure of his sword.
• Ye Lin steadied himself and prepared to face Yun Xuan’s Sword Qi River.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art to draw down the mystic realm’s trial lightning.
• Ye Lin’s blood-colored lightning formed a giant Dragon that destroyed half the Sword Qi River, swallowed the rest, and charged toward Yun Xuan.
• A heaven’s chosen praised Ye Lin’s sword move, but another spectator said it could not harm Yun Xuan.