Recaps

Yun Xuan destroyed Ye Lin’s blood-colored thunder dragon with his Yellow Springs Passage technique, then departed after warning Ye Lin that he would return for the item. Ye Lin and the others continued deeper into the secret realm, aware that Ye Lin would need to grow stronger before facing Yun Xuan again.

• Yun Xuan summoned wronged souls as Yellow Springs Sword Qi and completely destroyed the blood-colored thunder dragon.
• Three voices called Yun Xuan out, and he left after telling Ye Lin to hold onto an item until he returned to claim it.
• Ye Lin judged that Yun Xuan had fought with far less than his full strength and admitted he had only matched him by using the secret realm’s heavenly lightning.
• The others checked on Ye Lin and recognized that Yun Xuan had overwhelmed him, leaving them concerned about a future encounter.
• Ye Lin and the others decided to continue deeper into the secret realm in search of treasures.

Ye Lin’s group continued up the Heavenly Stair after deciding to avoid the natives’ conflict, while Shangguan Wanyu went ahead alone to pursue strength. Gu Qingzhi questioned Ye Lin about his connection to Shangguan Wanyu and the child, then followed him as the group prepared to explore the secret realm and leave quickly.

• Ye Lin’s group agreed not to interfere in the natives’ grudges and continued up the stairs.
• Shangguan Wanyu moved ahead alone, and Ye Lin said he understood her desire to become stronger.
• Gu Qingzhi asked whether Shangguan Wanyu and the child were Ye Lin’s family, but Ye Lin refused to explain.
• Gu Qingzhi angrily followed Ye Lin, while Xu Feng and the others wondered whether she had fallen for him.
• The group continued deeper into the secret realm, intending to take what they could and escape before their pursuers caught up.

Ye Lin and the others advanced along the Heavenly Stairway and fought a horde of fourth-layer Golden Immortal creatures whose corpses turned to mist and increased their cultivation. After Ye Lin noticed the secret realm’s strange effects, a blood-red bolt of lightning struck him.

• Ye Lin and his group continued deeper into the secret realm along the Heavenly Stairway as its pressure grew heavier.
• The group encountered monstrous creatures, all at the fourth layer of the Golden Immortal realm, and San Zang ordered everyone to kill them.
• Gu Qingzhi summoned a zither while Ye Lin drew the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor and charged into battle.
• Ye Lin cut down a creature, whose corpse became mist and merged into him, slightly increasing his cultivation.
• A blood-red bolt of lightning descended from the clouds and struck Ye Lin.

Ye Lin fought through the lightning and monsters on the Heavenly Stairway, reaching the gate of the Nine Heavens Mystic Realm. When he tried to help Shangguan Wanyu, an unseen assailant struck him and sent him flying back onto the stairway.

• Ye Lin endured the crimson lightning and increasing gravity as he killed monsters, while the Second Region prodigies joined the battle after learning the creatures could raise their cultivation.
• Ye Lin raced ahead, wary that the other Second Region prodigies could pose a threat if they gathered together.
• Ye Lin reached an enormous gate and saw Shangguan Wanyu fighting a pig-headed, human-bodied monster that seemed unusually weak for the end of the trial.
• Ye Lin cut through the lightning and prepared to help Shangguan Wanyu, but an enraged voice warned the intruders to leave the Nine Heavens Mystic Realm.
• An unseen attacker struck Ye Lin, sending him flying back onto the Heavenly Stairway.

Ye Lin defeated a fifth-layer Golden Immortal monster in the Nine Heavens Mystic Realm and found a pill inside it. He waited at a passage for the others while Shangguan Wanyu revealed that she had reached the third layer of the Golden Immortal Realm.

• Ye Lin saw Luo Yao and faced a monster with fifth-layer Golden Immortal cultivation, then suspected the realm contained a supreme treasure.
• Ye Lin defeated the monster with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art and found a pill within its gray light.
• Ye Lin put away the pill and went to the passage, carrying Luo Yao and waiting for the others before entering.
• Shangguan Wanyu raised her aura to the third layer of the Golden Immortal Realm and told her defeated monster it was no longer useful.

Shangguan Wanyu finished tempering herself by fighting a huge creature, and Ye Lin’s group gathered on the platform after battling through monsters. Ye Lin led them onward, keeping them separate from the Second Region’s prodigies.

• Shangguan Wanyu defeated the huge creature after using it to temper herself, then joined Ye Lin.
• San Zang and the others fought their way to the platform, while Bao Xiaotou and Wang Tian arrived later after hiding and dodging monsters beyond their strength.
• Ye Lin told everyone to leave, and the group agreed to avoid mingling with the Second Region’s prodigies.
• Shangguan Wanyu led the way as Ye Lin followed close behind.

Ye Lin and the others entered a strange realm without space, time, or laws, where streams of light appeared to contain laws. Xu Feng seized an Imperial Dao Law and gained a deeper understanding of it.

• The Second Region prodigies followed Ye Lin's group through the gate, believing the opportunities inside should belong to them.
• Ye Lin, Xu Feng, and Gu Qingzhi found themselves in a void where divine sense could not be used and no laws could be detected.
• A white stream of light flashed across Ye Lin's arm, and he sensed that it carried an unfamiliar law.
• Xu Feng recognized a yellow light as the Imperial Dao Law and placed it between his brows.
• Xu Feng received information about the Imperial Dao Law and quickly improved his comprehension.

Xu Feng told the group that consuming the laws around them would let them comprehend them instantly, and the Golden Immortals began searching for laws suited to their cultivation. When the Second Region geniuses arrived, one discovered the opportunity and spread the news, sending everyone off to search.

• Xu Feng urged everyone to devour the laws and comprehend them instantly.
• Ye Lin searched for the Sword Dao Law while the others sought laws matching their own paths.
• The Second Region geniuses arrived and moved toward Ye Lin's group to demand an explanation.
• A streak of light entered one genius's glabella, giving him a vast ocean of knowledge and revealing the opportunity.
• The Second Region geniuses learned what had happened and scattered to search for laws.

Ye Lin pursued the Sword Dao Law, but a woman in a purple gown scared it away, prompting him to attack her. The two clashed in the Void, and the woman unleashed a powerful icy chill against Ye Lin’s Thunder Sea.

• Ye Lin nearly caught the Sword Dao Law, but the purple-gowned woman’s laughter made it vanish.
• Ye Lin threatened the woman and attacked her with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor.
• The woman evaded his strike by transforming into snow and questioned why he was attacking her.
• Ye Lin used the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art to create a Thunder Sea and force her to reappear.
• The woman froze the surrounding Thunder Sea with an icy chill as she turned to fight back.

Ye Lin broke free from Han Bingruo’s Nine Nether Frigid Air with his Beginningless True Flame and counterattacked. Han Bingruo launched another icy sword strike, and Ye Lin sent a flaming Three-Legged Golden Crow charging at her.

• Han Bingruo attacked Ye Lin with the Ice-Sealing Sword and froze him into an ice sculpture using the Nine Nether Frigid Air.
• Han Bingruo turned away, believing Ye Lin would die as the frigid air froze his body and Primordial Spirit.
• Ye Lin’s Beginningless True Flame melted the ice and freed him, shocking Han Bingruo.
• Han Bingruo fired another frigid Sword Qi attack at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin summoned a Three-Legged Golden Crow of Beginningless True Flame and sent it charging toward Han Bingruo.

Ye Lin overwhelmed Han Bingruo’s Nine Nether Frost Qi with his Beginningless True Flame and killed her despite her threat that Yun Xuan would retaliate. He absorbed the strange frost flame from her Primordial Spirit and left with her Spatial Ring.

• Ye Lin’s Three-Legged Golden Crow broke through Han Bingruo’s Nine Nether Frost Qi, leaving her unable to fight back.
• Ye Lin approached Han Bingruo and slashed her with the Blooddrinking Sword of the Fallen Emperor as she begged for her life and invoked her brother Yun Xuan.
• Ye Lin pretended to let Han Bingruo go, then stabbed her through the chest as she turned to flee.
• Ye Lin shredded Han Bingruo’s Primordial Spirit and discovered a white, freezing flame within it.
• Ye Lin took Han Bingruo’s Spatial Ring, let his Beginningless True Flame swallow the strange frost flame, and destroyed her corpse.

Ye Lin's Beginningless True Flame evolved into the Purgatory Ice Flame, which combined blazing heat with bone-piercing cold. After Han Bingruo's companion confronted him, Ye Lin sent the new flame after him and left to search for Sword Dao laws.

• Ye Lin watched the Beginningless True Flame transform into purple Purgatory Ice Flame and saw its new trait appear on his status panel.
• Ye Lin decided to find someone to test the Purgatory Ice Flame on.
• A young man blamed Ye Lin for killing Han Bingruo and threatened to avenge her.
• Ye Lin sent a strand of Purgatory Ice Flame toward the young man, who turned and fled.
• Ye Lin left to search for Sword Dao laws while the fleeing young man cursed and regretted confronting him.

Ye Lin tested the power of his Purgatory Ice Flame and learned it could burn a fourth-layer Golden Immortal to death, then pursued the escaped Sword Dao law. The chapter ended with a warning that Yun Xuan was no match for the Four Seas Dragon Clan.

• The young man planned to use news of Han Bingruo's death to gain favor with Yun Xuan, but Ye Lin's purple flame spread over him and burned him to nothingness.
• Ye Lin realized that his Purgatory Ice Flame could burn even laws and might badly injure a sixth-layer Golden Immortal.
• Ye Lin recognized the escaped Sword Dao law and immediately chased after it.
• Someone told Yun Xuan that his strength and methods were insufficient to challenge the Four Seas Dragon Clan.

Yun Xuan learned that Han Bingruo had died and, gravely weakened by their shared Life-and-Death Parasite, left the Four Seas Sea Clan’s blockade. The land prodigies entered the secret realm, while the Four Seas leader explained why he had chosen not to kill Yun Xuan.

• Yun Xuan, devastated by Han Bingruo’s death and reduced to less than one-tenth of his strength, vowed revenge against the Four Seas Dragon Clan and left.
• The Four Seas leader taunted Yun Xuan and let him go, while the land prodigies rejoiced that the foremost swordsman of the Crimson Wasteland had been badly wounded.
• After Yun Xuan left, the land prodigies entered the secret realm rather than remain at the blockade.
• Three Four Seas figures questioned their leader about not killing Yun Xuan, whose death the elders had ordered.
• The Four Seas leader said killing Yun Xuan would be costly and would release the swordsmanship fortune he suppressed, strengthening the Eight Desolations.

The Four Seas' four great kings decided not to kill the wounded Yun Xuan, reasoning that his enemies among the sword-path prodigies would attack him and that sparing him would bring greater benefit. They entered the secret realm with tens of thousands of sea-race prodigies, intent on killing the land creatures, while Yun Xuan continued along the Trial Heavenly Ladder in a bloodthirsty rage.

• One of the Four Seas' four great kings argued that killing Yun Xuan would invite trouble and that wounded sword-path prodigies would seek to challenge him.
• The four kings concluded that Yun Xuan's past dominance over the sword-path fortune of the Eight Wastelands had made many prodigies eager to defeat or kill him.
• The four kings led tens of thousands of sea-race prodigies into the secret realm and ordered them to kill every land creature they encountered.
• Yun Xuan continued toward the end of the Trial Heavenly Ladder, shouting that he would kill someone as a group of prodigies followed him fearfully.

After Han Bingruo’s death, the Life-and-Death Gu binding her to Yun Xuan caused his strength to drain away. While Yun Xuan headed onward, other wasteland prodigies mocked his weakened state and followed to watch what happened next.

• The chapter recounted how Han Bingruo killed Yun Xuan’s younger sister and how Han Bingshang bound their lives with a Life-and-Death Gu to prevent Yun Xuan from taking revenge.
• After Han Bingruo died, Yun Xuan rapidly lost strength because of the Life-and-Death Gu.
• Prodded by their jealousy of Yun Xuan, the other wasteland prodigies speculated that outsiders had killed Han Bingruo and ridiculed Yun Xuan’s condition.
• The prodigies noted that sea folk had entered the area, then chose to guard their own people and follow Yun Xuan to watch what happened.

Ye Lin absorbed a wisp of Sword Dao law in the secret realm before Yun Xuan confronted him, blaming him for Han Bingruo’s death. Yun Xuan attacked, while other Great Wasteland prodigies watched and hoped Ye Lin would inherit Yun Xuan’s Sword Dao destiny.

• Ye Lin caught a wisp of Sword Dao law and absorbed its knowledge, deepening his understanding of the Sword Dao.
• Ye Lin continued searching the secret realm as other figures sought laws suited to them.
• Yun Xuan arrived with other prodigies and accused Ye Lin of killing Han Bingruo because he sensed her aura on him.
• Yun Xuan charged at Ye Lin, declaring that anyone carrying Han Bingruo’s aura must die.
• Several Great Wasteland prodigies discussed how Yun Xuan’s death could pass his Sword Dao destiny to Ye Lin and ultimately benefit them.

Ye Lin confronted the weakened Yun Xuan and used his Purgatory Ice Flame and thunder sword techniques to overwhelm him. Yun Xuan was left unable to resist as the Life-Death Gu’s backlash crippled him.

• Ye Lin mocked Yun Xuan’s weakened state and welcomed the chance to kill him for his destiny fortune.
• Yun Xuan attacked Ye Lin with Yellow Springs, but Ye Lin’s Thunder Break shattered the earth-yellow Sword Qi.
• Ye Lin ignited the Purgatory Ice Flame, and Yun Xuan recognized it as the Nine Nether Frost Qi that had killed Han Bingruo.
• Ye Lin’s Thunder Convergence struck Yun Xuan and sent him flying as the flames burned his flesh.
• Ye Lin pursued the wounded Yun Xuan with repeated sword strikes until the Life-Death Gu’s backlash left Yun Xuan half-crippled and unable to fight back.

Ye Lin killed Yun Xuan after Han Bingruo’s death triggered the Life-Death Gu and left Yun Xuan severely weakened. The watching prodigies recognized Ye Lin’s growing reputation, while Ye Lin anticipated trouble once news of the killing spread.

• Ye Lin slew Yun Xuan and destroyed his Primordial Spirit after the Life-Death Gu backlash weakened him.
• The watching prodigies were stunned that Yun Xuan had died and discussed how Ye Lin had gained a foothold in the Second Region.
• One prodigy concluded that Ye Lin had planned the chain of events to weaken Yun Xuan and benefit from his death.
• The gathered geniuses dispersed to explore the secret realm’s second layer, wary of challenging Ye Lin.
• Xu Feng praised Ye Lin for killing Yun Xuan, and Ye Lin remarked that his newfound fame would bring trouble.

After killing Yun Xuan, Ye Lin discovered his luck had risen and his Sword Dao comprehension had improved. The Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar explained that he had inherited Yun Xuan’s Sword Dao luck, and Ye Lin concluded that the great age was accelerating his cultivation.

• Xu Feng congratulated Ye Lin for killing Yun Xuan, then left to attend to other matters.
• Ye Lin checked his status and found his luck had increased from seventeen billion to twenty billion.
• Ye Lin asked the Heaven-Devouring Demon Jar why his comprehension had improved, and it explained that he had inherited Yun Xuan’s Sword Dao luck.
• Ye Lin tested whether his understanding of other laws had improved, but realized that laws did not exist where he was.
• Ye Lin reflected that he was nearing the sixth level of Golden Immortal and that cultivation advanced quickly in the great age.

Ye Lin explored the Void while the sea races entered and launched an attack on the land prodigies. The Four Seas kings challenged the other Great Wastelands’ representatives and demanded that Yun Xuan appear.

• Ye Lin continued exploring the area, and Second Region prodigies hurried out of his way because they feared him after he killed Yun Xuan.
• The sea races entered the land of Void, and their four young kings ordered an assault to reclaim their honor and prepare for a possible invasion of the land.
• Sea race prodigies attacked the land-dwellers, who fought back as the two sides began a widespread battle.
• Representatives from the other Great Wastelands charged at the Four Seas kings, who dismissed them and called for Yun Xuan and the Snow Maiden.

Dantai Xingchen confronted Ao Ping while the Snow Wasteland woman and three kings began fighting. Ye Lin overwhelmed and killed Mad Shark, leaving the other battles unresolved.

• The Snow Wasteland woman challenged the Four Seas kings, and three of them attacked her.
• Ao Ping recognized Dantai Xingchen and taunted him about fleeing his elder brother in the Eastern Wasteland.
• Dantai Xingchen warned Ao Ping that he would leave his life there, while Ao Ping declared he would kill him and trade his corpse to his brother.
• Mad Shark identified Ye Lin as a warrior from the Third Region and attacked him.
• Ye Lin forced Mad Shark back with rapid sword strikes and killed him with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art and Nine Luminaries Across the Sky.

Ye Lin killed a sea race prodigy and was approached by Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the East Sea's second son, to retrieve the Seven-Colored Treasure Lotus in exchange for the Supreme Boundless Sword Art. Ye Lin was left considering the offer and the Jade Talisman Ao Guang gave him.

• Ye Lin killed a fourth-layer Golden Immortal who had provoked him, and the other sea race prodigies fled.
• Ao Guang approached Ye Lin and offered to exchange the Supreme Boundless Sword Art for help obtaining the Seven-Colored Treasure Lotus from the Crimson Wasteland.
• Ye Lin asked why Ao Guang had chosen him, and Ao Guang said Ye Lin's identity made him suitable before leaving.
• Ao Guang gave Ye Lin a Jade Talisman containing an opening portion of the sword art and invited him to make contact if he changed his mind.
• Ye Lin considered the tempting offer and reflected that he could not safely enter a heavenly tribulation to comprehend the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art.

Ye Lin sent Xinyou to fight the Dragon clan king while he continued searching the secret realm for laws. Xinyou faced the king as Ye Lin followed a familiar aura toward a new opportunity.

• Ye Lin decided to postpone studying the Grass-Character Sword Art and avoid wasting time fighting other prodigies.
• The Dragon clan king challenged Ye Lin after his aura sent nearby prodigies flying, but Ye Lin called Xinyou to fight in his place.
• Xinyou appeared as a Golden Immortal Layer Four sacred beast, and Ye Lin left to search for laws.
• The Dragon clan king charged at Ye Lin, but Xinyou bit his arm and drew him into a fight.
• Ye Lin spotted a familiar aura and chased after it while Xinyou confronted the Dragon clan king.

Ye Lin absorbed a wisp of the Sword Law and set out to gather more, while the Dragon King fought Xinyou and Ao Ping tried to recruit Dantai Xingchen. The chapter ended with Ao Ping offering Dantai Xingchen resources and help against his elder brother.

• Ye Lin pressed a wisp of law to his brow, absorbed its sword knowledge, and left to explore for more.
• The Dragon King discovered that Xinyou’s bloodline suppressed his strength and challenged the creature to a fight.
• Xinyou howled at the Dragon King and continued battling him despite his greater cultivation.
• Ao Ping praised Dantai Xingchen’s strength and offered him status, resources, and support against his elder brother.